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'~` '. .(i p `;'~~ gton, me of ating creek gl:ets.. aand e had arles zence states had ation, With alias, ie ob y his g the , the ently per e im t se ly he next on for creby the r de bad se of Ly of' nary. state Is of ether ;rice. NIARcEr 2,9, 1836. grinding and avaricious exactions of his protestant land lord --that the curse ortile Country is the tithes—and that he never can h o p e taibewirl a better condition until the :Saxon hereticS are eiga;at i nd, the monasteries rebuilt, and the lands of the churtivrest. tared to the see of Rowe. We can easily cOthilOnti the efiect which these artful but natural, becauseniallohat; delusions, produce on weak, ,g,porant; and volatilefands '•• They excite feelings of deadly hate and imperishable !'resentment. When men !are convinced that they have endured wrongs, the ardour of their passions makes theta the. more facile prey of their betrayers. They dearly love the man who, know= ing their simplicity, can rouse them to madness. They shower more readily upon him the patriotic contributions which he prescribes. He adjures them from the altar, as they value their own souls, as they love the darling reli gion of their ancestors, as they venerate the bones of their suffering fathers in Purgatory—to obey his behests, to follow his advice, to execrate whom he condemns, and take vengeance on those whom he anakematises. Hence the awf u l a t roc i t iesand deeds of COldltooded and damn ing guilt which make Ireland the reproach of Europe and the disgrace of the. " Isles of the sea." In illustration of the working of this unhallowed and dernoralizin system, weto re beg fer to a trial which • took place in the county of Carlow, in Ireland, within the last few days, the particulars of which, we doubt not, most of our readers are already acquainted with. A ra ther notorious priest; of .the name of WALSH, one of the zealous and most complacent tools of O'CONNELL, was found dead on the road which led to his place of resi dence. On the night.before .he was found he had been visiting some of his friends several miles from home. It is stated that he had drank freelythat be was on horse back—and that, though accustomed to ride as well as drink, he was not exactly in a Condition to undertake such a journey at so late an hour of the night. The evi dence of the . medical men is con-tvadictory. The mere impartial and intelligent swear that he owed his death, to a fall and probably a kick from his horse. The accident happened at an acute turning of the road, and near a house the inmates of which heard no struggling, no con tention, no blows, no groans. The general opinion, and the only rational opinion, considering the circumstances, is, that Father Wal.Sti was drunk, fell from his horse, and Was killed. • But in Ireland, unlike any other country, a priest can not be allowed to get drunk and fall from his horse with out his death being made . the subject of excitement on political grounds. It was first insinuated and afterwards asserted that the priest was murdered. Murder a priest ! It was a greater crime than murdering a whole nation of Protestants. Murder a priest! Who would murder him but a protestant ? The frenzy Caused by this falsehood became popular. It was a capital topic of excitation. The priests, awake to every fraud that may promote their Wily, sinister, and "dishonest . purposes, encouraged the fiction and joined in the cry of murder. .Consequently Father WALSH, instead of being returned drunk from an excess of whisky punch, and as having fallen from his horse at a sharp turning of the road, which the horse knew better than his reverence, was'returned murdered 45y an orangeman ! This popular decision was come to Without a shadow of evidence. It Was a lie invented for the purposes of fraud and agitation. It was as base a lie as ever entered the mind of a popish priest. It was a lie with a murderous intent—with a recklessness of life— aimed at the peace and happiness of an innocent man, and to bring obloquy upon a party. We are happy to say that the lie and the infamous con- spiracy did not succeed. But the attempt made, the wit- tresses produced, and the evidence sworn to, cannot fail to make a deep impression upon the minds of protestant readers, inasmuch as they prove to what guilty lengths the priests will go in making the judgments of-heaven the instruments of fiction, the medium of falsehood, and the terror of the innocent. One woman was enticed to swear that she heard a Person of the name of SLY,, (a protestant of course, and Who was indicted for the murder,) - confess that‘he and others perpetrated the . deed. It was afterwards clearly Preyed that this woman was in a distant part of the coun try at the time, and- could not have heard any such con fession. She hal since been tried for perjury, convicted, and sentenced to transportation. • But on the trial two men, one of them a police con stable—both Roman CatholiesstVear that they heard Mr. SLY make confessicin of 'his ifard'eitiation in the mur der. Two months had elapsedbeforethe policeman ever intimated that he knew any on the subject, and he says, what is curious - enoughOhat be never thought of divulging it until he gas preparing to make emfession to his priest ! There is something in this which an Irish jury peifectly'UnderStarid, but which it would not be safe in us to take any particular pains to explain. However, the two men.told the same story in such exact terms, and in the words of their depositions with such a de gree of precision, the result of study and compact, and according to their instructions, that it was impossible for any man in his sober senses to believe what they so solemnly swore! A more atrocious case—a more abo- minable conspiracy—a more diabolical attempt to ac complish murder by false evidence, never was presented in a court of justice. It was infamy in its blackest form. It had the taint of popish villany, made plausible by in genuity, and apparently pure by means of holy water. The assassin and the sprinkler—the dagger and thein cense pot—swung, or ought to have swung together. In no other country could such deliberate malice have been worked into so repulsive a form. We forgive the Poor wretch of a woman. No doubt she had confessed ; no doubt she was at the mercy of the priest. But the Policeman who was prepared to confess, and we suspect (14 confess, as be was faithfully instructed, and which confession was a lie, having for its object deliberate per jury in the first instance, and murder afterwards—of him and of his priest, and his adviser, what shall we say ? S iolPly , this, that the man can only do justice to GOD and his country by exposing the villain who either in structed or encouraged him in framing evidence which both must have known to be false. Such, however, is popery in Ireland 1. To propagate and encourage this falsehood which ministers to the foul est crimes--which criminates the witness and is intend ed to murder the innocent—to give a bounty to the scoundrel and secure the extortions of the priests is called " justice to Ireland !" If this be justice, we pray GoD we may never hear the word " justice" pronounced in the English language. If this be the justice which his Majesty's ministers advocate, .we wish them no worse fate than to run the gauntlet of it in their own persons. It is to encourage. this sort of " justice" founded on fraud and crime, that .the revenues of the church of England are to be appropriated as DANIEL O'CoNivzi.t. directs. ! r e is to do justice to Ireland. The scamp ! what are ills notions of justice.? Listen to his own words. The day is the Sabbath—the hero is going to mass—the vic titll is a helpless, deserted; and starving child, his mother The destitute relic of seduction and abandonment. What " ° 'CONNELL'S justice ? "Don't strike the boy ANY JOHN." ! 1 ! a . t 3 .• ' ll 11 fi r LO N DON LATEST N EWS. m " „c m" City, Saturday Evening, Hall past Seven o'clock. By the Malta mail advices have been received from Tripoli k to the 4th instant. A revolt had taken place among the in habitants of Tanjure and Zanzure, against the authority of the Dacha, th e p eop l e re f us i ng to pay the tribute. Five thousand troop s had been sent against the rebels, who were soon reduced tu .submission. and compelled to pay a fine of 7,000 dollars for their misconduct. The Stock market has again been rather buoyant this after -60, consols for' account having touched 913 ; b u t s p ec nl a tiv e si lt ness is still conducted on a very small scale. The last Xsee of the day -for account was 9 1 14, and for money O le . xehequer bills are firm at 23e.; and India bonds at 6s. to Bs. Premiu m. The value of Spanish bonds has improved to-day, in conse titlence of the expectations that the dividends wilt be forth , "tuing at the proper period. In the m orn i ng some extens i ve ti,,purchases were made of Spanish stock, which l e d t o an a d vance ' 4 J . 7 r° .at Otto 451, but a reaction took place subsequently, tbe' -declining to 44i. The last bargains were transacte d a t 4 4 . 4 ii• The:posivestock receded from 140 to 14#; but the de 'at!, :!rred bond s are very firm at 211/. A few barga ins were ma d e t 3 4, Piiitligu' es -bonds at 80 this afternoon, and i n th e 3 per e _ !nits. at 54. In the ether. continental securities scarcely an y ' l ariation oc c u rr ed t o -d a y. Colombian bond s rema i n •at 31f, * - Periniii n have fallen to 231. 2 , T, ,:herehaatbeert. considerable speculation in railway, shar es , 11( ' , : t i ~ ", ! !° t ighthe'greater part of them have declined in value. To ° +6V the IlreatE Western after having risen to 30, fell hack to 16'61 :Ott 40i - tikolvAintl . Brighton (Stephenson's) dropped from ° 14,;, line from a to 2 premium; the Greenwich •/ 1 "Ut hitleteilea . '"'diiii Ws. prem., and the London and Sliming 7011Tha., viNj . I Z T 11132 MEN (L ERIN: BY ROBERT bTOnY. (Mitten fur. the L t iverpoul Standard.) Ye true men of Erin, tile'fiat. is spoken! Abandoned by all but your worth and your God, Ye stand like a fluck when‘the fences are broken, The shepherds dispersed, and the wolf-troop abroad; Aud the heart bleeds to think how the few spots of beauty That brighten the great moral waste of your land— Fair spots of allegiance, of faith, and of duty— May soon be defaced, and trampled to sand ! But no —le are MEN : and, though changed your condition, A protestant phalanx ye gallantly form — Too meek for assault, yet too proud fur submission— Prepared for your foe as a rock for the storm ! 0 ! deem not an Englishman's sympathies deadened— We feel for you warmly, as brothers we feel ; And the instant the blood of one true man hath reddened Your soil, it shall glitter with thousands in.steel! The sons of a people the fetters that shivered And held in derision the mummeries of. Rome, We cannot stand by and behold you deliverq ' Like sheep to the slaughter—like dogs to their doom- Then, courage !—and still, though so changed inCondition, A protestant phalanx undauntedly form— Too meek for pssault, yet too proud for submission — Prepared for your foe as a rock for the storm ! MILITARY PUNISHMENTS. The commissioners appointed by his Majesty to inquire into the system of punishing...military offences in the British army have prepared a report, containing an able and impattial review of that subject, which has been laid before parliament, and printed for the information of the public. The report, founded upon ►he evidence of private soldiers and of ,officers of every grade in the army, from the corporal. to the field-marshal, and also of some officers of great experience ilk the French army; disproves all the assumptions and shows the fallacy of the reasonings upon which the popular clamour respecting " mili tary torture" is supported. All the private soldiers who were examined by the commissioners declared, that the feeling was universal 'in the army Nat 'fio'inan is ever brought to the hal berts who does not deserve that punishment; and the comrades of some of the sufferers, whose cases have been discussed in and out of parliament, were of opinion . that . they had not been punished with a sufficient degree of severity! Although not alluded to in the report, there can be no doubt that the indiscreet meddlin ,, of those Who have been in the habit of holding up an insolent, mischievous, or refractory soldier, when punished for his misconduct, ..es.the victim of "military oppression" has had a tendency tOjncreate military offences, and, of course, military punishments,; The ignorant and the turbulent soldier is almost tempted to set his officers at defiance by the readiness with which the public sympathy is excited when it becomes necessary to correct his vices by an infliction likely to deter others from the commission of similar offences ; but for these effusions of ignorance and folly, where fifty lashes have been inflicted, one would have sufficed to preserve the pro per degree of discipline, without which that necessary evil, an army, would be the greatest curse, the most unendurable nui sance that could exist in this or any other country. We have frequently seen the argument adduced, that, because corporal punishments are not permitted in the French, they should be abolished in the English army; but before that posi tion can be maintained it is necessary to take into consideration the materials of which each army is respectively composed. The ranks of the French army are filled by compulsory service, every male in France, whatever his' rank in society may be, being obliged to serve either in person or by deputy for a limited portion of his life. In that army corporal punishments were not abolished until recruits for it were levied by a general con scription, Speaking of the French system, the commissioners state, that " in the French army forty-five offences are punish able by death—a sentence seldom commuted in time of war; while in our articles of war authority to pass that sentence is always coupled with the words " or such punishment as a gene ral court martial may award." "Twenty-six other offences are punishable with imprisonment for periods front five to twelve years, with a cannon ball attached to the leg or other part of the body." "Nineteen offences are punishable by imprisonment in the galleys front one to three sears, which in the English ser vice would subject the offender to be tried by a district court martial, the limit of whose. Power of sentence, in respect of cor poral ;punishment, is 300 lashes;" " and," they proceed to say, it appears front the evidence that the French code does not produce, even in time of peace, a discipline in any degree equal to that of the British army." To these punisinnents, be it, remembered, every male in France is obliged to incur the risk Of being subjected, while in England no man can be forced to become a soldier against his inclinations. Still, with the knowledge that certain breaches of discipline are punishable by the lash, there is no difficulty in finding two recruits for every man required in our service, and the rejected are content to - grcfahroad 'Rs auxiliaries, where they are treated with ten times the severity that they would have experienced had their services been accepted at home. Drunk enness appears to be the prevailing cause of all the offences which are visited with corporal inflictions. :- . An increase of pay has been suggested. Would this be likely to lesson that' l evtil?' Do we never hear of " brutal outrages coonnitted .by drunken and infuriate soldiers P ) And, lastly, are the . . ativocates for cheap g o v ernment pik4re4 to see the amt§oioes 'doubled or trebled without g,itiatliting at the e ° o9r#,t4 oi; the expense? These _are matters that recinire a little consideration we trow, The anxiety to itbnlirn military flagging is as general among military :nett theatielveli as it possibly can be among those who are occupied in_ the pursuits of civil life. The : best proof that can be given of this feeling is the fact that the sentences ac tually passed tipOn military culprits are seldom carried fully into effect. It is, however,: somewhat strange that the flogging abolitionists should have forgotten the judicial inflictions of this description. The following are the. conclusions from the evidence to which the commissioners have arrived:— .„ I. That the opinion of almost every witness whom we 'have examined is, that the substitution of other punishments for cor poral punishment in the British Army, upon actual service and in the field, is impracticable, and, if practicable, would be insufficient for the maintenance of proper discipline in your Majesty's Army. "2. That the abolition of the power of awarding corporal pun ishment, by sentence of Court-martial, in the British islands and the colonies, and during peace, and the •retention of the power of indicting that punishment when the army is on service and in the field, appear to us, for the reasons we have stated, manifestly unjust. "3. That it does not appear to us that the punishments which have been resorted to as substitutes have hitherto had such an effect as to render it safe'to abolish altogether, that power in Great i3ritain or the colonies, nor have . any other punishments been suggested to its that appear to promise a more favourable result. 4. That it appears to us, that even supposing that some effec tual substitute might be devised, or that those now in use inight be made more effectual, so. as to render corporal punishment ultimately unnecessary, it would be.,unsafe to proceed at once to abolish it entirely ; and that even .in that case its abolition should be gradual. "5. That in order to give full effect to the punishments now in use as substitutes fur corporal punishment, considerable al terations must be made in the means of rendering.solitary con finement in the several barracks more effective, and that a cer tain number of. prisons exclusively for military offenders should be provided as soon as possible. "6. That although we have been unwillingly convinced of the necessity of still retaining the power of corporal punishment, in proportion to our conviction of that necessity we earnestly recommend that no pains may be spared to endeavour to make its infliction less frequent. "7. That, with the view of diminishing the frequency of this punishment, the offences to which it is limited, and the occasions upon which it should be resorted to, should be more clearly de fined. , " 8. That with the same view:morediscretion should be vested in Commanding Officers as to the power of making use of minor punishments, and in determining on the offences which shall, under their orders, be tried by a regimental Court-martial. "0.. That it appears to' us that the extent of the sentences in the power of the several (I Wr4-ptions oWourts-martialto a . ward may, wilhout danger, be more limited than,at preseut. ‘ - Sinitild'be 'given in- the' way of honorary‘o 'That I re a l t v e ar zo a ttg u r d a lir: n ti; e l rii ct ion ~lioth,to the gallant and to the well-conducted solffier. "11. That no consideratien •rif 'expense - within reasonable bounds should be allowed to stand in the . way of attending to the comforts of the soldier Whiieio.the,service, and of a suffi cient pension for'thegood - and r :deseivirre ma rafter that service has been performed. " We cannot close our Report without, assuring your Ma jesty that we find ample evidence of the earnest desire, and the most strenuous efforts upon the part, not only of the superior officers, but of officers of all ranks, so to conduct- the . discipline of the army as to render corporal punishment as rare as pos sible; and more especially we observe that the . Commanding Officers are fully aware of -your •,Majesty's gracious wishes in that respect, and we are satisfied that they will persevere in giving the fullest effect, by the strictest attention to the moral discipline of their regiments, to those-wishes. • " How far the result of the inquiry in which we have, by your Majesty's command, been so long engaged, will tend to remove or mitigate the feeling which now prevails against the. use of corporal punishment in the army we know not, but we can assure your Majesty that we have endeavoured to sift the ques tions submitted to our inquiry fully and fairly, and without pre judice, and that we have formed our opinions upon the result of the very best evidence that could have been obtained upon the question. " Finally, we feel it to be our duty to your Majesty to state our conviction, that if it were possible to introduce such a sys tem of discipline as that of France into your Majesty's army (a system which in its effects we believe to be far from being as successful as that of Great Britain,) it could only be by the establishment of such a rigorous conscription of all ranks as we believe would not be endured, and by a change in the whole tone in this country, as to the military service, such as we have no expectation of seeing effected. " We humbly submit this our unanimous Report to your Ms jestfa Royal consideration. " WHARNCLIFFE. JAMES KEMPT. 'SANDON. E. Hynn EAST., R. C Fanutissom. 1, BARNES, Lieutenant-General, 4 1% BEYNELL. "India Boar:t o -Meth 15, 1836." "What is the lotitteit thing you can remember ?")111<ed acquaintance of King' Methtisakm. " The kird frost ia1709;" was the eueletit t s prompt reply; " it lasted 19 weeks," Apir 'ME LIVV,RPOOL. STANDARD. LIVERPOOL POLICE. ROBBERY BY A SOIDIER.-01:1 Friday, at the police court, Abraham Glover, a private in the 77th* regiment , was charged by . Ensign Fulton with having . stolen a bag, his property, con taming a number of.boots and shoes; Ensign Fulton stated that on Wednesday he packed a quan tity of boots and shoes in a carpet bag, at Haydock-lodge, which he saw safely placed 'in the bacrgage cart. That morning he had -received information that his carpet bag was • stolen. lie had since seen it in the possession of the police; it was locked, but it had been cut down the side and the contents taken out. Swindlehurst, the policeman, said that he was on duty in Chadwick-street the night before, about midnight, when the prisoner cause up to hint and asked hint to show hint-the way to Burlington-street. • After •some little• conversation, he said he had a lot of shoes and boots in his bag which he woald sell fur a few shillings, and would wake him a present of the bag. lie then began to suspect that all Was not right, and kept him in conversation till the inspector came up, and they then took hint into custody on suspicion. H - e.said he was an officer's servant, and his.master had given the boots to him. J. •Brown, a sergeant in the regiment, said that they were on their way to Ireland, - and the baggage was taken, down to the dock sitle;'and it was reported to. him as correct the night before. -The , priioner was one of the. guard. stationed thete: That morning he'found -him in custody. The prisoner had nothing to say for himself, and was com mitted I'm-Arial. • . Tux INTf:W Fot.ica.--Thomas Ho'lands, one of the young thieves who infeSt the town, was, on Friday, brought up at the police-office before the ina.isttates, charged by Mr. Thothas Bibby, who keeps a baker's Zion in the neighbourhood of Isling ton, with attempting to steal front his till. Mr. Bibby said he was sitting in Ins shop the day before, - when he heard a noise, and, looking up, .saw the" prisoner leaning over the counter, With theAill halt open. - He then , Aiaglit :hint, and gave him into Custody.' There- was 'atother•boyoigifibding outside, who escaped. The Complainant- said;'-'`.Since , the police has been - on duty in Islingfoir parts; -it chives afillieselirigs down-these' bye s!reets.—The Mayor said it showed' they4w6reiattfiedw Were they .were.—Bateheldor the•prisaner- had beetiiiiiimitted' bele; e, - and the magistrate sent him •for three caliiiitildemehths to the liaise :of Correcticen - ' H - 150 . &Ines AND PENALTIES.—On Friday , last, at the ‘palice office, tVdecent-lOokittg man, nataief&licleston, chi_f_ged, b is publican with' having " elbo4ed his way"-throat window, to the great dainage.oftisTpdnes, and for. wlifehlViidw seughtthe full penalty. - On gdin ma to see Whatwas7tile the ihatter, lie found. the prisoner with his elhow , thimigh 7 his window, - by, which he was supporting his perpentlicular;` He asked him what he was about, when, after many efforts, he hiccoughed out " His elboW was in pane." Nei, however, finding him 'in the humour for paying, he gave him into custody. A night's cogitation had, however, induced the offender to: change his mind, and he now expressed his - willingness to pay the penalty, and he was discharged. CHSRGIi OF ASSAULT.—On Friday last Mr. Richard Armi s stead, the lessee of the Amphitheatre appeared before the ina• gistrates to lay a complaint against Mr. Ryan of the same thea tre, for' assaniting him. • Mr. Armistead said that on Tuesday night after the performance was over, as he was walking across the stage, Mr. Ryan met him, and said he was a d—d old rascal and an old villain, and for a shilling he would knock his head off. Ile then spit in his face, and insulted hint in every way, lint did not strike him. He shook his list at hint, arul said he would give £5 to knock him down. He kept hitt' there nearly half un hour, and threatened to follow him to Birmingham, where he was going, and serve him out. He now appeared in order to have him hound over to keep the peace towards Mr. Robinson appeared on behalf of the defendant, and exa, mined several witnesses, from whose evidence it appeared tha each party had greatly aggravated the other, but that n 6 bbSwa were struck. Mr. Ryan, it appeared, did not spit in Mr. Ahni stead'S' face, but on one side. Mr. Robinson, said the facts ; of the case were these: Mr. Armistead had engaged Mr. Ittian and his' company to play at the Amphitheatre, for which : Mr. Ryan was to receive half the profits, he bringing horses and a company. Two warrants of distress for taxes had been issued during the week amounting to £5O against Mr. Armistead, and on the officers going to the theatre to execute it, Mr. Armistead very politely told them that there was a horse worth, £lOO in the stable, which would easily satisfy the warrant without taking the property. They accordingly went and seized three of Mr. lt you's horses, which very naturally greatly excited hint. He was present at the time when Mr. Ryan met Mr. Armistead, having been engaged to get the business settled, and Mr.Arnii , stead kept continually crying out "keep your hands off me," as if he wanted - to provoke hint to strike. Since then Mr. Ryan had got his horses, and the cause of excitement was at an end ; Mr. Ryan was going to Chester, and had no intention of inter fering with Mr. Armistead any further. The Magistrates said as something like threatening had been made use of they must take care that those threats were not carried into execution. Mr. Ryan must .therefore find bail to keep the peace in two sureties of £2O each. SUMMONS eon WAGes.—Capt.tl'Master, of the ship Colonist, was summoned before the magistrates on Saturday by W. Jones, his second mate, for a balance of .C 6 due to him for wages. The captain put in the ship's articles, from which it appeared that Jones had signed the articles to receive £4ss. per month for the voyage from St. Andrew's to Liverpool and back. He shipped on the 6th of January, and left the vessel on the 21st of March. The captain had altered the voyage to return to Boston ; he did not leave the ship on that account, but on account of sickness. The doctor told him if he returned .to sea it would destroy his health. The captain said his iniscomlnet was the cause of his illness, and that he had never objected to have the vo y age changed. He had been put to very, great inconvenience in hav ing been obliged to ship a second tnate. The magistrate in quired if sickness was the sole cause of his declining. to go out i4s second mate. Jones replied that it was, l that he had no ob jection to the voyage. The magistrate said there Were several , ~ questions arose in this case. It was quite clear teat the captain had no right whatever to alter the voyage contrary:to the con tract, and the verbal assent to thatalteration on the part of the mate was Of no weight. It appeared that he left the ship on the 21st instant, .owing. to sickness, and ~claimed to be paid for the whole-of the time till then. ,• He.. had. particularly asked hint of this was the reason of his, leaving the vessel; but he had received in answer ,that his only reason was his ill health. Under those circumstances he did not think he' could inteffere in the Oise.. The law- niade iississovision on-Ate.. count of illness; if he had said he would not go the voyage be cause of the breach of engagement he would shave been bound to have decided in his favour. He thc,referec.o;dditot assist the complainant ;if he had shaped his ease ail wc,way he should have ordered.his wages to be paid to ; ; t-ilie,.eeplil not .mitti. 3 .,stalibing make a case for hint which he.Woi4}44o - igit t ; tiAiliqlsolf. Ile had based his applicatioo on the.,giviqsl i gf ' Ari#IWPA34P II that 1 ground , he had no authority to el4.Vl3tkiflielligi,ll?„l"24,-'); was brought up before thfs,ritagiaa4m,,,iiiiiil A LovING ,II VSI3 A N 11:-- Yestpritql. i y,;-"v•WW. ;T. - 07 , . eon re r. l i i i s svife, on i lbe . temple pp. 4,4 1m ,odyiAtetelSojiplisieetililligeorge's DockiiitOtt4 ot-lhe Doett,igni A t ki hje l iiste4l964flukliSitaq-,the pri soner aniteoliplainatit,quaryfttlieg e oop yoziNtue priso ner - r eg struck his wif e in the, face. PtithOgthighf Vl)6l. T l a ''''d "" b teed i tilt ve t y., ll4 - ti r thw A y. .. i jittil i , t i t , v i t i ori q • 41T, ist xeceived a sPre re ",shtli on Vi e s tieLniplg.4 14,T13,14 l igt-Pikher in a hackney coach and convey her to t o e _ n irmary, and the Sin.- geon repelled that Shihad been in -ciinsid&able- dani,.(ef. -- -Com plainant saidilia.halltlidAkiiiliffiel dfiitikite.ifith her husb an d , an d was saucing him th ro ugh-the-streets, and she provoked him' till . he .strutskliveriha . the j atryi - 21 ad t she ...wasr,sent tri I fire Lll ii rnia ri-: He Was* very kind Inishandi and hoped the magistrat . ei • would look over it this time. :The magistrate remiarked, that this at any rate was rather rough usage. Husband: Ble s s y e n sowl,•yer honour, it isn't; I'm as loving a hnscUaud•as can be. , But she's got a terrible saucy tongue with . her"rlilost? her sow' 1 wouldn't ill use her for the •world;-..htit,die!s ;g pt. a D i agu y' habit of striking me. She struck me : fourtintes; Rad 1 tried to hide myself from her, and told her if she 'Struck- me again I ' would hurt - Is r, and she , directly..struck,tne a hard knock--:a very hard •knoek . indeed. your wortship, SOI gave her a tip ;: bless her sowl l'd not wish to hurt her for a " hushell.o' quids." The magistrate said it was very improper to make use of such a weapon as he had done. Whatever his wife had done to hint he had no right to strike her with a knife; it was a very fortu nate thing for hint that her life had. not been lost in conse quence. They should be snore lenient. with him, its his wife stated that she had brought the , punishuteritiod herself, than they otherwise should have been. lie' uniitipobriii.fiee of 205., or in default go to Kirktiale ford; fortuigillo if brought tip again on a similar charge, they shoaldAtitlie t ;a- very severe punishment on him. .:- . -:,g4frie'tho WI-lAT Stitt'."--James Baines .;tilts yestiarday brought be fore the magistrates, charged with slealith,rt-..Mrs.. - Elizabeth Thoreeley's basket-from her " shantlyill witichnivesostanding in Grinishaw's hotel yard, on Saturday night laat.aufille saw him • take it out of her -shandy,. and called Mmikerlinshaw, who stopped him. Her-.basket contained. a new .sha*l and 9s. worth' of groceries. Mr. Griinshaw*ave hint then: into custody. The prisoner said he was,druiik.and..keew nothing about it, to w hi c h the constable replied. thitt, he -Was•quite-sober. .The prisoner finding that tack world not do t • said he ~ was a sailor; b e l onge d' to the " M ary"—j list tome ashore-.-after a long spell out—quite naturable to get a-sap o' drink.-had got two sheets i'the wind, hadlost his reckoning; atul,didit!t know where he' w as . Batche lor said he belonged.to - no ship; the.last ship he was aboard of was the House of Correctionoitt,:of which he had only just come after being conituitted there- fiw six' months. The,pri sorer,- touching his lopping, said, "• Why to be sure, he had had the misfnrtnne , once- ! to 7 .be there.". The magistrates in creased his " inisfortime" by committing hitn there again for j two calendar monthso , :,v3 ;i:leClJii ai ri 6 7t" ..-., -1 , , , . • COURT Fox THE RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS. This court commenced „yesterday', in Liverpool. at 9 o'clock, in the court-room the Sessions-house, before William John Law, Esq., one of his Majesty's commissioners for the relief of, insolvent , debtors, for hearing the petitions of the insolvents. The following, were ordered to be discharged forthwith :—Eliza beth Williamson, opposed; John Sergeant, opposed; Edward . Shaw, opposed; ThomaS Ashton; . Thomas Redmond; James Haves; Charles Peters; Nathaniel Hesketh • William Hardyl William Wilson, .opposett; Henry Fairhurst; James Hes- . kayne; Samuel Pemberton Fletcher; hints Spencer; Chas: Evans, opposed;. Robinson •, and John. Henry. Richard Taylor. ordered to produce his plaintiff. Roger Rack house, opposed; to Eire possession: John Rigby, opposed; petition dismissed. Satritiel - Needham, adjourned until his plaintiff attendS. William Smith, opposed; to be discharged when an affidavit is received from Chester. William Hall; op posed; ordered to stand over. Duncan Wright, adjourned until next circuit, unless he gets the consent of a creditor in London. The court rose at half-past six o'clock. . The following cases stand o'er till to-day, when the court opens at nine o'clock :—William Entwistle ; Samuel Walker, opposed; Henry Doubleday; William Jones the younger; John Bryan, opposed; and Robert Browde Hodgson. No case of part!dular interest occurred during the day. LOCAL NEWS. THEATRE-Rolm L.—The theatre closed on Saturday evening. It opens again on Easter Monday, when Madame Vestris, Mr. Charles Matthews, {son of the late eminent comedian of that name i ) Mr: -James Vining, and other performers from the Olympic Theatre, London, will make their appearance. SAcit'to Musrc AT THE THEATRE ROYAL—We beg to di rect particular attention to Mr. George Holden's announce ment, for this evening, o of the performance of sacred music front the hest 'cOMposers. The principle vocalists are Miss Betts, MiS4lardinan, (Manchester,) Mr. Walton, Mr. Pear sall, (Birinhlghato,) and Nit.. Machin..-Xlie leader of the or chestra, 'which is to be much enlarged, will he Mr. Aldiidg'e. We venture to predict, that, in every sense of the word, these j performances will form a musical treat of the very finest de scription. ACCIDENT.-An old seaman named Thomas Bryce, left alone in charge of the Aspatia, in the Brunswick Dock, fell yester day forenoon into the ship's hold, where he was discovered in a State of insensibility, with blood flowing from his mouth. The noise attending Bilce's fall was providentially heard by. the men on board of a brig alongside, who immediately repaired to his assistance. As soon as the sufferer's consciousness returned he was removed from the ship by the desire of Dr. Thorburu, under whose care we learn that he ►s doing well. ROBBERY.--On the night of Saturday, the 19th instant, the house of the Lord Bishop of Clogher, at Woodstock, near New Town Mount, Kennedy, was entered and a large quantity of plate and jewellery, together with £l4O ►n cash was abstracted. A reward of £5O has been offered for such information as will lead to the conviction of the offenders, or £2O for any private information which may lead to their conviction. MANSLAUGHTER.—An inquest was held in the Coort-house, Chapel-street, on Saturday, before John Heyes, Esq., county coroner, on the body of a little boy named William Ellis, whose death had been occasioned by one of the wheels of a cart pass ing over him. It appeared in evidence that the driver, George Bushell, was proceeding with his horse and cart, which he was behind instead of by the side of, along Stanhope-street, Tox ,teth Park, when the deceased, who was with his sister, not ob serving his danger, and being unable.to get out of the way, was sinforturiatelOhrown,tindef one of the Wheels of the cart and killed upon the spot. The jury returned a verdict of " Man ,sianghter''•against Bushell, and he was committed to take his trill at the ensuing assizes., We understand Lord Francis Egerton purposes visiting Lan- cashire during the present week. LANCASTER. LENT ASSlZEs.—These assizes commenced at Lancaster on Saturday before Chief Justice Denman and Mr. Baron Parke. With the exceNion of an indictment preferred against four individuals from Whalley for the murder of ' a gamekeeper, the cases are of a very light and unimportant nature. _`Vie whole business will most pi onably be got through by this day. - Tor FoucE OFFICE.—The cases at this office have this last week sustained their former high average. Monday there were ninety-four charges, o,e*y-three of which were for. Mony; Tuesday, fihy-six, nirAe d , for felony • Wednesday, forty-five, twenty-three for felOny.,;_,,Thursday.,kty-fOur, six for felony; Friday, fifty-one, nineteen for felony; Saturday, twenty-nine, fourteen,of which were fur felony, being a total of three hundred and twebet-iiine eages:of which' ninety-four *ere for felony, in otie w4lll. ;',An averStie tit . ' fift'y z ..kkesharges, and sixteen, felo nies pdi•Vdy". .:;,,‘ ) , 11 " 1.44 " , th i,r " 11 . '.-)' .G HO p , Itoyi,FA 7 -On W:erin a l y i evening last, between seven and eigh' , 4Sll4 6, the hottie - bi,i r. Williams, in Kent-street, was ente3l heifiqnlidBcir,l4:Nneans . of a latch key. A quantity "of coiling, ihoes, aiiit a siTBP , p / SHoon were taken away. A young _man was seen by the rferfant:girl upon the stairs, who, ol ft t ir rig "IVAN t r t ser,vaut down, and made his es 'c ' iltr*,b-thAtti ~,, 1 , 11 t.-, t" , Tim, r,,.. 1 . ttli: Yg A v.s.—The report of the com mittee of 19 wigh j ..in ~ 4 ir year 1835, has just been pub ii,he4rAl liklli'lP, i 'kt , 5 rfifitution is in an orderly awl thriymu a e, anikk,l 1 egefftatid exertions of the medical olliorisln the cfisettrtig,mt e reo,iiltive duties which have been intoissil upon itl‘elli t Tfieß 011 ed forth the approbation of the cotjtjfklAtec-.,;,uriqt , thitt, year no fewer than thirty-six thousataseven ti tl a r k! gmiciltß c have been relieved. The sum tolal s ßf .f.lßOp t tippA li jega.cies, acid collectious is £B5O 12s. 6d. Tife-rylin i f,lor o itimlal ' Silbscriptions, although alTected by deat,l,,re,W,OSOs o inll,BPiSr.ittiuses, which have been consider ableiiitlAwiti.lmofirNs,e!.t.i pie' atntitti,t in the hands of the tree surer,#fiAtElmij year, was ,CIOS 3s. 4d. 'r he committee, however sti ; tfiktiM ieithstainling the large tianount of dona tions, the instlti*kojh aNlieen merely enabled to preset ve itself front debt, haVing only a snail surplus on hand; and if solely depending on the annual sutjSeriptions, would at this moment be encumbered with a debt of eight hunilred pounds. 111}75m51ATIoPi . SV-7.0.0 Friday last an information was brought against Joho Berringtun, who keeps a beer house in Preston- Lrect, for keeping, a disorderly ; house and having drinking in his house beyond Oe. : time allowed by, law. Inspector Eaton stated that he was cooing up Preston-street about three o'clock on Thesday morning last and heard a great noise in Berring,- ton's house; he .entered, and fotind tour men very drunk in the house. Barrington was himself very drunk. lie turned the company Out of the house, and they created a great noise when they got out, Berrington, in defence, said a part of the com pany were lodgers, and were sat before the fire waroling them selvcs.before they went to bed. Il e h a d b een i u t h e h ouse 26 yea'rs,' and never was informed against before. The inspector said he had great difficulty in obtaining admittance, and there was ale and tobacco spilt all over the table and floor. The ma istrate said the great complaint ag a inst th e o ld p o li ce was, t h at lfm orationswere not bilged, and, when lodged, were done so with great partiality. That, however, w.is not the case now. It was therefore their duty, whenpartieswere brought before them, to punish them.. They had taken into consideration the length of time he had conducted the house in, a regular ma II tier, but it was not to be suffered that scenes like.this were to be co rried on with 'impunity— They , thought the charge proved, and should fine him 30s. and costs. HACKNEY-COACH INFORMATIONS.-011 Saturday Mr. Daily was summoned, on an infirmation by Martindale, charged wit It having the car, No. 78, of which he was the owner; at the pierhead the day before,' having a: broken glass in the window. 'cheCit:e being. proved, he was lined ss. and costs.—Arthur Ebbs, the owner of car No. 44; was Summoned, charged by 'Martindale With hatilig had hiS car on St. George's stand Wiliiritit to the window, so that it could not be pulled up. Ile-was fined 2s. 6d., and 3s. 6d. costs.- 7 The driver of William Yates's cart was stunnioned, on'an information laid by Inspector-Lyons, for having left his cart in Greenland-street Irma eleven o'clock till one o'clock, on Monday night last. The cart was partly on the parapet, and obstructed the thoroughfare... The defeniiant , did not appear.—Ralph Nixon was also charged with ;he same of fence with another cart, at the same time and, place. Yates was fined ss. and costs; Nixon was orderd to pay the costs only. CAurrroN Ti SHOFKEEPERS,—On Friday :morning last, at about nine o'clock, a hoyiopened, the dom. - of AlvAlo-pkins's shop, in the Crescent, and; , .seizingiiponseveraiumlirellas. very, deliberately marched Off. with:them. The- female'who had charge of the shop ran out afteiPhini. The 'young rascal, however, kept at a respectful distance,: and,. with ..the umbrellas under his arm, turned round and laughed ttt her. As she was fearful that another robbery might be cotninitted;.she-returneditrathe ,shop, and the thief was soifered to departimmolestedailth , Shis booty. inc . Ass 2 ES.—ACCOMMODATION'TqIIII}F i r."-" . ,,titifilP , the fast Assizes numerous complat !Ai vela thel"4 rs of the Sheriff'and Magistrates, of the ditlikifjefOrtfiikitiod by - A-ttrtraeys in procuring admission to and*trbiti4filislatibitiri the. C our ts, particularly in the Nisi Prins. -hf ob viating this difficulty, the Mayor - has ordeftE,a 3 aolla ie made in the latter court expressly fo r th e adirirstio their. clerks,' barristers, &c., by ti c k ets , to 'Witt , frreAl'ffte geriff, Arrangements have also been ntadefttpr 'iidtitisaidli of Re palters tiir the Crown Cotift to the - ii -4 pkV i 'iriilltiti'Mte table,, which Will be appropriated to their u4Heseriiing roCittl 'for the attorneys for the prosecutiOn and defeike. In the Jylii Fria* Coart the Reporters may either have it box reserved'Ter them, or a Space in the gallery, at their. Option PILOVO3ED POCK MAIIKET.-IVe understand that a Memo rial will be sent, to the Mayor, frooi the inhabitants of James street, &c., Complaining of the adniitted inefficiency of St. ,George's Market, and suggesting the erection of an extensive market in or abiiiirthe neighbourhood of the Docks, as a con venience to the public and the captains and outfitters of vessels. taking it line from the Salthouse Dock, and !rent ihenee proceeding in a direct line along' Canning-Street, to the. end of Paradise-street, thence to Manchester-street, across Dale-street, along Ilatton-garden, Vauxhall-toad, and to the'other end of Clarence Dock, a space of 3. miles, (in cluding aclockS and 117 streets,) there is a space without any market accommodation far exceeding any other portion of the b or oll'ilti,'::referetiee. being had to the neighbourhood of St. John's, 'St: 'Merlin's, Islington, and St. James's Markets, LIVERPOOL . Asstzr.s.— . These Assizes will commence on Thursday morning next, in the Court Booms within the Ses sions' House, Chapel-street. The Judges, the Lord Chief Jus tice Denman and Mr. Baron Parke, will make, their entry into the town on Wednesday afternoon, accompanied by the High Sheriff , and the Usual cavalcade. The calendar is, we lament to find, heavy. There are already 54 prisoners in Kirkdale Gaol .awaiting their trial at the A;sizes; and the crimes with which several are charged are most heinous, , Theeharges areas follows:—With murder, 4; killing and siaVing,44.7 , cuttitp.,i and wounding, 7; rape, 1; bigamy, 5; ,utterii4Prgetibilla of ex change, I; uttering base coin, 9; robberies, 9.4stalle, w gallows has been erected in the north-western. angleoflhe:gikte be in readiness should an execution or executions::be:orderid du ring the Assizes. In the Nisi Prins Court, the causes•from the hundred of Manchester and Salford will be taken before-the hundred , of West Derby. Fie .--On Friday night a fire broke out in the warehouse of. 'Messrs. Mellor and Russell, .Russell-place Dale-streo. , The' 'door of - the y a rd w a s ' c losed ; but, fortunately,'the'fire i iies Seen by a gentlem an i n h a biting a house in the front, wh o ' Oiceived the blaze through a back window, but not before the felines had made considerablepregress. The file, at this time, wilted to - be extending from the counting-house, which was on thiS'epond story. Immediate intelligence was sent to the 'statihu of the Fire-police, and in a very short space of time Mr. Whitty, with 'his extinguishing apparatus, was on the snot. The progress of the flames had, however, owing to the fury of the wind, been exceedingly rapid. The draught of air through the yard fanned theblaze with fearful impetuosity, and it was th e pr eva ili ng opinion, that not only the warehouse whit h was on fire, but the surrounding buildings, which enclosed it in an almost compact mass, must fall a sacrifice to its progress; and nothing but the very prompt measures which were taken could have saved them. By the time the engines gOt into play, the stories above and below the counting-house were on fire. Two engines, placed in. Dale-street, and one in Ilackin's-hey, were got, into play im mediately. The doors were forced open, and hose was got up .the stairs of the counting-house and warehouse. Apprehension -being entertained for the safety of. the fourth story, which con tained cotton, the fire-escape was produced, and a fireman raised in it. Thus all the rooms were commanded, and the conflagra tion began visibly to decrease from this moment. At one o'clock the fire wee coin idetely mastered. The behaviourof the various firemen arid policemen was most praiseworthy ; Hewitt, the foreman, was, us usual conspicuous. Notwithstanding the severity of the weather, and that there were plenty of spirits lying about the place, not one instance of intoxication. or even of a man having tasted liquor, occurred. Mr. Mellor was present during the whole time, as well as Mr. Sutton, of the Protector Fire-Office, where some of the property was insured. Both parties expreised their great satisfaction at a result so little anticipated by' any person who witnessed the alarming fury with which the flames at first raged. We believe the damage done is not considerable. , LI6HTING STEAM-BOATS WITH GAS.—A steam- vesse l is fitting in the river to be lightedwih gas, on a plan suggested by . Lieut. Engledue, R.N. Two retorts are placed in the fires un ' der the boilers,: about two hours , before dark, which will supply gas sufficient to burn the whole'night--Aighting the cat.ins, en gine -room, and Mast-head. This,may be fitted at a trifling ex pense and without the slightest danger, the whole of the apparatus being . owde.ik. • Frequent accidents have occurred from steam-vessels sot being properly lighted at night. OPFENcus Al Evrtorotts.—The following is the official result of the labours of the metropolitan poi tee fortbe last year: —Number o f pet sons taker) into 015.r . p4,g4.711i 4ifCharg,edby the inag•istrates. 3 . 2.541; cOnAtO, liro4 - Mjit27.81,7 ; corn milttni for trial. 3,1.13;. coUv.t.e.tgli tz rVll;TC'tW '4 1'1 4 4 number whom 0 ,9;37 ; acquif .7o test, GOB- ' notpreseciited,' at f0u di 1t . 1 , ,,i , 4 of drunkards4Prebcoded during the year 7.523, or rather,m9rejban one-third, were fet4les, TEA tbs. Sold by the East India Company prior to 22d April, 18.34.. (Quantity entered Gross amount for home con- of sumption. duty paid. WINE. Cape... Gallons. French Other sorts Total of Wine. 1834. )55724. 645054• TOBACCO. Manufactured tbs.' s Manufactured and SnUffs.. 1835. 1831. 36606295 3591020 523582 72145 293436 77638 5823501 162(1111 6640519 1769894 21974049 3176989 141834 64997 5882 3837460 80290 1 60027 4 210-18121 145346 1752592 3290654 63803 21193870122115,. 3 2419861 3354457 From these tables it will be seen that, while the consumption of tea and tobacco has matetially increased the revenue, there has been a falling off in the duties on wine in the year ending January sth, 1836, as compared with that of the previous year, of £17,302. Lord Althorp, when he equalized the duties on French and all other wines, except those manufactured at the. Cape, predicted a very dittereut result. His lordship then told parliament, we suspect on the authority of Dr. Bowring, that the demand for French wines would be so considerable as to add mate , ially to the wine duties. But that financier, whatever theoretical knowledgef'he,possessed, was evidently ignorant of the character of Englishmen, who generally hesitate to purchase che :p commodities,. aocliarii. more solicitous about the quality than the colt of their luxuries.!' In proof of this the fact may he adduced, that when under the 11;gh duties the finest French wines on ly were imported, the home consumption of that article was more than double its present amount. The tobacco duties for the last year amount to within a frac tion of three millioris,and half& ~ We hear a great deal about the enormous revenues of the English- and Irish churches, but nothing about the tobacco tax, although the duty paid on that article, which is far float being a necessary of life—by many. indeed, it is deemed a nuisance—bears no comparison with the -entire annual value of the temporal pOsiessions of the - English, Irish, and Scotch churches. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST<IND/IRD. Stn,—Permit me through the medium of your paper to draw the attention of the public to a circumstance which occurred with myself on Saturday night, in order to show whether the town council's boasted improvements in the police establish ment are so worthy of the high encomiums which the majority of the Liverpool journals have been pleased to pass upon them. On Saturday night, about eight o'clock, while passing along Strand-street, 1 detected a person taking my handkerchief from my coat pocket, but after taking hold of him he eluded my grasp, and run through a considerable part of that district of the town, crossing Pool-lane and South John-street, pursued by other two gentlemen and myself, who gave the alarm to stop the thief as we run along the streets. I, however, fortunately got hold of him, but in endeavouring to get a police-officer not one was to be found, and I was consequently obliged to collar the thief myself along Pool-lane and Castle-street - without. ever meeting with an officer to take my part, a situation to be placed in not very agreeable, especially when we are obliged to maintain others whose duty it is to do such matters. Now, sir, in that district of the town where there is such a continued thoroughfare I am of opinion that officers would be much more serviceable there than parading in fashionable parts of thelown, evidently more taken up with their new apparel - than in-protecting the property of the public. I know very well in other towns where those establishments 'are conducted at a much less expense than ours, better arrange ment exists; and I ant confident that such an occurrence-as the . present wOttid never have passed off without receiving that at- , iention from the police-officers which the public are entitled to react ive.—l remain, respectfully, sir, your most obedient ser vant, W. M. 7 " „ .., ~ • ••••• • ! THE TEA;WINE, AND TOBACCO TRADES: The subjoined extracts, taken front returns "relating to im ports and exports, customs' duties, and tonnage of vessels," moved for and presented to the House of Commons by 1111.. Poulett Thomson, show the quantities of tea, wine, and tubdeco entered for home consumption during the years ending sth January, 1835, and sth January, 1836. • • NEW CHURCH AT AIGBURTH. On 'Wednesday last the foundation stone of a new chuich was laid at Aighurth, near this town, in the presenee of the Rev. A. Campbell, who is vicar of the parish, John - Moss, Esq.. of Otterspool, and a numerous assemblage of persons from Aig burth and the surrounding neighbourhood. The proceedings were opened by the Rev. A. Campbell, who delivered the fol lowing address :—Mr. Moss, I am deputed by the trustees to re quest you will lay the foundation • stone of this new church, to be called the Church of St. Anne, in Aigburth, and I thank God that he has been pleased to incline your heart to the' exe cution of so pious and benevolent a design--praying that He may be pleased to incline the h•:!arts of the gentlemen of Eng land, in all places where a similar want may exist, to co-operate in following your example, being sure that they cannot better perform their duty to God than by building churches where his worship may be solemnized according to the simple ritual and impressive ceremonies of our national English church—that they cannot better perform their duty to their neighbour than by enabling their households and tenants, and the labouring classes with which they are connected to learn the faith and practice of the gospel as it is taught by her ordinances ; and, that. they cannot, better perform their duty to themselves than by devot ing the superfluous wealth with which Providence has blessed them, to the promotion of his honour, and the religious and moral improyments of their fellow men, thereby laving up for themselves better than earthly treasures, eternal in the heavens. We hear, sir, a good deal about the voluntaay principle in the present day, and this, I think, affords its best and brightest ex emplification; presenting for imitation the example of a body of gentlemen coming forward voluntarily not only to build, but to endow a churCh—not wishing to retain their clergy in abject dependance upon the voluntary contributions of their hearers; but simply requiring (what I think they have a right to require) the appointment of the minister, .and trusting for the proper performance of his duties to the discipline of the church, the corrective force of public opinion, and the influence, I trust. of higher Motives upon the hearts of those who have dedicated their lives to the service of the sanctuary. I, on my own part, can assure you, sir, have most gladly contributed my very small share to this religious work, by resigning, in perpetuity, under the sanction of the bishop and with his concurrence, all claim which I may have, as vicar of Childwall, to the right of presen tation, from the conviction that, whenever a church is wanted, and gentlemen will come forward to build and endow it, they have an equitrble right now, as they had in the early days of the English church, to the perpetual patronage of the churches they are willing to build and endow. Trusting that your example will be very generally followed, and that it will be blessed' by the favour and mercy of God, I will no longer detain von from the performance of your duty, but bring my observations to a close, with many apologies for having thus the trespassed upon your attention. Mr. Moss, after shortly thanking the vicar for his kind at tendance, and for the free gift of the patronage of the church, H deposited two battles in a small excavation made for the purpose in the foundation stone, one containing newspapers of the day, and the other coins of the present currency bearing the impres sion of his Maje Sty 'King•Wiliiani the Fourth, the whole being covered by a plate, upon whit% was engraved the following inscription : " This church was erected by subscription, on land, given by Jitu Noss, Esq., of Otterspool, by whom the foundation stone • Whitirdrthe . 234 larch, 1f331. ' •' Trustees, John Moss, Esq , of Otterspool. Charles Stewart Parker. Esq. John Abraham, Tinnie, Esq. Josias Booker, Esq. Architects. John Cunningham and Arthur Hill liolme. Builder, William Morrison." The vicar concluded the ceremony with an appropriate prayer. We understand that Mr. Campbell has conceded the per petual advowson of the . church, • also all fees to which it might become chargeable to the parish church. The cost of the building will be front £2,500 to £3,000; and it is intended to give comfortable accommodation to seven hundred persons. A number of free seats will be appropriated to the use of the poor, and others of the sittings will be let at the reasonable rent charge of One shilling and upwards per annum. The minister will have a good house erected near to the church, and his sti pend will be derived from the ground rent of the church, and from the rent of certain pews in it. MISCELLANEOUS. Major,Watson, the gallant veteran, aged 70, who was burnt to death with his two daughters in Plytnouth Citadel, as stated in the Standard last week, was uncle to Lieutenant Watson, of the Liverpool Telegraph. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LONDON AND DUBLIN IN TWELVE Houns.—Messrs. Wallace, Clive, O'Connell, M. O'Connell, and about fifteen other members of parliament had an interview e;ith the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the sub ject of a proposed communication hetwen London and Dublin, via Portdynlluen, Carnarvonshire, in 12 hours. Mr. Rice stated, in substance, that he was himself strongly impressed with an opinion, that the project of carrying a railroad through Wales would be attended with very great difficulties; but if it were found, on examination, that the undertaking could be ac complished, and that London and Dublin could be brought within twelve, fourteen, or fifteen hours' distance of each other, the object would be one of the greatest national importance. That, generally speaking, he was desirous to see works of this kind undertaken and carried through by private capital; still it might reasonably be doubted whether this project would be pro ductive of profit as a mere commercial speculation; and, as it was to the great benefits which must result from it to both countries, in a more extended point of view, that he looked for ward, he thought the state might with, great propriety be called on to assist the undertaking, and that even so large a sum as two millions which had been named, could not, when consider ed with reference to the immense benefits which the success of the project must eventually realize, he considered excessive Mr. Price requested that he might be furnished with estimates of the proposed line and harbour; also the precise time which it would save as compared with Liverpool and Bristol, when the railway from London to those places were completed. Mr. O'Connell stated, that a second survey was now in progress un der the direction of Messrs. Vignoles and Rastrick, and the moment they made their report, which he expected would be in the, course of a fortnight, the information he required should be laid before him. • OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH DAY.—The praiseworthy or fonts of the parochial ofUeri of many, of the metropolitan parishes to obtain a more decent observance of the Sabbath, has been productive of considerable good. Yet, strange to say, in some places, and where it might be imagined the vigilance of the authorities would render the law paramount,-the most bare faced and demoralising tra,ffic is car Tied on.: In the Pentonville road, in the parish of CleflOnirObl,Ahkr,,is furnishing iron monger, who regularly oipis,,l‘tS,§!).ol,llll' l l l e . sabliath morning 'from eight o'clock until ;',e qe..t? t Afc.qa,, his 'goods out, side the to . attractfattenturtfllit fie pariah of George the Martyr, SeuthWark, there are.noless than foal circulating libraries:the doors of which are °pelt NEing the Whole of the day'. And, from what maybe termed the con pence of the Parishes, the gin shops are open all the afternoon and evening, the closing of them nut being enforced unless there is an ``')ifte - trmn ser vice !" Thus, along the line of Blackman-street, and the High- street in the borough, the houses oti One side of the road are in the parish of St. Marv, Newington, where there is no afternoon service, while, upon the other the gin palaces are all it) the par ish of St. George, and drunkennesS is thus rendered available from mid-day to midnight And the sot who is disturbed in St. George's has but to cress the road in order cent inne his de bauch. In St. Andrew's Holborn, a Mr. M'Connell holds forth at an obscure place in '['heobald's road, 'on politics; and in St. Marylebone, the notorious Mr. Savage lectures to a pipe-sucking and gin twistauditory in his capacious tap-room in Circus-street. Such is the manner in which the Sabbath is observed in London. Dom, IN BERLIN.—An event recently occurred at. Berlin which savours of the manners of the middle ages. In the shop of a confectioner, on the Limetree-walk, a student in paSsing stumbled over the sabre of a cavalry officer, who, instead of apologising, appeared to treat the young man with contempt. 'I he student challenged the officer, who however refused to meet him, saying he never condescended to fight with a civilian, though he himself was only one degree removed from a distiller of brandy. Upon this, the,student avenged the insult he had received with a blow; a contest with fists ensued, in which the officer was worsted. A Frenchman present, expressed his con tempt at the manner in which German officers contrived to elude an affair of honour.. - In consequence of these reflections he was called out by a Prussian officer., They met with pistols, and the Frenchman fell., The cavalry officer engaged in the first affair was obliged to resign his commission, took to The•officers of Prussia are placed in a int 1 incarcerated situation. If they fight a duel, they are liable 10 be i n e n ' i r i e r t . thev and the student i _ (n in a fortress, and be deprived a their commissions, a nd to acute , refuse a challenge, they are com their regiments, and send in theirresignation. ; ht as wet/ a s PARLIAMENTARY POSTPONEMENT ast , elied by their cutnrad on Frith). morning, many award this or next the'com mons' books to be br00f.7.-1• week, notices. heretofore placed on were d e fer re d till after't he Faster recess! Wlleh that linit comes. then the notices and bills r a id figure away on the books fora few weeks till J un e a pproaches and the deg-days threaten, ve ry good apology for postponing these i w n i p e u n rt t a h n e t re and 'il u l r t :en a t notices of motions till rirocr sesstoN! Mei-nit - is/ Herald (Tuesday.) 144252821 1319825261 521081 260630 5695833 '.1.#1 3 MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMAHY.—Dr. .Wood, _ of' . chester, was - on Thursday list elected physiCiaia of thd Rota,. Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum, in the room of the late Dr:: Carbett. A country paper states that the difficulty of getting labouter t i in the neighbourhood of Barnsley, is, becoming very general Mans farmershave been much put about for want of "thrashers.'; We beg to point the attention of John O'Connell to this There is a safe speculation before hiei in his own peculiar line." Among the youthful debutantes at the Drawing : room on Thursday Were, Miss Vietotia Long Wellesley, graud-daughter of Lord Marvborough, and great niece to the Duke of Welling ton.; Lady Georgiana Herbert,. fourth daughter of Countess Pembroke; Miss OtvraV, daughter of Rear Admiral Sir Itobt: Waller Otway; the Hon, Miss Eiskine, ,daughter of Lord Erskine; and Miss Bury, daughter of Lady C. Bury, T , SALE OF THE Coua t r OF CARLOW.—fir. ilarov has given notice of a call of the House of Cotninons,on the 21st April, for the purpose of re-agitating the O'Connell and Raphael affair. Daniel, however, according to present appearances is not likely . to be a member of parliament at that I;oie. Thc.evidence taken before the committee of inquiry will thus be reievied by the whole house. REMARKABLE CASE OF FORGERT.—One of the most singu- • lar crimes which ever occurred in the annals of crime too place during the assizes, and the particulars are of such a strung nature that our readers will understand them better by a plain narrative than if we were to, go through all the formal oetailsoif a trial. At the latter end of last week a respectable looking person, attired in black, with a gold ring on one of his fingers; and having all the address and manners of one accustomed to - move in a genteel sphere, arrived in this city by the Newcastle coach. He stated his name to be JaMes Thompson, and that he came from Liverpool. What his object was in visiting Car lisle, appears to have been a mystery on Sunday he attended church twice, and heard the 'Rev. J. Fawcett. On Monday morning he called upon that clergyman, and stated that he was entitled to an annuity, but in order to draw the moues it was necessary that he should have the certificate of a clergyman, that he was resident in the parish for which that gentlemen officiated. Mr. Fawcett complied-with the request, and during the day Mr. Thompson, if that be his twine, diew a cheque on - the house of Curtis and Co., London, payable to the Rev. J. Fawcett, or order, and endorsed it with a bad ituitate , n of the rev. gentleman's writing, on account et' James Thompson. lie took the document to Messrs, Wakefield's bank, in this city, - and desired cash fur it, but it was altogether so informal a proe seeding, and so unusual for the Rev. John Fawcett, that the clerk immediately declined cas hi ng it. Thompson then took it. away, and actually went to the police-office, charged himself with the commission of forget'', and desired to be taken into custody, asking if the judges were still sitting, and whether he could be tried these assizes. Upon this he was committed, and arraigned,.and at.first,pleaded guilty, lent as considerable-doubt existed whether that kind of forgery came, within the statute, he was persuaded to-retract his plea, and after some argument as to the form, in which every individual conceited appeared in terested for the prisoner, Lord Denman decided that as the en; dorsement *as not at all necessary for the deed, forgery could not be construed, and the prisoner was thereupon acquitted: During the time he was in the duck he was in an agony of tears, and shrouded his face as much as possible With his hands. From all that we have heard of his conduct. we should say that the unfortunate man, if not insane, is suffering under some extra ordinary delusion of wino: it is said that domestic affliction has something to do with this sit ange history. MANCHESTER BLIND ASYLUM AND' - DEAF AND DUMB, SCHOOL.—On the Wednesday the foundation stone of a range of Ineildings, to comprise an asylum for the blind, endowed by the late Thomas Renshaw, Esq., and a school for the deaf and dumb, was laid by Win. Grant, Esq The site of the intended buildings is near the Botanic Gardens, Manchester, and the necessary funds have been raised by public subsetiptionsa After the stone had been laid, one of the scholars of the Deaf and Dumb School, whom. Mr.Binghein stated to be deaf and now learning to speak, delivered in an intelligible manner the following brief address from the top of the new-laid stone, on which he was elevated "In the name of my schoolfellows and myself, allow me to give oar best thanks for your goodness in building a school for us in so pretty a place. Vt e look with • much pleasure to the time when we shall live here to enjoy the country air; and hope our good conduct will in sonic degree merit the kind patronage you have su liberally bestowed upon us." (Cheers ) COMPARATIVE STATE OP THE Two CALENDARS —The calendar for the - northern division contains but twelve pri soners, whilit in that for the southern one there are no less than sixty. Now with every desire to regard in the most serious manner, the vested or prescriptive rights of towns and itidividu als, we think that the hundreds of West Derby and Salford ' which thus prove themselves the prolific sources of crime, have at the saute time proved that they are well entitled to the in dulgence of an adjournment of the assizes. And as an act of justice has thus been done to the southern division, it will be impossible much longer to delay the performance of a similar one to the northern division, by adopting an altered mode of applying the funds raised from the general assessment for county purposes. leis not to be supposed for a moment, that the inhabitants of the northern division will allow themselves to be taxed for the great outlay and perpetual certain great ex penditure that will be required for the Liverpool assizes, and by making Kiskdale prison a county gaol. Mr. Greene, the hon. member for Lancaster, had is notice for a motien •ou this its- - portant subject, which he purposed to go into at the adjourned annual -sessions last year, but which he desired for the then pre - sent time to postpone. 'As, however, we believe that he is fully persuaded of the justice of the principle involved in such IL motion, we trust the subject has since °templed his attention; and that he nil! be• enabled to present the meastatein so self: evident a light to his colleagues in the magistracy as to ittiture. for it a speedy adOption.—Peesion ORANUE LODGES IN MANCHESTER.-00 1 1 / 4 10Dday evening the remaining Lodges of the late Orange Society in this town; dissolved themselves - according to the expressed' wish of their Sovereign - , William the Fourth, and the Lodge "No. 221, having a sword in their possession which was used et the battle of the Boyne, presented the same to their DiStrict Master, as a token f respect for his services, he 'being the - IcUnder Of the atmee Lodge.—On Satnrciay evening No. 40 Loyal Or ange L o d ge, meeting at the Coachntakers Arms, dissolted itself according • to agreement of the 'Astrid, it§ members at the same time ex pressiug-theit detelatinatiou to adhere to the principles Oa which they had always acted. Poop's RATES-ASSESSMENT or PROPERTY.—A measure is now before parliament, and is making. its way very quietly through the House of Commons, which, if carried,,wili effect a great change in the management of parOdifel .afiai're in thin country. It is entitled a " gill to regulate` athchial atsess- . ments," and its main object is to enrolee the'air*srieent of all property to the poor's rate upon the rack-rittilc t g..r, in its own phraseology, "upon an estimate of-the nee anuilial"value" of premises, " that is to say, of the rent at which the same might be let from year to year, deducting therefrom the. probable average annual cost of the repairs or other eepenses.necessary to maintain them in a state to command ends rent." • These assessments are to he made by officers to be appointed by the Board of Guardians of the var;ous unions funned or r osin i ng under the poor law Act. Ihe officers are to be called Parochial Rate Collectors; they are to lay all rates; " and all the powers, authorities, duties and liabilities now by la* invested in church wardens and overseers of parishes, for the snaking, assessing, levying, collecting or recovering such rates, and with respect to, every other matter Or thing concerning Bitch rates, shall be, ar. d are, hereby vested in and upon the said• colleoor so ap pointed; and the said churchwardens and everseets are thence forivard discharged therefrom." The appuintment of collectors is subject to the control of the Poor Law Commissioners, who, • '" at any time when they shall think tit." may diSmiss them. Their rates and assessments may be appealed against to a special petty session to be held fur the purpose—instead of the quitter session. By this sweeping enactment all portlier &dila)! over churchwaidens and overseers in regard to the amount and ap- - plieutiOn of rates is withdrawn —a provision wholly at variance with the so-much applauded doctrine that the people shall have a v o ice in the expenditure of their own money: That voice they now possess in more ways than one—especielly they have the means of chastising or censuring unfaithful officers at theit' annual meetings; but so soon as the " Parochial hate Chllectors" hold their appointment at the mercy of the Pont. Law Commis sioners, whose minions they must be, •the people lose all voice ' and all control. Thus another arm is given to this leviathan Poor Law Commission—the huge job of the whig radical min istry. The people will do wisely to watch the bill; their interests' are deeply staked in it. We are enabled to state that the Chancellor of the Exchequeel intends that the reduction on newspaper stamps to one peony, shall come into operation on the sth of July next. We are also informed that the right hon. gentleman intends to propose a higher stamp ditty on supplements or double sheets: If the, double sheet does not contain more than a certain Member of superficial inches of composition (the number bf inches met yet • decided) the stamp is to be three halfpence, if above that num ber the stamp will be twopence.—Standstirf.. -A meeting was held at-the London Coffee House on Tuesday; to establish a society for the Protection of Life from fire. Charley Pearson said, now that the Protector Fire Office was • no more, the best way was to " get in the Sun and keep in the Sun, as he always did." The Lord Mayor said little. and re-' . ceived the thanks of the meeting for his conduct in the chair. Alderman Atkins was at his post ; and Mr. Wakley gave an interesting accennt of his iiie-escape, which deeply excited the attention of all present. Soup was then served—subscriptions entered into—and the meeting separated: THE LATE Loan SON ous.—The last moments of this noble- .. ... . minded peer were disiinguished by the peculiarity which cha racterised his walk through life. . Few individuals. perhaps none; ever looked on the " pale niessenger'• or death with greater composure or more manly firmness. • On the morning of the day he died he intimated to his surgeon the insolence of tapping ; and when informed that the operation would endaug,er his life, he enelaimed. with much emphasis, " What ! tell me whet her you think I shall outlive the day ?" " I fear not," answered the surgeon: " Do.yOu (he then eiintinned) think I• shall live att hour or two yffi , Lt.' That is doubtful," responded his attendant:r "'Chen call Alititss," (the present lord,) on whose appearance' he I am i , ti, vou succeed me here." After this c l (ll he' trade said, " leseVe M ra l l el' legacies to the amount or £7400-to his sor‘reon, three or four of his tenants, and housekeeper, with £5OO to his nurse (a Canterbury woman.) Desiring stone wine, it was handed him, when he said, " You'll soon follow the; may (o sins, and all of yours. I h o pe see e shall meet in3ad betterfo' forgive world." n me r lV Shortly aft ens arils, the wine reviving him, he turned round and exclaitned, " Death is a ltmg time doing his work, is he not ?" He expressed to those atoned the you: ed f r " n b l , lh h i s nurse, he sciousness of feeling perfectly happy, and was oecasiiinallt „ fr:t i l i t' a d i to re peat certain portions of Pope's celebrated hy:' , 17.::: ,..i , are you &c. To those affected to weeping, he ss?d, ~ ,v , ' you crying for?—don't weep for me—l 0 111 ha 1nq,..' 1,t,d l' t o few is minutes berme his d ,- cease he was remov chair, where. about half-past eight, sllpPorte:,l6a.). quietly breathed his last, without a sig nobleman. his lordship's /3t 4 ( beg Pet , : ~ to - numerous and every ifeetild. , 1 In addition a year's rent to each , an Si d it iir iL i , t i t :, V c c e hti s i t a n tl e er cu li i v t e p il e this nal} e i h . : s ; ( l ) r r irable and munificent i l e :s s t e e i n es a tile:: by i r t i , n4 o W lil trillv i e o l r l 14 E n n e , W e • t r i v li ; ) i ' l man}: .e ie, Pwrsa PitiESTLEY. about the year 1790; orated gen i t , t e e t t ,. —Th l if i ,, s i e e k n c . l e s e e n , t i r i i , e n ' r at i l ind often endeovottred to get into his tompani 'ojw,:::.lh.,,tieettv,h'ineeed;olseipictiit:iloy,..e:l;l:sritiit:lhilntl"'.tarel;e"olat..l.:tint)°fl::.ll).Vl:l7:::(:4"te. e4:;.°lb,:bce.ll:4lavilvitittll. s'rit::telht,r....,:ei,,f4ts4i:olvir,;\:%::a‘;‘s!4aueltrim,?;Pi.:.l.‘lsh.ndlatn,ligivi(i.ii,:ttl:mi:vt:li'lit:inile.l:;ll he 0 , t r. "el lit church yard, the fl 1. , ... 44: ' rii:a stopped as usual ro have a tittle- chat with his - nld - ftientf 016- sexton, but found a great deal of f au l t w i th the kitting and set: t i nt: out o P f the letters. Peter, who h a d a pp aO en iV titt:en no no= flee of whist had been said, at last turnethipAis•tirce,:and - , with ve've na ca; ion to find ca fault, for I've covet - Z-(1 a countenance as grave as- his profession, tit served • I'll tell v•- , flan t , e 41 tmdf'ros t The doe'or st corieofein *ll baste. habitual lwhßalA.'ltdß? : st i .l7(° i-s 7r s : i7:t7l : :; : i 4 1) 1 n ci , e i l n i i i p n a t i impair 1 1 1 " ;: ' : ', i te r l s.t .)s y ' .a 7 ll " .i. : t i t s ' l . :e l i7 B l3 n o ' s i t u t - 1 . e 17 1) 01 ' Dr. Johustin.--"' la there not F Vsne clanger that he the same m as k in c may put on ronmorr Ill'e,. in the , intercourse with hii friends t Wh y , ti,.. F!r." rt - plied the doctor, " A man will no more carry the - artifice of the ha r into (lid common intercourse of society, than is man who is Fai‘t fur tumbling tipvn his handS 1% hen he should Walk on his feet." Perhaps not ; hut s how are we•td r;spect the farensic :tun:Ater, who will Walk upon his hands, it'd perform the most' ignoWe antics for a..paitry fee All brielltiss barristers will please to oonsider themselves ex nepted from the preVious censure, for I sh-tild be really sort f to speak in of any man wit/unit a cause.—Tin Ttunipet: 1121 to Lay as vn to- ,than i'hese next if the of his !veral and 17th, :d by open, pota- mme— selveP I, and Some s and 'lock venea rimy d the i the ►f the hos il the Van • beers man ruary )y the s per• [after is for Tpe ie is 3 he eX OUid loss i 5 'pay ling- Mon con' and ten r to by the of w ho re-