The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-07 00:00:00

Di):4 4/711ENTLEMEN and FAMILIES will meet with a comfortable HOME, and h attention paid to their wants, at Mrs. MORLEY' MERCIAL LODGING-HOUSE, 28, KING-STIi.T, Cheapside, near the Guildhall. Bed and Breakfast Two and Sixpence. VISIT' NG TO eve every S CO M- STAMMERING REMOVED ON EXPERIMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES. MR. STAFFORD begs most re s p ectfull y to announce to the Nobility, Gentry, Merchants, and the Public ge nerally, that he purposes making a short professional stay in LIVERPOOL. Mr. S. flatters himself that the celebrity which he acquired during his for Mer residence in this town, together with his personal and practical experience during the last TWENTY YEARS, will justify him in asserting, that he will not undertake any case where success may appear doubtful, of which he can determine at the first interview. Operations and medicine ought to be strictly avoided, where there is no organic defect. Mr. Stafford's references are of the highest reepeetabilitty. 31, Russell-street, Liverpool. UST ARRIVED, and will be lande d this da y , 50 Barrels Jof SHADDOCKS and FORBIDDEN FRUIT, at J. MIDDLEWOOD'S FAMILY FRUIT WAREHOUSE, 6, PARICER-STREBT, near Church-street. J. M. recom mends an early application for the Fruit selected for Pre serving, &c. He has also just received a fresh supply of the fine high-flavoured American Pippins, which he will sell in Barrels, Halves, and Quarters ; also, a quantity of Sweet Pot, or Summer Oranges, Pomegranates, Tafilat Dates, Spanish Melons, &c. ; and is constantly supplied with Kent Walnuts, Filberts, and Cob Nuts ; his Raisins, in boxes and cartoons, will be found of very superior quality ; new Jordan and Shell Almonds, French sill Portugal Plums, new Figs, with every Fruit in season, of the best quality ; Spanish and Portugal Grapes, in large and small packages, in the best preservation for keeping ; also, Hambro Ditto, for Desserts ; Preserved Quinces, Pears, &c. &c. ; with an assortment of Marmalades, Jams and Jellies, Olives, Pickles, Sauces, &c. ; also, a few Boxes of fine Portugal Onions. J. M. will pledge himself to sell every choice Fruit under any Establishment in Town ; and he also engages to supply, from his own Establishment, every Article in his advertise ment—an unusual thing with advertisers. The Public are aware his Family Fruit Warehouse has been established, for the sale of choice Fruits, and Patronised by the Nobility generally in the surrounding Counties, for upwards of thirty years. East India Preserved Ginger, in original packages ; best Jamaica Ditto and Limes, in jars lib. and upwards. DEAFNESS CURED. MRS. GARDNER, AURIST, from London, has the honour respectfully to announce, that in consequence of the numerous applications which have been made to her, for an extension of the period to which Abe had intended to limit her stay in Liverpool, Mrs. G. has made arrangements so that she may be consulted on all Diseases of the Ear for a abort time longer, at 73, ESNS/JAW-STREET. * The success which has attended ,her practice during the list fourteen years, in various pats of the United Kingdom and on the Continent, having, 1.05 , its innocence and efficacy, insured her the confidence octhe public and the patronage of the Faculty (as attested le certificates both oral and do cumentary), any further comment on her part is unnecessary, and she merely begs it to be borne in mind that, in cases beyond the reach of art, her opinion may be obtained (per sonally) without the usual fee. . . The late Dr. G.'s Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Ear, may be had at her residence, as usual. Extract from the report of the East London Institution for the Cure of Deafness. :— " Upwards of 200 cases have been cured during the last six months, and we have no hesitation in avowing that our success may be mainly attributed to our having, in most instances, discontinued the dangerous system of operating, and our having adopted Mrs. Gardner's new mode of treat ment by external applications." DUTY ON GUANO.—The Lords of the Treasury have ordered that guano (the new manure) shall be admitted at ss. a ton customs' duty. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following calculation of the last weekly returns of 34 railways, 1,232 miles in length, given in our present number, will, we believe, be of interest: —Number of passengers on 20 railways, 160,977, conse quently, the total for the week must be above £400,000. The receipts for passengers on 34 railways, £47,514 ls. 11d. ; ditto for goods on 25 railways, £17,110 13s. 6d. ; total, £64,624 15s. sd. This is an average of 1..524 per mile per week. The traffic, therefore, is certainly at the rate of more than £3,000,000 a year, and carrying 15,000,000 of passen gers.—Railway Magazine. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF DURHAM.—We exceed ingly regret to state that letters have been received in town this morning, announcing the melancholy intelligence of the demise of the Countess of Durham. Her ladyship died at Genoa, on Friday, the 26th of November, from the effects of a violent cough and sore throat, of about 14 days' duration. The deceased lady was the eldest daughter of Earl Grey, and sister to Lord Howick, and has left behind her four children. She was in the 45th year of her age. The venerable Earl Grey, who is at present at Howick House, we regret to hear is suffering under severe indisposition.—Standard. HER MAJESTY.—On Saturday morning, shortly after 12 o'clock, her Majesty and suite left Buckingham Palace in four carriages, for the Chapel Royal, St. James's, when her Majesty was churched. Divine service was perforated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Bishop of London, the Sub-Dean (Dr. Sleath), and the Rev. Dr. Wes ley. T here were also present His Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Ladies in Waiting, Maids of Honour, Viscount Hawarden, Lord George Lennox, &c. We are happy to state that the Queen is in excellent health. TELEGRAPH PROM LONDON TO DOVER.—The London terminus at the end of Toolev-street, London-bridge, of the telegraphic communication b etween London and Dover has just been finished, and the whole line will be opened in a few days. The intermediate stations are situated on elevated spots, on Forest-hill, Peckham-rye, Knockhoit, Beeches, Wrotham ; Blue Bell-hill, Chatham ; Isle of Sheppy, Whitstable, Herne-bay, Minster, Broadstairs, and Deal. The establishment of such a line of communication will be of the greatest advantage to the mercantile world, as a ship's arrival off the coast can be telegraphed to the owners in five minutes. An experiment was made a few days ago, on the line between Holyhead and Liverpool, when eighteen seconds only elapsed while a message was conveyed a distance of up wards of seventy miles. Messrs. P;okford and Co., the well-known earners, in order to meet their very • extensive and largely-increasing business, have recently erected, on a very considerable scale, at a cost of about £20,000, premises adapted to their trade, in close proximity to the London and Birmingham Railway, and connected therewith by a junction line at Camden Town. The whole was designed by Lewis Cubitt, Esq., and com pleted under his supervision. The arrangements are of the most perfect and unique character, and the building is more vast and extensive than any other in England. STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—On Thursday evening last, a very serious occurrence took place on the river off Rother hithe, by the running down of a waterman's skiff by the Orwell, Wing, master, on her voyage from Ipswich, to Lon don. Two persons were drowned, several others were much injured, and the boat was stove in and rendered a complete wreck. The two who were drowned were John Catlin, a a butcher, and John Catlin, his sou, aged nine.—London Times. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. — Loss of , FOUR OF THE STROMA PILOTS.—The following is an extract from the let ter dated " Huna, Pentland Firth, Nov. 27th :"—" It is my painful duty to inform you of the loss of four of the Stroma pilots in the Pentland Firth, on Friday morning, the 19th instant. They were cited upon a sherifrs warrant to appear at Buswick, South Ronaldshay, to give evidence in an inves tigation at present going on before the sheriff of Orkney. They left Stroma early in the morning, the weather at the time favourable, but a good deal of sea running in the Firth, although it could not be perceived from the island. When near South Ronaldshay, between the Barth Head and the Lowther Rock, about a mile from the shore, a sea filled the boat, which immediately swamped, and the four unfortunate men met with a watery grave. The heartrending circum stance was witnessed by persons on the shore ; but it was impossible to render any assistance, as no boat could leave upon the day in question, the wind being dead on shore, al though the Caithness mail-boat made Buswick in compara tive safety in about an hour and a half afterwards; but by that time the swell had greatly diminished." • The trial of Beaumont Smith, so far as the circumstances attending it, has taken people in the city greatly by surprise, and more still the discharge, or presumed discharge of Ra pallo. Not because that person may not be, and must be accepted as being, innocent of implication in the mal-prac tices.of Smith, but because it cannot be understood on what ground, consistently with the result, he should have been ap prehended and incarcerated. Again, Smith after pleading guilty states that he has made a full disclosure of all particu lars and persons (substantially) connected with these nefari ous Exchequer frauds and forgeries. This confession after being laid before the judge was given up, and remains in the 'possession of Mr. Maule, solicitor to the Treasury. People naturally ask what next ? Are there no parties taken into 'custody, no prosecutions instituted in consequence? If Smith's confession may be believed, he had accomplices ; accomplices more guilty than himself; accomplices who re .. ceived and monopolised all the gains flagitiously made by those tainted Exchequer issues, by which the convict avers he never benetitted to the extent of one farthing received, or participated in, or was cognisant of, any of the stock or other gambling speculations to which the proceeds were devoted ; where then are, and who, everybody asks, these accomplices, and why are they still at large ? It seems clear that other proceedings are in progress, or meditated, at the Treasury, and that some explanation on the subject must shortly be made public. In the mean time it is difficult to say how far the claims of innocent holders may be affected by the extra ordinary turn which the trial has taken.—Morning Hetald. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Sunday morning last, the inhabitants of this town were thrown into a state of me lancholy excitement by a report that Mr. Nathan Shellard, butcher, of Monnow-street, had drowned himself in the river Monnow. Mr.. Shellard had been very lately set at liberty from the Lunatic Asylum at Nllitchurch, since which, he had buried his wife, the loss of whom, no doubt, pressed heavily on a mind scarcely restored to sanity. He was ob served to be very low spirited all day on Saturday, and early on Sunday morning his son, a youth about nineteen, missed him out of bed, he got up immediately, but could find no trace of his father, who had dressed himself and gone out ; at length, being led to the river, which runs at the back of Iklonnow-street, by the dog, and footsteps being very clearly trac e ed down to the river without any track back again, it wss generally supposed he had thrown himself in ; the dog went to the very point of the bank where the footsteps were discernible, as though he had there lost the scent of his mas ter. Boats were immediately provided and persons were dragging the whole of the day, but the river was so much swollen by the late rains that it was a mere chance of finding the body. The river still continues very high, and all at tempts to find the body have hitherto proved unsuccessful. Sisour,Aa CASE OF E LOPEIIENT.—On Wednesday last an application was made for the interference of the police of Reading, under the following circumstances :—A respectable man, living on his own property in the neighbourhood of Basingstoke, whose name we suppress to avoid unnecessary publicity, observed some time ago, that there appeared to be a better understanding between his only daughter and his groom than was proper in their relativesuroc succeeding e apositions,tos youngrfteohfroetruen fortune of dis charged. lady having the expectatioirihoef from £15,000 to £20,000. r charged. Last Wednesday morning, however, the young lady was missing ; and a n alarm being given, it was found that the groom, his brother, and the inamorata had tied about four o'clock in the morning, in a cart. The parents pro ceeded in their chaise to he adin g , and on the Bath road about a mile and a half from the town, they se me e t d ti t i t e le tr his h i o o r r s e: : turning in the humble vehicle . The father iz and, though told by the ex - groo m that the lady was wife, he insisted on their going with h hmm to Reading. Upon their arrival at the Horse and Jockey The brother tried to the police were sent for, and there ensued a most tremendous row. escape, the groom claimed his bride, the mother scolded her the daughter, and the daughter most un dutifu il slappe face. At length the contending parties adjourned to the e. at y d police-office, the fugitives being consigne d to duranc first it was thought that the case was one of abduction, but it turned out that the lady was one month over the a g e of sixteen, which took the case so far out of cour t. It had previously been ascertained that the parties were married on Wednesday morning, at St. Giles's church, by bans, but there are several irregularities connected with the marriage which nuder it invalid.—Berkshire Taper. ‘IVELN J&J%V SUDBURY, Fai DAY, DEC. 3.—The official announcement made yesterday that no further bulletin will be issued whilst the present favourable symptoms in the Queen Dowager's condition remain unaltered, will have donbtless, in all parts of the country, the effect with which it has been attended here ; and the public solicitude, so painfully excited by tile intelligence of her majesty's dangerous indisposition, will now be greatly relieved. Ever since the favourable change which took place in the state of her majesty's health, a gradual but unintermitted progress towards improvement has been visible, but it cannot be expected, even should this continual course of amelioration still proceed unchecked, that her majesty's strength, which has been so much re duced, will be restored until after the lapse of some time. Considering the degree of weakness at one time produced by her disorder, and particularly by the exhausting effects of the fits of coughing by which the Queen Dowager was attacked, her recovery, so far as it has yet gone, and the symptoms exhibited of recovered strength, seem surprising. However, a change for the better is latterly so manifest, that an ex pectation of her majesty's ultimate restoration to the enjoy ment of health is now, with more confidence than ever, entertained by those who have opportunities of seeing her ; and, of course, no means which human precaution can pro vide will be neglected to bring about this desirable result. I have this morning to repeat the statement it has bee❑ my pleasing duty to make every morning for several days back, that the Queen Dowager has passed a good night, and con tinues in an improving state. Every day fresh proof is afforded here of the general interest felt in the country in reference to the present con dition of this angust lady. This village is a very small and a very quiet one, but a few travellers pass through it daily ; and invariably the first question they ask is—" How is the Queen Dowager ?" and when they receive a favourable answer to their query, they proceed on their journey with visible satisfaction. lam told, too, that the anxious desire of the public for her majesty's recovery has been exhibited in some instances in a rather singular fashion. Large doses of medi cine—draughts, pills, and powders—have been sent to Sud bury-hall, by individuals residing in different parts of the country. Each person has forwarded his favourite nostrum with an urgent request that her majesty might be pleased to try its virtue. I feel convinced that none of the parties who have made such liberal presents of their drugs will fail to participate in the general satisfaction, when they learn that, though their physic remains untouched, her majesty is getting better. COURT OF CHANCERY—THURSDAY, Dsc. 2 BLUNDELL V. GLADSTONE The bearing of this part-heard case was resumed. The question arises out of the construction of the will of the late Mr. Blundell, of Ince Blundell, in Lancashire, who be queathed his property to Edward, the second sow of Joseph Weld, of Lulworth. The name of this second son is Thomas, that of his elder brother Edward Joseph ; and when the mat ter was heard before the Vice-Chancellor, his honour decided that the testator intended Thomas to take, and that the other portions of the will left no doubt on the subject. The matter is now reheard on the claim of Lord Camoys, the heir-at law, who alleges that the bequest is void from uncertainty. Mr. Hodgson cited a great number of authorities, for the purpose of elucidating his position, that the court would let in parole testimony in support of the alizged intentions of a testator, when the contest was as to which of two persons were meant to take. and there was no ambiguity or obscurity in the language of the testator. Now it was in evidence that the testator did not know the name of the second son of Jo seph Weld, nor had ever seen him, but, from the language of the will, and from the limitations of the property, it was clear that he intended to givit the estates to the second son, and not to the eldest, and that he intended to exhaust all the male stocks before he proceeded to the female. The con struction attempted on the other side would lead to a totally different result, and make Lady Stourton the aunt of the father of Edward Weld, instead of being, as the testator ex pressly said, his sister. There was no rule of law that could outweigh such evidence as the will afforded of the intention of the testator, nor could any mistake of a name, where the person to take was so clearly designated, invalidate the will. The Solicitor-General has alluded to it as a question of parts, but there were five parts out of six in favour of the title of the plaintiff, Mr. Thomas Weld. The Vice-Chancellor in his judgment had declared that the description of Mr. Tho mas Weld was so clear in the other parts of the will as to outweigh all considerations arising from any mistake in the name at the commencement, and it was unnecessary to re mind the court that where the intentions of the testator were so clearly and decidedly expressed, the mere fact of the claimant being the heir-at-law could have no effect on the question to be decided. Mr. TURNER and Mr. WITHAM appeared for Mr. Edward Weld, some infants, and other defendants, but having inte rests the same as those of the plaintiff. They contended that it was not probable the testator would pass over the head of the family of Weld, in favour of the possible issue of Mr. Edward Joseph Weld, who was unmarried at the commence ment of the suit. That the testator intended persons then living as the objects of his bounty, might be inferred from the care which he exhibited with regard to very valuable heirlooms, and which might be injured or spoilt before such distant devises could take effect. It was also plain that the testator did not intend that the Blundell estate should ever be consolidated with that of the family of Weld, or of Lord Stourton, who married the sister of Mr. Joseph Weld. The ' learned gentleman quoted '• 4 B. and Ad. 67., 1 Ves., and Bea. 422." and other cases. Sir W. FOLLETT, in reply, observed that it was now clear that there was to be no discussion on any doubtful expres sion's in Mr. Blundell's will, but that the Court was asked by the other side to make a new one for him. It was evident from the wills prepared by Mr. Blundell's direction in the years 1821, 1827, and 1834, that he perfectly knew the state of Mr. Weld's family, and the Christian names of its mem bers. He should contend that it was the manifest object of Mr. Blundell to found a family in the second son of Edward Joseph, the son, and not in the person of Joseph, the father. There was no evidence that the testator used the name of Ed ward for Joseph by mistake in conversation, for the testimo ny of Mrs. G. Weld was inadmissible, as it went to show the intentions of the testator from expressions used by him after the date and making of his will. He would also contend that no case had been adduced, or could be adduced, which tended to show that the Courts would strike out the name of a devisee accurately described and substitute another. Mr. Blundell might well intend to create a new family in the per son of Edward Joseph's second son, whose name he knew well, and whom he correctly described as Edward Weld, of Lulworth, Esq. No incongruity in other parts of the will would induce the Court to alter the name of the devisee, whether as to heir-looms or anything else. Mr. Blundell, a Roman Catholic himself, could never have made his will under the impossible supposition that Cardinald Weld, elder brother of Mr. Joseph Weld, would ever have a son. This was a question of law, and the heir was not to be disinherited except upon judicial certainty as to the devisee ; and the Vice-Chancellor was wrong in assuming the description of Lady Stourton as sister to the intended devisee to be correct, when, in fact, she was the aunt. The recut of the case was, that where there was a devisee named, and a description so accurate that no competition could arise, the Courts would receive no testimony tending to substitute another person. Where two persons were accurately described, and the devise might apply to either, the Courts would receive evidence as to the party meant, but they had gone no further. The learned gentleman then commented on the cases cited against him, which, he said, left the principle untouched, that where a devisee who could take was clearly pointed out, no evidence could be received to show the intentions of the testator to benefit a party different from the one described in the devi sing part of the will. He concluded by praying, on the part of the heir-at-law of Mr. Blundell, that the Court would at least declare that the plaintiff was not entitled. The LORD CHANCELLOR intimated in the course of the day that he could only sit a very short time on Thursday next, and would therefore take motions on Friday. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE (From Saturday's Oxford Herald.) In a congregation holden on Thursday, the following degrees were conferred : MASTERS OF ARTS Robert Henry Bentley, New Inn Hall, Grand Compounder Rev. George William Cockerel', Queen's College. Matthew Inglett Brickdale, Student of Christ Church. William Hughes Hughes, Christ Church. Rev. Augustus Otway Fitz-Gerald, Balliol College. BACHELORS OF ARTS. James PowellMarriot, Balliol College, Grand Compounder. Edward Levien, Balliol College. Robert Sumner, Balliol College. Charles S. P. Parish, Edmund Hall. Robert Walker, Lincoln College. Montague We bster, Scholar of Lincoln College. Alexander Rhind Webster, St. Mary Hall. Edward Ellis, St. Mary Hall. William M. E. Milner, Christ Church. Philip Chabert Kidd, Christ Church. Joseph Macintosh, Christ Church. Jacob George Mountain, Postmaster of Merton College. Archibald N. C. Maclachlan, Exeter College. James Townend, Oriel College. John Kitcat, Oriel College. William Duncan Bathurst, Fellow of New College. Francis Edward Thurland, New College. Charles Wilson Heaton, Jesus College. James Addams, St. John's College. Thomas Henry Roper, St. John's College. Thomas Hammond House, Worcester College. William Thomas Hutchins, Worcester College. Henry John Torre, University College. On Wednesday last, Mr. Algernon Bathurst, Scholar of New College, was admitted actual Fellow of the same. On Monday last, Messrs. Ralph Robert W. Lingon, BA., and Scholar of Trinity College, and Edward Kent Kerslake, 8.A., and Student of Christ Church, were elected Fellows of Balliol College. Edward Watford, late of the Charter house, and Commoner of Balliol, and Edwin Palmer, of the Charter-house, were elected Scholars of the said Society. On Wednesday last, Messrs. Robert Price Williams, 8.A., Leonard Charles Wood, 8.A., and John Morgan, Commoner of Jesus College, were elected Scholars of that Society. The Rev. Wm. Darnell, 8.A., of Corpus Christi College. and Chaplain to the Duke of Buceleuch, has been appointed to the Perpetual Curacy of Bamburgh, Northumberland ; pa trons, Lord Crewe's Trustees. The Rev. Henry Radcliffe Surtees, 8.A., of St. Mary Hall, has been licensed, by the Lord Bishop of Worcester, to the Curacy of Henley in Arden, Warwickshire. The Rev. Edwin ProCigers, 8.1 i.. of Trinity College, has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, to the Rectory of Upton Lovell, Wilts, void by the cession of the Rev. John Vaughan ; patron, the Lord Chancellor. The Rev. Henry Masterman Barlow, 8.A., of Wadham College, has been licensed to Christ Church, in the parish of St. Clement, Norwich, on the nomination of the Reverend Arthur Leighton Irwin, Rector of the said parish. PROISIOTIONS Rev. John Bentley Waiters, M.A., to the Vicarage of South Stainslev, Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Reynard, M.A. ; patron, R. Reynard, Esq. Rev. G, Platt, to the Vicarage of Sedbergh, York shire ; patron, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. Rev. Robert Moulton Atkinson, M.A., has been instituted, on his own petition, to the Rectory of Great Cheverill, Wilts, void by the death of the Rev. Robert Torres. Rev. R. H. Tripp, to the Vicarage of Altarnun, Cornwall ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. Rev. Jos. Betton, to be the Incumbent Minister of Beres ford Episcopal Chapel, Walvvorth. Rev. John Benson Skipper, M.A., of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of Asbchurch, Glouces tershire, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Henry Pruen of Oriel College, Oxford. Rev. John Geale Uwins, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Matthew at Ebley, in the parish of Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, void by the cession of the Rev. H. W. Bowles Daubeny •, patron, T. C. Croome, Esq., of Caincross. The Bishop of St. David's has appointed the Rev. D. T. Thomas, Vi car o f T re l ec h -a ' r- B ettws, to b e R ura l D ean f or le Deanery of Upper Carmarthen, on the resignation of the Rey. J. Jenkins, Vicar of Mydrim. MA LONE v. O'CoNNoa..—We are authorised, in the most unqualified terms, to contradict the paragraph which ap peared in the Morning and Weekly Register of the 27th inst., wherein it is stated that the above suit has been compromised. It is true, a compromise has been offered by the defendants to the effect therein mentioned ; but it is not, nor will it be, ac cepted by the plaintiff, who is determined to prosecute his chums to the utmost of his po wer and ability. We have this chumthe best authority.—Dublin E ve ni ng P acket. )n) 1 N 1) 1 D From Yesttrday's London Titneic A By an extraordinary express from Marseilles, we have received in anticipation of the overland mail tiles of all the newspapers published in the several presidencies of India, together with letters from our correspondents in Bombay and Calcutta. The steamer Berenice, kvhich conveyed the mail, left Bom bay, November Ist, and arrived at Suez on the 20th ult. The mail reached Alexandria early on the morning of the 23rd, and was immediately despatched to Marseilles, where it arrived on the Ist instant. . . . . . The intelligence which we have received by this mail is not of a striking character. There had been no arrival at Bombay from China since that of the Atalanta steamer, with news to the 24th of August, which was taken by the mail of last month. The chief topic of interest now is the visit of Tharawaddie to Rangoon, whither he is accompanied by some hundreds of thousands of soldiers and rabble. The British residents at Moulmein have been highly alarmed at his approach. Va rious opinions hare been current as to his intentions, some being of opinion that he will proceed to attack Moulmein, if the opportunity be favourable. Under these circumstances,' the Government of India had been most active in sending troops to defend that important position. A strong fleet of steamers had been got ready from Calcutta and Bombay. It is confidently asserted that Tharawaddie, who is accompanied by his wives and children, does not desire war ; nevertheless, every preparation is made by the British to prevent a sur prise. The rumour has been repeated of expected disturbances in Nepaul, but nothing positive is known on the subject. An officer has been despatched by the Supreme Government to examine and report upon the proceedings of the Sikh in vaders in Thibet. It is also asserted that diplomacy is at work, and that a treaty, offensive and defensive, has been entered into by the Sikh Chief, Shere Singh, with the Go vernment of India. _ Sham Soojah is said to have been dangerously ill: his death would contribute to produce a different feeling in some of the tribes of Affghanistan, among whom he is very un popular. Sir W. H. M`Naghten, the British Envoy at his court, who was lately named governor of this presidency, would, as it is now stated, not come to Bombay for some months. His experience of the Affghans may render his presence there at this period u matter of high importance. Earl Auckland has, it is said, refused permission to a Russian prince and agent, who was anxious to travel in the Punjaub. No intelligence of importance has reached us from Herat or Persia. _ _ In Scinde the freebooters continue their old system. Major Outram, the present political agent, is about to ex hibit his active and energetic movements, which will, it is to be hoped, lead to a good result. Nusseer Khan, whose wanderings caused so much trouble during the last twelve months, has at lentil been placed on the throne of his father in Khelat, and has signed a treaty of alliance and friendship. The lessons of the last year will, no doubt, prove useful to him during life. The disturbances created by the unruly Arab troops in the service of the Nizam have been put down. A number of the prisoners have been tried and sentenced to transportation, but only one to be hanged• Sickness has prevailed among some of the regiments quar tered at Bombay ; of the 17th Regiment, a portion wns sent to sea for a trip in conseauenee of the fever prevalent in the unhealthy barracks at Colabah. Among the remarkable matters in which the natives are concerned may be mentioned the fact, that a young Hindoo widow is about to be married at Calcutta to one of her own caste. The marriage of widows is a new step in Indian civi lisation. A young Parsee, who some months ago was bap- tized under the care of one of the missionaries, notwithstand ing the utmost efforts of his wife, his parents, and his relatives, has returned to his former faith, because the friends of his young and beautiful wife, who had become a widow on his embracing Christianity, threatened to have her married to another. The Bombay Bank, which has an excess of capitakis now . . discussing with the government of India the right of estab lishing branch banks wherever it suits the views of the shareholders. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-SATURDAY EXCHEQUER BILL FORGERIES Saturday being the day appointed for the trial of Edward Beaumont Smith for the forgery of exchequer bills, the court was crowded at an early hour. On the bench were seated Lord Mouteagle, Sir T. Trowbridge, Sir J. D. Paul, &c. At ten o'clock Mr. Baron Parke entered the court, and, the prisoner being placed at the bar, the case was immediately called. The Attorney-General and Solicitor-General appeared on the part of the prosecution; and Sir T. Wilde for the prisoner. . _ _ Mr. Clark, the clerk of the arraigns, directed the prisoner, Edward Beaumont Smith, to be placed at the bar. The prisoner immediately ascended the flight of steps at the back of the dock, and presented himself to the court. He was well dressed in a suit of mourning, and is a well looking portly man, having a gentlemanly address. He looked exceedingly pale, and was evidently considerably em barrassed. He bowed respectfully to the learned judge and the court. The prisoner was indicted for uttering a forged bill, with intent to defraud Dudley Montague Perceval, in two other counts he was charged in like manner with intent to defraud Lord Monteagle. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and read the following address, under feelings of deep distress. After a few introductory remarks, he went on as follows . " Pecuniary difficulty, arising from misplaced confidence, and unconnected with discredit, and of very limited extent, not exceeding a few hundred pounds, although be yond my means to meet, first exposed me to the sugges tions of those who tempted me to obtain a temporary relief by the fraudulent fabrication of exchequer bills, to be pledged for a short time, and then to be redeemed and can celled for ever. I yielded to the temptation, but without ob taining the promised relief, and once committed I became in the power of the tempter, and my retreat has been prevented. Allured and beguiled by a plausibility, power, and talent which 1 could not resist, I became intangled beyond escape; and while exchequer bills were obtained from me to an enormous extent, I never derived benefit even to the smallest extent necessary to relieve me from my comparatively trifling em barrassments, and I am at this moment in debt for money actually borrowed from sources unconnected with exchequer bills to pay off my original incumbrances. A sordid or avaricious motive has never influenced me, and I have been sacrificed to the objects of others. Whatever speculations may have been carried on by those who have used these ex chequer bills, no profit, or even account, either of moneys raised or speculation entered into, or of the losses or gains which have resulted, have ever reached me, and never was intended to do so. Year after year bills have been wrung from me, under pretence of redeeming and cancelling those outstanding, in order to prevent discovery ; and afterwards, by the repeated misapplication of them, the necessity was created for more to accomplish the original purpose ; and thus the frightful issue which has taken place was occasioned. If those yet unstained by guilt could appreciate the horrors which attend a course of crime, no sentence of the law would be necessary to warn and deter them from entering upon it. I am born of a family upon which disgrace never lighted till now ; educated in principles of integrity and honour, I have lived respected, and I believe, esteemed ; and I have enjoyed the confidence of many highly honourable persons. lam now, by my own confession, a guilty criminal, exposed and trembling at the bar of justice, and shrinking with agony from the gaze of my former friends. If any there are who are disposed to think my principles and education aggravate my crime, let them forbear their censure till they have also estimated how much they deepen my condition and aggra vate my punishment. I have lived for years in the certain anticipation of this dreadful hour, and knowing that it was certain to come, except, overborne by my own feelings, I should escape it by a still greater crime, or by flight, uncer tain how soon the period of detection would occur, every day and almost every hour has awakened somealarm lest it should have arrived, and that my character, station, and comfort, were destroyed for ever. My lord, during the time that has past, I have had the guilty means and strong temptation to use exchequer bills to raise sufficient money to enable me to fly, and thereby escape my present disgrace. But, however the word honour may be supposed to be prostrated by s.ny using it, I yet declare that I have been restrained from fly ing or raising money for such a purpose, because 1 knew that in my absence suspicion would arise that others had been either negligently or criminally instrumental in the com mission of the fraud, and that public alarm would be the consequence to a greater extent than the evil justified. Dur ing the long period of my distress, therefore, although I was overcome, and induced to continue the commission of my offences, to avoid meeting immediate disgrace, and forbore to make a full disclosure of my previous conduct, which I had often desired to do, I yet always resolved that whenever the time of discovery should come that . I would remain, and instantly avow myself as the solely guilty official person, and make the best reparation in my power, by preventing unnecessary alarm and agitation to the public, and that I would bear, with whatever pain and remorse, the whole consequences of my guilt, and not permit the innocent and honourable persons in office, whether high or low, to be exposed to unjust suspicion. However guilty, therefore, I yet am voluntarily a prisoner, and destitute of means, hav ing acted under the influence of feelings much more conso nant with my general character than are the acts which have brought me to this bar; and you, my lord, by the deposi tions before you, will have learned that with ample opportu nity to escape, and when suspicion had not in the slightest degree alighted upon me, I, unasked, made to the respect able solicitor of the Treasury the most distinct confession that I was the sole official author of the mischief, and instantly submitted myself to the doom which now awaits me, and which presents the prospect of the remainder of my life bereft of everything that can render life desirable, and as a means only by its continuance of protracted punish ment to me, and of wretchedness to those near and dear to me, and who are interested in the fate of so unhappy a being. The only use of that life now must be to enable me, by the fittest disclosure of every part of the transactions, to diminish the consequences of my crime, and, as much as possible, to offer the only atonement in my power; and, dreadful as every one perceives my present situation to be, I can declare, that, whatever may await me, the horror cannot equal what 1 have endured during the years of anticipation of the dis covery of my guilt. My lord, I await your lordship's sentence in a spirit of respectful submission, and repeat that I know my crime has been great, but I also feel assured that iu the execution of your high functions, and in the judicial censure of my offences, your lordship will never be unmindful that mercy is the best attendant upon justice, and that while the best of men need to cry aloud for mercy at heaven's bar, it should not be forgotten in the administration of justice upon earth." Mr. Baron Parke then made some feeling allusions to the position of the prisoner, and hoped the statement he had made would have a good effect. The learned judge concluded by sentencing the prisoner to transportation for life. Inquiries were made by many persons in the court with regard to the case of Rapallo, who, it will be recollected, was committed to Newgate with Smith, but this individual was on Thursday taken before the grand jury as a witness for the prosecution, and the court has since ordered him to be de tained until the close of the session, when he will be dis charged. There can be no doubt that many highly important disclosures will yet be made to the authorities with reference to this extraordinary case. LONDON MONEY-MARKET, Scc SATURDAY EVENING.—This has been a quiet day i n th e funds, Consols firm at 88a buyers for account ex dividend. Exchequer Bills Os. to Ils. premiu m. Bank Stock 164 A to A. India Stock 243 to 5. The Spanish speculation continues cooling down. Th e Active with the Coupons declined to 231 to A. Portuguese Five per Cents 331 to ; the Three per Cents 191 to 201. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 511 to : L the Fi ve per Cents 994 , to 4. Belgian 100 A to lA. Brazilian 583 to Oi. Mexican 25 to A. Columbian 20-/- to The bond fever seems more rapidly cooling in Madrid than here. The Five per Cent. Spanish Stock current and scarcely to be had a few days since in the market there, according to accredited advices and the private c orrespondence of the Herald, at 36 and above per cent., was at the latest accounts plenty and to spare at 31. The fall therefore was greater than what was stated under this head in this mornings publication as having become known in the city yesterday, doubtless by extraordinary express. A statement of the shipments of Tallow from St. Peters burgh this year shows that there have been sent off this year, or as yet partly to arrive, 74,679 casks to London ;, 14,466 to Liverpool ; 10,916 to other ports of E n g land ; 6,293 to Ireland ; and 6,776 to Scotland—total, 113,130 casks ; while to foreign ports the exports altogether have been only 22,374. w THE cittUNTY c;1 DUMPliit Ti.Aiafi (Abridged from the Dumfries Th'ald of 2nd Dee., 1811.) At a meeting of the principal noblemen and gentlemen of Dumfries, held yesterday, the Marquis of Queensberry in the chair, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : Ist, That it appears from the report of the commissioners of railway survey, that they give a decided preference to a line from Lancaster by Carlisle, Beattock, and the Vale of the Clyde, to Edinburgh and,Glasgow. 2d, That in the event of no decided steps being taken within a reasonable time, to carry through the line, the com missioners recommend that the Government should encourage a line through the eastern districts of the kingdom. It is therefore Resolved,—That there appears little reason to suppose that a Railway will be carried through this county, in any other direction than that alluded to ; and as the Grand Junction, and other Railway Companies in England, and in fluential parties at Carlisle and Glasgow, in conjunction with the landed Proprietors on the Line recommended by the Commissioners, are taking active measures for prowoting this undertaking; and as it seems to the gentlemen present to be of vast importance that this great commnnication should pass through this county, they agree to give their cordial co-operation in endeavouring to secure this advan tage. 2dly,—That with this view they now place the sum of £2OO at the disposal of the District Committee at Lockerbie, to be by them applied in the manner they shall think most advan tageous for securing a general parliamentary survey of the whole line from Lancaster to Edinburgh and Glasgow. SHEFFIELD CANAL COMPANY v. SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTE OF I'HE JUDGMENT OF THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS IN THE ABOVE CASE, ON SATURDAY, THE 4TH OF DECEMBER, 1841. The bill in this case prays that a sufficient sum of money should he invested for payment of an annuity of £lOO, and that the plaintiffs should be allowed to receive the same, on the foundation of an agreement alleged to be constituted by letter. It appears that in 1835 the Sheffield and Rotherham Company applied to parliament for an act, and in which they proposed making provision for payment of the annuity. This bill passed the Commons, but was rejected by the Lords. In 1836 the application to parliament was renewed, and the act again passed the Commons, but did not contain any provision for the plaintiffs. On the 18th of June in that year (1836) one of the firm of Messrs. Badger and Vickers undertook to pay the annuity of £lOO, but this proposal was objected to. On the 20th of June Mr. Wake wrote to Mr. Vickers, stating that the matter must be arranged by an investment. This letter was clearly an attempt to renew the negotiation. Messrs. Bad ger and Vickers replied thereto by stating that they had no objection to comply with his proposal for an investment for payment of the annuity, but adding a proviso for its deter mination on certain events. Thus the cesser of the annuity was provided for. Mr. Wake requiring an investment before the bill was proceeded with, the negotiation again failed. Mr. Wake required an investment and a declaration of trust, and if his terms were not acceded to, he stated that he should oppose the progress of the bill, and would see Lord Wharncliffe and another Peer, and get them to stay proceed ing with the report. Mr. Vickers said he would also see some Peers, and induce them to get the report brought up that night. I think Mr. Wake could hardly have been aware of the effect of his own statement. The report was brought up that night without opposition. Mr. Wake saw Lord Wharncliffe on the 21st of June, and wrote to Messrs. Badger and Vickers, saying that he had seen his Lordship, and agreeing to accede to the terms of the agreement. It is singular that be did not see Messrs. Badger and Vickers without delay ; but he sent his letter and seems to have thought that thereupon a binding agree ment was entered into. The witnesses for the defendants have been under some misapprehension as to the time of the receipt of this letter. The bill simply relies on the agreement constituted by letters ; but if an agreement is verbially rejected, the agree ment is at an end. The party rejecting the offer cannot restore it without the consent of the other party. Mr. Wake rejected the offer of Mr. Vickers of the 21st of June, and I ant of opinion that a binding agreement was not entered into, an; therefore this bill must be—dismismissed with costs. CHI3ItCH RATES The strenuous opposition which has been afforded to the imposition of a church-rate in the parish of Braintree, in Essex, has formed an epoch in the ecclesiastical history of England. It served to awaken churchwardens to theirduties, and to the proper modes of carrying them out, while it gave an opportunity to the law to revive and spread abroad among the people, in the most emphatic terms, the obligation of each parish to repair its church ; so that there is not left the slightest loop-hole wherein ignorance and obstinacy may shelter themselves. The opposition to the rate in question was indeed successful, but the conquest was of a truly Pyrrhic character. The Court of Exchequer Chamber, sitting "in error" from the Court of Queen's Bench, decided that the particular rate was bad, because the churchwardens had made it of their own accord, and without the intervention of a parish meeting, the majority of a former meeting having re jected the rate proposed by the officers. Such was the abstract point there decided ; but Lord Chief Justice Tindal, in delivering the judgement of his learned brethren, affirms, in the most positive language, the common-law obligation on the part of the parish to repair the church, while it is left as a matter on which very little doubt would exist, whether the churchwardens by the assistance of the minority at a parish meeting, may not legally make a rate in spite of the factious opposition of the majority. This decision has been followed up by others, and especially by one within the last few days, where Dr. Lushington, in the Consistory Court, expressed himself in the following tes ms " The parishioners of the whole parish are bound to repair that church ; that is, the body of it ; and this obligation was imposed, not by ecclesiastical law, but by custom, by the common law of England, recognised by various statutes. It is not the ecclesiastical law which imposes such burdens ; for, by the ancient ecclesiastical law, it was to be defrayed out of the ecclesiastical profits. Neither could the ecclesias tical law have produced any such effect here. Unless recog• nised by common law, or enacted as law by statute, it was and is wholly inoperative in this country. This obligation to repair, as imposed by common law, is recognised by all the common-law authorities, by Lord Coke, and, indeed, before his time in other courts ; but by Lord Coke and by all au thorities who followed him, down to and including Lord Chief Justice Tindal, and the judges of the Court of Ex chequer Chamber, as expressed in their judgment in Veley against Burder.' The obligation is further recognised by various statutes, from the time of Edward the First down to the present day. It is again recognised in all the acts of Parliament of modern times." When we see that the opposition to Church-rates has pro duced such a fruit as this, that it has succeeded in eliciting not only a judgment in favour of their legality, but that it has demonstrated a method of making and enforcing them in spite of itself, we do not think that Church-loving England has been laid under an obligation far heavier to dissent than that from which dissent so vainly seeks to disentangle itself by that opposition. There was a tune when great doubts were entertained as to the power of the churchwardens, when they had to deal with a majority of sturdy Dissenters, bent upon throwing every impediment in the way of their office. The difficulty, however, has now vanished, and dissent itself has evoked a sentence from the Bench which will for ever put an end to parochial declamation. The race of " village H AMPDEN'S" will soon become extinct, for of what avail will it be for them to attend vestry meetings, and make fierce harangues, when the churchwardens, and one good man and true, will sit quietly by, and after the fuss is over, proceed to make a rate according to the exigency of the time. ROMANTIC STORY (From the Weatord Independent.) The following communication, bearing a real signature, which we suppress, at the request of the writer (who alleges, as his reason for making such request, that he is intimately acquainted with the parties), has dropped in our letter-box. Although it borders rather on the marvellous—he who would perceive " Helen's beauty in a bower of Eeypt" often cuts as Quixotic a figure in love's annals as .the hero of our tale. The principal discrepancy of the narrative, in our opinion, rests on the extraordinary belligerent propensities of all the parties—scarcely one of them escaping intact. Most persons must have heard of the two cats, whose pugnacity was not satiated untill they ate each other to the tails—but let our informant speak for himself : "LOVE AFFAIR EXTR A ORDINARY " I understand that an honourable intimacy existed some years ago between a young man of the name of M-, from near Castle Ellis, in this county, and a Miss A P , also in this county, which continued until ab ou t f our y ears ago, when from some particular circumstances, the young man discontinued paying his addresses, but renewed them within these three or four months back, and on last night proceeded to a place convenient to her dwelling, where she met him, in order to elope with him. They had not proceeded two miles from the house, where they intended to meet a con veyance to carry them, when they were overtaken by her brother and three other young men, who, o n com i ng up w i t h the fugitives, insisted on her returning home. She refused in the most positive raaner ; and on her lover interfering in her behalf, one of them cocked a pistol at him, which with the most courageous bravery he wristed from his hand, and broke it on his skull. Young P- immediately attempted to shoot him, but was prevented by his sister seizing the pis tol, when a terible combat insued between the hero of the scene and the other young men, M- still holding the pistol in his hand. One of the young men got his arm broken, his shoulder slipped, and his collar-bone fractured, and the other is at present in a very precarious state from the effects of a kick in the abdomen. But just as M had gallantly de feated them both, P escaped from the grasp of his sister, and struck him on the head, which knocked him down, and afterwards beat him in a cruel manner, and left him for dead on the road. He then obliged his sister to go home; and M- was got on the road and conveyed to a house con venient, when a doctor was sent for, and I understand that hopes are entertained of his recovery. J. " H . -• " P.S.—lf you think this worthy of publicity, I hope you will be so good as not to attach my name or address to it, as lam intimately acquainted with the younz lady's family. I understand that Miss P— has, independently of her family, one thousand pounds, left by an uncle." TRIBUTE DAY AT BORRISOKANE.—" How are you, Mrs. M- ?" (the collectors are addressing a respectable woman of this parish)—" You are welcome, Mrs. M—• " " Mrs. M , this is the collection for Dani e l O'Connell." This lady, through a feeling of delicacy, and to get rid of impor tunity, paid on Sunday last 2s. (id. to the O'Connell annuity. " Come, boys, make way ; the people can't see what we are about"—" Success, Tom ! always stood to your country ; brave fellow ! " and then a half-suppressed cheer. Such scenes as these ought not to be enacted near a house of worship, and on the Lord's-day. —From the Rev. James Birmingham's recent Letter to the Dublin Monitor. MOST DISTRESSING AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—About half past six o'clock on Monday evening week, as the Rev. Henry Allwright Hughes, a magistrate of the county of Devon, re siding at Clannaborough, his wife, son, and a lad, (a servant,) were returning from a visit they had paid to the Itev. Geo. Garrow, at Bundleigh,—the son being on horseback, and the others in a four-wheel phaeton; on arriving at Ilayne Bridge, which crosses the river Yeo in the parish of Zeal Monach orum, the waters had risen to such a height that the son rode forward to ascertain if a passage was practicable, and having informed his father that the road was passable, the Rev. Mr. Hughes drove forward into the water; but, whether from the bad state of the bridge, or velocity of the current, is not known, the phaeton was precipitated into the river; and the son and the horse which he rode were also swept away. Just at this time, providentially, Mr. Wm. Ribbings, of Zeal Monachorum, and his son, went down to see the height of the water, and in their way met a man who said Mr. Hughes was in the water. They immediately ran to the river, and after great and hazardous efforts succeeded in rescuing Mr. Hughes, who was in a very exhausted state ; but we deeply regret to add, that no traces could be found of Mr. Hughes, their son, (Mr. George Hughes, about 17 years of age,) the servant lad, or the horses. Their is a deep weir pool j ust below the b r id ge , an d i n t o w hi c h the carriage and those in it , the son, and horses were plunged. Mr. Hughes and his family, consisting of nine children, including Mr. G eor g e Hughes, who has thus untimely perished with his mother, were held in the highest estimation. The bodies of Mrs. Hughes and her son have since been found, but not that of the servant. The Rev. Mr. Hughes, on being rescued, was conveyed to the residence of the Rev. Mr. Stranger, of Zeal Monachorum, where lie at present is.—Exeler IZyiAg Post. kfitslvralt,RovAL, Liventora FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. LYNN! —Third Week First and only appearance of Mr. TILBURY of Mr. W. J. HAMMOND. etN WEDNESDAY EVENING next, the B th instant , V Colman's Comedy of _. THE P66R GENTLEMAN./ Sir Robert Bramble Mr "Tilbury. Doctor 011apod.. Mr. W. J. Ham nd. Lieutenant Worthington Stuart. Corporal Foss Stephen Harrowby M laiter. Frederick Bramble . Mr. Holl. Lucretia Mac Tab SINGING AND DANCING. THE KING'S GARDENER. Monsieur Galocharde Mr. W. J. Hammond. AN ADDRESS ON THE DRAMA, written for the occasion, will be spoken by Mr. Lynne. To conclude with THE ROBBER'S WIFE. Larry O'Gig .... Mr. Lee. Sawney Macfile .. Mr. Baker. Mark Redland Mr. Lynne. Rose Miss Cleaver. Tickets to be had of Mr. LYNNE, 109, Richmond-row ; at the principal Music Warehouses ; and at the Box-office, where places may be taken. TII EATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISS HONNER AND MR. H. 144. LL. (A N FRIDAY next, the 10th instant, Hoyoft's Comedy ki of THE ROAD TO RUI . Goldfinch Mr. W. J. H mond. Old Dornton.... Mr. B r. Harry Dornton Mr. H. Holl. Jacob Mr. Slaiter. I Widow W ren.. Mrs. Clarke. Sophia Miss E. Honner. After which the new Interlude of THE BOARDING SCHOOL. James Mr. W. J. Hammond. Captain Harcourt Mr. H. Holl Mrs. Grosedenap Mrs. Clarke. Miss Mite • Miss Honner. To conclude with, never acted here, written by Mr. H. Holl, as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, the Nautical Drama of WAPPING OLD STAIRS. Tom Garland Mr. H. Holl. Phoenix Mr. Baker. I Capt. Spanish.... Mr. Lynne. Mary Miss Homier. Tickets may be had of Miss E. HONNER, 74, Russell street ; of Mr. H. Flom., 15, Hotham-street ; at ROCKLIFF and it,Lts's, Castle-street; and of Mr. MINSTER, at th? Box-office of the Theatre. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL Second Night of ELA, the OUTCAST/ . Extraordinary and Novel SCENES in the ARENA. Second Night at Half-Price of the YEW TREE RUINS. THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the th, and TO MORROW, the Bth December instant he Perform ances will commence with an entirely new Dr ma, entitled, ELA, THE OUTCAST; Or, The GYPSEY of ROSEIIIA DELL. Rocket Mr. Howard. I Ela. ... Mrs. Nunn. Agatha Mrs. Emery. I Norma.. lk .F. Carman. SCENES IN THE A NA, by Mr. Kite, Master Auguste, and Mr. Wells. To conclude with the Drama of THE YEW TREE RUINS; Or. the WRECK, the MISER, and the MURDERER. Valentine, Mr. H. Howard. I Cain Kyon, Mr. H. Beverly. Nancy Nibble...... Mrs. F. Carman. Beatrice Pedruth The Box-office open daily, from Eleven till Three, when places for the Boxes may be secured on application to Mr. F. CARMAN. Centre Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Side Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, ls. 6d ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price at Nine o'Clock ; Centre Dress Boxes, 2s. ; Side Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit, ls. No Second Price to the Gallery. Private Boxes may be obtained Nightly for Families. A limited number of Season Tickets. Stage Manager, Mr. H. BEVERLY. TO CORRESPONDENTS We believe there can be no truth in the report mentioned by our correspondent, " A Liberal," that Mr. W. Rathbone had the smallest hand in the composition of the " betters of Junius." His juvenility, in the first place, forbids the supposition ; and the superior elegance of style and powers of reasoning displayed in a recently-published letter of Mr. Rathbone, addressed to Mr. George Hall Lawrence, although " written amidst the interruptions of business," most convincingly rebuts the assumption that he could possibly be Junius. We cannot find room for the letter of a correspondent, who signs himself " Ego," upon the school question, and con sider his proposed mode of settling it quite inadmissible in principle and impracticable in detail. The proportion of the number of Romanists and Dissenters paying taxes to that of Protestants, has really nothing whatever to do with the allotment of the funds of the corporation to the pur poses of education ; and the admission of the principle of our correspondent would at once establish the right of sectarians to claim a similar portion of the funds devoted at present by the corporation to the payment of the clergy of the established church within the borough. Upon the same principle we might be required to contribute to the payment of Social missionaries, and to the purchase, for educational purposes, of the New Moral World, as the intellectual food of the infidels who congregate at the Hall of Science. libtrpoot &-tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 1841 The ex-Colonial Secretary was quite safe in intimat ing to the Plymouth Deputation that trade would be set free according to their desire, when the " peaceful but powerful voice of the people of England and Scot land had declared in its favour. When that event takes place, there can be little difficulty in conceding to his lordship, that the landlords of the kingdom may begin to tremble for their rents, and the agriculturists for a remunerating price for their produce in the mar ket. We are not to mistake the voice of hired agita tors and well-paid lecturers, nor even the voice of the factory millionaires in their leagues and connections, for that of the people of England and Scotland. The mere class interest of cotton spinners or manufactures is not the people; nor, much as this class may desire to impress the public mind with the opinion that the prosperity of every other is involved in those measures which they consider of prime importance to them selves, have they yet been successful, to any extent worth speaking of, in producing the required impres- The noble lord, when speaking in this way—when telling them, in another sentence, that " if the people are united, prohibitions and prohibitory duties will share the fate of civil disabilities on religious grounds" —in using this language, we say, could only have in tended to administer a cordial to the drooping spirits of agitation. He felt that it was necessary. Nobody doubts that the little lord is thorough game ; and, without a revival of agitation of some sort, and of this as the most feasible at the present moment, how should he enter the arena as leader of the opposition, in the approaching session, with that fierce and well-supported attitude which he feels within himself a spirit so doughtily predisposed to assume ? The union and voice of the people of England and Scotland, if the last general election be any criterion on the subject, have been exhibited in pretty strong and direct contra riety to the views of the anti-corn protection abolition ists. " Free Trade" could then call no spirits from "the vasty deep;" and the substantial flesh and blood Of the yeomanry, as well as a considerable portion of the bourgeoise and handicraft population, or, in a word, of the conservative democracy of the kingdom, de clared, in a voice not to be mistaken, that our home grown corn must not be sacrificed to the visionary theories of a class, however importunate or influential. We make no doubt, however, that the " pack" will respond to the call of the opposition leader ; the very crack of his whip is music to their ears ; and the chase is, in itself, their greatest delight, independently of all results. It was perhaps in obedience.to this su►mnons that the gallant Colonel Thompson, " whoever he is," made his bow to a Liverpool audience, at the Queen's Theatre, last week, and delivered himself of the lecture which we have since read in the Mercury. The com mittee of the " Operative Anti-Corn-Law Association " were, it seems, quite in dudgeon because the eminent and gifted minister of St. Jude's did not appear to have any knowledge of the anti-corn law colonel. " Not to know him," said they, " would argue thyself unknown." But that ignorance on the subject might no longer be pleadable, they invited Mr. M‘Neile to attend at the lecture, and be astonished. " By attending at the theatre," said they, " you will learn a few particulars of a steady and consistent op ponent to the absurd and cruel corn laws." New we will not say but that this might be so ; we will not say so, because we were not present at the lecture ; but this we will affirm, that, judging from the report in the Mercury, if a person had gone to the theatre desiring only to gather a few particulars concerning the ances try and personal history of the gallant lecturer, he would have returned home just as wise as he went. The colonel neither commenced—" My name is Thomp son ;on the Grampian hills," &c.—as he should have done, to satisfy the expectations held out by the com mittee of the Operative Anti-Corn Law Association ; nor, modest man, did he speak at all of himself in any part of his address. Mr. Charles Holland, the chair man, in introducing him to the meeting, deemed it quite superfluous to give any account of so well-known a warrior in the anti-corn law army. It was sufficient, he said, to name the individual—they all knew him ; so that on whichever side we turned, there was no such information to be gained as that so distinctly promised by the inviting committee. Anything on this subject was only to be collected from the talk about corn; and wily in tttt way tilai committee meant flu the colonel ,;to optrative anti Mr, MrNeile should be made better acquainted. The colonel, they conceived, would make himself known in a workman like way—as a carpenter by his chips, or a good fiddler by his performance,—and were anxious to direct atten tion merely to this point. Now as we were not present when the colonel " wiped his mouth and thus began," nor at any part of the oration, (as we have already intimated,) we shall speak of his merits only as we are enabled to judge of them from the efforts of the reporter. And with this proviso, we must say that whatever laurels the gallant officer may have gathered on the battle-field, either of love or war, we are inclined to think that if he has ob tained any in the corn-field of political economy, it must have been less from any extraordinary prowess of his own than from a singular defect of it in the enemy, or perhaps from his never having any enemy to cope withal. His first argument proceeded upon the pleasant as sumption (exceedingly pleasant, to be sure, to the own ers of the soil) that when machinery and manufactures begin to press on the supply of food, the native agri culturists must give place to foreigners. If they at tempt to defend themselves, and insist upon an equit able protection, they are to be denounced as bread taxers, Unbends, and monopolists ! " Had they," (viz., the agriculturists) asked the colonel, " any patent from the Almighty for the possession of the upper soil more than others had to the under soil and the water ? Did Heaven create them first ?" Yes, most potent colonel, Heaven did create them first ; did create agri culturists before cotton-spinners ; at least it is coin monly supposed so. They are in possession before you; and all the plans of confiscation and robbery are not the agriculturists' but your own. His colonelship next speaks most complacently of our outward-bound vessels returning home with corn, and all the advantages which would result from the exchange of our manufactures for the corn of foreign A pleasant picture, doubtless, so long as prices are maintained at an amount remunerative to the domestic agriculturist, and so long as this foreign trade is free from interruption. So far, all is smooth water and fair weather; but, on the other hand, de press the agriculturist by ruinously low prices, or let this foreign trade be disturbed by war, or other causes, and what will then be our position ? We shall be more dependent upon foreigners; our native self-sup- countries, port will be at an end ; we shall be enslaved to enemies or rivals ; and England will be England no more. The other arguments of this great gun of the opera tive anti-cornists are neither one whit more far-seeing nor more proVident than the first we have noticed. As to his opinions on machinery, emigration, and other topics, they may be vastly profound; but as we are still unanswered as to who the propounder is, we have not thought it necessary to examine them at length. We shall only say, in conclusion, that if all the anti corn law meetings which may take place between this and the meeting of parliament, in pursuance of Lord John Russell's or any other liberal agitator's sugges tion, prove as harmless and inefficient as this small affair at Liverpool, in which the gallant colonel has cut so poor a figure, home-fed England may very well consider herself safe from the hands of the destroyers for another twelvemonths at least. Amongst the other business to be disposed of at the meeting of the Council to-morrow, is the motion o which Mr. Bolton has given notice, and which is it these words : "That it be an instruction to the Education Committee, that the children of Roman Catholics shall not, in the Cor poration Schools, be required to use or read any book what ever against which their parents or guardians may have conscientious objections." If this motion should be carried, it would, at the first blush, be equivalent to a confession of incompe tency on, the part of the Council or their Committee, to frame any determinate, comprehensive, sound, and unexceptionable plan of education whatever, and would imply that they ought to cease from attempting a work which they have neither the capacity to understan nor the firmness to conduct If this motion we carried, some other sect (as the Socialists, for instance) might require, in the following week, that their chil dren " should not he required to use or read any book whatever against which their parents or guardians may have conscientious objections ;" and in the following week some other " denomination" might take up the position ; and if the Council yielded in one instance, they would be bound by every tie of common con sistency to yield in every other; and the end would be, that their schools would become a common nuisance— a disgrace to themselves—and a plague to the corn munity Mr. Bolton pays the Council the compliment of asking it to frame and attest a record of its own inca pacity. But this is not the worst feature of the overture ; for, further, he asks them to set their seal to this plea of fatuity in a matter, and upon an occa sion, and, we may say, by an instrumentality which involves the highest and most momentous considera tions concerning which it is possible for human judgment to be exercised. The Council is the appointed guardian of the rights, and privileges, and interests of Liverpool ; and nu• merous as are the trusts reposed in its hands, it wil be admitted that there is none to be compared wits that of preserving to the people the sacred truths of religion, and handing down to the rising generation the invaluable lessons and instruction which we have ourselves received from our fathers. The Council is now engaged in the high and honourable task of repairing breaches which have been made by a resolute enemy from without, and a treacherous party within— of renewing the foundations and restoring the buttres ses, as well as proprieties of every kind which had suffered seriously in an evil time; and at this moment a proposal is made that the Council will halt. in this work, give up their projects of reparation and amend _ . ment, and abandon those fruits of their long and hard. fought struggle, which alone made victory valuable Such a proposition could only come from a deadll enemy, or a most mistaken and deluded friend. Le us look more narrowly into the matter. The conquest which put the schools beyond the controul of Conservatives, and caused them to be constructed on their still unsubverted basis, was that of Popery and Infidelity combined. That untoward state of things and the fortunes incident to it, how ever, has happily passed away, and the Conservative and religiously Protestant party are now restored to an ample measure of power and authority. Still, there is some unaccountable tardiness and hesitation in their measures. Week after week has rolled on, and still the schools—modified, controuled, directed, nay, absolutely constructed by the united wisdom of Popery and Infidelity—remain untouched ; and Popery and Infidelity begin to take courage, and have con cluded that they never will be touched, or touched to that vital extent which they in. their weak moments had anticipated. The constituents of the new Council are at a loss to understand this, and grow impatient ; there is a flame gathering, and it will break out, if the Council do not hasten in their movements ; the people of Liver pool demand their award. The question is extremely simple, and the choice of the Council narrowed to this precis e dilemma—the four Popish priests of Liverpool, or the reverends the rectors and all the clergy of the Established Church in a body ? By which of these two bodies will our Council abide ? That is the question. The Popish priests protest against children of th eir communion praying with Protestant or Church of En, {- land heretics, and against their reading our Scriptures ; the clergy of England's church will not acknowledge the Pope-given rights of the ministers of the Pope's church to put an extinguisher on the Bible, or to si lence the voice of prayer, or to dictate to governors or freemen in this our land, and will not therefore give their sanction or dedicate any portion of their valuable time to schools in which such presumptuous, unjusti fiable, and mischievous interference is permitted. With which body then will the Council side ? There is no middle course left them ; they must declare for Popery or for Protestantism; we demand their reply. It is perfectly useless to argue the question any fur ther; we are in a cleft stick, and shall find ourselves only more tightly coerced by the alternatives which press us, the further we advance. It only remains to inquire what should be the grounds, if any exist, of the reluctance of any Con servative member of the Council to give in his adhe- 110 vitg of tho r to discover them. There ia nothing of the sort to be found in the declaration made by each member of the Council at his initiation, but, on the contrary, much that seems directly to bind them to it. The declaration is as follows : DECLARATION UNDER GEO. IV. CAP. 17. re I. A. B do solemnly and sincerely in the psence of God, profess and declare, upon the true faith of a Christian, that I will never exercise any power, authority, or influence , which I may possess by virtue of the office of alderman (or common councillor) of the borough of Liverpool, to injure or weaken the Protestant Church, as it is by law established in England, or to disturb the said church, or the bishops and clergy of the said church in the possession of any rights or privileges to which such church, or the said bishops, and clergy, are, or may be by law established. Here is a declaration against doing any act "to injure or weaken" the Protestant Established Church; and we put it to any honest and candid member of the council to say, what is the tendency, or, rather, what is absolutely the nature and character of that act which would give to Popery a footing within our public schools—would recognise the authority of popish priests—sanction their bad acts—confirm their evil tyranny—and, finally, banish the established clergy and a host of Protestant children from these institu tions ? Would the doing of such an act be consistent with a declaration "never to exercise any power, au thority, or influence required by the office of councillor or alderman to injure or weaken the Protestant Church" ? It would be manifestly otherwise ; it would be a gross and pernicious violation of it. Popery is the grand enemy, in these days, of our religious institutions,—and now we shall know by their decision of the pending question, whether the municipal council of Liverpool is on its side—on the side of our most deadly foe, or otherwise. , Liverpool is the Therrnopyle of religious truth ; the council are appointed to defend the pass ; and it is 1 10 hyperbole on our part to say, that the entire nation feels a deep interest in the stand they make at such a But again we ask, what is the difficulty in the waY )f the council to act a faithful, a manly and decided )art ? Are they surprised to find that Popery and Protestantism cannot concur—that if they choose the Clergy they cannot have popish priests, or if they choose popish priests they cannot have the clergy — that light and darkness—the systems of God and Belial, cannot be made to blend They would be glad not to exclude either, or any party,—but we will not allow ourselves to suppose that they entertain ideas so chimerical or absurd. We are not now discussing a secular or temporal question ; we have got into a higher, and, it must be confessed, a more stormy re gion. If we were merely debating some point of general education, our difficulties would be trifling, or, perhaps, none at all : they arise because we are grap' piing with questions of religion. We have determined that the education in our schools shall not be Socinian, Popish, or latitudinarian ; we have determined that shall be based upon true religion ; and hence the controversy Now, we ask the conservative members of the council are they still inquiring with Pilate, " What is truth" ? or have they made up their minds on the sub ject ? If they have, then let them be confident, and give to others the benefit of that instruction which they have received themselves. In the schools they must , under existing circumstances, have either no religion at all, or the religion of the Church of England. What room is there for hesitation ? Gentlemen of the council permit us earnestly to re commend it to you, to close at once with the views of your excellent associate Mr. David Hodgson ; they meet with the full approbation of the vast majority of your constituents ; his straightforward, manly, and uncompromising conduct on this question has won him golden opinions of all sorts of men. Be assured of it that in following his example, and coinciding with his plans, you will be pursuing the path—the only path alike of duty and of honour. With regard to the self-stultifying, self-condemning, suicidal motion of Mr, ex-Mayor Bolton, we presume you will have little difficulty in disposing of it. LOCAL NEWS Some of the members of St. Jude's Church, Liverpool, have remitted, by the hands of the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, the sum of £137 14s. to the fund now raising for the endowment of the protestant bishopric of Jerusalem.—London Record. The Nottingham Journal, of last titer-giving an abstract of the sermons preached by Mr. M`Neile, at the opening of the new church in that town, on the preceding Tues day, e , nrluL!es with the followicg observations :--" Mr. 11• Neile is, unquestionably, one of the most accomplished orators of the day ; he has the advantages of a commanding figure, a finely expressive countenance, and a voice capable of the most eloquent modulations ; his action is graceful, dignified, and impressive ; his sermons are delivered extem poraneously, but his language is admirably chosen, tree from all turgid bombast, and his sentences as perfectly constructed as in a written composition ; his mind is richly stored with general knowledge, as his apt and beautiful illustrations, drawn from natural history, the researches of philosophy, and the discoveries of mechanical science abundantly prove ; while, like some we read of in the days of the apostles, he is " mighty in the Scriptures ", and adddresses himself to his hearers with the earnestness and fervour of s man who speaks as if eternity, with all its awful and sublime realities, hung on his message. The collections on Tuesday morning amounted to £99 Bs. Gd., and in the evening of that day to £Bl Bs. Gd., making, with the Sunday collections, the libe ral sum of £228 13s. 2d. CONCERT AT THE ADELPHI.—Mrs. Palmer, a very ac complished musician and talented singer, announces a concert to take place this evening, at the Adelphi. It is anticipated that the room will be well and fashionably attended. MRS. ST. ALEIN.—We understand this talented pianiste is about to have a farewell concert in Chester, previous to her taking up her permanent residence in this town. CHESTER THEATRE.--Mr. Raymond has opened the Theatre Royal, Chester, for a short season. The Liver season commences on the 24th December. The interior is undergoing a decorative process, which will render it a perfect bijou of a theatre. SERIOUS AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Saturday night, Nov. 27th, as two of the gamekeepers, in the employ of Sir Wm. Stanley on his estate at Stourton, were taking their nightly rounds g they discerned several persons near the preserves, and with great courage instantly seized two of them, the others making their escape ; a desperate struggle ensued, in which the keepers got severely wounded ; they were at once taken to Mr. Gorst's surgery, New Ferry, where every assistance was rendered them, and we were glad to find them sufficiently recovered to attend before the Rev. R. M. Fielden and J. D. Case, Esq., at Birkenhead, on Friday last, when they identified two of the men who had been taken up on suspicion. The culprits were tined £5 each, and, in default of payment, were committed for two months to hard labour. THE NEW CHURCH IN WARWICK-STREET.—In our last we noticed the consecration by the Lord Bishop of Chester, of the new church in Warwick-street, erected and endowed by the munificence of Mr. John Gladstone. We have now the pleasure to state that on Sunday divine service was celebrated, for the first time on the Sabbath, by the Incumbent, the Rev. Mr. Wilson, a gentleman whose zeal in his sacred calling is calculated to extend the blessings of religion among the poor of that destitute neighbourhood. The sermon of the rev. gentleman, in the forenoon, was a rapid sketch of the nature and duties of the Christian minis try, illustrated by the character and labours of St. Paul. The text was selected from the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, 4th chapter and sth verse :—" We preach not ourselves but Christ Jesus the Locd, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." From these words he established two propositions— first, that Christ Jesus must be affectionately set forth as the cause of our receiving forgiveness at the hands of Almighty God ; and next as the cause of all the holiness and good works which we possess, the cause of that holiness without which no one shall see the Lord. Having amplified and proved these propositions, the rev. gentleman magnified his calling, at the same time showing that the ministers of the church of Christ are servants for Jesus' sake, in offering up prayer and praise, in administering the rite of baptism, in the preparation for confirmation, in the solemnization of holy matrimony, in the visitation of the sick, and in the adminis tration of the sacrament. In conclusion, he supplicated the prayers of the congregation in his behalf, to perform these services to their edification. There was an excellent atten dance on both the services of the day. The church is a hand some structure, very commodious, and contains an excellent organ. COMMITMENTS.—At the Police -court yesterday, a woman named Eliza Smith was placed at the bar, charged with robbing Daniel Jones, of two half-crowns. The complain ant said he was talking to the prisoner in Tithebarn-street, when he missed a half-crown from out of his waistcoat pockets. He felt the other pocket, in which he had placed another half-crown, but thought he felt it safe. A police officer came up, and apprehended the prisoner, in whose possession he found two bad penny pieces. On asking the complainant to look at his remaining half-crown, he took out a bad penny, similar to those found in the prisoner's hand, and which he had mistaken for his half-crdwn. The prisoner afterwards dropped a half-crown in the street, which the officer picked up. She was committed for trial. — Dorothy Owens was charged with stealing three shawls, &c., from the shop of Mr. Theodore Clarke. The prisoner had been in the service of the complainant, and being sus pected by him ; he had her box searched, when he dis covered some of the property. It was also proved that she had pledged two shawls with one pawnbroker, and one with another. She was committed for trial.—Alice Irvin was charged with receiving a dozen of articles of wearing apparel, the property of Mary Ann Park, knowing them to be stolen. The complainant had sent a little girl with the things to be mangled in Comer-street. The prisoner's daughter met the girl, gave her a halfpenny to go on a pretended errand for her, and meantime made off with the articles. From the de scription given of her she was traced to Preston-street, and t :he articles were found concealed under the bed, It ap t eared that the prisoner must have been cognizant of their t eing in the house, bat she denied all knowledge of them. S he was committed for trial. Her two daughters, who had al 'so been taken into custody, were discharged. CAPTURE OF JAMES KIRKIIAM.—Our readers will recol let I that a short time ago James Roberts and James Kirk ha m were charged before to Sir E. S. Walker, with stealing soi ne poultry belonging Mr. John Snelson, of Poulton. Th ey were detected by some watchers belonging to the Mar qui a of Westminster, when after a desp rate struggle they sue seeded in sec urin g Roberts, h ut Kit ham eluded their vig (lance. Since t hen the p olic e have be actively engaged on the look out for him, and we are happy to say that thr. 'ugh the vigilance of our special h h constable, Mr. Pal mer, assisted by Douglas and Grov , he was taken at Tra nmere, and from thence sent to the safe keeping of Go ver. ttor.Dunstan, to take his trial with his worthy partner. 1 of 1 'we trY