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I ,t -___~_ _ J F 4.1110. LAitv 16, 18' G. ce of Postmaster-General,—in reply to that question, he was enabled to state that the commissioners had decided upon re commending a change to that effect; but the government had deferred taking that point into consideration until further evi dence should be laid before tie commissioners on this subject, which was now under their examination, and until they were enabled to take a fairer and more comprehensive view of the whole subject. With rektrd to the second question, as to whether it was likely that a report would soon be laid before the house from the commissioners with respect to the Postoffice packet department, he begged in reply to say that he hoped in the course of three weeks to be able to lay before the house a full and ample report with regard to all the Postoffice packet stations. Under these circumstances, he conceived that he should best discharge his duty by abstaining from saying any thing with respect to the reports in the newspapers, to which the hon. member had alluded, until the whole question came before the house, as to the general state of the Postoffire packet department. (Hear.) COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. The house having gone into committee, Mr. HOME produced some merriment, by asking what the salaries of a certain num ber of deer keepers amounted to, and what they did for their money? Fle wanted to know also whether these deer keepers had any and what fees for killing deer, and what became of the venison ? Mr. R. GORDON replied, thatmost official gentlemen declined to accept these deers as the fees for killing them was more than they were worth. They could, indeed, buy their venison che a p er than they could kill it. (Laughter.) After some fur ther talk on this subject the house resumed. THE: ORANGE SYSTEM IN IRELAND. Mr. FINN brought this subject under the consideration of the house, and concluded a rather lengthy speech by moving the following resolution.:—" That - orangeism had been productive Of the most baneful effects upon the character and administra tion of public justice inireland ; that its prevalence in the con stabulary and peace preservation force, and yeomanry corps of that country, has led indiVidu a l members, as well as large bodies of the above description of force, to the gross neglect and vio lation of the public duty, and to the open, daring, and lawless resistance to the authority or the magistracy and Of the execu tive government, on various occasions; that the systematic and surreptitious introduction. of.orangeism into every branch of the military service, into aluaost every part of the empire, in direct violation of orders issued in 1622 and 1829 by the commander in -chief of his Maj esty's forces, and the resolute power and con trout vested by its governing bodies, the grand orange lodge of England and of Ireland, in his !Oval Highness the Duke of Cumberland, "together with the rank, station, influence, and numbers of that formidable and secret conspiracy, are well cal culated to excite serious apprehensions in all his Majesty's loyal subjects, and imperatively call for the most energetic expres , Oen on,the.part,o,f.* reprssentatives of the people- of this ein , , pire to secure the safe", the peaceable, the legal, and rightful succession to the throne of these realms." Mr. E. BDLWER seconded the motion. Lord JOHN RUSSELL Moved that the debate be adjourned tcr , the 23d instant, which was carried. ORANGE LODGES IN THE ARMY. Mr. Hurau having been informed some time ago that half pay officers were not held amenable to courts martial, wanted to know, as his majesty had the power to make rules and regu lations for the discipline of the army, how it was that the Duke of Cumberland was allowed to set the rules and discipline ofthe army at defiance. An order had been issued by the commander of the forces prohibiting any officer from being a member of any orange lodge, but that order had been totally disregarded by the royal personage to whom he had alluded. 11Iany officers on half-pay h a d been removed from the army without any cause assigned.. He concluded by moving for a return of all officers not on full pay dismissed from his majesty's service since the year 1815, together with the alleged reasons for their dismissal. Lord How rex objected to giving more than the names of the Officers dismissed, as giving the reasons would be an interfer ence with the prerogatives of the crown, which had the power of dismissing any officer without giving any reason whatever. It Would also be, in some instan ces , an aggravat i on o f t h e punish ment to have the causes brought forward after a lapse of twenty years. The return was ordered, with the reasons. RAILWAYS. Mr. HARVEY moved for the appointment of a select com rnittee, to which all railway bills, having a termination within seven miles of the Royal Exchange, should be referred; but it was withdrawn, on the understanding thatfor this session a sug ttestion heretofore made by Mr. Goulburn should be adopted. The suggestion was, that wh ere severa l ra i lways were projected they should be referred to one comm i ttee to determine the best li Lord J. RUSSELL moved for leave to bring in bills for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages, and to amend the law regarding the celebration of marriage. As to the registra tion he did not go into full details—he-left them to the bill; but on the subject of the marriage ceremony, he proposed that there should be no alteration regarding those who were con nected with the established church—that dissenters should have the opportunity of, being married .in their own places of wor ship, and as to those who viewed marriage as a civil contract they could be married after entering their names fora certain num ber of days in a prescribed register, to be certified by certificate. The bill Would provide for a general registration of marriages, and detail s th e sums f or entering names, examining registers, &c. As to burials he had no plan at present on the subject, but he hoped to produce a measure that would give general satis faction, and en a bl e di ssenters to have their deceased brethren buried in the grounds attached to their own chapels. With respect to degrees at the universities their was no prospect of getting Oxford or C am b r id ge to concede degrees to dissenters ; but the Chancellor of the Exchequer was preparing a bill for a university that would concede degrees, and which it was hoped would remove the just complaints of dissenters. Sir R. Paul., said if th e di ssenters were satisfied he should not co m pl a i n ; but if this bill be gave satisfaction, then he should astonished, that this measure had not been approved. Mr. Ban ING sa i d that the right hon. baronet's bill was good, but this was much better,. it removed the greatest objections. Mr. O'CONNELL and others having expressed approbationl Mr. Gouts URN said, whatever passed now, he did not wish to be precluded from hereafter taking that course which he Might think right. Lord J. RussELL expreiged his satisfaction at the manner. in Which his motion bad beem*:caceived _and _said that it did r i ot rleterioratedUttied ben;litiirtitiet`a Sirß. Picas. hoped that 1441 wouldnot preclude dissenters from being married in the 11414A/shod church itthey sepleased. Motion agreed to. Dr. Bow RING gave notice that Mr. Hume would,' on ,Mon day, bring forward the subject of the assessed taxes, and sur charges on them. Mr. EWART brought up the prisoners' counsel bill which was read a first time. THE BOROUGH OF FINSBURY CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. On Saturday 400 members of this association dined together at the Freemasons' ravern—Lord Mahon in the chair. The Earls of Winchelsea and Brownlutv. Lords Maidstone and Elleford, and Messrs. Grove Price, ALP., Clithero, M.P. Pro theme, M.P., Mackinnon, M.P., Adolphus, Itainsden, and several gentlemen of the bar were among the visitors. The Chairman, in proposing " Prosperity to the Conserva tive Association of Finsbury," said, that they had now arrived at a great crisis in the history of England; the contest was every day becoming more decided between those who could and those who would not preserve the institutiuus of the country. He advised the conservatives to look forward to the future in stead of looking back on the past, and they ou g ht t o un it e together to support the cons titution. All who were for rational and moderate reform could co-operate with the conservatives in such a case. He would also advise the conservatives nut to content themselves with their own opinions on such an emer gency as th e present, b ut they should endeavour to communi cate and explain their opinions to others. They ought to disabuse the public mind as to those misrepresentations propa gated by the radical press. If the conservatives were only a tenth part as bad as the radical press represented them, the country ought to have no confidence in them. They were held up as men who delighted in corruption, and who preyed on the vitals of the country. He denied this. The conservatives had nothin g to gain, but every thing to lose, by corruption. The great majority of the property of the country is conservative loud cheers.) The prospects of the conservatives were at this moment full of hope and exultation. People were beginning to see that our constitution is a good one, or even a had one would be better than no constitution at all (cheers.) He denied that the result of the late munidipal elections was any proof of what the issue of any contest for the Parliamentary representation of these boroughs would be. It was was with great satisfaction he understood that there were a great many most respectable dissenters present (loud cheers.) He was also gratified to learn that there were many Roman Catholics its the meeting he had the honour to address (loud cheers.) Ile could assure those who dissented from the establishment—and he said this for the dParty with whom he acted as well as for himself—that every isposition existed to concur in whatever metssuse might he proposed for redressing their grievances, and giving them entire liberty of conscience. And he trusted they would, on the other hand, assist in upholding the church of England, which all must admit to be the great bulwark against the inroads of infi delity (loud cheers.) The toast was then drank amidst loud and long continued applause. The health of Sir Robert Peel was drank with great enthusi asm ; after which the following song, written for the occasion, was sung by Mr. Fitzwilliam:— When.wild Agitation endangers the State, And the Rebelis cloak'd in Reform; Let u s c li ng to the man who, undauntedly great, • Can steadily weather the storm. The glory of Britain to him is the goal From whence he will never depart ; • Her laws and religion are dear to his soul, Her welfare's enshrined in his heart. Then fill to the man whom our friendship enjoys, May nothing its union sever ; And now for a toast to delight you, my boys, Here's Peel and Old England forever! Peel and Old England for ever ! Peel a-Al Old England for ever ! A tad now for a toast to delight you my boys, Lik e Here's Peel and Old England for ever ! F and Ci nc i na t us, t h e R oman, o f o ld , 11 e roin retirement called to the State, ~was firm, as a Statesman, consistent and bold, ""Zo is t h a t ,..Rh n ,hY Faction compelled to retreat. Like. ell‘ arts so futile, her malice so vain, And, a sea mark" he's firmly withstood ; exultims I tell ye,we'll have him again, For he's !eyed b — ytheeat an Then fill to the man, &c. d the good. Then • let him b e the pilot, and we'll be the crew, Our K To a t ug the commander shall be; vessel so manu'd what ills can accrue ? Th o She never can f oun d er at sea, ugh tempests may shake her, though fortune may sport, __And s t orms for awhile overwhelm ; Yet proudly and safely she'll ride int o p or t, For our pilot s t an d s firm at the helm. Then bumpers to him whom our friendship enjoys, May nothing the union sever; And now for a toast to delight you my boys, Here's Peel and Old England for ever ! Peel and Old England for ever ! Peel and Old England for ever ! And now for a toast to delight you, my boys, Here's Peel and Old England for ever TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. .., I ' llll ,—ln your last week's paper I see a few li nes f rom Capt. tie nham the mari n e s ur v eyor of this port, resp ect i ng the ship St. Patria taking the ground one mile south war d of the new S t. Captain Denham's statement so far is correct. The S,t. Patri c k did not conic through the New Channel, th e w i nd at at th time being too scant to attempt the passage of either that Le Rock Channel • we bore up for the Half-tide Swashway, her the only channel practicable. The ship struck, and lost l,e.r rudder, and we steered her upwards of two miles with the sails only, when we got the ship into deep water and let go both leeward that she could bring up we had drifted so far to the leeward that she took the ground on the middle patch of the Great I3urbo as the tide ebbed.—l am, EDWARD BRIDGE, Pilot of the St. Patrick. i~-' ITALIAN OPERA, AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL LAST NIGHT BUT ONE. SIGNOR. DE BEGNIS respectfully begs to state to the Nobility, Gentry, and Public of Liverpool, that the expense of this undertaking has been so great, and the support he has received has been so inadequate, that he is, in con saquenee, a considerable loser; he is, therefore, reluctantly obliged'to state that WEDNESDAY next will be the Last Night of the. Season, although his Engagement with the Lessee of the Theatte does not expire until the 29th of the present month. The Performances for the next Two nights will include the entire strength of the Company; and, on WEDNESDAY NIGHT, he has been induced, at the request peseveral patrons of' the Opera, to announce that the Performatices will be for his BENEFIT, as DIRECTOR and MANGER of the OPERA, on which occasion will be produced anrEntertainment of the greatest attraction, comprising the best part of the Immortal Mozart's Grand Opera IL DON GIOVANNI, including the the whole strength of the Company. This present TUESDAY EVENING, the 16th instant, for the BENEFIT of Signora CONTESSA DEGLI ANTONJ, will be performed Rossini's Grand Opera of LA DONNA DEL LAGO. TO-MORROW, for the BENEFIT of SIGNOR DE BEGNIS, DIRECTOR and MANAGER, the principal part of Mozart's Splendid Opera IL DON GIOVANNI, with other Entertainments; to conclude with the Opera Buffa IL- FANA TICO PER L MUSICA, compressed into one Act, includ ing all the principal Scenes. LIVER , THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. . Second Appearance this Season of Miss E. HAmtr.tori, Mr, Mrs., and Miss F. LECLF.RC% Miss MARGARET LECLERC% the Infant Prodigy, Mr. RAE, and various,diher Performers. THIS present TUESDAY, the 16th ins,tint,.and during the week, THE BATTLE OF AUERLITZ. Principal Characters by Mr. Raymond, Mrs. Raymond, Mr. W. J. Hammond, Mr. Rae; Mrs. Herbert, &c. A new Ballet called CUPID AND ARIADNE. _ In which Mr. and — Mrs.l:eciercq, Miss P. Leclercq, and the Infant Prodigy, Miss M. Leclercq, will appear. The Interlude of - THE MAN -OF TRAVELS. O'Blunder Mr. Raymond, in which he will sing "The Rael ould Irish Gintleman." To conclude with the Extravaganza of DON GIOVANN I. Don Giovanni Miss E. "Hamilton. Leporello....Mr, W. J. Hammond. - A• new extravagant Burletta, called THE JEWESS TRA VESTE; or, LEAVE WITHOUT LICENSE, is in re hearsal, and ►rill be speedily produced. INI - ASTER HUGHES, the CAMBRIAN HARPIST, begs leave respectfully to return thanks to his Friends and Patrons for their liberal support of his recent Concerts, and to inform them that he will have the honour , by the desire of 4 1, numerous Friends, to give a FAREW ~ CONCERT in a `few days.—Full particulars will be dul anliGilneed• N.B.—MASTER HUGHES'S C NCERT will take place To-stonttoW,. - the 17th instant, at the 21.$,SESIBLY ROOM, Wir,ERTIZEE. . Also, at the FLEECE HOTEL, ST. lIELEW,Fei , 011,FRIDAY next, the 19th instant.--Tur particulars .sae hand. hills. Ebe iLiberpool gL,tanDarb.- TUESDAY MORNING, .FEBRIIARY 16, 1836 The preliminary proceedings for the trial of DANIEL O'CONNELL and his unfortunate son commenced in the House of Commons on Thursday last; and if rigorous justice be done, especially to the elder accused, the Bri tish public will take as deep an interest in the inquiry as the citizens of Paris seem to take in the guilt, gallantry, gasconade, sentimentality, and falsehood of the wretched FIESCHI. • As yet the petitions containing the charges against the dictator of Ireland, and the principal supporter of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the degraded whigs who still adhere to him, have only been read in the house. They were ordered to be printed, and are'now, we presume, in the hands of the members. To-night Mr. HARDY is to move for a committee to investigate the said charges; and the probability is that some considerable and highly interesting discussion will take place on their merits. We wait the issue of that debate with some anxiety. The people of these islands will now have an opportu nity of seeing, how the whigs carry their own principles into practice in a matter conceruing a member of their own body. We all know what they did last session when certain persons were brought before them charged with bribery and corruption. It will be recollected with what unrelenting rigour that immense patriot Mr. RIGBY WASON bunted down and sent to gaol certain of the electors of Ipswich, He knows best how much money lie expended in the alleged purification of that borough. Men were voted off to prison simply because they re fused to answer questions calculated to criminate them selves. The principles of law and equity were inverted in order to glut the vengeance of these stern hater's Of bribery. The House of Commons assumed all the pow ers of the execrated Star Chamber, in its worst days, in order to punish suspected persons. WAsoN and HUME, ROEBUCK and EiYART, BUCKINGHAM. and Lai and Lord JonN4.4j. - Loidi44.ii, Were amongst the loudest of its members indenoOicing al, leged corruption in Ipswich, Leicester, Norwich, Staffordi Chatham, and other places, and O'CONNELL in particular defended. theexpediency of whistling off ,to' a dnngeOn . ' one witness who refused to criminate himself: Now, with the blessing of GOD, we shall see how these pure patriots and the immaculate Whigs will act when one of themselves is. caught, is accused, and put upon his trial, for one of the foulest (if the averments be proved) and most flagitious' acts of gross corruption that ever polluted political morals or stained the annals of parlia mentary history. Let us glance at the charge fOr a single moment. A man called RAPHAEL, by political profession a whig, by religious profession a Roman catholic, who had been Sheriff of London, and who had been raised to that ho nourable office by the whig faction—by that very liberal party who would now, if they dared, question his honour and respectability—this man was applied to by DANIEL O'CONNELL to know whether he were desirous to obtain a seat in parliament, and if so, be DANIEL in that case could recommend him to a "safe speculation," the ho nour of representing an Irish county which he RAPHAEL had never seen, but which he DANIEL could secure to him on the following terms :- Ist, RAPHAEL is to pay DANIEL £l,OOO for the honour of being nominated. 2dl y, RAPHAEL is to pay a second £l,OOO to DANIET in the fortunate event of his being returned. 3dly, DANIEL covenants and agrees that; "come what may," as President JACKSON has it, not one farthing, beyond the £2,000 will be required at the hands of RA PHAEL —that he DANIEL will take upon himself the ex pense of contesting the return, in case it should be pe titioned against", and hear RAPHAEL harmless in all other . respects. These terms were accepted by this foolish pigeon of an ex-sheriff. The articles were drawn out, and signed and sealed. RAPHAEL, if we may believe him—and we have no right to doubt his word—has the conditions and the whole particulars of this curious transaction in the hand writing of DANIEL himself. • Now, then, suppose these' facts proved. As concerns -O'CoNNELL we seek nothing more than this. It is im material what he did :with-the money. We stop not to inquire whether it was or might have been a profitable bargain to him who originated it. It is of little or no importance whether DANIEL bagged or pocketed RA PHAEL'S money, giving long dated bills upon a brewery' fur a portion of the purchase money which passed through his hands. We throw the profit overboard, and the brewery into the bargain. It is of no moment whether RAPHAEL'S money was converted into beer or made avail able in the purchase of dogs'-meat for the tail in London. Here we have the money paid—DANIEL the receiver—. his son JoriN the carrier of the bank notes—the father fingering the cash—the son conveying it to his honoured and beloved parent. This is enough. RAPHAEL was returned through the interest which the elder O'CoNNELL possessed with the popish priests of Carlow. As soon as the first £l,OOO were paid, we find DANIEL writing a declaration and a strong recommendation to the electors in favour of RA PHAEL. It was a most kind, and generous, and truly pa triotic recommendation, for DANIEL had received a gui nea for every syllable it contained. The electors of Carlow were told that RAPHAEL, whose very name they never had heard of in the whole course of their lives, was a fit and proper person to represent them in parlia ment—that he was an highly independent and accom plished gentleman—a man of integrity and of sterling' pat! i otistn—a Roman catholic to boot—one of the aven gers of the wrongs of Ireland—who hated the orange men, the protestants, and the parsons--whose heart was entirely Irish—and who would vote for the repeal of the union, or any other repeal, just to oblige his dear and esteemed friends of the county of Carlow. 'los* the electors' Of Cat ow mdst have . staled When / /I~f~ .7 LIVERPOOL STAI 3Aita they learned that this most "unintelligible of all , ima ginable vagabonds," with a Jewish name, and a character as unknown to them as was his person, was to be thrust upon them by DANriC O'CONNELL ! Little, perhaps, did they dream tskat DANIEL had been told that their intended representative was a " mean creature" that DANIEL him self had been " warned against." Little perhaps did they imagine that the whole transaction was a matter of traffic—of sale and delivery; and that they were treated like brutes, and sold, by private contract, for so much base money. We will do them the credit to believe that they knew nothing of all this; but their innocence is no palliation of O'CoNNELL's guilt. He received the mo ney—RAPHAEL was his dupe—they also were victims. The commons of England in parliament assembled may rest assured that the eyes of the whole nation are fixed upon them—some with doubt and suspicion—some with fear and anxiety—all with deep interest. The great mass of reformers are fully alive to the acts and profes sions of those who represent them. They have been told that the corruptions of the olden time will never be allowed to disgrace this new and enlightened era of po litical reformation, and they will be justified in testing theshacerity of their leading patriots by the honesty and fairness "of their condtict in their decision in the case of DANIEL O'CONNELL. Talk of bribery in Liverpool! Poor men, who did not care a straw for either candidate in 1830, were bribed by those on whom alone the punish, ment should have fallen k=itli a' heavy hand—by men who bought .and betrayed then-who' were heartless enough to debauch and then expose thein—who dragged them to the commission of a' serious offence, and would have delivered them over to the executioner. For their venality some excuse might be offered; but for O'CON NELL'S ienality—his sale of u county, in which the pur chaser .Was a total strangey—sold to a " mean creature" that the seller was`" warned against," for £2,000; what possible excuse can be,Offered for such glaring corruption Land barefaced cupidity ? We leave the House of Conimons to answer this ques tion ; and answer it they must, a t th e i r -p er il, to the in sulted dignity, the awakened honesty, and the alarmed suspicions of the people of England. If the facts be proved, as we trust they will be, they will never be content until O'CONNELL, by a just and righteous sen tence, IS EXPELLED FROM THE HOUSE OF COMMONS . Less than this, if the facts are substan tiated, will never satisfy the electors of this country. ,Less than this they will deem a compromise of justice. 'More than this they do not seek ; but wo be to the mem ber who shall endeavour to conceal the fraud, or inter pose where guilt makes its sinister appeals to influence or expediency ! If s tile House of Commons shall refuse to adjudicate in this case with that stern rigour which the importance of the charges demand, and which is ex pected by the people of England, they will, as the com moners of England, proclaim their own doom—they will sink in public estimation—they will write "faction and dishonesty" on their verdict of acquittal, and they will prove to the whole world that- the reformed parliament is a fraud, and that absolutism and despotism, in any shape, are preferable to the boasted integrity and independence of the House of Commons. In one word, if the House of Commons do not do its duty in this respect, its mem bers who cover the guilt of O'CONNELL will be handed down to posterity as infamous—the "death's bead and cross hones" will be their passport to universal execra- tion—public scorn will assail them in the market place —their names will be the jest of the pothouse—from every hustings in the empire they will be cabbaged into some rotten asylum as HOBROUSE was, until the very name of reform and whip shall become synonymous with cheat, and " something more" as Lord LYNDHURST would say. We should most willingly, in this early stage of the proceedings, when the accused has not yet done more than intimate the line of his defence, have stopped here, and covered what our factious antagonists may perhaps call our . vindictiveness by our silence. But we .cannot. A sense of public duty whisper's that a blacker story re mains untold, in which the son of the accused figures as the agent and dupe of his wretched father. It is a painful subject. It places human nature in so repulsive - le light thit--z-irek , 4eclitr`"solemnly eve" el affected by the sense of duty which dictates its expo sure. We allude to the part which JOHN O'CONNELL, the son of DANIEL, a very young man, and the member for Youghal, was permitted or ordered by. his father to play in this corrupt transaction. We can imagine a case where a son, implicated in his father's haleness, might have an excuse for not bearing ev id ence against th e au thor of hi s b e i ng. But this is not such a case. Air. TheJtt JOHN evidence, us f O'CONNELL. is not as it calledu , poonniymakes toc onvictmr. j hisfat oi he i r , . ; O'Coti-NEhi. the inconsiderate, and, to a certain extent, the irresponsible go-between-of his guilty father. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL is, in his parent's name, the dun of RAPHAEL. He conveys the money from the dupe to the receiver. And if this were all, and the member for Youghal had been a mere lad, eating his father's mut ton, and otherwise irresponsible to the public, we should have held him excused. But this Master JOHN, of im mature years, is a member of parliament, and he is the bearer of RAPIIAEL's purchase money to his father the seat-seller. This young man, unhappily for his pros pects in after life, was the bearer of the second £lOOO from RAPHAEL to O'CONNELL. He received it some thirty minutes before he entered the House of Commons, where as is asserted, with the money in his pocket, he was sworn in at the table " truly to try" the merits of the petition which questioned the return, which his father had received 1:2000 for supporting, maintaining, and vin dicating at his own expense, in a case, of course, where his father, as he knew, was deeply and seriously con cerned. This, we have said before, is a painful subject. We sincerely pity the young man, in the dawn of life, hav ing, as he has, a virtuous, honest, and conservative mo ther, whose greatest source of unhappiness has been the factious politics, and the dishonest practices of her hus band—whose son has been dragged into the responsibi lity of a vile tranaction by the reckWO'disregard of mo ral feeling which characterizes his father. We pity him; but how can we pardon the hoary sinner who, regardless of all consequences, could thus immolate on the shrine 'of expediency, and for the sake . of filthy lucre, d' very helpless youth, whom he professes to regard? Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL was made the carrierand con veyancer of the second £lOOO paid to him by the solici tor of itA , PTIAEL ; and he entered the House of Commons With the Money in his pocket, in the suspicious absence of all the rest of the tail, - and was ballotted fur, without objection, to try under the sanction of his oath the merits of the petition which challenged the election of a mem ber for whose return he had the corrupt price and the blood money in his pocket. How this is to be met or answered we cannot even conjecture. O'CONNELL felt that it was the most distressing point in the line of his defence ; for beautiful is the fact, that men, hardened in crime, often feel for the helpless and unhappy situation of the innocent or inexperienced persons whom they have contaminated and misled. Even those friends of O'CONNELL, who are not generally included in the ranks of modern philanthropists, must, however they may support the father's politics, lament his errors, and pity the situation of his son. But what a defence ! Did ever an inebriated Irish washerwoman vent in a riotous fair such a torrent of twaddle and abuse, of rabid fustian and incoherent rea soning, of mawkish sentimentality and unblushing false hood, as DANIEL offered to the House of Commons on Thursday last ? His language was the poetry of a mad man—his address to the passions were like the appeals of a detected and convicted cheat. Never was such a scene witnessed in the House of Commons, in a police office, or at the bar of a criminal court. He coaxed and stormed, begged and bullied, wheedled and menaced, all to no purpose. In the agonies of conscious guilt he made himself alike ridiculous and offensive. He was pitied and despised. No friend had a word to offer in his behalf. Those that feared him were silentthOSe who understood_ him and hated him were disgusted.- But let us waste a Moment in noticing some of the appeals which the father addressed to the House in fa vour of his son. Ist. " For himself lie scorned to complain; but there was another person on whose account he appealed to every man of feeling and to every father in the House 2d. " Was the honourable member who presented the petition' himself a father ?. If he was, how could he bring an allegation against the integrity of Mr. JOHN OCONNtLL ?" 3d. He was harassed " by an imputation of perjury, not against himself, but against as pure a creature as ever breathed,"' 4th. "My feelings of love and affection—oh, they cannot be described ! But I am consoled by my con sciousness of my son's integrity, and I bless my God that mother .never had a more dutiful and respectful son. (Loud laughter.) sth. You hav,e endeavoured to plunge a dagger, through my son's reputation, in my heart; but your ma lice has been frustrated, and your dagger has fallen blunted on the impenetrable shield of the integrity of my loved, my pure, and except by falsehood, my unimpeach able son:' Was ever such bombast and puerility listened to in any public assembly? Is this a defence ? The comical part of it is where the father implores the son, whom he subsequently describes to be " stainless as the driven snow," to offer no defence, but to " leave this matter to 6e adjusted entirely between the member for Bradford and himself." To this the pure, dutiful, and respectful son replies— " He (Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL) begged to be allowed to make his own defence, and required no person to make a defence for him." What a dutiful son ! What a beautiful farce ! T4O : -Rev, ROBERT M'GHEE has sent a challenge to that factious priest Dr. M'HALE, which has foralidable claims upon the - attention-of the Roman catholic as` Well as the protestant public. The challenge has reference to the rules of discipline -inculcated in the execrable work of PETER DENS, which is held in such high repute by the Romish church, and of which six thou Sand copies have beenprinted in Ireland within the last few years. Mr. 1114GREE calls upon Dr. APHALEto adniit or deny that certain questions : of, an exceedingly delicate nature are put to married :aid unmarried women in the confessional —questions 'of a'netnre that no sensitive and innocent female Can listen to without being overwhelmed with shame • That suCh inestions are propounded by DENS, and imposed as o..solonin,'duty upon the priests, we can certify of olii:Own : ‘i/lOW . Hedge, That they are disgusting and calculated to' vallute : thelemale mind is undeniable. Mr: ITGHEO deSiCiS:',Of . havinfi these questions trans, hated from lihn4s VisOiogy :rand 'submitted to six Roman catholic nobiegren - pd"Oritlemen, and he offers to abide by their verdict as - tcotheit immoral tendency. He chal lenges'pr..WAit to 'meet such a jury, laymen of his own church, ind translate the, passages himself, or allow him, Mr. M9uLE, to .tianslatel . them. That the doctor will ;not aceiipt the challenge we entertain no doubt, whatever; b4l it is proper that the terms of it should be made known,,:in order that all good Roman catholics should be made aware of the ordeal through which their wives, daughters, and sisters have too often to pass, their examiners being, many of them young, and all of them unmarried n4n. The following is an extract of Mr. ArGHEE'S letter to Dr. M'HALE:— " Now, Sir, X name six Roman catholic noblemen and gen tlemen; I beg to assure them that I take the liberty of naming them with the greatest respect., as persons whom I believe the Roman catholieis of Ireland will l oo k u p to, and whose awa r d would give the* entire satisfaction, and set their minds at rest on the heart re4ding topic on which I appeal to them. I shall name two nobbjmen, a lawyer, a solicitor, a physician, a mer chant—l natne!Lord Kenmare, Lord Killeen, Mr. Ball, K.C., Mr. Beasley, of Fitzwilliam-square, Sir James Murray, D.D., and Mr. J. M`Donnell, Bank Director. To these noblemen and gentlemen I have not the honour of being known ; I have not, to my knowledge, ever seen one of them—but I hesitate not to commit myself into their hands—l throw myself with confidence on their truth—l invite them to choose each a friend, a Roman catholic, the man of whom they have the highest opinion as to his moral character and his feelings as a man. I only stipulate that he be a husband and a father. There will be a jury of tw:eve Roman catholics. " Now, Sir, I call upon you, if you dare, to hare your deed of darkness : d6gged into . the light of day. I call upon you, rbefote-the-Ttine sitebiat dOceiyed - _ and betrayed people—l' call upon you, before the Roman catholics of Ireland, who know not, alas, the bondage they are doomed to suffer—l call upon' you, in the presence of that God, at whose tribunal you shall stand to reader an account for that system of dark iniquity which you administer, to meet me in private, where alone such transaction could be conducted, before these twelve Roman catholics; and if you arc afraid to do so your se lf, find iu all your chnich, priest, professor, or bishop, with hardihood enough to undertake the 'task. Let your, or let him, translate or Write in their presence the passages of your detestable stamlard er. theology, which I shall point out—let them read the principles of polleting obscinity with which your minds are to .beltnrnished, for the examination of their wives and daughteteln*yout 'dark and secret confessional, where the poor unprotected female, bound under terror, and constrained of necessity' to eternal silence, can have no refuge and no escape—nohusband and:lici fa:tlier n ear', to hear and to drag from . his den the monster, ..who, undet the guise of religion, eau put every , feeling of her heart upon the rack, and in proportion to her 'delidaY, Fier sensibility, her very reverence for what she unhappily believes to be an ordinance of God instead 'of an invention of Satanic guilt and tyranny, can bow her spirit into his power, humble her into the 'very : dust-beneath his feet, iT she be virtuous; or drag her, if it be possible, : and. be . be so "inclined, in the paths of profligate eednOliii." , • The people who pay local taxes in this town will pro bably recollect that in the last year a bill was prepared for parliament, the object of which was to organize an efficient police for Liverpool. We believe that the mea-. sure differed materially from the one now in a state of formation by the reformed town council, inasmuch that economy was studied, and p4l,ronage deemed unworthy of consideration. The bill was opposed by certain worthy and enlightened " citizens," as Lord MELBOURNE called them, who then constituted the ,board of scavengers, lamplighters, street sweepers, sewer cleaners, &C. &c. They objected to the bill on the ground of the serious expense which it would entail upon the inhabitants, and we give them credit for ail the praise, and the acknowledgements of their local patriotism, which their opposition obtained fcr them. But a change has taken place. Some patriots are in power- 7 -others in disgrace. Mr. COGLAN of the bath is in place—;--Mr. WALES is not in office. All the scavengers have been swept out. The reformers of 1834 in the scavenging department, notwithstanding the important services they had rendered the town, had their merits entirely and most unpardonably overlooked. The objections of M. \VALES are now treated with contempt. The opinions of his liberal collenges are tossed into the dust hole, and a new police is to be embodied under circumstances which must alarm him and them, and at an expense which he and they must, or at least, ought to consider unwarrantable, if not profligate. The new police to be formed—independent of the dock police—is to consist of 1 head constable and his horse, ,1 sitting commissioner, 4 superintendents, 8 constables 4 clerks, 10 Bridewell keepers, '2l inspectors, 4 turnkeys: and 290 watchmen, making in all upwards of 340 police men, at an expense which the reformed town council calculate, at £24,000, but which we contend cannot be maintained in an efficient state for much less than £40,000. The liberal scavengers who opposed the bill of 1835 now agree that the expensive bill of 1836 is deserving of all praise, even though they are deemed unfit to ma nage it. The old or present police force. - -exclusive of the dock police—consisted of 2 superintendents, 16 cap tains, 53 constables, and 130 watchmen—in all 201 men. Mr. \VALES and his fellow-lamplighters, who opposed the bill of last year, offer no objections to the present po- lice bill, which is evidently a patronage bill concocted by the reformed corporation ; yet it is capable of proof that the present reform bill is a much more expensive one than the bill of the old corporation. ti In the report which the board of scavengers, of which Mr. WALES was chairman, drew up in March 1835, they state their ob jections to the then contemplated police bill in the fol lowing terms:— " The existing corporation police are supposed to be on duty during the day, at all events they were appointed for that pur pose, and your committee are decidedly of opinion that if that force were as efficient as either of the other police establish ments, there are now nearly enc, , ugh If men to discharge all the duties contemplated by the supposed bill; and that at all events, if tliat body be to be maintained, according to its present numerical force, a very trifling additional number of men will be necessary. If this view of the subject he correct, that part of the bill which provides for a superintendant, treasurer, clerkt, and other expensive machinery, will be totally unnecessary, as all those offices must now be in existence to regulate the present day police." Here we find that the liberal board or 1834 and 1835 are of opinion that to render the old police efficient a " very trifling additional number of men will be neces sary." They also objected to an increased number of superintendents, treasurers, clerks, and "other expensive machinery." But what do these gentlemen say now ? Not one word. They see a much more expensive police about to he established than they ever contemplated— they see jobbing going on in all directions—they 'see every thing sacrificed to, patronage they see the pro perty of the town placed in the trust of parties who should hot be :Intrusted with its protection—and yet they look on in silence. They see the town police, in clefi ance of their report, increased from 201 to 340 ten-the salaries of whom, in many cases, are doubled—and yet they do not complain. Does this silence evince much honesty on their part ? Is it caused by policy or faction ? We leavethose shopkeepers, who will shortly be called upon to pay a borough rate, to answer the question. The editor of The Liverpool .organ of the papists, the Journal, discharged, in his last quarto sheet, one of his little missiles againstthe rector of Sepliton, becausethat reverend gentleman has ventured to enforce his demand for four years' arrears of small tithes due to him from a popish priest of tie name of ABRAM, who happens to be one of his parishioners. Our-learned contemporary argues, in the first -place, that the-demand ought mottei - b'e enforced=—for wliat~r`ea= son think you, gentle reader ?—because it only at Mints to eighteen-pence ! and, secondly, although lie does not dispute the legality of the .claim, because the non-pay, merit of it may be caused by a SCRUPLE Of CONSCIENCE! - This novel and ingenious manner of arguing the ques tion would almost induce, a belief that the holy friar of the J:ournat had taken his degree at the college of May nooth, where "Thou shalt not steal" is not held to be an absolute prohibition against thieving, provided, a given quantity be not purloined. With respect to the smallness of the demand, it ap ,pears not to have occurred to the writer of the article in qUestion that 66 the one halfpenny per annum for smoke money" and " the one halfpenny for, each cock and hen," together with the other items which he has so facetiously enumerated, may arise from an ancient modus or Conine-, sition for small tithes, but for the existence of- which the rector's demand, in consequence of the altered value of money, would probably be ten times greater in amount.. He has also strangely overlooked, or is altogether igno-• rant of another pOssible fact, namely, that the rector's income may depend wholly upon the Collection of small tithes levied in very trifling sums—and this we knOvilO be the case in'some places—froni the inhabitants of his parish. The existence of this state of things may, per haps, be good grounds for legislative interference ; but, until the. law has provided another remedy, the rector has no othercourse to pursue than the one he hai adopted in a case where he appears to have met with a contuma cious refusal to pay his admitted just and legal claims. The chief ground of complaint, however, against the rector is the exaction of his small tithes from priest ABRAM, who, it is inferred, ought not to be called upon to pay them. Here again we can supply the Journal with another scrap of information respecting tithe matters, of which we suspect he is ignorant. The vicar of Bidstone receives no tithes whatever, but, strange to say, actually pays tithes for his glebe, by the rent of which he is sup ported, to a catholie lay-impropriater ! Supposing father ABRAM, of Sepliton, were the son of the catholic lay-iin propriator of Bidstone, would he, on succeeding to the inheritance of that property, forego the right to exact the tithes due to him from the glebe of that parish ? suspect that Ile would not, nor indeed can we see any. good reason why he sbotild de. so. But,the most curious part of our contemporary's rea spuipg is foulided upon . the priest's scruples if ccnsciencL 'We take for granted the holy father eats and drinks—oc casionally perchance slakes his thirstwith a more spiritual beverage than pure-water—and is also clothed like other men. Now what would his baker, his butcher, his fish- . monger, hiS tailor, or his wine merchant say, were his " scruples of conscience" urged against the justice of their demands ? If his scruples of conscience can be ad ,mitted in the one case they are good in all those we, have - assumed.; and WO reverence might refuse upon the same grounds to pay his whipmaker, because the thongs of thal instrument with. which he flagellates his hack are too hard or too soft; or his hair-shirt maker, because that garment niayl)c too rough or too smooth for his holy carcase. " Conscience" is a mighty fine thing to talk about when justice is sought to be evaded.. Father ABRAM may have a vow "registered in Heaven" not to' pay tithes, for ought we know to the contrary ; but When, he talks of " conscience" lie should first consider that others may feel that inward monitor as powerfully as hi ms elf. He cannot be ignorant that the incumbent or every ecclesiastical betiefice belonging to the established church of England is bound by his oath of induction not to forego any rights or dues appurtenant to his clerical freehold, nor to make : any waste of any portion of . the - property of the: church committed to WS . charge during his incumbency. The demand then of the rector of Sephton is as much a matter of " conscience" as the resistance of the popish priest of that place can possibly be. Were incumbents of livings permitted to give up their dues one after another, the temporalities, of the church-would long since lidve been destroyed altogether. The superscription on .the attorney's letter, ‘ 4 Mr. ABRAM PRIEST," is evidently an error of the clerk .whO wrote it. .. Poor Journal ! canst thou find nothing better than this to exercise thy stnall•wit upon ? LONDON LA7'.EST NEWS. City, Saturday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock. • An official return has been published to-day, .bearing very materially upon the amount of the_ circulation of the country, return of the amount of notes circulated in England and Vales by private banks, joint stock banks, and their brancheS, in the quarter ending on the 26th December last. It appears from this dectiment that the circulation of notes by these estab- lishments. has been increased in the last quarter to the extent of 4713,791. The , present circulation or the private banks' is stated at £8,33-I,B63;inthe previous quarter it was 47 . ,912,587i The circulation of the joint stock banks in the quarter ending onthe 2,4th'..4ple'iiter last was 42X3,°36; but in the q t i ar t e ending on the . 26th December it was 12,799,551. Taking _t l e increase `of The I,eireulation of the Bank of .England, of fhe private hanlr, and the joint stock banks, it appears that in the: last quarter there has been altogether an augmentation to thea circulation of the . country of very near one million . sterling. The accounts received from Canada to-day to the 19th ult., state that a considerable sensation has been produced in the. lower provinces by the issuing of a proclamation by Lord Gos- ' ford, putting down the rifle corps which had been established by the constitutional party to maintain the connexion between England and the colony. The constitutionalists had'passed several strong resolutions against the votes of the assembly,' granting sums of money to promote objects which they con) sidered favoured the French party. The public securities have been very firm to-day, Consols for account closing at 911, and for money at 911 /. Exchequer Bills were quoted at 18s. to 20s. India Bonds 3s. to ss. In the Foreign Stock• Market business has been dull. Spanish. Bonds, however, have risen from -17 i to 18, at which they closed. Portuguese Stock is also a shade higher, leaving off at 831, and, the 3 per Cents, at 53. French Stock has advanced to-day.! the 5 per Cent. Rentes having reached 109 f. and the 3 pert Cents. 80f. 75c., with the Exchange at 25f. 60c. Belgian,i Dutch, and the Northern Bonds remain very steady. 'l'berel were no bargains made in Mexican Stock to-day. Colombian! closed heavily at 32/. The Share Mark,et has been iwa very animated state to-day. The London and - Brighton Railway Shares (Rennie's rlan) have advanced to 21 premium, and the London and Birming ham to 66 premium. The Greenwich Shares remain at. 8i pre mium, and the London and Southampton at 24 to 3 premium. The Great Western Shares have risen to 171 premium, The Waite and Maine Canal Shares have heed' sold at a discount of £8 per share. Her majesty's birthday will be kept on the 21th inst. which will give an impulse to trade, as the fashionable world Lon don are beginning to prepare for the event; and the ladies will appear at the Drawing-room, it is hoped, in British manufac ture. The anniversary of t he birthda y of his Ro y al Hi ghness the Duke of Cambridge falls onthe same day, and Will be cele brated by his trades-people as tisual.' PRESENT - TO CAPTAIN iENKINSON, OF THE JOHN PORTEIL. CAPTAIN JOSEPH JENKINSON, SHIP JOHN POR4EH, DEAK SIR,—We beg to present, and request your aCept" . ante of, a snuff box, as a testimony of our estee m for your kind attention during our passage from Halifax to this port, and as a memento of your having performed eight passages, or four nom fete voyages, from port to port, in less than eleveu.moutb s , Wishing that you may long continue your prosperous career is the sincere desire of Your Obediejit servants, - JAMES LONG, EDWARD BILLIkGE; PETER NolitiEcit., JOSEPH MVN DELL, S. MON X.TON, E. LYDIARD. GRWi'LE.UEN,-1 thank Yriu most cordially for the harldsmilk token.of your esteem which you haVe thought innaor servl7, ces worthy of; it shall always be referred to with feelings pride, and shall-stimulate to future'exeitiob. Believe me, with great respect, • -Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, • • JOSEPH JENItINSOg. k ~. 'I THE DUBLII4 ELECTION COMMITTEE. Whereas the chairman of the select committee appointed by the House of Commons, to try and determine the merits of the petition of Robert King and others, coMplaining of an undue election and return for the city of Dublin, did, on the 16th of April, A.I. 1835, infotni the house, that the said select com mittee had made an order fot the nomination and appointment of • commissioners to examine evidence in Ireland respecting certain facts, allegations, matters, and ,things referred to the said commissioners and specially assigned and limited in the said order , And whereas I have this day received a copy of the minuteg of the proceedings of the saidconamissionets, under their hand". and seals ; Now I do hereby, and, by virtue of an act, pased in the forty. second Veer of the reign of his Majesty King George the Thirt4 intituled "An act for regulating the, trial of controverted elec. tions or returns ofsuieniners to sel've in the united parliament for Ireland,'? direct the aforesaid select cenunittee to reassemble and Meet again upon Monday, the 29th'ttay of February instant, at twelve o'clock at no o n, to take thepr ucee di n g s o f t h e sa id commissioners into Consideration: - -For which this-shaii , bnthelTareaaiti select - rothmittedi "stiffi= cient warrant. divenundeinTiy . band, this 9th day of February, 1836. J. ABERCROMBI, Speaker. LECTURES.—We are glad to hear that. the Rev. Mt. Hassalt intends to deliver his annual course of lectures at St. Johd Baptist's Church, Totetli-park, on Wednesday evenings, during Lent, and froin the interesting character of his former lectures we have no doubt thpresent course wilt prove attractive. MUNIFICENT. DONATIONS. —We understand the following donations were yesterday presented to the undermentioned charitable institutions, in Liverpool, by John Bolton, Esq., viz:— Infirmary .. . . I:500 Blue Coat Hospital. 4OO Dispensary . 3OO Marure Society --. • - . 3OO School for the Blind 3OO Ladies Charity . School for the Deaf and Dumb. ..' .. . In all two thousand guineas. ITAIAAN OPERA.—Signor de Begnis's second benefit is ad vertised foi to-morrow evening. We have only to express our hopes that he will on this Occasion be liberally supported. This night closes the season. BOROUGH Poticv...- - Yesterday the Watch Committee met at .the Sessions-hpuse, Chapel-street, for the purpose of selecting the heads of the new constabulary force for this borough, when Mr. Whitty , was appointed out-door Coniiiiissionei or Coat man.der4n-chief. .of the body. Mr. Tyrrell, brother of Mr. Tyrrell of the Dock police, Mr. Beni., late a private in the Dock.police, Mr. Hatch, a - vigorous young gentleman, upwards of 60 years of age, and Mr. Jones, received their commissions as inspectors. A LITTLE JOB.—.:It is stated that the town-clerk has appoint- . ed " our trusty and well beloved" Joseph Parkes his agent in, London, andthat Joseph as a quid pro quo, has consented to, take Mr. Rushton's nephew into partnership. We give this as one of the on dits of the daV. • FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday evening, about half-past six o'clock, a poor fellow of the name of Bryan, while in the act of heaving a rope from the King Fisher, steamer, to the Ribble, swung himself overboard, and, before assistance could get. near to render him aid,. he was drowned. It appears he was man generally respected by the inhabitants of Woodside, and has left behind hint a widow and one son. QUICK SAILING.—It has often been asset tad by the Ameri cans, and by their admirers here and elsewhere, that British vessels are inferior- to American in point of speed. One fact, how4yer, is worth a thousand arguments in proof of any asser tion. %The John Pout has recently completed four voyaged between Liverpool and Halifax within the undermentioued periods of-time, viz., Sailed from Liverpool. Rettrined. Time,, March 19, 1835 ' ' May 17, 1835 May 27, „ Aug., 28, „ Dec. 7, „ Completing four voyages in ten months and twenty-ro u e d a y s . - --- _ A FORTUNATE RECOVERY. —At about ten o'clock on Satur day evening, Mr. Adam Reid, a kentleulau from Quebec, called' at the Police-office, and detailed to Mr. Parlour the following circumstances :—He had entered a car, for the purpose of pro-, ceeding to the Glasgow steam-packet, taking his luggage inside! with him. Amongst other things was a writing-desk, containing bills, money, and valuables to a large,amount. On getting on board the packet, he missed the writing-desk, and immediately, relanded, and, after a len , thened search, succeeded in finding: the carman; the writing-desk had, however, disaueared, They. 'searched for - tWo hours, but without effect Mr. Parldur imme diately sent Flockhart, the police-officer, and, by his exertions, the whole of the property was recovered in less than two hours. It was found in the possession of a party who had taken it from the car, broken into it, and expended a portion of the money. RATHER ALAitMING.—On Friday evening last, just beloPe the Bolton Chronicle went to press, and as the editor was finish ing his latest news, a rather astounding express airivcd in the shape of a run-away pair of horses in a post chaise, ditshing both their heads through the window. The pole was broken an.t.wo. places, and a boy near the door was slightly injured; but be yond this, the upsetting of some apple stalls, the breaking of, the windows, and the.alarus of the editor, no other damage was sustained. GREAT COACH ROBBERY..—lnformation was given at the, Mansion-house, London, on Saturday week, that a parcel was lost from the Leeds Express coach, addressed by Messrs. Wil liams, Deacon, Labouchere, and Co. to their correspondents of the Yorkshire District Bank, containing notes of the latter bank' to a considerable amount and several bills of exchange. A clue likely to lead to the disco Very is said to have been obtained. - ROBBERY OF THE CUSTOM -HOUSE, LONDON.—OB Wed 43 :. day, Jourdan, Sullivan, Mott, Seal, and Huey the landing waiter,' were re-examined at the Lainbeth-street Police-office. 'Huey was admitted as an evidence against his accomplices, and detailed at great length the particulars or the robbery. To ascertain where the keys of the strong box were kept by Mr. Walsh, the-receiver of fines and forfeitures, one of the accom• plices attended very early one morning to pay the sum of .E.ll for some ruin bought at a Custom-house sale. He offered a fifty pound note, to change which Mr: Walker had to open the safe: ImpressiOns of Sonic of the keys were taken on bees wax. 'On the evening of the night the robbery was committed, a man was introduced into the receivers office, just as there was a trowd of 'Clerks retiring Trout their several offices in that part of. the building, who, escapin,gohservation was locked in. I'hi4. fellow, having gained his object, effected his escape by means of the false key of the outer door, made front the pattern of it taken in wax. The amount of money stolen was neatly E. 5000. After confeising his guilt, and describing where it was secreted,: a part of the stolen notes were found in Huey's house. Jour dan,. Sullivan, Mott, and Neale were committed for trial. Huey will be detained as an evidence against them. MANSLAUGHTER.—On Friday last an inquest was held, a( the . Everton Coffee-honse,, on the body of Josias Booker, the young man whose melancholy death we announced in our last:. From evidence adduced before the coroner, the following are the circumstances connected with this unfortunate occureuce : —O n Tuesday evening, as Mr. Josias Booker Was passing along, Great Homer - street, with a man who was driving a horse and cart belonging to the brewery, a youth, named Henry Rinrimer,, at the time carrying some cans of milk, used some insulting ex pressions to the carter, = the result, it was stated, of a previoui quarrel between them. The carter turned towards the 'Joy, with. the intention of chastising him, when the latter retreated to some waste land adjoining, pulled off his Coat, and, as Mr: Josias Booker and the mats were proceeding up to Roscommon street, he challenged the Conner to i fight. 'Young Mr. Rooker. M then advanced towa r d s anner, who, mmediately ran off, leav ing his milk:Tails on the ground, which the former lifted up and was a carrying away, when, looking round, he saw Rinnuer pick up 'a stone, which was thrown with such unerring aim that be received from it a severe blow immediately behind the right ear. The carter 4 observing this, ran towards Rinutier, who, however,, ,checked his approach by also 'hitting him bn the cheek with . ,another stone. Mr. Booker, although he complained, on reach ing home, of experiencing some pain in his head, yet did not deem it of any serious consequence, but spent the evening abroad, and, on returning, at about ten o'clock. took 4 light supper, and immediately after retired to rest. At one o'clock in 'the moraine.„, however, tie aroused an individual who slept in the sgeine chamber, complaining of excetsive thirst; and re questing,that some water might be brought him. The man,, having obtained a light, complied with his request ; but to their mutual a.stunishinent, he found his sight was so affected that he • could not see the water. Contineing to grow worse, about two o'clock Mr. Wainright, surgeon, was sent for, and, at a later hour, Mr, Bickersteth: but, in the present case, their conibined ProfesSiorial talent proved unavailing ; for their patient gradually declined, and, at about eight o'clock on Wednesday morning, expired.. All the evidence tending to prove that the deceased came by his death in the manner above stated, the jury pro nounced a verdict'Of " Manslaughter" agiinst Henry 16i-rimer, who was accordingly, ,committed, on the coroner's Warrant, to take his trial at the ensuing Assizes. - ROBBERY AT WiLAISLOW RECTORY.--n n Tuesday night a man, calling himself Joseph Bell, voluntari l y surrea ere tht j fie d a d slf to Mr Davis, superintendent of the watch, stating • was one of the individuals , who , a sh ort time a g o, committed a• burglary in the house of the Re v . Mr. Brownluw, rector of Wilmslow. He gave a very minute and apparen t ly accurate, s tat e ment cif the affair, stating t hat the booty was deposited b y himself and companion be tween Bullock Smithy and M a , cc l es . - field—that they were taken into ctititody by. the police of M ac , property had since been melted down and other , . wise afterwards dismissed them ou th e i r own cl authority. esfield, he would not bring his wise disposed of at Birmingham. .He refused to make any dia.; closure as to his coinpaiiions, stating. that though he was tired he was brought before Otonbewtreadnisipesoar Wednesday say anything further, but. admitted the correctness of all Mr. D. • 1, • o f t f ie h n is ds 4 ia le, to " d d ai; is e h r. ed admi the magistrates when he declined t o • Davis has: stated. It ap pears that the prisoner is a man of respectable connexions, his n emu, wife being at this time in business in a distant part of !lie coun try. li e possesses consider a bl e a b ilities, but laving been' led into a dissolute way of life, h e has latterly (but only within three or four months) fallen into these courses, W 'thin the • period above darned he has committed, he sayS,,abovetwenty robbetie•s; Has only once been in custody h , an.. on that of was . bailed. In one affat he was shot at, and iu another he got in to a river, whence, though the batiks were watched by five or six of his pursuers,' he contrived to make his escape. Ills com panion in the Wilmslow burglary he states to be now in prison on another charge, but he tenures to say in what . part of the country. It hi s h o p e d, h owe v er , t h at h e toy discovered, Bell further says of himself, that though he, has been the most active of his party, and always placed in the post of danger, het has always been kept poor, his companions appropriating- au' the booty. lie therefoe determined to leave them, and lie !Links if sent abroad, he can by his own capabilities regain state sta.', tion in society. He was remanded to yesterday.—Manchester CoUrier. ~`