The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-13 00:00:00

f'Enitu,Otv 13, 8 I.IIEETING 0::"I'LlE MARINER'S CHURCH SOCIET On Friday the annual meeting of this society was held at the Music-hall, 80ld -street, at Twelve o'clock, the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, occupying the chair. The meeting was very thinly attended, so much .su that we were in doubts whether there would be a meeting, nut above 25 persons being assembled. The extremely wet day might iu some measure account fur this. On the entrance of the Right Rev. Chairman he was accompanied by the Reverends H. M'Neile, Maynard, James Haldane Ste wart, Buddicoui, Lawrence, Davis, Lyons; Adam Hodgson, Esq., &c. &c. On taking the chair, his Lordship called the Rev. Mr. May nard, the chaplain of the Mariners Church, to open the pro dding with prayer. 'The Right Rev. CHAIRMAN in opening the business of the meeting said, it had been called. with the desire of exciting the attention of the community to a class of persons who formed a very important part of it.. Not indeed, now, for the first time, but for the sake of renewing that interest which in the progress of years seemed, after being once exc i te d , to b e allowed in some degree to become dormautagain. They all knew that he alluded to those who brought•to our ports as well as to our houses, so much of that wealth,' and of those comforts by which we are cheered, and enriched. It was characteristic of a christian spirit, and a christian charity to look out to the different fields which might be opened for their exercise—to look to the dif ferent fields which might require cultivation, and amongst them undoubtedly tire class to which he alluded formed a very im portant part. That class required, as they were well aware, a se parate provision • a provision which must be peculiar to them selves, as they t hemselves formed a class, in many respects, separate from the. rest of the community, and for this purpose, in order that they might be thus supplied, the institution that he was naming was formed many years ago. They would find by the report which would be read to them, that the institution had not been formed in vain, and that the blessing of G o d h a d, i n a great degree, acc o mpaiued the exertion which hail been made. But as was the case, not with this only, but with other: societies likewise, exertions were now requisite, because fresh expendi ture was necessary; and they desired to call the attention of all those who were iuterested in the class of which be spoke, to its spiritual wants, which,.without such attention, must be neglected. For what would be said, if, after an undertaking of this kind bads() prospered, it were to fall to the ground for want of support. How bad a return should they make, if, after having seen that the exertions of the society were bringing a blessing on it, they neglected the exertions necessary to revent them relaps ing again into irreligious apathy. This was a return which he trusted would not be given by the inhabitants of Liverpool; and he trusted, that notwithstanding the unfavourable circum stances under which the preseut meeting was assembled, still, that they should find the result of the meeting in some degree corresponding with their wishes, The right rev. prelate con cluded with calling upon the chaplain of the Mariner's Church to read the report. The Rev. Mr. AlaiNalin then proceeded to read the report: It set forth the great, importance of promoting the spiritual in terests of the sea-taring population. Formerly the sailor was forgotten, and it-might almost be said that no man cared for his soul; but since the establishment of the Mariner's Chattel, the door had been thrown open for him. Who should say what had been the effect already produced, or the amount of benefit which might yet be conferred by this institution. It behoved them to endeavour to alter the manners of the sailor, fur in the foreign poi t the example he set counteracted the efforts of the ruissiouary. It was also the more necessary that the means of grace should be held out to the sailor while on shore, from the great uncertainty of his life. At the Mariner's church the sacrament was administered the first of every mouth, and there were from 3U to 40 communicants. Besides the Sun day's service, Divine service was administered every Tuesday. The congregation was numerous, attentive, devout. A society had also been formed amongst a number of young men for dis tributing the formularies of the church amongst the sailors at theii lodgings; and in sonic instances this had been found,be neficial. At the same time the society felt that much more good might be done did their fuuds permit. A reading room had been established for sailors, with a fire, where they were accommodated with books; but this had been obliged to be given up, as the resources of the society would not allow it. Had it not been for the liberal bequest of the late Robert Sher burn, Esq„ of £2OO, the society would have been greatly in debt. Mr. CHARLES PARKER, the Treasurer of the Society, read the statement of account, from which it appeared that there was a balance due to the treasurer of 1:35 18s. The Rev. Mr. BUDDICHM said he had been requested to Move " That the report now read, together with the treasurer's accounts be printed and circulated under the direction of the committee." - He had great pleasure iu fulfilling the duty, and he only wished, for the sake of the society, that the room were as fell as it could hold. He was much gratified by that part of the report which spoke of the operations of the society, out of the inure immediate ministerial sphere of the chaplain. It . Showed that material advantage might arise were the spirit and principles of the Church of England were wrought out by the co.operation of young men giving their assistance in promoting our common Christianity. The situation of seamen was one of a very peculiar kind, and they had been peculiarly dealt with. All classes of persons had considered them as altogether with out the sphere and pale of Christian exertions. It was consi dered a kind of ruin of the character of daring recklessness of sea faring men if they were humanised by the blessiuge of re ligion—if their minds were enlightened, their affections altered, and their hearts changed. It was thought that the very inGment the power of God reached the seaman's heart, that very moment it extinguished the fiery enterprise of his character. That opinion had been contradicted by men who had had experience amongst seamen, and their testimony was enough to set that matter at rest. Another class of objectors was those who censidered sailors altogether incapable of receiving spi ritual knowledge: they had considered that the very boards of the ships, especially of ships of war, in which seamen dwelt, received such a measure of contamination that the ship became as 'it were a very leprous house which must be actually taken down because it was quite incapable of being purified. Ex perience bad told them the fully and the vanity also, of that view of the subject, for they khew (blessed be God for the knowledge) that there were many vessels now out of this port the crews of which were now fearing God and working righteous. ness, carrying Christianity amongst whom they went abroad, and acting as would do honour to those who professed religion and had better opportunities at home. (Hear.) The only ~, ilureh in this town for a great numb e r o f cen t ur i es , h e be tieved, it was built soon after the conquest, was tbe parish chapel Wl:it. Nicholas, dedicated to a saint that was a patron of seamen in,the nourish calendar, and till - now. the seamen had been left tattle patron saint St. Nicholas; fer to the present time, while Churches and churches had been raised, nothing had been done tail Within 4 few years for the eccommod a ti uu o f the seiiinau. it might be s a id that the 'church doors were open to seamen as to landsmen; but the difference of their mode of life made them Shiftik from going and it was a sort of givin g u p o f cast t o sa il ors to mingle in worship with landsmen. Seamen would not associ ate with landsmen, and it became them to furnish them with the means of worshipping God in that way which was consistent with their prejudices. And sure they all were, if they once came to a knowledge of the value of the exceedingly precious Promises of God, that they would be then led to go wherever the word of God was preached. They were called on as.regard- N, ore benefit they were continually deriving fron them, and, t)y their instrumentality, to assist them. We had been sitting every man under his own vine and fig tree—we had been drinking. of the waters of life, and had neglected them, and it wa l • • quite time for us to send spiritual blessings to them. He .eaucluded with moving the resolution, which was seconded, and carried unanimously. The Rev. Mr. MAYNARD, in lnovitig• the next resolution, said he felt that there was no class of persons fur whom their exer tions should be exercised with greater diligence and zeal than for seafaring men. Let them consider, iu the first place, the temptatious to which they were exposed even when they cable on shore. They were sent on board vessels at au early Period of life, and debarred from early instruction and from the service of God in his sanctuary, and when they came on shore there were thousands of temptations laid for them oh every side. If they felt a desire to remove them from the influence of these temptations, let them show that desire by coining forward and Sunpoi hug this institution. After an impressive appeal on behalf of the institution, he concluding with moving, "'That this meeting desires to return thanks to God fur that measure of success which has hitherto attended the labours of the society ; and regrets that its usefulness lies been greatly impeded by the want of funds." lie would put it to themselves whether the sailors had received that support from the shipowners which they ought to have, and he doubted not but that they would come to the resolution that the funds of the society should be increased. ADAM PODGAON, Esq. rose to second the resolution, in the absence of Mr. Horsfall, who was detained by a particular en gagement. He wished they could say so of all the other ship owners absent that day. It was impossible not to feel disap pointment at the meeting and the low state of the funds of the society ; but if they referred back to the early history of the society it would tend to dispel those sentiments. H e well re membered when the society was first projected, how many various and painful difficulties it had to contend against, whilst they had scarcely a hand . held up in its behalf. In a cause like this be felt that despondency was criminal. It would have been their duty to have persevered in a cause like this under the most discouraging circumstances. He believed that there was a mural and religious feelin , excited in the town since this society was established that made it impossible that it should fall. He would state this confidently in the face of the empty britches before him ihat there was no fear of the Want of success of the society. If the merchants would not come to that meet ing and Bear the cause of the sailors pleaded, there were places where it was a solemn duty for- them to attend, and where the rev. gentlemen around hint could discharge the highly respon sibly duty which be considered was incumbent upon them, of advocating front their pulpits the claims of this society (hear). He concluded with seconding the resolution, which was carried unattimoifsly. The Ilev. w H. M,'NECt.I3 rose amidst loud applause to move the next resolution, " that this society has strong and increasing claims on ship owne rs , merchants, and the inhabitants of Liver pool fur their support ; and that the clergy and friends of this institution be requested to use their influence and exertions to promote its welfare." That resolution had been already spoken to in a very touching and feeling way by Mr. Hodgsou, and - he for one felt his appeal. Mr. Hodgson had used the language of apology for the present thinly attended meeting, he would be faithful and bold enough to add the language of re proof. That meeting was a disgrace to Liverpool. If there were any gentleman there who reported their proceedings for the public press, he wished,, without intimating any disrespect to any class of the community, that his sentiments on this point sheuld be known to the very large class of merchants in this town who must have had notice of the meeting, and that their respected Diocesan would preside over it, that this meeting was an indelible disgrace to the town. He trusted he should be excused fur this reproof when he remembered that the scriptures required of them reproof as well as exhortation and forbearance. They naturally connected a sailor's life with exposure to dan ger, Aud although they were in the midst of dangers them 'elves, so that even on l an d i t was no exaggeration to say that to the midst of life we are in death:" yet still undoubtedly, aeoording to the usual dealings of God with mankind, there was a much larger manifest amount of risk of sudden death in their case than in others: therefore according to the simplest Pri nciple:oicalculalion there ought to be in their case the high est principle of calculation there ought to be in their case the highest possible amount of habitual preparedness for death—a Preparedness which could onlybe real when based upon the love of Christ. 'That sailors should be fitted for their calling, they O ught, it wo uld b e at once conceded, to be free from the fear of daritzpr and death. Add where should freedom front the fear of eath be f oun d, suc h f reedom as became a rational being, here? ba t i n the knowledge of Him who gave Himself to (leath. that throu g h death he might destroy hint that had the LPower of death, that is the devil, an d d e li ver those who, through ear of death, were, all their lif e t i me, su bj ect to biindage. s her e was one consideration of great importance. He was P e rsuaded th at t h ere ex i sted a wide spread delusion with regard tilt' immediate effect of danger on the human Mind.. Ile.• (2might it was a very general epiniiin _that in the extremity of tr, 4 : . iger a man must aud would repent; and that then, even iu ? • last hour, crying. to the merciful God, he would Lind m erc y., Pe ventured to call this a delusion. Ile did' so, not froth any reelin g or limitation of the divine mercy,. but from tin wave' in;; 11! ! !o d tfidence i n t h e truth of the divine word. That ti•uth was, 1. t " Jesus Christ is th e wa y," and that " nn man cnmetli to the Vanier but liv Him." 'That "he who bath the Son bath life, and that he . that bath out the Son of God hath nut life." -.esac~e,l~~t~ Life for fallen man -was in Christ, and could only be had by lhe man who was in Christ. Lc Hon was life, and no where else; and except a man were iu Him he bad not and could nut have life. Now, daugercould not leach Christ. Danger could arouse —could terrify; but could not instruct. Danger could awaken conscience; but danger could not coartiamicate knowledge and, information; danger could not originate new principles. It was possible so to sear that monitor as to be no barrier to the wicked man's death. It was possible, indeed, awfully pos sible, so to silence that monitor as fur a man to go fear less and headlong as a besotted drunkard into the pains of eternity. These, they hoped, were but few and extreme desperate cases. But, in the common case of ordinary life, where the conscience was still within reach of being roused, not naturally, but by the immediate pressure of eminent danger, with such a conscience what could be done—what could it teach in peril? It could only terrify us the more. It could condemn, it could cause self-reproach, it could drive the man well nigh to despair; but it could not inform the understanding, neither could it place new principles in the affections; therefore the hour of danger might come with all its terrors, and it could teach the terrified sailor nothing that belonged to the salvation of his soul. He may stand upon the deck, after having done all that human wisdom can devise and all that well directed human strength and courage can conceive—he may stand ap palled in terror under the bursting wave, which has already threatened him; but there is nothing in the terror nor in the bursting wave above him which can teach hint Christ; and except be know Christ he cannot be saved. Oh, he was well persuaded that there lurked at the tarot of the con duct of men to their fellow men, this real infidelity with regard to Gods woad, •a -wide-spreading Indifference that was called Christian charity, and instead of giving those who thought different to them credit for the true charity that aimed at propa gating the only saving truth, they condemned their sentiments as the narrowness of bigotry—hard-hearted , bigotry, while they looked on their own views as the widespreading mercy of a kind creator ! This was a topic which' he thought worthy of a little further enquiry. .Whatever the character and inwaed. feelings of a man might be, danger would show it. Whatever . principle or knowledge was in a man's mind was brought out iu the hour of dancer; but there was no new knowledge, or prin ciple implanted by the danger. This was strikingly illustrated ,by the history of:Junas, the mariner. The Lord sent a storm kon the sea, and the ship containing Jonas and the mariners was well nigh lost. They read that the mariners v ere afraid; there was -danger,--and "'they called every man upon his God." Whatever his view of God might Have been, whatever his feelings, whatever his superstition, danger drove hint to it; the danger and - terror - taught him nothing`, but only taught him to; fly to what he before knew. "Every man called upon his God." They were in earnest, for they discharged their cargo into the sea; they threw out their wares to lighten the ship; they threw away what men most value in the world, giving sub stantial proof that they were in earnest. Though terrified, there was nothing iu all this to teach them the true God, and every man called upon his own God. When alt their gods failed, they went down into the cabin and awakened their sleeper, and desired him to call on his God. " Awake, oh sleeper, and call on thy God!" They knew not the God of Israel; and here was a most striking proof that danger could not teach Christ—that danger was not to be depended on for driving men -to repentance at last. Oh, with what painful feeliugs had he often heard that heart-withering, soul-destruc tive speech—that men at last may repent, and God is merciful, and that they- will not be lost ! It was the deadliest barbarity, and it was exercised under the Sacred garb of charity. That sacred word was perverted to the vilest purposes of the devil. Seeing, then, that danger would not teach, but would rouse into exercise that which we already knew, how urgent was it on them that they should be taught the truth before they went into time danger! For, though the teaching at the time should fail to take manifest effect on the character." yet, if they were tau g ht —if the name of th e Lo r d J esus Christ were set before them, though the knowledge might be thrown aside, yet, if there were a seed of divine truth deposited in the soul, then, when the hour of danger came—when the quickening impulse was given to that soul—then, when the urgency of the case made a man rise above the fear of the ridicul e o f hi s compan i ons, then there might be a cry to the living and true God ; then, and then only, were they ready to believe that in the eleventh hour, in the last quarter of that hour, a full, free, and glorious salv a tion mi g ht be extended to the vil es t wre t c h that ever stepped on board a vessel.. Therefore, let the truth be taught, in order that when the danger comes they may have something to lay hold of; and now was the time; and this was the object they had in view— to provide for the instruction of these men in the gospel of God, to provide them with a cargo that would never sink, which would ride safely in every storm. If the persons mentioned in the reso lution were present—the shipowners and merchants of Liverpool —he would say to them :—Gentlemen, possessing hundreds of thousands, all wealth which you ha ve ma d e th roug h th e com merce carried on in this port, look at the instruments 'hrough whose labour and toil this wealth has been made, and ask your selves if you give a guinea a year, if you give as much, to the Mariners' Church Society, is this the return which they are to receive at your hands. Offer a guinea a year for the horses which draw your equipage, would it be received ? Offer a gui nea for the dinner which loads your table—will it pay for it? Offer a guinea for the raiment which adorns your poor perishing carcass—will it pay for it ? And yet you offer a guinea a year, and many not a shilling, for the religious teaching of the men who have poured the wealth of the universe into your lap of Liverpool!" The same thing pressed on the rest of society, on the clerks in counting-houses, as well as on the merchants, for on the amount of traffic depended the prosperity of all. He concluded an eloquent appeal, which our limits oblige us to curtail, with Moving the resolution, which was carried unaui mously. The - Rev. Mr. LAWRENCE moved "That the thanks of this meeting be given to the chaplain, the officers, and the commit tee for their past exertions, and that the gentlemen whose names are on the list be requested to. continue their services, with power to add to their s'.umber." The resolution was se conded, and carried unanimously. Captain BURGOYNE, a retired captain in the navy, here stepped forward and spoke at some length, and contended that the fault was not in the seamen that they were not an immoral set of men naturally. They had not the opportunity, nor the means given to them of becoming religious and moral. The Rev. JAMES Ha..x.DAtae S • rewer.r prop'Osed the' thanks of the meeting to th e L or d Bi s h op o f the 'Diocese, for his kind ness on the present occasion, and for the warns interest he had 'always shown to the society." He supported the objects of the society in a strong appeal in its behalf, and proposed that an address on behalf of the institution should be placed in the pews of the churches, and that the Rev. H ug h M'N e il e s h ou ld b e solicited to plead the sailors' cause in each of the pulpits of the His LORDSHIP briefly responded to the compliment. He felt it to he his duty to take the part which he did. There were last year 18.000 British seamen at the port of Liverpool; and if in any other part of his diocese he heard of such a number of his row without a shepherd, he should feel himself in duty bound to call on the men of property iu the neighbourhood to provide Ihe tneans for their spiritual teaching, as he now called on the merchants of Liverpool to provide the means fur the spiritual :eaching of the Liverpool seamen.` A doxology was then sung, - and the meeting► separated at three o'clock. THE LIVER TWEATIIE.—This delightful little place of amuse ment continues to till to overflowing each night. Mademoiselle Celeste now forms the loadstone of attraction, and a must powerful one. THE AMPHITHEATRE.—Thi s theatre continues to rise in public favour, and the boxes are becoming gradually lined with respectable visitants. The manager exerts himself in every way to ensure success. Ikon COAT HOSPITAL.—Ou Sunday morning next, a sermon in aid of this useful institutio❑ will be preached at St. Stephen's Church, Byrom-street, by the minister of the church, the Rev. T. Picton, after which a collection will be made in aid of the funds. Mu. GEORGE HOLDEN'S ColNicEnT.—We are much pleased to hear, that Mr. George Holden's concert, which is fixed fur this evening, is likely to have so brilliant an audience. It has been most judiciously fixed as to time : the town is perfectly qu►et, and there is neither any prominent excitement nor amuse ment to engage the public mind. -The concert, from this cause, stands every chance of becoming a focus of attraction. We hear that the box circle is completely filled, and that the seats are taken by distinguished parties. As a musical performance, it puts forth high pretensions. We have announced as principal vocalists, Mrs. Alfred Shaw, Miss Brace, Mr. Walton, and Mr. Machin. The instrumental departtnent is enriched, by the -ta lents of Mr. Geo. Holden, Mr. Aldridge, and Mr. Brown. Se lections have been chosen from Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Spohr, Rossini, Mercadauti, Bishop, &c. and so far as we have heard, it bids fair to be a truly splendid and delightful concert. We perceive that a steam-boat will ply to Birkenhead immediately after the concert is over, fur tha convenience of the inhabitants of Cheshire. PARRIS'S PORTRAIT OF Tile QUEEN.—The inhabitants of the town have, during the last week, through the politeness of Mr. Borland, been afforded the opportunity of witnessing a must beataiful water colour portrait ot the Queen, and if report speaks truly, a most correct likeness of her Majesty. This very beautiful portrait has beets obtained by Mr. Borland in order to authenticate the mezzotint") engraving by Wagstaffe, taken from it, several beautiful prints from which Mr. Burlrind has on sale. In speaking of the painting as a work of art, we cannot 110 better than quote the Spectator's notice of it :—" We saw th e other day Mr. Parris's portrait of the Queen : it is half length, painted it) eater colours. It is a true and agreeable resemblance, with au expression - of ingenious sweetness, and du air of graceful simplicity, characteristic of our youthful Queen. As a work of art it is highly wrought and brilliantly coloured.-- . pectatur." SHIMEA COMPLETLZ ECCLESIASTtCA A ItT.—We have just seen a copy of this truly' splendid work. It affords a com plete view of Ecclesiastical History. from the earliest records, sacred and profane, down to the present day ; shewiug its con nection with civil history and prophecy : exhibiting at a single view the identity and perpetuity of the church, in her adverse and prosperous states, under the Mosaic and Christian dispen sations, and comprehending a detailed account of the political events, external history, internal government, religious ob servances, and growing corruptions of the Church. it also gives a full history of the reformation: embracing the names of remarkable persons—viz., bishops, popes, martyrs, writers, doctors, philosophers, emperors, &c. It also furnishes a general survey of doctrines, sects, councils, and prevailing systems of philosophy ; the comparative rise, revolutions, and fall of the principal empires iu the world ; and a complete nucleus to the fulfilment of prophecy. This elaborate work has attained the most distinguished patronage in America and we perceive that it is recommeuded to the notice of the British public by some of the most eminent divines and scholars in England. The magnitude and interest of the work—the labour bestowed on its compilation, and the surpassing beauty of its mechanical execution must secure fur it an extensive sale. It is, in fact, a complete map of the religious history of mankind, in every age, and as such must form one of the most suitable presents which could be made to any young person. ' RuNcottN.—The spring which supplies the majority of the in habitants of this town with water, is about to be conveyed, by means of pipes, to a more central and convenient situation. It is proposed to erect a running pump, with three or four spouts in the course of the stream, opposite the' Town-hall, and that it.may.be nut only useful to the public, but ornamental to that building, a jet Wean will he formed at the tiip, so as to throw water ill some pleasing form. The surplus from the pump, and that flit own by the jet d'eau, will full into a handsome basin, fur the use of cattle, MANCHESTE R AN D LIVERPOOL PLATE GLASS. COMPAN Y. — A number of the principal shareholders in this undertaking, from Manchester and Liverpool, met on Monday week, by in vitation of the directors, at the company's establishment, Sut ton, (near St. Helensj to'inspect the works,- which are now in a state of completion, and to witness the manufacturing of plate glass. The castin g of four large plates was accomplished very successfully under the direction of Mr. Howard, the ma nager, and the colour and quality was considered very perfect. Alter having been present at the casting, and conveying the glass to the annealing ovens, the company examined the vari ous buildings and apparatus, and expressed themselves much gratified both with the works and the manner in which the cast ing was effected. A lunch was served to the visitors i❑ the casting-hall, (one of the largest rooms in the kingdom supported without pillars,) after which the party returned per railway.— Manchester Courier. clergy IT4E LIVERPOOL SzTANDARD. POLICIT LAT l'A'L LIGhNCE STEALING A LEATHER 11 AT• Box —A young man named James Gibbous, was on Friday charged at the l'olice•courr with stealing a leather hat-box from the shop of Rylands and Clegg, portmanteau-makers, Lord-street. On Thur§day even ing, about eight o'clock, Samuel Clarkson, an apprentice with Mr. Masker, tailor, was putting up the shutterS at his master's shop, when he observed the. prisoner make a leap at a carpet bag which was hanging outside Messrs. Itylaud and Clegg's door. Not succeeding in reaching it, he went into the shop and soon after came out with a leather hat-box. Clarkson im mediately informed INV Hyland, and pursuit was made after the prisoner, who threw away the hat-box and took refuge in a cart iu Harrington-street, where he was taken into custody. The hat-box which was worthBs., was found iu an entry. The prisoner was committed to the sessions. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A' SHopMAN.—Thomas Wadley, an elderly man, was on Friday, charged before Mr. Hall with having embezzled two several sums of money which he had received on behalf of his employer, Mr. Pain, hat-dealer, Byrom -street. Mr. Pain has two shops in Byrom-street, one of which had been kept by the prisoner fur seven weeks. In consequence of suspicions, Mr. Pain desired Mr. Shepherd, a friend of his, to gu to the shop kept by the prisoner after the regular hours, and purchase a hat. Mr. Shepherd west, as desired, about half-past eight on Monday night, and obtained admission, he purchased a hat for six shillings. out of which the prisoner allowed him lid. for a glass of ale. Next day, (Tues day) Mr. C. H. Thompson, London Road, also went to the shop at Mr. Pain's request, and purchased another hat for 13s. In the statement of each days business which Wadley gave in to Mr. Pain's housekeeper, during his absence, he had rendered no account of the two hats. Papers were handed up to Mr. Ball containing an account of each day's business on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday,- on which were marked the price paid for the hats, and that at which they were said. The pri soner endeavoured to account for the price of both the hats by referring to the price at which another hat was charged on one of the papers; • but his explanation was not intelligible to the court. It was elicited, in the course of the investigation, that hats of the same value were sold 'at different prices. The price paid by Mr. Pala or the hats in question, was for the first 4s. 3d., sold at 65.; for the second Bs. 6d. sold at 135.• Mr. Hall said be must see the statement of Tuesday's business before be could decide the case. It was possible the prisoner might have left the money that was deficient in the till. Mr. Pain said the money was always brought to him along with the daily state ment. No account appeared in Tuesday's statement of the hat ,sold on Monday evening, and it ought to' have been the first article on the list, as it was sold after,Monday's statement had been made up. Mr. Hall insisted on seeing the 'Tuesda'y's statement, and the case was remanded till it was produced. In a short time a young lad, named Win. Lancet EvSworthy, who is in oue of Mr. Pain's shopinen, brought the statement, from which it appeared that no entry was made of the hats, nor was any motley found in the till, except two shillings, being the price of a cap which Coe prisoner had sold on Thursday morning. Mr. Hall asked the prisoner if he wished to say anything before being committed. Ile said he had no other statement to make , than that he had put down; the whole of the goods sold. lie was then committed to the sessions. ASSAULT AT SEA.—Richard Turner, commander of the Arethusa, a 'vessel trading to Marseilles, appeared before the magistrates on Friday, to answer to a summons charging him with au assault on Th o m as Sh e ffi e ld,- a seaman, and one of the crew of the Arethusa. The com pl a i nan t state d t h at on t h e 20th ult., in consequence of some tale of the cabin boy, the captain came to him and told him that he (the complainant) bad been speaking against him. Sheffield denied that he had ever spoken in the manner, the cabin boy had stated; but the captain with out regarding his denial, "jumped " upon him twice and hurt his shoulder.—Mr. Hall was rather at a loss to understand-how the captain had jumped upon the complainant while he was standing, and repeated the question to which the complainant replied that he had jumped on his shoulders and threw him down, and when he rose the captain jumped upon lum a second time, but did not strike him. The captain, on being asked what he had to say to the charge, said that if he related all the cir cumstances it would take up a long time, but if he did not, he must admit the complainants charge. Mr. Hall said he must confine himself to the case in hand. He then stated that the boy had informed him that the complainant had been speaking ahout navigating the vessel, as it he (the captain) was mcom , petent to it. He was angry at what he .had heard , and went to the fore-hatchway and j um p e d upon the complainant, who was standing two feet below him.—Mr. Hall: Here was a mar, fall ing two feet on the neck of another. The Captain : I have suf fered enough from him this voyage. I would rather not govern, if it were to be over such menrnen as he. Mr. H ill asked if he wished to call any witnesses. Captains I think it is of no use. Mr. Hall said the defendant had admitted he had done as was stated by the complainant. It was very improper on his part,.. and the complainant had received au injury in consequence of it. Suppose the man had been killed, be (the captain) might have been tried for murder. Although the boy had told him ' what he did, it might be false, yet he - went immediatelyto the man, and treated him as a guilty person, notwithstanding he declared that the story was false. The defendant must pay 20s. and costs, or in default, be imprisoned 16 days in the Borough House of Correction. A SINGULAR CHARGE.—A publican, whose name, under the circumstances, we do not think it advisable to divulge,. was brought up at the Police-court, on t. rida v, charged with having robbed a seaman of his watch. The coniplainant stated that he was the master of a vessel saili ng from Code Castle. Ou Wed nesday night, betwixt eleven and twelVe o'cloi'k, he went into a public-house, and was standing with his back to the fire, speak ing to a woman who had Come in to sell oranges, when a man, whom he supposed to be master . .? the house, walked into the room without his hat -or coat, and.upple a suamh'irt his watcli with which, having broken the, guard, he ran off. The com plainant ran out after hiM doWn an entry, but lost him in the street. lie then gave an alarm, and the police came' Up. One of the officers said he saw the complainant in the street, who told him his watch had been stolen in the manner'he had de scribed. He (the officer) desired him to go back and find the house, but being a stranger he was unable to do so. They went into sesen or eight public-hOuses in the neighbourhood, where every facility was allowed hint to search, but the watch could not he found, nor the person who stole it. The complainant had described the appearance of the man who stole the watch. The inspector was then made acquainted With the circumstances, and desired the complainant to go to the street next" day, and try if he could find out the house. He went, as desired, accom panied by au officer, and at once discovered the house, and when he went in pointed out the master as the person who had robbed him of his watch. The publican brought forward three wit nesses, two of whom spoke as to the high respectability of his character; and the third, a female, stated that hearing the noise the complainant made in the street, she went to the dour, when he pointed out an entry where he said the public-house was in which he was robbed. This part of the complainant's state ment, it appeared, could not be sustained—there being no pub lic-house in the neighbourhood situate in au entry. The in spector endeavoured to reconcile the statement with the situa tion of the prisoner's house, which stood in a very peculiar po sition at the corner of a street; but Mr. Hall thought it likely that the complainant laboured under mistake in the whole affair. He said it was very odd that the prisoner, who was represented to be a respectable man, should rob another in his own.house. It was exceedingly improbable that he should du SO in the pre sence of a third party—that he should run away with a watch before an orange woman. He did not suppose the prosecutor was telling a wilful falsehood—he believed he was speaking what he thought to be truth ; but if they looked to the questions which came before the courts of justice relative to identity, there were circumstances in the case which rendered his statements exceedingly doubtful. Mr. Hall than pointed out a discre- Valley in the complainant's statement relative to the entry, and said he must discharge the prisoner. Considerable interest was excited in the court by the case, and a number of respectable people seemed to await the result with some anxiety. LIABILITY OF MATES.—On Friday, at the Police-office, Da yid Moffatt, first mate of a vessel, neither the name of which nor of the master was stated, summoned the captain for arrear of wages, amounting to upwards of £l5, which he alleged to be clue to him. It appeared that the complainant had shipped to St. John's, N.B. and back to Liverpool, on the 26th of Sept. 1837, and had arrived here on the 27th ult., being a period of four months and two days, at £5 101. per month. He had re ceived £5 ►n advance, and £43f monthly money, leaving a ba lance of £l3 195., which he claimed. The captain refused to pay this sum. on the ground that, through neglect of duty, the complainant had occasioned a loss of eleven oars to the vessel, which were value-1 at £5 4d., besides two jib penantt blocks and two clasp books, valued at 9/., thus making himself liable to a deduction of £5 9s. 4d. A lengthened investigation took place with respect to the liability of the mate, of which we can only give the principal points. The vessel, according to the mate's account, had been overtaken with a storm near the Banks of Newfoundland, and was nearly water-logged. The deck was covered with wood and ship's stores; the lung-boat, where the oars are usually kept, was covered overwith planks, and another boat was "capsized" upo❑ it. In this emergency he had put all the oars into the jolly boat, which was drifted away with the storm, and the whole were lost. There were seven oars, besides the four which belonged to the boat. The captain knew the oars were there. They were safer there than on deck, for the sea was sweeping over it. A witness called by the mate, con firmed his statement. The captain, on the other hand, con tended; that every thing pertaining to the vessel was under the charge of time first mate, and as a matter of course, it was ex pected whenever the vessel went to sea, that the oars would be put into the long-boat on deck. It ibis had been done, the oars would not have been loSt. Seven oars were lost at that time, the remaining four were lost in the Mersey, before the vessel came into port. They had bee❑ left in the jolly-boat, which, instead of being hauled up at night,•was left at the stern of the vessel; and the consequence was, that the oars were stolen by some of the fishing-boats. They 'were new oars. In answer to this the mate contended first, that the captain had taken the charge out of his hands and given it to the second mate, and ❑ext, that a pilot was on board who had the charge of the vessel. ,The captain denied that he had given the charge to the second mate: With respect t, the loss of the blocks and clasps, th 6 complainant threw the blame on the second mate. Mr. Hall was decidedly of opinion that the oars ought to have been put in the long-boat, and that the complainant was liable for their loss. He knew it was the first thing attended to atter a vessel went to sea, along with other arrangements, to have the oars put into the long-boat. The captai❑ had depended on his doing so as a matter of course. He must therefore disallow the claim. At the same time he recommended the captain to make an allowance for the difference in price betwixt old and new oars, which the captain agreed to. The arrears then adjudged to be due to the complainant were £8 175., making a difference of a few shillings in his favour, as compared with the captain's pro posal. A GOOD LANDLORD.—On Friday, at the Police-office, a man named Lyon, residing in Brownlow hill, was charged with having disposed of almost the entire property of a lodger, named Bennett, during the absence of him and his wife from town. Two large books, however, Mrs. Bennett stated, had been taken from their, apartment by him during her temporary ab sence, and pawned; he had got into their apartment through the window. He had offered the complainants EEO as compen sation, but they had refused it, as the property was worth more. Lyon declared that he was as innocent as a lamb, and that Bennett was acting like an old fox. He then, with a voice like that of an aged bear which has caught cold, declared that he was a very illused man, "You see, your worship, my bro ther-in-law had died, so we was drinking together in a house in Prussia-street.' He had been at the funeral, and when he had had a quart or two, the folks wouldn't chalk no more, and axed him to stump up. I was a-thinking, you know, very se rious about my brother what had gone afore us to kingdom come, and it were vastly unlikely I should be thinking about paying shots then. So he says, Jem, I say, a-hitting me a slap on the back that made me think I was shot, what shall we do to wipe off the shot and make a raise? What a fellow you are ! says I, when a poor devil's thinking of dead men, ghosts, and to ax me to think about ale ! my harrel-etriptier, bawls he, what ails von ? Don't hail me in no such a fashion, says I • I'm a thinking deeply of speritual thin gs; a nd th en , unbe thinking of what I was doing, I lifted up my pot to take a draught; but„ somehow of other, it was empty. Have yon no ale ? says I. Not as much as would damp the tip of a flee's tongue, says he, nor not a drop more will they draw; so we may as well draw off except we can raise the wind. Have vim no money? Money! and I buried my brother-in-law to day. and we have been (in the fuddle for a c(;rtnight, answers I, bu- Eying my hands in my pockets. How shall we raise, then? he axes. Why, says I, seeing as how the tap's stopped, we must put something up the spout, and then we can go on grandly; not what must we put up ? me if I care what it is, says he: go to my house atm get something. Well, away went, your w o r s hip, ..and took the two biggest books I eould lay hold of—the family Bible and another—and raised the wind with them: I put them up the spout for Bs." Mr. Hall said that, if the prisoner's statement was granted to be true, it formed DO plea for !ravine' subsequently stripp e d Bennett's apartment o f ali it contained. ° Prisoner—" But he made a moonlight flit of it when he came to our house, and be said he would rather I had the traps than the burn-baily. Oh, leave lthn alone, your worship, he's as big a rogue as any body, if Le likes." The Lyon, however, could'uot free himself from the toils : he was committed to take his trial, UNLAWFUL PLEDGING.—G6NRRODs CoNDUCT.—On Friday, a poor distressed-looking woman was charged before Mr. Hall with pledging a quantity of clothes, the property of Mr. Lucas, tavern-keeper, Hurst-street. The prisoner had for four years been employed by Mrs. Lucas in the capacity of a washerwo man, and had conducted herself without suspicion till the pre sent case arose. The clothes she had pledged were worth about 255. and she had raised 23s upon them. The prisoner acknow ledged the offence, and said site had been driven to it front dis tress. Nine weeks ago she had buried twins, and she wanted money to pay the expenses of the funeral. Her husband had deserted her, and she was left with one child to support. She then referred . to several respectable families, in addition to Mr. Lucas's, by whom she had been employed, and promised, if she was allowed till Monday she would sell her goods, and pay Mr. Lucas for the articles. lu answer to Mr. Hall, Mr. Lucas said he would. agree to this; but his " lady" was not to be so easily put off, and raised such objections as occasioned the wor thy magistrate to remark, that •in the churse of his experience he could always (teal better with men • than with woolen ; they were much more: rational animals. A ,zentleman here came forward, whom we afterwards ascertained to be Lieut. Bibby, 8.N., and with the true generosity of a British seaman, said he would guarantee the payment of the money. Mr. Hall said it was a generous offer on the part of the gentleman, and asked Mr. Lucas if he was satisfied, to which lie replied in the affirma tive. The poor woman was then discharged THE PUNISHMENT OF Vice AND IMPUUDENCe.-011 Satur day, at the Police-office, a clownish•looking fellow, named Thomas Leaver, who stated himself to be'a huxter from Bolton. appeared to complain of having been robbed the night before by a girl of the town, of £B. Au impudent-looking girl, named Huxley, and three well knoWn thieves, named Murray, War burton, and Jones, were placed at the bar charged with the robbery. The complainant in true colloquial style and iu genuine Bowton, proceeded to state his charge. lie said— You see, I was guoing dawn t' streit last noit to my lodgings, and hoi met with this girl, :you see; an:l shoo axed me if I would goo Imam with her, you see; shoo kept a hawse of her own, you see. I goes along with her to where shoo lived. And hoi'd got £B, you see, tied up in my shirt!' (Laughter.) Mr. In-your shirt Complainant.—" Hoi IT shirt lap corner, you see; and hoi'd 2s. 4d. in my breeches pocket, you see • and shoo fan out wheare t' m o ney lied, you see, and sn uo hoffeed to take it once, bud hoi was bower sharp for hoo. What have you got here,' says she, • that yoU be afeard on?' 'lt is all my money,' says I. Oh, says she, you need not be frightened of me, hoi shunt touch anything you have; hoi'm the misses of the hawse, you see.' Su this morning I lost it, you see.'" Mr. Hall.—;• And you were very Much surprised, were you?" Complainant.—" Yea, hoi was; so hot jumped up and said, hoi will make you foind it. The knot in the shirt was opened, and theire were seven whole sovereigns and-a-half, and 10s. in silver, all gone ; and a little check purse. Soa hoi said shoo should foind it, you see." Mr. Hall.—" Well, what hip pened then?" Complainant.—" Sea' hoi says, • hoi will hey money,' you see. ' Hoi've not grit it,' says shoo. •Oh yees,' says hoi, • you must hey got it.' • Noti,' ses shoo, • Liot'll goo fur some beer for you.' Soa, hoi follied her into the street, and cried fur the police, and rims police came, you see. Shoo wanted to gu back into t' entry, and this big man next to her (Murray) persuaded me to let her gee into t' hawse, and he was come from th e s hi p an d d i d not- belong to a' hawse o'' this seat. The other then hoi seed i' th' entry. Hoi was 'bringin,g her back, you see, into th' entry, and they said, ' Oh, let her gooa, and we will fetch a policeman.' Sua hoi did, you see, and shoo made her escape over t' wall.'" Mr. Hall.—" What are you?"—" Hoi live in Bowton."—" What business do you follow ?"—" I follows huxtering and 'so forth; and I Caine to Liverpool to-buy apples." Police officer-Hogan stated, that lie went to the prisimer Murray's house, on being informed of the p r ol e i i b t_ e u r: e , u t , o ai s i e c i i t: o c , h ) , k b l i i i i t eui he could not find the money. He after wards found the woman and the- men at a disinderly house in all into custody. The pi isoner Mur ray's mother, was the keeper of the house where the rubbery had taken place. • The prisoners all denied the charge. Mr. Hall said, his own opinion was that all the prisoners were guilty. The probability was that the woman had taken the money and had handed it over to the men. However there was no evidence to fix any of them but the woman. He ordered the informations to be taken against her; the rest must be dis charged. ASSAULT AT SEA.—George Hall, master of a vessel trading from this port, appeared, on Saturday, before Messrs. Hall and Bolton, to answer a charge of assault preferred against hint by a seaman, who had sailed with him front Live' pool to Bombay. the complainant stated, that they ware off the Cape of Good Hop e ,. wheu, one morning, about seven o'clock, the master came on deck. He (the complainant) was at the wheel, and the ves sel was one point to windward, the weather being a little heavy. it did not blow much, but the wind was on their quarter, and they had the stuusails and the gallant stunsaila on the vessel, so that he had not strength to hold her steady to a point. He was, in fact, doing his best. The captain, after observing the Compass and the ship's head, struck him violently on the wrist, arkd repeated the blows un different parts of his body. The cap tain drove hint front the wheel, and afterwards followed him to the waindeck, where he again beat him most violently, and sent him back to the helm. The captain, in reply, said, that he shipped the complainant as an able seaman. When he went on deck he found that the ship's head was wrung. He told hint to starhoard, and he immediately put the helm to port. He re peated thiS;order, with the same result, for the - man- positively did not know which was the starhoard of the vessel. He was altogether unacquainted with his duty, and knew no more of a ship than all old woman. He, therefore, gave him a correc tion which, in his opinion, and considering the great danger which might have resulted from the man's ignorance, was very moderate. " I intend," said the captain, "to prosecute him as a swindler. He ran away from the wheel; and I had only about three men out of the whole ship's company who could steer." Mr Hail said, if the danger that might have resulted from the man's ignorance was so great, the captain tried a very novel remedy in beatthg hint from the wheel, and afterwards following him to the maindeck, and beating him back again. Beating hint was not the way to teach him to steer. The cap tain was opinion, that a correction might imprint the recollec tion of his fault upon his memory. The man had sent a solici tor's letter to him since came into port, and he (the captain) had ordered his solicitor to reply to it, upon which the gentle man employed by the complainant refused to proceed. Mr. Hall said, he aould,readilyaccount fur that. A man like that might be too poor to carry on au action, the costs of which would amount to £4O or £5O. It was, no doubt, provoking to find men committing faults in the pet formance of duties to which they ought to he competent. But masters of vessels had a much better remedy, for, if the man summoned them for wages, if it were found that they were nut able seamen, the mo ney was not recoverable. It was a pity the superior officers on board ships did not learn to controul their tempers. They were not to knock or kick their men a , ,out for every offence in the manner that was too commonly poetised. By a different line of conduct the service would be more respectable, and the officers themselves would be more respected by their men. The coin plaittant, on a question front Mr. Ilall, said, he could steer very well, and the reason why he put the wheel to port when he was told to put it to starboard was, that the captain struck hist so Violently on the wrist that he was confused, and did n o t k now what he was about. - The captain was ordered to pay a flue of 10s. and costs, and, in default of payment,' to be committed to the House of Correction for sixteen days. The money was im mediately paid. CHARGE 01' Poeurev SSEALING.—Thomas Ashlin, aged about 38, was. on Saturday, placed befote Mr. Hall, charged with having stolen a number of ducks, from several farmers its the-neighbourhood of Tarhuck, near this town. Mr. Lace, the superintendent of St. James's Market, and two of his cousta- Lles attended. One of the latter (No. 15,) stated, that, on Thursday he and Mr. Lace received information ofa number of ducks having been stolen, and, on searching the market, they found a basket of ducks some of which were claimed by Ed mund Sefton, ender the standing of Mary Southwell, a poultry dealer. Mary. Southwell.stated, that, -on Thursday morning last, the prisoner and another man cause to her standing and offered fur sale a dozen ducks (produced.) She asked them how much they wanted for them,land alter a while she agreed to give them sixteen shillings fur them. Edmund Seftou, a far mer, of 'fatback, stated, that, on Thursday morning, he dis covered that his duck-house had been broken open during the night, and eight of his finest ducks had beets stolen. Hearing that his neighbours had, also, lost some ducks, he went to Liver pool to try if he could learn any tidings of them. He went to Mr. Lace,,who told him to look round the market. Anlongst his poultry was a remarkably fine drake. This bird was pro duced. Mr. Lace said it weighed upwards of 611 s., and several iudividuals its the court pronounced it the fittest bird they had ever seen. Mr. Sefton said it was the finest bird in the country, and he would not have taken a sovereign for it. In looking round the market he cause to the statolisqz of Mary . Southwell, who had just commenced the operation of plucking this iden tical large drake. He went up to her and said, "My good woman, that is a very fine bird." She said it certainly was a remarkably fine bird. He asked her if she had any more ducks . ? She said, no, she had not. He told her, he thought she must have some more, and requested her to show him to or three She persisted, however, in averring, that she had no more ducks He then went and informed Mr. Lace, who, taking with him two market-lookers, found the large basket produced full of ducks. Out of these he claimed two others, besides the drake, as his properly. The ducks were all of very large size. Wm. Sefton, the son of the last witness, also a farmer at Tarbuck, stated, that he also had been robbed of eight ducks on the same night. Ile picked front the basket six ducks, two of which had remarkable tufts on their heads. These lie swore to as his pi o perty. James Moss, another fanner, whose roust had been broken open on the same night, and seven ducks stolen, identi fied three of those produced as his property. Thus the whole uumber found were claimed. The witnesses were questioned as to their knowledge of the prisoner, who is a dirty, ill-looking person. They all stated, that they had seen hint before, and that he was the son of a farmer at Speke. It seems that he does not follow any ostensible occupation. He has frequently been seen selling game to the dealers in the markets, and it is generally supposed, that he has done some businesses a poacher. Mr. Hall questioned the witness, Mary Southwell, as to her reason for telling Mr. Sefton, that she had only one duck in her possession. She replied, that she was confused, and did not know what she was saying. The prisoner, in his defence, said, sulkily, that he did not sell the woman the ducks. The infor manous were ordered to be taken preparatory to the committal of the prisoner for trial. When the prisoner was again brought up, it was found that the written deposition of Mary Southwell did not agree with what she had stated at first. In reply to the questions put to her, she said, that the prisoner was not with the man who sold her the ducks, but he stood at a distance, and she had never seen the two in company with each other. This was nut sufficient, and the woman perSisted in it, though, on her first examination, she had sworn that they were together when she bought the ducks. The evidence was not sufficient. It, therefore, became necessary to send in search of other wit nessess. These could not he procured in time, and the prisoner was, inconsequ ence , reman d e d. M ary S out hwell was also or dered into custody, and, for the present, she remains in durance. A SPORT - MG DICKY SAM.—A genteel looking individual, named William Harris, appeared, on Saturday, before Mr Hall, charged by the Police officer on duty in Upper Parliament street, with havino• alarmed several ladies by tiring a gun in that neighbourhood. The officer stated, that, on Wednesday last,- about.four o'clock in the afternoon, the defendant, armed with a gun; proceeded along Upper Parliament-street. When he arrived at the corner of Windsor-street, he saw a little bird in one of the•trees opposite to Mr. Duncan Gibb's house. He went up the avenue, and, placing himself beneath the portico, look aius at a , little bird and fired. • The gun was presented in the diiection of the street and the Cemetery. A Mrs. Scott and some other ladies were passing, and they were considerably alarmed. The defendant said, he had been out shooting at small birds during the whole day, and, as his fowlingpiece was loaded, he wished to discharge it before he arrived at home. Seeing a sparrow in a tree, he thought he wouldshave another shot. He did nut like to fire from the street, so he went up the avenue, and fired from the steps of the house. It appeared. fur ther, that the defendant dicl not intend any harm to anything but the sparrow, and that the little bird escaped scatheless. Mu. Hall said, the practice of shouting was a nuisance even in the outskirts of the town, but when it was done in the streets it was still inure serious. It. was only the other day that a aeutlemati named to him, that severa l s h uts f rom a gun' had lodged in his hat : if the gun, in that case, had been presented a lower, the shot would have stuck in his face. The defendant seas linen 2t s. and costs: in all, £1 3s. Gil. SUNDAY THlEVES.—Yesterday at the police-office a well ' knowu thief named Juo. Williams was placed at the bar charged by Barnet, a very active officer, with trying doors, along with three others. Barnet stated diet on 'Sunday night, at 7 o'clock, he saw the prisoner, along with Ihreeether men, trying the doors which they passed. He afterwards saw the prisoner go down by the side of the New Market and try a dour, when he followed him, and the prisoner immediately ran away. He pursued him, and a ft er a l ong c h ase succee d e d in taking him into custody. It was back doors which he was trying. Mr. Davenport, who appeared for the prisoner, here Inquired if there were not some public houses down the street. Barnett: Yes, 2or 303 yards below. Mr. Davenport: you don't mean to say that he was trying the door to rob the house? Barnett: I do sir —Do, you take every person into custody who tries doors on a Sunday night? Ido sir. Mr. Hall.—He would not be doing very wrong. Mr. Davenport: Did you not strike him before he run?—No I did not. Did he take to his heels immediately? Immediately ; and I raced him down three or four streets, and at length sought him in a corner of the Mug market, crouched ilown.—You want the court to believe he was hiding hiwseif? lie was hiding himself.—Mr. Parkinson said he was well known. Mr. Hall said all the thieves were about at that time on Sunday nights, whets they imagined people w ere at chapel or ch urc h. It was the tine, when most of the rob beries took place. It was perfectly plain what his object was. He should send him for one month to Kirkdale. THE NEW CROwN PAPE.Ie office, a young man named Robert Yestereav, at the police- Fitz Gibbon, was placed at the bar, charged with having defrauded several shop-keepers of various small amounts by means of the new trick of paying for goods purchased with what purported to be five shilling papers of copper, but which wer e _ nothing but c l a y and lead. It appears that the prisoner gad made np a number of imitation 5s papers of copper, with moulded clay cove e,d with thick lead and wrapped up in brown paper, and tied will string, and having all the appearance as well as the weight of papers of copper. lie went to Mrs. Jane Stewart, Vauxhall-road, leather cutter, and bought leatherto the amount of Bs. 93., and said he had nothing but crown papers of copper to pay with, and he would leave them, and either pay them or call again. This was agreed to, and the prisoner departed with the leather. On after inspec tion of the mere they were discovered to be forgeries. In this manner the prisoner had duped Mr.- - Brown of Thompson St. hosier, Ann Gill, of Byrom St., leather cutter, John Roberts, of Vauxhall Road, leather cutter, Michael Divine, of Cockspur St., bacon dealer, and others. The prisoner was remanded to afford opportunity for further inquiry. BURGLARY.—Yesterday, at the police office, two lads, named Myers and Tute, were placed at the bar, charged with having attempted to rob the house of a gentleman in Pleasant-street. A police officer deposed that he was called to No. 20, Pleasant St. at a little before - 6 o'clock on Sunday morning, and received the prisoners in charge. The lady of the house deposed that at 5 o'clock on Sunday morning, she heard a noise, in the house of persons moving about, but' as her sons were in the habit of getting up to read slie did not at first notice it. As the motions continued, she became curious to know what it was, and trot up, and perceived lights moving" ab o ut in diff e r en t parts of 'le house. She immediately called out the names of her sons James and William, and hearda voice cull out "the drawers." There was no reply made to her calling, and she, in conse quence, suspected all was nut right and called her husband, who wot up, went down stairs, and seized one of the lads, and fasten ing the door, called forma officer, when the Wirer lad was found concealed. On searching the prisoners, it was found that they had packed up nine pairs of trousers, three or four jackets. and. several shirts. Three shirts were found iu possession of Tute, and two jackets en his person, and in his possession a silver spoon was elk) found. The other prisoner had three jackets, two shirts and other articleS tied up in a bundle ready to take away. All these clothes had beet: thrown over a clothes horse in the kitchen. • Myers was well known to the officers as a thief. They had gained access to the house by cutting a hole in the door of the cellar, mid afterwards withdrawing the but They were both committed to take their trial THEFT Al "THE LIVER THEaTuit.-Thomas Parkinson, an individual who has Leen recently employed as a supernumerary at the Liver Theatre, was on Saturday, placed at the bar ache Police-court, charged with having purloined certain articles front behind the scenes. A 11140 who is employed in some ca- parity about the stage, stated, that on the preceding night he left his top-coat, -a silk handkerchief, and a hat in the property-room. Some time afterwards he missed them, sad the suspicious of several individuals fell on the prisoner. Some other articles had previously been missed. A Police-officer was sent in search of the prisoner, and he was fonnd at his own house. On searching him, the pocket handkerchief, a pair of flesh-coloured silk stockings belonging to .the theatre, and a comforter, the property of one of the musicians, were found in his possession. The coat had not been discovered, but the offi cer was of opinion, that the prisoner had left it somewhere on his way home. A coat, answering the description. had been offered for pledge that morning. The prisoner was remanded, and the officer was directed to make further inquiries. Yesterday the prisoner was again brought up, but no further evidence was elicited. It appeared that the prisoner had him self been • wearing the flesh-coloured stockings. Mr. Hall.— " What ! was he performing ?" Complainant.—" Yes, he was playing a Greek, or something." This autiouacernent, coupled with the appearance of .the man in the dock, excited much laughter. Mr. Hall.—" Was the 'controller apart of his dress also ?" (Laughter.) Complainant.—"No; it belongs to the fiddlers."—" Did he wear it when he was playing the Greek ?" —" Oh, no; he had a grand silk dress on in front."—" How long have you had pun ?"—" Three days."_" What do you give ban a night?"—" A shilling." (A laugh.) Complainant. —" And it's very good pay too." (Continued laughter.) Mr.. Parkinson said the prisoner was known and had been com mitted. The prisoner said he was tipsy at the time, and knew nothing about it. The things were in his hat when be put it on, and he durst not stop fur fear the mast er s h ou ld see h i m, as he was not fit to be on the stage. He was further remanded fur inquiry. PHRENOLOGY. TO 771 E EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDAZD. Stn,—Availing myself of the permission you have granted me, to reply, through the medium of your paper, to the st rictures upon my lectures, which from time to time have appeared in your columns, I commence by stating, whereas phrenology pre tends to erect a building which, like the ark of old, is sufficiently capacious to comprise within its limits, not only the human race, but to preserve !rem the deluge of these opinions which till now has overpread the world, all creatures, from the bird that flier's in the air to the beast of the field, and the lowest ani mated intelligence which creepeth upon the earth ; so is it a structure built upon a multitude of facts :end inferences, each constituting a pillar of support, and without any one of which it loses its fair proport ion, and, divested of many, it of necessity falls todhe ground; so with those who loon for the proofs upon which it rests in the necessarily contracted reports which you have been enabled to give, find a superstructure wanting in ti very great degree the foundation which, I flatter myself, I ex hibited in my lectures, but which they will in vain look for its your reports. It is as though a carpenter should make a three legged stool, which he should declare capable of supporting every individual who might choose to sit thereon, and an enemy were to conic into his shop and say, he would take it borne and try its strength; but as he had only power to take with him the top of the stool and one leg, he found, when he exhibited it to his friends, that it top - pled over with its own weight. Moreover, there are still a number of verbal errors and mis conceptiune, which it is incumbent upon me to correct, before I examine those physiological experiments, which, any critic fancies, tear up• phrenology by the roots, but which I hope to show, either prove its truth or refute each other. I pass over the first two lectures, having alrca'dy, as far as I could, corrected them, merely remarking, that they come under the first head, of insufficiency, and commence with the third, or the second of the course; in it I am made to say, " tabla erasa," it should be "tabula rasa." You misconceive the re sult of dividing the fifth pair of nerves—it destroys sensibilik dividing the special nerve of .the part, (say the lips,) :destroys motion. I said cautiousness Ginidity." In the fourth lecture, for "the vain man was not what God had made him," read " was vain not of what• he possessed at birth, but what he had acquired.". For "ignorant as an urn," read "ignorant as an owl." Instead of "veneration leading to consciousness,', as your report would seem to imply, I occupied a considerable time in endeavouring to show that veneration and consciousness were distinct faculties ; that, in short, " re- . ligion was not righteousness." I said " firmness waS a substi tute for courage." The whole setsteuce,. cootrasting the poet with the shoemaker, is misreported. "I'oeta nascitur non fit" may be considered the text upon which I enlarged. In the fifth lecture, I thought "space a better name than locality," not size. The hydatid in my patteni occupied the portion of the brain allotted to locality and not eaqituality. For powers of " memory" read mimicry. Instead of wit being a " discovery of incongruity where con gruity was expected," which is Cumbe's definition, I spent a quarter of art hour, at least, in endeavourin to show the error of this definition, and to prove my own, which is the following : " Wit is the perception of a resemblance in things essentially different, and classifying the two objects in consequeuce of this resemblance, in "despite of (he differences which so widely separate them." `• Why is a pocket-bankerchief like a venomous reptile?"— "Because it's a, wiper"—illustrates and embodies my definition. You omit all mention of "comparison" in your enumeration of the reflective faculties, and attribute to casualty alone the product of three faculties, viz :—" casualty, comparison, and wit." Somewhere you say "He does not attribute self-esteem to man," it should be to animals. These mistakes of the re porter are all 1 feel it necessary to notice. In my next I shall reply to his criticisms.--I ant, &c., JQ. ItUMBALL. DEATH FROM THE. KICK OF A HOUSE. —On Thursday week a female infant, ag ed tw o years, douotiter of Win. Sp e n c e. coachman to the Mayor, went into the Corporation stables, Frederick-street, wither she'was in the habit of swing to play. From the stable she went into the harnss-rooin ; soon after which one of the hustlers heard her cry out, and on going up to her, found her lying on her hands and knees at the opposite side of the stable to the harness-room, and about two yards front one of the horses. It appeared she had pasod from the har ness-room without being observed, and was kicked by one of the horses so violently that the bones of her face were frac tured, and a great deal of blood streamed front it. .She was carried into the house, and surgical aid procured, but died on Sunday last. The horses are all perfectly quiet animals, and, were never known to kick before. THE LEEDS AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY V. MR. HENRY TAYLOR. — An inquiry to assess damages under the Leeds and Manchester Railway Act took place before a jury specially sum moned for the purpose yesterday forenoon, at the Coach and Horses, St. George's-road. The party f ur taking whose land damages were assessed, was M r . Hen. Taylor of P o nt e f rac t. The land required is situated in the vicinity of St. George's Church. No offer had been made on the part of the company. Evidence was adduced on the part of Mr. Taylor to prove that the property might be rendered very valuable for wharfing pur poses, as it was near a branch of the Rochdale canal. which Might, without much difficulty, be brought into Mr. Taylor's land, and several valuers were called to prove the value of the land, the average of whose valuation was about Is. per yard at 20 years' purchase. For whirling purposes the laud was valued at £44,000, and for building upon at £24,000. The valuers called on behalf of the railway valued the land at £15,000 . or thereabouts, and the jury, after being charged by the assessor, gave £17,000. The costs on both sides to be paid by the railway company, and the price awarded averages 42d. per yard at 20 years' purchase on the whole quantity of land taken. The counsel for the railway 'company were Mt. Cresswell, Mr. Brandt, and Mr. Wilkins; and for Mr. TaylOr, Sit F. Pollock, Mr. Foster, and Mr. Duck. The case occupied the whole of the day.---Froni the Manchester Cowie?. of Saturday,last. MERSEY AND IRWELL .JUNCTION WITJI THE ROCHDALE CANAL—We understand that this work is proceeding most ra pidly-; that the contractor, Mr. Mackenzie, experts that an opening from one end of the tunnel to the other will be made in a few weeks; and that the canal will be completed by the latter end of September. It is astonishing that an undertaking such as this can be carried across a town like Manchester in so short a time (for it was only commenced in August lasl,) - with comparatively so little public inconvenience.—Man. Gout ler. There has never, we believe, been a winter, since their insti- tution, in which such heavy demands have been made upon the funds of insurance offices as during that which we are now in, —Morn. Chron. Mr, Buckinghatnis giving, at New York, his lectures on _ Egypt and Palestine, to crowded houses; he has giveneighteen, and is repeating them; he must have averaged near £lOO. each lecture. The late Rev. Wm. Richardson, for fifty•three years the reverend Vicar of St. John's, Chester, has bequeathed the very munificent sum of £GOO. fur the purpose of purchasing an Organ fur that Church. We understand that Mr. James Booth, the Chancery barris ter, and brother of Mr. Henry Booth and Mr. Alderman Booth, has been appointed counsel to the House of Commons by the Speaker. • The Rev. Joshua Finlin ;on ' 8.A., of Queen's College, Cam bridge, late of Liverpool, has been presented with the incum benerof Earls Fleatun, in Yorkshire, by the Vicar of.Dowsbury, patron. The consamptiou of gold for gilding at the various potteries is Said to amount to upwards of 1:600. a week, and the consump tion of coals in the same period is about 800 tons. WRECK OF 1111% KILLARNEY STEAMER.—We perceive by the Bristol papers that a subscription has beeu set on foot for the relief of the widows and orphans of the unfortunate persons who perished in the Killarney steamer. The subscription ex ceeds £3OO. FACT FOa THE NATURALIST.—ADVENTURES OF Two GEasa.—The efforts made by salmon to regain their native river are well blown, - and other animals also possess str u n g local attachments and a retentive menfory. The followin g , however, is the first instance we have heard of geese being en dowed of faculties of this description : D. Campbell, a res pectable :,beep-farmer, lived at Braley, in the county of Sutherland, close by a fresh water lake, near the Kyle of bur- Hess. Subsequently he took the farm of Module, inland Irma Burley about 30 miles, where he now resides. When he l e . t his former residence, 111 r. C. took with hint, as part of his moveables, a pair of geese. The wings of the geese were clippett, and they were carried across the country in a covered basket. Their new locality did not seem to please this douce and cor dial couple; and, accordingly, after residing a few days at Module, they set off together down the river to Loch Never, a distance of three miles. Here they remained two or three days, idle,: which they continued their aquatic excursion fur 30 miles further, to Inver Na , ,er. The sea was now before them, but they boldly entered upon their voyage; they crossed the Kyle of Tongue, and rounded the Whiten-head, (well known to mariners as a stormy head land,) steering athwart Loch and landed at Rispond. the that point of laud at the en trance ou the west side. At this place they baited, and after a short stay pursued their course along the coast till they arrived at Durin. To save a distance of about twenty wiles by sea, round Farrethead, the geese then, sagaciously and courageously, walked across the country to their native lake, liorley, giving the worthy minister of Durness a call as they passed. The wanderers had been six weeks on their travels, having per formed a circuitous route of about 100 miles, first north-east to the sea, and then north-west to Loch Barley. The fate of the poor geese after their long and perilous journey was hard and uninerited. They had come to Burley (as some other travellers had done) somewhat hungry and exhausted, and they took the liberty of feasting a little in a cornfield. Mr. Campbell had offered a reward to any person that would secure the geese; and, this failing, he offered to pay the amount of any. damage in flicted by their trespass. The grieve, or steward, on the faint was apparently us ruthless as Coleridge's ancient mariner when he shot the albatross, fur he shut both the geese. Thus perished the unfortunate wanderers, whose exertions certainly entitled them to a better fate. This story is well known in the district, and tLe correctness of the above narrative can be vouched for by Mr. Campbell add the other inhabitants' NA 'Mew ESCAPE PRom A TIGER.-011 a recent shooting excursion at Jellasore, in Bengal, Mr. T. Campbell, indigo planter, of that station, was very neatly carried off by a tiger. It happened that whilst pursuing- his spurt, he wandered away from his companions. It was early in the morning, in the mouth of September. The country consisted of wide plains, occasion ally interrupted by heavy clusters of bamboo trees and other timber. Not the slightest suspicion rested with any of the party that a tiger was within miles of the neighbourhood. No rumours had been started by the native " rvotta" (limners) that an animal of the kind had been seen. However, it so happened that Mr. C., who was accompanied by his groom, leading his horse, passed into a small paddy field, which on one side was bounded by a narrow strip of jungle, and having alarmed a pea fowl, discharged the contents'of his gnu at it, when suddenly • ' something heavily rushed by him in the jungle. At first Mr. • C. suspected it to be a hog or a deer, but on penetrating within, he perceived au extensive lair, arched above with thick inter volutions of the Mysoie thorn, and a monkey's skull an d ot h er ' buttes lying on the verge of it. There were also two-outlets' firm the lair, both which led to a green slip, where cattle and deer were likely to pass, but where Mu. C. entered there was uu regular track. Nut being supplied with ball, he retreated from the asylum of danger, and in passing over a wicket to reach another paddy field, on his way home, he discovered a dead' bullock at the extreme end of the further outlet, principally devoured. On inquiry, it appeared that the tiger was, for the' first time, seen on the night previous, carrying away a bullock from the little village of Bustom. The animitl hat boured in the neighbourhood for some weeks, and during the nights ventured into the town of Jellasore and carried off several men and women, cows, and horses. So alarming became his depreda tions, that eventually application was made .to John Inglis Harvey. Esq„ the magistrate of. Midnapore, in the matter, who despatched two chekarries (native sportsmen) to destroy • the marauder. Some days elapsed . before they could succeed in discovering his retreat. which they eventually did by means of watching the flight of the vultures ire° the neighbourhood of the charnel house. They shot hire by Moonlight, as he was Coln meocieg his nocturnal prowls. by the side of a millah, in which he was slaking his thirst. He was of a tearful size, and the chekarries pronounced bunt a regu l ar man ea t er . The s k u ll i s still in the possession of Mr:Campbell, who will keep it its meruoiy of his narrow escape. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Manchester, Friday Eceniny. Notwithstanding Mr. Mostyn's mare carries the •• top-weight" for the Chester Cup, she appears to be more fancied every day, especially in Liverpool; 7 and 71 to 1 having been the current odds fur some days there; and the latter odds may be considered the extreme of our market; for the layers naturally become timid, when the tide runs so strongly one way. Wentworth is also more looked after, fur 10 to 1 has found plenty of takers. The outsiders, Chit Chat and King Cole, remain as last quoted. To these may be added, Sir Thomas Stanley's Violet, who finds friends at 25 to 1. For the Derby, a few offers have been made to back D'Edgville against the Nonplus colt, at 5 to 4. The Marquis of Westminster's colt, Richard Roe has been offered against at 100 to 3.—Th e current odds against the Chester Trades' Cup horses at all in demand, are as follow:-72 to 1 agst Birdlime, 10 to 1 agst Sylvan, 10 to 1 agst Wentworth, 10 to 1 agst Whaley, 11 to 1 agst Mersey, 11 to 1 agst Zohrab (off, ) 100 to 8 agst Magician, 100 to 6 against Combat (off,) 100 to 5 a("st'Parolles. 100 to 5 ugst Chit Chat (tk,) 100 to 5 agst King Cole (off,) 100 to 5 agst Catheiina (off,) 100 to 4 ugst Fusileer (tk,) 100 to 4 agst Violet (tk.) Ta tters a II 's, Thursday. TWO THOUSAND GUINEA STAKES. 4 to I.laid against Grey Motnus, not p.p. THE 'MEET. The Nonplus colt fur the second time obtained the lead—£3oo having beets laid out upon him at 11 to 1, and £4OO at a point less: at the close the offers were, to lay 9, ttid take 10 to 1. Cobweb was backed for about £2OO at 10 to 1 (offered at the finish.) and Grey Mounts was made t ospousibie for £4OO, iu addition to the• enormous suet already risked upon him. 100 wa s backed, but did not rise; and a solitary £lOO was got ou The Early Bird at 25 to 1. Neither Dash nor Mona Adam moved from the positions they occupied at the close of Monday's belting; our, in fact, was there any change amongst the Out siders'beyond a slight improvement in Volunteer. Last odds : 10 to 1 agst Mr. Armitage's Nonplus colt (taken freely;) 10 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Cobweb colt (taken and afterwards off;) 11 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinek's Grey Monms (tk ;) 13 to l agst Lord G. Bentinck's D'Edgville (tk;) 16 to 1 agst. Col. Peel's lon (taken and afterwards offered;) 16 to 1 agst Mr. Bland's Young Rowton (off;) 22 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's 'l' he Early Bird (take 25 to 1 ;) 25 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's 135.tnh00 off 30 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Dash (off ;) 30 to 1 agst Mr. Richard son's Moue Adam (tk and afterwards offered ;) 30 to 1 against Sir J. Mills's Volunteer (tk and afterwards offered;) 40 to 1 agst Mr. A. Smith's Cracker (offered;) 50 to 1 against Lord Chesterfield's Tranby's dam colt (taken;) 40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Bretby (offered;) 40 to 1 agst .Mr. Ford's Quo Minus (offered ;) 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Bowe's Brother to Aleppo (tk ;) 1000 to 10 agst Mr. J. Day's Brother to Mulev Moloch (tk;) 1000 to 13 agst Mr. Sowerhy's Caligula (offered.) THE OAKS. 14 to 1 agst Lord Berners's filly (tk and aft offered;) 14 to I agst Mr. Mustyn's Brown Duchess (tk and afterwards offered.) THE WATERLOO COURSING CLUB, OVER ALTCA It, NEAR LIVERPOOL. Oa Wednesday and Thursday, the 21st and 22d February, 1838. " " MR. WM. NIGHTINGALE, OF CRAVEN, JUDGE. The entries for the Waterloo Cup and Purse are now com plete, and comprise some of the best dogs that the gentry of this neighbourhood have it in their power to unkenuel. There are 32 dogs named for the Cup, and 16 fur the Purse, independently of the Altcar Stakes fur the 16 beaten dogs in the first round for• the Cup. The three courses cannot fail to prove an excellent dessert, as they will afford in the whole, including first and second .ties, no fewer than 61 runs. From all that we can learn, there.is every reason to expect a field day of the most brilliant description. The following is a correct ►ist of the ap pointMents for two of the stakes . THE WATERLOO Cue, value £250 in specie. to receive £lOO. Ld Eglington's dogs Will•o'- Mr G Harriott's 1 Hornsea ,the -Wisp and King Cole Mr Lauder's b Heru,oine Sir Hugh H Campbell's Crafty Mr T S Calvert's d Chancellor Mr Aspinall us d Pop' -gun Mr P Chaloner's d Brandy Mr Hobson's d Hartz Mr J Abbott Kaye's b China Mr Speed's d Reveller Mr James Ball's d Bugle Mr Swan's d Soothsayer Mr A Graham's b Black Bess Mr E G Hornby's bi Hepatica Mr Moore's d Mystery Mr J Birch ns d True Blue Mr Sothern's d Doctor Fop Mr Lynn ns d Madman Mr Manlove's d Snowball Mr R Bennett's dogs Ranger Mr Goodlake's d Glider and Rocket Mr John Brown's d Ben Mr John Stanton's d Bacheloi Dr Perkins's h Fly Mr Statter's d Sampshire Mr Hamilton's b Risk Mr Shaw ns b Miss Berry Mr Kersliaw's b Kate Kearney Mr Jas Bake ns d Beelzebub Mr S Brundrett did not name. The winner of this Cup to give three dozen of Claret to the The second dog CIUI, Dinner. THE WATERLOO PURSE, value £looln specie. The second dog to receive £42. Lord Eglington's b Lass-o'- Mr 1.; G Horuby's d Hidalgo Pattie's Mill and d Deluge Mr It Bennett us d Arab Sir H H Campbell's d Carver Mr Shaw's d Snowaon Mr Aspinall as b Princess Mr Calvert's b Courtesy Mr Hobson ns b Tweed Mr J A Kaye's d Hamlet Mr Speed . ns b Mimic Mr P Chaloner's Made Harold Mr Swan's d Sorcerer Mr Hugh Ilornbv's Hock Mr Thus Goodlake's d Geoffrey Mr James Ball's It Gilbertfield, Gambado late Bagpiper The following is the latest betting on the Waterloo Cup :- 100 to 2 agst Miss Berry (off ;) 100 to 3 agst . Ben (off ;) 100 to 4 agst Ranger (off;) 100 to 4 agst Rocket (off;) 100 to 4 agst China (taken;) 100 to 4 agst Doctor Fop (of;) lt;0 to 5 agst Pop-gon (tk ;) 100 to 5 agst Hartz (I k ;) 1(X) to 6 agst Will o'-the-Wisp (uff ;) 100 to 6 agst King Cole (off;) 100 to 6 agst Crafty (tk;) 100 to 6 against Black Bess (tk ;) lOU to 6 suainst Glider (tk;) 100 to 7 agst Beelzebub (tk;) and 100 to 8 apt Reveller (taken.) ' r 7