The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-08 00:00:00

ity of their mi his residence, without tilt t he general class. This will be found very advan all at 'sc :VI ILA rk ed DArrciNc.—it will be seen that Mr. Harwood has mad rranaementfi to accommodate pupils at ladies' seminaries a BREAKING INTO AND ROBBING A SHOP.—On Frida last, or early on Saturday morning, some thief or thieve woke into the shop of Mr. Ellis Jacobs, cigar and tobacco dealer and news-vender, Paradise-street, near Cooper's-row, and carried off a quantity of cigars and tobacco. The building is low, and the depredators had broken in by the roof, and effected an entrance into the shop by forcing a door. Some noise was heard within by the police officer on the walk, be tween one and two on Saturday morning ; but before he e ctuld discern the cause, the parties had escaped with appa rently only part of their booty, other articles besides those tak en _h aying been removed. The thieves are supposed to be the same gang that, on Saturday night, attempted no fewer than three shops in South Castle-street. It will be perceived from the advertisement in another column, that Mr. Newton, the spirited proprietor of the Mu sical Saloon, Dick's Coffee House, Murray-street, has enga ged that talented artist, Von Joel, from the Royal Gardens, V auxhall. The inimitable talent of this gentleman in his peculiar line will, we are convinced, afford a rich treat to the f r equenters of the Saloon, and a golden harvest to the land ord. The glee singing is deserving of great praise. Mr. Miugard, whose soul .seems indentified with his songs is deserv e dly a grea t favourite ; and the simple, unpretending ballad melodies, introduced by Mr. Crank, are given with exquisite taste. We cannot pretend to particularlise the ' l. l lly attractions this truly elegant room offers to the p u blic. e can only recommend persons to pay Mr. Newton a visit, and judge for themselves. • THE BRUSSELS PIGEON MATCH.—There was caught in a tree near St. Helens, about the 11th of July last, one of the MY-seven pigeons let loose at Liverpool on the 4th July, belonging to the Society of Progress, Brussels. It had the glUxe f ollovving marks upon its wing and tail :—" Le Progress— lles-22." The bird was then in a state of exhaustion, it had also a broken leg, but soon recovered its strength, and also the use of its leg, and is now in a perfect state of health. It has since its recovery been let loose, and made several at tempts to visit its native country, but always returned. Ever since its last return it has been confined. It is now in the Possession of John Mercer, Church-street, St. Helens. THEATRE ROYAL.—This theatre opened for the winter season last night. The lessees have been compelled by cir cumstances to allow only a day to elapse between the seasons. It will be seen by the advertisement that the old favourite of the public, Browne,is about to re-appear on the English boards : he is a sterling actor, and much wanted. To-morrow evening Mr..Thalberg, the grand maestro of the pianoforte playing art, will delight and astonish the musical amateurs. Con siderable curiosity is felt to hear Roncoui, as rumour, with its hundred tongues, has trumpeted forth his fame with a 1 ° ,4 1 and stirring note. Mrs. Tloulmin is well known as Possessing a charming voice, much taste, and execution. Mr- J• Parry, as a buffo singer, perhaps has no compeer. A treat of a very high order is in store for those who attend the concert. On Friday the programme is strengthened by the name of Mrs. St. Albin appearing : she is announced to Play a duet with Mr. Thalberg. Mrs. St. Albin, we believe, i s generally admitted to he one of the most eminent of English P i anofortistes; - her r brilliant execution, taste, and knowledge of the art divine, entitle her to this proud position. We anticipate that the auetto will be a surprising and delightful Performance; the utmost powers of the pianoforte will be tested ; in point of fact, it will be a trial of skill ; and we Would not mind betting odds, were we not " One of those old cunning stagers Who say fools for argument make wagers," that the lady will not get the worst of it. AMPHITHEATRE.--The varied and_amusing performances at this theatre, in spite of bad times, never fail to draw a fair s prinkling of good company. The scenes in the arena are alternately varied with feats of agility and strength on the Stage. Many of the latter are so surprising as almost to be considered impossible. For instance, Mr. Derious swings, bal?,nces, and throws about an immense beam with his feet, While lying in a recumbent posture, with all the dexterity ,t l l . at another man would do a slight pole in his hands. The 4 iveas, in their gymnastic exercises, greatly excel all others We have seen ; their feats of strength, agility, and neatness of e xecution must be the result of great practice. Mr. Sands' Performances in the ring are of a dashing character ; they are gone through with a fearlessness and ease, as well as grace, that take away the appearance of danger. His scenes on horseback are so well done as to appear quite easy,—the true test of excellence. Mr. Sweeney on his banjo contributes greatly to the pleasantness of the entertainments. We are assured by those who have come from the " far west," t hat to see a true picture of the free nigger, in his times of re ,creation, we have only to listen to Mr. Sweeney. Jim Crow T he was a burlesque,—Mr. Sweeney's is a true portraiture. , 4 he clowns are originals ; one of them appears a regular :"own-easter. They never fail to excite laughter. Mr. Sands has a well-taught pony, which fetches and carries at command with the greatest facility. If this is a Boston pony, we won der h e somet i mes s h ys a t carry i ng th e b as k e t, as h e m i g ht !alloy be was going to "market," for the market in Boston .111 e thing to see and talk about, and this reminds us that . 1 -iiekens has given great offence to the Bostonians by not niaking mention of it. Several novelties are preparing . Une h ernoiselle Francaise is about making her defritt from Fran coni's, at Paris, who is said to be an equestrian Cerito, and a sort of feminine Ducrow, possessing the highest attainments In the equestrian art. Before concluding this notice we must give a word of advice to the riding master, Mr. Decamp : he ;oust recollect that times are very bad,—that although there h as been no fault so far, we believe, to find with the attend ance, he should remember that no establishment, however PF,osperous. can stand too great an expense, and the quantity Whipcord he roust consume is, no doubt, a frightful item; in Plainer terms, his constant cracking of his whip is a positive n uisance,—it is annoying and unnecessary, " Oh, reform it altogether." INTERRUPTION OF THE GOVERNMENT SURVEY.—Liellte- Ilant Hawley, who is at present in Liverpool by direction of t he Commissioners of the Board of Ordnance to make the p r rvey of Liverpool, appeared before the magistrate on iday, to allege a complaint against Mr. Samuel Lefone, t anner, of Marybone, for obstructing him in the discharge °f his duty. Lieutenant Hamley stated that he was at tached to a company of sappers and miners, and had been "ent here by the Board of Ordnance to make a survey.of the town. He had sent a corporal and an assistant to the pre nlises of Mr. Lafone to make a survey of that gentleman's works, but they had come to him afterwards, and stated that t hey were unable to execute their duty as Mr. Lafone would not allow them to enter the premises and go . on with their ,Work. H e h a d wr itt en to Mr. Lafone on the subject but h e did not answer his letter. He understoCd, however, that that gentleman had called at his (Lieut. Hamley's) residence, but as he was out of town at the time he did not see him, and concluded by stating that he had two witnesses who would prove the case. Lieutenant Hamley then called John Ken edy, who deposed that he was employed to assist corporal van in making a survey of lk" stated after he had been in his y arne to him and told him I I °.oger as Mr. Lafon( 3 remain there any In consequence of the intimation of t._ Paper containing the directions of the r especting the survey, upon Mr. Lafone, but notwithstand ing that, he would not allow him to go on with his work. th at Bevan gave similar evidence. Mr. Rushton stated, ',hat according to the act of parliament, any person who „ u ttered any obstruction to officers under the Board of o rdnance in the discharge of their duty was liable to a Pe nalty M ehalty of not more than O, and not less than £2. Mr. 1- !afone stated, that when the man showed him his autho- PtY he let him into his yard, and after being there four days, he asked him how much longer he was going to stay, -and as he could not tell him, he thought, as it was his own pro perty, he would not allow him to come in again. Mr. Rush i,ll said the business of the men was highly important here was an act 'of parliament Great Britain, Berwick-upo -- a nd it was the duty of ever earning out that survey foremin he (Kennedy \ ~rved a Board of OrC athorising a survey of one to offer every facility in lamley said he was Lieuteuan certain - t II Eiry for ien to enter the pre- Wises from time to time in of pshtort inquired if his men Vr• Lafone's business, or K ennedy said he occupied (I that he had neither o' Lafone' s men. "e was clearly out of court in the present case, and if every Person were to give similar trouble to what he had done, the A r v eY would never be made. Mr. Lafone replied that had eutenant Hatnley come to him and stated what time he re ,ired he should have had:it, but he did not think it right thatlttl his men should be coming to his place without fixing a w ilpit to their stay.—Lieutenant klamley said it was not his b is b to press for a heavy penalty. He merely wished not to obstructed in the discharge of his duty.—Mr. Lafone re- Vtied, that he did not wish for any mercy at all in the case, t he could not refrain from stating, that he thought he had 1 (It been well used.—Mr. Rushton then informed Mr. La :lle that he must pay £5 and costs. The penalty was paid, 4 d the parties left the court. truction to en was necessary, terruption to Mr. Ir. Rushton Mr. Lafone) said s asserted to T b TRE I.NFANT SAPPIIO.—It L e h, e2ctraordinary child is abi er performance - On Monday ~1v!rpool As some account ( She commences i i e lt: at te Royal Assembl Roe, e r may be h acceptable, we quote the for,. v 4/ Review :—LouisaVinning was born at ~uushire, on the 10th of November, 1836, and is consequently jllottile more than five years and a half old. Her father, Mr. lyi ' lll Vinning, evinced a precocious taste for music, and, a child, was taken from his parents by Mr. Garrow, a De voe. of Judge Garrow, and now a magistrate of Torquay, Under the auspices of this gentleman, who was a IpPil of the late Mr. Mori, his pr(- 3 • aster e d and encouraged. Mr. 14114 1' Chapel at the age of twelve yeas., , ih that capacity at various churches. m onths, the the intense delight Miss Vinning derived from m, w as first a scer t a i ne d by the influence th e soun d of he r f a ther's v th an her had upon her; no sooner did he commence his strains, her face beamed with delight, and her whole frame r 'l oved in unison w t measure. She began to sing be re she could spea ith k. One evening, in the summer of 1839, when she was only three years old, the father was summoned t o the couch of his sleeping child, to listen to the soft notes the was unconsciously warbling. Struck with the novelty of e melody, which the infant sang several times, he embraced the oPportunity of writing it, and arranged a symphony and fl.'epaniment for it, which he appropriately styled " The o , ent's Dream." Whilst at play, she gives utterance to her musical ideas by instinct, as it were, and many of these f4,thehes of song have been transferred to paper by her publication. When the little songstress attained !rsaecond year, she was announced to sing in public as a wh h_ical prodigy, and she made a great impression upon those heard her. The opinion of the "monster public" was t r e . °ed by musicians of eminence. The following is an ex ti:let from a letter to Mr. Vinning from the great pianiste, I:, kind-hearted w h Thalbergregret exceedingly I have until no ad a spare moment to fulfil my promise in ( 1 4 i/ 1 g to you, expressing the delight I had in hearing your , -a r little girl sing so astonishing correct, and with so pleas. a voice. She is, indeed, a most astonishing child, and s i ci h ie she will soon meet the patronage and encouragemer l eh her extraordinary talent undoubtedly claims." M '1 i 'tcheles, in a letter dated the 29th of March, 1840, says a NZ appears to me, not only to be most liberally gifted v ce of unusual compass, but also with a sen.'`• t air pization, whether as concerns the '- 4, 1 melodies, or of reproducir Geor llll4 e hig only three years old." hge Smart adds the following remark, couched in language sta r I s usual propriety and good sense :—" I beg leave to af r o that I consider her a most wonderful child, possessing withN," feeling for music, with an extraordinary correct ear, for time and tune; her singing is perfectly natural, and in effort." After having sung at several musical parties ear s - ,, 11 , 110 a, the fame of the " Infant Sappho " reached the to . the Queen, and in August, 1840, an order was sent M a h er , father to repair to Buckingham Palace, where her ehif t r,tY, after hearing her, expressed her delight, took the I h. her arms, embraced her, and placed in her bosom a in i t., ll ,ihcent diamond nd pin, without which she never appears but - ,„" ill e• When singing , ' she dues not pronounce any words Mo re ",e,relY the musical sound of the melody, restriblir Pa ss f `he Italian accent than any other language : titr e , r° , 4l C (which is the natural key) to A (which requires . the sharps to restore the semitones to the true localities on t llajO' r ) with great precision, and can modulate from a hiffe r `°,a minor key, in which the localities of semitones O r foi lr s , ll e is capable of singing, an air after hearing it three 4 1.° , 1 0 4 ' i mes. She is a self-taught dancer as as a singe, hirth d the occasion of the celebration of the Princess Mary's 1 0 b e a 4, at the Duchess of Gloucester's, she had the honour t ioo. r Jhstifi e Partner of the Princess Wheer this raise i shall be able to state in . this day week's pub!ca s in; from the Mu. ridge,in D the art was mist 'of Tor- d has since officiated of nine tiveness of avers of correctly rt terval iese testicac remarkable, Is, Sir She can F'xu.—On Friday afternoon, about three o'clock, a fire was discovered in Mr. Hampton's patent amber malt ware house, in Grayson -street. Before the flames had obtained any great head, the police fire-engines were in attendance, and extinguished the fire in a few minutes. It is supposed that it originated in a kiln which is chiefly used for the dry ing of malt upon the premises. The kiln was occupied by cotton, which had been placed there for the purpose of being dried, and, whilst undergoing that process, combustion took place. The flames extended to the roof of the kiln, which they destroyed, and then communicated with other cotton which was in the upper room of the warehouse. Here some two or three bags were destroyed, but the active operations of the engines prevented further damage and subdued the flames A KIFTII OF NOVEMBER CASUALITY.—James Bradley, a youth, aged about seventeen years, was placed before Mr. Rushton, on Saturday, charged with having committed an offence against the law which prohibits the use of fire-arms within the borough. A gentleman produced a hollow iron tube, about half a pound weight. It had originally been part of an iron gaspipc, but one end had been closed up, and near this end a hole had been partly filled and partly drilled, so as to make a rude sort of cannon, about six inches in length, and half an inch in the bore. This the prisoner had dis charged in a piece of vacant ground in Burlington -street. Such was the force of the recoil that the tube had ilown distance of thirty-five yards, passed through the window of Mrs. Barton's public-house, and struck a settle within one of the appartments, after which it dropped near the feet of a gentleman, who appeared as a witness. The prisoner was fined 10s. and costs; in default of payment, he was to be im prisoned five days. , LIVERPOOL CALEDONIAN FItEE SCHOOL.—On the 14th ult., Mr. Thomas Macgill, ex-president of the Caledonian Free School of this town, forwarded to •his Royal Highness Prince Albert copies of two original anthems, written for and sung by the children of the above school, at the celebration of her Majesty's coronation and marriage. The anthems were accompanied by a letter, stating that 350 children, of Scottish parentage, were receiving education suited to their sphere in life at these schools, and conclud e d as f o ll ows : ... " Should your royal highness be pleased to direct that a bible, with your autograph. be sent as a donation to the library of this charitable institution, in token of your approval of the sentiment contained in the anthems, it would have a happy effect on the young minds of the scholars." In consequence of this letter, his royal highness, through his secretary, Mr. Anson. has forwarded a small bible to the school, and on the guard leaf is the followinz inscription :—" Albert, Windsor Castle, October 21, 1842." THE NEW BANKRUPTCY ACT.—The Gazette, of Friday, contains an order dividing the kingdom into seven districts for the purposes of the act. The following relates to the Li verpool districts : 'LIVERPOOL DISTRICT, " The Liverpool district shall comprehend all places in cluded within, or to be considered as forming parts of the southern division of the county of Chester, as the same; is settled and described by the said last-mentioned act ; and all such places locally situated in the county of Lancaster, as will not be included in the Manchester district, hereinbefore described ; and all places locally situated in any of the several counties in Wales, hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, Tne county of Anglesea, The county of Merioneth, The county of Carnarvon, and The county of Denbigh, The county of Montgomery." The county of Flint. PETER HUGHES.—On Friday, at the Lambeth police office, this person was again brought up on a charge of ob taining a large sum of money (according to his own acknow ledgment 100 guineas), by falsely representing himself as the Rev. Mr. Kavanagh, parish-priest of Ballykenney, in the county of Wexford, Ireland. The facts elicited on the first examination we published in the Standard of Tuesday last. Since the last examination Inspector Donnigan, who has had the case in band, has received several letters from the heads of Catholic families in Birmingham and its vicinity, whom the prisoner has victimized by the same misrepresentations. The prisoner, who is a fellow of the most plausible manners, in defence said the whole of the money collected by him should be appropriated to the object for which it had been collected, namely, the building of the chapel. He was re manded' for three weeks and a few days before the sessions, when the Rev. Mr. Kavanagh will be in town, to disprove his representation of his being a clergyman of that name, or having authority to collect for the chapel. INSOLVENT DEBTORS.—The following are the arrange ments for the spring courts for the relief of insolvent debtors on the Northern Circuit, 1843 : YORKSHIRE.-At Sheffield, Friday, February 10.—Wake field, Monday, February 13.—At the Town and County of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull, Monday, February 20. —At York, Wednesday. February 22.—At the City and County of the City of York, the same day.—At Rich mond, Friday, February 24. DURHAM.—At Durham, Saturday, February 25. NORTHUMBERLAND.—At NewcaAtle-upon-Tyne, Tuesday, February 28.—At the Town and County of the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the same day. CUMBERLAND.—At Carlisle, Friday, March 3 WESTMORLAND.—AtAppIeIiy, Monday, March 6.—At Ken- dal, Tuesday, March 7: LANCASHIRE.—At Lancaster, Wednesday, March B.—At Preston, Thursday, March 16.—At Liverpool, Friday, March 17. CHESHIRE.—At Chester, Monday, March 20.—At the City and County of the City of Chester, the same day. The Commissoner who is to come this circuit is not named, but as Mr. Reynolds takes the Midland, Mr. Harris the Southern, and Mr. Law the Home, the successor of the late Mr. Bowen, who is not yet appointed, will, we suppose, take the Northern. GAMBLING ON A " SMALL" SCALE.—A man named John Sharp was brought up, at the Police.court, yesterday, on a charge of cheating another, John Joyce, of the sum of £2 19s. at cards. Both appeared to be working men. The com plainant said, that on Saturday he was playing with the pri soner, and just when he had lost the sum stated, he discovered that the prisoner had kept four cards out of the pack in one of his hands, by which he made successful cuts. By this means he was "cut" out of his money. On cross-examination by Mr. Owens, the case assumed a mitigated complexion. The parties had been playing on a former occasion at pitch and-toss, in the Old Haymarket, when the complainant won s. 9d. from the prisoner, but lost to him a number of pawn tickets, which the latter, however, returned to him. On the last occasion referred to in the co nplaint, the complainant had gone in search of the prisoner, and had induced him to come and have a game with him, showing him 10s. which he had to sport. They went into a cellar in Lace-street, where whiskey and ale were sold, and afterwards to another cellar where drink was also sold, and played till five in the morning. —The sum of £1 IBs. was found upon the prisoner. —Mr. Rushton said that the prisoner must, under the cir cumstances, be discharged.—The complainant applied for the money, saying he was a poor man with a wife and three children.—Mr. Rushton said, it was a great shame for him in that case to go to such places and gamble ; and as there was no witness to speak to the use of the four cards to de fraud him, he must take the consequences, as he (Mr. R.) could make no order about the money in his behalf. HIGHWAY ROBBERIES IN EDGE-LANE.—The vicinity of Edge-lane has recently been infested by a gang of footpads, who have carried on their operations with much brutal daring. About a fortnight ago, Miss Turner, who lives at the top of Edge-lane, was, while on her way home after dark, violently assaulted by two men and robbed. On Mon day night last, about seven o'clock, as a gentleman was on his way from Liverpool to the Old Swan, by the way of Edge lane, when near Jackson's rope-walk, a man rushed out of the hedge and passed him, saying, " How far away ?" Im mediately two other men dashed out of the hedge and made towards the gentleman, who, however, turned and ran to wards the town. The fellows pursued him till he met a shandry, when they stopped and made off. The next night, (Tuesday,) Mr. John Kilshaw, who resides at Broad Green, was returning home about seven o'clock. He was in Edge lane, not far from the ropery above-mentioned, when he was stopped by two men. One of them stood in front and presented a pistol at his face, while the other quickly rifled his pockets, robbing him of what money he had about him. Recovering his presence of mind, Mr. Kilshaw called out, when the villain who held the pistol immediately fired. The muzzle of the pistol was at this moment resting against the side of his jaw, past which the contents glanced, fortunately without inflicting further injury to the face than what re. stilted from the explosion of the powder, by which, however, the skin and eyes suffered severely. The charge carried away the collar of Mr. Kilshaw's coat, and tore away other portions of his apparel. The moment the shot was fired the villains made a precipitate retreat. Shortly before this oc currence, a gentleman passed the spot where it took place. He heard footsteps behind him, and was presently accosted by a tall man dressed in fustian clothes, who overtook him, gave him a sort of " good night," and passed on. Shortly afterwards the same man turned and met him, and again passed him. In a few moments he met a gentleman whom he supposes was Mr. Kilshaw, and but a very short time elapsed after they passed each other when he heard a cry of " murder!" and words, which he believes to have been " don't—oh don't," followed by the report of a pistol. The police-officer on Jackson's rope-walk heard the shot fired, and in a short time arrived to the assistance of the wounded man, whom he accompanied home, but he saw nothing of the robbers. The servant of Mr. Haywood, who resides in the neighbourhood, also heard the shot. It is stated that another gentleman was stopped in Edge-vale, the same night, by two ruffians, who presented a pistol at his head. He made an outcry, upon which the villains darted off with out attempting to rob him. NUISANCES.—No fewer than six informations were yes terday laid against a person named Alexander Smith, for a series of nuisances committed by him, on the 12th, 18th, 25th, 26th, and 31st ult., and the Ist instant: Mr. Shuttle worth, deputy town-clerk, said that the defendant occupied a small yard in Banastre-street, in which he boiled the entrails of animals—often when they were in a state of putridity—in order to extract the oil. A most offensive and noxious smell arose from the process ; and complaints having been made to the common council, the matter was investi gated, and the nuisance being found to exist as stated, these informations were laid. As he saw Mr. Davenport in at tendance for the defendant, he would state that if his client consented to plead guilty, and withdraw from the trade, he (Mr. S.) would not press for the penalties.—Mr. Davenport advised with the defendant, who, however, would not consent to this proposition, saying, the complaints made all originated in spite and malice.—Mr. Shuttleworth then called Inspector Morley, who said, that in consequence of the complaints made to the council (by petition from several of the neighbours), he had visited the yard of the defendant, in Banastre-street, on the 18th October, at nine in the morning, being specially appointed to do so. He found in the yard a quantity of the entrails of animals (pigs and sheep, he believed), and also some in one of two copper boilers. The smell reached him iu Marybone and Garden-street, and was so bad that it made him sick. There were houses all round the yard.—Mr. Davenport cross-examined the witness, but did not elicit anything particular.—Mr. Rushton read the clause in the bye-law affecting nuisances, by which it appeared that the making of any nuisance, noxious, or offensive gases or vapours, militating against the health and comfort of the in habitants, constituted a nuisance which subjected the party to fine, not exceeding £5 each separate offence or time.—Mr. Shuttleworth said that even if it affected the " comfort" alone. it was a nuisance.—A number of witnesses who lived in the immediate neighbourhood, or a short distance from it, were then successively called, and gave testimony of the nuisance of so strong a nature, that we must be excused nauseating our readers by giving the details. Suffice it to say that the stench of the steam and the stuff used was stated to be intolerable; that it frequently made them and their families sick and ill, deprived them of appetite for food, and prevented them from sleeping at night. The materials used were garbage, most offensive in odour, and the steam from the boiling of them was still worse. One shopkeeper who lived 200 yards off, said the smell was even there very noxious, affected his own and his family's health, and that his customers complained of it. Mr. Davenport called two or three witnesses, whose noses, it appeared, were imper vious to the effluvia, but as they lived in cellars where it could not so easily descend to them, their evidence did not affect that in chief.—Mr. Rushton said the defendant was clearly out of court. Mr. Shuttleworth said he would re- new his offer not to push for the penalties if the defendant would plead guilty to the other five informations, and give up the trade. This was finally agreed to on the part of the latter, and a fine of £5 on each was levied, (£3O in all,) on the understanding that if the nuisance was instantly abated they would not be levied, and a week was allowed to , the de . . . feuilant to remove his materials, &c. On the defendant and his wife leaving the court, they came into contact with some of the witnesses, and the wife struck one of the females, and the defendant one of the police-officers. A regular fracas ensued at the door, and the aggressors were brought back in custody, and immediately placed in the dock. The case being proved, the woman, who was the principal and original offender, was fined 40s. and costs, or one month ; and Smith ss. and costs, or seven days. TitICKS OF THE TRADES OF LIVERPOOL. No. I "JERRY BUILDER." The world at large, and many, even, of the community to whom the following remarks are addressed, may require to know what is the description of a tradesman whom we desig nate as " the Jerry builder." We will endeavour, as briefly as we can, to illustrate the meaning attached to the term in question. You cannot pass through any of the modern portions of the town of Liverpool without your attention being called to piles of buildings, prematurely old—decayed before age can have had any legitimate right to injure brickwork or wood work—" situate and being," as the lawyers would say, in ill-paved and ill-sewered streets—with puddles, broken win dows, windows glazed with paper, leaky spouts, and other gnia of want of finish and poverty, in front, and narro courts, dirty passages, and unsightly objects of every imagin able kind and degree behind. These, you may rest assured, are " jerry built " houses. Again, go into streets of still more modern erection, in the outskirts of the borough. You will see, perhaps l a lot of houses exhibiting externally an infinite amount of pretension ;—verandas in front—perhaps Elizabethan in style, or villa-form—stuccoed or rough-cast— with superb door-way and fan-light, and a magnificent ex panse of door-step. So much for outside. Knock at or open any door, and when'you imagine that you are entering a palace you will be amazed to find yourself in something more nearly approaching to a piggery. There is a lobby, paltry in dimensions, and a staircase little less steep and narrow than the ascent to a hayloft. The front parlour is three yards by four, or thereabouts, and is papered ; but, the substratum of plaster being bad, it is blotched in parts, and manifests symptoms of peeling off by a yard at a time. There are window-shutters ; but they either do not fasten when up, or are not so ambitious as to go up at all. There is a cupboard, with a sideboard top, by the fireplace, with a lock which will not lock, because it never had a key. There i s a bell-pull, but it does not ring, because it never was attached to a bell ; a chimney-piece, upon which you must not lay your watch, lest it come down with the weight ; a grate with the coves falling down, and a hearth which saves you the trouble of carrying out the ashes, because they can be more expeditiously disposed of by sweeping them quietly through an interstice at the back into the cellar below ! There is a back parlour of similar crazy construction, cellar kitchens, drawing-room, and bed-rooms "to match." The whole are painted, but you mustn't wash the paint lest you have only the wood left. This is a modern—a new—' built " house jcrry But still you will say—what is the Jerry builder? Why he is the builder of just such tenements as we have described —of temporary erections—shells of houses—patches of brick work and woodwork, put together just sufficiently to be called houses, and, like Jew watches, to be taken for spew. As a matter of course, the " Jerry builder" is seldom more than the temporary owner of the houses which he builds. He buys a piece of land and he covers it with houses, as a Brummagem dealer covers his dolls with flaring calico. His object is to sell, or to let, apiece of land covered with a house. Neither land nor house is the absolute Property of the man who lets it you as his own, but belongs to some lawyer or other party as mortgagee. if you want a repair, your ostensible landlord can do nothing, and the real landlord will do nothing. The former is reaping all he can before his mortgage is foreclosed, and his property lapses into other hands ; the .latter is quietly waiting for the consummation which the other anticipates. Let us, briefly as we can, describe a jerry-building specu lation. Tom Styles, a joiner or a bricklayer, with twenty pounds in his pocket, or a share or two in a building society, and an understanding with Timothy Nokes, plumber and painter, and sundry other people of equal reputation in the world, purchases from some speculative land agent or lawyer a plot of land. We shall not enter into the question whether, at all, or how it is paid for. The first step towards covering it with houses is the sinking of the foundations and cellars and that operation is performed by contract, by Patrick some body or other with a euphonious name, and his gang of " soughers." The said Patrick realises a pound or two on paper, and his Helots potatoes and herring, and mayhap a drop of " illicit" by the transaction. The cellar floors are then laid, the cellar walls rise, and the beams are laid for the first or ground floor ; and then comes that most mysterious of operations—" a draw." But we are going too fast. The question has first to be de cided between Tom Styles and Timothy Nokes, which of them is trustworthy enough to receive the said " draw." This is a highly interesting controversy, watched with great anxiety by Patrick the " sougher" and his men, two or three hod-carriers, and the workmen of the controversialists. The question is at length decided. Tom Stiles, as having the greatest stake (?) in the speculation, receives " the draw," and forthwith draws out of the affair, leaving his colleague to battle out the claim of Patrick and others as well as he can. This affair settled or temporarily smoothed down, the next story rises under the superintendence of Timothy Nokes ; is in due time completed, and then comes another " draw." Now Timothy happens to have been recently en gaged in building half a dozen cottages for John Snooks, who keeps a provision shop, and who has not been able to pay him off, unless he will take shop goods—soap, bread, candles, pepper, mustard, cheese, and other similar com modities—instead of cash. Timothy, moreover, has himself a bill for lead to meet, for which the " presents itself very opportunely. The proposition is made that the workmen employed should receive part of their claims in money, and the remainder in goods from the shop of the beforementioned John Snooks ; and after a council of war or two, held at the neighbouring public sity" it is found " has no law," and the proposition is acceded to. draw" in question house, " neces- We have said nothing, thus far, of the grievances and hard ships to which the poor workmen and labourers are sub jected—of the penniless Saturday nights, the dinnerless Sundays, and the weekdays of almost famine. We have said nothing of the various minor " contractors," whose inge nuity, and too frequent rascality, are put in requisition during the progress of the erection. The window-sashes and door frames, perhaps, are contracted for by one, and the doors by another; and, as they are to be put together at a trifle more than the cost of the timber, the timber merchant or the working joiner employed is victimized or gets but half paid. Then plastering and slapdashing and painting are to be done ; and are managed in a similar fashion. They are got through, as a seamstress would say, " with long stitches"—are slurred over just sufficiently to pass muster until pay-day—until there is a " draw," with very often a " bolt" at the end of it ! But proceed we, more seriatim, to the last story—to the roofing, slating and internal finishing. Suppose the building up—walls, roof, chimneys and all. Then should come the final draw. But first the work must be surveyed —aye, there's the rub ! The land-agent, or the lawyer for some mortgagee, has all along furnished the money for the various " draws" which have preceded. He wishes now to examine his security; and we will, if the reader permit us, accompany him in his survey and his calculation. Imprimis then, it will be remembered, we have never said that the land has been paid for. In fact it has not. It has never even been conveyed! Tom Styles and Timothy Nokes had originally a contract of sale, it is true ; and they secured the owner for the cost, by the bricks and timber and work which they have put upon the land ; but they have received money since to enable them to pay—so far as they can be said to have paid—for those bricks, that timber and labour; and the transaction must now be placed en regle, by a deed of mortgage, previous to receiving the "final draw." Our reader, however, if he be a man of the world, will readily guess that mortgagees do not ordinarily advance the full cost of the land and build ings erected upon it; and the surmise will naturally present itself, that the poor expectants of their cash, for the erection of the last story, and the inside finishing, have a tolerable chance of being made to whistle awhile for their demands. And such, in too many instances, is the case. The mort gagee will not advance another shilling—how, as a prudent man, can he ?—and the builder must either place the pro perty in the hands of a collector, who can put it into mode rately tenantable condition and deduct his outlay fi-om the rents, or he must sell. In case the first alternative is adopted, we pity the unlucky tenant. In case the second, we pity the unlucky buyer. The former takes a house, re puted tenantable, which smokes, which has leaky spouts and a leaky roof, is but half finished, and, though a new house, t hreatens daily to tumble about his ears, unless be is fool sufficient to prop it up at his own cost. The latter buys a house—or what he fancies is a house, but which is in reality only the framework of one—and must, unless he wishes it to be removed the first high wind into the adjoining street or township, lay out upon it some three or four years' rent, in order to make it such a house as a decent family can reside in. In either alternative, we pity the poor workmen and tradesmen who have put together this wretched abortion of bricks, wood, and mortar. Their Christmas-day will be a sorry one ; and the chances are, that not a few of them are seen petitioning for their discharge from durance vile at the first hearing of the Insolvent Court. In conclusion, and before taking leave of this distinguished character, whom we have thought it our duty to place at the head of these sketches, we cannot but record our conviction that to the doings of no class of tradesmen in our town is to be attributed a greater amount of the misery and deteriorated condition of our labouring classes, than to the doings of " THE JERRY BUILDER." PORT 'co.—The amusing theatre now established at this place of public resort is nightly attracting the curious. A change of performances will take place to-night, when many novelties will be brought forward. The metropolitan police have just received information of i another robbery from the person resembling n its circum stances the case of Mr. Marquis, who, as our readers will recollect, was robbed of £2,000 at the Preston Guild by a female, who has since been transported for seven years. It appears that a Mr. George Jordan, a horsc-dealer, residing at Thames, Oxon, attended Marlow fair, and whilst there a dashingly dressed woman, about 40 years of age, got into conversation with him, and succeeded, during the time the pleasant converaation lasted, in easing him of a purse con taining two bills of exchange for £5O each, one accepted by Mr. James H:11, Little Lisson-street, Lisson-grove, London, and the other by Israel Tarle, Newbury, Berks; also £2OO in notes, some of which were of the Bank of England, and others of the Reading, Newbury, and Andover banks. BANK OF MANCHESTER.-SPECIAL MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS. Yesterday, ecial meeting of ter was held at 1 shareholders in the ward's Hotel, Man rig notice, issued by October, of Manchester.—Notice is hereby given, that, in consequent._ of its having been ascertained by the Board of Directors of this bank, from the communications made by the managing director, on Friday, the 7th instant, that the whole of the surplus fund, and more than one-fourth of the capital of the Company actually paid by the shareholders, had been ex hausted by losses sustained in carrying on the business of the Company, a Special General Meeting of the proprietors will be held on Monday, the 7th day of November next, at twelve at noon, at Hayward's Hotel, in Bridge-street, Man , in order to submit to such meeting a full i;nd gene- rs and concerns of Smith, Mau'aging Director i 4 0 C) ,-• ..• ....1 - - . 0 .• cn - zar oc OW ksD ; cis 5 bad a few question: relative to the large ❑t, had been lost. ( ound that in Manchester alt 16 shares held by different cla ni would be upwards of E 410,000 .s very ft put to the of money ,king over .here were of the original dee The meet attended by shareholders from different parts of the country. JOHN SPENCER, Esq., one of the directors, was called to the chair, and near him sat the following directors :—M r. Smith, manager, Mr. Birt, Mr. J. C. Dyer, Mr. John Pot ter, Mr. 011ivant, Mr. Haynes, and Mr. Wm. Hill: and Mr. Richard Roberts was also present in the body of the room. oMITIi, We managing uirector, at tne request of the Chairman, read the advertisement by which the meeting was convened as above, and also the 74th clause in the deed of settlement as follows, which provides for the dissolution of. the company under the circumstances therein stated : " If at any time the losses of the company shall have ex hausted all the fund called the surplus fund, and also one fourth part of the capital of the company, which shall have been actually paid by the shareholders, without regard to the amount of the subscribed capital, then the directors for the time being, shall, with all convenient speed, call a spe cial general meeting of the proprietors of the company, and shall submit to such meeting a full and general statement of the affairs and concerns of the company ; and, if required at such meeting, verify and establish such statement by the production of the books, documents, and vouchers of the company ; and it shall be thereupon lawful for any one pro prietor, personally present at such meeting, in writing, then and there to require that the company be dissolved ; and, thereupon, this company shall stand dissolved accordingly, unless two-third parts in number and_ value of the proprie- tors present a' uch mecti g, and qua, [ified to vote said;shall be desirous of continuing and carrying on the said concern, shall then and there, in writing, undertake so to do, and to purchase the shares of the dissentient proprietors, present at such meeting, at the then value thereof, and to indemnify the dissentient proprietors against all future losses of the company, and from the existing debts and en gagements thereof; such value and the nature of such in demnity to be ascertained, in case of difference, by reference to arbitration, as aforesaid; and also to release the said dis sentient proprietors, present at such meeting, from their covenants and undertakings in and under these presents, and any supplementary deed of settlement; and on such un dertaking being given, the dissolution of the company shall be suspended for the space of sixty days next after such meeting ; and if, within that time, the purchase of the shares of the dissentient proprietors shall be completed in manner hereinafter expressed, then such dissolution shall not take place ; and the act whereby any proprietor shall in manner aforesaid have required the dissolution of the said company, shall be considered as avoided and released, ab i;zitio; and the purchase of the said last-mentioned shares shall be considered as completed for the purposes of this provision, whenever the said proprietors, proposing to conti nue the company as aforesaid, shall, by writing, have given notice to the dissentient proprietors that they are prepared to pay the purchase money for the said shares, on'applica tion by the parties entitled thereto for the same, at the banking-house of the company in Manchester, and shall, in accordance therewith, have actually paid the same to the parties applying for their money ; or, in case of difference as to the amount of such purchase money, shall have offered to refer the question of such amount to arbitration as aforesaid ; and have proceeded in such arbitration, and have complied with the award made therein ; or have been prevented so doing by the neglect or default of the other party ; and no thing herein contained shall extend to release such dissen tient proprietors as aforesaid, from bearing their respective proportions of the losses of the company up to the day of such general meeting as aforesaid; and their shares of losses may be deducted out of the money payable to them respec tively ; and the company, as reduced or newly constituted, from time to time, shall be liable to dissolution or to conti nuance, from time to time, in like manner, and under and subject to the same or the like regulations as aforesaid." The CHAIRMAN said that Mr. Smith had prepared a report of the present state of the bank, bringing its condi tion down to Thursday last. The former report brought the account down only to the end of June last; this embraced a period of four subsequent months. Mr. SMITH then proceeded to read the report. The report rear', at the late meeting on the 15th of October, and which appeared in the following publication of the Standard, brought the financial position of the bank down to June last, the losses then being £800,887. 18s. 9d. ; and the present report, as the Chairman stated, was in continuation. After recapitulating that report, the document proceeded: " The directors have only further to report, that the arrangements then alluded to for paying off the liabilities of the bank have hitherto been carried out without interruption; and they have no reason to doubt that their views on this head will be fully realized. They beg to acknowledge the promptitude with which a large portion of the heaviest share holders have anticipated the payment of the call of £2. per share. The following is a statement of the direct liabilities of the company, made up to the 27th ult. : `c - ,1 '‘4 ?LE. F: r, 2 ,"Eg ` -e }8.:74 - • 5 a 0 • the money of the bank for his own private use and that of hi: family. (Cheers.) He hoped, now that these charges were distinctly made, that the chairman would call upon Mr. Ro to stand up and d [VII% MILLING the directors the highly of—and the meeting would no til every statement in the accounts now them had been patiently investigated ; and that, if necessary an adjournment should take place to afford sufficient tit The shareholders surely were not to be hurried into m sures for a dissolution, by vvhorasoev forward ; and he trusted the meetin necessity for reserving to them act which st They st closely )n. (( • they might be broul would see the absol ves the power which th 'ery careful not to do al Control which th, ring tory (Cheers.) which justly attached ,11, the asylum STUBI bers of the b i t it was too the share list lie no less than 41,, the loss to who of their payment of the calls. There were no fewer than 58 lady proprietors among the shareholders—(hear); and it was absolutely necessary that they should know where all this money had gone.—(Hear, hear.) It was most disgraceful that such a sum of money should have been lost by parties who called themselves gentlemen (hear): they ought to make themselves liable for it, and if they did not their charac ters would be gone.—(Hear, hear.) His own opinion was, that every director was bound to sell every stock and stone to pay the liabilities of the bank. It was a shame that the shareholders should be swindled out of their property in the way they had. (Cheers.) He wanted to ask, first, what had the bank lost by Messrs..l. H. Heron and Sons.—(Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN replied that the property which had come into the possession of the bank from that estate was in such a state as to make it impossible to answer the question. Mr. STUBBS said, that was just the answer he expected. His next question was, how much the bank had lost by Raleigh and Co. ? (Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN, in reply, said, that considering tha security which the bank held, and the affairs of that estate, it was quite impossible to answer that question with any degree of accuracy. (Hear.) Mr. STUBBS had another question which he wanted answering. It was this :—What would the bank lose by Burdekin? (Hear, hear.) He saw by the list, that Burdekin was the holder of 1,400 shares. Were those shares his own property, or did they belong to the bank ? The CHAIRMAN.—He is the holder of the shares, and he is indebted to the bank besides. The defalcation which has accrued through his abiconding will be met, and more than met, as far as we can gather, by the gentlemen who are bound with him as security. Mr. STUBBS.—I9 he gone away with the cognizance of the directors ? • The CHAIRMAN.—He is not gone away with my cogni zance, and I cannot for a moment imagine he is gone away with the cognizance of any other director. _ _ Mr. STUBBS. — He is a scape-goat for somebody. • The CitAißmAN.—The whole idea is so entirely absurd that I cannot conceive how it can be entertained. This is my answer, and I have no doubt my colleagues will answer in the same way. Mr. STUBS.-Will you tell me whether arrangements have been made between the bank and the celebrated Mr. Richard Roberts ? (Cheers.) The CuasztAlsr=There have not. Mr. STunns.—Why is he not in the Gazelle? (Cheers.) A SHAREHOLDER. — How much does he owe to the bank? The CHAIRMAN. — Perhaps Mr. Smith will answer you that question at the proper time. Another SHAREHOLDER suggested that as Mr. Roberts was present he should be heard in the first instance. (Hear.) Mr. LowE thought the meeting ought to know first what he was indebted to the bank. Mr. STUBBS said, it was very evident he should not get an answer to his question. He should, therefore, before the meeting separated, submit a motion concerning the conduct of the directors. (Cheers.) Mr. GREIG said, there was no motion at present before the meeting, but he thought the step he was about to take would probably be the means of bringing one forward. He had endeavoured at the last meeting to bring the steel of investi gation into sudden collision with the flint of fraudulent de linquency, and thereby to elicit such a spark as would lighten the tortuous windings of the deep abyss into which the baseness of a certain individual had plunged the bank. The individual to whom he alluded was now present; and he (Mr. Greig) trusted the chairman would see the necessity of allowing the suggestion for dissolving the company to remain, in abeyance till that person came forward to give an explana tion, which the shareholders were entitled to receive, and which they must receive before entertaining such a question. (Hear, bear, and cheers.) He (Mr. Greig) had, however, brought some distinct charges against that person, which he would repeat in his presence, and to which he expected true and faithful answers would be returned. He was aware that an attempt might be made to throw all the blame upon the unfortunate man who had absconded; but bad and worthless as he believed that man to have been, still he must himself have been unable to carry on so successfully such a compli cated scheme of villany as that which this bank exhibited. He (Mr. Greig) n ow charged Richard R o bert s o f p ecu li ar notoriety (hear) with having abused the trust and the con fidence reposed in him as a director of this bank by the share holders. (Cheers.) Secondly, he charged him with having abused the trust and confidence reposed in him by the di rectors as one of the Committee of Management. (Cheers.) Thirdly, he charged him with having given entirely false re ports to deceive the shareholders and the public. (Cheers.) And fourthly, he charged him with fraudulently obtaining Mr. G nounced his i explanation, beca in which he criminated of 3 along Wit' •Who do von a Mr. UREIG said he meant Mr. Lich person was not heard, he (Mr. Greig) a distinct motion against the dissolution The CliAmmANexplained tha was to ascertain would propose the dissolution of the cc Mr. GREI SO remarkably foolish should consider such a man f s to pr Mr. CURTIS said there were three pa in this unfortunate concern might be call to have acted, and th 1 to the❑ tors were also to blame mittee, by whom V grossly, shamefully, managed—in fact, he could not th words to express adequately the opinion he had of their con duct. (Hear, hear.) But still the shareholders were not free from blame. He was not going to palliate the conduc of the directors ; but as just and honourable men, the share holders should take their proper share of blame for -- • ts of the concern had bee not seei nts annually or the concern conducted properly. seated to them by the directors had not been ft cordance with the deed of settlement ; and the had been content to receive them, ed a )areholde to see whether they were in accordance, provi,.._ good dividend. The directors were also themselves much t blame for not seeing the deed of settlement carried out in t 1 outset. (Hear, hear, hear.) He understood that, early part of the history of the bank, one of the director bad stated that in the first report or two no estimate made of the probable amount of loss which might from the then current accounts. Not having be come a shareholder himself till 1836, and not having th' reports in his possession, he could not say whether such vr the case ; but in the reports which he had, since 1836 such mention was made except Curtis then went through the rei 1839, and 1840, with a view of pros report of 1836 stated that the dirt vided for all bad debts and the e bank, were enabled to set led there wa accrue direct( nod had apv ts of 1 tain whether that report was true or not. know the instructions given to the parti, in ti 1837,1 E fter havir ear profits ergies to Let the r balance sheet ; because if the bad debts bad been accri since before June, 1836, then their fair share of blame r be appropriated to the dir Ts, and not exclusiv Committee of Management which more recently had engaged in the management of the bank ; but, upon t other hand, if that report were correct, the managing dire tors, since that period, must I the parties wilfully to waste and charged with havin the money of tl shareholders,—(Hear, .h ) In the report for 183 not appear that the directors had! the existing liabilities of the bank , and 1839, no allusion was made to the subject holders having had their attention called to the subject of the liabilities in the report of 1837, and taken no steps, were, to a certain extent, to blame. There was in the report for 1840 a statement, which, if the facts could be provd, would exoderate the directors previous to 1837, and throw the blame at once upon the Managing Committee since 1837. This statement was to the effect, that the entire amount of the bad debts before 1837—and those. since had been deducted from the reserved surplus fund—which left that fund at £36,642 9s. 10d., which was " an ample guarantee against existing risks and liabilities." The first duty of the meeting was to enquire whether this statement was correct, and by whom it had been prepared. Was it true or was it false ? The CHAIRMAN, in answer, had no hesitation in saying, that all the reports submitted to the directors previous to the annual meetings, were prepared by the managing direc tors ; and of course, the one referred to was prepared by them. (Hear.) Mr. CURTIS.—But of course those reports were made und or instructions given by the general body of directors? Mr. CIIAPPELL.—NO, no. (Hear) _ _ _ Mr. CURTIS would then ask what the duties of the direc tors were ? He called for the resolution of the general board to be read appointing the managing committee, and the instructions given to them. The CHAIRMAN said the books should be sent for. The duties of the directors were laid down i❑ the deed of settle ment ; and they vested i❑ the committee of managers certain powers, which were there specified Mr. CURTIS said he should likewise w; structions given to the auditors. The CHAIRMAN said there were no partict auditors ish to fourth of the capital w Ties of " of Mr. CURTIS that fact, when only whole of it was lost shareholders that the can affairs of this company snould he believed, had not, when they were appointed, selves acquainted with their duties ; and he asked tl man whether, when he was appointed, - he had taken trouble to read the deed of settlement ? The CFIAIRMAN replied that he had endeavoured most conscientiously to understand it. Mr. CURTIS.—Then has it not occurred to you that the balance sheets, containing no estimate of probable loss upon Of The plisnian be investigated Chair- current accounts, were not settlement ? The CHAIRMAN said, he did not know that that particular clause had occurred to him; and it was not surprising that it had escaped his attention, when it had escaped the atten tion of the other directors. Mr. J. C. DYER said, that at the last annual meeting, in answer to the same question from Mr. Sanders, he had him self replied that it was a matter which had all along been overlooked. (Hear, hear.) The omission did not then seem a matter of blame, as was evinced by the fact that the directors bad received the thanks of the shareholders at that meeting. (Oh, oh.) He laid no stress upon that circum stance. - __ • . . _ Mr. W ILSON thought that Mr. Curtis should confine him self to the present delinquencies. Mr. CURTIS said, in conclusion, he considered the share holders were to a'certain extent to blame for what had hap- pened. (Cries of " No, no.") Mr. GREIG contended that the blame rested not with the shareholders, but with certain designing directors, who had misled them. The books would shew who had proposed and seconded the expulsion of Mr. Wood ; and who had proposed and seconded the resolution, which was synonymous to ex pelling Mr. 011ivant. As soon as he had heard the. written defence of Mr. Roberts, which bad been prepared by a so licitor of Manchester, he should be prepared to bring charges, not only against that person, but against others, now present, which charges he would substantiate. (Loud calls for Mr. Roberts.) Mr. CHAPPELL explained t exacted from all the officers of t so, which he signed. After he cams management did not appear to him and to some of leagues likely to be profitable, and he proposed an alteration — Mr. Luwis.—At what period? Mr. CHAPPELL.—From 1836 to 1837. A discussion toot place upon it, but no charge was made because they had con fidence in the managing directors. No director who was not a managing director could know the exact state of the bank ; he could see no account whatever but his own. . Mr. SANDERS said that imputation and blame had been cast upon the proprietors for not having searched into these matters ; but it would be recollected that at the meeting last year he himself took a prominent part in doing so, being satisfied, from what he had heard, that the losses the bank had sustained must have been much greater than the directors stated. He pressed for a committee of enquiry ; but it met with the most decided opposition on the part of the directors, who said they must either have the whole confidence of the shareholders or none whatever. The statements on that oc casion of Mr. Chapple had great weight with him. He (Mr. Sanders) was sneered at when he hinted that the bad debts might be £200,000 ; but the event proved that the amount was infinitely greater. Mr. CHAPPELL said he was ,guided by the statements of the other directors, in whoth he had implicit confidence. How could he do otherwise than place confidence in such names as the following l —John Browne. Evan Evans, W. Birt, E. Burdekin—(oh, oh)--Richard Roberts—(oh, oh)- - Cooke, Ray, and J.. 8.. Smith? (Hear.) In these names he had implicit confidence ; and if he could have spared more money from his business, he should have hi vested it in the bank. He had sold out of several concerns for the sole purpoSe of placing the, money in the bank, and that would show his confidence in the integrity, honour, and ability of those gentlemen. (Cheers.) Mr. SANDERS said, then the directors were highly culpable in making statements upon their own responsibility which they did not know to be true from actual investigation. They had thereby lulled suspicion at a time when such a great disaster as had befallen them might have been pre vented probably. The proprietors; therefore, otizht not to be accused of being backward in examining. iss regarded the account of Richard Roberts, he (Mr. Sanders) had sufficient data to prove that it had been increased consider ably since the last annual meeting—a circumstance which would have been prevented if the committee had been ap pointed, for which he (Mr. S.) had moved. He lied some remarks to make relative to Richard Roberts ; but as that person was present he would reserve them. Mr. SAMUEL WALKER moved, and Mr. CURTIS seconded the resolution—that Mr. Richard Roberts be requested to enter upon his explanation - forthwith. This resolution was carried unanimously, amidst cheers and some exhibition of feeling which the Chairman repressed. Mr. RICHARD ROBERTS then came forward and delivered a written address of very great length, which he refused to furnish to the press. It would occupy, if given at length, nearly three columns of the Standard. It commenced with an acknowledgment of the importance of this matter to his character—that upon the way in which he came out Of the ordeal depended whether his character was gone and he be came a burden to himself, or whether he remained an honest but an unfortunate man. There were four distinct and seperate charges made against him, and he should state them in their broadest outline. Thefirst was, that the managing director pre pared and laid before the board of directors a statement of the af fairs of the Bank ou the 30th June, 1841, which was presented to the annual meeting in October, as a true fair account of the condition of the Bank, knowing at the same time it was false, and therefore a deceit and wilful imposition, first upon the credulity and confidence of the directors, and secondly, upon the credulity and confidence of the shareholders. The second charge was that at a preliminary meeting of the shareholders, held at the Clarence Hotel, on the Ist of October anonymous ly convened by Mr. S. H. Norris he had made'thc same statements, knowing them to be false. The third charge was, that he was indebted to the bank a very large sum, that he had made use of his station as Managing Di rector, to employ to his own benefit very large sums which but for that circumstance he could not have had, and he thereby become a plunderer of the funds of the bank. The fourth charge was that he was one of those directors to whom Mr. Walker com municated his opinion of the character and conduct of the late manager (Burdekin), and that he took no steps to dis place him. Besides these four charges there was one other, rather incidental than direct, which was, that he had made statements with regard to the prosperity and condition of the bank calculated to inspire confidence in the value of the stock, knowing at the same time that such statements were not true. Mr. Roberts then proceeded to deal with these charges, contending, in general terms, that he was not liable to the imputation of wilful fraud or negligence, but only to errors of judgment ; and that his best energies bad been devoted to the promotion of the prosperity of t bank. A document of such great length, and of con siderable intricacy, and of which we have been refused f course v ,ot pretend to give ev r, of Livery nated as a maniac. M. J. C. DYER, in relation to some express Roberts explanation, said that he and the other di )LLIVANT narrated ti anve in t pt going cc matter nine anaging conamittce d from Heron, and 876 15 IR4I. t e 31st D, which they ier, 1841, it was :I for the account of 'A lichard e from him to the 40 heaV -- , hear) ; on 8,822 ; in December, 1811, it was £174,f Etobert LLIVAN the 30t and in May, 1842, £72 Mr. Ch Mr. Dyer Mr. Evan Mr. M`Laren 4r. 011ivan t John Potte 4r. Prir irectors out e of Xlmn ;nt, fr( 3RRIS C I that it would ave had an efficient d ) per annum itnination, to, ving been er ,ged five hours y three mond- WIGAN BOROUGH SESSIO Wigan er prese quarter on Monday, (yes ants of inquest, held he honour to appear'on n, to object to the payment :r's account, being the fee vho had died by the visitat f God. r held t The objection wa: not being of hii office to hold oue; inasmuch natural death. Mr. Cartwright had Ise of tl ienly, a for be v hich was most ,d his death did actually was found dead in bed. 7twright had expressed himself h ; but it was ayery common have interf filleted to feel so: That the ' nnknow•ingly was quite do, until the at even wait as be ou flicers g bum intormation, or some persons residing in the immediate neighbourhood where the death occurred. He was not prepared to say, the coroner should not interfere iu any case, as he might perhaps see a death where an inquest would be called for ; but, it was not his duty generally to go and search out the cause of death, and where . a violent or ctdden death occurred, the peace officers of the place would e most likely to receive information of the fact ; and sup osing the coroner did make an ex-officio inquiry, he ought ) act with the greatest discretion, and make every inquiry rom neighbours, and to be very cautious in thrusting him elf into the family of the deceased. The learned gentleman hen read an extract from Jervis. on the office and duty of ay Dr. other that the cleatl ,ed any da constable, that there right's tie ,so told, that he would no :es for the inques d in holding the After ;some ,letn - an read extracts .rid Lord Ellenborough's opinion, that visitation of God, , where a party dies by the ow apoplexy and the like; nor in any I very doubtful one, unnecessarily to obtrude themselves into priv families, for the purpose of instituting in general, wait until they are sent foi by the r lace, whe n inquest of Kent, - Lord Eilenborough There were many instances of coroners having t in the most vexatious and op- !Ives into private fami- ,nd discomfort, without any g dieci otherw ,han a natural Evidence was then go deceased died from natural causes, and that the coroner had notice from the chief constable, supported by the opinion of the medical man, that there was no neces sity to hold an inquest: Mr. Rogerson (the coroner) then contended that having made every inquiry about the case, he considered it necessary to hold an inquest, in compliance with the advice of his legal friend (Mr. Greenough), who assured him that he would be acting illegally if he refused to hold the inquest, as an in quest was held on his (Mr. Greenough's) father, although he died in his own arms, and not found dead in bed. Other instances were adduced of parties dying after a few days' ill ness, and in the presence of their families, whilst their nto to shew that t the room. Knowing also that he bight, as late as enjoyi vlou d also house, 1 he had been ger: of Mess Taylor's factory, ► him for more than two ,nt to bed well, and was found his duty to issue his precept. a told that the deceased had to prove intrudio! g reatest .Airs. C. offering to take her de e (and when the jury viewed the family, he had acted with the body read it to them) to save her the annoyance of going ire them in the usual v Witnesses were then calle'd to establish the statements of The Recorder, having consulted different authorities, and putting several questions to Mr. James, observed, that such was the law, bad and unsatisfactory as it was ; and be sitting to decide according to law, was bound to administer it as he found it, however much he might disapprove of it and wish it changed. The coroner could not hereafter, then, bold any Inquest upon ti because the death bad been a sudden one, and )n of the police, who ought to be more ant in enquiring into the different cases coming under r, therefore, was not entitled to the fee for the :ssor Whewell, lay elected Vic EVENING, —The Rev. r of Trinity College, was —calor of the University. slight reduction was made in the price of butchers' meat Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Saturday last, the prime joints of f being sold at and of mutton at sid. per lb. It is understood that the Proprietors of the Clarence Rail way have promptly and readily responded to the call made upon them for the amount necessary to free the undertaking from the proceedings of the Exchequer Loan Commissioners ; and that within a few days possession will be restored to the Company. The eight smugglers, David Berry, William Bowles, Fran cis Cockerell, John Clark, 'William More, William Francis, William Bolter, and William Cakebread, captured by her Majesty's revenue cutter Vigilant, on Sunday, the 3th ult., off the North Foreland, in the smack Warwick, of London, with a valuable cargo of East India cheroots, contained in 09 cases, were, on Thursday, taken before the magistrates at Dover, and convicted for the breach of the revenue laws, and sentenced, to hard labour for six months. The smugglers' gain, and corresponding loss to the Exchequer, if this voyage ►ad been successful, would have been upwards of £1,200. Txin RECENT SCAN. MAG.—Mapy persons' attention has been, probably, drawn to certain most malignant aad injuri ous aspersions, which have been circulated with more or less explicitness, upon the character of a lady of high rank and the conduct of a younger member of the royal family. We have ourselves scrupulously abstained from mentioning them, in the full belief that they were—what they have turned out to be—simply false and scandalous. Nor should we now have noticed them, except to state that we are authorised, on the very highest authority, to gives these calumnies the ful lest and most peremptory contradiction which language ad mits of.—Times. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—S Lm, the Lord Chancellor, and Eno: IL Pccl, Sir J. Gra )f the other . , cabinet ministers left town on Wednesday, at a quarter before two o'clock, in a special train, by the Great Western Railway, to attend the Privy Council to be held at Windsor at half-past two o'clock. At the council a proclamation was agreed upon for further proroguing parliament from the 10th inst., to some lie of December. There will be a further t present arranged, the legislature will despatch of business until the usual _atter end of January or beginning of is no intention of meeting before Christ- , and, as .0 RESCUE eRISONERS FROM WINDSOR GAOL.—On Monday a most daring and bare faded attempt was made to release two Prisoners then con fined in Windsor gaol, who had been sentenced at the last quarter sessions for the borough to transportation—the one for ten the other for seven years. The attempt at rescue by their confederates had so nearly succeeded that the fellows outside bad ascended as far as the windows of the cell (on the first floor) in which they were confined. The gang out side, consisting of five, were, however, fortu n at e ly s een by a person passing at the. time (between five and six o'clock in the evening,) who immediately gave the alarm to Mr. Simms, the gaoler, by whom the attempt was frustrated, but the gang managed to get off. It is known that• these fellows were part of a most determined gang of theises from Ux bridge, and who are conn ected w ith one of the convicts. The prisoners, it appears, were fully aware of the intended attempt to liberate them. They had been heard talking to themselves by a man in the same cell, who they supposed to be asleep, observing, " There is but one fellow here, and if be is not quiet, we'll soon settle him." The two convicts have been since removed to the hulks at Woolwich directors with frau ;000 pai 560 10 6 799 11 0 18 0 0 91 0 0 214 0 0 54 0 0 308 12 0 116 0 0 81 0 0 108 10 0 126 10 0 80 0 0 7 10 0 5 0 0 ) 0 6 ) 0 0 been cheape rector at a ich there waa a If-put five id a half,) io wise t taking me, ha CORRPSPONDENCR. HEAR THE CHURCH ree of or not Dr. Hook was " the original inventor of he text ' Hear the Church' in its isolated form," affects in ^barge I advanced against him and Mr. Sherlock, - Antable license with Scripture, in represent og these words to convey an express Scriptural command . his I substantiated by a simple analysis of the passage ; and this exclusively my letter was confined. Now, your cor ent " Ciericus." writing avowedly " in answer to" strangely overlooked this altogether. Church autho s the subject Of .eply, whereas my letter is one o. nd protest against what I proved f the Word of God. In this, Dr. m another. as Mr. Sherlock also hing the point of my argument, or weal y remarks: for Dr. Hook is certain] to in my former letter, a 'zicripture reference to words which, as used by him, do not occur in the Book of God. Having expressed no opinion before on the subject of church authority, I. do not feel called upon to express one now, or to notice the passages cited by `• Clericus," farther than to thank him for that from the " Confession of Hooper„Coverdale,&e., Sc., which supports to the utmost my expo coroner had itnpro called on by virtu pplying it correctly as an heal Clericu crch, let him be to th i" will pardon me, 1 trust, for remart that, in the present controversy about churci he current of which is deepening and its charac. ter bec (as M. it is unable t more sifting every ( Is it) which insists upon conclusions, while 'o refer to the proofs; nor will the case be much abitual knowle ,ocke cal to multiply passages, either iestion at issue, else, like Mrs. uments, that lend as much support to the cause of his opponent as to his own. :vent to the iVlalaprop's pol [We wish all a I am, sir, yours, &c., to their text" like "A. M." It would avoid much trouble, and be fa more likely to have a convincing tendency.—En.] —._.......,,e,...___ - ) THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD SlR,—Will some of your numerous readers oblige me with an answer to the followin g question :—Suppose I buy 100 bars of gold, at the rate of 2 for £lOOO, 100 ditto, at the rate of 3 for £1000; and sell 200 bars at 5 for £2OOO. Shall I gain or lose by the transaction, and why ? Yours respectful! 1812 ARITIIINIETIC'US WHAT IS THE CHURCH? TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD respondents, who are now so frequently leakir g use of the term—" The Church,"—what is the Churcli? I more especially ask " Mr. Sherlock," " A. M.," and " Clericus." Bishops, priests, and deacons, clergy, and laity, all make use of the term, and yet their writings, speeches, &c., evidently imply that many of them differ materially in the sense they attach to it. " Our Mother, the Church ; " " Hear the Church ; " " The Church ; " " Our Holy Mother," &c. &c., are terms in frequent use, and seem to vary in application and meaning according to the writers and speakers using them, so that I, and many other Christia n m e n w h o are no t much skilled in learning are really puzzled to know—what the Church is. Therefore, Mr. Editor, I beg to ask your correspondents— what is the Church? I want a Scriptural definition of the a Scriptural proof of such definitioni any other, of course, could not satisfy. " Clericus " seems to be a learned man; also "A. M,;" and "Mr. Sherlock" has evidently read a good deal ; I hope that one of them at least will kindly give himself the trouble to answer my question. I think, also, that by having this question clearly defined a great deal of misapprehension would be got rid of amongst opposing parties.—l am, &c., question, A CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHRISTIAN November 7, 1842. The Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Inverness have arrived at Auckland Castle, on a visit to the Bishop of Dur ham, after having spent a week with Earl Gray at Howick. Prime welder mutton is now selling in Bishop-"Wearmouth at 44d. per lb. ; and on Saturday last, in the market of Sun derland, an_inferior, but wholesome kind, was selling as low as 3d. and There has not been a marriage or funeral in the populous town of Darlington for upwards of a fortnight : such an oc currence has .not taken place for the last fifteen years. I n October, 1811, there were thirty-nine funerals, and in the last:month only five. Lord Morpeth has arrived at Castle Howard, where it is ex pected he will spend the christmas with his relatives the Earl and Countess of Carlisle. It is stated that the Noble Lord is preparing for publication an account of his recent tour in America and Canada. The Marquis of Waterford has about 40,000 acres of land in the county of Derry, on which there are about 800 tenants., but until this season there had not been anything done by them in the way of draining their land on any regular system. By advice and encouragement, however, held out to them by Mr. Beresford, agent to the Marquis, upwards of sixty of the tenants have been and are thorough draining on Mr. Smith, of Deanston's system, and have already completed upwards of 16,000 perches of drains, tilled with broken stones. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE : AN OFFICER DESERTING.-- Captain Archibald Douglas, 49th Native Infantry, was, on Monday, brought up at iVlarlborough-street, attended by his friends and professional advisers, charged with being a de serter from the service of the lion. East India Company. He was remanded till Friday, to procure the attendance of the captain of the ship in which he sailed to England and to supply other evidence. The proceedings on the part of the East India Company against Captain Douglas, for alleged desertion, were resumed on Friday. The captain was com mitted to prison upon the evidence, which will be sent to the Secretary at War, to decide en the committal by the magistrate. SINGULAR. PLEDGE.—We have just heard the following . story, but cannot vouch for its truth. A young woman wen into a pawnbroker's establishment, not many miles frotcv Kilmarnock, the other day, with a basket containing a quan tity of china, which she wished to pledge with " mine uncle" for two pounds. After examining the contests of the basket, he gravely stated he could only advance the half of that sum. In reply to his statement she said she was a servant, and that the articles were the property of her mistress, whom she would require to consult before taking the money. She therefore left the office for that purpose, and in a short time returned with the basket, saying that her mistress would take what was offered. " Mine uncle " again glanced into the depository of the precious ware, and saw that it appa rently contained the same goods that he formerly examined. The cash was then paid to the woman, who immediately left the house, and the case was then carefully set aside. In a short time afterwards a feeble cry was heard by the broker issuing from the basket, which he again examined, and in which, to his utter astonishment, he found a fine child care fully wrapt up in flannel, and over which a slight covering of china had been ingeniously placed for the purpose of decep tion. The pawnbroker, it is said, applied to the authorities for a nurse to the little pledge, but was told that, like other pledges, he was bound to keep it for twelve months, and, if not redeemed at the end of that time, to bring it to the ham mer, like other pawned property !—Ayr Observer. NEW ZEALANDERS, THEIR STATE AND PROSPECTS. — There is a striking peculiarity in the character of the New Zealanders which is very encouraging to the hope of their ultimate civilization—namely, the eagerness they have shown to visit foreign countries, and to see with their own eyes whatever might gratify curiosity, or prove subservient to usefulness. Even in the days of Cook this spirit of research displayed itself ; and every one is aware of the difficulties which in more recent times have been overcome by these en terprising islanders in seeking an acquaintance with distant lands. Mr. Marsden remarks, "My opinion is , that if half the New Zealanders were to die in the attempt to force themselves into civil life, the other half would not be de terred from making a similar effort; so desirous do they seem to attain our advantages." It is well known, too, that they - are proud to array themselves in the dress of Euro peans, and endeavour, as far as they can, to imitate their manners, and even their modes of talking and thinking. The natives, so lately separated from the cultivated portion cf their species, not more by their geographical position than by the deep barbarism in which they wsre involved, are naw brought into the light of knowleatre and religion, n 1 ai e no longer ignorant that there are other pursuits than those oZ war, and other enjoyments than those of revenge. Christi anity, which is in every sense of the word the religion of civilization, has gone forth among them attended by litera ture and t he arts, and it is not possible that she should not eventually triumph over all the ignorance, prejudice, and ferocity with which she has here to contend. Such is the mild sway which her sublime faith is exercising over their minds, that it can hardly fail to restrain their destructive animosities, and aboli6h their sanguinary superstitions. Perhaps no feeling less ardent than a sense of religious duty could have supported the labourers in such a cause, sur rounded by the difficulties and discouizqements which met them at almost every step. But their task has gradually be t ome easier and more cheering ; while few gratifications can be equal to those which they must enjoy, when they con template, as the fruit of their efforts under a benignant Providence, a general amendment of manners and a great increase of comfort among the savage people whom they had undertaken to instruct. —Edinburgh Cabinet L i b ra ry, No. XXVIII. Polynesia. erixsabmaisn just t n b p o e f n th b e p e la ro at - s c t a er of Public I ns t ruc ti on , TRIAL o G r U di l ea S rn T go S Fat languages m p i u ni b n l ip i f t e b s e s o s r o s r o b of u t n h e e , living b y with a view to the granting a collegiate brevet to tuose most distinguished by acquirements and capacity. German, Span ish, Italian, and English candidates were exam i ne d, but to our readers the conenrsus of the last- ment i one d professors is only likely to be of interest. The commissioners appointed to decide on the comparative merits of the claimants were Messrs. Philaretz, Chiles (president), Eichoff, and Ozanam, who appear to have discharged their delicate trust with learr ••• l u g, judgment, and urbanity. The number who presented themselves for examination the first day was 45, but of these 10 speedily evacuated the field. The ordeal was severe, the t est comprehending an oral explanation of portions of the w orks of English auth ors o f the highest class ; a discussion on the comparative merit s o f t h ese wr i ters, b etween t h e c andidates, ,ot:ei one explainin g m certain abstruse or doubtful passages , 1 objecting and explaining in his turn. some remarkable e was animated and interesting, and 1 displays of readiness and erudition, and also Co a ta f w e ca w i s - argumentation takes productive of much amusement. t d A tlo s li a s u ar ' e n s am n o c na ' tti . e . liay state that one gentleman rejected), translating from Shakspea.re n ' a reading which claims are of Co l l o _ (whose you, Sir," rendered it by " Sauve.77 hilarity on the part Of lauus, where he salutes the citizen i vott A s n: e t_in p ni, with " Save he stoutly defended, amid much auditors. Another ordeal, I the severest of all, was Lich perhaps the assembly, without the to be delivered instanter to subject being draw , n b an extemporaneous lecture of half an hour's duration, y chance slightest preparation, the The questions propounded may be j u dged ofby one, which was" A pa rallelthos French and English syntax, their analagies and from an urn which was placed on the table. view of diff er ences." This fell to the lot of a Mr. Dowling, one of the successful candidates , who s h owed in its treatment singu lar aptitude, powers of elucidation, and knowledge of the sub ject. Of the number of applicants, 16 only were admitted for the honour of the brevet ; and on the whole, this COmpe titicin, though not without instances of ignorance and inca pacity, has been the means of exhibiting deep erudition and diversified and brilliant talent on the part of several of the body. .The pro fessors in the highest degree creditable to that successful candidates are—MM. Watson, librarian of the city of Orleans, and professor at the Royal College; Chur chill, professor at the College Henri IV. ; B. La r oche ; Davist ; Booth ; Dowling, professor at the College Stanis baus ; Dubarle, Dronel, Nicolar, Lerambert, Martin, Wil kinson, Aubin, Canterel, Veyssier Descombes, and Resee- Belle Isle. It has been remarked as extraordinary, that only two of the English professors belonging to the Paris colleges should have presented themselves for examination. Both these gentlemen honourably distinguished themselves. Galignant's Messenger. i of the passage under review ; quoting, Id without mutilation, " 7f he will