The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

idulge in so mu ein Eibrroo TUESDAY We ha' rised by ications on the rsonality, dm!: we ie interests of all parties '.-7.)tatiTta I'l3. 24, 1343 in entreated the attention nischie%'ous operation of MO RA IN gain and ag f the legislature to a -m of joint-stock banking; and we have this day before us, once more, the affairs of a con cern which, above all others, has demonstrated to the world the ruinous consequences with which that Need we say that the concern the sys,, tern is preb II question is THE BANK OF MANCHESTER? About eight mono. s ago, it will he remembered, the commercial accompanied with some assertions of fact, and an inuendo or two, which call for a few words of refu- Referring to a " recent extraordinary resolve of a majority in the Dock Committee to effect extrava gant purchases of land for the purpose of dock ex tension," Mr. Evans (from the editorial chair of our contemporary) addresses himself, in the first in stance, to combat the position of the Dock Surveyor, who, not having the fear of the alderman before his eyes, recently " volunteered his opinion that further extension of dock accommodation was required by the trade of the port." That opinion, our readers may remember, was a very strong one stated by Mr. Hartley, that such increased accom- It was modation was urgent—as urgent as when he first came to Liverpool, in 1824;—and when we look at the vast increase of space which, since then, has been covered with docks, and look at the admitted fact that the trade of the port is now increasing i❑ a ratio equal with that of its past increase, such ur gency will readily be admitted by men whose minds are not preoccupied by their own particular crotch ets. It is urged, in reply, by the editorial alder man, that the inconvenience now sustained by the shipping trade would be obviated by the " simple putting up," in the three southern docks, so con nected at present as to render it impossible to ' 6 let dry" each separately, of dock gates in reverse— an operation not quite so simple, perhaps, as Mr. Evans supposes—and by the increased facility for discharging, and the increased space afforded, when the Albert Dock and his pet warehouses shall be completed. We contend, on the contrary, that such remedies are totally inadequate to the evil at present existing; that giving Air. Evans the benefit of the fullest realization of his hopes, with respect to the working of his warehouse scheme, and his "simple putting up" of transverse gates, to disconnect, when required, the three southern docks, the additional dock accommodation gained will barely carry us on to the period at which the earliest portion of the measures contended for by the majority of the Dock Committee could be brought into operation. And such, we need not say, is the opinion of nine prac tical men out of ten. In corroboration, however, of this view of the case, we have the return, just published, of the number of days during which the flag has been hoisted, to denote that our existing docks were closed against the admission of shipping during the past twelve months. The Waterloo and Victoria have thus been closed 175 days. The Prince's.. George's 302 „ Average of North Docks, 7 months and 27 days. King's Queen's . . Union and Coburg Tax teth Average of South Docks, 3 months and 13 days Brunswick, the only convenient timber dock 127 ~ 113 „ 137 „ 251 „ 42 „ 25 „ Canning.. . Salthouse . Average of entire Docks, 4 months 26 days Average, exclusive of Canning and Salthouse, 5 months 25 days. This vast deficiency, and the inconvenience occa sioned by it, the completion of the docks now erect ing, and of the warehouses, can do no more than make up for ; and we have therefore still to provide for future demand for dock accommodation. In what direction, then, are we to look for the land required ? Mr. Evans contends for " the great superiority which the Corporation land at the North Shore possesses" over the Harrington property "for dock and commercial purposes." Is that site, we ask, superior to the South Shore, for the timber trade, already established at that end of the town, provided at a vast expense with the necessary offices and yards, and having its principal dock filled for eight months and eleven days out of the past twelve months ? No man will assert either that the timber trade does not require increased accommodation, or that the removal of any portion of it to the North Shore is advisable or practicable. Independently of local advantages—of the trade being already esta blished in the south—the greater exposure of the north to currents and tides, points out that as the most unfavourable which could be selected. - nmuni , ,y was startled by the an- nouncement, made at special meeting of the shareholders in this wretchedly, if not dishonestly, conducted affair, that the entire paid-up capital, amounting to more than £700,000 sterling, had been squandered in propping up a multitude of bubble, undertakings and bubble firms ; and that it would still require an additional call upon the already-im poverished proprietors, to the amount of upwards of £lOO,OOO, to raise it from its position of insol vency. We had then statements of assets and lia- bilities, of bills overdue and accounts overdrawn, the result of which, upon paper, flattered the de ceived victims, whose all had been nearly swallowed up, that, by a little additional drain upon their means—a little extra exhaustion of the savings of past years—they might be bled to wash their hands of the trade of joint-stock banking, and sit down in their poverty, relieved from the fear of cir- cular letters, slips of parchment, and visitors even more unacceptable and less easily evaded. Well, what is the result, as exhibited at a meet ng of the same concern, held in Manchester on Are these flattering promises rea etre the affairs of the bank wound up—the outstanding balances called in, and the liabilities Saturday last Not at all ! We are informed, indeed, by the report just published, that, up to the 30th June, 843, " the liabilities of the bank, including those ontingent on current bills, have been reduced from and exclusive of current bills, from £581,860 to £408,499." The realisation £801,440, to £440.936 of the assets has progre se'l at a similar tardy rate, and are now stated at £388,576 ; and although up wai ds of £lOO,OOO has been received on account of the call made at the last meeting, it is now disco- vered that there is still an " estimated deficiency" of above £50,000 to he provided for by another call of £2 per share upon the unfortunate shareholders ! How many more "estimated deficiencies" may arise before all the bubble accounts which compose the " assets " are wound up, and the various mills and other properties held by the bank are converted into cash, we know not; but we should be very sorry to guarantee any holder of stock that he will not have to put his hand into his pocket to provide for further "estimated deficiencies." The total estimated losses are now £937,117, and may be roundly stated at a million, the bulk of it the property of the most defenceless portion of the community, squandered by a clique of schemers to advance their own selfish purposes of aggrandise ment, and no small amount of it devoted to prop up their own political party in the borough of Man chester. Essentially this bank, it is notorious, has been a political engine, wielded by a faction. Its credits afforded a ready means of rewarding poli tical subserviency. They propped up the beggarly tools who agitated for the Potters, the Harbottles, the Dyers, and other of the prime movers in the various questions which for years past have occupied the attention of the manufacturing magnates. They have rewarded the mercenaries who clamoured most loudly for Incorporation, for repeal of the Corn•law, and other specifics of Manchester radicalism ; and, in fact, the total amount lost by the unfortunate shareholders may be said to have been sacrificed for the purpose of party elevation. We are told, indeed, by the directors, that they Again, where would Mr. Evans locate the dock, have been themselves large sufferers. These gen- now day by day more imperiously called for, for tlemen point to their own wounds, and assume the the accommodation .of our large Transatlantic position of unfortunate and guiltless martyrs. We steamers, and, indeed, for our coasting steamers, grant readily that, as shareholders, they may he, and some of which cannot at present be adequately ac doubtless are, considerable sufferers; but is it no- commodated, and for one of which—a Glasgow thing that as traders, in an age of speculation—of steamer—the entrance of Clarence Dock has had to manufacturing bubbles and railway and mining be cut down ? Obviously, it is desirable that the bubbles,—they have been enabled to have funds at north end should be the site of such a dock, and command to advance their private emolument ? Is that the navigation of the river should not be ren it nothing that, during a period of bloated prosper- dered dangerous by the constant passing and re ity, when trade was bringing in thousands where it passing of these steamers to and from the south end. now, under a healthy state of things, brings in hun- But it is not. upon the ground of merely tempo dreds only, they were enabled to push their various rary necessity or expediency that we advocate the concerns to an extent which amazed the world and carrying into effect of this resolution of the Dock placed them in a few years far above the position of Committee. Such a body, invested with such large those of their competitors who, trading on solid powers, and having under their care such. vast in capital, and within their means, had no such aid to terests, ought to look beyond the wants of the hour help them ? Assuredly men who have done these —ought to possess that common forecast which in things—who have thus traded upon the property of dividuals exercise in the regulation of their private a number of duped and befooled persons—must not affairs. They have an opportunity now of purchas be allowed to shelter themselves behind the fact, no ing the Harrington estate—which no reasonable doubt a true one, that by the same wretched concern man can deny will at no distant period be wanted, whose operations towards them,as favored customers, if even the accommodation which it is capable of have put tens of thousands in their pockets, they affording be not greatly wanted now—at a price have lost a few thousands as mere shareholders. (31s. 6d. per square yard) which every competent The fact cannot be lost sight of that for years professional man consulted has declared to be below oast—since 1836 indeed—these men either were its real value. They have an opportunity, too, of might have been, aware of the insolvency of the purchasing the north strand to Beacon's Gutter, at hank over which they presided. They were either a price less than they will be able to do when, as acquainted with it in 1840, when their flattering jMr. Evans himself states, they will have made that report represented the concern as flourishing and I s trand into valuable land. If such purchases ought its past losses as amply provided for, or, as a share- not to he made, then we say Mr. Alderman Evans holder at the meeting justly observed, they must is about as inconsistent a man, and as forgetful of have squandered a million of money within the his former declared opinions, as any that we ever space of less than two years. There is no man who met with. Perhaps we may be excused if we call can credit the latter alternative without believing the the attention of that gentleman to the following ex directors during these two years to have been mad- tract from a memorial, emanating from a meeting of They were not such. The board on the dock ratepayers, held on the 21st of September, contrary was composed of men who doubted the i 1832 : solvency of the concern and we believe strove to I 4 , When they," the Dock Committee, " made the avert the evils which impended over it. It was the King's and George's Dock, instead of purchasing for preceded them to themselves at the outset the strand to the westward of the Dock Trust, they allowed the intermediate lard, un rhose anxiety to prop up their own ascendancy purchased, to be enclosed by the sea walls advanced a to be attributed the disastrous ruin which into the river at the expense of Dock Estate,"—the same operation now going on northward of the boundary has startled all sober men ; and retributive jus- of that estate ; " and after the strand so enclosed had tice would enact that upon their heads should fall been filled up with excavationsfrom the docks, and thereby the basins, Cor the loss which has made so many a deserving trades- madegroui , l , dforbuilding, a o n n d :pa n t t o il f it they " or ey" Gor man rue that ever a Joint Stock Bank was tolerated por whicha t. iotnh,ey ha m v a e d leetyoff yards at considerable rents, and on the by the legislature. part to the westward of the King's Dock they built the The nuisance however must be abated; and we present Tobacco Warehouse, for which they received thef i ro 6 m o, , crown and merchants an annual income of trust that another session of p ar li ament w ill not pass oo by without a measure of stringent character being Now, if the Dock Estate had been represented by applied to avert the dangers attendant upon the t a r l i i i i s z tes oun d d isti b nc o t at f h ro l m nd th . e te Com t to Common Cou t n t c h i e l, a Co i.. body ora e wo rking of the system in dishonest, or reckless, and ti on ,) it ma y reasonably be pr ' esume u r that these l'imde znorant hands. pendent trustees, looking with a single eye to the interest of the docks, would have had the common forecast to purchase from the Corporation the strand required for dock purposes, before it was reclaimed from the waters mour as to its authorship— has been occupying of the Mersey at the expense of the Deck Trust." his leisure in the concoction of a somewhat And who do our readers imagine was the most lengthy article, upon the subject of dock matters, active amongst the very influential parties by whom which anpears in the leader columns of our contem- this memorial was adopted ? Why, Mr. Alderman iorary, the Albion of yesterday. In the opinions Evans himself—the same most consistent personaje liberal " clique who had Mr. Alderman Evans—according to current ru- THE LIVERPooL STANDARD s that v foreca, nd assumptions of comparative cost with which he las favoured us, further than to undeceive our fellow-townsmen with respect to the asserted enormous addition to the debt of the dock estate—to the amount, we are told, of a million and a half—which is to he the result of these purchases. The securing of the land is all that is contended for; and that object, with the docks in the first instance contemplated, can be achieved with an outlay of under half a million. There are few men, save the alderman himself, who will maintain that the same amount of benefit, pre sent and prospective, can be secured by the expen diture of an equal sum in the erection of his favour ite dock warehouses. Independent of a little bitterness of feeling, known to exist in the mind of Mr. Evans towards the Har rington Company, and which he gratifies by an unjustifiable attack upon the motives of that body, and upon those of a gentleman—(the mover of the resolution in the committee, whom he represents as " recently the chairman of the Harrington Dock Association," when he might have known that that gentleman had retired from office a year before the act of parliament was obtained, and is now not even a shareholder)—the animus of the present energetic opposition of the alderman is easily seen through. Extend the boundary of the dock estate, and Mr. Evans's pet warehouse scheme sustains a " heavy blow and a great discouragement." Coop up that boundary, by the erection of valuable property around it, and enclosed docks with warehouses are assumed to be our only resource! This is distinctly admitted in the article under notice. " Had the advocates of dock warehouses," says the writer, " listened to suggestions urged upon them by insi dious or timid advisers, to go for an open dock, and to take chance for getting warehouses afterwards, Liverpool would never have seen a warehouse upon the dock quays; and if the present attempts to im pose open docks upon the public succeed, the fur ther acquisition of those invaluable instruments of trade, dock warehouses, will be rendered for ever unattainable." Cruel deprivation ! May the pro phecy be realized; and so it will be if the council and the public can once be convinced that this op position of the worthy alderman is only the ware house movement in a new and ad captandum shape! We have abstained hitherto from referring, ex cept incidentally, to the municipal contest, to be decided on the first of the ensuing month. The near approach of that perio 1, however, leads us to enter upon an examination of the prospects of the Conservative cause, and the characters of the re spective candidates about to he submitted to the choice of the constituencies. In doing this, how ever, at a time when the whole of the candidates in the Whig inte est are not officially announced, and some not even hinted at, we would earnestly caution our Conservative friends against placing the least dependence upon the apparent inactivity of their opponents. We told them, months ago, that the organization of the Radical faction throughout the borough, was perfect; that, if they seemed to sleep up to the last moment, they would start up with unexpected vigour, when it might be too late to re pel their onset; and we tell them now advisedly and seriously, that on the day of election they will find in every ward a candidate, with a body of canvassers, prepared to strain every nerve in the effort to secure once more the predominance of Whig-Radicalism in the corporate body. It will be, Conservatives may depend upon it, no light struggle in which they are about to engage. It will require no slight amount of energy and perseverance to carry them to a suc cessful issue; and we implore them, therefore, to lose not a moment in devoting themselves to active preparation for the day of conflict ; to pause not one moment in their exertions, until the final close of the poll assures them that their exertions are crowned with triumph, or that they have been put forth in vain. In glancing over the name of the candidates proposed for the various wards, we must he excused if we pass somewhat briefly over those of some of our friends, against whose return, although an op position may, and undoubtedly will, be offered, if only to deprive the candidates in other wards of their double votes, we are confident that such oppo sition will be vain. Thus, in No. 1, Everton Ward, we have Mr. David Hodgson, at present unopposed; and in his recommendation we feel that we need say nothing. In No. 2, however, Scotland Ward, we have as the retiring candidate, Mr. W. Thornhill ; and of him we feel bound to say a few words. If to have been the tool, and the thoroughgoing, and wholesale one, of the Whig faction be a recommendation to the Conservatives of the ward to be inert and divided in their efforts, then Mr. Thornhill is the man of all the retiring Council whose claims are most to be respected. He is op posed by a " good man and true"—a man of in fluence in the ward—Mr. Vernon ; and if the Con servative constituents respect themselves, they will not leave an effort unmade to secure a triumphant result of the contest.. For Vauxhall Ward, we have at present as a can didate, on the "liberal" side, Dr. Chalmer—not him of pulpit fame, but the same disciple of Escu lapius who has heretofore been rejected by St. Anne's and other wards. Surely the Conservative party will not allow such a man to walk the course! In St. Paul's Mr. Blundell, the retiring member, in whose praise we need not say a single word, is opposed in the Radical interest by Mr. Deakin— nlso one of the reje ted. In Exchange Ward Mr. Thomas Sands, the present respected member, is opposed by Mr. G. Holt. In Castle-street, Mr. James Aikin stands, so far, unopposed In Pitt-street, the retiring candidate, Mr. Toul mM, comes forward again, and is as yet unopposed. For Great George, Rodney-street, and Abercromby Wards, the candidates are Messrs. Sothern, W. Birkett, and C. Boutflower. To none of these gen tlemen is opposition at present offered ; or, we feel assured, can be successfully offered. In Lime-street Ward, however, we feel that an arduous contest is before us. Mr. Kilshaw, the retiring member, stands in the Conservative interest, and has already gathered round him a body of strenuous supporters, who are fighting his battle manfully—as well indeed as he deserves that they should. Although seldom presenting himself be fore the public as a speaker, there is not in the council a harder worker, or a more stanch member of the Conservative party. That such a member should be lost to the council, and to his constituents, would be to us a subject of deep regret ; and we, therefore, earnestly entreat of every Conservative in the ward to be unceasingly active, and, above all, of those who possess influence amongst the con stituency, to rally to his side. He is opposed to one of the picked men of the Whig-radical party—one who, if elected, would prove a thorn in the side of the Conservatives; and we need not assure our friends in the ward that no effort will be left untried to place the whig-radical lawyer in a position upon the poll above that of the good specimen of an Englishman who now represents . the ward; For West Derby Mr. G. H. Lawrenc€ t unopposed. and is unassailable. two Tort s, however, we etiring member, M iticipate, In South Tox- opposed by Mr. T. GlLzebrook, a Conservative of the right sort; and in the North, Mr. R. Harbord, of whom we need say nothing in praise, is opposed by Mr. W. Lockerby, of whose claims the ward has heard before, and we trust will never hear again. LIVERPOOL OCTOBER SESSIONS (Before Gilbert Henderson, Esq., Recorder.) These sessions commenced yesterday morning, at ten o'clock. After the court had been opened with the usual formalities by the clerk of the peace, the following gen tlemen were sworn on the GRAND JURY Rd. Rathbone, merchant, South Castle-street, (foreman,) George Batty, broker, Exchange-buildings, Thomas Browne, broker, Netherfield-road South, Thomas Buddicomb Blackburn, cotton broker, Great Mersey-street, Samuel Bright, merchant, North John-street, Nicholas Crooke, merchant, Brunswick-street, Duncan Gibb. merchant, Strand-street, Edward Humble, broker, Blackburn-terrace. Robert M'Andrew, fruit merchant, North John-street, Thomas Crichlow Molyneus, iron merchant, New Quay, Walter Fergus M`Gregor, ironfounder, St. George's-hill, James Powell, merchant, Grove -street, George Ramsden, gentleman, Canning-street, John Rowlinson, broker, High Park-street, Mark Rimmer, merchant, Soho -street, Hugh James Sanderson, merchant, Brunswick-street, John Smith, wine merchant, Hanover. street, William Whitehouse, broker, Exchange-buildings, Chomley Woodward, wine merchant, School-lane. Matthew Jee, broker, of Chorley-street, was called, but did not answer. After her Majesty's Proclamation against vice and immorality had been read, The RECORDER addressed the Grand Jury as follows: Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,—The bills which are likely to come before you on this occasion are in number about seventy. The duty which you are called on to perform has a very close resemblance to that of the magistrate who, in the first instance, investigates the preliminary charge. The bills will specify the precise nature of the offences which have been committed, and you will have to direct your inquiries with a view to ascertain whether the offences have been committed, and whether the party accused is the offender. When reasonable evidence is wanting to make out these points, it will be your duty to dispose of the case at once by throwing out the bill; but if this evidence does exist, it will be your duty to put the case in a course of further inquiry by finding the bill. You will recollect it is no part of your duty to form a final opinion on the facts, or to investigate the evidence with that scrupulous minuteness which would become a jury in this court before they pronounced a verdict. You will find, gentlemen, the evidence in almost all the cases is short, and involving no question at all which calls for any comment from me. I would, however, remark, that the slightest possible removal of an article when intended to steal is sufficient to complete the offence of larceny. This I mention with reference to two cases in which, ac cording to the depositions, parties were surprised in the act, and left their intended plunder behind. In the one case a watch was removed from a nail on which it was suspended ; and in another instance some copper nails had been removed from a bucket, and put in a hag. If you should be of opinion that the articles had been re moved by the persons accused with intent to steal them, then, notwithstanding the slight nature of the removal, it is quite sufficient, in the eye of the law, to render these parties amenable to justice. Gentlemen, the offence of picking pockets, especially as committed by women, has become so prevalent, that it will be necessary, when the case is clearly substantiated in evidence, to make a severe example. With this exception, the cases in the calendar are of an ordinary character, and I think you cannot in vestigate them without seeing that much is due to the activity and vigilance of the police in apprehending and detecting offenders, and rendering assistance to parties who apply to them after they have been plundered cf their property. . The jury then retired to their duties : shortly afterwards some bills were found, and the trials were proceeded with. The calendar contains a list of 82 prisoners ; 77 being charged with felony, and 5 with misdemeanours. Of these, 19 could neither read nor write, 36 could read and write in an imperfect manner, 25 could read imperfectly, and only two could read and write well. The cases tried throughout the day presented few fea tures of interest, being for the most part, where the pri soners pleaded not guilty, nearly similar in evidence to what had already transpired in the preliminary examina tions in the Police-court. The following is a list of the prisoners tried up to yesterday evening, together with their respective sentences, which were severally passed by the Recorder in a manner at once appropriate and feel ing _ . . - Elizabeth Morris, aged 18, charged with stealing a watch in September—four months' imprisonment and hard labour, the last three weeks J °Mat y. Mary Evans, 29, stealing print—six weeks. Robert Howell, 18, stealing a purse and money—three months. Margaret West, 18, stealing a pocket-book with bank notes—six months. Charles Finlay, 19, stealing HoHands gin, &c.—three weeks. Thomas Erskine, 19, stealing wearing apparel—two months, and to be once whipped. Margaret Jones, 17, stealing money from the person— six months. Mary Ann Roach, 22, same offence and prosecutor— two months. Catherine Martin, 24, and Elizabeth Ross, 42, the principal aggressors in the last robbery—ten years' trans portation. Charles Hilton, 18, embezzling money from his master —one month. Patrick Little, 16, stealing a watch (an old offender) — seven years' transportation. Thomas Leghburn, 15, stealing two jackets (an old offender)—seven years' transportation. John Leigh, 40, stealing six skins of leather—six months. James Wilson, 22, stealing clothes—six months. John Kinlay, 56, stealing joiners' tools—three months. Shortly before five, the court adjourned to a quarter to ten o'clock this day. We have been informed that the Rev. Hugh M`Neile has received £2O for the Church Pastoral Aid Society— " a thank-offering from two members of St. Jude's con gregation, for merciful protection in imminent peril at sea on the 17th October." NEW WATER WoRKS•—Mr. Simpson, the eminent engineer of the Westminster works, having been appoint ed engineer to our New Water Works, by the Highway Board, arrived in Liverpool yesterday week, and imme diately commenced operations. TegrimoNraL.—The Rev. B. A. Marshall, of St. Marks Church, was last week presented with a suit of Robes, and a handsomely-bound Baxter's Comprehensive Bible, with the following inscription, " This copy of the Sacred Scriptures was presented with a full suit of Ca nonicals to the Rev. B. A. Marshall by a number of ladies of his congregation, at the close of the fifth year of his ministrations among them, as a token of their sincere regard for him as a faithful Minister, an affectionate Pas tor, and a kind Friend. Liverpool. Oct. 18th, 1843. " Preach the word.' 2. Timothy, iv. 2." ALLEGED STEALING OF AN ANCHOR:AND CHAINS. —At the Police court, yesterday, John Daney, a respect ably dressed young man, was charged with having carried off an anchor and two chains, from the yard of a Mr. Wilson, on Saturday. The prisoner said he had bought them from Mr. Cumming, who had the sale of them. Mr. Cumming admitted that he had been bargaining with him, and it eventually appeared on cross-examination by Mr. Rushton that some agreement had been made about the purchase. Mr. Rushton said there had been a pur chase and sale, and discharged the prisoner. THEFT BY A SERVANT.—Yesterday, at the Police conrt, a female named Elizabeth Glover, in the service of a Mrs. Gordon, was charged with stealing a gold ring and other small articles, the property of her mistress. Some suspicion had arisen, and she was apprehended on Sun day morning, when the gold ring was found on her person. The prisoner, who appeared to be much distressed, said she picked it out of the ashes when she swept out the nursery ; that she had next day found four sovereigns on the carpet, which she had given to her mistress-, and had given her back all but the ring. She was committed for trial. _ _ FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. BEAN.—The remains of Mr. Bean arrived in town on Monday last, per railway, and were interred on Wednesday, in the Necropolis, Low hill. The hearse was followed by six mourning coaches, and the private carriage of Robert Ellison Harvey, Esq. In addition to the large body of Mr. Bean's more imme diate connexion and friends, and who were present at the funeral, there was a numerous attendance of highly re spectable gentlemen, of all parties, on the funeral ground, many of whom gave unequivocal tokens of the respect in which they held the deceased. The service was performed by the Rev. Dr. Raffles. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—On Friday night last the first of a series of lectures on the beautiful and sublime science of astronomy was delivered, at this institution, by one of the first and most popular lecturers of the day, Mr. Wallis. The second lecture will be delivered this evening. The course consists of eight lectures. A large beautiful orrery and numerous transparencies, including a map of the moon, and mechanical apparatus, will be in troduced for the purpose of rendering the lecture additio nally interesting. The lovers of science, and all who possess a taste for the sublime and beautiful, will avail themselves of the opportunity of witnessing this highly interesting and attractive course. FALL OF MR. PLATT'S ROSIN WORKS.—On Friday evening, a little before six o'clock, part of the new rosin works erected by Mr. Platt, in Greenland-street, on the ruins of the late fire. came down suddenly with a tre mendous crash. As there were from a dozen to fifteen men employed on the premises, great alarm was excited for their safety, but fortunately two only were seriously injured, one of whom expired at two o'clock on the fol lowing morning. It appears that the top of the building consisted of a reservoir, filled with water, and that this became too heavy for the walls. The wall on the west side gave way, and unfortunately fell on the two men at work outside. They were both instantly removed to the Southern Hospital. The reservoir did not exactly come down, but stooped on one side sufficiently to flood, the , place and extinguish all the fires. pis cony trill of civi id mon- than t aceout►ted for in a ;great degree from its being the first day of the borough quarter sessions in the adjoining court room. Several undefended causes of no general importance were first disposed of, after which the parties interested in those to be defended were called ; but for some time neither plaintiffs, defendants, nor witnesses answered to their names, and the crier of the court having thrice made " proclamatio❑ " that unless they came forward they would forfeit their subpoenas, the :tssessor complained of the irregularity in the business of the court and said he should strike the causes out of the list. Whether this was eventually abided by we know not, inasmuch as Mr. Venables afterwards stated, in the course of a case in which he was engaged, that the time of opening the court on this occasion was one hour earlier than usuual, the accustomed hour being ten o'clock. He also added that some of the subpoenas which he had seen were for the latter hour, having been filled up from copies issued under the old regime. The assessor stated that that was the fault of the attorneys, who had due notice of the hour of opening—adding that he had frequently found the same delay when the court opened at ten, and intimated his intention of not further permitting such excuses. MILLER V. MITCHELL, Was the first defended case tried. Mr. Venables said, he was for the defendant in that case, but h ,r 1 not yet got his brief. He was proceeding to address the court at some little length, to the effect that his witnesses were not yet ready, when the Assessor stated, that if he had not his brief he could not proceed at all. The brief was. however, soon afterwards handed to him by the defendant, and Mr. James proceeded to address the jury for the plaintiff, Joseph Wier. He said, the action was brought to recover a stun of £l3. 3s. for ser vices rendered. The plaintiff was a house broker, and the defendant had recently kept the Bull Hotel, near the Railway Station. The Corporation, in the progress of the improvements they were making in that quarter, re quired the house. that it might he pulled down; but, as usual with them in such cases, the tenant was allowed to remove his license, which he did to the bons-. of a Mr. Jones, in Dublin-street. The defendant, however, after wards changed his mind, and thinking the Legs of Man, corner of Lime-street and London-road, would suit him better, he entered into negociations to procure it, employ ing the plaintiff to make out an inventory, &c., for which his charge was £3. 3s. While these were pending (it was further alleged by the learned counsel) the defendant authorised the plaintiff to let for him the house in Dub lin-street, which he did let to a person named Llewellyn for £3OO, and it was upon this letting that the plaintiff claimed the £lO commission, being in the usual practice of the trade, £5 for the first £lOO, and £2 10s. for each subsequent £lOO. Llewellyn had paid his client £lO as his share. Witnesses were called to prole the allegations made. and amongst them two house brokers, who stated that the per centage stated was the practice of the trade, when one let a house and the other took it, both employ ing the same broker. Mr. Venables cross-examined some of the witnesses, and then stated that as the brief had just been put into his hands, and he bound he had not time to make himself fully acquainted with the merits of the case, and had been, moreover, spoken to by the defendant, who wished to take it into his own hands, he would relinquish it to him if the court were agreeable. This was acceded to by the Assessor and Mr. Mitchell cross-examined the remaining witnesses with a view to show that he had been grossly imposed upon with regard to the charge of the £lO. lie afterwards addressed the jury at some length and with considerable ability, stating that while the negotiations were going on for the Legs of Man he had merely mentioned to the plaintiff that the other house was to be let, and that he might as well make something out of it if he could; but not employing him on his own account as he had given up the house and had no interest whatever in it, even if it was not let for twenty years. He also stated that the agreement for the Legs of Man had been surreptitiously altered by the plaintiff during his temporary absence, and that he was induced to sign it, thinking it was the same. The assessor remarked that it had been altered, and in a different handwriting. Mr. MITCHELL called Mr. James Crellin, flour dealer, for the purpose of proving that alterations had been made in the agreement. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages three guineas. RE-ENTERING OF CAUSES Mr. JAMES asked the permission of the Assessor to re enter the first cause in the list, the record of which the plaintiff had been compelled to withdraw on account of the absence of his witnesses. After some little conver sation, the learned Assessor agreed, on the understanding that the other side would consent. At the same time, he said he wished it to be distinctly understood that after that court he never would re-enter a cause after it had been struck out. If the parties were not ready, thej must take the consequence. GOODS SOLD AND•DELIVERED ELLISON v. WKEAND.—The plaintiff in this case was a timber merchant, and the defendant a Joiner and builder. The action, which was undefended, was to recover the the sum of £25 25., for timber sold and delivered. Ver dict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. ILLISUAL IILSTRAIZAT MIDDLEHURST v. EVANS AND OTHERS.—Edward Middlehurst was the plaintiff.; John Evans, Edward Barrow, and Henry Green, the defendants, and the action was brought to recover damages for a trespass made upon the premises of the plaintiff by the defendants. Green allowed judgment to go by default. The-other defendants pleaded, first, not guilty, and secondly, denied that the premises were the premises of the plaintiff. Mr. JAMES stated the plaintiff's case. The plaintiff was a wine merchant in this town, and carried on business in Brooks's-alley. In June last he took the premises in question from Mr. Banning, and occupied them without any trouble till the month of August last. On the 15th of that month, between nine and ten o'clock in the morning, when the clerk opened Mr. Middlehurst's premises, a bailiff, with two or three followers, entered the premises, produced an authority to distrain, and said they had come to distrain for rent owing to one of the defendants—Mr.. Evans. It was then stated there was no rent owing to Mr. Evans ; that the premises were not held under him, and if they touched anything they would do it at their peril. Not withstanding the repeated warning the parties persisted, and took away 70 casks of soda, bieaking some of the windows in lowering it down, and injuring the jigger rope. Mr. James proceeded to remark that the distress was made out against Messrs. Grundy, Wright, and Crossley, and that the reason why the distress was made was in consequence of Mr. Evans having the soda on the pre mises, and refusing to pay the rent for it to Mr. Middle hurtle. He hoped in this way to get possession of his goods without paying the lien upon rent for them. It ap peared from the plaintiff's evidence that part of the soda was seized by Mr. Ogle in the street, under a writ offifa, and another part of it sold for the rent, the demand for which had been satisfied; the action was, therefore, for the trespass. Mr. bENm AN, for the defendants, after the minor parts of the case had been disposed• of, called witnesses to prove that the rooms of the warehouse in which the soda was stored were occupied by Mr. Evans as tenant, and that there was no access to those rooms but through the plaintiff's office. The jury, after hearing the learned assessor's summing up, found for the plaintiff—damages, 20s. CHAP-GE FOR COMMISSION HASKAYN E V. Foan.—ln this case Mr. James Has kayne was plaintiff, and Mr. Ford the defendant. The declaration was for work and labour done and EA- com mission. The defendant pleaded never indebted. It ap peared that the plaintiff was a ship-broker in an humble way, and the plaintiff was a master mariner, at present being mate of the Jane Stanley, and the claim which. the plaintiff sought to recover was the sum of £lO for com mission in assisting to purchase one-fourth of tho Jane Stanley, and for procuring the command of that vessel for the defendant. The usual per tentage on such tran sactions was 1 per cent. The share cost £440, and the remainder of the charge was for procuring the com mand of the vessel. For the defendant it was allowed that the plaintiff was entitled to 1 per cent on the mo ney actually paid, (which was only £300,) but the charge for procuring the situation of captain was entirely repu diated. The jury found for the plaintiff—damages, £lO, DAWBURN AND DAVIES V. CRITCHLEY.—In — this case Seacombe Dawburn and Joseph Davies, tailors and drapers, sought to recover £8 from John Critchley, for a suit of clothes.—Verdict for the plaintiff in the sum claimed. BREACH OF AGREEMINT FRANCIS v. DAVIES.—In this case Charles Francis was the plaintiff, and Thomas Davies the defendant. The declaration was in assumpsit and set forth an agreement was made between the plaintiff and defendant, whereby the plaintiff undertook to serve the defendant for a period of two years and five months, at a salary of £lO4 a-year, payable by weekly wages, the hours of servitude to be be tween the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and half past seven in the evening, illness excepted. The plain tiff averred that he entered into the defendant's employ ment, and served up to July, 1843, according to the terms of the agreement, and was willing to continue up to the end of the term, but the plaintiff illegally, and without reason, discharged him. The defendant pleaded that the plaintiff did not serve according to the terms of agreement, that he neglected his work, worked for other persons in his employer's time, used defendant's materials for such work, and fraudently sold the defendant's materials. Mr. James appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Arnold for the defendant. The plaintiff was a watch jeweller, and the defendant carried on business in Bold-street, under the firm of Litherland, Davies, and Co. In the beginning of the year 1840, the plaintiff was engaged by the defendant for a period of six years, at a salary of 40s. per week for the first two years, and 50s. per week for the remainder. In 1342 some misunderstanding arose between the parties and another agreement was entered into in November. By this the plaintiff was to continue in the service of the plaintiff for the remainder of the term for 406. it week, but in July last the plaintiff was discharged, and the ac tion was brought to recover compensation for being so dismissed. On the part of the defendant, witnesses were called to prove that the plaintiff was very irregular in his at tendance at the shop, and also to prove that he sold jewels to the watch finishers, when they broke them, at a cheaper rate than they would have been furnished by Mr. Davies, and the inference which the learned counsel wished to draw from the evidence was that the plaintiff in his em ployers time put in :the jewels for the finisher, charged them a certain sum for it and pocketed this sum, although he had taken a jewel belonging to his employer. The course the finishers should have adopted was to take the watch down to Mr. Davies, and get a ticket to plaintiff, who was to place in the jewels, and the coat was, to be de, 9__ et. 24, from the workman Witness sere all Divit!s, Ithougl: it to Mr. I d. o x for tive.utrlo.o-rogre, .1 !tr. jury ai,er cuumun 'up ; - minutes, Wrdi et and not beim: able to agree, In a quarter of an hour they returned with a the plaintiff—damages £35. The ennrt arlionriwi at half past eight. retire.o tt, EDINBURGH, LEIPEI, AND NEW" RAILWAY• After referring to the first paragraph, in ou r publication of the 10th instant—directin, the tention of the public to the valuable acquisiticasaceeler would be derived by the above railway, through the op oed 11 carrying out of the two bran Ches, Whi ch are lgortb st to connect it ands one hand with the Frith (~ ob oe Granton Pier, on the other, with a line ~,t° c „,d,at have, with the town of Berwick -upon- isce'whicil bar ,.. g s ..st ave been utterly unable to discover woriebill'lPP.-ektlircA6'bt. should have drawn down those insolent remark s wh ich appeared in the Railway Times of the 14th , te l . the editor of :hat paper has Foal we commented last week. On all occasions we type et° right to ex • railway ,matters ; n and upon that occasion we JiL ss icllr e erose unbiassed judgment with,,fosPeote, and were utterly unconscious that in anything w . e ., as tbe erc stirring the bile of so excitable a persotAirnaroo' ttce of him has, we find, been the occasion of e e ll iad visited with another shower of the m ingled c i , 00 vinegar in which he is in the' habit of diPPi n g " i s4lo, upon that porti nof it whichpeculiarly affects o ar. . t , o tean whilst we leave to the directors of the Edie we shall not condescend even to bestow our e b or i t n h t i El s day's execution STA NDARD, t he p proposed Newhaven the task of dealing with their libeller less which will probably be performed in a m anner I roved himself to be. " r be id ceptable to him than it would be by ourselves. ..rotiiisti, and A. regarzi for our own character, however, as P u e l 4 us ! ii . of justice towards this ill .used concern, jul est direct the attention of the public to the advertiseemetioot he e i d in in e g s s to of o ! ca r ;: e. art go ll Edinburgh of the Provisional Committee, r9 r ; 0 0 all, Leith, which meeting was attended by some 0 1 ,` SO; pO f se t d he br P a r n ° c e influential a inhabitants of tho Scottish metroPl',s:fitteht declaration, as was there unanimously a dapte , v ,, ,, 00 0 sufficiently protects us from the eharee of pill Ol t of the most hollow bubbles" of the day' 11 , 1 ",; 0 I. l _ l /1° will neutralize the odium sought to be heaPc",;:ett ri Edinburgh and Newhaven Line and its 1 ,1•° c" e t junets by our atrabilious contemporary. rking 0 , Wecannot, in conclusion, refrain. from Owe compo / the error which has been committed' by railwaY m in Promoting by the - f b Rai l:tail 00 tr support ot e ~,,,, power whi la c- appears disposed to rule t.-- tyrannousa gripe. "'"'-------- e ' HOUSEES TO LE Mr. Aldersey frll er d t t l i e 's s l o P er. be this mornin of excellent private and public houses in to Jer 1/i" f limn TiesEs.— Td -day :and to-rnorrowilbt:brgholteol two of the highest tides in the year. It v1„ 11 ,,, o 'loc k ' $ the height of the tide will be twenty feet lout _ efe r ow, webegt° %other IMPROVEMENT IN- THE GUITAR.-- elli In hate seen are most splendid in tone, readers to the advertisement of Sig'• Barr ~..,,, we e ks t g, at ten minutes before tvrei" - „ inc hes. , and lu mo oliii" . 6 column. The specimens of instruments, ', 11 ( 7 1 , e ll r jingling harshness so detrimental to the eon' to . wtlf: e d several family groups —one, a Singing THE HUBBARD GALLERY Still CO ntilt e s s t 01 1 00 numerous visitors. Mr. Norman has J sir. , .re• and friends is a talented production, not n ti n o wing . ,m, semblance it hears to the parties, but es a .. ..Seeb b ;( o o establishment is now open in the evenint ls. , . 01 itlil • THE INDIAN MAIL.—We receive d -h and so3-.oe twelve last night, thrungh Messrs. Willlner i.tellig;Ag second edition of the Time. containing the, ~riees-., that should have arrived in the early part otatvnavaarb a iv_ tO b e / Arti e l‘fr month. The papers arrived too late ce th e our country edition, but we shall annodo 00 14 in a second edition. flo g , ~e / ely CLASS STINGING.—Mr. Woodward'- 1 3-- ; 00 Ow tr ot,' at his academy, Greek-street, gave a coneeriviitoa•Boo ing of the 17th instant, at Palmer's RooM 6 ' eagil,ilitbere when the various glees, choruses, ea• vierl e ets , b y ft ner highly creditable to the teacher. Th L e satte r ,,lso t P it is not a breeze," and 1 ` Happy stars," tu e ,t, J 5- ,,, e es, very young performers, were much adinilieyont" songs " Minona Astore," and " ICathieen.y,, tont which were given with great taste Snd'kelin'civertiseciaoll NEW MODE OF CURING ME T•'''''A 9 Of ° re° A • . 0 a n d 0 ~i is inserted in another column referring ' „ es s, se err" curing meat—We have inspected the Pr n : " 8 Collider: opinion that it must be of great utility i n eVoico town like this. The apparatus consists of a . , 1 , ; o ut 0 ' o sate in which the meat to be cured is placed--51'with a that ',e,. the air is pumped, and a brine forced in ' '• hi` d ief hie •' es) of 3001 b. on every inch, the result of c v ntr icin meat is salted without losing any of that.° sflArli it is so essential to preserve. CO lll ifig BIRKENHEAD SOCIETY FOR PROMOIIIIIi Olr. t 00 1 1 ITY AMONG THE JEWS.—The anniverrg lag t sl IV this society was held on WednesdaY evenji.iselPelodrer Trinity Church, and was most respectah,lY "go. o rtel Rev. J. Baylee occupied the chair. The IIY tb r e irl 3 ; 2 l Knox gave a statement of the progress ro - tot f es t :, S 1 9 ety in that flourishing district during th,, P 03 .0 A bY tit o showed that the receipts had increased, addressilrP,reow-, 4s. 6d. The meeting was afterwards rt es. ', c oin , t he a , i pt ,,, ,,,,,a Rev. J. H. Stewart, of St. Brides , Nolan, and the Chairman, in eloquent t n b l e odsq o f ie ( ' Party. iy ill tiwite speeches, and at the close f the evettinkat,sadt ,rst" was collected in aid of the object the snel,? iccocOlief t on LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIET Y 5 I GO 100 311 atte r .. A co e ft, We have much pleasure in drawing to e Ain ow con e 0 lovers of music to the Concerts advertizeu dress tie" as a this day, On Monday morning nest an r n „ ,portl, f or t e, b erroneously advertized in one of our com'io be e t - se 'P k ie fall dre , s concert will be given, at whicll o oda y " e arlt," b e" the Oratorio of " The Messiah." On ' o cert l ;oing4o of f t N h concluding concert of the season, on M t° e eige vele.", o o v f ern D b e e c r e , m a b f e u r l . l dre A s t s miscellaneous e l l a la s r t reo usen da t e l t s p : t e O the Wes er, t be . 10 03. committee have secured the service, ve te 6o r 0 , Braham, and Mr. W. R. Isaac the ee' e tre etio n o wbS e which unsolicited addition to the other st' o f the t o held yesterday, to evening, must secure for them the thauk. 'fie': ' bers and the public. ~,, ..--Ao n i f tb,,, sai DEATH FROM TAKING LATiDANti'-* ..jeit " oF`' a as of David Jones aged 38. The' de ce ase d' 0 0 a publican, lived in Pall-mall, and 1 3 a . o e o s`', o o l being unwell for the last three trion`n,eloo,:irvio'des, cesionally taken laudanum. About no ts e "oth , u „ l ife r, ° „ rbe, Y. before Mr. Curry, ' ~iee c . morning, he went to bed in his usual " e it, his roamoa sober at the time. About eight otelliorlingbsonfcisel voured to waken him, but could not., a a 04; 0 . o cif same state two hours after, she eati.ti e ti bter',o two surgeons, but he remained insensluterjaog tr y A be t of ti t w : t sref l Aleilt 'lo` when be died. Elizabeth Burnell, Ns a n Stl od3 / 1 0„ t OM tshhaet caw w st hbiemfodreridnkecetahseedeownetnent contents s o beg 0 " boto e t ios %an° they bin: e ainse a containedcomatose osnhsoeet notstate. d taeli i k Henoawpa. pie s. sd ok - ori z, s e ofi ni joor ;;;;; ; : ti i into the street. Mr. Game, surgeon, to o e s i s'f, tbe i no doubt but death was caused bY examination be detected the smell f the ~ do stomach ; and, from the general sta te n t pais . of e the .4 i o g on 0 • to the effect that deceased died from t' I D be 0 5° l ' h of laudanum. , ...-Theficaresslo t h e THE FUN DS.—SATURENVY at deal ro c 501 'll ~,t . ' ket was steady without an great 0'.. - , ~...gee 1 Ifi: transaction is understood to ba , "e settlement of rt , n extensive " oisdonoker ens — pro'i t iby course of the morning, and the Secured 1.- the o nee''; t he t tween 941 and 951, having.paill in te n ,, o cong. ° o ,o ° be OC ' per cent. for the call. About £2o,n'of bo 9l t ifor t tocl‘t extent of the operation. At the eloseno; aLdis iesl; quotations were—Consols for moneY• isO-1 ; I "pc i r i fir it, Cents. Reduced, 101/ to fi rstiest 0 w? , l count 951 to i; Bank Stock, 1791? t o 6 45. 3,9-P h ' e jf pd 269 to 271 ; Exchequer-bills, P ?Three ' 9o nLi. 9 ;:g' •• ', I ; l ' e e "iriesi a l lbe ff o r o e d .v d 4 e :itet, Three per Cents. Reduced, 9 4 ;,, ere B ; . ..l6tri e ' eet l e . l Cents., 1021 to / • Long Ann India Bonds, 725. to' 745. premium• and a ° too' to !t' firmness was observable 9k to g ; Peruvian, 20+ to k ',„ the u r centl', V i e Il i( ly rities prices ruled much as yesterdal,tiasinOs O l ief re' r Spanish left off 20 to k ,_• the Threer t o 4' td.A'f'„iiNO Portuguese, 43 to 1;- Mexican, 3 uliewo - a t : 9 5 " 0 , ' Dutch ow bill° 10 6 ' Cents., 54 to 1; the Five per Ceuta.; to 1; , 0 5t 0 to 86; Coiombian, ex. Venezuela, 1 1 ; e i g iso , ' to 102 ; Brazilian, 721 to 731; and h P oe o o o dn r :un C b A e r r i. 6 n l A L 6 l B r l .. v — E DAY.—The 0:00:Selt; n , Siv,, A , a 0; rioo beef fetched sd. per ferior, quality, rather elove that figure; lin6 44d.; mutton, from 4d. to sd. Pe r L. ' . cl‘/altAtlinogirdli:a.-91:;7--40:50:14-friel oil!: :6_ „,------ _,” -."-s_,' DAYS. I MRN Tuesday 24 1 11 Wednes. 25 Thurs 6 0 33 s F a ri t d u a r y d .. ay2 2 2 7 2 1 1 9 9 Sunday 2g 3 1 Moaday 311 4 1 --- TIDE TOL F:vs. Hoia tsT .-- 1. --- "':;4 l°P.- 9 0 1 ere!' rl 113 3 10 ; 54;Iti 2e 3 19 y S C t tair i • l i tri D:^l , ° Ci e 4"e 235 15 1(1 , /ot ll 330 14 v coo' 436 12 10 J i‘, o l,d S ior l i ...................................."--- LITT-El/POW i 16,3, ~, 4 -,ft 2 , EVERY TUESD A ' t, v IA ~ Groste-A"fterewe a t A 0 " Fwi : E a ri EF l T: D wcioi ci: A .:, F Y ., .sER,qp2:::O: :DiOboraßf ij,fois k; 3:I ,s: . il 0 s 1 At N 0.4, ST. Ga4nak's Cl44''C-_,, by Jrifeel, 110•10) Oders and Advertisements are recerveivero 0 aoucorasla arker, ./..,_,./so _.,., a s o w 1 . o.° N d i c ti e A on A . T ß , D ADDISON, of 1 Gres:l4l,l,v.; 0f , 3. per , er, Birchin-la; e ; Thoalas, ,ect P l , 4 , lA, Walbrock ; JosephChancery-laner„4::::015c:::::::::,Ille,Igr'e:::::;'° c L o mn-conyt, Fleet-street ; 1ar.....7:,:,„ay5;., tke.terssool; Cournrnt,lerllireadneedle-street ;r,"l,laseio'ose, 9 ' , . 0 ; po; Coffee-house,-erne-hhi°lll;sedttitecrijiCl4freci'°llol° C ' o ‘ . er , Co 6 I , o d fa , needle-streets row; North and South Aracricf..7, Fro" ;tr , tire. $4 treet; and Messrs. Williasrs. load , O v ec lea tt le, Co., Sise-lane, London; bY Me, t Age° 013....ect,,5,01'4 their Newspaper AdvertiseMeo.l3,w; islriet,,,,r, v., quay. Dublin • and,Mr.MPhun 614''''''s Vl l ' l i . g 13'c*ICP' charge-street, and Mr. C. 'll• LeW;.'alir; FCC' JO chester • If.:. Haddock, and M e ssrsi 4ie t.o ft- ' ' c li , sellers, Warrinvton ; Mr. Clar..,iiagllao' ...„01.41(11" Mr. Coope, 38. Vnton-street, t..— ~„per • _,,lf r e k Terms of Subscription for thisivis.•a•d".oo. one Year, il, as. ; hait--Year'bamte#rs utivunce—uue year .Cl. 13,; kte h ‘6 ,TI or t Ti, Bee, M kat - , b„, 0 ,