The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. SECOND PRICE TO ALL PARTS OF THE HOUSE. THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, September 6, 1812, the Musical Play of ROB ROY. To conclude with THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. TO CORRESPONDENTS. To FOREIGNERS.—A letter addressed to "Mons. Gasserre" Was put into our editor's box yesterday—no doubt under the impression that it was a post-office. If the writer of the letter will apply at our office, it will be delivered to him on producing satisfactory references as to his identity. The communication from J. H. Romaldkirk, shall appear on Friday. Nento's only veritable assumption is the signature. 'e cannot without further enquiry insert the letter of " A Conservative." A correspondent requests us to call the attention of the authorities to the number of dissolute characters con stantly stationed around one of the penny theatres in Dale-street, who either insult or rob the passers-by. Several pieces of poetry stand over. We know nothing personally of the appointment alluded to by " A Churchman." If the fact be as stated, it looks something like a marked insult to some gentlemen whom we need not name. We cannot insert such a letter as that forwarded by " A Conservative Rate-payer," on anonymous authority. Ebt Zthcrpool I.,taitZtari). TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1842. Whilst directing, in our last publication, the atten tion of the municipal constituencies to some gentlemen who retire from the conned on the approaching first of November, and whose services the public can well dis pense with, we omitted the name of the radical mem ber for Exchange Ward—Mr. Thomas Mellor. From the continuance in office of that gentleman, we should anticipate no very serious results to this community or the world at large. Mr. Thomas Mellor is not a man whose powers for good or ill are very astounding. His eloquence' will never stop the tides or fire the Mersey ; yet we can dispense nevertheless with his presence in the council. Tke effort at least, we believe, will be made, A sound conservative will be put in nomina tion for this ward, and Mr. Thomas Mellor must, for the future, be satisfied with the power of dribbling forth his tiny stream of wisdom to the ears of his ad miring friends alone. And now we may be permitted a few words with respect to the conservatives who retire during the pre sent year. Of Messrs. Thomas Robinson and John Smith we have already said our say. The conservatism of these twain is of too eccentric a character to suit our taste; and we long for an opportunity of wishing them, most respectfully, good bye. But of the eight other gentlemen who, we trust, will, on the first of November, present themselves for re-election, there is not one with whom we would willingly part. The first of these in order is Mr. Francis Shand, who retires for Everton Ward. Were it for no other service to the community than his unseating, at a heavy personal sacrifice, the usurping' Radical Mr. Quayle, whom the practice of personation had foisted upon the Council, the Conservative body would be bound to return this gentleman to the seat which he now holds. But the claims of Mr. Shand are far from being of so limited a character. He possesses excel lent business talents, is sound in his conservatism, and short as has ,been his actual occupancy of a seat in the Council, has established his title to the full confidence of the Conservative constituency. Mr. Richard Houghton retires for Scotland Ward, and we trust will be returned again triumphantly by his constituency. In fact, from the respect which that gentleman deservedly commands from all classes in the ward—a respect earned, too, without having flinch ed one tittle from the assertion of sound Conservative principles in the Council—we scarcely anticipate even the shadow of an opposition on the present occasion, even in a constituency which has earned the unenviable distinction of selecting as its Radical representatives the dirtiest and meanest tools of that faction. The constituents of Mr. William Thornhill, even, will scarcely be obtrusive enough in the assertion of their taste for the garbage of party to oppose the return of a candidate of the high character enjoyed by Mr. Richard Hbughton. The very fishwives and oyster dealers of Scotland-road Market have discretion enough to appreciate a gentleman. Mr. H. R. Sandbach, of 'Vauxhall, stands next in order; and to promote his re-election, we trust the Conservative party not only in the ward, but through . out the borough, will exert their utmost and most earnest efforts. Without exception, or with few at least, Mr. Sandbach is now the most rising member of • -the Council. With eminent business talents, with a discretion, such as few young men possess, and with considerable powers as a speaker, Mr. Sandbach is sound in the principles of conservatism. As a debater, he is ready and happy ; and even when measuring swords with such a dealer in verjuice as Mr. William Earle, he is not often at fault, and by the very supe riority of his temper, is most frequently the victor. We could miss many sound Conservatives with less regret than we could Mr. Sandbach ; and we trust that, this year, protector faggots are not strong enough in Vauxhall to effect such a calamity. Of Saint Paul's, Rodney-street, and Lime-street Wards, we do not know that they could be better re presented, even by conservatives, than at present, by Messrs. John Barton, John N. Wood, and Robt. Rigby. It is true we have not in any of these gentlemen pro minent speakers ; but we have in each of them a sound Conservative Englishman, whose vote is ever found supporting the principles of our glorious constitution in church and state. Let the electors rally round their old friends and return them triumphantly, in spite of every attempt of the puling, pitiful thing, Radicalism. The two gentlemen who remain to make up the number of retiring Conservatives are Mr. Christopher Bushell, of Abercromby Ward, and Mr. Robert Jones, of Saint Anne's.- To the former gentleman, we deem it little likely that anything worthy of being called an opposition will be offered. Although one of the " best abused" men in the Council—one upon whom, from the very outset of his public life, the spite of Radical inn has been plentifully showered—we do not think that any member of the faction will be hardy enough to meet him before the electors of this ward at the approaching day of trial. To the return of the mem ber for Saint Anne's, it is possible that some opposi tion may be made; but we have uo great fears of the result. Mr. Jones deserves too well of every Con servative in the ward, for having first enabled them to throw off the incubUs of Radical dictatorship, and for 1118 subsequent staunch conduct as their representative in the Council, to allow us to doubt his triumphant re-election. Upon general grounds, this contest must be hard f ought in every ward. If we wish for a good local government, we must seek it by keeping the majority of the Council Conservative. We must do more than this. We must have it exclusively Conservative. We must rid ourselves of those eternal "liberal" speech- Makers—those eavf%-dropping spies upon our schools, and mouthpieces of disaffected teachers and appren— tices —who now occupy so large a portion of the time of the Council, and impede the transaction of legiti- Mate business. We must have men to represent us whose feelings are in unison with the majority of this loyal, Protestant, and Conservative constituency; and not the spouters of Clayton-square gatherings, the nose-led tools of Popery, or the panders to the spread of doctrines calculated to subvert every valued institu tion of our country, and to introduce into it, in place of order and security, confusion and hopeless anarchy. To every ward, therefore, we say UP AND BE DOING ! la referring our readers to a report in our columns t his day of the proceedings of the recent half-yearly kneetiu g of the shareholders of the Sheffield, Ashton linder-Lyne, and Manchester Railway, we cannot with hold the offer of our congratulation to the directors of that hitherto depressed undertaking upon its present riPraveff and improving prospects. We augur th e hest results from the steps which their report informs as th e directors are pursuing. The forfeiture of the shares upon which ca ll s were owing is , we are con vinced, a course which must infuse a better spirit amongst the remaining proprietary. By such a course the market for their shares must be sensibly relieved, haveand a sto c k, Which hitherto can scarce l y b e sa id t o d more th an a nom i na l va l ue, he at length looked upon as a legitimate and marketable investment for the capitalist. The most important feature, however, in this report, is the resolution to apply to parliament fur permission to form a branch line to connect this railway more closely with the important towns of Ashton and Staly bridge, and to open out a communication, by way of Barnsley, to the North Midland. By the first of these branches a valuable and increasing traffic in merchan dize and passengers will be secured to the Sheffield Company. The undertaking will have thus completed what it professed to do—viz., to furnish to these po pulous and improving places a direct and unbroken railway communication with Manchester, the great market for their manufactures. By the proposed communication with the North Midland, another in calculable advantage to the Sheffield Company will be gained. By the aid of such a communication, there is no question that the Sheffield Railway must become at once a powerful competing line for the immense traffic now passing between Manchester and the Hum ber, and for the increasing commerce which the Tariff Bill recently passed must open out between the manu facturing districts of Lancashire, as consumers, and the ports of the Baltic. In addition, however, to such a traffic, it must be borne in mind that the Barnsley line will possess an important and paying traffic of its own. It will be made through the heart of one of the most valuable coal-fields in England, and transport its riches, in one direction to the manufacturing districts, on this side of the summit ridge, and in another to the Hum ber for shipment. With these prospects before us—with the share-list weeded of its rotten materials—with the works pro gressing, slowly, it is true, but steadily, towards com pletion, at a cost scarcely exceeding, if at all, the re vised estimate of their talented engineer —with the pecuniary difficulties, too, of the direction alleviated by a loan of fifty thousand pounds from government — with a paying traffic upon the portion of the line already opened far exceeding the most sanguine anticipations of the public—we shall indeed be much surprised if, at the next half-yearly meeting, we are told that the shares of the company, with fB2 10s. paid upon them, are worth no more than £32 lOs.—are, in fact, at a discount of fifty per cent. ! We can see not the shadow of a ground for such a depreciation. The fact that a large amount of the shares are, by forfeiture, placed in the hands of the directors for reallotment, does not warrant their being reduced in the market to such a price. The real value of the undertaking is infinitely better established now than when it was first projected, and when its shares were scrambled for at premiums. The feasibility of its construction is established. The existence of a traffic is established. And really, with such facts before them, we do not anticipate that the capitalists of the district can any longer withhold their coun tenance frcm this important line. To one class of men, the mill-owners and manu facturers of Ashton and Stalybridge, the directors ought not now to look for support in vain. It is well known how large an interest in the undertaking was, on its first projection, taken in that district. Such interest was, however, withdrawn when the line through these towns was abandoned ; and that withdrawal was the first serious shock which the company sustained. The connexion with Ashton and Stalybridge is now, however, about to be formed. The full advantages of a railway to Manchester are about to be conferred upon those towns ; and it is, we think, imperative on the parties receiving those advantages to come forward now and to aid liberally the praiseworthy efforts of the board. Let this be done; and we venture to predict that every difficulty of the company will at once vanish, and their present depreciated property assume its legitimate and real value in the market. We gave, in a second edition of our last publication, a copy of the usual telegraphic despatch, purporting to contain the news brought by the last overland mail from India. The substance of this document, our readers may remember, was far from being of a cheer ing nature. We have now, however, before us full details of the intelligence conveyed to us by this mail, and have the pleasure of congratulating our fellow townsmen that the dark picture which, on the autho rity of the telegraph, we contribnted to spread, with respect to the condition of the British army in Affgba nistan, is not verified. Sickness is not " decimating" our men. We hear of no serious disaffection existing amongst the native troops. The leaders of our forces have not been entirely inactive. In fact, for what pur pose, or by what accident (?) we know not, it is obvious that the despatch conveyed by the telegraph has been grossly false, and that the public will do well, in future, to place no confidence in the intelligence forwarded by such instrumentality. With respect to the prospects, however, of our Indian army, and the course likely to be pursued by the government of India, for the settlement of our unfortunate quarrel in Affghanistan, we have not fur nished to us by this arrival any very decisive informa tion. That our position is not more unsatisfactory than at the date of the last previous mail, is certain. We have been able to read some severe lessons to the refractory tribes by whom we were surrounded, and to vindicate, in the eyes of the entire people of India, the irresistible power of British arms. The force under General Nott, has inflicted a signal defeat upon the enemy before Candahar. The enemy has also been repulsed with great slaughter in an attack upon Khilat i-Ghilzie. We have not in fact, lost an inch of our existing ground; and if we have made no material onward progress towards such a demonstration as will enable us to terminate with honour this unhappy and thus far disastrous war, we trust that events will shew the temporary inactivity of our generals to have been suggested by a sound and wise discretion, rather than by any vacillation of purpose, or any policy unworthy of the British name. Whether, ultimately, the force under General Pol lock, with those of Nott and the heroic Sale, will ad vance upon Cabool, there to seek a termination of the existing hostilities, or having maintained their position and concentrated themselves, retire at once from the country, appears to be a disputed point amongst the best informed in India. We anticipate that the former will be the course pursued, as it is that most consonant with the national honour, and with good policy. A grand army of reserve, nearly 20,000 strong, is form ing under the command of Sir Jasper Nicholls, upon our north-western frontier. With this force behind them, as apoint d'appuie, we have no doubt that when the necessary means of transport can be secured, and the extreme heat of the season is mitigated, the word will be given to advance,. and force the passes to Ca• boot, where we shall doubtless be enabled to wring from our treacherous opponents such a satisfaction for the past, and security for the future, as will enable us to withdraw honourably within our own frontier. We look forward to no war of revenge—no war of coloni• zation. But we can never sanction the withdrawal of one British soldier from the Affghanistan territory, whilst a British prisoner remains in the hands of their savage chiefs, or the murder of a British subject re mains unatoned for. Well, the " Insurrection" experiment is over, and o what has that description of agitation done f or th e cause of the Anti-corn-law League ? It has filled the gaols of the country with prisoners--rather call them victims ! In a few weeks we shall have a special com mission sent down to fine, imprison, or transport some hundreds of working men whom the incendiary appeals of the league spouters have stirred up to out rage. But it has done nothing—absolutely nothing— to promote the cry which these mercenaries would hear above all other cries—to induce the reflecting working classes of Great Britain to throw themselves upon the tender mercies of the league millocracy for bread, and to enter, with this selfish and treacherous faction, into a crusade against the native agriculture and the domestic industry of our country. I'he " Insurrection" then—the simultaneous stop page of factories—is a failure ! The league have not ridden in triumph to the enjoyment of their cherished object, upon the storm' which they have raised ;—they have not as yet their grasp upon the broad lands of the " Gentlemen of England." On the contrary they are wriggling, with difficulty, out of the mud with which they would have gladly submerged the objects of their hate. The laughter and contempt of the world is ringing in their ears— " Derision has struck them forlorn — A mockery that never shall die ; And the curses of hate and the hisses of scorn" fall hour by hour upon their devoted heads ! The question. however, is now eagerly asked—whal will be the next throw of these reckless dicers ? Wil the league millocracy, after this failure of their late at tempt to coerce the legislature into an adoption of their mad schemes, settle down into orderly and peaceable subjects, and enjoy themselves and allow others to en joy that returning prosperity, the symptoms of which were so lately visible around us ? We believe we are correct in saying " !" The league millocracy of Manchester, or at least those gentlemen who pull the wires which move that body, will do no such thing. We are presently to be visited with difficulty and danger of another description. The commerce and the returning confidence of the nation is to be shaken by a few bankruptcies ! One or more of the Manchester banks, we are assured, are at this moment in possession of a large assortment of this description of missiles, wherewith to pelt the premier and his cabinet. Live millowners of all sizes are to be put into the legal howitzer, and projected amongst us ! Bricks and mortar, spindles and power-looms, are to be " chawed up" without mercy or distinction, and the isle is to be "frighted from its propriety" by the falling ruins! In sober earnestness, this, we are credibly informed, is the next step upon the tapis. The banks in ques tion have selected this particular crisis (7) as one pecu liarly favourable for winding up a whole host of their insolvent customers ! The " names and styles" of some of these, it is said, will paralyse the community. It will not, however, paralyse ourselves, if the banks in question should eventually discover this to be as dangerous an operation as the baffled insurrection ! LOCAL NEWS. An elegant coffee-pot and salver has been presented to the Rev. Dr. Beaumont on his leaving the Liverpool South Cir cuit " as a token of Christian affection and esteem." The Treasurer of the Liverpool Dispensaries has received roni. Mrs. Hugh Jones the sum of £3OO, as a donation to :hose valuable charities. We understand that to-day the select vestry will appoint a secretary in the room of Mr. James Eckersley, who has resigned. The Duke of Brunswick, who had been staying at the .Adelphi Hotel, honoured the Theatre Royal, on Wednesday evening, with his presence. It is stated by several of our contemporaries that the Rev. C. T. Wilson, lately Incumbent of St. Thomas'-in-the- Fields, has been appointed one of the curates of St. Nicho las' Church, and will commence his ministerial duties about the beginning of November. ST. SILAS'S CIIURCH.—A splendid new organ is being erected in the church of St. Silas, Pembroke-place, by Messrs. Bewsher and Fleetwood. It is in a state of great forward ness, and we understand that it will be first used in the ser vices of the church on Sunday next. ROCK FERRY NEW CHURCH.—This beautiful erection, by Messrs. Walker, of Birkenhead, which forms such a pro minent object on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, will be opened for divine service on Thursday next. The Rev. Chan cellor Raikes will preach on the occasion. It is expected that a vast number of the gentry from Liverpool and the surround- Mg neighbourhood will be present. BIRKENHEAD WATER WORKS.—This spirited company after boring to an immense depth, on the top of Claughton Hill, have at length found an abundant supply of excellent water. A small engine is erected to clear the well, and then the works will be proceeded with as rapidly as possible. No tices have been served on the inhabitants to make a return of the supply they need for their respective establishments. AMERICAN MAIL STEAM SHIPS.—The British and North American Royal Mail Steam Company's new steam-ship, Hibernia, will be launched at Greenock on Thursday next. The Hibernia is about 200 tons larger and of greater power than the present mail steam-ships. Captain Judkins takes command of the Hibernia. Captain Edward C. Miller, for merly of the Acadia, will now command the Columbia. A new Independent Chapel was opened on Thursday last, at Liscard, near New Brighton. It has been built at the expense of J. A. Marsden, Esq., and by him presented to the Independent body. It will acccommodate 800 people, and the donor has procured and fitted it up with the pulpit and some of the oak pews of the chapel which was occupied by the Rev. Dr. Isaac Watts, in St. Mary Axe, London, and the marble monument commemorative of that eminent divine he has had placed i❑ the vestibule of the choir. • REMOVAL OF TILE REV. DR. BUTLER FROM LIVER POOL.—We understand that the Rev. Dr. Butler of St. An thony's has been suspended from the exercise of his pastoral duties in Liverpool by the Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of the district. It is rumoured that this has arisen from his obstinately persisting to preach controversial sermons, in de fiance of the expressed wish of his superior. We have some reason to believe such to be the cause, as the vicar's opinions on the subject are well known. We remember that some time ago when the priests of Seel-street Chapel proposed to introduce Father Tom Maguire to their pulpit, they were publicly inhibited by the vicar, and the reverend father did not attend. Dr. Butler, it seems, has not profited by the warning, and his removal from Liverpool has been determin ed upon. IMPORTANT TO ELECTORS.-It IS important to city and borough electors to know that the only means provided by the Reform Act for apprising those persons whose votes have been objected to, is the publication of a list containing the names of all such persons, which, together with the list of persons claiming to he put on the register, are made out by the overseers, and exhibited at all the church and chapel doors, in their respective parishes, on the two first Sundays in September ; they are also kept by the overseers for perusal, without fee, at all reasonable hours ; from Sunday, Septem ber 4th, to Thursday, September 15th, they are also bound to supply copies of such lists to any person applying for the same, and to charge Is. for each copy. IMPORTANT TO THE PUBLIC AND TO STAGE COACH AND OMNIBUS PROPRIETORS.—By an act of the last ses sion, which is to come into force on the first of next month, the duty per mile is reduced from 3d. to lid. ; thus effecting a saving of one-half, and about £4OO per annum on the om nibuses running on one line of road alone out of Liverpool. Thus, while to the public a considerable reduction in the fares may be reasonably expected, a tine harvest is open for competition to coach and omnibus proprietors. At the same time, security against impositions and racing will be obtained by the regulations which the corporation, under their late acquired authority, are about to establish. SAILING OF TRANSATLANTIC STRANIERS.—The Great Western steam-ship, Lieutenant Hosken, sailed hence on Saturday afternoon, at five o'clock, having waited to receive the Lon don morning papers, for New York. She carried out one hundred and one passengers and 140 tons of fine goods. She was not, on the whole, deep. On Sunday, at noon, the British and North American royal mail steam ship Acadia, Ryrie, sailed for Halifax and Boston, with be tween seventy and eighty passengers. As these fine steamers have taken their departure within nineteen hours of each other, their voyages will attract very general attention. Bets have, it is said, been laid as to which vessel will reach her destination first. THE HINDOSTAN STEAM-SHlP.—This most splendid steam-ship made an experimental trip to Holyhead Bay, on Friday last, and performed to admiration. She left the George's pier at eight o'clock, A.M., went into Holyhead Bay and saluted the town, and was again at the George's Pier at 6h. 45m., P.M. ; thus accomplishing the entire dis tance in ten hours and forty-five minutes, although she had an hour's flood against her at starting, and an hour's ebb when returning to Liverpool. She made the run from the Skerries to the George's Pier in four hours and forty-two minutes, and from Point Lynas to the Floating Light in two hours and forty-nine minutes. the latter a distance of 411. statute miles. Her engines, of eight feet stroke, made fif teen revolutions per minute, although the machinery had only been turned round in dock once, and for a few hours prior to this trip to sea. The entire outfit of the vessel, ex cept the bare hull, has been accomplished since the 7th of May last. THE CHARGE AGAINST A CLERK.—On Friday last John Ackerly was brought up again before Mr. Rushton on the charge:of having obtained, under false pretences, a sum of money belonging to Messrs. Woolfall and Percival, of Man chester. The former part of the case was heard on the pre vious day, and it appeared in our last. On Friday Mr. Owen, for the prisoner, pointed out some clauses in the deed of assignment to Messrs. Woolfall and Percival, from which it appeared that those gentlemen were empowered to receive a further sum beyond the £195, but not in all exceeding £3OO, to cover any other deficiencies that might thereafter appear in the prisoner's accounts, or any debts he might have contracted in their name ; and he contended that they must have anticipated further defalcations, and that, therefore, a guarantee having been thus given, the charge could not be construed into one of felony, or even perhaps of receiving on false pretences. Mr. Rushton overruled this objection. The prisoner was no longer in the employ of the complainants. The proviso relating to the £3OO in amount was evidently in tended to cover any deficiencies not then discovered, that might have arisen prior to the execution of the deed, but would not apply to any new delinquency after he was dis charged. The evidence proved the facts stated to the satis faction of the magistrates, and the prisoner was committed for trial at the sessions. In reply to questions put by Mr. Rushton to Mr. Woolfall, after the prisoner was com mitted, that gentleman stated, that the prisoner and his father held other debentures to the amount of £2OO, the pay ment of which the father had stopped, as they were in their names. They had been defrauded by them to the amount of £BOO. Mr. Dowling said it appeared that the object was to compel Messrs. Woolfall to rescind the deed of assignment, on condition that the debentures withheld were given up. SCHOOLS FOR THR SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE IRISH CLERGY.—We have been requested to draw atten tion to the advertisement in another column, soliciting as sistance from the Christian public towards the re-establish ment of the Irish Clergy Daughter's School, in a situation more congenial to its necessities than that remote corner of the sister island in which it was formerly placed. The ap peal is brief, but expressive; indeed, it is a cause that pleads for itself, and, we are sure, needs but to be known in order to draw forth the sympathies of all who desire to befriend the ministers of the Established Church in Ireland, whose privations, in many instances, have deeply and loudly called for such institutions; and we feel convinced thaf a single glance at committee, thelit o andvic e -patr above o ns, vice-patronesses, and ma nagingall, the honoured name s of Ireland's noble viceroy and his amiable partner, who have graciously condescended to patronise this establishment, will insure all confidence and respect. It is now four years since this school was first opened at Port Stuart, near C o l era i ne , in the North of Ireland, since which period 45 young ladies have been admitted, of whom 20, having completed their re gular course of instruction, have , left the institution, leaving 25 on the hooks at present. There are besides numerous applications for the admission of pupils, which the state of the funds renders it impossible to grant. „ An extraordinary appeal is now being 'made in Ireland , onlbehalf of the welt known, and, comparatively, longer and more-firmly estab lished School for the Sons of the Irish Clergy, at Lucan, near Dublin, for the purpose of enlarging its dormitories and school-rooms, which have been found to be wholly in sufficient for the number at present on its books, and capable of being maintained by its present establishment. The cost of this addition has been estimated at about £6OO. A letter has been addressed by an Irish gentleman, of w e ll - k nown benevolence, resident in Lucan, to the incumbent minister of Lucan, offering to contribute £l5O towards thi s d es i ra bl e object, provided that double that sum (viz.,. £300), s h a ll b e collected for the same purpose, by sanction of the board of trustees, within three months from the present date. This sum to be contributed by individuals who have not heretofore been regular subscribers. This offer has been cheerfully ac cepted by the trustees, Waco have requested the Rev. 11, E. Prior to undertake the collection of the above sum, accord ing to the proposed offer, with the addition that if th e sum required should not be raised within the time limited, the subscriptions should be returned. We can only add, that we shall be happy to receive and forward to the Treasurer of, either or both, the above valuable schools, any contributiOn which may be left at the Office of this Paper. thee and fellow-soldier in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus, George Holden, of St. John's College, Cambridge, has ceased from his labours in this world, and entered his everlasting rest. He fell asleep in Jesus, on Sunday, the 24th of July, at Nice, where he had been residing for the last six months for the benefit of his health. His end was peace. Relying for salvation alone on the one Saviour and Mediator, he found the glorious doctrines which he had delighted to pro claim to his fellow-sinners when in health, able to sustain him in the cold embrace of death. Mysterious as the provi dence may appear which has thus removed so zealous, bold, and yet gentle and loving a spirit from this world, where his popular talents and commanding eloquence appeared to us so likely to be of extensive benefit to the Church of Christ, we must not murmur or repine. Our loss is his infinite gain. He now sees his Saviour face to face, and has for ever done with sin and sorrow. His illness was such as to give him the most intense bodily pain ; and while we therefore mourn for the loss which his friends and the church have sustained in his removal to a better world, we cannot but rejoice for him that his warfare is accomplished, his course finished with joy, and that he has been safely received into the haven of everlasting rest. It is not improbable that a brief memoir may be published of one whose short life was rich in usefulness, and whom it was impossible to know and not respect and warmly esteem. May we live as near our Saviour as he did, and burn with as pure a zeal, and serve him with as warm a love. May we die the death of the righteous, and may our last end be like his." SCOTCH KIRK, OLDHAM.STEEET.-011 Thursday next the shareholders of this church proceed for the fourth time to the choice of a minister for the vacant charge. We say the choice, or appointment perhaps, for at the last meeting of that body sixteen out of twenty-four present proposed and resolved to support the appointment of the Rev. J. R. Welsh, of Largs, on the ground of his being so much the favourite of the congregatiou, and decidedly the more talented preacher of all the candidates who have been heard. Besides the majority of the congregation and of the share holders at the said meeting, we understand this young minister carries with him a majority of the trustees, and likewise of the Kirk Session, so that in every point of view it promises to be a most desirable settlement, likely to heal existing divisions, and ultimately give entire satisfaction to all parties in the congregation. In the west of Scotland, where Mr. Welsh cornea from, lie ranks high among the young preachers of the day, and has earned for himself the unmixed respect and goodwill of all classes, from his supe rior devotedness, assiduity, and faithfulness, as• a visiting pastor. From all accounts he unquestionably deserves, and we cannot doubt will on this occasion receive, the decided and cordial support, as well as good wishes, of every true friend to the good OLD KIRK. LIVERPOOL IMPROVEMENT ACT.—This act, some of the provisions of which are of a very salutary nature, came into operation on Thursday last. The following are the clauses which affect the publicans, a copy of which, we believe, has been delivered, during the week. at each house in the trade:— " Sec. 248. And be it enacted, that every person who, by reason of his freedom of the mystery or craft of vinters of the city of London, or of a n y right or privilege of such mystery, shall claim to be entitled to sell foreign wine by retail, to be drunk or consumed on the premises within the borough, without license, shall be subject to all the provisions of all acts made for the regulation of persons so licensed, (except those provisions which require or refer to the taking out of a li cen se, either from any justice of the peace, or from the Commissioners of Excise,) and in the case of any offence committed by him against the tenor of the license, granted under the provisions of any act for the sale of exciseable li quors by retail. to be drunk or consumed on the premises, shall be liable to be dealt with, proceeded against, and punish ed, in like manner as if selling wine by license, and not by virtue of such claim or privilege. " Sec. 249. And be it enacted, that no licensed victualler or other person shall open his house, within the borough, for the sale of wine, spirits, beer, or other fermented or distilled liquors, or permit the same to be sold therein on Sundays, Christmas Day, and Good Friday; before the hour of one in the afternoon, under a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each offence: provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to prevent refreshment to travellers. " Sec. 250. And be it enacted, that every person lisensed to deal in exciseable liquors within the said borough, who shall knowingly supply any sort of distilled exciseable liquor to any boy or girl, apparently under the age of sixteen years, to be drunk on the premises, shall be liable to a penalty not more than twenty-shillings ; and, upon conviction of a second offence, shall be liable to a penalty not more than forty-shil lings ; and, upon conviction of a third offence, shall be liable to a penalty not more than five pounds. Sec. 286. And be it enacted, that if any victualler or keep er of any house, shop, room, or other place for the sale of any liquors, whether spirituous or otherwise, shall knowingly har bour or entertain any man belonging to the said police force of the borough, or permit such man to abide or remain in his house, shop, room, or other place, during any part of the time appointed for his being on duty, except for the purpose of quieting any disturbance, every such victualler or keei,er as aforesaid, being convicted thereof before any justice, shall, for every such offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds." It will be seen by our report of the Intermediate Sessions, which commenced yesterday, that the Recorder publicly announced to the Grand Jury that the above clauses, although so recently in operation, had already produced most promising results. The statement of the learned gentleman received a strong confirmation in the altered condition of the police list. The average number of prisoners on Mon days has hitherto been 150 ; • Yesterday they amounted to only 78, being little more than one-half of the customary number. Of these there were 24 on suspicion of felony, only one case of which was sustained, and 54 for being drunk and disorderly. The chief influence, of the public-house clause has been among the latter class ; for whilst the charges of felony remained about stationary, in point ,of number, the latter exhibited a decrease of almost 50 per cent. We sincerely trust that the new act will continue to work as beneficially for public morals as it has begun. SEWISR NEW YEAR.—The Jewish year 5,603 commenced. I Dici's COFFEE-ROUSE --Mr. Newton has fitted up a yesterday. The custom ar y serv i ces an d ceremon i es t oo k I splendid room for the pur pose . of indulging those who are place in the Synagogue. f fond of " vocal harmony" with their favourite pastime. THE SYRIAN Cnurten.—The Archbishop of Canterbury, The colours of the room are extremely rich and well-chosen. the Bishop of London, and two other friends, have presented The walls are handsomely ornamented, and have a rich ap the Archbishop of Tripoli, of the Greek Church, with £5O, pearance.—See advt. i in aid of the objects for which the *nerable prelate has LIVER THEATRE.—The Railway at the Liver Theatre visited this country. continues very attractive. On Wednesday next the Lance- DEATHS FROM CONSIIMPTION.—From a statistical paper shire bell-ringers take their benefit. They have made quite read before the British Association at Manchester, we learn a sensation wherever they have gone. They are quite as ex. that in Manchester there is 1 death from consumption out traordinary and as musical as the Russian horn-blowers, of every 34 families ;in Liverpool, 2 deaths out of every 49 who were here some years ago. Several novelties will be families; in Birmingham, I death out of every 36 families ; introduced. and in London, 2 deaths out of 105 families. In the agri- ROYAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS. —Minim's CONCERT.— cultural districts, whilst the general mortality was lower, the This evening Signor Rabini's Concert, at the Royal Assem proportion of consumptive cases to deaths was greater, being bly Rooms, will take place. The amateur and lover of 4 in every 21, and in the factory districts 3in 19 deaths. music will have a treat of no common' kind, and we need Bites OF Lebren.--,The tariff act among ether enact- hardly observe that a glance over the programme will say more melds reduces the stamp duty on bills of lading from 3s. to towards inducing a visit than all we could urge. Aignor 6(1., and subjects to a penalty of £5O all persons who shall Rubini, who is idolised by every fanatico per la tnusica " make or sign any bill of lading without being duly stamped abroad, is about to retire, we believe, from public life, and according to law. Messrs. Burrup and Blight, of London, will go, " and be no more seen," or rather heard. He sings to ascertain the precise meaning of the clause, have written in Liverpool to-night, for the last time. He is supported by to the solicitor for stamps and taxes to know whether several artistes woo stand in the first rank of talent. The "every hill of lading in a• set, including the one the captain room is expected to be crowded with fasbionables. retains as a copy, is necessary to be stamped, it being the THE TOWN COUNCIL.—The next monthly meeting, which castom of merchants on shipping goods to have a set of two is also the adjourned fourth quarterly meeting of the Town or more bills of lading," The solicitor, in reply, has in- Council will be held to-morrow, when a variety of business formed them that "every bill o f l a di ng i n a se t, whateve r will be trans ac t e d. Th e proceedings of the Finance Corn may be the number, must he stamped." mittee comprise some matters relative to the enlargement of THE REY. JOSEPH BAYLEE.—We perceive that our the Gaol and House of Correction, and the appropriation of estimable neighbour, the Rev. Joseph Baylee, of Woodside, a sum in respect of the accumulation fund for the first pay has visited Bristol, in company with the Archbishop of ment to government for the site of the fort. The proceed- Tripoli, for the purpose of making an appeal on behalf of ings of the several committees do not appear to contain any the suffering people of that country, many of whose churches thing important from the terms of the notice. Notice is were totally destroyed by the operations of the late campaign also given that committees will be appointed for the execu in Syria. The Archbishop of Tripoli, is a prelate of con- tion of the provisions of the Improvement Act just come siderable influence in the Greek Church ; and from his state- into operation. Applications have been made from fifty ment, it appeared that during the war, no less than 120 people to enrol their indentures, with the view of obtaining churches had been thrown down, twenty-five of which their freedom. The increased number of applications is were within his diocese, which is within a day or two's travel owing to the late notice issued by the Council. The Mayor's from Jerusalem. Mr. Baylee, whose acquisitions as a linguist communications relate to the enlargement of the Gaol and are most extensive, embracing from ten to twelve lan g u ag e s the House of Correction, and they comprise also some me with their several dialects, acted as interpreter to the morials. This meeting of the Council is the latest that can venerable prelate; and he appears to have acquitted himself he held in the month, being on the 7th. in a manner that might have been expected from a man of his THE FUNDS, SATURDAY EVENING.--The funds have varied attainments. His addresses were able expositions of sustained the firmness of yesterday, the accounts from the the archbishop's ideas; and indeed both upon th e au dito r y sea t o f war b eyon d th e I n d us proving, as it was expected that listened to him, as well as upon the distinguished prelate, they would, of a much better character than represented in he has left strong impresSions of genuine piety, zeal and the despatch received by the French telegraph. Consols for talent. money and the account, without any g r ea t d ea l o f b us i ness , THE QUEEN'S VISIT :TO SCOTLAND.—'The Queen's visit closed with a steady aspect, the former at 92k ie the latter to Scotland seems to hare been a source of disappointment 93; New Three and a Half per Cents., 1014 • Long Annui to the inhabitants of various towns on the east coast, who ti es , 12i t o 11 -1 6 ; I n di a B on d s, 365. p m . ; Exchequ er-bills, appear to have spared neither cost nor personal exertion to 2d. issue, 495. to 51s. pm. ; ditto, 24d. issue, 51s. to 535. exhibit their loyalty, a scl to gratify their curiosity. From pm . : an d I n di a S toc k , 249 to 25 1. In foreign stocks and various correspondents we learn that the cliffs were crowded railway shares the dealings were of the most limited nature. with people, anxious even to have a vie* of tile fleet, and Spanish Actives were finally quoted 161 ex. the coupons ; many remained exposed for hours, delicate females even, ditto, Three per Cents., 2(P to a ; Portuguese Five per who, under other circu ms t ances , would have shrunk from Cents., 31k to - 35 • ditto, Three j per Cents. , 20 1 to 21 • the exposure to the keen sea-breeze; these, of course, did Mexican, 3 7 11 to ' Dutch Two and a Half . Cents., 52-i not escape with impunity, and, in addition to the disappoint- to l ; ditto, Five Cents., ' 1021 ; Danish, 831 to . 4; ment experienced by all. have got for their pains severe colds Colombian, 201 to i• ; Brazilian, 611 to 651; and Belgian, and catarrhs, which will serve them as a memento, for days 101 i to 102. to come, of their disappointment, when the impression will ei urnOSS MISCONDUCT IN A FEMALE SERVANT.—Ann have worn off from their more robust friends. The inhabi- Evans, a good-looking young woman, was placed before tants of Whitby, among the rest, were not backward to Mr. Rushton, on Saturday. Mr. J. J. Hewitt, of Deane exhibit their loyalty, and to prove that they were not defi stated tha t the prisoner had lived in his family as ser tient either in the other impelling motives that had influ- street, Hewitt, enced their neighbours. The beauty and fashion of the vant. On Saturday morning, at two o'clock, Mrs. . being seized with some sudden indisposition, got up and place, arrayed in all their best, with a suitable escort o f gentlemen, engaged a steamer, stood boldly off to sea, sailed procured a light ; after which she proceeded to the bedroom along the coast as far as Scarbro', and even Flamborough of the servant, whose assistance she required. On entering the , chamber, she was surprised at seeing the window open. Head, and had to return, after having braved for many hours She turned her eyes towards the bed, when she was still the perils of the deep, and the still more formidable annoy more astonished at seeing that the girl had a male compa ance of sea-sickness, and those other agrimens which usu- Ilion with her. The fellow jumped from the bed, and Mrs, ally accompany trips of pleasure on the briny deep. The Hewitt, considerably alarmed, shrieked for her husband. Viscount Normanby, also, with an aristocratical party, en- When Mr. Hewitt entered the apartment, the man was just gaged a steamer ; and, as wind and tide know and make no making his exit from the window. Mr. Hewitt looked after distinction between peer and commoner, he and his party him, and saw that a ladder was reared up against the wall, shared in the same disappointment with his less aristocratic, by which the intruder had gained the chamber. The ladder though equally loyal, subjects. The Marquis had received an intimation from her Majesty, that she expected he would had been brought from another part o f th e p rem i ses . Th e be on the look-out, and he accordingly had provided the girl, so far from expressing any contriti on fo r h er f au lt, b e • came exceedingly abusive. Her conduct wa s , at le ng th, so choicest fruits, the gayest bouquets, and the most savoury disorderly that a police-officer was called in, and she was venison and game, for the royal table. All these prepara- sent to Bridewell. Mr. Hewitt said he had discovered notes tions were unavailing, and they had to return, and to chew in the girl's box which showed she had been carrying on this the bitter cud of their disappointment, and the royal pro sort of intercourse for a considerable time. As the case vender too, with what appetite they could,—sea-sickness was one in which the magistrates have no power to act, the and nausea not being the most appropriate provocatives for girl was discharged. their feast. It is to be regretted, however, that this trip has been such a source of disappointment; for perhaps there 1 IFORGED BILLS OF LADING : NARROWESCAPE OP A MER never was a time when the loyalty of the loyal was more CHANT FROM A SERIOUS Loss.—A singular case recently necessary to be shown, the affections of the lukewarm to be occurred in this town. A merchant extensively engaged in excited, and the discontent of the disaffected to be checked, the corn trade received, some mouths ago, from a corres overawed, and coutrouled by the prese nce o f th e S overe i gn . Pondent in the Baltic, bills of lading fora cargo of corn which ALARMING ACCIDENT TO PROFESSOR K ANE .—Dr. Robt. the latter pretended to have had shipped for the Liverpool market. Upon these bills, which appeared regular, advances Kane had commenced the delivery of his fourth lecture on to the amount of £2,600 were made. A more than usual combustion, in the Mechauics' Institution, on Saturday time having elapsed and the vessel named in the bills of lading night, when, we regret to say, he met with an accident which not making her appearance in the Sound, on her voyage to for some time excited serious apyrehensions for his safety. Liverpool, the merchant became rather uneasy : he never In laying down some general propositions on his theory of once suspected, however, that any thing could be wrong, combustion e he had occasion to expound and illustrate the much less that a plan had been laid to defraud him by his composition of oliphiant gas ; for the purpose of this experi correspondent. While the matters was in this state, he ment a glass retort was put in requisition over a jet of flame. accidently met a shipbroker extensively connected with He was proceeding to show the quantity of air necessary for foreigners. From him he heard, with surprise, that his foreign the combustion of a ton of coal, when the retort became dis correspondent was actually in Liverpool, accompanied by placed. This accident was observed by Mr. Dircks, who his wife, intending to embark for America. Deeming this pointen it out to Mr. Kane ; and the professor was in the act very strange, he alluded to the non-arrival of the cargo of of re-adjusting it, when, by some accidental mismanagement, wheat on which Ile had made advances. The name of the the exact nature of which we did not observe, he severely captain whose signature was on the bills of lading was men scalded his right hand. In the confusion caused by this un fortunate circumstance, the professor inhaled a quantity of tinned, when it was immediately suspected that th ere mus t be some fraud in the transaction, as the captain h a d sa iled oliphiant gas, which, at that time, had begun to evolve. The hence about ten days before. It became evident, in short, ' effect of this was immediately visible upon his countenance • that the ca p tain ' s name had been forged to the bills of lading ; but, notwithstanding, he immediately proceeded with his lee- that no cargo of wheat had been shipped by the forger of the tare. At length, however, lie became seriously affected, and said bills ; and that the merchant was one of the several per he had just time to make a brief apology to the auditory when sons whom the foreigner had designed to victimize. What, he began to sink : in another instant he would have fallen to then, was to be done ? In the office of the merchant is a the ground, had not a gentleman rushed on the platform and shrewed German : he was immediately sent in search of the caught him in his arms. He was immediately removed into swindler, whom, by good luck, lie found. At first, he pro ne lecturers' private room, where two or three medical men ceeded cautiously, but soon found that suspicions of fraud were speedily in attendance. In the mean time, an announce were too true ; that no corn had been shipped ; and that the ment was made that the lecture was necessarily postponed, bills of lading were frabricatione. He then changed his in consequence of the professor's illness. In the course of a tactics. He pretended that a man who had accompanied few minutes, a second announcement was made to the effect him, and who was at hand, was a police-officer, and that, if that the medical gentlemen were of opinion that no danger was to be apprehended, and that the remedies which they had the foreigner (who could not speak English and who was applied had been partially successful. Under these circum- addressed in German) did not instantly return the £2,600 stances, the conclusion of the last lecture of this valuable and which he had fraudulently obtained, he would order hi m i n t o insructive course is deferred sine die. custody. The plan:succeeded; after some hesitation, the THE LATE MR. GEORGE HOLDEN.—The Protestant m tr io u nneTh7 asre i s C i unded, and the clever German carried it off in employer's counting-house. On the sae Operative thus records the premature death of this highly afternoon to foreignerthe l emba rked on board one of the British respected gentleman, who was brother-in-law to Mr. Cleaver, and N or th Amirican royal mad' steamers and sailed for recently elected clerk to th e West Derby Board of Guar- B os t on . diens, and son-in-law of Mr. Wm. Turner, who for many years carried on an extensive business in this town as a wholesale stationer :—" We regret to have to communicate to our readers the death of one of the ablest and most pro -1 Minent of our Protestant fellow-labourers. _ Our dear bro LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT AT SEACOMBE. TWO YOUNG FEMALES DROWNED. On Saturday evening last, about nine o'clock, Miss Har riet Evans, of Gateacre, with a servant, went into the water at Seacombe to bathe, from the garden-steps of her brother in-law, Mr. Bevington, (a short distance below the Ferry house,) and were, in a very short time, carried away by the tide, and soon sank to rise no more; for though they cried for help, the darkness of the night, and the isolated position of the spot at such an hour, rendered it impossible to pro cure assistance in time to be available. The bodies were both picked up on the retiring of the tide, at an early hour on Sunday morning, and an inquest was held yesterday af ternoon, before Mr. Churton, the coroner for South Che shire, and a respectable jury, assembled at the house of Mr. Frost, the Oddlellows' Arms, Seacombe. Both the bodies of the ill-fated deceased were viewed in the parlour of Mr. Bevington's house, which faces the river, and between which and the scene of the catastrophe there is a small hanging garden. They presented a very painful appearance, the faces and eyes of both, and particularly those of the servant, being disfigured. . _ The follOwingevidence embodies all thefacts,—a separate inquest being held o n eac h body, each being found at a dif ferent time, and spoken to by different witnesses : Miss Mary Hannah Dean, being sworn, said—l knewthe deceased Miss Evans, who was in the habit of coming to Mr. Bevington's to bathe, and I have seen her bathing there. On Saturday evening last, at about half-past nine o'clock, I was at Mr. Bevington's house, and she came there, and ex pressed a wish to bathe. I said I should not bathe myself on such a night. The water was very rough at the time, and it was blowing a gale of wind. It was nearly high water. She unloosed her clothes in the house, and went to the bot tom of the garden. These are steps there leadiNg into the water at tide-time. She generally walked down the steps. It was not a minute after she left the steps when she and the other were carried away. She called out for a rope more than once, and the other also called out. lam sure she was out of her depth at the time. I immediately ran to the house of Mr. Bevington, and gave the alarm. I afterwards went for assistonce. I saw nothing more of them at that time. My father went down to their assistance. About one o'clock yesterday morning I saw the body of Miss Evans at a little distance ; I knew it by the dress. [lt appeared, from the statement of a juryman, that a lady attempted to save them by throwing out a rope from the top of the neighbouring sea-wall, but it was found to be too short, and, from the darkness of the night, unavailing. We were informed, too, that a very daring attempt at rescue was made by Mr. Tuton, a gentleman residing at Mersey View, close to the fatal spot, and brother, we believe, to Mr. E. S. Tuton, of Lord-street. Mr. Tuton, hearing the cries of the drowning females, promptly leaped into the water from the wall of his garden. Being unable to swim, however, his praiseworthy effort was unsuccessful, and he himself very narrowly escaped a watery grave.] Thomas Barrow, a youth, who is a labourer, residing at Seacombe said, be went down the shore, on hearing that two ladies were drowned about ten o'clock. He saw nothing of them. I and others got one of the packet's boats, with some grappling irons, and searched for the bodies for a long time, but without avail. They afterwards walked about the beach, when the tide fell, until we found the bodies. We found the body of Miss Evans first—about half-past one on Sunday morning. She was lying on her face, left by the tide, and partly immersed, and about 30 yards from the steps. She had a bathing dress on at the time. The coroner recapitulated the evidence, and the jury im mediately returned a verdict of " accidentally drowned." [lt appears that the depth of the water varies at the steps, occasionally, even more than the difference of the respective heights of the tides, with north west winds, and that the ground had been considerably washed away by the present spring tides—so that the deceased might have been deceived. Both had bathing dresses on when they entered the water.] An inquest was then held on view of the body of Susan Jones, who had perished with Miss Evans. Miss Dean was again called and said—l knew the deceased Susan Jones. She was servant with a lady of Egremont, sister to the deceased Miss Evans. She came to Mr. Bevington's house on Saturday night, with Miss Evans, and went to bathe with her at the same place. She had a bathing dress on. Miss Evans went into the water first, and Susan Jones immediately followed her. They appeared to have hold of each others bands. I saw them both soon afterwards at some little distance from the steps, and they were up to the neck in the water. I think they both called for a rope. I went for assistance, (as before stated,) and did not afterwards see the deceased. Richard Chandler, a labourer, said—The shore is very steep a little way off, several yards deeper than at the steps. About three o'clock yesterday morning we found the body of the deceased, Susan Jones, close to the water. The head was towards the shore, and the feet immersed in the water. The body had no dress on at all, nor could we find any. It was lying as the tide had left it, about 130 yards from the steps. The tide was very strong, and ebbed fast, that morn ing. The jury immediately returned a verdict of " Accidentally drowned." We learn that both the deceased were highly esteemed by all who knew them. Miss Evans was an accomplished young lady, and had previously learned to float in the water. The probability is, that they had hold of each other before they went down, and that the servant's bathing-dress had been torn off in her struggles to save herself. The latter is repre sented as having been an excellent servant. Her brother, a young man of this town, was present at the inquest, and was much distressed. Mr. John Murphy, builder, of Seacombe, very kindly (in order to save the young man expense) sent his own men to convey the body on board the steamboat, on its way to this town. What you keep by you, you may change and 'mend, but words once spoken can never be recalled.—,Roscommon. He who receives a good turn should never forget it ; he who does one should never remember it.—Charron. - The married man is like the bee, that fixes his hive, aug mentspublic, and by a daily diligence, —Feltha t n. without the wrongingworld, benefits t s the profits all. CORRESPONDENCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDAIth. beg to call your attention to the proceedings of the self-styled " Anti-Monopoly Society" of this town, who appear to be not quite satisfied with the moderate. results of the exertions of the Anti-Corn-law League (their fellow labourers in the cause of rebellion, anarchy, and confusion), as lately exhibited in the manufacturing districts, and are therefore anxious to give a little reviving impulse to the ap parent hopelessness of the cause, by disseminating their lies and false statements, their silly speeches and revan tionary addresses, and, what is still more to be reprobatar their " scriptural authorities" for the repeal of the corn-law. These papers are enclosed and addressed to householders, with an intimation from the secretary of the " Anti-Monops." that they will be waited upon to receive their names as members of the society ; and further, it is kindly intimated that when the society has accomulished its object, it will then, most considei ately, refrain faun any further agitation! I wish you to put your readers on their guard, and I re commend them to adopt my plan, Nrhich was to open the letter addressed to roe, display to my family and servants all the papers, live or six in number, and then, without reading or permitting them to be read—to put them into the fire. Yours truly, Saturday, Oct. 3, 1812. S. K. THE COALBROOKDALE IRON COMPANY. We had occasion some time ago to notice the splendid warerooms of this company in James's -street, and then ex pressed our gratification and astonishment on viewing so many beautiful articles, manufactured of a material which, until of recent years, was considered of too obdurate a na ture to be fashioned so as to combine domestic utility with the highest classical adornment, hut which modern science has rendered as apparently pliant and ductile as wax, and susceptible in casting the richest and most elaborate orna ments of an equal sharpness and finish. A second visit to the establishment has more than confirmed our former im pressions of the vast improvements in the art of manufac turing and casting in iron, which is here made to supersede the finest woods, marbles, japan, or even bronze itself, in every variety of furniture, from the requisites of the kitchen to the finest ornaments of the drawing-room or the boudoir. We were fairly bewildered amidst avenues of grates, stoves, fenders, tables, &c., all elegant and varied in design ; and the vases, chimney ornaments in characteristic figures,- pic torial representations in relief, &c., are so exquisitely cast as to be quite equal to the finest bronze productions of the Continent, and at less than half the cost. Several novelties have been introduced since our last visit. Amongst these is a costly fender, the design and workmanship of which sur pass anything we have ever yet seen, or indeed could have conceived. The style, if we mistake not, is that of the age of Louis XIV. The body of the front and ends is of polished steel, sloping inwards. This is surrounded by rich foliated castings representing bronze ; and from the interior of the rounded corners at each end is affixed a wreath of beautiful flowers of the finest china, of English manufacture, and as rich as the choicest specimens of that description by the far famed artists of Dresden. This article is really too splendid for any mansion short of that of a prince or a duke, and is produced, we presume, rather to shew the perfection of workmanship which can be attained at Coalbrookdaie, than with a view to its being sold. The grates and stoves are of great variety, from plain to the most elaborate in design and finish, and all on the most approved principles, from the emission of a strong heat with economy of fuel, good draught, and the absence of dust. One of these—a strong grate—is remarkably beautiful. The interior part or recess, forms a Tudor arch, and the sloping part, of polished steel, is enriched by antique panelled work within rich foliated castings in alto—the panels or compart ments being beautiful paintings, or enamel, on china. The ornamental castings are peculiarly line and sharp ; and the effect of the whole is such as would have astonished the most luxuriant ofour forefathers, and induced us to exclaim, " What will they do next? We shall not attempt to enumerate the great variety of the articles in the several large rooms, in addition to those noticed in our last sketch, including garden chairs, rocking-chairs, beds, safes, splendid kitchen ranges, cheese-presses, communion and lobby tables, flower-stands, chandeliers marble-topped, and also beautifully painted, and japanned tables for the drawing-room, &c. &c., down to the smoothing irons, of which last there are many tons weight constantly on hand. Our readers, and especially those of the fair sex would do well by paying a visit to the establishment, which they will be politely shown through, and au inspection of which will, we feel assured, afford them much gratification, the more so when it is considered that the whole is the production of home articles and workmanship, and from home materials. The iron of the Coalbrook Dale Company's mines is, we understand,—and can readily admit— of a very superior description, not only for the manufacture of the articles noticed, but for ship-building and other out-door works requiring great strength and durability; and much of it has been supplied for the former purpose, to our townsman Mr. Laird, as well as other iron ship-builders. EXECUTION OF FRANCIS BRADLEY. Francis Bradley, who was convicted at the last assizes held in this town, of having killed his wife by the administration of poison, was hanged, on Saturday last, at twelve o'clock, on a gallows erected at the north-east corner of Kirkdale Gaol. After his condemnation, the unhappy man was confined in a cell, where two turnkeys were kept continually with him. Notwithstanding the conclusive evidence on which his guilt was established, and the emphatic manner in which the Lord Chief Justice exhorted him to prepare for death, it ap pears he cherished an expectation of a reprieve so long as there remained the slightest room for hope. The convict. who was a Roman Catholic, was assiduously attended by the Rev. Peter Wilcock, one of the priests of St. Anthony's Chapel. For some weeks the daily visits of the reverend gentleman were unattended with any good effect, the convict remaining hardened, impenitent, and deaf to the exhortations of the minister. Mr. Amos, the kind and excellent Governor of the prison, describes the attention of Mr. Wilcock to have been of the most untiring and affectionate character, but for a length of time his kind efforts were unavailing. Though the prisoner was repeatedly informed by those about him that there was no hope of any communication in his favour, he still clung to the cherished impression. A memorial in his behalf was forwarded to the Secretary of State. The answer returned was to the effect, that the case was of such a nature that her Majesty could not he recommended to, grant a re prieve. At length, the impenetrability of the prisoner's cha racter gradually gave way as his case became more hopeless, and his stubbornness vanished before the certainty of ap proaching death. Recently he attended closely to the reli gious instructions of his reverend attendant, and conformed strictly to the discipline which his church prescribed. The execution was, at first, fixed to take place at eight o'clock on Saturday morning. It was afterwards determined to alter the hour to twelve o'clock, from a humane conside ration that a reprieve might arrive by the early morning train. It had, however, got abroad that the criminal was to •be hanged at eight o'clock, and those whose bad taste in duces delight in such exhibitions were early on the alert. Even at six o'clock, we are informed, numerous individuals, of both sexes, were seen wending their way towards Kirk dale. Long before eight a considerable multitude of the humbler classes had assembled in front of the scaffold, and, though most of them must have had avocations in the town, by far the greater number waited till the sentence was car ried into effect. At the approach of noon the crowd was considerably augmented. Amongst the spectators were a number of females, several of very respectable appearance. If the multitude evinced none of that brutality which we have sometimes seen described as occurring at executions in other places, they, at least, behaved in many respects with unseemly indecorum. While waiting for the appearance of the criminal, they lightened the time by shouting, throwing cabbage stumps, and other unseemly pranks ; and one fel low was detected in the act of picking a pocket. He was immediately secured and taken within the prison. The convict retired to rest about twelve o'clock on Friday night, and slept till four on Saturday morning. The Rev. P. Wilcock entered the condemned cell at six o'clock, and continued in close attendance on the prisoner till he ceased to exist. The Under-sheriff arrived from Preston at half past eleven o'clock, when he joined the Governor of the prison. At a quarter before twelve the prisoner was con ducted from the cell to the press-room. His demeanour was firm, and his countenance pale but calm. He is a short, stout built man, about five feet four inches high. His features are strongly marked and stern-looking, kis eyes small and rather dark, and his forehead low. His head was uncovered, and he wore a blue coat with brass buttons, drab trousers, and boots. His demeanour in the press-room was respectful and devout. About ten minutes to twelve o'clock the prisoner, attended by his religious instructor, the prin cipal turnkey, and others, was led from the press-room to the pinioning-room. His self-possession never for a moment forsook him. As he passed through the yard he bowed to some of the turnkeys who stood near. Mr. Wilcock walked on his right hand and read, in a faltering voice, several pas sages from the service proper for the occasion. The un fortunate man walked slowly, but steadily, up the flight of steps leading to the pinioning-room, and when there, he stood for a short time engaged in prayer with his pastor. He was placed in the chair and the work of pinioning him was performed by the executioner, who was brought from York for the occasion. The chair upon which he sat was immediately in front, and commanded a full view of the gallows ; indeed, there was but a short platform, erected temporarily for the purpose, between him and the place of execution. He kept his eyes intently fixed for a long time upon the spot, during which his lips were continually moving, as though he was engaged in deep mental prayer. The Rev. P. Wilcock asked him if he had anything more to say. He replied, in a loud, unshaken tone. " No; nothing more." After being pinioned, he extended his hands to the various officers connected with the establishment, which they shook, and at twelve precisely he was led out to his fate, Mr. Wilcock accompanying him to the scaffold, and reading while the executioner adjusted the apparatus of death, the lips of the convict all the time moving as in prayer. A loud buzz ran through the crowd when he made his appearance, and the next instant all was silence. At a given signal the drop fell. A struggle was apparent for a moment, and it was thought he had instantly expired, but in a little his sufferings evinced themselves by the convulsive movements of his hands and legs, which continued some two or three minutes. When he ceased to move, and it was evident life was extinct, the exicutioner, in reply to a question from a gentleman present, said, in a tone of the most businesslike indifference, " Oh, we generally give them a three feet drop, but he's a light weight." The unhappy convict made a statement, which was at his request, taken down in writing by Mr. Wilcock. We sub join a copy, by which, it will be seen the culprit ac knowledges that he was " s ati n fi e d with his sentence." He signed the document with his own hand, in bold, but no very elegant characters. TILE CONFESSION. • "I, Feancis Bradley, make the following declaration. I die in the faith of the holy Catholic Church, of which, I am truly sorry to say, I have been an unworthy- member. I earnestly beg of all my brethren to pray, after my departure, for the repose of my soul. I die in peace with all mankind, and forgiving sincerely from my heart all who have ever injured or offended me, and craving forgiveness from all I have ever injured or offended. I depart this life satisfied with my sentence, and I cheerfully submit to the death which it is the will of God I should suffer ; hoping through the infinite merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to obtain pardon for my sins and life everlasting. I beg to return my poor, but best, thanks to the Governor of the prison for his humane treatment of me, and also to the keepers of the jail and other official individuals, for the kindness they have shown me during my confinement. B y my order and direction the above declaration has been written. (Signed) " FRANCIS BRADLEY. " Kirkdale, September 3, 1842." The crowd dispersed immediately after the execution. The body, after having been suspended for an hour, was taken down and buried within the precincts of the gaol, in pursu ance of the sentence. Bradley i s th e f ourt h cr i minal who has been hanged at Kirkdale. The first was Thomas Barlow, for the murder of his wife; the second Betty Rowland, for poisoning her husband ; the third, William Hill, for rape and murder, at Warrington ,• and the fourth Bradley, for the murder of his wife. The last-named culprit is buried in the same grave with the other three. A Ilium HEAD.—An athletic black man, while carrying a hod in a buildi ng down town, was struck on his head by a salmon brick which fell from the scaffold nearly two stories high. " Look out up dare, how you frow your bricks, vo ciferated the hod ca r r i er , " gues s yon want to kill dis n i gger. " ' " What is most strange is, that the man was not even stunned, . t and the brick was broken in two by coming i n contact with his head.—Philadelphia Gazette. PRESTON GUILD. (From our own Correspondent.) PRESTON', MONDAY AFTERNOON, FIVE O'CLOCK.-ThiS grand festival, the recurrence of which takes place only every twenty years, has at length commenced. Whilst 1 write, numbers of strangers are crowding the town, and every hour only adds to the enthusiasm manifested both by strangers and inhabitants. The morning —fine and propitious—was ushered in by a grand peal on the bells of the parish church, which continue at intervals to enliven the town, and give every fresh arrival the first fruits of the grand jubilco. As a proof of the ex citement: the festival is causing, and the immense influx of strangers to which it has given rise, I may mention that since geturday afternoon the railway trains have bean more than do bled in extent. The principal hotels in the town are nearly full with the bespeaks of the intended visits of the nobility and gentry who intend to h onour th e f es ti va l w i t h their prnence, and who will arrive this evening and in the course of to-morrow. Amongst the numerous visiters ar rived and expected, we may name the Earl of Baloarres and suite, the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury and family, Peter, Greenall, Esq., and family, and an immense number of others, whose names in the hurry of this report I am quite unable to furnish. Suffice it to say that both in the number and character of visiters, the Guild of 1342 will evidently maintain the position of former similar festivals. As the movements of to-day are almost entirely confined to the legal proceedings of the Guild, which I detail below, you will not expect that I can send you any acco un t s o f th e consequent festivities, which, in fact, only commence in re ality to-morrow. I may, however, say, that independently of the arrangement of the Guild Committee, the various aux iliary sports and other amusements have already commenced, in honour of the festival. Thus, this morning a match at cricket was played between the Preston and Blackburn Clubs, and after some splendid playinz on both sides, the Preston came off victorious in one inning. Another match was after wards played between the Preston and Belmont - Clubs, but the contest is not yet over, therefore I cannot give you the return. The town has been amused by the Ribble Yacht Club's annual regatta occurring on this day. Several sailing and rowing matches have taken place, amidst the acclamations of assembled thousands of strangers and inhabitants, who have been present to witness these agreeable and innocent sports. Pursuant to the advertised arrangements, the mayor and corporation assembled at the Town-hall, a little before two o'clock, to open the guild books, and proclaim the guild, after which the guild court was adjourned to the magniffeent great room in the Exchange, intended to be used for the cos tume ball, the mayor, recorder, and town-clerk, being in their full robes of office, and attended, in addition to the corporation, by a numerous assemblage Of the clergy and gentry of the town and distri f t. O n enter i ng t h e E xc h ange, the first and most imposing sight presented to view was the splendid galaxy of fashion and beauty in th e persons o f ma n y hundreds of Lancashire witches, who had already been ad mitted into the rooms, and whose graceful salutition to the Mayor and corporation on their arrival were appropriately acknowledged. The band of the Rifles, a detachment of which is now stationed in the town, arrived from the head quarters at Manchester, about eleven o'clock this morning, and accompanied the mayor and corporation to the Ex change. After being placed in the orchestra, they immedi ately struck up the National Anthem, which they executed in a truly splendid style. The Recorder then rose, and after passing an enlogium on the Mayor of the borough, and ex pressing his conviction that connected as his family had ever been with the growing prosperity of the town, a more ap propriate individual could not on such an occasion have filled the civic chair; explained to some extent the origin and meaning of the Guild ; after which, the Clerk of the Guild, by his deputy, read over the records of the seve ral Guilds which have been held for several successive centuries ; and concluded by declaring that all rights, privileges, and immunities then devolved into the hands of the Mayor and Guild stewards, and must be now renewed, or such privileges would for ever be lost. The roll of the Guild burgesses was then called over by the clerk, who received from the mayor, stewards, and aldermen, their ancient fees of one shilling ; and the same from all burgesses who came to renew their freedom. A scholar of the Gram mar School then addressed the guild in a Latin oration, amidst the enthusiastic admiration of the company assem bled, after which he was presented with a guild medal. The band then again played several airs, after which tha Clerk of the Guild announced that the guild books would remain open all week for receiving the names of guild burgesses. The court then adjourned. The amusements of this evening consist of a display of fireworks, by Mr. By-water, which are, of course. only preliminary to the general festivities of the week, which commence to-morrow. LIVERPOOL INTERMEDIATE SESSIONS. The intermediate sessions of the peace for the borough of Liverpool commenced yesterday, before JAMES CLARKE, Esq., Recorder. The calendar contained the names of 70 prisoners charged with felony, and of 14 misdemeanments ; total, 84. Of these only 6 were able to read and write well; 28 could read and write imperfectly ; 21 could read imper fectly ; and the large proportion of 29 had never been taught either. The following gentlemen were sworn the grand jury : George Beal Brown, Esq., merchant, foreman; Michael Bonsfield, merchant, Rumford-street ; Major Dawson, gentleman, Huskisson-street ; John Grantham, ironfounder, Everton-road; James Nathan Holmes, manufacturing-chemist, Paul street ; Charles Macmurdo, broker, Great George-street; William Maxwell, wine -merchant, Union-street; Daniel Neilson, merchant, Bedford-street; William Nixon, rectifier, Vernon street John Neal, merchant, Dingle-lane ; Thomas Rodick, merchant, Hanover -street ; Thomas Ripley, merchant, Duke-street; John Kevan Sutton, mordant-manufacturer, Great Mersey -street ; Robert Taylor Woodward, merchant, James's-street. The RECORDER, in his charge to the grand jury, said he was very happy to inform them, at the outset, that their la bours at the present sessions would not be very severely felt by them. Indeed, they ought not to be, because the interval of time between the last and the present sessions had been very short ; but, at the same time, he regretted to say that the number of prisoners was Considerable. lie had gone over the depositions in the several 'cases-, they appeared to be of a very easy and simple nature, - therefore, he expected they would arrive at would not tale up much - time. He was happy to communicate to them that the new law was now in operation which compelled public houses to be closed at twelve o'clock on Saturday night ; this part of it commenced yesterday, and he had been told by Mr. Whitty, and by a most respectable in habitant of the town who had watched its operation, that those disgraceful spectacles of drunkenness which had pre sented themselves on Saturday night and an early hour on Sunday morning, had all disappeared. This was very de lightful information, and he trusted that it would contiuue equally satisfactory. The quarters from whence he had re ceived it would be the last to deceive him ; and from their accounts he had no reason to expect but that the operation of the act would prove most useful. If the moral condition of the people could be improved, there would be every chance of the diminution of crime. Liverpool had distinguished itself upon a late occasion; it had not lent itself to those frightful scenes of violence and disaffection which had brought and would bring severe punishment upon many parties who had done their utmost to overthrow the law. Ile trusted that the example which Liverpool had set in this re spect would have its proper influence over all other parts of the kingdom. The learned Recorder then dismissed the grand jury to their labours. The t.ials commenced immediately afterwards, but nothing of interest occurred during the day. The sessions are ex pected to close in the course of to-morrow, (Wednesday.) WIGAN.-MONDAY NIGHT. NIGHT. ----- , STATE OF THE TOWN.. --It. is greatly rumoured about Wigan that a determination has been come to by the opera tives of continuing at work a week or two longer, and at the expiration to give the required notice to their employers, and turn out again in a body. Should this be the arrangement, due caution ought to be observed by the authorities to pre vent the inhabitants being suddenly thrown into consterna tion by the movement. All, however, still remains quiet at present, and the mills continue to work full time. There was a much a better market on Friday and Saturday last than the week preceding, and higher prices were maintained, and great change is observable by the shopkeepers since em ployment was resumed at the mills. GENERAL LICENSING DAY.—A special general meeting of the magistrates was held in the Town-hall this day, for the purpose of renewing the licenses for the public-houses within the borough. Only one application for a new license was made—viz., for a house belonging to Mr. Leighton Baldwin, opposite the railway station. The magistrates, however, seemed to be of an unanimous opinion that, from the number of public-houses and innsslready in close proxi mity with the railway station, none other was required, and the application was consequently refused. GAS INSPECTORS.—A meeting of the Town Council as gas inspectors was held in the Council-chamber this day at noon, but no business of importance was transact ed. A new light has been constructed for the large pillar in the Market place, the reflection of which is a very material improvement upon the old construction. THE REGISTRATION.—As a proof of the depression which has existed in Wigan during t he p ast y ear, a considerable number of municipal voters hav e been excl uded fromtheirprivilege as voters in the prese nt bur v ss lists, in Conse quence of their inability to pay the poor s rates. I n some of the wards the number of persons struck out is important, and it behoves the conservative party to rouse themselves from their supine state ere the day of reckoning shall arrive, and prove to their boasting andpponents that they are eve during which our should-be-liberal local g enough y et to ready to stand a contest, quite strong maintain the ascendant position which they have gain ed in have. one b . y one emerged from the council the few late Yearn' o f their impudent actions, a nd •Sealed their own condemn a ti on having eroxo-gm°,vassrlunnwrs'e by bur d en i ng the town, instead of annihilating all taxes, ,, emphatically declared he won' as one of . their clique d do wheo returned for Queen a..CAPTURE OF A CHARTIST LEADR E.--IDering t s h tre e C s eu i t t a t Wi in ursdCHAßTlST of the borough magistrates, at the town-hall, on Saturday, a man in the crowd witnesses in the c ourse of his examination,calleoutlidnldyueitonognielbnof notthe shouldt o answer b e brought ro Q u u g e l s i t t i°n b - efore them, when, lo I and The magistrates directed that he behold t the fellow proved to be one of the leaders who took part in the l a t e di sturbances, and who was generallY ternot ployed to read t h e correspondence which passed betwee n the general body at M anchester and the Wigan portion. fie was also recognised as having previously behaved in in an imp roper manner. The ch i ef consta bl e , Mr. Latham, infor me d t h e b ench that the name of the man was court . Gerard, and it is quite probable he' will be comnsitted, as there is little doubt of his being identified, from the fact of his having only one arm. His conduct when brought before the magistrates was very indecorous, and his answers to the ques tions put to him were pert and insulting. He was -remanded to Wednesday. _ If you cannot be happy in one way, be happy in another; and this facility of disposition wants but little aid from phi losophy ; for health and good humour are nearly the whol e affair. Many run about after felicity, like an absent man hunting for his hat, while it is on his head orint the lbislan distri bution We find the following in the Univers : ~ A bution of the prizes i n the Seminary of Prades, in the East ernPvrences, and at which M. Arago was present, .he being in leis address l to the at that time in that part of the country, the Abbe Fines, the director of the establishment, having, i s .o e s a e d , s al N i N d le s n aid it , pupils and visitors, observed that science has not revelation for its guide. M —• Arago 4, I am quite of your oprnion, and r equest your permi s si o n t o illustrate it by an example. One secretary of the Academy of Science,of my predecessors as a good deal in society. M. D. Megan. went One day ti a lady of his acquaintance told him that she had been to sini, the professor of le Observatory, and M, Cas hrough his telescope, she astronomy, having invited her to look , _ had \ seen with great distinctnessf Staturn and his ring.ile ‘ 'hat is this ring ?' asked the lady o M. de M6ran. not astronomer replied that he did not know- ' That was All,' continued the lady ; ' afterwards I saw Jupiter with two largo belts or zones, one to the south, the other to the north. What are these belts ?' 'I , do not know ,'egain said Al. de Wrath 'Of what u s e, then!' said the lady, ,to answer what is being an Academician, since you are unable iis this—it Is —it nsk f' ' The use, madame , ' said M. de Merall, , enables me to reply I do not know.' " '-''-