The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-23 00:00:00

b*; resentfully to r thforre the its Nolibbourheod, that Miss Paris with' a fashionable Assort. DRESSES and New Goods, suited lich wilt be open for Inspection on MODES, honor to jounce her return remained over LONG qOVELTY of the Season, SHAWLS, SCARFS, h she will submit for inspection April, being earlier than usual, lies visiting Chester Races. HE LADIES respectfully announce their return a splendid Selection of Novelties DE, comprising Chine, Damask, I Brocaded SATIN SHAWLS ; in CASHMERE, Longs of which will be made ew S tvl v,) - the 20th instant, at their ITISH SHAWL'W.A.REHOUSE PANT WANTED AND CORSET WARE- 'HAPEL EET, LIVERPOSYL grateful for past favoud, respectfully the Ladies of Liverpirand its Vicinity •ly in the season, co feted a large and nglish and French TAYS and COR approved shapes and modern patterns. a choice assortment of the celebrated so justly esteemed for elegance of fit ; )f the best French Cotille, all got up by s, under the immediate superintendence atteen and Jean Stays, both white and t reasonable terms. The bespoke trade ial, by Mrs. F. in person, or her confi nd all orders are executed with punc- 114, 1841 BUYERS OF 7 OF ENGLAND SUPERFINE CLOTHS, DOESKINS, CASSIMERES, / 7EEDS, GAMBROOMS, DRILL'S, &c., ctfully informed that great bargai4 are now offered MORRIS'S WOOLLEN WAREHOUSE, 80. LORD-STREET. ORRIS, having just returned from here he has made very exten- TR. THO Lot of ident that he is now inviting the of the I ARGEST and CHEAFEST EN DRAPERY GOODS er seen in Liverpool. ST OF ENGLAND SUPERFINES 21s. or 22s meat of rich SILK and SATIN VEST- MERCHANTS, and CAPTAINS, buy ake their purchases on most advan- IN LITTLER, TAILOR and DRAPER, (late of 'ostoffice-place,) most respectfully announces tbat he EMOVED to the excellent and,conv,t Shop and ises, No. 17, LORD-STREET, two doorsia ve the Chro- himself of tl s occasion to 'Cum his sincere Is who have honoured him with their Ind to assure them and the public generally that ay the best Materials, combined with of workmanship, on his usual mode- On the fulfilment of this assurance, coupled :al knowledge and long experience of the busi etermination to pay the mo't prompt and faith ition to orders, he confidently relies for a continuance 1 continue to supp NOW EXHIBITING, For a short time only, LYCEUM, BOLD-STREET, MODEL OF DUBLIN, LEDGED CHEF D'i!EUVRE OF ART Idren, 6d.; Season Tickets, 2s. 6d O admit Fil . te, 3s. 6d. .m. to 9 p.m. Brilliantly Illuminated with )F LADY ANSTRUTHER.—We have to announce f the above lady, which took place at Brighton. eased, who was a daughter of Mr. Charles Wetherall, i in 1807, and was married in 1824 to Sir Windham Anstruther, Bart., of Elie House, Fifeshire, by leaves a family Earl of Belmore died on Sunday at Leamington Spa. .dship, who was in his 67th year, was an Irish peer, eof the representatives of the Irish peerage in the of Lords. He was also Custos Rotulorum of the of Tyrone, for• which place his second son, the Hon. .s in parliarner fief assistant at one of the first perfutners time ago detected stealing a piece of stuff of the Pauvre Diable, in the rue Mon !i• apartment being searched, various other found. The husband, though perfectly ticipation in or knowledge of these rob ;race brought upon him so keenly, that he went to the river side and shot him me moment into the water, whence he ND Loss OF LIPP —lntelligence has been in the island of Tyree, that the brig Majestic. t, from London for Londonderry, to embark 'as totally wrecked at Tyree, on the I instant. Early that day she was sea off Skerryvore rock, which instantly , bulwarks, boats, &c., and laid s. Melancholy to relate, the were washed overboard, and un- endous wave having for ever view. The mate and the re sad fate of their companions, ats that went to the brig's as- HELP TO MEMORY.—On a trial at Cam- D the liability of the inhabitants of Dodding ghway, a question occupied the court for five :her the road referred to was a public high ) amusing incident occurred to relieve the yet the interest was such, that during court and all the avenues leading to it )ersons anxious to hear the details of a )f such vast importance in the fen dis hundred miles of similar roads, there st. Several of the old witnesses dated in their younger days, seems to have erect, " the year Solomon Tuck was sixty years since), was their common This Solomon seems to have murdered lren under circumstances of no common CHILDREN LOCKED UP IN SHOREDITCH CHURCH. 'ttle ones were sent out for a walk on the afternoon lek, when, finding the above doors open, they ssed the ceremony of baptism, after at themselves quietly in a pew, thinking to hear ,n service, when they were surprised at the shut doors, for which they immediately made, but too themselves beard. They betook themselves to where they found a fire, and inspected the 'robe. They lulled the two youngest to some stick-liquorice and some water, vessel that had recently been used. ,ed the whole of their time, not any way un oy their night's adventure, until they were libe aut nine on the following morning, by one of the is of the church. They were immediately sent home, nied by the grave-digger, to their anxious and in parents. and witn I in the lILITAR FLOGGING ON A SUNDAY —lt is with regret that we are unable to contradict a statement of a soldier: in the 11th, or Prince Albert's Own Hussars, having been flog -ed on Sunday last, at Houndslow Barracks, under the tiers of Lord Cardigan. We feel it due, however, to state, the announcement in the Chronicle, for the honour of Ai officers, met with no credence at the Senior United The officers believed that the Chronicle must ,posed upon. Unfortunately it was not so, for ~went was inflicted on the Sabbath. We own that ce shared in the general disbelief, but inquiries made proper quarter compel us to say th a t thi s h orr ib le age has been committed. We know, however, that the -t has already engaged official consideration, and we ;th confidence the result. Abstaining from any non this shock to religion and humanity, can we 'g the disgusting insult which Lord Cardigan is "fired to a detachment of the 14th Dragoons ? Ato witness the punishment. How far .e conduct in France—a military country ! in garrison punishment is to be inflicted, de from each regiment are ordered to attend, and Iments comprise only those men whose bad con rs it expedient that they should witness it as a les -nselves. The well-conducted men are always ga attending ; and this exemption is deemed a honour. We have only to add, that we ab 1r remarks on this subject, because of our has not escaped the notice of the proper Observer MISSIONARY DISASTER.—TWENTY SIX LIVES LOST.— We are indebted (says the New York Commercial Adverlser), Rev. Dr. Armstrong, agent of the American Board -eign Missions, for the subjoined extracts from a letter ly received by, his lady from the wife of one of the ican Missionaries in the Sandwich Islands. It is a full of interest ; and the account of a wreck of a Sand- Island vessel, and the prayer-meeting of a portion of ew while drowning, are without a parallel in the history of missions or of man. Hana, Maui, Sandwich Islands, July 21, 1840. returned from our general meeting at Ho ne was made in a canoe to Dahaiu, a dis les—a perilous undertaking, for the sea was rfully threatening to our little bark. From this ptained a passage in the king's vessel to Honolulu. pleasant meeting with our friends About the of our leaving home a sorrowful providence occurred. brethren a,; Honolulu, fearing that we should ven m a canoe, engaged a vessel, which was to go to for Mr. Lyons, and to call on its return and take us. made its passage to Hawaii, and, when near its !stination, was capsized, and lost. All on board, of thirty souls, were drowned, except four. These miraculously preserved to tell the sad tale of the companions. When the accident occurred, they re. but the wind and current were against them, g it vain to attempt Hawaii, they congregated ipon the rolling billows, and there, together in is, offered up their supplications to Him who preserve them from the threatening deep... )ted to swim to Kahoolura, some thirty miles on side of the channel. One man and his wife took racket, and tied it to their bodies, and, in this way, the bucket came to pieces. The female swain le; but on turning, she saw her husband-becorn to support himself. She stopped and rubbed could proceed. They went on until Kahoolura ight : he then became too feeble to proceed with e, and supported himself by holding to the long ife's head. In this way she towed him for some nd soon let go the hold, and she tried in v ain to She told him he must pray ; he commenced, but a few words. She put hisarms around her neck rith one hand, and made for the shore. Wh en half a mile from the shore, she found he was se was compelled to let go her hold to support had then been in the wateraboue saw a tthirty h h e o ra ur a s t; sh ,ed she was three days before without food. At last some fishermen found eyed her to the village, where she is now in The captain of the vessel was a foreigner, and im but little; his wife s ave d h er self by the assist of an oar. The others disappeared from time to time tit all perished but the four."— Watchman. dead, and I co nvf imptriat Vitatantriti HOUSE OF COMMONS...—TUESDAX. A new writ was moved for by Mr. E. J. STANLEY, in the room of Sir R. Ferguson, deceased. Mr.,HUME asked the Secretary at War if the statements which had appeared in the public journals were correct, re specting the flogging of a soldier of the 11th hussars, on Sun day, the 11th instant. Mr. MACAULAY said the facts were not precisely as stated in the public papers, for the punishment was inflicted after Divine service, and after the other regiment had been dis missed to its quarters. The right hon. gentleman contended that no blame, on the score of want of humanity, could be attributed to Lord Cardigan, for the sentence bad been ap • proved of by the Horse Guards. It was, however, impossible to countenance the infliction 'of such a punishment on the Sabbath-day. There were, certainly, precedents for such a proceeding, but it was the general opinion in military circles that they could only be justified by the most extreme exi gency. Such notice, however, had been taken, and such notice would be taken of the matter, as would be certain to prevent a recurrence of siMilar cases. Mr. EWART moved an address to her Majesty, with a view to procure for the public free admission to the enclosed por tions of the Regent's Park. The hon. member adverted to the increasing population in the surrounding neighbourhood. where villages had grown into large towns, and dwelt upon the immense public benefit which would be derived, as well in a moral as in a physical point of view, by throwing open the enclosures. Mr. E. J. STANLEY said that a portion of the park had been let to the Zoological, the Horticultural, and other so cieties ' • but there were other portions of it let to tenants, who had been guaranteed against any interference of this de scription. It was, however, the intention of the noble lord at the head of the Woods and Forests to throw open a very large portion of the park to the public in a short time. Mr. HUME suggested the necessity of having a park formed for the accommodation of the east and north-east end of the metropolis, where the population and building were so fast increasing, that it must become unhealthy if some ground were not purchased to be kept free for the purposes of a park. Lord TEIGNMOUTH observed, that out of the 286 acres from which the public were excluded, there were about 200 acres to which he could see no valid reason against their ad- mission. Sir R. INGLIS supported the suggestion of Mr. Hume as to the necessity for a park for the east end of the metropolis. Mr. WA KLEY said that the Regent's Park belonged to the public, and they ought to have admission to that which was their own, before proposing to give them new ones. He quite agreed in the necessity of having a park in the east end. Mr. ENVART eventually withdrew his motion, in conse quence.of the intimation from Mr. E. J. Stanley as to the woods and forests,. On the proposal ftir reading the Arms (Ireland) Bill a seconc Mr. flumz said he thought it was high time to discontinue bills of this description. By the returns they had already on the table, be believed that crime was much less in Ireland than in Great Britain, and he also thought that by further returns, which he would shortly move for, the difference would be yet greater in favour of Ireland. . . Lord IVioaiETH admitted that there was less crime in Ireland than in England, but still he said there were crimes of such a character in that country as deterred him from recommending that the bill should not be renewed for a short time. Colonel SIBTHORP complained of the non-production of the civil contingencies, and gave notice that he should object, when they were brought forward, to any further grant to Dr. Bowring. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. At four o'clock 40 members had not assembled, and Mr SPEAKER adjourned the house till Thursday. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE NEW SOUTH WALES The Hobart-town papers received to-day are to the 6th of December, and alluding to the agricultural prospects of the colony state, that the October frosts had damaged the early crops of vegetables ; the grain crops would, however, greatly exceed those of ordinary years, both in quality and quan tity. In consequence of the late great demand for wheat, a large extent of land had been sown this season, which ought not to have been sown, being worn out and fit only for fal low ; on this the crop would be very miserable, and much would, it is said, not be worth reaping at the high prices of labour and the low price of grain. The farmers were still much cast down by the great depression in the prices of grain, and many of them were already making preparations for preserving their next crops in the stacks until the market was relieved from the present glut. The wool season had commenced, and a large quantity had been brought to mar ket, but buyers offered such low prices, that many of the farmers who did not require advances were shipping it on their Own account. It was noticed as remarkable, that, not withstanding the low price of wool, the premium for bills on England continued 5 per cent. The highest price offered for wool, remarkably clean and long in the staple, was 16d. Wheat ranged from ss. to 6s. per bushel, according to quality. OLD- )G LEY SOUTH AUSTRALIA Copy of a letter from Mr. C. T. Hewitt, and Mr. W. Col ton, tenants. of the South Australian Company, who emi grated from Devonshire, in August, 1839, to the Direc tors of the South Australian Company, Loudon. _ 2d September, 1810. GENTLEMEN, — At the request of D. M`Laren, Esq. and W. Giles, Esq., we give you a statement of facts experienced by us since our arrival in this colony ; also our expectations for the future. We landed last 19th of December, 1839, and on the 25th went and took a view of the land, which was shewn us by Mr. Randell, belonging to the South Australian Company. We made choice of four sections in Doringa Valley, about 22 miles from Adelaide, from which we have an excellent road ; except about half a mile, which will in a few months be avoided, by a bridge over the Horse Shoe, or Onkaparinga river, where the township Nourlunga is begun, about three miles from the sea ; from whence, by a sert.en tine course, it runs up to the township, and by clearing tile river of wood, a craft of from ten to twenty tons might come up. This is about three miles from us N.W. We have one spring of excellent water flowing above ground all the year, and at other parts of the valley we have got water at from four to eight feet. We arrived here with our families the 2d day of January, 1840; have built our houses, houses for our men, dairies, fowl-houses, pigsties, stock-yards, cow-yards. cow-pens, sheep-pens, gardens, and fenced with posts and rails the length of one and a half section ; have sown about eight acres of wheat, four of which we managed after the De vonshire *plan, and we must say we never saw better; the other part is looking well, much better I believe than in England, if managed in the same way as done here ; also 12 acres of barley, which was finished last week ; it is however, quite colonial, what in England we should call rough farm ing; but from having so many things to attend to, and wil ling to sow as much as possible, we have done it rough ; but hope, Deo volente, the next year to manage better, as we are fully persuaded in an old proverb, "the best is best still ;" about one and half acres potatoes ' • those above ground can not look better; have finished planting to-day. We have mangle worzel seed and common turnips, with peas, beans, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, &c. &c., all growing and look ing remarkably well. As to the natural grass, I believe they are much more nutritious than in England, also of a more mild nature, as we have nothing that is strong or rancid in the butter. For want of conveniences to take away the calves as in England, we have been obliged to rear them with the cows ; besides which rearing and family use, sold from ten cows 491bs. of butter in seven days ; as a proof of the enriching quality of the grass we took up a pair of steers to work four months ago, when one turned wicked, and by some hurt which it received was obliged to be turned away again, but quite poor, and this week we have killed it good enough for any market in England. We have some heifers not yet calfed as good as can be shown in quality and fatness : it would be called dangerous to calf so tat in England, as I have myself known many in England to die in such state, but here we hear nothing of this kind : it is a very healthy climate for all sorts of cattle and sheep : our herd is now sixty-fotfr head of cattle, one mare and filly. In February, 1810, we bought 140 ewes ; we have now living 139 ewes (one having died with water in the head) : also 178 living lambs, having lost about twenty by native dogs and wet weather in the night.. We have no doubt but at the end of twelve months we shall count 420 in all. With small flocks, and attention, they will lamb twice a year. These sheep and cattle are watched by day by our own children ; when we receive the sheep in the evening by tale, and so deliver them in the morning. The cows, &c. we fetch ourselves in the morning, and let two of the boys watch them only by day. Our men are constantly ploughing with oxen, or cutting and getting home wood for fencing or building. We have been jack-of-all trades, as tradesmen's wages were so extravagantly high—say 15s. per day for car penters, bricklayers, &c. &c. • We are getting thickly inhabited in this quarter si ce we came here; it is beginning to have the appearance of an in habited country, and 1 have no doubt but the industry of those who have used it will be rewarded with a fair profit. Four miles south of us in the Encounter Bay Road is the township of Willunga, where many men are employed in the slate quarries, which is said to be of an excellent quality. There is yet in this survey much good land unoccupied as well as unsold, of rich black soil, and at different places veins of limestone, with plenty of wood, and we have no doubt but every experienced and industrious farmer could do much bet ter with his capital here than in England. It is not treating the land or colony fair to judge of it by the generality of farmers now here. It is generally those that would not at tempt farming in England, and yet they expect, if ever so ig norant or indolent, to make money here; but they must be mistaken; without a seed time there will be no harvest, and if the land is not broken up, we cannot expect to gather its fruits. I should rejoice to see many of my acquaintance here that are labouring in England under great rents, heavy taxes, and unfeeling tithe proctors ; so that with ever so much la bour and carefulness still sinking, till all their property will be gone, and leave their children pennyless. lam sure if they were here they would do well for themselves and the colony also. I find from one practical farmer that he had last year sixty bushels of barley per acre ; it was the finest in quality I ever saw. I have _seen very good samples of wheat, but in small quantities ; hope to be better in informa tion after harvest. Let no practical farmer be disheartened by any of those who have yet given the colony a bad name; it is from the navy, army, medical, and shopkeeping farmers that such reports have gone home ; they expected and made up their minds to be rich without having anything to sell— we have many of them here now. I wish the land was in better hands, but this must be the work of time. We shall be glad to hear of any of our acquaintance coming in connec tion with the South Australian Company ; and are, gentle men, your most obedient and humble servants. FRAUDS ON THE POST OFFICE.-011 Saturday a case came on before the sheriffs in the police court, at the instance of the post office authorities, against a woman of the name of Watt, from Glasgow, and another woman, of the name of Thomson, in Edinburgh, charged with conspiring to defraud the money-order department of the Post-office. It appeared that Watt had occasion to transmit to Thomsom the sum of five shillings, she therefore procured a money-order at the Glasgow Post-office for that sum, in favour of Thomson ; but by a mistake of the clerk who filled up . the order while he entered five shillings in one part of it, wrote five pounds in another part. The relative letter of advice, however, sent from Glasgow to Edinburgh, bore that the order was five shillings. Watt transmitted the order to Thomson through the post, who in consequence presented it on the following morning, at the Post-office here, when she received the sum mentioned. It appears that Watt, immediately after she had dispatched the order to Thomson, entertained the idea that in consequence of the mistake in the order, of which she was at the time well aware, that possibly the Edinbnrgh Post office might pay Thomson five pounds, and wishing to have a share of this sum, she came to Edinburgh, when finding that Thomson had previously drawn the five shillings, she (Watt), accompanied by Thomson, went to the Post-office and there demanded the difference, being £4 15s, on the ground that she (Watt) had actually paid £5 to the Glasgow office. The officials here stated that the matter would be enquired into, and Watt and Thomson wered desire to call again in two days. In the mean time it was ascertained from Glasgow that five shillings was all that had been paid in by Watt; and on a renewed demand being made, the parties were taken i n t o custody. On being brought before the court on Saturday, Watt pleaded guilty to the charge, adding that Thomson was n o t aware of the fraudulent design till after the £4 15s had b een demanded. In consequence, Watt received sentence of twenty was dismissed from d t i a i y a s b i a ro r p . liso c n o m t t e i:h t i ts, n t g a a n ol a , r an! Thomson d d JOURNAL OF THE MONEY MARKET WEDNESDAY EVENING,—The Funds closed to-day the same as yesterday with business very quiet. Consols 901- to for money, und for account 914. Bank Stock 172 to 3. India Stock 255 to 6. Exchequer Bills 13s. to 15s. prem. The Foreign Market remains without material change. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 521, the Five'per Cents 99i to 100. Belgian 103 to 4, Spanish Active with the Coupons 231 to a. Portuguese Five per Cents 331 to 4, the Three per Cents 20 1 1 to 4. Brazilian 69 to 70. Mexican 301 to Colombian 224 to 3. All the markets were quiet to-day, and the auctions of East India Sugar went off indifferently. Tea and Tallow were much the sam'eas yesterday. In the Amsterdam markets, during the week ending Tues day, the only business in Coffee had been at the auction of 90 bags Surinam, which went lower. Ordinary Cheribon was at 264 c ; first quality Sumatra at 24c, and good ordinary Brazil at 26c. In Tea nothing had been done, owing to the approaching auction. There was not the least demand for Tobacco. The holders of Cotton were firmer, but without making many sales. The auctions of Raw Sugar went off readily, and prices were firmer. Rice was without altera tion—viz., 124 f to 151 f. Potashes were rather scarce. Pe tersburg half clean Hemp was at 63f. In Hides a fair busi ness had been done at full.prices. Yellow Candle Russia Tallow was at 311 f. DARING MURDER NEAR BRISTOL BRISTOL, APRIL 19, 1811.—One of the most atrocious murders ever recorded was perpetrated on Saturday morning last at the quiet village of Tocklington, about eight miles from Bristol, under the following circumstances :—The un fortunate deceased, Mr. William Fisher, was 54 years of age, and a very respectable farme r , li v i ng o n his own freehold es tate at the hamlet of Hawley, near Tocklington. On Satur day morning, having occasion to proceed to Bristol market, with a cart load of potatoes for sale, he stopped at a retail cider-house at Tocklington, kept by a person of the name of Thomas, and called for a jug of cider. While he was drink ing the elder, and conversing with two persons at the house, named James Cullimore and Richard Knapp, the murderer (William Weyman), who is a pensioner, having been dis charged from a cavalry regiment, came in and called for a pint of cider, which was supplied him. He had not been there many minutes before the landlady observed inside the breast of his coat a cavalry pistol, which, seeing a piece of brown paper in the muzzle, she judged to be loadd heavily, and expressed her alarm at it. As, however, the prisoner was in the habit of shooting cattle for the butchers in the neighbourhood, and cleaning guns, &c., for the farmers as a mode of livelihood, in addition to his pension, this cir cumstance, she was told, need not surprise her ; besides which the prisoner declared it not to be loaded. The pri soner then entered into conversation with the persons who were in the house, to whom he was well known, and said that he had been to the post-office, where he had got a penny letter containing £5O. The farmers present, knowing the prisoner's habitual mendacity, joked him upon this, and the deceased Mr. Fisher said, " That's a lie, I know." The prisoner immediately answered, " If you had said that out side, Fisher, you should never have kicked more." The de ceased, being a man of very jocular habits, said, " 'Pshaw," and repeated the observation. The prisoner then got up from his seat and went into the back kitchen for a minute or two, and on his return clapped his pistol against the cheek of the deceased, and before either of the persons in the house had time to interfere, discharged its contents through the head of Fisher, who fell instantly on the floor, the pistol falling be side him. A medical gentleman, who happened to be riding by at the moment, hearing the report of the pistol, came into the house and examined the deceased, who was, how efver' quite dead, his tongue beinc , shot off and the lower part o his cheek very much shattered.' While the surgeon was examining the body, the prisoner, with the greatest coolness, said, " I know that's a dead shot." The coroner's inquest was held this day before Mr. Ellis, and from the evidence adduced, and the statements made by the prisoner after his apprehension, it appeared that the pri soner had been contemplating the commission of this atrocious act for some days. It was proved that on Friday last he pur chased some gunpowder and two marbles at a shop in the neighbourhood, and that in the afternoon of Friday be told a man named Cook that he had been looking about for Mr. Fisher all the day, and that if he had found him he would have shot him. The constable also deposed to the prisoner's having said to him when apprehended, " I will go anywhere with you, for I know I shall be hanged for it ; but I shall die happy, as it was all for that woman." The prisoner did not mention the woman's name, but having also said that "he bad it harbouring in his breast before he went into the army," it was understood to be an allusion to the wife of the de ceased, for whom it is said that about nine and twenty years ago he professed an attachment, although she was then only twelve years of age. The prisoner having committed a rob bery at that period, to avoid apprehension entered the army, and was present at the battle of Waterloo. During his ab sence Mr. Fisher married the young woman, and lived hap pily with her until the period when his existence was thus awfully terminated. The prisoner also said he had kept the pistol loaded for four days, but that he could not find Fisher before that morning, when, thinking it a convenient oppor tunity, he shot him. The jury, after hearing the whole of the evidence, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against William Weyman," who was committed to Glocester gaol for trial. EXECUTION AT GALWAY (From the Dublin News Letter.) On Wednesday last, Patrick M' Hugh, aged 22, convicted at the late assizes for the wilful murder of his fellow-traveller, on their way from England, paid the penalty of his offence by undergoing the extreme sentence of the law. The wretched culprit immediately after he was pronounced guilty by the jury acknowledged the justice of the verdict, and when brought up for sentence before Baron Foster declared his sincere sorrow for his crime, and his regret that he could not in this life suffer more than the torture of death. Upon being removed to the gaol he at once betook himself to prayer and such other devotional exercises as are prescribed by the Roman Catholic Church, of which he was a member. The chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Cummins, was unremitting in his at tentions to the unfortunate man, and it is hoped he was not unsuccessful in preparing his soul for the great change it has since undergone. His conduct since his conviction has been marked by a strict propriety of demeanour, combined with a perfect resignation to his fate. In the early part of this week he went through the forms prescribed by the discipline of his church, and to all around him he expressed his willing ness to die. Though no effort was made to obtain a commu tation of the sentence, the high sheriff deemed it proper to wait until after the arrival of the Dublin mail on Wednesday, lest any communication might be received by it from the executive. None was forwarded from the Castle, and pre parations were immediately set on foot for carrying the dreadful sentence into effect. Three Roman catholic clergymen were with the con demned and unfortunate men from an early hour, and at about two o'clock the melancholy procession left the chapel, whence they proceeded through the gaol-yard to the place of execution. M'Hugh walked with a firm step, still un daunted at his ignominious fate, nor did he betray the slight est symptom of weakness when ascending the steps leading to the press-room. Upon reaching this apartment the pub lic functionary, whose office it is to carry out the last sen tence of the law, eommenced his operations by pinioning the arms of the culprit, who said he willingly submitted to that indignity when he recollected that the hands of his Saviour were affixed with nails to the wood of the cross. The cler gyman meantime continued in prayer, and assisted the con demned in the religious exercises suited to such occasions. The Rev. Mr. Roach then came upon the platform and addressed the crowd assembled below, which consisted of at least twenty thousand persons, two-thirds of whom I regret to state were females. The rev. gentleman said be was re quested by M'Hugh to express his heartfelt sorrow for his crime, of which he had already acknowledged his guilt, and the deep anguish of his soul for the many offences committed by him against the Majesty of Heaven. He implored the prayers of his hearers that God in his infinite mercy, and through the merits and the sufferings of Jesus Christ, would extend to their unhappy brother forgiveness for his crimes, and that he would not refuse him that pardon which he vouchsafed to promise the penitent thief on Calvary. He trusted that his fate would be a warning to all others, and would teach them to avoid the occasion of sin. The culprit was then led upon the drop, and the rope having been ad justed on his neck, the executioner tried to pull a white cap over his face ; but this was too small ; and from the great force used by Jack Ketch to effect his purpose, or from the extreme pressure with which his arms appeared to be pinioned, M'Hugh fainted, and fell back upon the grating of the scaf fold. While in that state the attempt to draw down the cap was renewed, and it was accomplished with some difficulty, when at length the bolt was drawn, and the unhappy wretch was launched into eternity. He hppeared to struggle for a few minutes, but life was soon extinct ; and after hanging for half an hour his body was cut down and buried within the precincts of the gaol. THEATRE,ROYAL, LIVERPOOL Tide,' the Management of Mr. CLAI?IiP., Sole Lessee FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISS DELCY, And positively the Last Night of Miss DELCY and Mr. TEMPLETON, of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane. THIS present FRIDAY, April 23, 1841, the Entertain ments will commence with the Last Act of the popular Opera of _ CINDERELLA; Or, THE FAIRY and the GLASS SLIPPER. Written and adapted to the English Stage by Mr. ROPHINO LACY, under whose direction the Musical arrangements will be conducted. Leader of the Orchestra (which will be considerably aug- • •-• mented) Mr. Aldridge. Cinderella Miss Delcy. Felix.. (Prince of Salerno).... Mr. Templeton. Alidoro Baron Pompolino.. Mr. G. Horncastle. I Pedro.. Mr. Baker. Clorinda Miss E. Honner. Thisbe.. Mrs. P. Crowe. Fairy Queen.. Mrs. Barton. After which, the Farce, written by J. B. Buckstone, Esq., called SECOND THOUGHTS. Mr. Sudden.. Mr. Baker. I Jabber.. Mr. Chaplin. Mrs. Trapper.. Mrs. Clarke. Isidora. .... Miss Cleaver. Celestina .. Mrs. Baker. I Matilda.. Miss Chaplin. To conclude with Weber's celebrated Opera, (with, for the second time in Liverpool, \Veber's Original Finale,) called DER FREISCHUTZ ; Or, THE SEVENTH BULLET Which was received, on Wednesday Evening, with the most enthusiastic applause. Agatha Miss Delcy. Rudolph.... Prince Ottocar Mr. F. Gardner. Caspar.... Mr. G. Horncastle. Killian.... Mr. Baker. Anna Miss E. Honner. TO-MORROW (Saturday), 24th April, the Tragedy of JANE SHORE. Glo'ster, Mr. Stuart; Hastings, Mr. H. Holl ; Dumont, Mr. Gray ; Jane Shore, Mrs. W. H. Bland; Alicia, Miss Cleaver.—After which the Farce of HIDE AND SEEK. Mordaunt, Mr. Chaplin; Moses, Mr. Slai ter ; Mrs. Mordaunt, Mrs. W. H. Bland.—To conclude with the Drama of the LADY AND THE DEVIL. Mr. CHARLES KEAN and Mrs. WARNER, late Miss Huddart, Principal Tragic Actress of the Theatres-Royal, Drury-lane and Haymarket, will commence an Engagement for TEN NIGHTS, at this Theatre, on MONDAY next, April 26th, 1841, when will be performed the Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. CHARLES KEAN ; Lady Mac beth, Mrs. WARNER, her first appearance in Liverpool since her London engagement. STATE OF THE COUNTY OF TIPPERARY Accounts have reached town, which represent the north ern parts of the county of Tipperary to be in a state border ing on actual insurrection. The town of Nenagh has the appearance of a place preparing for a siege, the streets being crowded with troops, despatched thither from the garrison of Limerick, comprising a troop of the 17th Lancers, and two companies of the 20th foot ; and two or three pieces of ordnance were expected to arrive there in the course of Friday evening. The orders of the military are to scour the disturbed districts day and night, in bodies of 25 and 30, and to be in con stant readiness for active duty at five minutes warning. In the meantime the work of bloodshed and outrage progresses with fearful rapidity. Two more murders were committed lately, in the broad daylight. on the lands of Curraghmore, in the parish of Kilbarron. The names of these unhappy vic tims to Ribandism were Tierney and Gleason. Major-General Sir Parker Carroll, the commanding officer of the district, has been served with a Rockite notice, warning him to be pre pared for the fate which impends over him, in consequence of ejecting a woman from some land, the same being in direct contravention of the Riband code. The list of outrages, in the shape of similar notices, together with assaults on the person, &c., would occupy too muoh of your space. I shall, therefore, merely abridge some of the particulars elicited at the inquest on the body of the wretched Hayes—a brief no tice of whose murder appeared in the Times. of Friday. This barbarous deed was committed within about six miles of Nenagh, on the borders of the Shannon, and in one of the wildest districts of Ireland. Contiguous to the house of the unhappy man are half-a-dozen lonely dwellings, which are chiefly occupied by fishermen, and are situate between two mountains, which command a picturesque view of that mag nificent river. There is no direct passage to the place, and the coroner and his party were obliged, after leaving the high road, to traverse for upwards of a mile an almost inaccessible tract of country, ere they reached the fatal spot. The first witness examined was Bridget Hayes (widow of the deceased). Her husband was a carpenter. H e was employed on Mon day, the sth instant, in repairing a boat for the Rev. Dean Holmes. He left off work between the hours of seven and eight o'clock on that evening. When he came home he went to the door and saw a man pass by. Witness asked him who the man was, and he replied that he did not know. He then went to the fire and kindled his pipe, and re mained standing till the strange man (whosename witness does not know) came in. The man was armed with a two-handed wattle. He came over to the fire and lit his pipe. He did not sit down. He stood at the fire. Deceased desired the strange man to sit down ; he said he would not. During this time the stick remained on the ground. The deceased then said, " Perhaps you're a man that want's to cross the Shannon ?" to which he replied that he did not. Deceased then asked him to remain for the night, and desired witness to put down his supper. The man said he had already eaten it. Deceased got up and walked towards the dresser. Witness observed a change come over his countenance, as if he were afraid. Witness kept her eye on deceased. Did not look round until she heard a blow, and saw him fall. Witness then ran between the man and de. ceased, lest he might strike him again. The man caught her by the head, tore her cap and handkerchief, and dragged her out into the yard ; he then said, " Go in now, or "ii give you the same treatment I gave him ; give up the land now." He afterwards went off in an opposite direction to that in which he came. This happened about nine o'clock in the evening. When witness went into the house she found the deceased lying on his back. He was kiekin; and struggling dreadfully at the time. He spoke in a faltering tone. Wit ness, assisted by a man named Martin Darmody, put the deceased on a bed. All he said was, that she wished to be taken to his brother. He died about one o'clock the follow ing day, The W ilful murder against some epe j r u s iz returned a r o e rp rn ers e o d a persons unknown. Times, Timm FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1841 On the re-assembling of Parliament on Tuesday, Lord Morpeth moved the renewal of the Irish Arms Bill, and Mr. Hume took occasion to say, as in duty bound, that Ireland had become so tranquil and peace able that she needed no such bill. There was more crime, he contended, committed in England than in Ireland; and, with a view to show this, he moved for certain returns by which the criminal statistics of the United Kingdom might be exhibited, and the neces sary comparison instituted. Lord Morpeth made no objection to granting the returns, but thought that, whatever improvement might have taken place in Ire land, crimes were still committed there of suck a na ture as to render the renewal of the Arms Bill indis pensable. Mr. Hume, in asserting that there is more crime England than in Ireland, has only taken up a favourite position of the Romish journals in the sister country, and of O'Connell, the god of their idolatry, and patron —saint we will not say, but patron—of the representa tive of Kilkenny, for which beautiful city the ejected of Middlesex has now the honour to sit the member in Parliament. The Romish press in Ireland delight to catch at every narrative of crime committed in this country, with a view to shew that our boasted civilisa tion and Protestantism have not conduced to a snore pure and orderly state of society than exists in Roman Catholic Ireland ; and that in these respects their sup posed inferiority is only an error of the imagination— a piece of self-conceit on our part. Their peasantry, they say, are not only, as Mr. O'Connell calls them, the " finest pisantry on the face of the earth," but the most peaceable and virtuous. The murderous system of Ribandism, at this moment in full operation in Tipperary, Limerick, and Queen's Counties, is no thing, or a mere bagatelle, in their regard. Count crimes, say they, and it will appear that you have just as many among you as we have--not positively merely, but proportionably in respect to population; and as to temperance, chastity, and whatever concerns the purity and happiness of the domestic circle, we are absolutely your superiors. This is a theme dwelt upon unceas ingly and con amore by all the Irish Liberal journals ; and all we say is, that we are sorry that the error in which they indulge, wilfully or otherwise, is so egre gious and so complete. We would most sincerely that it were otherwise. At the opening of a late assizes in Tipperary, there were 498 prisoners in gaol, and of these seventy were charged with murder ! Within three years and a half there were committed in Ireland upwards of 600 mur ders and homicides, and of these the greater part.went unpunished, from the unwillingness, or fear, of parties to prosecute. And with these facts staring us in the face, are we to be told that there is no more crime in Ireland than there is in England ? We have heard of " enormous lying," but of nothing ever more enormous than this—at least we think so; but perhaps Mr. Hume's returns may disabuse us of our present im pression. Perhaps we may discover that we have been under a mistake all this time, and that if a man would live snug and secure, and free to do as he will with his own, there is no place like Tipperary ; per haps so ; but we are certainly rather sceptical on the point. As to the returns which Mr. Hume has moved for, we set no value upon them ; they will reveal nothing on the most interesting and important part of the case. The mere counting of crimes is an insufficient criterion for determining the comparative state of the two coun tries. A murder is committed in Tipperary, and a si milar crime is committed in Lancashire, and a record may be kept of all such offences ; but would an in spection of that record give us, at the end of a stated period, any just idea of the state of society in each dis trict, or be conclusive as to the superiority of one or the other in a moral or social point of view ? We need scarcely answer this question in the negative. In Lan cashire the crime is the result of individual malice, or perhaps part of the evil design of a gang consisting of not more than two or three desperate characters whose principal object is robbery; but in Tipperary it is the index of a system—the offspring of a conspiracy— whose ramifications are deep and extensive—which pervades almost the entire country—comprehends in its dark affiliation we know not whom nor how many — and keeps the great mass of the population in subjec tion to a most foul and abominable tyranny. Now w ill the returns called for by the member for Kilkenny take any cognizance of this peculiar state of things ? and, if they do not, how imperfect must be the light which they will shed on the question which he raises on the comparative state of crime in this country and in Ire land. We have crime enough in this country—a great deal too much—and often are we forced to blush for our country that such deeds are done in it ; but in Ireland there is not only a fearful amount of actual crime, but, what is worse, there is the " criminal state" also along with it. In England crime is the exception to the rule ; in Ireland, or, we should say, some portions of it, it is, we regret to observe, the rule itself. In a re tired part of the country a poor man is sitting at his fireside with his family ; a fellow walks in whom he never saw before, and he is invited to sit down to par take of the evening meal ; hospitality is the familiar virtue of every I r i s h co tt a ge ; the fellow affect s t o li g h t his pipe, but takes an opportunity suddenly to turn round, and slay his too confiding host in presence of his wife and children. And why is this ? This mur derous and m y ster i ous v i s itor is a " Thug," and the victim of his barbarity is an individual who had ven tured to take, or to hold land, or do some act with re ference thereto,— or h e wa s, perhaps, merely a Bibl e reader —contrary to the laws of Thugs and Thuggery, which alter not ; he was consequently ordered to be taken off; and the s h rou ded emissary who performed the deed was simply the executive of the Thugs of that d'otrio, Such rt ra actually recurred in Tipperary not a fortnight since, Again, at mid-day, a person is at work unsuspect ingly and alone in his own field; three ruffians steal round a hedge, level their pieces deliberately at him, and, having shot him dead, go off. What was the of fence in this case ? Why the father of this victim, who is quite a young man, had not been obedient to the se cret, agrarian laws of Thuggery, and it was necessary to the interests of Thug domination that some one of his family should pay the forfeit. This is another re cent case, but from the Queen's County. Now, where such deeds occur, and such things are, there, we say, there is a state of society utterly tainted and vicious, and actual crime is far from being the worst thing in it. Its very tranquillity is but the tran quillity of the grave. Will Mr. Hume, or any other employe and agent of the Popish priesthood of Ireland, have the effrontery to tell us that there is any thing re sembling this to be found in England But we are glad of the inquiry; we really rejoice at such an in vestigation being set on foot ; for it is of the highest importance to both countries, that the true cause of the crimes and wretchedness of Ireland should be probed to the very bottom. Ribandism has, doubt less, a great deal to answer for; but what is Riband ism ? Is it, or is it not, an emanation of Popery ? For our part we never had a doubt as to the solution of this question ; but we shall be glad of any circum stance that may lead others into the necessary inquiry, and the same conclusion that we have drawn. We perceive, by Mr. Macaulay's statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday, that there was but too much foundation for the revolting narrative circu lated a short time since, as to the punishment of a soldier of the 11th Hussars at Hounslow, in presence of his regiment, immediately after divine service on the Sabbath-day. Mr. Macaulay's version of the affair differs in no material point from the original history, and offers no mitigation whatever of the offence. It is true that the flogging did take place on the Sabbath day, and in the manner, though not exactly at the time, mentioned ; and what more is necessary to raise a feel ing of the strongest disgust in the mind of every one who has a due respect for the sacredness and hallowed rest of the day. Flogging, it is said, has been rare in the 11th Hussars ; nor was Lord Cardigan the author, or cause of the punishment in this instance ; it was the award of a court Martial, and he but gave effect to its sentence. But thq offence complained of is the execution of it on a Sunday ; and for this we un derstand, from Mr. Macaulay, that Lord Cardigan is alone responsible. His lordship selected that day fox the, soldier's punishment, and by his orders it was on that day inflicted. We hear of late a great deal about the abolition of capital punishment, and of the necessity of mitigating the severity of our penal code; but in our opinion the practice of flogging in the army, in a time of profound peace, and in regiments quartered at home, is far more objectionable. It is a species of torture, nay, it is tor ture itself of the severest kind, worthy only of a bar barous age. We conceive that in a well disciplined regiment it would be quite needless; but the abuse of the Sabbath to so vile a purpose—the conversion of hours which should be devoted to tranquil enjoyment into a time of disquiet, anxiety, or even agony—is a proceeding calculated only to disgust men with the ser vice, and is moreover a scandalous violation, as well of the spirit as of the letter of the divine command ment. Lord Cardigan's military career has been an unfortunate one, and it is, we think, high time for him to bring it to an end. He came into the world a little too late to obtain that honourable distinction which might have been his lot under different circumstances ; for whether it convey a compliment, or otherwise, we certainly think that he would have been much more likely to have been serviceable to the state in some burly, bellicose period, than he has been, or is likely to be, in these piping times of peace. Our " Conservative democracy" of Liverpool is quite a puzzle to philosophers of the Whig school. It is, says a writer in the Chronicle of Saturday, an " ano maly in politics." But we submit that the anomaly is altogether a figment of his own mind. By a Conservative democracy is meant, we presume, a people attached to the existing order of things in all essential respects; and what, may we ask, is there ano malous in that ? But, the truth of the matter is, that before the parliamentary and municipal reform bills had passed, or been sufficiently tried, the Whigs ima gined that the people were as gullible as they wished them to be, and, that if they possessed more power in the state, they would throw it all into the scale of Li beralism. In that expectation they now find them selve4 mistaken ; and, like that great medical theorist who, when his patients died under his hands, used to exclaim .that by every rule of art they ought not to have done so, and that it was a great error on their part, so these doctors of the Whig academy cry out that a Con servative democracy, so far from gaining strength, ought to have been completely extinguished under their treatment, and that it is quite an anomaly in politics that the case has not so turned out. It is laughable to hear the laments of the Whigs on this head, and interesting to discover that, soured by disappointment and hopeless of remedy, they are at present in the best possible condition and disposition to quarrel with each other. " I cannot help thinking," says the writer above referred to, " that the reformers are losing the mastery of the Town Council, from having aped the very practice of the tories the very moment they got possession of it. We fought for it as for a prize in which all were to have a share, and yet one of our first occupations, when it was within our grasp. was to draw broad lines of distinction between those who might and those who might not be admitted into the number of our municipal rulers. In the first burst of our enthusiasm we carried the Town-hall by storm ; but the revolution arrived at made known that democracy had made no advance, and that the kid glove and currant jelly dynasty was still to be supreme, even in the very hour of our party's triumph. It chilled the hearts of hundreds of true reformers—it sent them home in disgust and grief—and behold the end—The second race of aristo cratic Council Kings is, unless we make a strong effort, corn ing to a close." " The second race of aristocratic kings," says our authority, "is coming to a close," and there will be nobody, it seems, to regret their fall. The Tories, of course, will not blear their eyes with weeping for them, and we have had some good reasons assigned here why the Whig democracy should not either. The Re formers made a rush for the Council, and gained it ; but the possession only disclosed to them the emptiness and vanity of reform promises. Their aristocracy, who formerly doffed the bonnet in such lowly guise to the most worshipful people, assumed lofty airs, and, taking incontinently to " kid gloves and currant jelly," would scarcely deign to recognise the poor fellows on whose shoulders they had climbed to this perilous height. They began to draw. " lines of distinction," became exclusive, and thought of turning the Council into a sort of Almack's, into which none should be admitted who could not pass the scrutinizing ordeal of the " kid gloves and currant jelly." How painful it must have been to witness such airs on the part of men who affected, of all things, to despise the trappings of place and distinctions of rank in the world. "It chilled the hearts of hundreds of true Reformers," says our informant; "it sent them home in disgust and grief;" and no wonder. It was like waking from a pleasant dream full of delightful fantasies, to all the flat realities of existence. It was like the bursting of a very beautiful bubble, and lo! nothing remains but the painful consciousness that we have been pursuing a phantom and victimised by a humbug. But there are some men so enamoured of deception that no ex perience, however bitter, can cure them of still ven turing on in the same unhappy career. Thus we find this very correspondent of the Chronicle, after making these painful confessions, instead of abandoning the affair as a bad job, as he should do, still exercising his ingenuity with a desperate fidelity worthy of a better cause, in the forlorn hope of discovering some expe dient to redeem the rapidly sinking fortunes of his party. We do not mean to follow him through all the de tails of local interests and influences which he disserts upon so learnedly; but we collect that he relies, as upon a last resource, upon some new shuffle of wards and candidates which may give his party a better chance. In some wards, he calculates, the counting house interest is in the ascendant—in others, the coun ter ; to this point, he thinks, the Whigs have not paid sufficient attention ; " a candidate should be chosen according to the feelings of the ward to be contested ;" "if you send a counter," he adds, " to fight a counting house ward, and, vice versa, a counting-house to fight a counter ward, you will lose both, when, by a judicious arrangement, you might have won both. The Tories, by being snore prudent on this point, have beaten us on many occasions when our candidates were very su perior men to theirs •in every necessary qualification. Sympathy goes a long way in deciding a man's vote." Upon so profound a disquisition as this, we say, we do not mean to enter. We leave Whig quacks to me dicate and compound such recipes and nostrums for gaining a council election. If they .can win by them, so ; it will be much their interest to study the adjust ment ; but if not, we wish them to swallow the pills, and. shift the pea, and thimble-rig away, with the coun ter and counting-house as long and as much as they please; we shall be quite content to meet them in all the wards with no other aid than that of a good, sound, and straightforward Conservative democracy. In a leading article of the same paper we are told that the "Tories have been so eager to find fault, that they haVe not studied the bearings of the case set be fore them by Alderman Evans "—that they have been "wasting much ammunition upon aflag of truce" — that " men of little minds are prone to depreciate what they do not understand"—that it is useless to " cast pearls before swine," &c. To this charge we, how ever, if included in it, must plead not guilty. .The alderman has given us little else to deal with than a mere abstract idea. "He wants," says our contempo rary, " to see the influence of the municipal body en larged, its powers increased, its sphere of local useful ness greatly widened;" and this for no self-interested or party-interested motive, but solely for the good of Liverpool and its inhabitants. " Give me a fulcrum," said some ancient philo sopher—we believe it was Archimedes—" and I shall move the world;" and so says our Evans—" Give me but a Council with proper powers, and I shall astonish the nation." Now as to the abstract idea of power in the Council, we see nothing objection able in it ; the objection is to putting such power into the hands of the liberal alderman and his clique ; and we know of no argument advanced by his worship or our liberal contemporary sufficiently powerful to overcome it. He is quite disinterested in his views, says the Chronicle, because anoth9r party — viz., the Tories, may have the wielding of those very powers which he is anxious to obtain. Very good ; but, as humble members of that party, we would ra ther see the Tories in secure possession of the Council first. If the alderman will then co-operate with Con servatives in enlarging its powers—good ; we shall have no doubt of his disinterestedness under such circum stances; but for the present we must decline cutting the rod which possibly might be used first for our own castigation—that is to say, tyrannically abused for the punishment of innocence and virtue. LOCAL NEWS. THE STEAM Slur BRITISH QUEEN.—It has been arranged that the port of arrival and departure for the British Queen, from and to New York, will in future be Liverpool instead of London. JOSEPH HOLLAND.—A respite until further orders of the sentence on this culprit, who was left for execution by the judges of assize, has been received by the governor of Kirk dale gaol. AMERICAN PACKETS.—The Europe, which left New York on - the Ist inst., reached this port on Monday even ing, bringing one day's later intelligence than the Caledonia. The independence, which would sail on the 7th, may be ex pected up to-day or to-morrow. The Columbia would leave Boston on the 15th, and may be looked for on Thursday next. If the British Queen left on the 10th, she will be due on Sunday—but it is doubtful if she could be got ready for the former day, as she would not reach New York until the 4th instant. CONVERSION.—A young person, educated in the Roman Catholic belief, has renounced the errors thereof, and was formally received into the community of the French Pro testant church of London on Sunday last, at the temporary place of worship, Founder's-hall, Lothbury. ST. THOMAS' CHURCH, LANCASTER.—This place of di vine worship, recently erected in the county town, was opened for public service for the first time on Wednesday evening week, on which occasion a very eloquent sermon was preached by the Rev. David James, of Kirkdale, from Psalm xi-3. " If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do ;" at its conclusion a collection was made to wards the fund required for defraying expenses incurred by the erection of the sacred building, when the sum of £32 was received. THE FOREIGN AID SOCIETY.—This society has arisen from the union and incorporation of two distinct institutions (the European Missionary Society and the Societes Evang6- liques), and aims at the diffusion of the reformed religion over the continent of Europe. We can scarcely imagine that, whilst the liberality of Liverpool is proverbial towards the distant heathen and the dispersed Jews, there will be any lack of interest manifested towards those who are joined to us by innumerable links of neighbourhood, common Christi anity, continual intercourse, and mutual impressions. True it is that France has gone to the greatest depths of infidelity, and has cast off for years all national profession of Christi anity—but there is no occasion for despair. Already much has been accomplished ; and if the Foreign Aid Society, whose claims, as may be seen from an advertisement, will be advocated here on Monday next, be adequately supported, there is every, reason to expect, from past experience, that the religious principles of the reformation will be spread over the continental nations; and many will thus be rescued from the absurdities of infidelity or the grinding tyranny of an anti-Christian apostacy. Let our Protestant readers reflect upon the objects which this society has in view, and assist to the utmost a work so pregnant with blessings to mankind. THE PADGATE BLlLGLARS.—Yesterday week, Thomas Sutton, the man admitted as evidence for the Crown in the prosecution about to be instituted against this notorious gang of burglars, made a very full statement of his transactions in connexion with them, from the time of his joining them until his apprehension in Manchester some short time after the Padgate burglary. He entered into a detailed account of the manner of his introduction with William Dixon, a saw yer, and member of the gang. Shortly after his acquaintance with these scoundrels, it was arranged that they should rob the newly-erected silk sawmill of Messrs. Bickam and Pow nall, near Worsley. They reached the mill about eleven o'clock on the evening of the 15th February, and entering the garden by the canal side, in front of the mill, took up their respective stations. Parkinson (the captain of the gang) and Dixon, with their crowbars and skewers, commenced breaking a hole in the brick-work forming the factory wall, a work of great difficulty, the walls being four bricks thick, and, on account of the machinery, well cemented together. It was also a work of great hazard, as a row of small cottage tenements ran along the other side of the mill, and the Messrs. Bickham and Pownall's foreman lived in a cottage at one end of the mill, which, by means of a door in the wall, afforded easy access to the interior. In addition to that, the rural police force had their head station in Leigh, and the officers might be expected almost hourly to visit the premises. Goodyear (another of the gang) assisted Parkinson and Dixon in removing the bricks, and Sutton exerted all his energies in keeping a good " look out. The work proceeded but slowly, and Parkinson and Dixon were at one time half in clined to abandon their labour. All operations were sus pended during the time of any boats passing. After four hours' toil three of the gang entered and broke open the doors of the desk, and took therefrom one pound six shillings and fourpence in money. They next collected together forty-three silk warps of various colours, being as much as they could conveniently carry, and of £2OO value, with which they ef fected their escape in safety. The bowl containing some of the copper was thrown into the canal immediately, and the gang, after proceeding some distance along the canal side, finding daylight fast bursting upon them, thought it most ad irisable to deposit the whole of their booty in an old barn at tached to a decayed and dilapidated mansion, some half mile distant from the mill. They afterwards went to Manchester, where, with the assistance of James Unsworth, a hackney coachman out of employ, they procured a cab, into which the silk was placed and removed to Sale Moor, where Goodyear lived. The silk was afterwards disposed of, and Sutton re ceived £2 10s. for his share. Dixon was apprehended last night week, and Unsworth is also in custody. The statement made by Sutton also implicates Dixon, Parkinson, and Good year, in a burglary committed at the mansion of the Messrs. Cocks, at Upton, near Chester. In that case, the gang ef fected an entrance into the bedroom of the ladies, and pre senting pistols at their heads demanded their money. It is said, that they had £l5OO. in the house at the time, which they had just received for some railway shares. Luckily, while one of the ladies was conducting Parkinson down stairs to the place in which it was deposited, one of the servants escaped, and giving an alarm, the gang dispersed in confusion minus their intended booty. CLAIM FOR DAMAGE TO A SHIP.—On Tuesday an appli cation was made before Mr. Rushton, at the Police-office, by Mr. Robinson, of the firm of Lowndes and Robinson, to recover, on behalf of the owners of the True Blue, the amount of damage sustained by that vessel on the 27th of March, in consequence of the pilot who had charge of the ship Eugene havir , run that vessel against her as he was entering the ba sin of Queen's Dock, and carried away her rudder. Mr. Robinson called Mr. John Garnett, the dock-master of the Queen's Dock, who stated that, on the 27th of Mareh last, the True Blue was lying stern on, on the south side of the gateway of the Queen's Dock Basin, hanging to a buoy over the gridiron. It was just before high water, and the gates were not opened, but the True Blue was lying in a position just ready to haul in. He (Mr. Garnett) saw the Eugene run in under the charge oT the pilot, and she was brought up against the bows of the True Blue, which was forced against the basin, and her rudder broken. The fault was in the pilot not letting go the anchor in proper time. He ought to have let go the anchor much sooner. He (Mr. Garnett) was pre sent at the investigation before the pilots committee. The pilot there said be ordered the anchor to be let go as he went in. Mr. Wright, who appeared for the defendant, here ob jected, that what was said by the defendant at the pilots' committee could not be evidence there, because they could not examine him upon it. Cross-examined by Mr. Wright. —lt was the starboard bow of the Eugene that struck the True Blue in the bows forward. The blow was so violent that it broke her hawser, or warp. Was not aware that the True Blue was damaged on the part where she struck. She was forced with violence against the wall, and a main piece of her rudder was broken, and the Eugene carried away het own topgallantmast. The Eugene was out swinging her an chor ; the wind was west, blowing very fresh : she came in before it, and brought her anchor home with her. Mr. Tucker, carpenter, stated that he saw the True Blue on the gridiron on the morning of the 27th, and her rudder was then quite perfect. On the 29th it was surveyed, and found to be shattered. He had repaired it. The cost was £8 10s. 2d. By Mr. Wright.—The rudder was a good rudder. It was made of black birch. The vessel was built at Nova Scotia, and black birch was as good a wood for rudders as could be got there. He had used black birch for the new rudder. Mr. Rushton said the only point in the case was, that the wind was blowing fresh at the time, and the pilot ought to have let go the anchor sooner. The other vessel, it was clear, was removed in a proper position out of the way. The da mage must be paid for. He would have the work looked at by Mr. Askew, and whatever he estimated the proportion of the damage at which ought to be paid by the Eugene, he (Mr, Rushton) would award. LIVER TREATRE.—A most amazing conjurer is now ex hibiting his feats of legerdemain at the Livee Theatre. Mr. Jacobs is a first-rate artist, and deceives people with their eyes open, in a most surprising manner. His ventriloquism is really astonishing. He has been so far well supported. On Tuesday an inquest was held at Lydiate, on the body of a child named John Whitehead, one year and nine months old. The deceased was found by his father floating in the water, which was about three feet deep. It is supposed that deceased was running after the cat when he fell in. Verdict —Accidental death. ANDERTON V. CHAFFER. — This was an action tried at the late assizes in this town, when a verdict was returned for the plaintiff, with £lOO damages, for a criminal intercourse al leged to have taken place , between the defendant and the plaintiff's wife. Mr. Alexander on Tuesday moved the Court of Queen's Bench for a new trial, and the court granted a rule nisi on the ground that the damages were rather large. OPENING OF THE ALBION HOTEL, CHESTER.—We beg to remind the friends of Air. Whaley, residing in Liverpool, that the " housewarming" at the Albion Hotel takes place evening. The train which leaves Birkenhead at four o'clock, and the pier•hcad a quarter of an hour before that time, will arrive most comfortably and conveniently in Chester previbus to " dinner being on table." We under stand that this affair will be something out of the common way. The abilities of " mine host" as a caterer will doubt- leis be exhibited to advantage. MODEL OF HOBART TOWN.—We recommend all mercan tile men and persons connected with the trade of New South Wales to visit this curious and most interesting model, show ing, as it does, the progress of English capital, industry, and enterprize. The steps made by civilization in this quarter are surprising. The thronged streets, and the busy seat of commerce, may now be found, when, but within a few years, stood the jungle and wilderness. This model is well worth visiting, from the remarkable features it presents to view. BARED AND OTHERS V. HAMILTON.—This action was tried at the recent assizes in this town, when a verdict was returned for the plaintiff, with £1,337 damages. The action was brought to recover for two breaches of contract, by which contracts the defendant agreed with the plaintiffs for the purchase of 200 £25 shares in the Grand Junction Rail way Company. The defence set up was that he was misled and deceived by the plaintiff's. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd on Tuesday moved for a new trial, unless the plaintiffs consented to reduce the damages to £575, which would have been the difference between the original price and that at which the shares would have sold if they had been disposed of when the defendant's repudiation of the contract was completed. Rule granted. BURGLARY.—On Wednesday, a man of the name ofJames Cairns was placed before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of hav ing burglariously entered the house of Mr. Albert Joseph Winter, baker and flour dealer, 54, Thomas-street, with the intention of committing a felony. The prosecutor stated, that about a quarter to eleven o'clock the night before, he had seen that his window-shutters and front and back doors were secure. About two o'clock in the morning, however, his wife awoke him with a cry of " There are thieves in the house," when he got up, struck a light, went down stairs, and found the prisoner in the kitchen attempting to make his escape through a large pane of glass which had been previ ously broken. There was no shutter to that window, but it was surrounded by the yard wall, which was five or six feet high. Prosecutor pulled the prisoner back into the kitchen, but his candle having gone out in the scuffle his wife got him another light and the assisitance of officer 101. He then found that his wife's cloak, which had been lying behind the door the night before when he went to bed, was upon the table. He also found that a pane of glass had been broken, in a small window which was between the kitchen and the shop. A tea-tray had been removed from the table and placed upon the floor. The door of the house was open. It had been opened from the inside. A policeman deposed, that on searching the prisoner he found a clasp knife, with the two blades in it, one of which had been recently broken. The prisoner was committed for trial. MUSCHAMP V. THE LANCASTER AND PRESTON RAILWAY COMPANY.-Mr. Cresswell, on Tuesday, moved the Court of Exchequer for a new trial in this case, which was an action to recover the value of a box intrusted to the defendants to carry. It being directed to Derbyshire, it was tried at the late Lancashire assizes before Mr. Baron Rolfe, when a ver dict was found for the plaintiff. He being a stonemason out of work in Lancashire, went into Derbyshire, where, having settled, his mother made up and sent the box in question to one of the stations of the railway, and delivered it to the company's servant. He was informed that it would reach him in three days. She asked if it would go any sooner if she paid the carriage, and was informed no, and she did not pay it. The box was lost. The learned gentleman now contended that as the railway company professed to be carriers only between Lancaster and Preston, they were not bound for anything intrusted to them beyond those points. Had they contracted to carry the box beyond Preston, by taking payment for the whole distance, he admitted they would have been liable. The company was differently placed from the case of a mail coach. In the case of the London and Edin burgh mail, the parties professed to carry the whole way, and although there might be two or three changes on the road, still the parties receiving the goods in London must be held liable; but here the railway company were merely carriers from Lancaster to Preston—they pretended to be no more— and he contended were liable no further. The court granted the rule. THEATRE-ROYAL.—Since our last notice, Miss Delcy has appeared in " Fra Diavolo" and " Der Freyschutz," in both of which she has maintained the good opinion which her pre vious characters have gained her. We expressed ourselves freely as to her merits, without being led away by that en thusiasm and proneness to praise which attends alt worship • pers of a rising star. We do not admit Miss Delcy to be perfection •, we believe her to be a most promising singer, and one who will, when time has done its work, take the very highest point in her profession. For her age, and for the little experience she has had, we may pronounce her as somewhat of a marvel ; and we can clearly see that, in the adoption of her style, Malibran is the model on which it is formed. Purity and chasteness, with touches of nature and feeling, constantly are exhibited in Miss Delcy's acting; while those electrifying gushes of harmcny of which her voice is capable, give a glorious promise of what she will be. Her powers are not yet matured ; and how can it be expected, as trumpeted forth to the world, that they are ? How can a gentle, unworldy girl, of eighteen or twe n ty summers, with whom life is new, be expected to walk the stage, and " hold a mirror, as it were, up to nature ?" It is only a matter of astonishment that her abilities and powers are so great, and so truly worthy the public admiration. In Zerlina we no ticed that want of physical strength to carry out the ideas of the composer. In the beautiful scena, "On yon der rock reclining," this was most evident. The bed chamber scene was charmingly acted, and the song "'Tis tomorrow" was delightfully given. We may not have an opportunity of again noticing Miss Delcy's Performance this season. We are confident that if she appears here in the following year our remarks, if remembered, will be al lowed to be correct. We say, time will do all that is neces- sary. Mr. Templeton's FritDiavoio is dashing and spirited, but not so good as Mr. Wood's. Mr. Gardner, as Lorenzo, makes a most awkward and frigid lover. He is not one whit improved in his acting, although his voice is decidedly in better condition. Mr. George Horncastle was glorious as Lord Alleash, and Miss E. Honner, as Mi Ladi, played and sang charmingly. Her coquetting with the Marquis was inimitable. This evening Miss Delcy takes her benefit. So charming a young lady, and one so promising and talented withal, ought to interest in her favour every gallant gentleman in the town, who should strive to fill the house to overflowing on the occasion. We are extremely pleased to see the an. nouncement, that on Monday next Mr. Charles Kean will appear as Macbeth, and that Mrs. Warner will make her first appearance, since her London engagement, as Lady Macbeth. PRESENTATION TO MR. STUBBS.—On Tuesday last, a dinner was given by a number of friends of Mr. Stubbs, the leader and originator of the Royal Harmonic Band, at his own house—the Crane Hotel, St. Vincent-street,—for the purpose of presenting him with a gold snuff-box, a ring, &c, in token of the estimation in which he was held as a man and a musician, by a number of his friends, who had handsomely subscribed towards the purchase. The company was nume rous, and the dinner (provided by mine host) was substantial and excellent, and was followed by a desert of fruit, &c. Mr. H. V. Martin, surgeon, most a bly occup i e d t h e c h a i r , and Mr. James Pedder was equally efficient as vice. The whole list of royal toasts was gone through with every possi ble loyal and affectionate observance. Mr. Stubbs's excell ent band was stationed in the adjoining room, and played at intervals a variety of choice airs. The musical bells were also rung, with an occasional drum accompaniment, and drew much applause. There were also several excellent glee sing ers in the room, who introduced, on the principal toasts being given, appropriate and beautiful glees, catches, &c. Some admirable songs were also sung. In accordance with the generous and national feeling throughout the town, roused by the recent landing of Commodore Napier, there was painted on one side of the room the inscription of " Na pier and the navy " and " Wellington and the army." On the opposite side was " the Queen." After the toasts before mentioned. The chairman came to the toast of the evening, which he introduced by a neat speech, in which he paid some high compliments to the professional talents of Mr. Stubbs, and proposed his health, which was drunk enthusiastically, with musical honours. Mr. Stubbs, in reply, said it usually happened that an occasion of the present kind was considered the happiest moment of a man's life. With him, however, the case was otherwise, because his feelings were so much overpowered by their kindness that he was prevented from expressing what he desired. When he considered the many years he had spent in Liverpool, every one of which had been attended with pleasure and delight in his profession, he felt that he had in some degree discharged his duty as a musician when he knew that the presentation before him had been fostered by nearly the large number of one hundred individuals. (Hear, hear.) If the subject were embarrassing to their worthy chairman, whose learning and education were so much superior to his own, it was by far more embarrassing to himself. He believed that the origin of the presentation had taken its rise from the fact of his having for many years been engaged in instructing the orphans in the Blue-coat School ; but for having discharged his duty in that respect he looked for no reward. (Cheers.) The people of Liver pool had been kind enough to say that the orphans to whom he referred played in excellent style, and if, in so saying, they spoke the truth, it was a sufficient reward for him to have the gratification to think that he had befriended the father less children in their distress. (Loud cheers.) He was alway happy, so far as his circumstances in life permitted him, to render the best services in his power to his fellow men, and whenever he looked at the present token of their regard it should always stimulate him to act the friend to every man who happened to stand in need of his friendship. A number of loyal and sentimental toasts were afterwards drank and responded to in adequate terms. " The Press" was drank with great enthusiasm, which was replied to by a gentleman from the STANDARD Office. The evening was passed in a most agreeable manner, and such was the har mony throughout, and the loyalty and rood feeling displayed, that the language of the greatest bard that England ever pro duced was fully verified, when he exclaimed— " The man who hath no music in his soul, Is fit for treason's stratagems and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus." THE VISITATION ROUTE.—The Rev. and Worshipful Henry Raikes, chancellor of the diocese, will hold his courts of visitation, for the purpose of admitting church and chapel wardens and sidesmen, and for the probate of wills, and granting letters of administration of intestates' effects, at the times and places undermentioned. It will be seen that there will be two courts at Manchester, one for the borough, and the other for the deanery. This is owing, we presume, to the great amount of business to be transacted, and to the inconvenience arising from the crowded state of the church on former occasions : _______ Monday, April 26, Nantwich a t 11 morn i ng . Monday, ond 26, Middlewich a t 3 a ft ern oon. Tuesday, „ ay, ~ 27, Macclesfield at 9 morning. Tuesday, ~ 27, Stockport at 1 afternoon. Wednesday, „ 28, Manchester Borough at 9 morning. Wednesday, „ 28, Manchester Deanery at 1 afternoon. Thursday, „ 29, Bolton Thursday, „ 29, Blackburn . at 3 afternoon. Friday, ~ 30, Burnley. at 9 morning. Saturday, May 1, Lancaster at 9 morning. Monday, „ 3, Ulverston at 9 morning. Tuesday, „ 4, Whitehaven at 10 morning. Wednesday, „ 5, Kendal at 12 noon. Thursday, „ 6, Preston . at 12 noon. Friday, ~ 7, Chorley at. 9 morning. Friday, „ 7, Wigan at 3 afternoon. Saturday, „ 8, Frodsham , at 11 morning. Monday, „ 10, Chester at 10 morning. Tuesday, „ 11, Ornaskirk at 9 morning. Tuesday, ~ 11, Liverpool at 3 afternoon. TO CORRESPONDENTS We perceive that Mr. Pilkington, secretary to the Patent Bitumen Company has addressed a letter to a contempo rary, stating that the account which appeared in the STANDARD of Tuesday, relative to the fire at the Asphalte Works at Litherland, was incorrect. The damage done by the fire was very slight. The paragraph was copied from the Albion. The letter of " Observer" partakes too much of the nature of an advertisement to be inserted gratuitously. The liberality of the Mayor towards Commodore Napier, and the gentlemen who accompanied him to the Town hall, was of course known to us, but we were unwilling to mar the festivities of the day by any allusion to the subject on Tuesday, and now the public are sufficiently well ac quainted with it. The lines by " M. A." shall appear on Tuesday. Mir Ethrrpool at tanbarb,