The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-05 00:00:00

vanic exist, they c !to them Herald, of Feb. 8 ,tied stat s subject we gi must cont ecomes decided. The opinion ,anks of the south will again st aington, Del constar Ltly incr turns on tt le of the coun hich have been practised Tor t ity has been heightened b he final has no tks and r, trade of 01 J. S. 131 ,d its jute Le between 1E BORDER has been said upon the subject, the ided to admit M`Leod to bail ; and on, of Queent. leized M`Leod, and ner of the Ca image done to 3 great wro4 done in 01 endeavours to t alatiOn, and the r N. A. TIT, tt the S' Mo pears that, att Judges at Lo 27th instant, M Buell, of Lockport, )b of 200 c him hal nt to de I'Leoc Id this the to! :ement until his the responsibility a ► was wrong ; and if M`Leo aim for redress for the violen Llich m, It appea that the bail ar desirous of 1: ,on 'NfiLeod' him to riff, so that ti This act of thi same int ming ext aid to t. itions (not publ they rtfusA to do so, they might lischarged from th ion from the s How this las in a civil action has been se out upon t by the o IX P.M nts, ha ie funds ,s by tb liabilit DNEIt, Cashie ) been compelled to culation 1, dated ,eir decision is heir course will b I—to apply to tl )W off t ile suspt credit of the c —That t unequiva Boundary LATEST FRON h Decein 23d, in which A grand ball the commercial inhabi vention with I,r the Buenos had sailed Dupotet, who was much dissatisfied wit! the consul Barradere.—Baltimore Amer FROM MANILLA received in this cit! time of writing. A tremendous gz 26, and a Portugm tu l eil that she was aft The price cas experienced off e of indigo was .efused to bring to m low, solo small lot was There were only 700 b Courier, Feb.s .s to th on the bank 02 a c the following res Resolved, and county of Philadelphia n the present crisi egislature a repeal mposed for th e non-payment in specie, and thesu there at t rose strict rea lee to indt exception, le to putting ti lh the otherinsatutiou sent rec mend to tl- naltie 3 cations a of suc s of our own be vestment of their capitals into the chat ness and industry. Resolved,—That while the other States of the Union : with „hi g h we have extensive business connections, permit the terangeme t remains in a ure of the United States surprise, has temporarily the press neer taint of the southern banl ars to be that all tl The ha bned arc v at I' Harlem I K to prisi ain M`Le aim on a civi that is not a t But this{ 1 was leg order ; ,vern the litia at H aniilton, Upper ment's resent eir re- howeve m would be poi 1 vial of .ed upon 11 I'Leod Caroline for destroying the steam Lied to ho] ned near the gaol in )ssibility of the prisoner's esca aor be authorised to take e Queen of lied disputec 1 in the Maine LegiA ived.—That the Gov rot - 2i - , any money in the Trea resolutions into effect. I to the committee on 'o, whet ceived a —By the brig (Mean: on the , ers to the 1 01 )unutet, by on Ot the co its asse heavily Baltimore by affixing p terday, cans' :e bill passed ;pea of ti with toeks have agai millions ick hold, A boiza fidl for the former Mr. Webs rue bill for to lynch tli their property, unless they instantly s And as 'one of the bail had a very largo es s th nouncp to t resents t S. Ban and Ba day. It of popul judge, t rice die. , sident Van Buren, who eised very un Mr. Bell, T Lir/ ; Mr. iden, At- I aster G eiald of the actwally indicted, general impression that a Ame iceedings the mob threat rrendered stroy all t would the mot for leis ‘l'Leod. e quantity of valuable d and ready for the con- lat a surrender in due b then solemnly " Re- i 7 Richmond Whig s hat the banks in Petersburgh J. D. Whitesiaei, of Illinois, uence did certain c have in the change led to the fact that t United sta , and allow .sts of all as :en that t it object The failure of the larg I but little .splcton or t portect y.e d adjourned Le day - of trial 2 per Cent. closing at 25i per I per cent. ; Harlem 2 per Delaware and Hudson im- There was per . 1 in the ❑la by a large' rday even- flueneed by the events i allowed tt I States Bank, i in an e We arri d then adding the yearly exi the dividend committee in the late stateml dollars per annum. DISGRACE The opport effort of art we ee when complet ,een elect, in place of Dr. Ba ons of the latt( gentleman I et broker, nselves to be ave bolstered The consequence by the failure has embraced and all alike without the confidence , mica! manner to close at most but 4 to .ssets shown in its recent ase, as shown by t to be 3,500,000 L TRANSACTION.—On Saturday last, a was sold publicly by auction by her husband Pavement, in the cathedral city of York ! E OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.- orded us of inspecting the model Inployed, and a lave seen. The aching, we be- peak ,of Cr limbs of ti ing vein, t the fort ,oard the v the Be sufficient t went down hp.,i that that 1 pumps goi drove bad the cre cargo. 'I of an Italian orgai on the Dodder, the ob. on board - the Volant t lost, and for some tin pt afloat ,t her boa lightest men t they dashed before his v ze that but v to the nat expanded nostril, all indicate that it is the re pose which can in an instant ,be awakened to action.— the arched nec' full eye, t Lllorning Rena( )READFUL COLLISIG: —On S Volant •ed, near the Genf :e on ay evening for ident took place 1, and ti Newcastle, and Every e ude (Captain be was to the Tha lowing trom ill mitt The master ;0 : but by keeping th Lnd early in the inornin ming to London to discharge The extent c resent un- )n yesterday morning the body s - discovered near Ely's ,hockingly murdel tabs in the jugul s nearly The hands tad, and a deep cut found in his 1 )n the top of the head In • )(laded, as if i and his organ was lirot een about ars of age, about five ght, and wore a blue cap with a _ icket, corduroy trousers, and a vest. It is sup- I that a countryman of his own, with whom he had been the day, is the perpetrator of this g the commis- •e stilfinvolved in tt rson by whom it was corn greatest mystery ; and al nature are entertained knee has yet been pro guilt to any one. His , out seven o'clock ins of a 'veil ,t one of his companions. lac cured which can attach th body wa iscovered on Sur by a young woman who was passing it the time, and pre sented an appearance which denoted that his savage murderer had coolly and premeditately committed the act which de prived his wretched victim of life. The throat was nearly cut across ; two stabs appeared in the jugular, a large cut on the forehead ; two desperate wounds on the left ear, and a desperate cut on the top of the head. Within a foot of where he lay was found the organ which the unfortunate young man lad with him which y,.uninjured ; astict carried also about two yE no marks of blood were found ; but from him, on which it which he wore in- and containing ten or t ye pounds in s taken I carried c if, as if his murderer had money could be found. been previou Three of th os of the dece others who 1, ,e house with him, were on Sun- day morning taken into custody, and lodged in the police station at Rathfarnham, until the result of the inquest should Evenina Mail. aowq ~r'D!rbl MERSEY AND IRWELL VLATM lniversary of this brated by a t seen in c sion of the bloc mitted institution was cele- Stli of January, he watermen arty at Runcorn on the vhen about 45U persons as nd friends. ' their wives propriety ing,, of action' and tesl s conducted with the I decorum ; and it was truly gratifying ie religious privileges enjoyed by these Til the means, under the divine bles- between the lar in acquainted with the general character and habits °Ubarge men and boatmen. As usual, the treasurer presided (Mr. Edward Atherton Lingard, agent to the Old quay Company), a gentleman whose 'services in promoting the best interests of the men intrusted to his care cannot be too highly appre ciated. Six clergymen were present, and some of the most respectable inhabitants of Runcorn, including those kind la dies who managed 37 urns, put in requistion on the occasion. After tea, of which 70 gallons had been despatched, together with 1361h5. of good roast beef and 3001bs. of plain and cur- rant•loaves, the treasurer read the anr that the society consists of 230 members ; and that, after 'Laving liberally provided for the sick during the year, and harged the funeral expences of ten of its members, iy the hand of death, there remained in the hands ceeding £360. It was moved of the bank an i Kno ation So- ciety, ti ch Missia a latter p' the Church Pastoral les a stipend for the Curat 'rayer Book ar Om had been r dressed b bly inculca .rer and clergy present, who the principle eligion, at ail times i ly in the— .vi• riveted by each succeeding called 'forth by the heart- friends provedthati of understanding and k band attended. Appropriate r Christian ges during the conversation prevaile i.• icenes I sometimes occur at corina - tan in whose district th sere harmor , peace, chap. of the Ist was held, the party broke ful evening, prepared to go those who desire ever to " honour all men, ,pour the King." tendon having been up, having enjoyed a mu.._ forth to their allotted stations ao bear in mind the apostolic injunction — love the brotherhood, fear God, When we see such happy results frc paid to the moral and 5 u i m p r ovement of bargemen nd boatmen, we cannot but cordially wish success to the efforts now making in Staffordshire and other quarters for the benefit of this long neglected class ; and we do hope that something effectual win be done this ceacinn of parliament to put an end to Sunday labour 4111) .Cbbll./11 Us. ••••• on rivers and canals in every part of the kingdom, that a numerous and useful body of our countrymen may enjoy the privileges to which, as British subjects they are so justly entitled.—Woreester Journal. t nap Isnomir p into ,ident, and Mr. Tyl in had paid a )r the S QUA LL same class who are ft without simi the Sabbath is very striking to all a balar following fi gnn;lnft. that author York, an Le pay- s of tl mittee the United the whole asking law I eral Har- r. Critter 3eral LIVERPOOT lip. CLARKE, MR. VAN AMBURGH ,TON.—Fourth hird Week of Mr. 3 March 5, 1811, will be Fez for RIVALS Cap t. Al W. H. Bland Animals, called IGER with the whole of -his match 'lGEßS, &c., positively for light of Mr. G Mr. G. Vandenhof Miss Cleaver lie New and Original ssly to introduce Mr. Mr. Chaplin .ranageintitt of FOR THE BENEFIT OF Who will appear this Evening less Collection of LIONS, ' 4ST TIM. [ HIS Ares, L the lam it Lucius O'Trip rop.. Mrs. Clarke Lydia Languish To conclude with, for the last ti Drama, in TI Van Ambu Nets. v Col!cairn) of Traine MUNGO PAP OR, THE ARAB OF TH Karfa, the Arab of the dr. Gray 1:oby (iander ices of Admi ?s. 6d. ; Gallery, is Doors to be opened at Hal ace at Seven limited'nu to be made at the Box-office lORROW turday AND JULIEI VandenliofF; Juliet, 11 be opened daily, when Plac Tickets to be dis , the Tragedy of ROMEO komeo, Vr. Elton; Mereutio, Mr. G. W. H. Bland—To conclude with the new 1 Farce of the Mr. J. S. Balls NU 132 RBER Narciss The new Farce now performing with great success at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, called 808 SHORT, will shortly be produced, in which Mr. falls will sustain the .cter of Bob Short In addition to the list of auxiliaries already announced, an rangement has been made with the popular Performer, rury lane and Haymarket, who will commence an engagement for a limited number of nights immediately upon the close of the Haymarket Theatre, being his first appearance here since his return from America. MR .TRE, CHURCH-STREET T'S FAREWELL Mr. Van A Col. Laidly.. . Mr. Baker Mrs. Ba —Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d. ; Six, and the Performance in the twv t LIVER THE WAYLI present FRIDAY, the sth of March, the Perform ice will commence with a new Burletta, entitled THE I. Itzmyth, DIES' CLUB. .. ... .sill be added, the Burletta, written for Mrs Waylett, by B. Bernard, Esq., entitled THE FOUR SISTERS ! ! Caroline Merton Mrs. Waylett Diana Merton Mrs. Waylett!! Eugenia Merton MrF- Waylett! I Ellen Merton Mrs. To conclude with (altered and compressed as an afterpiece) To which Waylett ! !!! the Grand Spectacle of BEARD ; OR, FEMALE CURIOSITY. Fatima.. Mrs. Waylett. Irene.... Mrs. Raymond. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be had each day of . r. J. FOGG, at the Box Office, from 11 to 3. Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d.—Second Price, Half 2s. • Pit, ls. ; No Second Price to the Gal to he opened at Half-past Six. Performance BLUE past 8, iloxe, Doors to commence at Seven preeisely. Private Boxes, to contain Seven, to be had on application at the Theatre, Price Ll Is. jB. HEWITT, SHORT-RAND WRITER and PRINCIPAL • REPORTER to the Liverpool Standard, respectfully informs Professional Gentlemen and Parties interested, that he purposes to supply accurate VERBATIM REPORTS of the Trials in the Nisi Prius Court at the ensuing Assizes, on terms peculiarly moderate. References permitted to Gentlemen of the highest re- spectabilit Letters, addressed t o the STANDARD OFFICE, will receive WATERLOO COURSING MEETING NOW VIEW, FOR A FEW DAYS, IN THE COMMIT .00M 0 THE LYCEUM", BOLD-STREET, PHE PICTURE of the WATERLOO COURSING MEETING, painted by Mr. ANSDELL, containing Portraits of the Earl of Sefton, Earl Talbot, James Aspinall, Esq., Wm. Blundell, Esq., Daniel Neilson, Esq., James Rigby, Esq. ' Benjamin Jones, Esq., James Bourne, Esq., .Tames Ball. Esq., Jonathan William Eon, Esq., T. Reddish, r distin- guished individuals. OPEN FROM TEN TO FOU R O'CLOCK SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT, We feel extremely gratifiec I by the kind and flattering hick our talented cotemporary, t lie Dublin h bestowed upon the Sketche which have recently appeared in the columns of the The comment lation of the leading Irish Journal •is no trifling comp 1 we are proud to say, that the opinion of our cotemporary has been echoed b The seri liment y many of our friends on this side the channel, s will of course be continued, and we have no doubt will increase in interest and importance. The following is the paragraph from the Evening Mail:— " Our able cotemporary, the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, pis some admirable and graphic ohtlines of the ,arliamentary proceedings and parliamentary speak- ber, descriptive of the deba upon Lord Morpeth's hibited by those Members who took a part in the dis- cussion, we extract the following—those of Mr. Fre- Daniel O'Connell, The series is extremely well written—written, too, on the spot, and evidently the production of no ordinary pen." TO CORRESPONDENTS " A Constant Reader" may rest assured that we will not lose sight of the subject to which he refers ; but we cannot possibly find room for his letter. of in- sertirig his letter as an advertisement. - We have very reluctantly deferred, until Tuesday. the pearance of " Verses by a Non-resident Clergyman." `• A Protestant" will see, from the state of our columns, that we cannot find room for his highly important letter, but we expect to do so on Tuesday. Ebt Elbtrpoot .otanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1841 'The annual grant to the popish college of Maynooth is small in amount, but immensely large on the score of principle; and we feel therefore deeply indebted to Mr. Colquhoun for having prepared himself in the manner he has done to bring the question before Par liament and the country. The London Morning Chro nicle, acting on the principle invariably pursued by the factious journals and party in Ireland, to pervert every measure designed to restrain the corrupting influence of the popish priesthood into a supposed evidence of hostility to the people, argues that the proposition to abolish this grant is a clear proof of the " hatred" of the English towards Ireland. " In a nation like this," says that journal, " where riches and splendour are almost worshipped, those that grudge the Irish people the few thousand pounds that it costs to buy a few books. and a few potatoes for the youth intended for the national altar, are actuated by a spirit of the last degree of contumely and outrage." Now if the sum annually granted to Maynoc.th could be entered in the national ledger simply thus— " Item—To books and potatoes for sucking priests, £8,000," and there were nothing unconscientious in the expendi ture, there are few that would think it worth while to raise a controversy on the subject. But this is the sort of sham-fighting by which everything vitally im portant in Irish questions is gotten rid of. " Don't meddle with this, and don't meddle with that, lest you provoke the papists—a most irritable race. Don't vex them, or you can't imagine what will happen." But it is time to get rid of tyranny of this sort. . The more or less in the 3.daynooth grant is not at all the question ; .but whether, in point of principle, it would not be just as culpable to grant Bd. as £B,OOO in support of such an institution. The foundation of it was one of the early fruits of expediency, and it is time for the nation not only to repent of its folly, but to undo the act—so far as it may now he possible. Discontinuing the grant merely will indeed be but an inadequate atonement for the wrong done to the Irish people —not to speak of that which has been commit ted against the Most High—by the original device, and the sustentation of it for so many years; but, as an evidence of a right change of mind, it will be of the utmost value and importance. To grunt money for the support of a popish college would be a consistent act in a popish legislature; but for a Protestant parliament and Protestant nation to grant it, is a gross and palpable dereliction of princi - How can we complain of the poor Irish papist who forswears himself in courts of justice, shoots:Pro- testant parsons or landlords, or takes up the arms of ;ainst his Sovereign, whilst lie believes thEtt Protestants are heretics, in persecuting whom he does God service, and is persuaded that in taking a false oath, provided it be for the good of his church, he commits no perjury whatever; how can we complain, we say, of the poor and ignorant doing all this, when the priests teach them so, and it is we who teach the priests, or pay for their schooling at Maynooth Col lege, which is the same thing ? Nor do we this in ig norance; for we are, or ought , to be perfectly - aware, that thus it is that the priests must instruct their fol- .ebellion )fticor9 of tli Pope; unholy papist then say to tig, am I taught by my priest, and I am warranted in inferring that you ar lat college whe rove of his instruction, for a all our priests are much more than .nd adv of .our church and you endow ti nurse oothing to his own mind IN ay, li justly infer nt degree, to the interest nation But it is was that which f time to offer any demonstration of perceptib!e. of principle, the On the ground Maynooth grant is ut terly indefensi.- ble; and as we hold tha't what is wrong can never be expedient, so we do certainly aver that thi , fully as in-expedient as it is unprincipled. 'ant is The original concession was made under the suppo sition that if the popish priests were educated at home instead of abroad, the government, by catching them young, and training them under its own eye, might mitigate their ferocity, obtain some control over them, instil into their savage breasts some small modicum of respect or regard for British institutions; but how perfectly fallacious was the idea! The :'./laynooth-bred priests have turned out ten tim right who indulgeC their native dispositions s more savage and in- in so delusive a dream concerning We can well believe that it was from no love to popery, or to its priesthood, that s founded It was felt, doubtless, that popery was the master evil of Ireland, and the found ers most likely chose this method as one to mitigate it, ing that in pursuing the shadow, they might endanger the substantial, and that in seeking to not consid, conciliate, they were rendering the. nation responsible for nourishing and sustaining the monster itself, whose very existence was its greatest infliction There is nothing in the ostensible object of the meet ing convened by *the MAYOR for Monday next, " to take into consideration the restrictions and prohibitions of our commercial code, and .to determine on all pro• per measures for obtaining such alterations therein, as may appear expedient," that necesAarily involves any peculiar views or feeling of party. We adverted to this topic briefly in our last number, but as the subject is one of very great moment and interest to all classes, we may be excused for recurring to it in our present. We have said that the removal of restrictions in our commercial code is a matter in which all parties are equally concerned—so far as that removal may be really useful and beneficial to the community—and we are nut disposed to allow to, or assume for, any parti cular class a monopoly in a proper, national, and pa triotic feeling for the prosperity of British commerce and manufactures. It is easy to raise a cry for free trade, and do a tolerable share of business in that vo cation, whilst for any practical purpose the clamourers might as well keep silent, or, rather, had much better remain so. The cry is in general popular, and com mends to popularity. It promises low prices and in creased industry. It holds out expectations of novelty and change—is experimental and exciting, and there fore has on its side all that' is flattering and attractive. But though the principle is excellent, the theory admi rable, yet when we come to carry it out into practice, we find that it has so many difficulties to encounter, that it can be acted on only to a limited extent. Much circumspection is especially required in applying it in a country where commercial and financial relations are so complicated as they are in ours. We grant that popular feeling may be legitimately called into exercise on questions in which the principle is involved; but it is unwise on the part of statesmen to foment a mania' of this description, and still worse that they should be compelled to give way, contrary to their better judgment, before its impulse. We should remember the Penny Post—aye. It is a fresh and me morable example to cool our ardour and assist our judgment. We had, in that instance, free trade—in letters, the removal of restrictions, and popular solicita tion combined in the happiest amalgamation. The theory was beautiful : correspondence was to be cheap, and the revenue was not to suffer. " Cheap, uniform, and productive"—that was' the thing; and everybody exclaimed that if " Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's, aid," it was something little short of inspira tion which suggested to Mr. Rowland Hill the idea of sending them through the postoffice for a penny. The project was carried, as it were, by storm; but what has been the consequence to the revenue Why the loss of upwards of one million sterling per annum —a loss by no means trifling at any time, but really serious and important at a time when Whig management has brought our annual expenditure so much beyond in come. Hence the inference is plain, that pop..dar feel ing is no safe guide in these matters. The clamour for free trade in corn is another tolera bly clear proof that commercial regulation is not ex actly an affair to be entrusted to the collective wisdom of popular assemblies. When aldermen and town councillors broach such monstrous doctrines on this head, nothing that comes from factory operatives, or the corn•law league, ought to give us the least surprise. In the course of last week we have had the advantage of hearing that profound statesman and prodigious orator, Sir Joshua Walmsley, expatiating on this topic as chairman of the Tradesmen's Reform Association; and, as he professed to base his arguments on scrip tural grounds, we were the more struck by the nice regard to truth and logic which he evinced in raising his superstructure. He told the associated tradesmen " that they saw the common necessaries of life—the food of man—the bread, the beef, the pork, the coffee, the sugar, all the most necessary commodities of life, denied admittance into the country, unless at famine prices. And they saw those who were the producers of wealth, upon whom the rich and affluent depended for all their comforts, sweating and toiling all day, and condemned to eat the . • lowest food produced." Under the vehement persuasion of such a spokesman, we make no doubt that the auditory saw all this at the moment in their " mind's eye," and would have seen almost anything with the aid of a triflng modicum of that potent conjurer which sometimes makes men "see double," had the eloquent chairman thought proper to lay any further contribution on their optical powers; but the statement is nevertheless a most reckless and unwarrantable exaggeration. He next proceeded to quote Scripture to his purpose :--" It was written in the Divine law, He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him;' and a learned and pious divine, of the present day, had added, Yea, and God shall curse him too, both in time and eternity.' " At this there were vehement " cheers," and the speaker rioter' doubtless, in all the In This Y ury of applause "learned and pious divine" must, we should think, have for gotten the Scripture which says, " bless, and curse not at all events his amen to the saying of the wise king, and the entire quotation, is utterly destitute of. the smallest relation to a protecting duty upon corn " He that withholdeth corn"—that is the letter; but the spirit of the passage is, " lie iat shutteth it up unnecessarily-- . he that denieth it altogether, ," and it is put in opposition, to the remainder of the sentence— " but bleSsing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it." Having set his oratorship right in this little mat ter, we shall now give the conclusion of his argument, which will show in what an excellent and honest spirit the whole was conceived : " But what said the landed ari tocracy 7 You shall buy your corn from our estates, and at our own prices ; and, not content with all the luxuries they now enjoy, they deprive the poor man of the common necessaries of life, by denying him that which is the unalienable right of every man—the free exchange of his manual productions for as much food as he can eat. (Hear, hear.) It was to change such laws as these they were united, and it was a source of regret to him that the association was not bettersupported, in the manner, it formerly was." Lord Melbourne, we h ave no doubt, would say of this gentleman--" Though he's my friend, I must te ll you—but softly, the truth is, he's a little touched in his upper story; he has been taken with ti law fever, and is labouring u nder its usual effects But if the chairman of these reformers of our corn e an ti•corn- mercial code --these wholesale reducers of duties on imports—Was th us extr avapilt, it is natural to suppose that the ordinary members of the association were still more rapid; and the fact was just so. The chairman only insinuated dislike; but others, taking the cue from his worship, spoke out plainly; as for instance Mr. Charles Holland, in the following passage " He would advise their aristocratic opponents not to draw the attention of the people to the tenure by which they hold their lands. (Hear, hear.) If they denied the people the free right of exchanging their labour, let the people ask then by what right do you hold your lands ?' by what parchment title is it ? how did you obtain this light ? whence came the Norman conqueror, giving ,011, and they would find th, mdition ou of the 1 supply all the military force of The country, and that they I were bound to find all the revenues and taxes by which the I state is supported. It would be found that there is no pre- scriptive rights ALDERMAN SHEII after the eloquent addre: remained I tile for him to say next rc se, and declared ' However, the mouse in;; a one in all hat precectecl it on the however, to anato came forth, and it was just respect We shall not stor We have merely adverted to the - business in order to show how utterly unfit such persons would be to u dertake the reform of our commercial code, and to ;uggest a caution to those who may be willing, and very properly so, to support a change in our exist tariff, but entertain a determined hostility to all such extreme—such revolutionary and destructive bouleverse- ments, as these self-styled reformers seek to effect There are some whose favourite policy seems to be to separate the different classes of society, and to per suade them that they have different interests. They cry, " Success to commerce and manufactures," but "God speed the plough" sticks in their throat, and they never can utter it. With - such reformers we have no sympathy ; we pray, rather, a good deliverance out of their hands. It would be well if sensible and moderate men would come forward, not for the purpose of thwarting the movement now likely to be commenced for the revisal of our commercial system, but for the purpose of taking it out of the hands of these extreme gentlemen, and giving it a safe and proper direction. It is rarely that an increase of the estimates affords matter of congratulation or is likely to prove agreeable intelligence to the country ; yet we pretend to say, that the augmentation of the navy estimates for this year by the sum of £729,623, and th proposal to strengthen the service with an accession of 5,835 additional sea men, will be well re'eived throughout the kingdom. Ministers have too long most shamefully neglected ,the glorious wooden walls of Old England ; and while we may regret that there should be a cause for this in creased expenditure, we must rejoice that the govern ment of the country has been at length roused to a proper sense of the necessity of setting the nation's right arm at liberty, and preserving it, in a suitable state of health, strength, and vigour. The committal of Lord Morpeth's registration bill has been postponed to the , 23d of April. The bubble could keep no longer than Monday last, and then it burst, Lord John Russell having kindly undertaken the task of communicating to the house that the sequel of the piece (farce we should say) was put off till after Easter —or, perhaps, the Greek Kalends. Bravo, Lord John ! A Capital manager, thou certainly art, of as prime a set of jugglers as ever exhibited. But it is their "•vocation ;" and they reckon probably with the immortal "fat knight," that it is no dishonour to them to " labour in their vocation." Certes, there is no trick too mean, no strategy too contemptible for them to resort to, if it only promise the sweets of yet another ,quarter day. What a confession have they not made, in the entire of this business, that Lord Stanley's was a bill which they could not resist at all by fair means. Of this fact they learned enough last lession, and still worse were their prospects in this, if no ingenious de vice could be hit upon to get rid of that measure by a side-wind. For this purpose, and this only, Lord Morpeth's bill was concocted, and having answered its obstructive end, it is now thrown by " till after Easter." Well, now, as Sam Slick would say, "aynt they clever cbaps, these same ministers—capital hands for doing it on the sly?" With regard to this particular feat, it is ,remarked that they perform it in a more finished style than others, inasmuch as they have been practising it a good while. It was first brought out in the affair of the Irish tithe bill, when they came in upon a clause of "appropriation," which they newer bad the slightest hope or expectation of carrying. So with their £5 franchise bill. It was never meant to be passed ; it was only designed to obstruct a good mea sure, and "keep out the Tories." The Irish agitator, depend upon it, will make no complaint of this delay; it is highly probable that the propositidn, nay the en tire ruse, originated with him. Ministerial patronage the master -key to all this :worthy associate's move- ments. Threaten him with turning out the Whigs, and the consequent loss of ranch advantage to himself, and you will have him singing out for more enfran chisement, more church property, more everything, till he get his dear ministerial friends out of their hobble. Secure him in that point and you will find him bearing his disappointment as to all other objects with perfect complacency. You might set all his cries to the one tune of " Keep out the Tories." What an invaluable support to the Melbourne ministry !' Surely they only exist by his permission, and would perish in an instant beneath his frown. We have only time to refer our readers to the report of the speeches delivered on Wednesday evening against the propos€d abstraction of the ecclesiastical revenues of North Wales. The remarks of the Rev. R. Davies and the Rev. D. James are especially worthy of perusal and most serious consideration. These gentlemen prove, by the most irrefragable arguments, the impolicy and inexpediency of reducing the number of Bishops in the Principality, as well as the crying evil of attempt ing to abstract any of the revenues from a church, the livings of which, as clearly established by the respec tive speakers, are already disgracefully impoverished. But we shall have other opportunities of adverting to this subject. LOCAL NEWS. PORTRAIT OF THE Rv.v. HUGH IVPNEILE.—A very ad mirable portrait, in water colours, of the Rev. Hugh M`Neile; is now on view at Mr. Crisp's office in Church-street. It is by Mr. A. Robertson. The reverend gentleman is repre sented standing at the altar, in the act of reading the Com munion Service. The artist has most appropriately appended a portion of the second commandment as his inscription, " Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them." Those who have heard the reverend gentleman utter the words in the attitude in which he is represented, will be at once struck with the success of the artist in his attempt to delineate the features of Mr. M'lsieile at the period when he is called upon to read this portion of the communion. The like ness amounts to identity, and is decidedly the best that has been yet taken, as it conveys at once an impression of the reverend gentleman's commanding figure and very intellec tual countenance. The robes are most tastefully and grace fully put on. Taken altogether, it is a very pleasing, clever, and excellent likeness. As an engraving will be executed from this drawing, the rev. gentleman's friends and admirers may have an opportunity of becoming possessors of a fac simile of it. If the engraver does his work well, he will pro duce an invaluable work of art. REV. HUGU STOWELL.—This able and intrepid divine preached two sermons on Sunday last, in St. Andrew's Church, on behalf of the day and Sunday schools connected with the church. His evening's sermon was replete with wisdom, and considered by those who heard it to be a mas ter-piece of eloquence. The Church was densely crowded, and a great number of dissenters were present. The collec tions amounted to the handsome sum of £l2O. LECTURE TO THE JEWS.—We understand that a sermon will be preached this evening, in St. Simon's Church, Sir Thomas-buildings, by the Rev. H. S. Joseph, when two members of the house of Israel will be baptised. NEW Music.—Mr. J. Davies, whose performances on the Rock Harmonicmi have delighted and pleased every body, has just published a set of very capital quadrilles, and a fine march.. The former he has dedicated to Mrs. Robertson Gladstone, the latter to Cresswell Cresswell, Esq., M: P. As Mr. Davies has frequently performed the march on the Harmonicon, in conjunction with Mr. Richardson's sons, it must be familiar to all. We know it has been much admired. Both compositions do Mr. J. Davies very great credit, and we warmly recommend them to notice. MRS. WAYLETT'S BENEFIT, LIVER THEATRE.—The Earl of Sefton is a true patron of the drama : he always comes forward to support talent and ability. We perceive he has been kind enough to patronise Mrs. Waylett's benefit, to-night, at the Liver. A very full and fashionable house may be anticipated, as his lordship brings a large party with him. To THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.---We are sorry to find so many members of the medical profession object to our noticing Mr. Cronin's successful treatment for deafness. This gentleman has done many of our friends so much be nefit; that we feel assured when his practice is well known, it will be the only one practised in this country. Mr. C.'s ad vertisement is liberal, and well deserves attention. THE Sour KITCHENS. -- It will be a source of satisfaction to the public, as indicating a diminution of the privation and suffering lately so plevalent in the town, to know, that the operations of the soup establishments will shortly be brought to a close. We congratulate the gentlemen who have had the management of these ablishments upon the appro ing termination of their labours, and upon the large amount of seasonable relief which they have been instrumental in ad ministering to the poorer classes of our fellow_townsmen during the late severe winter. By the laudable generosity with which the public responded to the call upon their hu man:: and charitable sympathies, the amount of soup supplied has not only been fully adequate to the demand, but a balance of the subscription remains in hand, sufficient, it is believed, to meet the necessities of the two next seasons, should no extraordinary or protracted rigidness of the weather re quire an unusual amount of this description of aid. The account of soup delivered at the several shdps, from their commencement up to Saturday last, is as follows : GALLS. Gill-street, opened on the 30th of December last . 21,983 Flint-street Pickop-street ~- 4th of Jan uary last ..38,528 Total 22,631 TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS _1 adjourned quarterly meeting of the Council, lso the usuarmonthly meeting, was held on Wed [even o'clock, in the Council Chamber, To wn- .1 the proceedings, resolutions, and n who formed 'he second which was nesday, at el hall. The TOWN-CLERK r 'finance Committee I whether the gent" ► to Lond 1 who rec town, adverted to the circumstance of ,tly had an interview ing the health of the he was rather interested in the question, because stood it was in contemp!ation to attach a burial church at Spekelands, in his neighbourhood. Lt when the was not contemplated that a buria ould not ha' burial-places being: ? lie confessed hat he under ground to a He believed Lurch uilding'of , the - . . lould be attached , a it was contemplated, it was concealed from those :erested themselves in the undertaking, else they Every one knew how unpleasant subscribed ---.... in populous districts situated in the vicinity of burial grounds, and as 'Windsor would be shortly as densely populated as Liverpool, he ;thought it ought to be the duty of the corporation to interest themselves in what was likely to conduce to the welfare of its inhabitants. _ _ Mr. C did . not co , in reply to the question, said that the com ve that their powers extended to the consequently no interrogatories were put upon the subject. There was no clause in the Marquis of Normanby's bill which at all adverted to burial-grounds, and therefore no question was asked of his lordship respecting them. He (Mr. Case) thought be might be able to give a better explanation after the report on the health of the town had been read, by which the council would be put in posses- I surveyor touching .quis of No - rmanby's bill sion of a report from the commit the effect that the clauses in thd M would produce. Mr. EARLE said, his question had no reference to tl clauses of the bill alluded to by Mr. Case. His questior simply was, whether any measures had been taken on the subject of the increase of burial;grounds in such a populous town as Liverpool, and, if not, he would move that the Fi nance Committee take it into consideration. The MAYOR. said that no measures had been taken on'the subject. Mr. EARLE repeated that it was important something should be done to prevent the establishment of such places in populous neighbourhoods, and was strongly inclined to move that the attention of .the Finance Committee be called to it. Mr. H. HORN BY thought it would be more desirable to move any such instruction to the Health Committee, after the proceedings of that committee had been read. Mr. SHEIL thought Mr. Earle's .the preferable plan, be cause the Finance Committee had seet a deputation to Lon don. It an instruction of the kind to the Health Committee, who had, not sent forward any deputation, were moved, the Council might only be involving, themselves in the expenses of another deputation. Mr. H. HouNn7i said his reason for wishing to see the in struction moved to the Health Committee, was solely because the subject of the health of the town came more particularly under their cognizance. Mr. EARLE inquired the title of Lord Normanby's bill. Mr. HORNBY replied, that it was generally called the drainage bill. Mr. GEORGE HOLT suggested, as the matter was of con siderable hnportance; and entitled to full consideration, that the proceedings be confirmed, andthat the subject introduced by Mr. Earle be brought ferward at the next meeting of Council. In the meantime, members would have ample time afforded them for arriving et a full knowledge of the sub ject. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE did not consider that the decision of the question lay between the Council and the House` of Commons, because no clause contained. Lord Normanby's bill would prevent parties from . attaching burial-grounds to churches, if they thought proper so to do. In his opinion , they ought to lay the matter before the bishop, or, in the meantime, refer it to the Health Committee. Mr. Ey/iris took that opportunity of expressing his dis sent, at once, from Mr. Lawrence's proposition of referring the Council here and there on the subject of local affairs. They ought to go to the bishop, forsooth ! when the fact was that the present was an affair that concerned the locality, and the bishop ought not to be thought of on any occasion of the kind. He hoped the deputation would protest against what is generally called legislation, because he had no idea that a great town like Liverpool should be put into the same category with Ormskirk and Prescot. The object of the municipal reform bill was to create local government, and if that bill were adhered to, everything would be left to local government. Mr. JOHN HOLMES said; that as the commissioners sitting in London were likely to be appointed under Lord Norman by's bill, for the management of local affairs in the provincial towns, steps had been taken by the Finance Committee to prevent such commissioners from being appointed ; and he believed he might say that they had succeded in preventing any commissioners sitting in London from interfering. Mr. CASE had every reason to believe that the system of centralisation, or the management of the affairs of Liverpool by commissioners sitting in London, would be abandoned. (Hear.) Sir J. WALMSLEY understood it to be the intention of the lords to denude the bill in some respects, by taking the sca venging department out of the hands that held it at present, and giving it to. the highwaymen., Mr. YATES, having discovered, by the reading of the finance proceedings, that a salary was to be paid to a Mr. Jones, an additional clerk to the magistrates' clerks, inquired why such salary should be paid by the council ? The TOWN-CLERK replied. Vrider the municipal corpora tions act'the magistrates' clerks were entitled to certain fee, , , but afterwards-they bad to be paid by fixed salarie , fixed salaries left a surplus that came into the out of which a charitable fund of 4,150 per annum Was fort. ed, disposable by the magistrates of the borough. It followet therefore that the council had not only to pay the clerks, bo also such expenses as were incidental to their office- "- the consideration of the question as to whet claimed by them was necessary, and the arnonnt to be paid for such assistance proper; came before the council, inasmuch as the council was interested in the net surplus of the office ; but the appointment of such clerks did - not , rest with the council 3rough fund, ther the assistan vv The MAYOR here informed the council that owing to the absence from duty of the deputy town-clerk, he had appointed Mr. Falcon to perform the neceusary duty at the sessions now being holden, and that an arrangement was made with that person on..terms which the town-clerk considered rea sonable. HORNBY moved that t from £l2O to -.-C salary of Mr. Joshua under the treasurer, be inerea. Ir. BARCLAY seconded the motion.—Carried unani- Mr. H. HORNBY moved that Mr. James Abbot, clerk to the clerk of committees, have his salary raised from £l5O to £250 per annum. Mr. ROBINSON moved that Mr. Abbot's salarybe increased only by £5O per annum.. Mr. EVANS seconded the motion. Sir J. Walmsley, Mr. Hamby, Mr. John Smith, Mr. W. Earle, and Mr. Platt supported the original motion, and with the town-clerk, spoke in high terms of Mr. Abbot's services, adducing Mr. Okill's testimony in his favour, that genile man having declared that be could not possibly do without Mr. Abbot's assistance. Mr. Sheil, Mr. M`Kee, Mr. Proctor, and Mr. Blackburn supported the amendment. The result of the division was — For the amendment Against it --11 - Majority The original motion was carried THE TOWN DUES. Upon the motion of Mr. H. Hornby, the question of ap pointing a clerk to detect the many frauds that are being com mitted in the payment of the town dues, was referred to the Finance Committee. THE WATCH COMMITTEE The proceedings:reSOliitiOns, - Qrei;Olts of the Watch Committee were next read, amongst which was the follow- REPORT The Watch Committee ber to lay before the council the criminal and other police returns for the year 1840. Although the criminal classes have not in the aggregate decreased during the past year in the same ratio as in 1839, there has been a considerable diminution in the number of individuals in custody more than once, and of course a cor responding decrease in the number of hardened offenders. Number of individuals in custody for felony, as suspicions characters, &c.—ln 1840, 4893; in 1839, 5005. In 1840 the convictions, to the whole number of prisoners in custody, were forty-four per cent. ; and in 1839, fifty-one • per cent. In the class of juvenile thieves there is a decrease—in 1840, the number known to the police was 139 ; in 1839, 171. The number of burglaries and housebreakings in 1840 was 233 ; and in 1839, 249. The number of felons apprehended in the act by the police in 1840 was 136 ; and in 1839, 132. The total number of offences prevented by the police in 1840 was 212; and in 1839, 237 The number of prisoners apprehended by the police sub sequent to the commission of the offence, from a description of their persons was, in 1840, 1507 ; and in 1839, 1567. The following is a comparative summary of the criminal returns for the last two years :—ln custody hi 1840, 17,522 ; in 1839, 18,074. Committed in 1840, 7504 ; in 1839, 9213. Discharged in 1840, 10,018 ; in 1839, 8861. The following gives a summary of offences against the bye laws :—Number of offences in 1840, 4903—Penalty, £958 Bs. Gd. Ditto in 1839, 3282—Penalty, £BB2 13s. 6d. • The number of fires in 1340 was 129 ; and in 1839, 103. The amount of property lost in 1840 was £6128 55..; and in 1839, £8530 9s. gd. _ _ The amount of property saved under the roof of the build ing or buildings on fire was, in 1840, £161,125 ; and in 1839, £159,278 9s. 6d. The number of brothels was, in 1840, 568 ; and in 1839, 591. During the past year, 12 disorderly houses were closed in consequence of being indicted, and 84 by removals of the parties, reformation, transportation, and death—in all, 156. There were, however, 133 houses of this description opened, leaving a decrease in the number of brothels of 23. TheThuniber of hotises Where prostitutes lodge was, in 1810, 209 ; and 1839, 184. ,During the past year 28 were closed, and 43 new ones opened. The number of prostitutes inhabiting both descriptions of houses was, in 1840, 2489 • and in 1839,.2 104 . JOSHUA WALMSLEY, Chairman .sir J. WALMSLEY laid on the table certain returns con nected with the Police-office, which he said were compiled with great care and accuracy. and moved that the tabular forms, &c., contained in them be printed, and a copy sent to each member of the Council, the magistrates, and the secre tary for the home department.—Ordered. • THE BILLET-MASTER. Sir J. WALMSLEY moved the confirmation of Mr. Coin nj..sioner Dowling as billet-master, without any further cm°- . FURTHER INCREASE OF SAI Sir J. WALMSLEY rose again, and moved that the salary of Mr. John Hewitt, foreman to the fire police establishment, be increased from £lOO to £l2O. Mr. THORNHILL seconded the motion.—Carried unani. mously. Sir J. IVALmsLEY nest moved that the salary of Mr. W m , M'Fadzen, superintendent of scavengers, be increased by the sum of X3I. Mr. SLATER seconded the motion. The proceedings of the Improvement, _ Education, (from which Mr. Alderman Earie retire,) Church Expenditure, and Courts of L, quests Committees, were next read and confirmed —Carried unanimous! arkets, Town---h-a-11 as allowed v and Re LIE PARKS COMMITTEF Mr. SANDBA' moved the confirmation of the proceedings, ports of the Parks Committee. I4lr.Ev4l;ssald if he wanted any additional reason for opposing the project of erecting parks, it was to be found in the reports which had just been, read; by whi c h it appeare d that the quantity of l a nd inten ded for the purpose was cut up into detachments; that it was intersected by Lodge-lane, and that it wanted consolidation, lie would wish that, once for all, this question would come on for discussion, and that the "'mks Committee should not b e entering into communi cations with Lord Sefton, which, he was convinced, could ne ver end in any real business. They had laid out £4OO no w, and he hoped that that would be the first and last of their expenditure; for the subject ought really to be pur into a shape in which it could come once for all before the com mittee.,_ Mr..toliN HOLMES agreed in the sentiments given utter ance to by Mr. Evans, knowing well that they could not pay even the interest o n th e sum required without a borough rate. Mr. SANDBAoti thought it unfair of Mr. Evans to Burk .pend:t td. done. He (Mr. 5;) wished the )n the subject until the ed to thew. The en submitt I the fullest information would be laid before the w time, and in the interim he again hoped they spend their judgments. said the council would not •be corn .; the proceedings at present in TOWN -CLER by pass iC HOLMES thoug ;ht the remarks made by Mr, the Parks Committee had been by the council, it was unfair to pass any ley had to propose pon them without first learning The suggestion made by Mr. ly, that the council ought hem. :ry fair one. is untiltheplans were befo pf the details of which ti Hear, hear.) r. JORDAN thought tile di ;sion very uncalled for The proceedings of committee were then confirmed THE HEALTH CO MITTEE The proceedings, resolutions, and directions of the Health Committee were next read, and the report of the committee in reference to Lord Normanby's bill, intituled " An act for the better drainage and improvement of buildings in large towns and villages," confirmed. JEWISH DISABILITIES Mr. EVANS moved the following resolution :—That there are in the borough of Liverpool many inhabitants of the Jew ish persuasion ; that many of them are natives of the town, and are persons of property and consideration here, who, as on of their property as by the respectability of well by r their characters and their intelligence, are in all respects qualified and entitled to possess all the rights of citizens : that the council have heard with great satisfaction that there is a bill before parliament to enact " That it shall be lawful for persons professing the Jewish religion to subscribe the declaration contained in an act of the first year of her _present Majesty, intituled, " An act for the relief of Quakers," &c., provided always, that in making such declaration as afore said, such person shall declare that he professes the Jewish religion : that the council at anxious to declare their hearty concurrence in the wise and liberal views evinced by the ind that petitions be therefore presented nt, praying that this bill may pass present measure : to both houses of F into a law Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE seconded the motion, in v hich he concurrence —Carried unanimously On the motion of Sir JOSHUA WALAISLEY, it was resolved that the Mayor be empowered to take the necessary prelimi nary proceedings preparatory to laying a rate of 2d. one hundred and seventy-nine thousandths of a penny in the pound on the old borough and out townships. The council then adjourned. MEETING Of THE DOCK COMMITTEE The weekly meeting of the Dock Committee was held yes. There were present Messrs. Benn, Holmes, Smith, ellor, Booth, Bulley, Chapman, Aiken, Evans, G. He Ripley, Mr. BEN presided The Sub-committee reported that two cases of fraud had been proved against Mrs. Smith, the wife of the weigher of the Clarence Dock machine, and it was unanimously resolved should be removed from the situation ; the Dock e of censu In £5O, rates and that th, Surveyor to send some one to take charge of the machine till a person was appointed. The appointment of a successor, and th abject of th, laries, was ref erred to the Finance Committ A le ,er was read from the Pilots' Committee, recommend ing an additional buoy to be placed between the two now on Taylor's Bank, the distanze between them being too great ; and the Marine Surveyor having expressed his opinion that it would do no harm, but might do much good, it was or dered. The SECRETARY read the followinz letter from the Tele- raph-offiee, relative arryatt's code of signals " Telegraph-office,2nd March, 1841. " SIR,—In the last edition of Marryatt's Code of Signals,' the arrangement of vessels' numbers, &c., is so different to the preceding editions, that not one vessel in the edition for the year 1841 has the same numbers opposite to their names as they have in former additions, wherefore it is almost an impossibility to report vessels correctly. For in stance, on the 27th ult. we received, off Holyhead, out ward bound, by part 2nd, Marryatt's Code, No. 7483,' Can ton packet, 8.8., at 9 30, A. M. ; and it was reported to the several newsrooms as above, but on inquiry it turned out, that no such vessel as Canton packet' had sailed at all from Liverpool, wherefore I relerred to Marryatt's new edition, and there in part 3rd, opposite to No. 7483, was ` Lydia,' which vessel is supposed to be the right one, as a brig of that name sailed hence on the 25th ult. Although we may sometimes guess the right name when outward bound, we can very seldom when inward ; so we are at a loss how to proceed, whether when we receive a vessel's number off Holyhead, or any other station, they are to be reported by the new or the old edition, or by both; or to report the number only without any name attached, which to the public generally would. be worse than useless. I am sorry to say that_ latterly the signals are forwarded i❑ a very slow and —1 remain, sir, your most obedient servant, " G. JOHNSON." cat eless manner " Lieut. Lord, R.N., Marine Surveyor. --- The MARINE SURVEYOR, the CHAIRMAN, Mr. RIPLEY, Mr. MELLOR, Mr. EVANS, Mr. TOBIN, and Mr. CuArmAN, pointed out the inconveniences which would arise from the changes made in the arrangement of vessels' numbers, &c. ; and eventually the matter was referred to the Marine 6ub-coni hey would attend to it imme- mittee, with a r aest that Ir. CHAPMAN then brought forward the following mo n of the committee to the reduc ;6, stated to be about 38i per tion of the doc affording great relief on goods, in its operation on tonnage, to the new mode of ny beiiefic supposed. in a great measu measuring haNring'subscquintly come into active operation, and to move that the subject be referred to the Finance Com mittee, to report upon the best mode of so apportioning the reduction as to place t rates of tonnage and goods on the ame relative footing, with respect to each other, as shown prior to 1838 ; such reduction, however, not to take place until the passing of the new Dock Bill." In support of this motion Mr. Chapman entered into a variety of details. Mr. Arias opposed the proposition being relet rei on the ground of the great number of public works in contemptatica by the committee. He should himself u - ithdraw the rider to the resolution of which he had given notice, to the effect that a small charge be made upon coasting vessels using the docks, because he telt he could not carry it. He contended that if the rates were reduced, there would be more difficulty in bor rowing money for the completion of the intended works ; and that when the contemplated improvements were finished, they would be equivalent to a reduction in the rates. Mr. HoLmEs expressed a similar opinion. Mr. CHAPMAN explained that he meant the suggested re duction to be prospective, and he should be satisfied to allow it to stand over till the new dock bill had become law. He merely wished to establish the principle. The reduction would amount, at ten per cent., to only about £6OOO per annum, and as there was a surplus revenue of about £70,000, there was no fear of its affecting the borrowing of money. He wished to induce the India trade to come to Liverpool instead of going to London, by relieving the ship owners. Mr. RIPLEY and Mr. EVANS thought the present Was not the time to enter upon this subject. Mr. MELLOW, submitted that Mr. Chapman had made out a very strong case, inasmuch as he had shown that in conse quence of the new system of measurement, ships had nothad the benefit which they ought to have had of the reduction •in 1836. The only difficulty was whether the funds were in a condition to admit of the reduction. If they were, the jus tice of the case was completely established. But in whatever way the committee might report, Mr. Chapman did not pur pose that the reduction should take place until after the new dock bill had been carried. ' The CHAIRMAN and Mr. G. Bola said it was very well to have drawn attention to the subject, but they apprehended that the present was not the time to enter upon it. Mr. CHAPMAN said that, seeing the feeling of the com mittee was against him, he, should withdraw the motion, con tenting himself with having excited attention to the subject. The committee then separated. AN EXPENSIVE " LARK."-CONDUCT OF THE HON. EDWARD. SYDNEY PLUNKETT AT THE • STORK HOTEL. No less a personage than the Hon. E. Plunkett, a captain, we believe, in the army—and whose trial at our assizes about twelve months ago, for his participation in a military enzeute at Wigan, must still be fresh in the recollection of our readers—was given in charge to the police for a " row" and smashing match" at the Stork Hotel, Queen's-square, yesterday morning, where, after the fatigues of the steeple chase, he appeared resolved to perform a feat that would immortalize him- in the eyes of all those sprigs of nobility who delight in breaking lamps, upsetting watchmen, and other "gentlemanly" freaks, and to whom the establishment of the new police force is " a heavy blow and great discourage- Plunkett was, in due course of Bridewell delivery, brought up into the dock yesterday, before Mr. Rushton and Mr. Heywood, and though doubtless a smart youn g man , appeared to be considerably jaded, and much abashed by the situation in which he stood. i He wore a blue " down-the •oad," and was otherwise n plain attire. The examinations for some time suspended in consequence of the absence T he prisoner had employed Mr. of one of the witnesse Davenport for his defei A porter at the hotel stated that about a quarter -past two o'clock in the morning of yesterday, the prisoner came to the house to see a gentleman named Heyes, who was stopping there. He was told that the gentleman was gone to bed. He then asked for a bottle of Champagne, which he was in formed he could not have, as the family had also retired. He had then some words with a gentleman there, a traveller, and who being (as he believed) struck by him, took up the poker in his own defence, and attempted to strike him. A young man, a waiter at the house, corroborated the last witness so far. The name of the gentleman who was up in the house was Hogarth, and the prisoner struck him. He heard him call the gentleman a scoundrel. He then broke the decanters, glass, and also the furniture and the door. Mr. Davenport cross-examined the witnesses, with a view to show that the breakage was done during the affray with the traveller; but this they both denied, stating that it was done after the gentleman had left the room and gone to bed. Mr. Thomas Hogarth said he was a commercial traveller, and had been in the hotel from six o'clock on Wednesday evening till ten next day. Very early in the morning the prisoner and two other gentlemen came to the hotel, and the prisoner, without provocation, used language towards him so shoekinplv gross, that he could not repeat it. Witness said had heard his name was Plunkett, and that he ,ly respectable family, and as he could not but think d been-drinking he would forgive him. There upon prisoner took up the cruet stand and threw it violently at him, and after defending himself for some time, he left the room and went to bed. to him that I. was of hi: that he e was offered for the prisoner, and Mr. Rushton enquired what was thearnount of damage done by breakage. The brother of the proprietor of the hotel said that the amount in furniture, plated goods, glass, tv.c., was about £3O. The whole room was wrecked up. It would require some pounds to make good the side-board : decanters and glasses were all broken, and even the carpet much cut. Davenport.-1 have heard it said in court, before the that the damages was only about £l5. The • -- 3 e were much alarmed Thep ' case came families in t nount is of no consequence jurisdiction extends to an amount of £5 only in -h a t «•ill become the subject of a civil action. '••ty to take case that persons in the garb and ler the -, snail not conduct them _uner with impunity. The pri £s for the breach of the peaee he imprisoned two months ; and he must nod behaviour, himself in £lOO, and 24 hours' notice of his bail. imitted, or find b'' two sureties i: The prison, was put down iavenport inquired whether if bail was found it might not be received this evening? s . —On what ground can it be asked? Here a case of gross outrage, in which much property was de stroyed and damaged, and the females in the house thrown into a state of alarm. They wpuld have other races, and if such matters were not strongly dealt with, the town would be inundated by persons callin g themselves gentlemen, who conduct themselves in a similarly outrageous manner. He could make no distinction of persons; and if he had the power to do so, , he should in this case exercise it the other • way. r. Rushton