The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-17 00:00:00

aiti, however, that this, even, is a very It will ha important saving in the charges of a vessel of 500 tons ; and, for the sake of argument, we will admit it to be so. But let us bear in mind that this is only an in complete transaction. The cotton at Fleetwood has to be carried to Manchester—(for it is said that to that town, even, Fleetwood is the cheapest route) ; and we have, therefore, the inland carriage by the two routes to compare. Now, low as the fares are at present upon the Preston and Wyre Railway, (along which merchan dise from Fleetwood, em route to Manchester, must pass,) there is, we believe, in the inland carriage, add ing porterage at Liverpool, a saving in favour of that port as the port for the manufacturing districts, suffi cient to compensate for the difference of port charges at Fleetwood. We know, moreover, th t at the pre- sot rates of carriage upon the railway from that port to Preston, the proprietors are heavy losers ; (as much as £4,000 have been lost in working the line during the past year ;) and we may therefore fairly conclude that in the event of any large trade bein entrapped to would prompt]) the new port, the railway proprietc step in and claim, at least saving if not e.en exorbitant remuneration We will not so far insult the understanding of our readers are to institute any comparison between the two ports upon general grounds. We need scarcely say that . few---very few,--people would, im in consider- ation of an extra freight, consign. cargoes of cotton, or any other cargoes, to a port from which no return car- goes can be got, except coals, and in which there is no market for the commodity itself when landed.' We have only alluded to the subject to suggest to the gen tlemen by whom these statements have been put forth that it would be honest at least, before adventuring upon a crusade in the United States in behalf of their pet projects; te make the correction in their compara tive calculations of charges which we bay Dinted out for unless our friend George Thomson is to be their " Peter the Hermit," we know of no man who could have the face to go before an intelligent American merchant with a case so grossly mendacious and silly as that under our notice. The existing arrangement by which the East and West Indian, Meditteranean, Levant and peninsular mail steamers are compelled to take on board and deli ver their mails at the port of Falmouth, has, at length, by the inefficiency of its working, drawn forth a demand from the merchants of London, for one of a more prac tical and convenient character. On Thursday last a meeting was held at the London Tavern, which was at tended by the leading members of the several interests affected, to the number of about 200, at which, although differing with respect to the port to be selected—(the ma jority favouring Southampton, whilst a considerable mi nority were in favour of Dartmouth)—the present port —Falmouth—was, by common consent, condemned; and, as the result of the proceedings, a memorial to the Commissioners of the Treasury, praying that the mails might be forwarded from Southampton instead of Fal- month, was put and carried. We should, perhaps, not have alluded here to this meeting but for some remarks which dropped from too of the speakers in the course of the proceedings. It is a tolerably well understood fact that it would be almost as difficult to persuade any given number of Londoners, of any class whatever, that the wishes and interests of LONDON were not to he considered before those of all the kingdom besides as it would be to con vince his sublimity, the brother of the sun and moon, that the entire people of Great Britain are not, at this moment, trembling before the awful threatenings of his exterminating edicts. It may, therefore, be conceived that the claims of Liverpool, Manchester, &c. to be con sidered in the settlement of a question such as that be• fore the meeting at the London Tavern, are not altoge ther insignificant, when we find them prominently urged by two of the most influential speakers, and made the object of an amendment upon the original motion pro posed. Mr. Divett, M.P., one of the gentlemen to whom we allude, in a speech containing much sound argument, confirming many of the views which we have advanced in favour of Liverpool, as the best port for the dispatch of the West India mails—maintained that the question to be considered was not one merely as to the comparative advantages of Falmouth, Dartmouth, and Southampton, but to determine " how they could best obtain an impartial review of the whole subject." They must look at it as one in which the interests of the whole country was involved; one in which the mer chants of Manchester and Liverpool, as well as those of London, were to be considered." cal authorities that Now, we beg to suggest to our 1 when the claims of our town are thus taken up for u, —before a tribunal, too, so convinced of its own self sufficiency and overwhelming importance as a meeting of London merchants—surely it is time that our own voice was raised in our own behalf ! If the local au thorities of Liverpool will not lead in a matter so vitally affecting the interests of the port and its inhabitants, surely they will follow, when even opponents of their claims urge the right of Liverpool to be heard ! A few months ago, when advocating the advantages possessed by this port as the station of one of the mails in ques tion—the West India mails—we were told that the time had passed by—that it was too late—that the arrange ments of Government were already made, and would not be disturbed. Here, however, we have the voice of the metropolis, for whose especial convenience the ar rangements in question were concluded, crying out upon their inefficiency—demanding alteration—and expressly acknowledging our right to be considered be fore making that alteration. In the name of common sense, then, let our authorities put in their claim, if not with respect to all, at least with respect to the West India mails ; and do not let us again be told,—if we find ourselves excluded from consideration and sub mitted to the endless and manifold inconveniences which must attend the permanent selection of South ampton as the port of arrival and departure of these mails—that it is too late to move ! Our contemporary the Journal, without excepting against the "good temper" with which we treated his 'demand for the admission of reporters to the Watch Committee, is anxious that we should give the subject greater consideration ; and, particularly, that we should " refresh our memory by perusing our own articles on the admission of reporters to the Dock Committee." We should really be willing to treat the proposition of the Journal with more serious consideration, if we could he convinced that it is seriously put forward ; and we would even recur to the arguments which we advanced, in favour of the admission of the press to the meetings of the Dock Committee, if we could see any parity of circumstances in the two cases. We would do this, and more—we would take up the advo cacy of the Journal's demand—if we. could satisfy our selves that the public have any earnest care to know the sayings (they can learn the doings already, if they wish to learn them, from the monthly reports of the Council) of this particular body. We cannot, however, think that our contemporary is in earnest in making his demand. We can see no thing in the functions of the Watch Committee, or in the business committed to its management, which can at all entitle that body to be placed in the same cate gory as the Dock Committee. The control of an es tate so vast as that of the Dock property of Liverpool, the press may reasonably claim to scrutinize and re flect to the public ; but the mere details which consti tute the business of the Watch Committee—discus sions upon the orthodox length of a policeman's truncheon, the number of nails in his shoes or stripes upon his armlet —are matters with which we have po sitively no inclination to fill our columns, and the pub lic no great inclination to meddle. We can already, •through the Council, know all that we require to know , of the proceedings of the Watch Committee as a body. \Ve can already scrutinize their conduct as a b o d y and we can dispense with a knowledge of the sayings and doings of particular members of that body. We must still, moreover, urge our fear that the pre 'sence of reporters in the Watch and other subordinate committees would tend to convert those, which ought to be working bodies, into debating bodies. We have not the slightest objection that the world should know who are the workers upon any . committee ; but that knowledge can be acquired by a return being made to every monthly Council of the attendances of each mem ber at the various meetings. Anything further, we are convinced, would only lead to a multiplication of prolix speeches not worth the cost of the " midnight oil" wasted in their preparation ; and to the conversion 4.)f not a few gentlemen, who are at present good work ing members of committees, into perfect oratorical pumps—artesian wells of eloquence, eternally bubbling over and threatening ultimately to bewilder and over whelm the world with visions of watchmen's rattles and blank verse rhapsodies upon the proper form and metal of a policeman's button, LOCAL NEWS, COMMITMENT.—A rather good-looking young woman, who gave her name as Hannah Wallace, was yesterday committed, at the Police-court, for trial at the sessions, now sitting, on a charge of robbing a man of three half-crowns, on the same morning, at the house of Mr. Matthew Coffey, publican, Wapping. The custom of inlaying Gothic tiles for the floors of churches is about being revived, and many are now being manufactured for this purpose at the factory of Herbert Minton, Esq., of Stoke-upon-Trent. The finest examples known at present are at Great Malvern Church; the Chap ter-house, Westminster; Winchester and York Cathedrals; and the Prior Chapel, Ely. - - THEFT By AN OLD OFFENDER.—A man named Arthur Williams was, yesterday, charged at the policy-court with stealing a leaden pump from some premises in Hatton garden. He was seen cutting it with a chisel and hammer. He said that he was employed to 'repair it by the year, and had merely taken it for that purpose. This the owner positively denied. He had before been convicted, and was committed for trial. The ship Memphis, Captain Knight, from New York, bringing dates to the evening of the 27th ult., arrived at Li verpool, on Friday, making her passage from city to city in exactly 16 days, and from pilot to pilot, 15 days and 8 hours. Parted company with the packet-ship Siddons on the 29th ult., in lat. 39 45, long. 65. THE BLANCHE STEAMER. — We beg to direct attention to the advertisement, announcing that a very fine steamer, called the Blanche, will, during the present week, make daily excursions round the north-west lightship. This is a cheap and easy mode of enjoying a pure sea breeze; and we have no doubt that the deck of the vessel will be crowded with parties anxious to avail themselves of the opportunity. STABBING.—A man of colour, named Charles Yerby, was yesterday placed at the bar of the police -court on a charge of having stabbed a man named James Card, at a boarding house. A police-officer received information on Sunday night, at nine o'clock, that a man was stabbed, and went to the house, but the prisoner was not to be seen. He had stabbed Card in the thigh, near the groin, and so severely that he was unable as yet to appear in court. The prisoner was remanded until Wednesday. TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—The British and North American royal mail steamer Britannia, which sailed from Liverpool late on the afternoon of the sth ultimo, for Halifax and Boston, arrived at the latter port early on the morning of the 20th ultimo, after a voyage (including a stoppage of several hours at the former port) of 14 days and 12 hours. She left Boston on the afternoon of the Ist, and Halifax on the night of the sth instant, and reached the Mersey late on Sunday night. On Thursday afternoon the Columbia will sail for Halifax and Boston, and the Great Western on Sa turday for New York. SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—Yesterday, a seaman, named Samuel Brown, was brought before Mr. Rushton, at the in stance of the excise officers. It appeared that one of the officers had yesterday boarded the line-ship Siddons, on her arrival from New 'York, at the Prince's-dock Basin. He found on board of her a box nailed up, and wished to know whose it was. The prisoner declined stating anything about it, but, on its being opened, he claimed the contents, which turned out to be 871135. weight of foreign manufactured to bacco. The prisoner was remanded, as is usual, until the commissioners of excise in London should give instructions how he should be dealt with. He stated himself to be a Welshman. We understand that Lieut. Tracey is preparing a pamphlet • . for the press, showing the absolute necessity of havingmari time bishopi, ere aught can be done with energy and success towards improving the condition of our seamen; and enter taining a very favourable opinion of Lieut. Tracey, from his speech at the annual meeting of the Mariners' Church, we shall probably present our readers with extracts from his speech on that occasion, thus giving our readers an oppor tunity of judging for themselves whether we are in error in the opinion we have formed ? We understand it is to be dedicated to William Potter, Esq., and Duncan Gibb, Esq. THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE BIRKENHEAD AND CHES TER RAILWAY.—The Railway Times of Saturday, in some remarks on this subject, says :—"-Some time ago an officer of the London and Birmingham Ctimpany met with a simi lar accident, and more recently the same sad fate befel a guard upon the Croydon line ; and if these parties, knowing well the position of the several bridges upon their respective railways, and the danger of quitting their accustomed posi tions were, nevertheless, destroyed, it behoves those who have the control of such matters, absolutely, and in every case, to prevent strangers from thus putting their lives in peril. It is with this object that we have deemed it our duty to draw attention to the case of Mr. Thistleton." THE POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY.—The last meeting of the society, for the season, was held in the Royal institution rooms, on Monday. Mr. Steel read a paper on locomotive cranks, which he illustrated by a model and diagrams, and propounded certain novel views relative to the power of the crank at different periods of its revolutions which he main tained in a very ingenious manner. This called forth au ani mated and prolonged discussion, but too purely technical for our columns. The sitting was closed by an able and ju dicious speech from the president, Mr. Grantham, on the scope, objects, and prospects of the society, and which was warmly applauded. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The anniversary ser vices of the South Lancashire Church Missionary Society commence in this town on Sunnay next. The names of the gentlemen who are to preach the sermons at the several churches, and also of the deputation who will appear at the annual meetings, will be found in our advertising colums, from which it will be seen that this anniversary will not be surpassed in interest by any of its predecessors. We earnestly recommend this valuable society to the support of the public. • leis worthy of all honour, and we sincerely trust that Liverpool will, on this occasion, administer to its funds in a manner worthy of the wealth and influence of the second town in the empire. THE FUNDS.—SATURDAY EVENING. - The English stocks were rather flat to-day; a demand for money, an unu sual circumstance on a Saturday, having sprung up in conse quence of some stock being brought to market. In some cases as high a rate of interest as four per cent. was paid, but at the close of business it had receded to about three per cent. Consols left off for money, and the account, 921 to ; Bank Stock, 1671 to 1681 ; India Stock, 2491 to 2501; Exchequer-bills, 395. to 41s. premium ; 3 per Cents. Re duced, 912- to 1 ; 31 per Cents. Reduced, 99i to Z- ; New 33 per Cents., 1001 ; Long Annuities, 121; and India Bonds, 19s. to 21s. premium. In foreign stock Spanish Actives were quoted 231 to ; ditto, New, 221 to 3 ; Portuguese 5 per Cents., 371 to 38 ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 221 to I ; Mex ican, 37; to .g ; Dutch 21 per Cents., 521 to 531 ; Danish, 801. to 811 ; Brazilian, 67 to 68 ; Belgian, 102 to 103 ; and Colombian, 25 to 61. SPEEDY DETECTION AND COMMITMENT OF A THIEF. —At the police court, yesterday afternoon, a stout rough looking boy named Daniel Fagan, was placed at the bar, on a charge of stealing a watch from a dwelling-house. Mrs. Mary Ann Pratt said, she resided at Dalrymple-street, and had left the room where she had been sitting for a few mo ments, at half-past twelve, that day, when she heard her little girl cry out—" Mother, come! here's a robber !" She in stantly returned to the room, anal there saw the prisoner, who had seized the watch, and immediately made off with it; she ran out and gave the alarm, when a young man pursued the thief along Scotland-road, and across the brickfields to the westward. Finding himself hard set, he threw down the watch. The young man picked it up and continued the pur suit, the fellow taking towards Marybone. Another young man came up to assist in catching him, when a set of ruffians assaulted them with bricks and stones, wounding the last young man most severely in the face—he being rendered for a time insensible, and his nose and forehead being quite dis figured. The first youth, however, finally succeeded in cap turing the delinquent, and he was handed over to the police officers. The watch was indentified. The prisoner, who had before been seven times convicted of felony, was ordered for trial at the sessions. Mr. Rushton said that he should see the young man who had so manfully forwarded the ends of justice well rewarded. SOMEWHAT SUSPICIOUS.—At the Police-court yesterday, two young men, Michael Doyle and John Doyle, apparently journeymen bakers, were brought before Mr. Rushton under the following circumstances. A police inspector said, that on Sunday morning, when one of the Dublin mail ships arrived at the port, he observed the two prisoners on board. They were in very homely attire, and covered with flour, as if they had recently been at work in a bakehouse. They had paid a sovereign each for their passage, and this, combined with their appearance, and their having no luggage whatever with them, excited suspicion. He questioned them, and not being satisfied with their replies, in which there appeared some variance, he searched them, and found in the pocket of one of them 42 sovereigns and ls. 9d., and on the other a silver watch and a half-crown. He accordingly appre hended them until inquiry could be made. One of them skid he had received the money from his uncle in Dublin (whom he named), who also paid their passages; and that they were about to leave the country for America, in conse quence of some family disagreements. They were ordered to be remanded until a reply should be received from Dub lin, to a letter sent to the uncle, soon after their apprehen sion. As it was possible this story was true, Mr. Rushton ordered them to be comfortably lodged in the Bridewell in the mean time. IMPUDENT ROBBERY IN A LIVERPOOL HOTEL.—A rather serious robbery was committed on Sunday last, in one of the hotels in this town, by a Prussian, named Gniper, alias Ull rich. It appears that this individual had been staying at the hotel for a month, where he represented himself as a wool merchant. On Sunday he contrived to take a cash-box from the bar, containing £4l 10s. in gold, and £6O wrapped in papers of £5 each, without observation. He immediately proceeded to another hotel, where he requested to be shewn into a bedroom, under the pretence that he wanted to wash his hands. Whilst here, he broke open the box, took out the cash, and having concealed the box under the bed, he went away. He then returned to the hotel where he had committed the robbery, and coolly ordered dinner, after hav ing partaken of which, he left the house, and has not yet been heard of. In a description of his person, which has been published, he is represented as from 26 to 28 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches in height, proportionate, jet black hair and whiskers, and wears his hair long. When he left, he had on a brow❑ cloth top-coat, with velvet collar, and skirts lined with silk, a new suit of clothes, a rather shabby hat, a pink silk waistcoat, black stock, breastpin set with coral, and a ring on his finger, with hair inside. He spoke both French and German, and English pretty well. A reward of £2O has been offered for the apprehension and conviction of the offender. LIVERPOOL PETITION AGAINST MANNOOTII.—In the House of Commons, on Friday night. the following conver sation took place on this subject :—Sir Howard Douglas said, in reference to the remarks which had been made the other evening by Mr. Sheil on the petition which he (Sir H. Douglas) presented from the Protestants of Liverpool, that he had received a letter from a gentleman of the name of Crisp, who said that the sheets had been given out for sig nature by himself, with the strictest injunctions in all cases that no party should sign for another, unless that other was unable to write, and that all the signatures where someureswere written personsritten i it compliance with these directions, except signed for several who had given authority to do so.—Mr. Sheil had only remarked that it was strange that in a petition which contained the most serious charges against the Roman Catholic hierarchy of Ireland, whole series of names should appear manifestly written by the same hand.— Sir R. Peel said that he experienced so much delay in get ting on with the tariff, that he must take advantage of the rules of the house to hasten it on ; and would, therefore, ask the Speaker whether this debate was consistent with the rules of the house.—The Speaker saifl it was within the rule olifotuhsee day any hon. member to make a motion on the e l o a f te teh t re o deviate t i ro ; order of the day being read, provided it had reference to the to observe, butfrom tn e i t stricth ad become rnlo— too r msuheehdt acquiesced practise i o n f the j e u d s t tice of the right hon. baronet's remarks ; but be member wish for Liverpool re were layingf h a e b , ri c a n ; t t e petitionweek, chargedbefore t the le .hors.house the signatures to noble lord, the other member for Liverpool, dhewas s t atoskeinhyftoir ward the matter till an inquiry coud be made ; and th g at it was in compliance with this request, that he had not then made it the subject of a distinct motion. TnexTan.RovrtL,—.A splendid' fail 7 epectselo, entitled , f The White Cat, ' suss produced here last evening with decided success. It Is well worth seeing. This will surely be an attraction for the ha?f-pricen. The house was well and fashionably attended._ RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following is a calculation of the last weekly returns of 39 railways, 1,391 miles in length : —Number of passengers on 25 railways, 259,698, conse quently the total for the week must be about 400,000. The receipts for passengers on 38 railways, £67,464 3s. ; ditto for goods on 31 railways, £19,712 3s. 3d. ; total, £87,176 6s. 3d. This is an average of £62 1 per mile per week. Thu traffic, therefore, is certainly at the r a t e o f more t h an 3,000,000 a year, and carrying 15,000,000 of passengers. —Railway Ma- WHITSUNTIDE TEMPERANCE FESTIVAL.—The Whitsun tide festival of the members of the Liverpool Total Absti nence Society, commenced yesterday. Last evening a meet ing of the members and friends of the society was held for the promotion of the cause, in the Music Hall, Bold-street, and attended by a crowded auditory. The chair was taken by Mr. Lawrence Heyworth ; and the meeting was addressed in very animated speeches by the chairman, Mr. Naylor, Mr. Grubb, and one or two o th ers . The proceedings termi nated about ten o'clock. To-night the annual tea party will take place ; and various other meetings are announced for the following days. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—An inquest was held yesterday before H. Statham, Esq., deputy coroner, on view of the body of Mr. Joseph Horn, tdbacco and snuff manufacturer, Peurith, who put a period to his existence on Saturday last, at the Royal Hotel, in this town, by taking prussic acid. It appeared that the deceased had been in the habit of fre quently visiting Liverpool for the last four or five years, and arrived here on Tuesday last. He was observed to be very much depressed in spirits, so much so that the waiter at the inn considered his mind was affected. On Thursday he pur chased at Mr. Bradford's, chemist, Oldhaymarket, four ounces of prussic acid, saying, that it was for a dyer at Pen rith, that article, as was known to the assistant in the shop, being used in the business of dyeing. This, however, did not satisfy Mr. Bradford's young man, who told the unfortunate deceased that lie could not give it him unless he brought some respectable person who could testify to the truth of the state ment. This was accordingly done, and the poison was given to Mr. horn, who took it to the hotel, and sometime in the course of Saturday, he accomplished his purpose. When discovered at eight o'clock on the evening of that day by one of the waiters, who went up to see why he did not return from his room, he was quite dead, and from the evidence of the surgeon (Mr. Cripps) is.appeared he had expired five or six hours before. The poison was contained in four bottles, only one of which the deceased had taken, the remaining three being found in a portmanteau by his bedside. It did not transpire that the deceased was at all embarrassed in his circumstances, but his father, who was present at the inquest, deposed thatin February last, he sustained a very severe fall, which injured him very seriously, and since then his father stated that he had observed his son's manner was very difle rent to what it had been previously, and from his vehement conversation and singular conduct at many periods lately he (the father) had no doubt his son was subject to aberration of mind. The jury returned a verdict of " temporary insanity." The deceased was only thirty-eight years of age. GRAND FETE AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS The spirited proprietor of our Zoological Gardens has pre pared a splendid treat for the sight-seeing people, during the present holiday time, by the production of " The Roman Festa,"—a representation of the illumination of San An gelo, and fire-works, annually exhibited during the Carnival at Rome. We had the pleasure of being present at its first public exhibition last night; and, although we have seen the same representation during last summer at the Surrey Zoolo gical Gardens, we can affirm without hesitation, that it was— (puttinr, out of view the unevenness and want of precision natural in the first display of an exhibition of such magni tude) —superior in effect to that produced by the proprietors of the metropolitan gardens. It would lie folly in us to attempt, at such a late hour as that in which we write, . a description of the scenery and ef fect of this splendid effort. Certain we are, however, .that no view of the original itself—the City of Seven Hills—as il luminated by the most lavish of its popes, could be procured, which would shadow more completely to the mind's eye the whole of the magnificent reality than that presented by the labours of the artist and his talented assistants. As a day scene, even representing Modern Rome, with the town and bridge of San Angelo—the Tiber, with its crowd of plea sure barges at anchor upon its bosom—the magnificent structure of St. Peter's beyond, with the palace of the pope on the right, and the streets and dwellings of Rome crowded in panoramic view around, and the blue hills mingling with the distant horizon, the effect is inimitable ; and from the excellence of ie perspec tive, the spectator would imagine that it extended over some hundred yards of land,•in addition to the limits of the garden itself. When illuminated, however, and presenting to the spectator the dome of St. Peter's in a blaze of lamps, whilst myriads of lights shine forth from the buildings beneath., the effect is magical. The superaddtion of the fireworks which are discharged from the dome of St. Angelo, from the bridge and from the craft in the river, and the illumination of the streets by yellow, white, and red tire, is magnificent ; and called forth, last night, from one of the most numerous as semblages we ever witnessed at these gardens, the most raptu rous applause. The gardens themselves are in most beautiful order, and afforded the greatest pleasure to the visitors who had retired from the dusty world to enjoy their freshness. The excellent brass band of Mr. Stubbs performed several enlivening airs during the evening. ..425t!f16=INMM...M.IrdeiMUMMI=IMMSE , CMS==IMMI KIRKDALE PETTY SESSIONS.-MAY 13, THE QUEEN V. LENNOX AND OTHERS The action in this case was similar to that brought a short tinA ago against Mr. Raymond. The complaint against the defendants was, that they had infringed upon the patent right of the Theatre-Royal by performing. at the Amphitheatre, on the 25th of Apri! o-rtain play called the "Yew Tree Ruins, or the Wreck, t,., %iiser, and the Murderer." The bench consisted of the Rev. Miles Formby, (chairman,) John Fletcher, and Joseph Brookes Yates. Information was laid in the name of Robert Sandford Robinson, clerk to Mr. Lloyd, solicitor, who conducted the case. The defendants were Samuel Lennox, John Gates, George Weston, John Nunn, George Walton, and James Starke. The first case called was that of Samuel Lennox, but that person not being in court, the next on the list, that of Mr. Nunn, was proceeded with. Mr. Nunn, as well as the other defendants, had no counsel. _ _ Mr. Lloyd stated the case at length. He said, it became his duty, appearing as he did for those who had instituted the present informations, to state that the prosecution had not been commenced with any vindictive spirit towards those against whom the informations were laid ; but that the lessees of the Theatre-Royal having very recently taken steps against the Liver Theatre, in Liverpool, when the information in that case had been fully gone into by counsel before the bench, and the defendant was convicted, it became a matter of com plaint. upon the part of Mr. Raymond, that the Liver Theatre should have been singled out for informations to be preferred against, and that other places of amusement in the town should be allowed to continue their performances without licence or patent ; and it had also been commenced in fur therance of an assurance given to Mr. Raymond, in presence of the court, that his establishment would not be singled out, but that if the Amphitheatre should appear as he ap peared, the same steps should be taken against the one as had been taken against the other. Mr. Lloyd then stated that the action was similar to that brought against Mr. Raymond, and he would prove that the defendants had acted fOr gain and reward directly, that they were participators in the whole of the money received at the doors, that the reward was not to come through any third hand, and that they arranged, after having paid certain expenses, to divide the balance among themselves. He regretted extremely that the defend ants had allowed themselves to be placed in such a violation of the law. He believed the true party who ought to stand forward in the court and pay the penalty, was the one, who had induced them, if lie might so term it, to form themselves into a company and get up a play, in order that he might himself be receiving a certain rent for the building, get the best portion of the money received in the house, and leave the poor people afterwards to suffer. He alluded to Mr. Egerton, who ought to be one to bear the brunt. He would now prove to the court, that bills of the performance had been issued—that parties had got into the house—that a per son had seen the performance represented as a play—that the Amphitheatre was within the parish ; and, having narrowed the case as much as possible, and proved those several facts, he would submit that the defendants had performed for gain and reward. The first witness called was Philip Frederick Garnet, who deposed that, in consequence of seeing a bill of the perform ance at the Amphitheatre, on the evening of the 25th April, he had left a notice at that establishment for all the defend ants. William Clarke deposed to all the defendants taking parts in the performance of the " Yew Tree Ruins" on that night. Mr. Carman was the next witness. He had been box keeper to the Amphitheatre. Mrs. Carman was advertised to play in the "Yew Tree Ruins," but in consequence of the notice she did not perform on the night of the 25th of April. Witness could not say whether Mr. Nunn performed or not in the piece. Mr. George Egerton, the lessee of the Amphitheatre, was called, but objected to by Mr. Nunn, as he was a rate-payer. The objection was deemed valid by the court, and Mr. Egerton retired. Mr. Samuel Lennox was next called, but he objected to give evidence, on the ground of being one of the defendants. The objection was overruled, and Mr. Lennox deposed to Mr. Nunn playing Cain Byron, in the " Yew Tree Ruins," on the 25th of April. This closed the case for the prosecution. Mr. Nunn defended his own case, and contended that the prosecutors had failed. as they had not proved that he had played for gain or reward on the night in question. His gain, he said, was nothing, and his reward consisted in being brought into that court. The magistrates retired, and after an absence of about twenty minutes, returned with a verdict of not guilty, on the ground that the evidence did not bear out the indictment. _ The case of John Gates was next brought forward, and a similar verdict, on similar grounds, was returned. The cases against the other four defendants were abandoned, and the court broke up. LIVERPOOL MAX SESSIONS The May Sessions for the borough of Liverpool commenced yesterday in the Sessions-house before James Clarke, Esq., Recorder. The calendar contains the names of ninety-nine prisoners,. of renmdtlgyl misdemeanourse lbnvs i eenyi h tnee t en y h ot - iaem e pvea i e g pennn h edenrc t dfeaaevnwrceet never been read with the e charged assaults.e h r n g e e t dauo whilstus wfug imperfectly,ti usual thhl taught i eefeso f ive e rt felony fiveorenytarhlyil formalities, rte n agysn d e: proportion rg e eoT v h d p e ht i n eor e tac C no : u t n w t l r i e rite of t the following gentlemen were sworn the grand jury -- ROBERT GILL, Esq., Chapel-street, iron merchant, foreman. Daniel Bell, South Castle-street, merchant. Charles Cusack, Brunswick - street, corn merchant. Robert Cochrane Crosbie, Dale-street, merchant. John Campbell, India - buildings , merchant. W. E. T. Duncan, Exchange-street, merchant. William Rathbone Duncan , Catherine-street, merchant. Samuel Dutton, Water-street, merchant. Charles Fairclough, Exchange-alley North, merchant. Edward Finch, Sir Thomas s-buildings, iron merchant. John Greenshields, Tower Garden , iron merchant. John Ilird, North John-street, iron merchant. Robert Leece Miller, Everton, agent. Charles Wm. Newman, jun. Tithebarn-street, merchant. Thomas Priestley, George's Dock, merchant. Richard W. Preston, Lancelot's-hey, merchant. Charles Edward Rawlins, Blackburn-place, merchant. Robert Roskell, jun., St. James's-road, merchant. John Aspinal Syers, Chapel-street-merchant. James Tyrer, Old Churchyard, merchant. Robert Nielson, Dale-street, merchant. John Owens Johnson, Cook-street, merchant. William Dawson, Exchange-street East, wool broker. The RECORDER, in addressing the Grand Jury, said, l ie had carefully read over all the depositions in the several cases which would be brought before them, and he was happy to which theyb would were not not be o e f u g a g condition est e d b y theirf 9r himnh however, to‘ovoe good sayer, sense.anythingconAll the rar y the cases were very easy and simple; to his expectations, any point of law should occur on which they might desire his opinion, if they would have the good ness to communicate with the court, the court would do all in its power to assist them. With these observations l i t would dismiss them to their duties, which, on this occasion, indeed. The was happy to say would be very easy • The Grand Jury then retired. OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.--No. IX ALDERMAN EVANS, ESQ, Reader, do not, we pray you, imagine that we are about to transfer, bodily, to our canvas this giant of "liberalism"— this beau ideal of senatorial and aldermanic perfection— " This man—who doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus ; whilst we petty men Creep under his huge legs !" We are not about to make the attempt ; for if our ability were even equal to the task, our gallery has not the space to accommodate a work of such vast magnitude. In the Coun cil rooiu—the scene of his glories—where his genius has ichieved its proudest triumphs--where mayor, town-clerk aldermen, et)uncillors and reporters have gazed with awe upon his lofty brow and his dilating form, as the stream of eloquence has alternately flowed, bubbled, gurgled, and been jerked from between his teeth and lips—in that room there is a vacant frame of ample size, elaborately gilded ; and that frame, alone, must hold the portrait of which we, in our hu mility, shall only endeavour to throw out a few instructions to the future painter. , And first, with respect to the attitude in which we would have him sketched. If we could place the figure of a Satyr or of, the god Pan in the position of an ancient Athlete, a reasonably accurate study would be gained of the alderman, in one of those proud moments at which we would paint him. The dexter leg must be advanced and rest upon its toes, whilst the other must be thrown back upon the heel, in the position of the hind quarter of " a Tup rampant" or a hen dancing a cotillion upon a hot griddle. The body must in cline back, slightly swaying to one side or the other. One hand must hold a pair of glasses, as if just removed from the nose of the owner ; the other must hold a sheet of paper, on which are the orator's notes. The head, a little thrown back, must be made pendulous, like that of a Chinese man darin we have seen in some tea shop window (if the painter's art can accomplish such a feat). The eyes must flash with ering defiance and proud contempt upon 'somebody, or self congratulation upon the sublime person to whose " organi zation" they belong; and the features convey the expression which we have seen in those of an unhappy wight, engaged in the vain attempt to swallow, entire, a hard dumpling, or which we can imagine in an orator who has swallowed the copy of his speech, and is pilling out the words piecemeal. Such is the attitude and such the expression with which we would paint the great oracle of the council chamber; and yet, strange to say, such is not the man, whom an ima ginative world, which knows not his organization, pictures " in its mind's eye" as the redoubtable Alderman Evans! Some people, we dare say, fancy this " observed of all ob servers" endowed with the graces of an Antinous—a winged Mercury, or an Apollo. The graces of a Welsh goat would be " more germane to the matter !" People who merely read the orations, which those ingenious gentlemen—the reporters—put into his mouth (or rather drag out of it), would fancy him Demosthenes at least, or Cicero, or the ad mirable Crighton; and that they flowed from him— " like the sweet south Breathing upon a bank of violets," • or like " the whisky with exquisite smell," streaming from the worm of a potheen still. In good truth, they come from his lips, or from his stomach, or some halfway house between, more like the gobbling cry which issues from the throat of that farm-yard champion which ornithologists de signate " a male-turkey," and Scotch philosophers, more appropriately, a " bubbly-jock :" or like the sputtering stream, which is jerked, by hard pumping, from an old water engine; the hose of which is leaky and the pipe choked with a stone. Again, some people would run away with the notion, taken from his large words and occasionally terrible looks, toge ther with some very significant hints of his valour, which he is wont at times to bestow upon safe antagonists, that the worthy alderman is a perfect fire-eater —a fellow who would " chaw up" a regiment in about three mouthfuls ! A more erroneous idea cannot be entertained. Alderman Evans, like another distinguished character, can " look daggers," or " speak daggers," but will " use none." He will look a brace of pistols in your face ; but he has a sensitive dislike to the pulling of a trigger or the clicking of a lock. He has not, like Dublin's Lord Mayor, " an oath in Heaven," yet fame says that he possesses a knack of getting his combative designs made known to the police, which i s equa ll y efficacious in the prevention of bloodshed,—especially when, in the case of an invitation to go abroad and save the consequences of forfeited recognizances, a writ of " ne exeat regno" is duly prepared to intercept the fire-eater on his way to the coast. Despite, then, of his occasional Bobadilistns, the world may depend upon it that the alderman is a man who loves to " eat his leek," and his words, if need be, in peace. It has been said of a distinguished statesman, Lord John Russell, who is known to think no small beer of himself, that he would at any moment consent to take the command of the Channel fleet, or the chair of divinity at any of our universities. The gentleman before us has a similar excel lent opinion of his own capabilities. In addition, however, to taking such a command, he would proceed to take the fleet itself in pieces, and put it together on a new principle ! He would remodel all the seamen's jackets , and alter the swing of their very hammocks. He would think nothing of dam ming up the Mersey for six months, and ‘erectiag (leek ware houses in its centre, to enable our shipping to discharge under cover! Find him with the money, and he would build us a new town of Liverpool, any day, and upon any pattern, with all the latest improvements ; and would himself perform for it, gratis, any office, or every office, from that of mayor to parish beadle! Notwithstanding many imperfections however—notwith standing his total obliquity in political matters—it is im possible to deny that Mr. Alderman Evans (how soon he may be compelled to lay down that august prcehomen 0 is a distinguished member of his party. He cannot, it is true, like Mr. Alderman Earle, be styled " the glass of fashion and the mould of form ;" it cannot be said of him, as of Mr. Thomas Bolton, that his ancestors were kodmen before the food; he has not the distingQ air, language, and tastes of a Thornhill ; he has not the conventicle whine of a Yates ; he has not, in fact, the presence of anything more majestic than an antiquated quadruped, met with most commonly on Welsh mountains ; and yet it would be injustice to his character if we classed him amongst ordinary every-day men. He pos sesses much acumen, much strong good sense, and some judgment ; but an atom of feeling, of fancy, or of passion, does not enter into his composition. He is a hard, dry, matter offact utilitarian, who would break up the Medicean Venus, if his kitchenmaid wanted rubbing-stones, or sell the Apollo Belvidere, for five pounds, to the first shipbuilder who wanted a figure-head ! Such is the man—such, at least, are some of the phases in the character of the man—whose portrait is destined to fill the vacant frame in the council-room—(few men hare filled more of the time of its occupants)—unless some record of him, more enduring than that of canvas and oils, should be thought desirable by his admiring fellow-citizens. Some people, by the way, fancy that we shall hare abundant memorials of his talents upon the dock quays, besides not a few, in the shape of dock liabilities, increased in the carrying out of his fertile schemes. We ourselves express no opinion upon the matter. We can always have as much of him as we wish to contemplate, in the pen and ink sketch which, in future, will be hung up, No. 9, in our Portrait Gallery. FIRE AT BOOTLE AND LOSS OF LIFE On Saturday morning last, the premises in the occupation of Mr. John Percival, Derby Arms Hotel, Bootle-marsh, were destroyed by fire, and we are sorry to add, that a fine little boy, the son of the landlord, lost his life, having, it is supposed, been suffocated by the smoke when attempting to effect his escape. The fire is believed to have broken out shortly after midnight. It commenced in the lower apart ments, but all inquiries as to its origin have proved fruitless. The family retired to rest, we understand, between eleven and twelve. Mrs. Percival was awakened about one o'clock by the breaking of glass in one of the rooms beneath her bed-chamber, supposed to have been occasioned by beat. ,She arose in great consternation, and found her apartment full of smoke, and, on opening the door, saw that the house was on fire. She aroused her husband, and immediately threw open the window and screamed for assistance. One of the county police, No. 59, happened to be close at hand. He ran to the spot, and Mrs. Percival jumped from the win dow, two stories in height, into his arms, and sustained no injury. Mr. Percival, seeing that the flames were bursting up the staircase, and that escape by the usual avenues was impracticable, called loudly to his family and servants, all of whom, save two little boys, assembled in his room, and effected their descent safely from the window. The boys alluded to slept together, and, when the alarm was given, one of them ran to the barmaid, but unfortunately left her, saying be would go to his mother, under the im pression, doubtless, that with her he would be saf e . Un happily, was never afterwards seen, and it is conjectured that he had lost his way in the dense smoke of the stair case and had been suffocated, in the first instance, and afterwards consumed by the fire. The other little boy had made his way to the roof of the building where be was seen by the spectators below. He called loudly to them to bring a ladder, which he knew was at hand. This was done and be was taken from his perilous position. Meanwhile, the alarm spread, and, on the arrival of one of the County Con stabulary, a messenger was despatched to Liverpool for the Fire-police. Mr. Hewitt received the intelligence about half past two o'clock. The engines were got out immediately and they set off, with such firemen as could be collected, with the utmost speed to Bootle, where they arrived and were in full play in about twenty_meinutes from th e moment W of receiving the informati on. are informed, that the arrangements adopted on the spur of the moment by Mr, Hewitt were admirable. He found the interior of the house one mass of flame, and it was evident that its destruction was inevitable. He was informed, how ever, that the cellars were full of porter, wine, and spirits. Seeing that the con tigious buildings were .in great danger, and that this would be enchanced should the spirits explode, be at once directed his efforts to the subjugation of the fire in that direction, while he endeavoured to confine its ravages to the materials on which it had already fastened. He was informed that there was no water nearer than the canal, which was several hundred yards distant. He however, quickly di s p ose d t h ree engines in the proper position to convey a plentiful supply of water to the immediate scene of the disaster. Meanwhile Mr. Whitty arrived, and took the superintendence of the operations. S o s peedily had ever almost thing been arranged that the engines were g ot into p la yl i mmediately, and the impression which they made on the fire was quickly visible. The progress of the flames was arrested, and in less than an an hour and a half, they were completely subdued without further mischief. Not the slighest damage was sustained by the adjoini ng b u ildi ngs . The entire st oc k of the Hotel was consumed. The whole of the men belonging to our Fire-Police behaved Y admirab e ly ; and the h sewort officers of the count Constabulary ex praihyperseverance. erted thmselves wit We are i n f orme d, th a t Mr. fercival's stock an d f urniture were insured with the Norwich Union for £l,OOO. The premises were the property of the Earl of D er b y. We have not heard whether they were insured or not. COLONISATION OF AUSTRALIA TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—Will you permit me, through the medium of your columns, to offer a few remarks on an article I met with the other day in the Liverpool Mercury of April 29, headed `• Colonisation without Cost," treating upon Australia and New Zealand? I have spent eleven years at the settlement of Swan River, Western Australia—have witnessed its progress nearly from its commencement—have had a personal acquaintance with most of the early settlers—and shall, therefore, write from my own knowledge of its state and the condition of its in habitants. The settlement was commenced about the mid dle of the year 1829. 1 arrived there in the early part of February 1830. Before entering on particulars, 1 et i , general remarks on the article in question. I would observe that the idea of sending out labourers by means of a fund raised from the sale of land in the colonies, is not new; it has been acted upon for some time. Num bers of free emigrants have been sent to New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land on that very principle. Will the editor of the Liverpool Mercury inform his read ers at what time in the history of colonisation any number of free emigrants were sent to Australia at the expense of the British public ? I can answer for it that none were ever sent to Western Australia on that principle. May I be allowed to ask, by the way, why the labouring man should not have a portion of land given to him in the wilderness, where there are tens of millions of acres that have no occupier? Labour is the capital of the working man, and I cannot see why government should not allow him a boon for embarking with that capital, especially as the surplus land is of no value to the government till the increase of population requires it. to offer two or three The figure employed by the editor of the Liverpool Mer cury, representing one man with !` two spades, and the other digging his land with a " stake," may serve to amuse children who wish to play at colonisation ; but I can assure your readers that the capitalists at Swan River have too much regard for their own interest, and the general welfare of the colony, to allow their spades to " rot " for want of use ; and the labouring classes possess too much common sense to dig their land with stakes, or to refuse to work for the capitalist when they have not the means of supporting themselves and their families on their own freehold property. Part of the labourers have worked for hire till they have saved a sufficient capital to enable them to commence for themselves, and they are now in a condition to employ others. Part are continuing to work for hire. Some of the indus trious classes with small means, who have been settled on their sections of land adjoining the capitalist who possessed more ample means, have been enabled to borrow the cap' talist's " spade." what answered thP;- .Ar purpose on z inure extensive scale—his piougn ann norses, for which the borrower repaid the capitalist with his own manual labour, Several of the capitalists have placed their most trustworthy servants as tenants upon portions of their land; and have entrusted them with the care of their breeding cattle and sheep, from which the tenant receives part of the increase for his care and attention. As a system, " squatting " has never prevailed at Swan River; and from what I beard from persons who have vi sited the other colonies, I sincerely believe it is less followed at Swan RiVer than in any other Australian colony. The most extravagant part of the article in the Liverpool Mercury is the following:— " The last colony deliberately formed on the principle of giving land away was the Swan River colony. One man took 800,000 acres, another 500,000; some were more mo derate in their desires, and took only 100,000 acres. The emigrants who were conveyed out refused to labour for hire, although they had bound themselves to the capitalists. They found a country without bounds open to them, and they re fused to comply with a contract in which they believed they had been cheated ; so they squatted on the land ; and the goods, and the 'seeds, and the tools, which the capitalists took out, perished on the beach, for there was no man to carry them to a place of shelter. At length these indepen • dent occupiers of the soil were almost starved (some did starve); they returned to their masters, whom they had deserted and ruined, and said, Let us stand to our bar gain' ; but the masters were unable to do so, as the capital, which can alone set labour in operation, had utterly perished. This is by no means an overcharged picture." Let us now see how far these most grave and deliberate charges are correct. (If your readers cannot rely upon my statements, I would beg to refer them to a work written on Western Australia by Nathaniel Ogle, F.G.S., &c. In that work they will find a number of tables, furnishing a statis tical account of the condition of the colonists, of imports and exports, of the increase of stock, &c., and also of all land's assigned by the government from the commencement of the colony to the 30th June, 1837.) The four individuals who have had the privilege of having the largest quantity of land assigned them, were allowed to take up the following quantities, viz., 250,216-113,100- 100,000—and 81,413 acres (riot quite so much as quoted above). A considerable portion of the quantities here quoted have been forfeited, the conditions never having been ful filled. Three of the four individuals have not been much benefited by their high favours. Two of the cases especially may be considered as complete failures. The reason was, because the parties who held the land, and engaged to employ and support the me n , were not in possession of the " spades" —or, in other words, could not raise the wind to carry on their intended operations, and to supply their dependants with the necessaries o f life. Numbers of these men, after languishing for some time without any prospect of continued support, were at length, by legal authority, freed from their obligations to their master, and allowed to shift for them selves; and several of them, after they had acquired a little property, were afterwards prosecuted for repayment of their passage money. Really, if two or three individuals will make wildgoose speculations, they ought to bear the consequences of their own folly, and not let a thriving community be stigmatised for their blunders. The liberated servants of whom I have last spoken, (and who are said to have " squatted on the land,") were placed by the local government on what is denominated the con centration system, and had three acres , of land each allotted them ; but in a few years their empty cottages and partly cultivated plots of land were proofs of the failure of the sys tem, whilst the men were more profitably employed—some as labourers, others as bailiffs, to the capitalists. A comparison is made in one part of the article which forms the subject of these remarks, placing South Australia and New Zealand in contradistinction with the other kus tralian colonies. On this subject I must confess that I can not divest myself of the idea that the agents employed by the two companies, particularly interested in the first-named colonies, with th e i r pa id l ecturers an d b oo k ma k ers, materi ally assist them in selling their land—in the same manner as a puff advertisement assists a tradesman in selling his wares. But, as I prefer dwelling principally on practical effects, let us now see what is doing on the other side of the water. Of New Zealand I know but little : it has not vet arrived at the turning point which naturally succeeds the sifting time to which all new colonies are subject. On referring to Lord Stanley's speech, delivered in the House of Commons on Tuesday, April 19, it will be found that in South Australia (of which so much has been said and written) there were 1200 persons living as paupers, being maintained out of the public funds, for want of employment. So much for " completeness " of principle. Also on this subject see Quarterly Review for April 1842. The Swan River settlement has steadily progressed from its commencement. The first four or five years were seasons of difficulties, but those have been overcome principally by individual enterprise, assisted and encouraged by the activity of Sir James Stirling, who was the first governor. In a little more than two years from its commencement, a road was opened across the range of hills into the interior, and a farm commenced at a distance of sixty miles from the seat of government. Others followed the same track, and the principal sheep-farmers are now in that district. It is to the interior that the settlers look as the source of their future wealth, where their sheep can have an unbounded pasture. Wool being the staple produce, they look to it for an article of export. When I left the colony last year, it was in a healthy and prosperous state. All classes were profitably employed. The chief drawback was want of labourers. The flocks and-herds were rapidly increasing. Very passable roads had been opened through the different districts, and inns established. The towns were advancing in improvement. Two printing presses were in operation. A discounting bank had been established, which returned a good profit to the shareholders, and was a great convenience to the public. Whaling esta blishments had been commenced. An agricultural society had been in operation for ten years. A. reading society and benefit club had been es t a bli s h e d. Fi ve churces and two Wesleyan chapels had been erected, or were in course of erection. A subscription had been made, amounting to upwards of £BOO, towards the erection of the Wesleyan chapel in the town of Perth, which contained between GOO and 700 inhabitants. Sabbath and day schools had been established, and likewise a school for the native children, which promised fair for success. Instead of the colony being a failure, the first difficulties of colonisation may be said to be overcome, and business to have assumed a settled form. Mr. Ogle, in his work on Western Australia, after fur nishing a table shewing the average amount of property pos sessed by each adult male in the colony in 1837, (and like wise sbewing the per tentage of mortality,) makes the fol lowing observations : " On an inspection of the preceding table, it will be seen that each colonist, on an average, possesses a considerable amount of property in land, buildings, and cultivation; that after providing for his own subsistence, he exports in wool and oil to the amount of £8 19s. 2d., and contributes to the local revenue the sum of £6 2s. 3d. per annum ; that the comparative mortality is very small, while the births and marriages are unusually numerous. In recapitulating these facts, it is not out of place to advert to certain rumours which have been assiduously propagated as to the failure of colonisation in this quarter. So far is this from the truth, that it may be fairly asked, with reference to the table above, in what other colony are the colonists, on an average, in a more prosperous condition than this, or in the possession of larger means for future welfare." The above quotation shews the state of the colony in the year 1837, when It had only been in existence eight years; since that period it has made very considerable advancement. In conclusion, I have only to add, (and I think your read ers will agree with me,) that the portion of the article I have quoted from the Liverpool Mercury—backed by " This is by no means an overcharged picture "—is as unfounded as it is unjust ; and it shews that the source from which the writer has obtained his information, is by no means respec table.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, Manchester, May 11, 1842 VERITAS THE HAMBURGH SUBSCRIPTION TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I see by placards on the walls of this town, that the mayor has called a meeting for next Wednesday, to sympa thise with, and grant pecuniary relief to, the citizens of Hamburgh. Now lam quite inclined to sympathise with them, and deplore as much as any one the awful calamity that has so recently visited that city ; but, considering the many and urgent calls that are made, or ought to be made, on the community for claimants nearer home, I think that charity should begin at home. We have thousands—aye, I fear even millions—in this country who are in a far more destitute condition than the citizens of Hamburgh at this time. A return recently made to parliament shews that upwards of two millions of persons—our own countrymen and women—have received parish relief, exclusive of many thousands who are relieved under local acts, which do not come under the commissioners' notice, and exclusive of dis trict relief funds, which have administered greatly to the wants of the suffering poor, and many are eking out a mise rable existence rather than apply to their parish. Such being the state of things at home, I think it not right to ask our people to relieve those of other nations, when all their philanthropy might be so justly exercised at home. Besides, there are other reasons why we should not be called upon. I never yet heard of the Hamburghers, or any other foreign nation, ever affording us any relief; and lam sure the treat ment the English received in Hamburgh during and subse quent to the conflagration, was not such as to enlist our sympathies. lam a poor, hard-working man myself, hut I trust I have always, as far as has lain in my power, b een willing to assist my fellow-man in distress ; and if our coun try was in a prosperous state, I wo uld be the last man i n it amendment, to the effect to object to pecuniary relief to the citizens of Hamburgh ;-- but the country being in such a.deplorable state, I hope some gentleman of influence in this town will come forward on Wednesday, and state " that, in the present country, it is not desirable to recommend the legislature, to any pecuniary grant ov move of an th e am to the citizens of Hamburgh. ' Private individuals can, of course, do as they please. Trusting you will g ive space for these remarks, I remain A SUFFERING MECHANIC. Liverpool, May 16, 1842. THE SURVEYOR'S OFFICE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD from two letters recently inserted it _ . a contemporary, that there is an inquiry instituted to inquire into the practices of the corporation surveyors, would you allow me, through the medium of your jou rna l, t o ma k e, or . . s to be made, why a preference yen by tL surveyors to one than another ? Surely, if the architects in Liverpool are entitled to an inquiry into the improper practices of the cor poration's servants, so also are the builders. I ani one of those blunt fellows who will not purchase favours by means of cant and treats, and hence I am one of the excluded par ties. There are some persons who are employed and pa tronised by those gentlemen, who, I am informed, frequently the carpet `antial far rosity, w'hic in the been pe this obnoxiou nee rests on their indirectly paid Dv ;vstein will td signed," &c. bounteous gene ices of t May individuals shewn up before the ratepayers, as I am heartily sick of reform (bein myself of that class) under such circumstances. 1 of the applauders and supporters of the radical reformers (save the mark!) previous to the municipal act being ob tained, because I was led to believe that those immaculate gentlemen would do away but the contrary is the tal Liverpool, May 16 a all patronage and favouritism nd from that cause alone lan A TORY BUILDER. THE EASTERN COUNTIES AND THAMES HAVEN RAILWAYS. TO THE EDITOR 0. RAILWAY MAGA Z/N/ Mn. Enrroit,—ln your journal of the 7th instant there is a letter, signed E. C. 5.," on the subject of the proposed arrangement by which the Thimes Haven Railway Company were to have brought their traffic to London by the Eastern Counties line, but which arrangement, it appears, is broken off in consequence of the two Companies not being able to agree upon terms. Your correspondent appears to be a Shareholder in the Eastern Counties Railway, and is, no doubt, extremely anxious to obtain the largest possible amount of traffic upon this line • and, as I doubt not, there fore, that any i n f orma ti on w i ll be acceptable to him, I am in duced to communicate what I know of the subject, as I also, as well as himself, have heard some " whisperings" relative to this matter. As the whispers which I have heard differ a good deal from those of your other correspondent, I propose to show, not only that his deductions may possibly be wrong, from the very nature of thing's, they must neces sarily be so ; and I may therefore, perchance, be able to calm his apprehension of loss to the Eastern Counties line, to which, no doubt, lie is very deeply interested. " Lucri bonus odor, ex re quillibet"—the smell of gain is good, from whatever source it proceeds—was the answer of the Roman Emperor Vespasian, when he was upbraided for layityg a tax upon wine. And no doubt your correspondent, " E. C. 5.," thinks the same thing, and with reluctance sees the prospect of an income of traffic to the Eastern Counties Company,. which he considers will produce £21,000 per ci,fride for the present from their grasp. Being my;elf a Shareholder in this Company, I confess I should very much like to see this additional traffic secured; but I cannot dis guise from myself the fact, that gold itself may be purchased too dear, and that as the Directors of the Company must ne cessarily be in possession of more of the facts than any or dinary Shareholder, and knowing, too, that many of them possess very large stakes in the concern, I cannot think that they are actuated by the paltry avaricious motives which "E. C. S." attributes to them. The views taken by Direc tors are also very frequently, and necessarily, different from those of particular Shareholders ; for the latter may possibly be mere temporary holders of stock, and whatever, there fore, improves the present value of their shares, it is their aim to uphold, while a Director, acting for the permanent prosperity of the concern, looks far beyond the present moment, and will often sacrifice an apparent present gain, to secure a more lasting benefit. To descend, however, from general propositions to parti cular instances. "E. C. S . " states, that it was the unjust demand of the Eastern Counties Directors, to be allowed to run their trains on the Thames Haven Railway at the same rate of toll as they were to receive from the latter Company, which caused the negotiation to be broken off. It may be owing to some natural dullness of comprehension, but I must confess I am not able to see the injustice of this demand. The distance run upon the two lines is, I believe, pretty near ly equal, but the cost of construction (arising from the res pective situations,) must be more than three times as much for the Eastern Counties Railway as for the Thames Haven, mile' for mile. If, therefore the Thames Haven Company grant the privilege for the Eastern Counties company to run trains over their line at the same rate that will satisfy the lat ter for their tollage, it is quite clear that the Thames Haven Conipany will have much the best of the bargain. But then " E., C. S." says that in this case the Thames Haven Com pany would lose their monopoly of the traffic. I can very easily suppose that this is just the subject which may have causei the difference between the two Companies. Experi ence has shown in more than one case, that it this privilege of inter-traffic between main lines and their branches existed, the public convenience would be promoted, and the quarrels of public Companies prevented. Take for instance the case of the Greenwich and the Croydon Companies. The Croydon Company most absurdly endeavour to charge their first-class passengers, one shilling and three pence from New Cross to London Bridge, a distance of about 2 miles. The conse quence, of course, is that the passengers will not come on the Greenwich line. But if the Greenwich Company had the privilege of yunning their trains on the Croydon line at the same rate of toll which the latter now pay the former; they could afford to take the Croydon passengers from Newcross to Tooley-street, for about sixpence each, paying the Croydon Company the same rate of toll per mile, which the latter now pay' the Greenwich Company. Now, as regards the Thames Haven Company, the same kind of case may arise. They unt of traffic on their•line Tefore, they make their Company on this basis, to lirin bargain with the Eastern s discover that a far sm be more remunerf 'ectly fair that the Eastern Counties Company should have the option of Continuing the traffic on the old terms, if they think proper, )t be made the cat's paw of, for the purpose of calling the Thames Haven Company, for them to reap But 1 have also heard another reason assigned Eastern Counties Company demanding a reciprocity with the Thames Haven Company. It is said there into exister all the profit re other projects Counties line, which propose to use part of the Thames Ha ven line ; it is, therefore, very natural for the Eastern Counties Company to endeavour to secure similar advantages for these branches, which they propose to grant to the Pi- Haven Company. For it is notorious, that w! sistance of the Eastern Counties Company, cue Thames Haven line can never be made ; and, therefore, the apprehen sion of " E. C. S," that they will obtain a distinct line into London, is perfectly groundless, as it is scarcely likely that a Company, that has been trying for five or six years to raise a capital of two or three hundred thousand pounds, and has failed in their endeavours, should succeed better when they try to raise a million or a million and a half ! I differ in opinion from " E. C. S." therefore, and think that the Directors of the Eastern Counties Company, instead of " impaling them selves" on the horns of a dilemma, have acted very wisely for the interests of their Shareholders in demanding reciprocity of tollage, as the basis of their agreement with the Thames Haven CoMpany, and that without such reiprocity they would betray the interests of their Company in granting terms lower than the usual Parliamentary rates. For, in ad dition to all the previous reasons, it must be borne in mind, that if the traffic prove so extensive as the Thames Haven Company expect, they may ultimately obtain another line into London independent of the Eastern Counties, and then, after putting them to a vast expence, may terminate the agreement; but I apprehend by the other arrangement this could not arise (and in justice it ought not) for the East ern Counties Company would then be able to continue the traffic to themselves, if their allies proved faithlqss to the spirit of their agreement. Whether these are all, or even any of the reasons which have led to the present interruption of the negociation alluded to, I can of course, on the authority of the "whispers" before mentioned, only state conjecturally, but I think they show that, common prudential motives alone, completely sanction the course which the Eastern Counties COmpany have taken, and exonerate the Directors from the charge made against them by " E. C. S." I have replied to your correspondent as though he were really entitled to the character he assumes of an Eastern Counties Shareholder ; and possibly he may be entitled to it. lam disposed, however, to think that the same gentle man sometimes acts in other characters ; and in the lan guage of Goldsmith (when George, in the Vicar of Wakefield, met the man who sold him the gross of green spectacles, and recognised him by his introducing the second time the only scrap of learning which he possessed) I would say to him, " I think, Sir, I have met you before." The days of chivalry I thought had long since passed, otherwise I should have imagined the writer of the letter in question was a true Knight-errant in search of adventures, for the extirpation of oppression and avarice in whatever secret corners they may lurk. Like Don Quixote, he appears to discover giants in windmills, and distressed damsels as plentiful as the pebbles on the sea-shore. " Virtue," it is said, " once dwelt upon this earth !" and if our Knight can discover her secret dwelling, and liberate her from the spell which now binds her in some dungeon fastness, none will more rejoice at his success than Your obedient servant, 10th May, 1842. , SIMON PURE THE EX-KING OF HOLLAND..- - THE HAGUE, May 11th —ln consequence of the favourable acconnts which continue to be received of the health of his Majesty King William Frederick, Count of Nassau, his Majesty has given orders that the public prayers for the entire recovery-of the aged Prince shall be accompanied with thanksgiving to Almighty God for having preserved his life THE 'REJECTED OF NORTRUMBERLAND.—The General Committee on Election Petitions have reported to the House of Commons that a Select Committee will be appointed on Monday, June 6th, to investigate the petition presented against the return of Lord Howick for the Borough of Sun derland. If the inquiry is only conducted in a searching and skilful manner, corruption, in all its shades of character, will be brought to light equal even to the Whig performances at Sudbury and elsewhere, and there can be no doubt but the " Rejected of Northumberland" will be sent to keep company with that "sombre" gentleman Mr. Dyce Sombre, who has been ignominiously kicked out of the House of Commons.— Newcastle Journal. THE FIRE AT HAMBURGH. — Some of the merchants ac quainted with the customs of Hamburgh observe, that this will offer a favourable moment for the improvement of the, city, as the particular method which is adopted of insuring the houses in Hamburgh will place great power in the h an d s of the government. Nearly every house is, it seems, occu pied by a freeholder or a tenant-at-will, or for a short term ; and there is nothing similar to the long leases which are so common in England. These freehold houses are insured by means of a system of taxation — thatis to say, th e h o ld ers pay a certain rate to the government, who undertake, on their part, to repair the damage done by the. This rate of insurance, it seems, the government may vary to meet the exigencies of the occasion, and as the present will be so great as to exceed the possibility of paying any adequate rate that may be levied on the inhabitants, the freeholds being already mortgaged to their full amount, it is thou g ht th at the govern ment may fairly expropriate the lands, and resell them in lots. This certainly seems a violent p rocee di ng, and one the justice of which it is difficult to make intelli gible in this country ; but whether it be consistent • with Hamburgh institutions, those who are familiar with the laws of that city . can alone decide. More intelligible is the proposition of seizing this opportunity of throwing down the rampart that surrounds the town, and thus preventing Ham burgh from being selected as a suitable spot for a garrison in the case of a European war. Private letters contain several melancholy facts connected with the ill-usage of the English residing in Hamburgh, on account of the prevailing suspicion that some of our countrymen had a hand in the fire. Two Englishmen had tongs tied round their necks, and weie thrown into the canal; another was thrown into the canal , and stoned till he sank ; a third had his head split . in two with An axe ; and a fourth was run London, through the body with When it is ascertained how contrary is the feehngn, he it is found a sword. to anytjling like malice towards Hamburgh-- how prbinptly and liberally the call to relieve the in that city has been answered by the British —the ichelthe distre,,ed recollec tion of these outrages will, doubtless, awaken the deepest re.• gret among the inhabitants.—London rtMeC. TIM HUNT'S BANK JUNCTION.—We understand that the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company have, during the present week, given notices to the owners of property on the junction line through Salford to Hunt's Bank, for the RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, 1 expires. The it land, with , purchase of the land before their present 0,. Leeds company have - q 4 the whole of 11 the exception -". for rice haw - 'le c n the ens ye null , urchasing MS Of t which so exhorbitant a will go before a jury } ale time for in which is a favour course of next year. icription is much lid want of trade, We may now ex w ill be proceeded ole may be oom. IANCII 'he hill to Deiced the Who have paid up the calls and man with shnuit;ncous bnEFFI mend and en! Inc a mount at present calle d f or is - £B2 10s. per share, upon which, therefore, , the holder is entitled to £4 2s. 6d. per annum. The shares upon which this interest is payable may be purchased, we believe, at less than £4O per share, and would thus return 10 per cent, upon the investment. report- that Bur aree, the Aus owing to his severe put Several letters were received at the General Postoffice by the last overland mail, via Marseilles, bearing the extra ordinary postmark of Hong-Kong, in China. SACRILEGE.—A most daring act of sacrilege took place in the parish church of Tawstock during the last week. On Sunday evening the church was locked up as usual, and Wednesday morning the sexton found the doors open, and on examination he found the entire service of valuable com munion plate disappeared.—Western Luminary. No postmaster is allowed under any consideration to de tain letters passing through his office and addressed to another post town, nor can he be permitted to even redirect them, but they must in future reach the office of their destination, where alone they are to be re-directed. Mr. T. Boyfield, under steward to the Marquis of Exeter, fell down dead in Burghley Park, without any known previous illness, on Thursday week. Mr. George Faithful, jun., of Brighton, wss fined £3, on Wednesday, for an assault on Lord William Hervey, brother of the present representativ e of the town. Sir Charles Napier appeared at th e B a l M asque in the character of Ala, and performed the part admirably. Captain Elliot wore a C hinese costum e , supposed to have belonged to his friend Commissioner Lin. Three men have been committed fo r tr i a l , charged with wilfully setting tire to the Victoria Inn, in St. Thomas's, Exeter. A pint of early potatoes, grown in the open air, was sold in Edinburgh Market on NloAday, for 3s. Be assured, that whoever indiscriminate!, women, has only seen the worst part of them y defames men or The installation of the Duke of Northumberland, as Chan cellor of the University of Cambridge, is fixed for Monday the 4th July. The Duke of Wellington has accepted an invi tation to be present. FALL OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE.—On Thursday a fearful accident occurred on the works of the Eastern Counties' Railway, at Kelvedon, in the fall of a stupendous bridge, which was very near completion, occasioning the loss of one life, and injuring six other persons. The damage is estimated at £2OOO. BRIGHTON ELECTION:A petition has been sent to Lon don against the return of Lord Alfred Hervey. It is signed by Lieutenant-colonel Roberts, Colonel Trickey, Mr. Jolly, and the principal supporters of the liberals, and alleges bri bery and treating to have taken place to secure the return of Lord Hervey. GUNS FOR THE PRINCE OF WALES.—A townsman of ours, named Griffiths, has manufactured and sent to the Prince of Wales a brace of guns, which, though complete in all parts, weigh only one ounce and a half and a fourpenny piece. The individual, although only a young man, manu factured all the parts, we are told, with his own hands.— Birmingham Advertiser. MADEIRA.—The Queen of Portugal has issued two de crees regarding the island of Madeira, by the first of which American eagles and dollars are to be legally current in that island, at the rate of 1,000 reis per dollar, and English sove reigns and silver coin, which were already current there at the rate of 4,600 reis per sovereign, are now to be raised to that of 4,800 reis per sovereign. By the second decree rice the produce of Asia is rendered admissible there, under what ever flag and from whatever place imported. --- Since our last, the weather has been exceedingly propitious for the growing crops of grass and corn, and, indeed, for ve getation in general. Gentle and not too copious showers of rain having fallen at intervals during the week, accompanied and followed by soft warm breezes from the S. and S.W. ; and the fields, the gardens, and the hedgerows seem now in almost full summer bloom. HULL.—The departure of the William Darley steamer, which was appointed for yesterday, has been delayed until this morning ; a number of owners and agents for goods having, we are informed, arrived here by railway from the the manufacturing districts. Some of them will probably proceed to Hamburg; while it is likely others have orders to retain goods already shipped for houses which are burnt down.—Hull Herald, May 12. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS-On Wednesday morning an acci dent occurred to the five o'clock goods train from Edin burgh to Glasgow, by which one of the railway servants was very seriously injured, and several of the carriages were bro ken to pieces. REPRESENTATION OF DERRY.—Sir Robert Bateson has esigned his seat as representative for the county of London derry, on account of ill health, and his son, who inherits the virtues, talents, and principles of his father, has come forward 's candidate for the representation. DISFRANCIIISEMENT err l'"^ OF SUDBURY [HP, IiOROUb. —The bill for disfranchishing this borough was brought intc ,ent on Wednesday night. After reciting that bribers and corruption which prevailed in the town at the last elec tion, it enacts that " the borough of Sudbury, in the county of Suffolk, shall, from and after the passing of this act, cease to elect and return any burgess or burgesses to serve in the high caurt of parliament." ptvliarr FIRE AT H A MBURGH.—We are glad to learn that none of the warehouses or other buildings, whether public or private, in the city of Hatnburn , h are cr au, we insurea oy hnglish Fire-offices, A law of the city of Hamburgh requires that every building shall be insured by the State ; and a public tax is annually levied for that purpose. NAVY CANVASS. —For some time past the manufacturing trade of Dundee has, as is too well known, been much de pressed, but we are glad to learn that several houses there in that line have come in for a large share of the navy canvass,. contracts having just been entered into by them with the go vernment to supply 27,000 bolts for the use of the navy. Al though it seems that the prices will not realize large profits to the contractors, still it will do much good to the town, by affording employme n t t o a grea t num b e r of the labouring population, a large portion of whom have been very poorly off during the four or five past months.—Caledonian Mercury. EFFECTS OF PUSEYISM.—An Oxford paper, of April 30, has the following:—" We hear that R. Scott Murray, Esq., 8.A., of Christ Church. has followed the example of Mr, Douglas, and conformed to Rome." Mr. Murray, we be lieve, was returned to parliament in June last, by the " emi nently Protestant" cou n ty o f Bucks. We cherish e d a h ope that his alleged perversion might prove an unfounded ru mour ; but a week has now passed over, and we find no con tradiction from any quarter; on the contrary, we perceive his secession spoken of by the Buckinghamshire papers as a known fact. And yet, strange to say, while th e e ff ects of Dr. Pu teaching are thus daily becoming mo re an d more manifest se's among the young men of his own college, the heads of houses are actually, at this very moment, proposing him as a member of the new theological board now in formation. Record. THE HAMBURGH SUBSCRIPTION. —A cor res p on d en t of the London Times, I n . noticing thi s su b scr i pt i on, says , w ith a good deal of propriety, that " m on th s h ave passe d s i nce a far greater misfortune betel thousands of our own country men in Affghanistan, and yet no subscription is made on be half of those they have left behind. Should this be so ?" WOOD PAVING.—This method of covering our carriage wa ys, is becoming very popular in the metropolis. In 1839, 1840, and 1841, the metropolitan company completed nearly 20,000 yards ; and already in this year they have received or ders approaching that quantity. Oxford-street, the Old Bailey, Newgate-street, Jermyd-street, Hammersmith-bridge and part of Great Holborn, are already contracted for. PDBLIC EXECUTION AT BRUGES, MAY 11.—This day, at noon, there was a public execution, by the guillotine, of a criminal who had murdered his wife after three horrible at tempts which had previously failed. In his confession he avowed having murdered also his first wife and another wo man. He is said to be deranged. As there had been no ex , ecution in this town for 35 years, the spectacle created much interest and a general disgust at the punishment of death. Masters of families almost universally ordered all their ser vants to keep in doors till the bloody spectacle was over. It is remarkable that, on the same spot whereon the culprit Was executed to-day, the superstitious :ceremony of blessing the (alleged) real blood of JESUS CHRIST took place yesterday —a striking contrast ! and one which produced reiterated execrations from the Catholic mob assembled. PRICE OF WHEAT.-According to a parliamentary paper recently published, the annual average price of wheat in the early part of the present century was as follows : - 1799, 695. per imperial q uarter ; 1800, 113 s. 10d.; 1 801, 119 s. 6d. ; 1802, 625. 10d. ; 1803, 58 s . 10d. ; 1807, 755. 4d. ; 1808, 81s. 4d.; 1809, 975. 4d.; 1810, 106 s. sd. ; 1811, 955. 3d. , 1812, 1265. 6d. ; highest price ever known in E1n8g212a,nc414;51.871d3.: 109 s. 9d. ; 1814, 745. 4d.; 1815, 655. Since the late corn-law passed in 1828, the highest average has been 70s. Bd. in 1839, and the lowest ditto, 395. 4(1. in 1835. We have just learned that the Judges as was notified would he the case some days ago, gave th e i r opinions on Tuesday forenoon in Lady Hewley's case, and all, with the single exception of Baron Maule, confirmed in every parti cular the view of the case taken by the Lord Chancellor. Lords Brougham and Campbell, who were present, coincided with the views of the majority. There was a large and deeP l Y interested audience below the bar and in the gallery. T hu : the vital point is gained, and her Ladyship's bequest and longer to be made the means of propagating infiriefity, b e r e the the name of Unitarianism. The time is now come Church of Scotland to step in and enforce her claims., Chief some expressions that fell from Baron Parke and a Justice Tindal, it appears that they consider Presbyterians,icia i to the Independents, and Baptists, to have an the c ourse of the charity. The final decision is expected in th session. —Scottish Guardian. . H.—Persons un- Tux DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT lIAMBU7 e G at a loss to form r From acquainted with the city of Hamburgh which the fire raged Let our rea °verornin an idea of the extent of the area lie west end of from Wednesday night till Sunday ders, therefore, imagine a line drawn fro whitechapel, the the Customhouse along Paradise - street,,in_ d down Water-street, Old Haymarket, up Dale-street, n i that space were burnt, and that all the buildings includedthe destruction sustained by Towns. The career of the and they will have some idf_a ar e lse the ancient capital of the I - / Let the reader himself suppose fire was remarkably zigzag. T h e fire breaks out there, extends i m from again at our Custo:nhouscel• _.T h i tee hapel, and runs up Hood. Paradise-street an k l From St. John's Market it along Parad s „ far , e . street to St. John I ,':' Ranelagh-street. Then, by a change continues its ravines to ei across old-street, to the top of Duke of wind, it dart c s top9. This, we are assured, will give our street, where it l oca l readers BB 8.1 , a of the area occupied b y the fire as well. e as its singular progress. whale-ship, in • o i n of a . allusion to the severe cll. The cap , and i „ s privations suffered by the • • mate van told one of them that _ inhabitants of . ~,,r , e n, to . he sincerely pitied the Seitz- " I T, to which he was condemned.miserable "Miserable r eraxclaimed the phi osop lc savage : " I have always had a fish. bone through my nose, and plenty of train oil to drink ; what more could I possibly desire ?"---N 11 - eto .L °Whig Magazine. lands of Latheron, w h en A CALCULATING GENitis.—A. young man, in the high fillin dule, at the time of the 1 t he householders' sche gup t . . a e census, supposing himself under 25, entered his age as 20 •, in conformit with the instructions to that effect ; but, yieldin to his y a' superior know ledge, who assured him that g he had c ulam ple a te his 25th year, lie wished to correct his mistake, and o s m eeing ho had 20 down already, thought he had only toadd a 5, whereby lie made himself 205 years of age l--John 0' Groat Journal.