The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-02 00:00:00

MANN )L ~IANSIOr OR A !N Kl\ 11 1 HE POLYTECHNIC EXHIBITION will OPEN, at the MUSIC-IIALL, BOLD-STREET, on Mo.):_jax nest. THE P 1 ING umerous to mentnfi in an ad- uilt) ) NOW OPEN ay be Ott red from extensively circulated Proceeds to be A GENTLEMAN by which FIRE. )wn is in possession/of a plan speedily EXTINGUISHED , Jediately preveled spreading --ding where th maye clis -The parties name may be obtained at the ndard- CHINESE EXHIBITION PORTICO. BOLD-STREET. THE above EXHIBITION, consisting of fi f n COLLECTION of CURIOSITIES. of the Arts, Manufactures, Cus of the " Celestial Empire Inhabitants T\ OUND,aNEWFOUNDLAND BITCWThe Owner can have her on giving description, and ying expenses. If not claimed befOre the 10th instant she 'wit! be sold. source of such great attractien at theyfla 'sited el.( er Mecha- me* , Institution, having been 120,000 Persons, will OPEN TO-MORROW 3d May. It is • • , •• •. • wards of Apply at the sl anda t rd- Widnesda i series _ exhibit, in connexion with the of PANORAMIC DISSOLVING China and The arrangements for the funeral have at length been com pleted, and Thursday next, the 4th instant, has been fixed upon as the day on which 'the mortal remains of the late illustrious prince will be removed from Kensington. Palace, and deposited in the catacombs of the General Cemetery at -reen, until a mausoleum worthy of his exalted in can be erected for their reception. understood that, notc”. TUE DUKE OF SUSSEX above, a spiehui•---- VIEWS, representing Scenes Admission from Ten to Four, Is. each; from Six to Halt past Nine, 6d. each. Children under Ten years of age Half price. PATRONISED BY TI iE ROYAL FAMILY Kensal-g ASV ann. PRINCIPAL NOBILI7'Y AND GENTRY OE s 6 BRITAIN AND IRELAND. purr rAi .7REAT ~..,,......... hstanding the wish of the ody to attend the remains of their late illustrioul o the tomb, their offer has been declined, a fer of carriages by the nobility and gentry holding meetings for the purpose of obtain to line the route along which the processio WAX- SPRINGTH 0 RPE'S WORK FIGURES, HARNIONICa? d Nlaste also the 1-C-010RAM1C VIE NOW ,0 A-STB. p is splendidly fitted up for th e purpose. Lf win. pass. J. SPRINGTHORPE , Ar tist, respectf announ ces to the The ceremony of his late royal hi g hness's remains; in Ladies, Gentlemen, and the Public in general of Liverpool state will take place at Kensington Palace on Wednesday and its vicinity, that he has brought forward for their inspec- next, the 3d instant, between the hours of ten o'clock a.m. Con an ENTIRE NEW COLLECTION of FIGURES, and four o'clock pan., during which hours all persons attired as large as life, which, he feels no hesitation in asserting, has in decent mourning will be`adruitted. The preparations fo , not only been the admiration of thousands, but is confident, the solemn probably be finished by Mond e:tacie are fast hastening to night wards"completio , as regards splendour of decoration, correctness, fidelity, and and will a . outer coffin is composed of mat any, and is cover aracter, are ....es, and in breadth across the shoulders asures 2 feet 9 inches. The inside is lined with plain and the interior edge is decorated with a fluted plaiting -ne material. The outline of the coffin is marked by triple gilt and burnished nails. Each side is -Is, formed of triple rows of similar and the head and foot form each pth I f Chara It la an J. S same tit ,w of lar led into three pa rs of each panel is an exqui- :deem t ,e upper part resembling a graved a royal ducal crown. Work, atre of each panel is - . ornamental syaare, havin a most unique and chast lit handle Open fr 'tie lid is alsb divided 'into three panels. In s . a large ducal crown, and in the lower a mag f the Order of the Garter, having mounded by the The Exhib the cross of s' Fas forming Str, Operas, _ qui mal y pense." the In the centre panel will be plate, on which will appear the following newe., Admin. motto, " Hon ly executed. ] Depositurn Comitis Antiqn Ducis Sussexim, Ie Inverness ac Baronis de Arklow, simi et Nobilissimi Ordinis Cardui Honoratissimi Ordinis Equitis ilitaris de Balneo Dei Gratia Britanniarum Regime, Fidei Defensoris Obiit die Vicesimo Primo Apritis, Anno Domini MDCCCXDIII., LXXII." .osed it will have eight corner g thereon, a ducal corone CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND The M Post, of Thursday, contains a somewhat nondence between the Rev. Dr. Hook, vi. mgthened corres ir of Le and Mr. Hamer Stansfield, an agitating Dissen r, who is a considerable manufacturer in that town. This o dei -y marked and conclusive man .l 01 ,ztiood and forgery to which the ene- I e nof England resort in order to defame her z d ov the sister establishment. It shows also ecl atical party in the Church of Scotland are i p ted in this foul system, either as instigators, or ti n its ; and that they go eordially hand-in-hand c r ns and Infidels in the congenial work of detrac. -nolition. •orrespondence the system of the C' )WS, in a ver Stanfield, against the eductat :S - a , i t ri u t r i d i a T y u , etso. Baru certain proper c aken at ....... COCKLE, APOTHE row., London st to a ' ..favour of I I •4,.' Z A CTS onable a is Musard. i —i adies_ and Gentlemen cp.q H Descript -----11:-------____ WATER CURE ESTABLISHNIENT, 70, MOUNT-PLEASANT. LIVERPOOL. THlSEstablishment, fitted up with all necetsary Appara tus for the CURE of ACUTE mid CHRONIC DISEASE, by the HYDROPATHIC PROCESSES, — e ert for the Reception of Invalids. f , tes id en t Physician—G. H. IlizArocoT tiate of the Collece of Physicians, Lon,' ---,ant of Di,. M.D., Licen c Clow Q and Author of "The Hy dropat c Treat. TRUMAN, BANBURY, BUXTON, ANDIO. S ONDON P ORTER. L D EALERS are respectfully rmed that a9egXTENSIVt STOCK OI Messrs. TRUMAN and Co.'s POYTER is constantly kept in LIVERPOOL, of Q”iities BOTTLING, DRA.UGFIT PURP OSES• ond E." -rated DIREu. .7 Or for ANY Fo- FROM ORDERS are also LONDON, for eitht H° Mt, • TROD °Mt, EIGN PORT, MR. ARMITAGt, RP STREET, LIVE OL, 22, KING- NGENT Also, on SALE, in BO ND, WINE PORT, SHERRY,(Bra and TENERIFFE (Vidonia) nd " PASLEY" Litt l e , and ,Co. Teneriffe,) Shipped by Pas In PIPES, Burrs The Qualities a I (v'. LYTH 431 ' I STON, NEAR STUD 18#3• TO COVER THIS SEASO.N., .ThoroughbredliiaArieasrenv,_, Sovereigns, GromFeziSil'ilnllrs "ihe aGrer:rl H o , r r y N )neensburv, nd:dam Sovereigns, Groom riv FASHION, by Drone Remnant, (sister to teensbury t o air Char- aer t 1 /G ri nder, L I Y,4m. Pater_ NF ollowing places during the Whittles, • . _ ,gs of Man, wigau, ird Arms, Ashton, from -, e n ban, St. Helen's, o h Prescot, to Mr to the L i n ight ; Friday -sTILEET Thursday, to at Tarlton :e Castle Inn, n) was .Y " --- wa s DrOne_ ate Han tte. by Precipitate Sir Walter, out of M lam La The Horse will attena Tuesda Season ton, to tt fro —Ever' two to four ; on Wedne to ten o'cloc m to 0 WALTON'S 'V Orm sK Bridge, from eleven Preston, all night ;, where he will remain..— . Nsw FAsmoN, in 1842, obtained the Premium at Preston Agricultural Meeting, for the best Thoroughbred Stallions, beating Amurath, King of Diamonds, Drayton, Scc. Sce. New Fashion has proved himself a sure foal getter. His strong and promising. f o r Foal Mares, Ss. per week ; ra at market price, if or- stock are remarkaD, Good accommodat Barren Mares, 7s. per wees. S ANTIBILII01JS: PILL PATRONISED BY THE .Bishop of Ely Bishop of Glo ucester Bishop of Chi chester Bishop of Wo rcester 'Bishop o f Herefo rd Qt - Asaph MR. COCKLE Duke of Grafton Duke of Manchester Duke of Bedford Duke of Argyll Duke of Beaufort Duke of Rutland Duke of Marlborough Duke of Buccleuch Duke of Devonshire Duke of Sutherland Marquis of Lansdowne Marquis of Normanby Marquis of Ailesbury Marquis of Winchester Marquis If Abercorn Bishop or, Bangor oup of Llandaff ~..hop of Calcutta ~, Lord Rt. Hon. J. A.. Miray, A d v ocate of So &land Fergu sson, Rt. Hon. V. x f_P. Jud .A.dvocate Ge- .Etfsvard Cust,K.C•H Hon . C o l o nel Anson, M.P. Hon. t Maule, M.P. 3diniral Gould, G.C•B Henry Wheatley, GCH. J. Macdonald, K.G.B. 1 Earl of Eldon Earl of Harrowb Earl of Minto Earl of Ca Earl of Kinnoul Earl of Errol Earl of Mountcash , Earl of Darlington Sir Adj. Ger., :ier, Bart._liart, Burdett, Earl of Guildford Earl of Scarboroug Earl of Oxford Earl of Thanet and Noel, Bart ert Grant, Bar ,ry Blake, Ba Bart ue l Fludye r, er t Buxton, Bart. Bart. Sir Yram, M•P Sir G Earl of Athlone Earl of Roscomm Earl Cowper Earl Amherst Earl of Leicester Earl of Gainsborc Viscount Melbou Viscount Palmers Viscount Howick re - P7 Agn e'Q . 13 BA T - B r i n Tyrrell, Smyth, Ba w Wood,Bal John u. Thoa .Wi ldsas 13• e Mash rhos,M.P.Sol.Ger. Frederick Pollock, M.P. Chilhara Viscount Fordwic Viscount Torrington Viscount Acheson Viscount Alford Lord Arundel Lord Hill, Lord Plunket nel TYnt e ' merStbtht?r NI. P• P Lord Murray Lord Kinnaird Col.Detap,oi,-- Col. Bence, Thorine, Lordl3entinet Col Lord Fitzroy one W00.0. 11- ' ' l.-- L or d Middleton Captain Pechell, M.P Matthias Attwood, Es L or d Frederick Gordon !Alderma n Thompson, Lord Willoughby,d'Ereshy.. !Charles Walker, Esq., Lord Hay . ~ • ~;.1;/' ''' - Mr. l Serjeant Talfourd, Lord Redescu u t • ' fr . - ..,/'-',, r. Sero-eant Ludlow Lord SeYinoii r ' .. ' . 41 ' 1 ' 'l' iVen.Arc"hdeacon of Colchester Lord Hartland Ven.Archdeacon ofSt.Alban's . - Rev. Dr. French , C ambridge Lord Western' Lord Sydenham Rev. Dr. Benson Lord Aic hbishop of Akmagh ißev. Dr. Birch Bishop o f Durham Rev. Dr. Marsh Bi s hop of Chester Robert Renwick, ESQ. M .D Bishop of Bath and Wells C. Dubl WadaY. Esq., late M. Bishop of Norw ich P in Bi s hop of Salisbury . John Hatchell Bishop of Peterborough And numerous Families of the highest respectability. Mr. COCK LE, SURGEON, has much pleasure in l a ving, before his friends and the public, Mr. ABERNETHY'S ESTIMATION of his Antibilious Pills, extracted from :a Letter which that gentleman addressed to him in the yea Esq., Dublin 1824 :- our Antibiii I with cons " I have ordered the atte geo.o - - --Ph - ni tions of th, with a tornia state 0 ma y be attn al and const_ opportunities greatly influei and in the m asioning most excellent fa mes with ordina HESSEHOMBUR cine Venders, in bole , This mark of anthe dangerous and deleterious im 18, New Ormond-streE SIITHERLANDSH Duke of S and ha E3tablish ace's se: Lments w atinvo JAMES ( ne Highness th sTOTICE BAND rd MUSI( with the icription On the stated by Dr. Hook, took ifs rise mnour. was Ta ,t a meeting of dis ernment. In attack ing agitator made the his, as stated in one of the Leeds the auspices of this new school : have a general commission to represent iod, and to act in His name in His several trans h mankind ! The writer affirms, that ' the rite of _..cr of schism in a conven- Any teacher whatever, unless ordained by a marriage administered by a r 1.1,1 G, bishpp, is a most blasphemous invasion of a holy office ; that the 'conventicle rites do not bind the parties ; that marriage by the statute law, without the ben e d iction of a priest of the Catilolic"Church, is no marriage at all: it is but legalised (Strong, disapprobation.) Is that the religion of )lished Church of this country. into whose bands „.. you are asked to entrust the educatipn of the risiug genera tion ?. God forbid! Oh, let not our legislators, by passing this bill, aid 'and abet this proud assumption of a priestly caste—let them not follow their example and throw down the gauntlet into the arena of conscience—let them not place- in opposition man's allegiance." Dr. Hook, against whom this general attack on the church was more particularly, though covertly, directed, immedi ately wrote to Mr. Stansfield, requesting a. sight of the tract containing the above quotations. After some days' delay, Mr. Stansfield returned the following answer, which we quote in full, as it affords an unmistakeable clue to the real source of the calumny " Headingley Lpdge; April 21, 1843, " REV. SIR,—I have delayed replying further to your note of the,lsth, in the daily hope of being able to furnish you with a copy of the original tract on matrimony, which I un derstand is in the possession of the Rev. John Burnett, of Camberwel/. I have written to him, but have as yet no reply. In the meantime I enclqse you a reprint of the tract, and that the original existed and was sent from Leeds, the fol lowing extract of a letter from Hugh Miller, editor and printer of the Witness, on Edinburgh journal, incontestibly proves. " The letter was addressed to a friend who had madc inquiry respecting .it. " I am sorry to find that the Puseyite tract to which you refer, and which was presented some time since to the readers of the Witness, was cut up into slips by the printers, and can not now be recovered. I can refer, however, to the factjof its existence to very unexceptionable testimony. It was sent me anonymously through the post-office, under a cover bearing the Leeds post mark, and, before using it, I showed it, among others, to the Rev. Mr. Buchanan, High Church, to Mr. John Hamilton, to. the Rev. Mr. Goold, and to the Rev. Dr. Symington. I read parts of it alsd to Dr. Chal mers. " • " The difficulty in procuring a copy arises from the tract not having been published as usual, but circulated privately. " It may perhaps assist you in your endeavours to meet with one to mention that report ascribes the authorship to Mr. Ward, formerly, I understand, one of your curates ; at any rate it will enable him to contradict the report if desirous of so doing.—l remain, reverend sir, " Yours respectfully, HAMER STANSFIELD To the Rev. W. F. Hook, D.D." „ e regret we have not room in to-day's paper for the re ply of Dr. Hook to this singular epistle. In that reply he ex most ably the pitiful explanation of Mr. Stansfield. 'ook utterly denies the truth of the allegation that any containing the sentiments quoted by Mr. Stanstield, emanated from the Leeds clergy, and he as strongly re uMates the doctrines laid down in the tractlwhich had been ascribed to him. He further gives a letter from Mr. Ward, his former curate, contradicting in the most distinct terms statement that he was the author of the tract, or pre: tended tract. The Edinburgh Post says that the truth of the affair ap pears to be as follows :—Some enemy of the Church of England, being aware of the hostility entertained towards it by the violent members of the Church of Scotland, printed a paper containing the assertions quoted by Mr. Stansfield, as well as other gross misrepresentations ; and then forwarded c.....,,r1u1e❑t document to the editor of the JVitness, as the readiest recipient of such 'calumnies. The editolappears, t h e n, to have communicated with his advisers, Messrs. Bu chanan, Hamilton, Goold, and Dr. Symington, and also Dr. Chalmers, who appear all to have thought it a capital ground for attacking the Church of England. Accordingly, the f o rgery was given to the world classed with their other proofs of the alleged popish tendencies of the Episcopal Church. The same weapon seems to have been equally acceptable to the Socinians of Leeds ; and Mr. Stansfield, finding it so paraded in the Witness, attempted to turn it to his own ac count. There appears, indeed, to be a regular manufactory of falsehoods and slanders against the Church of England, and these fabrications. nowhere find a readier market than amongst the schismatical party of our own Church,. with their fitting representative, the editor of the Witness. - THE RANGERSHIP OF THE PARKS.—We understand that the Commissioners of Woods and Forests do not intend to cancel the appointments of the deputy-rangers, Sir Augustus D'Este and Mr. Stephenson, under his late Royal Highness , who receive salaries for the duties they r formerly derived an income, we believe; from " the grazing" of sheep in the 1 transferred to the depart nd embellish The ra - . nd St. James's Parks, &c., al arce are paid into their office. CICAL SOCIETY. - A numerous meeting of this s held yesterday week, 4, St. Martin's-place, Lon. i a paper was read on traffic and accidents on the n • Great Britain, in 18 , 12, by C. K. Weld, Esq. '• consisted of an analysis of the various returns department at the Board of Trade. The while observing !ar, was only tut s while travelling ,ses of injury amounted to fourteen. accidents that have happened to th 6 any. A new clause in the act of Pailia railway companies to give returns . of all nts of a public nature, unattended with pe- These dO not incluc ent compels sonal injur rid it appears The ag! past yea ay l►nes r -one accidents of this The number of pas irried . upon fifty railways amounted to 18,153,504, of railways is now 1.829 miles 2,501 third-class, and 2,592,057 passengers se class is not distinguished. The gross receipts from ,engersamounted to X2,731,687,and from good £1,088,835. amber of trains was z )98,97-1, which gives 61, persons reatest speed, exclusive of stoppages :—North __ •n, 36 miles per hour; Great Western, 33, ditto; astl — eand North Sheilds, 30, ditto : North Midland, 29, ; Midland Counties, 21, ditto. The average speed (ex -ive of stoppages) on all the lines is 211 miles per hour. lowing are lines upon which the - trains avet - at Lac 6 Tr. W. Rol !nick-batted at. He escaped with his life. Letters from Champagne state, that, in consequence o f the injury done to the vines by the late frost, a considerable rise has taken place in the-price of_wines. L0N1.414 mobbed and r Owens S anon, Missouri, a few weeks since w Bart. n ,rake,El•C"' t, MY* 1. SW. iss ST T, Miss RIII*TRONG, CT CHORUS M N Mr. DAVIES 1 Mr. EYTOI-;. Count Gilt Voisins husband ;d, died yesterday urch is now in p - ~i progress of erection in Vienna. r of which is to be decorated with fresco paintings, repi The Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem has obtained from the authorities of Bey rout permission to go on with the building of the church he had commenced in the Holy City. The subscriptions towards the Guadaloupe relief fund. paid into the hands of the commander-in -chief by the na tional guards of Paris and the Banlieue, amount to 87,342 f. A grand bull-fight took place at Madrid, on the 17th ult. No remarkable accident, says a Madrid letter, 'occurred, but 15 horses were killed. Sever-al persons having been lately poisoned at Bayonne and St. Esprit by eating mussels, the municipal authorities have issued an order suspending the sale of this shell-fish. On Palm Sunday the Bishop of Gibraltar, assisted by seven clergymen of the Church of England, consecrated the new Protestant church at Athens, in presence of the Duchess of Oldenburg, the queen's sister, and a number of English residents and travellers. By advices from Alexandria we find that the Pasha of Egypt bas acknowledged the receipt of a gold medal voted to him in London for his keeping open the Indian route during the perplexing year 1840, and for the protection which he has afforded to Englishmen. THE SOMNAUTH GATES.-We must not forget to an nounce the removal into the magazine this morning of the Somnauth gates. The only observations we have heard either from Hindoo or Mussulman during our stay here, has been a surprise at so much fuss being made about a couple of sundry of rotten old wood. The trappings for this piece of foolery will, from what we have seen of them, very probably cost some 2500 rupees.—Delhi Gazette. CONVERT FROM JUDAISM.—On Easter -day the interest ing ceremony of the public baptism of a converted Israelite, Mr. Henry Friedberg, of Kalish, in Poland, was celebrated in the parish church of Binegar, Somerset, agreeably to the injunction of the Special Commissary of the Diocese, acting for the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. The holy rite of baptism was administered by the Rev. James Mules. THE REVoLeTioN . ter HAvTr.—By accounts which have been received at Falmouth, we learn that on the 26th ult. every thing was in perfect tranquility at Port-au-Prince. The Patriot army, in two divisions, consisting of about 14,000 men, had entered Port-au-Prince under the command of the two generals, Herald Rivere and Lazarre. The inhabitants had appointed a Committee of Public Safety for the main tenance of order, and for the protection of persons and pro perty, pending the election of a new president. A gentleman who has just landed from the Hector mentions, that it was a most agreeable feature of the revolution in question, and alike creditable to the principals and subordinates, that the most perfect order and good feeling prevailed, and was likely to continue, the better government of the country appearing to be the sole object of the change. This will be most satis factory to parties in England having connexions in St. Domingo. The same gentleman also communicates, that to his certain knowledge Boyer, on his departure in the Scylla man-of-war brig took no more specie with him among all his family than 50;000 dollars. • A NICE POINT.—One of the principal clerks in the office of the Minister of the Finances some time since sent a secretaire to a cabinetmaker to be repaired. After a lapse of two days, he recollected that, in his haste, he had left a quantity of money in a secret drawer, and immediately went to the cabinet-maker, who told them that he had not yet ex amined it. Upon this, the owner opened the secretaire, and, pressing the spring, discovered that his treasure was go The cabinetmaker having denied that he had taken anyth from - thesecretaire, the gentleman went to the commissary of police of the quarter, who, with one of his officers, searched the premises of the cabinetmaker, and very soon discovered 3,000 f., partly in-bank notes, enclosed in a Russian leatheE Pocketbook, and the rest in gold, contained in a silk purse, corresponding precisely with the account of the loss previ ously given by the owner to the commissary. The cabinet maker now attempted to justify himself by stating. that ai he had been told before he removed the secretaire that it ha( been completely cleared out, he supposed this money had be longed to some previous owner, and that it became the righ of the first finder. This plea was not held good by the com missary, and he sent the cabinetmaker to the prison of LI Force, to answer for his fraUdulent conduct. AN Onn RENCONTRE. — The Gazette des Tribunaux give: the following :—" A strange Scene took place on Friday las at, the promenade of Longchamps. A. handsome caleche passed along, containing a lady, said to possess great dramatic talent, and anxious for au engagement, and a young man with black moustachios, who paid the greatest attention to his beautiful companion. Suddenly a lady, on a beautiful chest nut mare, of g,reat value, rode up to the vehicle, and' peered in very rudely for a few seconds. The young man seemed overcome with alarm, and the would-be actress grew pale through her rouge. The appearance of the horsewoman, on the contrary, was highly animated, and anger sparkled in her eyes. After continuing her survey for about a minute, she suddenly raised her riding-whip, and, with a vigorous arm, struck the gentleman and the lady across the face, leaving them both well marked; then flinging her card into the car riage, she rode off at full gallop.. This was only the first scene of the adventure. The second took place on Monday, irrille Bois de Romainville. Two elegantly-dressed Nvoi arrived nearly at the same time in cabriolets, and at c proceeded to business. ' I have the choice of weapons,' said the lady that had been struck, and I suppose you are not more anxious than I to have seconds in what is about to take place.' No,' haughtily replied the other, lam entirely at your orders. You took from me a friend, whom I did not wish to leave.to you without the striking accompaniment, which you may remember.' Oh ! you mean the horse whipping ?' Why, yes, I certainly do, but I did not like using the word.' Don't put yourself under any restraint, my dear,' replied the other, for I swear to you that, before two minutes are over, the word will not produce any greater effect on you than on me.' Saying this, she opened her dress, and taking from under it a thick and heavy whip, com menced belabouring the other with all her force. The•origi. nal assailant, bruised and covered with blood, was on the point of sinking to the earth, when one of the woodmen, attracted by her cries, came up and rescued her. The two combatants were taken before the Mayor, who was ungallant enough to forward them to Paris under escort. The third 'act of the piece is to take place, we areinformed, in the Correctional Tribunal. If so, we shall give an account of it." . • THE SUGAR TRADE (From the Times.) , • The merchants and others connected with the sugar trade have lately directed much attention to the statistics of this important article of their commerce. The result of labours undertaken witlra view of throwing light on the matter, and of presenting in a condensed form information which has only existed in a scattered state, has already been printed; but the wish is generally expressed, that it should be more extensively circulated. The fact shown by this information is, that the consumption of sugar has not advanced-in the same proportion as the increase of population ; while at the same time the value of the colonial trade in sugar, both to the revenue and to the shipping and commercial interest, is set forth in a very clear point of view. Thus it is found that in 1840 the quantity of sugar imported into this country was' 4,035,854 cwt., and the quantity exported was 229,511 cwt. of raw sugar, and 235,048 cwt. of refined. By the importa tion employment was given to nearly 141,000 tons of shipping from the West Indies, to 30,000' Mauritius, to 26,000 from Bengal, and to 36,000 from other countries, and employ ment was given to about 23,000 tons of shipping sailing to various parts. These large amounts, of course, represent a quantity - of employment to the various clssses connected with shipping, besides the labour expended in the manufacture of the article. The revenue derived from sugar Was £4,449,033 in 1840, £5,049,189 in 1811, and £4,884,415 in 1842. The great, importance of this•trade of course renders its manifest decline a matter of anxious solicitude, and it is ascertained by tabular statements, that although in the ten years ending in 1841 a larger quantity of sugar was consumed than in the ten years ending in 1831, the increase hag, been below the average, rate, notwithstanding the increase of population has' exceeded the average. In the years 1838, 1839, and 1840 the quantity retained for home consumption was below the ten years' average, and it appears perfectly clear that sugar be-. comes more and more inaccessible to the poorer classes. Other tabular statements have been furnished, which show the decline of consumption in parallel order with the increase of prices paid. From 1831 (which was a slave-labour year) the price, which was then 475. Bd., steadily advanced to 745. 21d., which is the average quotation for 1840, a decline taking place in 1841 to 655. 31d. Under all the circum stances thus briefly set forth, great anxiety is shown for some method of obtaining sugar at a cheaper rate, without, at the same time, encouraging the slave-trade. ALARMING ACCIDENT TO MR. BRUNEL—We deeply regret to state that this distinguished gentleman is at present in a state of extreme suffering, not exempt from serious dan ger, (at his house in London) in consequence of a goodnatu red endeavour to amuse the children of a friend. The father and Mr.. Brunel pretended, by sleight of hand, to pass money from the mouth to_the ear, and vice versa, when Mr. Brunel, placing a half-sovereign in his mouth, it unfortunately slip ped into the trachea, where it stuck, and every effort to remove it proving ineffectual, Sir 13. Brodie has been called in, and an operation, by making an incision in the thorax, was determined upon. This critical operation was performed with remarkable skill and precision, by Sir. B. Brodie, assis ted by three other eminent surgeons: Very littlo- blood; was lost by the incision in the windpipe, but coughing and irrita tion supervened in such violence that the forceps could not he used, and the half-sovereign still remains in the trachea. The orifice of the incision, however, is kept open, and Sir B. Brodie, who speaks fovouroblT of the case, trusts that the substance may be evtracted. The operation occupied a considerable time, and Mr. Brunel endured his sufferings with remarkable fortitude. We are happy to state, bs the latest intelligence we have received, hopes are entertained that the coin will be extracted when the irritation subsides, which will probably be, in a day or two.—Bristol —[The London papers of yesterday state that another oper ation will be performed in a day or two, and that the medi cal gentlemen are pot without hopes of success.] PHatnn Boxvic—This singular individual, who for a series of years was considered one of the curiosities of Matlock, still lives, but in' wretchedly reduced circumstances. The visiter of Matlock of from fifteen to forty years since will not fail to remember Phoebe, her singular mode of dress, consist ing' partly of male and partly of female attire, from its very oddity attracting general attention. .Plicebe herself was, however, a far greater piece of singularity than her dress,' and when we mention a few only of her daily avocations, this will easily be believed. She was reckoned an expert breaker of horses intended for the use of 'ladies, and possessed be sides a knowledge of agricultural affairs in general, consi derable skill in the .selection of live stock, and her opinion in the department of cattle breeding was frequently:required. Phoebe was enthusiastically attached to music, nor was her knowledge in this branch confined to one instrument alone. She was a pleasing, if not a very scientific, performer on her favourite instrument, the flute, and was almost equally at home on the harpsichord and violoncello, on which instru went she accompanied the choir at Matlock Church for several years. From a comfortable little independency, the poor dame in declining years became chargeable to Mat ' lock parish, and she still; occupies a poor cottage at Matlock town. Phoebe is (to use a word recently designated in the House of Lords as "very learned") a decided monomaniac, her mania being, however, of a very harmless description, and consisting chiefly in the belief that she is able to perform miracles by means of witchcraft, these miracles relating chiefly to 'the discovery of hidden treasure. She has latterly; however, got hold of a new crotchet—namely, that she shall die on the 4th• of May, and some weeks ago, on a lady and gentleman of our acquaintance calling on her, and attempt ing to ridicule the prophecy, she produced a suit of grave clothes of a. peculiar fashion, which she had recently made up for herself in anticipation of the event which she so posi tively prognosticates. She, however, in this instance dis played a want of the tact so frequently accompanying certain degrees of insanity, as along with her shroud, &e., she dis played a new female garment, which she informed the lady she had just completed , and which, though of coarse material, was beautifully made. and from its texture calculated to wear a length of time. —Derby Mercury. —Paris paper whose serious illness we have - This gentleuaan prorettito(o4 HOUSE Or LORDS—THURSDAY. The Duke of WaLLtic GTON,. in pursuance of no ti ce t o th a t feet, moved for an address of condolence to he r M a j es ty on Le lamented death o f his Royal Highness the Duke of issex. The address was agreed to HOUSE OF COMMONS-THURSDAY - - Mr. LANE Fox gave notice that, on the 11th of May, he would call attention to the agitation in Ireland for the pur pose of procuring a repeal of the union, with the view of )utting a stop to it. Mr. MACKINNON moved for a select committee to ascer ain the revenue, expenditure, and condition of the harbours ►nd lighchouses on the coast, from the mouth of the Thames :o Portsmouth. Mr. CURTEIS seconded the motion. Major BERESFORD moved as an amendment that the in quiry be extended from Languard Fort to Portsmouth. Sir R. PEEL said that the selection of the sites, and all other matters connected with harbours of refuge, should be left to the Government. If they were to enter upon the pre sent inquiry propositions would be made to extend it to other parts of the coast, and they would ultimately find that they had entered upon an interminable inquiry. After a few words from Mr. A. CHAPMAN the house divided, and the motion was negatived by a majority of 79 to 34. Lord WORSLEY moved for returns of the fees received by clerks of petty sessions in En g land a nd Wales ; and also of the number of conviction s durin g the last t h r ee years , and to what purposes the fines had been a pp lied ; al so similar re turns respecting fines p aid on convictions before j us ti ces .— The motion was agreed to. Mr. JERVIS obtained leave to bring in a bill for improving, the proceedings in the supreme courts in certai n ac ti ons f or amounts not exceeding £2O. Lord ELIOT moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend and continue the laws relative to the registering of arms, and the importation, manufacture, and sale of arms, gunpowder, and ammunition in Ireland. Leave was then given to bring in the bill, and the house adjourned HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of the bill for acilitating the conveyance of real property, by shortening _he verbose prolixity of such conveyan ces . H e propose d t h e adoption of a parliamentary form of conveyance which might be contained within the compass of a b an k- no t e , an d t h a t solicitors should be paid according to the value of their services, and not according to the length of the documents they had to furnish. The LORD CHANCELLOR took several objections to the bill which rendered it impossible for him to support it. The bill would only apply in cases in which its application would be of little use, and he was wholly opposed to having a par liamentary form of conveyance, the smallest mistake in copy ing which would vitiate the transaction. He, therefore, moved that the bill should be read a second time that day six months. Lord LANGDALE was opposed to the bill, and said that the great evil was the system of paying all departments of the profession according to the length of the proceedings, and not according to the actual service performed. After some observations from Lord Campbell, the Duke of Wellington, and the Lord Chancellor, the second reading of the bill was negatived without a division, and their lord ships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY Lord STANLEY stated that several of the noblemen and gentlemen connected with the British-American Emigration Association had subscribed sums for the relief of the un fortunate emigrants who had been sent out to Prince Ed ward's Island, but who had fortunately for themselves been driven back by stress of weather. He also expressed a hope that the example would be followed by the remainder of those gentlemen. In reply to a question from Mr. LEFROY, Lord - EmoT said that government was by no means in different to the agitation in Ireland for the repeal of the union, which could not be persevered in without danger to the public peace. Sir G. GREY then resumed the adjourned debate on the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Courts' Bill, which he had resolved to support, because the chief object of the bill was to carry into effect many of the recommendations of the ecclesiastical commissioners. He hoped, however, that his proposition of referring the bill to a select committee would be adopted, that its technicalities might be carefully consi dered, and some objectionable provisions removed. There was at present a divided testamentary jurisdiction in matters relating to real and personal estate leading to great inconve nience and expense by causing parties to go into two courts in order to prove the validity of one and the same instrument. This should be altered, as should also be the exclusive mo nopoly of Doctor's-commons. All these matters could be much better considered by a select committee than they could possibly be in the committee on the bill. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, said that the defects and in convenience of the ecclesiastical courts had been long the subjects of complaint. The ecclesiastical commissioners re commended that all the courts of peculiars should be thrown into three provincial jurisdictions ; but this bill proposed to give all the business to one central and supreme court, which, in his opinion, was an improvement on the recom mendation of the ecclesiastical commissioners. One strong argument in favour of the bill was the importance of having during a war a body of civilians well acquainted with inter national law. Lord R. GROSVENOR said he was a strenuous supporter of level reform, but to this bill he had objections, amongst which was the perpetuation of the monopoly of the Doctors'- commons practitioners. The defects he perceived in the bill would, he thought, defeat the benefit which it was intended to confer. Dr. ELPHINSTONE thought 'something ought to be done to remedy the evil of the conflicting decisions of the various ecclesiastical courts, but by fixing the minimum of jurisdic tion at £3OO, the bill in effect made good law for the rich and bad law for the poor. There were many objections to the bill,buthe thought they might be remedied in committee. Mr. ESCOTT regretted being obliged to oppose the bill, but the objections he had heard urged against it had confirmed his'opinion that it would prove unsatisfactory and insufficient. The Secretary for the Home Department had said he would blush for the house if personal interests led them to reject the bill ; but he would rather blush fur the insufficiency of his own arguments to support it. _ _ Mr. G. H. VERNON: as chancellor of the province and judge of tha Prerogative Court of York, was aware of the many evils of the present state of the ecclesiastical I,:w, and of tl - e conflicting decisions of the inferior courts, which called for a remedy, which he firmly believed the present measure would provide; and be thus most beneficial to the country. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, in an amusing speech, contended for the total abolition of the ecclesiastical courts, and said that in his opinion the whole business of those courts should be transferred to the courts at Westminster Hall. He was op posed to the bill, though not upon the same grounds as those put forward by Sir R. Inglis. He was inclined to think with Colonel Sibthorp that it was a " Doctors'-commons job," though the expression was one not likely to be used on his (Mr, Duncombe's) side of the house. (This assertion of the hon. gentleman in support of the extreme modesty of his side of the house produced rears of laughter.) He was of opinion that the bill was an attempt to bolster up a rotten system, and he should therefore oppose it. Sir R. PEEL said he had rarely seen a bill opposed, as this was, by gentlemen of such discordant opinions, and it be came therefore necessary to classify the objections and prove to the house in replying to them that - this bill effected a ma terial improvement in the present state of the law by re moving many of those evils which had been long felt and complained of. . Many of those evils had existed more than 300 years, and had been denounced by Lord Stowell and other great authorities, and had so existed because those who felt the evils would not be content with moderate reform, however useful it might be in getting rid of the most serious portions of the evil. Was this always to go on ? Or on the other hand would it not be better to go into committee on the bill, and endeavour to render it as effective as possible instead 14 opposing the principle on the second reading? He was quite aware that there was much weight in an observa tion of Mr. Escott's that if the Government went on with this bill there was a powerful body, who would remember them in the day of trial. He knew that any executive Go vernment attempting the reform of legal abuses raised against them for a time a powerful body interested in the main tenance of those abuses, even though they took every care that in applying the remedy the interests of the individual should not suffer. They were not, however, to be deterred by such considerations, and he therefore trusted—indeed he could not . for one moment credit that the house would strangle in its birth this attempt to apply a remedy at all risks to a very serious evil. The bill attempted to carry out reforms recommended by the highest ecclesiastical and judi cial authorities, and if the House of Commons should reject it let no hon. member hereafter taunt. Ministers with not doing anything in the shape of improVement. The Govern ment had brought it forward, so help him God ! from no im proper or interested motive whatever; and he never could believe that the House of Commons would defeat a measure of reform in a system of law which all admitted to be full of serious evils. _ _ Mr. HUME supported the bill, although he did not think the bill went far enough. Fourteen years ago the house abolished the power of these courts in Seotland, and since then every thing went on satisfactorily, by transferring the jurisdiction to the courts of law. He could not, therefore, understand why the same course should not be pursued In England. Sir 11. W. BARRON supported the bill, for although it did not remedy all the abuses in the ecclesiastical law, yet it did remedy those which might be considered the most im portant. Mr. ROEBUCK would vote for the second reading of the bill, though he wished it to be understood that, though he agreed in all that portion of the bill which went to pull down, be eatirely.disagree4.l4l.lllthaa9ktion, which went to build up, and unless that portion was struck out or materially al tered in committee, he should feel it to be his duty to oppose the bill altogether. The gallery was then cleared, and on a division the second reading of the bill was carried by a majority of 186 to 184. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. COLONEL CIIATTERTON.—The magnificent piece of plate voted by the conservative electors and citizens of Cork to Colonel Chatterton of the 4th Dragoon Guards, has been presented, with an address c o n taining the signatures of the subscribers, amounting to three hundred. The gallant officer has returned a suitable answer, in which he says :—" Be assured, that wherever my m ilitary duties may require my services, I shall always be ar w ith me a warm attachment t o my native city, and a most grateful recollection of the friend ship I have experienced from my fellow-citizens; nor can I ever be unmindful of the steady and cordial support I have received from you upon severa l trying occasions, when we struggled together to maintain those sound constitutional you so justly observe, the rights a n d subjects of these realms are so entirely and liberties principles, all w h theere whereby, a s so happily secured." THE DUCHESS OF N ORTH UMBERLAND.—At a meeting at Alnwick, on the 21st in s t an t, the following anecdot e was related illustrative of her grace's benevolence :—Mary Atkin son was the daughter of humble parents. dwelling in a wild part of the country near Alnwick. The father, who was a hind, attended the March hiring of that town on a day of sma extremely fierce storm an d snow -d r ift, and anxiou s t o reach day, b he persevered in ploddi ng supposed, in order to coin_ t h u o u m n ( i . e t a h t e e same e evening, results o a the his way towards his place of residence, amid the fury of the storm. He reached within half a mile of his own house and perished in the drift. Meanwhile his wife, restless and alarmed, ventured forth to anticipate his coming. Disap pointment led her on to withi n a few yards of where her hus band lay dead, but not so near as to render it pro able she had ever learned his fate, and there she too perish Od in the snow. Mary Atkinson and a brother, we believe, were thus left orphans, and totally destitute. The sad tale reached the ears of the humane Duchess of Northumberland. She proved more than a mother to the poor forlorn girl, sent her to board, educated her, and obtained her a situation In Edinburgh, in a respectable family. Mary Atkinson was now about 20 years of age, w h en the symptoms of that most insidious dis ease —consumption—bezan to manifest themselves. She fell very ill. No sooner did the ductless hear of her condition than she requested that, if at all possible, she might be re moved to Alnwick, which was done. It is needless to say that every attention was ministered to the sufferer that could be supposed capable of mitigating her distress. But in vain. She died about 12 monts ago, an d sleeps in Aluwick church yard, with an affecting tribute to her memory from the Duchess of Northumberland gracing her humble grave. THEATRR.ROY4Lp LIVERPOT SRCON.D NIGHT OP MR. CHARLES iCSAN THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, M/ 2nd, the Tragedy of MACBE •. Macbeth Mr. {lades Kean. To conclude with the Fairy Extravaganza of THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. TO-MORROW (Wednesday), MACBETH Mr. C. Kean. With a favourite Afterpiece Macbeth TO CORRESPONDENTS The Albion says the proceedings at the last Council we re " from first to last, as good as a lively and amusing five act comedy." This comparison is so ingenious, that it excited our admiration. In his report of this " dramatic" exhibition, we find the following pleasant embellishment of Mr. Alderman Earle's speech, concerning the houses in Ilanover.street :—" The frequent mention of the word ' privy' induced the reporter for the Standard to whisper laughingly to one of his friends, ' Is this a privy Council ?' Mr. Earle, who overheard the query, said, laughing, I am asked if this is a Privy Council. (Loud laughter.) I am sure I don't know—(looking archly at the gentleman who had used the expression.) The bon mot is not mine, gentlemen."—We are assured that, for this representation, so far as our reporter is concerned, the public are indebted to the imagination of the Albion itself. The bon mot (such as it was) was the offspring of a witty councillor on the Liberal side. TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, AND OTHERS The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. fat Eibtrpool attanZiarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1843. It would be a circumstance truly humiliating to our human nature, if it should turn out that the storm of dissenting opposition, which has been directed osten sibly against the educational clauses of the proposed factory bill, has had its leading source in hostility to the limitation of the hours of infant labour contained in that bill ; if the fears which have been so plausibly put forth, of the consciences of little factory children being oppressed by the iniquity of the Church of Eng land Catechism, have not been prompted by the greater fear that such children were about to be emancipated from the bondage of that tyrant, capital, and the cruel selfishness of inhuman parents, which at this moment are, together, wearing into soulless and fleshless ana tomies, or degrading into reckless criminals, so many thousands of the children of the working classes. And yet it is too'inuch to be feared that such a feeling has been uppermost in the minds of the prime movers in this demonstration. Sincere as may have been the convictions and the motives of many, who have since plunged themselves into it, we greatly suspect that if the hearts of those who pulled the wires and set the puppets in motion, could be searched, too much of MAMMON would be discovered there—too much of griping selfishness—to allow of our entertaining any longer a doubt that the question of education is not so much a religious, or even a sectarian question, as it is a question of the pocket—a struggle between selfish avarice] on the one hand and christian philanthropy on the other. That such is the case, in the immediate districts af fected by Sir James Graham's' bill, can scarcely be doubted by any one who has closely watched the pro gress of public opinion, there, upon the subject. Let us glance at a few evidences, as to this fact, which have crept out during the past week in the neighbour ing manufacturing metropolis—Manchester. It has pleased that very sapient body, the town council of the " metropolis" in question, to hold a special meeting to exhibit its wisdom in opposition to the bill, from the proceedings at which we take leave to cull the follow ing morceau One of the members, a cotton spinner, as reported in the Guardian, stated that " he should be glad to see education promoted either by this or any other bill; but he thought this bill would be a failure, inasmuch as it would have the e f fect of inducing masters to turn children under 13 years of age out of employment." Why would the bill have such effect ? why turn children under thirteen years out of employment ? Because children are to be educated upon this, or that, or any system ? Not at all; but because masters will in future be permitted to work such children only six hours and a-half per day ! Clearly it is not the educa tional clauses, but the limitation of the hours, which are here excepted against ; and when Mr. Alderman Murray tells us, therefore, that " he should be glad to see education promoted either by this or any other bill," we must take leave greatly to doubt his sincerity, unless some system can be hit upon by which children can be at school and at work at the same time. Another gentleman, a manufacturer, at the same meeting of collective wisdom, informs us that " he be lieved the effect of the present bill would be to turn children under thirteen Years of age out of the factories into the streets, and then there would be no provision at all for their education." Again we ask, why turn them into the streets ? Are millowners Christian men ? Are children who can read their Bible and say their prayers unfitted for the meridian of a cotton-mill ? Not at all ; but they cannot be worked the long hours of adult labour. But what followed from this pattern of manufac turing morality is still more worthy of admiration. This same personage " believed it was intended to throw the maintenance of children upon their parents for three or four years longer" —a circumstance cer tainly not to be deplored if we had, as the result, their training in a healthier system of religion and morality. We can see nothing to be admired in a system by which parents increase and multiply juvenile " ma chines" rather than the germs of a future generation of thristian men and women. He also regretted this operation of the bill, however, because it would " pre vent children contracting early marriages (!) It was, therefore, calculated to PRESS VERY HEAVILY UPON THE POOR (!)" Strange objection to the bill, this ! It will prevent children under thirteen years of age getting married ! We couldn't wish it to do a better thing, though we can scarcely see how this admirer of early marriages can trace such to be its operation. At a meeting of the inhabitants of Salford upon the same subject, we find another gentleman, of whom we never heard before, stating that " he had been told by a manufacturer that the effect of the bill would be to throw 20,000 children out of employment ; and that, in order to avoid the necessity of employing older and giving higher wages"—is this the sore point after all ?—" the manufacturers were fitting up machinery to supersede manual labour !" Can there be much plainer speaking than this, as to the real objection to the bill. It rescues the demoralised factory infant from his phy sical slavery and his moral degradation ! There is no thing of sectarian objection here ; no objection to Church of England trustees, or Church of England Catechisms ; but a very perceptible objection to paying adult men and women for the unnatural toil extracted from the life-blood of children. Most emphatically we must express our conviction that this latter gentleman libels, in this assertion, the great majority of the manufacturing body. They are surely not prepared to commit an outrage to decency so gross as would be the discharge from their employ ment of the whole of their juvenile population, because the legislature has declared that they shall be edu cated, and they shall not he over-worked ! If such be the case, the world can have little respect for their own morality, or their " liberal" professions of care for the welfare of those classes which Providence has thrown into dependence upon them. 3 Ontabrod, not long ago, thp ceneics and crueltiea practised in the thin seam coal mines of England and Scotland, as exhibited to us by the report of a parliamentary committee. We were shocked, more recently, by the appalling ignorance and degrading vice, exhibited to us as existing in the ma nufacturing districts; and we have now to look upon a similar record of mingled cruelties, selfishness, and suffering, which is brought before us by a report of the " Children Employment Commission," as existing amongst the population employed in the lace manufac tures of this country. We shall take leave to bring a few of the details of the report in question before our readers, premising only a few explanations necessary to enable them more clearly to understand the subject. The manufacture of lace comprehends a number of different branches, in all of which; and in some exclu sively, young persons and children are employed— some of the latter, to use the, language of one of the commissioners, "as soon as they can tie a knot or use a needle !" The first of these branches, which we shall notice, is that of "drawing," which consists in draw,. ing out with a needle the threads which hold together the separate widths, which make up the entire piece as it comes out of the machine, In the Nottinghamshire district the children commence their work at four, five, and six years of age. Mr. Grainger, the commissioner before referred to, found one child placed at its work by its parental BEFORE IT WAS TWO YEARS OLD! We quote a portion of the evidence collected by thiS gentleman respecting the hands employed in drawing : " Mrs. Houghton examined.—ls a lace-drawer, and has four children ; Harriet eight years, Ann six, Mary four, and Eliza two years old; of these the three elder are employed as lace-drawers. Harriet was not quite three when she began to work, Ann was about the same, and Mary was not quite two years old ! I Eliza ' has tried and drawn a few threads out.'—[Sub-Commissioner.—All this was interrupted with Mind you work,' Take care,' Make haste,' Now, Anne, get on,' Mind your work.']—Begins generally at 6 a.m. in the summer, and 7 in the winter ; in the former goes on till dark, in the latter till 10 p.m. The two biggest children work with witness these hours; Mary begins at the same time time in the morning, but she leaves off about 6 p.m. The children have no time to get out to play. They go out very seldom.' Have breakfast when they have time to yet it the same with dinner and tea. Have about a quarter of an hour for each meal. The children are obliged to sit at their work. They sit all day. [` Mind your work.'] The work tries the eyes. The black is the worst. It is drees work.' [` Now, mind your work.'] The children have very good health." "The children have very good health !" So says the parent ; and the commissioner remarks that ' 6 they are very fine and pretty girls, and appear healthy." But let us only reflect upon the amount of toil which they endure, and ask ourselves how long such mere infants can hold up under it. The " two biggest" work, we are told, in summer, from six o'clock till dark, and, in winter, from seven till ten, p.m." The latter is fifteen hours ; the former may be seventeen ; on the average, therefore, they work sixteen hours a day, sit. ting the whole time on chairs, "their legs being too short to reach the ground." And was this inhuman amount of toil imposed upon these innocents from ne cessity ? No. The father of these very children was earning 235. per week as his regular wages ! Now, what does the reader imagine is the paltry sum for which mere infants are thus mercilessly sacrificed? —for, we are told, that a few years of such labour re duces them to mere shadows in body, and to a condi tion of mind little short of idiotcy. Three shillings per week is stated to be " a very high average," whilst ano ther is convinced that it is " much more than is usually named." • The next process, " threading," is performed princi pally by boys about the age of eight years. At the age of 15 the girls become winders, and the boys go to the machines. During the seven years they are employed in " threading," they are mere parts of the machines, and must work for the 16, 18, 20, or 22 hours per day that the machines work ! One child stated that he had often stopped from four o'clock on one morning till two o'clock the next, and that, twice or thrice in one week. It is common to stay all night at the machines; and the children are compelled to attend at whatever hour they may be called for, and often in the middle of the night. A constable, examined, states that "he fre quently sees a number of children, many as young as eight or ten, little things hardly as high as the knee, going to various factories as threaders, at all times of the night," or " coming out in the middle of the night in light clothing, and apparently suffering from the cold"—a circumstance scarcely to be wondered at, when we are informed that the tempetiture of such factories, when the gas is lighted, is sometimes as high as 85 degrees, whilst that out of doors, at night, may be below freezing point ! Another witness, Mr. Wm. Hinde, states that hundreds of these children have been sent to their graves by their incessant labour and want of rest. They have no regular time for their meals they have their meals sent them, and eat them when they can ;" and so irregular is their sleep, that they are frequently seen lying down in the middle of the shop floor, or under the tables, or on the old coats of the men, glad to catch, in any discomfort, a temporary ob livion of their sufferings. The process called " winding" is almost invariably performed by children and young women, who begin to work at the age of 12 or 14. The commissioners declared it to be proved that in this employment they have "no regular and certain time whatever for sleep or recreation, being liable to be called upon at any pe riod during 16, 20, or 22 hours out of 24, while they have frequently to go from one place to another, often at considerable distances, at all hours of the night and at all seasons." They are employed in the same facto ries with men, and in a great majority of cases no pre cautions are taken for the preservation of morality. " In the town of Nottingham," says Mr. Grainger, ' parties--clergy, police, manufacturers, workpeople, and pa rents—agree that the present mode of employing children and young persons as threaders and winde{s is a most fertile source of immorality. There can, in fact, be but few states more immediately leading to vice and profligacy. Children of both sexes are called out of their parents' houses at all hours of the night, and, as it is quite uncertain how long they may be required, whether for two hours or the whole night, a ready and unanswerable excuse for staying out is furnished.- The threaders, who are usually boys, and the winders, who are generally girls, are required at the same time, and thus they have every facility for forming improper connexions. • 'The natural results of such a noxious system are but too apparent, and must have contributed in no slight degree to the immorality which, according to the opinion universally expressed, prevails to a most awful extent in Nottingham. In addition to the immediate evils to the children themselves, the domestic peace and comfort of the families of which they are members are sacrificed to this most unnatural state of things." Another witness, the clerk to the Nottingham union, says " the extent of early sexual intercourse is dread. ful. A principal cause of this demoralization is the facility- of boys and girls .mirtgling together in the streets at night, and the almost total absence of parental con trol," whilst the vice-chairman of the board of guar dians gives the following striking description of the operation of the system : " I have known many parents come out of the country merely to live on the labour of their young children. In one case, a short time ago, a widow carne with three children, of 12, 14, and 15 years of age, out of Derbyshire. These chil dren were sent into a factory, the mother being only employed in preparing their meals, and getting them up early enough in the morning. They did not come home to their meals ; they were taken in the factory. All these children died in eighteen months. I think this resulted from their employ ment. Almost all the families employed in the manufacturer less Nottingham are, with few exceptions, supported more or the labour of their children ! Amon er evils of by y ystem is that of reversing the order of n a t ure ; children t le h s i s s become, at an early age, independent of their parents ; in many cases the latter are even obliged to act as menials to their children. Another class of evils is, that worthless fathers are enabled to spend their time in low pothouses out of the earnings of their children. The vice and immorality springing from such a system, are too obvious to require illustration." The above area few only of the a p pa lli ng facts brought before us by the report; b ut , We ask fear lessly, are they not quite sufficient to warrant the im mediate interference of parliament, in order to put down a syaem so dreadful ? In what are the people who can tolerate this awful sacrifice of infant life and purity upon the shrine of cupidity, better than the wretched fanatics who. stain their idols with infant blood, or plunge them into the fire or the flood as offer ing to their ideal Gods ? Better ! 'Why the Christian people, who thus mercilessly bestialize and slaughter their offspring, are worse—a thousand times worse -than the benighted heathen, for whose civilization our missionaries are to be found labouring in every clime ! - It is doUbtless good to engross the commerce of the world. It is a boast that we are able to supply to be able to point to our exhauctlesa ingenuity as di64 played throughout the range of our manufactured pro' ducts, and to wield the vast wealth which us ; hut if these triumphs can only be ach ieved by the sacrifice of the health and morals of our working Pa pulation—if ou r w e alth is to continue thus dyed in the blood of infants, and its acquisition to be tracked in " perish crime and suff e ri n g--we are prepared to sa y that wealth—p er i s h that manufacturing supremacy which is purch as ed a t such a cost !" th i ey hrins of Most sincerely do we trust that the provisions Sir James Graham's Factory and Education Bill no employ iY be at once ex t en d e d to th e population e n the ed lace manuf ac t ures o f G rea t Britain; for surely after. this he m us t b e i n d ee d a h ar dy man who ca n contend thatthe bodily and intellectual training of the children of the working classes can be safely left to the to; checked contr o l o f e ith er em ployers or parent s. Wha can voluntaryism or the Sunday school system do -- what have they done—to meet such an evil as we have here exhibited ? C ompara ti ve ly nothing. And,...,Tet we dare say that th e ver y people, under whose . oil contemplation are these scenes of fester i ng vice an appalling human suffering, are at this moment loading the tables of the House of Commons with against a me asure o f e d uca ti on and protection, for. children si m il ar l y s i tuate d i n th e factory distric ts, an a talking for soo th o f t h e i r oppos iti on to .it b e_ng---for conscience sake ! petitions wit 4 oily rata cvny =riot of Om Riot* Ea to There can sc arce ly b e ' any man stupid ell° ll g i , le believe that th e recen t unwor thy a ttack of Mr. Pa r upon certain 'members of the Watch Committee, wa: instigated by an y b e tt e r feeling than to give antloYanc It imputed, by a sidewind, to no less than seven gen tlemen; equal i n eve ry respect—in character, talents, and position, as well—to himself, the possibility, or 11 : ther probability, of their being influenced by klis h°fles i t motives in the performance of their onerous duties. said to them, in sub s t ance , " you are not men of I'9- nour ; you are capable of acts in your official capacitY4i which, performed i n y our i n di v id ua l c apacity, w°ll render you unworthy o f th e name o f gentlem en or even honest men." We should not ha ve thought it worth while to allud e to any thing so con t empt ibl e , were it not f or the () p: portunity which it p resen t s t o us of urging 11 1 3°11 the better cond uc t e d por ti on o f t h e " liberal" PartY in d to council the propri e ty o f, if poss ibl e , putting an en ,• e i t the scenes of pe rsona l attac k an d recrimination "'",l too frequently di sgrace t h e procee di n gs of that hbi_aeY.: Is it not possibl e for gentlemen, opposed thOtlgh may be in politi cs , t o d e b ate matters o f merely local I c u i, terest without f orge t t i ng t h e or di nar y amenitie s of re , vilized society ? I t may certa i n l y be difficult t° of al strain, within any reasonable grounds, a g entleml he Mr. Alder man E ar l e ' s pecu li ar organ i z ation ; bu t 1 . 0 . will persist in his unseemly displays, surely it i s l a ble ratter to all ow hi m to rema i n " a l o ne in his giora., Why should a n y men w h o h ave res pect for th eir e w e racter contest with suc h a one hi s very questialia honours? LOCAL, N.l?. nn T s be at G ur r d e a a y t Ni fe r e r st N er e n w st y ea e m rk - . ship s , h L e Lieutenant Hoske u ' 7cl"tY passengers. MESSR IT S• .....ERRMANN.—Messrs• Herrmann's con- - r a, a rta place last evening. We understand it was well atteadeu went off with spirit. D., orb. o PREP'? .RMENT.—The Rev. John Newton Peill, B• , t his recently t officiated as curate of St. AVIStiBB'S ChUrCh , r to lpth o f St. 131 ' own, has been presented to the Rectory Cambridge. n s On r .Saturday, in Bold-street, a horse in a gentleinalhe la pdooorutana.bruorveet juryt ihaeewwokauiscnksdnefdo seriousits un d c i t o m tnhe p ac a te n ts i hs o ae n ry t oveterinary shoot h o violently ot on er e t g h e the surgeon i n h e knee. • e ax Is fine d oc3l, t ho spot. A re re h ' the available a t ß v a a k . place on localo F t a r l i e d n a t y er next. the will to the advertisement of Mr. Evton's concert eci a ll ielEapbYTON'S CONCERT.—Our musical frien d s arrhic._ to 0); his friends and supporters. e u° ' Mr F 7 asopl:s t a r t A e i o e s n t s , , :o z i n s m IN . Brearey, who has t b ol‘ e w e in n r.t :: alYifridnhagaluse uTeer:,egiw.„sbiegtill;t; fully . F. illustrated lecture on the Hol Land c onneetr o - Diet ° prophecies, at the Adelaide Gallery, y Loudon , w it ',.. l * tile ',I -i‘acibooonuudßt a COURTS.—We s o e. _vreeNnpvieneagt understand t lecture, Bolding views, at the Polytechnic Exhibition, NI ten der w itsi asie ,hsa , ' of Mr. John Tom kinson for erectin the carcass of the i t b : Assize Courts, has been accepted, g and we h. e t r c atifY; t l3 o l amountre of the tender was about X 78,000. Itlrpa r e' l l i ' i lli and d ection that we have a townsman with sunle i. . -- o leo h i es . enterprise to undertake the erection of sh e " ..11 o°.. hies' building. No doubt the erection ofthe building-- siste•-i proceeded with immediately, and . „,,b eon with all despal" with its durability. pure' , -Sh e „ a d FINES UPON PUBLICANS AND BEE SE LES."' su poa- te „ on n er of informations against publicans and be t erseli erg- nlie a° "' Friday to twelve. Nin e of these aga i n st P u fo riaer and three against beersellers. Th cases were aie fu r t a tile b l a were disposed of as follow :---Twowere fined -w - eB a c oe - .., 1 costs; a three £3 each and - costs e £2 and cos t : ', l iege"' • nd costs; and two were acwitted. Ofthree " e- 0 sati the two were fined £3 each and costs, and e t h other costs. lion relative a 31 of the Iklit. ALDERMAN EARLE.—The following is a. L .°, -- ri e 's re,,,, amendment tandothPeteidnehliygitbhielitCyoeufnscpiliriutp_mprierAetl'ilbr.tal'ot'ritsat,,leliebobreeer°ollo. & ~ to sit on the Watch Cominittee:—" That W I ; Earle's l motion is unnecessary and uncalled att acks a a - that i n .- :: provoking. rejoinders. tbaiYas .Cou • deprecates the frequent personal ,„. 5 oi,!. mad n e n in the Council-room upon individual ineelri o to . (11 :'; which p it is highly desirable r b e od n y t , e whieh have a tendency to bring this Colla°''' oat"' ' Lu n t d in a l l hi . e y r s• in g Curr leasan t , ,s The to avoid." . h er o.- T he don .vie_wnefintqhrsbtewdyasnhfetddownarSda INQUEST k • ble of . a most u tin p demi; e , who was 1 , 1 -- Years of age was a Pas': FOI, • , Oa e- Borough gaol to • , which he WAS committed from ..n on court i J n anuary last. He was tried at the sessT: i 'i c o , 5 brua trans port' s ; p lef_s few and sentenced to seven ars' days after his sentence he became unwell, ana"„eoo,?ej in the hospital, where he b the '''''' he d l . was attended Y lieh - gradually declined until Saturday morning, v" Verdict=" reh Death from natural causes." e Cb;, ) We understand that the anniversary s for th p " sermon , i . e _i, Missionary v erpoe ,, 0 % t he 11 1, Society will be preached in Li on ~ will be he'll e stoir e ,4 Sunday, May 21st, and t . lowing d ays. R E. mee ino _ . i .,,,,,h al Rev Bickersteth, Rev. p ro mf"....taae'rehe Rev. C. Barlett, incumbent of St. Mary's, Bir ":• s i' a t, ' we other friends the of the society are expected to be Pr' and , c i Rev. Chancellor will preside at the m eetiagt e i sta ° ,.; o l trust, that the heathen, which has hitherto characterize the oal h , the, C, n i l . branch of • this valuable society, will distingoo)l c ' 0 7 00, °1 4 of anniversary. Parent We are happy to learn that the -1° d o filo! Society has, during the past vcar, WO t he any . preceding one by ' ' dpours several thousand t he amount collected last year being £315,0001 flea t a a fter" - a se- Coacu RUN AWAY WITH.—On Thursday - h ojea h is driver of us y s mourning c . tu rn es a down a party' at the gates of the Necropolis, _ s elf he j horses' Bead round the ~.0 , arid left them standing bY, .th anes e'„ tbe the street. off a A few moments after they took frigh t _ ra in& b e a fearful rate down Bruswick-road, just t' t w ith i a corner t contact p i e eeS , s ` e ", iron r •of Moss -street, the coach came in the same of a gentleman's house, which broke it t ros evad e d ip time smashing the coach almost to at ° , n ' r oae l e fec tll riousl a few Y injuring one of the horses. Had the coae!,' . l.l e , t , yards further, it must have proclueeklarhe 01'0, among_ about twenty children who were playing in 0,0,201 FRACAS IN THE WORKHOUSE._ --Two young d mic g ees _mates e in the Workhouse, named William Hal l aP y,ch ll Ao• ter:lu st - 8 0e vert with assault were brought up at the Police-court, Ye' assault and disorderly conduct. Police - e,"01 e e the 182, stated that, on Sunda night, betlveen sa 6 On/ c o o'clock,wall of he saw the prisoner y all throwing s t°ne 'st ;. alt e r, was wifththe probationary ward ; lie refused to re r l e ' pri SO go considerable difficulty that he was 133 „,. 9 dered, i r e re' The other prisoner, yesterday morning. was a gainst whorl' before the . . Deputy-Governor for some offence ag. foe , vi ri , gu e iations, and, as lie refused, an officer was Sell' IY r eP to li kicked in the roin M Rushton, after s hary the al 0, Mr. . d t 00 661 00 ' 64 a mending the prisoners . for their con Ile , o pt to Pay a penalty of £5 each. In default of po rn , r epl9 oil, sentenced to two months' i priao•nment.----2upe r st i e d, c t l i ti L st t i r fro m Mr. Rushton, he the DeputY -6°l ; ( ;n ri a ° rY," - __ ere were now 30 persons in the probatLi.d,' ► in and 1,1 7 1 2 women and children in the classification w d ' eslic gs to E FUNDS, SATURD A Y E NG. ---Tbe ffleie ll - S na• Consols to-day VENI_ scarce SII 0 , 0 le" h were very limited, and d There j , v ibifri support the advance previously notice • , on epeu . . eis 0. siderable firmness in prices wheri they firs . re S p earA u oo fol° was, however, subsequently checked by the. .: or V cipel lC one or two sellers. The final money quotation y ol k ' a er• 04, and for the account, 96i buyers.. '40301695, hipsff • , at 178 to 179 • India Stock, 266 to 20 '6'7 l . t ° ,l s' , 2d. issue, 655. ' erl to 675. pm.; the 1 ._ a . 'Tbre,, a ,ll ll ,. Pm. ; Three per Half per Cnts. Reduced 1018 9 1 9' _ ... l ° l ,l o ' ee .anO, i i idr e per Cents.' 1021 tog _ Ikto 4 - ; -54 e , v 1 21 ; and in til_ Bonds, 75 s t ; Long Annuities, .1,. c oo for e i gn • ° "S. pm. The absence ofd saa nism ar s, in „ or securities caused some fluctuation, an; t `22l - h i# , ll i t og havti having share of the Change. Actives left " ti cents• l- ‘ lo t opened at 22i; and the New Three per „ c lose yte rl, at 32nc buyers, havin g 'opened at 33 to 1- ; Mexica'-cori/e•isa, at 29 401 to t° $; the Deferred, 8 4'• Portuguese', , oelg i ; 105 to Colombian; 2.1 k to 51 ;. Danish, SJ of 610 _ 106 ; and Brazilian, '75 to 76. me eting io tiO o COUNCIL NI • • body will ' EkTINP.—The usual monthly . ng r ose oosi be held to-morrow, when the .folio thinac with of the Courts of Law Committee will. Cetn eu a .. ;ol.lSl 0" derati mr. k t i of the council :—" That upon a Al" '-' an d Ye o oo Town-c lerk of the report .of the. To er kwn-cler'Leopriate4sifo to Lo g an -d,..- portio in favour of the proPogil Courts n t °f the building of. St, George •11..a,'.; relied,! bat That tt o the purposes of th Police Court, J° l o 'd o p/ tbo would, onie report cannot, with advantage,. 13 ? o ra t ion ° l ost whole i the contrary, tiazard great deteri9e cooncivier_ the original ; and that it be recommended to the re:OOO,6OA ationo as s l t nal plans be proceeded w ith, subjec : t • w ith, er a' o the ventilating tower, by diaPerngropose"b, the the tion committeeon the find that the estimate for til Pdoptedt.'t the the site of the Islington market , if a A O t"Led' coun c il , resolutionswould be considerably diminished. _,„g , prv-fore ig of t. of the council of the sth instance ri t ii; t he ro e going. mac Finance Committee at varianow'y tbie o ild' b j lotion , e aY be rescinded so far as necessarY• mo rate. pro lo ' Mr one earried the dail courts will sit.in• 3 : 9- 11Y i ll ' - a the Mr _the site of Islington market, as origin,' motion: 0 t be • Joh Holmes hooks, w n has placed the follOWlng,ately at di tb° proceedi hich he will asl I t •ke ith uiech res c° l3l. c. eave oma •„, v been fne n f bill referrediis of the Finance Comnlitt ee -3-e. ~„0 , ,v 0 ... jog Of rnittee in to by the motion having been set.," a ppr° _.... 1 roe the water bill the Coramolis—" That the council, a ge lf. eo ri ill of the commissionersfor Pavingt.atill by t soli do instr th e p•• ucp en- i a means i n ch ire Committee to support s to pro, be 0 petition Power,and f that Pt'rPoo at S , or. a to a .theirand thereto.,that the Mayor be authorise