The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-28 00:00:00

JOHNSON BROTHERS LONDON DYEING ESTA 9, RANELAGH-ST AND 126, BOLD-STREET, LIFER EVElClArticie4n the above Lila. Business:' or Dyed and Finished in a very ptrior manner KID GLOVES CLEANED. LLAMA and MOUSSELINE DE LAINE DR CLEANED and FINISHED, WITHOUT BEING TAKEN TO PIECES• PATENT AGATE BUTTONS. TA B. SMITH and SON take leave to nfo rm Merchat A--/• Shippers, Woollen Drapers, and e Public generall y 't they are appointed AGENTS for the Sale of PROS 'S PATENT AGATE BUTT S, s. MINTON and Co., Stoke- on-Trent. Patten. e seen at the Advertiser's Offic , No. 11, North John „ Liverpool, where they have constantly on hand .oral assortment of Plain and Fancy Buttons. N.B.—Pattern Cards supplied to the M nanufactured by erchants free of expense B. SMITH and SON, PAPER IVit AN UFA. D• WHOLESALE STATIONERS, SHI PP I NG and GENERAL -, .1, North John-street , be g inform the Mer aants, Shippers, &e. that they have c onstantly . WRITING, PRINTING, and FA NC Y PAPERS Home Use and Exportation. They 'll undertake either at the long or short Price, with to their Friends, and on terms equally as advax any House in 0-- TIIRERS nt any extra charg .ne Trade. perior Article in Copying or Office Inks, of any size HITLAW'S PATENT S MEDICATED VAPOUR BATH, BEN SHAW- ST.REET, LIVERPOOL. superiority of these Baths has beep so long acknow d that all commendation on tho part of the Pro uld be superfluous; be, thejefore, confines him 'one to THE led simply to announcement, thaqie has sable expense in the improvenSt of the WARM WATER BATH D A.RTMENT, ht to such a state of perfection that they ell as the Medicated, Sulphur and other a few minutes' notice. Mr. J. J. GODFREY , of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, may be d every morning before eleven o'clock. i is now brong , as weu REMOVAL. GE HOPMSON, Coach-buildir and Harness curer, respectfully announces his RE "...ime-strget, to the more commodious Pre s. Samuel and James Holme, SELL-STREET, nd embraces this opportudity of returning his o the Gentry of Livercidol and its environs e has exierienced for several a continuance of that prefer. hall be his unceasing endeavour to merit, by WA L from I leral suppor . t t. and humbly_ sol most fashionable materials N . tS wool, Mar —Carriages for Exportatior 1843. PATENT RICE STARCH many respec by the Pater 4 ugust 24th, ]842 . Patint R ach silisfactia bout Sticking a ter ea „ rch I had previ a colour of the Linen, and gives'a I also use it for Laces, and think o other .nd claz e finest D essrs. Jones and Co greet, Whitechapel, .ch be shzglon A I find it espectable . t Servant "MARY WEIGH, Laundress to Her Majes London and Wholesale s and Soar, - 16, Red, DREAPER'S the following branc I.—Excavating a 2. —Masonry, ini —Joiners'and Carr 4.—Plumbing, ( 111 be i require Committee, Paris By order, NATH —The Select V the lowest Tender. The Contractor Bricks made upon the I Liverlo CE /P NOW EXHIBITING (For the First Time AT OLD' POSTOF DUBUFES Two Grand Origin and EVE in PARADIS E 1 PAIYTIN GS of ADAM avd )Seen exhibited to the universal admiration of Admission, ls. ; Season Tickets,F(not transferable,) 2 Children and Schools Half-price. Open from Ten in the Morning, till Ten at Night. 47,000 Perseb TO BUILDERS AND OTHh,.- PARISH OF LIVERPOOLN. THE SELECT VESTRY are ready to receive whole or separate TENDERS for the BUILDI,NG of the NEW SUB-WORKHOUSE and SCHOOLS At Kirkdale, for s of 5.--Slatinz and Plastering The Plans and S Work, linclu g lronmon- Painting pecifica Lockwood and Anon], ti the Board Room of the siprepared by Messrs. may be inspected, at -hill. on and It. OHN SMIT of the Building ITHERLAND, Secret Liverpool, 13th March, 1843 Ives to acc Ave to take ORTE AND )LD-STREET takes this opportnni of returning sto his numerous v ends and e very liberal patr age 3e has for m, that )REAP. experieb. lOVED from An ass MUSIC' BAZAAR LIVERPOOL, MUSIC-FALL d. and begs leave to id form t No. 49, Bold -Oreet, to the . ver ious Premises, No. 56, on the opposite side, formerly oe: ed by Mr. Pringle, as a British and / Foreign Shawl Em am, and hopes rit a Vntinuance of futu, through str ,Oderate charges, to n He also solicits attention to his extensive Stock, consisting of upwards of 150 new and second-hand PIANO-FORTES for Hire, personally selected from the Mann -. Messrs. Collard and Collard, Broadwood, Tom ), and other esteemed London makers, at the lowest rices, varying from £7 to 100 guineas, and up- on Sale and Viran SAO, Superior Double-action Harps, b the first London mak ers . ADVANTAGES TO PARTIES HIRING OR PUR CHASING PIANO-FORTES, Any Piano may be taken on Hire, and, if purchased within three months, the hire will not be charged : the purchaser can have it at the original nett cash price. If retained six or twelve months, one half the Hire will be deducted from the cash price of such instrument when pur- chased. I 'Piano-fortes taken in Exchange, lent on Hire, Repaired and Tuned singly or by the year. W. P. D. will warrant any Piano-fortes sold by him, and exchange the same within 12 months if not approved of. A GG FINGER ORGAN ON SALE, containing six stops, pedals, and pedal pipes, suitable for a moderate-sized chtirch or chapel. Every novelty connected with the business as soon as it appears lortment of New and Popular Music at Half Price ON SALE, AN EXTENSIVE STOCK OF FAMILY FRUIT. JMIDDLEWOOD begs respectfully to announce to his • Friends and the Public that he is now selling, at very Reduced Priees, 280 Packages of fine DESERT 12.AISINS, in lavers, also Fifty Cartons of very superior qupfity ; French PLUMS, in Wood and Fancy Packages ; bes •Clerne FIGS, selected for Family use. He also recommend is last arrival of SHADDOCKS and FORBIDDEN UIT, now in I high perfection, and will warrant them sui tor to any in the kingdom; also Forbidden Fruit, for prese ing, at 3s. to ss. *Ter dozen. His St. Michael's OR NG S and American APPLES are of the beat quality. Also Black and Green GRAPES. His Marmalade, Ginger, French, East and West India PRESERVES, with every other Article, as usual. N.B.—Families in the Country are recommended to send • Orders sealed, addressed "J. Middlewood's Fruit 'louse, Parker-street," and require a Receipt ased for the J. M. cannot be answerable for Fruit purch by Carriers without this precaution. J. M. is glad to find the above precaution has had sired effect in preventing disappointment and imposition, as no house in the kingdom can supply fruit of equal quality at nis pri ces . J. M. respectfully inform s the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public be is now prepared to supp ly the genuine he hßOTANgreat IC OIL in town and country , to any extent ; and as pleasure in stating, by thirty years' experience he can prove that the hair will be preserved without decline, or turning gray. to extreme old age. For the extraordinaryefficacy of the Botanic Oil, as proved by me dical men, and tes effi timonials i by person s of distinction, see the Treatise on Hair, publshed 3 in 1826, price Id. Botanic Oil so ld at 25., s. 6d. and 55., with trade allowance on three packages. COCKLE'S PATILO ANTIBILIOUS PILLS, ,NISED BY TUB Bishop o f Ely • Bishop of Gloucester Bishop of Chicbater Bi s hop of WorOster Bishop of Herciford Bishop of St.lAsaph Grafton Mancheste latland larlborough Bishop of BOgor Bishop of lAndaff ti t Bi s hop of Calcutta Lord Rt. Hon. .A. Murray Advoc e o f Scotland Rt. H . R. C. Fergusson, m.p. , Judge Advocate Ge- neral ion. Sir Edward Cust,K.C.H ion. Colonel Anson, M.P. lon. Fox Maule, M.P. idcairal Sir D. Gould, G.C,13 G.C.H. ;ir Henry Wbea tle y , 3r J. Macdonald, K.C.B. Adj. General Thomas Dyer• Bart Tet - t, Bart, ancis Bu Bart., m.p, "t ad-r- Bart Grant, Henry Si r Bla , ert. Buxton , 0 5 N , Agnew, Bart. B.V. Broke, 1C.C.8 Sir Ph TENT s Coat, a k Coat, li IMPROVEMENt Gentlemen's Dress Tracy MENT [ty, and £3 0 ( iole purpose of Cuttir italoons, and Breech( Super Black, Blue, colour Kerseymeres or Doeski ancy materials for Pantaloons newest approved style, from ~ £llO 0 of 6 0 D. MYERS, having Agents in Paris and London, is in constant receipt of the most rich and splendid Styles and Vestings, of Figured and Plain Velvets, Plushes, Satins, Silks, Marcellas, Cashmeres, Shawl Patterns, Thibets, &c., &c. _ _ Best Black. Frew. £1 1 0 NAVAL AND MILITARY UNIFORMS to the latest regulations. MERCHANTS AND CAPTAINS SUPPLIED al .• ;art, M• P • rt.rt.M.P le Beauvoir B. Mash Sir Thos. Wilde , P.Sol.Gen Pollock, M.P. Rag., chimarn J. Wi!d Castle Colonel Tynte, M.P. Colonel Stbthorp, M.P. Col.Delap,Stoke Park, Surrey Col. Bence, Thorington Hall Colonel Cowell Captain Pechell, M.P. Matthias Attwood, Esq.,M.P Alderman Thompson, M.P. Charles Walker, Esq., M.P. Mr. Serjeant Talfourd, M.P. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow Ven.Archdeacon of Colchester Ven.Archdeacon ofSt.Alban's Rev. Dr. French, Cambridge. Rev. Dr. Benson Rev. Dr. Birch Rev. Dr. Marsh _ v.• obert Renwick, Esq. P. . Waddy, Esq., late M M.P., Lord Hi Lord Plc Lord Mt Lord Ki Lord Be: Lord Fitzroy Lord Middleton Lord Frederick Gordon L or d Willoughby d'Ereaby Lord Hay Lord Redesdale Lord Seymour Lord Hartland Lord Syd j.nrd A GI Daus bishop of Armagh u of Durham and We 'o of Norwich Bishop of Salisbn Dublin John Hatchell , Esq., Dublin, Bishop of P-4 ..6croorougb -.4a numerous Families of the highest respectabili t y . Mr. COCKLE, SVILGZON, has much pleasure in laying before his friends and the public, Mr. ABERNETHY'S ESTIMATION of his Antibilious Pills, extracted from a Letter which that gentleman addressed to him in the year . * * * * * * _ " I have ordered the use of yo ur Antibilious Pills in affec tions of the stomach, attended with considerable derange ment of the functions of that impor tant organ, and connected with a torpid state of the liver and bowels, (for to this cause, chiefly , may be attributed the various diseases of the b od y , • both local and constitutional,) and I have thus hail freq opportunities of w greatly ieir beneAcia tiluence the sec They .1 act with certainty titary. organs, on the atim..— ning pain or irritation. I consider them a iicine, and may be taken and in the most effectual manner without occas' nost excellent family ap reet sa ent me. mes with pe They are prepared by 111 JAMES Coc; ordinary to Her Serene Highness the la HESSE HOMBURG, and may be had of cine Venders, in boxes, at Is. 1 Fd., 2s. ! e, Surgeon Extia- LANDGRAVINt of rp,neCtable Medi- NOTICE nly are Let it e especially observed, LAMES COCKLE, MO se nus genuine which have the name cwRT," in white letters , engraved on the Government Stamp• This mark of authenticity will protect the Public against any dangerous and 4eleterious imitation._ _ _ ?mend-street, Bedfard-row, Lon RbY!l C) STSTENl l. l" C T7 l htt,Vrl i t. i jilg* STREET. MR. BRAHAM has the honour to ar.nouac:: thlt give his LAST EVENING NC F, RT, ON THURSDAY NEX , the 80th . instant assisted by his Son arid when he will introduce sc ARLES BRATIAM avoluite Snnvq_ es of t For partici Reserved S Body of t Gallery CO CLASSICAL CHAMBER O CERTS, IT THE ROYAL ASSEMB Y ROOMS GREAT GEORGE-STRE T. M 4 . ESSRS. J. Z. HERRMANN, C B. HERRMANN, and J. LIDEL HERRMA , have the honour to a nnounce their intention of giving R CONCERTS of . __ CHAMBEIt MUSIC, Initrurnenfl and Vocal, on the Evenings of MONDAY, the 3d, and FRIDAY, the 21st April and the Ist and 15th of May, for the Peformance of Classics Works. by Standard Masters, and other Composers of mei' less known in England. I be receive ,011; Mr. C. B. HERRMAN 0. PALMER'S Piano-for nd at the r. J. Z. HERRMAN Subscriptions 121, Upper Isli and Music Warehouse Single Tickets r Four Concerts, One Guinea; Fami Guineas. t rcur, The Concerts will commence a will be given in the Pr Particulars grammes IMPROVE HAS now tl fresh ma IMPROVE- THE CIVET CAT ESTA I TII SH ,ORD-STREET, LIV POOL, I oice STOCK of every LENT, al for gTLEM EN'S FIRST-CL SS DRESS kBRICS OF VA EXTU RES mates, both for and exportation patron of a few articles tss Material. War'. ble tes az SHORTEST 1.7 Observe the CIVET CAT, 72, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL COLONIAL INT.ELLIGLNCE THE GOVERNOR OF Si. KITTS.—We published a few days since a strange story in relation to the Governor of St. ts, whic was circulated through the .gency of Sir A London Charles Napier, in the House of Common paper gives the following as the actual circumstance case:—" The Governor (Mr. Cunningham), a magistrate and a physician, kindly accompauled the husband of a lady, very near her death (and who has died since she reached England), on board the steamer on a stormy night. The boat which brought the party on board somehow or other returned without them. In these circumstances, one of the boats of the steamer, with a very young and inexperienced person to command her, was appointed to take them on shore. He, on a coast strange to him, in a dark and squally ar !tam tntar p Vuombintls SE OF LORDS.—Tnuast REDESDALE, iC Wa nzed that all the petitions should be discussed Upon of of counsel only should be heard on each sid HOUSE OF ( .ed with a view to committed' having been appointed, fIMON S.-THURSDAY Mr. HOME asked Lord Palmerston if it was his intention to renew the debate on the Ashburton treaty. Lord PALMERSTON said he was satisfied with the result of of the discussion, for after the declaration of Sir R. Peel it was impossible for him to have divided the house. Mr. Li UNIE then gave notice that, on the 31st of this month, he would bring forward a motion for the approval of the Ashburton treaty, and thanking the Government and Lord Ashburton for having accomplished it. Lord PALMERSTON took that opportunity of correcting a mistake into which he had fallen, in stating that Lord Ash burton was not only a British subject but an American citi- In reply to a question from Mr. EWART, Mr. GLADSTONE said that corn introduced into Canada from any country in Europe or elsewhere could not, evep after paying the 3s duty, be shipped as Canadian corn tc England. The rule was that any article manufactured in an country was receive(' ' into this country as the produce of that which it was manufactured. lf, therefore, the Canadians manufactured flour from foreign corn, such flour must be re ceived as Canadian, the rule as to the raw produce having no reference to the manufactured article. Mr. HOGG presented the report of the Nottingham elec tion committee. which declared that Mr. Walter, through his agents, had been guilty of bribery, but it was not proved that he had been cognisant of it. The evidence was ordered to be printed. A discussion then arose as to the issue of a new writ for the borough, to which Lord LINCOLN objected, and moved that it should be postponed for a week. On a division the motion of Lord Lincoln was carried by a majority of 91 1 , and the issue of the writ is accordingly postponed. .ar. WILLIAMS moved for an account of the public money ,xpended on each of the royal palaces, gardens, and parks, and the appurtenances th ereo f, stating the amount of the ex penditure from parliamentary grants, crown revenues surren dered to the public by civil list acts, and other sources ; and , ount of the salaries and other emoluments received rangers abd deputy-rangers in each year from 1811 to also the a 1842 inclusive Lord Luscot.N's only objection to such a return was _ great labour and expense which it would occasion. If the hon. member wished merely to know the arinciule on whicl r period sought only to know any particular facts, that informat should be given to him whenever he woulc office of Woods and Fores member should limit the true that some of the palaces were n the Sovereign, for th ts. He would suggedthat the hoe. return to the last ten years. It was kept up for the use of ere in fact kept up chiefly for the benefit and amusement of the public, as in the instance of Hampton -court. As to the supposed object of favouring in dividuals who have political interest, Mr. Williams was greatly mistaken. No one had been recommended to her Majesty by the present government on that score; and he thought the house would hardly censure the application of this patronage when he stated that the two last nominated occupiers of royal apartments were the Marchioness Wel lesley and the sister of the late Under-Secretary Drum mond. Mr. HUME denied that the return asked for would be at tended with the difficulty supposed by the noble lord. More palaces were kept up than were at all necessary. The old rule was a good one, which was, that every repair or alteration in any of the royal apartments occupied by way of favour should be at the expense of the occupier asking for it ; and that every such occupier should, on quitting, make good whatever, he bad caused to be altered. He would advise Mr. Williams to accept the return as offered by Lord Lincoln. _ _ Sir R. PEEL said, that Lord Lincoln's offer showed the tal absence of desire on the part of government to conceal anything. The official establishments were not now sufficient for more than tho conduct of the ordinary business ; and if extensive returns like these were thus frequently called for, there would arise a necessity for such an increase in those establishments as would be extremely unacceptable to the friends of economy; moreover, the total of an account taken for 30 years would always look invidiously large ; even the expenditure of any private nobleman, on the aggragate of 50 years, would appear enormous. Let it not be supposed that all these palaces and parks were kept up for the Sovereign alone ; a great part of this expense was incurred solely for the health and recreation of the public. It was better, for the preservation of the palaces themselves, that they should be inhabited, than deserted ; and few gentlemen, he pre sumed, would like to see Hampton-court Palace, the noble pile of Cardinal Wolsey, sold by Mr. George Robins. He referred to the great expenses incurred in the late christen ing, in the visit of the King of Prussia, and in the royal pro gress to Scotland, all of which had been defrayed from the Queen's privy purse, without any application for aid from the public, except in respect of a small sum laid out on Windsor Castle when the Prince of Wales was christened; and reminded the House that the Queen had submitted ber own personal revenue to the operations of . the income-tax, in consideration of the sufferings of her people. Mr. CIIRTIES spoke a few words about the necessity of economical vigilance Mr. F. BARING gave son- explanations connected with he late erection of stables -- Mr. WILLIAMS said his object had been to see what was the expenditure of George IV. on these works and buildings. He admitted the utility of the parks to the people of the me tropolis; but contended that they, and not his constituents at Coventry, ought to pay for that accommodation. The la- dies occupyi apartments might be very deserving; but if to be provided for by allowances in money. offered by Lord Lincoln, but or the purpose of in- so, they ought He would accept the return had no time to visit the public offices f quiring into particular facts. Lord LINCOLN was understood to say that the occupiers of apartments are regularly charged with the repairs of them. Mr. BORTHWICK could not lose sight of the employment which these edifices had afforded to the labouring poor. The returns were then ordered in the limited form sug gested by LORD LINCOLN. Mr. Hums moved for some papers respecting the com mercial and other relations between Eugland and Naples, and ;.,sted reduction of wages. 6ir R. PEEL could not, as a financial minister, consent to reductions of duty with quite so much readiness as Mr. Hume evinced in proposing them. He was willing to present some of the papers moved for, but others he felt himself bound to withhold, apprehending that international animosities, now tranquilized, might be revived by the production of them. Some, but not all, of the papers were then voted. Mr. SMITS O'BaIEN came next. His motion was for a select committee to inquire into the execution and operation of the poor law in Ireland. He complained of the conduct of the commissioners. For instance, where the guardians of an union had ordered a meat dinners for the paupers on Christmas-day, the commissioners had rebuked them, alleging the necessity of protecting the rate-payers. There might have been exaggerations ; but all he now asked was the means of ascertaining whether the allegations made were exaggera tions or not. He earnestly advocated the principles of out door relief. When he bad been speaking for a great length of time, it was observed that 40 members were not present. The gallery was cleared, but before the house could be cleared three or four members came in and made up the complement. Mr O'Brien then, after an indignant apostrophe to those who had attempted to arrest his progress, resumed his course of argument, the bearing of which, from the indistinctness of his delivery, it was difficult to collect. He did not mean, by moving for a committee, to exonerate the governme n t f rom their proper responsibility of bringing in a bill upon this sub ject ; for the condition of the Irish poor was most deplorable. Lord ELIOT said that the Government bad received very general testimony from most influential parties as to the fact that the law was working well in Ireland. The dissatisfaction he believed arose from defects in the law, which it was his intention to introduce a bill to remedy, until when he thought it better to postpone any general discussion on the subject. The workhouses in Ireland contained 35,000 people, and he believed they were much conducive to habits of order and subordination. The committee of inquiry could, be thought, lead to no beneficial result, and he therefore opposed the motion. Sir D. NORREYS maintained that the workhouse system tended to deteriorate the character of the peasantry of Ire land by encouraging habits of recklessness and idleness. The man who once became accustomed to the luxuries of the workhouse, could hardly be expected to return willingly to a wretched hovel and miserable fare. Mr. SHAW thought the existing law had not as yet had a fair trial. If out-door relief were to be allowed in a country like Ireland, where the mass of the population were sunk in extreme poverty, it would be in effect a confiscation of the landed property of that country. Mr. S. CRAWFORD supported the motion. Mr. ESCOTT deprecated the idea of taking the subject out of the hands of the Government. He looked upon the great evil in Ireland to be the same as it was in England, the erec tion of union workhouses. Sir H. W. BARRON supported the existing law, which, he contended, had not yet had a fair trial; but which would prove eminently beneficial if supported properly by the gentry of Ireland. Lord C. HAMILTON was of opinion that inquiry was necessary. kfter Some observations from Mr. FRENCH, Mr. GREGORY suggested to Mr. O'Brien that under the circumstances it. would be advisable to withdraw the motion. Sir R. FERGUSON contended for the necesity of investi- Lord BARNARD opposed the motion of the hoo. member for the county of Limerick, while he contended that there were many defects in the existing law which required a re medy. Sir J. GRAHAM said that government bad matured a bill on this subject, which would be laid upon. the.table before Easter in order that it might be considered during the recess. In that bill most of the matters referred to by Mr. O'Brien would be found to be dealt with, but at the same time the power of the commissioners would be maintained, as would also the principle of confining the relief to the workhouses. If the question of out-door relief were to be considered at all, it should be considered by the house itself, and not by a com mittee. If was a question of the utmost importance, inas much as out-door relief in Ireland might amount to the con fiscation of the landed property of that portion of the United Kingdom. M. Ross said as it was 'the intention of the government to bring in a bill upon the subject, be would not, as he had intended to do, support the motion of his hon. friend (Mr. O'Brien). Mr. S. O'BRIEN replied, and the house divided, when his motion was defeated by a majority of 108 to 23. Sir .1. WALSH moved for leave to bring in the Parish Ves tries Bill. Mr. DUNCOMBE moved as an amendment that the debate be adjourned, which, on a division, was lost by a majority of 56 against 9. . _ _ Mr. DUNCOMBE then moved the adjournment of the house, which was lost by a majority of 58 against 7. After some discussion Sir J. WALSH moved that the de bate on the bill be adjourned till Tuesday neat, which was weed to; and the house adjourned at a quarter past one o clock. HOUSE OF LORDS.- -FRIDAY Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that he would introduce a bill after Easter, for the more effectual suppression of the slave trad AMPBELL laid upon the table .a bill for facilitating the transmission of real property. Several bills on the table were forwarded a stage, after which their lordships adjourned. night, determined to run the boat in upon a part of tt where, though h she could not live five minutes, and accordingly that all lives would be Every thing was Cine strance and entreaty, _a vain, to change the youngster mind ; and in these circumstances, the gentlemen aboard, with death staring them in the face, resolved to get the tiller into their possession to arrest the fate which seemed other- wise to await them. A struggle ensued, and in the dark, and in the rolling sea, the lad went overboard; but got in again forthwith, with no harm but a ducking. The steamer de- J having to return to St. Kitts in three days, the master did boat, and hence the voyage to St. Kitts, een equally foolish and unnecessary. riot lie-to for the which seems to haN We learn from those who knew Mr. Cunningham well, that he is about the last man on earth to perpetrate any act of cruelty or harshness against any other. The feeling of self preservation is probably strong in him, as in all other men." FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE The following dreadful suicide, says the Memorial Borde laie, took place, a few days ago, at Loubieng, near Orthez (Basses -Pyrenees) :—" A young girl, the daughter of a farmer, finding herself pregnant, and without hope that her seducer would marry her, got together a large quantity of stubble and dried plants, and, having made a pile of them, set fire to it, and then placed herself on the burning heap. In her agony she uttered loud cries, which brought two persons who wer in the neighbourhood to the spot; but she was air dreadfully burnt that she died two hours afterwards." A LONG FAST.—The Censeur de Lyons gives the following remarkable fact in the physiology of animals:—•' On the 2d ult., a boy in the employ of the miller at the village of Tar cieux lost one of the flocks of turkeys under his charge, and was not found till the sth instant, having remained the whole of the 30 days without food. The poor bird was dis covered in a hole in the wall of part of the mill, into which it had got, and from which it could not afterwards emerge. It was lying with its head under its wing, in a sort of stupor. At the commencement of its fast, the turkey weighed bei:ween 10Ib. and 121 b., but when found it was reduced to little more than feathers, skin, and bone, weighing not more than 21b. It was not dead, and the miller, following, the prescription of the Tsfedicin malgre lui for mute girls and parroquets, admi nistered to his bird small quantities of bread sopped in wine. After an hour, the attenuated animal opened its eyes, and assumed an energy of motion like one in a state of intoxica tion, but has since become gradually better. THE JEWS IN SYRIA..—A correspondent of the Times, who signs himself " M. Solomon," gives the following case o f persecution, in which the tragedy of Damascus was nearly reacted :—" A catholic clergyman intrigued with a girl of his Hock in Sidon ; they decided on elopement, but waited until a steam-boat should arrive at Beyrout, for Asmir, in Tur key. The boat arrived ; the priest appointed the girl to meet him, and shaved off his beard to prevent detection ; but when they arrived at Beyrout they missed the boat, and then reefed their way to a small village, to be near at hand when any.other boat should be ready. In the interim the father of the girl came home. He asked for his daughter. The mother observed the girl was gone on a visit to her sister, but, sending to ask if the girl was there, the answer was that s he had not seen her. The father on this immediately went to the French Consnl (Signor Corti), at Sidon, who expressed his suspicion that the Jews were the guilty partici, and ap plied to the governor to send a force, which was acceded to, a nd 40 soldiers were commanded to surround the Jews' quar ter of the town. Every house was entered by them and the mob during the night. The next morning, however, a tra veller arrived at Beyrout, and being told the cause of all this, he said he could clear up the business, as he saw two persons on horseback, and knew the stable-keeper to whom the horses belonged. On inquiry being made, the priest who had eng aged them and the route taken were made known, and the fugitives were discovered. I need not say how happy the poor Jews were at their miraculous escape from the tor ture and death with which they were threatened. It is a singular coincidence, that at the very same time the Jews in Jerusalem had also an attempt made on them, which was frustrated at its commencement." THE MONOMANIACS.—As it may interest some of, the public who are curious in matters of monomaniacs, we can inform them that the latest intelligence from Bedlam an .. nounces that Stevenson, thk sistance to the keepers of the day to disencumber him of his immense mousta long beard. He denounced as a gross personal ind attempt to apply a razor to his face, been polluted, he said, by any such sharp weapon of destruc tion. The keepers, however, succeeded in stripping him, after no small force, of those hirsute embellishments which bad imparted such interest to him at the Mansion-house, and would have made him a great lion indeed at Bedlam. So determined was Stevenson to preserve at least some por tion of his long-cherished beard, that be cunningly contrived to conceal a part of it inside his neckcloth ; but the eyes of the keepers were as sharp as their razor, and every hair was shorn away. Stevenson is now confined on the ground floor of the criminal ward of the asylum, as is also M'Naughten. We hear that M'Naughten keeps up no intercourse with his but evinces a disposition to get into con- Dt chm an , made serious r am who proceeded on Fri- which had never before fellow-prisoners. fsation with on their admission, confined on nd are con- 1 there until a careful obsery ttion of their habits and and harmlessness—shall conduct—such as their cleanl satisfy the authorities that it is safe to remove them to the -.it s on the first floor, and then, if they continue to he confidence of the authorities, they are removed to the second !loon , Oxford has already attained apartuie gaini further on t, this envied eminence , and we think we may say, w ithout fear o f contradiction, that there is not a ma n i n or a b out the prison, capable of judg ing, who does not regard him as per fectly sound in his mind on every subject. The same im --3vails as to M`Naughten,t hough not with the s ame certainty, as the means of observation have not been of the aple duration.—Observer. pression p HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY Mr. S. WORTLEY and other hon. members suggested to Sir James Graham the propriety of postponing the second reading of the Factories Bill, or else, if he pressed the second reading, to give ample time for considering the bill before it went into committee. Sir J. GRAHAM said if the house would assent to the se cond reading that night he would not move the educational claases in committee until after Easter. The right hon. baronet then moved the second reading. WART Said that with the educati tisfied Wesleyans to the Unitaria dissenters generally were dis uses of the bill, even from the He thought that the theolo- It to be established by the bill was based sure proposed byGoverurnent, though Littered, would be disad on injt s which, it r tageous to the Roman Catholics Mr. G. KNIGHT said that a section of the Esta Church was as muoh opposed to the educational clauses as were the dissenters. He thought the Government adopted the golden mean between all parties, and he hoped the prin ciples on which the bill was founded would be extended to the rural population of the country. Mr. HAW r ES said that in his opinion the more known the educational clauses became the more decidedly would they dby the dissenting portion of the community. On the dissenters be protested against a scheme be opp ti le part of which vested in the Church of England power over a national fund for the exclusive purpose of education, the effect of which, he contended, must be to sharpen existing religious animosities. _ _ Sir J. GRAHAM had entertained a hope that the second reading would have passed without any discussion on the de tails of the measure, and he regretted much the tone of the remarks of Mr. Hawes. Lord Arundel had done more jus tice to the government plan, and he believed the fears of the noble lord on the part of the Roman Catholics, as well as those of the dissenters, might be relieved by the reflection thbt the schoolmaster was not intended to be a commentator /in the Scriptures, but merely a communicator of ideas. The object in view was certainly to promote the religious instruc tion of the young, and to rescue them from the practical in fidelity in which they were at present plunged. It was im possible to carry any extensive system of education into effect without the assistance of the church; and looking at the riots of last autumn, which were chiefly carried on by youths be tween eighteen and twenty-two years of age, be felt confident that if such a project as the one before the house had been carried out ten years ago, those scenes would never have taken place. He was prepared to give all due weight to every objection urged by the dissenters, and he hoped, therefore, the house would not hazard the success of the bill by allow ing feelings of jealousy or anger to exhibit themselves in the course of the discussion. . _ Sir G. GREY dil not entertain a doubt that the bill bad been brought forward by the government in an honest spirit towards all classes, and if they had failed in giving satisfac tion it was owing to the defectiveness of the details of the measure. As one instance of this, he referred to the fact that the bill in its present shape excluded all schoolmasters who were not members of the established church. The clause relating to the selection of books was also susceptible of improvement, by giving a controlling power to the Privy Council, or by some other means. Sir RI INGl.;;Contended that the church of England had the constitutional right of watching over and superintending the instruction of the people, and his chief objection to the bili was that it did not sufficiently recognise this right. He could not see any reason for alarm on the part of the dissen ters respecting the management of the schools, for the trus tees of each union need not necessarily be members of the Established church. He hOped that the house would make no material alteration in this bill in deference to the threats or taunts of the dissenters, whose zeal must he much less than it was represented to be, or whose numbers must be consi derably smaller, for he found that the entire number who had availed themselves of the right of being married otherwise than by the rites of the church of England was only 8,248. Mr. HUME said that government should not suffer itself to be overawed by the church, for the pecuniary benefit of which it appeared as if the people of England were born, married, and buried. He did not think the people of this country would submit to the thraldom imposed upon them by this bill. Every person in the country had, he contended, a right to education as well as food for the body, w ith out any reference to religious distinctions. The cost of such education to the nation would be more than counterbalanced by the decrease of immorality and crime. Mr. ACLAND said that the success of a measure like this must depend upon its being cordially supported by all par ties. He had no doubt but it would be honestly and zea lously carried out by the cl erg y of the establi s h e d c h urc h ; and be deprecated raising an y q uestions whi c h m i g h t g i ve occasion to feelings of dis sa ti s faction towards a bill, t h e general principles of which h e ag ieed in, and which h e h ope d to see generally supported. Mr. - F. BARING said that in the trustees of each union there should be a representation of the rate-payers, who ought to have some share of control over the expenditure of the money which was drawn from their own pockets. It was of great importance certainly in a large scheme such as this for the government to carry with them the good wishes of the Established Church, but it was also of vast importance that it should be carried out also with the favourable wishes of the ministers of the dissenting population throughout the country. After some observations from Mr. HARDY, Mr. M. GIBSON said he could almost bring himself to op pose the second reading of the bill, there were so many ob jections to it. He feared that one of its effects would be to displace labour, for as the bill applied only to silk and cotton mills, the children would be sent to pin-making and other manufactures to which the bill did not apply. The hon. member also stated other objections to the bill, to which he entreated the attention of the government. Me. M. Surrox did not think that the effect would be to drive the children from the cotton mills to other employ ments; on the contrary, lie thought the bill would hold out a premium to parents to take their children from other em ployments in order that they might have the advantage of the schools. _ Mr. COWPER was of opinion that, under all the circum stances, the proposed measure was the most practicable that could be adopted. Lord ASHLEY said that his not having called the attention of the house to the condition of the agricultural population, was not because he did not. think it required improvement as regarded education, but because he had peculiarly directed his attention to those places where there were vast masses of people plunged in the lowest state of vice and ignorance. He hoped that this bill would be discussed throughout with out crimination or recrimination. and he still further hoped that the house would avail itself of the present most blessed opportunity of removing a blot upon our character as a civilised nation. They must expect to call down the Divine ence upon their heads if they neglected to remove this aboinination . from the land. Mr. COBDEN was of opinion that the difficulties of laying doWn a general plan of education were considerably increased by giving a dominant power to the Church of England. He contended that there was more vice, infidelity, and im morality of every description, in the parish in which that house sat, than was to be foundin Manchester. This should be known in justice to the dissenters, for Manchester should not be singled out as a specimen of immorality when the phreoypporrofiroensseodf t t o he ca p li ro th p i e s r a ty s o:f st t e h m e very spot in which they were assembled, in which the Dean to whom belonged a e mployment; but they were pro and Chapter of Westminster exercised their functions, and parish, was in a state than which nothing could be conceived worse. By this bill it appeared they were providing for the education of children in viding no education for the thousands of children who had no employment ; and g y re :t t t of national education. What was the objection to giving some instruction to those children who, having nothing to do, were idling about the streets. The church did not run after those children, but.the moment an attempt was made to give them some education at the expense of the nation, at once the church throws difficulties in the way by making claims which ought not to be conceded. He would not ob ject to the second reading of the bill, because it would give some additional education, and discarded for the first time the use of the catechism ; but in the committee he would do all he could to have those clauses altered which were so execrable that they must interfere with its beneficial opera tion. _ WAJ Ll • Mr. DARBY did not think a secular education any guaran tee for moral conduct. After a few remarks from Mr. HOPE, Lord J. RUSSELL thought that the good temper with which the bill was discussed in that house would not be withgoouvteritnsmbeenntefi amongs t which was one for th e establish ment effect upon the public. Th e no bl e l or d threw out a variety 4f suggestions for the consideration of the ment of a normal school for which he was sure the house would readily grant an additional vote. After a few words from Mr. Ross, The bill was read a second time, and the committee was appointed for Friday nest. A discus s ion then took place upon the third reading of the Dogs Bill, which was at length carried by a majority of 66 to 43. Another division took place on a motion for the omission of the second clause, which was carried by a majority of 57 to 30; and a third on the question that the bill do pass, which was agreed to by 50 to 31. EMIGRATION.—TabIes, showing the amount of emigration from the United Kingdom, in 1842, have just reached us. They give the number of emigrants who have embarked f r o m each of the three kingdoms, which is as follows :—Frotn England 74,683; from Sootland, 13,108; from Ireland, 40,553: total, 128.344. The parts of the world to which they went:were the following :—To the United States, 63,852; Texas, Central America, and Buenos Ayres, 363; Canada, 41,375 ; New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island, &c. 12,748; West Indies, 813; the Cape, 517 ; West ern Africa, Mauritius, and Falkland Isles, 72 ; Sydney, 1,450 ; Port Philip, 864 ; Van Diemaa's L au d, 2448 ; S out h Australia, 145 ; Western Australia, 563 ; New Zealand, 3064: total, 128,344. Four-fifths of the Irish emigrants went to the British North American colonies ; the largest proportion of the Scotch went to Canada and Nova Scotia ; and five-sevenths of the English to the United States. Of the emigrants, 1058 were assisted from the poor-rates ; 2341 from funds supplied by the Commissioners of Colonial Lands and Emigration ; and 982 from Bounties paid in New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land. In 1841 the number of emigrants was :—From England, 72.104; from Scotland, 14,060; from Ireland, 32,428: total, 118,592. The number of emigrants in 1842 was greater than in 1841 by 10,000, and exceeds in a much higher proportion that for any previous year. Its extent is, indeed, unparalleled and astounding, amounting to no less thai. 400 souls per diem, excluding Sun days. Its direction, also, has undergone a material change. In 1841 the emigrants toAustralia and New Zealand amounted to 32,500 ; in 1842 only to 8500. The removal of so great a numbes of persons, most of them belonging to the working classes, must have bad a considerable effect in lightening the pressure on the market for labour; but the return does not enable us to state what proportion the women and children bore to the men.—Scotsman. THE MURDER OF DR. MARTIN.—MALTA, MARCH 6. A very dreadful event has happened here to-day. A little after 12 o'clock we heard the report of a musket, but paid no attention to it ; but presently my servant came into the room and told me that Dr. Martin was shot ! The next moment I found him lying on his back within the entrance of Sir John Louis's house, and Captain Robinson near him. Captain Robinson had already called to the Hecate, lying close by, and the surgeon of that ship was with us immedi ately ; he examined the woun d , and saw at once that it was mortal. Poor Martin asked what had happened to him ; and the surgeon said it was his duty to tell him that the ball had passed through the intestines and that nothing could be done to save his life. The poor sufferer said he knew it well. I sent in all directions for other doctors, and for the chap lain of the Monarch. Sir John Louis had a bed directly predared in his house, and Dr. Martin carried up to it; as I assisted in moving him, he said, " Gently, gently !" and these are all the words I heard him speak. The chaplain of the Monarch then came, and with him Drs. Watt and Whit marsh, and Dr. Martin's son (an assistant-surgeon). The sufferer was sensible, but speechless, while the clergyman prayed. He died within the hour. This frightful murder was committed by the sentry at Sir John Louis's door as Dr. Martin was passing from the house to the admiral's steps. Had his visit been a little earlier his life would have been saved, for the sentinels were changed at 12 o'clock. The soldier was not two yards from Dr. Martin when he fired. The ball went in at the lower part of the back and came out near or at the naval. I have examined all the sol . diers of the guard, and it appears by what they say that the man did not know Dr. Martin ; he had never been on duty at -the hospital, he was not drunk nor mad, but is an ill conditioned turbulent man. He has been 11 years in the regiment, and they now say he has been always doing mis chief and exciting others to do it. As soon as he had done this fatal deed he walked quietly to the guard-room, where all the soldiers of the guard were, put down his musket and took off his belts. The serjeant asked him what had induced him to do such a thing, anp his answer was, " It's a good job it was not for you. Another man heurd him say, "He nob," meant it for some meaning a gentleman ; as if it had been the sudden working of the devil, who prompted him to slay the first person having the appearance of a gentleman who came in his way. THEA.TRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL UNPRECEDENTED COMBINATION OF FIRST RATE DRAMATIC TALENT. The Public is respectfully informed that arrang9i'nents have heen made with MADAME VESTRIS and Mr. CHARLEVMATIIEWS FOR FIVE NIGHTS ONLY; And, in order to give every possible effect to the Dramas in which they will perform, a re-engagesvint has been con cluded with ic/1 Mr. WILLIAM FARIfEN for the same period, being positively the only Nights these distinguished Artists can appear in Liverpool, previous to the commencement of their engagement at the Theatre. Royal, Haymarket, on Easter Monday. 'THIS present TUESDAY, March 28, the Entertainments will commence with the Operetta of After which, a new Farce, written by Charles Dance, Esq., called NANA', ENGAGEMENTS. Admiral Kingston Lieutenant Kingston .. Miss Mortimer As originally performed by them in London. To which will be added,_ the favourite Drama, written by Mr. Charles Mathews, called PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. Captain Patter.. (his original character) .. Mr. C. Mathews. To conclude with the Musical Drama of a LOAN OF A LOVER. - Peter Spyk Mr. Charles Mathews. Gertrude.. (her original character).. Maclaine Vestris. ................... , .........,..........,r,„. n , _ TO CORRESPONDENTS We are compelled to postpone even the acknowledgment of several communications. A correspondent states that the Leeds and Manchester Rail way Company have taken on lease, for a term of years, the Calder and Hebble Navigation. The Mercury has, in its wisdom, thought fit to discharge his little double barrelled pop-gun simultaneously at our de voted head, and that of our contemporary, the Mail, his ire having been strongly excited by our respe c ti ve not i ces of Miss Stott's concert. Happily the report failed to fright the country into another " quake," or the pellets to ruffle even a pinion of the assailed. "He had," he says, " received a letter from a correspondent, whose writing he recognised, complaining of the notices alluded to ;" and he, therefore, forthwith, sets about comparing (odious task !) the two accounts; and finding in them some differences of opinion, arrives at the very courteous and logical conclu sion, that " little reliance can be placed in the discrimina tion, faithfulness, or impartiality, in either of the critics !" We must certainly succumb to the musical acumen of the Mercury, who probably considers himself par excel lence the only legitimate judge in such ma tt ers , inas much as his head has, time out of mind, been filled with all kinds of crotchets—not omitting wind-mills, kites, spinning-tops, cork-collars, and the like. Nor must wP forget his extensive practice and proficiency on his own trumpet. Nevertheless, we do think we may now and then adventure an opinion of our own in this land of free discussion, without provoking the jealousy of his godship, or the ire of his correspondent, who is evidently an inte rested party, labouring under the soreness of finding his merits not so highly appreciated by others as by himself. We are accused of stating that " the audience was nume rous and fashionable, and that the performances were re ceived with repeated plaudits ;" and to this remark we firmly adhere, without fear of contradiction from any one who was present. On entering the room, we found the back seats so far occupied chiefly by ladies, that until the conclusion of the "First part" we were constrained to re main, with a few others, in the recess, or ante-room, under the gallery. The room had certainly the appearance of being generally filled ; and the assertion of the Mail, that there was a comparatively slender attendance, had re ference, we presume, to former occasions when the assem bly was crowded to excess. We are next accused of stating that a song was sung by Mr. Lewis, while that gentleman did not sing at all during the evening. On this point we may have fallen into a mistake. The song in question was announced in the bill as to be sung by Mr. Lewis, and as we did not know that individual personally, we naturally concluded that it was he—a mighty venal offence truly ! The Mercury's correspondent also " complains " (poor fellow!) that some of the pieces which were actually en cored were not noticed by the critics at all. Perhaps so ; but as we do not always consider an encore a proof of ex cellence, it is arrant impertinence to expect us, within the narrow limits ofa paragraph, to notice every such expression of popular approbation. Does the Mercury never omit, in his brief and bald notices of concerts, a single encore? Bah ! He did not even condescend to attend or to notice this concert at all ; yet he assumes to be perfectly compe tent to criticise the remarks made upon it by others ! We differed from the Mail, too, it appears, as to the song of " Sandy and Jenny." Our " critic " co n sid ere d it " prettily sung ;" the Mail (shocking discrepancy !) re marks, without reference to the music, that " the singer's attempt to imitate the Scottish dialect would have been far from gratifying to southeirn eats." For ourselves, we never expect from an English singer either the perfection of the Scottish dialect, or the peculiar expression and character of the Scottish music, which no score can convey. The song, nevertheless, was prettily sung, and the Mercury will perhaps allow us to go " Scot free " in this particular, when we remind him that we did say that it was " warmly encored." The opinion we expressed of the clarionet ob ligato, was also entertained by parties in the room, quite as competent to judge as the correspondent of the Mercury. Our paragraph in fine was written in a friendly spirit, for the encouragement of a talented and deserving young lady ; and we marvel that the Mercury, who professes to be the friend of rising genius, should, in his attack upon his con temporaries, display an animus c a l cu l ate d to i n j ure her and her musical friends in their future appeals for public patro nage, and which is as little creditable to his "discrimina tion" as to his gallantry. But he is a " liberal," and what have we to expect! He would do well to remember,however, that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. We could point out in any one of his publications numerous misrepresentations of facts, and his eternal puffing of him self and those connected with him would be intolerable, were it not so palpably ridiculous that all feeling of in dignation at such assumption is merged in irresistible laughter. It is remarkable, too, that though he would fain persuade the public that " no reliance is to be placed upon us for discrimination, faithfulness, or impartiality," he daily appropriates portions of original articles, and w h o l e paragraphs, from our coluinns,withsuch apparent implicit reliance on their accuracy, that he deems it quite unneces sary to acknowledge the source from which they are detived. We think this has unplatted the Mercury's tissue of misrepresentations. ktberpool Atanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1843 Our contemporary, the Manchester Guardian, af fects, on Wednesday last, to have discovered—and the same discovery was announced, on the same evening, at a meeting of the League, at Drury Lane, by the chairman of that body—that the objections urged against the existing corn-law are, by Conservative journalists, " more and more feebly repelled ;" thus, according to the Guardian," shewing the conscious ness of the writers that, even amongst their own friends, the sliding scale is becoming exceedingly un popular." As an evidence of this assumed defection of the Conservative press, our contemporary quotes largely from a recent - article of the LIVERPOOL STAN DARD—and quotes somewhat unfairly, inasmuch as he leaves out of view the fact, that the article in question was not at all an article upon the broad subject of the corn-law; but merely professed to point out the defect of the speech of Lord Monteagle, as one calcu lated, or directed, to throw light, upon the main ques tion at issue, as between a fixed duty and the existing sliding scale)—, from which he derives the conclusion that the STANDARD, taking its cue from, and ex pressing the opinions of, the merchants of Liverpool, is becoming more and nier.e dissatisfied with the prin ciple and working of the present law. We have already disposed of the inference made, that we watch the opinions of any man, or any set of men, before ex pressing publicly our own sentiments with respect to public questions. If the press of this, or any other country, is to be of use--and to be of use it must be respected—that powerful organ should lead, not follow in the wake,of public opinion, still less follow in the wake of particular bodies of the community. We, for our own part, throw behind us the notion of consti tuting ourselves either " farmer's friends," or " friends of the mercantile interest," peculiarly, convinced as we are that no man is entitled to either term who is not the friend of both. Passing by, then, the Guar dian's misinterpretation of our position and feelings, let us come to the points at issue. In the article referred to, we admitted that, under the operation of the act of last session, " vast losses had been sustained by the importers ;" that the intro duction of foreign corn into the British market, last year, had been " very similar to its introduction under the act of 1828—viz. a simultaneous introduction of nearly a year's importation in one month, and that the month of harvest." 'We maintained, however, that " a fair and dispassionate enquiry into the working of the act of 1842"—which Lord Monteagle's was not— would establish the following facts, palliatory of the admitted mal-operation of the present act; viz. —first, " that the importer last year bought under the appre hension of a deficient harvest ;" secondly, that "he bought part of his stock amid uncertainty as to what would he the corn-law determined upon ;" thirdly, that " he bought under the impression that combina tion could still work up the averages ;" and fourthly, that " in addition to these circumstances, and as a con sequence of some of them, he bought in a dear market." The whole drift of our remarks tended to this—viz. that the existing law had not as vet received a fair trial—one by which its legitimate future operation could be determined upon. The Guardian's reply to these positions is as follows : " That parties who bought wheat for import did so under the apprehension of a deficient harvest, there can be no doubt; and there is just as little doubt that under a fixed duty, or a free trade, the same apprehension would also cause purchases for the same purpose. The amount of these latter purchases, however,—the manner in which they would be made, and the consequences resulting from a miscalculation of the produce of the harvest,—would be entirely different. Under the existing law, or any law imposing a greatly fluc tuating duty, the purchases of corn for import, whenever there is a probability of considerable foreign supplies being needed, will almost of necessity be made, as they were made last year ;—that is to say, suddenly and hastily, when the apprehensions of a late and deficient harvest begin to be entertained. Every importer is well aware that the best chance. f meeting a low duty will be just before the harvest is reaped; and each, consequently, will rush into the nearer foreign markets, buying every parcel that is ready for imme diate shipment, and caring less about the prime cost than the prospect of avoiding the duty. No doubt the temptation to do this has been diminished, but it has not been removed, by the modification of the scale, introduced by Sir Robert Peel; and a slide' in the duty from 20s. per quarter to ls. per quarter is quite sufficient, as the events of last year proved, to induce the merchants to buy in the same manner as they have previously done." Our contemporary proceeds, in continuation, to re mark upon the course of business last year; and maintains that nothing but " the sudden and glorious change in the weather" prevented the importers intro ducing their stocks, as under the old law, at the lowest duty. There is a singular indecision, apparent in the mind of the writer of the above passage, as to how many of the imperfections of the act of 1828 he t iswilladm it to b in e I applicable to the act of last session.conceded, the lines printed in italics, that, by the new law, " the temptation" to rush into the foreign market on every apprehension of a deficient harvest " has been dimi nished." It is admitted, too, at the outset, that " un der a fixed duty or a free trade, the same apprehension will also cause purchases for import,"—of course, to some extent, the same " rush "to purchase. But we must profess we cannot see how it follows, "ex ne cessitate" that the purchases, under the present law, must continue to be made " as they were last year," or that the same results must follow. We maintained, in the article to which the Guardian's remarks are put forward as a reply, that the stocks of importers last year were laid in under peculiar circumstances, and this position the Guardian has not denied. We stated, too that importers had mistaken their power over the ave rages. As an answer to this the Guardian only gives us his opinion that it was solely the early and abundant harvest which rendered that power insufficient for the object—the introduction of stocks at a nominal duty. It is proof that we want, upon these points, not mere speculative opinions or assertions—proof, how far the present scale combines the mercantile facilities af forded, or said to be affOrded, by a fixed duty, with the protective operation of a sliding scale; and for this proof, which can only be afforded by a fair experience of the working of the present act, we wait. The Guardian, as we have shewn in the above quo tation, admits that the present law has " diminished the temptation" to operate suddenly in foreign markets, with a view to the introduction of corn at nominal duties at the month of harvest. And yet, whilst ad mitting also that a fixed duty would, to some extent, involve in practice the same simultaneous, and conse quently disadvantageous, purchases, he proceeds to state that, "as the same circumstances"—an improvi dent rush into these markets, and the risk of subse quent glut and losses in the home market—" would have equally defeated a speculation under the law of 1828, its failure (last year) will not deter parties from engaging in similar speculations hereafter." Here he assumes one of the very things which have to be proved, and moreover contradicts his own admission. The cases of last year, and any other year under the operation of the act of 1828, were not parallel. The same circumstances which occurred last year would not have " defeated the speculations of our corn mer chants, if those speculations had been made under the operation of the old " jumping" scale. Every man familiar with the trade in past years knows that the minimum duty has been attained under more disad vantageous circumstances (the provisions of the law itself excepted) than any which occurred last year; and we believe we are correct in maintaining that, had the old law been in operation last autumn, we should have had every quarter of foreign corn in the country released at the duty of is. a quarter ! Nor will " simi lar speculations" to those of last year be readily en gaged in again hereafter, for the Guardian's own reason that " the temptation is diminished" to run risks which the experience of last y ear has proved to be so hazardous; and because the trade has learnt, from that experience, that the effect of the present scale is to paralize the efforts of combination. Let us see how the act worked last year, as some test to judge by with respect to its operation hereafter. Every one knows that, under the operation of the old law, with its sudden leaps downwards from 13s. 4d. to the shilling duty, the efforts of speculators, once corn. menced, were persisted in, and ( we rather think) were invariably successful. The stocks were herenzeticvlly sealed in the warehouses until the issue of the adventure. Last year, however, under the new law,—and this will take place more generally hereafter--importers came, week after week, at every reduction of a shilling in the duty, to market with their stocks. The pressing de mand for consumption was met, sparingly as the duty approached 12s. ; more freely at 11s. ; more fully still at 10s. and 95., until at Bs. the market was supplied and the average commenced a retrograde movement, thus indicating that the most favourable moment for paying duty had arrived. The Guardian says it was the early and abundant harvest which checked prices; and to some extent, no doubt, such was the case. Such a circumstance, as an unexpected good harvest, will operate upon speculations made even under a fixed duty. But the working of the act itself—the gradual oozing out of stocks, in sufficient quantity to meet im mediate demand, and sustain it, if necessary, until the event of the harvest was decided--was, we contend, the main obstacle interposed, to prevent the success of speculation being complete ; and the past experience of its tendency thus to interpose will, we venture to say, retard, most effectually, any rash and headlong specu lation in years to come. We have confined ourselves thus far to aneenxmampairnead tion of th e operat i on of the present law, as with that of the law of 1828. This point must be cleared up first, before we can arrive at a correct judg ment with respect to its merits as compared with a fixed duty. It is obviously unfair to argue the ques tion as between a fixed duty and the old law; and, from such premises, condemn the present law. It is unfair to assume, without proof, that the defects of the old law are the defects of the present; and deduce therefrom the conclusion that we must come to a fixed duty or free trade as the only safe and valuable prin ciple. The question to be decided, now, is one as to the comparative advantages of the present law and of a fixed duty; and this question we shall be able to ap proach in our next, our remarks having already run to an inconvenient length. In the meantime, we trust we have disposed of some of the objections of the Guardian —such of them, at least, as are created by the use made, by reckless speculators, of the facilities af forded to their wild and hazardous operations to defeat the law, by the act of 1828; and presume that we may now argue the matter without reference to any more "rushes to purchase" or " clearing out of markets at any price" than are fairly traceable to the two measures which, alone, are under discussion. When we consider that the movement in our Church to which the names " tractarianism " and "puseyite " are applied, has been the work of a body of " learned, pious, and exemplary men, residing in Oxford," and devoting themselves, in the seclusion of that university, to the task—whether judiciously or not, we have not now to decide—of strengthening the fabric and illus trating the doctrines of our venerated establishment; when we consider that one of the assumed objects of that movement is to infuse more zeal, more vitality of religion, into the practice of her clergy, and a greater amount of sacred interest and rigid decorum into her practices and formularies ; it would have been only reasonable to expect, in those advocating that move ment, a tone somewhat in accordance with the charac ter of the design which they profess to have in view. From men sincerely labouring in what they believe to be a righteous cause, the evidence of a feeling of Christian charity, towards those who conscientiously differed from them, might have been looked for ; ac companied by an earnestness f or t ru th, . a di sposition to " set down naught hi. malice," and, above all, language tempered and restrained by the consciousness of a holy purpose. But, alas ! we look for these qualities in the organs of the Tractarian party in v a i n . W e look for charity of feeling, for candid and careful truth fulness of statement, for unembittered language; and find only rancorous enmity displayed towards that portion of the Church which has not bowed the knee to Oxford, accompanied with disregard and perversio n of the truth, conveye d i n language which, always be- neath the dignity of the object sought to be advanced, has too often degenerated into coarse and ribald vitu- peration. An instance of this intemperate and nnjustiAable malignity of advocacy has just been displayed by the London Times, which has of late brought the somewhat doubtful aid of its very questionable Character in the world of journalism to the cause of the Tractarian party. It may have been noticed, by those who glanc e through the records of our criminal courts—inde ed, the case was briefly reported in our own columns' that at the recent Staffordshire Assizes, an individual of the , name of GROVE was tried and found guilty of a crime which is somewhat difficult of description, but which involved in the guilty person great distortion of moral principle. The individual in question was stated to occupy the situation of a " lay assistant" to a clergyman of the Church of England at Burslem, and to have been maintained in that position by the funds of the Pastoral Aid Society—a society of whose use' fulness, in Liverpool, at least, we need not speak. This society, however, is not favoured with the love of the Tractarian party ; nay, its members and committee are suspected of the unpardonable sin of disapproving of the views and principles of that party ; and, " upo n this hint " the Times proceeded, on Friday last, to expend its bitterness upon the head of the offending body. After attributing to the Pastoral Aid Society the introduction into the church of " a new description of nondescript hangers-on called lay assistants," and im pugning the constitution and practice of the Society, (in furnishing funds for the removal of spiritual desti tution. and satisfying themselves:of the character and attainments of the men to whom those funds are to be accorded, and who are thus to be maintained in the spiritual office), as "practically superseding and throw' ing contempt upon the Episcopal office, fettering Chris tian liberty, encroaching upon the standards of doctrine and discipline established by the Church of England' setting up a dangerous inquisition into the consciences of the clergy (!) and holding out, however unintention ally, a premium to cant and hypocrisy (! !)" Th is pure and excellent friend of the church and of re ligion remarks that " some light may be thrown upon the question (as to the merits of the Pastoral Aid Society) by the circumstances of the offence of this man, Grove, which he characterizes, very properly, as revolting. Now, without going any further, may we not ask, is this the kind of attack by which the "learned and pious men" of Oxford seek to advance their views , or is it to be regarded as the attack, merely, of the unprincipled Swiss who has taken service in their cause ? What sincere friend of the church or of reli gion would use an argument so suicidal as that the declension of that man, or any individual, is damnatorY of the principles or practice of the Pastoral Aid Society? The Socialist, or the Infidel, might argue, from th e recent crime of the Rev. Dr. Bailey, or some other unworthy occupant of the clerical office, the inefficacy of episcopacy to purify the church, or of religion itself to guard from crime ; but assuredly no man whos e religious convictions were not inferior in degree to his reckless partizanship—no man, whose productions were designed for any better purpose than to gratify the diseased palates of the church-hating occupants of a Whitechapel or Spitalfields dram-shop—would put forward a doctrine so inconclusive. The language in question is the language of the Times ; the spirit is that of the infidel Despatch! But the Times is not satisfied with the fact that one who has been in connexion with the society so ob noxious to Tractarianism has fallen. The mere gloat: ting over a circumstance so ordinary in this world 01 ours is not sufficient for the malignity of " the leading journal." It must be shewn that the society has no t only been deceived—its tests not only failed—but th at its committee have winked at crime The defenceset UP for the unhappy man was that of insanity. It wa s proved, or at least. sworn to by his father that, from boyhood, he had been possessed of an ambition to shine in the church ; and that at length he went as a lay agent to a gentleman at Christ Church. "From that gentleman," says the Times," he got testimonial s, which he enclosed to the whole bench of bishops, en d hundreds of beneficed clergymen :" and (when he found that the bishops and beneficed clergymen would have nothing to do with him) he " applied for an in' troduction into the Roman Catholic church." As a , last resource, he betook himself to the Pastoral Ala Society, and found no difficulty in convincing that body of his doctrinal orthodoxy, his 8131- rituality, and decided piety, and was by them appoint ed to minister, in a semi-clerical capacity, to th e spiritual destitution of the people of Binning' ham." After having vented a few sneering re marks upon these facts, the Times goes on to state in the same evidence, that " the society co ntinua! , to patronise hi m , a f ter, on more than one tr i a l , h e ha d been found wanting." Dismissed from a situation at Birmingham (in which he had been supported for three months by the society) we are told—on the authority of the father which the Times unhesitatingly, and wit h : out inquiry, adopts, in his zeal to damage the Pastore' Aid Committee—he " obtained another similar sita ti : tion at Bristol. He was there nearly three months. It is about twelve months since he went to Burslern." But was he at Bristol and at Burslem—after his Wi s ' conduct at Birmingham—still patronized by the so ciety ? The evidence itself upon which the Times relies r says no such thin g . It says h e occup i e d a " situation," and it says no more. The conclusio n ' therefore, is that of th e unscru p u l ous j ourna li s t. Let us see, however, what are the facts of the whole case; . The Times founds hi s case upon t h e f act t h a t thib criminal was at Burslem—at the time of co mmittint his crime—a "l a y ass i s t ant, i n t h e pay o f t h e Church Pastoral Aid Society." The secretary of the society, Mr. Champneys, in a letter addressed to the 'limes—and we take the liberty of believi ng th e secretary—says, " IT IS NOT TRU g tha t the society had anything to do with Mr. Grove's entP l meat at Burslem He was there in no way connec ted with the s oc i ety ! The clergymau engaged him w ith n 0 aid from our funds! The society knew nothing of the transactio n !" What, th en, b ecomes of the whole case of the Pa; nalist,—if, indeed, h e ever h a d a case at a ll? crime of M`Naughten was just as pertinent an objec tion to th e pr i nciple of the Pastoral Aid Society as t crime of this man Grove The li nt too , Tunes asserts —up on hi s own authority, as we hav e s h ewn—that " the society continued t o p a tronize him" af ter proved instances of misconduct . The 0 secretary says .‘IT IS NO T TRUE " th a t th e society; continued to p a t ron i ze him, or had anything to do wi t him since th e year 1840, when he left Birming h°°' Can the Ti mes bl ush ? Our journ a li st says that the society "introduced: new descripti on o f h angers-on of the church called 'Jail' assistants.' r " The society did nothing of the kind,strhe "lay assi s t an t s " ex i st i ng in the church long befor e o f Pastoral Aid S oc i e t y was formed! The Times ta lks the society " appointi ng ." Th e soc i ety, as al l t he Wor ld knows, never appoints at all . 1 Need we go fur ther , exposure of this s h ame l ess an d dishonest attack' Surely we hav e sa id su ffi c i ent to vindicate suc h a b o dy from the sc urr ili t i es o f such a writer. Well ma y t h ey welcome hi s enm i ty, rat h er than pray for the Milieuoo of his support ! THE COTTON MARKET, We take the following paragraph from the city of articl e the Morning Herald of Friday last : w as " The accounts from the manufacturinz districts, as the observed on Monday, show a material amelioration inter state of trad e , which must n ecessar ily g i ve rise to gr ltie' interchanges and a more extensive demand for naoneY• iti however, by no means satisfactory to find a speculativei; 0 0 abroad in the cotton market at Liverpool. There cal i f r af legitimate pretence f or any advance in the prices ° cotton, for not o n ly i s the stock on hand larger that:oited States mon in but the former years late c , brooth iwasn thi mores counabutry 8 ndant than and in the t 0 0 C' former period, with a f a i r p prospect according to the last the counts from across th e Atl ant i c o f a very l arg e crop f there present year should th e season rove as f a vourable es uch was reason to ex p ec t, i nasmuc h as cultivation was so u : extended. A rise i n va l ue i n t h e raw comm odity 133 w oo: ways tend in fin a l rexu lt to depress consumption of the... well factored ar ti c l e, an d therefore di scoura ge production, °Loch as impede that improvement in the wages of labour :asses can alone assure the comfortable subsistence of thec;sea of the co mmun it y, a ff or d t h e means o f generally inc lan ce consumption, and b en efit th e revenue . A very sp ec a nd spirit is only too prevalent in Liverpool at all times' _ w ith ever the Bank o f E ng l an d an d b an k s are called ePffio the ter reference to the interests of the community at large l ufor fere rigorously it c e r t a i n ly mus t be most justifia b Yget uP repression of any attempt by rig an d com bination anu the prices of cotton, and run down the profits of factures and th e wages o f opera ti ves ." ° a We have take n some p a i ns t o get accurate inforteffetri°9,Pfew the subject of th e a b ove s t a t e ment, and beg suggestions in reply. . 0 00' Of all produce Nothing can be named that ha s been it ie t e precedentedly low and depressed as Cotto staple article, and is a decided index of t h e s tate 0 f woo