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and, de headed by Ibrahim's orders ❑li arrived in Constan t on board Nouri Bey, of his Highness e footing as that of objects of the of commerce of 1838, ad been arrested by the F.DINBURGH AND GLASGOW IAILWAY. 7turday.) y week this notorious person he Actaeon steamer, in the charge Tpool officer, and Inspector Wal' ye for some time ice of Liverpool ation, the Liverpool 1 by Donlan yvh en .he worked on th .nded, and when the: 5 of footsteps going )rehended Doolan at The'culprit'immediately turned Once inquired the charge upon which 4. When interrogated, he admitted certain railways in England, and was e averred that kfter ;ounty, in Ireland; but 1 nnis Doolan, but Dennis Hart Office iere, the landlord in whos, up till the morning of the murder bad shaved his whskers, pite that. out of condition," he im: s taken to the Sheriff's id underwent a short nt to Bridewell. Stock- him. Doolan mded during the examination, and forth, and about to enter the cab, s and hisses, and said, " What ! of their speed ; but instead of going he driver wei►t along the Gallowgate, ft, by which he reached the bridewell The curious _ is good reason to believe that in this neighbourhood all the lave been in pursuit of him, - fortnight. - At all events on Saturd, a did not r make his appearance in Li- loon. 'Doolan wears the usual dress has a little felt hat much too small phrenologically speaking, is not a good or 11, and has great capacity of chest. Lccount was written, we have ascertained &leers that Dennis behaved himself well denied being Doolan, and said that the :rent would have the " botheration " of ick, when he should be found guiltless in ieavily ironed he was disoreet7incicivir; asked to refresh himself with a small .ale, he would,not partake of either from teetotal pledge. It .being Friday, he animal food, but had fish and potatoes, )eared thankful and satisfied that his life m had been ended. \V hen apprehended, lg soles, and had not a farthing in his ieved that a sum of £l7 would have been r the purpose of getting sed in a blue jacket, or t is hoped that d is said to have worn when Dennis denies having .1 of England, from which he )t worked " a hand's hands being quite by singing snatches of Irish led by Messrs. Lloyd and ; and he conducted hicnSelf a due sense of his perilous ,ed that this case will not be' with his associates, be tried investi atiou into uthorities is still going o :ions to the M, artyrs' Memorial is —Oxford party in Nor : 200 guineas. IVorwi . Ch Mercury, for his con: The examination of John Henry Hardwick and Williar oners in this charge was resumed •ge room of the Commercial Inn, gthened investigation the former of the capital offence I killin used workman, an( piece of A shoe•• as till I d's Rookery, in Buxton- 'y comfortithl , with one !cently come and taken pps c and of the man. also; th crowded, have placed upon foilowi Univers: between two stoo s wife has not found a ucry doxies.) at Hur and for some , rkshire. He is and uniqUe painting the Temple of Tentyra, in Egypt, ion of the same ; as well as all his - el of the Church of the Holy former to be placed in the Pic 11..ian Library, to which n the .13 )equeaths the sum of £40,000 (stock), to be benefit of the said library, at the uncork of the trustees. To Queen's College' he yptian, Grecian, Roman and other relics of sting as bef ore b equea thed to the University adleian), together with a picture of the iaL Lnd his shells ; and. in addition, £30,000 (stock„ nded in books for the use of the society, of which rnerly a member.—Oxford Herald. >ER 0 FO REIGN INTEL.LIGENCE Nlexand )11 of Damascus as s rt of the slau abim R lt . by the German jour ,reparations for defence a whe to the met Ali was 25th ult atest anarchy pre ria. The English t St. Jean d'Acre, neighbourhood of nissioners, sent by !oth ult on the 16th ut of the The city, with an army since our last is still at Da- ()nations respecting of 14,000 or 15,000 nation in as it wa sha, which Mehemet A i in D and bad ledne on the morning the to be a repetition :vious trial . latter were he walls of from Cairo to Sue n in the pay c government Varin Be - y, the corn marched from Cairo ' infantry and one of force of 600 men, in after ridding the country of ,ted to join Ibrahim Pasha's consul of France at Bagdad, Li via S: 12,000 fined by the junc- mild comnienc that Ibrahim continued in s from his father, who never ion of Syr re that when he asserted that more frequent and active than mriers from Ibrahim. th our correspondent cus, the remains of e a complete stem of s not at prisent evacuated ishop of Smyrna, Georges au attack of apoplexy. tely wrecked in the Gulf of g the exertions g Mesange, and of the Austrian atest part of the effects on board, rANTINOPLE Luc in Mars lies on the 21st ult., espondent of the Semaphore writes :onferences bad been held by the Stromboli steamer from Alex- termined, agreeably to to grant the hereditary iceroy, for his son only, of in by restoring the fleet and eva- Ambassadors, with whom Reds . I f.equent conferences, were said to have ement. A change in the Ottoman minis- iring the Courban Bairaro t of February The differences .ely to be amicably ar- the 9th ult. bring intellig es appointed by the It was pitated Zekeira Past]; ,ettle with him about tt fined by a hers, it Mehemet Reds- Imptrial Varliamtnt. E OF LORDS I . IIIIRSDAI' took the oaths and his seat. LLOR laid before the house her Ma- • • to the address of the peers. )f WELLINGTON stated that, had he known the "r l4 "''" he and other lords would renting NCELLOR 11 ;d from Mr. Justice Bosanquet !entral Criminal Court, co-- Earl SemEn: The LORD C ye auena( The LORI jcted ith the ro m the case of th e E arl or uardigan, w moved tha p t a committee be appointed, consisting of all the lords attending during the present session of parliament, to inspect the jour zh- nals of the bous him, and to rep or t tl —vs in criminal cases respectin E , r proceedings ne committee was ordered to meet is of p, o the hous 2 o'clock on On the motion of Lord BROU GHAM, the copyhold enfrar i.errip”* read a first time. 'he Earl NGTON incinired whether it was tl. tion of her ...rnment to propose any mea id which so unhap ce to the question between church of Scotla n d an d t h e c i v il courts in that country. the Lord MELBOURNE admitted the very great importance of subjeet, but did not deem it expedient to propose any it would be left to the courts to administer nt stood.—Adjourned. )r allaying the; fe pity prevail with re new measur the law as it at pres HOUSE OF COMMONS. --THURSDAY. The House of Commons met at a quarter before 1 • but it was near 2 before a su ffi c i ent muster could be made to 'form a house, and therefore before the address could be carried to the Queen, The house was adjourned till Friday. HOUSE OF LORDS - FRIDAY Lord DUNCANNON laid on the table the ordinances of the Governor and Special Council of Lower Canada. Lord NORMANBY brought in a bill for the better draining and improving buildings in large towns and cities. The bill was read a first time, and ordered for a second reading oil Friday, February 12. Lord WHARNCLIFFE, alluding to the treatment of the convicts Frost, Williams, and Jones, an account of which hag appeared in the public journals, required some explana tion on the subject. The state of the case will be understood by the answer of Lord NORMANDY. " The noble lord (Wharncliffe) had asked him, first, whether the report was true, that these persons were no longer treated as convicts, but were employed under Government ; next, whether any special instruction, with reference to them, had been sent out by the Government ; and, lastly, what information, if any, had been received from Sir J. Franklyn on the subject ? He could assure the noble lord that no time had been lost by her Majesty's Government in showing their determination to carry fully into effect that secondary punishment by which the capital one had been' superseded. No special instruc tions whatever were given as to the treatment of the pri soners. The usual code of instructions were adhered to. As to their treatment in' the colony, be had a letter from Sir J. Franklyn, of the 3d of July, acknowledging the arrival of the male convicts by the Sligo and Mandarin, and stating that they had been placed in the penal gangs on the roads, with the exception of Frost, Williams, and Jones, who had been sent to Tasman's Peninsula. Frost, being more accus tomed to write and read than to dig, it was very possible that he had been so employed. If that turned out to be the case, no doubt it was done by Sir J. Franklyn, according to the usual and common course, and was not intended in the way of favour. If the appointment were out of the ordinary nurse, Sir J. Franklyn would, he supposed, have reported it at once Lord NORMANBY added, that he should have no ob jection to lay on the table any further information which might be received. The house adjourned to Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. The house having met, the SPEAKER read the answer of her Majesty to the address of the house. Papers from the Governor and Council of Lower Canada were laid on the table by Lord J. Russell. Several notices of motion were given, after which Mr. Serjeant TALFOURD moved the ordei of the day for the adjourned debate on the motion for leave to bring in a bill to amend the law of copyright. Mr. WARBURTON opposed the bill with the same argu ments which he used last year. Mr. Humz supported AV. Warburton ; but the motion for negativing the introduction of the bill was rejected by a ma jority of 112. - Lard JOHN RUSSELL then asked leave to bring in a bill for amending the Poor Law, and continuing the commission for ten years. Mr. GRIMSDITCH protested against the unconstitutional character and tendency of the bill. It had been originally understood that the great powers the commissioners pos sessed were given them merely for a temnorary purpose, and he contended that they should not now be renewed. So far from having produced satisfactory results, he would contend that the system had introduced confusion into almost every union in England. The great extent of the unions rendered it impossible that the law should 'work well : in the north of England, especially, it could not be carried out. Mr. WAKLEY objected to the continuance of the commis sion. He wished to know what duty the commissioners were to do—whether the law was to be in their will or in the sta tute'book ? He held in his hand a book of " amended rules" from Somerset-house. In that book he found, under the head `• discipline and diet," a provision enjoining silence dur ing meal-times. The silent system was considered one of the severest punishments in our prisons ; it was now intro duced into our poor-houses. The office he filled gave him opportunities of knowing how much the present poor law was disliked by the middle classes. They covider that you have made the workhouse a place for torture instead of protection, with a view to deter the poor from asking any assistance. Among the poor also the abhorrence to the only species of relief the law allowed of was still more strong. He knew of two instances occurring in one week of persons who preferred death rather than go into the workhouse. They declared they would rather die than be separated from their children in the manner proposed by the new poor law, and they did die rather than go into the workhouse. What, again, was the humane system of classification adopted in the Kensing ton Union ? There were- four houses, that for fathers at Kensington, that for mothers at Chelsea, that for daughters at Fulham, and that for sons at Hammersmith. The unions were made so large that paupers must travel a considerable distance to reach a workhouse. The parish of Kensington consisted of 40,000 persons ; but that was not considered large enough to form one local government, and it was formed into an union consisting of 120,000, so that , the poor had to travel several miles, from Kensal-green to Kensington, for instance, before they could apply to the workhouse. There was no workhouse in the parish of Paddington. In onein: stance a remarkably fine- child, twelve months old, having been exposed at the door of a house in the Edgeware-road, was found by a policeman, who took it to the station-house. It was still alive, although it was in the first week of Decem ber. The policeman, however, took two hours to find his way to the workhouse, and the child died. He would not divide the house, because he wished the law amended ; but he should oppose the continuance of the commission. Mr. H. HINDE thought that, though large discretionary powers were originally necessary, the regulations of the work house might now, after the experience of several years, be properly submitted to a committee. - Sir C. GREY vindicated the general principle 'of the poor law. as tending to prevent undue applications for relief; but he thought it bore too hard on the meritorious poor. To re fuse all provision to such a class of sufferers, except on con dition of entering a workhouse, did not become a Christian country. He wished to see some power of giving relief in meritorious cases. Sir F. BURDETT said he had always disapproved the prin ciple of the new poor law, as unconstitutional, and repugnant to the habits and feelings of the people ; and he did not think the proposed bill could be so framed as to render it a perma nent measure, or one which the country ought to adopt. The system could never be made palatable to the people of England. Men who loved the public liberty could never be reconciled to the tribunal at Somerset-house, and it was the universal feeling, that that at any rate should be abolished. It was impossible to frame unbending laws for remote places and unknown circumstances without the greatest mischief. He thought that parliament had done a most dangerous thing in introducing so cruel an experiment, and he would support any motion for its repeal. Mr. HUME urged the gross abuses of the old system, and the necessity for some such reform as this law had intro duced. The rules were not unbending ones—the commis sioners had been intrusted with a discretion. Great benefit had been produced by the law, and the house ought to do their best for making it still more useful. He doubted, how ever, the expediency of extending the continuance of the commission to so long a period as ten years. Mr. A. WRITE seemed to think that the public feeling was favourable to the principle of the poor law. Mr. LIDDELL controverted that opinion. What was called relief on just principles was too apt to lead to unjust practice. He would oppose the continuance of the commis sion for ten years, or even for one. Lord J. RUSSELL observed, that it would of course be for the house to determine the duration of the commission. It. would have been the easiest course for himself to let the powers of the commissioners expire ; but he thought his duty required him to ,deal positively with so important a subject. The labouring classes must depend on wages, on public relief, or on private charity. The old system con founded all these, and put the honest and industrious on a level with the idle and vicious ; and it pretended to do that by public relief which only private charity could effect. It was easy for the parish officers to be charitable at the ex pense of others; but their alms did not create the mutual good feeling which real charity begets. The amendment of the old law had proceeded, therefore ' upon the principle th a t wages should' be a just r ewar d for labour : and thereupon it was presently found that persons, before regarded as idle and worthless, became industrious and useful. The wise princi ple was that of the act of the 43d of Elizabeth, which distin guished the relief of destitution from the wages of work. To execute the amendment of a system so essentially vicious, there was a necessity for assistant as well as for general com missioners. Lord Althorp had proposed to make the ex periment under those commissioners for five years ; but had not intimated that their office was necessarily to determine at the end of that period. He should be deceiving the house if he were to hold out that there was any intention on the part of government to propose any considerable alteration or re laxation in the main principles of the existing system. The venerable Earl Grey continues quietly located at his seat, Howielc, in this county, in the enjoyment of excellent health, and surrounded by several members of his family. So little regard has the noble lord for the Melbourne admi nistration, whose measures he is not slow to condemn, that he has no intention at present of repairing to town, and giving itA members the benefit of his countenance and sun port.—Newcastle Journal. ELOPEMEN -We are sorry to find that tte rumours dur k. , • about a certain builder and a fair lady, before several la rge au di ences at some con certs given in this town, proves too true. Independent of a wife being deserted, we understand that many of our trades .be considerable sufferers. It appears to be one of a e most deceptive cases (even of its kind) we ever remem )er to have heard of. America is said to be the destination of the parties.—Birmingham paper.--[ln the Ten Towns' Messenger we find it stated that the parties are Mr. Inston and Madame Schiller. I t says—the perfidy and scoundrelism )f the fellow Inston, and the hypocrisy, ingratitude. and bp- ing the past wee who lately sung men _ ness of the woman Schiller,are unparalleled. The last act o and basef lnston to his wife was to take a valuable ring from her finger he wish of this German strumpet, expressed in one s to her paramour, found in a pocket-book he ac ' behind him. A meeting of Inston's creditors -,and a fiat in bankruptcy has been issued The petitioning creditor is Mr. Ainsworth, wove-grate manufacturer, Snow-hill ; and Mr. Harriso n , solicitor, is retained to work the commission. T wo days before he absconded the Rev. Mr. Nunns paid Inston a check on Messrs. Taylors and Loyds, for £260, for which he're ceived sovereigns at the bank. It has been ascertained that Inston and Madame Schiller, on arriving in London, again changed the names they had assumed on leaving Birmingham to Mr. am' Mrs. Godin. Mr. Blews, the warm-hearted and generous friend who has rendered himself liable to a very large amount for Inston, by accepting bills for him, has offered £5O reward for his apprehension ; and it is said that the 'creditors intend to offer a further reward of £5O. We sincerely hope that the heartless scoundrel may be appre hended, and the ends of justice obtained against him, and that his punishment may be commensurate with his criminali ty."' ainst him LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET The Public are respectably informed, that the Manager has entered into a further arrangement with MRS. WAYLETT AND MR. ALEXANDER LEE, for a limited number of nights,. THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 2nd of X February inst., and during the week, will be performed a Romantic Burletta, called THE MAGIC VEIL; Or, the Fairy Lake. Albert Fritz.... Mr. C. Bland Zdla Zphyrina . Issachar lexandr Lee. ... Mr. Tilbury Waylett Mrs. Barton SINGING, by Mrs. Waylett, Mrs. Barton, Miss Brown, and Mr. A. Lee. To which will be added, the laughable Interlude, called THE NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE. Mr. Higgie I Simmons .... Mr. C. F. Marshall Brittle Mr. Tilbury. Mrs. Aubrey Mrs. Raymond. Mrs. Simmons, Mrs. Barton I Mrs. Brittle, Miss Brown. To conclude with the splendid Romantic Drama, entitled PETER WILKINS; Peter Wilkins Or, the Flyin g I n di ans . Mrs. Waylett. Phelim O'Scud Mr. ond. Adams.... M r . Tilbury Crowquill.. R . a . M ym r. Higgie Wild Man of the Woods, Mr. C. F. Marshall. Hallycarnia .. Miss Brown I Yourakee.. Mrs. Barton. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. J. FOGG, at the Box office, from Eleven to Three. Private Boxes, to contain Seven, to be had on application at the Theatre, Price £1 Is. Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d,—Second Price, Half past Eight; Boxes, 25.; Pit, ls.; no second price to the Gallery. Doors to be opened at Half-past Six. Perform ance to commence at Seven precisely. Aubre, WILI ON SATURDAY POSITIVELY CLOSF NEXT. ARRANGEMENTS having been made to forward these magnificent Pictures to Glasgow, after the CLOSE of the PRESENT MONTH, the amateurs of painting are respectfully informed, that the Exhibition at the UNION Rooms, SLATER STREET, will only remain OPEN until SATURDAY, 6th February, which is allowing one week longer to those who may not have seen these Pictures than was originally in tended. JOHN BENTLEY, Keeper. 26th January, 1841. TO CORRESPONDENTS, We are compelled to postpone the article relative to the " Supposed Case of Fraud" which appeared in cur last, and regret extremely we cannot find room for it to-day. We have not bad time to read several articles of poetry for warded to us. Unless they appear hereafter, the writers may presume they will not suit our columns. "Loyalty" wishes to know whether any public demonstra tion of loyalty will take place on the 10th instant. " Examiner" stands over until Friday. EJ)tEtbripool (ttanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2, 1841 The royal speech, with all its omissions, has by this time run the gauntlet of journalism, and produced among our contemporaries a unanimity that few mini sterial manifestoes have the happiness to originate. It might now be committed with a requiescat to the tomb of all the Capulets, if, with that general apology appli cable to the whole, we had been enabled to assign a special excuse for each of its several negations. The catalogue of these absentees is certainly a formida ble one, and, as one counts up the sum, it is impossi ble to forbear asking, how a ministry, with such a mass of important topics which they are obliged to shun, and so few that they can venture to adduce for imme diate discussion, can still dream of holding their places? Sir Robert Inglis, on Wednesday evening, endea voured to draw forth from the ministerial benches some explanation touching one of these defaulting gentry. The repeal agitation in Ireland struck his fancy as one not beneath the dignity of the Crown to notice, and one which ought to have filled a niche in the royal ad dress, even though other topics of confessedly great pith and moment had been unable to obtain a place there. In answer to this appeal, Lord John Russell was forced upon the disagreeable duty of adverting to the subject; and we submit that his speech on the occa sion, though lame and impotent as "an apology for the omission complained of, is very sufficient, powerful, and significant, as supplying additional ground of im- peachment against ministers. The sum and substance of his lordship's address, viewed in the most favourable light, amounted just to this, and no more, that ministers, having no intention of interfering with repealers, could see no use in mak ing their treason a subject of animadversion in her Majesty's speech. This was the net amount of his lordhhip's defence, and it is at least plain and intelli gible. The movement of the separation of Ireland from British dominion is, it seems, not so very bad a thing in the eyes of ministers ; and as to prosecuting, persecuting, or in any way incommoding the agents in it, it is a proceeding of which they entertain not the most distant idea. Such was his lordship's intima tion, and it is consistent with all the known circum- stances of the ministerial position. Nothing is now more certain than that ministers stand in a relation to the repealers which renders it quite impossible for them to distinguish themselves by a hearty desire to prosecute or suppress their treason. And what is that relation ? Why one of the utmost concord and amity—one of close alliance. They may deny this if they dare, but who would believe them if they should, while their league and compact with the head and principal of the sedition remains intact and unbroken ! And that such is the fact, there does not now exist even the smallest peg or loophole to hang a doubt upon. In a moVement such as that for the dismemberment of the empire, it may truly be affirmed that the go vernment which is not against is for it. The onus of proof, therefore, if they would char themselves of so foul an imputation, rests with them. Lord John Russell refuses to be hound by the di lemma in which his friend O'Connell would place him, and alleges that he is neither a Conservative nor a Repealer. That he is not the former will be readily granted : but that he is not the latter, what proof does he offer—proof, we mean, such as would suffice to counterbalance the weight of testimony that may be thrown into the opposite scale. We know of none. The Romanist population of Ireland form their no tions of the Government, as most people do, by their acts rather than by their words; and what measures or conduct have they witnessed on the part of the Go vernment to make them suppose that the repeal agita tion is disagreeable to them ? The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, indeed, made a speech on one occasion, in which he stated that those who had made themselves obnoxious as Repealers would put themselves beyond the pale of Government patronage; but such a menace produced little or no effect, because it was perfectly well understood that there was a maire de palais much more potent in this respect than his Excellency; and, in point of fact, numerous instances might be pointed out of decided Repealers having receive,d promotion both before and subsequently to this declaration. Lord John Russell alluded to the police and military expedition sent down to the north of Ireland in conse quence of the obtrusive incursion made by the agitator into that generally tranquil and prosperous portion of the kingdom, but not one word of censure or remon strance (lid he litter against the originating cause and author of the demonstration. Nay, his censure was reserved rather for the adversaries of the disturber, and he did not scruple actually to arraign as culprits those , who were likely to: check or obstruct his mischievous career. Let his lordship then say what he pleases as to his not being a ,repealer—this is clear, that his feel ings are far from being in unison with those of the true and tried friends of her Majesty's crown and un severed dominions. And this circumstance, we may depend, has been already joyfully noted down by the hierarchal and jesuit advisers of the repealing popula tion. In short, it is a fact worthy of the gravest con sideration everywhere, that the Government of the country is in close, alliance with the main instigator and conductor of a great treason in a portion of the em pire, and that their position is such that they dare not make that treason a subject of comment ; and that neither against the notorious author of the sedition,'or any of his associates, do they venture to utter one word of remonstrance, or an expression of any sort that would be likely to interrupt the pleasing harmony that subsists between them. This, we say, is a re markable fact, and one that warrants us in affirming that a ministry thus tied up and involved with traitors is itself a participator in their criminality. When Lord Stanley had made up his mind to attack that corrupt system by which Popish priests and de magogues in Ireland are surprised to find themselves so well represented in the House of Commons, he must have foreseen that he would bring a storm of fury and rage about his ears, and consequently must have felt little emotion at the realization of what he antici pated. We are happy to find that neither all his fa tigues in the last session, nor all the ingenious devices resorted to by the enemy during the recess, -were po tent enough to make him waver in his course,—and that on the very first day of the present session he gave notice of his intention to introduce his promised bill. By proceeding in a manner thus prompt and un flinching, his lordship has earned the applause of . all good Conservatives; and, with such approbation to cheer him, we should hope that he will at no time feel himself greatly cast down by all the censure that Pa pists and Radicals can heap upon him. But, inde pendently of all social sympathy or antipathy, praise or blame, his lordship has everything to sustain him in the merits and justice of the case which he has taken in hand. A popular clamour is easily raised ; but a case strongly armed in honesty, and founded on good sense, is not so easily subverted. The simple object contemplated by his bill is the re form of abuses and the prevention of frauds. It does not seek to curtail rights or to limit privileges, but ra ther to give them greater vitality and raise them to more honour, by liberating them from the contiguity of unsound, hypocritical associates, just as a gardener gives fresh vigour to his plants by clearing them of weeds and rubbish. The gross frauds and foul per juries that have disgraced the register in Ireland are now matter of history. The record of these abomina tions remains, and cannot be gainsayed. No man, either in or out of Parliament, has had the hardihood to deny or defend them. The Irish Attorney-General owns the soft impeachment, and runs a race with the noble lord to see which shall first have the honour of putting an end to them ; and Lord Stanley will have the satisfaction to think that, if by any accident his measure should be defeated, and that of the Government carried, the merit of any good that may thus be achieved will be entirely his. What a testimony to the worthless ness of the vile clamour that has been raised against him may be seen in this competition ! It is nota tacit, but a moral and most significant admission of the necessity for that reform which he took as the basis of his pro cedure ; and as well might Mr. Pigot, or the Govern_ ment itself, be made the object of incendiary attack—a mark for popular malevolence—and a scapegoat for the multitude—as the honourable member for South Lan cashire. But they are wholly excused by their indul gent friends, and pitied rather than blamed ; because, it is argued, they could not help themselves. What they do, they do reluctantly, and are forgiven ; but upon Lord Stanley, as the original author of the ca lamity—the individual through whose unwelcome ac tivity and unsolicited exertions a friendly government was pressed from without, and coerced into at least an attempt to spoil sport on its allies, and do damage to itself—upon him all the vials of their wrath and indig nation are most liberally poured out. Lord Stanley has never been met out of doors, or, indeed, we might almost say, within, in the fair field of discussion on the subject of his bill ; for there the overthrow of his adversaries would have been certain—there those po tent weapons, scurrility and falsification, the only in struments on which the Irish demagogue places any reliance, would have been wholly unavailing —so that now the question really is, whether a bill confessedly required—a bill intended for the benefit of all persons having a bona fide title to the elective franchise, and in jurious only to those whose title is spurious and ficti tious—shall, or shall not, in obedience to a factitious antagonism got up by a few interested demagogues, or, to speak more correctly, perhaps, by one only—be abandoned ? If legislation for Ireland, and, we must add, for the united kingdom also—for the pending question has become a national one—can be suspended by such means,. why then we must admit that one im portant advantage which Ireland might fairly have ex pected to derive from the union--namely, a fearless and independent spirit in legislating for her benefit, has been lost to her. A notable argument has been recently put forth by some Radical journals, for which we doubt if Lord Stanley, with all his circumspection, is perfectly pre pared. It is to the effect that all the perjuries com mitted at the Irish registrations have been owing to Tory mismanagement —to the stringency and niggard liness of Tory concession; and that the only proper way to get rid of the acknowledged evils is to remove those misplaced barriers which tempt Irishmen to err. Subject them to any inferiority, says this logic—fasten upon them any conditions, limitations, or provisos cal culated in the smallest degree to check-the rampancy of priests or demagogues, and they will break through such cobwebs--such ropes of sand; and even justify themselves in so doing though the feat should be per formed by perjury and fraud, and displaying openly the most shameless contempt of every moral and reli gious tie. Such is the new plea on which it is con tended that Irish Papists should be put on an equality in every respect with the constituency of this country; and surely it speaks volumes for the modesty and the morality of liberal advocacy. It is a beautiful combi nation of Socialism in theory and Jack Sheppardism in practice. Is a law disagreeable, then by all means swear through and through it. Let no scruple of re ligion or conscience hinder any man from seeking his advantage by such means. The error is venial when the law is unjust. Such is the doctrine—congenial in every respect with that which asserts that the treason able cry of Repeal is only the natural and legitimate fruit of Tory misgovernment. Can the force of im pudence go further ? It was our intention to-day to have offered a few remarks upon the report of the Special Committee of the Council appointed to examine the proposed Dock Warehouse Bill, and upon the debate to which its presentation gave rise. We abstain, however, for the present; until we shall be better able to ascertain the feelings with which that report is viewed by the two contending parties—the warehouse-owners and the promoters of the bill. By all disinterested persons, we think, the importance of an agreement of the points disputed being entered , into, before any application is made to parliament, will be admitted to be necessary, in order to strengthen the hands of our representatives in endeavouring to ward off the numerous hostile ag gressions which are about to be made against the in terests of the town; and although we might. differ in some degree with particular portions of the report in question, yet we trust that it will be made the basis of a satisfactory arrangement. As one of these hostile demonstrations, we pointed attention in our last to the agitation in Manchester of the question of Inland Bonding, and endeavoured to urge upon our fellow-townsmen the necessity of being prepared to resist, with all the influence at their dis posal, the concession of the measure in question. That the influence brought to bear in its favour will be great, we are well convinced. The representatives of all the large inland towns will be unanimous in its favour; the ministry, anxious to conciliate the good opinion of these communities, will render it every assistance : and, unless the authorities and the leading inhabitants of our own and other seaport towns are on the alert, to rebut the fallacies and misrepresentations of its ad vocates,—which is a matter easy of accomplishment,— we see little reason to doubt that the legislature, imper fectly acquainted with the subject, will be won to accede to the' bill. To enable our readers to judge of the nature and correctness of the arguments put forth by its advocates, we now return to the subject, and take the opportunity at the same time of noticing a few observations contained in the Manchester Courier of Saturday, in reply to our article of Friday last. The position which we endeavoured to maintain was, that, so far as the interests of Manchester and the other inland towns are concerned, the advantage of inland bonding and the hardships of the present system are alike exaggerated ; and that, as a measure of public utility, the concession of the privile ges de manded by these t owns wou ld be positively injurious. We repudiate altogether the compliment which our contemporary pays us on the score of the " zeal which we have displayed for the interests of our own town." Our observations-were not directed to set up the in terests of Liverpool against the reasonable and just claims of Manchester ; but, on the contrary, were in tended to disabuse the mihds of the public, and the people of Manchester in particular, with respect to a few of the many fallacies resorted to by the advocates of the measure. In the short notice which our contemporary bestows upon us, we cannot, we must confess, find out that he has met even one of our arguments, or negatived one of our assertions. We endeavoured to spew that Manchester would not—connected as Liverpool is with most of the principal manufacturing towns, by railway or canal conveyances—become to any great extent the depot for the raw material of their manu facture, or for foreign and colonial produce, We never, as our contemporary assumes, " lost sight en tirely of the fact that Manchester is the centre of a vast manufacturing district, consuming all the articles and most of the luxuries of life ;" but we did express a doubt of the usefulness—on the score of economy or convenience—of making Manchester a bonding town, when it is notorious that a considerable portion of the district, of which she claims to be the centre, is as closely connected, and almost as closely located, with Liverpool as with herself; and when, in our opinion, no satisfactory grounds of public utility could be held out to justify the change. We readily grant that it may be a point desired for the property of individuals or communities to be bond ed as near as possible to the location of its owners and consumers. It may be gratifying to the local vanity of our Manchester neighbours to be able to walk down to the Old Quay or to Castle-field, and inspect their merchandise deposited under the Queen's lock ; but we must and will maintain that the advantage in ques tion is much more limited than our contei.porary would have us believe. In the great majority cf cases such merchandise will have been previously ware housed and bonded in Liverpool, and very little of it most assuredly will be transported to Manchester di rect from the vessels in dock. How small a set=off against the expense of removal from warehouse to warehouse under bond, will he the saving of a few journeys to Liverpool, we leave our readers to judge. The point, however, with respect to which we wished to disabuse the minds of the people of Manchester, was the expectation that, by the concession of the pri vilege of bonding, that town would become, not only the depot, but the market for bonded produce. This point our contemporary has not touched; but, in re ference to our suggestion that the abolition of the • cotton-duty would remove a great portion of the grievances of the cotton-spinners, he puts forward in behalf of Manchester a claim at some future day to be recognised not only as the market, hut also the port of the manufacturing district! " Would," says he, "that the import duty on raw cotton was taken off ! Then we could almost afford to make the Irwell navigable for vessels of the first class, and build them too for ourselves"! Aye, and sail them too, we suppose. We might inquire of our friend where, in that case, he would get his wind from; for even a " flat" upon that noble river, we know, requires occasionally some other aid than that tickle element is inclined to bestow, and steam towing is a little expensive. Our contem porary, however, must have been joking; for he may rest assured that inland bonding may do, but an " in land port" never will. The Courier, in conclusion, refers us to the argu ments (!) of the speakers at the late public meeting in Manchester. We will on an early occasion do so, and venture to promise our readers therefrom as rich a collection of rhodomontade and castle-building as they have lately met with. The parliamentary session has not as yet fructified with discussions of great pith and moment beyond those which we notice elsewhere, if we except one which took place in the Lords on Friday, between Lords Wharnclifie and Normanby, with respect to the indulgence granted to the Chartist convicts, Frost, Jones, and Williams; and another in the Commons, on the same evening, touching the new bill to extend the duration. of the Poor Law Commission for ten years after the expiration of the present duration of nine. With regard to the first of these topics, Lord Wharncliffe reverted to the enormous crime of which Frost and his companions had been convicted, and recited a portion of the strong and impressive lan guage made use of by the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, in passing sentence upon them; he then alluded to the commutation that had been made in their punishment, to the ,profound sensation that had been awakened in the public mind by the report that still further favour had been extended to them on arriving at the place of their ultimate destination, and concluded a clear and temperate statement of the whole matter by a few plain and pertinent questions addressed to the ministerial bench. The Marquis of Normanby replied, and in his reply was, as usual, most exuberant and energetic on every point that was of no conse quence. He admitted the enormity of the offence committed by the transported convicts to its full ex tent, and added that w h a t h e h a d s i nce heard tended to " confirm him in .considering that the sentence passed was a just one." He justified its mitigation from a capital to a secondary punishment, as though any objection were now raised on this score; but on the only material point he was perfectly blank, or pleaded an ignorance which can only be taken as a confession that the charge against ministels or their officials is true. He could not tell whether one of the transported had been made an overlooker of a calling, Gr whether another had received an employment under govern ment congenial with what he had been accustomed to in this country. On this head he could give no infor mation ; but he would admit, generally, that it was " possible" that Frost might have obtained employ ment in writing instead of working in a chain-gang— as a clerk instead of a common labourer—because he believed that such a change of occupations was no favour beyond what other unhappy persons in similar circumstances very commonly enjoyed. But his lord ship seems to have forgotten that in making this avowal he almost, if not altogether, admits the accusa tion to be trove. The gravamen of the charge is, that men convicted of high treason, with every circumstance of aggravation, have received great indulgence of which they were unworthy, and of which the example is evil--and the Home Secretary does now in fact admit this ; but he adds, by way of extenuating the act, that this indulgence, though great and positive as respects these individuals, was a mere nothing by being common and usual in the settlement. This is his lordship's understanding of the treatment pursued towards " learned clerks" when they get into scrapes, in our distant penal colonies; but we do hope, for the honour of our country, and for the sake of that dis tinction between crimes which no interval of space or form of situation can obliterate, that his lordship is under a mistake. It is altogether incredible to our mind that mere reading and writing should operate such a charm in favour of felony, even though the framing of its dis cipline should have been committed to Whig hands. We regard the supposition rather as one trumped up to serve a purpose than as one at all consistent with realities. Those great accomplishments of " reading and writing," it is manifest, afford no security what ever against the commission of great crimes; but is it now to be understood that they shall entitle a man to easement of punishment, and thus serve as an encou ragement to vice ? Is_ intellect thus to be exalted at the expense of virtue ? Is this a sample of the " use ful" information that Whig governors are anxious to disseminate among the people ? Once upon a time it was received as an axiom, that light and knowledge only served to aggravate the criminality of those who sinned in defiance of them ; but here is a practice alleged to prevail in the treatment of convicts that sets the doctrine entirely aside, and which implies that literary and intellectual attainments mitigate guilt, and in themselves afford a recommendation to favour, in dulgence, and promotion ! But we repeat that we dis believe the statement, and regard it as a mere error of the imagination of our too lively, sensitive, sentimental, and altogether romantic Home Secretary. With regard to the bill for continuing the Poor Law Commission for ten years : this is a measure which, ' we trust, will not receive support from Conservatives— if any they shall give it at all—without the closest scrutiny. The noble lord who introduced the bill, pleads as a set-off against the monstrosities of the new Poor Law, the abuses 'that existed under the old—re minding us of the certainly not unimportant fact, that before the year 1819 the enormous sum of eight mil lions sterling had been annually raised and expended for the support of the poor. This fact unquestionably proved that there was something unsound in the sys tem, and in a state of society which imposed such im mense taxation on the great bulk of the people for the sustenation merely of the indigent—and together with the disclosure of gross abuses growing out of the ad ministration of the old system, led to the change effected, or designed, by the new law. All this is matter of history. But as there is no human institu tion without its evils, it would be most egreious folly to suppose that the new law is exempt frol t its share. Of the errors and evils belonging to it the whole king dom has now heard, and there is no man that pretends to the ordinary feelings of humanity but must admit that they are of such a kind as can be no longer en dured in this Christian country. We trust that no Conservative will adopt the prin ciple, that a successful operation in finance is a perfect criterion of excellence in a work of benevolence, and that that law must work well which effects a certain saving in pounds, shillings, and pence. The bitter complaints uttered against the new law can no longer pass unheeded, nor the grievances inflicted by it go unredressed. We would have Conservative members of the legislature, and , Conservatives everywhere, fore most in probing this festering wound to the very bottom—not passing by on the other side, but coming forward with the oil and wine, or whatever may be necessary to its healing; for we can confidently assert that a new lease of the Whig commission for TEN years, and the re-enactment of a law under which so many unnatural restrictions and grievous cruelties have been and may again be inflicted on the poor, will not be patiently borne by the country. The Cambridge packet-ship, Captain Bursley, which sailed from New York on the Bth ult., arrived at Cork on Thursday last, and was there wind-bound. Owing to the prevalence of strongish easterly winds she has not yet arrived, and is probably, at the time we go to press, beating up the channel. We have not therefore received our accustomed file of papers. One of the passengers, however, (as we learn by the Albion) landed at Cork, and reached this port on Sunday, bringing with him a broken file of New York papers. These do not contain any important commercial intelligence. It appears from the New York Morning Herald that the returns respecting the Bank had created a panic in the Stock Market, and that the shares of the establish ment had consequently declined 12 per cent. in 5 days. 'lt was generally apprehended that the Bank could not resume payments in specie on the 15th ult., the day fixed by the Pensylvaman legislature for the resump tion by all the banks, and the doubt was whether, if that bank could not do so, the other banks of Phila delphid would do so independently of that establish ment. The immediate assets of the bank were accord ing to the returns 3,568,431 dollars—aud the liabilities, circulation and deposits 1 I ,205,022 dollars. The report of the dividend committee makes the money paid' out during the preceding six months for expenses, in terest, &c., to exceed the profits by four m illi ons o f dollars. t was estimated that the excess of expendi ture over income for the ensuing six months would be about eight millions of dollars. The rate of exchange on England was 1081 to 108 L A piper of the Bth ult. states that a hostile spirit had again been manifested in Buffalo ; that a British offi cer had been arrested and imprisoned; and that his release had been demanded by the British minister, but refused by the American executive. Our con temporary adds in his condensation of these accounts " A public meeting had been held at Buffalo, respect ing the burning of the steamer Caroline, and a series of highly inflammatory resolutions had been passed. Mackenzie and several other refugees were, it is added, on the spot to take advantage of the prevalent excitement." We deeply regret to state that the paper of the Bth ult. contains an account of the wreck of the packet-ship Garrick, Captain Palmer, from this port. That vessel sailed from this port for New York on the 13th Decem ber with a valuable cargo. It appears that on the 7th ult. she got on shore about 25 miles south of Sandy 'Hook, probably in the fog. It was supposed that all the passengers might 'safely land, 'particularly as the weather had moderated. The letter below affords some further particulars. The following letter we copy from the Cork Constitution of Saturday last. If the Cambridge arrives this morning, we shall give the contents of any papers in a second edition : " LOSS OF THE GARRICK, AMERICAN LINER. " TO THE ' EDITOR OF THE CORK CONSTITUTION. " Hibernian Commercial Hotel, Friday Night. SIR,—You will please report, in the next number of your paper, the arrival of the packet-ship Cambridge, from New York, in 21 days, off Cove, 25 miles S.E., having expe rienced head winds and calms nearly the whole passage. The packet-ship Garrick (one of the New York liners) was wrecked on the American coast on the 6th instant, twenty five miles south of Sandy Hook. She was insured in New York for 90,000 dollars : she had a valuable cargo on board, probably worth £200,000. At the time we sailed (con the Bth instant), all the passengers were not off the wreck, but hopes were entertained of their getting safe on shore. I landed this day at Cove, having fallen in with a pilot-boat about 30 miles south-east of Cove. The New York money market was easy, and money abundantly in the hands of bankers and brokers. Cotton market steady. " I am, in haste, your's, " JAMES D. ROCHE, " Firm of Roche Brothers and Co., New York, cabin passenger, packet-ship Cambridge." In American papers received last night, which came by the Cambridge, off this harbour, are accounts given of a fire which took place on the Gth January, irr New Orleans, when property to the amount of 31,000 dollars was destroyed, and three lives lost. LOCAL NEWS, The royal mail steamer Britannia will sail, on Thursday next, for Halifax and. Boston. She will, we hear, be full of passengers. The export of manufactured goods to the United States continues extensive. The steam-ship President, which will sail on the 10th instant for New York, will, we. hear, have a large freight. During the last month the visitors of the Liverpool Chari table Society have visited upwards of 600 different families, and have expended more than £6O among the several objects of their charity. STEALING FROM A SHOP.-At the Police-court yester day, a woman named Alice Powell, was committed for trial at the sessions, on a charge of stealing a piece of print from the shop of Mr. Owen Jones, linen-draper, Whitechapel. He pursued the prisoner, when she ran off, but she escaped. Information was given to the police, and from the descrip tion given, constable Deevin (No. 251) apprehended her. She afterwards dropped the piece of print. She was com mitted for trial. STEALING CLOTHES.-At the Police-court, yesterday, a woman named Mary O'Neale, who had an infant in her arms, was placed at the bar on a charge of stealing a bundle of clothes. Inspector Andrews saw the prisoner on Satur day night at seven o'clock, going along by Everton-crescent, with a bundle on her head. He questioned her, and her re plies being unsatisfactory he took her to Bridewell. The clothes were examined, and found to be marked Thomas Mellor. They consisted of towels, table-cloths, &c., and were the property of Mr. Mellor, of Edge-lane. A little girl named Eliza Whittle, said she lived near the Dog and Gun public-house, in West Derby ; that her mother was a washerwoman. On Saturday night she was with the clothes cart which she left at the shop-door of Mr. Auchie, in Brunswick-road. After purchasing a loaf, she returned to the cart and missed the clothes. Mr. Mellor's servant girl stated that she had given the clothes out to be washed to Mary Whittle, the sister of the last witness. The prisoner was committed for trial. ROBBERY OF A FEMALE.-At the Police-court, yesterday, a woman named Mary Ann Blackburn was placed at the bar under the following charge :—Mary Roberts said she was the wife of William Roberts, a brass-founder, and lived in Peter lane, College-lane. On Sunday morning last about half-past one, she had some words with her• husband, and left the house to go to a friend's in Vauxhall-road. She went there, but did not succeed in getting into the house ; she then determined to walk about till they got up. Between two and three o'clock the prisoner, Mary Ann Blackburn, came up to her and asked her where she was going ; she told her she was waiting until her friends got up. The prisoner asked her to go to her house, and she went with her into a house in Pye-court, Gascoy ne - s t. ee t. Th e p r i soner said, you'll give a glass for bringing you to a good fire." Wit ness saw that she had got into an improper place. and said I'll give you a glass if you'll come out. She went out with the witness, and another woman followed her. The prisoner asked her if she had any money, and on her saying she had, she (prisoner) said " let me feel ;" witness refused, and pri soner said, with an oath, that she would feel. The prisoner then forcibly lifted her cloak and dress, put her hand into her pocket and took out three halt-crowns, one shilling, and a sixpence in silver ; the prisoner handed something to the other woman, who ran off. Witness held the prisoner and gave an alarm, till a police officer came up and took her into custody. The prisoner denied the charge. She was com mitted for trial at the sessions. ACCIDENTAL DEATH.—An inquest was held yesterday, before Mr. Curry, touching the death of Andrew Ford. The deceased,• who was about 45 yeari of age, was a porter. On Saturday week, the deceased and some other men were at work at Mr. Brown's shed, at the bottom of Robert ; • street, weighing out - cotton: The deceased was trucking the bales to the scales. The cotton was piled twelve bags high. While the deceased was in the act of placing a bale on the truck, and which was placed on its end, a great number of the bags, which were piled up as stated, fell and knocked him down, and three or four of them remained on him ; they were immediately removed from off him. He was raised up, being unable to rise, he was bleeding at the wri s t ; th e b a l es were piled up in the usual way adopted in sheds and ware houses. The deceased was taken to the northern hospital. The house surgeon said that the deceased was brought there On Saturday week ; his left hip was dislocated, and there was a fracture of the same leg, and a compound dislocation of the right wrist, with fracture of both bones of the same fore arm ; his neck and back were very much contused. He died on Sunday morning last, in consequence of the injuries he re ceived. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." A " DEAF AND DUMB" FORTUriE-TELLER. — On Thurs day, Robert and Mary Brecham, a middle-aged man and woman, both Irish, were brought before Mr. Maude, at the Borough Court, on the following charge :—Mr. Sawley stated that,.on Tuesday forenoon, before ten and eleven o'clock, the female prisoner went to the Royal Oak, .Hanover-street, and pretended to be deaf and dumb ; she made signs to the bar maid that she would tell her fortune for five shillings, and wrote something on a small slip of paper. She succeeded in obtaining a shilling from the girl, and promised to return the following day, and to let her know " all particulars." She did so, and again wanted five shillings; another shilling was eventually given her; and she then produced a paper, i n which the lady's marriage was predicted to take place in less than three months. Unfortunately for the sybil, some men from Hollinwood, perceiving the game that was going on, took advantage of her weak point, and plied her with tumblers of ruin and water, till she began to chatter very freely. A policeman was sent for, and she was given into custody. I n the course of the afternoon, the male prisoner went to the police-office, and inquired if a deaf and dumb woman had been brought there, who, he said, was his wife, and that they had been married twenty years. Witnesses were called in proof of these facts, and the female was committed for two months. It appeared that she had been practising these-im positions for some time in Liverpool. Amongst the articles found in her possession, was one of father Murphy's cards, intimating r that she had take n th e " tee-total" pledge.— Manch Couri MASFER HUMPIITEY'S CLOCK. —Mr. Wareing Webb, the agent to Messrs. Chapman and Hall, has favoured us with the last part of " The Old Curiosity Shop," by Boz. This exquisite work, on which " Boz" may assuredly rest his fame, has at length arrived at a- candusion. The story of " Barnaby Rudge" will be commenced in the next number. We have seen a statement in some of the London journals that " Boz" is to be paid £11,500 for the work. If this be true, who shall say that literary labour is not rewarded ? Mr. Lawson, of Carlisle, was elected, on Friday last, hea master of the Endowed School, Formby. MR. WEBBE'S CONCERT.—Mr. Webbe's concert, we per ceive, is announced , to take place. We shall draw attention to this scheme, at some length, previous to the concert tak ing place. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' BALL.—We understand that the use of the splendid suite of Rooms at the Town hall has been granted for the licensed victuallers' ball, which will take place next month. The object of the fund, which this festivity is designed to augment, is the establishment and maintenance of an asylum for the decayed widows, and a school for the orphans of the licensed victuallers ; two noble objects, which our benevolent fellow townsmen cannot do too much to help forward. Our authorities have evinced a sense of Propriety on the occa sion, which we do not often see manifested. As we shall have frequent opportunities for adverting to the ball, we shall only now observe, that it will be conducted in a manner peculiarly gratifying to all who may have any desire to be present. k WARNING FOR MOTHERS.—Notwithstanding the many cases reportd each week in the newspapers of children hav ing expired in agonies from their apparel having taken fire, mothers persist in leaving young children unattended in rooms where they are exposed to this fearful danger. An inquest was held before the borough coroner on Saturday, to inquire touching the death of Hannah Higgins, a little girl, four years and a-half old. On Saturday week she was left with two other children, the elder of whom was only seven years old, in a parlour where a fire was burning. Suddenly Mrs. Higgins heard the child screaming : she ran to the par lour, and there found the poor child in flames. She extin guished the fire immediately, and the little sufferer, who was shockingly burned about the chest, neck, and arms, was dressed with oil and flour, and subsequently conveyed to the Infirmary, where, after lingering in pain till Thursday last, she died. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the above facts. CHAPLAINCy OF ST. NICHOLAS-WITHIN, DUBLIN.— Last week judgment was pronounced in the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, in favour of the appointment of the Rev. T. D. Gregg, the well-known champion of Protestantism, to this chaplaincy. At the election Mr. Gregg obtained the votes of all the Protestant parishioners, and the chapel wardens, who by an anc i en t c h arter o f the reign of Edward IV., are the returning officers, declared him duly elected. Several Roman Catholics tendered their votes in support of the Rev. Mr. Shannon, who was the only opposing candidate, but the wardens, acting under the advice of eminent counsel, refused to receive them, on the ground th a t, as R oman i sts, they were legally disqualified, and precluded from interfering. The Romanist party, however, with their usual modesty and good faith, resolved to dispute this decision, and brought the matter before the Court of Queen's Bench by mandamus, with a view, if possible, to establish a claim on their part to exercise controul and patronage in the church, and to substi tute in this instance, doubtless, some less hardy and less un compromising assertor of the true faith, in the room of the successful candidate, arid no less successful controversial op ponent of the Rev. Father Maguire. The vaulting ambition of old Rome has, however, over-leaped itself, and, we are happy to say, that this attempt to fweep into her net the pa tronage and disposal of Church of England preferments, has met with a decided repulse. The case was fully argued in Michaelmas Term, but the judgment of the court remained suspended till last week. Their lordships pronounced their judgments seriatim, and were unanimous in setting aside the conditional order, which, if ulterior proceedings be not re sorted to for the purpose of causing annoyance or delay— and no 'other object is conceivable under existing circum stances—will put the Rev. Mr. Gregg, who so well deserves the promotion he has obtained, into immediate possession of the rents and profits of the chaplaincy. The income we un derstand, is about £l7O yearly. , ROBBERY OF PLATE IN DUBLIN.—PART OF THE PRO PERTY FOUND IN LIVERPOOL.—On Friday, at the Police court, an elderly man, named James Coyne, and three young girls, apparently sisters, who gave their names as Ellen, Rose, and Letitia Coyne (probably his daughters), were placed be fore Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having pledged, with vari ous pawnbrokers in this town, and being also found in pos session of a quantity of valuable plate, the property of Lie u t- General the Right H on . Si r Edward Blikeney, Commander of the Forces of the Royal Hospital of Duhlin. [Bills had been published in the town describing the property, and offer ing a reward of £5O for the apprehension and prosecution to conviction of the person or persons, and one of them was produced in court.] It was to the effect that the apartments of General Blakeney had on the 18th ult. been entered, and that the plate had been stolen from the butler's pantry. It consisted of gravy spoons, soup ladles, dinner spoons, tea spoons, forks, desert spoons, sugar tongs, tea-spoons, &c., bearing as a crest an arm and dagger, growing out of a mural crown. Several articles of wearing apparel were also taken, including a female's dark-coloured cloak.—. Mr. Superin tendent Tyrrell said that eleven silver salt spoons had been offered in pledge by one of the girls, which led to the appre hension of the prisoners. —A police-officer stated that he had been called to Mr. Batten's shop, where some spoons hid been offered.—Mr. Batten, pawnbroker, said that the spoons were offered to him in pledge, but observing a crest upon them which was imperfectly erased, he suspected something wrong, and after questioning the girl and receiving no satis factory explanation, he sent for a officer and had her appre hended.—Mr. Rushton remarked that Mr. Batten had acted most properly.—Mr. Kewley, pawnbroker, said he had re ceived in pledge six of the spoons and a pair of sugar tongs. —Mr. Rushton asked him to contrast his conduct with that of Mr. Batten. The crest half beaten out was visible on the articles, and he considered it scandalous in any pawnbroker to receive them, particularly from a girl, evidently by her dress, on the verge of pauperism. —Mr. Kewley said he was sorry he had taken them. He did not look at them particu larly.—Two officers said that they had searched the house where the prisoners lived, and found three pawn tickets.— Mr. Tunstall (Powell and Tunstall), pawnbroker, and Mr. Pye, pawnbroker, were called upon, and each admitted re ceiving in pledge four of the spoons, which were produced.— Mr. Rushton strongly animadverted on their conduct; and added, that in all probability a prosecution would be insti- • tuted against them by the authorities in Dublin. In the house of the prisoners two dozen of silver spoons were found under the ashes by the police-officers. They all bore the same crest. One of the girls wore a cloak when she pledged the articles, similar to that described in the advertisement. Some others were also seen by a person who lived in the house, under the straw at the corner of the bed, in the room where the prisoners slept. The risone rs werstasetnanded, and will doubtless be sen t over to D ublin, there to be tried. CHARGE OF EXTENSIVE FRAUD AT MANCHESTER. A charge of fraud involving a considerable amount of property, was last week brought before the magistrates, Messrs. Maude and Garnett, at the New Bailey.— Mr. Hunt, solicitor, of Rochdale, appeared on behalf of the prosecutor, Mr. J. Waddington, of Colne, a cot ton-spinner; and Mr. Aspinall, solicitor, and Mr. Green, barrister, both of Man c h es t er , appeared in support of the defence.—Mr. Hunt stated, that the prisoner, Thomas Bullock, was bookkeeper and principal manager to Mr. Waddington, who was a mill-owner and cotton-manu facturer at Colne. The prisoner was also sent occasionally to Liverpool to buy cotton. On the 3rd of November, he went to Mr. Johnson, an agent at Manchester. and said he wanted ten pieces as samples. He made the application on behalf of his employer, Mr. Waddington, and they were given to him. On the 9th of November, he sent another note to Mr. Johnson, signed on behalf of Mr. Waddington, for 1500 pieces, which were also delivered. On the 10th he sent another order to the same firm for 635 pieces, which were delivered as before. In the same month he obtained on a similar written order 1385 pieces from Mr. Tunstall, an agent, of Manchester, which were sold to Mr. H. P. Reed, and from the latter gentleman alone he received £795 17s in the name of his employer.. He also attempted to obtain 2100 from Mr. John Greenwood, agent, of Manchester, but did not succeed. In defence, it was stated that the prisoner had a claim of £2OOO, which he had often pressed for, but did not receive up to the time when he sold the goods deli vered to him by Messrs. Johnson and Tunstall. This was denied by the prosecuto r , who said h e did no t owe suc h a sum. It appeared that thel prisoner had been previously in possession as tenant of the mill in question, which was Mr. Waddington's property ; that he had failed, sold up and passed through the insolvent court ; the claim as a set off, now made, was for improvements made in the mill, for ma chinery left in it, and for money advanced by his mother to Mr. Waddington. It was shown by Mr. Hunt that the books produced were bought and made up for the purpose, and that the object of the prisoner was to have cleared the market of the whole of Mr. Waddington's goods. The books were most irregular, for after 1840 came accounts in 1839. Mr. Maude, the stipendiary magistrate, said there was sufficient evidence to show that, the prisoner's books were made up for purposes of fraud, and the bench would therefore require him to give sureties in £lOO each, and him self in £2OO, to answer any indictment against him at the sessions. WARRINGTON PARISH CHURCH.—ST. ELFWIN'S WELL, AND THE MOOT HILL.—The opinion which we advanced last week relative to the discovery at the Parish Church, namely, that the arched roof beneath the chancel had been originally erected over a consecrated well, has been proved by further research to be entirely correct. It will be inte resting, therefore, to add a few particulars connected with its probable origin, and the period to which this may be re ferred. As has been already stated, the early patron of th e church was St. Elf w i n , b ut on t h e su bj ect of his history we are as yet wholly in the dark, since his name does not even appear in the Romish Calendar. We think, how ever , t h at some light m a y b e th rown upon t h e point by a passage in the Ecclesiastical History of the Venerable Bede, who wrote in' the eighth century :—" In the ninth . year of the reign of King Ecgfrid,* a grea t b a ttl e was fought between him and Ethilred, King of the Murcians, near the river Trent, and Elfwin, brother to King Ecgfrid, was slain, being a youth about eighteen years of age, and much beloved by both pro 'Andes, for King Ethilred had married his sister Ostrich. There was now reason to expect a more bloody war, and more lasting enmity between those kings and their fierce nations ; but Theodore, the bishop beloved of God, relying on the Divine assistance, by his wholesome admonitions ex tinguished the dangerous fire that was breaking out; so that the kings and their people on both sides being appeased, no man was put to death, but only the usual mulct paid to the , King for his brother that had been killed : and this peace continued long after between those Kings and their king doms." ' There are several circumstances here narrated, which would lead us to suppose that the St. Elfwin of Doomsday Book is identical with the royal Elfwin of Bede, who may have been dignified as a minor saint for the many virtues he appears to have possessed. Th ere was a strong precedent for such a step in the ca se o f hi s grandfather, Os weld, who fell in battle A.D. 642, at Winwick, was subse quently canonised, and a church and well consecrated to him on the spot where he was slain. The distance from Warring ton to the field of battle in which Elfwin fell, is probably not more than 25 or 30 miles, and being a relative of both princes, it is more than likely that his remains would be brought for Interment to his nat i ve province. Here, then, very near the ancient ford of the Mersey, which they must have sought to gain the kingdom of Northumbria, Elfwin was probably interred, and here, too, may have taken place the reconcilia tion described by Bede as having been brought about by Theodore, between the rival kings. The beautiful knoll to the east of the church is an undoubted tumulus or funeral mound, as was proved on its being opened in 1832; an d al though a le arne d ant i quar i an i n our vicinity considers it as not unlikely to have been raised after the battle a t Wi nw i c k , yet we ha ve a t an ear li er par t o f B e d e , s history, too circum stantial an account of Oswald's death and burial to doubt of its having taken place anywhere else than at the well-known loCality of Winwick. Under all circumstances we may, there fore, safely regard the mound near the church as th e b urial • place of Elf w i n , subsequently, as its name, even at the pre sent day implies, made use of as the Moot Hill, or place of Meeting in the district, appointed for the adjustment of dif ferences, before a competent judge and his assistants. At a still later period it was the seat of the barony or residence of De Villiers, barons of Woryngton,. until the title p asse d b y marriage to the Butlers, of Bewsey, the last of whom, Edward Butler, died about the year 1586. In an anc i ent manuscript in the possession of Vlillin inventory of E sq., o f A therton, pur porting to be au nventory of the manor or barony A.D. 1587, we find the Moot Hill thus spoken of The sett of the manner or baronny e i s decayed, and no Byldinge there uppon," whilst Bewsey i s s h ewn to have lost, in this our time, much itsof . former g l ory . " I tem , t h e mannorhowse of Beawsey, with the owt h owses t h ereunto, and the parke wherein it standeth, conteyning ccxxij acres of the greate measure, being xxiiij feete to the poule, wherein is xxix deere and a heareonrye, are worthe p. ann., to be lett, beside ye keepinge of ye deere—Xlx." The barony at this period was in the possession of Robert Duddely, Earl of Leicester, though the manner of his obtaining it is not clearly known. From him it passed to the Irelands, of the Hutt and Hale, and thence by descent to its present possessor. * Eckfrid was King of Northumbria, the country north of the Mersey, and began to reign A. D. 670. Manchester Chronicle.