The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-02 00:00:00

SOLVI'v~ e, 6d. each LY PATRONISED BY TH ROYAL Dm Eleve WATER CURE 70. MOUNT-PLEA SA THIS Establishment, 1 tus for the CUR e .HYDROPATH DISEASE a o f lava ] H. HE; AULUt; tiate of College of P?Ys, The H y dropat uNTON, ACID CO.'S TRUMAN, HANBURY, PORTER DEALERS Br- LONDON at an EXTENSIN PO RTE lAN a Messrs NG: DILA ORDERS are also REIGN PORT, 22, KING- AGEN I FENEKI F _ FI , PORT, SHERRY y Fa , qj In PIPES; BUTTS, 11 The qualities are va Zion an STUD PADDOCKS, LYTHANI, IS-13. TO COVER THIS SEASON, hfs Sovereigns, G So --mos, Groom 14 FASHION, by Dro . Remnant (late Ha .11... , .- ~,, A MISS I I: ' Als FOUND 1: can ha' of car ria rmission to line the .1 1 foo mi Ord Patrui A if EXPORT. pieces, each having the DIRECT FROM c or for ANY Fo- CONSPIRACY AG-Al ix To n ... Th ARMITAG , 'PET, LIVEIZP 0 OL, I I lengt itfornin, ch of I I 0 b LASSICAI WAIN, Miss rved Seat t r im POLYTECHNIC EXH ■the MUSIC-HALL. BOLD-ST IBITION will OPEN, at REET, on MONDAY next. rents are too numerous to mention in an ad at further particulars may be gathered from lIGENTLEMAN in this town is in possession of a plan by which FIRES can be speedily EXTINGUISHED, and by which they can be immediately prevented spreading beyond the portion - of any building where they may be dis -.5.,....(1_—The oarties name may be obtained at the Standard NFOUNDLAND BITCH. The Owner g description, and paying expenses 10th instant she will be sold. THE DUKE OF SUSSEX r the funeral have at length been com , the 4th instant, has been fixed 2 the mortal remains of the late from Kensing ton Palace f the General terneter orthy of his exalted .ir recer stood that, notwithstanding the wish of the to attend the remains of their late illustrious b, their offer has been declined, as s by the nobility and gentry. ngs for the purpose of obtain- mtealong whiChtlie procession my of his late royal highness's remains lying in :e place at Kensington Palace on Wednesday the 3d instant, between the hours of ten . o'clock a.m. and four o'clock p.m., during which hours all persons attired in accent mourning will be admitted. The preparations for the solemn spectacle arc fast hastening towards completion, Dably be, finished by Monday night and is covered it is 7 feet :) inches ISH 0I {ACTS A y f LlN't IRON MANS THE Public are ING (tbe first for INSPECTIO CHINESE I PORTICO; B MITE above EXHI COLLECTIOIs zreat attraction 10 Pers, VIEWS past N lecha- PRINCIPAL NOBI BRITAIN LITY AND GENTRY OF GREAT A ND IRELAND. PRIN GTHORPE'S splendid EX HIBITION of WAX - S WORK FIGURES, Grind COSMORAMIC VIEWS ROCK HARMONICON "- NOW OPEN for le LIN is ' splendidly fitted up tor J. SPRI THORPE, Ar Ladies. Gentlem.- and ;' N, && _ . ... o men, and the Pubtic in is vicinity, that he has brought forward for their inset an ENTIRE NEW COLLETI tion in ON Of FIGURE r-. 1. nn h C esita asserting, 1 as large as i not only bee as regards s shed Ind iotte, by Pi Sir Walter dam Lady FASHION sta runner, won nve Royal Plat beating Frenzy, Thump, Lac of the day. The Horse will attend Season :—Every Tuesday will remain from ten to tw to the Eagle and Chit ton, from two to four, thenc )n Wednesda nine to ten o'clock from eleven to one WALTON'S 1 RINAILY LIVERPOOL. where ne the Talbot Inn, Ormsk Bridge, from eleven to of Preston, all night where he will iema, NEW FASHION, in it' Agricultural Meeting. f beating Arourath, Kin' New Fashion has prove stock are remarka Good accommoda Barren Mares dered. AIR. COCKLE pA Duke of Grafton Duke of Munches Duke of Bedford Duke of Argyll Duke of Beiufort Duke of Rutland Duke of :Marlborough Duke of Buccleuch Duke of Devonshire Duke of Sutherland Marquis of Lansdowt Marquis of Normanb Marquis of A Marquis of Wincheste Marquis of Abercorn Earl of Eldon Earl of Mint° Earl of Carnal Earl of Kinnoul Earl of Errol Earl of Mountcash Earl of Darlington Earl of Guildford Earl of Scarboroug Earl of Oxford Earl of Thanet Earl of Athlone Earl of Roscommon Earl Cowper Earl Amherst Earl of Leicester Earl of Gainsboro Viscount Melbow Viscount Palmersto Viscount Ilowick Viscount Fordwich Viscount Torrington Viscount Acheson iriieolint Alford Lord Arundel Lord Hill Lord Plunket Lord Murray Lord Kinnaird Lord Bentinck Lord Fitzroy Lord Middleton Lord Frederick Gord Lord Willoughby d'} Lord Hay Lord Redesdale Lord Seymour Lord Hartland Lord Western p of A Lord Sydenham Lord Archbisho Bishop of Durham Bishop of Chester Bishop of Bath and Bishop of Norwich Bishop of Salisbury Bishop of Peterborough And numerous Fa tail Mr. COCKLE, SUR( before his friends and ESTIMATION of his Letter which that genth " I have o tions of with a tor p id s t a te of chiefl nay De both local and cons opportunities of want greatly influence the st and in the al( without occasioning p Eml ma' most excellent fanii lishop all times with perfect safety. They are prepared by Mr. JAuxs ( ordinary to Her Serene Highness th Hasa Homaufto, and may be had tine Venders, in boxes, at Is. lid., `4 mine which have the NOTI( This mark of aathe dangerous and dele New Or SUTHERLANDSHIR Duke of S people will g Establishmei o out w nt. A sheep-farmer the Establis Duke's Rua JAMES XHIBITIU LD-STREET•" Is'NOW OPEN a kw as silk crimson velvet les, and in breadth across the shoulders aches. The inside is lined with plain 2 feet 9 i me material. 'T ut line of the coffin is marked by ilt and burnished nails. Each side is far panel. In the corners of each panel is an exqui- royal ducal cro w n uare, having ssive gilt The lid is ded into three panel's p.r one MUSIC tly deline mat y pense y executed. In the centre panel will be Las plate, on which will appear the following Depositutti ness ac Baronis de Arklow, Nobilissimi Ordinis Cardui Ali Maris de Balneo tanniarum Regina :esimo Primo April ni MDCCCXDIII sum LXXII." g closed it will have eight corner on, a ducal coronet. ST THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Post, of Thursday, contains a somewhat pondence between the Rev. Dr. Book, vi- Mr. Hamer Stanstield, an agitating Dissen- . _ ... ho is a considerable: manufacturer in that town. This idonia) WINE, correspondence shows, in a very marked and conclusive man ner, the system of falsehood and forgery to which the ene - N ;Dies of the Church of England resort in order to defame her - - and destroy the sister establishment. It shows also -laismatical party in the Church of Scotland are ---- , hpr as instigators, or renert I cu Uon. I 91 instruments ; and that they go eordially hand-in-hand th Socinians and Infidels in the congenial work of detrac n and d 'rhe corres Fe rgUSSU I 1 / advocate Ge- ,t.K.C.H GI c.B 7' 1-clb•B B a rt. -,t_ Bar P nit'. Bart. Colcbes St.AlbE.ii n Cambn g APOTH aiust at 13 rana s uitao Mares Three Horse NEW . • Queensm f Fair Ch Grinder, he NEI sir Pet :I!er Stakes following b it uring th Rose Wles,dwh gh Ewc- re no will remain s o r Man, Wigan , all :id Arms, Ashton, fr om ' •'Pn Inn St. H 3C:to M Thursda, to Tar Y lton tle Inn, F to a • to the Cas L 5 Preto Thorotg, sure foal niSlng Mares t pri r ce, if or- . Hon. M- 17 - J H o n, sir ledsvaAri -^,l ColOfc• Hon. F91...-lar Sir H J Sir .P girM Fr . wheat! o a ma RESTON, I n NEAR 1 ' elle ° cl . h A Stan I S . _ ael Co Mr. Serj, , Mr. Serg and so Calcutta J. A• Mt, Ven.Archdeacor Rev. Dr. Fr Rev. Dr. Benson Rev. Dr. Marsh E 1) Robert Renwick, Waddy, Es, Dublin John Hatchell, Esq., Dubli f the highest respectability. has much pleasure in laving public, Mr. ABERNETHY'S b addre ssedilious Pills, extracted from :a to him in the year CocK] ong Dl masonic I Grand M , ondenee, as stated by Dr. Hook, took its rise )f governmer e of the Leeds • ~ üblished under the auspices of this sthood have a neral commission to represent t in His name in His several trans- actions with mankind! The writer affirms, that ' the rite of marriage administered by a preacher of schism in a conven ticle, or by any teacher whatever, unless ordained by a bishop, is a most blasphemous invasion of a holy office; that the conventicle rites do not bind the parties ; that marriage by the statute law, without the benediction of a priest of the Catholic Church, is no marriage at all : it is but legalised adultery.' (Strong disapprobation.) Is that the religion of the Established Church of this country, into whose hands eenera - ou are asked to „tst the education Of the rishig g. tion ? God forbid ! Oh, let not our legislators, by passing this bill, .aid and abet this proud assumption of a priestly —let them not follow their example and throw down the gauntlet into the arena of conscience—let them not place in vpositiOn man's allegiance." Dr. Hook, against whom this general attack on the church s more particularly, thOugh covertly, directed, immedi ately wrote to Mr. Stansfield, requesting a sight of the tract containing the above quotations. After some days' delay, Mr. Staustield returned the following answer, which we quote ea. in full, as it affords an unmistakeable clue_to the real source Hi s I of the calumny " Headingley Lodge, April 21, 1843. have delayed replying further to your note. g RP.V. SI . . . _ )f the 15th, in the daily hope of being able to furnish you with a copy of the original tract on matrimony, which I un lerstand is in the possession of th 2 Rev. John Burnett, of Camberwell. I have written to him, but have as yet no • " In the meantime I enclose you a reprint of the tract, and At the original existed and was sent from Leeds, the fOl - extract of a letter from Hugh Miller, editor and estibly inter o proves. " The letter was addressed to a friend who had madc inquiry I am sorry to find that the Puseyite tract to which you refer, and which was presented some time since to the readers of the Witness, was cut up into slips by the printers, and can not now be recovered. I can refer, however, to the fact of its existence to very unexceptionable testimony. It was sent me anonymously through the post-office, under a cover bearing the Leeds post mark, and, before using it, I showed it, among others, to the Rev. Mr. Buchanan, High Church, to Mr. John Hamilton, to the Rev. Mr. Goold, and to the Rev. Dr. Symington: I read parts of it also to Dr. Chat- a arise s copy• from the tract ~i,kred privately. The difficulty in -procurin e , iNsban trnlsii.hea utz ins ssist you in your endeavours to meet _ . . with one to mention that report ascribes the authorship to Mr. Ward, formerly, I understand, one of your curates; at any rate it will enable him to contradict the report if desirous It may perhap fso doing.—l remain, reverend sir, " Yours respectfully " II AMER STANSFIELD To the Rev. W. F. Hook, D.D." e regret we have not room in to-day's paper for the' re= of Dr. Hook to this singular epistle. In that reply he ex ; most* ably the pitiful explanation of Mr : Stanstield. Hook ract C of the sentiments quoted by Mr. Stansfield nd he as strongly _ re ductrines laid down in the tractiwhiCh had been im. He further gives a letter from Mk. Ward, curate, contradicti a the most distinct terms statement that he was the author of the tract, or pre led tract. Edinburgh Post says that the truth of the affair ap netny of the Church of Itertained towards it 'England, ChaiTe Tirc,R of the Church of Scotland, printed a ertions (looted by Mr. Stansfield, as then forwarded of the rVilncas, as the b. calumnies: The editor appears, ited with his advisers;Messrs. and Dr. Syinington,. and also Dr: It to ha 5 given to the world ged popish tendenc thoiight it a capital groan Accordingly' ied vith their other proc of the Episcopal Churc ye been equally acceptable Mr. Statisticld, finding it rs nair.st the Church of Eng!al where find a readier rnarket.tii Church,'w al part or of the Witness 6 PARKS We understan , Commissioners of Woods and Forests do not intend mice' the appointments of the deputy-rangers, Sir August D'Este and Mr. Stephenson,,under Jsis late Royal I-lighne the Duke of Sussex, who receive salaries for the duties th Thp ranter formerly derived an income, we belies £l,soo.per annum from " the grazing'!. of, sheep they have been transferred to the d is and Forests, who repair emi t of W that source are paid into their offs A. numerous meeting o STATISTICAL S k, 4, St. 'Martiu's-place, ad on tragic and accidents n. in 1842. by C. R. Weld, Board of Trad T he null eerh t A. new clause in the act of E lies to twenty-on the pa s. The number of .mounted to 18,453 rried upon fifty ra a-class, and 2,592,057 passen Ashed. The gross receipts f •••-•• • , elO/ . Newca amounted t0.C:_j.,731 ich the trz ges :—Nor ur ; Great Western and North Shei nand Cou 30, ditto : North Midland, s, 21, ditto. The average speed (I on all the lines is 211 miles per hour 'OREIGN. AND COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE 11r. W. Roper, a temperance lecturer, was mobbed and rick-batted at Owens Station, Missouri, a few weeks since. ic escaped with his life. Letters from Champagne state, that, in consequence of the njury done to the vines by the late frost, a considerable rise las taken place in the prices of wines. Count Gilbert de Voisins, whose serious illness we have -.7ed, died • —Paris paper. [This gentleman ... yesterday as Taglioni's husband.l A new church is now in progress of erection in Vienna. e interior of which is to be decorated with fresco paintings, presenting scenes from the Crusades. The Protestant Bishop ofJerusalem has obtained from the .uthorities of .13eyrout permission to go on with the building the church he had commenced in the Holy City The subscriptions towards the Guadaloupe relief fund. paid into the hands of the commander-in-chief by the na,.. tional guards of Paris and the Banlieue, amount to 87,342 f. A grand bull-fight took place at Madrid, on the 17th ult. No remarkable accident, says a Madrid letter, occurred; but 15 horses were killed. . Several persons having been lately poisoned at Bayonne and St. Esprit by eating mussels, the municipal authorities have issued an order suspending the sale of this shell-fish. On Palm Sunday the Bishop of Gibraltar, assisted by seven clergymen of the Church of England, consecrated the new Protestant church at Athens, in presence of tie Duchess of Oldenburg, the queen's sister, and a number of English residents and travellers. Bladiices from Alexandria we find that the Pasha of Egypt has acknowledged the receipt of a gold medal voted tc him in London'for his keeping open the 'lndian route during the perplexing year 1840, and for the protection which he has afforded to Englishmen. THE 'SOMNAUTH GATES.-=We mint not forget to an nounce the removal into the magazine this morning of the Somnauth gates. The only observations we have heard either from Hindoo or Mussulman during our stay here, has been a surprise at so much fuss being made about a couple of maunds of rotten old wood. The trappings for this piece of foolery will, from what we have seen of them, very probably cost some 2500 rupees.—Delhi Gazette. . ' • • • vv • CONVERT FROM JUDAISM.—On Easter-day the interest ing ceremony of the public baptisni of a'conyerted Israelite, Mr. Henry Friedberg, of Kalish, in Poland, was celebrated in the parish' church of Binegar, Somerset. agreeably to the injunction.of the Special Commissary of the Diocese, acting for the Lord Bishop of Bath and 'Wells. The holy rite of baptism was administered by the Rev. James Mules. THE REVOLUTION IN HAYTI.—By accounts which have been . receiied at Falmouth, we learn that on the 26th tilt. every thingwas in perfect tranquility at Port-au-Prince: The Patriot army, in two divisions, consisting of about 14.000 men, bad entered Port-au-Prince under the command of the two generals, Herald Rivere and Lazarre. The inhabitants had . appointed a Committee of Public Safety for the main tenance of order, and for the protection of persons and pro perty, pending the election of a new president.. A gentleman who has just landed from the Hector mentions, that it was a most agreeable feature of the revolution in question, and alike creditable to the principals and subordinates, that the most perfect order and good feeling prevailed, and was likely to continue, the better government of the country appearing to be the sole object of the change. This will be most satis factory to parties in England having connexions in St. Domingo. The same gentleman also communicates, that to his certain knowledge Boyer, on.his departure in the Scylla man.of-war,hri,g took no more specie with Win among all his family than 50,000 dollars. 4 NICE POINT.—One of the principal clerks in the office of the Minister of .the Finances some time since sent a secretaire, to a cabinetmaker to be repaired. After a lapse of two days; he recollected. that, in his haste, he had left a quantity of money in a secret drawer, and immediately went to the cabinet-maker, who told them that he had not yet ex-, amined it. Upon this, the owner opened the secretaire, and, pressing the spring, discovered that his treasure was gone. The cabinetmaker having denied that he had taken anything from the secretaire, the gentleman went 'to the commissary of police of the quarter, who, with one of his officers, searched the premises of the cabinetmaker, and very soon discovered 3,000 f., partly in bank notes, enclosed in a Russian leather pocketbook, and the rest in gold, contained in a silk purse, corresponding precisely with the account of the loss previ ously given by the owner - to the commissary. The cabinet -1 maker now attempted to justify himself by stating, that as he had been told before he removed the secretaire that it had been completely cleared out, he supposed this. money had be longed to some previous owner, and that it became the right of the first finder. This plea was not held good by the com missary, and he. sent the cabinetmaker to the prison of La Force, to answer for his fraudulent conduct. .AN ODD INNCONTILE. — The Gazelle des Tribunaux gives the following :—" A strange scene took place on Friday last at the promenade of Longchamps. A handsome caß:che passed along, containing a lady, said to possess great dramatic talent, and anxious for au engagement, and a young man with black moustachios, who paid the greatest attention to his beautiful companion. Suddenly a lady, on a beautiful chest nut mare, of great value, rode up to the vehicle, and peered in very rudely . for a few seconds. The young man seemed overcome with alarm, and the would-be actress grew pale through her rouge. The appearance of the horsewoman, on the contrary, was highly animated, and anger sparkled in her eyes. - After continuing her survey for about a minute, she suddenly raised her riding-whip, and, with a vigorous arm, struck the gentleman and the lady across the face, leaving them both well marked ; then flinging her card into the car riage, she rode off at full gallop. This was only the first scene of the adventure. The second took place on Monday, in the Bois de Romainville. Two elegantly-dressed women arrived nearly at the same time in cabriolets; and at once proceeded to business. ' I have the choice of weapons,' said the lady that had been struck, ' and I suppose you are . not more anxious than I to have seconds in what is about to take place.' NO,' haughtily replied the other, 'I am entirely at your orders. You took from me a friend, whom I did not wish to leave to ycu without the striking accompaniment, which you may remember.' Oh ! you mean the horse whipping ?" Why, yes, I certainly do, but I did not like using the word.' • Don't put yourself under any restraint, my dear,' replied the other, ' for I swear to you that, before two minutes arc over, the word will not produce any greater effect on .you ,than on me,' Saying this, she opened her dress, and taking from under it a thick and heavy whip, corn menced belabouring the other with all her force. 'lire origi nal assailant, bruised and covered with blood. was on the point of sinking to the earth, when one of the woodmen, . attracted by her cries, came up and rescued her. The two ' combatants were taken before the Mayor, who was ungallant enough to forward them to Paris under 'escort: The third act of the piece is to take place, we are informed, in the Correctional Tribunal. If so, we shall give an account of it." • . . THE SUGAR TRADE (From the Timps.) The merchants and others'connected with the sugar" trade have lately directed much attention to the statistics of this important article' of their eorntnerce. The result of labours undertaken with a view of throwing light on the matter, and of presenting in h condensed 'form infOrmation which has only existed in a setitterecl state, has already been printed ; but the wish it generally expressed, that it should be more extensively circulated. The fact shown by this . information is, that the cotisithiption of sugar has not advanced in the same proportion as the increase of population ; while at the same time the value of the colonial trade in sugar, both to the revenue and to the shipping and commercial interest, is set forth in a very clear point of view. Thus it is found that in 1840 the quantity of sugar imported into this country was 4,035,854 cwt., and the quantity exported was 229,511 cwt. of raw sugar, and 235,048 cwt. of refined. By the importa tion employment was given to nearly 141,000 tons of shipping from the West Indies, to 30,000 Mauritius, to 26,000 from Bengal, and to .36,000 from other countries, and employ ment was given to about 23,000 tons of shipping sailing to various parts. These large amounts, of course, represent a quantity of employment to the various classes connected with shipping, besides the labour expended in the manufacture of the article. The revenue derived from sugar was £4,449,033 in. 1840, £5,049,189 in 1841, and £4,884,415 in 1842. The great importance of this trade of course renders its manifest decline a matter of anxious solicitude, and it is ascertained by tabular statements, that although in the ten years ending in 1841 a larger quantity of sugar was consumed than in the ten years ending in 1831, the increase has been. below the average rate, notwithstanding the increase of population has exceeded the average. In the years 1838, 1839, and 1840 the quantity retained for home consumption was below the ten ' years' average, and it appears perfectly clear that sugar be comes more and more inaccessible to the poorer classes. Other tabular statements have been furnished, which show the decline - of consumption in parallel order with the increase of prices paid. From 1831 (which was a slave-labour year) the price, which was then 475. Bd., steadily advanced to 745. which is the average quotation for 1840, a decline taking 'place in 1811 to 655. 31d. Under all the circum stances thus briefly set forth, great anxiety is shown for some 'method of obtaining sugar at a cheaper rate, without, at the same time, encouraging the slave-trade. ALARMING ACCIDENT TO Ma. BRUNEL.OI-We deeply regret to statd . that this distinguished gentlemad is at present in a state of extreme suffering, not exempt from serious dan ger, (at his house in London) in consequence of a goodnatu red endeavour to amuse the children of a friend. The father and Mr. Brunel pretended, by sleight of hand, to pass money from the month to the ear, and vice versa, when Mr. Brunel, placing a half-sovereign in his mouth, it unfortunately slip ped into the trachea, where it. stuck, and every effort to remove it prOving ineffectual, Sir B. Brodie has been called in, and an operation„by making an incision in the thorax, t wat: determined upon. This critical operation was performed with remarkable Skill and precision, by Sir. B. Brodie, assis ted.by three other eminent surgeons.. Very little blood was lost by the incision in the windpipe, but coughing and irrita tion supervened, in such violence that the forceps could not be used, and the half-sovereign still remains in the trachea. The - oridcc,of the incision, however, is kept open, and Sir B. Brodie, who speaks favourably of the case, trusts that the substance may be extracted. The operation occupied a considerable time, and r. Brunel endured his sufferings with remarkable fortitude. We are 'happy to state, r.s the latest intelligence . :we have received, hopes are entertained that thc ; coin will be extracted when the irritation subsides, Which will probably be in a day or two.—Brislol Journal. [The London papers of yesterday state that another oper- Ation will be performed in a day or two, and that the medi cal gentlemen are not without hopes of success.] PIICEBEBowN,—This singular individual, who for a series of years was considered one of the curiosities of Matlock, still lives, but in wretchedly reduced circumstances. The visiter of Matlock of from fifteen to forty years since will not fail to remember Phoebe, her singular mode of dress, consist ing partly•of male and partly -of female attire, from its very oddity attracting general attention. Phoebe herself was, however, a far greater piece of singularity than her dress, and when we mention a few only of her daily avocations, this will easily be believed. She was reckoned an expert breaker of horses intended for the use of ladies, and possessed be sides a knowledge of agricultural affairs in general, consi- derable skill-in.the selection of live stock, and her o in the department of cattle breeding was frequently req Phoebe was enthusiastically attached to music, nor wi pinion as her alone. knowledge in this branch confined to one instrument She was a pleasing, if not a very scientific, performer c favourite instrument, the flute, and was almost equ, boon on the harpsichord and violoncello, o❑ . which i went she accompanied the choir at Matlock Cher( several years From a comfortable little indepent: the poor dame in declining years became chargeable to lock parish, and she still . occupies a poor cottage at MY town. PhceThe is (to use's word recently designated house of Lords. as " very learned") a decided monorn on her ally at nstru ch for tlency, Mat atlock in the her mania being, however, of a very harmless decent and consisting chiefly in the belief that she is able to pei miracles by means of witchcraft, these miracles ref chiefly to the discovery of hidden treasure. She has lay however, got bold-of -a new crotchet—namely, that she 41e on die 4th of May, and . some. weeks ago, on a lade gentleman, of our. acquaintance calling •on her, and atte ipg to ridicule the prophecy, she produced a. suit of clothes of a peculiar fashion, which she had recently Up for herself in anticipation of the event which she so tively prognosticates. She, however, in this instance played a want of the tact so' frequntlY,acconipailyingce grees,of insanity, as along with her shroud, &c. . she aycd a new female garment,' which she informed the s e had just completed, and which, t h ou g h of coarse mate as beautifully made, and from its texture ealcUlated to' 41ength of time, —,Derby ilfercui# lady erial, wear EIGUTEENTH MAL, RMANN, Mr. C. H ERRM ANN JMPSON, Mr. LEONARD, and M it the Pi .t the MUSIC-lIALL, the sth of May, at TOTT. Miss IRMSTRONG Mr. DANIES had on the Paritalantarp Prottebings. H OUSE OF *LORDS — Tuunsn&Y. The Duke of WSiLLINGTON,. In pursuance o f n otice to that effect, moved for an address of condolen ce t o liar Majesty on the lamented death of his hoyal Highness the Duke of Sussex. The address was agreed to HOUSE OF COMMONS-TIIURSDAY -- -- - Mr. LANE For gave notice that, on the 1 1th of May, he would call attention to the agitation in Ireland: for the pur pose of procuring a repeal of the union, with the view of putting a stop to it. Mr. MACKUJNON moved for a select committee to ascer tain the revenue,,expeudituret and condition of , the harbours and lighthouses on the coast, from diet:ion . till:a the Thames to i‘ P i o a r j t o s i 7 l3 7:h E . sronD moved as ananiendment that the . Mr. CURTEIS seconded the motion. . of the sites, and all :to Portsmouth. -of refuge, should be in quiryotherSir . bßepxEt mattes etnLed. connected ni f de r c o tt m eh da Lt witha the n g u s a be r ai d re ' harbours-of j o u( i r r. n t I left to - the Government. If they were,to enter upon the pre sent inquiry propositions would be made to extend it to other parts of the coast, and they would ultimately find that they had entered upon an interminable inquiry. After a tew words from Mr. A. CHAPMAN the house divided, and the motion was negatived by.a majority of 79 to 34. Lord t movedsEeyssn3in England and Wales; and a l so o f for returnkof the fees received by ciekstof U p ' e hsL tty - in the number of convictions during the last three years, and to what purposes the tines had been applied ; also similar re turns respecting fines paid on convictions before justices.— The motion was agreed to. Mr. JERVIS obtained leave to bring in a bill for improving the proceedings in the supreme courts in certain actions for amounts not exceeding £2O. . Lord ELIOT moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend and continue the laws relative to the registering of arms, and the importation, manufacture, and sale of arms, gunpowder, and ammunition in Ireland. Leave was then given to bring in the bill, and the house adjourned HOUSE OF LORDS.--FRIDAY Lord CAMPBELL Moved the second reading of the bill for facilitating the conveyance of real property, by shortening the verbose pi olixity . of such conveyances. lie proposed the adoption 'of a pal lilinientary.forM of conveyance which might be contained within . the compass of a bank -note, and that solicitors should be paid 'according to the value of their services, and not according to the length of the documents they had to furnish. . The Loan CHANCIMLOR took several objections to the bill which rendered it impossible for him to supp or t it. Th e bill would only apply iii cases in which its application would be of little use, attd he - was wholly opposed to having a par. liatnentary form of, conveyanCe, the smallest mistake in copy ing which would vitiate the transaction. He, therefore, moved that the bill should be read a second time that day six, months. Lord LANGDALE was opposed to the bill, and said that the great evil was the system of paying all departments of the profession according to the length of the proceedings, and not according to the actual service performed. After some observations (coin Lord Campbell, the Duke of Wellington, and the Lord Chancellor, the second reading of the bill was negatived without a division, and their lord ships adjourned. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL SECOND NIGHT OF MR. CHARLES KEAN, T HIS EVENING, TUESDAY, May 2nd, the Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth........ To conclude with the Fairy Extravaganza of THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. TO-MORROW (Wednesday), MACBETH Mr. C. Kean. With a f avour i te A fterpiece Alacbeth TO CORRESPONDENTS The Albion says the proceedings at the last Council were " from first to last, as good as a lively and amusing five act comedy." This comparison is so ingenious, that it excited our admiration. In his report of this " dramatic" exhibition, we find the following pleasant embellishment of Mr. Alderman Earle's speech, concerning the houses in Hanover-street :—" The frequent mention of the word privy' induced the reporter for the Standard to whisper laughingly to one of his Mends, ' Is this a privy Council ?' Mr. Earle, who overheard the query, said, laughing, I am asked if this is a Privy Council. (Loud laughter.) I am sure I don't know—(looking archly at the gentleman who had used the expression.) The bon snot is not mine, gentlemen."—We are assured that, for this representation, so far as our reporter is concerned, the public are indebted to the imagination of the Albion itself. The bun snot (such as it was) was the offspring of a witty councillor on the Liberal side. DOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY Lord STAxLm - stated that several of t(►e noblemen and gentlemen connected' with theTritish:Americau Emigration Association had subscribed sums for the relief of the un fortunate emigrants who had been sent out to Prince Ed ward's Island, but who had fortunately for themselves been driven back by stress of weather. He also expressed a hope that the example would be followed by the remainder of those gentlemen. In reply to a question from Mr. LEFROY, Lord ELIOT said that government was - by no means in different to the agitation in Ireland for the repeal of the union, which could not be persevered in without danger to the public peace. Sir G. GREY then resumed the adjourned debate on the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Courts' Bill, which he had resolved to support, because the chief object of the bill was to carry into effect many of the recommendations of the ecclesiastical commissioners. He hoped, however, that his proposition of referring the bill to a select committee would be adopted, that its technicalities might be carefully consi dered, and some objectionable provisions removed. There was at present a divided testamentary jurisdiction in matters relating to real and personal estate leading to great inconve nience and expense by causing parties to go into two cour t s in order to prove the validity one and the same instrument. This should be altered, as should also be the exclusive mo nopoly of Doctor's-commons. All these matters could be much better considered by a select committee than they could possibly be in the committee on the bill. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the defects and in convenience of the ecclesiastical courts had been long the subjects of complaint. .The ecclesiastical commissioners re commended that all the courts of peculiars should be thrown into three provincial jurisdictions ; but this bill proposed to give all the business to one central and supreme court, which, in his opinion, was an improvement on the recom mendation of the ecclesiastical commissioners. One strong argument in favoUr of the bill was the importance of having during a war a body of civilians well acquainted with inter national law. Lord R. GROSVENOR said be was a strenuous supporter of le, al reform, but to, this bill he bad objections, amongst which, was the perpetuation of he monopoly of the Doctors'. commons practitioners. The defects he perceived in the bill would, he thought,.defeat the benefit which it was intended to confer. Dr. EI.PIIINTONE thought something ought to be done to remedy the evil Hof the conflicting decisions of the various ecclesiastical courts, but by fixing the minimum of jurisdic. tion at £3OO, the bill in effect made good law for the rich and bad law for the poor. There were many objections to the bill, but he thought they might he remedied in committee. Mr. Escorr regretted being obliged to oppose the bill, hut the objections he had heard urged against it had confirmed his opinion that it would prove unsatisfactory and insufficient. The Secretary for the Home Department had said he would blush for the house if personal interests led them to reject the bill ; but he would rather blush for the insufficiency of his•own arguments to support it. Mr. G. H. VERNON, as chancellor of the province and judge of the Prerogative Court of York, was aware of the many evils of the present state of the ecclesiastical law, and of tie conflicting decisions of the inferior courts, which called for a remedy;.which he firmly believed the present ineasuie Would provide, and be thus most .beneficial to the country. Mr. T. DUNCOME, in an amusing speech, contended for the total abolition of the ecclesiastical courts, and said that in his opinion. tlie..whole business of those courts should be transferred td.tlie courts at 'Westminster Hall. He was op posed to the bill,,though not upon the same grounds as those put forward by,Sir R. Inglis. He was inclined to think with Colonel Sibthorp that it was a " Doctors'-commons job," though the expression was one not likely to be used on his (Mr. Dunconabe's) side of the house. (This assertion of the hon. gentleman:in support of the extreme modesty of his side of the house produced roars of laughter.) He was of opinion that the bill was an attempt to bolster up a rotten system, and he should therefore oppose it. Sir R. Pim, said he had rarely seen a bill opposed, as this was, by gentlemen of such discordant opinions, and it be came therefore necessary to classify the objections and prove to the house in replying to them that this bill effected a ma terial improvement in the present state of the law by re moving many of those evils which had been long felt an d complained of. Many of those evil s h a d ex i ste d more than 300 years, and had been denounced by Lord Stowell and other great authorities, and had so existed because those who felt the evils would not be content with moderate reform, however useful it might be in getting rid of the most serious portions of the'evil. Was this always to go on? Or on the other hand would it not be better to go into committee on the bill, and endeavour to render it as effective as possible instead 4 opposing the principle on the second reading? He was quite aware that there was much weight in an obserya tioi, who would rememb er of Mr. EscOtt's that if the Governm en t wen t on w i t h that any executi v e Go gal abuses raised aga i ns t vt t h h e er i s mn en l l n tt t h h ae e t td r e e al ynwpoatfisntgar trial. He w r e ei r fio f e u r l mk b no o ef d wl y e • them for a time a powerful body i n t ereste d i n t h e main tenance of those ahuses, even though they took every care that in applying the remedy the interests of the individual should not suffer. They were not, however, to be deterred by such considerations, and he therefore trusted—indeed he could not for one moment credit that the house would strangle in its birth this attempt to apply a remedy at all risks to a very serious evil. The bill attempted to carry out reforms recommended by the highest ecclesiastical and judi cial authorities, and if the House of Commons should reject it let no hon. member hereafter taunt Ministers with not doing anything in the shape of improvement. The Govern ment had brought it forward, so help him God! from no im proper or interested motive whatever; and he never could believe that the House of . Cornorns would defeat a measure of reform in a system of law which all admitted~to be full serious evils. _ _ _ --- lift7l4 - &E supported the bill, although he (lid not think the bill. went far enough. Fourteen years ago the house abolished the power of these courts in Scotland, and since then every thing went on satisfactorily,. by transferring the jurisdiction to the. courts of law. He could not, therefore, understand why the same course should not be pursued In England. W...llAttuosr• supported the. bill, for although it did not remedy all the abuses in the ecclesiastical law, yet it did remedy those which might be considered the most im portant, • ' • Mr.. ROEBUCK' would vote for the second readi ng o f t . . bill, though he wished it to be understood that, tht;'ughliC agreed in all that portion of the bill which went to pull down, he entirely disagreed in' all that portion which went to build up, and unless that portion was struck out or materially al tered in committee, be should feel it to be his duty to oppose the hill altogether. h The gallery was then cleared, and on a division the second reading of the bill was carried by a majority of 186 to 184. The other orders of the day. were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. COLONEL. CfiATTEILTON.—The magnificent piece of plate voted by the conservative electors and citizens of Cork to Colonel Chatterton of the 4th Dragoon Guards, has been presented, with an address containing the signatures of the subscribers, amounting to three hundred. The gallant office has returned a suitable answer, in which he says :- assured, that wherever my military duties may require services, I shall always bear with me a warm attachment t my native city, and a most grateful recollection of the friend ship I have experienced from my fellow-citizens ; nor can ever be unmindful of the steady and cordial support I have received from you upon several trying occasions, when we struggled together to maintain those sound constitutional principles, whereby, as you so justly observe, the rights and liberties of all the subjects of these realms are so entirely and so happily secured." at Alnwiek,'on the 21 st i nstant, TIIF. DUCHESS OF NOILTHUNIBEILLAND.—At meeting the following anecdote was related illustrative of her grace's benevolence :—Mary Atkin son was the daughter of humble parents. dwelling in a wild part of the country near Alnwick. The father, who was a hind, attended the March hiring of that town on a day of extremely fier ce storm and snow-drift, and anxious to reach home the same evening, as may be supposed, in order to com municate the results of the day, he persevered in plodding his way towards his place of residence, amid the fury of the storm. 11e reached within half a mile of his own house and perished in the drift. Meanwhile his wife, restless and alarmed, ventured forth to anticipate his coming. • Disap pointment led her on to Within ¶ few yards of where her hus band lay dead, but not so near as to render it probable she had ever learned his fate, and there she too perished in the snow. Mary Atkinson and a brother, we believe, were thus left orphans, and totally destitute. The sad tale reached the ears of the humane Duchess of Northumberland. She proved more than a mother to the poor forlorn girl, sent her to board, educated her, and obtained her a situation in Edinburgh, in a respectable family. Mary Atkinson was now about 20 years of age, when the symptoms of that most insidious dis ease—consumption—be;-an to manifest themselves. She fell very ill. No sooner did the duc h ess hear of her condition than she requested th a t, if at a ll poSsible, she Might be re moved to Alnwick, w hi c h was d one . It is needless to say . that every attention was m i n i st e re d to the sufferer that could be supposed capable of - mitigating her distress. But in vain. She died about 12 monts'ago, and sleeps in Aluwick church yard,-with an affecting tribute to her memory from -the Duchees of Northumberland gracing her.humble grave. Ebt Ztherpool &tantrarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1843. It would be a circumstance truly humiliating to our human nature, if it should turn out that the storm of dissenting opposition, which has been directed osten sibly againgt the educational clauses of the proposed factory bill, has had its leading source in hostility to the limitation of the hours of infant labour contained in that bill ; if the fears which have been so plausibly put forth, of the consciences of little factory children being oppressed by the iniquity of the Church of Eng land Catechism, have not been prompted by the greater fear that such children were about to be emancipated from the bondage of that tyrant, capital, and the cruel selfishness of inhuman parents, which at this moment are, together, wearing into soulless and fleshless ana tomies, or degrading into reckless criminals, so many thousands of the children of the working classes. And yet it is too much to be feared that such a feeling has been uppermost in the minds of the prime movers in this demonstration. Sincere as may have been the convictions and the motives of many, who have singe plunged themselves into it, we greatly suspect that if the hearts of those who pulled the wires and set the puppets in motion, could be searched, too much of MAMMON would be discovered there—too much of griping selfishness—to allow of our entertaining any longer a doubt that the question of education is not so much a religious, or even a sectarian question, as it is a question of the pocket—a struggle between selfish avarice' on the one hand and Christian philanthropy on the other. That such is the case, in the immediate districts af fected by Sir James Graham's bill, can scarcely be doubted by any one who has closely watched the pro gress of public opinion, there, upon the subject. Let us glance at a few evidences, as to this fact, which have crept out during the past week in the neighbour ing manufacturing metropolis—Manchester. It has pleased that very sapient body, the town council of the " metropolis" in question, to hold a special meeting to exhibit its wisdom in opposition to the bill, from the proceedings at which we take leave to cull the follow ing morceau One of the members, a cotton spinner, as reported in the Guardian, stated that " he should be glad to see education promoted either by this or any other bill ; but he thought this bill would be a failure, inasmuch as it would have the effect of inducing masters to turn children under 13 years of age out of employment." Why would the bill have such effect? why turn children under thirteen years out of employment ? Because children are to be educated upon this, or that, or any system ? Not at all ; but because masters will in future be permitted to work such children only six hours and a-half per day ! Clearly it is not the educa tional clauses, but the limitation of the hours, which are here excepted against ; and when Mr. Alderman Murray tells us, therefore, that " he should be glad to see education promoted either by this or any other bill," we must take leave greatly to doubt his sincerity, unless some system can be hit upon by which children can be at school and at work at the sante time. Another gentleman, a manufacturer, at the. same meeting of collective wisdom, informs us that " he be lieved the effect of the present bill would be to turn children under thirteen years of age out of the factories into the streets, and then there would be no provision at all for their education." Again we ask, why turn them into the streets ? Are millowners Christian men ? Are children who can read their Bible and say their prayers unfitted for the meridian of a cotton-mill ? Not at all ; but they cannot be worked the long hours of adult labour. But what followed from this pattern of manufac turing morality is still more worthy of admiration. This same personage " believed it was intended to throw the maintenence of children upon their parents for three or four years longer" —a circumstance cer tainly not to be deplored if we had, as the result, their training in a healthier system of religion and morality. We can see nothing to be admired in a system by which parents increase and multiply juvenile " ma chines" rather than the germs of a future generation of Christian men and women. Ile also regretted this operation of the bill, however, because it would " pre vent children contracting early marriages (!) It was, therefore, calculated to PRESS VERY HEAVILY UPON THE POOR (!)" Strange objection to the bill, this ! It will prevent children under thirteen years of age getting married ! We couldn't wish it to do a better thing, though we can scarcely see how this admirer of early marriages can trace such to be its operation. At a meeting of the inhabitants of Salford upon the same subject, we find another gentleman, of whom we never heard before, stating that " he had been told by a manufacturer that the effect•of the bill would be to throw 20,000 children out of employment ; and that, in order to avoid the necessity of employing older and giving higher wages"—is this the sore point after all ?—" the manufacturers were fitting up machinery to supersede manual labour!" Can there be much plainer speaking than this, as to the real objection to the bill. It rescues the demoralised factory iqfant from his phy sical slavery and his moral degradation ! There is no thing of sectarian objection here ; no objection to Church of Enghnd trustees, or Church of England Catechisms; but a very perceptible objection to paying adult men and women for the unnatural toil extracted from the life-blood of children. Most emphatically we must express our conviction that this latter gentleman libels, in this assertion, the great majority of the manufacturing body. They are surely not prepared to commit an outrage to decency so gross as would be the discharge from their employ ment of the whole of their juvenile population, because the legislature has declared that they shall be edu cated, and they shall not be over-worked ! If such be the•case, the world can have little respect for their own morality, or their "liberal" professions of care for the welfare of those classes which Providence has thrown into dependence upon them. We alinddeeed, not long ago, at the horrible inde. cencies and cruelties practised in the thin seam coal mines of England and Scotland, as exhibited to us by the report of a parliamentary committee. We were shocked, more recently, by the appalling ignorance and degrading vice, exhibited to us as existing in the ma nufacturing districts; and we have now to look upon a similar record of mingled cruelties, selfishness, and suffering, which is brought before us by a report of the " Children Employment Commission," as existing amongst the population employed in the lace manufac tures of this country. We shall take leave to bring a few of the details of the report in question before our readers, premising only a few explanation 4 necessary to enable them more clearly to understand the subject. The manufacture of lace comprehends a number of different branches, in all of which, and in some exclu sively, young persons and children are employed— some of the . latter, to use the language of one of the commissioners, "as soon as they can tie a knot or use a needle !" The first of these branches, which we shall notice, is that of " drawing," which consists in draw ing out with a needle the threads which hold together the separate widths, which make up the entire piece as it comes out of the machine, In the Nottinghamshire district the children commence their work at four, five, and six years of age. Mr. Grainger, the commissioner before referred to, found one child placed at its work by its parent (0 BEFORE IT WAS TWO YEARS OLD ! We quote a portion of the evidence collected by this gentleman respecting the hands employed in drawing : " Mrs. Houghton examined.—ls a lace-drawer, and has four children ; Harriet eight years, Ann six, Mary four, and Eliza two years old ; of these the three elder are employed as lace-drawers. Harriet was not quite three when she began to work, Ann was about the same, and Mary was not quite two years old I ! Eliza ' has tried and drawn a few threads out:—[Sub-Commissioner.—All this was interrupted with ' Mind you work,' "Fake care,' Make haste,' Now, Anne, get on,' Mind your work.']—Begins generally at 6 a.m. in the summer, and 7 in the winter ; in the former goes on till dark, in the latter till 10 p.m. The two biggest children work with witness these hours; Mary begins at the same time time in the morning, but she leaves off about 6 p.m. The children have no time to get out to play. They go out very seldom.' Have breakfast when they have tinze .to yet it ; the same with dinner and tea. Have about a quarter of an hour for each meal. The children are obliged to sit at their work. They sit all day. [` Mind your work.'] The work tries the eyes. The bla'k is the worst. It is drees work.' [` Now, mind your work.'] The chiidren have very good health." " The children have very good health !" So says the parent; and the commissioner remarks that " they are very fine and pretty girls, and appear healthy." But let us only reflect upon the amount of toil which they endure, and ask ourselves how long such mere infants can hold up under it. The " two biggest" work, we are told, in summer, from six o'clock till dark, and, in winter, from seven till ten, p.m." The latter is fifteen hours; the former may be seventeen; on the average, therefore, they work sixteen hours a day, sit- ting the whole time on chairs, " their legs being too short to reach the ground." And was-this inhuman amount of toil imposed upon these innocents from ne cessity ? No. The father of these very children was earning 235. per week as his regular wages ! Now, what does the reader imagine is the paltry sum for which mere infants are thus mercilessly sacrificed ? —for, we are told, that a few years of such labour re duces them to mere shadows in body, and to a condi tion of mind little short of idiotcy. Three shillings per week is stated to be " a very high average," whilst ano ther is convinced that it is " much more than is usually named." The next process, " threading," is performed princi pally by boys about the age of eight years. At the age of 15 the girls become winders, and the boys go to the machines. During the seven years they are employed in " threading," they are mere parts of the machines, and must work for the 16, 18, 20, or 22 hours per day that the machines work ! One child stated that he had often stopped from four o'clock on one morning till two o'clock the next, and that, twice or thrice in one week. It is common to stay all night at the machines; and the children are compelled to attend at whatever hour they may be called for, and often in the middle of the night. A constable, examined, states that "he •fre quently sees a number of children, many as young as eight or ten, little things hardly as high as the knee, going to various factories as threaders, at all times of the night," or " coming out in the middle of the night in light clothing, and apparently suffering from the cold"—a circumstance scarcely to be wondered at, when we are informed that the temperature of such factories, when the gas is lighted, is sometimes as high as 85 degrees, whilst that out of doors, at night, may be below freezing point ! Another witness, Mr. Vi m . Hinde, states that hundreds of these children have been sent to their graves by their incessant labour and want of rest. .‘ They have no regular time for their meals : they have their meals sent them, and eat them when they can ;" and so irregular is their sleep, that they are frequently seen lying down in the middle of the shop floor, or under the tables, or on the old coats of the men, glad to catch, in any discomfort, a temporary ob livion of their sufferings. The process called " winding" is almost invariably performed by children and young women, who begin to work at the age of 12 or 14. The commissioners declared it to be proved that in this employment they haVe " no regular and certain time whatever for sleep or recreation, being liable to be called upon at any pe riod during 16, 20, or 22 hours out of 24, while they have frequently to go from one place to another, often at considerable distances, at all hours of the night and at all seasons." They are employed in the same facto ries with men, and in a great majority of cases no pre cautions are taken for the preservation of morality. " In the town of Nottingham," says Mr. Grainger, " all parties—clergy, police, manufacturers, workpeople, and pa rents--agree that the present mode of employing children and young persons as threaders and winders is a most fertile source of immorality. There can, in fact, be but few states more immediately leading to vice and profligacy. Children of both sexes are called out of their parents' houses at all hours of the night, and, as it is quite uncertain how long they may be required, whether for two hours or the whole night, a ready and unanswerable excuse for staying out is furnished. The threaders, who are usually boys, and the winders, who are generally girls, are required at the same time, and thus they have every facility for forming improper connexions. The natural results of such a noxious system are but too apparent, and must have contributed in no slight degree to the immorality which, according to the opinion universally expressed, prevails to a most awful extent in Nottingham. In addition to the immediate evils to the children themselves, the domestic peace and comfort of the families of which they are members are sacrificed to this most unnatural state of things." Another witness, the clerk to the Nottingham union, says " the extent of early sexual intercourse' is dread ful. A principal cause of this demoralization is the facility of boys and girls mingling together in the streets at night, and the almost total absence of parental con trol," whilst the vice-chairman of the board of guar dians gives the following striking description of the operation of the system : " I have known many parents come out of the country merely to live on the labour of their young children. In one case, a short time ago, a widow came with three children, of 12,14, and 15 years of age, out of Derbyshire. These chil dren were sent into a factory, the mother being only employed in preparing their meals, and getting them up early enough in the morning. They did not come home to their meals ; they were taken in the factory. All these children died in eighteen months. I think this resulted from their employ tnent. Almost all the families employed in the manufactures of Nottingham are, with few exceptions supported more or le s s by the labour of their children! Among other evils of this system is that of reversing the order of nature ; children become, at an early age, independent of their parents; in many cases the latter are even obliged to act as menials to their children. Another class of evils is, that worthless fathers are enabled to spend their time in low pothouses out of the earnings of their children. The vice and immorality springing from such a system, are too obvious to require illustration." appallin g f acts to m- The above are a few only of th e brought before us by the report; but, askoNre. fear lessly, are they not quite sufficient to warrant the i mediate interference of parliament, in order 1 put down a system so dreadful ? In what are the people who can tolerate this awful sacrifice of infant life and purity upon the shrine of cupidity, bett er than the wretched fanatics who stain their idols with infant blood, or plunge them into the fire or the flood as offer ing to their ideal Gods ? Better! Why the Ch r i st i an People, who thus mercile ssl y bestialize and slaughter their offspring, are worse—a thousand times worse —than the benighted heathen, for whose civilization our missionaries are to be found labouring in every chine! It is doubtless good to engross the commerce of the world, It i s a boast that we are able to supply with owe fabrics every ruaitet of the globs. It is g"a to be able to point to our exhaustless ingenuity as dis played throughout the range of our manufactured Po' ducts, and to wield the vast wealth which they h'rlng us ; but if these triumphs can only be achieved by the sacrifice of the health and morals of our working P° - he pulation—if our wea lth is to continue thus d y ed in t blood of infants, and its acquisition to be tracked inh crime and su ff er i ng -- w e are prepared to say " peris that we a lth— per i s h th a t manufacturing supremacy which is pur c h ase d a t s u ch a cost !" of Most sincerely do we trust that the pr ovisions Sir James G ra h am ' s F ac t or y and Education Bill maY be at o nce ex t en d e d to th e population employ ed in the lace ma nu f ac t ures o f G rea t Britain ; for su rely aft er d this he mu s t b e i n d ee d a h ar dy man who ca n contend that the bodily an d i n t e ll ec t ua l training of the children of the working classes can be safely left to the un checked control of either employers or parents. Wh at can voluntaryism or the Sunday school system de' what have they done—to meet such an evil as we have here exhibited ? Comparatively nothing. And, yet we dare say that th e v er y people, under whose dal contemplation are th ese scenes of festering vice an appalling human suffering, are at this mome nt loading the tables of th e H ouse of Commons with petitions against a measure of education and protection, for. children simila r ly s it ua t e d i n the factory distr icts, ana talking forsooth of their opposition to it being—lar conscience sake ! to There can scarcely be any man stupid enough believe that the recent unworthy attack of Mr. Ea rle upon certain members of the Watch Commit tee, wag instigated by a n y better feeling than to give ann o y ance' It imputed, by a sidewind, to no less than seven gen tlemen, equal in every respect—in character, ta lents , or ;and position, as well—to him s elf, the possibility , ra ther probability, of th e i r b e i ng i n fl uen ced by dis hone % motives in the performanc e o f th e i r o nerous duties. I said to them, in sub s ta nce , " y ou are n ot men of 11°- nour ; you are capable o f ac t s i n your official cap ac which, performed i n y our i n di v id ua l capacity , °- w render you unworthy o f th e name o f gentlemeo even honest men." to a llude We should not have th oug ht it worth while to any thing so contemptible, were it not for the oye portunity which it pr esen t s t o us of urging ill ) " t die better conduct e d p or ti on o f th e " liberal" party in t i to council the propri e ty o f, if poss ibl e , putting an en b ic h the scenes of p ersona l attac k an d recr imination w"„ • too frequently di sgrace t h e procee di n gs of that boboe); Is it not possibl e f or gent l emen, oppos ed thoUg li may be in politics, to debate matters of merely local terest without forgetting the ordinary amenities of re , vilized society ? It may certainly be difficult t° of strain, within any reasonable grounds, a g entlerna ; n f he Mr. Alder man E ar l e ' s pecu li ar organ ization ; b ut 1 0 , will persi s t i n hi s unseem l y di sp l ays , surely it i$ I 1' possible to allow him to remain " alone in his g l° . o 11 1 ;. Why should .an y men w h o h ave res pect for their essie ratter contest with suc h a one hi s very que stion a ' honours? TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, AND OTHERS. The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester words its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to briny their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange arid Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printersis firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. LOCAL NEWS. The Great Western steam-ship, Lieutenant Ilosketl, 7;;Or on Saturday f or N ew Y or k . Sh e carried out abeve passengers SS . lr ME • RS. HERRMANN.—Messrs. H errma nn's con c L t t _ :0 4 place last even i ng. W e understand i t was well attended `',, recently t PRt.FERE officiated NT — a T s ' went off with spirit. D , lib? il e c urate ßev o . , s Chore bi oto lplb own, has been presented to the Rectory of St ' Cambridge. , 0 ea r- On Saturday, in Bold-street, a horse in a ge ntletn a ribe led riage kicked its companion violently on the kne e ' o nnin e he of St. fell;, 1 3 . in t his jury was so serious that the veterinary surgeon wh ea l e oat" the wound found it necessary shoot the poor an' to spot. re' cb Ma . , 0 .El TON S CONCERT.—Our musical f riends t are phi , i , canc to ferred to the advertisement of Mr. E yton s gage to will take . place on Friday next. Mr. Eyton has . aer oe the available local talent of the town to afford nom — , his friends and supporters. . bea ll ` Mr. F. W. B • veil with the rearey, who has been delivering a A e fully illustrated lecture on the Hol Land connectrimoieZ prophecies, at the Adelaide Gallery, London , w it ,' l , l • the,, u ;ll, approbation, is about to repeat his lecture, w''''• ic-P - Su ° solving views, at the Polytechnic Exhibition, ( yr Bold-street, on Monday evening next. he ten~" o THE ASSIZE . COURTS.—We 'understand tha t of the the of Mr. John Tomkinson for erectin the carcass o r that 11 Assize Courts, has been accepted, g and we b , e tgrat i ';; J' l amount of the tender was about £78,000. lt,„.' s ; l t e s ,fid reflection that we have a townsman with slim e .% sale di u he and enterprise to undertake the erection of an " 'llo° - at building. No doubt the erection of the building 'cloosiste proceeded with immediately, and with It d spa° c a e with its durability. a ,All e a ti :red ' FINES UPON . PUBLICANS AND BEERSELLES-. 0 0.- ~,,, ber ' of informations against publicans and beerselle o o nliet; r on Friday to twelve. Nine of these were against the f h t)r- it e d, and three against beersellers. The cases agal u 7i.r t elle' s X , L were disposed of as follow :—Two were tined A7 a t on t e irr i, costs; three £3 each and costs ; one £2 and c us 'iceers e " l o 4 and costs; and two were acquitted. Of the three - £ 4 2 - b e othe r two were fined £3 each andand costs, t o r tb° costs. a e opf -, Or MR. ALDERMAN . EARLE.—The following is v i z A rleC., e rs, Lion adopted by the Council upon Mr. ",."; bre'-a - en ion relative to the ineligibility of spirit-mercluat"-'ojen-ibi§ 1 / 4.1 c 1 ., to sit on the Watch Committee Spirit" That Ivi r ' d Aldan oe !.. de's motion is unnecessary and uncalled for, a l , i , s thal ire Council deprecates the . frequent personal attae"bers ° f dir made in the Council-room upon individual inenl i i a to .re , body, which have a tendency to bring this Co, tin a c a ot e sti. repute, provoking rejoinders of a most unln ea ' -- Mr . which it is highly desirable to avoid." before 08 INQUEST.—An inquest was held on Saturdaybroy9. t he Curry, _ on v ie w o f t h e b o d y o f Ed war d HtonP, a er.i. e l iec•• deceased, who was 19 years o f age , was a priq be ro Fe . Borough gaol, to which he was committed Iron' - o os lu A court in January last. He was tried at the ses s r i ts tion; ee d bruary, and sentenced to seven years' transPedwas P' il het few days after his sentence he became uuwelhan eon' J, urg ( fie in the hospital, where he was attended by th alien be gradually declined until Saturday morning,' boil. Verdict Death ct— Death from natural causes." f o r tbe, n - ill' .. _ . 7'e understand that the anniversary sermons — O l. kJ , ' N.' o m s_sionary Society will be preached in LiverP„ ' OO abed ell , , n Sunday, May 21st, and meetings will be 1, ..n, Ste oil I?wing . days. Rev. E. Bickersteth, Rev. rleignipta,,rhe other Rev. C. Barrett, incumbent of St. Mary's, Bir lp o ent , , ire _ her friends of the society are expected to benr , ainfl o og trust the Chancellor will preside at the ineeting;:id stool ust, that the same zeal for the progress of the g ° 1 . ,i/e r t folf b the heathen, which has hitherto characterize tPe. ho O r t he ranch of this valuable society, will distinguisl;",noir f_P„ t of anniversary. We are happy to learn that the ii (I c a ta w - bo le Parent Society has. durin the ast year, ex uce the any preceding one by severalthousand pounds, 0 shed amount collected last year being £115,0 00 l ~,,r p oo 0 set _ COACH RUNT AWAY WITH.—OB Thursday a s ": lo Vily bil Inver of one of Mr. Bushby's mourning coac, l . le t orne, ve s ill down a party at the gates of the Necropens4iriose%ohe. horses head round, and left them standing b.Y,4 a rid l'' ~ 0 6 he street. A few m f th took frig. _ o wl , t he off at a fearful rat o e in d e e n si ts n a i n sv a .road, jus t tu t w i t a s, at corner of Moss -street, the coach came in cont% p iec e ,. ,e • iron rails of a entleman's house, which broke t` cns , an e ' e ded the i same times mashing the coach almost to 9 ._", oroc e dect° piously o9sly injuring one of the horses. Had the co fatal :ireet, iew yards further, it must have Prod uce in they. lir among about twenty children who were plaYing 0 ,, 5 el FRACAS Tvvo P ung d M iC" e l IN TUE WORKIIOUSE. -- 11 an bar mates in the Workhouse, named ll' t day, c , PO' William ler We 0 Pye, were h , brought up • at the Police-court. Ye . ! ..00 ,ta, se re, withassault and disorderly conduct. police' • an d re th. 18 9 stated ' a sli t fro art ~-., taat, on Sunday night, between _ nes , o'clock, he saw' the prisoner Hall throwing sturesivit;.ooef• wa di'. of the probationary ward : he refused to ode p os te s o Thes with considerable difficulty that he was and. e red the re ; other prisoner, yesterday morning. was .da riet on , before the Deputv-Governor for some offence agar for. „oil gulations, and, as lie refused,an officer was sharplyse ' l . O to he kicked in the • Rushton, af ter a tbe fte ri groin. Mr. o rdere hel 0 manding the prisoners for their conduct, co t t to , pay a penalty of £5 each. In default of parr i , replY ta tea,' sentenced to two months' imprisoncaent• ~, vere or s o rt. question from Mr. Rushton, the Deputy" -1° • narl i o ba tl° J• '0 that there were now 30 persons in the Pr o war • 0 i and 72 women and children in the classificatio n de fia nt to ..._ THE FUNDS, SATU EVENING•--11;e o ftici e c 0":, RDA Y . , scar There OS h ie Consols to-dav ~ were very limited, WlO '''' There d 0P 0 ( support . the advance reviously noticed- o pene ' n ee 10 siderable firmness • P • when first rippeertLoo in prices they , C° ciC was, however, subsequently checked by t"..,,, for k so , one or two sellers. The• final money nuoteLl' VanZ ot ie r , was 9(4 to 1 ,and for the account, 96* buY er s . ; S% C " t o 69... left off at 178 to 179 , India Stock, 266 to 2 ne , 675. an al bills, 2d. issue, 655. to 67s pm.; they id , if ' s- Tb ree :o- 14 % to a ; eo ..sna, iodi c pm.. ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 9t Half per Cents. Reduced, 101/ to I-; N e w Thr ee ' an. il , O A per . Cents., 1021 to i • Long Annuities,„:oos, ore Bonds, 755. to - 7 ' absence or o - a we. _ e on i s. pm. The .an nP 2 lbuY o ft foreign • securities caused some fluctuation, , a . at .k left t in for a share of the change. .Actives left tm cents' s ecl I ls a, Inv: rte having opened at 221, and the New Three :;lean at 32; buyers, having dat33to *; l uel s e. ee' at 29 to 1; the Deferred,cseue 4 ; Portugue °A, 4f - 8 to - ito i ; Colombian, " Danish)"- 24 to ow ; ;tO D'' ' f tl , i o 105 to 106 ; acid Brazilia n, 75 to 76. ' eting of wittily in!, rese twill; CouNcti M ' ELTING.—The usual ni followina the body will ' ' of be held to-morrow. when the un der ion o r _ the, Courts of Law Committee will eon' s di ; ctis: DeP u ni e I.l.ratiori of the council :—" That upon a ( clerk sa l ute 6 ° 0 ', l • Elmes of the report of the Town - ap proP a K J:own-clerk iii favour of the proposal t, O , L ,ll On 0 /004,g portion_ of the building of St. George s Mall is r es te d, w oo (: , nurts to the purposes of the Police Court , _ a deP_ o f , l t That the report cannot, with advantage, I;ration c 0n..., deter' coon ide',. would, o n the contrary, hazard great A d to the ' e oo° h ic. whole Plans; and that it be recommen.eub.ect to e. Ol 0 ee , the original plans be proceeded with, 5 j OSing 11: 0 15 - ej ef t ° t anion as to the ventilating tower, by disPe the p roP- d bi oa the committee find that the estimate for I,f adopte. , b ot _ d , ion on the site of the Islington mark ' et, . A on ` roo ec e , council, would be considrably dirshnen•r ally i? fo,ro, resolutions of the council of the sth insta _t e e w ith, b l 6 OW, ings of the Finance Committee at varianu ~ If ' te bly„,l, f oin g. may be rescinded so far . as necessarY._ se par% t eo " 1 0 ution be carried the dail courts will sit in . a ilia oy i ono t o ing on the site of Islington market, as °r2 5 ,„ ir oti°,,fter t be Mr. John Holmes has gplaced the f o llowil e '" d i a telY rea d , 0 .. books, which he will ask - leave to make ' min e been or c ° ,- of proceedings of the Finance Committee ha ste down_ n eia° e• bill referred to b the motion having been 1, a ppl - we reg,„ miller in the Co y i "Th t the cann el „a s e v ey e ' yr Commons—"'That 3 Sing t IO the water • bill of the commissioners for Pa nob bi l l o n 0 1 a pport s e to pre t he 0 do instruct the Fire Committee to S means in their power, for that Pu r P t ' s to O il and. _d petiti •on , and that the Mayor be authorise thereto."