The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-03 00:00:00

WOOLLEY'S PECTORAL CANDY.— PATRONISED BY THE FACULTY. 'The rapidly-increasing sale of this invaluable Medicine is a convincing proof of its efficacy. The Proprietor can confi dently recommend it in all cases of Coughs, SoreTliroats, 'Hoarseness, Loss of Voice, and Weakness of the Cheat and Lungs, as well as for the relief and ultimate cure of long standing Asthmatic Affections, which have offered resistance to the most approved remedies. Being entirely free from all anxious ingredients, and beneficial to the system generally, it asay be taken by persons of all ages with perfect safety; for •wlislet powerful to heal and give relief to the chest and throat, and to subdue and eradicate cough, its tendency is to cool and purify the blood. The following are a few of the many thousand cures yearly effected by WOOLLEY'S PECTORAL CANDY : — Surprising Cure of a Cough of seven years' iteration, after She best medical advice had failed.—Plymouth, Foundry, Plymouth, Devon, March 22, 1850.—T0 Mr. Woolley,— Sir,—l think it a duty I owe to yourself and the public to inform you of the great benefit I have derived from your Pec toral Candy. I have been troubled with a severe cough for the last seven years, and although I have bad the beat medical advice, I could obtain no permanent relief, until I fortunately tried your Candy, and after taking two small boxes, I find myself free from cough. You have my permis sion to give publicity to this statement.-1 am, sir, yours, g:c., JOHN EDMOND MARE. Curs of a Cough of four years' standing.—Chatham. April 18th, 1850. —To Mr. Woolley,—Dear Sir,—Mrs. Chiseman, of Garden-street, Brompton, has been cured of a cough of four years' standing, by taking one box of your Pectoral Candy, and is desirous of expressing her gratitude, in order that others similarly afflicted may obtain the same benefit. Please send me three dozen of the large boxes for ber brother to take out to the Mauritius with him next week. I can also add my testimony that, from the many cases I 1) Eve seen of its decided efficacy, I am persuaded it stands iaarivalled as a general cough medicine.—Yours truly, HENRY WATTS, Chemist. Chatham. Extraordinary Cure of a case of Asthma of ten years' d ma tion.—Redditch, 'Worcestershire, March 17th, 1851. par,-1 have the pleasure of informing you of the cure of a alster of mine of Asthma of ten years' duration, by your Pec lend Can dy.--I am, yours truly, JAMES DUOGINS. Temperance Hotel. 17.13.—1 could tell you of another cure, but the person - wild he should write to you himself. This was the person - who recommended it to my sister. The following very flattering recommendation from an M.D., (dated Sept. 8, , h, 1852.) needs no comment :—I feel a pleasure in recommending Woollev's Pectoral Candy, in pulmonary complaints, influenza, coughs, colds, asthma, and a ff ections of the ch est.—G.i C. KERNOT, M.D., Chrisp street, Poplar New Town, London. Prepared by WOOLLEY, Chemist, Maidstone; and sold in boxes, Is. lid. and 2s. 9d. each, by all Chemists and Medicine Vendors THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. Wholesale Agents in this District :—Liverpool : Messrs. RABIES and CO: 40, Hanover-street; EVANS, SON, and CO., 52, Hanover -street. Sold Retell in Liverpool by F. G. Jones, Chemist and Whole sale and Retail Patent Medicine Vendor, 5, Paradise-street, and 78. London-road, one door from Seymour-street; G. H. Howell, Chemist, 72, Dale-street; Joel Kirkus, Chemist, 1 , M ill. street, corner of Stanhope-street ; Charles Brom ley, Che mist. 1. London-road ; Henry Mottram, Chemist. 24, MWater loo-road. Birkenhead: Henry Mottram, Ch em i st , 6, Argyle -street. Chester : E. Boden, Chemist ; W. Hig g i ns , Ch em ist, Manchester : Messrs. Mottershead and Roberts, 1, Market place ; James Woolley, 69, Market -street ; L. F Brown, Chemist, Strangevrays and Broughton. Wigan: James Kellett, Chemist, Market-place. ICHRISTMAS has ever been rendered dear to the lovers of friendship and hospitality from the many -charming sodalities connected with it. The exuberance of the feelings, amid scenes of gaiety, induces the fair and youthful to shine to advantage under the gaze of many friends, and therefore to devote especial attention to the duties of the Toilet. It is at this particular season that the auxiliaries of health and beauty ROWLAND'S PERSONAL REQUISITES are more than usually essentia! for preserving the Hair in all its decorative charm ' • the Skin and Complexion transparent and blooming • and the Teeth in their pearl-like lustre. The patronage of Royalty throughout Europ-, and the high appre ciation by rank and fashion, with the well-known infallible efficacy of these articles, give them a celebrity unparalleled, and render them a peculiarly Elegant and Seasonable Present. A few words on their merits may appropriately follow. ROWLAND'S MACASSA.R. OIL is a delightfully fragrant -and transparent preparation for the Hair ; and as an in vigorator and beautifier beyond all precedent. In dressing the hair nothing can equal its effect, rendering it so admira illy soft that it will lie in any direction, producing beautifully rowing curls, and, by the transcendent lustre it imparts, iendering the head-dress truly enchanting. Price 3a. 6d.; Vs.; family bottles (equal to four small), 10s. 6d. ; and double that size, 21s. ROWLAND'S KALYDOR, for the Skin and Complexion. is inequalled for its rare and inestimable qualities. The radiant bloom it imt arts to the cheek; the softness and delicacy which it induces of the Hands and Arms; its caps 'Nifty of soothing irritations, and removing Cutaneous de fects, discolorations, and all unsightly appearances, render it indispensable to every toilet. During the frost and bleak winds of winter, and in cases of chilblains or chapped skin, -its virtues have long and extensively been acknowledged.— Pcice 4s. 6d. and Bs. 6d. per bottle. ROWLAND'S ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, prepared from Oriental Herbs with unusual care, transmitted to this country at great expense, this unique compound will he Sound of inestimable value in preserving and beautifying the Teeth, strengthening the Gums, and in giving sweetness and perfume to the breath.—Price 25. 9d. per box. Beware of spurious imitations I The only Genuine of each _bears the name of " Rowlands'" preceding that of the article on the wrapper or labPl.—Sold by A. RowLA ND and SONS, 20, Hatton-garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfumers. T HE ALL-HEALING REMEDY!!! HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT. As; EXTRAORDINARY AND RAPID CURE OF ERYSIPELAS IN THE LEG, A FTER MEDICAL AID HAD FAILED.—Copy of ,a Letter from Mrs. Elizabeth reales, of the Post Office, Ald• near Bognor, Sussex, dated Jan. 12th, 1853.—T0 PROFESSOR HOLLOWAY.—Sir,-1 snffered fora considerable period from a severe attack of Erysipelas. which at length settled in my leg, and resisted all medical treatment. My sufferings were very great, and I quite despa red of any per =anent amendment, when I was advised to have recourse to your Ointment and Pills. I did so without delay, and am happy to say the result was eminently successful, for they effected a radical cure of my leg and restored me to the en joyment of health. I shall ever speak with the utmost confidence of your medicines, and have recommended them loathers in this neighbourhood similarly afflicted, who de -rived equal benefit.—l am, Sir, your obliged and faithful .Servant, (Signed) ELIZABETH YEATES. A DREADFULLY DISEASED ANGLE CURED AFTER BEING 'GIVEN UP BY THE FACULTY AT MALTA AND PORTSMOUTH HOSPITALS.—The following important communication has been forwarded to Professor Holloway for publication, by Mr. B. Dixon, Chemist, King-street. Norwich.—Copy of a Letter from Captain Smith, of Great Yarmouth. dated January 19th, 1853.—T0 Mr. DIXON.—Dear Sir,—l send you the particulars sof a cure effected by Professor Holloway's invaluable medi cines:—Mr. JOHN WALTON, late in Her Majesty's Service, in the British Fleet at Malta, had a very bad ulcerated ancle, and after having been in the Malta Hospital for six months, was sent to England as an invalid to Portsmouth Hospital, where he remained an inmate four months, there, as at Malta, refusing to have the limb amputated, he was turned out in curable. He then came to Yarmonth, and was under a medi cal gentleman for about three months, but his ancle became so much worse that all hope was lost. At this period, by my advice, he tried Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which by un remitted application, healed all the ulcers, and restored him to perfect health and strength.—l remain, Dear Sir, yours very truly, (Signed) JOHN SMITH. Albert Hotel, Great Yarmouth. SURPRISING CURE OF A BAD BREAST, NERVOUS DEBI LITY. AND GENERAL ILL HEALTH.—Copy of a Letter• front ife. T. F. I►er, Chemist, &c., Loa•er Moss-lane, Manchester, da:ed Feb. 12th, 1853.—T0 PROFESSOR HOLLOWAY.—Dear Sir,-1 have great pleasure in forwarding to you the partial tars of a very extraordinary cure of a bad breast, effected solely by the use of your celebrated Ointment and Pills. Mrs. MARTHA BELL, of Pitt-street, in this Town, had been for a considerable time labouring under nervous debility, loss of -appetite, and general ill health, occasioned by ulcerated wounds in the breast. She had much experience in the use of all the known remedies for the cure of ulcers, but without any beneficial result, in fact she had nearly lost all faith and hope of a cure being effected. In this distressing and painful condition of body and mind, she was persuaded to have re course to your invaluable Ointment and Pills, which she immediately did, and in the course of a very short time the effect produced was most astonishing; her appetite was speedily improved the sores and ulcers in the breast gradually healed, and the nervous excitement of her system was wholly - removed.—l remain, Dear Sir, yours faithfully. (Signed) T. FORSTER KER. The Pills should be used conjointly with the Ointment, in Tnost of the following cases : Bad Legs Corns (Soft) Scalds Bad Breasts Cancers [Joints Snre Nipples Burns Contracted and Stiff Sore Throats Bunions Elephantiasis Skin Diseases Bite of Moschetoes Fistulas Scurvy and Sand Flies Gout Sore Heads Coco Bay Glandular Swellings Tumours Chiego foot Lumbago Ulcers Piles Wounds Chapped Hands Rheumatism Yaws Sold at the Establishment of Professor HOLLOWAY, 224, Strand, (near Temple Bar,) London, and by all respectable Druggists and Dealers in Medicines throughout the Civilized World, in Pots, at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. Gd., I Is., 225., and 335. each. There is a very considerable saving in taking the larger _sizes. N.B.—Directions for the guidance of Patients are affixed to each Pot. A.INS IN THE BACK, GRAVEL, LUMBAGO, RHEUMATISM. GOUT, HEADACHE, NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY, &c.—DR. DE BOOS' COMPOUND RENAL PILLS (as their name Renal. Or the Kidneys, indicates) have been long established as a most safe and efficacious remedy for the above dangerous complaints, Discharges of any kind, and Diseases of the Kid neys, &c., which, if neglected, frequently end in a lingering vainful death. For Depression of Spirits, Excitement, Dis like of Society, Incapacity for Study or Business, Loss of Memory, Contusion, Giddiness, Blood to the Head. Drowsi ness, Sleep without refreshment, Nervousness, and even In z.mity itself, they are unequalled. Possessing tonic proper ties, they agree with the most delicate stomach, strengthen the digestive organs, increase the appetite, and improve the general health. They require neither confinement norcliange of diet, and, as experience has amply proved, they will effect a cure when mercury and all other dangerous medicines have failed. One Trial will convince the most sceptical of their anrprisin; properties. _ _ Leteiiiei, Etruria, Potteries.—" Yoi:r Renal Pills have Alone wonders with me and others to whom I have recom mended them." F. C. Post-o ffi ce, Stafford.—" Your Renal Pills are a most splendid medicine." J. Murphy, 70, Upper Sterin-street, Dublin.—" I never met the like of them before, they are really a surprising medicine." I'. Webster, Esq.,Sealford, Melton Mowbray.—" Your valu able Renal Pills have done good to every one I gave them to." Mr. Thos. Williams, at Mr. Hutchings, baker, King-street, IChelsea.—" I was persuaded to try your most beautiful Pills, and am happy to inform you I have received more benefit from them than from any of the medical men in London." W. Chartres, Esq., Newport, Mayo.—" I have a degree of -mental energy and vigour such as I did not feel these two years. My memory is wonderfully improved, so that I can ecollect all the events of each day with the greatest degree of clearness. It is astonishing how I got out of such awful suf ferings. but I think I owe it altogether to the use of your Pills." PERSONS GOING ABROAD, CAPTAINS and OTHERS, cannot store more important articles of health than the shove, which, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, and tranquil lizing the Nervous System, will prevent those fatal diseases so prevalent abroad, as also Sea Sickness and other complaints .incidental to long voyages and irregnlar living. No Emi grant's Chest can be properly furnished without them, for when far removed from medical aid, they will fiud in these lills a never-failing restorative. IstronTAxT.—Some unprincipled Vendors, when asked for Dr. De Roos' Pit.t.s, have attempted to foist upon the public other Medicines or trash of their own compounding, from which they obtain a larg er profit. The GENUINE have the words, " WALTER DE ROOS, LONDON," in white letters on a red ground, printed in the Stamp affixed to each box ; by special direction of Her Majesty's Honourable Commis sioners, to protect the Public from Fraud, and to imitate which is felony. May be obtained through all Medicine Vendors, at Is. lid., 'ls. 9d., 4s. 6d., Ils., and 335. per Box, with full directions for use; or by enclosing Post-office Order or Stamps to Dr. DE ROOS, 35, ELY-PLACE, HOLBORN-HILL, LONDON, they will be sent per return. At home for consultation daily from 11 till 4, Sunday excepted. Advice and Medicines I. Sold by Jones, 5, Paradise-street, and 78, London-road, Mottram, 24, Waterloo-road, and 6, Argyle-street, Birken head; Priestley, 52, Lord-street, Liverpool; Barnes, Fisher gate, Preston; Marsh, Wallgate, Wigan • Clarke, Gazette office, Lancaster; Westmacott, No. 4, Market -street, Manches ter, and all Medicine Vendors. N. B.—Res;,ectable Persons in Country places, who will be allowed a liberal Commission, may make a handsome addition to their income by selling these Pills, which are very justly becoming a favourite Medicine with the Public. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADNERTISER. T HE TREASURER OF ,THE COUNTY IN ACCOUNT WITH THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER. e s. d. To Tiliance in hand, Ist June, 1852 Cash received from Rates Ditto from Orders on Boroughs Di, to from the Treasury 15346 3 3 Ditto on account of Lancaster Castle, viz.:— From the Treasury From Boroughs 2ll 10 1 Earnings of Prisoners 29 10 11 Sundries -- 678 411 Ditto from Inspectors of Weights 350 4 7 Ditto' for Pines and Penalties 955 910 Ditto for Sale of Lists of Voters Ditto for Rnt of-Judges' Lodgings lOO 0 0 Ditto for Interest, less Commission 5 3 5 Ditto from Townships, ten per cent on Arrears of Rate X 36983 7 11 LUNATIC To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1812 Ditto transferred by •the Treasurer of the Lancaster .Asylum Cash received from Orders on Boroughs Ditto on account of Lancaster Asylum 29 18 6 Ditto ditto Prestwich Asylum 88 16 1 Ditto ditto Rainhill Asylum.. 33 10 0 Ditto for Interest, less Commission 40 18 10 FROM JUNE Ist, 1852, TO MAY 31st, 1853. Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Balance. Ditto Ditto Balance.. Cr. ee a. d. By Cash paid for Salaries Ditto for Expenses of Prosecutions Ditto for Prosecutions ofJuveni le Offenders 150 11 2 Ditto for Removing Offenders to Prison tlsBB 15 0 Ditto forßemovingTransportsto the Hulks 522 14 0 Ditto for Maintenance of Criminals and Vagrant Lunatics 3998 11 7 for Expenses of Lancaster Castle for Inspecting and Examining Weights and Measures . for Coroners for taking Inquisition s 3435 13 4 for Printing, Stationery, &c....... 969 210 for Law Expenses . . 1915 5 5 for Militia Expenses for Sundry Contingent Expenses .. 2084 17 0 for Private Lunatic Asylums for Maintenance of Assize Prisoners 1672 8 5 418 8 0 4 2 36983 7 11 ASYLUMS. By Cash paid for Building, Furnishing, and 'rte. pairs of the Lancaster Asylum 1238 19 6 ditto Prestwich Asylum.. 296 12 6 ditto Rainhill Asylum .. 1411 1 9 2646 10 11 1e5593 4 8 .t - 5593 4 8 NEW LUNATIC ASYLUMS.-LOAN ACCOUNT. To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1832 . Cash received from Orders on Boroughs Ditto for Interest, less Commission 286 16 11 By Cash paid for Interest on Loans and Instal ments in Repayment thereof Balance 8531 19 7 417379 5 7 BRIDGES. By Cash paid on account of Bridges 649 10 2 Ditto for Law Expenses Balance • 2005 11 2 £2666 19 8 MEAD QUARTERS. By Cash paid for Pay, Clothing, and Contingencies 2475 5 4 Ditto for Law Expenses Balance £17379 5 7 COUNTY To Ba'ancc in band, Ist June, 1852 2507 0 9 Cash received from Orders on liorouzlis Ditto for Interest, less Commission 53 1 9 x'266619 8 GENERAL POLICE.. To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1852 437 7 2 Cash received from Rates Ditto for Services of Constables Ditto for Interest. less Commission 8 14 10 Ditto from Townships, Ten per Cent. on Arrears of Rate 4'2839 7 II To Balance in hand, Ist Jane, 1852 93 19 11 Cash received from Rates Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveyance of Prisoners Ditto for Interest, less Commission LOCAL POLICE. NORTH LONSDALE DIVISION. £2839 7 11 By Cash paid for Pay, Clothing, and Contingencies 1218 12 9 Balance 215 15 10 £1492 8 7 lALE DIVISION. By Cash paid for Pay,Clothing,andContingencies 552 11 2 Balance lOl 19 9 .'f,54 10 11 862 8 6 364 17 10 .'1227 G 4 Fang and Kirkham Divisions, November 30th, 1852. 1 DIVISION. By Cash paid forPay,Clothing,and Contingencies 584 10 10 Balance l7l 12 8 . - 756 3 6 DIVISION. By Cash paid for Pay, Clothing, and Contingencies 537 10 6 Balance IGB 8 1 £705 18 7 BURN DIVISION. I By Cash paid for Pay, Clothing, and Contingencies 2728 7 1 Balance £3lBB 6 8 .URN DIVISION. By Cash pail for Pay,Clothing, and Contingencies 2472 16 4 Balance 471 8 9 .'2944 5 1 DIVISION. By Cash paid for Pay, Clothing, and Contingencies - 19738 5 7 Balance e 2446 5 4 IVISION. By Cash paid for Pay,Clothing, and Contingencies 1933 3 9 Balance .e 2414 15 6 [VISION. By Cash paid for Pay, Clothing, and Contingencies 2546 19 11 Balance '3039 10 0 DIVISION. To Cash paid for Pay, Clothing, and Contingencies 2398 8 4 Balance £2BBB 14 2 DIVISION. By Cash paid for Pay, Clothing, and Contingencies 410 15 3 I Balance £502 1 3 •LYNE To Cash paid for Pay, Clothing, ant! Contingencies 1334 13 10 Balance £1617 14 4 It DIVISION. By Cash paid for Pay,Clntlting, and Contingencies 4251 3 9 Balance bs4 19 8 .''5106 3 5 DIVISION. By Casll!paidifor Pay, Clothing, and Contingencies 4142 2 7 Balance --- AlOl5 18 2 DIVISION. By Cash paid for Pay, Clothing, and Contingencies 1920 16 4 Ditto for Interest on Loan, and in Re payment thereof 2OO 0 0 Balance 328 18 6 £2449 14 10 lIVISION. By Cash paid for Pay, Clothing. and Contingencies (Prescot portion of the Division) 2149 2 0 Ditto (St. Helens' portion of the Divi sion Balance 5lO 17 3 e 4235 13 7 WARRINGTON DIVISION. To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1852 524 5 6 i By Cash paid for Pay, Clothing,and Contingencie s 3303 11 10 Cash received from Rates 2652 15 9 Balance 527 15 4 Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveyance of Prisoners Ditto for Interest, less Commission 645 5 4 9 0 7 £3831 7 2 43831 7 2 PRESTON AND K To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1852 5361 10 3 Cash transferred from General Purposes Ac count for Maintenance of Assize Pri soners Cash received from Boroughs for Ditto 1675 7 3 Ditto from the Treasury 2783 14 7 Ditto from the Borough of Wigan, for Maintenance of Prisoners Ditto from Preston Gaol, for Prisoners' Earnings, and for Small Amounts Ditto from Kirkdale Gaol, for Ditto Ditto for Interest, less Commission RKDALE GAOLS. By Cash paid for the Establishment and Main tenance, Expenses, and Ordinary Re pairs of the Preston House of Correc- iion Ditto for the Establishment and Main tenance Expenses and Ordinary Re pairs of the Kirkdale House of Correc tion Balance BlB 9 4 379 14 1 LONSDALE HUB To Balance in band, Ist June, 1852 93 3 6 Cash received from Rates Ditto forlnterest, less Commission.. 017 10 .'220 5 2 AMOUNDERNESS To Balance in hand, - Ist June, 1852 174 3 11 Cash received from Rates Ditto for Interest, less Commission ll3 4 R 14359 16 5 £14359 16 5 SALFORD GAOL. To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1852 313 19 9 By Cash paid for Establishment and Mainten- Cash received from Rates Ditto from the Treasury 915 2 8 Alterations of the House of Correction 8350 12 5 Ditto from Boroughs for Maintenance Balance 1415 1 8 of Prisoners 1691 17 9 Ditto for Prisoners' Earnings, and for Small Amounts 2420 18 7 Ditto for Interest, less Commission l3 10 0 Ditto from Bradford Township, lOper cent. on Arrear of Rate 0 8 1 X 9765 14 1 £9765 14 1 '236 14 3 BLACKBURN H To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1852 Cash received from Rate 502 13 0 Ditto for Interest, less Commission 419 4 X 864 1 8 To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1852 Cash received from Rate Ditto for Interest, less Commission DRED BRIDGES. By Cash paid on Account of Bridges Balance UNDRED BRIDGES. By Cash paid on account of Bridges Balance 'NDRED BRIDGES. By Cash paid on account of Bridges Balance LEYLAND HUNDRED BRIDGES. 151 18 8 26 0 3 2 4 11 Rlflo 3 10 SALFORD HUN . By Balance in hand, Ist June, 1852 Cash received from Orders on Boroughs Ditto for Interest, less Commission 18 19 5 By Cash paid on account of Bridges lOO 0 0 Balance BO 3 10 .DRED BRIDGES. i By Cash paid ou account of Bridges Balance 'NDRED BRIDGES. 1 By Cash paid on account of Bridges 1 Balance 81543 5 4 WEST DERBY HI T o Balance on hand, Ist June, 1852 Cash received from Rate 629 5 7 Ditto from Orders on Borough of Li verpool Ditto for Interest, less Commission.. 516 2 X 1276 18 10 SALFORD HIT To Cash received from Rate levied on the Hun _ dred of Salford .'l6 ]G 4 C. MOORE WILSON, Treasurer. Etberpool TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 3, 1854. THE WAR BETWEEN LABOUR AND CAPITAL.-THE COMBATANTS. IN several recent instances we have had occasion, while treating of the strikes of workmen, to designate this war of labour against capital as an unholy, because an unna tural, war. Capital, as the result of skill, foresight, and self-denial, is indispensable to the well-being of society, and any movement which has for its avowed or hidden object the annihilation or serious dilapidation of capital, is a movement in which, sooner or later, all classes of the community will find something inimical to their interests. That such a war has been waged by workmen against their employers in the manufacturing and mining dis tricts, is a matter of too much notoriety to require demon stration ; and that its results hitherto have been great public inconvenience and the source of much general appre hension, are not in any degree mitigated by a knowledge of the fact, that they have been ruinously disastrous to the workmen themselves. Nor, strictly speaking, can it be admitted as a palliation of the evil result, that it was brought about through well-intentioned ignorance, led on by ignorance as consummate, but less innocent, and more designing. Society has a just right, and too deep an in terest, in maintaining the natural relation which capital and labour have established between themselves, to allow the validity of such inconclusive reasoning. Capital and labour are each indispensable, not merely to the vigorous working of each other, but to their very existence. La bour may, indeed, with truth, be represented as the bones and sinews and muscles of the social body ; but, if so, capital must take the place of that vital fluid, which, pro ceeding from the centre organ, gives nourishment and vivacity to even the most distant extremity. Diminish this stream, and you paralyze the action of all the mem bers ; divert its current, or taint it at its source, and the bones will become brittle, the sinews rigid, and the muscles powerless. So with the body politic : sustain the stream of life in purity, let it flow untrammelled in its natural course, and you secure a harmonious action, a vigorous and powerful frame. Coercion, in physics as in morals, has invariably been found an inadequate means of supporting even a good cause, and its attempted applica tion to regulate the relations between employers and em ployed, in the shape of strikes, real or impending, forms no exception to the general rule. Temporary circum stances may, indeed, for the moment, lead to an apparent yielding on the one , part, and a triumph on the other ; but all such compulsory obediences have been invariably short-lived, while their tendency, indeed certainty, to create unfriendliness and animosity between the parties is as well known and generally admitted as it is to be la mented. In any contention for mastery between employers and employed, experience has again and again shown that each of the parties is powerful to injure the other, but weak as infancy to benefit themselves,—with this slight difference, that the power of combined action is more easily and effectively wielded by the masters than by the men. The men, from their numbers, — the great feature of their strength,—are more difficult to hold in union, their resources are more slender, and their demands :upon those resources more extensive and more instant than those of the masters ;—to the latter a stoppage of work is a cause of loss, and a subject of annoy ance, if not of anger ; to the former it is the instrument of immediate privation, and the harbinger of protracted mi sery, if not of ultimate and utter ruin. How unwise a contest, then, where the means are so unequal—how wicked where the results are so fruitless or so fatal ! That the disastrous consequences here contemplated are no phantoms of a disordered imagination, is too painfully manifested in the present position of affairs between the master-manufacturers and the operatives. The former taking alarm at the unreasonable demands, and still more unreasonable dictation of the latter, have entered into a combination to, as they say, reduce the men to reason; in other words, they have resolved to reduce the men to a state of greater subordination than they were in previous to their ill-advised strike ; and this movement has, cha racteristically enough, been originated in Manchester. The particular nature of the proposed humiliation it is not, at present, worth while taking into consideration. That the masters, irritated by the contumacy of their workmen, may be tempted at a favourable moment to retaliate, is so consonant with the principles of Iniman action, as to afford little ground for wonder. How far, under pre sent circumstances, they may be justified is another and more serious subject for inquiry. It must be fresh in the memory of every one, that, within a few years past, these same Manchester manufacturers invited all the workmen throughout the kingdom to clamour for a repeal of the corn laws, on the ground that such repeal, by causing a greater demand for manufactured goods, would enable them to earn more wages. We all remem ber, also, that, yielding to these clamours, the government of the day, whether wisely or not matters little now, repealed the corn-laws. It is equally patent to all, that, through a series of fortuitous circumstances, after the re peal of these laws, the prosperity of those manufacturers became great—according to their own phrase, unexam pledly great, and no small pains were bestowed by those same gentlemen in displaying their prosperity and boast , ing of it. What, then, was more natural than that the workman should deem it his right to share in, and to de mand that he should share in this unexampled prosperity ? His master told him that if he shouted well for this pros perity it should come—he was next told that it had come, and come through the powerful agency of his clamour. He did not believe that he had had his full share in the benefit, and following the example set, and the advice inculcated by his master, and believing in the power he was told by that same master he possessed, he urged his fellows to join him in pursuing the course he had seen so successfully followed by his betters, and has found to his sad dismay, that al though he may agitate to his heart's content, and shout till his lungs are empty and sore, for the benefit of his master's class, he must not use the same means for his own seeming advantage. So far from seeking to justify or commend the conduct of the operative turn-outs, we have invariably condemned them as alike impolitic and unjust ; but we are not prepared to recognize the propriety of the censure, nor to applaud the punishment awarded by so questionable a tribunal. We have read in a book which we regard as infinitely more authoritative than the , oracles of the Corn-law League, that "he who soweth the wind shall reap the whirlwind," and we do not see any special reason why the warning injunction should be re versed or suspended in favour of the members of this new league. The manifesto of this new combination acquaints us with another of their secrets, the truth of which, however, we never previously doubted. That is the utter dissipa tion of their great theoretical free-trade fallacy. Through the Times, the organ of the party, we are informed that, " Had there been no strike, long ere this the masters would have been obliged to reduce wages, or have re course to half time. Nobody at this moment tau fail to see the truth of this." Has it, indeed, come to this, that nobody can fail to see that The abolition of the Corn-laws JONATHAN PEEL. C. R. JACSON. R. BRYAN SMITE-I. has not secured to the artizan unlimited demands for la bour, and increased remuneration ? The Times, eating its former prophecy, now tells the artizan that he must sub mit to reduced wages or half work ! Alas for the unchange able improvement in his prospects ! and alackaday for the veracity and judgment of that mightyprophet which sets its dicta above the opinions of even the wisest ! Experience only proves what was specifically enough pointed out at the time, that the abolition of the corn-laws would be powerless in sustaining a demand for manufactured goods ; and we greatly fear speedily to see the other portion of the pro tectionist's prophecy realized, viz., that it will lead to a permanent reduction in the wages of labour. So long as the harvests were sufficiently productive, provisions re mained cheap, manufactures were rapidly consumed, and labour was in great demand. One bad harvest has re versed all that, the price of provisions is enormously high, the Times tells us " the declining course of trade shows that masters could not have carried on up to this time a high rate of production at the same wages as heretofore." What, then, have we gained ? Had the corn-laws been un repealed, how much higher a duty would we have been paying on wheat than we are doing at the present moment ? ANNUAL DINNER OF THE MERSEY STEEL AND IRON WORKS' BENEFIT SOCIETY. MB annual dinner of the above society was held on Monday last, at the Stag Hotel, Mill-street, Toxteth-park. The members of the society, who are all employed at the company's works, met at one o'clock, and, preceded by the band belonging to the establishment, marched to the hotel, where they partook of an excellent dinner. At the principal table we observed the worthy employers, W. J. Horsfall, Esq., T. B. Horsfall, Esq., M.P., and George H. Horsfall, Esq., as also the following gentlemen :—W. Clay, Esq., (manager,) T. Webb, Esq., Messrs. R. L. Clay, B. Samples, T. N. Simpson, J. S. King, John R. Hughes, J. Bolas, Mossom, J. Owens, Cookso n , Leyland, (Miles street,) &c., &c. After the usual loyal toasts had been given, the Vice chairman (Mr. EASTWOOD) proposed the health of their respected principal, Wm. J. Horsfall, Esq., remarking, that it needed no comment from him to induce them to receive it with the applause it merited. He was known to all, and all appreciated his sterling value. (Loud cheers.) He might be allowed to rem ar k, that, at the last club meeting, it was unanimously resolved that an address be presented to W. J. Horsfall, Esq., expressive of the society's thanks for the warm interest he had always taken in their affairs, (Cheers.) The following address was then read on behalf of the society, by Mr. JOHN R. HUGHES : " The Address of the Members of the Mersey Steel and Iron Works' Benefit Society, to William Joseph Horsfall, Esquire. " Another year has passed away since last we met to celebrate the anniversary of our society's existence, and we are now entered into its 19th year. " In justice to ourselves, we cannot permit the present opportunity of meeting you around this festive board to pass by, without recording and expressing our grateful sense of the kindly sympathy, the countenance and sup port which you have invariably extended towards us. " We frankly and gratefully acknowledge that the en couragement and support so generously afforded us, have greatly contributed to strengthen our own efforts, and enabled us to benefit each other, by perseveringly and (we would hope) energetically carrying on the operations of our society to an active and effective working ; for through its agency we have had the happy privilege of administering aid to the necessitous and the afflicted ; to comfort and solace many a head bowed down in sickness and consequent trouble; many a home and hearth that otherwise would have been very desolate and cheerless have been rendered comparatively joyous, by the wholesome administration of our society's united funds ; and when death's stern unre lenting hand has laid prostrate the body of a fellow-member and fellow-workman, leaving behind him the widow and the orphan, overwhelmed in bitter sorrow, helpless, and oft times in want, it has been our happy province to pour the balm of consolation and friendly aid in this most righteous cause. " We feel it incumbent upon us, therefore, to express to you, Sir, as also to our excellent and worthy manager, Mr. Clay, our hearty and grateful thanks for your counte nance of our society's cause; and would, moreover, desire particularly to thank you for your additional contributions in the past year of fines imposed in the works, which you have been generously pleased to instruct shall be granted to our funds hereafter. " Collectively and individually we would wish you much happiness, hoping that you may be long spared to adorn the high station which you occupy, and sincerely pray that " Those blessings you may ever share Which on the bounteous good attend." (Three hearty and enthusiastic cheers were here given, and the band followed with an appropriate air.) W. J. HORSFALL, Esq., rose to reply, and said he never was more overpowered by his feelings than on the present occasion. He thanked the members for the kind and enthusiastic manner in which they had been pleased to receive the mention of his name, but he feared there was expressed in the address handed him more than he could lay claim to ; he had, nevertheless, always had a warm interest in the prosperity of their society, as indeed of every society that would tend to ameliorate the condition of his workpeople. (Loud cheers.) He urged upon all the workmen to become members of the society, which he characterised as the best he knew of, and observed that it was managed by themselves in an admirable manner ; a workman was the secretary, and a workman was the treasurer, and he said that, having looked over their books, he found there was a surplus over and above the year's expenditure, which he thought was most gratifying. He had much pleasure in being there that day, to see so many happy faces around him. (Loud cheers.) Mr. GEORGE GOULDER rose to propose the health of Thomas B. Horsfall, Esq., M.P., who he said was not only a good master, as all in that room could testify, but he was, moreover, their worthy representative, and one who, as one of their rulers, would allow him, a working man, to have the Bible upon his shelf, and let him read it how he liked, where he liked, and when he liked. (Cheers.) He would also tell those in the room who didn't know it, that he was in favour of the big loaf, and what was more of big wages ! (Cheers.) He begged, therefore, to pro pose to them the health of Thomas Berry Horsfall, Esq., M.P. (Renewed cheers.) T. B. HonsrALL, Esq., M.P., said he could not but con trast the conduct of the men of the Mersey Steel and Iron Works with that of the turn-outs at Preston, Wigan, and other places; and humorously remarked that it perhaps required two to make a quarrel—(a laugh)—and that the fault might not, after all, be all on one side. (Hear.) He had always entertained the happy thought that a cordial good feeling existed between them and his worthy brother, and he was proud to say that it did exist, from the senti ments expressed in the address read to them that day, and he confidently hoped that this affection between them might be cemented and continued. He said he well remembered, when he had the honour of being chief magistrate, the alacrity and readiness of the men to assist in maintaining order, when their social peace was threat ened and assailed by Chartism, and highly lauded the workmen for the loyal and orderly sentiments by which they were animated on that occasion. He took the oppor tunity of impressing on the men some judicious remarks as to submission to their authorised rulers, and to keep themselves aloof from Chartism, which, he maintained, reduced wages, and was altogether impolitic. This he illustrated from the case of one of the flannel towns of North Wales, which being excited by the seditious speeches of Chartist demagogues, were thus incited to turn-out, and he observed the result was this, that wages have never been as high as they were before that period, and the trade itself was depressed, and so continues. He said he had great pleasure in coming amongst them that day, and paid a very flattering tribute to the Mersey Works' band, which had enlivened the proceedings of the day, and jocosely remarked that he would sit down after giving utterance to the words of an old English rhyme, that "'Twos a good old custom, when Christmas was come, To summon our friends with tabret and drum." — (Loud and long continued cheers.) Mr. PETER EASTWOOD rose to propose the health of George H. Horsfall, Esq., and begged to thank him for the good dinner they had on the occasion of his marriage, and hoped that they might very soon have another—(Loud laughter). _ _ _ G. G. H. HORSVALL, Esq., who, on rising to respond, was received with uproarious cheers, after thanking them for the honour they did him, felicitously remarked that it might be a very good joke for Mr. P. Eastwood, but he assured him it would be no joke for him to have to look out for another wife (loud laughter) ; he wouldn't know where to put her. (Continued laughter.) He said it might shortly be the case with a friend who sat by him 170 0 0 50 5 2 ~t/20 5 2 150 0 0 86 14 3 £23G 14 3 430 0 0 414 1 8 reB6 t 1 8 199 18 3 2 18 H £!422 8 7 SOUTH LONSD, To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1652 ll4 2 7 Cash received from Rates Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveyance of Prisoners Ditto for Interest, less Commission ll7 11 £654 10 11 To Ralince in band. Ist June, 1852 359 16 0 Cash received from Rates Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveysnce of Prisoners.... 133 6 9 Ditto for Interest, less Commission.. 314 7 AMOUNDERNESS DIVISION. By Cash paid for Pay and Contingencies Proportion of Balance transferred to the Garstang Police account lBO 9 5 Ditto Kirkham Police account 81227 6 4 N.B.—This District was subdivided into the Garst GARSTANG To Proportion of Balance from Amounderness Police account Cash received from Rates Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveyance of Pri , on,rs 32 2 0 Ditto for Interest, less Commission ll4 1 £756 3 6 KIRKHAM To Proportion of Balance from Amounderness --------- Police account Cash received from Rates Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveyance of Prisoners 27 11 8 Ditto for Interest, less Commission ll3 8 .108 18 7 HIGHER BLACK To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1853 Casb received from Rates Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveyance of Prisoners Ditto for Interest, less Commission 713 8 Ditto from Briercliffe-with-Lxtw•iitle township, Ten per Cent. on Arrears of Rate . 1 18 1 X3lBB 6 8 LOWER BLACK To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1852 Cash received from Rates Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveyance of Prisoners Ditto for Interest, less Commission 5 4 1 4'2944 5 1 LEYLAND To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1832 Cash received from Rates Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveyance of Prisoners Ditto for Interest, less Commission 614 5 Ditto from Slawsdesly Towuship,Tea .per Cent. on Arrears of Rate .€2445 5 4 BOLTON To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1853 397 4 11 Cash received from Rates Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveyance of Prisoners Ditto for Interest, less Commission X 241 4 15 6 BURY D To Balance in band. Ist June,l3s2 579 15 3 Cash received from Rates Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveyance of Prisoners Ditto for Interest, less Commission 7 5 9 '3039 10 0 MIDDLETON To Balance in hand, lat June, 1852 Cash received from Rates Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveyance of Prisoners Ditto for Interest, less Commission 362 9 4 5 13 4 2SBB 14 2 . OLDHAM Ti Balance in hand, Ist June, 1852 B6 2 2 Coal received from Rates Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveyance of Prisoners Ditto for Interest, less Commission.. 1 410 .'502 1 3 A'HTON-UNDER• To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1852 Cash received from Rates Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveyance of Prisoners Ditto for Interest, less Commission 415 5 £1617 14 4 MANCHRSTI To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1552 Cash received from Rates Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveyance of Prisoners Ditto for Interest, less Commission lO 411 Ditto from Bradford Township, Ten per Cent. on Arrears of Rates £5106 3 5 KIRKDALE T Balance in hand, Ist June. 1851? 515 17 5 Cash received for Rates Ditto for Services of Constables and Conveyance of Prisoners 336 13 10 Ditto for Interest, less Commission lO 17 4 Ditto from Sefton Township, ten per cent. on Arrears of Rate 3 15 4 £5015 18 2 ORMSKIRK To Balance in band, Ist June, 1852 lB6 1 5 Cub received from Rates ... 2OOl 8 7 Ditto for Services of Consul)les and Conveyance of Prisoners 253 15 6 Ditto for Interest, less Commission 8 9 4 £2449 14 10 PRESCOT To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1852 609 5 o Cash received from Rates Ditto from the Prescot portion of the Division, for Services, &c. 426 15 4 Ditto from the St. Helens' ditto ditto 343 8 4 Ditto for Interest. less Commission 912 8 44235 13 7 180 3 10 785 17 2 757 8 2 ae1543 b 4 940 0 0 336 18 10 .'1276 18 10 cDRED RIOTS. By Cash paid for Damages and Costs 9 14 6 Ditto for High Constables' Costs, and making the Rate 7 1 10 £l6 16 4 TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1854 ....- imports portune, inasmuch as a ques ti on o f grea t er than decimal coinage w as now ag it a ti ng t h e eountral,i that the attention of he r M a j es t y ' s govern ment , the anxieties of the country were all engaged on 1 0 mar question of peace or wa r ; an d th a t it would be s - what out of place for the inhabitants of Liver) to meet on the q u e s ti on o f d ec i ma l co i nage, i n step of the question of peace or war. He thought, hovel there was a little difference between these two 0. tions. (Hear, hear.) They met with a view of informs her Majesty's government what was the opinion ofi people of Liverpool on decimal coinage, so as to en! then, to legislate on it. He apprehended that, be' holding a meeting o n p eace or war, t h ey must wait at parliament met, and until th ey h a d i n f ormat i on of wi her Majesty's government h a d d one or wou l d do. 'l°, perhaps it would be neces sar y f or thi s t own to meet on ' question of peace or war. (Hear, hear,) But if they tc l to let that question stand in the way of every improvems they ought to have done nothing during the last 1 mouths. The decimal system, he thought, was a ll important question, and one on which they should let .t government know what their opinions were. They wig not all agree as to the exact details, or to the exact m eth in which this system should be carried out. They I, had many very e xce ll en t plans proposed, the first be' that proposed by the Chamber of Commerce, m ore th twelve months ago. He would just refer to what tb scheme was. It proposed that the coinage should cons' of a sovereign, equal to 1,000 cents ; half-sovereign, 6 , cents ; a crown, 250 cents ; half-crown, 125 cents ; a film 100 cents, or 1-10th of a sovereign ; a shilling, 50 cent sixpence, 25 cents; fourpence, 16; ; threepence, 1 , a penny, 5 cents • a farthing or cent 1 cen t, or 1-100 et florin, and 1-I,oooth of a pound. Part of that scheme lt been adopted by the committee of the House of Comma but Mr. Brown had stated more clearly than he co uld ' what the views of/hat committee were. Mr. Horsfall tb!, read a quotation from a report of the committee of P House of Commons, and remarked that there was tat li in unison in that and the report of the Chamber of Cd merce. But what appeared t o hi m some very i mpo suggestions had been thrown oat in an a bl e pamphlet„ Mr. Theodore Rathbone, w h o recommen d ed the adopt!! of the ls. as 10d. That, in his (Mr. Horsfall's) opiaLl' was a very valuable suggestion ; but he only laid it beP . the meeting for the purpose of enabling them to cons the different views propounded, in order that they niN ultimately arrive at th e b es t . M r. H orsfall went 004 say that he was very much in favour of leaving as OM, coins in circulation as they could. Though they were! agreed as to the grand principle at the preliminary 0, ing, it was decided that th e y s h ou ld as k the pros e' meeting to assent to the great principle, leaving the leli lature to carry o u t th e d e t a il s i n th e way most accepts,, to the country. (Chee rs .) H e j o i ne d most cordially in t 7 thanks tendered to Mr. Brown, not only for his servi; on the committee o f th e Ch am b er o f C ommerce, with l'e rence to the present meeting, but because he knew 9 , the assiduity with which he attended to his duties!, chairman of the p ar li amen t ary comm i ttee in Lon k' (Hear, hear.) Had it no t b een f or his diligence en v committee, and his great practical experience, he ( 1 ' Horsfall) very much questi one d w h et h er they would 11.,, had such an admirable report as the one before the! (Cheers.) He spoke, of course, generally of the syste' . differing, as they all did, more or less, upon the detail' e i but, for his own part, although lie had a comparatir , limited knowledge of the question, he confessed he ral leaned, at present, to th e v i ew propoun d e d b y Mr. Ra.",, bone. He did not, h owever, comm it hi mself to tha t any other plan ; but he stated that if he could only asev, tain, as one of their representatives, what the views of th people of Liverpool were upon the details of that quest he would do his utmost to c arr y th em ou t . (Cheers.) ' had much pleasure in moving the resolution. Mr. PICTON, in seconding the motion, said their atte 3 ; tion was, he was glad to see, directed t o th e pr i nc i p le a decimal coinage rather than to any particular ni ode, carrying it out. It wag desirable that th e prineil: should be laid down as s i mp l y as poss ib le, because the! were in certain quarters a considerable mistrust and or t , apprehension of wh a t th e d ec i ma l system was. i'' t! system of decimal s was s i mp l y t h e art of computing , tens. After countin g ten they began again and w ent e; to 20, from 20 t o 30, and so on. Every man had t, ° , l fingers; and the fignres were called digits, from t . : fingers, which s h owe d t h at this was the natural syste d v So far as integers were concerned, they had everithl: that could be desired ; but the subdivision of our monk weights, and measures was such that it did not fit tl!! decimal system, and to obviate this difficulty was t,; object of th e pl an proposed. The movement could not 'iii confined to the monetary system alone ; if it was to be_, utility it mu s t b e carr i e d f urt h er, for its advantab; would be as great, if not fully greater, when applied 4 weights and measures, as it would be when applied t o o ¢ coined money. He gave se vera l i ns t ances o f t h e cum bre' nature of the operations required under the present s); tem. For example, if h e h a d t o pay £l6 17s. 2id•,„c sums of 13s. 7d., lie could not di v id e it without hrin*4 the pounds an shillings of the two sums d own t o % same denomination of pence, and dividing the one by ii other; but if the de c i ma l system were adopted, he Wos' only have to divide the one sum by the other. They had I!, rale in the present system by which they could multif, £2O 13s. 4d. by £2O 13 s . 4d ., w ith out re d uc i ng both s A to pence, multiplyi ng th e t wo t oge th er, an d th en redo. _, the sum again i n t o p oun d s ; b u t if th ey h a d th e decoP,, system they could do so without any reduction w hatei He concluded by paying a high compliment to Mr. MI; for his zealous exertions to promote not only that ilt,°et meat, but to forward all me asures w hi ch have for the object the welfare of the peopl e an d th e good of the coonle Mr. J. R. JEFFERY moved the next resolutiorl•kko, considered it the d u t y o f a ll , on so important a .3.-t. i i" to spread, as widely as possible, a knowledge of the aill;;; tages of the decimal system over that now in use. ,e system was one that m us t b e a d van t ageous t o all tnuid in the higher, and he might say more especially those.; the lower classes of society. In proof of the latter Ili, he called attention to the difficulties experienced by 5, i dren, amongst the worki ng classes, in obtaining such knowledge of figures and calculations generally as il might otherwise obtain during the brief period decT e i to their school education, if a better and more simpliP i le system of enumeration were brought into operation. pointed out some of the absurdities and inconsistencies our present arithmetic a l sys t em, an d sa i d that if a Pv"iA were adopted more in accordance with the spirit and li gress of the times, ed uca ti on m i g h t b e much more extol if amongst the labouring, classes of our population. ~,, the schoolboy could avo id th e di ff i cu l t i es which beset l',", present arithmetical sy s t em , h e wou ld a tt a i n a pos ition r education in half the time now spent for that purP ° _,l, He was in favo ur o f a purely decimal system, and e 0 :1,,,! not coincide in the vi ews advanced on the subject by cow! Theodore Rathbone. The principal laid down by Ij House of Commons was the most simple and intellign and it might be brought into operation at once. He -i vr great pleasure in moving the resolution. 10 7 MR. 111`ILvEmi seconded the resolution, and i n doing,, called attention to the hi g h s t an di ng an d a bilit y o f tv,,, witnesses who had been called upon to give evidence 'IL the subject of the decimal coinage, which w e re a guar ani that in any suggestions they offered they were not actual by any other motives than to promote the public g.ci The public convenience h a d been alluded to as regat4 making the change, tho ug h h e did no t think there w°.!",l be any great difficulty in that respect. He did not tiny much inconvenience could arise front making the aril and persons ought not to be afraid of making any chatt when it was clearly for the public good, and seeing to" the time had arrived when it was called for. (Cheers) 0 Ms. T. TIIORNELY, M . P ., expressed his hearty d e sl , that the decimal system. should be adopted in this countri Since coming to the meeting, he was given to understallt that the government of the United States first adoptj the decimal currency in all their official departments, I v , the community very soon fell in with the change. 1 ' same thing might be adopted here. die Mr. P. HEYWOOD, i n mov i ng th e nex t resolution, - 0 he - that early in life he wa s i n a French counting house, w e i he became accustomed to the decimal system, and whellii came back to one in London he was perfectly as tonish r that a great commercial country like England s h ou ld 1) 4 severe in a system involving so great a l oss o f ti me , for was frequently kept till one o'clock in the morning at 0 ;1 counts which he could have made up under the decil ti system before ten o'clock : and h e expressed h i s hope tty, through the exertions of Mr. Brown, they might be a'-', O on the Ist of January, 1855, to bring down the balances that system CI,INT seconded the motion. On the motion of Mr. BROWN, M.P., seconded by TnonNEL - r, M.P., a vote of thanks was passed to ,be Mayor for his kindness i n ca l l i ng and presiding over meeting. the The XiAron having acknowledged the compliment, proceedings terminated. Is NeAoxfrAeLe,isSoaulstohebriciinAgfi successfully P x Ct. - RE FOR HYDROPHOBIA..—At Udine, in Friule, tive.rov roo tr t ie ids. very prod _ J ; man suffering u n d er th e t or t ures o f hydrOphobia cured by draught s o f v i n e g ar given hi m, b y m' ,ot s , instead of another potion. A physician at Padua T' s o intelligence of this event and tried the sam e reme d y 0, 0 1 1 a patient at the hospital, administering a pound of vinveetf in the morning, another at noon, and a third at sun' and the man was spedily and perfectly cured. aft A CIIEVALIER D'INDUSTEIE. —Last week a fore.l, who put up at an hotel near the Tuileries, presented ' I I; self at the hanking-bouse of Messrs. R o th sc hild, at o e opening of business, and gave notice that some person h t il entered his room during the night and taken away b 0 watch, his purse, and pocket-book, this last containint e letter of credit for 2,000 f., given by the house of Ret_rj child, at Vienna, on the house in Paris. This he requeP", fashionably-dress e d to have stopped if Presented About half an hour afterj young man made his appearance, 3 4/ presented the order for payment. He was told that l' e j money would be paid as soon as the order was reta lj oi from the off ice o f one of the heads of the house. In i)( meantime a police-officer was sent for, and just as g man had signed his name to a receipt, he was . c e, rested. Being taken before the Commissary of poi he declared hi s name t o be G—, and, as a proof of t being the fact, he showed several papers and docnine!,4 in which that name appeared. When searched there Viv e , found on him a gold watch and chain, a port nionn 4 , containing a certain sum of gold a blue silk purse, ero l , ll ,c and a pocket-book containing visiting cards with the n i eld on them of Count de W—, R ue d e Ponthieu, 10:01 article he declared he had fou n d i n th e street the morning. Just as the search had concluded, the fore 4 gentleman, from whom the l e tt er o f cred i t had been stel e e appeared, and at once recognized the blue silk purse f l os the gold watch as his property. In consequence oft declaration, the Commissary of Police ordered a visit to made with the prisoner to the address in the Bne. o p, Ponthieu, mentioned o n th e car d s found in his possessie „ and there he was ide n tifi e d as always passing by the nwrif of Count de A great quantity of valuable prelpid of various kinds w as f oun d i n the apartment, and not than 17 paletots, Further investigation proved that the I'd saner was really the Count de V--, a Pole by birth, of a high family, but living in Paris, principally by ateu:',lo , property from the rooms of wealthy persons in 1 10 `... 3 6 Two days after, a person who had been on intimate fe', o o with the prisoner, without knowing his real character p hearing of his arrest, gave notice that two large trues had been left in hi s c h arge b y the prisoner. These also found to be full of things of a most miscellanea character, and which are suspecte d to have been s t° iDe The prisoner has been committed for trial unger„ 3 . double charge of forgery a n d th e ft . —G al i gnant ' s la` senger. (glancing at Mr. Webb), and he would promise them that they should have a like good dinner when it turned out to be the case. This much he would promise on his ac cont. (Great laughter and cheering.) Mr. EIENRY MINTON begged to drink Mr. Webb's good health, to which the latter responded, and said that he would hold Mr. G. H. Horsfall bound, by contract, to supply them with a dinner, when the event to which they alluded should take place.—[Mr. G. H. HORSFALL —I shall be most happy.] (Loud cheers.) Mr. Clay's health having been proposed by Mr. Barlow, that gentleman said it gave him great pleasure to know from Mr. Barlow, that in his capacity of manager of the works he had given satisfaction. It would appear that he had exceeded the expectations formed of him ; this he as sured them was far more satisfactory to him than that great things should have been anticipated of him, and afterwards to have been found wanting. He hoped that he had been enabled to manage the works as profitably to the esteemed proprietors as it appeared satisfactory to the men ; and if this should prove to be the case, as he doubted not but that it would, he should feel himself most happy. It had been his aim to give a direction to every good ob ject that was proposed to him, and it would continue to be his study to further their interests, and to be of some per manent good to them. (Cheers.) He thanked them for their good will towards him. Mr. SIMPSON, in proposing "The Vice-chair," said he had a light task imposed on him, and it required no enco miums from him to insure its hearty reception. Mr. B. EASTWOOD briefly returned thanks ; and proposed " The Young Gentlemen of the Office," which was responded to by Mr. T. CATON, the j un i or c l er k. , Our Friends ;" to which the leading man of Messrs. Fawcett, Preston, and Co.'s foundry responded, was next proposed, and received with cheers. - Among" the remaining to;;t;;;ere drunk, " Prosperity to the Mersey Steel and Iron Works' Benefit Society," by T. WEss, Esq. ; " Success to the Mersey Steel and Iron Works and the Iron Trade," by Mr. GRIFFITIIB ; " The Treasurer and Secretary of the Society," by Mr. KING. The musical arrangements reflected the highest credit on their conductor, Mr. Roberts. The hilarity of the evening was kept up to a late hour, when all retired highly delighted with the proceedings, and charmed with the kind condescension of their esteemed employers, the Messrs. Horsfall. DECIMAL COINAGE. TOWN'S MEETING. IN compliance with a numerously signed requisition, a public meeting was convened by his Worship the MAYOR on Wednesday last, to consider the subject of decimal coinage. The meeting took place in the Sessions'-house, the Mayor presiding ; the attendance was large, embracing gentlemen connected with the shipping, banking, and other commercial interests of Liverpool, and among these were—Mr. William Brown, M.P., Mr. T. B. Horsfall, M.P., Mr. Thomas Thornely, M.P., Messrs. J. P. Heywood, W. Earle, W. Rathbone, Josias Booker, G. Grant, John Campbell, T. Bold, F. A. Clint, R. Bean, W. J. Tomlinson, James Aikin, John Aikin, F. A. Hamilton, J. B. Barclay, H. Neill, C. Robertson, T. Moore, E. Heath, J. Baron, K. Dowie, T. Bouch, J. A. Pi c t on, James Smith, R. Gill, T. D. Anderson, E. Higgin, J. R Jeffery, &c., &c. The requisition calling the meeting having been 'read by the Town Clerk, The MAYOR, in stating that he considered it his duty to call the meeting in compliance with the requisition which had been so numerously and respectably signed, took occasion to say he believed there was scarcely a dif ference of opinion that, if the decimal system were adop ted, it would save, by threefold, the labour and expense at present consumed in figure transactions. No commu nity, he considered, could be more competent to give an opinion on such a subject than that of the important commercial town of Liverpool. Mr. W. Bnowsr, M.P., moved the first resolution, which will be found, with the others, in our advertising columns. After reading the resolution, he proceeded to read two letters, one from Lord Stanley the other from Mr. How son, Princip a l o f th e Collegiate Institution. These letters expressed a general acquiescence in the propriety of a de cimal coinage ; but also expressing a predilection in favour of retaining some of the piesent names, such as the farthing. Mr. Brown then proceeded to explain what had already taken place relative to the subject they were met to consider. Many years ago, the father of the present Lord Wrottesley broached the subject in the House of Commons, but little was done until Dr. Bowring took it up some time afterwards, and induced the government to issue a florin—one-tenth of a pound. The doctor was de sirous that the piece should be called a dime, but, from high quarters, this was overruled, and the name of florin was given to it. The matter rested until the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce took up the question, and ap pointed a sub-committee to examine into the merits of the case. That committee made a favourable report to the chamber, and they memorialised the government in favour of a decimal system, and taking the sovereign as the unit. Nothing was afterwards done until he (Mr. Brown) went to London, when he considered that he could not render a better service to the country than by moving for a com mittee of inquiry of the House of Commons. His first notice of motion embraced weights and measures ; but some of his judicious friends deemed that the weights and measures had better be omitted in the first instance, and that they had better, in the meantime, go for decimalising the coinage, because the advantage of this being once seen, the other would follow. Previous, however, to this step being taken by him, the Board of Trade issued letters, in order to elicit information, not only as to the effect of the change upon commerce, but as to how it would be re ceived by the working and industrious classes. The evidence thus elicited was put into the hands of the committee, and probably there never was a committee where the opinion was more unanimous in favour of fixing the pound as the unit of account. During their frequent sittings there was not a single division. (Hear, hear.) It had appeared very strange to him that England, the most commercial country in the world, should be so long in adopting a system which was found to work well by all other nations which had adopted it. There were at this moment probably 400,000,000 people who used the decimal system. The coins which were recommended as the coins of account by the parliamentary committee were pounds, florins, cents, and mils, but no strong opinion was given how accounts should be kept. That might be left to the con venience of the public, as it was quite a matter of taste how the public chose to keep their accounts. The public might choose to call them one pound and 999 mils (£:1.999), by placing the decimal point after the pound; or one pound 9 florins and 99 mils (ia 9f. 99m.) ; or one pound 9 florins 9 cents and 9 mils, all of which were per fectly simple. Probably it wo u ld be better to call them farthings, and express them thus—£l 9 florins and 99 farthings. The coins which were considered necessary for the change, in gold and silver, were, taking the sovereign as the unit and dividin g it i n t o 1000 parts, the half-sovereign 500, the crown 250, the half-crown 125, the florin 100, the shilling 50, and the sixpence 25 far things. It would be perceived that none of these were coins of account except the sovereign and the florin, but they were very convenient for change. It was further recommended that 20 and 30 cent pieces should be coined, to replace the half-crowns as they were called in, and the shillings and sixpences called in as the matter progressed. But it was by no means necessary to withdraw any of our present coins until a new coin was substituted, provided the number of farthings. were marked upon the new coin age; for the public would at once see that a piece marked 50 mils was precisely our present ls., and one marked 23 our present ed. 'With the copper coins it was recom mended that they should have one, two, and five mil pieces ; but, although he perfectly agreed with the general views of the committee, he thought they ought not to overlook the very important evidence of Sir John Hers chell (master of the mint), and Mr. Miller, the deputy cashier of the Bank of England. Mr. Miller's proposal was to mark the heavy thick-rimmed pennies made by Bolton and Watt five mils, and the small pennies might be marked four mils, the halfpenny two, and the farthing one. As a whole, the country would be no loser if Mr. Miller's plan were proclaimed to-morrow, so that, in fact, the coinage is ready whenever the government may choose to adopt it. General Pasley and Mr. Taylor gage them some very striking examples of the saving of labour which would arise from the adoption of the decimal system in accounts and calculations, and, as an illustration, a sum in which only GO figures were required to work decimally a sum which required 208 under the present process. There were numbers of astronomical observations which could not be carried on without a decimal system ; and it would also be found convenient to those persons who were concerned in trade. Mr. Kirkham and Mr. Lindsey gave some valuable evidence as to the small coins. Those gentlemen, the one in London and the other in Liverpool, managed 13 or 14 shops: they stated distinctly, when it was explained to the poor that they would receive for the 6d. twenty-five farthings in place of twenty-four, they would be satisfied, and there would be no difficulty, and that about 1000 far things were taken weekly in the respective concerns with which they were connected. He (Mr. Brown) had always felt convinced, and the evidence adduced before the com mittee had strengthened this conviction, that they had never sufficiently appreciated the intelligence and aptitude of the labouring classes. Mr. Mervyn went on to say, that he totally disagreed with the notion that the industrious and hardworking men would not readily appreciate the change. He contended that they understood the value of farthings and pence better than most people did of pounds. He anticipated no difficulty with them. With respect to the exchanges, they all knew that throughout the whole mercantile operations of the world, the pound sterling was the basis of operations- To change it would create a degree of derangement and inconvenience that scarcely could r bse, who c o nt e q n u a i p t l a e ted. approved H e of the had lettersste pswhich had from the Society been of At taken; and they were in correspondence with 700 or 800 other societies, and intended publishing his letter, with such remarks as they thought fit, and circulating it. In conclusion, remarking upon the importance of bringing the subject in every way under the consideration of the government, Mr. Brown said that government did not like to move unless they found that they were sustained by public opinion. This was one reason why they had taken the liberty of requesting his worship to convene the pre sent meeting, their object being to disseminate information upon the subject as fully as possible. (Cheers.) Mr. TIIOMAS Boren, vice-president of the chamber of commerce, in the absence of Mr. Shand, the chairman, seconded the resolution, stating that, although the cham ber of commerce had appointed a committee on the pro priety of adopting a decimal system, it was done through their attention having been called to the subject by a letter from Mr. Brown. Mr. Bouch bore testimony to the services which _Mr. Brown had rendered to the town, not only in this matter, but in every public measure with which it had been his (Mr. Boucles) good fortune to be connected ; and, as he never failed to carry through to a final result any measure which he took up, so he hoped he would be successful in obtaining a settlement of this question. - The resolution was then put to the meeting, and, with those that followed, carried unanimously. Mr. T. B. HOMPALL, M.P., proposed the second reso lution, which, he said, recognised the principle proposed in the first resolution, and pointed out the benefits which would accrue from the advantages of the decimal system to every class in the community. He quite concurred with the resolution that the decimal system would confer a very general, he would say a universal, benefit. He was very much surprised, the other day, to hear a gentleman, alluding to the object of this meeting, express an opinion, which his worship also heard, that it was somewhat imp-