The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-22 00:00:00

Tom Awrie.Sir, 0411140 M 111 new attibiting tar 1414 Raba w.--- - 14 Dolti4twt, noxt to tP9 Triode, voliv good a Connol:nu houlti inspect them. P4 kiHRASIA.—This agreeable and interesting exhibition is remaining open for a few nights longer. It is one of the best panoramas that has been exhibited in this town for years. THE HARP.—This graceful and noble instrument is now greatly in fashion amongst the higher circles. Those who wish to become proficients should apply to Mr. Barre de Ballicourt. AVILHEM'S SYSTEM.—Miss Hammond, whose vocal and instrumental abilities we have frequently had the pleasure of noticing with commendation, has commenced teaching on the Wilhem system. Her classes are exclusively for ladies. SUDDEN DEATH.—Last night, a man, in the garb of a sailor, called at a house of ill fame in Sir Thomas's-buildings, and had scarcely sat down for a moment, when he expired, without the slightest intimation of any previous illness. VALUABLE PROPERTY.—We notice in Mr. Williams's advertisement, which appears elsewhere, that he has some very valuable property, of every description, on sale. Those who are desirous of investing money, cannot do better than apply to him. He has also some excellent houses to let, in eligible situations. SOMETHING NEW. - 111e members of a Society held at the house of Miss Vicars, in Tarlton-street, Church-street, have appointed Mr. Neville, at the corner of North John street, in Lord-street, to take their likenesses, to be placed in the Bar. Many are already done. When the number is complete, it will be the most unique exhibition in the king dom. SCROFULA.--In referring our readers to Mr. Allen's ad vertisement and address, we may state that we have seen se veral very eulogistic testimonials of his skill and ability in the cure of this disorder. In one case the grateful feelings of a patient, who was restored to health while under his hands, are too eloquently described not to be true. MR. TEMPLETON'S CONE ERT.—This accomplished singer's concert this evening is expected to b e very fashionably at tended. The programme is very well selected. Our friends frae the Tweed" will be delighted to notice that several specimens of Scotch minstrelsy will be sung in the course of the evening. —Mrs. St. Allan is announced, we perceive, to perform a solo on the pianoforte ; this will, no doubt, gratify most of our musical readers. UTTERING BASE COIN.—A woman, named Mary Ann Proctor, was brought up yesterday, before the atipendiary magistrate, on charges of having uttered to two different par ties two base shillings, in payment for bread, fx.c. The cases appeared to be clearly proved, but, as some further evidence against her is expected, she was put back for further exami nation. A Loyal Orange Benevolent Lodge was opened on Monday evening last, by the district master and officers, at the St. George's Tavern, Shaw's-brow, above one hundred of the brethren attending, with a good band, playing several national airs.' Many new members were made, and the utmost good fellowship and harmony prevailed to a late hour, when the company separated. A BAILIFF COMMITTED FOR THEFT.—Yesterday, one of the low wretches who execute distraints against the poor, named William Astbury, was placed before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of stealing a coat. It appeared that Mr. Daniel Hughes, tailor, missed a jacket from his workshop in Lord street, on 'Wednesday afternoon, and gave information to Mr. Tunstall, pawnbroker. It so happened that the prisoner went to Mr. Tunstall with the jacket, and he was accord ingly given into custody. The jacket was identified. The prisoner said a woman had given it to him to pledge. • lie was committed for trial at the sessions. The prisoner was a few days ago before the court on a charge of gross misconduct, if not dishonesty, in making a distraint, but, owing to some technicality and defective evidence, he then escaped. • TIIE COLUMBIA STEAMER.—The London Standard of 'Wednesday evening last, contains the following remarks, which are very judicious :—" No apprehension whatever need be entertained for the seeming delay in the arrival of the steamer Columbia, with the North American mails of the 4th instant. At this period of the year the transit in all parts of Canada is extremely difficult, and the breaking up of the frost frequently occasions a delay of many days in the passing of mails from one part of the province to another. The steamers from New York to England have several times been detained for Canadian mails, owing to the state of roads after the winter season. We hardly need remark, that the Columbia, like all the other ships of her line, is found in every respect as a first class sailing ship, having great abun dance of spars and sails, with 60 days' provisions 'and 40 puncheons of water over and above what is usually consumed on the passage.' The very admirable code of instructions prepared for the guidance of their commander and engineers, seems, to us p er f ec t. an d to prov id e f or every cont i ngency. e have no doubt that on the arrival of the Columbia her performance of duty will prove of the same character that has so eminently distinguished this line of steamers, and which has obtained such high credit for the gentlemen to whom their management is entrusted. STEALING A BASKET OF - VALUABLE CLOTHES FROM A CART.--Persons from the country who receive clothes from families in the town to wash, would do well not to leave their carts for a moment in the street, as we have now to record the second instance within a week of a theft of clothes thus left, for a very short time, without any one to watch them.— Yesterday, at the police-court, John Edwards, a youth, Ca therine O'Donnell, an old woman, Ann O'Donnell, and Julia O'Donnell, her daughters, and Matthias Mulligan and Jane Fitzpatrick, young people, were brought before Mr. Rushton, on a c h arge o f being concerned in stealing a basket of clothes. Some of the prisoners had been apprehended early in the week, and were remanded till that day. A long investigation was gone into, but the principal facts were as follows :—lsabella Banks, of West Derby, was employed to wash clothes by families in the town, and amongst them by Mr. P. Bourne. She received a quantity of wearing apparel, table linen, &c., to wash, at that gentleman's house last week, and sent them back in a wisket by her cart on Saturday af ternoon last, in care of a young man named Orred, who drove the cart. She alighted at Mr. Bourne's, leaving the cart op posite the door, and was absent only a minute or two. Mean time the wisket, which was at the tail of the cart amongst other similar packages, was carried off. The prisoner Ed wards, with whom was another boy, was seen with it in the neighbourhood, but got off with it. He was afterwards ap prehended. It did not appear that the other prisoners, two of whom were.taken into custody only yesterday forenoon, were the actual thieves ; but a portion of the goods were found, some of them mutilated to avoid detection, were found in their lodgings in Banastre-street. Edwards, it appeared, lodged with the O'Donnell's. The articles found were all identified as Mr. Bourne's, by his servants and others. The prisoners were all committed for trial at the sessions. The loss in the goods not yet found was stated to be £3O. A CUSTOMHOUSE-OFFICER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.— At the Police-court yesterday, Thomas Taylorson, a gen teel-looking man, was placed at the bar, on suspicion of having abstracted a quantity of tea and wool from two of the bonded warehouses under his charge. Mr. Dowling briefly stated the case, and witnesses were then called.—Police officer Kehoe said, that between four and five o'clock on Tuesday afternoon last, he, and police-officer Tool, saw the prisoner at the junction of Park-lane with St. James's-street. He passed them, and as he appeared to be bulky in his per son, and also carried a bundle, they followed him, one behind the other all the way into Mill -street. Witness spoke a few words to the prisoner as he passed, he having known him slightly before. At the top of Mill-street the prisoner went into a field, near St. John the Baptist's Church, Toxteth park. He shortly after observed two women gathering tea from the ground in their aprons. The prisoner wore a shooting-coat at the time, similar to that produced. Wit ness found the coat in prisoner's house, and there was some tea in the pockets. Police-officer Tool, who was with the last witness, and a short distance in advance of him, said he saw the prisoner throw from the pockets of the coat, several times as he went through the field. quantities of tea, some of which he (witness) took up. He followed the prisoner, who had a bundle in his hand, and stopped him in High Park street, a short distance from his own house. He found the bundle to contain dishes (crockery-ware), with some cotton between them. On stopping him, the prisoner said, " Oh! you are rather late ; I know what you were dodging me for." On cross-examination by Mr. Davenport, witness said, there was a little girl with-the prisoner when he was in the field, and whom he sometimes led by the band. He denied that he said to the prisoner, on accosting him, " Oh ! damn you, you have thrown it away; but I'll be revenged of you." Prisoner was not taken into custody then, but yesterday af ternoon. Prisoner asked him to come into the house and search it, but he did not then do so. Kehoe explained that the reason why he did not take him then was, that he knew him to be a custom-house officer, employed in Bath -street, and he would first make inquiry to ascertain if tea was kept in it, and give information to his superior officer. The pri soner was apprehended on Wednesday, in a bonded tea ware house in Bath-street. The same witness found on the person of the prisoner, at the Bridewell, several coloured papers, with Chinese characters upon them, usually contained in packages of tea; but it was explained, by a custom-house officer in court, that such papers were frequently lying about tea warehouses, and that any one might pick them up, so that the circumstance of their being found upon him was not considered of any consequence by the court. Mr. Green, surveyor of the customs in the district to which the prisoner belonged, said the prisoner was a third-class locker, and had to attend, amongst other warehouses, to Dover's bonded tea warehouse, in Great Howard-street, where he had charge of a great quantity of tea. His duty was to be at or about that warehouse on Tuesday last. Christopher Walmsley, a superintendent locker, said he saw the prisoner there twice on Tuesday, and the usual hour to leave was four o'clock. The prisoner had access to all the rooms; and the keys belonging to the custom-house were given him every morning. A gentleman, whose name we did not hear, said the sample of tea produced (which had been picked up in the field) was black tea, good congou, like some in the ware house, but it was much mixed with dirt and dust. All the tea chests in the warehouse had been opened ; but no tea was missed. The samples taken out were not weighed, as an allowance was, made for them, and the quantity was so small as notimaterially to affect the general weight. He could not positively swear to the tea being from the parcel of the same kind in the warehouse, but he thought it was.— Mr. Jones, the warehouseman, said the prisoner had been locker there since the Ist of January last. It was impossible to miss a small quantity, as there were 400 or 500 packages, all of which had been open above a week. He admitted, on cross-examination, that tea was sometimes spilt in the gang ways.—Kehoe, being recalled, said that he searched the pri soner's house, and found in an upper room the bag of wool produced. (The bag was about the size of a coffee bag, and open at the top.) He also found a whole bottle of wine, and another bottle containing a small portion of champagne—also produced. (The evidence respecting the wine was not pur sued.) Mr. Zwilchenbart looked at the wool, and considered it to be floe Merino, but partly damaged. He had some wool in Hodgson's warehouse in Bath-street, and was of opinion that it was of the same kind, and his property, but he would not swear positively to its being so. It could not, however, be missed, as it was partly damaged, and put into a top room to dry.—The magistrate said, that he wished to have the opinion of a regular wool-broker, and an officer was sent to bring one.—A man employed to watch the warehouse said he had seen the prisoner there in his capacity aslocker, and he then wore the coat produced.—The prisoner, after being cautioned, said that part of the wool was from Cum berland, and he had had it at his house. He had taken part of it to pack a jar in a cask; other parts of it were mere waste, which he had used in packing the jar, which he then sent to his house.—A brother of Mr. Danson, wool-broker, having examined the wool, said it was Buenos Ayres and Saxony wool.—Mr. Rushton said that this was one of those cases in which he considered it his duty to commit. The ar ticles taken were but of small amount ; but as it was of im portance to merchants that their property should be protected. The prisoner, moreover, was a person employed confidentially to protect it. He was the custodier of valuable goods, and was therefore the more amenable. The jacket in which the tea was carried, too, was skilfully made with large pockets. The prisoner was committed for trial at the sessions. He is, we learn, a married man, with a family. RADICAL ABUSE OF THE CLERGY.—The Rev. F. Close, of Cheltenham, at a meeting of clergymen , at Dublin, on Friday, made the following o bservations : — We must not mind abu se i n radical newspapers and at radical meetings , if we are dete rm i ned to do good on a great scale ; the sneering epithet of political parson must have no power over us. I rejoice when We are assailed with such epithets; then I am sure we are getting on well—our enemies never cry out un less they are hurt. A correspondence has taken place between the Belgian and British governments respecting the conveyance of lette rs and packets to and from America about to touch at a port in the British Channel, on her way by the British Queen steamer, no decided answer, Consul has re ceived The Belgian the British government'but it is understood that take anything but will not allow the alluded to to steamer passengers and samples from this country. ATTEIVIPFTOGALVANIZE THE DEFUNCT REPO ASAOCIATI6N: We are informed upon authority, which we are ready to give BOND for, that an attempt is just now making to resus citate that defunct thing, the Reform Association, by uniting it with the Protector Society. For this purpose the begging box is going round—fine promises are being held out—but without avail. Reformers will not bite, even over their beer and wine, and the very providers thereof are shy. The rea son no doubt is, that William Rathbone, the triple X, the ex-mayor, ex-councillor, and ex-alderman (that was to be) — the rejected of Pitt-street and North Toxteth—is the lucky individual selected to preside over the restored unfortunate ! Our informant is the barmaid of the Angel, who, we repeat, has given Bonn for her authority. FRAUDS OF THE MANUFACTURERS On Tuesday evening Mr. Ferrand brought before the House of Commons his promised motion for the appointment of a committee to enquire into the fraudulent practices carried on by the manufacturers of this country, and the extent to which the system of paying wages in goods was pursued. We have not space to give entire the speech of the hon. member, or the documentary evidence produced in support of his pro position; but we give a few extracts, more, however, for the information of the public than from a hope that much good can be derived from any parliamentary interference to put down the frauds which they describe. And, first, we shall notice an extract from a letter, addressed to Mr. Ferrand, describing the process of STRETCHING CLOTH "The cloths, if intended to be stretched in width, say from 11-16ths to or 15.16ths to one yard wide, are tentered out on a frame of the required width, and then driven between two grooved rollers or cylinders, the convexities of the one fitting closely into the concavities of the other, thus effecting a series of minute tearings, so as scarcely to be seen ; for the sly rogues know well that the widening could not be accom plished by one pull without destroying the cloth. On wit nessing this operation I observed, that it must surely weaken the fabric. Oh, certainly,' was the answer, ' but this we make good by the bleachers' worf ;' then showing me a large long trough, filled with wheat paste, the machinery was then set going, and the cloth passing between the two grooved or knuckled rollers, by them singularly and appropriately enough called the Devil,' it became saturated with the paste, and then passing on through a series of rollers, came out fine glazed calico or muslin." The same correspondent affords a little insight into the practice of attaching FALSE LABELS, LENGTHS, &C " I was next shown the machinery for folding and packing up the cloths, which was exceedingly curious, particularly an assemblage of wooden beaters, about two inches square, and about three feet long, working vertically or endwise in a very rapid manner ; such of the goods as were intended for our own colonies, or home consumption, were packed with the utmost neatness, and need no description : but, besides these, I observed a number of pieces packed up in a com paratively slovenly manner; on inquiry as to them, I was told that they were for the Spanish market in South America (in imitation of some which were shown to me, and really of Spanish manufacture), as on account of the inferiority of our goods and other fiscal regulations they were scarcely saleable or almost prohibited, and, therefore, these imitations became necessary ; but, in order to obtain their introduction among the Spaniards, an additional and crowning piece of villainy was required, namely, the stamping them. I was then shown a stamp in exact imitation of those on the genuine Spanish pieces; as, for instance, though 1 have forgotten the real names, say ./oze Pintado, a Sevilla;' Bartomeo Spznona, a Malaga,' &c. I then naturally remarked that such a prac tice differed in no degree from forgery with intent to defraud, and expressed myself with much surprise at such a procedure. Oh ! we all do it,' was the reply." The following is an extract from awork entitled " Francia's Reign of Terror, being the continuation of Letters in Para guay ;" and affords an example of the OPINION FORMED BY THE DICTATOR OF PARAGUAY, OF THE CHARACTER OF BRITISH MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS : " This is the way," said he, on one occasion, to an English merchant, " that you hucksters of rags vend your unsound and deceitful manufactures over the world. The Jews are cheats, but the English are downright swindlers. With your labels, and your tickets, and your gilt finery upon your goods, your colours that are. ' warranted fast,' and yet fade upon a first washing, you are the veriest mountebanks and pedlars that traverse the earth. There is nothing noble in your souls ; for filthy lucre, filthily gotten, is the rotting disease of your heart's core. Look ye, Mr. Merchant, for these ten boxes of cotton platillas (they were spread out in the Dicta tor's audience chamber,) for which you asked me ls. a yard, you shall have 6d. ; and think yourself well off that I do not send you to some of the Paraguay looms (no doubt you un derstand how to manage a shuttle,) that you might there learn how to make honest cloth. lam not, Mr. Pedlar, like my countrymen, to be caught by fine outsides, quack com mendations, or the nick-nackery mode of packing up your flash wares. Pan, pan, y vino, vino; [when they say to me ' there is bread,' let it be bread, and when wine,' let it be wine.] If you think that, because Francia is a Dictator, he cannot look after his own affairs, you are a little out of your calculation. Go about your business ; and the next time you come to Paraguay with linens, bring them from honest Ger many." FRAUDS IN THE STOCKING TRADE " It appeared in evidence," writes Mr. Babbage, in the Economy of Manufactures,' "that stockings were made of uniform width from the knee,down to the ankle, and being wetted and stretched on frames at the calf, they retained their shape when dry ; but that the purchaser could not dis cover the fraud until, after the first washing, the stockings hung like bags about his ankles." Have none of our readers bought such stockings ? We should think they have. The following is the concluding portion of a letter from Wolverhampton, the writer of which authorises his name to be given if required, illustrating the injurious operation of THE TRUCK SYSTEM " During the severe weather in 1841, when soup was dis tributed to our poor at a penny a quart, it is a fact, which came to the knowledge of my curate, that some of the fami lies, in the receipt of nominally good wages, actually declined a ticket for the soup, on the plea that they had not the penny to pay for it, as they received their wages in goods ! ! " Another, dated '• Wolverhampton, April 13, 1842. " Sir,—ln reply to your inquiry respecting the quality of the goods sold at the truck shops, I have frequently seen had salt butter from these shops at 15d. and 16d. while at the retail shops good was sold at 10d. and 11d. a pound ; the sugar at 9d., and in one instance at 10d. per pou n d, no t so good as at 71d. ; flour of a very inferior quality at lls. the bushel, while I find that at the very time the best was 10s. at the mill." Again— " On the 14th of December a manufacturer was convicted before the Sheffield magistrates for paying wages in cloth ; he asked £2 a yard ; the workman gave £1 15s. and sold it for lls., proved before the magistrates to be its full value, and a quarter of a yard not fit for use ; fined £lO and costs. Two more, £5 and costs. [Sir James Graham being here ob served " to take a note," the hon. member observed]—No doubt the right hon. gentleman at the head of the home de partment would talk about the law having been thus en forced ; but his (Mr. Ferrand's) case was, that for one case in which the law had been enforced, in 99 it had been success fully evaded." Another, extracted from the Report (p. 552) of H. S. Chapman, Esq., of the Middle Temple, an assistant com missioner for inquiring into the condition of the hand-loom weavers in 1838 : " At Idle, where I held a public inquiry for the townships of Idle, Shipley, Eccleshill, and Bolton, a written statement was handed in, complaining of the existence of the truck system at a small hamlet called Windhill, in the first-named township. It is a fact worthy of notice, that I was begged not to ask questions on the point, as auy testimony on the part of a weaver who had suffered from the custom, would have been followed by loss of employment. I was, however, assured by many persons, both employers and weavers, that the allegation was correct. This shows how completely im potent is the law, howsoever stringent it may be, where both employer and employed will consent to violate it. The em ployed is compelled to submit ; the constantly overstocked state of the labour-market places him at the mercy of his master ; and the same condition prevents him taking a single step to expose the fraud to which he is subjected. At Chur well, south of Leeds, another form of truck was exhibited to me, as existing at Beeston. where there is a factory employ ing between 20 and 30 hand-loom weavers. It is the prac tice of the owners of this factory to oblige their weavers to take part of their hard earnings in cloth, in some c ases le ss than half being paid in money. " In concluding a long and able speech, filled with similar evidence of fraud and oppression, the honourable member proceeded:— " Sir, I have done my duty in bringing this question forward. (Hear, hear.) The responsibility rests upon the house and on the Government of dealing with the claims for justice and redress of honest manufacturers and distressed workmen. (Hear, hear.) If the Government resist the motion the responsibitity of rejecting it will be theirs. (hear; hear.) There is, let me assure them, an intense feeling abroad upon the subject. There are not far distant honest manufacturers, who have come from the north at their own expense to give evidence upon this committee, and to declare that they must be either honest themselves and retire from trade, or be as dishonest as those who have till now oppres sed the poor and disgraced the country. (Hear, hear.) There are those, not far distant, who are ready before a com mittee of this house to substantiate those claims for justice which there, and there only, they can assert. (Hear, hear.) In their name I appeal to your justice for that protection which here alone they can seek, and which here they have an inalienable right to claim. (Hear.) This motion may be lost ; but if it be, it will be lost to the serious injury of trade and commerce ; it will cause heaatrending affliction to thou sands of the working classes who are anxiously awaiting your decision. (Hear.) And ardently I do hope that the Go vernment will discharge the duty they owe to the public as guardians of the country's honour, and of the sovereign's dignity (feeling that dishonour at home or abroad must sully the lustre of that sovereign's diadem)—that they will dis charge that duty by agreeing to the motion, which I urge on the unassailable principle that the labourer is worthy of his hire." (Loud cheers.) ATTEMPTED MURDER AT ELLESMERE. — On Friday last, Robert Jones, plumber and glazier, was committed to Shrewsbury gaol, by Sir J. R. Kynaston, bart. for trial at the next assizes, charged with an attempt on the life of his employer, Mrs. Elizabeth Simister, of Ellesmere. The prosecutrix is the window of a painter and glazier, and the prisoner had been in her service as journeyman for some time. It is said that Jones had solicited the hand of his mistress in marriage ; and, on her refusing, he uttered threats that she should remember it. On Wednesday week he absented himself from work during the day; and, about ten o'clock the same night, he went to his employer's house. Mrs, Simister asked where he had been till that time, and in reply received a heavy blow on the head from a plumbing iron, which felled her to the ground. Jones then went to the house of the constable, and stated that he bad killed his mistress ; but the officer thought he was merely jesting, and refused to take him. Mrs. Simister had in the mean time, crawled to a neighbour's house; and alarm being given, the constable apprehended the prisoner.—Shrewsbury Chro nicle. CURIOUS COINCIDENCES CONCERNING THE LETTER C, AS CONNECTED WITH THE LAMENTED PRINCESS CHAR- LoTTE.---Her m ot h er ' s name was Caro li ne ; her own name was Charlotte ; that of her consort Coburg ; she was married at Carlton-house ; her town residence was at Camelford house ; Lord Carnelford was ultimately killed in a duel; her country residence Claremont, formerly the property of Lord Clive; she died in childbed ; the name of her accoucheur being Croft. LIVERPOOL ANI) MANCHESTER. RAILWAY► A special roeeting of the proprietors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was held on Wednesday, for the pur pose of hearing the report of the directors, touching the result of their negociations with the Manchester and Leeds and the Manchester and Birmingham Companies, with a view to the attainment of the best practicable scheme for connecting the several railways at Manchester, in conformity with the reso lutions passed at the special general meeting of the company on the 15th ultimo. Charles Lawrence, Esq. presided. The Treasurer read the report, the circular accompanying which stated, that there was a diversity of opinion amongst the members of the board as to the most expedient course to be pursued at the present juncture relative to the above sub ject. The report set forth that the Manchester and Leeds Company persevered in their avowed intention of completing the line to Hunt's Bank, and declined altogether the offers of mediation or reference proposed by the Liverpool and Man chester Company. The directors of the latter had requested an interview with the directors of the Manchester and Bir mingham, as equally interested with themselves. The Man chester and Birmingham considered any discussion of no avail, stating that " their engagements with the Alanchester and beds company were such, that they scarcely thought a meeting for the purpose of discussing the question of a south ern junction, at Manchester, would lead to any practical re sult." It was thus evident, that if the Liverpool and Man chester Company proceeded with the southern junction line to Store-street, it must be, not only without co-operation, but probably with the decided hostility of the two companies most immediately interested in the scheme, and with whom the proposed junction was to be made. The report proceeds to express the regret of the directors, their opinions as to the desirableness of co-operation in the southern line remaining unchanged, that the condition of such co-operation was un attainable. It became a question of anxious consideration with-the directors what course, under the peculiar circum stances of the case, it was their duty to recommend to the proprietors. It was at this stage of the proceedings that the chairman and deputy-chairman intimated to the directors, that they believed it was still practicable to obtain from the Manchester and Leeds and Manchester and Bolton Compa nies such terms and arrangements for an amended line from Ordsall-lane through the vacant land of the Manchester and Bolton Company to New Bailey-street, and thence by the parliamentary line to Hunt's Bank, as would, in their opi nion, be satisfactory to the proprietors, and consequently such as it would be expedient under all the circumstances of the case to accept. The chairman and deputy-chairman hav ing been empowered to confer with the other parties inte rested, they reported to the board, and the result was, the de termination to recommend to the proprietors the adoption of the following resolution : _. " That the directors be hereby empowered to proceed with the negotiations and arrangements now pending with other companies and parties interested, and to take the necessary steps by application to parliament in the present session for an extension of time for the purchase of land, should such a course be deemed expedient, and to enter into such contracts, and do all such other matters and things as may be necessary or expedient for carrying into full effect and operation the formation and completion of the proposed Hunt's Bank Junction Line, in conformity with the report now received and approved by this meeting." The CHAIRMAN said the report 'had now been before the proprietors some days. The directors had felt it to be their duty to lay it before them as early as possible, in order that it might be duly considered before they were asked for their decision. The answer of the proprietors was of the greatest importance, and it was a matter of regret that they (the directors) did not come before them as an united board. There was a difference of opinion amongst them, and they thought it due to the proprietors to state the same in the cir cular. The Chairman proceeded to state his unchanged opinion regarding the merits of the southern line, but as they could not get other parties to co-operate with them, or to coincide in their views, they were compelled with the prospect of the decided opposition of a powerful body on the one hand, and that of the support of that body on the other, to decide upon going hand i❑ hand with the other parties interested. He thought these views had been taken by the public at large, as had been indicated in the fall of shares, when it was per ceived that these interests were not united, and their advance, when it was observed that matters were in a train for ad justment. He thought it his duty to state that they had met with much kindness and support from the Manchester, and Leeds, and Bolton, and Bury Companies. Mr. Moss stated that he was one of those who had voted with the majority, and he justified himself in the course he had taken. He was aware that he was open to the charge of inconsistency, since he had been one of the strongest advocates for the station in Store-street, but he saw no inconsistency in abandoning a position that was untenable. Mr. Moss concluded by moving the resolution recommended by the directors. Mr. ROBERT BENSON, jun. moved, as an amendment, three clauses or resolutions, which he read to the meeting. The first was to the effect that the line via Store-street was preferable to that via Hunt's Bank ; the second that the com pany did not know that they were called upon to extend their railway to the proposed terminus of the Leeds Railway ; and the third that as the company had always been anxious to consult the convenience of the public, if the Leeds com pany concluded themselves to execute the line, this company would give them every facility of effecting a junction with their railway. Mr. DAVID HODGSON said that, as himself and others had been placed in rather an extraordinary position as directors, the circumstance called for an explanation on the part of those who formed a very large minority on the present ques tion, before the meeting took any part in the division. The directors had been, and were, very harmonious as gentle men assembled at one board, but it was their position on the present occasion to have from reasoning, and not from feel ing, decidedly different views in forming the projected junc tion. Therefore, painful as it might be to dissent without feeling, it was the duty of the directors to say that they would carry out what the meeting might decide upon, and to let their reasons and views be known before the proprietors adopted any measure whatever. No smaller a majority out of a board of thirteen than five were distinctly of opinion that the position in which they were, was such that the meeting ought not be solicited to adopt any particular course what ever, but simply to receive the explanation of the difficulties of the directors, and asked simultaneously to fix the mode by which they would wish to arrive at as unbiassed conclu sion. He was aware that it had been the practise of the pro prietors to be guided by the recommendations of the board, who had always desired to carry out whatever might be fit for the interests of the concern. It seemed to the five that the meeting should not be placed in the ordinary prejudging position of having statements laid before them. They were all agreed that for public convenience there could be no question of the desirability of a junction; but it was equally honest to state that there had been no pecuniary return ever attempted to be shown to the board that ought to induce the meeting as proprietors to make any junction whatever. Therefore, it was to be taken as regulated by some other principle; and he must in all candour state that the prin ciple on which they were acting was one upon which he never liked to act. He called it, not expediency, but fear. They had been most extraordinarily alarmed by a threat, as he believed got up for the occasion, of a north line. First of all they were told that the Leeds com pany would come down to Hunt's-bank, deepen the Irwell, and retain a controul over the rates of the present com pany, by having the option of sending their goods by water conveyance or railroad; but they soon found out that it would be well to superadd the threat of a north line, if the Liverpool and Manchester company would not make the junction at Hunt's Bank. The reason given the proprietors now for making the junction with the Hunt's Bank, though it had not been exactly put forward, was, that if they did not do so, they would be exposed to the north line, and that their combination with influential parties in Manchester might stave off that line. Many thought there was no pros pect of a north line being made, on any ground of remunera ting those who undertook it, but the animosity of the people of Manchester was so much raised, and their carelessness for money was so great that they would make the north line whether it paid them or not. He would not allude to the vulgar malice of those who wished for such a plan, neither would he attribute to the manufacturers and others of Man chester the desire to gratify such a feeling, by the adoption of such a course. He feared not the north line, but, if he did, the very fact of a project of combination, designed for the purpose of taking away that which really would be an accommodation to the public, would be an additional motive with him for proceeding. He, therefore, could not acquiesce in this view of the case. He was not prepared to give up the making of the line in Store-street in despair, neither was he disposed to believe that it could not be accomplished. From the information he had received he was unprepared to believe that a large proportion of the people of Manchester were in favour of the Hunt's Bank, on the contrary, he had been informed that many of them liked the other better. He wished the proprietors - to make their connexion with the Hunt's Bank, provided they could show any reasonable security for such a step, in connexion with moderate expen diture and return. But he reminded them that no attempt had been made to lay before the board any estimate whatever of any return. _ The CHAIRMAN interrupted the speaker. Full accounts had been laid before the board of the traffic. Mr. HODGSON stood corrected. He certainly had seen a small estimate which was made out by their treasurer. He thought the estimate of £225,000 for the Hunt's Bank junc tion considerably under the mark, and that they might safely say it would cost £300,000. When their railway had cost them £1.400,000, and that they were now about to add one fifth to the original cost, it behoved them to pause and not to be too precipitate. Their act of parliament had, more over, been nearly run out, and their legal adviser would tell them not to take any step upon their present act, lest they might irretrievably commit themselves ; but to go to parlia ment and seek to get a suspension of the standing orders, as a sort of preparatory matter. He could not see any neces sity for all the present haste, and he believed the necessity had sprung out of fear of the north line. If a couple of years' time and consideration were afforded the proprietors, matters would proceed in a mach more satisfactory manner ; but if the junction must be made, he bail no objection to see others apply to parliament and expend their money on it if they liked. The proprietors of the Liverpool and Man chester Railway were not bound to make a junction. They had their railroad ; and though he desired public convenience yet he did not like public convenience at the sacrifice of private speculation. He denied that the fall in the price of shares and their subsequent rise were at all attributable to the reasons stated by the chairman. He stated that the division in the board was as 7 to 8, two of the absent mem bers having been known to unite in opinion with the minor ity. The five who voted in the minority represented directly 2,134 shares, and the eight who voted in the majority only repre sented directly 231 shares, being about one-tenth part of the interest of the others. In reply to a question from Mr. HARDMAN EARLE, Mr. HODGSON said he included in the minority the shares of the Duke of Sutherland. The number of the Duke of Suther land's shares is 1950. Mr. HARDMAN EARLE seconded the resolution proposed by Mr. Moss. He confessed he Was one of those who were strongly impressed with the necessity of going to Store street. He was decidedly in favour of it as the best line, and still continued of that opinion. Mr. Hodgson said they had been determined to adopt the present resolution by fear. He thought fear was the wrong term, and that discretion would much better express the true motive which had instigated them. He had already, in a former conversation with Mr. Hodgson, reminded him that "discretion is the better part of valour." Mr. Earle went on to show that there was ever y probability, if this proposition were not agreed to, that a northern line would be made. Mr. SANDARS, after stating that he still held the southern line to be the best, said he was justified in changing his views when he found that a body, which would be decidedly hostile under one set of circumstances, would be friendly under ano ther. If they carried the line to Store-street they would not have any goods to carry, and the outlay would be useless. He had communicated with Mr. Stephenson, the engineer, who had shown him that every foot of the northern line had been laid out. The coal owners were most anxious for that line, and would have it made if they lost 10 per cent by their shares. There would, if this proposition was adopted, be no excuse for making such a line. Mr. W. GARNETT, of Manchester, at some length ex pressed his hostility to the resolution, and his decided ap proval of the Store-street line. He thought at least they ought to leave the Manchester and Leeds to come to them. If they thought proper to come to their railway, as a sort of tributary stream, there could be no objection : on the con trary, it would be a very valuable acquisition. Mr. ALsTos said it would be impossible for the proprietors to come'to a decision on a matter that bad been so suddenly brought before them. The case was one of great difficulty, and he for one could not decide at once, and he would not vote that day. He moved that the matter be postponed for a month. The Rev. H. FORMBY seconded the motion. Mr, Dumas Riasioaxx ipeka gooney Rant t h e resolution, The CHAIRMAN said, if the matter were postponed it would be in effect giving up the agreement to go to Hunt's Bank ; it would be tantamount to deciding against it. Mr. SANDS hoped the proprietors would have more respect for their property, than to vote for an amendment which would put a stop to the pending arrangement, whereby all things would be amicably settled. M. ALSTON insisted on his amendment being put. The amendment was put and negatived by a large majority. Mr. BENSON withdrew his amendment, when the original motion was put, and carried by a large majority. The meeting broke up at three o'clock. MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE The Dock Committee held their weekly meeting yesterday, when the following members were p r esent, —Messrs. Sands (chairman), Horsfall, Barcl a y, H o l t , H o l mes , Chilt on , S an d- Mich, Middleton, Molyneux, Nicol, Thltor, Bulley, Smith, Evans, Tobin, Shand, Martin, and Ripley. The Sub-committee of Works presented a comparative estimate of the cost of coping Salthouse Dock with granite and sandstone. For granite the cost would be £2946; and for sand stone £773. After some conversation on the dura bility of the two sorts of stone, the committee decided that granite should be adopted. • The shed, used for wrecked goods, on the west side of Waterloo Dock, was, on the report of the Surveyor, ordered to be repaired and flagged with Yorkshire flags. The tender of Messrs. Filcher and Son for sperm oil was accepted. Tile Sub-committee of Works reported that Mr. Laird of Birkenhead had undertaken to send in a specification of the intended new iron lightship ; after which, if approved, tenders would be sent out to the several builders, Mr. Laird among the rest. The estimates would be laid before the committee next week. A resolution from the Paving and Sewering Board, acced ing to the request of this committee to be permitted to lay down a railway across Regent-street, for the purpose of conveying the materials excavated from the new dock to the north shore, was read, and ordered to be acknowledged. On the recommendation of the Watch Committee, Police Superintendent William Nevitt was accepted as tenant of the apartments at the central police-station, lately occupied by Superintendent Quick. A letter from Mr. Edward Heath, asserting a right to com pensation for some demage done to a locomotive engine, by the breaking of a crane chain, as it was being put on board the brig Perseverance, for Trieste, for the use of the Vienna Railway, was read. The committee denied their liability, and after some conversation the letter was referred to the Sub•committee for the Department of the Marine Surveyor. Mr. SANDBACH stated that a great deal of the excavations now being carted away from the dock works consisted of very fine marl. It was splendid blue marl, and perhaps the Sur. veyor would say how good it was for land. The SURVEYOR said that if he had a farm four or five miles from town-be would certainly cart some of this marl away rerit. There was a prejudice, however, against it, because some of it contained copper, but that did not apply to all. Mr. RIPLEY asked whether some remarkable oak trees had not been found during the excavations. The SURVEYOR said they were not oak trees, but oak piles, which were put down in 1740. Mr. HORSFALL said Mr. Ripley might have a whole log, if he choose, and make snuff boxes out of it. The committee then separated. KIRKDALE QUARTER SESSIONS The General Quarter Sessions of the peace for the Hun dred of West Derby commenced in the Court House, Kirk dale, yesterday, before the Rev. Jonathan Brookes, chair man, and a full bench of magistrates. The following gentlemen were sworn the Grand Jury : James Spencer Steers, Esq., of Halewood, Wm. Edward Richardson, of Much Woolton, James Langton, of Much Woolton, William Lassell, of Much Woolton, James R. Jeffrey, of Much Woolton, James Kelshaw, of Little Woolton, William Lewin, of Little Woolton, Thomas Teeby, of Winstanley, John. Cross, of Windle, Lee Watson, of Windle, Samuel Robinson, of Windle, James Vicars, of West Leigh, Robert Naylor, of Haigh, Isaac Moss, of Halewood, Thomas Hornby, of Huyton-with-Roby, Robert Prescott, of Ormskirk, George Walker, of Halton, Robert Neilson, of Halewood, John Dennison, of Little Woolton. The CHAIRMAN, in his address to the Grand Jury, ex pressed his regret that the calendar should contain solmany felonies. There were above a hundred cases which they would have to consider. He had gone through the whole of them as well as he had been able, but he did not find any case in which they would find any difficulty. Should they, however, meet with any, the court would be glad to render them all the assistance in its power. . The Grand Jury then retired to their room, and the trials commenced about one o'clock, but nothing of interest occur red during the day. The calendar contains the names of 97 persons for trial on charges of felony, and :seven for misdemeanours and as saults. The offences generally are not, as the chairman observed, very weighty ; but on reviewing the calendar with reference to the education received by each of the accused, the mind is struck by the very serious want of the elements of knowledge among them. For instance, there are 51, or nearly one-half the whole number, who can neither read nor write, and among these are the oldest and the youngest pri soners for triaf, the former being a man of 68 and the latter a girl of 10. There are 21 who can read imperfectly, 21 who can read and write imperfectly, and the • small proportion of only eight who are able to read write well. These are facts which speak for themselvas as to the necessity of increasing the means of scriptural education among the poor. ANIMAL MAGNETISM. [We have received the following communication from M. Lafontaine. As the original is in the Fren c h l a n cuage , we have rendered it into English, supposing it will be more ders.--E D . L. S.] acceptable to the generality o f our rea TO THE EDITOR OrTHE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,—You have inserted in your valuable journal letters against magnetism. Will you have the justice to insert a few words in its favour? Magnetism is an immense problem, that has been the subject of debate for nearly a century throughout Europe. The Academy at Paris has exerted all its energy without being able to give it a solution. On the contrary, day by day it has been more perplexed by new changes and marvel lous phenomena. At the present time many learned men reject it, it is true ; but a learned man makes up his mind with difficulty to un d ers t an d a pos iti v e innovation, when it humiliates and dethrones him. The Cartesian tenets wres tled a long time in F rance aga i ns t th e o ld universities before obtaining their rights ; latt er ly th e y th e mselves have repelled the principles of the Newtonian philosophy. In other places tobacco, coffee, emetics, vaccination, and even potatoes, have had their time of persecution. The inventor of brandy (eau de vie)—was he not burnt for a sorcerer? The disco verer of the properties of steam—was he not imprisoned as a fool? Galileo, for having found out the system of the world=was he not dragged barefooted into the forum of modern Rome, and compelled to deny his theory? Para celsus, Volta, Fulton, Gall, and very lately Priesetnitz the hydropathist, and all thos e w h o h ave p r esented themselves with truth in hand at the door of the mighty Bedlam (Char renton) which we call the world—have they not been received with blows, stones, and exec ra ti ons ? All the great discove ries—have they not been for a time under the ban of nations, and obliged to pass a long quarantine at the doors of science and civilisation ? It is thus with magnetism, which is ridiculed, rejected, and denied. Had we lived two centuries back, we should have been burned. There exists in magnetism phenomena so extraordinary, that even now a fear exists to put faith in it. The human understanding is so backward, so limited, and man is yet so far from being in the place he ought to occupy, the human mind receives in every period forms so different, good and evil vary so frequently, that there is hardly anything in what is called truth but has something in it apparently impossibilities. The bounds of possibility have already been so extended since the times of Pythagoras and Aristotle, that we cannot reasonably assign them a position. The effects produced by magnetism are extraordinary, ne vertheless we find them almost all in certain diseases. It is thus in natural catalepsy, in natural somnambulism : we find the insensibility of the body, insensibility of the senses to exterior impressions ; the transposition of feeling and the sight piercing through opaque bodies. _ _ •- • Magnetisers are treated as impostors (charlatans). Impos tors act in the dark and in secret; magnetisers, on the con trary, have always addressed themselves to scientific bodies— to academies—for the purpose of provoking an inquiry. They have appealed to all learned men, and, far from engrossing the secrets of magnetism, they make it known to all. You who are incredulous, do as we do—examine, practise, and soon facts will convince you. It is a remarkable circum stance that, amongst those who are opposed to magnetism, there is not one who has examined or practised it. It is only when subjected to serious and frequent examination, and often having practised it themselves, that its partisans arrive at a profound belief in it. A remark not unworthy to be made is, that it is not amongst the people that magnetism is spread : they hardly know it even by name. It is amongst a class of men who have received a certain education, men of great merit, who, having opposed it, have become converted, and written books which we now possess. These are medical men—naturalists — w h o , by their position, could not be,attacked for charlata nism. Vbrould that those who oppose it—who are incredu lous—would follow my advice; that they would take the trouble to examine without prepossession. They should mag netise persons themselves amongst their friends, and they would soon discover that magnetism is a truth. I have had the happiness to make a second deaf and dumb boy hear, who absolutely heard nothing, not even a pistol cap fired at his ear. The first has made a progress that the public will have an opportunity of appreciating.—l am, sir, your's, LAFONTAINE. George Hotel, April 18th. His Royal Highness Prince Albert has accepted the ap pointment of Warden of the Stannaries and Chief Steward of the Ducby in Cornwall and Devon. The salary and emoluments hitherto attached to this important office have been abolished by hi s Royal Highness's desire. We are enabled to announce that all the preliminaries are now finally arranged for the marriage of the Hon. Miss Stu art, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of his Excel lency Lord Stuart de Rothesay, the British ambassador ater- W St. Petersburg, with the Most Noble the Marquis of ford. By the last cornier froTtheernbassy, who reached town, from St. Petersburg, on Monday last, the consent and approbation of Lord Stuart,, which_ alone was wanting and waited for, to the completion of a happy union, so entir e ly one of pure affection, has been received. With ou t i nten di ng to wound susceptibilities or delicacy anywhere, it may be mentioned now, as a well-known fact, that there is, perhaps, no lady in the land who has decline d so many nobl e an d otherwise desirable allianc es, and refuse d the hand of so many distinguished personages, as the amiable an d beauteous bride of Lord Waterford that is to be; and it is no small honour to the noble marquis to have carried off the prize from so many competitors. THE EMANCIPATION OF THE BLACKS OP BR ITAIN .—Th e act to abolish chimney-sweeping by the "li v i ng machine " conies into force on the Ist of July ; and after that period we trust we shall not again be called upon to record the violent deaths of poor and helpless children, who too often, to escape a fierce and bli s tering fire, have clambered upwards i n a horrid and tortuous flue, and found a frightful death amid stifling vapours and burning i soot. Her M a j esty, it is ru moured, took great interest n, and expressed great sympathy for, these much oppressed infants ; and to so high a source may doubtless be ascribed the hastening of a measure which has been so long retarded. The act has, however, pa sse d ; and it is alik e cre ditable to the country and honourable' to the humane persons concerned, to learn that, with a view to carry out this enlightened measure, capital has called in the aid of science, and a machine has been invented which will for ever prevent the posibility of, a return to this barbarous practice alluded to. Th e a pparatus is termed the " Ramoneur," and, from what we are informed, is admirably adapted to the ob jects in view, and will obviate the necessity of altering the construction of chimneys. MIL LAFONTAINE'S LECTURE LAST NIGHT, Mr. Lafontaine gave his concluding lecture last evening, at the Templars' Hall, upon animal magnetism: The experiments were similar to those exhibited on former occasions. The most successful was that of the lecturer stopping the singing of the young lady who has appeared on former occasions, and arresting her footsteps. The cham bermaid from the George Hotel was placed in a mag netic sleep, and cataleptic state. The deaf and dumb boy who has been magnetised, was also brought forward, and showed an evident improvement in his hearing. This lad is an ap prentice to Mr. Isaacs, of Castle-street.—A gentleman pre sented himself to be magnetised, on whom Mr. Lafontaine partly succeeded.—Great amusement was caused by Mr. Lafontaine magnetising the deaf and dumb boy's leg, who attempted in vain to demagnetise himself. Amongst the gentlemen present we noticed several of the medical profession, and one or two of the clergy. The latter appeared to take great interest in the proceedings. ANIMAL MAGNETISM CONTRASTED WITH NEUROHYPNOLOGY. Last night Mr. Braid, of Manchester, delivered a lecture in the Music-hall, Bold-street, on the contrast between Animal Magnetism and Neurohypnology. A very large audience were present, amongst whom we observed a great number of the medical profession. Mr. BRAID said his object in the present lecture would be to explain certain important points more fully than could be done in a lecture which, as formerly, embraced the whole phenomena of Neurohypnology. The first subject he should explain would be the difference between natural and artificial sleep; and, as it was of great importance in all discussions that the terms to be used should be clearly understood, what he understood by the waking state, the state of profound sleep, the state of dreaming, and the som nambulic state. Having described these several conditions, he described the difference which there is between natural sleep and neuro-hypuotic sleep, and the gradual development of the phenomena in the latter state. He quoted a work by Dr. Abercrombie, containing some remarkable instances of of somnambulism, to show the peculiarities of that condition. It left no permanent effects, and could be turned to no useful purpose; but the hypnotic sleep, on the contrary, had pro duced the most marked improvement in afflicted persons, on whom he had operated. Thus, he had enabled an old lady, 64 years of age, afflicted with amaurosis, who could not see for many years to read the smallest print ; and another lady, aged 45, who could scarcely see to thread a needle, both by being put into the hypnotic sleep. He related several other cases, shewing the extraordinary effect-produced by the hypnotic sleep, particularly one of a Miss Collins, of Newark, whom he had cured of a spasmodic affection, which had for years before resisted the efforts of the most celebrated of the fa culty. He-next entered into a consideration of how far the phenomena of neurohypnology were analogous to those of ani mal magnetism, and said they could succeed in but very few cases, and that the insta nces i n w hi c h h e h a d f a iled were much fewer than those in which they succeeded. On this account he contended that his mode was much more benefi cial. Having quoted a letter from Mr. Herbert Mayo, in which that gentleman stated he was satisfied that much practical good would result from these discoveries, Mr. Braid proceeded to say that he wished for no mysticism on the subject, but that he would allow free liberty to any medi cal man to investigate all experiments. In fact, he should be glad to do all in his power to make the medical men of Liver pool know as much of the subject as he himself did. The general success of his mode of operation was well known ; it was founded upon the undoubted laws of the animal economy, and the fact that it might be, and had been, turned to prac tical use in the cure of diseases which had resisted every other remedy, ought to shield its professors from the unwarrantable imputation of its effects being produced by satanic agency. The best answer was to quote that scriptural text, " By their works shall ye know them." He had always understood the devil to be actively engaged in effecting injury, in the ignorance and blindness of man. That, at least, was what he had been taught in Scotland. But he had heard, that by taking advantage of a general law of the animal economy (and he felt assured that there was no general law which re sulted in any thing but good),—by taking advantage of this general law, and enabling him to restore sight to a lady so that she could read her Bible by means of a few minutes of hyp notic sleep, that this was a work of the devil. Was it not far more likely that there was Satanic agency over a man which inspired him to become an active agent in opposing what was so likely to prove a vast blessing to mankind ? Mr. Braid then referred to the objection, that mesmerism (so called) might overturn the gospel miracles, and having refuted that objection, he said, that in regard to a re verend gentleman who had taken up this subject, he might state one or two things, of which every medical man was aware. It was a fact. which everybody was aware of, that of those who were afflicted with the natural small-pox every third person died. The progress of science, however, led medical men to find out that by inducing the disease at favourable times they could mitigate its severity ; thus inoculation' took place. There was immense hos tility to this, both by professors, the public, and even from the pulpit. By and by the practice was improved and vaccinnation was found out—a still safer mode of protecting the system against the ravages of the small pox. Another vast flood of hostility was raised against this im provement, but ultimately it triumphed. He remembered a patient calling upon him some 23 years ago, whose family refused to be vaccinated from religious prejudce. and he him self did not know what to do. He, however, understood his danger, and asked what he was to do ? " Take off your coat instantly, and I 'll vaccinate you," was his (Mr. Braid's) re ply. The consequence was, that he escaped, but four out of his family, young men of 16, 19, and 20 years of age, died. Their religious prejudices prevented them taking advantage of scientific improvement. He therefore, would like to recommend those who wished to oppose such a principle as this, to con sider the words pf Gamaliel. "It this work - be of men it will come to nought ; but, if it be of God, ye cannot over throw it, lest happily ye be found to fight against God." He recommended this text to every gentleman who chose to speak upon satanic agency in this matter. At the close of the lecture Mr. Braid introduced, first, his own man-servant, upon whom he produced in a short time the usual effects, which, however, we cannot here dwell upon, having sufficiently detailed them upon the occasion of a for mer lecture. Some new phenomena, however, were exhi bited in this case, which was that of the hypnotic state being produced by looking downwards at the object, instead of upwards, as is the ordinary practice. Having completed his experiments with this subject, he introduced the same young girl (whose graceful som nambulism we noticed in our last report of Mr. Braid's lectures), and went through with her nearly the same course of experiments. With respect to the striking and beautiful attitudes exhibited by this girl—(and some of them were exceedingly beautiful)—the lecturer suggested the prac ticability of hypnology being turned to excellent account by artists and sculptors, and expressed an opinion that the sys tem had been turned to account in ancient times. With respect to this subject we cannot here pause to express our opinion. Certain it is, however, that upon the young girl in question he produced some effects and attitudes which few painters or sculptors have surpassed ;—especially when some sudden noise or current of air startled her. There is this - difficulty, however, in believing that any such system was adopted, to procure living models for the dying gladiators," and other celebrated works of antiquity, viz. that in the cataleptiform state of Mr. Braid's subjects, the usual developement of muscle, which we always see cor rectly and largely developed by painters' and sculptors, does not, we are informed, occur. A gentleman, who was hypnotized at the conclusion of the last lecture, was next operated upon, and Mr. Braid stated that the effect produced since upon his health, as well as upon the young girl, had been very beneficial. Both had been subject to nervous affections, and are now almost en tirely restored. Having been put into the somnolescent, and subsequently into the cataleptiform state, his pulse rose to 180 per minute, after which he was dehypnotised by the usual methods. A deaf and dumb boy, who was said to have received con siderable benefit from Mr. Braid, was next brought upon the platform ; but was only tested as to his newly acquired power of hearing and articulating. The news-carrier and the wo man who were operated upon at his last lecture were again hypnotized. The effects produced upon both these patients appeared to be of a permanent character. The old lady tied her own bonnet, an article which, when first we saw her, we are confident she could not even lift above her elbow. After this the platform became a perfect exhibition of the deaf, the lame, and the blind, all eager to be operated upon. One patient afflicted with amaurosis, previously to being operated upon, said that he could only read the large capitals in the title of a newspaper. After wards he read a line of an advertisement. An attempt was made to hypnotise a deaf and dumb man, an experiment which seemed to be viewed with great interest by the medical men present, amongst whom we noticed Mr. Neile, Dr. M'lntyre, and others. After four different at tempts, however, the effort even to produce the hypnotic state, which seldom fails in any, did not succeed, owing to some cause which we cannot explain, and the experiment was abandoned. Upon the whole the lecture and experiments gave great satisfaction to a crowded audience, and it was announced that on Thursday next it will be repeated, the experiments being more generally confined to those who have not previously been operated upon. It is understood that Lord Mahon is to be the new am bassador at the court of Madrid.—John Bull.—[This has since been contradicted on authority.] IRISH REGISTRIES.—The conservatives have gained a majority of two votes for county Carlow, and ten for county Wicklow, on the registries which have just closed. An on dit has currency in the Leau monde which creates the greatest sensation amongst the fair members of the aris tocracy. We allude to the rumoured intention of her Ma jesty to give a fancy , ball. The 12th of May is said to be the day fixed upon for this pleasurable and to!ally newfete at this court. THE GREAT IRON CAUSE.—On Tuesday last, a rule nis was granted by the barons of the exchequer for a new trial in the important case of the Marquis of Anglesey v. Lord Atherton, which was tried at the last Worcester Assizes, and which involves the rights of the plaintiff, as lord of the manor, to the minerals consisting of lime, on certain estates held by the defendant under a copyhold tenure. After a trial, which lasted two days, a verdict was found for the de fendant. We believe we can name the Earl of Jersey as the new Lord Lieutenant fbr Ireland, in the place of Earl de Grey, who, it is reported, is to succeed the first-named nobleman as Master of the Horse. Some predilections of an exalted personage are named as the cause of this exchange of posts. —British Queen. The Mauritius papers of the 16th January announce the death of Lady Smith three days after that of her husband. Her delicate state of health it appears had, ever since her residence in the island, precluded her from mixing in company. The debates in the Legislative Council were of no interest. The price of labour in the market was on the decline, and this fact is noticed as encouraging the plan ters to increased exertions on their estates. Trade was dull, and freightage £2 17s. to £3 per ton. In the sugar mar ket a sale had been made at 7 dolls. 33 cents for white ; 6 dolls. 40 cents for good yellow; 3 dolls. 76 cents mid. do.; 6 dolls. 10 cents for good gray. The quantity of sugar ex ported in 1841 was 42,038,200 lbs. against 33,883,385 lbs. in 1842, and the quantity of crop, 1841-2, actually shipped to 11th was 46,022,400 lbs. An attempt at smuggling having been made by some of the crew of the Montrose steamer, by concealing 2801bs. of to bacco on board, with the view of landing it at Falmouth, the vessel, passengers, and crew were detained until bond had been given for the payment of any fine the customs migh4 inflict. THE BISHOP Op JERUSALEM.—The Dublin Statesman of Tuesday last gives the following, for which they say they are indebted to a correspondent at Leamington have just heard a letter read from the Bishop of Jerusalem to that old, tried, and truly valued friend of the Jewish cause— the Rev. Dr. Marsh. It is dated from the holy city, Feb. 27, and enters into the difficulties which he experienced in his journey from Jaffa to Jerusalem, but saying that sin ce he arrived there the government have treated him with the greatest respect and kindness, though . the firman ha s no t yet been granted, acknowledging .lurn in his episcop a l office. 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The price is-6d! • book is honestly worth five times the money (For the Liverpool Standard) HE TAILOR OF PARIS (From the French.) BY JAMES STONEHOUSE (Concluded from the Standard of the 25th March.) CHAPTER V.-THE DUNGEON AT VINCENNES Poor Jacques Rifole sank almost annihilated, into a chair, which fortunately happened to be near him. But for its support he would have measured his length ou the floor. " A prisoner ! in the hands of gendarmerie !—by order of the minister—with most severe injunctions—and for what ?" soliloquised the unhappy tailor. What could have changed all, at once the gracious reception of the Due d'Otranto ? In what could Rifol6 have displeased him ? He seems gravely accused. Ah ! without knowing it, he must have been wanting in the laws of etiquette. It must have been for this reason that Monseigneur has torn up the measure of the coat with such visible tokens of had humour and agita tion. "My goodness!" thought Rifole, " what will be the upshot of all this ? and what will be the denouement of an affair which commences so terribly ?" The next moment hope glided to the heart of the poor Tournesel Le Pere Lombois had often spoken to him of the facetious humour of Fondle in other times, and detailed his taste for mystifications. All this, thought Rifole, is a frolic. While the poor tailor was thus balanced between fancies and suppositions the most absurd and alarming, the officer of gendarmerie, who had never ceased to keep his eyes upon his prisoner, received a despatch: he tore away the envelope. When he had read the contents of the paper contained in it, he gave his orders in a low tone of voice to his men, and made a sign to Rifole to follow him. Rifole obeyed, believ ing that the Minister of Police, after amusing himself with his fright, had given orders to set him at liberty. Alas ! poor Rifole, one of the 'gendarmes seized him roughly by the collar, while another invested him with a pair of iron thumb screws. When the fingers of the tailor were imprisoned in the instruments of torture, he was hurried to a chaise which wa. in waiting at the entrance of one of the courts of the hotel. He was hoisted in it, and immediately driven off in the midst of an escort of ten mounted chasseurs and four gendarmes. At the head rode the officer under whose re sponsibility the captive was placed. The post-chaise took the road of the Rue Montmartre. Riffle thought they were driving him home, for he obstinately clung to the one idea. which appeared to him most likely, and which occurred to him on his arrest that it was a mystification of Fouche's, whose frolicsome and jovial humour before mentioned had caused many droll recollections of the college at Joigny. The coach passed rapidly by the shop of the tailor ; hardly had he time to perceive it, when Agatha, who was watching the return of her husband, stood at the door way. He would have called to her, attracted her attention, and made himself noticed by her, but the two Agents of Police, who had been allotted to hint as companions, harshly pulled him back in the carriage. _ Rifole sly by turns the Boulivard, la Place de la Bastille, le Faubourg St. Antoine and la Barriere du Trone disappear behind him. The post-chaise then passed swiftly across the dt'awbridge of Vincennes, and the next moment stopped in the interior of the fortress. The prisoner descended, and was handed over to the go vernor. This functionary passed him over to a gaoler, who searched him, depriving him in so doing of a portion of his garments. Satisfied that the redoubtable prisoner had no deadly weapon—save scissors and needle—he was permitted to re-dress himself. The toilette of Rifole having termi nated, he was next compelled to walk up two hundred steps of a narrow and winding staircase. This stone screw termi nated in a little aerial dungeon, furnished with a mattress. The gaoler made a sign to the tailor to enter, after which tbe door was closed upon him, with a double turn of the huge lock : three enormous bolts then grated in their iron When they were shut, Rifole could hear the steps of a 'sentinel passing and repassing the threshold. _ Agatha herself would liave been puzzled to recognise in the pale and woe-stricken prisoner who thusinhabited the dungeon, the jovial physiognomy and stout figure of her husband. The anxiety and terp , r of the unfortunate tailor had arrived at their highest pitch. Feverish and shivering, by turns, he ran round his cell like a wild beast in a cage, searching the walls, and trying to look abroad through the loop-holes.. But the pent house of wood prevented him seeing anything but the sky, and that was but through the little cleft in two planks which were beginning to be disjointed. The morning, afternoon, evening, and night slowly crept away without Rifole learning the reason of his arrest, and the fate that was destined for him. CHAPTER VI.-THE COUNCIL OF WAR-THE SPY The next morning his gaoler came and conducted him into a spacious room, where he found assembled ten or t officers in uniform. Seated in the middle, a general officer presided. He made a sign to Rifole to advance, and, after having demanded his name, Christian name, and place of birth, asked—" Do you know that man ?" The tailor turned his head and looked about him. The man pointed out appeared young, of fair complexion, of an in teresting physiognomy. Nothwithstanding the expression of mildness which characterised his almost feminine features, in his general bearing, resolution and audacity were dis• played. Heturned to Rifol6, and with a voice full of bitter ness and indignation exclaimed—" lNliserable wretch ! how much has been given you to betray me ?" " I," exclaimed the tailor, " I betray you ? I never saw you before !" " What does that matter," exclaimed the youth with vehe mence—" Have you not stolen from me my secret—have you not delivered me to the police—will you not be the cause of my death ? Infamous informer ! you should have told me that you wanted gold—l could have bought your silence at a higher rate than you will be paid for betraying me." " I shall be driven mad—l shall be driven mad,' cried Rifole— completely bewildered. " Then," said the President of the Council of War, " you persist in denying that this man is your accomplice ? " " My accomplice," said the youth—with a gesture of dis gust—to him who addressed the question, " think you I take as my accomplices such creatures ? " " But then, how is it that the proofs of your crime, which no one ever suspected, should be found in his possession—by what chance have they been found in his hands ?" " You pay—you give a recompence for the information, and you are astonished to find the informer ! This miserable fellow has stolen from me my secret to sell it to you—but there has been already too many words wasted. Gentlemen, let us put a stop to these debates. lam an Englishman—l have exposed my life to serve my country—my projects are discovered—put me to death. England for ever ! Shame and unhappiness to France! " A murmur—in which was mingled a suppressed sentiment of admiration for the audacity and intrepidity of the youth —was heard to run through the auditory. The general angrily repressed it. " Do you persist in saying that the name of John Sydney under which you are known is not your true name ?" 64 yes:, " And you obstinately withhold your real name ?" " England alone knows it. She will keep it as a glorious remembrance of him who died in her cause !" The general leant towards the officers who were seated around him, and consulted with them in a low voice. After having gathered their opinions, he pronounced sentence, which condemned "John Sydney to death, as an English spy." " Have you no last wish to make known ?" inquired the general. "In a quarter of an hour your execution will take place." " None, sir," replied Sydney. " When we play the game that I have lost, one is always ready to die." " As for Jacques Rifole, 'he has fulfilled the duty which the law imposes upon every citizen. He has revealed a plot against the state. The council of war declares that there is no charge against him, but places him at the disposal of his excellency, the Minister of Police." The gaoler advanced, made a sign to Rifolie, and recon ducted him to his dungeon. " Faith, comrade, you have escaped finely." As bespoke, an explosion offire.arms was heard. " Hark !" added the man of keys, " see what has been hanging over your nose. Yonder Englishman will not again have the toothache. They have just put twelve bullets in his body." Rifol6 fainted away. CHAPTER VIL-THE REWARD When the tailor recovered his recollection, he received orders to descend. A post-chaise waited in the court-yard of the fortress—he was desired to enter it. Rifol6 was driven to the hotel of the Minister of Police. He once more found himself in the presence of Fouche, and was received with open arms : Fouche looked more smilingly than ever. " My good ltifole," said the minister, " you have passed two rough days ; but I declare to you my first impression was that you were an accomplice of the spy. I cannot un derstand how, with your simple air and way of dealing, yo u have obtained the secret of a man ,cho breathed nothing but defiance to the Emperor and myself. The original way by which you have put me on the track, and finished the mat ter, has quite bewildered me. You could not more truly prove to me that you are a man of spirit, and that you have a right to be usefully employed under my administration. Let us see now what will recompense you? I have orders from his Majesty the Emperor to give you all that you re quire." Rifolc baked at Fouch6 with eyes full of stupidity. " What would you ? Speak without fear. The service that you have done to your country is immense. The re ward ought not to be a pcur one. Do you desire to be em ployed under my government ? " I only want to go back to my wife," murmured Rifole. " I have since this morning calmed the uneasiness that your disappearance has caused her. She knows that you are detained by my orders. You do not speak—you hesitate. Come, I see that the word police' intimidates you—l can guess your thoughts—you are right." IlifOl6 returned home with one hundred notes of one thou sand francs buried at the bottom of his breast pocket. He threw himself into the arms of his wife, and began to cry and sob without having the power to reply to the interrogations addressed to him by her. When he had a little recovered his sang froid, the fair questioner did not find she advanced much further. Rifole, ignorant of the motives of his arrest, knew still less why the minister had so richly recompensed him in the name of the emperor. The reproaches of the unfortunate but brave Englisman—the questions of the ge neral—the Council of War—appeared to him as so many problems to resolve, and seemed to him more the results of nightmare than of reality. Agatha contrived to throw him into a state of greater as: tonishment, when she informed him that their youn g guest, the handsome fair young man who had hired the little ro om adjoining their apartment, had not appeared during the lust two days. This absence being prolonged a month, the tailor and his wife visited the chamber of the stranger. They found therein a great quantity of papers, from which r - 1.. L ----, *" 01 ic t4.44 NI Rifol6 took a packet to his protector—the Duke of Otranto- 4 ' hoping thereby to obtain some tidings of his lodger. " What the deuce of a man art thou ?" cried the minister, as he cast his eyes on the papers. " During the last two months we have in vainendeavoured to trace these documents, taken out of the emperor's cabinet, and you bring them back to me !" Rif°le related his history and that of his absent guest. The Duke of Otranto listened in silence. When the tailor had concluded— " Come," said the statesman, " I see that chance alone has brought about the whole affair. I took you for a lad of spirit, and you turn out after all but a simpleton. To think that it never struck me toquestion you respecting the manner in which you found yourself in possession of those paper measures which have revealed to me the treirson and the spy ! I fancied that you had stolen them most adroitly from his dwelling. Here are some more bank bills : but if ever you open -your mouth r espec ti ng t hi s affa i r, remem b er Vin cennes !" Rifole., rich, being of a quiet disposition, then ended his con nection with the ancient pupil of the Pere Lombois, pros pered exceedingly, and became one of the most renowned tailors in Paris, and now possesses rich property in Lorraine, where he figures away like a grand Seigneur, CRAP. VIII.-A WORD OF EXPLANATION. Now, to render this history altogether intelligible, as yet a little confused, explanations become necessary. The Emperor Napoleon had always near him a certain number of secretaries, attached to his person, who worked in a closet next to his own. At the time of the adventure of which we write, ,Baron Monnier, Baron Pain, and many others, took part in the service Nov , amongst the translators entrusted to put before the eyes of Napoleon the extracts of foreign journals, there was a fine young man, whose distinguished manners and obliging disposition gained for him the respect of his colleagues. The first at his labour—he never quitted the closet until after the others had left. The Emperor was pleased with the concise and clear mode in which the young man trans lated and summed up the English journals. Many times had he expressed to him his satisfaction. It happened one morning the secretaries of Napoleon saw with surprise the stranger's seat remain unoccupied. They joked amongst themselves upon the unprecedented circum stance. The day passed without the Englishman appearing. day, and the next to that, his place continued empty. Full of uneasiness the young people repaired to the Rue de la Universite to the house of their comrade. He had not been home for two days. One of them ran to the Minister of Police, and communicated to him the uneasiness which had been caused by a disappearance so strange. " Sir," said the Duc d'Otr an t o , " do not trouble yourself any more about the affair. The Englishman respecting whom you interest yourself so warmly, is a villain ! a villain. Yes ! a s py in the pay of England ; not only has he abused the confidence of the Emperor, and falsified the passages in the journals which he translated for his majesty, but he has even stolen the cabinet secrets, and sold them to the most mortal enemies of France." If we add that to lull suspicion and to avoid having at home any dangerous paper, the English spy had rented under the supposed name of Dubois, the little room attached to the apartment of Rifole; if we yet add that Agatha had given to her husband the first piece of paper which came to hand, wherewith to make a measure, and on which was one of the most flagrant proofs of the Englishman's treason, all will be explained. Rifole even now talks of Fouche's liberality as a mystery —for the life of him he cannot make out the reason of his profuseness. THE GARDENER Much that has been said about human suffering, the dis tress of the mechanics of England, specifying some of them, such as weavers, printers, &c., yet nothing, that I can find, has been said about the humble gardener. Perhaps he is beneath the commiseration of the great folk of the earth, vet for what reason I cannot say, since his toils (some of which I shall endeavour to enumerate) and his privations are as great as those of the loudest complainant. First of all let us endeavour to show, in part, the toilsome responsibility of the practical gardener. He has, in the first place, to contend with the elements, with frost, severe storms of hail, rain, &c. ; next, the innumerable multitude of winged and creeping in sects, together with the sparrow, the tit, and the finch; then comes the snail, that pest of gardens, and the wireworm, caterpillar, &c. All these lift up their heel, or, rather their snout, against him. But mark, as much is required at his hand as though these pests did not exist! At the early season of the year, nay, when his peas are fit for the table, (that is if they have escaped the enemy beneath,) we will suppose all to leave the ga r d en f or a b out an hour, or, perhaps, less time will suffice, to give opportunity to a detachment of sparrows that have been in ambush to sally out upon them, and literally gut every pod, and leave the gardener (swine like) nothing but the husks., The snail, if p oss ibl e, i s a more formidable enemy, for in his early foraying, unless he is on the spot when other people are in bed, his tender productions are sure to fall a prey to him. As Gay says— " When bordering pinks and roses bloom, And every garden breathes perfume, The snail looks round on flower and tree, And cries all these were made for me." And he seems to act upon this proposition, for there you will find them with their knives out—as the gardeners term it— mowing down all before them. But the chief source of com plaint is his privations. There are a few exceptions, 'tis true, such as Paxton, of Chatsworth, &c., but contrast with them the great number that are going from house to house, soliciting employment, with an old scythe and spade upon their shoulders—next to begging their bread. It is objected these are men never engrafted into the science; it may be true in some instances, but what becomes of the many who have started fair, that out of wages amounting to no more than ten shillings per week, have to buy books to furnish their beads with necessary information, while their stomachs must be content with a turnip, or some such matter, instead of roast beef for dinner? What, I ask, becomes of a ma jority of them, when this struggle is over, and they are fit for situations? Why an unexpected one succeeds; and thus they go on till they arrive at the level, or job, of a scavenger. In short, there is no man worse paid for his labour than the gardener, considering the hours that he makes, and is looked upon with ineffable scorn. The ladies, I, must say, are generally the greatest admirers of flowers; while the men of learning pass them by. It is useless entering more into detail of the many inconveniences of gardeners even in place, and in all the affluence they can expect to enjoy; but a war may be pronounced against all that are either out of place, or that marry prematurely. Their only consolation is the beauty of the vegetable king dom ; and it may be here remarked, that mankind at large are very slow to patronise a study that is spoken of in Holy Writ, for, says our Saviour, " Consid er the lilies how they grow ; they toil not, neither do they spi n ; an d yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." Here, then, we have it a direct com mand from God; and he promises, by way of remuneration, that we shall find something there that surpasseth even the glory of Solomon. It is also evident, from the writings of some of our most eminent poets, that they were conversant with vegetable physiology ; and what more expands the ideas? What do Milton and Shakspeare say ? Do they not, in their choicest productions, scatter here and there fragments of what they acquired in the study of plants? It is said of the latter that he was actually a gardener—at least that he spent a considerable portion of his early life in that occupation. In Romeo and Juliet he says— " I must uptill this ozier cage of ours, With baneful weeds and precious juiced flowers ; " shewing that he was acquainted with not only the weeds, but flowers; and I pity that want of taste in any mortal that deprives him of so great an enjoyment. IS , here was Adam placed, our great progenitor ? Was it in a manufactory ? a theatre ? or a banqueting hall? No, 't was a garden. The Israelites murmured against Moses for depriving them of the productions of the gardens of Egypt. "We remember," said they, " the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlick." Again, where did our blessed Lord find re tirement to weep over the sins of th e wor ld ? In the garden of Gethsemane. Where did Mahomet think proper to direct the attention of his followers, but to a garden? We can, therefore, to keep,the gardener in countenance, cull from the many a few individuals who had taste sufficient to admire and appreciate the works of God, even the most humble and insignificant plant, " the hyssop that springeth out of the wall." This is a season of the year that forces these reflec tions upon one's mind, now that Nature is regaining her verdant hue, and the lark, soaring aloft, animates the skies with the warbling of his little throat. These things ought to learn us to " look through nature up to nature's God:" The conservatives intend going on with the petition against the return of Sir John Hobhouse and Sir George Larpent, for Nottingham. Bribery, as at Sudbury, is the ground of complaint. One of Lord Ellenborough's first acts, as governor-general of India, has been to order the restoration of batta to the Madras sepuys.—Atlas. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is nearly recovered from his late attack of gout.—Standard. The nuptials of the Prince Royal of Sardinia with the Archduchess Maria Adelaide of Austria were celebrated on the 12th instant. It is said that the Duke D'Aumale and the Prince de Joinville are shortly to leave the French capital on a visit to Her Majesty, and will make a general tour to visit the public establishments in this country. The Secretary at War, Sir Henry Hardinge, has deter mined •to Establish Savings' Banks through out the army, and an act of Parliament for that purpose will be brought in shortly by the gallant general. • THE DUBLIN ELECTION.-Mr. Caldwell has been sen tenced to two years' imprisonment in the common gaol for the assault upon Mrs. Corbett. The prisoner most em phatically protested his innocence. CHILD MURDER.--A woman of the name of Elizabeth Barrett has been committed for trial for the wilful murder of her own child, only nine months old. The prisoner was an inmate of the Stockport \Vorkhouse, and the infant was found in a privy. On Saturday the Vice-Chancellor of England decided in the case of Bridges v. 1 3ranfil, that thou g h there had been 0 : fraud, the parties who h a d a right to claim relief i t being dead, the bill m ust b e dismissed. The parties before . the court left it without imputation on their character. t A clergyman in a p ar i s h church not 100 miles from Pocile having put a notice i n t o t h e clerk ' s hand a few Sundays and since, stating that the serv i ces would be morning and ev eimproved morning and after noon alternately, honest Roger e , ernity !,, upon it, and said th at t h e service would be to —Salisbury Herald. - • , reas were THE ITEGETABLE MARKET.—}:Asparagus islooking_ up, and radishes are taking a down i vird ta were almost nothing at the opening I:Pe •./gevvP°— i n the settling. buoy ant in the basket, bat turned ()Wither .heavyoreadful effect upon A rush of bulls through the Mil r .e '' l' s ad b a ut all the established apple-stalls and other minor seciittic directitoo% te among some of the proprietors. — P unc h. t houses stood their ground, thoug h following extrac from a private , h ; run occasioned a panic AFFAIRS OF INDIA.- - 'The 1, will, brief as it is, show amongst those native princes closest allies of the British go vernment letter, er,d feeling ated which Hyderabad, prevais F e e v b en ruary who are supposed to be the now supped full of horrors.' think in England of the Envoy's head on wonder what t he y of Cabool. The Nizam is thought the best vernment :—" ' one of the gates We have General Hyderabad) . wrote to tell him officially Englis h Fraser (the he as certain His reply was hardly written with w he would be shocked conduct of the Affghans in having to hear of the g murdered he resid l en w t:t Sir W• WlCagicoldly ' on the y behaviourto hear o f ooaflifllyctihoealfmptoalistaecnree:: very ir ig . saying he was sorry ao th froA e tan d tz e t e a t A r ts dea th ogf o Nh f ca oFn b mos i s . I oFT friend,nAhmcisolmlw7lEitaashki. complaint, . . . . comments.l3tvO:roihnuedmvieites.: wouldollSil e viciousness L s e e ll rv t a o n c t o s n i B . attributable to a culpable Good, o o m o d pi e f t o e r ii i h n e s I t . a t y n instance, . sidcr whether much of it mansot b e wa nt of discipline in the geitli9ent of establishments. In whthaheveencabhseeeenopfaleased, got drunk , a ' s he 1 1 3 1 le e a w se e d n is master's house seems to , t w sl l e i p er t e i h n e o p r le o a u s t e a d ,; he pleased, drove his mastei• taking his s carria ge a b out as l ie pleased, complete f women on m of thenting excursions i n it. T o s h ow the reedo man's movements and doings, the cook states that he slept in the house, but that she used often to hear him get up and the fellow appears to li:v (3 e u h t . i ad ri tvvhoeunldighbte. e n S o u u c g h h liberty a u s —I servant, and to a profligate villain it gave full swing.— goo( Examiner