The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-11 00:00:00

I stration would tions, had lirc They had con attack, they h There were s atmabl , s the Aff the interior of Indi Nizam's country, by some lot of a of Canton as Long s favor t the 0 r.t ofthe 1 ops at Cand conflagration Is he commenced to mans _ :_. n on the Jew evere fight- t as the consistit: f 300 men of f Capt of the cavalry 'Monteath, C. 8., and and assail that part of )us of expel very gallant pirited at an in a neighbourhoo - d ourselves of this pause to put the into a state of de Fence, which will, I trust, citable us to defy the efforts of any Asiatic force unaided by siege artillery, and are using every exertion to store our magazines with grain from the adjacent I enclose reports from Lieut.-Colonel Dennie and the 4th instant inclusive Ye extract the following paragraph from the official an- cement of the murder OfSir William MeNaghten.issr,ed ,e hon. the go vernor i n counc il, d a t e d Bombay Castle, ary 21st, 1842 : __. will pronounce the eulogiutn so justly ents and distinguished services of this hilst this government abstains from trespa midst the most uilfeign. rief, from reoording almost tl it public act of S Yl'iNaghten's lif terms dishonourable to the British arm; were proposed by of the insurrection at Cabul, his excellency heroi xl,--` That death is preferable to disbonour ; that our trust in the God of battles, and in his name we at up I defy our enemies.' " the lead cally.replie KILLED AND WOUNDED Casualties betweerkbe 12th and 28th October, of the force under Sir R. Sale, ort their march through the Khoord Cabul Pass to Gundarnuck: Killed—Captain Wyndham, 35th B. N Jenkins, ditto; Ensign King, H. M. 13th L. I Wounded—Major-General Sir R. Sale, commanding Captain Wade, staff; Lieutenant Mein, H. M. 13th L. 1., Lieutenant Oakes, ditto ; Lieutenant Frere, ditto ; Lieute nant Jennings, ditto ; Lieutenant Holcombe, ditto ; Lieute- Lieutenant , nant Rattray - , ditto ; Captain Younghusband, 35th B. N. L ; Lieutenant Coombs, ditto ; Lieutenant Orr, Sappers and Miners. _ _ st B.E . framGundamuck to Jel Captain J. Woodburn, 4 , lth B. N. 1., S. S.F., killed near Ghuznee, 3d November.' Between the 3d and 17th November, at Cabal, Killed—Sir A. Burnes, Bombay N. I.', political resident; Lieuten , • ditto, political agent. Ghuinee ; Captain nt Burnt H. M. 44th rep. ent; Captain Robinson, ditto 'aban, ditto; Captain Maule, artillery; Lieut( ler, 48th B. N. 1., E. W. Salisbury, b mots 11. M. W 1 B. E. L. 1., W. s force; Ensign T W. Gardon, 37tli B. N. B. N. 1. ; Lieutenant C . • Lieutenant C. Codrington, 49th Rattray, 20th B. N. I. 'th Bengal cavalry; Lieut. Majesty's 44th foot ; Wounded re, B. artiller Lieut. Evans, her Captain Makenzie, pay department ; Lieut. Stint, B. engi neers ; Lieut. Waller, B. artillery ; Lieut. Wartburton, B. artillery en the 17th Nov. and th 25th Di • at Cabul Killed.—Col. Oliver, sth B. N. I.; Captain Mackintosh, ditto ; Capt. Laing, 37th ditto; Capt. Walker, ditto ; Col. Mackerell, her Majesty's 44th foot; Capt. Westmacott, 36th B. N. I. On the Killed.—Sir William Hay M'NFghten, envoy ; Capt. Tre- 25th Dec., at Cabul vor, 3d Bengal c Lieut. Hamilton, sth cavalry ; Capt. C. Troup, 48th B. N. 1., and H. Johnson, 26th B. N. 1., reported killed, un certain, though they are missing. Major Ehl 1., wounded. :ed Poitinger andlieut. Houghton, 31st B. N In the hands of the enemy.—Capt. Drummond ; Lieut. J. B. Conolly, 20th B. N. I. ; Lieut. Lawrence, Bengal ca ' g military secretary to e nv oy ; C a pt. Sir A. B. N. I.; Ensign Rose, 57th B. N. I. minanding Jabuaz corps, murdered by d Lieut. Patterson, severely vairy, officia Mackenzie, Capt. Golding, s men, at Ca wounded, CHINA: 'rom the Bombay Courie Our intelligent .om China is to the _l3th December. Th latest accounts from the expedition which had reached Macao up to that date state that no event of importance had occurred subsequent to the occupation of Ningpo. It was, however, reported that a portion of the expedition had proceeded against Hong-choo-foo. Sir. W. Parker and Sir Henry Pot tinger, when last beard of were at Chusan. The latter had expressed an intention of returning to Hongkong, and his ar rival at that place was daily looked for. When the Falcon left Macao on the 13th Dec., a vessel was in sight, supposed to be her Majesty's ship Cruiser, with the plenipotentiary. It was generally understood that immediately on Sir Henry's arrival instructions would be issued for an advance against Canton. The Chinese have committed repeated infringe ments of the truce by repairing the old and erecting new for tifications, as also by obstructi ng th e nav i ga ti on of the river above Whampoa. Major-General Burrell and Captain Nias, R.N., who have for some time been in command of her Ma at Hongkong, have been passive spectators of Id have hereby incurred the most 'notentiary, who is known to jesty's fore these breaches of treaty, have publicly expressed his - sense of their'rnisconduct. - The arrival of Sir Henry would, therefore, be the prelude to the immediate resumption of hostilities. There can be at active perations against Canton have taken place long ere this, and that an entire stop has been put to the export trade. It will, therefore, be many months before another opportunity will offer to ship teas in any quantity for Vineland. The greatest activity has been displayed by the -4 ers of her majesty's ships of war, in carrying out of the admiral, for putting a stop to the Chinese .sting trade, as also to that with Japan, Java, and Manilla, iy seizing their junks, and bringing them into Kongkong end r"---- "^-iy hundreds of all sin - " and already been captured. is offered to junks bona fide proceeding to the British settlt commar the oak VIIU3SLI• J.,,,., upwards, have trom twenty tons No molestati ments in the Straits At Canton, on the 16th of November, everything remained quiet, and teas were being shipped off without interruption. But the high prices which we mentioned a fOrtnight since as being paid for congou have not been maintained, and those then valued at 35 taels niay now be had for 31 taels. Trade was proceeding as usual in Canton on the 4th of De upon unfavourable terms. By forcing - '9t tt sales or manufactures upon an unwniwg marke _heir prices are even lower now than before, and cotton also shows a ten dency to decline. Teas are about the same as last week, but it is observed that this year's crop is generally of an inferior quality. Large quantities of green teas are now being pre pared at Macao for the American market, a considerable por tion of these sorts of teas, as indeed of many others, being now shipped from here instead of from Canton. The scar city of the circulating medium daily increases, and syce silver is at par, whilst Mexican dollars arc of extremely diffi cult sale at 4 or 5 per cent. discount. We'were, we learn, misinformed last week, when partially attributing tie present scarcity of pillar dollars to the ship ment of the ransom money of Canton to Calcutta. The dol lars then received were mostly kept here for the use of the expedition, and a considerable portion of them must have again been circulated. The chief reason for this sudden 'iminution of 0 - - doP theses .cars may probably be soul,. in the present troubled state of the country. when Spanish dollars, as generally more current than sycee, and, besides, easily kat,. ,u6v ly ao,i6ut, ancr iu provinces Oi Banton, Fokien, and Chekeang, by the people. Another reason, which would, however, not act with quite so sudden effect, is the nearly total cessation of supply of this sort of dollars, and their rapid des" • • ti Lek habit of Stamping them ; a measure r e s o r t e d t o b y th em . ... as bills of excl. ge are endorsed by us, holding those whose stamp is upon them responsible for the goodness of the metal. _ . . - -......-.. SIR ALEX. BURNES.. —Although the most intense anxiety has been manifested on the subject, we have not been able during the month to obtain any minute particulars of the fate of the late Sir Alexander Burnes and his brother; no com munications containing details of any sort having, so far as we can ascertain, reached India from our ill-fated countrymen at Cabool. The melancholy fact, however, is confirmed by we a manifesto in the Persian language, an extract of whic h have seen, and w hi c h h a d b een addressed by the khans of Cabool to some of the subordinate chiefs. In this do cumen t • .u. wusaitug, an I. IIC ultra luesday of the blessed month Ramazan (corresponding with the 2d November last) they with other brave heroes, striving like lions," carried by storm the house of Sikunder Burnes, rushing from an ambush right and left, and put him to the sword, together with some other Feringees of consideration, and nearly 500 battalion men. The destruction of Sir Alex. Burnes thus boasted of was evidently, therefore, the first re sult of a deliberative determination to exterminate the Ferin gees, by removing him who had at the same time the strong est hold of the Afghan people, as well as the highest and 8 I most t qual''• h; prominent .diities amongst his own countrymen foA checking the designs of the chiefs. H ow well they calculated has been prayed by the event. TRANQUILLITY RESTORED.—We may now fairly con gratulate the people of Ireland on the accession of the con- . . s - ervatives to office, and the consequent restoration of peace to the most disturbed districts of the country. Tipperary— . twelve moots ago, was a literal aceitlania; a - field of blood—has now become as tranquil and as orderly as any portion of Ulster ever was pievious to the unhappy outburst y spirit : which, we trust, the on 7 quell. At tl f this county on Frida oing circuit of assize opening of the court for the last, the Right Hon. .eßalladdresed the grand jury in the fullowing-term Gentlemen bf th unty of T 1 have t nost in a single sentenc is one of congrattilation- urprising decrease of crime in this county: Gentle is truly gratifying to find the criminal calendar so nd having had the calendars for the last three years ie, I do say that the decrease of crime in this county Is one of ;he most extraordinary facts in the statistics of Ireland. In the spring assizes for IS-10, there were 125 for trial, in 1841, there were 92, and now we have but n e ar ly one-half, namely, 56. When such_ is the improving condi- tion, gentlemen, of your division of the county, I have only afie topic to address you upon, and that, I am happy to say, is one of congratulation. I find from your calendar that the 'rom the f comparatively speaking, you have for trial, :hink the assizes will be over in a few days. Gentlemen, th _tills will now be sent up to you, and probably_ you will b Di this attestation to tre government of the Earl De Grey is enhanced by the circumstances that Mr. Justice Ball is Roman Catholic—a Whig—and was elevated to the judicia bench by the late administration.—Dublin Evening Mail, -4.SSITUDES OF Forau— -A grey-haired blind olc appeared on Friday before Mr. Hardwick, at Marlbo• rough-street, London, who stated that his name was Robert Matthew Annesley, and that he had been a solicitor, and was an admitted member of the Inner Temple. He had at one time a most lucrative business as a solicitor, and had al been en ' wort ed in literary pursuits ; amongst other w— ,een sub-editor of " Tomlyn's Digest of the Laws," had .ssisted in compiling the " Statutes at Large," and had also contributed various articles to " Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopwdia." His intense application to business had in jured his sight, and " it had at length pleased the Almighty Disposer of all things to deprive him altogether of his vision •' and he was now with a wife and four children absolutely ` , lrving, not having tasted food for twenty-four hours. He well known, he said, to the late Mr. Dyer, whose death great loss to him, and who had frequently, since his relieved him. He had expected to be received as Mr. Day's bounty for the the will was thrown into Chancery, —ight remain there it was impossible to say. oenehers of the Temple had subscribed £3O for .ciief, and he had also received a subscription from the -.award, detaching parties Literary Fund; but these sums being exhausted, and he and wawa at so great an expel'sa in his family starving , Th ahhdeecnaaoputpslleiicdkaihnnigtnhitsoaentrespassaul e p nd o u n tmo t b h tel e iri bounty sofoffid oc e_ Fitzpatrick,-ate burnt down th e n i g h t b e f ore,. an d o f f o rmer friends, is 2 onflagration. The enemy, to state his c wail l s n , gs ; t f t ke a at ve u r p y a sh n o i r nce i s a s n a g n e t , ti o re currents to iv,e.r having perused, an m agi ti r ..H d a a rd ft w er ie w k a , rd w s h c ic o h nsul th t e ed wo l‘ r l t r h . twenty-four hours, from whi ch our men sustained the chief clerk, he or d ere d that a sovereign should be g i ven for the present relief of himself and behind their growing defences ; and, as it was de- him from the poor b ox, ) diminish the consumption of provisions within the family. The applicant, onh c e h a o r k in e g d w th it i h s e u m ne o x tt p o e n c , te t d ha g t ran ir t . , there was reason to apprehend that the armed in- returned thanks in a, voice ''ould join in any attack made nu s t r .-- o • so directed that he should be led out of court to )n was t the c tar bat and unre On th nce, the zeal and lad been in evolved in a trees and old build v affainst ther masses t the la --• ....now-, clarawtc... - ,d measures, nr' or permuting the women and enable him to recover himselt. to withdraw, n ext of excluding all str angers and remov e d, weu t awa y thauking the worthy c persons, and finally of getting rid, a$ far as it was kindness. 1 The poor man having been gistrate for his COIIIMPON TANI catl2 tho fittoltion of uthoritki to „ very danierous but common practice o f boys throwinit stones in sonic of the leading thorouabfures of the town, (Great Homer-street in particular,) and is desirous of seeing the police using a little more energy in suppressing the nuisance. We can afford to disregard the paltry spleen exhibited by " Fair Play." " Q in a Corner" on Tuesday. Had not "J. W." better let the subject alone events, we cannot find room for his letter to IMP -2Litnrpool &tan Dart FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 11, 1842 At all The afflicting duty is imposed upon us of laying before our readers the intelligence brought by the last overland mail from India. The particulars will he found fully detailed in our columns ; and upon the heart of every Englishman this awful legacy of Whig misgovernment—whether viewed in relation to the bloodshed which has already occurred, the stain which it has fastened upon the British arms, or the calamities of which it may, with too great certainty, be looked .s a forerunner—must fall with crushing and paralyzing weight. Upon the faction, whose insane and selfish policy has drawn down upon the security of our Indian empire so disastrous a shock, and which has sacrificed the lives of so many of its gallant defen ders, the universal voice of Great Britain will surely be raised in a tone of indignation, Which ought to compel every thing which bears the name of a Whig statesman to hide his head for ever from the sight of men to whom the honour of their country, and the blood of their fellow countrymen, are not as dust in the balance, when weighed against the paltry considerations of place and pa) I The Morning Herald, the Chronicle, and the Post, we must state, give far more gloomy particulars; and repOrt the massacre of the whole of 'the Cabool army, amounting to nearly 6,000 men, and the capture of 14 ladies—the wives of-British officers,—a calamity, how ever, which we fervently pray has not occurred. There can be no question, however, with respect to the cha racter of the policy of the government which, confes- edly, has placed our East Indian possessions in a po sition of unexampled difficulty. The Conservative statesmen and the Conservative press of the country have denounced, throughout, the iniquitous course pur sued by Lord Auckland and the Itidia Board, with respect to this Affghanistan war ; and, even so late as on Tuesday evening last, in the House of Commons, the very disasters which have since been made known, and the mis-government which has led to them, were touched upon with a distinctness, almost prophetic, by our valued representative Sir Howard Douglas. These disasters, we repeat, may be exaggerated. We trust they are; but if they be so—if our gallant army in Affghanistan is not as yet annihilated—the thanks of Great Britain are due to the undaunted courage of our soldiers, and to the protection of an overruling Provi dence, but not to any virtue or care of the selfish faction which has wantonly and madly placed them in peril. In accordance with our promise, we now proceed to point out a few of those injurious practices to which, we maintain, is to be attributed, in part, the deterio rated reputation of British manufactured goods in fo reign markets. And, first, we will take—as one, in the production and export of which, from the quantity of manual labour which enters into its competition, it is of essential importance that the manufacturers of Great Britain should maintain a high position—the article of PRINTED CALICOES. Of this description of goods, and of dyed calicoes, to which our remarks will also apply, we exported last year, as will be seen by a re ference to Burn's Commercial Glance, 278,748,275 yards; and by a comparison of this quantity with the export of plain calicoes for the same year, which was 366,946,452 yards, it will be seen that printed goods arc perhaps the most valuable of all our exports of manufactured cottons. To enable us to bring the sub ject clearly before our readers, it will be necessary , to trace this manufacture through its enti re process— from the loom into the hands of the foreign consu ..4l er. The first operation which we shall notice is the pro duction of the piece of cloth in the gray state. The length of the piece of 7-Bth printing cloth should be 283 to 29 yards, and of 9-Bths 241 to 25 yards ; these goods, when printed, requiring to measure, respec tively, 283 and 24.4 . yards. By practices, however, which we need not describe, they are made to come from the loom 30 and 31, and 25 to 263 yards long;. and the manufacturer is enabled to take " a fent " from each piece, varying in length from 1 to 2 , 3- yards. In the operations of bleaching and printing the pieces are considerably stretched, and the printer is enabled to take off art additional "printed fent," still deliver ing the article to the shipper about 29 yards long. By the shipper these goods are frequently calendered, in which operation they are further lengthened and the width consequently decreased; by the maker-up they are stretched in "hooking," and very frequently are only made up in yards of 36 instead of 37 inches, stretched measure, the result of all which processes enables ano ther printed fent to be taken off, whilst the goods, in nine cases out of ten, go out to the foreign consumer short of the measure which is marked upon them ! Let us examine the effect of these tricky practices. In the first place the gray "fent . " is brought into competition in the home market, at a reduced price, with the cloth in the piece. In the same way the printed " fent" is brought into competition with the printed piece. It is well known that the sale of both plain and printed calicoes, in the home retail market, is seriously injured by this competition ; and we have a right to ask from what motives does the manufactu rer pursue so baneful a course ? Why, in the name of common sense, manufacture a piece of goods two or three yards longer than it is required to be, and sell the " fent " torn off for less than it ought to be worth if attached to the piece ? We can divine no reason for this strange anomaly, unless it be that the weaver re ceives no additional wages on account of the additional length of the piece that comes from his loom; that the "job printer" receives no additional price for printing; and that the exporter pursues the suicidal course of imagining that the fraud practised upon the foreign consumer will not rebound in injury to the general trade of the kingdom, in his time. Unless some one, or all these motives exist, this mutilation of goods is manifestly a piece of downright folly on the part of the manufacturer, the printer, and the exporter. It cannot, we may remark, be urged that the prac- Lice in question, to the extent to which it is at present carried on, is an . indispensible one to the trade. We can remember when it was comparatively unknown. When the duty upon printed calicoes existed every piece exported went out its full measure, the excise not allowing more than ten inches. to. be torn off for a-pat- The home trade in printed goods was then, we . _ have no hesitation in saying, a more satisfactory one, and the foreign trade more honestly conducted,—ex cept to the extent that both were affected by the frauds which were practised by the printer upon the excise. Passing over this part of the subject, however, which is of comparatively trifling consideration, let us come to the more general view of the subject. We will suppose, then, that an exporter receives an order for a few thousand pieces of printed calicoes of some given style, in the best colours and upon the best cloth, for any foreign market—say a three or four-coloured print, at 16s. or . 18s the piece. To execute this order the printer has rollers engraved and blocks cut ; and at the end of a month or six weeks the goods are upon their way to the foreign market. Having despatched these, however, he sets his machinery and blocks to the production of the same patterns, originally in per manent colours, in fleeting or otherwise inferior co lours, and upon an inferior cloth, which are sent into t h e same foreign market to which his former order was despatched, to compete with those goods, at a re duciion of two to fi►•e shillings the piece; and here 'it must be borne in mind that the difference in appear ance between permanent and fleeting colours is not one which the foreign consumer can readily detect, being, in fact, often to the advantage of the latter. It may be u rge d, however, that the exporter will secure his patterns, by bi n di ng t h e pr i nter to f o rward no similar or lower-p r i ce d conduct hi s b us i ness on so suicidal a principle. goods to the same market; and that the calico p r i nter who exports on his own account w ill not Be it so ; but then, within six weeks after the original order has been executed, the "pirate" haS got hold of the same patterns ; h as got hi s rollers and his blocks rea d y; or, dispensing with the latter more expensive process, io a new de the Chinese ved that immediate! to Maca t Can tc asurrect )f Cab: atradic a. The placed are, that 2d of November, ral other , fly of the 1 the entrenched car ted to he ter Sot succeeded. One day fig ith various attempts at negocia- ters down to toe eau had chosen their own t had not even gained the possession of tk eral eng: 7e . l9th of Novernt lien an attempt was made to send from the camp to the Bala Ilissar, and on the ammunition In the heights, on 13th and 23d of the latter month. The enemy did not, how ever, succeed in their attempts to overcome the British. The rent want in both the stations of the British troops is stated ) be food and clothing; for it appears that, by some unac- placed as to t There was abu the enemy on the first_attack nt ammunition in the entrenched camp, ss had the ar- A not been sults were that ad the necessaries mined Akhbar Khan, the son of Dos Novembe s stated to have nitributed to ex mon amongst ti Iravestehysaa.l ..1. , ell as to inspirit t ,eir troops British envoy and commander-in-chief ; but he has perpe trated an enormity which will render his name for ever infamous. On pretence of making arrangements with Sir William Hay M`Naghten, he invited him to a conference near a bridge. Sir W. 11. M`Naghten went there, accom panied by four officers and a small escort. He and Ma hommed Akhbar had some conversation, when the traitor Mahommed Akhbar abused the British ambassador, drew a pistol, and when the shot missed, drew another, and firing into the breast of the ambassador, killed him on the spot. Captain Trevor, 3d Bengal Infantry, one of the escort, who, on seeing the first pistol fired, rushed to the rescue of Sir W. H. M`Naghten, was cut down, and the three other officers ;. It appears that Mahommed Akhbar had buscade near the spot. The head of Sir W. s was subsequently cut off, and the mouth portion of the mutilated body, it was de ;teen spectacles which Sir William used to ste paraded through the town by order of H. M corated with t wear, and in that Dost Mahommec Thus fell, in the discharg of a great public duty, an 1 a scholar, whose loss as a Tvant is s of an 3, and for wbose'death, by the hand Aire will demand, as India bas al vengeance. The care of the Cabal mission 1 by Major Eldred Pottinger, wl blished since the gallant def entertained of his being en until succour arrives, or el drawal of his brave come )f General I I a traitor, th ly done, t s been tak reputation has been esta- Herat. Hopes are even to defend his position sake terms for the with- As. Among the deaths are , hinstone, it is said of an attack of gout, Colonel Mackerell ' 430. Oliver, sth Ben h, Laing, and W , her Majesty .gal Native Infantry alker, of the same regi rain Westmacott, 37th Bengal Nativ ment ; Infantry ntime, the utmost exertions are made by the al and Bombay, to send troops toward tobert Sale, ti conflict rture o abut, in October, was th b nal for the lg position at Jellalabai, ablished s and two brigades a rited conduct of this Lest prais, s distant from Je , could in Bombay at of t would be easily e from C znee is be of revolting, antil the fate of Cabul is tranquility prevails generally. ;IA disturbances caused in the :nail disaffected chieftains, and at e military, b. ,e of the regiments ghts to batta, or additional pay; but they meat. s from China inch it 3san to Aiuo g until the reinforcements from iched tte expedition. It was said that dissatisfied with the Chinese fulfilment of the con- b of Decemb purposed nd India was about to attack their forts in the mber ; but this was looked upon in India as -jobbing report. Captain Elliot, re lative to the river Ile of D Ito Tharawa pi!, and engaged in destroying the of Rangoon and building another, which he calls Voh-a- The Nepaulese are also i in Thibet under Zorawar S a of the Sikhs .vourable to the a general mourning ordered by the government for three Sir W. H. M`Naghten, the late. Ant . in consequence of the death of His name is Colonel Dubois de J t Macao ate Erin ailed hiiiself envoy to the court ], but the real nature of his em m - ent is that of Just. before the departure of the mail the most alarming [flours were circulated at Bombay respecting Cabul, but _ . , as it bad become the assacres and their most frightful details hey met with little credit. , ti to speak c publishec following is the official dispatch of Major General Sir dated Jellalabad, November 18th, 1841. The nd reached this city on the 12th inst. , in a painful manner, the excitement of the .ie people against us at this period. to relate that aiming from Gundainuck on the 11th was the signal ~:ement of a scene of shameful defection the irregular troops, and a general insurrection of the surrounding Kheils, which had before remained quiescent. Brevet Captain Gerrard, of Captain Ferris's corps of Jazail chees, had been intrusted with the duty of holdincr thy. Rnrr s under my con for the cOmm - er blew up, under my in- ) two of it dentl fire two, the ruin of the :e Was nearly effected gulars retired towart cantonment of Gundamuck, Ooloose of the Mamoo Kheil, before been so submissive. )went of need the Jezailchees behaved admira- It Captain Gerrard found himself deserted by the )f the Janbazes, who, secured by their native com- In this a traitor in the Shat. iy at Loodinah, went over to the enemy almost at the e moment. Captain Burns's corps of Khyberees showed Atoms of disaffection, and though .a portion of them kept around their ',ors.— from Gundam .ours, it was soon seen that a re- C which the Ooloose of the whole ..ctacking, had become inevitable. The can- Was plundered by the mutineers, who in their athless haste to destroy it, blew up its magazine anti many Captain Burns's two field pieces were )ned near Alec Murdan Khan's bridge, .v.,,scaves with i kPd and aband retreat debris of tl into a line of march on the 11th an by the attacks of bodie ...i__ • camp at Fuitiha- Rrties ; I s of priinderers on the u I Y. repthi ground co retired ratagem, and forester.. Rissalah of the Shah's horse to _. length the desired moment arrived, and lonel directed Captain Oldfield of the sth id Lieutenant Mayne of )oloose This was ex- _solution, an d in very corn n a tevi , minutes upwards of 100 of the Affghan n were sabred and shot, and th e rest driven in - hpivht. Tr 1 - 56 dead on .th ....ined on had left in the course zverta of the whole fi e ld, and the proportion of their - - After this salutary lesson . 1 on their route up to the 1 feeble. of a mud enciente oft curtains and ro Ards of consis towers t. On occupied Jezailch ins Maekinto and Cape by which I. prirnaril) diced; but we prefer confining our useful and remediable points in which the subject may he viewed. We have no wish to raise an outcry against the manufacturing interest —to draw upon a body the odium which properly attaches only to individual classes of its members. For the malpractices which injure the trade of calico printing, and the reputa tion of British calico printers in foreign markets, we do not blame printers exclusively; for we know that those malpractices are rife amongst merchants and ex porters as well; that they are, in fact, evils of the sys tem, and as such only can be effectually dealt with . To those who are acquainted with the history of "job printing" in Manchester during the lust ten years, (and there are few who have more reason to know it thoroughly than the drysalters of Liverpool,) the fact is tolerably well known that to the mercantile capitalist, who has for years past rough-ridden the trade and fleeced the tradesman at pleasure, is to be attributed one-half, at least, of the evils of which we complain. But what, it may be asked, is the remedy which we would provide, if not a repeal of the corn laws ? In the first instance, we say, encourage the art of design as applied to calico printing. Extend the duration of the copyright. Diminish the temptation to introduce fleeting colours for permanent ones, by untaxing, as far as possible, the materials required by the honest printer. And in addition to these measures, we would say also, if practicable, fix, by a stringent enactment, the minimum length of the piece of printed calico. By the present copyright act we believe that the practice of "fenting" is in part, although, it would seem, in effectually, attempted to be prevented. It would per haps operate advantageously if it was provided that no copyright whatever should attach to goods which did not bear upon both ends of the piece the usual imprint of publication. Upon this and similar points, how ever, we must defer to the opinion of those more prac tically acquainted with the subject. In our publication of the 25th ultimo, we called the attention of our readers to a statement put forward at Southampton, b y an anti-corn-law mee ti ng in the itinerant lecturer George — Thompson , which we then denounced as a gross and impudent fabrication. We have since been favoured, by a friend to whom they have been forwarded. by the. charlatan himself, with copies of letters from the. Mr. Henry Ashworth, upon whose authority the statement was made; and we now proceed to prove, from these documents, that such statement was, on the part of Thompson, not on l y gross and impudent, but something very much worse ! For the sake of perspicuity we quote again the origi nal statement copied from the Hampshire Independent, a Radical paper, published in Southampton, and dated the 12th of February : " I recently attended a great anti-corn-law tea party in the town of Bolton, in Lancashire, where, you are aware, there is a large amount of distress. On entering the spacious Temperance-hall, where this meeting was held, I saw before me, in the front of the orchestra, two rows of fresh meat — one to the left, and the other to the right —a short row and a long row, touch beef and little beef. As soon as I reached the platform I inquired what the spectacle meant; and was told that was cheap meat and dear meat—the roast beef of Old England, and the roast beef of New England. (Loud cheers.) An esteemed friend, Henry Ashworth, (a thorough repealer,) said to me, I went to Liverpool yesterday, where I found a packet just in from the United States. I inquired if they had any fresh meat on board. They answered they had. I asked them if they would sell the same. They said yes. I said, at what price ? They said, lid. a lb. I said, give me 235. worth. I brought it to Bolton, and then went into a butcher's shop and said, what do you charge for good cuts of beef? The man said, 7d. a pound. I said, give me 255. worth. I brought both lots here, and had them hung up where you see them.' And there they were, 200 lbs. of Yankee beef, fesh and fine and tempting, fat and lean beauti fully mixed ; and 43 lbs. of English beef, in two sorry pieces, looking askance at their well-fed neighbours from the other side of the water ! (Loud laughter.)" Before proceeding, we ask the reader to mark the circumstantial nature of the above statement through out. First, the "two rows of fresh meat—one to the left, and the other to the right —a short row and a long row," &c. ; anti again, " the roast beef of Old Eng land, and the roast beef of New England." Then the detailed conversation of my "esteemed friend, Henry Ashworth"—his journey to Liverpool—his discovery of " a packet just in from the United States"—his enquiries, " had they any fresh meat on board ?" " would they sell the same ?"—and the subsequent pur chase of " 255. worth." Then mark the exclamation of the itinerant : "There they were, 200 lbs. of Yankee beef, fresh and fine and tempting, fat and lean beauti fully mixed; and 43 lbs. of English beef in two sorry pieces, looking askance at their well-fed neighbours from the other side of the water !" We now turn to a letter addressed to Mr. George Thompson by his "esteemed friend, Henry Ashworth" —a gentleman, we may premise, who is high in the councils of the Anti-Corn-Law League—a member of the Society of Friends—the correspondent, formerly, of Mr. Edwin Chadwick, of the new poor law com mission, upon the subject of the migration of pauper families from the southern districts of England to enjoy the high wages paid in the manufacturing towns—and who figured more recently as a member of a deputation to London from that unfortunate body, the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, upon which occasion our readers will remember that the unhappy Quaker cut a very unhappy figure. The letter in question is dated " l'urton, ist mo., 18, 1842,"—(we entreat our readers to pay attention to this date,)—and commences in the proper epistolary style of the society : " Respected Friend, " Geo. Thompson." After some notice of the said George's lecturing ex ploits, Mr. Henry Ashworth proceeds : " The American beef and pork which I exhibited was in voiced as follows : £ s. d. 6 bads., weighing 12001b5., at 255. per barl., or I 7 10 0 11d. per lb. in bond ................ Duty 12s. per cwt. and 5 per cent. over 7 2 0 0 3 3 , . Cartage and porterage £l4 15 3 " Thus it cost me nd. per lb." By the above it will be seen, then, that the "fine fresh beef," " fresh and fine and tempting," " fat and lean beautifully mixed," &c., was barrelled salt beef and pork ; and the reader, who has ever seen any of the dirty-looking stuff in question, will wonder where were Mr. George Thompson's eyes when he mistook it for the commodity so magniloquently described to the gobemouches of Southampton. To this business-like statement, however, is appended what is, for Mr. George Thompson's reputation for veracity, a very mal apropos note, as follows : " I bought it from a regular broker on 'change, and not off a packet." ray at tr: ery (amigo market with this very goods which were originally invoiced 'ork, nod is proored to doitfge t 1t s. or 12s ? Is it not e Is this, we ask, an over- iery day practice P Has not strained case a Manchester calico printer—a member of the Anti- Corn-Law League, Mr. John Brooks—declared, he- fore a committee of the House of Commons, that the bulk of his fortune was made by pirating other men's And what, Why, patterns " in the way we have described ? we ask s is the natural effect of such a system ? manifestly, that the foreign consumer, having no secu• rity that, when he buys our best fabrics, his market will not in a few weeks be inundated with spurious imi tations, prefers the goods of other manufacturers whose business is conducted upon a more healthy and honest principle.! That this is the case in most foreign markets is not, as the apologists of the manufacturing system would have the world suppose, a mere assertion of ours or of any man's. It is proved by the experience of every foreign merchant, of every intelligent traveller, of our own calico printers, even. It has been proved before a committee of parliament; and the remedy has been again and again pointed out, and as often refused, by the free traders of the League. Upon this point Mr. Richard Cobden, of Stockport, is at issue with Mr. John Brooks, of Manchester—th e scientific calico printer with the wholesale " pirate;" and whilst both these gentlemen, who represent classes of the trade, join cordially in the common object of cheapening pro duction, by means of a reduction of the price of food and of wages, both, in their secret souls, are ready to acknowledge that, without some corrective measure on the part of the legislature, however cheaply we may Rioduce; we shall never be able to aspire to the excel lence and to share the reputation of the foreign calico printer in the markets of:.the world. . We could easily detail a great many of the practices .he honest manufacturer of this commodity and the entire trade, ultimately, is preju- elres to the really Wilt thou sell the same 10—" fink thou any ire —is a pure inventio nd we beg to ask the un ticorn law ladies of Liverpool and elsewhere, what they thini of the man who could he an unadulterated lie! guilty of so barefaced a fraud upon the credulity of the public ? But it will be said, " surely George Thompson ha s esteemed j Henry Ashworth." Let us see how this is, then. On the 7th of March the charlatan writes, to the friend who has handed us the letter from which we have just quoted, as follows :—" I beg to enclose you a letter from Mr. Ashworth addressed to me at Carlisle, in answer to the enquiries respecting the meat I saw at Bolton. I had previously, however, related the facts as I caught them on the platform in Bolton, and they had gone into print with the error of fresh, instead of salt, provisions." This is the apology offered by Mr. Thompson to his friend for the misstatement in ques tion ; and to Mr. George Thompson we must say we are very, very sorry to contemplate the position in which his own apology places him. Stand up, most miserable of detected itinerants, and answer the few questions which we shall put to you! What was the day upon which you uttered the state went above quoted to the people of Southampton ? Ins. The 4th of February What is the date of the letter of Mr. Henry Ash- worth, in which you were put in possession of the real facts with respect to the beef in question ? Ans.. The 18th of January preceding ! And yet, Mr. George Thompson, you have the brazen hardihood to say that previously to the 18th of January you had given to the world this false state ment, by misadvertence, as you "caught it on the plat forth in Bolton ;" you have the impudence to tell us that your statement had " gone into print with the error of fresh, instead of salt, provisions, ' there!. us to infer that this is the only error in it, when your correspondent's letter clearly proves that the statement is a fabrication from first to last, and as the date of that letter proves :also, a deliberate fabrication ! You went, sir, to Southampton and knowingly, with the letter which we have quoted from in your pocket, you uttered there a deliberate misstatement; you received there a piece of plate of the value of 50 guineas from the people whom your untruthful tongue had gulled; in extenuation' of your fault you have written to your friend, as a comparison of dates will show, an additional, deliberate untruth; and, once for all, we ask you, George Thompson, what do you think of yourself ? what do you call yourself ? for we shall not sully our judgment -seat with the only name which is your desert. Go down, unhappy man, go down— you stand committed ! Having done with Mr. George Thomson, we shall enlighten the world with a few passages from the cor respondence of the anti-corn-law Quaker. And first, with respect to the quality of the " fine, fresh, and tempting, fat and lean, beautifully mixed beef," which can be bought at lid. a pound as food for our manu facturing operatives, Mr. Henry Ashworth, of " Tur- ton, near Bolton," writes,— " The Americans appear to possess this class of meat in great abundance, and I find by the New York Herald of the Ist January, that although good beef is 31d. per lb., they quote barrelling beef at lid." Again : " It is stated that 500 tons of beef and pork, now lying in Liverpool, have been invoiced from America at various rates from 255. to 425. per barrel of 2001bs. ; but there is a feeling of prejudice prevails—the English taste has not become used to it, though it has long partaken salted herrings and other fish. The pickled beef loses a large portion of its saltness by steeping in water for 24 or 36 hours, and Col. Thompson says that boiling with potatoes extracts the salt, and improves the potatoes to some extent ; but all these little appliances require studying, and, with attention, I think the introduc tion of such foreign food would be profitable, adding physical energy to our dilapidated population " ! Amiable leaguer ! Philanthropic reducer of the poor of England to a coarser kind of food ! What a pity that the "dilapidated population" of the manu facturing districts, who " have long partaken salted heriings," are not condemned to exercise their teeth and "improve their potatoes" with this yankee car- rion! Another specimen we shall quote in full. It is a genal- 7 " Respected Friend, " Geo. Thompson,— " A relative of mine has recently exported to America a quantity of British manufactures, and received returns in lard, of excellent quality for household uses: He ascertained from the Customs, that if be released it as lard,' the duty would be Bs. per Cwt. ; but as `grease' for wheels, &c., it would be ls. Bd. only. " Upon trying the market, he found it was worth more money to him as grease,' and applied for it upon lower terms, but was informed that he must first 'petition to spoil it,' after which an appointment would be made for an officer to accompany him in performing the following process. " The Customs officer takes a lonz instrument, about an inch in diameter, and bores ho:s through the casks in every direction. A tarred stick' is then introduced into each of the holes; but if tar should be objected to as injurious to time grease,' especially in candle-making, the owner is allowed to inject, instead of tar, a quantity of what in Custom-house phraseology is termed ' mare's liquor,' a bucket of wdlich is procured at the nearest dunghill. !) The officer thus be comes prepared to attest, that it has been spoilt' as human food. " I understand that butter imported from abroad is `spoilt' in the same way " I am, respectfully, thy friend, " HENRY ASHWORTH " Turton, near Bolton, Ist month 18, 1842. " kinsman sold his lard in bond. I presume he felt either the indelicacy or moral responsibility of such an act." We make no comment on the above, although, as a specimen of free-trade morality, it is superb. The postscript, especially, beats " cockfighting" T. We are reluctantly compelled to postpone, until our next, a notice of the two articles which the Manchester Guardian addressed to us on Wednesday. Our con temporary views as "important admissions" the re marks in our last publication, with respect to our ina bility to compete with the cheap labour of the fo reigner ; and although he takes some pains to torture the admission in question into something beyond its fair application, we are willing to allow him to make the most of it, until we have leisure and space to re turn to the subject. LOCAL NEWS, THEFT BY A SERVANT GlRL.—Elizabeth Agar was charged, at the Police-court on Tuesday, with having robbed her master. Mr. Andrews stated, that the prisoner had been in his service seven weeks, as housekeeper. A short time ago he missed three hPndkerchiels and a table cloth, lnd sundry other articles had been missed from time to time. On Sun day last, while prisoner was out, one of the other servants found some of the missing articles concealed between the prisoner's bed and the mattress. On the following day Mr. Andrews was informed of the circumstance. He sent imme diately for a police-officer. The prisoner's box was searched, and several other articles belonging to Mr. Andrews were found. Some goods, his property, were also found at the prisoner's lodgings. The prisoner was committed for trial. CAUTION TO ERRAND Boys.—A good looking well dressed boy was placed before the magistrates on Tuesday, charged with a very bare-faced piece of roguery. Police officer 48 stated, that between twelve and one o'clock that day a boy had given the prisoner into his charge, for hav ing stolen some clothes from him. The boy stated, that he was errand-boy to a tailor, and he was sent about a week ago to a gentleman's house for a coat, which was delivered to him. When he had got to some distance, the prisoner came running up to him out of breath, and told him he was to go back, for he had got the wrong coat. He was return ing with the prisoner, who said he was a plumber, and had been working at the back of the gentleman's house when he met another boy with a bundle tied in a handkerchief. He said the complainant was to give him the coat, as the gentle man was in a great hurry. He was told to wait and the coat would be brought to him. The prisoner and lie went off together, and he never saw any more o f t h em t ill h e met the prisoner that morning. On inquiring from the gentle man, it was found that he had not sent any person after the boy. The prisoner said it was a mistake altogether ; the lad had fixed on the wrong person. The boy said he was sure the prisoner was one of the lads who had duped him. Mr. Rushton remanded the prisoners, and the officers are to en deavour to find the coat. THEFT FROM AVi;EL.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, two rough-looking men, Martin Foley and John Delaney, were charged before Mr. Benn, the sitting magistrate, with having stolen a cask of slush or fat from on board a vessel ' lying the Kinl's Dock. A ship-boy stated that on Wednes day, he saw Foley cross the vessel he belonged, and take the cask from the boat on the deck of the vessel outside, which he handed to the other prisoner. The alarm was given, and the cask, which had been carried on shore was left on the quay, where it was found by the constable, who afterwards apprehended the prisoners before they could escape. Foley, who had before been before the court for similar practices, was sent to gaol for a month, and the other for 14 days. CLIMATE 01 , : THE HAIR.—The effect of climate upon the hair is very great. Extreme cold is apt to dry and wither the roots; and, on the contrary, extreme heat to enervate and weaken this important integument of the head. The most extraordinary thing connected with the preceding fact is, that one counteracting agent should be endowed with the singular virtues of preserving the hair, in health and beauty, in either the torrid or frigid zone; and it is a question whether Row- LAND'S •MACASSAR 011, is most used in warm or cold countries. At the court of Russia, the above delightful con servator is lauded with extraordinary encomiums ; while in India the consumption of Rowland's Macassar is immense. —See advt. 4irous to promote the oh n 311071110 07 JEMI3ALCII trust that ever to carry out th - e good intenti not NI to cc ns of its foun MECII ANICS the chair proceedir leral meeting of the members of t ,e lecture:room, Law rhe report, whic of the past ye ted president for the e selected, and an exhi tion announced for the months of June and July next. meeting separated, after viewing the drawings of the pill in the BRITISH AND IRISH PRODUCE AND MANUFACTU RI berally Mr: George Holt Was aly :tailed at A new cocaraitt Pictare gallery Sir H On Tuesday a parliamentary paper (moved for Douglas). was printed, which purports to be an account the official and declared value of all the British and lrisl produce and manufactures exported from the United King. dom in the years 1839 and 1840. In the table of the " Offi cial value of the exports," we find the aggregate exports IA all parts of the world amount to £102,706,649; and in the table of " Declared value" to £51,476,430. UNITED STATES.—The Rochester, Captain Woodhouse rrived at this port on Tuesday, from New York. She sane( on the 19th ult., some hours after the pack which arrived a few hours aft -ship Englaw Ler her. By tt we have paper days later than those re Their contents me not important Money, stock, and produce markets had not changed mate rially. The rate of exchange in London was from 107 to 108*• in Paris it was sf. 271 to 5 f. 28i. Accounts from Mobile, dated February 4, say that the State Bank had bought 10,000 bales of cotton, and had taken up one of the largest vessels in port at- id. freight to Liverpool. This transaction had created some little excitement in Mobile. VICTORIA BATHS, CASES-STREET.—On Tuesday, we were much pleased with a visit to the Victoria Docks, which have been recently established in Cases-street, by the enter prising firm of Richard Bird and Co. The establishment has been fitted up with a regard to comfort, neatness, and we might add, elegance, which we have never seen equalled in any part of the provinces. -The terms are, moreover, upon a reasonable scale, six medicated vapour baths, for instance, being obtainable at the low charge of 18s. Ve should hope that the principle which has been so generally laid down, and demonstrated by the first medical men of the age, namely, that hot baths act as preventatives of disease, wiil ere long be as universally received in England as it has been in almost all continental countries; and that the inhabitants of Liver pool, ever foremost in appreciating what may turn nut ad vantageous, will more generally. than they have heretofore, lead the way in this respect. We strongly recommend the public to make trial of the Victoria Baths situated in what may be considered the centre of the town, contiguous to the principal hotels, and are well entitled to public support. .11 was ci: DISHONEST SERVANT GIRT. at the Police -court, on Tuesday, with having robbed 1 mistress, Sarah Reeves. It appeared that the prisoner lived in the service of the complainant two months. A fortnight since one of the inmates of the house missed a brooch, and shortly afterwards several other things were missed. On Tuesda_ servant's bedroom , when she saw her take a pocket from beneath a bolster. Complainant asked her if she had something valuable there. She handed her 'mistress the pocket, and requested her to search it. The mistress would not comply, but requested the girl to do it herself. She did so, and turned out a purse, a pair of cambric cuffs, morning 21ainant was - in th &c., which were claimed by complainant sent for, the box of the prisoner was searched, and two plwn tickets, with several articles of wearing apparel, &c., belong ing to the mistress and others in the house, were found. Other property was subsequently discovered at the shops of two pawnbrokers. The'prisoner, who was overwhelmed with grief, expressed her sorrow for what she had done, denying that she had ever seen the brooch that was lost constable She wt committed for trial. It will be seen by a reference to our advertisements, that the annual charity sermons on behalf of Christ Church na tional schools, are to he preached next Sunday by that elo quent and favorite champion of scriptural education, the Rev. Hugh Stowell. With such a cause and such an advocate, we cannot doubt the attendance of very numerous congregations on this interesting occasion. We understand these valuable schools—where upwards of 700 children receive a superior literary and religious education—are encumbered with a debt of £5O. But we confidently expect, that not. withstanding the pecuniary pressure of the times, the result of next Sunday's appeal will be not only the liquidation of this debt, but the realization of such a sum as will enable the committee to maintain in its present efficient state an institution which is a credit to the Christ Chrlrch congrega tion, and a blessing to the surrounding district and neigh bourhood. POPULATION.—SUGAR.—A parliamentary paper was pub lished on Tuesday which shows the population of Great Britain, the quantity of sugar upon which duty was paid, and the average price of British plantation sugar, from 1831 to 1841. It results from this statement that the total popu lation of Great Britain is 18,656,414 ; the total quantity of sugar (upon which duty was paid) retained for actual con sumption in the United Kingdom, was as follows . Cwts. 3,781,011 In 1831 1832 3,741,579 3,856,562 3,488,399 3,954,810 3,909,665 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841.... The average price, from. January. 1831, to December, 1841, has varied from 255. 3d. to 38s. 24d. 594,832 THE SMOKE NUISANCE.—At the usual monthly meeting of the commissioners of the Birmingham street act on Mon day last, Mr. Turner, one of that body, said in reference to this subject that the committee were not prepared to make any report, but he was happy to inform the commissioners that the nuisance so long complained of in Birmingham, aris ing from the smoke of steam furnaces, was in a fair way of being done away with. The patent of Mr. Williams, of Li verpool, (of which Mr. Dircks was the agent.) to which he had referred on a former occasion, bad' been tried at Mr. Clifford's mill, in Fazeley-street, with the most complete success; and he believed that if the principle were generally adopted, the complaints in reference` to this subject would not only be put an end to, but a considerable saving would be effected by mill-owners and manufacturers in the reduced consumptio❑ of fuel. lie thought it was the duty of those commissioners who had furnaces to give the plan a fair trial, and thus set an example to others in abolishing a nuisance in Birmingham which had become almost intolerable. Mr. Edge said that great credit was due to Mr. Clifford for mak ing the experiment, inasmuch as his mill was exempt from the operation of the Birmingham street act. —Three fires—two of which threatened seric of property—have occurred in the town within the last few days. On Saturday morning, a little before eight o'clock, a fire broke out in Atherton's-buildings, opposite North John street, and the alarm was instantly conveyed to the Fire police Station, Temple-court, whence Mr. Hewitt, superintendent, and a body of the fire-police force, immedi ately started, with engines, &c., and arrived at the spot in a few minutes. It was found that the fire had originated in a room in the building (which is awkwardly situated up an archway), in the occupation of Messrs. Poole and Co., spirit-merchants, and that the flames had entered the room immediately below, and which was full of cotton, belonging to Messrs. Mellor and Russell, cotton-brokers. The smoke was so dense that the firemen could not for some time per sonally reach the fire; but soon after Mr. Hewitt got close upon it, with several of his assistants, though almost suffo cated in the attempt. In about an hour the flames were, by their exertions, totally subdued, and the damage done was comparatively trifling. The buildings are back from the street, and difficult of access on such an occa sion. There was a large stock of cotton and other articles in the several rooms in the building, as well as in the con tiguous buildings,—all of which were for a time in jeopar dy. The parties were, we understand. injured.—On Tuesday morning, about six o'clock, an alarm of fire having broken out in King-street, reached the station, and engines, water carts, and fire-police were immediately despatched, headed by Mr. Hewitt. The fire was in the room occupied by Mr. Reston, letterpress printer, on the fourth story of the build ing, which consists principally of offices. The smoke was great, but through the activity of the firemen, headed by Mr. Whitty and Mr. Hewitt, the engines were speedily brought to play, and the fire was extinguished in a few minutes, so that Mr. Reston's printing materials were saved from de struction. The damage to the premises was but slight, a portion of the floor only being burnt. The fire originated in a stove in the printing -office. —Yesterday morning, at a quarter-past one o'clock, an alarm of fire, in the north end of the town, reached the fire-police station, and two engines and four water-carts were immediately turned out, ac companied by a strong force. It was found that the fire had broken out in the lower store• room of Mr. Richards, currier and leather-cutter, Vauxhall-road, from what cause did not appear. Mr. Whitty and Mr. Hewitt were present, and it was effectually extinguished in about half an hour, the floor of the room and some leather only being burnt. The loss is estimated at about £6O. The great exertions of Mr. Hewitt at these fires, and the danger to which he exposed himself to extinguish the two first, entitle him to great praise. CAUTION TO RAILWAY SERVANTS.—A GUARD FINED. —On Wednesday, at the Police -court, one of the train guards employed by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Com pany, named Williams, was brought before Mr. Rushton to answer a charge of negligence or inattention, the result of which might have involved, under circumstancet, life. The complaint was preferred under the Railway Act, on behalf of the company, by Mr. Clay, their law clerk, who was accompanied by Captain Hill, their resident engineer. Mr. Clay stated it was considered requisite, in order to in sure the utmost care in the servants of the company con nected with the'working of the trains, to bring the case be fore the court, although, under the circumstances, he would not press for any severe measure of punishment. He then stated, in effect, that on Sunday morning last the defendant, who was employed as a train guard, arrived with two car riages, a close one and an open one, at the mouth of the tunnel at Edge-hill, he and the mail guard (who was present in court) being in the open carriage behind. The defendant alighted, as usual, and gave the carriages the necessary im petus to start them on their way down the tunnel, and then resumed his place. The carriages proceeded down the tun nel, but on approaching the station they continued to run on with such velocity that it was apparent the break to which the defendant had to attend had not been put on, and the consequence was, that the carriages .ran .with great force against the stationary buffers at the station in Lime-street, provided to avert, or rather to reduce, the danger of casual ties. Happily no one was in the way at the time, otherwise the consequence might have been most lamentable, and the only injury was that done to the buffers. Such neglect was punishable, under the act, by fine or imprisonment. He (Mr. Clay) had learned that the defendant did not purpose to deny the fact, hut had urged in his defence that the lamp attached to the carriage in which he was was blown out in the descent; that the tunnel was dark at the time; and that not being aware that he was so near to its termination, he had become confused on finding himself all at once so close to•the station, and in his consequent confusion he had turned the handle of the break the wrong way, so that it failed to restrain the impetus of the carriages. . He (Mr. C.) was wil ling to believe that such was the case, not only from the pri soner's good conduct during .the four years he bad been em ployed by the company,—the two last as a guard,—but from the bend expressed by the mail guard who was in the same carriage with him, that such was the fact. He would, there fore, not press for a severe infliction, but considered it due to the company in their desire to prevent fatalities to passen gers, as well as to the public, that the court should mark such inattention by some measure of punishment. The de fendant on being asked what he had to say, repeated precisely the extenuating circumstances so considerately noticed by Mr. Clay, and expressed his deep• regret. that the circum stance bad occurred. Mr. Rushton said it was necessary and proper that the utmost precaution should be used in the working of the trains ; and but for the explanation offered he should, for the security of the public, have visited upon the prisoner, who was so responsibly placed, and should always be prepared for every possible emergency, a severe penalty. As it was, however; he must pay of fine of twenty shillings, or he imprisoned for seven days. The prisoner was not him self prepared with the money, but it was lent to him by the mail guard, and being paid, he left the court, expressing his satisfaction and gratitude.for the kindly manner in which the case, had been stated against him, and the mild decision of the court. • , a loss of Tan INFIRMAItY.—The committee of this excellent in titution has circulated tho usual annual report amongst the fri I . • •1 • I . . .• . . Infirmary, Lunatic Asylum, and Lock Hospital, in relieving the sufferings of the poor, continues undiminished. The number of patients relieved during the year, amounted to 2,180, of which, 144 cases only have proved fatal. The re sidue, under the skilful treatment of the medical officers of the institution, terminated in the restoration of the patients to their families, in re-established or amended health and strength. A summary of the accounts for last year appeared in our columns on the 11th January. The report concludes in the following words :—" And here the committee would respectfully urie upon the clergy, — and uuon V ministers of all denominations to bring the claims of these institutions, at convenient seasons, before their respective congregations. The committee are aware that the demands upon the public at large for charitable objects, are much greater than formerly. They would, however, submit that the wealth and commerce of the town have increased in proportion, and that were those who, being able, have not contributed annually to our public charities, to add their names to the list, the cry of diminished funds would not be so frequently heard. The committee, in conclusion would call generally upon all who are favourable to the cause of Christian charity, zealously to exert them selves in their individual capacities and respective spheres, in aid of these institutions, which are the means, under the blessing of God, of alleviating an immense amount of human suffering, and which cannot be continued in efficiency with out adequate support." We have every confidence that this appeal will be responded so, for we have never known a re presentation of this nature to fail of the desired effect. It Will be seen from an advertisement, thatiheYev7Huil; 111`.Neile will advocate the claims of this excellent charity on Sunday afternoon next, at Aigburth church. The Rev. George Mansfield, Curate of Christ Church, in this town, has been appointed to the Incumbency of Trinity Church, Trowbridge, Wilts ; patron, the Duke of Rutland. DEATH AssAut.T.—A woman, named Ellen Door, residing in Gildart's-gardens, died yesterday in consequence, it is said by. the surgeon, of kicks, which, it appears, were inflicted by her • husband, (now in custody) some time ago. The evidence will be brought before the coroner this day, the body having been viewed by the jury yesterday. DEiSON ' ; .STATUARY AND THE PAISLEY WEAVERS. —The sum realised for the benefit of the Paisley weavers by the exhibition of the statuary of Mr. Anderson, on Monday and Tuesday last amounted to £lO is. Od. Deducting £1 is. for posting bills, £9 has been remitted by Mr. Ander son, who has benevolently given his time and other items in, to aid his distressed countrymen. AMPITITIMATRE.—Mr. F. Carman the box bookeeper to this establishment, announces his benefit to take place on Monday next. His attention and civility will no doubt be rewarded by a good houseful of spectators. The Cheshire Fox Hounds will meet To-morrow (Satur day), the 12t h instant, at Darnall ; Monday, the 14th, at Booth's Obelisk ; Wednesday, the 16th, at Ridley Tollbar ; Thursday, the 17th, at Wilskey Village; and S a t ur d a y, th e 19th, at Alton Village. THE GRESHAM HOTEL, DUBLIN.—It is proper that the public should be apprised that, notwithstanding tbeannounee ment of the sale of this well-known establishment (in the columns of this paper), the hotel is still carried on under the control of its founder, who is determined to preserve its respectability in ever, •iosed of. 'espect until dis THE ACADIA ROYAL. MAIL STEAMER.—The Acadia, which left this port upon the 19th ult. upon a very short notice, when the Caledonia put back after having been at sea seven days, might be expected to reach Boston about the Ctli or 7th instant. She would proceed upon her return voyage with all possible despatch; under the circumstances, she would probably sail the day afterwards, and supposing she left Boston on the Bth or 9th, she ,may be expected to arrive in the Mersey some day between the 21st and the 25th, perhaps the 23d. Great anxiety will begin to be felt about that time concerning her. LIVERPOOL SERVANTS' HOME.—A most valuable society has just been formed in this town for the purpose of afford ing to servants a comfortable home when out of place, and also an office of registry. The advantage of a good domestic servant is incalculable, and every means which can be used for the amelioration of their characters should be hailed by the community as a blessing to the town. We refer our readers to an advertisement for the objects of this society, and we strongly recommend them to become possessed of its laws, &c., which may be procured` on application to Mr. Newling, Ranelagh-street, The respectability of the origina tors of this society is a guarantee for the soundness of its principles, the correctness of its operations, and the success of its endeavours. CORN LADEN SHIPS.—From a parliamentary paper, just published, specifying the average number of days occupied in performing voyages from the several ports of the United States to this port by all vessels laden with flour or corn in the year 1841, it appears that the average length of the voy age from New York is 23 days ; from Boston 26 days ; from Philadelphia 30 days ; from New Orleans 45 days ; from Baltimore 32 days ; from St. Petersburgh 32 days ; and from Alexandria 42 days ;—these averages derived from a total of 68 ships. DEATH FROM ASSAULT IN A PLACE OF AMUSEMENT.— About ten days ago, a .lad of 17 years of age, named John Chambers, who lived with his relations in a cellar in Bath lane, went to a " show" in Vauxhall-road; and while there was asked by some bystanders, who were larking, to shout— Who was it that spent the men's money ?" He did so, and the words appeared to have offensive reference to some Persons present; for three men immediately jumped down from an upper seat in the " theatre," and kicked him so violently that he was thrown down, and called out " murder!" He contrived to walk home, where he lingered until Wednes day, when he died, from, as it yet appears, the injuries, he had received. Two of the assailants, whose names are Kelly and Cammell, were found, and are in custody : the other was not known. Vie learn that an inquest will be held.on view of the body this day. INDUCTION AT AI 3 ERDOUR.—The presbytery of Dunferm line met on Thursday, the 24th ultimo, at Aberdour, for the purpose o f inducting the Rev. Hugh Ralph, LL.D., ' late of Oldham -street Church, Liverpool, as minister of the church and parish . of Aberdour. The Rev. Mr. Thorn ton, Milnethorp, preached and presided. At the conclusion cf his excellent sermon, the usual questions were put, which being satisfactorily answered, Dr. Ralph was inducted into the pastoral charge and the right h an d of fellowship was given by the members of the presbytery. The moderator then delivered suitable addresses to the pastor and people; usion of the service the congregation gave a ..elcome to their new minister. The patron, Earl of Morton, entertained the presbyte r y, th e session' of Aberdour, and other friends f oroibatadinetnieuri and West Grange,, in Michell' s I nn , when James Dalgleish, E occupied the chair, as agent for the noble patron.—Edin burgh Evening Post. and at the cone! SUSPICION OF FOUL PLAY RESULTING IN DEATH.— On Wednesday a child named Jam es C u l s h aw, the son of William Culshaw, who lives in a miserable cellar in Eldon- Itreet, died under circumstances which h ave exc it e d t h e at he proper authorities, and whi c h w ill resu l t i n an inquest to be held this day. It appears that a woman who lives with Culshaw, administered to the deceased, on Wed nesday, a dose of gunpowder ; an d t h at a second dose was given to him by another hand for the ostensible -4. worms ; although it is stated he tention of the r afterward purpose of curing him of w a s not ailing on the previous evening _,,..AOIA.DINARY IF .„,—On Wednesday last the .aniversary dinner of the Seamens' Hospital took place in London, and on the health of the Duke of Wellington being " Captain Harvey Tuckett, (we quote from the 'esterday,) in returning thanks, alluded to the perilous situation in India of a portion of the British force, nv of the officers of which he had had the happi _,. If he said that he was aware of Sir W. _...enaghten's death a month ago, what he stated might, " perhaps, be thought impossible; but yet this was The fact " (so we unden,:ood the gallant officer to say). As for ca " pitulation, he believed that such an idea had never entered " the minds of the British officers ; and he was led to he " lieve, from information that he had received, that the Bri " tish force was at the present moment safe. The death of " Sir William Macnaghten, too, he understood, had been " avenged in a most signal manner by the 44th Regiment, " and, (if we understood the gallant officer correctly, who " was not distinctly audible where we sat) not one stone was " left standing on another at Cabul." There must be some inaccuracy here, but the statements are too many and cir cumstantial for the reporter to be mistaken in all. Times of y " - with r ness of serving. i 4 V MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE.—The following members were present at the weekly meeting of the Dock Committee, which was held yesterday :—Messrs. Horsfall, Barclay, Holt, Holmes, Middleton, Smith, Sandbach, Aikin, Nicol, Molyneux, Mellor, Bailey, Chilton, Evans, Tobin, Bold, Shand, Moon, and Ripley. In the absence of the chairman of the committee (Mr. Sands), Mr. Horsfall, the deputy chairman, presided. The following tenders were ac cepted :—From Messrs. Bowers and Murray, for deepening Salthouse Dock ; from the Coalbroolcdale Company, for grates for the dock-masters' houses ; and from Messrs. Berry, Curtis. and Co., for two steam-engine boilers on No. 1 pierhead. The accounts of Messrs. Walker and Cubitt, the engineers, for their reports on the dock plans were pro duced : that of Mr. Walker amounted to £315, and that of Mr. Cubitt to £262 10s.—Mr. Aikin inquired to what ac count these bills should be charged ?—The Chairman said he could not tell.—Mr. Sandbach asked what the committee had obtained in return for these charges ?—The Chairmen could not exactly tell; he apprehended, however, that they bad obtained some little knowledge.—Mr. Holmes said there was no question that the bills must be paid.—A resolu tion was then passed that they be paid. The subject of ad vertising for a bell beacon with machinery, after some dis cussion, was referred back to the Sub-committee of Works. John Jones, the keeper of the Leasowe Lighthouse, was reprimanded for neglect of duty, and cautioned that if he again transgressed he would be discharged. The Finance Committee of the Town Council forwarded a resolution, agreed to by them, applying for the use of the slip at Sea_ cornbe basin, and requesting the Dock Committee to make the necessary repairs previously to its occupation as a land ing stage.—Agreed to. The Town-clerk forwarded copies of the Mersey Conservancy Bill, and in his note stated that he should have great pleasure iii explaining any of its provi sions to the committee. The Chairman said he had read the bill since the last meeting, and that it was of limited powers, falling very far short of what was contemplated before. It would be unnecessary to give the town-clerk the trouble of attending the committee, as he saw no obje c ti on to the bill. After a brief discussion, it was re solved th a t t h e secretary should acknowledge the receipt of the 'copie s o f t h e bill, and add that the committee, on perusing it, thought it would be unnecessary for the town -clerk to attend. The Solicitor re ported on the application from Messrs. Ri c h ard Harbord and Co., claiming compensa tion for damage done to 100 hogs heads of sugar, by the tidal waters , of th e M ersey b reaking had into c t a h r e ef ' n a ll r y examined all eh e o x u a se in c e eliar the (Frame s , King's Do c k,) th a t h e stances, and that there was not the slightest ground for resting a claim against the dock trust for compensation. The committee then separated. sltlureddennets,.cittyevening, Mr. committed suicide MELANCHOL age YS d U 2 I 2 C , ID a -, ns out with a horse pistol, at the cottage d Elliot, residing at Lewisham. He failed to pass his examination, which ..... _ . . . by blowing his I of his aunt, a la had the preceding preyed upon his mind dy names MELANCHOLY Ac Dlent Inweient DENT AND Loss which I isited the west OF LIVES.—The . coast for a week or two past have been the cause of sad disasters, both to property and jives. We understand that a number of logs of timber, lying in the Greenock timber ponds at Inch Green, half-way between Greenock and Port-Glasgow. got •""anring tb On Thursday, after the gale had Nanned with six rafters, sailed from nd, on the opposite shore at Ardmore, dis ad secured a l o t of the missing timber. The night coming on, the poor fellows put about ship to return, but the boat unfortunately got on the bank, and, it being low water, it stuck fi rm an d f as t, an d t h ere the crew lay till the flood - t , stn. The boat was then steered for Hill subsided, ti covered Ardinore,arWhjeagaln she grounded. The crew became so exhausted that one of them died. One of them managed to wade ashore, and prevailed on another to follow him. The first then returned to the boat, and found other two of his comrades dead, and another . very much exhausted. He offered to try to carry the survivor ashore, b u t consent was refused ; the man with difficulty returned ashore, and got assistance from a neighbouring house; but on reaching the boat, three corpses were found, and one of the crew found wanting. The body was found on the shore, and it is sup posed that the poor fellow had, be en drowned in att em pti ng to wade ashore. — Scottish Guar d ian. At a meeting of-the Horticultural Society, yesterday week, theie'was exhibited a fine dish of Newtown pippins, grown at the gardens of Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Bart. at Oulton Park, Cheshire, although it was stated that this fruit could only be grown successfully at Long Island.