The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-24 00:00:00

'0 fli4 TIIVRT 'N y il rs OV THI4 14IVIM 00 ! O MARY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BEG leave to return you my most sincere, thanks for the - 11 - very kind assurances of support which I have so gene rally received during my canvass for the vacant office of Physician to your -valuable Institution, and venture to ex press my confident hope of success. The Election will take place on MONDAY next, the 27th instant, at the Infirmary, Brownlow-street, between the hours of Ten and Three, when I respectfully and earnestly entreat the favour of your early attendance in my behalf. I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient and grateful servant, JOSEPH DICKINSON, A.M., M.D., Physician to the South Dispensary. 21, Great George-square, 24th June, 1342. TO THE TRUST INFIR EES O M F THE LIVERPOOL ARY. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE ELECTION of a PHYSICIAN to the INFIR MARY being fixed to take place on MONDAY next, the 27th instant, between the hours of Ten and Three o'clock, in the Board-room of that institution, I take the liberty of particularly requesting the EARLY ATTENDANCE of those Friends who kindly intend to favour me with their support. I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your very obedient servant, J. R. W. VOSE, M.D., Senior Physician to the North Dispensary. 41, Hope-street, June, 23, 1842. ANDREW SMITH'S PATENT WIRE ROPE, FOR STANDING RIGGING, MINES, RAILWAYS BRIDGES, &c. &c. EVERY day's experience proves the vast advanta g e this Rope has over all others for the above purposes, from its strength, durability, lightness, and great economy, the first cost being about 25 per cent. cheaper than Hempen Rope. Among the many practical and influential Gentlemen who have certified its superiority and recommended its adoption may be mentioned the names of Lieut. W. LORD, R.N., Lieut. 8.. J. FAYRER, R.N. JAMES C. SHAW, Esq., Joni.: GRANTHAM, Esq., C.E., The Testimonial of Mr. Shaw may be quoted " City of Dublin Steam-packet Company, Office, 24, Water-street, Liverpool, April 21, 1841. " GENTLEMEN,—In reply to your letter of this morning, I beg to state, as a proof of my opinion of the Wire Rope for Standing Rigging, that I have recently put it on board of this Company's new Steamer the Erin-go-Bragh, and which I would not have done if I bad the slightest doubt of its superiority over Hemp Cordage. The Stand in g Ri gg in g of the Prince, Princess, Queen Victoria, Oriental, and Great Liverpool, is in the same good condition as when first put on board those Steamers ; and, as regards the two first-named Vessels, it has not been necessary to set the Shrouds up since they were hauled taut two years since. I find the Wire Rope answers admirably for Ridge Ropes for awnings, as it becomes like a bar of iron when well set up, and does not give to the lashings. " I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, JAMES C. SHAW. " Messrs. Robertson and Co., Liverpool." Specimens of the Wire Rope . may be seen, and every in formation afforded , on application to ANDREW SMITH and Co., White Lion-court, Cornhill, London ; or to ROBERTSON, ALEXANDER, and Co., Commission Agents, 12, Goree-piazzas, Liverpool. of this town PIANO-FORTES. NOVEL INVENTIONS. MESSRS. RIME and SON solicit attention to t heir Establishment, No 57, CHURCH-STREET, where may be seen, the most important improvements in the PIANO-FORTE, comprising THE EXTRA-SIZED SIX-AND-A-HALF OCTAVE PATENT GRAND SQUARE, WITH GRAND PIANO-FORTE. ACTION, THE SCHOOL-ROOM PIANO-FORTE, peculiarly adapted for the younger branches of players ; the SPLENDIDLY-FINISHED BOUDOIR COTTAGE, THE HIGHLY-CELEBRATED BICHORDA, the manufacture of Messrs. JOHN BRoAnwooD and SONS THE PATENT REPEATER, SEMI-GRAND, AND MICROCHORDON, of Messrs. COLLARD and COLLARD, with their latest an, valuable improvements ; TOMKISON'S NEW PATENT SEMI-GRAND, with Transverse Strings ; THE MUCH-ADMIRED PIANETTE, and every other variety_ of INSTRUMENT, by the above Manufacturers. In addition to their very extensive and valuable Stock, by the above justly-esteemed Makers, they have now in their Show Rooms a great variety of PIANO-FORTES, from known houses, which, from the peculiar advantages they pos sess, and care in the selection, they are enabled, with satis faction, to offer at unusually low prices. Having experienced *Workmen constantly on the Premises, Messrs. H. and Son undertake every description of Re pairing and Tuning, on the shortest notice. A large ASSORTMENT for HIRE, and a great variety of SECOND-HAND INSTRUMENTS on SALE. Ktgal gottro. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a secon d Bill has been brought into the honourable the House of Commons for better Paving and Improving the Streets and Highways within the extra parochial place of Toxteth-park, in the county palatine of Lancaster ; and for the Sewerage of cer tain parts of the said place ; which Bill contains all the pro visions included in a former Bill for the like purposes, which passed through the House of Commons, and also a clause inserted by the House of Lords for granting to the Com missioners under the said Bill, if passed into an act, all the powers now vested in the Board of Surveyors of the said place for the recovery of Rates made by such Surveyors. Dated the 16th day of June, 1842. LACES, MYERS, and RIGGE, Solicitors INSOLVENT DEBTOR, to be heard at Norwich , in the county of Norfolk, on the 14th day of July, 1812, at the hour of 10 in the forenoon precisely. WILLIAM SMITH CATCHPOLE, formerly of Ips wich, in the county of Suffolk, attorney's articled clerk, at the same time lodging at Tattingstone, in the same county ; then lodging at No. 19, Coleman-street, City, London, at torney's clerk ; then lodging at the Star Hotel Quay, Great Yarmouth, in the county of Norfolk, first an assistant to Mr. Christopher Sayers, of Great Yarmouth aforesaid, at tornev-at-law ; afterwards assistant to the said Christopher Sayers, and an attorney-at-law ; then lodging at Crown place, Denes ; then lodging at the Star Hotel Quay, both in Great Yarmouth aforesaid, assistant to the said Christopher Sayers, and an attorney-at-law ; then for a short time lodging at the Star Hotel Quay, aforesaid, attorney-at-law ; then lodging at Clarence-place, Denes, and carrying on bu siness at Regent-street, both in Great Yarmouth aforesaid, as an attornev-at-law, and agent to the English and Scottish Fire, Life and Loan-office, but occasionally travelling to va rious places, namely ; fora short time lodging at the Norfolk Hotel, Saint Giles-street ; then lodging at the Castle Inn, Castle Meadow, both in Norwich ; then lodging at the Stork Hotel, Queen-square, Liverpool, in Lancashire ; then lodg ing at the White Horse Inn, Fetter-lane, City, London ; then lodging at the Norfolk Hotel, Saint Giles-street afore said ; and lately lodging at Clarence-place, Denes, carrying on business at the Market-place, both in Great Yarmouth aforesaid, as an attorney-at-law, and agent to the said Eng lish and Scottish Fire, Life, and Loan-office. JAMES NICHOLLS, No. 8, Cook's -court, Lincoln's Inn, London, For J. G. ATKINSON, Norwich. INSOLVENT DEBTORS, to be heard at the Court house, at Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster, on Wednesday, the 13th day of July, 1842, at 10 o'clock in the morning precisely. EDWARD WOODS, formerly in lodgings in Brownlow hill, also occupying an office in Doran's-lane, both in Liver pool, then residing at Wavertree, near Liverpool, all in the county of Lancaster ; then residing at Holt-hill, Tranmere, in the county of Chester, and occupying an office in Chapel walks, Liverpool aforesaid, attorney-at-law ; thenafterwards a l o d g er at the Peacock Taver n, Hi g h-street, Islin g ton ; lodger at the Red Lion Tavern, Great Warner-street, Clerk enwell, both in the county of Middlesex, out of business or employment; afterwards a lo d g er in Prescot-street, West Derby, near Liverpool afor esaid ; then a lodger in Aigburth street, Windsor. near Liverpool aforesaid, commission agent; then a prisoner confined for debt in Lancaster Castle, in the said county ; afterwards a lodger at Bridge-end, nelar Birkenhead, in the said county of occungna an 1 - 1 -...et, ' Liverpool aforesaid, cot Isslon :._ - ; a fterwards of the Windsor Castle, Hotel, gent a fterwards near Liverpool aforesaid, licensed victualler ; ethenool of Lawfore - son-street ; then of Wolstenholme-square, Livrp a said ; then a lodger at Penylair, near Bangor, in the county of Carnarvon ; then a lodger at Oxton, Cheshire ; after wards a lodger in Soho-street, and carrying on business in Penick-street, both in Liverpool aforesaid, commission agent and cigar dealer, and late of the Crown Inn, Redcross street, Liverpool aforesaid, licensed victualler, commission n e ut, and cigar dealer. _,WILLIA.M GARDNER WARING, formerly of White- Zr o l., Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, bookseller and di ut „Z ‘ n also keeping a circulating library ; afterwards resi- Cb c ,,, t 7;leoupying a shop and stall in Bridge-street-row, eh ure o?kseller and stationer only, and late a lodger in out 0 f1; 4 " , _ Blackpool, in the said county of Lancaster, JOHN A t Z,Lsned as William G. Waring.) port, in th e ~,:a•BEWS, late of Sea Bank-road, South- JAMES o r at'Agancaster, joiner and builder. South, Abercrombie_ , formerly a lodger in Bedfo rd-street Lancaster, then a lo le d square ' Liverpool, in the county of and late a lodger in Alp o Dale-street, Liverpool afor esaid, s aid, merchant's clerk. rd-st ree t South, Liverpool afore- JOHN MITCHELL LYONS, Inn, Norfolk - street, Live formerly of the Grapes rulle r, and late in lodgings at In the county of Lancaster, license d victualler am, b 9, Warre n -street, Liver p ool afr e said,bookkeeper only (sued as John Ly on.) e On Thursday, the 14th day of July , and piaee".' 1842, at the same hour t at a 35, Saint Paul's JOHN HARRISON, late a 1 0 ' d ... square, Liverpool, in the countY Of master of the barque " Lord Statiley, ,, a n n e a,, ger, formerly the schooner " Harkaway," lying in G eor ,„", la Ts te master of parta land. South aforesaid, and bound for Vera Cruz a an ",? ek „: Liver- South America, his family at the same time realxianapico, Ballast Hill, Workington, in the county of Cumberland. °lithe DAVID BEVAN, formerly of Tydsign Builth, in the county of Brecon, South Wales, also oe4, near a farm a t Penrhwiock, near Builth aforesaid, farmer; r e ! of Bwlehradvvint, near Builth aforesaid, labourer and cattle eaer ; and late a lodger at 17, Fazakerley-street, Liver pool,pl in the county of Lancaster, out of business or employ ment. WELL ROBINSON , formerly a ALE XANDER MAX lodger at 28, Finch-street, Liverpool, in the county of Lan. caster, and occupying an office 15. Goree Piazzas, Liver. pool a f or esaid ; afterwards of New Orleans ; then of Mobile ti _th e e United States of America; then a lodger at 34 late Robert-street North, Liverpool aforesaid, ship broker; am ". ga te id, of ai t i h d e Cross Keys, 44, Reg Re Liverpool afore. licensed victualler a house 21, Regent-street aforesaid • . victualler and lodging-house keep er, carrying or business in the name of Sarah Johnson (sued with * the saic Sarah I o u ....ne on, now his wife, by the name of Maxw ell Ro 'Anson.) On Friday, the 15th day of July, 1842, at the same hour forme lace JAMES BROWN, rly o f Stewarton, Ayrshir e, Scotland, groc er ; then of Brown-square, Edinburgh, Scot land, teacher of embroidery or needlework; then residing and occupying a house in Mount Vernon-place, Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, jointly with his son Thomas Dunlop Brown ; also occupying a cellar or vaults, on his separate account, in Redcross-street, Liverpool aforesaid, commission agent and agent for the sale of Scotch whiskey ; then of the George Canning, formerly called the Letters Inn, 20, Richmond-street, Liverpool aforesaid, licensed vic tualler, commission agent, and agent for the sate of Scotch w F • ;on one occasion trading in the name of "James 141 old Son } ;;,' and late a lodger in Gloucestvr-litnei) ).., .. 10, of tigsi uttipmao I I)4nlpip 1) GEORGE ANDREWS, formerly of Sloana-street, Chel sea, in the county of Middlesex, merchant ; afterwards a lodger at 30, Gradwell-street, and occupying offices in Rum ford-place, both in Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster ; then of Oporto ; then of Lisbon, both in the kingdom of Portugal, carrying on business in copartnership with Archi bald Weir Andrews as merchants, under the firm of " An drews Brothers," and late a lodger in Duke-street, Liver pool aforesaid, merchant, on his separate account (sued with the said Archibald Weir Andrews). RICHARD JOHN MINSHER, formerly residing in Gloucester-place, Low-hill, and carrying on business in Cumberland-street, both in Liverpool, in the county of Lan caster, as wholesale tea and coffee dealer and grocer; after wards a lodger at Seaforth, near Liverpool aforesaid, and carrying on business in Cumberland-street aforesaid, in co partnership with John Graham as wholesale tea and coffee dealers, under the firm of " Minsher and Graham ;" then a a traveller for Wilfred Troutbeck, of Liverpool aforesaid, oil and colour dealer ; afterwards a lodger in New Bridge street, Manchester, in the said county ; then a lodger at the Commercial Inn, Brown-street, and late a lodger at 49, Clif ford-street, both in Manchester aforesaid, commercial tra veller. On Saturday, the 16th day of July, 1812, at the same hour and place: BENJAMIN CARREG SOTHERN, formerly a lodger at 15, Shaftsbury-terrace, Pimlico, in the county of Middle sex ; afterwards travelling to Boulonge-sur-mer, France, and other places on the Continent of Europe and America; then a lodger at 18, Cheenies-street, Bedford-square, in the said county of Middlesex, and late a lodger in Duke-street, St. Helens, in the county of Lancaster, never in any business or employment. JAMES PHILLIPS, formerly of the Egremont Hotel, Wallasey, near Liverpool, Lancashire, licensed victualler, and agent to John Askew, late owner of the said hotel ; then of Breck-road, Everton, Liverpool aforesaid, out of business ; afterwards of Mersey-street, Liverpool aforesaid, eating house keeper ; then of David-place, Copperas-hill, Liverpool aforesaid, cigar dealer and assistant at the Waterloo Hotel, Ranelagh-street, Liverpoo l aforesaid ; then of 34, Great Newton-street, Liverpool aforesaid, a part of the time out of business ; afterwards occupying an office, 29, Dansie-street, Liverpool aforesaid, newspaper, house, and land agent, and late a lodger in Torbock-street, Liverpool aforesaid, out of business. THOMAS CREWD SON, formerly residing atßlackfield terrace, Kirkdale, near Liverpool, in the county of Lancas ter, at the same time occupying an office in Slater-court, Castle-street, Liverpool aforesaid, general merchant; after wards occupying an office, 4, Rumford-place, and a ware house in William-street, Liverpool aforesaid, and carrying on business in copartnership with Edmund Taylor, as drug, oil, and drysaltery brokers, and general merchants, under the firm of " Crewdson, Taylor, and Company," and late re siding at Blacktield-terrace aforesaid, and occasionally a lodger in Bootle-lane, Bootle, near Liverpool aforesaid, out of business (sued with the said Edmund Taylor). MAJOR RICHARD CULVERWELL, formerly of 21, Tithebarn-street, Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, watch manufacturer and jeweller ; afterwards of the Derby Arms, 45, Tithebarn-street aforesaid, and part of the time occupying a shop in Manchester-street, Liverpo ol aforesaid, licensed victualler, watch manufacturer, and jeweller; after wards of Grosvenor-street, Liverpool aforesaid ; then of Scotland-road, Liverpool aforesaid, and late of 6, Richmond street, Rose-hill, Liverpool aforesaid, watch manufacturer, and wholesale dealer in watches and jewellery. EDWARD ROBERTS, late residing at 9, Edge-vale, Edge-hill, West Derby, near Liverpool, Lancashire, and oc cupying an office, 4, Oldhall-street, Liverpool, aforesaid, coal merchant and dealer. On Monday, the 18th day of July, 1842, at the same hour and place FREDERICK CARRICK . , formerly a lodger in Collin's Wood, Ranelagh, near Dublin, Ireland ; then residing in Marlborough-street, and carrying on business in Bachelor's walk, both in Dublin aforesaid ; then of 56, Strand-street, Dublin aforesaid, letter-press printer ; then residing in Saint James's-place ' - afterwards of 13, Hunter-street, and carrying on business at 35, South John-street, all in Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, in copartnership with James Potts, as letter-press printers, under the firm of " Carrick and Potts," and late of 13, Hunter-street aforesaid, out of business. JAMES BANKS, formerly of Great Avenham-street, Preston, in the county of Lancaster, and occupying a shop 133, Fishergate, Preston aforesaid; also a house and shop in Blackpool, in the said county ; afterwards of Melling's buildings, Lord-street, Southport, in the said county, book seller and stationer ; then a lodger at Blackpool aforesaid ; afterwards a lodger in Watergate-street-row, in the city of Chester • then a lodger in Blackpool aforesaid ; then a lod ger in W a t erga t e -street-row, Chester aforesaid ; and late a lodger at 9, Shannon-street, Liverpool, in the said county of Lancaster, out of business. WILFRED MARTIN ROBINSON, formerly in lodg ings in Upper Stanhope-street, Toxteth-park, Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, at the same time occupying a yard and office on the east side of Queen's Dock, Liverpool afore said, and carrying on business in copartnership with R. L. Gaskell, as shipwrights, boat-builders, ship-smiths, and block-makers, under the firm of " William Gaskell and Company ;" afterwards in lodgings at Seacombe, in the county of Chester, out of business ; then residing at the Cumberland House, 21, Norfolk-street, Liverpool aforesaid, and occupying an office and yard, 86, Norfolk-street afore said, licensed victualler, shipwright, boat-builder, ship smith, and block-maker; then in lodgings at the Cumber land House aforesaid ; then in lodgings in Warren-street, Liverpool aforesaid ; then in lodgings at Woolton, near Li verpool aforesaid, and late in lodgings at 70, Seel-street, Li verpool aforesaid, out of business. On Tuesday, the 19M day of July, 1842, at the same hour and place : JAMES CREWE, formerly residing in Prince Edwin street, Everton, near Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, at the same time occupying an office in Leigh-street, Liver pool aforesaid, and carrying on business in copartnership with his late father as attornies at law, under the firm of " Crewe and Son ;" and late a lodger at 11, Brownlow-street, Liverpool aforesaid, and occupying the office in Leigh-street aforesaid, attorney at law. HENRY PORTER, late of 18, Grove-street, Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, never in any business. WILLIAM ROBSON, formerly a lodger at 5, Bow Church-yard, London ; then a lodgerin Church-street, Lan caster, in the county of Lancaster ; then a lodger at the Feather's Inn, Clayton-square, Liverpool, in the said county, afterwards a lodger at 5, Bow Church-yard ; then a lodger at 23, Fetter-lane, both in London aforesaid ; then a lodger in Lambert-street, afterwards a lodger in Siiver street, both in Liverpool aforesaid ; then a lodger in Deans gate, Manchester, in the said county of .Lancaster; then a lodger in Church-street • a fterwards in Sun-street , both in Lancaster aforesaid, and late a lodger at 132, Bold-street, Liverpool aforesaid, shopman to a laceman and hosier, and a part of the time commercial traveller. JOHN RUDD, formerly of the Royal Oak Inn, Bongate, near Appleby, in the county of Westmorland ; afterwards of the Queen's Head, Howgate Foot, near Appleby aforesaid, at the same carrying on business at the Royal Oak afore said, in the name of " Edward Rudd," licensed victualler and horse Healer, and owner of the horses " Cleveland Hero" and " Cleveland Ranger ;" then in lodgings at Li verpool, in the county of Lancaster, in no business, and late of 166, Vauxhall-road, Liverpool aforesaid; and a part of the time a lodger at 5, Lower Southampton-street, Fitz roy-square, London, horse-dealer, and owner of the horses " Cleveland Ranger" and " England's Glory ;” also car rying on business as butcher in the name of " James Smith." JOHN ANDREW, the Elder, formerly residing in Ros common -street, Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster ; afterwards in lodgings at 92, Duke-street, Liverpool afore said ; then occnpying a ready-furnished house in Radnor terrace, Bootle, near Liverpool aforesaid, and during the whole time occupying offices in Bank-buildings, Castle street, Liverpool aforesaid, attorney at law on his separate account ; and late at 3, Crescent, Salford, in the said county, and occupying an office, 1, Bexley-street, Salford aforesaid ; and an office, 10, Back Piccadilly, Manchester, in the said county, in copartnership with William Andrews, as attornies at law, under the style or form of John and William Andrew (sued as John Andrew.) ROBERT ALLANSON AGAR, formerly residing in Strickland-street, Everton, Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, brickmaker and builder ; then residing in Ever ton-road, Everton aforesaid, and carrying on business near Eaton-street, Vauxhall-road, Liverpool aforesaid, in co partnership with Matthew Gibson, as soap manufacturers, under the firm of " Agar and Gibson ;" then a lodger in Lowry-street, Everton aforesaid, out of business ; then a lodger at 6, Seymour-place, Camden Town, in the county of Middlesex, omnibus proprietor ; then a lodger in Saint James'-place, Toxteth-park, Liverpool aforesaid ; afterwards a lodger at 20, Hill-street, Liverpool aforesaid ; then a lodger in Bayham-street, afterwards in Park-street, both in Camden Town aforesaid • then 1,1,3°,••• rat 10 utford-place, both in Saint Panm-s.. '• - e ' c ounty of Middlesex ; then a lodger in Stanhope ' street, afterwards a lodger in Bedford-street, both in Tox teth-park aforesaid, and late a lodger in Gill-street, Liver ' pool aforesaid, out of business a portion of the time, a student at St. Bee's College, in the county of Cumberland, and at the University of Durham. EDWARD RAWLINSON, Attorney-at-Law, Lancaster. Fromthe Second Edition of Grimstone's Weather Almanack for the Tear 1812. SIGHT RESTORED ! NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE ,N. DEAFNESS CURED ! UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF Their late MAJESTIES, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KENT, And authorised by Her Majesty's Lords of the Treasury. Mat. vi. 22.—The light of the body is the eye.—Luke ii. 34 IN tIY THALMIA, CATARACT, GUTTA SERENA, . kl FLAMMATION, and all Diseases of the Eve and Head Cured by the most simple, delightful, and fragrant C o mpound. Its mode o f a pp lication is frau g ht with plea sure ; many thousand Cures have been accomplished by its use, at a trifling expense, yet certain in its operation. If Testimonials be necessary to induce the sufferer to make trial —Kings, Lords, and Commons have used it. The Lords of the Treasury have sanctioned its use. Their late Majesties, the Duchess of Kent, the most b eminen Oculists Medical Practitio ners, with that gigantic alance— t presse—have eulogised Grimstone's celebrated herba its e removing all diseases incident to the Eyes and Head. G. .j. Guthrie, Esq., F.R.S., (See Dr. Thomas of Hatfield,) having witnessed many cases of cure both of headache and ophthalmia has kindly given given his testimony to the truth thereof—Dr. Andrew's calls Gilt a y National late blessing —see his Reports touching is . The r. Abernethy, w ith many others, recommended Grimstone's Eye Snuff, and called its" Man's best Friend," and the " Student's Vado Mecum. —See the many thousand of Testimonials, of undoubted Medical authority, w ith others of the first respectability. This Snuff will cure Cataract, trona Ophthalmia, Gutta Serena, Inflammations of the Eyes, and F•ompletely eradicate Nervous Headaches. The only genuine tur A ed L f i r b o er m ' As s° . ifidd in Canisters of Bd., Is. 3d., 2s. 4d., 4s. Id., 85., Liberal Allowance only. -, with the Inventor's Signature and the Royal Pa- CROSPIR LD ge attached to each Canister. This Snuff is manufac tured by J. Porres r rer% Allowance made to all Vendors, by PIERCE and Maker, Church-street; , Live , Cigar and Foreign Snuff Merchants, Castle office, Lord-street; sre WHoLESALE and RETAIL AGENTS: also Charlotte -street t rug gist, 59, Byrom-street; Welch, Snuff et; Ross and Nightingale, Chronicle and Sullen, l; Atherton, Lord-street ; Denby, , I, Great To bacconist, London-road; ?ett. Oldhall-street ; Messrs. llignctt Tobacconists, Moor-fields ; Mr. Proctor, To- Shepherd, Tobacconist, 3 street ; Mr. G. H. Nowell, Roberts, Druggist, Ranelagh -I,euggist, Dale-street ; Mr. J. , Mr. 17h: t ra iner cotland-place ; Mr. Ilignett, Tobacconist, corner of Dale-st reet; conist, Church-street: Mr. Plu mmer, Mrs. Moreland, Tobac- Crescent, Lord-street • and in MAN , Tobwzoist, North 1, Tithebarn-street ; Mr. W. Kin , - , MR et_ D i ace gal: pignett, Tobacconist, !gist, Soho-street ; Mrs. Aliller, Tobacconist. Elliott-street; Mrs. Moore, Market-street, by W. Tobacconist, Pitt-street; Old Church Gate, Market- Tobacconist 9 5 M k ' and 119, Picca Bevins, 23, Market -street ; Mr. J. R. Lynch:lN/Mr. G. dilly GrinG rind ; o iN n i „ r 4. 'Rayner, street ; Watson and Co., 45, Market-street; mi...alarket- King-street ; Biggar, Deansgate ; Lovett, High-streeT. s ' A x, 4 ' Smith, Market -street ; Mr. Brown, Market-street; the Ancoats-street ; and every principal Town and City i n the , Globe. Copies of Testimonials may be had from all the Agents gratis. O LD SNUFFS and CIGA RS as imported. Fto l'oezterda,ll%. London Titan.) ,-- - During the discussion that has for so long a time engrossed the attention of the public on the subject of the gold coin age, there has been no subject more warmly taken up than the advantage which it was asserted certain tradesmen took by giving as little for the light sovereign as possible. The reference to the law against the refusal of sovereigns of full weight by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was treated of at some length yesterday as a caution against a certain spe cies of fraud which it was said had not been uncommon, especially on Saturday nights, when the working classes made their purchases on the receipt of their wages, and found themselves at the mercy of the small shopkeepers. This is a fraud, for which, as we have seen, the law provides a remedy ; but when the sovereigns are actually light, it is not so easy to see what protection a working man has against an extortionate tradesman, who knows that he wants to make his purchases immediately, and within a certin margin can almost take a light sovereign at his own valuation. When so great a temptation to extortion with impunity has existed. there can be no doubt that it has frequently been practised. At the same time, the case of the trading community, show ing that a demand made for a deficiency has sometimes been wrongly considered extortionate, ought in justice to be made known, and therefore the following letter is inserted : "TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. " Sir,—The debates in parliament, and the statements of the press, with regard to light gold, are calculated to mislead the public, and disparage the trading community very unfairly, by making it appear that they claim au undue allowance in cases of deficiency. " Even the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in treating this Part of the subject, seemed to forget, or to wish others to forget, that a sovereign of full weight, according to the re cent proclamation, is only worth, intrinsically a minute frac tion less than 19s 101 d ; so that when it ceases to preponde rate, when it fails to draw the beam downwards, it loses above lid in value, besides the actual deficiency in weight ; and as the deficiency of a single sovereign cannot be calcu lated at less than a grain, value 2d, it follows that 3d is the very least that can be allowed, instead of the very most, as stated by the Chancellor. " As for the subdivisions of a grain—halves, quarters, and eights—it is a mockery to talk of such things to ordinary folks ; such scientific nicities are far too subtle to be practi cable in the avocations of any common tradesman. The moisture arising from a butcher's handling of meat, the glu tinous nature of almost everything a grocer touches, the least dust of flour in a baker's shop, and so forth, would alone be sufficicht to defeat such critical investigations, even if every man were an adept at them, which, however, never can be the case. " The following scale, Sir, will be found practically cor rect, and therefore, I hope, generally useful:— " If a sovereign or half-sovereign be wanting not exceed ing 1 grain, the loss will be 21d. " 6 If more thank grain, and not exceeding 1 grain, the loss will be 31d. " If more than 1 grain, and not exceeding 11 grain, the loss will be 41d. " If more than 11 grain, and not exceeding 2 grains, the loss will be 51d. " If more than 2 grains, and not exceeding 21 grains, the loss will be 61d. And so on, adding a penny for every subsequent half grain, always remembering, however, that although I have ad mitted half grains into my scale to prevent cavil, no such thing exists in ordinary business ; and when a piece of money will not turn the beam with one grain, a tradesman, to be safe, must deduct two. " I am, Sir, your humble servant, " GEORGE MOORE. " Warren-street, June 21." In consequence of the allusion made by the Right Hon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons to the illegality of refusing a sovereign or half-sovereign of the due weight, as fixed by the proclamation of May, 1821, and by her Majesty's Royal proclamation of the 3d of June inst., viz., 4 dwts. 21 grains per sovereign, and 2 dwts. 131, grains the half-sovereign, and the penalty incurred by so doing, a number of publicans and shopkeepers in different parts of the metropolis have taken the timely hint. The iabouring classes have been most grossly imposed upon by dealers of every description since the issuing of the procla mation, charging them Is. to ls. Gd. discount in the sove reign, and Gd. to 9d. in the half-sovereign, under the pre tence that they were light. So great has been the competi tion among the bullion-dealers and Jews, that many now offer to take light sovereigns at 19s. 9d. if more than 10 are changed at a time. This has been the means of inducing a great number of persons to take their gold to the dealers sooner than to the Bank of England, which will not take less sums than £2O. In consequence of the impo sitions practised by speculators on the ignorance of the working classes as to the real weight that the gold ought to be, and making use of weights and scales not stamped, the Master of the Mint has deemed it necessary to issue the following notice to prevent this nefarious system : " Caution to the Public. —Money Weights.—Whereas, by act of Parliament of the 14th of George 111., cap. 22, enti tled An Act for Regulating and Ascertaining the Weights to be made use of in Weighing the Gold and Silver Coin of the Kingdom,' it was amongst other things enacted, that from and after the 31st of December, 1774, all weights to be made use of for weighing the gold and silver coin of the realm shall be regulated by the standard weights lodged in the cus tody of the officer appointed by His Majesty for the stamp e - ing of weights at the Royal Mint, and stamped with th stamp or mark approved of by the Master of the Mint, and from and after the said 31st of December, 1774, no other weights but such as shall be just and true according to the weights with and by which they are hereby directed to be compared and ascertained, and shall be marked in manner beforementioned, shall be reputed or accepted in law to be true or of any effect for determining the weight of the gold or silver coin of the realm, and that all persons counterfeiting or selling any such counterfeit weights, or who shall wilfully increase or diminish any weight after it has been stamped or marked in manner before directed, subjects him self to a penalty of £5O, or, in default of payment, to three months' imprisonment. Pocket balances, intended to ascer tain the weight of coin, which are constructed so as to be used without weights, stamped as before-mentioned, cannot be considered in law of any effect in determining the weight of coin; neither can any person legally refuse coin as light except it is determined so by the aforesaid legal weights. All money weights stamped as appointed by the master of the mint, have on one side his Majesty's crest (a crown sur mounted by a lion), with the words Royal Mint,' and the date 1821 ; and on the other side the current weight of the denomination of coin." The demand for silver at the Bank for the last week has been greater than ever known, and it is with difficulty the public can procure it. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERIES BRISTOL, JUNE 20.—The neighbourhood of Bristol has, within the last three days, been the scence of some of the most daring highway robberies, accompanied with violence, that have been committed of late years in the entire king dom. The whole of these robberies have also evidently been perpetrated by the same persons, an organised gang of ruffi ans consisting of seven persons, three or four of whom are armed with large horse-pistols, and who have attacked farmers and others on their return from market, within even a single mile of this city, at as early an hour of the night as ten o'clock in the public road, and in the most daring man ner. The first of these robberies was committed on Friday night, on the person of a professional gentleman of Bristol, Mr. Francis Edwards, who, it appears, had been dining with Mr. Frederick Ricketts, of Cote-house, Westbury, about two miles from Bristol, and left about ten o'clock in the evening, on his return to his residence at Redland, about a mile from Cote-house. Mr. Edwards had not proceeded further than about one-eighth of a mile before—as he came opposite a place called Henleeze-lane—he saw two men sitting down whom he had noticed following him at a previ ous part of the evening. Not having any suspicion, Mr. Edwards proceeded, and when he had gone a little farther, three other men jumped suddenly out of the hedge, one of whom placed a pistol to his mouth and the other two a pistol to each side of his head, threatening to shoot him if he made the least noise, or offered the slightest resistance. Mr. Edwards then observed that the other two men whom he had seen following him had joined the party. Finding that the least attempt at resistance must prove fatal to him, Mr. Edwards quietly submitted, when they proceeded to rifle his pockets of his purse, containing four or five sovereigns and some silver, and of his gold watch, which being suspended by a guard chain, they found some difficulty in getting off, and twisted its chain violently round his throat so as almost to produce strangulation. After they had thus robbed bim, they marched for some distance by his side, still holding their pistols to his head, and threatening to shoot him if he gave any alarm. When they got on a favourable part of Dnrdham-down they suddenly darted off in different ways. Mr. Edwards immediately ran back as fast as he could to Cote-house and informed Mr. Ricketts of the robbery, when that gentleman, who is in the commission of the peace for tb n; y l u m ti immediately cn a ctneerlssysu. pursuit nt of out his highwaymen, servants and h raised s unfor tunatelyed tl e of £25 for their apprehension. On Ethva'd' has offred a reward On Thursday night a waggoner of Stoke, about three miles from Bristol, was driving along in his waggon, when he was s t o pped by evidently the same gang of fellows, two of whom placed themselves at the horses' heads, while the others jumped into the waggon and proceeded to rifle his pockets, but fortunately the sound of an approaching carriage being heard, they made off. On Saturday night the same gang perpetrated one of the most daring robberies we have eyetocwo.,,, with the most brutal violen ce, within a mile of Bristol, on the Horfield-road. The fo llowin g are the particulars :—A Mrs. Collard, the wife of a respectable farmer at .Almonds bury, five miles from Bristol , was returning home in her co vered cart on Saturday night from the Bristol market, ac companied by Mr. Smith, a carpenter, of Ahnondsbury, who was driving, Mr. Smith's son an d a y oun g woman sitting be hind. On arriving near the first milestone five men suddenly jurepeA out of the Ledge. two ran to the horse's head, a third pointca a pistol at them in the cart, and the other two, who were also armed with pistols, got into the cart and demanded their money or their lives. They then dragged Mrs. Collard and Mr. Smith out of the cart in the most violent manner, and having thrown them on the ground proceeded to rifle their pockets. Having robbed them, they beat them about the heads and faces with the butt-ends of their pistols until they ceased to move, being reduced to a state of total insen sibility, and no doubt being thought dead by their assailants. Mr. Smith's son jumped out of the cart, and, falling on his knees, begged them not to murder his father ; they then beat him in a similar manner, and having left them all lying i n the road, made off. The sufferers were in a short time afterwards found by some persons coming up the road ; they were, removed to their residence, where they still lie in the most dangerous state. Mrs. Collard has her teeth beaten out, with some very severe contused wounds of the face and head. Mr. • Smith is so beaten about the head that he has lain in a state 5 . of perfect insensibility ever since, and scarcely the slightest hope can be entertained of his recovery. On the same evening two labouring men, who were return ing from market on the same road were stopped and robbed, and beaten by the same five men. As the men attempted some slight resistance, one of the robbers attempted to fire his pistol at them, but it fortunately flashed in the pan. They were then robbed of their earnings and some groceries they had purchased. The poor fellows were then beaten about the head with the butt -ends of the pistols and thrown into a ditch. The five robbers are described as follows :—Three of them dre short men wearing srnockfrocks, with Jim Crow hats; the other two are dressed like navigators, and have high black hats. The police arc using the most strenuous exertions for their apprehension A young man named Williams was last week drowned, whilst bathing in the Severn, near Gloucester. Loss OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP IN A SNOW STORM. L e tt ers have been re ceived stating the total loss of the emi grant ship Kent, captain Gardner, on the night of the Bth of last month, in the Western Ocean, off t the Seven Ibelongedslands, during a heavy snow sto rm. The vel, i appears, to Greenock, and was bound for Montr . eal, having 70 em i_ grants on board. The diEaster, it is said, occurred between eleven and twelve o'clock, by the ship running on to a mass of sunken rocks a short distance from the coast. Owing to the severity of the storm which p revailed at the time, for a length of time it was expected tha t she would fall to pie ces . Providentially, however, she held together until daybreak, when the whole of the emigrants were safely landed on the coast, though in a having lost everything they possessed. The ship was about 00 tons hurdle:), most deplorable condition, m . any of them to be insured. and is, together with her cargo, reported MIUTALITY Of THE CONPFP!---40NAI Prom the Evansville (Indiana) Joi,rnal, Mayl2.) UNPARALLELLD OUTRAGE OF A PRIEST. GREAT EXCITE MENT IN EVANSVILLE, INDIANA.--We feel it our unplea sant duty to give to the public the particulars—so far as we may with decorum—of an outrage alleged to have been com mitted in our town last:week, certainly of the most revolt ing character that can be conceived of by the mind of man. We have often—and who has not—read of similar outrages charged upon the high functionaries of the Catholic Church in all ages of its history, and we have believed them, if at all, to be exaggerated and highly coloured statements, prompted in many instances, perhaps, by the jealousies of opposing sects. But in this instance, our belief has been taken as it were by storm, the evidence produced upon the examination being of such a nature as to compel us to the conviction of the entire truth of the charge. Other, and serious complaints we understand, have been made against Mr. Weinzapflein, the person alluded to above, but with these we have nothing to do ; such an outrage, committed by a father confessor within the very walls of his church, upon a weak and confi ding penitent kneeling before him, could not be increased in horror by any additional charge. It may not be proper for us, and we shall not attempt, to express the indignation we feel in common with the whole community. If the bail given by the defendant be sufficient to insure his attendance at the next term of our Circuit Court, (which, however, many of our citizens are disposed to doubt,) the charge will undergo a judicial investigation, and we should not as journalists at tempt to prejudice public opinion in advance. Our only object is to give a full statement of the case and the evidence so far as it went, already pytblic in our own community. On Friday evening the intelligence spread like lightning through the city, and on the following morning the defend ant was brought before the magistrates, when the court was crowded to excess. Th e female upon whom the outrage was committed is Mrs..Schroall, the wife of a respectable Ger man citizen. She was the first witness examined. We took full notes of the testimony, but as it was delivered through an interpreter, it is necessarily too prolix (besides being otherwise objectionable) for our columns ; we shall, there fore, not attempt to give it either in the language or order in which it fell from the witness. Her simple story was in substance, and as near as we can give her language, as fol lows :—She is a native of Rhenish Bavaria, where she lived until she was about 19, when she removed to the United States, with her father and the rest of his family. She will be 21 years old on the 14th of June next. Her parents, as well as her brothers and sisters, are all Roman Catholics, and as such she was christened and educated—all the educa tion she ever received having been in a Catholic school, to which she went three years to prepare herself for her confir mation. She was married to Mr. Schmall on last New Year's-day, eight days before which time she had gone to confession, and did not go again until Wednesday, when, having previously informed her husband of her intention, she • - • a— —.3 ...I,llrrob went to get her sins forgiven. W hen s which was between five and six o'clock in the evening, some other person was in the confessional, and she waited till that person went away, perhaps three quarters of an hour, when, there being no other person in the church, she went into the confessional. (This, as the witness described it, is a sort of box, open at the side, and divided into two apartments, each large enough to contain only one person, in one of which the priest sits, and in the other the penitent kneels, upon a stool, the communication between them being through a window of lattice work in the partition.) Having con fessed her sins to the priest, he imposed a penance upon her, before she undertook which she wanted to pray, as is the custom of her country, but she could not pray. The priest then asked her if she believed in being married by a Squire, and followed this question by others of the most lewd and in decent nature relative to her conjugal intercourse. (At this time it was so dark in the church that she could scarcely see to read her prayer.) These questions she for some time re fused to answer, but he insisted upon them in such a rude manner that she became frightened and told, and at length did answer them. He then told her that these questions did not belong to her confession, and that she must not tell her husband. While she was thus kneeling before him, attempt.: ing to repeat the prayer which he had set before her as a penance, as well as the fright she was in would permit her, the priest came out of his box and seized her by the right arm, which was next to the door of the confessional, dragged her out of her box, and then taking hold of her with both arms around her waist, threw her on the fldor. In throwing her he struck her back against some hard substance and hurt her very severely. She did not hear the priest leave his box, nor knew that he was coming until he took hold of her. She was so cold and stiff that he might have killed her and she could not have helped herself. The witness then described the liberties which the priest took with her while on the ground, and replied to several very pointed questions in such a manner as to exclude all doubt as to his success in his fiend ish attempt to violate her person. After be had accomplished his horrible purpose he raised her up, placed her upon a bench, and sprinkled her face ; when she had sat there some little time, she began to revive, and exclaimed, " Oh, God ! what have you done with me 1" He would nut make her any answer, but asked her if she recollected the penance ; she replied she did not—she recollected something about it, but not what it was. He then gave her the penance, and bade her to pray it. When dismissed she still felt sick and faint, and staggered as she left the church.—The open air re freshed her and she felt better when she reached home. She found her husband leaning against the fence, who asked her why she had staid so long, but she not knowing what answer to make, evaded the question, and afterwards, when he pressed her to tell him the cause of her apparent distress, she replied that she was afraid to tell him for fear he would do himself some injury. She continuing to be distressed, and crying during the night, he again wanted to know what was the matter, and towards morning she told him a part of her story, and said she wanted to go and take sacrament, when she would tell him all. She thought that she was worthy to take sacrament now that her sins were forgiven, and that as it was Ascension day, it was her duty to do so. She did take sacrament, and upon her return, disclosed the whole matter to her husband. He was greatly affected, and threatened !to take a pistol and kill the Priest, but she begged him not to do so, and made him promise that he would not ; he then said that he would go and see the Priest that evening, but she prevailed upon him to wait till morning, when she told him he would be more likely went to see him. In the morning (Friday) Mr. Schn3all and brought the Priest to the house, but she was in bed sick, and had so exhausted herself with crying, that she could not un derstand what was said, but her husband could tell. Mr. S. asked her while she was in bed and the Priest present, if he had done as she had told him, and she replied" yes," but did not know what remark the Pr iest made to this ; her hus band knew. (It was to detail th is conversation that Mr. S. was sworn as a witness.) The case was soon afterwards adjourned, and the prisoner was committed to the custody of the ()Beers, and not to be lib e r a ted without finding bail to the amount of 4,000 dollars. W. Wordsworth, jun., Esq., has been appointed distri butor of stamps for the counties of Cumberland and West moreland, in the room of his father, the poet, who retires upon a pension. Two new Bishoprics are about to be formed by the Com mittee appointed for that purpose, viz., one in New Bruns wick, w hich with a population of 156,000, will have an endow ment of £1,200 per annum ; and another in South Australia, with £l,OOO per annum. It is with deep regret we announce that a report has reached us, from a source which is entitled to our highest respect, that during the last few weeks the Premier's health has become materially impaired, and that his indisposition is making alarming strides.—British Queen. THE KING OF PAUSSIA.—The Suabian Mercury, on the authority of a letter dated Berlin, the 11th instant, states that the King of Prussia replied to certain persons who objected to M. Arago's political opinions, when his Majesty proposed to confer the decoration of the Order of Merit on him, that " when scientific merit was to be rewarded, all political feel ing should be laid aside. I would have sent the cross of the Order of Merit to Mr. O'Connell," added the King, " if Mr. O'Connell had been distinguished in science." THE TARIFF.—A wag of a farmer who occupies a high field a few miles N.E, of Ayr, whose intelligence renders him proof against "crying before he is hurt," on listening to some of his friends complaining of the present dull trade and other evils apprehended from the operation of the new tariff, and chiefly that clause permitting the introduction of foreign live stock, humorously remarked—" The deil's surely in that foreign beef ; it's far ayont prussic acid, for it seems to poison folk afore they get time to pree't."—Ayr Advertiser. THE LAW OF LIBEL.—A journal in Belfast, the Northern Whig, ventured, in the exercise of its duty, to report the outline of a speech delivered at a public assembly. The speech, as reported, was mild when compared with what had been spoken at the meeting in question. An error was com mitted in the reporting of one word, for which an ample apo logy appeared in a future publication ; but a rev. gentleman, who was alluded to in the speech, conceived himself injured by the report, sought damages from a jury on account of the alleged libel, and the jury returned a verdict of £lOO dama ges, and costs, against the proprietor of the Northern Whig ! This may serve as a specimen of the treatment the press is sometimes called upon to endure, and is another proof of the urgent necessity of making some material change in the law of libel. Messrs. Wigney. the bankrupt bankers at Brighton, re ceived their discharge from the commissioners on Thursday. The assignees returned to Mr. and Mrs. Clement Wigney their watches; and the watches of Mr , and Mrs. Newton Wigney were detained for the benefit of the creditors. The assisn!es are understood !9 baye_institute 4, wi g§ ; tw o tiielantrupis, to recover the amount of the liabilities of the bank at the time of his death, which his executors failed to discharge, paying the whole of his property to legatees, and leaving the bank debts to be liquidated by the money of sub sequent depositors. Upon the success of this suit it will de pend whether the dividend is to be 10s. in the pound, or " a mockery of a dividend." METEORIC STONE.—The itgram (Crotia) Zeisnuq men- , tions the falling of a meteoric stone, in the adjourning dis trict, on the 26th of April, at 4 o'clock p.m, The fall was accompanied by a great storm of thunder, and a noise in the air which lasted 15 minutes. The stone had sunk about I foot into the earth, but when removed from the field it weigh ed only a little more than 21b., because the persons who first hastened to the spot had broken off pieces to keep as curios ities. The stone is brittle ' t h e fracture is granulated and ash-gray, interspersed with reddish-yellow points. Another stone fell on the same day, about two miles from the first. It was broken and the pieces carried off, so that only a bit about the size of a plummet h as been preserved.—Prussian State Gazette. OXFORD AND MS MOTHER.—SiIICe Oxford's confinement in Bedlam he has beep treated with the utmost kindness ; books of every description are constantly furnished him ; he is well fed and also well clothed, and is bepoming . a linguist. w omen ;the wives of the He has been almost deified by the aristocracy, and those of rich and retired tradesmen, are positively in love with this wretch, and they have displayed their " morbid appetites" by writing to Sir Peter Laurie (the Knight being one of the Governors of Bedlam) begging him to procure for them a lock of Oxford's hair. When Oxford was apprehended, it beca uced me necessary that evidence as to his insanity should be prod before the jury. M rs . Oxford, the prisoner's mother, a t the time she was living at Birmingham, and she vas brought ro London to prove that her son had exhibited instances of monomania when a boy. Mrs. Oxford's condition was by no means prosperous ; she hardly possessed the means of paying her eoac l h ea h rn, hire t w o o t n o d w e n r. ; but since then her circums tances have, we fully improved. She is now living in the Westminster Road, occupying a suite of handsome apartments, and living in good style ; so, it would appear that the very act which had nearly deprived an amiable Queen of existence, has been a perfect god-send to the family. ALLEGED MURDER OF A CONSTABLE AT BRISTOL.— BRISTOL WEDNESRAy AFTERNOON. —A murder of a moss pity 4 h as i e a created brutal description has been co mmitted in this of Irishmen on a constable of th e p olice force? and much excitement. The assault was committed on the con stable at an early hour on Sunday morning, but he lingered quietest a re n c d eiv beedst. conductedThein our infirmary till about five o'clock yesterda y afternoon, when he expired of the injuries lie had con stable is said to be one of the men in the force, and this circumstance, together with the unprovoked nature of the attack upon him, and the brutality and determination of the mob by which he was assailed, has added to the feeling of regret which the violent death of a fellow creature is, under any circumstances, calculated to ex cik? Shortly after the perpetration of the outrage, six men, named Jeremiah Dwyer, Charles Dwyer, Dwyer' Denis callaglian, James Regan, and 'atrick Donovan, were apprehended by the police ? and taken to the Infirmary, where live of them were immediateiy pointed out as having been among the men who committed the the outragp. Th e in , quest was held on th,e body this day. rf I SCLLA.NEOTIS The king and queen of the Belgians arrived at Woolwich . on Monday night, and immediately took their departure for _ _ . Buckingham Palace, on a visit to her Majesty. TESTIMONIAL TO DR. DALTON.-.-011 Thursday evening last a splendid gold medal, value about £2O, was presented to the venerable Dr. Dalton, at the Literary and Philosophical ` . Society's rooms, by Messrs. Bradshaw and Blacklock, of Manchester REGISTRAR.-GENERAL.—Major Graham, private secre tary, and brother of Sir James Graham, has, we understand, been appointed to the office of registrar-general of births, marriages, and deaths, in the room of the late Mr. Lister. — Standard. Amongst the gentlemen called to the bar by the lion. So ciety of the inner Temple, last week, we perceive the name of Sir Thomas Phillips, the gallant mayor of Newport, at the time of the chartist riots Within the period one hundred hours, observes Galigna s Messenyer,three of the greatest calamities of this or any other century have occurred, viz., the fire of Hamburgh. on the sth of May ; the earthquake at St. Domingo, on the 7th ; and the fatal accident on the Versailles railroad, on the Bth. SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.---WC under stand that a portion of this end of the line, to the length of upwards of two miles, has been set out for letting, on which it is expected that the able-bodied poor will be set to work in the course of two or three weeks.— Sheffield Independent. At an early hour on Sunday morning a violent attack was made by a body of Irishmen on the police at Bristol. Three of the constables were injured, one of them so seriously that his recovery is very doubtful, Seven of the men are in custody and await the fate of the wounded policeman. There is a tree in the church-yard at the corner of Wood street, Cheapside, London, wherein three pair of rooks have been building their nests, and rearing their sable progeny. ... A. few days ags, one of the young birds, attempting : its first flight across the street, dropped upon the roof of a Padding ton omnibus (No. 466,) and suffered himself to be taken by the driver, without the slightest resistance. On Sunday afternoon Mr. Wrenn, who was living at No. 7, Weymouth-street, Walworth, on an income which he had accumulated while in business, committed suicide by drown• ing himself in the water-butt. He had been missing, some time, when on being searched for he was found with his legs projecting from the butt. On being taken out, life was found quite extinct. He was nearly 80 years of age, and had been observed to be melancholy for several days previous. RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—The distance traversed daily by the passenger trains alone, on eight of the principal railways, amounts to 10,508 miles, and the yearly distance to 3,562,338 miles ! The lines are the Great Western. London, and Bir mingham, Grand Junction, Birmingham and Derby, Mid land Counties, Manchester and Leeds, South Western, and Brighton ; and it appears, by the parliamentary returns, that during the year IS4I the number of passengers conveyed on these lines amounted to 4,600,000 ! and that during that pe riod the number of persons injured was 56, of whom 22 were killed.—The Britannia. THE MASSACRE AT CABUL.—We are glad to learn that an appeal, which we trust may be eminently successful, has been made to public sympathy in behalf of the suffering wives and children of our army in Cabul. The list of subscriptions is appropriately graced by having at its head the name of the Queen for £2OO ; Sir C. Forbes has given 100 guineas. the Hon. Mr. Elphinstone £5O, and a number of other chari table individuals have sent in to the committee sums of less amount. The case is one of very urgent nature, and we hope the general body of our countrymen, and ccuntrywomen as well, will aid in the promotion of so pressing an object of be nevolence. ANOTHER SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE NEW CHURCH, ANDOVER.—On Monday week several persons were employ ed in clearing away the fallen timber, bricks, &c., which nearly filled the shell of the new church after the destruction of the roof. They had been engaged nearly the whole day without hurt or impediment until about half-past five o'clock in the evening, when the whole length of the south wall, from 25 to 30 in height, fell inwards. Many of the labourers miraculously escaped unhurt, but three or four sustained very serious injuries by the fracture of their legs, ribs, &c. The ruins are still in a very dangerous state, and seem to threaten destruction to those whose duties require them to be near.—Berkshire Chronicle. NEW POOR LAW DIETARY.—The adjourned inquest on the body of George Shoesmith, a boy seven years of age, whose death, in an extreme degree of emaciation, was alleged to have been caused by the want of nutritious diet while an inmate of the Ringmer Workhouse, in the Chailey Union, was held at the Town-hall, Brighton, on Monday night. After the evidence had been fully gone into the jury returned the following verdict,—" That George Shoesmith, the de ceased, died by the visitation of God, in a natural way—to wit, of an enlargement of the mesenteric glands, which disease was accelerated, if not caused, by the dietary of the Union Workhouse at Ringmer, in the Chailey Union, which the jury think not sufficiently nutritious for growing chil dren. They are also of opinion that the deceased (lid not receive that medical attention in the workhouse which his case required." •• • - THE EAST AND WEST INDIA MAILS. — The mails that are now brought from the East and West Indies are so heavy, that it has been found advisable, after they have ar rived at Falmouth, to despatch, without sorting, the major portion of them to London by the first conveyance, because the number of persons employed in the General Post-office can always insure any number of letters arriving in foreign mails being sent to their various destinations without delay. One of the West India steamers brought mails, a short time since, that occupied the Falmouth post-office authorities 12 hours in sorting and despatching them. Unless, therefore, such heavy mails arrive at Falmouth a considerable period before the London mail is despatched, or are sent off to London unsorted, a delay of 2-I hours must take place. The increase iu the East and West India mails will render the Falmouth packet establishment useless, unless considerably augmented. No inconvenience is felt from the size of the Falmouth establishment for outward foreign mails, because most of them are made up in London, and only those letters posted to the west of the metropolis are sent direct to Fal mouth.— Globe. AN IRISH BROTHER.—A young sprightly couple, to all appearance under age, passed through this town on Friday, in a carriage and four, en route to Gretna Hall. The young lady, in addition to a swain alike loving and likely, was ac companied by her brother, an Irish gentleman of superior education, and the greatest frankness of mind and manner. In calling on a townsman to obtain a supply of sovereigns for Bank of Ireland notes, he mentioned, unasked, his des tination, and seemed to enjoy the trip amazingly. " What !" said the Dumfriesian, " I hope you are not going to make a runaway marriage ?" " Not yet, at least, but my sister is, and that s pretty much the same, seeing it's a family affair after all." " Indeed ! But why travel so far to get the knot tied, as if there were no altars and priests in Ireland?" "As for that, there are plenty of parsons, and ready enough to take the fee besides; but then, you see, my father refused his consent, and was like to break the hearts of both the darlings. But for my own part I see nothing wrong in the match ; the bridegroom is a friend, and a fine young fellow, who may as well have my sister as another ; and so 1 thought it best to jog along in company, and enjoy the spree." Gold was readily tendered for good bank paper, and the party took their departure across the border in the same dashing style they had arrived. On Saturday they returned, and seemed quite delighted they had got the job so well over. The " lions" of Dumfries were, of course, visited, and many com pliments paid to the scenery of Nithsdale ; and, after a slight repast, the trio started for their own country, Ma Portpatrick, to beg forgiveness of an offended father, who resides some where in the county of Dublin.—Dumfries Courier. AFRICAN CIVILIZATION SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of this society took place on Tuesday in London ; Lord Ashley in the chair. Amongst the friends of the society present were Lord Sandon, Lord John Russell, Lord Teign mouth, Sir R. H. Inglis, the Bishop of Worcester, &c. A letter was read from Mr. Clarkson, in which he said that he was of opinion that another expedition might be undertaken on a smaller scale than the last. They only required the Bible and the plough, and very few persons would be suffi cient in number to attend these instruments of good. The report consisted of forty-eight printed pages. It was divided into four heads or departments ; the first relating to the operations of the society abroad ; the second to the oper ations at home; the third to the state of the slave-trade and the condition of Africa ; and the fourth to the future plans and operations of the society. The last division of the re port recommends a perseverance in a course of operations similar to those which have already been commenced, and says, that in Africa the resources and influence of the society must still be devoted to the encouragement of such efforts as may tend to smooth the path and to protect the labours of the Christian missionary, the free cultivator of the soil and the friend of innocent commerce; whether this is to be done by establishments of its own in the manner suggested, or by rendering assistance to others, has not been determined. ANOTHER MADAME LAFFARGE. — At the Assizes of the Rhone, on the sth instant, the wife of a workman named Pre was tried for attempting to murder him by cutting his throat with a razor, The victim of her fury escaped, bleeding pro fusely, before she could consummate her crime by repeating the attack, and with skilful attention recovered in less than a month. The motive assigned for this offence in the act of accusation was jealousy, bnt the evidence left no doubt that the woman was at the time, and had long been labouririg under monomania. On the day of the attack, after some words with her husband, she had requested him to kiss her. lief l usgliN‘War a l gtEesiEd a ,, razor and drew it under a momentary impulse for which she could I nOtTc I eMIE I , and it was proved that she and her four children had been drinking something which would cause death, and that she had attempted to murder her husband in order that the whole family might go out of the world together. She was very indignant, however, on her trial, at the attempt of her coun sel and medical witnesses to establish her insanity, and her replies were intended to remove this belief from the minds of the jury, but there were occasional symptoms of incohe rence which left no doubt of the fact, and the jury consequent ly returned a verdict of acquittal, after which the president of the court ordered that she shonld be placed in a lunatic asylum. In the course of the pleading .of her counsel, he cited several instances of monomania to show that the priso ner was really insane, and in illustration of his argument, amongst other cases, related the following extraordinary anecdote :—Madame Adelaide, sister of the King, in 1836 took under her protection a young lady of family, placed her in a boarding school, and received her frequently on holydays at her own apartments in the palace. Suddenly her protegee announced to the schoolmistress and her intimate friends that she was about to be married, under the auspices of her patroness, to a young Lieutenant-Colonel, to whom she had been introduced by her Royal Highness, and in evidence of her assertions produced letters on the subject with the seal of the Princess, and in a handwriting whic , h all acquainted with that of Madame Adelaide believed to be hers. Subse quent letters were also displayed, in which her Royal High ness was made to state, first, that the intended husband was detained away by his regimental duties; then, that he was dangerously ill, and ultimately, that he was dead and buried. The young lady, upon this, gave herself up to such violent grief that fears were entertained for her own life. The only consolation she would listen to was a permission to put her self into the mourning of a widow, and to weep over the tomb of her lost lover. The under governess accompanied her to the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, and, at the gate, desired to have pointed out the place of interment of Lieu tenant-Colonel Connt M., who had died a week before at the age of 25. The concierge searched the register, and then assured the enquirers that it did not contain the entry of any such burial which consequently must, lie said, have taken place elsewhere. This answer increased the despair of the young lady, who prevailed upon her attendant to go with her to the other cemetaries of Paris, at each of which they met with the like disappointent. It was ni;ht before tey re turned home, and the grief stricken pupi retired for est in deeper despair than ever. The governess the nett day, felt it her duty to go to Madame Adelaide, aid relate all these mournful circumstances, taking with her tle letters announc ing the events which had so entirely destroyed the peace of her pupil. The astonishment of the Priness on hearing the extraordinary narrative, and at seeing leters apparently i n her own handwriting, but which she had lever written, and recognizing impressions from a seal which did really belong to her, could not be described. No such ierson as Lieuten ant-Colonel Count M. was known to her Royal Highness, consequently she never could have contmplated any such alliance nor have announcel to her his illness and the young lady hatibeen iuduced by a death. f fur her n p f u c p a t i ' morbid imagination to invent the whole ale, to purloin one of her patroness!s seals, imitate her haidwriting, compose the fictitious leitters; and, by bribing anold servant, induce her to put thein in the post. Her mind,aowever, was affec ted with the same grief from her own ,eliberate invention as if all the circumstances had really exited. ittniffiQuAgrom , On Tuesday sight, abota alaten ut'clook, Smart shock of an earthrinaku was felt at Cartmel Grange, id other places: in the vicinity,—TV6strizorlaud Gazette. In consequence of the new Prison Act coming into opera tion, the prisoners from the Fleet and the other prisons will be brought to the " Queen's Prison" in the course of a week or ten days. Two officers of the Belgian lancers at Louvain, having a w days ago quarelled over a game of dominos, went out to ;ht a duel with their sabres, when one of them was killed a stroke from that of his adversary, which literally clove s skull. The official return of all moneys repaid by her Majesty's government to the East India Company, on account of the war in China, since the commencement of the war until the present time, is as follows :-1840, Oct. 27, £150,000 ; 1841, July 2;X-100,000 ; 1842, Feb. 9, 23,442 ; total, £573,442. The steamer Little Nile, belonging to Mr. Waghorn, which sailed , from Falmouth on the 2d instant, for Alexandria, reached Corunna safely, and, after obtaining a supply of coals, resumed her voyage, but soon afterwards ran ashore at Cape Finisterre, and was totally lost; crew saved. RELEASED SLAVES AND EMIGRANTS.—By an arrival from Demerara (the Janet Willis) we learn that the barque Superior sailed from St. Helena for Sierra Leone on the 28th April last, with GO returned Africans, and would return from thence for a fresh supply of emigrants. The barque Lady Rowena would sail from Demerara to proceed in search of captured emigrants. In the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Monday, the proprietor of the Belfast Vindicator was convicted of a scandalous and malicious libel upon the administration of justice, by representing and causing it to be believed that a man named Francis Hughes, convicted of murder at Armagh, had not been fairly tried. lie will be brought up for judgment next term. SHOCKING AFFAIR.—On Saturday night information was given at the police-office which induced the Lieutenant on duty to order a house in Buccleuch-street to be entered by the officers. when they found its only tenant' John Messer, a hawker, lying dead in bed, and the body in a rapid state of decomposition. It appears that Messer, who was upwards of 70 years of age. was last seen alive on the 25th 'of May ; and the neighbours, from not afterwards seeing him supposed he had removed, until the noxious, effluvium awakened their suspicions.—Caledonian Mercury. THE CAPERCAILZIE.—The "cock of the north," this noble fine plumaged rara avis, with the capercailzie hens , presented by the Marquis of Bredalbane to the Duke of Ha milton, and placed for breeding iu a large curiously constructed pavilion aviary, near Broddick Castle, has been finely preserved. Last year eggs were placed under moor game for hatching, and, as there was no shooting in Arran, and all the game strictly preserved, it is probable that some young capercailzies may be seen in the forests or in the Mountains. This season proper care has been bestowed to get more eggs hatched, so that there is a reasonable prospect of this grand and rare species of game gradually becoming abundant in Arran. The moor fowl and black game are this season remarkably plentiful.—Kilmarnock Journal. LEGACY AND PROBATE DUTIES.—From a recent par liamentary return, we find that the following were the total amounts, omitting fractions of pounds received in the year 1841, (ending the sth of January, 1842,) for stamp duty on legacies, and on probates, administrations, and testamentary nvento ries : Legacies. Probates, &c England and Wales £1,109,317 £915,354 Scotland.... Great Britain Ireland 30,020 38,564 Totals £1,209,124 £1,011,873 The total duty received since 1797 to the sth of January last, has been : . Legacies. Probates, &c. England and Wales .... £32,136,634 £25,504,823 Scotland 1,862,755 1,274,941 Ireland .. 609,840 940,089 Totals .... £34,609,230 £27,719,854 The amount of capital, on which the several rates of legacy duty was paid in Great Britain in 1841, was £41,476,521 ; in Ireland, £2,487,262 ; and the total amount since 1797 was £1,163,284,207 ; of which the three principal amounts were £568,412,956, at £1 per cent. duty ; 293,855,817, at £3 per cent. duty ; and £124,851,536, at £lO per cent. duty. COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—An explosion in an ironstone mine took place in the shaft of a pit, at the Cleveland col liery, situate on the road to Willenhall, and between Wolver hampton and Portobello. Early on Monday morning last, the men and boys belonging to the pit, amounting to the number of thirteen, assembled shortly before six o'clock for the purpose of going to work. The engine was set to work, and the whole thirteen began descending in and hanging about a single skip. The mine, which had not been worked since Saturday, was not tried with a safety lamp, although a lamp belonging to the pit was, we understand, at hand. The party took lighted candles with them for the purpose of light ing themselves while at their labour ; but they had not descended much more than fifty yards when they came in contact with a hod)/ of foul air which had accumulated in the shaft. An explosion instantaneously followed, and seven of the unfortunate men and boys fell from the skip, dreadfully burned, to the bottom of the shaft ; the remaining six, under the impulse of terror, retained a convulsive hold of various parts or the skip, and the engine being backed they were as soon as possible drawn up the shaft. They were all much burned, and some of them almost in a state of insensibility from the dreadful injuries they bad received. The bodies of the seven men and boys who had fallen from the skip were brought to the bank, and six of them conveyed to Portobello ; the other, that of a boy named Marshall, being taken to Buggin's-lanc, where he had lived. They were all dreadfully burned, and also much mutilated by their fall. THE LATE ELOPEMENT AT lIALSTEAD.-011 Monday, a writ of inquiry was executed before Mr. It. Bartlett, under sheriff of Essex, and a jury, at the Shire-hall, to ascertain the value of the property of Mr. Taylor, late of Halstead, surgeon and paper-manufacturer. The circumstance was briefly alluded to in our paper of last week. Mr. Taylor is a married man, has five children, and is about 40 years of age; but an unhappy passion for a fascinating young lady, a Miss Greenwood, one of the Society of Friends, induced him to sacrifice character, family, and everything that is dear to a well-regulated mind. The young lady, who is about E years of age, had a sum of £1,400 in her possession, and re. cently eloped with her parumour to France: Iler brothe . pursued the deluded girl to France, but could not prevail o► her return to England. Previous to his flight Mr. Taylor made no arrangement respecting his affairs, and one of creditors, who was bound for him to the Excise, procure( an extent in aid of the crown for £l2O, the amount of duty on paper unpaid. On the morning of the inquiry the amount of duty was remitted to the sheriff, but not the amount of costs. Proof was accordingly given that there was at least property belonging to defendant in the county of not less than £240, double the amount of duty. The jury gave a verdict to that effect.—lpswich Express. THE MARQUIS OF WATERFORD AND HIS BRIDE. — Saturday this distinguished couple arrived here by the Osprey steamer. The moment the vessel came in view, decked in her gayest flags in honour of the distinguished freight she bore, crowds of people assembled on the quay and parade to welcome the Marquis and his lovely bride to Ireland's shore, and mingled with the feeling of gratulation was one of anxiety to see the distinguished stranger. The quarter-deck was full of passengers, amongst whom the marquis did not appear, as he and his lady were partaking of a &joiner in the cabin, to which no one else was admitted. In about a quarter of an hour the noble pair ascended to the quarter-deck, where they were warmly greeted by the respectable company stand ing there, and as they walked along the stage, they were loudly cheered by the people on the parade, which testimo nies of joy they gracefully acknowledged. The happy couple immediately got into their carriage and drove off to the princely demesne of Curraghmore, amidst the hearty cheers of the hundreds present. The people seemed quite satisfied that fame had not exaggerated the personal charms of Lady Waterford. The cathedral joybells rang forth merry peals on their arrival and during the day, and the steamers had their colours flying from the mast-heads. It was expected their reception would be equally enthusiastic along their pro gress to the family mansion.—Waterford Mirror. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—On Thursday last an inquest was held at Pencombe, near Bromyard, on the body of the late Mr. Thomas Wilkinson, farmer, of that parish, who had died on the 15th .May ; but in consequence of some rumours which had got abroad that he had not come fairly by his death, the body was exhumed for the purpose of having an inquest held upon it. It appeared that the deceased had suffered from indigestion, and died from an obstruction in the bowels. Ile was a single man, aged about 55, and lived with his sister, a single woman. The rumours which had been spread abroad, it appeared, had originated in the fact of Mr. Shelton, the surgeon who had attended him, having administered a clyster after death, when the body was laid out ; which was looked upon as an extraordinary circum stance, and fraught with suspicion that there had been some thing wrong. Mr. Shelton, moreover, was henefitted by the will of the deceased, and the tongue of slander having propa gated statements to the prejudice of Mr. Shelton, an inquiry became neceassary. The jury were satisfied with the medical and other testimony adduced, and returned the followinc , verdict :—" We find that the deceased, Mr. Thomas Wilkin son, died in a natural way, from obstruction of the bowels ' • but the jury consider that this i nves ti ga ti on h as ar i sen f rom the suspicion caused by the indiscretion of Mr. Shelton in injecting the body after death. DREADFUL DEATit.-oviEno, June 10.—In the morning ‘, l)/1, Bernardo Gonzales Alvera, soli c it or o f t h e . 4 ; rd suddenly. He was upwards of seventy years of age, MU Fel y disnl • cr till considerable energy in the discharge of t s . At nine o'clock in the evening his body was placed in a cola, which was immediately carried to the church of St. Sebas tian, where his funeral was to take place on the following day. Yesterday morning, at five o'clock, when the sacristan opened the church he was not a little surprised to find the coffin lying on the ground, by the table on which it had been deposited. He ran to the spot, and found the lid broken in the direction of the head. The hands and face of the de ceased were covered with scratches still bleeding, and his mouth and ears were full of blood. On inquiry it was ascer tained that nobody had entered the church during the night, and that M. Gonzales Alvera was not dead when he was shut up in the coffin. Had a person been left to watch him, as is usually the case, he would perhaps be still alive. To-day the municipality of Oviedo, in accord with the clergy, decreed that hereafter no corpse should be admitted into the church or interred until it should have been visited by a physician to certify his death, THE COINAGE.—The reference made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday night to the illegality of refusing a sovereign of the due weight, will, without doubt, have a salutary effect in putting a stop to the many advantages which have been taken, among some tradesmen, of the gene ral panic caused by the proclamation,and to which the gene ral ignorance as to a law which has so long been suffered to remain inactive has been very conducive. The following section of the act 56th George 111., c. 16, will show the penalty that is enacted against receiving the coin of the realm at a higher or lower rate than its current value, and its pub_ lication will probably prevent many of those impositions on the working classes which have lately been too frequent " Sec. 13. And be it further. enacted, that from and a f ter the passing of this act, no person shall by any means, device, shift, or contrivance whatsoever, receive or pay for any gold coin lawfully current within the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, any more or less in value, benefit, pro fit, or adva n t ag e, than the true l aw ful value which such gold coin doth or shall by its d enominatio n import /10r shall utter or receive any piece or pieces of gold coin of this realm at any gre a ter or higher r* elf value, nor at any less o r lower rate or vainc, than the same shall be current for in payment, according to the rates and values declared and set upon them pursuant to la w ; and that every person w h o shall off en d h er ein shall be deemed and adjudged guilt a misdeme a nour, and being there of convicted by due courseyof of law, shall suffer imprisonment for the term of six calendar months, and shall find sureties for his or her good behaviour for one year or more, to be computed from the end of the said six months ; a nd if the same person s h a ll afterwards be convicted of the like offence, such person shall for such se cond offence suffer one year s imprison ment, and find sure ties for his or her good b e ha vi our for one year mo r e, t o b e computed from the end of the said l as t- mentioned year ; and if the woo pprion shall afterwards offend against this act, and shall by due course of law be convicted of any subse quent offence, b e or she shall be i mpr i soned for the term of two years for every such subsequent offence." The proper weight of the coin, according to the proclarnat:on of May, 1821 , i s 5 dwt. 21 grains the sovereign, and 2 dwts. 131 grains the half - sove re ign , and consequentiv a ref u s a l t o t a k e coin of that weight would kiy the offence within the meaning of the act. ELEVENTH GllAND.fiastitti PESTA, ZOOLDOICAL GARDENS, present FRIDAY EVENING, the 24th instant, and to be repeated every MONDAY and FRIDAY during, he Season. THE PICTORIAL MODEL OF ROME. At dusk, this novel exhibition will be seen under the .spect which the scene presents during the rejoicing in cele iration of 11 Giorno di San Pietro, when the whole vast .F.difice of St. Peter's is Illuminated, and every detail of the ;lorious Architecture shines forth in lines of resplendent ight. It is on such festive occasions that the celebrated Girandola, or great FIREWORKS of ST. ANGELO, ire displayed from the summit of the Castle and Bridge. beyond all comparison the grandest display of Pyrotechnic Art ever invented. A fac simile of this GORGEOUS FESTIVAL will be represented. Amidst tremendous FLIGHTS ,of ROCKETS, and CASCADES Of FIRE, FOUNTAINS, and STARS, the whole of the Eternal City will appear as visible as by the broad light of day. Pyrotechnic Artist, SIGNOR SEMONI. A first-rate MILITARY BAND, under the able superin tendance of Mr. STUBBS, will perform during the Season. ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. TO CORRESPONDENTS The STANDARD is regularly forwarded to Wigan by the first post, and if our correspondent in that town does not duly receive it, the fault rests with the post-office there. VERITAS. — We are much obliged to " Veritas" for his good opinion, but will he favour us with a few facts? We are in possession of an old tale or two that will perhaps sur prise him. We care very little for what evil men think of us—still less for threats. When we are sufficiently in possession of the doings of certain people we will not spare them. Ebr 7.o l Jrrpool &tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1842 With the debate in the House of Commons on Monday night before us; it is impossible to deny the present propriety, both as to principle and time of adoption, of the course taken by government with re spect to the light gold coinage at present in circulation throughout the realm. For the last two years, it has been urged upon the late and the present government that the gold currency of the country was seriously deteriorated, and ought promptly to be withdrawn from circulation. On the 20th of January in the present year a memorial was addressed to the Lords of the Treasury, signed by twenty-four of the leading bankers of the metropolis, suggesting "that power should be granted to the Bank of England to clip such sove reigns as should be presented to them under the pro per weight; and that arrangements should be also made with the Bank to take in all light sovereigns at the Mint, at the price of £3. 17s. 10Id. per ounce." At that precise time, however, the state of our foreign ex changes would not permit of the immediate adoption of the suggestion in question but so soon as the op portunity offered of the exchanges being favourable, the order, so much commented upon of late, was issued by the Treasury. Thus far, therefore, the course pursued by govern ment was obviously warranted. But it has been urged that the Treasury, and not the holders of light coin, should have been the parties mulcted in the amount of the existing deterioration, estimated at about £90,000. But what a bonus, we reply, would thereby have been held out for further " sweating," "plugging," and those other illegal practices by which the gold in cir culation has been deteriorated ! If the state would consent to take, at their full weight, clipped coin, what an incentive to further clipping ! It is urged again that notice should have been given ; that a day should have been fixed after which light coin should be with- drawn from circulation. What ! to enable a game of shuffling and palming to be practised upon the unwary throughout the kingdom ? To have paralyzed for a time the entire circulation of the realm ? Certainly this, whether the government or individuals were to be the ultimate sufferers, would have been a ruinously unwise course ! It was obviously impolitic, therefore, as well as unjust in its operation, that the state should be made the sufferer, or that the course pursued, to fix the loss sustained upon the actual holders, should be any other than the peremptory and sudden step adopted by government. It is quite certain, however, that this step has been attended with serious inconveniences and losses to the public, many of which might have been avoided ; many of which ought to have been avoided ; but the whole of which could not. Individual holders have been left too much at the mercy of interested dealers in the precious metals and of fraudulent tradesmen and capitalists. The arrangements of the Bank of England do not seem to have been perfect; the arrangement of the branch banks, especially, do not seem to have afforded the conveniences which they might have done. We are not convinced either that the public are insured against the reissue of light coin, upon which the allow ance has already been made by these banks themselves. By the money dealers and by tradesmen it is notorious that light coin has been freely passed after its detec tion, and after allowance having been made. This evil and this loss to the community at large we think . might have been avoided, by the peremptory enforce. ment of clipping by the branch banks, and by the ap pointment of authorised receivers in every large town; and until some stringent measure of the kind is adopt ed the difficulty under which every honest trader at present labours may be continued for an almost inde finite period. It is perfectly well known that at the present moment a large harvest is being reaped by a certain class of traders, arising out of this order of the Treasury. In our own town, although the absurd panic at first raised has passed over, and the community are assured that the heavy deterioration urged does not exist, the over charge made upon the exchange of light gold by these traders is double, and even threble what it ought to be. The bullion offices in Liverpool deduct sixpence per sovereign, and, in some instances, much more, if it be the slightest particle deficient ; and some tradesmen take even a greater advantage. We would respectfully caution our readers against submitting to these impo sitions, in whatever way they are levied. The banks in Liverpool, we arc informed, have come to a determina tion to exchange all light sovereigns at 4d. each, and half sovereigns at 2-d. ; and it will, therefore, be the interest of our townsmen to take their gold to these, the regular channels, rather than allow themselves to be tempted either by those dealeis in the precious me tals, by whom the pretended real value is given, or by those shopkeepers who profess to receive them, without any deduction, for the wares which they sell. In few cases, we believe, is the actual deterioration of the sovereign above threepence. In many cases, although the coin may appear light by the ordinary balances in use, it is, in reality, what will be received by the Bank of England as the standard weight. The overcharge, therefore, of the bullion dealers, who de duct' . 1 -nPnce, ninepence, and sometimes a shilling, is evident, as is that of the traders who, in reality, deduct double that amount in the trashy character of their goods : whilst the dranetinr, x‘r thn private banker is obviously a fair and reasonable one. We have been kindly favoured with a copy of the New Tariff Bill, as it has passed the committee of the House of Commons ; and give in this place an abstract of its principal clauses, for the information of our readers : Prohibition to importation of cattle and meat repealed ; also in respect to fish brought by foreigners, if cleared at a foreign port. Turbots of foreign taking not to he landed without entry. Tobacco, the produce of Mexico, Columbia, the Continent of South America, St. Domingo, or Cuba, may be imported from British possessions in packages of 801bs. weight ; and negro-head tobacco, from the United States of America, in packages of liOlbs. Particular weizlit and tare of tobacco need not be marked upon each hogshead, &c. Separate manifest for tobacco not required. Tobacco and other goods not worth the drawback, entered and brought to the quays for shipment on drawback, for feited. Foreign goods importing into the United Kingdom or British possessions, with names of British makers, forfeited, after sth January, 1843. Spirits may conic in stone bottles, not exceeding one quart each. European silk manufactures may be admitted at South ampton. No allowance to be made on sugar damaged on voyage. Gods detained for being undervalued, can only be so dealt with in the space of seven days in England and ten days in Scotland after final examination. Warehousing bonds to continue in force longer than three years. No abatement of duties on account of damage on cantha pepi ertea, sugar, t o b acco, w i ne, S ze., found dereli c t, j etsam, fl otsam, or t r o id b es e, made coco COCOA, on costfueceh, when wreck. No drawback to be allowed on goods entered out on mer chandise be of le ss v a lu e th an th e amountoefrdrsat:rbeaC which claimed.k lm" Penalty of £2OO, or treble the amount claimed. Goods exporting on drawback to give bond for due landing at thei p l ace entered for. ofne for officers the royal navy may be s hipp e d a t l I Liverpool on drawback. No books whatever, reprinted abroad from original British p u blications, allowed t o b e i mported, except when the copy right ha,s . expired : , . _ Prohibition not to take place unless notice of copyright and date of its expilation be given to commissioners of cus toms.