The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-08 00:00:00

Tll E 'LI i" EltJr U , arliannittarp roretbings. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. IRELAND. ta ---- An earthquake at Batavia has destroyed some sugar Another of the murderers *of Mr. - Lloyd has died from HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. mills, many public buildings, and several lives. fever. The house resumed its sittings this day at five o'clock, _ _CAPTURED SLAVERS.—In November last, more than Of 743 deaths of I r ish me di ca l p rac titi o ners, of which at which time the Lord Chancellor took his seat on the 100 slave vessels, t a k en by the' English cruisers, were the causes h ave b een sta t e d, 331 .were occasioned by woolsack. Petitions were presented against the admission lying at St. Helena, awaiting adjudication, or for sea after typhus fe ver . of Jews into Parliament ; for a law to prevent denuncia their condemnation and sale. On Saturday, as th r e e y oung m e n were s hooting on the tions from the altar in Ireland ; in favour of the removal On the arrival of Espartero at Madrid, the authorities ice, on Lou g h ag h er y l oc h, th e ice broke and they were of civil disabilities for religious opinions ; and two from placed two fire-engines before his house, ready, in case of drowned. numerous officers serving under the Poor Law, praying disturbance, t o discharge plentiful streams of water on C RIME IN G ALWAY .—M r. O'H ara, recor d er o f Gal for the establishment of a superannuation fund for their the crowd hich assembled to welcome him. way, sentenced eighteen persons to transportation last support in old age, out of stoppage , to be made from their TTALY.—It is stated that the Pope is quite ready to week. In the county gaol there are 800 prisoners. own salaries. recognise the rights of Switzerland as to the expulsion of Government intends to send a-reinforcement of consta the Jesuits ; and the secularisation of the convents will b u l ary t o every town l an d i n I re l an d w h ere an ou t rage o f In answer to a question from the Earl of Hardwicke, The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, the question relat- slot be regarded by him as an attack upon the Roman a Whit e b o y c h arac t er i s comm it te d. ing to the state of the national defences must necessarily Cast_heozhl:icwrees theligiOn Thursday night last, the wife and three children of be brought on first in the other house. His noble friend terror caused among the English residents a su b- cons t a bl e , a t R a th cormac , were suffocated by sleep near him, who presided at the Admiralty would be ready at Palermo, by the insurrection in that capital, that a i ng w ith a p an o f c h arcoa l i n a room i n w hi c h there was to answer any questions upon this subject. lady named Backhouse is said to have died of fright, on no chimney flue. board the war steamer Bulldog, which was sent to protect A faction fight took place a few days ago in the north HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. English subjects. of Ireland, at Donaghadee, when a man named Bowden A considerable sensation was produced in London, on lost his life. Two men have been committed to gaol in reply to Mr. ROBINSON, Thursday morning, by the account. which appears to have charged with the homicide. a Lord PALMERSTON stated that a correspondence bad reached Paris, by telegraph, that the King of Naples bad A po or o ld w id ow , seven ty yea r s old, named Murphy, taken place between the United States minister and the rec ognized and proclaimed the constitution of 1812 in the living near Doneraile, was brutally murdered on the 28th government on the question of -the Navigation Laws ; capital. ult. in her cabin, by a youth, who, after sadly mutilating and the government of the United States bad intimated Such is the extent to which vineyards have been planted the poor creature with a garden spade, decamped with all their intention to co-operate with the British government in New South Wales, that a single landowner, Mr. the money he could find, which was only sevenpence. in effecting such a relaxation of the Navigation Laws as M'Arthur, has made in one year 17,000 gallons of wine, He has b e e n comm itt e d fo r the murder. the parliament of this country might think necessary to some of ;MA, when bottled, - has - been sold for 20s. a Some Irish writers seem to entertain singular notions make. The answer returned to that intimation was an dozen at Sydney. of respectability, for a Dublin journalist describes the ma expression of satisfaction on the part of the British go- The Government of India have resolved to allow gistrate who was lately shot in an affray with one of the vernment, and an assurance that a proposition should be £lO,OOO a-year for some years to come, to be bestowed coroners of Roscommon, who was executing a writ, as laid before parliament for their consideration. The noble on experiments on the cultivation of tea on the banks of being, "though an improvident, a highly-respectable Foreign Secretary said he would not Object to lay the cor- the Beas, in our newly-acquired Sikh dominions, and in gentleman of good fortune, but by no means remarkable respondence on the table. Simla districts. Sir J. Davis has been directed to procure for his observance of law or good morals." Lord G. BENTINCK moved for a select committee "to a supp l y o f see d , an d to sen d f rom th e fi rst tea gardens CONVICTS.—Nine convicts have already been left for inquire into the present condition and prospects of the in China some of the best cultivators that can be found. execution, in the county of Limerick, for murder, eighteen interests connected with, and dependant on. sugar and MEXICO.—A court-martial was,iit was said. to be held are transported, and twenty-fonr imprisoned for different coffee planting in her Majesty's East and West Indian at Vera Cruz, to try Generals Worth and Pillow, and periods. In Clare, five are left for execution, and a large possessions, and the Mauritius." It .had been repre- C o l one l D uncan, on the charges preferred against them number transported. At Tipperary fourteen persons sented to him by those who were interested in the pros- by General Scott. General Lane had a skirmish with the have been sentenced to execution, and sixty to transpor perity of the East and West Indies and the Mauritius, Mexicans at Matamoras. The Mexicans were defeated, tation. that their interests were in the agony of death, and that and several American prisoners were thereby liberated. The repeal rent plunder in Ireland still continues, and, they might expire altogether whilst they - were discussed Li eutenan t Rid ge l ey , w h o ac t e d as ass i s t an t- a dj u t an t - sa d to say, is permitted. It amounted to £169 last week. in a committee up stairs. It therefore became incumbent general, was killed. As t o th e reveren d co ll ec t ors o f thi s ren t, one or t wo on him to consider whether he had any chance of obtain- The Colonial Church Chronicle for the present month things is quite clear; either they are devoid of all truth ing for the East and West Indian proprietors any substan- announces that new Colonial Sees will be established in and are rank impostors, or devoid of all charity, and there tial relief by any vote of that house. Now, on recollect- the following order :—Sierra Leone, Western Australia, fore not Christians. If the misery of the people exi s ts ing the fate of his motion in July, 18 4 6, to maintain Agra, (Northern Ind i a) ; Tanjore and Tineevelly (South- not, how dare they assert it ;if it does exist, how dare they colonial protection, when only 130 votes were given in its ern India) . China, the Mauritius, and Prince Rupert's aggravate it by extortion ?: favour and 265 against it, he felt it to be a hopeless task, Island. A is also being raised for a Missionary A DISTINGUISHED BENCH OF MAGISTRATES.—The considering that no addition had since been made in the Bishopric in Borneo. Our contemporary anticipates that following gentlemen have, within the last few years, usu number of those members who supported his views on one, at least (China), will be sent out this year. 1 ally attend the sittings of the Cashel bench of magistrates : protection ' to change his former minority into a majority. GROWTH OF COTTON IN INDIA.—Mr. J. A. Turner, of --R. Long—father shot, himself twice fired at ;W. Mur- Ile therefore was of opinion that the West India body Manchester, has advices from India, stating, on the au- phy—father shot ; Samuel Cooper—brother shot ; Leo had no good case against him when they blamed him for thority of the government collector of the Dharwar dis- nerd Keating—nephew, Mr. Scully, shot ; E. Scully— mot taking a more resolute course on the present occasion. trict, that there are at present at least 20,000 acres of cousin, Mr. Scully, shot ; Godfrey Taylor—cousin, Mr. In proposing his present inquiry, he did not preclude New Orleans seed cotton under cultivation in that dis- Clarke, shot ; William Roe—slot ; C. Clarke—brother, either himself or others from lending his or their support trict, and that, had it not been for the deficient fall of shot; a nephew, Mr. Roe, shot. to any subsequent proposition which might be made for rain last monsoon, there would have been at least 60,000 One of the saddest features exhibited at the Tipperary the relief of the West Indians ; but looking at the de- acres under cultivation. The cultivation of cotton is ex- special commission was the affected want of interest among plorabie state of our East and West Indian possessions, tending fast into the Nizam's cou n t r y, an d a l so i n t o B e l- th e l ower or d ers. N ot more persons atten d e d t h e courts and-of the Mauritius, and looking, also, at the memorials ffaum. than at any ordinary petty sessions. John Lonergan's of the merchants in the great seaports of Londo n, Liver- b DESTRUCTION OF CHAGRES BY FIRE.—By the arrival brother (he who was convicted of the murder of Mr. Roe) pool, and Glasgow, whose liabilities amounted to £6,600,000 of the Avon, we have the melancholy tidings of the said in the court-house, after Lonergan was sentenced— and of whom not one would have of necessity fallen but almost total destruction of the town of Chagres by fire ~ What does it signify —many a better man than he is has for the change of the sugar laws and the reduction of on the night of the Bth Dec. ; including among the few been hanged ;" and Lonergan's wife said—" It was no duties resulting therefrom, he hoped that by a calm , other buildings of any note, the (so called) " Custom harm for him to die, as he had done a good service for his inquiry before a select committee he might induce the House," which at the time most unfortunately contained country." What prospect have we of the state of the house to change its policy on this great question. He an entire cargo of merchandise just landed from the country imroving, when those are the feelings of people then combated the notion that the £20,000,000 which schooner Desengano, veined at 60,000 dollars, and which so circumstanced' The murderers are considered as had been paid for the redemption of slaves, was an ade- i t i s reported had been purchased on credit, by two Spanish martyrs. quate remuneration to the owners, and went on to con- gentlemen, from merchants in Jamaica. DISTRESS.—A letter from a stipendiary magistrate in tend that the West India planters ought to be protected RUSSIA. —An engagement took place in Daghestan, in the west of Ireland, and a gentleman quite incapable of against their foreign competitors who enjoyed the advan- the middle of November, b e t ween th e Russian troops and exaggerating any statement, asserts that although the tages of slave labour. Having favoured the house with a the Circassians. The losses of the Circassians were very distress is not so wide-spread as the last year throughout long detail of the rate of wages in Jamaica and in British considerable. The Russians had 19 killed, one of whom the county of Mayo, the number of deaths from actual Guiana, for the purpose of showing that the sum so paid was an officer, and 154 wounded, Bof whom were officers. s t arva ti on , an d th e d ep l ora bl e s t a t e o f m isery in whi c h in wages was far more than that expended in the mainte- Col. Slapzoff has also gained a victory at Umachan, just some districts are steeped by the total absence of all em nance of slaves in Cuba and Brazils, where slaves were on the other side of the river Walerick. The greater ployment would scarcely be credited by any one not an maintained as cheaply as ever they were in the British part of the enemy were killed, 22 taken prisoners, and the eye-witness of the sad scenes which hourly present them colonies, he expressed his opinion that. although immigra- place reduced to ashes. The Russians had 2 officers and selves. The disease seems to be almost incurable. At tion would not relieve the distress of the West Indies in 6 men wounded. Castlebar five persons have died from sheer starvation ; any material degree, some good might be done by re- INDIA.—By the last Overland Mail the political news at Galway three, and at Waterford and Lismore several moving the restrictions upon, and by facilitating the con- is not important. Throughout India all was peace. Lord cases of death from want have occurred, and others are - veyance of, negro immigrants into them. The condition Hardinge reached Calcutta on the 11th December, where hourly expected. of the African, the Hindoo, and the Chinaman would be he would remain until Lord Dalhousie arrived. The TRIAL AND ACQUITTAL OF PRIEST TlMLlN.—lreland greatly improved by their removal to those islands. He commercial news, must on the whole, be regarded as has proverbially some curious forms of public justice, and then proceeded to consider the case of the East Indies, more depressing than any yet received. The state of the amongst these manifestations of the balanced deity, the which he admitted had not the same claim en the con- Calcutta import market is such as will be likely to exer- trial of Priest Timlin, as reported in our columns this sideration of Parliament as the West. Adverting to the cise a most unfavourable influence on the existing pros- day, is one of the most instructive things of its class that case of the Mauritius, he observed that it afforded a com- pects of our Manchester and Glasgow trade, and the ac- we have lately read. The facts charged were all, in popu plete justification for the appointment of a committee, if counts of the various suspended firms give unequivocal lar belief, brought home to the rev. flagellator ; the ever case did. Out of six great firms in that colony only signs in most cases of a disastrous termination. At the assau lt s , th e r i ots th a t ensue d, an d, i n f ac t, th e w h o l e one was now left standing. Their liabilities amounted to same time it is to be remarked that no new failures ap- case for the prosecution, were established upon testimony £2,900,000, and they had been contracted not by rash pear to have been announced. which was not even sought to be rebutted ; while the speculators or gamblers, but by honorable merchants who FALL IN CORN.—A letter from F r a n kf or t of the 27th court was obviously confident that no room for doubt had not been guilty of any mistake as to the value of ult., says :—" Commercial letters from different ports of existed, and yet Priest Timlin was acquitted ! On what their estates, but as to the good faith of the British par- Alsace, particularly those on the borders of Germany, grounds the jury brought in this verdict, the public have Bement. He subsequently indulged in a long argument announce a considerable fall in the price of corn. Im- not been informed ; but it is certainly most desirable that .against free-trade principles and policy, and concluded mense quantities, collected together with a view to gain, we should know, as their disclosure may be hereafter of with a description of the horrors which had been perpe- have been thrown on the market, in consequence of appre- great importance to the due administration of the law.— trated in Africa, in consequence of our attempts to ex- hensions entertained by speculators of an abundant har- Derry Standard. tinguish the slave trade on its coasts. He went into a vest. These fears have been increased in consequence of REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The meeting, on Monday, was detailed enumeration of our expenditure in life and money all the letters from the Upper Rhine, Wurtemberg, Ba- numerously attended. Numerous letters were read en for the purpose of putting down that trade by blockading varia, and Austria agreeing in their accounts of the closing subscriptions—amungst them was one from Dr. 10,600 miles of coast. He advised the government to extreme abundance of provisions. At Trieste the gra- M`Nally, enclosing £6O, another from the clergy of Clon strike a blow not at the hand but at the head of that trade. naries are not sufficient for the supplies of corn arriving fert enclosing £32, and . third from the deanery of Bal- Instead of striking down each individual hornet, he would from c,:,,,,.Hungary ..rid from the i n t er i or o f th e Austrian linasloe, with £l3. A communication was , cad from Mr. w' at once into the hornets' nest, aaa c...atinguich 1 . 1. c! .._/7 _ -Charles Russell, agent to Mr. Justice Crampton,,eontr's.- .. . source of crime which existed in Cuba. America had DEMERARA. AND ANTIGUA. — A communication from dieting a statement made at the last meeting of the asso gone to war with Mexico for the sake of recovering cer- Antigua, alluding to the reduction which had taken place elation, that the learned judge had ejected some tenants tian sums due to American citizens from that state. in wages among the planters, thus remarks :—" The re- in - the county Kilkenny. Mr. Justice Crampton had no £75,000,000 were due from Spain to British subjects on d uce d ra t e f or agr i cu lt ura l labour, 6d. sterling per day, property whatever in that county. Doctor Miley delivered Spanish bonds, and Cuba was hypothecated to us for that has come into operation on all the estates in the island, a speech of considerable length, levelled chiefly against sum. Let England, therefore, seize on Cuba, and there with one or two exceptions ; and the peasantry, much to the practice of Protestant proselytism, which he trusted, would then be nothing left for her to do than to blockade their credit, have accepted it, and are cheerfully working would prove unavailing in its effects against the ever faith the coast of the Brazils, which did not extend above 2,200 at the reduction, feeling satisfied that the low price of ful Roman Catholic people of Ireland. The observations miles. In taking possession of Cuba we should only be sugar will not allow the proprietors to offer them employ- of this bigotted priest were cheered throughout, as was distraining for a just debt, of which we have long de- ment on any other terms." From Demerara it is stated his departure from the platform, which took place imme mended payment in va i n . We m i g ht then emancipate —" Our condition in monetary affairs here at present is diately afterwards. A letter from Doctor Mac Hale, ad the slaves of Cuba ; and having thus destroyed slavery dreadful. Both our banks refuse every accommodation dressed to Dr. Gray of the Freeman's Journal, was read, itself in that quarter of the world, there would be no diffi- by discounts, and will not buy bills, nor can money be contradicth b os a statement put forward in the communica culty in allowing the British merchant to go to Africa, for raised even on produce. This unprecedented state of tion of Mr. Stanley, addressed to the guardians of the the purpose of obtaining there, by the offer of good things has brought many estates to a dead stand." Tuam union, in which it was alleged that he was in arrear wages and other advantages, a number of free Africans to DYCE SomaßE.—Dyce Sombre has just had an audience in his payment of the poor rate. The letter stated that cultivate their estates. with the Pope. The monarch is perfectly aware that the he (Dr. Mac Hale) was not a shilling in arrear.—Rent for The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER should be de- gentleman stands in the eye of the English law a lunatic the week, £169 10s. ceiving Lord G. Bentinck, the house, and theWestlndian (nolumus leyee Anglice mutari) he was therefore parti- THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.—At Clonmel, on Tuesday, interest, if he led any of them to believe that, in assenting cularly kind towards his visitor, and 1 rought him to an the Lord Chief Justice sentenced the following five can to this committee, government intended to imply any apartment in the Quirinal where the Begum's picture is victs to be hanged :—John Lonergan, Henry Cody, and doubt of the propriety of the course which it had adopted hung up, with a drawing of the Roman Catholic cathedral Philip Cody, on the Ist of March, and John Daly and on the subject in 1846, or to give any idea that it intended founded by her (she built a mosque the same year to make Terence Corboy on the 4th of the same month ; all the to depart from the act which was then passed. He would sure of her chance). He also confronted Dyce with his convicts to be buried within the precincts of the gaol in not accede to Lord G. Bentinck's proposal to make a fore- own portrait, executed twenty years ago, and found some which they were confined since their conviction, with the -closure upon Cuba, and to take vengeance on an ally of falling off, natur a lly. Last week, Sombre left his card (in exception of Daly, whose crime, we are glad to say, did ours, for the failure of our sugar proprietors. He con- envelope) at the Doria palace, and when the prince called not terminate with the loss of life. The unfortunate men sidered it necessary to separate the depression of the on him in return, he learnt to his astonishment that it was were then removed without uttering a syllable to the price of sugar, which was merely temporary, from that meant as a hostile message, inasmuch, as when in Lon- court, or to one another—they appeared to be perfectly which might be fairly attributed to the act of 1846, and don several years ago, Dyce was airing in Hyde Park, stupified and stared wildly round, exhibiting a greater in making that separation he called the attention of the flanked by two keepers, Doria had stared at him and shook degree of terror than has been displayed by any of the house to the fact that many other colonial articles, as for his whip at the carriage ! Doria sent Abbate Hamilton, a parties similarly placed during the commission. It is a instance indigo, sago, and tea, had been exposed of late young Scotchman of gentle address, to urge that at the remarkable feet, that in these cases, as in the capital to a greater depression of price than sugar. Besides, time he was not in England at all. "H e i s a li ar as we ll c ases tried in Limerick and Clare, the announcement was even now the price of sugar (as he showed by documents) as a coward," was the reply ; and the abbate went forth received in solemn silence—not a shriek given nor a tear was not lower than it had been at several periods when it to the Secretary of State, who warned the eccentric shed—although in some instances I saw the wife, in others was not affected either b y th e act o f 1 846 , or th a t of 1844, stranger against any further indulgence in Rome of such the father or mother, and in others the children of the or that of 1833. The distress in the Mauritius was not Oriental hallucinations. convicts listening to the sentence of the law, which was owing to the low price of sugar, hut to the failure of two —____,..._ to consign those nearest and dearest to them to a prema eminent houses in London, which had been in the practice of providing the planters with advances for their sugar STATE OF THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA. ture and disgraceful death. In passing sentence, his lordship remarked on the fact, that neither the wives, and for the cultivation of their lands. The same cause had produced a similar effect in the West Indies. He (From the Jamaica Disvatch.) parents, or friends of the prisoners, had done anything to revent the commission of the crime, and that they had inquire The committee . appointed by the House of Assembly to refuted at some length the proposition of Lord G. Ben- into the depressed state of agriculture in this been the first to appear against them. tinck, that the compensation granted to the planters in • • 1833 was inadequate, and read an extract from the speech the extent of island ' the cause of such depression ' of Lord Stanley in that year to show that that noble lord abandonment of cultivation and breaking up of sugar and LAW INTELLIGENCE. estimated it at only 15,000,000. No one, therefore, had coffee factories, which has taken place since the passing ._______ a right to say that on the ground of the want of compen- of the British Emancipation Act in 1832, have reported sation £lO a ton should be p a id to the planters—espe- to the House as follows; In a case heard in the Hereford County Court, the clay those of the Mauritius and the East Indies—to That they have taken the evidence of persons interested plaintiff state d that he had been ur ged to bring it forward compensate them for the abolition of slavery in the West a s proprietors and managers of property from nearly every by the ghost of his intended bride, who had died befo re marriage. It was to recover back some furniture from parishin the island records, from which evidence, a r n e a - Indies. The question between the West India planter the deceased's father. The plaintiff gained his suit. "land the consumer was just the same as between the agri- from the parochial and island records, the_ following e ACCEPTANCE BY A WIFE.—Tn the case of Lindhurst v. culturist and the consumer. Both claimed protection, cults are established, as will more fully appear by reference to_ . the ir v a a t tn!'nations ' herepato annexed. Bradnall, heard in the Court of Common Pleas on Satur and in neither case could government give it ; for duti es day, the judges decided that a husband was bound to pro were to be imposed not for protection but for revenue. 1 since the passing of the _British . Slave Emanci- He proposed to introduce a bill to permit the use of mo- r ation of the 653 sugar estates then in cultivation in vide for a bill of exchange accepted by a wife, in her own lasses in distilleries, on similar terms with sugar. He this island, 140 have been abandoned, and the works broken up, containing 168,032 acres of land, and having aut y. had no objection to the admission of cane juice, but then , , . _„ , _ name, provided the acceptance was with the husband's A Tro D . •• •,,.., Cu A D'Fq Tel BE ACCOUNTED GOODS AND he must have the same duty for the cane juice as for the sugar which the cane would have produced. It had been calculated that that would amount to /Is. Id. ; but those who wished for the imposition of - SIM a duty rata that would be a complete prohibitory duty. The last point related to the supply of labour. His own opinion was that the present scheme of immigration bad not answered. Ile believed that a valuable supply of labour might be got from the Kroomen on the coast of Africa. The go vernment proposed to advance to the colonies a sum not -E200,000, fcr the purpose of carrying on that The other persons from whom the supply ome, were the liberated Africans. Those LQ Havannah were generally carried exceeding .Dr.,. of labour mus set free at Rio and t to the West Indies, xpense of their conveyance was defrayed by the colonies. The government was pre pared for a short time to take upon itself nearly the whole of this conveyance. The main body of liberated Africans were set free at Sierra Leone. Measures will be taken to increase their emigration to the West Indies to a great extent; and he trusted that such measures would be at tended with benefit not only to the West Indies, but also the colony of Sierra Leone itself. The government in tended to take upon itself nearly all the expense of that removal. He also intended to postpone for five years the rpnavment of certain loans made to the colonies, and ana in the course of the ses sion he should propose a loan to Tobago, to enable the These there to repair the damages of a late hurricane. These were the measures which he had to propose on the government. He concluded by declaring his hat it "- nroof by reference tr (From the Jamaica Disvatch.) The committee appointed by the House of Assembly to inquire into the depressed state of agriculture in this island ; the cause of such depression ; the extent of abandonment of cultivation and breaking up of sugar and coffee factories, which has taken place since the passing of the British Emancipation Act in 1832, have reported to the House as follows ; That they have taken the evidence of persons interested as proprietors and managers of property from nearly every parish in the island records, from which evidence, and from the parochial and island records, the following re sults are established, as will more fully appear by reference to the examinations hereunto annexed. 1. That since the passing of the British Slave Emanci pation Act, of the 653 sugar estates then in cultivation in this island, 140 have been abandoned, and the works broken up, containing 168,032 acres of land, and having then employed in their cultivation 22,553 labourers. 2. That those properties, now extinct, produced in the year 1832, 14,178 hogsheads of sugar and 5,903 puncheons of rum. 3. That during the same period 465 coffee plantations have been abandoned, and their works broken up, con taining 188.400 acres of land, and having employed in their cultivation, in the year 1832, 26,830 labourers. 4. That of 138 sugar: estates, given in evidence, the crops made in 1832 were-25,928 hhds. of sugar and 10,008 puncheons of rum ; in 1847, 17,359 hhds. of sugar and 833 puncheons of rum, showing a decrease of 8,569 hhds. of sugar and 1,677 puncheons of rum. ,re or p.,...._ gar cultivation by free labour ~. 5. That upon certain estates shown to have had at tached to them, and engaged in their cultivation in the year 1832, 41,820 labourers, there now remain resident on those 'properties only 13,973, the others, amounting to 27,847, having generally become independent settlers. 6. That the sum of £1,405,887 14s. 11d. was expended in the cultivation and manufacture of 57,005 hhds. of sugar and 26,711 puncheons of rum, giving the result that, after deducting proceeds of the rum, averaged at £l4 per puncheon, the actual cost of sugar averaged £1 2s. 71d. per cwt. ; consequently, that as its value is now by slave competition reduced in the British market to about lls. exclusive of charges, it is self-evident sugr itivation cannot i 'hat there oe contmueL that there is an actua, loss on every cwt. of 7s. 74d., without taking into account interest on capital and on money expended, equal at the least to 4s. 6d. more per cwt. ; while as regards coffee the evidence is conclusive that it is, if possible, even in a worse In a case heard in the Hereford County Court, the plaintiff stated that he had been urged to bring it forward by the ghost of his intended bride, who had died before marriage. It was to recover back some furniture from the deceased's father. The plaintiff gained his suit. ACCEPTANCE BY A WIFE.—Tn the case of Lindhurst v. Bradnall, heard in the Court of Common Pleas on Satur day, the judges decided that a husband was bound to pro vide for a bill of exchange accepted by a wife, in her own name, provided the acceptance was with the husband's authority. ARE RAILWAY SHARES TO BE ACCOUNTED GOODS AND COMMODITIES ?—At the Bristol County Court, on Satur day, in the case of Thomas Jacobs, who petitioned the court as an insolvent debtor, a question arose as to whe ther shares in a railway or joint-stock company were to be . accounted goods and chattels, constituting the holder a trader in the meaning of the bankruptcy act. The judge, Mr. A. Palmer, jun., adjourned the case, that the point might be argued before him by counsel. BAIL COURT, FRIDAY.—BUNN v. LIND.—In this case a motion was made by Mr. Peacock, to set aside a de murrer which had been entered to the action brought by Mr. Bunn against the celeb ra t e d J enny Lind. Thi s morning it was positively st a t e d t o t h e l ea r ne d judges th a t Mr. Hoggins, who was counsel f or th e defendant, bad no instructions to appear. Th e d emurrer was, therefore, overruled, and judgment is consequently in favour of the plaintiff. The trial will now come on, in the regular course, at the sittings of the Queen's Bench at Guildhall after term. TEGG V. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.—At the . West- minster County Court, on Wednesday, an action was brought by the plaintiff, a coach wheelwright, against the Right Hon. Lord Palmerston, M.P., to recover the sum of £l7 10s. for work and labour done for his lordship. No answer being given to the thrice repeated summons of thy ' iliff for lords' oat -. tus _Jima to appear, the case was pro ceeded with; after whi c h th e l earn ed judge, having care fully examined the entries in the plaintiff's books, made an order on his lordship to pay the debt and costs on the 16th instant. DR. HAmpnEN.—ln the Court o r Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, judgment was delivered in the cause of "The Queen v. the . Archbishop of Canterbury." The Court was not unanimous, two being for the granting of the rule, and two against it. Mr. Justice Erle and the Lord Chief Justice were of opinion that the mandamus should be refused ; while - Air. Justice Coleridge, and Mr. Justice Patteson, that it ought to issue. Then• Lordships gave their iudzments .seriatim. and at very considerable length. , for a rule not granted is refused. The cardinal point of the discussion was whether the office of the Archbishop mrely ministerial and formal, or whether in confirmation is it is a substantial' and judicial duty ; Justices uoieridge and Patteson inclining to the latter opinion, and that therefore the opposition to the consecration of the Bishop ought to have been heard. The Lord Chief Justice said that he was fully of opinion that the Court had the po wer of granting the writ of mandamus; but it must also be borne in mind that the Court had a discretion in the issuing of a mandamus supposing even it thought that the proceeding complained of was of a judicial character, and that the Archbishop might be compelled to hear th e objectors. In the exercise of this discretion, without regard to the legal right, he felt bound to refuse the writ. —So the rule for the mandamus was discharged. COURT AND FASHION. The Court remains at Windsor, and during the favour. able weather of the last few days, the Queen and Prince Albert, with the junior members of the Royal family, have taken their habitual exercise in the park and ore. On Thursday the anniversary of her Majesty's marriage will be celebrated at Buckingham Palace. The Duchess of Kent was seized with a severe fit of in- fluenza on - Her Majesty has bestowed the blue riband, vacant by the death of the Earl of Powis, upon the Duke of Norfolk. The King and Queen of the Belgians left London on Tuesday, for Calais. A matrimonial alliance will shortly be celebrated be tween the Lady Adeliza Menners, daughter of the Duke of Rutland, and the Rev. F. Norman, who holds an im portant church preferment in Leicestershire. YANKEE COOLNESS.— By the Caledonia we learn that the Queen of England had the honour of dining with the lady of our Minister, Mrs. Bancroft, at the Court of St. James's, on the 15&ultimo.—Courier (U. S.). - was capa facts, that the system of might, by a proper process, be made as cheap, if not cheaper, than by a system of slave labour. dl The phat. FRI DA HOUSE OF COMMONS A new writ w ordered for North St ,• room of A Earl of Pov Among the notices of motion given were the followir By Mr. Urquhart, who intimated his intention, king a question a case of " Buron thtAttorney-Ge'n'eral relative to Denman ;'' Mr. Moffat, on an early day, to move for leave to bring in a bill for vacating the seats of insolvent members of parliament. The adjourned debate on Lord George Bentinck's motion for a committee of inquiry into the condition of the sugar and coffee growing colonies was resumed by Mr. J. Wilson, who was followed by Mr. T. Baring, Mr. Bernal, Mr. Hayward, Mr. Bagshaw, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Gouiburn, and Sir E. Buxton, after which Lord G. Bentinck replied, and the motion for the committee was agreed to. THE IFIERPOOL STANDARD. I UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. ....__.. _ _ _ _ The Bishop of Manchester has cheerfully accepted the office of vice-patron of the Church-Pastoral-Aid Society. The Rev. B. H. Grove has been appointed a canon'at Worcester Cathedral. The Rev. Samuel Flood Page, late incumbent of Farn ham, Suffolk, and chaplain of the jail at Ipswich, has been presented to the incumbency of St. Paul's, Preston. The Bishop of Exeter has contributed £l,OOO, and the funds now reach £4,000, for providing against the spiri tual destitution at Davenport. The witnesses for the prosecution against the Vicar of Harewood, charged with slandering several of his congre gation, are members of Lord Harewood's family, his ser- vants, and tenants. The following gentlemen who appear in the list of Wranglers this year at Cambridge were formerly students of King's College, London, viz.—Messrs. Barry, Twis den, Lyde, Leake, Dunn, Demon, Carr, Hardy, and Caldecott. POWER OF THE PRIMATE.—We very much doubt whe ther, in a strict point of law, the Archbishop of Canter bury has not fuller powers than ever claimed by Thomas a Beckett. Becket was not independent of appeals to Rome ; but the present Archbishop of Canterbury is. He is, in fact, ex officio, in regard to the canon law, a legate ; a privilege enjoyed in addition only by the Archbishop of York, and the Archbishop of Rheims, in France. — Morning Chronicle. HEAD MASTERSHIP OF BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL.—The Governors of King Edward the Vl.'s School met on Wed nesday to elect a successor to Dr. Lee, now Lord Bishop of Manchester. There were 17 candidates, but of these the claims of only three—viz., the Rev. S. J. Rigaud, M.A. senior assistant-master of Westminster School ; the Rev. E. H. Gifford, M.A., Second Master of Shrews bury School ; and the Rev. G. E. L. Cotton, M.A., one of the Masters of Rugby School, were submitted to the ballot. Mr. Gifford was duly elected. UNIVERSITY HONOURS AT CAMBRIDGE.—Out of the whole 38 wranglers, Trinity College has as many as 12, amongst whom Lord A. Compton has earned for himself a proud position ; and St. John's, the next greatest college. has no less than ten. Amongst the wranglers we perceive the names of Mr. A. E. Watson, of Birkenhead, and of Mr. Chilton and Mr. Ripley of this town. Among the senior optimes is a son of Mr. T. A. Dale ; and among the junior optimes is Lord Stanley's eldest son. Mr. T. Humber and Mr. J. Pearson, of Preston, and Mr. J. W. Hernaman, son of the proprietor of the Newcastle Journal, are amongst the wranglers. THE CONGE D'ELIRE.—The Rev. C. Benson, late Master of the Temple, and one of the deepest thinkers of the day, has published a pamphlet on this subject, in which he says that he considers the election of Bishops as a matter of form that each canon knows he will have to go through when he accepts his canonry, and against which, if he feels it as a burden to his conscience, he should protest then. He takes his canonry cum onere, and has no right afterwards to Lomplain. It may be a disagreeable form, but so are many others which one has to go through in life. This view is very cleverly put for ward, and seems worth attention. As to consecration, Mr. Benson is less satisfactory. He admits that cannot be a form, and may often be a mockery ; but he sees no remedy but, in an extreme case, the Archbishop resigning his see, for which, he thinks, most Governments " would afford facilities." Likely enough : but this is hardly a solution which will meet with general acceptation. The Lord Chief Justice, in delivering judgment in Dr. Hampden's case, said,—" By whose authority have these proceedings been sanctioned in the present instance, and of whom is complaint made ? In the first place, of a prelate entitled to the unbounded respect and confidence of all men—of that of the venerable primate of England, who has been a bishop during a quarter of a century, and Archbishop of Canterbury during nearly a similarly long period, and who must, therefore, in that long career, par ticularly as metropolitan, have taken a leading part in the confirmation of almost all the prelates in his province now on the episcopal bench, and who, in the most trying times, has ever displayed the utmost uprightness, prudence, moderation, and circumspect care, whose mind and under standing are not impaired by age but matured by experi ence and reflection. The other party of whom complaint was made was a person whose mind, learning, and judg ment are as well established as is his high character in all other respects." DR. HAMPDEN'S OBJECTORS.—It WaS argued that such a case never had occurred, because an appeal to that court might never before have been necessary. What, during all the centuries Christianity has existed, not one person, some of whose opinions may have been alleged heretical, have been elevated to the bench of bishops ? Has there been none elevated with " spiritual pride," none with " jealousies," none against whom some person or another might not have alleged some sort of " immo ralities ?" And even if this were so, were there no per sons during all that period capable of making a false charge—of drawing a false inference ? Where were the sons of Belial at that time—a class not extinct in these days, and who never fail to be forward in cases in which they take so much delight ? But, suppose opposers ad mitted : observe what would happen. " Come forth," said the proclamation, "and offer your opposition in the case of this person to be made a bishop." The answer is, from one, " I knew this man at college 20 years ago, and I can tell you of some irregularities in his life." Another would say, " This person is justly suspected by one of hftvtingverreermeu tftelgelliVtgarknirObeite of inebriety.' '' A third might charge him with " vanity." Another might throw a slur on the chastity of his mother, or attack his conduct respecting his son. All that the Pharisee blessed himself in being free from, these people might falsely allege against the bishop, He might know all the allegations to be false and infamous ; the arch bishop might think the accusers utterly unworthy of belief, or know the charges to be false, but, nevertheless, the inquiry must proceed, and though they should be dis proved, and the confirmation took place, still the fatal calumny must remain. But how much is the case strengthened when the charge is the unfathomable charge of heresy, supported by extracts from books, probably little understood, and by reported conversations, probably imaginary, and, if real, difficult to be correctly repeated. Thus the life of a bishop might be frittered away whilst proceedings are pending against him, and his see might be left without any occupant, to the detriment of the church and of the people.—Lord Denman's Judgment in Dr. Hampden's Case. LORD DENMAN'S OPINION OF ARCHBISHOP CRAN MER.—In delivering his judgment against the issuing of the mandamus in Dr. Hampden's case, Lord Denman thus referred to a reflection cast by one of the counsel on the memory of Cranmer :—" If I caught the remark, and I believe I am correct, it was a severe reflection on that great father of the English Protestant church, Archbishop Cranmer. I understood it to have been said that the king knew how obsequious an archbishop he had in Cranmer, who would readily comply with the king's will. True, Creamer was not a blameless man ; far from it ; for shortly before his death he showed a great want of firm ness ; but I may be permitted to say not greater than that exhibited by the apostle whom the head of the church se lected from among his brethren as the rock upon which that church was to be built ; [What a pity that in so no ble a defence such a Romish error should be introduced. Ed. L.S.] and his death at least might have atoned for this fault, and have saved his memory from such obser vations. I must say, I did not expect in this court of law, and in the presence of so many learned lawyers, and in the presence of so many of the faithful sons of the Church of England, to hear the name of Cranmer introduced for such a purpose, and I think it shows great excitement of mind existing somewhere on the present occasion, whether in the clients or in the counsel who made the remark. I will say that I feel it is doubly the duty of this Court on such a question as this to take care that it is not led away by such impressions, or yields too much to the authorit y of these eccesiastical powers, which, in my opinion, it has been the duty of this Court, in all ages, to watch with pe culiar jealousy. If Henry relied on Cranmer as upon a mean and servile churchman, who would truckle to his caprices, he was wholly mistaken in his man. The arch bishop, on more than one occasion, thoroughly thwarted the monarch on points which the monarch was especially bent upon carrying. He opposed him in the matter of Anne Boleyn, and, despite Henry's utmost anger, mani fested himself the unswerving friend of the unfortunate Queen ; and again, on the matter of the Six Articles, both in and out of parliament, opposed the monarch, though it was perfectly well known that the latter was determined upon the extirpation of all views and doctrines contrary to his own by torture and death. SCRIPTURE READERS. — In the year 1844 some noble men and gentlemen of the highest character, warmly at tached to the church, and earnestly desirous of seeing its mission better fulfilled, formed an association for the pur- pose of employing laymen of approved character and com petent acquirements in this work of household visitation and teaching. Their efforts were to be confined to the populous pa - rishes in London and Southwark. All was to be done in concert with the parochial clergy,—the reader, in every case, being either nominated or accepted by the incumbent of the parish or district in which he was to be employed, placed under his direction, and remove able by him at pleasure. To avoid all suspicion of irre gularity, and make this new agency more effective, by se curing its subordination to the higher officers of the church, the sanction of the Bishops of London and Win chester was asked for and obtained. * * The associa tion got to work, and incumbents, who began to make trial of it, half in doubt and half in fear, soon learnt to appreciate its value, and give to its founders their warmest gratitude and thanks. Men were found willing to labour for God, with hearts quite warm enough, and lips quite eloquent enough, to set plain, wholesome, saving truth before those to whom it was new and strange, to declare in fitting language the saint's hope and the sinner's doom, and to assure men weary of their bondage that for them - selves they had tried God's service and found it perfect freedom. It was discovered. moreover, that beyond all expectation. they were received with patience or with kitidness,—thata,' rude greeting at a first encounter, was followed often by apologies when the visit was repeated,— that the offer of instruction was taken as an act of Chris tian faithfulness on the clergyman's part, and of Christian charity in his messenger. * * A hundred visits are no unreasonable allowance for a single week. Five thousand might be reckoned up between the beginning of the year and the end of it. Such is the number actually paid by some of the men we speak of. From month to month they thread the lanes and alleys in which poverty hides its sorrows, and where sickness often lingers in its most dan gerous forms ; and in such places the promise of rest to the weary, and the offer of pardon to the contrite, will come by surprise to many who thought themselves for saken of God and man. This experiment was so success ful, that on the Ist of July last, all the bishops, with two exceptions (Carlisle and Exeter). gave their sanction to its principle, by laying down rules to be observed for the fu ture employment of scripture readers. The Bishop of Exeter refused to concur in the course taken by his brethren, and published a pamphlet against it.—A Vin dication of Scripture Readers.. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. PILBROW'S ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.-Mr. Pilbrow has obtained a decision in his favour against his directors for no less than £15,000. The Report, recommending a dividend of 6s. per share (less income-tax), was adopted at the half-yearly meet ing of the Whitehaven Junction. The works on the line are in excellent order. Mr. Alderman Bancroft, of Manchester, has been ap pointed chairman of the Birkenhead Railway Company. Mr. W. Laird has been appointed vice-chairman and managing director; and Mr. John Gibson has been ap pointed secretary, in the place of Captain Charlewood. The report and accounts were passed at the half-yearly meeting of the East Lancashire. The net profit, according to the report, from the working of the lines now in opera tion is fixed at four per cent. on the total cost. The whole undertaking will probably be completed in the course of the present year. The calls had generally been well met. At the half-yearly meeting of the Edinburgh, Leith and Granton the directors' Report announced that the certi ficate of amalgamation with the Edinburgh and Northern had not been received from the Commissioners, but all the •other arrangements had been concluded. The in crease of the passenger traffic appears to be promising. The Report and accounts were adopted, and a dividend of 4s. per share was declared, at the half-yearly meeting of the Cockermouth and Workington. The improve ments at Workington Harbour are progressing, and when completed are expected to lead to a great increase in the lime traffic. TRIAL OF AN IRON TUBE.—The first of the eight great iron tubes required for carrying the Chester and Holy head Railway over the Menai Strait was tested on Satur day, at Chester, in the presence of Mr. Stephenson, the projector, and a large ',umber of engineers. All support having being removed, the tube had a clear span of 400 feet. each end resting on a stone pier. The experiment was then made by running locomotives and heavily-laden ballast-waggons through ; one train of twenty-eight wag gons, filled with iron, weighing upwards of 300 tons. The deflection of the tube was not more than a few inches. POLITICAL VARIETIES, . Mr. Napier is prosecut ing a very successful contest for Dublin University. Judge Keating is his opponent. Lord John Russell is to make the general financial statement on Monday next or Thursday week. Mr. D. O'Connell intends to resign'the representation of Waterford. His pecuniary circumstances, it is said, do not permit him to continue in Parliament. A meeting was held last week at Bath, to petitition for the repeal of the window tax. The representative,— Lords Ashley and Duncan—were the principal speakers. On Friday, Sir T. B. Birch presented petitions to the House of Commons from several religious congregations in Liverpool in favour of the Jews. COUNTY RATES.—Mr. Frewen obtained leave on Fri day to bring in a bill to confer on owners of property the powers of justices in matters relating to county rates. By what passed in the House of Commons on Thurs day, we learn that a correspondence has taken place be tween Lord Palmerston and Mr. Bancroft, though not exactly what is stated in the New York Herald. Why, then, did not the Noble Lord say as much in his reply to Mr. Dunbar. It is now understood that Lord George Bentinck and Mr. Disraeli retire from their prominent posts in the op position—though acting with the Conservatives on general measures; and that the large party withdrawing from Sir R. Peel and his policy, will coalesce under the leadership of Mr. Goulburn. POPULAR PATRIOTISM AN EXPENSIVE ARTICLE.— Feargus O'Connor wants a public subscription to defend his seat for Nottingham. " Not less than £lOOO must be raised," says he, in his Northern Star. " Let no time be lost," continues he ; "only think that if only 240,000 persons subscribe one penny each, the £lOOO is got." THE DUTY OF THE PRESS.—In an article in the Man chester Guardian of Saturday, the writer, after giving a few well-deserved "taps" to its erewhile friend Mr. Cob den, pens the following sensible remarks as to the duty of the press :—ln conclusion, we feel bound to say a word or two upon an assertion of Mr. Cobden's, that " a large portion of the press has neglected and abdicated its duties on this subject." We are of opinion that the " duty" of the public press is, to give expression to the honest and sincere conviction of its conductors, and not to follow the lead of any individual. We know of no right that Mr. Cobden has to set himself up as a judge of other men's duty, or as the director of their conduct in public affairs. A PACK OF HOUNDS OFFERED FOR A BOROUGH ! An amusing attempt is being made to produce an impres sion in favour of the Berkeley interest by means of certain sporting " rumours" respecting Earl Fitzhardinge and his hounds. At one time, it is whispered that after the pre sent season the pack will be entirely withdrawn from Chel tenham ; at another, that "in the event of certain contin gencies," his lordship will transfer the Mastership of the Hunt to Mr. Craven Berkeley. The drift of all this is apparent enough. if the electors of Cheltenham will take back his lordship's rejected nominee, they may expect to keep his hounds also ; but if they won't the mighty ad vantage is to be withdrawn. Of a truth, the hatred to bullying and bribery professed by the Castle parrizans, is singularly illustrated in these " rumours !"—Cheltenham Chronicle. MR. COBDEN AND HIS FRIENDS.—Let Mr. Cobden ask himself the simple question, what amount of detriment would the mercantile and industrial interests of France be likely to incur by engaging in a war with 'England—in what respect has the abolition of our corn laws tended to make that detriment greater? France does not export corn, but she imports cattle. Therefore, our change in our corn laws and our admission of foreign live stock are no boon to France, and add no link to the chain of com mercial intercourse, which, according to Mr. Cobden, is to bind the two countries in everlasting friendship toge ther. On the other hand, our high duties on French wines still continue, and the French still exclude our iron and highly tax our cotton. The only commodity they freely admit is our coal, which tends to cheapen their manufactures, and to make ours dearer by enhancing the price of our fuel. In every point of view, therefore, Mr. Cobden's arguments are visionary as general reasoning ; and though they were, in the abstract, founded on reason and fact, they would have no application whatsoever to our present commercial relations with France. * * Such is Mr. Cobden's dream. Such is the Quixotic en terprise to which he has devoted himself. The Duke of Wellington may perhaps—as Mr. Cobden evinced his respect for greatness by politely insinuating — be doating. The duke's letter was . so vague, so visionary, so unprac tical, so very like dotage ! But if he be, what suitable term shall we find in the vocabulary of any language for Mr. Cobden's fancies ? If the duke's sense be dotage, what is Mr. Cobden's nonsense ?—Morning Chronicle. THE LAW AND THE LAWYERS A good deal of discussion has taken place in the press as to the right of Sir F. Kelly to threw up his brief in a case—Burow v. Denman —on being called on by the crown to become counsel for the defendant, after he had become acquainted with the plaintiff's case, through having been previously retained as his counsel. The following article from the Daily News on the point is worth perusing : If the course pursued by Sir Fitzroy Kelly in the action of Buron v. Denman be in accordance with the prevailing practice of the Bar, the last sixty years must have wit nessed a very melancholy decline of that high sense of persona hunour and of professional independence which distinguished and adorned it in times when some thing else than briefs and fees were in danger. How different was Erskine's conduct under circumstances not very dissimilar—involving at least the same principle ! On Tom Paine's prosecution by the Attorney-General in 1792, for the publication of the second part of the Bights of Man, Erskine was, and not a little to his own annoy ance, retained for the defence. " Erskine," said Lord Loughborough to him, " you must not take Paine's brief." " I have been retained, and I will take it, by God ? " was his noble reply. It was in vain that his friends remon strated—that a venal press questioned his loyalty—thati t was intimated to him, on behalf of the Prince of Wales, that if he did appear for Paine, he must cease to be the Prince's Attorney-General--that he was at last threatened with the old king's displeasure. " I took," writes Erskine to Howell, " the liberty of claiming from his Majesty the unquestionable right of the subject to make his defence by any counsel of his own free choice, if not previously retained or engaged by office from the crown." With a spirit the very reverse of Sir Fitzroy Kelly's, Erskine braved and suffered the threatened consequences. " I was told in plain terms I was not to defend Pain. I did defend him, and I did lose my office." Can any man doubt what Erskine's conduct would have been if he had been placed in Sir Fitzroy Kelly's situation in Buron v, Denman? True, no Attorney-General would have asked him to desert the plaintiff, and to betray his confidence as Sir Fitzroy Kelly has been asked—and not in vain. But supose the Crown had presented Erskine with a retainer—had proposed to him to abandon a client who for five years had acted on his advice —whose plead ings he had settled—whose cause he had argued against the Crown on demurrer—whose evidence he had advised on—whose fees he had been deluged with ; suppose, we repeat, the Admiralty of the last century to have reminded Erskine of a doubtful oath of office, and to have claimed his services, what would have been that great advocate's reply ? Rather than have complied with such a demand, he would have torn the silk gown from his back, and have donned with pleasure the stuff again ; he would have re nounced the post of Queen's counsel, and have been con tent to have sat, admired, and respected, in the utter B ar, for the remainder of his career. And such, too, we are persuaded, would have been the mode in which more than one of the present batch of Queen's counsel, vastly in &rim- thnuth they all may be in sensibility and chivalrous !ULM. 411 V feeling to Erskine, would have escaped from the dilemma into which Sir Fitzroy Kelly's excessive tenderness of conscience and regard for his " oath of office " have pre- tor rreueric h comprehensionm of professional h onour, con duct more robust and becomin g . W e utterly disbelieve that the leaders of any o n e of our circuits would, w ith ou t a vigourous resistance , have responded to the Ad m i ra l ty ' s re t a iner. For the credit of the Bar, there i s , we are con vinced, but one man for whom, under suc h circum stances, a retainer would have been o ff ere d and a brief p o i r t e a t manlyed . we claim sent ;to him it has been offered—by him it has been accepted. _ _ 'hesiger's Ffrst, then. we are entitled to assert th a t even if t hi s oath of Queen's counsel left Sir Fitzroy Kelly no alterna tive but acceptance of the Admiralty's retainer or resig nation of the honour of being one of he r M a j esty ' s counsel, the acceptance involving a principle so dest ruc ti ve o f per sonal morality and professional confidence, that resigna tion became a duty from which no honourable man at the Bar ought to have shrunk. The oath which he pleads did not bind him to life-long service of the Crown ; and when ever service in silk becomes incompatible with honour and honesty, it ought to be abandoned for integrity and independence in stuff. Feb. 8, 18-18, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. On Tuesday, four Irish persons were several" for allowing pigs to sleep in their dwellings. f id Twenty persons were fined on Tuesday for occuP' l , cellars not in accordance with the act. All the cellar' been cleared out, but had been re-let. A SHIPPING AGENT FINED.—An information heard, on Thursday, against Thomas Wilson, sh i PP agent, Bath-street, who was charged with demanding a seaman, named Bradford, the sum of £1 for getting a vessel. WINDOW BREAKING EXTRAORDINARY.—... „a ,.. r 4Ol wood, the keeper of a hotel, a pp eare d b e f ore M r . B on Thursday, to charge a dissolute looking fellow breaking his windows. It transpired that Mr. Her:o had sustained, within the last two years, losses, ffflwrj wilful destruction of windo w s, t o th e amoun t of ' I I", The man was ordered to pay three shillings and Silt„ e e the amount of damage, and costs, or t o b e inii 9 P' three days. INFORMATIONS AGAINST PUBLICANS.—On Frlt veral publicans and beersellers appeared before Mr. P o ton, to answer informations laid by the police, for b P company in their houses, and selling liquor at hours; than those allowed by law. One o f th e d e f en d an ts, •',l Turner, who keeps a house near the Clarence Dovic, , , fined £5 and costs for h av i ng f our t een men i n his 51 at half-past three o'clock on Sunday morning., 4 Rushton told the defend an t th a t h e wou ld l ose his 11' if he did not take care. On Thursday, several wretched looking being ic :e brought up on va r i ous c h arges . I n eac h case i t a pPe that they had committed the offences for the expres s io pose of being sent to prison, as they had applied for c y at the parish-office without success. They were reuo:!,,, till proper enquiries shouli be made. In the Ines° Mr. Rushton desired Mr. Parkinson to go up to Workhouse, where a meeting of the Select Vest being held, and to make a statement of the bact s3 'll' now at work. At a subsequent period of the day , io Grey, one of the overseers, a pp eare d i n cour t, a° t i two persons above alluded to were handed over t° parish, with directions that their wants should be tended to. LOAN SOCIETIES.—On Wednesday the officers 0 North British Friendly Loan Society appeared atg Police-court against several borrowers, whom thc e summoned for arrears. The cases f or th e most pa rs of the usual description, and orders were made upon parties to pay the money, M r . R us ht on repeat i ng ad e to the several persons su mmone d t o h ave nothing l't) with such societies. Several similar cases came before,. court on Thursday, in the cou r s e o f w hi c h i t a pp e areel b loans had been advanced to p ar ti es t o ena bl e them' 0 5 1 0 off former loans. Mr. Rushton ob serve d th a t t hi s illegal mode of doing business, and that the money o ,,u le i ced under such circumstances was clea r ly irrecovex'aud point of law, and that if the societies issued distress ly rants, they would be liable to have proceedings to against them. A SALUBRIOUS LOOCALITY.—On Tuesday, an I r A l 's man named John C urran was summone d b e f ore the v o i gistrates on a charge of keeping pigs in a cellar under° his house in Cherry-lane. The offence was not def l o t but Mr. Davenport, who appeared for the defend called for a tall Hibernian, who gave the classic nare r e o t O'Hara. The witnes s s a id h e li ve d next d oor to Cu and had done so for about fourteen years, and no "t 1) sance arose from the defendant's pigs • he added, thOe neighbourhood was the " cleanest and nicest in P c t , pool." (Laughter.) Mr. Rushton.—" Do you mea°o say Cherry-lane is the nicest place in Liverpool ?" witness repeated what he had previously stated, and added, there had been no deaths in that neighbour' whilst he lived there, except one single person, 11 ° ber was " plagued with the asthm a ti c , b ut h e lived rp many years before he died." (Renewed laughter.) je Rushton.—" You are calling a place a sa l u b r i ou s n e ,x bourhood which is the worst in Liverpo o l w ith o ut es n{ tion ; there are more deaths from disease, want of 'l e i ) , lation and other causes, and more suffering *on' health, than in any other district of the town.' A 1 1 °d officer stated that the defendant had a b ou t three an{? half tons of manure near his house, th e s t enc h from ljP4l was quite intolerable. Mr. Rushton enforced the u ; fine of 205., and ordered the removal of the pigs. RAILWAY RECEIPTS, The following are the receipts of railways for the pastl that is to say, up to the date to which the respective are made : Week 1 1847. ending I Amount, e s. d. Tan. 0 0 0 0 0 0 ——o 0 0 29 524 0 0 ——o 0 0 ——o 0 0 30 73 0 0 27 669 0 0 1 700 0 0 29 654 0 0 30 410 0 0 —29 i 3188 0 0 29 681 0 0 30 , 10020 0 0 —29 ; 870 0 0 -23' 1120- 0 0 -29; 716 0 0 -- 29 1 1730 0 ' Y -- 2 9 945 0' 0 - 29 1669 0 0 -30 16008 0 0 * -29 106 0 0 8005 0 0 - 28 1117 0 0 0 0 0 -- 29 103 0 0 -- 30 33504 0 0 - 30 696 0 0 __ 29 6073 0 0 30 6269 0 -- 29 2047 0 0 - 30 501 0 0 -- 29 17737 0 0 - 30 604 0 0 0 0 0 -- 29 1717 0 0 - 30 1524 0 0 __ 29 1714 0 0 - 29 5742 0 __ 29 1 2272 A 0 0 0 0 --- 29 468 0 1 2 -29 1 6439 0 y, -- 28 671 0 -- 29 1747 0 0 (~ - 30 549 0 u -- 30 153 0 0 - 29 788 0 0 -- 29 10119 C 0 -- 29 610] A 0 RAI LWA YS. Aberdeen Amiens and Boulogne Arbroath and Forfar Birkenhead, Lan. and Cheshire. Caledonian Cockermouth and Workington Chester and Holyhead Dublin and Drogheda Dublin and Kingstown Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen East Anglian Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh and Northern Eastern Counties and N. Eastern East Lancashire Eastern Union and Ipswich and Bury Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Ctbrg Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ay r. Glasgow and Greenock Great Southern and Western Great Western - Kendal and Windermere Lancashire and Yorkshire Lancaster and Carlisle Leeds and Thirsk Londonderry and Enniskillen London and North-Western London and Blackwall London & Brighton, South Coast London and South-Western M'chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln. Ma port and Carlisle Midland, Bristol, and Birming- ham (Ireland) North British • Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre Scottish Central Shrewsbury and Chest er Sou th - Eastern and Branches NewmarketMidNorfolkl Newcastle andG a e n a d t 1 C V a e r s t i e s r l e n South Devon Ter Vale Ulster Whitehaven Junction Wisbaw and Coltness York, Newcastle, and Berwick York and North Midland, &c STATE OF TRADE P 4:4 1 5 MANCHESTER.—The feeling in the ma r ket h as been oft favourable nature since Tuesday, The advices from ilw c pif i , the rise in the cotton market, at Liverpool, have boto_d buted to this more unfavourable di spos i t i on. Th e deal ;illl4 India has in a great measure subsided, and business gen ev iti l :r interrupted by the increased rates which the advance cotton market has compelled b ot h sp i nners and manufatiog'i to ask; generally speaking, b u y ers are more i nc li n ed_ b l„ the higher rates asked, previous to this week, but P o f t '; means an equivalent for th e more recent r i se in the prier raw material, which now a moun t s to f ully id. per lb. f dit rates of Friday last. Purchasers are , f or t h e momea'W' dined to place themselves in a worse pos i t i on, that helateo; enough before; the movement has, consequently, resw s il, a return to a state of inactivity. It is quite evident, thot, market will not at present bear any advance in prices. p d is not sufficient demand f rom any part of the world; cii; for the home trade it is in a most unsatisfactory state. #l5 such circumstances a ri se i n t h e pr i ce of cotton can 00/0'1) to a reduction in th e h ours of working the mills in t he factoring districts, bringing with it additional misellobv already poverty stri c k en operat i ves. It i s qu i te imP°2s9, raise the market ; and those spinner s w ho, i n the a" i ist demand, might have continued running their mills, oj l t re z! ton remained low , (although by that means they mig cumulating stock) will certainly not continue to do 0; 0 9) have not the r aw material at a low rate. Althougb,Voi continue to work i n th e f ace o f d u ll mar k ets, t h ey wil l p d so in the face of a rising cotton market. u jet LEEnsThe woollen trade remains in the same c we have had to notice for some time; but, if anythilliecieji are more inquiries for goods suited f or th e spr i n g t!' that by both the home and foreign houses. There is ceptible alteration in prices, and stocks are not iteaVY• s i t iF,o BRA DFortri.—Wool : The business doing is of a t i,4; i ! character; as there is no,-iving way hrprice to meet ers, the sales are small. The quantity in the grOwer'.,, t liey far above an average of last year in February, wheio usually a disposition to sell, but without a material l', 0 0:5 from the prices now sought, it cannot get into th e eotil i ipf i e hands. Yarns: The small quantity of Yarns .now c° l l market clearly indicates that the p ro d uct i on i s to acttlerdi and the stocks on hand very sma ll : the spinners rat•prol' ferring to have their machi nery totally idle, than effec V fot, at the current prices. Mohair Yarns are still inquired , lier the spinners so enga ge d are generally busy. Pieces hal cent arrival of the Caledoni a steamer from America s d , ' brought many orders, the high price of money acting r s ,f o e f t i , back to giving ord ers for the autumn : and the shiplo r lif ;4 1 spring being closed, causes our market to be hardly „ the opening of the year. The home-trade houses are n o' active, and on the whole the transactions of the day been encouraging. joly H UDDERSFIELD.—More goods this week have been be" i d t of iu the Cl ot h Hall than for some weeks past. In houses there is a g eneral complaint that the past P . ,, r s , r, been the dulle s t th at has been exprienced for some Ye a c o ia` y have scarcely a week without the announcement of 0 4 f failures affecting this district, which may easily acco want of confidence that oppresses our trade. ~fOP „ ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—Tbere was a nua , '%lo: 4 tendance of both buyers and sellers in the market and a better confidence has been restored. There good demand for fine and middle qualities of fini. , 11 0 , : f which were sold at much the same prices as on thia ,, !,`,l There was rather more selling in coarse flannels ' re, Yorkshire goods than for several weeks past. 1 ): orlu moderate quantity of wool disposed of at fully as hi, on this day week HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The glove trade, l l4o and silk, seems gradually improving. The cotton hr i ! t ill in a more depressed condition. The drawer branch %of I in an improved state, and great activity prevails in Ir„"ps.o shops; but this, we regret to say, has many exceptiT t riv a l bobbin net trade is yet in a state of considerable con,tirP;i as the principal factory still continues to discharge to:: to t) many of them of twenty years standing. The factco..'o o l ll we alluded last week has not stopp e d, b u t h as stil f 0 0, time to four hours per day. On all skies we hear but distressed machine.owners, and of course rtinl, things worse than they really are, by st a ti ng th a t 51 , e,0104 has failed, or is going to fail in business. . Anotherf t done considerable mischief, which states that certain 6V ol turers are buying nets at the co s t p r i ce o f the yar d) 11 0 t/ wages and profits; this has been asserted for rfl ori , ,. :o 'e years, and if true, most of th e mac hi ne - owners m ust i d upon the list of paupers.—Nottingbain Journal. THE inoN TRAWL—Since the last nilarter-f10P,t../1 stances have transpired whichind lapsed, the price of iron win are informed that the stocks on 1 10 d all descriptions of- manufactured iron quest. The trade, therefore, has an upward t far from any reduction being other month ha Enloe. Ati at all like may be anticipated.—At it meeting of the creditois.. Bradley and Son, of Tipton, near Dudley, held in th i 3 O •o l Thursday, an arrangement was made for the I , ‘' 12s. 6d. in the pound.—Birniingham Advertiser. Peb, .., The Rat has the de Louis D A y s. __ A Tuileries a of Pairiterq tilt whose Painter ha Walked fro tinder his I was Doti a walking out with S hape and verge enou all the pr w as a grea ?f the Fr Peopl Lip an old tu n told ' n and whos marked w after all. , Suisvii; know thiE than the i