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NEW )LOGI AND SECOND-HAND 800 HISTORY, LORD- STREET CARPET AND FLOOR ALFRED WEBB respect and the Public, that he 7 disti Droitwic Howicks m G. J. He: with wh ark, M prayer of Comm CHANDEI, DICINE, Cl# LIVERPOOL issics 3 receipt )TH WAREHpUSI •_ Jis Fr•. -6P-kNED tie extens Ir. BURLANDI CHURCH . with an exte ive Assort- first quality, anclof of the trade in the - - cabled to select his - - - ,hich will enable him to suPplied at yen atten DAMASK andelier, which so s DEFAL t the G the Conservatives Wnraelv. Lord Har n World, 1 Ormond extensive atnan, a 3ned by Dr. Bolton, the a i for Li;ter the old MOREEI D - ll will eatWesi sary;for a Brea, _, ano culated for the :o the ottence Maryboro ood for Friday Las —Dr. Can on bus g chain Dr. Ca the Lis arge and rs that were going 7 to the ea t up, tell to the Moor iupvards of 4 eve- , t high I an old sorry to announce stensi —Belfast Times Messrs n, which left that passage in tn_ _ day for New York. Among the beard the Bank of Ireland to the e hxten t of X4OOO _--- hpv-street, £3 civil actions .ouster on Satur- locket c several eminent - Bank of Ireland has since The failure of affainst th milling and torn ouses in London in L.._ trades is said to have led to this breakdown. COMICAL CHARGE. —At Newcastle pet ajorty sessions on Fran day, Daniel Kean e complainant, M James Sulliv respondent, the complainant came and deposedrward withthat all the Major e riousness and gravity imaginable, an Sullivan did, at Cullinagh, present a blunderbuss at him, and pull the trigger of the said blunderbuss, with ' t maim, and kill complainant, but which' s - -P did miss tire, whereby complain.- i, -.'served, and that Major Sullivan 1 - •he bravery of the bloodles le - -nil all such li , the road tent to w through some ins isiblt ccompanted b ailed upon, here eteran actually o! and behold ►ne of the re. king to a ry for Foreip ,•a of the Iris ntatior 1 on along aespairru ‘.. ••• • _ and he feared it would _ . RADICAL as he drove Onday, Lor at when Lo wa3 obserl the new G conu a a short 1. had him ont of the romx man, that it led to leader of " MY DEAR Lord John Russ into manhoo, aried politen n , was Them --You s gpeeF aving be f a mily a! I and req St. Ibb:s at leas pleased witt I believe E ipn Mr. A 3 in th autumn, Wt truly, MARTS g it was A can The gate rebounded a secon , s, then lost all which set off at I rapid pace, be came to the ground vi was taken up in a state of ins Infirmary, where he e o'clock, not having spoken froin the leading to Portfields ; and the pole being were set at liberty, and proceeded tow furious rate. There was one outside passenb-- he, the guard, nor two inside passengers, sustams,_ M injury. Two donkey carts, one accompanied by Mr • Taylor, of Bartestree, who is about 60 years old. h other by Mrs. Davidson, of Tupsley, respectable feu who bad been attending the market, had preceded the the former was thrown down and received threP wounds on the scalp. She, too, w aa - firmarY, where she remains in a very dangerous stn horses actually leaped on the cart of Mrs. Davidzoi was severely cut and bruised ; but we are happy to le , there is every probability of her recovery. It was open at the time the mail came up, r. There was no hook on either sit renter Journal. nEXICANS AND TEXANS.—The steam -ship Caledo arrived from Halifax (N. B.) on Friday, bring ce of a ttle fougl Houston Morn under his c and had been o keep it by these contendi Ile, with a portion of t not 300 men ed Colonel Vi al Some and captured the tow 4 wen i not us, r two 1 igageff which w DM the Glasgow Ma: hie the ph captor ,se repealers s servan ith the ident ; itWith - tt nass to CLlCK.otnitativ, of realit‘ to frighten turbers The complamant, amiast. uited to the tune of a lig Chronic _ day last, a deputation, nn the Earl of A feanL Mni Don. Cap reit. D. R and ~V, lowering t period t rn. Lattc on between lied that colleague this long he was 1 WIL G 3elieve me, my dear Sir, your from Hereford to Cheltenham let usual, the wind St Oa ACCIDEN n's turnpik Owing, howev sterous state rs had got th that the to plung The major having been stepped forward in all the gallant,— war turned out to b n of la spring of when and for the pFpo?, alers and all other c hter of the cou —Limerick —On I f the following members onth .ovision tiad, —iguson, W. Ormsby Gore, jun. , Colonel Acton, A. Lefroy, D. H. Far s. O'Brien, Thomas Martin, Fitzstephen It appears that previously to the on Fnc 5 h wines of but the merchter annually ants of Corl ted to Por French wines, the merchants of Con td to p or tugsl 0,000 firkins duty was so low as 15 per cent. ad J Portuguese government in ^ent.—ln consequence of which, 3wever, t Ity to F.. --- flitter from the port of Cork fell off from fifty thousand le back th commerce have been carried 6; treaty h and Port' mese governments, and th (press upon the nding to the Aberdeen )t escaped his !oncluded, he d in the wine state of sus iat he almost to declare ouse of Commons. on to the effect, a, the custom I a story a SU ..rived in In earing befor Lord .enboroug ) insulting to This story," it ap- ent fancy of the noble ' - nce of the ex- James hy ;coops capture )y the Meatea I. who we IctUe4. This story seems q C..inerkar, t an evlc may have imongs a five 1843, and I an a another ,t Calct Lord I ant of an ,chmat!, Mexica ese two men a bound fo: iose to t •Amos thus disposes of d to the house by Sir Feb. 1843 Cal cu Mr. Amos's re and example were mutually wrote to Lord you with I haddone the ma - e Green Dragon as nrneeeded as far as el rein Mr lacerates t Chalk so for an ho ilb which tt kijairs the necessity of The Earl o n trade cli bad to the le ; and tr , wand of th, -Cant that their se will the pub of nett thiB very the person of ma Lord I IS io Ifasten upon Sir Robert Peel to M`Naughten the idea of re and 1 held Sir Robert Peel personal ictrine Mr. Cobd is up and d a the countr there is such a mis 'rom the Edinburgh Courant enging in M r. :o take a nt as Nl`Naug.htet; From the Du, though Mr. Cobden tries to onsibilit aected b , into a Pickwick blic, as (From I, sonal violence u House on Frida quondam free misera Corn-Lay tern at ful of men to 3d rega lulated t ade ally after a fashion From the Liverpool Courier.) n in In but not t A man use the We have had insurrection he frui ier Bch their sentiments fairly and hone except at tt. e of the threat of A: in the Amohitheatre_ r we may see the f MONARCHY ITS Anti-corn-law Li thrown." Well .ound upon hi frregular, uno such a cha throne itself, are to of the cond s, " Do no League will or aristocrac Id withstand hat class or institutic Mr. C. P. Villiers, t incipal g stitutional, and e mansions of tt :t of ti er to act the par eal and Ur yes of t of the corn- public c at the free a should be ov lopted Cory- citation ,hey kniT bat factories ), of Mr. Roebuck to complain )ckport had said to him rd Brougham' tor if you do, the Corn-law at h and turn you ou t I" M r . doicnl; that he P with i Roebuck ought to think himself extremely fortunate in no worse danger From the Worcester Journal Robert in his official capacity, bat the idea." And the country also will scout t scorn which will call up a blush, if he ha A even i Cobden. -"At first," says the Times, "he attempted to deny his own words—a hopeless effort with a gallery of reporters and a House of Commons sitting by.. His second resource was scarcely more happy held the sponsible by virtue of his offic Le minist aughten attempt to t served manners—larg ability? or as the orim around himcpif better de ited the " Order, order," and cheer said—l did not say I hel' r R. Peel. (from his seat (Shouts of " Yes, yes," o I in no look ye out J: f the H arliamentary whom he had fancied than Mr may spre How u word of PEEL AND MR. COBDEN We ga' ,ort acc oetween se two gentlemen on Friday night, in the House of Com . was man!ging In some c landlords, and conclude t we subjoin Mr. Cobden Every one saw dearlyil;;tth; right hon. baronet must adopt some change of plan, and it was the duty of every inde pendent member to throw on him the individual and perso nal responsibility of the present bility of course arising party r terial sid L not a party man be had the cordial consent of I considered best for t tell lfare o :ring on the Minis lew that he was no present lamentabl find dang There never had The rig' ot~ashei reign Affw He would course—(c he had no lieved to t right hon. whole responsibility of th : told the noble lord ti Lord Palmerston,) he innti rke.e.r;nn.l_.,—.l :e pleaseu, it was his duty to take that —it was his duty to resign office the moment Iwer to carry .those measures which he be -1 of the But whether the of the aristocracy— Mr. Cobden) badfaiil; honest portion had faith that doption of ti: se principles which just, politic, and expedient, trusted that a union of the classes to lluded would force him to give them practical - ' rinciples to ces of th responsible that insinuation what they ma like the al Side of the house, re ld me individually 1 be the cc country hoed from the;oppositior menaces, either in this house on the opposition If I have misre- midst loud cries of " Chair, chair." . _ In considerable agitation in 1 the right hon. baronet personall3 )—You did, you atinued for several moment and " Chair.") amidst cries of " Order —I said I held the right honoarable barons . . Ir. Coble , nce me in tt Loud cries of '7No did not say th They cc ,) to giv Where nen of hone stead of We .t be held that I am Tsonally"— ed that he held —I am perfectly id he may prudent enough to say 1 'resent the lan MUSE OP COMMONS From our Lo, n Correspondent.) lied a scene, or more properly, louse of Common linary platform assemblages, you may ha fronted fellow withstand a storm of hisses, amids ,effectual c andred throats; or two contending orators•call each other rery description of polite name, amidst the contending beers of their respectiv Comoro Lye chara, ; the . consciousness that the beings supporters ; but such is not the which occurred on Friday night in the House or which ordinarily occurs in that arena. The rated, on the occasion of a fracas in that House, excitement then displayed and the ordinarily r of the proceedings, is of itself a remarkable whom you see ,sion, contain amongst the C., madl Wr. Cob fore you, animated by 1. But aster spirit of the ,e library, the g, m to be in t !xpectation quivering on each countenance—the No, no!' wishes to suggested apposed injuries on !en's languag N his lif gue preac individual will be Friday 1 of the I re was a mor opposition benches rapidly His speech was lel a marked action which allow is a feeling strikingly impressed spectator; then the rapid filling of the House, from lleries, the lobby, as if it were the muster- partizans to join in some fierce melee—the in- '—the derisive cheer, the defiance, gled with those indescribable noises peculiar—to its discredit be it spoken —to the reformed par liament :—all these together constitute a scene which may indeed be said to be perfectly indescribable—perfectly diffe rent from anything to be witnessed in any other assembly, or in any oth er coun t ry . ondesrP=i To a stranger who had never before been present on such an occasion, the scene of Friday night must have been one which is likely not soon to be wiped from memory. Picture, . _ !atter, to yourself, the fifth night of a dull debate,—and no aing can be conceived duller than a debate, in which mem er after member gets up to let off set speeches, the produce f the parliamentary interregnum, smelling villainously of allow, oil, and other appurtenances of midnight study. One is drowsy and wearied ; another half is inn patient of the farce which is going on. In such a state was _ of Commons at about 11 o'clock on the night of when the oracle of the League, Mr. Richard Cobden, presented his bilious countenance to the speaker, and addressed himself to the delivery of one of his usual tart han ordinary tart goer on this said, as plainly as face can say, " on this occasion lam about to out Cobden Cobden." There was a world of passion in it ; and as both ministerial and lied, it was evident that deep in is attached to the sentiments about to be uttered ; for it must be admitted that the member for Stockport has, n an eminent degree, succeeded in obtaining for himself what is, in parliamentary phrase, termed " the ear of the Ind pointed. He possesses ordi narily an impressive manner, and uses an acerbity of tone tie of what he utters to preiiipt instance his bitterness and the At), of his manner w€re more than ordinarily marked . _ member for Dor le conceived to exist applied his invectives to Sir Robert Peel nanciation ; and the portion of his remarks addressed to the 'ire, was distinguished by a ferocity of unexampled in a case where no personal At length, however, 1 his eyes, glaring upon the object of his fierce de- , in a deliberate tone, pausing upon each word, pointed out the right hon. gentleman as "personally and individually responsible for the present state of the country's aj timent in a different and shortly afterwards repeating the sen- ct of the language, and of the mode and apparent animus in which it was uttered, was electrical. The house— both sides, for, in despite of the paltry attempt of Lord John convinced that it was perfectly understood on both sides of the house I—was in a moment hushed, until a low, buzzing murmur broke the silence, as member turned to.member to communicate, by words, or to look the sentiments of his heart. The eyes, too, of the whole house were fixed upon the changing features of the Premier, who, startled and amazed at first, gazed at length with a look of dignified scorn at his opponent ; and when Mr. Cobden resumed his -- although a c r y was ra i se d b y a f ew mem b ers for — Mr. .ge Bankes, it was to the Premier that the house turned reply to an attack so disg ;raceful The sensation which followed the first few sentences of his mpressive reply, it is impossible to describe. For the first time within my experience of his character—and I have seen him often confronted during his various platform and other displays —the member for Stockport absolutely cowered be neath the storm of disgust which smote him on every side; and seemed, inorefthan all, abashed at the cold looks which met his appealing eye from his own side of the house. He rose to explain, but the contempt which pursued him was only deeper in intensity; and he sate down at length, sulky and looking almost ferocious, whilst the fellings of the entire house followed the progress of the impressive and able reply of Sir Robert to the main question under discussion F 3ut if disgust the most unqualified was the reward of his • .. _ , nat disgust was in finitely increased in degree by the exposure of his dictatorial threat by Mr. Roebuck. The league advocate was absolutely overwhelmed by the cutting, though somewhat eccentric ad- dress—in manner at least—of the honourable 'and learned member. A shout of indignation from all parts of the house, mingled with laughter at his attempted explanation, which must ring for ever in his ears, rewarded him for this impu dent attempt to defend his dear friends, " the dissenting ministers " ; and if it is possible for a man so insufferably vain to form, at any portion of his turbulent career, a cor rect appreciation of his own character, I should say that he must have formed it at that moment. It was painful even to a political opponent to gaze upon the writhing agony of his features ; and, for myself, I trust never again to be com pelled to look upon a spectacle so humiliating and utterly revolting to the feelings. HER MAJESTY'S ACCOUCHMENT.—It is rumoured that the wet-nurse engaged to be in readiness to foster the forth coming scion of royalty will probably be selected from the rural neighbourhood of Banbury. The person named as likely to succeed to the appointment is Mrs. Willifer, a farmer's (laughter, one of a large and numerous family. Mrs. W. is a fine healthy young woman, the mother of two children ; and having always lived in a retired country village has been strongly recommended to Sir James Clark and her Majesty's medical advisers by Dr. S. Wise, of Banbury, as remarkably eligible for the office. The husband of Mrs. W. is a small farmer, and son to the bailiffof R. Cartwright, Esq. M.P., Aynhoe Park.—Evening Paper. MORE MATRIMONY.—We shall astonish and amuse our readers at the same time by apprising them of an alliance in high life about to take place, the preliminaries of which have been adjusted. Who does not know the ex-Private Secre tary to Ireland's ex-Public Secretary —the political Pplades, Mr. Norman Macdonald, to the oratorical. Orestes, Lord Viscount Morpeth ! Who does not know that he is a plea sant, intelligent, and as good a fellow as ever sailed between Holyhead and nowth, and who will deny that he is entitled to select a wife in every way worthy of him ? So much for the bridegroom. Now then, for the bride—Who does not know the, the, the Dowager Countess of Essex? And who does not know that she was the charming Kitty Stephens, first vocalist of her day —a lady of unsullied virtue, fascina ting manners, and of great p ersona l atta i nments. Well Mr. Norman Macdonald and the Countess Dowager of Essex are forthwith to be united in the bonds of Wedlock. We wish them, as all the world must wish them, every imaginable happines" THE ALLEGED MURDEROUS ATTACK ON THE REV. MR. RENNETT.—The hopes entertained of the ultimate recovery of this gentleman are somewhat shaken, his mind having, within the last few days, exhibited symptoms of wavering. The following are some further particulars connected with the occurrence :—A crisis had evidently arisen in the family affairs of the unfortunate gentleman. What had hitherto exhausted itself through the safety valve of a brawl had begun to concentrate itself for something more decided. On Friday week, the day previous to the unhappy occurrence, M rs . Rennett and her son, " Y oung Clarke," as he was called by the neighbours, applied to a neighbouring magistrate for pro. tection against the alleged violent disposition of Mr. Rennett ; but, as they declined to swear that their lives were in danger, the justice could not take cognisance of the complaint. A policeman, however, was directed to keep an eye upon the household, lest mischief should arise. On Saturday, Miss Clarke, the daughter, left the house, and proceeded to the residence of a friend. One of the servants caused a writ to be served upon her master in the course of the day for a balance of wages, and she and her fellow-servant declined to remain longer in the family. The horses had been parted with some time before, and not a single domestic animal re mained. About five o'clock in the evening Mr. Rennett called at the public-house, and had a conversation with Mr. Gramshaw, the landlord. He asked for a biscuit, and then for another, and was of course supplied. He complained of being cold, and the landlord recommended him to take a glass of brandy and water, to which he agreed. Mr. Rennett then complained of having in vain asked for dinner at home. He ordered something, he said, to be prepared for him at two o'clock, as he intended to go to Gloucester on business, but his wishes had met with no attention. He re mained talking over his domestic grievances till betwixt eight and nine o'clock, when a respectable parishioner came in and entered into conversation with Mr. Rennett. Some ad ditional refreshment was called in, and the party broke up, all sober, shortly before eleven o'clock, and Mr. Rennett must have reached his house by that hour. The landlord of the public-house went instantly to bed, and was just about to fall asleep when his daughter called to him in great alarm, and asked him if he did not hear a fearful noise ? He said that he did not, and, believing that the girl had been dream ing, he endeavoured to quiet her, and went again to bed. Shortly afterwards, however, he was called up by a police man, who told him that Mr. Rennett had been shot. The officer, accompanied by the landlord, instantly repaired to the house, and, on the way, the policeman told him that, in compliance with his instructions, he had kept watch upon the house ; that the quarrel began the moment the reverend gentleman entered the house; and that, on hearing a shot fired, he had forced his way into the house. When they en tered the room they found Mr. Rennett lying on the floor, but quite collected, and be pointed out the positions in which his wife and son stood when the shot w as fi re d. MediCal assistance was forthwith procured from Tewkesbury,and young Clarke was removed to the station-house. On Sunday he was committed to the county gaol at Gloucester, and on Monday his mother followed him. Her committal is said to have arisen from something having come to light tending to show that the assault had been premeditated by the mother and son. The young man bears a wound on his head, which he says was inflicted by his step-father with a life-preserver, and that the blow was the cause of his firing. Mr. Rennett g, on the other hand, that the blow was not given till he • be had been wounded by the shot. Clarke was no with the neighbours, his disposition being mis and, as to the mother, she seems to h ave b een re- chievou garded with something like fear. Mr. , Rennett, on the Co ntrary, was beloved and pitied by all. He officiated every Sunday at Norton Church, and discharged his duty in a most acceptable manner. Neither his wife nor any of her family were ever seen within the walls of tke church in which he officiated. Parliatinntarp lottittebinlst HOUSE OF LORDS..--MONDAY. The Duke of WELLINGTON moved that the thanks of the house should be given to the Governor-General of India, and to the officers and army engaged in the war with Affghanistan The noble duk ave a history of the transactions in Affghan istan, and concluded by observing that the strongest proof that could be given of the energy of all the parties on whose behalf he addressed their lordships was the fact, that the first orders issued by the Governor-General of India, in order to repair the disasters at Cabool, were on the 16th of March, and all the objects sought to be attained were accomplished by the 26th of September. Lord AUCKLAND entered into a short defence of the course be had pursued immediately after the disaster at Cabool. He had three months previously sent in his resignation, and his successor being already on the seas, he could only exert him self to place affairs in the best position he could, in order to enable the new Governor-General to grapple with the diffi culties of his position. He cordially concurred in the vote of thanks proposed by the noble duke. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that worded as the re solution of the noble duke was, he should not offer to it any opposition. It was confined entirely to military services, and as it did not pledge them to any approval of the political pro ceedings of the Governor-General, he was content to sup port it, more particularly as it would be unjust not to ac knowledge the brilliant efforts of the military chiefs who con ducted the war to a successful close. Lord FITZGERALD made some observations in defence of Lord Ellenborough, and warmly eulogised the conduct of all who were engaged in the recent transactions in India. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE did not mean to oppose the vote, but felt it necessary to read some extracts from the papers in order to show that he could not approve of the course pursued by Lord Ellenborough. He complained that the papers were meagre as to the occurrences on the retreat of the army, some of which seemed to him to merit strong animadversion. Lord BROUGHAM defended the conduct of Lord Ellen borough, and said that no man ever undertook the government of India under circumstances of greater diffi culty ; and if he had displayed great caution, extreme cau tioa, even caution .amounting to hesitation, was it not too much to charge him with being vacillating and irresolute? For three months Lord Ellenborough had been exposed to abuse, the gentlest terms of which were " base, ' " un- English," " recreant," " cowardly," but the parties resorting to this species of vituperation were like superannuated vipers —they had the bag of poison, but they wanted the perforated teeth through which to spurt it forth. All the grounds of abuse against the noble lord were, however, at once removed by a perusal of these papers. The Bishop °LS ALtsntinY, in reference to the proclamation of Lord Ellenborough, described it as a most unhappy oc currence Bishop of CHICHESTER gave a similar opinion as to ,elamation. Lord BROUGHAM said if the proclamation were to be brought under the consideration of their lordships, he would pledge himself to make it clear that it was entirely and purely a political document, having no reference to giving any one heathen mythology a preference over another. Earl Minto acquiesced in the vote of thanks expressed as it was, but wished to guard himself against being supposed to approve of anything beyond the ability displayed by Lord Ellenborough in the application of the resources of India to the purposes of the war in Affghanistan. The votes of thanks were then put and agreed to seriatim, and their lordships adjOurned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY - - Sir ROBERT PEEL proceeded, in pursuance of his notice, to move the thanks of the house to the Governor-General of India, and to the officers and men, both British and na tive, for their services in the late military operations of Aff ghanistan. He began by disclaiming all intention of casting any political reflection, even in the remotest or most oblique way, upon the course previously pursued by Lord Auckland's government ; and, after alluding to the general character of wild and romantic interest attaching to those distant services and scenes, he explained the position of affairs at the acces sion of Lord Ellenborough. He related the outbreak of the rebellion, the movement of Sir Robert Sale from Cabul to Jellalabad, and the attack then made upon the British, in cluding the murder of Sir A. Burnes ; the preparation of a military force by Lord Auckland, the news which reached him of further disasters, and his subsequent orders to Gene rals Pollock and Nott for the withdrawal of the forces. It was but just to say, that with the discretion thus exercised by Lord Auckland, Sir Jasper Nicholls's opinion had coin cided. It was easy to criticise that discretion, at this dis tance, and after the event ; but in the judgment of Sir R. Peel, the resolution taken by Lord Auckland was justified by the circumstances under which it had been adopted. The state of affairs, however, at the arrival of Lord Ellenbo rough, being undoubtedly very discouraging, he adopted a new policy, of which the objects had been all accomplished. True, he had, on the 19th of April, directed General Nott to retire from Candahar ; but Lord Ellenborough had then re ceived neivs of the surrender of Ghuznee, and of the failure of General England in the attempt to relieve General Nott ; and, meanwhile, General Pollock and General Nott had been writing to the Governor-General to represent the difficulties of their respective positions. The loss of beasts of burden, indispensable for securing a supply of foody•had amounted in a few months to the number of 30,000 animals. These cir cumstances were an ample justification of Lord Ellenbo rough's first order of withdrawal. The Governor-General had been charged by Lord John Russell with offering such au insult to M r . A mos, an eminent lawyer, as compelled that gentleman to resign his situation. But Mr. Amos's wife had written a letter, in consequence of the report of Lord John's speech, stating that there was not a word of truth in the report; that he had always intended to resign at that time; and that Lord Ellenborough had treated him with the utmost politeness and courtesy. Sir Robert Peel then proceeded to specify the services of Generals Pollock, Nott, and Sale. General Pollock, on arriving at the scene of his duty, had visited the hospitals—had provided for the care of the sick, as well as for the comfort of the effective troops—and had brought them back from a state of unplea sant feeling to a zealous and loyal spirit, as it appeared from Quintus Curlius that Alexander had done, in those very regions, more than two thousand years ago, when discontent had crept in among the Macedonian forces. Sir R. Peel recapitulated the successive military achievements of General Pollock, terminating with the capture of Cabul. He then traced the victorious progress of General Nott; and after paying a tribute to the - services also of the captains and lieu tenants, did justice to the high English spirit which breathed in General_Nott's letters. Lastly, he eulogized the many and great tservices of Sir Robert Sale, his fortific a ti on o f Jellalabad, interrupted as it had been by the shocks of an earthquake, it s gallant defence of that city, and his success ful attack onlkhbar Klan, checkered only by the loss of the brave and lamented Colonel Dennie • and he, in passing, alluded to the heroism of Lady Sale, and of the late Lieut. Sturt, whose valour she has touchingly commemorated. It was impossible to describe al. these services without feeling were an earnest th a t f urt h er efforts, when occasion s pride in the British nam e ; those services had pro ve d t h at i t was a name which the a long interval o f peace bad not im paired; and they Lord J. RUSSELL sai d that, co ns id er i ng all the circum stances, he was not disp osed to blame Lord Ellenb oroug h f or whiotunldtriornph. require, would conti nue to b e made with glory and the order of withdrawal he had issued on the 19th of April, though he was of opinion that his share of the direction of the military operations ,displayed neither steady nor sound judgment, and that be was not, therefore, specifically entitled to a vote of thanks. He would not, however, take upon himself the invidious task of opposing it. Mr. BANKEs vindicated the conduct of Lord Ellenborough. Mr. HUTT regretted the excesses committed by our troops on their retreat from Affghanistan, and expressed a fear that their conduct on that occasion would d e f ea t any expectations which might otherwise have been anticipated o f an extens i on y, by the destru c ti on o f every ee iNGE said he did no t cre di t the reports which had gone abroad of those excesses, and b e li eved they would m of as o rit u r r bH c e o y. m oHn m dA e nt r hn c I to nd t u h s a . t countr turn out to be incorrect, and that on the contrary it would appear that after the storming of Istalif the soldiers had dis , played the gFetest humanity to the women and children. He regretted the burning of the bazzar, but it had adjoined the mosque, at the door of which Sir W. Macnaghten had been barbarously murdered, and it was generally considered that an example was necessary, Sir E. COLEBROOK did not believe the rumours of those excesses. Sir R. INGLis approved of the Governor-General as well as to the officers and army. Mr.flirsii was much gratified by the explanatons given by Sir H. Hardinge, though he exceedingly regretted the destruction of the bazaar. He ce nsure d the w h o l e policy of Lord Ell en b oro ugh, which w as altogether for withdrawal, there being no less than nineteen orders to that effect. The hon. member concluded by moving as an amendment that the vote to Lord Ellenborough should be deferred until fuller information was before the house. Mr. B. BARING read from the papers directions by Lord Ellenborough for the troops to advance. Lord EBRINGTON said that as the vote of thanks was con fined to military operations he would not support the amend ment. Mr. HOGG expressed a hope that Mr. Hume would with draw his motion. He then entered upon a lengthened defence of Lord Ellenborough's conduct, and observed that Mr. Hume must have some correspondence with India, for he bad stated matters not to be found in the blue book, and his credulity appeared to be equal to his discretion, for he believed everything he heard. The forts destroyed in the retreat were, he said, garrisoned by land pirates, and there was no hope of keeping them in check except by razing them to the ground. Mr. MANGLES sought to impress upon the house the fact that from March to July Lord Ellenborough was continually writing to General Nott, advising him to withdraw, and this before a single step had been taken to retrieve the national honour. Evealke-otder .he had sent—to advance was only permissive, allowing General Nott to advance if he thought proper to do so, thus shifting the, responsibility from his own shoulders, where it ought to remain, to those of General Nott. Colonel T. WOOD denied that Lord Ellenborough had shifted the responsibility from his own shoulders by giving an, indispensable discretion to General Nott. Captain BERNA L requested Mr. Hume to withdraw his amendment, as every word uttered on that motion was so much detracted fro m the value of the vote itself. He was of opinion that Lord Ellenborough was entitled to this vote of thanks, and he was not disposed to give it to him in a niggardly spirit. He hoped the officers who conducted the war would get something more substantial than this vote of thanks. Sir H. DOUGLAS expressed an earnest hope that the vote of thanks then before them would be agreed to unanimously, and in expressing his full assent to the proposition of the right hon. baronet he did hope that the vote of that house would not be less acceptable to his gallant-comrades in arms from the circumstance of its being supported in the house by an old officer who had served many years, and who at least had acquired sufficient experience to appreciate the merits of those distinguished services which it was the object of the present motion to mark with a strong expression of grati tude. The circumstances in which Lord Ellenborough found India were so fully explained and so clearly laid down by the right hon. baronet who brought forward the present motion, that it became unnecessary for any one else to enter into fur ther detail; but thus much he might, at least, be permitted to observe —that the intention of Lord Auckland was, that the British army should retire within the Indus with as little discredit as possible, while the determination of Lord Ellen borough was that our forces should retire with the utmost possible credit. If Lord Ellenborough had been so rash as to have directed armies to advt.nce at one and the same time from Jellalabad and from Candahar—if the noble Governor- General had given such an order, then most assuredly the House of Commons would never be found giving its thanks for anything so rash and ill-considered. But Lord Ellen borough did nothing of the sort. He took a course infinitely wiser—he acted upon the prudent maxim of receding in order that be might more efficiently advance. By h o ldi ng these two positions he was enabled to issue clear and precise direc tions for the combined movements which subsequently took place, and which were attended with such signal success. It was clear, from the despatch of General Nott, and from the other papers which had been laid before parliament, that as both those posts were occupied by British troops, the atten tion of the insurgents would be diverted, and our ultimate olic success rend ere d safe from the assaults of our enemy. The p y pursued b y Lord Ellenborough and the manner i n which he h a d supported the military operations carried min India, appe are d to him (Sir H. Douglas) to merit the highest enconiums, and it afforded him the greatest possible satisfac tion to bear te st i mony to the merits of his government and the wis.lom of his plans. Once more he begged to express an earnes=t hope that the house would concur unanimously in the vote of thanks thus proposed to them. (Hear, hear.) Captain LAYARD warmly supported the motion. Mr. C. Wool) said he had read, with the greatest satis faction, the orders given by General Nott, General Pollock, and Lord Ellenborough, respecting the conduct of the troops, and, if irregularities had taken place, they could not be at tributed to those orders, which were everything that could be wished. After a few observations from Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN, the resolutions were severally put, and agreed to. The Forged Exchequer Bills Bill went through committee. The Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill was read a second time. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and th house adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY. In reply to a question from the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, Lord WARNCLIFFE said that it was not the intention of he architect of the new Houses of Parliament to finish any one of them before the other. He was proceeding with both houses pari passe. . . Several noble lords complained that the house intended for their accommodation should not be expedited. They had given up their house to the House of Commons, and having very bad accomm o d a ti on a t presen t, w hil e t h at which the House of Commons enjoyed was very good, they felt that active steps should be taken to finish off their new house as speedily as possible. Under this feeling The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved the appointment of a committee to inquire into the progress made in the erection of the new Houses of Parliament. The motion was agreed to, and the committee appointed. The Bishop of CHESTER presented a vast number of pe titions from various places in Wales against the union of the sees of Bangor and St. Asaph. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved "That petitions having. been presented to this house complaining of the conduct of Lord Chief Baron Abinger when presiding as judge upon the ex cution of the late special commission executed in the counties of Chester and Lancaster, this house do summon witnesses to the bar for the purpose of ascertaining the language used by the said Lord Chief Baron Abinger in charging the grand juries, and in summing up the cases to the petty juries, who were impanelled under such special commission, and also in passing sentences upon prisoners convicted under the same commission." He charged the nobly lord with having acted in an unconstitutional, malignant, and oppressive manner towards the prisoners whom he tried, and quoted the opinions of the Morning Herald and other papers upon the course pursued by the noble lord on those trials. Some of the jurymen at Liverpool had, he said, expressed themselves dis gusted at the language used by Lord Abinger, for that language would implrby inference that it was treason to ad vocate the ballot, annual parliaments, or universal suffrage, a doctrine repudiated by the Attorney-General at the chartist trials at Newport. The conduct and language of Lord Abinger in trying and sentencing the prisoners were to the last degree indecorous, and the subsequent treatment of the prisoners was equally oppressive and unjust. If the govern ment intended to crush any inquiry, he hoped they would at all events let the public know that amongst the members of the government there was not one who felt any sympathy with the language made use of by the Lord Chief Baron. The ATTORNEY.GLNERAL said he should ask the house to meet the motion of the hon. member by a direct negative. The language of Lord Abinger was not directed against the right of discussing the charter, but against that system of intimidation and insurrection which, directed as its move ments were by a committee of public safety, which, in the exercise of its power, gave licences for the execution of any work that might be deemed of absolute necessity, was calcu lated to destroy all the relations of society. Lord Abinger had ❑ot gone the unconstitutional length of denouncing every attempt to effect by argument an alteration in the existing state of things; he had only pointed out the illegality and criminality of such tumultuous assemblages as had taken place, got up, as they were, not for the purpose of delibera tion, but for the disturbance of the public peace, and com mented properly on the dangerous language resorted to at these meetings. The sentences passed by Lord Abinger, and which were said to be severe, were the result of the united deliberations of the three judges in the commission. The hon. and learned gentleman concluded by eulogising the character of Lord Abinger, whom he was anxious to shield in his old age, after a life of honourable service, from the mortification which such an enquiry could not fail to bring with it. Mr. Ross, in supporting the motion, said he did not think the defence of the Attorney-General, concluding as it did with the argumenturn ad nzisericordiam, at all satisfactory. Mr. THESIGER condemned the motion as an interference with the independence of the judges. He entered into a lengthened defence of Lord Abinger, who had been also misrepresented in the case of Nicholas Suisse, as well as in the present instance, for he had never said in charging the jury that that person was "an invaluable servant." He had only said that he must have been so considered and described by his master. Mr. Sergeant MURPHY said it should have been the care of Lord Abinger to have calmed the minds of the grand jury, and to have soothed the excitement natural for them to be influenced by, and which must have interfered with the jus tice of their decisions. This he had not done. On the con trary, his speech was calculated to increase that excitement. If such a speech were proper under the circumstances, how was it that the charge delivered by Chief Justice Tindal was of a totally opposite character? In this country we had al ways a horror of political judges, and therefore it was that he deprecated the conduct of Lord Abinger in bringing his high talents to bear for the purpose of stimulating grand juries already too much excited. Mr. J. S. WORTLEY said that if the whole of the charge had been read by his hon. and learned friend he would never have called it a stimulating charge. The whole of the outcry against Lord Abinger arose from a misconception which a careful perusal by a candid mind of that charge would re move. The charges of Chief Justice Tindal were certainly admirable—they were excellent ; but that learned judge did not always strictly confine himself to the case before him, for in one instance he had stated the constitutional law to the grand jury, and laid it down as to how far a soldier still re tained his character as a civilian, that they might judge of the legality of what had been done in the suppression of a riot. Mr. WALLACE said he bad not trusted to the newspaper reports, for he bad purchased the noble lord's own shilling's worth, and from that he would say that Lord Abinger had travelled far and wide from his duty. Mr. SCARLETT said he believed Lord Abinger's fault was really that he differed in opinion from the Chartists and their friends. It would not become him to trespass on the time of the House, but he must say that he did not think his noble relative had been fairly treated by hon. members on the op position side of the house. To whatever party in the country Lord Abinger had give❑ his confidence at any period of his life, he had always been firmly attached to the constitution of the country. The hon. and learned gentleman concluded his speech by a reference to the' daily press, to which might be applied the words of a celebrated historian in reference to the a_e in which he lived—that it was iniquitous without punishment and without remedy. Lord JOHN RUSSELL did not think that the independence of the judges could be compromised by a motion like the pre. sent, but he was nevertheless of opinion that nothing but the most important considerations ought to induce the house to give its acquiescence to such a motion. The fault of the charges of Lord Abinger was that they entered into political matter in conjunction with legal explanations, which were thus calculated to confuse the grand jury. Indeed the uni versal satisfaction expressed at the charges of Chief Justice Tindal was in itself a proof that there must have been some. thing objectionable in the charges of Lord Abinger, or they would not have excited such general animadversion. He had introduced his political knowledge where his legal know ledge only was wanting; and perhaps from over zeal for the vindication of the law, he had introduced politics into his charges unwisely and intemperately. He should, however, vote against the motion of the hon. member for Finsbury. Sir J. GRAHAM concurred both in the practical conclusion of the noble lord, and also in the general principles he laid down. In his opinion such a motion as the present should not be agreed to unless they were convinced that badness of heart had led to the perversion of judgment. The right hon. gentleman then proceeded to define the duties of a judge, and said he had no doubt but that Lord Abinger had honestly performed his duties, and had done nothing which could call for the reprehension of the house. Mr. S. CRAWFORD supported the motion, and expressed his opinion that the sentences passed by Lord Abinger were unnecessarily severe. Mr. WATSON said he felt it his duty to vote for the in quiry, on the simple ground that a grave charge was made against Lord Abinger, and the house was therefore bound to hear the evidence. There were many things contained in the noble lord's own pamphlet which were deserving of re probation. Mr. CARDWELL believed he was the only member of that house who happened to be present when Lord Abinger de livered his charge, and he therefore was entitled to make an observation. (Hear, hear.) The present was a motion for inquiry, and he would venture to prophecy that it would not be granted ; and he hoped neither the hon. member for Finsbury nor the hon. and learned member who had last addressed the house would imagine for a moment that any supposed identification with that noble lord in political ' opinion would tempt him (Mr. Cardwell) to rise up and bear false testimony. He hoped he should not give either biassed or exaggerated testimony of what he had witnessed on that occasion, and he hoped and trusted he had sufficient regard for the honour of that profession, of which he was an un worthy member, not to be peculiarly sensitive regarding the honour and character of one of the ornaments of that pro fession. (Hear, hear.) He recollected one expression which had made the great gravamen of the charge against Lord Abinger—he meant the occasion on which the noble lord had told the prisoners at the bar, that in his opinion the govern ment had exhibited too much leniency, and that he should have passed, had he been there, a much more severe sentence. If the house divested the case of its political and party bear ings, and tried Lord Abinger's caution and observations to the prisoners and to the jury by the test which might be fairly applied—namely, that of any other crime against so ciety, it would at once be seen that his language was exactly that which best befitted the circumstances under which the persons upon whom he was passing sentence were situated. He had heard the noble lord's manner on that occasion described as superinhuman ; and would observe, that it was a difficult task to describe correctly, or with any propriety, the manner in which any particular charge or other discourse might have been delivered, and which might have excited admiration in those who heard it. But he would say that the acumen. the judgment, and the correctness of legal knowledge which distinguished the noble lord's conduct to the prisoners, whilst it was his duty to give them every facility for proving their innocence, and the just and forcible manner in which, when they had been pronounced guilty of the crimes laid to their charge, Lord Abinger expressed his abhorrence of their conduct, and pointed out its dangerous tendency, were such as to command his highest respect; and he was convinced, that had his honourable and learned friend heard the noble lord utter those sentiments, he would have thought as he did, arid have voted as he would do on the present occasion. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE replied, and said he had heard nothing to induce him not to take the sense of the house upon the question he had brought before them. The hon. gentleman amused himself and the house at the expense of Sir James Graham, whose former attacks on Sir James Scarlett, when he called him a recreant whig, he contrasted with the praise he had lavished on him that night. The house then divided, and the motion was negatived by a majority of 228 to 73. ... On the motion of Lord ELIOT leave was given to bring in a bill to empower justices of the peace in Ireland to act in certain cases relating to places to the rates of which they were chargeable. Leave ;as also given to bring in a bill to amend the bill relating to pawnbroking in Ireland. --~►- - HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY Mr. S. CRAWFORD gave notice that, on the first night of supply, he should move that the voting of the supplies should be postponed until the estimates of expenditure should be considered with a view to their reduction. On the motion of Mr. LIDDELL, the house went into com mittee on the Personation of Voters Bill. After some conversation, Sir JAMES GRAHAM said, he did not think the offence of personating voters prevailed in England to such an extent as to call for an alteration of the law, and if the bill passed at all, it ought to be made applicable to the whole United Kingdom. It was the intention of the Government to bring in a Regis tration Bill for England and Ireland, but he could not Elberptiol otanDart. FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1843 On Monday evening a question was put to the Home Secretary, by Mr. Ferrand, the reply to which is, we rather think, significant of something more than the mere words outwardly imply. The enquiry of Mr. Ferrand was, " whether the government had made any investigation into the causes of the late out breaks in the manufacturing districts, or whether they intended to make such investigation." The reply was as follows :—" On a former occasion a gentleman had been sent down by government for the purpose of col lecting and marshalling the evidence upon the subject to which the hon. gentleman's question referred. That evidence had, in part, been brought before a compe tent tribunal; parties had been convicted upon it, and some were undergoing the punishment of the law. Another portion of that evidence was still to be investi gated. But true bills had been found upon it, and the parties would he tried upon it on the 4th of April. He was of opinion that all the facts of the case would be brought beforJOat tribunal; and that the question would then be really brought out who were the parties responsible for the dangerous disturbances which had taken place." Of course, Sir James Graham referred to the trials of Southam, O'Connor, and others, which, it may be remembered, were traversed, and are to come on at the ensuing Spring Assizes at Lancaster. If such be the case, we firmly believe, with him, that all the facts, as to the origin and the causes of those " dangerous disturbances" will come out—that much more will be disclosed than will he convenient and pleasing to some people who are at this moment hugging themselves in fancied security, and sufficient to convince the world, if it even do not convince the legislature, of the dan gerous character and incendiary working of a certain body which it is quite unnecessary for us to mention. Up to this hour, the recent disturbances in the manu facturing districts are boldly set down to the account of the Chartists alone. It will be in tke memory of most of our readers, that the only case in which there was any probability of a complete investigation into the whole question—the case of Hutchinson—was quashed by that party being prevailed upon to plead guilty. The evidence, therefore, in the hands of go vernment has only in part been brought before a legal tribunal. There is " another portion" still to be in vestigated—the connection of Chartism with the dis turbances in question; and we are much misinformed if that investigation does not " bring out" the con nexion with them of another kind of agitation, and a somewhat different kind of agitators, to those to be placed at the bar of justice. Perhaps we may be treated with a little information as to the movements and deliberations, during the turnout, of those parti cular friends of the Anti-Corn-law League—the " senting ministers" ! The Manchester Guardian, we observe, has stepped forward as the apologist of Mr. Richard Cobden, and treated the world with a laboured essay upon the pro per interpretation to be put upon the language recently directed by that personage towards Sir Robert Peel. Mr. Cobden, he informs us, only meant by the "indi vidual responsibility" of Sir Robert Peel, his respon sibility as premier. Why, so the man told us himself. But why, we ask, at such a time especially, whilst one misguided man is already waiting his doom for a murderous attack levelled at Sir Robert —at the man, and not the mere abstract idea of the Prime Minister— labour to impress upon the national mind that it was his hand which alone kept immersed in poverty and wretchedness an entire people Of course it was "as a minister" that Sir Robert was to be held " individu ally responsible ;" and it would be as a minister only that an assassin would dream of directing his weapon against him. Unfortunately, you cannot shoot the minister without depriving of life at the same time the man himself. Really, we must suggest to the Guardian, that this kind of shuffle is very paltry. It matters not at all whether the " individual responsibility" spoken of by the Stockport M.P. was intended to imply personal responsibility or not, except so far as regards the ques tion whether the man who used the expression is a deliberate inciter to bloodshed, or only a madman or a fool. In themselves, there is nothing very startling. in long before they the terms used. All the world knew, were uttered, that Sir Robert Peel and every other prime minister of this country is individually respon sible for the consequences of their policy. But when viewed as an adjunct to a fierce agitation, in whc he passions of a suffering people Are studiously sought to be wrought upon to frenzy,—when we have already before our eyes the dreadful calamity by which the doctrine of personal responsibility was so nearly exem plified,—then, indeed, there is more than folly —more than mere senseless repetition of an admitted there is crim e i n t h e lightest sign made to poi truth ; point such passions to an object upon which to wreak themselves. Such, we maintain, was the tendency of Mr. Cobden's speech ; and as such we believe that it is viewed by every impartial mind in the community. The Guardian thinks differently, however, and so , i t seems, think the leaguers of Liverpool, Stockport, and Manchester ; for we see that addresses are to be sent up from these towns, in which Mr. Richard Cobden is condoled with as something very like a martyr ! Yes, this furious itinerant is to be complimented upon this new proof of his zeal for free trade ; and we are assured by the Guardian, that the disgust which the proof in question has drawn down upon him from other quarters has attracted towards him amongst the League party only "increased sympathy and encourage ment"! mences% The Liv erpoo l Times of Tu es d ay last com report of a case o f a pp ea l, against an order for the pay ment of p ar i s h rates, with the following g uasi-apolo getic reason for its insertion. " On these occasions," remarks our naive contemporary, it is not usual to admit reporters ; but as one of the cases was expected to be publicly interesting, our own and another re porter applied for admission, and the appellant (Mr. Cowgill) being anxious that they should be present, the magistrates and churchwardens at once consented. We, therefore, subjoin a report of the case." Well, what does the reader imagine was the "pub licly interesting" character of the case in question ? This Mr. Cowgill—a busy personage at vestry meet ings —was summoned for non-payment of his rates, in respect to four different properties. Anything "pub licly interesting" upon the face of so ordinary a pro ceeding as that ? A keen customer must be the re porter for the Liverpool Times, to scent the fact that the case of Mr. Cowgill was different from that of the hundreds of Jones's and Smiths who are made to un dergo the same ordeal, and which cases " it is not usual" for the keen individual in question to bother his note-book about. Mr. Cowgill, however, we see, " was anxious" that the public should look at his case through the spectacles of our contemporary. Was he ? No. But he was anxious that his paltry defence, and the paltry personal attack in which it consisted, should be made as " publicly interesting" as " liberal" jour nalism could make it—that the grounds of a con temptible sneer of a contemptible paper (the Mercury) should be placed before the world; "and hence the pa triotic ardour with which the reporter of the Times, " and another reporter" hurried, pen and inkhorn in hand, to the Sessions House, out of the proceedings there " to tint a moral and adorn a tale" for all future parish -rate defaulters ! And what was this defence—this " publicly-inte resting" defence—of Mr. Cowgill ?We pass over the pretended plea with respect to the item of £350 Os. lod. That was a mere stuffed man set up for the occasion— a " dummy," such as we see in some cigar shops, in the shape of empty boxes, duly labelled with the seductive brands " Habana," "Silviaros," "Principes," and other mystic words, but not intended to be sold. That defence was not the commodity to be vended by our contemporary, or his client Mr. Cowgill. There was nothing " publicly interesting" in it. The inte resting matter for that portion of the public which reads the paper in question was the paltry personal attack sought to be made against an efficient and re spected servant of the parish—Mr. W. Birkett. Mr. Cowgill, it appears, had made the amazing dis covery, that at the time the summons against him was issued—at which time Mr. Birkett was sick, and had as much to do with the issuing in question as the Lord Mayor of Timbuctoo, with whom, as with all g reat men, our contemporary is no doubt acquainted, and in habits of correspondence—that gehtleman was himself owing to the parish a portion of his rates. To those who know anything of the ordinary business o f a warehouse owner, and when it is known that Mr. W. Birkett and his partners pay annually no less a sure than three thousand pounds in parish rates, such a cir cumstance will not appear surprising. In many cases, as was explained by Mr. Birkett's partner (Mr. Dover), " they let parts of warehouses, and the tenants pal the rates ;" and thus, although Messrs. Birkett appear on the parish books as the parties owing money, the tenants are the real defaulters. Moreover, we have their course of business explained by Mr. W. Birkett himself : " they regularly commence paying three months after the rate is laid, and pay up to the end of the year." There is surely nothing, therefore, very startling in the fact that such a firm were, at the time of the issuing of the summons against Mr. Cowgill, less than one third part of their heavy rate in arrear- if indeed it could under the circumstances be called in arrear; and we can only put down the zeal of our contemporary to proclaim the fact, to the wish of the party, of whom he is the tool, to make a set at the cha racter of the gentleman in question. Our wise bro ther, however, we venture to hint to him, has no power to effect the object in view. The public can Be e through the manoeuvres of himself and of his party; and an army of old apple-women might just as welt attempt to take the Tower of London by escalade, es the Times, with his popgun, to force an entry for a mob of praidatory whiglings into the confidence of th e ratepayers of Liverpool. Thank Heaven, we knoll) the gentlemen ! The debate in the Town Council, at their speci sl meeting on Wednesday week,in consequence, probab l y' of its being short, does not seem to have hitherto at ' tracted so much attention as the importance of th e subject under consideration deserves. This town ha s suffered so much from fires, even in the remembranc e of the present generation, that almost any project fo r the prevention of future visitations, speculative o r practical, de man d s i nvest i gat i on ; an d it is on this ground that we accord our sanction to the propositio n Of the Council for asking any requisite powers frol n Parliament. There was in the debate the appearance without the . reality of a differ ence o f op i n i on upon t h e propr i e ty going to Parliament this session. One gentleme n urged delay on the somewhat original ground that the people of London wer e ti re d o f h ear i ng so muc h 0 1 Liverpool affairs; just as if because Liverpool had oh' tained her Improvement and Health of Town Acts in the last session she therefore needs nothing more. On this novel principle we might as well consent at onc e to place the borough in schedule A, and part comPau/ with Lord Sandon and Sir Howard Douglas, for the re would be very little use in sending representatives to an assembly unwilling to be moved with our cause; The dehate, however, as it progressed, gradually worke d a change in the senti ments o f t h e gentleman re f er red i to, and the practical d e t a il s f urn i shed by Mr. S a n' Holme effected his entire conversion. One or in' e other members o bj ecte d to procee di ng on grou nds equally untenable, but as in the case of Mr. G. P . Lawrence, they proved themselves open to conviction ; and, eventually, th e mot i on t h at a bill b e app li e d for was agreed to unanimously. The report of the Special Committee was drawn 1.11 :, in general term s ; an d, consequent l y, i t l a id b are ver; little beyond th e pr i nc i p l e on w hi c h t h e measu re proposed to be founded. Under existing circu s stances it appears to be r equ i s it e th a t t wo di st i n ct hl' er should b e app li e d f or, one b y t h e C ouncil and the otlIA by the Commissioners for Paving and Sewering. general bill on the part of either would involve en l , terference with eac h ot h ers power s, w hi c h , i n t he Pre iv sent case, it is extremely desirable to avoid, not nu', on account of the expense, b ut f or t h e sake o f the Pure lie welfa re . W e assume then that the grounds a d valid and sufficient which have led to the prosPe et e , two bills t o accomplish a common object ; and we 'O,O sume, too, that the execution of the two acts--if t o , acts there should be —will be co-operative and her° In his sp eec h the Town-Clerk furnished solve de' tails of the bill to be solicited on the part of the C ottn ; cil ; from which it i s ev id ent that all the prec anti°o.se which human ingenuity and forethought can d el f l o r to prevent devast a ti ons b y f i re, are to be adopted' instance, iro n i s t o b e used where wood has hither 'ofs prevailed ; prot ec ti ve wa ll s are to be built on the lo between warehouse and warehouse ; a space of si lt re . yards is to be preserved in the front of any new no house ; c er t a i n restr i ctions are to be placed on er warehousin g o f goo d s of a dangerous nature ; dalig ous trades are to b e prohibited from being 01°vi ed 0 0 within a gi ven di stance from warehouses, under Orr' exceptions ; all warehouses are to be registered; t o ll ters therei n are to b e li censed, who, it is propose d ' be d eeme d guilty of misdemeanour, if any " w oo st ful act" or " negligent omission" is proved ag hi them. These, we un d ers t an d , are t h e c hi e f feature s te the bill to be recommended by the Council. . 1%- co ov will certainly be part of the bill suggested by th e he missioners ; it will be of trifling amount, (id. w e ad lieve,) but we forbear discussing any part of the e y tails of t h e i r measure until they have been, as th soon must be, submitted to public consideration: at In a general point of view we have no objecttrthe present, to any o f t h e f orego i ng d eta i ls, except old registratio n o f warehouses, the licensing of porteeore s g the po wer to b r i ng men of that occupation he t . e ut criminal tribunal for any "wilful act" or a n e i - o rare' omission." We disapprove of the registration °i vio nld houses becau se i n t h e event o f any casua li t y it ail' Con throw s ome d egree of responsibility upon the ace A certificat e o f t h e security of the building, w e orti' hend, wo u ld f o ll ow from the registration, which ex ined an i ficate would n ot b e g i ven unt i l i t had been • aa a by the surv eyor, or some other competent o— Ace" ' ha his opinion would, t o some extent at l eas t, ple d promise that they would do so with regard to Scotland during the present session. The right hon. baronet, after some further conversation, suggested to Mr. Liddell the propriety of postponing the further progress of his bill in committee until after the second reading of the English Registration Bill on Monday. Mr. LIDDELL at once assented, and the house resumed. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the Exchequer Bills Bill was read a third time, and passed. Some other business was then disposed of, and the house adjourned. ROYAL LIVER THEATRE FAREWELL BENEFIT OF MR. BUCKSTONE. 'THIS EVENING, (Friday,) the 24th instant "e Per formances will commence with Mr. Bucksto s Comedy SINGLE LIFE! OR, BACHELORS AND SPINS RS. After which, an entirely new Comic Dra is , written expressly for Mrs. Fitzwilli am, r. led FINE FEATHERS MAKE INE BIRDS ; OR, OUT OF PLACE. The whole to conclude with (positively for the last time) the late Thomas Dibdin's Extravaganza of HARLEQUIN HOAX; OR, GETTING UP A PANTOMINE. TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday —occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. TO CORRESPONDENTS The Courier-office was closed when we received the note from " 12, Bedford-street South," or the request (although a very unusual one) would have been attended to. The whole of our Tuesday's impression is sold off.