The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-02 00:00:00

tnovenl°' lave never uiacllll theoretic ,he pert ' clianc pr actica b t we woUld amentaries st Inen , in point 0 0 when theY • aining are e , skill and a resources info roP zis subJ ec hid 10° 1 ' 1 lth of the i y m anage; pow ers ° nice 01 the those den: ibt whether fli p pantlY, their prate al econorai sy thing T at oubt, cow; irable ; and of an ea sy' undertake' vital whi ch -ection of 3 --- ry, bring an f let farm s (i t rietors v l ° agr icult ural that it ha 1 : 1 no -WiliC.l riv p rofits Id, too, th a , cements' k only tij) ith the rol l ' he f ac t that nremunerr ble farmer' , f imlO ve 1 they ilave superlatis 'kegs of the e upon ",- e en tifie nio u Britain ca° wor se tha" n , vern ent c 3O 0r 'rota/ 1 : 0 [d undertake th the Pre s : 1, which t b i ' i nacea for a t, be Icn ° ; to be O n ; n ly be d ° , /l e turn for e co ntend f a m ea sure rofitable i the war ° t winch mus dual ch an t e e ? lace, is ti_e ivator. 7 inflict en he After t t .eceived tbs iey had bee n of necessitY't ; t e m of Pi ll One notbiv one so ian c ha wided in t , g , ,eculation uti speedY 311 , on with c " i P en 7t e .t 0 with it fr ° et it. fr °r : and it is is agitation are reliev . e it ,pert}', cu lturi : st t e the foreign W aste of .converted of ag cours e d irposee; ara, excep t g a p continue r Assoc i36° l ; mess for t v-tosvO °3eri' , er susP ec t t ; e , , r b e so• ve , sings !---I'. in quest i . ol b ; n the brig , i d a tionarY a' rs ise mem o be talk tO to prornis ei° result, it of influ ence to directo or >ar ty in ° of standivl e nt ; ho t hg t friends ` v d, for the 3 o f (entletneo of re oNill ere t lo lone f or of for thosela, g the b ul r y, h e con tra en itself, iTmro, their ° l o ve they eo, with all ot , 1 unac c°t ,,ise disfranv.oil r with I Vll t i De ailed V, Of pOrl ti l°S ; e re 111CiPle S % ho se j, and w " t he father s an d rl bran' sland ers the e t i l oir )rate to it li inpathi that nr iedge bo t )s less besotted feel a ssor d e d the int eri m oll tng ptlt is dePr e ' t l :4 .- :rum s 0- 1.0 , .ctUal depres s rush gear ry. c°o o pneSS Id be 9. 10 g, fore l .y,lleti /o re of the en ik' to the V°: house the entire working population dependent upon it for support Upon an early occasion we shall take an opportunity of exposing a few of the fallacies with which the in- struments of the League party are endeavouring to seduce our operative friends. In the meantime we can only say to them, Beware of the frauds and men- dacities of this unprincipled faction ! LOCAL NEWS, The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster have re turned to Eaton-hall, from a visit to Mr. Wilbraham Eger- ton, of Tatton-park, Cheshire. THE LIVERPOOL EQUITABLE AND GENERAL AGENCY COMPANY.—We call the attention of our readers to the pro spectus of this company, detailing the various duties under taken, The terms upon which business can be transacted seem liberal, and appear to afford security as well as facility to persons employing the company. COLLEGI ATE INSTITUTION.— Signor Zandotti, one of whose poetical compositions appears in another column, is a candidate for the professorship of Italian in the Collegiate Institution The New York papers brought by the Caledonia and Great Western represent the career of Mr. George Vanden hoff in the United States, as having been exceedingly suc cessful. He was about to make his first appearance at the Tremont theatre, in Boston, in the part of Hamlet. • Amongst the passengers in the Caledonia, which arrived on Wednesday afternoon from Boston, is Madame Celeste, who has just completed a professional tour through the States. Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who, as will be seen from our summary of American intelligence, has been returned to the Canada Provincial Assembly, arrived on Wednesday by the Great Western from New York. On Saturday last, Robert Scarr Sowler, Esq., son of Thomas Sowler, Esq., proprietor of the Manchesier Courier, was called to the bar of the Middle Temple by the benchers of that honourable society The British and North American Royal Mail Steamer Acadia, which sailed from Liverpool on the 4th Nov., ar rived at Halifax early on the 15th, after a passage of 10 days and 12 hours. She would reach Boston on the 17th, in 13 days from Liverpool. SMUGGLlNG.—Yesterday. at the Police-court, Richard Pritchard, a fireman, and Thomas Rich, the cook, both of the Great Western steamer. which arrived in this port on Wednesday, were charged with smuggling tobacco. A quan tity was found upon the person of Pritchard; and the cook was stopped whilst coming ashore with a copper pan, con taining 51bs of cigars. Pritchard was fined 50s.,—in default of payment to be committed 21 days; and Rich was fined £5, or to be committed for one month. NEW IRON LIGHT-SHIP. — The new iron light-ship, "The Prince," built for the Dock Committee, by Mr. John Laird, of Birkenhead, will be launched at half-past ten o'clock to-morrow forenoon (Saturday). " The Prince" is intended for the north-west station. It is the first light-ship ever built of iron ; and we believe that in all respects it will be found worthy of the credit of the builder. The members of the Dock Committee will be present to witness the launch, after which a cold collation will be provided. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. — We learn from the New York papers that a boat, containing five men, part of the crew of the brig Linden, from Mobile to New York, had been sepa rated from that vessel in a squall, and it was supposed they had all perished. The only Englishman we recognise amongst the number, whose names are given, is George Thompson, who is described as a seaman belonging to this port. PETER. H u GIIES.—TiIiS person, who it will be remembered has been several times brought before the metopolitan ma gistrates on a charge of obtaining a considerable sum of money by representing himself as a Roman Catholic priest, was brought up at the Lambeth Police-office, on Monday, for final examination. The Rev. E. Kavanagh stated that he had about two years ago commenced erecting a chapel at Bally canoe, but that he afterwards relinquished it. The prisoner was a perfect stranger to him, and he had never, directly or indirectly, authorised him to receive subscriptions. The pri soner, who declined offering anything in defence, was fully committed to Newgate for trial. CAUTION TO PARENTS.—About a week or ten days ago a young girl, eleven years of age , named Jane W h alle y , w as sent by her parents, who live in Ormskirk, to the house of a person in Liverpool, who is a cow-keeper, for the purpose of acting as servant and milk-carri:'! . .• She was found to be too young and weak; and on Satu: - ,ay last she was sent out to find a cart to convey her back to her parents in Ormskirk. She wandered about till 12 o'clo( , !: at night, being a stranger in the ;town, and at last she was met by some of the loose women who, pretending to be her friends, conveyed her to a brothel of the lowest description in Albion-street. There she was stripped and deprived of her clothes. On Tuesday she was found in the brothel by Police-officer Edwards, and the same day she was taken to the police court for the pur pose of her history being made known to Mr. Rushton. Mr. Rushton directed the officer to enquire after the women who had stripped the girl; and yesterday Sarah Fogg was placed at the bar, and it being proved that she had pawned the child's clothes for 25., she was ordered to pay double the value and a penalty of 40s. In default of payment she was committed to prison for three weeks. COMMON INFORMERS. — On Tuesday Mary Middlebrook and Hannah Ridgely were summoned before the magistrates at the instance of an individual named M'Cullum, residing in Bay Horse-lane, London-road. for having charged, as pawnbrokers, a farthing more than legal interest, whereby they had incurred a penalty under the pawnbrokers' act. A young man stated that he pledged a cloak, which he received from M'Cullum, for 35., on the 14th of November, and re deemed it on the 19th. He was charged one penny for one month's interest, which was a farthing more than was legally due. He stated in cross examination that M'Cullum was to pay him 3s. for appearing there that day. Mr. Rushton, on examining the information, said it was bad in twelve or thir• teen different points, and therefore declared the informant out of court.—A man appeared in like manner to substan tiate a charge against William Caton, for having charged more than the legal interest. A watch had been pledged by M'Cullum, and the witness was sent by him to the pawn broker, to transfer it to his (the witness's) name. M'Cullum was called upon to prove the first pledging, but he did not answer, consequently the information was quashed. ALLEGED DESERTION or A CHlLD.—Elizabeth Carru thers, a good looking, respectably attired, girl, was placed before Mr. Rushton, on Tuesday, charged with having de serted her infant child. On Saturday last the child was found at the door of Anna Lyon's house, in Laurel-street. It was lying on the pavement, and several stones had been placed on it to keep it from rising. The prisoner had called at Anna Lyon's house about half an hour before the infant was found, and declared that she would leave it there, as the father lived there. The father, it appeared, is a man named Thomas Thompson, who frequents coach stands, and some times acts as driver. The child was returned to the pri soner. The servant of Anna Lyon said that a girl brought the child to the door, and said that she had brought a note, a parcel, and a child from a young woman who had told her to leave them there. The girl said she did not know where to find the young woman, but ultimately, after a long alterca tion between witness and the girl, the former went away with the child. Mr. Evans, of the Parish-office, said that from the habits and character of the father it would be useless to prosecute him. Mr. Ellis stated that the prisoner said she had given the child to the girl to be left at Anna Lyon's, and had written a note to the father , wh o she supposed resided there. Mr. Rushton said the case of desertion could not be sustained, and the prisoner was discharged. ALLEGED ILLEGAL DISTRAINT.-At the Police-office, on Tuesday, Mr. Wardle appeared on behalf of Mr. Shep herd, to apply for the recovery of a gig taken by Mr. Law ton, under a distraint from the Water Works Company, which distraint was directed against Mr. Oliver Penn. The recitation on the warrant was, that the distraint was under the 39th Geo. 3d. Mr. Rushton referred to the words of the act, which says that water rent " may be recovered by distraint on the goods of the persons liable to pay." Mr. Wardle contended that Mr. Shepherd was not liable to pay. Mr. Lawton contended that the premises were still Mr. Penn's, and still in his occupation, and thst he was seeking to take the benefit of the act. Mr. Wardle said Mr. Penn was not seeking to take the benefit of the act. The whole of his property had passed into the hands of Mr. Shepherd by bona fide sale. He could produce a document to that effect. Mr. Rushton said he would not interfere. THE FIRE IN DALE-STREET.—On Tuesday last an inquest was held before the borough coroner, ou view of the body of Brianna Brown, who, as we stated in the STANDARD of Tuesday, was suffocated at the late fire in Dale-street. It appeared from the evidence of the deceased's husband, that she had gone down stairs on Sunday night with a candle, to bring up some saucers, and that shortly after she went down she was heard to scream, and on the husband running to discover what was the matter, he found the back cellar in a blaze and full of smoke, so that he could not pass through it into the kitchen. He ran to the front door to give the alarm, and immediately after the deceased was found, when she seemed dead. Mr. Jeffrey, surgeon, stated, that in his opinion the deceased died from suffocation through the smoke, and the jury found a verdict accordingly. DEATH FROM DROWNING.—On Tuesday an inquest was held before P. F. Curry, Esq., to enquire touching the death of John Wallace. It appeared that the deceased belonged to the ship Chieftain, lying in the Waterloo Dock. On Sunday night last a cry for - help was heard near the above named vessel, and a Customhouse-officer and some policemen ran to the spot, when they ascertained that a man was in the water. Ropes were sent down, and one was made fast to his body, when John Wallace was drawn up. He was ex. , tremely weak and exhausted. He was carried to a receiving house, medical aid was procured, and at first he appeared to be recovering. The surgeon left him, under the impression that he was doing well. Suddenly, however, he sunk, and in a short time he died. The jury returned a verdict accord ant with the evidence. FIRE IN WEST DERBY. —Shortly after midnight on Tues day morning, a fire broke out in the granary (an outbuilding) behind the premises of M r.N,Vestmore, innkeeper, West Derby, and for some time excited considerable alarm and anxiety throughout the village. The alarm reached the fire-station in this town about half-past twelve, and two engines were immediately despatched, with a strong brigade of police, under Superintendent Hewitt, and arrived at the ground (a distance of four miles) in less than half-an-hour. They found, happily, that the fire was already extinguished by parties belonging to the village, who had procured a small engine from Croxteth Hall, and 'were well supplied with water—a scarce article there on such emergencies, unless procured by private parties. The granary contained grain, and other agricultural stores, the greater part of which was destroyed, but we have not learned to what amount. The roof of the building also fell in. The villagers, both male and female, were most active in carrying water in tubs and vessels of all sizes, and also in wheeling it up in hand-carts ; and there being a general turn-out of young and old, the scene was animated and interesting. The engines immediately returned to the town. CAUTION TO MARINE STORE DEALERS.—At the Police court, on Wednesday, a respectable-looking man, named Thomas Stretford, who carries on the business of a marine store dealer in Sawneypope-street, was brought before Mr. Rushton on suspicion of having feloniously received a number of masons' chisels and other tools, belonging to Henry Lathom and two other men in that trade. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Davenport. The complainants stated that they were employed upon a building next door to Mr. Brooke's, in Everton-road ; and that one night, about a fort night ago, they left the tools safe on the premises, but they had disappeared by the following morning.' Nothing was heard of them till Tuesday last,;when one of the complainants saw them exposed for sale in the prisoner's shop. The property being identified, the prisoner was required to explain the mode in which it had come into his possession. He said he had bought them from a person whose name was down in his book, at 2d. per pound, which was all the tools were worth. Lathom said they were worth Bd. a pound when they were new, and were worth more now than when new. Mr. Davenport said they had been bought openly, and there had b een no concealment. The prisoner said the name of the man from whom he had bought them was Thomas Jones: he did not know they were stolen, and he had given what he thought they were worth. He had commenced business only a month ago ; having been for two years before cook to her Majesty's steamer Urgent, so that lie did not know he Was doing any thing wrong. Mr. Rushton told him he ought to have been more cautions : he might be discharged, but the thief Jones must be looked after. The officer said that Jones could not at present be met with. The prisoner was then set at liberty. 13eEswiNo.—A finely-painted and moat trite portrait of " T'ould Mare "—the glory and pride of the north—is now exhibiting at Mr. Bielefield's, in North John-street. The artist is Mr. Herring, the celebrated animal painter. He has placed the animal admirably for effect. This work is to be engraved. THEATRE LAZARY.—It will be seen that this place of amusement is to be closed after Monday next, the proprietor having taken the large room at the Hop Pole Inn, Chester, where he intends remaining for a short period. The mechan ism is extremely curious. The scenery is very prettily got up. It is altogether a harmless and amusing exhibition. MAINZEIt'S MUSICAL EDUCATION. -It will be seen from an advertisement that Mr. Mainzer will give two lec tures, on the evenings of Monday and Tuesday, in this town, explanatory of his system of musical education. We perceive from the Edinburgh and Glasgow papers that Mr. Mainzer has met with great success in those towns. The system dif fers in several respects from that of Wilhem's, and is con sidered by an Edinburgh journal to be superior; but we shall be better able to judge of this after hearing the lectures which Mr. Mainzer has announced, and which we shall in all proba bility publish briefly. MEETING OP THE Docic CorIMITTEE• — The Dock Com mittee held their usual weekly meeting, yesterday, when the following members were present—Messrs. Sands, (chairman,) Horsfall, Barclay, Holt, Smith, Holmes, Molyneux, Nicol, Aikin, Bulley, Evans, Boyden, Tobin, Bold, and Shand, The sub-committee of works reported that Canning Graving Docks were ready for occupation. Some conversation took place with regard to the Clarence Graving Dock, but it was inaudible to the reporters ; the surveyor, however, stated that he was proceeding with the work as fast as possible. Mr. Shand mentioned that complaints were made by some of the pilots, that the pier-masters did not wear their uniform, and, in consequence, great confusion occurred whilst vessels were docking. The complaint was referred to the Harbour Masters' sub-committee. This being all the business the committee separated. • --- The London Times contradicts, by authority, the reports that the Jews had resolved not to appoint another spiritual head in the room of Dr. Herschel!, the late Chief Rabbi. DESTRUCTIVE Fine NEAR BRISTOL. — About seven o'clock on Tuesday Evening, a destructive fire took place upon the premises of the Messrs. Budgett, at Kingswood hill, near Bristol. The Messrs. Budgett are among the most extensive flour, sugar, tea, and general merchants iu that part of the country, and several establishments in Bristol. The warehouses were totally destroyed, together with a large quantity of sugars, cheese, coffee, &c. The proprietors are insured to the amount of £B,OOO. FIRE,:.—On Tuesday night, shortly after eight o'clock, a fire took place in the premises occupied by Messrs. Fowler and Davis, ironfounders, Jordan-street. The internal part of the building was entirely consumed. Immediately after this was extinguished, the engines were hastened off to Mr. Jones's timber-yard, where another fire had broken out. The flames were quickly mastered, and the damage done very inconsiderable. - - - - FATAL ACCIDENT. — On Wednesday night, at six o'clock, a man of the name of James Ackerly, a mason, left his house at 'Weston Point, near Runcorn, intending to pay a visit to a neighbour. The night was very dark, and by some means he lost his was and fell into one of the quarries on Weston Hill, and was precipitated to a depth of thirten yards. His thigh, arm, and jaw bone were broken, and his head was severely cut, and the poor man was almost dashed to pieces. He lingered until the following day, when he expired, leaving a wife and six small children to lament his loss. THE MAYOR'S FIRST GRAND DINNER.—The Mayor gave his first grand dinner to a party of upwards of sixty gentlemen, at the Town-hall, last evening. The following gentlemen were present :—The Rev. T. G. Leigh, the Town Clerk, Messrs. Wm. Shuttleworth, Thos. Moss, Archibald Kelso,: Braithwaite Poole, Thomas Shaw, Francis Shand, David Hodgson, Isaac Holmes, William Thornhill, William Preston, Henry Copeland, Joshua Edwards, John E. Thompson, Henry Holmes, Thomas Sands, John Holmes, Hugh Elornby, Ebenczar Rae, Sarni. Holme, John Priestly, Wm. Fawcett, Thomas Toulmin, James Lawrence, Thomas RoYden, Joseph Cooper, John Nelson Wood, Wm. Birkett, Christopher Bushell, John B. Lloyd, Robert Rigby, John Kilshaw, James Parker, Robert Jones, Thomas Brassey, James Plutnpton, George H. Lawrence, Simon L. Trotman, John Platt, Alexander Smith, John Sheppard. Richard Harbord, Thomas Holt, Thomas Bulky, Wm. P. Freme, Sir Thomas Braucker, Messrs. Thomas B. Barclay, James Moon, Richard Houghton, William Nicol, Richard Griffith, John H. Turner, Thomas Chilton, John B. Moore, Edmund Molyneux, Richard S. Crook, Henry Lawrence, Thomas Corrie, and Benjamin H. Jones. The party spent a very pleasant evening; and every one appeared extremely gratified with the sumptuous mode in which his worship commenced the hospitalities of his distinguished office. THE FUNDS.—WEDNESDAY EVENING. — The funds have not varied much. There were few dealings, and none of them of sufficient importance to influence quotations beyond the fraction. Consols for money were quoted at the close of business 941 to -a ; ditto Account, 94 to 95 ; Bank Stock, 171 to 172; India Stock, 264 to 265 ; Exchequer-Bills, 51s. to 535. premium ; India Bonds, 48s. to 503. premium ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 94; Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Re duced, 100/ to I ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 101/ to / ; and Long Annuities, 12 9-16 toll. This was settling day in foreign securities, but it brought no new feature. The fluctuation in Mexican was what the jobbers had most to contend with, but it occasioned no great difficulty, since it would seem they had prepared themselves for the winding up of the account. Mexican left off 304 to 31; Spanish Actives, 171 to 18 ; ditto Three per Cents., 22/ to ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 37/ to 81; ditto Three per Cents., 221 to 23 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. , 52 / to ditto Five per Cents., 1001 to 1014 ; Danish, 83 to 84; Colombian, 211 to ; Brazilian, 651 to 663 ; and Belgian, 1011 to 1021. AMPHITHEATRE.—The Amphitheatre has been well at tended during the week, in consequence of the attraction of Mademoiselle Camille Leroux, the French equestrian, whose first appearance we noticed in our last. It is seldom that we have an opportunity of seeing female riders in the arenas of our theatres, and those we have, with the exception of Mrs. Ducrow (late Miss Woolford), have possessed very humble pretensions to skill, grace, or agility. In Madlle. Leroux, however, these three qualities are eminently com bined. With a pleasing face and well-proportioned figure; she dances on her horse with all the facility that another artiste would do on the stage. Her footing on the animal, as Knowles says, is " Stable as the earth." Her dancing the eacitouaa is extremely beautiful. She ap pears a perfect sylphide, and executes the various pas with all that swimming motion so peculiar to the dance. The applause she obtains is immense. Mr. Northexecutes many remarkable feats on the horse : his attitudes are very pic turesque and striking. He is evidently an accomplished artist. Mr. Sands' fearless and dashing style of riding, and his dexterity in " backing the fiery steed," command at all times a general round of marks of commendation. He is a clever and graceful rider. What with the drollery of Mr. Pentland and his coadjutor,—the extraordinary gymnastic exercises of the Rivea family,—the exhibition of the Tranca Hispaniola by Mr. Derious, (a surprising feat,)—the sing ing, and banjo playing by Mr. Sweeney,—a very amusing evening's entertainment is made up. The company, we be lieve, are about leaving. CONSPIRING TO OBTAIN MONEY. — On Wednesday, a man named James Dixon, who was dressed as a porter, was placed at the bar of the police-court, on a charge of having fraudulently demanded 4s. from Mr. Parry, a druggist in Renshaw-street. Mr. Parry was in attendance, and along with him was a young man who said his name was Thomas Crisp. The complainant stated that about five o'clock the previous afternoon, Crisp called at his shop, and stated that he had recently arrived from Newport, and had taken lodgings some where in the neighbourhood, but that the goods in his land lord's house were about to be distrained for rent; as he was afraid of his trunk, which contained valuable clothing, being taken, he should feel obliged if Mr. Parry would allow it to be deposited in his shop. Mr. Parry said he had no ob jections, whereupon Crisp went away. Soon afterwards the trunk was brought by the prisoner Dixon, who said there was 4s. to be paid upon it, as it had come from Stockport. He then asked whether "Mr. Crisp" did not live there; he was told that he did not, but that as " Mr. Crisp " would call he should be informed of the amount of the charge as soon as he arrived. Seeing that he could not obtain the money he at last consented to leave the trunk. There being some suspicions excited, the trunk was opentd by a police-officer, and it was found to contain nothing but a few old rags and some brick bats. The prisoner said all lie had had to do with the matter was to deliver the trunk, which he did by the request of " Mr. Crisp." "Mr. Crisp," on being asked what he had to say, said it was not done with any intention to de fraud : he had been in Mr. Parry's company for the last day or two, and was in expectation of receiving a situ a t i on from him. 'Mr. Rushton immediately ordered him to be taken into custody. When in the dock he continued his state ment, and said he did expect a box from Newport, and he had asked Mr. Parry to pay 4s. upon it for him, which he said he had no objection to do, as he was in his way for Preston. Mr. Parry said he had made no such promise, and that the whole was a regular transaction to swindle him out of 4s. Mr. Rushton said he had no doubt of it. The prisoners were remanded ; and on being brought up again yesterday, they were both committed for trial at the next sessions. RAILWAY ACCIDENT. — On Tuesday evening last, a mos atrocious attempt was made to throw the London mail train off the Birkenhead and Chester Railway; and it might have been attended with the most disastrous consequences to human life, had not the machinations of the party been hap pily frustrated. The train left Birkenhead on the evening in question as usual, a few minutes before seven o'clock, to pro ceed on to Crewe, where it joins the Grand Junction London train, which arrives in London about five o'clock in the morning. On the train reaching Heath Lower Bridge, near the Sutton Station,:about half way between Birkenhead and Chester, a fearful concussion took place, and, the cause of it being examined, there was found a large beam of wood, called a sleeper, about nine feet long, which had been placed in the ground at an angle of 45 degrees, so as to cause the opposite end of it to come in contact with the engine ; and it had actually penetrated the engine, but most fortunately not the boiler, or it must haveburst. As it happened, however, the injury to the train was not so extensive as tr i ,,prevent it passing on to its destination. Information was 'soon conveyed to Mr. Alfred Yarrow, the engineer to the line, who immediately proceeded to the spot where the accident happened, when he found the piece of wood which had caused the accident as already related, and which had been broken in two by the force of the collision. There was also a pick, supposed to have been used for the purpose of placing the sleeper, lying on the rails. Near the spot, were the footmarks of a person, and these were traced a short distance along the line, up the embankment, and near to the cottage of a labouring man, named John Morton. In consequence of this he was taken into custody, and the boots he had on exactly fitted the marks above mentioned—one of them having a curious shaped patch on the sole. On Wednesday, Morton was brought before J. H. Harden, Esq., a magistrate of the county, at the Town-hall, Birkenhead, when the above facts were given in evidence by Mr. Yarrow, and James Booth, one of the Birkenhead police. One of the railway constables named John Davies stated, that he was in the ser vice of Mr. John Graham, railway contractor, who had con tracted to keep that part of the line in repair, and that in the performance of his duty he passed along the line where the accident happened about half-past six o'clock, and all was then safe. About six o'clock the prisoner called on him, and asked what time he was going on duty. Witness replied in about half-an-hour, on which he went home. After passing along the line witness reached the Sutton station about twenty minutes before seven. The witness then deposed to hearing of the accident about a quarter-past seven o'clock, and to noticing the footmarks as alreadyrelated. On the day previous to the concussion, the prisoner came up to witness at the spot where it took place, and in the course of conver sation said, " I wish the rails were turned upside down and the sleepers topmost—it would make some work.'' This being the whole of the evidence at presen t forthcoming, and Mr. Yarrow stating that be had reason to believe he could adduce further facts tending to implicate the prisoner, he was remanded until Saturday. THE BOURBON EXILES. — The Constitutionnel contains a private letter from Vienna, of the 19th inst., stating that the marriage of Mademoiselle, daughter of the Duchess de Berry, with the Archduke Palatine of Hungary, had been definitely agreed upon by the Aulic council. Austria, it is said, contemplates, at a future day, to erect into a palatinate, for the young couple, the provinces of Bosnia and Servia , which, she expects, will fall to her lot in the partition of Turkey. According to the same letter, M. Hyde de Neuville had been called to Goritz, for the purpose of negociating the marriage of the Duke of Bordeaux with a daughter of the Emperor of Russia, which is, it seems, a favourite plan of the Duke of Angouleme. TO THE CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS OF THE TOWN COUNCIL GENTLEMEN,—To gain an honourable victory is one thing. To reap the fruits by maintaining all the fair.and ge nuine results of victory is another thing. The special cha racteristic requisite for the former is courage ; for the latter, wisdom. You and your supporters have evinced the cou rage ; you have gained the victory ; and now you are called to the exercise of wisdom, that you, and we, and the whole community may reap the good fruits. Gentlemen, unsuspecting natures are easily taken by sur- prise ; generous men, in the conscious possession of power, are ready to exhibit the magnanimity of their generosity by unadvised concessions ; and men of unstable minds are made to hesitate, and something more, even in matters of princi ple, by the adventitious changes of outward and temporary circumstances. All these elements are now at work ; and there exists a risk at this moment, that some of you may be softly conciliated into a betrayal of some of those high Chris tian principles, for which, as a party, you have been nobly and successfully contending, I will explain myself, without pretending to any gift of prophecy. The question concerning the management of your schools will be again urged upon your consideration. You have now in the council, a gentleman who from the first has been active and prominent, and as to competency facile princeps, against what he calls the intolerance and bigotry, and exclusiveness and meanness of your party in the matter of the schools. He will not allow the question to rest, even if you all were disposed to do so ; and if he finds that you are divided among yourselves about some half measure which some of you vainly hope might have the effect of concilia tion and peace, without the compromise of any principle; he will, of course, avail himself of this, as his only hope of pre sent success. Be prepared therefore. Gentlemen, for an appeal to your sympathies, on the multitudes, the poverty, and the igno rance of the Roman Catholic population of the town ; accom panied by an appeal to your consciences upon the injustice of enforcing such regulations in your schools as amount to an exclusion of the children of those ignorant multitudes. These are topics for popular declamation, which even in the hands of an orator far inferior to Mr. Blackburn, may be made exceedingly influential upon the unwary. Be prepared, moreover, for an appeal learned in the law. You will be told (as we were all told in a letter printed in the newspapers last March, and signed T. Blackburn) that the language of the Municipal Act itself confines you in the disposal of your sur plus funds, to such objects as are for "the benefit of the in habitants, and the improvement of the borough ;" and it will be coolly taken for granted that the public benefit of the inhabitants cannot be advanced by any system of education, unless it be divested of every peculiarity to which any por tion of the public choose to object : that if any such pecu liarity be retained and enforced, the system is thereby ren dered exclusive, sectarian, and cannot therefore come within the range of the discretion given to the council by the terms of the act. It will thus be proved to demonstration, that any educational system which the act justifies the council in establishing ; in order to he so general, so universal, in its application, as to be a public benefit to all, must be so point less, so useless in itself, as to be a personal benefit to none. The question being opened, and these and similar general arguments in favour of concession having been urged, the nature and the amount of the concession itself now sought for will next be presented. And here due caution will be practised. You will not, I think, be required to reintroduce the Irish extracts. This would be going too far. Neither will you be required avowedly to exclude the authorised ver sion of the Holy Scriptures during school hours. Neither will you be required to have your schools opened and closed without prayer forthe divine blessing. All these will be osten sibly respected, so far as your Protestant children are con cerned. Neither will you be invited to sanction the intro duction into your schools of Roman Catholic Catechisms, or any other direct instruction in the peculiarities of Roman Catholic doctrine. This also would be felt to be too open an assault upon our revived and ascendant Protestantism. But you will be invited (it is quite possible that some two or three among yourselves may feel disposed to volunteer the invitation) to separate between RELIGIOUS and SECULAR instruction, and to give secular instruction only to the children of Roman Catholics. Concerning the details which must arise in the proposed practical management of this unchristian separation, differ ences of opinion will probably be found amongst you. Some of you will be disposed (at least at first) to insist upon all the children admitted to the schools, joining in the opening and closing prayer. Some of yon may require a distinct stipula tion that the Roman Catholic priests are not to be admitted into the schools on any pretence whatever. While doubtless it will be urged, on the other hand, that any such jealous and ungenerous conditions would only tend to mar the concilia tory effects of the timely concession. Various practical difficulties must be encountered, and va rious bye paths of inconsistency trodden, by those who are willing to concede the first step. But, Gentlemen, with re ference to this first, this fatal step, bear, I entreat you, with a few words, written in honest affection, by an old and un changed friend. Is secular instruction, by itself, a good thing, or an evil thing? If it be a good thing so far as it goes, and if religious education be only a better thing, then the question is open as to whether it may or may not be right and wise to give a good thing to those who will not allow you an opportunity of giving them a better thing : but if secular instruction, when systematically divested of all reference to religious principle, be actually an evil thing, then the question seems at once closed ; because whatever difference of opinion might exist about the wisdom or duty of giving a minor good, there can be no difference of opinion about the folly, and worse, the wickedness of giving what is in itself evil. Now, Gentlemen, one of the fundamental principles, for which you, and your champions and supporters, lay and clerical, have been contending all through this controversy, is—that contemplating man, as he is by nature, ever since the fall of Adam ; cultivation without counteraction, in other words, secular instruction without religious principle, is at the best only a refinement of evil, a weed forced in a hot house ; and that as Christians we could not, dare not, be parties to it. Turning to the report (published under the sanction of the committee) of the great meeting, held in the Amphitheatre, on the 13th of July, 1836, I find at page 6, in the speech of your rector, the Rev. Jonathan Brooks, the following pas- " The extract I intend to cite is one which struck me forcibly. It is from one of the charges of one of our most celebrated prelates. I am sure I shall thus do more justice to the subject, than I should by attempting to put his principles into any words of my own. It is from a charge by the present Archbishop of Canterbury. He was speaking of the difficulty of finding any system which might be in troduced into a school, so that the children of all denominations of Christians might be led to approve of it ; and he mentioned an ex pedient which had been proposed to remove this difficulty, which he states to have been as follows :--` That, as there was so much difficulty as to amount to an impossibility in agreeing on a mode which should be convenient and satisfactory to all, it had been ' " proposed that they should abandon the substance—that letters and ciphers, and morals, should be taught in our schools, but that reli gion should be left to the care of the parent, or pastor. It is my ' he says, • to lift up my voice against so injurious a compro- luty, rise !' " . . _ " I agree with this learned prelate," said Mr. Brooks, " that it would be most unwise, on religious subjects,to enter into any com promise,—(cheers,)—nay, more, as a Christian minister, I dare not do it. (Tremendous cheering.) You perceive, gentlemen, that the compromise so spoken of by his Grace the Primate, and by your own respected Rector, is precisely the compromise, now under considera tion, viz., that secular instruction letters, ciphers, and morals, should be given to some of the children, and religion left to the care of the parent or pastor. At the same great meeting, the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, after shewing how religious instruction should mingle with every lesson in geography, history, astronomy, arithmetic, said,— " If religion be dislocated from all these branches of knowledge ; if the strength and power, and pith of every day's tuitio►► be given to what is called general education, we say, to sanction such a system, is to sanction a hot bed of atheism. This arises from a fact. in which some of our modern philosophers require to be instructed, the fact of the fall of matt. Knowledge is the name given to the sym bol of man's ruin ; awl while in a state of transgression without the sanctifying power of religious principle, to cultivate the man, is t cultivate poison. To cultivate a creature whose powers are tunic away from his God, is to approximate him to hilt that tempted his Knowledge without religion, approximates a man to Beelzebub. (Prolonged applause.) After arguing this view of the subject still further, the reverend gentleman quoted in corroboration of his senti ments, the language of a noble and learned lord upon the bench, who, in a charge to the grand jury of the county of Leicester, said,— " Ile certainly would never discourage educating the lower classes of society ; but he would boldly affirm, that if the education was not founded upon a moral and religious principle, instead of becoming a blessing to the poor, it would in the end, turn out a curse. Education, without religious instruction, could not control the strong passions of the human race, and he had only again to re peat, that the various calendars throughout the circuit, had plainly convinced him,that it would be far better to leave the poorer classes of the community in ignorance, than to educate them, withoul having for the groundwork our blessed revealed religion." Statements of a similar character might be quoted from other speakers, at that, and subsequent meetings, upon this subject, from the Rev. Mr. Campbell, Mr. A. Hodgson, Mr. Sands, Mr. Thomas Horsfall, Mr. Samuel Holme : but my letter swells to au inconvenient size. Were such sentiments as these sound, conservative, seri tural, six years ago ; and are they now to be practically disregarded and forgotten? Be assured, gentlemen, that, however they may be so treated by some members of the council, they are not, and will not be forgotten or disregarded in the town. The elections for West Derby and Great George Wards, on the first day of last month, supply signifi cant proof, that this is no idle threat. No, no, the speakers of these sentiments in 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, are not men " given to change ;" and they are men who have moved, and in such a cause can again move the constituencies, both mu nicipal and parliamentary, of this great Protestant borough. I said in sucia a cause. For talented and eloquent as they are, their real strength lies in neither the one nor the other; bat in the truth of God for which they contend, and the grace of God on which they rely. Should any of you be of opinion that, after all, secular in struction must be better than none, as civilization is bette than barbarism ; I would invite yoUr attention to the only specimen which history supplies on a large scale, of civiliza tion systematically divested of all reference to religious prin ciple ; and remind you of the atheistical philosophers of the French Revolution, in comparison with whose gigantic atro cities, the worst and most degrading - cruelties of savage tribes dwindle into mere child's play. And, on an individual scale, I would ask, can any ignorant barbarians do a thousandth part of the mischief to his fellow creatures, that we have seen done by an educated infidel ? The naked chief of even a can nibal tribe, brandishing his tomakawk in thirst for human blood ! Compare him, bad as he is, with Voltaire ; and his mischief with Voltaire's mischief. Civilization without religion, is worse than barbarism, even for this world. Be determined, therefore, Gentlemen, to maintain your present Scriptural system unimpaired. Manifest this deter mination, at once, in a way not to be mistaken. Let Mr. Blackburn, and all who think as he does, see plainly : and let any of your own party, who may still have a secret han kering after some compromise, see plainly, that to press the subject upon you is nothing better than waste of time. Thus let us have peace at last, from this otherwise inter- minable agitation. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, With much respect, Your watchful and trusty friend, FIDUS ACHATES Liverpool, lst December, 1842. COLLISION OF TWO STEAMERS IN THE RIVER, AND LAMENTABLE LOSS OF LIFE. We deeply regret to state that a collision took place on the river, between two of our finest coasting steam-ships, on Wednesday night, and that the accident (for so we must as yet term it) was attended with loss of life, at the instant, to one individual, and of serious injury to several other parties, two of whom arc still in a precarious state. We have taken considerable trouble to ascertain the parti culars ; and from all we can learn, both from interested and disinterested parties who witnessed the occurrence, as well as from the observations of our reporter, who visited both vessels after their getting (luckily) into dock, the following are, we believe, the facts : The steamer, Prince of Wales, a fine iron boat, belonging to the Cork and Liverpool Company, left the Clarence-dock to proceed on her voyage to the south of Ireland, about half past eight o'clock in the _evening. She crossed the river, and got pretty close to the Cheshire shore shortly before nine. A Dublin steamer was, it is stated, close in her wake. When close to Egremont, and between that point and the Magazines—within about three-quarters of a mile southward of the Rock, and at, or nearly, nine o'clock; the weather hazy—she came in contact with the steamer. Royal Victoria, at the time inward bound from Carlisle. Capt. 141'Neilage, of the Prince of Wales, seeing an approaching vessel, imme diately ordered the helm to be put hard a-port, which is, we believe, the general " rule of the road" in these waters, and which was observed. The other vessel (which was inward bound from Carlisle), it appears, from the statement of the officers and men of the Prince, did not observe the same re gulation ; and though under easy steam, in the hurry and confusion of the moment, and with a view, no doubt, to escape, starboarded her helm ; and before measures of pre vention could be employed by either vessel, the Victoria fell athwart the hawse of the Prince, and the collision was as frightful and lamentable, as it was unexpected, on the part of both. A terrific crash took place; and on board of each vessel the general apprehension was a sinking. It is stated, on the part of the Victoria, that she was steaming up at slackened speed; that the captain (as was the commander of the other ship) was stationed at the top of the paddle-house ; that a number of lights, from vessels along the Cheshire shore, as well as those of others making downwards, were seen; and that on the approaching light of the other steamer coming into view, and rapidly approximating, the most im mediate means:of preservation were resorted to, the " rule of the road" not being available in all cases for that purpose. There are, as may be expected, sayings and surmises for and against the management of each vessel; but from what our reporter has heard and seen, we are strongly inclined to the belief that the casualty, when duly investigated, will re solve itself into one of those accidents, which it is scarcely possible to foresee, and in which, if blame is to be attached, it is equally attributable to both parties. It is not for us, however, to prejudge the matter. It must, on the inquest on the body of the deceased individual, become a subject of public enquiry and discussion, and to the forth-coming evi dence alone can we look to a satisfactory solution of the question. Meantime we give the facts, as stated to us, on board the respective vessels—both of which were fortunate in not encountering a sea-way after they were struck, and in _ reaching the dock, immediately after the concussion, the tide being still nearly at the full. The mate of the Royal Victoria stated to our reporter, — We were bound to the port from Carlisle. In running up the Cheshire shore from the Rock, we saw a great number of lights from vessels at anchor, and the engine was slowed. We saw the lights of a vessel nearing us. and called out, but they seemed to take no notice, and in a short time struck us on the starboard side. After the damage she re versed from us, and the recoil sent her off. Our engine, which had been going slow for some time, was stopped. I believe they did not see us until they came on board of us, and from the violence of the concussion she must have been going at great speed. She made a wreck of us on the star board side—as you see. The moment the concussion took place I went on the starboard paddle-box where the captain was standing, and asked him if he was hurt; and he replied no, but that he had a narrow escape. I then, by his directions, went down on deck, and heard some persons groaning under the wreck (pieces of wood).. I first saw a woman (Mrs. Dixon), and, on procuring a light, got her out. Meantime, search was made for more and a man (Savage) was found under the rubbish, who was severally hurt in his back. He was carried to the opposite deck-house. Soon after, another man (John Brown) was found under the rubbish. A cabin passenger, I believe, a doctor, came up and requested to feel his pulse. He did so, and said, he is gone, and that as nothing was laying on the top of him, we might leave him and look after the others who were hurt, and who might yet be under the ruins. We found a female (Mrs. Savage), and afterwards a man (Mr. Savage), both hurt : (M rs. h ave in par ticular. Also, another female (Mrs. Dixon), very much injured. A young man had also his shoulder put out, but was able to walk. The weather at the time was merate, and the sea smooth, b u t there was a considerable haze. od On visiting the Victoria we found that she had been struck just before the paddle-box on the starboard side. The concussion must have been tremendous, judging from its ef fect. Her side was regularly cut into, even to the water's edge, the breach being five or six feet wide at the top, and tapering down in conformity with the shape of the stem of the iron steamer. The front part, the rim (or rather plat form) of the paddle house was first struck, and operates as a fender, otherwise the vessel would probably have been cut in twain, or so much injured as immediately to sink. The outer beam of the rim, which was of great dimensions, and of African oak, as well as a stringer under the water ways, of the same material, and of at least 16 inches in width, and the timber and planks were smashed through. The deck house, for passengers, erected in front of the paddle-box, and extending 18 or 20 feet, was completely crushed into what may be called match-wood, and in this were the unfor tunate parties who were injured, at the time. It was filled with seats and other accommodations, and all of them were enjoying themselves, unconscious of their impending fate. This was all thrown upon the upper deck. The front of the paddle-house was also destroyed ; and the quantity of timber broken up, and of strong iron bolts twisted and curved by the concussion is truly astonishing. The fore rigging on the starboard side was also carried away, and the bulwarks to an extent of about 20 feet. The figure head of the Prince, or rather the figure of Britannia, in whose arms had rested the Prince, was left on the deck. The Prince had disappeared in the concussion, as well as the heads of the lions, (one on each side,) on which Britannia rested. It was this figure head, we learn, that, in demolishing the deck-house, killed poor Brown. We also visited the Prince of Wales, iron ship, on which the shock, if we except the loss of life, was scarcely less de structive. Her cut-water, figure-head, &c., were completely carried away, and her bows on both sides broken, or rather crushed and torn inwards—the breadth of two plates—a little above water-mark, making a clear opening on each side, of eight to ten feet long, and four to five feet in depth. Some remarks were made, and much talk was yesterday put afloat with reference to this vessel, to the effect that the casualty had put iron to the test, and that it was found wanting. We do not agree with such premature opinionists. No ship, be she of what materials she may, can withstand a concussion such as that under review, without serious injury, and we do not see, in this case, that a wooden vessel would, under similar circumstances, have come off better. The probability, indeed, is that she would have fared worse, by being, in ad dition to being broken in, shivered and shaken from bow to stern. The wooden ship was smashed up to a great extent : the iron ship was equally damaged. But no ship of either material can abide such a shock without incurring imminent danger of sinking, and had either of them named been in a sea-way, distant from the land, it is quite clear that they must both have gone down before they could have availed themselves of the means of repair. A number of men are now employed on each of them, and in the course of a fort night or so they will be again " fit for sea." The repairs of the iron vessel will, we learn, be more readily accomplished than those of the other. On board of the Prince of Wales, happily, only one indi vidual was injured—the steward, who, while standing in the cabin, was thrown from his balance by the force of the con cussion against the stove, and had two ribs broken. The Victoria was thrown by the shock nearly on her beamehds. The passengers and crew were nearly all on deck at the time. The sufferers in the Royal Victoria were, immediately on the arrival of the vessel in the Clarence Dock, conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where they were attended to with the greatest kindness and assiduity by Mr. Stubbs and the house surgeon of that excellent establishment, and his assistants. To the latter gentleman we are indebted for most of the following particulars, relative to the unfortunate parties who were on board the Royal Victoria : John Brown, who was killed, was a seaman, He had been paid off a few days ago, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, after a foreign voyage. He has left a wife and four children in this town—two of them daughters—fine looking young women. William Savage, and Ellen Savage, his wife. They were formerly, we learn, connected with the Sanspareil Theatre, in this town, and were on their way from Penrith to Lime rick, in the west of Ireland. William Savage has sustained a fracture of the spine, and his recovery is doubtful, if not hopeless. His wife suffers under severe contusions in vari ous parts, but is considered out of danger. Robert Unsworth, a young man, a draper's assistant, from Newcastle, on his way to Dublin. Several contusions, but not dangerous. Margaret Dixon, a married woman, from Newcastle, in tending to go by the England packet-ship to join her husband in the United States. The husband is by trade a dyer. She is severely and dangerously injured in the lower part of the taken out, having been in the centre of the fire three hours. As soon as possible it was opened, and the contents ex amined, when they were found to be precisely in the same state as when put in—neither discoloured or parched—and the gunpowder was proved to be unchanged, by igniting a small portion of it. The contents of the box were then put back again, and it was replaced in the centre of the fire, and covered up as before, where it remained until half-past nine, when the coal, having become converted into a mass of coke and clinker, the crust was broken into, and the box taken out, and examined again. The outer case was perfectly red hot, but, on opening - it, the inner box presented, to the astonished gaze of numerous spectators, as bright andfresh an appearance as when first turned out of the workman's hands., and its contents were equally free from injury or change (except so far as being slightly damp), while the temperature of the interior chamber was scarcely more than 18 degrees! The foregoing are the simple facts of this extrordinary ex periment, and witnessed by me throughout; and I cannot close this statement without observing, that so satisfied am I, from what I saw, of the perfect safety of these boxes, that I should assist in extinguishing a powder magazine on fire, in which they were exclusively used as depositories for the powder, with as much freedom from fear as if it were an ordinary dwelling-house. I remain, sir, respectfully yours, E. WELLER. Mr. Weller's Report to C. W. Williams, Esq., of the trial i❑ Liverpool of Aug. 31, 1842. City of Dublin Steam Packet Company's Office, 24, Water-street, Liverpool, Sep. 21, 1842. My Dear Sir.—The bearer, Mr. Milner, is the Inventor and Patentee of the Fire proof Boxes, and is about to visit Dublin in the course of his business, and as introduction to the influential portion of its inhabitants. he proposes to give a demonstration of the fire-proof qualities of his Boxes and Safes. I witnessed such a demonstration here, by his placing one of his boxes in the centre of an immense mass of fife, and which box contained not only Paper but even Gunpow der : after several hours in the heat of this great furnace the box was taken out, and the papers found to be all safe, and even the Gunpowder dry and as perfect as ever. Should Mr. Milner give his proposed demonstration, the subject is well worthy the patronage of the Dublin Society, and which they might extend to him by allowing the demonstration to be carried on in their premises for a few hours under the eye of such gentlemen as would take an interest in watching so interesting an experiment. Mr. Milner will explain the non conducting power of the material which protects the interior of the box from the intensity of the action of the fire. I have given Mr. Milner this note tinder the conviction of the subject being one of considerable importance. I am, faithfully yours, CHARLES W. 'WILLIAMS. Isaac Weld, Esq., Honorary Secretary to the Royal Dublin Society, Leinster-street. SAINT ANDREW'S DAY Wednesday being the anniversary of Scotland's patron saint, about 140 of his disciples, together with a slight mixture of English and Welsh, graced the large room of Mr. Halliday, Everton-brow. Mr. Ilasting filled the chair, and Mr. Gibson ably acted as croupier. The dinner, which was served in excellent style, and of the best quality, gave full satisfaction ; the cloth being drawn, the worthy chairman rose to propose the first toast. He should this time depart from a regular and well-ordered custom, and at once give the memory of him whom they had met to celebrate, " Saint Andrew ;" which was received with the usual honors. The CHAIRMAN next gave the " Queen ;" may she live long, and be as healthy and happy as he could wish her. " Prince Albert," was the next toast given ; after which, the " Prince of Wales, and all the members of the Royal Family," were proposed. Mr. JEFFREY sang the " Land o' Cakes" in excellent style. The VICE-CHAIRMAN proposed the health of all who hai e met this day for a similar purpose elsewhere Mr. HAYDOCK, kith, in good glee, sang ' want a bottle or a friend." Mr. FORMBY'S health being given and responded to, Mr. Kirkman volunteered to sing " The lass I love so well," which he completed admirably. Mr. HASTINGS gave the " Memory of Sir NY drunk in solemn silence. The Vic E-CH AIRMAN gave the " Town and trade of Liver pool ;" with three times three. The CHAIRMAN then gave the health of Mr. M`George, Everton, and fully detailed the strong attachment which has, for nearly a period of thirty years, bound the worthy " father" of this homely gathering to the cause which it was meant to celebrate, and to the locality in which it was held. Mr. WGEoßGEreturned thanks, and " May nae waur be amang us." Mr. Armstrong was next called upon, when be gave an original parody, entitled—" The nice old gentleman." " May we never 'alter Scott," Arise, my Muse! and sing a song Of one that 's not so old ; For kindness and goodnature too, Is worth his weight in gold. He cheers his neighbour's fireside, And helps him from his store ; He lives in peace with all around, Gives freely to the poor. 0, he's a nice old gentleman, And worth his weight in gold ! Domingo's Loch has known him long, Where he with merry glee Gazed on the curlers' eager game, Swept with the grand cockee ; While beef and greens, at close of day, Gave zest to mountain dew ; He played the game twice o'er again Amongst the jovial crew. 0, he's a nice old gentleman, &c In summer days the bowling-green Found him with bowl in hand, To play match or game he ne'er Would with a:neighbour stand ; And once, upon St. George's Green, He bore away the prize, While mighty players stood around, And stared with all their eyes. 0, he's a nice old gentleman, &c, Saint Andrew's night at Halliday's Would soon be but a name, Its spirit and its soul be lost To pleasure and to fame, Should our M`George be called away From us, and did not share The merry song and cheering glass, Nor fill his happy chair. For he's a nice old gentleman, &C Then long may health and peace be his, And may he never know The pains and sorrows that await Us mortals here below ; But may his gentle soul take flight From earth unto the skies ; And take its everlasting place With Him that never dies. 0, he's a nice old gentleman, Scc The CHAIRMAN then introduced the Ayrshire bard, Hr. Ramsey, and highly eulogised the living merit which had that night honoured them with its company. Mr. RAMSEY returned his sincere thanks. Dr. DILLON sang in good style "The thistle and shamrock so green," and called upon Mr. Dalziel, by whom Tanna hill's beautiful song, " 0, are ye sleeping, Maggie ?" was sung in masterly style, and elicited the highest enconiums. Mr. Dalziel then neatly proposed " The press of Liverpool." Mr. WALKER returned thanks amidst some little disorder, which the chairman appeared unable to repress; and after a few more toasts and songs the meeting separated, gratified with the evening's entertainment, but regretting that the want of order should have somewhat clouded its termination. DREADFUL MURDER AT ST. HELEN'S A dreadful murder was committed on Sunday evening, in the neighbourhood of St. Helen's, on the person of a young married female of respectable connections, the wife of a painter named Wilmot Buckley. It appears that on Sunday afternoon, after having been at church, the deceased and her husband went out together for a walk. About seven o'clock they called at a public-house in Eccleston, on the Liverpool highway, where they had each a glass of rum. This was the last time they were seen toge ther. About eight o'clock the husband went to his lodgings, near St. Helen's, and inquired for his wife, stating that he had left her for a few minutes when they were at the top of Comb-shop brow, and when he returned for her she was gone. He made inquiries for her at other places, where she had been accustomed to call ; and at last he went to bed, leaving it to be understood that he imagined she had gone to Ashton, where her mother lived, and where he would follow her in the morning. This story did not appear im probable, as it was known that her mother had invited her to Ashton to stay there till after her accouchenzent. The next morning, (Monday,) Buckley started on his way to Ashton. The same morning the body of his wife was found quite dead in a field at the top of Comb-shop brow : there was a frightful wound in the throat, the arteries of the neck being completely divided. Information being forwarded to the police, Mr. Superin tendent Storey and several officers pursued Buckley, whom they met along with his father and mother corning towards St. Helen's. He was taken into custody, and on examining his person, his shirt sleeves were found drenched in blood. CORONER'S INQUEST. (From our own Correspondent.) It having become known that John Heyes, Esq., the coroner for this division, had directed the inquest to be held on Wednesday morning, at the Eccleston Arms, at nine o'clock, a vast multitude congregated near the house, and the inquest room was filled by as many:of the respectable portion of the inhabitants as it could conveniently hold. The jury was sworn at about half-past nine o'clock; and soon after a car arrived, containing the prisoner and Mr. Storey. Buckley appeared in good spirits, and throughout the whole of the inquiry conducted himself with apparent listless ness, and preserved his equanimity in a most surprising de gree. We give the evidence in full. The first witness called was Thomas Littler, of Windle, who deposed as follows :—I am employed in sinking a coal-pit in a field adjoining the turnpike-road at Combshop-brow, in Eceleston. On Mon day morning last, the 28th instant, about twenty minutes past seven, I left my work to go to George Morton's, who lives at one of the new houses at the top of Combshop-brow, to borrow a spade. He came down stairs, and on looking through his pantry window, in the direction of the place where I had been working, he said, " Thomas, what lies yonder ? " and, on looking, I said, " It is either a man or a woman ; " and I jumped over the hedge, and went to look at it. I found it was the body of a woman, lying rather on her left side, with her head turned back over a piece of soil. On further examination, I found that her throat was cut, and that she was lying in a lake of blood. There was a cloth put into the wound in the throat, which I pulled out. It was' saturated with blood. I turned the body over, and found under it a thimble and a pair of scissors, with a chain attached to them. I took those articles with me, and afterwards gave them to Edward Mercer. I left the body as I found it, and went to inform Mr. Glover, one of the constables. The body was lying about forty or fifty yards from the turnpike-road. There is no proper road over the lipid to go to Green Bank (the place where deceased and prisoner lived), but people are in the habit of going that way. James William Glover examined, said—l examined the place where deceased lay, to see it I could find a knife or other instrument with which her throat might have been cut, but I could not find any. Deceased had on a pair of leather gloves, which were neither bloody nor soiled. Her bonnet was on her head and tied under her chin. I caused the body to be removed to the Eccleston Arms, where it now lies. of Green Bank, in b s a y i , d t —h havewife of se Johnen the Rigby, bodyof a woman lying in a Eccleston, ja ne Ri g stable, at the Eccleston Arms public-hcuse. It is the body of Elizabeth Buckley, the wife of the prisoner Wilmot Buckley, now present. They have lodged at my house to gether since March last. They had a bed-room and parlour to themselves. They seemed to live comfortably together. They used occasionally to walk out on a Sunday. On Sun day last deceased was at home all day. In the afternoon the prisoner went to church. He returned to his tea, and about half-past five they went out together to take a walk. The deceased called to me—" Mrs. Rigby, will you please to leave the key of the back door where you usually leave it, for Wilmot and I are going out for a walk, and I do not know what time I shall be back ?" I said " very well," and they went out together. They did not lock the door of their room. I went out twice, and found the key where I had left it, when I had returned about half-past eight. About a quarter before nine the prisoner came into the house. He called out, a ," Mrs. Rigby, has Elizab eth come?" and I said " No, I have not seen her; I have been out, but I found the key where 1 left it." lie said "we went to the Bird-in lewd for a walk, and as we were coming back I stopped at a lane end, and she went on. I was not more than eight or ten minutes there, when I walked on and expected to see her, but I did not, and I then thought she had gone to my sister Mary's, and I went there to see, but she had not been there, and I then thought she was come home." I said not been at home that I know of." He said he 'a a tire at all events, and he did so. The husband 01 ins sister Mary came in with him, and they remained in the room to gether about ten minutes, when they both left., the prisoner sayi to me, " Ails. Rigby, will you listen to this door ; am out, alftl I will see if I can find her ?" I said " yes, d they went away. I went to bed about ten o'cloc I was awakened by the prisoner a little past 11. who kid, "Mrs. Rigby, I cannot find Elizabeth anywhere." I answered, " you cannot find her !" and lie said " No, I have been every where that I thought likely to inquire about her, but could not find her." After he went into his room he called out that she had kft the keys of her box in, so that she could not have thought of going off any where to stop, and I said " No, how could she think of going off anywhere to stop, when she told me to leave the key for her." 1 had no further conversation with him then. I was very uneasy and got up early in the morning. It was a little before six. 1 lighted a candle and went to the prisoner's room. I called out at his door but he did not answer at first; but on calling Wilmot a second time, he said, " What ;" I said, " Elizabeth is not come ;" and he said, " No." I said, " Well, get up and go and seek her ; I never had so miserable a night in all my life." He said, " Nor I ; I have had no sleep, except a bit since four o'clock." I said, " I will leave you this candle ; light yours by it, and come down and have a cup of tea and get off to Ashton" (the residence of deceased's mother.) I left him the candle ; and in a short time I said, " Wilmot, have you lighted your candle ?" and he said, " No, I have none ; I let mine burn out last night." I said, " Well, keep that, and I will light another." He did so, and came down about six o'clock and went into his own apartment. He only re mained there about two minutes, and he then came into my room and had two cups of tea and smoked a pipe. He then went out to go to Ashton, to the deceased's mother. He told me he would go and inquire for her there. I said, " I wish she maybe gone to Ashton, as she told me her mother wished her to go there to be confined. She was expecting to be confined next month (December). It was her first child. She was married to the prisoner last January. Peter Robinson said—l keep the Bird i'th' Hand, public house, in Eccleston. I knew deceased and prisoner. They came together to my house about six o'clock on Sunday last. They had each a glass of rum and water, and.remained above half an hour. They were in a room by themselves. and I did not hear any words pass between them. They left about half-past six o'clock. John Chadwick said—l live in a cottage about two hun dred yards from the place where the bod y was found, between the latter place and the Bird i'th' Hand. As I was return ing home last Sunday night, the bell of St. Helen's Church was tolling. Before I reached home it ceased, and the little bell began to ring. This rings immediate l y before the y g o in church, which is at half-past six. When I had been in the house a few minutes, I heard a strange loud noise, which I I cannot describe. It lasted but a short time. I heard it more than once. I desired my wife to lock the door. It was then about a quarter or 10 minutes to seven. I did not go out to see what was the matter. Wm. Storey, superintendent of police, said,—On Monday morning last, in consequence of information I had received, I went to apprehend the prisoner. When I got to Haydock, on my way to Ashton, I met the prisoner coming towards St. Helen's with his father, and his wife's mother. I got out of my gig, and asked him what had become of his wife, he replied, that he had lost her the night before ; that he had occasion to go into a field, and she walked on. I then got hold of him, and searched his pockets; I found a large clasp knife, 21 shillings in silver, and 21d in copper; there are six halfcrowns, a bunch four keys, and two loose ones, a pencil case, two combs, and a purse. I also found a silk pocket handkerchief with some blood upon it, a watch and guard. I saw a little blood on the knife. I asked where he got this blood, and he replied, "it is not blood, it is red paint." I then desired him to take off his coat, and with my assistance he did so •, and, I then found both the wrists of his shirt were bloody. I then told him I charged him with the mur der of his wife ; lie made no reply. When I got him to the station-house, I was examining his trousers, and he said voluntarily, these are not the trousers 1 had on yesterday, I had a pair of black ones on, and they are at home. I pro ceeded to his lodgings, and in a box in his bed-room. I found a pair of trousers, a coat, and waistcoat ; there is blood on the cuffs and other parts of the coat, and on the trousers, but not on the waistcoat. 1 was also shown the prisoner's sitting room, and found the candlestick, now produced, with blood upon it •, from the appearance of the candlestick, it is evident the candle had burnt out of itself. Three of the halfcrowns which were in the prisoner's possession were tinged with blood. Yesterday afternoon, the prisoner knocked at h is cell door, and wished to see Mr. Greenall, the magistrate. Previously to that, he asked me to allow him to see Mr. Wood, with whom he had worked. I told him he might see him, but that I must be present. lat the same time cau tioned him not tell me or any other person anything that might implicate himself; he said he had something to com municate to Mr. Wood, who had been a friend to him, which I might hear if I choose. I went to Mr. 'Wood's house, but he was from home. I afterwards went to the prisoner's cell to see that all was right. Mr. Greenall was standing by the door. Prisoner said he wanted to see Mr. Greenall. I called to Mr. Greenall, and he went into the cell with me. John Hampson, a deserter, was in the same cell. The prisoner began to make a statement , when Mr. Greenall stopped him, and r said, the prisoner had b etter not say anything, he did wish him to hear, and that if he did say anything,it would be given in evidence against him. The prisoner then turned to me, and said, " it was me that did the deed, and I hope that you will be a, friend to me." I said, whatever you say to me, I shall have to give in evidence against you. I cannot befriend you, your case will have to go before a higher tribunal. He then stated, that he went to the Bird-in-hand, and had a glass of rum, and his wife had another ; h he ad not had one than two or three glasses all d a y ; that he left the Bird-in e hand with his wife, when the bells were ringing a little after six o'clock ; that his wife had been brow -beating hint on the road, because lie had spoken to a girl whom he had seen at Wigan •, that he had occasion to go into a field, and his wife followed him, and began to brow-beat him again ; upon which he jumped up, pulled his knife out of his pocket, and stabbed her; lie said he did not know how he did it, nor how he got out of the field ; he afterwards told me that after he had done the deed, he took three half-crowns out of her pocket; he said the knife which 1 found on him, was the knife he used. Mr. Greenall and the deserter were present when he made this confession. William Henry Scudamore sworn.—l am assistant to Mr. Garlin, surgeon, of St. Helen's. I was requested, on Mon day last, to examine the body of the deceased. I first exa mined her clothes, with a view of ascertaining if there had been anv struggle, but there had not. She was carefully and nicely dressed ; and had no marks of violence whatever, except a deep wound in the throat. The wound was about three inches in length and two in depth. I found the wind pipe and larnvx both severed, and also the two external jugular but veins : the left carotid art er y was very nearly not quite . ; the instrument had entered the substance between the fourth and fifth vertebre ; the knife now produced would be likely to inflict such a wound. The death of the deceased must have been instantaneous. It would be impossible to cry out after the infliction of the wound. The deceased ap peared to be in the last month of pregnancy. After the above evidence had been adduced, the prisoner was tnost strictly cautioned and advised not to say anything, and was particularly told that if he did say anything it would be given in evidence against him, when he made the following statement to the coroner and jury : " I went to church last Sunday afternoon, and afterwards got a cup of tea ; my wife wished me to take a walk with her, and I told her to put her bonnet on. She went up stairs and did so, and a little shawl. She told Mrs. Rigby to leave the key, saying, we, perhaps , should not be long. We went out of the front door ; and she said, `We will go this way ;' and so we went up the hill to the Bird-i'th'-hand. She had been poorly for two or three days, but felt better in the af ternoon, and wished for a walk. We had each a glass of rum. When. we were coming out we heard the St. Helen's coach coming, at least I thought it was it, and I asked her if it were the St. Helen's coach, and she said she did not know. We stopped till the coach passed us, and found it was the St. Helen's coach, and we went on after it towards home. I had been out of work a month last Monday. I belonged to the Oddfellows, and had got my card and went on tram p . I went through Manchester, and called at her aunt's where we were married from. On our way home I was telling her about an old sweetheart of mine, whom I had met at Wigan. So it made her jealous, and she began upbraiding me, and said I would look at anybody rather than her. We were going past that gate-place leading into that field by the New Houses, and I went into the field, and she followed me, still upbraiding me about this woman, and I threatened what I would do at her if she did not hold her noise about it, as it was all nonsense ; and I was so mad at her going on so, that I pulled my knife out of my pocket and stabbed her." The culprit then signed his name to this statement in a very collected manner. The jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against the prisoner, Wilmot Buckley, and he now lies at Kirkdale wait ing his trial at the March Assizes. It appears that this villain took some pains to endeavour to hide the foul crime of which he had been guilty, and really when we consider that, after having butchered a tender creature in the situation which must have called forth the sympathetic feelings of any being less hardened than a fiend, he could be so far collected as to take from the pocket of his murdered wife, whilst she was struggling in the agonies of death, the money which he knew she had on her person, in order that he might suffer no greater pecuniary loss than he could help ; we might indeed have expected that conscience had entirely lost its office, and that he would have been able to persist in his pretended ignorance of the fate of his wife ; but when he found that his schemes were not laid deep enough, and that he was taken, in the company of the mother of his victim, with the instrument which bore the marks of murder upon it, and with the blood of his wife on his arms, he was convinced that the evidence of his guilt was too glaring, and he made the confession which he felt assured it would avail him nothing to withhold. What must have been the feelings of the culprit's father, and the victim's mother, when they saw before their eyes the blood of her they were in search of matted round those arms which ought to have been her protection ! Truly, to attempt to describe them would be vain as to imagine them would be impossible. Such were the feelings of the women of St. Helen s, that they strongly desired the jury to save themselves, as well as the judge and jury who might have to try the murderer, the trouble of bringing in a verdict and sentencing the prisoner, as all they had got to do was to turn him outs large, hi a m. nd they (the women) would in a summary wayiy ipose at of gibbeting him on the spot where he had committed the aurder, and stone him to death. `she has Juld make HiLtsuoitouGra.—The Marquis of Downshire, during the Last three months, has employed no fewer than 1.200 men in draining and other public works on his extensive estates. On Saturday last, two considerable sums of money were lost by different persons un der the following circumstances. The first loss is that of a gentleman from Dumfermline, tem porarily resident in Glasgow, and who had about his person, a sum amounting to £3OO. :To secure it from all risk of ac cident he resolved to deposit it, neither in pocket nor pocket. book, but between his drawers and skin. the former being of course, securely fastened at the ancle. Instead of doing this, however, the gentleman alike accidental) and unfortu nately placed the amount between .. his drawers and trousers, and considered.all safe until his attention was directed by a boy in Castlemilk Place, Gorbals, to something he had drop ped, which he found to be a bundle of his notes that bad slip ped down, and fallen out from the mouth of his trousers. On counting the sum thereafter, he found he was minus £BO, which . had no doubt escaped from the larger bundle before the owner's attention was directed to his loss, as above stated. As yet the missing money has not been recovered , but the police have, we believe, got a clue, which_ it is hoped they may be enabled to follow out succes ck sfully.The second case is tbat of a tradesman, whb had his poet picked about 12 o'clock in the day, in Argyll-street, of £7O, The money , we believe, had been deposited in his coat-pocket, and we have not heard that there is any clue to either the thieves or the property. These losses are no doub t very painful; but still it is probable they would not have occurred had the money been placed in an inner-breast, or buttoned-trousers, pocket, as is usually the case with those who carry large sums about their person. It is plain that in the first instance . the loss was owing to the extreme caution used to guard against loss. Glasgow Mail. THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION By SIGNOR ZANDOTTI, M.A Ecco! qui sortie una superba Mole Che Illustre !nano eresse al par d'Atene, Che spezza d'ignoranza le catene, E sparge lace al par d'un altro Sole ! Questo e quel Teinpio in cui le antiche sculpt Risorgeran fra nui per comun bene, Questo e quel Polite the perenni vene Offre di Scienze a chi libar ne vuole. Ma pur, di tauta Mole ov'e it sostegno? •Ove it Pastore ? e chi n'e mai la guida ? Chi cura aver ne pub? chi ha tanto ingegno QtrEGLI*, risponde un Genio, e in lui ti affida Osserva, it vedi quei sol degno, Giovane egli e, ma in suo saper confida. * The Principal Liverpool, December Ist, 1842, We have attempted a translation of the above sonnet, but as it has been hastily made, we should not wish the merit of the original to be estimated by the faint reflection we have produced of it. Behold yon rising pile! 'Tis classic ground ! The School of Athens rising o'er the plains, To strike from ignorance her dead'ning chains, And spread the light of Science all around ! This is the Temple where of ancient lore, The renovated fires once more shall glow ! This is the Fount at whose perennial flow Who wills may drink of learning's richest store! Mighty the edifice ! But who sustains ? Where is the Pastor ? Who our steps shall guide ? Whose is the care—too great for human pains? Here is the man*—a Genius quick replied, Observe him well! Most worthily he reigns. "Youthful, but wise; in him ye may confide! *The Rev. J. W. Conybeare, Principal CORRESPONDENCE. BEGGING IMPOSTORS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Having this day received an Anti-Corn-Law League circular, and being threatened with a visit from two laciies for the purpose of making collections, I beg to give them notice, that should they call, I will immediately give them in charge of the police as begging impostors, ‘vliich is the mildest term that can be used for such abominable humbug I am, sir, &c 30th Nov., 1842 IL PHIBBS, 17, Falkner-street THE RADICALS' FRIENDSHIP OF EDUCATION TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, I see no reason why my former letter should be so much abused by men whom I am disposed to allow a quiet repose in native obscurity. If they are unwilling to run the risk of public censure, they should not be over-anxious about public praise. I beg of them not to affect surprise at the dulness of my vision. I cannot believe that a copy of Bonnycastle's Algebra is any proof either that they teach or that they are competent to teach mathematics, any more than I can be lieve that anatomy is taught in every place where I see a skull. _ _ Their salaries range between £25 and about the double of that, and I believe, and so do their employers, that that is ample compensation for all they are required to teach. To those who sneer at my remarks, I would say, the only proof I can admit of the sincerity of the friends to " better educe. ion," is, first, that they place in these schools persons com petent to give that education ; and second, that they pay them " good living salaries." I shall say no more of these teachers and their owners, if the latter will not thrust the former in our way, to shew how insincere is the one class, and how worthless the other. INVESTIGATOR. THE LATE BOATS TO WOODSIDE TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sir.,—l know not, Mr. Editor, if you have a young family roaring up to manhood, but, if so, you will, I presume, agree with me as to the necessity of every father of a family using all diligence to guard them against not only every direct sys tem of immorality, but against all indirect stratagems or prac tices leading thereto. We have at Woodside lately introduced what are called " late boats," running between us and Liverpool till twelve o'clock, the consequences of which are dreadful to contem plate, not only in their tendency to keep our youth on your side the water till very untimely hours, but also leadingthem, or at least giving them great facility; to their being led into all kinds of gaiety, which hitherto they have been kept from later than ten o'clock, as after that hour there was not, un til lately, any boat plying (unless occasionally a later boat was specially applied for and additionally paid for). You cannot conceive, sir, the great anxiety these late boats have brought upon the heads of families resident here, who have their sons apprentices or clerks to the merchants of Liverpool, they being kept almost continually in a state of alarm, not only respecting their personal safety, but theap prehension of the danger of their falling into the temptations and allurements of the various kinds of vice and dissipation they are by this arrangement constantly exposed to, to say nothing about the sort of company they are likely to meet with on board the boats traversing the Mersey at these un seasonable hours. It is a well known fact, sir, that persons of the very loosest character are occasionally availing them selves of the facilities these boats afliird of committing depre dations here, and escaping at once to Liverpool, and vice versa from your side hither. It is understood that a few owners of property at Woodside, who happen to be influential, have entertained an opinion their houses will let better to parties who are in the practice of keeping gay company and late hours, which certainly can not, or ought not to be sustained a moment in competition with the glaring improprieties thosc late heats have given rise to, the more especially, as the ferry is in the hands of the commissioners of Birkenhead, and worked for the advantage of the whole of the inhabitants, the profits arising therefrom to be placed in reduction of the rates levied upon the town ship ; and it being notorious the ferryage received from these late boats is far beneath the additional expenses of working them, it is not to be suffered the inhabitants at large should bear the loss occasioned thereby, merely to gratify the ava rice or cupidity of a very few individuals. An address or petition to the commissioners has been set on foot, requesting them to discontinue these late boats, which there is no doubt, if opportunity be afforded, will be signed by numbers of the regular and well disposed inhabi tants of this place ; which it is confidently hoped will meet their due attention, and cause them to annihilate the direful effects these late boats occasion. ith regard to the advantage the few promoters of these boats promise themselves, it may not be amiss to warn them it may ultimately be to their loss. Several inhabitants who have at heart the welfare of their youth are already medi tating a removal.—Yours, respectfully, AN INHABITANT. Woodside, Nov. 30, 1812. IS THE FREE-TRADE THEORY PRACTICALLY SOUND OR ROTTEN ? TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—The folly of men, in seeking the accomplishment of purposes totally impossible, is frequently evinced; and we ought, therefore, to be wise enough, first of all, to ask the question, "Is it possible ? " before we attempt to bring about any end, however desirable it may be. A proceeding of this sort would often save a large amount of labour, and repress many foolish hopes. This would be true of private matters, and is particularly applicable to public matters ; and to the League especially, I cannot help thinking that a few preliminary questions would have been extremely ser viceable, and would have saved them a large amount of pounds, shillings, and pence,—to say nothing of words in countless myriads, and falsehoods almost equally numerous. tind while their orators, committees, and directors are busy shout the main thing 050,000), it will not perhaps be alto gether unprofitable to men of purer motives to put the in quiry, "Is the thing practicable?" That is, is it possible that we can have a free trade "all over the world" ? For this, be assured, dear reader, is the alleged goal to which the Anti-Monopoly Association professes to be driving ; nothing less, nothing more than this, is their avowed object. In the first place, then, what are we to say of our neigh bours, France, Germany, and Russia? Will they open their ports to our manufactures of every description, on condition that our ports be opened to theirs ? Why, the idea is pre posterous in the extreme; for so long as they have labour, capital, and talent, needing employment, nothing but outright insanity could induce them to adopt those views by which their own native labour, capital, and talent, should be with drawn for the accommodation of those of Great Britain's enlightened free-traders. It is a fact that ought never to be forgotten, when-arguing on this question, that, in the coun tries in question, there has been a gradually increasing im port duty placed on all British manufactures, in proportion as those manufactures have become cheap; so that the cheaper our goods have been, the larger havebeen theirfiscal exactions and profits. The reason of this is obvious, and may be given in one word—self-defence. And then again—would the United States reciprocate the free-trade policy, and devote her own growing manufacturing population to starvation and ruin, to accommodate Richard Cobden ? So far from there being any reasonable expecta tion of this, the tariffs of the United States exhibit abundant proof that an anxious desire pervades all classes that British manufactures should be entirely excluded. They can manu facture as well as grow corn for themselves, and they can supply us with corn to boot ; and if we would condescend to consume their corn instead of our own, we should, we guess, do the very thing which they desire —enrich them and im poverish ourselves. If there exist any desire in America to reciprocate the free-trade theory, let our brainless anti-mo nopolists point it out. Are there in America any anti-ma nufacture -lave clubs ?—any anti-monopoly clubs, trying to bring about a repeal of import duties on English manufac tures? I trove not. There is, the re f ore , no probability th at America would reciprocate our policy, should we to-morrow throw open, not only the ports of this country, but of all our dependencies, to her corn. But unless France, Germany, Russia, and America would consent to repeal their imporeduties, if we repeal ours, what chance of a "free trade" even with these powers, to say nothing of " all the world " ? Each c ountry has its indige nous produce, capital, and labour to p rotect, and must ne cessarily impose restraints upon the competition of foreign ers, whenever that competition th reatens domestic prospe rity ; and although Ame r icaconutgn way wish to supply us with corn and beef, duty free , s h e would not, for the accomplish ment of this object, to destruction the total o f h er and thus d estroy a moiety o f manufacturing interes ts, resources the £50,000 w , merely to accomro the Le a gueu. ee-trade visionaries. Ifwhich care extorting f rom the gullible were to be appropriated to the of British waste lands for the growing of pockets of the see k i ng bybring American corn, or pur posefill- ing of cultivation corn, it would be a much more rational expenditure of the it to in s of such men as honest Acland. the pocket money Since, therefore, we have no reason to suppose that other than n uld reciprocate the free-trade theory, we may powers fairly conclude that the anti-monopolists are labouring under strong delusion, and are seeking to bring about an impracti cable thing, for such is the theory of " free trade all over the world " Yours, respectfully, DELTA. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday night last, the 24th instant, whilst Wm. Temple Best, Esq., of Stepple Hall, near Cloebury Mortimer, in the county of Salop, was returning home from a dinner party at Neen Savage (a mile from his residence) he was accidentally thrown from his horse, down a steep place, into the river Rea, and melan choly to relate, th e un f ortunate gent l eman was d ro wned. Nothing was known of the accident until the family became alarmed from his not returning home at the time he was ex pected ; when immediate search was made, and the marks where the horse had slipped into the river were discovered. Three watermen and a boat were immediately sent for from Bewdley, and every other means used to find the body, but it was not until Sunday afternoon that it was found.—War i eater Journal. MILNER'S FIRE BOXES The following experiments will be read with much curiosity respecting these ingenious inventions for the security of deeds, money, and other valuables, from fire. Comment is unnecessary : City of Dublin Steam Packet Company's Office, 24, Water-street, Liverpool, Sept. 1, 1842. C. W. Williams, Esq.—Dear Sir,—l beg to report to you the particulars and result of an experiment performed yes terday, for testing one of Milner's Fire-proof Boxes, con taining gunpowder, which you deputed me to witness. A circular foundation of bricks was laid down to make the fire upon, having four channels for air draft, meeting in the centre, over which four bricks were placed on end, to support the box, in order that the heat should have full play against its bottom, as well as round its sides and top. Next, a variety of documents, and a paper containing an ounce of gunpowder, were put into one of the boxes, which was fastened down in the usual manner, and placed on the four bricks above mentioned. About half a ton of coals, wood, and shavings, were then piled up round about the box, so as to completely envelope it, and the match was applied at the four openings. The fire being aided by a fresh breeze, be came, in the course of half an hour, exceedingly fierce, and continued to increase in intensity until, at about six o'clock, it exhibited one mass of glowing flame—the great heat being Perceivable inside a neighbouring building. At seven o'clock the limper part of the fiery cone was pushed off, and the box