The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-21 00:00:00

TOWNS ( POPULATION OF. - NiAN I ENGLAND AND WALES, IN 1811, 21, 31, and it 1811. 1821. 1831. The Metropolis 1,009,0.0 1,271,800 1,474,546 Manchester and S',-.lford Liverpool Birialinzharr Leeds Plymouth Norwich.. Bristol ....... Sheffield.. Nottingham .. Newcastle-on Tyne.... .. Sunderland..• Leicester Bath.... Preston. Hu11.... Brighton . Blackburn, Bolton ... Coventry. Stockport York .... Greenwich Macclesfield Dudley Shrewsbury Yarmouth Cambridge 98,573 94,376 85,753 62,534 56,060 37,2: - )6 76,433 35,840 34,253 27,587 12,289 23,146 31,49 G 17,065 26,792 12,012 15,083 .24,149 17,923 133,788 118,972 106,721 1 . 7.545 11,217 • 16,947 13,043 12,999 13,925 16,606 17,0'77 11,1C8 14.060 13,670 12,931 12,531 1,833 9;028 19,052 8,861 8,782 83,796 61,212 50,28 S 95,758 42,157 40,415 14,725 30,125 36,811 27,300 31,425 24,429 21,940 31,925 21,212 21,726 152,812 20,787 20,712 17,423 17,746 18,211 19,854 18,040 11,142 161,176 142,251 123,393 75,534 61,116. 117,016 59,011 50,630 17.716 17,186 16,364 15,475 19,862 13,353 13,214 25,967 10,367 11,767 9,822 9,774 10,144 10,764 192,-108 223,054 138,187 168,667 36,527 61,146 64,298 85,076 53,080 71,850 56,226 50,832 69,232 77,189 41,130 46,742 75,091 97,519 31,028 15,672 28,883 75,684 35,015 56,038 21,529 24.031 24,453 66,032 25,524 19,701 19,701 25,361 24,552 27,081 107,140 130,381 36,110 38,747 38,865 26,838 34,738 45,648 Wigan Ipswich.... 0xf0rd...... Carlisle.... Deptford... D0ver...... Southampton . Huddersfield.. Ashton-under Lyne . .. Lincoln. Gateshead. Durham.. Gloucester 6,763 8,280 9,247 8,563 Lancaster Wakefield North Shields Tynemouth, South Shields Maidstone.... Hereford .... Loughborough Taunton...... Kendal • 7,505 Doncaster 6,935 Salisbury .. 8,243 Merthyr Tydvil 15;-;20 Worcester 13,668 Colchester 12,554 Wolverhampton. 14,136 Warrington 11,738 Reading 10,788 48,325 9,1a9 8,343 10,200 lteriham_ Halifax....... Northampton. Canterbury... 8ury.......... 805t0n....... Kidderminster Rochdale..... Bradford Swansea...... Whitehaven.. Fr0me........ King's Lynn.. Exeter....... 13,533 9,001 A,443 7,306 17,659 8,885 12,508 9,090 33,597 11,813 15,177 10,135 11,933 12,613 12,232 8,762 8,180 8,038 22,036 7,767 8,196 10,106 9.493 10,259 18,896 16,921 i 9,074 15,387 10,282 10,800 11,139 10,015 10,801 9,876 22,383 18,610 16,167 24,732 16,015 15,595 22,912 15,382 15,351 13,649 15,086 11,210 14,981 35,764 23,223 13,694 11,393 12,240 13,370 28,242 77,196 34,680 29,612 60,577 13,379 38,641 29,971 25,644 16,554 31,333 In the above table we have given the population of many of the large towns••in England and Wales in 1811. 1821, 1831, and 1841. Our readers will perceive that the return for the present year gives a very great increase, and in many instances a remarkable decrease, in several towns, of a some what startling character. For instance, the population of Halifax in 1831 was, according to the official abstract pub lished in that year, 15,582; and in the census of 1841 it is stated to be 109,175. Again, the population of Liverpool in 1831 was 155,175: it is new 223,054. In Ashton-under- Lyne it wits, in 1831, 33,597 ; in 1841, 130,381. We give the numbers as we Lind them recorded in the government documents printed by the authority of parliament. This apparent increase of population is the result of a new divi sion of the parishes and townships into districts, termed " superintendent registrar's districts," and accordingly the numbers specified above as resident in the various towns are comprehended within the district under the surveilance of the " superintendent registrar," and termed his division. In 1831, when the last enumeration of the people was made, no such division existed. An entirely new arrangement appears to have been adopted this year in obtaining the census. Although no strict comparison can be instituted between the population of these towns in 1831 and 1841, in consequence of the partition of the country into " superin tendent registrars' districts," we still think it better to give the numbers, as a knowledge of the extent of the population in these places may be useful to those resident in the cities and towns specified. Many of the towns, however, are dis tricts of themselves, and include no neighbouring parishes. In these it will be perceived the population has increased, but not to a remarkable degree. . POPULATION OF ENGLAND AND WALES, FOR THE LAST 130 YEARS Population Per Cent Decrease 5,134,516 5;066,337 1.3 Increase 5,315,351 5.5 5,687,993 6.4 5,129,705 2.4 6,039.684 3.6 6,478,730 7.2 7,227,586 11.5 7,814,827 8.1. 8,540,738 9.1 9,187,176 7.5 10,407,557 13.2 11,957,555 14.8 13,840,751 15.7 MANUFACTURE OF FICTITIOUS FREEMEN (From the Morning Herald) Lord Mayor O'Connell is prostituting the powers of his official position to the save jobbing propensities as have charicterised the career of his whole life. His doings in the single matter of deciding claims of franchise qualification fully prove this. In two sittings of his court he is stated by the editor of the Dublin Evening Packet " to have admitted one hundred and forty claimants to the freedom of the cor poration, riot TWENTY of whom, probably, had any real title to it." IS this a slight matter? Does the indiscriminate admission of claimants . from the lowest ranks of small Irish tradesnien and working mechanics threaten no mischief to the political tranquillity, if not of the country, yet, at least, of the capital ? Or are we, to be told that O'Connell has no political objects in this unseemly and insulting career of " pitchforking " not scores but crowds of new freemen ? Will they nfither increase his enormous faction, nor strengthen hifttill inordinate influence ? And are even his avowed, political views (to say nothing of those he secretly indulges) such as to make the fact of that increase matter of insignificance or even of indifference to the empire at large? Why the very mode in which he presides in his court of qualification-pitchforkery is as insulting to the parliament whose act has virtually placed him there, and to the United Kingdom which returned that parliament, as it is disgraceful to himself. He does not deem it'necessary to affect an in tention of complying with the spirit or the letter of the act in question. He roundly admits his doubt that A. B. has made out his claim : but then it is his " lordship's " wish to admit him. " He appears to have no scruple in announ cing," says the Dublin Evening Mail, " that his decisions, in many instances, are at variance with law and justice; but he justifies this acknowledgment with the declaration ' that, being a great admirer of the extension of the franchise, he must admit the claimant, leaving the parties to the Court of Queen's Bench for their remedy.' " Take a few of these dignified answers—these mature decisions—these municipal decrees=these. impartial judgments ;—so grave, so careful, so weti . befitting the chief magistrate of a metropolis, and one of the most popular pleaders in its courts of " LAW" ! . . ".I will admit you (Monahan), and leave the case to an appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench, as I am an advocate for the franchise." (Did he sit there to " advocate the franchise," or to de termine, under the obligations of his oath of office, and in the honest discharge of his magisterial duty, who were and who were not ENTITLED by law, to the best of his know ledge and belief, to that franchise ?) " This is just the 'question I wish to raise. Solomon Rounds being . a freeman by birth, I think the claimant" (who bad married Rounds' granddaughter) " has every right to his freedom. I will raise the question in this case." " 1 will admit you (II Large), though your case is one as to which a reasonable doubt might be raised." (To J. A. HumPlireys—a case of clear, absolute failure of proof)-- 1 ! I must admit this man. The certificate appears to be genuine." hi another claim—by right of servitude—claimant had served part of his lime to one master ; part to another ; has indentures in both cases; the remainder of his appraitice ship to several other masters. Admitted I Again—" I will admit you (Black) on the same grounds that Messrs. Revell were admitted—by birth. If it be ob jected to, it can be argued in the Court of Queen's Bench." ` Is there," asks the Standard, and we concur in the cidestion, " no general law for the punishment of such gross abuse of authority ? We think that it amounts to a misde meanor at common law at all events." But who is to pay for these " centuries " of issues to be tried by the Court of Queen's Bench? What cares O'Con nell! He gets serfs for his party and contributors to his " rent." BILLS PAYABLE.—Christmas falling upon Saturday this year, all bills due on the 25th and 26th instant are payable on Friday, the 24th. SHARP PRACTICE —A system of fraud has been adopted within these few months which should operate as a caution to tradespeople in the country, how they accept agencies from parties in London , with whose characters they are un acquainted. The g a r f e f a ir , we now particularly allude to has been carried to a extentkingdom , amongst the stationers and booksellers in the kin u a n t r must turn out a lucrative job to the projectors of the' who appear to con sist of three parties. About July of the present year, a person living in London, say Mr. Swiveller, professed to have made a wonderful discovery in the art of making a su perior ink, and sent circulars round the country requesting sale parties to become ag ents for the of the same ;if no no tice were taken of the first, repeated applications were made, until a sort of consent was yielded, and Theand immediately down went a huge c ask of the precious commodity. sale being thus effected to the utmost for some time, and there not being a proba bilit y of a second demand e d tici the next move was one to get rid of the chance of the a sent back, in case it s hould not sell ; this was achievebcelibnyg Swiveller disposing of the concern to the second parties - the scheme, Messrs. Catspaw and Co., and immediately in in forming the agents that he had done so, to prevent the ink flowing back to the manufactory. The third party was now to step upon the stage and enact their part in the swindle. This was done by the relations of Swiveller and Co., who practice as lawyers somewhere i n the suburbs, under a tie similar in import to that which figures in the celebrated tale in-a. northern periodical. In about four months fromatn the perfecting of the scheme , without th e slightest applitlemecio being made for payment by Mr. SWiveller, these gentlemen set to work, and by printed circulars dethand payment of Swiveller's accounts within six days, together with an exor bitant sum for the cost of application, under the threat of immediate " legal proceedings without further notice or de lay;" and the unfortunate dupes, rather than incur a doubt ful litigation with such chat acters, are in most instances too ready to wipe their hands of the concern by submitting to the demand. It is calculated that Swiveller and Co. will pocket about £5,000 by the speculation, and the highly re spectable attornies, who, of course, are to share the booty, will net about £250 for the costs of application for pay ment ! Times. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE (From th atjbrd Herald.) In a Convocation holden on Friday, the nomination of the Rev. John Griffiths, M.A.. Sub-Warden of Wadham Col lege, to be a Delegate of Accounts, was unanimously ap proved. In a congregation holden at the same time, the following Degrees were conferred:— BACHELORS IN DIVINITY. Rev. John Williams, Fellow of Jesus College Rev. William Matlock, Balliol College. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Lionel Carden, University College. Henry Hubert Cornish, Magdalene Hall. Charles Rede Clifton, Merton College. Edwin Lutnsdaine Sandvs-Lumsdaine, Oriel College. The Rev . Octavius Brock, Y M.A ., of Brasenose College, has been presented to the Rectory of Dengy, Essex, void by the cession of the Rev. John Hollier Stephenson. The Rev. John B. Maude, M.A., Fellow of Qneen's Col lege, has been appointed Domestic Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Earl of Lonsdale, K.G. The Rev. William Brassey Hole, 8.A., of Exeter College, has been presented to the Rectory of Woolfardisworthen, Devon, on his own petition, void by the death of the Rev. John Hole. _ Henry Mildred Birch, Scholar of King's College, Cam bridge, has been elected a Fellow of that Society. The Bishop of Ely's Fellowship at St. John's College, Cambridge, to which his Lordship resigned his right to nomi nate, leaving it open to public competition, has just been conferred upon A. M. Hopper, of Trinity College, (B.A. 1839) now a tutor of Eton. There were six candidates. PROMOTIONS Rev. George Rigg, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Peter's in the East Gate, Lincoln, vacant by the death of the Rev. George Moore ; patrons, the Precenter and Prebenda ries of Lincoln Cathedral. . . Rev. John Hollier Stephenson, to the Rectory of Corring ham, Essex, void by the death of the Rev. William Rose Stephenson. Rev. A. G. Edonhart, 8.A., late of St. John's College, Cambridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Paul's Church, Blackburn ; patron, the Vicar of Blackburn. Rev. Owen Owen, to the Rectory of St. Edmund, Exeter, vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Atkinson ; patron, George Hyde, Esq. Rev. G. H. A. Gwyther, M.A. to the Vicarage of Madely, Salop, void by the cession of the Rev. George Edmonds ; patron, Sir Richard B. P. Phillips, Bart. THE REPEAL OF THE UNION CUSHIONED It has been rumoured for the last week or two that Mr. O'Connell is about to sink the repeal agitation for a time, in consequence of a new treaty having been entered into with the whigs, as it was found that the Demagogue had done them serious damage in the estimation of the moderate portion of their supporters by his insane demand for the severance of Ireland from Great Britain, and that he is henceforth to apply all his energies to reinstate his fallen allies in office. This rumour has received additional w.ight from the follow ing statement, which appears in a letter of Mr. O'Brien's, a gentleman who lately withdrew from the Repeal Association, as we announced on a former occasion : " I do not intend," says Mr. O'Brien, " in this, my last letter, to say so much about repeal. Poor question ! which filled and divided the public press ; which raised up to the plundered peasant's eye valleys of plenty and of ease. Thou art near extinct !! ! The unnatural connection between whiggery and the tenets of Mr. O'Connell, is about being consummated ! The marriage—which no political history in the world holds a parallel to—is about being perfected.—The political mermaid has again come forth to disgust the world! Mr. O'Connell is about supporting the whigs; and the whigs grasp at the support upon condition—that they may, as of old, have the liberty of denying him in all respectable places. The whigs want you, Mr. O'Connell, and the moonshine of repeal must be given up. There has been a dinner in Stephen's-green ; and whig compacts can be formed in more places than in Lichfield-house." And, again, he adds : " I will submit to be branded the greatest of public liars, if Mr. O'Connell carries on his agitation for the repeal of the union for twelve months with the same pretended earnest ness and singleness of purpose that he does at psesent. To this I bind myself by all the ties that can bind man ; I care not what the press says ; I dare the liberal journals to deny the compact now agitating! The union of all reformers, I say, is the entombing of all repealers ! But upon rapeal or its apostle, (unless, in one instance, where, in my own de fence, I am compelled to allude,) I will be silent ; nothing harsh or unkind should be breathed over the great national monument, in which, for the third time, Mr. O'Connell is about embalming his own flesh and blood." It is highly probable, therefore, that Mr. O'Connell has again consented to cushion Repeal, notwithstanding his re peated protestations that he would " never either abandon, postpone, or in anywise soever compromise" that question. This will be another instance of the profligate inconsistency of Ireland's hireling patriot. The truth is, that he had ex tracted all he could out of the pockets of his dupes at home on the strength of this delusive cry, and the offers of the re peal treasury have been replenished only by means of Yankey dollars of late, transmitted by expatriated traitors, who usually accompany their pecuniary donations by eleemosynary con tributions of sedition also, the Corn-Exchange spouters having been run dry on such topics, or else having a salutary dread of a conservative government, and therefore the scheme is to be abandoned for the present. El wo long will the Ro man catholics of Ireland suffer themselves to be cajoled out of their money by this " most incomprehensible of all imagin able vagabonds." to use a phrase of Dan's own coinage ? Can they continue blind to the fact, that he is seaking his own interest alone, and deceiving them with projects that are in themselves impracticable, and which, if they were carried into effect, would prove most injurious in their consequences ? If O'Connell believed that repeal was calculated to benefit the country, would he have hesitated to meet Dr. Cooke on the subject ? Undoubtedly he would not. A gentleman travelling in the west of England, scarcely had a tine day during his journey; one morning, when at Devonport, he said to the master of the hotel—" Raining again I see"-0 (replied mine host) it is only a partial shower."—" Egad (said the traveller), showers seem par ticularly partial to this part of the country." YEAST MANURE.—It is not generally known that yeast is one of the most powerful manures in existence. Some expe riments have been tried with grass plots and different culi nary vegetables, from which it appears that a small quantity of yeast, after it has become putrid and useless to the brewer or baker, will effect wonders when mixed with water and ap plied to plants as liquid manure. FASHIONS FOR. THE MONTH.—Coats are very much worn, particularly at the elbows, and are trimmed with a shining substance, which gives them a very glossy appearance. A rim of white runs down the seams, and the covering of the buttons is slightly opened so as to show the wooden material under it. flats are now slightly indented at the top, and we have seen several in which part of the brim is sloped off with out any particular regard to the quantity abstracted. Walk ing-dresses are very much dotted just now with brown spots of a mud colour, thrown on quite irregularly ; and the heels of the stockings may sometimes be seen trimmed with the same material. A sort of basket work is now a great deal seen as a head-dress, and in these cases it is strewed over with little silver fish, something like a common sprat, which gives it a light and graceful character. —Punch. FATTIER MATHEWISM.—Were such associations gene rally to prevail throughout the country—which, however, we do not expect—they would aid in alarming the Chancellor of the Exchequer. We perceive, from the revenue returns, that in Ireland the gross revenue from malt, wine, and spi rituous liquors was £603,020 less in 1840 than it was in 1838. Were Father Mathew, or any other temperance apostle, to effect as great a reformation on the people of England and Scotland as has been produced on those of Ireland, the gross defalcation in the annual revenue would be about X 5,000,000. —Mandiesier Guardian. ANNIVERSARY OF THE SHUTTING OF THE GATES.—At twelve o'clock on Saturday morning, the 153 d anniversary of the shutting of the gates of Derry was ushered in by the thunder of artillery from the old bastions, from which many a shot, during the ever-memorable seise was fired in defence of protestant life, religion, and liberty. The commemoration of this great and glorions event, which eventuated in esta blishing the present royal family on the throne of these realms, has, as it ever should, always excited the liveliest interest among the citizens of Derry, as awakening in their minds feelings of the deepest gratitnde to Almighty God for crown ing with success the efforts of the heroic defenders of London derry, and making them instrumental in gaining for every man in these kingdoms liberty to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience. We know that every person in Derry, bearing the name of protestant, of whatever de nomination, professes to revere both the memory of these brave men and the principles for which they contended. Whether they are in earnest in the expression of these sentiments or not, Monday next will tell; for we really believe, should the liberal candidates succeed in being re turned as aldermen and town councillors of the new corpor ation, the mayor, whoever he may be, will prevent any out ward demonstration in celebration of our glorious and time honoured anniversaries from being made, and trample under foot the principles of the Apprentice Boys of Derry. We understand that on the present occasion an effigy of the traitor Lunday will be exhibited as usual at the corner of Corporation Hall, and that the Apprentice Boys and their friends will meet together in their club-rooms in the evening, as heretofore. TRICKS OF THE COUNTRY. — Proverbially sharp as are the metropolitan youths and maidens, we think the more prudent and reflecting among them trill not think us needlessly soli citous for their welfare if we forewarn them of their liability to be occasionally hoaxed by the country, as the following • illustration will show :—" A lady courtezan, whose dwelling is not 50 miles east of Lincoln Minster, one morning last week, was detected by the police, in a paroxysm of distress, running after the carrier to Hull (the coach conveyance being refused to the lady) that she might take the packet to Lon don en route to the south of France on an excursion of plea sure. It seemed, however, that London was her destina tion, and her purposes that of securing the services of a maiden, the difficulties of obtaining a male servant being insuperable. A young woman was soon obtained by means of the register•office ; and by the stylish appearance and specious representations of the lady, who stated that she had a fortune of £7OO a year, and au excellent establishment of servants, she was easily induced to accompany her to her residence in Lincolnshire, rather (as she said) in the character of a companion than otherwise. On board the packet to Hull, however, the girl's surprise was excited at the unladylike taste of her mistress, who chose rather to herd with the lowest grade of society on board, because " there was the most fun." It seemed rather surprising that the lady referred the payment of the fare to her ser vant, such being " her custom". The girl paid her own and her mistress's expenses from London, and also from Hull to Lincoln, rather than hazard the detention of their luggage. On reaching terra firma the lady descanted on the superior advantages of travelling in an open waggon at mid night in preference to a coach or van, until both these con veyances had started, and, thus having no alternative, the girl was obliged to succumb to the taste of her mistress, and ride twenty miles in an open waggon in the rain. About two o'clock on the Sunday morning they arrived at the lady's mansion, which was su securely locked up that there was no ingress but by breaking the fanlight in order to push back the bolt ; but, as this could not be done without assistance, the girl was desired to stay while the lady went in quest of a policeman ; Bradshaw was found, and he, at the modest de sire of the lady, bent his body on all fours, and became her footstool, while she slipped back the bolt, and let herself in. The maid, aghast, inquired in all the agony of surprise and disappointment, " Is this the place I'm conic to live at, pray, ma'am" ? " Yes", was the reply. " But here's no fire to dry us" I " No", it was rejoined, " nor coals either" " Where," asked the girl, " are we to sleep ?" " Oh," said the lady, " you must sleep on the table, while I sleep on the sa s evoi hearth i" The gi r l by this time had made her decision, and miss.id'‘‘No who ; indeed I will not sleep here for any one." The polic eman ki n dl y too k h er to hi s h ouse f or t h e rema i n d er of r the ic e n night, and e an i tl ad the next day she applied - for advice to the magistrates,ycounssheelleldvelniet therto auxactual morning, entr and, into ex pectingthe at least tha't there would be something like a larder to satisfy the cravings of hunger. she was coolly told " there was no kindling, no coals, no bread, no butter, no tea, no an ything to supply their immediate ediate necessities;' , they must do as well as they could I" conclusion, the to girl happily o btained money sufficient for her conveyance adlither she returned last Monday, and was reimbursedin the expenses of her trip to the "lady's residence in Lincoln ire, tt io v i ir;g theprotestations perfectly learned fair i a r l la always I n t yost t 0 0 0l b d e that { illicitly glitters , ielieved.—Stamford Mercury. r RE-RON ..ifOST EXTRAORDINARY ATTRACTION THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. DURING MR. J. H. ANDERSON, (Great WIZARD OF THE NORTH,) begs to inforia the Nobility, Gentry, and Public, that he will open the Theatre-lioyal for Ten Nights during this season of festivity, for the purpose of giving a Series of CONCERTS D'HIVER, on the same magnifi cent scale and prices as those given at the London Theatres, Drury-lane and the English Opera-House. On this occa sion the Band will consist of FIFTY PERFORMERS. . . . In addition to the Concert, which Wilt oe oivineo Into Two .Parts, he (the GREAT WizArtn OF• THE Notcrn) will, for the last time, give an extraordinary display of his peculiar powers in the AMBIDEXTEROLOGICAL SCIENCE. On MONDAY next, Dec. 27th, and during the Week, PART FIRST. THE GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH Will commence the evening's entertainment (which will he without parallel in Liverpool), and open his MODERN LABORATORY of CABALISTIC, aMd perform with his GORGEOUS and SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS more Wonders, a la Magique, than were ever yet accomplished by man; proving himself to be the WIZARD, the GREAT MYSTERIACHIST OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ! After which, the Seven Professors of CAMPERNOLOGY, or BELL-RINGING, will appear. PART SECOND, Which will he the First Part of the CONCERT D'H IVE it, Will embrace the combined talent of FIFTY PERFORMERS. The entertainments of the evening will conclude with the THIRD PART, _ _ _ Or SECOND OF THE CONCERT, a Programme of which will be given in future Advertisements. Boxes (Dress Circle), 2s. 6d. ; Juveniles with Parties, is. 6d. Upper Boxes, s. 6d.; Juveniles with Parties, Is. Pit, ls. Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Half-past Six ; the Performance to com mence at Seven, and terminate by Eleven. The Box-oilice will be open from Ten till Four, where places may be secured for the Dress Circle. TO CORRESPONDENTS " Waltmaiensis" was received too late The letters of " A Protestant Churchman," and " A Real Protestant," are now unnecessary. We are unable to fathom the meaning of " A Bystander." The advice of " Veritas" is taken in good part. THE POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY.-_1 typographical erroe ap peared in the report of the meeting of this society, in our last paper, which, thou: obvious from the context, requires notice to prevent possible misapprehension. The depth of hold of a merchant ship of 400 tons, of dimensions proposed by Mr. Melling—she being 114 feet in length, and 28i feet beam—is stated, in figures, to be 13 feet, in place of 19 feet. The patent windlass exhibited, was also, by a mistake of the Secretary, stated to be the invention of Mr. G. P. Payne, instead of that of Mr. Holt. Elie kibrrpoot &tanban. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1841 The successors of the late Mr. Egerton Smith have made a demonstration in the last number of their pa per, which will go a great way to satisfy all the admir ers of that gentleman, that his mantle has fallen upon the shoulders of individuals who are prepared to carry out all his views both in the letter and the spirit. The demonstrative article in which this consolatory fact is made to appear, goes at once, and with much light hearted gaiety of manner, to vital matters, and can leave no doubt upon the mind of the most cursory reader, that the Mercury is resolved to stand forth, henceforward and for ever, the dauntless foe of " fana ticism"—a terror to the over-religious—a sword sus pended over the head of all evangelical preachers— snd a very dragon in the way of newspaper Conserva tive editors. " Fanaticism" is the great enemy which he means to seek out and destroy—fanaticism which he conceives generally to he the " besetting sin of our country," and that species of it, in particular, which he has found, by sad experience, to be most fertile in practical results, The leading promoters and agents of this great de lusion, the successors of the late Mr. Egerton Smith allege, are of two classes ; first, the anti-popery par sons, and, secondly, newspaper writers—" knaves"— whom it is not surprising to find " abundant, " when there are so many "fools" to be made subservient to their purposes, "under the pretence of doing service to religion." From this it may be collected that the fanaticism which these gentlemen have taken upon themselves to deal with, is chiefly, if not altogether, of one kind, and that in every instance it wears the cha racteristics of zeal for the Established Church and its religion, and hatred of Popery and its superstitions. Every anti-Popery parson, therefore, and every Con servative newspaper writer, is, according to these draw cansirs of scepticism, a " fanatic," and not only a fanatic but a " knave;" and no man is wise, sober, sensible, or even " honest," who is not of their own party. It is a melancholy reflection that pure rationa lity is thus not only a monopoly, but a monopoly in the hands of a party which has grievously declined of late, which is still waxing less and less, and we may fairly expect to see soon extinguished altogether, at least in these parts. Liverpool grows every year, we might almost say every hour, more and more " fanati cal," if the party of these new apostles of rationality be conspared with that which they would consign so unceremoniously to the discipline of the strait-waist coat; and as in these days, the majority do on all oc casions display the utmost aversion to being treated with magisterial airs by the minority, we think the question is likely to be contested with some warmth— which party is really the rational party, and which otherwise ; whether sound discretion and sound j udg ment is exclusively the appendage and possession of the Mercury-ices, or whether they have passed over, with other acquisitions, into the hands of their Conser vative opponents ? For the present the writers in the Mercury enjoy the advantage of being the assailants, and commence the onset by presenting us with a sketch of what we are to receive at their hands as the impersonation of a " fanatical" clergyman, or genuine " anti-Popery par son." The picture will be found at full length in the columns of their journal. It is vastly clever, to be sure ; but we fear the greater part of it is only a thieving from Sam Slick ; certainly the portrait in one of the series in the Clockrnaker is before it in the order of time, and has, therefore, of course, the better title to being regarded as the original. However, great minds do sometimes assimilate wonderfully in their conceptions, and we forbear to stamp men with the odious brand of thieves or copyists, till they are afford ed an opportunity of vindicating their pretensions. The affair in the Mercury commences thus : " A starving parson leaves his native bog, and drops down in some community where the general intelligence is low, but where bigotry is rife, and soon perceives the high road to notoriety, it not to fame. lie commences roaring, ranting, and raving against Popery. He terribly shakes the nervous system of delicate young ladies, who, nevertheless, like the excitement." We have met a most marvellous resemblance to the caricature in Slick, and no one of the disgusting de tails omitted. The "starving parson from his native boy"—[by the by, wherever the Irish Popish priests may be, we must tell these ignorant daubers, that ,the Irish parsons to whom they, of course, allude, are very seldom of the bog origin that they suppose ; the Church in Ireland is, and always has been, almost ex clusively the profession of the aristocracy;] but this "starving parson from the bog" is, of course, a very vile character, a cheat, a hypocrite, and everything that is odious and immoral. The painters seem here to have forgotten that they were finishing their sign post for the meridian of Liverpool and England, and not for America and the voluntary system, and, conse quently, that all the colouring they have thrown in was not only superfluous, and in had taste, hut quite out of character, and without vraisemblance. We shall justify our conclusion by transferring a portion of the patchwork to our columns ; we do so at the risk of offending some of our readers ; but there is a ne cessity laid upon us by our own feelings which, for the present, overbears every other consideration_ The filthy caricature then runs thus : " The fair devotees believe implicitly all their sable friend tells them, however absurd, and are really willing to serve him in all things, from pitch and toss to manslaughter. In order to keep up the excitement, and to maintain his in fluence, our spiritual trader must necessarily indulge in all kinds of strange flights and vagaries ; he, consequently con verts his pulpit into a kind of Punch and Judy box, where he plays off his strange antics, to the great edification of his long-eared followers, to the infinite merriment of the wicked wags who go to the rarce show, and to the great jealousy of the true and veritable Punch, who feels deeply injured by this usurpation of his functions and privileges. More than one of these clerical buloons we have really heard preach ser mons which no modest woman could have listened to'fbithout her cheeks being suffused with the blush of shame ; and yet_ strange to relate—men still allow their wives and daughters to - be contaminated by the filthy trash of these blatant, brain less bellowers. The nastiness to which some of these par sons give utterance, under a pretended religious sanction, would really expose a poor man to the exercise of the i.5-ead mill, and would cause any gentleman, who used similito lan guage, to be banished from all respectable society." c.)livinei: he atttltai•s of this most atrocious and beastly libel felt in their in►cost souls that they were making their dastardly attack on Christian clergymen and defenceless females, when they sat down to their work of calumny. Had it been otherwise they might not have feared to put forth the falsehood, but they would have thought twice, roost likely, before they would have exposed themselves to the consequences of a series of imputations so false, .efous, and abominable. As it stands, the thing is cowardly and contemptible ; and we have put it be fore our readers, in order that they may perceive to what base shifts the enemies of our cause will resort in their extremity. Our cause, indeed, will not be in jured by such egregious and glaring falsehoods ; not because their tendency is harmless; not because lying and calumny are devoid of their accustomed capacity to do mischief; but because, as we well know, Con servatism is wide awake and prepared to meet and frustrate the various tricks and devilish devices of the enemy. A regulated system of the most monstrous lying is not a thing in itself to be despised ; the Whigs have found it before now a very powerful auxiliary, and would do so again, if their mendacious inventions were permitted to go forth unnoticed and unexposed. The miscreant production which we have been just noticing is . a tolerable sample of the craft, and should serve to fill every generous mind with indignation and abhorrence against that detestable system which dis guises itself under the name of Whiggery or Liberal ism. So elaborate a piece of impertinence, however, cannot be altogether disposed of in a single article of any moderate length ; and we reserve a few farther comments to another opportunity. It has been the boast of some of the journals which advocate the extreme views of the Oxford Tractarian party, that their labours have contributed much to strengthen the zeal, and increase the number of the church's friends, and that, both politically and religi ously, they have done the Conservative cause some service. That there is a sort of zeal engendered by Puseyism, we should not think of denying; on this head there is evidence enough ; but that it is a zeal cal culated to promote such ends as its advocates assume for it, or that has in any degree produced them, we deny, both from the nature of the thing in itself, and from the absence of all evidence to support the position. One of the advocates of the party, we remember, re ferred us, some time since, to Leeds as a locality in which the preaching of very high church doctrines, and a veneration for outward things, almost Tracta rian, had wrought marvellously in favour of the church and established institutions. In reply to this refer ence, we asked how it happened, if this were the case, that Leeds had been able to return but one Conserva tive member,—whilst here in Liverpool, where no such " high" doctrines are taught by any of the clergy, we have been able to elect and re-elect two staunch Con servatives—overturn all the long and high castle-build ing of the Radicals, and strengthen our cause by giving to the borough the benefit of a Conservative Municipal Council, as well as parliamentary representation ? We do not recollect what reply, or whether any, was given to this query; but as Leeds has been mentioned as a quarter which has profited much by instruction in the recondite mysteries of high churchmanship, we are induced on this occasion to ask, how it came to pass that, last week, a church-rate for the purchase of a piece of burial ground, confessedly much wanting in the parish—the old church-yards being quite over stocked—was almost unanimously rejected, the rev. and worthy vicar of Leeds himself presiding at the meeting ? Of the churchwardens, it seems, seven out of eight are Dissenters. It became the duty of one of them to bring forward the proposition of the rate — which would impose a trifling levy of not more than eleven-pence in the pound on the rate-payers—hut as this gentleman did not happen to be the churchman, of course he did not feel himself hound to say anything in its favour. In fact the motion had no supporters, and was condemned and lost without a single voice being raised, or at least heard in its favour—and be it asked wherefore ? Was it that there was no need for the object proposed, or that the rate was excessive, or that any reasonable ground of objection of such sort existed ? Oh, by no means—the rationale of the thing was not called in question at all ; its condemnation was simply that it was " church"L•qf the church, and for the church—and, therefore, odious in the eyes, and to the taste of the assembled majority. The assembly broke up in the highest state of satisfaction, and the learned vicar descended from his chair without having been able to advance the interest of his defunct parish ioners in any degree by his motion. Now, we ask, is this a fruit—this one of the beneficial results which, we are informed, we may look for from the promulga tion of Tractarian doctrines—this an evidence of the zeal and love which her children may be expected to display for the church, as the new leaven takes effect, and duly operates upon their affections ? But there was a little episode to the transaction which will bring it in still more lively colours before our readers. Whilst this church-loving assembly stood, or sat, in proud consciousness of their unanimity and power, and in joyous anticipation of putting a flat negative on the dissenting churchwarden's bill, Mr. E. Baines, jun., a Liberal of the first water, presented himself to view, and was received with a storm of hisses and indigna tion ; and for this reason—there had gone a rumour abroad that he had been gained over by the vicar, and had promised to support the projected rate. So high did the tide of passion end prejudice rise and run against this once popular favourite and leader, under the withering influence of this imputation, that he would not be heard for a moment in his own defence— and what he would have said, appears, ex necessitate rei, as an article in his own paper next day. In the article he declares that h e is a much injured man ; that, although he had distinctly allowed that there was great want of more cemeterial accommoda tion for the church, he had never promised that he would support a rate for procuring it; that he had supposed the levy to be imposed would he a burial ground rate, and not a church rate ; and that, finally, his object in attending the meeting, and in attempting to gain a hearing, was not to give any support to so obnoxious and illiberal a plan as that brought forward by the vicar and his party, but the contrary. We have only one comment to make on this busi ness, and it is this—that if the doings of these Leeds people be taken as a specimen of the direction which high church preaching gives to men's thoughts and actions, the less we have of it—for church and state interests—surely the better. Churchmanship at Leeds may he in a very high state, for aught we know, in matters of ceremony, and other affairs deemed of great moment by tractarian writers; but for any useinl ecclesiastical or political purpose which men in general think important, it is in an exceedingly low plight indeed. • We have never had any other idea of the tendencies of such church manship as the disseminators of Oxonian heresy preach up. It is altogether too late for the present age. If it were taught universally in our pulpits, it would drive many out of the church into the ranks of dissent; be tween dissent and the church it widens the breach, and makes reconciliation hopeless; and with regard to the neophytes themselves, what should we expect from men who descended from the " pure serene" of gospel teaching to the beggarly elements of the world, and let down their understandings, grovelling in the dark, to all the contemptible materialities of superstition ? We would humbly suggest that a deputation from Liverpool should be sent over to the great cloth mart, with a view to put their churchmanship and conserva tism, generally, on a better footing.. At the various great meetings which have been lately held, in Derby, Leeds, and Manchester, for agi tating distress, strong, and perhaps we should say startling, statements have been made by parties who must be supposed to possess competent knowledge on the subject, with regard to the declining state of vari- ous branches of our manufactures. To refuse all cre dence to these frightful narratives would require great power of nerve, or an extraordinary effort of scepti cism, arising from the lowest conceivable views of hu- man nature ; and, for our part, we cannot go such lengths. A certain amount of truth there must be in such representations,—and if it be in the power of go vernment to afford a remedy for so calamitous a state of things, no exertions on their part, we should say, could be too great to discover and apply it. At the the same time, it is a circumstance which unavoidably raises a doubt on one's mind with regard to the real amount of the distres inplained of, that, first, the complainers are chiefly a body of wealthy manufactu rers who put themselves forward as the mouthpiece of others, and not as the immediate sufferers themselves ; and secondly, that the proclamation of ruin sent forlh at all their assemblages, ends uniformly with the one note—repeal of the corn laws With regard to the first ground of suspicion upon the evidence, we would not dwell much upon it ; it is not of any great validi:v. We can conceive men of capital —men placed above the reach of any pressure of the times, so far as they are themselves concerned,-,--yet under a state of great anxiety and concern for the sufferings present or anti cipated of others—and agitating very busily and noisily and incessantly for the averting of calamities to which in any urgent sense, they are, or would be, themselves strangers. This is not impossible, though formerly it was more common to permit distressed operatives to tell the story of their own sufferings, and the voice of complaint was rarely heard till some extremity com pelled it to an utterance. The new system—if arising from the benevolent foresight of wealthy capitalists and employers—from tender concern in the rich for the poor, and of masters for their workpeople—the new system is, we say, under such circumstances, a vast improvement, and we hail it as a sign which does ho- ❑our to our times, Btit with regard to the second ground of distrust, we fear it cannot be so easily got over. :When we find the one body of men fertile in inventions of agitation which,- all concluding with the one cuckoo note of— repeal the corn laws—and after exhausting all devices, at last raising a cry of unparalleled distress—which ends still with the old refrain—one is irresistibly led to conclude, or at least vehemently to suspect, that the distress has been got up for the sake of the corn laws, and not the corn laws for the sake of the distress—that distress is only made use . of as a means to an end, and that free trade in corn is :not honestly and fairly soli cited as the appropriate remedy for the evil. If the agitators had no other object in view than to make the depressed state of our manufactures gene rally known, or to quicken the attention of government to circumstances of the first importance connected with our commercial interests, they would content them selves with statements of facts, and leave the remedy in the hands of those who may be fairly supposed to be the best judges of the case, and most skilful in dis cerning the treatment suitable to it; but, they invaria bly offer themselves to notice both as patients and doc tors, and clamour rather more for a particular mode of cure, than, as we suspect, from the pure anguish of suffering. These distress meetings are supposed by the concoc tors to be working wonders in favour of free trade ; but the connexion between the two things is not so evident ; it is doubtful ; and, moreover, it is denied. To what purpose, then, is all this agitation ? Will it convince any reasonable man who has reflected upon the subject, and has come to a conclusion different from that drawn by these gentlemen, that the Corn laws ought to be repealed ? Certainly not. Their noise and brawling cannot make the slightest impres sion on his reasoning faculties—and, indeed, we ap prehend it is not for the reasoning faculties, but for the. fears of the weak, they are intended. They are only a sort of Irish artifice for increasing the pressure from without—for beguiling attention, and for adding the force of terrorism out of doors, to the awful voice of the Cobdens and others, when they rise in parliament to advocate the cause of the manufacturers against the agriculturists—universal free trade against native cul tivation and self-support. In this point of view, such agitation is scarcely inno cent; it is turbulent and factious, and of evil tendency, and ought in every way to be discountenanced. It is an attempt to accomplish an object of at least a ques tionable efficacy, by unconstitutional, and we might almost say, seditious means. The sort of reasoning employed at some of these meetings is really curious. At one of them, a Man chester manufacturer says : " I have an agent at Chemnitz, in Saxony ; he is there constantly, for the purpose of buying on the spot, and send ing me his purchases from week to week. lam regularly importing German hosiery, and selling it to merchants, after paying a twenty per cent. duty on import, cheaper considerably than they can buy the same articles of British manufacture. I bought last year 8,000 pair of English cot ton gloves for exportation ; now I buy them all in Germany, and shall not be able to buy any more gloves of this style of English manufacture at all. I can import them from Saxony full fifty per cent. cheaper than I can possibly buy them in England. There is, beyond this, a considerable importation of German frame gloves, for the English home market, which is increasing from year to year : their goods, I should say, average at least thirty per cent. cheaper, and some— particularly cotton gloves—average fifty per cent. cheaper than ours." Here is a lively sympathiser with the distress of English operatives who carries on an extensive busi- ness in a foreign importation, which goes directly. to throw the English workmen out of employment, and to cause that distress for which he, nevertheless, affects to feel so much ! Nor is this all ; he is a wit ness, be it remembered, for fra , trade, and yet, truly, if he proves any thing, it is that trade is a great deal too free, and that the free importation of this German hosiery, which can be sold after importation so much cheaper than our own, ought immediately to be put a stop to. Other evidence given by these agitators at their meetings is just as conclusive against their own theories, and shows in the most satisfactory manner, that the free trade of which they are in pursuit, or pre tend to be in pursuit, is in reality the most eggregious of humbugs. At the present moment every suggestion which tends to throw a light upon a question so complicated in its nature as the degree and kind of protection to be afforded to the British agriculturist is calculated to be of use in arriving at a plan for its settlement; and we have, therefore, pleasure in giving insertion to the let ter of Mr. E. W. Jackson, addressed to Sir Robert Peel, upon this important subject. For the particulars of the scheme of our correspondent we refer to his communication itself, which will be found in another column; and in the few remarks which we shall make upon it our object will be only to correct an error of expression which, it appears to us, implies a meaning, and would establish a principle quite foreign, we think, to those which the writer must have had in view. Our correspondent has given us three scales of prices —the first ranging from 525. to 6oB.—the second from 48s. to 56s.—and the third from 445. to 525. He suggests, also, for selection, by the premier, 3 scales of duty—the first ranging from 12s. to 4s.—the second from 10s. to 2s.—and the third from Ss. to Os. We shall give no opinion as to these various scales ; and indeed Mr. Jackson gives no- preference to any of them in particular. We must protest; however, against the principle which would be established by the calcula tions with which he illustrates their operation. For example,—taking the first scale of prices at the average of 56s.,and the duty and charges at 18s. (10s. charges and Bs. the average duty) then the price realized by the foreign importer of wheat will be, of course, 385.; and the charges ISs. being to this price of 38s. as 47 to 100, Mr. Jackson assumes that the British agricultu rist has thus a protection of 47 per cent. against the foreign grower. The incorrectness of this assumption, however, becomes apparent when we lower the scale of prices ; for taking the third scale of prices, which brings the average down to 48s.—and keeping the same rate of duties Bs. and charges 10s.—the price realized by the foreigner will be only 30s.—and the protection will, therefore, be apparently GO per cent. Perfectly correct as these calculations are arithrnetically—(and there is no wonder that they ap peared to our 'orrespondent extraordinary)—they lead, nevertheless, to the inevitable and manifestly incorrect conclusion that the lower the pivot from which the aver ages are taken, the greater the protection to the British farmer We cannot, however, believe that Mr. Jack son meant to countenance any such principle as is in volved in this mode of calculation, or rather, perhaps, (for it does not affect the practical working of his pro position,) of this mode of describing them. The suggestion of our correspondent with respect to the mode of taking the averages too, is, we think, lia ble to animadversion ; for, although on the other hand it is quite probable that the present period of six week's average, as the criterion of the duties, is too long, one week is, we think, quite as much too little. An unfounded panic, aided by speculation for that space of time, raises the market, to the positive ruin of the farmer, where a somewhat longer period would not afford the same facility to the scheming capitalist, for any concerted operations evading the protection c sibly given by the legislature to the home gtonre Undoubtedly much is to be done by an alteration ir. the mode of taking the a pointed to one mode in which the alteration can )rites which rule the arerages must I the prices reaped by the grower— •the prices of bor of speculative I time, gains b ;en parties intereste unduly raisin payable upon importation. How this is to be effected in practice, however, is not so self evident should be glad if Mr. Jackson, who has evidently b ; anti w Stowed considerable attention upon, and understands the details of the subject, would point out to us a mode by which so important an object can be accomplished. LOCAL NEWS LIVERPOOL GREAT STEEPLE CHEESE.—This Steeple Chase is fixed for Wednesday, the 2d March. , COUNTY MAGISTRACY.-LJOhn Bairstow, Esq., and R. Newsham, jun., Esq., of Preston, have been placed in the commission of the peace for this county. THE WATERMAN'S CHURCH, WESTON POINT.—The consecration of this beautiful and interesting church is ap pointed by the Bishop to take place on Friday next, the 21th instant. The West India Royal Mail Steam Company have, we hear, purchased the Actaeon and the City of Glasgow steam ers, which are intended to ply between stations in the West Indies, in connexion with their splendid steam-ships. SENTENCE ON .JOHN BECKETT.—This person was indicted at the sessions, on Friday, for receiving some cotton stolen from Zwilchenbart and Co., the principal felons in which case were found guilty at the last assizes. Becket was found guilty, and sentenced to nine months imprisonment. THE NORTH AMERICAN MAILS.—It seems that an at tempt has been made to procure the substitution of Galway, for Liverpool, as the station for the North American mail packets. A memorial from Galway to that effect has been presented to the Treasury, the answer of which was that a contract had been entered into for seven years, with Liver pool, as the port of departure. INCREASF. OF PAUPERISSI.—Our Workhouse contains, at the present moment, a larger number of inmates than it ever held before. There are now nearly two thousand paupers in the house. The new and spacious Workhouse of the adjoin ing Union of West Derby is now so full that the sleeping rooms are inadequate to the proper accommodation of the paupers crowded in the building. LIVERPOOL. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—This noble un dertaking is rapidly advancing towards completion, and it is no longer difficult to predict that, in point of architectural beauty, it will vie with any public building in the town. Among the donations lately added to its funds, we have to record one of £lOO, which has been received from the Earl of Derby, through the kind instrumentality of Richd. Earle, Esq. THE CORONERSHIP FOR CHESHIRE.—There are four candidates in the field for this responsible office—Mr. More, Mr. Churton, Mr. Massey, and Mr. Cunnah. The sheriff has fixed the nomination to be held at the Shire-hall, Ches ter, on the 22nd instant, and the election will take place on Monday and Tuesday, the 27th and 28th instant. All free holders in the southern division are entitled to vote; though the coronership is only for the Chester district. BIGAMY.—At the Borough Sessions, on Friday, Higham; whose case at the Police-court appeared in our last, was in dicted for bigaMy. Mr. Murphy made a strong appeal in mitigation of punishment, in which he characterised the prosecution as a mere mercenary proceeding on the part of the first wife, who, after deserting her husband, and living with another man, was, according to the learned counsel. now• anxious to share the property which he had acquired by his second marriage. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to two years imprisonment. DEATH BY DROWNING FROM THE BREAKING OF ICE. — It is our painful duty to record an accident which occurred yesterday afternoon, at Much Woolton, near this town, and which was attended by the loss of one life. It appears, that a boy, named Martin, aged 12, with other boys, was sliding on a piece of ice, when it broke, and he and another boy fell into the water. Martin was drowned, every endeavour to rescue him having failed ; but the other boy was saved by a little boy of the name of Potter. Too much praise cannot be given to police-officer Sergeant Shirley and Mr. Eccles, sen., who used their utmost efforts to save Martin, b u t witout avail. Nommous SAILINGS. —Me wind having for nearly a fortnight blown from the westward, no vessels could put to sea. The docks, were, in consequence, so crowded that vessels arrivin; could not find accommodation, and many of them were obliged to remain at anchor in the river. On Friday, however, there was a slant of wind from the east ward, and the packet-ship England, for New York, put to sea. On Saturday, the wind having veered more to the east, a great number of ships sailed ; and they were followed by more on Sunday. These sailings have made room in the docks for the vessels arrived, and the river is now cleared of the inward-bound. DEATH FROM AN OVER DOSE OF LAUDANUM.—On Fri day, as Alice lirawley, a respectable female, aged forty-one, was passing along Richmond-row, she was observed to stag ger and fall. A police-officer went to her assistance, when, as her breath smelled strongly of opium, her pockets were searched, and a bottle, labelled laudanum, was found. She was carried home, and surgical assistance was procured. The stomach-pump was used, but it failed to relieve her, and she expired in a few hours. It was subsequently discovered that she had purchaSed three pennyworth of laudanum at the shop of Messrs. Taylor, druggists, Richmond-row. The bottle found in her pocket had been used in her family as a vinegar bottle. It was empty when taken from her pocket. She had been unwell for some time past, and had been taking medicine. for a cold. She was occasionally in low spirits since the death of a son about twelve months since. SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION IN THE CORPORATIONSCHOOLS. —A deputation, consisting of the mover. and seconder , of the resolutions adopted at the Operative Conservative Associa tion, at Kirkdale, on Tuesday, waited . upon Mr. David lloditon to convey to him the resolutions of the meeting. Mr. l-lodgson expressed his thanks to them, and stated tat he considered it a question of vital importance, that he had given it his decided support, under some discouragements, but that no opposition should deter him from continuing the same course that he had begun, and that he hoped in a short time to see the schools placed in the same position they were before the radicals came into power. DISTRESSING CASTE.—A respectably dressed female, about twenty-five years of age, came over to Birkenhead by the steam-boat at noon on Saturday week. When she landed at Birkenhead Ferry she displayed a wildness in her manners that excited the attention of those who witnessed it. Imme diately after coming on shore she commenced undressing herself, and deliberately leaped into the water, declaring she was resolved to swim to her husband, who was on board H.M.S. Etna. The individuals employed at the ferry used the utmost exertion and care in providing for ,the conveyance of the distressed female a cab to the lock-ups, where every attention was paid to her wants by Mr. Booth, the governor. As the poor creature's malady increased to violence, she was taken to the county asylum on Wednesday last. She stated several times that she was a native of Bradford, that she married an Irishman, who was a catholic, and he deserted her because she was a protestant. EXTENSIVE FRAUD ON THE BANK OF ENGLAND AT Ll vgitrooL.—During the week before last, a fraud to the extent of £1,330 has been committed upon the above establishment, by means of forged cheques upon a Belgian bank, known by the title of " Societe Generale pour favoriser l'lndustrie Nationale." The guilty party is a foreigner named Ranyier, between 35 and 40 years of age. His height is five feet four inches ; has a florid complexion, and reddish hair. He speaks bad English, arid but indifferent French. He is sup posed to have arrived in Liverpool since the Ist instant, in order tgembark for America. The following is a description of the notes obtained :- 1 £3OO, dated 3rd Feb., 1811.... No. 47,312 ' 6 £lOO, dated sth Feb., ]811.... No. 79,366 to 79,371 5 £5O, dated 6th October, 1841.. No. 13,363 to 13,367 2 £4O, dated 7th June, 1831.... No. 40,575 to 43,964 5 £lO, dated 10th Sept., 1811 .. No. 70,010 to 70,014 10 £5, dated 12th October, 1811.. No. 74,837 to 74,846 A confederate of Ranyier's was supposed to have gone to Leeds on Thursday se'nnight, and the police-officers were on the alert to secure him. Their efforts, however, if he did eater the town, were unsuccessful. An inquest was held on Saturday last, at Golborne, before John Heyes, Esq., touching the death of Edward Lord, who came to his death under the following circumstances :—The deceased and two other millwrights were employed to put up some machinery at a factory lately erected by Messrs. Brewer and Co., at Golborne. They were at work about ten o'clock on Wednesday night last, when John Williams asked the deceased to fetch him some tools which he wanted. De ceased went for that purpose ; but instead of going through the staircase door, through which he •had come not many minutes previously, he opened another door, which leads to a place where it is intended to put a hoist for winding goods up by steam, and fell through the hole to the bottom of the mill, a distance of forty-six feet. Williams heard a scream as deceased was falling, and immediately ran to his assistance. He was quite insensible; and although medical aid was pro cured, it was apparent it could be of no avail. He never spoke, but died about twenty-six hours after the accident had occurred. The jury returned a verdict of—accidental _ death. TOE LOCAL BAR: NEW ASPIRANTS FOR ERMINE. — At the intermediate sessions, which commenced on Tuesday last, the attendance of barristers was' so great as far to exceed the accommodation for them. Not less than thirty-three members of the bar were-present, while the number of cases in the calendar did not exceed sixty-two. Though the busi ness was generally of a trifling nature, the sessions were distinguished by tile debut of two young gentlemen, sons of two clergymen connected with this town. One of these is John Bridge Aspinall, Esq., a son of the Reverend James Aspinall, Rector of Althorpe ; the other, Thomas Stamford Raffles, Esq., a son of the Rev. Dr. Raffles, Minister of Great George-street Chapel. These young gen tlemen have recently been called to the bar : both, we under stand, have promising abilities ; and we sincerely hope they have launched on a tide which will " lead on to fortune. ' There was a curious indictment brought forward during the sessions against one Thomas Leigh, for stealing the comb, slippers, stockings, and pantaloons of Mr. William Samuel Hallin. The delinquency of the prisoner, however, had not stopped here •, for, in addition to the articles above men tioned, he had actually stolen Mr. Hallin's wig and whiskers. —Albion. CAUTION TO SEAMEN.—Six sailors were placed at the bar of the Police-court, on Saturday last, charged with having refused. to proceed to sea, in the Princess Victoria, after having signed articles. Captain Main, master of the above ship, stated, that he was bound for Mobile. The vessel had been out, and he was compelled to put back, with some da mage. Since then he . had shipped the six men at the bar, who signed articles to proceed to Mobile and back to some port of discharge in Great Britain. They had, on the pre ceding evening, flatly refused to work, and had also refused to proceed to sea in the ship. Mr. Rushton said; before he went further he would explain to the men the condition in which they stood. Mr., Rushton, having repeated to the pri soners what they had done to render themselves responsible, said, he had now power, if they consented to return to the ship, and perform the contract, and if the captain were quite willing to take them, to restore them back to their duty: on the contrary, if they were not willing to go, or if the captain were not willing to take them, be must commit them, as rogues and vagabonds, to the House of Correction for thirty days, where they would be kept to hard labour. On being asked what they had to say, one of them replied, that the ship was not ready to receive them, a, d they were prisoners on board. The captain said the ship had suffered somewhat, and he had been compelled to get riggers to do their work. One of them had asked leave to go ashore the very night on which lie went on board ; but, of course it was refused. Mr. Rushton asked the captain if he were willing to take them. The captain said he was willing to take them all, save Walker, the little one, on their agreeing to let the amount which he had paid the riggers to be deducted from their wages. The prisoners one and all declared that they would not go with the ship, whatever was the consequence, as the captain had seve ral men in irons. The prisoners were ordered to be impri soned thirty days in the House. of Correction, and kept to hard labour. JUVENILE VconKnot's ND ASYLUM.—The Poor- of this parish have, we hear, purchased six acres of land in the adjoining township of Kirkdale, on which they ' to erect a building for the exclusive use of pauper and girls. When this building shell be complete, the aren, two-thirds of whom are orphan or illeg,itimate, will removed from the present Workhouse, which, spa as it is, has become too small for the proper accommodation of the paupers who crowd into it, to Kirkdale. There they will receive an education suitable to the situations they are likely to fill in live. Their morals will not be corrupted by associatio❑ with adults, too many of whom are depraved and •nod air and exercise in.spaciou will be promoted grounds utteiou urama of Lord Bateman, pro -. ~:rutay night at 'the Theatre, introduced a new diorama, painted for the occasion by Mr. Frederick Lloyds, representing a voyage from Dover to China, the arrangement acid execution of which, particularly the figures of Lord Bateman and Cupid. the transitions from day to night, sun rise, transparent lighthouse, and distant coast scenery, reflect the greatest credit on this talented young artist, who has pro duced several good landscapes in oil, and has, in this in stance, exhibited his first effort in the art of scene -painting. —Journal. TII EATRE-R 01' AI SUDDEN DEATH.—An inquest was held yesterday, on view of the body of Mary Carroll, a married woman, who lived in Chisenhale-street. The deceased, who was 32 years of age, had for some days complained of pains in her chest and back. On Sunday morning she appeared to be better, but about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, while she was talking to a man in the house, she suddenly fell down insensible, and after breath ing twice, expired. Mr. Deane, surgeon, examined the body, and found the cause of death to be rupture of an aneurism of the arta, the result of natural causes. Verdict accordingly• We learn with great satisfaction that our West Magazine, " The Monthly," will, in January, start fresh and fair, in entirely new hands. High literary names are mentioned as to be connected with it. The editor is a gentleman, a wit , and an experienced caterer for the public's good taste: — ,Britannia. COMMITMENT BY WARRANT.—At the Police-court, yes terday, a man named Thames Connor was committed on a bench warrant to take his trial at the sessions for keeping a disorderly house. It was intimated that he might be enlarged bp finding bail for his appearance, himself in £5O and two sureties in £25 each ; but not having these sureties be was sent to gaol. AN UNRULY WIFE.—A Mr. Glover, a joiner by trade, but now retired, yesterday charged his wife, at the Police court, with continued annoyances and disturbances, so that be could no longer live with - her. He stated that she was in the habit of getting drunk, and had on Saturday night broken his windows, and round the whole neighbourhood. He was willing to maintain her in the workhouse, -or make her ant reasonable allowance the magistrate might fix. Mr. Rushton, asked her if she would aecept of ,the offer. She replied, 44 4 won't part with him yet. 1 can't live with him sometimes- As it was proved that she was drunk when she caused the disturbance alluded- to, she was required to pay a fine of five shillings, or be imprisoned for three days. DEATH FROM SCALDING .—Yesterday, an inquest %la held on view of the body of an infant, of four mo nths chit son of Joseph Armstrong, of Victoria-place, Harding-stree t- On Wednesday morning, the deceased's mother, after dress ing him, laid him down on the floor before the fire, while s be put on a pan of water. There was a kettle of boiling w ater on the fender at the time. Just as she was putting th e p an on the fire, the front (or bars) of the grate all at onc e fell' down, and upset the kettle of coffee, and the contents fe ll on the deceased. A surgeon was instantly called, and eve r y at tention paid to the little sufferer; but he gradually dec lined ; and died on Friday evening. Verdict, " Accidental De ath. SUDDEN DEATH FROM DISEASE OF THE HEART. —Ol l Saturday last an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Benjamin Bradshaw. It appeared that on Friday, between five and six o'clock, the deceased was in Falkland-street, staggering as if falling, and he im med ately fell on the foot-walk. He was found to be powerless and insensible, and was raised, and being afterwards recog nized, was carried to his daughter's, in Islington. Dr. Williams (M.D.) was immediately called in, but the dec eased was then dead. Dr. W. stated that be had attended hi m for seen about a fortnight, and that he had been labouring under cold and asthma. He had no doubt but death was caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in the region of the heart. A consi derable sum of money was found on the person of the de ceased by the police-officer who was called to his assistance . The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased died from natural causes, namely, the rupture of a blood vessel near the heart. OPENING OF THE ORGAN AT DR. RAFFLES' CH APEI.."-- The noble organ erected in this chapel wad played upon for the first time in public on Friday evening last. It has im mense power; too powerful, to our liking, for the, size of the chapel. The builder is Mr. Hill, who constructed also the organs in the Town-hall, Birmingham, in Christ Church , London, and in York Minster. The design is by Mr. Gaunt lett, who played upon the instrument ; he is, we believe, an amateur only, but judging of his abilities by his performance s, we should say he is capable of competing with our first pro fessors. He completely exhibited the powers of the instru ment. The vocal portions of the ceremony were deli4htfully executed by Miss Stott, Miss M. Swain, Miss Leach, Miss Whitnall, and others ; the latter quite enchanted her hearers in " Agnes Dei". It was really a great treat. Mr. Henry Dodd sang " Lord, remember David", admirably . His voice peeled through the buildimr. Miss Stott and Miss M. Swain sang " Qual an alantha" sweetly. The chapel was quite full. The performances appeared to give great satis faction. ASSAULT WITH A KNIFE. —Yesterday, at the police court, a young man, a mulatto, named Samuel Branch, stew ard of a ship, was placed at the bar, on a charge of attempt ing to stab a young woman of colour—Martha Williams. The complainant lived with her mother in Regent-street, and he had been in the habit of occasionally calling, in pay ing his addresses to the former during the last three months. On Saturday night he had gone to the cellar where she was, and had made a blow at her with a knife, but his arm being seized by aaJther mulatto who was present, he inflicted only a slight e,,and on her wristr The magistrate took pains to elicit from the witnesses whether the act was committed de liberately in cold blood, when it appeared, that notes had passed between them ; that he had solicited her hand, which she had refused ; that some words had arisen, and, that be was much excited at the time. The officer who took h i "' said he appeared to be out of his mind. H e h a d, howe v t e b r ' e taken the knife with hi m , an d un d er th e circumstanne t t e - fi magistrate said that he should not sen d hi m f or tr i a ti" must pay a fine of £5, or be impri s o ne d f or two mo nths , al l further, find sureties to keep the p eace , or b e c onfined "- month longer. ‘T'I FROM TAKING A POISONOUS DRUG.- - ° ll urd..ty and, by adjournment, y es t er d a y, a n inquisition taken before Mr. C urr y, t ouc hi ng th e d eat h o f Mary A'''' T aylor. The deceased, who (it was s t a t e d on Saturday) w s l 22 years of age, was a serva n t of M r . W a lter, carver and gilder, and had left his service in consequence of sickn ess ' She was confined to, bed, and c o n tin ue d in that state Ul th" Thursday last, when she was delivered of a female child wi out the assistance of a midwife. After delivery she became worse, and died on Tuesday last. Mr. J. H. O'Neill was called in, and first attended her about s ix weeks ago- '11„ - complained of debility and enlargement of the stomach. found her to be enciente, and told her so, but she positively denied it. He treated her for other sympt oms , and sae' her to within two days of her death, at which time be saw no appearance of immediate dissolution. He had reason to sus pect that the deceased had not come fairly to her death, O a the case was consequently adjourned. Yesterday the saute gentleman said he had made a post mortem examination, and described certain internal appearances, amountingt,bl one part, to inflammation approaching to mortification. opinion was, that the deceased had taken a drug to procure abortion, or destruction of the child, and he suppose d it atcoi be muriate of tincture of iron. He supposed so, as b e II been given to understand she had been in the habit of taking it. The sister of the deceased stated, that she once saw a small bottle on the wash-hand-stand in the deceased's bed room, containing about a spoonful of some stuff like water, but she did not know whether it belonged to the deceased. re- She tasted it herself, and it was rather warm.—The jury turned a verdict to the effect th a t the deceased died from inflammation of the stomach and intestinal canal, produ ced by a poison called muriate of tincture of iron • but whether she took it herself, or it was administered to lrer, there was no evidence to show. A WORD ox THE SEASON.—The inclement season ought to_ remind all who have the ability that there are thousands of fellow creatures in this town who require, and will require, their friendly aid. Christmas time usually opens our hearts to those around us. We attempt to make merry, however sad we may be • and while we strive to he cheerfu l, we do it because it is " be; Old recollections—ancient me mories—faces long unthought of, look at us, again, and, in thought, we shake hands with many who are numbered with the things gone by. The Christmas of our manhood may not be the Christmas of oar boyish days ; yet still to those who are springing up it has the same enjoyments in which we have long ago participated. We hang up our house with holly, and the misletoe is suspended in a sly corner. Merry young people, released from school, greet us, and, with hap py nd andvoices, cheerful quiet ou w h ed s r e rin awth g e a make notes. We give the fire an extra stir of satisfac tion, cheerfully at us, and makes us fe el that we may for even that looks cguairntaivnisthcltohseeirr, *Iwo; Thank our God that made a land so fair, And we its children." Good things, too, spring around us—the table groans with the produce from " over the sea, away, away —the wine s parkles—the grapes look juicy e nou g h to tempt a fox to make eao ther jump before he declares them sour—the sweet bis cuits, the jams from our old spinster aunt, who prides herself upon them—with many other nice things, such as are to be found in Mr. Middlewood's catalogue, are within our reach. The piano is open, and sweet voices mingle in sounds—voices of those that perhaps mingle hearts.—A pleasant picture this. But change it.—ln the lone garret, that the wind hurries through, where the snow penetrates, and the cold reigns pa -count—creatures like ourselves, capable of the best ins . 4 humanity can feel, who, were they otherwise than steeped in misery, would doubtless extend, their hands—for the poor are kind to the poor—huddle together, without fire or food, and perhaps little raiment. The cold, damp cellar Contains another crowd. There are little children, pole, starving, and emaciated, gaunt hunger griping their little bodies, and death playing on their lips—dallying whether he shall seize them to-day or to-morrow. Such scenes are, though we may see them not. They are not fancy pictures , heightened by that rapid painter " Imagination," who can conceive, execute, and hang a work of art, better than anY hands can paint, in a minute. The picture is not ideal ; it i' real.—Think of this you that have " the wherewithall.' De bar yourselves of some comfort, and reflect.that your resolu tion of doing without has made a sorrowful heart glad. ilslpiv is the time to prove yourself a Christian, and that you do riot profess that which you do not understand, or that which you cannot practise. The poor cry out—Give —give— THEATRE ROYAL.—This theatre closed last evening, the performances being for the benefit of Mr. Clarke. who an nounced hi s re ti rement f rom act i ve lif e. an d re linquishment of the position of lessee of this property. At the close of the comedy of " Every one has his fault," Mr. Clarke stepped forward_ amid general a nd h ear ty a ppl a use, and addressed the house :—" Ladies and Geritlemen,—ln appearing before you on this the last night duty professional life. I feel a poignancy the elaborate deed, excuse I my of regret at pa r ti ng w hi c h preven t s my addressing you in an astgrten,bolehdthheeroe;:elastichthidoerf thereforehreyittryu.st y ou will take the will for To my friends now as itthryisny warmesti t h a nks for their patron last appeal to their favour. To that portion of the public to whom I have been indebted for support during the past season, my best acknowledge ments,are due ; and after having sedulously, and I trust with satisfaction to the patrons of the dratna, attended to my duties a s manager or this establishment for sixteen successive 'ea'° ll ' , I shall after this night retire from the toil and bustle of the mimic scene ; and I now, ladies and gentle men, with every good wish for your future health, ,hap piness,respectfully and prosperity, most respectfully bid you farewell." Mr. and enterprise, an d good Mr. Clarke has shown g reet , management throughout the whole of his career, as Mr. Lewis's m anager, and when on his mak account ; and he has certainly won the esteem of all who knOW him.—Mr. Ander son (in conjunction with Mr. W. J. Hammond) is now the les see of the theatre, and much is expected from him and his partner. Th e y will open here at the usual time, we believe, and intend to es tablishexcept upon special occasions—a se cond price. We stated thatrMr. Mr. W. J. Hammond was act ing and stage manager in a late paper, when we should have inn and manager. Mr. Anderson," The Great Wizard announces a very attractive entertainment —as will be seen by reference to our usual column. • Mr. Anderson stands un rivalled in the art of necromancy and conjuration. To this a concert is added. LlVEltpo iltinivergt .itive Assoc qu hie Hall' e d. Many so Crow 14e.t0 obtail a to theCTl4a‘ CHAIRm the. M 1.,: we learn est t o th i nil t er : ci : s e l alltrocfoi ttttinGshnio; t he hea ', l!rivile .Yes for a 111 ether the di v i for hi goo r evealed 'of th e do great II the goC Carnal t %bled un weet, p 1 ' t hin the their • , t . nal and Ran them the P erili nCee j h --, their 1 To such dour pt 4 call 111 Sblessin4 4e Rev . 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