The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-12 00:00:00

IMPORTANTITO 4DIES DON S DON of a LONDON HOUSE, In the very c,entre'of Fashion, (the west end of London,: IMPORTERS OF FOREIGN GOODS, Will, in a few THE LA DIES OF LI VERPOOL and for a short time only, ERPOOL submit to LARGI The Pr AND ITS viONITY, AT 39, GREAT. GEORGE -STREET, An unrivalled Assortment of the most splendid Novelties in SILKS, SATINS, SHAWLS, &c., Which the present fruitful season of fashion affords. FURTHER NOTICE OF THE DAY OF OPENING WILL BE GIVEN. London, April Bth, 1842. JUVENILE CLOTHING. CHILDBED LINEN, LACE, AND BOLD -S HOSIERY WAREHOUSE, I, TREET. leave to announce to the Ladies of vicinity, that he has just returned - ASSORTMENT of FE RGUSO;'•i Tool and its 9n with a very extensive GOODS suited for the present Season 4, Bold-street, April 11, 1842. ORIENTAL AND CHENE SILKS. reatest Novelties in SILKS, for DRESSES, are THE n, WILLIAMS BROTHERS, WATERLOO-HOUSE, TOP OF CHURCH-STREET. [NETTS and OTTOMAN. SILKS in great profusion ; an incomparable STOCK of Plain BLACK SATIN, OMAN, and other SHAWLS. THE ONLY STABLISHMENT IN LIVERPOOL SOLELY FOR FURNISHING. IDELPHI HOUSE, 21, BOLD-STREET. CARPET, FLOOR CLOTH, MOREEN, DAMASK, FURNITURE CHINTZ BLANKET, AND QUILT WAREHOUSE. Window Muslim in great variety. FRINGE, GIMP, LACE, AND TRIMMING MANUFACTORY. GEORGE WOODS, Proprietor. RICHARDSON AND COWBURN RESPECTFULLY announce to their Friends and the Public that they have REMOVED THEIR BUSINESS From Dale-street to more eligible Premises in CHURCH-STREET, ADJOINING THE BAZAAR OF MESSRS. PROMOLI AND HAUSBURG, And gratefully avail thein;el;;;Oi'this opportunity to ac knowledge the distinguished support they have hitherto and trust their exertions and attention will merit its The arrangements in their (entirely new) Stock are upon most extensive scale, comprising every variety in SILK MERCERY, SHAWLS, HOSIERY, LACE, HABERDASHERY, &c. &c. THE LINEN, SHEETING, BLANKET, FLANNEL, COUNTERPANE, CALICO, GENERAL DRAPERY DEPARTMENTS, Will have their especial care and attention, with a scrupulous regard to maintain their character for Fabrics of the most approved manufacture and repute. The assortment of FAMILY MOURNING Will be complete, and the strictest attention and care paid to the management and superintendance of Funerals. 20, CHURCH-STREET. WINDOW BLIND MANUFACTORY, 22, M OUNT-PLEASA;Nt, PWOODNORTH begs to remind his Friends and the • Public, that he has REMOVED his Manufactory from 55, Paradise-street, and 12, Cases-street, to 22, MOUNT-PLEASANT. GAUZE, WIRE, and ZINC BLINDS LETTERED and ORNAMENTED to any PATTERN. VENETIAN SHADE BLINDS for exportation on the lowest terms. ENORMOUS REDUCTION IN CARPETING. THE LAST WEEK. MELLIS begs to announce to his Friends and the 41 Public generally, that it is his determination to CLOSE his present SALE of his last Year's PATTERNS 'at the Reduced Prices) on the Week ending SATURDAY, he 16th April, and respectfully invites those Parties who .availed themselves of the present opportunity of Purchasing, to do so previous to the Final Close. On MONDAY, the 18th instant, the whole of the present Spring Patterns will be open for Inspection, and doubts not, from the care taken in making his selection, that his Goods will be found to give every satisfaction in superiority of quality and design. 95, TOP OF BOLD-STREET, have not OPPOSITE COLQUITT-STREET 11th April, 1842 LONDON PORTER, AND TENERIFFE (VIDONIA) WINE. DEALERS in LONDON PORTER are respectfully in formed that an extensive STOCK of Messrs. TRUMAN, HANBURY, BUXTON and Co.'s is constantly kept in Liver pool, of qualities adopted for Export, Bottling, and Draught purposes. ORDERS are also promptly executed direct from LONDON, as usual, for either the Home Trade, or for any Foreign Port. TENE RIFFE WINE, of the esteemed Brand of " PAS ley," shipped by Messrs. PASLEY, LITTLE and Co. Tene rife, in Pipes, Hogsheads, and Qaarter•casks, in also kept in Bond, in Liverpool. The qualities are various, being adapted for Home Consumption and Export. Application to be made to Mr. ARM ITAGE, 22, KING-STREET, LIVERPOOL. WATCHES GOLD LEVER; for GENTLEMEN, with hard Enamel led Dials, Seconds, Capped, and Jewelled in two holes, and five Actions, maintaining power during winding, and Improved Detached Lever Escapement XI.O 10 DITTO, larger size.... DITTO, largest size, with extra strong Cases .. LADIES' GOLD LEVER, with Gold Dial, Capped, and Jewelled in two holes, and five Actions, main taining power during winding, and Improved De tached Lever Escapement DITTO, larger size PATENT LEVER SILVER WATCHES .... ... DITTO DITTO HUNTING SILVER VERGE WATCHES, Double Bottomed, 11 10 12 10 5 0 5 10 to open with a Spring .. GENEVA WATCHES, of first-rate Workmanship, in every variety, at proportionate prices, ALL WARRANTED. PROMOLI and HAUSBURG having made very Exten re arrangements for the Manufacture of the above Watches, e enabled to submit them at such unprecedentedly low Every kind of Watches made to order. Merchants and the Trade supplied on the most advantageous Terms. - . LADIES' COLOURED GOLD NECK CHAINS. MATTED BELCHER PATTERN, with Ornamental or Hand Snap, weighing'3 Sovereigns £3 15 4 Do. 5 Do. 515 6 Do. STARRED BELCHER PATTERN, with Ornamental or Hand Snap, weighing 3 Sovereigns 4 Do. 5 Do. 6 Do. BRIGHT GOLD CURB CHAINS .... 335. to £7 10s. SILVER CURB DITTO ....10s. 6d. to 1 10s. Together with asplendid Assortment of FANCY CHAINS, amounting to several Thousand Pounds. PROMOLI and HAUSBURG, OLD POST-OFFICE BUILDINGS JEWELLERY, - - it Quality, and of the newest Designs, may be selected at THOMAS DISMORE'S, MANUFACTURING JEWELLER er SILVERSMITH TO THE QUEEN. 35, BOLD-STREET. THOMAS DISMORE being in daily communication with Messrs. DISMORE and SON, who conduct THE MANUFACTORY IN LONDON, ORDERS will be finished with accuracy, expedition, and the acknowledged superior workmanship of the London artisan. An estimate of the weight and cost per oz. of Silver Spoons, Forks, &c., will be given on application. IMMENSE PURCHASE, AT A GREAT SACRIFICE, OF A VALUABLE STOCK, FOR SELLING ,OFF, AT GLASGOW HOUSE, 53, CHURCH-STREET 1687 ROSEWOOD WORK BOXES. Ladies' real Rosewood Work Boxes, at 4s. large size. Ditto Ditto, largest sizes at ss. Ditto Ditto, very good articles, at Os. Ditto Ditto,liued with watered silk,lls &15s. Splendid Nine -Guinea Work Boxes, at £6 10s. each. TEA CADDIES. Real Rosewood Tea 9 Caddies, at 3s. and fis. each ; superior Ditto, in Ebony or Rosewood, at 10s. and 14s. 208 TEA CHESTS. Ros ew ood Chests, wit h cut basins, well worth 305., selling at Ditto, 20s. each. very superior articles, at 275. (Some of these are beautifully inlaid with pearl.) Splendid Chests in Ebony and Rosewood, at a great sacrifice. 628 PORTABLE DESKS. Real Rosewood and M a h ogany Desks, at 10s. and 12s. ; very prime articles at 16s. and 18s. ; beautifully inlaid with pearl, 225.,..241., and 275. Spserious relendid Ladiesduction and Gentl emen ' s, from £3 to £7, at a 1300 LADIES' DRESSING CASES, In real Rosewood, at 18s. each; inlaid with pearl, 20s. ; with jewel 4n 1 drawer, 1 ad 0 s i .t e o £vBtl6 s ailk ve l vet, at 325. ; a great var i e ty from 11 60 GENTLEMEN'S DRESSING CASES, brushes complete, at 325. ; Fitted with Rogers's Cutlery, with i n m ahogany or ro sewood, at 'various prices, from 325. to £6 Iss. The Reduction is immense on the whole of the Stock at GLASGOW HOUSE, 53, Church -street • SHADDOCKS AND FORBIDDEN FRUIT FOR PRESERVING , 211ARIVALADE, 44" IN addition to the -16 Barrels per the Limena,J, MIDDLE_. WOOD has received several small lots which ill be ofd, Wholesale and Retail, at unprecedented low pr w ices. p ar ' bidden Fruit, 375. per barrel, and 3s. to 6s. per dozen ; Shad: docks, 50s. per barrel, and 12s. to . . 18s. per dozen. This Fruit has arrived in excellent condition, will keep, and i s little inferior for Preserving to the garden, or first quality fruit, and at half the price. FOR DESSERTS, INVALIDS, J. M. has 50 Barrels of SHADDOCKS & FORBIDDEN ?RUl . ' elected. from the same gardens as those sent !rom is establishment to her Majesty the Queen, and so highly ,prei fated at the Royal Table ; being produced from g rafted !es, is the earliest fruit imported, and arrived in the Sisters, m Jassau, in December. it is now in high perfection, and i cerior for Desserts to any Fruit grown in or imported into ncdand. Forbidden Fruit, ls. to 2s. 6d. each ; Shad- FRUIT 1./J• J. M. is constantly supplied with first-quality St. Michael's ;es, American Apples, Grapes, Chesnuts, Walnuts, Filberts or Cob Nuts, Raisins, Almonds, fine Nonpareil and French Plums, Pines, and every choice Fine Orange and Shaddock Marmalade, East and West India Preserved Ginger, Tamarinds, &c. &C., Or lar F rortugue J. MIDDLEWOOD'S FAMILY FRUIT WAREHOUSE, 6, PARKER-STREET, ESTABLISHED UPWARDS OF THIRTY YEARS, AND NOTED FOR SUPPLYING T'FIE BEST FRUITS IN THE KINGDOM. BOTANIC OIL, for the growth and embellishment of the human hair. J. M. is the sole proprietor of this inestimable Oil ; and, in addition to the many proofs of its superior effi cacy, he begs to observe he has used it thirty years, and his hair has not experienced the least decline during that period, and is now more healthy than for a considerable time previous to its use. J. M. can with con fid ence recommen d t h e Bota nic 411 . 0040 clearing and rendering the hair and scalp cool, setrao Wottly. Sold in pot b oxes , 2 5. , 3 a . 6d ., an d 5 5., T0%Fta41711 1 44 pkozen. 4ATRIMONY A GENTLEMAN oTtiaiiililiestiespectabllity and eon. nections has two Establishments, called the MATRI MONIAL ALLIANCE, one of which is conducted by him self, to give interviews to Gentlemen, and the other by a Lady, exclusively for Ladies. Portfolios are published monthly, containing copies of Letters, without name or address, in serted by Gentlemen of rank and fortune, by Gentlemen in the Army and Navy, and by Professional and other Gentle men of property, who are desirous of entering into the HOLY ESTATE OF MATRIMONY. It is impossible to appreciate the utility of these Establishments, their beneficial results, or the delicate manner in which they are conducted, except on a perusal of the Rules and the explanatory Pamphlet, in which will be found a thorough explanation of the whole system, and may be obtained by applying personally or by letter to A. 8., care of Mr. Proudfoot, 63, Morlimer-street, Cavendish square, London. The price of the Pamphlet is one shilling, and the Rules are charged ten shillings, as some guard against idle curiosity and the applications of ineligible persons. The Monthly Portfolio is now ready, and contains many Letters of Gentlemen, from the ages of 24 to 55, possessing properly from £4OO to £2OOO a-year, extracts from which can be for warded to Ladies, their Parents, or Guardians, on being fur nished with the age and circumstances of the parties applying. The best references will be given if required, and the most implicit secrecy and honour will be observed. MUSIC-HALL, BOLD-STREET. UNDER THE SANCTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION MR. CROWE begs to announce, that on WEDNESDAY EVENING, the 20th instant, he will deliver A LECTURE ON WILHEM'S METHOD OF TEACHING SINGING IN CLASSES, . . As adapted to E;gli;l;iseby John Hullah, Esq., and intro duced by Mr. CROWE into Liverpool, under the above instruction Rev. A. CAMPBELL, Rector, in the Chair. The Lecture will be illustrated by a few of Mr. and Mrs. CROWE'S Pupils., Tickets of Admission, 6d. each ' • Reserved Seats, ls. To be had at Hintz and Sox's and WEiss's Music Saloons, Church-street ; of Mr. SMITH, Music-seller, Lord-street ; and of Mr. CnowE, at his Private Music Academy, 42, Hunter-street. Mr. Crowe bas the pleasure of announcing, that the above Lecture is hitended to precede the opening of a CENTRAL SINGING SCHOOL, for Male and Female Adults, at the School-ropm, Cornwallis-street, on FRIDAY EVENING, the 22d instant, at a Quarter before Nine, and conclude a Quar ter before Ten o'clock, for the convenience of those whose professional and business occupations may render this period desirable. Tickets, for the Course of Sixty Lessons, 125., or Monthly Tickets, 2s. each, (Eight Lessons,), may be had as above. An early application will be necessary, as the number is *** Mr. C. likewise announces to his Friends and the Public, that his PRIVATE MUSIC ACADEMY will be REMOVED, in the course of the week, to No. 42, MOUNT PLEASANT ; and, at the request of many Families in the neighbourhood, a PRIVATE CLASS for LADIES will immediately be commenced ; also a SELECT CLASS for the JUVENILE BRANCHES. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. TO -MORROW, (Wednesday,) at Half-past Seven, Mr. W. B. HODGSON will deliver the THIRD of a COURSE of EIGHT LECTURES on the PHILOSOPHY of EDUCATION. Admission to Non-Subscribers, Is. LIBRARY.—PubIic attention is solicited to the Library, which now contains Nine Thousand Volumes in the various Branches of Science and Literature, and which receives re gularly Nine Monthly and Eight Quarterly Periodicals. Each Member is allowed Three Volumes of a Single Work at a time, and the same Annual Subscription of One Guinea (for Ladies, 10s. 6d.) which admits to the Library, admits also to the Public Lectures and the Evening Schools. GYMNASTIC CLASS.—The Quarter has just begun. Terms ss. per Quarter. This Class meets on MONDAY and THURSDAY EVENINGS. . . DANCING CLASS.—The Quarter has just begun. Terms ss. per Quarter. This Class will meet every TUESDAY EVENING. . The Quarter of the High School commenced on FRIDAY the Ist instant. . . A Donation of Ten Guineas, or upwards, constitutes the Contributor a Life Member. Annual Members, One Guinea, (the ticket dates from the day on which it was taken out ;) Ladies' Tickets, Half-a-Guinea ; Sons and Apprentices of Members, Five Shillings; Apprentices of Non-Members, Half-a-Guinea. W. B. HODGSON, Secretary. ANIMAL MAGNETISM. On TUESDAY, 12th of APRIL, IUrR. LAFONTAINE will give a CONVERSAZIONE LVI at the TEMPLAR'S HALL, Great George-street, and submit to the Public a series of Experiments. Tickets to be had at the Templar's Ball, 2s. 6d. each. To commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Imputal Vailtamnit. HOUSE OP LORDS.-THURSDAY The Earl of LEICESTER took the oaths and subscribed the rolls of parliament. The Earl of RIPON laid upon; the table a bill for the better regulation of the laws relating to merchants and fac tors, which was read a first time. The Ecclesiastical Residences bill went through committee. Mr. GREENE and other members of the House of Com mons brought up the Exchequer Bills bill, the Spirits Duties (Ireland) bill, and some others, which were severally read a first time. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY Mr. s- WALLACErric7veCll;iareturn of the correspondence relating to the, resignation of the late Lord Corehouse, judge of the Supreme Court in Scotland. The motion was resisted by Sir J. Graham, and ultimately withdrawn ; Mr. Wallace, however, declaring it to be his intention to make use of the correspondence another time. Mr. DUICOMBE then brought forward his motion for rescinding the rule of the house which prevented the presen tation of petitions against any tax under its consideration. His whole object was to establish the broad principle, that the people had'tlic Light at auy dux to petition ttgalnpt any tlx whatever. After some little discussion, in which Sir Robert Peel stated that such a course would be inconvenient to public business, Mr. buncombe's motion was defeated by a majo rity of 167 to 136. Sir R. PEEL moved the third reading of the Corn Impor tation bill, up in which Mr. COBDEN moved as an amendment, " That inasmuch as this house has repeatedly declared, by its votes and the reports of its committees, that it is beyond the power of parliament to regulate the wages of labour in this country, it is Inexpedient and unjust to pass a law to regulate, with a view to raise unnaturally the prices of food., ' The hon. member said that Sir R. Peel had admitted that the object of the bill was to maintain a high price for food, a principle which was pregnant with gross injustice to the trading and working classes of the community. Sir R. PEEL declined to again open up the whole question by following the arguments of the hon. member, but he hoped that the hon. gentleman would not think upon that account that he was treating him with any disrespect. On a division the motion of Mr. Cobden was defeated by a majority of 236 to 86. Mr. HENLEY moved the adjournment of the debate until Monday next, upon which the house divided, and the motion for the adjournment was defeated by a majority of 247 to 68. A second division took place on the third reading of the bill, which was carried by a majority of 229 to 90. Mr. FRENCH then moved a clause to prevent the importa tion of foreign flour into Ireland under the provisions of the act until six months after it should have passed through parliament. Sir R. PEEL opposed the motion. After some conversation the clause was withdrawn. Mr. A. JOHNSTON moved that foreign flour in such a state of acidity as to be unfit for human food, should be admitted at a duty of Id. per cwt., for the purposes of the cotton ma nufactures. Mr. M. PHILIPS seconded the motion, and said that some manufacturers in the country paid £lOOO a year more for flour used in the manufacture of cotton than they would have to pay if their manufactories were in America. After some discussion, the motion of Mr. Johnston was negatived without a division. Mr. WAKLEY then moved a clause to the effect that the sales of injured wheat and flour should not be included in the averages, if such wheat and flour were unfit for human food, and sold for a less price than one-third of that of good wheat and flour. 4 .„Sir R. PEEL thought the proposition would be very delu sice in its operation, and would open the door to very exten sive frauds in the trade. Mr. WAKLEY said he had brought forward his motion at the request of some friends, but from what had fallen from Sir R. Peel he thought it required consideration, and should therefore not press it to a division. The clause was accordingly negatived. Mr. COBDEN then, on the question that the bill do pass, denounced the bill as a robbery of the poor. The bill then passed amidst loud cheers. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY Mr. LIDDELL, - and other members of the House of Com mons, brought up the Corn Importation Bill, which, on the motion of the Earl of RIPON, was read a first time, and or dered to be read a second time on Friday next. The Ecclesiastical Leases and the Ecclesiastical Corpora tions Bills severally passed through committee, after which their lordships adjourned. OTJEZ OF COMMONS.-- . Finn kY A scene of considerable animation took place, in conse quence of Mr. T. T. Duncombe's attempting to present a petition against the income tax, contrary to the rules of the house. The crowded state of the, opposition benches led to the inference that the " whip" had been resorted to in order o enforce the reception of the petition. Mr. Duncombe in sisted on its being received, but Mr. Kemble complained of the attempt thus made to take the house by surprise, and moved the adjournment of the debate upon it until Monday. Lord John Russell and Mr. Aglionby also said it was unfair that the house should be taken by surprise, and eventually the further discussion was postponed until Monday. Sir R. PEEL then moved the order of the day fur bringing up the report of the committee on the income tax resolution. Lord JOHN RUSSELL then rose for the purpose of moving the resolutions, of which he had given notice, asserting that under the circumstances of the country the proposed income tax was highly inexpedient to be adopted. The noble lord contended that it was of great importance to our commercial prosperity that London should continue to be the money market of the world ; but this tax would seriously militate against its maintaining that position, by causing the dispersion of capital in other directions. He dwelt upon the inequality of the t ax — upon i ts i nqu isitorial character—and insisted that the time for the imosition of such a tax was singularly ill chosen and inappropriate, for iu the present state of commer cial distress men of business could little afford the investiga tions into their concerns inseparable from such a tax. If it was necessary to resort to taxation for the purpose of raising the revenue, th e of might with m uc h grea t e r propriety subject real property to they e same probate and le g acy duties to which the other ki n d s might also res or t to thePruperty was already subjected. They , and other taxes on male servants and four wheel carriage s been found profitable wheno the assessed taxes, which had formerly in operation. The noble lord concluded by moving a afeoruneadel Qf c resolutions, laying down propositions upon which he the following inference : That, considering the various means the of supplying the g , ittst p h rices of the ne cessaries it s c h aracter, prese nt deficiency, without enha nc i ng h ce o s u s s a e r itehsaotf thelit'e r o e r n e e m w a b l a e r r f a a ss t i e n x g , tirhaticl u eopimio n of thi s u nequal in its pressure, and which has hitherto been con sidered as the financial reser v e of the nation in time of w is not called fo r b y p ublic necessity, and is therefo re nutaad: visable." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the pro positions contained in t he resolutions of the noble lord were of themselves a sufficient proof that the country was placed in an emergency which called for a measure so stringent as the imposition of an income ta x. It a pp eared to him that the noble lord did not attach a sufficient degree of weight to the fact, that for some succession of years there had been a defibi I ncy of revenue to meet the expenditure of the coun try. t was not me rely because we were at war that Mr. Pm had imposed the income tax, but because the credit of the country required the abandonment of the impolitic sys tem of loans, which at the best, in times of war, were neces- I, In re of the noble lard, that )t the work the investment of capital in our public securities, he adverted to the fact-.-con- I elusive upon that subject—that since the proposition of an income tax the funds had risen. With respect to the in quisitorial character of the tax he intended to make some provisions which would materially mitigate its severity in that particular. With respect to the suggestion of the noble lord to tax real property, he had to remark that there was a double fallacy prevalent on this subject, for real property was in various , cases subjected to the legacy duty, which was not invariably the case with personal property ; and were such a tax to be now imposed it would fall chiefly upon syr all nrnnrietors. whose means would not permit them to avail themselves of those settlements by which large landed pro prietors could evade the imposition of the duty. With re spect to a renewal of the assessed taxes, he must say that such a measure would fall most heavily on the trading" and commercial classes of the community. The income tE therefore, the only means by which they could hope to re pair the disordered state of the finances of the country. Mr. WILLIAMS contended that the landed proprietors were not taxed ir. the same ratio for their real estates as were per sons having personal property, however small. He should propose, when the proper time came, a more equitable in come tax than that proposed by Sir R. Peel, and its princi ciple should be this,—that in respect of every annuity, pension, stipend, dividend, or salary, payable out of the public revenue, of the annual amount of £l5O and under £3OO there should he charged 6d. in the pound ; of £3OO to £5OO, one shilling in the pound; of £5OO to £750, one shil ling and sixpence; of £750 to £l,OOO, two shillings; of £l,OOO to £1,500, three shillings ; of £1,500 upwards, four shillings in the pound. And further, that in respect of all lands, tenements, hereditaments, and real property of every description, there should be charged to every person coming into possession thereof by inheritance or bequest, a duty equal in amount to the probate and legacy duty, now payable on personal property. Sir R. INGLIS suggested that Sir R. Peel should so far concede in the details of his income tax as to allow in all cases the first £l5O of income to go untaxed. This would be a great relief to all persons of small incomes ; and he must say that this was quite consistent with the right hon. baronet's own proposition that incomes under £l5O a-year should not be taxed at all. He would also state his belief that the coun try would prefer a property tax of four or five per cent. to having the machinery of this income tax. Mr. P. M. STEWART approved of the suggestion of Sir R. Inglis. Mr. G. PALMER said, he was not open to the charge of inconsistency because he was willing to give a trial to mea sures with which he was not perfectly satisfied, and with which, he believed, the agricultural interests were not satis fied. He supported the proposition of an income tax on the ground of necessity, and he thought the opposition to it came with an ill grace from those who had brought the finances of the country into such a state as to render the imposition of an income tax indispensable. The new tariff he could not say he agreed in, but as they were to have a new edition of it on Monday, he would only express a hope that such im provements would be apparent in it as to render it less objectionable. Sir W. SOMERVILLE could not conscientiously support the proposition for an income tax, for he did not think the cir cumstances of the country were so desperate as to require the imposition of a tax the nature of which' was so inquisitorial. Captain HAMILTON opposed the resolutions of Lord J. Russell, and denied that the income tax was an aristocratic measure, or one at all calculated to favour the landed interest. Mr. SMELL admitted that Sir Robert Peel had acted in a bold and manly manner, but he thought his first difficulty would be the result of his success. The right hon. baronet could easily carry his income tax ; but when it came to be paid, and when it came to be known that no deduction was to be made for fire, food, clothing, or rent—when all its odi ousness and attendant humiliation should be brought home to the people, they would be tempted to ask whether it was necessary that such a tax should be inflicted upon them—a tax at once unjust, inquisitorial, and immoral. The right hon. gentleman then proceeded to comment on the tariff, contending that the duty should not have been taken altoge ther away from Canadian timber, and that the'duty on sugar should not be maintained at its present amount. They pro fessed not to reduce the duty on sugar lest they should give encouragement to slave-y, and yet they reduced to Bd. the duty on 'slave-grown coffee. He then quoted the speech of Sir F. Burdett, when the income tax was repealed at the pe riod of the peace of Amiens, in the course of which he said that the infamy of an income tax should be stigmatised and branded. If the right hon. baronet once succeeded in put ting this blister on, it would become perpetual, and the more it would draw the more it would adhere. The tax was de nounced by the whole country when formerly in operation ; it had been denounced by Mr. Wilberforce as immoral, and by the late Sir R. Peel, who said that it was the worst tax that could be resorted to by a minister, and that it was a mis take to say that it did not press upon the poor, for whatever pressed upon the middle classes must also press upon the poor. It was an unjust tax; it was almost iniquitous, for it laid the same ratio of tax upon the intellect of one man which it laid upon the acres of another. As soon as the right hon. gentleman sat down, Mr. BROTHERTON moved the adjournment of the debate. Sir. R. Peel rose immediately to speak, and it became a question whether he was entitled to address the house, or whether it would be an evasion if, upon the question of ad journment, he was to address himself to the main question. After hearing the opinion of the Speaker, Sir R. PEEL said, he should adopt this course, and then proceeded to show there was an absolute necessity that the country should make some great effort in order to rescue itself from its financial difficulties. He referred to the flou rishing condition of the revenue when the whigs entered upon office with a surplus revenue of three millions, and to the lamentable state of the finances when they left it, with a de ficit of five millions. In addition to this there was a deficit of two millions in the East Indies ; and yet he was to be told that he had made out no case for the imposition of an income tax. Were they to, be told that this country had met with no disaster? When bad this country met with such a disaster as that which had recently occurred? A whole army butch ered ! Only three persons saved out of £13,000 ! The evil was not irreparable,—it should be repaired by the energy of their councils and by the bravery of their army ; but with such a disaster staring them in the face, and with such an immense deficit in the revenue, how could it be asserted that there was no necessity for an income tax ? The right hon. bart. then proceeded to contend that there was no other eer fistn mode of supplying tho deficiency than by means of an income tax, and that an increase in the assessed taxes, as was suggested by Lord J. Russell; would press as heavily upon the professional man as would the income tax, and would be attended with the additional evil of holding out a temptation to the man of property to reside out of the king dom. With respect to the tariff, he hoped his agricultural friends would suspend their judgments until he should have the opportunity of stating to them the whole case, when he was confident he should be able to show them that their fears from the low duties in that - tariff were unfounded. The right hon. baronet admitted the inequality with which the income tax pressed upon different individuals, but so did every other tax, whether direct or indirect. He also admitted that in quisition was inseparable from an income tax, but if the im position of such a tax was necessary they must be content so to modify it as that the honest man should not pay more than he had a right to do, in consequence of the evasions of the dishonest. The right hon. baronet resumed his seat amidst very general cheering. Mr. BROTHERTON charged the right hon. baronet with violating the rules of the house by speaking on the main question when speaking to the question of adjournment. The SPEAKER declared the right hon. baronet to have been in order. The debate was then adjourned. HORRIBLE MURDER AND MUTILATION OF A FEMALE NEAR PUTNEY. From an early hour on Thursday morning, a feeling of most intense excitement was occasioned in the villages of Roehampton and Putney, and the surrounding neighbour hood of Surrey, in consequence of the discovery of a murder of a most firightful and appalling nature, which was made under the following circumstances :—lt appears, that, on Wednesday evening, Daniel Good, a coachman in the ser vice of Mr. Quelay Shiell (who is said to he an India mer chant, residing at Granard Lodge, Putney Park Lane, about a mile and a half from Roehampton), stopped in a pony chaise of his master's, at the door of Mr. Columbine's shop, a pawnbroker, in Wandsworth, and agreed to purchase a pair of black knee-breeches, which he was allowed to take on credit ; but, having been seen to take off the counter a pair of black trousers also, he was followed and questioned about it, but drove off before the chaise could be searched. In formation being given to the police, policeman Gardner, with Mr. Columbine's lad, and a young man named Robert Speed, proceeded to Mr. Sheill's, to apprehend him. They found him ; and, as he denied the robbery, they searched the differ ent stables ; and, while thus employed, aided by Mr. Ough ton, Mr. Sheill's bailiff, Gardner, in a stall at the further end of the stable, under some trusses of hay, found something which he thought was a dead pig ; and, on his making the exclamation " What's this ?" Good rushed out of the stable, shutting the door after him ; and, before Gardner or his companions could collect themselves sufficiently to prevent him, Good succeeded in locking them in on the outside, and taking out the key, which was subsequently found in a shrub bery near the spot, and effecting his escape. On closer ex amination, the object in the stall proved to be the trunk of a female, and the abdo m en was found to have been cut open, and the entrails, &c., extracted. Superintendent Bicknell and Inspector Busain, of the police, being informed, sent for a surgeon, who found that the head had been taken off at about the third or fourth of the cervical vertebrae, apparently after death. The right arm had also been taken off above the shoulder joint, and the left arm under the shoul der joint. Through the chest was an incision from rather above the sternum, extending down nearly to the pubes ; and another incision, right and left, extending to the osilium. The legs had likewise been taken off, just below the head of the thigh bone. The whole of the cuts through the flesh had been evidently made with a very sharp instrument, the edges being remarkably clean ; while the bones had, on the con trary, been divided by being hacked or chopped with some blunt instrument, the edges being much jagged. The sto mach, as well as the whole of the intestines, the liver, uterus, &c., had all been removed, and were , like the head, arms, and legs, nowhere to be found. In the opinion of the sur geons, the body is that of a female from about twenty-four to twenty-six years of age, and from the appearance of the body it is considered the unfortunate woman had never been a mother ; but whether or not she was eneienteat the time of her death could not be determined, the uterus, &c. being re moved. During the time occupied by the examination of the body, Sergeant Palmer, Y 6, was attracted by a strong and very disagreeable smell, to the harness-room, which adjoined the stable in which the body had been found. The door was found to be locked, and upon its being opened, the stench was most overpowering, and to use Palmer's words, " nearly threw him on his back." Observing a pile of wood in the fireplace, where there was no stove, he found that the pile had been laid ready for ignition, and had been formed as fol lows :—Two blocks of wood formed the base, about a foot and a half apart; across these blocks were two bars of iron, trans versely placed at either end, and upon that other wood had been placed with coal ; the object of thus forming it being evidently to secure a quick vent, similar to that of a furnace. /laving carefully removed the material of the pile, Palmer discovered a quantity of ashes, chiefly wood ash ; and on ex amining them, he discovered amongst them a number of frag ments of human bones in a highly calcined state, which ac counted for the unpleasant odour above mentioned; and on their being shown to Mr. Shillito and Mr. Allen, they at once declared them to be portions of the skull, arms, and thigh bones, and bones of the fingers, &c. of a human being. Soon after daybreak, Sargeant Palmer, 6 V, on turning up some bay in the stall next to where the trunk was found, dis covered a large quantity of blood. This apparently was the . place where the unfortunate woman was murdered, and thence dragged into the next stall, which is wider, for the purpose of severing the body into seperate portions. Sergeant Pal mer afterwards, in the stable, found tied, under some straw in one of the mangers, a mattress, two blankets, and a sheet; which had, no doubt, been procured for the use of the un fortunate woman previous to her decease. The sergeant next searched the harness-room, and collected a great quan tity of calcined bones, amongst which were portions of the skull, and more of the arms, legs, and finger bones. Inspec tor Busain, on Thursday morning, found a large carpenter's axe in the harness room, with which, no doubt, the murder was committed, for the pole was covered with blood. He also found a small band-saw, which, from being covered with blood, was, no doubt, used in severing the arm and thighiu found bones. A lantern belonging to Good was subse q uently fl in one of the hedges. It appears, that , on Thursday evening, about seven o ' c l oc k, t wo men in the neighboured saw Good and a young woman enter the of the spot ted Horse public house, Roehampton. Good was w ell known to both of them, th e young woman was not. They att some grog togetijer, sad sliptTred to but tha latfer said, "jn No, you shall not have it, except with my life." She then told him that she had lost a brooch which he had given to her ; and Good said, " I value that brooch much, and I gave it to you because I thought you would have kept it." Some angry words afterwards ensued, but ultimately went away quite amicably. A boy of eleven years of age, calling himself Good's son, also states, that on Sunday last- his father fetched a woman he called his sister, from No. 18, South-street, Manchester Square, London, where she had lived two years, saying he had got a place for her; and the lad had not seen her since.—The officers have not yet been able to apprehend the miscreant. TO CORRESPONDENTS Neither 10s. nor 4 10 would induce us to insert the mawkish trasl which has been forwaraea to us Luc ucdu though we observe many of our contemporaries have been led to do so, albeit the statements put forward are diametrically op posed to the principles they have uniformly espoused on the subject. . . • • We are directed to caution the public against a man who is going about selling circular time tables. He is well dressed, lame, and describes himself as a bookkeeper laid up by illness. He sold one to a gentleman last week, and soon after came back to borrow it for a few moments to show to a gentleman in an office adjoin ing, as he had not another with him, and lived over the water. Since this the gentleman has never seen it : of course the man had previously received payment for it (2s. 6d.) " W. A. H." calls upon us to notice the doctrines put forth in the pulpit of St. Martin's-in-the-Field; but we must respectfully de cline doing so until our correspondent, or some one with proper information and evidence, shall have laid the matter before the diocesan, and if his Lordship refuse to interfere, we may then have something to say on the subject. - - - - The lines subscribed " A. C." are not suitable for our columns rJ Z.tberpool &tan Dar. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1842 By our report of the Council proceedings of Friday, it will be seen that the insidious motion of Mr. Alder man Evans has been scouted with precisely the degree of contempt which it deserved. We are sincerely pleased with this result. The constituency of the bo rough will rejoice at it; but, more than all, we and they have cause to be delighted with the determined expression of adherence to the principle upon which the present system of education in the corporation schools.is founded, which this cunning proposition of Mr. Evans has drawn from the Conservative majorit in the Council Were we right, we may now ask, when we denounced the proposition in question to invite the inspectors of the Government Education Board to visit the schools of the corporation, as an attempt—a jesuitical attempt — to obstruct the working of the system established by the present education committee ? The debate of Fri day will sufficiently prove that we were right. it was viewed and treated by every speaker amongst the opposition party. The apologetic arguments of the alderman himself in its behalf were evidence sufficient of the fact. We were assured, indeed, that the in spectors had express directions, when visiting schools carried on independent of government aid, to abstain from interference which was calculated to impair the authority of the committee or the masters. They were only to advise—to enlighten—to impart their vast ex perience—to approve, if approval were merited, or condemn, if condemnation was just. They were not to interfere, but to report only; and from that report it was evidently anticipated that the hands of the op ponents of the present system would he strengthened. From that report, from men notoriously wedded to an approval of a totally different system, it is evident that an outcry against the scriptural system in course of adoption in the schools was to have been grounded. The virtual direction of those schools was to have been taken out of the hands of the Council, now that the Council is conservative ; and the inhabitants of Liver pool, as we have before stated, and as was urged by Mr. Alderman Nicol, were to declare to the world that they had not amongst them sufficient intelligence, with out the aid of a government hoard, to decide upon a system of education in their schools by which a few boys and girls might be taught " to read and write and say the Lord's Prayer" We cannot part from this subject without returning our thanks to Mr. Alderman Evans for the compliment paid to ourselves in his opening speech and in his re ply. The worthy alderman, we ar e glad to perceive, is a reader of the LIVERPOOL S TA NDARD. Against the views which we held in an article upon this ques. tion on Tuesday last the whole of his introductory re marks were pointed; and it was therefore not a little unreasonable in him to object to the arguments con tained in the sensible and manly s peech of Mr. Alder man Nicol, that he had already met with them in our columns. If those arguments were just, as the deci sion of the Council and the feeling amongst not a few of Mr. Evans's own friends. proved on this occasion that they were, we cannot, with due submission to the alderman, discover that their validity was materially affected by that circumstance, or that it was at all de rogatory to the gentleman by whom they were so for cibly and effectively used, that we had, less ably, per haps, adopted the same course of reasoning. So pro found a philosopher as Mr. Evens might have reflected that whilst that which is new is not necessarily true, As such what is true is, in nine cases out of ten, not new, Upon mature consideration of all the bearings of the subject, we are compelled to express our preference of the Copyright Amendment Bill, as modified by Mr. Macaulay and Sir Robert Peel, as compared with the original proposition of Lord Mahon. The instances in which an author will outlive the forty-two years, during which his copyright will be protected by the amended bill, will, we believe, be few; and here, even the additional seven years' protection, provided for upon the suggestion of Sir Robert Peel, will answer all the justice of the case. On the other hand, sad expe rience has proved to us how many are those who are not permitted to enjoy one-fourth of this period upon earth,—who pour out the passionate feelings of their souls in a gush of song, or wear away their health and strength in the production of a work of science or philosophy, destined to endure for ages,—and sink at once into the grave, the victims of a too-sensitive imagi nation 'or an overtasked and exhausted frame. To such the protection afforded by the amended measure is greater in amount, and to sustain and encourage such it is more required, than the protection of twenty-five years to reward the few who, having enjoyed the ad vantage given by a copyright during a long life, have failed to realize, from their literary exertions, sufficient to provide for their descendants when leaving this earth. Whilst we cordially approve, however, of this noble effort to encourage the higher walks of authorship, we must confess that we are far from being sanguine as to its immediate effect upon the character of our English literature. It is a fact, although we are far from ad miring the spirit in which it was brought forward by Mr. Wakley, that the reward of modern authorship has been amply sufficient, in itself, to stimulate talent and genius to devote thernselves_to_the,production of works of the highest class. Byron, Scott, Moore, Campbell, and a host of similar names, have reaped from the past generation and are reaping from the pre sent a rich harvest of fame and profit; but we much question whether any mere extension of the law of coypright can render the production of works of sterling Merit and genius similarly productive in the Present day. The laughter and applause with which the buffoonery of Mr. Wakley was received in the British House of Commons, whilst deriding the pro ductions of one of the finest poets of this or any age, are of themselves sufficient vouchers for the fact that the tone and temper of the present generation are little disposed for sympathy with poetry of a high or der. A spirit of mingled utilitarianism and effeminacy has crept over the national mind. Of the English character it may now well be said, in the words of the writer whose beautiful strains were on Wednesday last the object of ridicule to Mr. Wakley and his fellow insensibles— _ . A primrose by the river's bri m , A yellow primrose is to him. Imagination, taste, learning, philosophy, woo the present generation in vain ; the national drama languishes, unable to sustain itself against melodrame and mountebankism ; a taste for the revolting horrors of the romancist has taken the place of the admiration which in better days welcomed the productions of the poet's more chaste imagination ; periodical fripperies have jostled into obscurity our standard writers, and whilst the inflated sentimentalities of a Bulwer, or the Newgate Annals of an Ainsworth, are caught up in rapture, another " Childe Harold," or even a " Para dise Lost," would at this moment, we believe, fall stillborn from the press. An extension of the Copyright Act cannot, of itself, effect the restoration of our literature to a more healthy state, simply because, to produce such a desideratum, the national mind must be first renovated. Such a however, ma' nder t present generation, to reap in better days the re is "denied them in these and we cannot, ther fore, deny to Lord Mahon and his supporters our fervent thanks for the measure of protection which they are about to afford to the only really deserving and valuable literature of their country LIVERPOOL EASTER SESSIONS The Easter Sessions of the peace for the borough of I verpool commenced yesterday, at ten o'clock, before Clarke, Esq., Recorder. The calendar is extremely heavy It contains the names of 115 prisoners for trial, on charges of felony, and 16 for misdemeanours and assaults—total 171. The following gentlemen were sworn the Grand Jury : Henry Harrison, Esq., merchant, George's Dock-gates, foreman; William Ashley, merchant, Everton-road; Simon Crossfield, manufacturing chemist, West Derby-street; Ed ward Challoner, timber merchant, Sefton-street; John Campbell, merchant, Tithebarn-street ; William Byrom Corrie, merchant, Rumford-street; Hugh Duckworth, cot ton broker, Everton ; Thomas Philip Danson, merchant, Covent -garden ; Kenneth Dowie, merchant, Old Church yard ; Robert Heyworth, merchant, Everton-crescent ; Charles Humberston, merchant, Georges Dock Richard Jones, merchant, Everton ; Robert Ledson, house-keeper, Netherfield-road ; Thomas Lightfoot, broker, York-terrace ; Joshua Rawdon, gentleman, Shaw-street ; Joseph Ridgway, cotton-broker, Everton; Jon. Robinson, merchant, Chapel-street; Thomas Stavert, wine -merchant, South-hill ; Thomas Stockdale, soap-boiler, Roscommon street; James Holbrook Smith, merchant, Rodney-street; William Holbrook Tayleure, merchant, Abercromby-square ; Robert Wilson, merchant, Shaw-street; Mr. James Currie Duncan, and Mr. Robert Livingstone, who did not appear when called upon, were fined ten pounds each. The RECORDER, in delivering his charge to the grand jury, said, that in consequence of the excellent arrangements made by the gentlemen to whom the management of the criminal business of this town was entrusted, he bad been enabled to look over all the depositions in the several cases which would come before them. He was happy to tell them, that although the calendar was very numerous indeed, still the great bulk of the cases were not very heavy. At the same time, however, he was compelled to make some ex ception. He was sorry to say that there was a large portion of offenders, whose cases would come before them, who had filled confidential situations, such as domestic servants, clerks, and in different other ways. This was a class of of tenders who could not urge in mitigation the pressure of hard times, or the force of necessity ; on the contrary, they were in the receipt of good wages, and with means quite ample enough to make provision for the ordinary wants of lite. Notwithstanding they were in good and comfortable situa tions, they had, from time to time, pilfered the property of their employers. Now he was determined to watch this class of offenders, and certainly not to spare them with regard to punishment, because as a very learned judge, one of the very best criminal judges which this country had ever seen, Sir Mathew Hale, had said, "There are two kinds of mercy : there is a mercy to the criminal, and there is a mercy to the public." He (the Recorder) was inclined to chew mercy to both as far as he could consistently with his duty, but mercy to the public would be his great principle in the adminstra tion of the law, because property in the hands of these persons must be carefully protected. There was an im portant case, No. 17 in the calendar, of this description ; it was a prosecution against a man of the name of John Barber Love. The amount of property taken in this case was very large indeed. He believed the silk, which was the subject of the robbery, was in a bonded warehouse, and the prisoner was charged with stealing a large quantity of the silk, a quantity amounting to many bales. The way to guide the jury to a safe conclusion in this case, because there were many circumstances in it, would be to look at the dates of the different circumstances, for a knowledge of dates very often lead to a discovery of the truth. All the property was in a bonded warehouse, and this robbery showed the necessity of more frequently examining the property de posited therein. This was on the 22nd of February. The bulk of it was at that time perfectly safe ; all the bales were correct and proper; and the packages were right and correct. In a short time after that, without knowing the precise day, all this property was found traced to the prisoner,—no less than thirteen or fourteen bales of silk, exceeding in value £lOOO. It was traced to him that he had been very active in the removal of it by railway to Manchester ; and when the packages were discovered in Manchester, it was seen that they had been opened, that the original covering on them had been removed, and new canvas substituted. It did so hap pen that when the officers went to the prisener's place in Liverpool, they found in his house a piece of canvass, com pletely corresponding with the new canvass found on the bales, and ingredients for marking them. These were strong facts; and though they were circumstantial evidence, yet if the circumstances were brought home to the prisoner, he thought that upon both grounds—namely , the very early possession of the stolen property, and the circumstance of new canvass being found in his place similar to that which was put upon the bales, and ingredients for marking it also, together with the other facts that would come out in the course of the evidence, would lead the jury to the opi nion that the prisoner was the party who had stolen the property. The law said that the earlier the possession the stronger the case against the party who was found in pos session ; and in this case early possession was traced to the prisoner. As he' had before said, the cases in the ca lendar, though numerous, were not heavy : they were more questions of fact than of law ; nevertheless, if the grand jury found themselves embarrassed, he would en deavour to do all he could to remove the diffnallty.—The grand jury then retired. True bills were soon afterwards sent in against several offenders charged with felonies of trilling importance, and the trials commenced ; but none occurred during the day worth reporting. As we have stated above, the calendar contains the names of 171 prisoners. Of these, 70 can read and write imper fectly ; 41 can read imperfectly ; eight can read and write well ; and 48 can neither read nor write at all. THAMES N tiVRIV CO MP DOCK AND 11A1LWAV ANY. Yesterday an adjourned meeting was held in the Claren don-rooms, South John-street, at the request of Lieut. Am sinck, for the purpose of receiving the reply of the directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, relative to the toll which they would charge for the traffic of the Thames Haven Dock and Railway Company, upon their line from Rumford to London ; and also to afford to Lieut. Amsinck an opportunity of giving additional information regarding the merits of the Thames Haven Company, so as to fill the share list, and complete the works, as well as to the manner in which it is proposed the share list shquld be filled. Lieut. AMSINCK commenced by reading the resolution agreed to at the last meeting, which was moved by Mr. Swift, and seconded by Mr. Willett, to the effect that the directors of the Eastern Counties Railway, be requested to inform the meeting upon what conditions they would accept the traffic of the Thames Haven Railway. This resolution he said, was immediately transmitted to London • and at the monthly meeting of the full board, the directors Of the East ern Counties passed a resolution to the effect, that with every good wish for the success of the Thames Haven Company, the Eastern Counties had so much upon their hands at pre sent that they could not do more than say they were willing to accede to the terms proposed in their resolution of the 9th October, 1840, provided the Thames Haven Company were in a position to close with them upon those terms. This resolution in itself said nothing; nor did it hold out any expectation or anxiety on the part of the Eastern Coun ties directors, that they would support the Thames Haven Company, but he believed, from what he had beard, that the personal feelings to do so was as strong as it could be. They said, however, that the position in which they were would not enable them as directors to ask their shareholders to give assistance to any except their own undertaking, and they could not venture upon the responsibility of diverting money from strictly their own channel. Of course, until the traffic of the Eastern Counties developed itself, there must naturally be some difficulty on the part of the directors to make that profitable which would afterwards make a profit of itself. Since he had received this resolution, he had had a note from Mr. Theodore Rathbone, deputy chairman of the Eastern Counties, who expressed a warm interest in the Thames Haven, and a desire to see it taken up. So that Mr. Rathbone had completely done away with the feeling which he (Mr. Amsinck) had before, that there was a disinclination on the part of the board, and led him to view this resolution rather in the light of declining to pledge themselves. Some discussion took place on the merits of the Thames Haven Railway, and its prospects of yielding a return for the capital invested. Lieut. Amsinck entered into some long details on these subjects, explaining that his object was to ' induce the Liverpool people to take it up, because in that case it would be taken up in London, the coal districts in the North, and many other places, which declined doing any thing in the first instance. He entered into some statements to shew that it would lie a most profitable concern, and said there was this further advantage in joining it, that those who took shares would receive interest upon their payments which would: be invested in the three per cents, so that, if nothing were done, they would receive their money back. The toll of the directors of the Eastern Companies, as stated in their report for 1840, was eightpence per passenger ; but they had not stated the rate at which they would carry merchan dise. After much conversation, in the course of which numer ous questions were put to Mr. Amsinck, it was suggested that a requisition he presented to the directors of the Eastern Counties Railway resident in Liverpool, requesting them to call a meeting of their shareholders here, with a view of as certaining how far it is possible for that company to extend its support to the Thames Haven Company. A requisition was immediately drawn up, and it received the signature of every shareholder in the Eastern Counties who was present. The meeting then separated. Professional Gentlemen and Strangersattending the Assizes are respectfully informed that every description of BATH, Warm. Shower, Sulphur, Vapour, and Medicated, as used so generally in London and on the Continent, may be obtained on the shortest notice , at the Victoria Baths, Cases. street, three doors from Clayton-square, near the Railway Offices and St. John's Market. FLY. FISHING.—The lover of what Isaac Walton calls " the gentle craft," should inspect a stock of flies manufac tured by Mr. Blacker, whose address will be found elsewhere. The specimens we have seen are really beautiful, and appear likely to attract and deceive the " cunning'st fish" that swims. The angler ought now to be preparing for the streams ; and he cannot fill his pocket-book with any better than the flies made by this skilful tier. MECHANICS INSTITUTION.—On 'Wednesday evening last, Mr. Hodson commenced a course of lectures on education, which promises to be a very interesting one. The various influences which operate in the production of human cha racter, were enumerated and illustrated with great fecility and effect ; the principal object in view being to ascertain the place which direct or special education occupies among them. Mr. Hod gson ass i gne d i t to t h e hi g h est p l ace , an d justified his doing so on two grounds : first, as education, including that of home and school, was one of the earliest, and therefore most :permanent,' causes in the production of character; and secon d, b ecause , f r om attention to it, we must look to the proper direction for the other influences. From the well-known general abilities of Mr. Hodgson, and still more from the special opportunities he has had, to mas ter this subject, we cannot doubt that the course will be . interesting to all who recognize in education the chief cause of individual and social advancement. GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.—The congregation of Laura Chapel, Bath, where the Rev. Dr. Tottenham officiates as pastor, having learnt that the church was on sale, and being desirous of continuing his useful ministrations among them, entered into a private subscription for the purpose of raising a fund to present to the rev. gentleman, to enable him to become the purchaser of the church. This fund, amounting to the unusually large sum of £2,560, was presented to Dr. Tottenham, last week, through the medium of Lieutenant- General Innes, and the amount will enable him, with a slight addition from his own purse, to buy the entirety of the chapel, and thus give him a permanent interest in the place. The rev. gentleman was announced to have delivered the fifth of the series of lectures on the Creed of Pope Pigs, on Friday last, hut was prevented doing so through illness, and the Rev. Mr. Baylee fulfilled the task, an abridgment of whose powerful address we hope to find room for on Friday. . CEEDINC fiZe MAYOR communicated the following reply from her Majesty to the address of the council on tho birth of a sP- - " The sentiments expressed to the Queen by this, address are worthy of the patriotism and loyalty of th, council of Liverpool, and their kindly feeling to myself I acknowledge with emotions of the truest gratitude." gratitin THE BOROUGH GAOL respecting the borough alterations suggested by them would cu.. £15,000 the resolutions were referred to thL Ir. Jose pertain resolutions of the magistrates fraol, but as it appeared that the ' cost from £12,000 to Finance Com- the president applying for the splendid paintir lilton, in the Town-hall, to be di .t, for which facilities to the The MAYOR read r time for it 4 lever cease to friends of the present stein in that council would never c der that it could be tation was continued, and that they fairly upon trial whils' unanimously concurred viously ea .ssed, that in the resolution which he had pre they would not date the commence 'orking of the new system until their tate against it both in the council and oppone out of ceased to PARKER said that though Mr. Alderman Evans might sr it presumption in hint to speak on this subject ; he rode sometimes rough-shod over the council, and ssessedimmense tact and talent, yet he could claim no ere t as! prophet. Within a month he had said that whenever consid these bigots and firebrands should appeal to the town, they might expect a rebuff that would astonish them. An appeal had been made since then, arid on this question alone, and proved the feeling of the town was entirely in favour, instead of being opposed to the new system. The • presence of his friend Mr. Brassey in the council was a sufficient proof of the fact. The only inquiry made during the canvass—if canvass it could be called—in St. Anne's Ward was—" Are you sound on the school question ?" That was the only test. If Mr. Evans had come forward and moved a vote of censure upon the committee, it would have been more candid than thus g to effect that object by a side-wind ; but, like a wily general, though defeated by the main body in the centre, be tollows up his attack upon the right and the left wings. He affected to think that the inspectors would put all to rights. Did the town or the council believe that there was anything wrong ? It would be a stigma both upon the town and the committee if the motion was assented to. True it was that the committee had met with great difficulties in carrying out the plans of the council ; but these had proceeded from the minority in the council representing the minority of the con stituency. The council had been told of some enlightened men formerly on the committee ; but there were as good men on it now ; and it was not in accordance with the rules of decorum or courtesy to upbraid them for an alleged want of education and intelligence. Where was the gratitude shewn by the town to the friends of the former system ? All that could be expelled by the constituency from the council cham ber had been expelled. and the few that remained would soon be obliged to follow. Mr. Alderman Evans knew how this discussion must end if the question was put to the vote, and. seeing his position, it would be better for him to withdraw his motion. ..Ir. BRIGHT had listened with attention to the speech of Mr. Parker, but had not been able to discover anything very astonishing in it. As a member of the Church of England; an unworthy member, as he had been termed by that gentleman — .Mr. PARKER.—" I never made use of the expression." Mr. BRIGHT protested that he was an " unworthy mem 'r" with as much pertinacity as honest Dogberry prayed hfs Lo " write him down an ass ;"—launched into adula tion of the surpassing talents of Mr. Alderman Evans, whom he was always proud to follow. " True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon ;" talked about the Douay Bible, amidst the marked impatience of the council ;—and sate down, leaving the body, upon which he had bestowed his tediousness, very much the wiser. Mr. Alderman EARLE could not really see why this pro position should be so strongly objected against. The in ---tnrs only come to see the wonders of the schools—to Ilse if praise is due, and censure if the system is in their opinion bad, Mr. Alderman Bushell — Mr. BUSHELL disclaimed the honour of that title. Mr. EARLE.—You look more like an alderman than I do. The speaker continued—lt was not a common paltry parrot like education which they got in the old schools. The children were not taught to repeat like a gray parrot. In the new schools how could they wonder if a different state of things prevailed ? Why they had chosen for their head master a man who couldn't write English. He had proved it. Their press even couldn't defend the appointment of Stone, but maintained an ominous silence. STANDARD, Courier, and Mail were all dumb! Mr. R. V. YATES was prepared to prove that the schools at present were not conducted under the system laid down by the. Education Committee. Mr. Stone upsets the system of the committee. He had made inquiry as to Mr. Stone, and had got the facts all written down. He had not thought it desirable at first when the disgraceful conduct of the Education Committee had turned the great majority of the children out of the schools to visit them ; but he bad lately called at them, and inquired as to Stone ; he bad asked one of the masters, and found that Stone only comes to the North Corporation School twice a week for a short time. (Order, question.) The MAYOR here interfered, and expressed his opinion that Mr. Yates was out of order, and that the council could not allow the character of Mr. Stone to be thus attacked without notice, and upon exparte evidence. .The proper way would be for Mr. Yates to make a motion upon the subject, and give the party an opportunity of defendin ,, his conduct. Mr. YATES th oug h t he was speaking immediately b to the question. He was proving that inspection was required, and had got a great quantity of evidence in his hand. The MAYOR decided that he could not be permitted to go on. He could make a direct motion if he chose. Several members called for the authorities upon which these charges were made, and upon the name of Mr. Tarff being given up, it was mentioned that the conduct of that i‘vidtial himself was at present under the consideration of nmittee. give pr the cot Royal Institution, of the Cr:ucifixion, posited in tl,- new gallery of public to visit the institution we Mr. Alderman BA no— „.,;LA I' moved that permission be granted, and was seconded by Mr. Alderman Turner, who stated that Mr. Aspinall was ill or he would have attended to make the proposition. Some conversation arose as to the exact nature of the ap plication. and whether the loan of the picture might not be granted for a year or two, but ultimately it was referred to the Finance Committee. HEALTH OF TOWN AND BUILDING REGULATIONS BILL. The MAYOR read a long memorial from the owners of cottage property in Liverpool, regarding certain clauses in this bill, remarking that it did seem strange that, after they had agreed to the bill, they should come, at the eleventh hour, with this complaint against the council. The council determined, after a little discussion, not to entertain the memorial, as the cottage owners had had an opportunity of examining the bill and expressed themselves satisfied with it. FREEMEN'S APPRENTICES. The TOWN-CLERK read his report on the enrolment of indenture of apprenticeship for the freedom of. the borough : " The Town-clerk begs to draw the attention of the coun cil to the by-law, passed many years since, for requiring the enrolment of indentures of apprenticeship within three calendar months after their execution, in order to entitle the apprentice to the freedom of the borough ; and to the many applications that have been made to the council to allow such indentures to be enrolled after the expiration of the three months, on the ground that the parties had been ignorant that apprenticeship to a freeman for seven years still have a right to the freedom to the extent of the par liamentary franchise. " The Town-clerk submits that the frequency of these in dulgencies on applications on the ground of ignorance, which must mainly depend on the. assertion of the party, goes materially to affect the object of the"by-law, which was to prevent the fradulent ante-dating of the indentures ' • and the Town-clerk therefore suggests tha t notic e of the law as to the parliamentary franchise should be publicly given ; and, that after six months from such notice being published, no apprentices, on the ground of ignorance of the law, should be admitted to have their indentures enrolled. " Town-hall, April 6, 1842." Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE stated that a general opinion pre vailed that, by the passing of the reform bill, the freemen of the town were abridged of many of their former privileges which they would now have if they were to pursue the proper course. The only privilege which they had lost was that which enabled their descendants to claiM immunities from town dues. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE moved that notice should be given of the by-law. Mr. BOLTON objected, and said that many wise and influ ential men were of opinion with him, that there was no rea son in these privileges. They gave no notice to county vo ters, and he did not see why they should do so to those within the borough. The TOWN-CLERK said an apprenticeship to a freeeman gave a parliamentary vote, but not a municipal vote, nor ex emption from town dues. The young freemen might claim by birth, whose fathers were freemen at the time of the pass ing of the reform bill. Mr. COOPER thought two months' notice was insufficient, and recommended that it should be extended to six months. Agreed to, and directed to be inserted once iu every paper. THE EDUCATION QUESTION. Mr. Alderman EVANS, after a few preliminary remarks, proceeded to bring forward the motion of which he hadtiven notice—" That the inspectors appointed by the council of education, acting under government authority, be invited, at their own convenience, to inspect the schools of the corpo. ration." He said this motion was a perfectly independent one, and quite unconnected with any other that had been or might be brought before the council. He would remind them that a council of education existed under the crown, which had appointed inspectors over the whole country, whose business it was to arrange the buildings and the management of those schools for public instruction which were carried on by government aid. These inspectors had received orders not to confine the exercise of their experienee and conduct merely to one class of schools, but, when required by schools of independent character to give them the benefit of their knowledge and experience. They bad made many reports to the council and bad acquired a most prodigious quantity of information regarding general education in this and other countries. By calling it, their aid and ar' would by no means compromise the the counc 1 character or imle hoots. They pendence of Liverpool, themselves, or the had directions to render their assistance whenever requires, and on no account, by word or deed, to do anythinv *- pair the authority of trustees, governors, parents, U. masters. In their capacity general officers were sometimes called upon to review regiments without having any autho rity over them, and in some provincial schools it was the practise for university fellows to examine the pupils. At the school where he (Alderman Evans) was educated, a fellow of the College, of Dublin regularly came down to their examina tions. It was quite obvious that periodical visits from men of their knowledge and position would have a beneficial effect over the governors, masters, and scholars of every school. Nothing could be more calculated to arouse attention and alarm, sensibility as to blame or praise—nothing more likely to stimulate zeal and incite to new efforts. It might be ob served that no time had been given for the trial of the new system ; but he maintained that in the progress of change, when they came to such a crisis as the present, they were bound to call in the best qualified to give advice, and put them in the right way. One of his friends, the member for West Derby, at the close of the discussion on Wed nesday, had made a pathetic appeal to the other side ' to abstain in any way from agitat in g further the school question. He would ask, wJio were the real agita tors ? They had schools in which the children of all deno minations of professing Christians received a good, moral, sound. and religious education. Whence came, then, .all the disorder now observable? Children were flitting f rom the schools ; their parents were alarmed ; the masters and mistresses were in difficulty ; and now the council was asked to forbear observations, when every week brought acts of a still further agressive nature. :Recently the town had reason to be proud of the schools. Liverpool was looked up to for a model throughout the country for schools uniting religion, morality, and secular education ; and if inspection was re fused, it could be looked on in no other light than as a con fession that those schools wers deteriorating. It might be asked, " Why was there not a demand for inspection before ?" In point of tact there was no apparent necessity for it ; yet the former committee invited evrybody to come to the schools ; and if it had occurred to them they would, no doubt, have been glad of this inspection. They had nothing to con ceal, but were anxious that all persons should view their pro ceedings. He could not conceive upon what ground the pre sent committee could object to inspection, but should think they would desire it above all things ; and therefore, he had brought forward this motion. He produced the printed re ports of the inspectors, which he recommended to the perusal of the new committee, as containing a mass of valuable infor mation. No committee seeking to subvert one system and establish another would be justified in rejecting it ; and the necessity for it was more evident when two parties so widely differed. Mr. Alderman Bue.LEY, after a few remarks condemna tory of the present system of the Education Committee, and betraying an evident opin ion that the proposition to call in the government inspectors was calculated to obstruct the working of that system seconded the motion of Mr. Evans. Mr. Alderman Nicol, observed that when he saw the notice of motion on the paper, he was not only much sur prised at its nature, but that it should have been placed there by Alderman Evans. Both in the Council and in the Dock Committee he had seen him standing up for the pre-eminence of Liverpool, had heard him speak of its intelligence and the wonders it had performed, and knowing how unwilling and incapable he always had professed himself to be to bring for ward any question from factious motives, he was surprised to find him proposing a motion which left an inference that a town, capable of such wonders, with a council so discrimi nating, intelligent, and well informed, should be unable to do what almost any schoolmaster might do—to teach a child to read and write, and say its prayers. (Hear, hear-) He thought at first that the worthy alderman had brought the question forward as a good joke, and that when he found that he was serious, lie would have shown some great incapacity on the part of the committee to conduct the schools, but he had not given a single satisfactory reason why the motion should be carried. Alderman Evans talked largely of the change that had been made. It was not for him (Mr. N.) to say whether that change was advantageous or otherwise. It was sufficient that the counsel had over and over again re solved that the new system should be pursued, and the com mittee had carried forward their intentions in the most up right manner. These schools had no government grant, and it would be quite supererogatory, therefore, for the inspec tors to report to the council, and no other body had a right to require any report. No longer ago than Wednesday last, the council had confirmed the determination which they bad so often previously expressed. If Alderman Evans would take a survey of the works at the new docks, he would find that there Was some disorder while the improvements were there would of necesst - 9 - in consequence of the alterations. He was not suffered, though on the Dock Committee of Works, to see them - until they were completed, and until the schools were ready for inspection neither government, nor any other, inspectors would have any right there. Mr. Alderman BULLEY remarked that they were ready. going on there —Yes but there's nothing worth Mr. Alderman EARLS seeing in them. Mr. Alderman Nicol, went on to contend that this was nothing more nor less than a continuance of those discus sions with which the council had been treated during the last six months; and which were not only annoying to indivi duals, but discreditable to that chamber, and to the town of Liverpool. Looking on Alderman Evans's motion as in tended to renew them, and considering that it was due to the Education Committee to permit them to carry the repeated resolutions of the council into effect, he should move as an amendment, " That this council cannot entertain any pro position which has for its object avowed opposition to the system now in operation in the corporation schools, until the Education Committee shall have reported the com pletion of their arrangements, and announced to this coun cil that the new system is in full practical working operation in the schools —a. BUSHELL rose to second the amendment. He had just taken the opportunity to put down upon paper three reasons why the committee should not submit to the proposed inspection. In the first place, he deemed the m otives which induced the motion exceedingly questionable. However plausibly it might have been brought forward, looking at the party from whom it had come , it was evidently intended to throw difficulties in the way of c arrying out the views of the council. Secondly, there we re clergye n e and laymen in Li verpool suffi c i en tly nu merous, and quite capable and willing to undertake the duty of inspection. And, thirdly, the in spectors appointed by the council of education were wedded to a p ar ticular s ystem, which this was intended to supersede. But why did Alderman Evans now come forward with the motion according to h is own account; He said he thought inspection was desi rable now there had been a change in the s ystem. There h ad been a change before, and he was a strong party to it ; but he never called for inspection till the change was from a system which he approved, to one he did not like. He thought it would get a condemnation of the present plan from the go vernment ins p ectors, and in some measure o verthrow it. Was the cou ncil, s i x w eeks after it had appoint ed a new head master, going to stultif y them selves by entertaining this proposition before the forms were arran ged ? Were they going to invite condemnation whil e t h e schools were in disorder? A ll th ese motions had th e sam e origin and one object — to throw im pediments in th e wa y of the new system. He (Mr. B.) for on c onsent to an alteration, until he was satisfiel, never w ou ld that the new system was not as good as the old one, and many months .must elapse before this could be . discovered. He would be a himself and his friends, that they would not date He t 1 cal working of the new system until their opponents ceased their opposition. Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE called the attention of the council to an expression which had fallen from Mr. Yates. What did that gentleman mean by the " disgraceful conduct" of the Education Committtee ? Because the committee were anxious to discharge their duty conscientiously, was that matter of.discrbrace ? H e hi mself would never permit such language t o be applied to a body to which he belonged. Mr. YATES denied that he had used the term,* amidst cries of you did" from several members. He was ready, how ever, to acknowledge that he had meant no personal offence. Mr. GLADSTONE.--Mr. Yates should make use of such language out of the council, and then gentlemen would know how to reply to it. M. YATES retracted the words, and the subject dropped. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said, if he thought the motion had been one of peace, he should not have objected to it ; but looking at it as one of the various strategies practised by the opposition, he should oppose it. The schools were at present in their infancy as regarded the new system. They were in a state of comparative disorganisation the masters were untried and unacquainted with each other ; but he had no doubt the system would succeed. Though they were not so full as they had been, they were filling daily, and would soon be favourable for inspection. He was satisfied that the sys tem was a sound, moral, and religious one ; and he hoped that inspection would settle the public mind. He deprecated the interference of the government inspectors. They might come there and publish, but the corporation was capable of managing its own affairs, though be regretted it had ever any thing to do with education, except to encourage others to establish schools. Yet, as it was connected with it, he would not permit any interference. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The quettion had been forced upon the council from day to day, until it had become a nuisance. Mr. Alderman Earle had better, therefore, pursue his agitation out of doors. A por tion of the council were soon again to be tried by the con stituency, and the more the question was discussed amongst them the worse for Mr. Earle's party, whilst nothing had strengthened his opponents so much. Mr. BOLTON said the present system was not one which could be approved of by high and enlightened minds, and it was absolutely necessary to agitate against it. A question of right was never decided by numbers. The schools under the late system had been visited and approved of by many eminent men. The Bishop of Norwich had visited them, and expressed his unqualified approbation of them. He himself had wished that no obstruction to the present system had been offered until after the midsummer holidays. He should, however, give the present motion his support; and, after the midsummer holidays, be should move that such a modification of the present system should take place as would allow the catholics to enter the schools. Mr. PRIESTLEY recommended that the schools should be left open for inspection. Mr. J. LAWRENCE said it showed how the last speaker attended to his duties on the committee when he did not know that such was the case. Mr. Alderman MOLYNEUX had never objected to inspec tion. It was only the other day when a very eminent gen tleman visiting Liverpool was desirous of going through the schools, and he (Mr. M.) not only accorded the permission asked for, but offered to accompany the visitor. He would, if the inspectors of the government board made the same request, be happy to go with them, and afford them every information ; but he would not i nv it e th em, as t h ey were asked to d o by this motion. Mr. FREME must take the opportunity of explaining the grounds upon which he should give his vote against the pro position of Mr. Alderman Evans. The particular system adopted in the schools had no interest for him. He would not quarrel about details. He took no interest in anything except the broad question, and was inimical to the present motion, because he thought it was likely to throw obstacles in the way of that question being favourably considered. There were many persons of influence amongst the party opposed to the late Education Committee, who were `already beginning to shew a disposition to go with them upon this question ; and the present motion would, he was confident, tend more to disgust such parties than to bring about any favourable results. Mr. Alderman EVANS said, that as no ot h er gentleman appeared desirous of speaking against his motion he would briefly notice the observations which had been offered against it. And, first, he would address himself to Mr. Nicol. He could find nothing new in the grounds which that gentleman urged, for all that he had brought forward had already been before the public. The same course of argument had been used in the columns of a local newspaper,—(the Alderman alluded to an article which appeared in the LIVERPOOL STANDARD of Tuesday last,)—and was wholly untenable. For what was there derogatory to the intelligence of Liver pool q i u n e r s e t s io o r rtinstotle advice of the Education Board upon this y be at the schools I He did not ask those gentlemen to come here to dictate to the committee, but to inform them. That board 'was a living arsenal of information ; and he wantedthe com mittee to have the best information and advice, and the pro per time for them to have that advice was before they had completed their system. How had the Dock Committee done ? Why, they had consulted the best authorities in the kingdom upon the management of their docks. They had gone to London and consulted Mr. Hall and others, and examined the system at the West India and St. Catherine's DoCks. And there was nothing derogatory in the Education Committee, upon the same principle, having the advice of the Education Board. He had no intention to obstruct the proceedings of the committee. It had been asked of him w hy the former Education Committee had not been asked for the same inspection. He found, however, on referring to the report in his hand, that the inspectors under the board were not appointed until 1840. A brief discussion ensued as to the effect of the resolution, and the Town-clerk having declared that if carried it would displace the original motion without its being further sub mitted to the vote, Mr. FREME stated, that although he would have voted against the original motion he must also vote against the amendment. The council then divided, when there appeared — For the amendment Against it ........ _ •• • • 137 The amendment was ycarried. The following gentlemen voted in the division — For the arn endment—Thothas Shaw, F. Shand, R. Hough ton, J. Edwards, R. B. B. H. Blundell, T. Sands, E. Rae, J. Lawrence, T. Robinson, J. Cooper, J. N. Wood, R. Gladstone, C. Bushell, J. Proctor, R. Bright , J. Kil shaw, J. Parker, T. Brassey, G. H. Lawrence, S. L. Trot man, R. Harbord, R. Houghton, W. Nicol, J. Bramley- Moore, E. Molyneux, R. S. Crook, and the Mayor. Against it—W. Thornhill, W. Preston, Henry Holmes, T. Bolton, R. Briht, J. Priestley, R. V. Yates , J. Platt, T. Bailey, W. P. Freme, E. Evans, T. B. Barclay, and W. Earle The TOWN -CLERK, on being consulted, gave it as his opi nion that the amendment displaced the original motion. Mr. BUSHELL, on the part of the conservatives, intimated their determination to bring it forward whenever any discus sion should be raised upon the school question. Mr. PLATT withdrew his notice of motion— " That a special committee be appointed to take into con sideration the propriety, or rather the necessity, of having two additional schools, one on the south and the other on the north district of the town, for the accommodation of the lower classes, (of which the catholics form a considerable part,) and to give them a good secular education, but no re ligious instruction.' *The fact that Mr. ates did use the language in question is denied by the Chronicle, and reiterated by the Albion, whose' reporter, however, was not present. We distinctly heard the words alluded to, however, and took them down ; and it was the opinion of the majority of the Council that they had been used. ERIMP.-T1