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

I A t TRAORDINARY BARGAINS IN SATINS, SATINETTS, &c. ISHALL and STINTON have had consigued to lem for immediate Sale a Large Quantity of Black loured DRESS SATINS and SATTIN►',TTS, and 'Jill be offered at 30 per Cent. under the Lost to the Loturerg:: Ladies, on inspection, will easily perceive antage this House affords over any other. .—The•Address, 39, Great George-street. RS of ti VOOLLEN GOODS are respectfully invited to call at MORRIS'S WOOLLEN WAREHOUSE, 80, LORD-STREET, nsequence of the great depression in the Manufactur- Dstricts, Mr. M. has been enabled to purchase ex- Lots of WEST OF ENGLAND SUPERFINE El S, at full Twenty per Cent. under the regular Prices, offered to the Public at a corresponding Stock at T every quality and sent is unusually large, and DRILLS, GANIBROOJCS, &c. there are ast year's prices -,so'rtrnent of the newest Patterns, in French SATIN and SILK VESTINGS, also at reduced icularly wishes to call the attention of Country ppers, and other large buyers, to his present ri its extent and cheapness, he is both able and Ffer them Decided Bargains. reet, April 25th, 1842. MAN, RAWLINS, and CO., beg to tender their ateful acknowledgements for the flattering encourage ,ey have received since commencing/Business, and themselves to a strict adherence to the system already adopted. namely, of supplying the Public with the best WOOLLEN GOODS, at a small Commission on the Manufacturer's Price. N., R., and Co., having visited the Markets a second time for SPRING GOODS, are prepared to offer the newest and designs in Figured Cachmeres, Chine Chusan Silks, Chalies, Quiltings, &c., for Vests, and every' variety, at PRICES which will both and PROFIT the Purchaser. , STOCK of CLOTHS, at the present Season, corn e Newest and most Fashionable Colours, and are mug at the usual Low Scale of Profit. AILORS' TRIMMINGS at the WHOLESALE PRICE. NORMAN, RAWLINS, AND CO., FIANOVER-STREET, and corner of WOOD-ST., „ , .;.—A VACANCY for a respectable YOUTH as an ?RENTICE. AM IMES FURNISHING, UPHOLSTERERS, AND OTHERS. EXTENSIVE AND UNRESERVED SALE OF CARPETING AT 76, LORD-STREET RQU H A RT, having taken possession of his new ,reronms, 13, BOLD -STREET, with an entirely NEW of GOODS, made expressly for his Customer intimates that he is NOW OFFERING, on the 's, 76. LORD -STREET, the remaining STOCK of TA BLISHM ENT, consisting of Brussels, Kidder- er, Scotch, and Venetian C A It PE T S. h-rugs, Druggets, &c. &c., at unprecedented Low 1, to induce immediate Sales, as the whole must be sold ut loss of rime. Buyers will find this an opportunity to advantage that seldom occurs. NOTICE RANGERS, VISITORS, and THE PUBLIC IN LIVERPOOL, pre.ent favourable opportunity of, obtaining , -or as Presents for their Friends, at full one le-fourth under the usual prices, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN'S DRESSING CA A ,SES, • WRITING DESKS, W 0 R K BOXES, TEA CHESTS, CADDIES, Envelope Cases, in the greatest variety, Furnished or d, as may be convenient, in Rosewood and Ma n Russia and Morocco Leather, of a superior b now )b.erve t SELLING OF W OOLFIELD'S LEB RATED MANUFACTURE, OPPOSITE TAE BAZAAR, AT GLASGOW HOUSE, 53, CHURCH-STREET, lid Stock of Glass Lustres and Chimney Ornaments, new, Tortoiseshell Side Combs, Hair, Cloth, Nail, and Brushes, Patent Silver Pencil Cases, and Holders for 1 3 ,,cket Books and Tablets, in Ivory and Pearl, Blotting , Papier Mache and Bronze Inkstands, &c., &c. TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that JOHN JONES, I Toxteth-park, near Liverpool, in the county of Lan builder, bath, by indenture bearing date the twenty ay of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand lundred and forty-two, and made between the said loNEs.of the 'first part, JOHN CALVERT, of Liverpool ;-merchant, and JOSEPH HARRISON, of the ronmonger, two of the creditors of the said if the second part, and the spieral other per- Imes and seals are thereuab subscribed and !mselves or their several Attorneys or agents nised, being all respecOely creditors of the es, of the third part, conveyed and assigned, rein mentioned, all his estate and effects unto Calvert and Joseph Harrison, in trust for the editors of the said John Jones, and that executed by the said John Jones on the the said indenture, and by the said John h Harrison, respectively, on the twenty nonth of April, and such execution by John Calvert. and Joseph Harrison, sted by Mr. DAVID EvaNs, of num n Liverpool aforesaid, attorney-at-law. John Jones FORD'S PURE FLUID MAGNESIA, under hate Sanction of the President irthe College for ACIDITES, HEA.R.TBw N, BEAD BILE, and INDIGESTIION, and as a uliarly adapted for females and Chil- !ceived in favour of Mr. DlNNE established its superiority on an d it at once beyond the reach of rtificate from Dr. Wilkinson, of whose th practical Chemistry so well entitles his Bottle of the Fluid Magnesia of Sir James Murray's, me for an ilysation by a Chemist in this town, gave , n grains of Magnesia and three of Sulphate of Soda , unce, whilst yours yielded SEVENTEEN GRAINS OF VI A GNESI Ato the ounce. I conscientiously bear tes to the correctness of the above results. (Signed) " C. H. WILKINSON, M.D. Dated October 23, 1840." pis conclusive testimony is further corroborated by the t eminent Members in every branch of the Medical Pro- he ACIDULATED LEMON SYRUP, usually sold I the Solution, makes the most delightful of Saline tights, and materially increases the aperient quality. Pre by DINNEFORD, Chemist to her Majesty the Queen eager, i 2, New Bond-street, and sold by every respect- Chemist. UTION.—Be careful to ask for Dinneford' s Pure Fluid esia, to avoid the substitution of the impure Irish pre s, which are imported in leaden and other deleterious their impurity may be readily detected by even obvious to the sight. To be procured respectable Chemist. and is e T' COCKLE'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS, PATRONISED BY THE Bishop of Gloucester Bishop of Chichester Bishop of Worcester Bishop of Hereford Bishop of St. Asaph Bishop of Bangor 1 Bishop of Llandaff Bishop of Calcutta Rt. Hon. J. A. Murray, Lord Advocate oil Scotland a Rt. Hon. 4:C. Fergusson, M.P., Juate Advocate Gen. Hon. SirEA ward Cust,K.C.H Hon. C6knel Anson, M.P. Hon. Foie Maule, M.P. Admira!Sir D. Gould,G.C.B. Sir Henry Wheatley, G.C.H. Sir J. Macdonald, K.C.8., Adjutant-General Sir Thomas Deer, Bart. Sir Francis Burdett,Bt. , M.P. Sir Gerard Noel. Bart., M.P. Sir Robert Grant, Bart. Sir Henry Blake, Bart. Sir Samuel Fludyer, Bart. Sir Robert Buxton, Bart. Sir John Forbes, Bart. Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart. Sir Philip B.V .Broke,K . C . B. Sir John Tyrrell, Bart. Sir Henry Smyth, Bart.,M.P. Sir Matthew Wood, Bart., M.P. Sir John Beauvoir, Bart. Sir Thomas B. Mash Sir Thomas Wilde, M.P., Solicitor-General Sir Frederick Pollock, M.P. J. Wildman, Esq., Chilhatn Castle Colonel Tynte, M.P. \ Colonel Sibthorp, M.P. Colonel Delap, Stoke Park, Surrey Colonel Bence, Thorington Hall Colonel Cowell Captain Pechell, M.P. MatthiasAttwood Esq. ,M.P. Alde rman Thomp son ,'M.P. Charle s Walker,Es M.P. Mr. Se rgeant Talfourd", M.P. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow Ven. Archdeacon of Col chester Vn.Archdeacon of St.Alban' s Rev. Dr. French, Cambridge Rev. Dr. Benson Rev. Dr. Birch Rev. Dr. Marsh 1 Robert Renwick, Esq., M.D. C. Waddy, Esq., late M.P., Dublin John Hatchell, Esq.. Dublin the highest Respectability. has much pleasure in layin g My. ABERNETH Y 'S public, extractedit from a year ~,m ah ) ia l id ° d u r s e sP s i e l id s , to him in the Grafton Manchester kilesbur f A bercorn Mounteash ildfOrd .rborouzh Oxford of Thanet ot:Athlone of ilocommon of Leicester ount34elbourne ount Palmerston :ount int go rdi i ich and Tor ringto n ant Ad*son unt Alford rundel Hill Plunket Svdenham lour Antibilious Pills in affec with considerable derangement ant organ, and connected with d bowels, (for to this cause, various diseases of the body, and I have thus h ad frequent weir beneficial effects. They of bile, and act with certainty iner on the alimentary or g ans, irritation. I consider them a medicine, which may be taken M urray Kinnaird ;k Gordon hby d'Eresby rd Archbihopof Armag p of Durham p 01 uneb,..., a of Bath and Wells Mr. COCKLE 2ATION of ns of that A the tic itty influence the secretion Tectual ma e most oboe occasioning pain or i oat _excellent family aperient t all times with perfect safety. Tney are prepared by James COCKLE, Surgeon Extraor nary to Her Serene ; m -guness the late LANDGRAVINE of ESSE HOMBURG, and may be had of all respectable Medi ae Venders, in boxes, at Is. lid., 25., 9d., and 4s. 6d. NOTICE. Let it be specially observeci,Tha - t those Pills only are ge- Aul l ,e" Which have the name "JAMES COCKLE, APOTHE- L: A ELY," in white letters, engraved on the Government Stamp. This 'mark of authenticity will protect the Public against any dangerous and deleterious imitation. 18, Nov Ormond-street,iiiiford,row, London. finpertat I,3arliaintitt. AfR. B. DE BALLICOURT has tberhonour to announce to the Nobility and Gentry of Liverpool and its Vici nity that, in consequence of the flattering encouragement he has received, he has now taken up his permanent residence in this town. Mr. B.'s manner of fixing the Instrument removes all fear of a deviation in the shape. Mr. B. DE BALLICOURT, being a native of Paris, devotes a part of his time to the Teaching of the French Language. Mr. B. has permission to refer to parties of the highest respectability in Liverpool, who have received instructions from him For terms, &c. apply to Mr. WEiss, Church-street. THERE ARE VACANCIES FOR THREE PUPILS AT MRS. MIDDLETON'S BOARDING AND DAY ESTABLISHMENT FOR YOUNG LADIES, / 19, CLARENCE-STREET, MOUNTIPLEASANT, LIVERPOOL. of YOUNG LADIES are instructed upon the most approved modern principles, by which a SOLID EDUCATION is ensured, while the inculcation of fashionable etiquette and courteous demeanour receives especial attention. Mrs. M. is assisted in the French and Italian by a qualified foreign teacher; in Drawing and Colouring, by an able artiste; and in the English Department, by Mr. Middleton. Lec tures are given on Astronomy, Geography, Geology, and Natural History. The Quarter to commence from the day of entrance. HOUSE OF OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. The house sat for a short time, but nothing of any impor tance took place. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY William Rouse Mabson, a witness before the Southamp ton election committee, was examined at the bar of the house relative to the non-production of certain documents. The witness. in the course of his examination, admitted that about £3OOO had been paid through his hands for the purpose of carrying on the last Southampton election. The witness not being able to give a satisfactory account of the documents missing, a debate took place on the motion that he be com mitted to the custody of the sergeant-at-arms, which was met by an amendment that the debate be adjourned. On a divi sion, the amendment was lost by 176 to 16. Another motion was then made that Mr. Mabson be dis charged, which, after a long discussion involving the question Music Dealer, of the 32. validity of the Speaker's warrant, was negatived by 1 1 7 to Mr. WALLACE rose to call the attention of the house to the evidence in the report of the select committee which was appointed to inquire into the administration of the law in the Supreme Court of Scotland, in the year 1840 ; and to the state of the jurisprudence of Scotland as connected with the aforesaid court : and to move for leave to bring in a bill to reduce the present number of the judges in the said Supreme Court from thirteen to nine, by abolishing one of the two co-ordinate courts of review into which that court is divided. Sir J. GRAHAM objected to the motion, and hoped the house would concur with him in voting against it. The opi nions of the highest Scottish judges were in direct opposition to any such changes as proposed by the hon. member, and he (Sir J. Graham) was of opinion that the present motion was highly inexpedient. Mr. RUTHERFORD said that the hon. member (Mr. Wal lace) was very much in the wrong for bringing forward from time to time such motions, particularly when the people in Scotland were so satisfied with the present administration of criminal justice there. Mr. WALLACE replied, and on a division the motion was negatived by 187 to 22. Mr. WALLACE then moved that the return, showing the applications which have been made to the post-office for let ters which were missing, and which contained money or money's-worth, which was presented to this house on the 4th day of March, be printed. Sir G. CLERK contended, that if the motion was agreed to, it could not answer any useful purpose whatever, as it would not elicit how or by whom those letters and moneys were ab stracted. After some further discussion, in which Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. Hume, Mr. F. J. Baring, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Wallace took a part, the motion was withdrawn, and an abstract ordered to be prepared. Viscount INGESTRE moved that an humble address be pre sented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to order a maritime survey of the coasts and har bours of the islands of New Zealand, when - ,essels can be spared for that duty without inconvenience to the public ser vice; which was agreed to. The rest of the business being then disposed of, the house adjourned. PRIVATE TUITION Mr. Middleton and Assistants give Private Lessons in the various branches of Education. Writing, Shorthand, Book keeping, and Arithmetic, taught in a few easy Lessons. Governesses desirous of further improvement in the Globes, Mapping, &c., &c., will have unusual facilities afforded them. A Circular, if desired, forwarded by Post. WATCHES. GOLD LEVER, for GENTLEM EN, with har d Enamel led Dials, Seconds, Capped, and Jewelled in'two holes, and five Actions, maintaining power during winding, Improved Detached Lever Escapeme nt, and Double Bottomed Cases i>i £lo 10 DITTO, larger size DITTO, largest size, with extra strong Cases LADIES' GOLD LEVER, with Gold Dial, Capped, and Jewelled in two holes, and five Actions, main taining power during winding, Improved Detached Lever Escapement, and Double Bottomed Cases ll 10 DITTO, larger size PATENT LEVER SILVER WATCHES .... DITTO DITTO HUNTING SILVER VERGE WATCHES, Double Bottomed, to open with a Spring GENEVA WATCHES, of fkrst-rate Workmanship, in every ... variety, at proportionate prices, ALL WARRANTED. PROMOLI and lIAUSBURG having made very Exten sive arrangements for the Manufacture of the above Watches, are enabled to submit them at such unprecedentedly low prices. Every kind of Watches made to order. Merchants and the Trade supplied on the most advantageous Terms. LADIES' COLOURED GOLD NECK CHAINS. MATTED BELCHER PATTERN, with Ornamental or Hand Snap, weighing 3 Sovereigns 4 Do. 5 Do. 6 Do. STARRED BELCHER PATTERN, with Ornamental or Hand Snap, weighing 3 Sovereigns • £4 5 4 Do. 5 Do. 6 Do. BRIGHT GOLD CURB CHAINS ....335. to £7 103. SILVER CURB DITTO .... 10s. 6d. to 1 10s. Together with a splendid Assortment of FANCY CHAINS, comprising every possible vaziety, of the most elegant patterns. PROMOLI and HAUSBURG, OLD POST-OFFICE BUILDINGS, BRITISH AND FOREIGN CARPET WAREHOUSE, 13, BOLD- STREET, (ADJOINING THE PALATINE CLUB HOUSE,) The oldest Carpet Establishment in Liverpool. THE Subscriber, with a view to maintain and extend the increasing demand fur his Goods, has STOCKED and OPENED the above extensive Wareroorns with every Ar ticle in the Branches of his Trade that js'new, elegant, and of good value. His stock is manufactured expressly for his Customer Trade, with every reference to durability, styles, and quality, making the Goods superior to those usually sold ; and, though they are thus improved, the price is not ad vanced, thereby giving to the consumers all the advantages of the depressed state of the markets. While his Stock is replete with Brussels, Kidderminster, Scotch, and Venetian Carpets, he has renewed his contract for WHYTOCKS AND CO.'S PATENT TAPESTRY AND VELVET CARPETS, and extended it to the PATENT VELVET TABLE COVERS. Having the sole sale of these elegant and durable Goods for this part of England, wholesale buyers and families are supplied at same terms as at the Patentees' Warehouse. He also holds Stock of the usual sizes of Turkey and Persia Carpets, and has them made to order in Smyrna and Persia, to any dimensions, pattern, and colours. THOS. URQUHART, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN CARPETS, FLOOR CLOTH, DRUGGETS, &c. THE ONLY ESTABLISHMENT IN LIVEri c COL SOLELY FOR FURNISHIN . ADELPHI HOUSE, 21, BUL fr iSTREET. CARPET, FLOOR CLOTH, MOREEN, DAMASK, FURNITURE CHINTZ, BLANKET, AND QUILT WAREHOUSE. Window Muslins in great variety. FRINGE, GIMP, LACE, AND TRIMMING MANUFACTORY. GEORGE WOOD S, Proprietor. LIVERPOOL DOCKS. CONTRACT FOR IRON CASTINGS. THE DOCK COMMITTEE will be ready , on FRIDAY, the 13th day of May, to receive TENDERS for the delivery, on their Works, of about 200 Tons of Strong IRON CASTINGS, to be produced by COLD BLAST. Further par ticulars may be obtained at the Office of the Docx SUR VEYOR, south side of Coburg Dock, up to the 12th of May. The Tenders to be sealed, endoried " Tenders for Iron Castings," addressed to the " Chairman of the Sub-commit tee of Works," and sent in to this Office not later than FRI DAY, the 13th day of May. By order, DANIEL MASON, Secretary. Dock-office, Liverpool, April 30, 1842. LIVERPOOL DOCKS. THE TRUSTEES of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS do hereby give Notice, that they are ready to receive TENDERS FOR A LOAN OF MONEY for periods of Five or Seven Years. Interest at the rate a Four Pounds Five Shillings (41) per Centum per Annutlwill be allowed : payable half-yearly either in Liverpool or London, or re mitted to the party, at the option of thelender ; and parties tendering are requested to name the period for which they may be willing to lend. All Letters must be addressed to GEORGE WITHERS, Esq., Treasurer, Dock-office, Liverpool, not later than FRIDAY, the first day of July next. By order, DANIEL MASON, Secretary. Dock-office, Liverpool, Thursday, `2Bth April, 1842. GENERAL ANNUITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIA TION, 40, King William-street. London-bridge : Established 1829.—Capital exceeding 143,000, invested in Government securities.—The members are mutual assurers, the sum for distribution is equally divided, and the following amounts have been paid for each annuity, the years 1834, 1835,1830, and 1837, £2O ; in the year 1838, £2O Os 9d ; in the year 1839, £22 5s ld ; and in the year 1840, £22 14s ld. Annuities continue to be granted on the original table of rates. Per Annum. Per Annum. If under the age of 25 £1 10 If 40 and under 45 £3 10 25 and under 30 2 0 45 and under 50 4 0 30 and under 35 210 50 and under 55 410 35 and under 40 3 0 55 and under 60 5 0 The present annuities exceed £22 each, the value of which may be computed at £4OO. If any individual 29 years of age insures his life for that sum, the annual payment would be about £lO, whereas for one of these annuities it is only £2. Prospectuses and every information may be had on applica tion at the office, where the annual reports may also be pe rused. CHAS. HEWITT, Secretary. Agent for Liverpool, JOSEPH CRISP, Clerical and School Agency Office, Slater-street Medical Referee, Dr. HANNAY, Great George-square CORN IMPORTATION BILL As the new law will immediately come into operation, it may be useful to reprint the scale of duties, as regards wheat, now sanctioned by parliament, contrasting it with that which has prevailed for the last fourteen years, but now virtually abrogated New Scale of Duties. Old Scale .E s. d. .£ s. d. Wheat under 51s. per quarter 1 0 0. 51s. and under 525. .. 0 19 0.. 525. .... 555... 0 18 0 1 12 8 555. .... 565... 017 0 111 8 565. .• .. 575. .. 0 16 0 1 10 8 575. •• .. •585... 015 0 1 9 8 58s. •• .. 595... 014 0 18 8 59 5 . .... 605... 013 0 17 8 60s. .• .. 61s. .. 012 0 16 8 61s. •• .. 625. .. 011 0 l5 8 625. •• .. G3s. .. 010 0 . .1 4 8 635. •• .. 645. .. 09 0 l3 8 645. •• .. 655. .. 08 0 l2 8 655. .... 665. .. 07 0 ....... .1 1 8 • e f 6 0... ..... 0 16 8 695. . J 70s. • . 0 5 0... ..... 0 13 8 —•• • • 70s. .... 71 5... 04 0 OlO 8 71s. .. , . 725. .. 03 0 06 8 725. .... 738. .. 02 0 O2 8 735. and upwards .. 01 0 Ol 0 POPRCRAFT.—We understand that letters have been re ceived in this city, announcing that the Pope has appointed a bi dele shop to the see of Jerusalem, under the title of the Bishop of Babylon.An ominous sobriquet, undoubtedly ! The policy f the nomination is worthy of the Man of Sin, whose side at Jerusalemgateisno to reside in the holy city, and retain the hold I also who have taken of superstition convents and monasteries over the Roman Catholic devotees who re also temporary worshippers. and over those main cause, their abode permanently in the local jealousy of the work r ' however connected with their church. The and England, in the go got up the movement we suspect to he bishop of our reformed c a l l : up by the combined efforts of Prus siapointment of Mr. Alexander as a like that of the Lorettine ar si h st . erh T o h o i d a in ia Calcutta,clearl y an t o t attempt hwa the success of truth, and a christianity in every directio n.—Dublin countermine the labours of pure n.—Dublin Statesman. A GOWN TO FIT ANY PART Y , — During the Coalition Ad ministration, the Hon. Henry Er skiue held th e o ffi ce of Lord Advocate of Scotland. He succeeded after wards Lord Melville. On the morning Henry Dundas, he had an interview with Dundas intl of the apppointment o b s erving that the latter gentleman had alreadytuter house, when, or di nar y stuff gown which Advocates are in resumed the i wear ing, be said gaily , that " he m ust leaven the cu s t om of off talking an d order his silk gown, the official cost ume of to go Advocate and Solicitor General. "It is hardly the Lord worth while," said Mr. Dundas drily, " for all the time you'll want had better borrow mine." Erskine's reply was exceedinglyit you " From the readiness with which you happy : make the offer, Mr, Dundas, I have no doubt that the gown is a gow n made to fi t any party ; :but however short my time in office may be, it shall nc'er be said of Henry Erskine th a t he put on, the abandoned habits of hi s predecessor.", HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY The corn importation and a number of other bills received the royal assent. The Marquis of NORM AN BY wished to know whether any communication had been made with the Irish government relative to the case of Mr. Biddulph, but withdrew his ques tion on the understanding that her Majesty's government would give the subject every consideration which it required. The Marquis of NORMANBY presented a petition from the town council of the borough of Gateshead against the addi tional magistracy appointed to that place. The LORE) CHANCELLOR contended that the appointments were perfectly correct, and said that most of the appointments made by the late government were entirely political ones, and had the effect of making the people, whose cases they had to decide, believe that justice could not be impartially admi nistered when the magistrates were of one particular line of politics. The Marquis of NORM ANBY defended his conduct while in office, and after some further discussion the subject was dropped. Lord PRUDHOE presented a petition against the income tax. The Earl of WINOHILSEA presented a petition from the eastern division of Kent, against the protection given to the importation of foreign fruit. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY After the usual preliminary business, the house went into committee on the Income Tax bill, and schedule D was pro posed, when Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved as an amendment the omission of the words in schedule D relative to a tax on industrial in come. Mr. ROEBUCK thought the amendment would interfere with one which he was about to propose—namely, that " for and in respect of the annual profits or gains from any profession, trade, or vocation there shall be levied annually for every twenty shillings three-pence halfpenny." After some conversation, Mr. Roebuck's amendment, was allowed to take precedence. The hon. and learned member for Bath then argued that it was unj ust to the last degree that the same amount of tax should be laid on industrial income as on landed property, and that if his amendment was rejected the sole odium of the injustice would rest (as being the most powerful man of the day) on Sir Robert Peel. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the mo tion, on the ground that all taxes were unequal. Mr. WARD thought the amendment would in a great de gree be the means of mitigating the injustice of the income tax, and was of opinion that the argument used by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer of the general inequality of taxation was not a reply to a case such as the present, which ought to receive the greatest attention from the house. Mr. STUART WORTLEY contended that the rent-roll of a landed proprietor ought not to be taken as his actual income, as property in land would often turn out to be as uncertain a source of income as that obtained by commerce. Enter taining this opinion, he could not agree to the. amendment. Mr. HAWES supported the amendment. Mr. P. Boirt.Tuwtex was of opinion that, instead of recti fying it, it would have the effect of committing injustice, and should, therefore, vote against the amendment. Mr. LABOUCHERE could not support the amendment, for if it was necessary to impose such a tax it ought to be uni versal, for to admit exceptions would afford dangerous pre cedents. According to the amendment of the hon. member for Bath, if it was carried, a clerk with a small salary would be taxed, while the thriving merchant would escape. Sir R. INGnis was of opinion that the tax ought to be le vied only on those who were in possession of £l5O per annum and upwards, and thus it would be a great relief to persons moving hi a respectable sphere of life, and diniinish the un popularity of the measure. - Mr. V. SMITH was opposed to the tax, as it was obviously unjust to levy the same amount from uncertain and fluctua ting as from permanent incomes. Sir R. PEEL said that some inequality applied to all kinds of taxes, while the income t a x had this advantage—th a t if the wealthy man went abroad he would not be exempted from this tax as he would from others by remaining there. The present measure was proposed in connection with others which would have the effect of enabling persons of all classes to live at a much cheaper rate. The tax was to be levied on all farmers holding at the will of the landlords, and whose incomes, depending on the vicissitudes of the seasons, were more precarious than those of the surgeon and the commer cial man. Fur instance, if the wealthy physician, the thri ving lawyer, or the prosperous banker, were taxed at a lower rate than a clergyman, whose income though permanent was still variable, or the clerk in a public house, the naval or military man, or the widow with a small jointure, then he (Sir R. Peel) should say that .a great injustice would be com mitted. If he was to have an income-tax at all, it would be absolutely necessary that all descriptions of incomes should be taxed alike. He therefore supported the government. measure, undeterred by any fear of responsibility. Lord Howtoc thought that all that had fallen from the right hon. baronet only went to show that the tax was a bad one. He (Lord Howick) agreed with Sir Robt. Peel that it was a most vexatious impost to levy for so small an amount, and most unfortunate when the present intense competition in every trade and profession was taken into consideration. He should therefore vote for the amendment. Mr. EDWARD Bu LLER opposed the amendment. Mr. WALLACE supported the amendment. Mr. JAMES thought the members of the late government wished this tax to go forth to the country with all its odious defects, in order to help them to regain the reigns of govern ment, but not having himself any such object in view he should vote for the amendment of the honourable member for Bath. Mr. LEADER had listened attentively to the arguments during the evening from both sides of the house, and he must say that though the majority would be against the amend ment, yet not one speaker had met or answered the argu ments of the hon. member for Bath. Lord J. RUSSELL was opposed to the adoption of the amendment, as, for instance, where a rich banker would only have to pay 31d. in the pound, a person only having a hfe interest would have to pay sevenpence. It would be no justification to say that they belonged to different classes and various schedules. He should therefore, without any inten tion of rendering the present measure more unpopular, vote with the hon. baronet opposite against the amendment. Mr. MITCHELL supported the amendment. Mr. ROEBUCK replied; and on a division the amendment was lost by 258 against 112. Mr. S. CRAWFORD then proposed his amendment, which was lost by 259 to 50. Schedule D was then agreed to, and on schedule E being proposed, Sir C. NAPIER called the attention of the house to the si tuation it would place all naval and military officers under the rank of general and flag officers, if such a tax was im posed upon them. The gallant officer then concluded by moving that all officers under the rank of general and flag officers be exempted. After a short discussion the house divided, when the mo tion was lost by 205 to 32. _ Schedule E was then agreed to, and the house resumed. Mr. Gibbons, who had been committed by the Great Mar low election committee, was brought up to the bar of the house, severely reprimanded, and discharged. Sir R. PEEL moved that the reprimand of the Speaker be entered upon the journals of the house. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE made some observations respecting the severity of the reprimand, and stated that he did not believe Mr. Gibbons had been guilty of perjury. Sir R. PEEL was of opinion that the speaker had discharged the duty laid upon him in a fit a n d proper manner. After a short discussion the motion was agreed to. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. m tb i e tted b HOUSE OF COMMONS. —S ATURDAY. The House of Commons met to seare o h f Mr. considerMab a motion made the use on the s b o y h M . r i, T hi h s e w si i g t e n r e , s w s h i t a n d a h v e i e e n w co t m o report of the Southampton election eomm y ittee, ( f ) or not pro ducingare his attendance certain documents u t hmee naturent s required o f of f subpoena) h i m wbyhic a warrant ;;aad nthh for e w i s s h u e e t h d e r in w t i h o e i p o r t e e c e t d e ig t n uni e a s o s o i o n n 0 ; f a t n h d e th s e e s s q i u o e n s t t i l o i e n o n h o l i w g a w o a o s h , of the process terminated likewise. Mr. THESIGER contended that the force of the warrant had wholly ceased, and that therefore the witness could not lawfully be detained for not having obeyed it. In this opinion he was seconded by Mr. C. W. WYNN. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL concurred, to the extent of considering the legality of the warrant to be at all events too questionable to allow the further imprisonment of the wit ness. w ith ou t admitting the warrant to be Sir GEORGE GR EY, illegal, was content that under the circumstances the witness should be discharged ; but as the question was one affecting also the process under which other witnesses were attending upon other committees, he notified his intention of moving on Monday for a select comm ittee to inquire into the general question of legality. Sir T. WILDE coincided in that view, declaring in favour of the witness's discharge, who , h e thought, could not pro perly be detained pending the inquiry. A good deal of time was consumed in certain effervescences of Mr. Hutt, which were at length got under by the Speaker' authority ; and the house, without dividing, directed the dis s charge of the witness. The voluntary contributions to fever hospitals and dispen saries ill Ireland average 41,000 a year. A CARD MESSRS. GRAHAM and SON, TArLons and DRA PERS, have REMOVED fronts No. 62, Castle-street, to No. 12, COLQUITT.STREET, near the Royal Institution. HARP. BOCHSA'S METHOD. ILLUSTRATED BY PROFESSOR BARRE DE BALLICOURT, 52 Wood-street, corner of Slqer-street. UNITED STATES. We have received New York papers to the 4th ult., and Philadelphia to the sth, by the Susquehanna, from the latter port. The Loan Bill had passed the House of Representatives, and would, it was expected. soon pass the Senate. The amendment authorising the sale of a six per cent. stock upon the best terms to be obtained would, it was thought, bring the money which, without it, could not have been obtaine d, while the Land Bill remains unrepealed. The stock is to be issued, as may be agreed on at the time of issuing it, either redeemable after six months' notice by the treasury, or for any period of years not exceeding twenty, from the Ist of January next. The stock may also, if desired, be made transferable by delivery instead of by assignment. The whole amount authorised is the original twelve millions, less than what has been already obtained (about four and a half millions, if we recollect) of that sum, and an additional five millions, if deemed necessary, that is to say, still about twelve millions. The committee on manufactures had pre sented a report to thehouse on the tariff. The report recom mends, or, rather, lays a duty on woollens of 40 per cent. ad valorem ; on coarse goods, 30 per cent. ; on fine goods, a specific duty ; on rolled iron, English iron, 25 dollars per ton; on hammered, or Swedish iron, 17 dollars; pig metal, 8 dollars per ton ; coal, one dollar and sixty cents per ton. The Philadelphia banks continued specie payments, but in the share market not much business was done. The New York stocks had improved, but we forbear our usual quota tions, as the Independen - e, with three days later news from New York, was off the port last night, and we hope to give what news she may bring at an early hour this morning. Later intelligence has been received from Texas. The news that the young republic has been invaded by an overwhelming Mexican force is confirmed in accounts from Galveston to the 22d March. It appears that the retreat of the Mexicans from San Antonio was a devise to allure the Texan troops, assembled in haste, to go in pursuit, before they were fully trained and disciplined. Shortly after the steamer Neptune left Galveston, which vessel reported the retreat of the Mexicans from San Antonio, an express arrived bringing intelligence of the advance of 9,000 men on the Matamoras road towards Victoria, and reporting 12,000 additional troops on the upper road marching upon San Antonio. The forces which recently captured San Antonio constituted the van ' guard of the 12,000 under the command of Vasquez. The impression is, that the Texan army of 1500 men, under Burleson, will follow the retreat of the vanguard, until brought within the power of the main army. Upon the re ceipt of this news, which was brought to Matagorda from a different direction, rendering its truth indisputable, the Com mittee of Vigilance in Galveston despatched a pilot-boat to New Orleans, and, a few hours afterwards, the steamer which brought the intelligence. The pilot-boat had not ar rived. The Galveston Advertiser, of the 22d March, con tains the address of the committee to the citizens of the eastern counties, in which the facts relative to the Mexican invasion are set forth, and an opinion given, that, if there is . _. • not a prompt turn-out by the middle and eastern counties, the enemy will ravage and overrun the country. The same paper contains an address from the Committee of Vigilance to the friends of Texas in the United States, stating that they look with confidence to them for prompt assistance in repelling the invaders. Hitherto the Texans have stood on the de fensive ; but now the spirit of the people is roused, and, ere long, iey will bend their footsteps towards the capital of Mexico. We, therefore," says the committee, " cordially invite to our aid all who desire to be instrumental in the hands of Divine Providence in extending the blessings of civil and religious liberty over one of the fairest portions of the globe. We invite all who are desirous to aid in breaking the chains of Papal superstition and bigotry, and opening the door for the introduction of Protestant Christianity into a long benighted portion of the earth, to rally round our stan dard ; for we wish the lone Star of Texas and the Star of Bethlehem to travel in unison in their westward march : wherever the one shall be stationed, we trust the other will be found close by its side. HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMITTEES (From the Cambridge Chronicle.) " Talk of an inquisition under the income tax, indeed !" says the Standard—and the Standard is right—" Why that at worst only ascertains what a man has, and stops there. But the House of Commons committee would go farther; it would extract also the ' how came lie by it.' ,' The South ampton election committee gave occasion for this remark. Mr. Fleming was examined as a witness on the petition against the conservative members for Southampton, whose seats were attacked on the ground of bribery. It appeared that Mr. Fleming had been applied to on account of an in sufficiency of the election fund to cover the expenses in curred ; and six weeks after the return was made be col lected £5OO amongst his friends and paid it into the bank at Southampton. The charge against the sitting member was that of bribery, therefore it is difficult to conceive how the payment into bank of £5OO six weeks after bribery could have been committed, could in any way affect the question at issue. The whole inquiry as to this £5OO seems totally irrelevant. But the counsel for the petitioners wanted to carry his inquisition somewhat further. He was not content with learning that Mr. Fleming had collected £5OO, but he must needs know •` how he came by it." Mr. Fleming, however, being a man of honour and a man of spirit, too, as we can testify, refused to satisfy liberal curiosity. He saw at once that the question was pressed for party, and not for legal, purposes. "It would be derogatory," he said, "to the man of honour and a gentleman to betray the names of parties from whom he had confidentially received the money ; and, especially as such betrayal could have nothing whatever to do with the subject under investigation, he would not, be the consequences what they might, give up the names of his friends." This terrible contumacy was reported to the House ; Mr. Fleminc , was " had up •" an d, a fter a discussion , the Speaker informed' the honourable member that he must answer the question as to the " how he came by" the cash. The termination of the farce is worth recording, if only to show the " lame and impotent conclusion" which may at tend even House of Commons' anger. We quote from the report of last wednesday's proceedings before the commit tee : " Mr. Fleming, M.P., was called in. The hon. member stated that he certainly raised £5OO towards the subscription for the Conservative candidate, but upon his honour that sum was raised by him for the express purpose of defraying the legal and necessary expenses of the election. He did not receive the money from the Carlton Club. " Mr. Cockburn said, as the hon. member had stated that he paid over the subscription for defraying the legal ex penses of the election, he would not press for an answer to the question he put yesterday. `'The hon. member then left the commi ttee room." On the same day another damper was put upon the inqui sitorial curiosity of the petitioning party. It is amusing enough to justify us in laying it before our readers : " Mr. Baring called in and examined. —My name is Henry Bingham Baring. " Mr. Serjeant Shee.-1 believe you subscribed £lOO to wards the expenses of the late election at Southampton. " Mr. Baring.—No I did not. " Mr. Serjeant Shee.—How much did you subscribe ? " Mr. Baring.— Not one single farthing. (Laughter.) " Mr. Serjeant Shee.—l think, Sir. we have summoned the wrong gentleman. (Laughter.) It is Mr. Francis Bar ing that we want. (Laughter.) " Mr. Talbot. —Why Mr. Francis Baring is the ex-Chan cellor of the Exchequer. (Laughter.) " Mr. Cockburn.—lt is not very likely that be would sub scribe to a subscription of the kind we are inquiring into. (Laughter.) " Mr. Serjeant Shee.—ls there not a gentleman named Frederick Baring? " Mr. Baring.—Yes ; and he resides near the seat of Lord Ashburton, in the neighbourhood of Southampton. Neither I nor any branch of my family that I am aware contributed one shilling towards the expenses of the last election at Southampton. " Mr. Serjeant Shee.—l shall ask the gentleman no further questions, and am sorry he should have had the trouble to attend. " Mr. Baring (smiling).—Oh, Sir, it has been no trouble. (A laugh.)" STATE OF TRADE LEEDS.—The past has been an extremely dull week as re gards trade, though the weather has during the last ten days been truly splendid for the season. The transactions in the cloth halls have scarcely equalled those of the previous week, and there has, if anything, been rather less activity in the warehouses. Indeed, the general opinion seems to be that nothing of any moment will be done until the new tariff has come into operation; and many persons are disposed severely to censure those members of the opposition in parliament who have interposed to delay the passing of the ministerial budget.—Leeds Intelligencer , of Saturday. BRADFORD MARKET, —The demand for manufactured goods at this market, on Thursday, was extremely dull. Both buyers and sellers seemed to anticipate an early improve ment, and therefore pi ices underwent little change. In the yarn market purchases were about the same as last week, and at similar rates ; but the wool market was flat, except as to the demand for good super and fine qualities, and there was little doing in noils and shorts.—lbid. HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The Derby turn-out has not yet ended. The Nottingham workmen are more zealous than ever in the matter, and the amount of subscriptions sent to Derby last week was increased considerably. We have cherished the hope that the plain silk hose branch, once the main support of Nottingham, would further retro grade in demand ; this, we are sorry to say, is not the case, as many of the hands who have hitherto had full work have got notice that they shall be stinted in their employment. We are glad to perceive that two very important new manu factures have arisen in Nottingham within the few last months, which, if properly attended to, will have the most important results. One is to make figured nettings from both the bobbin and warp machines, in imitation of the net work made by the skewers on the principle of fish nets. By the other new manufacture, laces are made upon an entire new principle, having the main ground composed of close linen work and the flower of open work. All hands and all heads ought to be directed to this new manufacture, which offers a fresh and important field to the mechanic and manu facturer.—lbid. MANCHESTER.—LittIe or no alteration has taken place in the goods market since our last report. A fair amount of business is doing, and prices stationary, as the manufactu rers appear determined not to submit to any further reduc tion ; and the buyers are equally firm, and refuse to give even the slightest advance upon the extremely low prices that have been current for too long a period. The Yarn market is rather more brisk, and prices are without change. Some few of the country houses have ben very busy, although the drapers buy with great caution, but confess that stocks in the country are very light. Power-loom prin , - ters may he quoted, 66's, 27-inch, 4s. 3d. to 4s. 9d. ; and 72 s 4s. 71d. to ss. 3d.—Advertiser, of Saturday. OLDHAM.—The power-loom weavers of three or more of the largest cotton manufactories are entirely without work, solely owing to the depressed state of the trade- At one increase in mill the spinners have struck w ork, to resist an in labour, unaccompanied by an increase of wages. The have been of the spinners at several o f the cotton mills been reduced to the extent of 6d. per 1,000 hanks. The operative hatters are seriously distressed. owing to the short ness of work, and they have been part ia lly subjected to abatements of wages, &c.—lbid. There are calculated to be 18.000,000 barrels of oats in merchants' stores in this city.—Limerick Chronicle. ORIGIN OF THE WORD " BOTHER•" —The word bother was first used by a sergeant, who, being ex posed to the volu bility of two Irish men , one a t eac h ear, cried, " Don't both ear me." Hence the verb, to bother. DEATII OF BUNGAREE, THE P UGIL IST. --Intelligence was received in London on Saturday at the various sporting houses, that Bungaree, the Australian pugilist, who con tended in a pugilistic encounter on Wednesday last at New market, with John Broome, for £3OO aside, expired at ten o'clock on Friday night, at a public-house six miles from the place of contest, from the effects of the dreadful punishment he received. IRON WIRE BRIDGE.—It is strange that the pl an o f making bridges of iron wire, so s uccessfully adop t ed in Swit zerland, Fr ance , an d elsewhere abroad, should not yet have found favour enough in England to be fairly tried on the large scale. The noble bridge at Freyburg, in Switzerland, is 301 feet wider than the Menai Bridge, and though it consists of one span, it is at least equally s t r ong, and cost only a fifth part of the mo ne y. The wire bridge of Freyburg i s 870 English feet span ; that of Menai 569. The Menai Bridge cost £120, 000 , that of Freyburg, £2s,ooo.—Patchwork, by Capt. Basil Hall, THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL T HIS present TUESDAY, May 3d, / Shakspeare's Comedy of IT. YOU LIKE T. After which, the Grand Romantic Spectacle of THE KNIGHT AND THE WOOD DEMON - , Which is produced with New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, and Appointments; and which was received on its first representation with the most rapturous applause. CONCERT AT MR. LASSELL'S ROOM GT. RICHMOND-STREET, ST: ANN'S. M. WEISS takes the liberty to inform his Friends and 1 the Public that he intends giying a CONCERT at the above elegant Room on Tx ortsoni i iiext, the sth instant, in order to Introduce his SON, just4rrived from Paris, to a Liverpool Audience. Mr. WILLOUGHBY WEISS will be assisted by Madame BALFE, and his Preceptor, Mr. BALFE, Mr. Dove, and Mrs. ST. ALBIN. Mr. WEIsS will feel particularly obliged by an early ap plication for Tickets, as no more will be issued than the Room can comfortably accommodate. _ _ _ _ Tickets, Five Shillings each, to be had at the principal Music Warehouses. TO CORRESPONDENTS The brains of the dirty fellow who sent us the sawdust query are composed, we should imagine, of that wooden material. If the writer who proposes a discussion with the two parties whose letters recently appeared in the columns of the STANDARD will affix his real signature to his communi cation it will be much more likely to be attended to. A paragraph appeared in our last headed " Blowing Veal," in which it was stated that a person of the name of " Wil son" had been brought before the magistrates for that reprehensible practice. The name of the offender was "Thomas Gilkes," and the error is the more provoking as there is a highly respectable gentleman of the former name in the branch of business to which the paragraph related. In correcting the errors of our contemporaries, in giving a report of the accident on the river, our compositor mistook the manuscript, and the thickness of the plank of the boat was stated to be five-eighths instead of five-sixteenths of an inch. A correspondent who has addressed us on the subject wishes the young gentlemen attached to aquatic sports to consrruct their boats on the plan of a man-of war's gig, and then they might race with safety. Ein Kiberpoot etanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1842 This evening, we observe, is fixed for the appoint ment of the committee, moved for by Mr. Ferrand, for the purpose of inquiring into the prevalence and the effect of the truck system at present in operation throughout the manufacturing and mining districts. That a vast mass of fraud and injustice will be brought before the public through the labours of that commit tee we cannot doubt. The practice of paying the wages of the labourer in goods prevails extensively in every branch of industry. Our own town is not exempt from it. In many trades carried on in Liverpool, the hardworking operative is mulcted of a portion of his wages by being compelled to receive the dear and trashy goods of his employer instead of money; and we trust sincerely that our own town will not be per mitted to escape the eye of the committee and the mal practices which prevail in it, because small, perhaps, when compared with the giant impositions which will be developed in other places, be left unvisited with the notice they deserve. , We have little hope certainly that any merely legis lative measures will ever put down effectually the prac tiee into which it will be the duty of this committee to inquire. The utmost that we look for from it is the prevention of the offence when openly practised, and a full authoritative exposure of its extent and operation. Dishonest masters will always be able to evade an en actment for the prevention of an evil which is alike injurious to the fair trader and the industrious work man ; and the only effectual remedy, we are satisfied, is to be found in the determination of respectable mas ters and their workmen to expose the practice in every case where it comes before their notice. The British public, however enamoured it may be of puffing traders and cheap goods, is at heart a just public, and will not bestow its patronage upon those whose gains al', ung by fraud from the pocket and from the scantily sup plied table of the industrious workman. When we expressed last week the mingled pain and amazement with which we had learned the decision of the board of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to adopt the junction with the Leeds Company at Hunt's Bank, we were confident that no defensible grounds could be urged for the course which they had taken. Certainly, at the meeting of shareholders no such grounds were expressed—nothing to warrant the sud den and, to the public, unaccountable change in the determination of the majority of the directors; and all, the enquiries which we have since made have thrown not one ray of light upon the matter. It is, we have no doubt, perfectly true, as was urged by the chairman and Mr. Moss, that the Liverpool Board experienced too little support from the other railways in Manchester:to enable them to carry out the proposition for a southern junction ; that the Man chester and Birmingham Board were hostile to the project, or, if not hostile, at least, too deeply pledged to the Leeds Company to allow them to move in the direction required. The snug family party who con stitute the Leeds Board are, we dare say, perfectly ready, and perhaps able, at present, to drag the Bir mingham Company in subjection at their heels ; but that is surely no reason why Liverpool, also, should succumb to their insolent dictation. Grant, that the southern junction was unattainable under existing cir cumstances, such a fact would be a sufficient reason for not pressing it at the present moment ; but it is surely none for the hot haste in which the Liverpool board have:embraced the counter project. The duty of that hoard was perfectly simple, and their course perfectly clear. By the admission of the Deputy Chairman, "a junction of the different rail ways in Manchester" with the Liverpool line, "so as to effect one continuous line of railway communication between the towns and coasts of Lancashire and York shire," was " amongst the public necessities of the present day." We have no doubt that the legislature would have been precisely of this opinion, and would have supported the Liverpool company in any effort to advance a consummation, so desirable, against any pos sible amount of opposition. But when that company comes down from its lofty position, shuts out of view the " public necessities" of uniting itself with these railways, and throws the facilities, which should be afforded to all, into the grasp of one only, it abandons the direct line of duty, and the public have a perfect right to suspect that the ground of action is ill-judged and indefensible. It cannot be maintained that any unfavourable change of circumstances, with respect to this question, have taken place since the arrogant demands of the Leeds Company were at first rejected, to warrant the present course of the Liverpool Board. On the contrary, the demand for, and the prospect of, a Southern Junction, to accommodate all the railways in Manchester, is greater now than it has ever been previously. When the first stand was made by the Liverpool Board, they possessed but one ally—the Sheffield Company—and that one apparently in a state of hopeless embarrass ment. But how stand the facts now ? The Sheffield line has emerged:from its state of difficulty; its shares have a market value ; it is now able to take up its bor rowed capital ; and, by the approaching formation of the branch to the North Midland Railway, it has be come one of the most important trunk lines in the king dom ! Such a change is surely not a reason why the directors of the Liverpool line should give up the pros pect of a connection with Sheffield and the east coast of Yorkshire, however excellent a reason it may be for the increased bitterness of tone in which the Leeds and Manchester gentlemen have urged on their exclusive project. It may be said, however, that the threat of a com peting line between Manchester and Liverpool was a circumstance which ought to have been taken into ac count; that the fear of this project being pressed on, Justifies the Liverpool hoard in conceding to their late opponents. Why—does any one believe that, with all their loud professions, the shareholders of the Leeds and Manchester company would throw away their money in such a mad attempt ? Have these gentlemen, regardless as they may be of money, so plentiful a supply of that commodity that they can afford to squander it after so wanton a fashion ? No, no. Pas sionate men may talk, in lofty strain enough, of deepen ing rivers, and making competing lines of railway; but their tone is a little lowered when they are called upon to put their hands into their pockets, and to carry their threats into execution. The people of Manchester have had a little experience in such matters within the past few years, and are not nearly so reckless of the price which they pay for their whistle as the Liverpool board appear to have thought them. The threat of a north line to Liverpool, our readers may depend, is, in reality, a piece of as complete absurdity as was ever put forward, even from the lips of so distinguished a propounder of fiction as Mr. Robert Gill. As little reason is there, we are satisfied, for the fear which seems to have been entertained, of any serious opposition to a southern junction from the Manchester and Birmingham Company. The directors of that company, however dovetailed in interest they may be with some of the Leeds . . Board, would never be per mitted to embark in a serious 'opposition to a junction so valuable as this would he to their own undertaking. On this head we state, advisedly, that the Liverpool Board have been completely misled, as they have also been with respect to the feeling of the public of Man chester, which we can assure them is anything but one of approbation of the course which they have pursued, or of strong liking for the Hunt's Bank project. We dare say we shall be told that it is too late now to canvass this question ; and certainly the rapidity with which the Leeds gentlemen are pressing on their opera tions would favour such an opinion. Already the con tracts for the formation of the branch from the present station of the Leeds Company to Hunt's Bank are advertised, and we have no doubt the Liverpool Com. pany will be immediately pressed to commence upon their portion of the junction. We do sincerely trust, however, that they may yet be induced to pause, before hopelesSly entangling themselves ; for it is impossible to shut out from our mind, or from the mind of any man acquainted with the locality, the conviction that, sooner or later, a junction line by the south of M an chester, and the formation of a general station in a part of the town more central than Hunt's Bank, will be loudly called for, and must take place ! It is a manifest impossibility that a line with the traffic which the Sheffield line will have upon it, when once completed, can be permitted to remain isolated ;—that a break in the direct communication, which would otherwise be formed between the east and west coasts of England, can be permitted to occur for the want or a junction line through Manchester to the Liverpool Railway. It is scarcely possible to believe, either, that Stockport, Macclesfield, and other towns upon the Manchester and Birmingham line will long submit to be deprived of an uninterrupted communication with Liverpool, the great mart of their staple. material, merely.to gra tify the prejudices or the absurd fears of a few selfish proprietors in other lines. This communication, we repeat, must he made, and by the Liverpool company too, if they consult the interests of their own underta king ; and it is surely ruinous and absurd policy, with this fact before them, to attempt embarking in a pro ject which will involve an outlay of £300,000 without doing any more than connecting themselves with one out of the three lines which must be provided with such communication ! We believe firmly that the Liverpool Company are not aware of half the influences which have been at work to induce their committing themselves to this Hunt's bank project. The whole of the water com panies of Manchester see in this untoward step the prospect of securing to themselves the valuable traffic from the south and east—from Stockport, Ashton, Duckinfield, Hyde, Staley Bridge, Mottram, Glossop, Sheffield, Barnsley, New Mills, &c., which must either travel the entire distance by canal or he set down at Store -street, to find its way, by the various carrying companies, to Liverpool,instead of coming at once, and inevitably, upon the Liverpool line. And, after all, what, we ask, has the company gained to compensate for this sacrifice ? Have they any additional security that the same threats of a north line will not be re peated, and even be attempted to be carried out? Have they any security that the rival water convey ances—the deepening of the river Irwell—will not still be held over their heads ? Can they urge, in opposi tion to these or any similar schemes, that they have endeavoured to supply to the public all the facilities within their reach ? Undoubtedly not. We are con fident that concession here is the most injudicious step which the Liverpool board could have adopted; that it will be the fertile source of many similar attempts at dictation ; and we lament it the more, because it places for the first time the direction of one of the best con ducted undertakings in the kingdom in an obviously false and humiliating position. The debate in the House of Commons, on Friday evening, upon the motion of Mr. Roebuck, must, we think, have satisfied all reasonable men that, between an adherence to the proposed income tax in something like its present shape, and its abandonment altogether, the government has no alternative. The member for Bath proposed—and the same proposition has been mooted in many quarters—that the tax upon income derived from trades and professions should he 31d. in stead of 7d. " Perfectly just and reasonable," exclaim, perhaps, not a few of our readers. " The shopkeeper, the merchant, or the professional man, whose income is precarious, has no right to he taxed in the same pro portion as the landholder or the fundholder, whose in come is fixed and permanent." The plea is plausible enough ; and yet the exemption of this particular des cription of income from the full proportion of the tax would involve, perhaps, as much injustice as it is pos sible to conceive. For, is it a fact, in the first place, that income de rived from land is permanent ? A large portion of the real property in Great Britain is only held for life, or even for shorter periods. It is also burthened with jointures, settlements, and other claims ; and yet, the tax being collected from the tenants, the landowner has no opportunity of setting off these abatements, but must contribute upon his gross rental. What is more precari,ous than mining property ? and yet the land owner must pay upon his total receipts from such pro perty, when any profit which he may derive in one year may be swept away the next. Again ; with what jus tice is the rich banker or merchant to pay on only half his income, when the clergyman, the military or naval officer, the widow, dependent upon a life annuity, or the clerk in a mercantile establishment or a pub lic office, is to be taxed in full ? Is the capitalist more an object of compassion than the holder of cot tage property upon a life interest, who may any day be called upon to expend his entire rental in re pairs ? A hundred different cases might be put, all tending to establish the same fact, that no modifi cation of the pressure of the tax, upon particular classes, can take place without involving equally as great injus tice and inequality as it professes to remove. The proposition of Mr. Roebuck was certainly as plausible, and apparently reasonable, as any which could have been selected. It was ably argued, too, by that gentleman and several others of his party ; and its rejection by a triumphant majority ought really, we think, to convince the endless talkers in the House of Commons, and the grumblets out of doors, of the folly and wickedness of attempting to impede the passing of a measure upon which, confessedly, the interests and safety of the empire now hang, by useless cavilling at petty details. The principle of Sir Robert Peel's mea sure may now be regarded as accepted by parliament and the country in its original form ; and the attention of all parties ought now to be directed solely to the for mation and correction of the machinery by which it is to be worked. We cannot leave the subject without noticing a sin gular inconsistency of argument which was yesterday displayed by a London contemporary, the Morning Herald, whilst advocating the propriety of acceding to the supposed demands of the commercial public upon this occasion. The commercial classes are told, ex claims our respected contemporary, that "the tariff will relieve the severity of the new tax." But the re lief in question, he argues, will only be in proportion to the expenditure of each ; and as the landowner consumes more of his income than the trader, the for mer will be the most benefitted, and this relief, there " only increases the injustice of schedule 11. It may compensate the squire and the fnndholder, who live up to their well-paid revenues, but it will not equally compensate the hardworking - tradesman." A more unfortunate argument than this it is scarcely possible to conceive; for obviously the stimulus given to commerce by the tariff is of itself no inconsiderable benefit to the trader, whilst th e reduction in th e price of consumable commodities —as beef, mutto n , pork, grain, fruit, &c.—is directly taken, along with the in come tax, out of the pocket of the landowner ! We are not disposed so far to underrate the wisdom and foresight of the promoters of the Birkenhead Im provement Bill as to imagine that that measure is not calculated to effect very considerable (and probably to them highly a dvantageous) changes o n t h e Cheshire eof our river. When it is generally known (which believe at this moment is not the case) that this , clothed in the specious garb of the Birkenhead " Improvement" Bill, has for its real tendency objects of infinitely greater importance than those of mere lo cal " improvement," and such as are opposed to the., best interests of the town and inhabitants of this bo rough, it may well become a subject for serious re proach how it should happen that this measure should not have received that bold, active, and determined op position to which, from its highly injurious tendency, it was so deservedly entitled. We have not had an opportunity afforded us of going, carefully, through the details; but we gather, from its sense, that two distinct objects are attained by it. In the first place, the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company have disposed of a ferry, which, however valuable under the new arrangement it may prove to the inhabitants of Woodside, they themselves, as a company, have no de sire whatever to retain, and, if report be correct, was not to he considered as a source of much revenue ; and, in the second place, a power is granted to the same company to form a tunnel, connecting the terminus of their railway (distant about half a mile) with the side of the river at Monks Ferry. To this latter point it is impossible, as we conceive, not to attach considerable weight ; for, how can the hotel and shopkeepers fail to observe that here, surely, in some small degree, their prosperity is hazarded ? Can they, or any other set of men, be blinded by supposing that the mere avowed object of securing a cheap and permanent means of conveyance between Woodside and Liverpool is in re ality the motive and meaning of this bill ? On the contrary, we view it otherwise. Up to the present pe riod the Grand Junction Company have kept clear of any engagement to permit trains from Birkenhead to run on their line from Birkenhead via Chester to 3iriningliam, and, if they continue in this course, much may be done to avert the evils we otherwise an ticipate; for will it not be admitted, that to passengers arriving from Scotland, Ireland, and coastwise, an im portant point would be conceded by finding themselves landed on the site of the Monks Ferry, "where" an hotel is provided and their railway journey to commence ? Nay more; will it not be an object of pecuniary sav ing, especially if contrasted with the present practice— first, of some occasional delay in the steam-boats en tering the Clarence Dock waiting for the tide ; after wards procuring a carriage to proceed to an hotel, pos sibly at some little distance, where, being deposited, when the hour for departure arrives, another carriage is required as a conveyance to the railway station in Lime-street ? And in the same manner with goods coming by steam-boat, the owners of these would gladly seek not to be exposed to the expense of cartage and porterage from the Clarence Dock to the railway station at the King's Dock. And yet acknowledging, as all must do, these disadvantages, with the exception of an attempted opposition on the part of the corpora tion, this bill was permitted to pass both houses of parliament (and has since,a is said, received the royal assent) without one single step having been taken by the different trades of the town to thwart it ! The fact is, the spell was broken when the Cheshire coast was emancipated from the payment of dock dues by the passing of Mr. Alderman Evans's dock ware house bill. The Roman Catholic ship-lumpers fore told, as they thought, a downfal, when the application of the steam engine was, by that measure, destined to supplace their labour and the winch. They were in wrath at the idea, nor is it to be wondered at that they should have been so. And now the inhabitants of Liver pool may by the same means have bitter cause to lament also ; but much, as we have said, will depend on the Grand Junction Railway Company. On them, very probably, it may be urged, that a saving of some eight miles in distance will be gained, by travelling via Che shire, both to the public and to the company ; that additional security to the passenger may be depended - on, from the use of a line, where the terminus is not common to other railways ;—to such arguments, if ever offered, we hope the Grand Junction company (as tiley may be from past experience) will be prepared to give their answer, and adhere to the motto, "to let well alone ;" in fact, the town has fostered and fed both the Liverpool and Man chester and Grand Junction companies, and to these companies the inhabitants of Liverpool look with confidence for a firm and determined preservation of their rights and interests, which have so far pro gressed together, and we trust will long continue to do so. We are informed, by the notice of motions issued by the council, that on Wednesday next it is the in tention of Mr. Francis Jordan to move (in case of the adoption of Monument-place as the site for the new hayinarket) that the equestrian statue of George 111 be removed from its present position to Great George square, the locality for which it was originally intended. There can certainly be no question that, in case of the market being transferred to London-road, the re moval of the monument will be inevitable. The council might at the same time remove a goodly number of the houses by which it is surrounded, and even divert the direction of Pembroke-place. We are scarcely satis fied, however, that Great George's-square is the best position which could be selected for his majesty's equestrian exhibition, unless it is thought that the venerable monarchs should be sent into retirement; and have a fancy that St. George's Crescent would be to the full as fit a locality to possess' the honour of his ma jesty's presence. 'We have no doubt that Mr. Jordan possesses a very keen perception of the proprieties, and is sufficiently loyal to wish that the statue of his majesty should not be obscured by the near proximity of carts of coal, hay, and other similar vulgar materials. There is certainly something incongruous in the association and yet that eminent local sage would scarcely, we hope, go the length of arguing that the rustics, who are in future to assemble in the neighbourhood in question, should be deprived altogether of the embel lishment with which it is at present occupied. Take away, we would certainly say in any case, the statue of the monarch, and of his horse as well; but would it not be well to leave the pedestal, and erect upon it the figure of an humbler quadruped, from which an eminent alderman, in congenial bronze, might survey the im provement effected by his transcendant genius, and luxuriate in perpetuo upon the prospect of the fodder around him ? We merely throw out the hint to Mv. Jordan. Some day or other, after Mr. Alderman Evans shall have removed all our markets, remodelled all our docks, translated our exc'•ange, and, finally, removed himself, we shall probably have to perpetuate his fame by the erection of some permanent memorial ; and we can see no more fitting opportunity than is here presented, of doing that in his lifetime which must be infinitely more gratifying than if done when the restless improver is no more. STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c, After the speculative feeling which has pervaded our mar ket for Cotton during the past fortnight, the demand has resumed its previous spiritless tone, without, however, any material reduction of prices, except in the middling and lower descriptions of American, which have given way id. per lb. Holders, however, having been relieved materially by the late brisk business, shew no disposition to press sales ; and the market closed on Friday with a tolerably firm feel ing, the sales during the week amounting to 20,000 bales. On Saturday 3,000 bales were sold, and yesterday 3,500, at last week's prices. We have little alteration to note in the Manchester goods market. A fair business is doing, without, however, any ad vance in prices ; and the staple manufactures are still im moveable to any ,extent which can relieve holders. We are assured, however, that money is considerably easier than it has been for some time past ; and manufacturers and mer chants only wait for the settlement of the pending measures of government to resume their wonted activity. MASSIVE MACHINERY.—In a late number we inserted a notice of the large shaft made by the Mersey Steel and Iron Company of this town. The company have since shipp e d, on account o f th e G reat W es tern Steam -ship Company, for the same la rge steam - s hip, two crank-pins, weighing together about th ree tons. Th esa a lso, of the kind, are the largest ever made of wrought iron. DISCOVERY OF A HUMAN BODY NEARLY DEVOURED BY WATER-RATS.—On Thursday last, as agentleman in a small punt was fishing in a reservoir at Ratcliffe, near Man chester, his line came in contact with a substance in the water, which, on being taken up, was found to be the body of a human being in a dreadful state of decomposition, having evidently been in the water for several months. The water rats had made a complete b urro w i n his body, and when it was being taken out of the water, one of these noxious ver min ran out of his neck between the lower jaw and the shoulder ! The body was recognised as being that of a me chanic who disappeared about six months ago, and, from other circumstances, is supposed to have drowned himself in the reservoir.