The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-15 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING. AUG. 15, 1848. THE division which took place in the Council on Monday last, negativing the Report of the Spe cial Committee on the subject of local rates, has not surprised us. The great question, involved in the Committee's recommendations—the propriety of rating the Dock and Corporate estate—is a new one. Its advocates have had a large amount of prejudice to contend with, whilst its opponents have a strong ad captandum case, in favour of the exemption of these estates from any contribution towards the public burthens, in which they are, and will be, backed by a large portion of the pub lic out of the borough of Liverpool. Under all the circumstances, we regard the defeat as a most en couraging one ; and venture to predict that the next, or a very early appeal to the Council, will be triumphantly successful, so far as that body has power to effect the required object. We shall take the liberty of canvassing a few of the objections raised by various speakers ; and first, with respect to the proposal to rate the Dock Estate. It is urged that this estate is a public property, held on trust by the Dock Trustees for the bene fit of the commerce of the whole empire; and, as such, ought to be exempt from contributing to the burthens of the locality in which it is situated ; that, by so rating it, we shall, in fact, be levying a tax upon the trade and consumption of the entire kingdom. The argument is certainly plausible; but no more. The Dock Trustees are neither bound, nor permitted, to exercise their trust for the benefit of the public, solely. There is no power in the legislature to compel them to reduce their rates, for instance ; and all past reductions have been made on local grounds, viz., to attract com merce to the port. The estate has invariably been treated by parliament as a local estate, bound to contribute as much as possible to the convenience and comfort of the local population ; and the ap plication of the question of locality has even been extended in favour of the opposite strand, as wit ness our spacious marine parades, our noble land ing steps, and, more recently, an expenditure of sixty thousand pounds, for the accommodation of the river steamers. As a constitutional question, too, all precedent is in favour of the rating. We make all other bodies, drawing a revenue from any locality, contribute to the support of the poor, whom they attract to that locality ; and, in the case of railways, we levy the tax, not upon the original , value of the land occupied, but upon the incr ease d value given to it by the outlay of immense capital. On the ground of justice to the ratepayers of the town, the case for rating the Dock Estate is very strong—is, in fact, unassailable. Trace the parish of Liverpool upon the map, and what is it ? A , narrow strip of land running parallel with the river, in no place much above a mile from what was once I the strand. Yet upon the population located within this limited area is saddled the whole of the pauperism inevitable wherever there is a large and fluctuating market for labour; whilst, year by year, we are encroaching upon that area with our dock works, and thus decreasing the number of the population so rated, and the consequent pressure of j the burthen upon each. To form the Albert Dock and Warehouses we swept away a mass of valuable warehouse and other property. We have occupied a large space of building ground with the canal docks at the north end of the town, which would ultimately have been built upon and contributed to our local funds. We are about to pull down a , mass of streets and warehouses at Wapping, by the conversion of which into non-ratepaying docks the I parish will become serious losers; and contempo raneously with, and as a result of this gradual ap sorption of the area of the town, we see our mer chants and tradesmen—all classes, in fact, except our shopkeepers, and those who are bound to their several business localities—getting beyond the parish boundaries, whilst their former residences are converted into dwellings, or apartments, for the working classes. Moreover, Liverpool, to the ex clusion of the out-townships, has to contend sin gle-handed with the increasing shoals of pauperism which Ireland casts upon our shores, and which we must either pay for keeping until drawn off by the demand for labour in the manufacturing dis tricts, or be at the expense of sending back to their own country. Certainly, in justice, the Dock Es tate, take it even as a strictly public property, ought to bear some portion of the burthen which it thus creates. Parliament, however powerfully appealed to, could never vindicate that public selfishness which would crush a community so situated. At least, if our docks are to be worked as for the na tion alone, exclusively of local considerations and claims, the nation, and not the parish of Liverpool, ought to support the burthens which they entail upon us. We are quite aware how advisable it is that the dock accommodation of Liverpool should be pro-' vided at as low a price as possible; but we cannot entertain the slightest alarm on this score. Al ready Liverpool is the cheapest port in the empire; and considering its great convenience of loading, unloading, warehousing, &c„ it is the cheapest in the world. By the course proposed, of making the docks contribute to the support of the burthens of the parish in which they are situated, it is possible that we may have to postpone for a year or two any further reductions of dock rates. The productive ness of the estate, however, and the attractions which it presents to the shipping and commerce of the world, are being continually increased by the mechanical and other arrangements brought into practice by the Dock Committee; and were this, even, not the case, our preeminence is too well esta blished to be lightly shaken, or at all events to be shaken by the mere postponement of a boon which has not yet been demanded of us. Besides, what other port in the empire is in a position to outbid us in the race for cheapness of dock and general accommodation ? We believe firmly that amongst nine-tenths of the community, this portion of the Select Com mittee's recommendation is a settled question, as being an act of justice towards the overburthened ratepayers of Liverpool, conferred at a sacrifice to the whole community of consumers of foreign pro duce so small as to be almost inappreciable. The question as to rating the Corporation property is a slightly different one. It does seem, at first sight, slightly to savour of the absurdity of taking money out of one pocket to put it in the other ; and we were almost staggered ourselves by the following pitious picture of the consequences of the step, drawn by a Thursday's contemporary—the Liver pool Times : "The question then is this, is it more for the interest of the town that the Council should have its present Sur plus Fund available for the purpose of widening streets, removing obstructions and nuisances, erecting public buildings, as baths and wash-houses, providing schools, gardens, and museums f or the people, and applying a couple of thousands a year to civic hospitality, or the' a portion of that surplus should be taken for poor-rates ? Considering that Liverpool is the unhealthiest town in England, it would be desirable rather to increase than diminish the fund applicable to the widening of streets, which is only anotller name for giving fresh air and health to the public ; and though there is no doubt that a exteriorbuilding, with an iterior like a barn. might be made to ~; arswer all the purposes of St. George's Hall, and that his Worship might entertain the public on sandwiches and ginger beer, yet we really think that the good old town would lose more than it would gain by such meanness. Whatever may have been the cost of St. George's Hall, we have at length a building n hich Liverpool may well be proud of ; and though two thousand a-year spent in good dinners at the town-hall may appear to some rigid Utili tarians to be thrown away, we cannot help thinking that the town has obtained its equivalent in the conciliatory and friendly spirit which the impartial civic Hospitalities of the town-hall have diffused through society, which has not only rendered the intercourse of private life agreeable, but has greatly facilitated public business, by bringing together men of every religion and political party. who would never have met elsewhere except in angry conflict." On mature consideration, however, our contem porary has been, we think, far from proving his case. " Considering that Liverpool is the un healthiest town in England," it occurs to us that its deficient sewerage—for which we are now paying rather heavily—and its uncleanliness ought to have been considered before the want of St. George's Hall, " a building," he says, " which Liverpool may well be proud of," but of which, with all submis sion to him, we are rather ashamed than proud. It would have been infinitely more creditable to us, as a community, to have attended to the wants of our poorer brethren, brutalized and perishing by thou sands in filthy cellars and courts, before proceeding to gratify our vanity at a cost of nearly two hundred thousand pounds. We are not rigid utilitarians either. We have no wish, for instance, to see his Worship the Mayor, " entertaining the public on sandwiches anci ginger beer"—there is, hbwever, a Whig precedent for a diet little better, that £2OOO per annum notwithstanding;—and we should be the last in the world to wish to see him deprived of the means of providing that good cheer, which our contemporary describes as having such a remark able effect, in bringing about harmony amongst people, who would otherwise be disposed to be cut ting each other's throats. We are also quite agreed with the views of the Special Committee, as to the rating of the owners of all property, whether large or small, within the borough. There may be abundant reasons given for omitting to tax the occupiers of cottage pro perty, the most irresistible of which is the difficulty of collecting and apportioning the rates. But there is no valid reason why a mass of property, amount ing to one-fourth of the entire yearly rental of the rateable property within the borough, and noto riously the best tenanted, and yielding the best return, should be permitted to escape taxation. It is not true that the payment, if insisted upon; would fall upon the poorer classes of our population, and thus be productive of hardship upon those who are the least able to pay, unless, by reducing the return for capital invested in such property, we withdraw the inducement to build it. We have no fear of this, however. There is an ample margin at pre sent between the return made by cottage houses and those of a better class; and from present ap pearances we should much rather expect to see the small portion of vacant land remaining within the borough appropriated for cottages than for any other species of property. It is not at all unlikely either that, in a few years, we may see a large por tion of the household property of the better class in some of our streets either pulled down and replaced with cottage property, or converted into smaller tenements for our working classes. For the present the Council, by an unexpectedly small majority, and in a very small meeting—it seems by the way as if some gentlemen were not over much disposed to commit themselves on the question—have decided against the recommenda tions of the Select Committee. There are some good names, however, both Whig and Conservative, in the minority; and, sooner or later, the voice of public opinion will carry the question. To Mr. Parker, its zealous advocate in the Council, and to those who have supported his efforts, we recom mend a little further pressure, and the constituen cies as well must do their duty on the first of November. WE regret much to learn that a misapprehen sion has prevailed in some quarters, with respect to a paragraph which appeared in our publication of this day fortnight. We stated, in the paragraph in question, what had come to our ears from trust worthy sources, that in some wards, in which the present Conservative members had displeased their constituencies by their proceedings with respect to the water question, it would he attempted to make use of the strong feeling existing in opposition to the Rivington scheme, for the purpose of procuring the return of candidates opposed to it, hut, in other respects, of Whig-Radical politics. In short, a party manceuvre was to be attempted, against which we conceived it to be our duty, as Conser vative journalists, to warn our readers. It has been imagined, on what grounds we can not at all conceive, that our remarks were pointed at a public body in our town—the National Con federation. Nothing certainly could be further from our intention. We have, from the first day of its formation, expressed our decided approval of the objects of that body; and up to this hour we are not aware that they have deviated from a straightforward pursuit of that object—the revision, equalization, and, were it possible, the economiza tion of our local imposts. Already the fruits of their exertions are manifesting themselves in the increased attention bestowed by the rate-paying public upon their own interests, and in the efforts making by them to assert their just claims to the consideration of the authorities. Under such cir cumstances, we could never have dreamt of im parting to that body the degradation of lending their deserved influence to any mean party trick, or of mixing themselves up with the petty machi nations of ward juntas. We cannot consent to recognise party politics as affecting the proceedings of such a body, knowing, as they must themselves know, that the instant they diverge from the path of duty which they have marked out, they must cease to merit the respect and confidence of their fellow-townsmen. BUT a few days ago, Whig-Radicalism was in an extacy of thankfulness. We had escaped the hor rors of a rebellion in Ireland, of which this feeble party had sown the seeds and watered them by years of pandering to agitation, and of trafficking for place with its incendiary leaders. An outbreak among the disaffected Irish in our own town bad also been repressed by the foresight and firmness of the magistracy, aided by the loyal portion of our population ; and our local " Liberals" and their organs, in the exuberance of their happiness, could almost afford to be honest, and to give honour where honour was due. We imagined, indeed, that byegones were to remain byegones; that the ban was now to be taken off a class of our fellow countrymen who, reviled though they have been, and persecuted for their steady maintenance of Protestantism and of loyalty to the throne and the constitution, had proved themselves our best reli ance in the hour of danger, both in Ireland and in our own town ; that, in short, to be an Irish or an Orange Protestant was no longer to be treated as a crime or a reproach. We might almost be excused if we were even sanguine enough to hope for a further result of the lesson which had been taught us. We imagined that Liberalism, even, would henceforth be slow in bestowing its sympathies upon the bleatings of Irish grievance mongers ; that it would be some time before its oracles would proclaim themselves the champions of men whose hands were so recently prepared to fill our town—the town which received them in their nakedness, and has so largely re warded their unworthiness—with bloodshed and conflagration. We conceived that, even in the eyes of this excessively enlightened party, it would no longer be an act of bigotry and intolerance to confide the custody of our property, and to give a fair day's wages for a fair day's work, to our own English-born fellow-townsman, instead of bestow ing a preference upon the alien and the rebel in intention and in heart. We were mistaken, how ever. The hour of danger past, Whig-Radicalism, like the dog returning to its vomit, has again gone back to its old alliance with the scum of rebellion, and would fain clothe the crushed limbs of dis affection with the robes of martyrdom. The labour ing Irish amongst us are held up as persecuted lambs in the eyes of mankind. The old tactics of "enormous lying" are resorted to in their behalf; and, an agitation put down which threatened to involve the empire in slaughter and crime, another —a milder, meeker sort of thing—is suggested in its stead. Whig-Radicalism finds itself weak when loyal. It cannot get on, or make a decent show of strength, without a blatant mob of Irish hod-car riers, navies, translators, and oratorical tailors, to shout at its heels. Perhaps we may be doing injustice to the Whig- Radicals, as a party, in attributing to them the con duct and the feelings which we have described, and of which the Liverpool Mercury is the exponent. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Asr ADMIRER OF Fr RAINESS.—Our correspondent can gratify his very proper wish to show his respect for our inestimable chief magistrate by leaving his subscription at any of the newspaper offices, where books for the purpose are kept. We expect that the amount of donations will be such as to justify the committee in procuring a more costly and mag nificent testimonial than was at first contemplated. We believe that Mr. Conybeare has been presented, by his re lative the Dean of Llandaff, to the vicarage of Axminster, Devon. A correspondent at Croston, a village which stands on the banks of the river Yarrow, shortly before it empties itself into the river Douglas, derides the notion of conveying the water of the former stream to Liverpool. He says the inhabitants cannot drink the water or use it for domestic purposes. It is, in fact, worse than useless for such objects—if used for washing the articles are turned quite yellow. In an advertisement, last week, of the Upper front of a ware house to be let, in Duke-street," the words ought to have been "Upper Part." We are afraid our compositors could scarcely decipher the writing of "Argos," the ink which he has used being scarcely perceptible, but his suspicions, we think, are groundless. The complaints of an Irish Protestant are just and ought to be redressed, but his letter being written on both sides and only received yesterday, we cannot find room for it. Though we may agree with many of the statements of" I. Clan datus," we cannot think that the " report," to which he re fers, deserves the wholesale condemnation he strives to cast on it. "J. H. S."—An excellent letter under this signature, addressed to Cousin Tim, the author of a letter in a late number of the Mercury, on the merits of the Roscoe Club, has been received. After stating the advantages of such clubs, he says—" Our aunt would no doubt be surprised at hearing the enjoyment you receive, for a subscription of 255. per annum, at the Roscoe Club. You may not, however, be aware that equal advantages, and for less expense, may he had at a society of which I have for some time been a member, the Brunswick Club. The subscription is Iss. Der annum, which entitles you to the advantages of dining., for one shilling, on soups, fish, and joints, in the company of highly esteemed men of character, business, and intellectual attainment. You have exercises of every description—in and out of doors ; a library, a news-room, classes for music, &c., at (he says) charges as low as those of the Roscoe Club, and thinks that his aunt, with her usual partiality for economy, will see the Brunswick Club presents a decided advantage." Ebt Ltherpool &tanbarb. TIE LIVERPOOL §TANDAitiI. It may be d private move on the part of our con temporary;--a gasping effort to win back again the subscriptions lost by .a month's enforced advocacy of the cause of peace and order. It is grievous to find one's lucubrations rejected by the beer-houses of Vauxhall-road and Marybone. and our attempted smartnesses no longer expand dolourously the faces of wondering Paddies and Terences. It tells upon the till; and the till is a sensitive monitor. We shall, therefore, be more certain to place our hands on the right offender if we direct the few remarks which we have to make to the Mercury himself, as the author of the article which has called them forth. Our contemporary informs us, as a matter of great enormity, that there exists at present " a growing feeling of animosity between the English and the Irish portion of our fellow-townsmen ;" and that he receives, day after day, "letters fraught with hostile expressions against Irish workmen residing here." Two letters, of the kind referred to, he gives us as specimens ; against the first of which we have very little exception to make. The other, however, a threatening letter, purporting to be signed " true orangemen, ' is obviously a for gery ; or, if really written by some bad member of the order, is very disreputable, put forward to throw disrepute upon a body of men, to whose tried and active loyalty, which even the Mercury dares not deny, the entire community is under recent and deep obligations, and who would be amongst the foremost to discountenance so vile a production. Possibly there may exist in some establishments, where numbers of workmen are employed, a little soreness of feeling, such as that complained of. It is only natural, when we witness ingratitude so base as that which has been shown by the rebellious in Ireland, and by too many of their fellow countrymen here, that such a feeling should be created. It was predicted that it would be so. There is a limit to every man's forbearance. The most pacific Englishman will feel repugnance to working at the same bench, the same forge, or the same table, with a fellow who, he knows, has a pike at home ready, and every disposition to use it, for an onslaught upon his life. But that it ever has, or will be, pushed to the length of perse cution of the Irish workmen, or dictation towards their employers, is—what the Journal calls it— " nonsense." The wish is only father to the thought, on the part of a certain description of people. Such oracles as the Mercury would only be too glad to find our loyal Protestant working classes so committing themselves. We can assure the Mercury, however, that this " feeling of animosity between the English and Irish portion of our humbler townsmen," is no great novelty after all—no surprising discovery. For some time past it has existed ; and, strange as it may appear to our innocent contemporary, it is his own innocent lambs—the Irish Repealers—by whom the hand of aggression has been raised. For months past the English and the Irish Protestant labourer has been treated openly by his Roman Catholic fellow workmen as a proscribed being— one whose privileges and even life were only to be tolerated until the signal was given by the O'Briens and other rebellious incendiaries in the sister isle. Wherever the ranks of disaffection was strong enough, the Protestant labourer or artisan has been a proscribed being; pointed at, threatened, and even openly insulted. We have evidence before us of men who have been living for months past in constont expectation of outrage, either out of doors or at home ; and yet who have rendered their un bought and unasked services to the cause of order, These men look naturally for the return which is their due—protection and encouragement; and surely they are not unreasonable in so doing. It map be " liberal" to deny him such a return ; to say to discomfited traitors—" you have failed in your hopes of cutting our throats, or destroying our property, and you shall nevertheless remain our bosom friends and most trusted companions ;" but " liberalism" so extraordinarily confiding is, to our minds, little short of insanity. It is unnatural and wholly irrational. Our contemporary appeals—ad misericordiam— to the fact that there are "good and true" Irishmen in such a town as this; and that the same measure of punishment ought not to be entended to them which we visit upon those of their fellow-country men who " evince ingratitude, indolence, filth, and seditious tendencies. ' Of course not. But does he suppose that the indolent and seditious amongst the Irish 0r our town orP not tolerably well known to those with whom they come into ()any uuntaet, r We never heard that Irish disaffection was particu larly close mouthed. On the contrary, we believe that the pikemen and the clubbists among them are tolerably well known, their own being the tongues which have given information against them. But let us come to our contemporary's sugges tion of a new subject of agitation—the new compact which is to re-unite Whig-Radical sympathy and Irish bawling. The Mercury says that "it has been wished by many of our townsmen," that the Irish should get up a peaceable agitation for a do mestic council of representatives, in each of the three kingdoms, for local purposes; and that such an agitation would have " a large amount of sup port from the press, and from men who are always good indicators of public opinion on constitutional questions"—referring, of course, to himself as one of those good indicators, Of course the idea of such domestic councils of representatives is sheer rubbish; and the suggestion is only worthy of so very small a philosopher. Talking to Irishmen, now, of a domestic council of representatives, for the discussion of local questions is only a silly attempt to reconstruct the old frail michinery by which Whig-Radicalism has for years made the folly and the turbulence of Ireland its stepping stone to power. A people who were so lately ready, or professedly ready, to fight for absolute separation and a republic, are not likely to be tickled with the notion of legislative powers, resembling those of a parish vestry. The whole humbug of separate government must be whipped out of them, not resuscitated to please such good indicators of public opinion as the conductors of the Liverpool Mercury. For the future we must not tolerate such storms even in so small a sphere as a teacup. In conclusion, we would seriously advise our contemporary to get rid of this excessive sympathy manifested towards defected rebellion, and advise him to be manly, as the authorities of our town I have prpved themselves to he, in acknowledging the claims of loyalty, and shaking off ancient pre judices against a valuable and persecuted portion of their fellow townsmen. The Orange Protestants of Liverpool were called upon, as a body, to perform their duty in a serious emergency ; and they ful filled to the letter the expectations of their friends and the authorities. It is not the time, yet, to subject them again to the reproach of the commu nity, whom they have aided to preserve. They shall not, if we can aid them, be offered up as a holocaust to buy back the lost circulation of the Mercury amongst their disaffected fellow country. men ; and, indeed, we don't think the sacrifice would be accepted. Our contemporary refused to hold the clothes of the would-be belligerent Paddies; he would not march through Coventry with their ragged pikemen ; and he will not succeed in win ning back their confidence by nresenting himself, now that the danger is over, with a plaster, a few hebdomadal drops of soothing syrup, and a washy, dirty, water-draught. We understand that a Cricket match will be played this day on the Liverpool ground, .Wavertree-lane, be tween the County of Shropshire and the Liverpool Club. On Thursday a gentleman's house, in Grange-lane, Birkenhead, was entered during the absence of the family, and several silver spoons carried away. AN HONEST AND IMPARTIAL TESTIMONY.—The ru mour of a combination to exclude Irishmen in Liverpool from employment is—nonsense.—Journal. A number of the bondholders largely interested in the Dock scheme, amongst whom are Messrs. Goldsmid, Garnett, and Jos. Bailey, iun„ were last week staying at Birkenhead. PRISONERS FOR TRIAL.—The summer assizes fo r South Lancashire will open in this town to-morrow. The number of prisoners in Kirkdale gaol is 104. Of these not less than five are charged with murder, one with at tempt to murder, five with manslaughter, eight with forgery, and not less than twenty are charged with stab bing ; nineteen are charged with burglary ; s e diti on , one . There are also twelve mint cases. The chartist leader, Dr. M`Douall, is the party who will be placed in the dock on the charge of sedition. THREATENING TO SHOOT.—On Saturday, Abraham Ward Collard, a respectable man, was placed before Mr. Rushton, charged with threatening to shoot Mr. D an i e l Willis of this town. After the uttering of the threats had been proved, the prisoner, in a very excited manner, stated that he was an injured man ; that Mr. Willis had brought a false accusation against him ; and he was, in conse quence, reduced to destitution. Mr. Will i s denied this ; but said, that if Mr. Collard would give an assurance not to violate him or his family, he would not proceed further. Mr. Collard promised this, and was discharged on entering into his own recognizance for £lOO to keep the peace. FOUR MEN APPREHENDED IN THE NIGHT WITH TWO FOWLING-PIECES IN THEIR POSSESSION. Yesterday, four respectable-looking workmen, Robert Donaldson, William Garrie, George Burness, and John Fuller, were placed'at the bar of the Police-court, on the charge of having been found with two guns and certain ammunition in their possession, at the north end of the town, on Saturday night last. Police officer 460 said that about midnight he saw the four prisoners with,the guns produced (one a doubed barrelled, and the other a single barrelled fowling-piece). He questioned them about car rying such weapons, and they at first offered no explana tion ; but aferwards said they had been gull shooting at Bootle, and then that they had been sparrow shooting. A powder-flask and some percussion-caps were also found upon them (produced), sc that he and other officers ap prehended them. Mr. Owen, who appeared for the prisoners, said there was no case against the prisoners at all, and complained that they had been harshly sent from one bridewell to an other, and incarcerated from Saturday night until the pre sent time. The simple facts were, that the prisoners, were respectable men employed at Messrs. Bury and Co.'s foundry ; and that on Saturday evening after their work they had gone out to amuse themselves on Bootle sands; had got into a public-house, where they sat some time, and were on their road home quietly and peaceably, when they were apprehended. Mr. Rushton said (in effect), in reply to these and other remarks, that inquiry should be made as to the al leged unnecessary removal of the prisoners from place to place, and if a wrong had been done it would be redressed : but he did not concur with Mr. Owen in thinking the offi cers had acted wrong in apprehending persons found with fire-arms in their hands in the dead of night, at a time when the public mind was so much excited, and the town held in alarm by evil disposed persons. He knew of no law here that prevented the possession of fowling pieces, or the carrying of them in a quiet manner in pursuing amusement ; but the authorities were in possession of in formation that rendered it necessary to adopt precautions ; and the officers had received instructions to apprehend all parties or bodies of persons carryincr arms in the street, especially at untimely hours. Hitherto the town, to its honour, had been one of the most loyal and peaceful in the United Kingdom, and he regretted much that the precau tions now taken to preserve the peace should be necessary. It was not his business to state the nature of the informa tion which the magistrates had received, for it did not bear upon this case. Addressing the prisoners, he said the present case was a specimen of what might befal the town, if working men were to carry arms about. tie was sorry, if they were of creditable character, as stated, that they had been detained •, but what could they expect if they were found armed at such hours ! He then dis charged them. Shortly afterwards Mr. Owen applied for the restoration of the guns. Mr. Rushton said that they would be given in the usual manner, if the Head Consta ble found; upon inquiry, that the characters of the men were such as had been represented.—Mr. Owen expressed his satisfaction. THE WATER QUESTION.-DECISION OF THE WATER COMMITTEE. We understand that at ameeting of the Water Committee on Friday, to consider the further prosecution of the Rivington scheme, a resolution to the following effect was passed :—" That, in the opinion of your committee, it is essential for the public interest that no further delay should take place in proceeding with the construction of these works ;. and they, therefore, recommend that the committee be authorised to take steps for that purpose." It is clear that every effort will now be made to press on this objectionable measure without further enquiry. Whatever steps are taken to prevent this, should'be prompt and decisive. We have received a number of complaints from parties who have had no water supplied to-their pre mises since Friday. We hope some member of the Council will try to ascertain to-morrow why the daily supply has been discontinued. We stated several weeks since that there was abundance of water to give an ample daily supply to all the inhabitants, and we asked, Why was it withheld ?• We can only repeat the question. Surely our representatives in the Council-chamber will not allow another meeting of that body to pass over with out insisting on a satisfactory answer to the complaint. YESTERDAY'S POLICE. ALLEGED UTTERANCE OF A FORGED I. 0. U.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, a respectable-looking man, named Charles Spence, and an elderly. female, Eliza Spence, were charged by a young man, named Thomas Frazer, with having uttered to him a forged I. 0. U. for £3. Frazer, on cross-examination, gave such loose answers that the probability appeared to be that the document was genuine, and the magistrate discharged the prisoners. _ ATTEMPTED THEFT FROM AN INN.—Yesterday, at the Police court, a young man, named William Trafford, was committed for trial, charged by Mr. William Liversedge, publican, of Burlington-street, with having clandestinely entered his house, on Saturday night, and feloniously removed several articles of value. He had put some of the complainant's clothes over and under his own ; had moved several valuables, including a handsome time-piece, which he had placed on the landing of the stairs. A silver snuff-box, a gold locket, &c., were found concealed in his boots. Upon him, too, was found a watch, with a gold chain attached. CHARGE OF PRESENTING A FALSE ORDER FOR WAGES. — At the Police-court yesterday, a young seaman named, Charles Longman, was charged by Mr. H. Bartley, with this offence. On Saturday last, the prisoner took the order in question, which was for .414, to Mr. Bartley, of Waterloo-road, fitter-out. and obtained by means of it and his representations asuit of clothes, and a sum of money. On the order being presented,, it was declared to bear a forged signature. It purported to be signed by Cant id.sitilian, of the brutiteimna ivr• f rom Messrs. Prowse, swore it was not his signature. The prisoner in his defence said it positively was signed by the Captain. The prisoner was committed for trial at the Assizes. _ MANUFACTURE 010. PIKES IN LIVERPOOL.—Some few weeks ago a police-officer, who is by trade a smith, went in the garb of a workman into a blacksmith's shop in this town, where he suspected something not usual was going on, and inquired for employment. The man to whom he addressed himself having apparently some suspicion that he was not truly representing himself, asked him to give them "a heat," to show whether he was a good hand, which he did by heating a piece of iron, and fastening it neatly on the anvil. Confidence in him being thus formed, he was told that they could not then give him a job, as they had but four forges, three of which were in active use for the making of pikes, hut that he might call again in a few days, and they would see what they could do. Ten thousand pineapples, shipped at Nassau, N.P., have arrived at this port in excellent condition. On Sunday, the body of a new-born child was found in St. Martin's Churchyard. On Thursday the 17th instant, will be launched from the building yard of Messrs. Cato, Miller, and Co., a fine new ship, 600 tons, classed 13 years A 1 at Lloyds. On Friday the special constables of Pitt-street Ward— Lieut. Maxwell in the chair—passed a resolution of thanks to the Mayor and magistrates for the efficient manner in which the peace of the town has been preserved. On Saturday night, a married woman named Fogan, living in St. Andrew-street. went to bed with her son Francis. At about three in the morning she awoke and found the child dead in her arms—supposed to be from convulsions. THE WEATHER.—For the last seven days the weather has again been variable on the whole, but the quantity of rain that fell was much less than during the previous week. Saturday and Sunday were warm and sunny— greatly promoting the ripening of the grain. Yesterday forenoon the barometer had fallen. a little, and a little rain fell ; the wind, which veered from point, being, at ten o'clock, about S.E., which is here a rather watery direction. A good deal of oats have already been cut and carried in forward shots ; little of the wheat has yet been gathered ; both are good crops. The other field crops, especially turnips and mangels, are most promising, as are the after-grasses. It is very generally thought that more rain fell in July than is borne out by measurement. The average here was only (in.) 2.51, much less I ham in the previous month. In Manchester, where the average fall of the last 19 Julys was 3.74, the fall was, in the July of this year, 4.045 inches. Notwithstanding the cry of the rot, which is much. exaggerated, we have abundance of potatoes in our market at 6d. per score. The glass fell a little yesterday, but only a little, and that gradually. Some slight rain fell during the afternoon. We have had a great deal of humidity for the last week or two. We re gret to learn, from some of the Irish papers, that the po tato blight had appeared to a great extent, in several of the southern districts, especially near Clonmel. The heavy rains had done considerable injury to the wheats. While on this subject we may state, as the concurrent opinions of the United States journals, that a much greater breadth of wheat was this year sown in that country than in any previous year, and that it is expected the yield will be so abundant that the whole of Europe may be thence supplied, should even large deficiencies arise. OPENING OF THE NEW ORGAN AT ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, PRINCE'S PARR.—Sunday last having been appointed for the opening of this splendid instrument, built by Bew sher of Liverpool, the church was crowded during the morning and evening services, especially the latter ; and amongst those present we noticed our excellent chief magistrate, T. B. Horsfall, Esq., and several members of the Town Council. The organ surpassed the expec tations of all who had the gratification of playing upon, and listening to it, at the builder's rooms ; for, its loud volume of tone completely filled the church, while its lower notes, giving forth "A sound so fine, that nothing lived 'Tween it and silence," were heard with distinctive sweet►►ess in every part of the church. The organist for the day was Mr. W. T. Best of this town, who seems to be a young man of consider able ability in his profession ; and he exhibited the full power of the instrument with commendable effect. In its loudest peals, which reverberated through the vaulted roof of the building, the voices of the audience were com pletely drowned, but as these thrilling tones gradually subsided under the practised hand of the organist, the vocal music became audible again and produced a most pleasing impression. The cho►r, for this occasion, was strengthened, there being ten professional vocalists in the orchestra, including two females, one of wh o m, Miss Hammond, has been permanently engaged. The Rev. Dr. M`Neile preached at both services ; an d at the conclusion of each, he made an appeal in liquidation of the debt incurred in finisning this truly magnificent church. He said, that this debt amounted to about £5OO, and that the payment of it was all that was required to free_ the church from every incumbrance. He wanted, he said, no contributions towards the expense of the organ, that having been a free gift upon the part of a member of the congregation ;—and a most costly and elegant gift it unquestionably has been. The collections at both services were such as to afford promise that in a short time the X5OO can be obtained. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The late stirring events on the continent have induced the proprietors of these pic turesque grounds to construct a grand panorama of the revolution of Paris, the principal scenes of which are from sketches made by Mr. Frederick Fenton, whose talent as a scenic artist is sufficiently well known to guarantee the excellence of the drawing, grouping, and colouring. The panorama will be first exhibited this evening (Tuesday), when we trust the assemblage will be numerous. SERMON OF AN AFRICAN CLERGYMAN IN AID OF THE ERECTION OF AN EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOR HIS FLOCK IN NEW-YORK. The Rev. Alexander Crumell, one of the only four episcopally ordained African clergymen in the United States, has been residing for some days, on a visit, with the Rev. Mr. Ewbank, of Everton, to whom, as well as to many of our churchmen he was known by reputation, and highly recommended by letter. Mr. Crumell has a large congregation in New York, exclusively of his own race, and the object of his mission is to obtain contributions to wards the erections of an episcopal church for his increasing congregation in that city, in which there is a large negro population, deprived of almost every means of spiritual instruction or education that may elevate them in the scale of humanity and religion, owing to the unhappy prejudices which exist against them even in that "land of the free." Mr. Crumell read prayers on Wednesday evening last most impressively in Mr. Ewbank's church, ( St. George's, Everton,) and having obtained leave to preach on Sunday forenoon at the same place, public no tice was given, and much interest was naturally excited, from curiosity to hear a negro preacher, and still more, we trust, from a desire to promote his benevolent object. The church was crowded by a most respectable congre gation to repletion—many parties being unable to obtain seats, and fain to stand at the entrances, and many more obliged to retire, hopeless of even this last accommodation. The free seats were firmly packed, as well as the organ gallery. Everything was done by the vergers to accom modate as many as possible, by introducing school forms at the ends of the aisles, &c., and their attention in this respect was quiet and unremitting until service had far progressed. All eyes were rivetted on the preacher as he ascended the pulpit. He is a good-looking man of small stature, with an intelligent countenance so removed from the coarseness of a large portion of his race that, but for his sable complexion and thick frizzly hair, it might be said to be European. His voice is strong and manly ; his articu lation so dear, and his pronunciation of the English lan guage so generally accurate, with, at the same time, a rapid flow of words and a modesty of bearing, that lie immediately won the deep attention of his hearers ; the first general feeling being that of astonishment. His powers as a preacher we shall hereafter allude to. ' After a brief prayer, he took for his text a clause from the Bth of the 3d chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to Titus— " That they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works." He opened his discourse by an exposition of the nature, duties, and objects of Christi anity, dwelling especially on the obligation of all to re deem the human race from sin to salvation. The object was at once grand and majestic. The promulgation of Christian truth was not only incumbent, but necessary. ' Science had taken rapid strides of late years ; wind and tide had been almost overcome ; transit from place to place had been wonderfully accelerated ; the busy wheel of the steamer had almost superseded the sluggish sail ; and a velocity had been attained on shore almost ap proaching the lightning's speed. But they must not let physical advancement exceed spiritual advancement, which last was also proceeding, as was happily manifested in many parts of the world. He alluded to the retardations as regards the last, by false reasoners and infidel writers ; to the idolatry and paganism that still prevailed over the greater portion of the earth, and to the Romanism which still presented its brazen front. Millions of their fellow , men were yet in chains, and left in ignorance, and the slave-trade was yet carried on in an aggravated state. He trusted, however, that the time would come when these evils would be removed, and that Christians would work together until the last slave-ship had disappeared, the last , groan of suffering humanity had died away, and all the nations of the earth should acknowledge Christ as their sole ruler and Redeemer. He appeared before them as one of the most helpless and forlorn of the races of men. His countrymen had had to undergo a fiery ordeal, and had long been subjected to the grossest tyranny. Africa had long been a prey to fire, famine, and the sword. The slave-trade had there destroyed domestic peace and affec tion, and engendered even murder among families. From the land of his fathers ascended the cries and the groans of the oppressed. England had done herself immortal honour by abolishing slavery in her colonies. France and Germany had followed the noble example, and it was hoped Holland and other countries would yet join them. They might deem it strange that he should come from so opulent a city as New York to solicit aid in England, but a brief statement would serve to explain. There were in the United States a vast number of slaves, who were bought and sold like cattle. Husbands were torn from their wives, children from their parents, and the whip was applied to the quivering flesh of even women and children. There was not one out of 1000 of them who had ever heard of the Gospel. In the Northern States slavery did not exist ; but the Africans were excluded, by cast, from trades or social intercourse, as if they were a separate order of beings. If they attended a church they were placed apart, and dare not (as he had that day done there) approach the Communion Table. They were also ex cluded from the schools, and their remains when dead, from the church-yard, Without, therefore, a hope of advancement in life, they grew up in vice, and often fell into premature graves. There were 400,000 of them without culture, and in the Southern States education was forbidden amongst them. In New York there were between 20,000 and 30,000. Many of these had no church to attend. His own church, which had been es tablished 13 years, was a hired room. He had there ministered for 10 years. The natives had no regard for them, and he had thought of following his predeces sor to Africa ; but had come to this city in hopes of meeting with ready sympathy and assistance in be ban. or les poor oenight,a counLi r uiai,. To their labour were the merchants of this great port indebted for some of their staple commodities. He had come to implore their aid to elevate them to the dignified station of men and Christians,—for they wanted education, but still more the Gospel. If his hearers would reflect that his country men had souls, they would surely assist him to redeem them from their abject condition. He wanted friends to purchase a site, and to build upon it a church for his in creasing congregation. The Bishops of London,. Oxford, and Landaff, to whom he had been recommended, had ap proved of his mission, and a committee had been formed in London to forward his views. The erection of an Epis copal Church for Africans, in New York, through the bounty of the British people, would be a standing testi monial of their generosity and Christian feeling. The movement would not stop there, but would lead to the erection of others, and might ere long lead to the mora lization and spiritual salvation of a large portion of the human family. He concluded by a more general applica tion of his text—the doing of good works. They had, he found, great demands upon them to support the noble charities of their own country ; but the Apostle enjoined that they should do all good works. The field was stony, but if they sowed upon it, the seed would not, by the blessing of God, be unproductive, be lost, but bring forth fruit. Let them cast their bread upon the waters, and they would find it after many days. "Do thou thy part, and leave to Hat the rest." The preacher (of whose address this is but an imperfect sketch) evidently made a strong impression upon his auditory, and a general whisper ran through the church, expressive of wonderment at his attainments, and admira tion of his Christian and philanthropic views. He spoke calmly, not vindictively, of the wrongs of his countrymen, and exhibited talents as a scholar and an orator in unob trusive and neat figures of speech, which stamp him as a man of reading and intelligence. His manner is agreeable and energetic. He is assuredly a living proof of the ca pability of the African race to be elevated to a high stan dard of intellectual and religious culture ; and we venture to prognosticate that his mission to this country will—as it deserves—be successful even beyond his early hopes. . At the close of the service a handsome collection was made at the doors. The locks from the canal into the North Docks were opened on Thursday. The flat Joseph, Captain Robert Alty, belonging to Mr. Edward Morgan, with a cargo of coals, was the first to pass through. The Albion says that the price demanded for the use of the Theatre Royal for a single night for Jenny Lind was £3OO. Hence her appearance at the Collegiate Insti tution. CRICKET.— ALBION (SEACOMBE) V. WALLASEY.— The return match between the above clubs came off on Saturday last, on the ground of the latter, when the Albion were again victorious, beating their opponents by a majority of 34 runs. The bowling of S. H. Splatt, of the Albion, and J. Blundell, of the Wallasey, and the batting of J. Maddock, of the Wallasey, and W. E. Shaw, of the Albion, were much admired. BEBINGTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—We observe that the exhibition of this society will be held on Thurs day next, at the Rock Ferry Hotel pleasure grounds, where, by permission of Colonel Willocks awl the officers of the 81st, the splendid band of that regiment, under the direction of the celebrated Mr. Crogur, (a name well known amongst military bands,) will attend and play during the exhibition. We believe most of the officers of the regi ments now on duty in this neighbourhood intend honour ing the society by their attendance. And should the weather prove favourable, we anticipate a gayer scene than is often witnessed on the banks of the Mersey. THE MODEL OF JERUSALEM.—This interesting work from the hand of Brunetti, has, we are glad to find, been visited by great numbers of our townspeople, whose atten tion has been devoutly won by an inspection of such a beautiful wo:k. The model represents the holy city as it stood when trodden by the blessed feet of our adorable Redeemer ; and every spot of this sacred locality is deline ated with an accuracy only attainable after the many years of patient study which Mr. Brunetti has devoted to the subject. A very cursory examination of the model gave us as accurate a description of the locality as we could attain by years of reading. As our eye wanders from place to place, we may follow step by step that touching drama, in which the pure blood of the Man who was God sealed the inestimable gifts of man's salvation. Here is the Temple in which he stood ; here are the streets in which he taught ; and here every spot rendered sacred by a visit from himself or his disciples. DEFICIENT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—MORE PER SONS FlNED.—Yesterday, his worship the Mayor sat in the Sessions-house, for the purpose of hearing informa tions against tradesmen, shopkeepers, &c., for selling with false weights and measures. There were upwards of eighty informations laid, out of which number eighty were fined in penalties varying from 10s. to £5, the whole amount of the fines being £96 18s. The charges were severally for light weights, false scales, accelerating beams, and lead and other substances under the selling scales. In reference to the last named complaint, of which there were many instances, his worship observed that the practice was most dishonest and disgraceful, and expressed his determination to inflict heavy fines in all such cases which came before him. On one of the informations for an accelerating beam being heard, the party accused applied to the Mayor to know if he could summon the person from whom he got the scales. The name of Iken was stamped upon them. The Mayor observed, that they were most discreditable beams. and he wished the maker could be punished as well as those who used them, August 1 ,1848. LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ITALY. Letters from Rome of the 4th of August, represent matters as assuming daily a more unfavourable and cheer less position. The conduct of a large faction of design ing, rather than enthusiastic men, has placed the city in a state of considerable excitement, and has given rise to serious apprehensions. On the Ist of August, the cham ber voted an address to the Pope, praying that instant measures might be taken for the protection of Italian independence, and stating, that it was necessary instantly to enrol volunteers, raise supplies, and invite foreign aid. This address tossed the upper house with slight appo sition, and was presented by a deputation in the evening. An edict from the Pope, which was torn down by the people. and not to be seen after eight o'clock in the morn• ing, appeared on the 3d. This edict, however, and the subsequent choice of a new ministry, appear to have pro duced more tranquility ; the guards were dismissed from the Chigi-place, and the agitators broke up their sitting. The new ministry was composed of Corbolli Bussi, Foreign Affairs. Count Fabbri, Interior. Lauro Lauri, Finance. Campello, War. Galletti, Police. Sturbinetti, Public Works. THE WAR IN ITALY. CAPITULATION OF MILAN. Letters from the city of Milan state that during the night of the sth and the morning of the 6th the King and the whole Piedmontese army retired by the road to Turin. On Sunday, the 6th, the Austrian army, very strong and in the finest order, entered the city, and in a few hours civil and military occupation was established. The utmost silence prevailed during the passage of the troops through the Corso and principal streets. The city has been de serted by all the nobility, many of the better families, and by an immense majority of the people. On the morning • of the 7th a proclamation appeared, signed by Field-Mar shal Radetzky, declaring the city and province of Lom bardy in a state of siege, stating that all offences against good order would be tried by martial law, and nominating the Prince Schwartzenburg military governor of Milan. The greatest order prevails, both on the part of the Aus trian troops and the Milanese people. Not an offensive word is uttered on either side. The following are the terms of the capitulation, signed on the . sth of August, by the Quartermaster-General of the Army, Paulo Bassi, Podesta. of Milan, and General Conde Salasco. chief of the staff:— " 1. The city of Milan , shall not he injured. 2. Aw far as it depends on his Excellency the Field-Marshal, he promises to maintain, with respect to the past, all the indulgence that equity demands. " 3. The return of the Sardinian army shall be divided into two days' march, as had been agreed on with the Sardinian Generals. " 4. His Excellency gives free exit to all persons wishing to leave the city:by the road to Magenta(to Turin) up to 8 o'clock to-morrow night. "5. The Field-Marshal is to'have the occupation of the Porta Romans at 8 to-morrow morning, and the free entrance of the army for the occupation of the city at noon. "6. The transport of sick and wounded shall be made in two days. " 7. All these conditions are to be accepted by his Majesty the King of Sardinia. "8. The Field-Marshal demands the immediate liberation of all the generals , o ffi cers, and Austrian employee at' present in Milan." ' According to the letter of the 6th, from Milan,. the po pulace on the previous day became so enraged on hearing that a capitulation had been made,, that they overturned the carriages of the King's suite, constituted him a nominal prisoner in the palace where he resided, and compelled him to promise to break off the agreement and give battle to the Austrians. The violence of the crowd was great ; the most insulting languag e was used towards the Ki n g, and several shots were fir ed at him. At three o'clock in the morning of the 6th the mob who filled the Contrada were so frightened by the discharge of artillery charged with blank cartridge only, that they fled from the square, and everything being prepared the King left the palace in safety on the road towards Turin. The Archbishop of Milan and the new PiSdesti went out to Field-Marshal Itadetzky ; and the latter, in conjunction with Count Salasco, the chief of the staff of the Piedmontese army, and Gen. Hess, Quartermaster-General of the Austrians, agreed on the terms of a convention, providing for the departure of the Sardinian troops and the capitulation.of the city. LATEST FROM PARIS. The Paris papers of Sunday announce the conclusion of an armistice for 45 days between the Austrian and Pied montese armies. At the conclusion of the sitting of the National Assem bly on Saturday, the Minister of Finance stated that the subscription list for the last loan had been almost com pletely filled. LATEST FROM IRELAND. ARREST OF T. F. MEAGHER, M. R. LEYNEr AND P. O'DONOGUE. On Sunday morring, about one o'clock, these three leaders of the rebels in Ireland were walking along the road between Clonoulty and Holycross, when they were met by a large party of police, who suspecting them, demanded their names. They immediately complied, and were ar rested by Inspector Madden in the Queen'ssname. The Police fell in, one at either side of each prisoner, and they marched them to the barrack at Rathcannon, about a mile off, from whence they were soon after taken to Muria, where they were brought before the resident m_i_igistrater ho azlccd in the course of the in qu i r y w h e th er lvlr. Mea gher intended to surrender himself. To which he replied emphatically that he did not, and that he scorned the idea of asking for his life, and that the only condition on whit; he would ever have been induced t o s urren der was that all the parties implicated in the movement shoul d have permission to leave the country. M r . Meagher the n proceeded to write some long statement, which. has not been• made public. Gen. M'Donald then arrived with his staff, and ordered the prisoners to be sent to Dublin. While a special train was being prepared, the prisoners were supplied with breakfast, and a change of linen ; they looked cheerful and free from anxiety. They then proceeded on foot to the railway station, under the escort of only about twenty police, and the party proceeded on the line with out any interruption. The prisoners were in their usual dress, and Mr. Meagher smoked a cigar on his way to the station. They have been safely lodged in Kikmainhans gaol. The train had scarcely passed the station at Temple more when Mr. J. F. Lalor arrived there in custody of two metropolitan police and a strong escort of constabu lary. He was brought from Nenagh gaol and sent on by the mail train to Dublin, where he was placed in Nevigatn gaol: Be has been brought for the purpose of being ex amined as a witness in the case of the "Queen v. John Martin." His appearance is greatly altered for the worse. He looks very haggard and dejected. THE PROROSED SURRENDER OF THE INSURGENTS• —The Dublin Packet of Saturday night publishes 5 letter from Mr. Meagher, and another from the Rev. J. Mackey, both denying the imputation cast on the rebel chiefs of making stipulations with the Government for their lives. Mr. Meagher says that " the statement has bitterly, most bitterly, cut hm, to the heart's core;" and Mr. Mackey says that " his communication did not pro' pose any advantage special to the insurgents." ALLEGED AFFRAY.—The report published in some of the Dublin papers of Saturday, of an affray at Abbey' faile, turns out to be unfounded. All was quiet there, and in the whole county of Limerick. The police are on the trail of Mr. Richard O'Gorman, whose arrest may be daily expected. WEST INDIAN BANANAS.—A cargo of this delicious fruit, in excellent condition, is advertised in retain quantities in our paper of to-day. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Lord Ashley gave the following important notice :—That, early in toe next session, he would move an humble Address to bet Majesty, praying that immediate steps might be taken for the subdivision, quoad sacra, of all parishes in England and Wales, the population of which exceeds 4,000 souls. THE IRISH SOCIETY.—The anniversary meeting of the friends of this important society, for promoting the eau' cation of the native Irish in their own language, will i n held on Monday next. Sermons will be preached a" several of the churches on the previous day. The Be' D. Foley, of Clonmel, the Rev. Hugh Stowell, and t b ! Rev. Dr. M`Neile will take part in the proceedings 8.! the meeting. Every advantage should be taken of al; present state of Ireland, for the purpose of imparting,. her unfortunate people as much instruction as poss ib l and this excellent society offers a very valuable mean s ° doing so. 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