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Standard-office, Eight o'clock. VT?..,"§ vex," nirl BY EX . E ::2'.lz) (FROM OUR orvAr CORRESPON DENT.) Manaty, 13th Oct. 1843. Two o'clock, p.m. Mr. O'CONNELL Returned to town this morning from Glencullun, about nine miles from Dublin, the seat of his son-in-law, C. Fitzsimon, Esq., wnether he proceeded on Saturday even ing to enjoy the mountain breezes yesterday. This morning's Freeman's Journal announces the usual weekly meeting of the National Repeal Association, to be held at the Corn Exchanze, at one o'clock, and that the Liberator will attend. It set forth the nature of the informations which have been sworn, and which are so voluminous that they have not yet been furnished to Mr. O'Connell, though copies have been ordered to be given to him with the utmost despatch. Among other charges set forth in the informations against the Liberator, and upon which special counts will, it is presumed, be framed, are the following:—Levy ing money off the Queen's subjects—levying money off persons the subjects of foreign governments, for the pur poses of intimidation, and for the better advancement of seditious intents—assumption of prerogative in instituting courts of law. Also for seditiously and malignantly con spiring to and with each other to endeavour to seduce her Majesty's subjects in the Army and Navy from their allegiance to the throne, with conspiring to establish courts in order to supercede the courts of justice as esta blished by law, and with an attempt to overturn the constitution as established, under the pretext of seeking for a repeal of the legislative union. A host of other allegations were made, and sundry so called seditious speeches set forth, but the only precise information we have as yet been able to obtain regarding this extrordinary and interesting document, is contained in the above. It is presumed that the informations against the other gentlemen are nearly similar to those against Mr. O'Con nell—the speeches alone excepted. The several parties have engaged the most eminent counsel at the bar for their defence, a list of whom I sub join :—The Right Hon. Dr. Pigot, Q.C.; Richard Moore, Esq., Q.C.; John Hatchell, E-q., ' C.; Sir Coleman O'Loghl , n, T. O'Hagan, Esq , and James Close, Esq., for Mr. O'Connell.—Solicitor, Mr. William Ford. For Mr. John O'Connell—Jonatha❑ Henn, Esq., Q C.; Gerald Fitzihhon, Esq , Q.C.; James Whiteside, Esq., Q. C. ; and Francis Rl•Dunagh, Esq., Q. C.; Solicitor. 2.1 r. Pierce Mahony. However, it is indispensable that a license from the Crown should be obtained by the Queen's Counsel, in all cases in which the crown is a party, which has hitherto been always granted in such cases, whether the Govern ment may exercise their right in the present instance I cannot say. The meeting of the wards I alluded to in my letter of last night passed several resolutions expressive of their un bounded confidence in the Liberator—condemnatory of the government proceedings, and urging the necessity of all who had already contributed to the Repeal, contri buting a fresh subsidy under the head of Proclamation money, but none of the proceedings were of such impor tance as to be worth transmitting in detail. To-day, Dr. Gray, Messrs. C. G. Duffy, Thos. M. Ray, Thos. Steele, Rev. James Tyrrell, Rev. Thos. Tier ney, and M r. Richard Barrett, attended at Judge Burton's, and entered into hail, themselves in £5OO, and two sure ties in £250 each. The following are the names of the sureties for Dr. Gray—Alderman Gardiner, and Robert M'Clelland, T. C. ; for C. G. Duffy. Esq.—Alderman Richard Grace, and Patrick O'Brien, T.C. ; for the Rev. Mr. Tyrrell—Thomas Carrall and Simon R chard Fraser ; for Thos. M. Ray (Secretary to the Association) — Patrick O'Brien, T.C. and John Kelch ; for Ri cha►d Barrett (who is the editor of the Pilot) T. O'Brien, Lord Mayor elect, and James Rooney; for Thomas Steel—James Rooney and Alderman M`Ken na'; for the Rev. T. Tierney—Alderman M'Kenna and Wm. M`Gennis. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. This Day, Four o'clock. Mr. O'Connell is on his legs at the Corn Exchange, (John O'Neill, Esq., of Bunowen Castle, ex-justice of the peace, in the chair,) all the avenues to which are densely crowded. Several members of the Association and gentlemen of the press have had to leave the door, being unable to procure admission. The rent, the amount of which his not yet been announced, will , it is confidently asserted, exceed Twelve Hundred Pounds. One hundred has been received from Limerick. Tne Chairman intro duced his son to the Association, handing in £5 as his subscription to the Proclamation Fund. Half-past Four o'clock. Mr. O'Connell's speech is tending in favour of a FEDERIt, UNION, and a consequent abandonment of Repeal, and is much subdued in tone. NEW LAW AiTt)INTMENTS. There is little doubt that the Rizht Honourable Francis Blackburne, Master of the Rolls, will succeed the present Justice of the Queen's Bench, and be succeeded in the Rolls by Mr. Sergeant Warren. Literature. POETRY. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. (From the Dublin Statesman and Revord.) God help thee. Church of England, In this thy time of need ; God he n this thy trial hour A present help indeed : For foes are pressing round thee, The wary a d the strong, But they who hear the name of friends Do work the deepest wrong. Thou'st been a champion for the truth, And wielded well the sword. Nor halt thy arm lost his strength To battle for the Lord. No, there are hearts within thee As true and firm as steel. Hearts that care not to drain their blood The truth they love to seal. Thy Ridleys, Cranmers, Latimers, In spirit live again; Yea, hosts of living saints hast thou Li' e to those martyred men. But there are traitors in thy walls Who give thee secret thrust, Who neath the robe of holy truth Betray their sacred trust. God help thee, Church of England, Thou art in danerons straits, And foemen they are pressing hard 'Gainst thy beleatuered gates ; But 0! may strength he given thee Amid the battle's din. To stand upon thy watch and guard 'Gainst treachery within. Furbish thy armour, make it bright, Fit on the helm and shield, And fear not now the two-edged sword OD right and left to wield. Just to thyself and to thy God, Fight manfully and true, And He. tho' earth and hell combine, Shall bring thee victor through. The prayer of faith is on thy side, Unshaken trust in heaven, And hearts that spurn the Romish chains By their forefathers riven : Thou standest on the word of truth, The sure foundation stone, Thy faith—'tis to lie justified By Christ and Christ alone. Fear not, old Church of England, Thou shalt securely stand, When God has swept thy enemies Like locusts from the land. The hoary walls cemented strong With blood of martyrs slain, Shall lift their hallowed towers to heaven While England shall remain. SELECTIONS. DESCRIPTION OF CAlRO.—After the desert—the sce nery of which may be described as a dreary flat, only di versified by sand-hills, stones, rat-holes, camel skeletons, and two trees—the view of Cairo, the " City of the Tombs," is extremely pleasing. The Nile meandering through fields of corn or rich pasture land—the white sails of the boats gliding on the river's bosom—the foliage of the gardens in the suburbs of the town—the mosques and minarets, the palaces, and the distant, though apparently proximate, pyramids—form a picture grateful to the eye. and agreeable from historical association. We dismounted at the " Great Easter n H ote l," t h e h ea d -quarters of the Egyptian Transit Company, who own the vans, horses, and boats which transport p assengers to an d f rom Suez and Alexandria. Two-third s o f t h e passengers remained at this hotel, the remainder betaking themselves to Co lombe's Hotel de l'Europe. The latter is on every ac count to he preferred by future travellers. The rooms are cleaner and more spacious—the table is more sump tuously provided—the attendance infinitely better. The charges are, in the aggregate, the same at both hotels. Fifteen piastres (the piastre is per diem, include breakfast, luncheon, dinner, tea, and bed, with cafe noir in the mornieg. Candles are charged ten piastres, and five piastres (a shilling) are included in the bill for por terage. The wipes are good in their kind, and not very expensive. Marsala, the best and most commonly drank, costs fifteen piastres per bottle, claret thirty piastres, champagne fifty piastres; bottled ale (Bass's and llodg son's) is drank at ten piastres the bottle.—Overland Trips, in the Asiatic Aar:tat. THE MCNAGEICIE Ar Itettolt.snituNs:. NEAR VIENNA. —0 a! cu.. in:pris.med antn,ls none rrntke 6t) an impresion as the eagles and vultures. T:e high soming, lords -f the air ought at Last ro have had their pris.,n-17nuse arranged in some n•easure according to their natural propen,ities. A wooden cage. with iron crating. is a fitter den for a lion or tiger than for the rock-throned eagle's nest. In this narrow dungeon they cannot even stretch their pinions, and yet tlys mo tion is no doubt es much a neces , ity to them as it is to man to stretch his arms and lees after long coutinuanc , . in a sitting or lying posture ; indeed it is evident, from the custom all imprisoned birds have of spreading their wings slowly and yawningly from time to time, The eagle and vulture sit upon their perches as motioni• ss as if they were mere stones. One whom I war n cv:,ina held his head on one side and his eves immoveat - dy fixed on the • skins; another uttered a melancholy St'll7,ii s intervals, and lifted his useless wing. Some of them are extremely old. I was told that one had been fifty years a prisoner. In fifty years, if we assume that, one way or another, an eagle can fly thirty miles a day, he might have traversed 590,000 miles; that is, he might have encompassed the earth a hundred times. Good heaven ! what a fearful destiny to feel this power within, and Utt condemned for ever to one narrow, dirty, stinking hole I As the eagles are neither cheerful here, nor display their natural pecu larities in any way, they can yield neither pleasure to the lover of nature, nor profit to the inquirer into her mysteries; and people would do much better, I am al most inclined to think, to free them at once from the burden of life, and place them stuffed in a museum.— Kohl's Austria. LABOURERS' ALLOTMENTS.—At a great agricultural meeting, at Lichfield, on Tuesday week, Sir Robert Peel thus expressed himself on this subject :—" The question was agitated last Session, with reference to the policy of allotments to farm labourers, and much important evi dence was taken ripen the subject, before a Committee of the House of Collations. I have read that evidence, and the impression on my mind, whether in a political or moral point of view, is in favour of allotting to the re spectable labourer on a farm such a small portion of land as would afford occupation to the vacant hours of himself and family, and give him an interest in the sail in com mon with the great proprietor."—On the Question of whether it was not an essential policy in landowners to secure better farming in their tenantry, by granting more extended terms, the Right Hon. Baronet said, that, on his own property all tenancies were from year to year only, according to the custom of that part of the country; but he gave notice, that he would be prepared to meet any tenants of his who might consider that they should feel it would conduce to their greater self-respect and satis faction to hold longer leases, and who was not at all pre pared to say he would withold such leases after so conferring with the parties. " Gentlemen," said the right Hon. Baronet, " I know nothing in English Society that pre sents a prospect more gratifying than a rural district well cultivated, in which subsist relations of mutual confi dence between the landed proprietor and the occupying tenant; arid, let me add, the farm-labourer. Politics, gentlemen, that is to say, politics that in anyway partake of a party character, are wisely excluded from our pro ceedings ; but it would be absurd to exclude that great and comprehensive policy which must see in the success of British agriculture one of the great foundations of na tional strength and national prosperity." LIFE IN THE HAREM.—The Eastern woman seems as happy in her lot as her European sister, notwithstand ing the plurality of wives in which her lord indulges or ventures upon. In her " public opinion's law" there is no more disparagement in occupying the second place as a wife, than there is in Europe as a daughter. The man ners of the patriarchal ages remain in Egypt as unchanged as its monuments ; and the people of Cairo no more think of objecting to a man's marrying a second wife, than those of Memphis thought of questioning the legitimacy of Joseph. The Koran, following the example of the Jewish doctor., only allows four wives to each Musselman, and they seldom avail themselves even of this limited allow ance to its fullest extent. Some hareems contain two hundred females, including wives, mother in-law, concu bines, and the various slaves belonging to each. These feminine barracks, however, seem very different from what such establishments would be in Europe. In the hareem there is as much order and decorum as in an English qua ker's home. It is guarded as the tiger guards his young; but its inmates consider this as a compliment, and fancy themselves neglected if not closely watched. This cause for complaint seld mu occurs, for the Egyptian has no blind confidence in the strength of woman's character or woman's love : he considers it safer, if not more glorious, to keep her out of the reach of temptation, than to run the chance of her overcoming it. Born and brought up in the hareem, women never seem to pine at its imprison ment : like caee•born birds, they sing among their bars, and discover in their aviaries a thousand little pleasures invisible to eyes that have a wider range. There are no literary ladies : knowing riot the thoughts of others, they associ to the more with their own ; and who can tell what wild and beautiful regions of imagination their minds may wander through, unimprisoned, if undirected by educa tion. To them, in their calm seclusion, the strifes of the battling world come softened and almost hushed ; they only hear the far-off murmur of life's stormy sea, and if their human lot dooms them to their cares, they are as transient as those of childhood.—Dublin University Ma gazine. ENGLISH AND COSSACK HORSES.—A wager was laid by Mr. Gibson, the English Consul, that two English horses would beat any two Cossack horses which could be selected, at a race of 50 versts, or upwards of 33 Eng lish miles. This took place long after the Cossack horses had been improved by the admixture of English and Ara bian blood, and Mr Gibson had no particular horses in his view. He commissioned a friend to send two hunters for the purpose. Two tolerably well bred, but at that date naturally not thorough-bred, hunters were sent out to him, whilst the Russians selected out of some 50,000 of the best horses in the Cossack country. The race took place in the presence of the Emperor Alexander; regi ments of Cossacks were dispersed along the line to keep it clear, thousands of pounds were betted on the issue of the match, and an immense concourse of people assem bled to witness it. It commenced under these disadvan tages for the Englishmen—firstly, that they had grown men to ride, whilst the Cossack horses were ridden at feather weight; and, secondly, that one of the two Eng lish horses fell dead lame at starting. The other, at the half-way station, arrived whilst the two Cossacks were far out of sight, and being full of contempt for his anta gonists, he dismounted, both to refresh himself and his steed ; meanwhile the Cossacks came up and passed on wards. Now, it , happened that one of the Counts Orloff, commander of the Cossack horsemen stationed to keep the line, was deeply interested in the issue of the race, and, by a very ingenious if not a very creditable piece of jockeyship, he had contrived to be made acquainted at every instaat with its progress. For this purpose the ' Cossacks had private orders, whenever the Russians were ahead to hold their lance perpendicular, when the English were foremost to drop them horizontally. As the horse men were in sight of each other, this signal was in a few minutes telegraphed from one to the other, up to the Count. At about the middle of the race, where the Eng lish horse had stopped, the lances, after being constantly down, were suddenly raised up, and Orloff, imagining that now the bottom of the Cossacks was beginning to tell, made sure of victory, and betted another 100,000 rubles on the event ; but, alas! he was caught in his own trap, the lances went up again, the English horse came in at last, in miserable plight it is true, but the Cossack horses never came in at all, either dying or being obliged to be killed where they had fallen.—New Mont hlp Magazine. MR. GRATTAN'S CHARACTER OF DANIEL O'CON NELL IN 1815.—" Examine their leader, Mr. O'Connell —he assumes a right to direct the Catholics of Ireland — be advises—he harangues—and he excites •, he does not attempt to allay the passions of a warm and jealous peo ple. Full of inflammatory matter, his declamations breathed everything but harmony, venting against Great Britain the most disgusting calumny, falsehoods, and treachery, equalled only by his impudene; describing Great Britian as the moat stupid, the most dishonest, and the most besotted nation that ever existed ; that Ireland could not confide in the promises of England, &c. With out discrimination he pronounced all Protestants ` bigots.' When he advocated the grievances of the Catholic body, he omitted the greatest greviance—himself! A man that could make the speeches he has made, utter the senti ments he has uttered, abuse the characters he has abused, praise the characters that he has praised, violate the pro mises that he has violated, propose such votes and such censures as he has proposed—can have little regard for private honour or for public character; he cannot com prehend the spirit of liberty, and he is not fitted to re ceive it. He betrays such a scattered understanding and barbarous mind, that if he got liberty he would immedi ately lose it. Almost unsuited for the British constitu tion, and almost ignorant of the bonds of civil society, of such a mould, and such a disposition, as to be incapa ble of accomplishing any rational object, his declamations to the lower orders are full of extravagance, wildness and ambiguity, and set afloat the had passions of the people, make them restless in disposition, and impatient in action. He leaves a vacuum in the meaning of his harangue, to be filled up by the elevated imagination of a warm-hearted and sensible people. It is the part of a bad man to make use of grievances as instruments of power, and render them the means of discontent without a single honest attempt at redress. He knows, or at least he ought to know, that this conduct is of such a nature as must al ways tend to confusion in bad m nisters, and strengthen their authority ; it seduces people into mischief not inten ded, and, after exciting them to Lolly, it abandons them through fear. It may lead them to rise against an ex ciseman or titheman, to burn a hayrick, or murder a farmer, but will never teach them to redress greivances, or to bring the offending minister to the scaffold. This leader in spirit is poor, his courage is of a hesitating quality, his political confidence is prodigious also; in de bate he is more than a hero; in every sentence there is a challenge; in the field he is a diplomatic. He was insult ed, and did not fight ; again insulted, he was goaded to the ground, where his antagonist Rodergo fell. He then offered an insult, was noticed by the condescending spirit of an imprudent minister, was challenged, travelled 400 miles incognito, was arrested through an unforeseen acci dent ; did not go to the ground, being prevented by an unavoidable necessity. His speaking is extravagnt dic tion—a vulgar boast, a swaggering sentence, affected bombast, and ludicrous composition. His liberty is not liberal, his politics are not reason, his reading is not learn ing, his learning is not knowledge; his rhetoric is a gaudy hyperbole, garnished with faded flowers, such as a drab bled girl would pick up in Covent. garden, stuck in with the taste of a kitchertmaid. He makes politics a trade to serve his desperate and interested purpose. This man can bring about nothing good ; in abortion he is the roost fertile ; the womb of his mind is of such sinful mould that it can never produce anything that is not deformed. He never succeeded in any project except the loss of your question. He harks arid harks, and, even when the filthy slaverer has exhausted its poison, and returns to its ken , nel, it there still hark• and ln , wls within un.een. No ad ministration hut sxould inj , ire their reputatio n b y advan * csig such a character." rffilllD EDITION. Btandat 11 office, Eleven o'clo STILL LATER FROM OUR DUBLIN CORRESPONDENT. MOST IMPORTANT. ABANDONMENT OF REPEAL FOR FEDERALISM. Half-past Seven o'clock. I send you a full report of the proceedings this day at the LOYAL NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION. The avenues leading to the Corn Exchange were densely crowded long before one o'clock. The Clair was taken by John Augustus O'Neill, Esq., of Bun owen Castle, county Galway, formerly M.P. for Hull, and a captain of dragoons; and subsequently a deputy lieutenant and magistrate, both of which offices he re signed. The CH AIRMAN said, that when he heard of the arrest of O'Connell and his son, he was determined that O'Neill should not be backward in sharing the post of honour and of peril. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear," and cheers.) He proceeded to explain the grounds of his conviction that repeal was necessary for Ireland, and was discussing the subject of federal legislation when, at one o'clock Precisely, the Liberator entered the meeting, accompanied by his sons, the Member for Kilkenny, and Daniel O'Connell, jun., upon which the entire assembly rose, and the cheering was kept up for several minutes. He (Mr. O'N.) deprecated the use of the word Saxon as a term of reproach, and said that all that was good and favour able to liberty in the British constitution was handed down from the Saxon—the evil was introduced by the Normans (hear, bear). He would go from that chair to the dungeon, and from the dungeon to the scaffold rather than admit that he was deterred from seeking right and justice by the insulting presence of troops and artillery (great cheering). The soldier in Russia was a mere machine—a fire-lock upon legs (laughter). The French soldiers were armed and disciplined citizens. No men knew better where the duty of the soldier ended, and that of the citizen commenced (hear, bear). He trusted our own soldiery would never forget the distinction (loud cheers). We observed seated at the end of the reporter's table, Inspector Maher, who took a note in a book when any one of " the conspirators" rose to speak. . . After subscriptions bad been banded in from various places, Mr. O'CONNELL said—He would, at the conclusion of his remarks, move that their present chairman be re quested to act as chairman on Monday, at the meeting which would be held in the Conciliation Hall. which would then be ready for that purpose. (Hear, hear.) He also promised that for the future he (Mr. O'Connell) and he trusted the association also, would give up the word "Sa on," as it was calculated to give offence.— (Hear, hear.) When they first used the term (and it should be recollected that the only phrase in Irish to ex press the word Englishman, was " Sassenach")—Lord Stanley was very angry, and they used it ten times more on that account at the time. The use of it was sub sequently revived when they were branded as aliens in language, in blood, and religion, by Lord Lyndhurst, and it had been pretty freely applied ever since ; but be now promised that for the future the word should not pass his lips, or if it inadvertently fell from him at any time, he would immediately retract it. ( Hear, hear.) Having denied that the people were obnoxious to the charge of disloyalty, but, on the contrary, entitled to the greatest praise for their strict obedience to the laws, Mr. O'Con• nell came to the topic of a federal parliament. In the corporation debate on repeal, he had declared his willing ness to accept a federal parliament, and instanced Canada, where such a parliament had done much good. Since then many persons had joined that association, who went no fur ther than a federal union, and he had lately received a letter from a gentleman of high distinction in England on the subject, in which his (Mr. O'Connell's) attention was directed to two points, concerning which the writer be. lieved it to be of the greatest importance that the people of England should have correct information before they would join generally or extensively with that association— (hear.) The first point was, that it should be shown to the people of England that Irishmen, in seeking for the restoration of a parliament to their country, strove only to procure for themselves the management of their own local and internal affairs, leaving matters of national importance to both countries to be legislated upon by representatives from both countries in the imperial legislature. The next point was that Englishmen should be satisfied that as they co-operated with Irishmen, so Irishmen should assist Englishmen in their struggle to obtain a full, fair, and free representation—(hear, hear, hear.) He (Mr. O'Connell) would meet such propositions in the enirit in which they were put forward, and he told that gentleman that, if a sufficient number of the Eng li-h p-ople came forward, there would be no difficulty in arranging repeal on the definite mentioned by him— (hear, hear ) Let him not be taunted with shrink ing when he accepted these terms, for by doing so, they not only took away all argument from their enemies, but merely followed a course to which the association was already pledged by the admission of the Catholic Bishop of Killaloe, and other gentlemen, on the same terms. (Hear, hear, hear.) The change of which they were on the eve, must be bloodless and sinless. He had ascer tained, by a series of monster meetings, that the people were peaceable and determined to obey the law. Acting on the advice of Grattan, who declared that repeal was impossible—the national voice was clearly ascertained to be in favour of it. He had ascertained that voice so far in peace and quietness, and if the proclamation had not been issued he should have gone on as quietly to the end. He had been told the day before that he should be pre vented from addressing that meeting to-day, but he re plied that that could not he, because he was the auxiliary of the government in preaching peace. If the government were to interfere with him in that room, would it not be said that, having failed to irritate the people by the Clon tarf proclamation, they wanted to do so by arresting the man who preached peace ? Therefore he was there to preach peace. The Repeal rent was then announced to be £1,232, and the meeting was adj wrned to Monday next, *hen the Conciliation Hall will be ready for use. THE POOR AND THE NEW POOR LAW. (From the Times.) The condition of the poor is a subject which, altogether irrespectively of the Poor L , w and its collateral questions, must ever excite the at-tendon of thinking men. Above all, it should he in London, where the condition of the poor is most strikingly appalling. It appears from the report of the proceedings at Marl borough-street Police-office, in our columns of yesterday, that there is an average number of 50 human beings, of all ages, who huddle together in the parks every night, having no other shelter than what is supplied by the trees and hollows of the embankment. Of these the maj rity are young girls, who have been seduced from the country by the soldiers, and turned loose on the world in all the destitution of friendless penury, and all the recklessness of early vice. This is truly horrible. Poor there must be everywhere. Indigence will find its way and set up its hideous state in the heart of a great and luxurious city. Amid the thou sand narrow lanes and by-streets of a populous metro polis there must always, we fear, be much suffering-- much that offends the eye—much that lurks unseen. But that within the precincts of wealth, gaiety, and fashion, nigh the regal grandeur of St. James's, close on the palatial splendour of Bayswater, on the confines of the old and the new aristocratic quarters, in a district where the cautious refinement of modern design has ah• stained from erecting one single tenement for poverty; which seems, as it were, dedicated to the exclusive en joyments of wealth,—that there want, famine, and dis ease, and vice should stalk in all their kindred horrors, consuming body by body, and soul by soul ! It is, indeed, a monstrous state of things. Enjoyment the most absolute, that bodily ease, intellectual excite men, or the more innocent pleasures of sense can supply to man's craving, brought in close contact with the most unmitigated misery! Wealth from its bright saloons laughing—an insolently heedless laugh, at the unknown wounds of want! Pleasure, cruelly but unconsciously mocking the the pain that moans below i All contrary things jostling one another—all contrary, save the vice which tempts and the vice which is tempted ! It is a sickening theme. It brings home to the heart the utter weakness—the utter hardness of our nature. There is wealth, there is skill, there is art, there is science, there is theory,—all these enough, and more than enough, in England. Most abundant are they in the heart of England. Yet does the life blood rush in a more healthy stream ? Does the pulse of the nation beat with a more generous rapture? Whom bath its wealth made happier ? Whom has its skill taught to shun the moral pestilence that consumes its tens of thousands? Whom has its theory taught the high and paramount duty which :nan owes to the infirmities of his brother man ? There are men of many theories abroad. Some would huild in the human race within parallelograms, and bid them go and practise virtue intuitiveiy. Others would unputate tariffs and navigation laws, crying to all, th e halt, and the blind, and the penniless, '• Go trade, and be rich." Some there are who, believing that society i s ' hollow, false, and tottering, would restore long-forgotten rules, and bring the vague and casual charity of men under -fie cognizance and direction of the church. But these .nen are laughed at by the age. For is not the age utili tarian, and therefore wise? But let all men, whether of theory or of practice, re member this—that within the cAost courtly precincts of • h e richest city on Gods earth there may he found, night .fter night, winter alter winter, women—young in years —old in sin and suffering—outcasts from society—uor riNG FROM FAMINE, FILTH AND DISEASE. Let then. emeniber Oil:, arid learn not to theorize, but to act. God knows, there L. , n - luch ruin for •Icti , , , rl now-p-days. • THE lAVMWOOL STANDARD. SECOND EDI ) • COUNCIL Pitt YCEEDINGS. A meeting of the Council, both a special meeting of that body, and :is an adjourned monthly, for th- transac tion of the business lett undispoaed of at the Council of the 4th instant, was held on Sa'urday. The Mayor took the chair soon after eleven o'clock, at which time there were Lhirty members present. ELECTION OB AN ALDERMAN. The Council proceeded to elect an Alderman for Ex change Ward in the room of Wrn. Earle, Esq., resigned. Mr. ASPINALL proposed Mr. James Lawrence, and Mr. WOOD seconded the motion. Mr. HODGSON said there was not a more eaunch or sound member than Mr. Lawrence on all the great prin ciples that influenced the majority of the Council. Mr. SHCPPARD and Mr. SANDS expreseed their ap probation and that of their constituents of the proposition. The ♦oting papers having been filled up and handed in, The MAYOR announced, that the following thirty-six members (all who were in the Council at the time) had voted in favour of Mr. Lawrence—namely, Messrs. Toulmin, Griffith, Preston, Alderman Houghton, Plump ton, Crooke, Moon, R Eby, Thornhill, Kilshaw, Thomp son, George Hall Lawrence, Royden, H. Holmes, Copeland, Platt, Chilton, Molyneux, North, Bramley- Moore, Trotman, Shaw, Aspinall, J. Holmes, Procter, Cooper, Hodgson, Birkett, Sheppard, Parker, Brancker, Wood, Edwards, Bushell, Sands, and the Mayor. FIRE POLICE. An account of the Fire Police Department, signed by Capes Ashlin, was read, showing that the income for the past rear had been £2,607 9s. 6d., and the expenditure £3,254 7s. 7d., leaving a deficiency of £646 18s. Id., which, according to the Act of Parliament, had been paid out of the borough fund. Mr. PROCTER proposed a rate of a half-penny in the pound. He entered into some explanations of the ac count, stating that in consequence of extraordinary ex penses for new engines, &c., the sum to the credit of the department in the borough fund would be reduced from £2,400 to £1,600. Mr. Trioar4RlLL seconded the motion, which was car ried unanimously. ESTABLISHMENT Or A SAILORS' HOME. The MAYOR said the next subject on the paper was a motion of which notice had been given as follows, by Mr. Aikin :—" That it be referred to the Finance Committee to consider and report on the assistance that can be given by the Corporation to A Sailors' Home, by appropriation of land, or the use of a building. subject to resumption or otherwise." Prior to this motion being regularly brought before the Council, he begged to read a memorial from the shipmasters and seamen of the port, which had been adopted at a meeting held at the Queen's Theatre, on Wednesday evening last, and forwarded through the chairman, Mr. John Smith. The memorial was here read at length. It set forth the anxiety felt by the sailors to have a Sailor's Home. Registry-office, and Savings' Bank speedily established, and the grievance under which they laboured in having to pay, the masters 2s. and the seamen ls. per month, to the Merchant Seamen's Fund without being able to receive corresponding benefits. They stated that the fund now amounted to £50,000 in Liverpool alone, and that that sum was now lying idle ; and they concluded by praying that the mal-administration of the fund might be taken into serious consideration, and that a committee might be appointed to watch over their interests generally. Mr. WOOD contended, that the shipmasters and sea men were much mistaken if they supposed that the trust was improperly managed in Liverpool, inasmuch 89 the seamen of the port were better off than they were else where, and as there were two or three times the pensions given here which were given in any other town in Eng land. He believed that, to the administration of the fund, the moat strict and constant attendance was given, and that, if a visit to the office were only paid, the most satis factory account could be rendered. Mr. Horsfall was the President in Liverpool, and Mr. Sandbach the Vice-pre sident. The accounts were regularly published. The orphan children of a shipmaster received 3s. a week, and others were paid in proportion ; but, at the same time, it was undoubtedly true, that the Act of Parliament pre scribed that no man could become a pensioner on the funds unless he were twenty-one years on the books, and that his family could not receive any benefit unless, he happened to be killed, slain, or drowned. Sir T. BRANCK ER expressed his belief that the council had not any jurisdiction over the seamen. _ _ Mr. ASPIN kLL thought that, if there were a surplus of £50,000 in Liverpool, it ought to be given to the poor men. Mr. HENRY HoLMES said that the interest wriß given, and that many widows were in the habit of receiving £4O and £5O each, according to the number of their children. Mr. ATKIN believed that the prayer of the memorial could not he granted. because the committee, even if they were appointed, could not exercise any control over the fund. He wished not to have the memorial mixed up with the motion of which he had given notice. Mr. BRAmLEY Mooav thought it would he as well to suggest to the memorialists, that the Council was unable to do anything for them, and that the most proper course for them to pursue would be to apply to parliament. He believed that there were many very serious objections to the bill of which they complained, inasmuch as they were compelled to contribute to the funds without. in several instances, deriving any advantage. He understood that the new act upon the subject was a great improvement upon the old one, but that experience had shown, since it came into operation in 1825, that althonzh it worked tolerably well, yet it pressed rather heavily upon the sailors. The MAYOR thought the subject very important, and that, according to the memorial, there appeared to be great abuses pervading the system. One, for instance, was, that if a sailor died a natural death. his family could not receive any relief unless the man himself ,di.uld have been twenty-one years on the books. Mr. AMIN inquired whether the Mayor had not, at a previous meeting, presented a memorial to the Council, signed by 9,000 seamen of the port, in favour of the establishment of a Sailors' Home? The MAYOR replied in the affirmative : it had been signed by 9,402. Mr. Amur said, it would be his duty, before he re deemed his promise on this very important subject, to present another memorial to the Council, signed, he be lieved, by almost all the respectable mercantile men of Liverpool ; indeed, lie was strongly of opinion, that no memorial had ever been presented to that, or any other great body, which contained a greater number of respect able signatures. The memorial was here opened by Mr. Atictx, and by him and two or three other members conveyed to the Mayor. The document was several yards in length. had evidently been signed by some thousands, and owing to its unwieldy dimensions, attractet! general attention, and also caused much amusement. The MAYOR read it at length. It stated, that several meetings of the memorialists had been held in an interval extending over the last four years, with the vie•v of im proving the condition of sailors and securing to the ship owners a plan for the more efficient manning of their ships. The result was that they conceived a Sailors' Home should be provided. combined with a Registry and Savings' Ba-dc, and that subscriptions had been obtained for this purpose to the extent of £2.000, sufficient to show the interest which had been excited, but not sufficient to carry out the object in view. Various circumstances had combined to impede the progress of that object ; but, recently, public attention had once more been particularly called to it by the complaints of the seamen themselves. In conclusion, the memorialists prayed the council to take the subject into serious consideration, and to grant a building for the purposes of a Sailors' Home, Registry-office, and Savings' Bank. Mr. AIKIN then proceeded, at some length, to state the reasons which had induced him to submit the motion, of which he had given notice, and which had been previously read by the Mayor. He commenced by expressing a hope, founded on the memorial which had just been submitted, and which was signed by so many of the wealthy and re spectable classes, that, at last, they would be enabled to do something for a class of men for whom more might be done than almost for any other, and yet for whom so little had hitherto been attempted. He knew there was a feel ing afloat, and that it existed in the minds of some of his most intimate friends, that the nature of the profession of the sailor, added to his recklessness of conduct, rendered it an almost hopeless task on their part to attempt to re deem him. From that proposition he dissented altogether. He believed that sailors possessed feeling and desires si milar to those of every other class, and that if they saw an attempt made to redeem them from the position to which they were sunk, or to save them from the plunder to which they were exposed, their habits might be im proved as well as the habits of any other class in society. He then proceeded to state some of the wrongs and evils to which the sailor was exposed, the causes which had produced those evils, and the most effectual remedies which ought to be applied. He said it was matter of daily occurrence that, the moment a vessel reached the port of Liverpool, the sailor was besieged by a number of persons who paid their court to him, made promises, took him to a lodging-house, and, as his wages were due, gave him credit. He treated them in return, and in the warmth of his heart, perhaps spent more money than prudence would justify. This continued to go on for some time. Jack was in Elysium, with his smiling lass and flowing jug. But, after the lapse of a few days, when he received his wages, he generally found accounts pouring in upon him from the alopseller, the lodging-house keeper, and other parties, greater than he expected, and then he began to suspect those professions of regard which were showered on him upon his arrival. He then sallied forth into the street, met with a damsel who commisserated his position and denounced the base conduct of the vile and selfish creatures of whom he complained. He then went home with her, but he (Mr. Aiken) would not detail to the Council what passed there—(great laughter)—further than to say, that the unfortunate fellow, when he a Qvoke in the morning, oftentimes discovered that he was not only pennyless, but that, in fact, he was without a rag to cover him, his money as well as his clothes having been abstracted. He (Mr. Aikin) knew an instance of a poor sailor who had been left in this condition, and who, find ing that he had not a remnant to put on, absolutely took up the bed and bed-covering and sallied forth into the street, thus making a capture of the only things within his. reach. (Continued laughter.) In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, however, such instances of plunder never were heard of, for the poor fellow himself, being stripped of all he possessed, having no means of redress, and not knowing where to apply for it, was obliged to fall back on the people who first received him ; and they, in turn, commiserated his fate, got him to mortgage his exertions fora month, and either sold or transferred h'm to any master or ship they pleased. He was not a free agent tinder such circumstances ; he was unable to choose his captain, his ship, or his voyage ; but he w as obliged to go to any part of the world, no matter how dangerous the voyage or fatal the climate, fir the purpose of getting clothes on his back. These were some of the evils to which the sailor v.as , xpo. , ed, ! were a others, one of which was, that he was not ,ddy during his hretbr e, but that he -vas robbed in avitiopiition of his death ; for the parties with a letn he thus dealt either got him to wake a will before he went, or tuz le one for him in his a settee; and then, the moment his death was announced, hadroinistered to his effects, and rohbed him again. The evils of which the shipowner and captain had to complain were very much ca.,sed by the evils under which the sailor himself suffered ; for Jack was not a reasoning animal ; he felt that the world had plundered him, and he sallied forth on the first opportunity for the p rpose of revenging himself by plundering the public. Hence he deserted a ship when he reached a foreign port and could obtain a higher rate of wages, and in this man ner broke the agreement upon which he had originally set out. But, another great evil was, that a captain never knew, until he got to sea, whether he had got sailors or lubbers on hoard ; and the misfortune was, that the law afforded the cantain no relief in such a case, when be found himself in the middle of a dan gerous channel. without having, perhaps, a sufficient number of hands on board to navigate the ship. (Hear.) He (Mr. A.) had paid a great deal of attention to this subject, in common with many others, and, without go ing to the length of saying that his remedy would enable the sailors to jump from vice to virtue, he nevertheless believed that the foundation could be laid fora gradual improvement. (Hear, hear.) He concluded with the motion of which he had given notice. Mr. BRAMLEY-.11400R1 seconded the motion. He con tended that there was no class of men in England more deserving of our sympathy than the merchant seamen ; and that there was no other body to whom the nation owed a deeper debt of gratitude, not excepting the navy, notwithstanding the brilliant achievements of the latter in every quarter of the globe. He dissented from those who alleged that sailors could not be tamed. If they had found a Van Amburgh to tame the lions, he believed that if they succeeded in getting sailors into the prepared building, they could not only tame, but reform them. From the year 1835 to 1841 no fewer than 13,000 sailors had been boarded and lodged in the London establish ment • while, in the course of one year, the large sum of £23,000 had been paid into the same establishment. Ha then referred to the manner in which Greenwich Hospital had been supported for a number of years by the contri butions of merchant seamen, without any of them having been ever, known to be pensioned there ; after which he alluded to the debt of gratitude which the town of Liver pool in particular owed to this deserving class of men. He said that England had given the sum of twenty mil lions towards the emancipation of the negroes, and yet that during the late fire at Kingston the blacks looked on with apathy, and refused to tender any assistance. This, he observed, was the gratitude which England had re ceived from these worthless beings, while, if the same amount of money had been expended on the reclamation of the British sailors, the latter would not only have been thankful for the boon, but many of them would have been saved from ruin here, and ushered into a happy eternity hereafter. (Hear ) Mr. EVANS suggested to Mr. Aikin and those who acted with him the propriety of prevailing on the ship owners, as they cleared their ships, to give a halfpenny a ton towards the accomplishment of the object in view. So far as he was himself interested in shipping he would be willing to contribute in such a manner. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE assured the Council, that the Finance Committee would willingly undertake the duty which the motion, if carried, would impose upon them ; hut, still, he thought it would he too hard to ask the Cor poration to pot its hand into its pocket and bear the ex pense of the proposed scheme, while memorialists, by pay ing the tax suggested by Mr. Evans, or by putting a sum of £5 or £lO opposite their respective names, could ma terially assist the object in view, end render the institution prosperous. (Hear.) Mr. Aikin had said that his proposal would not render necessary any demand upon the borough fund ; but, if they were to give up the building, which afforded a residence to Mr. Whitty, they would have to find another residence, and to bear the contingent ex penses, which would involve an outlay of £lOO a year at least. This, however, would be an expense which the Corporation would not oppose if they saw the good Mr. Aikin anticipated likely to be realized. He maintained, that a great improvement had taken place amongst sailors in late years, and that the establishment of shipping offices had effected a great improvement when compared with the system which had previously existed. He concluded by expressing his willingness to forward the object in view. Mr. BUSHELL could not exactly agree with Mr. Law rence. He thought the Corporation ought to become the originators of such a scheme as the present, and that they were bound to set the example to the town, and to give funds in order to form a nucleus, around which others might exhibit a disposition to carry out so desirable an ob ject, . Mr. PARKER thought it might be necessary for a " little mind" on rising, to make some apology, particularly when he meant to strip the discussion of some of the gaudy at tire in which it had been covered by preceding speakers. He looked upon the sailors as highly respectable and vvor thy of their situation. (A laugh ) There was no class he felt more for. But the Council were assembled, not for the purpose of upholding the interests of the sailors in par ticular, hut those of the community at large with which they were connected. They had the poor porters at the docks for instance, who did not earn ss. a week on an average, while the sailor received his £2 a month, and got plenty of employment and good food. Mr. BLACKBURN lauded the exertions of the Seamen's Friend Society, and referred to its advantages to the maritime interest of the port, coupled as those advan tages had been with the prevailing spread of temperance and total abatinence among the sailors themselves. He had been told that it was the intention of the parties who sought for the institution in question to have a chaplain, perhaps a paid chaplain. but a chaplain at all events. He quite agreed that religions instruction ought to be pro vided ; hut, then, the anhject was surrounded with diffi culties, for who was the the chaplain to be? Mr. BIRK Err : A clergyman of the Church of England. Mr. BLACKBURN contended, that, if they only aupoint el one clergyman for one denomination, they would be guilty of a violation of the plain and obvious meaning of the Municipal Corporations Act, and the borough fund should never be appropriated for anything of an exclusive character. Mr. BTRKETT regretted that Mr. Blackburn had intro duced a subject which, as a matter of course, must create contention. He believed that public worship was gener ally conducted on hoard vessels, at present, on the Sab bath day, although the revers was the case when he was a boy ; and he thought that much more might be done for the sailors if the shipowners took pains to ascertain the cha racters of the captains. He held it be for the general advantage that the people 'Mould be instructed in the doctrines of the Chnrch of England, believing, as he did, that the Church of England taught the way of God in truth ; that every man who taught the principles of the Establishment did his duty to the country and the town ; and that those who taught dissent were, in proportion, enemies to the country and the town.—(Laughter.) He did not make this remark with any feeling of disrespect towards Mr. Blackburn; but he certainly thought, that, when a man was brought up to the established religion, he was sure not to he a Radical ; and they all knew, that to he a Radical was to be a discontented, unhappy being. —(Great Laughter.) Mr. tionusoN thought, that, if the captains and mer chants had done their duty, the sailors would not have been in their present lamentable position. tie contended, that, in the important matter of religious truth, the ma jority of the council should pursue one plan only, and that they, in this Protestant country, could not unite in that mixture, that olla Podredda, which some would have them to support. Upon the religious side of the question he should vote in favour of the principles of the Church of England. He concluded by expressing his regret at their having got into any personality on that occasion, the more particularly as there did not appear to be any occasion whatever for it. Mr. AIK►N briefly replied, after which the motion was unanimously agreed to. PORTRAIT OP MR. RATHBONR. The MAYOR announced, that the last subject on the paper was a letter from Thomas Booth, Esq., proposing that a portrait of William Rathbone, Esq., should be re ceived by the council for the council-chamber. He said he should like to receive the instructions of the council as to the reply he was to make to the letter, which had stood over now for some time , and also as to the course that was to he followed. ( A pause.) Mr. HORNBY, as the mover of the reception of the pic ture in the first instance, said he had no authority what ever to withdraw the offer, as it had not been made by him, or any one in connexion with him. He should de cline to take any further part in the business, except to state, that he had done all he could, but ineffectually, to induce the parties to withdraw the offer. He thought the council had better avoid discussion and proceed at once to the vote. Mr. AIKIN proceeded to remark on the general praise bestowed upon Mr. Rathbone, by both parties as well as by the tory press, for his impartiality and ability when acting as chief magistrate of the town, and said that it was in consequence of such public expressions of approbation that a number of the members of the council were induced to subscribe for his portrait, and to present it to the coun cil at the present time. Mr. BLACKBURN suggested that they proceed at once to the vote ; and moved that Mr. Booth's offer be accepted, and that the painting be placed in the Council-chamber. Mr. HODGSON objected to the Council being tongue tied by any member. There had been a great deal of skill in the mode of bringing the subject forward ; and if the picture itself was not a work of art, the manner of offering it was very artful. (A laugh.) Divesting the proposition of all attempts to deceive, it was impossible not to view it as a party proceedin g . They w e re called upon most especially to consider the political character of Mr. Rath bone, and not his gentlemanly conduct whilst filling the civic chair. He had been elected Mayor of the borough solely because of his political opinions being in accordance with those of the majority of that day ; and how could the Council, constituted as it was at present, receive his picture, when he had himself tried constituencies out of doors who would not have him ? The Council would be quailing in the performance of their duty if they com mended Mr. Rathbone in his public capacity. They were a political body, and could never exist without acting in and for a party. What evidence was there that thi:iberal party, when in the majority, would have accepted of the portrait of one of their opponents ? On the contrary, had they not filled all their offices with persons representing their own political views? and had they not displaced Mr. Case's picture in order to have Mr. Currie's in the best light ? (A laugh.) tie thought the discussion on this subject would give increased strength to the tory party at the ensuing election ; and he concluded by moving, as an :amendment, that the Mayor acknowledge the reception of Mr. Booth's letter, and that the portrait be resinetfully leelined. Mr. PRIESTLEY seconded Mr. Blackbinn's motion. Mr. ISAAC HOTIAIs referred to the time v , heu some of the tory majority of the Council were excluded from the Aikili's drawirig-rnOMS, 41.1."'11"..11..1", Pleas pus BO CO emitter, and th asked, what sort of Fe- --- ; 4 lr. ciati,m, would h e Neely '..0 arise in his mind at s etc ? (A liathhme's portrait placed over the tri 2 n ti ', l l c e e 's P )r " l auFl) If it were proposed to place Nll. Ni`i,?',d Slt , timit over the mantlepi , cts of Mr. Blackhuri, 7:accept the off,•r ? or. wonl,o Mr. Earle be l,kely to aye'', oi Hear, hea_ra,efl, portrait of Mr. Dlvid Hott4scot ? (" treat laugh`er.) He concluded by seconding the men t. • MO ' i° Mr. BTRKETT expressed his regret at having' ... a tilt ( ' information, accused Mr. Rathbone of being , 'X o bel He had not been forty-eight hours in town 1 ,,e woarbscot he was asked, by several, " Will you allow r• '',.i, e Of into the Council ; a man who wanted to disfranct, he'd would they he likely t .rn f to whole body of the freemen ? " No, he would sooner his hand off at the elbow first. (Great WO " dot th e conservatives out of doors would naturally 0811 ',„ otkel tory majority in the Council were no better thar 7 , 0 „, if they admitted the portrait. He should be g_l a 0 00 0 portrait of Mr. Aspinall over the mantlepieee': g 01 who had filled the civic chair for fifteen montli s ' o oel e 0 Mr. PARKER said the question was a PM rot of toed he (Mr. Parker) had got pulled about in all Ow tOP town, by people asking him whether be fi" g ° ~/ mit Mr. Rathbone's picture into the council. ,_ w het'. the ° it Mr. ERAMLEY-MOORE would record hisr ; of the reception of the picture; but tha"„ r ite. , A time, its rejection ought not to excite any eulP o i t leo believed the conservatives out Of doors were I 'o ; bow the subject of receiving Mr. Rathbone's the right` whether he stood alone or not, he claimed tb e oe r Y e . o trcising his own judgment. He would do bo' c i , ifit te o d Chinning had that gentleman come to Engle ° , TO A only for what he had written on the subject in ... 0.14 . 7.• the Creole question ; and, if the portrait of 0 r , 1 . 1 0t r eel; were offered, it would not only be received, ü b e eb (l : l / " ch rtbec l°l the drawing-room, amongst the sovereign,,,„°' te tb O r I Mr. SH EPPA RD, on the part of North los gratefully, and place:l, not in the council wished the portrait to be rejected. SW Mr. .._L M A ACKBURN briefly replied.re ePPelir ed f er The Council then divided, when the ....s bee g amendment 27 ; against it 18. ~ bows be o The amendment, the word " respectfulll be te ~„, first struck out, was accordingly declared t°,,:fieios:,, carried. The following members voted in the w , ' 107, For the amendment,—Councillors D. Hill. Ø l° J, Holmes, H. Copeland, J. Edwards, R• 13 „,. itoydelf, dell, J. North. J. Aspinall, T. Toth:sin, 1 ' it, 11 4 A, Cooper, W. Birkett, C. Bushel, J. Procel, Her i. J. Kilshaw, J. Parker, T. Brassey, G. flif b cj Lace, S. L. Trotman, J. Sheppard, a" R'roonio Aldermen R Houghton, R. Griffith, R. 5 ... . co ot _, E. Molyneux. Against the amendmen,t, ri 00,11: W. Thornhill, T. Blackburn, W. Preston, tl j en ie eo j. 1 1 , J. Aikin, J. Priestley, and J. Platt; A 1,110.60101 Barclay. T. Bulky, J. H. Turner. 1, ,W . i . s e ll " Holt, J. B 1 - 111 J '' - il° ' ram ey- oore, J. Moon, • Mayor. Ord ELECTION OF A COUNCILLOII'.- Of h o. Mr. G. LAWRENCE asked when the electioottrence George Ward would be held, Mr. Jame s La fe eel ing been elected an alderman ? i. s e to P by The TOWN-CLERK said the ward would Aspreocedrif to a new election within ten days after Mr• don e r lill accepted the office of alderman. The e i l ec no t Oh; belonged to the present burgess list, and "set e et ,ir which would take effect on the Ist of r`le r l ee :he to°' Mr. G. H. LAWRENCH.—Then thereinu s oil tions, one after the other. ,,,„. isallfleet i°. The TOWN-CLERK.—Yes ; and mir• ft - „ d • bi , -I declare his acceptance within five days a" -- to the aldermanship. o 'cloc k ' ' The Council adjourned at half -past two --___-•-•- ------'-----.-"."' eic r r DISTRICT COURT OF BA N K --- 'Ole ) 014 (Before Mr. Commissioner Ph' pi g # John Wesley Davis and Francis Davi, •• Wires surrendered to the Court, on Friday. t 0 P 6 de geio t lb° examinations. An opposition was institute 1,010060;tt• on behalf of the creditors, for whom Mr,. •beiott,peitioti solicitor. appeared, the bankrupts thetese!eaestect thou ed by Mr. Frodsham. A long and anallt le- t he e" f Ir e took place, which lasted the entire (101,,,0111,';e1; which was to ascertain whether certein "i l - e brr on amount of £270, said to be lost by one of t he dbr e ele*" Liverpool, and for which a reward of r2°..,a, ed, were actually missing in the way descrlu'd, l on; this, the bankrupts were separately ex Bm ; ine the f : r tl PI A; Upon the examination of Francis 1:004„'„,tr0, , ki°,;, 4 evidence was elicited : that he never W es s•- o f 11 01 4 s.- SUMS of money by his brother to pa y bi 1 1 5 , 04 trio but that, some time in July, he had re t ee ; to r o lil 1 ,,; brother a large sum of mon; ounti n " t" e cr ed l aw no' tt If Bank of England noes, but had nevercoa :itg a to t self. He had gone to his office on the inor,o Fes e re his loss at eight o'clock, much earlier thee 1 8 tortb e , e re A but for no particular reason. This bank ° i W ets bebt that he missed the notes at the corner ° oo ck . 0 and that he had placed them in his cos` ' ' O. itlll for security. Had never even so s will 4 100 r bee his possession before. f tbe ie d J. W. Davis stated that he first heard 0 oro jai ro pt £270 at a quarter to nine the following 11 1. • t o b e o lol‘ own office, and immediately caused $ " ° „ t ;e . tee l ,lo ° , l at Gore's advertising had dito" -ti v , elf ° office, and s • „ e t , 0 of bills offering £2O reward for the recovee6;o4l-01, questioned . a to how he bad lived since bra ben 1 replied that he had received £7 only froth - ~ bad pawned his clothes for a subs istence. e yitlrOy Several discrepancies occurred in th e of ° Case was ultimately adjourned. 'O O 1 svAl l ' el 0 RR THOMAS DoWN `bebopoo, it This insolvent, who has carried 0 0 ` bit t ° Il e eel) tailor and draper, in T. rleton-street, 1 0 , t o iore ia o ( o o before the court to pass his first exaraf to r, 5000 opposed by a solicitor on behalf of a of oIllf,0:: ill appeared to support him. The groom' ;t i t In e ra"'.o o , for vexatiously defending an action bru set il si for jell ef ie • Mott, a portrait painter, for £2 5 , • , le f 0 o t b costs of which action he had been Un a " ,r 0 !,,,°' 0 ,_, a ct- _ ~ this forming an offence ofl • a penal cu.' _ sti on , '• e ilrs,lit! the new act, he should press for an eA Lo d tbe d bitr . d. view to the dismissal of the petition, all° am e o ,, e or ell be proved. The insolvent was allowed to i to tv_ t ot ia , dule in regard to insolvent oint. With reg ,r 7 i jell s 0 ot • tion offered to the for veza!i°uteil fi l of P oi action, the Commissioner did not 0 0 " f the red b e lled stance which came under the meaning ° s ide, je ,,icli liament, as the insolvent, it appeared, en t ed 7 " 0 1, ° at% a good and valid defence, and viitnegeloolefebsifce'' 01 to give confirmation to the plea of e",, e a istitcle ti ll': was evidence of substantiality in his r`, h e strfli, 01 The insolvent also had declared tha t ;.l o sio•Aell i d ° te' the p - Atrait was £2 Ils.. which he ha'"ito''.-o,f -;ration, therefore, of a vexatious defence ....ea/ The insolvent then, after the usual interrov 0' I e l his first examination. at 0 5 ' ne rpe l i gtlf . d i RE REV. GEORGE r.--L C..- r This insolvent, who is stated to bold a ipn., e , so, ol! racks of the parishes of Llentachreth and eclteto4, the county of Merioneth, came befor e Me' de aby • bts l i d 'his first examination. He was opPos e .red 113 ,16 t, . ° lt . .g." he part of a creditor. Mr. Payne ePP e-- , 0 &P A ' . i O r , Sri Mr. EVANS stated his opposition `teu t o re d principal grounds : the first as having t oi ell , I stit hi t De about £BO, drawn by his sisters upon, yieestiolloo,P;ppr, time not having reasonable means o,..etioet. the,. tr at maturity ; the second ground of oul' u ot f 0 K e g; had vexatiously defended an action, a b 7 the t d re bf foi°. sing creditor, to recover the amount ° tbe_ o o ,0 0 O parry into whose hands it had fallen, a nd 64 0 o'o 0 . 0 ment having gone against bin)) broth' ore,r`tens - 0 la to the original liability of some -- I o ur ed , total debt amount to £l5O. t st' rec i re.. o , he ) 0 Mr. PANNE, on behalf of the insol / f t to e fergo tr 4 the trial, when this liability was $ 0 ": t osol t se b i ol!j, several witnesses, amongst whore vee,-ance 1 1 e uel l pow,,t came forward to swear that the a cceP` t an s fp 0 07, not in the handwriting of the insolv"96oo. t , o ° o ol 6 be proved in the course of the e xaear7 t heco ur petO t siO n p however, by way of saving the time ° the 0 0 0 ee e or a proposition to the effect, that , 09 be the the receipt of about £l7O per a nnum' o f tev t; t o, . £7O a year for the gradual liquidatiou i t 100,,,00 him. ~; o roP4, pr'i t o His HONOUR asked why we, this i l o 011- olei ac e A serted in the schedule? There was MO .- A er or there. in entry coo ' bor lA' Mr. PAYNE replied, that it was ig b ig 0 speedy execution that followed that howe ve t "j e ollipirit, the insolvent's notice. He ho ped , "i i d e per ot ioodry would allow the insolvent to mend nin e s ,„e ec 0 ( i h ° On ° Ai His HONOUR replied, that the sre lem . 0..- 0 4 0- 0 0 0 0 1 no excuse; but, as this appeared a clear th e il l n t o l e 0 0 ence, and being the first objection ' OO lO bi 0 i. j been before him, he would allow th e • wtoe tre!'go r pi t lb" idol/ 5 0 1 V but be would have it go forth the f u ture • wo -I 0 to be considered a precedent for i ~t 0 t he a ~. Mr. PAYNE stated that the insolvdei;,, to sy Aber!P been sequestrated since 1839 , fo r e bo d £350. the o°l 4 ° ° tO His HONOUR asked, if such Weret...oo, Del ,my posed to set aside £7O per an ' elie fee e j,les questration? i‘e ut b r eed fr'oel Mr. PAYNE replied, that the las? e be en f kr a ill , 101 i s CO . te J 0 0 0 1 • A whole incumbrance bad by th coos Pers pi ar the livings released. His income .. t 00 liter] $ 0 Anne's bounty farms, realising eqxl7o„. • yel" o f ib e , surplice fees, which averaged 0 0 ".otog ''' ,to b et ; had had a very small income, not ex ce' or a tP ,i , tirely at her own disposal. . d r the d e- pen e ou‘ P r His HONOUR could not cons] e „ iv hsP,itlt ,„,. A O lion as vexatious. It too treque'l`gliceri:fit 10(p$90 tions were brought and instruct!a%dy 0 0 ; 1 ,, 0, 0 ,0 as his own experience had too 1, L A o p: o o iv should pass the examinatio oftth.,e sligh him to his parishioners, withou t. of his conduct. K ING OthO• .......---- 1 o thing' Beginning wit.i . n o h!, _..„6 If And ending la r e f l ' e c 0 01 1 1 1; t . .., He has run thro, e g . :',_ e re to 15 is t r ;t* Which his goal. " __.... _ lO , lo p eo _____--- s o ^ or 0 4 be ----- -, „ode ° e bsse „.. a ct 10 A MAN OF Bustsress.---13- & the pur oro iorp o o 0 with a London horse-dealer for sot ni,, e i . d ri o rl ia but could not agree by it). l . to se b a be 611 3 e, d o r making up his mind tool ffe, w bere ~, 0 61 ,t for i posted off to the stable-ya", Joe •,. frofP riff: m a ster al i 't, le/ 1 ;0 0 0 , net was the groom. ~ but Pe a t e or e eo master be dead," said Joe, ...„10 h 4 gt 0 S. eci ls l'' have the mare." 5001; the so .. t ,o „J, . 0 0 GREATEST WATERFALL 1 ,1 _, to . e o n , 4, seliteu et ilSo . e n" itr` tr Rical report of Lapland, Pre fact s, th ,ly 0 1 , itg i litl l ,er ment, amongst other cu 10 artic ols. lo l ',.1, , 1 ,, V A , waterfall in the river Lulea 1 , 1, / , ' hro,,,, i 'i s pr°,,, b ,;to isg l it S ili is said to one -eighth of a " 1 ," t . 1;,-cor,i'70P height to fall four hunthedn,!enet are !_ or 50 , 1 measurentents in this . elm:" ',. 0 1 to IV ' 1 man standard, a mile being ett ' ' lish wiles. ()et, 41, 44 1 tiii!!•ract.of ti in the Epstp m t 4l let .. I 'lo o' •• I 11,1 y T' • • o fe '° e,. . 11 14. t.... °us • r iito or.. • 1t;i k p', 44 4 4 : 4 . 4t Y 4. e7oe„ h' 4' , Qdi og R. Y: :n e nta - of r ottli beciuC Ir actea, ki% ‘ l l4 ° Petty f. • • k c:; l l 6 , :e as 144 ° —; • 4(148. ON . tg, ct i l • • ti vi 4 P s t in!' IStt'l lk Ele• CCe of co il2 Deduct lib,. __vas k Oct. 17, 1843,:•- . 1,4 no 6