The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-02-14 00:00:00

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1854. 04 nab, WANTED, Two-horse CARTS and TEAMS trownArectonTeyance of COAL.—Apply to Mr. NANGLE, 5, wANTED, three days a week (Monday, Tues vh,,.. 4aY, and Wednesday), a good WASHERWOMAN, sn iron well and understands getting up fine linen. — at th d.office. Lady is anxious to obtain a SITUATION for hera,OUNG ENGLISH PERS, who has d with k ern in U VRS ERY GOVERNESS to ON her Children. liv Employ -1114 hi V 11 01), or House o f B us i ness , wou ld b e preferred, tftz, S recommendation and offered.—Address, E. S., Post -,....i..._,Andonderry, °° K - KEEPING .—An experienced vouhit e CoUNTANT, having part of the week disengaged, nraA.o.haPPy to devote it to assistance in BOOK-KEEPING b. m . aACING ACCOUNTS, on moderate terms.—Address Liverpool. MEN.„TS WANTED for an established LIFE 4 1\riff — ASSURANCE COMPANY, in tIT surround %kr gel and Towns of this District ; Commission allowed, ce ,nt• 11 Don new Life Premiums, and 5 per cent. re -Ifith a lso 15 per cent. Fire Premiums, new and renewal, C. ya n Iwo necessary charges, such as postage, &c.—Address to Bro adway, Ludgate-hill, London. 441 °A NS OF MON E Y.—BOROUGH OF h, , L ERPOOL. taiy e RPORATION IV of LIVERPOOL are prepared to 7en y"ANS of MONEY, for periods of Cent. Five, or fip stip u ., eas, bearing Interest at the rate of .€4 per per tqr• Interest payable on the Ist January and Ist Ju ly k i ,ecouj Year. The Security 'is the "Liverpool Wat er e ornposed of the ftents, Rates Charges or q,itt i iy of Water within the Borough of L ive rpool . and the F et her r hnod for Domestic Trading, Manufacturing, and UNG I Poses , Sh• 'in.% THE BOROUGH FUND oD an lT d IfOorNALIPOPR_COLLATERAL SECURITY, T A N, AND THE LANDS TENEMENTS, A N; pbASIENTS, AND ESTATE OF iHE CORPORA h4PIi It THE PRINCIPAL: CORPORA- C' P t l i t i Tis to be made to CitPES . ASH . L o t r N t , o Es h q , e ., Trea t Tows 14 0 .71 1 1 t, , / , 0 1 ; n 00Fes, 2, Corn w:al I from either of whom further _ ( C4l" "ni; tie l 'ol L ):a7nra.° -.0„,,,,i10rder) WM. SHUTTLEWORTH, Town-clerk. January, 1854. Tontracts Not,. o t uGH OF LIVERPOOL.—PRINTING To mb , STATIONERY —The HEALTH COMMITTEE ),liti t iio receive TENDERS for PRINTING and STA ,t(!Krim r equired in the several Departments under their liieei4or the ensuing Three Years. 4 4 ,1,,tle t t tl ona and Forms of Tender may be obtained at the oarn rRIVE OFFICE, Public-offices, 2, Cornwallis-street, o f i es of the various Articles required may be inspected T....tile e n ces of the several Departments in that Building. re ? "Inniittee do not bind themselves to accept the lowest Tatide tin Tenders, endorsed respectively " Tender for T (7 1 Of 'm" " Tender for Stationery," addressed " Chair c,ne Health Committee," to be left, sealed, at the Ofo r :RIC'S OFFICE, Public-offices, Carnwallis-street, on T ei ,L, i ne 20th February, 1854. itiWer Will be received unless made on the Printed oed from that Office. 'Coro w rd ,r, WM. SHUTTLEWORTH, Town Clerk. February 8, 185.1. ORfv, U A - VGH OF LIVERPOOL.—PRINTING STATIONERY.—The WATCH COMMITTEE OW to receive TENDERS for PRINTING and rillt aen E t i s tY required in the Head Constable's and other Oeeifi_ for the ensuing three years. Lurolecations and Forms of Tender may be obtained at ZB 4 : PLERX'S OFFICE, Public-offices, Cornwallis-street, e t i t ed.eL e s of the various Articles required may be in he Offices of.the several Departments for which the Vie are required. V Na e r. annittee do not bind themselves to accept the lowest Krai Tenders, endorsed respectively "Tender for T o n e fi, and " Tender for Stationery." addressed " Chair % er Watch Committee," to be left sealeg lis-s at the 1 ) 0 111 08 OF FICE , Public-offices, 2, Cornwaltreet, T e ne the 23rd February, 1854. j e .:mer Will be received unless made on the Printed ' s l' 0 red from that Office. eo r r -er ' 'W M. SUTTL , E 1W 85 4. RTH, Town Clerk. Feb H ruary 8 O Net° Allusic _ ---- MADAME AMADEI. Pt LAMENT OF THE ROSE."—New sung with great applause at the Exeter Hall 8 G ECLo Y alVanle ASIADIE. Also, "THE OLD COT- L o ktb ri p osea sLing b NAND A K ATHLEEN p F r l c T e z , r , f t e L a LAA 1 2 1 5 .. R . 4 O IV R E , R B D EA L . n P A C0.,0 . 201, Regent-street. (3 1 - - - 0 lovely Peace, with plenty crown'd." kjVt 1 0), ev e , - 1 -41 , 0'S CHEAP MUSIC is sold by 4.0 aparespectable Music Seller and Bookseller in this %:1111 4 ,.7 eighbourhood. Catalogues post-free on sending to 69, Dean-street, Soho, London. NtiD 10tIb1iCati0115 vb irkiefir n , This day is published, 1 ,0 iqt- I .''S INDEX TO FAMILIAR QUO -wertz,lex 8 . Part 11., price Is. -`-street, London ; WALMSLEY, Lord-street, rtoA tc , '11 • 1 THI O INT'S VIEW OF CHESHIRE, FROM • ab ov OCK TO TRANMERE, Price 10s. 6d. _ P : 4 1 t o t r i Will be Published in a Few Weeks, as a ' Coin- T ko g 0 k e Views of Liverpool." DAY and SON, London. Published by W. James' -street, Liverpool. 4$ 2ust p u b l i shed , Bvo , pr i ce 7s . 6 d., I _ 4E LEMENTARY TREATISE on CONIC 'ger % 'AS and ALGEBRAICAL GEOMETRY, with tusoolp collectio n of easy Examples, for the use of krblid G. H. PUCKLE, M.A. St. John's College, 1;0014. Mathematical Master in the' Royal Institution Yerp ool. I °N and LAUGHTON, Church-street. Lat e i It G Y Published, price 3s. 6d., cloth boards, o p „ wit , ICA.L REPORT on LITHOTOMY, h ft tli t „;-. General Remarks on Operations for Stone, and 11,71R 8 n es of the Kidneys, Bladder, and Urethra. By .T. th" r t O — P A M, M.D., Liverpool, Author of " Surgical -ttp ,ataract and Artificial Pupil." e—I LL, London: DEIGHTON &LAUGHTON, Liverpool. Tenth 11 4 t Thousand, Of tl ß i e e vi 6 e l4 ) A . N s o " f GREAT ‘t ,eit i t ty eb TAlN in 1851 ; with a DESCRIPTION of the llnstlrio,"'-RY and PROCESSES employed to obtain the %,,-VIV I L,AIso an Appendix of Tables of Reference. By hirtigh °o f ,'" CHESHIRE, Fellow of the Statistical Society, of th e Secretaries of the Statistical Section of the kitopci ‘ilSOci a tion. 1: 0 111 00 7: Joiix W. PARKER and SON, 445, West Strand. „,:, DisinwroN and LAUGHTON, Church-street , i !le.. atr lv".l.mst..EY, Lord-street; and WEB; and HUNT, S o L": °Y all Booksellers and at all Railway-stations. *RAM JO HN cloth, gilt. ss. (feel) feeiciinPlNroN "V JOHN FRANCIS WALLER, OF THE PRESS. and OPINION S OF imagery of a highly poetic siltc /i te k The volume will be found a delightful companion." Ader:Le of gentlemanly, scholarlike verses, exhibiting u lllt,i;'"e command of language, and often elegance of 41ten a —Bfi • 44e0114._ a.whole, we hail these poems as an accession to 1 k1(1 4„,rY literature. The whole piece, Sleep and De tli, e, credit to our best poets."—Dublin Univers:ly Magn i Als o, by the same Author, Bvo, sewed, Is., 4 ilLEte ‘ le e ,. THE SLINGSBY PAPERS. quttn - Pnt in Prose and Verse, from the Writings of 1414 u. reke Slingsby. ? I V. S. ORE and Co., Amen-corner. - 4t h •••&111.ES M ' GLASHAN, 50, Upper Sackville-street. 914. ) , 11 4. "led, Twentieth Edition, price Is.; post free for 18 stamps, , SCIENCE OF LIFE ;or How to Live, h ., % 'gip to Live for; with ample r w lg eLf s o t r ru D c ia i lt s for u p erfe - e n t ia l lialer ntitogethe longevity,and that sterling state of attainable t throug h the judicious observance t 4 0 . 1" 4111 atedcourse of life. By a PHYSICIAN. ,Ir ll ,N Oa tructions contained in this little work, m em os bo e d x y . o p , 1 4, the experience ac . quired in a long a a n v d a..e Y iesl ) )4,..' e al practice, in which theauthor has . a ;444-411,-- .ausual opportunities to Btu.) , the habits and the 1 1 ' 4 it7tiliarities; - constitutional or . acquired, which in ., I ,,eritO,od health at all ages, and in every social grad . L. ; Y e —4 tai authorities have pronounced the treatise to I 114 4 4 41 t . u1 e book—one which ought to he in the hands of 41 1 „ e acla,„ i n. the empire, more especially of the managers 3jby;Vamilies."—Sunday Times. 74Vilbi,"e same Author, price 2s. 6d., post free, 3s. 6d. . , y Coll.k.AL TREATISE ON NERVO . US DEB LIT 4 ITUTIONAL WEAKNESS, with Practical Ob itate,„ "%illustrated with Anatomical Plates in Health and %P t : ae . 1 ) ,.„,_ of this work is particularly recommended to who may entertain doubts of their physical % 1 4 1 Aea l : er are conscious of having hazarded the health, Lo l l We n d Privileges to which every man is entitled. To ta i r,tkdoi, JAMES " y Ith.,‘'XiOr,, Gx LBERT, 49 Paternoster-row; HANNA 1 13 1 %old `"atreet : MANN 39, Cornhill ; and all Booksellers ; I lrywoon, Oldham-street, Manchester; and ~,uur ch-street, Liverpool. V t. 0 7 4 f tik----,----.........----, bui TIONAL TESTENIONIAL of the valuable iltrttitdicinal properties of FRAMPTON'S 134104:1; forwarded to Mr. Thomas Prou, ar 22 , I k's-terrace, 'Zit kn' r ont VV. Smith, Esq. : 9 1) I kt i ; a n O d F , kV I ws'altPton, London, 10th May, 1552. Sir,—Ten years Alm Oct of a induced to give you my opinion, f !pued on expe *ed a. t he merits of Frampton's Pill or Health. I am il l 'Vela YOur having published that plain statement,, by trilicine.oPe others have been induced to t y so effective a tom b ci u , Anxious cares and the neglect of r my duced symp liZa of a nd —n the early part of tisear had pro old tried ti'llect. siness I• h I foundit prudent no longer to I N , w iic kid' ander A am delighted to say that 1 as removed, o, againt blessing of Divine Providence, i toiTtse p i as well as I ever was in m a few doses of the • y life. t 141' 4 % a R 8 are particularly efficacious for s 4 ues s hons of the At t ry Da orthess of breath, and all obstruct W mI I c. SMITH co u g .s ' t ln l e, th tsa gea ; and, if taken after too tree an indulgence iti !se, t,Y quickly restore the system to it . s natur iy it t 4 irrOWSIrieSS ih ditios.73ollBof a full habit, who are subject . to headache, thout , and singing in the ears, arising from too en, 11 , ~, ,v ? of blood to the heaqi, should never be wi fe •are 111 0 1)Y t ,... t ileir an ' Y d angerous symptoms will be entirely car 1 a nnmediate use. For Females, these Pills , t liailaY excelent, removing all obstructions, the distres _ W ri t*, d ch , e 80 very prertlent with the sex; depression Of hij a, aii t i 4 'nesa of sight, nervous affections, blotches, pon tle:thlo4altiovvness of thskin, and give a healthy aud juvc -4111,11Y tee,,,,, ° the complexion To Mothers they are conti kti.'llt .."' l4l6 nded as the best medicine that can be taken e b,,,, l et te li t s b it e r S e. g e naiiey ; and for children of all ages they ar a pleasant, safe, and easy acTrient, they 4011 ski ornroendation of a mild operation with the most e t'y 1,0 4 (1 tr e e : t* By regulating the dose, accordinop e in s o t eas e , it , lit Of the imtient, they become sultabl f or e ,d by o r L. .er . sex, that can be required. t o ... Ar ne or iftedicine Vendors. Price is. lid. per box. See Tettutke,„, S tomp,as trout, 2n S trand s Imam." on the. in I tbutation. SINGING AND PIANO-FORTE ACADEMY. —Mr. JOSEPH ROBINSON'S ACADEMY DAY for YOUNG LADIES EVERY TUESDAY. at his Residence. The Terms as at Schools, namely :—Piano-forte, Eight Guineas per Annum; Singing, Ten Guineas. No. 2, PERCY-STREET, (ONE DOOR FROM CANNING•STREET.) JOSEPH ROBINSON.- NOTICE.-MR. Mr. J. ROBINSON respectfully informs his Pupils and the Public that, in consideration of their taking LESSONS at his own RESIDENCE, he will in future make a Reduction in his Terms, by giving Twenty-four Lessons to the Quarter, instead of Twenty-one, as formerly. Gentlemen can receive Lessons in the Mornings or Even ings, as may be most convenient to them. No. 2, PERCY-STREET, (ONE DOOR FROM CANNING-STREET.) DANCING. —LIVERPOOL AND BIRKEN HEAD.—Messrs. HARWOOD and SON respectfully announce to their Friends and Pupils that their EVEN ING CLASSES for Ladies and Gentlemen are OPEN every TUESDAY and THURSDAY, from Eight to Ten o'clock. PRIVATE LESSONS every Evening. JUVENILE CLASSES, THURSDAY and SATURDAY; at the CRAVEN-ROOMS, Birkenhead, every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY; and at the ALBION ASSEMBLY-ROOMS, Chester, every MONDAY. 42, Nelson-street, Great George-square. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND: GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. the merits of the question at issue. Almost all disputes between mercantile men depend less upon the technicalities of common law than upon old and well-understood usages of merchants ; and there fore can be decided with, far more facility by those long practised in them •than by lawyers, who judge more by the letter than the spirit of laws, and who, in many cases, hear of mercantile usages for the first time in cases which they are called upon to argue. In this port, for instance, a local tribunal, sitting at frequent interval's, might decide almost every question which could possibly arise, with but little expense to the litigants, with the advantage of a speedy decision, and. based upon principles which would be recognised by both parties. Under present circumstances injustice is-often submitted to, rather than by resorting to the only available remedy incur an additional loss.. The assimilation of the mercantile laws of England and Scotland is also becoming of more importance, as the transactions between the two countries increase in amount and frequency. Merchants in each have creditors in the other country, and yet so diverse are the laws by which they are governed, that what is justice in one is not so in the other. Such distinctions might have been less injurious, and even defensible, when a spirit of nationality rendered each country jealous of preserving its own laws, but commerce has broken down the barrier which divided such near neighbours ; civilization has obliterated national distinction—at least as far as mercantile opera tions are concerned—and it only requires of the law to remove an P''''.aalY which proves detrimental to and injurious to the interests hcsa. countries. A step, however, has been taken by the inquiry which is now proceeding, and we trust that the Commissioners will not relax their exertions until the whole subject has been thoroughly investigated, and the most practical and efficient remedy pressed upon the attention of the Legislature. It is a question more really beneficial than the reform of the representation, which Lord JOHN RUSSELL has threatened to inflict upon the country, and which no one had called for ; and our representatives will be doing good service to their constituents by lending their aid to the movement. A SHORT time since we called attention to the serious defect which existed in our laws with reference to bills of exchange purporting to be drawn abroad, and yet, from being really drawn at home, rendered invalid even to innocent holders. The subject, which is of greater importance than many may at first sight be inclined to imagine, was brought before the House of Commons on Thursday, when the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE- QtRR said that the subject was under his consi deration, and he hoped to be able to propose some efficient remedy during the present session. In this he may find some difficulty, if the object to be kept prominently in view be the preservation of the revenue derived from Stamps. A far more impor tant object, however, is the security of commercial credit, by removing all causes of distrust from documents of which it is impossible to test the validity, and this security is the more imperative from the fact that, suspicion having been once aroused, the means of fraud are more generally known, and the security against it as distant as ever. The only practicable alteration required is to render all such instruments valid in the hands of innocent holders, and to impose a heavy penalty on the parties committing the fraud. If some such alteration be not speedily made, bankers and bill-brokers will be afraid of discounting foreign bills without an additional guarantee, by which serious obstacles will be imposed upon commercial transactions. IF Whig performanepa all proportionate to onuses, great might have been the expecta tions of purification from electoral corruptions, ac cording to the self-laudatory flourish with which the Ministers announced their intentions of grappling with this pretended monster difficulty. Whig mo rality was sadly shocked at the profligacy which had characterised several recent elections ; some of the little boroughs it was deemed necessary to sacrifice, in order to keep up the delusion of popular virtue ; and, as nothing but the wisdom of a Whig was competent to deal with such a grievance, Lord JOHN RUSSELL assumed the heavy responsibility, with much about the same sincerity of intention as he evinced on behalf of Protestantism by his Ecclesias tical Titles Prevention Bill. Any other course would, however, have been base- ingratitude ; for bribery and corruption in England, and the intimi dation practised by Romish priests in Ireland, were the steps by which Lord JOHN and his party mounted into office ; and, therefore, a really pre ventive measure would be the exercise of a Roman virtue of which the Whigs are incapable, and which, in their case, would prove a political suicide. This may account for the conglomeration of absurdities which Lord JOHN RUSSELL explained, on Friday, as the details of his proposed Bill, and for which he received the ironical thanks of Sir FITZROY KELLY, who said the country was indebted to him for the trouble he had taken upon the subject ; but his Radical allies, with more sincerity, told him that the only remedy would be the Ballot. The Bill proposes to reduce the penalty for bribery from 2500 to £5O, and that the names of voters convicted of bribery should be struck out of the registry and inscribed on a black list. The candidate, also, is to be disqualified from sitting in Parliament for ever, and the unsuccessful candidate, if he have two thirds of the votes of his opponent, is to be seated in his room. Another Bill proposes that election petitions should be 'submitted to a preliminary committee, with functions similar to those of a grand jury, so that encouragement should be given to the prosecution of such complaints with less fear than at present of being , involved in heavy costs. With every pretension to the accomplish ment of an effectual remedy for the evil complained of, there appears to be a complication of machinery which will fail of its effect for the slightest good, but, in unscrupulous hands, may be made the en gine of the grossest tyranny and injustice. There needs none of the dilatory and expensive process which this Bill does nothing to remove, nor is the imposition of a heavy penalty, whether £5OO or £5O, at all necessary to render bribery almost im possible, if the Whigs haye the slightest intention to purify Parliamentary elections : but their sin cerity has never been shown, and, in the cumbrous proceedings now proposed, Lord JOHN RUSSELL evinces the same disposition as heretofore to keep the ,word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope. All that is requisite is, for the revising barristers to be invested with powers to investigate charges of bribery, as objections to the retention of names upon the registry, with power of appeal to a superior court upon giving securi for costs. The inquiry conducted on the spo t, with the circumstances fresh in recollection, and wit nesses immediately accessible, would be compa ratively inexpensive ; while the punishment of disfranchisement, speedy and certain, would not only operate as an effectual check to such practices , but also purify the registry from the voters who are guilty. As for any attempt to punish the candidate, it would either be inoperative or unjust. Except in a few notorious instances, which are not likely to be repeated, no candidate would be per sonally concerned in the commission of bribery ; and to impose so heavy a penalty as perpetual exclusion fro m. tier, who, though ostensibly an agent, may have m. Parliament for the o ffence of ano ther, WRECK OF THE TAYLEUR. THE FUND being raised for the SUFFERERS by the WRECK of the TAYLEUR, is to be applied by a Committee, composed of the Gentlemen whose Names are at the foot, in the following manner, namely, — Firstly,—ln paying the Survivors wh . o wish to proceed to Australia a small sum, for their support until the 28th February, when they will be provided with a passage at the expense of the Owners of the Tayleur; and should they be detained after that day, they will be supported at the Owners' expense until they sail. Secondly,—ln supplying those who go forward with an Outfit, just sufficient to supply their wants until they reach Australia. Lastly,—The balance of the Fund will be divided among the Widows and Orphans of those Husbands and Fathers who were lost in the Tayleur while preceding their Families to Australia, intending to send for them as soon as they had earned money enough to pay their passages out. The number of Passengers saved is about 240, most of whom are entirely destitute, and the Funds subscribed to the present time will not suffice to give them the barest supply of clothes. The Committee give these explanations in the hope that they may induce many to subscribe who have heretofore not done so. CAPT. SCHOMBERO, R.N., DANIEL CAMPBELL, S. R. GRAVES, EDMUND THOMPSON, JOHN PILKINOTON, PETER STUART, JAMES BAT ~E S, HON. JAS. CUNARD, CHAS. MC IVER, J. G. RATHBONE. SHIP TAYLEUR.-A SUBSCRIPTION-LIST is OPENED for the BENEFIT of the PASsENGERS saved, and the WIDOWS and ORPHANS of those lost, from tee above Vessel: it lies at the EXCHANGE-Rooks, at the various BANKS, the ENI I RATION-OFFIC E, and at the Messrs. PILKINOTON anti WILSON'S OFFICE, where those disposed to aid the unfortunate will have an opportunity of appending their names. _ _ _ Amount already subscribed.. £3216 6s. 6d. 131`Calmont Brothers and Co X5O 0 0 Carter and Co Hon. T. H. Liddell, M.P. Stitt, Coubrough, and Stitt Garnock, Bibby, and Co lO 0 0 Frederick Huth and Co. lO 0 0 IN iiliam Earle lO 0 0 Anonymous lO 0 0 Robert Hutchison 5 5 0 J. B. Yates 5 0 0 Schlefinger and Wilkin Miss Beddowes 2 0 0 T. J. Duarte William Bingham I 1 0 .1. R. Isaacs 1 1 0 John Jones George M`Master 1 0 0 R. Jones YOU SUFFER TOOTHACHE ? If so, use BRANDE'S ENAMEL for filling Decaying Teeth, and rendering them sound and painless; price Is. per packet; post free, thirteen postage stamps; containing enough for several teeth. The only substance approved by the medical faculty, as being unattended with pain or danger, and the good effects of which are permanent. CAUTION.—The great success of this preparation has in duced numerous unskilful persons to produce spurious imi tations, and to copy BRANDE'S ENAMEL Advertisements. It is needful, therefore, to guard against such impositions, by seeing that the signature of the Original Manufacturer, JOHN WILLIS, is on the outside of every packet, without which none is genuine. Authentic Testimonials selected from many Aware& testifying to the extraordinary efficacy of Br ande's Enamel. "High-street, Uttoxeter, Jan. 17, 1853. "Sir,—Having for three years used your Brande's Enamel with perfect success, and having other persons in my family suffering from toothache, I send for another thirteen-penny worth. I am, sir, yours. &c., " MELLOR. "To Mr. John Willis." From Miss Price, New Bail Janu y, Oxford. " ary 39th. 1853. "Mr. John Willis. Sir,—l had a box of your Brande's Enamel some time ago, and the result was mostsatisfactory." " Stanhope-in-Wearedale, Durham, April 17th, 1853. " Sir,—You must be so good as to send me some of your Brande's Enamel, as I have been strongly recommended to use it by Mr. William Dodd, of this place, he has used it, and it has answered the purpose well. Yours, &c., _ "To Mr. John Willis." "ROBERT DIXOU. " Stanhope-in-Wearedale, Durham. Sen. '-`, " 3 °• "Dear Sir,—l enclose another or stamps for your valuable Enamel will be the fourth when it comes, an d nave all answered their object. Please to forward the same to " WILLIAM DODD. "To Mr. John Willis." " Edmonsly Colliery, Chesterley -street, July 27, 1849. " Sir,—l have never had the toothache since, in the teeth I filled with Brande's Enamel. " WM. HENDERSON. "To Mr. John Willis." LONDON:—Manufactured only by John Willis, 3, Temple chambers, Fleet-street, and sold wholesale by Sutton and Co., Bow Church-yard; J. Sanger, Oxford-street; Dietrich son and Hannay, Oxford-street; Butler and Harding, Cheap side ; Low, Son, and Benbow, Strand •, J. Prout, Strand ; J. J. Jackson, Cross-street, Finsbury ; Hearson, M'Culloch, and Squire, Bishopsgate-street ; Drew, Heywood, and Barron, Bush-lane, Cannon-street. LIVERPOOL:—Raines, Blan shard, and Co. ; J. J. Jackson and Co., 4, Cleveland-square; F. G. Jones, 5, Paradise-street. YORK : — Raime s, Bolt on, and Co. EWCASTLE:—DagIish and Imlay. EXETER: —Evans and Hodgson. GLASGOW :—Campbell and Taylor, Brunswick-court (Agents for all Scotland). DUBLIN: — W. Jackson, 9, Westland-row (Agent for all Ireland). And sold retail by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors in the United Kivgdom. Twenty really authorised Testimo nials accompany each box, with full directions for use. Sent Free, by Return of Post, by J. WILLIS, 3, Temple-chambers, Fleet-street, London, in return for thirteen penny stamps. COUNTRY AGENTS.—LIVERPOOL: J. Priestley, 52, Lord street, and F. G. Jones, 5, Paradise-street ; WARRINGTON: S. M. Webster, Horse-market, J. Picton, Horse-market street; PREacor: W. H. Dodd, Market-place; BoLrobk J. Scowcroft, Deansgate, H. Bradbury, Deansgate; PRESTON: J. Raw, H. Armstrong, 147, Church-street; MANCHESTER : Jerisbury and Brown, 103 Market-street, R. H. Ingham, 46, Market-street, W. Holvoake, 37, Downing-street, T. H. Taylor, 8, St. Ann-square, T. Standing, 1, Piccadilly, James Woolley : ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE: W. H. and J. Waterhouse; LANCASTER: J. Wimpray, Market-place; WIGAN: A. M. Mort, Market-place; OLDHAM: J. Hargraves, Mark Brels ford, Greenacre's-moor; STOCKPORT: A. H. Shaw D. Woolley ;Ms LpAs :J. Roberts ; CONGLETON. J. C. Chap man; MACCLESFIELD: John Dale, Bradley, Chemist. BEWARE of IMITATIONS; see that the signature of the Original Manufacturer, JOHN WILLIS. is on the outside of each packet, without whtch none is genuine. THE DUKE or HAMILTON, says the Caledonian Mercury, with the assistance of the law, has compelled the Romanists priest at Hamilton to restore to him certain precious pieces of plate (family heir-looms), presented to his place of worship by the duchess. FALL 01 A MONUMENT.—On Wednesday afternoon, between five and six o'clock, the inhabitants of Langfield were startled by a loud rumbling noise. Its cause was found to be the fall of the monument, erected on the height of Stoodley Pike, in commemoration of peace. This monument was nearly forty yards high. Subscrip tions were entered into for its erection immediately on the abdication of the imperial throne of France by Napoleon. It was commenced in 1814, and finished the following year. A few years since it was struck by lightning, which cracked the walls in several places, and to that its fall is mainly to be attributed. ESCAPE OP CONVICTS.—On Sunday week two convicts made their escape from Dartmoor prisons. They proceeded across the river Dart, and were making their way towards Ashburton, when they were seen by a farmer, who sus pected that they were convicts from their dress. Having procured assistance, he went in search of the fugitives, and succeeded in apprehending them at a place called Newbridge. They were conveyed back to prison, and have since been committed for trial at the Devon March assizes. TMB COINAGE or 1853.—There were coined at the Mint in 1853, 10,697,993 sovereigns, 2,708,796 half-sovereigns, no crowns or half-crowns, 3,919,950 florins, 4,256,188 shil lings, 3,837,930 sixpences, 16,038 fourpences, 37,168 three pences, 4,752 silver twopences, and 7,920 silver pence (of these last two coins the same number is printed every year, for Maunday money, we believe), 1,021,440 pennies, 1,559,030 halfpence, 1,028,628 farthings, and 995,224 half farthings. The total value of the coinage of the year was £12,663,000 ; the average of the previous five years was only £4,000,000. How A STRIKE IS GOT UP BY WORIEMEN.—Their method of reducing the abstract philosophy to practice is extremely simple and expeditious. There is a large par lour in a well-known publi c -h ouse —the Bricklayers' Arms in Westminster, the Hole-in-the-Wall in Fleet-street, the Swan-with -the-Three-Necks in Bishopsgate-street With out. There are five-and -twenty, perhaps, of the universal brotherhood. There are likewise five-and-twenty pots of porter, and five-and -twenty pipes. There is a president, a vice-president, and a secretary. Jack Harris keeps an eye to the door. The proceedings commence with a pre liminary statement of grievances from the chairman. There are speeches made pro. and con.; and motions and amendments ; and a putting of the. previous question. There G ee s of order, order ; hear, hear ; chair, chair ; loud cheers ; hurrah ! There are certain periphrases in use, particularly with respect to the word strike, which is seldom made use of. A mysterious -looking individual usually makes the speech of the evening. He begins with some vague general proposition, and then flies into the regions of the gods. He, for one, believes in the doctrine of universal brotherhood—that he and his comrades therein assembled are members of a mighty republic— that kings and priests are human inventions—that nature made no man superior to another, asked no man to serve another, gave no man a right to enslave another—that the working classes of this empire have been too lax in asserting their rights—and that the present insidious attempt of their employers to cause them to work over time is just an attempt to forge another link in the great chain of human slavery ! But shall he basely stoop to sell his freedom ? Shall he sacrifice the principles of civil and religious liberty ? No. He would rather be a dog, and bay the moon, than such a Roman ! The speaker resumes his seat amid long-continued cheering. His con clusions may rest on false premises. His reasoning may be somewhat obscure—his arguments appear somewhat unphilosophical. But that is no matter. He is seen to be in earnest; Isis declamation passes for eloquence; and he has no difficulty in carrying the meeting. Next week it is announced in the papers that a general strike has oc curred araong the members of a particular trade, in Colla sequence of a shameful attempt by their employers to f or o • them to work oyertime,—The Builder, STANDARD GENERAL PRINTING OFP ICE. 4, ST. GSORGS'S-CRES r :ENT, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL. LETTERPRESS PRINTING of every description, including PAMPHLETS, FORMS, INVOICES, SERMON'S, BILLS OF LADING, CUSTOM-HOUSE Ritrotrys, CARDS, ENTRIES, C ATALOG UES, CIRCULARS, &C. &C., SHARERORERS' POSTING BILLS OF BooKs, EVERY SIZE, EXECUTED WITH THE GREATEST PROMPTITUDE. In Stock, and Nlanufactued to Order, LEDGERS, DAY BOOKS, CASH BOOKS, JOURNALS, LETTER BOOKS, COPYING BOOKS, BILL BOOKS, AND WASTE BOOKS, IN EVERY VARIETY OF STYLE. LITHOGRAPHIC AND COPPERPLATE PRINTING. MACHINE RULING. &c. TO CORRESPOND EN TS. CROSS V. DAvIES--We have received a letter from Mr. Henry Cross, attorney, of this town, stating that he was not the plaintiff in the above cause, which was tried in the Court of Passage, and reported in our paper last week. JOHN DE LIVERPOOL.—We have no room for his letter this week, owing to its great length, but will endeavour to find space for it in our next. 63 - We shall be happy, at all times, to receive communica tions on subjects of local or general interest. BOORS, &c., FOR REVIEW, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed "to the Editor of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded and receive attention. Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably re quisite in any statement of facts. The Editor wishes it to be understood that he does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his correspondents. The ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION to the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is 20s. in advance—or 225. on credit. T (.6, I 1 ...... *141 , 1/44, 2fAt,:t. *-71,1,-=-Fl,, , ccz:L, 4,:(1-, Pr-ei,;41,•*.1.,.. ...a-,......teer.'....- a-,,,,,,. _ :,. _ t•t,.._,..... liinrpoof atanbarbt TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 14, 18.34. J.E . the public, in these exciting times, when all are in expectation of a war with the immense Em pire of Russia, can turn their attention to the less important subject of a Reform of the House of Commons, they will find that it has already been commenced in a manner which promises at least a far more practical result than the proposed raid against the old Freemen, because they are not to be bought with Radical money or beguiled with Radical promises. A committee has been granted to investigate charges against Irish members, of bartering places of honour and profit for filthy lucre. These charges were made at a dinner in Ireland a short time ago, by an ex-member and another, who vouchsafed for the truth of the state ment, that in one case the paid office of an Irish Poor-law Guardian was offered for 300 ; and in another case the appointment of a Stipendiary Magistrate was bartered for £l,OOO, although only £5OO was paid. The groundwork of the enquiry was an article in the Times, commenting on the enormity—not the Times of to-day, earning the long price paid by the Government for its advo cacy, but the Times of some time back, when it was more anxious to show its independence of such paltry considerations as a few thousands a year. Mr. LUCAS, the renegade Quaker, who shows the completeness of his conversion to Rome by blowing the loudest trumpet of the brass band, declared his belief in the truth of the charge, and read another diatribe of the Times, in which the whole Irish Brigade were charged with subsisting on the petty patronage of the Government, which the latter were obliged to grant fur the Parliamentary support which ena.hlpd +born to retain office. Under circumstances, Lord JOHN RUSSELL had no alternative but to concede the committee, and if the latter do their duty it ought to prove a step towards a more wholesome reform than any change in the electoral body. It is, however, an instruc tive corollary on the Ministerial trirlrory by ivi-anu the votes were obtained to defeat the EARL OF DERBY'S administration. The Irish Brigade were said to have been promised an immunity from the Income-tax, and cheated even in that little hope ; but it appears that their desires were of a far more tangible character, and finding that nothing was to be got from a Conservative Ministry of the little pickings to which they had been accustomed, they adopted the coalition, and literally pocketed the affront. For such arrangements, however, to be successful, all parties must be agreed as to secrecy, but the Brigade quarrelled among them selves as to the division of the spoil; and now ar e enlightened, not onl3 as to the peculiar mode by which the Whig-Radicals have contrived to secure Parliamentary majorities in the face of popular distrust, but we are more beneficially edified by the discovery that the popular indigna tion against the bribery and corruption of poor electors was thrown away ; for the charge really attached to the representatives who gained their seats by the intimidation of Romish priests, and made them profitable by the corruption of a British Ministry. A diversion was cunningly attempted by reiterating the charges made against the ex railway king, of purchasing Parliamentary support to his railway schemes by direct bribery of legis lators. Mr. HUDSON was then absent, but the next day he indignantly denied the charge, and denounced the accusation as being as false and malicious as it is unjust and untrue ; asserting that he had never committed a dishonourable act, and was willing to submit his whole career to the most searching investigation. If the charge were intended, as it appears, to divert attention from the far graver accusation of wholesale trafficking in Government patronage in Ireland, it signally failed ; and it is to be hoped that the committee, which the Ministry dared not refuse, will pursue the inquiry with full determination to ascertain the whole truth. It will at least show a reason for the disinclination of the Government to sup press the intimidation notoriously practised in Irish elections, and ought to convince the House of Commons that reform is far more needed in ,heir own body than in the borough Freemen or :he qualification for the electoral franchise. THE question of the difficulties attending the present state of the mercantile laws of England and Scotland is one of increasing importance, and imperatively demands the serious attention of the legislature. It is, therefore, satisfactory to observe that it is now the subject of a Committee of Inquiry into the expediency of assimilating the mercantile laws of England and Scotland, and that it is pro posed to extend the inquiry to the administration of the mercantile law in England and Scotland ; and whether increased facilities ought or ought not to be granted for the settlement by arbitration of mercantile disputes ; and whether or not the , various tribunals in which mercantile law is now administered can be usefully consolidated. As the Commissioners are unpaid, the extension of the inquiry depends upon their willingness to under take the additional burden which would be thus imposed upon them; but it is to be hoped that the zeal which induced them to undertake the first duty will be a sufficient stimulus for them not to leave so important an inquiry incomplete. It must be well known to all who are familiar with com mercial transactions, that by far the great majority, if not all the differences which arise could be set tled with infinitely more speed, economy, and efficiency, by arbitration or by local commercial tribunals, than by any appeal to the courts of common law, which are dilatary and expensive, and have the further disadvantage of neither the judge nor the advocates being able to comprehend acted , without orders, and even against positive instructions to the contrary, would be a species of tyranny, to .which we have had no parallel since the days of - the Star Chamber and General Warrants. Lord Joll' RussELL has his part to play of pre tending great zeal for electoral purity ; but, at the same time,.the real interests of his party are best served by doing the least, while professing to do the most. Tim PREMIER still holds out a lingering hope of the dispute between Russia and Turkey being settled by negotiation, but the surest guarantee for peace will. be found in the vigorous preparation for war. The EMPEROR of RUSSIA, as we ventured to predict, has.driven his pretensions to the verge of forbearance, and now, the sooner we are pre pared at both points—the Black Sea and the Baltic—the nearer shall we approach:to the long desired settlement. The British lion appears to have been effectually aroused : a naval force suffi cient to sweep the Black- Sea is already there, and, in a very few weeks, an equally powerful fleet will shut up the northern ports of Russia. At the same time, British troops will be dispatched by powerful steamers to the scene of action ; and should the now- demanded concession not be speedily made, a blow will be struck from which Russia will not easily recover, demolishing the work of years of stealthy aggression, and restoring that balance of power which she has so long been s ilp,tly destroying. With ample materio. for attack by sea and land, tho hardy mountaineers of Cfrcassia supplied with ammunition and reinforce ments, and Austria compelled to be neutral for her own preservation, Russia, notwithstanding her vast territory, will be hemmed in on all sides, while conditions of peace will be dictated to her from the cannon's mouth far more stringent and, humiliating than would have been accepted before force had been resorted to. In the unsuccessful mission of Count OBLOFF to Vienna and Berlin, Russia has exhausted her arts of diplomacy, and shown the strong anxiety of the CZAR to secure by any means, but peacefully if possible, the retention of the Danubian provinces, and his coveted pro tectorate of the Greek Church in Turkey. It is now also evident that the extremity to which the quarrel has been driven is mainly owing to the vacillation displayed by the English Cabinet. The EMPEROR was not to be convinced by diplomatic professions that England was sincere in her de termination to preserve the Turkish dominions from Russian aggressions ; and now, when words are being followed up by deeds, he has advanced too far to recede with honour or credit. Any con cession at the present time will be a confession of defeat, unless an ingenious excuse can be devised as a means of retreat, and we are rather inclined to think that the skill of Count NESSELRODE will be exercised to frame such terms of surrender as will salve the wounded honour of his master, and at the same time satisfy the demands of the Western Powers. It may not, however, be so easy, for, after raising an addition of more than ten thousand men to the British army, and adding more than a million to the navy estimates, to say nothing of the expenditure incurred by France, it may be a question whether Russia should not be called upon for compensation for expenses already incurred, as well as for guarantees against any future disturbance of the peace of Europe. THE RIGHT OP PRIVATE J7TD a m-E2v Tits fact that a departure from one extreme usually Leads to an adoption of the other, is evident in too many instances to need confirmation ; and the same remark will apply as well to religion as to politics. OUR SAVIOUR, said :—" Ye compass sea and addressing a., is".ibeeS, o make one proselyte, and when he is made he is twofold more the child of hell than yourselves ;" and modern Rome, in this respect, cloiels follows the example of her prototypes of old. Mr. NEWMA.N, as a member of the Church of England, bore a high character for the ingenuity of his arguments and the closeness of his rea soning; but since his perversion to Rome he has become notorious for his puerile attempts at argument and the extravagant absurdity of his conclusions. Last week, and again last night, at the Concert-hall in this town, the Rev. W. H. ANDERDON, some time vicar of St. Mar garet's, Leicester, and now a dupe of Romish superstition, made a display of the utter prostration of the reasoning faculties to which such a perversion inevitably tends. His discourse last week afforded no evidence of the ingenious sophistry by which Jesuits seek to delude their hapless followers, but was a melancholy proof of that mental hallucination of which he is himself the victim. With dreary pleasantry he attempted to define a Church as a divine institution, which presented to helpless man a system of revelation on which, if he attempted to exercise his individual judgment, he started with an act of disobe dience. Granted the definition, and what becomes of Mr. ANDERDON'S own position ? The minister of a Church whose doctrines he had solemnly sworn to teach in their purity and integrity, he exercises his individual judgment, or rather want of it, by breaking his oath in order to join an apostacy which has neither the warrant of Scripture, the justification of reason, nor the merit of consistency; which in one age has set up a particular dogma as indis pensable to salvation, in another has repudiated it, and in every age has altered or amended articles of faith in order to suit them to the expediency of the time, and gratify the all-absorbing object of worldly gain and temporal power. Denying the right of private judgment, Mr. ANDERDON is himself a melancholy instance of its exer cise, with this great difference, that while Protestants, as such, do it to " prove all things and hold fast by that which is good," he has rejected Scripture, ignored the teaching of the Apostles, denied the faith of all primitive Christians, in order to adopt the wretched superstition which displaces the SAVIOUR of mankind for the pre tended Mother of Heaven, and believes in Transubstantia tion, the existence of Purgatory andthe power of indulgence. Either the Holy Bible is or is not the revealed will of the ALMIGHTY. If it be, a belief in its doctrines is an ample refutation of all the absurdities taught by Rome. If it be not, there is an end of all revelation, for man has no other means of ascertaining the will of his MAKER. The Bible and Rome are in direct antagonism, and therefore the latter sets up the convenient dogma of repudiating all individual judgment, founding its faith upon popular ignorance, and enforcing its precepts by denying all right to question their soundness. Rome is wise in her gene ration, to deny her dupes the reading of the Scriptures; for the effect would be the rejection of the creeds which she has substituted. She has cunningly forbidden all inquiry, for the slightest exercise of the human intellect would demolish her complicated fiction ; and though we may wonder that any man who has once drunk at the pure fountain of Gospel truth should willingly wear such soul-debasing fetters, we can only attribute it to that mental depravity with which the ALMIGHTY sees fit to punish a wilful rejection of the truth. It will be seen that the gist of his discourse was the necessity of implicit reliance upon the teaching of the Church, while his own career was a practical instance of the violation of his own doctrine, with this distinction, that while those who have been educated in the faith of Rome may plead the excuse of never having had the means of knowing better, Mr. ANDEBDON'S first step must have been a rebuke to him for having taken it. He has not even the wretched plea of ignorance, but, like other waverers, he has coquetted with the flame until it has burned him ; and such an example should not be lost upon those still in our Church who, in their Romanising tendencies, show that they forget the injunction, "Taste not, touch not, handle not." ;y Tim LATR Mn. ALEXANDER.—Our obituary this week records the death of Mr. Robert Alexander, for many years connected with the Liverpool press. Up to the year 1830, he conducted the Liverpool Standard, and from that time till his death was the principal editor of the Liverpool Mail. His talents as a political writer were "well known. PASTORAL AID SOCIETT.—We have much pleasure in directing attention to the approaching anniversary of the Pastoral Aid Society, a notice of which appears in our advertising columns. The Archdeacon of Derby, who pleads for it on Sunday next, has many connexions with Liverpool. The Rev. W. Cadman is, well known as the laborious and able ministe r of a London parish, containing 37,000 souls ; and the Rev. .1. Hart will give many interesting details of the Society's work in Yorkshire. It is a little humiliating to learn that Bristol and Bath far exceed Liverpool in their support of the pastoral aid cause, and that while they contribute a large sum beyond their own wants, we are a drain on the Society's resources of nearly Xl 3 OOO 4-year• P OEICE COrn?_7_—YESTERD AY, ROBBERY IN AIt4itiPROPER Hors.—Margaret Short was charged with stealing a top-coat, some memorandums, and £lO. lbs. in money. From the evidence it appeared the prosecutor, whose came did not transpire, met the pri soner in Lime-street on_ Sunday night last about twelve o'clock, and accompanied herto her - lodgings. While there a dispute arose, in the course of which prisoner threatened the prosecutor with a poker. Prosecutor ultimately got away, but it was doubtfil - whether the property had been detained as security for money demanded or as a theft. Prisoner was discharged. STEALING A CARPET-BAG CONTAINING • QUANTITY OF JEWELLERY.—Francis Scrivens was charged with steal ing a carpet-bag containing between £6O and £7O worth of jewellery belonging to John Watson, an intended emigrant to Australia. The robbery took place in a lodging-house, in Bridport-street, on Tuesday last, in which the prisoner and the prosecutor had both lodged for several days. Pri soner it appeared took the carpet-bag, which he concealed among his own luggage, and the prosecutor accompanied prisoner and assisted in getting,his luggage on board the Whitehaven boat, by which the prisoner departed from Liverpool. On reaching Whitehaven the prisoner was taken into custody on the charge •of stealing Watson's property. He then said he had a carpet-bag in one of his boxes which did not belong to him, and which. he could not account for being there. He was apprehended, and now admitted that he had stolen the bag, for which he was ex ceedingly sorry; he was, he said, a domestic servant out of place, and had come from London,. The prosecutor said he expected the ship in which he had, taken his passage for Australia to sail on Wednesday. The case was remanded till this day (Tuesday.) THEFT OF WATCH JNwEL-HoLEs,--Charlas Ayres and Thomas Beaumont were charged with stealing 250 pairs of watch jewel-holes, worth about £5, the property of Mr. E. A. Gill, watchmaker, in Seymour-street. Detective officer Carlisle stated that, in consequence of information he had received, he proceeded to Coventry 011 Friday, where he took both_ krigrx . ;jg arge — " c ^p. le a tinAgl i e that heap ph-2-,;! iu .:- - holes Aula M r. Beaumont said he ought to have wmmu nio.ocd with Mr. Gill before then, adding that he - would have robbed anybody to enable him to escape from the bad company he was in in LiverpooL He also stated that the property had been sold to Mr. Parker, in Coven try. Mr. Parker stated he had purchased 824 pairs jewel holes from the prisoner Ayres, for £l. is. 01 Mr. Parker gave up 424 pairs.—Mr. Gill stated. that both pri soners had worked for him, and that Beaumont had left his employment on Tuesday se'niiight, after obtaining, on the previous Saturday, two sovereigns as part payment of work done by him. He (Mr. Gill) never gave the prisoner, nor any other of his workpeople, authority to take away work and materials to be completed at home; such a practice was in direct contravention of his regulations.— Robert Eddy, an apprentice with Mr. Gill, had frequently seen Beaumont take home jewel-holes to work at, and he always brought them back, as far as witness knew, up to the Tuesday, after which he did not return.—Mr. Reed, watchmaker, Basnett-street, proved that he had bought 108 pairs of jewel-holes from Beaumont, to whom he gave £1 18s. 6d. for them; this was the fair market value, and he believed a very plausible tale about them when Beaumont brought them to witness.—Ayres had sold the jewel-holes purchased by Mr. Parker, in Coventry, but said he got them from Beaumont.—Mr. Hughes, attorney for the prisoners, said no case of felony had been made out ; at the worst it was only a breach of trust, as Beaumont, it was clear, from the evidence of Eddy, had been in the practice of taking the property home to work at it, and then• returning it.—The magistrate observed that the prisoners admitted the robbery.—Mr. Hughes next applied to have the case disposed of summarily.—To this the ma gistrate could not accede, and ordered the prisoners to be committed for trial to the sessions.—Mr. Hughes then applied to have Beaumont liberated on bail, but this ap plication was also refused. PUBLIC-HOUSE ROBBERY. — John Thompson, who was liberated from gaol this morning, where he had been confined for the last three mouths, was brought up charged with stealing from the public-house kept by Mr. Wilkinson, No. 149, Brownlow-hill, a bag containing £l3, in silver money, on the night of the 3d of November last. Detective Officer Russell said, from information he had received, he went this morning to the gaol and apprehended the prisoner on the present charge, just as he left the gaol. On taking him into custody, and telling the nature of the charge, prisoner said, " I suppose we'll either be fulzied or turned up this time," these being cant terms for convicted or acquitted. The prisoner had been committed to prison for three months on a charge of attempting to break open a shop in Bold-street. Mrs. Wilkinson said the prisoner came to her house at a little before eleven o'clock, on the night of the 3d of November, and called for a glass of bitter ale, which she gave him. Another man came in almost imme diately after, and passed into her bar-parlour, where he had a glass of brandy and water, and asked her to give him a sovereign for twenty shillings of silver. This she did, putting the twenty shillings she received in a bag, which then contained exactly £l3 in silver; she put the bag into a drawer. While doing this, a third man passed into the bar-parlour, and called fns ^ R or ',waxy and tr , n40... Thy^ olie let him have, and, in doing so, he de tained her with some trifling remarks. The prisoner was left in the shop, and within reach of the drawer contain ing the silver, if he stood up on his tip-toes. Shortly after, they all went away, bit not together. She almost immediately afterwards missed the bag and the money. Is sure prisoner is the man, and no other individual was near it. The prisoner was -committed for trial. ROBBING A CIIILD.--CITBIOIJB CIA/I.—Grace Mac donald and Mary Connolly were brought up on remand, charged with having, on Thursday se'nnight, decoyed a little girl, whose name did not transpire, into their lodgings, in a sort of cellar, where, she said, one of the women took her hair-net off her head, and also took her trowsers off her person ; the other took away her ear rings. They detained her till the Sunday evening, at which time she got away, and reached the house of a neighbour of her mother's. The little girl, who gave her evidence in a very straightforward manner, said that she had been several times whipped by her mother for stopping when sent on errands; and gave as a reason for remaining so long with the prisoners, that she was afraid to go home lest her mother should beat her. The prisoners adduced two witnesses, who swore distinctly that the little girl was never in the premises occupied by the prisoners at any period stated by the little girl. The parents of the child said she had been absent all the time stated; the mother denied that she had punished the girl in the way alleged, and said she and her husband had used every exertion to find out where she was during her absence. The magistrate said, from the peculiar and conflicting nature of the evidence, the case against the prisioners could not be maintained, and they must be discharged. He animadverted in severe terms on the very improper conduct of the little girl's parents, in treating her with such harshness as to render her afraid of returning to their house, instead of endeavouring to seek their protection. STEALING FROM A PILOT BOAT. — JOhII Bryan, was charged with stealing a bag containg a pair of trow sers, several pairs of stockings, and some other articles, belonging to a lad named Thwaites, from the pilot-boat No. 10. The theft was clearly proved, and the prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned two months. A BOY named John Davis was committed for trial on a charge of stealing a ham. TILE CLEOPITRA. (s.s.), Beale, from Adelaide, arrived at Rio Janeiro, 30th Dec., all well. She was coaling on the 24th, and advertised to leave for Liverpool direct about the Ist of January. Jour MLRTII.—The last accounts received of Mr. John Martin, the painter, leave but little hope of his resuming his labours. His sight, his hearing, and mental faculties appear as clear and unimpaired as ever, but he is unable to walk without assistance. He is till in the Isle of man. THB HIMALAYA, Peninsula and Oriental Company's steam-ship, arrived at Alexandria from Malta on the 2d inst. in 61 hours, the shortest passage ever previously made being 69 hours, and was to return on the 4th to Malta and Southampton with the India, China, and Australian mails. CHURCH INSTITUTE, BIRKENHEAD.—On Friday even ing last, the Rev. C. F. Schlienz, chaplain of the Pilgrim Mission at Cluischona, near Basle, delivered a most inter esting lecture upon the Jerusalem and Abyssinian Mis sions, to a large and very attentive audience. The chair was taken by the Rev. Dr. Baylee. Mow{ Or LEARNED SOCIETIES.—The delegates ap pointed by our local learned societies have at length arrived at a decision, which we understand is unanimous, on the subject of union. Five gentlemen were appointed from each of the four which publish transactions ; and, after a patient inquiry into the whole subject, they report that an amalgamation of certain societies is extremely desirable, and easily practicable. The Architectural Society, from its professional bearings and distinct character, should, it is thought, stand alone, extending friendly relations as hitherto. But the complete union of the Historic, Literary and Philosophical, and Polytechnic Societies, is reported to be both desirable and practicable : that of the first two particularly so. There is no intention to mix up the sub jects promiscuously; the formation of sections is recom mended, with corresponding members of council, for archaeology, natural history, literature, and science. IMPORTANT TO MARINE-STORE DEALERS.—An infor mation was laid—the first ever laid in Liverpool under that particular section of the act, the 35th section' of the 63rd chap. of the 9th and 10th Vic., known as the Wreck and Salvage Act, which is of the greatest import ance to marine-store dealers. On Friday, detective Rus sell char?ed John Ryder, a marine store dealer, in Mersey street, with having, on the 25th of January last, purchased rope and canvas, being :marine stores, from a boy named Rowen, he not having attained the age of 14 years, and also from several other children under 14 years of age. Russell spoke to the defendant about the impropriety of such a course, and he replied that, if he must not buy from these children, he mast shut up his shop at once. Mr. Mansfield said this appeared to be a very excellent provi sion—one calculated to repress much juvenile crime. He should only fine the defendant 20s. and costs, as nothing previously was known against his character. INQuasTs.—Five inquests were held yesterday, before P. F. Curry, Esq., the coroner. On the body of a man unknown, brought home by the ship Manhattan, who was proved to have died from emaciation, caused by being frost bitten.—On Ann Groves, of 15 court, Blundell-street, who fell down stairs on Saturday night, whilst drunk, and died in two hours afterwards.—On John Turner Barks, 30 years of age, residing at 64, Chester-street. Deceased was a joiner in the employ of Mr. Barnes, of No. 85, Park-road, and on Saturday morning was pre paring for the putting on of a roof at some new building in Brancker-street. After stepping off the ladder he put his foot on to the stone cornice, which gave way, and he was precipitated to the ground. He was removed to the Southern Hospital, where he shortly afterwards died. — On Alan Harvey, 30 years of age. The deceased came with his wife to Liverpool in the steam-ship Commodore, from Glasgow, with the view of emigrating to Australia ; he had been drinking heavily with his friends before leaving Glasgow, and was so very sick during the voyage that he died between three an 4 four o'clock on Sunday morning. A surgeon, who made a post mortem examina tion, deposed that the cause of death was syncope, arising from sea sickness.—The fifth and last inquest was on the body of Thomas Began, which will be (Quail uoticeci o pal-May claewlicrf. LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT.. YESTERDAY. (Before Jos. Pollock. Esq., Judge) ROAD COLLLISION. —BARNES V. ASP Ilf ALL. - Th e plaintiff in this case was Joseph Barnes, Brunswick Foundry, shipsmith ; the defendant Thos. Aspinall, a far mer, at Ullet-lane, and the action was brought to recover £5 Bs. ed. for damages to a vehicle occasioned, it was alleged, by defendant's shandry being on the wrong side of the road. Mr.. Roby appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Bell for the defendant. It appeared that the collision took place at Ullet-lane, and that the night was very dark at the time of the occurrence. The gig of the plaintiff came in contact with the wheels of defendant's shandry, when both shafts were broken and other damage done. .After much contradictory evidence in the case, but the testimony of the plaintiff being corrobrated by Wm. Rea, coachman to Mr. Stubbs, who came up with hi s carriage shortly after the accident occurred, his Honour directed a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. CLAIM FOE ComxissioN.—Richard Dean Banks, com mission-agent, of No. 1, Moorfields, sued James Thompson, publican, of 18, Charles-street, as commission for services rendered, in procuring the occupancy of the house where he resides. The defendant pleaded that he had taken the place from Mr. Sumners, the former tenant, and that, after first directing him there, the plaintiff had not attended, as he ought to have done, to see the agreement properly drawn up, in consequence of which one-half of the spirits in the house, for which he had paid £26, had been removed. His Honour said that he might bring an action for the negligence. if he chose. Verdict for the plaintiff. CLAIM BY A SEEVANY.—DA.VIES v. THOMIS.—A young woman, named Harriet Davies, residing in Abercrombv place, Upper Mann-street, soug ht to recover f..om TIHM I-28 Thomas, sawyer, of No. 1 Court, Firvniow-hill, 13s. for wages due. It appeared that she had sigihVaetr as servant, and that the u sistP , reatO .' ved away all the furniture The defenda tA4Zie — shOuld have been paid. He had given , her 6s. of the amount, and stated that he now withheld the remainder till she restored a dress-piece which had been missed. His Honour said that that was a distinct matter, and that the wages were due on his sister's death. Verdict for the plaintiff. A JUVENILE BASEL—Thomas James Pilkington, a little fellow, apparently about twelve years of age, de scribed as a baker, and whose parents reside in Sarah place, Hornby-street, sued John Walker, of 2, Matthew place, Hopwood-street, baker, for £3, for services ren dered. It appeared that the defendant, who is a baker on board one of the Liverpool and Philadelphia line of steamers, had engaged the little fellow to accompany and assist him on the last voyage; but that on the vessel reaching here, he had attempted to evade all payment. The defendant's wife said, as we understood, that he did not get any wages himself the first voyage. His Honour: I don't care whether he did or not : why should he under take to pay this boy. Verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. CLAIM POE TowmG.—James Bremner, owner of the steam-tug Wallace, sued Joseph Betteley, as one of the owners of the vessel John o' Gaunt, for ten guineas, and some extras, for towing that vessel out to sea on the 18th of April, 1850. From the plaintiff's statement, it appeared that the vessel had been taken out by the Wal lace on the 13th, but that it had got aground on the Brumbo' bank, and, the steamer having injured one of its sides, was compelled to return to port for repairs. An arrangement, it was stated, was then proposed, that, owing ' to the loss occasioned, nothing should be charged for the towing out in the first instance, but that this was not to extend to the service to be rendered on the vessel's a second time proceeding to sea. After the case had proceeded a certain length, Mr. Hime produced a number of receipts, which were not read, but the signature to which the plaintiff acknowledged to be in his handwriting, and Mr. Roby, who appeared for the plaintiff, consented to a non-suit. ALLEGED DEFECTIVE PACSING.—The plaintiff in this case was Mr. Brebner, agent for Messrs. Milne and Stoffell, of Scotland ; the defendants, Messrs. Marshall and Tat tersall, ship-store dealers, King-street, and the action was, brought to recover loss occasioned in consequence of the alleged bad package of 300 dozens of bottled ale, packed in 50 casks, which they had been instructed to ship to New York. Mr. Blair, barrister, appeared for the plain tiff, and Mr. Hime, solicitor, for the defendants. It ap peared that on the arrival of the ale out at New York, there had been a considerable breakage amongst the bottles. The breakage had been so great, that the con signment, which had cost £65, was sold from the quay of New York for £4O 125., although, according to the then state of the market, it should have realised £BO. The action was brought to recover £24 Ss. It was alleged, on the part of the plaintiffs, that the breakage had arisen from the bottles being packed with shavings, mixed with chips, instead of with straw. It appeared that five only of the barrels had been opened by the con signees in New York. The others had been sold without examination. His Honour, complaining of the defective and r' "t character of +l.O act only on wh..+ I.yal been positively proved, and directed a verdict for the plaintiff, for the amount only of breakage actually ascertained in the five barrels that had been opened, amounting to £2 10s. .EXTRAORDINARY INQUEST YES TERDAY-A BURGLAR DISCOVERED. YESTBRDIT an inquest was held before P. F . Curry,Esq., the borough coroner, on the body of Thomas Regan, who died at the Northern Hospital under the following sus picious circumstances : Bridget Brannagan said that she was a sister of the de ceased, who resided with her and her mother at 29, Ford street. On Friday night, the 3d inst., he went out about seven o'clock in the evening. Between eleven and twelve o'clock the same night he was brought home in a car. One of his legs was broken, and he had a cut over one of his eyes. She went to the dispensary for a surgeon, and one came and bandaged his leg, and sewed up the cut over his eye. A police officer came and had him removed on a stretcher to the Northern Hospital. He said before leaving that he had been attacked by some one on Burlington bridge, because he would not give them some tobacco. He was for nine months in the employ of Messrs. Saracen and Barrow, grocers, Paradise-street,but had been dismissed. He was tried before the Recorder for felony three years ago, and sentenced to seven years' transportion, but the sentence was commuted to eight months' imprisonment. John Barrow, police-officer 7, said that he was on duty early on Saturday morning, the 4th inst., in Bevington Bush, when he noticed a man running down Limekiln lane. He stopped him, and asked where he was going, and after some hesitation he told him that he was going for a car to take a man to the hospital from Ford-street, who had got lamed by stepping on an orange-peel. He went with the man to the house, and had him removed. The deceased had a cut on his left temple, and all his eye lashes were burned off. His face was black as if with powder, and also his hands. After he had taken deceased away,he heard that a place had been broken into in School lane, and a safe blown open with powder. He went to the place and found blood on the floor. Officer 370 was there, and picked up a dark lantern. He then returned to the hospital and searched the pockets of the deceased, when he found a skeleton key, some lacifer matches, and some powder wrapped up in paper. .The deceased made three different contradictory statements as to how he had been hurt. John Briscoe, police-officer, stated that on the night of Friday, the 3d inst., he was on duty in School-lane, when about a quarter to eleven he heard a great explosion and the smashing of glass. He went in the direction of the sound, and found that the office window of Mr. Comer's leather warehouse was all broken to pieces. The keys having been got, he went with several others to the place. He found that the safe had been blown open with gun powder, and the cash-box was at the front door. He searched to see where the parties had got through, and found footmarks at one of the upper windows. He found a cap (produced) in an entry in Church-lane, and a pool of blood near it, and also a bundle which, on opening, he found to contain & quantity of skeleton key, a jemmy* saw, two gimlets, and a brace. Jessie M`Guffie said that she was a single woman, living as servant at a house of ill-fame in Peter-street ; knew de ceased, as he was in the habit of going there. About eleven o'clock on the night of Friday week she saw the deceased at the corner of Manchester-street. He was sober ; and said he was going home. He had on a wide-awake hat, like the one produced. The handkerchief produced be t longed to deceased. L George Markham, porter at the Northern Hospital, le h posed that deceased, when brought there, was suffering from a compound fracture of both legs, in consequence of which he had died. The Coroner said that there could not be a shadow of doubt that the deceased was one of the gang who had feloniously broken into the warehouse, and as the others were still at large, he thought it would be better to return an open. verdict. The jury found that deceased had died from the injuries, stated, but how received there was no evidence to show. CHIMES FOR ST. PETER'S Cnuncn.—The committee who have undertaken the duty of raising a fund for the restoration of the chimes of St. Peter's Church have been indefatigable in their exertions, and there is now every probability of the ears of Liverpool being soon gladdened with the sweet sounds. The greater part of the required amount has been raised ; and, though a comparatively small sum is still wanting, it was considered advisable to commence operations, as it will take some time to com plete the intricate machinery requisite. We understand that the contract was completed yesterday with Mr. T. S. Cooper of this town, and that the works will be commenced this day (Tuesday.) In order that the committee may be freed from responsibility, we shall be happy to receive contributions towards the sum now deficient GRAND BANQUET AT THE LIVERPOOL POTTERY, Sr . Hitums.—The Messrs. Doulton, Brothers, and Co., employed a sumptuous reception, last week, to all the men euip at the Liverpool Pottery, St. H e lens. One of their, d o_l2a_ dons terra-cotta rooms was fitted up for the occasion, was splendidly and tastefully ornamented withill rgre ummed and festoons of flowers ; it was also hea_nt af . l ,l a ers l effect, with gas, which added considerably to In e ra W e closely the th r oughout the and enabled the strangers invited to view an d other terra highly-finished vases, pendants, trusse e :i cotta ornaments which were d!sPer ° _, i n werishable stone room' as well as the specimens of f the glanced at tile. d the evergreens, were p through the stands of coloo w rs s Messrs. Doulton, Bro on firm, as ware drain i pe s. The mottoe s s imposing, and were as foil& form;" "Live and let live ;" d th e bee w t ; plum-pudding, fruits, cakes, thers, and Co.*" " Sanatory yhe should go." The tables " Train up a child e. both ends of the room, whereon persons sat down, amongst Whoni of te workmen. Messrs D • the female relatives ks Davies werewi extended nes,disacpo. on sed4 e i b t o h roasuetr 2005 were manage_ts of t he wor , presided during and Hughes , Birchall, of St. Helens, was called to the chair, when some able addresses were delivered on sanatory progress , and the harmony and good feeling which should exist between dinner. In the unavoidable absence of Mr. Doulton, Mr mas ters and men, These were respond e d t o w ith lively an d enthusiastic applause. Tea bei ng serve d up, an d a ll h av ing greatly enjoyed thems e l ves, t h e guests tqd tb4; departure fur UNIT nopectiyv bkmai, N NEW MUSIC. 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