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Warranted to preserve their contents under the ordinary circumstances of casual Fires. SAFETY BOX WORKS, 18, St.HOOL-LANE, LIVERPOOL. " Liverpool, May 24, 1841. " We, the undersigned, having, this day, witnessed the testing of one of Milners' Patent Fire-proof Boxes, by its having been placed in a large fire, consisting of wood and up wards of six hundred weight of coal, for the space of two hours and twenty minutes, do hereby express our conviction, that the fire-proof boxes manufactured by them are a perfect security in all cases of ordinary fire. The box was filled with commercial and other books, papers, parchments. and deeds, (one of which, of the 16th Henry VIIJ., had five large thick seals appended to it,) and within an inch of the cover, seve ral Bank of England notes ; and, previously to being closed, was submitted to the examination of J. S. Leigh, Esq., R. Frodsham, Esq., 1.. Graham, Esq., and others present. The whole contents in the box being taken out of the fire and opened in our presence, were found to be in a perfect state of preservation, the seals attached to the deed above-mentioned not being in the slightest degree injured. " This certificate is written on the deed of 16th Henry VIII., abovementioned, which was submitted to the test. " THOS. BOLTON, Mayor. " J. S. LEIGH, " R. FRODSHAM, " L. GRAHAM, " THOS. BRANCKER, " BAR. PRESCOT." The Box with its contents and the Deed above-mentioned, are in the Master's-room, Exchange. PITHY AND PLEASANT.—A recent writer, giving an ac count of British dependencies, thus speaks of Bonaparte's " frightful rock," as he was wont to call it :—" St. Helena. on its first discovery, contained sea-fowls and some seals and turtles, with a forest of trees and shrubs, all peculiar spe cies, with one or two exceptions. It is now a mere rock, devoured by rats !" WHAT'S IN A NAME ?—The real name of the Emperor of China is seldom or ever known. Upon ascending the throne he assumes a name by which, when spoken of, he must be called ; for, to pronounce or write his proper one, by accident or intention, is death to the divulger of the secret, to his family, and, if a rich man, the confiscation of his pro perty ensues. A literary man, having accidentally used the word " Ming" (which happened to be the reigning monarch's name) in his work, suffered, with his sons, the extreme penalty of the law ; his wife and daughters, with other mem bers of his family, were banished, and his estates confiscated. So much for the mild, inoffensive Chinese, and the humane • government of the Celestial Empire. MORTMAIN.—This is where the lands are given to some spiritual person or corporation and to their successors ; and because the lands were never to revert to the donor or his heirs, and by that•means the services and other profits due for the same were extinct, therefore it was called a gift mortud manu.—Dr. Hook's Church Dictionary. TALENTS IN A NAPKIN.—A gentleman once introduced his son to the late Rev. Rowland H ill, by letter, as a youth of great promise, and as likely to do honour to the univer sity of which he was a member. " But he is shy," added the father, " and idle, and I fear buries his talents in a nap kin." A short time afterwards the parent, anxious for the reverend gentleman's opinion, inquired what was thought of his son ? " I have shaken the napkin," said Rowland Hill, " at all corners, and tkere is nothing in it." ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S YOUTH. —During the government of Ireland by Lord Westmorland, from 1790 to 1795, when the Hon. Arthur Wellesley was attached to the Vice-Regal Court, then superintended by the Hon. Mrs. Stratford, now the Dowager Countess of Aid _ _ borough, Mrs. Woodcock, confessedly the most beautiful woman in Ireland, after spending a festive evening at the Castle, found it impossible to obtain the usual conveyance of a handchair to take her home, in consequence of an over whelming fall of snow, which compelled the desertion of every stand. Her disappointment was visible, but was promptly relieved by the Hon. Mr. Wellesley and the Hon. Mr. Pery, the present Earl of Limerick, who gallantly volun teered their services ; and seizing a chair that always awaited in the hall, carried their fair charge, amid a storm of drifted and assailing snow, to her rather distant residence. THE BRUNSWICKERS.—About this period we had a regi ment of Brunswickers sent to join our division, and one of our least amusing duties soon consisted in watching them, to prevent their deserting to the enemy. It was the prevalence of this honourable propensity among them, I believe, that induced Lord Wellington to distribute their force among the different divisions of the army. These " death and glory men," as we used to term them, from their badge of the skull and crossbones, which were worn on their shakos and accou trements, were dressed in dark green, which but too fre quently enabled them to steal past our guards and join the French, with whom many of their connexions were. Among other attributes, with which these allies were gifted, was a canine appetite, that induced them to kill and eat all the dogs they could privately lay hold of. By this means the different dogs of the division disappeared before the Germans with a celerity truly astonishing, and we were in ignorance of their fate until the fact became openly proclaimed and acknow ledged.—Costello's Adventures of a Soldier. PREEIRASONRY.—It is proved unto us by the existence of many monuments whose ages are well known, that our bro therhood had its origin in those times when a few of the initiated, filled with desire of true knowledge and a correct interpretation of the mysteries of christianity, separated themselves from the various sects who professed the christian religion ; for in those times, a few wise and enlightened men who could not agree to the heathenish customs and ceremo nies introduced into christianity, and perceiving that by this unhallowed service neither peace, nor love, nor unanimity could ensue, but that cruel wars must arise, united themselves with an holy oath to preserve and maintain in its original purity the hallowed origin of the christian religion, with its benign influence on the hearts and consciences of mankind, to bring the true light more and more out of darkness, and to labour together in combating ignorance, intolerance, and superstition, and to establish peace and happiness among mankind by teaching and enforcing every human virtue. — Freemasons' Quarterly Review. PRACTICAL WISDOM. — Bacon says—" In this theatre of man's life, God and angels only should be lookers-on; that contemplation and action ought ever to be united, a conjunc tion like that of the two highest planets—Saturn, the planet of rest, and Jupiter, the planet of action." It is in this conjunction, which seems to Bacon so desirable, that practi cal wisdom delights ; and on that account it is supposed by some men to have a tinge of baseness in it. They do not know that practical wisdom is as far from what they term expediency as it is from impracticability itself. They see how much of compromise there is in all human affairs. At the same time they do not perceive that this compromise, which should be the nice limit between wilfulness and a de sertion of the light that is in us, is the thing of all others which requires the diligent exercise of that uprightness which they fear to put in peril, and which, they persuade themselves, will be strengthened by inactivity. They fancy, too, that high moral resolves and great principles are not for daily use, and that there is no room for them in the affairs of this life. This is an extreme delusion ; for how is the world ever made better? Not by mean, little schemes, which sonic men fondly call practical ; not by setting one evil thing to counteract another ; but by the introduction of those principles of action which are at first looked upon as theories, but which are at last acknowledged and acted upon as common truths. _ . . FRENCH BEGOARS.—The beggars by profession begin, as soon as you are in sight, with a monotonous drawl of set words, all pronounced on one key, and precisely the same to every passer-by. Perhaps it is well for their own interest that they generally ask you to give for the merit of the gift, or the prayers they promise to breathe for you, for certainly there is nothing in themselves to prompt it. How different have I often thought it was from the genuine eloquence of Irish beggary, which makes the heart ache so bitterly that it would almost be a relief to give one's last sixpence ! The begging in France is simply asking for money, while the beggar often looks all the time as comfortable and well fed as yourself. It is true they only ask for one sous ; but in the valley of Campon, when you have given them that, they make no scruple to ask you for another. Nor is this only on the public roads. There is scarcely any place so retired but you bear the pattering of little bare feet behind you, then loud breathing which diffuses around you the perfume of garlic ; and, as soon as you look around, the demand is made and persisted in for a length of time proportioned to the ability of the supplicant to keep pace with you. NUMBER OF DRESS-MAKERS' ASSISTANTS IN LONDON. —The number of young girls employed in dress-making and millinery in London is much greater than the public have auy idea of. It is impossible to ascertain the number with the exactitude which could be required; but I have certain data in my possession, by means of which we make a pretty close approximation to it. The number of females whose names are on their doors as the mistresses of dress-making and millinery establishments, is nearly 1,000. It is no exaggera tion to assume that the number of persons who live by these branche s o f b usiness without having their names on the doors, is 500. This would make in round figures, the entire number of " mistress" dress-makers and milliners, 1,500. The question that occurs —What may be the average number of young girls a mistress employs as assistants ? hi a few of the larger establishments, the number so employed is from thirty to forty ;in a very few it is less than six. In order that we may err on the safe side, if we err at all, we shall suppose the average number to be ten. Ten, then, multi plied by 1,500 will make the entire number of young creatures so occupied 15,000, --Lights and Shadows of London Life. SOCI ~`l Y ~:~' The attention of the public is now duet' and special manner to the proceedings_of the Prote sociations throughout the country - I et peeutiai lit As, Not only are ,tl. stitutions now assailed by our radical contemporaries, to whose attacks they have been always subject, but they have also to contend against the tierce opposition of a small por tion of the conservative press, which has recently manifested a_ great leaning towards the views of that party which has snown an equal inclination to roman,. Elie utginas of popery and the interests of papists in preference to the cause of sound Scriptural protestantism, and of which the Rev. W. Sibthorp was, until his very recent admission into thi C' devoted - 'her_ "" „tiurch of Rome, a V menu. The indiscreet re marks of any fervent admirer of the principles of the refor mation ara int,de the ground-work of a series of the most unjust allegations against the utility and even necessity of such admirable institutions as the Protestant Association, as if the society itself could, by any sort of logic, be chargeable with all that any of the multitude of gentlemen, lay or cleri cal, who are called at any time to speak in its behalf, may choose to advance. Will the London Times, or any of his compeers, undertake to defend every sentiment or every speech made use of at every conservative meeting or every conservative dinner. Are there not gentlemen who some times, though we admit but rarely, give utterance on such occasions to sentiments in the heat of debate or the warmth of enthusiasm, the propriety of which is often questioned, but has never yet been attempted, as far as we are aware, to be justified. We quite agree with an enlightened writer in the Metropolitan press, that ” if any cause on earth were to be judged by such a standard it would fall; and, in truth, few things are inure easy than to get up a plausible and effective attack when you have the extended line presented by the long speeches .of a variety of speakers on which to operate. Mistakes in popular meetings will occasionally be made, and errors in taste and sound judgment will also be sometimes manifested; but no one who is not an enemy to the cause they are intended to support, will argue from these weaknesses, incidental to all public meetings, against the principles which the meeting has assembled to vindicate and extend." We deprecate as strongly as any man the use of the intem perate language which we are free to admit is sometimes in dulged in by some few of the speakers, at our protestant meeting, whose zeal beyond question outruns their discre tion; but are we then bound to admit with equal readiness that the association is therefore chargeable " with making " many more papists than protestants, and with fanning the " flame of that truculent politicalpopery which is so grievous " a curse to Ireland." We apprehend a more inconclusive argument was never made use of. But we must put our readers in possession of one or two very instructive facts on this subject. In the rabid attacks on the protestant association which have once or twice dis graced the columns of the Times, (and which we feel per suaded would never have appeared if the master spirit which, sided over its interests,) the Rev. J. M'Ghee and others are represented as illustrating the views of the writer. Mr. M'Ghee is not a man to sit tamely by and hear the cause he espouses vilified and misrepresented without some stirring and unanswerable remonstrance. Such a course we find he has adopted in reply to the editor of the Times, in a letter dated September 2-Ith, 1841, and which has been refused ad mission into that journal. After quoting an extract from the Times of last August, (which Mr. M`Ghee was unable to answer earlier, owing to his absbnce on the Continent.) the Rev. Gentleman says—" I feel that it is of some importance to the protestants of England to know on what ground you have so far shifted your policy as to stand forth to attack men who, if they were even under an error, still honestly en deavour to defend the protestant cause ; and why you, who very lately eulogised their labours and extolled themselves, consider it now expedient, either yourself, or by authorised writers in your paper, to turn round on these men as their assailant, and to appear against them and their cause as the apologist, if not the defender and patron of Popery ? • .1 " I can readily prove the fact that you do so, by referring to your columns in my own case. I have been prevented by illness this year from attending any meetings of the protest ant association. The last meeting but one I attended in London was one convened at my own particular request, and that was a meeting of the most grave and learned men whose presence I could presume to solicit. The meeting consisted of between three and four hundred individuals. There were two bishops, many other dignitaries of our church, and doc tors, masters, and some graduates of masters' standing, of the Universities of England and Ireland ; and I trust the public will consider the importance of the subject as a suffi cient apology for the apparent egotism of quoting from the Times of April 11,18-10, your own account of that meeting : The rev. gentleman then gives the passage to which he alludes, the pith of which is given in his subsequent remarks, and then goes on as follows : Now, sir, such was the language in which you described my principles and conduct up to Aprillo, 1840. I have only to add to this, that the statement laid before that learned as sembly was as plain and simple as it was possible for me to make—that no reflections of mine were obtruded on them, except such as were barely necessary to explain the nature of the documents submitted to them, or to connect the extracts taken from those documents, and I took the liberty of re questing that if any document or statement appeared incon clusive or defective, that any gentleman present would, without any scruples or ceremony, interrupt me, and call for any explanation which he might require to elucidate the case. That statement its.elf, and all the speeches made by my friend Dr. O'Sullivan and myself till the close of 1837, the books that I had published, and the original and authen ticated documents of the Papacy to prove them, were lodged in the Universities, and are there open to the inspection of all the wise and learned men in the empire. Whether, sir, I deserve your eulogium of April, 1840, or your contemptuous reproach of August, 1841, is not the question here; but the question which the Protestant Asso ciations of England and all the Protestant public have a right to ask is this"-On what principle you ground such a totally opposite treatment of me, and of the subject at these two different periods? I know, sir, fully my own insignifi cance as well as yon ; but the great cause which I have en deavoured, however feebly to advocate, is bound up with the religion, the constitution, and all the blessings of civil and religious liberty in this empire ; and this is the point in question. My labours up to April, 1810, were " labours in the cause of Christianity." In 1811, they are calculated "to produce an unfavourable impression of the ,noral character of Protestantism I" At that period the public were `• much indebted to me for my exposure of the blasphemies of Ro ma'am." But now, these and similar exertions are " likely to make many more Papists than .erolestants," anti "chargeable with fanning the flame of that truculent poli tical Popery which is so grievous a curse in Ireland." I produced on your testimony in 1840 "a vast number of documents, printed and published by the recognised printer and publisher of the Popish bishops and priesthood, and read from them extracts which at once justified the severity of the castigation I had so frequently and so ably bestowed upon the enemies and interdictors of the Bible." But now I am specified as one of those orators whose `• violent fanati cism and vituperative fury are in no degree calculated to ad vance the objects which they profess to have at heart, and are altogether deficient in that sober, calm, and reverent zeal which ought to characterize the advocates of truth." Up to April, 1840, " All the points to which I referred, I had already treated with great skill on former occasions." Now, my manner is so " strikingly contrasted" with that of Dr. Wiseman, that " the best method" the writer in the Times can suggest for converting a candid, reverent, reli giously and charitably disposed, but not very well-informed person, to Romanism, would be, to a course of attendance on meetings conducted by such fellows as Mr. Stowell and me, and then throw him into the company of the soft-spoken, subtle-minded, learned, and unpolitical Jesuit, Dr. Wise man." Finally, according to the learned writer, Dr. Mur ray, in 1840, was styled the "high priest of the modern Babglonish mythology," and Popery was the worst of all degrading superstitions." But in 1841, if men dare to en large on and detail the very principle which the writer him self laid down : if they dare to compare this " worst of all degrading superstitions" with that of Mahomet, Paganism, and Juggernaut; if they dare to call this "modern Baby lonish mythology" " the religion of the devil ;" then such words are " foolish, intemperate, and profane ; they excite nothing but disgust in the minds of practical and moderate men, and their inevitable effect is to recoil upon those who use them." Now, Sir, I do not either quote your panygeric or your censure as a matter which to me is worthy of a thought ; but as the British public must feel an interest in the principles on which a journal so influential as the Times is to be con ducted, I think they have a right to demand on what ground its editor or its accredited contributors can alternately blow hot or cold on the vital question of the protestant religion. Facts have not changed since the year 1840 ; I have not changed my opinions, my conduct, nor even my " manner;" documents and principles have not changed ; Popery has not changed ; the Protestant Association has not changed ; truth and falsehood have not changed ; it is for you, Sir, to inform the empire what change has come over " the spirit of the Times." But, Sir, all this is of little importance. Mr. Stowell's character or mine, or that of the Protestant Association, or even the character or consistency of the Times, are all utterly insignificant compared with the great question which you have now ventured to bring into discussion. I cannot weary the public with too long a letter ; but if you are not afraid to stand on the ground you have ventured to occupy, I shall try the powers of the editor of the Times, and of his friend Dr. Wiseman, in one more letter.—Meantime, Sir, I have the honour to be, your obedient servant, Dublin, Sept. 24, 1841. R. J. M'GHEE. STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER, Nov. 10.—There was little change in the market yesterday. Owing to the advance of the season, and the non-arrival of a Hamburgh mail, the demand for yarn for the continent of Europe has considerably abated ; but no material alteration has taken place in prices. Manufactured goods, fustians, with the exception of continue greatly de pressed, and it is difficult to force sales without submitting to serious sacrifices. Some attempts have been making to bring about a more general agreement for limiting the hours of labour ; but hitherto, we believe, without success. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Nov. B.—We have to-day a very good demand for flannels at previous prices. The number of buyers in the market was rather smaller than usual ; but those who did attend purchased very freely. The wool market continues in the same languid state, manu facturers buying only from hand to mouth. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, Nov. 9.—This was a far duller market than had been anticipated. Few buyers were present, and comparatively few goods were sold. Notwith s t an di ng this, the demand for wools was considerable ; and a general feeling obtains, that a few weeks will witness a revival of trade. COLNE. — The following extract of a letter from a person employed in putting out work to weavers near Collie, gives a lamentable, and we fear but too correct, view of the con dition of the hand-loom weavers in that neighbourhood : " I delivered out work which will be 1000 pieces on Saturday ; and, from the state in which weavers are, I shall have 800 of them in this week. I never knew such scrambling for work in all the bad times which I have seen ; I could not make it last for every family to have some; it was really heart-rend ing to hear their pitiful tales. One poor widow, with four or five children, when she found the warps were done, actually burst out into bitter wailing, but we cannot helpit ; it is of no use offering to go o n, if no sales can be made. , STOCKPORT.—We are sorry to state, that there is yet no improvement in the cotton trade of this neighbourhood. The greatest part of the mills continue to work short time ; and the extensive manufactories of Messrs. Lane and Sons, and that of Messrs. Carr and Co. which we re s t oppe d a f ew months ago, are still a closed.d every meansconsiderablyisdistress relief. During the last . two months, up war d s o f seventy families, who had no claims on the township of Stockport, but who had been driven to the necessity of applying for parochial relief, have been removed from the township to their respective places of settlement. Several manufacturers waso t other sliftaendd by s f ri Ni their rA . ei n np . l ‘ o v y y . have again given notice to reduce the wages of the over iooi(e Saturdayrover lookers,Wylie, o a w a n d gentleman from the Home-office, who made very particular mechanics, iast : tc inquiries regarding the existing distress. ADULTERATION OF SUGAR.—At Carlisle, two respectable grocers were brought before the magistrates, on Thursday week, charged with mixing their sugar with potato starch. The Rev. William Moxon Mann has been presented to the perpetual curacy of Tbornthwaite, Keswick, void by the death of the Rev. Joseph Lancaster; patron, the vicar of Crosthwaite. TH ENTRE-ROYAL, ttvilitpoo trittkr , Ma4ageloeitt of Sok 1,6:,4et Dmin,z the remainder of the Season, the perforxtiances will ColliniellCe at SEVL.N o ' clock. Doors to be otened at II:11.1 , -PAST SIX. FOR THE - BENEFIT OF MIS'S ELLp TREE Fifth Night of Miss ELLEN TREE and Mr. CHAR -1?,53 KEAN. run Is present FRIDAY, the 12th insta •, will be revived the Tragedy of THE GAMETE Mrs. Beverley Mr. Beverley. Miss Ellen Tree, Mr. Charles Kean, • Their tirst_appearance here in those characters Stukely Mr: Stuart. 1 Lewson Mr. H. Hall Charlotte Mrs. Baker. To conclude with Mrs. Cowley's Comedy of THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM. Sir George Touchwood Mr. Stuart. Flutter Mr. Chaplin. _Mr. Hardy... Mr. Baker Doricourt . Mr. H. Holl. Lady Frances Touchwood Miss Cleaver. Mrs. Racket.— Mrs. Clarke. Letitia Hardy Miss Ellen Tree On Mos') AY next. Shakspeare's Tragedy of MAC BET H. Macbeth, Mr. Charles Kean ; Lady Macbeth, Miss Ellen Tree ; Macduff, Mr. Stuart ; Banquo, Mr. H. Holl ' • First Witch, Mr. Baker.—To conclude with the Farce of THE IRISHMAN IN LONDON. Murtoch Delaney, Mr. T. Lee ; Edward, Mr. Baker. The Play of the LADY OF LYONS, which was greeted on Monday night with the most enthusiastic applause, will be repeated early in the ensuing week. .ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL Fifteen Thousand persons have already witnessed ,ibe highly successful Nautical Drama of " Armstrong, /the Ship wright," which, in spite of its popularity, m k be with drawn, to make room for other Novelties. THIS present .FRIDAY, and TO-MOR OW, (Satur day,) the 12th, and 13th instant, the E ertainments to commence with, for the THREE LAS NIGHTS, the entirely new Nautical Drama, with new cenery, Dresses, &c., entitled ARMSTRONG, THE SHIPWRIGHT; OR, THE RIVAL. BROTHERS. Thomas Dryrot.... (Temperance T0m).... Mr. H. Beverly. 80n5.... (Daughter to Adam).... Mrs. F. Carman. Dame Armstrong Mrs. M'Gregor. After which SCENES IN THE ARENA. The whole to conclude with the celebrated 'Melo Drama, called the SPECTRE BAND ; OR, THI ROBBER'S DAUGHTER AHD THE SMUGGLER'S Timoeo de Lasso.. Mr. H. Beverley. On Monday Evening next an entire Change of Performance On TUESDAY, Mr. F. S' BENEFIT, And on WEDNESDAY there will be No PLRFORMANCE, in consequence of a Lecture to be dtlivered in this house, by the Rev. thigh M`Neile, on the " Life of Dr. Franklin," for the Benefit of the Printers' Pension Society of London. THE FALL OF CANTON Is in preparation, and will be speedily produced The Public is respectfully informed that this Establishment WILL SHORTLY CLOSE, for the purpose of preparing the Christmas Novelties, which will include the Performances of the first Artists in Europe, and the most Brilliant Specta cles ever produced out of the metropolis. During the Season the Doors to be Opened at Half-past Six, commencing at Seven o'clock precisely ; and to terminate as near Eleven o'clock as possible. Stage Manager, Mr. H. Beverley. TO CORRESPONDENTS No communication from our correspondent at Manchester reached us, yesterday, until nearly five, and he will per ceive that we were able to avail ourselves of very little of his intelligence. The suggestions of "A. B. C. " shall receive our hest attention. " E. H." will perceive that we have alluded to' the subject of his letter. We cannot answer the query of " Civis." If "Justice to all" would favour us with a call on the occasions to which he alludes, we might be able to gratify him. Who is Mr. Jones ? He should write to the paper that made the statement he wishes to contradict. Ebt Rtherpool gstantart. FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12,1841 In Trodlope's Summer in France, we have met with some observations, drawn forth by a personal inspec tion of the state of affairs in that country, which would afford good matter of consideration to those philosophic gentlemen among us, who are of opinion that religion need form no essential part of national education. Our author states it as the result of his observations, that France is unquestionably advancing rapidly in physical and material civilization. New roads in her most baCk ward and hitherto neglected provinces; the formation of new companies for the navigation, by steam, of rivers hitherto profitless to commerce; the commence ment or completion of quays, bridges, and other public works ; the cultivation of much hitherto unenclosed ground, and the general establishment of ag►ricultural and industrial societies—are manifest and easily recog nised proofs of the progress France is making in the various branches of material civilization. But he says— " I saw, both in Paris and the provinces, enough to con vince me that the country is making as decided a progres: towards moral barbarism as it is towards physical civiliza We would beg of the philosophers to attend to this important distinction. " The most malignant symptom," says our author, " of this moral disease, which is destroying the nation, is the un usual want of faith—not religious faith only, but of faith in anything—in virtue, honesty, and morality—in the reality of anything not cogniseable by the material senses—in the go vernment, in their superiors, in their neighbours, and in themselves. Everything but the material interests of bodily comfort and well being, ►s spoken of in the same cold, sneer ing tone of sceptical ridicule, and the existence of any good but that of sensual enjoyment, is deemed at best doubtful, and therefore unworthy of pursuit. It requires but small Penetration to perceive that such a temper of mind must lead to a degree of selfishness and individualism, which, as soon as ever it becomes sufficiently universal, must sever the band which binds individuals into bodies politic, and dissolve so ciety into its original elements." On this head he gives some evidences taken chiefly from the staple literature of the country; but they are not necessary for our purpose. " I had hoped," he continues, " that the deep-seated causes of profound demoralisation, which I know exists in Paris, were confined to the capital, or, at least, to the larger cities of France ; but my journies through the provinces have amply convinced me that any estimate of the state of the country, based on such a notion, would be eminently fallacious. The truth is, that the country is demoralised to an awful degree. Throughout the whole length and breadth of the land the plague-spot appears. The fountains of all morality and healthy feeling have been poisoned at their source, and it is therefore vain to expect the stream to run pure." One solitary exception to this awful flood of demo ralisation, there is, according to Mr. Trollope ; but where does the reader suppose that is to be found ? The fact speaks daggers to the philosophers, but, nevertheless, it must be divulged. Here it is, then, in the words of our author : " The only part of the nation yet free from the wide spread contagion is the peasantry, the rural labourers of the villages and scattered farms ; and they, alas ! are so only in exact proportion to the darkness of their ignorance. Nothing can be further from my intention than to advocate the continu ance of this ignorance. Most dangerously precarious in its nature, and lamentably insufficient in its quality, must be the comparative innocence which results from the benighted condition of a large proportion of the French agricultural population. Yet such has been the nature of .the enlighten ment bestowed upon the people, that it results from statisti cal documents, that those departments and communes of France are most free from crime in which education—as it is most erroneously termed—has made the least progress. These departments a formed in the exclusively agricultural districts in the cent of France. According to Dupin's exceedingly interesting tables and charts, the department of La Creuse is that in which the smallest proportion p can read and write; and it i s a l so t h at i n w hi c h crime of every kind is least common." We would humbly make it a request to our philoso phic neighbour of the Mercury to copy this passage into his next number, and transmit a few copies to his friends the operatives of Edinburgh, to whose petition in favour of national education, "without religion," he called our special attention in his last. We have been always of opinion that those who want education of this sort, may very well be left to get it for themselves as well as they can, and that they have no sort of right to make any application to the state on the subject. What, indeed, has the civil ruler to do with putting a mere power into men's hands without giving them at the same time a needful guide and direction for its use ? Civilisation and morality, it appears, are not synony mous. We do not say that the people should be coerced—or that some consideration is not due to the consciences of those who object to a particular form of religion; but we do say, that the civil ruler would be inexcusable, who, in providing for national education, should fail to make it primarily and essentially religi ous. We shall take an early opportunity of adverting briefly to a few points connected with this important subject, which may be found of some local interest at the present moment. Tuesday was a d a y o f i mmense rejoicing in the me tropolis ; the auspicious event which took place on that morning has since communicated its joyful presages to the country, and gladdened the heart of all classes n the nation. Something like a delirium of satisfac tion has been experienced on the occasion, and we God that the occasion was such as to render OW Wing Mitt ibl t ilosa honour th,3 nttinreal eha , is nothing wanting to render it her munious and complete. The people tike the liveliest interest in the private and domestic happiness of their amiable and virtuous Sovereign, and rejoice to see her made a " joyful mother," not less on their own ac count than hers; but the birth of a PRINCE' of WALES has ever been an occasion of peculiar inte rest and congratulation. It is almost superfluous to observe, that the inhabitants of our old, and good, and now thoroughly Conservative town, have been delighted, in common with all the rest of the kingdom, by the glad tidings of this much wished for and now happily realised event. They hail it as a token of a still continuing Providential care for this highly fa voured land, anti they deeply appreciate it, both for the evils which it is calculated to avert, and the bless ings which it seems so well adapted to confer. So many and so great are the bounties which Provi dence showers upon our chosen nation, that we find it difficult to single out any one above another upon which we ought to dwell with peculiar complacency; all have become so familiar to us, that we can only realise their appreciation with anything like adequate intenseness, by supposing the absence of any one. An undisturbed and undisputed succession to the Throne may seem at first sight to be an advantage scarce deserving of that high and grateful commemo ration which we would claim for it ; but consider of what evils the absence of it has been made the occa sion ! That same Providence which gives to Britain a succession of Princes whose legitimate title all the people acknowledge, and whose natal day they cele brate with spontaneous honours and delight, can and does make a disputed throne—disputed on the ground of hereditary rights—the instrument of direst calami ties, the rack and scourge of that land which He de signs to afflict and punish. Look at unhappy Spain, long the prey to a wasting civil war on this account; —we were going to add, look also at France ; hut, for the present, her discords on this score are hushed, and we pray that they may continue so. Suffice it that we have not far to go, or long to seek, to learn to estimate, by dark and painful contrast, the inestimable advantage and blessing which Britain enjoys in her well-established, hereditary Throne ; and in that bene ficent provision which the Divine Ruler of events has made, and continues to make, in a line of Princes most acceptable to the people, with undisputed rights, and innumerable virtues, to ascend it. • Long live, then, our gracious Queen ! and long may the youthful Prince of Wales enjoy his title ! Most heartily and earnestly do we congratulate our country, and pray that the glorious events of Tuesday may be the harbinger of lasting good to our town and nation. rac E.e r We shall conclude with an extract from Sir Robert Peel's beautiful speech at the Lord Mayor's dinner in London on the above auspicious day : " I rejoice that foreigners have had an opportunity of wit nessing that, whatever be the political differences which di vide us, whatever be the conflicts of party inseparable from the working of a free and popular government, we are united as one man in attachment to the monarchy of the country, and in feelings of devotion to the person of our sovereign. (Loud cheers.) The feeling that they witness this day is an example of the feeling which pervades the whole people of this country. (' Hear, hear,' and cheers.) The people of this country will see with delight the prospect of increased security for the liberty and happiness of the country. (Hear.) They will also rejoice at the succession, in the fullness of time, to the throne of his ancestors, of the prince who has been born this day, and who, they trust, formed by tender care and instructed by the example of his illustrious parents, shall at some future and, as we pray, most distant day, prove himself worthy of the high destiny to which he is called, and of filling the throne of these united kingdoms, of protecting the constitution, and advancing the liberties and happiness of a free and generous people. (` Hear, hear,' and cheers.)" To these statements, so happily expressed, we beg leave entirely to subscribe. They cannot be gainsayed, and they are of excellent omen. The decisive majority which we have now obtained in the Town Council is a matter of solid satisfaction, not only to the burgesses of Liverpool, but, we may say, to the universal Conservative party. The question of nearest interest remaining is, how we shall use our victory ? Conquerors are generally admonished to be temperate in success—to use their conquests with mo deration; and the admonition is seasonable and proper, and applicable in civil no less than military affairs. But then a victory must he used or it is no victory at all. If fortune incline the scales in our favour, we must avail ourselves of her bestowments. We must not despise them; we must improve them to the pur pose and for the objects (if they be righteous in them selves) for which we originally buckled on our armour, This being so then, we turn to our representatives in the Council, or (as we are the majority), we should rather say, to the Council itself ; and we look, in the first place, and for the first fruits of our hard fought battles, to an immediate change in the system of the Corporation Schools. All other improvements, resti tutions, renovations, or revolutions, we can wait for patiently, and take by instalments, or in any way they may come ; but not so with THIS. Here there must be no delay—no faltering—no mincing of matters. The reason is very obvious ; because this question is a test of the true character of the Council. One of the first acts of the body when it became Radical, Papistical, Infidel, was to destroy the Christian character of the schools—to make them liberal—educational, but no longer religious. The Bible was trodden under foot ; it was confidently expected that the church would be put down along with it. And what will be the first act of a Conservative Council ? Why, of course to reverse this atrocious order—to wipe out the stain of that abo mination of desolation—and to establish in the schools a system in harmony with all the great institutions of the country, and the principles of Christian Conserva tism. On this head we do expect to find the most perfect unanimity among the Conservative members of the Council. With regard to the short and desultory talk which took place on Tuesday last, upon the appointment of the Education Committee, we make no comment upon it ; we do not, indeed, very well understand its drift ; but this we say—let not any professing Conservative delude himself by imagining, for a moment, that any thing will satisfy the municipal constituency of Liver pool but an IMMEDIATE and ENTIRE upset of the in-- fidel radicalism set up in the schools by the late ascen dancy, now happily—and we trust, for ever —put down. It was for this object, beyond any other, that we fought all through, and we will not be disappointed of it. If there he any member who has sneaked into the coun cil under false colours, we shall soon know him. If there be any other who has become a sudden convert to Shielism, Earleism, or the " impertinence " of Bol tonism, let him resign, and we shall soon find a better man to put in his place. But the educational abomi nation of the old party shall not survive under any cir cumstances. With the blessing of God, WE WILL HAVE OUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ONCE MORE, and not be defrauded of this—the object which, above all others, nerved ,our arm in the fight, sustained us in all our st.ruggleS, gave a dignity to our meanest, and in creased the power of all our best efforts. We speak the voice of every Protestant Christian, and Conserva tive freeman and elector in Liverpool, and we know we shall not be disappointed. We have already sufficiently adverted to the inter esting and important subject of the education in our Corporation Schools, but we cannot refrain from directing the especial attention of our readers to the admirable letters of the Rev. D. James and Fidus Achates, which will be found elsewhere. The valuable reminiscences brought forward by one, and the irre fragable arguments advanced by both will go far, if we are not mistaken, towards convincing any waverer, about the, policy of the present system adopted in those schools, of the unreasonableness of his doubts. It is well known that Mr. James has written most effectively on the subject already; and we are much mistaken if Fidus Achates is not equally well-informed, as every sentence of his important communication cannot be too deeply impressed on the memory. ANre know not what steps the Council may consider it right to take, but the advice of the clergy should be sought for; and the matter cannot be more satisfacto rily arranged' than by being left almost entirely at their disposal. It will not occasion us much surprise if meetings are summoned in the various wards of the town for the purpose of showing the feeling of the public on this vital question, and of strengthening the hands of our Protestant municipal representatives. One of the most gratifying circumstances connected with he death of whig.radicalism in this borough, is the intended •ecurrence to the ancient custom of the mayor and corpora ion aqending the services of the established church in their official capacity, It the hightst authorities of the lan part of th. serve this custom, and if the constitution itself, no reasonable objection can be against it being observed by provincial authorities. Our late rulers, however, in the genuine spirit of modern liberal ism, not only abandoned the practice, but ac.ually" reviled and scoffed at it. This will be a most auspicious commencement of the Con servative mayoralty. As it begins with the acknowledgment and worship of Almighty God, and a supplication for his blessing, it is to be believed that he will vouchsafe it. The Conservative rule in this respect will stand in marked con trast with that which happily for us has just terminated. In congratulating our townsmen upon the resumption of a practice so fraught with promised good, 'we would take the opportunity of calling their attention to the valuable institu tion on whose behalf the sermon before the Mayor will be preached on Sunday next. The Bluecoat School has an especial claim upon the liberality of all classes of the com munity ; and when we consider the peculiar circumstances of this occasion, we trust that the orphan race may have cause to bless the recent changes. It is expected that all the mare respectable inhabitants will accompany his worship, on Sunday morning, from the Town hall to St. Peter's. We purpose giving a report of the ser mon in the STANDAUD of Tuesday, as the sentiments of our estimable rector on such an occasion will be well worthy of preservation number c ST. HELEN'S CARRIP e already Trafror Thoe persons who have OCC37, sion to transmit. packages or parcels between this town And St. Helens, can do so at a very cheap rate, by employing 31r. Featherstone, whose advertisement appears elsewhere. is the exclamation of thou- and Shakspeare 1 by corns—we'll, says, " lames „., have a boot with you." Now those who want to get rid of these walking barometers. and join in the pleasant dance, must apply to Mr. Esenberg for relief. t untouc An inquest was held yesterday,. before lklr. Currie, on view of the body of John Robert Jones, a child of five months old. It appeared that the deceased had been taken into the same bed with its parents on the previous night, and was found dead when they awoke; it had . been over lain by the mother.—Verdict accordingly. INQUEST STATUARY.—It will be seen by advertisement that Mr. Anderson is to dispose by private sale his celebrated group of figures in stone. The figures are well adapted for any gen tleman's hall, or would be an excellent ornament for a garden. We hope Mr. Anderson•will soon find a purchaser , his only motive in parting with them, that he may be en abled to execute another group he has in contemplation. As the exhibition is to remain open for a short time in town, we advise all who have not already paid a visit to do so Without delay, as they-may soon lose the opportunity of seeing these wonderful figures, which have been so much and justly ad mired wherever they have been exhibited ; they need only to be seen to be appreciated. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. —Early on Wednesday morning last, George M'Combe, a young man in the employ of Mr. Clayton, brewer, Maguire-street , while in the act of repairing the frame work of one of the boilers, missed his footing and fell into the boiling fluid ; in his fall he providentially succeeded in grasping the edge of the boiler, and by'great efforts succeeded in rescuin g himself from his agonising situation, in a state of dreadful torture ; he was immediately conveyed to the Northern Hospital , Leeds• street, which we understand is at present so crowded, that some .difficulty was experienced in making room for him, though in a very dangerous state. We are happy to say that hopes are entertained of his recovery. ARRIVAL OF' TUE GREAT LIVERPOOL.—This steamer reached Falmouth on Sunday last with that portion of the mails from India, Egypt, and Malta, which was not sent by way of Marseilles. Her dates of departure are from Alex andria the 22d, Malta the 28th ult., and from Gibraltar the 3d instant. We subjoin a list of the passengers, among the names of Sir Gordon Bremer and Captain Elliot of Chinese notoriety will be observed :—Passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Leiver, child, and servant, Sir Gordon Bremer. Captain Grattan, Lieutenant Fowler, Mr. Morgan, Rev. Mr. Mannecing ' Mr. Jardine, Dr. Ducat, Mr. Skelton, Mr. Nash, Mr. North, Captain and Mrs. Hartley and servant, Captain Cotton, Captain Rogers, Dr. Anderson, Captain and Mrs. Elliot, child, and two servants, Miss Engledue Mr. Chick, Miss Rogers, Lieutenant Gray, Dr. Neack, M• Tastar, Mr. Bone, F. Camillure, Captain Russell, Colonel Alderson, Thomas Burt, William Bowden. By an article in the third edition of the Liverpool Standard of the 9th instant, we are apprised of a fact sufficiently astounding to those who anticipated, with O'Connell, a corn; pletely subverted order of things in all the corporations of Great Britain, upon the passing of the Municipal Bill. There, can be no question that had the city of London succumbed to that sweeping measure of " municipal reform" as Lord John Russell called it, the whole empire must have been, ere this, overrun with corporations manufactured, for the nonce, out of the elements of whig jobbing and intimidation, 111 1,1 the corrupt influence by which they are always worked. with a Lord John Russell to halloo them on; and a few political attorneys of London, Liverpool, and Birmingham to manage their "legal rights" for them, by bullying their conservative competitors into acquiescence in every species of municipal and legal wrong_; the corporation agitators were " going a head," until very lately, at a fearful rate. As if to mark with another honour the happy and eventual " 9th November 1841,"—the corporation of the second town in the empire,- -- Liverpool itself, elected a conservative mayor, and eight con servative aldermen ! This is, indeed, a signal and substantial indication of the returning power and extension of that noble attachment to the existing constitution of these realms, which in all its various and memorable manifestations throughout the appalling dangers, and gloomy passages and protracted struggles of the unflinching single-handed contest which Great Britain sustained and brought to a victorious completion against the common enemy of the liberties of Europe ; found no more zealous, nor lofty-spirited, nor munificent, nor de termined champions,—none who did more honour to its sacred cause, nor acquired more lasting reputation for their own community,—than the intelligent population of Liver pool. They have now sealed their title to the gratitude of an empire, whose greatness, commercial and political, is rapidly recovering from any partial shocks it had sustained through whig misgovernment,under the fostering protection of a con servative Government.—Morning Herald. MEETING OF TRADESMEN'S ASSISTANTS.—On the evening of Wednesday. the Assistant Tradesmen's Associa tion, hpld their adjourned meeting, in the Clarendon-rooms. South John-street, for the purpose of receiving the report of the deputation appointed to wait upon the employers with an address, requesting them to close their shops at seven o'clock in the evening. Air. Flower, president of the association , took the chair. He said he had hoped to be able to lay before the meeting the answer of the employers to the address lately presented to them from the assistants. That, however , was not the case • but he believed that something would be done of a tangible nature very soon, although the employers had represented to receive any address or deputation as from the association. He concluded by calling upon the assistants to proceed with their object, but always with respect towards their employers. Mr. Charles Willmer, after an animated speech, proposed a resolution which was to this effect, "that this meeting, whilst it deplores the refusal of the tradesmen of Liverpool to give an answer to the address forwarded to them upon the 12th October last, and buoyed up with the hope that those gentlemen will yet see the justice and the good policy of granting the leisure which has been solicited by their assistants, will wait with anxiety, yet with patient submission, the result of their deliberations. This resolu tion was seconded by Mr. W. B. Jones, and carried unani mously. Mr. Scholefield concluded a lengthy speech by moving, " That this meeting desires earnestly to i mpress upon every assistant, the p ro p r i e ty of ,1 opting at all tunes most respectful demea nour t owar d s the emp l o y ers , and especially in their petition s f or re lief from a por ti o n of the labour now imposed up on th em ; an d t hi s meet i ng further „ a exhorts the assistants to use every possible means of con vincing their employers that they seek that relief only for purposes which all wise and good men approve." Cantidge seconded the motion. Mr. Brahain moved an amendment of considerable length, but the ideas intended to be expressed in it were so confused that the meeting were unable to comprehend them, and it was therefore rejected. The original motion being carried, Mr. Flower was thanked for his conduct in the chair, and the meeting separated about eleven o'clock. SWEEPING THE STREETS BY MACHINERY !-It is really hard to say how soon we are to arrive at that happy era when the most severe labour allotted to human beings will be to pick their teeth or to button their own coats. Even now the powers of machinery are being rapidly applied as a sub stitute for manual power in almost every branch of industry; and the labourer has little more to do than to stand by and watch the working of the iron competitor, who has hustled him aside into a merely subordinate capacity. We have carding-machines and spinning-machines ; printing-ma chines and weaving machines, by whose joint agency a bale of cotton is converted into a bale of merchandise, with scarcely the intervention of man. Give us the aid of a cal culating-machine and an iron scribe to make out the invoicer and the whole system will be complete; our corn-lands may be turned into grazing -lands forthwith, and our population sent out to graze therein— " Their food the herbs, their drink the cooling spring." As a gratifying proof that this happy state of things is at hand, we have this week witnessed, in the good town of Manchester—where the people are starving, we are told, by hundreds—the very streets swept by machinery; so chary are our neighbours in the employment of human hands to do any work which wood and iron can be made to do. The machinery in question is in the form of a cart drawn by - one horse, the motion of which impels a number of revolving brushes, which take up the dirt into the body of the cart itself, as the receiver—upon the same principle, substituting brushes for buckets, as the dredging-machine in our docks. Prom the little observation which we were able to make of its working, we should really be inclined to borrow it for a week for the use of our own corporation; for, in candour. we are obliged to say, that it makes a very clean sweep—a thing rather wanted in our streets, as well as in the corpora tion establishment itself. We are nut so satisfied, however, as to the prudence of thus parading before the public eye. and, in the present temper of the public mind, the applica tion of machinery even to street-sweeping. This, however, is a matter for the Manchestrians themselves to consider. Their working classes are just now looking with no very cordial approbation of its working., into the whole question . of machinery ; and we really think that it require some sophistry to persuade them that in this case ingenuity is not a little thrown away, and its exhibition ill-tuned andinju dicious. SUICIDES IN LIVERPOOL.-011 Tuesday three inquests were held before Mr. Curry, on view of the bodies of two women and one man, who had put a period to their existence. The first was on Agnes Kerr, a female of the age of 22. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased had been living with her sister for about a fortnight, who keeps a lodging house at No. 4, Suffolk-street. On Monday morning she took her breakfast and appeared quite well. She then went up stairs to dress for the purpose of going out, and came down again in her shawl and bonnet, but on learning what time it was, immediately proceeded again up stairs. In about half an hour one of the lodgers having occasion to go into his room, found the door locked, when he immediately told the sister of the deceased, who on knocking at the door and receiving no answer, broke it open, and found the deceased lying on the floor with a great quantity of blood about her. A razor was lying close beside her, and her throat was cut in a most frightful manner. She was quite dead. Nothing pecu liar had ever been observed about the manner of the de ceased. The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity. —The second inquest was on the body of Elizabeth New, a widow, aged 31. The deceased was in the habit of drinking to excess, and on Saturday afternoon, in a very melancholy mood, asked for a bottle to get some rhubarb, as she com plained of being ill in her bowels. She returned in a few mi nutes, arid poured something out of thebottle into a tea-cup, and drank it off, and then went out. She returned in the evening, and went to bed with a female whom she desired to sleep with her. About one o'clock on Sunday morning the deceased was heard to moan, when her bedfellow got up and went down stairs for a light, and discovered the bottle on the chimney-piece, marked " Laudanum—poison." She then went up stairs, and tried to awaken the deceased, but with out effect ; and about eight o'clock she died. The surgeon gave it as his opinion that the deceased had died from the effects of some narcotic, which he believed to be laudanum• In this case, also, the jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity.—The remaining inquest was on the body of Thos. Yates, a druggist, aged 27. The wife of the deceased deposed, that her husband had been laboring for a few days under a cold, with slight fever. At four o'clock on Monday afternoon, he was sitting up stairs with witness, and was then much the same as usual. He had no pain, but was very weak in his body, and low in his spirits. He walked into the next room, and got into bed, and in about five minutes she followed, and found him lying on his face in bed. She spoke to him seve ral times ' but received no answer , a nd she then shook him , thinking he was asleep. She subsequently rang the bell for the servant to come up. The servant turned him over on his back to see if he was asleep, and it was then found that he was dead. The deceased kept a shop attached to the house. Mr. James Marshall, surgeon, deposed, that he had been attending the deceased for the last three or four days. He had a cold, accompanied with fever, which prostrated his strength. On smelling at the mouth of the deceased after his death, he perceived a slight odour of prussic acid, such a s is genera lly present in cases of death arising from that poison. lie was of opinion that th e death of the deceased had been occasioned by prussic acid. John Thompson deposed that he was an assistant in the shop of the deceased. He wal called up to him on Monday afternoon, and found him dead in bed. He had all his clothes on. Witness examine halt the, deceased's pockets, and found a bottl e con t a i n ing a a drachm of prussic acid. The bottle was one which ,r w it s , used in the shop, and always contained prussic acid. -. last time Ile observed the bottle in the shop, about thin ago, it was nearly full of russic acid, and 'he did not till there had been any disposed The vet. et. re ,Jury returned a diet of temporary insanity. a month LOCAL NEWS. We understand that our Present Chief Magistrate, in addi tion to his own good fortune on Tuesday, had the gratification to receive a notification of the appointment of his second son, Mr. Henry Leigh, to a lieutenancy in _one of her Ma jesty's regiments of horse. THE LATE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—It iS a remarkable circumstance, that the only reform councillors who were re turned at the late municipal election were the three, viz., Mr. John Holmes, Mr. Henry Holmes, and Mr. William Preston, who voted against corporation dock warehouses. This speaks volumes us to the opiniOn of the public upon the subject. CONCERTS A LA MU ARD.—We copy the following very just remarks from the Courier:—Are our musical readers aware of the pleasant treat that is occasionally prepared for their gratification at the Vortieo ? Here is a most creditable effort made by a company of the very first of our native art ists, and we have looked in vain for that patronage and popularity which ought to be the immediate encouragement and reward of such a movement. The object of these con certs is to convince the public of our town that if they will only encourage " native talent," that commodity is as indi genous to our soil as to that of other towns and other coun tries. Let our young professors see a sure reward for their pains, and they will practise together till they win as much fame for the Liverpool instrumentalists as has been earned by its choristers. Thirty instrumentalists, some of them already eminent, and others young and of high promise, ale offering delightful concerts for the public approbation. But where are those of our townsmen who habitually patronise musical ability ? They have not yet honoured those who have most right to look to them for favour with the sunshine of their countenance. They will flock to hear Julien when he arrives amongst us, while they will neglect those who, we have no hesitation in saying, would, with a little encourage ment, outrivallulien. There is no earthly reason why the band of the Portico should not equal that of Strauss in pre cision, effect; decision, and all other qualifications. We are sorry that we have no space for criticism. Mr. Aldridge, jun. performs well on his instrument, and has many other essen tials of a good leader. He keeps his band well together, and will have them under still greater command when practice shall have given each to understand the system of the others more perfectly. We should expatiate at some length on the merits of the performers, and with one or two we could be very angry, seeing that they did not exert those energies and talents with which they are endowed. We shall recur again to the subject, and we hope to find that our hints to the pub lic will not have been in vain. The price is modestly low ; and if we follow the example of the most refined of our con tinental neighbours, these very pleasing musical soirees will be crowded. ASSAULT ON THE HIGHWAY.—On Wednesday an Irish reaper was examined before Sir Thomas Braucker and Chas. Birch, Esq., charged with having assaulted a female named Ann Green, on the highway between Garston and Aigburgh, on Monday night. The complainant, who is a servant out of place, residing with her brother in Hughes-place, Robert street, Toxteth-park, stated that about five o'clock in the afternoon she was returning from Garston, when the prisoner met her upon the road near the place where three lanes meet. She attempted to give him the way, but-he stopped her, took hold of her hands, and said—" B—y cud to your soul if you go a foot forward, or say a word, I 'll murder you." She replied to him—" You are mistaken man, I have done you no harm, pray let me go, I am going home." He rejoined— " You b—y b—h, I'll murder you if you say another word." She screamed out—" Oh, don't murder me," and " John, pray come back," several tunes, in the hope that the apprehension of some one being near at hand would induce him to quit his hold of her. This produced the desired effect, and she ran away. In doing so, he made an unsuc cessful attempt to trip up her heels, after which he threw a stone at her, but she was not struck with it. She ran to the end of the lane, and told a man named John Bate what had happened : whilst she was speaking with him, Mr. Law rence, the omnibus proprietor, came up on horseback, and undertook to - protect her. When they had arrived at a cot tage near the Roman catholic chapel, the prisoner darted out of a small garden at the road side, and said to the prosecutrix, " Oh, you are returning." She immediately told Mr. Lawrence that he was the man who had assaulted her. Eventually, Mr. Lawrence caused the man to be ap prehended, and lodged in the toll-gate house till the arrival of the police, who had already been sent for. Whilst be was in the house the prisoner asked for a basin full of water anti some salt. 'When they were given to him he put the salt into the water, and pronouncing some unintelligible words over the mixture, he drank it off. The next instant he rushed like a maniac to the fire-place, seized the tongs, and say ing, " May God protect me from my enemies," he rushed on Mr. Lawrence, swearing he would sink them into the skull of any one who should apprehend him. Mr. Lawrence avoided him by running into the road ; he was followed by the prisoner, uttering frightful imprecations, when one of Mr, L.'s servant men fortunately threw him down, and he was secured. In reply to questions from the magisti ate, the prosecutrix said the prisoner had not demanded any money from her. The prisoner, in his defence, told a long, rambling story of Mr: Edwards, for whom he had been working, having detained his wages, 35., because he was Catholic, that he had seen the prosecutrix in the fields there, and did not like her, and that she was the cause of his earnings being detained. The sum of £3 15s. was found upon him. The magistrates fined him £5 for the assault upon the prosecutrix. In de fault of payment he was committed to the House of Correction at Kirkdale for two months. TRADESMEN'S ASSISTANTS AND THE HOURS OF BUSI NESS.—In another paragraph will be found a short notice of a meeting held on Wednesday evening by the tradesmen's assistants. We understand that a number of the more re spectable shopkeepers in Church-street and Bold-street have come to the determination to close their shops at seven du ring the months of October, November, December, January, and February ; at eight during the two following months, and at nine through the remainder. This is a most praise worthy step, and we hope will be followed by the trade gene rally. The young men cannot appreciate too highly such a boon on the part of their employers, and we hope they will one and all—we feel persuaded the majority of them will— slim by the mode in which they spend their additional leisure time that the indulgence is not abused. They have many opportunities afforded for the profitable employment of their time, which, if neglected, they will only have themselves to blame, and cannot wonder if the masters return to their old system. 'We are requested to ask if the committee of the Mechanic's Institution cannot arrange so as to commence the lectures at quarter to eight instead of halt past seven, as at present. The alteration would afford time for the young men to attend there after the closing of the shops, which they would not be able to accomplish it the lecturer com mences at the accustomed hour. Ttie shopkeepers in the Haymarket and Pitt-street complain of the markets being kept open until a late hour, which prevents the stall-keepers from making their purchases until after seven. This is cer tainly a matter worthy of serious i consideration, and w e sug gest the propriety, without knowing whether t can be accom plished, of closing these markets at six. Some little incon venience might be occasioned by such a step at the first, but when the mental and physical culture of such a number of persons is concerned, we do not tear that the sacrifice will be willingly submitted to. • - POPULATION OP ST. HE LENS. - It appear s f rom t h e l ate census returns, that the i ncrease of the population of St. Helen's, during the last ten years, may be estimated at near 50 per cent. This is certainly not more than it m i g ht h ave it been originally averaged at , for is well known that this town has, of late years, increased most wonderfully in its commercial relations, and, therefore, also in extent. It is proverbial that the inhabitants are of a most enterprising and spirited disposition, and no wonder, theref ore , th a t th e ir suburbs should be barr icaded .with manufactories of every description of useful commodities. The following return of the population of the different t owns hi ps, s i tuate i n t h e S t Helens district, will show the large increase we have men tioned : 1841 1831 1841 1831 Sutton 4075 3173 Windle 6918 5825 Parr 3330 1942 Eccleston ....6247 3259 THE ROYAL ACCOUCHEMENT.—The tidings of this happy event reached St. Helen's late on Tuesday night, and were spread about with great rapidity. On the following day the bells of St. Mary's Church were put in agitation to signalize the eventful birth of this most " illustrious stranger," and many were the greetings interchanged amongst the loyal subjects of the throne resident in St. Helen's. THE LIVERPOOL INSTITUTION FOR DIFFICULT CASES OF MARRIED LYING•IN WOMEN AND THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE DISEASES.—A meeting of gentlemen having been held on Saturday, the 30th of October, John Cropper, Esq., in the chair, and statements having been made by Messrs. Batty and Blackburn, setting forth, from their own personal knowledge and experience, the frequent occurrence of cases amongst the poorest classes of a most distressing and painful nature, for which no provision is made by the existing charities, and which require special medical treat ment under the most favourable circumstances for securing the safety of both mother and child—the necessity for the above provision having been thus proved to exist, a commit tee was appoinsed to prepare a statement to lay before the public; and the meeting was adjourned to Tuesday, the 9th of November, to receive the report, and that in the mean time due consideration might be given to so important a sub ject. The adjourned meeting was held accordingly, when, after further discu ss i on an d mature deliberation, it was moved by the Rev. Dr. Raffles, and seconded by John Howard, Esq.,—that the above-named institution be formed. It is the object of the friends of this institution to commence with six beds, which will admit of nearly 200 women being relieved in the year, and for which a small expenditure will only be required. We cannot sufficiently praise the high minded philanthrophy of the ladies and gentlemen who have taken this most needful charity by the hand, and we sincerely trust that the public will cordially join in aiding their wishes, and assist in establishing their plans. For further proceed ings see advertisement. PORTICO CONCERTS. — On Monday evening the fifth Por tico Concert will take place. The programme is unusually good. It will be seen that the services of several favourites have been secured. Part First.—Madrigal—" All creatures now are merry minded." Glee—" See the chariot at hand," Mrs. Armstrong, Messrs. Case, Stott, and J. Hornby. Duet—" I've wander'd in dreams," Miss Stott and Mr. Stott. Song—" The Water Drinker," Mr. J. Hornby, (by desire). Duet—" My pretty page look out afar," Miss Stott and Mrs. Armstrong. Glee—" Just like love is yonder rose," Messrs. Lunt, Stott, and Davies. Song—" The last adieu," Miss Stott. Solo—Piano-forte, Mr. Elliott. Chorus (first time in Liverpool.)—" Let the lively banja play," solos by Miss Stott, Mrs. Armstrong, and Mr. Stott. Part Second.—Chorus— Y outhful Flower." Song—" What's a Conundrum ?" Mrs. Armstrong. Glee—" The Midges Dance," Miss Stott, Messrs. Case, Stott, and J. Hornby. Song—" The White Squall," Mr. Davies. Duet—" O'er shepherd pipe and rustic dell," Mrs. and Mr. Armstrong. Solo—" Hark, the Vesper Hymn is stealing," Miss Stott, and Distant Chorus. Prize Ballad—" Fair Daphne," Mr. Stott. Glee—" The Watchman," Messrs. Lunt, Stott, and Davies. Chorus—" Queep of our Isle."