The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

Ebr librzpoot &t4.1173a0. TUESDAY MORNING, NO V. 7, 1848. THE result of the municipal elections, just decided, affords ample evidence of the opinions of the consti tuencies on the water and the dock rating questions. Some - of our leading men, the elite of the Council chamber, men of the highest standing and ability, have been compelled to yield, in many instances, before untried and unknown opponents, whose sole claim to support has been a pko!ge to a particular course upon these questions. The balance of par ties in our municipal body is now entirely changed; and we wait to see the practical effect of the change. The first step, it appears to us, must be the se curing of a Health Committee, containing a greater amount of the popular leaven. There are strange rumours abroad of unfair dealing- on the part of that committee, or their servants, with respect to the water supply. We hear of steam-engines pumping night and day ; of millions of gallons of water being thrown a way to waste, whilst the quan tity furnished to the inhabitants is in extreme defi ciency. Public rumour states broadly that there is something of design in this ; that we are to be starved into the adoption of the Pike scheme; arid it points to the fact as significant that the fur nishing of that supply, and the entire control of the works of the late Water Companies, are in the hands of Mr. Hawksley, and officials appointed by him, and interested in the pet scheme being pressed forward at all hazards. We do net, of course, assert that all this is fact. We believe it is not ; hut we do say that it is the duty of the Council and the Health Committee at once to satisfy the public whether it is or is not fret. Let the works be handed over for a time to the control of the borough engineer ; let him test their capability of supply, not an engineer interested in convincing, us that it is deficient, and the public mind veil he satisfied. To arrive at the truth in this matter ought to be the first effort of the new blood infused into the Council. They will he told, no doubt, that it is too late now to pause ; that contracts for the carrying out of the Pike scheme have been entered into and the works commenced ; that a mandamus may even he had to compel us to go on with them. They must not beileee all this. Money, we admit, has been spent, but nothing to render it imperative on us to spend mote.. 'the first sacrifice may be the best and wisest, if, as the result of a fair trial it turn out, as we expect it will. that there is under our feet an abundance of excellent water, which can be had for a very trifling expenditure, probably for less than Me. Hawksley's commission, or the law charges for getting the Rivington Bill. - rill , 5-..l,ti.Ltc.i. It is said that Sir W. M. Stanley intends to winter on the continent. He is now at Genoa. On Tuesday night, about seven o'clock, a gentleman was knocked down in the field behind the Collegiate In stitution, by two men who rifled his pockets and made off. The barque Free Trader was abandoned on the 12th of September, waterlogged. The crew were rescued by the Washington Irving, bound for this port. On Thursday, several parties were summoned before the County Court, for their subscriptions to the Exchange News Room, and ordered to pay the same. On Friday morning Bernard M'Cloyne, aged 50, living in Collingwood-street, was found dead in bed. He retired to rest quite well and died of apoplexy. 111essrs. Atkins, of this town, are exhibiting in the Free Trade-i.all, Manchester, their beautiful panorama of the insurrection in Paris. In all probability we shall have a visit shortly from a detachment of the French National Guard, now in Lon don. They intend to visit Bristol, Liverpool, Birming ham, Sze. The two most culpable parties eng , zed in the robbery of two bales of lace at the railway station, have been sen tenced to seven years' transportation, and the third to three months' imprisonment. Richard Heywood. of the Mitre Inn, Dale-street, un dertook to walk, on Friday week, one mite in ten minutes, on the Walton road, for one sororein, which he accom plished in nine minute and c half. On Wednesday, a great nuilio,e of the owners of cellars in different parts of the town were fined 20s. and costs, for allowing them to be occupied contrary to the sanatory act. Mr. Edward J. Massey of this town has obtained a patent for improvements in apparatus for measuring the speed of vessels and streams, and for ascertaining the depth of water. The election of six honorary medial officers for the Li verpool Dispensaries took place on Tuesday last. when the choice ft:ll upon the following gentlemen :—Messrs. G. T. Alanson, John Hey, G. F. Easton, R. Hutchinson, R. T. Lodge, and John Fenton. Alderman James Lawrence, Alderman John Holmes, JLIM33 Aikin, Esq., and Hugh Hornby, Esq., are now the only members of the council who have retained their seats since the passing of the Municipal Reform Bill to the pre 7 sent tima. They are still four of the most popular mem bers of the body, and they well deserve that popularity. The resolution of the Bank of England come to by the directors, at their weekly board meeting on Thursday, to reduce the rate of interest on bills of exchange, not having more than 95 days to run, to 3 per cent., which is a re duction of -1 per cent., has not exerted any material in fluence here, nor is it apparently likely to do so. WHALLEY v. M'CONNELL.—This case, in which it will be remembered that the plaintiff, a car driver, had been committed to prison by the j,idge of our county court, for refusing to appear to severli summonses served upon him in the wrong name, wa- brought hetore the Vice-Chan cellor on Thursday, and a rule nisi granted. The Loat man Cain, belJoging to the Tranmere steamer Mersey, saved the iif of e man on Monday, by jumping into the water him and holding him whilst the tide was rtmbing strongly, ui.til a rope was thrown to them. This is the thirteeuth life that Cain has saved in a similar way, and a subscription is very properly being raised for ,him. On Tuesday a grand dinner was given to T. Birchall, Esq., Mayer of Preston and owner of the beautiful yacht . " ' which has been so successful in competing for prizes at. the various regattas. Among the guests were E. W. Lloyd, Commodore of the Royal Dee Yacht Club, and John Crindrod, Erq., ex-Commander of the Royal Mersey Yacht .Club. The Cambrie steamer arrived at, Liverpool on Tuesday, after a voyage of shirt. en days, liavi: - !g sailed from Boston on the 18th and frersi ILtlifax on the 20th ult. She brings sixty-seven passengers, but no specie. The Britannia had arrived out in sixteen (lays, and the Niagara was spoken b,•tween Halif:•x r.nd Boston. There is nothing important by this arrival. A MATAMOTII Snip.----3.lessrs. We tervelt and McKay, of New York, have laid .the kc el of a ship, intended for Robert Kermit's Liverpool line of rackets, which will surpass in size, every other sailing vessel yet constructed in the United States. This ship will measure, in length 200 feet ; breadth of beam, 4IA feet ; depth of hold, 28 feet. and will carry 1,600 tons. BAINERIGGE oN CELEREFoRm.—We have been very much interested by a perusal of this argumentative and eal - rernely wall written pamphlet. We cannot agree with all Mr. Bainbrigge's reasoning, but we think he has gone far towards establish in g not only; the utility but the scriptural propriety of the use of chloroform. We intend in our present, or in a succeeding paper, to give an extract or two from the pamphlet. QUEER MisTaKra—On Monday nLht a person named John Roberts, residing near Pool-street North, who had been indulging so freely in libations to "John Barleycorn" as to be in a state of oblivion, actually undressed himself near a pond adjoining Canning-street, Birkenhead, and, imagining he was near his bed, plunged into the water. The police being near, be was speedily rescued and con veyed to'Briclewell for safety. The sloop Banff, of Sunderland, laden with slates, from Bangor for Northumberland, was wrecked in the Solway Frith, on Tuesday, through striking on a sand bank. She beat on the baniz all bight, shifting nearly two miles, the crew (four in number) clinging to the rigging, and in this way passing a stormy night. At last they were observed by the Royal Victoria steamer, from Liverpool to Carlisle, from which a boat was lowered and dispatched to the wreck, and thus the poor fellows were rescued. NORTHERN HOSEITAL. — Mr. Stubbs, one of the sur geons to this valuable institution, has just published the introductory lecture to chemical surgery, delivered at the hospital last month. It appears to contain many excel lent practical suggestions to medical students. The toial number of cases treated at the hospital last year, was 2379. Three hundred of these were cases of fracture ; a large proportion of which were compound. There were more than a thousand cases of severe injuries of the head. UNFAIRNESS OF THE MERCURY.—WhiIst alluding to .the correspondence between Dr. M'Neile and Mr. Ewbank, the Mercury of Friday says—" It appears that Dr. M`Neile is most anxious for a reconciliation with the Rev. Mr. Ewbank, to be based upon a practical admission that the latter was altogether in the wrong on the occasion of the_ recent fracas at the Collegiate Institution." Let our readers peruse the correspondence which appears in ano ther column, and they can then judge whether our con .temporary's cry for " fair play" is always sincere. DISCOVERY OF A NEW SATELLITE OF SATURN.—III the last fasciculus of the Ropal Astronomical Society, is a communication by Mr. William Lassen, of Liverpool, ,giving the particulars of his discovery of an eighth satelite of Saturn, winch he proposes to call Hyperion. It seems that on the 18th of Septem,lser last, whilst surveying the , planet in the 20-foot equatorial, and looking out for Ja petus, the most external satellite s of the seven, he saw two stars in the line of the interior sa2tellites; and the next night. he found that both had moved h way from the fixed stars, and were still accompanying Satnk a. Various cir cumstance; led him to the conclusion that .the more dis tant was Japetus, and thst the nearer and fain, er must be a new satellite of Saturn, Fue- 3, a* ob •servati' satisfied him that it still foll owe d the o , et, and fixed star. therefore could not b e a track of the R lap Its magnitZde small, perhaps not intrinsically o fha satellite Mimas, the one nearest theso great as that o z .._ satellites were thus named by Sir J planet.--Th e seven I John Herschell, b ning with the closest to Satu rn :—Mimas , egin— Tethys, Drone, Rhea, Titan, and Japetus.Enceladus, THE POLISHING OF TELESCOPIC SPECULA.—Mr. Las sell, of Liverpool, in a letter which is given in the last fas ciculus of the Royal Astronomical Society, states that he has at length brought his polishing machine to do all he ever purposed or hoped it would do. He says he is now able to re-polish a known good surface without hurling it, and to turn a had one into a good one with certainty and expedition. By certain rules, varying with the proportion of the focal length to the aperture, he can produce a para bolic surface which shall have the same focus in every part of its surface, to the hundredth of an inch. He adds that the improvement in regularity of curve is not less than in the truth of its general form. MoNs. PANOFKA.—This celebrated violinist, who caused such a sensation at Madame de Lozano's concert at Manchester, on Monday week, is expected shortly in this town. The talent of M. Panofka is adorned with peculiar grace and elegance. In the full possession of every resource in reference to execution, he does not de scend to artistic display, except to move and charm his auditors. He at once attracts our sympathies, and we follow his inspiration with delighted emotion ; for, to beauty and purity of tone, he unites great delicacy, ex quisite taste, and, above all, deep feeling. Few perfor mances of late have given us so much gratification. MR. HAWKSLEY'S PICKINGS FROM THE PIKE.—At the Council meeting on Tuesday, the giant bill of the water engineer was presented to the Council ; and as it will, no doubt, be interesting to our readers to see the various items, we subjoin them : Charges. Expenses. Total. Sanatory and Harrington....t'2s7 5 <t'42 6 0 £299 11 0 Bala and other projects 149 2 33 0 0 184 2 0 Rivington scheme '609 13 509 5 4 2118 18 4 Purchase of companies . 4OO 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 Existing {Yorks .t'2754 0 £735 1 4 .e 3489 1 4 LANDING-PLACE AT THE SOUTH END.—We have to congratulate our friends in Toxteth on the not very re mote prospect of a landing-stage being placed, for the convenience of passengers crossing the river, at the south end of the town. Mr. Hae , ord and other Councillors have exerted themselves in a praiseworthy manner to secure this much-desired convenience. The Corporation Surveyor reports that the only site available is about 350 yards to the south of Toxteth slip ; he recommends the construction of a flight of wooden steps, five feet in width, outside the existing wall, and the removal to that place of the barge lately used at George's pier-head. The first expense of fitting up this temporary accommodation is calculated at £650, and the annual cost at £250. _ _ MR. RICHARD lIARBORD.—At the Councii meeting of Tuesday, the Mayor gave the following explanation re specting the penalty which was inflicted on Mr. Harbord, for having illegal weights and meacures in his possession. The Mayor said,—the facts were these: The gentle man in question was a warehouse owner, and there were weighta in his warehouse which did not belong to him, and scales also which he kept for the convenience of others. The gentleman, therefore, had no interest in having any illegal scales or weights, but they were in his warehouse, and because they were there, which was an act of negligence, be (the Mayor) felt in duty bound to fine the gentleman, stating publicly in the court at the time, that there was not the slightest intention on Mr. Harbord's part to do wrong, but that the case was one of negligence, and that he was consequently fined for that negligence and that only. EASTERN DISPENSARY.—We deeply regret to learn that the committee of this highly-valued institution are in considerable debt, and unless some funds are immedi ately raised, it must be closed. The Dispensary has now been in active operation above nine years, during which time its usefulness has been fully proved by the great and increasing numbers who daily apply, and get medical aid and medicines close to their own homes. It is impos sible to over-rate this advantage in cases of sickness, as prompt aid may perhaps be the means of arresting the disease at its commencement, more especially in cases of cholera. 'I he expenses, of every kind, are kept as mode rate as can be—renting a house at a low rate, and having only one paid surgeon and an apothecary : nearly all the rest of the subscriptions are expended in drugs. The numbers that have received medical advice and relief, since its establishment, amount to above 52,000, but se parate and distinct cases • and this has been done at the small expense, including the debt, of £2,600 ; or at the trifling cost of only one shilling each person—thus show ing what an immense deal of good has been done at a trifling expense. Surely an effort ought to be made to relieve the embarrassments of the committee. BANKRUPTCY COURT.—On Thursday and Friday an examination of David Hughes, who was formerly a lime burner, in Welchpool, Montgomeryshire, took place before Mr. Commissioner Perry. The bankrupt, who appeared before the court to make an application for his certificate, was brought up in custody of the Monmouthshire gaoler. Mr. Evans, solicitor, opposed the application, on behalf of a creditor, on the ground that the bankrupt Commenced business with a capital of £6OO, and in the course of twelve months he incurred liabilities to the amount of £8,312, his assets not being more than £l,BOO, leaving, conse quently, a large deficiency. He had also carried on busi ness iu a reckless manner, lending his name to accommo dation transactions to two persons named Golding and Bradshaw, beyond his means to discharge the liabilities he incurred. There was also a sum of £1,300 in his balance-sheet unaccounted for; besides, he had fraudu lently asserted that his wife had in her possession £5OO by which he obtained credit to a large amount. Mr. Oliver Jones, attorney, who appeared for the bankrupt, contended that Golding and Bradshaw, whom he had considered men of capital, had caused the bankruptcy, and the liabilities incurred were principally on their ac count. If thebankrupt's certificate were refused it would be most injurious, as he was too poor to come before the court again. He held a situation in which he could not continue if the certificate were not granted. His honour p)stponed the else until Saturday, when he gave judg ment, which was, that the bankrupt's certificate be sus pended for twelve months, the principal grounds being that he had made fraudulent representations to creditors with the view of obtaining credit, and that his liabilities had been imprudently incurred. THE MAYORS OF LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER. — On Thursday evening, the Mayor of Manchester enter tained a number of gentlemen at dinner, including the Bishop of the Diocese, the Dean and Canons of Man chester, T. B. Horsfall, Esq., Mayor of Liverpool, Edw. Rushton, Esq., and W. Shuttleworth, Esq., our respected Town-clerk. After the usual loyal toasts, and the health of the Bishop, had been given and responded to, the Mayor of Manchester referred to the close ties of con nexion existing between the great boroughs of Liverpool and Manchester, which rendered the prosperity of the one an object of the deepest interest and importance to the other; and he expressed the satisfaction which it gave him, in reciprocation of the opportunities which had been afforded to him to enjoy the splendid hospitalities of the Corporation of Liverpool, to entertain at his table the chief magistrate of that borough. He concluded by pro posing the health of the Mayor of Liverpool.—Mr. T. B. Horsfall, Mayor of Liverpool, in acknowledging the toast, expressed the pleasure which he felt in receiving and in accepting the mayor's invitation ; and he congratulated the city of Manchester upon the individuals she possessed as representatives of the civil and of the ecclesiastical authority, within her boundaries. He had for some years past known and esteemed the right reverend prelate, and he could not refrain from stating the opinion ex pressed of his lordship by a great and good man; which he was not sure was recorded in the life of Dr. Arnold. Upon a friend inquiring of the late lamented Dr. Arnold what he thought of Dr. then Mr. Lee,—the characteristic reply was—" Ask me, indeed, what I think of Lee ! Go and ask Lee what he thinks of me."—The Mayor of Li verpool subsequently referred to the agitation at present rife in Liverpool, with respect to the rating of the dock estate, observing that he considered that the attempt to carry any such proposition, and thus to tax the goods and merchandise of the merchants of Manchester and of this district, was unjustifiable in itself, and one whieh, when ever it should be made, he hoped the opponents of such a proposition in Liverpool would receive the cordial co operation and support of the Mayor and Corporation of Manchester. lie explained that, by the present acts, the dock estate is exempt from all local taxes; and that the dock dues are from time to time to be reduced, whenever the receipts are more than sufficient to cover the ex penditure. Mr. Horsfall concluded by proposing, "The city and trade of Manchester." LAW INTELLIGENCE. 0 COURT OF CHANCERY.-FRIDAY. MENLOVE V. CARTER AND THE LIVERPOOL DOCK COMPANY. This was an appeal motion from the Vice-Chancellor of England to dissolve an injunction restraining the master of a ship from handing over the cargo to the consignees, and also to annul the appointment of a receiver for the purpose of selling the cargo. The short facts are, that the ship in question, called the Charlotte, sailed to Charleston, America, with a freight of coal and salt, and was consigned to the plaintiffs, with instructions to ship a cargo of cotton in return. This was accordingly done, and the difference in value between the out cargo and the home one was charged to the firm of Barton, Irlam, and Higginson, at Liverpool, the consignees, by means of bills drawn upon them to that amount. Before the arrival of the ship at Liverpool, Barton and Co. became bankrupts, and the question raised by the present suit was, whether the plaintiffs had a lien upon the cotton to the extent of their advances, as against the assignees of Barton and Co. The Vice-Chancellor thought, from the letters, &c., they had, and granted the injunction. Mr. ROLT and Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER, to dissolve, urged that the only title of the plaintiffs, if they had any, was a purely legal one, and, therefore, they had no busi ness in a court of equity. The LORD CHANCELLOR, however, without calling upon them, said he thought the Vice-Chancellor was right in granting an injunction. I was quite clear that there was a question to be tried between the parties, and, although a court of common law might be the proper Place to determine it, still this court would protect the property in the meantime. The motion must, therefore, be refused with costs. It was then settled between all parties that arrange ments should be made for trying the question at law. TUE QUEEN IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY. — We have to announce a great legal novelty, her Majesty, through the medium of Prince Albert, and the prince on his own be half, having instituted proceedings in the Court of Chan cery. Her Majesty and the Prince are well known to be not only patrons of the arts, but artists. Our readers may remember to have read an account not long since of various drawings and etchings which have been executed by her Majesty and Prince Albert, and which excited a deserved admiration in those who were so favoured as to be allowed to inspect them. These drawings, or etchings, or copies of them, it seems, have by some means been ab qtracted from the palace without authority. They were to a publisher in Paternoster-row, who has adver "s of them for publication, with a " descriptive TTuon an affidavit by the Prince an injunc - and granted. hat. tised cop, catalogue." tiori was applied tii. ~. THE LIIERPOOL OUR COMMERCIAL STATE AND PROSPECTS- In endeavouring to form a judgement of the actual position and prospects of the Commercial Community, the journalist must weigh well the character of the authority and the evidence before him. The circulars of respectable mercantile houses are valuable as exponents of current facts, prices, &c., and of individual or sec tional opinions. The tone of opinion on 'Change and in well informed commercial circles it is also most desirable to know. But the experience of the past twelve months has gone to prove that both these sorts of evidence have been of too sanguine a character. At least fifty times we have been assured that the worst of the crisis was past. Yet, although every one admitted the fact, no one acted as if he believed it. The " lowest deep" was found to have a " lower deep" ' • the dislocation of the commercial fabric was found to be more complete than had been anticipated ; and men hesitated to commence its recon struction, actuated by the same sort of feeling which prevents us from approaching a burning warehouse in which gunpowder has exploded—a fear lest there is still another barrel which the flames have not reached. During the past week we have had a slight reaction, to which the bank has endeavoured to lend an impetus by reducing the rate of discounts. Our leading lines of rail way have considerably recovered from their extreme depression ; and during the week our Cotton Market was firmer. Our markets for other produce remain dull and declining ; and the increase of confidence on the part of the public is languid in its effects. The home demand alone for manufactures and for some arti cles of imported produce is moderately healthy. It was to have been anticipated, and by some was confidently expected, that the assurances given, publicly by some, and peivately by many of our Railway Companies, that if the drain of money for calls should cease or be greatly abated, it would have induced greater confidence. Beyond, however, the rise noted in a few of the leading lines no perceptible result has followed ; and even with respect to these, the rise is not expected to be maintained under any extent of pressure on the part of holders desirous of realising. People are not satisfied as to the quarters in which these securities are held ; and whether they will not be pressed upon the markets the moment they ap proach the limits of the advances made upon them. There is another dread, too, which operates upon the minds of thinking men, connected with the disturbed state of the Continent of Europe. It is not a fear that we are likely at present to be drawn into any of the vari ous quarrels which are pending, but that our specie, in stead of our manufactures, will be drawn from us, in ex change for imports, to enable them to be carried on. In the United States, they see vast accumulations of bread stuffs, the destination of which, at whatever price our market may rule, is almost certain to be Great Britain, and the payment, in the first instance, gold. Then fol low in the perspective of evil, the Bank Screw, an ad vance in the rate of interest, another crisis, or an aggra vation of the present one, attended with bankruptcy and ruin to thousands. These are gloomy anticipations, we confess; entertained in their full extent by but few. But a dim fear of such a state of things in prospect, or at least as possible, is more generally felt than acknowledged. It is not our province, in such an article as the present, to prescribe a remedy. for the pressing evils which we de scribe, and the truth of which description we think will not be gainsayed. But a remedy there must be found ; or a state of anarchy must ensue, more fearful than any which we have ever had to pass through. Our 1 bouring population, so enduring and patient thus far, will not for ever be content to starve; nor can we, for much longer, depend upon the forbearance of our middle classes, who are already, as in all similar cases, directing their attention to the intelligible portion of the pressure upon them—the public expenditure, and even to that of the Sovereign her self—instead of to the less, to them, perceptible cause of the evil which is crushing them. A much further neglect on the part of the Legislature will induce a widely-spread distrust of legislation itself, and sap the foundations of the national confidence in legislation and loyalty together. For, look at our anomalous position ! We arethe only people in Europe over whose heads the storm of Revolution has passed inno cuously. And yet we venture to say that we have sustained a greater loss, within the last two years, in the deprecia tion of the realized capital of the nation, than any country over whose face contending armies have swept. We have commodities and food of every description chew and abundant : and yet we have a large portion of our popula ' ion threatened with starvation. And —strangest of all ! —the greatest evil which we have to dread is large impor tations and a further increase of that very abundance, which we have been taught to regard as the greatest earthly material blessing which God can confer upon us. THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION. On Wednesday the annual election of sixteen members to serve in the Town Council was held in the sixteen wards of the borough. The eight contested wards were :—Vauxhall, St. Paul's, St. Peter's, Great George's. Abercromby, St. Anne's, West Derby, and Everton. In Everton the candidates were :—Mr. Francis Shand, a conservative and anti-dock rater, and Mr. E. Langs dale, a liberal. The contest was a severe one throughout the day, and at the close it was thought Mr. Langsdale was in a majority of 17. A scrutiny, however, was de manded, and on Thursday it occupied the attention of the Town-clerk for five hours, Mr. John Yates, jun. repre senting Mr, Langsdale, and Mr. Carson appearing for Mr. Shand. It appears that there are separate voting papers for Everton and Kirkdale townships, and that five of the electors who voted for Mr. Langsdale and two who voted for Mr. Shand used voting papers belonging to the wrong township. The Town-clerk had doubts of the illegality of these, but, to save trouble, they were struck out, and the result of the voting was declared as follows :—For Mr. Langsdale, 352; for Mr. Shand, 338; majority for Mr. Langsdale, 14. In Vauxhall, Mr. Rathbone was only able to obtain 35 votes,—the smallest number we recoliect to have been polled at any election where the contest was not carried on in a spirit of mockery. He owes his defeat to the advocacy of the Pike scheme, and his determined opposi tion to the rating of the docks. The successful candi date was Mr. T. L. Hodson, surgeon, who polled 133 votes. A spirited contest was fought in St. Paul's Ward, be tween Mr. John Briscoe and Mr. I. R. McGuffie. Towards the close of the poll, the struggle between the respective candidates was remarkably close. It was a sort of neck-and-neck race,—so much so, that it was said an elector who had voted for Mr. McGuffie, at or about the time the clock was striking four, had made him and his opponent equal on the poll, (184 each,) and that the election was to be decided by the casting vote of the alderman of the ward, Mr. John Holmes, who was sup posed to have a leaning towards Mr. McGuffie. A scrutiny was demanded, and after it had lasted about two hours at the Town-hall, and the whole of the voting papers had been gone through, the numbers were found to be ;—Briscoe, 185 ; McGuffie, 182. The former has, therefore, been elected. In St. Peter's "Ward, Mr. Ferguson, of Bold-street, headed the poll from the start, and was returned by a majority of 84 over his opponent, Mr. John Stewart. In Great George's, Mr. Wagstaff carried all before him, beating Mr. Thomas Lloyd by a large majority of 115. Throughout the day unusual enthusiasm was manifested for the successful candidate, who is very popular with all classes in the ward. In Abercromby, an unexpected victory was gained by Mr. Hugh Neill, surgeqn, that, gentleman having only become a candidate at eleven o'clock on Monday night. He defeated Mr. William Earle by a majority of 46. In St. Anne's there was a sort of mock contest between Mr. Thomas Poole and Mr. Henry Adams, a pawn broker. Mr. Poole was triumphantly elected. In West Derby Mr. R. M. Beckwith was also trium phantly elected over Mr. James Bourne by a majority of 125. _ _ _ _ _ By this election, the Council loses Mr. Shand, Mr. Rathbone, Mr. Lace, Mr. Earle, Mr. Stewart, and Mr. Thomas Lloyd, and gains several untried men. The Council is now constituted as follows. The Re formers' names are in italics : No. 1, EVERTON AND Years to No. 9, GREAT GEORGE Years KIRKDA LE WARD. serve. WARD. to serve. Alderman David Hodgson 2 Alderman Joseph Cooper .. 5 William Atherton William Walthew Edward Langsdale No. 2. SCOTLAND. I No. 10, RODNEY-STREET Alderman Anthony Swainson 2 Alderman J. N. Wood 5 James Holme J. Woodruff.. 1 S. Holme . 2 J. A. Tobin James Thomson No. 3, VAUXHALL. 1 No. H. ABERCROMBY Alderman T. B. Horsfall .... 2 Alderman James Procter, John G. Morris William Preston 2 R. C. Gardner T. L. Hodson _ _ No. 4, ST. PAUL'S, Alderman John Holmes James Stitt NO. 12, LIME-STREET. 5 Alderman J. B. Moore 1 Henry Dawson Robert B. Hill 5 I 2 3 John Briscoe. 2 John - 13, Lloyd 3 James John.ion, No 5, EXCHANGE. I No. 13, ST. ANNE'S. Alderman James Lawrence 2 Alderman E. Molyneux . James Tyrer 1 William Bennett G. 11. Horstall 2 James Parker Thomas Littledale 3 Thomas Poole No. 6, CASTLE-STREET. I No. 14, WEST DERBY. Alderman Sir T. Brancker 2 Alderman John Bent James Atkin 1 G. H. Lawrence George Holt 2 Josias Booker Hugh Hornhy 3 B. M. Beckwith No. 7, SAINT PETER'S. I No. 15, SOUTH TOXTETH Alderman William Nic01.... 5 Alderman W. P. Bushby John A. Tinne 1 William Watson It. S. Henderson 2 R. L. Jones John Ferguson s E. C. Ilindley 3 No. 8, PITT STREET. I No. 16, NORTH TOXTETII. Alderman Thomas Sands.... 2 Alderman Thomas Chilton Thomas Teulmin ..... 1 Robert Bean 1 Richard Rimmer 2 William Mann 2 Thomas Robinson 3 William Faher 3 There are now 48 Conservatives in the Council and 16 Reformers. ATTEMPTED IMPOSITION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sir,—Several attempts at imposition, and, in some instances, 1 regret to gay, -eueeessful—onee, having- been lately made upon very respectable parties in this town, by persons producing begging letters and petitions with my name forged thereto, I think it right, in justice to the public, and for the better dete'tion of such treacherous dealers" thus publicly to notice the same, and to suggest that it would be wise and safe, in future, for parties so applied to by letter or petition, first to communicate with clergymen or others whose names may be attached, before they answer the demand so made upon their benevolence. Delay, in such cases, would be safe, and would tend greatly to the protection of persons whose generosity is readier in its outflow than their suspicion. I have, within the last few days, seen my name thus fraudulently attached to two documents, asking aid for two individua s, styled,. (so far as I now recollect,) Blundell and Wilson. Your's, &c. W. M. FALLOON, Minister of St. John's Church. Nov. Gth; 1848. LOCAL MEETINGS. WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS. — The monthly meeting of this body was held on Thursday evening, at the Queen s Arms, Liscard, Mr. J. C. Ewart in the chair. Mr. Patrick Higgins was appointed surveyor of roads, &c., to the township, at a salary of £BO per annum.—A sum of £286 had been paid over to the Law-clerk for Parlia mentary expenses, agents' charges, &c.—A sum of £5 was allowed to Edward Dewhurst as a gratuity for causing the detection and conviction of a person who had damaged some property in the. township.—Mr. Richard Parry moved for the reduction of the Law-clerk's salary from £2OO to £l5O, but on being put to the vote the motion was negatived by a majority of 10 to 6. Doca COMMITTEE.—The surveyor submitted a state ment of the expenses of the working of the Kirkmaybrick quarry, and intimated that the lease would expire in 1850. It was recommended that the lease be renewed. The statement was laid on the table for the inspection of the committee before coming to any decision.—lt was ordered that additional weather boarding should be placed at the shed on the west side of George's Dock, the expense of which was £l6o.—The committee declined to comply with the request made by Mr. Rudd to remit part of the charge made for replacing a stancheon at the new landing stage, which was broken by one of the Woodside boats, the charge being only the estimated cost of replacing the injury. Mr. Tobin had great doubts whether any damage was recoverable, as the stage was put in the way of dock it g •, I ,, cking vessels. Mr. Bold : In this case the steam-r •-• • ; coming to the landing-stage.—A letter was received :e Mr. Rounthwaite, agent to the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, asking when sea-going steamers would be allowed to use the new landing-stage. Mr. Mann said permission should be given as soon as possible. The subject was referred to the Marine Sub committee. Mr. Henderson, the chairman of that com mittee, stated that there was a great desire to make the stage as useful as possible. It was understood, also, that a conference was to be had with the Ferries Committee of the Council, with a view of adopting a code of bye-laws for regulating the packets using the stage. SELECT VESTRY.—The weekly meeting was held on Tuesday. The usual notices were directed to be issued desiring the inhabitants not to relieve unknown beggars. The committee reported . that there was an increase of Irish paupers, and tearing the consequences which ensued last year, they would recommend the magistrates to adopt the most stringent measures for the suppression of va grancy and street begging. The defalcations of Mr. Caulforth (now under examination before the magis trates) were ascertained to be £lO3 15s. 10d., and £4O of the cash received on the 7th ultimo was not entered in the cash-book. It appeared that Mr. Gray had departed from his usual course of checking the books daily, and the committee expressed their conviction, that if it had not been for such neglect, the defalcations alluded to would not have taken place. The .. committee had adopted the requisite measures for examininginto the duties per formed by Mr. Gray, and making a thorough investiga tion into the accounts. Mr. Mactaggart thought there must be something seriously wrong in times past, or they would not have so many officers committing themselves in the manner they had done. Mr. Avison replied that the committee would shortly . be prepared with a report on the subject.—There were in the Workhouse 432 sick, including 89 fever cases, being an increase of eight in the total, and two in the fever cases; also that there was y e t accom modation for 206 able-bodied paupers in the house, if additional bedsteads were provided. The resignation of Dr. Torbock was accepted. Arrangements were being made for providing medical assis tance, medicine, &c.. i n case they might be required by the approach of cholera. Mr. Cafferata gave notice that ,he should move at the next meeting for the appointment of a person to succeed Dr. Torbock.—Arrangements were making for procuring plans, &c., as to the alteration at the workhouse, to be A letter was read from Mr. Brown, the Government submitted for the approval of th t e ha P t oo s r e - v l e a r w al G b u: y r s di s a h n o s u . In spector of Schools, suggesting ld be appointed from the Industrial Schools as pupil teach ers, and that other arrangements should be made for their more efficient management. His letter co . ntained several resolutions embodying his suggestions, which were adopt ed by the Board.—A letter was also read from the Poor law Coe.missioners, to the effect that as the Nuisance Removal Bill would add to the duties of parish-officers in some of the departments, they would consider any sug gestions for additions to the salaries of such parties, if recommended by the Board, TOWN COUNCIL.—SPECIAL MEETING. On Tuesday the Town Council held a special meeting, for the purpose of bringing to a close the municipal busi- ness for the year. The minutes of the Finance Committee contained the following arrangement with regard to the land belonging to the Corporation at Wallasey Pool :—The treaty for the purchase of the reversion of the above-mentioned land to be abandoned, and the award to be rescinded. The comdany are not, at any future period, to seek a compulsory purchase of the fee under their existing act, or by any future legislative provision. The existing lease to Messrs. Jackson, Potter, Laird, and Brownrigg, dated 11th December, 1844, as to the company's portion of the land comprised therein, to be surrendered to the Corpo ration. A new lease thereof to be granted from a term of 75 years, to commence from the 15th December next, at a pepper-corn rent ; such lease to include the land comprised in the contract of the Messrs. Walker, dated 15th December, 1843, which has been assigned to the company, and Messrs. Walker's contract to be given up to be cancelled. The new lease is not to contain any restrictions as to the construction of any buildings, docks, or other works, save what may be required under the Municipal Corporation Act, or any other covenants or restrictions, save the usual covenant to pay rates and taxes, and keep any buildings thereon in repair. As a conside ration, the company are to pay to the Corporation the sum of £5OO, as the costs of the Corporation opposition to the bill of 1845, as to the compulsory power of purchase therein, so far as the same might affect the Corporation property, and also the sum of £1,456 12s. 11d., the taxed costs of the arbitration, under the company's notices of compulsory purchases new agreed to be abandoned, with interest at £5 per cent. from the date of the award, such two sums and interest to be paid within seven days after the confirmation of this arrangement by the Council of the Corporation. The company are also to pay before the grant of the said new lease the balance of the purchase money remaining unpaid under Messrs. Walker's con tract, amounting to £3,905 12s. 10d., with the interest due and to become due thereon, at £5 per cent per an num, amounting to 34 years to the sth December next, to the sum of £983 9s. 3d. The company are, also, to pay to the Corporation before the grant of the said now lease the further sum of £2,056, for a renewal for the whole premises. The agreement was confirmed by the Council. Mr. HARBORD complained of the extraordinary and eccentric manner in which he alleged the inspector of weights and measures (Mr. Fell) was discharging his duty. He said that Mr. Fell had been the means of holding up to public reprobation men who had no wish to offend against the spirit of the law, but who, not having known the strict law on the subject of weights and measures, had inadvertently been led to break the law in its letter. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE, Mr. EARLE, and Mr. TINNE spiritedly defended Mr. Fell's conduct.. The Watch Committee passed a unanimous vote of thanks to Mr. Lace, their retiring chairman. They also passed a similar vote of thanks to Mr. Dowling, and the officers of the constabulary force, for their excellent con duct during the late threatened disturbances in the town. Mr. HITGII HORNET complained upon the part of Mr. Barnes, of the Saracen's 1-tead Hotel, Dale-street, that the Corporation were unwilling to adhere to the spirit of the original agreement with that gentleman—namely, to give him six months' notice, should they require the pre mises for purpoms of public improvement. Mr. STEWART defended the Improvement Committee, and said that Mr. Barnes, who had for the last ten or twelve years been occupying these premises at a nominal rental of £7O per annum, had no just grounds of com plaint. Mr. LACE said, seeing the Chairman of the Dock Com mittee in his place, he would avail himself of the oppor tunity to express a hope that Mr. Bramley-Moore would not reply to the pamphlet lately issued by Mr. Webster. (Hear, hear.) It was a mischievous, an unfounded, and an incorrect pamphlet, and it was edited by a gentleman who, owing to the great activity of the Chairman of the Dock Committee, had been deprived of a sinecure. (Hear, hear.) Mr. JAMES HOLME, observed that he could bear per sonal testimony to the incorrectness of the pamphlet. Mr. EVANS regretted that the proceedings of the Dock Committee were not before the Council, and stated his intention to lay his views before the Council in a printed forms Mr. Alderman BRAMLEY-MOORE, after expressing his regret that it would have been out of order to bring for ward the Dock Committee proceedings except at a regular meeting of the Council, said that with regard to the ques tion put to him by Mr. Lace, he could only assure that gentleman and the Council that, so far as he was indivi dually concerned, he had no intention of making any reply to Mr. Webster's pamphlet,—(hear, hear, and ap plause,)—nor would he advise the Dock Committee to take any notice of it whatever. But what he particularly complained of was, that there should have been scanda lous placards posted on the walls of the town on Saturday last, headed, in large letters, " Alleged insolvency of the Dock Estate." (Loud cries of Hear.") Mr. • EARLE —They were shameful. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORS contended that it was discre ditable that such placards should have been posted in the town, inasmuch as they were especially calculated to bring discredit on the estate. For his own part he had no hesi tation in saying that he had read Mr. Webster's pam phlet, and that he had found nothing in it to warrant such a placard being posted round the town. He would mention one fact connected with the pamphlet. The Dock Committee were debited there with the whole of their debt, and credit was given for an income simply arising from their tonnage dues and their goods. Now, how manifestly-unfair auclr-a-,-Aattinent - as this was for here, on the debit side of the debt, they were debited for £1,000,000 of money for the Albert Dock warehouses, without being credited for a single shilling of the income of that establishment. That alone was sufficient to de stroy the pamphlet from beginning to end ; but he bad no objections to the pamphlt being circulated far and wide, because he felt persuaded in his own mind that so long as the tide continued to ebb and flow in the Mersey, the, Dock Estate of Liverpool was one of the first securi ties on which to lend money in the United Kingdom. (Applause.) The proceedings of the Gaol and House of Correction Committee comprised a recommendation to increase the salaries of Mr. Wade, chief clerk, from £9O to £lOO per annum ; of Mr. Peter Cruise, clerk, from £54125. to £7O per annum ; of Mr. Atkin, clerk, from 15s. to 20s. per week, and of the allowance of £2O to Mr. Bromley, for extra services as acting governor during the late vacancy; —the consideration of which several subjects was post poned at the last monthly Council, pursuant to the stand ing orders. The proceedings were confirmed. The preceedings of the Town-hall Establishment Com mittee comprised arrangements consequent upon the re signation of Mr.. Solomon, keaper of the Town-hall. It appeared that there had been two meetings of this com mittee with reference to these arrangements. At the first they agreed to appoint Mr. Warton, keeper of the Ses sions-house and judge's lodgings, to be keeper of the Town-hall in place of Mr. Solomon, at £2OO per annum, and John Jones to be Mayor's servant, at a salary of £5O per annum. At the next meeting, the Town-clerk having reported that the Council had no power to grant a super anuated allowance to Solomon, they agreed to appoint Mrs. Solomon to the office of superintendent of the Town hall, at a salary. of £5O a year, and also to appoint Thomas Edwards to the situation of butler to the Mayor, at a si milar salary—.f.,so, he residing in the Town-hall. The reading of these proceedings occasioned a very stormy scene between Mr. Earle and Mr. Hodgson. Mr. EARLE accused Mr. Hodgson of having unworthily prevented Mr. Wharton from being elected keeper of the Town-hall. Mr. HODGSON retorted, and said that Mr. Earle had not spoken the truth, and that he had an ungovernable tongue, and was like the cur that showed his teeth but couldn't bite. Mr. S. Holme and others rose to order ; and after con siderable uproar and confusion, the whole subject was re ferred back to the committee for further consideration. The proceedings of the Water Committee comprised a recommendation to appoint Mr. Robert Brew Clerk in the treasurer's department, at a salaty.of £l2O per annum ; and a recommendation to appoint Mr. James M'Donald inspector and assessor of rents and charges, in the room of Mr. Ellwood, at the salary of £2OO. per annum ; and to appoint Mr. Ellwood collector of charges for the supply of shipping, at the same salary of £2.00 per annum. The committee ordered that £67 be paid to Mr. Spen ser for analysing water, and that £1069 be paid Mr. Chip pendale for compensation. Mr. HAWKSLEY claimed a sum of £3,489 for his engi neering services at Bala Lake, Rivington Pike, &c., less £6oo already received on account. The prO - Ceeeings were confirmed - . *' - • " The committee on local rates recommended that the necessary notices for a bill in the next setz.imi rarlia, ment to rate the docks and corporate r ;;;i ven by the parochial authorities, and that half the expense of obtaining the bill be borne by the Corporation, and, the other half by the parochial authorities. They further represented that Mr. Alexander Neilson was entitled to receive a gratuity of £lOO for extra ser vices rendered on the Water Bill—half to be borne by the borough, and the other half by the water-rent. Mr. LACE moved, as an amendment, that it was not expedient 'for the Council to bear any portion, of the expenses of obtaining such a bill. The amendment was adopted by a majority of 2-1 to 22. Mr. SHAND, amid loud cheering and clapping of hands, moved a vote of thanks to the Mayor, for his excellent conduct during the past year. He said, Mr. Mayor, it is now very nearly a year since I proposed you as a fit candidate for the occupation of that chair ; and, though I then predicted an assurance of the satisfaction you would give in discharging the high. duties of your office, I must confess that the performance has gone far beyond what I anticipated. (Hear, hear, and loud ap plause.) I need not, lam sure, appeal to the Council for any testimony with respect to the urbanity and impartial firmness with which you have presided over the business in this room, but I may appeal to many for the sumptu ous hospitality with which the dignity of the office has been maintained, and the happy zest you afforded in pre siding over the festive board. (Continued applause.) Several allusions have, from time totime, been made to peculiar modes of administering justice, but of you it may be truly said, that you held the balance with an even hand on all occasions. (Loud cheers.) This may be done in ordinary times, but the events of last year were of a most extraordinary character, and perhaps on no former occasion did such duties devolve on any previous mayor ; and I am borne out by the concurrent testimony of the whole community, as to the able and energetic manner in which you met and surmounted all difficulties—that you have, in conjunction with your brother magistrates and the other authorities, maintained the peace of the com munity, under circumstances of a trying nature, and pre served the loyalty and good name of this town, to be handed down to future posterity. (Great applause.) I am'sure you will leave that chair with the approval of the whole town most deservedly—and more unreservedly than Nov. 7, 1848. any gentleman left the chair before. (Hear, hear.) And it is, therefore, with the greatest satisfaction and gratifi cation to my own feelings, and to the feelings of the gen tlemen who hear me, that I move a vote of thanks to you in the most emphatic terms that can be given utterance to, for your services during the past year. Mr. RATUBONE seconded the moton, which was carried by acclamation. The MAYOR rose, evidently deeply affected by the truly handsome manner in which the compliment had been paid, and his rising was the signal for the manifestation of a loud and long-continued burst of applause from all parts of the Council-chamber. When silence had been restored, he spoke as follows :—Gentlemen, I am sure you will believe me when I say that I feel deeply sensible of the very gratifying manner in which you have received the resolution which has been proposed by Mr. Shand and seconded by Mr. Rathbone. But I, in my turn, have my thanks to return to you for that cordial and that kind consideration which I have received in this Council chamber in discharge of the duties which have devolved upon me. (Hear, and applause.) Gentlemen, I sincerely thank you; and if, gentlemen, there has been a little, --8 a trifling ebullition of feeling this day, I rejoice that it forms a single, a solitary exception to that good feeling and good humour which has prevailed in the deliberations of the past year. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, the mover and seconder of the resolution have referred to the events of the past year. It has been an eventful year ; and, if I refer to it, it is not for the purpose of claiming for my self any merit, or claiming any undue share of merit for the magistracy, but I allude to it for the purpose of thanking this Council, and especially the Watch Com mittee, for the cordial co-operation which they have given in maintaining the peace of the town. (Hear.) And, gentlemen, although there were some at the time who thought that we were putting the town to some unneces sary expense, they have lived to see,—and many of them, I know have lived to acknowledge—that the expense et preparation in this town has been much less than the expenses of preparation in others. (Hear and applause.) Gentlemen, I sincerely thank you for your kindness. I retire from this chair with a deep and lasting sense of it- I retire with, if possible, an increased interest in the welfare of my native town. (Hear, hear.) I retire from it, gentlemen, with the deepest feelings of gratitude fa the kindness which I have experienced from you, and( gentlemen, I retire—and I thank God if I retire—with your approbation, for I can say, and say truly, that I have endeavoured, with His blessing, to discharge the duties which have devolved upon me. (Applause.) I would only make one observation further, and that is this, —I doubt not you will select a gentleman as my suc cessor who will attend to your interests, and who will serve you with greater ability, and possibly with greater zeal, but I am sure you will select no one more deelpy anxious for the welfare of this town and for the happiness of the whole community. Gentlemen, again I thank you. The Mayor concluded amidst loud and continued bursts of applause ; and several of the members then approached his table, and took their farewell of him, by cordially shaking him by the hand. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN DR. 111`NE . AND THE REV. W. W. EWBANK. Aigburth, 27th October, 18413. REV. AND DEAR Sin,—The feelings naturally egcited by recent occurrences, are such, as it is our duty, and ought to be our privilege, graciously to resist and overcome. You think I was wrong in not allowing you to speak' wrong in the fact, and wrong in the manner of it. I think , on the contrary, that I was perfectly right in preventirt such a departure from the established usage and orders'. our meetings. It is not to argue this point that I now address you. On this point, I fear, we must (for the present at least) be mutually content to remain unconvinced. But what the n! Suppose agreement on this point unattainable, how s hould Christian men deal with such a state of things ? Sur& they should separate general questions of right and order from everything personal. This is my present object. I write to say, and I sal it in all the frank simplicity of truth, that there was nothill personal in what I did. I would have done the same to any member of our committee whose name was not on the list of speakers given to the chairman. Had a subscriber to the society, not a member of Of: committee, presented himself, with a desire to speak, would have waited to hear what his object was ; but 9 member of the committee so acting ought, in my opinion , to be stopped in limine. Of what had passed between yolt and 'he secretaries, I knew nothing at the time. I repeat, however, it was not because the member of our committee who proposed to speak was Mr. Ewbank neither was it because his interpretation of unfulfille d prophecy differs in some important points with mine; neither was it for anything personal of any kind, that decided and acted as I did. Now if you can say the same, as truly and cordially s° I do, then, in the name of our common and blessed M 8 ter, do so. Let this letter and your answer be published together • and let our friends know, and the town k no, and the vr church and the country see, that Christian reen can candidly and amicably separate conflicting views of truth, and conflicting senses of duty, from all divisive per sonalities. We are about to appear on the same public platform , at the meeting for our Church Missionary Society Jubilee. Let it be to the sound of a " silver trumpet" of harmony and peace and thus let us practically rebuke the mista ken officiousness of those, who, by exaggeration or misre" presentation, would " cause divisions." We cannot conscientiously put away all differences of opinions on questions of right, and order, and duty, and prophecy ; but we may and ought to put away all jealou sies, and envies, and evil surmisings. The time to "see eye to eye" is not yet; but the time to love one another, in spite of such differences of opinion, is already come. I am, reverend and dear Sir. yours truly, Rev. W. Withers Ewbank. HUGH IWISTEILE. Everton, Oct. 28,1848. RETER.END AND DEAR SIR,—I have received your note of yesterday, and have given my best consideration to its contents, with an earnest desire that our present anhapPl d vision may. be closed by an honourable and Christian peace. To your expressed wishes for reconciliation I hearti lsr respond. As one of Christ's unworthy, but sincere see fol asenndkt on no e a te :: ims a pp n roo d i nm e t n i s s le u w e wi i hl t la . lowers, it is my plain duty, and, I trust, my real des ire to But, not even to obtain this blessed object, can I con wt r l it b e e t l o iev y e ou to , as be y t o ru u t w h r a it n e d t dut}' in all simplicity and frankness. I cannot consent to waive my undoubted right to ulef e the amendment on the resolution. The aclorrwleer ment of this right must be a preliminary to our reconnl' liation. You quote no authorities in support of your 50- Mary denial of it. You admit that had I only been a sub scriber you must have heard me. That I could ever for feit my right as a subscriber by becom in g a member of the committee, is plainly impossible, in the absence of all evidence in proof of it. But that you deprived me of my right is only one thing; The manner in which you did so, is another. I will not here recapitulate the particulars of the painful scene] which is before the church and the world. But I apPea to you, as a Christian man, in the presence of our Maste 1: ~ whether your conduct towards me, on the occasi on question, can be at all justified, even on the suppos iti° ' that I was out of order. I did nothing uncourteouslif nothing.violently. But, though I have carefully perused your note, I (1 4 not find in it the slightest expression of sorrow or regret for the manner in which you publicly acted towards 0 `" And, however desirable it may be that we should meet t' friends or. the Church Missionary platform, that POI would, . I think, be hollow and unchristian, the terms " which. should contain no, regretful reference to what deeply feel to have been the most insulting treatn3el; which I ever remember to have received in the wb ° course of my life. ith I need not prolong this note ; but I must just say , 0 8 reference to your expression, " Now, if you can say to= same as truly and candidly as I do," that if either you ~ any one else ever entertained the slightest idea that r l3l / amendment had, or was intended to have, any peroti l reference to any one, I have been utterly misapprehend My amendment was one solely of principle. Again repeating my anxious desire that peace nig be restored, if it can be done without the sacrifice of C hr is tian truth and honour, I am, reverend and dear sir , 9°ll ` truly, WM. Wurxsas EwBANIc• Rev. Dr. 111 1 1Veile, 8; e. Two other letters subsequently passed between the reverend gentlemen, and have been publishetl in th e Courier, but they did not lead to any more satisfact„orY result. Dr. Al'Neile notes Mr.. Ewbank's refusal t° _ waive his undoubted right to move the amendment, tliv acknowledgment of which must be a preliminary to ouf reconciliation," as " mournfully final." He says :—" might as well stand on what consider my right, s e " demand a similar acknowledgment. So standing either side, reconciliation is of course hopeless. But do not wish so to stand." With reference to Mr. l i f f i bank's complaint of the Doctor's manner, the latter adds —, must remind you that on first hearing of your in, tention, L beckoned you to the chair, and remon stratev f kindly and quietly on the irregularity, as I conceived, °4 your proposed course. It was not till you showed tl';t ' remonstrance was vain, that I told you I would not ;dl a , you to proceed. This was all in an under tone tae,: po tele, while the secretary, was reading the report. ),';' - ,1 you returned to your seat I took counsel with our m u d friend, Mr. Rawson, a man of matured judgment , 50 ` t o vice-president of the society. He entirely agreed tog my view of the case, and earnestly requested you l?as linquish your design." Mr. Ewbank, in reply , con ti L nu, to maintain, that, as the Doctor had brought no proof „T; shew that the former had no right to move his amen, he must repeat the alternative, however pain „y Mr. Ewbank also alludes to the resolutions of the mo p mittee, which, he -contends, " pronounced no opinion ttl fhis right to move the amendment, while they distine, asserted the Doctor's right to prevent his . (Mr. „ oc , speaking." This resolution, Mr. Ewbank says, the va. for " wished to be published, and therefore clearly el!i i t tioned. In other words, you ask me to waive mY „' without at the same time waiving your own right. do this fair ?" Mr. Ewbank observes also, " Your n otes t o not contain the slightest expression of regret for 1 0: manner towards me on that painful evening." He e a 9. —" On one part of your letter I shall say as little as if i pt sible. lam sorry to be obliged to say that .I have the faintest recollection of being beckoned by you l e ' O , chair, or of hearing from you any kind or quiet re hick strances." With reference to the latter point, 0 11 _„tsie the reverend gentlemen are at issue, the Rev. wrpt , Pollock has published a letter, in which he says ego M'Neile called Mr. Ewbank to him, and a conv erse lo s of perhaps two minutes in duration, took place be ° ols them. I did not fully hear what passed, but a few,7 o o reached me, which satisfied me that Dr. Wisiew: remonstrating strongly with Mr. Ewbank, and the".u,'' Ewbank was expressing his fixed determination to eP.eiiti —[We direct attention to further letters on page (4 N s . r . ART Niaga SAT J. 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THEFT OF BUTTER.—On Saturday, a man named Leary. who keeps a small shop in Chisenhale• street, was committed for trial for having been found in possession of a firkin of butter, which had been stolen from a quantity at Clarence Dock. STEALING OR RECEIVING STOLEN INDIAN CORN. — On Saturday Hugh M'Gee, a marine store-dealer in Chi. senhale-streer, was committed to gaol for three months, for having in his possession 4 cwt. of Indian corn, which he could not account for, Mr. Rushton said that thesp people (the marine store-dealers) either stole such articles from bags themselves, or encouraged others to do so. They were the manufacturers of nearly all the crimes dom mined about the docks. ROBBERY fly Saturday. Martha Hughes was charged by Mr. G. Beauchamp, phblican, of Pitt-street, with having stolen money from him at various times. The complainant stated that the prisoner had been in his service for some time, and, as he had missed sums of money at various times, he marked some sixpences and placed them in the till. Subsequently, a sum of £5 in silver was found in the prisoner's box, and the marked sixpences were amongst it. The prisoner was committed for trial. IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—A woman named Mary . Buc kley was brought up under the following circumstances : A servant in the employ of Mr. Tweddle stated, that the prisoner came to her master's house and inquired if he was at home. On a negative reply being given her she wished to know when he would be in. On this the ser vant went up stairs to inquire, leaving the prisoner at the door, which was open, and during her temporary absence, the prisoner went into the parlour and took away a work box. Committed for trial. IMPORTANT TO MASTER-PORTERS.—On Saturday an information was heard against William Deane and Co., master-porters, for allowing a quantity of grain to remain on the dock quay beyond the time allowed by law. The defendants alleged that they merely acted as master-por ters, and had no power to remove the grain. The onus of doing so rested with the merchants. Mr. Rushton ob served that the master-porters took the management of the goods out of the hands of the merchant, and he would hold them liable for all the consequences of removal. He ordered the defendants to pay a fine of 20s. and costs. The defendants asked whether Mr. Rushton would give them the power of removal, but he declined to express any opinion on that point. MUTINOUS CONDUCT AT SEA.—A seaman, named John M`Cartney, one of the hands on board the El Do rado, of St. John's, appeared on Tuesday to prefer a charge of assault against Mr. Thompson, the second mate. M`Cartney said, that on the 24th ultimo, the mate ordered him to reef the main-royal halyards, which he proceeded to do, but finding fault with the way in which he had don 6 his work, ordered him down. The captain came and lifted a pistol over his head to stiike him. He took hold of the captain's arm to prevent him, when the mate took up a handspike and knocked him down, breaking his arm. He was then taken into the cabin and put in irons from Tuesday to Sunday. The captain appeared as a witness on behalf of the prisoner, and stated that the whole crew had been mutinous at the time in question, and that he had only restrained them from open violence by threat ening to fire upon them. The complainant had rushed at the mate with a knife, and the latter had only knocked him down in self-defence. The magistrates dismissed the case. EXTENSIVE FRAUD.—At the Police-office, on Thurs day, an examination took place relative to a system of fraud, which had been carried on for some time, by a young man named Benjamin Brierly, a clerk in the em ploy of Mr. George Maxwell, a merchant and magistrate of the borough. The duty of the prisoner was, among other matters, to receive and post letters, and keep a petty cash-book for the entry of all moneys so disposed of. For some time hack, though he had received money for that purpose, and had made an entry of payment in his cash-book, he failed to post the foreign letters, whiCh were considerable, and were for nearly every part of the globe, especially to America. After a lapse of two or three months, a large house in America, finding the usual correspondence had unaccountably dropped off, wrote to ascertain the cause, and this led to the discovery of the fraud. A large number of letters were produced in court, as well as the cash-book, showing that such letters were paid for. The prisoner had made his escape into York shire, to his father's house, where he was apprehended. The prisoner was committed for trial. EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT TO RAISE MONEY.— On Saturday at the Police-court, Samuel Longmead, Thomas Massey, and Benjamin Wells, were charged with having obtained money by false pretences. W. Widdows said that a relative of his had become a member of a society calling itself "The Perpetual Life Assurance Society." The subscriptions were paid to Longmead, who represen ted himself as one of the officers. In consequence of the death of a child of one of the members, witness made enquiry as to the money received by a member under such circumstances. He was directed to 43, Newton-street, but was told the officers had decamped. He was then directed to 72, Rose-hill, but his efforts to find the society there were equally unavailing. Information was given to the police, and the prisoners were apprehended at the County-court, Lime-street. A circular issued by the society set forth the names of Mr. Dodd and Mr. Lock wood, surgeons, as the medical officers. They, on being called on, stated that they had consented to act as such, twelve months ago, but not a single case bad been sub mitted to either of them for examination. Several wit nesses proved that they had paid money on account of the society to Longmead and Wells, who produced a copy of the rules. The name of one of the prisoners appeared amongst the committee. Mr. Dodd and Mr. Lockwood appeared in court, and said that they had been called upon by a person named Bennett, who said he was the Secretary, and had consented, but no cases bad been brought before them. It appeared 'that about £l4 ss. had been received by the pretended society, besides seve ral amounts found in the court. Longmead said he was merely engaged to collect money for the society. Wells, it turned out had only been employed in the same way for a few days, and was discharged. The other two were remanded ; Longmead to be admitted to bail ; Bennett, the main aggressor. had absconded. Mr. Superintendent Clough said that about 200 persons had made payments to the society under the impression that it was legally constituted according to act of Parliament.