The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-28 00:00:00

The British and American royal mail steamer Britannia, which would leave Boston on the 16th, and Halifax on the 18th instant, will be due at this port to-morrow. THE PRINCESS ROYAL.—A lithographic portrait of this very beautiful steam-ship, sailing between this port and Glasgow, may be seen in our office window. It is from a drawing by Mr. M'Arthur, and is an admirable representation of one of the finest steamers afloat. QuicK VOYAGE.—The Betsey Hall, Captain Cholditch, left here on the 17th July last, for Leghorn, with a full cargo of bale goods, and arrived here on Sunday, with a return cargo, making the voyage out and home in the short space of two months and seven days. A very curious and beautiful diamond ring is now on view at Mr. Marcus,' " the Athenxutn Snuff Box." It is to be disposed of. Upwards of thirty names are entered for it. We understand that, during the week ending on Thursday last, when the Ports were open for the admission of foreign wheat at a duty of one shilling per quarter only, about 18-1,000 quarters were entered at the port, besides flour, to the amount of about 86,000 quarters more. Total at Liver pool, 270,000 quarters. MR. JOHN MARTIN'S PAINTINGS.—We call the atten tion of our readers to the advertisement in our paper of to-day, to the three splendid paintings now on view in the Union Gallery, Slater-street. It will be seen that they will positively be withdrawn on the evening of Friday next, Ist October. No lover of art should omit seeing them, but, in the uncertain state of the weather, should seize the first fine day for that purpose. We feel quite assured, that those who miss the opportunity will long regret it ; as we do, also, that those who have beheld these glorious productions will never forget them. CONCERT FOR PRAYER.—We beg to remind our readers that the ten days-2d to the 11th October—are to be devoted by Christians throughout the world to prayer, for the pro gress of the gospel, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the restoration of Israel, the coining of Christ's kingdom, &c, during the hours front eight to nine both morning and even ing. The first day—the 2d October—being' set more peculi arly apart to fasting and humiliation, and the last—the 11th October—to thanksgiving. It is intended that these devo tional duties should partake more of a private arid social than of a public character. Tint Phis-RARMONICA PIANO. — Herr Breunig and the phys.harmonica piano has been attracting, during the last week, numbers of fashionable and musical people to the Lyceum-room. The audiences have increased day by day. The excellencies of the phys-hartuonica piano are such that there is little doubt they will be applied by the London makers to their piano -fortes, and the instrument will become, in the course of a year or two, common amongst us. It is well known, that the oboe, when well played, closely resem bles the human voice ; but the tones of the harmonica appear to us still nearer to imitate it, as the sound is much sweeter. The capabilities of the phys-harmonica piano are very great, and Herr Breunig's playing has received the highest enco miums. We may, therefore, safely recommend our readers to visit hint. The morning performance commences at twelve o'clock and lasts till one ; the evening, from seven until eight. - - - - - The grand improvements that have within the last few years taken place in the arts and sciences, as tending to the happiness and comforts of the human race, are a subject worthy of general remark. Amon g these we class the new and highly successful operation or squinting, whereby an imperfect vision is most completely remedied, and an other wise beautiful face relieved from an unsightly imperfection. A similar operation, whereby stammering or difficulty • in articulation is completely. overcome. And lastly, though not least, the new and highly improved discoveries in the dental art, whereby it is said the deficiencies of teeth are so com pletely remedied, as to defy detection ; particularly the newly-invented plan practised by Mons. Le Dray and Son, of Rodney-street, Liverpool.—See Adv. SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST A CLERGYMAN. — The adjourned enquiry into the charges against the liev. Robin son Shuttleworth Barton. Rector of Heysham, near Lancas ter, propounded by Thus. John Knowlys, Esq., took place on Thursday last, at the White Lion Inn, Halton. Mr. Brandt, who appeared on the former occasion for Mr. Barton, was unavoidably absent. Mr. Shuttieworth was, consequently, the only representative of the accused. Mr. Knowlys and Mr. Birch were present: The first witness was a young man, named William Banton, who deposed to several circumstances of swearing, on the part of Mr. Barton, in the month of July last. In cross-examination, however, it was elicited that this witness had been twice imprisoned, and that he was connected with a gang of bad characters, well known to the Lancaster Police. The remaining wit nesses were George Clementson, James Hartley, and Wm. Fox, but their testimony did not carry the case further to any material extent. With these closed the case on the part of Mr. Knowlys. The court then adjourned till Tuesday morning, (this day,) at Lancaster. THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY. —We have learned, with much regret, that one of the suf ferers by the recent collision on this railway is Mr. Bowness, a gentleman well known to many of our readers, both by his estimable personal qualities and his talents as a portrait painter: The injury he suffered in the collision was a fracture of the patella, an injury which, though,. we hope, not likely to leave any permanent lameness, is of a very painful and tedious nature. Mr. B. was removed to the Victoria Hotel, in,Preston, where he is now lying ; and, we are happy to learn, though suffering much, is doing well. It is the more necessary that the cause of this gentleman's detention should be known to the public, as he was on his way to Liverpool, where he had numerous professional engagements, his non fulfilment of which must hitherto have been unaccountable to those of his friends to whom his calamity is unknown, and to whom the severit v of the shock he sustained rendered him unable to write.—Journal. SUOPLIFTIN G. — An n Greenwood was, on Saturday charged with felony under the following circumstances :—lt dppeared that, at eight o'clock on Thursday morning last, she and a man entered the shop of Mr. Lloyd, draper, corner of Great Nelson-street, Scotland-road, arid asked to look at some silk handkerchiefs. Mrs. Lloyd was in the shop without any other assistance. The prisoner contrived to employ Mrs. Lloyd as much as she could, and at length she made choice of a handkerchief. The prisoner held an umbrella in her hand. The man desired Mrs. Lloyd to show him a hanaker chief with a spot on Many pieces of handkerchiefs lied, AS she turned to of course, acimmulated on tt le counter him take up a pie,- tisting of seven handkerchiefs, and throw it into the um )rella. Ile immediately threw down two shillings, saying, , This will do," alluding to the handkerchief, and they both left the .. shop and got clear away. Information was given to the police, and, next morning, police-officer Clarke took the Prisoner to Mr. Lloyd's shop, when Mrs. Lloyd identified the prisoner, and saw that she had one of the handkerchiefs On her neck. The prisoner was committed for trial. IMPUDENT ROBBERY. — At the police court yesterday, a Matt named John Foster was placed at the bar, on a charge of having carried off and sold a large quantity of clothing, furniture, money, &c, the property of a Mr. Turner. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Turner, a publican, and that of hi s wife, that they had taken lodgings at the prison er's house, in Blake-street, a short time ago, and had there deposited furniture, bed and table linen, &c, sufficient to fill a house, as well as boxes of wearing apparel. These were deposited in a room occupied by the complainant, and which was not locked up, he having great confidence in the prisoner, from his " seeming to be a very nice man, and moreover a teetotaller." The articles were all left sate in the room on Friday night. On Saturday morning, Mr. Turner went to the house, and wished to go into his room, but was told by the prisoner's wife that he had gone out to work with the key of the room, which he had locked lest any of the chil dren should get in and meddle with the goods. She did not, however, know where her husband worked. The complain ant then tried to open the room door, but he could not. He could, however, open it so far as to see that all his goods had disappeared. Information was given, and they were finally traced to a Mrs. Harrisons's, furniture broker, of Stanley-street, to whom the prisoner had sold them for £5 4s. 3d. It was afterwards found that the prisoner had in the first instance taken most of the goods to a work shop in Waterloo Road, represen ti ng t h em as - his luggage, which he was taking to America. He then took 'ten boxes, two carpet bags, and f our other. packages. Most of the goods were found, but none of the mgeyinone - of the packages amount ing to upwards of £4. prisoner, who seemed quite un concerned, said that he had e b tee totalle . r, but had taken something to drink on d ee lig t ht.. He intended to have sold some of his own furniture,y some thetrouvi drink, took another thought, and sold soncomplainant's. He was committed for trial at the sessions THE MERCURY AND THE GAME LISTS WC expected that the niggardly set at the Mercury-office LISTS.. — We begrudge the STANDARD the government adve r ti sements w i t h w hi c h he has discovered we are in course of beinr , favoured ; but we certainly did not expect that our contemporary wou ld have shewn so little discretion as to m a k e t h e pu bl ic aware of his chagrin and disappointment. Such, however, is the case. In Friday's publication will be found some spiteful remarks, which we shall not condescend to notice further than to expose the hollowness of the Mercury's boasted publicity. ho suppose that because a newspaper possesses a superiority on the stamp returns, it is therefore the best m edium for advertisements, is ridiculous. Of what utility would it be to place the game list in the Mercury when not half a dozen persons enumerated in it are readers of that journal, and when few of the vaunted 7000, who patronise the Mercury, know the difference between a partridge and a peacock. The fact is, as has been already plainly proved, that the radical papers find the great majority of their customers in public houses and beer-shops—among a class who have nothing to lay out in the shops of tradesmen—are no very likely bidders for estates or villas—do not want cooks, or footmen, or coachmen, or butlers, or gardeners—in fact never take the trouble even to read advertisements, which are matters that do not often concern them. The class of persons by whom advertisers are likely to benefit, are those who have money at Command, and these are generally not radicals. Let our conservative friends think of this when spending their mo ney over advertisements which not only bring them no re turn, but which assuredly serve to keep alive a miserable crew, who take every opportunity of vilifying their patrons an d the best institutions of their country. CASE OF SMUGGLING A LARGE QUANTITY OF TOBACCO. —At the Police Court yesterday, Captain William Murphy, cf the ship Ellen, was placed at the bar, charged on an infor mation laid by the Solicitor for the Customs with having on board of his ship, a large quantity of tobacco, so concealed that he must have been cognizant of the fact. Mr. James Dunn, one of the tide-surveyors, said that on the Bth instant, lie boarded the Ellen, of which the p r i soner was captain, on her arrival in the Princes Dock Basin, from Quebec. He searched her, and behind a stair or ladder leadin g to the water closet, he disc overed a concealment, 'which he had opened, and then discovered three bales of leaf tobacco, of 261 b each. The bales were what are called " sran g e ers , packages." He also found f our p arcels of forei g n manufac_ tured tobacco, weighing 11271 b. The prisoner's sleepi ng b ert h was only five or six feet from the place, and he must have known it was there from its strong smell. It was taken out in the prisoner's presence, and he said nothing , for som e t i me, but afterwards said that "it was a b ad job.' The day follow ing witness went to the ship to take a sketch of the conceal ment, and found it nailed up. He found in the same place 321 b of cavendish tobacco, which was not left there on the previous day, as he had examined the place with a lantern on leaving it. The total quantity tbund was 2361b5. On mentioning the second seizure to the prisoner, he again remarked that it was a bad job, and afterwards said that his second mate had absconded. Some tobacco, which the prisoner said he had for stores, was like a portion of that seized. The witness was cross-examined for the prisoner, by Mr. Brown, solicitor. He (witness) admitted that the concealment was not nailed up, but it was so closely fitted that it required great strength to remove the board. The captain alone had access to the water closet. On the second day, the captain had men tioned that his second mate had absconded, but he said in reply to his questions that he did not suspect either of his officers; and lie (witness) had no knowledge of any such person being on board except from the prisoner's word. Mr. Brown contended for the prisoner that the place in which the tobacco was found was not nailed up, and that it could not therefore be said to be concealed ; that the prisoner had offered a handsome reward for the anprehensiou of the second mate but without success ; that the crew might have con cealed it, and that taking all the circumstances into con sideration it could not be fairly inferred that the prisoner was the offending party. Mr. Rushton said there was no resist ing the evidence again, the principal points of which be reca pitulated, in proof that the prisoner must have known of the tobacco being there, particularly as it was stated that it smelt strong. The quantity found in the same place, on the second day, was also corroborative of the fact. Mr. Brown stated that the prisoner had been in the employ of the same firm from a' boy, and had always borne an excellent character. Mr. Rushton said that being the case, he should prefer in flicting the penalty. Addressing the prisoner, he then said, " you are convicted in the penalty of £100." BOROUGH REVISION LIST. THE VOTES OF THE PROTECTOR SOCIETY. On Saturday morning, as we announced in our last, Mr Temple delivered the judgment on the much-controverted question whether the payment of votes by a society esta blished for an express political purpose is a good payment, so far as the voter .is concerned. As the decision is most important, and affects the rights of a considerable number of persons whom the radicals are striving to foist upon the re gister, we give the judgment in full : I have given this case the best consideration in my power, and have discussed the question most fully with my learned colleague ; and I regret to say, that although we have both entered upon the investigation with an anxious desire of concurring in opinion, we are compelled to remain with differetit impressions of the law upon this subject. If either of us had entertained any strong doubt of the correct ness of his own view, he would, for the sake of avoiding the inconvenience of a diversity of decision in separate courts, have yielded to the other. But that is not so ; and there fore, if any cases arise in Mr. Wilde's court, they will be probably determined by him in a different manner from that which I feel myself bound to adopt. For this inconvenience, however, we are not responsible. We are both bound to act upon our own understandings; and the legislature hay ing created no controlling power to decide between us, I cannot see that we have any means of evading the difficulty. . „ There arc three grounds upon which this question may rest. First, it may be urged that the payment was not substan tially a payment by the voter; and, secondly, that the pay ment was a fraud at common law, and therefore brings it within that class of cases in which it has been held that the act is entirely null and void. There is a third ground, upon which I shall enter with some particularity after I have con sidered these two. It is said with regard to the first, that the act requires the payment to be by the voter himself; and that if the means be provided by another person for the express purpose of enabling the party to exercise a franchise, and with the implied contract that the franchise so procured shall be exercised iu a particular wanner, that payment is not a payment by the voter himself. 1 will here state that a pamphlet was sent to me on Thursday night, by some gen tleman with whom I have not the honour of being acquaint ed, accompanied by a letter calling my attention to the opi nions of Sir Frederick Pollock, Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Wightman, and Mr. Crompton, upon cases laid before them upon this point, and printed in the pamphlet. I have per used those cases and opinions; but as the pamphlet, from the first two pages'which I read of it, appears to be written in a tone and with a temper which afford little promise of its containing impartial and dispassionate arguments, I thought --the time which would be occupied in its perusal would be more usefully employed in seeking light from some other source. With regard to the opinions, I am not pre pared to say that I dissent from them ; but I must say that the cases.upon which those opinions are written, fall very far short of the real facts which have been proved before me. In order, therefore, that there may be no mistake of that circumstance upon which I ground my decision, I will dis tinctly state what are the facts which I consider to have been sufficiently established in evidence. Some time previously to the 20th of July, 1840, certain persons of a particular side in politics formed themselves into a society for the purpose of advancing sums of money to poor persons to enable them . to pay up their arrears of poor rates. Those sums were to be advanced, and in fact were advanced, only to such per sons as either entertained, or undertook to further by their vote at any election which might take place in the course of the ensuing year, the particular political views of the society. Some trifling sums were paid in by the poor persons, .but so utterly disproportioned to the sums which they were to re ceive out, as to render it quite palpable that they were pay ments made merely to give the society the colour and sem blance of a benefit society. Now the act requires that all rates shall be paid on or before the 20th of July. On the 19th of July, therefore, all these persons go to the office of a Mr. Bretherton, who, it should seem, acted as a sort of clerk to the society. They do not themselves know the amount of their rates due. They appear most of them to have been several years (some I think as many as five years) in arrear, yet, although it is necessary that all arrears shall be paid up, I collect from the evidence that they made no application to , the overseers to ascertain the amount. But when they gets. to Mr. Bretherton's office, that gentleman has got an account of the rates, and hands the amount to the party, telling him there is so much due, and he must go and pay it to the over seer. I also collect this, (and although it is not stated in plain terms, yet. using my common sense, as I would if 1 were upon a jury, and had to return a verdict • upon the evidence,) it seems to me to be obviously the true state of things, that the party having received the money, and received it in the name of a loan, which he might be called upon to pay back, did not take care before he paid it to the overseer, to be certified that he was paying no more than was really due, as one would suppose any man, and especially a poor man, would do before he parted with his money in discharge of a debt, but on the contrary on the word and by the direction of Mr. Bretherton alone, and without exerting any will of his own, except that of obeying Mr. Bretherton, took it and paid it to the overseer. The money having been thus ad vanced for the purpose of obtaining a voice in favour of one political side, it became necessary that the society should have sonic tie or obligation upon the voter lest he should afterwards exercise the right obtained by voting in another way. To this end therefore the advance was called a loan, it being understood, that if the voter performed his contract, the' money should never be required back. This would have the effect, not merely of u.aking it probable that the voter would not deceive them, but in case of poor persons, of co ercing them to an extent entirely destructive of their inde pendence ; because, assuming that no persona derived ussis tance from that society except those who originally did enter tain a con4cientious opinion on the same side ; yet, if before the day of the election their opinion underwent au equally conscientious change, they, who for five successive years had been unable, in smaller sums, to discharge their poor rates, would be exposed to a demand of payment in one lump, from parties whom they had disappointed, and whose ven geance they might naturally believe they had effectually roused. These are the facts which I consider to have ex isted, and about which I believe there cannot be the slightest doubt. Now, upon the first point, the case of Reg. V Bridg north, has been cited in support of the argument, that this was not the payment of the voter. There the money did not pass through the hands of the voter, here it did. This it is contended makes a material distinction between the two _ That must depend upon whether the voter paid the money as his own agent, or as the agent of Mr. Bretherton. That gentleman alone has taken the trouble to satisfy him self of the amount of rates due. He does not deem it ne cessary to satisfy the voter of the same fact. He does not consult the voter as to the propriety of paying that amount. The voter himself does not ask Mr. Bretherton how it is made out, he does not appear to have discussed it with the overseer, but is precisely the same instrument obeying the volition of Mr. Bretherton's mind, as Mr. Bretherton's own hands would be. When the vote is so purchased, it is, to be used in a stipulated manner, with every precaution taken to prevent the contrary. How then can he be said to be any person's agent but Mr. Bretherton's? or the vote to be any person's vote but that of Mr. Bretherton and the society ? I cannot therefore see any solid distinc tion between this case and the Queen v. Bridgnorth. Then the second question is, whether this was a fraud at com mon law within the principle of the cases where such fraud has been held, to vitiate certain acts done. The cases of Rex v. Inhabitants of Tillingham, 1 Barn. and Ad. 180, and Rex v. Inhabitants of Sepulchre, Cambridge, 1 Barn. and Ad. 924, are most in point—(read.)—Now the facts of the present case, it must be acknowledged, are up to a certain point precisely similar to those of the two cases I have named. There the rent, which by statute is required to be paid by the pauper to enable him to gain a settlement, is paid for that express purpose by another party. Here the rates which are necessary to be paid to entitle a person to be put upon the list of voters is also paid for that express pur pose by another party. Upon these two grounds, however, I have had presented to me some very ingenious, and 1 may add, forcible arguments. They have ben insufficient to convince me. But there is a third ground which no argu ment which has yet been suggested has been able in the slightest degree to shake. If I concede that this has been an actual payment by the voter himself, and that it does not come within the definition of a fraud at common law, I still most strongly think that it is a fraud upon the law of par liament. And for the purpose of showing clearly how I con sider that it is so, and that, being so, it destroys a man's right to be put upon the register ; I propose to consider what is the nature of such a fraud, and how it taints the cases which I am deciding. In the case of East Grinstead, which is re ported in first Peckwell, p. 307, one material question turned upon what was termed an election law " occasional ity." And in the argument a definition was advanced, in support of which the case of the Pontefract election, in 1699, and the case of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, in 1714, and other eases, together with the well-known and undisputed law up to that period, were cited. That definition is in these words, Perhaps a more precise idea may be obtained of it by considering it in two different points of view, and distinguishing between two sorts of it. The first kind of occasionality is such as does not contain any of what is generally called legal fraud, but yet is deemed to be a fraud upon the law of parliament; and this is where the subject to which a right of voting is attached, is obtained sincerely and bond fide ; but on the eve of a particular elec tion, and for the express and only purpose of enabling the person who acquires it to give a vote at that election. Such acquisitions have often been determined by the House of Commons, in its extreme and honourable jealousy of its own purity, to be void as to the particular purpose for which they were made, though to every other they may be substantial and effective. And again, ' So watchful have parliament been to prevent the fruit of such practises, that no length of time has been permitted to establish that which in its origin was occasional.' Several instances are named in which occa sionality had been practised, and amongst others ' a fraudu lent insertion of names upon the poor rates.' Further on there occurs this passage, 'Now in many of the cases that have been enumerated, it is obvious that the acquisition of the thing to which the right of voting is annexed may be real and bond fide; and yet if it be made at such a time, on such an occasion, and in such circumstances as to leave no doubt that the vote was the sole object in view, the vote is void, As in the instance of an admission to the freedom of a cor poration, doubtless if all the necessary requisites are complied with, the freeman is entitled to all the privileges and immu nitses belonging to his franchise, and is to all intents and purposes a corporator, by virtue of his admission, but that will not prevent his vote from being set aside for occasionality, if Ire was admitted in the circumstances above alluded to.' The statute of 7th and Bth Willian 111, c. 25, was passed for the purpose of making certain conveyances for the purpose of conferring a vote void. But that statute was passed in order that the aid of the statute law of the land might to a certain extent further the objects of the law of parliament. And therefore it was asserted in the case I have quoted, that ' be fore the statute in every case a question arose of the fairness and reality of the transaction, and of the intention of the par ties.' In the East Grinstead case a great number of autho rities, besides those which I have named, are quoted ; and amongst others the case of Haslemere, from Summer's Tracts, vol. 1. p. 374, in which it was said by high authority, That the making of votes by such means was a very evil and unlawful thing, and tended to the destruction of the govern ment and debauching of parliament;' and thatit was sense less to think such practises were part of the constitution of our government, or to imagine that persons whom we entrust with our lives and fortunes ought to be made and chosen by such evil devices.' In another case, of Weymouth and Mel combe Regis, 2d Peckwell, 195, an occasional vo t er is defined w to be one hose qualification from estate, office, or other cause, is conferred or taken for the purpose of voting at an election for a particular candidate or in a particular interest.' These definitions and arguments are all supported by autho rities, which leave no doubt as to what is the law of parlia ment. It does not seem to me to be requisite to lay down any doctrine of what would be `occasionality,' or whether such thing would be held to exist since the Reform Act. I incline to think it would. But in considering what was occasion ality' in numerous cases which occurred before that act, we must necessarily enquire into its origin, and in searching for that we clearly discover certain fixed and settled principles, which were adopted as the law of parliament. In taking the reported decisions of committees as our guide, it is much to be regretted that we do not find the reasons of those decisions, we of e a a r c e h lecfatbeinw as ign u o p r o a l i t ic l e ega w l h a e r t g h o e to r e t o h t e s oultimateevidence, to make th ose arguments ap plicable. becauselackdecision of We are therefore compelled to fly to the authorities cited in order to a s s ure ours elves. whether the doctrines pro pounded are, or are not. consistent with the recognised law. I have applied my mind to those considerations, and I have arrived at a conviction that the laW of parliaMent as far as it can be brought to bear upon the present case is this, that where a test of qualification is created by statute or other wise, that test must exist in a full, pure, and complete degree, untarnished by circumstances which point in an unequivocal mariner at a particular exercise, with regard to politics, and leaving the possession of it in a free and independent condi tion for the proper discharge of its resulting duties ; and as the law of parliament is part and parcel of the general law of the land, I am of opinion that it must be called in aid in the construction of any act of parliament which has for its effect and operation the constitution of the parliament itself. If I do so the next question which I ask myself is, " What could be the object of requiring any voter to have paid his poor rates ?" I cannot think that the object was merely to apply a screw or a bait which should produce payment of a public burthen, and increase the public revenues. I think it must have been meant as a test of a man's being qualified to have a voice in electing representatives to assist in the deliberations of the great council of the nation—and if, in referring to the law of parliament, I find that that test must be pure, unde filed, and independent, I cannot believe that what would be a fraud upon the law of parliament is a sufficient compliance with the requisite of a statute directed to the formation of the parliament itself. How can I say that the circumstances of the cases before me are not a fraud upon the law of parlia ment? If a man is merely the machine to pay rates, and thereby acquire a certain mechanical capability which can afterwards be worked according to the will of another per son, does that man shew himself to be possessed of the crite rion of qualification which the law of parliament would countenance ? And if lam right in supposing that the law of parliament may be resorted to for the proper construction of this statute, is not that which is a fraud upon the law of parliament with respect to qualification destructive of the right to vote under the provisions of the statute ? I think these questions must be answered in the affirmative. Then, how does the answer apply to the present case? A man pays his rate without any means of his own, but by means given or lent to him, not generally and without condition, but by a particular party in politics, to enable him to vote at any election which may occur witnin a limited time, and under a compact either expressed, or under circumstances of the most cogent character, that he shall vote in favour of that interest, and supported by the party who furnishes him with the means. It is in my eyes a clear fabrication. It is au attempt to put before the world a shadow which has no substance, for the purpose of producing an illusory exhibition of the in dependent sense of persons appointed by the constitution to exercise their judgment in the formation of the legislature of the realm. 1 cannot at present know whether, or not, my opinion is correct; but, 1 have formed it after the most se rious consideration, and with an intense anxiety to be right. The persons who by my decision are deprived of their fran chise have an opportunity of tendering their votes at any election which may take place ; and I have the satisfaction of knowing that if 1 am in error, a committee of the House of Commons has the power of rectifying it. My decision is that the objection to these votes is fatal, and that all which come before me must be expunged. With regard to one of the eases which arose before me, in which the claimant had repaid the money,l entertain very much doubt whether that is nut sufficient. The benefit of that doubt 1 shall give to the voter, and retain him upon the list. SOUTH CHESHIRE REGISTRATION The Revising Barrister(William Charles Townsend, Esq.) began to revise the lists for the Wirral district on Wednes day last, at the Birkenhead Hotel, and the business of the court terminated on Saturday. _ _ . The Revising Barrister, on opening his court, said he had appointed tour days for the revision of the lists, and had ar ranged that certain townships should be taken on each day ; had taken care to give publicity to this arrangement, and he hoped it would have the effect of saving trouble and loss of time to the overseers and parties objected to; it was a pain ful thing to see parties attending for several days together to have their cases heard. _ _ Mr. Peacock, assisted by Mr. More, attended on the part of the Conservatives; and Mr. W. W. Mortimer and Mr. James Gregory, attended for the Radicals. The recent election, it would seem, had enabled the agents of both parties to discover defects in the qualifications of electors, and the consequence was an immense number of objections was made by both sides; hut as usual the ob jections made by the Radicals were much greater than those made by the Conservatives. _ _ . . The decisions of the Revising Barrister seemed to give universal satisfaction ; in almost every case where he struck a voter off the list, he gave a reason for doing so, in language so clear and pointed, and in so conciliating a manner, that satisfied_the party that he had justice done him. New Conservative clains... Radical objections sustained New Radical claims Conservative objections sustained The result of the revision gives the Conservatives a clear yaia of 170 over the Radicals. Few cases of novelty occurred ; we subjoin a few oT the most interesting ones, and they will tend to illustrate the practice resorted to by the liberals to obtain voters. A preliminary objection was taken by Mr. Peacock to the validity of the service of the notices of objection made by the Radicals ; the notices, it appeared, were signed " John Goulborn ;" the notice server admitted that he was not ac quainted with the handwriting of Goulborn, and therefore could not swear that the notices delivered by him were really signed by Goulborn. Mr. Peacock submitted that the services of the notices were bad, inasmuch as it lay upon the objector to prove that the notices of objection were signed by a person on the register, in pursuance of the 39th section of the reform act, the witness, it was contended, merely proved that he had served certain notices, but not that those notices were really signed by Goulburn. Mr. Townsend, the Revising Barrister, said he was in clined to concur with Mr. Peacock, that an elector could not be called upon to prove his qualification, unless it could be proved that the notices were signed by a person on the list. The Radicals were for some time in great consternation, when a gentleman present said he was well acquainted with Goulburn's handwriting, and he proved that the copies of the objections then produced were signed by him. Mr. Peacock still urged that this did not cure the defect, because it was still a matter of doubt whether the notices actually served were signed by the objector. The Revising IThrrister said the services were not very sa tisfactory, but as it had been proved that the copies of the objections kept were actually signed by the objector, it was but fair to presume that those served were also signed by him—and, if it were not so, the party objected to should prove it by producing his notice. Several electors were objected to by the conservatives, on the ground that their description on the register was too ge neral; some of them were described as of " Liverpool," without mentioning any street. Mr. Peacock stated that this was generally done by parties who had no bona fide qua lifications, and with the view of throwing difficulties in the way of being served with notices of objection to their claim ; this, he contended, was contrary to the reform act, and, in confirmation of his view of the case, referred to the schedule of the act, in which the street was invariably given. Mr. Mortimer contended that the description was suffi cient, and he instanced several cases where Mr. Peacock had sent in claims with the description " Manchester" and other large places. The Revising Barrister said he was inclined to think the objection good, but, as it would affect many votes, he would consider the point. On the following morning he held the objection fatal to the claim, and the claimants were struck off. This is an important decision, and we trust that our con servative friends residing in Liverpool will examine the re gister to see that their description is not open to the . objection, with a view to its correction next year. Thomas Gregory, of Birkenhead, claimed for leasehold land in Church-street, Birkenhead ; he was objected to on the ground of insufficiency of qualification. It appeared th at I the land would not produce £lO a-year, and he was conse quently struck off. This gentleman actually voted for this qualification at the last election for the liberal candidate. William Williams, of Sweeting- street, Liverpool, claimed in respect of a leasehold house at Oxton ; he was objected to by the conservatives. Claimant, on his examination, stated that the house was worth £2B a-year, and was in mortgage to a building society, in lieu of interest he paid (1:2 75.) monthly for what is called redemption money. Mr. Peacock contended that this qualification was insuffi cient, for it appeared clear that the redemption money ex hausted every shilling of the rent, and that consequently the claimant had not £lO a-year clear of all charges. The Revising Barrister held the objection fatal.—Claim rejected. Several other Oxton votes were struck off on the same ground. Randle Newby, of Birkenhead, Joiner, was objected to by the Conservatives, he claimed for two freehold houses in Brandon-street, Birkenhead. Mrs. Newby attended to sup port her husband's claim, she said her husband bought the land several years ago, and built the houses himself, and he was then the owner of them, and had voted at several elections. Mr. Peacock.—Mrs. Newby, have you, yourself, any in terest in these houses ? Mrs. Newby.—Yes, they were built with my money, and they belong to me and my husband. Mr. Peacock.—Just tell me, Mrs. Newby, what claim you have to the house? Mr. Newby.—Why, I tell you, I advanced money to build them. Mr. Peacock.—Yes, but do the houses belong to you, or to your husband ? Mr. Newby.—l have them now, and after my death he will take them. Mr. Peacock.—That is just what I wanted to know. I suppose they are vested in trustees for you, during your life, and, if your husband should outlive you, then he will take them—is that it. Mrs. Newby.—Yes, that is it. Mr. Peacock.—Then your husband's claim is bad ; he has only a reversionary interest in the property, which is not a sufficient qualification.—Name expunged. William Courter, who qualified as part owner of a field at Seacombe, was objected to by the radicals • he appeared and established his claim.—Mr. Courter complained that he had been objected to for five successive years, and upon every occasion had been put to the inconvenience of attending to prove his claim. We sincerely trust that the Legislature will provide a speedy remedy for the crying evil, of which Mr. Courter so justly complained. John Nevitt Hill, of Poulton, was objected to by the con servatives •, it appeared that the property for which he claimed was the subject of a Chancery suit, and that the rents are re ceived by a receiver appointed by the Court. The Revising Barrister said the claim could not be sup ported, as it was uncertain to whom the property belonged.— Name expunged. Peter Lowe, of Upton, was objected to by Mr. Peacock, on the ground that he had omitted to comply to the 56 section of the Reform Act by paying a shilling with his claim, that section distinctly enacts " that notice of claim shall not be deemed valid until such sum shall have been paid."—Name expunged. It subsequently appeared that Mr. Lowe, who is a warm radical partisan, had sent in several claims for his friends, but in all cases omitted to pay the shilling, and the claims were consequently disallowed. John Lowe, of Barnston, was objected to by the conserva tives, on the ground that he had not occupied his farm 12 months, on his examination in chief he stated that he had occupied the farm seven years, and paid more than £5O a year. —On his cross-examination by Mr. Peacock, he said his father's name was " John " but he had nothing to do with the farm, he was only a lodger with claimant; his father died six months ago; his neighbours might think his father was tenant, but it was a mistake ; his father was rated in the parish books for the farm. Mr. Peacock.—Now man, I ask you upon your oath, did you not bring your father to the hustings to poll at the elec tion in 37, for the very farm you say you have occupied for seven years? Lowe.-1 don't know any thing about that election. Mr. Peacock.—But I will take care you shall know some thing about it. I ask you again, did you not stand by your father when he voted for George Wilbraham ? Lowe.—lt was a mistake altogether, he voted instead of me. (Loud laughter.) Mr. Peacock. —A mistake ! What, when you stood by him and heard him record his vote? Lowe.—l don't care for that, I am the tenant. Mr. Peacock.—Did you send in a claim this year t o be put on the register ? Lowe.—Yes, I did, and I paid a shilling with it to the overseers ; he referred to the overseer, who confirmed him in this statement. Mr. Peacock (addressing the Revising Barrister).—This is one of the most impudent and audacious claims that I have met with, it is notorious that this man's father was the tenant of the farm. The claimant admits that he (the father) was rated to the poor as the tenant, and that he actually voted as such tenant at the election in '37 in the presence of this very person, who now deliberately swears that he himself was the tenant; but there is one fact which is quite conclusive, the claimant has just sworn that he sent in a claim this year to be put upon the register. Now, if he had been on the re gister before, this was quite unnecessary, but this he never did until after the death of his father. The Revising Barrister, with some warmth, told claimant that it was quite clear he was not, in the lifetime of his fa ther, tenant of the farm, and as he had not been dead twelve months, he was not entitled to be on the register.—Name struck off. Mr. Peacock.—This man was told before the last election, that if he voted he would be indicted for perjury, and yet he still had the hardihood to vote ; of course in favour of Mr. Wilbraham, the liberal candidate. (A laugh.) Benjamin Hancock claimed to vote in respect of a farm at He,wall. He was objected to by the conservatives. He stated that he occupied a farm jointly with Mrs. Mary Law ton, at the rent of £l6B a-year. On his cross-examination by Mr. Peacock, he said he had been the managing man for Mrs. Lawton for 15 years. Two years ago he agreed to be come tenant along with Mrs. Lawton, and had since paid a proportion of the rent. Mr. Edward Davies Davenport is their landlord, thinks his name is not entered in the land lord's books as tenant, nor is it entered in the assesment book, would not swear that he had paid for half the stock, but had left some money in Mrs. Lawton's hands, and would swear that he had an interest in the produce of the land. Mrs. Lawton's name was on the carts, he was still paid wages as before (he refused to answer this question for some time.) Mr. Peacock.—This is an attempted fraud on the reform act. Mrs. Lawton of course cannot vote, and no doubt it occurred to Mr. Davenport, who is a liberal of the first water, that Hancock should be nominally one of his tenants for the sake of his vote, and but for the caution of Mrs. Lawton, there would have been great difficulty in resisting the claim ; it is admitted that everything is carried on just as it was before; he pretends to have become the tenant ; he is still paid wages, the stock still belongs to Mrs. Lawton, she alone is rated in the parish books, and her name alone appears on the carts ; these facts are pregnant with fraud, and prove to demonstration that he is not a bona fide tenant of the property. Mr. Mortimer made a rambling speeCh in support of the claim, but the Revising Barrister said he should strike the claimant's name off the list, as he was not satisfied that he was tenant to Mr. Davenport —name expunged accordingly. Thomas Ellis, (who was one of Mr. Davenport's workmen,) claimed for a freehold cottage at Heswall; it appeared his brother had verbally given him the property seven years since. Mr. Peacock submitted that the.claminant had no title to the property, there being no conveyance made to him, it was clear the brother could take back the property any day— name struck off. John Daniel Thorneley, of Liverpool, claimed for a free hold house at Heswall ; it appeared that the late Mr. Lomax had by his will given his freehold property to trustees to be sold, and the proceeds to be divided among his children : Mr. Thorneley married one of his daughters, who was since dead. Mr. Peacock contended that Mr. Thorneley was not en titled to the property, for as his father-in-law had directed his freehold property to be sold it must be considered as personal estate, and would, therefore, not confer a vote, and if it could be considered as real estate it would not belong to Mr. Thorneley, but would go to his eldest son as the heir at law of his mother. The Revising Barrister concurred in this view of the case, and rejected the claim. William Boumphrey claimed for a house at Heswall; he was opposed by the conservatives. He said be was entitled to the house in right of his wife, and that it was settled upon her. Mr. Peacock.—When you were in Chester Castle some time since, did you not omit this property in your schedule, because it belonged to your wife? Boumphrey.—Yes, I did. Mr. Peacock.—Then you considered you had nothing to do with it ? Boumphrey disallowed. John Williams claimed as occupier of a house and land in Lower Bbington ; he was objected to by the radicals, on the ground that his farm was situated in two townships. Mr. Mortimer contended that the claim was bad, inas much as claimant stated that the land was in Lower Bebington, whereas it was partly in that township and partly in the township of Higher Bebington, which should have been stated on the face of the register; he also contended that the claimant should have sent in a claim to the over seers of each township. Mr. Peacock pressed the Revising Barrister to amend the desription, which he contended, at considerable length, he had power to do, under the 42 sec. of the Reform Act. The Revising Barrister considered the claim bad, and that he bad no power to amend it, he concurred in the view taken of the case by Mr. Mortimer—name expunged. John Hadley Bally claimed for freehold houses in Chester road, Tranmere, and was objected to by the conservatives, on the ground that he had not 40s. a-year clear for his own use after paying interest on the mortgage—name expunged. Henry Simpson claimed as occupier of a house near the Rock Ferry. He was objected to by the conservatives on the ground that he had let his house ready furnished, and thereby ceased to occupy the same within the 20th section of the Reform Act. Name expunged. George Law claimed as occupier of a house at Holt Hill, and was opposed by the conservatives. Mr. Mortimer called the overseer to prove that Mr. Law was rated at a sum of above £5O a year. Mr. Peacock objected to this loose way of proving a qualification. M. Mortimer.—lt has been allowed in several cases with out objection. Mr. Peacock.—Yes, Mr. Mortimer, but I am not to be caught in this way. Last year and the year before I objected to Mr. Law, and upon each occasion I made him prove that he had no qualification. He first claimed as an occupier, then I knocked him off; then he claimed as owner, and I knocked him off again ; and now he falls back upon his first qualification. My objection is this : The property is settled upon his wife for her separate use. The Revising Barrister.—lf that is the case, his claim cannot be supported. Mr. Mortimer admitted that it was the case, and the claim was for the third time disallowed. William John Harden, barrister at law, claimed, " As occupier of house and premises at a rent exceeding £5O per annum, in continuation of a similar qualification in the township of Liscard." He was objected to by the conserva tives on the ground that he had not occupied the premises twelve months. The Revising Barrister and professional gentlemen present were much amused at this claim, which is bad upon the face of it, inasmuch as successive occupations will not constitute a county qualification; and as Mr. Harden is a I evising barrister for one of the Yorkshire districts, it was thought he ought to have been aware of his defective qualification. His name was, of course, struck out of the list. —I believe I cannot make away with it—claim The following gentlemen, all residing in Liverpool, at tempted to qualify for a dissenting chapel at Birkenhead ; they were, however, objected to, and all their names were purged from the list :—Samuel Blackburn, Thomas Baines, Jeffrey Blackaller, James Howell, William Henderson, Samuel Job, Charles Robertson, Henry White, and Reuben Wright Davies. Upon the revision being concluded,' Mr. Peacock rose and thanked Mr. Townsend (the Revising Barrister) for his courtesy throughout the revision, and for the excellent 'ar rangements made by him for the despatch of business, and above all, for his strict impartiality : he believed his decisions bad given universal satisfaction. Mr. Townsend expressed his acknowledgments, and re gretted that he should not have the pleasure of meeting the same gentlemen in other parts of the country, for he had never seen better feeling than that exhibited on both sides. PUBLIC MEETING IN BEHALF OF THE LIVER POOL DISPENSARIES. In compliance with a requisition of the committee of the dispensaries, Thomas Bolton, Esq., the mayor, appointed yesterday, at the Session-house, for the public meeting of the inhabitants, " to take into consideration and determine upon effectual means to augment and extend the means of supporting this charity, in consequence of its appearing that the present resources will no longer maintain the institution on the scale in which it is now necessarily carried on, to meet the demand of the poor claimants upon its charity." The meeting accordingly took place, and, though not very numerously, was most respectably attended. The MAYOR, on taking the chair, said that, agreeably to I , the terms of the r e q uisitio n addressed to him, he had called the present 'fleeting, to consider the finances of the dispen saries, an institution of so unobjectionable and beneficial a nature, that he sincerely hoped something effectual would be the result, to rescue it from its embarrassment, and render it efficient for the benevolent objects in view. He regretted that the subscriptions were not adequate to the demands of the increasing claimants upon its assistance, and that there was a necessity to raise a sum of £lBOO to relieve it from debt, and also to enable it to go on with that usefulness and advantage to the public by which it had for a number of years been so eminently characterized. He then called upon those gentlemen who were more intimately connected with the subject than himself, and more competent to enter into its details, to deliver their sentiments and submit the reso lutions that had been prepared. Mr. Alderman FREME said, in effect, that it devolved upon him to submit the first resolution to the meeting which his worship had had the goodness to call in behalf of a charity of which all classes must approve. Unfortunately it was not the first time since its establishment that they bad been called upon to make a strenuous effort in its behalf, which had, indeed, too frequently occurred. In 1826 a similar de falcation had arisen in the funds, as compared with the de mand of those for whose benefit it was originated ; but he by no means despaired, if due exertion were made, of now, as then, redeeming it to an extent commensurate with the wants of the poor ; for when an appeal was then made to the public a sum of £l9OO was raised, which not only liquidated the debt contracted, but put into a state of comparative ease and activity. They certainly laboured under peculiar circum stances of depression at present, in common with the other medical charities of the town, which they had never felt be fore. The demand for relief was great, and the legacies and donations were inadequate to meet it in the absence of in creased subscriptions, more particularly as the pa r i s h con tributions had been reduced. But he hoped the means would be found amongst their fellow-townsmen, when they became aware of the facts, to overcome the difficulties that surrounded them. From the prospects of the crops and other causes, disease and distress amongst a large portion of the people were not likely to be diminished as the winter advanced . an d it became therefore the more imperative upon all who had the means to contribute liberally to the support of charity, the object of which was the relief of the poor under the most trying circumstances. He concluded by moving a resolution (for which see the advertisement,) to the effect that it was highly desirable that the dispensaries should be supported by the public. JAMES MULLENEUX, vice-preside n t o f th e S ou th Dispensary, said that he entirely concurred in the sentiments expressed by his friend who had just spoken. In proof of the benefits of the Dispensaries, he might stat e th a t d ur i ng t h e past year medical assistance had been given to no fewer than 50,217 patients, at an expense of £4068 ; 26,674 patients had been attended to at the north, and 23,513 a t th e sout h . Th e expenditure of the former was £1143, and at th e l a tt er £1602, or, in other words, at at an average expense of is Bd. for each individuel. So much for the expenditure. He, noticed in forcible terms, the great advantages of the institution, and called upon the meeting, in eloquent terms, to support it. It behoved his townsmen to consider whether it was wise or be nevolent not to uphold one of the oldest and finest charities of the town. If some withheld their aid from not k now ing the real state of the town, he trusted they would come for ward when they were informed that a vast mass of the popu lation were in destitution. He would ask the rich, who en joyed themselves in comfort , whather they m i g h t not appre hend, in their neglect of suc h charity, that di sease wou ld spread, and, eventually, enter ther splendid mansions? And he would say that, little as they might regard the poor, there were amongst them, as a class, feelings and virtues that dig nified and ennobled human nature. It was the duty of all to wipe the tear from the eye of the distressed, and to pour oil add wine into the wounds of the afflicted. He earnestly called on the meeting to give its support to the motion. DR. BANNER here stated that he thought it would be well, before the motion was put, to consider the institution with reference to the present system pursued, and its future pros pects. He was of opinion that if even the money stated were raised, its benefits could not be fully developed without some alteration in the present system. He alluded to the number of patients that might now be recommended by a subscriber as being unlimited in proportion to the amount of subscription, and that a committee should be appointed to devise amendments. The CHAIRMAN said that the resolution before the meeting involved no question of funds to be raised, or of the regula tion of the charity. He read the resolution, and enquired whether Dr. B. proposed to conclude with an amendment. Dr. BANNER Said that he concurred in the sentiment ex- pressed in the resolution, and should not propose an amend ment to it. He had, however, one question to ask, and that was, whether the parish authorities were not bound by law to administer medical as well as general relief to their destitute. If so, and the dispensaries were not in existence, the poor rates would be considerably higher. He had understood that they gave annually to the charity only £6OO. Mr. MULLENEUX remarked that the sum was now reduced to ZlOO. The CRAM, interposed, stating that it was not requisite nor competent for the meeting to enter into the legal question as regards the purity. It was a charity that was supported by private bounty and affluence, and their present object was to increase their funds. Mr. CHRISTOPHER BUSHELL said, the present was not the proper time, nor the occasion a fitting or a judicious one, for the remarks which had been offered, no doubt with an excellent object, by Dr. Banner. Anything which might tend to throw a slur on the committee of the dispensaries would do an injury to the institutions in question, and he was sure that Dr. Banner had not come to the meeting with any such intent. (Hear.) They were assembled that day to forward the charity and to increase its usefulness ; and, to do both those things, and also to do away with such meet ings as the present, which would constantly occur unless they had some permanent fund to rely upon, it was necessary that their subscription should be increased. Those important objects could only be accomplished by means of additional subscriptions. He regretted to know that there were in the town of Liverpool hundreds of men of immense wealth, who had derived that wealth. from their business, and who, if they subscribed at all to any of the charities of the town, did not subscribe in proportion to their means. (Hear, hear, hear.) Mr. Mulleneux had put the case forcibly when he said, that if such persons desired to keep disease from their own doors, they ought to contribute with that view to the necessities of the poor. But he (Mr. Bushell) would put it more forcibly still, for he would ask them by what means or by what machinery had their wealth been earned and increased? Was it not by means of the lower classes for whom the present institutions were intended ? 'W ere not these classes the machinery by which they had acquired their wealth ? (Hear, hear.) Surely, then, if they had any regard for themselves, they ought to say that the machinery of an institution of the present benevolent kind should be kept in perfect repair. (Cheers.) He would suggest that the subscriptions of those in the list, so far as they extended, be increased. He had been looking through the list of guinea subscriptions. He had been loking at those who ought to be ashamed to see a guinea opposite to their names. (Hear, hear.) He called upon them to double and treble their subscriptions. He called upon them to revise their incomes annually, to revise their subscriptions also, and to see then if they could do the latter without a blush. (Hear, hear.) Though it might suit them at present to keep their money in their pockets, there would be a time when sickness and sick ness unto death would come upon them, when, though they might leave the world giving large sums in legacies, they would have reason to regret that they had not gained respect during life, outwardly by the world, and inwardly by their own consciences, for charitable emotions and good inten tions. (Cheers.) _ _ The resolution was put and carried nem. con. Mr. Tllomns CASE rose to move the second resolution. He regretted the necessity of this appeal, but he trusted It only needed the necessity to be known to obtain for it a favourable answer, and that this excellent charity should be put on a solid basis, and the same necessity not occur for 'many years again. He thought the best plan would be to appoint an active committee to canvass the whole town for donations, and to increase their subscriptions. Mr. C. con cluded by moving a resolution to that effect. Mr. JOHN CROPPER seconded the resolution. Ile hoped gentlemen would not be satisfied with increased donations, but the subscriptions must be increased if the institution was to be conducted as it ought It had never properly been supported by subscriptions, but had depended casually on legacies and collections. It was a painful thing to state, but gentlemen, unless called on, did not feel it their duty to give money to it. A GENTLEMAN, whose name we could not learn, observed that the average cost of a patient was ls. Bd., of which 9d. went to the cost of management, medicine, and surgical in struments. By a different system, he thought the 9J. might be saved, namely, by dividing the town into districts of 2000 each, to be under the care of a separate medical man, with or without salary. By this arrangement the poor would have the advantage of the advice of men of standing in the pro fession, instead of young men fresh from the schools. He earnestly entreated the attention of the meeting to this pro position. The MAYOR was obliged for the suggestion, but it was one that would be much better laid before the annual meeting of the subscribers. (Applause.) It was impossible for them to take into consideration here the question of alterations in the management. Mr. J. H. SMITH said the great difficulty under which they laboured was to collect an annual meeting. He had ac tually to go upon 'Change and canvass for an attendance. These subjects had been very frequently discussed before the committee, which had come to the best decision in its power, and if gentlemen would come to the annual meeting, and make their proposals, they would give them the best consi deration in their power ; but the present meeting was only called to consider how they could get on until the next an nual meeting. The resolution was then carried nein. con. Rector CAMPBELL proposed the third resolution, and as, he said, he did not foresee any reasonable objection, he hoped he might be permitted to spare his own strength and the patience of the auditors, by offering a very brief recom mendation of it. It would hardly be necessary for him to preach a long sermon on the necessity of Christian duty, more particularly after the admirable remarks which had been made by others, who said more than he could with respect to the strange inconsistency of those who, with large incomes, had given very small subscriptions. He bad heard that day that the board of guardians, or parish authorities, had dimi nished their subscriptions. He confessed thht he was always anxious to get as much out of the poor-rate as he could ; for, by so doing, he got money out of the pockets of those who would not give it otherwise. (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) He believed that all now present were professed Christians. Whatever differences, therefore, they might have on purely theological subjects, on this they ought to be t at least, theo retically united ; that, as Christians, they should live in the practice of Christian charity—that, as disciples of a master who had done everything for them, they were bound to do something for Him, and that it was their duty to manifest as much mercy as possible for others. lie would not press this subject any further, because it was admitted that they ought to live in the practice of Christian charity and alms-giving ; but then it came to be asked how were their alms to be given? He conceived that the worst mode was to give them to unknown beggars at the doors ; and here he begged to express his regret that the District Provident Society had received such little support as it had done. Nevertheless, the charity now before the meeting answered the same pur pose in some degree. If people were unable to look into the necessities of the poor themselves, they ought to employ those who were able to do so ; and this the dispensaries did. (Hear.) By the intervention of its professional gentlemen, whose labours in the cause of charity were little known, the wants of the poor were searched into; they knew when a man came to them whether he was in want; they felt that poverty with sickness had a double claim ; and for the relief of that the dispensaries had been instituted. He hoped something would be done to rescue the institution from the penury in, which it appeared to labour. With regard to its future management he also hoped that something would be done, but be felt with the mayor that the present was not a fitting time to take the subject into consideration. If by any change the dispensaries could be rescued from their present and future necessities, great good would be done, the utility of the institution would be benefitted, and the public would be satisfied. But what Mr. Cropper had suggested was the best thing that could be done under the circum stances, namely, to get an active committee to go round, for nothing could be done without pressing solicitations. With regard to the clergy, he hoped they would not be called on to make personal solicitations in this instance, as they had so much to do in that way for other objects. He would be glad to preach a sermon in behalf of the said society, and be hoped his brethren in the ministry would do the same, and that all the ministers of religion in the town would, so far as they could, preach, some time this year, most convenient to themselves, in behalf of the charity. The rector concluded by observing that he had great pleasure in moving the reso lution, and sat down amid applause. Mr. BATESON, jun. seconded the third resolution. He said he did so with confidence, knowing that the appeals made on behalf of the most valuable charities in Liverpool had always been successful. When they reflected that about this period lost year the sum of i:4,000 was raised by an effort for the charities of the town, it augured well for their success on the present occasion. As they were met to con- Sider the most effective means for supportiug the charity, lie thought it right to inquire in what way that could best be done, particularly as it had been remarked that it was neces sary for some change to be made. The committee of the dispensary was now placed in the situation of the financier of another department, and should either keep down his ex penditure, or raise the income to rceet the expenditure, or, by a combination of both, effect the object in view. He thought that, by proper attention being paid to the different items of expenditure, a great deal might be done in the mat ter of economy. He believed that the ministers of the dif ferent churches had not preached so regularly of late on be half of the charities of the town as they had done formerly. It had been said, some years ago, that all the charities should have the benefit of an annual sermon, but last year only £4O had been collected in the churches for the institution, while large sums had been raised for more questionable purposes. £BOO, for instance, had been raised for the conversion of the Jews, although only 21 of them had been baptised during the whole year. (Cries of " Question.") There was a degree of ztal exerted by parties for other objects, and lie thought it would be more valuable if it were exerted on behalf of the medical charities of the town. Rector CAMPBELL said it had been just observed that the clergy of late had diminished the number of their sermons on behalf of the dispensaries. He was not aware of that being the case, but, if it were, it should be recollected that they had to preach charity sermons every two months. Letters were received occasionally from her majesty commanding them to preach. They had schools in every district also which were to be supported; and, in short, the claims on their congregations was such that they really could not preach for secular charities as often as they used to do ; and there fore he hoped no reflection would be cast on them on that account. (Hear.) It would be advisable to abstain from such topics, because whenever the clergy were solicited they did their best. (Cheers.) Mr. MULLENEUX said that some remarks had been made to the effect that some of the funds had not been carefully applied, he begged to read the following ext rac t o f th e c o s t of each patient in different places, from which it would be seen that Liverpool was lower in amount than any or all the rest :—At Bristol, the average was 10s. 6d. ; at Hull, 3s. ; at Leeds, 3s. ; at London, 2s. 4d. ; at Birmingham, 6s. 3d. ; at Manchester, 2s. 10d. ; at Sheffield, 4s. sd. ; and at Liver pool, only Is. Sd. (Cheers.) From this statement he con cluded that they could not make much improvement in Li verpool, so far as regarded the reduction of their expenses. (Hear, hear.) Upon the proposition of Dr. Vosu, seconded by Mr. Councillor PARKER, thanks were returned to the mayor for his promptness in convening the meeting, and his kindness in presiding thereat, and the assembly separated at twenty minutes after three o'clock. The total proceeds of Lady Londonderys' splendid Bazaar at Sunderland, in behalf of . the new church at Seaham Har bour, amounted to the handsome sum of £l2OO. CHINESE CANNONS.—In the Parrock-hall, which arrived in St. Katharine's Docks a few days since from China, were two splendid cannons, which were taken from the Chinese by the English at the Bogue Forts. They have been sent to this country as a present to her Majesty's government, and are to be placed, it is believed, in the Tower of London as curiosities. They are of Spanish manufacture, about eleven feet in length ; the touchholes have been spiked, which ren ders them quite useless ; they weigh about two tons each. One of them bears the following inscription :—" Por vida do Capitao-Geral de Macao, Manoel y Tavares Bocarao, Afez, 1651." On the other is the Spanish crown, and " Don Felipe I. Rey d'Espana."—" Don Miguel Tavares Rocae_ roze y San Geral v Mor, ecaptiad de Ari Aean Macao, A. 1652." They are l oo k e d u p ou as great curiosities, and num bers of persons are daily drawn to the wharf of the docks where they now A large bullet of Chinese manufacture was also sent by the same ship ; it is exceedingly rough and ill shaped, and seems to have been cast in two pieces, and rivetted together afterwards ; this also, it is supposed, will be deposited in the tower. LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION The Annual Meeting of this Association will take place Mr. Ker, of Norwich, who re- on Monday next cently had a most important correspondence with the Bishop who presides over that See, is expected to be present. The LIVERPOOL STANDARD of the fol lowing day will contain a verbatim Report of the Speeches, and a copious detail of the proceedings. Our Country Agents requiring any extra copies are requested to give us timely notice; and any parties wishing for copies of the paper giving their orders tvi tay obtain them by THREATENED INCREASED RESTRICTIONS UPON OUR TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES. On Monday week Mr. T. Thornely, a gentleman who is well known to our readers, delivered himself, in the House of Commons, of a speech upon the subject of the corn laws;' andos Mr. Thornely's late position, as the partner of an ex tensive mercantile firm in Liverpool, entitles his opinions and facts to somewhat more consideration than we would concede to those of the lay or clerical illuminati, who figure upon the boards of the Manchester Corn Exchange, we feel inclined to bestow a few remarks upon a portion of the speech in question, and the more especially as the mercantile experience of the speaker was largely paraded on the occasion. The member for Wolverhampton reminded the house, that in December in the present year the customs' tariff of the United States would expire, and assured us that unless the measures of the corn law repealers were adopted, and the corn of America admitted for consumption in our markets, the legislature of that country were prepared, in settling their new tariff, to adopt measures of increased and discriminatory restriction against the commerce of Great Britain. Such an intimation from a gentleman known to have been largely en gaged in American commerce. and presumed to be acquainted with the course of American opinion, is sufficiently start ling ; and yet we venture to say it is one which very few men, with the exception of Mr. T. D. Thortiely, would take upon themselves to make, and we altogether doubt that he can warrant it by one tittle of evidence. Has the government of the United States ever ventured to single out Great Britain as the object against whom restric tion is to be directed in the way intimated by Mr. Thornely Have we any evidence, beyond the tittle tattle of comtner_ mercial correspondence, that such a feeling towards us is en tertained by any large portion of the people of that country ? Most assuredly not ; and we much question whether the ma nufacturing states of America themselves, the only suppor ters of restrictive duties, would not gladly see the renewal of the tariff in its present form, and do not rather dread than invite discussion upon it. By its operation their rising na tive manufactures are largely and efficiently protected, and but for the embittered feeling which whig statesmanship has allowed to grow up towards us in the minds of the American people, we are firmly of opinio❑ that the time has arrived when we might have looked for large concessions towards our commerce from America, rather than for measures of increased restriction. On the supposition, however, that the feelings of the Ame rican governmentltowards us are as described by the member for Wolverhampton—that the known hostility of the 4puthern states towards a restrictive tariff (which in 1832 so fearfully advanced the progress of the nullification question) can be surmounted, and a tariff with increased restrictions carried through the legislature—what lesson ought such an event to read to the government of this country? Why manifestly this—that before making such concessions as we are called upon to make towards America, by throwing open to her our markets for corn, it would be prudent to see that she is pre pared to make to our commerce similar concessions. We have thrown open to the merchants and people of the United States, during the present session of parliament, valuable colonial markets. What have we got from the American Nothing. We have thrown open to the people of the United States a valuable lumber trade with the West Indies, hitherto enjoyed by our own North American colonists, besides the supply of those 4 0 markets with provisions, - uch as fish, beef, pork, &c., hitherto furnished by wn countrymen in North America and in Irelan we have received in return only a threat that un is to be singled out 4: restriction. But are we told even that in the event of our receiving the surplus corn of the United States, their present almost prohibitory tariff will be relaxed ? Not at all. America will receive all our conces sions, as instalments—as certain other gentlemen at home receive them,—to be enabled the better to extort ultimately the whole of her demands. She will make no concession herself, but the utmost favour our commerce is to expect at her bands is toleration! government in return Now, with all due deference to Mr. Thornely's superior information, we much question if the United States are just now in a position to make from us any such dictatorial de mand as he has placed in the mouth of their government. Of all the people in the world the Antericans have the least right to complain of the commercial advantages which they enjoy, not only in their relation with Great Britain, but with other countries, when it is borne in mind how little they afford in return. We believe that the people of this country generally are not aware of the actual mode in which the American tariff presses upon the industry of Foreign states which trade with her—that her tariff is, in fact, as against manufacturing countries, one which ought to make herself the object of retaliatory measures of restriction, and which would do so, if it was not eminently tricky and deceptive in its form. The enlightened portion of the American people are quite aware of this fact, and will scarcely thank Mr. Thorneley or the anti-corn-law league for bringing it too prominently before the public, at a moment when its agita tion may be rather inconvenient than otherwise. We our selves, however, are rather obliged to those gentlemen, and shall endeavour, on an early opportunity, to throw a little light upon a subject which is eminently fitted fur the serious consideration of the people on both sides of the Atlantic, at the present moment in particular. It may be necvssary to state, that the following inscription has only just been written.] THIS BAND-BOX contains the ashes of old EGERTON BOTT. With consummate impudence for years he edited THE MERCURY. He possessed few abilities and transcendant egotism, and his worth may be estimated by experience and the evidence of facts: That for a quarter of a century he has been the laughing-stock and butt of the TOWN OF LIVERPOOL. He was the advocate of free trade and the donkeys at Seacombe ; Ele was the opponent of Conservatism, which has increased ; The patron of the Swimming Bath, which still exists a memorial of his love of cleanliness. To the Night Asylum he was professed protector. During his editorship the Mercury exhibited great twaddle : The paragraphs childish and sloppy—the articles vapourish and dull ; The respectability of the Press was desecrated, and the broad sheet converted to disseminate QUACK ADVERTISEMENTS The brass in his face was constantly reflected in his columns, which abounded in frequent plagiarisms from himself; He raked up the ashes of his own defunct jokes and resuscitated worn-out pleasantries. His knowledge was immense : With him novelty was impossible, as he had always at hand PRECEDENTS. Unhappily, Newton, Bacon, Galileo,Aaleigh,att, and Joseph Miller, lived before him ; or he would have outvied them in their magnificent career ! He assisted by his deep researches in bringing into notice TtlE KIELO Under his personal superintendence, great improvements were effected in The SPINNING TOP and the KITE : Isis huinalings like the first, and his flights like the second, were notorious He was the author of that excellent and popular work, THE ELYSIUM OF ANIMALS ; and in the pages of the immortal KALEIDOSCOPE., he ofttimes lucubrated. These imperishable records of his talents now constitute the linings of Liverpool-manufactured Trunks. As a friend of humanity, the CORK JACKET can never be forgotten. To this lover of the canine and assinine race, this Pseudo-Philanthropist, _ _ Erect this Memorial, indicative of Lila Folly, and of deep-rooted gratitude for having done — NOTHING ! STEALING DOORS.-A joiner, named John Kilshaw, was yesterday committed for trial at the sessions, for stealing two doors, from the premises occupied by Messrs. Anderson and Garrow, South Castle-street, the property of Messrs. George and Alexander Maxwell. He had sold them to two parties, salesmen. They had been unscrewed off the door posts, inside the premises. He said he had bought one of them from a man in the street (Moor Fields), and the other from a man in Dale-street. THE LATE MR. POWER.—The widow of the late Mr. Ty rone Power, whose melancholy death on board that ill-fated vessel, the President, must still be fresh in the minds of onr readers, has just administered to the effects of her late hus band, in the Prerogative Court of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, in Doctors'-commons. The personal property of the deceased is sworn under £5,000. whilst the loss of Mr. Power will be deeply felt, both by his family and the public, it is gratifying to s t a t e th a t hi s w idow is left in com paratively easy circumstances. It is usual in proving a will, or taking out an administration, to state the precise day on which the party died, but in this instance th e words " on or about" were inserted, alluding to the time when the Presi dent was supposed to be lost. —Britannia. CURIOUS METHOD OF SELF-DESTRUCTION. —Mr. Wakley held an inquest, on Tuesday, on Mr. William Green, a brick layer, who committed suicide by putting a ladder down a well and sitting in the water till he was d e ad. On a juror's observing upon the strangeness of the suicide, Mr. Wakley remarked that there were many stranger modes of suicide. He had lately held an inquest on a lady • who, s t an di ng up, placed her head in a bucket of water tilL she was drowned ; and another on a lady who attempted to cut her throat, but not liking the first incision, she resolved to hang herself; that, however, not suiting her taste, she repaired to Bushy Park, and throwing herself on her face on a wet gravelly wa lk was suffocated. At another case a gentleman was play ing nt cards, when he rose from the table, apparently in per fect good-humour, and without having shown the slightest symptoms of previous insanity, and going into the cellar cut his throat. Suicides pervaded all ranks of society, and were greatly on the increase, but the causes for most of them were quite inexplicable. EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS POSTOFFICE-PLACE ROOMS We resume our notice of the pictures. 101. " Study of Beech Trees." J—WiLsoN, jun., Lon don.—This shews the artist to be a close observer of nature. The trunk of the principal tree is cleverly painted. 102. " Ruins, with Twilight Effect." W. II AvELL.—A good picture. The sunset golden and warm ; the scene a calm, and not a leaf stirred by the sleepy breeze. 108. " Portrait of the late Earl of Durham." R. DALZII., London.—An excellent likeness of the late Pro-Grand Mas- will greatly esteem familiar to them, ter of England. 0 this clever work of art having been engraved. 111. " Mother and Sleeping Child." G.PATTEN, A.R.A., London.—Mr. Patten might have appended to this the su perstition, that when a child smiles in its sleep, the angels are whispering to it. There is nothing new, nor anything very clever, in this production of Prince Albert's painter in ordinary. The idea has been done over and over again, and immeasurably better, by the old masters. The subject of the picture consists of a curly flaxen-headed child, with a smile on its lips, watched over by " an anxious mother," possessing a very pretty fair face. The fleshing is clear, and of a good tone. 114. " Fording a Brook." T. S. COOPER. — again," as the cant phrase is ; and a charming picture tl purchaser has to adorn his dwelling. 118. "An English Interior." J. F. MARSHALL, Live; pool.—A clever picture, vigorously drawn, and well coloured 123. "City of Dijon." liEnnarAN, Liverpool.—A boldly dashed off, bright sketch. " Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties." R. FAR- " Sold BIER, Chelsea.—A humorous subject, cleverly worked out. Two boys, one of whom we may suppose to be the post office carrier, are discovered prying into a letter, which has been abstracted from the letter-bag. A dog is assisting-the juveniles in their " pursuit of knowledge," by gnawing a hole in the official wallet. The expression of the faces is uncommonly good.—A picture not unlike this is familiar to the public, under the title of the " Twopenny Pustoffice," wherein the fat postmistress and her servant are perceived examining the letters very narrowly while under the sorting operation. 142. " Landscape, with Cattle." WILSON, jun.—Ano• ther clever picture by this artist. it is marked with the pleasing word " sold. 147. " Dolly Varden and Miss Ilaredale." W.P.FLUTH, London.—This picture represents Dolly Varden as so capi tally introduced to us by Mr. Dickens in Burnaby Rudge, searching for Miss Haredale's letter. Mr. Frith has caught the spirit of Mr. Dickens' charming character of Dolly Varden most admirably. She is the plumpest, archest, wickedest-looking little minx ever seen. 153. " Lane Scene." H. JUTSUM, London.—A pleasant picture, with an air of warm repose about it : a farm-house, a gate, and bank, with trees and herbage—just such as may be seen in every English county, with a summer sun over our heads. " Cattle Reposing." T. S. COOPER.—A capital pic- 170. "An Irish Market Day." H. MAcmAN s, London. —Gives us a good idea.of the subject. 177. " Blighted Love." W. S. P. HENDERSON, Henley on-Thames.—lt is really surprising an artist can waste time in such lackadaisical rubbish. _ 180. " Earl of Sefton and Party returning from• Grouse Shooting." R. ANSDELL, Liverpool.—Mr. Ansdell is an a vigour in drawing, and a clearness in tone, that render whatever pictures come from his easel popular and pleasing. His likenesses are inimitable. In the present instance he has most happily hit off the countenances of the noble family the subjects of his handy work. There is truth, nature, and reality in all Mr. Ansdell's paintings. " Portrait of H. R. H. the Prince Albert." G. PATTEN, A.R.A.—Here he is, ladies, the luckiest of a lucky race—the real fortunate youth. If this be a true portrait, English air and English diet appear to have agreed with his royal high- ness uncommonly 184. " Going Out with the Keeper." C. BARBER, Li verpool."—This work is by the President of the Liverpool Academy. It certainly stands per se, as it is without doubt the worst painting in the exhibition. The bow-wows are portraits of some in the possession of Mr. Eastee, our next door neighbour, only his animals look the most natural. 185. " Sir Toby, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and the Clown carousing in the house of Olivia." F. P. STEPHANOFF Lon don.—A capital picture ; full of jollity and mirth, and cleverly worked up ; the expression of the faces and figures excellent. Maria is charmingly painted. 191 " Poor Law Guardians. Board Day. Application for Bread."—C. W. COPE. Hyde Park Gate, Kensington Gore. --We give the artist's name and address of this Capital pic ture at length, in the hope that he may meet with encourage ment, for he possesses undoubted talent, and a "grace be yond the reach of art." The scene represents a board day at a union workhouse. The guardians are assembled, and a poor widow and her children are applying for relief. Every one of the characters in the scene are admirably brought out, and expressed with a vigour, breadth, and truth that must make an impression on the mind of the most callous. At the head of the table is the mild, gentlemanly-looking chair man ; near him a pursy tradesman, inspecting a basin of soup, brought by the officious " master ;" there the clergyman asking questions of the applicant; close to him sits a hard hearted, grasping, tyrannical, brutish-looking fellow,—a thorough-going radical we will be bound—who would give stones instead of bread. In the foreground, a benevolent old gentleman, with his hand in his purse, melting with charity— touched with sympathy at the tale of distress. Beside the fire, sits indolently and apathetically, paring his nails, the idler of the village, termed " a gentleman." from having " no useful calling. Before the tire. with outspread tails, in a shooting coat, stands the squire, his countenance ruddy with good living and plenty of exercise. On the other side of the table is a deaf, farmer-looking person, to whom the matter going forward is commuicated by a friend through an ear tube. The beadle stands looking very fierce by the door.. The poor widow, and her pretty, forlorn-looking children, occupy the foreground. A dog, issuing from under the table, is inspecting them with no kind interest. There are other matters, which make this clever picture complete. The ex pression of the faces is inimitably rendered, the colouring ex cellent, and the moral unquestionable, while the subject is interesting and full of pathos. It is as well worth the atten tion of the visitor as any picture in the room. _ 195. " Indianian Riding Out a Gale." S. WALTERS, Li vcrpool.—A good little picture ; very spiritedly painted. . 198. " Poor Nell." P. WESTCOTT, Liverpool.—The tone of colour good, but the true expression of the text given has not been caught by the artist. FACTORY CHILDREN. A. very few passages of evidence will best explain the deep obligation of good men to the earnest and holy energy with which Lord Ashley has for years continued the good tight in defence of the infant slaves of white complexion, whose wrongs and sufferings move no sympathy because they are near home, and form no passport to liberal subscriptions. We are the more induced to publish the subjoined passages, as they afford a criterion by which to try the sincerity of those gentlemen, who go so rapidly up and down the country striving to bring ruin upon the whole agricultural body, under pretence of tenderness for the poor. It will be well, wherever these artists next appear, to put to them the question whe ther charity with them, which seems to travel so far, has first begun at home? British feeling, we know, is somewhat warm, sometimes restive, and in its indignation still is honest; from which we infer that the question, if not agreeable, will at least be very useful. We now supply extracts from the evidence taken on the factory commission, and from the mouth of one of Mr. Marshall's operatives : "I am thirteen years old. I began to work at Mr. Mar shall's flax-mill when I was near eight years old. We worked from six in the morning to seven at night. We had forty minutes allowed for dinner. We had no allowance for break fast or afternoon drinking. I was very much tired and fa tigued. As soon as I went home I fell asleep directly. We were not allowed to sit down at the mill during the whole day I! ! It we did we should be beaten !!! It is a common thing for children to be beaten !!! I had a sister who worked at Mr. Marshall's, and she got killed there." Jonathan Downe, in his evidence before the same commie sion,_says— " It is the usual practice to prepare mills previous to their inspection by strangers. It is a frequent thing at Mr. Mar shall's mill, where the least children are employed—provided a child should be drowsy, the overlooker walks round the room with a stick in his hand, and he touches that child on the shoulder, and says, ' Come here.' In the corner of the room there is an iron cistern ; it is filled with water; he takes the boy up by the legs and dips him overhead in the cistern, and sends him to his work for the remainder of the day, and that boy is to stand, dripping as he is, at his work I lie has no chance of drying himself. We have a vast number of cripples, many from standing too long. Again, Mark Best, an overlooker, gives the following evidence : " The regular hours for work are from six to seven. When they are ' throng,' from five to nine at night ! They only allow forty minutes at dinner ! No time is allowed for breakfast or drinking. The children put the food on one side, and eat it as they can. Sometimes, when the work is bad, they are prevented from getting it at all; they have then to take it home again. Sometimes it is so dirted that it is rendered unfit to eat. The dust flies about till they can scarcely see each other. In the card-rooms the refuse hangs about their mouths while they are eating their food. * * The masters know very well the children are thus beaten and strapped ; they encourage the overlookers to do it. The straps are about afc.ot and a half long, and there is a stick at the end of some of them • and the end of the strap they beat them with is cut or slit into five or six thongs. They are regularly made for the purpose!! So that Manchester machinery is not complete without a machine for thrashing children! The Sabbath-day—the only day these poor, helpless, suf fering, ill-used, and oppressed infants have whereon to rest their strained and aching limbs, is thus described by a factory boy, William Dodd . " Even Sunday—that day of rest to the weary and op pressed—shone no sabbath-day for me ; for, although I was no longer urged on and kept in motion by the fear of the strap and the billy-roller, yet the leisure thus afforded to think and to reflect upon my situation only made me more miserable ! If Sunday was very bad, Monday morning was worse still—it was horrible ! Even now it makes me trem ble to think upon the sufferings of those mornings ! My joints were then like so many rusty hinges that had lain by for years : I had to get up an hour earlier, and, with the broom under one arm as a crutch, and a stick in my hand, walk over the house till I had got my joints in working order, and this day of the week was generally the most painful of the seven. Let any honest man now take the case home to himself, and just, imagine that this was the lot of his own child—as it may be, for aught he knows, that of his grandchild—and then he will understand, and we very much mistake if he du not second, the exertions of Lord Ashley. HEARNE v. STOWELL.—This case of libel, which has attracted so much attention in the Roman Catholic world, has been postponed, for further consideration, until next November. SELKIRKSHIRE.—We have much pleasure in stating that Alexander Pringle, Esq., one of the Lords of the Tressury. was, on Tuesday, again elected member for this county with out opposition. _ In consequence of the failure of Messrs. Hobhouse and Co., of Bath, Mr. H. Hobhouse, the whig Member for Hereford, has determinad to accept the Chiltern Hundreds. There ►ill be a contest, with the best chance for a conser vative. A magnificent volcano, 12,400 feet above the level of the sea, vomiting flame and smoke, was discovered in the South Seas on the 27th of January last, by H.M.S. Erebns ; it re ceived the name of Mount Erebus, and is in lat. 77 . 32 . S. and long. 167.0. E. Edward Liddle, the paper pellet and coarse g un po w der man, who was eharged with attempting to murder Lord Howick at Sunderland, has been fined J..!5 for an assault, and bound over to keep the peace. It seems that the mob pelted his house (and he says a stone hit him on the bead before he letifly the pellets.) THE MVEDBR Iti. E asrc ur AP.—Rexlcy the murderer, has not yet been apprehnnile4, and the opinion gains ground that he has drowned hiaaseif in the Thames . He was -traced to the lower stairs where a l l trace of him was lost. His Wife is not expected to survi ve. accidentlaalte—buqiisa'it manager of the Thame s si.rs T ;gc liu oo l fml •s a DEATH FROM TIII: BURSTING OF A GU N . ' id in his hand. Ile was f ound by a person w m a. a i naP killed by the dp gun yt which r c i kl u ,,,, c c i , p hd al el in the 33111 e employ, and the contents of the gun entered tue fore head of the deceased , who linge re d twelve days after the accident.