The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-24 00:00:00

TO CORUESPONDENTS. We have no recollection of having received the document re ferred to by " Antonio." Will our correspondent favour Eli by stating the purport of it. It is with great regret that we have not room for the letter of Fidelius." There has been no new charter granted to the Liverpool Cor poration. The present council is elected under the Municipal Reform Bill passed in 1836. THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHIP. ILLUS PRATED SUPPLEMENTAL SHEET. With the STANDARD of Tuesday next, (being the day previous to the arrival of the Great Britain, Steam Ship,) will be presented a splendidly ILA USTRATED SHi,ET, containing a lengthy description, accompanied with a beautiful Engrav ing of the Vessel, and nearly twenty other well e,Fecuted Drawings of the Mechanical and other departments of this noble vessel. CIRCULATION OF THE STANDARD. We cannot allow another half year to close without tendering our warmest thanks for the immense accession which our Subscribers' List has received during the past six months, and we beg to assure dui -friends that their -kindness will only urge us to increased exertions. Our advertising columns speak for themselves. . Perhaps we may b e excused for suggesting to any per sons desirous of being furnished with the now indis pensable requisite of a newspaper, that with our own the present period is a very suitable one to commence. Ebt Ztberpool &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1845. • The full carrying out of the anti-Protestant policy of Ministers in Ireland appears to be viewed by the country as a foregone conclusion. The loudly ex pressed repugnance of the people to further conces sions to Popery has been treated with obstinate scorn, and almost derision; and, in return, the peo ple seem disposed to sit down in passive quietude, and look on, without stirring a hand, whilst the barque of the constitution is wrecked upon the breakers towards which she is fast hurrying. There is a kind of philosophy in this course. It may not be dictated by wisdom ; but it is natural notwith standing. The wealthy and noble of the land, the men of commerce and of acres, sunk in dreams of money getting, borne along upon the vortex of spe culation, will not listen to the voice of warning raised by their humbler fellow countrymen ; and the latter have certainly reason on their side when they say to those who despise their persevering efforts, "We will no longer fight this battle alone. Go on in your course of selfish madness until THE CRASH shall come, and you awake to the consciousness of your lost liberties and of the utter ruin of those in stitutions which Englishmen have ever held dear"! In our own town—in once " Protestant Liver pool"—we fear we must confess to the existence of this feeling of hopeless lethargy—this want of the disposition, on the part of loyal and constitutional men, to embark heartily in a course of resistance to the designs and encroachments of their opponents. The principle is there which has inspired our Pro testant masses and led them on to victory in times past.. The heart is still sound and staunch ; hut, we venture to predict that, they will not readily be in duced to stand forward and put out their arms to win further victories. They are asking themselves —" what solid advantages have our past efforts won as ?" They are brooding over the more than sus picion that they have been used in the hour of emer gency, and thrown aside in the hour of triumph ; that they have been the step only in the ladder by which others have climbed to the enjoyment of power and honour, and have been cast down as unworthy of a care or a thought the moment the occasion, for which they were courted and caressed, had passed by. Press them as- we may to register or to' organise; and the entreaty falls upon deaf ears. cal bono? is the meaning of their mute re sponse. They will not stir. In the meantime our oppo'nents and the sworn enemies of established or der are elate with . the consciousness of coming triumph and of the disheartened condition of those who have so long stood between themselves and the accomplishment of their fell designs. They are fully organized and prepared for the struggl whenever it may come. We cannot but deplore this lamentable state of things. It will bring about changes and results which we scarcely dare to contemplate. Whatever may be our feelings of disappointment—however much we may have cause to feel aggrieved by the coldness of some, and the selfishness of others, in whom we have confided, for whom we have struggled —we cannot safely cast away that strength and or ganization which are required to enable us to struggle again when called upon. It may be that by holding back, we may precipitate a crisis which will arouse backiliding Conservatism to a sense of its danger and of its duty ; but we should still retain in our hands the ability to aid its newly awakened energies in repairing the consequences of past errors. It should be ever borne in mind that in the present day the battle of principle is fought with Consti tutional weapons. What will avail, then, the return of the mass of the British people to a knowledge of their duty and a resolve to perform it, if the loyal and true-hearted have thrown from their hands the only weapons which give the triumph ! We appeal to our fellow townsmen, and to our fellow Englishmen, to throw off their desponding and apathetic temper, and to place themselves, by attention to the registries, in a position to resist further fatal encroachments upon their Protestant liberties, or at all events to read a lesson to their enemies, and to their backsliding friends. Let us not have our local government once more handed over to the blighting sway of Whig-Radicalism. Let us not be doomed to see Liverpool represented in the British legislature by an abettor of revolution. Above all, do not let us he voluntarily condemned to the degradation of confessing, when appealed to for our suffrages by some good man and true, of whom there are thousands left in the land, that from a petty spirit of pique or a cowardly distrust of the strength which is in the truth, we have disabled our selves from being of service to our country in its extremity ! We May have, bye and bye, to expose certain doings to our opponents, in connexion with this matter of the registrations, in which the officials of the newly liberalized Board of Guardians of Toxteth. park, figure somewhat strangely. For the present, however, we must refrain and content ourselves with requesting the friends of the good old cause, in that staunch district of the borough. to keep their eyes open and beware of trickery. The absurdity of the practice of duelling has of late been tolerably well exemplified. In the case of Col. Fawcett, a distinguished soldier and an amiable man was lost to his country in a quarrel which a few hours' reflection, or a trial before any petty jury, might have decided ; and, in the more recent case of Lieutenant Seton, a life has been sacrificed, accotd ing to " the code of honour," by a man who, ac cording to the evidence, had been perfecting him self in the art of murder by practice in a shooting gallery, only a few hours previously to meeting his unfortunate opponent. Yet the man is held disho noured in civilised society who refuses to place his life at the hazard of a bully's or a maniac's aim. Good men may applaud such refusal. Here and there a Roebuck may be found ready to plead "pri vilege" as his immunity from the appeal to the pis tol ; but as long as men act in the fear of man — until society reforms its habits of thinking and judg ing of the actions of its members—so long will the law continue to be outraged, and human life be called upon to be perilled for a rash word or a dis courteous action. We have been not a little surprised during the past week to see this morbid passion for the Leib:), as the best an.l only mode of atoning for personal delinquency, all but vindicated by th e hi g h est l ega l authority in the empire. In a suit f or di vorce, be fore the Lord Chancellor,in which Capt. Heaviside was the plaintiff, a witness proved the infliction of the severe beating which, it will be remembered, the Captain inflicted upon the seducer of his wife—Dr. Dionysius Lardner ; and his lordship is reported to have interjected the remark, intended to he jocular, no doubt, that the learned doctor appeared to have been " more of a philosopher than a hero." If this re mark 'meant anything at all, it meant that the reci pient of the beating in question ought to have fought the man he had injured. To submit to be bela bottred with • - w cudgel was philOsOphic ; 1 td have goie out with Capp. - Heaviside, and run the risk of aelging the crime of murder to that of seduction, would have been the conduct of " a hero" r. 9 This is certainly in the worst of taste. It is bad com ing from an old man ; of sobered passions, in whom both his yeara and his habits ought to have infused better and higher views of human conduct; an I it is bad especially as coming from the keeper of the royal conscience, and the highest law officer under the crown.. His lordship might have remembered that Dr. Lardner could not have shewn himself " a hero" without breaking the law and running the risk of becoming a murderer ; and, moreover, that it is precisely this flippant way of sneering at men who do not.rehort to the pistol which tends to per petuate the practice. Apart from all considerations of a religious cha racter, the willingness to fight a duel is not a test of heroism. It is not even a test of courage, in the best acceptation, or in any proper acceptation of the term. It may evince a certain stolidity of mind which is often mistaken for courage. It may spring from a recklessness of life, which is not courage. It may be the result of mere impetuosity of temper; but rarely can it claim the virtues of genuine, in nate bravery. Viewed in this light, it ought to be scouted, along with the torture, the trial by fire and water, and other inventions of the dark ages; but on far higher considerations it ought to meet with the reprobation of all Christian communities. Such, we are happy to observe, is the growing feeling to wards it of the British public, and of the military authorities, who have wisely regarded its practice amongst military and naval men as an offence against the regulations of both services. We must do more, however, than this. We must endeavour to bring about in the public mind that. 'ab horrence of the practice which will stamp with infamy not only every man who has " killed his man," hut, as well, every man who has run the risk himself, or offered the opportunity to another, of be coming a murderer.. In this view of the practice we are borne out by the following able remarks of the London Record:— "Such a man as Colonel Gardiner could despise any imputation on his courage, for his prowess had again and again been signalized in the face of contending armies. Ills extraordinary change of character had al-o attracted a great degree of wonder, which his remarkable consis tency ripened into respect, and when, just a century ago, he died on the fatal field of Gladsmuir, deserted by his own regiment, but disdaining to seek safety in flight, he only acted up to the character which was recognised by the army and the country. Another, although a younger, contemporary of Gardiner's, the gallant Colonel Black adder, was, in like manner, able to condemn the fashion of the day, and to decline a challenge. But not only had his courage been signalized under King William and the Duke of Marlborough, but in the earlier years of his life, before he was converted to the true knowledge of God, be had met, and killed in single combat, an officer who pro voked him to fight. The recollection of this calamity pressed on his mind, and is often mentioned, in his inte resting diary, as a source of penitential sorrow, even to the end of his life. At one period after his conversion, being asked to fight, he refused to commit so great a sin ; but Marlborough being about to storm a fort, Blackadder volunteered to go on the forlorn hope, and invited his antagonist to accompany him to the post of danger. In our time, equal courage and determination was shown by another gallant officer, Colonel Oliver, of the Artillery. He, too, refused a challenge more than twenty years ago ; and we blush to say that he did not meet with the support he ought to have met from the heads of the arrny, although they acknowledged that in the mitter which occasioned the challenge he had strictly acted up to his public duty. Their quarrel was, not with his refusing the challenge, but with his accompanying the refusal with the declara tion, that he would not shelter himself under the mere military objection that the offence was one arising out of his official duties, but that he would on no occasion violate the laws of God as recognised in the Articles of War." We may be told that without some such mode of determining quarrels or resenting injuries society cannot exist, and the decencies of individual conduct be preserved; that " physical strength alone would be feared, and the brute would rule the roast." The objection is simply absurd. A bully who can snuff a candle at twelve paces—one of your shooting gallery heroes—is quite as noxious and intolerable a character as any other vulgar ruffian. The insolent and swaggering possessor of physical strength may knock you down and inflict some trifling injury upon your person, which a basin of water or a plaster will remove ; your more polished ruffian, in full pistol practice, carries your life in the box which holds his hair triggers, and the honourable (!) portion of mankind declares that you are dishonoured if you accept insitt ,at his hands, whilst you can repel it only at the, almost certainty of death ! A sum, amounting to nearly £lOO,OOO per annum, is annually lavished upon the miscalled " National System" of Education in Ireland—a system which, professing to be for the benefit of religionists of every kind, is practically administered for the sole benefit of members of the Romish creed. A fur ther sum having been conceded by the present Government, for exclusively Romish Education— (the Maynooth Endowment)—it has occurred to the Hierarchy of the Established Church in Ireland to make another application for some Government grant, in aid of the Protestant Schools of that country, at present left to depend upon voluntary support ; and a correspondence upon the subject, between the Pritnate of Ireland and Sir Robert Pee), has just been made public, in which the latter de clines to accede to the just demands made to him by .the friends of the Established Church. The pleas put forth by the Primate may he thus recapitu lated. First, on the part of the Clergy, it is stated by his Grace : " I would now solicit your attention to this important question; and in doing so. I would also mention, +hat having recently, in conjunction with a majority of the Irish prelates, deemed it right to re-state publicly the grounds of our conscientious objections to the National system of education, and our reason for endeavouring, to uphold, as far as is in our power, the schools which are founded on the principle of making the _poly Scriptures the basis of instruction, our sentiments have been re sponded to by seventeen hundred of the clergy, who have expressed their concurrence in the views which we put forward." So far as the Protestant Clergy of Ireland are con cerned therefore, the preponderance of feeling to wards the accordance of the aid demanded is mani fest ; and when we bear in mind the deference paid by Government to the Romanist Clergy on every occasion, it does appear a little significant of an utter disinclination to support Protestantism in that country, when we see a prayer so reasonable, and so strongly supported, treated with contempt.. In addition, however, to this claim put forth on behalf of the concession—oh that we should have to use the word, when the party to he conceded to is the Established Church of the land !—of the nobility and gentry, the proprietors in fee of nine teen-twentieths of the soil of Ireland, are in favour of the measure proposed. With respect to the peo ple—the merchants, traders, manufacturers, farmers, and yeomanry " Petitions to the same effect, continues the Plimate. have been presented to Parliament during the present session, signed by more than sixty thousand persons. It is, therefore, in the name of a majority of the prelates, and more than three thousand of the nobility, gentry, and clergy of Ireland, and supported by the petitions of sixty thousand of the people, that I make this appeal to her Majesty's government." And what is the prayer of this majority of the property and intelligence of the country, which a professing Protestant Government refuses to grant ? It is that the state, which now cherishes and endows Romanisn, should support, in part only, ONE THOU SAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY SCHOOLS, affording a scriptural education to 103,883 children of rlie poor, which are voluntarily, and thankfully, resorted to by 32,900 Roman Catholics and 13,500 Protestant dissenters--nearly one-half of the scho lars therefore not being members of the Establish ment ! and yet, whilst this is the case—whilst these schools are resorted to voluntarily by members of all religious persuasions, anxious for the blessing of scriptural education, whilst the miscalled National schools are almost exclusively Popish, the only argu ment of the Premier in favour of this resolve to confine the favours of Government to the latter is, that his pet system "interferes with no religious creed "—an emasculated abortion—a kind of half way house between Christianity and Infidelity. Alas fin- England—once styled the bulwark of the Christian world ! We are truly fallen upon evil days, when one of her legislators, and that onethe chief. of ,her legislators and the adviser of a Chris tian and Protestant Sovereign, can pursue a course so unrighteous and so opposite to the spread of religious truth. THE IRON TRADE.—We learn that sales of bar-iron have been effected at Newport as low as £7 ss. per ton. The demand from abroad has fallen off, and the price is looking down—while several of the smaller houses are forcing sales. The home market is better supported, and prices maintained. As regards Scotch pigs the " time bargains " have bad a serious effect, but there is evidently an improvement, and more legitimate business doing.— Mining Journal. TO THE PROTESTANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN. Brother. Protestants,—A '• National Club" having been formed in London "in support of the Protestant principles of the constitution, and for raising the moral and social condition of the people," let me moat earnestly entreat you to lose no time in establishing similar clubs in every county and every borough town throughout the United Kingdom. Let our indignant voices be raised on high against the abandonment of those great religious principles which, through the blessing of Almighty God, have made England happy, great, and free. Let their sound be heard through our Protestant vallies, and let our hills re-echo the cry, till our land be filled with the same. Then let every honest and sincere Protestant pledge himself upon the altar of our God that he will employ every constitutional means in his power, between this time and the dissolution of parliament, to ensure the re turn of those members who will make the Bible the foundation of their legislation. If we pursue this course and leave our cause in the hands of the Almighty, he may still be entreated for our land and England's downfall may be averted. Let nothing disappoint you of your object. Keep the end steadily in view. Resolve on attaining it, and you will do so. Let no difficulties deter, no cold-heartedness prevail amongst us. Let time rather strengthen than diminish eur exertions. From week to week, from month to month, go onward in your course ; and as each year revolves have your an niversary meetings in your respective localities. Let the day be fixed from year to year, and let everything yield to your being present at the anniversary festival. I have, the honour to remain, Biother Protestants, with every respect, your obedient and devoted servant, WINCHILSEA and NOTTINGHAM. - Eastwell Park, June 20, 1845. PORTRAIT OF THE REV. HUGH MiNEILE, BY S. HAWKSETT. We have been favoured with a private inspection of a portrait of the Rev. Incumbent of St. Jude's, by the above artist, which we have no hesitation in characte rising as the best likeness which has hitherto been painted of him, and in fact the only one which conveys the spiri tualised cast of feature—the mind playing over the coun tenance—which is so striking in Mr. M'Neile when en gaged in his ministrations. In painting a portrait of such a man, the expression of whose features varies with every variation of thought or feeling which moves him, —as he dwells upon topics suggesting pleasurable emo tions, or assumes the solemn and stern office of a moiri tor,—the difficulties which beset an artist are most formi dable, and are only overcome by genius of a high order. Mr. Hawksett, in his treatment of the subject, has dis played such genius. He has caught the happiest expres sion of the rev. gentleman—that which his friends most love to contemplate. The intellectual smile upon the lips, imparts to the quick eyes and the expansive forehead a softness and a charm which are indescribable. The posi tion of the figure is well managed, and one almost pecu liar to himself; and the details are very finely brought out. The head, especially, seems to stand out from the canvas as if instinct with life. The colouring of the face may be remarked to be somewhat more ruddy than is generally to be observed in the living original. It may be explained, however, by stating that the portrait was taken whilst the rev. gentleman was on a visit last year in Ireland, from which his friends are aware that he always returns embrowned with more than his usual health. An engraving has just been completed from this paint ing, a proof of which we have seen. It is from the burin of Mr. Lupton, the distinguished London artist, and very faithfully reflects the representation which Mr. Hawksett has succeeded in conveying to canvas. Every admirer of Mr. Wisleile ought to possess himself of a copy. We may add that the original painting may be seen for a few days at the office of Mr. El. J. Webster, Rumford-street, previously to its being hung up in the rev. gentleman's own residence. SUGGESTED PLAN OF PERMANENTLY DEEP ENING THE BED OF THE MERSEY, ALONG THE QUAY-WALLS. We last week briefly noticed a plan for this purpose suggested to the Dock Committee, in the specification that accompanied Mr. William Stewart's project for the landing-slips at George's Pierhead ; and we now furnish it in his own words, as follows : " The Dock Committee having, in their programme for the present competition in landing-stages, invited competitors to give suggestions for further improvements, I consider myself authorised to remark, that while almost all the minor rivers in the kingdom are in progress of improvement by embankments and otherwise, and al though the river-walls, as well as the dock-basins, in Liverpool, are continually encumbered with sand and mud, nothing is being done to free them permanently from that inconvenience. " In order to effect the permanent scouring and deep ening close by the river -walls, I beg. to suggest that a wall of rough stones be thrown into the river, in a line from Garston Saltworks to the Harrington Dock-pier, and formed so as to cause the descending current to sweep along the whole line of the Liverpool dock-walls, and thereby remove all the sand, reud, and other loose mate rial that may be deposited there. Any obstruction aris ing from rock, and such like material, could be in whole or partially removed at much less expense than that con tinually required for clearing the entrance-basins to the docks, which would be greatly, if not wholly, reduced by the lowering of the ground, and the increase of the cur rent along the river-walls. " What Ihere suggest is only a partial, but I will ven ture t) say, it would be so far an effectual remedy: to do the work properly would require a general plan, begun at above Runcorn Cap, and continued down the river as far as Formby Pc.nt; such a plan well studied and exe cuted, would eventually aive a permanent channel up and down the river, and completely remove many of the shift ing sand banks which new infest the channel, and incon venience the navigation. " Inasmuch as these improvements are connected with the special object of the competition, the clearing away of the sand and mud banks which encumber the river along George's pierhead, would enable the steamers of all classes to approach close to the pier at all times of the tide, so that one or more inclined plane, parallel to the course of the river, with a self-acting stage, that is, rising and descending along the inclined plane by means of a float, and connecting machinery could be constructed at a comparatively trifling expense. This would completely supersede the necessity of works of any kind projecting into the river. Abundance of room would also by this means be left for the construction of a suitable basin in side the river wall for the ferry steamers to run in and shelter during stormy weather, thereby securing a passage in all weathers. "The proposed wall between Garston Salt-works and the II irrington Dock quay would cut a great sand bank in two halves, (the " Garston Sand,") also the " Devil's Bank." That half inshore of these banks wonld be avail able for agricultural purposes, and Ihe other half on the river side of the wall, would be carried away by the cur rent, and thus render to the river as much space for con taining water, as would by reason of the wall be taken from it between the wall and the shore." A subscription has been commenced in this town for the family of the late Thomas Hood. Mr. Clow, of the firm of Tennants, Clow, and Co., will take charge of any con tributions. Yesterday, a child, nine years old, named Margaret Langton, fell from a flat in the basin, top of Oldhall street, into the canal, and though taken out of the water alive, she expired before reaching the hospital. SUDDEN DEATHS.—On Sunday afternoon. John Tho mas, a custom-house officer, ou board the brig Matchless, Icing in the river, fell down on the d, ck of the vessel, and died almost instantaneously. He was 56 years of age.— On the same day, Mrs. Bridget Lappen, who had arrived from Ireland on the previous day, expired very suddenly in Virgil -street. Both parties died from apoplexy. FAsnrowAstE Annivaes.—The following have been among the fashionable arrivals during the past week at the Imperial Hotel :—Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, Dean of Kilmore (Ireland), Hon. F. Stewart, Hon. W. B. De Montmorency and brother, Capt. Deacon (13th Light Dragoons), Rev. Dr. Hinds, Dr. L'Estrange, J. Har man, Esq., Messrs. Dawson, Phillipson, Bushby, &c. THE GREAT BRITAIN.—This noble steam-ship (which is expected to reach this port at the early part of next week) was at Plymouth onFriday, and made an excur. sion rood the Eddystone Lighthou.e. On entering the Sound, while under weigh Captain Husker: had the helm put hard sport, and turned the immense ship completely round in about six minutes, and then, by reversing the screw, had her worked astern, and having stopped her way, turned her round in a circle, the diameter of which scarcely exceeded her own length. HOUSE HORBERY.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, a loo'e looking youth, named William Walsh, was cliirged with having entered the house of Mr. Mercer, publican, Leeds-street, and therein stealing a quantity of money. A policeman said that about one o'clock that morning he hew d a noise in the house, and on giving the alarm, by pulling the bell, Mr. Mercer came down, and the prisoner was found between the outer and inner door, with a quan tity of copper in a handkerchief, a half-crown in his cap, and other monies, to the amount of £1 I7s. 3d. It ap peared he had got in by the skylight. Some of the copper was identified. He was committed for trial at the sessions. STREET ACClDENT.—Yesterday, an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Michael Gal loway, a labouring man, aged 63. Yesterday week, the deceased was engaged in sweeping the road on the east side of George's Dock Basin, when two carts came up, one on each side of him. The foreboard of one of the carts outside struck the deceased on his chest, and knocked him down, when a wheel of the other cal t passed over his left shoulder and chest. Neither of the carts were going at a quick rate, and both drivers had hold of their horses' heads. Deceased was taken to the Northern Hospital, where he died on Thursday. Verdict, " Acci dental death." FATAL ACCIDENTS.—On Thursday, a carter named Ambrose Fisher, aged about sixty, was in a yard in Water-street, loading his cart with cotton, when in hook ing a bail, the hook slipped, and be fell on the sill of the warehouse door, and thence into the lower story, head first. He was picked up insensible with a wound on his head, and died the same day.—Yesterday morning, a plumber, named George Sword, went to the head of the barque Bland, in the Prince's Dock, to mend a pipe, when his foot slipped on the rail, and in falling his bead caught the side of a boat lviog in the dock, and he fell into the water and sank. He was got out in a few mi nutes, by means of the g r appli ng -i rons , b u t was qu i te dead. He was not very sober at the time. 8 THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD: GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. A special general meeting of the proprietors in the Grand Junction Railway. Company was held in the Cot ton Saks' Rooms, Exchange-buildings, at one o'clock yesterday, for the purpose of considering and deciding upon several measures proposed to be authorized by seve ral acts of parliament in the present session. The chair was taken by John Moss, Esq., chairman of the directors. The CHAIRMAN stated that the business to be brought before the proprietors was little more than formal, and he did not apprehend it would occupy much time. Only two bills would require to be confirmed, namely, the Trent Valley Bill and the Preston Brook Bill. Mr. SWIFT, the laW-clerk, said he had the Preston Brook Bill before him, - and he would read it at length if required ; but it would probably be sufficient shortly to state its object. (Hear.) The purpose of it then was to enable Lord Francis Egerton to make a railway , from the Grand Junction Railway at Preston Brook to Runcorn; and the way in which this Company was concerned in it waft this—that at the end of the bill there was a clause authorizing Lord Francis Egerton to sell, and this Com pany to make it, and also authorizing this Company to raise money to pay for it. A PROPRIETOR asked if Lord Francis Egerton had agreed to sell? - Mr. SWIFT replied it was his lordship's purpose to sell. The PROPRIETOR—Has he agreed to the terms ? Mr. SWIFT—The terms are that we take it off his hands and make it. The CHAIRIIAS—The fact is, he was in Parliament before we were. Mr. SWIFT said there were arrangements going on with regard to other matters now before parliament, which need not be detailed here. (Hear.) The only purpose of this bill was to authorize Lord Francis Egerton to sell this r ilway, and to authorize this company to make it if they thought fit to require it. The CHAIRMAN then moved that the bill be confirmed, and that the usual powers be given to the directors ; to consent to any alterations or additions that they might judge expedient, or that parliament might require. The motion was carried unanimously. Mr. Scv 'FT said the next bill requiringtheir approval was the Trent Valley Bill ; and it came before this company be cause they were to provide a portion of the capital not ex ceeding 13 ,899.£50 shares. The billauthorized this company to create capital for the purpose of taking up those shares. The Grand Junction Company were interested in this line just as any other shareholder—that was to say, they took a large number of shares, and provided for them by means of new shares to be created afterwards. There was nothing in the other parts of the bill affecting the Grand Junction, except a power that parliament had given, authorising them to use the line upon certain terms, to be fixed by the Board of Trade in case of difficulty. The CHAIRMAN moved a resolution approving of the bill, and it was unanimously carried. The meeting was about to separate, when Mr. CHARLES TURNER rose and said, a good deal of anxiety was beginning to be felt concerning the creation of the new quarter shares ; and he asked the chairman if he felt at liberty to make any statement respecting them. If he were at liberty, the meeting would be much obliged to him for some explanation. The CHAIRMAN said the meeting had been called for a special purpose, and no other business could be entertained, but he might undertake to state there was no doubt the quarter shares would be made at the next half yearly meeting, which would be held in August. (Hear.) It might. be considered, indeed, as a settled thing that the shares would then be made. Of course, a good deal de pended upon getting their bills through Parliament; but independent of that, be thought it might be considered as settled that the quarter shares would be made. It was merely a matter of time. The Directors had unanimously agreed to make them, and as be had said before the share holders would be recommended to make them at the next half yearly meeting in August. (Hear.) The meeting then separated. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS. Friday was the anniversary of the National Schools in connection with the Established Church,when the children of the various schools assembled at 9 o'clock, at the Blue Coat School, and proceeded from thence in procession to the Town-hall, headed by a considerable number of cler gymen. At the Town-hall they were joined by his Wor ship the Mayor, J. Lawrence, Esq., the Town-clerk, and other gentlemen, when they returned to St. Peter's Church. Divine service was commenced at this place,by the children singing the 100th Psalm ; after which the Rev. J. Brooks, senior rector, read prayers, and an ex cellent sermon was preached by the Rev. John Rushton, D.D., the venerable Archdeacon of Manchester. After the service a liberal collection was made at the doors in behalf of the schools. The following is an account of the number of children in the schools connected with the Established Church, within the parliamentary boundary, on the day of the anniversary : SCHOOLS. Blue Coat Hospital Female Orphan Old Church Hunter-street St. James's Welsh Charity St. Pau 's I St. Mark'. Everton & Kirkdale Mill-lane, Everton, St. M ary's,Xii kdale St. Simon's Edge-hill St.Clernent's, Wsr. St. Michael's .... St. Andrew's .... North Ch. of Engd., South Do. St. Bartholomew's St. Augustine's .. St: Bride's St. Jude's.. St. Catherine's St. Luke's Christ Church St. John Baptist St. Barnabas' St.Thomas',Toxth. Mariners' Church .' W. Derby Workhse. L'pool Industrl do., 3 1 Schools.. DAILY, INFANT TOTAL. 6 O Qa C. 5 1 5973 54431114:6 SHARE MARKET—YESTERDAY.—EFFECT OF THE DECISION ON THE BROAD AND NARROW GAUGES.— We had an active business yesterday, and the transactions were numerous ; yet the market may be said to have been flat, and prices to have had a downward tendency. The effect of the decision, as to the broad and narrow gauges, has not exercised a perceptible influence. Grand Junction are however firm, whilst London and Birming ham are quoted a turn lower. Most stocks however have shared in the general depression, even the successful broad gauge line itself, (Oxford and Worcester.) In Great We,tem we have not a quotation or a price fixed. On this subject there appears a different feeling in the London market, both these lines having advanced several pounds per share on Saturday, whilst Birmingham and Rugby, the competing line to the former, declined. ST. H ELENS.—MON DAY, JUNE 23.—TWO fatal acci dents occurred her: on Friday last, in collieries belonging to Messrs. Broomielaw, extensive coal owners. The first took place at a mine in Eccleston, to a young man named James H uyton, who, as he was ascending the shaft, was struck by some stones which fell from the side and knocked him out of the basket. He was taken up quite dead.—ln the other case, a youth named William Littler was the victim. The accident took place at a pit in Black brook, and one of the witnesses at the inquest, which was held on Saturday, gave the following account of it. " On Friday night, about ten or eleven o'clock, the ground where I was at work was torn open with great violence, and with much noise, making altogether such a commo tion as 1 never heard in a coal pit. There was an explo sion of foul air, and I saw the fire passing along the up brow. After the first noise all the men made towards the pit-eye when the foul air ignited at the deceased's candle. The tearing up of the earth must have been occasioned by the foul air forcing itself out of a lower vein of coal, but I never knew such a thing to happen before though 1 have worked fifty years and upwards in coal-pits." The deceased was burned so seriously that he died six hours afterwards.—ln both cases the jury found verdicts of ac cidental death. WOOLTON NATIONAL SCHOOLS.—These schools, at tached to Woolson Church, are attended by upwards of 220 children, of both sexes. On Thursday forenoon last the examination of the girls and the infants took place at the school-rooms, in presence of the respected incumbent, the Rev. Robert Lister, and a number of the subscribers (chiefly ladies) and others, who expressed themselves much gratified by the neat appearance of the whole group, and the manner in which they acquitted themselves. The girls, were examined in reading, and in the Church Cate chism, and the infants in the usual routine of infant school education. After the examination the whole of the boys, girls. and infants—all neatly clad—walked in pro cession to Woolton Wood, the seat of Henry Ashton, Esq. After going through the beautiful pleasure grounds and gardens, they were conducted to the delightful lawn in front of the hou , e, where they were regaled with tea, bun loaves, &c., served to them by several young ladies of the neighbourhood, who were assiduous in their kind atten tion to the joyous little guests. The haymakers in the adjoining field were also regaled with tea. After the children enjoying themselves, to their full extent, they were drawn up in order, and sang " God save the Queen," " The Evening Hymn," and, in conclusion, " The Bene diction." • CLAIM FOR DAMAGE DONE TO A VESSEL—At the police-court, yesterday, an information was laid against Ed - ward Pritchard, a pilot, by the owners of the schooner Helena, for damage done to that vessel by the brig Lyra, running foul of her in the river, through the alleged negligence or mismanagement of the defendant. who was then in charge of the latter vessel. It appeared that both vessels and others were about to enter the Salthouse Dock, or some other in that neighbourhood, on the evening of the 4th instant, when by some means the two vessels named became entangled and considerable damage was done to the Helena, a German vessel. There was also a pilot on board of the Lyra at the time, and his orders to the other pilot were obeyed nearly to the point. It appeared, however, that little or no blame was attach able to either of the pilots, who had acted for the best under the circumstances, but that the crew of the damaged vessel were at the time at their supper, and could not be got upon deck in time enough to veer away cable, which would have preventeil the accident. Mr. Rushton, who consulted with Mr. Askew the harbour-master, said that they ought to have been in readiness to meet such a contingency, and that damages could not therefore be allowed to the applying parties. 250 1( CORRESPONbENCE. BOROUGH ELECTION. 1 75 414 4'•3 153 89 170 146 280 200 155 143 310 19! 266 194 154 143 80 125 70 10. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR.,—I must re-echo your question in your article of Tuesday, and ask, " What steps are taking to carry out the recommendation of Mr. M'Neile with respect to the registration?" and beg leave to suggest what should, in my humble opinion, be the first step. A comm i t t ee ( a real working one) should be formed, the town divided into districts, and the regular canvassing and registration machinery got into working order as speedily as possible ; and, in the mean time, I would recommend all Protes tants, especially my brother Orangemen, to lose no op portunity of ascertaining who may be put on the registry, and render all the assistance in their power to increase the Protestaut constituency.—Yours truly. AN OLD CANVASSER. Liverpool, 2181 June, 1845. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Six,—Could I bespeak a few lines of your excellent newspaper for the purpose of stating a few discrepancies in the police department, as regards their effect and bear ing upon the interests of the regular Licensed Victualler ! From the language of the Stipendary on the bench, and the conduct of the police, a publican is now to be fined for " having drunken persons in his house ;" the proof of such drunkeness resting upon the ipie Aril of the officer! Wby the replenishing of a single glass may cause the du biety in look and appearance, which a too-captious police man may swear to be " drunk and disorderly 1" for there can be no fixed limity to capricious minds. But the germ of the evil ties in the use made of this magisterial law : a landlord cannot—nay, dare not—call in the aid of a policeman to quell or to take away any suddenly turbulent parties in his house, but the tables are instantly turned upon him' by the policeman forthwith summoning him before the stipendiary magistrate for having drunken per sons in his house,—and the odds are in favour of his being fined ; if not, he loses his time, has his name pub lished, and must go home with " a caution ;" will not this be a caution to keep the police away from his house, and let the belligerents fight it out in some back-room ? A respectable publican, of 20. years' standing, merely went for the poli c e t o takei in charge, for safety, a drunken sailor, who the other day had reeled into bis house, with out his hat, when the policeman ignorantly taunted and insulted him with having let the sailor have liquor, which, if he could prove, he " would pull him up for IL" If these encroachments are persisted in, our police will soon exceed the powers of the French gendarmerie ! Let rule and order be maintained; but what landlord will call in the police for that purpose, if he is the only person to be victimized ? The truth is, that the police force are under some strange and unaccountable infatuation, of late ; for many public-houses can sell with impunity during the hours of divine service, notwithstanding all the supposed vigilance of what is called the spy system—which is more hateful in moral effect than any wrong it detects, and will, consequently lead the public mind to be more favourable to the wrong-doer than to the police-decoyer ! I cannot but think that our police-force requies a tho rough searching into, both as to discipline, fixed rules of conduct, and superintendence ; and it is fit matter for reflection, whether the duties of superintendence, be stowed, with larger salaries, upon two superintendents, north and south, would not be more effective under one supreme watchful head, as in the time of Messrs. Whitt) , and Miller : it is quite possible that Mr. Dowling may place too much reliance upon men sprung from the ranks. The late case of Mr. Potts, the printer, is one essentially in point. I am, yours truly, A MEMBER OF THE PROTECTIVE SOCIETY. Liverpool, June 171 h, 1845. • INTENDED NEW CHURCH AT SEACOMBE. Yesterday afternoon, according to announcement by placard, a meeting was held at Parry's Hotel, to devise some plan of collecting the balance of a specified amount for the building and endowing of a church in Seacombe. The placard stated that the amount required was £3,000, that only £2,364 had been contributed, and that unless the sum of £636 was collected before the 10th of August next, a considerable portion of the amount already pro mised would be withdrawn : hence it was presumed that there would be a full attendance of the inhabitants and a lively interest excited to bring the matter to a successful issue. The Rector of Wallasey, (Dr. Byrth,) Messrs. Winch, Atherton, Parry, Skipper, and Titherington, only were present; and after some preliminary conversation, The RECTOkt stated that he regretted to see that the sub ject was, apparently, a matter of indifference to the parties on whom they were desirous of conferring the boon—that he in conjunction with some of his friends, had gone from house to house, and that nothing more could be done. Ihe land owners did not seem anxious to assist, and the great bulk (fully £2,000) of the money given, was actually neither more nor less than a gift from others in a distant part of the parish to Seacombe. He considered that meeting as final ; and as he saw very little prospect of building the church, he would take the opportunity of stating that £5OO of the amount was placed entirely at his disposal, and that he should not be fulfilling the intentions of the donors, by permitting it to lie dormant, and if by the 10th of August, the remainder of the money was not pro vided, he should proceed to build Day, Sunday, and In fant Schools, on a large scale near his own church •, and he like.ise might tell them that another portion would also be withdrawn and applied to the building of an Infant School in another part of the parish. Ile proceeded to read over the names of the donors, and the various amounts ; and stated that a personal friend had allowed him to say that if they came within £lOO of the sum re quired, he would cheerfully add that amount to his al ready very liberal donation, and then added the doctor, with considerable energy—who will give me the remaining £536 ? Mr. WINCH said he had had a conference with Mr. Mainwaring, who had allowed him to say that be might be put down for £lOO, at least, leaving £436 still deficient, for lack of which sum there is every probability that the scheme will prove abortive, and that Seacombe will yet remain destitute of a house of prayer, unless the friends of the church in that neighbourhood exert themselves. We hope they require nothing more than the bare men tion of the facts in this short report to bring them to a sense of the responsibility unquestionably devolving upon them. NEW BRIDGE ACROSS GEORGE'S DOCK NORTH GUT. —Many of the public, wishing to cross to Cheshire, have, for some weeks, been rather inconvenienced by the closing of one of the bridges (at the north end of George's Dock), for the purpose of fixing a new one ; but this was a neces sary obstruction, and those from the north part of the town, who may have got a little out of temper by having to go round to the bridge at the south end of the dock, will, we doubt not, recover their good humour when they cross the new bridge, which is open for the first time this day. This bridge (on the swing principle) is nearly double the width of the former one, and has two carriage ways, so that there will be no stoppage of vehicles, one way being appropriated to carriages going, and the other to those returning to or from the quays. There are also two good fnotwalks, on each side, protected by neat iron railings. The whole bass very neat and light appearance, and will, we doubt not, be found a great additional con venience to the public, who cannot but be satisfied with this additional endeavour of the Dock Committee to im prove our quay approaches. The bridge is swung round more rapidly than on the old principle, and the machinery is so compact as to he ornamental. We have little doubt but that a similar bridge will, ere long, be substituted for that at the south end of the same dock. CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILW AY.—A special general meeting of this company was held on Saturday, at the Clarendon-rooms, to considet the draft of the bill before parliament authorising the extension of their railway from Grange-lane to Bridge-end, and amending former acts. Mr. W. Jackson was moved to the chair, and on taking it explained that, after having intimated his intention of retiring from the chairmanship on the repu diation, by the shareholders, of the sale of the line to the Holyhead Company, he was only induced to accept it now from the circumstance of the Board of Trade having expressed its opinion contrary to the propriety of such sale, and his own perfect liberty to do so with honour having been declared by Mr. Glyn and Mr. W. 0. Stanley. Some conversation not within the legitimate business of the meeting was raised by Mr. Paxton, who wished to have the terms of the proposed sale of the line to the directors of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Company, gone into ; and a question having been put, the chairman stated that £66135. 4d. per share had been offered to the proprietors of the Chester and Birkenhead, also a bonus of one share in the Cheshire Junction to be allotted to them fbr every two shares'allotted in the last-mentioned line. I hese terms, at the present market price of the shares in the Junction, (X 7 premium,) made up the price to the Chester and Birkenhead pro prietors of £7O per share. Mr. Paxton contended that, considering the price offered by the Holyhead Company, this was a fair relative price to sell the line at to their friends and neighbours, and he, for one, would agree to the sale. Mr. Patton proceeded to enter upon some details as to a conversation in a committee-room in London, in which dispar aging observations had been made with respect to the repudiation of the contract with the Holyhead line. After a long desultory conversation, it was agreed that, to enable the two companies to work togethet amicably, the subject had better be dropped. At the conclusion of the meeting, Mr. William Laird put a question to 'tor. John Jackson, whether, directly or indirectly, he bad stated that Mr. Laird had availed himself of the knowledge which he possessed as a director of the Birkenhead and Manchester Company to purchase shares, in order to avail himself of the expected rise which might accrue on the proposal to purchase being generally known ? Mr. Laird stated that he had applied in two other ways for -an explanation, and received no answer. Mr. John Jackson stated that he had answered the ques • Lion, and gave a flat constradiction to the report. Mr. Cochrane believed Mr. W. Laird to be incapable of such conduct, and Mr. Jackson incapable of making the state merit imputed to hiaa. After a short altercation between the parties, the meeting adjourned. Subsequently to this meeting, the Provisional Committee of the Birkenhead, Lancaster, and Cheshire Junction Railway, came to a resolution to withdraw their offer to purchase the Chester and Birkenhead line, and to seek to carry out their views by another set of operations. MECHANICS INSTITUTION, CREWE.—OD Saturday last. Mr. Felix Weiss delivered an introductory lecture op the science of chemistry at this institution, which was listened to with the greatest attention by a numerous au dience. The lecturer, though, as he stated, no professor of chemistry, most successfully suited his subject to the capacity of a mixed audience, and by avoiding techni catitY,, succeeded in instructing many and pleasing all. His style is simple, but at the same time interspersed with anecdote and well turned. June• 24-1846, STATE OF THE CROPS.—S E c oND NOTICE . In our paper of the 3rd instant we furnished some ee" count of the crops, especially in the southern counties: from the information of a gentleman well versed in ru t " ) affairs. At that time some of the wheats in that quarter had suffered from the wire-worm, and others from the wen was preval ence o f cut ti ng east w i n d s , b u t our wee was of opinion th a t su b sequent fi ne weat h er wo uld do much to revive and strengthen them, and `the late Wadil rains and genial sunshine have, by all accounts, realiz ed this expectation. H e h as s i nce b een on an agricultural tour through Yorkshire, part of the county of Nott ing : barn, and part of Lincoln, in all of which, and thei r neighbourhood, the crops generally were very promg,' having been grea tly i mproved b y the late ra i ns . The" ri was everywhere a promi s e, or almost certainty, °f abundant hay crop, a n d t h e fi ne appearance o f the pots st fields indicated a h eav i er re t urn than f or some years ~Pith athis period of the year. T turni crop—of a great breadth has been sown— he also' lo p oked rem arks. well. The Swedes,. or early sown, had made an excell en t " braird"; and in most districts the whole-might be al: sidered as already safe from injury, to any co nsiderab extent, by the attacks of the fly. This, in c onjuncti°2 l . with the grea t h ay crop, w i ll make the next w i nter 's s ea r son a much m ore a d vantageous one to the stoc k fstrl l d, than that which has passed, which, it will be remember, was, owing to the failure to a great extent of both tou;. staple articles of feeding, a most expensive one. The ir abundance this year will no doubt also cause a reductio n in the price of beef, &c. As regards the w h ea t crops i n t h e count i es n ame d, al though their appearance has lately very much i m prove a . it is quite evid en t to exper i ence d practical,, farmers 01 the yield will fall short of that of last year. In this neighbourhood, should we have much more Nin e during the present month, a great deal of the wheat wi ll b t " lodged " b e f or e i t can have filled in the ear,—the re°s serious injury that c an b e f a l thi s crop , w hi c h h a s beole o tall and heavy in the leaf by the late rapid vegetation: We have now had rain enough to carry all the corn Crce to perfection, and what is wanted now is dry weather. Fruit crops of every. kind are most promising. blossom on forest trees, thorns, and indeed trees of ev e " kind, is of the richest description, and indicates abun" ee dance of seer s . Thi s , t oget h er w i th the f i ne appeara nce the orch ar d, g i ves t h e m o st positive evidence o f the effect of the brilliant weather of last summer, whiebt is peculiarly favourable for rip en i ng t h e woo d o f 'every Haymaking became pretty general in this neighbonr,, hood last week ; and this week the mo wers will be bit!: at work all ov er the country. The grass is more as' ordinarily heavy. COTTON MARKET-JUNE 23. According to the opinion expressed in our last report, very extensive bu s i ness was t ransac t e d i n C o tton; the sales of the week reached nearly 50,000 bales, without e e ,,' advance i n p r i ces . T o -d ay t h e d emand i s less animate"' and the tone of the market somewhat subdued. noldere show their stocks freely, but do not press them. BuY er o ° consisting almost e xc l us i ve ly o f consumers , evince n - anxiety to purchase any beyond the supply of their irnfae: diate wants ; some of the heavy spinners keep replenie bili t thtir stocks, w hi c h i s on l y a w i se an d j u di c i o u s step, at the present low pric es curren t. S ea I s l an d s are in gre a t demand, o w i ng t o t h e f a il ure o f t h e forthcoming cr o p from drought. UNITED STATES.—The Great We s t ern , whic h EOUld leave New York o n th e 12th, i s expected here on Tbor i ; e thy. The Columbia, from Halifax and Boston, will due on Sunday. BRESLAW, JUNE 14.—0 n the 9th inst. the village ° , l. Alt Berun was al m o s t w h o ll y d estroye d b y fi re , 00 „,I Y, O brewery and t wo sma ll h ouses h av i ng escape d. 4 ." he sick females and 18 child ren per i s h e d . N ear l y all houses were constructed of wood. The failure of Mr. Bentall, a member of the London Stock Exchange, is mentioned in yesterday's Ti His liabilities are said to amount to £70,000. Mr. Smith, the proprietor of the shooting oiler,' i n Holborn, expired on Th urs d ay morn i ng l as t from e a abscess caused by the wound in his back. It may be IT membered he was shot l as t J u l y b y t h e H on. M r . Tuche who was tried, and acquitted on the ground of insanitY• THE GAUGES.—Lord Sandon, Sir Howard Doug las' Mr. Entwisle, and near ly a ll t h e mem b ers o f the Of,. vernment, voted in favour of the broad gauge, and cfp' o l sequently against the reco mmen d a ti on o f t h e Boar ° Trade. SEVENTEEN HOUSES BURNT DOWN.—On ThutsanS last a fire burst out at Southenolton, Devonshire , a n d , burnt with great fury for several hours. Notwithstsbnic ing three engines were qu i c kly on th e spo t, no fewer t e ," 17 dwelling-houses were entirely dest ro yed and otb " partially so, and many others unroofed. , mb GREAT PIGEON-SHOOTING M ATCH .—The grea t i afor between the " Old Ones" and the " Young Ones , fieida . £lOOO a side, came Off' on Saturday, at Battersea - u ' The terms were 50 birds each, 25 y ar d s ' r i se , doubl e Vrd and five traps. Col. An son , C o l. B en ti nc k, an d i l, Macdonald repre sen t e d th e sen i ors; an d L or d Blandfo tbe Lord Huntingfi e ld, an d th e H on . Ridl ey C o lbcrne' t juniors; Mr. Osb a ld es t on was t h e ump i re . The 1. 1 .;„" 1 0 .. was—" Old Ones"—C o l. A nson kill e d 42, L o rd 7 5 2 donald 39, and Col. Benti nc k 17 ; t ota l, 98 killed. an 0, missed. "Young Ones" Hon. R. Colborne killed tot' Lord Blandford 40, an d Lord Huntingfield, 41 ; t°t 123 killed, and 27 missed. DISTRESSING AFFAIR.—A disastrous and s in g lllB tb tragedy took place at th e b eg i nn i ng o f t h e present mond, at Constantinople, on board a steamer from Trebis Two dervishes—a class usually of mad fanatics - I ,e r, among the deck passe ngers , an d w hil e s it t i ng tog i et aa d under the influen ce o f op i um , count i ng t h e i r beaus ; ; tO l muttering prayers, one of th em su dd en ly d r ew his P'"; a tt and shot a Greek who was passing by. An Arme n ' Wag who thereon ran t o t h e ass i stance o f t h e f a ll en man •,,b. next killed by re : ea t e d s t a b s, f rom t h e ot h e r deerh, The madmen the n rus h e d t o t h e a f ter part o f the re9seof and succeeded in woun di ng s i x o th er perso ns, (le e t he whom, an Austrian, is since dead, by which time an — d . captain and some o f th e crew h a d armed themsehrea,,, fell upon and killed th e d erv i s h es. Th ere were n Turks on board, but they sat passively by. PAUPER LUNATICS.—It appears from a parliameot.ertel return that there ar e c h argea bl e to t h e par i s h es con 3 P r i l l i e b in all the unions of England, the population of 271 amounts to 13.026,664. in the month of August last,L. fe lunatic paupers, of whom 3,181 were males, and 4,09"01 males; and 6,882 idi o t s , o f w h om 3,271 were mal e `' old 3,611 were females. Thu s th e gran d total of lunat tes nots pauper idiots amounted to 14,153. Of th ese unforeu-ie; creatures, 6 were under 5 years of age ; 40 unde r 046 818 under 20; 2,828 under 30 ; 3,117 under 40; 'or under 50 ; 2,272 under 60 ; 1.430 under 70 ; and 59 ,t er w wards of 70 years of age. 3,554 were d a ngerous to t Aitbf selves and to others; and 2,390 were of nasty or P , i t s habits. The average cost o f th e i r ma i n t e nance w! n s ,ed county asylums, 7s. 31d. a bead p er w e e k; in pee houses, Bs. 31d. per week ; and elsewhere, 2s. 'oil week. In Wales, out of a . population of 884,173 a 1 of are 379 lunatics, and 820 idiot s — ma ki n g a t° — 1,199. roi s " THE CIRCUITS.—The report of the Circait C°olsf sioners was issued on Saturday. On the Partsis question, relating to the northern circuit, the Cor a t o sioners are divided in opinion. Three of therrniforit judges and a country gentle m a n , thi n k that ei th er : t ies, or Lancashire, or some part of one of those e a t hao should be annexed to the duty of two Judges oth er 00 8 those travelling the northern ci rcu it. Th e rn ajoritYi h ialt Judge, four barristeFs, and one country g -areentlemsli ns t her r that no such change should f or th e present at le ° l ' adopton that ed. With the exception of the _Judge, " opini no efficient and permanent alte r ation ,e-', ;• made without increasing th e p resen t num b er of inagprost but, to guard against accidents, and " upon the s a P n r to tion, however, that yo ur Majesty may think i' bu t act on the former opinion"—al l the Commissin ee yoriv one agree in recomme n di ng , no t t h e annexa linn Of a ye!, shire to any other circuit, but its erection in t° , g t"' circuit of itself. The duties of the judges travell' a dorst Norfolk circuit being far lighter than those of any . 3 ' tbey. not occupying in general more than three vce e ' l ji bs" propose that as soon as the Norfolk circuit shs_daat a ended its labours, which they suggest should teen:forlo with Bucks, its Judges should rattle off by rail to a il with such a tail of Queen's counsel, sergeants, o ,l' r , barristers, as may be disposed to foll ow them thitue froth that this comet should there be joined by a n ebut'l a the northern circuit! PROFESSOR MACMILLA N ' S V ENTRI LOGITISI Lf observe that this talented ventriloquist gives `P ic Roy on Wednesday, of his extraordinary powers, in r° tlleoorl' Assembly Rooms, G rea t G eorge - street . The P well worthy of public support. mo re HOLME'S GREAT C LOTH M is Wit..h !; 3 1,114 b. we refer our readers to an advertisement of this e % h tbe c ' ,hi want in our piper of t o -d a y. Th e s y s tem on ye sa v s e t business is tran sa ct e d i s o ne th a t canno t fail to gt_ k i g faction. To purchase and sell for c ash, their st uc k we think, surpassed by any house in the countrY• le dge; BEATING THE MAIL.—An lowa editor , acloZ a ce s ° o the receipt of co ngress i ona l documents in a . a nd the mail," in consequence of a flack of vio'r e ; i tie • old she bear cha s in g the post rider across the PI LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 0.15, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED N; OP EVERY TUESDAY HOKU M A JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove - s tree. ;, LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great O r ford-stre e ' At N 0.4, ST. GEORGE'S CREaCIiNT, Lles°.:000:ell Orders and Adertisements are received by Messrs,,,l'l ee e g ert CO , Warwick-square ; Barker and White, r a le s J 3 l' l . OlY cdß D oei r e un a cr i tHl o : nna dare; lmeot-ns drtl,oroeol:esk7et,pi Joseph LewisoTmyhob Thomas, Lombard-street; li r :; Few c ti e n;e r c, y mh - 3. l l a ,tac n cnn e aee r s\ici e l , ) 1 .:70:00.1 edC Gg o a r no ; hill; at the London Commercial Cofieerhouse,l4„tpter ,icrh° at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cornhill; fee-house, Paternoster-row; North and SO*‘",,,ve-m b ilo; Coffee house, Threadneedle-street ; Parsons , n i/% 0 , lane, London ; Johnston and Co., Eden "17.,,rket . : e rlel:1 r l sc Wheeler, Exchange-street, and C. H. Le VriS ' Manchester; Haddock, and J. and W. Booth orrlV Warrington; Clarke, Pilot-o ffi ce, Preston; a l " Darn, Herald-office , ' p E ti ir o m n for ingGermss o f sdu-boffirice this p a one year, £1 3s. ; half-year, ilr 100* advance—one year 41 Is, ; half-year hst e' ST 111 ' 1 of hek i sp vk lOie I • t t T hts h l"ru e al , F to„, AT O'e t °f I 1h P1)0 S k4e p oi • Tjek tpe Bat e h e 41 h e A ge I\t b ---- - APC iN,„ "tri es P4lli 4 te,Ors n't uerect r, Jt o OE I , ti 8 ze i tt , 0,. li th l ly in 4