The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-05-13 00:00:00

THE RACES. LIVERPOOL CRAVEN MEETING, 1836. (Lord Stanley and William Blundell, Esq., Stewards.) These races commenced on Wednesday. The weather, which Was within the last week both cold and wet., suddenly changed to a succession of fine May days, making the ground of the fine Aintree course in the very best condition. The morning of Wednesday was most beautiful, and numbers were induced by the beauty of the day to visit the course who otherwise would have staid at home. Towards eleven and twelve o'clock vehi cles of every description, containing both ‘• prog" and pas sengers, began drawing towards the place of meeting. One or two boats, also fitted up for the occasion, and carrying a band of music each, started for the convenience of passengers from the Canal Basin, and were crowded to excess. About two o'clock, the time announced for starting the first race, the grand stand began to fill, and the course to present a bustling, crowded, and lively appearance, the usual refreshment booths, stalls, and games being there in abundance. Soon after two o'clock we observed about forty or fifty ladies on the grand stand and crowds of gentlemen, whilst numerous carriages, gigs, and horsemen were driving about the course. The various other stands were also crowded with " the undistinguished throng," and presented a gay and lively appearance. rhe .course now became excessively crowded. A number of the Liverpool po lice were stationed about to keep order and frustrate the hopes of any of " the light-fingered gentry" who might have visited the course to " forage." We have not , heard of their, succeed ing in their vocation. All passed off with the greatest order and regularity. We witnessed several of the surroundin g gen try on the course, and the usual number of sporting physiog nomies. The bell rung for the first race for the Aintree Stakes at about a quarter to three o'clock. Donald at starting took the lead about three lengths, followed by Tom Shipman, and Bella, Bravo, Lena, and Reuben abreast. Tom Shipman and Bella, however, soon came up with him and passed him, Bella taking the lead by about half a length , and a beautiful c o n t es t f o ll owed between these two. Within fifty yards of the winning post Toni Shipman made a push, and came in winner by about half a neck. For the Wilton Stakes Teniers and Ermina only started. Teniers took the lead at starting, and a beautiful contest en sued. About one hundred vaids off the winning post Teniers made a push, and came in first by about two lengths. The race for the Tradesmen's Cup (a very costly and beauti ful piece of plate made by Messrs. Barnett and Co.. of Lord street,) was the grand race for the day, and much betting took place on the result. General Chasse was the general favourite. There was much betting on the Queen of Trumps, and a good deal of disappointment and money lust, by those not in the secret, a t h er no t s t ar ti ng , T anwort h , - Verbena, and Fop were also favourites, and four to one on the field against the General were readily given and taken. Inheritor also stood very high in the betting. At starting Tan worth took the lead, but soon gave place to Inheritor, followed closely by General Chasse, and the contest for the remainder of the race was mainly between these two horses. For the last half mile the running was very severe, the General pressing close on Inheritor, who struggled hard to keep the lead. Within a hundred yards of the winning post the contest was beautiful, the spectators evinc ing the greatest excitement by cheering the respective horses. The General, however, maintained his high character and "shot ahead," winning the race by about a neck amidst the loud acclamations of the assembled crowd. The last race was for the Maiden Plate, the winner to be the best out of three heats. In th e first heat Lady Blessington took the lead, followed by Doubtful and Silvio three or four lengths behind. Silvio continued to lose ground, and barely saved his distance. Doubtful came in first after a hard contest with Lady Biessington.—ln the second heat Silvio took the lead, followed by Lady Blessington, and Doubtful last. Doubtful made up his distance, and the contest Iyas a hard one between him and Silvio, who, however, maintained the lead th roug h ou t, an d won by half a lath.—ln the third heat Silvio again took the lead, followe4 by Doubtful, and Lady Blessington last. The contest was through the whole of the race between the two former, and after some hard running Doubtful came in by about half a length, thus winning the plate by being the winner of two heats. In the last heat there was considerable whipping on approaching the winning post on the part of both Doubtful and Silvio. Subjoined is a statement of the first day's sport. Futsr DAY, WEDNESDAY, MAY Il.—The Aintree Stakes of 15 soya each, with 20 sovs added. One mile and a half Hon. E. M. Lloyd Mostyn's b c Tom Shipman..Wra. Jones 1 Sir J. Boswell's b m Bella 2 Mr J. N.anney's b c Bravo .. 3 Three others started. The Wilton Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, with 50 sovs added by the Proprietors of the Stand, for three year old fillies. One mile and a halt'. 6 subs. Sir R. W. Bulkeley's ch fby Teniers. Darling 1 Lord Derby's ch f Erminia, by Langer 2 The Tradesmen's Cup, value 100 sovs, with 100 soya in specie, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, 10ft. The second horse to receive 50 sovs out of the stakes. Two miles. Sir J. Boswell's ch h General Chasse Holmes 1 Mr W. R. Ramsey's blk h lnheritor%. 2 Mr E. Peel's ch h Tanworth Three others started; thirteen drawn. A Maiden Plate, value 50 sovs, for all ages that have never won £5O before the day of entry. Heats, two miles. Mr Dawson's ch c Doubtful, by Muley Lye 1 2 1 Sir J. Boswell's b c Silvio Mr Nanney's b f Lady Blessington SECOND DAY—THURSDAY. The day proving exceedingly fine, the-number of persons on the course was quite as great as on Wednesday. We are pre • vented by a press of more interesting matter from giving more than a stateinen of the result of each race, which was as follows : The Liverpool Spring St. Leger of 25 sovs each, with 50 sovs added. For three yrs old colts, Bst 61b; fillies, Bst 31b. One mile and three-quarters. The owner of the second horse to receive back his stake. Hon. E. M. LL Mostyn's br c Trap ball. Templeman 1 Mr'l'hos. Dawson's b c Locomotive 2 Mr Houldsworth's b cititie; Three drawn The Craven Stakes of 25 sovs each, 15 ft, with 50 added, for two yrs old. Colts, Bst 61b; fillies, Bst 31b. 'l'. Y. C. Sir Jas. Boswell's b c Calendar Holmes 1 Sir T. S. Massey Stanley's gr f 2 Sir R. W. Bulkeley's hr f Eight others started. Two drawn. A Sweepstakes of 5 soya each, with 30 love added. 3 vrs, Est 101 b; 4 yrs, Bst 21b.; 5 vrs, Bst 101 b.; 6 and aged, 9st. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. Heats, once round. Mr. Wilkins' b h Vestment Templeman 1 0 1 Lord Derby's ch c A:nurath, 4 yrs Mr Couke's gr c Fop, 4 yrs .. 0 2 0 Sir•R. W. Bulkeley's gr g Isaac, 5 yrs .. The Stand Cup, value 100 gs, and a Plate, value 70 cove, given by the coach and car proprietors of Liverpool, will be run for to-day. Tha Queen of Trumps, General Chasse, and In heritor, the three favourites, are entered to run for the cup, and the struggle will no doubt be a severe one. GREAT SOLAR ECLIPSE. We copy from the Liverpool Courier the following letter re specting this event, which will take place on Sunday after noon : Sir,—Perhaps there is not in the whole range of physical sciences any one that awakes more interesting and pleasing re flection than the study of astronomy. By reading its history we see the great intellectual progress which the human mind has made, when the rude calculations of past ages ate compared with our present knowledge, for the accuracy of our astronomical instruments, and their judicious application to the purposes of science, as well as the exact calculations deduced by their means, all prove the gradual advance of the mental powers of man; while, on the other hand, these discoveries unfold to us the surprising fact, that the heavenly bodies, after travelling millions of miles, arrive at their appointed destination with a certainty, in point of time, that even surpasses our nicest calcu lations. Although the tests are various which prove this accuracy of movement among the heavenly bodies, yet there are none Which excite the attention of the public so much as eclipses of the_ sun. In the variety of appearances which these phenomena present, we sometimes witness a total eclipse of the sun, and it is recorded that during some of those eclipses the darkness was so great that the stars were visible, and the fowls went to roost, supposing it to be the approach of night. A total eclipse of the sun can only happen' when the moon is*iearer to the earth than her mean distance; but when she is further from the earth than hermean distance, she appears under a smaller angle than is subtended by the sun, which will be the case in the eclipse at present under consideration, when a luminous ring will appear all round the dark body of the moon, and display to many places what is termed an annular eclipse of the sun. In observing the beginning of the eclipie considerable atten tion will be requisite to ascertain the exact moment when toe first. contact of the limbs take place, btrt the ending of the eclipse will be more easily and accurately observed by those who are not accustomed to astronomical observations, as the retiring body of the moon may be distinctly traced, with a good telescope on a stand, until it has ceased to obscure any portion of the sun's disc, which instant will be the exact time required The correct time thus found may be most usefully employed in rectifying sundials. of which most towns possess one at least ; and• as they have generally been put down by the compass, w hi c h i s an imperfect method, or by watches whose time was not accurately known, they seldom give the true time; there fore; Ira good watch be set by a sundial, at twelve o'clock, (allowing for the equation of time,) the error of the watch, (if any,) at the ending of the eclipse, will show how much the dial is erroneous, and which being known can be easily allowed for at any future time. The first contact will take place at a point 131 degrees west of the vertex, and the last at 30 degrees to the east of the ver tex; or, if we suppose thZ sun to represent a clock face, the eclipse will begin where '22 minutes is on the clock, and end where II hours is marked on the clock face. At the time of the greatest obscuration, Venus will, in all probability, be distinctly visible to the naked eye, at au altitude of about 62 degrees and about three degrees eastward of the meridian: Jupiter, at the same time, will be about 6 degrees east of the meridian, altitude 60 degrees; and Mars will be in the west, at an altitude of 14 degrees : Parlial eclipse begins. Partial eclipse ends. Liverpool Ivlanehester..... Sheffield Nottingham Birmingham Chester. Holyhead Carlisle Newcastle Belfast H. M. S. 1 33 55 1 38 0 1 42 30 1 44 13 1 40 12 1 34 36 1 25 25 1 34 17 1 41 51 1 18 7 H. H. S. 23 0 4 26 23 4 30 19 4 32 10 4 29 4 4 23 45 4 15 46 4 21 46 4 28 13 4 8 10 Magnitude at Liverpool 0 .891 Having made the calculations respecting the beginning and ending of the partial eclipse at the different places enumerated above, there is a peculiarity attending its appearance at Carlisle, Newcastle, and Belfast, which deserves . special notice, as the eclipse will be annular at those places. This is a phenomenon of so rare Occurrence that in all probability such an one has never be en seen in England by the oldest person now living. We have it on record that an annular eclipse was seen in France, Denmark, and Lapland , about seventy years ago , but no record that any has b e en seen in England for a longermuch will happen atP e d; therefore I have given the time when it those plac es b y sorn those at towns, that it may be accurately recorded attentive observer. \Beginning .iliddle. End. Carlisle .. ----- it. . s 11. IL 8 . H. M. 8. Newcastle ................ m 2 59 9 3 1173 3 25 •—• Belfast 3 5 11 3 $ 21 3 11 31 •••• 2 44 51 2 46 25 2 47 59 _____ _ f r om Pinkerton's extensive atlas, an d ____ The geographical positions of the above towns were taken it correct, th e times as given above may, I think, be depended onspectfull y, to withi n two or t h ree s econds.-1 remain, sir, yours re Liverpool, May 10, 1836. T. BYWATER. The Right Honourable the Earl of Burlington has appointed the Rev. John Downall, formerly curate of St. M ark's Church, in Liverpool, one of his lordship's domestic chaplain 8 ADVERTISIIMENTi ANOTHER BAN 1 The public are very respectfully informed that in consequence of the universal approval given on all sides to joint stock banks, and the unbounded confidence reposed in.thein, it has been de termined to establish one more in addition to the present num ber, ( which, if anything is still too limited:) to be called the Liverpool Grand Auxiliary SAND BANK To the numerous enlightened individuals residing in the sea port town of Liverpool it would be idle indeed to dwell at any length on the nature and effects of whdt must be an every day topic with the money lender, the shipow r, and the mariner. It need scarcely be said that the allusio is to banks. Banks are vital to the usurer, sometimes agree le sometimesdisag,ree able to the shipowner, and the same t he mariner, as shall be proved, by and bye, to general satisf lion. Now, as to sand banks, there is no subject on which diff ere nt individuals diff e r more. Talk to some men of new town council refinement, and they will tell you that4a sand bank and a rock are one and the same thing; that modern philosophy has marked them in the most celebrated charts as either of a doubtful cha racter or the decided foe of mankind. But this is a very short sighted and illiberal construction; for various instances are on record, as many on the one hand as on the other, of sand banks - affording a footing and protection to people for a time who could walk, wade, or swim to them, or of their being fatal to life. Despite, however, of all conflicting opinions, it has been re solved to establish a sand bank in Liverpool, the situation to be as near the new town council room as possible (with the per mission of the Mayor), in order that, when the other and smaller, sand banks are washed away; the LIVERPOOL GRAND AUXILIARY SAND BANK May show its exalted form, and afford to the money lender, to the shipowner, to the mariner, and to the public at large, who may have bad the misfortune of being wrecked, a rendezvous, (though they come with long faces and short purses,) with free and full permission to walk, wade, or swim, as they choose, for this will make no difference. As war is daily expected, and odious peace is now soon to be at an end, a grand stir is ex pected iu the money market, when a full meeting of the friends of the Liverpool Grand Auxiliary Sand Bank will assuredly take place. A prospectus will shorty appear. •TO MR.•J,~TY COVMO.N COUNCIL-MSN H4BERDJSHER. Sia,—We have all heard of a proverb respecting the way certain persons ride when they have the misfortune to get mounted on horse back, a proverb brought very forcibly to my mind by your conduct a the meeting yesterday—it is said that in the plenitude of your great ness you had the modesty (shall I say ?) to order a policeman to take into custody a gentleman who was taking an interest in the question then before the meeting, because, perhaps, that opinion was at vari ance with your own ; it is a great pity that some new fledged official do not take a lesson in the art of conducting themselves as gentlemen from the worthy man who presides over their unruly discussions, it would in some cases, as in yours, prevent the mortification they mus feel in the reflection that they have incurred the contempt of every honourable mind, as yon did in the case in question, when you sought to insult a gentleman whose family were amongst the most respected of Liverpool merchants at a time when you were scarce trusted with the watering of a " Cockney haberdasher's shop." Now, sir, if I might venture upon advice to so great a personage, I would remind you that although by the ferment of a democratic mea sure, matters have been so far reversed that comparative strangers have been elevated to seats formerly occupied by gentlemen, merchants, and others, known to the town and deeply interested in its great com merce, the time may perhaps come when common sense will resume its usual sway over the minds of Englishmen, and they will discover that agents of London shopkeepers and other strangers, however respectable in their sphere. are not the best calculated to represent interests they are utterly ignorant of—then the question of the quali fications of such people will be more severely scrutinized than on a former occasion, and of some of them the " wonder " will be HoW the devil they came there." Then, perhaps, also it may be asked, how they bore the honours " thrust upon them ? "—and you may be remembered as having while " Drest in a little brief authority Played such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep "—and awn laugh ! —Yours, &c. Saturday. A Liverpool man. SUNDAY SCHOOLS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,--Will you permit me, through the medium of 3 our valuable paper, to call the attention of those who are friends to scriptural edu cation to the number of Sunday schools and children in connexion with the established church, in Liverpool. The Mercury of last Friday states, that there are thirty Sunday schools and 4440 children, within the parliamentary borough of Liverpool, one only with 80 children belonging to the established church. Being connected with and deeply interested in more than one church Sunday school, in Liverpool, I subjoin a list with the numbers of chil dren in each, to the best of my knowledge. Children. 1. —All Saint's Church (Grosvenor-street) about 2.—St. Paul's (Cheapside) 3.—St. Matthew's (Lumber-street) 4.—St. Michael's (Parr-street) s.—St. Mark's 6.—St. Jude's 7.—St. Bride's B.—St. Audrew's (Slater-street) BO 9.—St. Augustine's (Upper Beau-street) 5O 10.—Mariner's Church Redcross-street) 4O Total 1090 I believe there are several others besides the above, I have reason to believe there is one at St. George's, Everton, oae at St. Catherine's. and one at St. John the Baptist's Church, Toxteth-park. Trusting that the above will be acceptable to some of your readers, I remain yours, &c. Liverpool, March 91h, 1836. 3. C. J. LIVERPOOL POLICE. STEALING SIIOSS.—On Tuesday last, at the police-office, a cadavar ' ous looking female, named Ann smith, was brought up charged with having stolen a pair of shoes from the shop of Mr. Beckwith, in Para dise-street. Mr. Beckwith stated that the lady at the bar came into his shop about two o'clock the day before, and wanted to look at some shoes ; she could not get herself suited and walked away, and imme diately afterwards he found that a pair of his shoes had walked away also. He ran out after her and gave her into the charge of a police man, and in a basket which she carried were found the shoes. Bat cheldor said that it was not unusual for other articles to walk away without leave besides shoes, from the shops which the prisoner pa tronised. The prisoner said in defence, " bless you, I bought the shoes at another shop, but as I was coming down Bold-street, I thought a pair of pumps would be more comfortable, and went to get a pair at Mr. Beckwith's, but could not find a fit, and he gives me into custody for stealing, which I don't think is a filling thing at all." Mr. Hall thought it ' fitting,' that such depredations shonld be punished, and sent the prisoner for two months to the borough house of correction. Gus STEALING. On Tuesday, an elderly man who has frequently been in custody for drunkenness, having but one arm, and who repre sents that he lost his other at the storming of Antwerp, and that he is now a Fotege of Lord Molyneux's, was brought up under a charge of stealing a gun from a person about to emigrate to America. Thomas Ryley, a young Irishman, deposed that about two o'clock the day be fore he was shooting sea-gulls down at the pier•head with a double barrelled gun, and looking about at the American shipping, when the prisoner came up and asked him if he would sell the gun, that he knew a gentleman who would buy it; he told him if he could sell him the gun, he would pay him a good days' wages. They then went to the post-office together, where the prisoner said he could find Lord Molyneux's man. They staid there some time, when he said he was afraid it was too late to find him, but he could sell it to Mr. Lucas, whom he knew very well, and that if he would let him have the gun he would take it in and show it to him. He then gave the gun to him and watched him into Lucas'srepository, but he remained such a time that he began to suspect that all was not right, and went in to inquire, when they told him that the prisoner had walked throu g h the o ffi ce and out of the back door. He then found out where the prisoner lived and went to his house, and the prisoner soon after came in and then swore that he knew nothing at all about the gun, and that he never had it. He then got an officer and gave him into custody. The police officer found apawn-ticket upon him for the gun which he had pawned for £2. The prisoner said he was drunk at the time, and that he had been rather wrong in his head since he lost his arm, but he had no roguery in him. The Magistrates ordered the informationi to be taken. A STEADY COUPLE.—On Tuesday an old woman was placed at the bar who had been given into custody by her husband for being drunk and disorderly, and creating a disturbance in his house. Her hus band, a son of Vulcan, on standing up in the witness box to prefer his complaint, had evidently been himself partaking rather too freely of " John Barleycorn," perhaps in order to " screw his courage up" to make the charge. Mr. Hall inquired " Why you are drunk yourself." Complainant—" Hiccough—drunk—l can write—hiccough—my name as straight as a dart—hiccough—(waving his ringer through the air as if he were writing.,—Could I do that if I were drunk l—hiccough Sober as a judge—hiccough." Mr. Hall—" It is perfectly ridiculous; yon come here to charge your wife with being drunk and are drunk yourself —go down, sir. ( P ro the wife.)—You are oischarged; go after him and take him home." EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.—On Tuesday, at the police-office, an old man, of most wr e t c h e d a pp earance , was brought to the bar, with out either coat or shirt, and only a waistcoat to cover his nal , edness ; he had been taken into custody for being disorderly and creating a disturbance. It appeared that he had gone into the beer house of Mrs. Williams, in Ormond-street, and havingspent all he had in drink, had absolutely taken oil his shirt and sent it to pawn for a shilling to get more ale with. Mr. Hall said—lt was most disgraceful on the part of Mrs. Williams to allow it. It was customary for such places to furnish drink, and they did not care how it was paid for, so long as they got the money. The prisoner was discharged. CAUTION co REER-SELLERS.—On Tuesday last, a number of beer sellers were brought up and fined 4Us. anti costs, for keeping their houses open at improper hours on Sunday last. ROBBERY AND ASSAULT.—Yesterday, at the police-office, Thomas Smith, a noted thief, was brought before the magistrates, charged with r"bbing Miss Mary Wood, housekeeper to Dr. G. P. Murphy, Upper Parliament-street, ancla fterwards violently assaulting her. M issW vial stated that she was sent on an errand by her master the night before, about half-past nine o'clock, to Dr. Bradley's; she did not know e::- actly where he lived, and made inquiries, and was directed to the up per part of Richmond-row ; on arriving Opposite to a brewhouse at nose -hill, she heard several men following her, and soon after felt some one lifting her cloak behind, she turned quickly round and saw th e prisoner with his hand firmly in her pocket ; she screamed out, and they surrounded her and dragged her down Rose-hill where it was much darker, and the prisoner pulled two purses out of her pocket, one containing her housekeeping money, about 10s., and the other empty : she continued screaming, and the prisoner then struck her a violent blow on the throat which made her unable to make any noise ; the police immediately came up, and they then all ran different ways. George Rew ins. a policeman, deposed to hearing screams and running .to Ruse-hill, where he saw four or five men surrounding the com plainant ; he seized the prisoner, who made a violent blow at him, and struck him on the hat and effected his escape ; he knew the pri soner well as a noted thi e f , and k ept a look out for him for about two hours, when he met him in Whitechapel, and gave him in custody. The magistrates ordered the informations for his trial to be taken. MAYO ELEcTioN.—The popish priests have succeeded in re turning Mr. Robert Dillon Browne, a Roman Catholic radical to parliament, as the representative of the county of Mayo. THE LATE J AMES WooD, Esq.—We are informed by a cor respondent that the caveat entered by Mr. James Wood, who came to Gloucester to attend the funeral, has been withdrawn; but that another has been entered by other parties. A limited power to administer the testator's effects in paying his notes and the balances of banking accounts was yesterday granted, and the parties entering the caveat were allowed a week's time to give in their names and degree of relationship to the testator.— Gloucester Journal. TIDE LEADING TO FORTUNE.—WiIIan, the great horse cott tractor, and late occupier of the Bull and Mouth Inn, in the year 1745 was hostler at the Lion Inn, at Barnet. The then Duke of Cumberland, when on his route to• the North, hap pened to have a horse for his own riding brought to him to look at, at this inti; his royal highness had doubts of the horse's answering his purpose, and with his usual good humour asked everybody's opinion, among others, Jack's, and .John immedi ately pronounced him unfit. He was then requested b_y_ his royal highness to assign his reasons, which John stated. Upon which John was asked whether he knew of a horse that be could recommend, and John replied in the affirmative, and went and fetched a horse into the inn-yaal, which, upon trial, gave the duke much satisfaction. On the duke's retain from Scotland he found John iu the same capacity, and commending his skill in horseflesh, asked him if he was disposed to take a contract for furnishing a few artillery horses. John bowed and said be "needed the one thing needrul." This want his royal highness supplied; and from this circumstance John, when he departed from this world, had accumulated two hundred thousand pounds. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD Emptriat Parlianunt. HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY. The Staffordshire disfranchisement witnesses indemnity bill was read a third time and passed. MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. The Earl of Roden presented a petition from Stirling against any further grant of money to Maynooth College. LOCAL NEWS. TRADE OF LIVERPOOL.- Last night the Telegraph an nounced no less than seven ships off and belonging to this port, direct from Canton, with teas, &c. They will all be in the river this morning. This fact, we suspect, will rather asto nish the London people. DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE RAILWAY.-012 Sunday morn inc, as a train of carriages was proceeding from this town to Button,' at a rapid rate, the axletree of the engine-tender broke. The engineer, who was unfortunately standing betwixt the en gine and the tender at the time, fell through in consequence, and the succeeding carriages successively passed over different parts of his body. When taken up he was quite dead, his head being completely crushed and both his legs broken. NEW CEMETERY AT KIRKDALE.—The owners of the land on which the new church at Kirkdale is built, and also the pro prietors of land adjoining, have determined to unite their re spective properties, "and form a handsome and commodious public cemetery, to be so laid out that the church will stand in the centre, and thus form a beautiful ornament to the burying ground. The cemetery will be open to members of every re ligious denomination, on the same principle as at the Low-hil- Necropolis. 1 THE INDUSTRIOUS FLEAS.—It will be seen by an advertise-, ment elsewhere, that the Industrious Fleas are to be exhibited for a short time in Church-street. Those persons who have seen them before, will recollect the reception they obtained on their former visit. THE WEATHER.—The late cold and unseasonable weather has passed away, and for the last ten days we have been favoured with uninterrupted warmth and sunshine. Vegeta tion has made rapid progress, and the country around Liver pool has a most promising appearance. WHOLESALE FISH MAkKET.—The directors of the Liver. pool and Manchester Fish Company, having purchased the building, are now disinantlins " Zion Chapel," a small dissent ing meeting house near the '1 heatre Royal, for the purpose of turning it into a wholesale fish market, or auction room for the sale of all the fish taken by their boats to the retail fishmongers. FIRE AT BARON-HILL.—The town of Beaumaris was, on Wednesday last, thrown into the greatest consternation, intel ligence being received, about seven o'clock, that Baron-hill, the mansion of Sir Richard Bulkeley, Bart.. M.P., was on fire. The inhabitants immediately hastened to the scene of devasta tion, and vied with each other in rendering every assistance to arrest the progress of the flames, but they had gained so power ful a head, that the destruction of the new portion of the house, which was in course of erection, and in which the lire originated, was obviously inevitable. The old part of the mansion, how ever, through the exertions that were made, and the favourable position of the. wind, was saved ; but great damage was done to the furniture &c., through a premature haste in their removal, by throwing them out through the windows, under an appre hension that that part would fall a prey to the flames. The fire fortunately was prevented from gaining ground about eleven o'clock, and from that time it began to abate.—Chester Courant. THE ROcK FERRY COMPANY.—We understand the directors of the Royal Rock Ferry Company have let the hotel to Mrs. Dobson, late of Southport, who is now busily engaged in deco rating the house in a style of elegance and .comfort, which cannot fail to ensure the patronage of the public. The grounds are being laid out in a very tasteful manner, which, combined with the natural beauties of the surroundingscenery, will render this one of the most fashionable watering places in the neigh bourhood of Liverpool. THE THEATRE.—Mr. Kean's engagement terminated on Friday evening, when he took his benefit in Richard the Third, before a tolerable house. Miss Ellen Tree, who has been starring at Belfast, and from which place she is on her way to London, has been playing some of her most admired characters at our theatre since Monday evening. She is engaged for ten nights. We understand the house has not been so well attended this week as might have been expected. The fine weather with which we have been favoured, will perhaps, in some degree account for that, as many persons prefer taking recreation in the country, or upon the water, to sitting for three or four hours together in a theatre. Last night Knowles's play of the Wife, Mariana by Miss Ellen Tree, Julian St. Pierre by Mr. Stuart, was represented. The heroine of this play, which is one of the finest pieces of dramatic writing which has been given to the world since the days of Shakspeare, was admirably personated by Miss Tree. The audience did not fail to mark with their frequent and warns approval their estimation of this accomplished lady's acting. We have not room to go into de tail, and will only observe that we trust the play will be repeated with the same cast of characters before Miss Ellen Tree's en gagement is concluded. Julian St. Pierre found an able repre sentative in Mr. Stuart. To night, under the patronage of Lord Stanley and William Bluudell, Esq., stewards of the races, the play of the Hunchback will be repeated for the last time this season, to conclude with the performances of the Rus sian Rope-dancers and the farce of Simpson and Co., Mrs. SiMpson by Miss Ellen Tree. THE HOLY HAND.—We take the following extract from a communication made to us by a gentleman of Warrington upon whose veracity we have the most implicit reliance.—On Friday last I was at Newton, when one of the Manchester trains arrived; a poor woman alighted from one of the carriages, and inquired at the railway-office the way to Garswood. She carried in her arms a child which appeared to be very ill. After the woman' had left the office, one of the porters said that he thought she was going to Garswood to see a catholic priest in order to get her child rubbed with the holy hand. As I had heard in my youth of the miraculous cures performed by the holy hand I was in duced to follow the poor woman in order to ascertain if that were the cause of her journey. On asking her, she frankly admitted that she was going to Garswood to have her child rubbed with the holy hand, and that she had been persuaded to do so by se veral of her female neighbours who had been much benefitted by the friction the reverend priest's holy paw." We have heard something of a legend of the holy hand. If the reverend priest of Garswood take money for his miraculous cures, he is, we be. lieve, amenable to the laws under which fortune-tellers are pu nished as cheats and impostors. THE LANCASHIRE YEOMANRY CAVALRY.—The commanding officerof the Royal Lancashire Yeomanry Cavalry- has received orders from the o ffi ce of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for that regiment to assemble on the 12th of June, at the delightful town of Blackpool, for a period of permanent training _and exercise. The Furness troop of the corps will meet at alverstone on the 10th, and (proceed forthwith to the place of rendezvous. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMMITTEE ON THE BILL.— At a latestage of the proceedings on Tuesday, during the cross examination of the engineer (J. Braithwaite, Esq.) Mr. Hol combe informed the committee that he was instructed to with draw all opposition to the measure on the part of the Great Northern Railway. THE LATE RICHARD DOBSON, ESQ.— A monument to the memory of this much lamented gentleman hasjust been erected in the chapel of the Blue Coat Hospital, by a private subscrip tion among the trustees of that institution, for the purpose. The design and execution is by Mr. Solomon Gibson, of this town, and consists of a white marble cencetophice, in the form of an antique column or cippus enclosed within a recessed niche of black and gold marble. In front, on a projecting plinth, which forms the fore-ground, are candelabra, from which is seen to issue a representation of the perpetual fire. The following in scription is on a pyramidal tablet, crowned with festoons and flowers :—" Sacred to the memory of RICHARD DOBSON, born 20th October, 1781. Died 9th June, 1835. Who, for the last sixteen years of a life devoted to the cause of public charity, was the able treasurer, and kind and faithful friend of this in stitution. This monument has'been erected by the trustees as a sincere, but very inadequate, tribute of gratitude for his in estimable services."—" Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may -rest from their labours, and their works do follow them."—Rev. xiv, 13 v. A WILL.—In the course of the evidence adduced on the " Vaux claim of Peerage" now before the House of Lords the following document was produced:—" In the name of God, Amen. This 4thday of October, in the year of our Lord 1742, I, the Right Hun. Richard Lord Viscount Fitzwilliam, of the kingdom of Ireland, being in perfect good health, and sound of mind, memory, and understanding, vet considering the un certainty of life, do make and ordain this my last will and tes tament in manner and form following. * * * I give to my eldest son Richard Fitzwilliam ls. and no more, which I take to be sufficient for a wretch who, in contempt of sense, shame, and conscience, has clandestinely sold the remainder of his family estate to a man whom I have raised from famine and nakedness, and who has paid his benefactor (as far as in hini lies) with the destruction of my posterity. Item I give to my second son William Fitzwilliam the son of £lO and no more. * 4. * * Item, I give to my daughter Frances Evans, and to her husband George Evans, my case of spectacles, to be equally divided between them. ** * Item, I give to my third and youngest son, John Fitzwilliam (who has treated me with the decency which one gentleman owes to another),•my house and freehold, with the copyhold also annexed, together with my horses, coaches, plate, books, and all my furniture which are now at Thorpe, in the county of Surrey, or elsewhere, to him, his heirs, or assigns, for ever." SINGULAR ANCIENT CUSTOM.—The Bishop of Lincoln pro sened a petition to the House of Lords, on Tuesday from the Lord of the Manor of a place in the vicinity of Caistor, in the county of Lincoln, against au absurd custom performed on Palm Sunday. of holding a whip over the clergyman when in the pulpit. This ceremony was performed last Palm Sunday. A New ACCOMPLISHMENT.—The following ludicrous phrase appears in the petition of .the Canterbury town council for the abolition of the punishment of death—" except in cases of wil ful and accomplished (! !) murder." Ou Monday morning the little and interesting village of Holbeton, which is about nine miles from Plymouth, was thrown into great confusion by the alarm of fire. About half-past nine o'clock flames were observed issuing from the thatch over the oven, which was in the rear of the house oc cupied by Thomas Rabbich, a baker. The wind being very high at the time and in the direction of the line of houses, the thatch of the house was almost instantly one mass of fire ; whilst portions of the ignited straw were driven by the wind on to the houses adjoining, which, being also thatched souse three feet thick, soon took fire; in fact some of the houses which were furthest from the bakehouse were burnt down long before those between. Such was the fury of the devouring element, that within an hour and a half no less than 13 houses were com pletely destroyed, and the inmates deprived ofall shelter, and their furniture burnt or very greatly damaged; fortunately no lives were lost. DESTRUCTION OF THE PYRAMID'.—The Pasha, as if he had not done enough for immortality, has given orders that one of the pyramids of Geasa shall be pulled down, in order to furnish stones for the Barage. This only was wanting to consummate his glory. The fame of him " who fired the Ephesian dome" will sink into obscurity before the lustre of this achievement. Old Cheops must yield to Mehemet Ali—he who has stood on the rock of ages, the wonder of the world, who has seen bar barism and civilization alike respect him, must at length give way to the spirit of thrift, and bow his lofty head at the foot of his modern Attilla.—Extract of a Letter from Egypt, dated March 4. MANCHESTER MAIL OVERTURNED IN CONSEQUENCE OF A CLOUD OF DusT.—On Monday night week, as the Liverpool and Manchester snail was travelling from this city between Hocks and Kendal, a dense cloud of dust arose.which for a brief space completely blinded the coachman, and before it bad passed one of the wheels run against a wall, and the coach was over turned, the outside passengers being all more or less bruised, but no serious injury was sustained. Hunter, the guard, was thrown off, and received several severe contusions : he has been remarkably unfortunate of late, having been overturned four times within the last two years. When be recovered from the shock, he procured a cart.and.proceeded with the bags to Ken dal.—Carlisle Patriot. BEETHOVEN OF HIMSELF.—Music is a higher revelation than all this world's wisdom and philosophy. It is the wine which inspires new creations; and I am the Bacchus that crushes out this noble juice for mankind, and makes their spirit drunk; and when they arc sobered again,—then you see whit' a world of things,they have fished up, to bring back with them to dry land again. I have no friend.. I must needs live alone with myself; but 1 well know that GoD is nearer to me in In k y art than others: I commune with him without fear: evermore have I acknowledged and understood hint: and .1 am not fear ful concerning my music—no evil fate can befall it—Musical World. THE NEW JUDGE IN CHANCERY The LORD CHANCELLOR, in answer to a question from Lord Lyndhurst, said that the retiring salary of the Lord Chancellor would under the proposed alterations remain at its present amount, and that of the Lord Chief Justiclin Chancery would be the same as that of the Lorct Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (IRELAND) BILL. The house having gone into committee on - this bill. Lord LYNDHURST brought forward his amendment of the second clause, which reserves to freemen all their rights of admission to the freedom of boroughs, except by gift or purchase, and the continuation of all their rights respecting corporation property, except an exemption from tolls or town's dues. All freemen admitted or entitled to claim their freedom on the sth June, 1835, to be exempted from these tolls, as they would have been had the act not been passed. On this amended clause a long discussion ensued, after which the committee divided. For the amended clause, 107; for the original clause, 53: majority against ministers, 54. On the question that clause 22 (which enacts `that mayors, aldermen, and councillors be chosen in every borough") be struck out, another debate arose. The Duke of Richmond supported the original clause, and was followed by the Marquis of Lansdowne, who spoke in favour of the continuance of the Irish corporations, and deprecated the abolition of them. The Duke of Richmond's motion, that the clause be retained as part of the bill, was lust on a division, 45 voting in favour of, and 98 a ga in s t th a t mo ti on , leaving government in a minority of 53. The committee con tinued sitting until the 36th clause was disposed of, when the house resumed and adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDA Y. RAILWAY AND NAVIGATION BILLS. The lords' amendments to the Arbroath and Forfar railway bill were agreed to-on the motion - of Mr. Chalmers. The Gloucester railway bill was read a second time. The report on the Newry navigation bill was agreed to. The Dundee harbour bill was read a third time and passed. FACTORIES ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Mr. P. THOMSON moved the second reading of this bill. The only object contemplated by the measure, the repeal of one single clause of the act as it nowstood, and to place the law with regard to factories in the same situation in which it stood on the let of March this year; its object was to provide that, whereas children under 12 years of age, after the Ist March last, were prevented from working more than eight hours a day, and were confined to that time, the restriction imposed for the single year from 12 to 13 should be removed, and that children eleven years old and upwards should come under the operation of the provisions under which they stood on the Ist of March and be permitted to work 12 hours a day.. His grounds were these— that they had from the inspectors appointed under the factories' act an unanimous declaration, that they found it impossible to enforce the law as it now stood since the Ist of March, and also that they had the declaration of other parties, that if the clauses be carried into effect, the inevitable consequences would be, that all the children between 12 and 13 must be thrown out of employment. Was it advisable for the ends of humanity, if that alone were to be considered, was it expedient at once to put an end to the employment of 35,000 children ? The mea sure was opposed by two classes of persons ;• for one class who came forward as the advocates of humanity—and at whose head was his noble friend Lord Ashley—he had the greatest respect ; hut he would meet his noble friend on the ground of humanity, as regarded his proposal; he would tell him that he believed it to be more humane, having protected children up to a common age, and restricted them to three hours, not to prevent them from following that work to the extent of 69 hours per week, when without it they would not he employed at all, and must fall back upon their parents. Whether such an extension of labour might be permitted, without injury to their health, was a question which he had put to 48 medical men, indiscriminately chosen from the manufacturing districts, and he had received answers from 43, the greater part of which were -to the effect, that it might decidedly be permitted; thereat were -accompanied by a qualification, that if properly fed they could suffer no in jury ; from the remaining five only he had received opposite answers. After some further arguments in its support, he con cluded by moving that the bill be read a seccud time. Lord ASHLEY, after some introductory remarks, denied that the amended act would be any benefit to 'the factory children. Every argument which had been advanced againSt his •(Lord Ashley's) bill of 1833, the right hon. gentleman now advanced against his own act—he (Mr. Thomson) having then refuted his opponents, now came down and refuted his refutation. With respect to throwing 35,000 children out of employment,' he (Lord Ashley) had taken some pains to obtain information upon that point, and he. had been- told by a high authority on that subject, the member for Oldham, that it would be utterly impossible for the mill owners to carry - on their business if the y were to dismiss the children under the age of 13 in their employy meat. The noble lord then proceeded to read the evidence o the inspectors, in order to show that it was at least extremelyf improbable that the services of children under the age of 13 could be dispensed with, and concluded by moving that the bill be read a second time that day six months. At the close of the debate, which was a long one, the house divided. For the second reading 178; for the amendment 176. Majority in favour of the bill 21—Adjourned. ' HOUSE OF LORDS -TUESDAY, On the motion of the Duke of 14 , 7Cintori;:illee , /idence taken before the select committee on the bill for the sale of bread, was ordered to be printed. ENTAIL (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion of the Earl of ROSEBERRY, this bill was read a second time. CONSTABULARY (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. PLURALITIES OF BENEFICES BILL. On the motion of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the house went into committee on this bill. The Bishop. of EXETER expressed his fears that the third clause, requiring that pluralities snould not be more than ten miles apart would be found prejudicial in its operation. Lord WYNDFORD objected to the limitation of a £5OO a year benefice which was to prevent a clergyman from holding a second living. He protested against the limitation of ten miles beyond which range no plurality second benefice could be held by the same incumbent, and proposed to extendthe distance to 45 miles. His loidsbip's arguments, however, were over-ruled. On the 4th clause being read, the same noble lord (Wynford), proposed an amendment to the effect that ithe privilege of hold ing two livings should depend upon the united value of both not exceeding to £lOOO a year, instead cf that right being limited to cases where the value of each did not exceed £5OO a . year. The amendment was lost on a division seven voting in its favour, and twenty-nine against it. Adjourned to Friday (this-day.) HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY. -DUBLIN STEAM PACKETS. Mr. O'CONNELL, pursuant to the report on the petition for leave to bring in a bill, moved for leave to bring in a bill to enlarge the powers of the Dublin Steam Packet Company, to. enable them to raise more money to build fresh steam packets. &c. He observed that the bill thrown out recently embodied the principle of limited responsiblity ; this exposed the parties to unlimited responsibility. That being the case, he hoped there would be no objection to his introducing this bill, that the house might see its several provisions , and then determine on the question whether th e bill ought to be supported. He hoped in the discussion of this question national jealousies would not be indulged in. Mr. PLUNKET seconded the motion. It was not to encourage monopoly, but to promote that which had been proved to be beneficial to Ireland, for such was on all hands admitted to be the merit of this Company.. Sir M. S. STEWART said that he must again express himself to be decidedly against the present application. A similar bill had been introduced this session that was thrown out; and now, many weeks after the time had passed for bringing in private bills, application was made to renew such rejeected bill. Mr. MARK PHILLIPS said, previously to the house being ealled upon to vote, he should like to know whether the Direc tors named in the last bill would be those introduced into this bill, which it was declared would embody the principle of un limited responsibility ? If not, the alteration introduced into this bill might be only screening particulnr parties from re sponsibility. Mr. O'CoNNELL answered that for every sixpence subscribed under this bill, the subscriber would he exposed to all the con - sequences of unlimited responsibility. But he submitted it would be much better to allow the bill to be brought in, and then the House could see its provisions, when the measure might be more advantageously debated. Lord SAN DON holied that the House would not listen to the objections urged against the preliminary step of introducing this bill. He thought good ground existed for allowing this bill to be brought in, although the time for introducing private bills bad expired. The company had been of the greatest service to Ireland, and therefore every aid that could be rendered to it ought to be extended. It required increased capital; and when the application embodied unlimited responsibility, he thought resistance ought nut to be thrown in the way of this application, founded on matter of form, the principle of protection not having been violated. . . Sir H. PA KNELL said that he could not perceive how this bill could be safely allowed to proceed without compromising the in terests of the existing proprietors; and that would be a com promise which be thought the House would pause before it saric tioned.• At present they had only individual statements as to the approbation expressed of this bill, which might so seriously affect the interests of proprietors in the existing company. Dr. BOWRING observed, that the company had entered into contracts which they required this bill to enable them to fulfil. Now, he thought, that was what they ought not to have done; but having done it. he did not see that the House ought to favour the parties by violating its rules at this advanced period of the session. And wha, was to be effected by the bill? It was to graft unrestricted responsibility on restricted responsibility. What could be the resu;t of such a proceeding but injury and confusion ? Under all the circumstances, he thought it would be better to refuse the application this session. Lord SANDON admitted, with the hon. member, that some difficulty might arise regarding existing shareholders ; but he expected that the bill would remedy it, or he must suspend his support of it. Lord CLEMENTS strongly supported the motion, and as strongly eulogised the company, maintaining that it was the first establishment for extending the benefits of steam naviga tion, and that its exertions had been largely beneficial to the internal and general interest of Ireland. He, therefore, hoped that the House would not resist this application, by means of which the company could legitimately extend its means of use fulness. He hoped that the House would not listen to applica tions and resistance made on the part of the Scotch companies for they in fact desired to carry off the advantages created by the novel and successful enterprises of this company. The re sistance now experienced by this bill he attributed entirely to the manceuvring of the Scotch companies. Sir Gis.ottori CLERK said that the chief question was, whether the house ought to listen to this novel and unprecedented course of proceeding. Ought the alteration of a bill to justify its rein troduction? and ought they not to have before them the Report of the Committee on which the present application was founded? Mr. G. F: YOUNG said that he considered this bill to be the same in principle, only partially differing in the way in which it was carried out. if this were so, or if the fact were other wise, it ought to be clearly shown; and also that there was such urgency for the bill as to justify its introduction so late in the session, and contrary to the resolutions of the house on Such subjects. The bill would empower the raising of £150,000, out of which £127,000 was•to be laid out in the building of packets, &e. How this could be beneficial to the internal prosperity of Ireland—and it was declared that it would be of such internal use—he was at a loss to see. Mr. O'CoNNELL replied. He complained of the course adop ted. How was the bill treated? All argued on its provisions when it was not before them, and argued against allowing him to lay it on the table, by which course only could it be seen whe ther or nut his representations were correct. Let the bill be produced, and then it would be seen that it bore out his descrip tions; if it did not, he would be the first to abandon the bill. He repeated that this bill would fix the most unlimited respon sibility on the stock of the Company. He would nut say one. word more, only to declare that the bill would demonstrate his description, or he would b oive up th e Mr. W. Roche, amid loud calls of " Divide," supported the motion. Lord SA N DON begged it to be understood that if there were any ambiguity iu the wording of the bill, especially as regarded the unlimited responsibility, he should no longer feel himself pledged to support the bill. Mr. O'CoNNELL exclaimed—Nor shall 1. For the motio❑ Against it Majority —4l The bill was accordingly ordered to be brought iu. SURVEY OF CHURCH LANDS. Mr. 'l. DUNCOMBE moved for a copy of the survey of church lands preserved in the library of manuscripts in Lambeth Pa lace. Lord JOHN RUSSELL. As the public had access to these pa pers for the purpose of inspection and as it was unnecessary to remove them from the custody in which they were placed, moved as an amendment the order of the day for the house go ing into committee on the English Tithes' bill, and carried that amendment by a majority of 97 against 40. The house then went into committee on the English Tithes' bill, and proceeded as far as the 34th clause, when the Speaker again took the chair, and the house adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. —WEDNESDAY. HA ILW A YS. Colonel PA RRY brought up the report of the Festiniog rail way bill. The report was received and ordered to lie on the table. On the motion of Mr. MILLS, the amendments of the House of Lords on the Great Western railway bill, were agreed to. The Branching junction railway bill, was on the motion of Sir M. W. IitoLEY, read a third time and passecL The Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames junction railway bill was read, on the motion of Mr. , Hog Acs Twiss, third time and passed. Some petitions were then presented to the house.—Left Sitting. KILKENNY ELECTION. ( From the Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday.) " TO THE ELECTORS OF THE ANCIENT CITY OF KILKENNY. " MEN OF KILKENNY,—Before this address meets you! eyes, I shall have no seat in parliament. I think—perhaps it is mere vanity—that it is necessary for the rights and interests of the people that I should have a voice in the House of Commons. Men of Kilkenny—Do you agree with me in this opinion? If so, I should be, indeed, proud to represent the citizens of Kil kenny. " My ever esteemed friend, your late repreFentative, has af forded me the opportunity thus to solicit your suffrages. " I have not the culpable audacity to refuse pledges to those who honour me with their confidence—but my-life is my first pledge —my principles are my proofs of fitness. " I. however, pledge myself to these three things:— " First,—To give my cordial support to Lord Melbourne's government so long as it continues its present honest course of policy towards Ireland. It deserves that support, as b e i ng t h e only British government that ever acted honestly to the people of Ireland. " Secondly,—l pledge myself to vote upon every occasion as a thorough radical reformer. " Thirdly,—l pledge myself to use every constitutional exer tion in my power to complete the reform of parliament, amongst other things, by introducing the principles of election and re sponsibility in the House of Lords. " Until there is a reform in the House of Lords, it is impossi ble to have justice done to Ireland. " Y our local interests will command my most strenuous at tention. " I have the honour to be, " Your ever faithful servant. " DANIEL O'CONNELL. " London, May 7, 1836." [Tile London evening papers of Wednesday do not speak of O'Cunnell's resignation of his seat or discontinnance of his op position to the petition of Messrs. West and Hamilton. When the committee closed its sitting on that day the two parties were upon an equality, O'Connell's counsel having succeeded in re ducing the petitioners majority of one by striking off the name of a man who swore that h e h a d voted 'for them under the im pression that he was to have been paid for doing so.—E. L. S.] THE REWARD OF PATRIOTISM We stated about a month ago that a certain agitating doctor in this town had been taken from his pestle and mortar by go vernment, or rather by Mr. Ponlett Thompson, and rewarded for his zealous labours in that gentleman's service by appoint ment to a situation under either the Poor Law or the Factory Commissioners. The favored individual, however, rejected the distinction, or it was refused to him at the eleventh hour—(we know not precisely in which way the change occured)—and one inure worthy than he, it seems, has stepped i nto hi s s h oes. The following paragraph appeared in the London papers of Tues day : " Lord John Russell has appointed Mr. James Bury, of Manchester, Superintendent Inspector of Manufactories for Derby, Nottingham; , Leicester, and Northampton." The former nomination was sufficiently bad, but it was suc ceeded by a worse. The Factory Act is indeed a mere job, and the expenditure of money in salaries is an insult to the country, if such mere toad-eaters—the servants-of-all-work of an election committee, who do not choose to continue in there own sphere and labour at their proper vocation, are to be saddled upon the country and to such a subsistence from the public funds solely because they have assumed a degree of prominence, for which nature never intended them, in the field of local and electioneer ing politics. The salaries of factory inspectors we have long considered to be contemptibly meagre, taking into view the du ties attaching to the office in this part of the country, but if pay ment is to be admeasured to the competency of the servant, then Mr. Bury has glided into a better appointment than, this failing, he is likely soon again to encounter. We should be glad to know with whom the formal responsibility of this nomi nation rests. The honourable member for Manchester no doubt secretly planned it, and the Home Secretary, we presume, has the actual appointment, but as the latter could scarcely be honored by the distinguished friendship of Mr. Bury, he has to thank some one of his friends for an abominable aliuse of his kindness in bringing under his notice a person who possesses about as high qualification for the office of factory inspector as did the worthy doctor for whom this situation was first designed. We should not be sorry to find, in the debate on the pending; factory bill, some reference to the extraordinary character of the parties selected to carry out the provisions of the Act. Manchester Chronicle- MILITARY ELOQUENCE.—Speaking of military eloquence says Las Cases in his memoirs of Napoleon, the Emperor said " When in the heat of battle, passing along the line, I used to' exclaim, Soldiers, unfurl your banners, the moment is come!' our Frenchmen absolutely wept for joy. I saw them multiply a hundred-fold. I then th . ought nothing impossible." [This calls to mind a similar expression of the Duke of Wellington in his recent examination before the military commissioners; when speaking of the discipline of the English army under his com mand in the Peninsula, he said, " I always thought that I could have gone anywhere and done anything with that army.l CHAPLAIN'S WAGES.—The Guardians of the Workhouse at Woburn have advertised for a Chaplain—his pay is to be the handsome sum of £35 per annum ! This, being about 13s. 6d. per week, is considered very liberal. And so it is, for a person who has been rash enough to spend hundreds upon his education for Holy Orders ! Thirteen and sixpence per week is considered sufficient for a clergyman of the Church of England (the ad vertisement calls him a " gentleman," as if in mockery,) to at tend to the poor on the Duke of Bedford's estate, every acre of which estate *as robbed from that Church !—Age. BOLTON SUNDAY SCNOOL.—On Sunday afternoon last an impressive and appropriate sermon was preached in the parish church, Bolton, by the Rev. J. Slade, for the benefit of the Sunday school. The organ gallery was filled with the female scholars dressed very neatly in white, and who sung with much simplicity and effect in the choruses of several anthems, which were performed by a numerous orchestra. The church was densely crowded, and the town presented all the appearances of a grand gala day. The collection amounted to £l3B. A CABINET MINISTER.—The late Mr. Canning was once the object of an anonymous attack which marked him out for assas sination. He knew the author, and in his presence, in the House of Commons, where be sat in trembling silence, while he dared him to repeat the statement which he had circulated by the press, he told him to his teeth " he was a liar and a scoundrel, and only wanted courage to be an assassin." This individual is now a cabinet minister.—Newcastle Journal. Stu fIumpHREY DAbY'S OPINION ON THE MARRIAGE STATE.—lipon points of affection it is only for the parties themselves to form just opinions of what is really necessary to insure the felicity of the married state. Riches appear to me not at all necessary, but competence, I think, is; and, after this, more depends upon the temper of the individual than upon personal, or even intellectual circumstances. The finest spirits, the most exquisite wines, the nectars and ambrosias of modern tables, will be all spoiled by a few drops of bitter extract; and a bad temper has the same effect in life, which is made up, not of great sacrifices and duties, but of little things, ir. which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort. POOR LAW FRUCTIFICATION.—Whether the Travelling' Schoolmaster has made knowledge so cheap that it may be had at the rate of midshipman's half-pay, (three farthings per annum, paid quarterly,) we are not able to say, but it would seem that the new I'oor Laws require some such fructification of intellect, without however a corresponding appetency for corporal food. In the town of Cambridge the board of guardians has advertised for married men to be masters of the workhouses; each is re quired to " write a good hand, a n d b e a b le to keep accounts with the greatest accuracy; and th e matron (his wife) must be able toinstruct the children iu the house, and superintend the do mestic concerns therein." F or doing which these Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Quotems are to have the enormous and scandalous allow ance of £l2 per annum, which is about 4s. 7d. per week !—this too in a town which is the seat of a University ! "Satisfactory testimonials and sureties will be required of each master;"—so we should suppose; the trust is immense, and the responsibility, as measured by the remuneration, quite overwhelming.—Aye. DEATH FRONT THE BITE OF A TIGER. About a fortnight ago a schoolmaster of Carlisle, named Newbald, very impru dently put his hand upon the bead of a savage tiger in Mr. Wombwell's menagerie, and the animal seized his hand, and so severely lacerated the thumb and forefinger that immediate amputation was resorted to. He has lost his life by his foolish temerity. It was generally feared that lock-jaw would ensue from the laceration of the muscles, but after lingering some days symptoms of mortification ensued in the limb. Another surgi cal operation was performed, with the hope of saving life, but in vain; he died at half-past two on Wednesday week. For some hours priors to his demise be was quite delirious, and nearly the last words he uttered was a cry of entreaty to those near him that they would keep off that horrid beast, the tiger, which was going to spring upon bim. An inquest was held upon the body on Thursday afternoon, before W. Carrick, Esq., coroner, when evidence was adduced to prove that the deceasd was re peatedly cautioned by the keeper and others to keep away from the beasts, but be neglected their caution, in the foolish bravado of intoxication. Verdict, accidental death, with a deodand of Is. on the tiger. CURIOUS USE OF WORDS:—It continued to rain hard, but every one was of course calling it a soft day. This expression is, I - believe, equally common in the north of England; but in Ireland some of the terms which are made use of are odd enough to a stranger. For instance, "Dry Lodgings to be had, inquire within," will be observed in passing through almost every village. It naturally suggested to me that the word " dry" could only mean free from wet or damp, perhaps at the same time insinuating that others in the neighbourhood were not so. It seems, however, that 1 was quite wrong in my con jectures, for I found that "dry lodgings" meant neither more nor less than that no eating or drinking was to be obtained within, but merely a tied for the lodger. A poor woman, in whose cottage I had once taken shelter, pressed me to eat a boiled potato, observing I might feel dry before I crossed the mountain, meaning - hungry—a word not at all applicable on that occasion, as the rain was pouring, and there was every prospect of my clothes being drenched through.—Barrow's Tour. MAY 13 I S3ti filtelltgenre. THURSDAY, Max I'J.—Noon, Wind N. E.—.. Moderate. ARRIVED—The Adam Lodze, from Charleston—The North America, Dixey, from New York—Atalanta, Kiohke, from Memel Anna Dorothea, Barsman, from Oldenburgh—Johanna Catharina Robe, from Bremen—Jan Van Eyek, Cornelisse Andre, Christen ; and Neyverheid, Rickmans, from Ostend. SAILED—The Barton, An wyl, for Barbados—Susannah, Watson, for St Tho mas and Nassau—Antveus, Coulson, fur Quebec—Sir J. Frank; land, Corner, fur Lisbon—Thomas Crisp, Crisp, for Constantinople. The Minerva, and Mary Brown, hence, at Philadelphia. Argo, Farley. hence, at Boston. Countess of Lousdale, Groom, hence, at Havana. Monticello, Lawton • Orwell, Gow ; Victoria, Monroe; Manches.; ter, Denning; Hamilton, Ball; Manchester, Patten; and Shannon; Mildew, hence. at Mobile. James and Thomas, ; and John Troughton, hence; at Charleston. Joven Enrique, Garay ; and Lady Normal - thy, Teasdale, hence, at Havanna. British King, Moncrief, from Dundee, at Savannah. Napoleon, --, from Belfast, at do. The Athol, Gleig ; Regalia ; Cobb; Ocean Queen, Carnie ; Charles Heartley, Hopper ; Brothers, B e ll ; Onyx, Nicholson; Washington: Rogers; and Ranger, Jelland, hence, at Rio Janeiro. The Agnes, Cummin ; and Thomas Leech, Cowell, hence, at Buenos Acres. * The Frederic Wilhelm 111, Kuhr, hence, at Bermuda, in distress; bound to New York. The Euphrates, Emmerson, from St Marks for this port, in going out of the former port, 20th March, went ashore and would have to discharge to be got off. Coromandel, Chener, hence, at China. Derwent, Hewitt, from Rio Janeiro ; and Macclesfield, Wright, fin New South Wales, at China. The Ellen Johnson, sailed from Buenos Ayres for this port, 23d Jan: The Selina, Adams, for Cork ; and Arabian, for Bristol, sailed from' China in December. The Columbia, Underwood, for London ; and Bellhaven, Crawford,' for this port, 3d January. BUENOS AYRES, Jan. 30.—Guns of distress, apparently from the English Bank, were heard off Monte Video, 26th instant. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, MAY 12, 1838, Wind at Holyhead, S.W., blowing fresh. Off Holyhead, inward-hound, at 730 a.m.—No. 694, James Grant, B Bk, from Savannah—No. 1021, Celia, B 5, at 8 30, a.m. from New Orleans—No. 919, Minstrel Boy, B B, from Rio Grande—No. 1243, Snowdon, B Bk, at 10 a.m. from Demerara—No. 69. Fatima, B 5, fin China—No. 764, Claremont, B B, at 11 a.m. from China, ordered by Telegraph to proceed to Dublin—No. 628, Henrietta, B B, at 12 noon, from Demerara, ordered by Telegraph to proceed to Clyde—No. 612, Arab, B B, at 4 p.m. from Canton—No. 161, Bengal. Bk, and No. 1, Calcutta, Bk, at 4 30, p.m. from Mobile—No. 1544, Elizabeth, Bk, fm Calcutta, at 6 p.m.--No. 872, John Francis, B S, at 3 p.m. from New Orleans. Off Point Lynas, inward-bound—No. 1371, Euphrates, B 5, from Calcutta, at 9 a.m,—No. 926, Wilberforce, Bk, from Maranham, at 10 a.m.—No. 869, Henry Hoyle, B B, from Oporto ; and No. 807, Rival, B S, from Maranham, at 12 noon—No. 745, Herculean, Bk, fm China, and No. 635, Bencoolen, Bk, from Antwerp, at 1 p.m.—No. 89, Mary Somerville, B S, from China; and No. 1223, Pocahontas, A 8, from Philadelphia, at 2 p.m.—No. 37, Gipsy, BS, from China; and No. 1470, Formosa, B S, from Mobile, at 3 p.m. LIVERPOOL TIDE TABLE Eron. 1 111. Festival,, 4r. MAY. I H. x. Tuesday lO 721 Wednesday 11 827 Thursday l2 917 Friday, l3 10 0 Saturday 14 10 36 SUNDAY 15 11 11 Monday l6 11 43 H. H. F. 1. 756 12 5 853 13 6 9 4 14 8 10 19 15 '7 10 53 16 1 11 26 16 5 11 58 16 3 Jupiter rises 7h 17m morn Jupiter sets Oh 6m morn Ascension Day, or Holy Thr Mars rises 3h I lm morn Venus rises Gh 20m morn Sunday after Ascension Day [Sun eclipsed, visible jitlark LIVERPOOL CORN WHEAT, 701 b. s d s d English, new red, 7 6 a 7 10 Do. old 0 0 .. 0 0 Do. new white Do. old 0 0.. 0 0 Scotch, white 0 0.. 0 0 Do. red Irish, new red Do. old 6 4 .. 7 0 Do. hew white Do. old 0 0 .. 0 0 Dantzig, red Do, white Stettin, red 0 0 0" 0 Do. white 0 0.. 0 0 Conigsberg, red 0 0.. 0 0 Do. white Riga & Petersburg 0 0 .. 0 0 Odessa Russian, hard 0 0 .. 0 0 Canada, red 0 0 .. 0 0 Do. white Bonded Wheat RYE, imp. qr. English and Foreign, free 0 0 .. 0 0 Do. in bond BARLEYAff imp. qr English, Malting... 34 0 .. 37 6 Do. Grinding.6olh 3 8 .. 311 Irish, Malting, do. 0 0 0 0 Do. Grinding, do. 4 3 .. 4 6 Foreign, d. p. do. 0 0 .. 0 0 Do. in bond 0 0 .. 0 0 OATS, 44' 451 b. English, new 0 0 .. 0 0 Do. old 0 0 .. 0 0 Scotch, &c new 0 0 .. 0 0 Do. old PRICES OF SHARES, LI V ERPOOL, MAY 12, 1836. Per Share. Liverpool Coal Gas •A*35O 0 . Liverpool New Gas.and Coke. Company, „ ,X100 New Shares, premium - Liverpool and Harrington Water Works Bootle ditto Exchange Buildings Liverpool and Manchester Railway, £lOO paid 290 0 0 Ditto Old Quarterg 25 72 0 0 Ditto New Quarters Bolton and Leigh ditto Ditto 25 22 10 0 Warrington and Newton ditto Kenyon and Leigh ditto lOO --- 110 0 0 Wigan Branch ditto - 128 .0 0 Preston and Wigan North Union Line ditto 5O 70 10 0 St. Helens and Runcorn Gap ditto ., . 100 40 10 0 Leicester and Swannington ditto. . 50 60 0 0 Manchester, Bolton, and Bu ry Railway and Canal 48 83 10 0 Leeds and Selby Railway - 122 10 0 Grand Junction ditto 5O 130 0 0 London and Birmingham ditto - 140 0 0 Birmingham and Gloucester ditto .. . Manchester and Leeds ditto S 26 0 0 North Midland ditto 5 --- 15 0 0 Midland ditto 5 11 0 0 Edinburgh and Glasgow ditto Edinbui•gh, Leith and Newhaven 1 4 ,0 0 London and Gravesend ditto 1 --- 1 0 0 Bank of Liverp00l Bank of Manchester 25 38 0 0 Manchester and Liverpool District Bank l5 23 0 0 Commercial Bank of Liverpool lO 23 10 0 Liverpool Marine Assurance Company 25 --- 16 0 0 Oldham Gas Light and Waterworks lO 21 10 0 Manchester Fire and Life Assurance Co lO 10 5 0 Ocean Assurance Company Northern and Central Bank of England lO 16 10 0 Union Bank of Liverp00l Commercial Bank of England 5 7 7 6 Birkenhead Ferry o—o 0 0 Tradesmens' Bank 4 1 2 10s-- 4 0 0 United Trades' Bank £3 Os— 5 7 8 Rock Ferry £5 Os— 9 0 0 Royal Rock Ferry £0 Os— 0 0 0 Bolivar Scrip.. £o Os— 0 0 0 RICHARD DAWSON, Share Broker. LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT, From the 51h to the 12th May, 1836. DISCHARGED. ADMITTED. In-patients cured ............ 16 tn-patients Relieved and at own request .. 12 Out-patients Made Out-patients Irregular 0 Dead 3 2 i t 1 1 the a a i s n t V n e telikelli°o.uPse :ouse Visitors --Mr. A. Smith, jun., and Mr. J. Drinkwater. Consulting Surgeon, Mr. Forshaw. Chaplain, the Rev. R. Davies.—House Surgeon, Mr. J. Ashcroft. LOCK HOSPITAL. Admitted 9 I In the Hospital 50 I Discharged 5 OPHTHALMIC INFIRMARY, SLATER-STREET, Established .4.D. 1820. New Patients admitted during the month of April Patients prescribed for, and who have received surgical assist auce during the month of April 777 Total since the commencement 21,145 Surgeons, Mr. Edwards and Mr. Neill.—Treasurer, Mr. J. Knowles. LONDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY, MAT 10. INSOLVENT. May 10.--John Ilagger, Richmond, Surrey, cordwainer. BANKRUPTS. Charles Berry, Birmingham, stationer. John Berry, Birmingham, glass-manufacturer. George Shufflebotham, - Macclesfield, coach-builder. George Strutton, Chester, hotel and tavern-keeper. Thomas Marsden, Salford, machine-maker. Richard Furness, Preston, Lancashire, slater. DIVIDENDS. June 3, W. H. Gaden, Liverpool, merchant—June 2, C. J. Elkins and V. May, Liverpool, patent silk hat manufacturers—June 2, 11 - Dixon, J. C. Lavater, and J. K. Casey, Liverpool, tnerchants--Junn 3, T. Holman, Devonport, printer—June 3, R, Franklin, Fetriby sluice, Lincolnshire, miller—June 9, G. Armitage and J. Tomkinson. Oldham, Lancashire, timber-merchants—June 8, W. Dixop, Scarbo. rough, Yorkshire, draper—June 7, A. L. Wigan, Brighton, surgeon-- June 6, S. Brown, Oxford-street, London, cheesemOnger—May 31, E. Law, Lower Thames-street, London, salt-merchant—May 31, W, B. Clarke, Cheapside, London, silversmith—June I, J. R. 11. Withers, Bristol, linen-draper—May 2d, W. Richardson, King-street, Covent garden, London. wine-merchant—June 2, A. Lazarus, Chlswell-street. London, linen-draper. EXCHANGE, M 12. OATS, 4f , 45115. 9 d a d Irish, n. kilndried 3 3 rd 3 3 Do. old do. Do. prime, 421 b Do. do. old 0 0.. 0 0 Fore!gn, free Do. 1r bond . 0 0 . 0 PEASE, 4r imp. qr. English, white Foreign, white BEANS, 47 imp. qr English, new 4O 0 .. 45 0 Do. Pigeon, old 0 0,. 0 0 'Foreign, free Do. in bond 0 0 .. 0 0 Irish, Tick,c, new 37 6 .. 38. 6 Do. old 0 0 .. 0 0 MALT, tr imp. qr English INDIAN CORN, im. qr. Red White ... . FLOUR, 47 28048. English, fine Irish, 2ds, new Do. fine American. sweet, per brl. free.... 0. 0 .. 0 0 Do. in bond 0 0 .. 0 0 Do. sour, free 0 0.. 0, 0 Do. in bond Canadian, free Do. in bond 0 0.. 0. 0 OATMEAL, Ir 240th English, new .... 0 0.. Irish, new Do. old 0 0 .. 0 a BRAN, df' 24th 1 4.. 1 7 CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause he shown to the contrary on or before the' 31st day of May. E. W. Gaebel, Liverpool, merchant—J. W. Haines, Upp er-street , Islington, linen-draj er—R. A. Braine, Oxford, saddler--. 1: Robinson. Birmingham, jobbing smith—W. Dixon, Scarborough, Yurhshlre. draper—J. A. Jameson, Bermondsey-wall, London, rope-maker- 4 ; Raven, Suffolk. lane, London, wholesale grocer , —W. Davies and M. Davies, Oswestry, Shropshire, timber -merchants. LIVERPOOL BANKRUPT BUSINESS. FRIDAY, MAYI3. nOvii• THOMAS JACKSON and WILLIAM JACKSON, linen-merchants, audit, at Messrs. Brabner and Atkinson's Office, Fenwick street, at Final dividend, at the same place, at 1 TUESDAY, MAY W. THOMAS HINDLE, merchant, audit, at Messrs. Shackleton. Wright, and Hunter's Office, Brunswick-street, at . 1 .. . 13 NI WILLIAM GLEN ATTHIE and C. A. MATTIIIE , merchants., dend, at the Clare n d on - rooms, at l WEDNESDAY, MAY 18. THOMAS HINDLE, merchant, final dividend, at Messrs. Shac.kle. - il ton, Wright, and Hunter's Office,'Brunswick.street, a_t_,,.,... ............... DIED. Hunt' On Saturday last, at flockley, near Birmingham, Mr. William in the 60th year of his age. On Tuesday last, at the Vicarage, Ormskirk. bell Thomas 34t1lshoofr i versary of her birth-day, Harriet, the beloved wife o fler' f ' Thomas Horton, an d the oldest daughter of Sir Thoas DallYtri P Hesketh, Bart, of Rufford-hall, in this county. On Wednesday l ast, at his residence, Seaforth, Mr. George Kam' late of this town, aged 53 years. Yesterday, at her son's residence, Islington, after a painful a nd Pr°4 tracted illness , Mrs. Ann Tbom son aged 65 year LIVERPOOL: PRINTED AND, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND, 'FRIDAY MORNIN-0• BY RICHARD - PATTISSON, At No. 4, NORTH CRESCENT, CASTLE-STREET. r,. . . 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