The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-20 00:00:00

tinprriat‘ )artianunt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TminsoAT. . . Lnrl at the request of the Earl of RIPON, post poned from Monday till Tuesday his proposed motion regarding negro - apprenticeships. Lord ft:PON deferred from Tuesday till Thursday the second reading of the bill to prevent the suppression of the bishopric of Sodor and Man. Lord IlittinG HA NI then presented several petitions fur the bal lot, and•in favour of a mitigation of the sentence pronounced . . outhe Glasgow cotton-spin r hers; after which his lordship moved ,„. for various papers connected with the trial of those men, ob .serving that he should fearlessly express his opinions of judges an'Tlaw officers, as he did not consider those persons to be above till law or the houses.of parliament. oid ; MELBOURNE said, that he should not oppose the motion • kr papers, but he regretted that such a notice.had been given. The Duke of WELirsGrom - said, without entering into the controversy between the' nobie and learned lords, that he was ,v,eu.gl;yl that the . house had appointed a committee to investi wife the very important question regarding combinations. The rnotion was then agreed to. The banking (clerical) copartnership bill was read a second time,. after which their lordships adjourned. HOUSE O 1 COMMONS—THoRsoxY, In the Commons there were ballots for the Sligo and Bristol elt.etion committees. Lord EBRINGTON renewed his inquiry respecting the claims of British subjects whose property had been confiscated in Spain i u 1604. The Cu knEr.r.ort of the EXctiEQUER answered, that the case had been under.the• consideration of government; that an esti mate was ir..eparing, as to the amount required to meet theclaims, as well as the treasury minute on the subject, which papers he should lay before the house. THE BALLOT. Mr. GEOTE rose to move, ." that leave, be given to bring in a bill for taking the votes of Parliamentary electors by way of ballot." He did not ventore to imagine that he could bring much new argument to a discussion of the subject,. but experi; fence was a severe preceptress, and he hoped that members fresh from the recent elections would approach the examination of the subject with minds more candid and unprejudiced than heretofore. It could not be denied that bribery aucrintimida trealWserious ev'rlas thet ti.... a „,iate e ted every vein and artery of ent-e ective system; m.';(l t..-44rietie existing securities against them were impotent and contemptible. A remedy was needed; and what sew - n(1 remedy, what other measure of any promise . or efficiency, hails ever beau proposed by those whose aversion to the ballot was most unconquerable ? Since Lord John Rus sell's speech on the first day of the session, it had become com mon to couple the ballot with other measures of reform; but he proposed the ballot simply and separately—not because he was insensible of the advantages of an extended suffrage and short parliaments, but because it would of itself remedy the grossest abuses of the electoral system, and because it could be support ed by arguments belonging to itself separately and especially. For three years the evidence taken before the bribery and inti midation committee had been on the table of the house; and this important body of testimony was not left to stand alone. Far example, the resolutions of the gentlemen who commenced the Spottiswoode subscription declared, that freedom of election was entirely subverted ialreland by intimidation. The speeches of Mr. Taylor, who proposed the Tory candidate at Birming ham, of Sir George Clerk at Edinburgh, Lord Palmerston at Tiverton, Lord Milton at Doncaster, and the charges of inti midation in tory newspapers against the great whig landlords, all proved that the complaints of illegal interference with the freedom of election were not confined to -one party, but were made by tories and Whigs as well as radicals. Mr. WARD rose to second the motion. He was awase of the difficulty ofaddiog any new argument to those adduced by Mr. Grote, who had so completely mastered and almost exhausted the su!)..lect; and he should abstain from any remarks which had note bearing on the practical part of the question. He called iipOn Sir Robert Peel not to shelter himself under the silence he obsei end under the two last discussions of the question. It was admitted by his own supporters that gross abuses existed ; and Sir Robert was bound to adopt the ballot or propose another re medy foi them. At present the franchise was a curse even to the farmers, who gained it through the exertions of their friend Lord Chandos. It was a fatal boon to the honest man who differed in opinion from his landlord. The votes of the ten rtants were in all cases looked upon as the chattels of the land lords; and they were expected to veer round' when their land lords changed He then adv er t e d to L or d J o h n Russell's de claration against the ballot, as having strongle increased the public feeling of its necessity, and reminded the house or the speeches and votes in its favour, which had been made both by ministers belonging to the cabinet, as Sir John Hobhouse and Mr. P. Thomson, and by ministers not of the cabinet, as Sir Hussey Vivian and Sir Henry Parnell. From these gentle men, and others who had expressed their opinions, the people expected a plain answer on this question, ay or no; and if a government opposition to it should be attempted, he must tell the ministers that front that moment a new combination of parties mast arise. - Sir SIDNEY HERBERT very ably answered the speeches of the mover and seconder. They had shown that a remedy was wanted, but net that theirs was a remedy which would succeed. He would even give to them, in addition to their own instances, those of the Irish priesthood, and of the clubs or unions; but still there was no proof iu favour of the remedy proposed. Intimidation would not be .diminished; and, as to bribery, it would be positively increased, because, as there would be no pas , unless the corrupter were reaurrsed, very many would willingly invest their money in a seat who would have declined to spend the same sum upon an uncertainty. Gentlemen might deride the nation that England was entitled to take a Lighor tone of morality than other countries, and to repudiate, as lead-. ing to meanness and falsehood, a mode of election which other countries had already adopted ; but if we had not a right - to ex pect a higher tone here than is found among other states, our free iciatitutions and religious education had been lamentably thrown.a.way, There was a trust in each elector to be faith% fully•diseharged; if the vote were a mere property, unaccom panied with trust, the voter would have a right to sell it. The policy is to combine duty with interest, but the effect of the ballot is topreate a regular system for the violation of duty by perpetual falsehood. Mr. CA VKN DISH, who opposed the ballot expressed his hope that ministers would propose some other remedy for the existing evils. • 'Lord SANDON would be very desirous of co-operating with her,,llajesty's government in any wise measure for the purpose, ordliniuishing the existing amount of corruption and intimida tidn. The real•question, however, at present was whether the remedy now proposed was not likley to produce a greater evil, rotii:,,gentlemen 'on the tither side seemed to consider that the essence of a man's political life and conduct was con tape,cl;_in his vote, and that by concealing his vote he might co** his politiCal character. Had the ballot had that effect itr„Ate: countries in which it had been tried—in France and Armica fur instance? As . to Greece and Rome, those examples bdWalAed to times too remote. We know little about them; yet, airlr,as we could ascertain, it was apparent that in those states, will secret voting, corruption and tumultu ousness i ncrease d. I ,e would ask, had the vote by ballot put an end to intimida tion,or produced secrecy in America ? He believed those Ame rican states which had not adopted secret voting, were as proud, of their open voting, and had as much horror of secret voting as we had. He said that neither in America nor in France had the ballot been successful in producing secrecy; for in the for mer, President Jackson, four or five years ago, complained in his message to congress of the corruption practised by the United States Bank, which openly swayed the electors; and in France it was notorious that the government exercised an ex tensive iftfluence upon the elections. Now he would ask were intimidation and corruption in all cases retorted to for the pur pos of punishing or rewarding a man after he had given his vote? Look at the Roxburghshire election, and see the treat ment which voters-received who had' not given their votes. Those men were subjected to violence, because their opinions were known, and, he would ask, would not men's opinions be known before going up to the balloting box, as well as before giving, their open votes ? At the time of the discussion on the Reform Bill, gentlemen at his side of the house were taunted because they were supposed to consider the franchise as a pro petty, and not a trust. Now he contended, in opposition to the gentlemen on the other side, that it was a trust, end that every man had a right to know how his neighbour exercised that trust. Had they not themselves supported this view by their conduct at the last election at Wolverhampton, at Liver pool, and other places, where they called upon the non-electors to watch over the exercise of that trust. He h o p e d t h a t we should hakte a better remedy than the ballot for intimidation. lie hoped we should have a moral remedy; and he thought he saw strong symptoms of it amongst those who exercised the influence which they possessed with so mucholelicacv—(cheers and laughter from the ministerial side). Gentlemen opposite-- thought that " we" —whoever " we" were—ought to be always in a majority, and that when they were left in a minority at their elections, it must be owing to som e undue influence. He belic...ted there was a general and growing feeling in the country no! tu interfere with the exercise, of the franchise with any de gree of rudeness or roughness. He believed also that we might extinguish corruption if, in regard to boroughs, we did not pro ceed to disfranchise whole communities ; but, by visiting the penalty sti kilt? on the individual offender, raised a moral stan dard which would be a defence against the prevalence of the . practice. ' Lord S. RUSSE tr. said the evil, though ser;ous had been much exa=e'rated. If the people had submitted to such wholesale intimidation as Mr. Grote apprehended, the inference would be, that the spirit of liberty was extinct in such a nation, and . that no mechanical device would restore it. The admission that under the'ballbt deceit was inevitable, and the accompanying attempt to justif y that deceit, gave hint a strong repugnance to the pro posal. He thought electors, like members and like ministers, should exercise their functions under the public eye; and he was glad that those who denied the franchise to he a trust had not alarmed the country by setting up that doctrine at the time of the reform bill, when the right of toting was taken away from so many boroughs upon the very ground that the franchise was not a property in the individual, but a trust for the public. The concession of the ballot would lead to further changes. The non electors, when they should find themselves excluded from the view of what the electors were doing at the poll, weuld insist on •he extension of the franchise to themselves. At the close of Lord John's speech, confussion and noise reigned paramount for a time. Several members attempted to address the house, but the speaker was unable to procure a hear ing for them. In the course of the disorder, Mr. E. Rice, Mr. Hall, Lord Worslev, Captain Pechell, and Mr. W. 0. Stanley were understood to speak in favour of the motion; and Mr. Slaney opposed it. Sir ROBERT PEEL rose, and order was restored. He said that the reason why he had not spoken recently on this question was. that he had not changed the opinions he had expressed on three several occasions since 1830, and that he was averse to going over the old beaten ground. He certainly should not, however, decline the contest invited by Mr. Ward. And, in opposition to that gentleman, heat once plunged into an argument to prove that the franchise was a trust as well as a right; that the two were not incompatible; and that, because the voter was a trus tee for the public, he ought not to be allowed to vote in secret. He maintained that the secrecy in the performance of a duty was opposed to the habits and feelings of Englishmen—" You are trying to engraft the principle of secret voting upon a coun try all of whose institutions are founded upon the principle of free discussion and publicity. You are trying to introduce amongst a people, whose manners, and habits, and feelings are, and have been, alien to it, a system of concealment and secrecy; and it is because I am fully convinced that this system of secret voting is revolting to the fixed habits, institutions, and feelings of the people, that I mainly object to the proposition of the honourable member for London. Ido not deny that some evil exists in the present system ; but, at the same time, I believe that those evils have been grossly exaggerated. In the midst of great excitement, and at a public election, where there is a peculiar lat .- -h, where every appeal is encouraged a feelings and interests of the - vaters,v use of, andthreatsoffuture vengeance , ver intended to be carried into actvij„c inz teireo22t , count 00,4 I not 9 lieve theotc, The righ•Oti, of future,'Ail nstances in which wcupy of their holdingkon ac eir landlords are very rare. f such a threat; but I be rare of its being enforced. 1 to show the probability mgement, and secondly as . r; ✓' to the political and moral effect; and he quoted a sentence from Pliny, very graphically descriptive of the wretched voter by ballot—Poposcit tabellcu, styluni accepit, rapist condidit, neminern verelur —se condemnat. lie showed that the measure had failed in other countries; and he warned the house that as the ballot was an encroachment on the charter of the reform bill, so in three or four years other proposals would arrise to encroach upon the concession of the ballot. ` After some further discussion, the house divided — For the Ballot Against it Majority The farther consideration of the report of the controverted elections bill was postponed till the 7th of March. The, exchequer b►lls bill, and the transfer of aids bill, went through committee, and were ordered to be reported to-day. The House adjourned at half past one o'clock. I itude f n of spPect d h e.',40 e 40 to the vi 4 x . 0444 %. afignarle i 4 4 (1.„,,w. h ' tiev v'es rt.. tYtio e Iv at it tt hzr At - ijAt i:tit," r fl* iv, tooth,- v ekt. , -t!i ,tirs.. , I i„. irst3 1 0;pdar -*.e.4 rran 7 • . -rl : 1 :;:- - --. •,.... - ...,_ _ • __;.••• HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDA Y. • Lord BROUGHAM presented several petitions in favour of the " ballot," observing that though the question had been de feated else Where, there was a growing desire on the part of the people lor'it. _ _ Lord WA RNC . F.IFFE reminded their lordships that when that " final" measure, the reform bill was before them, it was re sisted by many peers, on the ground that the carrying of it would only prepare the way fur the ballot, an extension of the suffrage, &c , a prophecy Oat seemed to be likely to be fully, as well as speedily, realised. Lord BaouGnAzn stated the terms of the address and resolu tions regarding negro slavery and the slave trade which he intended to move on Tuesday next. Lord illErirtoußNE, in answer to the Earl of Aberdeen's quirt', stated the subject of religious education, as regarded Scotland, and as arising out of several reports thereon, was under the consideration of government . ; but that nothing had been decided, The banking (clerical) copartnership bill went through com mittee, after which their lordships adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY„ There were again many petitions presented; but they were presented in so hurried and confused a manner, and amid so much nuise,...that the places whence they came, - or the objects of them, could seldom be heard in the gallery. A petition was presented for a bill to enable the proprietors -to dispose of Vauxhall Gardens by lottery. , Mr SLANEY vave notice that onThursday next he would ap ply for leave totAli g th n bill to ampnd the law regarding elec tions, so as to prevent intimidation on the part of landlords. Lord DUNGANNON inquired whether it was the intention of the government to propose any extension of the time regarding the commutation of tithes (England). The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER answered in the nega tive, but observed that the Treasury had in contemplation a plan to facilitate the voluntary commutation of tithes in England. He added (in answer to inquiry from Mr. Heath cote) that the government did not contemplate any plan for the alteration of the tithes commutation act ( England). The house again resolved into committee on the poor relief (Ireland) bill; and discussions thereon occupied nearly the `whole of the remainder of the sitting. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MONEY MARKET. (From the Sunday Timer.) CITY, SATURDAY.—There has not yet been a general re sumption of business in the mercantile markets. The inland communication by the canals being still interrupted by the frost, large quantities of manufactured goods, as well as of raw cot ton, wools, and silks are thus prevented from arriving at their destination; by which the execntion of orders for exportation and home consumption is prevented. As far, however, as an opinion can be formed from the aspect of the markets, there is every reason to expect, as we have noticed on former occasions, that there will shortly be a considerable iniprovement in all de paetruents of trade. The course adopted by the Bank of Eng land, in reducing the rate of interest on Discounts to Four per Cent., has led to much controversy as to the phlicy of the mea sure at a period when speculation. in many articles of produce as well as in Shares and Foreign Bonds, has been revived, and, in fact, carried to a very considerable amount. The facility with which discounts can be obtained from the - private bankers at Two-and-a Half to Three per Cent., it is argued renders any reduction by the Bank unnecessary, especially as it isadmit tea that the Directors do not, while money continues so very plen tiful, anticipate. that they wilt receive a great accession of busi ness. The resolution adopted by the Bank, on Thuriday, was as follows : "Bank of Engla_nd, Feb. 15. "At a Court of Direelois held this day, resolved, "That on and after the 16th instant, the rate of interest on bills of exchange, and poles discounted at the Bank of England, will be 4 cent. per quuutu. _ "JOHN KNIGHT, Secretary." The advice, received from the United States to the 25th ult., are not so satisfactory, in a mercantile point of view, as antici pated. The fact that the Bank of the Union had failed, had checked the demand for all descriptions of goodS, and the ap prehension th a t oth ers wou ld b e com p e ll e d t o ad o p t a s i m i lar course, prevented the transmission of many large o r d ers f or goods to this count r y. It i s open ly charged against some of the parties connected with the Commonwealth Bank (mane of those which bas stopped payment,) that a regular conspiracy had existed to obtain the public dep . osits,37o,ooo dollars having been in its possession, all which, it is stated, would be a total - l oss . The government would also lose, it was expected, 60,000 dollars, deposited in the Middlesex Bank, which had also sus pended payment. The affairs of most of the other banks of the United States were in 'a favourable condition, and many of them were pre paring to pay in specie. Those of Albany had resumed cash payments. In New York, the hanks held a sufficient amount of bullion to enable them to resume, and the Bank . of the United States had also greatly augmented its stock of the precious me tals. The low rate of'the exchange, and - the prices realized for gold and silver, induced the opinion at New York, that there would he soon very considerable arrivals of the precious metals from England. il'he American merchants were providing large quantities of goods to this country, all the packets which have recently come in having been filled with cotton, tobacco. tur peirine, Sze. The quantity of cotton shipped off from the United States, up to the 24th u lt., ex hibi te d a considerable *deficiency, as compared with the shipments in the corresponding period of 1836. The number of hales exported up to the 24th January last was 318,000' against 330,000 bales up to the same period of the previous year. The 'exchange at New York was 109-1 to 110, with a great scarcity of money. British sovereigns were worth five dollars five cents. American gold commanded a pre mium of 8 to 9 per cent. Much dissatisfaction had been occasioned among the claim ants upon the French and Portuguese indemnity fund, in conse quence of the President having directed that the parties having ' claims should he paid in Treasury notes which were at a dis count of from 11 per cent. This was considered ri 'great hard ship, as the American authorities would only receive the com pensation doe to American subjects in specie. An offiCial no tification had been issued from the department of state at Wash ington, to the effect that the United States Minister at Lisbon had received the first instalment of 10,000 mitreis, being part of the indemnity agreed to be paid by the Portuguese govern ment in satisfaction of claims of American subjects, owners of vessels destroyed or captured by the former state. The Funds have shown great firmness this week, many ex tensive purchases-having been made in consequence of the ter mination of the revolt in Canada, and the resolution of the Bank Directors to diminish the rate of discounts to 4 per cent. The advance on Consuls, and the other descriptions of Stock, has exceeded 11 per cent., the lowest prices of the former having been 918, and the highest which were from yesterday, 921 i. The speculators for a fall were quite taken " aback" by the Bank notice, and the absence of any apprehension of a rupture with America in consequence of the destruction of the " Caro line" steam-boat. The amount of Stock bought yesterday to make up Bear Accounts was very heavy. The rise on the Three per Cents - Reduced has been from 921 to 931, and in the Three and-a-H alf per Cents Redu ce d from 1004 to 1(X)g. Nut much fluctuation has taken place in Exchequer Bills, which were yesterday at 55 57 prem., or in India Bonds, which have re inained very steady at 55 57 prem Bank of England Stock has fallen from 206 to 2051 but in East India Stock there has been a run from 2631 to 2651. There have not been any very important operations in pro gress in the Foreign Stock Market this week. The principal alteration has been in Brazilian Stock, which, in consequence of the report that the rebels at Bahia could not hold out against the general government, have advanced from 721 to 74N. The market yesterday was much less animated as that news was not contitlned, and the prices declined to 731. The fact that about £12.000 is on its way to this country from Bogot, to form the nucleus cf a fund for the liquidation of a portion of Ihedividends due upon Colombian Binds, has given great firmness to all the Smith American Stocks. The advances on Colombian has been from 24 to 21, in Mexican from '29 to 30, and in Peruvian from 19 to '2l. The value of Spanish Stock has rather improved this week, purchaes having been made yesterday at l9i, which is I per cent. better. Portuguese Five per Cents. hale not been sold above '271. nor the ,Three per Cents at more than IS. The Value of Russian Stock. has been increased to 113, of Danish to 75, of the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents to 531, and of the Five' par Cents to 103. The qUotations of the French Five per Cents have-fluctuated this week between 110.25 and 110.50, the exchange being quoted at 25f. 8(k. The settlement of the ac count in this market was accomplished without any difficulty on Wednesday last. The money which chapged bands was npt by any means extensive. The mania for speculations in Share& has been increased to nearly a fever height this week, and prices have all been on the rise. Many of them, however, received a sudden check yester day afternoon, parties showing a desire to realize their profits. The highest' prices obtained for the principal shares this week have been the following:—'Fi le Birpingham and Derby 171, or 21 dis.; the Bristol and Exeter 6, or 4 dis.; the Great Western 86, or 21 pm.; the London and Brighton 1 1 1,-or 6 pin.; the Blackwall 8, or 5 pin. • the London and Birmingham 166, or 76 pin. ; the Greenwich 19, or I dis.; the Southampton 40, o %' or 10 Ms.; the Croydon 24 , 2 ,-, or 2Y pm, ; the Manchester and Leeds 30, or 10 pin.; the _Nrth Midland 26X, or 1 pm.; and the South Eastern and Dover 7, or par. In the other Shares not much change has occurred. British North American Bank and London J o i nt Stock Bank 7. Or liar. ; I.c:ndon and Westminster Shares have improved to 20 or par Bank 214. or I M pm.; Ha LE-F AST TWE CV - E. — The excitement produced by the late arrivals from-New York, which brought intelligence to the 24th from Canada, having, in some degree, subsided, the attention of those interested in the affairs of that distracted country is turned to the reported arrival off Hid } head, of the packet•t;hip Hibernia, which will bring advices two days later than those previously received. We have no news of interest from the cont i nent. In funds there is but little to notice this morning. Consols fir money and account are flat at 94 exchequer Bills are at 57. and the unmarked India bonds at I.ls. prem.; bank stock has not rallied, continuing at 2054. The reduced three-and.a half per cents maintain the advanced quotation of 1014. In the foreign market not mach bii-,iness h as y et b een tran isohnaes a t iv t e 7 4) 3 ° l 04, Colt ntdsa" at t u l m 9 i to I, Port uguese new an at 274, an d D utc h at 274, S Brazil pan bonds two-and-a-half per cents at 534. Shares are still in demand. Great Western fetch 21, the Brighton 5, the n Birmi 'ham 75, the Southampton new 164, and the North Midland 1 prem. Colonial Bank are at Y., prem. COACH ACCIDENT.—On Monday evening, as the Doctor coach was on its way to Manchester, through Blackburn and Bolton, on arriving at Dimple toll-bar, near Charter's gloss, about five miles from Bolton, on the Blackburn road, an accident occurred. Mr. Thwaites's brewery cart was on its way to Blackburn, and the coachman, seeing that it was in the way; called nut for the carter to remove it. The carter, however, was absent trim.. his post and the coach and cart came in con tact, by which tha coachman and a gentleman on the b.x-seat were thrown to the ground. The coachman sprung up, and endeavoured to stick to the reins, but the horses. plucked them from his grasp, and the pole and splinter bar having been bro ken, the horses galloped down the bill, leaving the coach at the top, which was a very fortunate circumstance, as the coach would probably have been thrown over by the steepness of the descent, and the consequences might have, been awful. The coachman has since been confined to his bed, but is not seriously injured.—Manchester Courier. THE LI V ERPOOL STANDARD SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER.-FRIDAY EVENING. The two first favourites for the Tradesmen's Plate, at Ches ter, continue to gain ground; and it will be found that 6M to 1 against Birdlime, and 9 to 1 against Wentworth, are the high est odds that can be obtained: Both horses have been so much in vogue for the past week that the layers are not much disposed to put their judgment in competition with that of their takers. Sylvan is rather to the fore of Mr. Robinson's horse, although there appears a disposition, with one of his most zealous and early admirers, to keep Whalev in place, and it is conjectured business of moment would follow if the current odds were ex tended a point or so: The middle rank have recently had but occasional notice, so closely bent upon Birdlime and Mr. Price's horse have several parties been. The only outsider which has drawn forth any business of moment was Mr. Cooke's Rachel, backed in the course of last night at 500 to 10, and some smaller sums, averaging a similar price. —From the tenor of the Derby engagements, recently made, it would appear as if D'Egville was not quite right ; five (lays ago he shot back to 100 to 6, and this was followeu up on Wednesday by 100 to 7 being laid. On the previous day Mr. Armitage's Nonplus colt was backed at 10 to 1, and Bretty, from the same Crack stable, at 100 to 2; the layers, however, were not disposed to transact much business on these terms. Nothing has occurred for the two past days requiring comment.—The following are the average prices of the Chester Cup horses-.- - 13 to 2 against Mr. Mostyn's Birdlime (t) 9to 1 „ Mr. Price's Wentworth (t) • 91to 1 „ General Yates's Sylvan 10 to 1 ~ Mr. Robinson's Whaley 121 to 1 „ Mr. Clarke's Magician 13 to „ Mr. Fairlie's Zohrab 18 to 1 „ Mr. flouldsworth's Combat 20 to 1 ~ Mr. Bower's Lord Stafford 20 to 1 „ Capt. Lamb's Chit Chat 23 to . 1 „ Mr. Barrow's Catherina 25 to 1 „ Sir T. Stanley's Violet 25 to 1 „ Lord Miltovvies Fusileer. 50 to 1 • „ Rachel (t) We are given to understand, that the .first string of horses from the celebrated stable of Scott are now en route for New market, and that the others w ill follow in a few days.—Should a thaw take place, the coursing circles will be attracted, on Wednesday and Thursday, to Altcar, about eleven miles from Liverpool. The Waterloo Cup and Purse are the important prizes. —On Friday, the long-spoken-of " Lancashire Gold Cup an entry 1754 doe's) will be commenced upon, within two miles of Southport.• It will last at least tour days. TATTERSALL'S.—TuuresnAIr. The betting yesterday was so flat and altogether so deimid of interest, that we shall make no apology fur confining our notice to a general statement of the odds at the close of the room. THE DERBY. 9 to 1 against Mr. Armitage's Nonplus colt (t and af terwards offered) 10 to 1 „ Lord Jersey's Cobweb colt (t) .10 to 1 „ Lord G. Beniinck's Grey Momus (off) 13 to 1 „ Lord G. Bentinck's D'Eg,ville (off) 18 to 1 „ Mr. B. Peel's The Early Bird (t) •25t0 1 „ Lord Suffield's Bamboo (off) 25 to 1 „ Mr. Worrall's Dormouse (take 39 to 1) 28 to I „ Mr. ltichardson's Monc Adam (t) 33 to 1 ~ Sir J. Mills's Volunteer (t) 40 to 1 ~ Mr. Watt's Dash (taken and afterwards offered) 50 to 1 „ • Lord Chesterfield's Tranby's dam colt (t) 20()0 to 2() „ Col. Crauford's Brother to Siobad (t) 275 to 50 „ Grey Moinus and D'Egville 650 to 50 „ Bamboo and Monc Adam _ (One bei was made on Mone Adam at 27 to 1). No others mentioned. SOUTHPORT COURSING MEETING. LA NCASHIRE Gotn CCP, value 100 sous,—First Dog to receive Cup and Subscription of three soya each Dog, less expences —and eighty sovs. to the se6nd, and twenty sovs. to the third Dog. CM WHITE. Dr. Brown's Sweeper Mr. Purcer's Hornsea Mr. Gibbe's Bob Sawyer Mr. Deakin's Languish Mr. Harrison's Mischief Mr. Clayton's Alundig Dr. Brown's Chance . Mr. Feßowes' Fancy Mr. II orrocks' HaPhaz ird ....Mr. Bennett's Sailor Mr. Craven's Whisky Mr. Slater's Chancellor Jr.A Rid°.wav's Mayfly Mr. Ball's Banker Mr. Fisher's Rattler Mr. Bake's Lady Mr. Fellowe's Fudge Dr. Brown's Dancer Mr. Houghton's Ann Mr. Pollok's Gameboy Mr. Horrocks' Heroine Mr. Moore's Moth Mr. Heys' Historian Mr. Jolly's It oun , Bolivar Dr. Brown's Sport Mr.'Hutchinson's Nelson Mr. Purcer's Playful Mr. Heys' Carlos Mr. Slater's Countess Mr. Relish's Roger Mr. N. Shaw's Spondee Mr. Fisher's Mango Mr. Harriot's Hips Mr. Harrison's Ginger Mr. Robinson's Empress Mr. N. Shaw's Spree Mr. Fleetwood's Fvlde Mr. F'isher's Fairy Mr. Machell's Logician Mr. Moore's Mosquito Mr. Ogden's Swan Mr. Swainson's Sailor Mr: Horrocks' Hindrance Mr. Hunt's Chance Mr. Hargreaye's Bywater; Mr. Jefferson's Janty Mr. Swainson's Sir Sydney Mr. Ridgway's Ellis Mr. Swan's Sweetbrier Mr. Graham's Capilly Mr. Gibbes' Major Mr. Horrocks' Helen Mr. Robinson's Juno Mr. Jefferson's Clyde Mr. Fleetwood's Flirt Mr. Eden's Clio Mr. Bake's Vanish Mr. Fleetwood's Fan Mr. Craven's Whip M r. A. Graham's Arab Mr. Robinson's Norman Mr. Swainson's Sue Mr. A. Graham's Aft ican Mr. Kaye's Grenadier Mr. King's Harlequin Mr. Harriot's Hornet Mr. H. Brown's Rose Mr. Garvin's Fly Mr. Chew's Spanker Mr. Slater's Frisky Mr Bake's Colonel Mr. Chew's Ells Mr. Swan's Soothsayer Mr. Garvin's Governess Mr. Bennett's Violet Mr. Ball's Trifle Mr. Houghton's Capias Mr. Jefferson's Hector Sir H. Campbell's Chancellor Mr. Harriot's Hindrance Mr. Chew's Haemus Mr. Redish's Ranter Mr. King's Violet Mr. Robinson's Brilliant Mr. Fleetwood's Fenella Mr. Purcer's Primrose Mr. Swainson's Smuggler Sir H. Campbell's Chanticleer Mr. Ogden's Columbine Mr. A. Graham'sTojours Fret Alr. Bake's Slenderman Mr. Robinson's Pepper Mr. Rutter's Duchess Mr. Ridgway's Escape Mr. Machell's Bugle Mr. Redish's Robin Mr. Swainson's Sultana Mr. Bake's Major Mr. Graham's Lily Mr. Crompton's Olympus Mr. Fisher's Smoker Mr. Butter's Lottery Mr. Garvin's General Mr. A. Graham's C. Augustus .Mr. Swan's Scroggins Mr. Heys' Conscivit Mr. Ogden's Ergot Mr. Fleetwood's Foam Dr. Brown's Ruby Mr. A. Graham's E. Kilbride Mr. Deakin's Queen Mr. Redish's Rib Mr. Houghton's Nelson Mr. Bennett's Reuben's Mr. Rutter's Fan Mr. Redish's Rebecca Mr. Machell's Dr. Fop Mr. King's Pluto Sir H. Campbell's Cameo Mr. Machell's Peter Pindar Mr. Horrocks' Hypocrite Mr. Fisher's Fan Mr. Harriot's Bugle Eye Mr. Parkinson's Swing Mr. Craven's Vandean Mr. Rev's Hermia Mr. Houghton's Erico Mr. Machell's Emperor Mr. Harriet's Hornsea Mr. Butter's Cornet Mr. Garvin's Graceful Mr. Hutchinson's Jig Mr. Eden's Spring Mr. Slater's Shut Mr. Scott's Spinner Mr. Hunt's Nimrod Mr. Parkinson's Spring Mr. Eden's Empress ' Mr. Kaye's Sir Robert Mr. Bennett's Ranger Mr. Gigbes'Fireaway Mr. Clayton's Sultan Mr. Eden's Vulcan Mr. Parkinson's Lumber Mr. Jolly's Crafty Mr.,Swan's Sorcerer Mr. Eden's Lumber Mr. Hunt's Rector Mr. Deakin's Plenipo Mr. King's Jupiter Mr. Parkinson's Venus Mr. Gibbes' Giant Mr. Ball's Longitude Mr. Clayton's Negro Mr. Houghton's Mouse Mr. Ball's Balloon Mr. Rutter's Wallace Mr. Crompton's Gen. Cbasse Mr. Ogden's Port Mr. Swan's Stripling Mr. Chew's Swallow Mr. Hunt's Sultan Mr. ilutchinson's Norwood Mr. Gibbes' Cinnamon Mr. Slater's Sparrow Mr. Bennett's Rocket Mt. Hargreaves' Favourite Mr. Ball's Blast Mr. og,den's Talleyrand Mr. Deakin's Dart Mr. King's Active Mr. Parkinson's Fly Mr. Clayton's Pleader Mr. Clayton's Phoenix Mr. Hunt's Nell Gwynne Mr. Chew's Spring Mr. Deakin's Pickpocket In consequence of the frost, this meeting is postponed until Friday next, the 23rd February-. Dogs to be in'the slips at nine o'clock, at the Ash Tree, in Birkdale, within two milesof South port. Fifty courses in . the first class to be decided on the first day, and the remainder of the first class to: be decided on the second day. No Dog to run more than two decided courses in one day. - Dogs not appearing at the slips when called in their turn, to be fined - ss. each dog; and to be chalked out of the list if not ready to start within five minutes. THE LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE, MONDAY, MA Rep 5. In cousequence of the weather, this steeplechase is postponed to Monday, March 5. The Waterloo coursing match will take place on the days following—viz. Tuesday 6th, and Wednesday 7tb.—There is very little betting going forward in Liverpool upon the steeple chase; the following is about the rate : Duke 21 to l agst Scamp 3- to I agst. • • Sir William 4 to 1 I SECOND RACE Countess 3to 1 SirThornas 3to 1 Dancing Master 4 to La Fayette 4 to 1 HURDLE RACE. 2 to 1 on the Disowned against the Field. GRAND RACE AT AINTREE. A Got.n Cur, value 50 soya., by subscribers of 5 sous. eac h . the surplus (if any) to go to the second horse, Handicap weight s , 10 subscribers, to take place ou Monday, the 12th March, over the Aintree Course; one mile. and a half heats; gentlemen riders. All stakes to be made to the keeper of the match-book before starting, and the last horse in the race to give halt a dozen of champagne to the race dinner, and the winner of the cup to give the same. ACCEPTANCES. st. lb. st. Hi. , The Duke l3 0 I Mr. Bollington's ll 0 Mazeppa • 12 9 The Dancing Master ll 8 Waverley Sir Thomas Lawrence .12 1 Mr. Bret berton's 11 5 Prince William l2 0 The Soap Boiler lO 12 All bets made upon this race are p p. The cup has been received in Liverpord, and is a very splen did prize. The race is expected to be a fine one, as there is no doubt that all the horses will start. BETTING. Waverlev, 3to 1 agst (taken freely) Sir Thomas, 7to 1 agst. Mazeppa 4to I Soap Boiler Ito 1 Duke 4 to 1 Mr. Bollingtou's 10 to 1 IRON TRADE.—Within the last month, an importation, which will surprise our readers in the neighbourhood of the iron works, has been made to the port of London; viz., a cargo o f iron, technically called " blooms," made at Madras, with native ore and contingent materials. An importation of iron from Madras! What new marvel in commercial enterprise will eclipse this ?—Merillyr Guardian. DANGEROUS MISTAKE.—About a fortnight since, Alice Hil ton, a Married woman living in Church-street, Middleton, sent a little girl to a shop for a pennyworth of magnesia. Hilt o n took the powder, vomited,. and soon afterwards became very ill. r. Dickens, surgeon, was sent for ; and said that she had taken mercury ; she became in a sad state of salivation, and. although every assistance has been rendered, she remaßis in a very dangerous state ; she is far advanced in pregnancy. It appears the shopkeeper mistook the powder, and gave the girl mercury; instead of magnesia.—Manchester Courier. THE 'MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY.—When the frost takes its departure 3000 men will he set to work between this town and Rugby, in the formation of the railway. The line, it is expected, will be opened in 1840.—Leicester Chronicle. MEETING IN SUPPORT OF THE NORTHERN H OSP 1 T A L. On Friday evening, the adjourned meeting of the friends and subscribers of this excellent institution was held at the Music Hall, Bold-street, the Mayor in the chair, for the purpose of bringing the claims of this Hospital more prominentl y before the public. At 7 o'clo c k the hour of the meeting, the Mayor, attended by Rev. Messrs. Barker, Buddicom, M'Neile, Davis, and by Messrs, Harvey, Brown, Shiel, Hodgson, Birch, Warner, Blackburn, and a number of merchants entered the room. About 600 persons were assembled, many of whom were ladies; and in the body of the meeting we observed agreat num ber of respectable inhabitants of the town. We were rejoiced to see so animated a feeling pervading so large a class of the community on behalf of a charity so trulyj benevolent, and in every way so free from all possible objections On entering the room and taking their seats on the platform, the mayor and the gentlemen with him were loudly cheered. The MAYOR, on taking the chair, said he should not trouble the meeting with many words, except to express the sincere satisfaction with which he presided over that meeting. It was not usual to go out of the Sessions-house, but he did not know how the chief magistrate of this town could be better employed than in attending any place where the work of charity was to be performed or promoted—(applause)—anywhere were the best feelings were called forth to relieve the sufferings and the dis tresses of their fellow-creatures. (Renewed applause.) He was sure that their sympathies would be called forth for those who were unfortunate enough to meet with accidents in any way; and that cold night afforded an additional motive for them to provide the nearest'place as an asylum for those who suffered from accidents; for feeling, as they had done, what it was to walk to that room that night, they would be the better able to feel what it must be to be carried to so great a distance on such a ni"ht as the Old Infirmary, with a broken or a maimed and bruised limb. They would, therefore, feel them selves impressively called upon to support the Northern Hospi tal. (Ap plause.) Mr. CHARLES WARNER was then called upon by the chairman to read the following. REPORT The Committee of the Northern Hospital have deemed it their duty to convene this public meeting, with the view of laying be fore the inhabitants of the town the state of this most excellent charity, in entire confidence that this step will be the means of securing for it that support which it so eminently deserves. Pre viously to the resolutions which will be proposed for your con sideration. a brief account of its rise and progress will afford some information to those who have not hitherto tied their atten tion directed to the important benefits which it is conferring upon that most meritorious class—the labouring poor. Some of the gentlemen present will recollect that when that noble institution, the Infirmary, was removed front the site which it formely occupied in Shaw's-brow to its present situa tion in Brovvnlovv-street, front the great and growing extension of the town to the northward many casualties were daily oc curring in that district of so serious a nature as rendered it im possible to carry the unfurtuna'e patients so far without extreme danger of their dying on the road, or being so exhausted from the loss of blood as to render their chance of recovery hopeless; and, in cases of persons apparently drowned, any attempt to remove them to that distance was sure to be attended with fatal results. This state of things prompted those who were aware of it to endeavour to procure the introduction of a few beds into the North Dispensary for the reception of such urgent cases as could not be further removed, and a general meeting of the sub scribers to the Dispensaries was called to consider how far such a step could be taken without abridging the usefulness of those charities, when it was considered that the arrangements necessary for the good management of an hospital were so to tallmlifferent from those required for the Dispensaries that it won rd be far more efficient plan to seek for some convenient house still nearer to the docks than to run the risk of interfering With the arrangements of the Dispensaries. This led to a ' sub sequent meeting of those gentlemen who considered that the cause of humanity required their exertions to provide. if possi ble, the accommodation that had become necessary to relieve many of their fellow creatures from that unhappy situation into which they are brought by unavoidable accidents, in pursuing the necessary labours of the port, and which give them the ' strogest' claims upon the public at large, but more particularly upon merchants employing them. The meeting to which we last alluded raised asubscription, and elected a committee with instruction to carry the benevolent design into effect. A house was rented from gr. Blundell in Leeds-street, near to the canal, and fitted up for the reception of patients; but the committee are sorry to add, that they soon became so numerous that all the beds which they had been able to put up (thirty-seven, and those by far too inueh crowded) were nut adequate to the accommo dation of the cases that occurred, and they were obliged to sub mit to the painful feeling resulting from the positive knowledge that many most heartrending cases occurred of patients being brought there who could not be admitted. Trusting to the liberal public, and to those christian feelings— the want of which has never been brought as a charge against the inhabitants of this town—they ventured to take another house, adjoiuing that'which they occupied, and are now enabled to make up eighty-four beds. Still, the accommodation is not adequate to meet the distressing cases which are constantly oc curring in so dense a population so situated, and their funds are insufficient to meet even this inadequate accommodation. The sate of our finances will be read to you by our Treasuer, and it will then rest with you to consider whether you can retire frbin this meeting with the certain knowledge that, without your aid, many human beings would perish, or whether you will re solve to use those exertions which are necessary to acquit your selves of such responsibility, and relieve your committee from their present embarrassment. We cannot doubt the decision to which you will come. Mr. - WARNER, as the treasurer to the hospital, then also read the statement ,of the year's accounts of which we gave an ab stract after the annual meeting a fortnight ago, in which it ap peared that there was now a balance due to the - treasurer of £512 15s. 6d., being a debt now owing by the institution. Mr. Warner also took occasion to remark, that the number of pa tients received into the hospital since its establishment four years ago, was 2154—(hear)—who had been relieved on an average at the cost of 455. each, so that the contributor of two guineas would have the satisfaction of knowing that he hail been the means of affording relief to some poor fellow-creature who had been compelled to , seek aid in the Northern Hospital. (Applause.) Mr. Alderman BROWN rose to move the first resolution. As one of the oldest members of the committee of the Northern Hospital, he had been appointed by his colleagues to move the first resolution. When he told them that the report which had just been read had been brought forward by himself and col leagues, it saved him from the necessity Of making any lengthened remarks, for that report spoke' fully his sentiments and views respecting that charity ; they would not, therefore, expect him to enter into further details, particularly as he was surrounded by gentlemen whose eloquence would more effectually aid that I charity than anything that he could say. But feeling, as he did, a deep interest in the chat ity, of which they bad appointed him one of the managers, he co uld not but stand forth to show the interest he felt in its welfare, and also to express his fears that they lost many subscribers from its not being very gene rally known, or confounded with the Infirmary or South Dis pensary, from each of which it was separate and distinct, de pending on separate and distinct subscriptions and donations. He should be sorry if the Northern Hospital should abstract any thing from the Infirmary or the Southern Dispensary, but still he was anxious that the charity of which he was a guardian, should not lose a subscription if it could be avoided. He then proposed the resolution which he held in his hand, " that the statement which his now been read claims the most serious attention of the public, and calls upon them for pecuniary aid, which ought to be promptly and freely given, to relieve this valuable charity from the embarassment under which it labours." Mr. Bitten rose and said he had great satisfaction in second ing the motion which Mr. Brown had, he was sorry to say, so briefly', but nevertheless so feelingly, proposed for theconsidera tion of the meeting. He fully agreed with every word and every sentiment Mr. Brown had uttered; and he was sure they would all feel that it was impossible to advocate, or even imagine, any stronger claim up on the charity and benevolence of the public than that set forth in the excellent report they had just heard read by Mr. Warner. ( Hear.) They had in this town a great variety of institutions for charitable objects as well as for other purposes —they had institutions for the gratuitous diffusion of knowledge among the poor, for the advancement of science as well as for many other purposes, valuable and important, be cause connected, with the moral improvement of society—but then they had other institutions which had more particular reference to the bodily wants and necessities of the poor, which, perhaps, more strongly demanded their aid and assistance. But, although with respect to the usefulness of some of those institutions, there might be allowed to honest men some little difference of opinion, he felt convinced, that with regard to the utility —the absolute necessity—of this institution there could not possibly exist the slightest difference of opinion. (Applause.) He was sure they all had known cases—either in their own per . sons, or in the persons of some near relatives—in which they had had melancholy experience of the sorrow and agony attest dant upon a period of protracted sickness, even under circum stances most favourable to recovery when surrounded by the alleviation which friendship could afford, and every aid of medi cal and surgical assistance; but when, with that experience, they were told that cases of the most heart-rending description were daily disinissed from the door of this hospital, because of the want of extended accommodation, could they look upon the agony of these poor wretches who were thus carried away by their destitute and afflicted friends, to sicken and expire in their damp and comfortless cellars; and the other abodes of poverty in this town—could they look On that spectacle without feeling impelled to come forivard' in 'defence of suffering humanity, and without feeling a `strong desire 'to Share some of the blessings which Providetie . had bestowed upon themselves with those who were cotiffielledto . endure a harder and more severe destiny. (Great APplause.) 'There was something even in the season at which they were called together that ,he thought was calcu lated to excite pity and to 'predispose them to acts of mercy and bentficence: ( Hear.) There- never was a period within his recollection when the wants and privations of the poor were so excessive as at the present moment. There was an almost total cessation of out-cl6or employment—an absence of the usual employerient of the shipping and at the docks—a stoppage of internal communication by the freezing of the canals—all these were circumstances combined with others to withhold from the pbor . their usual means of support and sustenance; and when to those bodily privations were added the keenness and inclemency of the present season, the hopeless condition of the poor might be easily imagined. But the public of Liver pool were never insensible to the distresses of their fellow crea tures, and on this trying occasion they had come forward and raised hindsorne subscriptions, liberally commenced by their respected chairman, by which they were able to provide warm and comfortable nutriment for the poor, and by which, from his own 'knowledge, he could undertake to say, nu merous families had been saved from actual starvation. (Hear.) Now, let that humane and Christian spirit extend, and reach other objects, not perhaps of more pressing emergency, but un happily of more permanent and enduring necessity. Having relieved the temporal wants of the poor, let them furnish them with an asylum in the hour of sickness, and ex tend to them useful aid in case of accidents. He felt it would be quite presumptuous in him to go further with that subject; all that he could do wasto offer those common-place observa tions to the meeting, leaving to others of more eloquence to do justice to it, he should therefore satistierl with having given his feeble but honest support to the object which had brought them together. (Great applause.) The CHAIBMAN then put the resolution which was carried unanimously, amidst loud applause. Mr. A. HODGSON then ruse to propose That the clergy of all denominations he respectfully re quested to lend their powerful assistance in impressing on their congregations the importance of the charity, and that the hope he expressed that they will preach sermons in aid of the funds." He proposed that resolution with great pleasure, because he agreed with the preceding speaker, that no institution in this town, for the-relief of tha.physical wants and woes of onr com mon nature, had stronger claims on the inhabitants of the town than that wbich•they had assembled to advocate, and in whose favour, as the resolution• stated, they were anxious to secure the advocacy of the ministers of religion. He was well aware that their ministrations were directed to wants and woes of a deeper and• more enduring character, bat he reinembere I the commission to the first preachers of Christianity, which was not only to preach the gospel, but to " heal the sick," and sure he was that the obligation to alleviate the temporal miseries of the poor, held a prominent place in the round of duties of the Christian ; and be was persnaded that if the claims of that, so ciety were forcibly impressed upon the community at large in connexion with the imperative duties of religion, and the obliga tion to relieve temporal suffering, they should not have that night to complain of deficient funds ; but to rejoice that they were 'ten times their present amount. That institution presented no question of degree, nor were the ebjects of the charity . in a situation to wait while they arbitrated the amount to be given. (Loud cries of bear, hear.) I'he appeal was loud, urgent, and imperative, and if they felt right it would be irresistible. it It had been well observed by one of the best and wisest of the human race, that the sick poor, as they were the most legiti mate claimants so they ought to be the first to he relieved. The mangled limbs, the fractured skulls, the lacerated sinews, the gushing arteries, the ciuslied and mangled frame—these could not wait while they settled in what proportion they should dole out,their charity to the various objects that urged their claims upon their attention. Or the objects of that charity no man could look and then pass them by without guilt. As an inha bitant of this town he-rejoiced at the noble provision made for the business of their commerce—he was proud of the forest of masts which their docks presented, and of the edifices for the purpose of promoting their social liberties and religious inte• rests, but be was desirous that there should be much greater provision of asylums for the mitigation of human woes. That the agonising, languishing and dying should be the last to be cared - for he could not believe would be suffered, or that the objects of that charity should suffer for want of funds, for it would be very like an individual who on seeing some suffering fellow creature at his feet passed on with unhallowed heart, leaving the sufferer to bleed and die on the ground—he did not believe that the imperative claims of such a society could be longer disregarded. On some occasions if he used language like that he should be thought to use the language of exaggera tion ; but if he used exaggerated lgnguage on that occasion his feelings were strangely exaggerated, for he was not expressing one half of what he felt, and it was only because he was unable to give expression to his feelings. They remembered that the . Saviour of the world, whose tenderness for the human trace was so conspicuous, and who was so often employed in relieving - sickness and the infirmities of the body, declared that he would say to those who had neglected their brethren on earth, •• I was au hungred, and ye gave me no meat, I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink; I was naked and ye clothed me not, and sick and in prison and ye visited me not ;" and they were aware that to such he would say "depart from me." And bow could they expect him to receive them if they turned away from still deeper depths of unmitigated sorrow, and allowed their fellow-creatures to perish—not on some inhospitable shores, nor in an insalu brious climate—not in some exigency, where they were deprived of the assistance of their companions, or in some calamity that overwhelmed them in a distant land,—but at theirown doors lk in perhaps, their native town, surrounded by thousands, and itpn age of refinement and improvement, and amidst the profusion of superabundance. Mr. H. proceeded to say that there were other strong claims on the Liverpool public beside the provision for ac cidents and casualties—the poverty of the families through the af flictions of the parents, and the misery of the parents through the sickness of the child. That charity which alleciated this was il lustrated by the poet's description oimercy, "it was twice blessed; it blessed him that gave and him that received." Hardly any where in this world was that poetical saying reduced to greater prosaic truth than in the Northern Hospital; and he knew of no place that a man could visit with a greater chance of being relieved from the mental malady under which they sometimes laboured— where they were likely to be so effectually released from the rest less, feverish appetite for wealth as there; or more likely to be thankful than when walking the round of the hospital, and viewing human nature in what had been called its abject ness. He remembered the difficulties which had opposed them when the hospital had been first started. Those bad now been overcome, and they now came before the public, nut to ask them to assist them in trying an experiment, they came be fore them, he had almost said, to demand their assistance, in support of an establishment of unquestionable utility. He felt anxious that the publicity of the meeting, rendered more pub lic from the Mayor presiding over it than it otherwise would have 'been, should , be still further made public through the medium of the press and the pulpit. He concluded with se conding the resolution. Mr. BATESON, at some length, seconded the resolution, which was carried, as were the other resolutions, unanimously. He said it was much wished that the Institution were enlarged. Now eighty-four beds were made up, and by increasing them to one hundred the hospital might be registered as a public and valuable school of medicine in this town. The Rev. HUGH M'NEILE then rose to propose the next resolution, and was received w ith an ent h us i ast i c b urst of applause f long duration. When it bad subsided he said: on rising to propose a resolution to this meeting, I have the calm and composing satisfaction of feeling that I am altogether in my place. I was surpiised and grieved to hear the state of the funds of the Northern Hospital. Incessantly occupied as lam in both the public and private ministration of the gospel, I must confess I was not aware of the fact, although the reports of the Institution lay on my table.' But when your treasurer called on me and told me the state of the case, 1 hesitated not a mo ment in promising him to make time to attend the annual meeting at the sessions -house; and when it was there resolved to call this meeting, I as little hesitated to arrange my plans to devote this evening to this valuable purpose. lam now re quested to move, "that the parties now present will use their best endeavours to make known the wants and the value of this charity, and to increase its funds by subsc-iptions and dona tions. And by way of proceeding at once to the point, I will not reserve the practical haft of this address to the end, but commence by presenting a check to your Trea surer which I received from a friend. Mr. APNeile then read a letter from Mr. C. S. Parker, begging him to present a check to the treasurer for £2O, and an annual subscription of two guineas. This announcement was received with loud applause. In addressing myself to this resolution, I think that to urge the claims of the Northern Hospital upon our best feelings, it is, perhaps, enough to say, that if, in any human institution, the divine example of our blessed Saviour, in one of its most touch ing features is, or can be embodied, it is peculiarly and pre eminently in such an one as this. Healing diseases, applying balm to every wound, meeting every sad and cruet disaster, binding up the hands that bang down, and the feeble knees, and the fractured bones of our suf fering fellow creatures. In the inscrutable mystery of God's dealings with our fallen world, cases are continually occurring which no human being can witness without horror. From the bed of squallid wretch edness, with its tainted atmosphere of infection—front the com plicated fracture with its accompanying moans of agony—from the ruthless bruise which has reduced the exquisitely wonderful structure of a human limb into one livid mass of threatening putrifaction—from sights like these mere humanity recoils. However sincerely she may wish to have them relieved, how ever sympathetically she may sigh over their occurrence; with whatever transport of unfeigned passion she may exclaim Oh! Good God, how dreadful ! —yet, alas, her heart sickens and her hand trembles at the approach of actual contact so as to ad minister relief. The compassions of mere individual humanity are not strong enough to overcome her instincts of self-preser vation. But an institution like this, based upon the deep founrhtion of Christian principle, and built up in the unselfish loveliness and comprehensive pioportionsofChristian example, suppresses the recoilint , instinct of the natural heart, that it may extend the helping hand of victorious practical benevolence. Feelings, however amiable in themselves, which expend themselves in their own emotion, and terminate in the breasts of tbose who experience them, are here made to give place to those more substantial acts which communicate their benefits to others. Here the loathsome wound is closely and carefully inspected : here the fractured bones and torn tendons, and lacerated flesh are laid in their respective places with precision; here the tor tures of the frightful operation are soothed by the voice of kind ness: here the infectious effluvia is pati en tly and heroically endured—and all this with the affectionate tenderness of a nurse, combined with the scientific skill of a master, and the unflinching firmness of purpose and of performance which ar rises out of well placed confidence in that science and that skill. (Loud applause.). Sir, I cordially avail myself of this opportunity of bearing this tribute, which I do from ray heart, to the medical gentlemen connected with this institution. 'Some of the highest and best feelings of our hearts stand scripturally connected with the medical profession, in the person of the "beloved Physician" and inspired_ Evangelist : Lucas evangelii et medicinm munera pan dit A rtihus Nine, illinc religione potens : Utilts isle labor, perquem vixe.re tot wgri perquem tot dedicere tnori. Sir, I have ventured a translation of this beautiful epigram : St. Luke by medicine and religion joined Restores the body, and relieves the mind. Blest in both labours; dark diseases part, And darker ignorance forsakes the heart. Thrice happy Luke ! sustained by God on high, Prolongs in life; and teaches how to die! (loud applause.) Yes, sir, institutions such as these are the triumphs of Chris tian principle, the brightest ornaments of a Christian country. It p is in these things that we see practically exhibited the pre. eminent ascendancy of Christian civilization over that which is merely human. For, in what, I wouldask, do we excel the civilized ancients? Is it in codes of dry morals, or contempla tive theories of what man ougat to be ? No: Aristotle and Plato are still our crass -books. Is it in imagination, embodying its creation in exquisite poetry? No: Homer and Aristo phanes are still transcendant.; Is it in the achievements of the fine arts? No: Phidias and Praxiteles are still unrivalled. is it in the transporting flights of eloquence thrilling and swaying to the purpose of the orator the hearts and hands of plastic mul titudes? • No: Cicero and Demosthenes are still unreached models. (Loud applause.) In what then is it? It is in prac tical diffusive benevolence. It is in hospitals, and asylums, and dispensaries, and infirmaries. It is in the triumphs of active love over selfish nature. (Hear.) And whence this activity of love to man? It springs from the constraining love of Christ. He said to his disciples, " ye love toe, keep my commandments." If ye love me—here is the fountain opened by the grace of God in man's heart: keep my commandments—here are the streams flowing from a renewed heart through man's conduct and conversation. And this is Christ's peculiar and comprehensive commandment, that we love one another, not in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. (Applause.) Such streams would never have flowed at all had not the divine fountain been opened ; and They can never continue to flow pare, except where that foun tain continues open. The standard of public morals may indeed be so elevated; and the tone of public opinion, (refined by the reflex influence of the Gospel, may demand so much inure costly sacrifices in order to : keep within theipale of respectability in so ciety; that the love ofapprobatiun may, for a season, overcome the love of money or of ease, and induce men who are destitute of Christian principle within, to be nevertheless forward and distin guished in acts of outward philanthropy . ( loud cries of hear, bear). But such acts will be found, at the best, intermittent. The spring which animates them becomes relaxed, when unobserved and 'uncourted by popular applause, and the institution which de pends upon them must ever be subject to serious fluctuations. But genuine Christian principle is steady. He whose love has quickened it, is never absent. He whose approbation it pants after is never unobservant. Sincere love to God secures prac tical love to man. And we love God, because he first loved us. He loved us practically. " Hereby," says the beloved disciple, "perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us." This meets the necessities of our case. This addr esses i tself to our consciousness of guilt. This, when bslieved, removes that repugnance to draw near to God, wherein we may detect our natural alienation from him. This sweetly d raws us into communion with him. Communion enjoyed gradually moulds us to conformity of character, and thus we become imitators of our Father who is in heaven, happy (0! there is no happiness equal to it, there is no true happiness without it) imitators of the diffusive benevolence of God. Yes ! it is in the Cross of Jesus Christ, and there alone, that we find the true harmony which, while it prolongs the lofty strains of the angelic host, "Glory to God in the highest, a just God, and a Saviour," breathes at the same time in softest tenderness "On earth peace, good will towards men." ( Loud applause.) Yes, I repeat, here it is, that godlike institutions such as the hospital we plead for, have had their origin. Natural civiliza tion, however extensive, would never have given them birth. neither can natural civilization, however cultivated by general knowledge, secure their continuance. It may refine the sen sibilities. but it cannot subdue the selfishness of the human heart. It may deepen the sigh at relative distress, but it can not overcome the repugnance to personal exposure. Having Christian principle to , caloulate upon, in many, FEBRUAR Y 20, 1838. and an elevated a christianized standard of morals to appeal to, in all, I am altogether confident as to the result of our ap-' peal. This institution cannot be ueglected. We have heaid lately of many cases of desperate disasters. Let us endeavour to imagine the consequences of having no such Institution as this. They cannot be even glanced at in thought without causing a shudder. What! no refuge for the helpless victims of sudden and fracturing calamity! 0! sir, the impoverished portion of this town adjoining the docks and canal, would then present more than the bloody and terrific image of a neglected field of battle. The shrieks of the falling, the moans of the expiring, the lingering agonies of the maimed and mutilated,. putrefying to an untimely and neglected death, under the beams of that sun, which, at the same moment, would be light big us to our daily round of unnumbered enjoyments ! No, no, it may not, must not be. Neither can the private hahita tations of the wretched sufferers meet the exigencies of the case. 0 ! if we could show you some of those scenes of retired misery ; where the gentle hand of brotherly kindness never enters; where the voice of compassion never ministers even the cheap mitigation of sympathy; but where, in the dteariness of neglected solitude every dire visitation wears a face of sublime horror; where famine is the consequence of arrested toil, where the covering of the helpless sufferer, his only covering from the penetrating cold of such a .season as this, is bartered by his afflicted wif e or d aug h ter, f or t h e last needful support of their existence; where the very source of tears is dried up; where deepdespair extorting the language of impatience, perhaps of imprecation, adds to the horrors of dying sickness the aggra vated features of revolting blasph:my—then, then you would say with us, take, 0 ! take the poor creature to the hospital and when we answered, the hospital is full already, we want more beds, we want larger, much larger premises, and fur this purpose we want inure money—then, instead of the cold calcu lation in the head which ling ers , l o th to part with the extorted guinea ; we would see the warm unieliberating profusion which does justice to the emotions of the heart. (The Rev. Gentle- . man sat down amidst loud cheering.) Mr. LEWIS MOSELY rose to second the resolution. Under ordinary circumstances he should have placed himself in that conspicuous situation under feelings of great embarassment ; but to attempt to follow so brilliant, so eloquent, so luminous an appeal to the feelings, the heart, and understanding of man, as they had just heard, was, indeed, a task which he found of more than ordinary difficulty. For bim to attempt. to expatiate on the God-like attributes of charity, when so many gentlemen were present, who, from their calling as well as from their education, were more fitted to do so, would be an unnecessary act; but still there were some few points which struck his mind, which. called for imperative- attention from all. They had the means at their own doors of succouring the needy, and of feeding the hung ,and -of administering suitable nourishment in cases o f deb.!' ‘ 11; but where were the poor to find the great comforts, and the / /radical application or a well organised hospital? Where would they find the easy couch prepared, or the careful nurse in attendance, or the skilful hand of the practitioner ready at band to administer the required relief ? This the poor could not have unless by an ap plication at the hospital, which, he trusted, would be made suffi ciently capable to afford it. As a native of Liverpool, mixed up' in its busiest scenes, and watching its progress with no little satisfaction, he had seen institutions of every kind increase in number, but that description of institution they were met there that evening to give their aid to—he hoped their powerful aid. The ordinary barriers of the town had been broken down ; the enterprize of its merchants, and the industry of its inhabitants, formed a phalanx of trade which had greatly increased its popu lation; yet had they gone on for years increasing in population, and increasing in every thing that hazarded life, and yet had remained content, to within a period of three years ago, with' that God-like institution, the Infirmary of Liverpool. The ne-- cessities of the case became urgent, and a few gentlemen met' together for the purpose of establishing the Northern Hospital,- and the wonders it had done since had only shown them how' far its teal utility had exceeded their most sanguine anticipa tions. He was quite sure, this being the case, that the inhabi tants of the town only wanted their attention drawing to the fact, to enable the reverend mover of the resolution, and himself to obtain their assent to it. They were not pledging the - meeting to carry the resolution without a moral conviction that tfie public: and the meeting would really enable them to carry the object they had in view. (Cheers.) lt was quite true that the institu tion was in debt, and he hoped it was equally true that the inha bitants of Liverpool were determined to get it out of debt. It had been stated that the hospital made up, with difficulty, 86 beds. When he told them that these beds were constantly full, and that they were obliged every day to refuse admittance to those who required it, they should make every exertion to increase the number of beds to 10th This would enable them to give great additional aid to those who required it. The making up of 100 beds would , also give a character to the hos pital. It would enable it to give a certificate tomedical students who might attend it, and thus make it an object for pupils to , get admittance, and by this means the aids of the hospitalvould be increased. The Rev. Gentleman who had preceded him, had commenced his observations by saying he would practise first and give his arguments afterwards. He could not take a leaf out of a better book, or learn a moral more correct or more con sistent with his own feelings. He hoped that it might stimulate them to let their hearts and hands go together for good; he' begged, in the name of the house he represented, to present the hospital with 50 guineas. (Loud cheering.) They would be lieve him that he did not do this through ostentation ; but lie did it from a strong conviction, that unless every man would put his shoulder to the wheel, to enable the hospital to do the good it could do, they would not get gentlemen together again for such an object. (Hear.) Ile concluded amidst loud ap plause by seconding the resolution, which was carried una nimously. The Rev. Mr. Buonicom rose to move the next resolution " That a'snbscription be forthwith entered into, in order that the committee may be encouraged to proceed in their benevo lent work." The Rev. Gentleman spoke at considerable length in furtherance of the object of the meeting, going over similar ground to what the preceding speakers had done. He beseeched the meeting to take time by the forelock, and to administer to the wants of those for whom the institution was established, " 10. dav, while it was called to-day." The 'Rev. Mr. JosErHs seconded the motion, which wet adopted unanimously. Mr. Alderman SHEII. then moved the following resolution— " That this meeting regrets that the covorate body, acting un der their present powers, are precluded from assisting the hos pital with a donation or subscription, and which makes it more necessary for those who are free from such difficulty to come forward to its aid." He explained to the meeting, that by the municipal act, the town council had no power to. devote the funds of the corporation to any other but a municipal purpose, until they had a surplus in hand, which, he was happy to say,. might be soon expected. The Rev. Mr. MARTINEAU seconded the motion. The Rev. Dr. EWENS moved—" That the Liverpool press be' his charit y, of this evening requested from time to time to mak e k nown t o it s rea d ers the, us n e and that the report of the committ e e a t be inserted once in each of' the newspapers." dfu the ln es resolutions of Mr. GEORGE CROSSFIELD, a member of the Society of Friends, seconded the motion, which was unanimously adopted. It was then resolved—`That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Mayor, for the promptitude with which he met the wishes of the committee that he would preside on this occasion, and the able manner in which he has filled the chair." The MAYOR trusted he should be always ready at the call of his fellow -townsmen to come forward in aid of any work calcu lated to alleviate the distresses of their fellow-men. One class of persons gave their time, another gave both their time and money, but there was a third class who seldom attended such meetings as those, and who, rolling in wealth, seldom contribut ed anything, and whose hearts they could not reach. He hop ed, however, that the press would reach them, that the press would put the case strongly before them. He begged the gen tlemen connected with the press to remember, that as they were stewards, so would they at the day of account have to give an► account of their stewardship and their responsibilities. The meeting then broke up shortly after ten o'clock. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Courier.) BLACKBURN.—Business in cotton-pieces were anything butt brisk on Monday. Few sales were effected. The band-loom weavers are still in a frightfully impoverished condition. WIGAN.—The trade of this town is suffering considerably in consequence of the frost—the operations of many labourers and builders being entirely suspended. MACCLESFIELD.—Such is the dulness of trade at Macclesfield that on Tuesday last, the butchers sent the bellman round the, place, to remind the inhabitants, that it was market day. THE WOOLLEN TRADE. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Monday.—There has been very little change in the piece market to-day, and prices remain the same as last week. The wool market has been extremely (lull, and very few sales have been made, although the kit week's prices have been fully maintained, HALIFAX, (Saturday.)—We have again to notice a very dull' market, which puts the manufacturers greatly out of spirits. There was not, however, any redaction in prices, dull as things. were. Yarns and wool are both stationary. LEEDS, (Tuesday.)—We had not quite so brisk a market to day as compared with those of the last four or five weeks. This is by many attributed to the uncertain state of things in Ca nada; still towards the close of the market the activity noticed last month was apparently restored, and an average amount of business done at previous rates. We noticed a few of the most. eminent of the London buyers, but who, it is crenerally under-- stood, were very sparing in their orders. * Wool is as last re— ported, but withal very firm. HUDDERSFIELD, (Tuesday.)—There was to-day an animated demand for every description of clothes, without, however, any, advance in prices. The business noticed did not extend to la m fancy trade, and more particularly to that branch of it caku lated for the spring trade. The wool market steady, but wits , an upward tendency. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, Feb. 16. —Wu have again to, report a week of very uninteresting character as regards trans actions in wool. Consumers who are not entirely. rup , out,of stock are delaying to come to market until the canals open„. , ,, when, if they cannot buy on better terms, they expect better choice, the stocks on hand being at present very low. Price.- are without variation.---Leeds Yoax WOOL MARKET, Feb. ls.—Our market has to•day been,. well attended by buyers, from the ro.anufacturing districts. The. supply, considering the period from now to clip-day, has been,. as good as could or might be expected, but still not quite equal to the demand, consequently, prices have experienced a partial advance, and most lots have been taken away at, for two-thirds hogged, I7d to Ind; half bogged and ewe 14d to 161 per lb. Sir R. W. Horton, late governor of Ceylon, was to proceed to Bombay, on his way home, on the 15,th of J anuar y. Hi s successor, Mr. Stuart Mackenzie, had arrived outi 'THE BIRMINGHAM REPORTERS.—The Birmingham reporters. have a compliment paid to them by the adopti on , b y t h e com missioners of police, of the follow ing regulation :-1. " That the reporters be not admitted . until after the chai r i s taken, and per mission given by the cha irman, in order.to afford an opportu n ity .to any commissioner or their clerk s , for stating the exclusion of reporters; and if so, that such. business be taken f i r s t. 2. That, upon a commissioner suggesting, to the chair that it is expedient for the reporters to withdraw, the chairman, shall forthwith desire them to do so untd. the question of thei r admis sion s h a ll be determined. t reporters are not to express approbation or disapprobation by word or gesture during the meeting. are expected to rep or t f a i r ly n illy.h;at.anthe rep o r ters difailyort shall app ear i n any paper a wh d ic i i ,' ua in the opinion of a majority of a meeting at which com plaint shall he made, contains a wilful representation, or auy other breach of these regulationsshall be committed, the reporter of such paper shall be excl u d e d f or three months' and, for a offence, six mouths,"—Thi s i nsu l t i ng and strange an nouncement was followed by th e c h a i rman stat i ng that the regu slaet)cio("in'iielnen s had been framed upon general principles, and without reference to any particular reporters. As far as his observations went, he could say that the reporters to Birmingham newspapers generally exhibited the greatest regard to fairness and impar tiality in their reports of public proceeding, and he had also ob served with pleasure, that when requested to forego the publica tion of discussions which might do injury, without effecting any good, the reporters had always most religiously regarded the the wishes of the public bodies to whose meetings they were ad-