The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-13 00:00:00

THOMAS BRANCH URNI TAHOG NY AAVICI inincr rOtfiles. ] iots, Tea Poys, Devon] INVALID CHAIRS onal CHAIR 'OLDING SOFA AND CHAIR ED. STAINED. AND FA NCY CI li,DOme, ( DBTEADS Tables, Ba es, (% CHIMNEY and iRESSING GLASSES ITALIAN SCULPTURED ORNAMI VASES, URNS, & EWERS Figured FLOOR . and LOBBY CLO THS • Rnnms. Hall d. who is a hard 1 in Betble repeated call hole p►a Verdict GAMBOLS C Dunsar )S, Hair, Flock, and Straw MATTRESS} NTED CHAMBER REQUISITES, NTAL FIGUR: all dimensions and Ships' Cabins, INDIA MATTING, Black Hair Seating, of all Widths; INVALID, GARDEN, AND BATH CHAIRS CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES ; Glazed and Fancy PAPER HANGINGS ; &c. MANCHESTER. READ EAGLE COMMERCIAL AND FAMILY HOTEL, HANGING-DITCH, IT (BACK ENTRANCE FROM CANNON-STR AAT F. WESTALL respectfully acquaints e above _s V • cial Public, and Families Visiting M• .che, he has taken and entered upon the above,,s cious, (.. nient, and centrally situate Hotel, (lately upied by M. E. Holden, formerly of the Thatched H se Tavern, Mar ket-street,) and hopes, from the liberal system he intends to adhere to, in catering for the taste and comfort of hi , . - to receive a fair share of public patronage and support Mutton Broth, Soups, Chops, Steaks, Snac! Daily, from Ten till Two o'clock. A liberally-provided Table d'Hote on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday in each week, at Half-past One o'clock pre- Commer s. S r zC. provided cisety. The Wines, Spirits, and Cigars have been selected with the greatest care, and will be found of first-rate qualities. Capital Stabling and Coach-house. gal jail is full of illicit distillers, committed for a breach of e 'Waterford Mirror states that the union workhouse nut to be closed immediately, owing to the want of ns of Waterford, accc ng to tha tartly pay the new rate for which they are Mends to be absen ->d from Paris ti ri Thursday b H rqu . is of family nir. They 179( t Rome and and the an- The Augsburg Gazelle of the 'rincess Clemen- marnag rnhn e of the lot take place until King of the French on Adelaide sv of Richard Fitchett itv of Kent, was, or Ither, are doing well and their mo dens this case distress Driest man Jrk, owing to the falling off of the . James Tobin, of Mitcheistown, l i-owned on Saturday morning in a small river father's house, and which National Bank. The a diligent search, was found in that ,nich the bank is built, and, shocking to sented an awful and melancholy spectacle. son to MI lose to remises from the g.—The Antrim fair took place on Monday specially .11ers was very numerous which a great number were at of an inferior description but few, if any. changed hands A number of not more than a few dozen being ao present, and money at a low name was transact r A MAIDEN LADY.-011 Saturday fore Mr. Payne, at the Walbrook ;Miss Elizabeth Words other, a m r intellect be as been twice in that insti- loon, on a message coming to her. found locked on the inside, and brother burst it open. He found xer on the floor, deluged in blood, and quite dead ; in her right hand also. Dr 'ell said the wound 3 tried several times; it was and divided the carotid artery. Sh 4 mug and drawers, and over the key• ,revent persons looking into the room A MAD COW—SERIOUS ACCIDENT. twelve o'clock, a large fat cow, the prop, , which had been sent to Smithfield, from kpr suddenly broke from one of the pens, re°.sition v vnich came in her way. The no opposed the progress of the animal's mad was police-constable 163 D, who was on duty in the market. He endeavoured to stop h er, but with a fearful butt of her horns she caught his clothe!, and pitched him into a pen full of pigs—and, not c ontent with this: the furious beast leaped into the pen, and trampled both pigs and man in a dreadful manner. The policeman lies in a dangerous state. The infuriate animal then ran down Queen-stree, and caught up a pig on her horns , wh ich was instantly killed. A woman was also dreadfully injured in the same street ; and a gentle man in Blackball-street m et with some . s evere bruises from being knocked down ; but th e most seriousll-strect accident of at l occnred to Dr. Metcalf, of IS, Blickha, who present lies, we regret to say, in a very serious state from in juries received by him from the horns of the animal. The cow ran on and upset several men in Blackba ll-place and Stoney-batter, all of whom were m ore or less injured. In its headlong course the animal ran into Mr. Reed's meal stores in Stoney-batter, and after committing dreadful !Tie ges there, it was at length despatched by a smith, orehead.— who killed it 'with a tremendous blow of a sledge in the f Dublin paper. GANG OF BURGLA R S !IV SUFFOLK.—Considerable excitement prevails in the parish and neighbourhood of La venham, in Suffolk, from the discovery o f a gang of depre dators, who have infested the neighbourhood for some time past. On the night of Tuesday, the 20th ult., the ware house of Mr. Bobby, gro cer , of Lavenham, wa s entered by a false key. Three men commenced, filling some bags with sugar and other articles. Mr. Bobby and his men wer. watch ; observing the entrance of the thiev the doors in order to se cure th em , until the a rr ther assistance, but there being another e of double doors , the thieves forced their way out, and were m aking off, when Mr. Bobby fired a pistol, and the ball w hi zz ed so close to the head o f one of them that he fell down from fright and was secured. Mr. Bobbyl..s man snap ped another pistol which missed fire, and the other two made their escape. They were traced i n the direction of Heding ham, where t h e parties in pursuit obtained the assistance of the Essex constabulary, and succeeded in apprehending them at a beer-shop. The three men i n cus tody are n amed Rust, Bere, and Smith, natives of Lavenham._ Th e y have since been taken bef ore the Rev. —Johnson, of Lavenhanl, when .Rust and Bere were committed for trial, an d Smith .I , Qeharged. for want of identity. F rom a : statement O ne prisoners, it appears that the gang con at 15, who were chiefly engaged in robbing and plans had been laid for plundering two:or —Norwich Mercury. 50171 e Lawav %.,. •••.--- and ran through the market i a very serious manner, rampling dos.; person .s, they ps, al of fur- nuance, co f Hull were engaged on Wedn extraordinar ;amst a young man name , Ason to the hon. baron written rdid thrc residence of Sir Felix Booth fotther Rowland tie Key' CoHew Schola s, isq 1,8. A., of ( 'orrington. Trinity Coll, of the Holy Nottidge. s their aM eland had strict Chapel ch ; patron, the Re Rectory of M.A., of St. John's Co Kingston College, Edmor e considered rf ,owe of tt mar, th Dme inioortatice, ighest officers in the ion of hostilities, tween the two countries MMISSIONER AND HI aUISITIONS OF HER MAJESTY'S imissioner and Great Minister, Keyi Itant-General of Tsopoo, Elepoo, and the ,he two Keang province Newkt ake the decided upon with the Engli lend up a duly prepared report of ged that we should give of On examination it is rbarians originally wanted to extort 30,000,000 of dollars; but Hang-e and his colleagues argued _in and a third time, and at length the .c 2f:000,000. They said that 6,000,000 was price of the opium, 3,000,000.f0r the Hong merchants' and 12,000,000 for the expenses of the army. The (an officer of the Emperor's body-guard), Hang-e col agues, represented that the price of the opium read been paid by the city of Canton, in 6,000,000 the point strongly a sum was fixed at h. and his coiit had .1-- And the debts of the I by themselves ; how could the officers of government be called upon to pay them ? As to the necessary expenses of the army—Why should China be called upon to pay them And these matters were discussed again and again. The said ong merchants sl iquidated barbarians exclaimed that opium Was not produced in Eng land ; but that it was all sent sent forth from a neighbouring 20,000 chests had been destroyed, all sum to pay for them ; the 6,000,000 that upwards of - ntto half of the prime cost and therefore the deficiency must now be supplied. As to the Hong merchants' debts, the Hong merchants, ollginally, should have discharged them ; but as they delayed the pay ment for a long time, the accumulation amounted to a vast sum. On that account, therefore, they requested 3,000,000 hich, however, did not amount to more than a enth part of the original claims ; and they particularly re quested that a dispatch should be sent to Canton, directing that a clear inquiry should be made into all the Hong merchants' debts, and to limit a time for their recovery; but if they (the Hong merchants) had no funds forthcoming, then it will be necessary to require the government to pay the debts. of dolla, As to the item of expenses of the army, as peace has already been made, the soldiers and sailors should be rewarded be fore they are sent home. As to the amount of those neces- sary expenses, if it is not decided to pay, you must say nothing more to us about the retirement or not of the army and fleet ; but if hostilities do not cease, we apprehend that Further, the men of war have already taken King kow, and have blockaded the passages ; and if we are soon enabled to order them to retire, the advantages to China will be very great, indeed, and so forth. The said Shewei (Hang-e;, and his colleagues, again autho ritatively questioned as to the difficulties, but the said bar barian only stared at him indignantly ; the Shewei was not diture of China, in future, will not stop at dollars once, tha a that ceased, every effortlp le to extort money. An action was £445 Ils 6d for salary alleged to be Failing in this, the threatening-letter , ere printed that t of Sir Felix . Amphlet as in the press, and ~.ime he bad committed, were addressed to Sir James Graham, Sir Robert Peel, and 3 nnshire. These letters were sent by "v. and at last the prisoner ht before the magistrates of Hull, and a full and satisfactory inesda s, a et • time carried on of age. lie has and 10 3' esult is tha: I to b vas lot he doors of rother•in-law), upon forcing ins vv Swindon kitchen, sa Sarah Ann, thed a lood on the floor. The throats or were cut, and the blood from one gtill flowing watchman and a policeman of the N division v a pool of in, and by ti door bleeding from no razor with which lad been inflicted was the r rgical assistance, as w t % ,, cerned, was usele i X .J.L . till all ,',/trcsur .peons, ho !ommitted the prisoner for trial at the !d Sir Felix that be left the court with -3 having appeared for any imputation rnnter.—York Herald. SUICIDE.—On Saturday last, a frightful Holton New Town near London. A - —et of hooks and eyes and business assisted by ately not been rice of being far gone in they have had to part ire. On Saturday last Roston, and at seven e to take care of the two the two we have DID he was always con- z to Inv friend. On the wKed insid- tint ie first floor I d, and Mr. into the I four years, and I ass the bed, and The private 'e then called Piles on the ar from to ar as Gile: The gii but extremely was pu an William Reeve, M.A Rev. c, D. A. V arthenshire ; pa Dn, the ( to be Vice-Principal c ARISTOCRATIC BANKRUPTS The examinations which took place at the Court of Bank ruptcy in Lord Huntingtower's case, on the 28th and 30th of December, and the 4th instant, were published on Thursday. They mostly related to the bankrupt's transactions with Col. Copeland ; the Colonel himself being the principal witness It appeared that he became acquainted with Lord Hunting. tower in December, 1839; Lord Huntingtower came of agi ad first kr:ew him ; Colonel a Colonel Cope An agreemen retween , rity, to t he was to reocter toe u( becan them to a )rd - Huntir or £50,000 to £300; ti tea oy I listened to should w. ~,,,, taels for tion will t spenditur its, have examined and found what are the unwarrantable demands of the said barbarians, which they so importunately urge, and they are deserving of the utmost hatred. But, considering that they have already attacked and laid in ruins Kingkow, and it is proved that not only the rivers but Chinkeaug it will be difficult to recover speedily, we are apprehensive we shall be blocked up, both on the north and south, which will be the heaviest calamity. The ships that formerly blockaded the entrances were far different from these (in the Yang-tse-kiang). and great ex pense is unavoidable ; as yet our reputation is not lost ; as to the extorted 21,000,000 dollars, they are to be reckoned at sevep mace each of sycee silver, which will amount to up wards of 11,700,000 taels ; the Hong debts are 8,000,000 dollars, weighing 2,100,000 taels; which must be recovered from the Hong merchants of Canton, when a clear exami nation has been made. There still remains 12,000,000 taels. This year the first payment of 6,000,000 dollars has been made, equal to 4,200,000 taels. Now 1,900,000 has already been carried to the account of the people and merchants of Keangsoo ; which the officers must pay in the first instance ; and in time, money may be looked for, for the purchase of honours (buttons and peacocks' leathers,) The remainder is to be cleared off in three years, not requiring three million loreover, the duties that the said na ould be taken into account, which will ship )f the Imperial family, and disputances will ITEIJ On Wednesday morning last the packet-shili - N(4% , - for arrived at this port, having left New York on the 19th ult. to which date she has brought papers from that town. _ The markets had not experienced an Iteration Congress had been in session about a fortnight, but they had not got to any real business. The report of the secre tary for the treasury showed a deficiency to the 31st ult. of 575,556 dollars. _ _ _ . - _ • No advices had beet of the steam-ship Brit 'eceived in New York of the arrival nia at Boston. A mutiny of avery painful and extrifordinary character had taken place on board the United States br - g Somers. The following are the details of the occurrence, as given in one of the New York papers : The mutineers were to have a scuffle on the forecastle in the night while the Captain and First Lieutenant were asleep. On the appearance of the latter to quell the disturbance he was to be seized and thrown overboard. They were then to murder the commander and the ward room officers, with the exception of the surgeon—who was to be kept for their own use—and take possession of the vessel. After this they were to capture the packets and other ships, murder all males, ravish the females, and then murder them, so that no soul should be left to tell the tale of their horrible villainy. For this purpose they -were to rendevous off New York. The whole plan was in writing and copiously interlarded with Greek characters to prevent discovery, and the test oath of the mutineers was " Do you swear that you have no fear of shedding blood ?" Fortunately, their plan was discovered through the instru mentality of one of the crew. The subject was laid before the officers, who had immediately convened as a dram-head Court Martial, when it was decided that the safety of the vessel and the lives of all on board required immediate and exemplary punishment. They were accordingly hung at the yard-arm to strike terror to the hearts of the crew. This strong and decided measure restored the command of the ship to the officers, and the obedience of the men. Philip Spencer was the name of the midshipman alluded to, who was hung, and the other two men, petty officers, a boatswain's mate and a quarter-master. Spencer entered the service. Nov. 20, 1841. • The affair occurred in the Atlantic, six or eight days' sail from St. Thomas, where the brig had touched for water and provisions on her return from the coast of Africa. It was arranged to take her there so that the mutineers would be fully provided with stores for their piratical cruise. Commander M`Kenzie has gone to Washington to lay all the facts before the government. From ten to twenty of the to await their trial. sailors, the I t e h N e r o i r n t g h -l c ea a d ro e l r i s na in , the mutiny, are now in irons on The Sooners is a new vessel, this being her first cruise, and has proved to be one of the fastest sailers in the service. Her construction, her size, and her speed, are well adapted fora pirate. According to another of the New York journals, the plot of the mutineers was, after seizing the brig, to cruise off Sandy Hook for the capture of one or more of the Liverpool packets, supposed to have large sums in specie on board, and after thigi go a pirating. M r . Spencer, the leader of the re volt; was a son of the Hon. Secretary of the War Depart ment. The agony of the father's feelings under this terrible infliction language would vainly endeavour to express. A Dr. Buchanan is making as much stir with " New rology in New York as Messrs. Braid and Lafontaine did here some short time since. Mr. Braham was still giving concerts at New York, assisted by his son. The New York Herald says that since July Ist, 1841, no less than eighty-five steamers have been burnt and snagged on the western rivers. The total loss, in little more than a year, is stated to be 1,400,000 dollars. Advices from Kinston, Canada, Sir Charles Bagot as much worse, and state that, but slight hopes were enter tained of his recovery. It was said that his excellency would leave the province as soon as he was able to travel, and that Sir Richard Jackson would convene the parliament and go vern as administrator until Sir Charles' successor, who is still asserted to be Lord Elliot, arrived. Navigation through out the province was still suspended. The New Orleans Bee of the 24th ult. says, " The com bined land and naval forces of the Mexicans bad made a desperate attack on the heights surrounding Campeachy. The city is situated in a valley environed and overlooked by a number of hills. The occupation of these heights is of vast importance, as they command the town. They were consequently strongly fortified and garrisoned by Yucatan forces from the hills, and entrenched themselves upon them. They have thus secured advantages of great moment, which, if properly pursued, may render them masters of the town. Our informant states, that the Yucatanese fought with great courage, retiring slowly, and disputing every inch of ground, and that they appear to be in no wise discouraged by this untimely reverse. The day preceding the capture of the heights of Campeachy, (eminencies,) there was a regular engagement between the Mexican fleet and the six gunboats of the Campechanos, in which the former were repulsed with considerable loss. The Mexicans observe great vigilance in enforcing the blockade. 'Nevertheless, we learn that mer chant vessels, laden with groceries and provisions, continue to steal through the cordon of armed vessels at night, and deposit their cargoes within the city. While this continues, the Campechanos cannot, at all events, be starved into sur _ render.'" By the arrival of the steam -ship New York, from Galves ton, Texas papers had been received at New Orleans as late as Saturday last, 3d ult. The news, however, is of very 'little interest. The accounts from the army are still vague and unsatisfactory. Many of the men had returned, but the greater part of the force was still in the vicinity of Bexar and determined to proceed. The Galveston Civilian publishes President Houston's Proclamation requiring the seat of government to be removed from Austin to Washington, and requesting that the Senators and Representatives elect...to congress convene in annual sessions at the town of Washington on Monday, the sth of December. The Proclamation was issued in consequence of there being no quorum at the meeting of Congress at the special session on the 14th November. The latest intelli gence from Washington is, that a sufficient quantity of Con gressmen had assembled to form a quorum. OPENING OF THE FRENCH CHAMBERS, puties on T o h p e en f i o n ll g o t w h i o ng c ihsnamtoepryofopfe , on Monday l as t : the speech of Louis Phillipp e , " The affection and the sympathy of the French nation 4 . GENTLEMEN PE ERS AND'DEPUTIES. — to conclude to-day have sustained my courage. incomplete at the opening My heart, ever suffering from what 03 y grief had compelled me to leave of your session. You have already grief, but full of confidence in your devotedness in calling you myself together to resame the cou r s e of your labours , I wish achieved much for the security and future prosperity of France ; I thank you in her name, Whatever may be our trials, I and my family wlll devote to her service whatever strength and life the Almighty shall grant us. " Thanks to the maintenance of public order ;and peace, the national prosperity, attested by the rapid increase in the public reve n ue, manifests i tself be y ond our most san g uine hopes. ' The solid empire of the laws is the best securit y for the wellbeing of all, as it is for the power of the state ; and the conviction everywhere established that the laws will be religiously executed, renders less frequent the enforcement of their penalties. I congratulate myself on our having ob tained those happy results. " I feel confident that our prosperity will pursue its course without either interruption or obstacle. My relations with foreign Powers continue to be p acific any amicable. " The good harmony pre vailin g amon g st the Powers has strengthened the repose of the East, and procured in Syria for the Christian population the establishment of an admi nistration conformable to their religious faith and their wishes. " I deplore ti4e disturbances which have recently agitated Spain. In my relations with the Spanish monarchy, my sole object has been to protect our legitimate interests, to pre serve for Queen Isabella 11. a faithful amity, and to testity for the rights of humanity that respect and protection which honour the name of France. " By the occupation of the Marquesa Islands, I have se cured to our navigators in those distant seas a protection and refuge of, which the necessity had been long felt. " Thanks to the persevering efforts of our brave army, our dominion in Algeria becomes everywhere stable and re spected. The vigilance and regularity of the administration will complete the work so gloriously prosecuted by the courage of our soldiers. " I have opened with several states negotiations which will have the effect of imparting to our agriculture, our com merce, and manufactures, more active development, and to procure for our national interests additional facilities. " Laws of finance and various bills intended to introduce into our legistration and administration important improve ments, shall be immediately presented to you. " Gentlemen, the world is at peace ! France is free, active, and happy!'. My object has been, and ever shall be, until my last breath, to secure those blessings for my coun try. It is with your constant and loyal cooperation that I have succeeded. You will aid me in maintaining and in con summating the work which we have commenced in common. This will be for all the most worthy recompense, and for me the only consolation that I can hereafter hope for." A great snow storm is predicted by the weather-wise gentry for the last day of this month. MURDER AND PARRICIDE. — WE have just received from a correspondent in Mull an account of a most unnatural and arocious murder—the murder of a poor old woman by her own son ! It appears that the son, who, strange to say, is deaf and dumb, and who had always been characterised for want of affection to his parent, committed the foul crime by giving her such a dreadful beating, cutting and maiming her, the preceding Monday, that she lingered• in great agony and died last Saturday. The name of the place where the unfortunate woman lived is Kilean, and it is some small sa tisfaction to know that the culprit, a destroyer of the most sacred relation of social life, has been apprehended, and is safely lodged within the walls of a prison.—Scotch Refor mers' Gazette of Saturday. -• ARLINGTON.—A DEEP TRICK.—A trick of rather a novel character has just been played in this place. It appears, that a young woman some months since had the mishap to have a youngster. The young man who is supposed to be the father happened to meet the damsel and her babe on Wednesday evening last, when she requested him to take the child in his arms during her absence, to , which request he good naturedly acceded. The young man nursed the infant for some time, perhaps endeavouring to trace some of his own features to those of the child ; but having waited until his patience was exhausted, fou n d t o hi s sorrow that the mother did not return. Under th ese sus picious circumstances, he sought to obtain an asylum f or th e young bantling ; and he at length succeeded in placing it under the care of a neigh bour, of course with a pledge to remunerate her for her pains. The delinquent mother has not since been heard of.—Wilts Standard. BANKRUPTCY : FRAUDULENT REMOVAL OF GOODS.-At the sitting of the Exeter district Court of Bankruptcy on the 7th instant, a bankrupt, of the name of Goodenough, was brought before the commissioner. The case affords an illus tration of the practical advantages to creditors derived from the fifth section of the late statute (5 and 6 Victoria, c. 122). Before its enactment under no circumstances could the bank rupt be arrested, or his goods, &c., be seized by any process in bankruptcy except b y the me ssenger after adjudication, but by the above secti on o f the sta t u t e it is enacted, " that whenever a fiat has iss ue d against any person , and it shall be proved to the satisfactio n o f the cour t that there is probable cause for believing that such a person is about to quit Eng land or to remove or con cea l any o f hi s g oods or chattels with intent to defraud his credito rs , unless he be forthwith appre hended 't be lawf'-' ;t- -t for'the court to issue its warran, to arrest such person, and to seize his books, papers, goods and chattels, &c., wheresoever he or they may be found, draper in large busines s &c.". In the present c ase, Goodenoug h; who was a linen. at Newton Abbots , in De v o n sh ir e , had; formed the design of convey i ng a large quantity of his goods with himself on b oard a sh i p a t Plymouth, and sailing with them to New South Wales. A fi a t against him came down to the District Court early on Friday morning, and was immediately opened, but by the late statute (section 23) five days' notice of the adjudication are required to be given to the bankrupt, and that time must be allowed to him to dis pute the adjudication. In the course of that day application was made to the commissio ner , and most satisfactory proof laid before him that the b an krupt had absconded and re moved a large portion of his stock and goods on board the vessel in question. The warrant was immediately granted. The messenger went express to Plymouth with two of the crditors, and found the vessel on the point of weighing anchbr. The bankrupt was forthwith arrested, and the pro perty on board (to the value of several hundred pbund) un loaded and brought on shore, and will, no doubt, be available to the creditors. with the sum paid to the English it is as '3 to 10; and there is only the name of fighting, without the hope of victory ; it iopt plans in accordance with circumstances, is better to and put an everlasting stop to war. The 4,200,000 taels, the first payment made of this year has been collected from the funds of the treasurer and salt commissioners of the three provinces of Che-keang, Keang soo, and Ganhwuy ; which will be repaid by the duties on the merchants and people. We wait to receive the Imperial will, that we may send post haste orders (to the treasurers and salt-commissioners) to be respectfully obeyed. said barbarians begged that Hongkong might be conferred on them as a place of residence. They also re - - 'allowed to trade at Kwangchow, Funchow, Ningpo, and Shanghae. The Shewei Han- quested to Heamun (Moy), ling and his colleagues, as the barbarians had already built houses on Hongkong, and yet could beg for favour, granted that they might dwell there. With reference to Kwang chow and the other four places, they must be considered too many ; as to the regulations of the trade as well as the duties, they should early be consulted and decid When clear and explicit questions are asked, it is authen ticated that the said barbarians answered, " We consider Hongkong as our dwelling-place, and we must have Kwang- Ind the others, in all five places, as ports of trade; but nnot be allowed, then neither Moy, Ningpo, Hinhae, ae, Topoo, Paoyshan, nor Hekeang will be delivered up, neither will our forces retire. As we want trade at all those places, it is absolutely necessary that resident consuls should be appointed to superintend affairs, to restrain the barbarians (English) and prevent disturbances. The duties shall be paid according to the regulations of China; and when the duties are settled there shall be no delay in the •payment. " Further, when we traded at Canton, the whole trade was in the hands of the mandarin Hong merchants, and we were exposed to their extortions, and the injuries we suffered were not small. Hereafter, we desire to choose our own mer chants, that trade may be conducted equitably ; and the en tire duties are to be paid through the consuls to the Hoppo, and not to pass through the hands of the Hong merchants, in order that their extortions may be prevented;" and so 'orth. The said Shewei again represented, that from the five places, Kwangchow, &c., some should be conducted ; but the said barbarian obstinately refused. I, your servant, have examined and found, that with reference to the Said foreigners dwelling on Hong-kong, and going to trade in the provinces of Fokien and Hekeang, the Imperial will has already been received, with permission as to what they have requested about trading at the five places named, although the compa rison is great ; but as they have taken and kept possession of Amoy and other places, which are not yet given up, and as they still hold Hongkong, Golongsoo, and have not retired, it will be a difficult matter to get them back. If we again prepare our armies to maintain those places, it is a difficult matter to engage with them on the waters. Though near to each other s we have been idle (there has not been any fighting) for many days; and as to those places which they have taken and keep possession of, will it not be allowed them to return to us our territory, and allow them to trade, since they are willing respectfully to pay the duties ? Just now, they are sensible and repent of their errors, and are obedient as if driven by the wind, and when again united in mutual friendship, benevolence, and truth, all things will go on well. And since they will guard their own market, and surround and protect the sea boundaries, there will not be any necessity for recourse to our interference, which will be to the advantage of the country. We request the Imperial will may be sent down to the Governors and Lieutenant Governors of each of th e t h ree provinces, to examine clearly into the duties and trading re gulations of the Controller of Maritime Customs in the pro vinces of Canton ; and consult about the management of affairs, and fix them on a secure basis. 3. That which the said barbarians have requested with re ference to the officers of China—to have ceremonial inter course upon an equality ; and the barbarians who have been made captives, and the Chinese traitors, who have been se duced (into the service, &c., of the English), the release of all these they most earnestly solicit. We, your servants, .have examined, and found, that with reference to equal official intercourse, it may be unreservedly granted ; and as the affairs with the foreigners are finished (hits war onticarn IlAcs vs..ier.r.are _ _ _ kt.m., Luc l,uavuc,a way ma() De released, by which harmony and good understanding will be strengthened •, for a state of peace will bring repose and gladness, and overthrow factious parties; these matters may be allowed to proceed, and we have left them to the Shewei, without discussing them. Cape of Good Hope papers to November 6, have been re ceived. The boers, or Duch farmers, on the Orange river were becoming restless, and, in imitation of their compatriots at Natal, disposed to assert their independence of British government and control. The rebellious affair is sufficiently ridiculous, and much of the nature of what is styled a storm in a tea-pot. Mauritius papers to the 14th of October are remarkably barren of matter even of local interest. It is stated, and ap pears to be complained of, that the Queen of Madagascar bad prohibited the emigration of her subjects to other countries. The rigorous measures adopted with this are said to have seriously, embarrassed commerce and especially the masters • Lady Alacnaghten, Lady Sale, and the other unfortunate prisoners just released from Cabul, have addressed a letter of thianks to Sir Richmond Shakspeare, " for the promptitude with which he led a body of kuzzilbasla horsemen to their assistance at a most critical period, to whose timely arrival amongst them at Kaloo, it may he chiefly attributed that their flight from Bameean was not intercepted." THE CATTLE-MARKET OF PARTS.—The Moniteur de la Propriele states, that during the year 1842 there were offered for sale at the markets of Paris, 141,649 oxen, 16,131 cows, and 923,384 sheep. Of these were returned to their owners as unsaleable at any price, 13,753 oxen, 1,415 cows, and 182,152 sheep. The average price during the year was, 11 sous the pound for ox-beef, 91 sous for cow-beef, and 111 sous for mutton. Sydney papers to the 29th of August, three days later than the last arrival, were received to-day at the North and South American Coffee-house. They do not, however, contain in telligence of any particular , interest. The prospectus of a singular undertaking had been published there by Major Sullivan, formerly a police magistrate at the River William in the colony. It purports to be for the establishment of a " British colony on the island of New Caledonia, situated in the South Pacific Ocean." Great advantages are held out as likely to result from the project, inasmuch as it would prove an " important sea-port in the direct line of com munication to China and India, whenever the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans may be joined at the isthmus of Darien." THE REVENEE.—We have seen a list of the shipments of the principal Oporto houses for the year 1842, which fully confirms the opinion that it is the non-settlement of the Portuguese tariff that has greatly caused the deficiency in the Customs revenue for the quarter just terminated. The total quantity shipped has been, it appears, 24,981 pipes. The article of wine alone will, it is expected, account for about £380,000 of the deficiency, and the remainder may be attri- buted to coffee. The settlement of the Portuguese treaty will, therefore, it is expected, throw a large amount into the Treasury, when it really takes effect. It is satisfactory to perceive, that while one deficiency, that of the Excise, has been in a great measure explained away, this one of the Customs is considered merely temporary.—Times. MADAME LAFFARGE.—A letter of the 30th ult., from Montpelier, alluding to a report that had been current that Madame Laffarge had escaped from prison,—" She still re mains in her cell, confining herself to her bed, in order to avoid putting on the prison dress. Her health is better, and her appetite so far improved, that she no longer restrains herself to chocolate, which was for a length of time her only food. Midlle. Grouvelle, who is expiating her meddling in political plots in the same prison, is not in as good a state of health as Madame Laffarge. On the eve of her discharge, the term of her imprisonment having „nearly expired, she has fallen into a torpor which creates some alarm. She has for some time refused to change her dress, and remains perfectly mute and immoveable in spite of all the kind and judicious means taken by the Sisters of Charity. who have charge of • her to excite her to animation." J. D. ( bas been appointed to t na Vicar of Sibber Peterborough for on. Jo The Rev. Georg Rev. Jam stiC - Ch ft. has s William Mark Curate of St. ht, M.A., e Vicarage of Leath of the Rev. N. Rob Rev. J. Arrowsmith, to t ant; Lord LI acceptances: ,end bla :ordingl Colonel 1; he could swear to £2OO, but he could not swear had, however, sold the • bankrupt horses and ...en him his acceptances, upon which he was able to obtain his plate and other things to a large amount; for which the Colonel never received anything. Lord Hun tingtower and Colonel Copeland tried to raise a sum of , the Globe Life Insurance Office sufficient to pay our mutual liabilities ;" but that enterprise failed, and Col. Copeland called upon his friend, " as a nobleman and a gen tleman, to give the best security that lay in his power to a gentleman of the name of Mr. Dobson, who had behaved in the kindest and most honourable way towards me, and who had discounted a great many of his lordship's bills ; and, through me and Mrs. Edmonds, had given his lordship proper Accordingly, on the evening ley went to the office of Mr. in Bucklersoury, to execute a deed of Lord Huntingtower's estate for £20,000. '.ken his instructions for the deed from Col. - • of seven carriages, and F. money at e omitt It was tower came tb the way and Lord Huntingtower came by a train He was after e and Mr. ' no doubt from E j to Mr. Fisher's dead was executed whom Mr. Fisher ards disavowed ti] consideration for the sal of the Fisher, a solicito mortga Copela proved with the Colc by an earlier Mrs. E of December, 1841, t monds introduced to hit said Colonel C been _previously submitted to her solicitor pronoun, and insisted that he caller Among other notabilia, Colonel Cc told Mr. Ford of his £lO,OOO each ; on w :h Mr. and ti rng received two pare, v.ird remarkeA Col replied, that Mr it himself if he fell into hi n who intrc ruin that yo Ford v clutche duced the t Mr. Moss Davis er person On his bought ntroducti , that per Mrs. Ed m onesvra s pa rattle tor it, but did not succeed; the Colonel sent it to Mr. Thomas, a silver smith, in the Strand, who lent £2OO upon it; half of which was given to Lord Huatjngtower. Mr. Metcalf was after wards employed to redeem it, and he paid £2OO more npon a bill of ,ed it; and Colonel Copeland used the money to I Lord Huntingtower's for horses. Colonel Cope that at one time he had as many as forty or fifty executions out against him. He was asked whether he had not been about to marry Mrs. Edmonds ? The court interposed, that he need not answer. Colonel Copeland observed, "It is a most impertinent question ; but I could readily answer it, were I required." The further examination of witnesses was adjourned. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—Some days since two boys named Gilmer and Campbell, picked up, on the shore, at Holywood, a bottle, with a proportionate buoy attached to it. On examination, tbey discovered it contained a letter, and. attached to it, a slip of paper, on which was written a re quest, that whoever might pick it up would put the letter in Holywood postoffice. The communication was directed to a person named Gibson, residing at Portwilliam, in the South of Scotland. The slip of paper stated, that this method of forwarding a letter was adopted by one of the crew of the schooner Cheerful, then lying in the Lough,—it being im possible, on account of the storm, to come ashore in a boat. The letter was forthwith conveyed to the postoffice, and would, of course, be duly received by the person to whom it is addressed. In stormy weather, when.wind and tide suited, many communications might, probably, be effected in this manner, of consequence both to merchants and friends.— Belfast Paper. INGENIOUS ESCAPE FROM PRISON.—On Saturday week, during the time of the usual assembly of the prisoners at El gin for religious instruction in the afternoon, Peter Campbell and John Young (confined for theft), who occupied the highest cell in the prison, put in execution the following previously concocted scheme for escape :—The former had been, apparently, in agony with the toothache throughout the day, and by that means had evaded attendance with the rest. The latter made. his appearance as usual; but i❑ about half an hour, feigning some excuse, left the apartment. The gaoler, unwilling to lose sight of him, followed, and found him, to all appearance, about to give up the ghost, from a pain in his stomach, but as he expressed his wish to join in re ceiving instruction, and his intention to come down imme diately, the gaoler left him. Five minutes elapsed, and the prisoner did not make his entrance, so the gaoler returned to fetch him down, when, to his conternation, ho saw no prisoner visible where he had left two not ten minutes before. The whole matter, however, was plain enough. A wooden door that opened out to the bartizau was pushed aside, and a rope, . • spun out of the oakum that the prisoners had been employe in picking, had one end attached to their bed, whilethe othE extended out at the door, over the bartizan, and down upo roof of a lower part of the building. Such had been therou of the prisoners, and, droppin reet, concealed b the darkness of the r Inverness Courier. ght, they had effected their e AN AGED TEA PAR• ual con undred of the oldest it habitants of the district third anniver y of a kind, which most of them have aided in celebrating following, according to the correspondent, who con cates the fact to a contemporary, are the names, resit and ages of a few of the oldest of the party : Mary Salisbury, 50, Back Red Bank Martha Wood, John-street ..... Jizabeth St eele, Irk-stre Dorott William Simmister, 20, Style -street James Cook, 12, C.B. Style-street Simmister Benjamin FioOd, Thoinpson-street aret Eccersley, Ect _ Hammond, 9, Portland-street 1 Mitchell, Mill Hill a Pollitt,3s, Dych y's-square -street Old Wil narian. d vigorous as a sexage ustre, and he here he had served for five years He seemed, Volunteers. irers," to be t tea, and ling ly rear. a relish as arty were above sixty years old, 3unted to the number of 7,038 ble interest; it consisted of t the Rev. Jonathan Ackroyd—first, for ary Petty Ses- stons which has excited cons two charg being a rogue and vag ...And. for having obt bond under the Vagrant Act: and led money under false pret,ences. on Hall, said that on Friday, ier called upon him, and be incumbent of a church x, stated that the church )ich was owing to a mort- secut, ._• _ Mr. Thomas Gorton, of Tottinq t h e 16th of t,.. having or char a at Skircoat, near Halif was in debt upwards of X 2,000 it he was obtaining contributions to liquidate th, .nrther stated, that he had performed the church services there for a period of ten years gratuitously, and that e building was still in connexion with the Church of England. Witness accordingly gave him a sover-' Miss Hannah Woodcock, of Hokoroe, prisoner had also called at her residence on the p.„. Friday week, when he represented himself to be the incum bent of the church in question, and succeeded in obtaining Mr. Wm. Taylor, of King-cross, deposed duties an sed that the 'ing another sovereign. iviz. that the prisoner had no connexion with the church, nor directions or authority to collect money on its behalf. On cross-examinatiou, the witness said, that an absolute con veyance of the church had been made ; that the prisoner had built, and for some time had preached chase-money was £900; and that it hr Mr. Alexander, a solicitor, at Halifa- Superintendent of Police, at Bury, the prisoner for a year and a-half custody before as Ulverstone, on money under false sergeant, deposed that he apprehended the prisoner on tht, morning of Saturday, and that he found a book in his pass,- I been bought from Mr. H. Henshall, said that he had known and that he had him in a charge of ha Charles Maguire tences sion, entitled as follow —A Lis. ouidation of Minor Contributions LOWai un Christ Church, Skircoat, Halifax, Yorkshire, amounting to upwards of £2,300." The Chairman said, the bench had a duty to perform, but they were compelled to , •11 as the prisoner had not lately alone been described, bat had been doing so very paintt? re unanimously of opinion for Costly yedr Correction at )ur for three calendar were many ntributions I he impri sessions for trial on the as the prisoner had —Doncaster Gazetti 3 s everal years ago), and who appeared much irospect of the profession being relieved from as more likely to The Colonel was himself the pers bankrupt to Mr. Ford; he also intr _ _ about to s just be( A case. Salford, and tiler , ne of its gr ;ester Guardian of Thedding- Lialene H rN.QP of f WITH Tl-1 t:: Alitt-RO )(At, bi, lAM SON- ScitlA The New CIIPINTMAS PANTOMIME EVENING AT HALF PPICE i~~~ .~ ~ TTHIS present FRIDAY EVENING, the 13th instant, will be repeated (by particular desire) the Opera of THE BARBER OF SEVILLE. To conclude with the New Comic Pantomime of BARON MUNCHAUSEN ; Or, Harlequin and the Grhore Wizard. TO-MORROW. (Saturday.) THERESE, and the COMIC PANTOMIME. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE SIGNOR NAGEL'S GRAND MASQq,D BALL TN . consequence of the unprecedented and for Tickets I. for the above BALE, which will e place on TUES DAY EVENING next, at the ab' place, for the accom modation of all Parties the nun , .er of Tickets will be limited, so as to afford the Masqueraders ample space for Dancing. TEESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1843, on which occasion the entire of the Pit and Circle will be boarded over, so as to form a Magnificent Salon d' Danse. The Theatre will be decorated with Emblematical Devices, and Brilliantly Illuminated; every attention paid to the comfort and convenience of Visitors, and will be conducted on the same scale, which has rendered this species of Enter tainments so popular in London, Paris, Stockholm, Vienna, St. Petersburgh, and other Cities. In the course of the Evening, Groups of Ballerines and Grotesque Dancers will enliven the proceedings. as intro duced at the Royal Festivals, Stockholm, and at the GRAND FESTA DI NAPOLI. The Orchestra will be full and efficient, and under the able superintendance of Mr. HUGHES, Leader. Prices of Admission .—Single Ticket, Gentleman's, 55.; Single Ditto, Lady's, 4s. ; Double Ticket, admitting a Lady and Gentleman, 7s. 6d.; Family Ticket, admitting Six Per sons, ls.—Boxes, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. Tickets to be obtained of SIGNOR NAGEL, at the Am phitheatre, and at the different Music Sellers. The Doors will Open Half-an-hour after the close of the usual Performance, which will terminate at an early hour, and Dancing will commence immediately. TO CORRESPONDENTS We have received several communications on the subject of the proceedings which have recently been adopted with a view to the suppression of Sunday trading, which is now carried on to a shameful extent in some parts of the town. We should be extremely glad to second the laudable efforts of the writers; but we recommend them to manifest less apparent personal spleen against individuals whilst they use their best endeavours to suppress the growing evil. If the magistrates exercise the powers lawfully and properly vested in them, we should soon see a great improvement in a practice which is truly distressing to a Christian mind. Riberuant -tanDarZi. FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1843 We have been somewhat struck—we might almost say startled—with the tone of an article in the London Times of Tuesday last, commenting upon the beautiful and convincing inaugural address, delivered by Mr. W. E. Gladstone at the opening of our Collegiate Institution. It is not often that the Times lays itself open to the suspicion of ignorance, upon any question with respect to which public opinion has been strongly moved ; and Mr. Gladstone is not the man, to depre ciate whose efforts in behalf of any good cause, that journal would be likely to step out of its way to affect such ignorance. But the tone of the article in ques tion is so singularly inconsistent with the opinions avowedly held by our contemporary, upon the im portant subject of education, that we are compelled to fix its authorship upon some recluse, whose mind has never pierced beyond the walls of his study, or the cloisters of his college; or to suspect, unwillingly, that its writer had a concealed purpose in view, which most sincere churchmen would be inclined to regard with fear and jealousy. Referring to the distinctness, with which Mr. Glad stone had laid it down, as a " great indestructible principle," that " Education," if it is to be effectual, if it is to be valuable, if it is to be deserving of the name, must be a RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ; and that, in order to deserve the name of a religious education, it must be founded not upon those vague generalities which are supposed to be common to all men, or at least to all men who assume the name of Christians—but upon the de finite Revelation which it has pleased God to give, and whereby each man amongst us must s: and or fall," the Times remarks— " We suppose Mr. Gladstone is too well acquainted with the people of Liverpool to utter redundant truisms in their presence. Still, we confess that we should hardly have thought it necessary in a speech addressed to the middl e classes of the second city in the empire —a body of people possessing a more than average amount of wealth, intelli gence and attainments—addressed to them, too; by one who made it his boast that he was sprung from their order—we should hardly have thought it necessary to put it forth, as a new startling truth, that education to be effectual, must be based upon religion—that this religion must be the reli gion of Revelation. Whatever may be the doubts and dark ness of the lower classes upon this subject, surely the middle classes did not need this information" (!) Now the Times is not ignorant of the fact that the principle laid down by Mr. Gladstone is by no means regarded as a " redundant truism" by many parties, far removed in intelligence and station from the lower classes. In his publication of the following day— Wednesday—he recognises the fact, and deprecates its existence—that a religious education based upon Re velation is not the education given in the Irish schools supported by government. He knows, moreover, that it is not the system of the mechanics' institutions and other similar educating bodies in this country; and he might have known that it is not the system most in favour with a portion of the middle class philosophers— the exclusively wise—of the town of Liverpool. Mr. Gladstone may therefore have uttered a " truism"— for there is little in this world which is true, and at the same time very " new" and " startling"—but we can not conceive that it was a truism, at all " redundant" in the utterance, in the place where uttered, or which, coming from the lips of a statesman, so eminent in chi ratter, and talent, and position in Sir Robert Peel's government, was likely to be received with less than the most unqualified delight and gratitude. We, for our part, should not complain of the redundancy, if we were to hear the same sentiments from the lips of every member of the cabinet. There is a peevishness in the paragraph which we have quoted, which it is difficult to reconcile with the writer's understood opinions upon the subject of edu cation, unless we are to suppose the existence of some secret bias hitherto undeveloped. Let us endeavour to trace this from the context. In a subsequent pas sage of the article in question we find it seriously doubted that Liverpool is " in want of any Collegiate Institution like this ;" or, at least, denied that " the want has been proved :" and again we have the writer's lament " that Mr. Gladstone has given the support of his name" to a scheme which is " unnecessary and uncalled for by the exigencies of the times." Really, the man who can deliberately give utterance to such an absurdity may almost be suspected of being no very strenuous believer in the necessity of education at all ! For only glance for a moment at the outrageously absurd or blindly-bigotted reason alleged fur the opinion in question. " We have at the present moment"—proceeds the Times —" some fifty colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, amply en dowed, well provided with every encouragement to study and learning, and, the majority of them at least, not confined to any distinct or peculiar class of men. We have, besides, innumerable public schools, each of which has a foundation endowment sufficient to defray the expenses of a couple of German principalities. What need, then, of these new ' Collegiate Institutions ?' We heretofore asserted, and we still maintain, that the endowments of these old colleges and schools were especially intended for the middle classes ; and until Eton, Winchester, Westminster, and the Charter house, as well as both universities, are thronged to reple tion (.9 we see no reason for lavishing money on modern fine buildings under pretence of furthering the cause of edu- cation." It is perhaps unnecessary to combat such sheer nonsense as is contained in the above paragraph. The notion that Oxford or Cambridge, or the other foun dations mentioned, could ever supply to Liverpool the place of such an educational instrument as her " Col legiate Institution" is too ridiculous to deserve grave treatment. But, may we ask, is there nothing signi ficant beneath the surface of the discontent manifested by the Times ? We fear there is. The sincere friend of sound scriptural education for the children of the middle classes would gladly welcome the acquisition of additional facilities, by which such an education is afforded them at their very doors. The Times, how ever, and the party in the church of which that journal is the organ, would perhaps prefer that that education was provided and directed by the irresponsible heads of our universities—that it embraced the reading of the fathers, and inculcated a belief in tradition,—rather than that it was directed by the bishop of the diocese, the local clergy, and the life-governors of such an educational establishment as the " Collegiate Institu tion" of Liverpool, and the religious teaching afforded tenchitig are The purf.! dotthin tiod, nnacluiterated by tradition or a word taken therefrom We admit all. that is alleged b: ith not a word add the Tinu gard to the extent of the existing educational of our country Thanks to the munificent liberality of our fathers, England is more richly provided with such facilities, or rather with the means whereby they ought to be afforded, than any other country We cannot wait, however, and throw our rising generation upon the mechanics' institutes and other providers of a baneful or a deficient education, until our foundation schools and colleges choose to wake from their lethargy and provide that pure and wholesome commodity for which they were endowed. Rather let us, as we can now proudly boast that we have done, imitate the bountiful disposition of past generations; and strive to plant, at our own doors, a tree whose branches will shower down blessed fruit upon generations yet to come We are not certain that we are warranted in taking, as a *manifesto of the views of Sir Robert Peel's Cabinet, even with respect to the immediate question of educa tion, the beautiful sentiments uttered by the Right Hon. the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, on Friday last, to which we have briefly referred in another article. We much fear we are not so war ranted. Mr. Gladstone, it is true, has declared his conviction that "there is no class of men who ought to entertain a livelier interest in the prospects of all schemes connected with public education than that class which is connected with political office; surely, this opinion is scarcely reconcileable with the course pursued by her Majesty's Government, or by the Central Board of Education, towards the schools belonging to the Established Church in Ireland. Ile has said, too, that " without the intelligent assent and attachment of the people,' the institutions of the country"—which he particularises as "the Monarchy, the Church, and the Aristocracy"—cannot be sup ported ; but neither is this truth reconcileable with the " but, policy of Government, with respect to the same schools • He has said, too, with regard to an education, different to that " education based upon the pure revealed word of God," and of which "religion must be the per vading principle—the principle to which all others must be subordinated ;" "is it not paltering with the subject —is it not giving stones to those who ask for bread, if we give that, as education to man, which has no re ference to his higher faculties and estate, but is ex clusively conversant with objects which must perish in the use ?" And; we ask, can this question be replied satisfactorily by a Government which holds cut its helping hand to a system, in which the revealed word of God is emasculated, to appease the professors of a faith, hostile to one at least of the established institu tions of the land—its Catholic Church—whilst that helping hand is denied to a system, the supporters of which are firm supporters=supporters to the Death— of all those Institutions ? These questions are staggering. The feeling which they leave behind is humiliating, and sadly detrimental to our previously-conceived opinions of Conservative faithfulness. How strongly impelled are we to ex claim, as we sink back from the contrast between what should be and what is, " Are these the watchers over our Zion ? Are these the men to whom a Christian people have committed the weal of the generation which is to follow them in their career from this world of temptation to the world beyond the grave—that career of which `the main business' is, as so beau tifully described by Mr. Gladstone, reunion with GOD'—the regaining of that which was the state of our first parents before the the renovation of the nature of God in a race that is fallen away' ? " We cannot adopt a conclusion which would presup pose blindness and want of principle so great, on the part of a Government of which Mr. Gladstone remains a member. There must be some grateful surprise, as to the future measures of that Government, in store for their Conservative supporters. We are the more encouraged to hold out this pleasing hope to our readers, from a remembrance of the sentiments expressed by a member of that govern ment—Mr. Sidney Herbert—on a recent occasion ; sentiments in which we are assured one other member of the same government would cordially aecond, and which are, indeed, seconded in every paragraph of his beautiful address now under notice. Mr. Herbert, alluding to the unexampled depression under which the labouring classes of the country are unfortunately suffering, expressed, in language which we have not at hand to copy, and which we shall not attempt to para phrase, his conviction that the duty of the rich man— and how much more so of a government ?—was to take forethought for the alleviation of such distress, and the restoration of the sufferers to comfort, if not to happiness. Such a sentiment is surely not recon cileable with the maintenance, in the conducting of the government of the country, of those Malthusian prin ciples which dictated a New Poor-law Bill, and refused protection to infant labour by a stringent Factory Bill; and we cannot, viewing the opinions expressed by the gentlemen to whom we have referred, lay aside the hope that a better day for England, and for the cause of truth and humanity, is approaching. Mr. Peter Ainsworth, M.P. for the borough of Bolton, has, it seems, committed an unpardonable offence against their high mightinesses of the Anti- Corn-law League. In reply to an invitation to attend an anti-corn-law tea party in the enlightened borough in question, Mr. Ainsworth declined, upon the grounds that " having given his- assent, in the last session of Parliament, to the new tariff, sanctioning the principle of protection to the manufacturing, the mining and the agricultural interests of this country, he feels— as every honest man must feel---" that he cannot, with any degree of justice, exclude the growers of corn from a participation in the advantages of similar protection." Mr. Ainsworth then proceeds to enumerate a few of the duties established by the tariff in question, as fol lows--viz " On cotton goods, 10 per cent ; linen ditto, 15 to 20 per cent; woollen ditto, 15 to 20 per cent ; silk ditto, 25 to 30 per cent ; china and porce lain, 15 to 20 per cent; manufactures of iron, steel, tin, lead, pewter, brass, and copper, 15 per cent; ladies' boots and shoes, 12s. per dozen; men's ditto, 28s. per dozen ;" &c. &c. And what, does the reader imagine, was the reply to this very reasonable plea of the honourable member ? How did the assembled leaguers of Bolton justify the withdrawal of all protection from the corn-grower, whilst it is retained by other branches of the national industry ? Precisely as, in a recent article upon this very subject, ,we anticipated they would do. They said, by the mouth of that very conceited Quaker, Mr. John Bright, "we, the cotton trade, want no protec tion. Do we not now sell our goods cheaper than any one else ? Protection, to us, is a mere shadow—a delusion." All very true. Mr. Bright and his fellow agitators belonging to the cotton trade want no pro tection; but what say the gentlemen engaged in the linen trade ? Mr. John Brooks, we rather imagine, gave a somewhat different account, in his celebrated colloquy with Lord Stanley at Lancaster, of the power of that trade to dispense with protection. What say the silk manufacturers ? The fact announced at a recent weekly meeting of the League, that the people of the silk manufacturing town of Coventry had only been induced to subscribe, in favour of the principle of free trade, and in aid of the League tribute, the sum of SEVEN SHILLINGS ! is a sufficient answer. And what say the other trades enumerated, many of whom are to be found in our own town ? Let their repre sentatives—many of them anti-monopoly men of the first water—supply the world with their views upon this important subject. Our working fellow-townsmen will watch their reply with some interest. We do not certainly attribute to the member for Bolton the possession of any inordinate share of the wisdOm which is to be found in the House of Com mons. We do, however, venture to predict, that the just and honourable course which he has marked out for himself, upon the subject of the corn-law, will be that of a very great majority of the friends of free trade in that house, whenever, during the ensuing session, the ultra views of the League are brought distinctly under consideration. Let the question once be dis cussed, in parliament or out of it, as between a fixed protective duty and no duty at all ; and the country will . he not a little amazed at the contemptible strength, in station, character, and ' , numbers, of the faction, which now swaggers so outrageously, and menaces so insolently with its vengeance all those who prefer the straightforwa r d path of honest independence to a slavish submission to its tyrannical behests ! LOCAL. NEWS 'MEET examination of the infants r Cornwallis-street, will tak nd that ti ngland Schoch, onday evening next, V. o'clock. t tlw Church of in the School-room, at hal CUSTOM-ROUSE R EV EN U E.—The receipts at the Custom house at this port for the year ending sth January instan amount to X 3,904,379, being a decrease, as compared with 1841, of £200,514, and with the preceding year of X 702,947. LORD SANDON.-Our excellent representative Lord San don arrived in Liverpool on Wednesday morning, and is at present on a visit at the residence of Charles Lawrence, Esq., Mosley Hill. His lordship dined with his Worship the Mayor and a select party last evening. His lordship will, we believe, remain in town for some days to come. INQUEST.—On Wednesday last, an inquest was held on view of the body of Elizabeth Doyle, a child six months old. The deceased, who was a healthy child, was found dead in her mother's arms in bed on Tuesday morning. The parents were sober quiet people. Mr. Leech, surgeon, saw the body, and being unable to account for death, made a post mortem examination, when it appeared the deceased had died of con vulsions. Verdict accordingly. "LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND ON THAT."—The sup porters of the Mechanics' Institution held a soiree on Friday last, when a Frenchman of the name of Sears, who is a teacher there, was permitted to sing the revolutionary com position called the Marseillaise Hymn, in character. The Collegiate Institution was formally opened the same day, when the beautiful and loyal hymn, beginning "Lord of Heaven and Earth and Ocean," was sang by the assembly to Haydn's sacred music of " The Hymn to the Emperor." Those who know the two compositions will not fail to discern in these apparently trivial circumstances, the difference be tween the principles of the two institutions. THE Sovrtztu.N HOSPITAL.—We, a few weeks ago, no ticed the Northern Hospital, showing, with reference to the number of patients, the great utility of that institution, par ticularly as regards acc'dents occurring at or about the docks at the north end of the town. We have now to commend no less strongly to the attention and support of our humane townsmen the sister instituf on—the Southern Hospital, a fine building, admirably designed and fitted up for the re ception of unfortunate persons in that quarter of the town, where casualties, &c., at the docks are proportionately numerous. We can state, from authority, that, though the hospital has not yet been fully open twelve months, (the anniversary being on the 18th of the present month) the number of patients admitted has already been no fewer than 624, including 119 cases of fracture and 43 cases of scalp wounds. The beautiful order of both establishments, and the skill, attention, and kindness of the medical attendants are beyond all praise. SUNDAY TRADING. Woods, of Chadwick- t the police-court yesterday, Wm treet, arip - eared to answer an informa tion a7aitlst him, laid by police-Weer No. 462, for pursuing his calling on Sunday. The information stated that on Sun day last, between eleven and twelve o'clock, he was standing opposite the defendant's house, when he saw the servant hand out of the window a halfpenny worth of sweet milk, for which a penny was handed in, and a halfpenny received out in change. He had previously cautioned the defendant not to sell on Sundays. Mr. Rushton said that according to the act of Charles 11 (under which this information was laid). no person was allowed to sell milk after nine o'clock in the morning, under a penalty of 55., which he had not the power to mitigate. We understand that a great number of in formations, laid by common informers, have been laid against car drivers and others, for following their usual occupations on Sunday ; and that the keepers of the Exchange, the Lyceum, and other newsrooms, also club-houses, and even the coachman of his Worship the Mayor, are amongst the number. EXTENSIVE ROBBLRY OF SUGAII..-At the police-court, on Wednesday and (the prisoners being remanded for further evidence) yesterday, four prisoners were brought up namely, Thomas Harrison, Sarah Harrison, his wife, Eliza beth Johnson, and Thomas Scott, on a charge of stealing a large quantity of sugar. It appeared that on Monday night last, about 16 cwt. of sugar was stolen from Dover's ware house in Edmund-street. From information received. Police-officer Grisenthwaite went to the shop of a person named Scott, provision dealer, Johnson-street. He stated his errand, and Scott told him that if he went into the cel lar, he would find a bag of sugar which two men brought into the shop, and, after quarreling with each other, had thrown there on the top of the coals, and had gone off and left it. The officer went below, and found the sugar as stated. From further information, the police went to a house in Beving ton, where they found a number of sugar bags burning on the fire. This was the house inhabited by the prisoner Harrison and his wife, who were accordingly taken into custody. The evidence went to implicate all the prisoners, with the excep tion of Elizabeth Johnson; who was discharged. The other three wero committed for trial. SHIPMASTERS' ASSOCIATION.—A meeting of this asso ciation was held on Tuesday, in the committee-rooms be longing to the society, for the purpose of concerting measures for releasing it from the difficulties in which it has been placed, and for establishing it upon a permanent footing for the future. The meeting was respectably attended, and Captain Oglevy was called to the chair. A resolution pro posed by Captain Bisset was carried unanimously, to the ef fect that the association be continued to the 31st March, and that a committee of shipmasters be appointed to consider the propriety, and to devise the best means of remodeling the association. Captain Bisset said he was still not without hopes that the association might yet go on prosper, and be come an honour to those who had fostered it into existence, and a source of great benefit and convenience to the ship masters of Liverpool. He thought if proper modifications were made in the existing system, and proper alterations in the subscriptions, the society would succeed. A committee was then formed to carry into effect the objects of Captain Bisset's resolution. The subscriptions up to the close of the meeting, including what was subscribed on the spot, exceeded £2OO. We shall be exceedingly sorry if through want of support this useful society is allowed to be broken up—it has already rendered essential service to the shipmasters of the port, and would if liberally assisted, afford further advantages to them. We shall be glad to hear that the labours of the committee are attended with that success which they ought to meet with. FOREIGN AID SOCIETY.—We perceive that a meeting of this society will be held at the Music-hall this evening, when its claims, which are not sufficiently recognised by the pub lic, will be brought before the protestant community of Liverpool through the able advocacy of the Rev. R. Burgess, rector of Chelsea, the Rev. Hugh 111`Neile, Major Thorpe, and others. Our best recommendation of the society's labours and objects will be to reprint the following extract, from the letter of the Rev. Edward Bickersteth, published at the close of the last month, recommendatory of a sermon, preached at Geneva by Mr. D'Aubigne, president of the Theological School there :—" It is peculiarly delightful to those who love the Saviour, to see a revival of reformation truth at Geneva. Amidst the awful prevalence of Neologian and other heretical errors in that city, God has graciously refreshed the hearts of his people, by raising up faithful men to bear witness to pure evangelical doctrine, and institutions have been formed there for diffusing that doctrine among those reformed churches which had so grievously fallen from the heavenly truths maintained by their protestant fore fathers. The Geneva Evangelical Society, with its able in structors, Gaussen, D'Aubigne, and others, has led the way in this blessed work, and deserves the warm sympathy and support of all who truly love oar Lord. The Foreign Aid Society was formed for the purpose of affording Christians in this country the opportunity of showing this sympathy. It is a society that in these days claims from all British Chris tians a far more efficient support than it has yet received. Not having yet been fully brought before true Christians, it has had little comparative support. I shall be glad if this notice of it bring it before the minds of Christians, and they become interested in the good doing among our brethren on the continent." CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.-It will be seen from an advertisement that a sermon will be preached in Christ Church, on Sunday next, in aid of the funds of this important society, and valuable auxiliary to the Church of England. The benefits conterrcd by the society upon the people of this country and the clergy are various ; and, we learn from the occasional papers issued by the committee, that a spiritual work of the most encouraging description is going on exten sively in many places where the society's aid is received. A clergyman, having charge of a manufacturing population of 7500 souls, and an income of only £9O, without any parsonage house, but aided with a grant for a curate, writes, that "his congregation is a satisfactory illustration of the benefits of church principles of subordination and order. Not one of the congregation took part in the late riots, and to a man they offered themselves to serve as constables for the protec tion of property." Another clergyman states that though his parish was under grievious apprehension during the same disturbances, and expected to he the most disturbed locality, no actual outbreak took place in the town itself, and adds, that since the society:s grant of a curate, there are now " three large congregations in the church on Sundays—a steady and increasing attendance at the weekly service—in stances continually occurring of persons attracted to the Sabbath worship through the instrumentality of cottage and school lectures—upwards of 500 children in the schools, and an attendance at the Lord's Supper, which h a s a t least quadrupled the number antecedent to the society aid." Ano ther incumbent of a mai:kliae:uring district informs the corn inittee, that he had infidelity, socialism, and dissent, in al most every form to contend with. Prior to the grant of a curate from the society, " there was no school in connection with the church in all the district, whilst there is now school of 184 children, and the congregations have much in creased." We might multiply such gratifying statement as these, if we thought them necessary; but, we must re mind our readers that the amount which Liverpool transmits to the parent society, is extremely disproportionate to the amount of either spiritual or pecuniary benefit conferred in return. NORTHERN HOSPITAL.—In extracting the following par ticulars from a paper on the treatment of Fractures of the Extremities, by Mr. Banner, surgeon of the Northern Hos pital, of this town, published in the present January number of the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Quarterly, the pub lic will have an opportunity of judging of the extraordinary results emanating from the efforts made by the founders of this valuable charity, and the subscribers the gratifi ca ti on of knowing that th e i r b enevo l ent a i d has been well bestowed, These extracts must conceive all those who take an interest in the relief of suffering humanity, even the most sceptical, of the great usefulness of this hospital. We the more parti cularly dra w a tt en ti on to t h e facts contained in Mr. Banners paper, as the supporters of the hospital contemplate making a great effort to obtain a fund sufficient for building a new Northern Hospital, which, we trust, will be a building wore thy so great a cause, and so situated as to be an ornament to Liverpool. In the erection of the medical institutions of this town, sufficient attention has not been paid to their site , each having been placed in back situations. Buildings well demanding conspicuous and prominent positions, from their beauty of design, are lost as public edifices. We sincerely hope this will not be the case in the erection of the conten 3, plated Northern Hospital. We are informed that the town council is again about to forward, by its liberality, the objects of charity, in bestowing land for the erection of this hospital.. In doi ng so , we h ope it will not be forgotten that a hospita l is a public huilding intended for future ages, as well as for the present,, and should form a conspicuous and handsome edifice worthy the flourishing town of Liverpool. To gain this end it should be stipulated by the council that the de sign be approved by them.—There have been admitted into the Northern Hospital in Leeds -street, from March 1834 to December 1841, eight hundred and nineteen cases of fracture of the long bones of the extremities, or. in other words, brt ) " ken limbs. Of these, 279 were of the arm, 479 of the leg , and 61 were fractures, complicated with other severe injuries. The general results were-279 cases •of fractures of the arm were cured ; 471 cases of fractures of the leg were cured ; 21 cases of fractures with severe complications, cured ; out t 2: 819 cases, 28 wed. There have been 47 limbs amputated resulting f rom th e f oregoing injuries ; of these 34 recover ed, 18 died; 11 were o f t h e arm, 32 were o f t h e leg, 3 were ea ses m. of double amputat i on, or where two l i m b s were remove d fro . , one person, and 1 was a partial amputation of the foot. amputations were on persons between the ages of 10 and 30s of these 17 recovered, 1 died : 15 were on persons betwe; the ages of 30 and 45 ; of these 9 recovered, 6 died ; 5 we on persons b e t ween t h e ages o f 45 an d 55 ; of these 4 were 6 cured, and 1 di e d : 8 were on persons b etween th e age s Of and 70; of these 5 were cured, 3 died. Of these cases, 4° were males, 2 were females. It must be remembered these cases are confined exclusively to the extremities ; tbef do not include other bones, which, if enumerated, 1 ' wc) tba o swell the catalogue to a great degree. We may say there is not a provincial hospital in the United King which ad m it s so grea t a num b er o f severe acc id en ts as o f Liverpool Northern Ho s pit a l ; and, with the exception b about two in th e me t ropo li s , it m i g ht b e ap pli e d ge nera P , throughout the kingdom.