The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-17 00:00:00

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WILD th had acts and Sols at individuais i frogs esainioai t holders of thee a - ,;€l the Chancellor drawn tne at the 'me time, the t , • wen them of neisbers, as to w hi n was then agree Howtca then mo v ed the ,Dose do resoive its* g s prera • of w a. in Or • des also sa♦ mernmeit idation w t to bo• his R was p It of c •soary to, Ii a iscra they , vrot ! ro w foe rep, ise for co West? regrets Mr. GLA I reply of fix a ver! to f then ive years, ,aid h• ber interes s country and he woeldask ft of w ERIIA:ND Ts Bill OF COMM( RP was of e was a ri o tell at wh z explained 1 the Excas g a rea I similar 3 Sir JAM ;goer bills, 1114 pa rding to out T ht it w• was so •osioue to re ed the me motien MI presen rd was I' *Poo re wag no rank w, It irged bi as a sample► 9' re•eaue which to the tnotio• lit a coon a for the slimed with t' g propoled by !I :ement of ['lob Earl of HADWINGTOIN SSea ie house, in eulogy of t forces Li Cilia After a f..w observatio ?AEMER 12 a view to the es wing to technical consid ht name of that anent said that this vote of thanks tr g to the army in China than the ti :oncurred in every word that I and thought that no men were possess iination than the 3, and ger was not included in the vot ieurred in ever noble duke, to it lordships was littl Lois of ie suppression of the s nts of the French relative th STAIkILSI moved a lita in the e officere an f Sir H. Pottinger St OF COMMONS, TussDA an exp ,ks to the off nd per I Earl MINTO severally ad services of the naval the Earl of A HEMMEN in of oar treaties with France, t of the right of search for le, and of the cause of the operations against these operations difficulties to be overcome, re- erance on the s to tie. on is of his practice for his own. He hoped, it ha would not rake his stand upon the poor ce of commercial reform, which he had already con on the country reserved the P, Wits respect to the timber trade the ffect of the alterations of last session had been to raise the )f timber, the importer was benefited, bat not the con- In th• treaty with Russia excellent arrangements made for a large carrying trude ; bttt g to carry. for there was no reduction .tions were ffs of either country . ntended that much of the distress was the fact that treaties of commerce had tik France, Brazil, and other countries, 'ere consequently in a great measure closed 4ction tott Mr. 1 nterfer s open fravvit by away with •nce extend 3 in support of that and ) tie dis- ye bees a little e noble le there was , f the lOW ease me iader to, ntiftlett As Was a A u OMANI be noble duk .satOr Mr. Hum amstanc n the vote , und the I to inflict suffer s then NON moved for towns by fo J. GRAHAM said . he was causing he introd provis: ome conversation lea !di IN- ~ nArizA was of opinion tnat tne omcers ana men I in those operations were entitled to the thanks of :fit from the treaty of !ful to the ices of Sir H. Pottin- I regretted the importance of the subject upon ti koped to be able to do so as soc requisite information. He wo Mr. D'IsRAELI to be attributed to been carried out n. which countries against the manufactures of this country. failed front want of tact in the negociators, cas• of Iran, here %% as left of this country in t The hon. gentle at the re was the ruin of t tt had given the firs rn law of this country d that the ir. Ross as then adjourned HOUSE OF COMMONS Those treaties and, as in the mitetimei anything but a favour- ,ect any result from, and he should an then contended at the career of free trade to which Mr. impulse. He thought the present urions to commerce, while it maintained, as he prepondering influence of the landed i )ught like e of Venice Len looking out on the ged in the trade of the ay of England, and he would not, therefore, roy the preponderating influence of the landed reform bill could not have stopped f free. trade principles. for he believed that, ;hs in the radical interest, not a single opno de had been returned. The hon. member me length in support of the gradual repeal of E contended that the distress of the country Dr. Bo My. STUART W d by re's of that portion of the mannfactet ,nPrtPfl h America of the imrner. -r— -iot to an assertion, entire Jowring was more inflammatory than er fallen from Mr. Ferrand. If the ealed to-morrow, the effects anticipated would not be realised. The cause of the g community s entirely attritutable to the col speculations in the United States, and insupported, that we did not LACE, in supporting the motion, enlarged upon rough the country, pervading all s press ) the trade of of Amencan finances, for it s with that country, and concluded by calling to enter upon this inquiry into the means of I be ai s, by t ation or a for as f prom ttted the distress which prevailed - -d, as yet, heard no orac He believed the of motion, to lead tl ) gain time for the supporters of the of those laws to settle their differ- way to a repeal until they ht eventually afire qty at all It was -third .d of .otild have three loaves inste had declined, from which it would follow that the people would be better )1 tban any till nan. In Lees try, and /Pas out/ bra ne away with conseqaint demoralisation eice e 4 by the t forward to Tha hon. the hope that zentlemart then rtnerrt sho the emirs • • ;onrse paraded last iteSSiOn, might perhaps pattse if th rernment, in followino oat that course, were to allow a the co )e inferrec st sess a misc osed that E )aronet ,arties because ti others that the tumn quar- years, HI denj ; from which as the distress last aggerated. It was d bad avowed its in ld it had been said by others that n removing the r titeB. The rolionr e t . their own principles [nd not ad' last 'Tear e I reduce the duties on sugar, and adopt, ins. ,cate, a small !aced on tended as a direct nmeut ; and notwithstanding LUGS "' '- - . --- - --' -1 who brought it for war d h a d own important self. b ilfax had contrived oy nue speecn to leave toe matter once uiore in considerable doubt. The hon. member for B e lf ast that we entered him for the stakes! 11,20), who wished Oil government to profiled in the e ton of the bil I Howick's motion Trade had lar alterat vas given - to bring in the i to question the facts to be accounted I )m a small fishing importance at t the d by the fact that Lce to a town of ,port was agncul- y mode rade of y one e lastlinebnt ode for o alteration in the because the i fallen from the right bate would ;ed by Mr Peel was giving the benefit o )n side of the house, while hi bottled I of the flood old town". In the review of the Sermons of the Rev. J. H. Stewart in should have riday's STANDARD, the word " proposal sen " prospect," and the word " ag was substituted in was omitted, through a mistake of the printer, in the ad vertisement in the Standard on Tuesday. It is rectified We understand, that the committee for conducting the cele bration of St. David's Davin London, have postponed the festivities usually observed until the 2d March, in conse quence of the anniversary of the patron saint falling on Ash Wednesday. It would afford us much pleasure to see the directors of the steeple chase following the example. We have received a letter from a correspondent near Iloly well, who strongly recommends that a life-boat should be tiferred atatioued at 11.113 , 1, in addition to that placed at the Yount of Ayr. He states that some casualty occurs during every severe storm on the coast between Prestalyn and Rhyl, and that on these occasions the Point of Ayr life-boat is little avail, as it has to be conveyed by waggon to Rhvl distance of four miles„` late, to be of any service ,d arrives, almost always too We are informed, that, whilst the assistant Poor-law Com missioner (who visited us on Tuesday) stated that the Workhouse was conducted as well as circumstances would admit, he, at the same time, recommended the erection of an entirely new building; so that we shall now reap the bitter fruits of all the unnecessary hubbub which has bee* raised about the management of the present establishment. We are assured, on very competent authority, that our stipendiary magistrate does Aot contribute to the funds of the parish, as he at present resides out of the district. A correspondent (" A. B.") complains, and, we think, very justly, of the annoyance experienced by the gentlemen on 'Change by the number of boys frequenttng the ore* far the purpose of whipping tops, &c., and by the iroportenity of beggars, who, as our correspondent says, hate, at tine place, a great advantage, as their customers cannot !arm away as they do in the street. "A. IL" oleo tefornie es, that, some time since, a man was employed far thorwpose of preserving the area from these obvtroetions to beesioess, and he thinks that the same plan ought to be adopted new. Our correspondent's letter should have appeared, as it is effectively written, but, we fear, the compositors would not have beak able to decypher it. Ebt Ettnrpoot taniurT. FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1843 By an announcement in the Manchester Guardian, we perceive that the League is forthwith to remove the scene of its operations from Manchester to the metropolis. A house is to be taken in the neighbour hood of Westminster—the hospital ift Broad Sanctuary ng—which, besides fur- nishing the gentlemen of " the council," and the various deputations from the provinces who are expected to attend and aid in eating and drinking a portion of the fifty-thousand-pound fund, with committee-rooms, offices, &c., for the transaction of their weighty affairs, will serve at the same time all the purposes of a club house. From this establishment will issue the various proclamations, pamphlets, handbills, resolutions, and other paper pellets with which the Houses of Lords and Commons are to be bombarded ; here will be Plotted the various parliamentary manoeuvres, with which the proceedings of government and the busine s of the country are to be obstructed; here itinerant agi tators are to be crammed with sedition, and radical lords and commons, cotton lords, and ministers of all denominations, are to be crammed with turtle, port, .out, or gin twist, according to their varion likings; and here—but we must pause: for in truth we know not, and posterity only can know, half the astounding things to be here enacted. One thing, however, which is to occur in this loca lity, we learn, for the first time, on the authority of our Manchester contemporary; and the informatior has largely increased our inability to guess at the pos. sible future performances of the gentlemen in ques• g peopie .e to be represented at t resort of conspirators by no other personage than— MR. LAWRENCE HEYWORTII ! kindly and consi- that enlightened and excellent individual ha WDDNESDA of the dea at Bokhara, which ft the Her ) a question from Dr. Bowring, ten received from Colonel Sheil )f Colonel Stoddart s recently and )n Lord Howick's motion was then le pittance of corn ernment would m, to do aei would not repeal .y would not adopt a and with respect to the tariff, he beheied be might te.. assert that such an extensive step in com mercial reform could not be found in the whole history of the commercial legislation of the country. After all there was but little difference of opinion in that house upon the subject of free trade, for it must be evident to all that agri cultural prosperity could not..exist in the absence of corn - I n fact the principle; of free trade were but in a country every man of common sense this the greatest care was requisite even in the applies r the slightest false step producing a sudden change might carry in iti train the most destructivt. consequences. The duty of the government was to apply general principles to the particular circumstances of the ieeeding, therefore, was to obtainas large a field as possible for our commerce, 'without allowing it to degange our domestic industry by the sudden. ness of the change. He hoped the house would not enter upon such a vague course as that proposed by the noble lord, a course which could be productive of no one advantage, while it might, by exciting false hopes, greatly aggravate the distress it was meant to alleviate, but that, on the contrary, it would express its disapprobation by a large and command ing majority. (Loud cheers.) Mr. BORTNWICI then moved the adjournment of the debate, which was agreed to. ROYAL LIVER THEATRE FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. FITZWILLIAM, And Positively her Last Appearance THIS EVENING, (Friday,) the lith instant, the Per i. formances will commence with ap etite Comedy, called MY TENDER CHA_ GE! John Dibbs Laurette Seymour Mrs. Fitzwilliam. After which, (by particular desire.) rs. Fitzwilliam's cele brated Monopologee of WIDOW WIGGINS; OR, MUSIC MAD ! To which will be added (for the last time) Mr. Buckstone's celebrated Farce of THE CHRISTENING; OR, THE MYSTERIOUS BABY. Mr. Hopkins Tifiddy Mr. flackstone. The whole to conclude with the late Thomas Dibdin's cele brated Extravaganza of Harlequin Hoax ; or, Getting Up d Pantomime. Mr. Patch (the author of the proposed Pantomime) Mr. Mrs. Fitzwilliam. TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c The largely increased and most respectable circulation 'hick the 7uesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable d claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to the neighbouring manufacturing districts of buyers in In most of itrrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our w tariff Lord NV Sir Robert Peel Corn-law during s prtnc and rnor the urea rnptcc, of the oble for .d to the t be opened for our manufactures, such this country that, cked as markets would be overs d he believed that 1.1 likely to be increased that he would make .evious e 'said that Sir F was to a distress of the he declaration o Tance of forme publication of Tuesday— , occurring upon the most im- portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu- facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants.and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure to' assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver- tisiny favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their can TO CORRESPONDENTS gentleman. It is, we conceive, t of effecting the object of the writer] I derately teered—for he was never invited, that we know of —to represent this large community at the League volun test against this, as a ilia Itoo bad. If we were selecting a champion to represent our prowess at some childish game, we might possibly he content with Mr. Lawrence Heyworth, But it is e gentleman in que estion is behalf. It is to take part in a business of serious, if not of dangerous moment, that Mr. Lawrence Heyworth is to form " a deputation" to the great metropolis ; and, as their representative in such a case, there are not ten men in every thousand of the male population of Liverpool—we say nothing of toast propensities have apparently endeared him—who would not as soon think of deputing in their behalf a cup and spoon We protest against the t, at this ntion, anythin or anybody except his al ride his own hobby The dishonee journalism is not a this the discovery of %I ich IS v D Strike world with wc r. The di nesty of Whig tgctic sign of °thee or in opposition, is no the dishonesty of the tours pursued for weeks past by the Whig press, and by Whig statesmen and Whig members of Parliament, since the commencement of the present session, ex- ceeds all our previous notions, and is almost incon ceivable in its flagrancy. Let us briefly point at the instances to which we refer. It is well known that, upon the accession of Lord Ellenborough to the governor-generalship of India, we had - just sustained serious disasters in Affghanistan, and the army in that country was detached from its supplies and surrounded by difficulties. General Sale's division was shut up in Jellalabad ; Generals Nott and England were in a position of similar danger at Candahar. A number of British officers and ladies were prisoners; and, in short, British power in that country was almost annihilated. What was the course, according to Whig authority, pursued by Lord Ellen borough in such a state of things ? The result of that nobleman's policy is before us. Ample punishment has been inflicted upon our savage and treacherous enemies ; our army has been withdrawn, after a career of victory, leaving the prestige of the British name in that country fully established ; and every prisoner re covered by force of arms. And yet for three months past, we have been told by the Whig press—first that, on the arrival of Lord Ellenborough in India, orders were issued to withdraw the troops, without striking a blow for the re-establishment of our country's honour, and leaving upwards of a hundred of our unfortunate fellow-countrymen and countrywomen in the hands of the ruthless savage and murderer,. Ackbar Khan ! The very date of the order commanding such withdrawal has been again and again referred to, by the Morning Chronicle, in a series of articles ; its production has been tauntingly called for in the House of Commons; the circumstance that no such feeble and un-English course, as that said to be recommended, was pursued, has been boldlf and in direct terms attributed to the criminal and mutinous refusal of General Pollock to obey the orders of his superior in authority ! More than this, however, the policy of the ultimate with drawal of the British forces within the limits of the Indus, has been loudly denounced; and in a recent speech of no less a personage than the leader of the opposition in the House of Commons—Lord John Austell—as a wanton abandonment of the policy most becoming and safe for Great Britain to have pursued. Well, the denouement of this disgraceful attempt to overwhelm the present Governor-General of India with lasting iniamy nas arrived. A 7 blue book" containing the whole of the despatches and orders, sought to be perverted in their meaning and actual wording, has at length been laid upon the table of both houses of Par liament ; and by those despatches the following broad facts are proved :—first, that the order to evacuate Affghanistan, as a BEATEN POWER too, WAS GIVEN BY LORD AUCKLAND, previously to the arrival of his successor upon the scene of disaster; and that it was not complied with because the army could not move as directed, had even those to whom it was ad dressed been willing—which, however, they were not ! Secondly, that the prisoners were distinctly ordered to be ransomed by a money payment, instead of being rescued —the mode alone honourable and safe for the British nation to pursue in such a case ! Thirdly, and neces sarily, that no such order as that referred to as dated the Ist of August, and containing absolute directions to General Pollock to retreat without the prisoners, was issued by the Governor-General; and lastly, that General Pollock never disobeyed, - or had cause to dis obey, any order of that noble lord ! The whole tissue of representations, upon which the Whig press and the Whig opposition have chuckled so exuberantly, is a tissue of wanton, direct, and gross FALSEHOODS I! Now, we ask, can any member of the late govern ment have been ignorant, whilst raising this outcry ,ord Ellenborough, of its perfectly unfounded We should say " No;" and we say, more over, that if any circumstance could more strongly than another justify an enquiry into all the events of this disgraceful affair, it is the course of deliberate and gross misrepresentation respecting it, which has been systematically pursued by all parties concerned. We shall give on Tuesday a leading article from the Morning Herald—somewhat long, but pertinent nature throughout—detailing the whole case, as elucidated by these documents ; and we recommend it to perusal as the most complete exposure of Whig fraud which has of late made its way to the public. .. g.. ....,_____ ,aCieliAirs,l be a bold man who dares That mus t, indeed, attempt to reconcile the conflicting opinions of the members of the Anti-Corn-Law League. At present we have before ns the debate in the House of Com mons, upon the motion of Lord Howick, for a com mittee to inquire into the present conditiou of the in- dustrial and commercial portion of the community; with a d e b a te in art assembly, infinitely more infallible in its knowledge of all that relates to the cotton, corn, and commercial legislation—the Manchester Chamber of Commerce;—and a more complete tissue of contra dictory opinions and theories, than is thus presented to ns, it is scarcely possible to conceive. In one house we are told of hostile tariffs, as a fertile cause of the ex isting embarassments in on, commercial affairs ;—that re taliatory legislation ; and, in did other, the amazing we are excluded from the markets of the world by discovery has just been mad* titat hostile tariffs are nothing, and that it it the policy of this country to re ceive freely all the product§ of mitt unions, even although these nations return the compliment by prohi bitory duties against the commodities which we have to barter Sg t lest this he too astounding an absurdity to receive credence, we ?.last give its author, and the words in which it has been produced. The autkor, then, of this lie* light, thrown upon the science of political philosophy, atd the nature of free trade, is Mr. Henry Ashworth, of Turton, near Bolton. We like to be particular in names, where such exemplary wisdom is in question. The occasion of the declaration which we propose to immortalize was an expression, or rather a speech of Mr. Wm. Gibb, at the annual meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, in which the speaker complained that in the efforts of this country to establish free trade be tween nation and nation, we had not been met by re ciprocal efforts. " I am astonished," exclaimed the worthy quaker in reply, " that in this enlightened age, and in this enlightened body (!) there should be found a man hardy enoug h to stand up for rec i proc i ty. " Why the thing is exploded ! We want to concede all, and receive nothing in return ! We want to buy cheap —to have corn and sugar—why not lard, or "spoiled " friend Ashworth ?—and coffee and treacle, for next to nothing,—not to sell goods !—bless you, no snch thing. Goods will sell themselves, when we have screwed down wagea a little, or—we beg pardon—" de creased the cost of production"—that is the fashiona ble phrase. And then comes the oracular dictum, which we give ipsissimis verbis. If we removed our restrictions in corn, and they (foreigners) put on 30 or 40 per cent. upon our manufactures, who paid that? THEY MIGHT KEEP ON THE TARIFF AS LONG AS THEY LIKED. HOW excessively liberal 1 Their own people paid the tariff; Worthy brother of the Albion, what think you of the last sentence ? We should fancy that it is somewhat in the teeth of your philosophy. Seriously, however, what can the world think of a party which one day whines of retaliatory tariffs—tells us that they are destroying the commerce of England —and in the next tells us that an additional 30 or 40 per cent. is nothing ?—that we don't pay it—we don't suffer from it ? Surely there must be something rotten in a system whose advocates are thus at sixes and sevens as to the arguments to be used to uphold it ! What sent the illustriou s Dr. Bowling to Paris, Brus sels, and a score of other places, but to bespeak recip rocity ? And yet RECIPROCITY IS A FARCE! But go a little further with our wise friend Henry Ashworth. Throw reciprocity overboard. Grant the millocrat free trade—free trade in all articles of foreign production —n o i mport duties at a ll— an d i t w ill str ik e most reasoning b e i ngs that we s h a ll make little hole in our national revenue. We presume that hole must be filled up—darned, patched, or whatever the won by quaker may call the process. Wa must have a new tax put on somewhere—that is, if we are not to resort to the repudiation prin c ipl e . Well, then, what is it to be ? Taxes on articles of consumption, mind, are to be abolished; therefore, we can have no increase under the head of excise or customs. To direct taxation, therefore, it comes—to an income or a property tax, grease, or tiotti And likYti doii friend Henry Ashworth pay tax which, thanks to Whig profligacy, we have already ? We give the reply in his own words, and with the benefit of our largest Our virtuous and patriotic Quaker declares that he and his brother have paid this tax "BY DIS CHARGING OVERLOOKERS, MECHANICS, AND OTHER WORKPEOPLE ; and that OTHER MANUFACTURERS HAD DONE THE SAME" ! ! the income and property These are Mr. Ashworth's own words, quoted from the Manchester Guardian of Saturday last. Mr. Ash worth says, distinctly, that he and his brother had adopted this course o' dismissal " to save their income and property tax." Perhaps it may become a question whether Govern ment, in any financial legislation which it may have to offer on a future occasion, will provide for the case of such slippery subjects as our Bolton friend. May we suggest al course ? We i are not to tax the working classes. Agreed. We are not to tax their masters — for they forthwith levy the amount on their workpeople. If we were to tax collarless coats or drab unmention ables, such moralists as friend Ashworth would find no difficulty in sporting a turn-over and sky-blue for the continuations. As our friends on the other side of the Atlantic would say, " you can't fix them." Well, then, we must be driven to the very questionable policy of taxing the engine ! That is fixed already ; and they can't either reduce his wages or shorten his provisions. The monster would grumble ; and a strike from him would be a rather serious affair ! The more we reflect upon the whole case, as between the stipendiary magistrate and the parish authorities, the more deeply are we convinced that the course" of the former gentleman has been hasty and ill-judged ; and that the outcry which he has succeeded in raising against the latter gentleman is, in a great degree, un deserved and, certainly, overstrained. We will pro ceed to give our reasons for forming, and for our being confirmed in this conviction. We say that the course taken by Mr. Rushton has been " hasty and ill-judged ;" that, in fact, he has, as it appears to us, snatched at rather than been reluc tantly driven to become the " public accuser" of his fellow -townsmen. Mr. Rushton, be it observed, is not himself so totally clear from the imputations which he so flippantly casts upon other men, who have had the onus and difficulties of parochial management upon their shoulders, as he would have the world imagine. Mr. Rushton was, we are informed, some time since a member of the Board of Guardians, and by virtue of his office was, we believe, a visitor of the workhouse since the administration of the affairs of the poor by the select vestry. If those affairs were ill• administered, he had his course clearly before him ; and that course was an honest, bona-fide endeavour to correct the evils of such administration. That course Mr. Rushton appears to have had an indistinct notion of—viz. an appeal, as the last resource, to the Poor-law Commis sioners. We submit that the time for that appeal had scarcely arrived, when Mr. Rushton made his public display. Admitting, however, that it had, the mode in which that appeal was made is, we say confidently, not dictated by the best possible taste. Mr. R. says that " he sent for the governor of the workhouse, and the parochial authorities," to the Sessions House,—to do what ? to deliberate upon the best steps to be taken to place the workhouse in a state of efficiency ? To receive his suggestions as an ex-officio visitor or as police magistrate ? Not at all ; but to hear them selves publicly arraigned, and the evidence of a re fractory pauper or two laid before the mixed audience which frequents the police court ! And why was it to be thus laid before the prisoners, policemen, witnesses, plaintiffs, and defendants, in cases of tavern broils, and other similar characters who frequent his tribunal ? Was that the place from which it could most advan tageously go to the ears of the watchful Somerset- House trio ? We submit, not. And yet, evidently— by his own admission indeed—that was the consum mation desired. "He was glad," he says, " that the statement" there made " found its way into the Times, and" thence " came under ,the notice of the Poor law Commissioners." Now,' we say that it was per fectly competent for Mr. Rushton to have brought his complaint directly " under the notice of the Poor law Commissioners." And we say, moreover, that, as an old member of the body complained of, and of whose difficulties, and proceedings even, he ought to have been cognisant, the course which he did pursue was precisely that which good taste and good sense would not have dictated. The course adopted by Mr. Rushton was, we admit, calculated to elevate him in the opinion of the thought less and unreflecting, at the expense of parties scarcely more blameable—in the strict sense of the word—than himself. Mr. Rushton, we repeat, had seen the state of affairs at the workhouse ; must have known the moral and physical impossibility of its amelioration— to any great extent—from any course less than an ex tensive increase of the capabilities of the workhouse it self. But was his indignation directed against the physical difficulties and hindrances now admitted ? Not at all ! We heard of " want of classification"— " intermixture of the sexes ;" bat nothing of the im possibility of effecting these desiderata without exten sive enlargement of the building. We heard of petty and paltry complaints of his protogee, Clarke, the ground of which only—upon his own shewing—existed for three days. But we heard nothing to lead to the supposition—a charitable one—that the authorities were doing all within their power, with the means at their disposal. We heard of "divided authority," and other similar faults of the system; but these surely were not facts which it was necessary to proclaim through the length and breadth of the land—for the same divided authority we have seen existing in other departments of the public service; and Mr. Rushton will scarcely maintain that such unseemly brawls, as that which recently took place between himself and Mr. Dowling in public court, reflected credit on either party, or added dignity to the court in which it oc curred. We heard all these charges levelled distinctly against the authorities--almost directly attributing the occurrence of the evils out of which they arose to the criminal conduct of the select vestry; and viewing such a course of action with the known fact that the political party to which Mr. Rushton belongs, and of whom he is the well-rewarded member, aspires to the absolute management of the affairs of the parish, or the return of the direction of the affairs of the poor to the absolute control of the Poor-law Commissioners, we are not surprised to find Mr. Rushton's indiscreet ally—the Journal—expressing a hope that lie trusts to see the management of parochial affairs taken for ever out of the hands of the party at present in office ! April is not far distant; and, without question, the present agitation is directed by many quite as much to the achievement of such a consummation, as to the professed object which it has in view—the ameliora tion of the condition of the poor in the workhouse. Don't however, fur one moment, let us be presumed to sanction, in the slightest, the state of the things ad- mitted to exist in that Workhouse. It is one—if one tenth part of what is alleged be true—which we trusted never to have witnessed in Liverpool, If it be neces7. sary, we say, expend ten times the fifty thousand pounds which—notwithstanding the Journal's clever ness—we believe will be required to enable us to carry out the New Poor-Law system, and give indoor relief to the able bodied poor of the town, rather than permit such immoralities to exist within its walls ! But Mr. Rushton knows that such an extension of the capabili ties of the existing building cannot be attained in a clay. That gentleman knows, or ought to know, that the Select Vestry, at the very time which he chose for making his display, were actively engaged in preparing plans for the remedy of the evil complained of! He might have known, moreover, that those plans were, as soon as they could be got ready, to be laid before the Poor-Law Commissioners; and he must know, too,— no man better—that the proposal to lay out one-half the sum required to make those plans efficient would have drawn down a perfect storm of scurrility upon the authorities from the very party which is now backing his unseemly efforts. Yes, every person must be aware that from no portion of the community would the Select Vestry have been visited with a greater amount of clamour and odium, in their attempt to procure for themselves the power to administer the Workhouse with proper attention to the re,quirgrnents of morality and decency, than from the pure and patriotic Whig faction of the borough of Liverpool! And now one word as to the meeting of magistrates by whom Mr. Rushton has had his conduct white- , washed. May we ask how it is that some of these Ontlemert Code or ili s ro . of whoni have be ii` xl'6'6Ellol; churchwardens, and ers as county ma officio members of ti Board of Guardians) ha before spoken out themselves upon this sub they aware of the glaring evil Were spoken c by Mr Rushton and his witnesses ? If they we=e, then the result is palpable. If Mr. Rushton has done his duty, they have not done theirs ! If his charges are true, they have failed in their duty as visitors ! The dilemma is of their own choosing, not ours. We did purpose saying a few words as to the animus displayed by Mr. Wm. Rathbone and Mr. R. E. Harvey towrrds the chaplain of the Workhous2. We abstain however, owing to the length at which we have already transgressed upon,the patience of our readers. The appeals against surcharges to the Income Tax being now in course of hearing in this neighbourhood, we may draw attention to a praiseworthy effort on the part of the churchwardens to prevent parties from being put to unnecessary trouble in this respect. We refer to a motion which, on the proposal of Mr. Birkett, was unanimously adopted by the Town Council at their meeting on Wednesday. The Income Tax, con sidering that it is a consequence of Whig extravagance and misgovernment, is sufficiently unpleasant in itself without being accompanied by any vexatious circum stances; and Mr. Birkett's zeal and activity in endea vouring to remove a just cause of complaint are very creditable to his public spirit. The places of appeal for all persons resident outside the parish, though within the parliamentary borough, are Preston and Ormskirk ; a grievance which requires merely to be stated, we should hope, in order to obtain a remedy. A very proper objection has been made to the manner in which the papers have been made out,----they do not specify the particulars of the assessment, so that no person can ascertain from the document furnished him whether he is surcharged Or not; and in many cases, in all probability, many will be led to believe that they are not surcharged, though the contrary is the fact. Little or no complaint has been hitherto made to the churchwardens on the subject of the surcharges. LOCAL. NETV,S The seven o'clock mail train from Liverpool to Manches ter, and, vice versa, has been discontinued. At a meeting of the Select Vestry on Tuesday last, Mr. Charles Chubb, jun., was appointed Registrar of Births and Deaths for Great Howard-street Distrint. WHITEMAN'S DERBY SWEEP.—The attention of our readers is drawn to Mr. Whiteman's Derby Sweep. The list of subscribers, we understand, is rapidly filling up. CAMBRIDGE.—On the 4th instant, Charles G. J. Jones, 8.A., was elected Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. The above mentioned gentleman is the second son of the Rev. J. Jones, Incumbent of St. Andrew's Church. MISSES SWAIN'S CONCERT.—Misses Swain's concert, on Tuesday last, at the Royal Assembly-rooms, went off with much spirit, the fair beneficiares sang very charmingly a va riety of compositions. The programme was well selected, and the whole performance gave entire satisfaction. DEATH OF SIR T. H. HESKETII, BART.—We have to re cord the demise of the above baronet, who expired on Friday last, after a short illness, at his house in London. He only succeeded to the baronetcy in August last, on the death of his father. The deceased was born in 1799, and married in 1824 Miss Bomford, Rathenstown House, county Meath. His only son, Mr. Thomas George Hesketh, succeeds to the baronetcy and the extensive estates of the family in this county. MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.—We perceive that the Metropo litan Protestant Association have already prepared a petition against the annual parliamentary grant to the popish college of Maynooth. In the session 1837-38, petitions with about 11,000 signatures were presented against the parliamentary grant ; in the session 1838-39, the petitions were 199, and the signatures 51,202 ; in the session 1839-40, the petitions were 458, and the signatures 95,108; in the short session ending June 22, 1841, the petitions were 306, and the signatures 69,177 ; and in the session 1841-42, the petitions were 211, and the signatures 88,960. EXPEDITION.-An extraordinary instance of the facilities afforded by steam navigation in mercantile transactions oc curred here last week. A letter from Liverpool, dated on Friday afternoon, to the correspondents of the house in Glasgow, ordering the purchase of a quantity of cotton, was received on Saturday, at three o'clock. Th e co tt on was pur chased and shipped by the Liverpool steamer Commodore, sailing that evening; and the firm in Liverpool had intima tion that the cotton was landed for them from on board the vessel before they had received, in due course of post, advice of the receipt of their letter. STEALING PROMi THE. QUAYS.—Considerable quantities of soap have recently been stolen from the quays, where it had been laid for exportation, and the parties owning the ar ticle have, consequently, been on the look-out for the de predators. On Wednesday, inspector M'Gill observed two fellows lurking about some boxes of soap at George's Dock quay ; on going up he found upon them large knives, with which to open the boxes, and also a bag in which to conceal and carry off the spoil. As they were known as bad charac ters he put them into custody. Their names are Daniel Kelly and Thomas Mulligan. They were placed before Mr. Rushton yesterday, and were each committed to, gaol for a month. PUNISHMENT OF IMPRUDENCE.—A dissipated-looking woman, named Ann Campbell, was charged before Mr. Rushton on Tuesday with having robbed John Brian, cattle dealer, Tipperary, of £l7. 10s. The complainant stated, that on Monday night, about nine o'clock, he was going from his lodgings to embark on board one of the packets for Ireland. Near the Borough Gaol he met the prisoner, with whom he entered into conversation. lie sauntered forward with her till, in an unfrequented place, she was joined by two other women. Suddenly they seized him, threw him in a twinkling on his back, and the prisoner rifled his pockets. Having secured his cash, she handed it to her companions, who fled. He clung; fast by the prisoner, however, until a police-officer came up, who secured her. She denied having ever seen the complainant, and was committed for trial. ATTEMPT TO D'AFRAITD THE BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY COMPAN Y.—A respectable looking young man, named Robert Roberts, who stated he was a joiner, residing in London-road, appeareil in custody of the police, before John D. Case, Esq., on Tuesday, charged by the Superintendent of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company with at tempting to get into the train whilst it was going along, and without having first paid his fare. In answer to a question by Mr. Townsend, the *la eistr at es' I clerk, the complainant said he had no Wish to press the charge against the defend ant ; his only object was to put a stop to a practice which was adopted by several parties lately of getting up the em bankment, as th• defendant had done that morning, and getting on the carriages after they had started. In the pre sent case, had it not been for the constable seizing him, there was no doubt his legs would have been cut off. The magis trate then reprimanded defendant, and he was discharged. THE FUNDS.—WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The permanent securities have maintained much firmness, with a trifling ten dency to advance. Bank Stock has risen to 1774 to 1784, but in other prices, save a slight reduction in the premium on Exchequer-bills there is little alteration. Consols for money and the account left off 944 to 95 ; Three per Cent s Reduced 954 to 4; Three-and-a-half per Cents Reduced, 1021 to i; Long Annuities, 12 13-16 ; I n di a S tock, 268 to 269; India Bonds 6-Is. to 655. premium; and Exchequer bills, 635. to 655. premium. Foreign stocks were steady, with a moderate amount of business. The absence of news to affect prices accounts for the unchanged condition of the market. Portaguese Converted have nearly recovered their old position, being to day quoted 384 tot; Sp an i s h A ct i ves were 19 4 to ; ditto, New, 254 to 4 ; Mexican, 304 to i; ditto, Deferred, 84 to 4 ; Danish 854 to 864 ; Dutch Twii and-a-half per Cents, 544 to 4 ; Dutch Fi ve per Cents 1024 to 1034 ; Colombian, 234 to -4 ; Brazilian, 76 to 77 ; and Bel gian, 103 to 104. THE WORKHOUSE.—The following letter from Mr. B. Nightingall, the House Surgeon of the Workhouse, appeared in the Courier of Wednesday :—" The statements with which both the metropolitan and provincial press are now teeming, in reference to the state of the Liverpool Workhouse, and the vicious practices going on in that establishment, are, sir, I conceive calculated grossly to mislead the public mind ; and it appears not a little remarkable that the ma. nagement of the largest Workhouse in England, and which has always been held trp as a pattern for similar institutions, one also which has stood the test and scrutiny of large bodies of influential and philanthropic characters, such as abound in this great community, should by some occult working, in a moment, as it would seem, fall from its elevated position, and become the object of contumely and debasement. Sir, I contend that the facts elicited at the meeting of magistrates on Friday were derived frem sources which do not warrant the conclusion arrived at. The examination on that occasion was almost ex-parte. Witnesses might have been called ,whose evidence would have given a fat different feature to the inquiry than what it now so unmeritedly bears. Sir, twenty years' dad? experience in so extensive an establish ment, and in a medical character, may b 3 supposed to afford a tolerable opportunity of forming an estimate as to the mo rality or otherwise of its community : and if it were possible that the gross abominations said to have been practised there could be the fact, then I say that the officers of that institu tion have forfeited the confidence of the parishioners at large, for I maintain that these atrocities must have come to the knowledge of the heads of departments. The parochial authorities are so well aware of the bad adaptation of the Workhouie in its Structural arrangements, for carrying out a salutary classification, that It would be futile here to make any remarks on that head.?' DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS VOR ST. BARNADAS' CHURCH.—In our advertising columns will be found the re solutions passed at a meeting of the congregation of this church, held on Monday night last, for the purpose of raisin.. schools for the benefit of the district belonging to St. 13ar'- nabas' Church; also the announcement of sermons to be preached, and collections made, in furtherance of the same object, by the Rev. Rector Brooks and Rev. Hugh 14'N e il e. At the meeting on Monday night names were put down for the amount of .;£B6 lls. Od., and more has been added since—,- 5 munificent effort, indeed, with reference to the number of per sons who were present, and to the means of the contributors. The indispensable importance of a school to the success of any church, but more particularly in such a district as that of St. Barnabas, is on all hands acknowledged ; and the names of the advocates who have undertake n to plead for the erection and establishment of schools in this locality must secure for them the sanction and support of all sound and enlightened churchmen in Liverpool. This is of much im portance, the rather that the appeal for funds to carry on and complete this undertaking must not be confined to the con gregation of the church, or the inhabitants of the district. The Church of England School Society, the National So ciety, and Committee of the Privy Council may all be ex pected to aid in this good work; and our more affluent fellow-townsmen, througlt whose Christian liberality that church was built and endoweri, will not, we are persuaded, be applied to in vain irr bekalf of a work necessary to the full success of MI ontlertsking, begun by themselves for the spi ritual improvement of that poor and destitute neighborrrhood, of St. Barnabas' Ch urc h in and which, si nce the opeebiß 1841, has been blessed to an extent that more than justifies the wisdom and .proves.the importance of planting S church in a neglected locality. The minister, churchwardens, and congregation of St. Barnabas' having done already so much themselves, and claimants on th e sympathy which will be proportionably followed up, can now appear w ith a g o od gra ce 's,.s and generosity of the Christian publi6. They deserve tp succeed; we are persuaded they will succeed ; need we add, we heartily wish them success. n twenty-eight gold rings from radise-street. It appeared, that on woman, who was in the shop try question, was buying some rings. She happened to let one of them fall and stooped to pick it up. On rising she caught a glimi.se of a youth leaving the shop. A little girl entered and said that a lad had run away with a box of rings. The thief, however, was out of sight. On Tuesday morning, how ever, the prisoner,, who was identified by the little girl, Was taken into custody, offering two of the rings for sale. The young lady from 'whom the property was stolen happened shortly afterward to be in a shop in Manchester-street, when the female prisoner entered, and showing a garnet ring, enquired what it was worth. The young lady recognised the ring as one of those which had been stolen. The prisoners were committed for trial. bar charged with Navin At the Police-conri . .on TuistlaY, a jeweller's shop in Pa Monday night a young VIOLENT ASSAULT.—On Tuesday a rough-looking young fellow, who had the appearance of a blacksmith, was placed at the bar in company with a middle-aged female. Both were charged with having assault a decent-looking man, who brought forward a crowd of witnesses to confirm his accusa tion. The complainant stated that he was "jist going to sit down to tay in his own house" when the prisoner, armed with a huge bludgeon, broke his door, rushed in, and struck him several violent blows on his head. The marks of the injaries were distinctly visible. Several of the witnesses corroborated this testimony, and it was added that the assault was entirely unprovoked, and that the female prisoner ac companied and aided him throughout. The prisoners said they had been frequently assaulted by, the complainant; but Mr. Rushton said that the female prisoner was fined 208. and costs, and that she was to pe imprisoned one month in default of payment, and that the male prisoner was fined 50s. and costs, and that he was to be imprisoned three months in default of payment. WIRRAL AGRICULTURAL. SOCIETY.—The annual meet ing of this society was held at Neston, on Monday last. The ploughing match took place in a field belonging to Mr. Sothern. at Ness, and commenced at ten o'clock in the morning. There were eighteen ploughs on the ground, and the ploughing was most excellent. The first prize was car ried off by Mr. Broster. of Neston, the second by Mr. Jack son, of Noctorum, and the third by Wm. Webster, jun.. Esq., of Upton. The annual dinner afterwards took place at Mr. Wright's, the Golden Lion, when about one-hundred and twenty persons sat down to the bountiful and excellent provisions set before them by the worthy host. Charles Stanley, Esq., presided, and the usual toasts and edifying discussion on agricultural matters was kept up with harmony and hilarity until a late hour. It gives us pleasure to add, that to this useful society there were added, amongst others, the following new subscribers, namely, the Marquis of West minster, the Earl of Shrewsbury, George Johnson, Esq., of Eccleston, and Captain Glegg, of Backford. CAUTION TO AUCTIONEERS.—On Tuesday last Mr. B. Boughey, superintendent of the Birkenhead police, charged David Gray before the magistrates at Birkenhead with vend ing goods as an auctioneer in the Birkenhead Market on the previous Saturday without the licenses required by law. It appeared from the evidence that Gray was in the habit of selling crockery ware by auction in Liverpool, and also in Birkenhead, and that he had removed a quantity of goods from the former to the latter place on Saturday last, which he was selling by auction, when the officers stopped him and demanded his license. He produced an auctioneers' license, but was told that that was not sufficient ; he must also pro duce a hawkers' license, which failing to do. he was taken into custody and his crockery seized. Mr. Murrow, solici tor, of Liverpool, appeared for the defendant, and contended that the auctioneers' license was sufficient, as the goods had been consigned to him for sale. The latter part of the case was rebutted by the evidence of a person in the employment of the defendant ; and the magistrates being of opinion that the law required him to have a hawkers' license, he was con victed in the penalty of £lO. and in default of payment► committed to prison until the fine shall be paid. STEALING LEAD FROM NEW BUILDINGS.—This offence has recently become more than usually prevalent. Yes terday, a young man, named William Edwards, was placed at the bar, accused of stealing lead from a new house is Turner-street, leading out of Birkett-street. It appeared that about half-past seven oclock, on Wednesday n ight, l'olice-officer Waller, from information he had received while in Richmond-row, went to some new buildings in the street named, where be saw the prisoner and another young man on the roof of one of the houses. He asked them what they were doing there, and they replied, " Nothing." He next asked them how they got there, and the prisoner said "he was drunk, and did not know how he got up." The witness procured a ladder, and secured the prisoner, but the other escaped. On afterwards searching one of the empty houses, he found about 30Ibs. of lead in the fire-place. It was doubled up, and appeared as if it had been thrown down the chimney. Mr. Thomas Hughes, owner of the house, claimed the lead as his property, and witness, on going ou the roof found about nine yards of lead guttering had been ripped up and taken away. The lead found fitted that left on the roof. Mr. Hughes said he was a joiner and builder and owner of the house, and that the lead was no doubt his property. The prisoner was committed for trial. THEATRE-ROYAL—MR. HAMMOND'S BENEFIT.—Las t , evening there was a crammed and brilliantly-attended house at this theatre, the entertainments being for the benefit of Mr. W. J. Hammond. The performances commenced with "The Clandestine Marriage," in which Mr.Farren sustained his great part of Lord Oyleby, and Mrs. Glover her equally inimitable Mrs. Heidelberg. It has been asserted that we cannot raise up a standard of acting, so much depending upon taste; but we think there are few that will not admit that Mr. Farren's Lord Oyleby may be fairly placed as such , with which all other attempts of the character may be tested on the score of merit. It is the very acme in the art of act ing —finished in details, and, as a whole, a perfect embodi ment of a vain, frivolous, hut still warm-hearted old beau. Mrs. Glover's Mrs. Heidelberg was replete with vulgar hi larity, and caused frequent bursts of laughter. Mrs. Sey mour played the pretty part of Fanny Sterling with m uch gracefulness and feeling. Miss Cleaver's Miss Sterling was, done with vivacity and judgment. The capital farce 01 " Uncle Foozle " elicited much merriment. A new farce , called " Cousin Lambkin," wound up the evening's enter tainments. In this Mr. Hammond appeared, and was re ceived with warm and hearty welcomings from certainly the most fashionable, as well as the fullest, house this season , This must have been highly gratifying to him, as a proof that he still holds a distinguished position in the favour of the public. THE ASHBURTON PACKET SHlP. — This splendid ne":, ship, which arrived h ere a f ew d ays s i nce, is thus describe'. in one of the New York papers :—" She is 1100 tons burtnent and can carry forty first class passengers. On deck itl e noticed the same excellent accommodations for cows, pigs,' poultry, and sheep, so n e cessary at sea, that were introduced on board the Cambridge when she was built. In between decks there is plenty of cargo room, running fore and aft' equal to three tho usan d b a l es o f cottcn, or more. in be tween decks also there are large berths and clear air for the steerage passengers, so much needed by the poor eniigrantsi Down in th e h o ld i s a water tan k that will take four thousa nd gallons of water from the Croton, and keep it pure and cold all the time. There is a delicacy about the finish that IS really fine. In the windows are panes of richly-stained glas s ; with portraits of Ashburton and Western in the ladies cabin, and the colle d' armes of England and America in the gentlemen's cabin. All the mahogany, bird's-eye maples , and satin wood, usually used in the cabins of our packets' have been discarded, and the sides painted, as in the c abins of the Great Western, with national sketches, not including' however, the little Cupids on the doors. All, excepting these Cupids, is in the commemoration of the recent treat , ' of peace between Great Britain and the United States. I n the state-room, the berths are fitted up as in the Stephen, Whitney, and the e n t rances t o t h em are a l'A ng l a i s. ThP connect by doors, so that a family, in crossing the Atlantic, can have a suite of rooms, and not be separated night or daY' which is not the most agreeable thing in the world. SUNDAY TRADING.—On Tuesday, two parties, residing respectively in Vauxhall-road and Chisenhale-street, were summoned at the Police -court, by police officer No. 362, i tnr having kept their shops open, and served several customer s ' during the hours of divin e serv i ce on S unday morning last• The csses having been fully proved, each party was ordere d to pay a fine of ss. ; and the magistrate intimated to them' that, after the late repeated warnings they had received from the authorities of the district, they could not plead i gn oranc e of the law. The police-officer stated that he wa s s pecially employed to look after the closing of shops during the hours of divine service, a n d h a d repeatedly warned the parties n ow fined of the consequences of their continuing this p r actice:. He also informed th e court that a great reform had b e brought about in the district in which these parties resid e ; be the very determined manner in which the churc.thward en d of St. Matthias' Church had followed up the offenders ; a n that he could p ersona ll y testify, that in Chisenhale-stre et' Charter -street, Vauxhall -road, Stewart-street, and Waterloo; road, not less th an e i ghty shops, formerly open all day Sunday, are now all closed during divine-service time, e n ‘ , most of them d ur i ng t h e whole day. We would remind n ai tx who doubt tl- e power of the Lord's Day Act, that there i 5, clause the re i n w hi c h enables the churchwardens to order enri, constable or o th er officer to seize the goods of any pers ? .e displaying th e same for sale on the Sunday, and to sell we same for the benefit of the poor of the parish. This cou rs e has not been hitherto taken, from feelings of dislike presume, on the p art o f t h e authorities, to act harshly ; uof we are informed that it will be literally acted on in case further opposition: _ - - THE WEATHER. —After a generally open winter, though j, 0 most disast rous i n storms of wind, we have experiene e during the l ast f ew days, a severity of temperature Was litte looked f or as i t was unwelcome to the mass of the CO_lo. munity at so a d vanced a period of the year. The frost comg menced yesterday week, and on the following day there r to a slight fall of snow —the thermometer ranging from 30 11. g, O t n he l N s T a e m dn e e i s n d s a t y ru t u h i e el a a tt i r t i ic:isi 34°, until Tuesday night, when the cold became more 1 4y t ple n r s c e in creased until about three o'clock yesterday morning, w hen atmosphere e g b2e9c°a.meTeheceecedbilli the . thermometer fell to 15° (its greatest depression), u . e t je, li° below the freezing point ; at eight o'clock it rose a W itt , standing at 18° ; and at nine was at 29°, the sun being ° „ 0 . The barotner stood, on Sunday at noon, at 30° 06', and ev op tinned to fall slightly for the three following days• „, e r, Tuesday, a t noon , i t i ndicated 29° 25'. Last night, hove;tha it was agai n ge t t i ng up, so that the probability is, that frost will continue until the next change of the moon—P ar e cularly as the sky is clear, and the wind, which has for t , l y days been f rom t h e north, has gone a few points eas,,erthe Some of the pond s i n t h e ne i ghbourhood are frozen to 00 hearing point," and skaters were, Yesterday numerous IoS them. There was a slight fall of snow, which still r en3 ,,,; : 10a on the fields and house-tops. We find by the L''idest journals of yesterday, that Wednesday was also the.e ° day of the season in the city. On Tuesday morning thermometer fell to two degrees below the freezing P c ' ss e; with a north-east wind. The cold co n tin u ed to leen al and on W e d nes d ay M orning the thermometer stood as J o di 0 26°, or six degrees b e l ow th e f reez i ng point : The twn 00. the neighbourhood, and the ornamental water in the 4ege Park, was frozen over. o .r eaC NEW F IRE E NgINES.— In consequence of the 't o IP number of d es t ruct i ve fires that have recently taken Pl a '' the town, the Police Committee have, in addition ° s ort contemplated i m p rovement i n the ready supply of Wool procured four additional new fire-engines, which . wer e WO for the first time on Wednesday afternoon, These eatol are of th e l argest size, and on the usual and most aPP` ns of principle, With, however, the bore of the prirning , Pa'%ef° cylinders rather larger than those now in use. They rth built by Mr. tury, at his extensive iron-works' at th e ,_ na end of th e town. The ground chosen w a s the site of the tiO steam-mill of M r . H o l mes, near the canal, and a little north of Chise n h a l e -b r id ge. The engine, No. 9, maddo o ar Mr. M erryweather, of Long Acre, London, in 1839, 0 of the best belonging to the fire-station, was brought ty co b 0 by whi c h t h e powers of the new machines wer e t in tested, and we may scarcely add that it was previousi);_!;nre' the be s t o f or d er for the occasion. A strong body of tll,oti police were present to work the engines under Mr. vo lica_ and M r . H ew i tt, and a number of gentlemen of the ` l ., th! Committee and oth ers i ntereste d in the result were 0 ground. The water used was from the canal, the er' oli e: being played on the bank. No. 9, and one of the ne n w ider ol were simultaneously and successively played, with a e . ° oo eY able length of hose, upon the tall steam-engine chi he j et the o the mill, which still stands amidst the ruins ; and as J et who held the branches stood pretty close to its base!,, e or o n , was nearly perpendicular. There appeared to be 1 1, _':; difference in the power of any of the new engines al!" eo gq l ,4 If any, it was perhaps slightly in favour of the ola_ nle o7o7,f which may be accounted for by the others being v •J e feet e v e stiff. The water was thrown to within ten or twe hund r o f the top of the shaft, or in other words, about oue, r3ig ht lii feet in height ; and we doubt not an additional for to fifteen Cr twenty feet would have been attained !Nil o° , action of a rather strong north wind. The water, ; „ 0 , at times muddy, which militated against the opera"'