The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-23 00:00:00

TOFIN LITTLER, TAILOR and DRKI'ER, (late of Postoilice-place,) most respectfully announces that he bas REMOVED to the excellent and convenient Shop and Premises, No. 17, LORD-STREET, two doors above the Chro- nicle-office - J. L. avails himself of this occasion to return his sincere thanks to those friends who have honoured him with their patronage, and to assure them and the public generally that he will continue to supply the best Materials, combined with the most modern style of workmanship, on his usual mode rate terms. On the fulfilment of this assurance, coupled with a practical knowledge and long experience of the busi ness, and a determination to pay the most prompt and faith ful attention to orders, he confidently relies for a continuance of their support. NOW EXHIBITING, For a short time only, AT THE LYCEUM, BOLD-STREET, THE MODEL OF DUBLIN, AN ACKNOWLEDGED CHEF D'CEUVRE OF ART ; Season Tickets, 2s. 6d Admission, Is. ; Children, 6d Family Tickets, to admit Five, 3s. 6d Open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Brilliantly Illuminated with Gas every Evenirx. DEATH OF LADY ANSTRUTHER. — We have to announce the death of the above lady, which took place at Brighton. The deceased, who was a daughter of Mr. Charles Wetherall, was born in 1807, and was married in 1824 to Sir Windham Carmichael Austruther, Bart., of Elie House, Fifeshire, by whom her ladyship leaves a family. The Earl of Belmore died on Sunday at Leamington Spa• His lordship, who was in his 67th year, was an Irish peer, and one of the representatives of the Irish peerage in the House of Lords. He was also Custos Rotulorum of the county of Tyrone, for which place his second son, the Hon. H. Corry, sits in parliament. The wife of the chief assistant at one of the first perfumers of Paris was some time ago detected stealing a piece of stuff from the warehouse of the Pauvre Diable, in the rue Mon tesquieu, and on her apartment being searched, various other stolen goods were found. The husband, though perfectly innocent of any participation in or knowledge of these rob beries, felt the disgrace brought upon him so keenly, that on Saturday morning he went to the river side and shot him self, falling at the same moment into the water, whence he was taken out—a disfigured corpse. SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LlFE.—lntellig - ence has been received from the island of Tyree, that the brig Majestic. Captain Tait, from London for Londonderry, to embark emigrants for America, was totally wrecked at Tyree, on the evening of Friday, the 2d instant. Early that day she was struck by a heavy sea off Skerryvore rock, which instantly carried away part of her sails, bulwarks, boats, &c., and laid the vessel on her beam-ends. Melancholy to relate, the captain and three of his crew were washed overboard, and un fortunately perished, one tremendous wave having for ever hid them from human aid or view. The mate and the re mainder of the crew escaped the sad fate of their companions, having been saved by the boats that went to the brig's as sistance. MURDER AS A HELP TO MEMORY.--On a trial at Cam bridge, relative to the liability of the inhabitants of Dodding ton to repair a highway, a question occupied the court for five days— whether the road referred to was a public high way or not. No amusing incident occurred to relieve the tedium of the cause, yet the interest was such, that during every portion of it the court and all the avenues leading to it were crowded with persons anxious to hear the details of a case so singular and of such vast importance in the fen dis tricts, where many hundred miles of similar roads, there called '` droves," exist. Several of the old witnesses dated from an event which, in their younger days, seems to have caused universal interest, " the year Solomon Tuck was hanged" (which was sixty years since), was their common form of expression. This Solomon seems to have murdered his wife and children under circumstances of no common atrocity. FOUR CHILDREN LOCKED UP IN SHOREDITCH CHURCH. —These little ones were sent out for a walk on the afternoon of Friday week, when, finding the above doors open, they walked in, and witnessed the ceremony of baptism, after which they sat themselves quietly in a pew, thinking to hear the afternoon service, when they were surprised at the shut ting of the doors, for which they immediately made, but too late to make themselves heard. They betook themselves to the vestry-room, where they found a fire, and inspected the clergyman's wardrobe. They lulled the two youngest to sleep, giving them some stick-liquorice and some water, which they found in the vessel that had recently been used. Thus they passed the whole of their time, not any way un comfortable by their night's adventure, until they were libe rated, about nine on the following morning, by one of the attendants of the church. They were immediately sent home, accompanied by the grave-digger, to their anxious and in quiring parents. MILITARY FLOGGING ON A SUNDAY.-1t is with regret that we are unable to contradict a statement of a soldier in the 1111, or Prince Albert's Own Hussars, having been flog ged on Sunday last, at Houndslow Barracks, under the orders of Lord Cardigan. We feel it due, however, to state, that the announcement in the Chronicle, for the honour of British officers, met with no credence at the Senior United Service Club. The officers believed that the Chronicle must have been imposed upon. Unfortunately it was not so, for the punishment was inflicted on the Sabbath. We own that at first we shared in the general disbelief, but inquiries made in the proper quarter compel us to say that this horrible outrage has been committed. We know, however, that the subject has already engaged official consideration, and we await with confidence the result. Abstaining from any remarks upon this shock to religion and humanity, can we avoid noticing the disgusting insult which Lord Cardigan is said to have offered to a detachment of the 14th Dragoons ? They were ordered to witness the punishment. How far different is the conduct in France—a military country ! There, when in garrison punishment is to be inflicted, de tachments from each regiment arc ordered to attend, and these detachments comprise only those men whose bad con duct renders it expedient that they should witness it as a les son to themselves. The well-conducted men are always exempted from attending ; and this exemption is deemed a great mark of honour. We have only to add, that we ab stain from further remarks on this subject, because of our knowledge that it has not escaped the notice of the proper authorities.—Observer. MISSIONARY DISASTER.--TWENTY SIX LIVES LOST.— We are indebted (says the New York Commercial Advertser), to the Rev. Dr. Armstrong, agent of the American Board of Forrign Missions, for the subjoined extracts from a letter recently received by his lady from the wife of one of the American Missionaries in the Sandwich Islands. It is a letter full of interest ; and the account of a wreck of a Sand wich Island vessel, and the prayer-meeting of a portion of the crew while drowning, are without a parallel in the history of missions or of man. Hana, Maui, Sandwich Islands, July 21, IMO " We have just returned from our general meeting at Ho nolulu. Our passage was made in a canoe to Dahaiu, a dis tance of eighty miles—a perilous undertaking, for the sea was high, and tearfully threatening to our little bark. From this place we obtained a passage in the king's vessel to Honolulu. We had a pleasant meeting with our friends About the time of our leaving home a sorrowful providence occurred. The brethren at; Honolulu, fearing that we should ven ture upon a canoe, engaged a vessel, which was to go to Hawaii for Mr. Lyons, and to call on its return and take us. The vessel made its passage to Hawaii, and, when near its place of destination, was capsized, and lost. All on board, consisting of thirty souls, were drowned, except tour. These seemed to be miraculously preserved to tell the sad tale of the fate of their companions. When the accident occurred, they were in shore, but the wind and current were against them, and, thinking it vain to attempt Hawaii, they congregated themselves upon the rolling billows, and there, together in their distress, offered up their supplications to Him who alone could preserve them from the threatening deep They attempted to swim to Kahoolura, some thirty miles on the opposite side of the channel. One man and his wife took a covered bucket, and tied it to their bodies, and, in this way, s wam until the bucket came to pieces. The female swam f or so me time; but on turning, she saw her husband becorn -..t himself_ ing too w him until She stopped and rubbed y went on until Kahoolur feebl- _ tuu itcoie to proceed with out assistance, and supported himself by holding iitntet hair of his wife's head. In this wa y she towed time; his hand soon let g o t he hold, and she tried in i t :7 l l'ne , rouse him. She told him he mus t p ra y ; he com mented u h t jt only uttered a few words. She put his arms around her neck —held him with one hand, and made for the shore. Wh en within about half a mile from the shore, she found be was dead, and she was compelled to let go her hold to support 'hen been in the water about thirty hours. •-ee days before she saw a human At last some fishermen found was full i herself. They When she landed was th. ge, where she is now in of the vessel was a foreigner, and wife saved herself by the assist- sappeared from time to time —Watchman. FV:44FKIN 14944040 t 010 ; elor hati ifeginid3 fford Pari, .?ol*se4A4 - 11 pont of MILLI: to the present Se WEDNESDAY, the 28r 71, Bold-street, Liv ODES AA - RS—BROWN has the IVA from PARIS, where sh, CHAMPS, and selected evei in MILLINERY, DRESS FANCY GOODS, &c., whi& on THURSDAY next, 29th . for the accommodation of LaC ,er return LONG- remained over E LTY of tiv `V LS, SCARFS. submit tor April. 1 itini Ches '0 THE LAME JAND J. EDG LEY respectfully announce • from London with - spleud' for the SPRING TP e Ottoman, and Plain ad P also. several beautinil Selec )n of Novelties rocadd SATIN SHAWLS; tyles in CASHMERE, Longs display of which will be made and Sqnares Tins Day, (Tuesday.) the FOREIGN & BRITISI 20th instant, at their SHAWL WAREHOUSE AN ASSISTAN VANTED OLD-ESTABLISHED TAY AND CORSET WARE- 4PEL EET, LIVERPOOL M RS be .yours, res )00l and its Vicinit that she has, thus waripti STCIC.T: nl anon. completed a large and French STAYS and COR- SETS, of t The Stc Patent- t of the celebrate For elegance of fit oven S Corsets, in all sizes, of t; the most skilful hands, u of Mrs. F. herself. Every variety of Satt( coloured, on the most re nob Cotille, - aii got up by the itninediat ntendenc is attended to as dential forewoman, and all on tuality and prompt 21, Whitechapel pri/ 14 BUYERS OF WEST OF ENGLAND SUPERFINE CLOTHS DOESKINS, CASSINI ERES, TWEEDS, GAM BROOMS, DRILLS, &c, Are respectfully informed that great bargains are nov AT MORRIS'S WOOLLEN WAREHOUSE, STREET LORD- ATR. THOMAS .LVI the different Markets, w sive purchases, te attention of Buyers, to one of t Stocks of WOOL DRAPERY GOODS seen in Livernnni A. large Lo D SUPERFINE An ele .nd SATIN yE INGS. - COUNT and CAPTAINS, buy ittedNi it that t,thi; n and Jean Stays, both white and sonable terms. The bespoke trade Mrs. F. in person, or her con& rs are executed with puuc- lORRIS, having just returned from has made very Wen- now inviting the sr and CUBA-FEST yes on most advan- usually Sc t Assortmer. 'RY DRAPERS, ing wholesale, ni tageous terms mike their purchas being, and was without fuod. her, and conveyed her to the good health conld swim b ante of an oar. The others d until all perished but the four.' 4, WHITE( 1 shap U 0 U i score of wa proved of by the 11 to countenance the infliction of such a pi Sabbath-day. Theft but it was the ge could only be ju id been t prevent a rent Mr. EWAR tions of t the incree EY, in t x if the statements ere correct, re'- A the 11th hussars, on Sun- ers, for the punishrn and after the other regiment had been dis- inflicted after nity, could be shrn' ent on the rcedents for such a tar y circ would be certain t sty, with a ht,Cl pin • rerted tc rnovet the pill ig population in t ;es had urrounding neighbourhood b rown into large towns, and dwelt upon umense public benefit which Would be derived, as well ii a moral as in a physical point of view, by throwing open th enclosures Mr. E.. STANLEY said that a portion of the park ha( en let to the Zoological, the Horticultural, and other so of it let to tenants erferenee of this de n of the paver cieties ; but there were other portic who had been arant et seri ptlor at the hi i of the Woods and Forests to throw op' portion of the park to the public in a short tin vested the nec as - tend of ti: for the accommodation of the east and north metropolis, where the population and building were so f that it must become unh increas Lord TEIGNMOUTEI observed, that out of the 286 from which the public were excluded, there were acres to which he could see no valid reason agair ission. Sir R. b ;Lis supported the suggestion of Mr. Hume a: park for the east end of the metropolis to the necessity for Mr. WA KLiY said that the Regent's Park belonged to the public, and they ought to have admission to that which was their own, before proposing to give them new ones. He quite agreed in the necessity of having a park in the east Mr. EWART eventually withdrew his motion, in conse quence of the intimation from Mr. E. J. Stanley as to the woods and forests. On the proposal for reading the Arms (Ireland) Bill a thonght it was high t e to discor ey had al By the returns the of this description. on the table, 1 elieved that crime was much less in Ireland in Great Britain, and he also thought that by further hich he would shortly move fur, the difference would be yet greater in favour of Ireland. Lord 14IottPETH admitted that there was less .t Ireland than in England, t of sut at still he said there were crimes rred him from the bill should . not be renewed for a Colonel SIBTHORP complained of the non-production of the civil contingencies, and gave notice that lie should object, when they were brought forward, to any further grant to Dr. Bowring. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. ' At four o'clock 40 members had not assembled, and Mr SPEAKER adjourned the house till Thursday. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE, NEW SOUTH WALES The Hobart-town papers received to-day are to the 6th of December, and alluding to the agricultural prospects of the colony state, that the October frosts had damaged the early crops of vegetables; the grain crops would, however, greatly exceed those of ordinary years, both in quality and quan tity. In consequence of the late great demand for wheat, a large extent of land had been sown this season, which ought not to have been sown, being worn out and fit only for fal low ; on this the crop would be very miserable, and much would, it is said, not be worth reaping ar the high prices of labour and the low price of grain. The farmers were still much cast down by the great depression in the prices of grain, and many of them were already making preparations for preserving their next crops in the stacks until the market was relieved from the present glut. The wool season had commenced, and a large quantity had been brought to mar ket, but buyers offered such low prices, that many of the farmers who did not require advances were shipping it on their own account. It was noticed as remarkable, that, not withstanding the low price of wool, the premium for bills on England continued 5 per cent. The highest price offered for wool, remarkably clean and long in the staple, was 16d. Wheat ranged from ss. to 6s. per bushel, according to quality. SOUTH AUSTRALIA Copy of a letter from Mr. C. T. Hewitt, and Mr. W. Col ton, tenants of the South Australian Company, who emi grated from Devonshire, in August, 1839, to the Direc tors of the South Australian Company, London. 2d September, 1810. GENTLEMEN, — At the request of D. Al i Laren, Esq. and W. Giles, Esq., we give you a statement of facts experienced by us since our arrival in this colony ; also our expectations for the future. We landed last 19th of December, 1839, and on the 25th went and took a view of the land, which was shewn us by Mr. Randell, belonging to the South Australian Company. We made choice of four sections in Doringa Valley, about 22 miles from Adelaide, from which we hate an excellent road ; except about half a mile, which will in a few months be avoided, by a bridge over he Horse Shoe, or Onkaparinga river, where the townshp Nourlunga is begnn, about three miles from the sea ; from wnence i by a seil.en tine course, it runs up to the township, and by t; e river of wood, a craft of from ten to twenty tons mizht come up. This is about three miles from us N.W. We have out spring of excellent water flowing above ground all the year, and at other parts of the valley we have got water at from four to eight feet. We arrived here with our families the 2d day of January, 1840; have built our houses, houses for our men, dairies, fowl-houses, pigsties, stock-yards, cow-yards. cow-pens, sheep-pens, gardens, and fenced with posts and rails the length of one and a half section ; have sown about eight acres of wheat, four of which we manage d after the De vonshire plan, and we must say we never saw better; the other part is looking well, much better I believe than in England, if managed in the same way as done here ; also 12 acres of barley, which was finished last week ; it is however, quite colonial, what in England we should call rough farm ing; but from having so many things to attend to, and wil ling to sow as much as possible, we have done it rough ; but hope, Deo volente, the next year to manage better, as we are fully persuaded in an old proverb, "the best is best still ;" about one and half acres potatoes ; those above ground can not look better ; have finished planting to-day. We have mangle worzel seed -and common turnips, with peas, beans, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, &c. &c., all growing and look ing remarkably well. As to the natural grass, I believe they are much more nutritious than in England, also of a more mild nature, as we have nothing that is strong or rancid in the butter. For want of conveniences to take away the calves as in England, we have been obliged to rear them with the cows; besides which rearing and family use, sold from ten cows 491bs. of butter in seven days ; as a proof of the enriching quality of the grass we took up a pair of steers to work four months ago, when one turned wicked, and by some hurt which it received was obliged to be turned away again, hut quite poor, and this week we have killed it good enough for any market in England. We have some heifers not yet calfed as good as can be shown in quality and fatness : it would be called dangerous to calf so tat in England, as I have myself known many in England to die in such state, but here we hear nothing of this kind : it is a very healthy climate for all sorts of cattle and sheep : our herd is now sixty-four head of cattle, one mare and filly. In February, 18 tO, we bought 140 ewes ; we have now living 139 ewes (one having died with water in the head) : also 178 living lambs, having lost about twenty by native dogs and wet weather in the night. We have no doubt but at the end of twelve months we shall count 420 in all. With small flocks, and attention, they will lamb twice a year. These sheep and cattle are watched by day by our own children •, when we receive the sheep in the evening by tale, and so deliver them in the morning. The cows, &c. we fetch ourselves in the morning, and let two of the boys watch them only by day. Our men are constantly ploughing with oxen, or cutting and getting home wo ,d for fencing or building. We have been jack-of-all trades, as tradesmen's wages were so extravagantly high—say 15s. per day for car penters, bricklayers, &c. &c. We are getting thickly inhabited in this quarter si ce we came here; it is beginning to have the appearance of an in habited country, and 1 have no doubt but the industry of those who have used it will be rewarded with a fair profit. Four miles south of us in the Encounter Bay Road is the township of Willunga, where many men are employed in the slate quarries, which is said to be of an excellent quality. There is yet in this survey much good land unoccupied as well as unsold, of rizli black soil, and at different places veins of limestone, with plenty of wood, and we have no doubt but every experienced and industrious farmer could do much bet ter with his capital here than in England. It is not treating the land or colony fair to judge of it by the generality of farmers now here. It is generally those that would not at tempt farming in England, and yet they expect, if ever so ig norant or indolent, to make money here; but they must be mistaken; without a seed time there willhe.no harvest, and if the land is not broken up, we cannot expect to gather its fruits. I should rejoice to see many of my acquaintance here that are labouring in England under great rents, heavy taxes, and unfeeling tithe proctors ; so that with ever so much la bour and carefulness still sinking, till all their property will be gone, and leave their children pennyless. lam sure if they were here they would do well for themselves and the colony also. I find from one practical farmer that he had last year sixty bush. Is of barley per acre ; it was the finest in quality I ever saw. I have seen very good samples of wheat, but in small quantities ; hope to he better in informa tion after harvest. Let no practical farmer be disheartened by any of those who have yet given the colony a bad name ; it is from the navy, army, medical, and shopkeeping farmers that such reports have gone home; they expected and made up their minds to be rich without having anything to sell— we have many of them here now. I wish the land was in better hands, but this must be the work of time. We shall be glad to hear of any of our acquaintance coming in connec tion with the South Australian Company ; and are, gentle men, your most obedient and humble servants. FRAUDS ON THE POST OFFICE.—On Saturday a case came on before the sheriffs in the police court, at the instance of the post office authorities, against a woman of the name of Watt, from Glasgow, and another woman, of the name of Thomson, in Edinburgh, charged with conspiring to defraud the money-order department of the Post-office. It appeared that Watt had occasion to transmit to Thomsom the sum of five shillings, she therefore procured a money-order at the, Glasgow Post-office for that sum, in favour of Thomson ; but by a mistake of the clerk who filled up the order while he entered five shillings in one part of it, wrote five pounds in another part. The relative letter of advice, however, sent from Glasgow to Edinburgh, bore that the order was five shillings. Watt transmitted the order to Thomson through the post, who in consequence presented it on the following morning, at the Post-office here, when she received the sum mentioned. It appears that Watt, immediately after she had dispatched the order to Thomson, entertained the idea that in consequence of the mistake in the order, of which she was at the time well aware, that possibly,the Edinburgh Post office might pay Thomson five pounds, and wishing to have a share of this sum, she came to Edinburgh, when finding that Thomson had previously drawn the five shilling!, she (Watt), accompanied by Thomson, went to the Post-office and there demanded the difference, being £4 15s, on the ground that she (Watt) had actually paid £5 to the Glasgow office. The officials here stated that the matter would be enquired into, and Watt and Thomson wered desire to call again in two days. In the mean time it was ascertained from Glasgo w th at fi ve shillings was all that h a d b een paid in byWatt ; and on. a renewed demand being made, the parties were taken into custody. On being brought before the court on Saturday, Watt ple a d e d gu il ty to the charge, adding that Thomson was not aware of the fraudulent design till after the £4 15s had been demanded. 1n consequence, Watt received imprisonment in s t g a a n o d l a , r a e n . d Thomson was dismissed fro% the ba r 10/W4 1444 AMT AV with basin g for money, ur India Stock 2 day, the o 965 ba To - bacco making man readily, and [ - Bois IA Bank Stock 172 to 3 Exchequer Bills 13s. t ~J 5 to u. 15s. prem. !'he Foreign Market remains without material changk Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 52k, the Five per Ceot 99 to 100. Belgian 103 to 4. Spanish Active with th Coupons 23t. to K. Portuguese Five per Cents 331 to 4, th exican 3( ay, and the auctions c esterday FOR THE etWYAL, IitMPOOT, t of It 3ENEFIT O} !MISS DELCY And positively the Last Night of Miss DELC Y and Mr. . TEMPLETON, of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane. rrHIS present FRIDAY, April 23, 1841, the Entertain ments will commence with the Last Act of the Popular Opera of Written and CINDERELLA; FAIRY and the GLASS SLIPPER. apted to the English Stage by Mr. RoPinNo LACY, under who: will be conduc ider of the Orchestra (which will be considerably aug mented) Mr. Aldridge. .... Miss Delcy. Mr. Templeton. Mr. F. Gardner. Baron Pompolino.. Mr. G. Horncastle. I Pedro.. Mr. Baker. Clorinda Miss E. Honner. Thisbe.. Mrs. P. Crowe. I Fairy Queen.: Mrs. Barton. After which, the Farce, written by J. B. Buckstone, Esq., called Cinderella FeHi.. (Prince of Salerno, Alidoro SECOND THOUGHTS. Mr. Sudden .. Mr. Baker. I Jabber. .. Mr. Chaplin. Trapper.. Mrs. Clarke. Isidora. .... Miss Cleaver. Celestina .. Mrs. Baker. I Matilda.. Miss Chaplin. To conclude with Weber's celebrated Opera, (with, for the second time in Liverpool, Weber's Original Finale,) called DER FREISCHUTZ • Or, THE SEVENTH BULLET Which was received, on Wednesday Evt enthusiastic applause :ling, with the most Agatha Miss Delcy. Mr... Templeton Rudolph Prince Ottocar Caspar.... Mr. G. Horncastle Mr. E. Gard Killian, Mr. Baker Miss E. Honner TO-MORROW (Saturday), 24th April, the Tragedy of JANE SHORE. Glo'ster, Mr. Stuart; Hastings, Mr. H. Holl ; Dumont, Mr. Gray ; Jane Shore, Mrs. W. H. Bland; Alicia, Miss Cleaver.—After which the Farce of HIDE AND SEEK. Mordaunt, Mr. Chaplin; Moses, Mr. Slai ter ; Mrs. Mordaunt, Mrs. W. H. Bland.—To conclude with the Drama of the LADY AND THE DEVIL. Mr. CHARLES KEAN and Mrs. WARNER, late Miss Huddart, Principal Tragic Actress of the Theatres-Royal, Drury-lane and Haymarket, will commence an Engagement for TEN NIGHTS, at this Theatre, on MONDAY next, April 26th, 1841, when will be performed the Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. CHARLES KEAN ; Lady Mac beth, Mrs. WARNER., her first appearance in Liverpool since her London engagement. .1032/..2tV11934' , ! , M•.,,-.l.2.,Aessamm.down.wa...w.mt-taratiewes TO CORRESPONDENTS We perceive that Mr. Pilkington, secretary to the Patent Bitumen Company has addressed a letter to a contempo , stating that the account which appeared in the cnARn of Tuesday, relative to the fire at the Asphalte Works at Litherland, was incorrect. The damage done by the fire was very slight. The paragraph was copied from the Albion. The letter of " Observer" partakes too much of the nature of an advertisement to be inserted gratuitously. The liberality of the Mayor towards Commodore Napier, and the gentlemen who accompanied him to the Town hall, was of course known to us, but we were unwilling to mar the festivities of the day by any allusion to the subject on Tuesday, and now the public are sufficiently well ac quainted with it. The lines by " M. A." shall appear on Tuesday. per Cents 201-to Colombian 22:1 I ets were quiet to, were much the same week ending Tires in Coffee had been at the auction of Surinam, which went lower. Ordinary Cheribon ing had 1 n done, owing to the r auction. There was not the least demand for The holders of Cotton were firmer, but without r went off Rice was, without alters- f to 1.51 Potashes were rather scarce : Pe tersburg half clean Hemp was at 63f. In Hides a fair bUsi ness had been done at full prices. Yellow Candle Russia Tallow was at DARING MURDER NEAR BRISTOL BRISTOL, APRIL 19, 1811.—One of the most murders ever recorded was perpetrated on Saturday morning last at the quiet village of Tocklington, about eight miles from. Bristol, under the following circumstances :—The un fortunate deceased, Mr. William Fisher, was 51 years of age, and a very respectable farmer, living on his own freehold es tate at the hamlet of Hawley, near Tocklington. On Satur day morning, having occasion to proceed to Bristol market, with a cart load- of potatoes for sale, he stopped at a retail at Tocklington, kept by a person of the name of and called for a jug of cider. While he was drink ing the elder, and conversing with two persons at the holise, named James Cullimore and Richard Knapp, the murderer (William Weyman), who is a pensioner, having been dis charged from a cavalry regiment, came in and called for a pint of cider, which was supplied him. He had not been there many minutes before the landlady observed inside the breast of his coat a cavalry pistol, which, seeing a piece of brown paper in the muzzle, she judged to be loaded heavily, and expressed her alarm at it., As, however, the prisoner was in the habit of shooting cattle for the butchers in the neighbourhood, and cleaning guns, &c., for the farmers as a mode of livelihood, in addition to his pension, this cir cumstance, she was told, need not surprise her ; besides which the prisoner declared it not to be loaded. The pri soner then entered into conversation with the persons who were in the house, to whom he was well known, and said that he had been to the post-office, where he had got a -fnn The farmers present, knowing ity, joked him upon this, and "That's a lie, I know." The i "Tr s-- ad said that out " The de- trocious cider-hous Thomas penny letter containing the prisoner's habitual mendae the deceased Mr. Fisher said, ceased, being a man of very jocular habits, said, and repeated the observation. The prisoner then got up from his seat and went into the back kitchen for a minute or two, and on his return clapped his pistol against the cheek of the deceased, and before either of the persons in the house had time to interfere. discharged its contents through the.head of Fisher, who fell instantly on the floor, the pistol falling be side him. A medical gentleman, who happened to be riding by at the moment, hearing the report of the pistol, came into the house and examined the deceased, who was, how ever quite dead, his tongue being shot off and the lower part o his cheek very much shattered. While the surgeon was examining the body, the prisoner, with the greatest coolness, said, " I know that's a dead shot." The coroner's inquest was held this day before Mr. Ellis, and from the evidence adduced, and the statements made by the prisoner after his apprehension, it appeared that the pri soner had been contemplating thecomnr.ission of this atrocious act for some days. It was proved that on Friday last he pur chased some gunpowder and two marbles at a shop in the neighbourhood, and that in the afternoon of Friday he told a man named Cook that he had been looking about for Mr. Fisher all the day, and that if he had found him he would have shot him. The constable also deposed to the prisoner's having said to him when apprehended, " I will go anywhere with you, for I know I shall be hanged for it ; but I shall die happy, as it was all for that woman." The prisoner did not mention the woman's name, but having also said that "he had it harbouring in his breast before he went into the army," it was understood to be an allusion to the wife of the de ceased, for whom it is said that about nine and twenty years ago he professed an attachment, although she was then only twelve years of age. The prisoner having committed a rob bery at that period, to avoid apprehension entered the army, and was present at the battle of Waterloo. During his, ab sence Mr. Fisher married the young woman, and lived hap pily with her until the period when his existence was thus awfully terminated. The prisoner also said he had kept the pistol loaded for four days, but that he could not find Fisher before that morning, when, thinking it a convenient oppor tunity, he shot him. The jury, after hearing the whole of the evidence, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against William Weyman," who was committed to Glocester gaol for trial. EXECUTION AT GALWAY (From the Dublin News Letter.) On Wednesday last, Patrick M . Hugh, aged 22, convicted at the late assizes for the wilful murder of his fellow-traveller, on their way from England, paid the penalty of his offence by undergoing the extreme sentence of the law. The wretched culprit immediately after he was pronounced guilty by the jury acknowledged the justice of the verdict, and when brought up for sentence before Baron Foster declared his sincere sorrow for his crime, and his regret that he could not in this life suffer more than the torture of death. Upon being removed to the gaol he at once betook himself to prayer and such other devotional exercises as are prescribed by the Roman Catholic Church, of which he was a member. The chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Cummins, was unremitting in his at tentions to the unfortunate man, and it is hoped he was not unsuccessful in preparing his soul for the great change it has since undergone. H is conduct since his conviction has been marked by a strict propriety of demeanour, combined with a perfect resignation to his fate. In the early part of this week he went through the forms prescribed by the discipline of his church, and to all around him he expressed his willing ness to die. Though no effort was made to obtain a commu t ition of the sentence, the high sheriff deemed it proper to wait until after the arrival of the Dublin mail on Wednesday, lest any communication might be received by it from the executive. None was forwarded from the Castle, and pre parations were immediately set on foot for carrying the dreadful sentence into effect. Three Roman catholic clergymen were with the con demned and unfortunate men from an early hour, and at about two o'clock the melancholy procession left the chapel, whence they proceeded through the gaol-yard to the place of execution. M'Hugh walked with a firm step, still un daunted at his ignominious fate, nor did he betray the slight- est symptom of weakness when ascending the steps leading to the press-room. Upon reaching this apartment the pub lic functionary, whose office it is to carry out the last sen tence of the law, commenced his operations by pinioning the arms of the culprit, who said he willingly submitted to that indignity when he recollected that the hands of his Saviour were affixed with nails to the wood of the cross. The cler gyman meantime continued in prayer, and assisted the con demned in the religious exercises suited to such occasions. The Rev. Mr. Roach then came upon the platform and addressed the crowd assembled below, which consisted of at least twenty thousand persons, two-thirds of whom I regret to state were females. The rev. gentleman said he was re quested by M'Hugh to express his heartfelt sorrow for his crime, of which he had already acknowledged his guilt, and the deep anguish of his soul for the many offences committed by him against the Majesty of Heaven. He implored the prayers of his hearers that God in his infinite mercy, and through the merits and the sufferings of Jesus Christ, would extend to their unhappy brother forgiveness for his crimes, and that he would not refuse him that pardon which he vouchsafed to promise the penitent thief on Calvary. He trusted that his fate would be a warning to all others, and would teach them to avoid the occasion of sin. The culprit was then led upon the drop, and the rope having been ad justed on his neck, the executioner tried to pull a white cap over his face ; but this was too small ; and from the great force used by - Jack Ketch to effect his purpose, or from the extreme pressure with which hisarrns appeared to hepinioned, M`Hugh fainted, and fell bwik upon the grating of the scaf fold. While in that state the attempt to draw down the cap was renewed, and it was accomplished with some difficulty, when at length the bolt was drawn, and the unhappy wretch was launched into eternity. He hppeared to struggle for a few minutes, but life was soon extinct ; and after hanging for half an hour his body was cut down and buried within the precincts of the gaol. STATE OF THE COUNTY OF TIPPERARY Accounts have reached town, which represent the north ern parts of the county of Tipperary to be in a state border ing on actual insurrection. The town of Nenagh has the appearance of a place preparing for a siege, the streets being crowded with troops, despatched thither from the garrison of Limerick, comprising a troop of the lith Lancers, and two companies of the 20th foot; and two or three pieces of ordnance were expected to arrive there in the course of Friday evening. The orders of the military are to scour the disturbed districts day and night, in bodies of 25 and 30, and to be in con stant readiness for active duty at five minutes warning. In the meantime the work of bloodshed and outrage progresses with fearful rapidity. Two more murders were committed lately, in the broad daylight. on the lands of Curraghmore, in the parish of Kilbarron. The names of these unhappy vic tims to Ribandisin were Tierney and Gleeson. Major-General Sir Pt er Carroll, the commanding officer of the district, has been served with a Rockite notice, warning him to be pre pared for the fate which impends over him, in consequence of ejecting a woman from some land, the same being in direct contravention of the Riband code. The list of outrages, in the shape of similar notices, together with assaults on the person, &c., would occupy too rnuoh of your space. I shall, therefore, merely abridge some of the particulars elicited at the inquest on the body of the wretched Hayes—a brief no tice of whose murder appeared in the Times of Friday. This barbarous deed was committed within about six miles of Nenagh, on the borders of the Shannon, and in one of the wildest districts of Ireland. Contiguous to the house of the unhappy man are half-a-dozen lonely dwellings, which are chiefly occupied by fishermen, and are situate between two mountains, which command a picturesque view of that mag nificent river. There is no direct passage to the place, and the coroner and his party sere obliged, after leaving the high road, to traverse for upwards of a mile an almost inaccessible tract of country, ere they reached the fatal spot. The first witness examined was Bridget Hayes (widow of the deceased). Her husband was a carpenter. He was employed on Mon day, the sth instant, in repairing a boat for the Rev. Dean Holmes. He left off work between the hours of seven and eight o'clock on that evening. When he came home he went to the door and saw a man pass by. Witness asked him who the man was, and he replied that he did not know. He then went to the fire and kindled his pipe, and re mained standing till the strange man (whose name witness does not know) came in. The man was armed with a two-handed wattle. He came over to the fire and lit his pipe. He did not sit down. He stood at the fire. Deceased desired the strange man to sit down ; he said he would not. During this time the stick remained on the ground. The deceased then said, " Perhaps you're a man that want's to cross the Shannon ?" to which he replied that he did not. Deceased then asked him to remain for the night, and desired witness to put down his supper. The man said he had already eaten it. Deceased got up and walked towards the dresser. Witness observed a change come over his countenance, as if he were afraid. N'Citness kept her eye on deceased. Did not look round until she heard a blow, and saw him fall. Witness then ran between the man and de. ceased, lest he might strike him again. The man caught her by the head, *ore her cap and handkerchief, and dragged her out into the yard ; he then said, " Go in now, or I'll give you the same treatment 1 gave him ; give up the land now." He afterwards went off in an opposite direction to that in which he came. This happened about nine o'clock in the evening. When witness went into the house she found the deceased lying on his back. He was kicking and struggling dreadfully at the time. He spoke in a faltering tone. Wit ness, assisted by a man named Martin Darmody, put the deceased on a bed. All lie said was, that she wished to be taken to his brother. He died about one o'clock the follow- ing day. The jury returned a verdict of " W ilful murder against some person or persons unknown . " -- Timed. Elie Kibtrpool &tanbarl3. FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1841 On the re-assembling of Parliament on Tuesday, Lord Morpeth moved the renewal of the Irish Arms Bill, and Mr. Hume took occasion to say, as in duty bound, that Ireland had become so tranquil and peace able that she needed no such bill. There was more crime, he contended, committed in England than in Ireland; and, with a view to shew this, he moved for certain returns by which the criminal statistics of the United Kingdom might be exhibited, and the neces sary comparison instituted. Lord Morpeth made no objection to granting the returns, but thought that, whatever improvement might have taken place in Ire land, crimes wert-4 still committed there of such a na ture as to render the renewal of the Arms Bill indis pet sable. Mr. Hume, in asserting that there is more crime in England than in Ireland, has only taken up a favourite position of the Romish journals in the sister country, and of O'Connell, the god of their idolatry, and patron —saint we will not say, but patron—of the representa tive of Kilkenny, for which beautiful city the ejected of Middlesex has now the honour to sit the member in Parliament. The Romish press in Ireland delight to catch at every narrative of crime committed in this country, with a view to spew that our boasted -civilisa- tion and Protestantism have not conduced to a more pure and orderly state of society than exists in Roman datholic Ireland ; and that in these respects their sup posed inferiority is only an error of the imagination— a piece of self-conceit on our part. Their peasantry, they say, are not only, as Mr. O'Connell calls them, the " finest pisantry on the face of the earth," but the most peaceable and virtuous. The murderous system of Ribandism, at this moment in full operation in Tipperary, Limerick, and Queen's Counties, is no thing, or a mere bagatelle, in their regard. Count crimes, say they, and it will appear that you have just as many among you as we have--not positively merely, but proportionably in respect to population ; and as to temperance, chastity, and whatever concerns the purity and happiness of the domestic circle, we are absolutely your superiors. This is a theme dwelt upon unceas ingly and con amore by all the Irish Liberal journals; and all we say is, that we are sorry that the error in which they indulge, wilfully or otherwise, is so egre gious and so complete. We would most sincerely that, it were otherwise. At the opening of a late assizes in Tipperary, there were 498 prisoners in gaol, and of these seventy were charged with murder ! Within three years and a half there were committed in Ireland upwards of 600 mur ders and homicides, and of these the greater part went unpunished, from the unwillingness, or fear, of parties to prosecute. And with these facts staring us in the face, are we to be told that there is no more crime in Ireland than there is in England ? We have heard of " enormous lying," but of nothing ever more enormous than this—at least we think so ; but perhaps Mr. Hurne's returns may disabuse us of our present im- pression. Perhaps we may discover that we have been under a mistake all this time, and that if a man would live snug and secure, and free to do as he will with his own, there is no place like Tipperary ; per haps so; but we are certainly rather sceptical on the point. As to the returns which Mr. Hume has moved for, we set no value upon them; they will reveal nothing on the most interesting and important part of the case. The mere counting of crimes is an insufficient criterion for determining the comparative state of the two coun tries. A murder is committed in Tipperary, and a si milar crime is committed in Lancashire, and a record may be kept of all such offences ; but would an in spection of that record give us, at the end of a stated period, any just idea of the state of society in each dis trict, or be conclusive as to the superiority of one or the other in a moral or social point of view ? We need scarcely answer this question in the negative. In Lan cashire the crime is the result of individual malice, or perhaps part of the evil design of a gang consisting of not more than two or three desperate characters whose principal object is robbery; but in Tipperary it is the index of a system—the offspring of a conspiracy— whose ramifications are deep and extensive—which pervades almost the entire country—comprehends in its dark affiliation we know not whom nor how many— and keeps the great mass of the population in subjec tion to a most foul and abominable tyranny. Now will the returns called for by the member for Kilkenny take any cognizance of this peculiar state of things ? and, if they do not, how imperfect must be the light which they will shed on the question which he raises on the comparative state of crime in this country and in Ire land. We have crime enough in this country—a great deal too much—and often are we forced to blush for our country that such deeds are done in it ; hut in Ireland there is not only a fearful amount of actual crime, but, what is worse, there is the " criminal sfate" also along with it. In England crime is the exception to the rule; in Ireland, or, we should say, some portions of it, it is, we regret to observe, the rule itself. In a re tired part of the country a poor man is sitting at his fireside with his family ; a felow walks in wh om h e never saw before, and he is invited to sit down to par take of the evening meal ; hospitality is the familiar virtue of every Irish cottage ; the fellow affects to light his pipe, but takes an opportunity suddenly to turn round, and slay his too confiding host in presence of his wife and children. And why is this ? This mur derous and mysteri ous v i s it o r is a Thug," and t h e victim of his barbarity is an individual who had ven tured to take, or to h o ld l an d, or do some act with re ference thereto,—or he was, perhaps, merely a Bible reader —contrary to the laws of Thugs and Thuggery, which alter not; he was consequently ordered to be taken off; and the shrouded emissary who performed the deed was simply the executive of the Thugs of that 412:Ti0t3 OM; glil Wiley amirrit Tipporof -aay, a person ingly and alone in his own field; three ruffians steal round a hedge, level their pieces deliberately at him, and, having shot him dead, go off. What was the of- is quite a young man, had not been obedient to the 4.e- cret, agrarian laws of Thuggery, and it was nece tier re- cent case party tufnitig.to tht ht.iings of t.%1 wayd to , Vogel, a eounto id, vice versa, a COW, to ugh counter ward, you will lose both, when, by a judicious :, you might have won both by being more prudent on this point, have beaten us perior men to theirs in every necessary qualification Sympathy goes a ion way in deciding a man's vote is, we say, we 10 not mean to en but fron Now, wI re such deeds occur, and such things are, there, we say, there is a state of society utterly tainted and vi&ous, and actual crime is far from being the worst thing in it. Its very tranquillity is but the tran quillity of the grave. Will Mr. Hume, or any other employs and agent of the Popish priesthood of Ireland, have the effrontery to tell us that there is any thing re sembling this to be found in England glad of the inquiry; we really rejoice at such an in vestigation being set on foot;' for it is of the highest importance to both countries, that the true cause of the crimes and wretchedness of Ireland should be But we are probed to the very bottom. Ribandism has, doubt less, a great deal to answer for; but what is Riband ism ? Is it, or is it not, an emanation of Popery ? For our part we never had a doubt as to the solution of this question ; but we shall be glad of any circum stance that may lead others into the necessary inquiry, and the same conclusion that we have drawn. We perceive, by Mr. Macaulay's statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday, that there was but too much foundation for the revolting narrative circu lated a short time since, as to the punishment of a soldier of the 11th Hussars at Hounslow, in presence of his regiment, immediately afterdivine service on the Sabbath-day. Mr. Macaulay's version of the affair differs in no material point from the original history, and offers no mitigation whatever of-the offence. It is true that the flogging did take place on the Sabbath day, and in the manner, though not exactly at the time, mentioned; and what more is necessary to raise a feel- ing of the strongest disgust in the mind of every one who has a due respect for the sacredness and hallowed rest of the . day. Flogging, it is said, has been rare in the nth Hussars; nor was Lord Cardigan the author, or cause of the punishment in this instance; it was the award of a court martial, and he but gave effect to its sentence. But the offence complained of is the execution of it on a Sunday ; and for this we un derstand, from Mr. Macaulay, that Lord Cardigan is alone responsible. His lordship selected that day for the, soldier's punishment, and by his orders it was on that day inflicted. We hear of late a great deal about the abolition of capital punishment, and of the necessity of mitigating the severity of our penal code; but in our opinion the practice of flogging in the army, in a time of profound peace, and in regiments quartered at home, is far more objectionable. It is a species of torture, nay, it is tor ture itself of the severest kind, worthy only of a bar barous age. We conceive that in a well disciplined regiment it would be quite needless; but the abuse of the Sabbath to so vile a purpose—the conversion of hours which should be devoted to tranquil enjoyment into a time of disquiet, anxiety, or even agony—is a proceeding calculated only to disgust men with the ser vice, and is moreover a scandalous violation, as well of the spirit as of the letter of the divine command ment. Lord Cardigan's military career has been an unfortunate one, and it is, we think, high time for him to bring it to an end. He came into the world a little too late to obtain that honourable distinction which might have been his lot under different circumstances ; for whether it convey a compliment, or otherwise, we certainly think that he would have been much more likely to have been serviceable to the burly, bellicose period, than he hi.. be, in these piping times of peace state in some as been, or is likely to Our " Conservative democracy " of Liverpool is quite a puzzle to philosophers of the Whig school. It is, says a writer in the Chronicle of Saturday, an " ano- maly in politics." But we submit that the anomaly is altogether a figment of his own mind. By a Conservative democracy is meant; we presume, a people attached to the existing order of things in all essential respects; and what, may we ask, is there ano malous in that ? But, the truth of the matter is, that before the parliamentary and Municipal reform bill: had passed, or been sufficiently tried, the Whigs ima- .Tined that the people were as gullible as they wished them to be, and, that if they possessed more power in the state, they would throw it all into the scale of Li- beralism. In that expectation they now find them selves mistaken ; and, like that great medical theorist who, when his patients died under his hands, used to exclaim that by every rule of art they ought not to have done so, and that it was a great error on their part, so these doctors of the Whig academy cry out that a Con- servative democracy, so far from gaining strength, ought to have been completely extinguished under their treatment, and that it is quite an anomaly in politics that the case has not so turned out. It is laughable to hear the laments of the Whigs on this head, and interesting to discover that, soured by disappointment and hopeless of remedy, they are at present in the best possible condition and disposition to quarrel with each other. " I cannot help thinking," says the writer above referred to, " that the reformers are losing the mastery of the Town Council, from having aped the very practice of the tories the very moment they got possession of it. We fought for it as for a prize in which all were to nave a share, and yet one of our first occupations, when it was within our grasp, was to draw broad lines of distinction between those who might and those who might not be admitted into the number of our municipal rulers. In the first burst of our enthusiasm we carried the Town-hall by storm ; but the revolution arrived at made known that democracy had made no advance, and that the kid glove and currant jelly dynasty was still to be supreme, even hi the very hour of our party's triumph. It chilled the hearts of hundreds of true reformers—it sent them home in disgust and grief—and behold the end—The second race of aristo cratic Council Kings is, unless we make a strong effort, coat ing to a close." " The second race of aristocratic kings," says our authority, "is coming to a close," and there will be nobody, it seems, to regret their fall. The Tories, of course, will not blear their eyes with weeping for them, and we have had some good reasons assigned here why the Whig democracy should not either. The Re formers made a rush for the Council, and gained it but the possession only disclosed to them tl einptines: and vanity of reform promises. Their aristocracy, who formerly doffed the bonnet in such lowly guise to the most worshipful people, assumed lofty airs, and, taking incontinently to " kid gloves and currant jelly," would scarcely deign to recognise the poor fellows on whose shoulders they bad climbed to this perilous height. They began to draw " lines of distinction," became exclusive, and thought of turning the Council into a sort of Almack's, into which none should be admitted who could not pass the scrutinizing ordeal of the " kid gloves and currant jelly." flow painful it must have been to witness such airs on the part of men who affected, of all things, to despise the trappings of place and distinctions of rank in the world. "It chilled the hearts of hundreds of hue Reformers," says our informant; "it sent them home in disgust and grief;" and no wonder. It was like waking from a pleasant dream full of delightful fantasies, to all the flat realities of existence. It was like the bursting of a very beautiful bubble, and lo! nothing remains but the painful consciousness that we have been pursuing a phantom and victimised by a humbug. But there are some men so enamoured of deception that no ex perience, however bitter, can cure them of still ven turing on in the same unhappy career. Thus we find this very correspondent of the Chronicle, after making these painful confessions, instead of abandoning the affair as a bad job, as he should do, still exercising his ngE.nuity with a desperate fidelity worthy of a better cause, in the forlorn hope of discovering some expe diezt to redeem the rapidly sinking fortunes of his We do not mean to follow him through all the de tail of local interests and influences which he disserts upon so learnedly ; but we collect that he relies, as upon a last resource, upon some new shuffle of wards and candidates which may give his party a better chance. In some wards, he calculates, the counting home interest is in the ascendant—in others, the coun ter .; to this point, he Thinks, the Whigs have not paid sufficient attention ; " a candidate should be chosen gaining a council election t will be much f they can win by ti ,heir interest to study the adjust- ment ; but if not, we wish them to swallow the pills, e-rig away with the coun- ,er and counting-house 'as long and inch as they please; we shall be quite content to meet them in a the wards with no other aid than that of a good, soum: and straightforward Conservative demoeracy In a leading artk of the sa that the "Tories have been so ea ?aper we are told to find fault, tha they have not studied the bearings of the case set b fore them by Alderman Evans .t they have b Ltwfr,p, ..Prigr..*TaA,.....k.. mos z ear:prof it flow ex Mveg Theatre. Mr deceives people with their is ventriloquism las been so far well supported Dn Tuesday an inquest was held at Lydiate, on the body a child named John Whitehead, one year and nine months 1. The deceased was found by his father floating in the ter, which was about three feet deep. It is supposed that ceased was running after the cat when he fell in. Verdict accidental death. TON V. (.:11AFI s an action tried at the verdict was returned for the )r a criminal intercourse al- to have taken place betty .t of Q ;ranted a ru: lar OPENING OF to remind the f markab. ble loy 's are so gre In Zerl ter. We leave Whig quac wasting much ammunition upon a flag of truce n of little minds are prone to depreciate what '—that it is useless to 'o this charge we, how- they do not understand pearls re swine," &c ever, if included in it, must plead not guilty little else to deal with than a alderman has given us mere abstract idea. "He wants," says our contempo rary, "to see the influence of the municipal body en larged, its powers increased, its sphere of focal useful ness greatly widened;" and this for no self-interested or party-interested motive, but solely for the good of Liverpool and its inhabitants. " Give me a fulcrum," said some ancient philo sopher—we believe it was Archimedes—" and I shall move the worldit " and so says our Evans—" Give me but a Council With proper powers, and I shall to the abstra astonish the nation." Now of power in the Council, - able in it ; the objection is to putting such power into the hands of the liberal alderman and his othing objectic clique ; and we know of no argument advanced by his worship or our liberal contemporary sufficiently powerful to overcome it. He is quite disinterested in his views, says the Chronicle, because another party— viz., the Tories, may have the wielding of those very powers which he is anxious to obtain. Very good ; but, as humble members of that party, we would ra ther see the Tories in secure possession of the Council first. If the alderman will then co-operate with Con servatives in enlarging its powers—good ; we shall have no doubt of his disinterestedness under such circum stances; but for the present we must decline cutting the rod which possibly might be used first for our own castigation—that is to say, tyrannically abused for the punishment of innocence and virtue LOCAL NEWS THE STEAM SHIP BRITISH QUEEN.-It has been arranged that the port of arrival and departure for the British Queen, from and to New York, will in future be Liverpool instead of London. JOSEPH HOLLAND.—A respite until further orders of the sentence on this culprit, who was left for execution by the judges of assize, has been received by the governor of Kirk dale gaol. AMERICA?: PACKETS.—The Europe, which left New York on the Ist inst., reached this port on Monday even ing, bringing one day's later intelligence than the Caledonia. The independence, which would sail on the 7th, may be ex pected up to-day or to-morrow. The Columbia would leave Boston on the 15th, and rosy be looked for on Thursday next. If the British Queen left on the 10th, she will be due on Sunday—but it is doubtful if she could be got ready for the former day, as she would not reach New York until the 4th instant. CONVERSION.—A young person, educated in the Roman Catholic belief, has renounced the errors thereof, and was formally received into the community of the French Pro testant church of London on Sunday last, at the temporary place of worship, Founder's-hall, Lothbury. ST. THOMAS' CHURCH, LANCASTER.—This place of di vine worship, recently erected in the county town, was opened for public service for the first time on Wednesday evening week, on which occasion a very eloquent s2rmon was oreached by the Rev. David James, of Kirkdale, from Psalm xi-3. " If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do ;" at its conclusion a collection was made to wards the fund required for defraying expenses incurred by the erection of the sacred building, when the sum of £32 was received. THE FOREIGN AID SOCIETY.—This society has arisen from the union and incorporation of two distinct institutions the European Missionary Society and the Soci6tes Evang6- liques), and aims at the diffusion of the reformed religion over the continent of Europe. We can scarcely imagine that, whilst the liberality of Liverpool is proverbial towards the distant heathen and the dispersed Jews, there will be any lack of interest 'manifested towards those who are joined to us by innumerable links of neighbourhood, common Christi anity, continual intercourse, and mutual impressions. True it is that France has gone to the greatest depths of infidelity, has cast off for years all national profession of Christi anity—but there is no occasion for despair. Already much teas been accomplished ; and if the Foreign Aid Society, whose claims, as may be seen from an advertisement, will lie advocated here on Monday next, be adequately supported, there is every reason to _expect, from past experience, that the religious principles of the reformation will be spread over the continental nations, and many will thus be rescued from the absurdities of infidelity or the grinding tyranny of all anti-Christian apostacy. Let our Protestant readers reflect which this society has in view, and assist to _ . upon the object the utmost a work so pregnant with b THE PADGATE BuTtGLAßS.—Yesterday week, Thomas Sutton, the man admitted as evidence for the Crown in the prosecution about to be instituted against this notorious gang of burglars, made a very full statement of his transactions in connexion with them, from the time of his joining them until his apprehension in MancLiester some short time after the Padgate burglary. He entered into a detailed account of the manner of his introduction with William Dixon, a saw yer, and member of the gang. Shortly after his acquaintance with these scoundrels, it was arranged that they should rob the newly-erected silk sawmill of Messrs. Bickam and Pow nall, near Worsley. They reached the mill about eleven O'clock on the evening of the 15th February, and entering the garden by the canal side, in front of the mill, took up their respective stations. Parkinson (the captain of the gang) - . and Dixon, with their crowbars and skewers, commenced breaking a hole in the brick-work forming the factory wall, a work of great difficulty, the walls being four bricks thick, and, on account of the machinery, well cemented together. It was also a work of great hazard, as a row of small cottage tenements ran along the other side of the mill, and the Messrs. Bickham and Pownall's foreman lived in a cottage at one end of the mill, which, by means of a door in the wall, afforded easy access to the interior. In addition to that, the rural police force had their head station in Leigh, and the officers might be expected almost hourly to visit the premises. Goodyear (another of the gang) assisted Parkinson and Dixon in removing the bricks, and Sutton exerted all his energies in keeping a good " look out." The work proceeded but slowly, and Parkinson and Dixon were at one time half in clined to abandon their labour. All operations were sus pended during the time of any boats passing. After four hours' toil three of the gang entered and broke open the doors of the desk, and took therefrom one pound six shillings and fourpence in money. They next collected together forty-three silk warps of various colours, being as much as they could conveniently carry, and of £2OO value, with which they ef fected their escape in safety. The bowl containing some of the copper was thrown into the canal immediately, and the gang, after proceeding some distance along the canal side, finding daylight fast bursting upon them, thought it most ad visable to deposit the whole of their booty in an old barn at tached to a decayed and dilapidated mansion, some half mile distant from the mill. They afterwards went to Manchester, where, with the assistance of James Unsworth, a hackney coachman out of employ, they procured a cab, into which the silk was placed and removed to Sale Moor, where Goodyear lived. The silk was afterwards disposed of, and Sutton re ceived £2 10s. for his share. Dixon was apprehended last night week, and Unsworth is also in custody. The statement made by Sutton also implicates Dixon, Parkinson, and Good year, in a burglary committed at the mansion of the Messrs. Cocks, at Upton, near Chester. In that case, the g . _ fected an entrance into.the bedroom of the ladies, and pre senting pistols at their heads demanded their money. It is said, that they had £l5OO. in the house at the time, which they had just received for some railway shares. Luckily, while one of the ladies was conducting Parkinson down stairs to the place in which it was deposited, one of the servants escaped, and giving an alarm, the-gang dispersed in confusion minus their intended booty. - CLAIM FOIL DAMAGE TO A SHIP.—On Puesday an appli cation was made before Mr. Rushton, at the Police-office, by Mr. Robinson, of the firm of Lowndes and Robinson, to recover, on behalf of the owners of the True Blue, the amount of damage sustained by that vessel on the 27th of March, in consequence of the pilot who had charge of the ship Eugene having run that vessel against her as he was enterinc , the ba sin of the Queen's Dock, and carried away her rudder. Mr. Robinson called Mr. John Garnett, the dock-master of the Queen's Dock, who stated that, on the 27th of March last, the True Blue was lying stern on, on the south side of the gateway of the Queen's Dock Basin, hanging to a buoy over the gridiron. It was just before high water, and the gates were not opened, but the True Blue was lying in a position just ready to haul in. He (Mr. Garnett) saw the Eugene run in under the charge of the pilot, and she was brought up against the bows of the True Blue, which . was forced against the basin, and her rudder broken. The fault was in the pilot not letting go the anchor in proper time. He ought to have let go the anchor much sooner. He (Mr. Garnett) was pre sent at the investigation before the pilots' committee. The pilot there said he ordered the anchor to be let go as he went in. Mr. Wright, who appeared for the defendant, here ob jected, that what was said by the defendant at the pilots' committee could not be evidence there, because they could not examine him upon it. Cross-examined by Mr. Wright. —lt was the starboard bow of the Eugene that struck the True Blue in the bows forward. The blow was so violent that it broke her hawser, or warp. Was not aware that the True Blue was damaged on the part where she struck. She was forced with violence against the wall, and a main piece of her rudder was broken, and the Eugene carried away bet The Eugene w own topgallantmast. - ... out swinging her an was west, blowing very f res h : she came i n chor ; the wind before it, and brought her anchor home with her. Mr. Tucker, carpenter, stated that he saw the True Blue on the gridiron on the morning of the 27th, and her rudder was then quite perfect. On the 29th it was surveyed, and found to be shattered. He had repaired it. The cost was £8 10s: 2d. By Mr. Wright.—The rudder was a good rudder. It was made of black birch. The vessel was built at Nova ScOtia, and black birch was as good a wood for rudders as could be got there. He had used black birch for the new rudder. Mr. Rushton said the only point in the case was, that the wind was blowing fresh at the time, and the pilot ought to have let go the anchor sooner. The other vessel, it was clear, was removed in a proper position out of the way. The da mage must be paid for. He would have the work looked at by Mr. Askew, and whatever he estimated the proportion of the damage at which ought to be paid by the Eugene, he (Mr, Rushton) would award. en the defendant and the ider on Tuesday moved the for a new trial and the court d. that the damages were ds of Air. Whaley, residing in Liverpool, ," at the Albion Hotel takes place J , which leaves Birkenhead at four warming id conveniently in on table." We under 11 arrive most comtortab previous to " r will be something out of the common f " mine host" as a caterer will doubt- to advantage -We recommend all mercan with the trade of New South tile men and person; Wales to visit this cu does, the r ms and most interesting model, show ;Tess of English capital, industry, and s made by civilization in this quarter thronged streets, and the busy seat of ithin a tew years, model is well worth from the Mures it resents to vie D AND OTHERS V. HA➢IILTO This action was hen a verdict was ailitiff, with £1 The action was brought to recover for two breaches - of contract, by . contracts the defendant agreed with the plaintiffs for the Gland Junction Rail- I) was that he was misled .grant Talfourd on the purc Con - man ad deeeiiedby the pl 'uesday moved for a iie nless the plaintiffs consented which would have been. the difference between the original price and that at which the shares would have sold if they had been disposed of when the defendant's repudiation of the contract was completed Rule granted. BURGLARY Cairns was placed biefoi. —On Wedne day, a man of the name of James ing bt Winte. r. Rushton, on a charge of hay entered the house of Mr. Albert Joseph dealer, 54, Thomas-street, with the The prosecutor stated, the night before, he U 'miffing a 'antters and front and back doors g, however, his wile a house," .e are thieves in the went down stairs, kitchen attempting to make his of glass which had been previ io shutter to that window, but it y the yard wall, which was five or six feet [•pulled the prisoner back into the kitchen, ith a cry of .s surra but his cant ;one out in the scuffle his wife got him ie assisitanee of officer 101. He then cloak, which had been lying behind the e when he went to bed. was upon the lass had beet; broken the kitchen and the from she table and door of the house w pened from the inside. A policemandeposed, Ling the prisoner he found a clasp knife, with )f which had been recently broken. HAMP V. THE L. CASTER A ND PR 'ON RAILWAY COMPANY.-Mr. Cresswell, on Tuesday, moved the Court of Exchequer for a new trial in this case, which was an action to recover the value of a box intrusted to the defendants to ected to Derbyshire, it was tried at the zes before Mr. Baron Rolfe, when a ver _ intiff. He being a stonemason out of re, went into Derbyshire, where, having • made up and-sent the box in question to tations of the railway, and delivered it to the Be was informed that it would reach She asked if it would go any sooner if informed no, and she did not The learned gentleman now iv professed to be carriers ey were not bound intrusted to them beyond those points. Had ,s found for the work in Laneasl settled, his moth, s servant the carriage, and v The box w vay con only bet nd Preston they contracted to carry the box beyond Preston, by taking payment for the whole distance, he admitted they would have been liable. The company was differently placed from the case of a mail coach. In the case of the London and Edin burgh mail, the parties professed to carry the whole way, and although there might he two or three changes on the road, still the parties receiving the goods in London must be held liable; but here the railway company were merely carriers from Lancaster to Preston—they pretended to be no more— and he contended were liable no further. The court granted the rule. appeared in ou Lvolo" and t notic Miss Delcy has Lier Freyschutz," in both of which she has maintained the good opinion which her pre vious characters have gained her. We expressed ourselves ' • to her merits, without being led away by that en ' - -neness to praise which attends all worship star. We do not admit Miss Delcy to be perfection; Jelieve her to be a most promising singer, 'nd one who will, when time has done its work, take the •-'"Pst point i❑ her profession. For her age, and for she has had, we may pronounce her as ; and we can clearly see that, in the Malibran is the model on which it is iasteness, with touches of nature and sm and Kperier. )rnewliat of a marvel I. Punit in Miss acting; ectrifying gushes of harmony of which her exlit Delcy' ,lorious promise of what she will be. Her powers are not yet matured ; and how can it be expected, ►to the world, that they are ? How can a :id, of eighteen or twenty summers, with s capabl ;tea for worldv whom life is new, be expected to walk the stage, mirror, as it were, up to nature ?" It is onl astonishment that her abilities and pow Id " hold a a matter of and as we no- tired h to carry out the ` On yon- rident. The bed ad the Song "'Tis mingly acted tomorrow" was -delightfully given. We may not have an opportunity of again noticing Miss De lcy's performance -- -- ason. We are confident that if she appears here in owing year our remarks, if remembered, will be al - say, time will do all that is neces- Fro Diavolo is dashing and spirited, 'od's. Mr. Gardner, as Lorenzo, He is not one whit ved to t Templet in his acting, although his voice is decidedly in lition. Mr. George Horncastle was glorious as ash, and Miss E. Honner, as MiLadi, played and ninely. Her coquetting with the Marquis was inimitable. This evening Miss Delcy takes her benefit. So charming a young lady, and one so promising and talented withal, ought to interest in her favour every gallant gentleman in the town, who should strive to fill the house to overflowing are extremely pleased to see the an hat on Monday next Mr. Charles Kean will and that Mrs. Warner will make her her London engagement, as Lady on the occasion appear as Macbeth first appearanc Macbeth. ;NTATION TO MR. STUBBS.—On Tuesday last, a ,vas given by a number of friends of Mr. Stubbs, the leader and originator of the Royal Harmonic Band, at his own house—the Crane Hotel, St. Vincent-street,—for the purpose of presenting him with a gold snuff-box, a ring, &c, in token of the estimation in which he was held as a man and a 'sician, by a number of his friends, who had handsomely •ibed towards the purchase. The company was nume ' the dinner (provided by mine host) was substantial and was followed by a• desert of fruit, &c. `;n, surgeon, most ably occupied the chair, 'der was equally efficient as vice. The cone through with every possi . Mr. Stubbs's excell joining room, and played at The musical bells were —Jr accompaniment, and drew ere also several excellent glee sing introduced, on the principal toasts Ind beautiful glees, catches, &c. also sung. In accordance with feeling throughout the town, roused by the recent landing of Commodore Napier, there was painted on one side of the room the inscription of " Na ' 4, P navy" and " Wellington and the army." On - " the Queen." After the toasts before to the toast of the evening, ne introduced by a neat speech, in which he paid some high compliments to the professional talents of Mr. Stubbs, -'nosed his health, which was drunk enthusiastically, tvith musical honours. Mr. Stubbs, in reply, said it usually happened that an occasion of the present kind was considered the happiest moment of a man's life. With him, however, the case was otherwise, because his feelings were so much overpowered by their kindness that he was prevented from expressing what he desired. When he considered the many years he had spent in Liverpool, every one of which had been attended with pleasure and delight inhis profession, he felt that he had in some degree discharged his duty as a musician when t•new that the presentation before him had been fostered the large number of one hundred individuals. If the subject were embarrassing to their ' - ^ce learning and education were so dinner v t of royal toasts iv ,te observance :1 an occasional d ers in the room, w gs were opposite cattle 'orthy chairman, will nor to his own, it was by far more embarrassing to himself. He believed that the origin of the presentat;on ken its rise from the fact of his having for many years ged in instructing the orphans in the Blue-coat een eng ;ehool ; bat for having disrharged his duty in that respect he looked for no reward. (Cheers.) The people of Liver pool had been kind enough to say that the orphans to whom he referred played in excellent style, and if, in so saying, they spoke the truth, it was a sufficient reward for him to have the gratification to think that he had befriended the father less children in their distress. (Loud cheers.) He was alway happy, so far as his circumstances in life permitted him, to render the best services in his power to his fellow men, and whenever he looked at the present token of their regard it should always stimulate him to act the friend to every man who happened to stand in need of his friendship. A number of loyal and sentimental. toasts were afterwards drank and responded to in adequate terms. "The Press" was drank with great enthusiasm, which was replied to by a gentleman from the STANDARD Office. The evening was passed in a most agreeable manner, and such was the har mony throughout, and the loyalty and good feeling displayed, that the language of the greatest bard that England ever pro duced was fully verified, when be exclaimed— " The man who bath no music in his soul, Is fit for treason's stratagems and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus." THE VISITATIOD ROUTE. —The Rev. and Worshipful Henry Raikes, chancellor of the diocese, will hold hi s cour t s of visitation, for the purpose of admitting church and chapel wardens and sidesmen, .and for the prob a t e o f w ill s, an d granting letters of administration of intestates' effects, at the times and places undermentioned. It will be seen that there will,he two courts at Manchester, one for the borough, and the other for the deanery. This is owing, we presume, to the great amount of business to be transacted, and to the inconvenience arising from the crowded state of the church on former occasion- Monda Nantwich Middlewich Macclesfield at 11 morning. Monday, Tuesday, 3 afternoon Tuesday, , Wednesday, , 7, Stockport at 9 morning. at 1 afternoon. Wednesday. 28, Manchester Borough 28, Manchester Deanery 29, Bolton 29, Blackburn . at 9 morning. at 1 afternoon at 10 morning. at 3 afternoon, at 9 morning. at 9 morning. Thursday, „ Thursday, „ Friday 30; Burnley: May 1, Lancaster Saturday, Monday Tuesday, Wednesday 3, Ulverston 4, Whitehaven at 9 morning, at 10 morning, Thursday Friday, Friday, 5, Kendal 6, Preston at 12 noon at 12 noon Saturila p i , Wigan,.,... ham at 9 morning. at 3 afternoon. at 11 morning. at 10 morning. at 9 morning. at 3 afternoon. Monday, Tuesday, „ 10, Chester.. „ 11, Ormskirk „ 11, Liverpool Tuesday,