The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

■® T. ' N ...IVERPOOL CliArtiTAHLt SOCIETY.—We call the I,les: ration of our, townsmen' to the claims of the Liverpool charitable Society, for visiting and relieving the sick at their 1 ) w!1 dwellings. hi s a ver y o ld institution, unobtrusive in it.o s xi t ots oe t e . ration, but doing great good among the objects of tots attentio n . Th e R ev. J. , Stewart, the estimable mini ter Bride's, preaches-fa•sermon on behalf of the insti .ution on S un d ay next ; f rom w hich, we hope, it s f u nds will be e onsiderably. Moxeased. AMERICAN BEEF.—We have seen two qualities of Ameri ,ll salt beef t the ffice of Messrs. Waddington, olt, and Goree Pi a azzas ,which is of much better quality H than any 2 have before examined from the United States. There are 4 re kinds—" mess beef," the best quality of the two, and Prime," which is (in American parlance) secondary. Both a re sweet, fat, and well preserved, and we doubt not will prove t ° °d and palateable when cooked, though not equal to our Wn home-fed article. We have procured a piece of the beef trial, and shall " report progress" when we have had an 9 l PPortunity of " tasting" it—which is, after all, the only sure lest of beet as well as of " pudding." S T.JOinv's MARKET LAST NIGHT : CliatSTAtAs as'n.the present season a l ways b r i ngs pl eas i ng re miniscences associations, and not amongst the least imposing are those of the good old English fare, which has hitherto, by common consent and approval of high and low, in proportion feBtihvo teir means, characterised this celebration of the great al of the 25th of December. On the present occasion a brief view o f our principal markets has convinced us that ther e I . is yet abundance in the land, and we are only left to regret that there are, unhappily, and from causes which we lid not now explain, many deserving persons, forming a a rge class of th e commun ity, who have not the " where -1 It nal" to enjoy themselves, as we should wish, by becoming ttessive purchasers ; though we feel an assurance that ano .,_aer season will not pass over, now that we have a govern neat that really has the good of " the people" at heart, twtahoat their being enabled to enjoy to their fullest wishes is a ! good things of this life. Our visit to St. John's, our Vleeipal market, was brief, but most gratifying. It con iiirtees us that not only in the culture of vegetables, but in ciloelmptrroyd_u Q ction of the finest animal food in the world, our ur county—is still pre-eminent. In the lower part el the market the show of poultry was superb. The turkeys were most abundant and fine. At Mrs. Smith's (lower end It h Norfolk we saw one, a ne youn bird, weiging 2 ls.! was from Norfolk. At the fi next stan g ding, Mr. Wilkinson b 's, !ere two fat capons, the sight of which would have made an al !entail's mouth water. They were taken for fat turkeys by Lhe general mass of gazers, and were purchased by Mr. Phillips, Zf' the Waterloo Hotel. There hare bundance of snipes. T he game, with the exception of , was less plentiful, P a rticularly in partridges . and pheasants. The geese were fia fr e and numerous, and much fun arose from the sale of those " Paddy's Land," of which there were cart-loads. P roceeding up avenue No. 2, we remarked a fine pig, "fed by t he Marquis of Waterford," one of the finest carcasses we °lye ever seen in compactness and firmness of flesh. It race !tired a toot (in the half) across the shoulder, and nine lilehes across the loins; weight 26 score. This was shown ° Y Mr; Crowley. Near the top of avenue No. I, was ano ,,,ther carcase of a pig not divided, fed by the Marquis of W eStininster, at Eaton Hall, and weighing upwards of 23 ; c ore. Another of different breed (the Shropshire) in the c ame avenue No. 2, weighed 24 score. The finer part of the :Tow was however, in beef. At Mr. James Clough's, near ie upper end of avenue No. 1, we noticed three tine beasts, ( "ee o f the Shropshire, and the others of the Irish breed— _ery prime, as usual, with that respectable tradesman. He n ad, also, two fine Southdown sheep, weighing 321bs. a qr. ; a nd the fi nes t l am b i n the market, fed by Lord Mostyn, of e lintshire. Mr. Robert Dentith, at the top of the same ave nue, had some prime beef; also Mrs. Thomas, at the top of a venue 5, including a tine Highland heifer, and some excel lent bullocks. There was, also, some excellent beef at seve ral standings lower down hi the same avenue. At Mr. ,!iinton's, the beef o the Hereford bree was of the finest a irid, as well as the Southdown mutton—th d e former streaked to the flesh like marble. Mrs. Chaddock showed fine beef, I t ! did Mr. John Phillips, as well as prime mutton. The 'Landing and meat of the latter was splendidly decorated in accordance with the taste of the season. The fruits, vege tables, and roots were, we think, more than usually abun dant and excellent. In the former we observed, in numer °lB Pyramids, oranges, lemons, apples, foreign and home, of all kinds, pine apples, grapes, and numerous varieties of kits, &c. &c. The standing in the middle of the market of ear old friend Etty Taylor was resplendent, and she gallantly, a s is her wont, showed her red and " true blue" conserva tive colours. At each end of her stand, against the pillars, w eretrees reaching to the roof, of laurel and holly, thickly fruit w ith apples, white and red roses, &c. The other 'ruit stands lower down, were also well plenished with fruits a nd greens, and the whole of the avenue, as well as those li /nuediate.ly contiguous resembled groves of evergreens, a dorned by roses, red, white, and black, and various flowers, In geniously carved out of turnips. There was also a large B°o ‘v of Christmas bushes, including the mystic and long cherished " rnisletoe bough." The market was thronged to excess throughout the evening, and presented a most ani tilated and exhilirating scene, indicative, in the good humour that prevailed, of no lack of that generous and kindly spirit which characterizes the mass of our population in " Christ- Ilia's times." THE SEVEN-LEAGUE POWER OF LYING OF THE DISTRESS-MANUFACTURERS. We have all heard, in our childhood, of the "seven-league boots " by the aid of which an illustrious individual, " Jack the Giant-killer," could traverse sea and land with une qualled celerity. In modern days, however, and by " mo dern liberals," feats equally astounding are performed, with e qual ease and rapidity, by an instrumentality which, by analogy, we may correctly designate a " seven-league power Of lying," By his tremendous boots, the renowned " Jack" *as enabled to accomplish the overthrow of ogres, giants, " dragons and chimeras dire " ; and the seven-league power 15 f lying enabled a free-trade Bolton quaker, within the last week, to extinguish, in some half-dozen blows, 250 TAILORS, 12 5 CARPENTERS, 104 BRICKLAYERS, COBBLERS, and other "artificers in wood and iron" out of count, who were 41 1 well and merry in 1836, and are now " vanished into thin a u'" and hovering like unhappy ghosts around their empty shopboards and benches, trowels and lapstones, or are gone " on tramp " to ply their vocations in more happy and pros perous localities. 'We purpose laying before our readers a few of the feats Performed at a recent meeting in Manchester by this tre laendous Leaguer, whose collarless and buttonless " organi- cation is distinguished from that of other Bolton men by the name of HENRY Astiwonnt. The narrative itself from which we must quote purports to be a statistical account of the " state of Bolton in 1841 " ; and we shall proceed to chew the rate at which the terrible engine of the quaker dis- Poses of the supernumerary tailors, cobblers, and carpenters of that locality. First in order, as being the most ancient of taades, let us record the fate of the manufacturers of gar ments • Tailors.—ln 1836 the number of tailors and slop-makers In the town was 500, and these were fully employed ; at pre sent there are only 250, and these but partially employed ; leaving 250 who are unemployed. Some have left the town, and others are gone to America or Australia." Two hundred and fifty tailors lost to the town of Bolton! Two hundred and fifty sleeve-boards, shears, bodkins, geese, cabbage, and all, extinguished " at one fell swoop" by the seven-league" weapon of Mr. Henry Ashworth ! Some People may doubt this fact. Incredulous people (of whom there are many in this wicked world) may doubt whether there was ever one-fourth of this number of tailors, inclu ding s/opmakers, in Bolton since the world began ; and if it even be fact, of which we ourselves have considerable mis givings, we scarcely think, judging from the free and easy style in which the Boltoners wear their outer garments,as if they were thrown on with a stable-fork,- of that town, such as they were, will be In like expeditious manner, having got rid of these 250 fractional parts of manhood, Mr. Ashworth —that the tailors •eatiy missed proceeds to exterminate —on paper-125 members of another fraternity. " Carpenters.—ln 1836 the number employed was 150 ; at Present they are reduced to 49, leaving 101 who are pertna ttently unemployed ; and in addition, there are also 24 out of the 49 said to be employed who are disengaged at the present time, making 125 out of the 150 who are thrown idle." Only 25 carpenters left in Bolton! Why, the number Would scarcely.be sufficient to make coffins for the Union Workhouse. But the bricklayers are more woefully reduced still, as our next quotation shows. " Bricklayers.—ln 1637 the number employed was 120 ; at present they are reduced to 16, leaving 101 who are unem ployed. In many cases they have left town on the tramp, and some are gone to America." Only 16 bricklayers !—scarcely as many as are generally required to doctor the ovens and set up grates in a town one fourth the size of Bolton. The worthy Leaguer has, we fear, ante-dated this statement. We believe it is not at all Unusual for bricklayers to be out of work in frosty weather ; but unfortunately for the vrai-semblance of this portion of Mr. Ashworth's statistics, the frost had not set in last week when it was given forth to the world. It has rained a little of late, it is true ; and bricklayers, as well as carpenters, don't generally enjoy very steady employment in rainy wea ther ; but rain, as well as frost, is left out of the contempla tion of this learned pundit. Only 16 bricklayers are left in Bolton—this bare fact is sufficient for the free-trade quaker— and" the corn-law has done it all !" We could go on to recount many more of these marvellous stories, which the gentlemen of the League School are ac customed to call " statistics, " and which were put forth in Vast quantities in Manchester. Perhaps, however, the sam- Pie which we have given will be sufficient to satisfy the world as to the degree of credit to which they are entitled. We know not in what way it is customary for anti-corn law orators in Manchester to preface their diatribes ; but Would suggest the language of a noble Roman,— " Friends, countrymen, and lovers, lend me your ears !" for it does appear to us that the auditory which could take M similar rubbish to the above, for eight hours together, Must have had ears quite long enough to reach the height of any ordinary platform. LONDON MONEY MARKET, &c WEDNESDAY EVENING. —The home stocks are looking rather more firm to-day, although without .any improvement In price. Consols were 881 to 9, for the opening. Ex chequer Bills 10s to 12s premium. Bank Stock 1651 to 61. The foreign Market remained in a very quiescent state Until nearly the close of business, when, what is called a small " flare up " occurred in Spanish Bonds, which took a sudden start up of about to -a per cent. The cause was B ,urople enough, and such a one as is eagerly laid hold of in tne Stock Exchange in dull times in default of better occu- Pation. One of the jobbers entering the house late in the day showed himself apparently a seller of Spanish Bonds; but his real " market" being soon found out by the acute People about him, and that he was a buyer instead of a seller, t he rgiccs were run up maliciously against him, and his ° Peration spoiled. The Active Bonds with the Coupons left off therefore 24 1 1 to 1,• Portuguese Five per Cents 321 , to 3 , the Three per Cents 19i to 20. Dutch Two-and-a-Half tTr Cents were 51 to -k, the Fi ve p er Cents 99i to 100. Belgian fisol to 11. Brazilian 63 to 5. Mexican 26 to Colombian 20+ to 4. The sales of produce to-day were limited. The chief business was in East India articles. 922 bags 1-oylon C o ff ee went genera lly at 655. 6d . to 67 5. 6d ., an d 68 s. ° 69 .; damaged parcels lower, according to quality. Rough Saltpetre, 6i per cent. refraction, realised 255. to 265. 6d. per cw .t. 500 bags Bengal Rice obtained Ils. tolls.6d. for good rd. whi te, being about previous rates. So me E as t I n di a 1 ° was offered, but all withdrawn. 360 bales Manilla 1..1 "' e ruP partly sold at £26 to £2B. a ,r~r-,r •-~--~ , LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION We are happy to find that the imposing appearance which this edifice already presents is attracting the notice of our townsmen in no ordinary degree. Indeed, we may truly say, that all who ha v e b e h e ld it h ave b een mos t agreea bly sur prised, as well by its extent as by its faithful accordance in architectural detail with the most approved examples of the Tudor period. The directors of this institution well deserve the support of the community for such a display of spirit and taste, and it will be a disgrace to the town if the sum still required to carry their intentions into full effect be not speedily provided, so as to permit the building to be opened free of debt. As this institution will embrace all classes, it should re ceive the most extended aid. The wealthy cannot apply their money more advantageously than iu securing for their chil dren and townsmen a Christian education; and those pos sessed of less extensive means may surely spare a smaller portion in aid of such philanthropic objects. Let no one think that the amount which he can afford will be of little avail— the number of Roman Catholic chapels built by the poor man's pence, the O'Connell rent, the postoffice receipts, and numerous other occurrences, teach us how much may be effected by the confluence even of pennies. For the gratification of our country subscribers we present above a view of the Collegiate Institution, and the following notice respecting it is copied from the British Almanac for th- ensuing year, and will no doubt prove interesting to our After describing the Assize Courts, a view Of which is likewise given, the writer thus proceeds : " Altogether different in character from the preceding, al though by the same architect, is this other important struc- ture, [The Liverpool Collegiate In tilution,] now in progress in Liverpool, for which Mr. Elnies's design obtained the first premium from those sent in by twenty-eight other com petitors, all of whom were restricted to the Tudor style. A piece of ground for the purpose had been originally purchased in Soho-street, but it was afterwards determined to abandon that site for the present one in Shaw-street, on the south of Augustine's Church, from which the building will be sepa rated by a wide street on its north side, and will be similarly detached on its south, so that it has three distinct elevations, of which the west or principal one (represented above) faces Shaw-street. The first stone was laid October 22, BA by Lord Stanley, with an inscription upon it, purporting that the institution is for `the education of the commercial, trading, and working classes, in accordance with the doctrines of the Church of England.' Although incapable of doing more. the above cut will serve to explain the general design of the facade towards Shaw-street, which is a uniform com position, 280 feet in extent, collegiate in its a2peet, and con sistently decorated throughout. It is composed of three main divisions, viz., a centre and two slightly projecting wings; for, though advanced forward, the middle compart ment (containing the entrance, porch below, and an open arch above it forming a balcony) identities itself with the central portion, and hardly interrupts its continuity, it not being carried up like a tower rising above the rest. As little, too, do the wings or extreme compartments break the general mass, being distinguished in their outline merely by the slight gable form given to their parapet by the canopied niche and statue there introduced. In other respects, these portions of the design are agreeably varied from the body or principal division of the front, and the lofty oriel windows carried up through two stories acquire additional effect in consequence of there being no windows below them on the ground floor, a circumstance that gives solidity and repose to the angles of the structure. The ele vation contains three tiers of windows, three of the two upper floors being combined together with a general composition producing the effect of a single range of lofty windows. The apartments on the ground floor are 14 feet high and 25 feet wide, and placed on either side of a corridor running the entire length of the building. They consist of 11 school rooms (2 of 50 feet long, 1 of 43, 2 of 41, 2 of 34, 2 of 25, and 2 of 22), besides keeper's rooms, vestibules, 3 staircases, waiting-rooms, and others of a subordinate nature. On the first floor are,—the board-room, secretary's room, library, and 10 school-rooms (2 of 50 feet long, 2 of 41, 2 of 38, 2 of 25, and 2 of 22), all of 7 feet high, and of the same width as those of the preceding story, which, indeed, is uniform throughout. On the second are 13 school-rooms (2 of 50, 2 of 43, .2 of 41, 2 of 38, 2 of 25, 2 of 22, and 1 of 16), all 14 feet high. There is besides an attic or third floor, 16 feet high, with an arched ceiling, containing th 4 same-sized rooms as the story below, lighted from the roof, (intended to serve as a museum,) rooms for drawing, and a painting and sculpture gallery, which last covers 5 of the rooms beneath, being 218 feet in length. An octagonal building behind, upwards of 90 feet in diameter, and connected to the main building by corridors leading from each floor, contains a number of spacious dining-rooms, kitchen. &c., and above, a theatre, affording seats for upwards of 200 persons. Behind the latter is a spacious organ. or music -room, capable of being thrown open to, or shut off from, it at pleasure ; to the right arid left of which are six angular apartments, intended for waiting and class-rooms. Immediately beneath the music -room, and communicating with the lecturer's platform, are a laboratory, apparatus-room, lecturer's retiring-room, &c. 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V ~..-,o—. 4...474,111 ~ , 1 • ~4„,` •h'...?"..6-7.---,,,Thii., . - . -7 -/.. ~---,t - -44 :, . .-- - .; .-. .-''.-....:,',.i, r{H.,, f' 1 1: 'II ~,,,, -,,•-.' • •;i4.'i,'..;# ~•,./I,=, rim— - ,., , ..k. • - ' 1...1. 4114. .• !i . - •••-., ... •.!,, , ,-. ..., .:', , '' 1 ',. .:.'-',0,,, e-4-tlmr . iii10•:-I.F.:111 f.XI.IIAJI I I I-- . ~..i,.. ',;---P-- '..--.l''," ,1.171'1:117'41141.:!'''. 7 .- 1,. - ..--,-- -- - • _.-,-. - _ - , ,1, ', ' ' ! 4 ,.......,,,, 1 _ ----„.: -------- ._ -,,-.. - a... -__ ___., . r.......... , - it; t.Er4soACErELm ,s :AMC. .___,. MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE The weekly meeting of the Dock Committee was held yesterday. Mr. Horsfall, the deputy-chairman, presided, and the following other members were present :—Messrs. Bar clay, Holmes, Sandbach, Chiltoa, Shand, Bailey. Nicol, Moon, Martin, Evans, and Ripley. The Sub-committee of Works, in reference to some appli cations for land from several ship-builders, reported that the committee had none to spare for that purpose. The Sub-committee of Works recommended that the shed on the north-east quay of Clarence Basin be lengthened one deal, and that the shed at the north end be boarded up.— Agreed to. The same sub-committee further recommended, that gas and water pipes be laid in the houses of the dock masters, but they should be required to pay for the gas and water, and to find their own chandeliers ; and, further, that the houses be supplied with the necessary bells.—Confirmed. The CrintamAsr said, that rather an unexpected document had been received from the Shipowners' Association. He must explain that two engineers, Mr. Walker and Mr. Cubitt, had bee n d own f rom London to Liverpool to ex amine the various dock-plans upon the invitation of the Dock Committee. The Sub-committee of Works were re quested to receive those gentlemen, and to lay information before them necessary to enable them to make up their minds upon the respective plans. The plans were laid before those gentlemen, and every party whom the sub-committee con ceived might wish to be heard was invited—the several mercantile associations, the ship-carpenters, and others who might be capable of giving useful information. The engineers heard them all very patiently, and their evidence had been taken down ; they had returned to London in possession of the verbal and written evidence which they required, and in due time their report might be expected. They had given a good deal of consideration to that evidence, and they would favour the committee with their report as soon as they could. They were two of the first engineers in the kingdom : one was president and the other vice-president of the British Association of Civil Engineers ; and he (the Chairman) did not know that the committee could have had two more com petent men. Their report would be ready as soon as possible, and then the committee would be enabled to proceed. In the meantime a memorial had been received from the Ship owners' Association, which the secretary would now read. The SECRETARY then read the following resolutions of the Shipowners' Association : " At a meeting of the Shipowners' Association 22d Dec., 1841, convened to receive the report of the deputation to the Dock-office, on the subject of the rival plans for the con struction of docks.—Present, R. S. Henderson, Esq., chair man, &c., &c., &c.—The chairman reported the proceedings of the deputations to the Dock Committee, upon the subject of the respective merits of the plans of Hartley and Mr. Gage, and the discussions thereon, in the presence of Mr. Cubitt and Mr. Walker, the civil engineers. " And it was resolved unanimously, that this association have heard with considerable surprise that the said engineers have terminated the inquiry referred to them, and have left town, and, therefore, are of opinion that time and attention have not been bestowed upon this inquiry in any degree pro portionate to the immense interests at stake, this association having supposed that one crowded meeting and desultory dis cussion only, and that at very short notice, would not have been considered adequate to the proper eliciting of facts and opinions upon a subject the most momentous, probably as respects the welfare of the port, that was ever agitated. " Resolved also, that this association take this opportu nity of recording their opinion, that, with every respect for the abilities and high standing of Mr. Walker, it would have been better that that gentlemen, being the usual consulting engineer of the Dock Trust, and as such having been em ployed to support before parliament the very plans of Mr. Harazy, which are now impugned, should not have been se lected as one of the two individuals to act as arbitrators upon this occasions, and that a decision so constituted will, there fore, not be considered as the expression of that unbiassed and impartial opinion,' which the mercantile associations were unanimous in requesting. " Resolved also, that, under the foregoit b , circumstances, it is, in the opinion of this association, most desirable that a third engineer, of equal eminence, to be named by the deputa tions from the mercantile bodies, should be associated with Mr. Cubitt and Mr. Walker in this inqairy, and that a fur ther meeting be called of the deputations for Friday next, to consider of these several subjects, and the proceedings proper to be adopted thereon, and that, in the meantime, a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the Dock Committee. " Extracted from the proceedings, " JOHN NORTH, Secretary." Mr. E VANS said he would move that the memorial lie upon the table. The CHAIRMAN said he would suggest that the Secretary be requested to acknowledge the receipt of the memorial, and to state that it had been read before the committee. The suggestion was adopted, and the subject dropped. Forshaw, of Dale-street, was appointed printer, and Messrs. Mawdesley and Co., stationers, to the committee for the next twelve months. The Committee then separated. THE NIGER EXPEDITION Mr. Macgregor Laird, who is intimately acquainted with the river Niger, having prominently shared in the mercantile expedition to explore it and open a trade with the interior, has, in a letter dated on the 15th instant, and published in the Spectator of Saturday last, given his reasons for thinking, in spite of the painful intelligence recently received, that there is little, if any, occasion for despondency as to the fate of the brave and enterprising men on board the Albert and the Wilberforce. We quote his reasons at length : " The Niger expedition entered the Nun branch of the river on the 12th August, with forty-three officers and one hundred and eleven men, exclusive of some gentlemen sent out by the Civilization Society. They passed through the swampy country in perfect health ; and on the 3d September, being then at Iddah, where the country is high, rocky, and pretty well cultivated, were struck by the fatal remittent fever, twenty-two days after entering the river. Of the whole number, one-third were attacked : of these, two officers and twenty men, by the last accounts, had died in the river on the voyage to Ascension and in the hospital there; giving a ratio of nearly five per cent. on the officers and twenty per cent. on the men. " This mortality is much less than any one could have reasonably expected, and far below that of any former expe dition into the interior ; but it seems to be looked upon merely as the precursor of more extended calamities. I think, on the contrary, that they have passed their most severe trial, and that the future risk to be apprehended is only that common to all tropical rivers. " My reason for being of this opinion is, the striking simi larity up to a certain point (the attack of fever) between this ascent of the Niger and that in which I bore a part, and the remarkable difference from that point. " I entered the river on the 19th October, 1822. On the Ilth November, twenty-three days afterwards, the vessel I commanded, being then clear of the swamps, was struck by fever ; and in forty-eight hours afterwards all the Europeans, twenty-three iu number, were attacked. On the 24th, thir teen had died, and three more died on the 4th December, making sixteen out of the twenty-three. The only other fatal case in the river was one of dysentery, three months afterwards. I think the fair and legitimate inference to be drawn from a comparison of these two cases is, that the seeds of the fever in both were imbibed in the swamps by all predis posed to take them ; that they remained dormant for a cer tai❑ number of days, and then broke out simultaneously ; that, either owing to the season of the year being more fa vourable, to the precautions adopted, or to both, the num ber of men who were predisposed to the fever was much fewer in the one case than the other; that the fever itself was much less malignant, as the ratio of mortality shows, and that those who escaped are not likely to be attacked without returning to the swampy country and being again exposed to the malaria, which, as they have passed through it once un scathed, there is the more hope they may do again. " Without, therefore, wishing to create the impression that the crews of the Albert and Wilberforce are perfectly safe, I think there exists less cause for alarm now than formerly. They have passed through their greatest danger with much less loss than any reasonable man anticipated : for it surely was never expected that they alone should be al lowed to pass untouched through that ordeal under which so many brave men had fallen. If it was so, I can only say the absurdity of such belief is only to be equalled by its impiety." A VortAcious PIKE.—A singular instance of the voracity of the pike occurred on the subsiding of the flood from the footpath adjoining a Mr. Oldham's mill, a few days since. Some lads were engaged in play, and dabbling with their naked felt in the waters overflowing the banks of the Learn, when one of the juvenile party was seized by the foot by a pike of about four pounds weight ; and such was the te nacity with which this tyrant of the watery element kept its hold that it was with no little difficulty that the boy suc ceeded in shaking it off, which having at length accom plished, he carried it to the domicile of his parents, where it formed part of the family meal a few hours afterwards.— Manchester paper. THE DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION We have frequently had occasion to bring this admirable Institution before the attention of our readers, and of all the valuable asylums for the wretched with which our town abounds, none has greater claims upon the sympathy and liberality of the public than the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Not only are the afflicted inmates of the establish ment clothed and fed, but they have the advantage of re ceiving a sound scriptural education, the results of which are of the most satisfactory kind. We sometime since gave se veral evidences of the high state of moral feeling, presented by several of the young persons in the institution ; and we now subjoin another instance of the same kind in the shape of reflections, written by an intelligent youth of the name of Richard Williams, and penned, we may add, without the slightest dictation, or any previous suggestion. We are only able to give some extracts from the journal, but they will be sufficient to give a tolerable conception of the bearing of the whole. It is necessary to add that the remarks were occa sioned by a recent visit to the exhibition of paintings : " When we were just entering by the door, we gazed at the paintings with admiration and inexpressible surprisation (surprise) at their beatitude (beauty). We looked at them with earnest joy, and delight, and interest. We saw the 'rooms full of beautiful various paintings and portraits; I can mention some of them : A large elegant portrait of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and another of James As pinall, Esq., a worthy gentleman of our committee. The Smuggler's Return. The Idler was a girl loitering lazily about, and losing her time; she seems that she knew not that her precious time was losing, which never returns, never any more. For time once past never returns. Catch time, for (tempus Agit) time flies away swiftly. Let us not be doing the part of an idler, time should not be lost, for it is precious, and at length brings many to our grey hairs, and then carries us to the peaceful grave. Tempus in agrorum culta consumere dulce—ldleness is the root of all evil, and a sinful waste of our time and talents. It seems an idler ge nerally becomes a vagabond, and clothed with (nice) ragged clothes. Satan always strives to empty the pockets of an idler who is in laziness of mind and body, and he is easily and weakly tempted, and sometimes becomes a notorious person, and then brought to the fatal gallows to be launched into eternity by an awful death, and to appear at the tremendous final tribunal. But as for the industrious, Satan will flee from thee, and cannot hurt thee ; be watchful even of him , who is very cunning. Let no man deceive thee by any means, watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit, indeed, is willing, but the flesh is weak, says the Bible. For Satan once got hold of Judas, who betrayed our blessed" Lord. Satan prepares mischief for idlers. The Houseless Wanderer was a woman with a babe in her arms. What a pity it excites to look upon such a one wandering in the open air, receiving the cold and rain all night, and obliged to sleep on the empty, stony, temporary bed, any where which welcomes her ! It lets the tear drop out of my eye, as sympathy. She seems like a poor lost wandering sheep, with her lamb in her bosom. The Jews are a wan dering people !—for they are found any where about the wide world. Perhaps they were happy when they all lived in unity with their brethren, in the land of their forefathers, which the Lord swear unto Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, before they were scattered abroad. But through their in gratitude to their Maker, and ever to-be-beloved and re jected King, they were given up to their enemies, who took many of them prisoners, and many were scattered on the fale of the earth, like sheep now wandering from place to to place without a shepherd. A picture of a The picture represents a girl with a jug, at a to drink to quench her thirst, or to make able liquors. Perhaps it may make us think of the woman of Samaria at Jacob's our Saviour Jesus Christ. The few ye pleasure in expressing here, are as Rill° sat at the well, therg came a woman of water out of the well, and when Jesus was some water to quench his thirst, and said to the woman, d Give me to drink, but the woman refused, and said to him, How is it, that thou being a Jew, asketh drink of me which am a woman of Samaria, for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans ?' and Jesus said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who is it that sayeth to thee, give me drink, Thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.' Then the woman said to him, sir, thou bast nothing to draw it with, and the well is deep ; from whence then bast thou that living water?' And Jesus said, Whosoever drinketh of the water shall thirst again ; but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life ;' and the woman said unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw' The Letter.—A letter safely arrived to a person, and joyfully received to whom it is directed—perhaps there is some bad or joy news in it. A letter is a writing or talk ing messenger, used in correspondence. The Widow—This picture looks like a doleful and sympathising scene. The widow was sitting on the deceased husband's tomb-stone ; I think her husband was much endeared and affectionate to her when alive upon earth—and what is now the widow's hope ? Perhaps the widow's hope is of a full, desirous, and happy expectation to meet him again above, of which, per haps, every pious earthly-created of mankind have a desire when all their labour is done, to go to the land of promise beyond the skies on high, to ,the Canaan of eternal sweet rest, to dwell to all eternity with God, Jesus Christ, and the Heavenly Host. Nobody can deliver our mortal bodies from going down to the grave, only our Maker who created us, and breathed the breath of life into us. As we are his property, and He our Father, but death is the worst thing that dreads many, and separates every one from all the affectionate ties. Yea, death is sweet, and life is better to the pious and re. signing who have faith in their God : for precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. There are se veral verses in the Bible about widows, that God is a judge of widows in his holy habitation, and that God said, " Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me," &c. FUND FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF LIVING ARTISTS On Tuesday the appropriation of the above fund, accord ing to the usual plan. took place at the Exhibition-rooms; when the under-mentioned persons obtained a right to the values set opposite to their names, giving them the choice of pictures of corresponding prices, or others of higher prices, by paying the difference : _ s. d. George Armstrong 4O 0 0 Robert Scott A. Anderson Mrs. W. K. Couborough 25 0 0 H. Tweddle 2O 0 0 Thomas Frost T. F. Marshall 2O 0 0 John Clow John Thompson Silvanus Fox William Maddy W. B. Colton William Collingwood lO 0 0 Henry Forshaw 10 0 0 Thomas Winstanley Thomas Jackson lO 0 0 J. H. Foulkes lO 0 0 John Okell William Miller Peter Cato Miss Clegg W. J. Bishop, Ist blank lO 0 0 Richard C. Allan, 2d ditto Mrs. Wordsworth .. James Muir, Jun... B. Jackson Richard Allison .. Edward Griffin, Jun, 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 R. S. Henderson 5 0 0 Daniel Clarke .. Benjamin Hick, Jun Thomas Cook . Stephen Baker •5 0 0 .5 0 0 .5 0 0 .5 0 0 WALES.-By a letter from one of the largest iron masters in Wales, it would appear that they consider the worst period of depression past, and that from the orders on hand an im provement in the iron trade may be confidently anticipated. MADAME LAFFARGE.—A letter from Montpellier, of the 13th inst., in the Gazette des Tribunaux, states that Madame Lafrarge continues to be so ill, that her stomach rejects nearly all kinds of food. When the gaol costume was presented to her for the purpose of her putting it on, she exclaimed, " Never will I wear this dress of infamy," and threw herself on her bed, which she has not quitted since. She is not per mitted to sec any person from without, except some relations whom she has at Montpellier, for a few moments on Sunday, and some articles of furniture, which were brought to the gaol for her use, were sent back. The cell in which she is placed is the same as those of the other prisoners, and her illness alone prevents the enforcement in her case of the prison regulations as to labour. MESMERISM.--CAPTAIN BROWN'S LECTURE ON THE DISCOVERIES OF MR. BRAID, OF MANCHESTER. On Tuesday evening Captain Thomas Brown. M.W.S., late president of the Royal Physical Society, delivered a lec ture on the subject of mesmerism, at the Portico, Newing ton, before a highly respectable audience, amounting to be tween 130 and 130 individuals, including several ladies and medical gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood. The discoveries were not those of Captain Brown, but of Mr. Braid, a surgeon, of Manchester. who, it was stated, had ex hibited the influence of mesmerism on almost every indi vidual at first trial, including somnolency, insensibility to pain, the cataleptiform state, somnambulism, sleep-talking, dancing, and various evolutions as desired. Mr. Braid's professional engagements precluded the possibility of his de 11vering lectures in the various towns, hut in order that his views might he fairly exhibited, he had given such instruc tions and extracts from his lectures as were sufficient to ena ble Captain Brown to supply his place successfully, and to illustrate all the effects on subjects previously tested, as well as on others who might present themselves from the audience. Shortly before the commencement of the lecture Captain Brown requested of any medical gentleman present to retire to an anti-room, where six of Mr. Braid's patients were in readiness to submit to the various operations, in order that they might feel their pulses. Two medical gentlemen, Drs. 111 'Culloch and Carson. accordingly retired for the purpose, and after being absent for some minutes, the six patients, all females, came upon the stage and took their seats. Four of them were young women, ranging between 20 and 25 years of age ; the fifth appeared to be about 32 or 35, and the sixth was a grown-up girl of about 14 or 15. The captain, in the introductory part of his lecture, gave an account of the mode in which Mr. Braid's attention had been directed to the subject from attending the lectures of M. Lafontaine, in Manchester. Having gone through this, he explained Mr. Braid's theory thus : He considers that, by an individual keeping up a steady gaze or fixed stare at an object placed in such a position as to put the greatest number of muscles connected with that organ and appendages into action, and which of course, requires an abstraction of mind from other objects to enable the individual to maintain this fixed stare without winking or moving the eyeballs, congestion takes place in the eye, and a rapid ex haustion of the natural sensibility of the retina and morter nerves of the eye and eyelids. This is reflected on the brain, and from that to the heart and lungs, producing enervation and consequent sinking in the force and frequency of the heart's action. The enervation of the brain is still farther increased by the enfeebled action of the heart, and from the same cause the blood is sent to the extremities in diminished quantity, and is, therefore, accumulited in the large blood vessels in the region of the heart. The heart is now stimulated to greater efforts, and, in order to overcome its increased labour, is com pelled to quicken its velocity to compensate for its lessened power. The pulse now rises, and is followed by determina tion of blood to the brain, as evinced by the flushing of the face, &c., and now succeed all the phenomena of mesmerism, arising from congestion and irregular circulation through that important organ the brain, and its appendage the spinal cord. The effects may be induced by a steady fixed stare, kept up in any direction, together with that quiet of body and nb straction of mind from all other objects necessary to enable the patient to maintain the eye and eyelids in a state of ab solute rest. The patient may look straightforward, upward or downwards, to the right or to the left, or any intermediate angle. The greater the strain on the eye, the more rapid is the effect, and, therefore, upward and downward, so as to in duce an internal and upward squint, is decidedly the one to be preferred. Looking with both eves, so as to make and maintain the greatest possible internal squint, is the next most rapid in its effects. It has not hitherto been observed that by these two positions the pupil of the eye is powerfully contracted, whereas, by directing the eye straight upward, downward, to the right or to the left, it dilates irrespectively of the intensity of the rays of light passing to the retina, so that in one sense the iris may be called a voluntary muscle, as it can he thus contracted or dilated at will. Nor should the fact he overlooked of the remarkable effect produced in the respirations by keeping up a fixed gaze, with the mind directed to the subject in the manner referred to. There is an instinctive tendency during such experiments to breathe softly, or hold in the breath, which, no doubt has considera ble influence in affecting the disarrangement of the circulation in the brain, and depressing its energy by the imperfect arte rialisation of the blood, which takes place in consequence of the suppressed respiration. The closing of the eyelids, and the inability to open them afterwards, may be accounted for in part on the principle of temporary paralysis of the legator palpebrce and occipito frontalis arising from exhaustion by long-continued exertion in keeping the eyelids open, and on the increased energy given to the orbicularis palpebrarum during its repose. This muscle is possessed of the double attribute of a volun tary and involuntary motion ; and the accumulation of tears under the upper eyelid, and the aril state of the conjuncteval membrane in consequence of its exposure to the air, without being lubricated by the tears, and, as usually happens during netation (or winking) of the eyelids, produce at length so much irritation as to excite spasmodic action of the orbicu tante, and, consequently, spasmodic closure of the eyelids. and this, by reflection, is transferred to the other muscles. Mr. Braid considers his mode of dissipating the mesmeric spell quite as remarkable as its production, and says, and proves it may be accomplished, almost instantaneously (if taken in proper time,) by any abrupt or instantaneous shock. Thus the whole limbs may be cataleptiform, resisting the greatest force to displace them, and yet a single abrupt puff from the lips or a pair of bellows on the eyes, into the ears or nostrils, will instantly rouse the patient, and the rigid limbs will become as rapidly perfectly limber. If it is wished to demesmerise a particular part only, manipulation or fan ning must be directed to that particular part only, and the patient roused gradually : but if roused abruptly, the whole will become flaccid at once. Mr. Braid does not deny that certain manipulations may heighten certain effects, but he most unequivocally denies that the will of the operator, or any emanation from his body, produces the effects. In short, that gesture and mani pulations by an automaton would just have the same in fluence, provided the patient considered it a living being. Having finished the lecture which was listened to with marked attention, one of the young women was brought for ward to the front of the stage, and fixed her eyes steadily on an object in the room. Capt. Brown told her to lift her arms. She did so. He next told her to follow him round the stage,and she immediately obeyed the command. She was next told to kneel down, and she knelt down accordingly. She was then told to stand up again, and speedily she was upon her legs. All this time her arms were extended,and herbody appeared as perfectly stiff and unwieldy as though animation were altogether sus pended. Capt. B. remarked that it was somewhat of a remark able fact, that while the patients were in this particular state they never lost their equilibrium. Dr. M'Culloch felt the eyelids, and found that fast closed. A chair was then brought, and she was placed in a sitting posture, when Captain Brown raised both her legs, and extended them in a horizonal position from the body—a position in which she continued to keep them without any support. Dr. Carson felt her pulse while in this state, and announced that it had risen from 92 to 108. Three or four other medical gentlemen then ascended the stage and felt her hands. Captain Brown pricked her with a pin in the head and in the fo: Axed, aad she appeared insensible to pain. A bottle of ammonia was applied by the medical gentlemen to her nose, and it seemed not to produce the slightest effect. After having been in the same state for six minutes altogether, Captain Brown blew upon her eyes and face with a small bellows, and instantly her arms and legs fell down, he eyes opened, and after ap pearing at first perfectly unconscious of what had been pas sing, and weakened by the effect, she walked across the stage to the chair upon which she had been sitting before the experiment commenced. The same patient was then placed on a chair—opposite her sat the captain on another chair. He then held her hands in his, while both continued for two or three minutes to look staringly in each other's faces, during which he continued to move his thumbs and to press them upon her fingers. Suddenly she closed her eyes ; and immediately he released her from his grasp and proceeded to pass his hands, in La fontaine's peculiar style, over her face and body. He then went behind her, lifted her up, and placed her, in a standing position, upon the stage. He then told her to come to him, and she immediately followed him, at a slow and hesitating pace, round the stage. She next knelt down and got up again, as before, at his bidding ; after which she was placed in a chair and her legs exteaded. Her pulse was felt at this period and announced to be 111. Her head then fell back wards, she groaned audibly, and animation was restored. The girl, about 34 or 15 years of age, was next introduced to the meeting. After looking intently at the ceiling for about two minutes, her eyes closed, and the captain, after extending both her arms, asked her several times to sing " the Troubadore." She refused. He then asked her to sing any song she liked; but she still refused to comply. He then asked whether she could waltz, and she whispered in the affirmative. He then whistled an air, apologising for not having a musician present, and instantly she waltzed about the stage. He then blew upon her face with his breath, whereupon she opened her eyes and retired to her seat. The third patient introduced to the audience was the fe male which we have described as about 32 or 3:') years of age. In less than a minute after she commenced to look at an ob ject her eyes closed. Two or three of the medical gentlemen then felt her hands and fingers, which had been previously extended. They were imperceptible to touch. The bottle of ammonia was applied to her nasal organs without effect. Two chairs were then hung upon her left arm, and they ap peared not in the least to have disturbed her equilibrium. So unconscious did she seem to be of what was passing, that she had to be asked three or four times in aloud tone of voice before she complied with the request. Her pulse, which had been previously at 105, was now announced to be at 144. One of the medical gentlemen blew upon her face, and after several puffs she opened her eyes, and the process of demesmerisation was said to have been completed. The three remaining patients were next introduced to the meeting. They all looked steadily towards the ceiling. Speedily one closed her eyes, and then the second followed her example. The third, however, kept her eyes open for a considerably longer period; but at last she too became mes merised. The latter was then told to sing a song, when she attempted, in a very faint voice, to sing the first verse of "Ye banks and braes." While she was in the act of singing it, a medical gentleman applied the ammonia to the nose of one of the other two, and it had an immediate effect. The patient wriggled, made wry faces, opened her peepers, took her handkerchief deliberately from her pocket and wiped away the moisture which the ammonia had evidently brought to her eyes, then looked apparently unconscious for a moment and walked to where she had been previously sitting, amid a roar of laughter from the audience. The experiments having now been gone through upon all the patients, The Captain announced that he was ready to mesmerise any gentleman in company. Mr. GRZEN accordingly leaped upon the stage, and sub mitted to the operation, but it failed. Three gentlemen then submitted to the operation. We could only learn the names of two of them—Mr. Bramwell and Mr. George Thompson. They were put in sitting pos tures. with corks fastened to their foreheads. They were directed, as in Mr. Green's case, to keep their eyes intently fixed on the corks. They were further directed to keep their hands loosely by their sides, the captain observing that to keep the hands in such an attitude was a means whereby the effect would be soonest produced. After the space of about four minutes, the head of one of them fell suddenly upon his breast, which seemed to rouse him a little, for he rubbed his eyes, raised the cork off his forehead, stuck both his hands into the pockets of a capacious white " down-the-road" in which he was habited, stretched out both his legs to their fullest dimensions, and appeared as much at home as if he were enjoying a comfortable after dinner nap in his arm-chair by the fireside. All eyes were directed towards him, and the audience laughed outright at the grotesqueness of his appearance, believing it to have been simulated. The two others were " wide awake" all the time, looking intently at the corks, but insensible as to any effect. The captain passed his wand several times over their eyes, but it was all to no purpose By this time the third gentleman had opened his eyes, and in reply to the inquiries of the audience, assured them that ke had tried once or twice to get up from his seat while under the influence, but found himself unable so to do. He tried to bear what had been passiug, but failed in this respect also. Dr. M'CuLLocu said that the gentleman's pulse was going most furiously whilst he was in the state described. He (Dr. C.) thought the case was simulated, but the patient had declared, upon his honour as a gentleman, that the fact was otherwise. (Hear, hear.) In answer to further inquiries, The GENTLEMAN declared that be was between asleep and awake while under the influence, and that he could only hoar the audience clapping. Luring this conversation the gentleman appeared some . what stupid, and it was some minutes afterwards before he could rise from his seat. Mr. ROBERTSON, of Ludlow, here presented himself at the front of the stage, and stated that, having on the prece ding Saturday read Mr. Braid's first lecture in Manchester, he fixed his eyes on an object and found that they speedily closed. He then sat at a table, on which he placed a decan ter, and on the top of it a cork, and in a few minutes his eyes again closed. and he was unable to open them. His assistant, however, whom he had in the room, and whom he requested to attend to him while he was making the experi ment, opened them for him. Mr. R. concluded by saying that he should be happy to submit to Captain Brown's expe riments, if that gentleman had no objection, as he had previ ously been a disbeliever in the science. Ife then submitted to the experiment; so also did another gentleman at the same time. They both sat upon chairs, with the corks fastened to their foreheads. In a short time Mr. Robertson's eves closed, and his breast heaved intensely. The experiment was received with loud cheers. The bellows having been applied, Mr. Robertson opened his eyes, and walked about the stage. Before the process commenced, his pulse was 120; at the close it was 150. . . The other gentleman who submitted to the experiment with Mr. Robertson declared, after sitting for some minutes, that he had not felt the slightest effect. Mr. ROBERTSON explained the manner in which he had felt during the process. In the first instance, he said, his eyes were directed towards the cork, which in a short time appeared to dance about. At last he felt some difficulty in keeping his eyes open ; neither, after shutting them, could he open them again. He had felt difficulty in respiration. He knew that several gentleman were about him. He also felt that his arm had been raised, but he did not feel any par ticular frigidity in it, except partially. Captain BROWN said that the hearing became exceedingly acute in most of the cases. Another GENTLEMAN inquired whether it was true, as reported in a Manchester paper, that it was not necessary the patients should keep their eyes in a particular position, but that it was only necessary they should keep their heads in such a position. _ _ Captain BROWN asked whether the inquirer alluded to Lafontaine's effects. The GENTLEMAN replied in the affirmative. Captain BROWN said, it had certainly occurred that pr sons bad been mesmerised while keeping their heads, and not their eyes, in a particular position. The GENTLEMAN next asked what was the object of Lafontaine's passes of the hand over the patients, if, as was stated in the lecture, the effects were produced by the efforts of the brain, &c. Captain BROWN said, that Lafontaine's passes were a complete humbug. lie had no hesitation in saying that they were a complete humbug, and he added, that Mr. Braid's system differed altogether from that of Lafontaine. Mr. GREEN said that Captain Brown had acted during the evening fairly. openly, and far differently from Mons. Lafontaine; for while the latter was quite reserved, the former gave the fullest explanations in his power. (Hear, hear.) Under such circumstances, he thought Captain Brown ought to be given a fair hearing, whenever he made his appearance in Liverpool again. Captain Bno - ws then promised to repeat the lecture on some future occasion, of which due notice would be given, and said he would endeavour to bring Mr. Braid along with him at the same time, who was far better able to explain the subject than he could possibly pretend to be. The audience separated shortly before eleven o'clock. THE WEST INDIA MAIL STATION We resume our remarks on the home station of the West India mails, considered principally as a nauticaul question. And, first, with regard to A PORT OP CALL. It appears, from several parts of the evidence elicited be fore the parliamentary committee, that the government, from the first, contemplated a port of call, or second port, as far as possible to the west of the original port of departure, on the supposition that the latter were se l e ct e d ea s t war d o f the coast of Cornwall. Whether Portsmouth or Southampton (nearest to the metropolis) had been selected as the termi nating home port, the only ports at all likely to the westward of either were Dartmouth, Plymouth, or Falmouth, to all of which strong objections were stated, and particularly to the two latter, from the difficulty, risk, or impossibility of access , at certain times. Dartmouth was considered decidedly the best in point of safety and accommodation ; but it is the most easterly of the three, and therefore not nearly so suitable as Falmouth to secure the grand desideratum (advocated by many of the witnesses) of having the mails carried as far as possible " on four wheels ;" and an opinion being expressed by several of the pt.rties examined, that there would be con siderable uncertainty and delay in touching at any second port, the committee appear to have entirely abandoned the idea, at least in considering Southampton as the station. Captain Chappell, marine superintendent of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, expressed his disapproval of any port of call, as having hitherto been found to be impractica ble, and maintained his assumption (for so we must call it) by a sort of side-wind slap at the port of Liverpool. He states that, fourteen years ago, the mail steam packets between this port and Dublin called at Holyhead in going and returning, and that this plan, after being persevered in at great risk and cost, and without any adequate advantage, for some years, was at length given up. But this illustration was most in applicable to the case in point. We readily admit that Ho lyhead is not a practicable port of call. It is, with northerly winds beset with a heavy sea, and the bay is withal so dan gerous, the access so difficult, and the accommodations, both natural and artificial, so inadequate (notwithstanding its new pier and other improvements) that it can scarcely be called even a port of refuge for small coasters, much less for vessels of large burthen. Its position is good, from its being on an apex or point of land, or rather rock, forming the extreme southern boundary of the channel into Liverpool ; and it has been nurtured principally as a telegraph station, and the nearest port of North Wales to Ireland, but will never be come a safe or extensive port. The inference to be de duced from his evidence regarding it is, however, to the uninitiated, that, because it is an unprofitable and unsafe port of call for the Liverpool and Dublin steam mail ships, were Liverpool selected as the station of the West India mail ships, we could find no available port of call any more than Southampton. But the voyage (properly a mere coast ing one) to Dublin has no reference to the voyage to the West Indies, and if he had cast his eye upon the chart he would have found that a port of call from Liverpool could have been found, much superior to Holyhead, for all the purposes of conveying passengers and correspondence to and from the West Indies. We allude to the south and the south west extremity of Ireland. Why did he overlook Cork ?—one f the finest ports in the kingdom, accessable in all weathers capable of accommodating the whole squadron at a time, and which may be left in all weathers by such vessels, if we ex cept the rare contingency of a hurrican from the south, when they could not leave even-Southampton. Cork is moreover in the direct course hence to the West Indies. There is, however, another port still more applicable, and not far distant from Cork, which he has also overlooked—namely, BEERHAVEN. in Bantry Bay, situated at the south west ex tremity of Ireland, and in every respect suitable for the purpose, particularly when a railroad across the island is formed, of which there is every probability. It is, besides, in the direct course, and close to Cape Clear, the point of de parture of all vessels sailing from this port, or from the north of England, or Wales, (as far south as the Bristol Channel,) to the West India Islands. The committee were informed of this fact. Captain George Evans, R.N., said that he had been appointed to inspect the west coast of Ire- [and by the Post-oi=fiee Enquiry COmmission, and to point out the btst port for the Amersin and West India packets. He did so, and recommended Beerhaven, as in every respects suitable "for the landing and embarking of all the Irish and Scotch passengers and correspondence," as it was very little out of the way from Brean Down, (in the Bristol Channel.) We may add that it is not at all out of the way from Liver pool. Captain Evans also said that " Bantry Bay is an open place,—Beerhaven has two entrances, and there is no wind that a vessel would attempt to go to sea in, in which she could not go in and out of Beerhaven." He added that even in the night, vessels might go round Cape Clear into it, with safety, if there was a light fixed there, which there was not at present; and that there were two good channels, one the eastern and the other the western, which permitted in- gress and egress in all weathers—even in strong southerly zales when vessels could not put out of Cork. Cape Clear, close by, was, moreover, not only the best point of departure 'or the Nest L►dies, but the safest headla►id to make in com- ing home. We need scarcely add that after making Cape Clear, the West India mails would, in running for Liverpool, be in the same safe position as coasters. The course up channel is direct and well-defined all the way by headlands and lighthouses. Beerhaven is a frequent port of refuge for our Liverpool vessels. The letters and passengers from all Scotland to the West Indies could, even now, (before a rail way is constructed,) be readily conveyed to it or to Cork, by the mails,—through Donoughadee or Belfast ; and those of Ireland, without a long journey from any point, and no part of the transit by water. It is in fact in the direct and nearest line from the north of England, from Scotland, and from Ireland, to the West India Islands. So much, therefore, of advantage for Liverpool over Southampton, as regards a port of call. SUGGESTED PUBLIC MEETING Having now shown the superiority of Liverpool over Southampton as the home station of the West India mail fleet, not only as regards the transmission of correspondence, and the transit of passengers, to and from the populous ma nufacturing districts in the north of England, and in Scot land, as well as with Ireland, with which it is in daily and rapid communication, but as respects its capabilities and ac commodations on a large scale, for all the purposes of steam navigation, combined with the advantages (should that be required) of a suitable port of call,—having, we think, es tablished those points beyond dispute in the minds of all truly disinterested, commercial, and nautical men who have given their attention to the subject, it only remains for us to throw out the suggestion promised at the close of our last remarks, with a view to induce the government to re-consider and amend the decision to which they have, we apprehend, pre maturely arrived, in selecting Southampton as the exclusive port. _ _ _ What we propose is, that public meetings of the merchants, traders, and other inhabitants of the towns of Liverpool and Manchester, Hull, Leeds, Glasgow, Dublin, Cork, &c., should be held, respectively, or by deputation, at one or more of them, to consider and adopt the best means of placing the claims of Liverpool (to which the others are decidedly favour able), before parliament, at an early period of the approaching session. Evidence of a much stronger nature than that ad duced before the committee might be brought forward at such meeting or meetings, which it would he scarcely possible— taking all the relative advantages of this port into account — for any government, looking to the general good and the effective and economical working of the mails, to resist. All we desire is a common measure of justice, and if, after a full, fair, and practical investigation of the question in all its bearings, we fail, conjointly, to make out a case entitling us to a preference, we shall be contented to forego the point at issue, and leave, if for a national good, a comparatively small port to the enjoyment of all the advantages it may derive from its being the home station of these ships. We could furnish much additional " practical" evidence in behalf of Liverpool, but shall refrain from further discus sion of the subject until the question is again generally mooted, or brought before parliament. LITERARY I''OTICE. The National Church of England : Ancient ; Apostolic ; The above is the title of a sermon preached by the Rev. Robert Eden, minister of St. Mary's Chapel, Lambeth, for the Winchester Diocesan Church Building Society, and we are happy to say that the discourse very ably maintains the thesis without any admixture of those exclusive or bigotted theories which so strikingly characterise that school of churchmanship lately set np, or revived by the Rev. Doctor Pusey, and his associates. We have read the publication with much pleasure ; the views put forth are moderate, sen sible, seasonable, and judicious; and we hail all those who advocate them as the truest friends, not only to our most holy church, but to the church of England, as, perhaps, its very best expounder and teacher. We recommend this ser mon to those who would wash to examine our ecclesiastical constitution by the light of scripture, and to reconcile a de cided preference for its polity, with a tolerant and charitable consideration for other forms, and other Cbristisn communi ties, not of our kindred. CORRESPONDENCE THE CORN LAWS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—ln explanation of the " plan for a modification of the corn-laws," which you have been good enough to deem worthy of a place in your columns, as well as an editorial commentary, I would first observe, before I enter upon the subject, that any plan on a question so complicated, and so beset with difficulties as the subject of the corn-laws, requires deep consideration before we can pronounce, definitely, upon it. And all I ask of you is, that you will calmly view each portion of the plan before you in its various bearings ; and then, I feel assured, you will arrive at the conclusion to which I inevitably come, namely, that, with an average price of 565. per quarter for English wheat, and an average duty of Bs. per quarter, " the protection to the English agricultu_ rist " is 47 per cent. The calculations which arc carried out, in reference to the lower scales of prices and duties, are relative, and are not intended to convey any inference detrimental, or otherwise, to the agriculturist. Having given the facts, and carried out the calculations, I leave in a higher quarter the propriety of adopting or rejecting them. I put forward no opinion—l propound no new principle. But, presuming on the double hypothesis, that the agricul turist requires protection and the government revenue, there seems nothing for it but a range of prices that affords the one, and a scale of duty that effects the other. But, to meet your remarks, suppose, for the sake of sim plicity, that we leave out the two lower scales of duty, as suggested in the plan, and the two lower scales of prices, as well as the calculations on them ; we have thus the nucleus of the scheme laid bare, namely, an average of prices (565. Ist scale), and an average of duties (Bs. Ist scale), giving an ample revenue, and a protection to the agriculturist of 47 per cent. I do not offer any opinion whether this is sufficient, too much, or not enough of protection ; nor yet, whether the above-named scales of prices and of duty be the best that can be selected ; (this, as is mentioned in the " plan," being left to others to determine,)—my object being simply to show the working of the plan, for the information and guidance, alike, of the agriculturist and manufacturer, by giving certain scales of prices and duties, and carrying out the calculations arising out of them. Neither do I believe that the system I am suggesting will, in its operation, be very different from that of a fixed duty, whether as it regards revenue, protection, or the interests.of the manufacturer. This explanation will, I think, meet your first observa tions. The other portion of the plan which you deem open to re mark is the mode of taking the averages. The mode of car rying out its working details, which you consider as not quite oe, as there stated, by " persons ap avernment in the several towns and districts ; , s, weekly, of the snorkel price, y growers as well as by factors or dealers, (if pr then the exact market price last paid.) clear in 0: plan, would b, these should send retur " obtained ' " of good, sound, merchantable wheat (no other quality), without rtlerence to quantity, to a board in London, ould be to collate the returns, draw the Ise duty i " averages, and fix the duty—then to transmit it on a certain " day in each week to the collector of the Customs, in every " port of the united kingdom." In carry rangement, tl be nothing complicated, t, or c Toper" pers ould then re 1), who rn the ' u returns, weekly, arket price," and same board which sits now would be employed then, that their labour would be much situ as they would not have to do with the damaged or • that now forms part of the averages, nor to draw. as he n with this differenc, soft wh averages of quantities as well as of price Of course the person to send - up the returns must not be entiiely inexperienced, as is the case in many districts at present ; but a " competent " person, who has sense enough to know " good, merchantable " wheat when he sees it, from damaged and soft, and honesty enough to return the market price of it. Ido not press, particularly, the period of a week over a fortnight for making the returns and fixin the duty, though 1 certainly do give it the preference. But, however opinions may differ as to this comparatively minor point, all will, I think, admit that the mode here suggested of taking the averages, combined with the limited range of prices and duties, must be a vast improvement on the present system, by its direct tendency to prevent fraud and a tampering with the averages ; and, by checking speculation, to lessen, if not entirely to destroy, the influ ence exercised on the averages by the dealers and factors. In conclusion, allow me to express a hope that this be not regarded as a " party question," but, rather, one for ar rangement between two great Interests, which hold the des tinies of our country in their grasp, and in the united strength of which, in harmony and goodwill, has ever con sisted the prosperity and integrity of the empire. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, E. W. JACKSON. Liverpool, 22d December, 1841. CHRIST CHURCH CHARITY TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD Strt,—May I request that you will insert a few lines in your paper of Friday, in contradiction of a statement which appeared in the Courier of Wednesday, from an anonymous correspondent. The statement is to the effect, that persons in Christ Church district, in this town, who have been in no need of relief, and who are undeserving characters, have been partakers of the charity which is now being distributed to the poor of the district. As the person who is responsible to the minister of the church for the right distribution of the charity, and through whom he principally discovers whether the persons receiving it are fit objects or not, I beg to give, through your paper, the earliest contradiction to this statement of this anonymous writer, and to declare that what he says regarding the distri bution of the charity in Christ Church district is altogether untrue—no such persons as those described by him having shared the charity, nor any persons but those on whom it was well bestowed, as being persons of moral character, who are in great distress. I have been between four and five years living among the_poor of this district, and know them well ; I am, therefore, able to speak with confidence, and I do declare that a more unfounded calumny was never put fnrth ; I know the names and residences of every one who has got relief, and I defy any person to come forward and prove what this anonymous writer states. I would not notice this anonymous slander, were it not that some persons might be influenced by it, and withhold the relief which they are disposed to give, to the great injury of many deserving poor, who are suffering much, and likely to suffer more, from the inclemency of the season and the great difficulty of getting work at this time of the year. And I hope I may be allowed to add, how melancholy it is that such base calumnies should be circulated, and good prevented, by such wickedness as this anonymous writer is guilty of.—l am, sir, your very obedient servant, JAMES MARTINDALE, Clerk of Christ Church, Liverpool Hunter-street, December 23d, 1811. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND HER DOCTRINES TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, May I solicit the medium of your estimable paper to ex press a few reflections which may be of service to members of the Church of England at this trying juncture. I give them in all humility, having by them alone the well-being of the church and her people in view. After a long season of spiritual declension, it has pleased Almighty God - to make the Church of England an instru ment of disseminating more zealously His saving truths in the land ; and there has been a large increase in her members, who have also taken up the cause of scriptural truth with great ardour. The cry of the disaffected portion of oar countrymen against her form and constitution is becoming less and less heard among us, and when it is heard it comes to ears of those who are too well instructed to credit the worn out sophistries of some, and the gross mistatements of others of our opponents. But this change has not been anattended with evils. While a faithful portion of our clergy were, by their preaching and exemplary labours, gathering around the church many of her hitherto wandering sons, there have been and still are others who, having the same end in view, that is, as concerns the visible unity of the church, have not held forth those distin guishing and vital doctrines of the Bible which the church had commanded them to teach, and upon which alone she hopes kir the accomplishment of the great purposes of her Divine Head. These words may appear to some harsh and unfounded, but I am persuaded they are capable of proof, and it is the object of this letter to draw the particular attention of our working and deeply interested population to the evi dence by which they may not only:test this, but be the mewls, I hope, in bringing those who will study the subject into a closer attachment to the church, because—as they will find — she faithfully and unreservedly declares those things which concerns the soul's everlasting health. But Ido not antici pate, from observations that I have been able to make, there ought to be any great objection to this statement, when it is considered that teachers of the description alluded to are contending more for the observance of forms and ceremonies, and for church authority, and who moreover declare their opposition to the unreserved communication of religious truth. Besides, their preaching is directed more to the out ward performances of religion than the protection, under the divine aid, of that true and lively faith from which good works do necessarily proceed. I point more particularly to the Book of Homilies for this test. It appears to me that the free circulation of this book at the present time is extremely nesessary, when we witness men in high quarters tossed to and fro upon novelties in re ligion which yet are not novelties, and when we see also the dissent to these doctrines among the middle and lower classes, we cannot but look forward to severe trials and contests amongst us. What can be more calculated, humanely speak ing, to moderate the clash of contending parties than such a standard, coming to our hands fully authorised, of what the doctrines and mode of teaching the church really adopts and communicates ? It will be found to ground its final appeal to Scripture alone, in full accordance with the Gth article, appealing to the Fathers only for their testimony as to mat. ters of fact and not for the foundation of any doctrine. This feature, with the simplicity of the language employed, recom mends these writings to our fullest confidence, and we cannot fail reverencing that church which provides for our wants — as creatures very far gone from original righteousness—in preaching the above merits of our Lord Jesus Christ, as our only ground of acceptance with God. Let, then, the Homilies be circulated more freely than they have been hitherto ; and let all those who would desire a guide, in these times of novelties, in the doctrines and practice of religion, furnish themselves with the book of homilies ; they will then be led to attend to those teachers who echo the voice of the Reformers ; and, as it is to be hoped, brought to admire and extend mote and more the Scriptural Church of England.—l am, Sir, your most obedient Servant, A CHURCHMAN, Liverpool, 23d December, 1841 THE IRISHMAN'S CAT —A short time ago a poor Irish man applied at the churchwardens' office of Manchester for relief ; and upon some doubt being expressed as to whether he was a proper object for parochial charity, he enforced his suit with much earnestness :—" Och, your honour," said he, " sure I'll be starved long since but for my cat." " But for what ?" asked his astonished interrogator. "My cat!" rejoined the Irishman. " Your cat! how so ?" " Shure, your honour, I sould her eleven times for sixpence a time, and she was always at home before I'd get there myself." BRUTAL CONFLICT.—The Journal du Nievre gives the following account of a ferocious contest between two bro thers, forest-keepers, on the 2d instant, near Carvol l'Ar gueilleux, where they had been celebrating the feast of St. Eloi, at the house of a miller, who had given them too much liquor. Returning home they quarrelled, and, after fighting sonic time with their hands, fell together, and continued the struggle on the ground for three hours, when one became exhausted, and the other was probably unable to continue the fight; at the end of which, he who may be considered the conqueror, had had torn from him by the teeth of his brother the whole of his under lip, down to the point of the chin, while the other lost half of one of his ears in the same manner. They each had a gun, but neither thought of using it, and the stronger carried both away with him, arriving at his home about midnight. Having called up one of his neighbours, he sent him first for a surgeon to dress his own wounds, and then to go for the body of his brother, which would, be said, be found dead in the wood. He, however, was not dead, and both are recovering, mutilated for thank frightfully APPALLING MURDER OF 4. CHILD. (Abridged from the Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday.) Dr. M`Carthy, one of the county co roners , h e ld an inquest yesterday, at Fleming's public-house, Upper Baggot-street, on view of the body of a fine boy, about "ten years of age, who was found brutally murdered on Monday evening in a stable-lane, at the rear of Pembroke-road. When it was known that the dreadful deed had been perpetrated, the greatest excitement and horror pervaded the neighbourhood. The excitement continued yesterday during the inquest. Great crowds visited the spot where the barbarous murder was committed, and remained in the jury-room and about the house in which the inquest was held during the entire day. The person who was deemed the principal witness in the case was a lad of about twenty years of age, named John Delahunt. It will be recollected that this boy was the chief evidence brought forward by the crown Cooney and his wife, who were tried for the t minico Garlibardo, the Italian organ-player ham, some months since. Our readers a' contradictory and scandalous manner it gave his evidence at that trial, which cc siding to tell Delahunt that he thought dock in place of on the table as a witness, murdered child lay in the lane wheie the perpetrated. It presented a ghastly spec of the unfortunate victim was cut from ear also a gash over the right eye, seeming' angular instrument. A cap and a str blood, were found at a short distance boy. ;ainst t he o❑z After some evidence had been received as t, the body, Constable Barrett deposed as follow. to Colonel Browne, police commissioner, at the Yard ; John Delahunt called on me last evenin ence to a child that was murdered ; this was soot o'clock ; he called to me to apprise me of it , saw a woman beating the child repeatedly in a near Pembroke-road, and that he looked on for r able time until he supposed the child was dead ; he considered the child's throat was cut ; be said t had a knife in her hand; said he could identify tl - I then went with him to Lad-lane, and from that the lane with Inspector Carmody; when we got ( to it we found the child's cap near the place where lay; the child was lying on its hack ; its throat Delahunt told me he had a sore foot. ; he told me he John Delahunt, after being told by the coror picion was attached to him, entered into a len with a considerable degree of circumstantial detr amounted to lfttle more than an arnpliticatic given to the constable. After several witness( evidence, tending to implicate Delahunt as the the child. Thomas Delabunt was exhamined.-11 brother of John Delahunt ; 'is brothet betwen seven and eight o'clocn the ever room in Britain-street; he had a 1 !e boy v strange child, between nine and ten ye brother als6 at about half-past twe:ve o' said he was going down to the Castle-var in the evening when he came in he sai man with him, and then called the litt he said to the child " come in ; wife asked him his name, and she asked him where he lived he saki know; the child was then brou2 had a bib on ; I cannot say what cap on ; he was in his bare feet part of his dress; his (witne child did not remain more than a t thirtE .s between seven and eight, or be ;lock ; he then took the child a (he said) in Buckingham-street ; tl lying dead in the stable lane, Pembr to be the same child that was with his room last night ; he (witness) felt Ile cold( the same child ; his (witness's) brother Jobs about twenty minutes after going out with said he had left it in Cumberland-street, and said he knew his way home from that; he d than about twenty mint tated I: Margaret Delahunt (wife of the last witness) wa to be examined. She appeared to he deeply a could not give her testimony for some time. It v as that of her husband. She fully identified to saw dead in the stable lane as the child she sal Delahunt on the evening previous in her hush The witness fainted after giving her testimony, a insensible for a considerable time. Evidence was then adduced to prove the child to be the son of Thomas Maguire, a biscuit baker, and John Delahunt was brought into the room, and acquainted with the testimony of the witnesses. He said, as soon as the law had gone through its force, he would be able to lay his hand upon the murderers, though, in his statement before, he said be did not know the person whom he saw maltreating the child. The jury, after a little consideration, brought in a ver dict of " wilful murder against John Delahunt," and the prisoner was committed to Kilmainhatn, to stand his trial. SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION But, in the enforcement of the Scripture itself as their plan of public instruction, government has no choice—it has no right, no authority whatever to render it. It is no matter of choice whether subjects or governors shall be responsible to God for obedience to his divine revelation ; where that reve lation is known—they must, they shall be responsil must all appear before the judgment-seat of Chris an account of the deeds done in the body," am these deeds be to take down His eternal word as till of a nation's instruction—if a government, to acct its policy to the crime of its subjects, choose to make itself a party—yea, to set up its authority by law against the author ity of God—we can only say that all sophistry by v would vindicate itself, sinks into contempt before the faithful judgment even of the Christian man; at well for men who act on such principles, even if tl vindicate themselves before man, to consider how stand with their criminal policy in their hand, to compromising with the crimes of their fellow-me thority of that God at whose tribunal they must t appear. Do not debate, then, my lord. what you by balancing the question between Protestantism an Do not say in the cabinet what are we to do? If tain the board, we have the Protestant clergy vga we dissolve this board, and set up the Scriptur schools, we have the Popish priests against n are we to do? The Popish priests and the p majority, and we cannot go against them to give Do not reason thus, my lord, in the cabinet. confidently asserted before the cabinet, and before and before all the Papacy of Europe, that this question for the cabinet to debate. Permit me, with all deference, to submit this ques,.—_ the British cabinet—is God to be shut out from these consul tations ?—are the statesmen who compose it to say that they have no responsibility to Him in the matter? Where tl question cor.cerns His Holy Word, and His authority the people of this empire —not as to points, and duct , ' and opinions deducible from that word, but as to the itself, in its own whole integrity and authority, what may he. Is Jehovah himself to have no share in det this question ? Put God's authority into the scale, a does the majority predominate then, my lord ? Let every member of the cabinet place his hand upon his heart and say —do I believe before God that he can sanction the suppression of His Holy Word in the national schools of Ireland ? each do this, and answer in his Maker's sight : the member of the cabinet—where is the m::_ self a Christian who (pardon the word—l mean it not in dis respect to man, but in reverence to God) would dare to vote for the Irish Board of Education? Weigh these principles, my lord, in the balances of the sanctuary—take then - i into your closet, and lay them out in the sight of God, and if you can lift up your eyes and heart to him, and call him to witness that you believe they are false, then go into the cabinet and House of Commons, and plead for the Irish Board of Educa tion. But if not, my lord—if you know and feel in your conscience they are true, then do justice to your couscienr and to truth, my lord, and, with the manly courage o' Christian, admit that your principle has been wrong vote for the dissolution, or rather for the re-establishmL Christian principles, of that anti-Christian system.—M` Letter to Lord Stanley. ions to Ironing I where n that calk h GRAND TREAT FOR THE HOLIDANS.—L, diens have an opportunity of treating charge to see Anderson's celebrated group of state. sisting of Tam o'Shanter on his mare, crossing the Brit..., Doon, with the witch Cutty Sark, cut out of an immeL block of stone, weighing at the first no less than 16 tons The laughable group of the De'il ruuniT , ' - ' ciseman ; and the much admired 6 or, the Henpecked Husband, large as life. We hat, peatedly had occasion to notice these splendid effot genius, and do assure those who have not yet seen t, that a real treat awaits them at this season of the year v all is mirth and merriment. No one can form the lease the figures, and as everything is so minutely finish admission money a mere trifle, we hope a call as the exhibition will shortly close CHICHESTER OLD BANK.-011 Tuesd( meeting of the creditors of this bank took debts proved were about £120,000. a complete stagnation to business ous cases have occured where persons in compare!, are reduced to the most abject distress. Among be named two aged maiden ladies (sisters), nam and Nanny Fowler, one of whom is a cripple. for £1,969 Is. 4d. They are left without a shillir compelled to apply to the parish for relief, and receipt of a miserable weekly pittance. farmed with a large family named Smith : he n— or his own money, and borrowed £l,OOO for the p taking a larger farm, the whole of which he deposit( bank for safety a few days before the stoppage. He the occurrence been reduced to beggary. The largest ci was Mr. Kent, training-groom to the Duke of Richn who proved for £4,595 16s. 7d., the savings of many ye servitude, intended for a large family. Such was the cot deuce placed in the bank, that numbers, particularly female deposited every pound they possessed in the concern. STRANGE CißcumsTANCE.—During the severe storm of Monday night last, the inmates of a house infligh•street, Ayr, were alarmed by a heavy substance falling down the kitchen flue, which, instead of lying stock still, proceeded to divest itself of the sable addition to its drapery, by flying around the room, and kicking up such a lust as might be expected at a chimney sweep's wedding. When the con sternation had subsided which had been caused by the adv en t of the mysterious visitor—which was not until it had fairly tired itself out—a searching enquiry was made by the inmates to find what description of intruder they had to deal with ; when it appeared, greatly to their surprise, that the unruly transgressor was neither more nor less than a cock ph easant Th e p oor bi r d h a d in all probability been sc are d f rom its perch, and had winged its way towards the to wn, w h ere i t had taken to roost on the top of the chimney, into which it had been blown by one of those sudden and violent gusts of wind that prevailed during the night. I n t o t h e subsequent history of the " bonnie birdie, it becomes not those uncon nected with tax-office to pry. It is b u t c h aritable to t hi n k he was allowed to wing his way h ome again • but, judging from certain indications, he must h ave cast his' feathers with fright before he fiew.—Ayr Advertiser. 73, -ents and awa' wi' t Dup of \Vat and Me —See adi n Chichester 5163. tic Contous CASE.—A few days ago, a corporal belonging to the corps of sappers and miners, and who had been employe in the trigonometrical survey in the north, and had r to save somewhere about £36, came to Glasgow, and his lodgings in the Gallowgate. Thinking he would be the best banker, he resolved on securing his mom body belt, so that it might be at all times under - and keeping. With this view he had a ten pound pound note, nineteen one pound notes, and two put into the hands of a young woman in the - to sew into his belt; but she adopted a dii disposing of the money, and carried it wit house, belt and all. sh e was, of course, sea was on Friday night secured, with nearly money. The curious part of the case is yet ; female, young ss s he is, is a m arrie d worn children, and her husband is residing in the c,.,, herself off in to wn as a si ngle woman, she had a private of the 10th f oot, and Fri usual proclamati ons, fi xed for the h af e te ar r t t o h f e bad spen t about £l5 in clothes for the on about to step into a noddy to drive off to a rni k no t, when a criminal officer stepped forward the consummation which she devoutly wished property purchased by the stolen money has L Previous to the apprehension of the woman, t miner who had been robbed of his money, - - intilloch, where he understood her husband worked a sawyer. The sawyer , h owever , b a d no soo ner se` dier than he bolted, and it is now found dust In is" from the tam carps to be told ntz•v. Pas day night was, decd ter :o the c hose :entry cedis )(ugh ill be is in it the sting Ma ; sum 111 r • prO waS Eitel:. ets of ictina on of t and corn next ty of ccua• Jon ,own seek- s e rer holi- I BP' iated b of Aber and • the kind D in tail of lord I.P. the v ere cted old, Isk- —At ;s on rty, yiog t to