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COMBS id, an in L then called nke of Welli her Maj Vlr. Huns LIAMS a founded )er of v was in 1342 On , een in a g General Valde: ne statemel relative to s should As made ble disregard c hest approbation Lord MONTEAGL soners in the var, n . His object Iv the attention of t holding a a ning th E to the hed to s raised in I of of Donegal at t :6: These g ed through I private trite .0 ara01.11? 3 his brief; ai 3t to dev 'e partict I I 0 SUC , uld be n the number of prosecutions. He a prop 3 the E the house with the hopelessness of perse vering in endeavouring to check crin —the hooelessr vidual long. ng to c tendon to the ph He mig evered in for tw e ay punishment a age the Lean withon nation of the ind state of things could not continue very lessly predict that it could not be per . nt of the whole sy.ster Sir J. GRAHAM eulog Ashley. and be had stated tion; and duty to st aid he did not Indeed, the pies of the cliss and therefor noble f to two classes ( motioi oute, in anti The time was co y Lord kt consider e govern he regeneration of the to confine their c Opiflo' dien,t6 but the institutions ;en years :d fifteen that no allowed to work mor noon, una z three hours rich day. to 96111 - UlB 1 a halt per day; that if th chool for s of chit. so proposed powered to dedL each towards de fraying the expenses of their education. H is bills to carr out these objects were prepared to be laid before the hons at the earliest notice, and he only hoped that they would b 1 no case exceed _ . carried into practice in the course of the present session o arliament. 111.1 Lord J. RUSSELL cold( ment of Lord Ashley had Is he feared attached to i have wished that the ab of truth for its foundation that ght it would be almos Sir Jame: le state wickedness to cavil at the det Graham when the object in vi He would suggest that it might b provide education for a class immediately ab class of the community. Lord SANnoN congratulated tl discussion, which he said must have proved of the a, interest to g to find ry way important aeration t( ouse upon the preser was removed from the field of political and theological di cussion ; and he trusted that they might also congratula themselves that an assurance was now given to thecountr) that, the established church being maintained, a system o, education founded on its principles was offered to all wh. would accept it. ( Hear, hear.) It was, of course, impossibl' far him at that time to give an opinion of all the points raised by the right hon. gentleman, but this he would at once sa) that he saw nothing in the preient scheme to which an) member of the Church of England could object (hear, hear) ; and, such being the case, he argued with the noble lord, that with'such a mass of ignorance before them, it was impossible for them to stickle upon points of unimportant detail. Ht owned, too, that he was glad the Government did not attempt to compass too much. In his opinion they had done wisely to pursue a course in some degree marked out beforehand. With regard to details, he hoped they would take care not to get too large a mass of population into th e di s t r i c t compr i se d _ in their union schools. With respect to the operation of th, plan on factories and factory labour, he had every reason suppose that the scheme would be successful. Respectii , l the teachers, he certainly thought the observations of th , noble lord exceedingly -opposite. A good master might ni doubt be obtained for £7O or £BO a year; hut a man who wa fit to be a good master at that salary was fitted for a mud better employment, and the difficulty therefore was, whet they got a good master to keep him. On the whole, however he highly approved of the scheme, and should give it hi cordial support. Mr. SHAW said, that where there was an established churcl the education of the people ought to he confided to it ministers, and this principle, he regretted, had not been ex tended to Ireland in the system of education established ii that country. Mr. C. HULLER regretted that the proposed plan was or to extend the towns, and that no provision was made I rural districts. He received it, .howevcr, with gratitude, a first step towards a general system of education. The ho and learned gentleman drew the attention of the house t the charities throughout the kingdom, amounting to ove X 1,200,000, a portion of which might be usefully applied t , the purposes of eduction. Sir It INGLIS said, he could not consent to divert the charities from their purpose, however large and benefit the object to which they were to be applied. Sir G. GREY felt grateful to LO;dA;hley . for bringing tbi, subject before the house, and should feel hupny to give hit. humble aid to the Government in carrying out the measures proposed by Sir James Graham. Sir R. PEEL said it was indeed requisite that every publi. city should be given to the reports which had been quoted by Lord Ashley, for it was most important that the convictint of the existence of such a deplorable st a t e o f mora l f ee li ng s( widely extended should be brought home to those classes 0 , the community who were wealthy, and who were responsible for the use of that wealth. He could not assent to the dial. sion of charities to the purposes of education ; for even thong' the latter was of infinitely greater importance than chariot,: invaders on t titlT If nutto HOUSE to these prod Ir. T. D )F LO 3 *(iirtrWit? - - --- mations on Tbursda r the present a the o ire forwarded a stage, ,ecting the remos rder of the procession 1 ction t notice, on the part .of.stt e Duke of Wel- spositron or toe e would, this da ration of the of Africa nd their (MON! EATON Duncombe .. treatment confined in the Knntsford House of i his statements after which 1. URAFI AM said, that the ,ole mai 17e ported to the house ,ald be in- mse of brutal treatmen* longing to the ,tll Phan ap ation would lions had for ax Union, rected to the. n directed and Lord J. GILAHAM e made with a e —proved to house to at in th as the free from political bias, and he (the I himself formerly declared that n ot to hold a seat in the Igton. ..v......., - - also of commander-,in -chief " ' _ _.. . ..atu o suppose tha ington) ?a, mated that it was an unusual circumst i-chief to hold at the same time a seat in be (Sir ft ate Lord Hill resigne v to appoint the Duke of Well :be come aion that were unanimous' ,e comma) entlmen extent xpenses of the military as well as the expe ciiil esta dent ' till the nal to the !won't' ,g of any supplies.sl3on whole expen be first fare efore it onded the motion upporte ostponec e house Ireland when they y troop of police there as fatty e Id excellently disciplined. ins land also rendered such a large military ' force se police •onld de- .7 • of the EXCHEQUER sa-u . - should come under , dis until the es f proper reductions bad taken Mr. HUME contenaeu ace, the income tax would have been unnecessary, di s tress to over- General - _ POLHILL said the causes were over-population and ry, which was the curse of the country. house divided, and Mr. Crawford's motion was nega eu oy a majority of 62 to 15. The house then resolved itself into sw ard ittee of supply. Sir HENRY HARDINGE brought f the army esti mates for the present year, in which there had been a reduc 'on as compared with last year of 5,740 men, the number he riin^sed for the current year being 100,846. The total saving iney would be £139,000. The right hon. gentleman noving for the number of men above stated. was opposed to such a large number, and eon ps were employed in our OHNSON at taxatior Capta 3 Man) , L would reduce these troops one o away with the duty on wool and o n cotton. Th. ,entleman concluded by moving that the number should d',846 men, being 10,000 less than the number proposed the Government. Lord Awning. LENNOX said that manly games and exer ses should be encouraged in the army, and that the re- Lord pensions of 6d a day to soldiers should be increased if hey wished to have a better class of l arg e the army. Captain LAYARD supported the vote, which he thought necessary for the service of the country. Mr. WILLIAMS was sorry that Mr. Huwe had not moved for a much larger reduction of men than 10,000. Sir H. HARDING'S defended the original motion, and chal lenged Mr. Hume to name a single colony in which a reduc tion of the military force could take place with the exception of Canada, and in Canada it was proposed to reduce the force 'he withdrawal of 5,00 0 . 1. P E EL, Sir A. L. HAY, and Sir H. DO UGLAS su p . •-mnal raotion• Colone Mr. Humz,the committee a. few Observations from ~•-- when the original motion was carried by a majority ported the orig 106 to 20 The next vote was £3,619,327 for the expenses of the arm y ensu i n g year, which waes reed to. votes were reed to. to the vote for the volunteer Several oilier v‘,.— majority of 98 Mr. WILLIAMS objectefl rr,.. hat. on a division, it wa s carried by a otes were then agreed to, and the house ;d. then m oved th e second reading of the J. GIC ration o V o t er s Bill, reser ving the discussion to a fa- ;f the day were then disposed of, and the The other orders SE OF LORDS. —TUESDAY. .1n from Lord CorresHAsr, og said that a measure was under •Ivernmezt in the nature of the " Cessio Bonorum." LID COA-1! Aidera f the government intended to aill known in Scotland as Lord CAMPBELL bring in soy •- Lord WEIARNCLIFP AO 3 the question of non-intrusion r a * said he was not awar e of any inter e k 'k le governmen t the letter sent Ja me 4 Graham to the moder ator of t he General As s, of the Church of Scotland. Td BacsuGHAst asked if the government had received cormation or any report touch search of slave 'n the coast of Africa ? -9(1 his ci In the pa ..viction that explana ,ssary to remove the jealousy with the which, a nxiety of Fra nce to put an end to slave still regarded in that country. :. gu ed during the last 20 Lord ABERDEEN tion on was nP to of tt our exertions L. irown lear ar at the re al officers their Own f had been great C him motiv he care of the rising which were sent in profligacy, yet he thou g h t it wou ld b q bad policy to commence the foundation of a system of educe tion by diverting even such charities from the way in whicl they were intended to be applied by the donor. After some observations from Mr. HAWES, Mr. ACLAND and Mr. S. cel3rtiEN, Lord ASULEY shortly expressed his fl ness with which the house istole I smh :ritlt ld give every support t objecti In was then a HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESD he Govern g business Mr. ROEBUCK moved for a select committee to inquire into the circumstances whieh led to the late hostilities in Affghan• istan, and to report the evidence, and their observations thereon, to the house. He accused the late Governme,:t, without the sanction either of Parliament or the East India Company, with having co mmence d an un j ust and i mpolitic w ae,ancl with having garbled and falsified the evidence re lating to that war. He compared Lord Palmerston, while in o fflee, to a lucifer match, which no sooner met with an ob struction than it burst into a fl ame. T he no b le lord dis played a mischievous spirit in meddling in the affairs of other countries with which he ought to have had no concern, and kept the country constantly on the eve of war with one country or anotner. 111 short, his whole fo r ei g n policy was ca l cu l a ted to do anything rather than raise this country in the estimation of other nations. The hen. and learned gentle of the internal history of Aff4hanis period immediately preceding the former country. We had, lie said, th Persia, by which we were bound tan and Persia, up to t rst occoupation of t ntered into , a treat not to interfere unasked in any g h an istan. After this Captain Burnes, inder Burnes, was despatched up the Indus, for the pur l .. f opening a commercial treaty with the inland states. I in IB3G, with a present of horses to one of t r between Persia and A apparently, but, in reality, he was made u Wl;ile Sir A. Burnes was at Cabool, it happ ene d tit P v e '- rsia determined to enforce its claim to Herat, which it a cordingly proceeded to attack. A sort of madness seemed seize not only Sit A. Burnes, but the authorities in I,,di and also the bottom of every thing that took ' , hist RI , 341, they attacked iend Dust Mai origin of that war - and, in order to gua ith being marauders, and in t I them as unprinciple y should never have entere v an a hostile army. Within a month after Lord Aucklan [rad written a friendly letter to Dust Mahomed, he sent a armyto deprive him of his crown, and to set up hi s r i vi Shall Soojah in his room. The step taken by Persia in be sieging Herat was alleged as the reason for invading Affghan i stan ; but the seige had been raised before ever the troor left India. The pretext for every movement was fear c Russ ia, but those movements ought .o be attributed to th mischievous industry of Lord Palmerston, which was eter na lly leading him into difficulties. Thus it teas, that in th correspondence with Russia, all the right was with the Go vernment of that country, arid all the folly with our own. Si Alexander Burnes was against the policy of that war, but hi correspondence had been ,arbled to such an extent that h had himself denounced the fraud. The hon. and learne, irld he devour gentleman concluded by s sufficiently strong to justi g that he had made out a ca le appointment of a committe of inquiry. Mr. H lIIfE seconded the motion. Lord J. RUSSELL said that Mr. Roebuck sho furward Hohhouse, who had defended the subject was brought before the llot was a viol-*' ice of Sir J. ( ❑ of parliamentary u is of which the hor Nuck:a His doing s I learned g mark in the words of t s imputed t ger trop t danger than Mr taken pt of the Indus would o _ in the protected states, but even in Ifriti.h lndia Ern'. t he year 1827-8, a Russian force had peretrated as far a, Khiva, showing the feasibility of its therefuther progress, and if suc h progress should take place, nsequences might have been most disastrous in a country like India, strewed it; was with ruined thrones and broken sceptres. In such n a signal to weakness would engender intideli 'runt _were, en lost by the c ight hAvit pr rAfht,4o l 4 Iv caVt ‘ oriaspvals,ll7.p re result of that policy proved that he ignorant caiumwes and unfounded vituperations had been a-sailed. He concluded by opposing Mr. D'lsnAELI said that the noble lord's defence wa, that because certain fears were entertained by parties whom he did not name of the probable occurrence of events which he did not specify, that we were, therefore, called upon to send an army into Affghanistan. The responsibility of mi nisters was but a dream if a war which cost twenty millions of money and twenty thousand lives, in addition to national disgrace, was not to be inquired into. Mr. Escorr hoped that the present advisers of iher Ma jesty would not be found supporting such foul delinquency as that which had led to this war. The hon. gentleman con tended at great length that the war was unjustifiable ab initio, and that inquiry was absolutely requisite. Sir R. PEEL said that two questions had arisen in the course of the debate—one whether the first expedition into Affghanistan was justifiable—the other whether it was ad visable to institute an inquiry. With respect to the first question he had himself when that expedition was first com municated to the house, expressed strong doubts of the policy of that expedition, and his noble friend the Duke of Welling ton had still more strongly predicted the evil consequences likely to flow from it. He doubted the policy of taking up Shah Soojah, which was much the same as it they attempted to replace Charles X. on the throne of France. All these doubts subsequent events had confirmed, but still, as an ad viser of the crown, he did not think it expedient that a select committee should be appointed to inquire into circumstances like these, which bad occurred eight years ago. There never had been an opposition in which some faults had not been bound with the foreign policy of their opponents, and yet he would ask any hon. member to point out an instance in which, when a revolution took place in the government, the party succeeding to power had ever used the influence of that power to press charges against their predecessors. These were considerations which should give way to the interests of the-public, if those interests required such an inquiry, which in his opinion they did not. The right hon. gentle man had created immense laughter at the expense of Mr. Hume, by quoting his speech on a former evening, in which he spoke most highly of the wisdom and policy of Lord Auck land, although he now seconded the motion of Mr. Roebu He objected also to granting this committee, becaus had a manifest tendency, if acceded to, of ►rans he executive power from the crown to the House of With respect to the garbling of the papers, he Commons must say that the papers given (though some of them were very properly' withheld) were yet such as to give the House if Commons a fair and just view of all the reasons which )verned those who had entered upon that war. The right baronet then vindicated the conduct of Russia towards I that the present good understanding t be hazarded by an inquiry his country, and etween the two countries m ninging up the suspicions entertained agains ago, and re-exciting feelings u He should advise the hous of amicable relations between tl .sts of the country Russia foul rather to ctiltiva - te the o countries, which rcial intercour cannot fail to be detrimental Lord PALMERSTON said that mischievous industry had been attributed to him by Mr. Roebuck, but that hon. and learned gentlemen had most peculiar notions of mischief, and as he had admitted the industry, he was careless of the imputation of what the hon. gentleman conceived to be mis .. The hon. and learned gentleman had used very but it was usually the case that the hardness rd languagi )f language bore an exact proportion to the softness of tht irgurnent, and this must have been applicable to the hon gentleman, or he would have been able to have thrown m •trength into his N perations. The charge was false that e papers were garbled, and equally erroneous was the sup position that Sir Alexander Burnes was not in favour of ac tive measures, because that gallant officer had actually com plained in his letters that Lord Auckland had hesitated be fore he despatched the first expedition. The noble lord then entered into a defence of the course pursued by the late Go vernment. As soon as they received the information as to the proceedings of Russian agents in Asia, application was made to the couet of St. Petersburg, and that court not only disclaimed the proceedings of those agents, but recalled them, and had subsequently shown the utmost good faith, and was in fact a faithtul ally. Dangers, however, surrounded our Indian empire from the unsettled state of Affghanistan, and to avert those dangers it became absolutely necessary to adopt the course pursued by Lord Auckland. During the ten years the late Government had been in power they had sun ceeded in preserving the peace of Europe, and had been uni formly successful in all their objects ; and, perhaps, had they ,upported despotism abroad instead of opposing it, they would never have been attacked as they had been. Sir R. INGLIS supported the necessity for inquiry. Lord JOHN MANNERS was of opinion that the house ought o feel indebted to Mr. Roebuck for giving it an opportu ity of expressing its feeling of the injustice of the Affghan Mr. ROEBUCK, in reply, said that lie had been scolded but lot answered by Lord J. Russell, and re-asserted the falsifi ation of the correspondence, quoting one case of omission in upport of his assertion. He could, be said, quote other missions equally important, but one was sufficient for his ase. He was willing, if,Lord Palmerston would allow him, o withdraw his motion;.and substitute one of condemnation f the late Government in its room. The house was then, cleared for a division, and the motion f Mr. Roebuck was defeated by a majority of 189 to 75. 11102011111111 P ROYAL LIVER THEATRE FAREWELL BENEFIT OF MRS FITZWILLIAM, And positively her Last Appearance in Liverpool. Also, the Final Appearance in Liverpool of Mr. B UCK STON E. 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FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1843 The country owed a debt of gratitude to Lord Ashley for past efforts to ameliorate the social condi tion of its labouring population ; but infinitely was ~d by his noble effort of Tuesday last, in behalf of the adoption of a system of religious education of the children of the poor, as the most efficacious remedy for that moral pestilence by which , and happiness of the nation is being ,pidly overwhelmed. Let any unprejudiced reader— Lily lover of his fellow human beings —peruse atten. Lively the details of debasing crime and astounding ignorance with which his lordship prefaced his motion, —details established by incontrovertible evidence, and which exhibit a state of society, existing in the heart of enlightened England, in the immediate vicinity of that debt it} Um security of wealth, and of the boasted sources of her national strength, such as most assu- her greatest mass )e parallelled throughout the civilised world; and such perusal, we are confident, must im press deeply upon his mind the conviction that upon no country can the blessing of God fall, in which such a state of society is permitted to exist—that no country deserves to be happy and prosperous which is not ready to put forth the vast energies, which this country possesses, to repair the consequences of its past neglect. Glance only at the immediate neighbourhood of Manchester—the centre of exclusive enlightenment in political matters—the hot-bed of liberalism, and the seat of the utilitarian philosophy. Go no further than five or six miles from that cotton metropolis —to the town of Ashton-under-Lyne, with fifty or sixty thou sand souls, Stalybridge, with thirty to forty thousand; and not more than one in forty-six of the children of that population receiving the benefits of a religious education ! Or look at Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other towns and villages pointed to in the dark catalogue which Lord Ashley has placed before our eyes ; and say if we have not, as a professing Christian people, ample cause to blush for the enor- which is fast debasing their rising generation to the level of the beasts of the field! For years we have been c: which we are surrounded ; and have we not cause to blush for the return which we havb made— to blush for the fact that the human producers of that very wealth have been less cared for than the tools with which we work, and the machinery in our mills and loom-shops, from which we as sedulously labour to drive away even a speck of rust, as we do to keep disease from our own bodies ? Surely we ought, unless indeed the love of Mammon—the love :of money-getting and hoarding— has displaced every nobler feeling of our nature! The giant - evil—(thanks to Lord Adlley and to Sir Robert Pa:,l`; onvonv of Lilo da —to ti Di its grants In ca nse of erecting ichliad happily passed I ex ten yearly instalments not to th brawling "Me.. a men who have aunted so loudly their zeal for the enlightenment of the people !)—is at length, at the eleventh hour, about to be grappled with, and in a worthy spirit; The heart- stirring appeal of his lordship has been replied to by Sir James Graham, who, on the part of the govern ment, has laid before the house and the country the outlines of the plan which he purposes during the pre sent session endeavouring to carry out. The plan in question—or rather plans, for the measure will em brace two—we shall here briefly detail. The first of these has reference to the education of pauper children, embracing orphans and the children of working people, not being paupers, who are unable otherwise to provide them education. For these it is proposed to erect schools, .to contain the children within a district of fifteen miles, having attached to such schools a chaplain, appointed with the sanction of the bishop, and a chapel. The system of education will be one based upon the reading of the Scriptures in the authorised version, with instruction in the cate chism, and portions of the liturgy of the Church of England. The children of Protestant dissenters may, however, be withdrawn during the hours in which the doctrines of the Church are taught, their religious teaching being attended to by their own ministers. The schools will be visited by inEpectors appointed by the Council of Education, who will have instruc tions to see t h a t the term s un d er w hi ch dissenting childre n are perm i tte d to em b race t h e b enefit of the schools are str i ct l y a dher e d to. T he erection of the necessary buildings will he pr ov id e d f or b y a rate not to exceed one-fifth of the average amount of the poor rate for the three preceding years. The second plan has reference to the education to be provid e d f or t h e c hildre n o f t h e working classes in the m anu f actur i ng d is t r i cts. The custom of the i 'mncil of Education has been, hitherto, to extend the , .. . only when two•thirds of the twols have been contributed trom private funds. Sir James Graham propocz the future, that one-third only shall be required ; and, on a memorial being presented to the council, the remaining two-thirds will be furnished —one-third in exchequer bills to be refunded out of the poor -rate in For the support of the schools a sum not exceeding 3d. may be charged for each child. It is proposed, in order to do away with the inefficient working of that part of the existing " Fac tories Regulation Act" which requires a certificate of attendance for two hours per day at some school, as the condition of a child's eligibility to be employed on a mill, to make attendance for three hours a day at these schools, or some of similar character approved by a government inspector, imperative; and to permit such children (under 13 years of age) to work 61 hours in stead of 8, the forenoon or the afternoon of the day be ing left available for educational purposes. The ma nagement of these schools, and the appointment of the master, will be placed in the hands of trustees, who are to consist of the clergyman of the parish in which the school is situated, the two churchwardens, and four other persons nominated by the magistrates. The system of education to be pursued we can con vey most faithfully to the reader by quoting a portion of the clauses by which it is proposed by Sir James Graham to be regulated. They are as follows : " And be it enacted that every master of a school to be provided for the education of children as aforegaid, shall be required to teach the Holy Scriptures, in the version appointed by law to be used in churches, to such scholars as shall be old enough to learn the same, and shall teach from no other book of religion whatsoever (except as hereinafter provided); but nothing herein contained shall prevent the use of any part of the liturgy of the Church of England in the said school by the clerical trustee, or by any person whom he may appoint on Sunday or on Christmas-day, Good Friday, or any of the usual fasts and festivals of the Church which may be school holidays, provided that no scho lar shall be required to attend at such divine service, whose parent, guardian, or other person having the legal custody of him, shall object to such attendance." " And be it enacted, that the Catechism of the Church of England," &c., shall be taught the children during certain.hours in the week days, and for three hours on Sundays, together--with other religious in struction, " such religious instruction being deter mined, and the selection of books for the purpose being made, by the clerical trustee alone," &c. Then as to the religious teaching of the children of dissenters, the clause enacts that such children shall not be compelled to be present during these hours of religious instruction, and proceeds to declare that " it shall not be lawful for the trustees or master of the said school, or any other person, to give, or permit to be given, in the said school, any religious instruction to such scholar, except the reading of the Holy Scrip tures, as hereinbefore appointed, provided that such child shall at such periods be instructed in some other branch of knowledge taught in the school." In substance we have here, in the fullest sense of the word, a system of Scriptural EdUcation, and of teaching in the principles of the Church of England, provided for at the national expense, and. conducted under the guidance of the - Clergy of the Establish ment; and it is truly gratifying to observe, that, not withstanding the sectarian rancour with which a sys tem precisely similar, if indeed so strictly in unison with the feelings of Churchmen, is attacked by a party in our own town, the intimation by Government of their purpose to introduce a measure upon the subject founded upon these principles during the present ses sion, was received with almost unanimous approval by the House of Conmons. In addition, however, to a measure for the promo tion of education, we learn that the Government has a measure in preparation, founded upon the able report of Mr. Edwin Chadwick, to which we have more than once called attention, for improving the sanatory con dition of the dwellings of the poor. Sure this at length is legislation in the right direction ! Our contemporary, the Manchester Guardian, of Wednesday, attempts a reply, after his own tricky fashion, to the remarks which we addressed to him on Friday last. There is really, however, somewhat too much of the " tuquoque" style of argumentation in the Guardian's article to render it worthy of serious notice. There is, withal, a spice of insolent assump tion of superior honesty and virtue. which ; in a journal so notoriously shifty and venal as our contemporary, is rather indiscreet. We shall not pause, however, to remind the world of the twenty times turned coat, and more than Chameleon's variety of political hue, which this virtuous personage has exhibited during the twenty years' labour to which he points with such apparent self-satisfaction ; but proceed to notice the little that we can discover worthy of remark in his Wednesday's philippic. In the first place, we cannot but observe the singular care with which the Guardian 'omits noticing, in con nexion with the language of which we complain in Mr. Cobden, the speech previously uttered by the Rev. Mr. Bailey, and the attack upon the life of Sir Robert Peel, by which it Was followed. In our article of Friday, we expressly admitted that, per se, there was nothing in the assertion of the Premier's respon sibility —individual or personal —but consummate boobyism. Every body knew that a minister is re sponsible for his measures,—responsible to parliament and the laws of his country. But the reverend dis senter had pointed to another kind of responsibility ; and in such language, that excited fanatics greedily inferred a responsibility to their mur d erous vengeance; and the complaint of Si r R obert P ee l was , t h at, see i ng the existence of su c h a f eeling towar d s hi mse lf per sonally,Cobden and the Mr. League should still persevere in the us e o f l anguage calculated to direct the passions of bad men towards him as their object. The Guardian may say to this that Mr. Cobden was not answerable for the conduct of his fellow-leaguer, Bailey,—that no sympathy existed in his breast towards that gentleman. We must remind our contemporary, however, of the very significant fact, that not four hours before his utterance of the objectionable language ad dressed to Sir Robert Peel, Air. Cobden had gone out of his way to throw his shield over Bailey—he had identified himself and the League with that gentleman, by threatening the displeasure of the body against an independent member for presuming to remark upon and denounce his incendia ry ravings. The analogy which we drew between the case of a party denouncing a miniiiter "individually," whilst the passions of a portion of the people were proved to be l bjic, and ..... .n 3, while , the ed the returns of the nurnurr of s gaols in Ireland for illicit distills ' ---,r the duty on moved for 1 . For- ase of II ncreased from 2: - - . Too -- , - 000 to. se of consumption of ne. at out of 70 priqoners for moment, ar d s ,a:ro:v said that the decrease of consumption Attributed altogether to the increase of duty, because the temperance movement and other causes were at work, which give a downward tendency to the cons umption of spirits in Ireland. A f ter some further conversation the motion was agree d to. Some bills on tbe table were forwarded a stage, and their lordships adjourned. Lord Asip HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY istion from Dr. BOWAING, said that a formal sanction had never been given by the Porte to the buildin g of a Protestant church in Jerusalem, nor to the residence of Bishop Alexander in his sacerdotal character. The government, however, had re ceived no confirmation of the rumour that the Porte had put a stop to the building of that church. In reply to a question from Lord KtNNEils, Sir R. PEEL said that government was of opinion that an unqual ifi e d permissison from the French government to Don Carlos to reside where lie pleased might be dangerous to the tranqu illity of Spain. The SOLICITOR-GLNERAL stated to the house that an -n had been brought by Mr. Howard against the Ser. -t -Arms and Mr. Bellamy for trespass and false im -t, alleged to be committed by them when acting the house. The house might adopt one U—to order its officers to allow judgment to go against them by def ault, d or to irect them tothe plead would the abe against them In the former case re ) n, and a jury might, therefore, while in the latter the whole matter would be brought to an issue before t quotedhe judg es eral pre of the The hon. and learned gentleman sev i. in which the latter course had been adopted, and the o ffi cers s hould be directed to vity of the house to the action - would be an i v to a q prison ders of o courses— thority of the no opportunity for explana - --v heavy damages assess ye , . tided by moving I plead the au appear ILDE C Ter of the privileges of the • aosoiu House nd unconditional great d an ger in submittisubmitti ng Commons. Ther e was g es to the chance of a decision in their favour, a eferred tdegtS certain If any w rge of their du ,ir R. PEEL felt mons for time t it would gi .e nine o'clock that red that even issu b• vould be too late, morons might be A ndon a j necessary to ad were to I as a waivtn WILDE and 1 comprornise, in so important a as ,ges. R-GENEIZAL said that lot be .-ed by such a course, and them time to consider as to what should be done I the nay I law, an d t 21Ien into serious errors .Accessity of furnishing 1 instructions upon as many anticipated, and a new and ting treaties and t England .11(1 as suit of some unexpec lie or Lo xtent of case of a stranger and who sues compelle 3f - Com- ges which i ze t." he had warned the any hasty step t it be themselves ; VCII uy essential to the dis- louse, that if yen it must be nculcati both in c exertion of tb serted by the 1 Leeds, and oche referre t displayed', our empire in bid ,grit of enterprise through ,tved. He contended that the .anger and obviated its approach more to be appreciated than even the energy by which t of that s been first ic,ilance which foresaw d relig , ble ad- Majesty as parts of A upon tt s the only great g all that ha rifle fin satizsainitlin nd nrscAbor pat IN des. flouncing machinery as the cause of their distresz, to U mob which has just been engaged in the destruction of a factory, the Guardian endeavours, adroitly enough, to elude, taking refuge in a string of lying charges, addressed to ourselves as having been in the habit of indulging in incendiary language upon the subject of machinery. In reply to this contemptible charge, all that we shall say is, that our file, to which he desires us to refer, is perfectly at his own service, whenever he chooses to rake together our past opinions; and we concede it to him the more readily, inasmuch as we suspect that a similar review of his own past opinions is a kind of pleasure in which he does not often indulge ! ' By the bye, when referring us to his twenty years of journalism, during which his manners and language have been so unimpeachable —we cannot say so much of his honesty and his discretion—why not go a year or two further back--a little nearer to the days of 1819 and the stirring scenes of Peterloo ? But, enough of this cunning " waiter upon provi dence" and honest oracle of the Anti-corn-law League. We envy not that sapient body their bargain, though it be but a single fourpenny, twice a-week ; for we can conceive nothing so damaging to their cause and the character of the tools with which they work as the fact that a journal so notoriously opposed to their agitation as the Manchester Guardian, is their obsequi ous and most thorough-going organ. There is something rotten here ! It will be seen from our parliamentary report, that the motion of Mr. R:oebuck, for an investigation in,o the origin of the Affghan war, has been negatived by a large majority. The speech of the hon. member was energetic and clever, but he placed the arguments on an easily avoidable basis. He did not denounce the illegality or criminality of the war, but contented himself with showing its impolicy and unjustifiable 7 ness. LOCAL NEIV The packet- hip Sheridan, Captain Cornish, which sailed from New York uu (tie 25th of January, arrived at this port on Tuesday, the easterly gales having prolonged her passage. The Earl and Countess of Sefton and their youthful family are expected to leave Croxreth Hall, for town, at the end of the month. His lordship's splendid new mansion, in Bel crave- square, is now complete in its embellishments. NEW COUNTY MAGISTRATE.—At the Salford hundred intermediate sessions, on Monday, Hugh Hornby Birley, Esq., of Broome Howe, Manchester, took the oaths and qua lified as a magistrate for this county. PROGRESS OF INVENTION.—IR 'the last monthly list of patents, we observe that two ingenious gentlemen (asphalte nianfuacture) have taken out a patent for certain improve ments in co f fins. We cannot see that humaii ingenuity can possibly go any further. ROYAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS.-Mr. BRAHAM'S CONCERT. —The veteran tenor—" le tenor superbe," as the French papers call him, gives his concert to-night at the above rooms. We believe the demand for tickets has been rather "animated," to use a mercantile phrase. A full attendance may be expected. SIR CHARLES METCALF.—His Excellency Sir Charles Metcalf received visits from several deputations on Wednes day. at his hotel, in London, and afterwards had the honour of dining with her Majesty at Buckingham -palace. His ex cellency would leave Mivart's yesterday, en mite for this port, and will embark to-morrow morning on board the Co lumbia for Canada. • EFT.—Samuel Farmer was charged before Mr. Rushton on Wednesday, with h. ving stolen part of a flitch of bacon from the shop of Philip Ryley, Cheapside. Mrs. Ryley stated that on the previous night she was about to serve the prisoner in the shop, when she saw him take down a piece, of bacon and run off with it. She ran after him. He dropped the bacon, and she continued the pursuit and caught him, and gave him into the custody of a police-officer. The bacon weighed 17 lbs. He was committed for trial. CoStstxTstExT.—On Wednesday, a man named John Given was charged at the Police -court, with having stolen a quantity of copper nails. Police-officer Andrew Dixon saw the prisoner about six o'clock that morning coming through the east gate of the Victoria-dock, and suspecting him, took him to the hut, where lie found a quantity of copper-nails in 'his hat, and some more in his coat pocket—in all about 181 b. weight. It appeared from further evidence that the property had been taken from a hag on the quay, and was the pro perty of Mr. Augustus Halm. The prisoner said a man had given him the nails. He was committed for trial at the sessions. IRISH AID SOCIETY.—A few mouths since, a meeting of gentlemen, deeply convinced of the duty of endeavouring to advance the spiritual welfare of Ireland, was held in this town, to consider the propriety of forming a Liverpool society, in aid, unitedly, of three societies connected with. Ireland. An association was at once formed, the object of which is the promotion of the religious improvement of Ire land by aiding with funds the Irish Society, the Scripture Readers' Society for Ireland, and the Irish Island Society with the Achill Mission. The first public meeting of this interesting and important society will, we perceive, he held on Monday evening next, at the Music-hall. when the Rev. T. Moriarty, the Irish So c i e ty' s m i ss i onary at Dingle, will attend, as a deputation from Ireland. We cordially recom mend this infant association to the most cordial support of our Protestant r ea d ers . - 13num COAT ElosrtTAL—The annual report of this most excellent charity, from the Ist of January to the 31st of Le. cernber, 1842, has just made its appearance. The trustees regret to notice a decrease in the amount of Subscriptions for the past year from those of the two preceding of about £lOO, and from 1839 of upwards of £200; but, when the late de pressed state of the town is considered, they feel grateful for the kind and liberal support which the charity has received, trusting that, on the revival of commerce, the number of its subscribers may be increased; for it is on this score that the institution has mainly to depend, having to rely upon the bounty of the public for about £3OOO annually. The sum received from legacies and benefactions has been consider able, and the trustees have been enabled to replace in• part the fund some years ago expended in enlarging the building. The trustees also call the attention of the clergy to the di minution in the church collections, which now only amount to one-third of the sums received in former years. The number of children at present in the institution is 350, viz., 250 boys, and 100 girls ; of which number 134 are orphans, 207 fatherless, four motherless, and five who have parents, but in indigent circumstances. LARGE TIMBER SALE.—The firm of Messrs. Chaloner, Houghton, and Fleming commenced their first extensive sale of various kinds of timber and woods for the year 1843 on Wednesday last. It was continued on Thursday, and termi nated on the evening of Friday, thus occupying the business part of three days. There was a very extensive aasortment of all descriptions of wood and timber, and the attendance of buyers from various towns throughout the county, as well as from the continent, was fully as numerous, if not more so, than on any previous similar occasion. Great quantities were sold, and prices, on the whole, ranged pretty high. On Thursday, numerous lots of beautiful rosewood were disposed of. These, in the aggregate, formed, perhaps, the largest collection of that kind of wood ever offered for sale hi this port. It had previously been rather scarce, and bidders on this day were rather free.. Several fine lots of zebrawriod were also disposed of. Great quantities of bays and Honduras also met ready . purchasers. Parti es atten di ng the sale ex perienced the hospitality of this spirited firm, refreshments being provided• in their several sheds during the three days' sale. MEETIN G OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE.—At the weekly meeting of the Dock Committee, yesterday, there were pre sent the following members :—Messrs. Sands, (chairman,) Horsfall, Holt, Smith, Chilton, Holmes, Nicol, Bulley, Middleton, Aikin, Bramley -Moore Evans, Royden, B o ld , Martin, Sh an d, B arclay, and Mol ' yneux. On the recom. mendation of the Harbour Masters' Sub-committee, the charge made upon Messrs. Wood and Ritson for the use of a crane on the east side of Queen's Dock was ordered to be re funded.—The Sub-committee of Works produced a letter from the Head Constable, submitting a plan for converting the tool-house at the south end of Princes's Dock into a place for the reception of persons apparently drowned : the requisite alterations were estimated to cost between £2O and £3O. Ordered.--The joint opinions of Sir Win. Follett and Mr. Martin, on four questions put to them whether, under the existing laws, the props of foreign vessels, being loaded, can be legally charged dock dues, was taken into considera tion; and, eventually, a sub-committee was appointed upon the subject, consisting of the Chairman, Mr. Aikin, Mr. Royden, Mr. Nicol, and Mr. Bold. The solicitor, who was in attendance. stated, in reply to a question, that the bill now before Parliament on the same question would go into the Committee of Standing Orders on Tuesday next.—The re ceipt of dues at Runcorn, for the month ending the 24th ult., were reported to be £2B Bs. Bd. : for the corresponding pe riod last year they were £4l 15s. sd.—Some financial busi ness was then transacted, and the committee separated. LIVERPOOL DISTRICT COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. —IM PORTANT TO CREDITORS. —On Friday last, Mr. Commis sioner Skirrow expressed his determination to refuse all applications from creditors in person, requiring the transfer of fiats into the new Bankiuptcy Court, except in cases of such peculiarity as to induce him to dispense with the repre sentation by attorney. Creditors, therefore, who are inter ested in the Prosecution of fiats, and removing them into the custody of the court, must apply through a solicitor, who will give evidence to the court of the proceedings withheld, and the necessary documents will be furnished for their immediate procuction. It will also be interesting to attorneys to know, that, as by act of parliament, all fiats within ten years anterior to the operation of the 'act are to be forthwith produced and registered, so it was ruled that any attorney not' bringing in proceedings in his possession, and paying the prescribed fee of Is. for the registration, was guilty of a con tempt. Several representations were made by professional gentlemen in the town, against the harshness of the regula tion in cases where the proceedings were closed, and in which to all practical purposes, their interests had expired. On the same day, a consultation took place between the commis. sioner and registrars, and they eventually decided that all cases where the proceeds are distributed shall be exempt from the registration fee, but in others the regulation shall be strictly enforced. This decision will, it is hoped, clear away the prejudices which have been excited by the order, and induce an early transfer of fiats, in compliance with the act and the " rules and regulations." STAG HUNT.—On Monday a grand stag hunt took place with Sir John Gerard's hounds, the point of starting being Roby Hall, the residence of Richard Edwards, Esq. Great interest was excited on account of the point of starting being so near to LiYerpool, and also on account of the situation. which was considered very good for a fine run. The assem blage of horsemen and pedestrians was very numerous, about 200 persons being present to witness the interesting sight. We noticed many fashionable ladies, and amongst the gentle men Sir John Gerard, Captain Robert Gerard, J. Ireland Blackburn, Dry., H. Leigh, Esq., Hawke, Esq., Warner Shand, Esq., Jas. Rigby, Esq., G. Thompson, Rt. Neilson, Charles Ashton, Adam Ashton, J. Senior, G. Hargreaves, Rawson, Crooke, Earle, jun., Yates, 11. Jones, Irwin, Corrie, H. Sandbach, H. Molyneux, Esqrs., &c. Altogether, a field of about 100. The day was, on the whole, exceedingly favourable. About half-past eleven a very fine stag was let loose, and, after taking a very short reconnoitre of the ground, it started off in the direction of Woolton. The deer was uticarted at half-past eleven. After winding for a few minutes, he trotted slowly down the park in the direc man tion of and Ro labdy, y village. Bein g h ea d e d at the gate by a gentle he charged the park fence, and crossed Carr lane towards Childwall. After the usual time had elapsed, ( s ay fifteen minutes,) the hounds were laid on, and went away in good style, leaving Child wall and Wavertree to the left, through Edge-hill, Low-hill, Everton, Kirkdale,Walton, crossed Walton-hall park, and, finally, the deer taking the water in Norris Green Park, was drowned before the hounds could be called of. Time, 2 hours 10 minutes. aoLtxa.—Or ;ed Hibernian w and three Sheridan. Plice.calart Majesty's custom ed 2 lba, of tobacco pints of brandy, on board the American ship The officer said he found the articles on the prisoner's person : he was carrying them ashore. Mr. Rush ton ordered the prisoner in each case to pay 20s. and costs, or to be imprisoned seven days. THE FUNDS— WEDNESDAY EVENING.—LittIe fluctuation has occurred in the value of the public securities to-day, which have maintained considerable firmness at quotations a shade better. Exchequer-bills and India Bonds are gradu ally improving, and the latter hold by Is. the best position in the market. Consols for money left off, 95i to l• ' ditto, account, 95* to 1; Bank St oc k, 177 t o ' 178 India Stock, 2671 to 268/; Three per Cents. Reduced, 961; Three-and a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 108*; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 10241 Long Annuities, 1210 India Bonds, 68s. to 70s. premium ; and Exchequer-bills, 675. to 695. premium. In the foreign stocks Spanish Actives were quoted 20* to *; ditto, New, 27* to ; Mexican, 30* to 311; Mexican Defer red, 81 to 9; Detch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 55/ to I ; Dutch Five per Cents., 1021 to a; Danish, 89 to 537 ; Colom bian, 24 to *: Brazilian, 77 to 78; and Portuguese Con verted, 39i. to a. TYPE-COMPOSING MacHisn.—Our readers, no doubt, have, from time to time, seen, in this and other papers, ac counts of a machine for composing type, which is intended in some de gree t o superse d e t h e present calling of newspaper and book compositors. This machine is a patented invention by Messrs. Young and Delcambre, of London. We have never ourselves seen it in actual operation, but we had the other day an opportunity of inspecting the section of a working model, which, in our mind, was perfectly satis factory as to the capabilities of the machine itself. Like many practical men, we were in the first instance decidedly sceptical, having, as we thought, reasonable grounds for supposing its merits to be greatly exaggerated ; but the difficUlties we felt were speedily so far modified as to leave no room for doubt upon the ultimate success of type-com posing by machinery. We do not, however, fora moment, conceal our conviction that as far as concerns what is techni called " justification," the machine is defective ; that " dis tribution " is a more complicated operation than at present; that there is an equal liability to mis-spell, to leave " outs," and make 6 ` doubles;" that the correction of errors will be just as troublesome as at present; and that its ability to per form a given quantity of work is less than we anticipated. The patentees indeed are at no trouble to deny or lessen these defects; but, notwithstanding all these disadvantages, we cannot resist the conclusion that the machine, even with its present imperfections, can scarcely fail to succeed. Improve ments may, and will, no doubt, be made progressively, for one will suggest another, that will materially reduce the force of now existing objections ; and, therefore, we really believe, having a knowledge of all the most formidable obstacles to the change, that the time has now arrived; for the spring, the lever, and the wheel of the mechanic to be applied to the art of the compositor. Into the social, of as some will have it, the moral effects of applying machinery to a branch of industry hitherto supposed inaccessible to it, this is not the pl ace t o enqu i re. T he most prejudiced, hOvr ever, will be constrained to admit that if time and expense are thereby saved it must go on. That, indeed, is one of the laws of our condition. In the present state of society (" artificial," as it is sometimes called) the progress of ma chinery in general, and of particular improvements in that machinery, can no more be stopped than can the revolution's of the planets; and experience has always shewn that op position either to one or the other has not only been futile but has actually been the greatest stimulus to ingenuity. The type-compositors, therefore, like many other trades before, will have to give way as far as plain straight-forward composition goes; but they will have this advantage, which most other trades so situated have not had, that the more difficult branches of their profession—tabular work for in stance, and jobbing in general, —cannot be done by any machine either invented now or ever likely to be, conse quently there will always be occupation fur good hands. It will be the inferior members of the trade, the half-educated, as it were, who will be the most affected. The history : of machinery for the last forty years is instructive; and We should hope that compositors, who, as a body, are charac terized by intelligent foresight, will not be above learning useful knowledge from that source. The machine of Messrs. Young and Delcambre, judging from the model we have seen, is light and elegant, occupying but little space, and of no great weight. The mechanism is very simple, and the materials of its construction are by no means of an expensive character. We make these observations in this place in order to suggest to the patentees a certain point which, in our opinion, will stand greatly in the way of the common adoption of their invention. It is this—that there is ap parently very little relation indeed between the actual value of the machine and the money price which they put upon it. Would not a revision of their scale, with a view to reduc tion, be likely to be more beneficial, by extending the demand? We know other patents where such has been the issue. In, putting forth this suggestion, we wish it to be distinctly understood that we are advocates for every man who has made any useful discovery profiting by that dis covery, and for his rights being protected for a reasonable time in doing so; but at the same time there is a possibility of that man " standing in his own light." PoRTuoDESE AND JAMAICA TARIFFS.—We find in the Cork Constitution of Tuesday last, a report of a meeting held in that town for the pnrpose of hearing froni Mr. Fagan, the result of his mission to London, respectiog the Portuguese Tariff and the Jamaica Inland Duties. It appears that Ire land, particularly the South, up to a recent period, carried on a very extensive trade with Portugal, principally in butter, one of the staple products of that agricultural country. By the assimilation in 1835 by the Government of Portugal of the duties on all foreign produce imported into that country, including that of Great Britain and Ireland, this important trade has been lost to Ireland, owing to the successful com petition of Holland and Germany. This assimilation was, ih a great degree, caused or s uggeste d b y the assimilation, in 1831, by England, of the duties on French and Portuguese wines. As England, in the pending treaty with Portugal, proposes to reduce the duty on the wines of that country over 40 per cent., it is considered but an act of just reciprocity that Portugal, in return, should place its trade with Ireland on the former footing, or nearly so. This subject was pressed upon Lord Aberdeen by Mr. Pagan and Mr. Serjeant Mur phy, and at the close Lord Aberdeen said that in reference to the subject there would be no difficulty ; bnt he said, " Gentlemen, 1 think it right to state to you, that in conse quence of the difficulties in which the revenue is placed owing to the suspension of the treaty, we have taken measures, so that unless it be speedily brought to a close it will be broken off altogether." The duty on Irish beef and pork, as incladed in the contemplated Portugal treaty, was subsequently p resse d Upon Lord Ab er d een ' s attention but his lo r d s hi p d ec li ne d to give any exp l anation on the subject, as it would establish a bad precedent to give the details of pending negbciations. With reference to the Jamaica duties Mr. Fagan said he did not possess sufficient information to go before Lord Stanley, but he had forwarded a letter to his lordship, who stated that " he had given positive instructions that there should be no greater sum than five per cent. Island duty." Mr. Gould in proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Fagan and Mr. Murphy, read the following memorial from Messrs. Robinson and Girvin, of this town, to Lord Stanley : " My Lord—Having been long established and extensively engaged in the cure and exports of provisions to the West Indies, we have been greatly alarmed by the receipts of the inclosed new Tariff of Island duties, enacted by the Jamaica House of Assembly, to come into operation on the sth of April next, and unless "vetoed" by your Lordship, will en tirely destroy our business, and be of the most serious injury to the Provision Trade of Ireland, and also of great disadvan tage to British shipping, as they have hitherto derived con siderable benefit in carrying out supplies from the United Kingdotn, which must eventually cease unless some differen tial duties be established in lieu of them. We beg respect fully to instance the following articles in our line or business, and to contrast the new schedule of duties with the one now in operation , viz : Pork and Beef from the United Kingdom now pay 4s. per brl. of 20 o0lbs.•, from the British Possessions, ls.; if Foreign, 12s. per cwt. additional, or 255..5d. By the New Tariff it is proposed the duty from the United Kingdom and British Possessions shall be 20s. per barl., and from Foreign Coun tries 3s. per cwt. additional, leaving only a protection of ss. 4.id. per brl. in favour of Pork Beef from the United Kingdom. "Hams and Bacon," British, now pay ss. per cwt., and if Foreign 12s. per cwt. additional —it is now pro posed to raise the duty on British cure to Bs. per cwt.—and upon foreign to 3s. per cwt. additional, giving a protection of 3s. per cwt. only, instead of 12s. as hitherto existed. The Tariff regulating the importation of the above articles into the United Kingdom, admits foreign beef and pork, at Bs. per cwt, or about 14s. 3/d. per brl. of 2001b5., and the article of bacon and hams at 14s. per cwt. ; so that your lordship will perceive the inequality atone glance, and also the consequences we predicate. " We therefore earnestly entreat your lordship's early and favourable consideration to this subject, and remain, My Lord, your Lordship's humble and obedient servant, (Signed) " ROBINSON & GI RVIN . "- Liverpool, Feb. 22, 1843." . -- - POLIC E CASE EXTRAORDINARY.. —On Tuesday last, a plain-l oo ki ng man, named Wri g ht, w h o resides in Bannister court, Carpenter's-row, stated to be a joiner and carpenter, and who appeared to be in want of shaving, was brought be fore the sitting magistrate on a charge of stealing a quantity of too/8 from a brother chip who boarded at the opposite ho use. — Police -officer Toole stated that the prisoner had been put into his charge by the complainant, on a charge of steal ing from hi m a num b er of planes (smoothing and moulding), a rot of chisels, a gouge, a file, two hammers, a lot of screws, tacks and nails, a sprig-bit, two squares, a hand-saw and a tenant saw, an auger, a brace and bits, an axe, an adze, and a (variety of other articles used in the trade, most of which he witness) afterwards found at his lodgings, secreted amongst some shavings and saw-dust. " The prisoner, after being taken into custody (added the witness) gave me a box on the chest, struck me on the head with a hammer so as nearly to n ail me, and a l so t r i e d to gouge me by putting his thumbs in y eyes ; but I stuck to him like glue, and finally, on his cuffing me with his hands, I secured him with hand-cull's." —The complainant said, the prisoner had come to him some days before to borrow the axe; but he had lost so much by lending that he refused, though he so far persuaded him, that it was nearly Lent. The :prisoner h a d, h owever, contrived, during hi s (witness's) absence, to break open the lock of the shop, and bolt with the articles. He met him on the key (quay) and axed him about stealing the axe, but could make no handle of it.—One of the hands who worked at the shop swore he saw the prisoner cut off across the street with the hand-saw.—A little boy saw him put a sprig - bit into hi s pocket.—A no th er w i tness observed him break open the door with a Jemmy and decamp with the.fack-plane.—The articles were produced and identified. —It appeared to be a great bore to the prisoner when the brace and bits were brought again s t him, and the court augured still worse of him when the auger was produced. When the squares and a Plummet were shown, the case became more and more crooked, and out of plim.—The prisoner, when asked what he had to say, screwed his courage to the sticking place, and addressed the bench at some length. A great deal, he said, had been brought against him, but he trusted the complainant would be balked in fastening a charge upon him of forcibly opening a door. A s to the Jemmy, it was " all my eye and Betty.' and no Jack of them could make a plain story of it. As to steeling h ey were the witnesses were surely speaking in irony, for they were all of cold iron, without steel. No one could .see him with the saw, and the testimony given on that point was only of a see-saw kind, which he should set his teeth against. W e denied having struck the officer : he was not in the habit of striking —except occasionally for wages. As to the sprig of a boy wh o h a d spo k en of the sprig-bit, there was not a bit of truth in his allegations. Why should they tax hint with the tacks ? Stories had been got up against him, one over another, but he trusted they would be razed to the ground. and those who raised them be completely floored, He had been a tenant of the same landlord for many years, and, as 1 he entertained a terror mortis, he swore he had not taken either the tenant-saw nor the mortice-iron. The case agai him had pl a i n l y b een moulded, and the witnesses drilled, bu t t it was altog e th er di s j o i nted, as any joiner in the trade would admit. The fact was, he had had a quarrel with the com plainant on a knotty point, and he had been cross-grained with him ever since. He concluded, without calling a ny witnesse s , by throwing himself upon the bench.—Th e.Bench decided that th e case was too pla i n to adm i t of doubt. The defendant had en d eavournd to ma k e a case hi mself, and had and the measure of done a deal to smoot h i t over, b ut h a d f a il e d . All the evi deuce squared an d d ove-ta i led toget h er punishment would hi nge on t h e prisoners previous c h aracter. —The bridewell-keeper said the accused was an old file, wh o had repeatedly chiseled and screwed honest people out of their property.—The magistrate said, " This adds (adze) to the enormity of the offence. I have some doubts whether I shall send you whe re a j u ry will be impannelled tn.try yo u . 1 shall take care, h owever, t h at you s h a ll not make a tool of I me. You must be punished. Let him be locked up for three months," PIISSONAL Bgeore !—Atuoazat the meat valuabie Aar!' betas of beauty, whether regirtled as conducive to meal 'purity and grace of aspect, or as auxiliary to. feminine lo!"_ liness, a beautiful set of teeth must ever rank amongst tne most important elements of a favourable personal appearanc e. The embellishment and preservation of the teeth and Burl have therefore ever been regarded with peculiar interest, a nd among the mass of preparations suggested for these desir able purposes, we could particularize ROWLAND'S ODONTOt 0/1 PEARL DENTIFRICE, as unrivalled for its excellence in 1 3 ' 1 ; rifying, embellishing, and preserving those important 0° attractive objects.—See advt. SHOP-LIFTING.—At the Police -court, on Wednesday: Amelia Jones, Alice Hughes, and Ann Smith, were charged with having stolen a pair of ladies' boots, the property g Elizabeth Eden, shoe-dealer.:Byrom-street. Isaac Johnsoo. shopman in the service of Mrs. Eden, stated, that on Mon. day afternoon, the prisoners Amelia Hughes and Alice Jones. entered the shop, and said they wanted to try some boots. Jones sat down, but Hughes, who had a child in her arms. walked about, and appeared to be lulling the child as if t° keep it from crying, though the shopman observed that it was quiet enough. In the course of her movements to and fro she went frequently to a shelf on which were some women's boots. After looking at several pair of boots, Jone! said, " There is a pair in the window which I think wil l answer." The shopman reached over to get them, and in so doing turned his back on the two women. When he placed the boots on the counter, he saw Hughes leaving the shoa• and he observed her go to the window and look in. Turning to the shelf to which Hughes had gone with the child, be saw that a pair of ladies' boots had been taken therefrote . " Where is your companion ?" said he to Jones. She looked confused. He gave her the pair of boots which he had taken from the window, and telling her to. try them on, gave a signal for another assistant to go to the shop, and went out to look after Hughes. He saw her at a little distance stand ing talking to the prisoner Smith. He told her that her cow' panion wanted her, and she returned with him to the shop. He then went after Smith and brought her back also. Mean while Superintendent M'Donald, who happened to be passing , was in the shop. When Smith was taken into the shop (and it was the first time she had been in) a pair of boots dropped from her person on the floor. These were identified as the property of Mrs. Eden, and had been stolen from the shelf. All three were immediately taken into custody. The prisoners had nothing to say in their defence, and were cow witted for trial. CORRESPONDENCE, THE DUKE AND HIS HORSE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sin,—l was rather astonished to read in your paper a cri ticism on the admirable print from the picture I had the ho nour to paint, for Liverpool, of the Duke and Copenhagen , wherein it was said the engraver had supplied the want of skill in the painter. Upon my,word, to say the least, this is a modest inference, and I believe no man would be more shocked than Mr. Lupton. The writer does not seem at all aware of the position of painter and engraver; and that no engraver would ever dare to supply the want of skill in the painter without the painter's express approbation. The last man to take such a liberty is Mr. Lupton, whose intense application, honest wishes, and eminent talent would make him the first to feel its gross indelicacy. The art of black and white is a very difficult art to the art of colour; and when a picture is translated into black and white, a different management is always necessary. Ruben used to make black and white finished sketches, for his en gravers, and it would be well if it were done now. The critic also talks of the empty space in my picture. He seems to take it as a portrait composition, where the man is all in all and the space nothing ; he forgets that it is a portrait composition where the man and horse are but parts of:a scene. The day, the field, the man, the horse, press equally in the imagination, and are but component parts of the imaginative invention. A bit of a column, or red curtain, or a cloak, or a bank might render it more agreeing with portrait arrangement, but would utterly destroy the poetry of the space. The very emptiness is a part of the scene, and the poetry, of the invention—the absurdity of the remarks made on the picture, by the noodles of a portion of the London press. about the hugeness of the picture, the size of the Duke and the Horse, were perfectly ludicrous—in short, the remarks which are always made about the size of my pictures, are always ludicrously untrue. I never painted a portrait of any man in my life seven feet six inches, like Lawrence's of George IV., which I measured a fortnight since ; and there is no place so utterly unfit for any historical picture as our English Exhibition—the tameness of the attitudes, the quiet of the expressions, the every day scenes, render any work of foreshortening, or action, or vigour, an insanity; and all figure only the size of life, a giant Above you is, perhaps, a lady in black velvet, with a bit of her silk shoe doing the amiable ; on your right. the Hon. William * *'B favourite poney ;on your left, Kensington gravel pits, and below you, Putney bridge !—in the midst comes Curtius, or Sampson, and people run out of the room, screetching what exaggeration !—Haydn's mad !—therefore pray be. on your guard against any London cockneyisms-- about huge, figures—big canvas—violent action—and the usual string of namby pambyisma, which a bewildered cockney puts forth, when he beholds a man in the air or the clouds, leaping into a gulph, or standing on the field of Wa terloo : and make every allowance for the remarks of those whose views extend not beyond Maiden-lane, or the foggy courts of Covent-garden. Liverpool will, I hope, be the Florenceiof Britain, and it becomes its press to think for itself. Yours, obediently, B. R. HAYDON. London Rb ~ 1843 , [We have' recefved the above rather wrathy communica tion from Mr. Haydon on the subject of the notice, which appeared in the STANDARD a few publications ago, of the engraving from this picture. Mr. Haydon's assertion that the engraver cannot make up for the want of skill in the artist, will not alter our opinion. We Praised the picture highly — and we thought even Mr. Haydon would have been satisfied with when we said—but it seems no ordinary quantity of commendation will serve him. We did not say that Mr. Haydon wanted skill, we said, " An engraver made up for a want of skill in the artist," and so he does ; Mr. Haydon may not know it, but we do, that nine persons out of ten disliked the original picture when it was exhibited in the Mechanics' Exhibiti on Room—while the same persons greatly admire the engraving. As for Mr. Haydon's abused the press, that goes for nothing; and his complimenting Liverpool as a modern Florence is really laughable, and shows tr lamentable ignorance of the feeling towards fine art in the town.—E.L.S.l The Morninii Chronicle says that " a story is rife that Lord Brougham is to succeed Lord Abinger as chief baron." We mentioned a few days since that her Majesty had pre sented the munificent sum of £I,OOO to Christ's Hospital, London. 'lt is a singular fact, that since the institution was founded by Edwerd VI., no sovereign of this realm has ever bestowed one farthing upon it. AN EXTRAORDINARY BAR OF IRON.—The largest bar of iron ever made was rolled at the Cytarthfa Ironworks, near Merthyr' Tidvil,Tidvil, on Saturday last. and is, we are informed, for a house in Ilollarid. It is a cable bolt, 25ft. in length, and 6 inches in diameter, and weighs about 2,4001 b. The pile from which it was rolled was about 7ft. long by 12 inches square, and weighed upwards of £2,6001b5. SOUTHAMPTON, March I.—The Oriental departed this morning for Malta and Alexandria with about 70 passengers, nearly the whole of them for India; and she will take on board the Indian and Mediterranean mails at Falmouth to morrow. She has on board a nurnber of hoises and carriages , and a large quantity of harness and equipments for the desert transit in Egypt. The carriages are on two'wheels of large diameter, and with broad tires. The horses are put to them curricle fashion. They are very light, elegant, and commo dious vellicies. . . UNPLEASANT ADVENTURE.—A few days since a young lady was returning from Bluetown to Miletown late in the evening : it was unusually dark, nothing being distinctly visible. As she was crossing the drawbridge, she thought sho saw an object before her in human form (which, it ap pears, was a man idly sitting on the rail), and suddenly stopping short, thrusting out he; arms at the same time, she pushed him over the rail,, and the poor fellow, after making two or three revolutions, found himself in three or four feet of mud and water. The lady, frightened at what she had done, screamed aloud, and the man still more loudly cried Murder," which soon brought some men to the spot, four of whom in a few minutes extricated the poor fellow from his perilous and disagreeable situation. After thanking hi s friends for their kindness, and blaming himself for his folly, he returned home to take rest in a bed more agreeable to his feelings than the one lie had just left, resolving never again to subject himself to sirni::r treatment.—Kentish paper. Goon FORTUNE.—Mr. Joseph Leman, of North CadburY , has prover!, in a Scotch court, his claim to the title, the es tate, and the immense sum of money in the funds, of the late Sir William Leman. Bart., of Norham, Herefordshire. Mr' Leman's family have lived on or near the same spot in So mersetshire for upwards of 140 years. The property consists of the manor of Barns, commonly called Goodman's Fields' in London, consisting of Leman -street, Prescot-street, Man*". , sel-street, Alie - street, and many others too numerous to name at present—including altogether about 8,000 houses. There is likewise in the county of Herts, the parish of Nor tham, the seat of the late Sir William Leman, which, in eluding the church property, amounts to about 2000 acres. There is also the parish of Worbovs, in Huntingtionshige• There is another property in Cambridgeshire, called tbs parish of Rampton : and finally, there is in the funds a sum amounting to 4 : 1 ,600,000, all of which Sir Joseph clainis• Although an unanimous verdict was returned by the Scot tish court. the case will have to pass through the English Court of Chancery, and the deciSion there given (unless an appeal to the House of Lords is entered) will be final. This enormous property has since brought into existence other claimants. PERILOUS SITUATION OF A STEAMER.—MUCII uneasi 'less was experienced on Monday night, owing to a r e port is circulation that a steam vessel was seen in a perilous situa tion off Rennies Bay, where the unfortunate Killarney was wrecked, on Saturday, the 20th of January, 1838. It was stated that about five o'clock that evening, a messenger ar rived in town to endeavour to get a steam vessel to put out to the assistance of another steam vessel, which was seen in a disabled state off Barry's Point, near the Rennies, and that she wa s runn i ng on the rocks, as it was blowing a gale f wind from the S.S.E., dead on the land. As night was fast approaching, it was deemed useless then to forward a large steamer, but Mr. Donegan, agent to the river steam com pany, dispatched an express messenger to the Rennies, distance of twelve miles, with instructions that if the assist ance of a steam vessel were necessary, and that he conceived such assistance could be given, he should at once proceed to Passage and send off the " Tug," which was ordered to be in readine ss . V ar i ous surmises were given as to the name of the vesse l , while that which was most relied on was tba.,. she was the Rhadamanthus, which was expected to arrive in Cove Harbour to embark a company of the 45th regiment. -- Cork Constitution. POPERY AND 'run ARMY,—The following extract is from a Roman Catholic journal. It lays down the law for soldiers and sailors of that persuasion, and clearly absolves the w from all allegiance, saue what they owe to the functionarie s of the church of Rome :—" The citizen claims the rights, l° him discharge the duties, of citizenship. The soldier b?s chose n hi s vocation ; let him walk worthily therein. ~. was not bound to have embraced the military life; but, having embraced it, he is bound to do his duty, amid the innumera ble perils of soul and body, to which it has subjected hill: .?Vote, his dut y i s not confined to the person of his comma"' ?iv officer, nor even to the Articles of War. The lanr.° 1 , the a ea l m i s more than both of these put together. With '' red coat he assumed a new character, yet he did not, w ith his is colo ure d clothes, put away his former character. He . both so ldi er and citizen. He is not only soldier and citizen, he i s Catholic. His duties to religion a r e e ver paramoun g to those he owes to the slate. In en d eavour i ng t o discharg e the latter he is bound to seek from the church the say!e helps and counsels he is accusto me d to rece i ve fromher?! his other relations of life. Such are his duties. His rights are correlative with these. If he is bound to ask the dire_ tions of hi s confess6r, the latter is bo un d t o i m part thew . The lips of-the priest shall keep k now l e d ge .' There is „ r reservation in th at promise. There is no department ' i ll , duty upon whi c h she priest is not authorised, nay regl4,;itre to give co unsel to his _flock. Moral theology, ethics, po liti cs, or by whatsoever names duty may be sought to be expresse d, the penitent is bound to demand and entitled to receivelT the conf ess i onal the solution of his doubts, and the enlig enment of his Knorance.”