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4Jarliaintntarp Vractrlling4 HOUSI Address was b the Irish a that countr. system of ti 3 from Lord CAMPBELL was intended b the Go- he improvement of the ad- 'cclesiastical courts, also a arts with respect to rd bill relating to i use the same law o o an unfortunate accident r which their )USE OF COMMONS.-: stion from Mr. MILNE a Gissc government to maintain sties on fore Sir R. PEiL de ci to answe nestion, and said he ar course in res lating to 0 er articles of the estions fri i PALMERSTON t. FEEL said tha i to the P Brazilia I_4 , Mment had sh interprets treaty between two states 8, 1844. Her It out a representat to Brazil for the pay- ng a new t the terms of which than the expiration of t contemplated. With government of Hanover had sistence, as at p le duties, the be proposition of the British government, and e, therefore, had taken place respecting those In reply to questions from Mr. LABOIICHERE commercial negotiatious be ents of France and P respecting ween this country which had taken place which Portug I our ci ,deed, so much ioubtful Whether it would not be 'better to ondence rather than submit to the incon- me must shortl when it must become necessar to terminate the neg, new arrangements. With respect to Fran 6, ations for a commercial treaty bad been re- and ha, a so favourably received iii France, that pe might be entertained of an ultimate beneficial arrange- In reply to a clues Mr Rogsuc Sir Ro: papers which government Her Maj the bar Journal The war, and of t Sir J. GRAHAM, in i intimated that English poor at fortnight to a question from Lord J. RussELL Sir ROBERT EEL said it was intended that the vote of thanks to be proposed respecting the Affghan war was to be strictly confined to the military operations, and he did not in tend to propose the vote as expressive of any opinion upon the policy of the withdrawal of the troops from beyond the Indus. Colonel RIISHBROOKE withdrew his motion for a new writ for the borough of Sudbury. Mr. TUFNELL moved that a new writ should not issue until the 20th of March. After the motion had been as sented to, the hon. member again moved for leave to bring in ide the borough of Sudbury from sending saes to serve in parliament. to ead Mr. BLACKSTONZ moved, as an amendment, that a special committee should be appointed to inquire into the corrupt s said to have prevailed at the last election for that borough Sir R. PEEL said that nothing had occurred to alter his opinion upon this subject, and he_ should therefore support 3e disfranchisement of the borough. 'art discussion, the amendment was negatived a division, and the original motion was agreed to. onse soon after adjourned. After a s HOUSE OF LORDS.—TtrzsDAy MONTEAGI ave notice that he would take an early 'ative to the charter of the asking a question HAM entered into some explanations, with a reheusion enters: s to wh. Ad fallen from him termer Ame e obje occasion relative to the ob- rica to treaty containing a of search. In 1824, the Ameri- 3 the right atension to th ction, because it was as unlikely that waters of New York as in th loint had been waived, the ri ave been in existence for the last nine- DENMAN moved the second reading of the Law of ped the bill would receive the unani- from Lord BROUGHAM, the bill rdered to be committed on HOUSE COMMONS.-Tt Sir G. STAUNTON asked if it was the inte n ti on o f Govern- slative l-Tnnrr. iactment, for the proper went was in anti ___cipation n Sir H. Pottinger upon certain points sub in the fullest reliance upon his ability, energy, 2 from_ Mr. T. DuNcomßE as to the t with res s of Go et to church.r 1. PEEL said it was not his intention to brin g forward subject, ..e did not mean by ' 4 ' from legislating upo n the subject he should think fit to do so Mr. WALLACE moved for a select committee to inquire treatment of the unemployed and destit u t e people of ex clusive of the parochial poor) from May, 1841, part of the Government, acceded to the motion, leaving it to Mr. Wallace to constitute the Sir J. GRAHAM, Oil tE YRENCH moved for leave to bring in a bill for the better regulation and extension of medical charities in Ire land. Lord ELIOT said he saw great difficulties in the plan pro posed by the hon. member, and in candour to him he would say, that he could not promise him the support of Govern- went for the measure. Leave was then given to bring in the bill. On the motion of Mr. HUME, certain returns were ordered relative to the case of the Rajah of Sattara. Mr. ROEBUCK then moved that an address should be pre seated to her Majesty, praying for a pardon for all those per sons who had been transported from the Canadas to our penal colonies for political offences during the late outoreak The hon. and learned gentleman passed giums on the course pursued by the present Government towards the Canadas, and said that, as the leaders of the outbreak were now taken into the councils of her Majesty, he hoped that those who had acted in accord ance with their advice might be allowed to return to their C ountry, and that the Government would thus add the coping stone on the arch which it had raised, and secure, by such well-timed clemency, the affections of all classes of the people. In those colonies highest eulog' Mr. EVJART seconded the motion. Lord STANLEY said it was always ungrateful to interpose to prevent the exercise of the royal cl emenc more particularly so aftera speech - so temperate and judici ous, and so calculated to win upon the house, as that of the hon. and learned gentleman ; but still, he must say. it would be very un w i se f or the House of Commons to revive, by such a course as th at proposed, former anim osities, when, as the hon. and learned gentleman admitted, the population of the Canadas was satisfied upon the whole with the course pur sued by the British Government. He feared, that it an en tire amnesty were given to the parties in whose behalf the hon. gentleman had pleaded, those who had stood up in de fence of B ritish interests an d had risked everything to quell the treason of which those parties had been guilty, would have great reason to complain if they found that a pardon had been granted to them, and that they were once more . placed upon an equal f oot i ng with those who had stood faithfully to their allegiance. There had been no great or undue severity used in the suppression of that re b e lli on , and considering the various shades of guilt which pertained to the parties whole cause the hon. member advoc ate d, nothing could be more unjust and unwise thin t o include' them all in one general easure of pardon, whatever might be the criminality of number -- • Some we — re - We - importefseven, some or fourteen years, and some for life ; and yet to o all of them a measure of free pardon was proposed by the hon. member to be at once conceded. It would be a most dangerous inter ference with tho prerogative of the Crown, and he, therefore, hoped the house would reject the motion ; but he would, at the same time, say that the Government would be ready, in each individual case, to listen to any favourable representa tions which could be made for mercy, but to an indiscrimi nate pardon in every case he must say it would be most un- Mr. HUME thought that the Government should compl e t e -'od work which it had begun, and, not w i t h stan di ng the e parties, should grant a free par )y persons, and thus Put a final termina gs whi c h might prevail Canada. heartburnin s of guilt of the don to t ver saw a notice of motion with deeper reading that of the hon. member for •-sf ti , - object be totally disap_ It was an interte was therefore calm- which there ap- that co is fir Charle I be found i: 7pointed, an, s death.—Belfast paper. ABERDEEN R.T 1 5 zzi. said ti !specting the Affghan war would afford to st opportunity of judging of the policy of and the Indus. It was not g oar troo rom be papers except those which were 'able hon. members to form an opinion of the r of the troops and their leaders in the conduct he policy of the withdrawal. ly . to a question from Mr. WALTER, t was his intention to introduce the subject sw during the present session, but not IPORTANT LEG FECTING CORN IR SURETI Court of E. y. The r month of ley and Co Liverpoc re of t On the de posit of malt b, Witnes on the fa and r lel Co. to accept ti certain pr in for six Natural cleat, fixed i hinder part of the vehicle is lon omnibus. The fare in t it renders t ort of drag ';and of the conductor, has been placed on e manner of t carriages of the f to lessen the wor —Time pon the horses LAW INTELLIGENCE 1013thS 1 the .Ex- .gument Of Wakefiet ruary,lB4l, in the hands of Sir Joshua Wal and of Mr. Mic el Tru u) loads w gher prices, until tk the two par of its value ; they re to renew them if re -Ivanced several shilings a Saturday, about the"p lerwise be thrown for certain with a Earl of Wick- faw of MOND. t of the 3in tf Manchester - , a quar for the pu lowinz hai agreed with Art quired per load, with vonrable appearance of t higher—which proved tc newed, with an " the malt, in time to meet the latter bills derstanding t th each, hat the became Subsequ e about tl nd before the malt s sold, Armitage and indebted to the t then due. The Co. beca - me bitnkrupts, being_ at_ the tino crown nearly £7,000 for ma,. Board of Excise having ascertained that Armitage and Co. were insolvent, issued a writ of extent, and seized the whole --t' including the malt deposited in the bands . and Trueman, upon the " security" of ,ct acc led the drafts of Armitage and Co. , whether the crown had cney having had the malt re ed to them—and having accepted the bills lecific security. The object of was to compel the crown duties. no of Walms and Co which they The question now in dis a right to effect such a seizu gularly cons upon that distinct and Walmsley and Co ute wa nd Tr-uezi to give up the proceeds of the malt to them, and call upon the sureties of Armitage and . Co. to make good their defalca tion. When the case was finished, the Lord Criief Baron stated that the points which had been raised, by the argu ments of counsel, involved questions of so much importance to the trade of the country, and the excise duties, that the court would take time to consider its judgment. On Monday week, as soon as the court sat, the Lord Chief Baron deli vered the followit, judgment, which is decisive for the crown and in favour of the sureties, and proves beyond all question, that all malt and other property belonging to a maltster, with all other exciseable commodities, into whose hands they may have passed, or under whatever Circumstances they may be do acept that of a bona fida sale,) is still liable to t crown for duties upon it, or for any arrears of duty, • no security atever to any person advancin, thereon. It is also equally cle call upon the sureties, so long as there is any other property to be found. .t the crown will not Lord Abinger. in delivering the judgment of the court, said, that it had been argued by counsel for the defendant, that as the statute of the 3d and 4th Victoria. under which the writ of extent bad been issued, was not in force at the time the goods were deposited with the defendant, they could not be seized under the preceding statute of the 7th and Bth of Geo. IV., which haditeen repealed by the statute of Vic toria. The argument was a very ingenious one ; but it ap peared, that, by a former , statute of the 27th of Geo. 111., which was still unrepealed, all goods, materials, and com modities in the custody of the maker of such goods, or in the custody of any other person for the use of such maker, shall be subject to all arrears of excise duties. Now the goods in question in this case had been in the possession of the de fendant for the use of the parties indebted in arrears to the excise, the defendant being but the consignee. It appeared to the court, therefore, that the case was perfectly plain, as it was the scope of all the acts of parliament on the subject, that goods once chargeable for arrears could not be discharged except by an actual bona fide sale. No such sale had taken place in the present instance, and the judgment should, therefore, be entered for the crown. THE 7TH DRAGOON GnAuns.—After a continuous tour of home duty, the long duration of which is unprecedented in the military annals of this country, the 7th Dragoon Guards have at length been placed under orders for foreign service. They are to, proceed to the Cape of Good Hope so soon as the requisite arrangements for their conveyance thither can be completed. It has also been determined to send the Ist battalion of the 45th Regiment to the same station.—U. S. Gazette. A CONSCIENTIOUS. LEGATEE.—A Liege journal states that the brother of a shepherd at that place, who died lately at Dork, in Transylvania, has received notice of his being heir to a fortune of 1,500,000 f., which his brother had be queathed to him, but which, in the event of no claim being made by the heir, is to go to the poor of Dork. The shep herd, who is 67 years of age, has refused to touch the legacy, assigning as a reason, that he could not be happy with a for tune acquired by a man, who, by his misconduct befor e h e left France, had abridged the days of his parents. The cou sins of the old man, however, who are less scrupulous, are said to have commenced proceedings against him as a lunatic, so as to be enabled to claim as his representatives. SUDDEN DEATH OF A BROTHER OF THE LATE SIR SIDNEY SMITH.—On Tuesday, Mr. Wakley, M,P., held an inquest at the Coach and Horses, Welbeck-street, Caven dish-square, on the body of Mr. C -4 69 or 70, Park-street, Grosvpr.-- rtnev Smith, or-SQli. The dec th sed was bro- tber of the late gallan baker, No. 69 Hinde Sir Sidn ephen Stanner treet, Minc tated that the deceased, on Saturday two o'ctoc rest for a few r chair, immediate Witness, limn on the co I, but be A aurg arrival, wi Vernon S aced his r deceased, w The R his uncle had ascertained tiaat The* SNOW STOE IC DEATH OF • — 11.0.14 A HIGHLAND —The Inverness Herald details, the following melan- Ica occurred during a sr —A piper, Sutherlandshire, ar e of Dana WAskill, [MI, and accompa 13th u piper kep r appearao, Although t to the n and his colt ,d memorable 13th of Jant Riconich of R ranged with a young female, of the servant to a shepherd in Assvnt. to g at or at her sister's hOu visit to day was snowy and drift but as the girl unctions that th his Journey to should not attempt to follow him on so stormy a day. Shortly after the- girl arrived, and accustomed to the inclemency of the weather, would listen to no caution and brook no delay. She took the road and soon missed it, and became benumbed and overcome with cold. When it was discovered that she had not arrived at her destination, the whole inhabitants of the countryside turned out in quest of her. After several days of fruitless search, she was at last found frozen, in a sitting posture, beside a stream, within a mile and a half of the ferry of Kyle Sku. She appeared to have been in the act of changing her stockings for a dry pair she carried with her, when she was arrested by the hand of death ; and was found with one hand holding her plaid about 'her head, and the other resting as a support to her body upon her knee. THE STORM.—LOSS OF LIFE.—At high water this morn ing, about half-past three, the tide, owing to the strong northerly wind that lasted all the previous night, was so high in the river Thames that the houses and wharfs on the banks at Lambeth, Vauxhall, and several other places, were flooded to an alarming extent. The houses in Upper and Lower Fore -streets were inundated to the depth of upwards of ten feet. And in consequence of the rapidity of the flood, aided as it was by the wind, much damage was done to the numer ous vessels lyi ng in the river, and also to the ground-floors of the various houses, more especially to the premises be longing to Mr. Fleckney and Jr. Lancaster, publicans, whose cellar stock has been severely injured. With such rapidity did the tide overflow that the police were unable to get round towards the river side to call up the parties. The overflow in the nighbourhood of York-road was the highest ever known, and boats took the place of the usual mode of con veyance. This was also the case at High and Broad-streets, Lambeth. At Westminster-bridge the rapid current ren dered the lighters and other craft totally unmanageable, and one man, name unknown, was thrown from the steerage of a lighter by the concussion of the vessel with one of the wrecks, and has not yet been found. The lighter, however, was, after much tossing to and fro, brought to a mooring. The amount of damage done to the small vessels lying up in the river is very great. The inhabitants of the Belvidere-road, at Bankside-road, at Bankside, also sustained much loss by the overflowing of the river.— Times. SCENE IN SELKIRK COURT.—On January 31st two men belonging to Galashiels. John and Adam Dryden, brothers, were tried, on a charge of day poaching, before Major Pott and Sir James Russell, of Ashiestiel, when a scene occurred certainly very uncommon in a court of justice. One of the panels, Adam, sat with a stick in his hand, which he brand ished in a threatening manner towards the Court; keeping at the same time his bonnet on his head. The superintendent of police, seeing this, took it off, and laid hold of the stick, when in an instant two fellows jumped from the gallery and assisted the prisoner in struggling for the stick, which was broken in the scuffle. One of the justices directed the offi cers to let the prisoner alone, who accordingly wore his bon net and kept the broken stick during the whole of the trial. The result was, that the two prisoners were convicted in full penalties with expenses, which not being forthcoming, Adam was sentenced to two, and John to lour months' imprison ment. Upon this they both declared that all the officers of Selkirk should not take them to gaol; and it was only after a desperate struggle between them and the officers that they were placed in a cell in the Council-house, where they im mediately commenced breaking the windows and furniture. John Dryden was soon after dragged by the police towards the gaol, the officers being followed by some hundreds, a great part of whom seemed determined on his rescue • but he was at len g th secure l y l odged in that strong-hold. ' The su perintendent of police then called out an additional force, and having hound the other prisoner hand and foot, carried him also to the gaol. It would appear that these despreradoes have been educated in their lawless oocupation by their own father, who is at present in Jedburgh gaol for illegal fishing, and was not long ago a month in Selkirk prison for the same le.—Caledonian Mercury. NEW PATENT OMNIBUS.—A patent omnibus, constructeC for the purpose of affording greater protection and conyeni. ence to the public than are given by the vehicles now it common use, has just been completed by Mr. Warburton, ot the New -road. An experimental trip was made with it or Saturday afternoon. The patent omnibus is about the usua length, and has a coupe, over which the driver has his seat Immediately behind the coupe is the portion of the omnibus which constitutes its chief feature —this is a sort of railwa l carriage, with room for four persons, and is fitted up in suet a manner that it can, at the pleasure of those seated in it, bi made into four isolated compartments, each having its win dow on the side of the carriage. The doors of this portioi of the omnibus open like those of a private carriage, witl this difference, they are necessary double for th«. ers can be of rh ken up from an table numb ees to the gr Jid being constrained and forced to what is requested ; it is but one ti me o f bit terness and trouble but the ease, repose, and peace may be reckoned on for ever, ' e two provinces of Keangsoo and Chekeang tire, but the empire will be held altogether in As to those items in the report relating to improper, and require furthet consideration : s the barbarian ships are willing to leave the Chang river, and are also willing to retire from Chaoupaou-hill, that which they have before requested relative to a free trade at five ports, the country of Foochow must be excluded; per mission to trade thither cannot by any means be granted, but another port may be exchanged for it; they may be allowed to trade, coming and going, at the four ports—Canton, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shinghae. CHIT Act has t gues hay RATS V erial edict was re- he articles of the c ith her Britannic cted the I have riously consider the evil s to the unac people, and the important cc Ld station of the I I canno only tt be preserved trade, the —now, " As to the matter of the Hong merchants' debts, the said great ministers must necessarily accommodate themselves to circumstances, and in a perspicuous edict (explain the matter thus to the English) " The said nation has traded with China for more than 200 years, and heretofore all has been harmony and good will, and the trade has always been transacted by barter and money ; but as the Hong merchants and yourselves have be tween you mutually transacted the affairs of trade, our public officers have hitherto never examined into or troubled them selves about the trade. The affairs of the rise and fall in prices, whether low or high, are very petty, trifling matters. Further, our speech and language are unintelligible to each other, and, most decidedly, the district officers will not be able to manage the matter. " Hereafter the Chinese merchants at all the ports will adopt extraordinary modes of giving trouble and cheating, even to cutting, i. e., demanding excessive discounts, when there will be no hindrance or fear of laying a clear statement before the district officers, who will certainly punish the said merchant (delinquent) ; decidedly there will be no indulgence shown. As to the £6,000,000, it is proper that I should give them, by which my sincerity and good faith will be manifest, and they are to be collected from the salt commissioners and provincial treasuries of the three provinces of Chekeang, Keangsoo, and Gabwuy, the richest supplying the deficiencies of the poorest. As to correspondence being conducted on terms of perfect equality between the officers of the two go vernments, and the barbarians who have been made captives and the Chinese who have • been seduced (into the employ of the English)—l grant all these supplicated favours; let the —.eased, and I order that all the matters (the just mentioned) be allowed, which have been re. captives be r-1 three quested. " Further, with reference to what is contained in the report about sealing; the said barbarians do not require your seal as proof, but the imperial seal of the empire to be fixed as a guarantee (of the treaty); so I shall not fait in dignity, and the feelings of my imperial station will not be lost. " Before I have disseminated my imperial rescript& to each of the dependencies of China, all sealed with the imperial seal of the empire; and I order that my rescripts be sent under a flying seal with the despatches from the Board of the Civil-office, and they are to be forwarded in this ceremonious manner, that the clauses which had been clearly reported may be properly managed "From the time of this settlement the said great minister must specially report to the emperor, behaving with perfect sincerity ; of the things supplicated there are none which have not been granted. "From this epoch of a thorough free trade, there should be everlasting peace and harmony; your nation should also treat us with mutual, perfect sincerity; and certainly not again commence military operations, in direct opposition to heavenly principles; for not only have you already caused troubles and confusion in many provinces, but you must again come, seeking causes of quarrel and war; and just so, the coast and territories of the provinces of Canton, Fuhkeeu, Teawan (Formosa), Chekeang, Keanguan, Shantung, Chile, and Shunteen (Peking), the barbarian vessels of war are not allowed to enter and frequent. " Since, at this time, we are at peace, of the officers and troops in each province, there are some that should be sent away and others detained. We have already consulted, as to the ancient cities of China, signal pyramids and batteries ; and it is proper that they should all be rebuilt successively, according to former custom. These have not been of modern erection; but they were built for the purpose of guarding against and seizing the pirate, and were not established to guard against the said barbarians ; and we certainly must not incoherently and disorderly produce suspicion and apprehen sion in those distant provinces which have not yet beard of or possess a full knowledge of the Peace :—if any of your (barbarian) ships abruptly enter and are suddenly attacked, you must not make this a cause of screening yourselves, bor rowing pretences, and mouthing. "The whole of the above matters are wholly in the deep consideration and extreme care of the said minister and his colleagues ; let them be wholly true and sincere indeliberating and deciding, and so for ever put an end to the risings of war and there must not be the least misconception or mlsunder standing. This is not an affair or time to be idle,-or to di miss the matter in a hurried _.gard it with and serious attention reA choly inciden and irregular manner severe and serious attention rd it! —with sincere " Hurry on this edict at more than at the rate of 600 le a day, and order him (Keying) to inform himself of its con tents.—Respect this. —Canton Register, Oct. 24. GENERALS NOTT AND POLLOCK , na the Bombay Monthly Times for December.) A discussion has of late blten going on in Calcutta as to the relative merits of Generals Nott and Pollock. The subject appears to furnish so few grounds for bontroversy that it dis- .s considerable ingenuity to discover what are the points on which any comparison whatever betwixt the two can be instituted. The simplest mode, perhaps, of coming to any definite or intelligible conclusion, is to take a short review of the actions in which the two commanders have been more immediately engaged, endeavouring, by this means, to de termine the merits of each. From the time of the commence ment of the insurrection in November, till the renal retire ment of our troops, there are only four actions in which General Nott appears to have commanded—that of the 12th January, where each side numbered 5,000 men, we having the advantage of 16 guns, the enemy having none; the series of skirmishes betwixt the 6th and 13th March, where num bers were once more equal, and about the same as those above stated, but where the Affghans out-generalled us, got into our rear, and nearly succeeded in burning our canton ments; and those of the 29th August and 9th September, where Shumsooden, with 12,000 i rregu l ars , was b eaten by a British force of 7,000, with 18 guns. To proceed in detail, however. The first opportunity on which General Nott had occasion to act after the insurrection of November, 1841, was that of the I2th January, when Mahommed Atta, the insur gent chief, and Prince Sufter Jung, moved down the tirgun dab valley in the direction of Candahar, with an army of about 5,000 men. General Notes force at this time con sisted of 7.200 men, with 18 pieces of artillery. Leaving a sufficient force to defend the city, he marched out to meet them with 51 regiments of infantry, 16 guns ,and 1,000 horse, a force probably about equal to that of the enemy. Having drawn up his mel in proper order in front of them—an operation which seems to have occupied some couple of hours •—he at length opened fire • it is needless t o a dd t h at b efore such a battery, the w ild and irregular troops o f Aff g h anistan broke and fled. 150 were found dead upon the field, and about 200 more were reported to have been wounded. With 1,000 horse and 16 pieces of ordnance on the field, no attempt whatever appears to have been made to bike the enemy in flank or rear, or cut off his retreat. Her Majesty's 40th and the Bengal 39th were so galled by the matchlock fire, before the veteran general got them " in order duly sat," that they are said to have broken their ranks and rushed upon the Aff ghans. Surely there was nothing in this " victory," which the Europeans of the force with a couple of guns could readily have effected, calling for our special commendation. It is not very marvellous that 5,000 British troops, with 16 guns, should beat a similar number of Affghan irregulars without any guns at all. The next affair of which we read in the despatches is that of the 6th of March. The general once more moved out with a force of about 5,000 men and four pieces of artillery, to attack the enemy, who approached Can dahar about 6,000 strong. He appears to have suffered him self to have been decoyed by them 30 or 40 miles from the city ; when, leaving 2,000 of their troops to keep him in occu pation, the remainder got into his rear, and made a dash upon his quarters. They succeeded in setting fire to the Herat gate; and, had their fortunes been as much better as their generalship was more skilful than ours, they would to a certainty have succeeded in destroying our ammunitio n and commissariat stores, compelling us to fall back upon Quettah, 150 miles in our. rear. From 600 to 1,000 men are said to have fallen on this occasion in the attack upon the city. Nott had then less than half the requisite number of baggage cat tle. Over a part of the 150 miles he would have had to tra verse, the snow lay thick, and the whole country was bleak and barren. It was his luck, not his skill, that saved his army from a fate a few shades less disastrous only than that of Cabool. It was during the seven days' absence, from the 7th to the 13th of March, that General Nott brought into use the village-burning system, afterwards so highly pa tronised as a noble innovation in the art of civilised war ! We pass over Col. Wymer's affair of the 10th of April,—it appears to have been a brilliant one : with 1,500 men under his command, he left 300 of the enemy dead upon the field ; but this was none of the general's doings. By much the most spirited and triumphant fight in which the Candahar force ap pears to have been engaged was that of the 29th of May. The enemy were about 6,000 strong, and we had about 3,000 in the field, with a park, however, of 12 guns. The Aff ghans were not only beaten and dispersed, but pursued to their camp, with a loss of upwards of 400 men. In this, Col. Stacey appears to have had all the merit : when the fight was brought on, he was sent oat to reconnoitre. Gen. Nott does not appear to have been in the field. The desul tory, village-burning, orchard-destroying expedition which concluded the campaign, appears also to have been well-ma naged; but the arrangement of the troops sent out for duty on this occasion was all the share the general possessed in it. We now come to the preparations for the advance on Ghuz nee. It was of such sovereign importance that General Nott should keep open a line of forts in his rear connecting him with Quetta, in case of accident, that we should have no hesitation in affirming that Kelat-i-Ghilzie ought, from its position and strength, to have been re-occupied and main tained by, say 1,000 men, notwithstanding its previous aban donment. This could, however, most readily have been accomplished-7,000, the force which moved on Ghuznie, was in fact supe r fl uous l y strong for the work to be 'per formed, and troublesomely numerous for the state of the commissariat. In this case he would have had Quetta as the base of operations, connected by Killa Abdoolla, Candahar, and Kelat-i-Ghilzie, along the route of the main army, main taining a line of no less than 230 m il es running right into the centre o f t h e enemy's country, and where the troops would have beets in the most perfect condition to maintain themselves till the approach of winter made it convenient to retire. They would have proved a check to all annoyance from the rear, and kept that part of the country quiet ; and as the distance from Ghuznee round by Quetta, and across the country by Dejerat to Jellalabad is less than 100 miles, and may be traversed in eight or ten days, instead of Gen. Pollock being kept entirely in the dark as to the nature of their progress and operations, the most perfect concert might have been maintained betwixt the armies. Kelat-i-Ghilzie 320 miles, or little more than a month's march from Dadur : so that, so soon as it was ascertained that the ar mies had met at Cabool on the 17th September, the forts might have been abandoned in succession, and successive de tatcliments falling back upon each other, and all been in • in the month of November. The abandonment of eiese forts, leaving the advancing force in a state of utter soiation, seems one of the most inexplicable and censurable leasures with which even the Affghan war has supplied us. hi the 30th of August our army met with the troops of ;humsooden, mustering about 12,000 strong, with a couple f field pieces. A battle ensued—we, of course, were victo ious. General Nott, on this occasion, employed but one alf his force. Why he reserved the other half is not ex lained "an hour more of day-light would have enabled him to have destroyed their infantry ;" as it was, he merely drove them off the field so little affected brdefeat, that they were able to meet him on his way to Cabool, ten days after wards, in sitrOlar strength as before; on this occasion, again, he was merely able to'clear the. heights, and push them out of his way, without the slightest manifestation of general- ship. The preparations for the assault on Ghuznee appear to have been very judiciously managed, though not called into use; but these seem to have been attributable, to Major Sanders and the engineer and artillery officers alone. - - - We ' , are General Nott had in the arrange ments for descending the pass. The correspondents of the time spoke very generally of the contempt with which the Candahar army regarded the crowning of the heights, and other essential precautions so ably carried out iii the ad vance; and if it be so that such were their vier-- '' know little of the thing but creditable to them they wer has since then so much acerbity, and consequently uncertainty, crept into the communications of the writers of the different forces, that we shall not pursue our examination further than Cabool. We see no reason to doubt that the whole of the retiring army conducted themselves like British soldiers, and we can say no more. We have confined our observations to the military character of General Nott, whom we believe to be a brave man, who would lead a regimeat as gallantly into the fight as any one, without the fear of personal consequences, but who would always like to see at least twice as many troops around him as there was any real occasion for. This is the sort of person who is called a " safe officer"—he is un likely to lose a battle, because be will never fight where there is any chance of success for the enemy, but he is incapable of discharging the proper duties of a general. H is despatches indicate an intellect of the narrowest calibre. H o had under him as fine and well-appointed a force as ever took the field —who, when on separate duty, as under Brigadiers Wymer and Stacey, always distinguished themselves ; and who only failed to do so under General Nott because they were never furnished with opportunities. This last is the only point on which they have reason to complain of their unhappy fate. THE MURDER OF LIEUT•COLONEL STODDART AND CAPT. CONOLLY, IN BOKHARA. The fate of that distinguished officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Stoddart, distinguished alike for his talent, character, and enterprise,—massacred in the meridian of life by the mandate of an Asiatic despot, bas excited a very general interest to become acquainted with the circumstances of his original de tention, his long captivity, the varied forms of insult and cruelty to which he was exposed, and the cause of the last act of the bloody tragedy which closed his existence. It is of especial ithportance to the memory of Colonel Stoddart that some reports, which have originated without the slightest foundation, and been circulated without inquiry, should be contradicted—namely, that after his duties as military secretary to Mr. Ellis, our ambassador at the court of Teheran, were terminated, Colonel Stoddart remained in Persia on his own account, and without any official authority from the British government, and afterwards proceeded simply as a traveller to Bokhara, the capital of Asiatic Tartary. We are enabled to furnish from authentic sources the following facts :—Upon the return of Mr. Ellis, Colonel Stoddart remained attached to the mission in Persia under Sir .1. Those conversant with eastern affairs will remember the activity and efficiency of Colonel Stoddart's services in inducing the Shah of Persia to raise the siege of Herat in 1838. From Hera he was despatched by orders from government on a friendly mission to the Ameer of Bokhara. For a few days after his arrival in Bokhara he was treated with a show of hospitality. At this period many false rumours prevailed in Toorkestan respecting the designs of the English in marching an army to Affghanistan, and probably occasioned the object of his visit to be suspected. Colonel Stoddart was treacherously seized in his host's house, with his attendants, stripped and thrown into a pit, where he was left for two days without food; from thence he was taken and strictly imprisoned for nearly two years, during which time, but for the kindness of the Meershub, a police-master, and one Futoollah Beg, the gaoler, who took compassion on him, he would have perished from starvation. After months of imprisonment the state executioner was sent to put him to death, unless he would become a Mahomedan, and his grave was dug before his eyes, but he evinced no fear, and ap peared to have calmly resigned all thoughts of life, when the Meershub and Futoollah Beg, the kind gaoler, most earnestly besought him to avert so foul a murder by repeating the form required by. the Ameer, saying, " It is well known to all that your faith will remain unchanged," and on their solicitations the disguise was adopted. On the arrival of despatches from the Indian government the Ameer was convinced of the authenticity of Colonel Stoddart's commission, and releasing him from prison treated him with the highest consideration during eight or ten months, making repeated promises, alas! but delusive one s , o f re l ease . D ur i ng t h e t i me of his libera tion from restraint, Colonel Stoddart laboured most de votedly to promote the interests of his country and the enlightenment of the barbarians. At one period the inter vention of Russia in behalf of his liberation was declined, from a chivalrous feeling of honour that he should await despatches from his own country, but the arrival of applica tions for his release, both from our government in England and India, as well as others from Russia, Constantinople, Khiva, and other neighbouring states, were equally disre garded, nor were the hopes which were entertained in consequence of her Majesty addressing a letter to the Ameer destined to be realised. In consequence of intelligence which reached Bokhara of the disasters which had befallen our troops in Cabool, the tyrant threw Colonel Stoddart a second time, together with Captain Conolly, an English officer recently arrived at Bok hara, into confinement. in the house of Topshee Bashee, where they remained until June.. At that period a letter ar rived from Akhbar Khan and other chiefs at Cabool, inti mating that if the Bokhara chief feared to put the two English officers to death, as they had done those at Cabool, he had better deliver them up to the writers of the letter. Thus stimulated, the Ameer no longer hesitated. On the 13th of June, 1842, both the officers were seized and removed to the common prison. In stripping Colonel Stoddart, a pencil and some papers were discovered round his waist : the Ameer insisted upon knowing from whom they were received. Upon Colonel Stoddart's resolutely refusing to betray another to the despot's fury, he was beaten with heavy sticks, and this treatment repeated for two or three days. but in vain no re velation escaped him. On the 17th of June the Ameer gave orders that Colonel,Stoddart should be put to death in the presence of Captain Conolly. They were both led into a small square near tee prison, where Colonel Stoddart's head was cut off, and on Captain Conolly refusing to embrace Mahomedanism, he also fell under the headsman's knife. Their bodies were buried on the spot, in the graves which had been dug in their presence.' From Colonel Stoddart's earliest career to the time of his death, whether pursuing his studies at the Royal Military College, as an officer in the royal staff corps, in which he oh= tained his commission in 1823, and served in New South Wales and Canada in his post as secretary to the Naval and Military Museum, secretary to the Institution of Civil F gineers, or as a member of the mission in Persia, it too much to assert that he gained general esteem. He was indefatigable in the pursuit of general and professional know ledge, and was present within the French lines at the siege of Antwerp. Deeply devout in his principles and conduct, un shaken under his severe trials, and even acknowledging in them a spiritual blessing, after a short but eventful career his arduous duties are closed at the age of 36, beloved and mourned, not only by his relations, but by a large circle of friends, as a sincere christian, and a soldier devoted to his sovereign and country. WEST INDIES. By the Solway steamship of the West India line, the ad vices from Jamaica are brought down to the 4th of January, and from Demerara to the 3d ; from Trinidad to the 31st of December, and from Port au Prince to the 24th November. The Solway brought upwards of 600,000 dollars, and 276 bags of cochineal, The House of Legislature of Jamaica was prorogued on the 30th December to the 7th February by a speech from Lord Elgin. A new tariff had been arranged and published, with increased rates of duties. The imports and exports of Jamaica, it may be observed, show a rather remarkable fall ing off in 1842 as compared with 1840. Imports, British manufactured goods, 1840.. £1,256,881 Id. 1841.. 706,656 1842. 750,115 Exports, British manufactured goods, 18-10 392,694 1841.. 220,030 1842.. 297,698 The news from Demerara is unimportant. Complaints were made of the inconvenience to which the colony was exposed under the present system of steam-packet commu nications; and great anxiety was manifested to know the determination of the Colonial Department on the question of immigration. IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO From Mexico city the dates are to the 26th of December, and from Vera Cruz to the 28th. Another revolution had broken out and been accomplished in the capital, at the head of which General Bravo, the provisional President, placed himself with the troops. They had proceeded to shut up the hall where the Co ngress held its sittings, and to dis solve that body by proclamation. The cause was the per sistance of the members in discussing and voting a federal constitution against the known determination of Santa Anna, who was resolved on a strong central government; the only sort of government, it may truly be averred, under which Mexico is likely to prosper or remain united. Gen. Bravo subsequently nominated sixty leading persons, whose opi nions were known and who could be depended upon, whom he had constituted into an Assembly of Notables, and on whom the charge of drawing up the sort of constitution de sired was devolved. The federal party, on their side, thus deposed from functions, had issued a declaration in vindica tion of themselves and their measure. There the matter rested. In the meantime Santa Anna was at his country house, ostensibly taking no part, but in reality directing the whole affair. The revolution appears to have been effected without bloodshed. THE AFFGHAN WAR.--The following is a passage from s by t r l . a t L e ot l g arq uie Wellesley, 'ellebSulet Y now, tos y I t ' h e c ap h l e e w t r w a e d l dl knownres sed hi death of his uncle, Viscount Wellesley. It appears in a pamphlet just published by the noble Viscount, entitled, The Fifth Political World :—" Kingston-House, August 20, 1842. Your Mots aux Belges were excellent ; but we think of nothing here but our own most disgraceful riots at home and our disgraces abroad. The former I trust will be soon quelled by the firmness of the government; the latter, of which the main branch is the war in Affghanistan, was a project begun in folly and madness, tliefirst success of which, as !foretold, led to disaster and disgrace of the most appal ling kind, and would have terminated in the ruin of our no ble Indian empire, ff the grace of heavers had not interposed to save us by the d o wnfal of the Lambs. My brother Arthur and I are quite united again, thank God ; and I am on the most intimate and friendly terms with Sir Robert Peel, who is a man well deserving what he possesses in a high degree, the public confidence. Arthur holds my proxy in the House of Lords. If God will grant me health and strength for two hours, I think I could still rouse their lordships, as y ou re member to have heard me when I quoted— Duo fulmina belli.'" THE TREATY WITH RUSSIA.—The We have very great p lea s ure i n submitting to the usSlA.—The Times, o f T ues d ay, notice of our readers the treaty of navigation and commerce recently concluded with this country and R uss i a. The genera , purport of the articles (which are sixteen i u num b er) is to secu re f or t h e vessels of both nations recipr oca l privi leges and i mmun i t i e s. Thus, the ships of G reat B r i tain, on entering or d epart i ng from any Russian port, will not b e sub jected to hi g h er dut i es than those imposed on R uss i an ships, whilst, in re t urn, the latter, on entering our ports, will be treated as if t h ey we re British ; also, British an d R ussian veesels arriving from other countries than those of the con tracting parties are to be admiited on payment of the same duties as would be required of them by their respective na tions. And, generally, the vessels and subjects of the two nations are to enjoy all the privileges, in their country, to which they would be entitled in their own. Thus, whilst French orators have been disclaiming against the arrogance and pretensions of perfidious Albion—whilst the French press has been exulting in the supposed decline of British commerce —and whilst Portugal has been hampering both her own and our trade by deferring the execution of a commercial treaty which would be most beneficial to both nations—the most powerful state of northern Europe enters into a con tract which we believe will prove not less beneficial to herself than to Great Britain. We look upon this treaty as the pre lude to a relaxation of that restrictive system by which the development of Russian resources—resources infinite in their number and variety—has hitherto been obstructed ; and as the first fruits of a sound, temperate, and vigorous policy, which, with out vaunt i n g or promising much beforehand, will yet steadily and surely extend the influence of British commerce, and the fruits of British industry, to the most remote, and now most unfriendly nations of the earth." ROYAL LIVER THEATRE FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. BUCKS7'ONE THIS EVENING, (Friday,) the 10th instant, ti formances will commence with e Per- YOUTH AND AGE ; Or, The/Twiny Colonel and his Old Woman. Michael Witzgoff The Countess Xenia . . . . Mrs Fitzwilliam. After which, THE SNAPPING TURTLES. To be followed by BELLE OF THE HOTEL ; or, American Sketches The whole to conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. ktberpool gstanbatt. FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1843 The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society—as we anticipated from a body possessed of such a super fluity of misdirected zeal and distorted philanthropy— have come forward already, as the opponents of the government plan of emigration from Sierra Leone to the British West Indies, the details of which we re cently brought before our readers. The gentlemen in question are a little in the habit of moving in the dark; and we therefore know not whether it is with the ap proval of their entire body, or only' at the instance of a few zealots, who presume to lead their agitation in the name of that body, that the present step has been taken. Certain it is, however, that their petition, or rather protest, against the plan propounded by Lord Stanley, has been presented to Parliament; and we address to the entire body the few remarks which we now offer upon the subject. And first, may we ask of these gentlemen, what is it that they meditate, as the ultimate fate of those noble possessions, in which Great Britain has made a great experiment, whose result has been watched, with varied emotions, by every slave state, and by every fettered African upon the face of the globe ? We told the world that we could raise the valuable produce of the tropics, by means of free labour, CHEAPER than it could be raised, in our own or in any other tropical pos sessions, by slave labour. As yet, we have not suc ceeded. Our failure is notorious. It is acknowledged in the fact that Ihe very men, who were most sanguine in the professions which they held out of such a result being achieved, are at this moment the loudest cla mourers for the admission into British ports of the cheaper produce of slave labour in the Brazils and elsewhere ! Though aided by high discriminating du ties—though, in fact, allowed almost a monopoly of the home market—the British planter has sunk, year by year, more deeply into difficulties and embarrass ments. Noble properties have dwindled away from the hands of their possessors; once fertile plantations have become arid wildernesses; once thriving and wealthy ports—the marts of a valuable commerce— have become scenes of insolvency and beggary; and the conviction is before every man, who has discern - - ment enough to read coming events by the shadows which _ they cast before, that the time is not many months distant at which we shall be compelled to with hold the only support—the existing protecting duty— which retards the entire abandonment, by British ca pital and British enterprise, of these once• magnificent colonies. Did the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, when they urged this great experiment upon the nation —when by their agents upon the platform, or by se ductive pamphlets, they fired the public mind to this attempt—when they preached the doctrine that free labour in the tropics is cheaper than slave labour ; did that body then meditate the ruin and failure which every man of real philanthropy—every real well-wisher to the African—must now bitterly deplore ? Was it humanity towards the Negro which inspired them, or hatred—unforgiving, passionate, furious hatred—to wards the British planter ? Or was the mou s ing incite ment to their agitation that love of the admiration of ignorant assemblies—that fondness for display, when display is rewarded by the tears of sentimental misses, and the applause of the self-righteous—which to weak minds is a feeling so seductive? One of these, or all these, dilemmas, the anti-slavery party—we refer to the leaders, not the dupes—must embrace. They were designing, they were ignorant, they were unprin cipled, they were vain! To one of these, or all these, imputations they must plead " GUILTY." And now let us see towards which of the above de finitions of the motives of the body the present course of the committee points. We have said that the free labnur experiment is, as yet, a failure. For all the nobler purposes which its success was to secure, it is so. We proposed, not alone to promote the happiness and temporal comforts of our own existing Negro po pulation in the British West Indies, but to promote, as well, the adoption of our humane policy by other slave-holding states. We said we would shew them that it was the wisest policy; . that, as men of business, they must adopt it : and, in the exuberance of our imagination, we trusted that, by the temporary sacrifice we had made, we had struck a blow at the existence of slavery in every clime. In these expectations we have failed ; and, such being the acknowledged fact, what is the course which the Anti-Slavery Society pro pose to our acceptance ? We cannot produce cheaply, because we cannot procure the necessary quantity of labour; because, in fact,—and it is a striking fact— free labour tends so rapidly to THE INDEPENDENCE ! A wise and humane govern ment proposes to permit, under a strictly guarded sys tem of immigration, an additional number of the be nighted people of a benighted land —of wretched beings ' snatched from the deck of the foreign slave-trader—to be introduced into those colonies in which industry, so rapidly and surely, leads to independence : to permit the native African, torn from his wretched home and his degrading superstitions, to be placed beneath the benignant protection of British laws, and the blessed influences of civilisation and Christianity. In the ac quisition of an abundance of willing labour by such a measure, a wise and, we repeat, a humane government, sees the last, and only available, human instrumentality, by which the ruin of valuable possessions, and the failure of the measure of emancipation, may be averted. But to this proposition the British and Foreign Anti- Slavery Society says " No !" Reader, the conclusion that we are to draw from such a course—what is it ? We shall not say that the opposition of the society is grounded upon the fact, that the planter's ruin is to be averted by the proposed measure ; because in that we might be wrong, for a meddling ignoramus sometimes does not know his own motives, or has none, beyond a wish to be busy. But that pure, unmixed philanthropy has not the most dis tant connexion with the present opposition of the anti slavery people, we shall proceed to shew, by analogy. For the past six years, it is well known, that a sys tem, not of emigration, or immigration, but of migra tion, has been going on in this country. Forced mi gration, too, this was. Migration, not from the swamps of Africa to fertile Jamaica, Trinidad, or Guiana—no t from barbarism, slavery, and superstition, to civilis a tion, freedom, and Christianity —not from darkness to light;—but migration from the pure air and healthy pursuits of the agricultural districts of England, to the fetid, smoky air, and the debilitating and demoralising pursuits and society of the manufacturing districts. OF THE LABOUR The union workhoUses of the south of England have furnished the slave depots ; the commissioners of Somerset House, and the local guardians, have acted respectively the parts of the slave traders and the native princes. Pickford's boats, or a cattle train upon the railway, have supplied the luxuries of a middle passage, and the millocrats of the manufacturing districts—a quaker, by the bye, and a member of the Anti-Slavery Society (!) was the most prominent promoter of the system—have occupied the place of the slave-owning planters! Thousands of men, women, and children have been the victims of this system—to which the proposed system .of Lord Stanley is as light to dark ness—and, we ask, has the Anti-Slavery Society ever uttered—not a protest but—even a whispered depreca tion of it ? Point out to us such a thing ! You can not! The victims were WHITE; the parties benefitted were "liberal" cotton lords, free-trade quakers, phi lanthropists, and not loyal British colonists ! Gentlemen, permit us to point your attention to the result—the denouement—of this measure of hardened " liberal" infamy. We give it in the words of a " liberal" member of the House of Commons—Mr. Ward, the member for St. Albans—he of the far-famed appropriation clause. Thus spoke the gentleman in question on Friday evening last ;, "An honourable member connected with Yorkshire spoke most feelingly with respect to the labouring population in that part of the country; but he (Mr. Ward) was prepared to confirm that testimony from his own knowledge of what took place in the southern part of the island. Hundreds (of paupers removed under the migration system of the Poor Law Commissioners) were day by day coming back upon their families, ignorant of the pursuits in which those families were engaged, and therefore in a very short time becoming candidates for admission into the union workhouses." Gase upon this picture, gentlemen and ladies—phi lanthropists par excellence ! Compare it with the sys tem which you have so glibly denounced. Compare the poor African, at the end of five years, returning, with a passage paid in a government ship, to the coun try which he left penniless and little removed from the condition of a savage; possessed now of the means of moderate independence, and the knowledge of the white man's God—who is his God, too !—with the worn-out drudges of the factory, returning penniless to his or her native fields, degraded and debased by the associations to which the reckless and guilty ava rice of others has driven them. You whine of the pos sible guiltiness and danger of the former system ; you wink at the appalling evidences of guilt and danger in the latter. Oh, for a• forty-quaker power, to sing Thy praise, HYPOCRISY?" When, in our last publication, we remarked upon the naughty poetical studies of our modest friend, John Bright, we were certainly not aware that he was so soon to be brought up in his poetical career. So it has chanced, however. The exuberant fancy of the young quaker, and the ignorance of the reporters of the Manchester Guardian, have brought him into a serious dilemma. In a recent philippic, delivered in Manchester, the juvenile quaker described the sup porters of agricultural protection as lifting their hand in the face of the Almighty, and exclaiming, " THou Foot, !" We are not precise about the exact words; but the winding up—the climax of the passage— " thou Fool" is as delivered; and; as is perhaps natural, the friends of the orator have pretty universally ex cepted against the expression in question, as profane and irreligious. The objection will be admitted, and now for the ex cuse offered. The expression, it appears, from a leader in the Manchester Guardian, was borrowed from a poem by Ebenezer Elliott, the Anti-Corn-law Rhymer. Six or eight lines from the poet in question had been quoted by friend Bright ; but either the unmusical ear of the quaker had led him to mar the harmony of the versification, or the reporters had not " a soul for music"—Ebenezer Elliott, despite his virulent politics, is a poet ;—and, as the result, friend Bright's poetical burst was prosyfied, and upon himself was visited the reproach which ought to have fallen upon the Shef field vendor of steel and poetry. Now we submit this ought to he a lesson to Bright. It - ought to teach him that the utilitarian school of po litical philosophy is the very worst in which he can let off his poetical fancies; and in the next place that, amongst the professedly religious, he must steer very warily, if he hopes to be witty, or forcible, without approaching the borders of, the profane. Had we to advise so silly a youth, we should say " eschew poetry —eschew everything in the slightest degree above your very limited comprehension—talk of cotton cops, warp, weft, longcloths, power looms, mules, spindles, or the thousand-and-one matters which appertain to manufacturing pursuits ; but leave poetry and philo sophy, and all similar abstract matters, and matters of taste, to such sublimely-gifted and correct people a: Cobden or Ashworth, or John Brooks, or the editor; of the Manchester Guardian." The latter sage: never err ! In our advertising columns will be found the report of the select vestry on the subject of the alleged immo rality and insubordination in the Liverpool workhouse. We did not receive the document in sufficient time to enable us to do justice to the whole matter in our pub lication of to-day. The report, is, however, sufficiently explicit where any specific charges have been made; but such sweeping accusations as have been hurled against the Board of Guardians, the governor, and the chaplain, can with difficulty be replied to. It is im possible Eto conduct such an establishment as the workhouse without occasional acts of impropriety on the part of the inmates, but nothing we are sure, can exceed the anxiety evinced by the parochial authorities to conduct every department of the building with as great regard as possible to the morality and order of the paupers. We shall not wonder to see as the result of these proceedings the retirement of many of the honorary and other servants of the parish; and, indeed, we were informed last night that the governor has already tendered his resignation. The concluding paragraph of the report is sufficiently significant. LOCAL. NEMS We are informed that William Garnett, Esq., High Sheriff of the county of Lancaster, has appointed Mr. Thomas Car son, solicitor, of this town, his Under Sheriff. Messrs. Rawstorne and Wilson, solicitors, Preston, will transact the business of the office as usual at that place. We have much pleasure in announcing that our worthy townsman, Capt. A. D. Kellock, was, on the 7th inst., ap pointed by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company, to the command of the splendid new steam-ship,:the I3entinek, lately launched from the yard of Messrs. Wilson and Co., of this port. ASSAULT ON THE CAPTAIN OF ONE OF THE ROCK FERRY BOATS.—Samuel Ashley, captain of one of the Rock Ferry steam-packets, appeared yesterday before the magistrates, at the Birkenhead Police-court, to prefer a charge against Wm. Wright, one of the seamen in the employment of the same company, for an assault, the defendant having knocked him down and beaten him so severely, that he had been under the surgeon's hands for several days. He was find 20s. and costs. LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—We are happy to find that the evening schools of this institution will be opened on the 20th instant, with a staff of masters which must command success for it. The shipping interest w ill have ample reason to rejoice in the appointment of Mr. Edward Melling, jun., (one of the best naval draughtsmen in the town,) to the superintendence of the naval architectural department, and of Mr. J. A. Sharp, from the royal naval schools at Greenwich, (from which our merchants have hitherto obtained their cleverest apprentices,) to the depart ment of nautical astronomy and navigation. We understand that it is the intention of the directors that those students who may attend the latter classes shall be only ch arge d f or such periods of time as their stay in port may enable them to devote to their studies. THE HIBERNIA, new steam-ship, belonging to the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Company —and to be added to the fine line of packets now running between this port and Boston and Halifax—arrived here yesterday from Glasgow, where she was built. She is commanded by Captain Judkins, a gentleman who has long been in the same service. We have not yet seen the Hibernia, but learn that she is somewhat larger than the vessels now on the line ; and that experience has dictated many improvements for the comfort of those on board,—although we cannot help re marking that her predecessors, and now conjoint ships, will be " very hard to beat, either in this respect or in rapid transit across the Atlantic. We shall notice her in our next publication. THE FUNDS, WEDNESDAYIEVENING.—A sum of £50,000 invested this morning in Consols by the broker to the Ac countant in Bankruptcy gave a firme r t one to the market, though the quotations remains the same as yesterday, viz., 3-li to for money and the account; Three per Cents. Re duced are quoted 25R ; Three-and-a-half per Cents. Reduced, 1021; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 101; Long An nuities, 123 ; Bank Stock, 173 to 174 ; I n di a Stock, 267 to 268; Exche quer -bill s , 635. to 655. premium. The non-ar rival of remittances by the Solway for the payment of the dividends on Mexican stock caused a decline of nearly 2 per cent. There was a great deal of speculati on i n this security in the c ourse o f the day, which caused a fluctuation in the price, and the final quotation was 301, the partial revival being caused by the assertion that some portion of the money, though a small one, had arrived. Belgian left off 103 to 104 ; Brazilian, 751 to 761 ; Colombian, 231 t o 1; Danish, 851 to 861 ; Duth Two-and-a-half per Cents., 54* to ; Dutch Five per Cents., 103+; Portuguese converted, 371 to 38; Spanish Five per Cents., 18i to ; ditto Three per Cents., 23i- to LIVER THEATRE.—Mr. BtICICSUMO'S benefit, ~, . 1 , een, is advertised for this evenine, when 'several of P l dramas will be repr esen t e d, i n w hi c h h e an d M rs . Fitzwi" will appear. or DERBY SWEEPS.—The new mod e o f " r i s ki n g a little td the gain of much," appears to be very generally B ,l °P o y throughout the kingdom in the s p or ti ng h ouses . It w 1 seen that Mr. Whiteman, at the Brunswick note , ' opened a subscription book for this purpose. ST. DAVID'S DAY.—WC understand that the anniTe - 01 of this day will be celebrated with more than the ° pi festivities by our Cambrian friends. Lord Dungane, °° ,, e consented to preside at the din ner , w hi c h w ill t a ke pi ti " the Adelphi Hotel. THE EUROPEAN TIMES.—The attention of those 1d sail by the Great Weste rn i s d rawn t o t hi s new an d ci re publication. A more acceptable present they could n ot P $ sent to a mercantile man on a rr i va l a t th e ot h er s ide ° hi d Atlantic than a copy of this newspaper. Those who it correspondents in the State s w ill a t once perce i ve its '0 u4 03 0 imparting the latest i n t e lli gence t o t h em t h roug h it s COuo The last number was got up with care and accuracy : we anticipate this will be equally worth purchasing. n Wek MALICIOUS MISCHIEF AT WOODSIDE F ERRY .—O .- nesday last, William Barton appeared before J. Deee ev ;ol Esq., at the Birkenhead T own -h a ll, c h arge d w i t h raex c ' t y mischief to the works of the company. It appeared thetty defendant, his brother, and a person named Cochrane , 0 1 1 4 previous evening walked do wn th e s lip s h or tl y a ft er the; past ten boat load sail e d, an d th a t B arton too k the fue;tes, which was near the bottom of the slip, it being low / I 'o And wheeled it over the slip into the river. He then 11 '0 off, but was shortly afterwards taken into custody. I le tined 2s: for the offence. POACHING.--Joseph Lloyd and Thomas Porie, S ol brought before the Rev. R. M. Fielders, and J. Deane f, ro s Esq., charged with p oac hi ng i n S u tt on, on F r id ay l as t. the evidence of oue of Sir William Stanley's gamekeeri it appeared that on th e p rev i ous d ay h e f oun d severa l gie s 4 ) in a gorse cover, an d was i n consequence i n d uce d to el i ; g i the spot, when about te n o ' c l oc k on F r id ay morning hec4if 0 the defendants in the ac t o f remov i ng th em. The nang'sr,, convicted them in a pe na lty o f £1 f or the offence, and II fault of payment o r d ere d th em t o b e comm i tte d to the '4 of Correction for two months. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Wednesday an inquest weto before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Mary Black The deceased, who was twenty-five years of age, wee r ° t) ried woman, and res id e d a t N o . 16 , Bent-street. orip last six months she h a d comp l a i ne d o f a pa i n i n h er left b o but had not had medical assistance until Monday last , n‘ she got some medicine fro m th e E as t ern Di spensar y. le p it which she took. On the follo w i ng morn i ng , a t half' , tight o'clock, a female who was in the room with her OA do lying on the side of th e b e d, w i t h h er arm hanging ro and on going up, found her stiff and dead. Mr. PI surgeon, was called, and stated, that on an examinalo the deceased afte r d ea th, h e f oun d t h at sloe load died t o disease of the heart. V er di ct acco rdingly,--“ 149 ' death." NARROW ESCAP E .—A l e tt er f roth P a l ermo, date-,1 41# ult., contains the following :—The brig Alexander, Care Murray, of Liverp oo l, a t anc h or i n our roads, just esny from running ag r ou n d or b e i ng s h attered on the ro cks t ) have been deposited to lengthen the mole which protecOci inner harbour of Palermo, called. La Cala. She was a 1 3 4) to all the impetu o sity o f th e ga le' f rom E . N . E . She two cables and made repeat e d s i gna l s o f di stress. N o at' ,u e ti was made to save her, though the government had tyro P i l office steamers i n th e p or t, an d one o f them qu i te re 11 sail. The poor vessel was expected to go immedis, pieces, when 10 men belonging to English ships i n port set towards in a boat, and, by their assistanc e ',d was brought in and laid up under the protection of the r mole." : elli C ! LORD ABIN GER AN D THE CHARTISTS,—A flamin g •f , r headed " Lord Abinger, the modern Judge Jefferies , 4 posted all over Liverpool on Tuesday. By means of tleoi graceful effusion its authors convened a meeting at thel l il assembly rooms, in this town, for Wednesday eveniti Bth instant, " to take into consideration the unjust 11 11, in which his lordship soug ht t o pre j u di ce the m i n ds o f jury at the late spe c i a l comm i ss i on, an d the evidently /01: tive manner in whi c h sen t ence was passed upon some, o'ol- political victims, and a l so t o t a k e i nto cons id erat i on tu if priety of petitio n i ng par li ament f or h i s remova l fr° , o Iv bench." Of course we were no t present at the meetil:P;o 4 , the placard furthe r s t a t e d th at a lecture would be de' l .,,i by Mr. Davis, of H ow i c k; w h en a co ll ect i on wou ld be t 7it the surplus of which, after payment of the expenses, ' cc given to the " victims of Abinger's cruelties." I , 111 / THEATRE-ROYAL.—The " Schbol of Reform," -C, ton, was admirably played on Tuesday last, to a veN' house. From the applause that frequently burst 1 .. , ° ', , ,,e' appeared that this sterling comedy was greatly apPr''' . l l Mr. Rayner's Tyke was admirable in all its bearings' ij Stuart played Lord Avond a l e w i t h muc h ability. ' pl, up-hill character, and e xc it es b u t li tt l e sympathy lie! audience. Mrs. Seymour impersePettecUlfes. Fennel l _ el considerable humour and archness., .J.ti conjunctio li a Mr. Browne as Ferment, she frequentirexcited the T O to " loud laughter and cheers." Madame Simon P Mrs. Nicely v e r y n i ce ly. M r. C onway h as evideat3 stuff in him to make a good actor : he must, howevf"( down from the stilt e d s tyl e , an d a i m at b e i ng natur al lji , comedy was as well play e d as we h ave seen anytblof some time. Mr. Hammond afterwards delivered an tl ith e4, which will be f oun d e l sew h ere i n our paper tO-day. 'A' D6 l , touching upon the d a n gerous groun d o f f am il y a ff a irs, so in a way that reflects great credit upon him. A b f f ' INQUEST.—On Wednesday, an inquest was held , Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Thomas Salisbury 113 ' 0 6 son, aged 58 years. A fortnight ago deceased and 1 0 : man were engaged in loading a lorry with cases of s ° ,lo`: means of a ginn, at the Queen's Dock. One caseh tl ko t put on the lorry. While the second one was being : s e a up the deceased was standing a short distance from tu - tei ' The lorry had to be backed under the ginn, in nrder i d the case on it. As th e l orry was b ac k ing, the case t h e ? hoisted up struck against the one on th e lorry, and th e upset, and the pin at the bott om o f one o f the legs of t' il. struck the deceased on the toes of the left foot. l e / his shoe and stocking off, and it then appeared that t ge ii toe was cut underneath and bleeding. He was take!' Southern Hospital, where his foot was dressea',4 M'Clellan, surgeon, said he was called to deceased "d day he was hurt, and found he had received a fractar e s small toe of the left foot. Erysipelas had set in./ j thing was done for him, but the disease increased, ,ri died—on Sunday last. Erysipelas was the cause Potr and arising from the fracture of the toe. Verdict , A dental death." t ~,a s e" DEATH FROM A FA LL ON SIIIF-BOARD.—An ; •••• • h eV xi held on Wednesday, before Mr. Currie, on view of t 'ibq of David Jones. It appeared from the evidence tha t e dit ceased, who w as a seaman be longing to the sc h o oa thel Dixon, of Glasgow, was taken to Egremont ia L otit instance, but not b e i ng a bl e to wa lk , h e was put on rsi, steam 'boat, and bro ug ht to t h e Northern flosP" , 01 5 stated to the police-officer at Egremont that his 'I A , David Jones : an d th e i n f ormat i on given by those ill, be was to the effe c t, th a t h e h a d fallen from the znas'iesi the vessel. He compl a i ne d o f b eing hurt in h i s c f head, and there was a cut on his forehead. Mr' t De house surgeon to the N or th ern H ospital, said t i l a" 4 mined the deceased when he was brought there, a° o 6 that he had sust a i n ed a sca l p wound, with contus ions rions parts o f th e b o d y . E very thin!, as done for P; he died on Sund a y morn i ng l ast. On a post morien of nation, inflammation of the membrane of the ahtloraptee effusion of bl oo d, & c were f ound, arising from a estb! the spleen. The inflarnMation was the caus e of u r clik the rupture was the result of internal violence. P . s eti Balfour, the beadle, having stated that he had an t e that the deceased h a d rece i ve d t h e i n j ur i es of Vrilic't onboard the schoo ner name d. which was at presea t is e gow, the coroner adjourned the inquest to the 16tb_p' ~,of l 0 4 ' DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION WHILE EATING• b 0 nesday, an inquest was held before Mr. Curry , TV) coroner, on view of the body of Henry Walker. 1 1 0°) ceased, who was a sail or , was 34 years o f age. ullipoP;d, night, the deceased, his wife, and several of his ee e te pri+ sat down to supper, in hi s h ouse i n Bridges°. 1)0' They had beefsteaks and potatoes. Whilst ea ting' d t o il remarked that he st are d very h ar d at h er, and 5:100 " Henry, d on 't ma k e suc h a noise, " as he was 0 0 0 1 ,1 noise in sw a ll ow i ng . Sh e a dd e d , "D o not l oo k 505 me and make fun of me." He never spoke. Wg! up and cried ou t, " Oh , goo d G od ! he is c h o ke, slapped him on the back, and put her finger in n,... 1 ' 5e t1;, , but could no t get anyt hi ng out. She became contu.s did not know w h a t occurre d a f terwards. H e Pet „,„t. into his th roat an d tr i ed to get up the piece of male who was present ran for a surgeon, and on." ote t , the deceased was dead.—James Mugginnity, a Pa r 0 0 11 ,1 lived in the same street, heard a noise in the Yat w i t ell A to the house of deceased and found him leaning 1 10 I' a tub. He, finding deceased was choking, Pu t , !t ie I into his mouth and pulled a piece of meat out °` ate He was th en , it appeare d , d ead. Two surgeons rate came, but dece ase d was qu i te d ea d . —Th e j u ry verdict of " Death by casualty or misfortune.' o' o l l l AMATEUR THEATRICALS.—The first public l', e tic e, li s of the amateur " Shakspearian Society" took P e pe Portico, on Wednesday evening last. The pig .. s ; s 0 ,0 0 , the occasion was that beautiful creation of Bulwe' ea ttey genius, The Lady of Lyons; and we have no h saying, that, throughout the performance, there t o m r ", less necessity for the extension of that indulg e i f l‘ e rf granted to amateurs than we have ever previon' li o r! The youry , lady who sustained the part of t h e e pt manifested' considerable talent in her develor e h ety r o character. Some of her readings merit the h i g pe 0„ ° 0 . showing a deli cacy an d d epth of sensibility In thetic parts, and an energy of feeling and expres% th e portions, which would have done no discredit the t et, matured of any stage. Claude Melnotte was, uP ° lO l l,O l . , ably personated by Mr. Mortimer. The less Pa s ar; it may be, equally passionate, but less boisterou s ) p a p s' a b ii character was more to our taste—especially, P e e s) Olt tendency to rant (that stumbling-block to tY. r ed i t, dently the principal fault with which Mr. Mortj e r l i 41e, to contend. We must not forget to instance 1 10 ditaA, pels, and the Widow Melnotte, as being both er e o pPior sonations ; nor, indeed, Glavis, which, though lere a did one of the unimportant characters, was ably rend WV Vincent. This was, perhaps, as well sustaine d fo p 11 as any ; and the gentleman's conception of the 'l i d" quisite. Beauseant was a wretched caricatur es cause the part was totally unsuitable to the ta P JO, has talent) of the gentleman who played it. Del ° , l , l o ' Desehappels, and the minor characters of the "' o fu' ,4 ,4 call for particular notice. The play was most t i as e oeis t er up," (we must except to one or two of the ur ioas: r e were execrable ;) and, notwithstanding the oeee.„ e tory conduct of a scene, &c. in being shifted,amobe prised at the effect produced, when the liteit%o. e available stag e - room was taken into consi d er ati see O da chestra was tolerable. 'We did not remain t° 100 4 0 piece, The Irishman in London. The following 1 ) .) Address (co m p ose d f or t h e occasion by J. 1"' effectively spoken by Mr. Mortimer : Ere we our g l a d, ye t ar d uous tas k cornt e e elice' To pleas e a lik e your f ancy and your sen_ s ;get Your ki n d i n d u l gence wou ld we fi rs t egg For all the errors of our youthful stage; Allow not frigid criticism's eye 11; uel Harshly to scan th e scenes t h at we suPP od ta Let mercy, " bl ess i ng th ose t h a t g ive Smile on the feeble efforts that we rna"; o , ; Untried by us th e m i m i c wor ld hath h, 0 00 Where " Art a mirror holds to Nature.,7 , Content, till now, o ur p ar t s a l on e to n r "011. The world and we h ave y e t t o l e arn ou 11 4 From you, the jury of this court, vv The awful verdict th a t d ec id es our la • lout If, when our case before you has been 4 , 1 And with our inexperience duly weig hs Your censure you withhold, and kil l he re, . 0 10 Our first attempt to plant the drama _ h es I Our hearts, with joyous, hopeful thonattade'oer Shall throb, too, with the pulse of g r o / oaf But if, when you have judg'd what 1 3 Your verdict one of condemnation c a w , oe s Though our ambition may regret th io , Which gave our comedy a tragic ,c 1 t yro n ' No censures, on pour taste unjust l y Shall mingle with the failure of our ° e hnv gag And now, while gloomy fear and - ',Nvalt Rule o'er our fancies with alternatu,er it 1 1 : 7 We haste to learn our doom, wha te ta i rt tl • Better the worst, than worse uncel.... p. Yet, let me whisper this, ere I ret ires ire 'T will soften, if we still must fee l , ' a ira t To yield you pleasure is our highe!_,. 600 And your applause the only boon w'