The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

LOYAL MINERVA BALL,-TEMPLARS' HALL.—We I been requested to contradict the statement which appea' the . Mercury on Friday that Mr. and Miss Sto' engaged for"tbe concert to he held at the conclusion of tl ball on Friday evening. ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—A genteel young man was brought up at the Police-court, yesterday, charged with having assaulted the police in the Royal Amphitheatre, on Saturd;iy evening. The defendant, it appeared, had some dispute with Mr. Carman, the box book-keeper, whom he wantonly struck. The police came up, and finding Mr. Carman on the floor, interfered, when the prisoner attacked them, but was speedily overpowered and placed in the lockups. His defence was, that ne was too drunk to recollect anything. The magistrates fined him 40s. for the assault on the police. ELECTION OF THE CORONER FOR CHESTER.—The polling took place on Monday and Tuesday, and the excitement that prevailed was equal to a contested county election. After the close of the poll, the sheriff made the following official de claration:—Mr. Henry Churton, 1,512; Mr. John Wood Massey, 1,351 ; majority for Mr. Churton, 161. Mr. Chur ton was consequently declared duly elected, and took the oaths of office. COMMITMENT TO THE SESSIONS.—On Friday, at the Po lice -court, three boys, Thomas Joseph. John Forrester, and James Dillon, were charged with stealing a hat. They were seen by three police-officers in plain clothes, loitering about the shop of Mr. Ring, hatter. Forrest went in, took a but from the window, and came out. He and Joseph ran down Moorfields, and the other along Dale-street. They were pursued: Forrest dropped the hat in the street; but they were all caught. Being old offenders, they were committed for trial. ROBBERY OF AN ELDERLY GENTLEMAN.-011 Friday, at the Police-court, a fellow named Patrick Waterson was placed at' the bar; on a charge of robbing a respectable elderly gentleman, who resides in Mill-street, Toxteth.park. The complainant said that on the night of Wednesday week, he had left a friend's house to go home. He had a gold watch in his fob, the guard of which was used as a watch chain, and attached to it was a gold seal and key. He had a silk guard round his neck. He admitted that he had had a little liquor. He went along Lime-street, arid at the top of Berry -street was stopped by three women. He said he would have nothing to do with them. While moving on he was tripped up by a man, and fell on the' footway ; two men lifted him, and he then felt his watch-guard drawn over his head. The men went towards St. Luke's Church and were out of sight directly ; next morning his son-in-law gave in formation to the police. On Thursday night, constable Edward Murrow showed him his guard-chain, seal and key, and he claimed them ; the watch (not found) was worth £2O. The constable stated, that at three o'clock on Tuesday after noce., he called at Mr. O'Donnell's pawn-shop in Scotland road, and found there Martin Dogherty (committed as a wit ness,) offering in pledge a gold seal. He asked him where he got it, and h e sa id th a t P atr i c k W aterson h a d g i ven it to him ; he searched him, and found the chain and key. Two witnesses cor ro b era t e d w h a t D og h er t y h a d said. It ap peared that the p r i s o ner h a d g o ne to his house, and in their prese,nce threw down the chain, &c., telling him to keep them, as he had no use for them. He refu but afterwards took them to pledge. Ant afterwards apprehended the prisoner in a yard in BanastrL street ; he said he had fothid the articles in the street, and had given them to Dogherty. He was committed for trial. MR. BarNputY.—This gentleman has had to endure the attacks of socialists and infidels for a length of time, and is now called to suffer the ridicule and reproaches of those who profess to be struggling for the same object as himself. The public have recently been informed that Mr. Brindley is not countenanced by any of the clergy or respectable portion of the inhabitants o f thi s t own ; an d t h oug h we have no wish to become the advocates of Mr. Brindley, as he is well able to defend himself, we cannot help noticing that, in addition to the warm support be has already received from many of the nobility, including the Earl of Bandon, Lords Kenyon, Ashley, and others, he ranks amongst his staunch friends and admirers almost the whole bench of bishops, most of whom are subscribers to his Gazette; and in the last num ber of this publication we are glad to see that lie has received handsome donations from the Bishops of Hereford, Bangor, and Sodor and Man, and that amongst a list of other sub scribers will be found the names of the Rev. Jon. Brooks, Rev. J. N. Peill, and many other clergymen of this town. If any of our readers feel desirous of seeing the objects to which the talents of Mr. Brindley are devoted, we strongly recommend them to purchase the last number of his Gazette, which is published at Chester, and may be had of any of the booksellers in this town. We know no publication better calculated to deilLroy the infidelity, and uproot the anarchy, now so prevalenrin many neighbourhoods. It ought to be circulated by thousands. ,ed to take theni, tiler police-officer VIOLENT ASSAULT By POLICE- OFFICERS.—PoIice-officers 296, Cordingly, 140, Irton, and 405, Dempster, appeared be fore Mr. Rushton, on Saturday, against a man named Sims. Cordingly stated, that about three o'clock that morning, in consequence of having heard the report of fire-arms, he and the two other officers went to the prisoner's house, where they found many persons and a great uproar. They were all assaulted and very much ill-used, and they succeeded in capturing the prisoner and taking him to bridewell. It was, however, proved, on the testimony of many witnesses, that the officers had violently assaulted the prisoner. It ap peared the prisoner and many of his fellow-workmen, who are employed by Messrs. Miller and Co., joiners, being most of them natives of Scotland, were enjoying themselves, bring ing in the new year after the fashion and custom of the north. Officers 296 anfl 140 interfered, and, after behaving exceed ingly ill, and striking several of the inmates, were pushed out. They contrived to hustle him, the master of the house, out with them, where they beat him with their sticks very barbarously, and would, it was stated, but for officer 405, who at last interfered, have killed him. Sims was so se verely injured that he was taken to the Infirmary. Mr. Rushton ordered him to be discharged. Mr. Rushton, after a short consultation with Mr. Booth, his fellow-magistrate, said, addressing the officers, that they did not believe they would be doing their duty to the public, if they did not in flict on them (the officers) the heaviest punishment in their power. Officers 296 and 140 were to be dismissed the force, and officer 405 suspended. Officers 296 and 140 were further to pay a fine of £5 each, or be imprisoned two mouths. They had behaved like cowards and assassins. CAPTURE OF Two FORGERS FROM ANI ERICA.—On Fri day last MauriCe and George Augustus Pitcher, two bro thers, were taken before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion house, London, charged with having committed several for geries. Colonel ..kspinall, the Ameaican Consul, having received inf ormat i on t h at Maurice Pitcher, a clerk in the house of Messrs. Eyre and Massey, a respectable mercantile firm in Philadelphia, had drawn money out of several banks, in the names of his employers, employed John Forrester, the officer, to take measures to appre h en d t h e delinquent in the event of his arrival in England. The firm discovered, upon examination, after the disappearance of the clerk, that he had com m it te d f orger i es upon them to the following extent : On the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank 5,000 dollars, Penn sylvania Bank 2,500 dollars, Philadelphia Bank 1,500 dol lars, Mechanics' Bank 500 dollars, all in the names of Eyre and Massey, and on the Bank of North America, in the name of Manuel Eyre, 4,000 dollars; total, 13,50() dollars. Manuel Pitcher, the elder of the two, who is nineteen years of age, took the name of Valancourt, and his brother as sumed that of Gentry, and they both embarked at New York in the Europe, Captain Marshall, and, having arrived at Li verpool, put up at the Angel Inn, Dale -street. The eldest, soon after their arrival, went off to Loadon to,get cash for a bill of £1,023, which he had purchased, with some of the produce of his forgeries, of a broker at New Yark, and which was drawn upon James Bult and Son, bullion-dealers, in Cheapside, London. The younger remained behind in order to take up the luggage to town, where he was to meet his brother, and they were to make rapid preparations for, and settling in, Germany. Their plans were, however, frustrated. Maurice Pitcher, upon calling at Messrs. Bult's to get the bill accepted, found himself most awkwardly situated, con stable Forrester having made preparations for his reception. Forrester subsequently apprehended George Augustus Pitch e! in bed, with a bandage round his waist, containing Ame rican bank-notes to the amount of 6,800 dollars and some golden eagles. The property with which Maurice Pitcher absconded amounts to £2,900. The American Consul said he expected full instructions by the Acadia. The prisoners were remanded until yesterday. It is not at all improbable, that some mysterious hints respecting the delinquency• of these two brothers may have transpired in Liverpool, and given rise to an extraordinary on dit, which has, during the past week, been flying about, and assuming all sorts of ex traordinary shapes. TxE AstenernesTan.—Ducrow stands in his line unri valled. In his way he is a man of genius. There is an ori ginality in his performances—and in the performances of those in his employ—that completely pushes all other com petitors off the stool of superiority. His equestrians have more agility and grace than others ; his horses are more tractable and beautiful ; his " properties," dresses and equip ments, are generally costly and appropriate ; his riding masters—the evergreen Widdicombe to wit—the most po lished ; and his clowns the most facetious. No wonder, then, that " good houses " are attracted whenever he has an engagement; and we have always contended that there are but two men in the world that can draw bumpers at the Amphitheatre. The present performances consist of a " grand " spectacle (quel un spectacle, as Wright says), scenes in the circle, and an afterpiece. The " spectacle 5 ' is founded on a story in which we find Russians, Circassians, Tartars, and some other people of some other countries, " antithetically jumbled cheek by jowl." It abounds with fighting, dancing (in which, by the way, Miss Gates some what shines), horse attacks, foot attacks, attempts at assas sination, blue fire and red fire, love-makingand etceteras, all mixed up in stirring variety. The drama has drawn forth laughter. and " werry loud applause from werry crowded houses," as the sentry said when the six fat young ladies took refuge in his box from a shower of rain. The scenes in the ring —we beg pardon—in the arena, have been very amusing. The first is entitled " Sir Roger de Coverly, or the Flitch of Bacon," in which we find the gallant knight, surrounded by " troops of friends," attending the annual festivities at Duninow, and bestowing the flitch of bacon on the happy couple who have lived together twelve months without a quarrel —a prize which the late Duchess of St. Albans is said to have claimed upon one occasion. This scrie is well acted, and goes off with great effect. Mr. Hillier'acts Sir Royer very well. The clown produces con stant merriment by his drollery. The riding of Mes srs . Hicken, Hillier, and Allard, is very clever. Madame All ar d is a superior equestrienne. Her attitudes are novel and g ra ceful; her ac ti v i ty i s remarkable, while for fearlessness and dar rg we have seldom seen her equalled. While performin g with th e ve i l, several positions str uc k us as being very good. The scene o f the vening Star" elicits great denionstra tious of delight from old and d young, as also does the act of the " irummer an his recruiting party. We re gretted to notice on Saturday some' blackguards in the gallery throwing oranges and apples . and other missiles in no kindly spirit upon theaasmisrintr, perf , o , rmers. They deserved to be served as w stairs." The entertainments have L ong l egs—" pitched laugha ble b e farce, in which Mr. Beverley and other members of g th company have exerted themselves. This evening, we per ceive, Lord Sefton has kindly bespoken the performances We trust there will be a good h ouse, out of compliment to the noble lord. The performa nces are particularly attractive. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY—EFFECTS OF DRUNKENESS.— Yesterday, a young man named Cox, appeared at the court before Mr. Rushton and Mr. Adam Hodgson, ti Police charged George Agnew with having stolen his hat on Satur by Cox, it appeared day night. From the statement made aoy s e ssio n ilsea ll co mmenced o n f a a y e s u n, o da f that on Wednesday last he came into about £lOO, and that the following a spree" with it. He met a woman named remained with her day and night until the evenin g of Satur day, when he agreed to treat her, her brother the prisoner, his wife, and a woman who called herself Mrs. Bradley, at Warwick -street. The Mr. Wright's public-house, in prose cutor, from the effects of his previous debauches, soon fell asleep, and when he awake he found not only his hat but the balance of his money, amounting to £93, all gone, not a six pence being left of it. The police were informed of the rob bery, and Nos. 236 and 374 proceeded in quest of the thieves. The prisoner only was found. He was in bed, and appeared to be so drunk that no other means could be used for taking him to bridewell but that of putting him into a wheelbarrow ; however, on his arrival there, lie jumped up as sober as any body and protested against being detained. The prosecutor's hat was found by 236 under the clothes of the prisoner's bed. The landlord of the public-house said that he saw the prisoner take the prosecutor's hat ; and Mrs. Bradley, after having been cautioned by the magistrate, against saying anything that would criminate herself, stated that she was drinking in the public-house with the parties, when the prosecutor fell .asleep. Sarah Hayes then put her hand into his pocket, took out his money, and said she would take care both of it and him, and after that they went away in a coach together. The prisoner said he was very drunk at the time, and recollected nothing. He was remanded for further examination. WarrlNa.—Any cramped and crabbed, or scrawling writer may be converted into a clever penman, by applying to Mr. Thompson. We have inspected a specimen of his styles, and think any of them will suit the most fastidious. LIVER THEATRE.-Mr. Balls's benefit comes off on Fri day ; those who wish to see this clever and versatile actor, must not delay, as his engagement is short. The house has been crowded every night. SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS.—The first concert of the sea son takes place at the Theatre Royal this evening. A very attractive programme is put forth. Although we believe Madame Caradori Allan will be prevented attending from in disposition, her absence will be amply made up for by other arrangements. Those who feel any disappointment on the subject, must bear a little, and go to-night determined to be pleased, remembering that the manager cannot be account able for such an " untoward event." ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH, NAYLOR-STREET.—We have had much pleasure in viewing a very handsome " Royal Coat of Arms", lately put up in this church. It was de signed and executed by Mr. John Booker, and by him pre sented to the church, as a testimonial of respect to the clergyman under whose ministry he sits. Its execution does him great credit as the artist, whilst the feeling which directed the gift is highly honourable to him as the donor. ANDERSON'S STATUARY. - It will be seen that the figures belonging to Mr. Anderson, now exhibiting at 5. Ranelagh street, are for sale, as Mr. Anderson's health requires him to proceed to Scotland. Any person with a small capital would, we have no doubt, realise a fortune. Were these figures once brought into notice in London, an immense sum might be obtained. The exhibition will continue open all this week, and every one who has not seen them will have themselves to blame, if they do not visit these splendid genius. —See advt. efforts of CAUTION TO SATURDAY NIGIIT AND SUNDAY DRUNK ARDS.—III the course of the business at the police court yesterday, Mr. Rushton gave some instructions to Mr. Par kinson, the keeper of the main Bridewell, which it may be as well should be published for the benefit of those who may be concerned. He directed Mr. Parkinson not to send him in future on Sundays certificates to be signed for the dis charge of persons who had been apprehended during Satur day night and Sunday whilst in a state of intoxication, unless there was some pressing necessity for it. He had been hitherto accustomed to sign many of these certificates at his own house on Sundays, but he should now discontinue the practice ; he was resolved for the future not to sign the cer tificates of any one, apprehended under such circumstances, but to leave them to work out the penalty of their evil deeds. DISTRICT PROVIDENT SOCIETY.—We understand that 11 , e number of cases relieved at the mendicity department of tmo society since Friday week amounts to no less than 1635. This is not only convincing proof of the lamentable distress existing in the town, but is also decisive as to the utility and efficiency of the society itself. A list of recent contributions appears in another column, which we should be glad to see greatly increased. OPERATIVE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.--The annual tea party of this association, as will be seen from an ad vertisement, takes place on Friday, at the Music-Hall. On a similar occasion last year the festivity was much enlivened by the delivery of many excellent speeches, and as it is under stood the same treat will be repeated on Friday, no doubt a numerous company will be in attendance. We wish we could infuse a little of the self-denying spirit of our operative friends into the hearts of their more wealthy neighbours. The unwearied exertions of the former are beyond all praise. ST. ANNE'S WARD.—It will be seen, from our report of the council proceedings on Saturday, that a vacancy has taken place in the representation of this ward, by the dis qualification of Mr. Slaiter. The election of his successor will, in all probability, take place next week, and we are glad to hear that a good man and true has already been selected as a candidate ; and from the experience we have had of the vies s of the electors in their choice of such a man as Mr. Parker for their representative, we have no doubt that gen tleman will have a colleague who will strengthen his hands in the maintenance of our local institutions in all their Pro testant integrity. Mr. Parker is not a man of much pro fession, but he is always found firm and immovable in the resistance of every assault on what ought to be dear to every Englishman. Let the electors of St. Anne's Ward return a gentleman of the same sterling principles. He is much needed at present. REPEAL. — The Dublin correspondent of the Liverpool Journal anncounces the probable removal of the repeal agita tion to this town in the following terms :—`• It is reported through this city that it is the intention of the executive to put down the repeal association by proclamation, or, if that be not determined on, to bring in a bill for that purpose at the opening of parliament. Blackburne, the attorney-gene ral, and Brewster, the law adviser of the castle, are for a proclamation, but Lord Eliott is against it. Should either course be adopted, the repeal meetings of the Dublin Corn Exchange will, in all probability, he transferred to your good town of Liverpool, where they will be held once a fortnight, and this may cause a combination of English corn-law re pealers, and Irish repealers of the union, that may strengthen both, and embarrass the government still more. It will also materially aid the agitation on the other side of the Atlantic, which will be thus conveniently placed by the Irish executive at the extreme ends of the British and American line of steam packets." AMERICAN SALT BEEF.—We had recently occasion to notice some American salt beef consigned for sale to Messrs. Waddington, Holt and Co., Goree-piazzas. We have since had an opportunity to tasting a piece of it, cooked secundum artem, so as to extract the superabundant salt, and found it exceedingly good, sound, and palatable, though not, we think, equal to our Irish " prime mess." The price, however, at which this beef can be sold is considerably below that of Irish beef, even after the duty (of lid. a pound) is paid,— being about 44d.. The casks contain 2001bs. each, and though we do not think that from the trouble of preparing it in the peculiar way prescribed, as well as from certain waste in weight arising therefrom, that it will become a favourite article at the tables of English families, it may, nevertheless, be an acceptable acquisition in seasons of scarcity of animal food, amongst our maritime and manufac turing population. There can be no doubt, we think, but it w ill k ee p well at sea or on shore, the pickle being strong and sweet. The best parts of the beef only are selected for curing. We are in possession of the receipt for preparing it, which we shall communicate to any one making trial of the beef. ABERDOUR VACANCY.—The Presbytery of Dunfermline met on Tuesday - last, to moderate in a call to the Rev. Dr. Ralph of Liverpool. After sermon, by Mr. Ferguson of Beith, &T., Mr. Brown,Dumfermline, returned the edict which he had served, stating at the same time, that he was not to be considered as sanctioning any illegality implied in the course prescribed by the Veto Act, to which the Presbytery at their last meeting had resolved to adhere. He also ten dered the subjoined reasons of dissent. The call was then signed by two heritors, Mr. Wemyss of Cuttlehill, for him self, and Mr. Dalgleish, W.S., for Lord Morton, by five elders and fourteen heads of families, &c. No dissents nor special objections were offered. This will be a most harmo nious settlement. Dr. Ralph is understood to be a decided adherent of the constitutional party.—Scottish Standard.— [This is very flattering to Dr. Ralph, and we rejoice at it as a testimony to the estimation in which he is held elsewhere. Here, during his long residence, Dr. Ralph has shown him self a faithful and laborious pastor, and as minister of a sister establishment, has ranged himself by the side of the evange lical clergyman of our own church in their warfare against liberalism and Popery, and we trust the church in Oldham street may find a successor fitted to take a similar part among us.]—E.L.S. • - - - PASSING BASE COIN. — At the police-court, yesterday, Rowland Davies, a dark, and auspicious -looking man, not known to the police of this town, and two unfortunate girls —Mary Jones and Mary 'tiuston, were placed at the bar, on a charge of passing base coin. It appeared that the girls , had been seen together at the bottom of Hanover street on Saturday by a police-officer. No one was with them. Shortly after, one of them (Huston) went into a neighbouring public-house, and called for a glass of ale, In payment for which she tendered a shilling, which the person in waiting suspected at first to be bad, but on try ing it thought it good, and gave her change in 6d. and cop"er. She soon afterwards went to the same house, and asked for two pennyworth of brandy cordial, — tendering another shilling, which was found to be lead. The waiter gave both the shillings to the policeman. The girl stated, that on being challenged she immediately said she had got the money from the man at the door, and had given the change, 10d. (6d. and 4d.) of the first shilling. She added that the man was a stranger to her; that he had been accosted by her companion ; and that she was not aware that the money was bad. This appeared to be true, as the change was found upon the male prisoner. The two females were then discharged and placed in the box as witnesses. They proved the facts, and the prisoner Davies, who had evidently made the girls his dupes on pretence of treating them, in whose possession some papers were found showing him to be a London " practitioner" in the science of appropriation, was committed for trial at the sessions. • ARRIVAL HERE OF THREE CANADIAN INDIANS.—On Saturday week three Indians, of the Micmac tribe, arrived in Liverpool, in the Stirlingshire, Captain Bennien, from Quebec. They are on their way to the Colonial-office, Lon don, bearing with them letters from Colonel O'Halloran, of the 68th regiment, who has lately, we understand, been elected great white chief of the Micmacs. They are well dressed respectable-looking men, of strong Indian features. Their names are Joseph Mullj Cubesh, Peter Basket, and Francis Lahobe. The first named is chief of the tribe, and the other two have been deputed to accompany him. The chief writes and understands English pretty well, and the other two, although they understand the language, find it rather difficult to speak. Captain Bennien, soon after his arrival, introduced them to Mr. Dowling, superintendent of police, who has them in charge while they remain in town. Mr. Dowling, on Wednesday, introduced them to the Mayor and Mr. Rushton. We have not been able to learn the spe cial object of these men :in coming to this country, but we understand that one part of it is to solicit the aid of the go vernment in completing the erection of a Catholic chapel, which the tribe have commenced, but which for want of funds they have been unable to complete. Captain Bennien brought them to England without charge, provided they as sisted upon deck during the passage. We understand that their conduct, whilst on board of the Stirlingshire, has been very satisfactory to the Captain, and his Indian friends speak of him in the highest terms. They say he has acted towards them like a father, and they are very desirous of stating the same both here and in their own country. They have been obliged to change their mocassins since their arrival for boots, as the former was not suited for our damp weather, and they much regret the absence of the sun. They express themselves in grateful terms for the kindness they have re ceived since their arrival here. Their dress is somewhat pe culiar. Their coats and pantaloons are trimmed with rib bone, which add to the singularity of their appearance. Their stay is but short in town, and on their arrival in Lon don they will present their letters of introduction, from Col. O'Halloran, to Lord Stanley and Colonel Percival. TIhE REVENUE.—It is expected that in the Customs there will be an increase on the year of or about £100,000; whilst the increase on the January quarter, as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year, will be about £400,000. We are sorry, however, to add, that we cannot infer from this increase in the customs any improvement in our foreign commerce generally ; for we hear that this increase will be more than covered by the increasing duties paid on the single article of sugar, and that on the sum of all other articles there will be shown a decrease. Of the excise, and stamps and taxes, we can speak with no certainty.—Observer. THE HORRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. —The following is the report of Mr. Dunn, the surgeon to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, on the remaining cases of sufferers from the recent unhappy accident in the Sunning-hill cutting :—" Saturday, Jan. I.—Ann Barnes and Thomas Hankins are decidedly improved; and the rest, Thomas Hughes excepted, are doing well. In the case of Hughes the same unfavourable symptoms as in the last report continue." OPINION OF THE REV. F. CLOSE ON TEE -TOTAL SOCIE- Tt ES.--1 firmly believb that every person who sets an example of total abstinence, will benefit alike himself and his fellow creatures. There ar e, no this o sis in doubt, exceptions,w h andlch medica -1 d p i r c o a . l advice may detect; but y g eeral ru le; mote the observance of it upon individuals shall be my en deavour in public and private.—But here I must stop. As sociations of large bodies of persons for this object, encum bering themselves with voluntary pledge!, unsanctioned by the Ne, v Testament, an d i ncons i s t e nt with gospel liberty— combinations too, with persons of all religicus persuasions, or of none —union with anarchists, revolutionists, and men of every political creed, and this fora moral object, but with ovt fixed moral and religious principles—this I hold to be unscriptural and dangerous in the highest degree. DUBLIN, Dec. 22.—The conservative majority up to Fri day on the present registry of voters amounts to 302 ! MYSTERIOUS CASE OF ROBBERY. Emilia Fitzwilliam, a very stout woman, aged 32, and Emilia Marshall, aged 13, were placed at the bar of the Police-court, on Saturday. Emilia Fitzwilliam keeps a tavern, in another name, in Smithfield-street.--Mr. Dowling said, the circumstances of the case were somewhat extraordinary. The little girl was in custody because she had carried off and concealed a cloak and bonnet, which formed a link in the testimony. On the evening of the 14th. a man, who was then unknown, was found dead in Dublin-street. An in quisition was taken on the case, and a verdict was returned that the deceased Died by the visitation of God. On the preceding day, (Friday last,) two persons, both of whom were brothers of the unfortunate person alluded to, had arrived in Liverpool, and had made such statements as led to an inquiry, when it was shown, that the deceased left Manchester on the 4th ult. to come to Liverpool ; that he had some property in his possession, which had not since been heard of; and that he was seen last in the company of the elder prisoner. --Mr. Andrew M'Arthur said, he was brother to the deceased. lie had, since he came to Liverpool, seen a box and a pencil-case which belonged to his brother. It appeared, from the further statements of this witness, that his brother left Sheffield on the 14th ult., and that he set off from Manchester for Liver. pool by the two o'clock train, with the intention of proceed ing to Glasgow by the Princess Royal. He had with him twenty-eight sovereigns in gold, thirty shillings in silver, and a large carpet bag very full of clothes. As Mr. M'Arthur did not hear from his brother, he wrote to Glasgow, and found that he had not arrived either by the Princess Royal or by either of the other boats. Soon after he saw, in a Li verpool newspaper, that a man bad been found dead in Dub lin-street. He wrote to the police here, and received such information as induced him to come over. He had applied to see the clothes of the deceased man, but was told that he could not be permitted to see them.—Police-officer Ma guire said, he had seen the Beadle, and that functionary informed him, that the man was buried in his clothes.— Mr. Berwick, who keeps a spirit-vault near the Clarence Dock, stated, that, at half-past six o'clock on the evening of the 14th December, a man, accompanied by a stout female, whom he believed to be the elder prisoner, was in his vaults. He.heard the woman call him Matt, and ask him to pay for the liquor. She had on a light-coloured bonnet and a plaid cloak.—Barrow, a constable, who was on duty at the Cla rence Dock Gate, stated, that, about half-past six o'clock on the evening of the 14th, a very stout woman, resembling the prisoner, accompanied a man, who asked him at what time the Scotch boats went. The man asked particularly after the Princess Royal. Witness saw the individual who was found dead in Dublin -street, and the person to whom he now alluded was very like him. The stout woman wore a light coloured bonnet, like that produced, and a plaid cloak. She went away .with him and beckoned him towards Berwick's vaults, where he seemed reluctant to gO, but whither he fol lowed her. It appeared, from the testirnony.of police-officer Maguire, that the prisoner has associated with thieves ; and, further, that, when about to quit her house on his summons, the little girl brought down a cloak, which the prisoner de sired her to take up again.—JamesHarvey deposed, that he was at the house when the woman was taken away. He re mained for the purpose of watching the property. He saw the little girl carry away a bundle. He watched her. She took it to some distance, till she entered a house, into which he followed her, and asked her-what she had in the bundle. She said it was a cloak, belonging to a sister of the woman who kept the house, and told other stories, all of which turned out to be utterly false. Ultimately, the cloak, in which a light-coloured cane bonnet was wrapped, was found by officer M'Comb, under some bricks, where it had been concealed by the little girl. The prisoners were put down to await the arrival of the Beadle. Shortly after live o'clock, as the further evidence necessary had not arrived, Mr. Rush ton ordered the prisoners to be put forward. The little girl, Emilia Marshall, was discharged. The elder prisoner, Emilia Fitzwilliam, was remanded, Mr. Rushton observing, that the case was too important and, at present, too much clouded with mystery, for him to discharge her without a thorough investigation of the circumstances. The deceased individual had considerable property in his possession when he set out for Liverpool, and here he was last seen in her company. Yesterday, the prisoner was again placed at the bar. A young female, named Dorothy Hayes, a servant at Mrs. Hes keth's public-house, in Tithebarn-street, said she had seen the body of the deceased (which had been exhumed) in the workhouse. At dusk one night three weeks ago, the de ceased came in a cab or omnibus to their house, and asked for Mrs. Marshall—the prisoner—whe formerly lived at that house. Witness told him she did not live there ; but she shewed the man the street in which her house was, and he went towards it. At that time he had nothing with him. Ellen Rush, another servant at the same place, made a similar statement, adding, that the deceased treated the coachman to a glass of ale; and that she did not hear him say that his luggage was on board one of the Glasgow packets. Archi bald Balfour, the coroner's beadle, said he remembered the inquest being held upon the person found dead in Dublin-st., on the 15th or 16th ult. The verdict was—died by the visi tation of God, owing to disease of the heart. The jury viewed the body, which was then lying in the dead house, near Can ning Dock. The body was then dressed in the usual body clo..hes ; a dark grey coat on, another coat, and striped waistcoat. After the verdict was returned, as was usual in cases of this sort, he kept the body for some time, in order to give time for it to be claimed ; and whatever was found upon it be handed over to the parish authorities. He did so in this case. The parish officers then got eitherthe coroner's or the registrar's certificate, the body was then delivered up to them for interment, and he (the beadle) had nothing more to do with it, inasmuch as it had passed altogether out of his custody. When the body of the deceased was delivered by him to the parish authorities, it was clad as he had de scribed it ; no property was found upon it. A post mortem examination was made by Mr. George Wood, the house sur geon of the Workhouse. The Sexton of the Poor's Burial Ground was then put forward to give his testimony. Mr. Rushton told him that this was an enquiry into a felony which had been committed, and he must be cautioned. He was not bound to criminate himself. Any thing that he might say in this examination might hereafter be used against him ; therefore, he must understand that no man was bound to criminate himself. The Sexton was about saying something when it was repre sented to the magistrates that the driver of the caravan in which the body was conveyed from the dead-house, was able to give evidence that might be of importance. The case was then adjourned for a few hours. Sborily after the assault cases were disposed of, the pri soner was again placed at the bar, and a police-officer, who had been on duty on the 21st ult., was called, with a view to eliciting some facts relative to the identity of the body, from the dress or otherwise. All, however, that he was enabled to state was, that the keys of the dead-house were kept at the central station, and that though he then saw a body in the dead-house, he did not take particular notice of the dress. Thomas Spencer, an old man, was then called. lie stated that he was employed as driver of the cart or hearse that conveyed the body to the pa►ish burying ground- He re membered receiving the body. It was that of a very big man. When he saw it at the ground it had, he thought, no coat at all on ; but he never took much notice, as he was always anxious to get the bodies there as soon as he could. If a body did not reach the ground until after the perform ance of the burial service of the day, it was immediately put into the grave direct from the hearse, and the service was read over it next day. The lid of the deceased's coffin was not fastened down ; for the deceased was a large man, and the body had swollen so that the lid would not go on. He took the body into the dead-house at the ground, assisted by a man who helped him on such occasions. They took nothing from the body of the deceasod, and delivered him to the sexton. A Police-officer who had seen the body on the same morn ing (yesterday), said that it was lying on the back, and that it had no top or other coat on, and no shoes or stockings, but merely a shirt, a vest, and a pair of trowsers. Mr. Dowdall, governor of the Workhouse, said that he had had a conversation on Saturday with the brother of the deceased, and had given directions to go to the burying ground to see the body. He (witness) had received a com munication from the sexton, who said he had been very un easy in his mind, and that he had taken the coat from the body, and sold it to a person whom he did not know. In re ply to questions by Mr. Rushton, he stated that in common graves at the poor's burying ground, from 340 to 350 bodies were deposited.* Mr. Rushton said that bodies received under such circum stances ought to be deposited in grave clothes, and the dress they were brought in preserved and ticketed. It appeared that the deceased had valuable clothes on, which had been taken by the sexton and sold to a stranger—he knew not whom. It was a niaterial point in the administration ofjus tice, that proper regard should be had to the interment of parties thus found dead, and the preservation of their ap parel. He then directed Mr. D. to lay the case as regarded the sexton before the churchwardens, that they might proceed as they thought most proper. He repeated, that in such cases the body ought, he considered, to be stripped, and the clothes carefully ticketed with date when aad where the body was found, the result of the inquest, and other prominent factS. Addressing the prisoner, he then said that circum stances led him to entertain serious suspicions against her. The deceased, it appeared, had considerable property in money, as well as, probably, in luggage. The last person with whom he was seen alive was the prisoner. It appeared he had afterwards been stripped. A plaid cloak and bonnet, worn by the prisoner at the time, and of which she had divested herself, were afterwards found hidden under some rubbish. The evidence was not, however, sufficiently strong to justify her detention, and she was accordingly discharged. Mr. Dowling here intimated to the magistrate that the de ceased's brother wi,bed to say something relative to the state in which he found the body at the burying ground. The brother, a well-dressed, respectable-looking man, said that he found the deceased buried in what he considered a most indecent manner. On being urged to explain, he en tered into some painful particulars, upon which we need not dilate. His dress consisted merely of the shirt, waistcoat, and trowsers, both in great disorder and indecent, and no endeavour had been made even to lay the body straight. He found in the pocket of the vest a collar, marked with the let ter W, which, had proper use been made of it, might have led earlier to his identity. lie added, that he was anxious to inter the body respectably, and wished an order to remove it for that purpose. Mr. Rushton said that lie would not, he apprehended, comply, without the permission of the bishop. tie should, however, make such a representation as might result in the desired object, and he doubted not would prevent a recur rence of such a spoliation of the dead as that which they had just heard. Mr. 'A. Hodgson concurred in Mr. Rushton's views, and the deceased's brother, who was deeply affected throughout, left the court. * We cannot help thinking that the system of burial as here stated (and of whiCh we have before beard), ought to be amended. The poor have their feelings as well as the rich, and there are none more Christian, or more allied to humanity, than of respect for the dead.—Ed. Stand. We understand that Mr. Thesiger has been prevailed on to take the place of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, as leading advo cate of the rights of literature and science in the House of Commons, and that he has for some time been preparing a new bill for the further extension of copyright, which, how ever, will be found extremely different in detail from the sergeant's. It is well known that Sir James Graham took all along a warm interest in the sergeant's measures on this subject ; and there can be no doubt that Mr. Thesiger will have the advantage, not only of the Home Secretary's sup port, but of his preliminary advice and direction. We may, therefore, hope to see the discussion brought to a satisfac tory conclusion in the course of next session. Indeed, Mr. Talfourd's bill would have been carried two years ago but for the dogged pertinacity of Joseph Hume and Mr. War burton, of Bridport celebrity—two ornaments of which Par liament has, for the present at least, got rid.—John Bull. A FRENCH HEROINE.—Jean Louis Vial, a native of La champ Raphael, in the arrondissement of Privas, a deserter from the 53d regiment of the line, was arrested on the 17th ult. by the gendarmerie of Villeneuve de Berg. Marie Vial, his sister, servant in a house in St. Maurice d'lbie, and his younger brother, being informed of the circumstance, de manded and obtained permission to accompany him as far as the prisons of Aubenas, whither he was to be conducted. When arrived at that place, Vial and his brother and sister asked for something to eat and drink. The turnkey supplied them with what they wanted. During his absence Marie hastily stripped herself, and exchanged clothes with the de serter. The critical moment arrived, arid Vial, whom the turnkey took for his sister, went out of the prison with his brother as easily us possible, feigning to dry his tears with his pocket-handkerchief. Marie, in order to give ti me t o her brother to escape, passed 24 hours in confinement with out saying a word. On the guard presenting themselve s t o transfer the deserter to the prison to Privas, she broke silence, and acquainted them with the stratagem she had u se d. Th e gendarmes, grievously disappointed, retired to report the escape of the deserter; and it is hardly necessary to state that Marie was immediately set at liberty. The authorities are still in pursuit of Vial.—French Paper. STATE AND PROSPECTS OF THE COTTON MARKET, The circular of the Cotton Brokers' Association for the year 1841, which is now before us, affords us an opportunity of offering a few remarks upon the present condition and future prospects of this important branch of manufacture. Before entering upon these, however, we shall endeavour to bring before our readers, in a succinct form, the principal facts and figures which that valuable document presents to our notice. The total import of cotton into the United Kingdom during the past year has been 1,341,659 bales, against 1,600,408 imported in 18-10, shewing a decrease in 1811 of 258,740 bales. The stock in the ports on the 31st - Dee. 1849 was 464,G50, and on the 31st Dec. 1841, 539,630 ; being an increase in the stock o❑ hand of 75,610 bales. It is estima ted, however, that, as a set•oil' to this increase of stock in the ports, the quantity at present held by " the trade " is less by 40 or 50,000 bales than at a corresponding period in the past year. The deliveries for consumption have been 1,146,720 bales, or an average of 22,052 bales per week against 24,724 in 1840. This, on the face of it, is a failing off in the consumption of 2i72 bales per week, or 101 per cent. Taking into consideration, however, the diminution above mentioned in the stock held by the trade, the con sumption is estimated to have been 23,000 bales per week, being a decrease of 1724 bales from that of 1840, but an in crease of 2640 bales upon tliat of 1839, which is stated, how ever, in the circular, we submit erroneously, at only 1300. The imports into the port of Liverpool dUring the year 1841 been 1,161,949 against 1,416,2 a considerable decrease port on the 31st Dec. 1811 w 3 in the year preeed The stock on 429,830 bales aj [land in our ainst 366,141 at a corresponding period in 1810, being an increase of 63,689 bales held in Liverpool. The features which have most strongly marked the tran sactions of the cotton-market during the past year have been the gloom and monotony which have pervaded it throughout, and the almost total absence of extensive fluctuation in prices, which, with one or two trifling checks, have kept steadily declining, to the extent of -V. per lb. for " ordinary" Ame rican, and -id. for " middling" and better qualities. Long stapled cotton, of all descriptions, has been of dull sale al most from the beginning of the year to the end, owing, as the circular informs us, to the want of demand for the finer numbers of yarn. Sea Islands, after sustaining a temporary rise in January, owing to reports of a failing crop, declined afterwards to the extent of 441 b. per lb. from their highest point, or nd. in the year; Egyptians have fallen 3d. per lb., and all sorts of Brazil arc lid. per lb. lower, the demand for neither one description nor the other having amounted to " briskness "at any period of the year. In East India cot tons, however, the transactions have been unusually heavy. The imports of Surats, owing to the stoppage of the markets of China and the increased production of the article in India, have exceeded those of last year by upwards of 50,000 bales ; and the consequent reduction in price below their relative value has brought them largely into consumption, the deli veries to the trade during the last five months having ave raged 3,000 bales per week. Upon this statement of the transactions of the year, the writers of the circular remark that " there have been former years where the fluctuations have been more marked and more sudden—when commercial credit has been more se verely shaken, and when the pressure upon classes and upon individuals has been equally and perhaps more intense ;but for magnitude of losses—not in one but in all branches—for depreciation of fixed capital, and for the extent and duration of suffering, there is no parallel to be found. Of the causes of this state of things, that which lies nearest the surface is"—the italics are our own—" the mischievous faci lity for raising money afforded for some time past by joint stock banks, by which mills and machinery to a vast extent have been prematurely called into existence, and the production of every species of manufacture stimulated ix a most extravagant manner. To these causes may be added the financial embarrassments of the United States, the interruption of the China trade, and the long train of evils consequent upon a succession of insuffici ent harvests." So far, the association of cotton brokers, comprising amongst their body the most influential and in telligent portion of the trade, of every shade of party, appear to be agreed ; and we recommend their opinion to the seri ous consideration of the " League" politicians, who so per tinaciously deny that over-production or the misconduct of the joint stock banks, or any thing, in fact, but the want of their own favourite nostrum, have had any part in causing the existing distressed condition of the manufacturers of this district. We feel bound, however, to state, that whilst the associa tion at large appear to agree upon these as the immediate predisposing causes of the peculiar position of the trade which is under their notice, there are individuals amongst their body who lean to the impreSsion that the evils under which they labour are attributable to the " narrow and ex clusive policy" of our commercial tariff; and who look for ward " to our manufactures resuming their wonted activity, and after awhile regaining their lost ascendancy" only from the adoption of a more " liberal" system—from the adop tion, in short, of a system of free trade in grain. Amongst the members of such an association it is natural that there should be a portion entertaining these opinions. But it is gratifying, nevertheless, to observe that a commercial body, so important from the vast and intimate knowledge which they must possess, of the workings of the present system in the cotton manufacturing districts, and of such unimpeacha ble respectability, are prepared, although differing with each other upon the general commercial policy which is best fitted to advance the permanent interests, not only of their own trade, but that of the entire kingdom, to ad m it th e ex i s t ence and the mischievous tendencies of that reckless and unpro vident over-production, fostered by the facilities afforded by joint stock banks, which we have ever maintained as the giant evil which has produced the great bulk of our present commercial suffering. With respect to the prospects of the trade generally for the present year, the association affords us little information, restricting themselves entirely into an expression of opinion with respect to the probable prices of the raw material. These, they anticipate, are not likely to sustain any material advance during the year. From a crop of American last year amounting to 1,635,000 bales, Great Britain received 902,500 bales; and with a crop this year ostini ?act! to be from 1,900.000 to 2,000,000 bales, and a still increased supply of East India cotton, a great quantity of which is known to be already on the way, the supply is conside re d t o b e l arge enough to keep clown any speculative operations for higher prices. Adding to these facts, or rather probabilities, the fact that a stock equal to nearly six months consumption is already in the country, they arrive at the concl us i on th a t th e existing low prices are not only fully justified, but that an apprehension may reasonably be entertained that they will fall even lower still before the close of the year. However desirable it may be that this anticipation should be realized, in part at least, and that the raw material should not be advanced above its just value by speculative operations, as has been too much the case during the past few years, we must confess that we are scarcely assured that such will not be the case during the present year. The stock on hand is certainly large, and the prospect of the next crop very flat tering; but we are satisfied that the ability to consume is also increased, and that a few weeks active operations hi trade will speedily overtake the increased supply. Were this all, how ever, we should not anticipate anything beyond a steady de mand at steady rates ; and this expectation, taking into con sideration the certain prospect of a decreased growth bei ng the result of the unremunerative prices of the past year, there is certainly full warrant for. We have still our fears, how ever, that the spirit of speculation may, on the occasio n of a revival of commercial demand, obtrude itself upon our mar kets fur the raw material, transferring the benefit, to which the home manufacturer is entitled, to the foreign grower ; and knowing, as we do, how vast an amount of our past suf ferings is to be attributed to the effect of the high prices extorted from us for their cotton during our recent years of over production, by the jobbing, kite-flying speculators of the United States, and the small portion of benefit which has come back to us, in those years, in the shape of increased demand for our manufactured pro ducts, we cannot resist the opportunity of cautioning our friends in the cotton-manufacturing districts against being drawn into the encouragement of any materially increased demands upon them for the staple material of their manufacture. " Steady" must be the word for the future, if we do not wish to see another more disastrous return to the state of ruin and suffering out of which we are just emerging. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL A special meeting of the Town-council was held on Satur day, in the Town-hall, for the purpose of making the annual appointments of the several commissioners under certain local acts. There was not a very full attendance of members. In the absence of the mayor, Mr. Alderman Moon was called upon to take the chair. The TOWN-CLERK stated that the first business was " the appointment of three commissioners, under the local act of 1 Victoria, c. 33, for amending an act of 3 William IV., for paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and otherwise improv ing the township or chapelry of Birkenhead, and for regu lating the police thereof." Mr. Thomas Bolton, Mr. James Parker, and Mr. John Nelson Wood were proposed seriatim. Mr. HODGSON moved, as an amendment, that Mr. Alder man Turner be appointed in the place of Mr. Bolton. .. Mr. LLOYD seconded the amendment. On a division, which was taken by all the members stand ing up, the majority appeared to be in favour of Mr. Bolton, and the gentlemen originally proposed were therefore de clared elected. The TOWN-CLERK said, the next business was "the ap pointment of a trustee, under a local act of the 9 George IV., for enabling the trustees of Mrs. Ann Molineux's charities, in Liverpool, to grant building leases, and for better vesting the estates in them, for confirming exchanges, and other pur poses for the benefit of the charites." Under the local act the mayor was a trustee of this charity, but under the mu nicipal act the council were - authorised to choose some mem ber of the council in lieu of the mayor. The course hitherto had been to choose the mayor for the time being, but to do so as an individual member. On the motion of Mr. COOPER, seconded by Mr. HENRY HoLatEs, Mr. John Shaw Leigh was appointed. The TOWN-CLERK stated that the council would next have to appoint three trustees, under the local act of 7 Geo. IV., for establishing Saint James'A Cemetery. Mr. Daniel Mather, Mr. Alexander Smith, jun., and Mr. William Thornhill, the old commissioners, were reappointed. Mr. JOHN SMITH enquired what were the duties of the commissioners ? The TOWN-CLERK replied that their euties were to super intend the cemetery, and to receive the accounts • and he was glad to say that there was, now, the p ros p ec t o f an im mediate dividend upon account. The next' business was the appointment of two members of the council to execute the powers given to the mayor and senior aldermen by the local act of 10 Geo. IV., c. 16, re lating to the School for the Indigent Blind, at Liverpool, and the chapel attached thereto. The towN-crAnK stated that the duties of the two mem bers of the council to be elected would be, conjointly with the two vice-presidents of the institution, to fill up the va cancy in the office of chaplain to the charity, if such vacancy should occur in the ensuing year. Mr. Robert Berta and Mr. Richard Houghton were appointed for the last year. Mr. Richard Houghton and Mr. J. H. Turner were ap pointed. . The TOWN-CLERK stated that the council would also have to appoint 41 members of the council as commissioners to carry into execution the local of 5 Geo. IV. for the better re gulation and encouragement of pilots, for the conducting of ships and vessels into and out of the port of Liverpool, and the appointment of three members of the council as auditors. under the said act. The following gentlemen were appointed commissioners:— Messrs. Griffiths, Harvey, Harbord, Preston, Shaw, James Lawrence, Lloyd, Cooper, Moon, Kilshaw, Barton, Moly neux, Turner, Rigby, Isaac Holmes, Gladstone, Sands, Sand bach, Mather, Holt, Bolton. Mellor, Copeland, Hodgson, Robinson, Bushell, Bulley, Jordan Blundell, Earle, John Holmes, Barclay, T ou lmin, Thornhill, Platt, H. Lawrence, John Smith, G. H. Lawrence, Henry Holmes, Bright, and Priestley. The Mayor, Mr. Alderman Moon, and Mr. Sands wove appointed auditors under the act, The name of .Mr. Slater was proposed as one of the com missioners, but withdrawn on the TOWN-CLERIC stating that, at the monthly council on Wednesday next, he should have to read a communication froth Mr. Slater, stating, that hav ing ceased to be a householder in the borough, he was dis qualified from holding the office of one of the councillors for St. Anne's ward. Mr. Alderman Evans, Mr. Aikin, and Mr. Richd. Hough ton were appointed the three commissioners under the act of 10 Geo. IV., C. 16, for the embankment on the north-west side of the Leasowes, in Wallasey and Great Meols. The business of the council then terminated. SECOND EDITION. 7rd-office, Three o'clock LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,-THIS DAY (From Messrs. R. MAKIN SONS' Circular.) The new year havi commenced with frost and adverse winds, we have, in consequence, to report a very limited supply of either British or foreign Grain fresh in for to-day, except Pease, of which the quantity is again rather large, and of Flour, of which upwards of 17,000 brls have arrived from Canada and the American States ; whence we had a similar mport in the course of 1 ust week, and from the latter country further shipments to some extent are coming forward. The following are the quantities of Grain, Flour, and Oatmeal computed to remain in Liverpool on the 31st cember, 1811 : IN BOND.—Wheat, 45,262 qrs. ; Barley, 5258 qrs. ; Oats, 14,892 qrs. ; Rye, 1757 qrs. ; Beans, 15,575 qrs. ; Pe ; Flour, 26,388 brls. —Wheat, 150,000 qrs ; Barley, 10,000 qrs 5069 qr FREE 25,000 qrs ; R cgs; Flour Beans, 35,000 us ; Pi 13,000 95,000 barrels and 10,000 sacks, and 70,000 Our market to-day opened with an exceedingly dull as pect, and all the leading branches of the trail or less depression. . The millers and dealers continuing to buy with extreme reluctance, scarcely sufficient to serve the wants of the mo ment, holders were induced to submit to a decline of Id to 2d for the best, and 24 to 3d per 701bs. for other descriptions of English, Irish, and foreign free Wheats ; at this reduction, however, sales to a tolerable amount were effected for ship. ment to Ireland, constituting the only transactions in this grain deserving notice. Flour of all sorts, moving off very sparingly, States and Canadian receded 6d per barrel, and English as well as Irish Is per sack below the rates of this day week. quiry, were very difficult of sale, at an abatement of ls. per quarter each Oats and Oatmeal, partaking of the general languor, so conspicuous in other articles of the corn trade, were the turn cheaper ARRIVALS OF CORN, rnber, 1341, to the 3d January, 1841, inclusive, From E. r DESCRIPTION Malt Oats Rye . Beans Qrs.l 4g3 Pease Qrs.l 472 I 2221 651 Shelled Barley Indian Corn . . Rapeseed Qr Oatmeal Pious Ditto 10 172(30 —Wheat Barley, 6 qrs.; Mal Indian Corn :rls.—lreland qrs. • Oat: neal, lo . ; Barley Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise 625 qrs.: Oatmeal, 3463 Ids; Flour, 104 sacks EXPORTS.—Foreign. Whe ors.: Oats Pease, 6_qrs qrs. ; Oat Pease, 157 qrs —Coastwise. Wheat, 264 qr ; Oats, qrs. ; Beans, 316 qr . ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, 75 Ids Plotr, 413 sks, 50 - 2 barrels Average prices of Grain, for the week endinc Dec. 21, 1831. Wheat 625. led. 1 Barley 30s. 2d. I Oats.. 21s. Id. I Rye.. 445. Sc Beans.. 375. Od. I Pease.. ads. Aggregate average of the six weeks. Wheat..G3s. Od. I Barley 31s. tid. Oats..22s. Od. Ryc..433. Od Beans.. 395. Id. I Pease.. 395. 3d. Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week. Wheat23s. Bd. I Barley 15s. 4d. I Oats .. . 13s. 9d. Rye.. ss. O. Beans I Is. Od. Pease .. Ils. od. Ind. Corn Os. Od. I Flour 14s. 2X Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe Wheat od. Barley.. 25. 6d. I Oats .. 2s. od. I 'Rye.... os. 6, Beans.. 3s. I Pease.. 3s. I Indian Corn.. is. od. I Flour.. 3s. Od. Liverpool Averages, week ending Dec, Wheat. Barley. Oats. Qrs l5 315 Prices s4s. 4(1. Os. Ocl. 1 21s. 10d. Os.• Oa. f 0 Beans. Pease LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, 3 P.M The demand for Cotton to-day has been only a moderate one to the extent of 2500 bales at sterday's prices, with a very firm and steady market. " Old Cotton " is becoming scarce, the, bulk of that offering is of the new crop, and by no means in great favour with the generalty of buyers, owing a great measure, to the interior manner it is got up THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS AND MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL RAILWAYS, The Railway Times on Saturday last took the opportu nity, presented by a one-sided report of a meeting of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, to fas'cti a charge of bad faith upon the directors of the Manchester and Liver pool Line, for having declined to enter upon the formation of the proposed junction of the two railways by a line through the town of Manchester. Our contemporary appears quite satisfied that the former company has acted with the most perfect goodfaith throughout the agitation of this junction line ; that they have not sought to trap the Liverpool Com pany by the exhibition of fallacious estimates of traffic, into a hasty adoption of a line through Manchester, which would leave two other undertakings equally important as their own without any junction line with the port of Liverpool, or any chance of ever getting one : and that the conduct of the Li verpool directors has been, on the contrary, flagitious and dishonourable towards their Manchester and Yorkshire friends, who are so anxious to engross the advantages which a direct - connection with their port is likely to afford. We are ourselves by no means so convinced of any of these positions being correct. Nay, we incline to think that the refusal of the Manchester and Liverpool directors to proceed with this erroneous and unadvisable scheme is the next best thing to their having never consented to listen to it, which most assuredly ought to have been their course. Although not ourselves in a position to say to what extent the traffic estimates presented by the Leeds directors to the considera tion of the Liverpool and Manchester board were exaggera ted and fallacious, we can readily believe that they were so from the unfair spirit, evinced at this meeting, in which the very name of one company, which possesses important claims to consideration in the settlement of this matter, is not even mentioned as worthy of the notice of the Leeds gentlemen, and the question as to the choice between the two competing junction lines is stated as one between themselves and the Manchester and Bir mingham Company only. We have reason to know that it is not viewed in this light by the directors of the Liver pool line. Their object is to do justice to all, and in doing so, to embrace the only means of doing justice to themselves. They have no unworthy jealousy—like that evinced by the Leeds people—to induce them to forget the very existence of a line so important in its future connexion with the port of Liverpool as that in comae of formation between Man chester and Sheffield. And although by the pertinacity with which this selfish scheme was urged upon them by the Leeds Company, in their anxiety to forestal the object of their jea lousy, they were induced to enter so far into it as to join in the measures requisite for procuring an act of parliament, we can see no moral or just blame which can attach to them for having retraced their steps so soon as they had discovered the deceptive and unfair means by which they had been hur ried so far into a wrongful and unprofitable course. With a full knowledge of the locality, of the conflicting plans themselves, and of the feeling of the people of Man chester respecting their comparative merits and convexience, we can unhesitatingly say that public justice will not be sa tisfied by the formation of the proposed junction line with the Leeds railway only. That the line to communicate with the Manchester and Birmingham will cost one-half of what it is estimated to cost by the Leeds directors, we do not be lieve ; nay, we know that it has been estimated, by two com petent engineers, to cost not more than a third of the sum put down for it in the one-sided statements of the Leeds and Manchester meeting. The property which it runs through is of the most worthless description, the works required com paratively inexpensive, and the advantages which it affords to the Liverpool company, when compared with those af forded by the other line, as furnishing a communication with the centre of the town of Manchester, and with three rail ways instead of one, are such as fully warrant the Liverpool Company in looking forward to that as a line to be formed a year or two hence, rather than to rush into the formation of, confessedly, a very expensive junction with the Leeds alone, with the certainty before them of another line having ulti mately to be made. We believe that these are the considerations by which the Liverpool and Manchester board are actuated in the course which they are adopting in this much mooted matter. We think that they are proper and just considerations, and we know that they will not be driven from them by all the at tacks which their detractors may be inclined to make upon them. We submit, too, that they ought nut to be so driven, and especially at such a time as the present, and by such a company as the Manchester and Leeds, which, however mag nificent in its promise, has not shewn such abundant realiza tion in performance, thus far, as to warrant the directors of any public undertaking in seeking an exclusive alliance with it, to the neglect of other less imposing, more humble, but perhaps equally valuable connexions. LONDON MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTEL- LIGENCE SATURDAY EvENiNes.—The funds have been steady all day, but with little business doing, the jobbers being chiefly holiday making. Consols were 89a to 4 for the opening. Exchequer bills 14s. to 16s. premium. Bank stock 166 to 7. In foreign securities there is little change to remark ex cepting in Mexican, which continued to advance, and at the close of business were 291 to being a rise of about 1 per cent. on the last quotations of yesterday. Colombian were 22k to Brazilian 64 to 5. Dutch two-and-a-half per cents. 50k to 1k ex dividend, the five per cents. 100 to 2. Spanish active with the coupons 25 to -a-. Portuguese five per cents. 33k to 4, the three per cents. 20k to I. This year closes with a few good wishes from the mercan tile Community, though, after all, perhaps there have been many worse. It is certain that we have the elements for a better trade in store, for with increased imports of many im portant articles, the consumption has also been augmented to such a point as to leave the stocks on hand generally below what they were this time in 1841. The prices realized, we need hardly state, have generally been lower, and this it is which accounts for the depressed state of our mercantile in terests, in the face of an apparent increase of business. Tea and tallow were quiet to-day. OXFORD POETRY PROFESSORSHIP.—MP. Com mittee have proposed to withdraw both the present candi dates from the contest; but the principal and fellows of Brasenose College have refused , to withdraw the name of Mr. Garbett. A . FIENDISH ACT.—Late on Tuesday night some wretch placed a number of large stones on the Great Western rails, between Box and Bath, just before the approach of the mail train. Fortunately the guard iron of the train (which was bent completely double) in some measure cleared th e l arg e stones, and the wheels crushing others, no injury was sustained. The prospects for our West India colonies, as we are in formed upon very good authority, are at present rather satisfactory, the crops being likely to yield more than for s ome years past. If such be the fact, and our information is derived from a party who has been many years in the trade, we may anticipate better tithes for our West India posses sions.—Courier. SIR,- CORRESPONDENC POPISH SCHOOLS AT PRESCOT TOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARL The wily artifices of the Church motion at this time in our neighbourhood, in an appeal by circular to Protestants for assistance to build schools. The Circular" is from the Rev. John llolden, Roman Catho nf. " Portico," a Popish chapel in the immediate The following is an extract from it :- -y hundreds of poor chil vicinity of this town " In the town of Prescot are rr dren, chiely of Irish parents mentable ignorance and depra , _ the blessing of education. To en schools, and apply a remedy to this evil up in the must I manners, for want of e the paEtor to build tion is humbly solicited from his friends and the public ge nerally. Not only Catholics, but Protestants of every de nomination, are confidently appealed t o ; f or i n these esta . and design shall be, to teach the rising )od Christians and good subjects ; and no blishmel ;eneration to be compulsion shall be offered in matters of religion And why should not the bond of charity, one of the unequivocal uurks of the true disciples of Christ, unite us all in that grand work of breaking the spiritual bread to little ones, who have asked for bread, and there has been no one to break it to them? Will a Christian, whether Protestant or Catholic, who, having the substance of this world. and seeing his brother in need,' refuse his contribution, and shut up his bowels against him,' on the score of a difference in his reli gious creed ? God forbid." Can anything, Mr. Editor, be more jesuitical than the appeal from a in ber of that church, which obl functionaries to profess and teach, amongst : the creed of the Council of Trent is the Catholicam fidem extra quarn . nemo salvt a church which has deluied the Continent Witt [iich church the emphatic language of ritten t .rful accusation of hav- ing in her " the blood of the prophets and saints, and of all that were slain on the earth, '—a church which urged her blind devotees, on the Feast of St. Bartho- to murder in cold blood forty thou sand unoffending Protestants, and afterwards rejoiced over their destruction by a solemn procession to St. Peter's at Rome, chaunting " Te Deem laudamus,"—a church that further commemorated that sad event, by striking medals representing the slaughter, and that now, after the lapse of twn centuries_ (tn thew that the line inct not n of her " charity" towards Protestants,) rakes up the memory of the fearful massacre., by recently striking fresh ones,—a church that holds it lawful to break faith with Protestants. and to put them to death,—a church whose " charity " caused the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, where those falsely called heretics were consigned to the tender mercies of the civil power, alias the executioner,—a church which arrogantly tramples on the laws of the Most High, in " bowing down to graven images, and " beguiling men of their ►eward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of —a church that most uncharitably denies life eter inding the declaration of , 00li of life 'ere found hi her; which c sys she is t Christ, and yet i I,—a churh which most abject thraldo►n its mistaken followers ; and, under the pretence of assisting its priesthood in the confessional, pours into the ears of its fair penitents the " leprous distil ment " of Dens's Theolog3 Oh, yes! " The Circular says that " not only confidently appealed to and no doubt but Protestant the appeal is made with no less confidence, from similar ap peals having been' too frequently responded to by unwary Protestants elsewhere ; for it is a fact, no less authentic than :Bth Decer disgraceful, that considerable sums of money are obtained by the Roman Catholics in this way, from persons bearing the lame of Protestant And why cannot Protestants, consistently with the prin their religion, give money towards the erection of ciples of Popish Schools ? For this plain reason, because the very name of Protestant means one who protests against the errors of Popery; which errors will assuredly be propagated by the Jesuits in those schools, when they are teaching the scholars, as " The Circular" has it, to be " good Christians.' Another reason why Protest cannot give, is, that Po ; therefore Protestants, in as- and are not confirmed in their errors, ,e children of unwary Pro: but assisting to turn to P( testants also. And besides all this, the peck Roinish faith, viz., transubstantiation, penance, extreme unction, and other the false doctrines brought in by that church, we, as Protestants, renounce and abhor ,d surely we cannot be deemed illiberal because w the interests of that religion which we professedly protest .uple to promot against But would it not be an act of Christian charity to give to them 1 To give to the poor Romanist who should be in need or of clothing, it would ; but misname it not charit poisoning with false doctrine, not only his own soul, but in offering the deadly draught to all around him. Moreover, if Protestants are anxious to support an undertaking of this sort, and Protestant in its nature, there are numbers of children, now neglected and uninstructed, list him who have surely a claim upon thei • to schools whose principles are to he professedly Papistical. If the Romanists desire to make the experiment, it should Protestants may rest assured, they cannot promote God's glory by advancing the cause of their own expen an erroneous faith ; and if they 1 . certainly be much bett money to give, it id out on a truly Scriptural School, schools in which it may t though there is to be "no compulsion," I mit a Protestant boy to read his bible ! Charity rejoic _ , then, with i contributing to the building of Popish t Protestant par au soweth ts, consistently with th of their religion, send their Because Papists still both hold and t Ifildrento Popi lie children.of Protestants, dying here tics, cannot be saved ; that is, that all who die Protestants ire everlastingly damned. But their saying this gives them _ over us ; it only proves their own presumption and uncharitableness. ch. the in- .ee, that no advant But there is another reason why Protestant parents cannot consistently send their children there ; viz., because, as has been before remarked, " The Circular" states that the end and design of their teaching shall be to make the scholars good Christian, which, according to Popish interpretation, signifies rank Papists. Let Protestants, so unfortunately inclined, (if any such there be,) open their Bibles and read in the Ist Timothy, 6th chapter, 3d and sth verses, where the word of God says, " if any man TEAM OTHERWISL, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to god liness :—from such withdraw thyself." Nothing can be plainer than this passage of Scripture, as applying both to Protestant parents and to those individuals who have received circulars ; and it is to be hoped they will act accordingly. lours, &c.. A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Prescot,sd January, 1842. CORN I LAWS TO TH . lITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Stif f —Some of the provincial papers, which have been good enough to attach some importance to my letter to Sir Robert Peel on the corn-laws, have yet hinted that a part of the plan contained in it was borrowed from Mr. Christo pher, or some other source. In reply, it is only necessary to state that the original of the printed letter was sent to Sir Robert Peel on the 13th of November, and answered by him on the 19th of that month. Mr. Christopher's speech pro pounding his scheme was addressed to_ his constituents on the 17th of December. lam not aware that any portion of the plan referred to had been by any one suggested or enter- iged by your inserting this in your nex I am, Sir, your most obedient si W. JACKSON ana opportunlly, give consecutively a reply to every argument in them. hearers will thus have an opportunity of seeing that the pi culiar doctrines of Romanism have no foundation in the holy word of God. I have only to request that you will favour me with a no tice of the exact/time and place of your lectures. 'I Upon another occasion 1 shall examine thh other state ments of your letter. Permit me, before I conclude, to ask why you have t I Boiler? They are Romanist. Why upon the worship Rotmsh doctrines " He that doeth e t perso Ali, sir my other questions to Dr. :hey concern you and every an ominous r the dead, cursin tion, and other .nishes the answer— T cometh t that I have writt iwithout any personal teem., in the earnest prayer that God may, _ from the misery of the eternal condemnation of those who If I had the opportunity, I would while I hate your errors, I love your ‘trvant in Christ. ur mere deliver yoil are teachers of error gladly show you that, person.—l remain, sir, your faithful JOSEPH BAYLEE Parkjield, Bi r k en h ea d , January 2d, 18-12. TO THE CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS OF LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL. ained previously I shall feel of paper, and Liverpool, 3d January, 1842 ROMISH CONTROVERSY Sla,—When you addressed a letter to me I had hoped that it would have been confined to the great question of the truth or falsehood of Itomish principles, and that you would not have thought it right to slander an opponent in order to neutralise his testimony to truth. I regret to find myself disappointed. Having failed in argument, you endeavour to damage my character with your poor deluded people by asserting, that I "go about from house to house, persuading masters and mistresses to turn off their [Roman] Catholic servants." Such a charge, Sir, is utterly untrue : no per sons are better aware of my kindness of feeling towards Romanists than the destitute members of your congregation. It gives me unfeigned pleasure to feed them in want, and to visit them in sickness ; and many amongst them can bear witness that my own hands have ministered to the necessities of my bitterest opponents Hay g now disposed of your personality, I proceed to examine your statement respecting the confessional. You assert, that my "remarks regarding the sacred tribunal of confessional are a blasphemous calumny." Ah ! Sir, have you no fear of Him who has said, " He that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight." Full well you know that it is no calumny. I can produce a Romish prayer-book teaching, that to conceal from a confessor, " THROUGH MODESTY, " a " certain lonely sin," is to be guilty of sacrilege! an produce, from a volume - of lionaisli theology closely printed pages of MOST OBSCENE QUESTIONS TO BE PUT TO FEMALES IN CONFESSION. I ca❑ prove, from Romish books of devotion, that every priest is bound to put these questions, ESPECIALLY TO YOUNG WOMEN OF GOOD EDUCATION. Nay, more ; I have obtained the acknow ledgment of various .Romanists, that priests do put such questions to young women. It is, Sir, a horrifying truth, thst Romanism constrains young women, constrains wives, daughters, and sisters to be shut up alone with an unmarried priest, and to converse unreservedly with him in a manner that could not be exceeded by the most infamous den of This, Sir, is strong language. I write strongly because I feel strongly. I am thoroughly persuaded, that if your church's authorised works on confession were printed in plain English, and read by the Romish laity, that they would look upon a Romish priest with abhorrence, as bound by his vows to pollute the imagination and the morals of the female members of their families. 1 do not charge you with being guilty of all this ; but this that :La t), tooth al . with his religious principles, he is th e corrupter of female ITarvt'in'''sei;e-d—th-e-t-oolli---(l'dn-l-tohlear or ia , wrench (, purity, and that a Romish female has no alternative between forceps, purposely prolonged his visit, in violating her religion or surrendering her modesty. with Dr. Engledue, prior The matter may he easily put to the test. Questions thoroughly the insensibility had been - ex r a symptom of sat, which are put in private to females are surely fit to be read the tooth. Not a pang patient o to her natural state . in public before men. I make, then, this offer. If you short time I restored the being assemble in your school-room 100 Roman Catholic fathers, usual manner. Upon 4 Did I feel it ?'' a siroml .. brothers, and husbands, I undertake to produce your Stan- tracted, she exclaimed,_r. otofldthiteh Mr. Martin then proceeded to' dard theologians who have written upon confession. Would to a dentist's ears: d suggested the removal of exammh you venture to read in plain English the passages which I her mouth, ananother too o t hi n gly consented, and sat am prepared to produce? No, Sir, you would not. Full The patient again. In one la I again entranced her, and well you know, that the execration of an indignant and too- minute and a she . ecame, o . insensible as before. The tooth, being confiding people would be the result. I must again say, I course, insel'of decay, was crushed 'eing in an ad make no personal charge. For your own sake, as well as for vanced sta,,under the instrument, remnants were with much trouble society's, I hope you do not obey the abominable commands arid the extracted. During . this trying of your church. the whole of .operation, not a groan or complaint the patient. Shortly afterwards I again restored , So much for " the sacred (!) tribunal of the confessional." escap ed upon which , she turned to the Your . next charge is rather a singular one :—Mr. Bavlec isglass to ascertain whether or silo had really lost the a " man who can one day challenge to disputation a doctor not second tooth ! It would be 'to determine which diffi of divinity, and another enter into disputation with a poor , cult Party evinced the greater degree of delight and astonishment gingerbread vender on the pier-head in Liverpool." T'o thattu and most astounding, —the one having witnessed a novel charge I plead guilty. lam in the habit of endeavouring , phenomenon ; the other having been as unconsciously, enlighten the minds, and remove the errors, of Cher po e me almost magically, freed from her tormentors." well as the rich. Whether the opportunity be affde .w l e... SINGULAR A T - T .,. --- .-.NIPT AT HIGHWAY ROBBERY. on the pier -head of Liverpool" or in the sumpti!oua q eee l i l s Sunday night last, as Mr. Richard Nicholson, woolsorter, ing, I hope I shall always be ready to direct cords,perishing s gh-street con- • Bradford, was returning from Bingley, he was to the Saviour, and to warn them that rings andd netsave t ,__ accosted by a man about half a mile from the village, who fessionals and absolutions, and such like, cannot save "" inquired how far he was going, and he told him to Bradford; soul, but must utterly ruin those who trust i New Testament. Have he replied that he was going thither himself, and would, if he But, sir, have you ever read the our one day disputing pleased, bear him company. Nicholson agreed to this, and you ever read that our blessed h r i beside a public well, dis- they walked on very comfortably till they came to Cottingley with the chief priests, and anot with , a poor woman of aban_ Bridge; the polite stranger then abruptly said, " I believe puting about spiritual religion Boned character? _ May his heavenly grace teach you t 0 go I could thr ow y ou over thi s b r id ge. " Ni c h o l son repl i ed t h at and do likewise! he thought he cou ld no t, b u t th e man st ill pers i sted t h at h e 1 now sir come to your i , , rromise which I earnestly hope eould, and having arrived at the extremity of the bridge, he ' You say, ' For my part, I shall pro you will not retract.. made a sudden attempt to p 1, ; ut ..m on the top of the battle lectures next bahly give a coui se of who merit. At this instant another man ran up, and they pro, learn the ground please may upon which every dogma of the ' h seeded to rifle his pockets. It being m oo nli g ht, Nicholson .[Roman] Catholic faith is founded." Permit me to add to, thought he saw somebody approaching; ail& he bawled oi . ltits that a promise from me :—lf it please God to spare me he a lth lustily as he could, and two lads coming up, the doves-ran away disappointed of their booty,--Lfee/WWoimer• ' terinz ! In -1i Teeting GENTLE 'resumed, al- unanimou which the Chuich of 1 th the holy Ecr 1. Every prie Vulgate them creed, cl inter ; to the upon a conscientious man. reserved in coniwuni sting scrip- that he must confine I if i 0 the ancient ;oleninly pledge asent of the Fatl: 'The effect of such a must be to make him ye tural kno points on which the fathers were unanimous, which their unanimous consent has been ha►. their posterity. It requires but a very slight acquaintance with patristic lore, to perceive th►►t such point. --- - indeed any such exist at all, and that come tion as a Itomish priest, so pledged, is co refrain fro m mscriptural ins tr tier = id concerning ►ded down to ecclesiastical matters. 2. It is worthy of remark, that R went no Bible which she can use nv .re few, if 3 . tly in props ring a sentence of excommunicati Her standard is the Latin Vulgate, her last modern translations have been r the Latin and 11 ' tioned or r rem one of her Pones w, which h at all. But two principal editions of the Vulgate tus V., and Pope Clement Vlll. 'I in 1590. After Pope Sixtus had co cripts and best printed copies learned nien Lt of all the and presided over the who dared to be corrected in th published with an authori person who should presum very best, r particle of the edition thus authen nose of Pope S. Christian its edition R er possible, and Holiness, sitting in that chair, " in quii Petri vivit poteso et excellit auctordas." The other edition was publi4 , - 1592, by Pope Clement VIII. It was so differez. of Sixtus, as to contain two thousand variations, so,._ whole verses, and many others clearly and designedly con- tradictory in sense : and yet this edition also is pronounced authentic, and enforced with the same sP”-- munication as the former met: of excom- Where then is the Bible approved ~. The Sixtine is condemned by the Holy S. version differing in the smallest particular from the Sixtir,y, (and therefore, of course, the Clementine amongst the rest) is condemned by the Holy See in 1599. Be it observed, therefore, that Romanism has no Bible which she can use, without incurring a sentence of excommunication from one of her popes. by the Holy See ? ce, in 1592. Any In defiance, however, of the sent le Romanists, finding it impossible wholly to suppress the Bible, have ce of Pope Reformation, slations from the Clementine edition of ti. None of these have ever been circulated without notes, though the notes have varied under varying circumstances. The English version is that which was made—the Old Testa ment including the Apocryphal books, at Douay—the New Testament at Rheims ; and which is now commonly called the Douay version. It was conducted under the superin tendence of one Thomas Worthington, and the notorious Dr. William Allen, who was obliged to fly from this country on account of his treasonable practices against of Queen Elizabeth. H e afterwards exert to stop the Reformation in England, protestants. The pupils iu the collt ;overnment rticularly by dividing _le following is a copy : • I, A B do acknowledge the ecclesiastical and political power of his Holiness and the mother church of Rome, as the chief head and matron above all pretended churches through the whole earth : and that my zeal shall be for St. Peter and his successor, as the founder of the true and anci faith, against all heretical kings, princes, star repugnant to the same. And, although I, A B in case of persecution, or otherwise, to be beret, posed, yet in soul and conscience, I shall keep, aid, and suc cour the mother church."—Stupe a Annals, ii. pant 9 C 1.17 ent catholic The original notes v y pretend dis- Is intolerant in roneous in theology. Fora time they escaped pt notice in this country, their intolerance being rendered harm less by the laws then in existence, for the protection of the state against papal But w} pproved" by Dr. Troy, the Roman Catholic Archbishop in Dublin, attracted no small degree of Intense .evised • and a attention It met with a severe cast on in tl: Critic (N. iii. pp. 296-308. Public indignation was raised in England, damage done to the emancipation cause; and then Dr. Troy fished a disclaimer of the intolerant notes. Subsequen tions, for use in this country have been expurgated in a great degree. Still the notes are highly offensive, as embodying all the anti-scriptural novelties of popish doctrine. Pray have patience to read a few specimens. Refer to the following texts—St. Matt. iii. 2, and xii. 32, and xxvi. 26; Gal. ii. 11 ; James v. 14 and 16; and 2 Mac cabees xii. 46 ;—and you will find notes maintaining in plain terms the doctrines of punishing past sins by fastin gatory— transubstantiation— Peter's upremacy - unction auricular confession priestly absolution—and praying for the dead. _ _ _ _ Surely, gentlemen, you will not be induced by the solemn, but in this instance misplaced, plea of justice, to sanction by your authority the teaching of such a compilation as this to any of the children of our poor neighbours. Is it not wrong to teach falsehood? Do you not know it to be so? And bow can it be just in you to do what you rong? How can it be just in you to yield your know to own convictions to other i's prejudices 1 right in you to exercise the thority urely it is just an! 1 are providentially inve s t e d, in doin g what you know and feel to be right. If this interfere with the conscientious scruples of others, you may and will regret it as men of kindness ; but you cannot yield to it as men of with which The government, like the painte, , erybody, will end by pleasing nobody who attempts to plea nd ruining itse Carry out then, in this inatter - of education , your own con victions as in ie presence of the searcher of all hearts, and so do the best for your country upon the whole that you can do. Other men ashen in power may honestly act otherwise, but you cannot. The town confiding in this principle have placed you in power, and if you act upon it they will keep you there. But should it be otherwise, surely it is better to lose you places for acting conscientiously, than to retain them season by consenting to propagate what you yourselves believe to he falsehood. The decline and fall of the late government stands as beacon before you. Had they acted conscientiously as whig they might, indeed, in due course have given way before small tory majority; bnt when they violated their own co victions in compliance with their Popish advisers, ar , '' plea of justice to Ireland, under the rising indignation of they sunk to a anted community I have the honour to Your faithful servant, FIDUS ACHATE It is reported that Sir Charles Wetherell. the learne respected recorder of Bristol, is about to resign that of THE EXPLOSION BY GUNPOWDER.—TWO other st,.. from this calamity have expired one of them, Henry Nl' the blacksmith, has, after two days of excruciati n g torture, sunk under his wounds. On Wednesday, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, is case appeared to be not one of absolute danger, and hopes were even entertained of his recovery ;but soon after that time he got rapidly worse, and died about six o'clock on that evening. Another sufferer, G eo rge Collins, died et the Infirmary yesterday, and an inquest was held, when the same evidence was given, and the like verdict was returned The deceased was burnt about the hands and feet ; he ha also a wound in the head, and a severe contusion of the thigh, with a large lacerated wound in the left ham. poor man had been doing,well until Wednesday night, he complained of great i ncrease o f p a in in the left which continued to progress to a most diEf until' 12 o'clock on Thursday night, at which u._ terminated his dreaiful sufferings. The lower half pat, the body is one black mass of mortification. —Bristol Journal of Saturday. sstng iegree, death MESMERISM NOT WHOLLY USELESS.—The followng de scription of a case, in which it would appear that the state of insensibility into which the adepts in this much-controverted science profess to throw their patients, has been turned to useful account, has been addressed by Mr. Gardiner, of Roche Court, Hants, to the editor o fthe Hampshire Stan dard. We make no comment on the circumstances, but con tent ourselves with transcribing what the writer declares to: te,s4be a simple narrative of facts :—" Having bee n intert9y, in the course of certain mesmeric experitnents by a _ v ioienr, toothache in one of the patients (whom I had exhibite d to Drs. Elliotson and Engledue), it occurred to me that th e in sensibility which is an invariable concomitant of the true sleep-walking state would afford me an admirable opportu nity of benefiting the sufferer, and of extending the applica tion of mesmerism. My friend Dr. Engledue obtained thy assistance of Mr. Martin, a gentlemen who knew little at' believed less about mesmerism, and who decidedly qui tioned the practicability of the proposed operation. came. In two minutes the pat i en t (a young lady) v . - --..reet mesmeric trance. and therefore insensible, --mr tooth) v.