The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-14 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION. Standard.office, Three o'clock LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,-THIS DAN (From Messrs. R. MAKIN & SONS' Circular) or the week ensuing upon foreign on Rye to 6s. 63 n Flour to 14s. 101 per on Beans and Pease rrel,—remaining harp frost, and a fall 11 British grain continue li- ctent ; those of Oatmeal from Ireland, by steamers, but of Flour thence very trifling; from abroad report several cargoes of Wheat, chiefly Mediter -1 1400 qrs. Barley from Copenhagen, besides 2400 is; India, and 3500 barrels United States Flour. impulse from any of the leading mar o assist the proceedings here, little more transactions has occurred with us in a portan Corn Trade, tither free or in bond, from Tuesday's market until to-day, —although during imcorter• of Mediterranean Wheats have been to arrive, on somewhat easier at our Corn -exchange to- being rather inactive, the trans- rs were upon a very moderate y-paid foreign, however all good and fine qualities were held firmness, at the rates of Tuesday, th• of English, Irish, and foreign being he turn cheaper under lock, a few hundred quarters of Barletta, ave been sold at 7s. 4d. per 701b5., and 1000 to be delivered in bond on arrival, at English, Irish, and Foreign free Flour per quarter. if very sparingly to-day at late prices. r, Malt, and Pease, continued to meet a very diffi : on the terms last noted ; and in Beans, with the In of 1500 qrs. of Egyptian, forced off at 28s per free, ye ittle busir ss was apparent COTTON MARKET, 3 P.M en very light, and the market New Bowed plentiful, and lower than early in nds rather easier nt off without much spirit, Tered was sold at rates on a par with the week amount to 21,140 bales, of which A and 500 Surat are for speculation, and 200 ~day about 3,000 bales SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE FRIDAY, JANUARY 14. e, Rattray, from Bombay—Charles, Le Grand, res— Bolton Abbey. from Quebec—Rother, Hall, Devonia, Long, from Leghorn—Wetherall, Hall, Johanna, from Hambro'—Pauline. from Ostend— kfrica—and Dahlia, Walker, from Savannah. at Jamaica, leaky in fore foot X Jamaica ce at ditto s ilamerton, hence at St. Thomas Lawriston, Fanning; Swan. Crowell; Lima Ellen, Murphy, hence at Trinidad rice at Barbadoes rora Buenos Ayres, at the COTO from St. Domingo, ditto Odessa. ditto. On 31st Dec. in lat. 42, !aux, at Valparaiso _ ilehe, Thompson, of Liverpool, is in Stud• ge, having been in contact with the Renard atter sunk—Crew saved UNITED STATES ket-ship New York, Captain Cropper, which New 'York on the 22d ult., arrived in the Mersey r morning, having made the run in twenty days. • York press arc again busy upon the subject of is and the right of ►earch by Great Britain. This se of di-satisfaction arises out of the circumstance icsii slave ship having put into Nassau, the de ch were already published in this journal some The owners of the ship demand compensation. of the secretary to the treasury had also been pre printed. To meet the deficiency in the revenue to secretary recommends to congress to authorize n of the term of the portion of the 12,000,000 )t taken, and a re—issue of the treasury uthorised by law, amounting to 5,000,000 ,ce of the deficit in the ways and means, 10,000 dollars (a surplus deemed necessary , o meet emergencies in the public set.- - imposts upon such foreign articles " as may be selected with a a id restriction, in amount, to the actual irnment, and a proper economy in its admi x report then goes into an argument as to Bich ought to govern the adjustment of the is of the government. sited States tain accounts, from all quarters, of storms which the American coasts have been visited. oaoy places has suffered considerably. The ;enerally accompanied by thick snow. The hip Sheridan, from this port, with passen rio on Friday night, the 17th ult., ran on frw miles south of the Highlands. She off, after about 40 tons of tin and zinc . During the same storm the wk, from this port to Boston, went ashore on rton. After many ineffectual attempts, the life bt,en stowed in one of them, the crew were 'eyed to land. Preparations were making to save The Columbia royal mail steamer, which left i the 18th ult., had not reached Boston on the 21st Sim was , At sea during the hurricane, but she was overboard office, at Washington, had been entered by i three valuable articles, to the amount of The articles were, the snuff-box pre- Alexander of Russia to Mr. Harris, slued at 6,000 dollars; a pearl neck- Itnaum of Muscat to the late Presi lutA at 3,600 dollars; and a gold Viceroy of Peru to Mr. Biddle, A reward of 1,000 dollars is ied at 2,( lollars iy the Commissioner of Patents for the recovery of .es. The theft was one of the boldest kind which lagined. The time of its occurrence is known within tes, the person having charge of the room contain• rticles visiting it within that time. had been a renewal of disturbances on the Canadian and a set of scoundrels, calling themselves Ameri. fired a large number of buildings on the Canadian New York Daily Express shows that the exports of an produce to Great Britain and her colonies, in the 10, was 61,315,057 dollars. Of these, the exports to d alone amounted to 51,951,778 dollars; to Ireland, 36 dollars ; to the West Indies, 2,907,584 dollars ; and British American Colonies, six millions of dollars. ports in the same year, to all other parts of the world, 1,580,577 dollars. . actions in Exchange, for the packet, were limited. I are quoted at 9 to 94 for city, and 74 to 84 for s. The week preceding Saturday, the 18th ult., le of great anxiety in the financial markets. ~e n scarce, having been withdrawn from the to meet the paper which had for some at the banks. The pressure was not war uusiness-men, by whose engagements it ed, but was chiefly experienced in the Stock e, added to the distrust of securities, it had us to the downward tendency of prices. The iding stocks, during the week, ranged as fol , 274, 244, and 254 ; Farmers' Trust, 31, 294, 1 States Bank. 34 to 34; Harlem, 15, 16, 'art and Hudson, 994, 100, and 974; Bank 1, 85, and 83. A gradual decline was, in sry instance, and the disinclination to loan -eral as the desire to call in that already n maturing, ates' parliament continue its sittings in the at important circumstance that had occurred ns of the whig senators, or a majority of ) favourable consideration the fiscal plan of 'he tariff question had been broached, and iseusseil in the house, though on a sort of he first movement had also been glade by the bankrupt law for the repeal of that sta- that the plan submitted by the lifer in several important i by the president, and, at it s‘ri 11 not contai❑ th, in bills of exchange. Rth ult. The revenue of xas is to tli ,red and expected, is estimated at 1,195;269, or 166,666 dollars in par funds. Should a of retrenchment proposed be adopted, the . e of the Government will be reduced:to hich will give ati excess of the income over Besides, an increase in the revenue of irs is expected for the current year. TWO MANDARIN3.—When the troops landed econd in command rushed before them into )wncd himself rather than fall by our hands ; rin was seen to cut his throat, and fall before )OCTRINES.—The lay members of the lam have forwarded to the Archbishop of orial similar to that sent to his grace from the Worcester Guardian of Wednesday lent to the same purport is now in course !-It appears from a statement poster sessions, held at Warwick igh of Birmingham is indebted to Itenance of prisoners since b sessions. It is expected this amount will be made —Aria's Gazette. data ago a man, who hat g live fish, laid a bet that h( The:fish stuck in his throat it could be extracted. deputation from the county of A— A—. avo to Earl de Grey. Hi acious upon the occasion. `' What a 01. 8., " that your excellency should . . • "Because,,, looked inquiringly. --- • n (and then only) w ould your lord- —.berry Sentinel. ch has paid particular attention to Indian the Curious coincidence that Can e 24th of May, tbc 1, and that the victory of 26th of August, Grey dead." .ed on t i ,, Saver, yiace upon th These are happy omens TH IN THE STREET.-0; Thursday morn ' o ne oclock, as a respectably-attired man iiiii l e " UM, VI .1 m n-the-r -A, which is a r,Po r acters of the very worst descrip apot, suddenly to stagger and fall heavily on the L•••,..0 ht, hatimtait,e, cnd n lifeless.—Staford Paper ebt Eibtrpool klanbalb. FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1842 We received last night, by the arrival of the West India mail, advices from British Guiana, to the 3d of December. The most important information which they convey is contained in the report of a public meet ing of proprietors and representatives of estates and other property in Georgetown, on the Ist of December, for the purpose of receiving the report of a committee appointed on the 6th of November preceding, to elicit information with respect to the cost of production of the staples of the colony during the last ten months, with the view of devising measures to reduce such cost of production, if found excessive, to a fair proportion to the value of the produce. Sir Michael M'Turk was called to the chair, and W. R. Sandbach, Esq., acted as secretary. The Chairman having briefly stated the objects for which the meeting was called together, proceeded t o lay before it the result of the enquiries which had been entered upon by the committee. Returns had been received in answer to those enquiries from 62 estates, situate in every district of Demerary and Esequibo ; and from the returns it was manifest that the cost of production far exceeds the value of the article produced, leaving interest out of the question. This result the committee cannot trace to any other source than the scarcity and the high price of labour in the colony. To remedy this they propose various plans, which we can not at present enter into the examination of, or even detail; but we may state briefly that the alteration in the law of tenancy, and a reduction of the cost of pro duction by means of a continuous supply of labour, to be provided by means of an extensive system of immi gration. We regret that we can only glance at the proceedings of this important meeting in our present publication ; and shall endeavour in our next to do it the justice it deserves. The condition of affairs as described by the various proprietors is truly deplorable; and, yet bad as it is we can see in it the foundation for a better state of things, as well for the interests of the planter as for those of the whole African race, if the statements which this meeting brings in an authentic form before the public, shall only receive from the Home Govern ment the attention for which they so urgently call. We received at a late hour last night Jamaica Stan dards of 10, 11, and 13th December. During the sittings of the House of Assembly the Copper Coin Regulation Bill was rejected. The Silk Company, re cently established in the island, have applied to the House for a " loan," but the idea is scouted by the papers before us as most preposterous, and the autho rities are advised to lend their money to the agricultu rists and resident proprietors, to cultivate the staples of the country. On the 10th ult. Mr. Barclay pre sented to the House of Assembly the return from the Receiver-General, of the rum duties collected annually from the year 1835, and observed, that from the time the duties were laid at 2s. they were gradually de• creasing yearly, from the time in which the duty was only one shilling. The amount collected had decreased at the ratio of £l,OOO per annum. Another speaker stated, that although the consumption was double, and the duties were double, the revenue collected was less. No motion was founded on these statements. Whilst the House was on committee on the Imports and Ex ports' Bill, a motion was made for the remission of the Exports' Duties, but after a long debate it was nega tived. At the same sitting it was moved that a reduc tion take place of the duties on steam-engines, im proved mills, and all machinery which facilitated the improvement of agriculture. This also was negatived. The question then arose as to whether the import duty should be continued at 5 per cent. or reduced to 3 per cent., when the latter amount was eventually deter mined on. Great indignation is expressed at a paragraph in the Limerick Chronicle, about the " mortality of the West Indies," and the statement admits and receives a satis factory explanation. The island has been rather sickly for the last few months. There is an interest connected with our expedition to China which affords room for a great variety of spe culation. On the original rectitude of our position much has been said, and much might still he said, on both sides ; but so many leaves have been turned over, we have gone so many stages since any opportunity re mained to us of retracing our steps, that to go back upon that question now would answer little other purpose than that of satisfying a historical curiosity. We doubt not that Sir Robert Peel is extremely anxi ous that our differences with the celestial empire were terminated, and, so far as it depends upon his govern ,nent, that the war will not be continued unnecessarily for a single day; but with regard to those upon whose consciences it seems to weigh heavily, as a grievance, hat we should persevere, even for an hour, in what hey look upon as an original error, we must say that, in our opinion, they carry their scrupulosity a little too ! . ar. It is, we allow, anything but creditable to our -lame and nation, that British subjects should have i)nen the principal purveyors, growers, carriers, and eadors of an article ainon2, - the Chinese principally used by them for a most degrading and destructive purpose, mid that itq should have dealt ftl more• over, with a full knowledge that, by the laws of China, it was contraband and unlawful. That is a circum stance which canna he denied—one which gives us little occasion to boast, and by which we really do tip pear in no better light than that of " barbarians" — whether we laugh at those who usually favour us with the designation, or weep with those who sadly think that we deserve it. But, beyond this, we do not per ceive that there is anything in the position we have ta ken up that should occasion chagrin even to the most sensitise. The Chinese have no right to claim a pre rogative superior to the usages of civilised nations, nor to redress what they may conceive to be a griev ance, in a manner different from that which any na tion brought within the circle of ordinary relations, and, unwilling to give offence, would pursue. The Chinese method of putting an end to the opium traffic was a complete defiance of all modern, all civilised usages ; and not only injurious, but insulting, in the highest degree, to British subjects. For their pre sumptuous and contemptuous operations on this head, we not only had a right, but, as a necessary measure of self-protection, were bound to call them to ac count. We have done so ; and if the result of that appeal is to place us in a state of war with the autho rities and people of the country, there is nothing in our position which we may not strictly justify by the law of nations, however we may be grieved by the fact itself. Compensation for opium destroyed, or injuries done to British subjects, constitutes, however, but a very limited object of contemplation in connection with so vast an announcement as a war between this country and the celestial empire, with all its unknown and hardly imagined train of consequences. There is a presentiment with which few who have turned their thoughts to the subject have not been visited—that China, so long a sealed volume, is now at length about to be opened, and that, hereafter, she will not be per mitted to isolate herself, as she has hitherto done, frem the rest of the world. Nor has anything yet occurred, in the progress of our enterprise, to dissipate the de cided though still dim forecast of thought. The peo ple have had some experience of the immense superio rity of our power as a war-conducting nation ; their great city of Canton has been taken, and all but sacked, and glad were they to purchase its redemption, in the moment of extremity, upon any terms. Such outskirts of their empire as it pleased us to take pos session of, we have wrested from them with facility, and, where it answered our purpose, retained. They have had the opportunity of testing the total inefficacy of their miserable war-junks by repectedly fatal en gagements with our " fire-ships" and other naval ar maments ; their strongest forts fall quickly under our guns ; their truant troops cannot be prevailed upon to try a steady conflict with our small arms even for e moment; and yet what symptom has appeared of the obstinacy of the people being in any degree wrought upon, or of the great object of our expedition being speedily accomplished ? At Canton they have shown their disposition to violate the truce, and a feeling of uncertainty prevails among strangers whether it is to be considered as still in force or not. At Amoy they have had smother impressive lesson administered to them ; but they seem to learn everything but that chapter on " humiliation" which it is so much our wish to instil into their minds. Their ingenious ga zetteers found a sufficient handlelin our abandonment of the conquest to convert the whole transaction into a triumph on their side ! This Chinese victory is set forth in glowing terms in the Canton press ; and so marvellous, according to their account, was the over throw of the barbarians, that the concoctor of this cu riously contrived, and most veracious piece of intelli gence, attributed the fact to the immediate interposi tion of their gods, "one of whom," he says, " was seen with dishevelled hair and hare feet, holding a sword in his hand, and descendir g from heaven, lead ing a numerous host of brave soldiery. At this the souls of the barbarian troops were frightened out of their bodies, and, being set upon by the celestial corps, were unable to work their guns That Atnoy was recaptured on the 19th moon was owing, first, to the aid of the gods; second, to the assistance afforded by the soul of the venerable Chang-yeu ; and third, to the love which the governor cherished for his coun try and the people." Highly creditable, then, as the conquest of Amoy is to our arms, to the officers commanding, and the men who were engaged in the service, it would seem that we have not been able to subdue in the Fokien man darins the spirit of lying, nor in the people the taste for the highest heaven of boasting and invention. We retain a small island near the town, but Hea-mun, or Amoy itself we give up, not having troops enough at the existing juncture to hold it. The immediate fruit then of this achievement is but trifling ; it was but a mere morning visit—a passing token of respect to the Amoyites; and our expedition passes on northward, having gained little more than honour, which the ene my does not acknowledge, by the incident. For any thing we can yet perceive, the war approximates no nearer to its termination by this occurrence ; Chinese obstinacy continues as much as ever unmoved, and our complaint unsatisfied. The only addition we have made to our gains of any importance is something to our stock of acquaintance in the celestial character, manners, and customs; we do not mean to say that even this was altogether worth the cost. We learn, first, that these Chinese are no soldiers, and that if their country were not so large, and they so numerous, they might be very easily subdued ; secondly, we per ceive that they are a set of basely abject idolaters, and superstitions to the last degree, having no knowledge whatever of the only true God ; and, thirdly, that they are as prodigiously great thieves and plunderers as they are liars, preying upon each other with as little remorse, in the midst of public calamity, as they un questionably would upon absolute " barbarians," if they had the power. " Plunderers," says Sir H. Gough, " flocked into the city and suburbs, to the extent of many thousands, and I regret to say, that several gangs penetrated into the citadel, and commited much devastation. Indeed with the prospect 01 leaving Amoy so soon ! I doubt that our marching through the island might rather have frightened away the peaceable householders, and led to further plunder by the mob, than have been of any advantage. Such, indeed, was the audacity of these miscreants that I was in some cases obliged to firs, in order to disperse them ; but I am glad to say with but little loss of life. " Now, whether we fancy the task of chastising these miscreants or otherwise—whether the exercise of some wholesome discipline upon them be profitable, or un profitable to their schoolmasters—it is tolerably clear that we are in for the job, and that our pupils have all the appearance in the world of being perfect gluttons in the way of correction. That they should be made to pay in money the full price of their instruction would seem no more than just and reasonable. The Popish Priests of Liverpool have been trying to get up a storm since the Council of our munici pality took the wise resolution of re-modelling their schools, according to the precepts of Catholic doctrine and discipline. This is the natural rebound of the shot discharged in good time, and with such true aim, by our excellent cannoneers. Such a report we looked for and expected; and as it does not take us unawares, all the " Double, double, toil and trouble" of the conjurors, who ride in the whirlwind, is in a great measure lost upon us. The thunder has come off first, in the shape of a fierce denunciation, from the pulpit of St. Anthony's Mass-house; next, in the way of awful placards upon the walls ; and thirdly—we know not that we can say, lastly—in the form of a memorial or remonstrance, addressed to the Town Council, deprecating the recent change of system which it has been their pleasure to make in the schools. All this is very awful, and no hurricane in the puddle or a wash-hand basin, but very echoes of the Vatican, with a touch of the earthquake—most dreadful to consider and experience. Babylon, Babylon, ay, Babylon the great, is falling !—that great city ! and those who lived by her merchandise are running about distracted — wringing their hands and proclaiming the sad news. But what is this to us ? We are Protestants as well as Catholics : we know that Popish Babylon must tum ble ; we have been always looking fur her downfall ; and if her plagues begin even now to come upon her, we have nothing to do but call earnestly upon the people to " come out of her," that they be not par takers thereof, or perish in the certain ruin that awaits With respect to the memorial presented to the Coun cil, we would have been much better pleased if that docuraent had been teSected tict t;( t foi thing of its substance, but for the assumption of title by which it was distinguished. Our Conserotive friends in that assembly must really put forth a little more vigour, and exhibit somewhat more of consistent decision. It was extremely well argued, that a memo rial purporting to be from the " Catholic Laity and Clergy" of Liverpool should strictly be understood to be a memorial from the Rectors and Clergy of the protesting Catholic churches and people of the town. The argument was perfectly correct; but why did not the conclusion correspond with it ? Why was not the petition sent back to its framers to he altered according to the truth, or to be withheld altogether if such a change did not suit their taste ? Here is an instru ment presented with falsehood upon the face of it. Those who look at it are aware of its unfounded as sumptions. They discuss them, complain of them, and yet end by voting for the reception of the document as genuine, whilst " forgery" is branded upon it in broad characters. This is egregiously inconsistent, and ought not by any means to be. It is carrying courtesy a great deal too far to join in giving currency to untruth. Members of the corrupt apostate Church of Rome are not Catholics, and have, therefore, no title to the name. Their assumption is unfounded, and we of the Church of England, and of every other Scripturally Christian church, protest against it ; but of what use will our protest he in words, if we violate it in our conduct ? The Corporation of Liverpool has taken up a noble position ; they have made a glorious and a successful stand in defence of our national Christianity; they have planted the standard of Eng land's Church well and rightly. It only remains for them to maintain their ground with firmness and con- sistency. We would be the more disposed to dwell on the propriety of rejecting this petition on the ground of informality, as the case may in some respects be re garded as one of the first impression. It is not, indeed, any thing new for Romish priests to take upon them a style and dignity which is the right of others, and to which they have themselves no claim whatever; nor is it a novelty for members of their communion, both lay and clerical, to disguise their unhappy apostasy under the honourable designation of Christian Catho licity ; hut it would be soteething new, and worthy of lasting commendation, if the Corporation of Liverpool would take the matter in hands, and so far as it lies in their power, put a stop to the practice. It would be a very excellent example, and we trust, at the next op portunity, they will not shrink from affording it. We were much pleased to learn, from Mr. Harhord and other gentlemen, that the Education Committee have lost no time in carrying the new rules into effect; and only regretted that Mr. H. was not favoured with an opportunity of putting the " surpliced ruffian," who had the audacity to visit the schools and kick up a riot therein, into the hands of the police. Let Con servatives rejoice and be glad that all such vulgar janissanes of Popish craft, tyranny, and iniquity are now cut off from all right of access, or even pretext of approach, to our public, municipal schools; and must retire from the beams of Christian light, which are too strong for them, to congenial darkness, there to lord it over the moles and the bats. These are just the men to prophesy deceits, and cry out, " peace, peace, where there is no peace." What system of education could be good that Romish priests had ap proved of ? None. Their rage at this moment is an unequivocal evidence that the reform now affected was much needed; and we never were better pleased at the glorious consummation that has been brought about. The municipal schools will not want scholars, maugre all this priestly passion. And who can tell how many poor persons, who have been the dupes and victims of sacerdotal presumption, and withheld from enlightening knowledge by circumstances too strong for their con troul, may yet live to bless an institution organised as these schools now are, that first led them to the know ledge of truth; struck off their chains of darkness, and set them at liberty—free in the enjoyment of that liberty which is consistent only with the knowledge of truth ? It was time to make a stand against the en croachments of a brutilising superstition. The local government of this great commercial town will gather unfading laurels by having had the perspicacity to see the necessity, and to act courageously and unreservedly upon it, We laugh with measureless satisfaction at the disappointed m alice of shaven crowns; and we delight ourselves in the thought that many and many a poor exile of Erin, who long had crouched beneath the hideous tyranny of these remorseless despots, will now find a safe refuge in Liverpool—riddance from their fangs—liberty for himself—and the instruction of sound wisdom for his children. The Council of Liver pool has passed an act of true Catholic emancipation which cannot he appreciated too highly. Like other great men who imagine themselves duly qualified to speak de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis, Mr. Bolton frequently discovers a profound ignorance of his subject. in nothing has this been so apparent as in his attempt to mislead the Council by informing them that the Collegiate Institution was intended exclusively for the children of the wealthy. If he had taken the trouble to consult the prospectus which was published in every Liverpool Newspaper, he would have found that, the education which it will afford will be adapted to the means of every class of society, so far as three scales of charge and divisions of School can produce such effect, He would likewise have found that the Mechanics will enjoy in the Evening school by far greater advantages than they at present are deriving at the Mechanics Institution, and if the Directors can carry their intentions fully out, on lower terms. But it did not suit the purpose of Mr. Bolton to make any enquiry upon the subject,—it was sufficient for him that the Institution was connected with the Established Church, and that one of her Bishops was at the head of the educational department —under such circumstances, were every child and adult to he freely admitted, or even paid to enter, the Institution must be denounced. We can, however, understand this conduct, for whatever else we have to complain of, in Mr. Bolton, we cannot accuse him of any attempt to disguise the deep hatred which he bears to the Established Church. But what shall we say with respect to Mr. Henry Lawrence ? who could have expected that he, a professing churchman, after having been a consenting parts to a grant of money,—money, mark, not land— to the Mechanics Institution where no religious instruction. according to Mr, Mellor's own admission is communicated, should have declared that he would do his best to oppose a similar grant to the Collegiate Institution,—that it was ridiculous, nay, quite a farce :o think of referring the application, Though made by the Rectors of the Parish, to the Finance Committee, —and that the Mechanics Institution has merits peculiar to itself. Thank Heaven, all our Town Councillors are not like him. Messrs Gladstone, Aspinall, Sands, Parker, Harbord, Birkett, James Lawrence, at least, will continue faithful to the Pro testant Cause, and we trust that the remainder of the Conservative Councillors will imitate their example. In this case we may afford to lose Mr. Henry Lawrence. What he could be dreaming of to state that the Mechanics Institution has merit peculiar to itself we cannot divine, unless Mr. Lawrence deems instruction in dancing and non-instruction in religion, to he such. No one can have attended to the proceedings of the Town Council, without noticing the frequency with which Mr. Bolton rises, and we are assured that if the reporters were to present his " airy nothings" upon ever occasion the lenth (to use Mr.. Alderman Evans elegant mode of rendering the word) and breadth of a Newspaper would scarcely contain them. He evi dently thinks the Town Clerk an useless piece of furniture, as he volunteers every moment to make unnecessary suggestions. His attempt, however, to reply to Mr. Aspinall's enquiry, on Wednesday pro duced such a well merited rebuke to his impertinence, as will probably render him a little more careful in future, It is impossible to describe the ridiculous aspect which he wore upon the occasion. We can only anticipate that the Council will aid the design of the Collegiate Institution Memorialists with their most liberal support; we take this for granted and though w e refrain from noticing further the spirit in which the proposition was received, wa cannot permit ourselves to doubt of its ultimate success The Conservatives of Dublin have at length made choice of a Candidate, and we are perfectly sure that n they have the mina to win BO they will obtain the victory, if they are not greatly wanting to themgelvee, and to our common cause .on this occasion, Thc: gentleman on whom the honour of this selection has fallen, is quite a young man, and altogether unknown in public life ; ,but in the only sphere in which he has had an opportunity of distinguishing himself, we understand, his career has been highly creditable. He has but lately completed his studies at Oxford Uni verity. In his name and connections however he brings a powerful recommendation to the citizens of Dublin, being the grandson of that Right Honourable William Gregory, who for many years held a high official situation in Dublin Castle, and conciliated the esteem of all good men by the purity of his principles, and the integrity of his conduct ; the new candidate for Dublin bears the same respected designation. The Conservatives have now no longer any excuse for failure. If they won the last election gloriously with an adverse administration sitting at the helm, why should they not retain their advantage now when a favorable government presides ? Timid voters will no longer have any cause of fear from O'Connell mobs, or a partisan police ; they will be protected, and this is all the favour they have need of. We should be much disappointed however if a Conservative go vernment did not, in addition to this strict matter of right and justice, throw the weight of its influence into the scale of the Conservative Candidate. Neutrality in such a case as this, is by no means an honourable impartiality; between Mr. Gregory a nominee, and Mr. Daniel O'Connell on the other, even though that nominee should be found in the person of an English nobleman, indifference would he criminal, or what is worse in the lips of some, a great political mistake. cult sa except] The ex It 0141, AMPHtril S'PLENDID ENTIRE CHANGE \E \' DOUBLE SPECTACLE, BY DUCIWINIS ESTABLISHMENT GREAT SUCCESS OF DUCROW'S SPANISH BULL FIGHT: With its new and splendid Scenery, gorgeous Costumes, appropriate Decorations, and magnificent Appointments. The whole of the following novelties can only be repeated fa► THREE Evenings longer, the short stay of the Company rendering it necessary to produce their Spectacles in rapid succession. Mr. Ducrow's rAREWELL NIGHTS IN LIVERPOOL will be particularly marked for novelty and classic beauty, and his patrons may now have a lust opportunity of witnessing his splendid entertainments. THIS present FRIDAY, Jan. 14, Splendid JUVENILE FETE, and the only MORNING PERFOiiMANCE, in addition to the Spectacle of the same Evening. Doors to be opened at Twelve, and the performance to commence at One o'clock. --- . - Programme of the Morning Performance. DUCROW'S CLASSICAL SCENES OF TH E CIRCLE, by the troop of French, German, Italian, and British hi ders, Lilliputian Actors, Gymnastic Acrobatic Artistes, &c., &c. The Scenes of the Circle will commence with the SUMMER'S MORN OF 1686; Or, The White Wreath and the Fliteh of Bacon. Sir Roger de Coverly.. Signor HILLIER. Signor ALLARD, the Venetian Rider, will give his extraor dinary Act on a Bare-backed Courser. To be succeeded by Mr. Ducrow's Military Scene, the RECRUITING PARTY OF 1757 ; Or, The Little Drunken Drummer of George 11. For the amusement of the juvenile branches, Signor HILLIER will introduce the DIMINUTIVE SPEED, FIRE-FLY. Madame ALLARD will go through her Performances. JINGLING JUMPERS OF PEKIN. Mr. HICKEN will appear with Le Petit DUCROW, in the Equestrian Extravaganza, entitled the TOAD IN A HOLE ; or, The Magic Bell and the Flight of Mercury. Mr. STICKNEY, as ADONIS AND HIS PUPIL. The Scenes of the Circle will conclude with the GRAND PONY RACES, by Infant Jockeys and Fairy Coursers. Programme of the Evening Performance. This present FRIDAY EVENING, the 14th instant, and TO-MORROW (Saturday), a Dramatic Spectacle, entitled THE SPANISH BULL FIGHT; OR, THE MULETEER AND HIS HORSE OF THE PYRENEES. Principal Characters by Messrs. Howard, Broadfoot, Hillier, N'Veston, Mrs. Weston, and Mrs. Emery. To be succeeded by 7 7 _ DUCROIN"S SCENES OF THE CIRCLE, introducing Signor Hillier with the whole of the Male and Female Equestrians, as The Greeks of the M.rea .r or, The Spartan Trainer and Moslem Captives. Mr. STICKNEY will appear on his Two Fleet Coursers. Madame ALLA RD will appear in the New Delineation of La Rosiere. Mr. HICKS'. and LE PETIT DUCROW will appear in an Ex travaganza, entitled The Magic Bell; or, the Toad in a Bole and Flight of Mercury. Signor ALLARD will give a new Daring Act of Horseman ship, as the Venetian Rider. For the amusement of the Juvenile Branches, the Scenes of the circle will conclude with THE EPSOM RACES IN MINIATURE, by the Fairy Ponies and Lilliputian Jockeys. To conclude with the Laughable Farce of THE RIFLE BRIGADE. _ _ Principal Characters by Mr. H. Beverley, Mr. Nunn, Mr. Egan, &c. ; Mrs. Nuun, Mrs. F. Carman, Mrs. Emery, &c. Private Boxes may be obtained nightly for Families on ap plication to Mr. F. CARMAN, at the Box-office, from Eleven until Three o'clock. Prices of Admission :—Centre Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Side Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d.; Lower Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Second Price at Nine o'clock :—Centre Dress Boxes, 2s. ; Side Boxes, is. 6d. ; Pit ls. ; Lower Gallery, 6d. No Second Price to the Upper Gallery. Second Price will be taken for Children under Twelve years of age to the Boxes only. Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the Perform ances to commence at Seven o'clock precisely. TO CORRESPONDENTS The writer of the letter entitled "Decencies of the Liverpool Mercury" has taken up a thing which has long been de funct, and we are afraid will dirty his fingers with its putrid remains. " Decency" has long been a stranger in the columns of the publication in question. LOCAL NEWS ROSCOE'S NORTH WALES. A very appropriate and elaborate binding, for cloth, has been designed for this uni versal work. We have had a copy done up in this style, and can recommend those who possess copies to give Mr. Webb, of Castle-street, a call.—/Ch AMERICAN Mess BEEF.—We have had another oppor tunity of tasting the American mess beef, imported by Messrs. Waddington, Holt, and Co. When carefully pre pared previous to cooking it will be fimnd excellent. The lean part is firm and of good grain, while the fat interlards well, and is as excellent as need be. To have it in perfection the meat should be steeped in pure water twelve hours, then left to drain in the air twelve hours, then soaked again for twelve hours, and afterwards cooked, the boiling which should not be too fierce, ought to occupy six hours. These times are for large pieces ; of course, for smaller sizes the soaking and boiling should be done in a less period. The broth from the meat is also excellent. COURSE OF LECTURES AT EGDE-HILL, BY MR. JOHN SMITH.-It will be seen by an advertisement in another part of our paper that Mr. John Smith, the popular lecturer on education, will, at the request of several gentlemen, this evening commence a course of four lectures on the beauties of geographical science and the wonders of creation. These discourses are to be delivered in the national school-room at Edge-hill. The subject is one of surpassing interest, and the disquisitions have been greatly extolled. VICISSITUDES OF THE SEASON.-It is a well known fact that during the few past years the changes of the weather and the alterations of the season have been most sudden and unequal. Variations of this nature are, of necessity, ex tremely trying to the constitution ; and there is no part more exposed to their effects than the skin—that delicate and finely-formed portion of our frame ; the sudden transitions front heat to cold, from moist to dry, 4c. being calculated, in a most inconvenient degree, to produce those freckles, marks, and eruptions, which are so hostile and injurious to beauty. The fortunate discovery of 'tow LA Np's KA LYDOR, and the ample proof of its virtues afforded by long expe rience, evince that it is admirably adapted to beautify and preserve the skin fresh and unimpaired—amid the most trying vicissitudes of the season and the weather.—See advt. INQUESTS BEFORE JOHN HEYES, ESQ., COUNTY CORO NER.—On Saturday last, at Rainhill, on the body of Mr. John Vose, who died awfully sudden. He had been in his usual good health, and was enjoying himself with his friends on Friday night. The next morning he was getting his breakfast, apparently in his usual health, when he fell off his chair, with a piece of bread in his hand, and expired imme diately. Verdict, " Died by the visitation of God."—On Monday, at the Boar's Head, Handish, touching the death of John Bates, a man 65 years old, The deceased worked on the North Union Railway. On Friday night Jas. Smith, another labourer on the railway, was going home, between eight and nine o'clock, and saw two trains, one going to Preston, the other returning thence. He went down the railway to his own house, which is on the bank of the rail way, and under the same roof as the house where the de ceased lodged. He saw a hat on the railway, and, on pro ceeding a little further, he found the body of the deceased lying between the rails, quite dead. On inquiry, it was found that the two trains met at the plaeP where the deceased _ . was found ; so that the probability is that he was getting out of the way of the one train when he was knocked down by the other. The carriages had run over his head, his arms, and leg, and bruised him dreadfully. Neither the engineers nor firemen were aware of having run over any thing. Verdict, " Accidental death."—On the same day, at Orrell Post, on the body of Henry Gorse, a child about two years and nine months old, who was burned to death. On Friday last de ceased's mother went out to the shippon, leaving the deceasrd and a girl, about four years old, in the house. On returning, after being absent about five minutes, she men the little girl screaming, and saw the deceased in flames. She folded him in her petticoat, and extinguished the flames ; hut he was so much burned all over his body, that, notwithstanding medi cal assistance was procured, he died the following day. The deceased had, like many children, a strong propensity for playing with fire, when lie could get anything to burn.—On Tuesday, at L'ecleston, on the body of Mary Ann Arnold, a girl 13 years of age, whose death was occasioned by her clothes taking fire. On Sunday last, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. WOrsey, who lives next door to the deceased's parents, heard a loud scream, and, on turn ing, saw a light in the yard. On going out, the deceased, who was enveloped in flames, came running to him, when he tried to extinguish the flames, but could not. She was car ried home, and Mr, Gaitor attended her; but she died in twelve hours after the occurrence. She said she was stand ing by the tire, doing up her hair, before a glass which' was on the mantle-piece, when her clothes caught fire.—On the same day, at West Derby, on the body of James Garnett. The deceased, who was about 13 years of age, was, with two others, skaiting on a pit on Saturday last, when, going to a corner of it, the ice gave way. He supported himself for some time with his arms on the ice ; but at length disappeared under the ice. The father and others were immediately on the spot ; but it was half an hour before they succeeded in pulling him out. He was standing upright in the water, with his head about a foot from the surface, when he was found. All attempts to restore animation were fruitless. The ver dict in each of the three cases was " Accidental death." ROYAL INSTITUTION. — The second soiree of the season took place at the Royal Institution on Tuesday last. There was a considerable increase in the number of visitors, com pared with the former occasion. Soon after seven the com pany began to arrive, and promenade the rooms. The vari ous curious specimens of natural history, in this very fine museum, were noticed, and commented upon, with as much interest as if they were only then exhibited for the first time. The principal feature of the evening was a lecture, by Mr. White, upon Music, with vocal and instrumental illustrations. Mr. White having been engaged by other institutions in this town, we were led to expect something extremely good. We, therefore, attended the soirée predisposed to regard Mr. White's lecture couleur de rose. We were doomed, how ever, to be disappointed. Mr. White's subject was a fine one, and capable of being made very interesting : he had, at all events, the appliances to work it out, for pianoforte, harp, and guitar were at hand. The lecture was capable of exhi biting research, erudition, rid talent. The first might have been shown by stating a multiplipity of facts ; the second by reading and devotion to the art; and the third by the spirit and beauty of illustration, No signs of these could we dis cover. The lecture was very discursive, We were carried, per salturn, from the times of Jubal, David, and Solomon, to those of the Troubadours, and thence to the present date, namely, that of Thomas Moore, from whose brilliant works —with all reverence be it spoken—we had lour specimens out of the seven we were favoured with. It is very true the committee limited Mr. White to an hour to deliver his lec ture in ; hut in the time given be might have told us a great deal more than he did, and have more fully exemplified his subject. We have not room to show what Mr. White ought to have done : it remains for us to shots what he did. His lecture was " bald and disjointed ;" his facts were all old everyday ones; his anecdotes uncommonly small and few in number; while his illustrations were not of the most pleasing kind. We agree with Mr. White upon the subject of the introduction of foreign music, to the neglect of our own na tional minstrelsy ; but he did not hit hard enough, nor show by an example, which he might have done, the absurdity of truckling to and encouraging foreigners—while we have plenty of merit and talent at home, if properly fosterd. Mr. White's style is unpleasant : there is a self-satisfied air ap parent in all and everything he does, which is quite painful. His first illustration- - a French Clzanson, that of 13loundel, to Richard aeur de Lion—was a downright fiat affair. if such was the style of the Troubadours, their demoisels must have had hearts soft as butter to have melted to such strains. Mr. White rather tastefully accompanied himself on the gui tar. The second illustration was Moore's " The Harp that once thro' Tara's Hall." It was given in a conventicle style. ph ! Thomas Moore—Thomas Moore—entreat Mr. White to refrain from singing your charming ditties. Miss Ham mond accompanied this very cleverly on the harp, and sang prettily the next illustration, " Rich and rare were the Gems she wore," also accompanying herself on the harp. This song received the most marked applause. The song of " Aileen Aroon" was given by the lecturer, the original words being sung instead of the better known ones of " Robin Adair," The next illustration was Moore's " When Hope's bright Dream is o'er," to bliss Ilammond's accompaniment on the pianoforte. Miss Hammond had hardly concluded before the lecturer fairly turned her out of the chair, and, without comment or introduction, sang—accompanying him self—" I'll think of thee." The lecture was concluded by Mr. White's singing the gay, sprightly, mirthful " Nora Creina." He gave it in as melancholy a style as he would hive done " Chevy Chase," wherein Witherington is said to have fought " upon his stumps." Those who have heard Kate Kearney sing " Nora Creina," must have felt a slight difference. Kale .Kearney would have obtained a screaming encore, and set all the audience beating time. Mr. White's appeared pleased when he had concluded. Now, to say all this is very unpleasant. We had rather be blamed for excess of laudation than for grumbling ; for praise, like mercy, " blesseth him who gives and he who takes ;" but really so uninteresting an affair as this we have seldom had the lot to sit out. There wined to he no principle laid down ; nothing carried out ; and if the illustrations could be taken as exem plifying the beauties of pusiP t where we had no less than four instances, as we ha v e sail before, ()tit of the seven — from one author—we have nothing further to say on the subject. It is quite absurd to call such an exhibition a lec ture. Mr. White's manner to Miss Hammond—a really clever and accomplished lady—was anything but courteous. There was a total absence of those little civilities to a coad jutor, which. although they amount to nothing, convey to the minds of an audience that the principal actor has some regard for talent in another , as well as the idea that it is a gentleman who is entertaining them. When Mr. White had concluded, refreshments were handed round, and the promenading resumed. The company did not dis perse until past eleven o 'clock. The Rev. Dr. Tattershall presided, and, previous to the lecture, addressed the audi ence in a few sensible rem arks. Mr. John Davies perforated upon the seraphine many popular airs, o bliging everybody with anything they asked h im to play, in a ready, willing, and able manner. This instrument greatly enlivens the rooms ; but we must. say A ft band in the vestibule would be far better. ItEVEUENCES' theißE AT AN t —That their • - reverences of Rome are mightily savag at the recent dec of the conservative majority in the town-council, their on Monday (which T Carlow school to be tolerate cotl n tr abundantly testify; and we dare S mell us Messrs. Gibraltar Brigh that some weak p ro pt RIII.I R. V. Yates—int .shy, sloppy character o o etlitiou of a boardiosz. whose intellects partake of th the liquid contained in the kitc school tea-pot as injured saints, overflowing with paternal loy the poor children who have so ruthlessly been attetni consider the be snatched from beneath their siv reverences, of course hopes higher than to be permitted to visit and train, in the faith of Rome, their juvenile flocks in the corporation schools. They never interfered with any children except those of their own faith. They never attempted to debar their own from reading anything except the Pr,testant Bible; and, above all, they never at iipted to convert w was professedly a neutral Nyslem of ethication, so fa gion was concerned, into one of proselytism to the Romish faith. Injured innocents ! We are afraid, however, that so much wra,ll has not sprung from so slight a loss. We be lieve we are not in error when we state—and we defy contra diction upon this point—that their reverences were far from being the humble, unassuming. self-denying individuals which they are generally presumed to have been, in connex ion with the schools under the late system. O❑ the contrary, under the covert exercise of their insidious influence, those schools were little better than juvenile Popish seminaries. Not a book was permitted to come into them without their sanction ; and when we remember the fact, indisputably proved in the council, that even a history—a juvenile history of the Jewish nation—could not be permitted to be read in those schools without being first carefully purged by a Popish priest of every passage which, though historically true, was calculated to reflect upon the conduct of Popery in time past, destroying its pretensions to the character of universal toleration and excessive liberality, we have a per fect right to conclude, and we ourselves firmly believe, that it is no mere matter of the Douey Bible or the Irish extracts which has placed Rome in hostility to the present system, but that its priesthood knovi that, under the management of a Christian education committee, the hitherto unresisted control which they have exercised over the education of the whole body of the children. Protestant as well as Popish, would be at an end. Rome seeks not toleration. She seeks supremacy ! EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT TO ROB A SAFE IN A PUBLIC-HOUSE. — Two men, of rather respectable appear ance—Thomas Thompson Woods, and James Burns—were on Wednesday, and yesterday, by remandment, placed at the bar of the police-court, on a charge of felonious attempting to open a money-safe in a public-house. Ann Sephton, the wife of Thomas Sephton. publican, Drury-lane, said that about nine o'clock on Friday night last, the two prisoners came to their house, and called for two glasses of ale, with which she served them. There was an iron safe in the par lour, in which they kept their money. The prisoners re mained nearly two hours in the parlour. Shortly before they left, she heard a noise similar to that made on opening the lock of the safe. The prisoners left the house, and she went into the parlour and examined the safe, and found it locked. She had opened the lock with the same key that morning, and it locked very easily. She deposited some money in the safe, and locked it again, and took the key into her posses sion, and kept it until she heard the sound of the lock at night. On Saturday morning, about half-past eight o'clock, the prisoners came again to the house, and went Into the same parlour, calling for two glasses of aie, with which she served them. She told them to . walk into the bar until the parlour was cleared out. They said the parlour would do, and remained there about ten minutes. She sent a person to watch. and afterwards sent for a locksmith, and again told the prisoners to ;.:o into the bar, which they then did. The lock smith came and opened the lock, and whilst doing so, the prisoner Woods leaned back on his chair, and took particu lar notice of the safe as the smith endeavoured to open it. The prisoners left the house before they succeeded in opening it. She found all safe,—nothing had been disturbed that she could see. On Tuesday night, between ten and eleven o'clock, she was in the kitchen, when her daughter come to her and said some men were in the parlour. She desired her to go into the bar and inform her father, and as she was leaving the kitchen. she heard the lock of the safe opened. They rushed into the parlour, and the prisoners were soon after secured. The police-officers were called in, • 011AJ•• a•• and the prisoners were taken to Bridewell. A few minutes after, Sarah Smith, a young woman who had come into the house, went into the parlour, and asked for a glass of ale. After she was served she banded witness the skeleton key produced, which she said, she found at the back of the parlour fire. Other witnesses, including Mr. Sephton, cor roborated this evidence. He had tried to unlock the safe but could not, after dinner on Tuesday. He believed it was unlocked. when he got the key in. He eventually opened it, and found all safe. He had a £es note, and upwards of ten sovereigns in the drawers : they were not displaced. The skeleton key was produced. and Sarah Smith said she found it in the coals, at the back of the fire. A police-officer said that he was called in on Tuesday night, and found the pri soners struggling with Mr. Sephton and another person. They were secured and taken to Briclewell. Mr. Tinckler, the locksmith, said that on examining the safe, he found some one had been attempting to open it. The pin of the lock was broken, and he with difficulty opened it with the proper key, and left it so that it might be opened with ease. He left no picklock or key similar to that produced behind him. This was the principal evidence, and the pri soners, who were both known to the police, were committed for trial at the sessions. The prisoner Woods had before been eleven times committed, and four times discharged. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ICE AT CLAPHAM.—About four o'clock last Monday afternoon, while a crowd of skaters and others were amusing themselves on the ice on the Long Pond, Clapham-common, the ice suddenly gave way, and three young persons (a brother and two sisters) were im mersed in the water and drowned, in spite of every effort to save them. The names a the unfortunate sufferers are James Bunce, aged 21, Caroline Bunce, aged 19, and Anne Bunce, aged 17. Nearly half an hour elapsed before the bodies were found. This is the second fatal occurrence that has taken place on the Long Pond during the present winter, chiefly in consequence of there being neither ladders nor drags immediately at hand, to be used in case of accidents. The bodies await a coroner's inquest. We regret to learn that an accident occurred on Saturday last, on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway, by which two lives have been lost. The particulars of this catastrophe, so far as we have learned, are as follows. The Railway runs on an inclined plane as far as the village of Motherwell ; and the waggoners before starting from the top of the line at New Mains are in the habit of placing the horse in a carriage or basket, when the train moves down the rails by its own momentum. On this occasion the waggoner followed the usual custom, and at the same time gave a man and woman a drive in one of the waggons under his charge. The train had proceeded to about half a mile from Wishaw, when the first waggon entered a lye,—the tongue having been left open—and being. thus diverted from the straight course at the moment that the mass was moving with great velocity, the waggon was overturned, and killed the two persons above referred to on the spot. Their bodies were frightfully mediated. We have been informed that the female *ha has been thus suddenly deprived of life Ras at the time, on her way to visit her relations,, to apprize them of her approaching risarriege,—s- Giasgeiv Mail. SUSPECTED Mu RDEit.—On Saturday last, a mason, named Dryden, residing in Macdougal Street, was apprehended on suspicion of having inflicted severe wounds upon his wife, so as to cause her death. We learn that the deceased was seen on the forenoon of Friday in her usual health ; next day the neighbours suspected there was something wrong, from the circumstance of neither her nor her husband making their appearance, and also in consequence of hearing, over-night, sounds as if coming from a person in great pain. Having knocked at the door, and being refused admittance, their suspicions of foul play were increased, and information of the matter was given at the Police Office. A criminal officer or two were accordingly dispatched to investigate into the affair but they also were denied an entrance into the house. How ever, upon one of the lieutenants going to the spot, he, along with the officers, were admitted and strange to relate, they found the female, who had been' seen the previous day in ap parently perfect health, dead and laid in her coffin, the lid of which was screwed down. A post martens examination hav ing taken place, several serious marks of injury were discover ed on the head and body of the deceased, there being on the back of the former, we are informed, a severe fracture. The husband was of course taken into custody, and a judicial investigation is now going on. The prisoner, whq has hith erto borne an excellent chraracter, denies having rousted any of the injuries Observable on his deceased wife.-, Edinburgh Courant'. ATTEMPTED MURDERS AND SUICIDE AT SHEFFIELD. —ln another column we record the barbarous murder of a young woman at Mansfield, by a lover discarded for his in temperance. We have now to narrate a dreadful event in this town, arising opt of similar circumstances, but differing in this, that no less than three persons have almost miracu lously escaped with their lives, while the author of the crime is himself his own victim. 'Hannah, f;.rah, and Harriet Poole, are three sisters, living together at Pyp Bank, Bridge houses, and maintaining themselves in comfort by dress making. Henry Vaughan, the miserable suicide, was a table knifebafter, living in White Croft, and aged about twenty, five. He has paid his addresses to the second sister, Sarah; but, about eighteen months ago, his conduct had become so dissolute and intemperate, that she refused any longer to keep company with him, Soon after he called to see her, and endeavoured to induce her to revoke her determination ; but, finding that it sills in vain, he drew out a razor and a knife, and,l throwing open the razor as he sat, uttered some horrible threat. She, however, spiritedly pushed him and his seat down together, and took the razor from him, cutting his hand with it. Since that time he has frequently alarmed her and her sisters with threats, and has lurked much about the house as if watching his opportunity. A few months ago, seeing Sarah near a chamber window, he threw a large stone at her, from which she. very narrowly escaped. In October last lie came with a pistol, and fired it against the house, declaring he would frighten them to death. Last Saturday night he was at Mr. Pearson's, the Barrel public-house, en the opposite side of the road, and sent a message to Sarah, requesting to see her. She was out of town at the time, but returned on Monday ; and, in con sequence of the violent threats which he had uttered, she applied to the magistrates on Tuesday, and obtained a warrant of the peace, on which Vaughan was summoped to appear on Friday. We understand that he just showed himself at the magistrates' room, and did not remain to answer his name' On Friday night, about a quarter to eight, the sisters were seated at their work, when Vaughan suddenly rushed in at the outer door, and, closing it violently after him, cried " Revenge ! revenge this night, if I go out a corpse !" Drawing his hands from his coat pockets, he exhibited in each hand a pistol. Sarah immediately rushed to the door, followed by Harriet, who, perceiving that Vaughan was aim ing at Sarah escaped down the stairs ; but Harriet, by closing the door, had shut herself in with the madman, while Han nah escaped out of the front doer, and, running across the road to the Barrel, gave the alarm. Vaughan rushed to the door as if to follow Sarah ; but Harriet, with wonderful in- repidity, pushed him backward, He fell, arqd she snatched what she supposed to be the other loaded pistol from his hand, threw it down and escaping through the door into the next room, made for the window. She threw open the sash, and. pushing open the unfastened shutters, was in the act of jumping out i n a stooping posture, when tii6 villain fired at Per. The ball struck her upon the right shoulder blade, making a superficial scored wound, passing over her shoulder and by her cheek. Meanwhile, Mr. Pearson, of the Barrel, with Mr. John Palfreyman, a commercial traveller, and and several others, alarmed by Hannah, and hearing the screams of Harriet, and the sound of the shots, came up to the door. The door was fastened; and Mr. Palfreyman had raised his foot to force it open, when the desperate villain fired a third pistol through the panel of the door. The ball entered Cie front of Mr. Palfreyman's trousers, tearing his -girt, and passing along his left thigh, leaving him most won derfully without a wound. But, for the peculiar position in which he was, there can be little doubt the ball would have passed through Mr. Palfreyman's abdomen. Finding the chow so desperate, no farther attempt was made to enter the house ; but the police were sent for. Ere they came, three other shots were heard within the house. Alter a short time, Serjeants Wakefield and Astwood arrived ; and, bursting open the door, which had been fastened in the inside. Wake field entered, and found Vaughan lying on the floor , near the door.. Wakefield immediately seized him by the throat, kneeling upon his arms, under the apprehension that he was only feigning drunkenness, But there was no need for this precaution. The miserable man was in his last agony. Hi s eyes but once moved, and his guilty spirit was gone. The iast shot heard by the neighbour had been directed at his ,wit breast. Near him lay three pocket pistols, one dis ,l,arged, one loaded, and the third with the barrel partially inserewed, as if for the purpose of reloading. The suicide's oocly was conveyed to the Barrel, there to await the inquest. —Sheffield Independent. TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEIJINGS. tuned mtet vor pi e:,i(i;cl 1 for the despateli'd Weariesday. Then .ought forwat d Was the report of 'I HE CHURCH I,XPENDI FUR!. of an orgy Sudlow, rc r. BIIIKEI warm c OM MITT E d the re tneta,tion of an organist to St. 0 the place of T. Clough, deceased, and Mcrtin's Church, itt the 'place of Wtn. Nicholas's Church t of Mr. Sudlow as ..ITT seconded the motion. Mr. Platt pronounced ❑logy ou Mr. Venables, one of the candidates, ex hope, that if ever the council had a similar situa his claims would nut be overlooked. what authority the Town-council lie submitted that they ought to ,on to bet.' Mr. BOLTON asked b made a uppoiutu►ents BiIIKETT said the council had exercised the right up wards of 130 ytars. • Mr. BOLTON said, the council had exercised many rights 130 years, which the Town-eletk would tell them had been taken from them by the municipal act. The TOWN-CLERK having been appealed to on this point, gave an opinion to the effect, that the council had assumed the power of making the appointment, which they might keep so long as they paid the stipends. Mr. BOLTON moved, that the council should not inter fere in the matter. The motion was not seconded and it fell to the ground. Mr. - BIRIEnTT, seconded by Mr. PARKER, moved that Mr. NV. C. Ashlin he appointed organist of St. Martin's Church, in lieu' of Mr. Sudlow, resigned. Both resolutions were carried without a division. MR. SLATERS RESIGNATION The MAYOR read the following letter from Mr. Slater : " Wins ford, 22d December, 1841. " Dear Sir,—Having ceased to be a resident householder in Liverpool, and thereby become disqualified to sit as a councillor for the Borough of Liverpool, I respectfully beg to give you notice that I do not intend again to take my seat, and wish the vacancy to be filled up.- 7 .1 am, &c. (Signed) " R. RADCLIFFB, Esq The TowN-cis.r.x stated that he bad taken counsel's opinion on the subject, and he found that it coincided with his own; namely; that it was extremely doubtful whether they could proceed as on a vacancy till November next. It was recommended that the vacancy should not be filled up till Novembei, and in the meantime Mr. Slater's resignation " WILLIAM SLATER." was not good. Mr. HARBORD said, as Mr. Slater did not intend to sit, he ought to he made to pay the fine. The TOWN-CLERK said it must be taken that his rdsigna .:,,,i_ was not good. Mr. HARBORD would move that the resignation of Mr. Slater be accepted. lie certainly ought not to escape pay ment of the fine. The TOWN-CLERK said the question could not be enter tained by the council as this was not a resignation. It was agreed that the letter should lie on the table; and it was stated, as the general understanding, that Mr. Slater was still entitled to walk into the council and take his seat till November heat, v‘ hen he will cease to be eligible. Mr. BIRKETT said this ought to be a lesson to wards not to elect men who would not pay their tines. The MAYOR.—That is an unnecessary remark. THE LADIES' CHARITY. A letter was read from the President of the Ladies' Charity requesting the renewal of the lease of the premises in Duke street on favourable terms. Mr. EVANS expressed his opinion that grants of this nature ought to be made by the corporation without the in tervention of a lease. He said, why bind the generosity of the corporation in the trammels of law ? The Town -CLERK expressed doubts as to whether they would be proceeding legally unless they had a lease and fine. The letter was referred to the Finance Committee. ENROLMENT OF INDENTURES. Applications to allow, under special circumstances, the enrolment of the indentures of a pp ren ti ces hi p of Daniel Henry Peake, Edmund Gee,, George Henry Gardner, Thos. Doughty Pritchard, and James Wilson Robinson, after the expiration of the period limited by the by-law, were read and referred. THE NORTRERN HOSPITAL. The MAYOR acknowledged the receipt of a communication from Mr. Robert B. Anderson, Vice-President of the Northern Hospital, stating that the hospital was at present inadequate to meet the claims constantly made upon it ; that some of the cases were obliged to be refused admittance • and wishing to know if th e comm itt ee cou ld b e accommodated with a grant of land for the purpose of erecting a suitable hospital. _ . Mr. BOLTON said, that if the committee in questiCrn coald be accommodated in any . way, it would be most desirable, inasmuch as the purpose tor which they sought the land was most unexceptionable. The Northern Hospital possessed a stronger claim, in his mind, on the council, than any other institution which had come before them for many years. (Hear, hear.) The'leuer vas referred to the Finance Committee. THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. Mr. GLADSTONE presented a memorial, signed by Rectors Brooks and Campbell, Chairmen of the Collegiate Institu tion, stating that they were erecting extensive buildings in Shaw-street, wherein a sound religious education would be afforded to all classes in accordance with the principles of the Established Church ; that the building would form one of the principal architectural ornaments of the town ; that its cost would be £30,000, towards which £15,000 had been sub scribed ; and that it was vested in fifty trustees. The memorial concluded by praying for assistance from the Town-council, expressing a hope that the case would be taken into con• sideration, and that such a surplus (as had been done in other rases) would be awarded as the building might appear to de serve, and the funds of the corporation would permit. Mr. Gladstone moved that the memorial be referred to the Fi nance Committee. Mr. JAMBE LAWRENCE seconded the motion. Mr. BOLTON said there was no use in referring it to the finance committee, inasmuch as there existed a standing rule which excluded them from exercising any judgment whatever in cases where grants of money were sought for any purpose connected with instruction, where such instruction was not under the control and management of the council. There were, independent of this, other considerations which would prevent him from furthering the objects of the memorialists. The document stated that the institution was designed to be for the benefit of all the inhabitants, and immediately after, it stated that the children were to be brought up in the prig' ciples of the established church ? He should like to know' how Roman Catholics or dissenters were to be benefited by it, if the instruction it afforded was to be based exclusively upon the principles of the established church. It should he remembered that the persons to receive education in the in stitution in question were people of a wealthy class, and, be ing so, be considered it unjust of them to come to the coun cil, and ask for a grant, of money, particularly after they had adopted a measure which would have the effect of excluding the Catholic children from the schools of the corporation. They further stated, in the memorial, that other grants had been made by the council to other institutions. He knew of none such. (Oh !) A grant had, indeed, been made to the Deaf and Dumb Institution ; but then all classes shared in the benefit of it. The same might be said with regard to the assistance rendered the Mechanics' Institution ; because there, also existed no exclusiveness ; but, upon the contrary, every man, whether be was Protestant, Catholic, or Dissen ter, might send his children there, and have them instructed On all these grounds, therefore, but especially on the first, which prevented all discussion on the subject, he opposed the motion. Mr. SANDS asked whether auy grant had been made by the council to the Mechanics' Institution ? Mr. ISAAC HOLMES said that land had been given for its erection. Mr. BOLTON was proceedi ng t o o ff er some exp l anat i on, by referring to an act of parliament granting the land, when Mr. SAND S i n t errupte d hi m b y repeating the question Whether any grant, either of land or money, had beau cur made to the Mechanics' Institution ? He was anxious. he said, to h ave an answ e r on t h e subject, because the memorial stated that similar grants had been made to similar institu tions. Mr. EARLE asked whether Mr, Sands pretended to saY that the Collegiate at‘d the Mechanics were " similar"' insti tutions ? Mr. SANDS said he did not, because he hoped the one would be vastly superior to the other. (Hear, hear.) Mr. EARLE designated this a brilliant reply, but said he would not permit Mr. Sands to evade the question. , He wished again to know whether the gentleman maintained that there was no difference between the two institutions Mr. SANDS said he believed there were some traces of a resemblance between them. Mr. EARLE said he would allow no swivelling. (A laugh.) His question was, whether they were the same ?—and be begged of the mayor to put it once more to Mr. Sands. Mr. SANDS thought there would be a great difference be tween them. Mr. EARLr remarked that things which were wholly dis similar could not be similar. Mr. linNßy LAWRENCE requested that the standing order, which had been referred to by Mr. Bolton, might be read. The TOWN-CLERK read it accordingly. It was to the effect that no grant in aid of any schools, except those which were the property of the corporation, and under the control of the council, should be made. Mr. JAMES LAWRENCE observed that although neither the Collegiate Institute nor the Mechanics' was under the con trol of the council, the grant had, it appeared, been made to the latter. Mr. ASPINALL asked whether the land had not been sold to the committee of the Mechanics' Institute for 14s per square foot, while in reality it was worth 215., and whether a power of mortgaging the property had not also been con ferred If the council had gone to parliament for an act by which they could benefit the Mechanics' Institution, he thought they had legitimate reasons for going to parliament to benefit the Collegiate Institution also. (Hear, hear.) Mr. PROCTOR believed it was in the power of the council to suspend the standing order, which had just been read by the town-clerk, for any special purpose. He had himself given notice for its suspension, but be had subsequently learned from the town-clerk that it could be suspended by the consent of the council. Mr. MELLOR said that whoa Mr. Proctor had given notice of motion for suspending the order in question, it struck him at the time that it was merely a precursor for the appli cation then made. He (Mr. Mellor) thought the present application was too bad. At the last meeting the council had passed a resolution which virtually excluded any bene fits of education to the great majority of the poor—(" No, no,"—confining the funds principally to a portion of the community. _ The MAYOR said that as the latter subject had been previ ously disposed of, it was better not to allude to it again. Mr. MELLOR proceeded to say it was too bad that they should adopt a similar principle with regard to the rich. The memorial stated that X 15,000 had been subscribed, and that the building would cost .30,000 ; and where such sums of money as those could be raised, it was too bad that the me morialists should come to the council and seek any assistance whatever. The principles of the Mechanics' Institution and that of the Collegiate Institution were very different. (Hear, hear.) At the Mechanics' Institution there was no reli gious instruction given ; consequently, every inhabitant had an equal advantage flora it. (Loud cries of " No, no.") In the other case, the benefits could only accrue to one class of the community—namely, to those who were de sirous that their children should receive an education accord ing to the principles of the established church. Under present circumstances it was quite irregular that anything should be done with the memorial. It could only lie on the table until some gentleman should move a suspension of the standing orders • and when that should have been done, he would strenuously oppose it. Mr. BI RKETT sa id h e s h o uld move a su s p ens i on o f t he standing or d er. In the meantime he begged to observe, that he was very sorry to hear such sentiments from any man re siding in Liverpool, as he had just heard from the lips of Mr. Mellor. (Hear, hear.) To say that any large school conducted without any regard to religious instruction, was designed for the benefit of the whole of the community, was to him a surprising e xpression. He maint a i ne d th at any in stitution which excluded religious education from the child ren was a disadvantage to the community ; and he asserted fearlessly that if such a system were extended over the face of the country, millions of money would be insufficient to provide ga ols for the people. (Hear, hear.) This was his opinion, and he stated it openly. He further maintained that it was a praiseworthy and laudable object to support the Collegiate Institution. He was aware that a difference ex fisted in the minds of many parties at the time of its original foundation, with regard to the shutting out of the Church Catbechism from its system of instruction ; and, although Mr. Mellor had stated that it was designed for the purpose mg in t