The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-15 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. FRANCE The sort of expedition to be sent to Monte Video has been definitively settled by the government. Two batta lions of marine infantry and two squadrons of cavalry, with two battalions of marine artillery, in all about 2000 men, will compose the expeditionary corps. Admiral Du Bourdieu commands the flotilla, and Colonel Lannes, of the 7th regiment of cavalry, now staioned at Lisle, son of the famous marshal, is at the head of the troops for disembarkation. On Tuesday evening the Assembly voted by 352 to 280, that the articles of the bill affecting the provincial school masters should be discussed. A bill was brought in by the Minister of War to augment the pay of the non-com missioned officers in the army to 20c. per day. An aide de-camp of General Blraguay d'Hilliers has arrived in Paris. with dispatches to the effect that the French com mander-in-chief and the Papal authorities are not likely to come to any friendly arrangement, Gen. d'Hilliers insisted upon leaving a force of 12,000 men in the city of Rome, while the Cardinals wish to place the Pope under the protection of a mixed garrison of Austrians and Italians. The Chimera, steamer, has arrived at Toulon from Civita Vecchia, with two companies of engineers, and several officers of different corps. She brings information that six regiments of the French army in the Papal terri tory had received orders to hold themselves in readiness for embarkation. THE PRICE OF THE OCCUPATION OF ROME.—The National says,—" The first fruits of the wine tax will be sanctified. They will be offered to the Pope. 25,000 men of the army which has restored the Holy See will remain at Rome. The Commissariat have made arrangements for their keep for 1850. The Roman expedition cost 46 millions in 1849: we are now about to spend 25 more. All this would appear excessive if we did not think of the indulgencies the French Republic will .hus obtain. The net receipts of the potable liquor tax will amount in 1850 to 70 millions. This is just what the restoration of Pius IX. will cost France. A letter from Tabes, France, of the 6th inst., states that in consequence of the severity of the weather a num ber of wolves have entered the town of Carteret by night in search of food, and destroyed a flock of sheep on their FATAL DUEL.—A letter from Toulouse states that a duel took place between two artillerymen in garrison there on the 2d instant. One of them received his adversary's sword through his heart, and died on the spot. WHO WANTS A CORONET?—An office for the sale of German titles of honour is now opened in Paris. A knightahip may be had for 5000 francs, a countship for 20,000, and a marquisate for 40,000. The President of the French Republic has sent the sum of 300 francs, or £l2 sterling, to each of the twelve arron dissements of Paris, to be distributed amongst the suffer ing poor. So much for the contributions of a Republi can Chief Magistrate to the poor-box. A Lisbon letter, describing the intensity of the cold, notes the death of a sentinel at his post from its effects. In one of the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland a goat was burnt last week as a witch and emissary of the devil. The Gazette de Core records the fact. The China Overland Mail gives an account of the death of the Rev. John Lowder, late chaplain of the British Church at Shanghai, who was drowned off the island of Putoo while bathing in the sea. _ _ _ _ The New York papers announce that Mr. Powell, the author of the Living Authors of England, has been arrested upon a charge of forging a draught, purporting to be drawn by a London house on M'Loughlin and Bell, for £lOO, _ _ . . The Bishop of Lucon, we observe, has laid his inter dict on the College at Vendee, on account of the appoint ment of a Jew to the philosophical chair. The chaplain is forbidden to celebrate divine service in the College Chapel. From Canada there are no accounts of much interest. Lord Elgin had appointed the 3d of January as a day of thanksgiving. Ministerial changes still continue to occupy attention. The Hon. Mr. Caron had resigned his office as a member of the executive council, but retained the post of speaker to the legislative council. A second annexation manifesto had awakened no excitement what ever Panama advices state that her Britannic Majesty's ship Herald, Captain Kellett, arrived at Mazatlan on the 13th November. She had proceeded as far as 73 deg. 10 min. in search of Sir John Franklin. The Herald left the Plover, man-of-war, to winter in Behring's Straits. The Plover's boats had been sent up the Mackenzie river in search of Sir John Franklin. The boats were to winter at the nearest station. The impression of the com mander of the Herald is that Sir John Franklin is safe. A crisis had taken place by the resignation of the Prus sian ministry, his Majesty having expressed some dislike to swear to the constitution, but several cabinet eonncils afterwards took place, when the King refused to accept their resignations, pledging his word to take the oath. A cabinet council, presided over by his Majesty, was held on the 3rd at Charlottenburg, when all questions relative to the undecided articles of the constitution, and the mode in which it will be sent back to both houses, was finally settled. From California our advices extend to the 16th of November. An election was held in California on the 10th of November, to decide on the adoption of the new Constitution proposed for the State, and also to vote for a Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, two representatives to Congress, and members of the California Legislature. The Constitution has been adopted almost unanimously. Great activity was prevailing at San Francisco. Buildings were going up with great rapidity. Carpenter's wages, 16 dollars a day. ROMISH HOME MISSION IN GERMANY.—A wonderful account is given by the Popish Priests of a mission organised for the Duchy of Baden, where Romanism had fallen greatly into decay. At the town of Seckingen, on the borders of the Black Forest, illustrious for the tomb of S. Fridolin, it is stated that 32 Priests wont on hear ing confession for the space of twelve days from four o'clock in the morning till nine at night, the result of which was a conflux of communicants from a distance of 10. 20, and 30 leagues round, to the number of 11,000. JAMAICA.—The aspect of Jamaica remained, on the sailing of the packet, as gloomy as ever. Trade was at a low ebb in Kingston—merchants desponding, and no en terprise; large purchasers from - the Main obliged to pass on to St. Thomas, a few days previous, not finding any assortment of goods. Associations of tradesmen are ad vertised for emigration to more thriving settlements. The constant expression is, " I wish I could clear off scores and go elsewhere." One merchant of capital and long standing sailed the same day as the packet to try other fortunes. The fact is, the sinews of prosperity in Kings ton are shrunk up—there are, comparatively, no estates to supply. The Pope has published a very lengthy and violent en ciclical letter, in which be anathematizes socialism, repub licanism, and, above all, protestantism, as the root from which every other evil inn springs. The commission of cardinals has thrown into prison fifty priests, for having administered spiritual consolation to the wounded repub licans in the hospital during the siege. A few nights ago, all the druggists' shops in the principal towns of Romagna were simultaneously broken into, and all t' ioisonou substances earried off, nothing else was touched advocate Samii, governor of Fesi, was subsequently ar rested, and a quantity of arms found in his house, besides a correspondence in cipher with the chiefs of the Italian revolution, which it is said will throw some light upon the subject. BRITISH ACQUISITION ON THE GOLD COAST purchase of three or four forts which Denmark possessed on the Gold Coast of Africa may be an event of great im portance. The forts were of no use and no benefit to Denmark ; and we believe the purchase of all the build ings and stores in them has been effected for £lO,OOO. But in the hands of the British government they will be of great service, not only in directly suppressing the slave trade, but in more effectually realising this object by fos tering a legitimate commerce on the African coast. Mr. Duncan, the late British consul at Whydah, the main port in the kingdom of Dahomey, declared in one of his last letters that the trade in palm oil had almost driven the slave trade out of the Bight of Benina. And it is sin cerely to be hoped that a successor to Mr. Duncan may be found, to carry out the cotton planting introduced by that enterprising gentleman into the kingdom of Dahomey, which is contiguous to our new acquisitions. —The WEST INDIES AND AUSTRALIA.—The Avon, Lieut. Hast, bringing the West India Mail, has arrived, with one million and a quarter of dollars on board on mer merchants' account. This vessel, overdue some days, was delayed by heavy north-easterly gales. The British barque Selino was wrecked near Islay on the 12th Oct. The political news was unimportant. An abundant crop was expected at Barbadoes and throughout the Windward Islands an average one. Commercial affairs had under gone but little alteration since the previous mail was dis patched. Freights dull. The Avon is the bearer of letters from Port Philip (Australia) of the ]Bth of Sept. The colony was in a state of improvement, arising from the vast accession of emigrants. The wool season was expected to prove a profitable one. On the 17th of Sept. a great fall of snow took place, which occasioned much astonishment, as such an occurrence had never before been know* in that settlement. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.--This document was received by the steamer on Wednesday. The leading points in the history of the republic for the last year are recounted very briefly and quietly, without much force or energy in the tone or language. The blunders made by Mr. Clayton are smoothed over and pared down with some skill, but in a tone that looks like contempt for the se cretary. The fracas with France is treated as a bagatelle. With England, embracing the Nicaraguan question, there is no prospect of any difficulty, yet the General threatens Portugal with another message if she doe s no t pay h er debts. Not a word is said of the numerous removals and appointments, which does not correspond with public ex pectations. In short, this message is one of the most in nocent documents ever published. On the subject of slavery in th e new t err it or i es th e General is by no means clear or explicit. I n th e fi nances there will be found a deficiency of only 16,000,000 dollars this year, and the General at once recommends a loan, in addition to the debt and taxes. Th e secretary , M r. M ere dith, re ports in favour of a high tariff, plenty of protection against spe cific currency, a sub-treasury, and recommends an in crease of the revenue by an i ncrease of the taxes, a sor t of reduction ad absurdum in political economy. The message and documents will have little effect on the le gislation of the present Congress. Already General Cass has proposed the abolition of the Austrian mission. The language of the President on the subject of " Protection" is the most remarkable feature of the document. While we are madly throwing open everything to the foreigner, how is America acting ? " I recommend," says General Taylor, " a revision of the tariff, with a view both to an increase of revenue and the encouragement of domestic industry." On this head he expresses himself as strongly as the most ultra-protectionist could desire. " I ear nestly recommend to Congress," says he, " the adoption of that system (specific duties), fixing the duties n't rates high enough to afford substantial and sufficient encou• ragement to our own Industry, and at the same time so adjusted as to insure stability." Here is an example, not merely for our warning, but our imitation. Shall we be mad enough not to imitate it ? IRELAND. —*— SHIP-BUILDING AT CORR.—Mr. Pike, who has built some fine iron ships, is engaged in building an immense iron vessel for the New York trade. She will be screw propelled, and 1,400 tons burden. The Freeman's Journal states, that. the estates now under the jurisdiction of the Encumbered Estates Com mission are worth " fully one-twelfth" of the entire rental of Ireland ; and this within less than three months since the first petition was filed. On Tuesday evening there was a meeting of the Dublin Protestant Association, held at the Rotunda, " for the purpose of adopting resolutions expressive of the Pro testant feelinc , of Dublin on the vastly important question of protection to trade and agriculture." TRISH PROTECTION MOVEMENT.—The address to the Queen, prepared by the committee of which Lord Glengall is chairman, now bears the signatures of 54 peers, 22 members of parliament, 23 baronets, 111 deputy lieuten ants, together with a vast array of the signatures of ma gistrates, clergymen. barristers, .doctors, attorneys, mer chants, and tenant-farmers_ The large number of unions which have adopted this address is one of the most remark able facts in connection with it. SINGULAR SCENE.-A strange scene occurred at Scariff workhouse, on Wednesday, after the sale ended. When some of the articles purchased were placed on cars for re moval, the paupers rushed out to prevent them being taken away, armed with all kinds of weapons, yelling and shouting in the most frightful manner. One young gen tleman, brother-in-law of one of the plaintiffs, was struck with a stick on the head by one of the pauperq, and had it not been for the timely arrival of head constable Taylor, and a few men, there is no telling what the consequences might have been.—Clare Journal. The Protectionist meeting at Tyrone. last week was remarkable for the adhesion of Lord Claude Hamilton, brother of the Marquis of Abercorn, and by the manly re cantation of the free-trade heresy by the Earl of Caledon, who formerly represented Tyrone in Parlirment. "Not sufficiently aware of the mischievous tendency of free trade," says the Earl of Caledon in his letter to Mr. Lowry, " I voted against protection. But I now cordially confess that I believe the system must end in the ruin of the agricultural interest, particularly in Ireland. I speak not solely as w landlord, but as a manufacturer, having in my own hands extensive mills." MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A tragical event occurred at Earlsgift, Londonderry, the residence of the Hon. and Rev. Charles Douglas, on Wednesday. A little boy, named Charles Doherty, a stable servant, son of Mr. Douglas's coachman, was desired by his father to watch occasionally a pan of coals that had been placed hot in a carriage for the purpose of airing it. It appears that the poor little boy, not aware of the danger he incurred, either out of fun, or supposing that the carriage would be better aired by his doing so, pulled up all the blinds so as to ex clude fresh air, and remained himself in the carriage. The boy not returning from the carriage, his father being sur prised at his relr aining so long a time away, went to see after him, and found him quite dead. A medical man was instantly sent for, and everything done to restore animation, but all without avail ; he was quite dead. COURT AND FASHION ____._ Her Majesty held a Coutt on Tuesday, at which the Rev. Dr. Hinds had an audience of the Queen in the Royal Closet, and did homage on being appointed Bishop of Norwich. The Bishop of Chester (Clerk to the Closet), and Sir George Grey, assisted in the ceremony. The Right Rev. Dr. Oliphant had an audience of her Majesty, and did homage ou being appointed Bishop of Llandaff. The Bishop of Chester and Sir George Grey assisted at the ceremony. It is stated that her Majesty's accouchement is expected to take place in the month of April. The Bishop of Manchester has been appointed director of the studies of the Prince of Wales. The mourning for the late Queen Dowager will be dis continued on the 23th instant. The Emperor and the whole Court of Russia went into mourning for the Queen Dowager of England. The Bishop of Manchester preached the sermon before the Court at the Private Chapel, Windsor, on Sunday week. DISGRACEFUL RIOT BY FREE-TRADERS A meeting of the Protectionist party, was held at Stafford on Thursday. At twelve o'clock the doors of the Shire-hall were thrown open, and an immense concourse of persons rushed in, and soon filled every available space. In the gallery from which the speakers were to address the meeting, were Lord Talbot, Lord St. Vincent, Lord Newport, M.P., Lord Lewisham, M.P., Mr. Adderley, M.P., Mr. Sidney, Major Chetwynd, Henry Vincent, &e. Lord St. Vincent came forward, and was about to address the meeting, when the Free-traders set up a most discordant noise, consisting of hisses, groans, and yells, &c., which lasted several minutes. After in vain endea vouring to obtain a hearing, his lordship proceeded, amidst the clamour which prevailed, to say that he would not be put down ; that he had a claim to be heard, and heard he would be. [At this stage of the proceedings several disturbances took place in the body of the hall, and amidst the cries of ' police' and ' murder,' a general fight took place ; both parties appeared to be pretty well armed for the fray, a set-to, a la Donnybrook, commenced, but, after about 15 minutes' fightinz, the police were let into the hall from a side door, and they at once set upon all those tvho appeared to show the slightest symptoms of disagreement with the conveners of the meeting. Silence having been in a measure restored,] Lord St. Vincent again proceeded, and amidst a renewal of confusion, he sat down by proposing that Lord Talbot take the chair. Lord Newport, M.P., seconded the motion amidst loud hissing and groaning. Lord Talbot came forward. He had no sooner taken his place at the front of the rails, in the gallery, than some miscreant in the body of the hall threw a large stone at his lordship's head, which, however, missed his lordship and fell on the forehead of Mr. Fowler, a reporter, who was standing by his lordship's side, inflicting a large con tused wound. Lord Newport had the gentleman con veyed to the judge's room, where his head was dressed. For nearly half an hour the chairman was endeavouring to address the meeting. During the whole of the period the rioting was at its height in the body of the ball, the policemen who were present being totally insufficient effectually to quell the disturbance. - A large number of the rioters were, however, ejected by the farmers, and the chairman ordered the doors to be closed. This was no sooner done than the mob outside commenced pulling up the stones of the court yard in front of the shire hall, which they hurled through the windows with such vio lence as to break whole frames out at one stroke. The mob inside, in the meantime, tore up several benches and forms, with which they armed themselves. After some sharp fighting, in which scores of heads were broken, Lord Talbot again addressed the meeting, but it would be totally impossible to give anything like an outline of his lordship's speech, the riot and confusion entirely pre- venting the reporters from hearing. When his lordship resumed his seat a large paving stone was hurled through the window at him, but, as in the previous case, his lord- ship escaped unhurt. Mr. T. Turner moved,—" That the present distressed and painful condition of the agricultural interest, bearing particularly on the tenant-farmers, the agricultural la bourers, and others employed in the cultivation of the soil, as well as all trades dependent upon agriculture for support, the grievous injury inflicted upon Ireland, our colonial empire, the shipping and all other industrial in terests, is mainly attributable to the mistaken policy of free trade." Mr. Turner was commencing to address the meeting, when the mob from without opened another battery against the windows, and the stones came flying into the hall in every direction. Lord Talbot sent a messenger to the Mayor to say that he, as chairman of the meeting, requested that his wor ship would prevent any disturbance taking place in the town. Mr. Hartshorn seconded the resolution. Mr. Adderley, M.P., moved a resolution to the effect that an address be presented to her Majesty, praying her to dissolve Parliament. The appearance of the place at this period became most alarming ; battles were taking place in all parts of the body of the hall, and the stones were pouring in through the windows as fast as a heavy shower of rain, much to the terror of those in the galleries. Mr. Adderley, addressing the mob who had again forced open the front doors, which they were now trying to wrench from off their hinges, said :—Tt is a disgrace to the meeting that a body of Englishmen should behave in the way you have dore. It is a disgrace to the person who has set this mob on to-day to behave in the manner they have. (Cheers.) You wish for an extension of the suffrage, and you have been told by your opponents that you are fit to receive it. Your conduct here to-day has convinced me that you are not fit to be intrusted with the suffrage. You have brought a lasting disgrace upon your selves by your dastardly conduct. At this stage of the proceedings the superintendent of the police informed his lordship that it was quite impos sible for him longer to hold out against the mob, as his men were knocked down in all directions. The messenger whom Lcrd Talbot had sent to the Mayor returned, and stated that his worship refused to act at all in the matter, as he considered it to be the duty of the county magistrates. The mob, finding that they were now quite unchecked in their violence, commenced battering in the doors and windows in the most determined maAner, stones weighing from 401 b, to 501 b. being thrown in amongst the meeting. Lord Talbot, with some difficulty, stood forward, and said, the Mayor of Stafford having refused to assist in putting down the riot which is now existing outside, I cannot, as a county magistrate, allow the property of the county to be demolished in this way, and, therefore, I declare the meeting dissolved. Upon leaving -the Shire-hall, Lord Talbot and his friends proceeded to the Swan Tavern, where he was fol lowed by a mob of nearly 1000 persons. Whilst his lord ship was in the act of crossing the road, some miscreant struck his lordship in the breast with a brick. This was the signal for further destruction, for the mob immediately commenced smashing the windows of the hotel where his lordship and his friends were staying. His lordship, re ceiving the blow on his breast, coolly told the mob that they were acting very unlike Englishmen. From the hotel the mob made their way to the railway station., where they received the farmers as they came down to go by the se veral trains with showers of bricks and stones. Upwards of 100 persons are more or less wounded, some with broken heads, some with black eyes, &c. One gentleman who was going down to the station in his gig was -so severely pelted that the horse took fright and .the.:driver was thrown out. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The directors of the London and Brighton Company have agreed upon a dividend of 48s. per cent. for the half year, carrying over a surplus of £15,000. A correspondent of the Times apprizes the public, that passengers by railway cannot be legally charged for over weight of luggage on arriving at the end of their journey. The charge must be made at starting. The Directors of the Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Railway Company, have given notice of their in tention to declare forfeited 3,972 shares in the Company, upon which the calls have not been paid. in the course of the past week a testimonial, consisting of a service of plate, of the value of 260 guineas, was pre sented to Mr. All port, the late traffic manager of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Company, on the occasion of bis resignation. The Railway Journal says that proceedings have been commenced against the ex-directors of the York and North Midland line, to recover back the premiums on the 100 shares, certain f them took the liberty of appropriat ing to themselves. The Midland directors heve issued a statement of their capital and liabilities, by which they appear to have spent up to the 30th of June last £15,157,458, and they require £770,240 to complete all their works. This sum, they say, will leave £1,864.460 available, but unrequired capi tal. They state the annual amount of guarantees which they have to pay, independent of interest upon loans, to be £223,705. A call of £5 per share on the £5O shares is to be made payable sth April next. THE BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY CONTRACTORS.—The price of a contract ticket for travelling, during one year, in a first-class carriage between Chester and Birkenhead, so often as the holder pleased, was £l5 in 1847 and 1848, and part of 1849. During the latter period the price was advanced to £lB 15s. ; this increase of rates, and the ru.. niour of a further advance to £2O, induced the contract ors to present an address to the directors, in which they suggest the propriety of returning to the former charge for contractors for the whole distance. The directors have declined acceding to this request. LIABILITIES OF RAILWAYS.—At the last Garstang County Court, Mr. Bateson, paper manufacturer, reco vered the sum of £l6, for injury to his horse, from the Lancaster Canal Company, the lessees of the Lancaster and Preston Railway, at the time of the accident. It ap pears that the plaintiff was crossing the line near the Brock Station, when his horse's feet caught the iron rails. It was thrown down, and sustained such injuries as to disable it from work. The judge decided in favour of the liability of the company, and gave an order for the amount. —Lancaster Guardian. CHESHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY.-OUr readers will probably recollect that Joseph Bailey, Esq., M,P., one of the shareholders of this company, apPlied to the Court of Chancery to restrain the directors from enforcing pay ment of the last call of £lO per share made in February lost. The company filed a demurrer to the bill, which was argued for two days in November last before Lord Langsdale, the Master of the Rolls. His lordship took time to consider his judgment, and on Saturday he de livered it in favour of the company, by allowing the demurrer; thus establishing the validity of the call. The comparative statements of the traffic upon thelead ing lines are this week very satisfactory. At the head of the list we find the South-Eastern, with an advance of £4,000 and upwards ; next the London and North-Wes tern, £3,000; then the Eastern Counties, and the Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, each with an increase rising above £2,000; the Caleonian and North British, reachine nearly £l,OOO increase respectively; and the York, Newcastle, and Berwick, attaining somewhat more than that amount. Upon the South-Western there is a small diminution, and a trifling increase upon the Brigh ton. THE BRITANNIA BRIDGE.—We learn from the Menia that there is at length a complete roadway over the Straits, the second great tube having been safely raised to its 100 ft. elevation, and forming, by its junction with the other tubes, a continuous rigid wrought-iron highway 18,401 ft. long, and between five and six thousand tons in weight. The workmen are now engaged day and night in completing the junctions and adjustments. The greater portion of the permanent way and rails for the trains is laid. The grand approaches to the bridge at either end, where the colossal lions rest, are finished, including the continuation of the line of rail to the stations on each side at Bangor and Llanfair, and every exertion is being made to have the line complete by the end of February, for the first trial trains to go through. MR. HUDSON REFUNDING.—At the meeting of the York and Berwick Railway Company, on Wednesday, the chairman detailed the proposed arrangements, from which it appeared that Mr. Hudson had undertaken to pay £lOO,OOO, he (Mr. Hudson) having, during the past year, paid to the company no less than £90,036. He moved that the meeting authorise the directors to carry out and ratify the proposed indenture, which was drawn as between Mr. Hudson and three of the present direc tors. Mr. Wylie strongly denounced the proposed arrangement, but it was carried by an immense majority. The company agree to pay to the Great North of England Company three-tenths of the sum of £3,547,500 in deben tures, falling due on the Ist of July, 1853 ; four-tenths in debentures falling due on the Ist of January, 1855 ; and the remaining three-tenths also in debentures falling due on the Ist of July, 1856—the whole bearing interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum. LIABILITY OF RAILWAY COMPANIES TO MEDICAL MEN.—A case important to medical men came on on Wednesday, at the Manchester County Court. The question involved in the case was, whether railway com panies are liable to remunerate medical men called in by their servants, for assistance rendered to passengers in jured by an accident. The plaintiff was Dr. Taylor, sur geon, of Newton Heath ; and the defendants were the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. It appeared that in October last a Miss Haworth came down the Ashton line of the Lancas'aire and Yorkshire Railway Company, from Droylsden to the Park , station, by one of the London and North-Western Company's trains ; and having alighted, she attempted to cross the line, but was knocked down by a train of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, which came up the other line; she was much hurt, and an officer of the last named company sent for the plaintiff, who came and attended the lady. She was sent back to Droylsden, where he afterwards attended her by order of Mr. Woolven, the station master at Ashton. Some days after he was told by the company's superin tendent not to attend any more, but to send in his account. This was done ; but the railway company declined to pay. Mr. Lewis, solicitor for the company, contended that they were not liable to the claim, and quoted some cases in sup port of his opinion. He called Mr. Hall, general superin tendent, who said neither he nor any of the company's station masters had authority to call in medical men in case of accidents. Some other evidence was adduced, and the Judge (Mr. Brandt) said that he should take time to consider the case, and deliver his decision at the next sitting of the court in a fortnight. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. -.- The West Kent, the West Norfolk, and several other Protectionist societies have held meetings, and passed resolutions in favour of the restoration f protection. Throughout Ireland, too, large county and district meet ings have been held in favour of the same principle. Mr. Charles Villiers will move the address in reply to her Majesty's speech at the commencement of the ensu ing session. That Mr. Villiers, who annually proposed the repeal of the corn laws before the league was ever established, should make the motion is indicative of a determination on the part of ministers to adhere to their free-trade policy. SWAMPING THE COUNTIES.—At a public meeting, thinly attended, at the Stock Exchange Room, Leeds, on Monday evening —Mr. E. Baines in the chair—after a long speech by Mr. Taylor, of Birmingham, in explana tion of the scheme originated in that town for forming a freehold land society for the placing of radicals on the county list of voters, it was resolved to establish a society for the West-Riding upon the Birmingham model. At the great (?) National Reform Association meeting, held at the London Tavern, on Monday week, Cobden could not come—from the, or a cold, as he tells his " dear Walmsley," in a bete. Neither could Henry Vincent go, who was too busy agitating in Cambridgeshire and Hunt ingdonshire ; but he tells the radical Joshua, who is to make the sun of England "go back," that when the farmers find they cannot get protection. they will all turn radical reformers—very agreeable news for their landlords. Mr. W. B. Ferrand has addressed a letter to the papers in favour of Protection, which he concludes with—S' one word of warning to Mr. Cobden. He has announced his intentior of visiting Buckingham and Aylesbury for the purpose of inflaming the minds of the farmers against their landlords. Let him beware lest he he challenged publicly to discuss before the operatiVeS of Manchester, ' whether during the last thirty years, the manufacturing operatives have received their fair share of the profits of trade ?' " FREE-TRADE ARGUMENTS, VERSUS BLUDGEONS,—On Wednesday a meeting of the working classes was held at Stepney, " for the purpose of adopting resolutions in fa vour of legislative protection for native industry." Several working men spoke in favour of protection, and a free trade amendment was proposed, but when Mr. Oastler rose to propose it he was put down as he only can be put down, viz., by clamour.—A riot was also kicked up at the Salisbury Protectionist meeting • and the ringleader. a respectable (!) free-trader, has been committed for trial, the police having overheard him give orders to his poor, deluded followers to " break the windows" of the room where the meeting was being held. THE WORKING CLASSES AGITATING FOR PROTEC TION.—A general movement is now being made by the mechanics of the metropolis, in favour of a just and equitable protection to all classes. During the past week trades' meetings have been held at all the principal houses of call in the metropolis. At these assemblies the question of Free Trade has been very fully discussed, the result being a resolution, "That the competition thus created by an unproductive system of free-trade tends to the exclusive advantage of the foreigner, bestowing no equivalent on the British workmen." The different trades have come to the resolution to hold aggregate meetings, to petition Parliament for Protection. FREE TRADE AND LOW WAGES IN SHREWSBURY.— We have long said that the object of the Anti-Corn Law League was to reduce the price of bread, as an excuse for a reduction in the wages of the poor operative, and the following statement of wages paid at Messrs. Marshall's factory, in this town, will prove the correctness of our view of the designs of the free traders :- 1848. 1849. Mechanic 5............ £1 5 0 £0 18 0 Overlook ers . Thread Poishers 0 12 0 0 8 0 Boys Female Heelers tO 6 0 0 0 8 ....... - _ So much for cheap bread, and ruining the farmers to put money into the pockets of the •master manufacturers. What, then, do the 'poor get by this boasted free trade? The above statement, which we can,vouch for, is a " great fact," that speaks volumes.---Shretesbury ti_.onsereative. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. RUINOUS EFFECTS OF THE PAPERTUTY.—The effect of the paper duty 'is pretty conclusively shown by the diminution of the number of manufacturers engaged in the trade. In the year 1801 there were 413 paper makers, in England alone. In 1845 there were only 381 in Eng land, and in Great Britain only 473. MR. COBDEN'S SOIREE AT AYLESBURY.—The pom pously-proclaimed meeting for the purpose of hearing Mr. Cobden's sentence upon the doomed cause of protection, was held on Wednesday at Aylesbury. Mr. Cobden made a long address, after which a resolution was adopted by his adherents, denouncing all idea of a return to pro tection, and laying it down that the distress of the agri cultural classes is only to be remedied by a more equita ble adjustment of the relations existing between tenants and their landlords ; and that to produce that result it is necessary that the people at large should have a more extended control over their representatives in parliament. Mr. Cobden very wisely refrained from giving his pro mised advice to the farmers how to make tteir farms pay with wheat at 40s. per quarter. SIR JOSHUA WALMESLEY'S VISIT TO HIS CONSTITU ENTS' —On Wednesd a y l as t Si r J os h ua W a l mes l ey arr i ve d in Bolton on a visit to his constituents. On the same evening he and Mr. Blair, the Conservative' member, attended a promenade soiree at the exhibition of paintings for the beuefit of the Dispensary and Public Baths. On Thursday morning Mr. Blair and Sir Joshua went toge ther to inspect a model of the intended new market place, made by Mr. Blinkhorn, joiner and builder, Crown street, at the expense of Mr. John Scowcroft, a member of the Town Council. On Thursday evening Sir Joshua attended a tea party at the Temperance Hall, provided by his constituents, to give him a public reception. There were 750 present; and, after tea, a considerable number, who could not be accommodated in the body of the hall, were admitted into the gallery. THE FARMER'S CONSIDERATION FOR HIS LABOUR ERS.—At the Aylesbury protectionist meeting, last week, Mr. Tramper said that " the farmers had been accused by the Times, on account of a few alleged cases of profit able farming, of misdirecting our energies, comparing us to a man who should spend 18 hours a day in doing a celebrated old novel into heroic verse—a most gratuitous assumption. considering the acknowledged progress that agriculture has made of late years, shown in the increased produce of the land. lam well aware that I could most materially diminish the amount of labour, and, among other things, by the erection of machinery, reduce by one-half the expense of thrashing my produce. But there are other considerations to overbalance this plausi ble economy. Our legislature, when they admitted the whole world into free competition with my products, tied me down still to the support of the labouring poor of my locality. Under the present system this is inevitable, and I prefer taking up the burden in the form of wages to that of rates—partly as being the lighter of the two ; partly from the demoralising effects of pauperism ; and partly from motives which our adversaries scarcely give us credit for, but for the reality of which I confidently appeal to those of you, gentlemen, who, like myself, have spent their lives on one farm. (Hear.) I have a host of fami liar faces with whom, and with whose fathers, I have been associated from my childhood ; and to disturb the order, whereby I have been enabled to give them regular em ployment, would be doing the greatest violence to my feelings. (Hear.) And here, gentlemen, is a practical illustration of the hardship and injustice of our position ; for while the cotton manufacturer has economised manual labour to an almost inconceivable extent, we are tied down to its employment by an alternative as painful as it is oppressive." (Cheers.) A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES AT HORSHAM.—A " singular entry," as it is termed in the law report of the case, excited considerable curiosity on Wednesday last, in the Bankruptcy Court. We shall set down the case as we find it reported :—" The bankrupt, Rowland, was a stone-mason, in Horsham. He came up for his certifi • cate. An opposition was attempted, and the attention of the court was called to the following item in the balance sheet. Under the head of Creditors holding security,' is, Sir John Jervis, Eton-square. Pimlico, Attorney- General, cash advanced £650, interest thereupon £32 10s. Sir John holds a mortgage on a house and garden in East Horsham.' It was suggested that this item ought to be inquired into. His Honour said it was either a gift or a loan, or SOMETHING ELSE WHICH HE WOULD NOT MEN TION. Had it been a trade debt he would have minutely inquired into it." Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque evi dently did not like the look of this entry, though it bore on his face the name of the Chevalier sans reproche, the immaculate Sir John Jervis. He was prevented from " inquiring minutely" into it, by the circumstance of its not being a " trade debt." Nevertheless he gave his opinion pretty freely, that it was " either a gift or a loan, or SOMETHING ELSE WHICH HE WOULD NOT MEN TION." For his own sake, for the sake of that honour of his which has already gone bail in the House of Com mons for the purity of the Horsham election, we cannot permit ourselves to doubt that Sir John will take the ear liest opportunity of pressing for a " minute inquiry" into this gift, or loan, or unmentionable nescio quid, before a tribunal which is not hampered in its investigations by the technical distinction between " trade debts" and debts of another and a genteeler sort ; the more so, as the Chief Justiceship in posse renders it more imperative than ever for Sir John Jervis to " assume a virtue if he has it not," and in good earnest to sport the character of Caesar's wife.—John Bull. WHAT FREE TRADE IN GRAIN HAS ALREADY DONE. — It is no easy matter to ascertain the rates at which corn may be grown on the Continent. The current prices at foreign ports, such as Hamburgh, have, in reality, little bearing upon this most vital point, though they have been eagerly assumed by the free-traders as a sure index of fu ture prices. Very little consideration will spew every one that the true way of forming a fair conclusion on the sub ject, is to ascertain, as nearly as may be, the cost of grain, not at the ports from whence it issues, but in the Wand countries where the greater portion of it is grown. The reason for this is obvious. Under the old system, when protective duties were the rule, the demand for foreign corn was exceedingly fluctuating and uncertain. We ne ver dealt directly with the foreign grower; but, between him and the British consumer at least three profits in tervened. There were middlemen, principally Jews, who made it their regular business to purchase up the super fluity of the Polish crops on speculation, and to sell it to the Dantzic dealers. Then came the profit of the latter, and also that of the British corn merchant ; and, as the trade was notoriously a precarious one, these profits were of considerable amount. The demand, however, may now be considered as fixed and steady. Henceforward, under the operation of free trade, the two considerations of qua lity and cheapness must alone regulate the market. Not only the superfluity of the continental harvests will be available, but new land, of which there are immense tracts of the finest description, hitherto untilled, will be put under cultivation, and the produce regularly trans mitted to this country, where a ready market can at all times be found. The first symptom of this new regular trade will be the disappearance of one of the intermediate profits. This is not the subject of prophecy; it has al ready taken place, the foreigners have now the whole of the foreign grain trade exclusively in their own hands. We are informed by one of the first corn merchants of Leith, that there is not a single order sent for grain from this country. " The finest Dantzic wheat, free on board," writes one of our correspondents, " will not be sold to a British merchant for less than 38s. the quarter ; and as no more than 40s. or 41s. could be got for it here, there is no margin for a profit, and the risk is not run. But the foreigner will send it on his own account, and sell it here, at 38s. and realise a profit. You thus see that the entire trade is out of British hands, for the prices of their own grain must entirely be ruled by those of the foreigner; and the consequence is, that every bushel sent to this country is on consignment, and not to order.—Black wood. MR. COBDEN AND MR. D'ISRAELI.—A Protectionist meeting was held on Tuesday at Marlow, when about a hundred and thirty were present. Resolutions were pas sed declaring the local taxation of twelve millions was too hard a burden for the landed interest to bear, and that taxes ought to be raised by duties on foreign imports. After dinner, Mr. Disraeli made a speech, in the first place denying the statement that he had raised his rents. He declared that he had not raised them one sixpence. He declared there was no class more dangerous to the agricultural interest—no body of men whose existence acted more injuriously to the common good than that body of proprietors who wished to enjoy, at the same time, the advantages of high rents and low prices. (That's a hard hit.) He intended it to be a hard it. It was a principle he had always enforced, because he believed it to be founded on truth, and neither there, nor in another place, would he be afraid to maintain it. He declined to meet Mr. Cobden at Aylesbury—" He goes to Aylesbury to morrow to open the minds of the deluded farmers of Bucks. (Laughter.) Why, all this proves the harpoon is in the great fish. (Loud cheers.) We have got him. I feel that I have him on the hook, and there I mean him to remain. (Renewed cheers.) I don't mean to land him easily. I'll give him line enough. I shall play with him ; he shall flounce in the water ; but if I don't at last land the large trout on the verdant turf, supported by the electors of Bucks, lam mistaken. (Tremendous cheers.) Mr. Cobden says that with respect to local taxation the less that is said the better. I have no doubt of it. He never said anything truer. lam certain that local taxa tion will he the end of the Cobden school. (Cheers.) • • 0000000 . . Mr. Cobden is opposed to all warfare except civil war, and the way he intends to achieve his purpose is by the use of moral means. Now. gentlemen, I have had some experience in public life, and during that time I have seen a great deal done, and more pretended than what are called moral means, and, being naturally of a thoughtful temperament, I have been indu ced to analyse what moral means are. I will tell you what I have found them to consist of. I have found them to consist of three qualities :—Fjrst, enormous lying ; second, inexhaustible boasting; thirdly, intense selfish ness. (Great applause.) These are moral means,—the means of the Manchester school, which Mr. Cobden is to explain and recommend in our county town to-morrow. 1 have received an invitation to meet him ; in fact, I ought rather to say, I have received a challenge to meet him. ' To-morrow evening, in Aylesbury, he isto explain the great principles of financial reform and representative ameliora tion. He is going, to use the language of the north of England, to a swarm—(laughter)—and I have been invi ted to meet him. My answer I give publicly—l hate writing letters—and my answer is, I meet him at soirees seven months of the year; and whenever your interests are concerned I hope I shall not be afraid to speak my mind, even to Mr. Cobden. (Cheers.) But what buf foonery in a man who ought to have been a Cabinet Minister, if his principles are right—what disgrace to the present Government—to the political society of England, that a man who, if his principles are right, ought to be the foremost man of the country, the counsellor of the Sovereign, the great advocate of the people—the man to whom all ought to look—that he should skulk down in a train to a miserable county town when noboby was there, in order that lying newspapers might say that Mr. Cob den had appeared in the heart of Buckinghamshire—that the people had been converted by the expression of his opinion, and thats (lido:A dare to meet him:? (Cleers.) CLERICAL IN7 ELLIGENCE. Mr Napier, the member for Dublin University, has requested information from the Irish Bishops, on such topics as are likely to be brought under discussion by Mr. Bright's meditated attack upon the Irish Church. The Rev. Richard Owens, Welsh curate of St. Paul's, Liverpool, has been appointed to the incumbency of Yspytty Ivan, near Bala ;• patron, William Hope, Esq., Wavertree, near Liverpool. _ _ Henry Rogers, Esq., of Wolverhampton, has offered the munificent sum of £2,000 towards the endowment of a church on Wednesfield Heath • and John Moore Paget, Esq., the late patron, has very liberally given an eligible piece of land for the site of the church, parsonage-house, and schools. Henry Rogers, Esq., is also building, near this site, a row of almshouses. SUSPENSION OF CURATES.—The Bishop of Exeter has prohibited the Rev. J. Tagert from rendering any assist ance to his incumbent, the Rev. T. C. Childs, so long as the latter gentleman prevents his other curate, the Rev. W. Hutchison, from participating in the services of the church. It appears that Mr. Childs has suspended Mr. Hutchison upon his own authority, on the ground of doc trinal differences between them. THE REV. JAMES SHORE.—The committee appointed to conduct the case of the Rev. James Shore, on the pro secution of the Bishop of Exeter, have just brought their labours to a close. The total amount placed at their dis posal by the public was £614 2s. 7d. ; of this amount £525 15s. 10d., including £3lO 16s. 4d. paid to the Bishop of Exeter, the cost of the proceedings in the Court of Arches' has been expended, and the balance, £BB 6s. 9d., handed over to Mr. Shore. The Rev. Henry Battiscombe, M.A., late Fellow of King's Collego, Cambridge, having separated, in the year 1837, from the Church of England, on account of objec tions connected with the Sacrament of Baptism, and the occasional services of the Church, has now expressed to the Lord Bishop of London his entire concurrence with the doctrine and practice of the Church respecting that Sacrament; and the removal of the objections he enter tained. CASE OF " GORHAM V. EXETER."—The Western Times reports that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council will give judgment on the appeal of Mr. Gorham against Bishop Phillpots on Tuesday (this day). Lord Langdale, Lord Campbell, Judge Parke, and Dr. Lush ington are for Mr. Gorham ; and Sir Knight Bruce and the Rt. Hon, Pemberton Leigh are for the bishop. The three spiritual lords unite for Mr. iorham. The Obser ver says, " The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council will assemble next Tuesday to confer upon their decision in the case of " Gorham against the Bishop of Exeter, and will not deliver their judgment until they shall have conferred amongst themselves on the interesting subject." LAW INTELLIGENCE, The Times intimates that the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench is reluctant to quit the high post he has so long and honourably filled, though her Majesty's mi nisters and others think his declining energies make his retirement desirable. A curious case of seduction was tried at the Jury Court at Edinburgh last week : the action was brought against the executors of a Mr. Wilson, who had died without ful filling, as he appeared to have intended, his promise of marriage. The jury gave £2O damages. OPENING OF TERM.—Friday being the first day of Hi lary term, the courts were opened with the usual forms. In the Court of Queen's Bench, Mr. Justice Patteson said he was very sorry they had not the pleasure of seeing Lord Den►nan at the opening of term ; but that arose from the alarming illness of Lady Denman, so that Lord Denman could not leave her with any comfort; but they hoped soon to have the pleasure of seeing him there. THE MORNING PO3T AND THE PORTUGUESE MINIS TER.—Sir Frederick Thesiger applied on Friday for a cri minal information against the proprietors of the Morning Post, for a libel, in September last, on the Count de Tho mar, prime minister of Portugal, charging him with amassing a large fortune by the most corrupt and unwor thy practices. The count totally denied all the charges, and the rule was granted. __— BANKRUPTCY COURT.—IN-RE OLNEY : ABSCONDING OF A BANKRUPT.—This bankrupt, who was a passenger broker and emigrant agent, in the Goree-piazzas, ab sconded under peculiar circumstances the day before the fiat was issued against him. A reward of £2O has been offered for his discovery. The bankrupt's managing clerk, whose name is John Herdman, underwent a long examination by Mr. Evans. He was interrogated as to any knowledge he had of the bankrupt's whereabouts, and the circumstances attending his sndden disappearance. This part of the examination elicited some rather curious facts, one of which was, th a t i n th e ear l y part of last week, several creditors called upon the bankrupt, who re quested them to wait upon him at his office on Friday, for a settlement of their respective accounts, and that on their calling almost simultaneously on that day, they dis covered that the bankrupt was out of the way. The wit ness, in answer to questions from Mr. Evans, denied being a confidential clerk to the bankrupt ; he also denied having any knowledge whatever of where he now was. At the close of the examination, Mr. Evans expressed his belief that the witness knew a great deal more about the bank rupt than he told the court. THREATENED COMMITTAL OF THE LIVERPOOL POST MASTER FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT.—In another part we give an account of the absconding of a bankrupt, named Olney. From the belief that letters addressed to the bankrupt, containing remittances, were in the hands of the Liverpool postmaster, an order was issued by Mr. Commissioner Stevenson, calling upon him to deliver them up. This order not being complied with, Mr. C. B. Banning was on Friday summoned before Mr. Com missioner Perry. In answer to questions put, he expressed a doubt whether, from the instructions under which he is compelled to act, le need acknowledge the possession of the letters, or give them up. The court said that such instructions would not protect him in disobeying an order of the court, for a subsequent act of parliament to the one under which his instructions were framed made them of no effect. Mr. Banning said he was simply obeying the order of his superior. The court informed him that if he refused to deliver up the letters he would bear the risk, not the postmaster-general. Mr. Banning, however, still refused. After some words, pro and con, it was agreed that Mr. Cazenove, the official assignee, should make a formal application to Mr. Banning for the production of any letters addressed to the bankrupt ' • and the court was adjourned for an h our . O n returning, Mr. Bannirg stated that there were five letters at the postoffice, two directed Olney and Co., and the other three, Olney, Cotterill, and Co. Mr. Banning was then formally asked to deliver or redirect them to the official assignee. This, he said, he did not feel himself at liberty to do. Mr. Evans then applied to the court to commit Mr. Banning to Lancaster Castle for contempt. Before an order to this effect was given, a question arose as to the liability of the postmaster to give up those letters upon which the name of Cotterill appeared ; and, after some discussion, in which it appeared the court would be satisfied if the other two were given up, (though Mr. Evans pressed for the whole,) Mr. Ban ning gave way as far as they were concerned, and by so doing put an end to the matter. OUR IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.-HAS FREE TRADE PROMOTED BRITISH WEALTH ? To deal fairly, a comparison ought to be made, not with the last year, or the year previous, both of which experienced special causes of depression ; but with some year rather more distant, and still not belonging to the days of the former system. Taking 1846 to be such a year, we will show, what cannot be denied, that the only important advance which has been made since that year, has been an advance in the purchase of commodities, by England, from the con tinent ; and not to any extent worth speaking of, in the sales of British products to other countries. Comparing eleven months of 1846 with the same eleven months of 1849. the increase of our imports will be found to have been very large : _ Jan.—Nov Jan.—Nov IMPORTS 1849. Animals, living Bacon, cwts 1,691 .. 375,227 Pork, salted, cwt 5........... 46,912 .. 334,189 Eggs Silk or satin broad stuffs, lbs 115,292 .. 325,826 Silk ribbons, lbs. Wheat, qrs. 1,316.546 .. 3,656,910 Barley, qrs... Oats, qrs. Beans, qrs. Maize, qrs Gloves, pairs Now here, indeed, there is an enormous increase, quite apparent and undeniable. But it is merely an increase of purchases on our part ; which, except it is balanced by an equal increase of sales, or exports, must end in de priving our people of employment, and in rendering us permanently tributary to foreign nations. Let us see. then, whether there be any like augmentation of our exports. These appear to have been : Jan.—Nov 1846. £23,797,043 3,351,298 768,888 Jan.—Nov. 1849. £24,705,123 3,768,549 Cotton Linens 732,479 Earthenware Glass Hardware and cutlery .... 2,004,127 .. 1,980,645 Machinery Woollens . . ...... 6,711,009 .. 7,691,918 It is evident, at a glance, that there is no such rapid growth of our export trade as we "lave seen of our imports. We are rapidly increasing our purchases, but not so ra pidly increasing our sales. Any man accustomed to com mercial transactions, or even to the prudent management of a household, will know whither all this tends. One more remark, and we have done. It is assumed, very often, that we are now consuming and enjoying more of the good things of life than formerly; and this is taken to be a tacit proof of prosperity. But may there not be some mistake here ? We observe that the quantity of TEA imported in Jan.--Nov. 1846 was 47,992,429 lb. ; and the quantity in Jan.—Nov. 1849 was 45,829,552 lb. So also the WINE imported in Jan.— Nov. 1846 was 6,893,351 gallons ; butin Jan.—Nov. 1849 only 6,753,565 gallons. These facts do not con fi rm t h e supposition that we are increasing our consumption of luxuries. Yet, by the same accounts, we find that i n J an .—N ov. 1846 we imported 2,194,773 pair of GLOVES ; and in Jan. —Nov. 1849 we imported 3,396,505 pairs. Here the in crease is very great. But it is impossible to ascribe that increase to the natural growth of consumption. If the same number of pounds of tea, and of gallons of wine, supplied us in 1849, which supplied us in 1846, it is in credible that we could have required and used 1,200,000 more pairs of gloves. We are reduced, then, to the conviction that this addi tional 1,200,000 pairs of gloves must have supplanted a similar quantity of English gloves. We have not needed Jan. 15, ItssV. more gloves on the whole, but we have bought far of foreign ones, and tar f e wer of En g li s h ones . • What follows, almost inevitably ?—Why, j us t what have seen happen. A subs c ription h as b een comm a by some benevolent pers ons , th e Q ueen h erse lf had' the list with £5OO, to t rans p or t our poor g l ovema k et s the Antipodes, their conti nuance h ere b e i ng a /i death, horrible to thems e l ves , an d di sgrace f u l to nation ! IBistrict petus, EARLY LAMB.—On Tuesday last, an ewe belonging to Mr. John Butler, of Poulton-le-Fylde, dropped a fin e lamb. This is very early for the season. . sd CHAMPION BILLIARD MATCH.—This match in Mon' chester, which has excited so much interest, came off on Friday at the Theatre of the Athenaeum. The coniPe,' titors were Mr. John Roberts, o f M anc h es t er, and 30' Stark, an American gentleman. The game was the four balls game, 1,000 to be up, Mr. Roberts giving his °PO", nent 100. The game c o mmence d a t s i x o ' c l oc k and c l os e,' at 8 30, the numbers being—Mr. Roberts, 1,000; Mr' Stark. 701. Mr. Roberts played with extraordinary, skill, obtaining at one beak 110, and at another 119. ANOTHER FATALITY FROM A GUN. —On Saturday , two youths, about fourteen years old, named Massey Ini c ! Gresty, were playing together near their dwellings at Stockton Heath, near Warrington, when all at once Massey thought he would have a little sport in the wa y of shooting. The youth (Massey) having become possessed as a gun, being unconscious of the piece being lo a ded at the time, promeded to place a cap upon the nipple. when' having got out of doors, he pointed the gun at Gresty , who stood only a few yards from him ; the trigger wag pulled, and Gresty fell, his head being literally shattered to pieces, He expired almost instantly. CHURCH REFORM MEETING AT MANCHESTER.-01 1 Friday, a public meeting of the parishioners was held ill the Town-hall, for the purpose of considering the outline of a bill to be brought before the Legislature in the en suing session, for effecting the subdivision of the parish, and other important reforms in the ecclesiastical arrange ments thereof. Mr. Birley, one of the churchwardens, occupied the chair, and the meeting was addressed by the Rev. the Dean, Mr. Malcolm Ross, and others in favour of the bill, and by the Rev. Canon Clifton and a few Chartists in opposition. The meeting, which was a nu merous and influential one, ultimately decided in favour of the bill by an overwhelming majority. It was stated that the Lord Bishop of the diocese had evinced his hearty concurrence in the objects of the bill. MUSICAL PERFORMANCES IN PUBLIC -HOUSES ON SUNDAYS.—In the borough of Salford there are six pub lic-houses and beer-houses in which musical performances are made the chief attraction on Sunday evenings. A short time since, the watch committee of the town council requested the keepers of those houses to discontinue the performance of music on Sunday evenings. Three of them have already consented. It is expected that the other three will follow their example, and thus the prac tice will be discontinued in Salford. At a meeting of the watch committee, held a few days since, a resolution was passed, thanking the publicans who had discontinued the performance of music in their houses on Sundays, and stating that, in the opinion of the committee, the practice is very objectionable, being calculated to bring religion into contempt, and to produce immorality amongst the working classes. The willingness with which the wishes of the committee have been met by the publicans is a satisfactory circumstance.—(We recommend the conduct of our Manchester neighbours for imitation nearer home.l DEFALCATIONS AT THE ST. HELENS SAVINGS BANK.—It becomes our unpleasant duty to announce another instance of defalcation in the management of a Bank for Savings. The defaulter, in .this instance, is a person of the name of Johnson, who was the manager of the St. Helens Bank, and who appears, like the Rochdale defaulter, to have occupied a respectable position in so ciety. The amount of the deficiency is nothing like so large as that exhibited by the Rochdale business, being about £10,000; but the discovery of another such defal cation in so short a time shows the necessity of some steps, of the nature which we recently suggested, being taken by the government and the legislature, in order to secure the poor depositors against loss. Nothing, indeed, could be better than the system pursued so successfully at the Savings' Bank of this town ' but additional guards ought to be provided forthwith, by legislative enactment. In the St. Helens case, we are happy to perceive that there is every probability of the greater part, if not the - whole, of the deficiency being made good out of the de faulter's estate.—The Wigan Times says, " From inqui ries made, we learn that the management of the bank has been for some years in the hands of William Johnson, Esq., a considerable coal pioprietor in the neighbourhood, having been previously to that period under the control of John Johnson, Esq., his brother, also a partner in the firm of Johnson, Worthington, and Company, carrying on business at Sankey-brook Colliery, near St. Helens." CHURCH OF ENGLAND INSTRUCTION SOCIETY.—J. Brindley, Esq., has delivered two lectures this week, at the Music Hall, on the Physical, Mental, and Moral Condition of Man. On Monday evening, the Vicar of Lancaster took the chair, and we ooserved present S.- Simpson, Esq., of the Greaves, the Rev. E. Pedder, the Mayor of Lancaster, &c, The audience was very re spectable, and more numerous than we have ever before observed at the lectures of this society. Mr. Brindley is entirely master of his subject, and explained in a style so- ' simple that none could fail to comprehend it, the complex structure of the body, the organs of digestion, and the wonderful manner in which from the food is extracted the matter to form such very different portions of our frame, as the blood, muscles, and fibres, nerves, bones, &c. He described the beautiful formation of the eye, the only self-adjusting optical instrument ; and the admirable me chanism of the larynx or voice -box, the glottis and epi glottis. These and other subjects were treated upon by the lecturer in an exceedingly happy manner, which highly gratified the audience. Some reference to phrenology closed the lecture, when a person present announced his intention to give lectures in defence of phrenology, which had been attacked by Mr. Brindley. On Thursday eve ning the second lecture was delivered. The lecturer pointed out the defects in the ancient systems of mental philosophy, promulgated by the Stoics, Epicureans, &c., and showed that no system could possibly be true which was opposed to revelation. The remainder of the lecture was devoted to a searching examination of the phrenolo gical theories of George Combe and others. The ad dress was very discursive, and in the course of it the Uni tarians and the supporters of secular education came is for some hard rubs. At the close of the lecture, which was listened to most attentively, Mr. S. Simpson, in a very complimentary speech, proposed the thanks of the meeting to Mr. Brindley, which was given by acclama tion. Mr. Brindley briefly returned thanks and the meeting broke up, having received an amount of informa tion, suggestive of future reflection, which none but a per-- son of the most distinguished ability could have con veyed in so limited a space of time. We only express the general sentiment when we say that the society is deeply indebted to Mr. Brindley."—Lancaster Gazette. [On Friday evening, Dr. Brindley delivered a lecture, which occupied three hours in the delivery, on the same subject,. to a numerous and intelligent audience, at the Town Hall, Ormskirk. James Culshaw, Esq., took the chair, and amongst others the leading clergy and gentry were present, including the Rev. Mr. Kershaw, Rev. Mr. Battersby, &c. All present were extremely gratified with the whole proceedings.] THE CHASE, Sir Thomas Hesketh's Harriersmeet, to-morrow (Wed negclay), at Shaw Green ; Saturday, Devil's Wall—e!even o'clock. Sir W. W. Wynn's hounds, Wednesday, Gredington Friday, Carden ; Saturday, Halston—half-past 10. The Cheshire hounds, Wednesday, Wrenbury ; Thurs day, Cholmondeley ; Saturday, Ravensmore Windmill — half-past 10. A QUALIFIED TOAST.—The present somewhat delicate relation subsisting between landlord and tenant, brings to mind an old story, not a little characteristic of the pro verbial caution of our friends in the far north. On occa sion of a former agricultural crisis, several tenants of the Marquis of Breadalbane (whether the present Marquis or his predecessor we forget,) had made a joint " sifflication" for an abatement of rent. Allowing full time for an answer to have been received from London, the petition ers on a day appointed, " cam' thro' the heather and a' thegether" to Kenmore, to learn the result—but no re sponse had as yet arrived. Disconcerted and annoyed not a little, they yet, like good friends and neighbours, agreed to dine together before taking to the hill; but on the re moval of the cloth, a point of some delicacy arose, (not without precedent in assemblages of higher note), whether in the doubtful position wherein their chief stood at the moment, it would be proper to propose his health. Dif ference of opinion existed, and high words were in dan ger of arising, when a compromise was suggested and carried—the toast, as amended, being thus given from the chair, " The Marquis of Breadalbane, till we see," which was received with Highland honours. — Perthshire Courier. A SHORT STORY OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE.—It mast necessarily be a painful thing, after years of wooing and years of absence, to return and get slighted by one's " ladye love," and that at the very moment when every thing has been arranged to " make " you happy." Such was the predicament in which a trim, active sailor, belong* ing to this town, was placed the other day. Jack, to give him a cognomen, had courted his lady for some six or eight years. He had brought mar y rare and curious pre sents to her from far distant lands, and when they met after a long absence, an East India voyage, they met with all the delightful protestations of constancy to each other. It was at length finally arranged that on Jack's next return the nuptial knot should be tied. He returned on Saturday and presented himself before his intended. Whether he had been half groggy when he stood before her, it behoveth us not to say, but certain it is, to his prO posal , according to agreement, to get themselves contracted. his ladye saucily replied, " not to night." If Jack Wee really a sheet or two in the wind, he was sobered 1 0 an instant, and turned about to hide a tear that started ill his eye. When the heart is surcharged with some stroll feeling and emotion, there is often relief in unbosoming yourself to a friend who can sympathise with you in your distress. Jack felt this, and straightway betook himself to the house of a widow with whom he had been long ac quainted to pour out his plaint to her. The widow, 0 ; common phrase, is " well to do in the world," and had on only daughter. On hearing Jack's story she told him not to be inconsolable; that Lizzy, her daughter, who had now grown up to be a woman, would, if he made fait proposals, maybe stand in the stead of his lost one. Jack jumped at the idea. Lizzy was forthwith called, and to Jack's offer of hand and heart, sbe blushingly assented to accept of the gifts. The parties w ere contracted that evening, proclaimed on Sabbath, and married on Tuesday' and it is alleged that a happier wedding has not been ie Perth for many a day. If rumour speaks true, jack'e first love has not been able to be out of bed since the news of his marriage was communicated to her.—Perth Courier.