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tt detelope the 11014111130 ding, and furnish materiala' of use ful knowledge : both alike may inspire true elevation and true humility. The exercises of religion, and those studies by which, knowledge is added to faith, when duly performed, will be allowed by all to have this double effect. These will he our first and principal care ; while a religious spirit will, it is hoped, temper and chasten our other occupations, dignifying what might else be thought menial, and making lowly what nlight tend to lift up. The schoolmaster, though his path of duty lie among the poor, must all the more be raised, not lowered, to his office. " This leads me to consider the description of pupils best adapted for this training. Except under peculiar circum- Stances, they should not be taken from the upper ranks in society. Boys bred up in refinement, and accustomed to h igher expectations, would with difficulty be made to accom roodate themselves to the discipline of the Institution, and Still less to its objects. Yet habit and principle will do much. Ia the lowest rank the requisite qualifications are almost never to be found, unless where the youth has been already Prepared by a course of judicious training, commencing in c hildhood,—a case which has already occurred, and may here after occur more frequently. The sons of small, or, indeed, Illiddling farmers and shopkeepers, of schoolmasters and o ffice-clerks, and of the better class of artisans, are, perhaps' t° be preferred. They ought to have had a home with some d omestic advantages, and to leave it not without a home-bred fe eling of self-respect. The more liberal employments, again, or such as are so accounted, are often accompanied by severe Indigence, and still more often leave behind them an inheri tance of penury. If under these painful circumstances, the fathe r or widowed mother of a promising son could find for h inl in this Institution an immediate asylum, with the pro aka of a good education, and an honourable, though humble, livelihood hereafter, a double benefit might accrue an upward-looking youth might thus be saved from compul- sory idleness, who would soon find any life preferable to one 0f dependence "IA the lessons of my own experience, short as that has been and I would respectfully suggest to the clergy, and others anxious to promote the cause of Church-education, and at the same time to confer a benefit upon an individual, that the a tain which they may expend in sending, or assisting to send, This is not mere speculation—l do but re- YoUth of somewhat superior pretensions to this College, will be far, far better repaid, both in the benefit really con ferred upon the individual, and in the furtherance of the ge- Ileral object, than by giving advantages to a lad who is not in a llY way prepared to receive them, and of which be will never, Perhaps, fully avail himself." the following, too, may be interesting, as affording a view of a portion, and a valuable portion, of the hYste ro . To the pamphlet itsel however, we must refer our readers t will well repay perusal, not only 4 8 containing sound practical views of the subject in b and, but as being an able treatise upon the whole Question of religious education " The advantages, I had almost said the necessity, of b alancing the intellectual pursuits of the students by manual l abour, is sufficiently evident. It is, in the first place, the only way in which such an institution could be supported, except at an enormous expense; but this is the least con sideration. It is almost the only mode in which the hours not occupied in study could be profitably and innocently Passed by a promiscuous assemblage of youths, almost all of whom have so much both to learn and unlearn. Above all, that which is learnt in this way is itself a most valuable ac goirement, more especially to the schoolmaster of the poor. IN'ot merely will it enable him to increase his own comforts w ithout cost, but it will make him practically acquainted with the occupations of those whom he has to instruct, and th us procure him an additional title to their confidence, when " comes to act among them, not merely as their teacher, out as their adviser and friend. " In some places it has not been found easy to procure B uineient employment of this kind for the students : no such d ifficulty can ever occur in the Training College. The in dustrial occupations are so extensive as to fill all the time thht can properly be allotted to themwi continue to be the case when the full number of stude h nts sha ll ll have been completed. " Hitherto the difficulty has been to perform the necessary work of the establishment in a satisfactory manner without en croaching on the hours of study, nothing being so much be avoided as a hasty, imperfect, or slovenly performance. Th e method pursued is as follows :—the several duties, w hether of the house, the farm, or the garden, are assigned t o differeNt parties, varying in number according to the need, w hich are changed at stated periods, generally weekly. Over ea ch of these parties a monitor is appointed, care being taken so to sort the parties that the influence of the older a nd steadier youths may be continually exerted over their Younge r or less experienced associates. One youth. the e ldest of those first admitted, is over the whole. It is his duty to arrange the labours of the day, under the superin tendence of the industrial master, and to inspect the different wo rking -parties when needful. He is also expected to hear e° mplaints, and to settle any trifling difference which may 447 e arisen. The monitor of each party is expected to maintain order among those whose labours he directs; and t° speak generally, the discipline of the place is, as far as Pcnisible, carried on by the moral influence of the youths over ea eb othe r , a mos t wa t c hf u l su p erv i s i on b e i ng ma i n t a i n ed by th e masters. The direct interference of the principal is not resorted to except in cases of necessity. Faults are corrected b lr admonition, and if need be, by rebuke, either private or public, as the case may seem to require. It is sometimes advisable to make the admonition general, without naming tll ° B e for whom it is specially intended. A journal of con 'net is also kept, which will, it is hoped, have a beneficial eff ect; and every youth is occasionally reminded that his pro spects, when he shall have left the institution, depend u pon his conduct while in it. No prominence, however, is , Iv ett to this or to any other secondary motive. Good con duct can o n ly b e pro d uce d, i n th e l ong - r un, by a sense of d uty, or by the habit which it produces, when it becomes a m atter of course ; and this habitual sense of duty is best en couraged by a mode of treatment from which every appeal t° motive, strictly so called, is excluded. I believe this to be 1101 Merely the highest, but the most practical view of the question ; and although in such a matter the utmost that can t l thout presumption be expected, is a partial, and, under the ' v ine blessing, a growing success, yet it may with some de gree of confidence be affirmed, that it has been already bor ne out by facts. The particular methods by which cheer ful obedience, regularity, diligence, and general good conduct, are to be preserved in a training-establishment, more espe eitallY in the industrial department, cannot be detailed within tae limits of this report. They vary with the exigency, and are suggested in each case by the judgment, experience, e° °d-feeli ng , and educational tact of those by whom the establishment is conducted. It will be understood that the wh ole rests upon a religious basis, and is referred constantly, and expressly, yet not obtrusively, to a religious standard, car e bein g t a k en t o preven t p h rases an d pro f ess i ons f rom a 4t lcipating the growth of real feeling." We should imagine that there is not a solitary man °I : woman in the United Kingdom who is not con vt!nced, no w , that the proposed civilisation of Africa, u 9 Model farming, and the other pet methods of the Anti -Slavery Society, is sheer absurdity, or something eve n Worse. What are the latest news which we have 15 ' the celebrated Niger expedition—that melancholy 4hortion of obstinate wrong-headedness ? From first I n last, disease and death have tracked its progress; 4 n ( - 1 now the climax is before us, in the condition of ~, th at unfortunate project of the Buxtons and Macaulays their " MODEL FARM." The exclusively humane — th e philanthropists, par excellence,—stand conimitted bef ore the world as the authors of a model of systematic : ke bery in the heart of that very country which they Set out to f ree an d t o c i v ili se ! Y es ; th e i r mo d e l far m, in one short year after its first formation—in the pa nda of educated Africans—has become a slave plan -4tioz, differing from those which Great Britain paid twe nty millions sterling, and beggared the proprietory v . t he finest colonies upon the face of the earth, to con -0:11 into free se ttl emen t s , on ly i n thi s f e ature, that th e re th e cart - w hi p i s w i e ld e d b y co l oure d h an d s , an d e enslaved l a b ourers toil to fill the mouths of black gen tlemen instead of white men ! S urely, after this, we shall hear no more of the cin otntic sc h emes o f t h ese s h ort - s i g h te d peop l e. S ure l y the th government of Sir Robert Peel will now cas t as id e ell e , t rammels sought to be imposed upon them, and "avour at length to meet the difficulties and te r s ters which present themselves in our West Indian ex . ° ies, and the degradation and wretchedness which ti„ lB , t in unhappy Africa, by common sense and prac 'at legislation. t h T wo objects, we p resume , p resen t themselves f or ett e statesman to accomplish—the cessation of slavery, t he inst rumen t o f cu l t i vat i on i n t h e trop i cs; an d t h e etriwehoration of the condition of the African in his TO country, as a prelude to hi s ultimate civilisation. thet f ormer object we have endeavoured to attain by an of the negroes in our own colonies ; for every free man whi c h we h ave ma d e , we h ave Th e e tt ed the chains upon the slave of another nation. this la tter object we have endeavoured to att a i n by (3 1 .: er Y Niger expedition ; and we have o n ly s t u ltifi e d t h e selves in the eyes of the whole world, and retarded ea ri ver y event which we had in view, by drivin g thou theds effort once-sanguine friends of humanity to ab an d on th e 8 .. in despair. Turn then, we say, at length to aßBi, 7lBibl e an d stra i g h tforwar d po li cy w hi c h h as been eaher and again advocated. Carry out the great c o l ° . r nent now in operation in our West Indian 10, 0 111 "; thr ow open t h ose no bl e mar k e t s to th e f ree ti our of Africa ; and one-half of the work of civilisa 4tid hum an ity w ill b e at once acco mplished. ko la s :, 4 nd thus only, shall w e b e ena bl e d to crush the '` u r. elavery; thus, and thus only, we feel assured, we shall he ellabied to set eiteetttally opoo the de graded condition of the negro race in their own benighted land. And never, perhaps, were the instrumentalities for the successful operation of such a policy more emi nently propitious than at the present moment. Ruin ous as is the condition of every portion of our West Indian possessions, we see, nevertheless, in the last advices received from them, the dawning of a brighter era in their cultivation. Vast capitals, it is true, have been swallowed up during the past few years. Bank ruptcy and insolvency have engulphed the property of hundreds of once flourishing cultivators. But these visitations, even, have not resulted in unmixed evil. With poverty waiting expectant at his door, the reso lute spirit of the British character has impelled the planter at length to look his difficulties in the face, and to enter upon a manly effort to retrieve past losses and amend past mismanagement. The hope of better things, to result from increased energy and increased skill, has sprung up in him ; and, already, that hope has not been all in vain. The cheering intelligence of improved crops has already reached us ; and, if the fostering hand of the legislature be now held out,—if the means of cultivation—labour--be now freely sup plied, —we may look forward to the revival, in the British West Indies, of that prosperity which once constituted these noble possessions the richest gem in England's crown, and which alone can bring about that consummation which we aimed at when we pro claimed, in the face of the world, the determination of a united people that slavery should no longer deform, with its foUl features, the fairest portion of the inha bited earth! We have said that the encouragement to afford immigration of labourers to the West Indies,—to ren der those fertile possessions the stepping-stone of the degraded African from the darkness of barbarism to the full light of freedom and civilisation—was never greater than at the present moment. We say more. The DUTY of the British Parliament and of the phi lanthropist—the ABSOLUTE NECESSITY of such a course as we now advocate, and for years have advo cated—were never more strikingly evident than now. We stand now, as a nation, upon the verge of a new course of commercial legislation. A principle is abroad, and has already made some progress, which teaches that no branch of domestic or colonial industry, which is not self-dependent in the struggle of competi tion, can be permitted to be propped up by legislatil, e, protection. Colonies, in the eye of the new philosophy of the day, are monopolies; and, however vast may be their value, however important the interests perilled, must be swept away unless they can emerge triumph antly from the ordeal to which they are to be sub mitted. Thus far, we have regarded our West Indian colonies as entitled to a protection against the colonies of other 'countries. Within the last two years that protection has been preserved mainly by the consi deration that, in them, the great experiment of tropical cultivation by free labour was upon trial. The West Indies have existed, as exporting colonies, solely by the protection thus afforded them. But we say now—we warn alike the friends of humanity, our colonists themselves, and the British legislature,--that no states man can much longer continue such protection and defy the vast power of active hostility which is being put in force for its removal! The British West Indies must, we fear, long before they can under any circumstance be prepared for it, be driven to struggle for existence with the Brazilian and Cuban planter—the dear labour of free men with the labour of the slave ; and the day which witnesses their entry upon that struggle, unaided by a previous concession of extensive immigration, will witness also the failure of that noble effort of Great Britain to strike the fetters from the limbs of the African, and the conversion of the fertile posses sions, in which that experiment is now being tried, into howling wildernesses ! That period of struggle is, even now, we believe, much nearer at hand than is suspected by those most immediately concerned. To the government of Sir Robert Peel we say, therefore, " give to the West Indian, before you ask him to compete with the Brazilian and the Cuban slave-owner, the means of competition—a supply of labour. And to the philan thropist we say, abstain from throwing impediment in the way of such a measure; aid it—pray for it — agitate for it— unless you would have the world suppose that all your past professions of exclusive regard for the welfare and the freedom of the African were the offspring of hollow hypocrisy and disgusting cant !" Since writing the above, a report of the proceedings of the Birmingham Anti-slavery Society, held on Friday evening last, has come before our notice, in which we find the following remarks of Mr. Scoble— a gentleman with whose virulent attacks upon the pro prietors of the British West Indies we have before had to do. Mr. Scoble—as reported in the Midland Counties Herald—" concluded his address by referring to the sanction which had recently been given by the government to the emigration of Hill Coolies from India to the British Colonies, and which the legislature of Trinidad had already turned to account, by imposing laws and restrictions on the `free' labourers thus im ported, which deprived them of every thing but the name of liberty." We do not hesitate to characterise this as an unwarrantable libel upon the legislature of Trinidad—a libel conceived, as are the proceedings of nine-tenths of the humanity-mongers of the Anti slavery Society, in bigotted hatred of the colonists individually and as a body, and in perfect disregard of those great principles by which they profess that their efforts are directed. In our report of the proceedings of the Protestant Association, held on Monday evening, in the Music hall, a suggestion was made by one of the speakers, Mr. Howard, which we feel impelled most cordially to impress upon the consideration of the Protestant pub lic of this town. If it be asked of them, to what man, above all others, do they owe the proud position which this borough occupies in the eyes of the nation—that its voice in the Legislature is Conservative—and that its local council is Conservative. The answer of every lip will be—to the Rev. Hugh Al`Neile. His eloquence, his faithful counsel, it is, which have again and again enabled them to bruise the head of rampant Radicalism in our town ; which have fixed the wavering, cheered the timed, and inspired the lethargic to press on, by the straightforward path of principle, to the triumphs which have thus far blessed their efforts : and we do not overrate the character of our Protestant brethren, when we declare our conviction, that their feelings to wards him is one of admiration and gratitude, worthy of the object and of themselves. When we see it suggested, therefore, that that feel ing should be recorded, by the presentation to this dis tinguished man, of some memorial of respectful affec tion from the hands of his Protestant brethren, we cannot but earnestly pray that such a suggestion, so honorable to its author, should not be permitted to fall to the ground. We are confident that any testimonial, however insignificant in value, springing from such a source—from the affectionate gratitude of the Protes tants of Liverpool—would be an object of prouder contemplation to the rev. gentleman himself, and to those dear to him, than the highest honor, to which his talents and character alike warrant him in aspiring, from other hands; and, we trust, therefore, that the opportunity of thus recording that gratitude will not be permitted to pass by unimproved. LOCAL NEWS, The Oxford packet ship, which left New York on the Ist instant, arrived here on Wednesday, but she only brings one day's later news than that conveyed by the Britannia, and the intelligence is unimportant. We have good authority to state that there will not be a Special Commission held for the trial of prisoners in Decem ber ; nor will there be a gaol delivery before the regular as sizes in March nest. BLUNDELL V. GLADSTONE.—In the Court of Chancery, on Wednesday, Mr. `Pinney mentioned this cause, which is standing for judgment. The Lord Chancellor said he bad received the opinion of the judges, but it would not be con venient for them to attend the Court of Chancery in term time. The judgment was ready, and would be delivered in a few days. TRINITY CHURCH, BIRKENHEAD. — Avery neat and ex cellent organ has just been erected in this church, and was opened on Wednesday evening last, when a sermon was preached by the Rev. J. M`Gill, and a liberal collection made towards the expenses of it. The choir of St. Nicholas's church, in this town, contributed their efficient services on the occasion. The following commissions, signed by lords lieutenant, have been gazetted :—Lancashire-Ist Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia, H. M. Fielden, Esq., to be captain. 3d Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia, First-Major .1. W. Patten to be colonel, vice Sir T. D. Hesketh, Bart., deceased ; Second. Major Sir J. Gerard, Bart., to be lieuteant-colonel, vice Sir H. B. Houghton, Bart., resigned, liabert Roxby, a Mel not unknown in local theatrlcal annals, has become the lessee of the Manchester Theatre• Royal. AMPIIITHF,ATRt.—" Long Joe Sweeney," as he is fa miliarly called, takes his benefit to-night : he has pro vided ample fare for his friends, and will " cut de big tigar on dis 'cashun." WRITING.—Mr. Thompson's system of quick and easy writing, founded on the looping of letters and words togetlier, appears to be an ingenious contrivance for improving a bad hand, and giving freedom and elegance to those who are nut fortunate in the use of the pen ; and we therefore feel it our duty to recommend it strongly to the notice of the public. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, abouteleven o'clock, Thomas Gwilliam, a little boy, aged about five years, was burned to death, at his residence, in Back High-street, Edge hill. The neighbours heard loud screams, and rushing into the house found the deceased lying on the floor, his apparel having been burned from his person. his mother was lying beside him in a swoon. Medical aid was procured immedi ately but it was unavailing. He died in an hour and a-half after he was discovered Cot nesday sa ING AT WATERLOO.—The C/avoto Mail of Wed ,vs, that three sets of Scottish dogs have gone soul] to draw in this greyhound lottery—viz., Lord Eglinton's Blackbird and Lapwing, Sir W. A. Maxwell's Music and Maid of Honour, and Mr. A. Graham's Cacciatore, The Miller's Only Daughter, White Hat,and Mavourneen. The first two lots are well, but, of the third, Mavourneen and White Hat arc not yet clear of the cough which has gone the round of their owner's greyhounds. THE NEWS FROM CHINA AND INDlA.—lmmediately after intelligence was received on Wednesday morning of the confirmation of the news of the Chinese war, and the addi tional gratifying information of the glorious achievements of the British arms in India, the mayor gave directions for the bells to be rung at the various churches, and flags were hoisted at the public buildings in the town, whilst at the same time the vessels in the docks exhibited their national colours, and the whole presented a very lively appearance. A salute of twenty-one guns was fired at the Workhouse. A SERIOUS Loss.—Two women, of decent appearance, were placed before Messrs. Booth and Dixon, on Tuesday, charged with having stolen £llO. The complainant, Sarah Hayward, was removing her goods from the premises where she lately resided to others which she had recently taken. At the new premises she took £llO from her pocket, and placed it in a drawer, the prisoners and her son being present. She had some ale with the prisoners, and then went with them part of the way to their residence. She returned immediately to her new residence, and, on examining the drawer, missed the money. Suspecting the prisoners, she caused them to be apprehended. They were discharged. THE LEAGUE SUBSCRIPTION.—A meeting of Leaguers was held on Wednesday, in Manchester, to forward their proposed subscription of £50,000. We are happy to find that the gentlemen present bled to the tune of £3,500 for the charitable objects contemplated—viz., the feeding of the Aclands, Buckinghams, Smiths, and other itinerants of their class—an amount which the starvation, before their eyes, of the entire population of the manufacturing districts would fail in wringing from their gripe—their own bricks and mortar, Moms and spindles, being unaffected. We wish the lady canvassers, who are daily to be seen intruding them selves upon the privacy of their neighbours, in various, and in some very questionable, parts of our own town, would thus publish to the world the amount of their own subscriptions to the fund in question. They would look rather diminutive, we fear, when contrasted with the ardent zeal which must exist, to lead females of proper delicacy into positions of such doubtful propriety as those, in which they are daily placed in their mendicant pursuits. SAM SLICK'S CLOCKS.—We have been highly pleased by an inspection of American clocks, and other time-pieces of very neat and ingenious make, now exhibiting in Liverpool, better known on the other side of the Atlantic by the cog nomen of Sam Slick's clocks. The frames consist of maho gany, rosewood, and satinwood, to suit the fancy of pur chasers. Some of the clocks have looking-glasses in the centre, and others are ornamented, which render them, apart from their utility, handsome articles of furniture in a dwelling-house or a counting-house. In America, we believe, they are generally placed on the mantel-piece, but any other situation will answer as well. The most surprising, and, in the eyes of purchasers, the most agreeable feature connected with those unique and elegant articles of utility, is their cheapness. The prices range from £2 10s. to £2 55., and it seems marvellous how, after paying a duty of 20 per cent. under the new tariff, such beautiful specimens of workman ship can be sold at such prices. Let our friends in Prescot and Clerkenwell look to their laurels, unless they wish Sam Slick to " wind them up" before their time. He cannot fail to go a-head " pretty considerable" in this country, and the ingenious fellow certainly deserves encouragement, for while his clocks count the moments as they roll with unerring fidelity, he will "strike" his customers with amazement by their cheapness and beauty. An advertisement elsewhere gives an account of Sam's whereabouts. PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO CAPTAIN HEWITT, OF THE STEAM-SHIP BRITANNIA.-0111* townsman, Captain Hewitt, who conveyed Dickens to America and received, along with a splendid piece of plate, a handsome congratulatory address from that popular author, on behalf of his fellow-passengers, in the saloon of the Tremont Theatre, Boston, last year, had presented to him on his last trip across the Atlantic a mas sive and elaborately chased silver snuff-box, of the most ex quisite workmanship. This elegant compliment was presented to him by Mr. Goodrich, of Boston, better known by his American title of the author of Peter Parley's letters, on be half of the passengers. The box bears the following inscrip tion :—" Presented to Captain Joh❑ Hewitt, of the Royal Mail steamer Britannia, by the passengers who left Liver pool Oct. 4, and arrived at Boston Oct. 18, 1842. as a token of respect and good-will for his professional skill and kind attention to their several wishes." The New York Herald, in allusion to the commander of the Britannia, says : " Cap tain Hewitt, of the steam-ship Britannia, which leaves Bos ton next Tuesday for Halifax and Liverpool, has been in this city a day or two. He likes New York, thinks it a great city, admires the Park fountain and glorious Broadway. He has been here before—twice in the capacity of chief officer of the Royal William, when she floated like a duck over the broad Atlantic, and is universally esteemed wherever he goes —so much so, indeed, that his passengers have compelled him to take snuff out of a superb gold box, and drink Madeira from rich silver tumblers. His ship, the Britannia, is a crack vessel, and ploughs her way through the deep as gallantly as ever a steamer did." ASSAULT ON A RAILWAY CONSTABLE.—Two persons, in the employ of Sir William Stanley, as underkeepers, named Thomas Jones and Richard Price, appeared yesterday before J. D. Case, Esq., charged with trespassing on the Chester and Birkenhead line of railway, and also with assaulting John Hanley, a constable in the service of the company, whilst in the execution of his duty. Mr. Mallaby, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the complainant, and a gentleman from the office of Messrs. Laces & Co. appeared for the defendants. It appeared from the evidence of Hanley, that on the night of Thursday last, he saw the defendants walking on the line near the Eastham embankment; that he told them they had no right there, when Price replied they had as much right there as he (Hanley). The witness then seized Price, and said he should take him to prison, on which he called Jones, who had run away, to come to his assistance ; and, on his doing so, he desired the complainant to release Price, which being refused, Jones struck Hanley a blow on the bead with a large stick, which knocked him down. Ile lay on the ground some time in a state of insensibility. The defence set up was, that the defendants were pursiftg a poacher at the time, and that the complainant was the aggressor, having an anti pathy to the keepers, being a poacher himself ; but, in reply to this, Mr. Mallaby observed that Hanley bore a most ex cellent character, and was a good servant. Mr. Case, in announcing the decision of the court, des'gnated the assault as most cruel and unjustifiable ; observing that, for any thing the defendants knew, they might have left their victim dead in the ditch. They were then ordered to pay a penalty of 20s. each and the costs. MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE. - At the weekly meeting of the Dock Committee, held yesterday, the follow ing members were present :—Messrs. Sands, (chairman) Horsfall, Barclay, Holt, Smith, Bailey, Royden, Tobin, Moon, Shand, Aikin, Chilton, Bold, Nicol, Martin, Middle ton, and Mr. Bramley-Moore, one of the newly elected mem bers from the council, who was introduced by Mr. Moon. On the recommendation of the Sub-committee of Works, a porch was ordered to be added to the door of the house of the master of Prince's-dock. The Surveyor reported that the site for lengthening the Clarence Graving-docks was being cleared of the rubbish, and it would shortly be ready for the inspection of the committee for their determination as to the extent of the lengthening. Mr. Tobin impressed upon the Surveyor the necessity of proceeding as fast as possible, and the Surveyor replied that there would be no delay. The Sub committee for the Department of the Marine Surveyor re ported that the new iron light-ship, the Prince, would be launched at eleven o'clock on the morning of Saturday the 3d of December, at eleven o'clock. The sum of 50s. was ordered to be paid to Thomas Hughes, towards the expense of his removal from the telegraph station at Liverpool to that at Hilbre Island ; and £8 to Thomas Johnson, keeper of the Voel Nant telegraph, towards the expense of a stable for a pony which he is obliged to keep. A report was made of some very important services rendered by the Point of Ayr lifeboat, in rescuing the crew of the flat Rose, which was wrecked on West Hoyle Bank on the 16th instant. It was referred to the sub-committee, with the view of consi dering the rewards to be paid to the men for their bravery and daring. Tile receipts at Runcorn between the 25th of October and the 24th of November were rep or t e d t o b e £39 6s. 9d. ; for the corresponding period last year, they were £52 Os. 7d. The s t a tistical account of the ships in the docks was ordered to be continued till the end of the current year, terminating in June next. A letter from Messrs. Fielden Brothers, acknowledging the receipt of the resolution of the committee as to the new line of New York packets consigned to them being berthed in the Water loo-dock along with the other lines, and requesting that as their being placed there was intended as an experiment for .three months, which were nearly expired, the claims of the new line might be considered in any fresh arrangement. The application was ordered to be taken into consideration at that time. An application from Mr. James Moss, solicitor, on behalf of the owners of the brig Enterprise, of Yarmouth, claiming £l5 for some damage done to that vessel in the Queen's-dock Basin, by the alleged neglect of the Pier master, was refused. Messrs. Zwilchenbart and Co., con signees of. a French vessel inward bound, which was wrecked on the Great Burbo during the late gales, made an applica tion for the return of £5 2s. 6d., the dock dues, which, under the circumstances, were ordered to be returned.—The Com mittee then separated. ASSAULT BY A LANDLORD ON HIS TENANT. - At the po lice-court, yesterday, Mr. William Coward, landlord of the Brunswick Hotel, in Wapping, (near the Salthouse Dock,) appeared before Mr. Rushton, to answer a complaint against him by one of his tenants. The complainant, a respectably dressed female, stated that she rented the tap-room under the inn from the defendant; that she had regularly paid her rent of a guinea a week to him when called upon; that on Monday morning last, he had called upon her for two weeks' rent then due ; that she tendered him the money, but re quired his receipt, which he refused to give ; that he came on the afternoon of the same day with two bailiffs, who be gan to lay hands upon her goods ; and, that on her remon strating with him on such conduct, he pushed her, struck her violently on the breast with his closed hand, and finally thrust her down a flight of stairs. She added that she had paid him £2O on taking the premises as a bonus for liberty i . o sell spirits, &c., under his name, she herself having no license ; that he after the distraint received the rent without expmises ; that she at first purchased her spirits from him, but having latterly gone to another party, he had served her with notice to quit, as well as in the manner stated. Several witnesses for the complainant proved the assault. The defendant said that he had gone into the house with a friend ; that the complainant had come to him and asked him why he had sent the bailiffs ; that he told her he had no other resource, as she had put him at defiance ' • that she never tendered the rent as stated, and that on her becoming abusive he had pushed her out, but had used no more force than was necessary to eject her. He called two witnesses. The money paid to him by the com plainant was a mere deposit for the use of his name as the licensed party in the tap, and lie knew that proceedings were being taken by the excise against the complainant for selling spirits without a license. In reply to questions from the bench, he admitted that after quietly permitting the sale while he supplied the spirits, he had himself given informa tiion (after complainant had ceased to deal with him) to the excise. The complainant said her breast was still sore from the blow. Mr. Rushton said that the conduct of the de fendant had throughout been highly reprehensible. With respect to the sale of spirits with his sanction, for a bonus— that would probably be enquired into elsewhere. His taking the rent without costs was a proof that he was wrong ; and for the assault he must pay' a fine of £5, or be imprisoned for two months. ft wai bo igeti from the teepatehee which we pub:hiti from China, that amongst the wounded is a young midshipman of the name of Lyon. This enterprising gentleman, wnose ser vices we believe have distinguished him, is the son of Thomas Lyon, Esq., of Appleton-hall, near Warrington. TnE CIIASE.—The Cheshire hounds meet this day (Fri day), at Withington Hall ; to-morrow (Saturday), at Oulton Park ; on Monday, at Aston Hall ; on Wednesday, at Crewe Hall; on Thursday, at Brereton Green; and on Saturday, Dec. 3, at Dunham Massey ;—each day at half-past ten. 1* THE MIN tsTERIAL MEASURES.—Since the reciprocity acts; the only rational means taken to relieve the distress of the English shipping interest, which is a very different thing front the colonial, have been taken by the present ministers, who have cheapened timber, and allowed vessels to victual out of bond in British ports, which precludes the necessity, formerly so common, of sending vessels destined for lone voyages to Hamburg to victual.-Journal. to the ameliorating character of Sir Robert Pe be thought of some value from a Radical or was it coma to send vessels t testimony policy may But when o Hamburg to- victual On Tuesday morning, about ten o'clock, the inhabitants of High-street, Edge-hill, were considerably excited by the rumour of a child being burnt to death. The child in ques tion was the daughter of a Mr. Quilliam, of Edge-hill. Haply the rumour proved in part untrue, but not altogether; for, in the absence of Mrs. Quilliam, whilst assisting a neighbour, she overheard the cries, or partially heard the groans, of some one in agony. She went unsuspectingly into her own house, and there unexpectedly beheld her own child, about six years of age, a literally scorched living being. Assistance was immediately procured, and the child con veyed to the next door. Dr. Fell was immediately on the spot, and, under his able treatment, the child seemed to rally. This accident ought to operate very forcibly as a caution against the unpardonable conduct of mothers leaving children in such very precarious situations; especially, we trust, it will be a convincing warning in the immediate neighbourhood. The circumstances of the case are simple : the child was left (as too many are) to play before the fire, and its clothes having become ignited, it was soon reduced to the miserable condition from which it so narrowly escaped —if, indeed, it can as yet be said to have escaped. Its pa rents have, since the misfortune, been labouring under the deepest agony.—We regret to state that since writing the foregoing the child has died. The inquest was held yester day, and a verdict returned of " found burnt to death. but how the fire originated there was no evidence to show." CAUTION TO TOPERS. — During the time that Mr. Ball was the stipendiary magistrate of this borough, persons found in a state of intoxication in the streets, and who were taken to Bridewell and " booked for safety," were brought up in the Police-court next day, and, unless they had been very troublesome lo the officers, were immediately " dis charged," without any tine being imposed. In the early part of the administration of his successor, Mr. Rushton, the latter gentleman, with a view, doubtless, to prevent this of fence against public decorum, generally imposed a fine of 2s. 6d. on the poorer delinquents, or, in default, two days' imprisonment ; and 55., or three days, on those who are better able to pay, and who from their station in life should show a better example. But the want of accommodation in the Borough gaol, for the increasing number of those thus fined who were defaulters—in addition to those sent to prison for higher offences—induced him to relax such a practice for a considerable time, and, to order such parties to be "dis charged" as formerly, after the durance of the night, or the finding of bail,—a fine of 2s. 6d. only being inflicted in the cases of refractory parties. In order, however, to the better conservation of the public morals, as well as to save time and trouble to the police force, (whose constant services are fully required for more important objects than the care of drunken subjects,) Mr. Rushton has become more stringent than at first in punishing the offence ; and those who are de termined to indulge in their cups beyond the point of ebriety which will unable them to take care of themselves and their loose cash, *Nould do well to enjoy themselves at their own chimney-corners; and instead of tumbling about the streets, when " half-seas-over," tumble peaceably into bed. Yes terday all the parties (both male and female) brought up and charged with being "drunk, and booked for safety," were fined ss. each, or ordered, in default, to be imprisoned three days. A further destruction of barracoons has taken place cn the coast of Africa, in which operation three men of her Majes ty's ship Madagascar were killed and one severely wounded by the natives. The affair is thus briefly noticed in a letter just recived :—" Her Majesty's ship Madagascar. Paul de Loards, August 26, 1842.—We have taken four slavers ; landed at Cabenda again to destroy more barracoons, where the natives fired at us, and killed three men and wounded another severely. We have landed at two other places. MURDER OF AN ENGLISHMAN.—OD Sunday last, Mr. Geary, an Englishman, who ha's lived a long time at Laille, in the Ille-et-Vilaine, farming his own lands, lost his life in the following affray :—One of his gates having been taken away by M. Harnon, a neighbouring farmer, Mr. Geary retorted by removing another from the land of the depre dator. Hamon's son demanded its restoration, and on being refused, seized a hedge-stake, and at one blow laid Mr. Geary dead on the ground. One of his servants, who en endeavoured to interpose between the disputants, was also struck at the same time. Young Hamon is in custody. PASSAGE ALLOWANCE OF OFFICERS.—The Secretary at War has just issued a new warrant for the regulation of the passage allowance of officers of the army. This order is a considerable improvement on the old, one, and reffects great credit on Sir H. Hardinge's system of management. He has introduced a more liberal scale of allowance. and maw/ facilities which cannot fail to have a beneficial effect, as well as to put an end to the numerous complaints and heart-burn ings to which the old warrant so frequently gave rise. The regulations applicable to officers going to or returning from a foreign station, are clearly and, as it appears to us, satis factorily defined, and would seem to leave no room either for immediate or prospective improvement.—United :Service Gazelle. AN ADVENTURER.—" Death has just struck," says l'Echo de la Frontiere, " at the advanced age of 84, an in habitant of Valenciennes, the history of whose varied and adventurous life resembles more a romance than a reality. M. Jaques Philippe Candemont, born near Cambrai in 1758, was the son of a villager. He studied surgery, and sailed in a vessel bound to the East Indie.. He visited Pondicherry, Chandernagore, and the French establishments of India. He became principal surgeon to. Meuron's Swiss Regiment; was present at the various actions fought by Tippo Saib, travelled over the entire Ihdian peninsula with a regiment of Sepoys, married in India Dame ‘Vilnaina Bar tels, and concluded his career by returning to France in pos session of a handsome fortune." - CAPTURE OF SLAVERS.—Arrived at Spithead, onWednes day evening last, her Majesty's ship Curacoa, Jenkin Jones, Esq., captain, from the south American station, with about 2,000,000 of dollars on board, on Merchant's account. The Fantome was on a cruise for six weeks, having recently cap tured and brou g ht i n a s l ave b r i g , nam e unkno wn , having on board 375 slaves, 30 of whom died on their passage to Rio de Janeiro, which occupied but a few days. The crew of the slaver escaped from her, and landed with some difficulty in the surf. The pinnace of the Fantome had been previously fired upon, whilst at anchor off Istha Grande, and one of the crew severely wounded ; they were in a cove, near the estate of a man named Yoerndealias, reputed to be extensively en gaged in the traffic of slaves. The commodore has addressed a' very spirited remonstrance on the subject of this outrage to the Brazilian authorities, but the result has not yet transpired. A DUEL IN FRANCE.—The Correctional Tribunal of Cor bell was engaged on Friday in the trial of M. Granier de Cassagnac for wounding M. Lacrosse in the duel between them, the affair having been referred to it by the Court of Cessation, in deciding on the appeal made by M. Granier de Cassaguac, on the ground that accusations founded on duel ling were not within the jurisdiction of Correctional Tribu nals, but amenable only to Courts of Assizes. The tribunal was crowded, and many ladies were present. When M. Granier de Cassagnac had answered the usual interrogato ries, M. Lacrosse and M. Lechevalier, chief editor of the Globe, ,Here called as witnesses, but neither of them ap peared. The Procureur du Roi thereupon read a letter from M. Lacrosse, stating that, being of necessity detained at Brest, it was impossible for him to attend, and M. Granier de Cassagnac informed the Court that M. Lechevalier did not appear, because he had been assured that the jurisdiction of the tribunal would be again objected to, and the merits of the case would not be entered upon; therefore his attend ance would be unnecessary. The other formal documents being read, M. Bachiere, as counsel for M. Granier de Cas sagnac, and that gentleman himself, again argued against the jurisdiction of the tribunal, which, however, overruled their objections. Upon this, M. Granier de Cassagnac made de fault, and was condemned to pay a fine of 100 f. and costs. The court excused M. Lacrosse for his non-attendance, but ordered M. Lechezalier to pay a penalty of 10f. _ - DREADFUL ASSASSINATION AT BRUSSELS. —We find the following in the Independant of Brussels of Sunday : " Last night at eleven o'clock, some say this morning at one, a tragical event occurred at the residence of Mdlle. Heine fetter, the prima donna of our theatre. M. Caumartin, whose father was member of the Chamber of Deputies in France, was at Mdlle. Heinefetter's with M. Alme Sirey, the author of a celebrated law work, and whose father was an avocat of the Court of Cessation. A violent dispute arose between them. M. Caumartin, who had with him a sword cane, stabbed M. Sirey, and he died upon the sofa. We are assured that M. Caumartin, after having committed this crime, fled in M. Sirey's carriage. The police was apprised of what had taken place about a quarter of an hour afterwards. The most active search was made for the murderer, and this ' morning . all the gates of th e c i ty were c l ose ly watched." The Observateur says—" M. Sirey, who bad come to Brussels for a week, had accompanied Mdlle Heinefetter to a concert, and returned home with her to supper when the coucert was over. M. Caumartin, his fellow-countryman, supped with them. Whilst they were taking their wine a violent dispute arose, and M. Caumartin, rising suddenly, plunged the sword of his cane into the body of M. Sirey, who had contradicted something that he had said. M. Sirey was only able to ex claim, .le suis fraPP6,' and died instantly, the instrument having traversed the region of the heart. M. Caumartin proceeded immediately to Dr. Allard, and entreated him to attend the unfortunate Sirey, but it was too late. He was cold when the doctor arrived. On learning this fact, M. Caumartin fled, and it is not known what is become of him. It is said that a third guest, who received M. Sirey in his arms when he was stabbed, was so affected that this morning he was unable to utter a word." In another account it Is stated that M. Sirey, who was 29 years of age, was married, and the father of a family. He resided in Paris, in the rue Laffitte. SCANDALOUS TREATMENT OF A PROTESTANT CLERGY MAN.--The following facts, furnished us by a respectable correspondent, cannot fail of proving highly interesting to the friends of the Irish Bible Society, at the same time they furnish us with another specimen of Romish toleration in the nineteenth century :—" On Friday, the 4th inst., there was an examination held, in the town of Kingscourt, of the teachers of the Irish Society. The meeting was a large one and the proceedings of an interesting character, several of the teachers expressing their conviction of the errors of Rome and the truth of Protestantism. In accordance with this spirit, on the following Sunday upwards of one hundred of them publicly abjured the errors of the Church of Rome, and received the sacrement in the church of Kingscurt. As might naturally be expected, these men became objects of persecution to the members of that communion which they conscientiously abandoned. One of them, residing in Bailieborough, having his family afflicted with fever, sent for the Protestant clergyman, the Rev. Thomas Pendant, Lisgar Cottage, to visit them. Qn the rev. gentleman entering the house he found the poor man's daughter dead, and the father then requested that he would attend at three o'clock next day and officiate at the burial. According to appoint. ment, the Rev. Mr. Pentland attended at the place of burial, Moybologue, the family burial-place for years, and on his entering the grave-yard he was opposed by a number of per sons who had evidently assembled for that purpose. How ever, he commenced reading the beautiful burial service of the Church, when he was interrupted by the groaning, hiss ing, and cheering of the Romish mob ! Another funeral having shortly after arrived, the numbers of the mob were increased, and the rev. gentleman was threatened with having his brains knocked out if he persevered in reading his " ballet (for so they termed the Prayer Book) in a grave-yard that was never polluted with the like before !" They then proceeded to call the reverend gentleman and his religion by every opprobrious epithet which they could invent. The father of the deceased and her uncle interfered, but all to no purpose, as the mob declared that they would dig the body up again if the service was persevered in. The Rev. Mr. Pentland, at the suggestion of several Protestants, retired, when, amid the silent frowns of some and denunciations of others, the poor man was allowed to inter his child. This, sir, is the freedom extended to men who act from conscientious motives, and who wish to main tain their religious opinions! Verily, Roznanism remains unchanged and unchangeable.' l Wexford Conservative. A NOTORIOUS CHARACTER Considerable interest was excited, during the past Week, at the police-court, by the appearance there of a person who tuition of LL.II and assault against Mr. Healy, butcher, whom, he alleged, had stolen from him a round of prim e b ee f. Th e complain ant had very recently distinguished himself at Birkenhead, by assaulting Mr. Thomas Robinson, a resident at Liseard, at whose house he had lodged, (and from whence was missed two silver spoons, two penknives, and other articles,) for having had the impertinence to ask him for payment for his lodgings when he was about to make a clandestine exit ; and it was cm would be i ILly u►oug 118 instani many persons that the table , d upon the learned doctor. It appeared from the evi , ured Mr. Mealy with hi: .nce that the doctor had ho patronage; and, on Thursday Mr. Heal inolish tut more profitable customer for his joint, and determined th fore at all hands to transfer it from the custody of the Do shop counter. He t there demanded his beef; it was, of course, refused ; but as it was fortunately deposited within arm's length of its rightful owner, he seized hold of it, and was about to carry it away, when a struggle ensued, in the course of which it was alleged that Mr. Healy . had designedly struck the head of the doctor's wife or sister-in-law against the door. This constituted the alleged robbery and assault. During the proceedings it was intimated by Mr. Hill (superintendent of police) that the doctor was no honester than he ought to be, and that he had illegally made away witkproperty from a house in Paradise Row, which he had taken ready furnished. The case against Mr. Healy was therefore ordered to stand over till the following day. On Friday, Healey again appeared to answer the charge which had been preferred against him, but on this occasion the Doctor was not forthcoming. It appeared, indeed, that he had in the course of the morning looked into the Pend( Court, but as the lady from whom he had taken his how was there, he perhaps thought it would be more in accordant with his own interest to be absent than present now no complainant, the cbarge against Mr. H alev was dis- missed. A lady named Ali charge Doctor Berri, of her property. M, Sproston, then stepped forward to d part 1 with h No. 14, Paradise Row, Berrington took her we nd on the 'lst of November 1 furnished house for a period of months She then left Chester, but fortnight had r elapsed. before she received a letter from a p who use to work for he and who then lived with 'D _Herrington intimating that h propert being T. ged by order c Mrs. Beriington, day aet ,e did not return home, her house would soon — be emptied of its furniture. She accordingly did return, and then discovered that sheets, blankets, silver spoons, &c., belonging to herself, had been pledged by order of Mrs. Berrington, to different persons, and in different names. Mr. Vaughan and Mr. Wakefield produced the pawn tickets of the spoons, blankets, and sheets. The Mayor expressed himself strongly upon the conduct of the defendants, and issued warrants for their apprehension. Several tradesmen with rueful faces were present during the proceedings, on whose credulity Berrington has been living since he has been in Chester, and who are consequently swindled out of their property. The defendant is a well known character. We learn from the Carlisle Patriot that about Midsummer last the Doctor made his debut in the neighbourhood of Carlisle. A classical school had been established at Stanwix, near that city, for some years, and on the resignation of the principal at Mid summer last, it was announced that after the vacation it would be opened under the superintendence of the Rev. J. Berrington, LL.D., F.R.A..5., F.L.S.. Circulars were issued, and parents were informed that their sons would be taught all the useful branches of knowledge, and " particular attention paid to their religious and moral training. On the arrival of the Doctor, the tradesmen of the neighbourhood prepared to receive his orders. Cabinet-makers were sent for, and furniture was ordered to the amount of between £l5O and £2OO. Jewellers- too were honoured with a call, and gold watches, silver snuff-boxes, silver waiters, &c. were poured into the Doctor's residence. Silks, satins, shawls, &c. were provided for the ladies of the establishment in abun dance, and the liberality of the Doctor in making purchases appeared to know no bounds. All went on very well for some time. After a while, however, the tradesmen who had been honoured with Dr. Berrington's calls began to whisper with each other, and shake their heads very significantly. The jeweller began to think that his gold watches and silver trays would be quite as profitably employed on his own coun ter as in the custody of the Doctor ; the mercer, wine mer chant, and bookseller, were of the same opinion ; and as none of them could get anything like payment for their goods, forth they all sallied to the domicile of the learned Doctor, and having by stratagem obtained an entrance, each carried off what he first laid his hands upon, until the whole of the Doctor's domestic paraphernalia had disappeared with the rapidity of lightning. The Doctor and his lady were therefore obliged to fly, and selected Gretna for their abode. His tormentors, however, followed him thither and being again compelled to abscond, he ultimately fled to Liver pool, and from thence to Chester, where we have now the honour of his company. On Saturday, the Doctor and his wife were again brought up to the office, in custody of the police-officer. After the charge of Miss Sproston had been heard, the Doctor was liberated, on promising to give up possession of his house, and leave the town ; and his wife was fined £1 55., or to be committed to prison for a month. Where they will make their next sojourn, of course we cannot say Courant —Chester THE NIGER EXPEDITION•-K earner WTil berforce, commanded by Lieutenant Webb,left the coast of Africa about the 14th of October, touched at Madeira for coal on the 31st, left there on the 6th inst., and arrived at Plymouth on the 17th. She is principally manned by loured people, there being only four or five Euro ans, rob( were taken from other government ships, and but three o those who joined the expedition originally— mander, carpenter, and engineer, It is said these three would he willing to go out again, although they have all bee tacked by the fever. The commander and carpenter in good health; but the effects of the climate, —am., the corn- appear gravated ature of his oc evidence on the person of the ene gone up Hamoa7 MR. COBDEN AND HIS FALLACIES.—We observe that the Stockport Advertiser has published a series of letters, ad dressed by " A SHOPKEEPER," to Mr. Cobden, M. P„ which, for extent of information, originality of thought, vigour of diction, and bold exposure of popular humbug, are among the best specimens of political writing we have lately read. As the series is now complete, it has been re-published in a form, which will ensure for it a wider and more lasting culation than can possibly be given to it in the colon- , provincial newspaper. Such a demolition of the delusions of the Anti-Corn-Law League is much needed; and we sin. cerely trust, that all who are anxious for the cause of truth, and the maintenance of the best interests of the country, will aid the distribution of this masterly refutation of the dange rous fallacies and mischevious propositions of the Anti-Corn Law League.—Nottingham Journal. !cr. The Wilberforce e to receive some necessary reps ca ns of a MELANCHOLY EVENTS. -On Thursday se'nnight, _ Mr. Hunt, organist of Hereford Cathedral, was proceedin c , at a quick pace along the cloisters, be stumbled over a hand barrow which had been most carelessly left therein the dark. and which had upon it a number of dishes and plates. The violence of the fall was so great, that Mr. Hunt received a deep wound in the front of the arm from a piece of broken dish ; several tendons were divided, and numerous small blood vessels, from which considerable haemorrhage took place. Mr. Hunt went on well until Saturday week, when some febrile excitement began to exhibit itself, and, on Sun day, and the following day, the constitutional creased ; and, notwithstanding the most prompt assistanc rendered, Mr. Hunt expired on Thursday last. On Sunda . evening, Mr. Hunt's nephew, an amiable youth, who was a chorister in the Cathedral, and was under his uncle's tuition and adoption, died from the effects of the shock which his relative's death had occasioned to his sensitive frame ; and the two bodies have been consigned to the same tomb. We regret to record the death of a serjeant of marine named Thomas Tatchell, under the following melancholy ci curnstances, offering another example of the fatal • rritability in- arising from the incautious use of fire-arms. On Thursday morning last, about 11 o'clock, the deceased, with two per sons, named Thomas Spuraway and James Kemp, the latter a grocer, residing in William -street, Morice-town, who had been sparrow shooting together, were returning to Morice town, Kemp carrying the gun, which was loaded with small shot. Spuraway, observing it was cocked, said it was dan gerous to carry it in that state, took the gun from Kemp, and after showing him the way to uncock it, Kemp not knowing how to do it, this being the first time be had ever fired a gun, returned it cocked into Kemp's hands that he might do it himself. The deceased was then a short distance ahead. In Kemp's attempt to uncock, the gun suddenly exploded, and its contents entered the deceased's side, who cried—" Oh ! oh ! you have killed me," and staggering about fell to the ground. He was taken home, and almost immediately after expired.—Plymouth paper. MESMERISM IN JAMAlCA.—Mesmerism has for some time been making a noise in Jamaica, the expounder of its myste ries there being a Mr. Garrison. Latterly it has been put to a practical test, a lady having had a tooth extracted while under its influence. The dental operator was a Mr. J. T. Dias, not a believer in the mesmeric theory, and he says in his report of the case,—"During the few moment s w hi c h M r . Garrison occupied in placing the lady under mesmeric influ ence, I kept myself aloof from the patient, and not until I was informed all was ,reatly vvegd I approach her. In doing so, such part of the tohiies i 'yiielected to enable all the by standers to witness tins - slew, singular exhibition. Mr. Gar rison then manipulated, to,.,Produce a relaxation of those muscles which kept the moWth shut, and gradually effected, extension: the head was somewhat elevated, the eyes per fectly closed. I immediately applied the scarificator, and not the slightest wince, not a movement of the most minute de seription, could I detect. In the act of introducing the for ceps, the mouth partly closed, and (forgetting the situation of the patient) I requested her to extend the mouth, with which she immediately complied. The tooth was instantaneously removed—the mouth remained extended—the eyes were still closed—not a shrink did I observe—not a muscle did I see move—and myself and all present were left to form our own opinions. The tooth has three fangs connected together, forming one large root in a somewhat conical form ; the length somewhat better than three quarters of an inch. What ap peared to me, however, most inexplic:.ble, was the circum stance of the mouth retaining its original position, still ex tended after the removal of the tooth, which is perfectly un natural, and which has never been witnessed by me during a practice of twenty-one years; and not until the mesmeric operator manipulated the jaws to cause contraction, did the patient attempt to eject the blood from her mouth." FATAL ACCIDENT AT BLENHEIM.—The following account of this unfortunate affair is sent us by a correspondent :—On Thursday Morning I was going through the park, when I heard the report of a gun, and passing through Coombe Lodge, was told that Eliott, the park and game keeper, bad shot a young woman- It appears that Eliott was shooting at a doe, and the poor girl was wooding at a distance of 551 yards ; the keeper missed the doe, but unfortunately shot the poor girl through the chest ; it was purely accidental, and Eliott is very much distressed at the occurrence. The poor girl, whose name I believe is Oldacres, was conveyed to the George public-house at Hamborough, and a coroner's in quest was to sit yesterday morning. It is a curious circum stance that this poor girl's brother was killed about twelve months since on the railroad. Since we received the above, we have obtained the particulars of the inquest which was held before James Westall, Esq., coroner for the county, from which it appears that when the melancholy accident took place the keeper was near the High Lodge, shooting deer with a rifle, and that the poor girl, who is only thirteen years of age arid was picking up wood near Spring Lock-gate, a distance of 555 yards, 330 of which are very thickly inter spersed with trees, which prevented the keeper seeing the deceased, when she was struck by a ball, which entered her left breast, and caused instant death. It appeared, on ex amination, that the ball must have glanced off some hard substance. Some men passing at the time, attracted by the screams of children, picked her up, but found she was quite dead. After a long investigation the jury returned a verdict of " Homicide by misadventure," accompanied by an ex pression of their opinion, that the keeper had not used due cau tion when shooting in the park at the time of picking up wood ; it being stated that the Duke of Marlborough had given'posi tive orders that no deer be shot on what are called 't wood ing days." We are pleased to hear that the duke and duchess on hearing of the sad accident sent over to the family, and did what they could t 9 alleviate their misery by liberally ad ministering to their aid.— afford Herald. CORRESPONDENCE THE BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS R OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR SIR,—As our letter to you, simply countermandiny' the sertion of the advertisment of the commissioners of Biri head, is made the ground for announcing to the public your paper of yesterday, that the commissioners had al doned the measures mentioned in their notice, we dee; right to say, that saving the expense of inserting two ad tisements, when by the standing orders of parliament was sufficient, was the only reason for requesting you t repeat the insertion. Our mode request to you, NI rs of B tants of E asend, t ,heir note the conch ng orders of r their notice not insist or be presume( order for its n of a they did MALLABY Sent rey ttld have been ti of the clerk WNSEND in con- We do thin t to build upon (plain. If the only one pub. ation of lir the orders in question did 1 in Lancashire—they might 11. us with an :ht have been e day upon ng, to confirm the order for the continued ;ing must, therefolt ORDI] kTIONS APPOINTED op of El venther 27 December 11 ,p of York Worcester Chichester Gloucester and Bristol neretoro Norfolk IS (1843) January '2'.) SOCIALIST MARRIAGES At the Borough Court of Requests, London, Peter Shep herd was summoned by Ilyppolite Jasmin, a French friseur, , for the sum of 14s. 6d., alleged to be due by the former for sundry dressings of his wife's hair. WDefeudant pleaded that the person calling herself Charlotte Corday Roland de la Platierre Shepherd, was not his lawful wife, but his social, or St. Sinionian one, and that latterly he had discarded her because she bad become a " she" Chartist, or a rights-of-woman wife. The latter was the most intoler able species of spouse of all. M. Jasmin, fn sound French and broken English, stated that he was a private friseur des dames, and lodged in the Surrey Circus. He received no ladies at home, but attended them a leur propre domicile. His reputation was great among the Surrey (theatre) beauties. 11 avait arrange la belle chevelure de , la dame Shepherd depuis 9 ans, et le sieur • • Pierre Shepherd, l'avait toujours paye. Latterly he refused to do so, and I summoned him for twenty-nine dressings of madam's hair a douze sous chaque, ce qui fait selon ce grand mathematicien Anglais Cockere quartorze shellings et demi. That is my declaration of facts, M. le Commissionaire. The Commissioner.—Clearly stated, and short enough. Why refuse the Frenchman's demand, Mr. Shepherd? Mr. Shepherd.—Charlotte Corday Roland de la Platierre Tourterelle (for that's her right name) is no wife of mine. In 1833-4 I met her at the Burton-crescent Rooms, at a ecture on St. Simonianism, delivered by one Signor Fon tuna, and as we both relished the doctrines delivered by that foreign priest and apostle of socialism, we, after an hour's courtship, got married by him according to tha rights of St. Simoniad. I lived happily enough with Mademoiselle Thar- lotte until she became Li disciple of Mis; ss Susanna Cleopatra Inge, eve vaiiter Ice which fatal sue has been trying to display such physical superi ority over me, that I have resolved to teach her a practical esson—to show her to all intents and purposes that she was a femme sole, and that she was equal to man in thihgs physical, she must be also equal to him in things pecuniary, The Coma] dit un hedge mt ;toner (to daintiff).—Do you know whether band of Charlotte Corday, & e . ? ce qu'on xne t you other Eng ll isings of the hair with which you charge her own del :taut is the lawful hu's sioner.—V M. Jasmin.—Non, Monsieur. Depuis six seniaines elle est domicili6e chez M. Cato, petit hointne bien laid et bein mal propre et mal mis, qui tient un café miserable dans le Old Bailey on se reunissent les Chartists. The Commissioner.-1 regret that I cannot assist you, M. Jasmin. Ido not think that Socialist husbands are liable for the debts of Socialist wives. You had betterltalte out a fresh summons against Mdlle. Charlotte, &c., who, no doubt, will show her title to the rights of man by paying, as honest men do, her honest debts. M. Jasmin.—Merci bien. Je suivrai votre bon conseil et citerai devant vous la Demoiselle Charlotte Corday Roland de la Platierre Touterelle. DODDRIDGE, WILBERF9RCE, /IND LEGH RICHMOND (From the London Record.) ace there lived an honest oilman in DOMESTIC SER (Froth the Maga:ine of Domestic Economy.) 'tract for hiring a menial (infra mania) servant is year, unless otherwise expressed, and custom ,as engrafted on this contract a condition that either party on end to the service by a month's warninz. In - -nt, therefore, if the month's warning , or any other to be adopted, it should be so expressed in writing, as there might be a difficulty in proving the precise terms of the hiring, and then the general living for tn . ay pi s to be dispensed with custom would pre A book should servant It freq tster per: the clair pt to enter the terms of hiring every should be required to sign, and also to es every time they are paid; if the )recaution should be taken. lischarged servant makes a d if they have been paid by .eceipt, he could not Lout a r m of a month's warnir or a month's v t entitle the servant to a month ;sed for improper conduct It may be dif, definition of the nature of such miscor would justify the c t with nd him a London, u that a 11014 .omise, atterwards. This offer, which him a certain provision for life, the youth declined, n his lot with the Independent Dissenters, among whom be lived and died, the minister of one of their meet- in a country town. He left behind him a little volume, entitled "The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul," of which it is but moderate praise to say that it has Of conferring " the gift of the Holy Ghost" on more souls than any bishop since the apostles' times can hope to welcome as his spiritual children. Just fifty years after, a copy of this little book fell into the hands of a young gentleman of gc.,y and worldly habits, immersed in pleasure and public business, and who, though baptised and confirmed in the church, and educated at one of our universities, was , Itm nger to the very first rudiments of spiritual reli read, and thought over, and, in bis case, as in sos of " changing he received " the thonsands of others, it was made the his heart." He became a " new man gift of the Holy G medium by which this en tire change was effected, was that little volume, the work of a Dissenting Minister—" The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul." But the change became manifest by its fruits. The young gentleman himself, though only a layman, felt in wardly moved to become a teacher of religion. He writes and publishes a book, called " A Practical View of Chris tianity,"—of which it may, perhaps, be said with truth, that the good wrought by it emulated that done by the volume to which its author owed his conversion. We pass on a few more years, and we behold a volatile young clergyman, who has just taken orders, without any just or serious views of his responsibilities, and without any personal knowledge of that Christianity which he has undertaken to teach. A copy of the " Practical View of Christianity" is put into his hand. He opens it ; is arrested by the power of the Holy Spirit ; the night passes on, but he is unable to lay down the book until its perusal is completed ; and he rises up " a changed man." And the fruits of this change, even if we only think of what has already past, have probably exceeded either of the former. But when we add together the three works, " the Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul," " The Practical View of Christianity," and " The Annals of the Poor," and contemplate their united effects on the Church of Christ,—not in England only, nor merely in Europe, but throughout the world,—how do these squabbles about " apostolical succession" fade into insignificance, or only ex cite a feeling of indignation, that men's minds should be drawn aside from realities, to dispute about external forms and points of order. When we trace up the " Annals of the Poor" to its providential cause, and find it to spring out of the " Practical View of Christianity ;" and then follow that work upwards to its source, the " Rise and Progress of Reli gion in the Soul," and find its author a Dissenting minister, we call to mind from whom "all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed," and we see, in the evidence of undeniable fact, that it is not true that " the gift of the Holy Ghost" is limited to any external lineage of so called " apostolical succession." In the course of a recent pastoral visit, the Bishop of Evreux stopped at the Chateau de Dangu, where he per formed a mass. At the close of the service he presented to those who were present, as is done on such occasions. his ring-finger for them to kiss the ring, but a labouring man, who was ignorant of the nature of the ceremony, thinking the bishop wished to shake hands with him, caught the hand firmly in his own, and, shaking it heartily, said, amidst the laughter of all who were present, and which they were un able to restrain, "Merci, monsigneur, ca va Lien, el vous 1" AFFECTATION OF SuAviTY.—There are some who affec a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery ; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the sauvity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it. And yet so very blind are all their acquaintance to these their numerous qualifications and merits, that the possessor of them invaria bly discovers, when it is too late, that they have lived in the world without a single friend, and are about to leave it with out a single mourner. FRANKLIN'S SPECTACLES.— Dr. Franklin describes a curious pair of spectacles which he used occasionally to wear : —" The same convexity of glass (says he) through which a man sees clearest and best at the distance proper for reading, is not the best for greater distances. I, therefore, had for merly two pair of spectacles, which I shifted occasionally; as in travelling I sometimes read, and often wanted to regard the prospects. Finding this change troublesome, and not always sufficiently ready, I had the glasses cut out, and half of each kind associated in the same circle ; the same convex for viewing distant objects, in the upper part of the circle; and the most convex, proper for reading, in the lower half of the frame. By this means, as I wear my spectacles constantly, I have only to move my eyes up or down, as I want to see distinctly ; the proper glasses being always ready. Although I cannot distinguish a letter, even of large print, by the naked eye, with the assistance of this invention my eyes are as use ful to me as ever they were ; an d if a ll th e other defects of old age could be as easily and cheaply remedies, it would be worth while to live a good deal longer. - - COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.—(From the Observer.)—lt will be in the recollection of our readers that the Treasury had some time back issued a commission of inquiry into the mode and expense of collecting the public revenue of the country, and that Lord Grenville Somerset had been placed at the head of this commission. Differing widely as we do in politics from this noble lord, we feel nevertheless bound to say that he possesses great aptitude for such a mission. His acknowledged sagacity, and intimate acquaintance with the transactions of public business, render the selection of him peculiarly appropriate. Mr. Courtney, a gentleman of experience in the Treasury, was appointed secretary to the commission, the members of which made the port of Liver pool the first scene of the investigation. It is now under stood that the commission is about to resume more active 1 labours, for the purpose of taking into its consideration the late disclosures of malversation in the customs department of London ; and we are confident that in this investigation they will derive every possible assistance from the commis sioners of customs. Lord Granville Somerset and the other members of the commission met on Monday, at Gwydyr House, Whitehall, for the purpose above mentioned, and they have already requested the attendance of two officers of the customs, who are confessedly deeply implicated in the frauds, and ten gentlemen who are no longer in the service, they having undergone the severest punishment which the censure of the board could inflict. We sincerely trust that, for the satisfaction of the public mind, Lord Granville Somerset will not hurry in his course, and that ere long we shall be enabled to announce the result to our readers. 'hen he is dis- licult to give t as harge without the month's wages; but doubt that insolence, disobedience of leciti- unkenness, dishonesty, immoral conduct, neglect of duty, or violent temper, would disentitle the servant to the claim to a month's wages; on the other band, occasional carelessness, forgetfulness, inattention, untidi ness, ill health, indifferent or disobliging temper, would not be a forfeiture of the wages. mate orde A servant discharged for such gross misconduct, strictly speaking, not only forfeits the month's wages, but also his accruing wages ; but it is usual to pay him, pro raid, for the e of servic A servant has no right to his livery on his dismissal, either by warning or otherwise; if, however, he has been permitted to keep his old livery when his new one becomes due, this would be considered as evidence of an agreement to that effect, and the master could not compel the servant to give up an old livery in his possession at the time of his discharge, although he might that of the current half year. The custom of giving the month's warning or the month's wages only applies to the hiring menial or domestic servants, sa that when the hiring of a clerk, tutor, governess, traveller, bailiff, &c., is by the gear, withoUt any stipulation as to the mode of putting an end to the contract, the party hired has . - a right to continue in the service for the whole current year, provided he conducts himself properly ; and if discharged without reasonable cause, might claim the whole year's salary, although dismissed before the termination of it; and on the other hand, if he leaves the service without reasonable cause, he would forfeit all claim to remuneration for such portion of the year as he may have been actually in service. The seine principle would apply when the salary is payable half-yearly or quarterly, so tar a s regards the right to, or the forfeiture of, the current salary. In such cases it is very important to reduce to writing the express terms of the con tract, to enable either party to put an en d to the serv i ce on a reasonable notice. • Most people are very indulgent in giving the characters of servants; we are unwilling to deprive them of that on which their livelihood depends ; we recollect they may have many trials and temptations, that fault may be corrected ; that they have no means of compelling their masters to give a cha racter at all; we should, therefore, certainly not exaggerate their feelings, while at the same time the truth should not be concealed. If we do err on this point, we err on the right side. -"" It is, however, an ill-judged lenity to overlook too often a fault that, if repeated leads to a habit. Take, for instance, drunkenness, certainly not an uncommon and decidedly one of the most difficult habits to overcome: It is surely a greater act of kindness to discharge the servant on the first or second accusation, than allow the habit to be formed, by which the character of sobriety is lost. ion will lie against the master for giving a bad cha ant, even although it be a false one, unless ex ' The giving a char racer of a ser press malice be provet ter to one who asks for it, is in the nature of a privileged communication. It is both sought for and given for a legitimate purpose ; it is intended to be confidential and will be assumed to be given bona fide, and without malice. Few would venture to give the true character of a bad servant, if be might be called upon in court to prove his statement. It is only when the character is false and maliciously given, that the party is liable to an action. It is to be hoped few such ins exist It would be extremely difficult to prove express malice ; but the giving a bad character of a servant to a person about to engage him, who has not applied for any character at all, might be considered as sufficient proof of malice. Such a voluntary and uncalled-for interference would certainly, un less explained, justify such an inference. If any person make it a rule never to take a written cha racter, or to give a second character of the same servant. It is easy to lay down general rules, when a strict adherence to them dues not affect ourselves; but there may be many in stances where the refusal to give a second character might be highly prejudicial to a good servant, and the objection to take a written character, when its truth and authenticity are undoubted, would be equally absurd. A written character should certainly not be given to the 'servant himself, unless under very peculiar circumstances, as it might be misapplied, and in general the same object is ob tained by sending the written character to the person apply ing; but a strict adherence to this rule would sometimes be a hardship, as, for instance, when a master is going abroad or a long period, and discharges a good servant for no fault. THE LIABILITY OF MASTERS FOEI. THE ACTS OF THEIR SERVANTS The master is liable for any damage occasioned by the neg ligence or misconduct of his servant, provided the negligence or misconduct arises in the course of the servant's employ ment. Thus, if a servant, by negligently driving his master's carriage, or riding his horse, occasion an injury, the master is liable for the damage arising from such negligence. But the master is not liable for the wilful or malicious act of his servant, not done in the execution of his master's orders, as where a servant wilfully strikes another person's horses, and thereby causes an accident, the master would not be liable: as also when a servant has no business with his master's horses, or who, contrary to his orders, uses them, and in so doingcauses an injury to another, the master would not be liable. Neither can a master be made liable for the acts of a person who is only under his temporary control and employment, and who is not strictly speaking his servant ; thus a person who hires a carriage and horses by the day with a driver, the hirer would not be responsible for any damage occasioned by the negligence of the driver ; for although he may be under the temporary control of the hirer, he is not so completely his servant as to render him liable for his acts. The jobman in this case, whose servant the driver is, would be the party liable. Even where a driver and horses have been hired from a jobman for a longer period, as for a month, 'and the hirer found a livery for the driver, the hirer has been held not to be liable. So also the postmaster, end •not the hirer, is responsible for the neglect of the postboy. • This principle of liability may be applied to other cases where a damage or injury arises from the negligence or mis conduct of a servant, and it may be laid down as a general rule that whenever the servant (being strictly speaking the servant of the master) is under his control, and acting under his orders, the master is liable for his acts. The servant himself will be responsible whenever the act amounts to a misleazance or tort, (or in other words not a mere act of omission/, but it rarely happens that a person who seeks a pecuniary compensation for an injury would ap ply for redress to the servant when the master is liable. SERVANTS' PERQUISITES The expense of an establishment is so much influenced by servants, particularly in London, that some general observa tions on this head may not be deemed misplaced, although it must be confessed it is much easier to point out the evil than suggest a remedy. The days c servants were tainly have_ gon ch thn' .y wrien the perquisites of a gentleman could not dine out with nit price for his dinner, hut it is to be - P.verely felt by the Out paving an extravag feared that some still existwhichilea heads of houses One of the most prominent evils in London that affect the economy of an establishment, is the custom among trades people of paving the servants a per tentage or allowance on the amount of their bills. This is considered a fair perqusite, and almost claimed as a matter of right, when in fact it is nothing less than a fraud, either upon the master or trades man. It is a custom not confined to the inferior tradesman only, but notoriously extends even to the most reswetable and beit established houses; the former submit willingly to gain a connexion, the latter are reluctantly obliged to do so, to keep their custom. The master is in fact the sufferer, for allowing the honest tradesman a fair profit only, he cannot afford to deduct so large a per centage (seldom so little as five per cent.) from his bill, and therefore the employer must eventually pay the charge. But this is not the only evil, or by any means the least ; the servant is directly interested in the amount of the bill; he may not be sufficiently hardened to allow false charges to be made, but he will not sufficiently scrutinise, as he ought to do, weights and quantities, and, above all, waste is encouraged to a great extent. It would surprise many country gentlemen to hear that this practice in London extends to butchers, bakers, fishmonger buttermen, green-grocers, &c., and that the i cook claim their allowance from one set of tradesmen, the butler or footman from another. s, oilmen, msekeeper or Such being the fact, what is the remedy, and in whose hands does it lie? The respectable tradesman will tell his customer that he is equally anxious to put an end to the evil, but that he is compelled to submit to it; to preserve his cus tom, he may consent in that particular case to discontinue it, but he will warn his customer of the consequences—he must be prepared to hear daily complaints of the article supplied. Meat, fish, and vegetables can easily be spoilt in the kitchen; the oil can be made to burn badly in the lamps, discontent ment will prevail. What is the master to do? He should employ the most respectable tradesmen in his neighbourhood, and let his servants know that he is determined to every one of them rather than discard a single hor man ; if he is proof against the complaints or th. and, what is more difficult to bear, the badne ss o f hi s and can put up with the inconvenience of changin g his servants, he may succeed, but he must patience and resolution will be severely t r i gain his point, he will find it worth the time , It may be suggested that putting th e servants on board wages would be a more desirable, and as effectual a remedy, but it would not strike at the root of the evil, as the same number of tradesmen must still be employed, though not perhaps to the same extent. There are many other perquisites whicl reader, some of which partake of fraud friends at the expense of the master. 1 1,. servants consider tea an d sugar as fair plus. be surprised to hear this was cheating their ma, ma y be added the practice of selling broken meat, ..-- is generally authorised by the master, though not to the e... something m that etii i fi a r g s t alludedto the cook's , i s t would wages tent to which it is really carried on, it is not so great an evil ti t o o n th il e l poor. It would certainly do mo'rne and good, odho be bad and the difference of the wages would probably be save , bad economy to add the consumption, as the temptation . to d w gbyi al et t h e et vi ,hd: o i ti mu id lt eea se to exist. liners, Dme of Should he d trouble. ar to th I, such as leastin; Then mniin. man: rand woad Ler ; to the s e hut as this THE QUEEN AND HER PLOYLE•_Thrnug'uout the resi_ deuce of the Court at Wahner Castle, the Queen and Prince Albert have enjoyed in privacy their early walks, great y t o the credit of the visiters and inhabitants of Deal, win , - - duct in forbearing to intrude on the august visiters most advantageously with the course pursued du i Queen's last visit to Brighton, in which the Sorereigt walks were subject to intrusion when in private, by whose over zealous loyalty, however well intentioneo for the convenience and pleasure of the illustrious have been wisely deferred to more public occasions be hoped, that at the approaching royal visit, t pair may be free from similar mistimed d attachment ions of STRAN--- AFFAIR.—A rumour reach e d us yesterday —too late, however, for us to make all requisite inquiries that a woman in Brimington, who has died thi s week, confessed to having murdered her husband about 14 years ago. He was found dead with his throat cut from ear to ear, and a razor in his hand; and she acknowledged, just before death that s he cut the unfortunate man's th roat, and then placed the razor in his hand. Her motive was, that she might live with another man, with whom she had continued to cohabit till death ; and suspicion was excited at the time by the haste with which she betook herself to the dwelling of her paramour We are further informed that the latter has been apprehended but how far that, is eorre , ' or noy other p ar t o f th e h orr ibl e narrae we at Nest we to say at present. shall, it is probable, be able either to confirm or contradit. the above statement, which we give • —Derkshi re Courier. precisely as it reached our ear led Jut the tat rly ese I to i nd iefs our the the 3 to -8 ; of, rey