The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-26 00:00:00

them to take towards a member, or members, of the general body; and the other from Mr. J. B. Neilson, in reply to a letter of Mr. Duncan Stewart. So long as the question at issue was a personal one THE speech of Mr. T. B. Horsfall, at the last merely, or one affecting the regulations of •the meeting of the Council, on the question of dock members of the Exchange, in their transactlO:ns rating, was undoubtedly one of the ablest which with each other, we abstained from interfering: has hitherto been delivered in Opposition to the The letters to which we refer, however, have placed party. We question much, it in a different light, and shewn it to be one in of have an effect very which not only the journalist, hut the public, have uthor intended to pro- a right to express an Opinion. •han weaken, in the The material point now before us, and in the 'ssion that .both our mooting of which 'no doubt the unpleasant state 'uld bear their fair of feeling recently existing amongst the members shall not dwell, originated, is one as to what ought to be the com- . that men do position of the Stock Exchange its e lf. It i s noto- Lbe Eibtrpoot &taiibarb. TUESDA I MORNING, DEC , roposal of the rati however, whether it will oppoP corporal. ) that which 3 con sha . re of ti in proof of not usualli threats; bt both the and the 1 fallacious Birmink present r shall dist tion, IT contrib population Chorlton-u fall tel whc e in of the local burth. the funds c him t hat the vour to show that the local 26, 1848 hibited from time to time amongst some of its members ; that speculation has been carried on far beyond the means of those engaged in it, not only in Liverpool hut throughout the kingdom; and that the result has been productive of serious nparison losses, not only to those amongst the body who , Hul 'e based upon I to his latter 11 r, were pursuing it of the public ): producing the r 'nit to many d in a legitimate business as ,well, and has greatly •aid ent distrust of railway invest- unted I ments themselves. On these grounds we perfeetly . agree with the opinions expressed by buth~•.the Neilson—and we believe they are shared working hese towns )s to the necessity of st e p s b e i ng ta k en by th Ie- Committee and th e b o dy genera ll y to prevent a ter people, recurrence of such conduct; and thus to inspit in by a great many other menthe of the body r proper, as v y a working popnia- I in the minds of the pt is of the rates than I feet confidence in the F. ibbe out of doors that per itabilitv and the logyirimnt llii1U11A1(11/U Ilk of the respectable character of the business carried on by them, which ;hbouring suburbs of cannot be said to exist at present. The immense me, Rusholme, and amount of capital now invested in this description r Irwell. Mr. Hors- of property renders it absolutely imperative that considerable portion those, to whose judgment and integrity its pur pool are borne out of chase and sale is committed, should be untaintec and we must rem i-- ' The people of ti baubl in Manchester done by t their dock pete with with even the suspicion of undue and illegitimate trading amongst themselves, or for clients out of toc:n have to support their pet doors, not possessed of the most undoubted means ccounts for some portion of their of fulfilling their obligations. \Ve are just now nnni- " . ,.. 3.... AL on the eve of a great business i n thi s ki n d o f nro • • . • • are taxed ; and th have do( no one =pot the Ace is perty. The public have got rid of their exa . gae 7 to have rated alarm, with respect to the soundness of the these corn- railway system ; and the time seems in every way „e owners, who propitious for, and to demand, a reform in the in justice ask to constitution of the body by which this increased as they interfere with business will have to be conducted. The share r to remind him of an broker is entrusted with property of his clients, 'verlook. When and of the public, greater in amount than that , a large nortion which is held by many a banker; and every seon ,ty was converted rity, and guarantee of respect a bility an d pru d ence, das about the va l ue i n the broker, ought to be afforded to the public, required. Surely the by the knowledge that none but persons of such land, upon the build- respectability and prudence are allowed to be en upon it and those which rolled, or to remain amongst their dic was cot of valoab: into Water of the land' and bui loss of 1 ings alt the rat of replacing their amoi We I increased in: ther larze m s of warehot property for the formation houses in Wapl in the present the ra ay the , hy It will posed by a hundred other ;;;;;;;;j( of Lc of the word, asiii abolish of indigna find a littl was of some then, on ti competitio own cast e a robbery . , in were to prof the spe " Cnn )f this stol and other pat ceedings of ti. We can conceiv tween B ners cal ith the r ') He 1 corr their e place, we refer to li tatement i m port different f £6,246,000 X 1,770,000 It was al4o agreed that an em I joining the gas-works in Lower'Kini:siftTet. Dee. tO, ISA ve Sion, if o n n ot it sn s ol fir e s t t h li g n n tro w d o u :s tnto an engine of o p pres - and why not we ? We cannot keep ourselves desn, or thoseltwho are called upon who have to wor k get a cup o f t ea, or a bi t of b rea d , w i t h ou t b e i ng taxed ; it, of re s i s t ance on t h e part of the to bear a le g iti ma t e burthen, and of filet; art of year, a on the p and but for these t axes we nee d only work for three months in thewe could sail for the other nin e months on the lakes and d see the beautiful scenery of na those for w h ose re li e f i t i s i ntended, Truly ti, - ; govern- lure which G o d h a d ' ordained for us and be a happy Pe ) " ment of Ireland is a "great difficulty." pie." Being cautioned by a police-officer, he said be was preaching the Gospel and the Word of God, and he had as much right to do so as those blasphemous priests op posite (pointing to the chapel.) He then went on to say that " if God was pleased with the shedding of Christ's blood, let them shed blood to redeem his people from under the oppressinc , hand of wicked men, such as Lord John Russell, Sir R. Peel, and all the rest of the aristo, (mathc thieves and murderers." He added, " I would wish to gain the rights of the people without the shedding of blood or destroying of property; hut, if they cannot be gained without, let as at once unanimously agree and as semble together to fight manfully for our rights and pri vileges; to clear and destroy oer enemies and oppressors, and to take and devour everything before us ; this is the will of God concerning those that oppress his children." SOUTH LANCASHIRE SPECIAL COMMISSION: NISI PRIUS COURT.—TUESDAY. (Before Baron Alderson ) THE MANCHESTER CHARTISTS THEIR DI ABOLICAL. Several further witeesses were caIIed, PLANS who deposed to the prisoners below attending meetings, and uttering the most seditious language ; but the most important witness was a man of the name of Ball, oue of .the conspirators, and who was brought from gaol to give evidence. After describing the formation of clubs for drilling, and the pre parations for Manchester to follow when a rising took place in Landon, the witness deposed as follows :—On the 11th of April another meeting was held, at which Rankin took the chair. Dr. M`Dowall, West, White, Grocott, and, in fact, all the defendants were present, with many others. They had ascertained the failure in London - said it was fr lisp • ,in attempt was mane on rite part, --- that the reports of the foregoing speech, which were taken down by policemen. were greatly distorted; and some of the Chartist auditory at the meeting were called to prove that_ nlthanoh the nricnnPr snoke of the " shedding . of a in theta to attempt opnosition to the authorities with destroying property. Rankin said they were not strong enough unless they did so. M`Donough proposed that there should be empty cellars taken in the neighbourhood of High -street—two at the corner of Tur ner-street, and one under Mr. Stephenson's shoe shop, in Market-street. Leaders were appointed to carry out these objects. These were M`Donough, Donovon, Leech, Cropper, Chadwick, Schofield, Nixon, and others. The leaders were to place in each of the cellars one parcel of gunpowder, containing one cwt., one cask of naptha, con taining 36 gallons, a n d one cas k o f turpent i ne. Shavings, mixed with straw, were to be placed next to the casks, and those were to be set adjoining the door, well steeped • • oiled and the pl Sty shop, forrr It was to blood," he was adverting to the shedding of the RA-deetn er's blood, and broadly asserting that any religious deno mination which held as a religious tenet that that shed ding was necessary for the remission of the sins of a guilty world was guilty of blasphemy. The jury retired, and, after an absence from court of twenty minutes, returned, and stated, through their fire man, Mr. Williams, patentee of the smoke-consuming apparatus, that the whole of them were for finding the prisoner 'uilty of blasphemy, but that only ten of them were for finding him guilty of sedition. The two wanted to know what sedition meant. The JUDGE having explained the nature of sedition, and lauded the notes of the policemen made at the time, The jury again retired, apparently with great rely....vice, 'ery cold; and that they ocked up there for the ni and found the prisoner guilty of sedition and blasphemy SENTEN WEDNESDAY At the sitting court this morning, Mr. Charles Chubb was cal judgment, ing terms His Lordship passed sentence in the toilow -" Charles Chubb, you stand convicted of the tine a false and counterfeit regigter of a birth „lister whic 1,1 an nen., it was your duty to hay to produce the gr, atest possible inconvenience to s! you amity to a limited extent of the crime charged, I think justice will be done in your case by sentencing you to be imprisonea in the house of correction, and , I:ept to a I hard labou r , f or th e sp ace o f s i x ca l en d a r 'mint SENTENCE ON BOWKER —Joseph Bowker,whollPo! the previous nig blasphemy. was ht. had been convicted of vieted of uttering seditious and blaspheMous sE an assembled multitude. The law permits free dise upon all political subjects, but will not permit the eVI: THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Whig übmitt house int hat de.spri mut of property of tt will be built in at Without rating th, the el With rest: ect to the .eat hi r ham contribute to the local tax should wonder mn due an inc bt in the rhey would r market, to Sir Oswald influence of the improved character of the body to which he belongs, in facilitating his operations with other Stock Exchanges, or of the inn to Liverpool of the pre-eminence which it h recently held, of being the central and leading mart of a mass of property, which promises shortly to be only second in amount to the national securi themselves should be upheld of the city d robbery of .ery sense 4e, or to entitle THE '' able and interesting communication," as a contemporary styles it, addressed by Mr. Cobden to the President of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association, is scarcely so complimentary to that association as we should have expected, from the manifest glee with which its coining was announced. It is clear that the hon. member regards the pro ceedings of the association—its sifting of the items of household and other petty cash accounts, its London ould excite a storm e country, which they would - 2; for tliern. We'l no fear ter put his pon the impOhey of people of Liverpool, docking of mistresses of the robes and pages of the hedchamber—as mere higgling ; whilst he regards the carrying out of any system of direct taxation as impracticable in the present temper of the public mind. He commences : " I gathered from the conversation I had with you and the members of the Financial Reform Association in Liverpool, that you had two objects in view,—First, the substitution of direct for indirect taxation ; and, secondly, a diminution of the present amount of Government ex penditure. I ventured to offer an opinion, which I now beg to repeat, that it would be far easier to effect a reduc tion of expenditure to the extent of £10,000,000, and apply the whole of that sum to the removal of Excise and Customs duties, than to transfer the same amount from indirect to direct taxation. Excepting in Liverpool and a few of our largest trading towns, there is not, at pre sent, a very great force of public opinion in favour of direct taxation. It has yet to be created and organized." And he concludes his epistle with the rather cut ting remark : (led to say a very different view or three words November, with Te these ;ed during the , 1 were trans: ny to those of the ce the rates on yea- Total loss on Excise TAXES. ty of the borough in Window Tax—Abolished Advertisement Duty—Abolished T extracts from rive of the pro on and of the Total of Taxes lged in as to its 11 pro- dock i clues be- Hinted to £lOO or £l5O Ir. Hugh Hornby.would the sake of saving £150; "My sole object has been to give a practical aim to your valuable efforts, so that at every step you take you may find yourselves nearer to a defined object, the attain ment of which shall be some recompense for the labours of an agitation which I trust will become national." hat the ses to a shil- , pended on tran- He is still more severe upon the entire Whig party—nay, he is positively cruel—in the passage in which he propounds the large savings at which he himself would aim, and would advise the asso ciation to adopt as the object of tl now lose a very ey proceeded ,e estates, they rt rsv4- " eir agitation Ir. Horsfall's own " I suggest," he says, " that you take for the basis of your budget the expenditure of 1835. The whole cost of the Government in that year, including interest of debt, was £44,422,000. For the twelve months ending the sth April last, it amounted to £55,175,000, being an increase of £10,753,000. The interest of the debt was less by £87,000 in the latter than in the former year, making the compa ison so much the more unfavourable to 1848. The estimated expenditure for the current year ending the sth April, 1849 (see Lord John Russell's speech 18th Febru ary last), is £54,596,000 ; so that we may take the in crease to be, in round numbers, £10,000,000 since 1835. —Do you see any good reason why we should not return to the expenditure of that year ? Englishmen love pre cedents ; and they are not easily persuaded that anything is Utopian or impracticable which has been accomplished within the last thirteen years ; and this is cue reason, though I will find you a better, why you should base your budget upon that of 1835. If we go back a little further, to the time when this nation was still under the to the powers given to the Bristol corporation under the act. They simply entitle the corporation to tax the ratepayers in aid of the 'eduction made in the due _.ere is, however, no clause in the act exempting the docks from being rated. There is still a beneficial interest in them, which makes them liable to rates; and in the case of any failure of the experiment, or any ' ' the municipal ring of taxing chants of Bristol return to ti Id rates Do wl they will• rule of the boroughmongers, we shall find a startling ar gument in favour of this plan. In 1830, the last year of the Wellington-Peel administration, the expenditure for all purposes, exclusive of the interest of the debt, was £18,024,000 ; for the twelve months ending the sth April of the present year, it amounted to £26,747,000. The Tory Government was overturned the following year upon the motion of Sir henry Parnell, in favour of eco nomy, and the House of Commons was soon afterwards reformed, mainly on the plea of its profligate waste of the people's money ; and yet now we have an increase to the expenditure of £8,723,000, or nearly 50 per cent., as the fruits of the Reform Act. We are now actually expend ing more upon the army, navy, and ordnance alone, than t for the maintenance of the whole civil and mill zblishments under the Duke of Wellington's go vernment ! When these facts shall be generally known, the country will, I think, be in the Tumour to respond to your appeal, if you inscribe as your motto upon your banner The Expenditure of 1835 ;' which will be a reduc tion of £10,000,000 from this year's budget." tar est , . The italics are, we presuMe, Mr. 'obden's own : at all events, we take the whole passage from the columns of a Whig contemporary of Thursday last; and the whole does certainly furnish us with a most unique specimen of the result of Whig efforts in the way of retrenchment, or, as Mr. Cobden says himself, " the fruits of the Reform Act" ! Let us examine, however, how far the operation proposed is capable of being effected. Mr. Cobden says that the cost of our warlike establishments—the estimates for the army, navy, and ordnance—were £11,657,000 in 1835 and that in 1847 they were £19,341,000, including a sum of £1,100,000 for the expense of the Caffre war, thus shewing an increase (deducting the cost of the Caffre war, which may be regarded under the head of extraordinary expenditure) of £6,500,000 in round numbers. Our Reformer would allow only £10,000,000 per annum as the maximum for all the three departments. But how would he effect such a saving ? We apprehend that few sane men, and certainly no wise statesmen, would advocate any reduction in the effective force of our army in the present critical posture of European affairs. We have not a soldier too many abroad or at home ; •• axt ..... C:00, LUC pope, wown xinuteu the flame of revolution throughout Europe. Whig Radicalism, and its traditionary feebleness, has kept our fleet idling in the River Plate, the scoff of a blood-thirsty usurper, the monster Rovs; and the cruel sacrifice of money, and the lives of our brave seamen, on the Coast of Africa, which Mr. Cobden would put down, is also one of the curses brought upon us by Whig rule. It is Free trade which has stimulated that accursed traffic; and the forehead of its Idol, " Cheapness," ought to be branded with the shame embodied in the fate of the hundreds of brave fellows who have perished in the swamps and amidst the foul exhalations of that pestiferous coast; and of the thousands of wretched human-beings, who have been sacrificed in the middle passage, in seeking to avoid the hypocritical rigour of a nation, which avowedly tempts the cupidity which leads to the crime, of which it thus ostentatiously, and at such cruel sac rifice, parades its hate. We find that we were in error in stating that Mr. Cobden failed to tell us how we are to reduce our military force. We beg his pardon for even the minutes misrepresentation of his views, to It is urged that, stablished in the e, urthen fell a d vance t h e i nterests of the members of the Stock mother country, and our colonies deprived, or about r , to an Exchange themselves, than any course which they to he deprived, of all protection for their products to remove ano- can devise to bring about . the healthy and legiti- in the home market, we are to withdraw from them , and other r a t ea bl e mate state of things to which we have pointed ; further, their protection by our military forces . a dock and ware- and we would strongly urge upon all the respecta- against the aggression of Foreign powers, or the of he contended that, ble members—and they are numerous and strong— savage population of the distant regions; t o w hi c h, erest, to persevere e arnes tly in their efforts to bring' it relying on the paternal character and good faith of ~ 0 0n about. With ou t suc h a s t ep, we f ear that much the British Government, they have transpo r t e d er quarter of the town. of the genuine business which has hitherto been their industry. In other words we are to abandon proposed to be formed brought to the Liverpool Stock Exchange will be our colonies, and leave the millions of British sub;- -es on its quays, how transferred to a more secure market. We learn jects, our brothers, our friends, and our children, -.nt produce of the with pleasure that some of our leading bankers, settled in them, to their fate! Such is the patent merchants, and holders of railway stock, are Manchester mode of ensuring the continued great 'at that Parlia- anxious to aid in the movement; and we may state ness and power of this nation, and the honour of a ' Why should indeed that, so urgent is the necessity of a reform Sovereign, whose proud boast it is that she rules, 4*- which will give security to share transactions felt in the principles of freedom, over an Empire upon ~,s , to be, that the Committee have been memorialized which the sun never sets ! we from some i n fl uen ti a l quar t ers, an d t h e fact dis- We might spare ourselves the trouble of ex 'a tinctly stated to them, that the carrying out of plaining the mode in which Mr. Cobden proposes such a reform is the sine qua non of any future to bestow his reduction of expenditure, at least, until they are more likely of realization ; for M r s. business being t ra ns ac t e d b y th em i n this market, should think th e re can b e lit t l e de- ' Glasse's well-known di r ection, " first catch your hare," may be well addressed to their promulga tor. We give a brief ' sketch of them, however firstly, because they are somewhat cunningly se lected, with a view to catch the sympathies of the most important sections of the community, and se condly, because to many of them we have not the slightest objection. First, then, Mr. Cobden would save in retrenchments £10,000,000; and he would add to this £1,500,000 as the proceeds of the Le gacy and Probate duty, upon real and personal estate, making a total of £11,500,000 to be applied to the reduction of taxation. We need not say that we utterly condemn, as both unjust and cruel, this further assault upon the already severely .stricken landholder. Where will the selfishness and rapacity of these men stop ? Mr. Cobden thus states his reductions :-- 7 " CUSTOMS DUTIES. LOlB of Revenue. Tea—Duty to be reduced to one shil ling per pound £2,000,000 Timber and Wood—Duty abolished 945,000 Butter, cheese, and upwards of one hundred smaller items of the ta riff—Duties abolished.. 516,000 Total loss upon Customs " EXCISE DUTIES. Malt—Duty abolished Hops-- „ „ Soap— „ „ Paper— ~ £3,461,000 £4,260,600 416,000 850,000 720,000 £1,610,000 - 160,000 Total Loss upon Customs, Excise, and Taxes, £11,477,000" Even we members of the fourth estate, it will be seen, are not without having a sop thrown to us, in the shape of an abolition of the duties on paper and advertisements. With respect to most of the other imposts, reduced or abolished, some of which, for instance the duty on tea, and the excise upon malt, hops, and paper, with the addition of the tax upon light and ventilation, we may suggest to our Free-trade Sir Oracle and his friends the question whether some of them were not more worth their early attention than some of those duties, protec tive of native industry, which they have repealed within the last few years, had their policy in reality been directed to secure the permanent happiness and prosperity of the British people, and especially of the working and producing masses. But Mrs. Glasse, after all, must settle the question so for as Mr. Cobden's scheme is concerned; first get your financial saving—" first catch your hare !" ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S SCHOOLS.—The half-yearly exa mination of the numerous children attending these schools took place on Wednesday evening, in the presence of the parents and other members of the congregation. The Rev. G. Dover, the painstaking incumbent of the church, and the Rev. Mr. Powell, his assistant, presided over the proceedings, and the answers given by the chil dren reflected the highest credit on their teachers. Per haps in no district of the town is more widespread good being accomplished than through the instrumentality of these schools and the religious teaching of the clergymen in connection therewith. COLLEGIATE CONCERTS.--These musical reunions, which proved so eminently attractive and successful last Christmas, are announced to recommence this day. The vocalists have been well chosen, and a more popular or varied selection of music could scarcely have been made. Amongst the pieces to be performed on this occasion we notice a beautiful trio—" 0 dolce e taro istante," said to be an especial favourite with the Duke of Wellington ; and which, when director of the ancient concerts, he sel dom fails to insert in the programme. From the patron age which these concerts have already received, there can be but little doubt of their enabling the directors to pur chase an organ for the Lecture Hall, in lieu of the present one, which the Philharmonic Society intend removing in February. CONGLETON GRAMMAR SCHOOL.—This old-established school is rapidly rising into repute under the energetic superintendence of the present head master, the Rev. M. Pugh, of St. Catharine's-hall, Cambridge. The examin ation of the pupils this year lasted several days, and was conducted by the Rev. J. Hughes, Vicar of Congleton ; the Rev. W. C. Evans, curate; John Wilson, Esq., soli citor ; and J. T. Rhodes, Esq., second master of the Macclesfield Free Grammar School. The distribution of prizes took place on Wednesday, the 20th instant, in the nresence of the Mayor and a highly respectable company. The examiners assisted the Principal in describing the respective merits of the successful candidates. The first classical prize was awarded to Master David Tudor James, son of the Rev. D. James, of Kirkdale. ST. BARNABAS Sono°Ls.—On Wednesday last the annual distribution of prizes to the various classes took place, after which Mr. Trott, the head master, was pre. sented by the senior boys with " Southey's Book of the Church," accompanied with the following note : St. Barnabas School, - Christmas, 1.848. Dear Friend and kind Instructor,—We, the senior scholars of St. Barnabas Boys' School, beg your acceptance of " Southey's Book of the Church," as a te:timony of the esteem we feel for the unwearied attention you have shown in the capacity of master ; and we hope that you may be blessed in all your un dertakings through life, and reap the fruit of the seed you have endeavoured to sow, sevenfold into your own bosom. We also wish that you may be long spared to discharge your present duties here as our teacher, that by doing your Master's will on earth, when you are called hence, it may be the summons to a brighter world, where you will enjoy a crown that fadeth not away.—Signed on behalf of the first class, CLEMENT H. HOOPER. EDWARD WILLIAMS.. Inscription:—Presented to E. H. Trott, by the senior scho lars of St. Barnabas Boys' School, as a small token of their esteem. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." even Mr. Cobden himself has not the hardihood to THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN AND THE say that we have. All that he urges is a remark of GOLD OF CALIFORNIA. Sir Henry Parnell, with respect to the expenditure In strict fairne ss , it i s not i ncum b ent upon us to enter of our military departme n t s ,—" Fi x upon a muc h smaller sum, and they must make it answer." The into a controversy with the Manchester Guardian upon mode is not given us. any new phase of the currency question. Our contem- The main reduction, it would seem, is to be in porary will remember that there has been a little out our naval department. We are to carry out the standing balance for some time due to us. He was to doctrine of non-interference in foreign affairs. He have shown to us under what circumstances the currency says : proposed by the Liverpool Association cou ld be depreci " During the whol e o f l as t y ear , a fl ee t, as f orm id a bl e as that requir e d by th e A mer i cans to watc h over the i r ated ; and alth oug h we f ore b ore with his delay in the commerce in all parts of the globe, was maintained in the performance of this task, so long as he had, as he said, Taguq, out of the taxes of the British people, for the ser- " metal more attractive" to deal with, it is rather tres vice of the Court and Government of Portugal. At this moment we have as la rge a fl ee t i n t h e s t ra it s o f M es- passing upon ou r goo d nature to lead us into a discussio n sine. engaged i n an arme d i n t er f erence b etween the King I upon a fresh poi n t, connecte d w i th the same subject, of Naples and his Sicilian subj"cts, with no more interest until he has disposed satisfactorily of a former one, which, or right on our part than the Governm en t of the United by-the-bye, was of his own selecting. We shall not, States would have to send a squa d ron o ff H o l y h ea d , and however, stand upon our pr i v il ege, b ut accommodate our assume the character of an armed mediator between Eng land and Ireland. For three or four years we have had a contemporary with a reply to his fallacies. fleet in the River Place, interfering in the endless and in- The article in the STANDARD, which called them forth, nos explAyr icab eans le sq , u and abbl which has at last ended i es cf the Monte Videans n an a ridiculous d the Bue- was one upon the p oss ibl e e ff ect upon our currency, and upon British ind us t r y, o f t h e recent discovery of vast failure. I would wish t o s ee our G overnment spare t h e people this useless expense, by simply following the rule, quantities of gold in the valleys of California; in the observed by individuals, of leaving other nations to settle course of whi c h we as k e d , "If things go on at thi s ra t e , their quarrels, and mi n di ng it s own b us i ness b etter. " what will be the position of Great Britain, with our pre- We rather suspect that his own friends, the sent price of gold fixed at £3 17s. 10d. per ounce ?" ', and their Forei gn secre t ary , L or d P a l mers - and showed, o n th e aut h or i ty of the reports from Arne ton, will have to bear much of the blame of the rica, that " a sailor, in two months' working, realizes expenditure thus cr ea t e d. W e canno t forget the from 41 4 2,000 to £l,OOO, or f rom £ 433 to £650," wh:ch is quadruple treaty, and th e arme d intervention equal to the ave rage remunerat i on of " from 856 to 1300 on, weeks labour of the British artizan." We pass over the which placed Queen Isabella upon an unstable Guardian's preliminary flourish, which is in his usual m he p r ti b o i n s , as a s n e d rti p o r n o s c , e s e e c ? l ia to tim d . eal with his argu tmoennet s o , f or a s r s a u t throne; the intrigu e s o f our envoy a t th e C ourt o f " If peopl e go on gathering gold by handf u l s i n t h e valleys I Rome, the effect of whi c h was th a t movemen t o f of California, wh a t is to become of us? Porh'^" --- move sump nt i,,^ ~..._ • - tne apprehensions which on sppears to entertain on this head, by informir vvisilal Ile It ing their brains to bnng about, name! :o.ntemmirary the world will have to be determined harvest at the Ural Mour in the same way as we ifornia; and elsewhere,' The misrepresentation in the paragraph, is the assertion Lena " that we, and th e Li verpoo l C urrency Reform Association, lows are seeking to bring about `• a diminution in the value of John's, Cro wick ; St. money." We a re d o i ng no suc h thing. We are only seeking to prev en t th a t fl uc t ua ti on i n i ts value, and alter nate and undue expansion and contraction in its sup-' which take place under our present system. " If a spade or a pickaxe is now worth ten cm- I known r.,_.. ''' ant uantornia, it is because spades and pickaxes are scarze, and gold is plentiful "—Manchester Guardian. A repetition of the admission made above Jeswick, an Witness went to se9uent rise in the value of commo s.;;Zi:iYA;;Vra tuii Guardtan. ye taKen 'miler the pretence of carr yi ng on t h e provisicin ditie trade. After getting possession of the shop, they were to Here we have, first, an admission, and next a misre- bore under the ground so as to get to the gas works yards, presentation. ( old—our inflexible and unerring stan- to place five cwt. of gunpowder under the boring, blow up dard of value—is admitted to h. /I .n,6..., -,__ the gas work, sand atilt tbn, I I aunnttea to oe a mere co mmo dit y after I°C gas works, and p u t t h e town i n complete darkness. all, subject to th e same l aws of supply and demand as Several persons w e r e a p po i n t e d to super i ntend th i s, and INl`Donough was t o a c t as th e i r l ea d er. A reso l ut i on was other commodities, an d consequent l y unfit for the task it has to perform as the basis of a currency. Tt may be agreed to on the motion of Cropper, seconded by Downey. _L_ rnarxets of ue dppoinr eu ro secrete tti watching the the churches, a n d t o b e_prov id e d w i th im Inselves in re then to be ers were appointed for particular churches, as fol. -St. George's Church, Scofield ; St.. Paul's, Chad- Ann's, Donovan ; St. Mary's, Leech ; St. Is , o the canal Lecturers were 1 fourpence in the rs and mer- event a eir dock rates )1e to ever be a altogether—the Bristolians restore their port to anything like the eminence of Liverpool, or to entice even the transient vessels of which M r. Horsfall speaks, to their inconvenient han himself the pe- No one knows b culiar circumstances by which the former prospe leant as it city of Bristol was occasioned, insigni was when compared with that which Liverpool has reached. Bristol had then its merchant urinces— liles's and otl it vast and peculiar hold upon the trail . sions It had also t than posses- The former leas 'anus, anu carnet] on upon a the latter has betaken itself to 001, moreover, has within the :if by im- ening hers le country, to make the p; !veral places in England, there were drilling plat,._ generally took place at midnight. per and Rankin engaged in drilling appointed. - The drilling He had also seen Crop- I into nc it few year s been strength Dyed communications with rich mineral and manufacturing districts in her neighbourhood. She has the most complete dock accommodation of any port in th lie is sedulously ing nic dock rates are already on the ac rage, E low as those of Bristol, rge increase of tonnage coming to the port, will shortly be sus ceptible of further reduction, probably to the ex tent mentioned by the late able Dock Chairman, of £40,000 per annum. Really, with such our • present position and prospects, it is idle to think of our dock estate and the commerce of our port being injured by a payment of from £ll,OOO to £12,000 per annum towards the burthens pressing so severely upon the ratepayers of the town, or of the competition to be dreaded from Bristol, which already finds itself unable to compete with the neighbouring port of Gloucester. and, from pr tions of WE gave last week two letters, the one from Mr. D. Neilson, the Chairman of the Liverpool Stock Exchange, in reply to a letter, or paragraph, which originally appeared in the Manchester Guar dian, u pon the subje c t o f cer t a i n proceedings, which the Committee had felt it incumbent upon Gold, our I eases in pur- . i is ng o o n f e a branch u tud o e f t t z e ac o t tr _ .___ ...... ~...., u..,,,e k.,rown nere closed. Mr. JAMES then addressed the jury for the prisoners .. chasing power, according to its scarcity or abundance of M`Donou hand White ,after g ; which upon found guilty. The law also permits free discussion . _ a supply. We have many of us painful reasons for knowing Mr• TINDAL krturisoN followed on behalf of his clients, all religious subjects • but it considers the possession of the fact, the effect of which is aggravated by the further The prisoners Donovan. Leech, Cropper, and Clarke, creed of common Christianity i to be inviolable, and there circumstance that, when gold is in abundance, paper money is also in abundance; and when gold is scarce then addressed the jury at considerable length, in their fore holds it to be a crime for any person to endeavour to, defence, after which the court rose. paper money is withdrawn. - s en o c r e m o u t i: "If gold should become eoonny ~0,......:,...., , .- - SIICh WEDNESDAY. crime is increased where the multitude to whom Evidence in defence of the chartist prisoners was pro- speeches are addressed are comparatively ignorant and the destroy delivery bring i i m n tpoi impious contempt p i t rr t e h v e e re n t Christian sp eec speeches. i oti Thisb y ceeded with, and several persons gave some of the priso. depressed, and where the design of destroying the r li 1 twiehroicui-is you have ' b i ee ni .. ; A..., erarglllg ners good characters. One of these persons ci,i ;,-, ~..-.. ---- ,---!.. • - ui In 51118 country not only spades and pickaxes, but cotton, sugar, and all othe commodities would rise in price."—Manchester Guardian. Of course, as compared with this depreciated metal but with it only._ We conceive that it is unwise te a comma( ity, thus variable in its m ion. that in a speech delivered b • hereby ++ - cu measure of value containing value in itself; and the Guardian himself goes a great way toward s an a d m i ss i on of the fact wh en h e contens that depreciated gold will still serve as a measure. The ereat Frost, Williams,a.;:a7o4,nneer should d e b m e t li o be temperance until the ch arac t er o f your o ff ence. I t i s my d u ty to endeavour iap by a pen a l examp l e , tas h ew t h at t h ey w ill, by so doing, re, The JUDGE—Do y ou k now w h at those three people to themselves more misery and distress. The practi cal had done ? . The Witr administ ra ti on o f th e law limits the sentence which I am - a u a /111,11 e.. tary system , re conceive to b e th e adoption of a measure of value which shall be exempted from the ordinary laws of supply , and demand, which govern the price of commo- The JUDGE something worn -They were guilty of treason and riot, and - -omething like what Ba ra bb as (if you _ _ ca &eu to pass in your case to two years and I therefore order that you lie confined for that period; that at the end of that time you find security, two sure ties in £2O, and yourself in. £lOO, for your good. be haviour for a further space of two years, and that you be imprisoned until you find such. sureties. John Bleasdale, a middle-aged man of respectable ap pearance, was indicted for having stolen a quantity of coal from a mine near Wigan. Mr. Pollock and Mr. it lyheler appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Jari.e_s,:a‘trtic.l es ; whic __ expand or contract, in accordance to the increase or decrease of the functions whi c h it h as t o perform and maintain at a ll times an equable purchasing power over all commodities. ever neara of him) was punished for. The people then called out that he should be spared, and so they do now ; so that the world is much the same as it always was. The Attorney-General having replied, and his Lord ship having summed up, the jury atter a quarter of an hour's deliberation returned a verdict of guilty of conspi . racy furainct thc. iJutiovau, aria guilty of at unlawful assemblies against White and West. His LORDSHIP then, after a short address, sentenced Grocott, Rankin, Donovan, West, White, and Cropper,. to 12. mouths' imprisonment in Kirkdale Gaol, and, at the Jeing present Jaz.. cur toe prisoner. it appearea irvw dence for the prosecution,_ which occupied the whole of the day, that the mine from which the coal was alleged to have been st o l en , b e l onge d t o t h e R ev . J. Gunning, the Rector of Wigan, and a number of other parties: The prisoner owned a nor ti on o f th e m i n e in question/ aulUil Ul unav perioa, to enter into recognizances for two years, themselves in £lOO and two sureties of £25 each ; Leech, 9 months' imprisonment, with similar re cognizances; M`Donough and Chadwick, 6 months' hn prisonment, and to enter into their own recognizances of £5O each ; and Nixon, 4 months' imprisonment, with. his own recognizance of £5O. and ft was contended 'that the pr i soner knowingly a r ":: wilfully worked into th a t part of the mine which be longe ' to others, and appropriated th e p rocee ds thereof to his own use and benefit. The case was one of considerable importance, when it was recollected that 144 yars of the main street in the town of Wigan had been in d terfered with ; that something like 220 houses had been under mined ; that 1200 tons of cannel had been taken away, and that .VO,OOO worth of property had been utterly destroyed On the prisoners' application they were allowed to be confined amongst the first class of prisoners. About twenty other chartists were then placed at the bar, and the ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated, that as they were willing to enter into recognizances to keep the peace, he did not mean to press the charge against them, and they were liberated on entering into such recognizances. ie Joseph Barker, however, refused to do so, and the At and taken away. The prisoner was found guilty. His lordship sentenced him to seven years' transportation. This closed the business of the assizes, aCAL MEETINGS. ) was c letermi sale of the blasphemous dant was the proprietor ".,0.... publication of which the deten . Mr. Barker, in great excite- WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—On Wednesday the usual eekly meeting was held. Mr. M'Culloch, seconded by Luc .n.Lturney-tienerai Dad no evi dence against him ; but the learned gentleman merely re plied, " Don't be too sure of that, Mr. Barker." Mr. Harrison, moved that the township of Bootle be annexed to the district of which Mr. Shearson was-Ehe relieving officer, and that £2O a-year be added to the salary of that officer. On the motion of Mr. John Birch, the increase to Mr. Shearson'S salary was limited to £lO. Dr. Whittle and his assistant attended before the Board, for the purpose of answering some complaints which had been made against the latter gentleman for alleged inci vility and inattention to the pauper patients. After hear ing the facts of the case pro and con, the Board dismissed the charges as frivolous. After considerable discussion, and a division, a committee was appointed to inquire into the practicability of introducing mills into the workhouse. DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—The sub-committee reported that the deepening of the Queen's Dock would be proceeded with simultaneously with the alterations at the Wapping Dock. S It was stated by Mr. Hartley, that on Monday the marine surveyor would commence moor ing the landing-stage to its permenent position, and the members of the Ferry Committee and Marine Sub-com mittee are to meet and consult as to the regulations to be adopted for the stage. The Warehouse Sub-committee recommended a reduction in the staff of officers at the Albert Dock warehouses, and that the following dirks, &c., be dispensed with :—Three warehouse-keepers, one wharfinger, one cargo clerk, one ledger clerk, and nine landing clerks. Three months' notice is to be given to the clerks, and the committee wish it to be distinctly understood that there is no imputation on the character of the officers so dismissed. The saving thus effected will be £1330 a-year. A letter from Mr. Peter Wright was read, complaining of detention in consequence of the dock gates being open on the Sunday previous. Referred. A letter from Geo. Maddock, of Church-street, Toxteth park, enclosing a plan for opening and shutting the dock gates by means of water, was referred to the Sub-com mittee of Works. SENTENCES, Samuel Grantham Anderton, convicted the first day of the assizes, for having, at Manchester, under the pretence of having issued a writ against a debtor, obtained more than double the debt and costs, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, with hard labour, his LORDSHIP stating it was with great difficulty he had persuaded him self not to transport the prison: r. Robert Brymer, convicted of a robbery and assault on John Carter, at Manchester, and John Murray, charged with having received part of the stolen property, were sentenced, Brymer to ten years' transportation, and Mur ray (there being mitigating circumstances) to two years' John Houghton, convicted of having, at Liverpool, felo niously married Catherine Hunter, his first wife being then alive, was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one year. Henry Moss, who pleaded guilty to have in his pos session a mould for making base sixpences, was sentenced to ten years' transportation. William O'Neil, convicted of having, at Ashton under-Lyne, stolen a gelding, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, with hard labour. James Adamson and James Kitts, convicted of a lar ceny, were sentenced to two years' imprisonment. ' Wm, Webster, who pleaded guilty to having put off a forged acceptance to a bill of exchange for £3O, with in tent to defraud Edward Benson, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Robert Daniels, convicted of uttering, in Liverpool, several forged orders for the delivery of 250 lbs. of twine, with intent to cheat John Hartley Hind, was sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour for one year. Benjamin Evans, convicted of an assault on Edward Fletcher, at Heaton Norris, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment. FINANCIAL REFORM ASSCCIATION.—On Wednesday night, a public meeting of this association was held at the Concert-hall. The room was well filled. Mr. Ro bertson Gladstone occupied the chair.. He applauded the press for its advocacy of the association. The object. he said. was to economise, and to conduct the public affairs in the same manner as any father of a family would ma nage his private and domestic concerns. (Applause.)— Mr. Somerville (known as " One who has Whistled at the Plough") read a satisfactory report.—The Chairman read a letter from Mr. Cobden, M.P.,which we hav e noticed in another column.—Lawrence Heyworth, Esq.. inveighed against the enormous taxation of the people of this country, and said the time was fast approaching when the necessaries of life should no longer be taxed, and when the national income should be raised from the property. of the wealthy classes. He promised to give Mr. Cobden his cordial support in the house, should that gentleman submit any measure of financial reform. He moved a resolution to the effect that the association would support Mr. Cobden's views. as to his national bud get.—Mr. F. Boult said the object was not to tax pro perty alone, but to make all classes pay their fair share of the necessary national burden. He anticipated that the association would speedily be successful in accomplishing its important ends. In addition to the reduction of £10,000,000, they would have a reduction of £5,00 0 , 000 more, and do away with the Custom-house.—The reso lution was carried by acclamation. :Tone Jones, for having, at Lawton, concealed the birth of a child, was, after a severe and appropriate admonition from his LORDSHIP, who expressed a wish that he could punish the father of the child, sentenced to be imprisoned one month. • CROWN COURT.—TUESDAY (Before Mr. Justice Erle) THE LIVEREOO;. CONFEDERATES.----Ti;o prisoners con victed of the conspiracy at Liverpool, O'Donnell, Somers, Hopper, O'Brien, and Smythe, were brought up, when his Lordship intimated that, as he had ascertained it would be inconvenient to send them to Lancaster Castle, he would alter their sentence, and order their imprison ment in Kirkdale. As regarded an application he had received from one of the prisoners, that Kirkdale would be injurious to his health, he intimated that the gaol at Preston was within the regulations. Smythe replied that the Preston gaol was the same as Kirkdale, in respect to the silent system ; but his Lordship said he had no option between those two. James Shirt was indicted for having, at Stalybridge, stolen a truck, a crane, and a great variety of other arti cles, the property of the London and North-Western Railway Company. It appeared that the station at Sta lybridge formerly belonged to the Manchester and Hud dersfield Railway Company, but that by the provisions of the late act of amalgamation, it was now in possession of the London and North-Western Railway Company. At the time of the amalgamation there were certain altera tions of the works which were contracted to be completed by Messrs. Attersley and Nowell, who took all the work ing materials at a valuation, and employed the prisoner to superintend the works. A dispute having arisen be tween Attersley and Nowell and the railway company, it became necessary to take an account of the company's plant, and thereupon the prisoner refused to surrender the articles named in the indictment, alleging that they his property. The question in the case involved the llmple one of actual ownership, and the prisoner was ac quitted. TuE HEALTH Com mirrEE.—At the meeting, on Thurs day, there were prese n t t w elve members, Mr. Tmne in the chair. The inspector of nuisances reported progress, but we shall not d escen d i n t o th e n umerical minutiae of " middens" empti e d, & c ., i n w hi c h ou r contemporaries seem to take delight. Four additional officers were ap pointed on the staff of the inspector. Mr. Harbord ex pressed his high opinion of the valuable services of Mr. Fresh, the inspector of nuisances. Dr. Duncan reported that four fatal cases of Asiatic cholera had occurred du ring the week, three of them in a poor Irish family in Back Portland-street. The number of deaths from gene ral diseases was, however, less than during the previous week. To some questions put to Dr. Duncan, he replied that he did not think it judicious for the board to inter fere with the practice pursued by medical men in respect to the disease. After some conversation relative to a let ter from Dr. Hawthorne, which had been handed round the table, the same was read. It was to the effect that the writer had by means of his pills cured one patient ins malignant stage of the di sea s e ; th a t he hoped the direc tions he had published a month ago would be attended to; that the application of hot dry substances to the bodies of cholera patients was i n di s p ensa bl e t o th e ir cure, so as to raise the heat of the body above the natural standaldr &c. The doctor, towards ihe end of his letter, says, with rather too much assurance, " Now, I am in the midst of the scene where my ability to cure the disease has been already put to the proof, and where the infallibility of mY method of cure will soon be further brought to the test , and I unhesitatingly assert that if I had been called t° any of those seven cases, at any time before they were la fatal collapse, I could have cured them." It Was finally agreed that Dr. Duncan should write to Dr. Sutherland , who had been a pp o i n t e d t o go from place to place toventen the progress of the di sease , w ith th e v i ew o f a scerta ining whether there was any new feature in the disease which would require any alteration in the preventive means to be adopted. It was agreed that High Park House, late" purchased for baths, should be used by the West DOT guardians as au hospital for cholera patients' - John Blackhurst was found guilty of having, at Hale wood, been unlawfully armed at night on the land of George Wright, for the purpose of taking game, and as saulting the gamekeeper. He was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. Timothy Shaw, George Pilling, and James Cunliffe, pleaded guilty to having, at R a i n t or d, i n th e n i g ht time, entered certain enclosed land in th e occu p a ti on of William Foster, for the purpose of taking game. They were bound over in recognizances and discharged. Joseph Booker, a man of genteel appearance, was in dicted for having, at Heywood, on the 13th of August last, uttered a false, scandalous, seditious, and blasphemous speech. From the evidence it appeared that on Sunday morning, the 13th of August, the prisoner addressed a large meeting of Chartists in the market-place at Hey wood. After reading a hymn from a Wesleyan hymn book, he proceeded to denounce all sects of religionists, and charged them with preaching blasphemy if they preached according to their Bibles and Prayer-books. " If," said he, " I had a black coat, a white handkerchief, and fine linen, I might have as wealthy a situation as any of them. I come he r e to do good as Christ did good, and why should we not shed blood for the good of others ? I sa3 shed blood, and do it effectually, and be determined. There is Lord John Russell, Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, and Lord Nelson—have they not shed, blood, " With respect to the unfavourable change which the Stan dard imagines we should make with th , giving him £3 17s. 1041 kmerican miner, by must confess mm. very ()nylons t o us. For his ounce of gold w e s h ou ld g i ve him something less than fonr golden sovereigns, or commoditie s , th e pr i ce of which would be determined by the market value of gold."—Manches ter Guardian. So far as regards the exchange of something less than four golden sovereigns for an ounbe of gold, the trans action is simple enough ; for both are about,equally value less in themselves. But the other operation—the fixing of the price of all other commodities by the market price of gold—itself a commodity—is not so simple as the Guardian would have us think. After having been coined at the Mint, at its present value, it would be re ceivable for duties and taxes ; whilst, from the increase in the price of commodities, the revenue, in gold, or paper based on gold, would no longer meet the national expen diture. Our commerce and industry would be in rather an anomalous condition whilst the appreciation of com modities and the depreciation of the metal were going on. In such an operation. we should proa near ""• "+ arm 11111) won't' nave a control over the supply, would have in general much the best of the bar gain. Apart from the demand for it for money purposes. a state of things might arise in which gold woula have very little market value at all; and, moreover, it is time for us to consider whet hr it is wisdom on our part to con fer a value, or to enhance it at all events, as we do by rendering it an indispensible portion of our circulation, upon any foreign commodity, the use of which we can dispense with; and thus to enable its producer, or rather its fortunate discoverer, to appropriate, at scarcely any trouble or expense, the hard-earned fruits of labour, legi timately employed. " Whether the fundholders and other parties enjoying fixed incomes would approve of the change of circumstances, is another matter. We are satisfied, however, that, as a body, they would much rather run the risk of any deterioration of the standard which is likely to arise from the exuberant pro duce of the Californian mines, than trust to the consequence of those schemes of inconvertible paper which find favour with the Live►pool Standard."—Manchester Guardian. Our contemporary treats this part of the subject rather too lightly. The fundholder receiving for his £lOO Con sols three pounds, in gold which had lost a third or a half of its purchasing power, would have surely no right to be very well satisfied with his position. The annuitant, the landowner, and the whole of the creditor class, would suffer in the same manner, by receiving only 15s. or 10s. in the pound on their incomes and claims. The whole social fabric, in fact, wool , ' be thrown into inextricable confusion by any material " deterioration of the stan dard," to arise from a permanent increase in the•supply of this commodity, gold, so long as we allow it to be money. Take away its money functions, and it may in crease in value indefinitely, without producing the slight est effect upon the commerce and industry of the country. With respect to the " inconvertible paper" which the Guardian says " finds favour in our eyes," we know of none such, except perhaps the fourteen millions of notes in the Bank of England under our present system, based upon Consols, but not, like the currency which we pro pose, convertible into Consols. We have a question to ask of the Guardian, upon an other circumstance connected with any depreciation of our gold basis. It is probable that nine-tenths of the imports, the exports, and the produce of the country are represented by silver and copper 7 -small change—before reaching the foreign buyer or the consumer at home. These commo dities, of course, can only follow the rule of other commo dities ; and will be appreciated by the increased supply and depreciation of gold. When the purchasing power of the sovereign, therefore, becomes less by 25 per cent., how much in commodities will twenty silver shillings buy ? It will be pleasant, truly, to have three standards of value, all of them fluctuating commodities ; and to have master and his man, shopkeeper and his customer, sitting down every Saturday night to ascertain the exchangeable value of each in the markets of the world, before the wage ac count can be settled, or the groceries paid for ! IMPRACTICABILITY OF THE IRISH PEOPLE The Dublin Evening Mail, the organ of the landlords of Ireland, and an opponent of the Irish Poor Law, brings f orward the following instance of the difficulty experienced in working it. The first is directed against the alleged undue severity of the collectors : "At the Castlebar petty sessions on Thursday, Mr. Watson made an application to the beach for an order for a strong body of police to accompany him in the collection of poor rates. The magistrates referred him to the stipendiary magistrate, as lie could not act without a magistrate. Mr. Watson said that the cattle he had seized for poor rates at Derrycouch were rescued. Mr. Ignatius Kelly : It was really horrible to hear the way those gentlemen go and drive all before them. Lord Lucan : Did you serve a six d ys' notice before you seized those cattle? Mr. Watson : I do not think it is necessary. Lord Lucan : How do you make that out ? Mr. Watson : According to the rate collectors' manual. Lord Lucan : That is only an opinion. Mr. William Malley : According to the Act of Parliament, I, as the county cess and poor rate collector, can seize without a six days' notice, but no one else. Mr. Kelly : I will make your lordship aware of a circumstance which you have not heard before. The collector gets 2s. ed. in the pound for the collection of the rates, and when collecting the rate he charges a s hilli ng an d sometimes more to the un• fortunate creatures for driving their cattle and making them pay the poor rate whether they will or not. Was there ever such a robbery ? There are several poor creatures here to ap ply to the bench for summonses against Mr. Watson for loss and injury. The summonses mere granted." The second describes the doings of the people them selves in the Union of Macroom, on the authority of the chairman of the Board : " It was very remarkable that last year, so soon as it was un derstood that out-door relief was to be administered, in one night all the men of forty-five years of age became sixty-five. Old clothes were in immediate requisition, and no fellow at tempted to wash or shave, so as to be enabled to present him self before the relieving officer as one of the out-door class. Again, on that wonderful night every boy of eighteen years of age suddenly dropped down to thirteen or fourteen, for if he were of the former age, he would be required to break stones, while if of the latter age, he would get relief with the family. The Doctor would bear him out in saying, that at that moment physical debilities came on suddenly to an immense extent. He never before saw so many sore legs, disabled arms, and bad eyes. Almost every fellow was a cripple." 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