The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-05 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL INTERMEDIATE SESSIONS. The sessions for the borough commenced . on Tuesday, be. fore James Clarke, Esq., recorder. The calendar conttury the names of 90 prisoners for felony, and six for misde meanours. The following are the names of the gentlemen composing the grand jury. • Wellwood Maxwell, Esq., foreman ; Amos Bigland, Gerard Lynch, John Barnes Brancker Charles S. Middleton, ,• Thomas Dodson, John P. Matthew, James Currie Duncan, Daniel Moore, Edward Gibbin, • Thomas C. Molyneux, Joseph Gibbins, Robert Mather, Edward Humble, W. P. McGregor, John Judein, • James Mulleneux, Matthew Lee; William Nichol, Edward Ward Jackson, James Powell, and Harold Littledale, Hugh J. Sanderson, Esqrs. The grand jury having been sworn, and the proclamation against vice and immorality read by the Clerk of the Peace, the recorder addressed the grand jury to the following effect : The grand jury, the learned reco-der said, were no doubt aware, that it was but eight weeks since that court last met to administer the law. A desire had been very generally enter tained, that the sessions should be held more frequently, and certainly the present calendar showed the expediency of compliance with thnt desire. He was glad of the opportu nity of stating, in the presence of the mayor, that, having been requested to exercise the power vested in him by the law, he bad readily acceded, not less from a conviction that it was desirable to hold the sessions more frequently, than from his readiness to comply with a request coming from so influential and respectable a quarter. The calendar, in point of number, was by no means light; but there were many of the offences which were not of the most serious nature as re spected the amount of property stolen: A few of the cases, however, were of a serious nature. There were two of a de scription which required some slight comment. That which stood 59 in the calendar was a very serious case. The charge against the prisoner was not for the embezzlement of, but for stealing, his master's property. The magistrate, in commit ting the prisoner on this charge, and in directing that the indictment should be so framed, had acted quite correctly, for when the money was once deposited in the counting-house it was then to all intents and purposes as much the master's property as any other thing of value that was in his posses sion, as the commodities that were deposited finis warehouse, or any article that was delivered at his office. At the first im pression the offence looked like embezzlement, but it was undoubtedly larceny. The facts in the depositions were exceedingly strong as to the intention. The prisoner, it appeared, was about to proceed to a foreign country with the money, but, after some time had elapsed, he was seized with compunction, and a desire to make reparation, which led to disclosures which would prevent them from having any diffi culty in finding a hill. There was a very serious case, No. 14, of breakin,g into a warehouse in Suffolk-street. The learned recorder discoursed on the chief point:, in the case, and said it was apparent from the procedure of the party, locks having been broken, &c., that it was intended to plun der the warehouse to a great extent. He was sorry to say that only one individual had been taken, though it appeared evident that there had - been a number of persons concerned. No doubt the prisoner was the principal. There was a case against a man named Riding, who had stolen a quantity of cotton, and who, being in a confidential situation, ought to have known better. There were other cases of a description to which they could not allude without great pain; he meant those of stabbing. .This would not exactly be called a new crime, but it certainly had greatly increased of late, and it was necessary to do the utmost to put it down. In one of these cases the offender was quite a lad, only sixteen years of • age. He had received no provocation, but had pulled out a knife, and inflicted a severe wound. The case would be brought forward as one of felonious stabbing, and the law, as it applied to cases of this description, had been well ex pounded in the recent case of Lord Cardigan. After some remarks on the bearing of the statutes in regard to cases of wounding, the learned recorder again recurred to the neces sity of puttir.g a stop to a practice,. which, if not discouraged, would lead ignorant youths - on every real or imagined provo cation to make use of knives and inflict injuries more or less serious. The learned recorder said he was glad to hear, from every quarter, of the great efficiency of the police of this borough, which was organised on the most admirable and correct principles. Those who had the government of it knew the wants and requirements of the town of Liver pool, and the police was regukt3d and adapted to those wants, and it worked admirably. He was sorry to say, that in the rural districts, this was not the case, the operation of the rural police being anything but satisfactory. In South Lansdale, for instance, which consisted of fifty townships, how many men would it be supposed had been raised under the act of parliament' Only eleven men to superintend these fifty townships. If an offence were committed in that district, the police-officer might be twenty miles off. As regarded this measure, he thought the county ought to retrace its steps. There was a bill at present passing through parliament, which was deserving of the attention of agricul tural districts, as it regulated the divisions of the hundreds. Each division knew best its own particular wants, and what force, and what regulating it required. Let each hundred then raise its own force and pay for it. If this plan were adopted, be thought it would be perfectly satisfactory. LARCENY. Gabriel Roberts pleaded guilty to having stolen, on the 28th January last, six pounds weight of lead, the property of Alexander Maskew, his master. As the prisoner bore a good character previously to this offence, he was only sen tenced to one week's imprisonment. THEFT FROM A SHOP DOOR. Robert Cook was indicted for having, on the 16th January last, stolen a cloak from the shop door of Mr. Rogers, a linen draper, in St. James's-place, Toxteth-park. The prisoner was found guilty, but sentence was deferred, in order to inquire further into the character of one of the witnesses. SHOPLIFTING. Margaret Webb was convicted of hawing, on the 25th of January last, stolen five silk handkerchiefs and one scarf, the property of Mr. Denver, a linen-draper, in Byrom-street. The facts of the case were : detailed at the time of their oc currence, and the evidence was but a recapitulation of what was adduced before the magistrate. She was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. She had been previously convicted of a similar offence. A PICKPOCKET. Joseph Wilson was convicted, and sentenced to ten years' transpavtation, for having, on the 25th January last, stolen a pocket handkerchief from the person of John Robinson. The prosecutor was passing along Church-street, when the pricontr put his hand in his pocket, drew forth his handker chief, and conveyed it to another person who was with him, but who escaped. This was observed by a person who was passing, and who informed the prosecutor of what he had seen, when the prisoner was given into custody. ROBBERY FROM A SHOP DOOR. George Howell and John Flood were indicted for having feloniously stolen, on the 19th ultimo, 2 0 yards of m oleskin, the property of r. John Krebs. To this indictment John Flood pleaded guilty ; and Geo. Howell not guilty. It was attempted, on the part of Howell, to prove an alibi, by a person who has cohabited with him for some weeks past, and who swore that he was not out of the house from four in the afternoon till eleven at night, and the robbery was com mitted at five o'clock. This not being believed by the jury, they found the prisoner gui lt y ; and both prisoners were sentenced to seven years' transportation. ROBBERY FROM THE PERRON: BY A BLIND MAN. Peter Callaghan, a blind harper, was indicted for having feloniously stolen a purse containing five sovereigns and seventeen shillings, the property of Bridget Brannan, his daughter-in-law. The jury consulted a short time, and found the prisoner not guilty. The RECORDER ordered the prisoner not to be sent away, as he wished to have som e conversation with him privately. IN QUESTS. Held before P. F. CvauY, Esq. D EATH THROUGH FALLING INTO A DOCK.—On Wednes day an inquisition was held on view of the body o at the de f Thomas Woods, a young man of eighteen . It appeared th ceased, who was a sailor, was, on Sunday afternoon las t , on board the brig Enterprize , which h ad a quay berththe Queen's Dock. He wanted to go on shore, and went to the rigging for the purpose of doing so. After he had skipped off he the rigging and alighted on th e quay, o ft r slipped, and came fell between the vessel and the quay. Several persons to his assistance directly and took him out. He was able to speak, and was taken by two police-officers to his lodgings in Norfolk-street. He had left the house quite sober a short time before. A surgeon was sent for, who found him labour ing under congestion of the lungs, and leeches were conse quently applied. He was attended regularly, and several remedies were resorted to ; but he continued to get worse, and died on Monday afternoon. Mr. ISl`Lellan, surgeon, . who attended him stated, that he had no doubt but that the deceased died from inflammation of the chest, arising from immersion in the water. There were no marks of injury ex ternally. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the surgeon's opinion. A NEW-BORN CHIL D.—Same day, an inquest was held on view of the body of a new-born male infant. Nicholas Tin ning, gardener at St. James's \Valk, stated, that on Tuesday morning as he was going to the• gardens be saw a bun dle tied up in a piece of silk, lying close to the rails of the cemetery. He took it up, and it was opened by another per son, and found to contain the body of a male child quite dead. It was wrapped up in a petticoat, and a piece of silk outside, and pinned. It was taken to the dead-house. Mr. Woods, surgeon, made a post-mortem examination, and from the tests lie applied, and the appearance of the umbilical cord (which was not tied), he had no doubt it had breathed ; and had died from the want of proper assistance after birth. — Verdict accordingly. BURNING.—Same day, on view of the body of Julia Mooney-, a child four years old. Deceased lived with her aunt in Crosshall-street, and was left by herself in a room in which there was a fire.. Jo two or three minutes she was found all in flames. These were extinguished as soon as pos sible, but she was so severely burnt that, though she was ta ken immediately to the Infirmary, where everything was done for her, she died on the same afternoon.—Verdict--died by • burning, but how occasioned there was no evidence. On the same day—on view of the body of Jane Gawne, a girl of nine years of a,le. The deceased lived with her aunt in John's -place, Bolton-street. On Friday morning she got up and went down stairs to make a tire. In a quarter of an hour her aunt heard her screaming. ran down, and found her all in flames in the parlour. She put the hearth rug round her and put out the flames, and called assistance. She was badly burnt over her chest, back, and arms. Two surgeons g ons w ere called, and she was sent to the Infirmary. Everything possible was do ne for her, but she died the following day, in consequen ce of the inju ries she ha d received.—Verdict a as above. DEATH FROM FALLING INTO THE PRINCE'S DOCK. Same day, on view of the body of William Rowland, a sea man aged nineteen y ears. About one o'clock on Tuesday morning, police -officer Manning, who was on. d u ty a t the south wc.st gate of the Prince's Dock, heard a splash like something falling in the dock. He sprang his rattle, and another officer came to him, and they got the grapnel irons, and went to the corner of o thing but a the dock where few bub he bbles ad hea on the rd the noise, but could perceive n lace for about half an hour, and water: They dragged t he p not finding anything, went on board the schooner Lady Er skine, which was lying at the corner. They roused the mate and another man, and on searching, they found ajacket and a p a i r o f trowers, which s atisfied them that there was some one in the dock. They then grappled again, and in about an hour the body of the deceased was brought to was the surface, and by means of a rope, to the shore. He quite dead. He had no jacket and trowsers on, and was re cognised as a seaman belonging to the schooner. The de ceased, it appeared, had gone on hoard so on after midnight, with two other men, to sleep. They all went into the cbin. The deceased was not sober. Shortly after, the other a two melt went to bed, and left the deceased sitting up in the cabin. In about a n hour they were called np by the officers, and missed the deceased, whose body was fsiund in about an hour afterwards.—Verdict—found drowned ; but how he got into the water, there was no evidence to show. DEATH OF LADY SHELBURNE.—We have the painful duty this day to announce the death of the Countess of Shel burne. Her ladyship expired last night, after a most dis tressing illness, at Wilton-house, near Salisbury. Lord Clan williatia, who married a sister of the late countess, arrived at Lansdowne -house this morning, and was the bearer of the melancholy, intelligence, which will throw several nobl e and distinguishid families into mourning. The late countess was in the 24th year of her age, and was married to the Earl of Shelburne in August last, a period of little more than six months.—Standard. LIVERPOOL GRAND STEEPLE.CIIASE. This important event in the annals of sporting came off on Wednesday over Aintree. Although there has not been much speculation going on in Liverpool as to the result of the race, yet, in London, Doncaster, York, and Manchester, .considerable sums have been put on. The "old horse" has been the favourite up to the time of starting, when he re ceded a shade, from the very heavy appearance of the ground, and the fact of his being so much over-weighted. " The wish has, been father to the thought " that he might win. The hopes of the many, however, have been disappointed. To proceed to the events of the day. Leaving Liverpool, we found the stream of population bearing on towards Aintree ; all sorts, sizes, and conditions of men, mingling together and progressing towards the field of action : coaches, cars, omni busses, dog carts, shaudries, et hoc genus omne, were put in motion, heavily laden with the " lieges," all seemingly deter mined to enjoy a day's sport and inhale the fresh breezes of the country. As we approached Aintree the throng increased, and on our arrival on the course we found an immense mul titude congregated. We were glad to see the total absence of all gambling concerns. There was little amusement stir ring, with the exception of some acrobats and mountebanks. The winnipeg-men, of course, were amongst the most noisy. The drinking booths seemed to be well attended, and we have no doubt the " licensed victuallers " reaped a har vest. The landscape presented a most animated appearance from the thousands and thousands congregated ; the sun shining beautifully over the animated scene gave it a pleasant appear ance. The assemblage of ladies was very small, not above half a dozen mustering on the Grand Stand. We anticipated that the beauty of the day would have induced many to come forth. The line of country marked out was very similar to last , year. The ground was tetrible heavy—the only essen tial difference was, that instead.of the wall nearly opposite the Grand Stand, a ditch and fence had been substituted. This was originally intended to have been 15 ft., but in consequence of Lord Sefton's remonstrance it was reduced to 10 ft. 4 in. The start took place in a field next the road, in the course op posite the Grand Stand, from whence the line Tan over a fal• low field. The first leap consisted of a ditch and a bank, of very small pretensions. The course then proceeded over a meadow, to a slight ditch, bank, and fence. a field of wheat next presented itself. The third leap consisted of a ditch and embankment, landing into a ploughed field. The fourth obstacle was another slight ditch and embankment, from which the line ran along a ploughed field of very heavy mate rial. Leap the fifth consisted of a narrow ditch and hedge, landin; into a wheat field. Leap six being similar, into a ploughed field. Leap number seven was a brook and steep bank ; thence the line ran over a wheat field to number eight, another ditch and slight fence. The course then was marked out over a meadow, to leap number nine, which was a ditch and fence, landing into a heavy ploughed field. These two leaps being close to each other, and pretty stiff ones to hoot, it was fully anticipated that some ugly tumbles would ensue. The course then ran to a ditch andlence, then over a ploughed field to leap number eleven, a fence and artificial ditch, which was the heaviest throughout the line. This presented a moot formidable appearance, and it was anticipated that some heavy spills would take place. The leap could not be less than four yards from spring to lauding, the latter being a slush. The field was desperately heavy. A great many per sons congregated in this quarter. Number twelve was a brook and low quickset hedge, into a fallow field. Number • this teen consisted of a bank and ragged hedge and ditch, landing into a meadow. Over the next hedge and ditch came the road ; over the opposite hedge brought the line into the course. At this place in 1839 Pauline made a beautiful leap, clearing a five-barred gate in gallant style. The last leap is on the course as we have previously described. Of all these leaps two only were posers, the others being mere every-day concerns, such as a shetland would shamble over. Number eleven appeared very formidable, and we fully anticipated that there would have been some damage done. With the exception of Oliver Twist all went over cleverly ; he in fact went well over, but Mr. Oliver fell over his head in lighting. Previous to starting the betting was 5 to 2 against Lottery, 7 to 1 against Cigar, 6 to 1 against Peter Simple, 7 to 1 against Seventy-four, 8 to 1 against Oliver Twist, and 12 to 1 against the winner. Eleven started. A SWEEPSTAKES of 20 soya each, 5 ft, with 100 added, for horses of all denominations, carrying 12st. The winner of the Cheltenham Steeple Chase in 1810 to carry 18lb extra. Over a line of country within ten miles of the town of Liverpool. The ground to be chosen by the Um pires, or such persons as they may appoint. The second horse to save his stake. _ _ ... ridden by Powell 1 A. M`Donough 2 ... T. Walker 3 Barker 0 B. Bretherton 0 T. Oliver 0 3 Lord Craven ns Charity . 29 Mr. Anderson's Cigar ... 9 Hon. F. Craven ns Peter Simple 13 Mr. Villebois ns Revealer 18 Lord Villiers ns Goblin 28 .Mr. Smith's Oliver Twist 6 Mr. Elmore's Lottery.. 2 Sir E. Mostyn's b h Seventy-four Whitworth 0 21 Captain Price's ch g Selim Capt. Price 0 31 Captain Nugent ns ch g The Hawk Saunders 0 2-1 Mr. Robertson's b g Legacy W. M`Donough 0 Some of the jockeys having altered their colours, it was difficult to ascertain the precise position of the horses. Selin) led, followed by Cigar, Legacy, Oliver Twist, and the others. Goblin fell in the lane, but was soon up again. On approaching No. 8 leap, &limn still led, the others following, and doing their work beautifully. Oir facing the rasper No. 11, Barker led on Revealer, Cigar clo'sely following; the others went over cleverly, with the exception we have pi evi ously stated of Oliver Twist. On reaching the artificial ditch in the first round, Cigar led, the grey next, Lottery third (Mason pulling hard), and the others coming over in splendid style. Here the horses' mettle began to be shewn, and the race was very interesting. Pretty nearly in the same order, the rest of the course was run with a few changes of place, Charity eventually winning by three lengths. Never was a finer race run, better ridden, or more gallantly con tested ; the pleasure of the sight being enhanced by the knowledge that no accident occurred. Lottery seemed in excellent condition: when he came in he had not turned a hair. The next race, for which eleven also started, was The HURDLE RACE, a distance of two miles, for a sweep of 15 sovs each, 10 forfeit, with 50 added. 14 Mr. Bond's h g Jupiter 7 Mr. Parker's dun m Duenna (h b) aged Frisley 2 5 Mr. Ferguson's Rust, aged Saunderson 3 The betting was nearly as follows :-7 to 4 against Rust; 6 to 1 against Defence • 10 to 1 against Barefoot ; 10 to 1 against Duenna; and 10 to 1 against Jupiter.—The following started, but were not placed : 1 --Tobacconist, True Blue, Em peror, Defence, Jessie, Barefoot, Now or Never, and Prince. —At starting True Blue took the lead, followed by Emperor and Barefoot : the others coming up smartly, some changes of position took place. In coming in a terrific struggle took place between Jupiter and Duenna, when Oliver, by hard work, brought the Thunderer in by half a length. This was extremely interesting, and set the spectators shouting. Ju piter's winning put us in mind of Old Chasse's mode of as tonishing his competitors by giving them the go-by. It was expected that a match would have come off; but it proved " no go." Although the concourse was so immense; no accident took place, and a few " spills " only occurred: a shaft or two broken, and a pannel smashed. Mr. Lynn took care of the creature comforts, and the arrangements were on a good scale. scale. Amongst the nobility and gentry Staying at the various hotels, we give the following:— ADELrni—Lord and Lady Miltown, Captain France, Ma jor Jones, Sir E. Mostyn, Mr. Price Mostyn, Sir W. Gal laway, Capt. Hylam, Mr. E. Peel, Mr. E. Collett, M.I. Pis an i, Mr. Pollard, of Stanway, Captain Wardlaw, Mr. Fitz herbert, Sir Watki. Wynn, Major Hay, Captain Wynne, Captain Willoughby, Sir R. Cunliffe, Hon. W. Cunard, &c. WATERLOO—Messrs. Graham, Garvin, Kershaw, Rawsey, Chapman, Goodlake, Peel, Green, Richardson, Oldforth, Anderson, Brookes, Bowles, &c. ROYAL—The Earl of Eglinton's family ; Messrs. Fox, Labertouch, Bailey, Segreave, Johnson, Harrison, Clarke, Allbutt, Plunkett, Horne, &c. QUEEN'S ARMS—Sir R. Puleston, Major Hill, Messrs. Kenderley, Walker, Whitwall, Ward, natty, Prince, Wil liams, &C. GEORGE INN, (SIRDEFIELD ' S) — Messrs. Vever, Knox, Moss, Woodehouse, Herbert, Day, Wood. Holland, Smiths, Thacker, Peel, &c. &c.—ln fact, the hotels throughout the town were all very full of company. THE WATERLOO COURSING MEETING. This great coursing meeting commenced on Tuesday, at Altcar. Notwithstanding the very unfavourable state of the day, a goodly number of keen sportsmen, whom no weather could daunt, hurried early to the ground. Like the redoubt able Tam o' Shanter, they Skelpit on through dub and mire, Despising wind and rain. Though the moisture, which descended ceaselessly, wetted their jackets, it could not damp their ai dour. Of course, a finer day would have insured a better muster, but under the circumstances the attendance may be considered excellent. The dogs generally showed themselves in good condition, and the hares ran in first-rate style. The following is the result of the first day's sport : WATERLOO CUP• Mr. J. Bakes's b d Lottery beat Mr. W. Wood's y and w d Will-o'-th'-Wisp. Earl of Eglinton's by d Fingal, beat Mr. Goodlake's y b My Granny. _ _ Mr. E. .N. Kershaw ns b And w d Saddler, beat Mr. W. Ramsay's r d Raleigh. Mr. Garven's r and w b Gammon, beat Earl of Eglinton's d and w d Waterloo. Mr. W. Mather's b b Maiden Queen, beat Mr. Craven's f b Carmelite. Mr. Slater's w and b b Sly, beat Mr. Reade's f d Traveller. Mr. Heyes r and w b Princess Royal, beat Mr. R. Gale's f and w d Grasper. Mr. J. Robinson's f b Bewcastle Bet, beat Mr. Swan's w and y d Sandy. Marquis of Douglas's r d Critic, beat Earl Talbot's r b Testa. Mr. Perkin's r d Bustard, beat Earl of Stradbroke's us b b Whirlpool. Mr. King's r d Bloomsbury, beat Mr. Williamson's ns b d Halkin. Mr. Jebb's r b Lady, beot Mr. Eden's bd b Gipsey. Mr. A. Graham's w and bd Cacciatore, beat Mr. Blundell's r d Busy. Mr. Birch's r b Britannia, beat Mr. Bold Robinson's r d Cob Coal. Mr. E. G. Hornby's b and w d Helter-Skeltcr, beat Mr. P. Houghton's r d Tyrant. Mr. Easterby's ns bd b Castleacre, beat Dr. Brown's bd d Whistler. TIES FOR THE CUP. Fingal beat Lottery, Sadler beat Gammon, Maiden Queen beat Sly, Princess Royal beat Bewcastle Bet, .Bustard beat Critic, Bloomsbury beat Lady, Cacciatore beat Britannia, Helier-Skelter beat Castleacre. WATERLOO PURSE. Mr. Unsworth's b and w d Unknown beat Earl Talbot's g d Tartarus. Mr. Kearsley's w and r b Fly beat Marquis of Douglas's f and w b Coquette. 'Mr. Reade's r b Ruby beat Mr. A. Graham's b d 0 Yes ! 0 Yes! 0 Yes! Mr. E. G. Hornby's bd b Harem beat Mr. James Bake's f and w d Colonel. Mr. W. Swan's w and b d Sirius beat Dr. Brown's bd d Sweeper. Mr. Eden's f d Echo beat Mr. Wardlow Ramsay's fd Racer. Mr. Craven names b d Erico beat Mr. King's b d Mat. Earl of Stadbroke's b b Minerva beat Mr. Perkin's r d Bur ford. SECOND DAY,—THURSDAY. TIES FOR THE CUP. Sadler beat Maiden Queen, Bloomsbury }Tat Helter-skel ter, Bloomsbury beat Sadler, and won the Cup. TIES FOIL THE PURSE. Unknown beat Ruby, Minerva beat Sirius, Unknown beat Minerva, and won the Purse. THE ALTCAR STAKES. FIRST TrEs.—Mr. William Wood's 'Will-o'tb'-Wisp beat Mr. Goodlalce's My Granny ; Earl of Eglinton's Water loo beat Mr. Wardlaw Ramsay's Raleigh ; Mr. Reade's Tra veller beat Mr. Craven's Camelite ; Mr. Swan's Sandy beat Mr. Robert; Gale's Grasper ; Earl of St r adbroke's Whi rl pool beat Earl Talbot's Testa ; Mr. Eden's Gipsey beat Mr. Williamson's Halkin ; Mr. Blundell's Busy beat Mr. Bold Robinson's Cob Coal ; Mr. P. Houghton's Tyrant beat Dr. Brown's Whistler. SECOND TIES.—Earl of Eglinton's Waterloo beat Will o'th'-Wish ; Mr. Swan's Sandy beat Mr. Reade's Traveller ; Mr. Eden' s Gi p se y b eat Whirlpool; Mr. P. Houghton's Tyrant beat Mr. Blundell's Busy. DECIDING COURSE.—EarI of Eglinton's Waterloo beat Mr. P. Houghton's Tyrant and won the stakes. ABSTRACTION OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL RE , VENUES OF NORTH WALES. A public meeting was held on Tuesday evening in the Welsh Charity School, Russellpstrect, for the purpose of I taking into consideration the propriety of petitioning the Queen, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the two houses of Parliament. against the intended union of the dioheses of St. Asaph and Bangor, and the abstraction of the ecclesiastical revenues of North Wales. The meeting was nuMerously attended. There were present the Rev. Robert Da'vies, incumbent of St. David's Church;the Rev. Henry Jones, vicar of Northop, the Rev. Hugh Jones, incumbent of Bagilit, the Rev. David James, incumbent of St. Mary's. Kirkdale, the Rev. Thomas Pughe, curate of Tremerchion, an the Rev. Thomas S. Bowstead ; also, Messrs. J. B. Cibugh, Thomas Barber, Richard Griffith, Ellis Jones, Robert Bevan, Thomas Roberts, Dr. Hughes, Owen Wil liams, David Evans, Robert Wynne, John Price. John Richards, John Jones, W. C. Davies, Edward Roberts, S. . Moss. &c. &c. On the motion of Mr. THOS. ROBERTS, seconded by Mr. ROBERT BEVAN, JAMES BUTLER CLOU GII, Esq. was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN rose and said—However flattering it must be to my feelings, and I confess it is not a little so, to have been called upon to take the chair on this very important oc c*.ion, I assure you I comply with the call under great re lutance, and only in respectful obedience to your wishes, for I fear "you have sadly over estimated my ability to do justice • to your choice, as I am but too conscious of being deficient in tact, talent, and experience for a proper discharge of the ' duties lam undertaking. Nevertheless, as it has been your good pleasure to place me in this position, I will not shrink from the duties it involves, though I shall have to draw largely on your indplgence and support in nay endeavours to perform them. It now becomes part of my duty to lay be fore you as briefly as possible . the business of the evening. The public announcements under which we are assembled will have informed you generally of the objects we have in view ; which are, I may be allowed to say, of vital import ance to the religious and moral welfare of our fellow-coun trymen in North Wales. They are in some degree of a two fold character, involving t:ie question of a petition to the Queen, to her Majesty's Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and to both houses of Parliament—first, for the repeal of an act already passed, and secondly, for the prevention of one about to be brought forward shortly. The act already passed has decreed, as you are probably aware, the union of the two di oceses of St. Asaph and Bangor at no distant period, depen dent on the lives of the two venerable prelates who now adorn those sees ; so that on their demise, there shall be one bishop only for North Wales, thereby abolishing one of the most sacred, ancient, and venerated institutions in the princi pality ; while the act about to be passed contemplates the abstraction of all the surplus revenues of the church in those dioceses, arising from the effects of the previous act and other sources in Wales, for the endowment of some English bishopric, and for other purposes under the controul of the ecclesiastical commissioners, without any regard to the ex igencies of the church itself throughout Wales, which have so long been matter of such notoriety. These, gentlemen, will form the subjects for your discussion this evening. They are fraught with considerations of the highest interest to our country and our clergymen ; but as it is not within my pro vince, occupying the chair, to expatiate on their merits, I must leave that to other and abler hands, and have only to express a hope that those gentlemen who intend to address the meeting will be good enough to confine their observations as closely as possible to the two points I have alluded to, as being those only we are called upon to discuss this evening. Mr. RICHARD GRIFFITH, after expressing his hearty con currence in the objects of the meeting, moved the following resolution :—" That this meeting, holding it to be the great and fundamental principle of a Christian legislature to in crease and not diminish the advantages of spiritual instruc tion, respectfully remonstrate against the union of the bishop rics of St. Asaph and Bangor, which, by placing the whole district of North Wales under the superintendence of one prelate, would have the effect of removing the clergy gene rally to a greater distance from their diocesan, thereby ob structing that personal intercourse so desirable between the bishop and his clergy, and depriving many local charities of that support which is at present afforded them." (Applause.) The Rev. ROBERT DAVIES rose with great pleasure to second the resolution. It was one, he said, of immense im portance, and one also to which he could not by any possibi lity conceive that any one really anxious for the advancement of Christianity could possibly find an objection. The reso lution seemed to divide itself into three particular portions. The first was, " That this meeting holds it to be the great and fundamental principle of a Christian legislature to in crease and not diminish the advantages of spiritual instruc tion." Could there be a doubt as to the correctness of this position ? , Could it be for a moment questioned ? Why, then, was the thing ever mooted to unite the dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph? What was the necessity for it? That appeared to be .the first question. The diocese of Chester had been divided : a portion of that immense dis trict had been, or was about to be, given to Ripon ; another portion was to be erected into a separate see at Manchester, while the dioceses of St. Asaph and Bangor were to be united. Why had this taken place? In consequence of the increase of population.' The manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire had so amazingly increased in population as to require additional churches, and consequently additional pastors, and also increased the labours of the diocesan who had to preside over those various. churches. He approved, and had no doubt that all there present would readily ac knowledge their obligations to the legislature for what they had done in this instance : it had ben indeed consistent with the principle laid down in the resolution, inasmuch as they had, in the diocese of Chester, increased and not dimi nished the advantages of spiritual instruction. (Hear.) He hoped the meeting would bear this in mind with respect to the case in Wales. Why had the legislature divided tha diocese of Chester ? Because the increase of population and the increase in the number of churches called for it. On the other hand, why had they united the dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph ? Had the population of Wales decreased ? Had the number of churches in Wales decreased ? Was it not rather notorious that year after year the bishops of both those dioceses were called upon to consecrate new churches ? and was there not at this very moment a very great increase of spiritual pastors, and of established churches, within the principality ? (Applause.) That being the case, how could it be made out that it was essential to increase the labours of the presiding bishop by uniting the two dioceses, both in creasing as they were in population, and in the number of the clergy ? (Hear, hear.) The thing was preposterous : it shewed the fallacy upon which the legislature had proceeded. If the principle he had pointed out as a portion of the reso lution was the true principle, the government, in passing that law whereby the two dioceses were to be united in one when ever a vacancy took place, had, he plainly asserted, departed from it. It was a principle that might be maintained in the face of the whole world. (Applause.) This was matter deserving of serious consideration. They had met to peti! tion the legislature to repeal that act. Could it be supposed that a legislature composed and elected of all the communi ties in the land, where we expected to see a generality of principle, of talent, and of everything that could really con duce to the advantage and benefit of the country, would re fuse to consider a petition emanating from persons really anxious for the spiritual and eternal welfare of the commu nity ? Could they look on with unconcern to the represent ations that meeting would make upon the necessity of repeal ing that act ? (Hear, hear, and cries -of " No.") It was that, then, they petitioned Or : they were petitioning for the repeal of an act already law.. And what were their hopes of success? Their hopes rested upon the justice of their cause. (Hear, and applause.) It might be desirable, perhaps, to mention a circumstance which shewed the force of justice. It was at one time intended to unite the diocese of Sodor and Man with the diocese of Carlisle. The Bishop of Sodor and Man, however, saw the wrong that would be done, though not intended, to the diocese of Sodor and Man, by coupling it with a diocese divided from it by so many waters. He therefore left no stone unturned to prevent the union ; he got up petition after petition, to the throne and the parliament, against it, and he succeeded. (Hear, hear.) He proved the necessity of maintaining the integrity of both, and particularly of that sweet island being kept under the superintendance of one spiritual pastor. (Cheers.) The principle, then, which that meeting should advocate, should be not the diminution of bishops but the increase of them. (Hear.) Look at the example of other religious communi ties. They increased their superintendence as their congre gations increased. The Wesleyan body increased the num ber of their circuits if the congregations became greater than the president of the district could superintend, and another president was appointed. Why then should one of the Church of England be shut out from the same advantage? If our churches increased, and the labours of our bishops in creased, in consequence why not separate their dioceses ra ther than unite thmn ? (Hear, hear.) This principle was in operation every where : he could prove that it was in opera tion in every religious community, and indeed in every com munity in the land. (Hear.) Every man,- whatever was his position in society, as his labour increased required in creased help; and therefore, if the church was to go on with out more " heavy blows and great discouragements," her members must contend for the number of her bishops to be increased rather than diminished. (Cheers.) Here, then, was the question—why was there a solicitude to diminish rather than incresse the number of bishops? The only reply he had heard to this question was a jealousy of increasing the number of spiritual peers. But that effect was no: wanted : there was no necessity for that jealousy. Afieady ten bishoprics had been blotted out in Ireland, and there had been no decrease in the number of spiritual peers; and if they were re-elected to-morrow there would be no more spi ritual peers than there were at present. Let coadjutor or sub-bishops be appointed if necessary, if there was no alter native but to increase their number; but do not throw addi tional responsibility upon hands which could not by any means superintend it. The next point in the resolution was, that the meeting respectfully remonstrated against the union of the bishoprics of St. Asaph and Bangor, because it placed the whole district of North Wales under the superintendence of one prelate. (Hear.) Look at the importance of North Wales; look at the position of the dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph; look at the mountainous nature of the country, and the difficulty of access from one place to another, and then say whether North Wales did not present a strong case for an increase rather than a diminution in the number of bishops. (Hear, hear.) Besides the clergy would be placed, as• the resolution expressed, generally at a greater distance from their diocesan, and thus the intended union would ob struct that pastoral intercourse which ought always to sub sist between a bishop and his clergy. He knew well, too, that those individuals who lived in the vicinity of Bangor were not now alive to the permanent injury that would be done to them when the contemplated union took place ; and that if the diocese of St. Asaph were subverted, the same would be felt all through the whole vale of Clwyd. The only, other subject connected with the resolution was the tendency which the intended union would have to deprive the local charities of a considerable portion of their funds. A bishop, wherever he resided, had an income to expend, and it Nast be spent in the neighbourhood of his residence. The schools and hospitals in the vicinity must be supported, and fre quently they derived much of that support from the bishop. Only imagine, then, the loss to public charities which must arise from such a person, with an income of £4,500 per an num, being completely carried away. At present the bishop must necessarily spend some part of his income in Wales, and the meeting would be led from that circumstance to feel the injury done to the principality by the abstraction of the revenues of one bishopric. (Hear, hear.) In conclusion, he hoped that such an united feeling, and such an united ex pression of that feeling, would be sent from Liverpool to Par liament, as would satisfy them that it was their duty, as the representatives of the land, to repeal the law uniting the two dioceses which they had inadvertently passed. (Hear, hear.) The reverend gentleman then repeated the substance of his speech in` the Welsh language, for the benefit of those who could not understand him in English. The Rev. T. S. BOWSTEAD rose to second the resolution. Although he had no connection with the principality, he had carefully studied its history ; be had also travelled on foot from one end of it to the other, and was, therefore, perfectly acquainted with its localities. On these accounts he felt a deep interest in its welfare and prosperity. (Cheers.) He also felt a deep interest in it upon the general principle on which our own church was founded—namely, that its doc trines should be preached in the language which the people understood. (Hear.) So long as the Welsh language was a vernacular language, that language ought to be understood both by bishops and clergy. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) If they had not already been instructed in it, they ought to learn the language ; and 'the clergy ought to preach in it from house to house. (Loud cheers.) If the population of the country had increased, were we, therefore, to diminish the number of bishops? (Hear, hear, and cries of "no, no.") The physical boundaries of the country were the same as they had ever been ; nothing but an inundation could diminish those limits—but even to the sea it had been said, "Thus far thou shalt go, and no further." If the population of Wales had absolutely increased, instead of diminished, where was the reason for reducing the number of bishops ? (Cheers) The division of labour was one of the best of principles the ' more we divided the pastoral superintendence into smaller aisles, the more effectually did we promote its efficiency. For a proof of the excellence of this principle, he would refer to the District Provithint Society, in which it was invariably found that the smallest districts were the best visited. How could it be expected, for instance, that the Bishop of Bangor could be perfectly acquainted with what was going on in Flint? But if the ancient bishopric of St. Asaph, as well as that of Bangor, were pr eserve d, super i n tendence would be sufficient. 'When he called to mind such men as Horsley and Burgess, whose talents and piety were of the highest order, and combined with the most profound learning, he must con fess that he saw with regret the intention of depriving Wales of one of her ancient dioceses. Then, the taking away of ecclesiastical funds from the princihality, to be given to a place already rich, he considered not only impolitic but un just. (Hear, hear.) He had, as he had said before, no con nection with the principality, or any party in it; but, as the only English clergyman present, he felt it his duty to testify to the evils which would arise from the intended changes.— The rev. gentleman then seconded the resolution, and re sumed his seat amidst great applause. On the resolution being put it was carried unanimously. Mr. BARBER moved the next resolution, which was as follows :—" That this meeting considers the proposed ab straction of a portion of the ecclesiastical revenues from North Wales as inexpedient and unjust, and strongly depre cates such a course, so long as many livings in the dioceses of St. Asaph and Bangor remains inadequately endowed." This appeared to him to be an exceedingly reasonable resolu tion, and he thought that it would so appear also to the meet ing. (Hear, hear.) It was but fair that the meeting should ask who had come among them with his Saxon tastes and Saxon tongue to propose this resolution? He would tell them. So far as Liverpool was concerned, he belonged to the work ing classes. He had worked very hard—he did not know to what purpose exactly—and was grateful to the town which had sheltered him—and at all times be considered himself bound to acknowledge it. So far as regarded the principality, he was proud to say that he had some Welsh blood in his veins, and that he was connected by birth and marriage with one of its first families. These circumstances, he trusted, would be accepted as his apology for his intrusion upon the meeting that evening. Had the ecclesiastical commissioners been empowered to re-distribute the funds of the church in North Wales, he, for one, should not have been in that ineeting—but, as they had authorised the abstraction of eccle siastical funds from the principality, he was there to exercise his privilege of petitioning against it. (Hear.) Had it been pro posed to alter the sinecure livings, and give a portton of their revenues to increase the Income of the poor ones, he should not have been present. But as the legislature had autho rized the abstraction of funds from a comparatively poor country like Wales, and the bringing of them into a rich country like England, he chose to exercise his privilege of petitioning against it. He had in his hand a table of the average income of the livings in North Wales, which it was but fair to read, to show the meeting how unjust was the proposed abstraction from her ecclesiastical revenues. There were only 18 with above £250. per annum ; 17 above £l5O. and under £2OO. • 29 under £lOO. Land between 30 and 40 under the value of £5O. a-year. (Hear. hear.) With these facts before them, under what plea or excuse could the funds of the established church in North Wales, or the funds of one of its bishoprics be brought into a rich country like Eng land? (Hear. hear.) Again, he asked, under what plea could these revenues be brought into a rich country like this, and most of all to Manchester ? He confessed he thought it ex ceedingly unjust, and on this account lie had volunteered to be one of those who were willing to petition against it. Upon the subject of the united bishoprics he was perhaps less com petent to speak than those who were better acquainted with the localities of the country ; but it did nevertheless appear to him that if there was to be only one bishop over North Wales, the whole of the seven counties in it might as well be put at once under the episcopal superintendence of the Bishop of London, for any advantage they would derive from the change. He knew that intercourse between many parts of North Wales was exceedingly difficult. It was a religious country : the Welsh were generally a pious people, and con templated this alteration with great alarm. It might be said that the number of persons present at that meeting was small ; but it must be recollected that there were thirty thousand Welsh in Liverpool, an immense proportion of whom would sign this petition. In fact it was the duty of those in Liver pool to re-echo the cry of their countrymen in North Wales on this subject. If they did not ask they could not expect to receive. (Hear, hear.) They were merely exercising their constitutional privilege in petitioning, and if they gained nothing by it, they would have at least the consolation of knowing they had done their best, and that their friends in Wales could not accuse them of lukewarrnness. (Cheers.) The Rev. THOMAS POORE seconded the resolution in an eloquent address in the Welsh language, in the course of which he introduced a variety of statistical details, showing the injustice and the inexpediency of abstracting the revenues of the church in North Wales. The Rev. DAVID JAMES next addressed the meeting. He commenced by saying that he cordially united in the effort to secure to their countrymen in Wales the privileges which had been so largely described by the speakers who had preceded him. He fully concurred, too, with the sentiments of the first resolution which had been moved, seconded, and carried unanimously. He also concurred in the resolution now be fore the meeting, for the reasons which had been already as signed, but more especially for another reason which would constitute a subject for discussion at another time, and which, if not carried, he could not conceive how the advantages which had been described would be really and fully obtained. He was relieved from a painful position himself, by an assurance given to him by the chairman and other gentlemen upon the platform, that they, one and all, concurred in the desire which was manifested by their countrymen here and in the Principality, that the Bishops of Wales should, in future, be such as could speak the language of the country. (Cheers.) It was clear from that demonstration of feeling that such was, and that such would be, the hearty wish and the ardent prayer of every one who was true to his native country. (Renewed cheers.) With reference to the small livings of which they had heard some little from the former speakers, and more especially from his friend who had just preceded him and addressed them in Welsh, he might be per mitted, now that he was addressing the meeting in English, to go into the subject somewhat more at length, because he considered there was in that one reason, without the addition of auy other, sufficient force and power to draw, or rather to extort from the ministry, and from the ecclesiastical com missioners, the concession which that meeting wanted , namely , , that there be no abstraction from the ecclesia,(:cal revenues of the Principality. (Loud cheers.) He had taken some pains in investigating the actual state of the Welsh church, for the purpose of ascertaining the grounds upon which he could at any time come forward and support a measure such as was now before the meeting. He found that, in addition to the livings which had been mentioned, he meant bene fices in the dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph—there were double if not treble the number in South Wales—so poor as not to be sufficient to support their clergy, who were pre vented by their calling from engaging in any other occupa tion, in order to find the means of a livelihood. (Hear.) The Bishopric of St. Asaph. it seemed, contained about 21 livings, each under £lOO a-year—that is, ranging from £49 up to £lOO. The Bishopric of Bangor contained 30 livings, each under the value of £lOO a_year—that is, ranging from £5O to £99. The Bishopric of St. David's contained 165 livings, each under £lOO a-year ; and, although the diocese contained about 408 or 410 livings, returned to the ecclesiastical com missioners, the average income of the whole of them, rich and poor, was only £l4B a-year. (Hear.) There was only one living in the diocese of St. David's, out of the 410, that was worth above £6OO a-year ; there was not one be tween £5OO and £6OO ; there werejust ten above £4OO, whilst all the rest came under £3OO a-year, and, as he had said before about 165, ranging from £49 to £99 a-year. (Hear, hear.) The consequence of this state of things must be contemplated and fairly met, in order to shew that the Principality had no revenues to spare for England. (Hear.) He entreated those who were present, many of whom were engaged in a small way of business in Liverpool which perhaps realized £5O, £6O, £7O, or £BO a-year,' to consider whether it was expected that clergymen, who were prevented from en gaging in any occupation except the ministerial office, and in a school occasionally, could bring up children from one to ten—for clergymen in the Principality had frequently that number—upon only £4O, £60,£80, or £99 a-year ? If these clergymen were to be confined to their own parishes, doing the spiritual work in which they were engaged with faithful ness to their heavenly master, and with love for the souls of those committed to their charge, was it likely they could keep their children from poverty, or from cold, or from na nakedness, or shelter them from the weather with no more than £99 a-year ? (Hear, hear.) In travelling from St. David's to the diocese of Llandaff, we found there were 61 benefices not amounting to £lOO a-year each ; and that the average of all the living s put together, rich and poor, would give to each minister only about £lBO a-year. Now this was a state of things which ought to call forth the sympathy of Englishmen, :and make them willing to leave to the poor Principality its own revenues to support its own ministers, to keep them from poverty, and their children from starvation, and to enable those parents who felt for their children to give an education to their little ones, which would help them to obtain situations, so as to be of some use to society, and to pass through the world with that respectability which suited a clergyman's family, (Hear, hear.) The sun rose in the east and travelled towards the west; the tide of nations had come from the east and pursued its course west ward ; but with regard to the church revenues of Wales, we found that the tide run in a contrary direction—namely, from the west towards the east. (Hear.) England threw nothing into the principality, but the principality was made to throw those revenues into England. He held in his hand a return of some of the institutions of England which were supported by revenues drawn from Wales—the craggy, the barren, the mountainous principality, whose fastnesses had protected alike their forefathers, their princes, and their valiant kings and generals, when they were hunted like partridges upon the mountains. Had not that poor unproductive province a ppealed year after year against the abstraction of liar reve nues, to support institutions in England ? Jesus' College, Oxford, the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, St. John's Hospital, Chester, the Grocers' Company, London, and Lichfield Cathedral, all in England, had each a part of the re venues of Wales, yet England must have more to support a bishop in Manchester, of all places in the world—whose great merchants—nay, any two of them, conjointly, could pur chase the whole principality ! Yet they could not support a bishop for the benefit of their own population, for the benefit of thousands who were workin g fo r them, and whose indus try was daily increasing their profits ! Oh, it was a shame— it was a reflection upon the nation to consent to such a mea sure as this, to make the poor inhabitants of his native land to toil, and sweat. and lose their sleep, to support a bishop in the midst of merchants who were princes of the e a r th! (Cheers.) Now, h e proposed, if the re was no w i sdom , i n high quarters, to make an arrangement upon this subject, and by a very eas y plan to establi s h a new bi shopric in Manchester. There was a collegiate church there. The principal of that establishment was formerly called the warden, and he received twice as much as the fellows. (Hear.) Already the principal h a d b een made a d e an, and the fellows canons, preparatory, he supposed, to the appointment of a bishop, to be supported—h e h o p e d no t from the revenues of the principality, for that' should not be. (Applause.) He (Mr. James) would make the Dean of Manchester, as he . Was now called, the Bishop of Man. chester, and give him the £2OOO a yea r w hi c h was a l rea d y annexed to that office. He had examined into the actual character of the property belonging to it, and he had been told by an attorney of Manchester that they did not want the revenues of Wales, for if the property of the Collegiate Insti managed, it w ou ld produce £ 30,0 0 0 tution was properly a year. Let the dean then be made the bishop, and 16t the revenues now belonging to the offi ce b e annexed to the bi shopric ; let one of the canons be made the dean ; let them so keep to themselves ; and if they wanted assistance, let them make an appeal to their merchants, and he had no doubt that emolum en ts would flow in sufficient to make the Bishop of Manchester rival any bishop in England in point of dignity as well as in point of usefulness. (Loud cheers.) It was necessary, in st atin g their views upon the subject, that they should bring for ward the strongest at guments in support of their own claims, because those arguments would b e read and considered by E n glishmen. H e h ad always found that not buty carried away as Irishmen by Englishmen were that they required appeals to facts. a burst of eloquence, f or ward plausible arguments, but except you You might bring supplied them with facts, you would noto convince them. He the weavers Yorkshire—men who had found it so among could not read, but who could speak excellent English. He had found, he repeated, .even those poor people require and, Indeed, it was the characteristic you stated facts, to carry conviction facts to convince them ; of Englishmen that, if to their minds, You might get them to support anything. (Cheers.) He had taken some pains to explain in,private the actual position of th e Established Ch urc h i n the principality ; and he had always f o und, that the gent l emen to who those facts had been stated so as to afford them a succinct t clear, and correct view of the subject, had enlisted thecnselvel heart and soul upon his side ; they were prepared to suppott sue), a claim as this, and as another which would be brought for ward by and by, because they said—if the Welsh Church was to he preserved atall, it must be made more useful to the coun try, and to toe people who paid for the support of the bishops and ministers, the people must receive something in return, in the way of instruction, of visiting from house to house, of spiritual consolation; and of encouragement, in the face of many trials. (Cheers.) He was bound to confess, and it was with pain that he did so, that the state of the church in the principality was deplorable—such as was calculated to call forth the sympathy and the commiseration of every true patriot, and of every one who felt interested in the success of true religion, in any part of the world. We had seen the churches deserted ; we had seen the people leave the church in disgust and turn away dissatisfied with the state of things which it presented, because the church had not been worked as a system for their benefit, in the way she should have been made to work, and in the way he trusted she would be made to work by and by, in order to produce spiritual prospects of the vast mass of the population. (Ch eers .) Th e ti m e w a s coming, therefore, when every one must put his shoulder to the wheel, in order, if possible, to drive forward this great machinery into a proper position, that it might work its way to the hearts and affections of the people, and that there might be but one voice, one sentiment, and one declaration of attachment and love to it, proceeding from rich and poor, from learned and unlearned, throughout the land. (Loud cheers.) lie hoped and trusted, therefore, that, in advocat ing this subject, they would concur, and also get others to concur, in the duty of supporting the petitions about to be sent from hence against the abstraction of ecclesiastical reve nues from the principality to any object in England. In order to secure that object, the sees of Bangor and St. Asaph must be kept separate. They could not carry the second unless they carried the first. They must carry the first or lose the second; and therefore they declared their unwilling ness to see any more of the wealth, and, he would add too, the patronage of the principality, transferred to rich England, —to England, wallowing in wealth and revelling in luxury. It was to her disgrace and reproach that any commissioners should have attempted to abstract its ecclesiastical revenues from pour Wales. (Hear.) The Welsh could not do their work effectually, he was convinced, until their friends in the principality attempted some better measures than they had of late mooted. They had hitherto set about the work ex actly like children. Lord Dungannon had certainly made a very plausible speech at the meetings recently held ; but his lordship had given no facts. He ought to have drawn the attention of the public to the state of the church ; to have shewn its poverty ; the abstraction of its revenues already to England; and have taken that in his hand. (Cheers.) Un less they brought facts before the public, unless they shewed the commissioners the facts upon paper, and left them to calculate for themselvas, they would never carry the point with Englishmen. (Hear, hear.) It was incumbent then that they should do so. He did not know what might be done in Liverpool, or what might be the character of the petitions to be sent up ; but if he was spared, he would lay before the Archbishop of Canterbury a table, which he would call " A Chapter of Grievances with regard to the Poverty and Misgovernment of the Welsh Church." (Cheers.) We owed the Archbishop of Canterbury a grudge for telling us that bishops had nothing to do with the people, but with the clergy. So far from that, we must have bishops who would attend, and speak, and preach to the people as well as to the clergy. (Hear, hear, heats) He dread ed no man when he had justice upon his side. (Cheers.) He dreaded not the frown of archbishop or bishop when he had justice upon his side ; but he would _shew the grievances of his country and of his church in the light of the world • and when he had laid them before the ;rchbishop, they should go forth before the people. (Hear.) The time was coming when every bishop in Wales must do his duty, and all the clergy, whether vicars, rectors, perpetual curates, or stipen diary curates, in Wales, must do their duty to the Welsh auras, or not expect to be paid. (Hear.) They must be qualified, too, to do that duty in a language that thrilled to the heart. (Cheers.) To accomplish that, it would be ne cessary that all the rectors and vicars should know the lan guage of the people. (Cheers.) What had been the causes of abuse in the Welsh church? Why, the bishops and the clergy themselves. (Hear, hear.) He ventured to say that one-half of the clergy in Wales could not write the Welsh language correctly. (Hear, hear.) That system had been too much encouraged. The clergy had been discouraged from cultivating the language by the bishops, who did not know it themselves, and cared nothing about it. The rev. gentleman, after a few further observations commenting upon the excellent results which would arise to the Welsh church from the appointment of "Welsh bishops, concluded by supporting the resolution.—lt was then carried. Mr. W. C. DAVIES then read the petitions to the Queen, the Ecclesiastical Comthissioners, and to the Houses of Lords and Commons ; and the following resolution relating to them was carried on the motion of Mr. DAVID EVAN s, seconded by Mr. OWEN WILLIAMS :—" That the petition to her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen be entrusted to the Earl of Powys, that to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the Lords Bishop of St. Asaph and Bangor, the petition to House of Lords to Lord Kenyon, and that to the Commons to Viscount Sandon, for presentation, when they severally may deem fit." The Rev. 11. JONES, vicar of Northop, moved the next re solution, which requested the committee to continue their services during the parliamentary session, or until the ques tion was finally disposed of, in order to promote such mea sures as might be desirable to carry the object into effect. The rev. gentleman maintained that if one bishop only was placed over the whole of North Wales, he would have more patronage at his disposal than any one man ought to have. It was, indeed, impossible to view the measure in any other light. On the question of the abstraction of revenues he could speak feelingly. He had the cure of a very large parish, in which he had, through the gener sity of friends, been.ena bled to erect a new church at a distance of about three miles from the parish church. Great was the difficulty he found in raising money to complete the building, but he experienced much greater in endeavouring to obtain funds for its endow ment. It was, indeed, so inadequately endowed, that he was positively ashamed to ask any clergyman to officiate in it, for he had not £5O a-year to offer him. On the other hand, what was the state of his parish with regard to ecclesiastical revenues ? The rectorial tithes which were added 150 years ago to the diocese of St. Asaph amounted to £6OO or £7OO a-year ; and could anything be more hurtful than to see that income transferred from Wales to that rich place called Man chester ? He wanted two—nay, three—churches more in his parish to enable him to do his duty officially. Now he could get money to build these additional churches, but he had not a shilling wherewith to endow them. If the legislature would allow him to have what really belonged to his parish, he should be in possession of ample resources for the endow ments. Under these circumstances he most heartily ap , proved of the objects of the meeting,' and trusted they would be attained. _ _ The Rev H JONES, incumbent of Bagillt, seconded the resolution in a long and able address. Something had been said about , he qualifications of bishops in Wales, and he begged to express his concurrence in the sentiment which had been often expressed, that there ought to be Welsh bishops in Wales. He did not say this in defiance of any feeling upon the part of his most respected diocesan, or of his lordship's colleagues, but because he was sure they were as much alive to the demands of justice and reason as that meeting. Bat, although he felt thus warmly upon the sub ject of his country's language and church, still he thought it did not belong to them to touch upon the subject that even ing. What they had to guard against was, the denial to Wales of common justice, and the loss of a bishopric. What ever might be the qualifications of the bishop who might be appointed over the whole of North Wales, unless he had the gift of swifter communications than could be afforded lr► the present state of the country, he could not, with the whole of North Wales under his charge, perform the functions of his office satisfactorily. It was necessary, therefore, that they should use their utmost efforts to secure such a number of bishops, as, supposing them to be qualified, would enable them to perform their duties properly. The rev. gentleman then proceeded to cite a number of instances, relative to the poverty of the Welsh church, and the injustice of the aliena tions of its funds, and be concluded amidst loud applause by seconding the resolution. The CHAIRMAN then put the motion and it was unani mously carried. The meeting then thanked Mr. Clough for his services in the chair, and dispersed. [We understand that the petitions which have emanated from this meeting have already received a very considerable number of signatures.] HEALTH OF LARGE TOWNS. This important subject has, of late, occupied a considera ble share of public attention, and it is gratifying to see the legislature taking the matter into consideration. As Liver pool yields to none in this particular, we are authorised in publishing the following letter upon the subject, written by Mr. Sam. Potter, and addressed to a member of the council. The document is truly valuable, as the facts therein stated are the result of practical experience, whilst visiting in capacity of surgeon to the North Dispensary. SIR, —Having been a close observer, for several years pas of the injurious effect which the impure atmosphere, in close courts and cellars, has upon the poorer classes of the inha bitants of this large town, it gives me unfeigned pleasure to see the attention of the council brought to the subject, through your philanthropic exertions, with a view to the pre vention of so lamentable a source of disease and mortality. Permit me, therefore, to offer such information as I have been enabled to obtain during my official connexion with the above charity, as well as since the termination of that period. Inasmuch as the amount of disease is commensurate with the density of the population, and the difficulty of its eradi cation to the want of proper ventilation, I have invariably found, that, irc those parts of the town thus circumstanced, when disease once enters a habitation, it becomes generated by the impurity of the atmosphere, and soon spreads to the surrounding dwellings; and, were there but the means of introducing pure currents of air into the abodes of the sufferers, it would not only afford more reasonable hope of recovery, but arrest the progress of disease through the family and neighbourhood. From the statistical returns of the Dispensaries it will be seen, that there is a greater amount of sickness at the north than the south end of the town ' • and, as my observations have been chiefly confined to the former, I shall give a brief summary of the prevailing diseases, and divide the section into four districts, for the sake of arrangement. The Northwest part of the town abounds with chest and rheumatic affections. This is more especially the case in the streets adjoining the river, commencing from Chapel-street and extending in a line to Carlton-street. Many of these streets are thickly populated by the Welsh and Irish, and, from their low situation and proximity to the river, the hu midity of the atmosphere is a fertile source of the diseases be fore alluded to. As we proceed from Oldhall-street to Vaux hall-road, and the streets situated between these thorough fares, the number of courts 'and cellars increases, and fever becomes more frequent. The worst instances occur in the neighbourhood of Smithfield, and, extending in a line north wards, in Charter and Chisenhale-streets. The North and Northeast Districts. The former, chiefly inhabited by English, and the streets being more open and elevated above the level of the river, and, consequently, drier, fever is, generally, trifling, of a mild character, and, for the most part, confined to children. There is, however, one ex ception in Back Portland-street. This street is very narrow, and the houses closely built, and, from the dense masses of low Irish, fever prevails in some one part incessantly. The streets situated between Burlington-street and the North Dispensary, bounded on one side by Vauxhall-road, and on the other by Bevington-hill and Marybone, form a complete labyrinth of narrow streets, courts, and alleys. To give one or two examples : Ford-street, Oriel-street, and Cherry lane. The courts here are so numerous, and in such a filthy condition, that disease never disappears : fever spreads With fearful rapidity, speedily assuming a typhoid type. Instances might be adduced where eighteen individuals have been seized with it in succession, and as many as fourteen of the number, living in a crowded court, have, in a short time, fallen vic tims to the dire scourge. The worst portion of the town, which I may call the South District of this division, seems to be the seat of disease to the most alarming extent. Poverty and vice, too, its usual concomitants, here reign in the most a ggravated form. The streets in the vicinity of Dale-street, Orange, Preston, and Peter-streets, and Spitalfields exhibit every thing favourable to the spread of contagion, too manifest to pass unnoticed even by the most casual observer. From the cellar to the garret they are crowded with human beings, whose condition, both physically and morally, is barely a remove from savage life. Some of these abodes scarcely admit a ray of light, and it has been my painful duty to enter such receptacles of misery, with the floor half covered with water, where the only article of furniture was a wooden stool, and some straw and shavings in one corner for a bed. Extending our observa tions, still further propfs can be adduced where disease is fostered, owing to the crowded localities preventing a due circulation of air through the dwellings. Lace, Henry Ed ward, Addiso n , an d H arr i son streets are instances. Disease abounds in them continually, and the filthy state of these streets and of the courts is rendered worse by the damp from the open privies. The noxious exhalations emanating from these sources combine in harbouring and disseminating dis ease and death amongst the victims compelled to occupy their pestilential haunts most appalling to contemplate, and which loudly calls for the interference of the Legislature to adopt some means for its removal.—l remain, sir, your most obedient servant, SAMUEL POTTER, Surgeon. 24, Roscommon-street, 1841. MOST EXTRAORDINARY CASE. On Tuesday a case of bigamy, which we believe is without a precedent in the annals of our law courts, underwent a long preliminary investigation before Mr. Rushton. A young fe male was charged with having married a second husband, her first spouse being still alive. This was the simple aspect of the case, in the first instance. As the circumstances were gradually developed, however, it became apparent that the first husband had been cognisant of the second marriage. It appeared pretty-obvious that he had instigated or urged it to a completion ' • and it was clearly proved that, in the pseudo character of brother-in-law to the accused, he had visited the second husband repeatedly after the marriage. lie appeared to have had no notion that all these circumstances would be brought to light, for he visited the court merely as a spec tator—took his seat opposite the magistrate, and, to most persons in the vicinity of the bench, was lookedl upon as a casual visitor. As the facts of the case one by one came out, attention was called to his name ; and when, at length, it was asserted that he was in court, and he was pointed out at the very elbow of the witness, he was covered with confusion. This was, of course, greatly increased when Mr. Rushton directed that he should be taken into custody, an order which was immediately complied with. lie was forthwith placed by the side of the female prisoner, when, after having heard some further testimony, Mr. Rushton ordered the deposi tions to be taken, so far as they went, against both the pri soners. The parties are respectably connected in the middle ranks of life. The name of the male prisoner (the first husband) is John Daniel, that of the female Elizabeth Daniel: her maiden name was Elizabeth Whitaker. Daniel, who is a particularly small, young man, was well, and rather fashion ably dressed: Mrs. Daniels is a pretty, innocent-looking young woman, though, from the. evidence, it appeared that her conduct has been not a little extraordinary. The follow ing is an abstract of the evidence in a collected form : William Edmundson, the brother-in-law of the female pri soner, stated, that in the month of September, 1839, he was present at the marriage between the two prisoners, John Da niel and Elizabeth Daniel. The ceremony was performed at St. David's Church, at the bottom of Brownlow-hill, by the Rev. Mr. Davies. It was by license. He had known her from childhood, and she was described as Elizabeth Whita ker, single woman. She was never married before. He signed the register as a witness, and they lived together us man and wife after the ceremony, and had visited together at his house as such three or four times. About a week ago he heard that she was married again, but did not believe it. On the preceding night (Monday), Mr. Smith (the second hus band) and some of his friends called upon him with the fe male prisoner, and stated that she was married to him (Smith). They asked if he had been present at the first marriage, to which he replied in the affirmative. Joseph Smith (the second husband and accuser) stated, that he was an engineer. He lodged at No. 49, Great Or ford-street. He first became acquainted with the female pri soner about July last, when in the garden behind St. James's walk. He met her in the street two or three times subse quently. She told him that her name was Mrs. Daniel, that she was a widow, that her brother-in-law, Mr. Edmundson, resided at No. 73; Mount-pleasant, and that she had quar relled with her sister, Edmundson's wife, in consequence of which she had left his house, and gone to reside temporarily in Bolton-street. Ile (Mr. Smith) visited her two or 'three times in Bolton-street, the house in which she lodged being, as she said, kept by an old servant of her mother. After he had been acquainted with her a couple of months, he pro posed marriage to her. She professed herself unwilling to accede to his desire, as she said Mr. Edmundson had pro posed a match for her with a Mr. Leigh. a man of property, Who 'resided near Preston. She afterwards consented, and he procured a license from the Rev. Mr. Stafford. She was therein described as Elizabeth Daniel, according to her own representation. She had told him that her husband was captain of the Oxford, and that he was drowned on a voyage from America. In December, he accompanied her to St. Anne's Church to be married; but in consequence of her averring that it would occasion uneasiness to her friends, he stopped the ceremony. On the Bth December, being about a week afterwards, they went again to St. Anne's Church, and were then married by the Rev. Mr. Blundell. Mr. El liott was present. He had several times seen the male pri soner at the house in Bolton-street, but he had not spoken to him. The female prisoner said he was her brother-in-law —the Mr. Edmundson, who resided in Mount-pleasant. After they were married he took her home with him to his lodgings in Great Orford-street, where she had called for him in the morning to go to church. In the evening of that day, (the day of the marriage,) the male prisoner called upon them at his lodgings. He had not spoken to him before, but had told the female prisoner where be lodged. When Daniel entered the room where he and the female prisoner were, he (Mr. Smith) addressed him as Mr. Edmundson: The pri soner replied, with great confusion of manner, " My name is not Edmundson," and then asked abruptly, " Are you married ?" and on receiving an answer in the affirmative, he left the house immediately. They (Mr. Smith and the female prisoner) lived as man and wife together till the preceding day (Monday.) His supposed wife told him, that Edmundson detained her clothes, and as the male prisoner called upon them afterwards, he asked him for . . them, still supposing him to be Edmondson, as had been represented to him. He addressed him in her presence as Mr. Edmondson. Daniel, when so addressed, said the clothes should be given up, if she restored a deed which she had taken from his desk. She told him, (witness,) that she had secreted the deed behind a picture-frame in Edmondson's, otherwise Daniel's home, in Mount-pleasant. He wished several times to call at the house, in Mount-pleasant, on the subject, but she always opposed it, and he did not go. She said, as an excuse for her opposition, that Mr. Leigh, the gentleman who should have married her, was staying at the house, and his presence would make a disturbance. He frequently proposed to the male prisoner to go to his (as Edmondson's) house, for the clothes, and at one time an hour was fixed, but she begged that he would not go, and she would go herself. She went out for the purpose, but, on her return, she said she had again quarrelled with her sister, and broken some property. His (Mr. Smith's) brother had, on the preceding night, dis covered to him, that the female prisoner had another hus band, upon which, having discovered the real Mr. Edr,-.und son, they took her there, and, after the interview with him, conveyed her to Bridewell, and booked her on the charge of bigamy. He also saw the male prisoner in the preceding evening. He addressed him, as had been his wont, by the name of Mr. Edmundson : the prisoner t,hook hands with him, but said nothing. He had always been led to be lieve, that the male prisoner was Mr. Edmundson, the bro ther-in-law of the female prisoner, and he (Daniel) had told him that he had provided wedding clothes for her marriage with Leigh, at an expense of £3OO. On the morning of their marriage, a note was given to her in Church by the clerk. She read it, and tore it. lie asked her what it' was. She said it was from her brother-in-law, Edmundson. lie called at the lodgings of the female prisoner on the morning of his marriage, and the female prisoner told him that her brother in-law, Edmundson, was up stairs at the time. Joseph Elliott, who was present at the second marriage, proved the event, and that the prisoner and Mr. Smith had lived together as man and wife in Great Orford-street. Thomas Holden, clerk of St. Anne'a Church, stated, that he recollected Mr. Smith and the female prisoner going to the church to be married. When at the altar, Smith stated that he wished the ceremony to be deferred, and he and the female prisoner left the church. About a week afterwards, they came to the church again, and were married by license from the surrogate. On the morning of the marriage, about half an hour after Mr. Smith had desired him to be once more in attendance, the male prisoner called upon him, at his house, and asked if a marriage was to take place that morning. " Yes," replied the witness. He asked if the names of the parties were Smith and Daniel. "Yes," said Mr. Holden. "This is a strange business," said the male prisoner. " Why, do you know anything connected with it ?" asked Mr. H. • because they have been two or three times about it." Daniel replied, " She is committing herself." " What do you know about her?" asked Mr. Holden. "Oh," said he, "she has been married about four years, and my brother has gone to sea, and we have heard nothing of him for three years, and she does not know whether he may not be living." He said he had been to Mr. Blundell, to see if he could not stop the marriage, and that Mr. Blun dell could do nothing' with it. He wished Mr. Holden to interfere. Mr. Holden said, he could do nothing in it, nor could Mr. Blundell : they could not hinder Mrs. Daniel from being married, unless he (Daniel) could prove that she had a husband living. He again requested M. Holden to speak to her. Mr. Holden said, it would be better if he would go to the church, and speak to her himself. This he declined, but he said he would write to her. Mr. Holden gave him a slip of paper, on which he wrote, " Elizabeth ! think seriously what you are about : the man is mad !" He then went away, and witness took the note to the church, and gave it to her. Sarah Jones said—l live in a house in Bolton-street, No. 4, kept by Mrs. Holland. About 6 or 8 months ago, the female prisoner took lodgings in the house. She had the front room. The male prisoner lived with her there, and they lived as man and wife. I have seen Mr. Smith there several times. The two prisoners passed there by the name of Daniel. One morning, about 8 weeks ago, she called me up, and asked me to give Mr. Smith a note. He was at the door at the time. 1 gave him the note. The same evening she told me she was going into the country, and she went away, and I never saw her afterwards until to-day. I do not recollect seeing him on the morning on which I gave Mr. Smith the note. Frederick Smith said—l am the brother of Joseph Smith. I live in Yorkshire. I heard of my brother's marriage two or three days after it took place. I have been in Liverpool since about six weeks after the marriage. I latterly began to have suspicions, and made inquiries; and yesterday I went with my brother to Harvey's public-house in Brownlow-hill, where we found the male prisoner. Mr. O'Brien was also with us, and bad spoken to Daniel before I did. I heard Mr. O'Brien ask him if he was married, and he said he was married to the same woman to whom my brother was mar ried ; that he knew of her marriage to my brother, and that be did not care so that she was comfortable. He ;afterwards said that he was glad to get rid of her on any terms. I have been several times at my brother's lodgings. I have heard her say that Mr. Edmondson, of Mount-pleasant, was her brother-in-law, and that she was to have been married to a Mr. Leigh, a gentleman who resided near Preston ; and that he had been at his brother-in-law's ever since her marriage to my brother, very iii. I have heard him tell the same story which my brother has detailed. I never saw the male prisoner until last night. The case was adjourned till Wednesday, but no evidence of much importance was taken, and it was again adjourned to Thursday, to procure the testimony of the Rev. Mr. Blundell as to the second marriage. Mr. Rushton intimated to the male prisoner, that as on the previous day he had not had a legal adviser, hp might be provided with one if he thought proper, and might have an opportunity at the next hearing of cross-examining any of the witnesses. He (Mr. Rushton) should commit him as an accessory, and his wife as principal. COMMITMENT OF 110TH THE PRISONERS. .Yesterday, the prisoners were again placed together in the bar. The female appeared to be in delicate health. The ReY. William Blundell being called said in reply to questions from the court-1 do not know a person named Daniels, nor do I recollect the prisoner. A person (a man) came to me a quarter of an hour before the marriage, and said that the mother of the lady did not wish it to be so lemnized. This was not a legal objection, and I said I should marry them. I was three or four times in attendance on this marriage and was always disappointed. To questions from Mr. Davenport, who appeared for the prisoners :—The first time, the lady did not come. My son then attended once or twice. The second time of my going to the church, 1 waited from a quarter to half an hour, and said I had been so often disappointed I would wait no longer as it was useless. The third time I perfectly recollect the man calling on me as stated. When I attended the lady did. not. Mr. Smith was always there when I went.—The in formation of the witness was then taken as follows :—I am minister of St. Anne's Church, in this town. About a fort night before the Bth of December, the witness Joseph Smith applied to me for a license to marry. I was not a surrogate, and referred him to the Rev. Mr. Stafford, who is. A few days after that I attended the church according to Mr. Smith's appointment, to solemnize the marriage; byt the lady did not come. Th e name of the Osmals in the license tor— was Elizabeth Daniel, widow. My son attended at the church another day to marry the above parties, but the ceremony did not take place. On the Bth of December I married them in St. Anne's Church. On the morning of that day a man called at my house, and said he had come from the mother of the lady who was to be married, who did not wish it to take place. I stated that I should marry them, and he went away. No other person appeared to me that morning on the subject of the marriage. I cannot say posi tively that the male prisoner is the person who so applied to me. I entered the names of the parties in the register of marriages. They described themselves as Joseph Smith, of full age, a bachelor, by profession a civil engineer, residing in Great Orford-street, his father's name being Charles Smith, a coal miner ; and Elizabeth Daniel, of full age, a widow, residing in Mount Pleasant, her father's name Wil liam Whittaker, a captain in the army. I took these parti- • culars from the declaration of the parties. This being all the evidence, the prisoners were asked with the usual caution if they wishel to say anything. They respectively said, " Nothing at present." The prisoners were then committed for trial at the assizes— the wife as principal in the act of bigamy, the husband as accessary before the fact. Mr. Davenport said he understood that the male prisoner could find good bail, and wished to know if Mr. Rushton would take it. Mr. Rushton—l think he is more to blame than the wo man. The prisoners were then put down. LITERARY NOTICES. The Turkish Empire, Syria, the Rely Land, Asia Minor, &c. Illustrated by W. H. Bartlett, Thomas Alton ; the descriptions by John Came, Esq. Fisher, Son and Co. London. This is another new work, published by Messrs. Fisher and Co., uniform with that noticed in our last, and comprises ii.. lustrations of countries at all times interesting, from the scrir - tural and remarkable events with which they will remain associated to the end of time, and whose modern position, arising out of the late political occurrences in their locality, and the remains of ancient grandeur which they present, afford a peculiarly rich and inviting field for the exertions of the modern historian and artist. On looking over this, as well as the former, one feels surprised that both the beautiful and talented can be produced for so comparatively trifling a sum. The achievement is one which the judicious division of labour, the mechanical improvements of modern times, and the command which the publishers, from their former exertions, have attained of an extensive circulation, both ha the metropolis and in provinces, could alone accomplish. The portrait of that staunch and extraordinary patriarch Mehemet Ali, in whose character there appears to be a com minglement of the noble in nature, with the obdurate, and, in some instances, the unfeeling, is itself . a gem well worth the whole cost of the book. It is accompanied by a biogra phical sketch of that remarkable potentate, written with great spirit and originality, and bearing the stamp of an im partial adherence to historical truth. The views—impres sions from steel engravings-L.are four in number, " Mecca Pilgrims" (a vignette); " Berout and Mount Lebanon," " Damascus," and " The Ruins of Balbec. Of these, Berout is much to our taste. The light is beautifully thrown upon the tops of the distant precipitous mountains, and the town and bay are admirably executed. The " Pilgrims" and " Damascus" are also fine pictures, minute and laborious in detail. We are strongly inclined to question the perspective accuracy of the plate of the " Ruins of Balbec." The broken remains of a Corinthian column, with its capital, intended to represent the fragments of a portion of a ruined collonade retiring behind them, are greatly too large or too proximate to the standing portions of the pile, to own with it an affinity. This, however, is but an individual opinion. The work as a whole, whether as regards illustration or de scription, will no doubt be highly acceptable to the lover of the fine arts, as well as to the antiquarian. Blackwood for March. Our old friend Blackwood maintains his high and long established reputation in his present number. " The Dour zannee Empire," with a map, contains much information relative to a portion of India, of which but little is known in this country. " A Lounge on the Lea" is an admirable spe • cimen of old Christopher's poetry in prose—a -species of li terature in which he has never been excelled, or perhaps equalled. " Miss Biddy Whelan's Business"—chapters from I. to Vl.—form the commencement of a very capital Irish story replete with situation, interest, and character. " Hints to Authors" we have so frequently commended, that we should only repeat ourselves did we say any thing of num ber 111. Of the various articles which follow—" A Fifth Chapter of Turkish History," " Wordsworth," " Conser vative Prospects," &c., &c., &c.—we can only remark, that they are in the usual style of excellence of the Northern Maga. THEATRE-ROYAL. It is rather amusing to hear the outcry made whenever any illegitimate dramas are produced at royal theatres, and it is equally remarkable to see the crowds that generally honour such performances with their attendance. It is curious to remark, that when legitimate drama is produced it is gene rally to empty benches. Which is most profitable it takes "no ghost" to tell us. What inducement, then, have the managers of patent theatres to bring forward those fine old ' dramas and sterling comedies, if the gentle public will not come and see them? If taste is depraved, it is not the fault of managers : the sin must lay elsewhere. An instance of this is found at the Theatre-Royal at present. On Monday the boxes were empty, although the pit was full, when " Othello" was performed ;. and we can confidently assert that " Othello" has not been better cast than it was on that occasion for years. On Tuesday, the " Merchant of Venice," equally well cast, was played to a very scanty audience. The fact is,,novelty, and novelty only, will draw full houses; and however praiseworthy it is in• a manager to produce that which time has stamped as excellent, he is not justified in continuing his course when his interest is damaged by it. The company at the Theatre-Royal is improving ; some va luable acquisitions have been made to it, although Mr. Geo. Vandenhoff and Mr. Elton can only be considered as tran sient; yet Mr. Hell is a most excellent substitute for Mr. Howard. On MondayMr.Elton appeared as Othello, to Mr.Vancien hoff's lago andM r. Hows Cassio. Mr. Elton is not so dignified as we have seen it ; but it is more fiery, and perhaps more vigorous than others. Mr. Geo. Vandenhoff's kill° is very clever. He depicts him in what we consider a true light, as a bold, daring, remorseless, but gentlemanly villain, with a touch of sarcasm and humour about his composition, which occasion only requires him to exhibit. Mr. Vandenhoff s reading is excellent, and we can safely predict a brilliantca reer before him. Mr. Holl's Cassio was judiciously played, as was Mr. Ball's Roderigo.—The " Merchant of Venice," on Tuesday, gave us an opportunity of judging of Mr. Elton in Shylock. He pleased us much, and though not, perhaps, " The Jew That Shakspere drew," he gave us little to wish for. His first interview with Gra tiano was marked with deep caution, and he appeared in ear nest while driving his bargain. The scene after the discovery of his daughter's flight was well and vividly played, marking clearly those transitions from joy to sorrow on learning Bas sanio's losses and his daughter's flight. The trial scene was cleverly done, without any of that savage exhibi tion of hated revenge which we have frequently seen pourtrayed. Mr. Elton threw enough into it to mark that the registered vow would be religiously kept. In nice touches—in bye play—in clever readings in slight passages— which serve, however, to heighten the scene—Mr. Elton is remarkable. Mr. Holl's Gratiano was evenly played: we did not like the casket scene —it was decidedly over acted. :Mr. G. Horncastle's Lorenzo was abominable; Mrs. Percy Crowe's, if any thing, worse : instead of Shaksperian doves, they cawed like two rooks. Mrs. Bland's Portia was about the worst we ever saw, her delivery .of the sublime passage of " Mercy is not strained," came tardily off — Mrs. Bland, instead of lecturing the Jew, lectured the au dience. Mr. Gray's Bassanio was quietly given. Little Miss Chaplin looked spruce as a clerk, and played her little part very archly incleeed; while Mr. Balls performed Gratiano with considerable humour, and in his usual and vivacious style. To-night being the last of Van Amburgh's performance for his benefit, those 'who have not yet seen him should lose no time in doing so. LIVER THEATRE.—A round of laughable farces and amusing dramas have drawn in the lieges. On Tuesday the folks shouted at Rayinond'ps 0 Didimus—or " Bailiffs and Blunders." Mrs. Raymond has been Mrs. Waylett's sub stitute several evenings. Her Aladdin is a smart perform ance. Last Monday the performances were for the benefit of the charities, when the curtain rose to two in the pit ! and the house was but shy all the evening. Every night since the house has been well up to the mark. CASE OF JOHN DENTON HOLT.—The remarkable case of this prisoner, clerk to Messrs. Hall and Co., who was committed for trial for absconding with a large amount in bank notes and sovereigns, nearly all of which was after wards recovered through his own communications and assis tance, must be fresh in the recollection of our readers. He was yesterday brought up at th e sess i ons, before the recorder, and pleaded guilty. Mr. Murphy addressed the court in mitigation, detailing the whole of the facts, and dwelling on the circumstance of the prisoner having done all he could to make reparation, when he came to a sense of his crimi nality. Two other counsel also spoke in his behalf, and the prisoner was put back, the recorder expressing his intention to see the prisoner's employers before he passed sentence. THE MINISTERIAL MAJORITY.-It is reported that three out of the grand ministerial majority are to be immediately rewarded for their valuable votes. Sir Gilbert Heathcote is to be made a peer; Mr. Barron, of Waterford, a baronet; and General Sharpe is to have the first vacant regiment of cavalry. MEDICAL PROFESSION.—Mr. Hawes, on Friday last, ob tained leave to bring in another bill, in lieu of the one he previously withdrew, " for the better government of the medical profession in Great Britain." Mr. Hawes and Mr. Warburton were ordered to prepare and bring in the same. It was afterwards brought in, read the first time, ordered to be read the second time on Wednesday, March 10, and to be printed. DEATH OF MR. CARTER'S ROYAL BENGAL TIGER.— We are sorry to learn that Mr. Carter, " the lion king," has sustained a very serious loss, by the death, on Wednesday night, of his famous Bengal tiger, which was caused by Suf r brethrenttu je r i iGd Trinity: e i D' s o ' r 0 y a l hlress as focation at feeding time. The animal was one of the finest we ever saw, and had attained a great degree of docility, un der the tuition of Mr. Carter. The skeleton, we understand, will be presented to the Royal Belfast Academical Institu 7heAna"aEstiteTr..a—nd°nelSdaer- tion.—Belfast paper. evening there It T Ar N w M a E s N a T c T o o u P r t R l o N f e f nE t i iie corporation of the Trill' House, Great Tower-hill, of of the elderbrethren, in the place of the late arquis of Uarnden,ity House, holden at K.G: for the purpose of en- 1