The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-03 00:00:00

Paritantentarp Val HOUSE ( LORDS o these proci JAM ga4 :ention or a g to the HO] Is nn t arded a - MUSE OF COMMONS.-: E GERTi d to 8 Mr. D !upossib!e to suppos Vv'ellingt man,' .esent, his mot ce . of the indisposition o that he wou Lord CA of Ripon. Lord BR I MONT so of co it, as the leader of a part 3d he (t] Glared th elf former a conju A.WFOR to consider the m on the people extent expenses of tary as well as blishments of t entry ; g of any supp . . e whole expenditure, and the mi house o meet bat expenditure, be first Mr. Humz,seconded the motion Mr. Wit T A UrC 511211 art r.TNnv+isel shed to was unnecessary to have such an army in Ireland when they had an army of police there as fully equipped as any troops whatever, and excellently disciplined. The immense police force in England also rendered such a large military force perfectly unnecessary. The CHANCELLOR of t cline to reply until the estimates shou EXCHEQ lder d Mr. HUMS. conten ptain Poti populat . ord's motion by a ma' 62 to 15 The hou iced itself into a committee of sur Sir HENRY HARDINGE brought forward the army ates for the present year, in which there had been a r of 5,740 men, the number he aosed for the current year being 100,846. The total saving £139,000. The right bon. gentlP-- .4 oy moving for the numbe. H UME was opposed to such a largo tion as compared with last men above sta er, and con- .. l that too many troops were employed in our colonies Government would reduce these troops on might do away with the duty on wool and on cotton hon. gentleman concluded by moving that the r be 90,846 men, being 10,000 less than the nun umber should J cu . r proposed Lord ARTHER LENNOX said t cises should be encouraged in the army, and that tiring pensions of 6d a day to , soldiers should be increased if .hat manly games and ezer- :d to ha 3e army. which he Captain LAYARD S sary for tb NiLLTA3is was r a much larger reuu Sir H. HARDINGE C tion of the of Canada withdra ported tb ginal motion a better class of men in t m of men th .nded the ori; e exceptio reduce the force f 5,000 r A. L. s sup- e committee as Carrie arger vot service of the country rry that Mr. Hume had not moved I a° e was .£. al other votes were ag WILLIAMS but, on a division, I :rosining votes ;jetted - to the t was carried by a slimed Sir J. GRAHAM then moved the second r Voters Bill stratio reserving the Lure state of the bill. The other orders of the day were the : In repl HOUSE OF LORDS.-ThESDA o a qu The Limn CHANCELLOR onsideration ( bill known in Sc And as the " Cessio Bo Lord CAMPBE ked if NHA3j in the natur tie trea Liird WTI A by Sir James C sembly of the ( rd BROUGHASC asked formation or a beyond ator of ssels on the coast of Africa ? )rd ABERDEEN expressed his co D remove th tion only was necesaar tiety of France to put an ins were still regarded in th 'sued during was frequently thrown upon ti d in this serviC e of deciding upon most intricate and mportant questions of international law, and they had, as Was to be expected, in some cases fallen into serious errors . _ _ governmen trongly the n pon as many with clear and unequfvOcal points of difficul prepared id nothing to cor unfounded prej noble lord then, by way o which our efforts toextirpaieti :ended, read a re founded upon existing treaties and th t appeared, tha number of vessels so employed ha , hin the last four years from 71 to r of slave imported, which in 18, 25,000, was in 1842 only 3,150 t measure achieved through the e e governor, General Valdez, 1 and honourable disregard of private inter( een in a g highest approbation D 3, while the D amounted rtions of Lord IVIONTEAGLE moved for returns of the number of prisoners in the various gaols iu Ireland for illicit d tion ,nenever the duty on spirits was raised in Ireland, the result was invariably a de crease of revenue and an increase of illicit distillation. For merly, when the revenue was increased from 2s. 4d. a gallon to 2s. Bd., the duty fell f rom £1,200,000 to £936,000 and ' -n the dnt' year. was to when was increased an additional shilling last y.._ the result was a decrease of consumption of nearly 1,250,000 gallons. He had also to observe, that out of 70 prisoners in the gaol of Donegal at this moment, upwards of 50 were for illicit distillation. Lord A STIBURTON Dtion I 'ement and of causes v ich _ in Ireland 1 downward tendency to t )f spirits After s come fur tner conversation th the table were forws d to. )rdships adjourned HOUSE OF COMMONS. —TUESD AY In r eply to question from Dr. Ilniazim,- r EE L saic that a formal with c es in Aire ob,ervat ston, while )een I b ry of Afftil, era bour s to one o g iven by the Porte to the building of ~ ...a Protestant church in aga.-- Jerusalem, nor to th e-residenc e of Bishop- Alexander In his their own frh. sacerdotal character. The government, however, bad re- in the origin of ceived no confirmation of the rumour that the Porte had put name of the v-' a stop to the build in g of that church, to a question from Lo r d M ANNERS, despoilers or a country, w ,.._ In reply with a hostile army. Withi n a mont h after Lord Aucklan Sir R. PEEL said that government was of opinion that an had written a friendly letter to Dost Mahorned, he sent an un qualified permissison from the French gove rnment to Don army to deprive him of hi s crown, and to set up his rival Carlos touillit reside where i he pleased might be d angerous to the S hah Soo j ah i n h i s room. The step taken by Persia in be tranq y sieging Herat was alleged a s th e reason for invading Affghan- Th of S. S OLI CITOR-GENERAL stated to the h ouse that an i stan ; b ut t h e se i ge had been raised before ever the troops q e h a d been brought by Mr. Howard against th e S er . - left India. The pretext f or every movement was fear of ' .Arms and Mr. Bellamy for trespass and false itn- Russia, but those movements ought to be attributed to the alleged to be committed by them when a c ti ne mischievous industry of L or d P a l m p riarm ~,t.:__. ,,.:,_ __ . hC orders of the house _ ~,; nouse might adopt on to order its officers to allow judgment to a [shoaled. lie charged with being marauders, - ' hole world E ) course loutteed them as unpriacipl bey should never have enter o direct them 6 . plead the do correspondence with •Russia, all t au- vernment of that country, and all I there would be Alexander Burnes was against the herefore. correspondence had been ..,arbled e former c fearned g 1 - several pre thus it was, that in the fight was with the Go oily with our own. Si t that war, but h d I of inquir F its function received a as to the cc abandonment of th charge of their chit so important a ca structi Solicitor with them ken wa t Must be sing such a summons might be i a )R•GENERAL said that course, and ( W xs to what should b e done vi =promised by su tr. Ro lating to that war. office, to a lucifer countri a misci xith country or another man a gave a sketch an and Persia, up to t f th entered Persia d ded to , but t nrned gen and a jury 'nig ltleman quc r course had been adopted the officers should be direc 1,1 that such _,,,erl to to the action Lord J ould be an on his proc ase of " How z that 1 'ee from Doh had h unanimou ham t e search of slave on that explana- alousy with W-hich :I to tt countr officers case a The Hous ion of the and the t in the referred to t munity. Tir RAHAM causes, oterest to men of =selves to stic be obtainec I to Ir land in t BuLLErt r and the was under intended to 3 policy uld giv onsumr an opin , of cot n, but this he would 1 objec bad done istrict c now given to the co. ,hear, be the noble lord, nowe d give it .►shed ch fided to of education e osed plan r) of th ,ord Pal 0 SOOrter t to ha le fore n first .6. He c its and :o of ti children (under 13 y stead a 8 , the forenoon or the afternoon of the day be- ing left available for educational purposes. The ma nagement of these schools, and the appointment of the master, will be placed in the hands of trustees, who are to consist of the clergyman of the parish in which the school is situated, the two churchwardens, and four other persons nominated by the magistrates. The system of education to be pursued we can con vey most faithfully to the reader by quoting a portion of the clauses by which it is proposed by Sir James Graham to be regulated. They are as follows : " And be it enacted that every master of a school to be provided for the education of children as aforesaid, shall be required to teach the Holy Scriptures, in the version appointed by law to be used in churches, to such scholars as shall be old enough to learn the same, and shall teach from no other book of religion whatsoever (except as hereinafter provided); but nothing herein contained shall prevent the use of any part of the liturgy of the Church of England in the said school by the clerical trustee, or by any person whom he may appoint on Sunday or on Christmas-day, Good Friday, or any of the usual fasts and festivals of the Church which may be school holidays, provided that no scho lar shall be required to attend at such divine service, whose parent, guardian, or other person having the legal custody of hirn, shall object to such attendanCe." " And be it enacted, that the Catechism of the Church of England," ?cc., shall be taught the children during certain hours in the week days, and for three hours on Sundays, together with other religiouS in- such religious Instruction being deter mined, and the selection of books for the purpose being made, by the clerical trustee alone," &c. struction, Then as to the religious teaching of the children of dissenters, the clause enacts that such children shall not be compjlied to be present during• these hours of religious instruction, and proceeds to declare that " it shall not be lawful for the trustees or master of the said school, or any other per )n, to give, or permit to be given, in the .said school, any religious instruction to such scholar, except the reading of the Holy Scrip tures, as hereinhefore appointed, provided that such child shall at such periods be instructed in some other branch of knowledge taught in the school." In substance we have here, in the fullest sense of the word, a system of Scriptural Education, and of teaching in the principles of the Church of England, provided for at the national expense, and conducted under the guidance of the Clergy of the Establish ment ; and it is truly gratifying to observe, that, not withstanding the sectarian rancour with which a sys tem precisely similar, if indeed so strictly in unison With the feelings of Churchmen, is attacked by a party in our own t own , the intimation by Government of their purpose to introduce a measure upon the subject founded upon these principles during the present ses sion, was received with almost unanimous approval by the House of Commons In addition, however, to a measure for the promo tion of education, we learn that the Government has a measure in preparation, founded u p on t h e a bl e re p or t of Mr. Edwin Chadwick, to which we have more than once called attention, for improving the sanatory con dition of the dwellings of the poor. Sure this at length is legislation in the right direc Our contemporary, the Mane/tester Guardian, of Wednesday, attempts a reel}, a f ter hi s own tr i c ky fashi on , t o th e remar ks whi c h we addressed to h i m on Friday l as t. Th ere is really, h owever, somewhat too much of the " tuquoque" style of argumentation in the Guardian's article to render it worthy of serious notice. There is, withal, a spice of i ns olent assump tion of s u perior h ones ty and virtue which, in a journal so notoriously shifty and venal as our contemporary, is rather indiscreet. We shall not pause, however, to remind the world of the twenty times turned coat, and more than Chameleon's variety of political hue, which this virtuous personage has exhibited during the twenty ' labour .to_NiidLzbe, joints with such apparent self-satisfaction ; but proceed to notice the little that we can discover worthy of remark in his Wednesday's philippic been drawing from that population the hoards of wealth by which we are surrounded ; and have we not cause to blush for the return which we have made— e fact that the =an producers of that I wealth have been less care( the machinery in our mills I In the first l ( - ace , We cannot but observe the singular care with which the Guardian omits noticing, in con nexion with the l anguage of which we complain in Mr. Cobden, th e speech previously uttered b y the Rev. Mr. Bailey, and the attack upon the life of Sir Robert Peel, by which it was followed. In our article of Friday, we expressly admitted that, per se, there was nothing in the assertion of the Premier's respon sibility—individual or personal—but consummate boobyism. E very body k ne w that a minister is re sponsible for hi s measures,—responsible to parl i ament and the laws o f hi s country. But the reverend dis senter had point e d to another kind of responsibility ; and in such language, that excited fanatics greedily inferred a resp ons ibi lity to their murderous vengeance; and the co m pl a i nt of Sir Robert Peel was, that, seeing the existence o f such a feeling towards himself per sonally, Mr. C o b den and the League shou ld st ill persevere in th e use of l ang uage calculated to direct the passions o f b a d men towards him as t h e i r o bj ect. The Guardian may say to this that M r. C o bd en was fellow-leaguer, not answerable f or the conduct of In' Bailey,—that no sympathy e x isted in his breast towards that gentleman. Ix .:e must re mind our contemporary , however, of the v ery s i gnificant fact, t h at not f our h ours before his utt erance of the objectiona bl e l anguage ad dressed to Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Cobden had gone out of his way to throw his shield over Bailey—he had ,ahour identified himself and the League with that gentleman, we do to k ee p b y t h reaten i ng t h e displ e asure of the b o d y aga i nst an Surely we ou g ht, In d epen d ent mem b er for presuming to remark upon _ _ „. Mammon the love :of an d d enounce hi s i ncendiary ravings. s etting and hoarding— has displaced every The analogy which we drew between . the case of a 'jig of our nature ! party denouncing a mi n i ster "individually," whilst the " —(thanks to Lord Ashley and to Sir passions of a portion of the people were proved to be nouncing machinery as the car mob which has just been engaged of a factory, the Guardian endeavor heir distress, to a ,n the uction adroitly enough, to elude, taking refuge in a string of lying charges, addressed to ourselves as having been in the habit of indulging in incendiary language upon the subject of never have been attac necessity for inquiry. _ i,ord JOHN MANNERS was of opinion that the house ought o feel indebted to Mr. Roebuck for giving it an opportu iity of expressing its feeling of the injustice of the Affghan Mr. ROEBUCK, in reply, said that he had been scolded but Sot anlwered by Lord J. Russell, and re-asserted the falsifi mtion of.the correspondence, quoting one case of omission in mpport ofr.his assertion. He could, he said, quote other )missions equally- important, but one was sufficient for his :ase. He was willing, if Lord Palmerston would show him, :o withdraw his motion, and substitute one of condemnation )f the late Government in its room. The house was then cleared fora division, and.-the motion f Mr. Roebuck was defeated by a majority cr,llo to 75. - - - _ ROYAL LIVER THEATXE • FAREWELL BENEFIT OF MRS i f FITZWILLIAM, And positively her Last Appearaiee in Liverpool. Also, the Final Appearange Liverpool of Mr. BIICKSIONE. EVENING, (Friday,) therid instant, the Perforn yes will commence with Mr. Buckstone's Corn in Two Acts, called WEAK POINTS'; OR, NOTHING LIKE WHEEDLING. To which will he added, THE BELLE OF THE HOTEL ; • ' OR, AMERICAN SKETCHES. After which, THE SNAPPING TURTLES. leap.bole to conclude with the old and favourite Farce of THE DEVIL TO PAY. TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c The largely increased and most respectable circulation hich the 7uesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify - '' • , amongst the other undeniable it possesses, upon the favor of that portion .•, he mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to 7 their advertisements before the notice of buyers in .eiolibouriny manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. in Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our oublioation of Tuesday —occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade,' when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country mane_ facture rs, spinners, and calico printer —is firmly es_ 1 circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest, der these encouraging circumstances, we trust to an increased measure of support from the kers of the town generally ; an it affords us great leasure to assure those of our friends those c Jug st who have hitherto bestowed their adver our increased ability tisiny favours liberally upon 'ustice to the interests corn 32.ibt5r4.100l . - tailbarti. FRIDAY MORAING, MARCH 3, 1343 The country owed a debt of gratitude to Lord -y for past efforts to ameliorate the social condi ion of its labouring population ; but infinitely was ;hat debt increased by his noble effort of Tuesday last, in behalf of the adoption of a system of religious education of the children 'of the poor, as the most efficacious remedy for that moral pestilence by which the security and happiness of the nation is being rapidly overwhelmed. Let any unprejudiced reader— any lover of his fellow human beings—pertise atten tively the details of ie and astounding ebasing crut with which his lordship prefaced his motion, '1 by incontrovertible evidence, and of societ •, existing in the heart !ned England, in th rnrnediate vicinity of ses of wealth, and of th national rength, such as most assu redly is not to be parallelled throughout_the eivitiaed world ; and such perusal, we are confident, must im press deeply upon his mind the conviction that upon no country can the blessing of God fall, in which such a state of society is permitted to exist—that no country deserves to be happy and prosperous which is not ready to put forth the vast energies, which this country possesses, to repair the consequences of its past neglect Glance only at •the immediate neighbourhood of Manchester—the centre of exclusive enlightenment in political matters—the hot-bed of liberalism, and the seat of the utilitarian philosophy. Go no further than five or six miles from that cotton metropolis —to the town of Ashton-under-Lyne, with fifty or sixty thou ' Stalybridge, with thirty to forty thousand; not more than one in forty-six of the children of receiving the benefits of a religious eflield, Leeds, Birmingham, nd villages pointed uatic catalogue which Lord Ashley has placed before our eyes; and say if we have not, as a professinif Christian people, ample caus rnities which are rife in sand souls, aak at Sh Wolverl ampton, and other town to blush for the enor- them--for the mental pollution lg their rising generation to the Level of the beasts e lert Peel's g raliste of the. day--to the men who have vaunted so loudly their zeal for the enlightenment of the people !)—is at length, at the eleventh hour, about to be grappled with, and in a worthy spirit. The heart stirring appeal of his lordship has been replied to by Sir James Graham, who, on the part of the govern ment, has laid before the house and the country the outlines of the plan which he purposes during the pre sent session endeavouring to carry out. The plan in question—or rather plans, for the measure will em brace two—we shall here briefly detail. The first of these has reference to the education of pauper children, embracing orphans and the children of working people, not being paupers, who are unable otherwise to provide them education. For these it is proposed to erect schools, to contain the children within a district of fifteen miles, having attached to such schools a chaplain, appointed with the sanction of the bishop, and a chapel. The system of education will be one based upon the reading of the Scriptures in the authorised version, with instruction in the cate chism, and portions of the liturgy of the Church of England. The children of Protestant dissenters may, however, be withdrawn during the hours in which the doctrines of the Church are taught, their religious teaching being attended, to by their own ministers. The schools will be visited by inspectors appointed by the Council of Education, who will have instruc tions to see that the terms under which dissenting children are permitted to embrace the benefit of the schools are strictly adhered to. The erection of the necessary buildings will be provided for by a rate not to exceed one-fifth of the average amount of the poor rate for the three preceding years. The second plan has reference to the education to be provided for the children of the working classes in The custom of the i 3 been, hitherto, to extend the only when two •thirds of the tributed manufacturing districts Council of Elucation s grants in have been c James Grah energy by which and loom- money- through hat the aproaeh 1 nobler fee have been remedied vber ,expecte Jed by c ,sing the motic ble lord's defenc tained by parties ears w•er e of the proba , ccurrence of ere were, therefore, called upon to The responsibility tlousandlives, in addition to national as not to be ingit orr hoped that the pre nt advisers of iher M would not be found supportin g such foul delinquency a The hon. gentleman con which had led to ti t the NN unjustifiable ab initio, and that inquiry was absolutely requisite. Sir R. PEEL said that two questions had arisen in the course of the debate—one whether the first expedition into visable to institute an inquiry. With respect to the first question he had himself when that expedition was first corn ted to the house, expressed strong doubts of the policy expedition, and his noble friend the Duke of Welling on had still more strongly predicted the evil consequences ikely to flow from it. He doubted the policy of taking up Shah Soojah, which was much the same as it they attempted to replace Charles X. on the throne of France. All these doubts subsequent events had confirmed, but still, as an ad viser of the crown, he did not think it expedient that a select of that appointed to inquire into c: like these, which had occurred eight years ago. There never had been an opposition in which some faults had not been found with the foreign policy of their opponents, and yet be 'lc place in the zovernment, the iad ever used the influence of ling to pov give way to the i s required st Th a an inquiry opinion the ited immen lid not, right he Hume, by quoting his speech on a former evening, in whicl he spoke most highly of the wisdom and policy of Lord Auck land, le motion of Mr. Roebuck Iso to prat a manifest a to him b 3 men had r of limp they had beer remit c s committee, because sac d to, of Iran ,dency, if acc n to the House o of the papers, hf ough some of them wer Hous to give t entered upon that war. ated the conduct of Rus t good underst izarded by an i had hippily vo countrie greater Roebuck, but that bon' would have been able . io have thrown mor strength intorikis vi the papers wee g Dlained in I of the t 1, howeve late of A vert cnose clangers it became abs course pursued by Lord Auckland s the late Government had been in r i- _ _ ,eace of lit their objects; and, perhaps, had they abroad instead of opposing it, they would fair and just view of all the reasons whin!. to be detrimental chievous industry had :nliar notions of mischief, gentleman conceived to be mis- and learned gentleman had used very guage, but it was usually the case that the hardnes; _e bore an exact proportion to the softness of the ent, and this must have been applidable to the hon. erations. The charge was false that rbled, and equally erroneous was the sup- Alexander Burnes was not in favour of ac :ause that gallant officer had actually com rs that Lord Auckland had h es it a t e d be _ The noble lord then d by the late Go- t. As soon as they received the information as to !edings of Russian agents in Asia, application was the court of St. Petersburg, and that court not only ts, but recalled thew-, sost good faith, and was ghanistan, and ately necessary to adopt he ten .er they had suc- arope, and had been uni- hick we work, anc hops, from which we as sedulously I even a speck qf rh gentle of Mr .c, that one-third only shall be required; and, on a memorial being pt.( sented to the council, the remaining two-thirds will be furnished —one-third in chequer bil!s to he refunded out of the poor-rate in ten yearly instalment For the suppor t of the schools a sum not exceeding 3d. may be charged for each It is proposed, in order to do away with the inefficient *orking of that part of the existing " Fac tories Regulation Act" which requires a certificate of attendance for two hours per day at, some school, as the condition of a child's eligibility to be employed on a mill,-to make attendance for three hours a day at these schools, or some of imilar character approved by a government inspector, imperative; and to permit such of age) to work 6!-, hours in- In reply to this contemptible charge, all machinery ay is, that our file, to which he desires us to refer, is perfectly at his own service, whenever he chooses to rake together our past opinions; and we that we shall s journalism, during which his manners and language have been so unimpeachable —we cannot say so much of his honesty and his discretion—why not go a - year or two further back—a little nearer to the days of 1819 and the stirring scenes of Peterloo ? But, enough of this cunning " waiter upon provi- dente"' and honest oracle of the Anti-corn-law League. We envy not that sapient body their bargain, though it be but dsingle fourpenny, twice a-week ; for we can conceive nothing so damaging to their cause and the character of the tools with which they work as the fact that a journal so notoriously opposed to their agitation as the Manchester Guardian, is their obsequi- ous and most thorough-going organ. There is something rotten here ! It will be seen from our parliamentary report, tha the motion of Mr. Roebuck, for an investigation into the origin of the AfFghan war, has been negatived by a large majority. The speech of the bon. member was energetic and clever, but be placed the arguments on an easily avoidable basis. He did not denounce the illegality or criminality of the war, but contented himself with showing its impolicy and unjustifiable ness. Cd L Nh The packet-hip Sheridan, Captain Cornish, which saileC from New York uo the 25th of January, arrived at this poi.' on Tuesday, the easterly gales having prolonged her passage The Earl and Countess of Sefton and their youthful family are expected to leave Croxteth Hall, for town, at the end ni the month. His lordship's splendid new mansion, in Be:- grave-square, is now complete in its embellishments. NEW COUNTY MAGISTE.ATE.-At the Salford hundred intermediate sessions, on Monday, Hugh Hornby Birley, Esq., of Broome House, Manchester, took the oaths and qua. lified as a magistrate for this county. PROGRESS OP INVENTION.—In the last monthly list of patents, we observe that two ingenious gentlemen (asphalte manfuacture) have taken out a patent for certain improve ments in coffins. We cannot see that human ingenuity can possibly go any further. ROYAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS.—Mr. BRAHAM'S CONCERT. —The veteran tenor—" le tenor super-be," as the French papers call him, gives his concert to-night at the above rooms. We believe the demand for tickets has been rather A full attendance use a mercantile phrase may be expected SIR CHARLES . Excellency Sir Charles Metcalf received visits from several deputations on Wednes day. at his hotel, in London, and afterwards had the honour of dining with her Majesty at Buckingham-palace. His ex cellency would leave Mivart's yesterday, en route for this port, and will embark to-morrow morning on board the Co lumbia for Canada. METCALF THEFT.—Samuel Farmer was charged before Mr. Rushton on Wednesday, with h: ving stolen part of a flitch of bacon from the shop of Philip Ryley, Cheapside. Mrs. Ryley stated that on the previous night she was about to serve the prisoner in the shop, when she saw him take down a piece of bacon and run off with it. She ran after him. Ile dropped the bacon, and she continued the pursuit and caught him, and gave him into the custody of a police-officer. The bacon weighed 17 lbs. He was committed for trial. COMMITMENT.—On Wednesday, a man named John Givan was charged at the Police-court, with having stolen a quantity of copper nails. Police-officer Andrew Dixon saw the prisoner about six o'clock that morning coming through the east gate of the Victoria-dock, and suspecting him, took him to the hut, where he found a quantity of copper-nails in his hat, and some more in his coat pocket—in all about 181 b. weight. It appeared from further evidence that the property had been taken from a bag on the quay, and was the pro perty of Mr. Augustus Hahn. The prisoner said a man had given him the nails. He was committed for trial at the sessions. Intsx AID SOCIETY.—A few months since, a meeting of gentlemen, deeply convinced of the duty of endeavouring to advance the spiritual welfare of Ireland, was held in this town, to consider the propriety of forming a Liverpool society, in aid, unitedly, of three societies connected with Ireland. An association was at once formed, the object of which is the promotion of the religious improvement of Ire land by aiding with funds the Irish Society, the Scripture Readers' Society for Ireland, and the Irish Island Society with the Achill Mission. The first public meeting of this interesting and important society will, we perceive, he held on Monday evening next, at the Music-hall. when the Rev. T. Moriarty, the Irish Society's missionary at Dingle, will attend, as a deputation from Ireland. We cordially recom mend this infant association to the most cordial support of our Protestant readers. BLUE COAT HOSPITAL-The annual report of this most excellent charity, from the Ist of January to the 31st of Le ember, 1842, has just made its appearance. The trustees regret to notice a decrease in the amount of subscriptions for the past year from those of the two preceding of about £lOO, and from 1839 of upwards of £200; but, when the late de pressed state of the town is considered, they feel grateful for the kind and liberal support which the charity has received, trusting that, on the revival of commerce, the number of its subscribers may be increased ; for it is on this score that the institution has mainly to depend, having to rely upon the bounty of the public for about £3OOO annually. The sum received from legacies and benefactions has been consider able, and the trustees have been enabled to r,eplace in part the fund some yeatf ago expended in enlarging the building. The trustees also call the attention of the clergy to the di minution in the church collections, which now only amount to one-third of the sums received in former years. The number of children at present in the institution is 350, viz., 250 boys, and 100 girls; of which number 134 are orphans, 207 fatherless, four motherless, and five who have parents, but in indigent circumstances. LARGE TIMBER SALE.—The firm of Messrs. Chaloner, Houghton, and Fleming commenced their first extensive sale of various kinds of timber and woods for the year 1843 on Wednesday last. It was continued on Thursday, and termi nated on the evening of Friday, thus occupying the business part of three days. There was a very extensive assortment of all descriptions of wood and timber, and the attendance of buyers from various towns throughout the county, as well as from the continent, was fully as numerous, if not more so, than on any previous similar occasion. Great quantities were sold, and prices, on the whole, ranged pretty high. On Thursday, numerous lots of beautiful rosewood were disposed of. These, in the aggregate, formed, perhaps, the largest collection of that kind of wood ever offered for sale in this port. It had previously been rather scarce, and bidders on this day were rather free. Several fine lots of zebrawood were also disposed of. Great quantities of bays and Honduras also met ready purchasers. Parties attending the sale ex perienced the hospitality of this spirited firm, refreshments being provided in their several, sheds during the three days' sale. MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE. - At the weekly meeting of the Dock Committee, yesterday, there were pre sent the following members :—Messrs. Sands, (chairman,) Horsfall, Holt, Smith, Chilton, Holmes, Nicol. Bulley, Middleton, Aikin, Bramley-Moore, Evans, Royden, Bold, Martin, Shand, Barclay, and Molyneux. On the recom mendation of the Harbour Masters' Sub-committee, the charge made upon Messrs. Wood and Ritson for the use of a crane on the east side of Queen's Dock was ordered to be re funded.—The Sub-committee of Works produced a letter from the Head Constable, submitting a plan for converting the tool-house at, che south end of Princes's Dock into a place for the retention of persons apparently drowned : the requisite alterations were estimated to cost between £2O and £3O. Ordered.—The joint opinions of Sir Wm. Follett and Mr. Martin, on four questions put to them whether, under the existing laws, the props of foreign vessels, being loaded, can be legally charged dock dues, was taken into considera tion; and, eventually, a sub-committee was appointed upon the subject, consisting of the Chairman, Mr. Aikin, Mr. Royden, Mr. Nicol, and Mr. Bold. The solicitor, who was in attendance, stated, in reply to a question, that the bill now before Parliament on the same question would go into the Committee of Standing Orders on Tuesday next.—The re ceipt of cities at Runcorn, for the month ending the 24th ult., were reportid to be £2B Bs. Sd. : for the corresponding pe riod last yearthey were £4l 15s. sd.—Some financial busi ness was then transacted, and the committee separated. LIVERPOOL DISTRICT COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. PORTANT TO CREDITORS.—On Friday last, Mr. Commis sioner Skirrow expressed his determination to refuse all applications - from - creditors in person, requiring the transfer of fiats into the new Bankruptcy Court, except in cases of such peculiarity as to induce him to dispense with the repre sentation by attorney. Creditors, therefore, who are inter ested in the prosecution of fiats, and removing them into the custody of the court, must apply through a solicitor, who will give evidence to the court of the proceedings withheld, and the necessary documents will be furnished for their immediate production. It will also be interesting to attorneys to know, that, as by act of parliament, all fiats within ten years anterior to the operation of the act are to be forthwith produced and registered, so it was ruled that any attorney not bringing in proceedings i n his possession, and paying the prescribed fee of is. for the registration, was guilty of a con tempt. Several representations were made by professional gentlemen in the town, against the harshness of the regula tion in eases where the proceedings were closed, and in which to all practical purposes, their interests had expired. On the ame day, a consultation took place between the commis - and registrars, and they eventually decided that all cases where the proceedsare distributed shall be exempt from the registration fee,, but in others the regulation shall be strictly enforced. This decision will, it is hoped, clear away the prejudices which have been excited by the order, and induce an early transfer of fiats, in compliance with the act and the " rules and regulations." .-IM- STAG HUNT.—On Monday a grand stag hunt took place with Sir John Gerard's hounds, the point of starting being Roby Hall. the residence of Richard Edwards, Esq. Great interest was excited on account of the point of starting being so near to Liverpool. and also on account of the situation, which was considered very good for a fine run. The assem blage of horsemen and pedestrians was very numerous, about 200 persons being present to wit ness th e interesting sight. We noticed many fashionable ladies, and amongst the gentle men Sir John Gerard, Captain Robert Gerard, J. Ireland Blackburn, Esq., H. Leigh, Esq., Hawke, Esq., Warner Shand, Esq„ Jas. Rigby, Esq., G. Thompson, Rt. Neilson, Charles Ashton, Adam Ashton, J. Senior, G. Hargreaves, Rawson, Crooke, Earle, jun., Yates, H. Jones, Irwin, Corrie, Id. Sandbach, H. Molyueux, Esqrs.,*c. Altogether, a field of about 100. The day was, on the whole, exceedingly favourable. About half-past eleven a very fine stag was /et loose, and, after taking a very short reconnoitre of the ground, it started off in the direction of Woolton. The deer was uncarted at half-past eleven. After winding for a few minutes, he trotted s l ow l y d own t h e park in the diree tion of Roby village. Being headed at the gate by a gentle man and lady, he charged the park fence, and crossed Carr lane towards Childwall. After the usual time had elapsed, (say fifteen minutes,) the hounds were laid on, and went away in goad style, leaving Childwall and Wavertree to the left, through Edge-hill, Low-hill, Everton, Kirkdale,Walton, crossed Walton -hall park, and, finally, the deer taking the water in Norris Green Park, was drowned before the bounds could be called of. Time, 2 hours jO volumes, concede it to him the more readily, inasmuch as we suspect that a similar review of his own past opinions is a kind of pleasure in which he does not often indulge ! By the bye, when referring us to his twenty years of and anod kit/GGLINO.—On WeJn customs and three pint :ed Hit inaje6t ,heridan. The offic prisoner person : he was carrying a ton ordered the prisone in each case to pay 20: or to be imprisone THE FUNDS-WEDNESDAY EVENING.- has occurred in the value of the public securities to-day, which have maintained considerable firmness at quotations a shade better. Exchequer-bills and India Bonds are gradu ally improving, and the latter bold by Is. the best position in the market. Consols for money left off, 9:4 to ; ditto, account, 95:1 to -I; Bank Stock, 177 to 178 ; India Stock, 2671 to 2681; Three per Cents. Reduced, 96i ; Three-and a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1081; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1021 ; Long Annuities, 12i; India Bonds, 68s. to 70s. premium ; and Exchequer-bills, 675. to 695. premium. In the foreign stocks Spanish Actives were quoted 201 to 1; ditto, New, 27k to 1 ; Mexican, 30i to 311; Mexican Defer red, to 9; Detch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 55?-, t Dutch Five per Cents., 1021 to 1; Danish, 89 to 87 ; Co_____ bian, 24 to 1: Brazilian, 77 to 78 ; and Portuguese Con verted, 391- to 3 TYPE-COMPOSING MACHINE.-Our readers, no doubt, have, from time to time, seen, in this and other papers, ac counts of a machine for composing type, which is intended in some degree to supersede the present calling of newspaper and book compositors. This machine is a patented invention by Messrs. Young and Delcambre, of London. We have never ourselVei seen it in actual operation, but we had the ether day an opportunity of inspecting the section of a working model, which, in our mind, was perfectly satis factory as to the capabilities of the machine itself. Like many practical men, we were in the first instance decidedly sceptical, having, as we thought, reasonable gropnds for supposing its .merits to be greatly exaggerated ; but the difficulties we felt were speedily so far modified as to leave no room for doubt upon the ultimate success of type-com posing by machinery. We do not, however, for a moment, conceal our conviction that as far as concerns what is techni called " justification," the machine is defective ; that " dis- tribution" is a more complicated operation than at present; that there,is an equal liability to ►nis-spell, to leave " outs," and make " doubles ; " that the correction of errors will be just as troublesome as at present; and that its ability to per form a given quantity of work is less, than we anticipated. The patentees ►ndeed are at no trouble to deny or lessen these defects; but, notwithstanding all these disadvantages, we cannot resist the conclusion that the machine, even with its present imperfections, can scarcely fail to succeed. Improve ments may,, and will, no doubt, be made progressively, for one will suggest another, that will materially reduce the force of now existing objections; and, therefore, we really believe, having a knowledge of all the most, formidable obstacles to the change, that the time has, now arrived for the spring, the lever, and the wheel of the applied to the art of the co rut.l4l, . some will have it, the mo ra l effects of applying machinery to a branch of industry hitherto supposed inaccessible to it, this is dot - the place to enquire. The most prejudiced, how ever, will be constrained to admit that if time and expense are thereby .saved it must go on. That, indeed, is one of the laws of our condition. In the pre sen t s t ate o f soc i ety (" artificial, as it is sometimes called) the progress of ma chinery in general, and of particular improvements in that machinery, can no more be stopped than can the revolutions of the planets; and experience has always shewn that op position either to one or the other has not only been futile but has actually been the greatest stimulus to ingenuity. The type-compositors, therefore, like many other trades befdre, will have to give way as f ar as pl a i n stra i g h t- f orward compdsition goes; but they will have this advantage, which most otlrr trades so situated have not had, that the more difficult branches of their profession—tabular work for in stance, arid jobbing in general, —cannot be done by any machine either invented now or ever likely to be, conse quently there will always be occupation for good hands. It will be the inferior members of the trade, the half-educated, as it were, who will be the most affected. The history of machinery for the last forty years is instructive; and we should hope that compositors, who, as a body, are charac terized by intelligent foresight, will not be above learning useful knowledge from that source. The machine of Messrs. Young and Delcambre, judging from the model we have seen, is light and elegant, occupying but little space, and of no great weight. The mechanism is very simple, and the materials of its construction are by no means of an expensive character. We make these observations in this place in order to suggest to the patentees a certain point which, in our opinion, will stand greatly i n t h e way of the common adoption of their invention. It is this—that there is ap parently very little relation indeed between the actual value of the machine and the money price which they put upon it. Would not a revision of their scale, with a view to reduc tion, be likely to be more beneficial, by extending the demand ? We know other patents where such has been the issue. In putting forth this suggestion, we wish it to be distinctly understood that we are advocates for every man who has made any useful discovery profiting by that dis covery, and for his rights being protected for a reasonable time in doing so; but at the same time there is a possibility of that man ". standing in his own light." PORTUGITF,SE AND JAMAICA ' FARII , I , S.—We find in the Cork Constitution of Tuesday last, a report of a meeting held in that town for the purpose of hearing from Mr. Fagan, the result of his mission to London, respectiog the Portuguese Tariff and the Jamaica Inland Duties. It appears that Ire land, particularly the South, up to a recent period, carried on a very extensive trade with Portugal, principally in butter, one of the staple products of that agricultural country. By the assimilation in 1835 by the Government of Portugal of the duties on all foreign produce imported into that country, including that of Great Britain and Ireland, this important trade has been lost to Ireland, owing to the successful com petition of Holland and Germany. This assimilation was, in a great degree, caused or suggested by the assimilation, in 1831, by England, of the duties on French and Portuguese wines. As England, in the pending treaty with Portugal, proposes to reduce the duty on the wines of that country over 40 per cent., it is considered but an act of just reciprocity that Portugal, in return, should place its trade with Ireland on the former footing, or nearly so. This subject was pressed upon Lord Aberdeen by Mr. Fagan and Mr. Serjeant Mur phy, and at the close Lord Aberdeen said that in reference to the subject there would be no difficulty; bnt lie said, " Gentlemen, 1 think it right to state to you, that in conse quence of the difficulties in which the revenue is placed owing to the suspension of the treaty, we have taken measures, so that unless it be speedily brought to a close it will be broken oF altogether." The duty on Irish beef and pork, as included in the conteni plated Portugal treaty, was subsequently pressed upOn Lord Aberdee n ' s a ttent i on , but his lordship declined to give any explanation on the subject, as it would establish a bad precedent to give the details of pending negociations. With reference to the Jamaica duties Mr. Fagan said he did not possess sufficient information to go before Lord Stanley, but he had forwarded a letter to his lordship, who stated that "he had given positive instructions that there should be no greater sum than five per cent. Island duty." Mr. Gould in proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Fagan and Mr. Murphy, read the following memorial from Messrs. Robinson and Girvin, of this town, to Lord Stanley : " My Lord—Having been long established and extensively engaged in'the cure and exports of provisions to the West Indies, we have been greatly alarmed by the receipts of the inclosed new Tariff of Island duties, enacted by the Jamaica House of Assembly, to come into operation on the sth of April next, and unless "vetoed" by your Lordship, will en tirely destroy our business, and be of the most serious injury to the Provision Trade of Ireland, and also of great disadvan tage to British shipping, as they have hitherto derived con siderable benefit in carrying out supplies from the United Kingdom, which must eventually cease unless some differen tial duties be established in lieu of them. We beg respect- fully to instance the following articles in our line of business, and to contrast the new schedule of duties with the on 3 now in operation, viz : Pork and 'Beef from the Uiiited Kingdom now pay 4s. per brl. of 20001bs.; from the British Possessions, ls.; if Foreign, 12s. per cwt. additional, or 255. sd. By the New Tariff it is proposed the duty from the United Kingdom and British Possessions shall be 20s. per barl., and from Foreign Coun tries 3s. per cwt. additional, leaving only a protection of ss. 40. per bri. in fav ou r of Pork Beef from the United Kingdom. "Hams and Bacon," British, now pay ss. per cwt., and if Foreign 12s. per cwt. additional—it is no pro posed to raise the duty on British cure to Bs. per cwt.- - upon foreign to 3s. per cwt. additional, giving a protection of 3s. per cwt. only, instead of 12s. as hitherto existed. The Tariff regulating the importation of the above articles into the United Kingdom, admits foreign beef and pork, at Bs. per cwt, or about 14s. 3d. per brl. of 2001b5., and the article of bacon and hams at 14s. per cwt. ; so that your lordship will perceive the inequality atone glance, and also the consequences we predicate. " We therefore earnestly entreat your lordship's early and favourable consideration to this subject, and remain, My Lord, your Lordship's humble and obedient servant, (Signed) " ROBINSON & GIRVIN. " Liverpool, Feb. 22, 1843." POLICE CASE EXTRAORDINARY.-011 Tuesday last, a plain-looking man, named Wright, who resides in Bannister court, Carpenter's-row, stated to be a joiner and carpenter, and who appeared to be in want of shaving, was brought be fore the sitting magistrate on a charge of stealing a quantity of tools from a brother chip wh o b oar d e d a t the opposite house.—Police-officer Toole stated that the prisoner had been put into his charge by the complainant, on a charge of steal ing from him a number of planes (smoothing and moulding), a lot of chisels, a gouge, a file, two hammers, a lot of screws, tacks and nails, a sprig-bit, two squares, a hand-saw and a tenant saw, an auger, a brace and bits, an axe, an adze, and a variety of other articles used in the trade, most of which he (witness) afterwards found at his lodgings ; secreted amongst some shavings and saw-dust. " The prisoner, after being taken into custody (added the witness) gave me a box on the chest, struck me on the head with a hammer so as nearly to nail me, and also tried to gouge me by putting his thumbs in my eyes; but I stuck to him like clue, and finally, on his cuffing me with his hands, I secured him with hand-offs." —The complainant said, the prisoner had come to him some days before to borrow the axe ; but he had lost so touch by lending that he refused, though he to far persuaded him, that it was nearly Lent. The :prisoner had, however, contrived, during his (witness's) absence, to break open the lock of the shop, and bolt with the articles. He met him on the key (quay) and axed him about stealing the axe, but could make no handle of it.—One of the hands who worked at the shop swore he saw the prisoner cut off across the street with the hand-saw.—A little boy saw him put a sprig -bit into his pocket.—Another witness observed him break open the door with a Jemmy and decamp with the Jack -plane.—The articles were produced and identified.—lt appeared to be a great bore to the prisoner when the brace and bits were brought against him, and the court augured still worse of him when the auger was produced. When the squares and a plummet were shown, the case became more and more crooked, and out of plim.—The prisoner, when asked what he had to say, screwed his courage to the sticking place, and addressed the bench at some length. A great deal, he said, had been brought against him, but he trusted the complainant . 'would be balked in fastening a charge upon him of forcibly opening a door. As to the Jemmy, it was " all my eye and Betty," and no Jack of them could make a plain story of it. As to steeling, the tools, the witnesses were sure l y spea ki ng i n irony, for they were all of cold iron, without steel. No one could see him with the saw, and the testimony given on that point was only of a see-saw kind, which he s h ou ld se t hi s teeth against. Hey denied having struck the officer : he was not in the habit of striking—except occasionally for wages. As to the sprig of a boy who had spoken of the sprig-bit, there was not a bit of truth in his allegations. Why should they tax him with the tacks ? Stories had been got up against him, one over another, but he trusted they would be razed to the ground. and those who raised them be completelyfioored. He had been a tenant of the same landlord for many years, and, as he entertained a terror mortis. he swore he had not taken either the tenant-saw nor the mortice-iron. The case against him had plainly been moulded, and the witnesses drilled, but it was altogether disjointed, as any joiner in the trade would admit. The fact was, he had had a quarrel with the com plainant on a knotty point, and he had been csoss-firained with him ever since. He concluded, without calli ng any witnesses, by throwing himself upon the bench.—The B enc h decided that the case was too plain to admit of d ou bt . The defendant had endeavournd to make a case himself, and h a d done a deal to smooth it over, but bad failed. All the evi dence squared and dove-tailed together ; and the measure of punishment would hinge on the prisoners previous character. —The bridewell-keeper said the accused was an old file, whq had repeatedly chiseled and screwed honest people out of their property.—The magistrate said, " This adds (adz e ) to the enormity of th e o ff e nce. I have some doubts wh et h er I shall send you where a jury will be i mpannelled to try you. I shall take c are , h owever , that you shall not mak e a tool of me. You must be punished. Let him be lock e d up for three rooptbs. ;ed by o can ship Me O F x.itvongst the most va.l ua whether regarded as conducive to wa ve , purity and grace of aspect, or as auxiliary to feminine w t b e liness, a beautiful set of teeth must ever rank amongst ce. most important elements of a favourable personal a ppe arB l / 09 The embellishment and preservation of the teeth an d g. d have therefore ever been regarded with peculiar interest, be among the mass of preparations suggested for these de sirB purposes, we could particularize ROWLAND'S ODONTOr uu, PEARL DENTIFRICE, as unrivalled for its excellence inPaa rifying, embellishing, and preserving those important ~ attractive objects.—See advt. SHOP-LIFTING.—At the Police-court, on Wed nesa ,,e l ti Amelia Jones, Alice Hughes, and Ann Smith, were char.,,f with having stolen a pair of ladies' boots, the proPe rtY Elizabeth Eden, shoe-dealer,:Byrotn-street. Isaac Joblie;', shopman in the service of Mrs. Eden, stated, that on on, day afternoon, the prisoners Amelia Hughes and AliceJo ne tg , entered the shop, and said they wanted to try some b ° m ° Jones sat down, but Hughes, who had a child in her 8/ ..r to i walked about, and appeared to be lulling the child ee l .0 keep it from crying, though the shopman observed t he ‘A was quiet enough. In the course of her movements to e t ; fro she went frequently to a shelf o n w hich were women's boots. After looking at seve ra l p a ir of boots, Jt, I .H said, " There is a pair in the window which I thinkl; answer." The shoptoan reached over to get them, and teed doing turned his back on the two wome n . When be Pt o the boots on the counter, he saw Hu g h es l eav ing the and be observed her go to the window and look in. Tale to the shelf to which Hughes had gone with the child , saw that a pair of ladies' boots had been taken therefrote; " Where is your companion ?" said h e t o J ones . She Woke! confused. He gave her the pair of boots w hi c h he had ta ke : from the window, and telling her to try them on , o : n e at signal for another assistant to go t o th e s h o p, an d we , " "a, to look after Hughes. Ho saw h e r a t a littl e di s tance sta rs ing talking to the prisoner Smith. He told her that liereoPY panion wanted her, and she returned with him to the e c h° „ l ' . He then went after Smith and brought her back also. 1 %l e : 3 „; while Superintendent M`Donald, who happened to be ptiee',"„',; was in the shop. When Smith was taken into the 5 '7, (and it was the first time she bad been in) a pair of bf'd dropped from her person on the floor. These were identw.f ie as the property of Mrs:Eden, and had been stolen fronl w ` he shelf. All three were immediately taken into custody• prisoners had nothing to say in their defence, and were COw' tnitted for trial. PEMONA tes of beat CORRESPONDENCE. THE DUKE AND HIS HORSE TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD' was rather astonished to read in your paper a eV' ticism on the admir a bl e p r i n t from the picture I had the 1) ‘ nour to paint, for Liverpo o l, o f th e D u k e an d C open hagen, wherein it was said th e engraver h a d supplied the zea l' skill in the painter. Upon tn; word, to say the least„ this is a modest infereq e : and I believe no man w o uld b e more s h oc k e d t h a n Ni e Lupton. The writer does not seem at all aware of the position painter and engraver; an d th a t no engraver would ever & L e ; to supply the want of s kill i n th e pa i nter w i t h o ut ° painter's express approbation. The last man to take such a liberty is Mr. Lupton, will intense application, honest wi s he s , an d em i nent ta l en t Wu make him the first to feel its gross indelicacy. The art of black and white is a very difficult art to the ° r a t of colour; and when a picture is translated into blacic aoe white, a different management is always necessary. Rab e ! used to make black and white finished sketches, for his . gravers, and it would be well if it were done now. The critic also talks of the empty space in my picture. , e Ile seems to take it as a portrait composition, where its; man is all in all and the s p ace no thi ng ; h e f orgets t h a t it;, a portrait compositio n w h ere th e man an d h orse arc but psi of scene. The day, th e fi e ld, th e man, t h e h orse , Pr e o f equally in the imagination, and are but component pare s the imaginative invention. A bit of a colum n , o r re d cur t a i n , or a c l oa k , or a beat might render it more agreeing with portrait arrangement , u would utterly destroy the poetry of the space. The very emptiness is a part of the scene, and the pol e of the inventio n —th e a b sur di ty o f t h e remarks made picture, by the noodles of a portion of the London Pinj about the hugeness of the picture, the size of the Duke l 0 the Horse, were perf ec tly l u di crous —i n s h ort, t h e reraerre which are always made about the size of my pictures , always ludicro us ly un t rue . I never pa i nte d a portra i t of 51'01 man in my life seven fe e t s i x i nc h es, lik e L awrenc e's re George IV., which I measure d a f ortn i g h t s i nce; and thee is no place so utterly unfit for any historical picture as ° ; e t English Exhibition—th e t ameness o f t h e att i tu d es, t h e o f of the expressions, the ever y d ay scenes, ren d er any wokx,, f foreshortening, or action, or vigour, an insanity; and s"' figure only the size of life, a giant l u•tot Above you is, perhaps, a l a d y i n bl ac k ve l vet, with ii " i n n , 'her silk shoe doi ng th e am i a bl e ; on your right, the Pvor William * *'s favourite po ne y ; on your left, Kensing.to 'gravel pits, and below yo u , P u t ney bridge!—in the 101 .. comes Curtius, or Sampson, and people run out of the ro?," screetching what exa ggera ti on !—H ay d n ' s ma d l—therelo,', pray be on your guard aga i ns t any L on d on coc kneyisre,e about huge figures—bi g canvas — v i o l ent act i on—an d usual string of namby pambyisms, which a bewild e qe 'cockney puts forth, when he beholds a man in the air or t,U., clouds, leaping into a gulph, or s t an di ng on the field of O p , terloo : and make every allowance for the remarks of tha. v whose views extend not b e y on d M a id en- l ane, or the lab courts of Covent-garden. Li verpoo l w ill , I h ope, be t, Florencelof Britain, and it b ecomes i ts press to think I° itself. Yours, obediently, B: R. HAYDON• London, 28th Feb., 1843 [We have received the above rather wrathy commune tion from Mr. H a ydo n on th e su bj ect o f t h e notice, vijlbe appeared, in the STAND ARD a f ew pu bli cat i ons ago , 01 be engraving-from this picture. Mr. H a yd on ' s assert i on that . , engraver Minot make up for the want of skill in the arti st ' will not alter o ur o pi n i on . W e pra i se d t h e p i cture hi g h*? and we thought even M r . H ay d on wou ld have b een satisfie_f with what w e sa id—b ut i t seems no or di nary quantity:. commendation will serv e hi m . W e did not say t h a t Dri Haydon wanted skill, we said, "An engraver made oP ° A r no want of skill in the artist," and so he does ; Mr. Ham, may not know it, but we do, that nine persons out 01 t o • the disliked the original picture when it was exhibited 1 0 _,,,„ 35 Mechanics' Exhibition Room—while 'the same Pe" - ,,f greatly admire the engraving. As for Mr. Haydon's abt l4 ,; % the press, that goes for nothing; and his complimentl:d Liverpool as a modern Florence is really laughable, a n t shows a lamentable ignorance of the feeling towards fine 5 " in the town.—E.L.S.l The Morni ng Ch ron i cle says that " a story is rif e 00 Lord Brougham is to succeed Lord Abinger as chief baron' We mentioned a few days since that her Majesty had F i re sented the m un ifi cent sum of £l,OOO to Christ's HosP" ° h London. It is a sing u l ar f ac t, t h at s i nce the i nstitut i on W 0 founded b y Ed wer d VI ., no sovereign of this realm has elef bestowed one farthing upon it AN EXTRAORDINARY B AR OF IRON.--The largest bar er iron ever made was rolled at the Cyfarthfa Ironworks, ad, Merthyr Tidvil, on Saturday last. and is, we are inforole d ,, for a house i n H o ll an d . It is a cable bolt, 25ft. in leof,.`rie aid 6 inches in diameter, and weighs about 2,4001 b. to pile from whi c h it was ro ll ed was about 7ft. long by 12 f ile' square, and weighed upwards of £2,6001b5. SOUTHAMPTON, March I.—The Oriental departed t o , morning for Malta an d Al exandria with about 70 passerigf' o r: nearly the whole of them for India; and she will tak e board the Indian an d Medi terranean mails at Falmout h to' morrow. She has o n b oar d a number of horses and earrioci and a large quantity of h arness and equipments for the de g ` transit in Egypt. The carriages are on two wheels of 1 t. % diameter, and with broad ti res . T he horses are put to t'f, curricle fashion. Th e y are very li ght, elegant, a nd corow o dious vehicles. „, n ua UNPLEASANT ADVENTU RE .—A f ew days since a lady was returning from Bluetown to Miletown late in ,01 evening : it Was unusually dark, nothing being distill' ht visible. As she was crossing the drawbridge, she thong., sho saw an object before her in human form (which, it ° o il pears, was a man idly sitting on the rail), and sudde_he stopping short, thrusting out hr arms at the same time , si o ß g pushed him over the rail, and the poor fellow, after mak e two two or three revolutions, found himself in three or four j ot ! of mud and water . T he lady, frightened at what she itel done, screamed a l ou d, and the man still more loudly croe ” Murder," which soon brought some men to the spoty o of whom i n a f ew m i nutes extricated the poor fellow fro. his perilous and disagreeable situation. After thankin t g„ot, friends fo r th e i r ki ndness, and blaming himself for his wbel he returned h ome to take rest in a bed more agreeable w feelings than the one he had just left, resolving never or to subject himself to similar treatment„—Kentish pape r ' GOOD FORTUNE.--Mr. Joseph Leman, of North Cae- e , Sewell s has prov e d, i n a court, his claim t o th e title, the tate, and th e i mmense sum of money in the funds, of theitfr, Sir William L eman. B art., of Norbert), Herefordshire. Jg o , Leman's family have lived on or near the same spot in i ii tO mersetshire for upwards of 140 years. The property co n i t lOt of the manor of Barns, commonly called Goodman's s i i ,n o r in Londo n , consisting of Leman- s t ree t, P reseo t- s t re et. to sel-street, Alie-street, and many others too nutnerousse, name at present—including altogether about 8,000 1 1 0 f. There is likewise in the county of Herts, the parish m i . le' tham, the seat of the late Sir William Leman, wh ic "o'rei' eluding the church property, amounts to about 2000 s h - i i s. There is also the parish of Worboys, in Huntingdunrato There is another property in Cambridgeshire, called g ain parish of Rampto n : an d fi nally, there is in the funds it,rpee amounting to £1,600,000 , a l l of which Sir Joseph cl'cot' Although an unani mous ver di ct was returned by the 'HO fish court, the case will have to pass through the Eng 03 Court of Chancery, and the decision there given (unless i 0 appeal to the House of Lords is entered) will be final- t ea enormous property ha s s i nce b roug h t into ex i sten ce ° claimants. PERILOUS SITUATION OF A STEAMER.—MUD. ** --e r ll . l , fin sal: ness was experienced on Monday night, owing to a rePe. to s , circulation that a steam vessel was seen in a perilous t 3 1,00 tion off Rennies Bay, where the unfortunate KillarneY was wrecked, on S a t ur d ay , t h e 20th of January, 1838. It stated that aVout, five o'clock that evening, a messenge r o ut rived in to wn t o en d eavour to get a steam vessel to W l ', ia to the assistance'ot another ste a m vesse l, w hi c h w as t hs a disabled state off Barry's Point, near the Rennies, a n g le 0f she was runni ng on t h e rocks, as it was blowing a g fast wind from the S.S.E., dead on the land. As night w Bs ,, r ge approaching, it was d eeme d useless then to forwar d a 'OO. steamer, but Mr. D onegan , agent to the r i ver s teanlc 4 pany, dispatched an express messenger to the Reorti;t: distance of twelve miles, with instructions that if the B:i f ee ante of a steam vessel were necessary, and that he cone ' to such assistance could be given, he should at once proc eed be Passage and send off the " Tug," which was ordered t ie in readiness. Various surmises were given as to the nost of the vessel, while that which was mo s t re li e d on vial ce she was the Rhadtnanthus, which was expected to arr i Cove Ha r b our to em b ark a company of the 45th reg imept ..-" cork Constitution. fro nt POPERY AND TILE ARMY,—The following extract Is ta i e rS a Roman Catholic journal. It lays down the law for gu t eto and sailors of that persuasion, and clearly absolves riell from all allegiance, sane what they owe to the functi? n t : leC of the church of Rome :—" The citizen claims the rie 'bst 4 him discharge the duties, of citizenship. The soldier 06 chosen his vocation ; let him walk worthily thereitt o ia was not bound to have embraced the military life ; but , P ots' embraced it, he is bound to do his duty, amid the inn u c i him'. ble perils of soul and body, to which it has subjecte.,,A Now, his duty is not confined to the person of hiscon7 a w ing officer, nor even to the Articles of War. M if f l in° the aealm is more than both of these put together. " t 01' red coat he assumed a new character, yet he did'a ° 'WO his coloured clothes, put away his former c h arac ter. :t wat both soldi er an d citizen. He is not only soldier and c a L o osal he is Catholi c . Hi s d u ti es t o re li g i on are ever Pa;'charg to those he owes to the s t a t e . I n en d eavour i ng to "s j he 01 0 the latter he is bound to s eek f rom th e c h u rch 1 . 4 her,s helps and counsels he is accu s t ome d t o rece i ve trop ri(l" 0 M his other relations of life. Such are hi s d u ties. are correlative with these. If h e i s b oun d to a sk t IS R rt tbe"'; tions of his confessor, the l a tt er i s b oun d t o inaa ere io `The lips of the priest shall keep k now l e d ge .' j-P, OO ll dt reservation in that promise. Th ere i s y io dePar ouirfs, duty upon which she priest i s no t au th or i se d. nay' to give counsel to his flock. Moral theology, ethics , !_' re oe t u t ; or by whatsrr names duty may be sought to be eit e jr9,, the penitep,e .`'bound to demand and entitled to reell the confhsto al the solution of his doubts, and the" eni . nent df his ignorance." t the Police-eou de-wniters muggled 2 lbs. of board the Ameri,