The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-06 00:00:00

pon the that . 3 of ,fla s to :ets• Old jes e rica and the own heal not ttish oust [ poll ; Of oral u gh Au ld rive Lion id a Wl' ing• of A valuable home trade—the consumption, at good prices, of fully matured articles of manufacture. He exchanges consumers of his best silks, woollens, mils &c., at home, for consumers, in Europe, of yarns, twist, and other half manufactured articles. And, with respect to America, we must bear this in mind ;--if she cannot, profitably to her farmers, supply us with corn, and compete with the European grower, she can not pay us, any more than at present, for the goods we send her. In her case, therefore, the manufacturer ex changes a large, and well paid for, home consumption, for the same worthless paper money, or insolvent se curities, with which Great Britain has for years past been deluged. Upon this part of the subject—the limitation of the consuming power of the British agriculturist, which We regard as the necessary consequence of the transfer of our custom from him to the foreign grower—we do not here purpose remarking at length. The Journal • leaves it altogether unnoticed; but we may suggest to him that it is well worth consideration, and, perhaps, he will furnish us with his views upon it in his next publication. We are unable to-day to enter upon an examination of our contemporary's explanation of the second branch of the subject—the probable extent of our exchange of goods for corn—without exceeding the space at present at our disposal. Our own views with respect to it, may, however, be gathered from the above remarks ; and we shall on Friday consider those of the Journal. Our third question—the effect intended to be Produced on wages—is thus noticed,— " We could answer this question with more precision if the datum was complete, and we .were told when the new state of things was to take place. By a perseverance in our Present policy of asking to sell and refusing to be paid, the country may get into so hopeless a state, that not even free trade can revivify it. But we certainly think that, if the change take place within any reasonable time, it will, per se, tend greatly to increase wages ; for this plain reason, that profits and the demand for labour will be increased by the demand for goods fer export. In addition to the home mar ket, there will be the enlarged foreign one. The manufac turer will buy all that the home agriculturist can produce, and as much more as he can consume. The latter will re ceive as much as the foreigner, and will have the additional Profit of freight and transport, and instead of alternate scar cities and gluts, as at present, he must have sold, or be likely to sell, all he has at a fair price, before any reasonable man Would think of importing any thing from abroad." .\'ow, we must here express our candid opinion, that the thinking man who thus tell us,. that reduced wages Will not accompany a reduction of the price of food, is not a candid man. It is just possible, too, that he may, in telling us so, not be very consistent with himself. For what, above all others, has ever been the most pro minent complaint of the free traders ? "We cannot compete with the foreign manufacturer." And why Cannot they so compete ? " Because the foreign ma nufacturer has cheaper food." Cheapness of produc tion has been held up as the great desideratum, by the enjoyment of which, the manufacturer would be enabled to engross the commerce of the world ; and Cheapness of labour is a principal ingredient in cheap ness of production. Does the Journal admit this ? Can he point out any other source by which the manu facturer can materially cheapen his goods ? We think he cannot; and we ask him to reconcile his present disclaimer of any intention to effect a reduction in the price of labour with the following passage in an article of his own, one week only previous to such dis claimer : "That the commerce of the Chinese empire will, in pro cess of time, grow up to be one of the greatest value to us, we do not doubt, but this will depend very largely on our Pursuing such a policy as will enable us to meet foreign rivals in neutral markets." " Such a policy as will enable us to meet foreign rivals in neutral markets"—in the Chinese markets for in- stahce. And how are we, by the mere possession of cheap corn to meet foreign rivals in neutral markets, unless CHEAP CORN means CHEAP PRODUCTION by means of CHEAP LABOUR? The Journal may depend upon it that he throws away the most powerful instru ment for effecting an enlargement of our foreign com merce, when he seeks to hoodwink the working classes With respect to the connection between cheap bread and cheap labour ! We noticed, some weeks ago, the management of our Police -court, with reference, more particularly, to Mr. Commissioner Dowling. Our remarks, we have reason to believe, have had a salutary effect, inas much as that gentleman appears to have abandoned that uncalled for interference in the interrogation of Witnesses, and that attempted display of forensic eloquence, which—the business of the court being but preliminary and ex parte—was, we conceive, (if not in statutary law, at least in constitutional observance,) inconsistent with his character as public prosecutor, — and had consequently roused the attention, and pro voked the reprehension, of even casual visiters to that tribunal, who regard with jealous eyes every innovation Upon the considerate and humane principles of our criminal code. Our opinions on the subject have been generally admitted to be correct; and, as they have not been officially impugned, we may fairly assume that we have, in this, "hit the right nail on the head." Having thus disposed of that gentleman, and hoping long to see him occupying the onerous station which he now holds, or to learn of his judicial advancement to the bench in some one of our colonies—to which he Probably aspires, and for which his experience and his talents as a linguist eminently qualify him—we now, in pursuance of our promise, proceed, with equal im- Partiality, to notice, what we consider to be, certain imperfections in the conduct of his superior—the Stipendiary Magistrate. Mr. Rushton commenced the study of the law at a pretty advanced period in life, under, we believe, in the first instance, the patronage of a distinguished statesman, whose premature and lamented death de prived him of that stay. He had previously enter tained extreme Radical opinions, which he was wont to promulgate at public meetings and debating societies, With, as we think, more energy than discretion. The bar, like the senate, is, however, a trying ordeal for the unpracticed ; and what might pass for eloquence and sound judgment in a provincial spouting club, is often found to produce but a lame impression in an assembly Where talent is of a higher and more diversified charac ter. Though he was not deficient in natural talent, Mr. Rushton's debut at the bar somewhat disappointed the perhaps unreasonable expectations of those who admired him as a declaimer ; and it became evident that he could arrive at eminence, as an advocate, only by laborious study of the law—to which his tempera ment was averse—and by prolonged practice. He was fortunate in obtaining lucrative employment, for a time, under the Whig-Radicals, as a revising barrister, and also as counsel on parliamentary committees, in Which last he evinced, we believe, considerable tact. When these sources of emolument died away, and his Practice in the courts—in which there were more cats than mice to be caught—rather hung fine, he was still More fortunate in obtaining his present appointment, as successor to Mr. Hall. Although he cannot yet be deemed a profound lawyer, he has (as we have be fore admitted) achieved much improvement ; and Whatever be his political creed, we have not observed, Or heard it imputed to him, that he suffers it to influ ence him in the discharge of his duties. We believe, moreover, that he has done the town some service in furthering the amendment, by Parliament, of some salutary local acts, and the passing of one or two others of a recent date. Mr. Rushton's besetting sin is his frequently allow ing his temper, naturally none of the best, to overcome his discretion. He is apt to indulge in exhibitions closely approximating, if not . reaching, to anger—which I t Would be well to restrain, as such displays are not ° III) , peculiarly unbecoming from the bench, where all should be mildness, but are contrary to his own in junctions to others, who, in the excitement of the moment, as witnesses or defendants, and therefore the ore excusably, may be betrayed into a similar tone. This was palpably evinced in the late squabble (for W hat else can we call it ?) between him and Mr. D owling, whom he rebuked, in the onset, for the very fa iling which, almost in the same breath, he himself ex emplified in a still more painful degree. Mr. I t tusliton is also frequently too hasty, and consequently tOO harsh in his decisions. There is, we admit, amidst sub a multiplicity of business, a necessity for vigour and promptitude ; but care should be taken that the e xercise of these qualities should not preclude that Pre cision and discrimination which are due to the veriest culprit at the bar, as well as to minor offenders — hats in fact, circumstances involving mere suspicion 4110114 1 not be precipitantly magnified into realities. In summary jurisdiction tblefis especially to be avoided, ' even at the expense of p*nging, for an additional hour or two, the business 'Mille day. We allude more particularly to cases of ass;Sult and informations. One magistrate may be much more apt than another in sifting and weighing thd„evidence adduced, and coin prehending it in its several bearings ; but when a case assumes an intricate and uncertain character, it is a dangerous vanity in any man, assuming the possession of superior and unerring accuracy, to indulge in that off-hand and extemporaneous adjudication which sud denly arrives at a conviction for which it is difficult for those gifted with only ordinary perception to account for. The inzprovisatore in the world of law is fre quently, indeed, as unhappy as that in the world of letters ; but we are bound to state, that when our Sti pendiary finds he has been led into a mistake, there is no man more prompt in withdrawing the opinion he had founded upon it. Mr. Rushton, too, in his zeal for the support of the constabulary force, is too prone to give implicit cre dence to the testimony of police officers, in preference, frequently, to that of persons of a superior station in life, and generally of equal, if not of higher character. We by no means impugn the general conduct of the police force, en masse. On the whole, they are an orderly and well-disciplined body of men—thanks to the unwearied exertions of our excellent chief con stable, and the scrutiny and vigilance of our Watch Committee. Still they are but men, and there are circumstances and temptations by which they are beset, that render them somewhat obnoxious to dis trust in the public mind, in which their morale does not stand quite so high as in the estimation of Mr. Rushton. The force is large, and must be kept up numerically by men of the standard physical powers, who must also be able to read and write; and their pay (18s. a-week, exclusive of a deduction for clothing) is scarcely a sufficient inducement to men of character and activity to join them—considering their long hours of duty—until other trades have failed. We wish that more could be afforded, so that the whole might be elevated in the scale of respectability. As it is, there must necessarily be black sheep amongst so large a flock. 'I his is, indeed, shewn by the fact that — notwithstanding all the protection that is hedged around them, and the esprit-de-corps with which they bolster up and defend each other in cases of complaint —dismissals from the service are of frequent, though of reluctant occurrence. If a complaint be made against an officer, every one must have remarked the pains taken in questioning and cross-questioning the witnesses for the complainant; and we cannot but think that the slightest discrepancy is too eagerly seized upon to justify, if possible, an acquittal of the accused. It is no easy matter to procure a conviction in such a case; but if the parties stand in reverse position, we do not observe the same anxiety in behalf of the de fendant, or the same caution in appropriating the evidence against him. We are willing to believe that the fault arises from a mistaken notion of the imma culacy of the one party, and an undue suspicion of the other. In the cases of publicans, evidence of too slight and loose a character is generally sufficient to ensure a conviction ; and the new local act affecting them is carried out with a rigour that resembles a ban proclaimed against the trade. It is notorious that police-officers have their favourites, and, like other individuals in this wicked world, may be conciliated to forbearance towards some, and provoked to hostility by the neglect or independence of others whose houses are equally well conducted. There is, too, an evident determination in some of these men to clench to the very letter the testimony of the others who were with them ; and the accusation of drunkenness, or the admission of sobriety, (when inebriation would operate in exculpation) appears to be stereotyped on their tongues. The conduct of some of them, too, when they are beyond the surveillance of their inspectors, is not unfrequently insolent and tyrannous. We notice these evils as the exceptions ; but operate on the pub lic mind to the demerit of the force generally, there is the greater necessity for caution on the part of the magistrates before whom they appear. Another defect in Mr. Rushton's administration is, s permitting constables who appear as witnesses particularly on informations) to come in with after claps of evidence, after they have been examined in chief. If their first batch of evidence is insufficient, is rebutted, or is likely to break down, it is their fre quent practice to volunteer something additional, and before undivulged, though, like the postscript of a lady's letter, it is far more pointed and inculpatory than all that has gone before. We are not aware that this volunteering is illegal ; but it is, at all events, un seemly, and would never be tolerated in a higher court of justice; and we should like to see Mr. Rushton's court so managed as to be inferior to none in due formality, in dignity, and in that fairness, and con sideration of the unprepared condition of a defendant, in such case, which is contemplated by the constitu tional spirit of our laws. LOCAL NEWS. The Great Western, Lieutenant Hosken, sailed on Satur• day for Bristol, where she will be laid up during the winter. -- - - - MR. 11ENRY RUSSELL. — This accomplished singer appears at the Mechanics' Institution on Wednesday night. The Cheshire Foxhounds meet to-morrow (Wednesday), at the Black Dog, Seighton ; on Thursday, at Tilston ; and on Saturday, at Arley Hall. We understand that Peter Grecnall, Esq., of St. Helen's, M.P., has been appointed one of the Deputy Lieutenants of the county of Lancaster. The rural police for the district of Lonsdale, Lancashire, has been reduced one-half since their first establishment two years ago. The enormous expenses of the force was justly complained of. We understand that Captain Loch, 11. N., who is distin guished in the despatches of Sir H. Gough and Sir William Parker, is son of James Loch, Esq. M.P., and brother of Mr. Loch, of this town. ASSISTANT CLERK TO THE TREASURER OF THE COURT OF REQUESTS. — We perceive from the notice paper of the council for Wednesday (to-morrow), that Mr. Thomas Ash brook is to be recommended to the council to fulfil the duties of the above office. BANKRUPTS' CERTIFICATES.—It has always been the practice for the bankrupt to pay the commissioners' fees on their signing the certificates of conformity which discharges him from his debts, but the Liverpool Commissioners have lately decided, that they are payable out of the estate ; and in cases where they have been paid by the bankrupt's solicitor, have ordered the amount to be repaid him by the assignees. TILE CORPORATION SCHOOLS. - Mr. Blackburn has placed on the council paper the following motion, which will be discussed at the meeting to-morrow :—" That the children of Roman Catholics be admitted to the Corporation Schools to receive secular instruction ONLY." At the same meeting are to be received the:statements of the Town-clerk, Deputy Town-clerk, Clerk of Committees, and Serjeant-at-Mace, on the subject of the report of the Paid Officers' Committee. PRINCES' PARK.—We have before us a neatly coloured plan of this new park, as laid out for the erection of villa residences, under the able design of Messrs. Foster and Stewart. A much prettier site for such erections it is not easy to find in this neighbourhood; and when the projected roads to it from the town are completed, we are confident it . . will be a great resort for parties seeking genteel residences, combined with salubrity of air and delightful scenery. WANTON MISCHIEF. — On Thursday night or early on Friday morning last the glass in several of the gas lamps on West Derby Road was maliciously broken, and the appear ance testified that the scoundrels must have performed their operations for mere amusement. Perhaps it may deter others from " playing a similar game" if we mention that the offence is punishable, we are informed, by three months' imprisonment, with the additional infliction of the labour of the tread-mill. PRAISEWORTHY LIBERALTTY. — We very gladly announce that Mr. Thos. Watkinson, of Kensington, has requested his agent, Mr. Williams, of Ranelagh-street, to pay, on his account, to the treasurers of the following public charities, in this town, the sum of one hundred pounds, in the annexed respective proportions :—Blue Coat Hospital £2O ; Deaf and Dumb Institution £2O; Infirmary £2O; North:Dispensary £lO ; South Dispensary £10; Northern Hospital £10; District Provident Society Airi ; and Strangers' Friend Society £5. - - ATTEMPTED INCENDIARISM.—On Friday morning last it was discovered that some villains had attempted to set fire to some new houses, which are near their completion, situate near the Market-street, in Birkenhead, belonging to Mr. Whalley. It appears that a quantity of turpentine had been poured on one of the floors, and a quantity of shavings, which bad been set on fire ; but the wind had been too strong, and had blown the fire out, or most probably the pro perty would have been destroyed. Mr. Whalley has offered a reward of £5O for the discovery of the incendiaries. INQUEST ON A CHlLD.—Yesterday, an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, the borough coroner, on view of the body of a fine male infant child, which had been found dead on the previous night, enclosed in a box, in St. Nicholas's Church yard. An examination of the body had been made by Mr. Cripps, surgeon, who stated that the child had been born alive, but he could detect no marks of violence, and was of opinion that it had died from natural causes. The jury re turned a verdict accordingly. The body, we learn, was beau tifully perfect in symmetry, in every point, and appeared as if cut out of the purest alabaster. THE ANNE.—SALVAGE.—This was a case tried before Dr. Lushington, on Friday, in the Court of Admiralty. It appeared that the Anne, while on a voyage from Liverpool to Africa, got on a shoal called the Rough Point, near the mouth of the river Bonny, on the 27th April, 1841. She had a valuable cargo, and her Majesty's steamer Pluto, passing on the day the vessel struck, was applied to for assistance. The government ship being under special orders could not then render assistance, but on the 29th of April she went to the aid of the Anne, and succeeded in taking out the cargo to such an extent as to enable the vessel to be drawn off the sand. Dr. Lushington, in delivering judgment, regretted that so much contradiction appeared in the affidavits on the one side and on the other, and laid that he could not give less than £250 to the salvors. CONCERT AT THE PORTICO.—By the advertisement else where it will he noticed that a concert will be given at the Portico, on Wednesday, a daughter of Mr. George, onlyfive years old, will appear as performer on the accordion. We have been given to understand that she is an extraordinary player, and as an instrumentalist quite equal to " the Sappho" as a singer. The bill of fare is attractive. CHEAP BEEF !—A butcher in Oxford-road, Manchester, announces this week, that he sells " prime cuts of beef at 41d per lb." Fivepence, we believe, has been the average price for some weeks past for good joints from well-fed beasts. How is it, we ask, that we hear of this cheap butcher's meat in every market round us, whilst in this town we have still to pay for prime roasting beef, 7d a lb. TuE INFANT SAPPHO.—This little lady has had several performances since we last noticed her, and various tributes of admiration have greeted her from all quarters. On Friday night a gentleman who has witnessed nearly every performance of the Sappho, paid her the compliment of throwing over her neck a rich gold medal, bearing the following inscription : " Presented to the Infant Sappho, L. V., as an humble token of the admiration created by her extraordinary musical talent, by J. Cohan, November, 1842." NEW PATENTS.—Amongst the new patents published in Newton and Berry's List for December, are the following : To Matthew Gregson, of Toxteth-park, Liverpool, Esq., for improvements applicable to the sawing or cutting of veneers, being a communication. To Richard Bevar., of Liverpool, wine-merchant, for certain arrangements connected with the circulation of steam, employed in pipes or tubes, for pro ducing heat, and the application of such arrangements to various purposes. To Thomas Wrigley, of Bridge Hall Mills, Bury, Lancashire, paper-manufacturer, for certain improvements in machinery for manufacturing paper. ROBBERY TN A CELLAR.—A woman, named Catherine Burke, was placed at the bar of the Police-court, yesterday, on a charge of having committed a robbery i❑ the cellar of police-officer Hough, No. 490, who resides in Canning-place, Clive-street. It appeared that the inmates left the cellar on Saturday night, about twenty minutes to eight o'clock, and returned before nine ; in the meantime, the shutter of the coal cellar had been removed, and the drawers ransacked of a new cloth cloak, two dresses, and a boy's coat: The thieves had effected their escape by the coal cellar door, from which they had entered. The same evening the prisoner pledged the dresses and the coat with Mr. Aaron, pawnbroker, in Park-lane, to whom she gave a wrong address. In defence she said that a man had given the articles to her to pledge. She was committed for trial at the sessions. THE FUNDS, SATURDAY EVENING.—The news received by telegraphic despatch came too late in the city to have any effect upon the stock markets, though it is viewed as favour able. At the Stock-Exchange there were no operations of magnitude to notice. The English securities remain steady at yesterday's currency. Consols for the opening left off 93 Z . to 94 ex, div. ; Exchequer-bills, 50s. to 525. prem. ; Bank Stock, 171 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 94* to 3 ; Three and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1001 to 1 ; Long Annuities, 12 9-16 to ; India Bonds, 45 to 47 prem. ; South Sea Stock, India Stock, and the New Three-and-a-llalf per Cents., are declared shut, preparatory to the payment of the several half yearly dividends. The speculative foreign stocks are very firm. Although very little business was transacted during the day, Spanish Actives closed 181- to ; ditto Three per Cents., 23 to ; Portuguese Five per Cents., to 81 ; ditto Three per Cents., 22-1 to 23 ; Brazilian, 66+ to 67 ; Belgian, 102 to + ; Colombian, 211 to + ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 52a to i; ditto Five per Cents., 1011 to * ; Danish, 83 to 83; and Mexican, 304 to 31. THE COLLISION IN THE RIVER.—On Friday last, an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, the borough coroner, touching the death of John Brown, the sailor, who (as stated in the STANDARD of Friday) was passenger on board the Royal Victoria when the collision took place between that vessel and the Prince of Wales, in the Mersey, on Wednesday night. After evidence had been adduced to prove the facts, which were precisely as stated in our last, the coroner said, he had a doubt that the case could legally come within his jurisdiction at all, as there was a doubt that the part of the river in which the accident had occurred came within the jurisdiction of the borough of Liverpool. He would, there fore, adjourn the inquest till Monday, and in the meantime forward the depositions to Sir James Graham, in order to learn from him if he (the coroner) could act in the matter, and he would fix upon the above day either to go on with the evidence, or to state where it would be taken, if it did not come within his jurisdiction. The case was then accordingly adjourned. MATRIMONIAL HOAX.--The whole neighbourhood of Edge-hill were quite in a state of excitement on Saturday morning by what now turns out to be a hoax upon two ladies keeping a school in that neighbourhood ,one of whom was shortly to have been married. On Saturday morning, at nine o'clock, three or four coaches, tile postillions in scarlet livery, gal. loped up to the gates of the house, and there awaited orders from within. After remaining for some time, much to the amusement and interest of the gossipers of the neighbour hood, orders were sent out that it was a mistake, the lady was not going to be married. But this was not satisfactory to the gentlemen in scarlet; they persisted in it that they were ordered to take a wedding party to St. Jude's, or Ever ton, and they must obey orders, thus shewing themselves to be proper disciplinarians, and fit to command a regiment of horse. Matters remaining in this position for some time, it seemed to become almost an absolute necessity that one of the fair ones (aged 35 and 60,) should be married. But be ing imperative, and no gentleman having made his appear ance, the coachmen were at last induced to withdraw. We believe there is some groundwork for the hoax in the fact that a French lady, one of the parties keeping the school, was to have been married shortly to a gentleman of high re spectability, but from some unaccountable whim or caprice, for which her countrywomen are rather famed, the lady sud denly changed her mind and refused to proceed further in the matter. THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY. —On Saturday last the prisoner John Mooton, who had been remanded on a charge of placing a piece of timber on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, with a view of throwing the mail train off the line, and thereby endangering the lives of her Majesty's subjects, was brought up for final examina tion before J. N. Harden, Esq., at the Birkenhead Police Court. There was some further evidence adduced respecting the impressions of the boots of the prisoner ou the ground adjoining the spot where the accident happened, and William Dixon, the driver of the engine at the time of the collision, gave a more detailed account of the collision, from which it appeared that the shock to the train had thrown both him and the fireman down, but without doing them any other in jury. Mr. A. Yarrow, the engineer to the company, also stated that the sleeper was placed in such a position that if it had only been four inches in the ground, it would have stood at an angle of 45 degrees ; but it would seem, from his state ment, that the ground was quite soft in that place, and the engine had driven the timber four feet into the ground, or most probably the machinery would have been broken to pieces, and the fire scattered among the third class passen gers, of whom there were about thirty in the train that even ing. The prisoner being asked what he had to say, made a long statement as to where he was that evening, and added, that he had been at the place the day previous to the acci dent, which would account for his footsteps being at the place. He called one witness, but his testimony did not materially alter the case against him. He was then commit ted for trial. ROBBERY IN SLATER'S-COURT. — Yesterday, a man named Thomas Higgin was brought up at the Police-court, charged with having feloniously entered the warehouse of Mr. Goore, ornamental painter, in Slater's-court. It appeared that on Saturday night the office was made secure by Mr. Goore himself, and the outer door carefully fastened by the fore man. About half-past three on Sunday afternoon, Mr. Deane was passing the premises, when hearing an unusual noise inside, he communicated what he heard to policemen Nos. 355 and 446. They went into the place, and after searching for some time, found the prisoner concealed on the top of the premises, he having been traced there from the counting-house. On an examination of the premises, it became evident that a robbery of an extensive character was in process of execution. The door of a large iron cafe had been partially cut through near the hinges, a work which must have taken the greater part of the day, and two files were found on the floor underneath, with marks on them of having been recently used. Mr. Goore's desk had been broken open, and two screws, a piece of cord, and a key, taken therefrom ; a box of raisins belonging to Mr. Goore, jun., had been emptied, and a parcel made up of their con tents, which was tied up by a piece of the cord taken from desk. In the lobby were found a jeininy, a centre-bit, some skeleton keys, a box of lucifer matches, and a quantity of lead rolled up ready to be carried away. Some articles were found upon the prisoner's person, which Mr. Goore, his son, and workmen, identified. The prisoner, who is a French-polisher, made no defence, and he was committed for trial at the sessions. Mr. Goore stated, that during the last two or three years his premises had been robbed several times, and property stolen to the amount of some hundreds of pounds. A RUN WITH THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS.—On Saturday last the meet was at Oulton, the seat of the much respected and worthy member for South Cheshire, Sir P. Egerton, and as soon as the hounds were thrown into the first cover, a plantation at Darlay Farm, close to Oulton, at half-past eleven, a fox broke away, but the hounds did not get well away with him ; slow hunting for some time, pointing for the Park, when he turned, leaving Little Budworth to the left ; here the pace improved, and he made his point for Darnhall, through the covers there, without dwelling for a moment; crossing the river Weaver, and ran over a deal of country for Minshull ; from there at a racing pace up to 'Warminglaarn, leaving the wood to the left ; then straight to Elton, and nearly up to Abbey Field, the residence of Charles Ford, Esq., the late manager of the hounds ; up to this point it was brilliant. He then set his head straight for Union Gorse, which he missed, and crossed the railway, up to Bradwell Hall, where they came to a long check ; he then went for Holmes Chapel, and was viewed making Hedge-row, the hounds having hunted to him beautifully, and they ran him ' in view for a few fields, when Maiden, (the hunstman,) who was going like mad close up to his hounds had a most awful fall, a regular burster, but he was soon up and at it again, crossing the Holmes Chapel turnpike-road for Breton Mill; from there up to the Dane Viaduct, where he crossed the river, and they ran him to ground in a rabbit hole at Twem low, at a quarter to five o'clock, it getting so dark for the last half mile that the fences were invisible ; but he was drawn by a hound in a minute, not being half a yard in, when there was as a jolly " Who Whoop !" as ever fell to the lot of man to hear. The field kept dropping off one by one, till very few were left, beside Captain White and Maiden, to enjoy the finish. ACCOMMODATION IN CHURCHES.—Under this heading, the Liverpool Mail of Tuesday last contains a letter, signed " E. M.," and written, we are informed by a lady, detailing what the writer terms a case of " great hardship." The circumstances of the " hardship" in question, as detailed by " E. M.," are as follow :—Being a stranger in Liverpool, she attended for " two or three Sundays" at the church of the Rev. Fielding Ould, on which occasions "every atten tion was paid to her by the verger, and instant accommoda tion furnished to her." On several succeeding Sundays, however, she says that she was permitted to stand throughout the whole of the service, until at length, seeing " a large pew in the eastern part of the gallery unoccupied," the lady in Question took possession of it, and sate " for two or three Sundays unmolested." But "on Sunday morning last, as the congregation was separating," she says that she was " impudently tapped on the shoulder by the verger, arid asked if she had taken a seat in the pew"—(a very reasona ble question, surely, under the circumstances)—and "on replying negatively, was told that she must not sit there again." We should not have remarked upon this trumpery affair, but have concluded that the complainant was one of that party in the church who have adopted the outcry, now become fashionable, against the system of having pews in churches, had we not been requested to say that the whole statement is erroneous, and had not the journal in which it first appeared refused or neglected to give the correct ver sion of the story. Such a circumstance did occur, or at least something like it. Such a lady did attend the church for some weeks. She was never, however, intentionally allowed to stand in the aisle. Such a circumstance is never allowed to occur in Christ Church, or any other church in this town, when there is unoccupied pew room. The lady, however, at length took possession of a sitting, occupied it Sunday after Sunday, until, as described, she was reminded — civilly, however, and not "impudently" — that the pew in question was not her own. Thi s is the sum and substance of the mighty " grievance" which the lady " has the moral courage"—as our contemporary expresses it--" to make public (!) through the assistance of" his columns ; and a more ridiculous grievance the public has rarely heard of. We shall be told some of these days that it is a grievance that "a stranger" is not permitted to take possession of an unoccupied house without being reminded that she is a trespasser. SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS..—We perceive that a list for a series of subscription concerts is about to be commenced. They are to be held at the Royal Assembly-rooms, under the able management of 'Nit. Rlliston. TOXTETH-PARK PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION. —The monthly meeting of this association was held on Mon day week, in Toxteth-hall, when John Sheppard, Esq., oc cupied the chair. After a prayer had been offered up by the Rev. Mr. 11111, the chairman made some very appropriate ob servations, and the meeting was subsequently addressed by the Rev. Messrs. Nolan, Falloon, and Butler, and Richard Harbord, Esq. Resolutions were passed expressive of the opinion that increased exertions are necessary to obtain a parliamentary inquiry into Maynooth College, and that a pe tition should be adopted by the meeting, and intrusted to the members for the borough tor presentation. Tile meeting was a very crowded one; and we learn that as a larger room can not be obtained, is in contemplation to erect a sufficiently commodious building for the purposes of these meetings, and we understand that a subscription is already on foot, and we hope will be very liberally responded to. TnEATRE-ROYAL.----The following paragraph, which has appeared in the 111anchester Guardian, is, we are informed, a disgraceful tissue of misstatements : we are requested to give it an unqualified denial in every particular :—" We re gret to learn, that, for the last fortnight, such has been the state of the treasury' of the Liverpool theatre, that the performers generally have found themselves, at the close of the week, sans salary. The theatre closes at the end of this week, till Christmas, after the worst season ever remembered in Liverpool, the loss exceeding, it is said, £2,000; and the whole of the company will thus be, during five weeks, with out a farthing of salary. For some weeks they have been dividing the receipts, as we see, by the London papers, is to be the plan till Christmas at Covent-garden ; but the Liver p )ol company have been in the predicament, under this plan, of having nothing to divide." LAUNCH OF Two IRON VESSELS.—OR Saturday last, two iron vessels were launched from Mr. Laird's building-yard, North Birkenhead, the one, a brig of 220 tons measurement, (appropriately called " The Guide,") constructed for the Hon. East India Company, as a pilot vessel for the Bay of Bengal ; and the other a light-ship of 200 tons, named " The Prince,' r for the Liverp oo l D oc k Trust. This is the first application of iron in the construction of vessels for the above purposes, and, as the East India Company have had iron vessels at work for the last twelve years, and both they and the Dock Trustees did not decide on building the pilot brig and light-ship of iron until the advantage and disad vantages of the material had been repeatedly and fully dis cussed, there is every reason to expect that they will both answer the purpose for which they are intended, and open another and very extensive field for the introduction of iron built ships. SERVANTS' SWEETHEARTS.—On Friday week, Mr. W; Hindley, of Nile-street, received an anonymous letter, stating that his servant girls were in the habit of allowing men to go into the house through the back door during the time the fa mily were at supper. In consequence of this information he began to examine his larder, and found that his preserves, brandy, &c., were disappearing rather more quickly than he thought they ought to do. On Wednesday evening he ap plied at the police-office to have two men stationed near his house. His request was granted, and the officers had not waited long before they saw dime men enter by the back door. They went to the front of the house and gave information to Mr. Hindley, who found Robert Meacock in the kitchen, and a person, named Owen Jones, fondling the dog, evidently with the view of keeping it quiet,—The two men were marched off to bridewell in charge of the police, and on last Thursday morning, when they were brought up before Mr. Rushton, Mr. Hindley, jun., appeared and stated the case. After he had been heard, Mr. Rushton aaid, " Where are the maids?" Mr. Hindley.—Oh, my father turned all three of them out of the house this morning. Mr. Rushton.—There is no doubt the servants let them in. The men must be discharged. Mr. Hindley.--My father did not wish them to be punished, but only to give them a night's lodging, and he is desirous of knowing whether he will be compelled to pay them their wages. Mr. Rushton.—That will depend upon the contract with them, and whether they were allowed to see their friends in the house. Mr. Hindley.—l believe not. Mr. Rushton. —Well, the learned Commissioner of the Court of Requests will decide that point for you. HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER, NEAR ST. HELEN'S.—For a few years past, the neighbourhood of St. Helen's has been infested by a gang of most desperate ruffians, who place in jeopardy the lives and property of the inhabitants. They are a very formidable set, consisting of about forty or fifty, and have received and are well known by, the cognomen of the " Long Company." It is only about twelve months ago that Mr. Grayson was waylaid on the road to his own house at Rainford, and cruelly murdered on the highway. On Saturday last, a respectable young far mer, Darned Basnett, was on his way from Eccleston to Rainford, when two men sprung from behind a hedge, and struck at him. Being a powerful man he returned the blows, and was getting the advantage of the fellows, when two others rushed upon him. He still kept his ground, and struck out right and left, retreating backwards all the time, until he fell into a ditch. One of the ruffians then called out, " Cut the -'s throat." Mr. Basnett then felt one of the party draw a knife across his neckerchief, and make several cuts about his neck, whilst another emptied his pockets of about two pounds in silver and gold. After otherwise severely handling him, the fellows ran off, and the young man reached home he knows not how. The robbery was committed near the residence of the late Mr. Grayson. It appears also that Mr. Basnett called at Arnold's beer house, on his road home, where he saw a number of the " Long Company," including the parties acquitted on a charge of murdering Mr. Grayson, and there is no doubt that after he left the house the fellows followed and waylaid him. On examining his clothes in the morning, he found a long cut, as with a sharp instrument, .down the right breast of his coat, and on his left breast there were several stabs. His neckerchief was also cut in several places, which leaves no doubt of the intention of the villains who attached him. The robbery took place about twelve o'clock. ACCIDENT AT GEORGE'S PIER-HEAD.-011 Saturday evening last, at dusk, a Mrs. Bowers, we are informed, who was going to the Rock Ferry boat, which was outside, lost her footing in passing along the plank between the Birken head and Woodside boats, and fell into the river. A man, who is stated to be a supernumerary on board H.M.S. Etna, and who was proceeding to that vessel, immediately jumped into the water, and, being a good swimmer, succeeded in extricating her; otherwise she would, in all probability, have been drowned. The lady was much exhausted, and insensi ble ; but she was soon afterwards got on board the Rock Ferry boat, and conveyed to her family. The plank from which she fell was narrow, and was unprotected by any rail ing. We strongly suggest to the proper authorities—many accidents having from time to time occurred in the same manner—the propriety of framing a regulation requiring all steam-vessels, receiving or landing passengers at the pier, to provide planks or stages of adequate width, with hand-rails fixed on both sides of them, to ensure safety. We would also suggest, that after sundown every boat so plying should, in addition to a sufficiently broad plank or stage, have a strong globular lamp fixed near their gangways, and which would throw a body of light across the vessels and along the planks. These lights could be doused when the vessels cast off their lines, and might be relighted for the avoidance of danger at their respective piers at the other side, if required ; the cost would be only a comparatively trifling sum. The Scotch and other steamers at the Clarence Dock, the decks of which are frequently at a considerable distance from the quay, are provided with landing-stages for passengers, ribbed across to prevent slipping, and railed or boarded up at each side. We do not say that these could be so conveniently employed at the pier -head, owing to the rise and fall of the water at the slips and stairs; but surely some approach to the same secu rity might be made, by providing a broad plank with light railing. The landing of passengers is, we learn, much bet ter attended to on the Clyde ; and it is certainly a reproach to this town, that, it would appear, a number of lives must be lost or jeopardised, before our official authorities will rouse themselves to effect an amendment in this important department in the management of our port. SINGING roa THE MILLION.—Mr. Joseph Mainzer, having concluded his lectures on vocal music for the million, in the Mechanics' Institution, announced his intention of giving two other lectures in the Nelson Assembly Rooms ; the first last evening, and the other to-night. We regret to say that the attendance last night was so thin as to cause Mr. Mainzer to abandon his intention of giving the second lecture. He entered into an exposition of the general prin ciples of his system, and accompanied his explanations with many pleasing illustrations, showing that the method is well adapted for the instruction of large bodies in the art of singing. As several individuals have applied to us to explain the difference between the two systems of Wilhem and Mainzer, we copy the following from an Edinburgh paper for their advantage, merely premising that the writer is evi dently a strong partizan. Our opinion is, that for the object which both profess to have, the improvement of congrega tional singing, the two systems have about equal merit : " 1. Wilhem has introduced a new Manual Alphabet of Music, in which the lines of the stave are represented by the five fingers, while the notation is performed by very ingenious manual signs. In this manner the pupils are taught to read and speak music by means of certain gestures of the body.— Mainzer used the ordinary notation. 2. Wilhem, who em ploys the hands of the professor with the manual exercises, forbids the use of an instrument.—Mainzer recommends its use in order to tune the voice, to educate the car, and to correct the natural and constant tendency of the voice to fall; while it also relieves the lungs of the teacher from an unne cessary strain. 3. Wilhem's exercises are chiefly and pur posely mechanical and unmusical, for the sake of dexterity.— Mainzer has given to all his exercises a charm which is quite fascinating; every little exercise has some musical idea, in order to cultivate the taste, and to encourage the pupil. —4. Wilhem teaches the grammar of music from the very beginning. Mainzer begins with only one letter of the al phabet; and does not teach the grammar until his pupils have learned.-5. Wilhem introduces expedients which must afterwards be laid aside. Mainzer introduces nothing but what will always be required.-6. Wilhem's elementary course consists of sixty lessons. Mainzer's consists of only sixteen. -7 . Wilhem uses the old analytical plan of instruc tion ; classifying and arranging, coming downwards from the great to the small, as we would define for an encyclopaedia. Mainzer uses the synthetical plan ; building and adding bit by bit, going upwards from the small to the great, as we would explain for a child. " SERIOUS CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—At the Police court, on Friday, John Bowman Randles, first mate of the East Indiaman Clydesdale, of this port, David Barnes, James M'Donald, George Deane,. and George Saul, seamen, and John Roberts, an apprentice, were brought before Mr. Rush ton on a charge of having been concerned in killing the cook of the ship, shortly before she arrived at this port. There being no evidence against the apprentice he was immediately discharged. The first witness examined was John Stephen, a black, who said he was a seaman in the Clydesdale, now lying in the Waterloo Dock, and which arrived the previous night from Bombay. He knew the deceased, whose name was Philip Keel. He was a black, and cook of the ship. He died on board the day before the vessel arrived ; he had been sick before for some time. He was below in bed in the forecastle. Witness was then in bed. The prisoner Randle, the chief mate, came down to him on Wednesday morning, and asked him to go and get breakfast ready. Deceased said he was not able to do so ; the mate said he was, adding " You b— you are skulking." Deceased said he was not skulk ing. The mate said, "If you don't go on deck, I'll send a watch tackle and have you housed out." Deceased had then been confined to bed three or four days. After this the pri soner Saul came down, and said to Barnes, " If you'll put a rope round deceased's neck I'll bouse him up." Barnes put a rope round his neck, but neither of them touched it after wards that he saw. Deceased was pulled out of bed, but witness did not know by whom. The carpenter (a witness,) cried out to them on deck, " Avast, or you'll choke the man." George Deane said he would hoist the b---- up if a rope was put round his neck, but witness did not see him touch the rope. After Deane got on deck the deceased was hauled up from the bunck, a bed place where he was. The rope was then round his neck. George Saul cleared the cook's head from the scuttle as he was hauled up. Witness, who was h bed, saw no more of it. They brought the cook down again in better thou twenty minutes. George Saul and Deane brought him ; he did not speak a word, and could not walk. They put him on the bunck. He never spoke afterwards ; his eyes were shut and his mouth open. The man was dead. Other witnesses were then examined, and gave several other particulars connected with the occurrence, but the chief fea tures of the case are presented in the evidence above. Two surgeons stated that they had made a post mortem examina tion of the body and could detect no outward appearance of violence, but they thought that death was occasioned through suffocation, and was not the result of natural causes. Mr. Rushton then adjourned the case until Saturday, when all the prisoners were committed for trial at the Central Crimi nal Court. TIDE NORTHERN HOSPITAL, The numerous calamitous accidents which have, within the last few months, occurred in the northern extremity of the town, call our attention to an institution which we have for some time past been anxious to bring. before the public; we allude to the " Northern Hospital ;" and notwithstanding the frequent occasions that the name of this excellent cha rity has appeared in our columns, we feel convinced that its existence, as a distinct institution, is unknown to many of our readers, and its importance appreciated by few. In sup port of the last we have now stated, we proceed to lay before our readers a short history of the hospital, with some details gathered from the annual reports of the committee. In 1834, the necessity of an institution for the reception of the casu alties which occurred in the neighbourhood of the docks and manufactories being strongly felt, a public meeting was called, the result of which was, that a house was taken in Leeds-street, and accommodation provided for 33 patients : this, however, was soon found to he quite inadequate to the purpose, and in 1836, by the addition of the adjoining house, the committee were enabled to fit up 82 beds, thus more than doubling the number originally capable of being received. Within the last few years, the rapid extension of the town and great increase of population have again proved its com plete insufficiency to meet the numerous and urgent calls which are continually made upon it. Since the first opening of the hospital, we find that no less than 8,700 cases have been received, of which 3,650 were accidents of a serious nature, the limited accommodation preventing any but those of a severe description being admitted. Of the entire num ber, 3,400 were natives of the town ; 850, foreigners; the rest belonged to different parts of the United Kingdom. Of the accidents, 1,435 occurred in the town, mostly in the im mediate vicinity of the hospital; 1,312 in the docks and shipping ; 418 in the adjacent manufactories ; and the re mainder at the canal bank and warehouses. If we recollect, too, that on several occasions accidents of the most fearful nature have occurred within a short distance from the hos pital, we cannot but be impressed with an idea of its great value and importance. We may particularly instance the great fire and numerous shipwrecks which took place in the beginning of 1839 ; also the falling of the chapel in Leeds street, when seven persons who had been buried in the ruins were carried to the hospital, and received immediate assistance. The present year has been characterised by an unusual number of such calamities. From the late fire in Galton-street nine men were received; from that in Great Howard-street, twenty-five ; and from the late dreadful col lision, five—of which two are now lying in a most dangerous state. With such a body of facts before us, is it not surprising that, with means so limited, so much good can have been effected ? As an explanation of this apparently anomalous circumstance we must state, that severe accidents arc never refused admittance, medical cases, if at all fit to be removed, being sent out to make room for them. During the last week, we are informed that the number of the former has been so great, that the beds usually appropriated to the lat ter have been occupied by accidents exclusively. We trust that what we have now stated, and the details which we have given, will be sufficient to arouse the atten tion of the public to a subject which we feel certain requires merely to be mentioned in order to obtain that consideration which its importance as one of our chief means of alleviating suffering so imperiously claims for it; and having proved the urgent necessity of increased and better accommodation, it only remains for us to hope that, as assistance in severe ac cidents is valuable in proportion as it is administered early, and as in many cases it is only immediate aid which can be at all available, that the new building which must be ere long provided, will be placed as near as possible to the present site, so favourably situated in the immediate vicinity of the sources whence most of the cases are derived. With these remarks we conclude, in the full conviction that our towns men will not be remiss in coming forward to assist the com mittee in the furtherance of an object so laudable ; and having it trust on its own merits, we are sure that the town will soon have another institution worthy of the great cause they are devoted to, that of alleviating the distress of the lower portion of the community. " Matrimony " may be anagrammatized into " 0! I try man!" and " H usband " into " snub'd!" Good jokes for bachelors, but no fun to married men. • A court-martial is ordered to be held to try the Hon. Cap tain Charles G. J. B. Elliot, commanding her Majesty's ship Spartan, in the West Indies, for having corporally punished Mr. Gleig, a young gentleman of that ship, doing duty in her as a midshipman.—Hampshire Telegraph. CHINESE DOLLARS.—If the 21,000,000 dollars to be paid by the Chinese on treaty of peace with Great. Britain were to be extended in a straight line in a horizontal position, edge to edge, they would more than reach from Brighton to Ber wick-upon-Tweed, or the whole extent of England ; comput ing the dollar to be 1 inch and 2-10ths in diameter, which would be a line of 3971 British miles. The inquiry into the causes of the fearful accident on the Versailles railway, on the Bth of May lait, commenced last week before the orrectional police; the act of accusation accuses six persons belonging to the Company of " homicide by imprudence," and then proceeds to state the causes and results of the accident, which is attributed to a faulty state of the ironwork of the machines in some measure. It appears that there were 768 persons in the train, besides nine ser- vants of the company. VINE HOUNDS.—His Grace the Duke of Wellington came on Wednesday to Hurstborne-park, the seat of Lord Ports mouth, to meet the Vine hounds. Although' the distaace from Strathfieldsaye is about 20 miles, his Grace was, as usual, punctual to the hour of 11. Mr. Fellows first drew the osier-bed, a celebrated place, and found ; a very large field of horse and foot turned the fox from his usual line, and he went for Whewell-wood, a wood of some three and twenty hundred acres, and his Grace had then above five and twenty miles to return to Strathfieldsaye.—Berkshire Chronicle. CHARGE OF MURDER.—On Wednesday last, and by ad journment on Friday, a case was heard before the Manches ter coroner, as to the death of a man by poison. Suspicion attaches to the wife, and it is supposed she was prompted to the awful deed by the wish to obtain possession of about £lOO, which the husband had secreted in a strong box. Most of the money was found upon her. She entrusted the secret of her intentions to a neighbouring female, who has also been committed to gaol, as an accessory before the fact. This other woman purchased the poison, and was, no doubt, to go share in the spoils. The case was again adjourned to Tuesday (this day). FEET OF TUE CELESTIAL BEAUTIES. —During our stay at this anchorage we made constant trips to the surrounding islands ; in one of which —at Tea Island—we had a good op portunity of minutely examining the far-famed little female feet. I had been purchasing a pretty little pair of satin shoes for about half a dollor, at one of the Chinese farmers houses, where we were surrounded by several men, women, and chil dren. By signs we expressed a wish to see the pied mignon of a really good-looking woman of the party. Our signs were quickly understood, but probably, from her being a matron, it was considered quite comme HAW for her to comply with our desires, as she would not consent to show us her foot, but a very pretty interesting girl of about 16 was placed o n a stool for the purpose of gratifying our curiosity. At firstishe was very bashful, and appeared not to like exposing her Cinderella-like slipper; but the shine of a new and very bright loope ' soon overcame her delicacy, when she com menced unwinding the upper bandage which passes round the leg, and over a tongue that comes up from the heel. The shoe was then removed, and the second bandage taken off, which did the duty for a stocking ; the turns round the toes and ankles being very tight, and keeping all in place. On the naked foot being exposed to view we were agreeably sur prised by finding it delicately white and clean, for we fully expected to have found it otherwise from the known habits of most of the Chinese. The leg from the knee downwards was much wasted; the foot appeared as if broken up at the instep, while the four small toes were bent flat and pressed down under the foot, the great toe only being allowed to re tain its natural position. By the breaking of the instep a high arch is formed between the heel and the toe, enabling the individual to step with them on an even surface ; in this respect materially differing from the Canton and Macao ladies; for with them the instep is not interfered with, but a very high heel is substituted, thus bring the point of the great toe to the ground. When our Canton compradore was shown a Chusan shoe, :the exclamation was ' He yaw ! how can walkee so fashion ?' nor would he be convinced that such was the case. The toes, doubled under the foot I have been describing, could only be moved by the hand sufficiently to show that they were not actually grown into the foot. I have often been astonished at seeing how well the women contrive to walk on their tiny pedestels. Their gait is not unlike the little mincing walk of the French ladies; they were constantly to be seen going about without the aid of any stick, and I have often seen them at Macao contending against a fresh breeze with a tolerably good-sized umbrella spread. The little children, as they scrambled away before us balanced themselves with their arms extended, and re minded one much of an old hen between walking and flying. All the women I saw about Chusan had small feet. It is a general characteristic of true Chinese descent; and there can not be a greater mistake than to suppose that it is confined to the higher orders, though it may be true that they take more pains to suppress the foot to the smallest possible di mensions than the lower:classes do. High and low, rich and poor, all more or less follow the custom ; and when you see a large or natural-sized foot, you may depend upon it the possessor is not of true Chinese blood, but is either of Tartar extraction, or belongs to the tribes that live and have their being on the waters.—Bingham's Narrative of the Expedi tion to China. ANECDOTE OF THE REV. EDWARD IRVING.—WhiIe the star of the celebrated Edward Irving yet lingered near its meridian, I happened to be amongst the auditory which thronged his newly erected church in Regent-square, Lon don. " The princes, the governors and captains, the trea surers, the jndges, the councillors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces," no longer, as in previous years, disputed for seats, or even standing-room, wherefrom they might listen to that mighty master of language. But a nu merous company still attended him, devoted to his doctrines, receiving with greedy ears his marvellous proclamations, or (for he well deArved such tribute to his eloquence and power) captivated by his unrivalled fluency of diction and strength of reasoning. The church, on the Sabbath to which I refer, was crowded in every part. With some diffi culty, and not until I had pressed my claims as a clergyman upon a very courteous, though sadly beset verger, was a place assigned me, where, partly through his exertions, and still more by my own, I was driven down as awedge between two females, whose apparent respectability failed to protect them from such mechanical force. In due time the gentleman ascended the pulpit. Those who have -seen him need not be reminded of what must be ineffaceable from their recollections, the inexpressible solemnity and awful dignity of his aspect; and to such as have not, no descrip tion could convey an idea of it. After a prayer of the deep est fervour, he began his discourse, taking his text from Exodus xx—" Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image," &c. His greatest excellence consisted in the denun ciation of idolatry ; and never did be equal, before or since, the surpassing vehemence of that Lord's Day. It seemed as if his very soul was on fire—like a burning lake, on whose agitated billows the enemies of the true Jehovah were cast. The impressions which he made exceeded all pourtraying ; the congregation waved to and fro, as if moved by the giant arms which, from above them, gave vent to, rather than in dication of, the emotions of his inflamed spirit. Every word he uttered struck down some " refuge of lies," and destroyed an adversary of the Lord. This wonderful scene endured for many years, increasing more and more in interest, the preacher appearing to gather strength as he went along. But his patience and address were about to sustain a singular proof, which I proceed to tell. It was while he was rapidly ascending to the summit of the most magnificent climax of withering condemnation of image worship I have ever heard, and while a breathless audience listened with motionless attention to the deep sonorous tones of his unrivalled elocu tion, that from the outer door, at the further extremity of the building, a voice, which seemed, by contrast, shrill as an infant's, exclaimed in a key that pierced every ear—" That's not true." It need not be said that every head turned to wards the spot from whom whence that strange interruption issued, and every eye was strained to discover the perpetrator of it, who had either concealed himself in the crowd, or escaped. The preacher, quite undisturbed, paused for a moment ; then, waving his right hand, spoke—" Give heed, brethren, to the Word of God." He then completed the sentence, which I almost imagined to have been improved by the momentary del;!) , ; and, as he closed it, looking towards the distant door, said, with incomparable gravity —" I'm glad the devil spoke from the possessed man, he will now come out of him." FIRE LAST NIGHT.—A fire broke out in Hotham-street, last night, just as we were going to press. We cannot give the particulars, owing to the lateness of the hour. WIGAN.--MONDAY EVENING. IMPORTANT REPORT RESPECTING THE SUPPLY OF WATER IN WIGAN At the council meeting, on Wednesday last, an interesting report, of which the following is an outline, was read by the Town-clerk, and entered upon the minutes of the proceed ings. Much valuable information is contained in it con cerning an adequate supply of water for the town, which is so essentially requisite for the health of the inhabitants and protection in case of fire. An estimate of a new water-works to supply the town of Wigan with good and wholebo►ne water:— To 1,140 yards of a five-inch pipe, from where the water is to be collected from different £ s. d places of supply Soughing and walling at LhlFerent places To 10,000 yards, or an acre of 10,240 yards, at £7 p r ai:nuro-30 years purchase To making a lodge, 100 yards square and six feet deep, welled and paddled, with flagged bottom To walling round, 4 yards high and 500 yards long, at Gd. per yard Length of pipe to supply the town, with a main of five feet, with lateral pipes into different streets Sundry cocks arid stoppers for different places in the main and supply-pipes Making and preparing soughs, &c., to collect the water into the summit 40G 0 0 110 0 0 210 0 0 700 0 0 600 0 0 630 0 0 70 0 0 50 0 0 £2776 0 0 Your Committee beg to observe that this estimate does not include the expense of an Act of Parliament to incorpo rate a new Company, the rent to be paid for water, or the land through which the supply pipes would have to be laid, but includes the value of the land only for the proposed re servoir. Your Committee beg further to report that in pursuance of their further instructions they directed Mr. Daglish to survey the springs and works of the old Waterworks Com pany, for the purpose of ascertaining whether that Company could supply a sufficient quantity of water for the general wants of the town, under an improved management, or not; and also to make an estimate of the value of the works of the old Company. That in pursuance of these instructions Mr. Daglish has reported to your Committee that the springs of water under the powers of the Waterworks Company's Act are amply suf. ficient to afford a plentiful supply of water for the town, un der proper management. The report also states, " That be has gone over the ground up the railway, and near the Boar's Head. That he finds a good supply of good water running to waste, and 2 feet 8 inches above the sough which takes the water forward into the Old Water Works, south of Whitley Garden, and which is making more water than at the present is supplying the town of Wigan. " That there are also more springs of water north of the Boar's Head Bridge. That, in his opinion, the first men tioned springs might be brought into the Old Works drains for about £2OO, and would make about 180 gallons of water per hour, and be sufficient to supply Wigan. " That a reservoir of about 100 yards square, near the town would be absolutely necessary to afford this supply." An estimate of the Old Water Works, that now supply the town of Wigan with water : 4', s. d For 1060 wards of 5-in. main, at 7s. per yard, lined Standish-gate and Market-place, at 3s. per yard, lined 700 yards of pipes of different calibre in the Hal!gate, Wal!gate, and King-street, at 3s 305 0 0 Mitigate branch and cock Sough in Wigan-lane, from the Monument to lodge in Mr. Wood's garden Soughs and mug, pipes, &c. from the Monu ment to top Spring, west side of the turn pike-road, near the Larches, Wigan-lane 2OO 0 0 Walling round the Lodge, or Reservoir, in Wood's garden, with the Reservoir as it now stands 9000 40 0 0 430 0 0 1296 0 0 Your committee beg leave also to remark that this esti mate does not apply to the value of the water or the land through which the supply pipes are laid. J. LORD, Chairman. THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY NIGHT.—TiIiS body lteld one of its usual meet ings thiwvening, at their rooms in Newall's-buildings, but it was bo means so numerously attended as on former oc casions. Mr. George Wilson having taken the chair, the usual preliminaries were, gone through, such as reading the minutes of the previous meeting, and a host of letters from their lecturers in all parts of the country. These letters are somewhat amusing, and it is no less lamentable to see how these amplifiers delude their dupes by promises that every sensible person will see at a glance will never be realised. Thus, Mr. Prentice has converted the farmers of Cheshire to repealers; Falvey, the agriculturists of Yorkshire ; and Murray has completely changed the whole of the people of Lincolnshire, so that according to their tales the work of re peal is accomplished, and the next session of parliament will find Sir R. Peel coming down to the House of Commons by the direction of the Queen with a bill in his hand to repeal the corn laws, and another to establish a new tariff, and that too exactly such a one as the league thinks proper to suggest or prepare. At the meeting, to-night, Mr. Cobden laboured hard to show that the treaty effected with China would neither improve trade nor in any way benefit either the operatives or the manufacturers. This doctrine, however, did not meet with much applause, and was therefore soon relinquished. The great guns of the evening were the Rev. Mr. Giles, of Leeds, and a Mr. W. T. Macauley, of Dublin. Mr. Giles spoke for upwards of half an hour, and in the course of his address the nobility and landowners fell in for a goodly share of abuse put forth with eloquent declamation, whilst Mr. Macauley, at much greater length, amused the gathering with a plentiful supply of that humour for which his countrymen are proverbial. Ile forgot, however, the main-point argu ment. Mr. John Brooks also addressed the company, and argued the propriety of thanking .these two gentlemen for their services. At the close of the proceedings the chatru.to announced that next week Colonel Thompson would be pre sent, and took occasion to complain of some of the news papers, which underrated their numbers ; and added, that the writer of the obnoxious paragraph knew it was a lie when he wrote it, and the editor of the journal knew it was a lie when he inserted it. Up to very recently these meetings were open only to such of the newspaper press as was under their own immediate control, and therefore it is no great matter of won der that the council of the league should feel rather sore at this exposition of their real numerical strength, and their in fluence in this district, which ni) to this period has been set forth by the whig-radical papers in such colour and clothing as the "council" was pleased to direct. The subscriptions to the fund come in rather tardily, otherwise the papers would have been teeming with their success. At the meeting held here, nearly a fortnight ago, " friend Bright" said that a good show of subscriptions in the morning papers of Saturday last week would be a great stimulant to other towns. It is vevery ungraciously hinted here that the money does not come in, which accounts for the " stimulant" not having been given. THE REV. MR. BAILEY.—This reverend gentleman, who is the minister of the Episcopal Chapel, Queen-square, West minster, and who, as we stated in our last, was charged at the Bow-street Police-office, London, on Thursday week, with forging a promissory note for the sum of £2,875, was again brought up on Thursday for re-examination, and re manded for a week. IMPORTANT DECISION.—The Poor Law Commissioners have decided that the destitute poor are entitled to relief in the parish in which they are found destitute, and that the question as to where they slept on the previous night is alto gether immaterial. This decision was come to in the case of two poor orphan boys, named Bastings, who were refused relief on frivolous pretences by the parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster. The shareholders of the National Floating Breakwater and Refuge Harbour Company held their first general meeting on Thursday. The invention, which is identified with pro tection to the shipping and seafaring portion of the public, appearsto have attracted attention. Several ports round cur coast are already frurnished with the apparatus, and the French Government, it is stated, have taken the project under their especial patronage, Captain Tayler, the inventor, being now employed to construct a harbour on an extensive scale at Marseilles. The accounts of the company were presented, and the directors received the thanks of the proprietary for their attention to their interests. SUBMARINE TELESCOPE.—A lady of Brooklyn has in vented a method of illuminating objects under water, so that an observer at the surface, by means of a water-tight cylinder, having a glass inserted in its lower orifice, can make exami nation under water to any accessible depth. By means of a reflector the hull of a ship can also be examined from its deck. The fair inventor believes that the telescope will be found highly useful for this purpose, and that it may also be economically applied in the , explorations of sunken wrecks, and in the pearl and sponge fisheries. it is now exhibiting every evening at Barnum's American Museum.—. New York paper. WONDERFUL PRESENCE OF MIND.—At Torquay, on Tuesday, a poor man, named Reynolds, was employed . in sinking a well in a solid rock ; he had prepared for blasting, and having attached a fusee, was being drawn up when the rope broke, and he was precipitated to the bottom from the height of 25 feet. So great was the concussion that one leg was broken in three places, his skull was also fractured, and his whole frame dreadfully bruised ; he had, however, suffi cient consciousness and presence of mind to snatch the bur ning fusee from the charge (in doing which his hand was burnt), and thus providentially escaped a catastrophe which would have been certain death! Titz " ARCHBISHOP OF TRIPOLI—The Times and the Record have both published the following authorized docu ment :—" The Committee of the Church of England Society for proinoting Christian Education in Syria having had se veral :communications respecting a dignitary of one of the Oriental sects, who hag been about 15 months in England, collecting funds to be applied to some purpose in Syria, de sire to make known to the members of the a b ove named Society, and to the Public generally, that th e y havenocon: nection whatever with that dignitary (Atbanasius Tutangi), to whom is given the title of Archbishop of Tripoli. The Committee have received a letter from Methodius, Patriarch of Antioch, and Benjamin, Archbishop of Beyrout, of the Orthodox Greek Church, in which they disclaim any connec tion with the said Archbishop of Tripoli. The Committee have further ascertained that the said Archbishop of Tripoli has frequently said mass in the Roman Catholic chapel of Saint Mary, Chelsea, and that he has distinctly avo wed his allegiance to the " Holy See." The Committee are authorized to state that the money which the above mentioned dignitary received from the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London was given by these prelates last year, in consider ation of his immediate necessities, and for the express pur pose of enabling him to leave this country." GWALIOR.—RELIGIOUS CEREMONY.—Tye grand festival of the Dusserah took place on the 13th, which is always ob served by the Mahrattas with particular magnificence. It is the commemoration of the victory gained by Rai Chunder . n over giant Rawun, in the island of Cey lon, and properly called Beeja Dusumee, the true Dusserah occurring in the month of Jeith, and being reckoned the commencement, as the Beeja Dusumee is the conclusion, of the rainy season. At this period the Indian armies are accustomed to take the field, and accordingly warriors of all casts and descriptions are to be seen busily employed throughout the precedi n g day in bathing their horse s, polishing their arms, and preparing new trapping for the exhibition of the following m orning, when every one prides himself in displayinn• ' asmuch mag nificence as he can. , The battalio ns an d the park were u nder arms at three o clock p.m. in their respective pa rade -grounds. The Maha R a j a th roug h severe indisposition did not make his appearance. At five p.m., the roaring of great guns from all the camps announced that the pundits in attendance had commenced the woojah, or sacrifice, by pour ing milk and curds upon the branches of a tree, and smearing over the leaves with we t te d r i ce . Th e Maha Raja, was too unwell to perform the ceremonies. The head pundit, in en deavouring to strike off a branch with his sword, dropped his turban, and applied the weapon to the shoulders of the Rajah's uncle, and severely wounded him. This sad occur rence is accounted by all as a very bad omen. The wound of the unfortunate sufferer was immediately dressed, and there is no great danger of its mortifying. Thus ended the Dusse rah, with the usual signal of severaljays, that were kept in readinoss for the occasion, being let loose, and hailed by the Nlabrattas as a propitious omen. Several other incidents and the loss of half a dozen lives happened the same evening, but I have not come to the particulars of them as yet.--October 15, 1842. THE VIRGINS OF THE TYROL, AND THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY. Protestant Association-office, 11, Exeter Hall, London, Dec. 2, 1842. Ma. EDITOR,—In your paper of to-day is a letter from Lord Shrewsbury, attempting to cast discredit upon a state ment rnadb by a correspondent of mine, residing at Cham bery, respecting one, if not both, of the unhappy women, with whose shameful and indecent blasphemies* his lord ship's mistaken credulity has led him to associate his name. 1 will merely state, in reply to hislordship's letter, that I have known my correspondent for years, can fully rely upon the accuracy of every ccmmunication made to me by that individual, who could have no possible object in fabricating a falsehood upon the subject ; and that, at present, I see no reason whatever to doubt the truth of the statement in ques tion. I have, of course, written for the information promised by my correspondent, and will give it to the public directly it arrives. There is quite enough, however, in Lord Shrews bury's pamphlet itself, to convince any' one of the wicked ness and fraud of the parties concerned in the fabrication of these miracles. They arc, in fact, nothing more than a bungling repetition of " pious frauds and cheats" again and again resorted to by the Romish Church, the transparent trickery of which is easily detected, and which have been consequently %gain and again exposed by Roman Catholic as well as Protestant authorities. Every reader of ecclesiasti cal history, and especially every student of the Romish con troversy, must be familiar with such things. Lord Shrewsbury says that he is " intimately convinced" that the statement is not true; and a Roman Catholic cor respondent of an evening paper, dating his letter from the Alfred Club, says :—" 1 have before me abundant evidence to satisfy me that the information there given (in the letter from Chawbery) is wholly and entirely contrary to the fact. Why then, let rue ask, does not Lord Shrewsbury, whose own name is so intimately connected with these virgins, give the public the facts which have led to his lordship's being `• intimately convinced" of the fallacy of my correspondent's statement? Why does not the heroic champion of these virgins, who dates from the Alfred Club, at once and for ever vindicate their queitioned honour by giving to the pub lic eye the " abundant evidence" which he boasts of pos sessing ? Surely nothing can be easier, if they or either of them possess such abundant evidence, than to give publicity to it, and thus disabuse the public mind. I should, for one, be rejoiced to see it, for it would convince me that I might possibly be wrong in arriving at the very painful conviction that these existed a British Peer weak and superstitious enough to believe, on very improbable and totally insufficient evidence, a most blasphemous and clumsy device as a true miracle, which was, in fact, the offspring of it may be clever, but still unscrupulous priests. Let me, however, whisper one word in the ear of both these champions of Rome. They appear to be " very easily satisfied." They find no difficulty in believing that the God of love, who, when on earth, went about doing good, healing the sick, and dispensing blessings with an unsparing prodi gality, now manifests His Divine love by inflicting the most excruciating tortures on an innocent female ; not by the way of fatherly correction, for no earthly being can be more holy than these women are represented to be, but making her miserable as a special mark of Divine favour for strengthen ing the faith of others. The particulars of the sufferings of the Addolorata, as given by Lord Shrewsbury, are so horri ble that the mind capable of attributing their parentage to God's love to the suffering woman must be a credulous and perverted mind indeed. These two Romish apologists find no difficulty in believing that " blood flows upward ;" that " the sheets upon which this child of sorrow lies, and upon which so much blood flows every week from so many wounds, ARE NOT STAINED WITH THE LEAST DROP OF BLOOD' ' and though the sheets of her bed have never been changed for five years (1839) they are still perfectly clean !! I" that " a person lived without food for twenty years in perfect health and strength ;" and other equally ridiculous, and, when clothed with the mask of religion, pre-eminently mis chievous and wicked fabrications. No wonder they are saga cious enough to bring before the public not one shred of the " abundant evidence" which " intimately convinces" them. The public are not so easily satisfied—at least, if they have any remaining claim to be considered " discerning." What would satisfy Lord Shrewsbury's mind or the mind of the writer from the Alfred Club would not satisfy the thinking mind of an enlightened Protestant, and therefore they do well and wisely to keep such " abundant and intimately con vincing evidence" locked safely up at Hornby Castle and the Alfred Club still. Lord Shrewsbury flatters himself too much, and conceals from his own mind a fact of which it certainly ought to have been "intimately convinced" long before this, when he says, alluding to the promised statement of my correspondent, "When this authentic statement comes, which of course Mr. Dalton has requested, the public will then see where the im position lies." Begging his lordship's pardon, the public have long ago seen and known where the imposition lies. The pubUcition of his lordship's pamphlet sufficiently pointed the public eye to the scene of imposture ' and the public were far too enlightened not to see through the dis graceful fraud practised on the credulous population of others countries, and far too generous, led me add, not to.deplore the unfortunate credulity which could lead a peer of such high rank and connection to prostrate his mind before so palpable an imposition. It only remains for me to state that I have no connection, and very sincerely hope that 1 never shall have any connec tion, with the Weekly Dispatch, which has given its readers a paragraph upon the subject. The Dispatch must answer for its own faults, and, certainly, if the editor of that paper has fallen into a mistake, I fear it is not the first by many thousands. _ I have the honour to remain, Sir, Your obedient servant, EDWARD DALTON, Sec. * This language may appear strong, but a reference to Lord Shrewsbury's account of these women will at once justify it. The account published for the Irish by the Rev. F. C. Husenbeth is still more intolerably loathsome and wicked. Probably Lord Shrewsbury thought that the Eng lish were more refined than the Irish. lioz's NEW WORK.—Agreeably to the promise made by Mr. Dteßen. when he stopped " Itumphel 7 'c he commences the publication of a new work in January next. The title is to be " The Life and Adventures of Mar tin Chuzzlewit, his relatives, friends, and enemies, compris ing all his wills and his ways; with an historical record of what he did, and what he didn't ; showing, moreover, who inherited the family plate, who came in for the silver spoons, and who for the wooden ladles. The whole forming a com plete key to the House of Chuzzlewit." NUNS OF A Nuw ORDER. — The Gazelle de Mons states that a few days ago four women, in the attire of nuns, pre sented themselves at the residence of M. Laurent, at Carni eres, and demanded permission to pass the night there. The servant, not liking the appearance of the supplicants, signi fied ber disinclination to admit them to her master, and their request was refused. Exceedingly disappointed, the holy travellers were obliged to reascend the cart which had brought them, and continued their journey. The gendarmerie, how ever, had been informed of the visit that had been made, and very unceremoniously instituted a search into the real cha racter of the travellers, when it was discovered that they were men in disguise, and that the cart contained some fire arms and swords. The pretended nuns were in consequence arrested. EXTRAORDINARY INFATUATION. -- At the Worship street Police-office, London, on Wednesday, Harriet Sur grove, a young lady of very interestinc , appearance, aged 22, was charged by her father, the Rev. John Surgrove, the rec tor of St. Mary, Somerset, Upper Thomas.street, with hav ing absconded from home, taking with her the whole of her wardrobe, and also with having obtained goods in his name from different tradesmen. The rev. gentleman, with much emotion, stated that he was under the painful necessity of charging the defendant, who was his youngest daughter, with having absconded from home in company with his gardener, a young man named 'William Godfrey, and with having, since her departure, obtained a variety of articles from different tradesmen on his account. On the morning of Sunday last he left her in charge of his house in Dalston-terrace, during his absence at church, and on returning home in the after noon he found that she bad gone away, and had removed the whole of her wearing apparel and everything belonging to her. He remained ignorant of the circumstances con nected with her flight until the preceding day, when a per son called at his house, and informed him that she was seen leaving the house on Sunday morning in company with the gardener, who carried a large bundle, and that she had taken refuge at a coffee house in Shoreditch. On receiving this information witness called the gardener (who bad come to his work as usual, and acted as if nothing had happened,) and after charging him with the abduction of his daughter, he insisted upon being shown the way to the house in which she was located. Th young man consented to convey him thither, and it was the intention of witness to give him into custody on the road, but the latter, who apparently antici pated his design, gave him the slip, and effected his escape. Witness then procured the assistance of Serjeant Dubois. of the N division, with whom he repaired to the coffee-house in. Shoreditch, where he found his daughter in a wretche d apart ment on the second floor, and he gave charge of her to the officer. He said he knew of no motive to induce his daugh ter to act as she had done unless to contract a clandestine marriage. She had always been treated kindly at home, and had been expostulated with by her brother and sister. The magistrate, after advising the young lady as to the folly of her course, said he had no power to deal with the case. SYSTEMATIC ROBBERIES. --A man of the name of Shantou was last week brought before the magistrates at Clerkenwell, on a charge of robbery. The disclosures made at the examination disclosed a series of as gross and impudent impositions as were ever yet exposed in a police-court, and the prisoner's demeanour throughout was callous to the highest degree of effrontery. In 1834 the prisoner lodged, under the name of Stanton, at the house of a Mr. Collins, 31, Cadogan-street, Chelsea. Whilst there he ordered a dress coat, value £3 Bs., from Mr. Fairhank, tailor, 184, Sloane -street, for which he was to pay cash. When the coat was brought he wrote an order, purpo rtin g to be u pon Sir J. Scott Lillie, for £ coa t should be immediat e ly fi n i s h e d . Th e ma n we nt back to Mr. Fairbank s to b d e es iring the messenger to see th at the waistcoat t o know if the order would be match the ; accepted, but on returning, by the direction of his employer, to insist upon cash, Mr. Stanton had bolted, taking with him two silver spoons , value 205., the property of Mr. Collin s, his landlord. T hi s was on he 13th or 14th of December, 183.4. W 1834. The next feat of ingenuity was exhibited at 13, bourne-street, Pimlico, where he took lodgings with a poor charwoman named Clifford, to whose daughter (for whom he ultimately proposed and was accepted) he paid assiduous court. He stated himself to be possessed of property of from £2OO to £3OO a-year, and proposed that when the mar riage took place his wife's mother should live with them in the capacity of a servan t. To this the p oor woman j o y fu lly assented, and drew out a £lO no te which she had in th e bank—her whole earthly possessions —to procure her daugh ter's marriage with so desirable a husband. The priso ner , however, instead of fu the contract i stole the £lO n ote a bsconded s n • the th spoil. Thi s occurred on the 16t fulfilling from from the mantelpiece , o f January, 183 • . I n January, 1836, the prisoner a tailor at Chelsea to order a p a i r of dress trousers. proved b.nkthe on .Fnir tobethe same who took went to tho person him the dress coa t from , year before, wh o immediatelyv recog nized the prisoner and requested hi m t o call again. He did so, and the attendance of Hugh es , the then parish constable of Chelsea, having been procured in the interim, the prisoner was given into custody, and taken to Queen-square, where, at the request of the constable, he was re manded. Whilst the prisoner was under remand, Hughes discovered that he had been lodging, in the April of 1835, at the hou'se of a Mr. Stafford, watch and chronometer maker, No. 9. Gainsford-street, Islington, whence he had stolen, on the 26th of that month, two silver watches and a chronometer, value £3O. In 1835 he lodg e d w i t h a lady na med Elizabeth Tattet, No.l, Prince's-square, Kennington. One Sunday, when Mrs. Tattet was about to go to church, the prisoner feigned illness, and said he would take care of the house, requesting the lady to lend him her Bible, which she did. During her absence he broke open her drawers, from which he took five sovereigns, some plate, and other articles, to the amount of £l9, with which, together with the Bible, he absconded, leaving the house open. For these things sentence of death was recorded against the prisoner, but this was commuted to transportation for life, and that again to a term of years in the Penitentiary. After the ex piration of this term, the prisoner continued to follow up the same course of fraud. After the examination, a truly dis tressing scene was witnessed. A poor woman, to whom the prisoner was married in 1827, appeared with her child, about 12 years of age, a daughter of the prisoner, and requested the magistrate to induce him to give up to her the pawn-ticket of a bed, but the prisoner affected not to know her. The females in court would have inflicted summary vengeance upon the prisoner but for the protection of the police. Rad VcISAi .7A7