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FURNISHIN( ,J — tentionctf NISHING D with as cheap Having tak, rious Market: Aprepared the fol lowing List to thy . PRINTED Ft Vg, for loose Cover y riage Linings, 2- 1 4 d. to V CHINTZ DITTO, wa anted WATERED MORE 4 NS, 8 EXTRA QUALITY DITI 15d. WORSTED CURTAINS, DAMASK, 151 d. to 21d. (the best quality made., The Washing DAMASK, so much satisfaction, 121d:_ for Curtains, which has given MATS, A great variety of OIL BAIZES, TABLI HEARTH RUGS, HASSOCKS, Sce. FRINGES, ORRIS BELL PULLS, &c An extensive * , and FLOAT &c., made to orde ssortment of TABLE CO 1' LACES, GIMP; Q 72, LORD-STREET, L RPOOL. NTER FA HION TOP C ATS. W I E t PATENT WATERPROOF TTERSALLS, TAGLI ONIS, CHESTERFIELD , D'ORSAYS, & MANY OTHER NEW STYL OF TOP COATS FOR GENTLEMEN, AT THE CIVET CAT ESTABLISHMENT, FOR GENTLEMEN'S TAILORING, AND NAVY _ AND ARMY OUTFITTING, 72, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL. DANIEL MYERS, TROUSERS MAKER AND TAILOR, AVAILS himself of this opportunity of informing his Friends and the Public, that he has just completed his Purchases for the present Season,with every Material for Gentlemen's first-class Dress, consisting of ashionablE Superior Waterproof Beavers, Waterproof Plaids, Doeskir Pilots, Devon Kerseys, and AlbertTsveeds,Constitutiona Mixed Tattersall Tweeds, for splendid and Double-milled Cassimeies, West of England Broad Cloths for Gentlemen's Trousers, from the first Makers in warranted to retain their England. colour_ A Foreman being engaged at this Establishment for the purpose of cutting out Gentlemen's Riding Trousers and Breeches, this very important part of Gentlemen's Dress and those Gentlemen who have not D. MYEE.S'S Tailoring, has proper attention already experienced this bend will immediately upon the first improvement, bo D. MYERS, in to assure his Friends and most res all the Materials at his Establishrr Ae Connexions e selected from th id and Paris; that no Job or defectiv first Houses in I New Wool 'oaf Tattersall ilk Line roof Pilot ne Cloth ( th Silk Velvet Col 1 1R ( t Mixtures, and 1 6 0 that can be prods 2 0 From the Second Edition of Grimstone's Weather Almanac for the Year 1842 . HE & from The Ni Ditto F" Pilot Livery Top ( SiinprAnc. rt Stoat Waterprc Splendid Qualities, is Plaids, The ver Black, Blue, Milled Drab, Devonshire Fine as simeres, double-stitched, and fitted beautifully to the boot, in French or English Styles Rich French Figured Velvet Waistcc newest and most beautiful designs.. £1 16 0 to Figured Shawl Vests, both in English and French most Fashionable Patterns rics £0 16 oto 1 8 0 not only more moderate in Liverpool, but that i attention equal to an e in pric t is also blishments Of the A variety of Top Coats, Macintoshes Clothing, kept re !ady made. CONTRACTS any Colour ......... Three Su Four Ditto, Large Sizes Extra. The old Suits to be retui for any climate 21 0 C prevailing d, at prices unprecedented, owing to th epression of Trade in the OBSERVE, 72, LORD-STREET Manufacturing Dis- LIVERPOOL Price 4s:, and sent free to any p'art of the nqlom on ;eceii of a Postoffice Order for ss. 7 THE SILENT FRIEND; a Medical iork, on nervous Debility, and Disorders arising from a Impure State of Marriage L'EttRY and Co., ( geons, LONDON and BIRMIN Authors, and sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Wilson, 18, Bishopgate-street ; Parkin, Compton-street, Soho ; Jackson and Co., 130, New Bond-street, London ; Buckton, 50, Briggate, Leeds ; Steward, Oldham-street, and Courier-office, Manchester; and by all Booksellers in town and country. The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is a gentle stimulant and renovator of the impaired functions of life, and is, therefore, calculated to afford decided relief to those who have fallen into a state of chronic debility. In such parsons the appetite is generally defective, and the relish of life is almost subdued; they are wanting in that activity of mind and energy of conduct which their affairs require; and partly from conscious weakness, partly from excessive appre hensions, are liable to sink despondently into a premature grave. It is for these that Messrs. PERRY and Co., Surgeons, particularly designed their CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM. Whatever enriches the blood, without inflaming it ; what ever braces without stimulating too violently the nervous system ; whatever frees and disburdens the viscera and other important organs ; wht throws off viscid humours straction and brings back tt whatever strengthens the general muscular f natural and hea under certain mOdifications and restrictions, equal to every species of decay. Hence, though the Cr of Syriacum makes a direct attack upon the it hydra in one quarter only, it will be found to aP , or collaterally, to idmost every other; in of nature can be completely reinstated by thi s excellent mo divine, for its reanimating powers exceed almost credibility its fine, rich, stimulating balsamic stomachic qualities—it: purification of the blood—and, above all, the complete invi gorator of the nervous system, whereby the whole faculties become restored to their proper power and functions, and the fallen fabric of life is raised up to beauty, consistency, and duration, upon the ruins of an emaciated and premature decay, to sound and pristine health. As nothing can be better adapted to help and nouri constitution, so there is nothing more generally acknow ledged to be peculiarly efficacious in all inward wastings, loss of appetite, indigestion, depression of spirits, trembling or shaking of the bands or limbs, obstinate cough, short, — of breath, or consumptive habits. It possesses - efficacy in all cases of syphilis, fits, head heaviness and lowness of spirits, dimness ol thoughts wan derings of the mind, vapours , and rr.. and all kinds of hysteric complaints are gradually rt. by its use Constit or WO dial Bairn Ey-beaded indirectly e debility ;link: i sh the Dnderful ht. confused ancholv Itions relaxed, weak, or decayed, in L_ under its immediate influence. Old cougl__ and consumptive habits are soon relieved, and speedily cured. Poverty of blood, and emaciated limbs, will, ere long, meet the happiest change ; the chill, watery fluid will become rich and balsamic, and the limbs be covered with flesh, firm and healthy. s saved ever is calcti ny of t: e time o .d to produ and Co., must t adapted lent in 1 t' ach, or the quantity o one lls. Bottl ay expect, when consulted by letter, the usual fee of one pound, without which no notice whatever can be taken ec lir in Messrs. PE Warranted nmunication (postage pre-paid.) PURIFYING SPECIPIC PILLS Mercur atic Af itain Copaiba, Cubebs. o mportance to those afflicted with Scor- . aint, Pimi om all foul any part of tt to cleanse the bl affection, and rest( pristine health and I emac ly calcul 't every and Co., Surgeons, may be cc rs-street, Oxford -street, I doors from Easy tone's Eye S ters of th the kind I purcha Sold in Bottles, price lls one Bottle for 335., by wbi( Messy usual, at N _ _ . 4, Great Char Perry o. 9, B, mingham, punctually Eight in the Evening, ano i Only one personal visit is re to enable Me ssrs . P erry an - , be the means of effecting after all other means have N.B.—Country Druggi Vendors, and every other b. any quantity of Perry's Purifyin Balm of Syriac with the usual most of th e principal Wholes"' iroM 1 ists, ondon. Sold, Wholesale, by Me Lord-street, Liverpool. LLOYD Is a term of v language, but at the f ew people are acquainted. The foil it is to be found in Wateraon'lt 4, Lloyds, the name of a Imbacnotion coffee-house" in celebrated on account of its beinsc the c Under Df Britain h intelligent Lloyd's both to th other states. parts of the and maritim kugust 28th, 1841 Abstract of a Letter from Mrs. 1 I have medical gentlemen who attended Dr. Alexander : indeed, I do bel some, and was I can with trut that it v ruggists, a use in )pteciia of Commerce l'h orld ; ma which it counts are received by t nothing for m Lloyd's, ays Von Rau lour, is one till mar rection of tb lips—of the existenc woad—reports zence of 'rum consuls 1 institutio excited in a higher de - Wee — the — adrairation of In' gners. ' The establish ment of insurances at 7 Baron DuPlop has. h rendered s i gna l serv i ces -erce of the British empire and to that of ncietv has ..-- its in most of the principal --ants, both commercial igh their means : thest with a confidence which s tended to destroy." At to the dial _ w Inch tells ti;e . Leh tells the di. ted with the 7eathercocl )m every .1 great This c I Cigar id the miraculous cure perfori my nine friend to use your inventi )f your Agent, Mr. Wilco, the above to be facts, and of that most esti any others will vouch for be 112 The jourr of high perfect and I reviewer r:evei anything upon iv aunt.. .the I m ., e whole earth, all been fir] found in tt they it was ever conteni, secution, or whether it is n luttors, mast remain an ( ion existed or exists, it i, board is tected by t iass ships comprise for carrying dry cargoes, but perfectly ii. to and from all parts of the world of cargoes not in their industr nature subject to sea damage; and they are designated by make a the letter E. leagk "Third-class ships comprise those in good condiiion, and reviewer found on survey fit for the conveyance on short voyages (not viously printed in the Morning Chronic. out of Europe) of cargoes in their nature not subject to sea Tax Circular, the Globe, ft.—Standard, damage ; and they are designated by the letter I." ' Second re designated by the letter A. I Ployed tbe 11 found on survey unfit H.,. a the last two•year of evid need by a cr lain that a proc ...-'. course of his official life Sir I 3 a spy or a traitor, and we trust he be tra he atm ..e Quarterly reviewer, and t they conclude that no one but a l awyer cou ld h ave ern -':,tence to collect so much proof, or exercised I Y—but th e i r i n f erence i s to marshal it p_effectivt: - ;Jollity, using equal himself to the painful task, could luence of the crimes of In fact, the Quarterly 7hi,chhe every foreign town—newspa] country, are here to be found convenient order, that the ent countless threads tha out with more or less minute! whole commercial machinery of the earth, app be placed in the hands of the houv. " nverze to this centr 11 directors 'of !Lloyd's coffe, " For many years a committet. with Lloyd's has superintended a . tions of ships ; which, upon the reports made of them surveyors, are ranked in different classes, and a preference given as to employment and insurance, according to the place assigned to them. " First-class ships comprise all which have not passed a prescribed age, provided they are kept in a st repair and efficiency; and the- COMPTON MUST Compoum use, at Testim Lord Majesties s of the Treas he Duel Guthrie truth t F.R.S Abernethy, ye Snuff, of the first respectability. '1 Ophthalmia, Gutta Serena, Ir completely eradicate Nervous I Lured from Herbs m All L reign S Manufi Long ) Cory, 39, Broad The Ma nufacto ard, London ,iverpoo. by J. Forrester, Druggist, Maker, Church-street; Ra ;tters direct to W. GRIMSTONI office, Lord-street ;_Atherton, I bacconist, London-road street ;.IVIr. G. H. 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I have reason to be grateful, and do recommend your Eye Snuff to all I know. A. Z. M., Nottingham. The following is one Don G. I Havannah, 14th August, 1841 Dear Sir,—l had the pleasure to receive in due time your friendly correspondence and supply of Eye Snuff on the 15th also the 13th October last year ; however, from my extraordinar I of herbs known Grirnitone's Eye Snuff, I take king you I have the Span court of Grcat Britair Snuff with all y This a e first cir Crutched-fria • most obedient Caballero de la ley de los Paises Baj 'iociendad de Comrne !come a favor r its ME al de S 1 of Christi de Cuba, Agente nntender lerland. le is at le 'hiandel, Month, on end: circle- t NERVOL MIA, ( ps and , or 4,500 pipes that the Ibysp a each )te, 79 ; and if we the grand total —The Musical League found a strange have latel tie more m to this nukes out known to he a damaged ship. It won't do to say that the loss Inf the 'Medina and the Isis deranged their plans, or that the builders could not finish the Severn or repair the Avon. Their places ought to have been instantly supplied, whether by „. . ,vernmen mbEc money for the performance, and that one spare large ;lass steamer, at least, is not always in readiness at Falmouth " It may be thought these observations are strong ; but it must be known that the Britiah merchant feels strongly, and disastrous be manner in v ie has been treated in 1 cal) during tuc with a depreciated trade isatlantic communications (so far as tropi- He has had to struggle severely and ,ith a want of confidence in een looking with great anxiety to his correspondence remittances ; as well those he has to make, as those he has to receive. He has seen his entire system of exchange paralyzed. His engagements have not been fulfilled. His credit and the credit of his correspon dents have been suspected. He finds with amazement that the correspondence between London and Cabul is actually shorter and more regular than it is at times between London and Demerara, or between Liverpool and Jamaica. "The breaches of contract, in this instance, in not starting the steamer with the mails at her appointed time, and the substituting in winter a small for a large-class steamer, are matters for the consideration of Government ; but the public are entitled to insist on more regularity. Government have laudably fostered a great and arduous undertaking, but leniency may be carried to an imprudent length. Let us hope we shall not experience such another year in, this branch of our transatlantic communications. " WAY COMBO. American Coffee-house, Dec. 17." st year North and Soutt nd to THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL, MR. and MRS. C. SEAN, for Five Nights rily First N t of the NEW COMIC PANTAIME (AN MONDAY next, the 2Gth Decemyr instant, the Tragedy of - -- THE GAMESTER. Mr. Beverley M . Kean. Mrs. Beverley Mr . C. Kean. After which will lie produced, for the first time here, A NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, CALLED BARON MUNCHAIJSEN ; Or, Harlequin and the Wizard of the Green Isle. With new Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, and Properties, The early arrangements for the ensuing year, include the MR. WEBSTER, and MR. STRICKLAND, who will make their appearance shortly after the close of the Haymarket Season, in January next. AMERICAN CIRCUS, ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT CH-4R47'TE STREET. POSITIVELY THE LAST NIG i'. PHIS present FRIDAY EVENING, th . 29th instant, being for the BENEFIT o f M r . S DS, on which occasion the most finished R e p resen t a ti ons the Season will be brought forward. The Company will leave by the London Train on Saturday Morning. Door; open at Half-past Six, First Music at Seven, Per formance in the Circle at Half-past Seven o'clock precisely. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.—Gallery, 6d. governments exist he not a mockery—must be pro tected by lnyistation. We care not for the philosophy— the cold, heartless philosophy—which says that you must not interfere between the labourer and his price; paying a large amount of which talks of " labour markets "as flippantly as the musselman talks of tile markets, from which he fills his Harem with broken-hearted victims of their own God-given beauty, or the Cuban planter talks of his traffic for men with the markets of Africa. We will not be driven from our position by the parrot-like repetition of mere politico-economical slang, for this simple reason, that we meditate nothing so silly and absurd as the interference which our philosophers' denounce. We do not say to parliament, " Fix the minimum or maximum price of labour by legislative enactment ;" we leave such an idiocy to the men who talk of " corn rents " and similar trashy conceits : but we say, " Carry out your interference to its legitimate extent, upon the same principles which you have recognised as salutory principles in all your past _ _ legislation And what be these principles ? we may he asked. We shall, in reply, merely glance at them, and enlarge upon them on an early occasion. We say, then, that parliament has admitted its right to require that the wages of the labourer should be paid in money. Enforce that principle ; put down the truck system ! Again, parliament has admitted its right to protect infant labour. Give stringency to a measure for that pur pose ! The most important remedial effort, however, we believe is to be made through the instrumentality of the existing poor law ; but upon that point we must reserve ourselves. It is far too important to be argued in the little space which we have left ourselves. We did purpose, on Tuesday last, saying a few words, in reply to the article addressed to us in the Journal on Saturday. On reconsideration, however, we are compellea to decline following our contem porary into the fresh ground which he has broken. He will himself, we feel assured, acknowledge the reasonableness of our decision; and allow that the controversy, upon which we first entered, has been fairly fought out. To which of the parties to that controversy victory inclines, we say not. We still maintain our own opinions unchanged ; our contem porary, no doubt, maintains his. But this much, we feel convinced, a candid man would acknowledge that, for the guidance of those who wish to enter upon an examination of the subject, some important truths have been conceded on both sides, and the question stript, as far as possible, of false surmises. The Journal— we give him credit for so doing—has argued the broad question with straightforward honesty and ability, casting aside as unworthy of him, the claptraps with which it is sought to be mystified; and equal honesty at least, our opponent will perhaps concede to our selves. We have never condescended--when arguing with a fair antagonist—to blink one tittle of our sin cere convictions, or to keep any thing in the back ground, with respect to this important question : and we shall never condescend to offer a word in favour of the present or any other system of corn-laws, without the conviction moving us that it is the best for the good of all, which human wisdom can frame under the ex isting circumstances of the country. With these few words, which are due in courtesy to our contemporary, we leave the subject, at least as one peculiarly between him and ourselves. The Manchester Guardian, of Saturday last, comes forward to defend the Anti-corn-law League from the trenchant blows which have recently been dealt upon that body by The Quarterly Review; and, as a con clusive argument, in depreciation of the telling cha racter of the blows in question, remarks upon the fact, real or assumed, that, as yet, they have been visited with scarcely a word of comment from the Conserva tive press. We do not presume to explain why—if the fact be so—our Conservative brethren have passed by the article in question unnoticed ; but for ourselves we can say, without any disparagement of The Quar terly, that we have not, hitherto, referred to it, for the simple reason that it does not contain a fact or an inference of which we have not long ago been aware, and upon which we have not, at some time, freely remarked. So far as we are concerned, then, the Guardian's defence of his friends is of little effect; and the same may be said of almost the entire Conservative press of this district. That press has watched the doings of the Anti-corn-law League for itself; and has therefore not to travel to the pages of The Quarterly Review to be amazed, or alarmed, at their dishonesty or their dangerous character. But we might reasonably—did we not know the man—be amazed, though we should certainly not be alarmed, to find, in the Manchester Guardian, the apologist of the doings of the League. It is certainly not so long ago as to have escaped the memory of the public, that our contemporary denounced the pioceed ings of that body, quite as bitterly as we, or any other member of the Conservative press, have ever done. We admit that he has crept round, from the position of an opponent to that of a thick-and-thin advocate, with the cleverness which he ordinarily displays in similar Jim Crow movements. The fact, however, of the change wrought upon the sensitive mind of our contemporary is an ample excuse for the changed views with which he twits us with regarding the power and influence of the League, coupled as it is with some facts which the article of The Qaarterly has again dragged into prominent notice. By their own showing, the Anti-corn-law League has expended in agitation, during the twelve or fourteen months com mencing in August, 1841, up to a month or two from the present time, a sum of about NINETY THOUSAND POUNDS ! It is now raising the further sum of FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS; and boasts that it will succeed in raising double that sum ! Are we not, then, we ask, justified in changing our opinion of a body which has made and is making such gigantic efforts—which wields such vast sums, and squanders them so lavishly ? May we not estimate somewhat differently its powers of conversion to its own opinions, when we contemplate the changed tone, with respect to it, of such an oracle as the Manchester Guardian ? We will not ask our contemporary to refer back to his own file, and compare his present opinions of the League agitation with those which he held a very brief while ago. There must be gall and wormwood suffi cient—more than we would wish to our bitterest enemy—in the conviction, which must "sit heavy" upon his pen, daily and hourly, that the world is not so oblivious of the past as apostacy such as his own would fain have it be ! The London Times of Saturday last has, with a com mendable spirit, called the attention of the public to a case—which came before _Barons Alderson and Gur ney, in the Central Criminal Court, on the 15th inst.— in which five seamen of the barque Clydesdale, of this port, were tried on a charge of causing the death of a shipmate (a black, named Keel), by hauling him out of his sick bed below, with, in the first instance, a rope round his neck, and afterwards exposing him on deck, (on the Ist instant, while off Holyhead,) in a state of almost nudity, and with, as one of the witnesses said, "no appearance of life in him"—the result of which cruel treatment, added to his previous illness, was, that he never again spoke, and died in a few minutes. The prisoners were brought up, in the first instance, at our police-court, and we reported the entire evidence at the time. We also supplied in our b last publication the principal facts adduced at the Criminal Court, so that, as they must be fresh in the recollection of our readers, we need not here recapitulate them. On both occa sions, the evidence was precisely similar, with this exception—that the surgeon (Mr. Woods, of this town), who made the post mortern examination, and here attributed the death of the deceased to "suffoca tion," admitted (most strangely) on cross-examination in the higher court, that it might possibly, though not probably, have been produced from the exposure to cold—the deceased being a native of, and just arrived from, Bombay, and consequently more liable than a European to be affected by the inclemency of the wea ther. Although there could be no doubt of the guilt of the parties charged, the death being laid in the in dictment as having arisen from " strangulation or suffocation," without any alternative count whatever— to meet on other grounds either the charge made or a minor one of gross assault—and the surgeon having thus admitted an alternative possible cause (though that cause equally involved the manslaughter), the learned judges were under the necessity of declaring that the allegations in the indictment were not (from its being so exclusively framed) sustained by the evidence, and TO CORRESPONDENTS The " Story" of " J. C." will not spoil by being postponed until Tuesday. A " Cotton Broker's Apprentice," if we understand him, for his object is not clearly expressed, is too unreasonable. " R. A." has no right to expect us to publish his letter on anonymous authority. Our correspondent at Newcastle upon Tyne should have for warded to us copies of the papers to which he refers. We have no means of referring to them here. ire have a large accumulation of letters on our file, and un less our correspondents see their contributions inserted in the course of a publication or tmo, they may presume that we have been compelled to decline them. S. K." will perceive that we have availed ourselves of one of his communications—the other we have reserved until Tuesday. The manuscript has unfortunately been mislaid, but we hope to find it in a day or two, and it shall then he forwarded as requested. Etbirpoal OtanDarb. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1842 A large amount of important legislation, having for . _ its object the development of the national industry (toned. and commerce, was effected during the last session of " A number of stores and buildings were blown down. The episcopal church, which cost 6000 or 7000 dollars, is a perfect Parliament. The revision of our entire commercial wreck ; and also a sma ll C a th o li c c h urc h. Th e wa t er rose tariff was -Qt over th e i s l an d, and the waves beat through many of 4,, of itself, far more th an wou ld h ave con tented some administrati ons t o h o ld up as the work of • -- --ta. The whole damage done is not less a session. We must not, however, allow ourselves to An Antonio w as com pl e t e ly surpri s ed o n th e Ilth Sep- conclude that all h as b een d one w hi c h may be e ff ecte d , mber by 1,300 M ex i cans , un d er G en . W a l e ; 53 o f the principal citizens, says the paper from which we quote, were in this field of legislative exertion ; and that, if our taken. The Circuit Court was in session, and the judge and court were made prisoners. The proclamation of commerce still languishes—if i n d ustry i s st ill pros ,dent, headed " The E n e m y Again," orders the trated—there is nothing left, for the statesman, but to •rching forthwith of the militia of Brazors, Austin, Fort ,end, Colorado, Victoria, Gonzales, Jackson, and hlonta- e nter upon the carrying out of those sweeping changes, Aorda coun ti es , aga i nst S an A nton i n ; an d the counties of towards which the voice of agitation would impel him. the Upper Brazors and Colorado to march to Austin, and The fact is not so; All has not been done which may the citizens of the other counties to hold themselves in istant readiness. be done. On the contrary, there is a wide field, corn- Thf ---!utive had issued orders to the effect that in the paratively untouched, which invites the supervision of yen' the evacuation of San Antonio by the Mexicans, - ies ere to be pursued bey , ond-tte Rio Grande, and c h as - the l eg i s l a t ure; an d b y t h e exerc i se o f a w i se and " audacity deserves. ' In ire tverirof a formal in 'os are to h o ld t h em i n c h eck until - 'vigorous remedial action here, it is within the power of the government to realise vast benefits for the whole officers of the Presi event of vasion, t western count the rest of the republic can rally to a community, without periling the stability or sacrificing the interests of any portion. The following letter o n th e present state o f our commun i - We shall endeavour to direct th e cation with the West Indies bas been written by a party who readers to a few subjects, upon which we trust to see is well conversant with the subject:— the cabinet of Sir Robert Peel occupied during the " The present remarks have been purposely withheld till after the departure of the mails of the 15th of December for session of Parliament which is at hand; and, first, let us point to the existing duty upon th e i m p ortat i on o f + l West Indies ; b u t th e s t a t e o f t h ose o f t h e I s t o f Decem cannot remain entirely unnoticed ; for it is a fact that all ails of the Ist (e xce pt th ose f or C orunna , M a d e i ra , upon the impolicy of this duty upon th e raw mater i a l cotton wool. We have, again an d aga i n, remar k e d Thomas) will remain at St. Tho ma s till the Bth , 1843, and thereafter will only reach their destina of a staple manufacture; and we are convinced that company with the next succeeding mails. ppears that the contractors had no large class steam- nothing, save the necessities of their position, could er, in condition, at Southampton, to proceed with its pas sengers on the evening of the Ist for Fal m o u th, there to have induced its maintenanc e , by th e present govern receive her mails, and go at once to sea. As if to give the ment, whilst remodelling our tariff. It is a tax clearly appearance of implementing their contract, however, they despatched from the former place on the 6th, an d f rom th e opposed to the principles upon which that tariff was latter place on the 9th, the smaller class steamer, City of framed—one of the most important of them being to free from impost every articl e o f pro d uce w hi c h enters Glasgow, long known to many on the route from the river Clyde to Liverpool; and which vessel, according to their own calculation of 19-i days, will not reach St. Thomas till into the composition of a manufactured article ; and six days too late for the further immediate forwarding of the • nothing can have stood in the way of its abolition but mails and passengers. COMMUNICATION KITH THE WEST INDIES attention of our and St Januar " It would have been more manly and more straight forward, to have openly declared to the public, that as the Atlantic outward steamer had not started at her appointed time, British merchants and others ought to be on their guard, that their half-monthly letters of the 15th of Decem ber, and, in some cases, their monthly ones of the Ist of the fact that it produced a revenue—upwards of six hundred thousand pounds—which could _not, in the then state of our financial affairs, be spared by the Exchequer. January, would reach their destination as quickly as those of the Ist of December • and that duplicates of all these letters, and of all bills, had better be retained till the Ist of January or the Ist of February, as the case may be—unless they wish originals and duplicates to proceed from and beyond St. Thomas in the same vessel; and it might perhaps have been added, that the only object of despatching the City of Glasgow on the 9,h was to give the latest news to the Spanish port of Corunna, the Portuguese island of Madeira, and the Danish island of St. Thomas. We trust that the time has come when no such im pediment exists. We may not, as yet, have realised the full advantages which may be expected for the revenue of the country from the financial measures of last session of Parliament. The revival of commerce, however, which is gradually taking place, and the termination of two expensive wars, for which we had it is necessary to remember, that by the e Atlantic outward-bound steamer should lepart on the 3rd and I7th of every month from Falmouth ; ld if any one of these ' does not reach St. Thomas before on the 22nd day from the appointed day of depar- Falmouth, the four collected steamers at St. 1, with the inter-colonial mails, on their ; the outer-mails, in such case, being con mails, to remain after their arrival at St. -malls from Europe arrive and are iew contr last year to provide, will, we trust, place the Chan cellor of the Exchequer in that easy position which will enable him to concede the abolition of this tax to the suffering manufacturing community. We could point to many other parts of our financial system, in which important improvements might be ; but we wish more particularly to draw atten tion to the course of legislation to be pursued to benefit the industrious classes in the manufac turing and mining districts of the country. We feel whilst so doing the great difficulty of treading upon this delicate ground. Ye appreciate the responsibility incurred by the statesman who attempts, by legisla tion, to regulate the wages of the labourer; but we feel, also, that the time has come when that subject must be approached, and the attempt in question ture fro ` 1 The four steamers alluded to, viz., the Western grand branch steamer for Jamaica, Havannah, &c. ; the W es t ern minor branch st eamer f o r Porto Rico, Hayti, &c. ; the Southern branch steamer for Antigua, Barbadoes, Demerara, &c. ; and the Northern branch steamer for Bermuda, must all, therefore, leave St. Thomas at midnight on the 25th of December, on their routes, without their European Ist of December mails and passengers ; these four vessels, not only circulating in their own route the tidings of a missing it communicating these tidings to the Mexican inner, to the Trinidad branch steam er, to th 1-bound steamer, to the La Guayra branch :bagres brunch schooner, and to the klon.. entered upon in earnest " The mails and passengers for Tampico and Vera Cruz, for Honduras ; for Chagres, Carthagena, and Santa Martha; for Porto Cabello, and La Guayra, are only carried forward once a month; and those from Europe of the Ist December not arriving in their proper time at the stations from which they respectively deploy will likely lose a whole month in their rnnte There are few men, even of the Malthus and M‘Culloch school of philosophy, who can contemplate the past and present condition of the labourers and artisans of this country, and say that the prospect is a satisfactory one. Contemporary with the vastly stimulated manufacturing and commercial activity of the past twenty-five years; concurrent with the vast accumulations of manufacturing and commercial wealth ; the remuneration and the social condition of the labouring classes—the producers of that wealth, the hands by which the mighty machine of commerce is moved—have kept steadily deteriorating. Of the extent to which this backward progress in the scale of comfort and independence has proceeded, there is abundant evidence before the world, as well as of the danger with which its further backward progress menaces society. The statistical details of misery, which were accumulated, ad nauseam, in the speeches of the Bowrings and Cobdens, during the past session of Parliament, furnish ample proof of the former; the recent outrages of the misguided turnouts, in the manufacturing and mining districts, are startling warnings of the latter. And the same progress towards the lowest depth of misery which human beings can exist under, without being goaded to a frenzied war against the constituted order of society, is still going on, and will continue to go on, even though we concede to the boasted philosophy of the day all the nostrums which it puts forth, professedly for the benefit of the suffering classes ; because the same in ducing causes are still at work, and those nostrums do not strike at their continued operation ! The conces " The City of Glasgow cannot herself, in any way, remedy the matter, for she cannot proceed one inch beyond St. Tho mas before midnight of the Bth of January : it being expressly provided by the contract, that th e A t l ant i c outwar d b ound steamer shall, immediately on her arrival at St. Thomas, be re-coaled, &c., and ' ready to form one of the four steamers to assist in the dispersion of the outward mails arriving at the end of fifteen days by another steamer from Europe.' The British merchant residing and conducting his busi -3 in London does not so readily see the mischief in the sen , s does the British merchant who conducts his Alsip s abroad; for the latter is the first to experience the )resent case " Facts are stubborn things. Upon one occasion the writer of these remarks bad with some labour prepared. de posited in the post-office of one of our colonies, and paid the postage, of no less than 29 letters, for despatch by one of these steamers; but on the captain of the steamer declaring that he did not intend to take the route prescribed, the let ters and postage money were demanded back ; the postmas ter (though unusual) complied with the demand, and the let ters were despatched by the writer in a merchant schooner. On another occasion he had fixed to come to England by one of these steamers ; yet, although the steamer was in the river, be found so much uncertainty in her departure from it, so unsatisfactory the answers to his questions as to his r,robable arrival in England, and so unpopular the whole plans and regulations on board, that he and another gentle man, acting on exactly the same principle, paid their £5O each for a passage in a sailing barque ;. and thou g h th ey h a d a passage of forty-nine days, yet we in Liverpool ( s i ngu l ar and incredible as it may appear) within three days of their letters of advice by the steamer alluded to. _ -- -, " The passive British merchant was told eight or ten weeks it the new arrangements, by lessening the extent of work on the contractors, would prevent the re-occurrence of , uch events, and would ensure more regularity after the Ist October; yet, within two little months from the coca new arrangements he finds a more gross irregularity than all,—an irregularity, not in one of the branch routes. but in the main one, in that which constitutes the very foundation of the whole fabric; in that where it was least to be imagined, can certainly least be tolerated, —at the port where, if from neglect they could not have a vessel of their own, one ought to have been provided at any, expense. ago tha nieocement of these sions to which we are urged are concessions to CAPITAL—are concessions to a power which is already too great; which has ground down the labourer to the dust, and is day by day grinding him still loWer than the dust ! It won't do to tell the public, that dependence was placed, by the contractors, on the arrival of the Clyde in time to take out the Ist of December mails; she was on her route home, The working class—if the purpose for which all Thomas of Hatfielc both of headache ai Dmmended hest 'Friend nv thot The only RETAIL AGENTS rrom-street cl Nightinga :ure Catar Merchant, 1 s Eye Snu: Druggist, Ranelal , High-str City in The Royal m Talmo neal, and left the follovii at St. Thy 3 of th the Mexican service. The Royal I brought the Mexican mails to hip Chaiyb .. .. sailed from Port Royal for England on the e crew of tt 7th of November, with opithre steamer which had been wrecked), and a considerable freight of pecie. Her Majesty's ships Imaum and Magnificent were Port Royal. Her Majesty's ship Illustrious, Admiral Sir n-om nantax, in tow of the Carron steamer, was obliged to slip the warps in consequence of strong headwinds in the Narrows off Catherine's Point. The Tweed passing at the same time, her services were put into requisition, and she took the ship in tow and brought her to Bermuda in aafaft, At Jamaica the principal topic of interest appeared to be he speech of his Excellency the Governor on the opening of ,he House of Assembly. The following extract from a colo lid paper appears to convey the one general sentiment on viceregat speech :—" The Earl, of Elgin opened the bu ss of the session in a most admirable speech, in the course hich he touched on many very important subjects; one le most prominent of these was immigration. His re- Clanlike course of his predece ssor , Sir Charles Met and doubtless his career in Jamaica will be equally it." It had been argued by some of the papers that, , the Governor old submit to a retrenchment of I but this idea was not generally entertained. V • Need's sailing importan 'eature of intelligence has been 1-mas LIIL lordship . has bad an att ac k o f fever, which, iL 1113 though not of a dangerous or alarming nature, did not fail considerably to debilitate and weaken him so as for some days to prevent his attending to business. His lordship bad recovered from the effect of the attack, and was, we are happy to state, con valescent and in good spirits. The Hon. Edward Penton (the late Speaker of the As sembly, and the present Vice-chancellor) had been sworn in ember of the council of tl legislature bad been four e island session, but %via pointment and salary. The stamp :d and sent to the council, would, was supposed, if ordinary economy were observed, very station had been filled up, of absen who had resigned. The following are ich had received the Governor's assent since inencement of the session :—Gunpowder and Ton ' I Cattle Duty—Additional Subsistence to Offi- Agents Bill--Rules and Articles of War oon Provisions. It s in the repre bad been resolved to appoint a et rnittee of the haus desire that a suit d be er e memory of the itions is, that t E Metcalfe;" one of the emorial should be a new lunatic KINGSTON MARKET , st quotations for Sugar, 22s ,0 245. 6d. per 1001bs iENERAL AT AVAN A —We are infor- individual whatever frOm the :oast ol üba. Due notice o this order w The folio !ed, at St. Jago, on the 12th inst. is an extract from a letter dated Vera Cruz, I Sept. 14th, 1812 Is arrive( glish steamer built for this Government. of iron, tons burden, and mounts two 681 b , and is manned and officered by on swivel latter t 11,108 tons burden al-rx a.taal lll{i 'ail mer, of built of wo and consec uently must - be here believe, ten Paishau guns of me calibre as the above, and is manned and officered in The troops I mentioned in my last as hay- Jalapa for this place have been detained, for what She mounts, a similar am storm at Galves were driven on me or less injured. The following par y a correspondent of one of the papers be- " We have just had a very violent gale, which has done much damage. It commenced on Sunday the 18th, and about two or three o'clock on Monday morning it blew a perfect hurricane. It injured the steam-ship Merchant sufficiently to delay her seven days to repair, and blew high and dry several vessels, amoni , them the brig Atlantic, laden with cotton, for New Orleans. She will probably be aban- that the prisoners must he acquitted. The careless and slovenly manner in which the case had been brought before them did not, however, escape the strong ani madversions of their lordships. Baron Alderson re " It was not right that in a Chi iii country marked— the ends of justice should be so defeated. Guilty per sons ought not to he thus suffered to escape upon a mere point of form highest authorities .in the state, and, in particular, of the attorney and solicitor-generals. The learned baron made these statements with much earnestness." his learned brother remarked—" These matters were much better managed in the-time of the advocate for the Ad- It deserved the attention of the miralty. Great care was then taken in bringing for- ward those cases, and they were properly managed The same care ought to be observed now." We have not been able to ascertain with whom the blame rests of the blundering here properly complained of—whether it is attachable to any of our law-officers here, or to parties in the crown-office above. We pre- Fume, however, with the latter, to whom copies of the depositions taken before Mr. Rushton (if not the ori ginals, which it is, we believe, usual to retain on the spot) were surely sent. The only remaining conjecture is, that in the absence of all depositions, the case was hurried into court, in London, without any previous examination of the witnesses at the crown-office, the indictment being framed merely from the brief. This appears probable, from the remarks made by Mr. Bodkin, one of the counsel for the crown. But, be this as it may, the 'Times introduces his remarks, by instancing a recent and somewhat similar case, in which a Captain Partridge—also charged with murder on the high seas, under the same pretence of maintaining dis cipline, and in which the victim was also a foreigner— as the Times remarks, " from the unintelligible le niency of the judge, and the disgraceful fatuity of the jury, escaped with but three months' imprisonment, while the present parties got clear off from a technical variance between the evidence and the indictment"— and, after giving the principal facts in the latter case, makes the following, eloquent appeal in behalf of all classes of seamen employed in British ships : " Cases of crime upon the high seas should, as Baron Alderson remarked, be regarded with especial care by English tribunals. Deriving as we do our wealth from our extended commerce, and our security from our powerful fleet, and re lying for the efficiency of our mighty marine upon the uni versal and unhesitating enforcement of the sternest discipline, we are bound to see that every member of those 10,000 floating commonwealths which issue annually from our ports, dependent only on their own internal order and resources, to carry the name, and influence, and products of Great Britain thousands of miles from the presence of any English authority, and divided perhaps for months together from all human communication or assistance,—we are bound to see that each one of these, in her longest and most distant senar ation from the shores of her mother country, shall ever feel the presence within her of English law, shall never lose the sense that time and space do not effectually divide her from that centre of authority which has committed to the com mander his almost despotic power, but which will unfailingly visit upon him and his subordinates any abuse of their great but necessary responsibility. We above all nations are eminently bound to the protection of the seamen. On us, above all nations, it is incumbent to provide that these frag ments of our country shall bear with them the protection of English law, that a safe and certain appeal shall ever and everywhere be secured against that dangerous authority which our interests oblige us to surround with far more than the ordinary terrors of British justice. With every temptation to tyranny, and every opportunity for evading the proof of its exercise on the one side, and on the other the continual alternative of absolute submission or absolute mutiny, it is a wonder that we find in British ships so much of forbearance and steadiness as exists. But the ground of wonder will rapidly cease if we allow outrages committed under a power of our own creation and maintenance thus to slip through the fingers of justice. It matters not who is the delinquent,— captain, mate, or their rough and unruly instruments,—it matters little whether the escape is effected by the stupidity of a jury, the leniency of a judge, the blunder of an attorney, or the ignorance of a clerk of assize. One thing is certain, that every single example of impunity is at once an encourage ment to tyranny and a provocation to mutiny. And the ex amples which have hitherto occurred.if not more mischievous, have at least a more disgraceful appearance from the fact, that they are not English sufferers whose fate we have allowed to pass unavenged." The sentiments thus forcibly expressed we have en tertained for some time ; and we purpose in a series of articles to draw attention to the subject of maritime legislation, not only as affecting all seamen on board of British ships, and embracing the operations of the Merchant Seamen's Act, but with reference to the ge neral management of nautical cases involving insurance and mercantile questions, in which, from the ignorance in nautical matters of the advocates and other func tionaries employed in investigating them, justice is often jeopardised, and not unfrequently subverted: We have been led to this opinion by a consideration of the numerous cases which have, from time to time, come before our local courts, both sessions and assizes, in which, this being the second port in the kingdom, they are of frequent occurrence, and the result in many in stances such that (having seme personal knowledge of sea-faring matters) we have, on occasions not few and far between, left the respective tribunals with, reluc tantly, no very high feelings of respect for the laws in that respect, and, on many more, for their loose, inde finite, and even oppressive administration. We rejoice that the subject has been taken up by our talented and influential cotemporary ; and we shall, in the articles alluded to, submit some remarkable facts, which have recently fallen within our own observance. LOCAL NEWS. At a meeting of the Board of Guardians of the West Derby Union, on Tuesday last, very numerously attended, Mr. Thomas Augustus Granville Dolling, overseer, &c. of West Derby, was elected by a large majority to the office of registrar of births and deaths for the West Derby district. THE WEATHER.—We are still favoured with most un usually mild weather for the season. We perceive from a London Paper of yesterday, that on Tuesday the thermome ter, in front of the superintendent's office in the. London Docks, at noon, stood at 57 degrees, a height unprecedented in December. TREATY WITH BRAZIL.—The London Times of yesterday announces, in its City article, that, by letters received from Brazil on Tuesday, it appears that the treaty with this coun try is continued to the 10th of November next. We have not received any intimation of this, and indeed are without any information on the subject. TILE WNEILE TESTIMONIAL.—This subject is warmly taken up in many of the provincial papers which we have received. A number of our Irish contemporaries also have exerted their influence to forward the matter; and they, one and all, express a fervent hope that it will be of a general character, and that the memorial will be worthy of the man and the cause. HOLIDAY ON WEE 26T11 INSTANT.—A requisition, most respectably signed, was presented to his Worship the Mayor, yesterday, praying him to cause Monday next to be observed throughout the town as a general holiday, owing to Christ mas day falling on the Sunday. We have not beard, from authority, the nature of the Mayor's reply ; but we have been informed indirectly that he declined to comply with the re quest. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Wednesday evening last as Mr. Simcox, of Arrow, near Birkenhead, was driving home along with his brother in his chaise, he was stopped on the highway, near Arrow Hall, by nine men, who pulled the party out of the vehicle, and robbed them of between £9 and £lO, and a small gold Genoa watch. The police were imme diately afterwards informed of the circumstance, but the thieves have not yet been discovered. EVERGREENS FOR CHRISTMAS.—Numerous complaints are generally made about this season of the year, of the an noying depredations which are committed in our suburban gardens by a class of mischievous persons who, in their de sire to decorate their houses, or perhaps to replenish their pockets for Christmas, forget the respect which is due to the property of their neighbours. The bushes of holly, &c., are frequently torn to pieces in a most shameful manner, and plants on which a high value is set are irretrievably dis figured or injured. We beg to call the attention of the police to the subject. THE HINDOSTAN STEAM-SHlP.—Letters from the com mander and some of the passengers of this steamer have been received in town, dated October 22, off the island of Ascen sion, advising their arrival there all well. The Hindostan, after replenishing her stock of fuel there, by taking on board a quantity of patent fuel from the government stores, would proceed to her next stage, the Cape of Good Hope, and thence to Mauritius, Ceylon, Madras, and Calcutta, steam ing the whole distance from England to India, via the Cape of Good Hope. She is expected at Suez, from Calcutta, &c., on the 10th of February. THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS.—We trust that, although the hands of the Government may be bound, the public will most earnestly maintain the right of the State to instruct the people in the truths of the Gospel, not diluted or frittered away in unmeaning or distorted " extracts," but in its per fect integrity. " The Bible—the whole Bible," should be their motto, in the crusade which is urged against a Scrip tural education by the various sects of Papists, Socinians, and Infidels, who desire to banish the Divine Word from the national schools. This determination, we have no doubt, is uppermost in the minds of British Protestants, who are not misled or corrupted by a false liberality; and we rejoice to say, that in the only instance of a departure from it on this side of the Channel, the cause of religion has, after a short period, come triumphant out of the struggle. We allude to the conduct of the Reformed Corporation of Liverpool, which, immediately after the passing of the municipal act, had the temerity to exclude the use of the Bible from the schools un der their charge. That pernicious measure, however, has now been formally reversed, and the Corporation has again restored the Scriptures to the Schools. This is a most in teresting and gratifying result, and is really of national im portance. The Liverpool Corporation deserve the gratitude of the whole count-y for their inestimable conduct ; but they have the far higher reward of knowing that they have acted in accordance with the duty they owe to the eternal interests of their fellow-men.—Edinburgh Standard.—[Our contem porary is slightly in error. The effort to restore the Scrip tures to the schools was successful twelve months ago; and the triumph to which the Edinburgh Standard alludes was the rejection of a motion which bad for its object the giving a merely secular education to Roman Catholic children.] CHEAP BUTCHERS' SIEAT.—An interesting letter, frotha retail butcher, on the.subt of low prices of m eat, ssill be found in another column. We l'eg to refer our readers to it . CITMISERLAND 11.". ms AND BACON.--Any persons irb°l are desirous of ohtaii.ing these n;uch.sought.for articles, "I` find them in excellent tiudit vat rs. Dent's, Islington , Oil We have ourselves taste , cdvertisernent appears and cart confidently tee THEATRE ROYAL.--TH E NEW P A NTomimv- ---Tbe Theatre Royal will open ou Monday for the winter seas ° . ° ' Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean are engaged, the Gamester. Mrs. Charles Kean no doubt be warroW welcomed by her many admirers here. The new pantothinr. is said to be admirably got 'up, the scenery is magra cen d The comic business is full of life and bustle, and will be loan numerous and will appear 1? to be remarkable for its ingenuity and drollery. N political and local hits are interspersed through the-Piecedece and many of the novelties of the day will be brought for ill buriesclue style AMPHITHEATRE.—CLOSE QF THE SEASON.—'II clever .• 1 — American equestrian company, which has been delightil those fond of the sports of the arena, takes its leave of I,!_ Liverpool public this evening, when t 111 r. Sands makes DI; appeal to his friends. Mr. Sands is a graceful and exP %i r rider, as well as a vaulter of remarkable agility, (we sa w hi turn 37 somersets l a st evening,) and deserves to be well 511; ported on this occasion. The American company h a , greatly exerted themselves to give satisfaction. The !a,.:o' excellent houses they have drawn is a proof that they ea; succeeded. If they revisit Liverpool they may always , fru p. their excellent conduct and varied talent, received a wel e°sl " SUDDEN DEATH.—An inquisition was held on Wednes day, touching the death ofJohn Williams, a porter and a en i sioner, abed 74. On Tuesday afternoon the deceased Sue d ,, denly fell down in Chapel-street, and was immediately pic a a up in a state of insensidility, and carried to the bride where he died before medical assistance could be brougun. He was laid on a mattress in brideweli, and paid every att e l. tion. He died in about twenty minutes after being His wife appeared to be a comparatively young woman. IV"„ Deane, surgeon, said that when he reached the bridewell, 7 being called he found that the deceased was dead. fie l l° c e i a post mortem examination, and found that death w as coas t e r by a disease of the heart, under which h e had laboured f ° some time. The jury accordingly returned a verdict of ,! ,1 from natural causes." WINE AND SPIRIT ASSOCIATION—We noticed in a former paper the meeting that took place, at the Cotton Sales-roomof the gentlemen engaged in the wine a n d s pirit trade, w be o f a provisional committee was appointed for the purpose , e preparing rules and, regulations for the re-foimation of t",,, Wine and Spirit Association. At a subsequent general m eet [ ing of the trade, held at the Clarendon-rooms, Mr. ChrisoPbe,: Bushell in the chair, a co mm ittee of managemen t was form e ", N and the rules and regulations agreed to ; and on Wednet,clai last a meeting of the committee wa s h e ld a t th e office of R. W. Preston, when the following officers were appointed v.-- Mr. Wm. Dixon, chairman ; Mr. Wm. Brandreth, dep uty' chairman; Mr. R. W. Preston, treasurer; Mr. ChristeP her d Bushell, secretary; and from the known experience a n capability of the gentlemen thus associated, it may be c an ; fidently expected that the several important interests of tb trade will be effectually promoted under their vigilant suPer intendence. _ ---- DEATH — FROM INTEMPERATE HABITS.—On Wednesday' at the inquest court, an investigation took place touching tiles death of John Lings, a ship's cook. who lodged at Jon es d boarding-house, 30, Queen-street. Mrs. Jones said dece a o t was about 4G years old. On Monday night last, he wen t °n and brought some whiskey, and had some of it made Wo r„a a He complained of being weak. He was a heavy drinker , ...i d had taken a good quantity during that day. Ile said be 0° ,,",t not go to bed, as he would be troubled with the horrors; ; that he would stop by the fire in the kitchen. She o°l bed for him there, and be fell asleep. In a bout an hour e t awoke and said it was dark. There was a candle burninq, the time. He looked very wild, and lay down again• became alarmed and sent for a doctor. As the deceased s r e peared to be ill she sat up with him. About 12 o'clock - appeared to be in a fit, and opened and shut his eyes re ; peatedly. He remained in that state until a little before O u that night when he died. He appeared to be consuroPt ire ,, , but complained that night only of weak ne s s . Mr. De au d surgeon. had made a post mortem examin a tion, and fct that the cause of death was disease of the liver, and infl,S; illation of the stomach, the result of inte m p era te habits. jury returned a verdict accordingly. . t the PETTY THEFTS.—CAUTION TO SHOPICEEPERS.--s.ho police-court, yesterday, a boy of bad character, name" Kendal, was charged with having stolen a pair of boots, w ° , 1 d 95., from the shop of Messrs. Lloyd and Dain, in the Haymarket. The theft was very coolly effected, in the fo r m : noon of yesterday, but the operations of the thief being se e , as he was followed and run down in Dale-street, w here he ‘", r apprehended. Mr. Rushton having inf o r me d the prisct y that he should send him to the sessi ons , th e f o ll ow ing collng - fr ensued :—Prisoner.—Will you be so kind as to let Ene f t; this time for three months ? Mr. Rushton.—No, I wct u t you have been here too often for that. P r i sone r.— well , l l,o if you will I'll never come as. in. Mr. Rushton.—Ne l, commit you: you are committed. Prisoner.—Then Yo u r sent me to trial for nothing! He was th en retnuv e ","b - Another boy, of equally bad chsracter, was placed in dock, on a charge of having stolen a pair of moleskin trous er value 75., from the shop of Mr. Thos. Fell, tailor and drap e r ' in Paradise-street. The trouser s were h ang i ng u p in the sh ° r r e on Wednesday evening, when the prisoner rushed in , them down, and ran off with his booty. He was nur s 'i s along King -street into So u th J o h n - s t ree t, w h ere , unluek l for him, he fell i n t o th e h an d s o f a Phili s ti ne , i n the 0 15 P- - a police-officer. He was committed for trial. fs R THE CORPOATION SCHOOLS AND MR. LA'WRESC S O MOTION.—What an edifying spectacle the schools v 1,,, have presented had M r . L awrence ' s p l an b een a d o pted. kl' e protestant children were to have come to school at 1 111 Y ri o'clock ; prayers were to h ave b een rea d, and a lesset, e l Scripture taught. The Rom an ca th o li c c hild ren were then esto have been admitted, but not until all religious eserele had ended; and if the morning %vas wet, the little creature; must have waited in the school yard ex p ose d t o the %Ta l !. until the proper hour for their admitta nce h a d arr ived, or th e protestant reading must have been abridged for their acen"yi modation. What is more calculated t o bring religion i tse t into contempt? Imagine the shoal admitted at a differed . hour, and think what a scene of confusion would be crea te b u t The whole were then to have wheeled into li n e to be ta u g s e to read and write. The same co n fusion mus t again 10 ', taken place at half-past four. The Roman ca tholic 10 Y 0 take up their hats and depart, leaving the protestant childr e w to their devotions ; and the natural inference a child Ivor draw must be, that there is something wrong in the religi% of James Smith, because Patrick Mulvaney is not permit ° , by the priest to join in it. Adverse and discordant feeling; would have been engendered, and the separation of reliSie u d and secular instruction have ended in disappointment le confusion. But from all this the vote of WednesdaY "`' o saved us.—Courier. ALLEGED FRAUD.—Yesterday, police-officer Ainswer th j jun., brought up at the police-court a young man, name s William Jones, whom he apprehended, he said, on a 033 , 1; of having robbed the Rev. Thomas Bibby of a £5 note. ' l . t prisoner, he added, had admitted having taken the note, b i ", he alleged it had been given to him by the reverend genl i : man for wages which were due to him. The Rev. Mr. A b e l was then sworn, and he said, that in August last the prisono came to him requesting employment, stating that he had be in the habit of teaching boys at different Sunday school s " s the town, but that he had given up that avocation; a nd l a now engaged in giving instruction in m us i c . H e produce'', number of testimonials which appeared highly satisfactor); some of which were from the trustees of th e W e lsh schools: :n consequencffpf these testim on i a l s h e engage d the priso n i e; to teach singing to the boys i n Hunter-street school, en d he was to have £5 for six months. A short time a fterwards a , gave the prisoner £1 in advance ; but afterwards being a l cit satisfied with his method of t eac hi ng h e di sm i sse d which time there was a bal an ce d ue t o hi m o f 30s. '' On Rushton.—When did you discharge him ? Mr. Bibby. the 27th November. Mr. Rusht on .—H ow l ong h a d he t,,q e been in your service? Mr. Bibby.—Th ree mon ths. - 1- . og reverend gentleman in continuation said, th a t not W ri te , sufficient change at that time he gave the p r i son er a £5 "° out of which he was to bring him £3 I Os., the diffe,ren e but he never made his appearance. Mr. Rushton said th e under these circumstances he could not interfere. The Pri soner was consequently discharged. LIEUTENANT PARSONS, R.N.—ln glancing over the 11; pers brought by the Acadia, we observe that our townsin u ' Lieutenant Parsons, who is! deservedly a great favourite ell. the other side of the Atlantic, fi g u res consp i cuous ly in h , f iy columns. On the outward t r ip o f th e A ca di a , the w° , ,, r :r a g lieutenant rose and gave th e h ea lth o f th e Q ueen , P refa r• the sentiment with the following remarks :—" Ladies , the President, and Gcntlemen,—l deem it my duty, 85 „ 05 e senior officer present under the British crown , to Pr n „r„ c br thus early the health of our m os t grac i ous S ove reign i - 7 0 1 Victoria the First, the beauteous ruler of the sea- g irt Great Britain. If received as I expe c t, it w ill,l hare sr doubt, draw forth the thanks of a gallant brother in a l.11 : 0 , now present. Our American brothers, with the Geru l o t French, and Spnaish gentlemen, who f o r m a p ar t, and 0 . the least agreeable part, our society, from their high , ger tlemanly demeanour, will do honour to the toast ; but,_ l , o further inducement is wanting, I can venture to assure tn' o f that it will give pleasure to the ladies prssent, to hear °nee, their sweet sex drank with enthusiasm. The brilliant glance from their sunny eyes say yes, and, like that glorious luminp.rs breaking through November's gloom, invigorating hl i i i a g warmth, cheering us by its gladdeni ng p resence , and g"",fie the saloon with a flood of joy. Ladies and gentlemen 44 Queen of merry England ; there i s s o me thi ng heart-stirrt t s in the sound ; and may the omnipotent power that deligal'd in virtue shield, bless, and protect her thr ou gh a long fill prosperous reign, and enable her glorious descendants t?. the throne of England till time s h a ll b e n o mo re.' , to letter to the Boston Post, we see that our townsman bas' i his other acquirements, added that of authorship. He say s " Through Messrs. Little and Brown, I am pu blishing r , small work, entitled Nelsonian Reminiscences, having N e re a sonally; sailed with that distinguished hero of a hu n t or battles,' for nearly three years. Do me the favour or , s y nouncing (by publishing this note) t o thi s I w ill not onb r f i ol (according to Box) ' bright,' but beautifid, hospitable , 1 0 , kind city of Boston, whose commercial prosperity iss, ° timately blended with the good old town of Li v erpool. , ;a st A Cunions STour.—A somewhat str ange s tory Is the now occupying the attention of the lovers of gossip to„ e et neighbourhood of Walnut-street. The re d we ll s i n that st: sio a person named Parkes, whose b us i ness - avoca ti on s lead ' o p frequently into the country. Mrs. Parkes, who is close n Pfiat t the period of her accouchernent, k ee p s no serva nt, se a re when her husband is absent, she, with her two children,,,„ir the sole occupants of the house. On Friday last, accores'n"d to Mrs. Parkes' account, a man called at her resideneeriej, requested permission to speak with her. This being a,e c t e t hat the stranger inquired if her husband were in Liverpoot, a to be time. She replied in the affirmative. He then beget' n ey • informed when Mr. Parkes wou ld ss t ou t on hi s ne xt inu ea ve Mrs. Parkes i n f orme d hi m th a t h er h us b an d w ould' bee, home on the following day. Th e s t ranger thanked On apologised for the trouble he had given, and departed: fal the following day Mr. Parkes set out on his journeY to ou t filment of his arrangements. On Sunday morn ing last,' a fr o two o'clock, Mrs. Parkes states, th a t sh e was aroused n od her sleep by a noise in her bed-cha m b e r. Sh e looked 1r o b• saw a tan with a light in his hand, and, on attentive vi ho serving him, she saw that he was the same i n dividua l red a called upon her on Friday. Filled with alarm, she u k t te ds i c le, cry of terror, upon which the fellow advanced to the "—old and told her, that, if she uttered another sound, handstand ie r te , put her to death. He immediately tied her t he and putting a rope about her neck, f as t ene d her firmly t ° we re bed-post. She had in the bed her two children, wh o see awakened by these proceedings, and the elder of whoin! eso , ing a man binding his mother with ropes, began to sc i ot her Mrs. Parkes now became cons c ious that there were gu t villains below stairs, for she heard one or two voices ert,t, to their companions above that he was to silence the u'and The man by threats induced the boy to cease his cri es, h o c i he forthwith proceeded to bind him also and a younger',.."use about three years old. The party then searched the twerty for money, and succeeded in finding about £B, the prop he y of Mr. Parkes's employers. H aving obtained this booty , ll quitted the house, leaving Mrs. Parkes and her child ren at bound bound on the bed. Mrs. Parkes, when she was assureedt,'!..'t villains had left the house, screamed for assista nc e' n 6 , i ,t. though the next cottage is only divided from her dwelling a thin partition, she could not succeed in getting any usb.fid ance. Strange to say, the whole of Sunday passed away, n 7.„ still she arid her children remained in the same positioersros aisle to extricate themselves, or to make any of the P ed til l outside aware of their situation. Thus they remain,reeing when the little boy succeeded in _ so d Monday morning, himself from the fetters, when he went to the window , __ s, gave the alarm• The party at the next door, it aPP i r, l never, during the whole time, heard the slightes t sou disturbance. qua fel e and the 17 Dui Dui Per to 1