The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-09 00:00:00

'• \\ \ COMPTON H OUSE FUR R O O M. THE above Room is now replenished with A selected Stock of the newest designs in CAIY CAMAILLES, and ROMAN FUR SHAW' extreme simplicity and comfort, will be fo any thing produced at any previous season. JEFFREY and MORRISH would ark that their Stock of real RUSSIAN SABLES i eing offered at the same prices as in the earlier part of the season, notwithstand ing the great advance on that article. _CHILDREN'S Funs of every description, all warranted full seasoned. rai-eftilly 4NALS, 4g, which for d superior to From the Scoond Edition of Grimstone's 'Weather .Almanack for the Year 1842. SIGHT RESTORED ! NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE & DEAFNESS CURED ! UNDER TUE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF Their late MAJESTIES, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KENT, And authorised by Her Majesty's Lords of the Treasury. Mat. vi. 22.—The light of the body is the eye.—Luke ii. . (IPTHALMIA, CATARACT, GUTTA SEREN. FLAMMATION, and all Diseases of the , e and Head Cured by the most simple, delightful, a fragrant Compound. Its mode of application is fraugh .ith plea sure ; many thousand Cures have been acco ished by its use, at a trifling expense, yet certain in its . peration. If Testimonials be necessary to induce the .fferer to make trial—Kings, Lords, and Commons ha; . used it. The Lords of the Treasury have sanctioned • . use. Their late Majesties, the Duchess of Kent, the most eminent Oculists, Medical Practitioners, with that gigantic balance—the press —have eulogised Grimstone's celebrated herbacious com pound, known as Grimstone's Eye Snuff, for its efficacy in removing all diseases incident to the Eyes and Head. G. J. Guthrie, Esq., F.R.S., (See Dr. Thomas of Hatfield,) having witnessed many cases of cure both of headache and ophthalmia has kindly given given his testimony to the truth thereof—Dr. Andrews calls it a National blessing —see his Reports touching its utility. The late Mr. Abernethy, with many others, recommended Grimstone's Eye Snuff, and called it " Man's best Friend," and the " Student's Vade Mecum."—See the many thousand Letters Testimonials, of undoubted Medical authority, with others of of the first respectability. This Snuff will cure Cataract, Ophthalmia, Gutta Serena, Inflammations of the Eyes, and completely eradicate Nervous Headaches. The only genuine is sold in Canisters of Bd., ls. 3d., 2s. 4d., 4s. 4d., Bs., 15s. 6d., with the Inventor's Signature and the Royal Pa tronage attached to each Canister. This Snuff is manufac tured from Herbs only. All Letters direct to W. GRINISTONE, Merchant, Fo reign Snuff and Cigar Importer. The ;only House for real Cuba Cigars and Grand Cairo Snuff. Tobacco and Snuff Manufactory, 39, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, 24. King-street, Long Acre. The Manufactory for Grimstone's Eye Snuff, Bowl Yard, Loridon. A Liberal Allowance made to all Vendors, by PIERCE and CROSFIELD, Cigar and Foreign Snuff Merchants, Castle street, Liverpool, WHOLESALE and RETAIL AGENTS; also by J. Forrester, Druggist, 59, Byrom-street; Welch, Snuff Maker, Church-street; Ross and Nightingale, Chronicle office, Lord-street ; Atherton, Lord-street ; Denby, 4, Great Charlotte-street; Hignett, Oldhall-street ; Messrs. Hignett and Bullen, Tobacconists, Moor-fields ; Mr. Proctor, To bacconist, London-road; Mr. Roberts, Druggist, Ranelagh street ; Mr. G. H. Howell, Druggist, Dale-street; Mr. J. Shepherd, Tobacconist, 3, Scotland-place ; Mr. Hignett, Tobacconist, corner of Dale-street; Mrs. Moreland, Tobac conist, Church-street : Mr. Plummer, Tot/ North Crescent, Lord-street ; Mr. Thomas Hignett, Tobacconist, 1, Tithebarn-street ; Mr. W. King, Druggist, Soho-street ; Mrs. Miller, Tobacconist. Elliott-street ; and Mrs. Moore, Tobacconist, Pitt-street; and in MANCHESTER, by W. Grindon, 4, Old Church Gate, Market-street, and 119, Picca dilly; Mr. Rayner, Tobacconist, 25, Market-place; Mr. G. Bevins, 23, Market-street •, Mr. J. R. Lynch, Market street ; Watson and Co., 45, Market-street; Abrams, 4, King - street ; Biggar, Deansgate ; Lovett, High-street; W. Smith, Market-street ; Mr. Brown, Market-street ; Gee, Ancoats-street ; and every principal Town and City in the Globe. Manufacturers of Tobacco and Snuff in their genuine state. CAUTION.—This Odoriferous Herbaceous Compound of Herbs, sold in canisters, is 3d, 2s 4d, 4s 4d, 8s and 15s 6d each, with copies of original testimonials, gratis, with each canister, by all Agents, both Foreign and British. It can be obtained in all the principal towns and cities. A liberal allowance to shippers, owners, captains, and all vendors of Grimstone's Eye Snu f f. This celebrated snuff is shipped to all quarters of the globe, and retains its benign quality, in every climate. All snu f fs and cigars shipped on the shortest notice. N.B.—The above quantity is forwarded every Three Months. OBSERVE the INVENTOR'S SIGNATURE on each Canister.—With the Patronage of His late Majesty, H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, and the Lords of the Treasury.—Sold in Canisters, 15s. 6d., Bs., 48. 4d., 2s. 4d., Is. 3d., and Bd. each. VA RIETIES. A BEERY BON-MOT. Mr. B-I—y, the brewer, to every one tells That he's better than Punch, because be X sells. A CONNUBIAL COYUNTIRUM. Fanny ask'd her mamma, as they came from the ball, Why of lovers young ladies prefered the most tall? " My dear," says mamma, " without telling a lie then, 'Tis because they're decidedly partial to Hymen." THE PIIN GEOGRAPHICAL. When Napoleon ordain'd that these isles be invaded, The French line of coast was by Britain blockaded ; And though each French captain did ardently pant To sail out of port, John Bull said, " you shan't." Thus the principal port where this happen'd, they say, Is by mariners known as U.shant to this day. Why is death abhorred by teetotallers ? Because it sends them to the land of spirits. INIPANTINE MOURNING.—" No school to-day ! no school to-day !" exclaimed a merry young master," " with a shining morning face," 'skipping gaily into the play ground, " no school to-day—master's dead, and he going to be buried." In St. John's Hall, one day during dinner, therehappened to be a great paucity of waiters. A gentleman, impatient at the delay, at length exclaimed, '` Confound it, we can't get a waiter." " The deuce we can't," exclaimed Mr. K., who sat opposite, " I think we are all waiters!" UNCLE AND NEPHEW :—OLD AND NEW TIMES.—AS to my nephew's gold watch, it's like his impudence, when his uncle have gone through life with a pinch-back—and what's more, never had one at all till five-an-twenty ;—the cock was my crownometer.';—New Monthly. The failure of a person named Homer, once gave rise to the following admirable puns : That Homer should a bankrupt be Is not so very ODD-D'Y-SEE, If it be true, as I'm instructed, So ILL-HE-HAD his books conducted. A DILEMMA.—ChiId : Father, what is a dilemma? Fa ther: A dilemma, dear, is—a dilemma; when any one does not know what to do, that is a dilemma. Child : Oh, yes ! I know, a dilemma is just like you when ma' scolds you. : Ilem ! you talk too much, child: THE VALUE OF MARRIED MEN.—" A little more ani mation, my dear," whispered Lady B— to the gentle Susan, who was walking languidly through a quadrille. " Do leave me to manage my own business, mamma," replied the provident nymph ; I' I shall not dance my ringlets out of curl for a married man." "Of course not, my love ; but I was not aware who your partner was." A HOAX.—A mesmeriser bas been enlightening the citizens of Frederick, Md., during the past week ; but it takes a cun ning fellow to trick the people of that city. It seems that they agreed to give the boy upon whom the mesmeriser operated, fifty dollars, if in the middle of the experiment he would get up and declare the whole t o b e a humbug. Ac cordingly •` at the appointed signal the boy awoke, rubbed his eyes, and pronounced it an imposture."— New York Journal. TRADE WITS! CHIN A.—Expectation runs high • and bright are thought to be the prospects of extended trade with the Chinese millions ! A provincial wholesale shoemaker rubbed his hands with glee. " Yon rejoice," said a friend, " at the spur to trade the treaty with China will give ; but I do not see how it will benefit you much." " Not see ? I intend exporting largely." What—shoes ? Have you ever seen a Chinese shoe ?" " Yes ; and I think I can improve upon it." A MILD WINTER.—SEVENTH DECEMBER.—The winter season of the year 1818 was extraordinary mild. On the 7th of December the gardens in the neighbourhood of Plymouth showed the following flowers in full bloom, viz., jonquils, narcissus, hyacinths, pinks, stocks, African and French mari golds, the passion flowers, and monthly roses, in full perfec tion, ripe strawberries and raspberries. In the fields and hedges were the sweet-scented violets, heartsease, purple vetch, red robin, with strawberry blossom, and many others. The oak and the elm retained much of their foliage, and the birds were sometimes heard as in spring. TIIE PRESS.—The following toast was recently proposed at a public dinner :—" May the Times be the Advertiser and Herald of the best of News to the whole Globe, and particu larly to the subjects of the British Queen! May the Post bring a courier with the Dispatch of lightning , at each rising of the Su n , w i t h i n t e lli gence t o g l a dd en Old England May the British Standard ever be the pride of John Bull ! May benevolence, with Argus' eyes, see and Record this as an Era of universal philanthropy ! May charity be an Examiner into, and Observer of, poverty and distress ! And may the present Age be, as it were, a Tablet on which each Spectator may gaze with delight, while every Patriot shall for ever Chronicle the glory and liberty of the British Press ! INTERESTING ANECDOTE.—At the triennial meeting of the Salisbury Diocesan Church Building Society held last week at Salisbury , t he Lord Bishop of the Diocese said, there was an a n ec dote church at Whitchnre C connected with the building of the 'onicorum, which he could not for bear relating ,—" The (said his lordship) was first proposal for this undertaking made to me soon after I became bishop by a farmer in that neighbourhood of the name of James. He was a man not o f the more o p u l en t, ra ther, I believe, of the humbler class ;toio nor did either his appearance or manner indicate any found in his sphere of life. rfutstilipeerior to that ordinarily and felt deeply the privation under which he an d hi s famil y his neighbours laboured of in their separatio n from the House G od, and the means of to grace provided therein. He lamentedsee many around him falling into ung odliness and d isregard of all religion— others supplying the w a nt for themselves ina inomination of irregular man ner, by forming co nventicler of one or oth er dissent. His heart was stirred within him to l his : nei by any means this want could be removed. l ie ex e rted if a him self anion: those with whom he was connected and bours generally, and obtaine d p romises of ass istance to h. considerable extent. He cam e to me at Salisbur y fr o m the .vith him a m ap of drawn by further part of Dorsetshire, bringing .vith the parish and of the neighbouring hims e lf very clearly and accurately, in order to demonstrate the want, and a subscription list amounting to X-100, raised by his a l. most unaided efforts ; and, indeed, in the face of the opp re d. tion of some, from whom he might naturally have expected encouragement and help :—and to this he had himself con tributed the sum of £5O. I think lam stating these things correctly, but I am speaking only from memory , and after the lapse of some years. There were greater difficulties to be surmounted than I have ever known to occur iti any simi lar case—legal and technical objections of various kinds, con sents necessary to be had, but impossible to obtain—so that in spite of my best efforts, the business made no progress for nearly two years; but still this earnest minded man was not disheartened. lie wrote to me from time • to ti • me. He came once to London to see me on the subject. He said he would draw stone and begi b . Id . himself, •. n al ing it I would only pro mise to consecrate the building when • I raise( . At length all obstacles were overcome, and the buildin g was commenced, and advanced rapidly t owar d s it, mysterious Pr • ovidence ( f the Almighty it was not to be per mitted to its aealous proje c t or t o see th e l a b our o f hi s own hands, to rejoice, in his work.—He was taken ill and died a short time, I believe a few weeks only, before the termination of that work which he had so long and so earnestly desired to behold. But were his efforts therefore rather was his work finished, and e thrown away ? No : was taken to his reward ; and if he was not allowed to worshi p co urts of Go d's tabernacle tabernacle on earth, may we not hunala l l in purer worship and in more joyful strains in that he joined company of the saints who rest in the Lor i d n , s ,, in the blessed ' • ?~ }. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL, THIS present FRIDAY EVENING. the oth taut, For the BENEFIT of Mrs. SEYMOUR and the Last Night of her Engagement, LOVE'S SACRIFICE. A GRAND DIVERTISE3 'NT. AND THE YOUTHFUL QUEE . SIGNOR HERVIO "ANO, The most Extraordinary Performer in the World, IS ENGAGED FOR FIVE NIGHTS, And will make his First Appearance in Liverpool, On MONDAY NEXT, the 12th instant, • In a New Drama, constructed expressly to display his won derful powers, called THE GNOME FLY, In which he will successively embody the semblance of A GNOME ! A BABOON ! ! AND A FLY ! ! ! TO CORRESPONDENTS. " W. T." shall appear if possible on Tuesday The lines by " N. R." will not suit us. Several other correspondents are postponed for want of space. " Vindei" gives us credit for " politeness and gallantry," but he cannot suppose us possessed of much prudence, or good sense, if he imagined for a moment we would give in sertion to his letter. The letter of "A High Churchman" will be forwarded in a good direction. It is not advisable at present to give much publicity to the interesting question to which our corres pondent refers. We still receive a number of letters advocating the propriety of Monday, the 26th instant, being fixed upon as a day of rejoicing for the late victories. Our London contempora ries,•we perceive, are also pressed on the same subject, but appear to express no opinion of their own. Ebr -Ztherpool &tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1842. It is really refreshing, in wandering through the columns of mingled stupidity and hypocrisy which emanate from the scribes of the anti-corn-law party, to meet occasionally with a word or two of truth, how ever unconsciously uttered. -This satisfaction we experienced in reading the oracular and profound sayings of the Manchester Guardian of Saturday last; and, as we are not selfishly disposed, we shall endea vour to share it with that portion of the public who look to us for amusement or instruction. It is well known with what extreme sensitiveness our free traders shrink from the imputation that, in seeking for a reduction in the price of food, they seek, in fact, for a reduction in the price of labour. The admission that such is a part, at least, of the result which they have in view, would seriously damage them in the confidence of the working classes, as well as in that of a large portion of the middle classes, to whom the interests of the working man are dear; and it is, therefore, scarcely matter of wonder that, in dis cussing the question of free trade in corn, the bearing of that question upon wages is sedulously shunned. The truth does, howthr, occasionally ooze out. The very cleverest people are not always guarded in their expressions ; and accordingly we find our astute con temporary, the Guardian, thus betraying the secret, so earnestly sought to be kept from the notice of the working classes. In an article addressed to the editor of the London Times, and attempting to prove that, with a free trade in corn, no portion of the soil will be thrown out of cultivation, the Guardian proceeds : " When food is cheap, the expenses of farming, leaving rent aside, must be very much reduced. What are the chief items of a farmer's expenditure in the cultivation of his land ? Labour, manure, and seed. Is not the cost of these articles chiefly regulated by the prices of agricultural produce ? and, if s9., ; why should cheapness of food have any tendency to throw land out of cultivation ? The cost.of labour is " chiefly regulated by the prices of agricultural produce" ! So says this eminent anti corn-law authority. So have we said a hundred times. Even the agricultural labourer—the poor hedger and ditcher—is to have reduced wages with his cheap foreign loaf; and we ask the working classes who have that delusive good—a free trade in corn—held up before their eyes, as the panacea for all their sufferings, to reflect whether the benevolence, which sees in the promised boon of cheap provisions an instrument for procuring cheap labour for the farmer, is not prepared to carry out the same principle to every operative in every branch of our native industry. The cost of labour is "chiefly regulated by the prices of agricultural produce" ! In the name of the work ing men of England, we thank the Guardian for the admission. We proceed now, in pursuance of our promise, to deal with the Journal's explanation, with respect to " the probable extent to which we shall exchange manu factured goods for corn." Perhaps the most impor tant question to be solved by the free trader is the question before us ; and we therefore give our contem porary's solution of it, entire. " We should import as much corn as we could consume ; we should pay for it all ultimately in manufactured goods, as we do now; but we should much more seldom have to make sudden exports of specie, to be got back circuitously, than at present, because, let the harvest be ever so deficient, there would be no racing, at all risks and at any price, to catch the averages ; but there would be the whole year before us to bring our supplies from the cheapest markets—which are always the most distant—where there is the greatest demand for our manufactures, and, consequently, where the balance of exchange and of freights, which is one great element in mercantile cheapness, is in our favour. " In regard to specific pecuniary amount, it is difficult to answer this question. To the colony of Australia, an agri cultural colony, whose great article of produce, wool, we take freely, and to any extent, we export at the rate of about £l5 per annum for each individual. To Canada, whose corn and animal food we have not yet taken very freely, we export to the amount of about £4 the head. The United States are certainly as wealthy and productive, in proportion to popu lation, as Canada ; and as their means of buying of us would be precisely our power of consuming, at such a price as would pay for transport of what they could produce, the limit to the export of our manufactures and the import of food would he the excess of our industrious population over that which could, in our home market, exchange manufac tures for wheat at the rate of 455. to 50s. the quarter, which is about the rate at which it can be, on the average of years, imported from the United States." In the first of these paragraphs there is a mixture of truth and of fallacy. We should, as the Journal says, import "as much corn as we could consume." We should perhaps " pay for it ultimately in manufactured goods," as he admits "we do now." Upon his own sheaving, here, there can be little increase in our export of manufactures to arise from the establishment of a free trade in corn. We import at present as much as we require : and if we admit that " as much as we can consume" is a larger quantity—if we admit that, with a free trade, our importations will increase--such in crease can only be arrived at, to any material extent at least, by a decreased production by the British farmer. The substitution of a regular for a fluctuating trade would, therefore, he the amount of benefit upon which the Journal calculates. We should, however, have, he proceeds, " the whole year before us, to bring our supplies from the cheapest markets—which are always the most distant." We have already expressed a doubt about the correctness of this position—that the most distant are the cheapest corn markets. We doubt whether the United States can in average years compete with the nearer markets of Europe ; and until we see something like proof offered in its behalf, we cannot permit the Journal to take for granted that this is a true position. The second paragraph, our contemporary must permit us to say, is somewhat obscure, and especially the latter portion of it, There is no fair conclusion to be drawn from the examples which he states. There is no anology between the amount of money value per head, which we export to Australia or Canada, and that which the establishing of free trade in corn would enable us to export to America; for by his own ad mission, our imports from one of the countries referred our to-- Australia—can be taken " to any extent," whilst import of corn from the United States, or from any oth er quarter, must of necessity be limited by circumstances. We can see that our contemporary has felt the difficulty of, satisfactorily to his own party, replying to this part of the case put to him. He sees that what the vague declamation of platform orators has represented, as a boon unmeasured in extent, is really measured within much narrower limits than they ; and we much fear—and, in w ould have us believe that fear, we are strengthened by the unintelligibility of the last dozen lines of the passage quoted—that he scarcely dares himself contemplate the re a l meagreness of the advantages for which agitatio n contends so fiercely. _ . _ The difficulty of the journal is the difficulty of all who strive to keep in the background the bearing of the question of cheap food upon wages. He content- s.~l>T , • N ' • C ' • XPN, plates solely the exchange of manufactures for corn ; ' and by so doing necessarily limits the advantages to be derived by the exporter. But is this the view of the free trade manufacturer ? No : a wider prospect of advantage is before his vision. He sees, in the opening of British ports to the corn of the foreigner, the means of bearing down, by means of cheapness of production, the foreign manufacturer. With this aid, he hopes to strike at his competitor over the wall of protection with which he has striven to shield himself. He will be able to meet the French, the Swiss, the German, and the Saxon, not only in neutral markets but in their own; and may almost hope to engross, as the result, the commerce of the world. And is not this, it will be asked, a prospect, for the realisation of which we ought to pray ? Will you re fuse a measure which will set in motion every factory, every loom, every forge, every branch of manufacturing industry, throughout the length and breadth of the land ? Will you refuse a measure which will cover the seas with British shipping, and bear the name and the power of `our country to every port in every foreign clime, until the wealth of the whole world flows into her lap ? We would not oppose a measure which would have such results, if we did not see that it was pregnant with evils infinitely more to be dreaded than the premised good is to be prized. This magnificent dream of avarice is to be realised, remember, by the pauperising of the labouring classes. The wealth, of the world is to glitter in the hands of the rich factory lord, whilst the slaves who toil for it are sunk in squalid misery. This expansion of trade is to be achieved by means of cheap production; it is to be achieved by the prostration of a portion, at least, of the agricultural population, to the drudgery of the manufacturing towns, or to a workhouse prison ; it is to be achieved by the destruction of an aristocracy such as few lands can boast of ; and, above all, it is to be achieved by the absorption of our present graduated form of society into one vast volcanic mass of human passion and misery, whose eruption, in some wild hour, will sweep away the very wealth they have stooped to a worse than African bondage to create. With such a conviction in our mind, that such a state of things will inevitably be the one produced by the realisation of the views of the free traders, we un hesitatingly say " NO" to their demands; and we say it the more readily because we know the men who make them ! We never anticipated that the Albion would address itself to a solution of the question which, last week, we put to him, and inform the world upon what grounds he can justify impunity being conceded to the efforts of the League to convert the recent outbreaks in the manufacturing districts into a demonstration in favour of the repeal of the corn-laws, when the effort to convert those outbreaks into a demonstration in favour of the charter is to be punished as sedition. Our contemporary is wonderfully witty, as the world is ready to acknowledge ; and we are perhaps as " ponderous" as he chooses to consider us. if our contemporary is emulous of being the "flibbertigibbet" of the local press of Liverpool, we care not if we occupy the character of " Wayland Smith." Our contemporary may choose to laugh his way through the world; we shall endeavour to advance the cause of truth and justice : and perhaps our laughing philoso pher may be made to see, in the reward meted out to ns, the-ultimate triumph of the "utile et dulce" over the overweening and ridiculous. On the present occasion we shall not be laughed aside from our course. We challenged our contem porary to show us how the Government of Sir Robert Peel, or any other government, could punish the O'Connors and Scholefields for a breach of the law, in endeavouring to use the turnout weavers of Ashton, Staley-bridge, and Manchester, as instruments to ad vance the Chartist agitation, when the " ministers of all denominations" are to be excused their plotting for the purpose of using the same parties as instruments of agitating for free trade in corn. If the Albion will accept our challenge, and meet it, we pledge ourselves to prove that, taking the effort to direct declared insurrection to the carrying out of a political end to be illegal, the reverend "ministers of all denominations" are equally guilty with the worst of the Chartist agi tators ! If he will not meet us upon this question, the public will draw their own conclusion. The Albion remarks, somewhat boastfully, upon the amount of his circulation, as compared with our own; and assumes that we are splenetic whilst viewing our inferiority in this respect. Our contemporary is too good a judge, however, to conclude th a t c i rcu l at i on an d influence upon the public mind are synonymous,— otherwise how is it that Whiggery, with such shining and largely-radiating lights as the Albion and the Mercury, is so wofully in the minority upon all public questions agitated amongst our townsmen ? Men may be amused with the twaddle of the Albion, who are little moved by his arguments; and though we do, as yet—owing to the hard fight which we have had to encounter, and of which no one is better aware than our contemporary—lag somewhat in his rear as to cir culation, yet we have to thank our Conservative friends and the goodness of our cause, that, as an organ of public opinion, the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is in creasing daily in power, in circulation, and in its com parative standing with the competing organs by which it is surrounded. As it is, we dare speak out honestly upon any public question. We hold the candle to no party. We never take refuge behind a sneer or a giggle from the assaults of an opponent whom we cannot meet upon the broad ground of truthful argument. When the Albion can say this, we and the public shall place more faith in his opinions, and the sincerity with which they are entertained, than we, or they, can do now. We are compelled to postpone until Tuesday any remarks upon the important debate which occupies so much of our space to-day, hut we will endeavour then to do full justice to the subject, and the various gen tlemen who addressed themselves to it. LOCAL NEWS. CHEAP ALE.—`Yost excellent ale is now selling in this town at one halfpenny per glass. INFANT SAPPHO.—ThiS little warbler has received seve ral very costly presents from ladies who have listened to her silvery strains. She sings at the Royal Assembly Rooms to-night, and gives a Morning Concert at the same place to morrow. THE WNETLE TESTIMONIAL.—We are glad to hear that several gentlemen arc actively engaged in the necessary ar rangements for carrying this object into effect, and that sub scription l'sts are intended to be opened shortly after Christ mas. Such individuals as may feel disposed to afford their personal assistance, are requested to send their names and addresses to the office of the Standard. THEATRE ROY AL. — This evening the fine play of "Love's Sacrifice" will be repeated, for the last time, for Mrs. Sey mour's benefit. We have heard that several fashionable parties have intimated their intention of being present. " Loves Sacrifice" was first produced, in September, at Covent Garden. We had prepared a notice of it, but have been compelled to omit it from want of space. On Monday, Hervio Nano will appear : he is the most extraordinary per former in his way ever seen upon the stage. CRUELTY TO A SHEEP.—AN EXAMPLE TO LADIES. — At the Police-court, on Wednesday, teorge Radley, a cattle dealer, was brought up on the complaint of Mrs. Emanuel Zwilchenbart. That lady stated that on p ass i ng a l ong Breck her': a take r ageon the previous W e d nes d ay, s h e saw hold of a sheep, strik e it v i o l en tly on t h e theoa d, defendantir i head, and afterwards itdash. against the wa ll. Th e . defend ant denied that he dashed it against the w a ll, b u t a d m i tte d that he struck it withhis stick, which he said he was obliged to do to make way for the lady's carriage, which she ought to have stopped, and not to have driven ra pidl y on . Th e groom who drove the carriage corroborated what bad been tated by his mistress, and said he brought his horses to walking pace at the time. Mr. Rushton fined the defendant 40s. and costs. A JUDICIOUS HINT.—A story has been in circulation the last few days which has caused considerable laughter. We tell it as we have heard it, and we believe it to be substan tially correct. At the grand dinner given by the mayor on Thursday last, the' toast of the tradesmen of Liverpool was given from the chair, and there were loud calls for Mr. Holine. Seeing Mr. Fawcett present, Mr. Holcne obser ve d, that one so eminent as Mr. Fawcett ought to acknowledg e th e toast, and that he must yield priority to such a distinguished mechanic. Mr. Fawcett accordingly rose, but, from his habitual diffidence, said but little. The calls for Mr. Holaie continuing, he again rose, and, after acknowledging, in ao propriwe language, the honour done to the tradesmen, and after taking a view of the importance of mechanism as con nected with trade, and the effect produced by the steam .engine and the railway, he added, that there was one subject of the deepest importance to the town at large, on which he desired the Council to pledge themselves ; and such was its universal interest, that even at the hospitable hoard of the mayor, his worship would himself acknowledge, that in desir trig the pledge of every councillor present, he was strictly in order. Having by his gravity thrown the company off their guard, and w oun d . up their expectations to a high pitch, he added, that it was highly probable that in their legislative wisdom they might be called upon to abate the smoke nuisance ; but he hoped that the town-clerk would be re quested in any bills (if a bill should be found necessary) to insert a special clause exempting the kitchen chimney of the Town-hall during the mayoralty of Mr. Gladstone! Roars of laughter followed the announcement ; and our informant states, that none joined more heartily than the mayor himself, who will doubtless act upon the hint so humorously and slily given. THE FUNDS.—WEDNESDAY EVENING.— Funds have fallen a trifle to-day. The bargains were limited, and the absence of business seems to be the chief cause of the decline. Consols for the opening closed 934 to 91 ; Bank Stock, 1721. to 1731; Exchequer bills, 465. to 48s. premium; Three per Cents Reduced, 1004 to 101 ; Long Annuities, 124 to 9-16 ; and India Bonds 455. premium. In foreign securities Bra zilian rose to 681 to 691, but others were little altered ; Spa nish Actives closed 174 to 184 ; di to Three per Cents, 224 to 234 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 524 to 53 ; Co lombian 211 to ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 374 to 384; Danish, 83 to 84 ; Belgian. 1011 to 1021; and Mexican 304 to 8. MR. GEORGE'S CONCERT.—Mr. George's concert at the Portico, on V. ednesday, was very well attended, the pro gramme was selected with much taste. The vocal performers were—Mrs. Hiles, Miss Linacre, Messrs. George, Haswell, Gleave, Wareing, and Andrews. Mr. P. Stubbs played an obligato on the clarionet ; Mr. George Eyton led. A daugh ter of Mr. George, only five years old, played very sur prisingly, and with great skill and taste, on the accordion. The singers were frequently honoured by encores. We have seldom noticed a concert go off with so much spirit; or one that appeared to give such great satisfaction. With the ex ception of Gratias agimus tibi, by Guglielme, and Vadasi via di qua, by Martini, the selection was from works of Eng lish composers. DEATH BY DROWNING.—An inquest was held on Wed nesday touching the death of a man named Roe. The deceased, who was 58 years of age, was employed as ship keeper of the ship Native, lying in the King's-dock. On Wednesday morning, a little before one o'clock, the police officer on duty hailed the vessel, and was answered by the deceased. Directly afterwards, the officer heard a noise in the water, and run to the spot, but found no one on the sur face, nor was the deceased on board. Search was made with the grapnels, and the body of deceased was found in about ten minutes. He was taken to the receiving -house, a surgeon was sent for, and means taken to recover him, but without avail. It is supposed that deceased was making his way on shore by a stage, when he. by some accident or mis take, fell into the water. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased was accidentally drowned. SIGNOR HERVIO NANO.—We understand the above truly remarkable phenomenon makes his first appearance in Liver pool, at the Theatre Royal, on Monday evening next, De cember 12, in a fairy and elfin spectacle, written expressly for the display of his wonderful powers, and entitled "The Gnome Fly," in which the above surprising dwarf will sus tain three characters — the King of the Gnomes, a Baboon, and an enormous Magic Fl—performing various aerial evo lutions, and actually crawling across the ceiling of the pro scenium, setting the laws of gravitati on a t d e fi ance . Hi s personation• of. the baboon has, by the British, American, and continental press, been pronounced the most perfect ex hibition ever witnessed; in fact, so complete is the illusion, that were Signor Hervio Nano suddenly transported, dressed in his baboon's skin, to the back woods of the Brazils, it is a question whether the females of the monkey tribe would not be deceived in his identity, and feel disposed to receive the addresses of so perfect and accomplished a monkey who had seen the world POACHlNG.—Yesterday afternoon, two young men, named Robert Quigley and Thomas Peers, were brought before J. D. Case, and J. W. Harden, Esqrs., at the Birkenhead Police-Court, having been apprehended by one of Sir W. M. Stanley's under gamekeepers, about twelve o'clock, in the act of coursing a hare, in a field at Brimstage, in the pos session of Mr. William Davies, of which Sir W. Stanley has the game. The dog was also produced in court, in the cus tody of the keeper; and he, being asked by the magistrates what sort of a dog be was, replied that he was a bull and terrier. The magistrates remarked that it was not a proper dog for coursing, to which the keeper replied that he would much rather see a greyhound in the field than such a dog. The latter kind would kill far more hares. The prisoners were fined each £5, and in default of immediate payment, they were ordered to be committed to the House of Correc tion for one month and hard labour. WORTHY OF IMITATION.—We are happy to record an instance of zealous activity and disregard of personal ease and comfort, on the part of one of the Conservative members in the Council, which we beg to recommend to the notice and imitation of one or two in that body who too often show no reluctance to make use of any excuse as a reason for absent ing themselves from the discharge of their official duties. The circumstance to which we refer is the following : during the present week Mr. David Hodgson has been engaged busily at meetings of the directors of the Great Western Railway, as one of the body; his presence during a great part of the meeting was indispensible, but so thoroughly is that gentleman impressed with the vital importance of doing all in his power to secure to the rising generation the sub stantial benefits of the system of education at present in ope ration at the Corporation Schools, that ;he left London on Tuesday night, and arrived here in time for the important debate which appears in our columns to-day, and although the Council did not separate until five, Mr. Hodgson lvft again for the metropolis on the same evening at seven. Such pecuniary and personal sacrifices should not be allowed to pass unnoticed. THE LATE COLLISION BETWEEN THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE ROYAL VICTORIA STEAMERS.—In our report of the unfortunate accident to these fine vessels, in our publi cation of Friday last—and which was written by our reporter after a necessarily short visit to each; and such information as he could then obtain on board—it was stated that " a number of men are already engaged in repairing both, and in the course of a fortnight or so, they will be again ' fit for sea.' " We are glad to find that, as regards the length of time required for this necessary operation. our reporter was led into an error—on his part altogether unintentional. The Prince of Wales has already resumed her accustomed sta tion, having left the port for Cork. The Royal Victoria is nearly completely repaired. It was found necessary to put her into the Graving Dock, in which she will be detained for a day or two on account of the tides, but will be enabled to leave on Wednesday or Thursday next. Both vessels — neither of them having been at all injured excepting in the immediate spot where the concussion took effect—may be considered as secure and seaworthy as they were before the unfortunate and unforeseen occurrence, and the rapidity of their repair—(as both were wanted for their respective sta tions)—is equally honourable to their owners, and to those entrusted to do the needful. MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE.—At the weekly meeting of the Dock Committee which was held yesterday the following members were present :—Messrs. Sands (chair man), Horefall, Barclay, Holt, Holmes, Molyneux, Evans, Bulley, Middleton, Royden, Tobin, Bold, Shand, Makin, Moon, Nicol, and Ripley. On the recommendation of the Sub-committee of Works it was ordered that a door be placed in the west boundary wall of Trafalgar Dock, as an outlet for cattle and pigs. It was agreed that a committee should meet at two o'clock to-morrow (Saturday), at the Clarence Grav ing Dock, with Mr. Askew, the dock officers, and the mas ter carpenters, for the purpose of inspecting the plans which will then be marked out by the surveyor, and deciding upon which plan should be adopted. The usual supply of sperm oil was ordered to be obtained from Messrs. Bold, Bowker, and Co. Mr. Aikin mentioned that a party was willing to light Bidston and the Rock lighthouses with gas, but after some consideration the committee came to the unanimous conclusion that it was premature to entertain the subject at present. Thirty shillings were ordered to be paid to the master, and twenty shillings to each of the crew of the Point of Ayr life-boat, for their exertions in saving the crew of the Rose, when almost lost on one of the outer banks. On the motion of Mr. Ripley it was ordered that the sub-committee of Works be empowered to obtain two sets of mooring tackle for the north-west light-ship (the Prince), of the very best quality of iron. The committee then separated. COMPLAINT OF THE HARBOUR MASTER AGAINST A. MASTER PILOT.—At the Police -court yesterday, Mr. Hud son, master of one of the pilot-boats, appeared before Mr. Rushton, in compliance with a summons granted on the previous day, on the information of the Harbour Master. Mr. Askew and a friend being sworn, the former said,—ln coming out of this court yesterday in company with a friend, I saw Mr. Hudson, master of one of the pilot-boats. I addressed him not only in a respectful, but a complimentary, manner. The reply I received from him was, " You ought to be ashamed of yourself! You call yourself a seaman, and a fit harbour master of a port like Liverpool, after giving such evidence as you did to-day in the court ! It was a most rascally decision ; and (he added) you are either perjured, or there is perjury in the way. I understand this to apply to me. He made some other offensive remarks, which I did not care to take notice of ; but my friend, who heard all, said, it was due to himself and to the court to bring the mat ter before you. Mr. P. Wright, who appeared for the de fendant, said, that his client was heartily sorry that he had uttered the disrespectful language ; and as he was under considerable excitement at the moment, and was most willing to withdraw all he had said, he (Mr. W.) hoped the court would not deem it necessary to go further with the case. Mr. Rushton.—Vnder the circumstances, I must hear the case out, as I have before stated, when the summons was applied for. Following the example of magistrates in other quarters, who call in to their assistance, in cases of damage to vessels, competent nautical men—frequently one of the brethren of the Trinity House—l havealways made it a point, when such cases came before me, to call in the aid of the Har bour Master, and have been much indebted on many occasions to that gentleman, whose acknowledged ability and long ex perience entitle him to the utmost respect; and I consider it my duty to g i ve hi m every protection as a p u bli c o ffi cer . Mr. Wright.—! have only to repeat, that the words were used at a moment of excitement; and, that the defendant convinced of their impropriety is ready to recall them.—Mr. Rushton said he must proceed, and called,—Captain Kellet, who said, Mr. Hudson said it was a rascally decision.—Mr. Rushton.—Never mind that—the decision was mine.—Wit ness proceeded.—The defendant told Captain Askew he ought to be ashamed of himself, and went on to use the other unbecoming language already stated.-111r. Rushton. — Do you think the words used by the defendant were such as were likely to provoke to a breach of the peace ?—Captain Kellet.—l do think so most decidedly. —Mr. Wright said that after what he had already advanced—of which he begged the consideration of the court—he should not deem it neces sary to cross-examine the witness, whose testimony was no doubt true.—Mr. Rushton.—So far as I am concerned, I pass over any expression used by the defendant ; but .I must protect the complainant. Mr. Hudson ought to have known better as a master of a vessel, and a pilot, than to have used such language to his superior. Whether the charge of wilful perjury were meant to apply to the complainant or not he could not say, though it appeared to be so. However, that might be, such conduct is very reprehensible, inasmuch, as it is subversive of due discipline and the proper management of the port. The defendant must pay a fine of 40s and costs. — The parties then left the court. A report in another column, relative to damage done to the brig Enterprise, will explain the origin of this case. A new scheme for disposing of farming stock has just been started, as a set-off against the new tariff. A splendid heifer," the finest beast of her age in the kingdom," bred and fed by Mr. Herbert, of Powick, is announced by adver tisement to be shot for at the Crown Inn, Ombersley, on the day therein mentioned, The nail trade of Bromsgrove has been for some time past in a very unsettled and unsatisfactory state, and the total suspension of business on Saturday last by Messrs. G. and T. Chidley has produced a complete panic in the town. It is conjectured that by this circumstance upwards of eight hundred individuals are thrown wholly out of employment, and deprived of the means of obtaining subsistence.— Wor cester Journal. SHIPWRECK.—Extract of a letter from Havre-de-Grace, dated Dec. 5.—" The Julius Ctesar, Captain Scotto, a Nea politan vessel, from Oran for Marseilles, while entering the latter port on Tuesday, the 29th ult., got aground on the island of Pandus, and soon afterwards went to pieces. The captain and crew had only time to save themselves, but could not save the ship's papers or any thing else, and were next day picked up by two fishing boats." Loss ON THE EMIGRANT SHIP CHATHAM.—Within the lasttwo or three days accounts have been received of the total loss of the emigrant ship Chatham, while on her p - sage from London to Sydney, New South Wales. It h pened during a dreadful gale of wind on the coast near - gueira. Unfortunately, soon after the ship had struck, e sea made a complete breach over her, and swept two pass - gers and three seamen overboard. Every effort was made o save them, but without success. The rest were afterwards safely conveyed ashore. Th ship is partially insured. ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE DRAMA.—A society of ama teurs at Manchester, notwithstanding the commercial distress so prevalent there, and chartism, and anti-corn-lawism, have announced a silver snuff-box and five whole guineas (full weight) for the best original comedy or melodrama in three acts, to he enacted on St. David's day, and in honour of the little Prince of Wales. Theatricals is looking up ; the small :less of the prize is, however, apoligised for, as the per formance is for a local charity. 1 '~._ MEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL. The usual monthly meeting of the Town-council was held in the Town-'hall, on Wednesday. The MAYOR presided. The attendance was but limited in the first instance, but the members soon began to enter, and in the course of half an hour from the commencement of the proceedings, there was a very full council. FINANCE COMMITTFE. The DEPUTY TOWN-CLERK read the proceedings, resolu tions, and reports of the Finance Committee. h appeared, that Mr. George Hall Lawrence had been _ re-elected chair man, and Mi.. Richard Houghton deputy-chairman. The leases were also read. After some remarks from Mr. HAR BORD upon a deviation which had been allowed from the restrictions imposed on certain erections in Falkner-square, the proceedings were confirmed. 'WATCH COMMITTEE. - INVESTIGATION BY THE PAID OFFICERS' COMMITTEE. The DEPUTY TOWN-CLERK read the proceedings of the Watch Committee. Mr. James Lawrence, it appeared, had been re-elected chairman, and Mr. Procter deputy chairman. Mr. JAMES LAWRENCE enquired how far the powers of the Paid Officers' Committee extended, as regarded the investigation into the duties and emoluments of the officers under the Watch Committee. It seemed to be the opinion of some parties, that the committee could not interfere with those officers. The TOWN-CLERK gave his opinion generally, that the Paid Officers' Committee could not with its present powers interfere with the Watch Committee, which formed a body, of commissioners just as if they had been appointed by a separate Act of Parliament. As the council, however, had a financial power, they might instruct the committee to investigate. . . Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said the intention was, when the committee was formed, that they should take cog nizance of all the Paid Officers of the Corporation without any exception, and so it was understood by the council; but if the Watch Committee desired to have the investigation in their own hands, perhaps, the council would not have any objection. Mr. HORNBY concurred with the Town-clerk that an in struction from the council would be necessary ; but he thought as the Watch Committee had more powers than other committees, it would be most proper for them to make the inquiry. Mr. EVANS thought the inquiry should be made by the committee appointed by the council, and he thought every gentleman connected with the Watch Committee should in vite the investigation of the Paid Officers' Committee. Mr. THORNHILL said the Paid Officers' Committee could not meddle with the duties of the Watch Committee, which would be to interfere with the privileges specially conferred upon them by law, and it would be useless for them to in quire into the financial department without consideration of the duties. If a sub-committee of the Watch Committee were to make the investigation and report, as was their in tention, it would be useless for the Paid Officers' Commit tee to do so likewise. Mr. H. LAWRENCE said by the Municipal Act the duties of the cointoittee must be confined to financial inquiry. Without investigation by the committee, how was the coun cil to know whether the officers were paid properly or not? The only point necessary to ascertain new was, whether or not it were the wish of the council that the Paid Officers' Committee should undertake the investigation as regarded the department under the Watch Committee. After some discussion, in the course of which Mr. JAMES LAWRENCE and Mr. THORN ruLL both said that they wished the investigation to be made by the Paid Officers' Commit tee: it was understood that the council desired that the in quiry should be made by that committee, and the subject dropped. IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE. The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the Improve ment Committee were read. It was reported that the com mittee had elected Mr. David Hodgson their chairman. The proceedings were configned. COURTS OF LAW. The proceedings of the Courts of Law and St. George's Hall Committee, embodying a report from the architect, were read and confirmed. DISMISSAL OF MARKET OFFICERS. The proceedings of the Markets Committee were read. Mr. BLACKBURN said he perceived in the report an allu sion to the dismissal of two persons connected with St. John's Market—lsaac Needham, collector of tolls, and John Woods. He had heard that those parties had been dealt with somewhat harshly, but he would ask the chairman to explain the circumstances before he made any further ob servations. Mr. JAMES LAWRENCE said the matter was discussed in a very full committee, and the case appeared one of such great aggravation that they could not come to any conclusion but to dismiss the offenders. A complaint was made against Isaac Needham, the toll-collector, for having taken the goods of a poor woman for nonpayment of toll. It was a late hour at night, and when the woman had borrowed the money and made a tender of it, he refused to give up her property. She went to him a second time, but he still refused, and she was ultimately sent to bridewell, where she lay from Saturday night till Monday morning. When dismissed, she went again and tendered her money, but Needham still refused to give up the goods. A complaint was laid before the super intendent, who called Needham into his office, and advised him to give up the property, as the articles were of a perish able nature, when he replied that rather than give them up he would lose his situation, as the officers were not properly supported. As to Woods, he took the woman to bridewell without any cause. The conduct of both parties was so harsh, that it appeared to the committee, in justice to the public, that they must dismiss them. Mr. ISAAC HOLMES said he was on the committee, and was in a very small minority. His opinion was that Needham had been very hardly used. The woman in question never could be found till past ten o'clock at night, and she scarcely e!er.would pay her toll.' At h a lf- pas t te n o' c l oc k, on th e night in question, she made ber appearance, and as no toll was forthcoming, Needham took her baskets. She went to him afterwards, when he was very busy making up his ac counts, and he ordered her out of his office, and there he, no doubt, did wrong, but not to an extent that demanded so se vere a punishment. When she went out of the office, her language was such that she created great disorder; upon which Woods, who had been an officer in the market 13 years, took her to Bridewell. She was booked not in the charge of Needham but of Woods. Mr. BLACKBURN said Needham, whom he had known for many years, called upon him to ask him for a recommenda tion to a situation at Birkenhead, when, upon questioning him, he became acquainted with the circumstances of his dis missal. Mr. Blackburn proceeded to give Needham's account of the transaction, and after showing that though not en tirely free from blame, in not giving up the woman's goods when the tender was made, which he now acknowledged, yet, as he had been an excellent, honest, faithful and industrious officer, the punishment of summary dismissal was too se vere. He respectfully moved that the proceedings of the Watch Committee should be confirmed, with the exception of these dismissals, which he referred back to the committee for consideration. Mr. HENRY HOLMES seconded the motion. Mr. EVANS admitted that the woman was a very disor derly character, but that was no reason why the laws of the country should be violated in her person. He admitted that Needham was an excellent officer ; but this was such an outrage on justice and humanity as called for a special ex ample, and no punishment less than dismissal would have satisfied the case. Mr. PARKER, Mr. HODGSON, and Mr. COOPER supported the act of the committee. Mr. LACE expressed his disapproval of such matters as these being brought before the council, unless in very gross instances. The council divided, when there appeared,—For the amendment,—Messrs. Isaac Holmes, Blackburn, H. Holmes, Hornby, J. Holmes, Aikin, Priestley, Barclay, Bailey, Freme, and Holt. Against the amendment, Messrs. Shand, Shaw, Hodgson, Thornhill, Preston, Copeland, Thompson, Edwards, North, Sands, Holme, Rae, Aspinall, Toulmin. Boyden, J. Lawrence, Cooper, Wood, H. Lawrence, Bush ell, Procter, Rigby, Lloyd, Kilshaw, Parker, Brassey, Plimpton, Leigh, G. H. Lawrence, Lace, Trotman, Platt, Seppard, Smith, Harbord, Houghton (alderman), Turner, Crook, Nicol, Bramley-Moore, Molyneus, Moon, Evans, Chilton, Sir Thomas Brancker, and the Mayor. For the amendment, 12 ; against it, 47 ; majority, 35. The proceedings of the committee were confirmed. A discussion ensued as to whether the consideration of the proceedings of the Daily Courts' Committee should follow the proceedings of the Courts of Law and St. George's Hall Committee as arranged at the last council, the two subjects having been separated in the paper by an error of the printer. Mr. Earle, Mr. Henry Lawrence, and Mr. Bushell con tended that the business should proceed as arranged. Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Parker, and Mr. Birkett were strongly in favour of the proceedings of the Education Committee being first considered, as they stood next in order. At length Mr. Hodgson withdrew his opposition, and the council proceeded to consider the report of the committee on THE PROPOSED NEW DAILY COURTS. The report of the committee having been read, showing that, on the site of Islington Market, with the ground oc cupied by the contiguous mill, there would be sufficient laud for the contemplated purpose. Mr. HENRY LAWRENCE said it would be for the council now to come to a decision whether they would have all the offices concentrated on that spot. Mr. BUSHELL asked if there were any estimates. Mr. H. LAWRENCE said the estimates were already made. The additions on the site of the mill would be less expensive than the other portions of the erection, because they would be built in an inferior manner and would not be exposed to view. Mr. AIKIN said it would be best to adopt a general resolh tion now that it was desirable to remove the offices, and they could proceed with the details afterwards. Mr. J. HOLMES said before they proceeded a step they ought to know where the money was to come from. AikiN said the subject had been before the council already, and it had been decided that in a financial point of view the change would be beneficial. The sale of the present offices would reimburse them for the outilv. Mr. EVA NS said when the formation of the market in Gill street was before the council, one of the arguments used was that it would leave the Islington market free for this pur pose. PARKER opposed the project, and urged considera tion to the distress of the town. These repeated and accu mulated expenses, he said, would drive them to the imposi tion of a borough rate, and before he would have that he would see all the improvements of the town stopped. He was of opinion that the proposition to build new daily courts should be met with a decided negative. After some further discussion Mr. AIKIN forebore to press the subject, leaving it for the present with the understanding that the committee was to confer with the Finance Com mittee. EDUCATION COMMITTEE. The DEPUTY TOWN-CLERK read the proceedings of the Education Committee. It appeared that at their meeting on the 12th of November Mr. Edmund Molyneux was elected the chairman, and Mr. David Hodgson deputy chairman of the committee. The following return was made of the number of children upon the books from the 25:h of October to the 28th of November : DENOMINATION. NORTH SCHOOL. Church of England Protestant Dissenters Roman Catholics SOUTH SCHOOL. .. 498 .. 498 .. 50 Total 927 654 AVERAGE ATTENDANCE. Boys. 252 Girls Infants Total 643 It further appeared that at their meeting, on the 3rd instant, the committee agreed upon the following resolution : " The schools being open for all children, without distinc tion of religious denomination, the committee consider it would promote the beneficial objects and intention of the schools to omit any statement of such distinction in reporting the number of children on the books and in attendance at the Feb ools, and the committee therefore recommend that any such statement be discontinued." The report of the proceedings concluded with the following statement of the plan by which the committee think it de sirable their proceedings should be governed. " The Education Committee, looking back with satisfaction to the proceedings of the past year, think it right to state the course which, after mature deliberation, they propose pur- • suing. By the established system, a sound education, based upon religion, is imparted to all who will seek its blessings, without excluding any but such as refuse to read the Bible in common with their fellow Christians ; an exception, there fore, for which the committee do not feel responsible. The daily business of the schools commences and closes with prayer. The Bible is read daily, and all who wilt receive it have also the benefit of sound religious instruction, accord ing to the liturgy of the Church of England; but which last mentioned instruction is not enforced upon those who may con.. scientiously object to it ; and therefore the children of Romer Catholics and of dissenters are not required to learn the Church Catechism, nor to attend church on Sunday. The committee would appeal to the dispassionate judgment of all whether this system, alike removed from intolerance on the one hand, and the still greater evil of latitudinarianism on the other, is not such as should be maintained, and be alone maintained, by the Town-council ; whether it be not admirably adapted to effect the greatest possible good, without violating charity ; for however they may regret that any should exclude them selves from participating in its benefits, the committee can not open wide the door of admission unless by diluting, so to speak, or accommodating, the Bible to the prejudices of those who refuse to receive it in its entirety and purity, or, in deference to the same prejudice, by dispensing with its use altogether. For neither alternative is the com mittee prepared. The first involves a proposition inad- I missable in a Christian community ; the latter would be in effect to administer secular instruction alone with out inculcating a duty on the only sure basis of religious principle, a system which the committee conscientiously believe would make them the vehicle of a curse and not a blessing. Both these are alike inconsistent with the sacred trust reposed in the committee in a nation where Christianity in its purest practice is established as a part of the law of the land. The committee are persuaded that the town of Liver pool, tired of the continued agitation of this subject, will gladly receive the determination of the council to maintain the schools on the sound basis of religious principle, and therefore in the faithful and earnest discharge of their duty the committee announce their purpose, under the authority of the council, to maintain inviolably the system of educa tion now pursued in the schools, and while they allow to others, as fully as they claim for themselves, the right pf acttng• according to the dictates of conscience, they would respectfully deprecate the continued agitation of a question which, if the present resolution be confirmed by the council, can scarcely be discussed to any useful purpose, nor without peril to charity and peace. Mr. E. MOLYNEUX said he had the honour to propose that the proceedings and recommendations of the Education Committee be confirmed. Mr. HODGSON seconded the motion. Mr. HORNBY said that before going into the general question he thought it his duty to make one observation with regard to the order of proceeding in that council. It appeared to him that the course pursued by the Education ' Committee on this occasion was not only unprecedented, but perfectly erroneous and unjustifiable. It was the duty of the council to declare the principles upon which the business of the corporation should be conducted, and it appointed committees for the purpose of carrying those principles out ; but the Education Committee, in the resolu tion which they had thought proper to place upon their books, appeared to him to have trenched upon the duties and the ' privilege of the council. (" Hear, hear," from the liberals, and cries of " No," from the conservatives.) It was the special duty of every individual member of the council to guard the prerogative of the council, and to take care that it was not abolished by any section of its members. (Hear.) So far as his experience and knowledge of council proceed ings went, it was unprecedented for the Education Committee to take upon themselves, as they had in this instance, to declare upon what principles the schools should be conducted. Such a declaration ought to have come only from the council; and the simple insertion of the words " subject to the appro bation of the council," by no means justified the committee in taking the step which they bad thus taken. Mr. Alderman EARLE quite agreed with his friend Mr. Hornby, that this proceeding was irregular, but he was not surprised at it, as, during the last year, he had seen a great many irregularities on the part of the Education Committee. He was glad to find that there was on his side the question a man who could speak so forcibly and so boldly as Mr. Hornby. He did not know who had concocted this precious manifesto; but from the repetition in it of the words " di luted" and " dispensed," and so on, he should think that some pious druggist must have had a hand in it. (Laughter.) Mr. HODGSON said, that if Mr. Hornby was nut speaking to order, he should not himself say one word at present but if he was, he Should claim a right of making an observation. The MAYOR said Mr. Hornby had spoken to order. Mr. HODGSON said he was, then, speaking to order too. He believed that the course pursued by the Education Com mittee was most perfectly and thoroughly in order. They had offered no new principle whatever; they merely told the principles upon which they had been appointed, how those principles were in operation, bow they were acting, and how it was of the utmost importance that they should be main tained ; and they merely offered their reasons in support of that view. The distinction, therefore, which had been attempted to be drawn was a futile distinction, hating no soundness in it. The MAYOR asked Mr. Hornby whether he had any mo tion to propose on the subject? Mr. Hominy replied in the negative. He called attention to the subject merely in order that this proceeding on the part of the Education Committee might not be drawn into a precedent. _ Mr. G. U. LAWRENCE did not go the full length of the Education Committee, and he had prepared a modification of that " manifesto," as it was called, which he was going to submit as an amendment. Mr. SANDS believed that the Town-Clerk, if he were asked, would tell the council that the proceedings of the Education Committee were perfectly in order. Indeed the Education Committee, some years ago, took precisely the same steps which the present committee had just taken. Mr. EARLE : Its just a manifesto to frighten us ; so let us hear the Town-clerk. The TOWN-CLERK could only state that having been di rected by the present Education Committee to report to them upon the proceedings, or at least to make ri report which in volved the proceedings of the former Education Committee, one remarkable thing which occurred to him was, that the meaning of the resolution of the Council, " that the proceed ings be confirmed," could only be gathered from the pro ceedings of the Committee. So far as applying to the Coun cil books, nothing could be learned of the principles upon which the schools were conducted but upon reference to the proceedings which the general resolution of the Council con firmed. Therefore, the course throughout, upon the part of the Education Committee, appeared to him to have been to commit just such errors as had been committed upon the present occasion, if it were an error. His opinion was, that this proceeding was in regular course; and, certainly, it was supported by precedent in former committees. (Hear, hear.) The MAYOR : Then we will now proceed with the discus sion. Mr. LEIGH inquired whether Mr. Blackburn withdrew the motion of which he had given notice ? [That the children of Roman Catholics be admitted to the Corporation Schools to receive secular instruction only.] Mr. BLACKBURN : NO. The MAYOR said that motion would come on in due course, and, as he understood, Mr. G. H. Lawrence's motion would come on as an amendment upon the proceedings as regarded one particular branch? Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE replied, yes. Those proceedings had been brought into discussion by the " manifesto" just read, otherwise he should not have thought of rising to ad dress the Council. He thought, too, that this was the most convenient time for him to introduce the question. In the first place, he must acknowledge that the " manifesto" of the Education Committee reflected the highest credit upon the body from which it had emanated. It was drawn up in the most able and comprehensive way; it exposed at one view a system of education to which he, individually, and in his pri vate capacity, could give the fullest, the most,honest, and the most sincere assent. As a Churchman, it was completely and everything he could wish for ; but, as a member of that Council, as a trustee of the public funds, he thought the sys tem was susceptible of some modification, of some relaxation, with the view of making the education in the Corporation Schools more generally available to the Liverpool public than it was at present. With these views he was prepared to sub mit the following resolution, which he would ask the Coun cil, with all humility, to adopt: " That it be referred to the committee to consider whe ther, after establishing in the Corporation Schools a system of religious instruction based on the principles of the Church of England, and in all respects in strict accordance with her tenets, such a modification cannot be made in the existing rules and regulations as would render the schools more avail able for the classes of the poor professing different religious opinions, by allowing their children the benefit of the secular instruction of the schools, the parents giving an assurance to the committee that their religious duties shall not be neg lected." This was the resolution he was now going to offer for the approval of the council : but before he proceeded to com ment upon it he should take the opportunity of touching the string which he had harped upon before, both in that room and elsewhere. He would declare the opinion which he had j all along entertained, that this council was not an educating ' body,that it never should have become one, and that he regretted exceedingly it bad ever become one. There were parties who would assimilate the present case with the Bury St. Edmond's case, but there was no analogy between the two. That case was, as to the application of property left centuries ago for the purpose of endowing schools ; hut there was no such obligation on the part of the corporation of Liverpool. He had taken great pains to make inquiries upon that point, and from the best information he had been able to get, he had come to the conclusion that the corporation had no pro perty of that kind. Mr. Okill, from whom he derived his information, than whom no man was more competent to afford it, assured him that the corporation had no such pro perty. To be sure he understood that there was a grant of X 5 a year made a long time ago, so far back as Queen Eliza beth's time, for maintaining a grammar school in this town ; that endowment the corporation had for a considerable period of time; but upon the death of Mr. Baynes, the last master of the grammar school, it fell with him, and if it was revived at all, it was revived in the shape of the Blue Coat Hospital. The old corporation had the power of doing what they pleased : they were amenable to no law whatever except that of opinion ; and it would be acknowledged on all hands that they distributed the funds in their charge in a munifi cent and judicious way, all things considered. They could do, as he said before, what they pleased. They felt the ne cessity of providing for the religious instruction of the poor of the town. As they had built churches, so also they erected schools for the edification and instruction of the children of the poor; and they established those schools, as they had every right to do, in the religion of the Church of England, which they themselves professed, and which the majority of the people professed. The course of the present council, however, could hardly be the same as their course, for they were " tied and bound by the chain" of re form ; and though it might be very well for them to say they did not go into that room as a political body (and there might be some truth in it), yet they were so ; but it ought to he their real object, as most certainly it was their duty, to carry out the Municipal Act in its fullest and fairest and most strict sense. Now what did the Municipal Reform Act say upon the subject of educating or instructing the poor? It said positively nothing! It threw heaps of obligatory ex pense upon the corporation ; but if they must keep up their schools at all, they could only be maintained by the surplus income, that most precarious of all resources. If the surplus income failed, the schools must be closed as a matter of course; but surely, if the legislature had ever intended the council to be an educating body, they would not have rested their power of being so upon so unstable and precarious a foundation as that. There was another point, concerning which he would ask whether the council might not draw an argument from analogy. As the legislature had insisted upon the church advowsons being sold, declaring in so many words that they had no confidence in the town councils as regarded the instruction and education of the people, they should have nothing at all to do with the education of the poor in the principles of the church. But, assuming it for a moment to be intended that they should be an educating body, was it not probable that the legislature would have acted in a very different way—that they would have defined the kind of instruction they should give, if they were to give any at all ? He was sure this would have been the case, if the legislature had had any such intention. Let him ask, again, if it were intended that the council should be teachers, wat kind of education the legislature would have been likely to establish ? Would they have sanctioned the system of education which we had had the satisfaction of uprooting here, and which Mr. Blackburn approved, namely, the Irish system? He thought not. Lord Stanley, who introduced this system in Ireland, himself a zealous churchman, a member of her Majesty's present government, a man whose opinion might be relied upon, the author of the Irish system of education in that country, and the founder of the Liver pool Collegiate Institution in this—a man whom the clergy delighted to honour, and whom Mr. M`Neile (be ber;e' d pardon for introducing names), in the language of poet' , addressed thus— " On, Stanley, on ! " What did he tell us ? He said, that however well the sYs t , erfl .. t might do for Ireland, it was never intended for England ; t hat if so, the feelings of the legislature and country would bap: been manifested in such a way, as at once to convince thew,, as well as the Dublin board, that they never could attetall to carry thatlystem here. But, would they have establisb i e e t" the present system? Without hesitation, be replied, t.lt never would : that they never would have thought or 'l e Wishing such a system in supporting which the funds of corporation should be expended.. If they had established a s _ tern at all, it would have been some such system as had hel:. lately established—the system which now prevailed in ' fl , parish workhouse schools. Who could say there was Or, distinction or difference between the funds of the corpor ation and the funds or money raised for the support of the poos except, perhaps, this, that with.regard to the poor the bu t, gation was paramount ? You must educate the poor; in the present case the obligation lay precisely the other %lo t That was the system they would have established, and wns f was it ? It was not in operation here at present, but 501 his friends, who were present, were now actually engag e , 1 , 1 1 : building a large school for hie very purpose. It w oe ' s therefore, soon- be tried ; the authority of the church rt certainly recognised in it, but the Roman Catholic Pri es „ might walk in and give instruction, either out of the Po l l. Bible, or the Irish extracts, and the Methodist min ist e e might attend, subject of course to regulations ; they we e, not, however, to be prevented from attending if they cha t ? e ,, and they would have the power of administering religious I,' struction according to their respective creeds. That was be the general system of education. It had been introduc ed by the late government it was true ; bet it had been s ane r tioned by the present government, inasmuch as the new P° ° , law act, in which it occupied a prominent place, had been 7. dorsed by Sir J. Graham, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Si r t Peel, and Lord Stanley. Would the council like to have tha system ? His own impression was that it would lead to con; fusion ; he should be afraid of collision between the ditTeren; denominations ; but it was the general system which br been adopted by the legislature, and been approved of by t a e r bishops as well as others. If the council approved et that system as a compromise it might be tiied, 13° as he had said before, he did not think it so likely t, be approved of as that which he was now about to Pr ° , pose. He would now turn to his own proposal. So long ,"' t they had any surplus income, they might, if they thoug °, proper, go on spending it as they did now ; hut he was bo aaa . to tell them that whilst he acknowledged he rejoiced . hat thel: had uprooted a bad system, they had not, on the other ha p % effected the great extent of good which he had expected. 4 "„ schools were not so full as they were. Added to that, M e e ' . had afforded a pretext to lukewarm conservatives to wit' draw their subscriptions to a large extent from the Church of St. England schools. In the south end of the town, at S Michael's, they had been the means of occasioning the aban donment of a large boy's school which was attached to the' church. Was not that doing harm ? The clergy were the proper proper machinery for educating the poor of the country ; an he contended that one school attached to a church was wort"' half a dozen attached to the Town-couhcil. It was UP! these grounds that be regretted that the council should have become an educating body at all. He would now go on fur' tiler, and express his regret that so many of these poor [ o° : man Catholic - I children should have absented theinselvr, from the schools. It was now no longer a matter of do u°, that they did absent themselves ; it was no longer a matter o' indifference that they had the monthly returns, for it a °s well understood now that the [Roman Catholic] children would not come. In spite of the prophecies of some parties, who, no doubt, were well able to form a judgment that t h ey would finally come, the result had proved quite the reverse. There were schools in which children used to crowd, but they were not crowded except in the infant's school, wherp theY were sent to be out of harm's way. Now, much as the coup' cif might deplore the fact, there could not be a doubt ule the subject. The question then was, could anything be done without encouraging popery on the one hand, or en- t dangering. the Church of England upon the other ? Th, B , e was the real question. He thought something might a L done; and if the schools were to be carried on 'a thought they ought to make some little attempt to 8 ' • complish that object. Were the schools under his direc tion he would make them mote Church of .England s chool!, than they were at present ; that should be the great rule a n° , guide for them ; he would be responsible for the education of parties who went there to learn the creed of the Church a, England; he would be responsible for that altogether; it would be only for religious instruction that he should care anything about. His schools should be under the control o f a Church of England schoolmaster ; he would have them la connection with the National Society, and parents of tb e . poor children sent there should feel perfectly satisfied th e; they were Church of England schools. He would teach the creed of the Church of England there every day in the week, and from the first day of the year to the last; he would tes ei it as well on the Sunday as on the Monday ; he would not be responsible, as it were only for the religious instruction f, the children whom he taught Protestantism upon six days to the week, and then allow them to slip through his fingers on the Sabbath, and for religious instruction be taught PoperY or any thing else. With that he would have no concern' . This was his feeling—he would be church all over, but at the same time he would open the door to other parties who diP fered from him. He would say to the Dissenters, among whom he included the Roman Catholics, " I cannot under; take to give religious instruction to your people; you 0 05 , be fully aware that these are Church of England schools, ba' if you will furnish me with some guarantee or formal engage' went, either from yourself, or, if possible, from your clergy' man, that yourechildren shall not.be unprovided with relir ous instruction, I will then allow you to absent them fro m school on the sabbath ; I will then allow your case to bean exception to the general rule ; I will perniit you to receiv,e . the same secular instruction, but it can be only upon sue' conditions as I have stated." He knew there were difficul ties whichever way he turned; be knew there would be ob jections to any general or uniform system which could be propounded, but he believed that in the plan which he ha d chalked out no vital principle was sacrificed or abandone d. He did not mean to say there was not concession in it, be that there was not something of compromise about it ; "y e acknowledged that there was, and he would rather it was no don't; but, he would ask, was there no compromise or con' cession in the schools at present? Was there no compro mise or concession in the Collegiate Institution itself? H e said there was. In these days. e could not carry on withou t concession or conciliation. What would be the state of the country without concession or conciliation ? God forbid he should ever argue in favour of an abandonment of prin ciple—he hoped be never should—but how many goo d sound measures had been obtained by concession and cow' promise ! We bid defiance to Irish agitators and chartist demagogues ; but what would have been the state of the country if, in addition to our present troubles, the Rowel; Catholic relief bill had not passed, or the reform bill bad no been carried ? So long as differences in opinion lasted, there must be concession somewhere; and he did not think theY would haeard any vital principle by agreeing to his proposal. He felt the greatest possible pain and hesitation in interfering in this matter, and he acknowleged that it was with tll e greatest difficulty he made any proposal of this sort. b e differed with those who surrounded him with the greates t t . regret ; but looking at the question in a municipal point oi view, he really could not arrive at any other conclusion, an ° he had come to it honestly and fairly : they must forgive him—he hoped they would forgive hire—they might think him wrong, but still he could not come to any other conclu sion. There was a gentleman—it was the Rev. Dr. Tatter shall—who, at a late Protestant meeting, was pleased to W e ' that he (Mr. G. H. Lawrence) and those who agreed wit' him had got into their trouble because they had not given to the subject sufficient consideration. Now lie must beg leave to differ from that reverend gentleman, and say, it was he: cause they bmight given it too much consideration. Theymight say, perhaps, that lie allowed the situation of those poor children to have too deep an impression upon his mind ; h e had a morbid sensibility upon the subject, they might say . 1 but still it existed, and he could not get rid of it. If he had contented himself with the common-place argument, that because the reformers had chosen, when they were in powe r ' to exclude the Church of England children, the conservative s must, now that they were in power, do the same, and exclud e the Roman Catholics, he might have swain with the stream' and not have given a mere negative vote. But he had felt that, in a religious point of view, lie could not meet the question in that way. Then again, there was a gentleman who was constantly reminding him of the equivocal position he occupied in that council; who told him lie must be re: minded of the position in which he stood, and threatener' him with the fate that awaited him in the ward he bad the honour to represent. (" Bravo," from Mr. EARLE.) He regretted that lie should have any difference with the bodY, he had the honour to represent, but he had taken a goon deal of pains to explain to them, that if they were dissatisfie d his seat was at their disposal in November last, as well as i t was in November next. He was always ready to do his duty' but it must be done with honour and independence ; withou t that he should feel himself as nobody, and lie did trust, when this subject was settled, either one way or the other, De should not be looked upon as the great heretic he was consi dered at present. In conclusion, he begged to say, that he must do what he considered to be his duty on this occasion . He, therefore, called upon the council not to lend themselves to extremes, to beware how they joined themselves to those who deemed the mere negation of Romish error more essen tial than the propagation of christianity ; he called OP°° them to be charitable, and support some such system as he had suggested ' • and above all things he called upon them t o "be just, and fear not !" He begged to move the amend' went. Mr. BLACKBURN spoke to order. lie apprehended that the proposition just made uy Mr. Lawrence could not be entertained, without notice having been given. To him i t appeared to be a substantive and distinct motion, upon a special subject : notice of it, therefore, ought to have beet; given. He agreed with Mr. Hornby, that the " manifesto' was quite out of place) and he considered also that the pre sent proposal was informal in itself, for it was brought for ward in the shape of an amendment when it was no amend ment at all, and it raised the very question (though, perhaps' not intentionally) which would supersede a motioreof which he (Mr. Blackburn) had already given formal notice. Mr. H. LAWRENCE submitted, that if there was no such declaration as that made by the Education Committee, the amendment would be informal; but as the system was there specifically laid down, it was certainly competent for any member to move an amendment upon it. In fact, if one wa s irregular the other was equally so. Mr. HODGSON, with great deference to the.opinion of Mr' H. Lawrence, must say that Mr. Blackburn's observation s were perfectly just. It was not a motion at all which the Education Committee had brought forward. They merely brought forward their proceedings, which the council wer e called upon either to confirm or reject ; therefore, the m otion subsequently proposed was irregular and out of course. Mr. EARLE was just going to make a similar observation . The principle had been all along established, and as far es that went there was nothing new in it; but this amendmen t was in direct opposition to the principle. It could net' therefore, be entertained without notice. Mr. HORNBY would make one observation with regard to order, in consequence of a legal doctrine which had been set up by the Town-clerk. If this system o n the part or committees was to •be established, there was an end to the functions of the council. It appeared to him, if this princi ple was admitted, any committee !night be allowed to bring forward any position, however strong or however strange, and the council must receive it. This was quite a new prac tice. The council had hitherto been in the habit, when theY saw occasion, of amending the proceedings of committees; and if they now made an exception in favour of the Educatioel Committee, they would be going wrong—and where wo uld It stop? Their powers and duties, as members of the counc il, would be arrogated by the committees, which, in effect , would become so many imperii in imperio. Such a system , would absolutely swallow up the whole powers of the council. The TOWN-CLERK said, it appeared to him necessary that the council should understand in what way the subject of education came before them. It came before them not merely upon the notice in the summons paper, but by the proceedings of the Education Committee being, for two days previously to the meeting, deposited in the office of the Clerk of Committees, for the inspection of members of the council. Those proceedings would clearly show that the principle upon which education should be conducted had been under the consideration of the committee; and the very consideration of them should come before the council. He conceived, certainly, that a motion like the present—that the Education Committee should take into consideration cer tain views—was one that might be brought forward—nay, it arose out of the pro ceedings which this th privilegeeEducationwasallowed Committee themselves submitted ; and to members, it would come to this—it must only be " yea or "nay" upon whatever the committee submitted. 'The subject had been before the members—they had had an op chose to avail themselves of it, of knowini portunity, if they that certain p Committee ; G. Fi. Lawre council to dec Mr. TU RN former occasi had now urea G. H. Lawre view. Altho casion, he W 8 cause that he would succee tolerate the bigoixy whicl tiauuished ; a better state the happines! us, and wh love, doing tinto us. rnittee were Went far e out, because learn religior the mos t 'in Wherevei the or synagogue Nov, if the principles of of the comm the Sunday. education wi to deprive th different reli equal claim the Corporat of education evil that tho about the sti tagion of es checked in their liberty ; was, and the was the grey Mee at the E Morning, th the vorrespo off of no les him, it certa of cruelty. t they might schools had there had al schools whh sYstem now Surely, it w schools shot ' . ; 9 .hich were the poor Christian c question we although it eventually. well-doing. " Persevere the motion Air. Nic( Observation although he Mons. 117 r the difficult difficulties having heat the burougl schools ; of a consideru from Mr. I Council col that the vie Must have after heath With the qu elusion ver Nlr. Turne their motic involving it he had con that the so back to thi sition as h question a Which it NV the argum , Whole of 11 Turns increasing Would hay that the s( Prehended right after timate th Inove that quarter. the subjec rence's against it. Mr. 114 begged to that the a vas, that present h increase ; Mr. Tc tendancei Mr. H ances wei first excil Council, driven fr of course