The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-03 00:00:00

EXTRAORDI MARSHALL them for it and Coloured D Manufacturers The Add kRGAINS IN SATINS have had consigned to Large Quantity of Black and SATTINETTS, and ander the Cost to the will easily perceive any other George-street , BUYERS of WOOLLEN GOODS are respectfully invited to call at CLOT/ MORRIS'S WOOLLEN WAREHOUSE, SO, LORD-STREET, & eat depression in the Manufactur lets, Mr. M. has been enabled to purchase ex - 'VEST OF ENGLAND SUPERFINE S, at full Twenty per Cent. under the regular Prices, ch are now offered to the Public at a corresponding Reduction In FANCY WOOL ariety of style, the Ns. for T Ts of every quality and resent is unusually large, and .1 Plain and Coloured DRILLS, GAMBROONS, &c. there are Lo Ant As t the newest Patterns, in French SILK VESTINGS, also at reduced the attention of Countr ayers, to his present s both able and NORMAN, RAWLINS, and CO., beg to tender their -"-c." Avledgements for the flattering encourage- Teived since commencing Business, and to a strict adherence to the system already of supplying the Public with the best t a small Commission on the OOLLEN GOODS, Ifanufaclurer's Price. N.. R , and Co., having visited the Markets a second time 'PRING GOODS, are prepared to offer the newest and • designs in Figured Cachmeres, Chine Chusan Silks, Satins, Chair- for Vests, and which will both s, Quiltings, &c frouserings in every variety, at PRIOE: PLEASE and PROFIT the Purchaser. Their STOCK of CLOTHS, at the present Season, com prises the Newest and most Fashionable Colours, and are Selling at the usual Low Scale of Profit. TAILORS' TRIMMINGS at the WHOLESALE PRICE. NORMAN, RAWLINS, AND CO., 62, HANOVER- STREE P.S.—A VACANCY for APPRENTICE. Id corner of WOOD-ST., 'espectable YOUTEI as an UPHOLSTERERS, TO FAMILIES FURNISHIN( AND OTHERS. AN EXTENSIVE AND UNRESERVED SALE OF C A R P E T I N G, &c., AT 76, LORD-STREET rrHOS. URQUHART ha u' STOCK of GOODS g taken possession of his new EET, with an entirely NEW for his Customer le express] Trade, intimates that 'he is NOW OFFERING, on the Premises. 76, LORD -STREET, the remaining STOCK of that ESTABLISHMENT, consisting of Erm:4els, Kidder- minster, Sc 6, and Venetian NR PETS &c., at unprecedented Low e Sales, as the whole must be sold ithont loss of time. Buyers will find this an opportunity to their advantaze that seldom occurs. Hearth 7 ru s, to ind )ruggets, S T R Will ob And Env, Unfurnish NOTICI VISITORS, PUBLIC IN LIVERPOOL, be pre.ent favourable opportunity of obtaining mselves, or as Presents for their Friends, at full one ne-fourth under the usual prices, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN'S ESSING CASES, WRITING DESKS, WORK B O X E S, TEA CHESTS, CADDIES, me Cases, in the greatest variety, Furnished or ay be convenient, in Rosewood and Ma sia and Morocco Leather, of a superior ied, as n )r in Ru hich now L D'S kNUFACTURE, SELLING OF WOOLFIE CELEBRATED OPPOSITE TAE BAZAAR, &T GLASGOW HOUSE, 53, CHURCH-STREET, Stock of Glass Lustres and Chimney Ornaments, , Tortoiseshell Side Combs, Hair, Cloth, Nail, and ashes, Patent Silver Pencil Cases, and Holders for :ket Books and Tablets, in Ivory and Pearl, Blotting pier Mache and Bronze Inkstands, &c., &c. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that JOHN JONES, .1.11 of Toxteth-park, near Liverpool, in the county of Lan bath, by indenture bearing date the twenty le year of our Lord one thousand -two, and made between the said part, JOHN CALVERT, of Liverpool JOSEPH HARRISON, of the creditors of the said cond part, and the several other per- sixth day of April, . eight hundred and for JOHN JONES of nger, two of a Teunto subscribed and ral attorneys or a litors of the mveyed d assigned, estate and effects unto A CARD. 11k/r ESSRS. GRAHAM and SON, TAmoßs and DRA, IV-11- PERS, have, REMOVED from No, 62, Castle-street, to No. 12, COLQUITT-STREET, near the Royal Institution. HARP, ILLUSTRATED BOCHSA'S METHOD. BY PROFESSOR BARRE DE BALLICOURT 32, Wood-street, corner of Slater-street. I v E R. B. DE BALLICOUItT has the honour to announce 11 1. to the Nobility and Gentry of Liverpool and its Vici nity that, in consequence of the flattering encouragement he has received, he has now taken up his permanent residence in this town. Mr. B.'s manner of fixing the Instrument removes all fear of a deviation in the shape. Mr. B. DE RALLICOURT, being a native of Paris, devotes a part of his time to the Teaching of the French Language. Mr. B. has permission to refer to parties of the highest respectability in Liverpool, who have received instructions from him. For terms, &c. apply to Mr. WEISS, Music Dealer, Church-street. THERE ARE VACANCIES FOR THREE PUPILS AT MRS. MIDDLETON'S BOARDING AND DAY ESTABLISHMENT FOR YOUNG LADIES, 19, CLARENCE-STREET, MOUNT-PLEASANT, LIVERPOOL. YOUNG LADIES are instructed upon the most approved modern principles, by which a SOLID EDUCATION is ensured, while the inculcation of fashionable etiquette and courteous demeanour receives especial attention. Mrs. M. is assisted in the French and Italian by a qualified foreign teacher ; in Drawing and Colourin g , by an able artiste; and in the En g li s h D e p ar t men t, by Mr. Middleton. Lec tures are given on Astronomy, Geography, Geology, and Natural History. The Quarter to commence from the day of entrance PRIVATE TUITION, Mr. Middleton and Assistants give Private Lessons in the various branches of Education. Writing, Shorthand, Book keeping, and Arithmetic, taught in a few easy Lessons. Governesses desirous of further improvement in the Globes, Mapping, &c., &c., will have unusual facilities afforded them. A Circular, if desired, forwarded by Post. WATCHES GOLD LEVER, for GENTLEMEN, with hard Enamel led Dials, Seconds, Capped, and Jewelled in two holes, and five Actions, maintaining power during winding, Improved Detached Lever Escapement, and Double Bottomed £lO 10 DITTO, larger size l2 0 DITTO, largest size, with extra strong Cases LADIES' GOLD LEVER, with Gold Dial, Capped, and Jewelled in two holes, and five Actions, main taining power during winding, Improved Detached Lever Escapement, and Double Bottomed Cases DITTO, larger size.. PATENT LEVER SILVER WATCHES .... DITTO DITTO HUNTING SILVER VERGE WATCHES, Double Bottomed, 11 10 12 10 5 0 5 10 to open with a Spring GENEVA WATCHES, of first-rate Workmanship, in every variety, at proportionate prices, ALL WARRANTED. PROMOLI and HAUSBURG having made very Exten sive arrangements for the Manufacture of the above Watches, are enabled to submit them at such unprecedentedly low Every kind of Watches made to order Merchants and the Trade supplied on the most advantageous Terms. LADIES' COLOURED GOLD NECK CHAINS. MATTED BELCHER PATTERN, with Ornamental or Hand Snap, weighing 3 Sovereigns £3 15 4 Do. .... same plac Lffixed by the awfully authc aid John Jon a wanner therein he said John Cali h Harrison, in trust for the said John Jones, and that the said John Jones on the iture, and by the said John speetively; on the twenty- d such execution by Calvert, and Joseph Harrison, y Mr. DAVID EVANS, of num rpool aforesaid, attorney-at-law. I John Jon )f April DINNEFORD'S PURE FLUID MAGNESI A , under the immediate Sanction of the President of the College clans, for ACIDITES, HEARTBURN, HEAD GOUT. BILE, and INDIGESTION, and as a mild Aperient it is peculiarly adapted for Females and Chil dren. lonials received in favour of Mr. DINNE )n have established its superiority on an once b 3d the reach of of a Certificate from Dr. Wilkinson, of .xhose arity with practical Chemistry so well entitles his Magnesia of Sir James Murray's, by a Chemist in this town, gave esia and three of Sulphate of Soda s yielded SEVENTEEN GRAINS OF I conscientiously bear tes )f the above results. C. H. 'WILKINSON, M.D. ii consti most eff rani a dinary to Her Sere H ESSE HOMBURG eine Vender!), in 1)1 Tins mark of authenticity will p dangerous and deleterious imita 18, New Ormond-street, creditors MAGNESIA to the oun Dated October 23, 1840.' conducive testimony is further corroborated by the minent Members in every branch of the Medical Pro- The ACIDULATED LEMON SYRUP, usually sold with the Solution, makes the most delightful of Saline Draughts, and m aterially increases the aperient quality. Pre pared by DINNEFORD, Chemist to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, G 2, New Bond-street, and sold by every respect able Chemist. CAuTioN.LBe careful to ask for Dinneford's Pure Fluid liagnesia, to avoid the substitution of the impure Irish pre •rations, which are imported in leaden and other deleterious attic vessels; their impurity may be readily detected by 'ate, and is even obvious to the sight. To he procured )f every respectable Chem MR. COCKLE'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS, PATRONISED BY THE Duke of Grafton Bishop of Gloucester Duke of Manchester Bishop of Chichester Duke of Bedford Bishop of Worcester Duke of Argyll Bishop of Hereford Bishop of St. Asaph Bishop of Bangor Bishop of Llandaff Bishop of Calcutta Rt. Hon. J. A. Murray, Lord Advocate of Scotland Rt. Hon. R. C. Fergusson, M.P., Judge Advocate Gen. Hon.SirEdward Cust,K.C.H Hon. Colonel Anson, M.P. Hon. Fox Maule, M.P. Admiral Sir D.GouId,G.C.B. Sir Henry Wheatley, G.C.H. Sir J. Macdonald, K.C.8., Adjutant-General Sir Thomas Dyer, Bart. Sir Francis Buidett,Bt., M.P. Sir Gerard Noel, Bart., M.P. Sir Robert Grant, Bart. Sir Henry Blake, Bart. Sir Samuel Fludyer, Bart. Sir Robert Buxton, Bart. Sir John Forbes, Bart. Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart. Sir Philip B.V.Broke,K.C.B. Sir John Tyrrell, Bart. Sir Henry Smyth, Bart.,M.P. Sir Matthew Wood, Bart., M.P. Devonshire Sutherland Marquis of Nor lig of Ailesbur 'I of 14.; It Palmerston tt ti ow i c It F Sir John Beauvoir, Bart. Sir Thomas B. Mash Sir Thomas Wilde, M.P. -General Lord Arundel Lord Hill Sir Frederick Pollock, M.P. J. Wildman, Esq., Chilham Castle Colonel Tynte, M.P. Colonel Sibthorp, M.P. Colonel Delap, Stoke Park, Surrey I Plunket Lord Fitzro Lord Aliddi, \ LI " Colonel"' Bence, Thorington Hall Colonel Cowell Captain Pecbell, M.P. MatthiasAttwood,Esq..M.P. Alderman Thompson, M.P. Charles Whlker, Esq., M.P. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, M.P. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow Ven. Archdeacon of Col chester Vn.Archdeacon of St.Alban's Rev. Dr. French, Cambridge Rev. Dr. Ben son Rev. Dr. Birch Rev. Dr. Harsh Lord Ha crick Gordon ghby d'Eresby Lord Seymour, Lord H artland Lord Western Lord Sydep!llrn a of Arm Lord Archbis Bishop of Durham Bishop of Chester Robert Renwick, Esq., M.D C. `Faddy, Esq., late M.P. Dublin 3 of Sal Bi,.tioi) of P, John Hatchell, Esq.. Dublin lie highest Respectability. has much pleasure in laying lie, MU. ABERNETIIY'S ions Pills, extracted from a ddressed to him in the year COCKLI AATION of ur Antibilious Pills in affec th considerable derangement and connected with r to this cause, ases of the body, ttfilo ap thus ha►l frequent effects. They mentar on. I consider them a Me, which may b COCKLE, Surgeon Extraor the late LANDGRAVINE of tad of all respectable Medi ci., 25., 9d., and 4s. Gd. that those Pills only are ge- JAMES COCKLE, APOTILE d on the Government Stamp. rotect the Public against any ,tion. Bedford-row, London BRITISH AND FOREIGN CARPET WAREHOUSE, 13, BOLD-STREET, (ADJOINING THE PALATINE CLUB HOUSE,) The oldest Carpet Establishment in Liverpool. THE Subscriber, with a view to mai n t a i n an d exten d t h e increasing demand for his Goods, has STOCKED and OPENED the above extensive Warerooms with every Ar ticle in the Branches of his Trade that is new, elegant, and of good value. His stock is manufactured expressly for his Customer Trade, with every reference to durability, styles, and quality, making the Goods superior to those usually sold ; and, though they are thus improved, the price is not ad vanced, thereby giving to the consumers all the advantages of the depressed state of the markets. While his Stock is replete with Brussels, Kidderminster, Scotch, and Venetian Carpets, he has renewed his contract for WHYTOCKS AND CO.'S PATENT TAPESTRY AND VELVET CARPETS, and extended it to the PATENT VELVET TABLE COVERS. Having the sole sale of these elegant and durable Goods for this part of England, wholesale buyers and families are supplied at same terms as at the Patentees' Warehouse. He also holds Stock of the usual sizes of Turkey and Persia Carpets, and has them made to order in Smyrna and Persia, to any dimensions, pattern, and colours. THOS. URQU HART, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN CARPETS, FLOOR CLOTH, DRUGGETS, &c THE ONLY ESTABLISHMENT IN LIVERPOOL SOLELY FOR FURNISHING. ADELPHI HO USE, 21, BOLD-STREET. CARPET, FLOOR CLOTH,NAOREEN, DAMASK, FURNITURE CHINTZ BLANKET, AND GUILT WAREHOUSE. Window Muslins in great variety. FRINGE, GIMP, LACE, AND TRIMMING MANUFACTORY. GEORGE WOODS, Proprietor. LIVERPOOL DOCKS. CONTRACT FOR IRON CASTINGS THE DOCK COMMITTEE will be ready, on FRIDAY, the 13th day of May, to receive TENDERS for the delivery, on their Works, of about 200 Tons of Strong IRON CASTINGS, to be produced by COLD BLAST. Further par ticulars may be obtained at the Office of the Docic SUR VEYOR, south side of Coburg Dock, up to the 12th of May. The Tenders to be sealed, endorsed " Tenders for Iron Castings," addressed to the " Chairman of the Sub-commit tee of Works," and sent in to this Office not later than FRI DAY, the 13th day of May. By order, DANIEL MASON, Secretary. Dock-o f fice, Liverpool, April 30, lBl2. 5 Do, 6 Do STARRED BELCHER PATTERN, with Ornamental or Hand Snap, weighing 3 Sovereigns 4 Do. 5 Do. 6 Do. „ BRIGHT GOLD CURB CHAINS .... 335. to £7 10s. SILVER CURB DITTO .... 10s. 6d. to 1 10s. Together with a splendid Assortment of FANCY CHAINS, comprising every possible vatiety, of the most elegant patterns. PROMOLI and HAUSBURG, OLD POST-OFFICE BUILDINGS, imprrial Varlittintnt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. The house sat for a short time, but nothing of any impor tance took place. HOUSE OF COMMONS.---THURSDAY. William Rouse Mabson, a witness before the Southamp ton election committee, was examined at the bar of the house relative to the non-production of certain documents. The witness, in the course of his examination, admitted that about £3OOO had been paid through his hands for the purpose of carrying on the last Southampton election. The witness not being able to give a satisfactory account of the documents missing, a debate took place on the motion that he be com mitted to the custody of the sergeant-at-arms, which was met by an amendment that the debate be adjourned. On a divi sion, the amendment was lost by 176 to 16. Another motion was then made that Mr. Mabson be dis charged, which, after a long discussion involving the question of the validity of the Speaker's warrant, was negatived by 117 to 32. Mr. WALLACE rose to call the attention of the house to the evidence in the report of the select committee which was appointed to inquire into the administration of the law in the Supreme Court of Scotland, in the year 1840 ; and to the state of the jurisprudence of Scotland as connected with the aforesaid court : and to move for leave to bring in a bill to reduce the present number of the judges in the said Supreme Court from thirteen to Dine, by abolishing one of the two co-ordinate courts of review into which that court is divided. Sir J. GRAHAM objected to the motion, and hoped - the house would concur with him in voting against it. The opi nions of the highest Scottish judges were in direct opposition to any such changes as proposed by the hon. member, and he (Sir J. Graham) was of opinion that the present motion was highly inexpedient. Mr. RUTHERFORD said that the hon. member (Mr. Wal lace) was very much in the wrong for bringing forward from time to time such motions, particularly when the people in Scotland were so satisfied with the present administration of criminal justice there. Mr. WALLACE replied, and on a division the motion was negatived by 187 to 22. Mr. WALLACE then moved that the return, showing the applications which have been made to the post-office for let ters which were missing, and which contained money or money's-worth, which was presented to this house on the 4th day of March, be printed. Sir G. CLERK contended, that if the motion was agreed to, it could not answer any useful purpose whatever, as it would not elicit how or by whom those letters and moneys were ab stracted. After some further discussion, in which Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. Hume, Mr. F. J. Baring, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Wallace took a part, the motion was withdrawn, and an abstract ordered to be prepared. Viscount INGESTRE moved that an humble address be pre sented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to order a maritime survey of the coasts and har bours of the islands of New Zealand, when vessels can be spared for that duty without inconvenience to the public ser vice; which was agreed to. The rest of the business being then disposed of, the house adjourned. LIVERPOOL DOCKS THE EE HE the JAVERPOOL DOCKS do hereby give Notice, that they are ready to receive TENDERS FOR A LOAN OF MONEY for periods of Five or Seven Years. Interest at the rate of Four Pounds Five Shillings (4k) per Centum per Annum will be allowed : payable half-yearly either in Liverpool or London, or re. mated to the party, at the option of the lender ; and parties tendering are requested to name the period for which they may be willing to lend. All Letters must be addressed to GEORGE WITHERS, Esq., Treasurer, Dock-office, Liverpool, not later than FRIDAY, the first day of July next. By order, DANIEL MASON, Secretary. Dock-office, Liverpool, Thursday, 28th April, 1842. GENERAL ANNUITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIA TION, 40, King William-street, London-bridge : Established 1829.—Capital exceeding 143,000, invested in Government sccurities.—The members are mutual assurers, the sum for distribution is equally divided, and the following amounts have been paid for each annuity, viz.—in the years 1834, 1835,1836, and 1837, £2O ; in the year 1838, £2O Os 9d ; in the year 1839, £22 5s Id ; and in the year 1840, £22 14s ld. Annuities continue to be granted on the original table of rates. Per Annum. Per Annum. If under the age of 25 .£1 10 If 40 and under 45 £3 10 25 and under 30 2 0 45 and under 50 4 0 30 and under 35 210 50 and under 55 410 35 and under 40 3 0 55 and under 60 5 0 The present annuities exceed £22 each, the value of which may be computed at £4OO. If any individual 29 years of age insures his life for that sum, the annual payment would be about £lO, whereas for one of these annuities it is only £2. Prospectuses and every information may be had on applica tion at the office, where the annual reports may also be pe rused. CHAS. HEWITT, Secretary. Agent for Liverpool, JOSEPH CRISP, Clerical and School Agency Office, Slater-street Medical Referee, Dr:HANNAY, Great George-square CORN IMPORTATION BILL. As the new law will immediately come into operation, it may be useful to reprint the scale of duties, as regards wheat, now sanctioned by parliament, contrasting it with that which has prevailed for the last fourteen years, but now virtually abrogated New Scale of Duties. Old Scale. £s. d. Ls. d. Wheat under 51s. per quarter 1. 0 0 1 16 8 51s. and. under 523. .. 0 19 0 1 15 8 525. .... 555... 0 18 0 1 12 8 555. .... 565... 0 17 0 1 11 8 565. .... 575... 0 16 0 1 10 8 575. .... 585... 0 15 0 1 9 8 58 s . .... 595... 0 14 0 1 8 8 595. .... 605... 0 13 0.. 60s. .... 61s. .. 0 12 0 1 6 8 61s. •• .. 625. .. 011 0 1 5 8 625. .• .. 635. .. 010 0 1 4 8 635. .... 645... 0 9 0.. 645. •• .. 655. .. 08 0 ..•. 1 2 8 655. .... 665. .. 07 0 ll 8 665, .... 695. .. 6 6 0.... 695. .... 705... 0 5 0.. 70s. .... 715... 04 0 OlO 8 71s. .... 725... 0 3 0.. 725. ... 735... 0 2 0.. 735. and upwards .. 01 0 01 0 POP ECRAFT.—We understand that letters have been re ceived in this 't d o delegate leg a te superstitioni bishop to the ci y, announcing that the Pope has appointed a of Babylon see of Jerusalem, under the title of the Bishop An ominous sobriquet, undoubtedly ! The Policy of the nomination is worthy of the Man of Sin, whose at Jerusalem have taken up their snow to reside in the holy city, and retain the hold over the Roman Catholic devotees who re sideconvents and also who hmoownearsetern'es connected with their church. The abode permanently in the local jealousy of the work main cause and England, in the g however, the movement we suspect to be up by the combined efforts of Prus siabishop of our reformed appointment of Mr% Alexander as a and countermine . t like that of the Loret ti e ne ur si h st . erh T o l o li d s inis Cchlseelaorl labourst y tu a , n to a o t tf t h e pw m uur p ret t the success of truth, christianity in every direction Dublin Statesman. A GOWN TO FIT ANY Ad ministration,PAßT— the Hon. Henry PARTY. —During the Coalition Advocate of Scotland. He succeed Erskine held the office of Lord after wards Lord Melville. On the morning Henry Dundas, he had an interview with Dundas in tnhgeof the apppointment o b se rving that the latter gentleman had outer,jre house, when, ordinary stuff g own which Adv ocates areied9 resumed the wea ring, he said gaily , that " he must leaveooft.he custom of a and order h is silk gown, the official costume t o l f king to go Advocate and Solicitor General. "It is hardly wortltihe Lord said Mr. Dundas drily, " for all the time you'll want' while," said had better borrow mine." Erskine's reply was exceedingly" " From the readiness with which you make the happy: — e offer, Mr. Dundas, I have no doubt that the gown is a gow n made to fit any party; ;but however short my time in office may be, it shall ne'er be said of Henry Erskine that he p ut on the abandoned habits of his predecessor." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the mo tion, on the ground that all taxes were unequal. Mr. WARD thought the amendment would in a great de gree be the means of mitigating the injustice of the income tax, and was of opinion that the argument used by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer of the general inequality of taxation was not a reply to a case such as the present, which ought to receive the greatest attention from the house. Mr. STUART WORTLEY contended that the rent-roll of a landed proprietor ought not to be taken as his actual income, as property in land would often turn out to be as uncertain a source of income as that obtained by commerce. Enter taining this opinion, he could not agree to the amendment. Mr. HAWES supported the amendment. Mr. P. BORTHWICK was of opinion that,instead of recti fying it, it wou►d have the effect of committing injustice, and should, therefore, vote against the amendment. Mr. LABOUCHERE could not support the amendment, for if it was necessary to impose such a tax it ought to be uni versal, for to admit exceptions would afford dangerous pre cedents. According to the amendment of the hon. member for Bath, if it was carried, a clerk with a small salary would be taxed, while the thriving merchant would escape. Sir R. INGLrs was of opinion that the tax ought to be le vied only on those who were in possession of £l5O per annum and upwards, and thus it would be a great relief to persons moving in a respectable sphere of life, and diminish the un popularity of the measure. Mr. V. SMITH was opposed to the tax, as it was obviously unjust to levy the same amount from uncertain and fluctua ting as from permanent incomes. Sir R. PEEL said that some inequality applied to all kinds of taxes, while the income tax had this advantage—that if the wealthy man went abroad he would not be exempted from this tax as he would from others by remaining there. The present measure was proposed in connection with others which would have the effect of enabling persons of all classes to live at a much cheaper rate. The tax was to be levied on all farmers holding at the will of the landlords, and whose incomes, depending on the vicissitudes of the seasons, were more precarious than those of the surgeon and the commer cial man. For instance, if the wealthy physician, the thri ving lawyer, or the prosperous banker, were taxed at a lower rate than a clergyman, whose income though permanent was still variable, or the clerk in a public house, the naval or military man, or the widow with a small jointure, then he (Sir R. Peel) should say that a great injustice would be com mitted. If he was to have an income-tax at all, it would be absolutely necessary that all descriptions of incomes should be taxed alike. He therefore supported the government measure, undeterred by any fear of responsibility. Lord HOWICK thought that all that had fallen from the right hon. baronet only went to show that the tax was a bad one. He (Lord Howick) agreed with Sir Robt. Peel that it was a most vexatious impost to levy for so small an amount, and most unfortunate when the present intense competition in every trade and profession was taken into consideration. He should therefore vote for the amendment. Mr. EDWARD BULLER opposed the amendment Mr. WALLACE supported the amendment. Mr. JAMES thought the members of the late government wished this tax to go forth to the country with all its odious defects, in order to help them to regain the reigns of govern ment, but not having himself any such object in view he should vote for the amendment of the honourable member for Bath. Mr. LEADER had listened attentively to the arguments during the evening from both sides of the house, and he must say that though the majority would be against the amend. ment, yet not one speaker had met or answered the argu ments of the hon. member for Bath. Lord J. ROSSELL was opposed to the adoption of the amendment, as, for instance, where a rich banker would only have to pay 34d. in the pound, a person only having a life interest would have to pay sevenpence. It would be no justification to say that they belonged to different classes and various schedules. He should therefore, without any inten tion of rendering the present measure more unpopular, vote with the hon. baronet opposite against the amendment. Mr. MITCHELL supported the amendment. Mr. ROEBUCK replied; and on a division the amendment was lost by 258 against 112. Mr. S. tnawioßn then proposed his amendment, which was lost by 259 to 50. Schedule D was then agreed to, and on schedule E being proposed, Sir C. NAPIER called the attention of the house to the si tuation it would place all naval and military officers under the rank of general and flag officers, if such a tax was im posed upon them. The gallant officer then concluded by moving that all officers under the rank of general and flag officers be exempted. _ After a short discussion the house divided, when the mo tion was lost by 205 to 32. Schedule E was then agreed to, and the house resumed. Mr. Gibbons, who had been committed by the Great Mar low election committee, was brought up to the bar of the house, severely reprimanded, and discharged. Sir R. PEEL moved that the reprimand of the Speaker be entered upon the journals of the house. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE made some observations respecting the severity of the reprimand, and stated that he did not believe Mr. Gibbons had been guilty of perjury. Sir R. PEEL was of opinion that the speaker had discharged the duty laid upon himm a fit and p roper manner. After a short discussion the motion was agreed to. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. dis ATURDAY. consider S b a motion made HOUSE OF COMMONS.—SATURDAY. of Mr. Mab b y The r . H T o b u e s s e i g eorf, with Corn m a o v n i e s w m t e o t to house on the son. This witness had been committed b warrant t e fo r report of the Southampton election comr y nitt for w not pro beye which b d i u s c a in tt g en ce d r a t n a c in e c ( l i o n cu tb m e e n n a ts tu r r e e qu o ir r ed su o b f pce hi n m o , issued in the preceding session; and the question now was, en whether with the termination of the session the obligation of the process terminated likewise. Mr. THESIGER contended that the force of the warrant had wholly ceased, and that therefore the witness could not lawfully be detained for not having obeyed it. In this opinion he was seconded by Mr. C. W. WYNN. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL concurred, to the extent of considering the legality of the warrant to be at all events too questionable to allow the further imprisonment of the wit ness. Sir GEORGE GREY, without admitting the warrant to be illegal, was content that under the circumstances the witness should be discharged; but as the question was one affecting also the process under which other witnesses were attending unon other committees, he notified his intention of moving on Monday for a select committee to inquire into the general question of legality. Sir T. WILDE coincided in that view, declaring in favour of the witness's discharge, who, he thought, could not pro perly be detained pending the inquiry. A good deal of time was consumed in certain effervescences of Mr. Hutt, which were at length got under by the Speaker's authority ; and the house, without dividing, directed the dis charge of the witness. The voluntary contributions to fever hospitals and dispen varies in Ireland average 41,000 a year. This terrible contumacy was reported to the House ; Mr. Fleming was " h a d up ;" an d, a fter a discussion, the Speaker informed the honourable member that he must answer the question as to the " how he came by" the cash. The termination of the farce is worth recording, if only to show the " lame and impotent conclusion" which may at tend even House of Commons' anger. We quote from the report of last wednesday's proceedings before the commit tee : 6 6 Mr. Fleming, M.P., was called in. The hon. member stated that he certainly raised £5OO towards the subscription for the Conservative candidate, but upon his honour that sum was raised by him for the express purpose of defraying the legal and necessary expenses of the election. He did not receive the money from the Carlton Club. " Mr. Cockburn said, as the hon. member had stated that he paid over the subscription for defraying the legal ex penses of the election, he would not press for an answer to the question he put yesterday. 1' The hon. member then left the committee room." On the same day another damper was put upon the inqui sitorial curiosity of the petitioning party. It is amusing enont , ,ii to justify us in laying it before our readers : " Mr. Baring called in and examined. —My name is Henry Bingham Baring. " Mr. Serjeant Shee.-1 believe you subscribed £lOO to wards the expensps of the late election at Southampton. " Mr. Baring.—No I did not. " Mr. Serjeant Shee.—How much did you subscribe? " Mr. Baring.—Not one single farthing. (Laughter.) " Mr. Serjeant Shee.—l think, Sir, we have summoned the wrong gentleman. (Laughter.) It is Mr. Francis Bar ing that we want. (Laughter.) " Mr. Talbot.—Why Mr. Francis Baring is the ex-Chan cellor of the Exchequer. (Laughter.) " Mr. Cockburn.—lt is not very likely that he would sub scribe to a subscription of the kind we are inquiring into. (Laughter.) " Mr. Serjeant Shee.—ls there not a gentleman named Frederick Baring? " Mr. Baring.—Yes ; and he resides near the seat of Lord Ashburton, in the neighbourhood of Southampton. Neither I nor any branch of my family that 1 am aware contributed one shilling towards the expenses of the last election at Southampton. " Mr..Serjeant Shee.—l shall ask the gentleman no further questions, and am sorry he should have had the trouble to attend. " Mr. Baring (smiling).—Oh, Sir, it has been no trouble. (A laugh.)" STATE OF TRADE LEEDS.—The past has been an extremely dull week as re gards trade, though the weather has during the last ten days been truly splendid for the season. The transactions in the cloth halls have scarcely equalled those of the previous week, and there has, if anything, been rather less activity in the warehouses. Indeed, the general opinion seems to be that nothing of any moment will be done until the new tariff has come into operation; and many persons are disposed severely to censure those members of the opposition in parliament who have interposed to delay the passing of the ministerial budget.—Leeds Intelligeneer, of Saturday. BRADFORD MARKET,—The demand for manufactured goods at this market, on Thursday, was extremely dull. Both buyers and sellers seemed to anticipate an early improve ment, and therefore pi ices Underwent little change. In the yarn market purchases were about the same as last week, and at similar rates ; but the wool market was flat, except as to the demand for good super and fine qualities, and there was little doing in noils and shorts.—Mid. HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The Derby turn-out has ' not yet ended. The Nottingham workmen are more zealous than ever in the matter, and the amount of subscriptions sent to Derby last week was increased considerably. We have cherished the hope that the plain silk hose branch, once the main support of Nottingham, would further retro grade in demand ; this, we are sorry to say, is not the case, as many of the hands who have hitherto had full work have got notice that they shall be stinted in their employment. We are glad to perceive that two very important new manu factures have arisen in Nottingham withi❑ the few last months, which, if properly attended to, will have the most important results. One is to make figured netting's from both the bobbin and warp machines, in imitation of the net work made by the skewers on the principle of fish nets. By the other new manufacture, laces are made upon an entire new principle, having the main ground composed of close linen work and the flower of open work. All hands and all heads ought to be directed to this new manufacture, which offers a fresh and important field to the mechanic and mann factu re r. _ _ MANCHESTER.—LittIe or no alteration has taken place in the goods market since our last report. A fair amount of businessis doing, and prices stationary, as the manufactu rers appear determined not to submit to any further reduc tion ; and the buyers are equally firm, and refuse to give even the slightest advance upon the extremely low prices that have been current for too long a period. The Yarn market is rather more brisk, and prices are without change. Some few of the country houses have been very busy, although the drapers buy with great caution, but confess that stocks in the country are very light. Power-loom prin ters may be quoted, 66's, 27-inch, 4s. 3d. to 4s. 9d. ; and 72's 4s. 74d. to ss. 3d.—Advertiser, of Saturday. OLDHAM.—The power-loom weavers of three or more of the largest cotton manufactories are entirely without work, solely owing to the depressed state of the trade. At one large mill the spinners have struck work, to resist an increase in labour, unaccompanied by an increase of wages. The earnings of the spinne rs a t severa l of the cotton mills have been reduced to the extent of 6d. per 1,000 banks. The operative hatters are seriously distressed, owing to the short ness of work, and the abatements of wages, & c .—lbid . Y have been parti all y sub j ected to There are calculated to be 18.000,00° barrels of oats in merchants' stores i n thi s c i ty.—Limer i c k Chro n icle. ORIGIN OF THE WORD " BOTHER." —The word bother was first used by a sergeant who, being exposed to the volu bility of two Irishmen, one ' at each ear, cried, " Dou't both ear me." Hence the verb, to bother. DEATH OF BUNGAREE, THE PI) GlLlST.—lntelligence was received in L on d on on Saturday a t the various. sporting ' houses, that Bungaree, the Australian pugilist, who con tended in a pugilistic encounter on Wednesday last at New market, with John Broome for £3OO aside, expired at ten c'clock on Friday night, at a , public-house six miles from the place of contest, from the effects of the dreadful punishment he received. IRON WIRE BRIDGE.—It is strange that the plan of making bridges of iron wire, so successfully adopted in Swit zerland, France, and elsewhere abroad, should not yet have found favour enough in England to be fairly tried on the large scale. The noble bridge at Freyburg, in Switzerland, is 301 feet wider than the Menai Bridge, and though it consists of one span, it is at least equally s t r ong, and cost only a fifth part of the m oney. The wire bridge of Freyhurg is 870 English feet span ; that of Menai 569. The 'Menai Bridge cost £120,000, that of Freybur £2s,ooo. — Patchwork, by Capt. Basil H a ll. g, We have little hope certainly that any merely legis lative measures will ever put down effectually the prac tice into which it will be the duty of this committee to inquire. The utmost that we look for from it is the prevention of the offence when openly practised, and a full authoritative exposure of its extent and operation. Dishonest masters will always be able to evade an en actment for the prevention of an evil which is alike injurious to the fair trader and the industrious work man ; and the only effectual remedy, we are satisfied, is to be found in the determination of respectable mas ters and their workmen to expose the practice in every case where it comes before their notice. The British public, however enamoured it may be of puffing traders and cheap goods, is at heart a just public, and will not bestow its patronage upon those whose gains are wrung by fraud from the pocket and from the scat..l! ) . sup plied table of the industrious workman. When we expressed last week the mingled pain and amazement with which we had learned the decision of the board of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to adopt the junction with the Leeds Company at Hunt's Bank, we were confident that no defensible grounds could be urged for the course which they had taken. Certainly, at the meeting of shareholders no such grounds were expressed—nothing to warrant the sud den and, to the public, unaccountable change in the determination of the majority of the directors; and all the enquiries which we have since made have thrown not one ray of light upon the matter. It is, we have no doubt, perfectly true, as was urged by the chairman and Mr. Moss, that the Liverpool Board experienced too little support from the other railways in Manchester:to enable them to carry out the proposition for a southern junction; that the Man chester and Birmingham Board were hostile to the project, or, if not hostile, at least, too deeply pledged to the Leeds Company to allow them to move in the direction required. The snug family party who con stitute the Leeds Board are, we dare say, perfectly ready, and perhaps able, at present, to drag the Bir mingham Company in subjection at their heels ; but that is surely no reason why Liverpool, also, should succumb to their insolent dictation. Grant, that the southern junction was unattainable under existing cir cumstances, such a fact would be a sufficient reason for not pressing it at the present moment ; but it is surely none for the hot haste in which the Liverpool board have:embraced the counter project. The duty of that board was perfectly simple, and their course perfectly clear. By the admission of the Deputy Chairman, "a junction of the different rail ways in Manchester" with the Liverpool line, "so as to effect one continuous line of railway communication between the towns and coasts of Lancashire and York shire," was " amongst the public necessities of the present day." We have no doubt that the legislature would have been precisely of this opinion, and would have supported the Liverpool company in any effort to advance a consummation, so desirable, against any pos sible amount of opposition. But when that company comes down from its lofty position, shuts out of view the " public necessities" of uniting itself with these railways, and throws the facilities, which should be afforded to all, into the grasp of one only, it abandons the direct line of duty, and the public have a perfect right to suspect that the ground of action is ill-judged and indefensible. It cannot he maintained that any unfavourable change of circumstances, with respect to this question, have taken place since the arrogant demands of the Leeds Company were at first rejected, to warrant the present course of the Liverpool Board. On the contrary, the demand for, and the prospect of, a Southern Junction, to accommodate all the railways in Manchester, is greater now than it has ever been previously. When the first stand was made by the Liverpool Board, they possessed but one ally—the Sheffield Company—and that one apparently in a state of hopeless embarrass ment. But how stand the facts now ? The Sheffield line has emerged .. from its state of difficulty; its shares have a market value ; it is now able to take up its Igor rowed capital ; and, by the approaching formation of the branch to the North Midland Railway, it has be come one of the most important trunk lines in the king dom ! Such a change is surely not a reason why the directors of the Liverpool line should give up the pros pect of a connection with Sheffield and the east coast of Yorkshire, however excellent a reason it may be for the increased bitterness of tone in which the Leeds and Manchester gentlemen have urged on their exclusive project. It may be said, however, that the threat of a com peting line between Manchester and Liverpool was a circumstance which ought to have been taken into ac count; that the fear of this project being pressed on, justifies the Liverpool board in conceding to their late opponents. Why —does any one believe that, with all their loud professions, the shareholders of the Leeds and Manchester company would throw away their money in such a mad attempt ? Have these gentlemen, regardless as they may be of money, so plentiful a supply of that commodity that they can afford to squander it after so wanton a fashion ? No, no. Pas sionate men may talk, in lofty strain enough, of deepen ing rivers, and making competing lines of railway; hut their tone is a little lowered when they are called upon to put their hands into their pockets, and to carry their threats into execution. The people of Manchester have had a little experience in such matters within the past few years, and are not nearly so reckless of the price which they pay for their whistle as the Liverpool board appear to have thought them. The threat of a north line to Liverpool, our readers may depend, is, in that the same threats of a north line will not be re peated, and even be attempted to be carried out ? Have they any security that the rival water convey ances—the deepening of the river irwell—will not still be held over their heads ? Can they urge, in opposi tion to these or any similar schemes, that they have endeavoured to supply to the public all the facilities within their reach ? Undoubtedly not. We are con fident that concession, here is the most injudicious step which the Liverpool board could have adopted; that it . - will be the fertile source of many similar attempts at dictation ; and we lament it the more, because it places for the first time the direction of one of the best con- ducted undertakings in the kingdom in an obviou false and humiliating position. The debate in the House of Commons, on Frida) evening, upon the motion of Mr. Roebuck, must, WE think, have satisfied all reasonable men that, between an adherence to the proposed income tax in something like its present shape, and its abandonment altogether, the government has no alternative. The member for Bath proposed—and the same proposition has been mooted in many quarters—that the tax upon income derived from trades and professions should he 31c1. in stead of 7d. " Perfectly just and reasonable," exclaim, perhaps, not a few of our readers. " The shopkeeper, the merchant, or the professional man, whose income is precarious, has no right to be taxed in the same pro portion as the landholder or the fundholder, whose in come is fixed and permanent." The plea is plausible enough; and yet the exemption of this particular des cription of income from the full proportion of the tax would involve, perhaps, as much injustice as it is pos sible to conceive. For, is it a fact, in the first place, that income de rived from land is permanent ? A large portion of the real property in Great Britain is only held for life, or even for shorter periods. It is also burthened with jointures, settlements, and other claims ; and yet, the tax being collected from the tenants, the landowner has no opportunity of setting off these abatements, but must contribute upon his gross rental. What is more precarious than mining property ? and yet the land owner must pay upon his total receipts from such pro perty, when any profit which lie may derive in one year may be swept away the next. Again ; with what jus tice is the rich banker or merchant to pay on only half his income, when the clergyman, the military or naval officer, the widow, dependent upon . a life annuity, or the clerk in a mercantile establishment or a pub lic office, is to be taxed in full ? Is the capitalist more an object of compassion than the holder of cot tage property upon a life interest, who may any day be called upon to expend his entire rental in re pairs ? A hundred different cases might be put, all tending to establish the same fact, that no modifi• cation of the pressure of the tax, upon particular classes, can take place without involving equally as great injus. tice and inequality as it professes to remove. The proposition of Mr. Roebuck was certainly as plausible, and apparently reasonable, as any which could have been selected. It was ably argued, too, by that gentleman and several others of his party; and its rejection by a triumphant majority ought really, we think, to convince the endless talkers in the House of Commons, and the grumblers out of doors, of the folly and wickedness of attempting to impede the passing of a measure upon which, confessedly, the interests and safety of the empire now hang, by useless cavilling at petty details. The principle of Sir Robert Peel's mea sure may now be regarded as accepted by parliament and the country in its original form; and the attention of all parties ought now to be directed solely to the for mation and correction of the machinery by which it is to be worked. We cannot leave the subject without noticing a sin gular inconsistency of argument which was yesterday displayed by a London contemporary, the Morning Herald, whilst advocating the propriety of acceding to the supposed demands of the commercial public upon this occasion. The commercial classes are told, ex claims our respected contemporary, that "the tariff will relieve the severity of the new tax." But the re-' lief in question, he argues, will only be in proportion to the expenditure of each ; and as the landowner consumes more of his income than the trader, the for mer will be the most benefitted, and this relief, there fore, "only increases the injustice of schedule D. It may compensate the squire and the fundholder, who live up to their well-paid revenues, but it will not equally compensate the hardworking tradesman." A more unfortunate argument than this it is scarcely possible to conceive; for obviously the stimulus given to commerce by the tariff is of itself no inconsiderable benefit to the trader, whilst the reduction in the price of consumable commodities —as beef, mutton, pork, grain, fruit, &c.—is directly taken, along with the in come tax, out of the pocket of the landowner ! We are not disposed so far to und errate the wisd om and foresight of the promoters of the Birke n h ea d Im provement Bill as to imagine that that measure is not calculated to effect very considerable (and p ro b a bl y to them highly advantageous) changes on the Cheshire HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY The corn importation and a number of other bills received the royal assent. The Marquis of NORMANDY wished to know whether any communication had been made with the Irish government relative to the case of Mr. Biddulph, but withdrew his ques tion on the understanding that her Majesty's government would give the subject every consideration which it required. The Marquis of NORMANDY presented a petition from the town council of the borough of Gateshead against the addi tional magistracy appointed to that place. The LORD CHANCELLOR contended that the appointments were perfectly correct, and said that most of the appointments made by the late government were entirely political ones, and had the effect of making the people, whose cases they had to decide, believe that justice could not be impartially admi nistered when the magistrates were of one particular line of politics. The Marquis of NoRmANBY defended his conduct while in office, and after some further discussion the subject was dropped. Lord PRUDHOE presented a petition against the income tax. The Earl of WINCHILSE A. presented a petition from the eastern division of Kent, against the protection given to the importation of foreign fruit. The house then adjourned HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY After the usual preliminary business, the house went into committee on the Income Tax bill, and schedule D was pro posed, when Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved as an amendment the omission of the words in schedule D relative to a tax on industrial in come. Mr. ROEBUCK thought the amendment would interfere w; iith one which he was about to propose—namely, that ' for and in respect of the annual profits or gains from any profession, trade, or vocation there shall be levied annually for every twenty shillings three-pence halfpenny." After some conversation, Mr. Roebuck's amendment, was allowed to take precedence. The hon. and learned member for Bath then argued that it was unj ust to the last degree that the same amount of tax should be laid on industrial income as on landed property, and that if his amendment was rejected the sole odium of the injustice would rest (as being the most powerful man of the day) on Sir Robert Peel. UNITED STATES. We have received New York papers to the 4th ult., and Philadelphia to the sth, by the Susquehanna, from the latter port. The Loan Bill had passed the House of Representatives, and would, it was expected. soon pass the Senate. The amendment authorising the sale of a six per cent. stock upon the best terms to be obtained would, it was thought, bring the money which, without it, could not have been obtained, while the Land Bill remains unrepealed. The stock is to be issued, as may be agreed on at the time of issuing it, either redeemable after six months' notice by the treasury, or for any period of years not exceeding twenty, from the Ist of January next. The stock may also, if desired, be made transferable by delivery instead of by assignment. The whole amount authorised is the original twelve millions, less than what has been already obtained (about four and a half millions, if we recollect) of that sum, and an additional five millions, if deemed necessary, that is to say, still about twelve millions. The committee on manufactures had pre sented a report to thehouse on the tariff. The report recom mends, or, rather, lays a duty on woollens of 40 per cent. ad valorem ; on coarse goods, 30 per cent. ; on fine goods, a specific duty ; on rolled iron, English iron, 25 dollars per ton ; on hammered, or Swedish iron, 17 dollars ; pig metal, 8 dollars per ton ; coal, one dollar and sixty cents per ton. The Philadelphia banks continued specie payments, but in the share market not much business was done. The New York stocks had improved, but we forbear our usual quota tions, as the Independen -e, with three days later news from New York, was off the port last night, and we hope to give what news she may bring at an early hour this morning. Later intelligence has been received from Texas. The news that the young republic has been invaded by an overwhelming Mexicali force is confirmed in accounts from Galveston to the 22d March. It appears that the retreat of the Mexicans from San Antonio was a devise to allure the Texan troops, assembled in haste, to go in pursuit, before they were fully trained and disciplined. Shortly after the steamer Neptune left Galveston, which vessel reported the retreat of the Mexicans from San Antonio, an express arrived bringing intelligence of the advance of 9,000 men on the Matamoras road towards Victoria, and reporting 12,000 additional troops on the upper road marching upon San Antonio. The forces which recently captured San Antonio constituted the van guard of the 12,000 under the command of Vasquez. The impression is, that the Texan army of 1500 men, under Burleson, will follow the retreat of the vanguard, until brought within the power of the main army. Upon the re ceipt of this news, which was brought to Matagorda from a different direction, rendering its truth indisputable, the Com mittee of Vigilance in Galveston despatched a pilot-boat to New Orleans, and, a few hours afterwards, the steamer which brought the intelligence. The pilot-boat had not ar rived. The Galveston Advertiser, of the 22d March, con tains the address of the committee to the citizens of the eastern counties, in which the facts relative to the Mexican invasion are set forth, and an opinion given, that, if there is not a prompt turn-out by the middle and eastern counties, th , e' wil , T'- ravage and overrun the countr y _.ie same paper contains an address from the Committee of Vigilance to the friends of Texas i❑ the 'United States, stating that they look with confidence to them for prompt assistance in repelling the invaders. Hitherto the Texans have stood on the de fensive; but now the spirit of the people is roused, and, ere long, they will bend their footsteps towards the capital of Mexico. " We, therefore," says the committee, " cordially invite to our aid all who desire to be instrumental in the bands of Divine Providence in extending the blessings of civil and religious liberty over one of the fairest portions of the globe. We invite all who are desirous to aid in breaking the chains of Papal superstition and bigotry, and opening the door for the introduction of Protestant Christianity into a long benighted portion of the earth, to rally round our stan dard ; for we wish the lone Star of Texas and the Star of Bethlehem to travel in unison in their westward march : wherever the one shall be stationed, we trust the other will be found close by its side. HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMITTEES (From the Cambridge Chronicle.) " Talk of an inquisition under the income tax, indeed!" says the Standard—and the Standard is right—" Why that at worst only ascertains what a man has, and stops there. But the House of Commons committee would go farther; it would extract also the ' how came he by it.' ,' The South ampton election committee gave occasion for this remark. Mr. Fleming was examined as a witness on the petition against the conservative members for Southampton, whose seats were attacked on the ground of bribery. It appeared that Mr. Fleming had been applied to on account of an in sufficiency of the election fund to cover the expenses in curred ; and six weeks after the return was made he col lected £5OO amongst his friends and paid it into the bank at Southampton. The ch arge aga i nst t h e s i tt i ng mem b er was that of bribery, therefore it is difficult to conceive how the payment into bank of £5OO six weeks after bribery could have been committed, could in any way affect the question at issue. The whole inquiry as to this £5OO seems totally irrelevant. But the counsel for the petitioners wanted to carry his inquisition somewhat further. He was not content with learning that Mr. Fleming had collected £5OO, but he must needs know " how he came by it." Mr. Fleming, however, being a man of honour and a man of spirit, too, as we can testify, refused to satisfy liberal curiosity. He saw at once that the question was p r essed for party, and not for legal, purposes. "It would be derogatory," he said, "to the man of honour and a gentleman to betray the names of parties from whom he had confidentially received the money ; and, especially as such betrayal could have nothing whatever to do with the subject under investigation, he would not, be the consequences what they might, give up the names of his friends." TO CORRESPONDENTS The brains of the dirty fellow who sent us the sawdust query are composed, we should imagine, of that wooden material. If the writer who proposes a discussion with the two parties whose letters recently appeared in the columns of the STANDARD will affix his real signature to his communi cation it will be much more likely to be attended to. A paragragh appeared in our last headed " Blowing Veal," in which it was stated that a person of the name of " Wil son" had been brought before the magistrates for that reprehensible practice. The name of the offender was "Thomas Gilkes," and the error is the more provoking as there is a highly respectable gentleman of the former name in the branch of business to which the paragraph related. In correcting the errors of our contemporaries, in giving a report of the accident on the river, our compositor mistook the manuscript, and the thickness of the plank of the boat was stated to be five-eighths instead of five-sixteenths of an inch. A correspondent who has addressed us on the subject wishes the young gentlemen attached to aquatic sports to consrruct their boats on the plan of a man-of war's gig, and then they might race with safety. Ebr Eiberpool &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1842 This evening, we observe, is fixed for the appoint ment of the committee, moved for by Mr. Ferrand, for the purpose of inquiring into the prevalence and the effect of" the truck system at present in operation throughout the manufacturing and mining districts. That a vast mass of fraud and injustice will be brought before the public through the labours of that commit tee we cannot doubt. The practice of paying the wages of the labourer in goods prevails extensively in every branch of industry. Our own town is not exempt from it. In many trades carried on in Liverpool, the hardworking operative is mulcted of a portion of his wages by being compelled to receive the dear and trashy goods of his employer instead of money; and we trust sincerely that our own town will not be per mitted to escape the eye of the committee and the mal practices which prevail in it, because small, perhaps, when compared with the giant impositions which will be developed in other places, be left unvisited with the notice they deserve. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL THIS present TUESDAY, May 3d, • Shakspeare's Comedy of AS YOU LIKE IT. After which, the Grand Romantic Spectacle of THE KNIGHT AND THE WOOD DEMON, Which is produced with New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, and Appointments; and which was received on its first representation with the most rapturous applause. CONCERT AT MR. LASSELL'S ROOM, GT. RICIIMOND-STREET, ST. ANN'S. TR. WEISS takes the liberty to inform his Friends and the Public that he intends giving a CONCERT at the above elegant Room on THURSDAY next, the sth instant, in order to Introduce his SON, just arrived from Paris, to a Liverpool Audience. Mr. WILLOUGHBY WEISS will be assisted by Madame BALFE, and his Preceptor, Mr. BALFE, Mr. Dom), and Mrs. ST...A.LBIN. Mr. WEISS will feel particularly obliged by an early ap plication for Tickets, as no more will be issued than the Room can comfortably accommodate. Tickets, Five Shillings each, to be had at the principal Music Warehouses. reality, a piece of as complete absurdity as was cv put forward, even [from the lips of so distinguished propounder of fiction as Mr. Robert Gill. As little reason is there, we are v satisfied, for tile fe which seems to have been entertained, of any serio opposition to a southern junction from the Manchester and Birmingham Company. The: directors of that company, however dovetailed in interest they may be with sonic of the LeedS Board, would never he per mitted to embark in a serious opposition to a junctior so valuable as this would be to their own undertaking. On this head we state, advisedly, that the Liverpoo . Board have been completely misled, as they have alsc been with respect to the feeling of the public of Man chester, which we can assure them is anything but one of approbation of the course which they have pursued, or of strong liking for the Hunt's Bank project. We dare say we shall be told that it is too late now to canvass this question ; and certainly the rapidity with which the Leeds gentlemen are pressing on their opera tions would favour such an opinion. Already the con tracts for the formation of the branch from the present station of the Leeds Company to Hunt's Bank are advertised, and we have no doubt the Liverpool Cow. pany will be immediately pressed to commence upon their portion of the junction. We do sincerely trust, however, that they may yet be induced to pause, before hopelessly entangling themselves; for it is impossible to shut out from our mind, or from the mind of any man acquainted with the locality, the conviction that, sooner or later, a junction line by the south of M an chester, and the formation of a general station in a part of the town more central than Hunt's Bank, will be loudly called for, and must take place ! It is a manifest impossibility that a line with the traffic which the Sheffield line will have upon it, when once completed, can be permitted to remain isolated ;—that a break in the direct communication, which would otherwise be formed between the east and west coasts of England, can be permitted to occur for the want of a junction line through Manchester to the Liverpool Railway scarcely possible to believe, either, that Stockport ; Macclesfield, and other towns upon the Manchester and Birmingham line will long submit to be deprived of an uninterrupted communication with Liverpool, the great mart of their staple material, merely to gra tify the prejudices or the absurd fears of a few selfish proprietors in other lines. This communication, we repeat, must be made, and by the Liverpool company too, if they consult the interests of their own underta- king; and .it is surely ruinous and absurd policy, w this fact before them, to attempt embarking in a p ject which will involve an outlay of £300,000 with( doing any more than connecting themselves with out of the three lines which must be provided with s communication ! We believe firmly that the Liverpool Company not aware of half the influences which have beer work to induce their committing themselves to this Hunt's bank project. The whole of the water com- panies of Manchester see in this untoward step the prospect of securing to themselves the valuable traffic from the south and east—from Stockport, Ashton, Duckinfield, Hyde, Staley Bridge, Mottram, Glossop, Sheffield, Barnsley, New Mills, &c., which must either travel the entire distance by canal or he set down at Store -street, to find its way, by the various carrying companies, to Liverpool,instead of coming at once, and inevitably, upon the Liverpool line. And, after all, what, we ask, has the company gained to compensate for this sacrifice ? Have they any additional security side of our river, 'When it is generally 'known (which we believe at this moment is not the case) that this bill, clothed in the specious garb of the Birkenhead " Improvement " Bill, has for its real tendency objects of infinitely greater importance than those of mere lo cal " improvement," and such as are opposed to the best interests of the town and inhabitants of this bo rough, it may well become a subject for serious re proach how it should happen that this measure should not have received that bold, active, and determined op position to which, from its highly injurious tendency, it was so deservedly entitled. We have not had an, opportunity afforded us of going, carefully, through the details; but we gather, from its sense, that two distinct objects are attained by it. In the first place, the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company have disposed of a ferry, which, however valuable under the new arrangement it may prove to the inhabitants of Woodside, they themselves, as a company, have no de sire whatever to retain, and, if report be correct, was not to he considered as a source of much revenue; and, in the second place, a power is granted to the same company to form a tunnel, connecting the terminus of their railway (distant about half a mile) with the side of the river at Monks Ferry. To this latter point it is impossible, as we conceive, not to attach considerable weight ; for, how can the hotel and shopkeepers fail to observe that here, surely, in some small degree, their prosperity is hazarded ? Can they, or any other set of men, be blinded by supposing that the mere avowed object of securing a cheap and permanent means of conveyance between Woodside and Liverpool is in re ality the- motive and meaning of .this bill ? On the contrary, we view it otherwise. Up to the present pe riod the Grand. Junction Company have kept clear of any engagement to permit trains from Birkenhead to run on their line from Birkenhead via Chester to Birmingham, and, if they continue in this course, much may he done to avert the evils we otherwise an- ticipate; for will it not be admitted, that to passengers arriving from Scotland, Ireland, and coastwise, an im portant point would he conceded by finding themselves landed on the site of the Monks Ferry, "where" an hotel is provided and their railway journey to commence ? Nay more; will it not be an object of pecuniary sav ing, especially if contrasted with the present practice— first, of some occasional delay in the steam-boats en tering the Clarence Dock waiting for the tide; after wards procuring a carriage to proceed to an hotel, pos sibly at some little distance, where, being deposited, when the hour for departure arrives, another carriage is required as a conveyance. to the railway station in Lime-street ? And in the same manner with goods . coining by steam-boat, the owners of these would gladly seek not to be exposed to the expense of cartage and porterage from the Clarence Dock to the railway station at the King's Dock. And yet acknowledging, as all must do, these disadvantages, with the exception of an attempted opposition on the part of the corpora tion, this bill was permitted to pass both houses of parliament (and has since, it is said, received the royal assent) without one single step having been taken by the different trades of the town to thwart it ! The fact is, the spell was broken when the Cheshire coast was emancipated from the payment of dock dues by the passing of Mr. Alderman Evan S's dock ware house bill. The Roman Catholic ship-lumpers fore told, as they thought, a downfal, when the application of the steam engine was, by that measure, destined to supplace their labour and the winch. They were in wrath at the idea, nor is it to be wondered at that they should have been so. And now the inhabitants of Liver pool may by the same means have bitter cause to lament also; but much, as we have said, will depend on the Grand Junction Railway Company. On them, very probably, it may be urged, that a saving of some eight miles in distance will be gained, by travelling via Che shire, both to the public and to the company ; that additional security to the passenger may be depended on, from the use of a• line, where the terminus is not common to other railways ;—to such arguments, if ever offered, we hope the Grand Junction company (as they may be from past experience) will be preparcj to give their answer, and adhere to the motto, "to let well alone ;" in fact, the town has fostered and fed both the Liverpool and Man chester and Grand Junction companies, and to these companies the inhabitants of Liverpool look with confidence for a firm and determined preservation of their rights and interests, which have so far pro gressed together, and we trust will long continue to do so. We are informed, by the notice of motions issued by the council, that on Wednesday next it is the in tention of Mr. Francis Jordan to move (in case of the adoption of Monument-place as the site for.the new haymarket) that the equestrian statue of George 111 be removed from its present position to Great George square, the locality for which it was originally intended. There can certainly be no question that, in case of the market being transferred to London-road, the re moval of the monument will be inevitable. The council might at the same time remove a goodly number of the houses by which it is surrounded, and even divert the direction of Pembroke-place. We are scarcely satis fied, however, that Great George's-square is the best position which could be selected for his majesty's equestrian exhibition, unless it is thought that the venerable monarch should be sent into retirement; and have a fancy that St. George's Crescent would be to the full as fit a locality to possess the honour of his ma . jesty's presence. We have no doubt that Mr. Jordan possesses a very keen perception of the proprieties, and is sufficiently loyal to wish that the statue of his majesty should not be obscured by the near proximity of carts of coal, hay, and other similar vulgar materials. There is certainly something incongruous in the association ; and yet that eminent local sage would scarcely, we hope, go the length of arguing that the rustics, who are in future to assemble in the neighbourhood in question, should be deprived altogether of the embel lishment with which it is at present occupied. Take away, we would certainly say in any case, the statue of the monarch, and of his horse as well ; but would it not be well to leave the pedestal, and erect upon it the figure of an bumbler quadruped, from which an eminent alderman, in congenial bronze, might survey the im provement effected by his transcendant genius, and luxuriate in perpetuo upon the prospect of the fodder around him ? We merely throw out the hint to Mr. Jordan. Some day or other, after Mr. Alderman Evans shall have removed all our markets, remodelled all our docks, translated our exc''ange, and, finally, removed himself, we shall probably have to perpetuate his fame by the erection of some permanent memorial; and we can see no more fitting opportunity than is here presented, of doing that in his lifetime which must be infinitely more gratifying than if done when the restless improver is no more. STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c, After the speculative feeling which has pervaded our mar ket for Cotton during the past fortnight, the demand has resumed its previous spiritless tone, without, however, any material reduction of prices, except in the middling and lower descriptions of American, which have given way id. per lb. Holders, however, having been relieved materially by the late brisk business, shew no disposition to press sales ; and the market closed on Friday with a tolerably firm feel ing, the sales during the week amounting to 20,000 bales. On Saturday 3,000 bales were sold, and yesterday 3,500, at last week's prices. We have little alteration to note in the Manchester goods market. A fair business is doing, without, however, any ad vance in prices ; and the staple manufactures are still im moveable to any :extent which can relieve holders. We are assured, however, that money is considerably easier than it has been for some time past ; and manufacturers and mer chants only wait for the settlement of the pending measures of government to resume their wonted activity. MASSIVE MACHINERY.—In a late number we inserted a notice of th e l arge shaft made by t h e M ersey S teel and Iron Company o f t h is town. T he compan y h ave s i nce shipped, on account o f t h e G reat W es t ern Steam-ship Company, f or the same large steam-ship, two crank-pins, weighing together about three tons. These also, of the kind, are the largest ever made of wrought iron. DISCOVERY OF A HUMAN BODY NEARLY DEVOURED By WATER-RATS.-011 Thursday last, as agentleman i n a small pu n t was fishing in a reservoir at Ratcliffe, near Man chester, his line came in contact with a su b stance in the water, hich, on being taken up , was found to b e t h e b ody of a human being in a dreadful state of decomposition, having evidently been in the water for several months. Th e water rats had being g macl made taken o a complete burrow, the w ater, in hzs b o d y, and when it one of th ese nox i ous ver min ran out of his neck between the l ower j aw an d the shoulder! The body was recognised as being that of a me chaniz who disappeared about six months ago, and, from other circumstances, Is supposed to have drowned himself in the reservoir.