The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

)OCH .TENT LI SOLE AGENT TO THI CLAREN pared to No. 46, ( I ROYAI kNS CI QUILI FRENCH BLOUSE and R CLER( CLERK: MACIN ;YMEN'S ROBES ma 3' and SEXTONS' GOWNS 'DON H D UMBRELLAS era, and Socks LAGERS' BEDDING s notice )EPARTMENT nv and fashionable TEN'S CLOTHS lad on ap kBLISHMEN ap to ti OSH'S WATERPROOF and AIRPROOF FABRICS. viz.: Capes, Overalls, Cushions Pillows, &c., ityle to measure. Iffit HOURS' NOTICE LORD-STREET, )iion in th gallons. Claret, Leh Wines collec -226,823 _gallons, was paid for home period of the last msumed hitherto last year 41 per cent. Pi H. M. Gibson, M and Wm The paper. Alexand having prov 3. Sy me J. Stewa It gives minu she left on the has thus math has had 'sborne, ;even days later than by the Independ th, contains a report c x columns of t CHUI 'E THI [S . WOOL !ITCH MAls IVERPOOL fo TION 0 )ON C( a:& Cut i UFACTORY IEAL WHITBY LIVERPOOL AND s are culti- rnment 5 11 MARSTON and Co. re- ad challeng nor to their own, frorr Phial. J. M. and Co :hosen Craftsmen in th ced hands of youn nce of the consumes with co ay witness the manufacture A.CTO RI SOUTH JOHN-STREET, T, LIVERPOOL :AS, a fiat in bankruptcy is awarded and issued .t ELLIOTT WHITNEY, of Liverpool, in the er, dealer and chapman, and he, ►ereby required to surrender in the said fiat named, or the , Ifth of January, and eighth of lock in the Afternoon of each in Liverpool afore- of his estat rs are to come pre irst sitting to choose and disclost s certificat 1, or to M BOOKEI ?RGY, GENTRY, AND 3ENERAL. LW I FUTO ESTABLISHMENT, LORD-STREET, so long favoured s warmest thanks t no exertion will STABLISS- 'TUCK in BOTH SHOP; IIONAB for WINTER CHENI CHLTSAN, RICH CHENI INETTS, PES, SATINS, &c., ured SILK VELVETS .1 to the f lvet widt Fund CLOAK IPROOF LUSTRE CLOAKS THS, in fc t variety, Plain and Ct do. do. do. in SHAWLS, LONG SHAWLS, HANDKERCHIEFS. Welsh, and Lancashire TZ FURNITURE id MOR EENS. I COUNTERPANES. I LINI ld Bath, all sizes H ucit aback Diapers, a Cloths ed sound, of stout able for EVERY :earn-loom Shirt- MITT, DOUBLE WARPS IBBONS, of Fashionable Style NETS, BLONDES. d CAPS )0., DO )THING ling VESTS, SaxOny Wool and FULLY SUPPLIED. lENTLY CONDUCTED CLOAK Coats, C of Lond )UTHS GOING TO SEA time in RS AND SOJC at the r; upon 197 cleared fa last year, sent time this y 1,312,638 last year, of 13,523 gallons. Total aggregate decrease in the which duty has been paid fc sent year d 1,393.83 E 3t year, 1840, sbo s compar 3 collectlvel lions, again ior in ere has oeen au '7 galls s compared Wines of lace, n 3 in any of 1 into antity of wines on Dme consumption . in the port of London as compared with t responding portion of the last year, 1840.. 'crease . 325,129 29,467 Total actual decreas The above very remarkable decrease in the comparative ^f wine consumed, it will be observed, occurs chiefly • .r e in most general use—namely, port _ . and sherry, and iv be t I with proprietith standard wines on the English table ; whereas the trifling in crease appears only on such wines as are consumed almost exclusively by the more wealthy Glasses of society. r AS USUAL IMILIES ptly supplied with hole being )URNERS IN TOWN description of CLOTHING ENVELOPE Taglioni, Pilot, Pca, D'Orsai, IN, and CHESTERFIELD WRAPPER 3apital OVERCOAT for 16s. 6d. AND YOUTHS' FEARNOUGHT. I.OUGH WINTER COAT 10s. 6d. :NT WATERPROOF BEAVERS for' Gentlemen and Boys CIRCULAR CLOA I,E?4T EN'S DRESSING GOWNS. in new and splendid Patterns. TIC, or READING COAT. ccording to order, legate. Warren, from Boston for New York, the captain of which informed the pilots that the steam ship Savannah had sunk off Cape Hatterass, on Sunday night, 28th ultimo, when the ,icle of crew and passengers took to three of the boats, one of which 'he fell in with a short time after they had em- barked, the other boats had separated, and, in all Probability went down, as there was a tremendous sea at the time. The Herald of the 15th publishes a correspondence be tween Lord Aberdeen and Mr. Stevenson; but nothing de finite can be gathered from it. MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN MANSFIELD, NEAR NOTTINGHAM, Dec. 31, 1811.—It is our melancholy duty to announce the perpetration of one of the most foul murders which has ever disgraced human na ture. The victim of the murderer was a young and beautiful woman, about 19 years of age, named Mary Allom, the only child of her parents, who are decent and respectable people, now considerably advanced in years. The circumstances are as follow :—lt appears that about three years ago, a jour neyman shoemaker, named John Jones, alias Samuel Moore, came to lodge near the residence of these poor people, and took occasion of the circumstance to gain the affections of their poor unhappy child. Owing to the extreme unsteadi ness and drunken habits of the man, the parents not only discountenanced the conned daughter having any commu dent conduct on their part s deadly feelings of revenge in and last night, between the trived to lure the also forbade their ith him. This pru ave aroused the most wretched man, 1 into the room in which he worked djoining the churchyard), duced her to seat herself, h is situa , and with a knife, such as is used by shoemakers, he cut her throat from ear to sod, locking the door, left her weltering iA her blood. n went to a public-house in the neighbourhood, and f several pints of ale, and shortly afterwards went some pretence, and ceeded to perpetrat4 the dea home to bed with tie son of his landlady, just as if nothing had happened. The girl not having returned home, the pa rents became alarmed, and for several hours sought for her in vain. For some reason or other, entirely unaccountable, the father suspected all was not right, and determined to search the workshop before alluded to—a dark and miserable apart __ table, and placed thereon a chair, he managed to open the window, where, to his horror, he found his poor child quite dead and cold, frightfully mangled, and her features scarcely discernable. He instantly went for Mettam, the constable, and they together proceeded to search for the individual to whom suspicion was attached; they found him asleep in bed , ith James Wragg, the son of his landlady. On being ques nd, he instantly confessed that he had committed the -I.qe.ribed the way in which he had done old was sitting by him, -natters,' and that she posi tively refused to no. -._ , ner refusal he was made desperate, and took up a knife, and at the first blow inflicted a dreadful wound. He states that his victim never shrieked or made any noise, but only asked him for time to say her "avers, which he refused, and continued to inflict cut after -ntilating her face in a dreadful manner. He expressed ' what he had done, but says that he had intended re talking ov.e ;ree to marry hir ind that no reg sponsibility of two murders. He wishes to be hanged, and hopes his example will be a warning to others. He is in his 24th year. SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE YORKSHIRE OPERATIVES. —A conference took place lately between Sir Robert Peel and a deputation of the Yorkshire operatives, when various subjects bearing on the condition of the working classes were uiscussed. A report of the reasonings and suggestions which were made in the course of the interview has been pub lished, and a deeply i n t eres ti ng an d i m p or t an t do cumen t it is. We have only space, however, to refer to the heads, but shall return to the subject in our next. On the part of deputation, it was urged, that government should intro a law, prohibiting the employment, in factories, of rsous above 13 but under 21 years of age for more also for the gradual compelling of all dangerous parts of machinery. Th ❑g distress was also referred to, and thi xtent of the d -over-prOduction nd the extended employment of sive competition at hoar ken. The deputation expressed an opinion al amelioration was required—the repeal of rt Peel pointed out the difficul. the new poor law tailment of hours, and as regarded emale labour, he was of opinion that much hardship would arise from its prohibition. Such interference by the legislature would tend to increase the cost of production, augment the already existing distress, nd render our manufactures less able to compete with low - labour abroad. As to the question of machinery, Sir ated that it was one deserving of a He assured the deputation that tl tions that they had made would meet with tin Robert -t 1 lion of tl ssed with the towards their order REMARKABLE STORIC esteemed correspondent gravest consi mpathy displayed by ti F HAIL AND I, LaGIITNING —An ashes us to put on record some ....corm of thunder and lightning, accompanied that passed over the peninsula of Lley n , on the morning of the 17th instant. In its passage over th e pa r k at Madryn it was of a most awful and alarming character, and did immense damage to a long range of glass-house s , pit s , and frames, that are used for forcing, besides patting in im minent danger a large collection of valuable plants. Some of the hailstones, we are assured, measured no less than three Ind one-eighth round the base—all of them being of a conical shape. Our informant says he cannot find that any bail of the same magnitude and quantity has fallen in that part of the country within the memory of the present age, and we are not cognizant of any recent and similar instances elsewhere.—Carsarvon Herald. and one- week t :h have recently been con irelars who h —.flitted by another of the gang of hu _ for some time past infested this town and n ,ighbourhood. This makes the third of these bands, which, thanks to the vigilance and exertions of our police, have been exterminated during the last few weeks. The Myerscough burglars were all mere lads, the eldest not being above nineteen years of age. 'The present gang have neither the excuse of youth, one or more of them being mid dle-aged.men ; nor all of them, if any, the want of employ ment to plead, in palliation of their crime. _ _ _ The names of the men who have just been apprehended are John Thompson, Giles Seddon, and flenry Simpson, and the immediate robbery for which they were committed on Saturday (Christmas-day) morning last, at the offices of the Messrs. Ascroft, in New Cock Yard, Fisher gate. Prior to this, however, they had been guilty of two other robberies,—one a burglary, perpetrated on the Sunday ' , kilt previously, in the house of the Misses Edmonson, 'er-street, who were attending divine service; and a highway robbery, which was committed upon the person of Mr. Lord, skinner, of Ribbleton. In the first of these cases they obtained only a silver watch. A proof of the spirit with which they commenced their vil lainous career is shown in the artfulness with which this part of their plunder had been disposed of, so us to elude the vigi lance of the police, it having been placed where human inge nuity might have almost been defied in the search for it. It appears that the prisoner Simpson having taken into his 1,- ing this portion of the burg,litrious proceeds, had hidden it underneath the stairs of his house, in Blaylock-street. The -ay in which be had done it was worthy of the cunning of a :pt under the stairs, he must have upon the ground, and contrived to lift a flag- Cdurvoisier Having cr laid himself flat stone which was underneath the bottom stair, and then hav ing dug a hole in the sand, have deposited the watch (which had been previously wrapped in a piece of flannel, and also in a stocking) in the excavation, re-covered it with the sand, and then replaced the flagstone. It appears, that when Mr. Lord was attacked, the men were armed with one of those deadly weapons denominated a " life preserver, " but which might be more appropriately termed a " life lestroyer." The instrument, as some of our readers may not be aware, is composed of two or three pieces of whale-bone, of about eleven inches long, bound round the centre with wire, and fastened at each end to a loaded socket of net work. In the case of the robbery of Messrs. Ascroft, the thieves were in expectation of obtaining a large booty, they consi dering, as will be seen by the confession of Thompson, that those gentlemen were in the habit of keeping large sums of money at their office. In this, however, they were disap pointed, it not being a custom with the Messrs. Ascroft to keep any money at all at their office. Simpson was taken into custody early on Christmas Day, by Henry Topping and others, as he was coming out of the window of the Messrs. Ascroft's office. He made a despe rate resistance. He was, however, at length overpowered by numbers, and safely deposited in the Lock-up. When there, be made a confession to having been only one of a party who had been engaged in breaking into the Messrs. Ascroft's office that morning, and upon his information, the other two men, Thompson and Seddon, were taken into custody, du ring the morning, by Curle and Rigby, two of our most effi cient officers. Thompson wss the first of the two taken. He was apprehended at his mother's house, in Saul-street. — Seddon, the other man, was shortly afterwards apprehended in a hay-loft, at the Dusty Miller beer-shop, in North-road. THE OSWESTRY MURDER FINAL EXAMINATION AND COMMITTAL OF TIIE PRISONERS (Abridged from the Shrewsbury News of Saturday.) Long before twelve o'clock yesterday (the hour appointed for the adjourned examination of the prisoners) the avenues leading to the Guildhall were crowded with persons anxious to gain an entrance into the court, where the examination was to take place. At a few minutes past twelve o'clock the Viscount Dungannon took the chairman's seat on the bench, and the door leading to the gallery being thrown open, the court instantly filled, while hundreds were unable to obtain admission. On the bench beside his lordship were seated the Hon. and Rev. R. H. Hill, and Egerton Jeffreys, Esq. ; a great number of gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood. The prisoners were shortly after placed in the dock, and the examination commenced. The first witness examined deposed to having been at the shop of the murdered woman on the day of the fatal deed, and shortly before it was committed. Richard Hughes was questioned as to the finding of the body and the appearance of the house on entering it, he being the person who first went in after the murder. Sarah Bradeley, wife of Andrew Bradeley, who keeps the King's Head public-house at Cefn Mawr, in the parish of Ruabon, on the middle of the railroad from Ruabon iron works to the canal, within half a mile of Pontyscylltye aque duct, and about four or five miles from Bronygarth. On Thursday, the 26th, two men came to her house, about nine o'clock in the evening. They came into the kitchen, and the shortest called for a pint of ale, and the tallest said they must have a quart, for he was rather thirsty. I did not take particular notice of their appearance. 1 served them with the ale, and the tall one paid me for it, with sixpence in cop per. They stopped in the house near an hour. They asked me for bread and cheese, and I said we had none. The tall one then pulled out some bacon, and asked me to cook it in a pan. I did so, and in taking the pan back saw a bundle in the back kitchen, upon a bench, not far from the door. I was rather agitated at the sight of the bundle, and went into the kitchen, and asked whose bundle it was, and the tallest said it was his. I said it was not a proper place to leave it, for if it was stolen, I would not be answerable for it, and the little one said, " Jack, go and fetch it." The tall one went, rid put it in the parlour. There was no light in the parlour or the back kitchen. I believe that the two prisoners ar, the men who came to my house. About ten o'clock the men left the house. My son, William Bradeley, was in the house, and saw them. William Bradeley.—l am son of the last witness, my father's house on Thursday, December 16; have known the prisoner, John Williams, from a boy. He was there on that night, and the other prisoner also; hut did not know Slawson before. I was in the house when they came. Oh. served their appearance; they were clean in the face. Wil liams was splashed with dirt up to the waistband, as if he had been running ; he was dressed as he is now, as far as I can see of him where he stands. He ::ad gaiters and cord breeches, —(here the witness went to the dock and examined the dress of both prisoners, on his return be said)—Williams is drest the very same as on that evening, and Slawson in everything • . but his trousers. lam sure they are the two men. I asked Slawson to sing the "Umbrella" and the " Misletoe Bough." The bundle was in the parlour. I went to it whilst the pri soners were eating ; it was brought out into another kitchen lower down. I examined the bundle ; did not look into it ; it was tied tight. They left at ten o'clock. Suspecting all was not right, I and Thos. Davis pursued them in about five minutes. Thos. Davies is my brother-in-law. Saw them when about half a mile from the house ; they were walking fast; John Williams was carrying the bundle on a stick on his left shoulder. I put my brother-in-law at him he being the biggest; I tried to take Slawson. When we came up to them, Davies said, You're the person I want—you and the bundle ;" Williams then let it fly, and both ran away. I held the bundle, for Davies to run on after them ; he did not overtake them ; took the bundle back to my mother's. I sent an inventory of what was in the bundle to Evans, the policeman. It was kept in mother's parlour; she kept the key; I saw her give it up to the policeman. The blue bundle produced is the one taken from Williams, and the same articles are in it. _ _ Many of the articles in the bundle were identified by different witnesses as belonging to Emma Evans. The pri soners each made a statement which merely amounted to finding the bundle in the road. They were both commttted for trial at the next Lent assizes for the murder of the poor woman. THE REFORMED CORPORATION.-DISGRACE- FUL PROCEEDINGS (From the Londonderry Sentinel.) Well, we have had a trial of a reformed corporation, and we think that every peaceable and loyal member of the com munity agrees with us in opinion, that we have already seen a great deal too much of them, and that the change has been a most disastrous one. The scenes of savage rejoicing and lawless violence with which the advent of the new town council was ushered in by a popish mob, on Monday night, will not soon be forgotten, and they afford a fearful presage of what we are to expect as the fruits of the Municipal Bill. We have endeavoured elsewhere to present some of the inci dents that took place on that disgraceful occasion to our re,7.d erg, but no description can convey an adequate idea of the confusion and alarm which filled the minds of the respectable portion of the citizens, or of the feeling of insecurity, both as regards their persons and property, which possessed them, and for the removal of which no step was taken by the chief magistrate for four successive hours. From six till ten o'clock a rabble of the vilest description, consisting of several thou sands, was suffered to parade the town with blazing tar barrels, using offensive cries, cheering at one house and hoot ing at another, malreating the few scattered individuals whose ardent feelings would not allow them to hear in silence the rebel shouts thatvere raised, and knocking down others merely because they were known to be protestants. This, one would have supposed, was sufficient to cause the Mayor, who as well as the other members of the new corporation, was de sirous of an immediate investiture with civic authority and civic honours, (as will be seen by referring to our report of the proceedings of the first meeting of the new Town-Coun cil,) to order out the military for their dispersion. But not so thought his worship ; he allowed them to encircle the Corporation-hall, in the very heart of the city, with a belt of fire—six or eight burning tar-barrels were set down around it, each surrounded by a group of ruffians whose ferocious yells seemed more like the war-cry of an Indian tribe than the exultation of civilised beings. Brazing brands were flung recklessly about, to the imminent danger of the houses in the vicinity, and the crowd enjoyed, without interruption, their insolent triumph, in a spot where such a licentious display was never witnessed before, since Londonderry became the capital of the British plantation in Ulster. The desecration of our venerated walls was the next object of this disloyal horde, their insolence increasing, the stronger the proof be came that it was connived at; but the heroism of a single apprentice boy, frustrated their audacious attempts there. They then directed their vengeance againstthe dwelling of an humble Protestant widow, whose family has been resident in this city since before the siege, and reduced it to a perfect wreck—still no force was brought against them ; and it was not till a party of Protestants had armed themselves, and, excited almost to a state of frenzy by these outrages, began to retaliate, that the interposition of the military was sought. Such are the blessings of reform. The windows of three houses were dashed in by infuriated contending parties, and the lives of the inmates endangered, numberless wounds in flicted, and it is all but a miracle that loss of life to a large amount did not take place. All this confusion, and riot and ontrage was not the ebullition of a moment, but it continued for several hours ; and the only proceeding on the part of the chief magistrate, in whom the sole controul of the town, we as vested, was, to utter an occasional remon- may say, stra'oce, recommending the rioters to go home, as if tinTei:v passions of a mob were to be allayed by a few words, h ear d, perhaps, by some dozen or two of persons, and delivered in so bland and gentle a tone as to savour almost as muc h o f encouragement as disapprobation. The police force did not, we understand, exceed half a dozen men; and even if they had been instructed to resort to extreme measures in quell- ing the tumult, their exertions must, from the paucity of numbers, have been ineffectual. RAILWAY S IN FRANCE. — It is highly satisfactory to see that the French government are at length taking up in good earnest the establishment of a great system of railways in France. The prominent mention of this subject in the speech of the King to the chambers at the opening of the session on the 27th ultimo, gives assurance that these works will now be undertaken. The first in point of importance of the pro posed lines and that for which the arrangements are defini tively made, is the line connecting Paris with Lille and Calais. This line will form a connecting link not only between Paris and London via Dover, but also between England and Bel gium by way of Calais and Lille, and by means of the Belgian railways with the Rhine and the whole of the north of Europe. Its importance therefore to England is very great. It will bring Paris within 14 hours, and Brussels within 12 hours of Lo..don, and in a few years this journey from London to Berlin will he accomplished without any interval of common road. The other line which more immedialayiiiliCt;l3;itish interests is that from Paris to Lyons. This will open new facilities to our overland passage to the East. Me Bristol Standard) We have to record from the mouth of the master, the °MY survivor (as far as he has been able to relate it), one of the most miraculous and providential escapes from shipwreck of which we have ever heard or read. • During the awful storm of Friday night, the 3d inst., the sloop Perserverance, Morris Evans, master, of Carnarvon, with a mate, one seaman, and a boy, bound from South Yarmouth to Dublin, when between the South Bishops and the Smalls, carried away her bowsprit, and immediately after a sea broke on board that swept the decks, carrying away her bulwarks and chain cables, stoving her boat, and making her a complete wreck, with every sea sweeping her fore and aft. She was now driving before a furious north-wester, with her mainsail set ; the captain, mate, and the man, took refuge in the cabin up to their necks in water ; but the boy in endeavouring to follow their ex- ample was washed overboard by a sea, and his wailing cries were instantly lost amidst the tumultuous bowlings of the troubled deep. At about twelve o'clock at night the vessel struck in a small cove on a part of . the coast near St Bride's, in the Jack Sound, called the Deer-park, where the clffs are nearly in perpendicular height from 150 to 200 feet (nearly opposite to the rock on which the ill-fated Albion steamer was lost ; the mainmast immediately broke into three or four pieces ; and the last that the captain knew of his men, for they kept calling to each other so long as the seas permitted their heads to above water, was the feeling one of their hands as they held on to the wreck under water —such was the dreadful state they were in on the instant when the vessel struck ! The captain was instantaneously washed overboard, when he grasped one of the pieces of . . le mainmast, and was washed with it into a cavern in the perpendicular cliff's, and it was carried away as instantly as he loosened his grasp, and had got a little beyond the force of This cavern at the high spring•-tide is many feet There he lay, holding on to the rocks, with the sea bursting and bubbling over him, till the next morning (Saturday.) This being the time of the neap-tides, with a gale of wind blowing right tipon the coast, when the tide re cedes so little as to make it an impossibility for any one to get out of this cove save by climbing these perpendicular cliffs, or of getting out of the cavern except by watching till the heaviest wave has broke. After exhausting himself, the captain said, in crying for assistance, there seemed to be no alternative but that of being drOwned in the cavern, or being starved to death by cold and hunger. He now cut his boots from his feet with his knife, and threw them upon a ledge of rock above the cavern, in the: hope that they might meet the eye of some one in passing ; and then commenced an attempt to scale the cliff, which he had mastered, he says, a height of above 40 feet, when, on taking hold of a stone which was loose, he began to slip, and at the very moment that he fell and expected to have his brains dashed out on a huge rock immediately below, and on which he must fall, a tremendous sea swept over the rock and bore him to the mouth of the same cavern to which he had before been cast, and in which he had lain before ; and now, with feet and hands dreadfully swollen by climbing and the action of the salt water—bat tered, bruised, and dreadfully shaken, he lay another night in this awful cavern, with the sea breaking over and drench ing him. waves. er water Sunday morning came, with no possibility of receiving human aid ; once more he nerved himself to try and get out of the cavern ; he had, he says, prayed most fervently ; he thought of his sick wife and his infant family, and he made the attempt. and he found himself most wonderfully strength ened every step he took. After incredible toil and tearing his hands and feet against the sharp-pointed rocks in a most dreadful way, he ascended very nearly to the summit, where be was so very nearly falling again, that he looked where abouts he should fall; but most providentially despair nerved him to almost superhuman resolution, which enabled him to seize hold of a projecting pinnacle of rock, upon which he climbed ; and was thus enabled to reach the summit with sufficient strength to throw his body over, though his legs _ wer till hanging down the side of the cliff. Here he re gained strength to place himself out of danger, and to return thanks to the Almighty for his wonderful preservation. He was found, some time after by a man, crawling on the ground, with his feet and hands completely doubled under from the injuries they had received ; he was placed on an ass and con veyed to the house of Mr. Jones, farmer, Trehill, near St. Bride's, where he is being most charitably taken care of. Dr. Wathen, of Morleos-conrt, is attending poor Morris Evans, and from his skill and attention, there is every reason to hope that he will do well. Numbers of persons have been to see the cliff where this wonderful, if not incredible, escape took place, and no one who has seen it but says that he would not have deemed it possible that any human being could get either up or down without a rope. Three of the crew, consisting of the mate, a man, and a boy, perished, all natives of Caruarvon. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE (From the Oxford Herald.) POETRY PROFESSORSHIP.—We understand that Wednes day, the 26th of January, is fixed for the election of a Pro fessor of Poetry. The Rev. Cyril Geo. Hutchinson, M.A.. Student of Christ Church, has been presented by the Very Rev. the Dean and Chapter of that Society to the Rectory of Batsford, in the county of Gloucester. The Rev. John B. Fawkes. 8.A., and the Rev. Philip C. Kidd, 8.A., have been appointed Chaplains of Christ Church. The following gentlemen were elected Actual Students of Christ Church on the 24th ult.:—Granville R. H. Somerset, Henry T. Glyn, Henry E. Cramer, from Westminster ; Thos. 0. Blackall, Wm. E. Rawstorne, Charles Lloyd, Commoners. The Rev. Edward Trollope, 8.A., of St. Mary Hall, has been presented to the Vicarage of Rauceby, Lincolnshire; patron, Sir John Charles Thorold, Bart. The Rev. Robt. Henry Chichester, B.A„ of Exeter Col lege, has been presented to the Vicarage of Chittlehamp, Devon ; patron, Lord Rolle. The Rev. Philip Sidney Ashworth, 8.A., of St. Alban Hall, has been appointed curate of St. Matthewss, Duddeston. The Rev. John Nelson, M.A., of St. John's College, and rector of Gilston, Herts, has been instituted by the Bishop of Hereford to the rectory of Peterstow, near Ross, on the presentation of the president and governors of Guy's Hospital. The Rev. John Ellison Bates, M.A., of Christ Church, has been licensed to the perpetual curacy of Christ Church, Littlerland, Lancashire, on the nomination of the trustees of the church. Alfred T. Bramah, E5q.,11.A., Jesus College, Cambridge, has been elected second master of the Western Grammar School, Brompton. Henry Nlilared Birch, scholar of King's College, Cain bridge, has been elected a fellow of that society. PROMOTIONS Rev. John `Withering Peers, M.A., of Catharine Hall, Cambridge, to the vicarage of Tetsworth, in this county ; patron, Richard Barry Slater, Esq., D. Med. Rev. Edward Garfit, 8.A., to the vicarage of Saxilby, Lin colnshire ; patron, the bishop of Lincoln. Rev. James Mayne, to the vicarage of Hanslope with Cas tlethorpe, Bucks, vacant by the death of the Rev. Wm. Singleton ; patron, George Hyde, Esq., of Norwich. Rev. Joseph Martin Lister, 8.A., to the rectory of Muck ton, Dincolnshire ; patron, M. B. Lister, Esq. Rev. James Harris, M.A•, afternoon lecturer of St. Anne, Limehouse, to the district church and parish of All Saints, Mile-end, Newton, Stepney. Rev. J. Browne, to the Curacy of Fontmell Magna, Dorset. Rev. Mr. Burroughs, to the Head Mastership of the Pro prietary Grammar School, Yarmouth. Rev. Charles Fewtrell, to the Head Mastership of the Ro therham Free Grammar School, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Joshua Nelson. Rev. Thomas Sutton, Vicar of Sheffield, to be Rural Dean for the parishes of Sheffield, Ecclesfield, and Tankersley. Rev. Richard Hodges, M.A., to the Vicarage of Little Barrington, Gloucestershire, vacant by the cession of the Rev. George Dandridge ; patron, the Lord Chancellor. Rev. Alexander Grant, to the Curacy of Weston-sub-Edge, Gloucestershire. Rev. J. Woodroffe, to the Curacy of Lisburn. Rev. J. Gulley, to 'the Curacy of Sligo. Rev. William Cotter Williamson, Curate of Passage, to the parish of St. Nicholas, Cork, vacant by the promotion of the Rev. W. Hall, to the living of Charleville. Rev. James Bonwell, to the Curacy of Trinity Church Preston, Lancashire. Rev. William Procter, M.A., of Catherine Hall, Cam bridge, to the Vicarage of Bishop Burton, Yorkshire. Rev. Mark Anthony Nicholson, to the Perpetual Curacy of Christ Church, Accrington, Lancashire; patrons, the trustees. Rev. St. Vincent Beechy, 'M.A., of Caius College, Cam bridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Peter's, Fleetwood. Rev. John Price, to the Rectory of Pitchcott, Bucks. THE EXCHEQUER-BILL FRAUD (From the London Times.) We have understood that the final and revised statement of E. 13. Smith to the treasury is to the followimr effect : " That he was introduced so long back as 1820 to Itapallo, Solari, and one or two of their associates. That soon after, becoming entangled in accommodation hills, he was tempted to ' borrow' an exchequer-bill of £l,OOO, in order to raise money to meet his acceptances. _ . " That a speculation was entered into by Rapallo and his friends, which, if successful, was to have extricated all par ties from their difficulties. But it proved most unfortunate, and only plunged them into increased perplexity and trouble. " That apparently it lay in his power at any time to secrete and misapply almost any number of bills, wanting only the signature; and by a simple forgery to turn them into good and valid exchequer-bilis. " That no person of rank or public character, whatever, was in any way mixed up in the transaction ; the parties being, himself, Solari, Rapallo, and another individual, whose otliee was in Basinghall-street ; at which place they used to meet and concert their plans. " He believes the total amount fabricated to be about £340,000 ' • but it is doubtful w h e th e r a sum of £40,000 is, or is not, included in this total. `' He still maintains that this whole amount has been wasted, from time to time, in gambling transactions on the stock-exchange." He remains, we believe, in his apartments in Newgate, although the convicts sentenced at the same time have been long since removed. This, however, is easily to be ac counted for, as he may be required for examination before the "exchequer-bills commission." Supposing such a state ment as this to have been made, there are several points which naturally strike the mind. Smith, in his defence before the criminal court, most un equivocally declared himself, though guilty, to have been the tempted party; to have been induced by others to commit frauds and forgeries, from which they, rather than he, derived advantage. In the written statement above referred to, he appears to persevere in this representation. Now, if there be any truth in this story, every one will ask, how it comes to pass that he, and he only, is brought to justice, while all his coadjutors—the men who, according to his statement, drew him into the whole series of crimes—are left entirely scatheless? The loose and negligent mode of transacting business in the Exchequer-Bill-office, as here exhibited, is too obvious to need remark. Not for a few months, or a year or tw o only, but for a long series of years, has this facility existed, by which a clerk in the office could fabricate and dispose of bills to the tune of £300,000 or £400,000 at his own dis cretion, and without detection. For, be it observed, had not their own excessive anxiety in October last led to particular inquiries, there is no reason to suppose that their mal practices would have been brought to light, even in another quarter of a century. It is a curious question—how many millions of Exchequer bills in all have been fabricated and put into circulation ? We say how many millions? For it is clear that the existing amount of X 340,000 or X 380,000, no more exhibits the whole extent of the fabrication, than the -£16,292,000 Back of England notes, which were in circulation between November 13th and December 11th last, repres ented the whole amount of bank-notes made and circulated (luring the last ten years. It is clear that a perpetual system of issuing, redeeming, cancelling, and replacing must have been in operation for the last dozen or twenty years; and it is a moderate supposition, to conclude the total amount to have been from five to ten millions: But if this be so, what sort of a figure does our Exchequer-Bill-office cut? A rumour is very prevalent, and amounts to a certainty indeed, at Ryde, that Mr. Sibthorp is shortly going back there, and that he will commence his labours as a Roman Catholic priest, a chapel being a bout to be opened for him eitlier at Ryde or at St. Helens. Ilis first sermon will be preached at Newport. 40YAL AMPHITHEATRE 3y desire and tinder the Patronage of the R EARL OF SEFTON. ht 11(31. rillllS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 4th inst a nt, I the performance will commence with the Grand 1 trian Romance, entitled THE CONQUEROR'S STEED, KARABAGH ED CHIT they a /V Inite destitute of intell York Morning Herald of the the Secretary of War, which occur jell port ject of improvement, and an incre xtension of the outposts on tl time frontiers is recommended. ria e perfec re subject of tb Taken altogether western to be constructed for ti On cl deposit of ar .e thrown o we have seldom met th tiles so barren of information THE UNITED STATES BANK Mr. Austin Montgomery, of Philadelphia, addressed the following letter to the grand jury, in session, on the Ist inst (December) :- " I charg Thomas Dunlop, Samuel Jaudon ichola Joseph Cowperthwait , and John Ar nd us with fraud and theft, in tak for their own benefit, and a( longit the money be- to the stockholders of the United States Bank, which they are liberally paid to guard and not to abuse. My proof is the report of the Investigating Committee, made to the stockholders in April, 1841. As to the idea of the above being a breach of trust only, 'tis not so—'tis too idle and insulting to be pretended to be entertained for a moment. Away with it, then, and for ever. Those men were servants, rvices—so are your family domestics, to whom you give in charge your plate and other valuables. But if they appropriate it or them to themselves, they are unhesitatingly charged with and proceeded against as for theft—and why not N. Biddle and the rest?" and Paid for tF jury in return thought the could do no less than ask the Court to direct th , neral to send up to them bills of indictment against the following persons N. Biddle, S. Jandon,J. A nd others, to the jury unknown to defraud the toCkholders f the Bank nitedStates of a 3, and endeavouring to conceal Tthwaite, T. Dunlop, and others entering into a conspiracy to de- .._ ers have been defrauded out of a sun' ceeding three hundred thousand dolla 3d. The Grand Jury do further ask against Alexi% Lardner, Thomas E Lawrence Lewis, and George Handy, n or sums of money ex- II of indictment Richard Price, and others to the Jury unknown, for feloniously, &c., co ring to cheat and de- rtes Bank of Pennsyl- fraud the stoekhold, vania, of tt sum of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars The Attorney-General has declared his willingness to draw up the bills, but one or two of the Judges seem not disposed to take such direct steps in the matter, and for the present the matter remains stationary. MONEY MARKET WEDNESDAY, DEC. 13.—The sales at the stock board have been small to-day, and the rates have not changed ma terially. Indiana bonds fell i per cent ; Illinois rose 1; N. J. Railrord declined 1 per cent ; Mohawk, ; Paterson rose ; sales of bills on Philadelphia &I; Harlem 61 to 7; Mo bile 10 to 12 ; Cincinnati 10 to 14. This is bill day for the Boston steamer, that takes her de parture to-morrow. A moderate business in bills only was done yesterday, and rates presented but little variation from those of the last packet. The exports of produce to France have thus far been larger this year than last, and the supply of bills on that quarter has consequently been good. On London, however, there is not so many bills offering, owing to the untoward state of the English market having prevented the free export of produce. To-day the Southern mails failed, the supply of bills not being equal to the demand, there was an improvement in prices. The ship ments of specie have now entirely ceased. There is still, however, a great degree of caution among capitalists, chiefly arising from the great discredit growing out of the position of the State debts. The influences of those defal cations extend through every description of borrowing paper; and, while the Banks eagerly seek after good bus siness paper, the generality of paper offering cannot be done short of 1 to 11 per cent per month. STATE, OF TRADE.—There is but little doing in the general markets since the close of the canal. Ashes— A small lot of pots have been taken since our last at 5 dollars 75 cents. There is more demand at that price, but holders refuse to sell at less than 5 dollars 874 cents. We have heard of no sales of pearls. Cotton—The transactions yesterday amount ed to about 700 bales. Flour —There is no change to notice in prices. The market is dull. We quote common brands Canal at 6 dollars 25 cents COTTON TRAM to be con. —The accounts from the crops continue ats fro represent a great falling off in the production of these sec tions, and estimate the yield of the year at not more than 1.300.000 bales. Others place it at 2,000,000 bales. This affairs, in the nt year and it is not improbab very great reducti a will take pn of the through the c eneral bankrupt lam may lead to suspension of - business on all the tations wh were stimulated into activity by the paper ex- pansions a few years since, and have been siruigling life by the extensive bank favours that must now be brought to a close. It is scarcely possible to estimate the extent to which the cotton production may be reduced by the change. The result will be an immense gain to those planters that are on a substantial basis. The receipts of COtton thus far, how ever, present an increase over that for the same period of last year. The intelligence from Tennessee is most exciting. The locofocos of the senate have refused to vote in the convex]. ion of the two houses to elect United States senators, and legislative business was at a stand 7, New York Morni ) . f 15th Dec P SAVANNA Loss OF THE STEAM —The pilot boat rieston bar 4th inst., ti ,chooner Olt, THIS PROPHET OF THE CAUCASUS. .. Mr. Howard j Jumbo Mr. Beverly Ximenc Mrs. N nun The Spectacle on the Stage will be followed by DUCROW'S SPLENDID SCENES OF THE CIRCL An entire new characteristic Entree, by Thirteen Horses and their Riders, entitled The Flight of the Arabs; or, The Bedouin Tribe, conducted by Si,,;nor Hillier. To be succeeded by the Equestrian Prodigy, LE PETIT DUCROW, as The Lilliputian Fox Hunter; or, Young Mellonian. Mr. HICKEN and all the Equestrians introduced in the Comic Extravaganza of My Grandmother on Horseback; or, The Sweep and Millers. Signor HILLIER will appear in a Characteristic Scene, en titled Recoe of the Alps and his Horse of Pastime. Succeeded by Signor ALLARD, who will appear on a Single Steed as The Wild Horseman. Madame ALLARD, the Great French Female Equestrian, will appear and execute some peculiar Feats of Riding on a • Single Horse. Mr. II IcK EN will appear in his Military Delineation, on a Single Horse, of The Death of a Soldier. To conclude with TURTLE HUNTING. Principal Characters by Mr. H. Beverly, Mr. and Mrs. Weston, (their first appearance this season,) &c. Private Boxes may be obtained nightly for Families on application to Mr. F. CARMAN, at the Box-office, from Eleven until Three o'Clock. Prices of Admission :—Centre Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Side Boxes, 2s. Gd. ; Pit, Is. 6d ; Lower Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Second Price, a t Nine o'Clock :—Centre Dress Boxes, 2s. ; Side Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, ls. ; Lower Gallery. 6d. No Second Price to the Upper Gallery. Second Price will be taken for Children under , Twelve years of age to the Boxes only. Doors to be opened at Half-past Six and the Performances to commence at Seven o'Clock precisely. ROYAL LIVER THEATRE TR. BALLS respectfully announce his BENEFIT and IV"i Last Appearance on FRIDAY next, the 7th of Janu ary instant, when he will be assisted by Mrs. WAYLETT and the talented Company of this Theatre. By desire, BARNABY RUDGE, which increases nightly in attraction Barnaby Rudge The Stranger Murtoch Delany Edward Zephyrina Wildlove (for this night After which, THE HAPPY AFRICAN . Mr. Raymond Mr. Balls. To be followed by THE IVIAGIC LADY. ... (with Songs) Mrs. Waylett Mr. Balls. To conclude with BLACK-EYED SUSAN. William Tickets of Mr. BALLS, 63, Renshaw-street. TO CORRESPONDENTS We are very sorry that one of our correspondents has led us into an error with respect to the alleged dismissal of a son of the treasurer to the parish-office. The young man was never in the pay of the parish, and we are informed that the vestry are much indebted to him for the services which he rendered gratuitously for some time. The dismissal is, therefore, absurd. Sour FOR THE POOR.—In the letter of " Medicus," in our last publication, for " Dry Barley," &c. (in noticing the ingredients), read " Dry Herbs," &c. The mistake was typographical, from the M.S. not being very distinct. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD We cannot refrain from the warmest expressions of gra titude to our numerous friends, who have so kindly responded to the respectful invitation, in the last num ber of the STANDARD, for their approval and sup port. We should be glad to see their conduct imitated by a few more of our Conservative neighbours, who, we cannot suspect, will hesitate to comply with our wishes if these remarks attract their attention. The value of a Subscriber operates indirectly to the ad vantage of a Newspaper Proprietor in various ways, and we Lope no person will consider his single counte nance unimportant or unnecessary. THE SCHOOL QUESTION. e have made arrangements for giving an accurate and verbatim Report of the Proceedings in Council on Wednesday, on the discussion of the SCHOOL QUES TION. As considerable anxiety is evinced to ascertain the most minute particulars of the debate, we intend to give a mucit more copious Report than usual of the whole proceedinys. Ebt Eibrpont &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1842 The immediate purpose of the interview with Sir Robert Peel with which the Deputation from the Short Time Committees of the West Riding of York: - -hire were favoured, would appear to have been simply to enlist his feelings in support of. a Ten-hours Factory Bill ; but in the interesting conversation which took place, our attention is irresistibly drawn to a more ge neral and comprehensive question—namely, the exist ing unrestricted use of machinery and its ctnse quences. The whole of the discussion, so graphi cally detailed by the deputation, is soothing and re freshing to the mind, in the highest degree, after the noisy, intemperate, unmeaning, and repetitious brawl ing with which the orators of the League vex the dull ear of a drowsy public continually. We cannot sup pose that the members of this deputation feel less for the sufferings of the working classes than any one of the great aristocrats of the factory, or than the whole of the more noisy operators in distress put together; they exist in an official capacity as men who do sym pathise deeply with the operative, whether of mature or of tender years, and they have volunteered to act as the organ of persons who are sensibly impressed with the grievances under which this numerous class are labouring. It is not their purpose to throw any veil over the existing distress ; and so far from endeavour ing to mitigate some deplorable representations which have been made on this head, they stand forward ra ther as witnesses of the facts perfectly ready to con firm them. They called the attention of the Premier distinctly to the report of the Unemployed Operatives' Enumeration Committee of Leeds, from which the appalling summary is deducible, that nearly 20,000 human beings, in the several wards of that town, are now living upon an average weekly income of 1 lid. per head ! Such persons then can neither be charged with ignorance of what exists, or with a disposition to extenuate it, or, least of all, with indifference to the important subject of its essential change and improve ment. They present themselves in the character of parties who have made themselves familiar with all its details, and who would offer to the attention of the legislature something which they conceive would tend essentially to its amelioration. And what is this something ? Is it cheap imported provisions, free trade, new markets, or anything of that sort, which the great millowners insist upon as the sine qua non to re move ttv: depression ? No ; their remedy is of a pre cisely opposite kind ; they speak of contracting, not of expanding our productive processes; of affixing some limit, not of giving a further stimulus to manufactur ing operations. First, they advocate a ten-hours bill, or provision for restricting the working hours of young persons in factories to ten hours each day ; and, secondly, they recommend the withdrawal of all females from such occupations. Nor is this all; they carry their idea's of what is necessary to be done in order to obviate those principles of evil which belong to the existing system much farther, and contend for the necessity of impos ing some legislative check upon the march, or, at least, the use of machinery itself. We can readily conceive how distasteful such doctrines and proposi tions must be to the rnillocrats of the Anti-Corn-Law League; the road that leads to reform at home is rarely an inviting one; and this is the one to which, after all their panting aspirations after foreign scenery, their visionary pictures of more markets, more machi- nery, more production, and more everything, is pointed out to them in all its quaint formality, unromantic plainness, and Dutch rigidity. We anticipate a burst of amazingly tragic indignation and contempt from the entire body at such a suggestion ; but they will have to moderate their fury. Sir Robert Peel not only treated the Yorkshire Deputation of which we speak with the utmost courtesy, but gave his assent to one very essential part of the theory advanced by them. The following is a concession on his part to their doc trine which cannot fail to be considered of great mo ment from its manifestly powerful bearing on the whole question in dispute. Amongst the last words which he addressed to the deputation were the follow ing : " I fear that the extension of our manufactures will not afford the relief desired ; for past experience, I think, shows that such an extension would only bring into play more ma chinery. and not employ manual labour in anything like the rate of the increase in the machine department." If this be the opinion of Sir Robert Peel's govern- ttunt, We woftkl gay that the free trade quention, po far s~ hip administration is concerned, perfectly ettled The great question at issue with the anti-home-prote tine party is, in other words, just this of the extension, or non-extension of the factory system. The whol and sole object of the League is to increase it ; the speak, they dream of nothing else; it is their panacea for all grievances—the great remedy for all the priva- tions and distress of the operatives—the certain reno vator of all manufacturing or commercial decay in their estimation; and here, we think, the Premier de clares expressly against them, and throws all their pharmacy to the !logs. With regard to the total ex clusion of females from factory labour the Premier de murs, and the Deputation exert themselves in vindica tion of the fair sex, and its appropriate domestic avo cations, with feeling, eloquence, and power. They argue that the factory is certain degradation of the fe male character, and infer, with reason, that a train of evils innumerable must necessarily attend so fatal a The Premier adverts to the commercial or mo netary inconvenience which would probably result to the manufacturer from depriving him of this class of operatives ; the Deputation insinuate that human be ings are of a little more consequence than printed ca lico or cotton twist, and that their comfort, happiness, and virtue have a far superior claim upon the conside ration of the statesman than the profits of millowners, or any amount of manufactured goods that they can produce. In the first place, the Deputation fairly open their attack upon machinery itself. We shall give a portion of what they say on this subject : " We can show," say they, " by statistical facts and irre futable documents, that since the year 1815, there has been a constant introduction of self-acting machinery, or machi nery which imposed greater labour on the smaller number of adult operatives retained; thus cheapening the cost, and in creasing the amount of production. And what has been the consequence? Why, exactly in proportion as this has taken place, the profits of the capitalist and the wages of the la bourer have regularly decreased, until at length, in 1832, we received no more money for three times the amount of raw material manufactured, than we received in 1815 for the one third. This result, in our opinion, is clearly traceable to the unregulated use and extensive introduction of machinery, which has either superseded adult labour entirely, or replaced it by the cheaper labour of women and children. What is now the consequence? Throughout the manufacturing dis tricts the mills are nearly closed. The capitalists and middle classes are in ditliculties--insolvent or bankrupt ; while the operatives are in a state of destitution which must make every heart bleed, and which arises from causes over which they themselves have no control. Now, if this insane course had been checked—if over-production had been discouraged by wise laws, arid a prudent system of trade pursued, wages and profits would have been better, and employment more per manent, and more equally diffused over the year. We should not have had flushes of prosperity, succeeded by long periods of depression ; a continual recurrence of gluts and panics, each crisis following the other at shorter intervals, and finding us less prepared to bear it than its predecessor. For these reasons we believe that the dictates of sound political wisdom coincide with the dictates of humanity, morality, and religion, in calling upon us to retrace our steps; and arrest t h e progress of a system which is spreading disease, disorganization, and disaffection in the factory districts." They add, in illustration of the position that an ex tension of Manufactures would not necessarily afford increased employment of human hands, the fact — which appears from the reports of the factory inspect ors—that " between the years 1835 and 1839 the horse power increased • at least one-half, while, so far from the new machinery calling new manual labour into exercise, the fact was that the number of spinners in Manchester required to work the enlarged and in creased machinery was not more than one-third of the number previously employed." There is nothing plainer from such facts and state ments, than that the interests of the millowner and of the operatives are not identical under the existing or der of things. Th e former is clamorous for new mar kets and free trade. For what purpose ? Of course that he may be increased in mills, in goods, and in mo ney; but while the master grows rich, is clothed with broad cloth, and well fed every day, the operative may starve a beggar at the gate—the Lazarus of the para ble. The automaton weaver, spinner, dyer, and every other sort of manipulator, has taken his place ; the steam-engine does all; machinery haE sent him adrift. The poor operative has really nothing whatever to do with the agitation about which the masters take so much pains; and the true call in behalf of suffering humanity is, to lay some restraint upon a system which, when unchecked, leads, without fail, to such multi plied calamities. But it will be asked, what relief would th os e im provements in the factory system advocated by the Deputation afford to the distress of the present Mo ment ? The answer must certainly be —none what ever; such relief must be effected by some other means. But it was not for the purpose of admim s _ ing relief to classes on whom an evil system has en tailed misfortune that the Deputation undertook to la bour ; it was to propose a correction to that system itself; and they are right, we do humbly conceive, in the course which they have taken for the purpose. A memorial lately presented by the subscribed lay inhabitants of Cheltenham, to his Grace the Archbi shop of Canterbury, is evidence that the interest felt on the subject of the Oxford Tracts is not confined alone to members of the sacred profession. The Ob ject of the memorialists in addressing his Grace is to procure through him, as principal official guardian of the Church in this kingdom, an authoritative condem nation of the Tracts by the united episcopal bench. For themselves, they declare that though devoted epist copalians, they regard " with dismay the recent deve lopment of views inculcated by the authors of the Tracts for the Times," and that they are persuaded that many of their meetings are " utterly repugnant to the word of God, at variance with the plain meaning of the articles, liturgy, and homilies of the Church of England, and contain the essence of many of the most fatal errors of the Church of Rome." The Lord Pri mate has promised to give his most serious considera tion to the purport of this address, and should his lordship agree in the propriety of the suggestion which it contains, we anticipate that he will find no great dif ficulty in inducing the bishops in a body, and without perhaps a single exception, to pronounce such an offi cial and authoritative judgment on the papistical he resy sought.to be established by the Tractarians, as may place the party in its proper point of view before the world. Several of the bishops have already con demned this mischievous perversion of truth, speaking authoritatively but individually within their.own dio ceses. The Bishop of London, at his last ordination, we are informed, put several questions to the candi dates for orders to ascertain that their minds were free from all tractarian taint in the interpretation of church articles, and significantly told them that those who could not interpret these articles in their plain and ob vious meaning, had no business entering the church. Other prelates are perhaps no less decided in their sentiments, and only await some suitable occasion for divulging them—such an occasion as they would have, if called upon by the Lord Primate to join in that high and important official declaration, for which he has been solicited by the memorialists alluded to. So far as the tractarian writers themselves, or those who have imbibed their superstitious notions are con cerned, we should not, of course, expect that any es sential change would be made in their minds by this procedure; but we do think that it would neverthe less be a most happy event to have their errors for mally condemned by the united prelacy of the king dom. We talk of extending the ministrations, as well as of enlarging the borders, of the Church; and certainly a more important object, whether it be viewed in a political or a religious light, cannot be contemplated ; but if that " principle of limitation" which Tractarian ism would introduce were to spread among us, it would be to little purpose that we should build churches, or endow ministrations, or in any other way extend the outward services of religion : the dryrot of Tractarian isin would mar all these instrumentalities, and the church—the Church of England, we mean, in all its doctrinal purity and :apostolic simplicity, would die of inanition. We cannot deny but that, at times, we are tempted to regard the solemn trifling of the Puseyites as some thing more worthy of contempt and ridicule than of serious refutation. In a contemporary of Saturday last, a writer, who subscribes himself " Clericus, " gravely brings forward the following charges against what he calls the "evangelical system" in this town. He says,— " By drawing an outline of the evangelical system, it must he plain to every unprejudiced person how utterly regardles s it is of church discipline. In its mode of worship, it is too evident there is a total disregard of the holy liturgy of our apostolical church, the majority of persons assembling for no other reason but to listen to some " extemporaneous ha rargue ", and return to their homes in a highly excited fro .me of mind, totally unlike the quiet and peace characte ristic of the gospel. The new and old version of the " in spired psalmody " are entirely set at nought, and uninspired hymns eking in their stead—the moat part thq production of dissenters or apo s t a tes from the church. A u "extemporane -0211 prayer" before and after the extemporaneous sermon, is now quite general. The outward demeanour of these mi nisters seems, in a great measure, borrowed from their dis senting brethren. We see them walking indiscriminately with each other, and going in .a body to the opening of uncon secrated and vnhallowed places of worship, thus giving an open and daring countenance to dissent. Under these cir cum:lances, what true churchman will deny that the Oxford divines were not justified in the course they pursued I With regard to this rebutting case, it will be re marked, that the first accusation of a " total disregard to the liturgy" rests solely upon the writer's opinion of what is passing in the mind of the congregation ; that the others amount to the use of hymns (or prayer) not those of the inspired psalmist; to the use of extempo rary prayer; to ministers "walking with each other" (!) and going " in a body to unconsecrated and unhallowed places of worship, thus giving an open and daring countenance to dissent." No wonder that the Oxford divines came forth to break a lance with the authors of such impiety—the leaders in such " open and daring countenance" to dissent ! One must laugh at such weak puerility and paltriness as this, and especially when it is assigned as a sufficient justification of a series of publications which seem to have had no other object than to reduce the Church of England once snore under the dominion of the Pope. It would be easy to refute seriously and in detail these and many other such allegations and pretences set up by the Puseyite party, as an excuse and cover for their own reserve in preaching," and their thousand and one devices to reduce the, world once more to darkness; but we are not going into the controversy just now. • We have said that there is a puerility in tiMny-, of their conceits that provokes one to laughter, and might at first sight induce us rather to leave their- vain janglings altogether Unnoticed than to take any trouble about them; hut the safer course is, we now think, in a different mode of proceeding. Lord Ashburton goes out on a special mission to the United States, in the hope of entirely removing all grounds of quarrel between us and them. This is a judicious proceeding on the part of Sir Robert Peel, and, we trust, will prove as auspicious in its results as it is wise in its inception. Why should the Ameri cans wish for a war with England ? It is certainly not their interest; and if they have no sufficient cause for it, neither is it their duty. On the part of England they have received, and, through the instrumentality of this extraordinary mission, will still further receive, assurances which ought to satisfy them that there is the most profound desire in this country to maintain with them relations of the most entire and unreserved amity. Such assurances, so devoid of all suspicion, and so conveyed, must make an impression on the American people,—and then, if there be the will, what obstacle is there in the way to such a settlement of all differences as will leave us no other than a cheering prospect of lasting friendship and alliance ? The Caroline affair! why it is mere nonsense; there is no material for quarrel in that. The boundary line; there is room enough, truly, for the people of both nations, however the line may be drawn—and with ample scope and verge enough for defining, it is not conceivable that with a conciliatory dispostion on both sides, the line may not he definitely laid down without any other aid than that of civil engineers. The right of search question is one in which we are interested, and honor ably so, for the sake, alone, of suffering humanity— and America will not, we should hope, disgrace herself be seeking a dishonourable quarrel with us on that score. It is most desirable that the smouldering flame which has been for some time manifesting its existence by petty bickerings should at last be extinguished,— and all must approve so laudable an attempt as that now about to he made for the purpose. It is univer sally conceded that the choice of an ambassador could not have fallen upon a more suitable person than Lord Ashburton. There is a controversy of great interest pending at this moment, with respect to travelling on the Lord's Day on the railway between Edinburgh and Glasgow, and as the question is to be decided by the share holders, we would just put this question to them, — would they, if shopkeepers or merchants, open their shops or counting-houses on the Sabbath ? If they would not, upon what principle, or with what excuse can they vote for carrying on their railway traffie OR that day ? It is easy to make out a plausible case of expediency; but the query we suggest comes home to the point, and it is the only one with which, as a matter of conscience, the shareholder has any con cern. It is not for him to inquire about other men's convenience, or inconvenience, but simply what it is his own duty to do in the case. If his conscience tells him that he would be violating a divine command by transacting ordinary business on the day of sacred rest, then it is his bounden duty to vote against traffic on a railway in which he has a share on that holy day. " To-morrow," says the Albion, " will see the tri umph of bigotry and intolerance in Liverpool." And in what will this triumph consist ? Why, in simply. establishing prayer and scripture reading as the system of the Corporation schools ! That it will be a great, a glorious consummation, we admit; but wherein con sists the bigotry or the intolerance, we do not perceive. Save us from that toleration or that liberality which requires us to give up all in this world that is really worth adhering to ! If it be intolerance and bigotry to maintain the truth of God, then long live these much calumniated principles ; we never knew before exactly what they were ; but thanks to our new whig diction ary, we are now enlightened on the subject. To teach children to pray, and to read the Bible, is to be a " bigot ;" how intolerant such conduct towards the tares and the weeds—and all the seedling vices that the enemy of souls would blunt in the youthful bosom ! It is easy to see who the first whig was. STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c We have little to report upon the state of commercial affairs since our last. On Friday the annual circular of the cotton trade (some remarks on which will be found else where) was published, and its discussion occupied the atten tion of a great portion of our men of business. The feeling with which it has been received, although not one of a very animating character, is yet on the whole cheerful with respect to future prospects. The sales on Friday amounted to 5,000 bags at full prices. Saturday being partially kept as a holi. day, but little was done—the sales only amounting to 2,000 bags, and prices unmoved. The sales yesterday were 4,006 bales at the full rates of the past week. The same want of transactions may be noticed with respect to the trade of the manufacturing districts. The accounts from the United States brought out by the Acadia are of a satisfactory character. A good feeling as to future business is generally entertained by commercial men. The principal part of the goods required for the spring trade, however, have already gone out, to arrive at as early a period as possible after the Ist January, when a reduction of the tariff was to come into operation. Some additional orders have arrived, however, by the Acadia ; and it is expected will continue to arrive, although not to any great extent, for another month or six weeks. .. Mrs. Waylett Mr. Balls. LOCAL NEWS. FREEMASONRY.—The Mersey Lodge 701, recently insti tuted in Birkenhead, and which has made such rapid ad vances in the increase of numbers of the first respectability, met at Brother Robert Harwoods, the Market Inn, on Thursday evening last, to celebrate St. John's day. There was a full meeting of the craft, amongst which were several brethren from Liverpool and Chester. At a supper, after the close of the business, Clarke Itampling, W.M , presided, supported by the wardens, Brothers E. G. Willoughby, S.W., and Groves. On the withdrawal of the cloth, the W.M. gave the health of " Her Majesty the Queen, and the Craft," which was drank with all the honours of masonry. Song, " God save the Queen." Next followed " His Royal High ness the Duke of Sussex, M.W.G.M.," then " Lord Vis count Combermere, M.W.P.G.M. for Cheshire." A bean tiful song, written expressly for the occasion by Brother J. S. Cudlipp, was given by him in admirable style. The health of " Finchett Maddock, Esq., M.W.D.P.G.M. for Cheshire" was received with masonic honours ; also that of Brother Sam. Brown, W.P.G.S." Next followed the " W.M. of lodge 701," with the honours of the craft ; the S.W. ; the J.W. ; the officers of the lodge ; Brother Pitt, of lodge HS ; and other masonic toasts and sentiments. Many excellent songs were given during the evening. There can be no doubt, even from present appearances, that the Mersey Lodge bids fair to be one of the most prosperous in Cheshire. TIIEPT FROM A MILLINERY ESTABLISHMENT.—On Fri day, at the Police-court, a woman of loose appearance, named Jane O'Hara, was charged with stealing a mantle. Miss Jane Holden, partner with Miss Elizabeth Holmes, corner of Great Newton-street arid Brownlow-hill, said that on Wednesday evening week some one (who was afterwards seen by one of her young women) entered the show-room by the window, and she missed two bonnets, a velvet mantle, and a child's cloak. 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