The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-08 00:00:00

t/VEI 11BITION OOL ACA THE EX 1 of WORKS of MODERN ARTIS rs I at the Exhibition Rooms, Old Postoffice-Plact JAMES T. EGLINGTON, Secretary to the Academy of Art WILL SHORTLY CLOSE. PORTICO, N.EWINGTON, LIVERPOOL. MAFFEY'S THEATRE DU PETIT LAZARY Tllls EVENING, the Sth instant, and every Ev( durine the Week, (Saturday excepted,) the Even Amusements will open with th AUTOMATON ON THE TIGHT ROP After which, a splendid Nautical and Marine Ref tion of the TOWN and BAY of NAVARINO ; a Sports man with his Does: the Death of a Hare; a beautiful Star. Part 111 d'armes Otitii ng a perfect imitation of Animated Nature. HARLEQUIN'S VAGARIES, or the Gen ritted. In this piece will be introduced a mul- es, Metamorphoses, Sudden Transitions ts, and the Chinese Mandarin Dance by tho sue Subjec Marrioilette To conclude with a Representation of a STORM In this picture will be seen a magnificent pros in Motion ! ,t SEA ct of the Sea Front Seats, 2, Second Seats, ls.—Gallery, 6d. Schools, and Children under twelve years of age, admitted to the front seats at half-price. Day Performances, TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATUR DAY, at Two o'clock in the Afternoon. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. TO -MORROW, (Wednesday,) the 9th instant, J. S. BUCKINGHAM. Esq., will begin a COURSE of SIX LECTURES on the BRITISH COLONIES. Subject : PRINCIPAL EASTERN POSSESSIONS. Admittance, to Non-members, One Shilling. On the 30th instant, and 3d December next, JOSEPH MAINZER, Esq., author of Singing for the Million, B,fre., will deliver TWO LECTURES explanatory of his mode of teaching :VOCAL MUSIC. LIBRARY.—It having been resolved to erect a Gallery in the Library for the reception of more Books, and it being thus necessary to close the Library for a short time, it is hereby intimated that from the evening of Monday next, the 14th, to Monday, the 21st instant, the circulation of books will cease • and that all books must be returned, under the usual penalty, on or before Monday next, the 14th instant, in order that they may be compared with the Catalogue, and their condition ascertained LOWER SCHOOL.—The present Quarter commenced on the Ist instant. Terms, to Sons of Members, 12s. 6d. ; Pre paratory Department, 75.6 d. To others, 15s. and 10s., includ ing Books. W. B. HODGSON, Secretary. NEWTON'S HARMONIC SALOON, DICK'S COFFEE-HOUSE, MURRAY-STREET, WILLIAMSON-SQUARE IMB PROPRIETOR of thi s e l egan t R render his Establishment every way (14 tinguished patronage hitherto bestowed, informs the Public he has ENGAGED, for Fourteen Nights, the celebrated HERR VAN JOEL, of the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, who will shortly appear and delight the Visitors with his wonderful and pleasing IMITATION OF SINGING BIRDS, ANIMALS, MUSICAL IN- STRUMENTS, ETC sort, a , The Saloon is open every Evening from Seven o'clock until Twelve. Glees, Catches, Solos, Imitations, &c., with Musical Ac companiments. Solos and Concerted Pieces on the Violin, Harp, Piano-forte, &c. CHOPS, STEAKS, KIDNEYS, ETC WINES AND SPIRITS OF SUPERIOR QUALITY MO be DISPOSED OF by PRIVATE CONTRACT, a capital DWELLING-HOUSE, situate in Great Homer-street, containing two Parlours, five Bed-rooms, ex cellent Kitchens, Wine Cellar, &c., running in depth about 26i yards, and at the front and back 6 yards 2 inches, or there abouts. This is well worthy the attention of any parties wanting a Residence for themselves, or as an investment, it being substantially built, Apply to Mr. QUILLIAM, 30, Ranelagh-street, or M HAmpsoN, Richmond Fair, Fox-street. la OUSE to be LET, No. 8, in Devonshire-place, ont of Netherfield-road North, Everton, in excellent repair. Rent £45 per Annum. Apply at the House. COMMERCIAL BANK OF KINGSTON , UPPER CANADA. THE Directors of the London Joint Stock Bank, as agents in this country for the Commercial Banks of the Midland District, Kingston, Upper Canada, give notice to the public that they continue to RECEIVE DEPOSITS and to GIVE LETTERS of CREDIT on the said Bank or its agencies to persons proceeding to the Canadas, or to those who may have payments to make there, payable on presenta tion at the current rate of exchange on London on the day on which the order is presented. - GEORGE POLLARD, Manager of the London Joint Stock Bank, Princes-street, London. MORISON'S WRITING INKS. /(ORISON'S OFFICE and COPYING INKS, well I"- known for the last Thirty years, continue to maintain their superiority, and increase in public estimation. MORISON'S COPYING INK is particularly recom mended for its great strength and copying properties ; this Ink will give off a perfect copy after it has been written twenty-four hours. MORISON'S OFFICE INK is of great strength, and unequalled for its fluidity and permanence. Manufactory, 31, Duke-street, Liverpool. CARPETS, MOREENS, DAMASKS. FURNITURE PRINTS, LOBBY CLOTHS, OIL BAIZES, FRINGES, HEARTH RUGS, DRUGGETS, &c. THE most extensive and CHEAPEST STOCK will be 1 found at W. OKELL'S BEE-HIVE ESTABLISHMENT, 17 and 19, PARADISE-STREET. The Prices of good Yard-wide Kidderminster Carpets are ls. 3d., Is. 6d., 25., and 2s. 6d. ; Moreens, 71d., Old., and ls. ; Damasks, all wool, Is. to ls. 6d. ; Furniture Prints, 21d. to 7d. ; Yard-wide Lobby Cloths, 2s. to 2s. 6d., nar rower widths proportionably cheap. Blankets, Counter panes, Sheetings, Table Linen, Crumb Cloths, &c. pROMOLI and HAUSBURG beg leave to direct the attention of their Friends to their SPLENDID AND EX- - TENSIVE STOCK or JEWELLERY , constantly replenished with the most elegant Novelties from the first Manufacturers in London, and the production of THEIR OWN MANUFAC TORY, ON TILE PREMISES, and forming an unrivalled Coll tion of Ornaments, to the selection of which their exe are unremittingly devoted. The kind patronage conferred upon them since they com menced the manufacture of WATCHES has been an induce ment to still greater efforts, and they have succeeded, both in price and quality, in distancing all competitors, being enabled to offer advantages hitherto unprecedented. The increased demand for the ELECTRO-PLATE af fording proof of the high estimation in which it is held, P. and H. solicit the favour of an examination of their Stock, being convinced that the superiority of the manufacture will at once be evident. The most prompt attention paid to the execution of orders, and Estimates furnished for RE-PLATING ARTICLES WHICH HAVE BEEN PLATED UPON THE FORMER SYSTEM. Liberal terms to Exporters and the Trade. PROMOLI AND HAUSBURG, OLD POSTOFFICE BUILDINGS ORRELL COAL, COKE, AND SLACK. JOHN HUSTLER and COMPANY i n f orm th e i r F r i en d s that they can now supply them from their new Mine with BEST HOUSE COAL, at 14s. 6d. per ton. SECOND ORRELL, at lls. 6d. per ton. BEST SMITHS' SLACK, at Bs. 4d. per ton. Delivered FREE OF CARTAGE within the MUNICIPAL and PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY, and the rates lowered for extra distances. _ _ _ The SECOND ORRELL is an excellent Caking Coal and as durable as the best. _ The SLACK from the above Coal is of very superior quality for the working of Iron, and excels their former well-knovn best Orrell Slack. Their Coke has been tried in Foundries, and for the use of Railway Engines, and proved to be of equal quality with the best in the market. Office, 2, Canal-basin, Oldhall.street, Liverpool. 10th Month, (October,) 1842. FALL OF A ROCK-SALT PIT NEAR NORTHWICH.-It will be in the recollection of many of our readers, that about three years ago several lives were lost in consequence of the falling in of the top mine of a rock-salt pit belonging to Messrs. Ashton, of Dunkirk, near Northwich. A few weeks ago, indications were given that a second fall might be ex pected, and it has since taken place, owing, as it is conjec tured, to some rock-salt pillars, in the bottom mine, having given way. In this fall, however, no lives have been sacri ficed as in the former melancholy instance, but the loss of property to several respectable proprietors is very great, in volving considerable loss to the rock-getters and their fami lies, who regularly worked in the mines, which are now flooded to the height of five feet deep by the water, which had collected in the enormous cavity which the former calamity had occasioned, and which has now found its way into three neighbouring pits, and threatened to enter as many more. It is said that the men who are now unemployed, are amusing themselves occasionally by sailing on the water in a cock boat from one pit into another in which it had entered, at a depth from the surface of the earth of a hundred and twelve yards. — Macclesfield Courier. - - --- --- - EXPERIMENTS ON THE ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.— During the past week a series of experiments on the atmos pheric principle have taken place on that portion of the West London Railway, at Wormwood Scrubbs, which is construct ed on the atmospheric system. Among the scientific gentle men present we re his Excellency the French ambassador, M. Teaserene; of the French commission ; Major Luttermann, of the Hanoverian commission ; Professor Vignoles, C. E. ; and several gentlemen o f the Dublin and Kingstown Railway. The experiments were undertaken by Messrs. Samuda, the patentees, et the request of the French ambassador, to afford the gentlemen representing the French and Hanoverian powers an opportunity of jud g i ng of the practicability of the system. Owing to the line not having been wor k e d f or t h e last four months i t was in sow uneven state, but the velo- Alkhour. It is city attained was from 30 t . teem on the Dublin under stood that the result of-the tr ies this' R a il w ay, for which a itrautlhas already been the steps to be taken and Kingstown . made by Government, will determine by foreign powers on t h e subject- New PATENTS.-- ( F r om Newton and Son' s List.) -To Samuel Henson, of New City Chambers, Bish opsgate- street, engineer, for certain improve ments in locomotive apparatus, and in machinery for convey i ng letters, goods, and passen gers, from plac e to place thro ugh the air, part of whi c h i m. provements are applicable to locomo tive and other machi nery, to be used on water or on land. Sealed 2 9 th Sept.—James Hyde, of Dukintield, Cheshire,- machine maker, and John Hyde, of the s a me place, cotton spinner and manufacturer, for a certain improvement or improveme nts in the machinery , flax, and similar i • used for preparing cotton, wool, fibrous materials for spinning. Sealed 29th Sept. — John silk, Ridsdale, of Leeds, in the county of York, for improvements in preparing fibrous materials for weaving, warps. Sealed 29th Sept.--John Oliver York,and of Upper in sizing Coleshill-street, Eaton Square, in the county of Middlesex, engineer, for improvements in the manufacture o f ax les for railway wheels. Sealed Bth Oct.—Wilton George Turner, of Gateshead, D ur h am , D oc to r o f Philosophy, for improve mentsi in the m anu f ac t u re of alum. Sealed Bth Oct. i. liam Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery lane, patent agent, for certain improvements in the manufac ture of artificial fuel, being a communication. Sealed 13th Oct.—Robert William Sievier, of Henrietta-street, Caven dish Square, gentleman, for certain improvements in looms for weaving, and in the mode or method of producing plain or figured goods or fabrics. Sealed 13th Oct.—Henry Brown, of Selkirk, manufacturer, and Thomas Walker, of the same place, manufacturer' for improvements on woollen carding engines. Sealed 20th of Oct.—Thomas Seville, of Royton, Lancashire, cotton spinner, for certain improve ments in machinery used in the preparing and spinning of cotton, flax, and other fibro us su b stances. Sealed 20th Oct.--Rowland Williams, of Manchester, fustian shearer, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for raising, shearing, and finishing velvets or other piled goods, by power. Sealed 27th Oct. ,t only 6Y t: ,bsequentl ce in the measures ad prevailed. This coaf of Ghuzne mainder of without encou The progres Cabul, while Gen 1..„,.. roops ► land, relinquished Nott into the inte Affghan- Istan appears, notwithstanding the distance from Candahar to Cabul (about 320 miles), and the accompanying dangers to have been thus f big in I fortun complishment of the arduous undertakin for the ac- •ould b useless to d to Cabul is one of great importance, for when successful it will demonstrate to the world that all the clamour about Affghan patriotism and their wonderful prowess was of no value. - sguise the fact, that this march from Candahar Intelligence from General Pollock to the 4th of Septemb states that his troops had been eminently successful in th gradual movement to Gundamuck, and in routing soi bodies of the enemy. The arrival in the camp of Futt Jung, the son and heir of Schah Soojah, who had effect his escape from the prison of Akhbar Khan, was consider( in the circumstances, as an event bf great magnitude. 1 came from Cabral attended by fourteen persons, althou only one was at first allowed to enter the camp, 1 were subsequently issued to admit the re ma i n d er reaching General Pollock's tent a sal but or r. On stantly fired. His reception proved the intentions of t general to be favourable to his rights as S The orders for a rapid move from G overeign of Cain, the 6th or 7th of September had, it was s rtained of ti uck to Cabul but some doubts we effected prior to the certainty of the approach of Gei Nott from Ghuzne( Amon the rumours was one th seized by the E the inhabitants 'khbar Khan had be' bashes, who constitute a large portion abul, and who, in order to save the c and for that r 'One item of pa writer, of the office crest of the British alliar nt Sir Rot in January last should m of the British troops at Ci e their ar A report was ci 'e been mas to the effect great resi could have learned with e may be corre was not like]. bourhoo Sir Cl tember for official confin a, whic e nutil the two corps met in the laC t Bombay in the beginn troops from General England. Her Hajesty's ...- went had suffered severely from cholera during its passe Kurrachee. The corps under the orders of Gent....' - was, after the districts around Quetta had been placed the jurisdiction of the young Khan of Kelat, to come thro the Bolan Pass on the 26th of September ' its station near the Indus. The pro become necessary in consequence of. a t, which had taken place between the Ameet. and some of their neighbours, the consequence of calculated to be, that both parties, or at least the weake, was likely to appeal to the British authorities for protectioi The tyranny of the Ameers is proverbial, and the removal c their government would be a blessing to all the inhabitants c the banks of the Indus. It was therefore considered proba ble that the British government will, for its own sake, a well as for the advancement of civilization, be speedily in duced to control the oppressive acts of those mischievou despots. 1 Englar in order to tat sence of th ;orps h It seems to be expected in India that the British am. the junction of the two corps at Cabul, will, sub_ _ the liberation of the prisoners, be called upon to take deciu, steps for introducing a proper system of government and th administration of justice into the Sikh country. The presen chief, Shere Singh, is described as being in a most difficuli position, for he finds it almost impossible to control the fa. natics and his soldiers, who, although forming a very smaL portion of the population, have, by their turbulence, long kept the Government at bay. Rumour asserts that Shere ised to the supreme Government his de'' . ..zed Monarch, a gement of the Brit: festival of the Dv Singh had expre to become a stibsid: under the matt was the ann apprehend i to place his The 14th of rabble to present their homage to the Chi. lock, on his return towards India, may therefore hay._ ther object' to attain worthy of the most energetic at viz., the taking possession of the Sikh cot of that population, who are fully aware of t hat day, when all th e Sikh so ldi er y go i f. Ge duced bi i British people have given to t. The clamour raised z. 5 ..7 will thereby be in some degree quas _ _ of the Pur. other parts paign in Affg The In ed ;for the Poi ub and of the banks of the 1 elating the commerce of that very soon enable the Indian government t_ a -- deficiency caused by the late expenditure of its financ Those advantages are enhanced by the demonstration n afforded to the whole of the Mahometans in Asia that tl., are unable in any spot of that continent to cope with tl armies of England. The prospect thus held forth of form ing into a compact and easily administered whole is highly satisfactory to the Anglo-Indians, and will probably be rea lized without delay. Lord Ellenhorough arrived on the 10th of September at Simla, the proximity of which place to Lahore. as well as many other indicatio ns , l e d many to consider the occupation of the Punjaub as probable. The Governor-General and the Commander-in-Chief being in the immediate vicinity of the Sikh capital, could without difficulty learn how the British forces, during their passage through the Punjaub, ought to conduct themselves, so as to support the introduction there of a good and just government. The different measures lately adopted towards the army have contributed very much to establish its efficiency, and to increase the confidence of the native soldiers in the actual government. In addition to the junior officers who had been appointed to all the regi ments in the service of the company, Lord Ellenborough has, it is asserted, recommended that one more captain be named to each regiment. The careful examination instituted into the augmented expenditure has produced official reports from the committees explanatory of the various comparatively new items, while it has also insured economy in the whole system. In the interior of India tranquillity prevails, with the ex ception of the mountain district of Bundelkund, whither a strong force was about to be sent in order to put down the disturbances effectually by destroying the forts of the petty chiefs. The rains were most plentiful throughout India in the month of September. The much-talked-of apprehensions entertained of a famine in the district near Delhi have vanished. The army of reserve has been ordered to assem ble on the Sutlej in the month of November, preparatory, as it is said, to some demonstration against the Sikhs. Their government at Lahore appeared to dread the approach of the army of reserve, and had given orders at its powder mills to prepare a quantity of that article as quickly as pos sible for the emergency. There have been some serious losses in her Majesty's 50th and 62d Regiments while proceeding up the Ganges. A boat was swamped near Cawnpore, and 18 men of the 50th w ere drowned. A w i ng o f th e 62d going in boats near Bhagulpore was overtaken by a storm at night, which forced the boats from their moorings, and 38 men, including Lieu tenants Scobell and Gason were lost. The bark Ricardo, on its voyage from London to Calcutta, struck on a sand-bank in the Hooghly and heeled over, and in one minute went down. Ten persons were drowned. The Delhi Gazette of the 21st September, the latest paper received at the closing of the mail from the north-west of India, states that Akhbar Khan had resolved to abandon Cabul, and to take the prisoners to the Hindoo Koosh. It is to be regretted that the intelligence of the proceedings at Ghuznee or Cabul had not arrived at Bombay on the Ist of October. The failure of the house of Fergusson Brothers and C at Calcutta, was much talked of. The amount of •their bilities in India was stated to be little more than £lO,OOO The cholera was making great ravages among the soldiers lately arrived in Bombay from Europe. CHINA China comes down to t s for for ng hopes of an ap mination of the war there. After the arrival of the -rein forcements, the expedition on the 13th of June entered the Yang-tze-Kiang, the most magnificent river of China, on the banks of which the Chinese had erected many strong fortifi cations, and garrisoned them with large bodies of their best troops. Having passed three days in making observations and in taking soundings, which were seen and permitted by the Chinese, the fleet at daylight on the 16th prepared for action, and on the ships taking their stations the batteries from the shore opened. The progress and results of this con flict have been officially published in the following terms : CIRCULAR " The gratifying duty of announcing further highly im portant successes of her Majesty's combined forces again de volves on her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China. " After the necessary delay in destroying the.batteries, magazines, foundries, barracks, and other public buildings, as well as the ordnance, arms, and ammunition, captured at Chapoo, the troops were re-embarked, and the expedition finally quitted that port on the 23d of May, and arrived on the 29th off the Rugged Islands, where it remained until the 13th of June, on which day it crossed the bar, which had ously surveyed and buoyed off, into the Zang-tze joined by the been pr Kiang river to the point Woosung. "At this point ties had erected im s of works to defend the entrances of both rivers, so confident of their ability to repel close reconnaissance to be rs by their Excellencies the on the 14th inst.; s which were sent ide the ships of ❑d seem to have us, that they per made in two of the Naval and Military and even cheere I and encouraged in the same night to lay down hu, war to their "At dayl allotte 3e squadron weighed anchor, and prc stations, which was scarc and the - cannonade on both iinese the ror abou gan to slacken, and th ut once, under the fire from the 014 out of the batteries before the trot" and formed for advancing. " 253 guns (42 of them bra ad drov tteries, rds of 11 feet long. ;es of new and effi observed that they most of them of heavy calibri. The whole were mounted on p dent construction, and it %VP were fitted with b am b oo sights. " The casualties in the naval atm of the expeau.,,.. _ ted to 2 killed and 25 wounded, but the land forces had not a man touched. It appears almost miraculous that the cas ualties should not have beeh much greater, considering how well the Chinese served their guns. The Blonde frigate had 14 shot in her hull; the Sesostris 11, and all the ships enga ged more or less. The loss on the part of the enemy is sup posed to have been about 80 killed, and a proportionate as likes number wouncie " On the 17th of June some of the lighter vessels of the squadron advanced up the Woosung river, and found a bat tery deserted, mounting 55 guns, of which 17 were brass. On the 19th two more batteries close to the city ofShang i the advanced division of the light a couple of broadsides the Chinese ,ich contained 48 guns (17 of them _and the troops took posses ere destro'yed, hal open squanron, fled, and t brass) were instantly 0 sion of the city, wh and the extensive g ;overnment granaries given to the people ,ency the Admir of the s 3t.)4, of wh proceeded up the river %Os steamers on the 20th instant, id in the re: ld chiefly large uns have dev 'eral of them have subduer of the ignified by the iese nigh °ince Lion of the cit e supposed to have , Wang-chow-fco, have made another perations by an avowed iven a satisfactory proof of their lease of 16 of her Majesty's .nd troops ; of Soocho by the re nd native: IN rA, APFGIIANISPAN, AND ( Times atches in antic session, even for a short time, of Our de India to the is from A Inc c Cabul, place, h ttempt to ret Man to treat, anti ha of India) who had been kid napped ; but as the overtures were not grounded on the only basis on which they can be listened to, they were met by an intimation to that effect. uropeans " God save the Queen." " Dated on board the steam-frigate Queen, in the Yan, tze-Kiang river (off Woosung), the 24th of June, 1849. "HENRY POTTINGER, " Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary." The name of Lieutenant Hewitt, R.M., - on board the Blonde, has been published as one of the two killed, his head having cut off by a round shot. The results of this victory have been remarkable. The tTandarins in the two most fertile provinces of China were dreadfulty alarmed lest Wang-chow-Foo and Nankin should be taken and sacked, and the mouth of the Great Canal seized. They sent a flying express for a son or some other relation of Howqua, the old Hong merchant at Canton, in order to interpret between them and the British. They ex hibited a wish to make terms, but whether with the object of merely gaining time, does not appear certain. The approach of the expedition to the mouth of the Great Canal and the dangers that threaten Nankin would, it was thought, induce the Emperor to make an equitable arrangement, but doubts were still entertained of his being exactly informed of the truth. The efforts of the Chinese authorities to make resis tance have hitherto been very great. A proclamation issued by the Emperor in the beginning of June breathes the most decided hostility to the " barbarians," but does not brag of the valour of his generals and soldiers. This proclamation, it ought to be remarked, is dated prior to the attack on Shanghai. g • It is worthy of re,.. busy - exciti ark, that while Russia is described as not only _......g the Chinese against the just de mands of Great Britain, but in assisting them with officers, the United States and France have sent their ships-of-war to watch our proceedings with that anomalous race, and, as it is openly declared, with the intention of demanding all the advantages that we may obtain by the expenditure of so much blood and money. The American and French frigates have sailed from the Canton river to the northern ports of China, which their ships were never before permitted to EST INDIA MAIL STEAMER ISIS The Medway, royal mail steamer packet, Captain Smith, (anxiously looked for,) arrived in Mount's Bay (Penzance) on the morning of Thursday last. She left Vera Cruz on the 15th of September, Tampico on the 18th, New Orleans (mouth of the Mississipi) on the 23rd, and Havana on the Ist of October, bringing all the home mails, passengers, 1,500,000 dollars, cochineal, &c. The Medway arrived at Nassau on the 3rd of October, where she found the Isis, another of the enrimniiv'. uaptam Lon. Isis had touched on th e ree f s near Porto Rico on the 12th of September, after which she went to Turk's Island, then took down the Jamaica mails, and at Port Royal re ceived all the repairs she needed, when she was surveyed and pronounced in a safe condition to proceed to England. She left Jamaica on the 26th of September called at Turk's found the Tweed, Clyde, and Larne. The ~.iged mates with the Tweed, which latter went to Jamaica, the Isis going on to Nassau, and joined the Med way on the 3rd of October, when both vessels started for England, the Medway having orders to keep company with the Isi.. 'lnd not lose sight of each other during the voyage, They, however, encountered very boisterous weather up to the 9th, when it came on a perfect gale. By this time it was found unsafe to remain on board the Isis any land, where she Isis excha if possible longer ; so after severe and dangerous work, the crew, &c were transferred to the Medway, close at hand, all safe, with the exception of one boy. This took place about thirty three miles of Gibb's Hill, at noon. The Medway kept off and on till next morning, the Isis still afloat, but the sea very high. As soon as they could manage it, the Medway came as near to the Isis as Prudent, when Captain Smith, Loney, and several other officers went aboard the Isis, to examine and see if it was possible to take her in tow; but all deemed it dangerous to undertake it. However, Captain Smith was unwilling to leave her, and determined to try and save her, possible, by taking her in tow. He found from the reek , (the weather precluding any observations,) they were ,out twenty-eight miles from the southwest reefs, which position it was thought prudent should be confirmed, as breakers were seen a-head, by making the land (Bermuda.) This they did about sunset, the Isis being in sight from the mast-head. They returned to the place about where they , upposed her to be, but could find no trace of her. They, awever, remained till daylight next morning, (10 of Onto -,) when they found all the light articles floating about, lcient proof of her having foundered during the night. vay went into Barmuda, where she coaled. She n on the 13th of October, and after a most tem ssage reached Fayal on the 25th, as the Belgium ish Queen was leaving for England. The Med al about twenty-six hours after the British stormy weather, which The Med sailed agi ay left 1 Wueen, buti sne met with vex obliged her to put into Mount's Bay On the 24th of September the Medway her way to the mouth of the Missiisipi. that vessel's loss in the Gulf of Mexico ha account of tl w the Solway on So the report of sen from t 1 s of the Isis, and the fact of the Solway laving met a violent hurricane on the 7th of September in tia anlf got out from England to Granada, after a fine teen days, on the 22nd of September, when weed received from her the out-mails and went on to Turk's Islawd, exchanging routes with the Isis, and went on lo Jamaica, the Isis coming in to Nassau. The Clyde and Larne are also in Turk's Island. The Lee sailed for Belize ;Honduras) with mails on the 27th of September. The Tha passage of r Monte Video papers of the 20th of August have arrived. Rivera had, according to these, marched on the 17th from his encampment,with a force of 1,200 men . T he news during the week fro m the army operations in Entre Rios is the con firmation of the retreat of General Urquiza before the Uruguay array, towards the river Gualeguay. The progress of Mr. G. J. R. Gordon on his way to Paraguay is advised in the notice that he had crossed the river Yi on the sth of that month. With respect to the preparations for war in the Argentine Republic, it is stated everything promised a formidable attack on Monte Video. It was, nevertheless, expected that the mediation of the English and French ministers would bring about a reconciliation without further bloodshed on either side. The Monte Video papers appear to be in favour of an immediate settlement of differences, more, it would seem, from the fear of not being able to maintain a successful opposition, than the desire to retire on the principle of peacemakers. Nothing of interest in the shape of commercial information is afforded by the present arrival, but it may be gathered from some cursory remarks made on the existing state of affairs, that the markets for British manufactures were in the same depressed condition as previously advised. THE NIGER EXPEDITION.—The last wreck of the Nigea expedition has been extricated from the fatal river; and the people at the Model Farm, with the relics of the property, have been brought to Fernando Po. To the very last the events have been such as to stamp the expedition with rashness and cruelty ; even this supplemental expedition, greatly reduced, and profiting by the experience of previous disasters, suffered in proportion. Of eight or ten whites on board, but two were not laid up in sickness, the commander being one of the two. Again, it was a servant of the gentle man who warned Lord John Russell of the utter failure of the expedition who helped to rescue the Wilberforce on re turning from its second voyage; a black boy, who had lear ned the use of the steam-engine on board Mr. Jamieson's trading steamer, worked the engine of the Wilberforce as it passed the Delta. The expedition has effected some disco . . veries. It has wnich was told to its projec tors before it sailed from England, that the slave traffic which it was equipped to suppress in the Bight of Biafra had already ceased there; and that the legitimate commerce which it was to introduce had been rising and flourishing in the Bight for 20 years. It also discovered, what was told to its projectors before it left England, that the site chosen for an agricultural settlement could not be approached with out imminent risk to the lives of Europeans. Another no— table achievement was made, that the expedition s went up the river about two-thirds of the distance previously ascended by merchant vessels ; and its crowning feat is, that in attempt ing to carry out the plans of the African Civilization Society, by carrying up merchandise, it has for the time expelled honest commerce—the very thing that it was to establish ! What next ?—Spectator. •ed that We regret to hear that Lord Gillies has been obliged b 1 health to tender his resignation as a judge of the Cr ...;ourt of zssion in Scotland. The vacancy upon the bench which the retirement of the learned lord will occasion .has not, we be lieve, been as yet filled up ; but we have authority for stating that Duncan Macneel, Esq., 'who has been appointed Lord Advocate in the room of the late Sir 'William Rae, will be succeeded in the office of Solicitor-General in Scotland by Adam Anderson, Esq. The following appointments hay also recently taken place :—C. J. Herries,'Eso.. Right_ Hon. John Charl rrister-al , in the room o nant-Colonel Berkel berries, will the late Hon. s been an, .Il successor in the office of Groom in Waiting to her Majesty of General Sir William Lumley, G.C.8., who has resigned Sir W. Lumley bad been for many years in the Royal House hold.— Dimes. Never during the last twenty years have Irish affairs at tracted less notice in England—where public attention is almost more easily excited to Irish politics than to her own— than during the last six months. Nay, the very discords of our Dublin contemporaries are chiefly composed of discus sions on exclusively English questions, on Canadian policy, and on the mightier themes of European interest —occasion ally relieved by polite controversies on the prices of fat oxen and lean kine, and on the merits of this year's B a ll ys h annon fair compared with last year, or by personally interesting disquisitions on government patronage. Ireland i s en j oy i ng repose, prosperity, and freedom from political agitation under Lord de Grey's vice-royalty ; Dublin is once more exhibit ing the appearance of a metropolis of a great country; con idence is generally felt throughout the island in the holy Aosty, ioderation, and nationality of government ; extensive plans If agricultural improvement are in course of projection and idoption by the great landed proprietors ; grievances where they exist are quickly redressed without reference to local politics, party spirit, or parliamentary influence, and en couragement is held out—not to violence, brutality, and seditious democracy—but to merit, public service, and per sonal qualifications.—Herald. r CAMBRIDGE. —A woman named s on Saturday charged before the Mayor of imbridge with the commission of several robberies of pro- Tty belonging to members of different colleges. Mr. W. ' on, scholar of King's College: On Thursday after ' missed a writing-desk, which had been placed on a :ar the fireplace in his sitting-room. He had seen it ut 1 o'clock on the same day, when be locked it. It !d two £5 notes of Mortlock's bank, and two or vereigns. On the same day, about 9 o'clock in the he missed five silver teaspoons, which had been laced in a cupboard in the sitting-room. The outer door was unlocked. The cupboard had been broken open. The desk produced was his property. Mr. W. S. Lewis, under graduate of Trinity College, stated that on Friday morning he missed his dressing-case ; it bad been placed on a chest of drawers in his rooms in the college ; be bad seen it safe about half-past 1 o'clock the day before. The case produced was his property. It had been forced open since he missed contain( it. The marks - on the case correspond with a screwdriver found at the prisoner's house. Mr. Daniel Foggo, under graduate of St. John's, stated, that he went out on Friday, about a quarter past 2 o'clock, and left his writing-desk lying open on his table, with the upper flap of the desk locked; he returned at 4 o'clock and the desk was gone. That produced was his property. It was found in a ditch, the upper flap having been broken open; missed also a silver crucifix, which had been taken from his drawers. After .... _.... .. ..—........._ __..-. some further evid ence h a d been adduced, the prisoner was fully committed for trial. THEATRE-110M, LIVERPOOI FIRST WEEK OF THE WINTER SEASON AIR. BROWNE, of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lc 1 , -1- the principal American Theatres, is engaged f mited number of nights, and will appear THIS EVE (Tuesday,) the Bth instant, in the Comedy of WILD OATS. Mr. Browne To conclude with DON GIOVANNI. THE INFANT SAPPHO UNDER HER _MAJETI"S B,e_PRINCE ALRE.R7 ESPECIAL PATRONAGE. THIS extraordinary Child will have th e h onour o f giving THREE MUSICAL ,ENTERTAINMENTS, at flu ROYAL ASSEMBLY Rooms, Great George-street, on MoN DAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY EVENINGS, Nov_ 14th, I6th, and IBth, at Eight o'clock, when she will sing a variety of Italian, English, Scotch, and Irish Melodies, including several of her own Compositions. Between the songs of the Sappho, Mr. VINNING will perform some of Mori's Pieces on the VIOLIN, accompanied by Miss AMELIA VINNING on the PIANO-FORTE. The performance will only occupy an hour. Tickets, 3s. Gallery, 2s. Children and Schools, half-price. Tickets to be had at the principal Music-shops. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have no vacancy for the services of " Critico." We have no recollection of publishing the letter to which that of " Vindex" is a reply Several communications are postponed, in consequence of the details of Indian and China intelligence requiring so much of our space. Our Radical contemporaries are levelling wrathful diatribes at the head of the retiring Mayor. And for what? Mr. Leigh is accused of having been chary of his " feeds." This is the head and front of his offending. Perhaps we are interfering unnecessarily with the subject; but we make bold to say, that Mr. Leigh has entertained at dinner as many, and more persons than any Mayor since the passing of the Municipal Reform Bill, with one excep tion. This may be news to some of our brethren of the Radical press, but it is nevertheless capable of proof. ebt Eiberpoot g`2)taratarb. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1842 The cause of the deteriorated and still deteriorating condition of the British labourer is a problem upon n and the economist have of which both the statestria late exhausted their ingenuity _ The increase of ma chinery, the mania for cheapness of production, the corn-laws, the new poor-law, the currency—all these have been dwelt upon as more or less conducive to the result complained of by the working man, and deplored by the philanthropist ; whilst one fertile cause of the wide-spreading evil has, we submit, been hitherto entirely overlooked, or, at all events, not sufficiently considered. It is impossible for any thinking man, residing in or visiting frequently this great port, to pass along the neighbourhood of its steam-docks without being struck with the sight of the multitudes of half-clad human beings whom every packet from the sister island lands upon our quays. It is impossible during the summer and autumnal months to enter Liver pool, from any point, without seeing the lanes crowded with these immigrants, tramping, with reaping hook or potatoe fork, to the farming districts around us. Sturdy limbs they bring with them, though care is marked upon their haggard and wild features. Indo mitable perseverance, too, they possess, or have put on for the occasion; self-denial, the most rigid, charac terises every, movement towards the end for which they have visited our lind. Onward they pass, from village to village, from farmstead to farmstead ; and it is not until the last sheaf is gathered from our fields, or the last potatoe dug up from the furrow, that we see them, still exhibiting the same weather-beaten, tattered aspect, the same careworn features, the same rigid parsimony, returning, troop by troop, to be once —haply by the guardians of the poor of Liverpool —to the mud cabins and the bogs from which the summer and the prospect of gain enticed them. more transported These wretched-looking beings bear with them, fast stitched up in some corner of their dilapidated gar ments, the winter comforts, the winter fuel, the warm clothing for the aged and the schooling for the chil dren, of thousands upon thousands of the husbandinen. of England ! In times now past, the harvest of the farmer was the harvest also of his labourer, and of his labourer's wife and children. The mowing time, the hay time, the reaping and the gleaning, furnished to the cottager the opportunity, and the only one, of laying up a purse to supply the exigencies of sickness or the rigours of winter. Now he lives under a changed st, eof things. The ill-paid slavery of the lot in health. He toils through the winter's snow and the driving rain; he ploughs and he sows ; but when the change of seasons has brought round the period in which his labour was once pro ductive labour, a band of strange men step between fields is his him and his hopes, and, because at less cost to the fanner, they reap and secure the harvest The mea- doors ripen for the scythe; the corn waves yellow for the sickle; but lie and they who, with him, in time past, looked forward with joy to that gladdening sight, stand now, with folded arms, by their cheerless threshold, whilst others gather in the harvest and bear away the reward! The irruption of a swarm of locusts, covering and eating up the produce of his fertile fields, could not be more disastrous to the hopes of the farmer than is this irruption of migratory labour to the hopes of the British husbandman. The existence of that once contented and happy race of men is now, in too many of our agricultural districts, but one long struggle with the bitterness of poverty, unenlivened by even a solitary gleam of joy's sunlight, which once visited his cottage home, and brings with it the dreary pros pect of the workhouse as the probable refuge of his declining years. Yet, does the stranger, who thus snatches his comforts from his lips, enjoy himself that good which he takes away ? Does the poor immi grant—and heaven forbid that upon his head an ill feeling should rest, for that to which hard necessity drives him !—does the poor Irish reaper fatten upon the hard-earned store which he carries back to his native bogs ? We fear not ! The spendthrift land lord, the griping middleman, the exacting priesthood, and—worst extortioner of all—the selfish Agitator, sweep away the gains for which their wretched serf and dupe toils in a strange land, and for the want of which the British husbandman starves in his native fields, and occupies. at last, a union bastile and a pauper's grave Nor, is tha depreciation of the value of British labour, caused by this continual influx of the semi pauper labour of Ireland, confined to the agricultural In every large town throughout Great Britain, that description of labour which is not artisan labour is performed by an Irish population, located in some filthy suburb, existing upon food such as an Englishman would cast from him with districts, disgust, and working for a pittance upon which an Englishman would vainly attempt to subsist. The hands of Irishmen sink our sewers, pave our streets, carry mortar and bricks for our buildings—perform, in fact, the drudgery of labour, and subsist in content upon its miserable remuneration—whilst able-bodied Englishmen pine in our workhouses, or beg in our In our manufacturing towns, they compose nearly one-third of the working population, toiling in the worst paid departments, and ever ready to grasp at employment at still further reduced wages. As artisans, they crowd the workshops of the slopseller, the puffing upholsterer or cabinet-maker, the shoe maker, the tailor, and, in fact, the second and third rate professors of every branch of handicraft; and by the production, by their low-priced labour, of trashy commodities, added to the effect of their constant pressure upon the market for employment, they have not only caused a ruinous reduction in the price of moderately-skilled labour, but they have aided mate rially in damaging the reputation of every British manufactured commodity, and in circumscribing the demand for the services of the best-remunerated and best-skilled labourer. streets. No direct legislative measure, it is true, can now remove the effect which this hum DELUGE upon the British market for labour has produced. No legisla tive measure ought, directly, to attempt it. Yet the evil is palpable. Ireland—pauperised Ireland—is fast pauperising Great Britain, and is fast PAPALISING her too ! Her lower classes, as they sink into poverty, are sinking at the same time into the arms of the same blinding superstition which is professed by those who are depressing the market for their labour, and who re fast becoming the majority of her working popu- Tell us of the spread of Popery amongst us— of the increase of chapels, of nunneries, and of zn o .. asterics, in this Protestant land ! Why here is the rtile cause. Popery and poverty—twin curses, who go ever hand in hand—are trampling down the demo- the disa: happy PROTESTANT ENGLAND; and HI isgo- LAND! isitation comes from— , PRIEST-RIDDEN and PAUPEI Legislation, we admit, can do little to arrest this disastrous visitation directly. But indirectly legisla- tion can do much. Let its efforts be directed to elevate the condition of the Irish labourer in his own country. Let its efforts be directed to the PROTESTANTISING of that blinded and wretched people ! And it is not by a temporizing policy—it is not by playing into the hands of an alien priesthood—that this consummation can be arrived at. Give Ireland A SOUND SYST PROTESTANT EDUCATION ! Remodel her electoral system—that very system which sends annually the tens of thousands of migratory labourers who reap the harvests of the British farmer. Bind those labourers, by the ties of interest and gratitude, to their native soil ; and England, relieved of the drain upon her resources, which is yearly made, to feed improvidence and Popery in Ireland, may once more be able to shew to the world " A loyal yeomanry, their country's pride," and to raise her labouring masses from the poverty which now threatens to ingulf thern Our Police-court is certainly one of the most im portant, and, on the whole, best managed establishments in the town; but we have, nevertheless, witnessed much within its precincts, and particularly of late, which, in our opinion, requires considerable amend ment—especially in practical details. On the present occasion we can direct the attention of the public to one branch or department only, connected with that tribunal, to the conduct of which we hold strong exception. Our present remarks refer to a secondary officer of the court; and lest it might erroneously be supposed that we have in reserve some serious reprehensions to address to his superior, it were but candid to prevent such impression by admitting, in the outset, that, in our thinking, our present Stipendiary Magistrate— considering his short experience as compared with that of his accomplished and popular predecessor, and the difficulties arising from the multiplication of cases amidst the rapidly increasing, and for the most part uneducated portion of the community in which the majority of delinquents naturally arise,—it were but fair, we say, to admit that, under such circumstances, Mr. Rushton's conduct of his court has, with slight exceptions, been highly creditable to him as a man and a lawyer ; that he has greatly improved himself, not only in his acquaintance with the locality in which he holds jurisdiction, as regards criminalities and mal practices, and with the laws affecting offenders; but in aptitude to deal with the numerous cases that come before him, so as to effect, within reasonable hours, "a daily Bridewell delivery," if we may so term it. We believe, indeed, that his decisions—though, per chance, sometimes rather hastily arrived at—are founded on his belief of the preponderance of evidence, and that his errors are those of judgment, his purpose being to administer the law with impartiality—a praise which, from us, who have a vivid remembrance of his previously strong and antagonist opinions, may be considered great, as it is sincere. There are some points, however, on which, from want of a personal or correct knowledge of facts, circumstances, or charac- ter ; and the too easy credence given to certain classes of witnesses in preference to others, this gentleman is, we think, occasionally led into mistakes. On these we shall hereafter remark, with a view, if possible, to the future avoidance of such aberrations. We have now, we repeat, to deal with another func tionary of the police-court, inferior in rank and infi nitely so in general talent to our stipendiary. We allude to Mr. Matthew Morris George Dowling. We know nothing ourselves, and have heard hale or nothing, of Mr. Dowling as a private individual. Our business with him is as a public officer only. Mr. Dowling originally belonged to the Bow-street Police Establish ment, from which he came to this town, and filled the post of Superintendent of the Dock Police. He was , promoted to the office of Commissioner of Police of the Borough, which he has held for a number of year, at a salary of £5OO per annum. His duties are—and we believe we are correctly informed—to take down all charges of felony to submit to the magistrates reports of transactions in the town involving police enquiry ; to investigate and prepare evidence affecting parties implicated in, or suspected of, crime, in the locality especially; and to conduct the necessary correspond ence with other police establishments, or other persons, throughout the country, for the purpose of bringing to justice offenders known, suspected, or escaped. Mr. Dowling, we are bound to believe, has executed these duties to the satisfaction of the magistrates, and of the town council, by whom he is appointed, otherwise he would doubtless have been superseded by a more effi cient individual : and we may add that we remember some serious cases (and among them that of " the Laurel-street gang") in which he evinced praiseworthy activity, in conjunction with assistant officers, in clear ing up the facts, recovering much of the property, and bringing the several charges home to the delinquents. Stars will, however, sometimes shoot from their spheres ; and whether Mr. Dowling's ambition soared above his rank in our constabulary force, or he was actuated by other motives, we know not ; but he as pired to a higher station some few years ago. He be took himself for a short season to the metropolis— began to study the law, and on payment of the accus tomed fees and feeds in due time arrived at the rank and title of barrister. It is somewhat to be lamented that gentlemen should so far mistake their forte as to aim at situations in life, for which their abilities, natu ral and acquired, do not qualify them to arrive at emi nence. But this is a matter with which we have little or nothing to do. If an evil at all, it affects only the individual himself; for, in the moral as in the physical world, brain as well as water abhors all elevation beyond its natural and proper level ; and this truth would soon, we opine, have been discovered by Mr. Dowling had he taken his place at the bar, like other aspirants, immediately after his preparatory digestion of Coke upon Littelton, and sumptuous dinners in the Temple. Ile probably, however, entertained a prudent presen timent that without considerable previous practice, his career, a priori, would probably be brief—or rather briefless; and retaining, therefore, his commissioner ship, with its . comfortable emoluments, he has since continued to insinuate himself into a sort of practice in advocacy at the Police -court,—the better, we presume, to qualify himself for the higher station which he holds in expectancy—but to the frequent hindrance and un necessary prolongation of the business of that estab lishment. He began by endeavouring to enlighten the court occasionally, by opening speeches on selected cases, on which evidence was to be submitted, and in the management of which (always contriving to con nect himself with the case) he desired to chew off his vigilance and legal acumen; but these essays were ge nerally. (as they are yet on similar occasions) blunder ing and clumsy, and the disjointed matter of his addresses was much better and more legitimately conveyed by the witnesses themselves. Nest con tented with this sort of display in a small way, Mr. Dowling has of late frequently come into court " big with speech," and forthwith—relieving the ma gistrate of his arduous duties for the time—has pro ceeded to interrogate the witnesses seriatim with all the formality pertaining to a final court of adjudicature, but with such singular irregularity and want of tact, as fully demonstrate a very slender study of "Roscoe on Evidence." If the first testimony adduced is in sufficient, and leaves the matter in doubt, a tail-piece or after-clap is introduced to clench it—a questionable sort of justice. We have long marvelled that Mr. Rushton should suffer this gentleman to assume the magisterial functions which belong solely to the bench—that he should tolerate any thing ap proaching to this special pleading against an unfor tunate prisoner in, after all, a merely preliminary court of enquiry, as regards felonies and serious charges in particular. But we take our stand on hither grounds. We question in toto the strict legality of such inter ference. If we are not greatly mistaken, Mr. Dowling has no right to interrogate the witnesses. It is his duty to collect all the evidence he can against a pri soner, and to sift it before it is adduced—retaining what may appear valid and culpatory, and rejecting all that is redundant and irrelevant. But it is not his province to erect himself into an advocate in that court. The prisoner ‘Ol be pretty well hedged in by the rigours of the law without him. We know, indeed parallel assumption in any court of ' 3 OI DO o elici the whole truth, may suggest questions to, or advise with, the bench, on particular points that arise or may have been overlooked, but nothing beyond this practic noticed—a novelty which we strongly repre hend—is moreover inconsistent with his own higher, and as they ought to be unsuspected and impartial, functions as " the public prosecutor," which, in fact, he is. His name, in this latter capacity, appears upon the face of every indictment against a prisoner in the borough, preferred in courts of quarter sessions and assizes. If he is an advocate in the Police -court, he has an equal right to be so in the other courts in which the case is finally disposed of; but if he should there present himself in his wig and gown in such capacity, and take upon himself the conduct of the prosecution, we imagine that his "learned brother" for the defence, and even the judge himself, would soon give him intimation that he was stepping beyond his authority. On the other hand, if he be an advo cate for the crown (which we do not admit), he has no right to be public prosecutor with his name on the indictment. The thing, indeed, appears to us to be a monstrous perversion of the constitutional principles acknowledged and acted upon in reference to accused persons in our higher courts of adjudicature. It might pass smoothly in France, where the system goes even to entrap a prisoner into admissions; but it is not, we think, either English feeling or English law. In the anxiety to procure commitments, Mr. Dowling frequently permits his zeal to overstep his discretion : and he is thus sometimes placed in the unenviable position of having discovered what are vulgarly known as " mare's nests"—of which we have . some recent instances. The town was ransacked by him to procure evidence on two late occasions of suspected arson; and we venture to say, that no one who reads the evidence yet adduced, in either case can, for a moment doubt that—if nothing further be forthcoming—the prisoners will be acquitted; if, indeed, the Grand Jury do not cut the bills. This sort of work may be carried further than justice demands. The charge is one of great seriousness, affecting even the lives of the prisoners; and should they be acquitted, on the very doubtful evidence that has appeared—(and which is not only possible but highly , probable)—and their innocency established in candid and intelligent minds, a gross injustice will have been inflicted : for the world at large is harsh-thinking and suspicious, and a stigma will attach to the characters of the • accused from the very accusation, which even a long course of rectitude of con duct on their part may not be sufficient to remove. We admit that there are strong grounds for suspicion, and that the offence is one which, for the public safety, requires the strictest investigation. We do not blame the committing magistrate, who, under the circum stances, had no other resource—pushed as Matters were to the extreme. But the pursuit for justice, like the exercise of mercy, should not be overstrained ; for then—besides the cost of the subsequent proceedings to the public—the law, in case even of acquittal, be comes a two-edged sword, from the cut of which the innocent themselves cannot escape.. We have received another communication from Mr. David Welellan, the chairman of Mr. Fawcett's com mittee, upon the subject of the placard referred to in our last publication. The communication in question will be found in our advertising columns. We have a few remarks, however, to make upon it, to which we beg the attention of the electors of Pitt-street Ward, and of Mr. David M'Clellan in particular. Mr. Fawcett's chairman says, alluding to the article upon this subject in our last— " In that article you have misrepresented (of course, un intentionally) the statement, to the truth of which - my honour was pledged. What was that statement? Not that no such donation"—viz., of five pounds to the Strangers' . Friends Committee—" had been given, but that the committee had ascertained that neither the secretary nor the treasurer had ally knowledge of such donation having been received, either last year, (and, ` mark', that was Mr. Taylor's assertion,) or even in this. How had the committee ascertained this fact? "In the case of the secretary, by positive assurance on his part, that he knew nothing about it ; and in the case of the treasurer, by the strongest inferential evidence, both oral and documentary. " It was not asserted, that either the treasurer or the se cretary had been seen, or that either of them had directly or indirectly authorized the publication of the placard com plained of." Now, we ask, how did we misrepresent the state- went, to the truth of which Mr. M'Clellan's " Ho- NOUR" was pledged ? We gave THE STATEMENT ITSELF, verbatim et literatim, in which that gentleman " Mr. FAWCETT'S COMMITTEE are enabled to says—' STATE POSITIVELY, that neither the Secretary nor the Treasurer of the STRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY have any knowledge of" the donation in question— " NO SUCH DONATION OF £5 having come to their hands, EITHER DURING THE COURSE OF LAST YEAR or EVEN in the PRESENT YEAR." Mr. MTlellan explains now, however, that his statement was " not that no such donation had been given, but that neither the secretary nor the treasurer had any knowledge of such donation having been received." And how does he proceed to prove that he was justified in stating that " neither the secretary nor the treasurer" had any knowledge of the fact ? In the case of the secretary, he says, " by positive assurance that he knew nothing about it." Did the secretary consult his books, we ask ? No; we hear nothing of that kind. But, to Mr. M'Clellan's inquiry, as to the impertinent inquiry of any other busy individual, made in the street or elsewhere, he stated that he knew nothing whether Mr. Taylor had given such a donation or not. And upon such information, so far as the secretary was concerned, the committee could "STATE POSITIVELY" and PLEDGE THEIR HONOUR to this fact or any other fact ! But what of the treasurer ? What warrant had they for giving his authority to their denial of Mr. Taylor's assertion of his having made this donation ? Mr. M'Clellan says "the strongest inferential evidence both oral and documentary." Most strongly we suspect that Mr. David M'Clellan does not understand the meaning of the language which he uses. Inferential evidence ! What right has any man or any set of men to " STATE POSITIVELY" or " PLEDGE THEIR HONOUR" upon " Inferential Evidence !" No jury would hang a cat upon " Inferential-Evidence" ; and, most assuredly no honest and respectable man's cha racter should be damned in the estimation of his fel low -townsmen upon such authority. Had Mr. David M'Clellan seen the treasurer, as he says he had seen and catechised the secretary upon the subject? No ! He had not; and we marvel at the hardihood with which he now talks of his " inferential evidence both oral and documentary" in support of this statement. " The committee had ascertained," &c., &c. The committee had ascertained no such things as are com prised in these etcetera. The committee had ascer tained NOTHING ! It was a trumped-up story from first to last, The concluding portion of the letter quoted is, how ever, the most quibbling and Jesuitical of the whole. " It was not asserted that either the treasurer had been seen, or that either of them had, directly or indirectly, authorized the publication of the placard complained of." So says Mr. David M'Clellan in his letter in our columns of this day. But can that gentleman per suade any dozen men, who understand the English language, that the placard did not convey or was not meant to convey the fact that the repudiation of Mr. John Taylor, as a subscriber to this institution, was made upon the authority of the parties in question. We say unhesitatingly no man can deny that such was its obvious meaning, and that such meaning must have been intended! And now, in conclusion—and we trust that Mr. David McClellan will have the good sense to let the matter rest here—we give the letter of Mr. Ashton, the treasurer to the Strangers' Friend Society, to whici we alluded in our last. We give it the benefit of Si. rnilar type to that which has graced Mr. M'Clellan', perpetrations : " To JOHN TAYLOR, Esq., Edge-lane " SIR,—In answer to your note, I beg to state that I re ceived from you, through our mutual friend Mr. Thos. Kaye, ON THE 11TH JANUARY, 1842, a donation Of FIVE POUNDS, which, I believe, was ACKNOWLEDGED i❑ the LivEnPool. COURIER OF THE DAY FOLLOWING. " I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, " MICHAEL ASHTON, " Treasurer to the Strangers' Friend Societ Liverpool, 3rd Nov., 1842. " The sentence in the *Cull which has been sheaved to me I ITAD NO KNOWLEDGE OeLITEVEIL b . efOre 146 W it ommunicated with me on 'efore no one had, or " M. A." in print. .No person whateve:- the subject, directly or indirect! COULD HAVE, any authority fro A comprehensive outline of the scheme of education which is about to be adopted at the Collegiate Institu tion is inserted in our columns of this day, to which ne invite the attention of our readers. The pecuniary gradation appears admirably ad4ted to the wants of the community, and will enable all classes to procure for their children at home a sound education based upon religion. • The Institution will be opened at the end of January; and there is reason to believe that the schools will be well filled, Indeed, it would be unreasonable to sup pose for a moment that a population of 300,000 souls, which has, on so many occasions, proved itself so feel ingly alive to the importance of religious education, would withhold its warmest support from an Institu tion, in which, by a fundamental law, religious instruc tion will for ever be indissolubly connected with secular knowledge The appointment of the Rev. Principal, Mr. Cony beare, has, we are happy to learn, given general satis faction to the friends of the Institution, and it is con fidently expected that, under his able superintendence, the Institution will speedily rank high among the edu cational institutions of the country. And knowing, as we do, in addition, the unanimity of purpose and feeling which pervades the directors, and the perfect reliances which the public place in their disinterested zeal for the success of the Institution, we await the period of its opening with a perfect confidence as to the result. ' It will be observed that the committee are anxious to ascertain the number of pupils which may be expected to attend the schools : and we trust that parents and guardians will at once comply with their request, by which they will be rendering material assistance to wards perfecting the numerous arrangements which must necessarily be required prior to the opening of so important an Institution. LOCAL NEWS At the Quarter Sessions, held on Thursday last, Mr. Wm. Cleaver was appointed clerk to the visiting justices of the Lunatic Asylums in this division. PREFERMENT.—The Macclesfield Courier states that the Rev. James Dixon, of Trinity Church, in this town, has been appointed incumbent of Marple, Cheshire. THE CHASE.—Sir W. M. Stanley's hounds will meet 00 Thursday, 10, at Trafford Village. Saturday, 12, at Gayton Hall, Tuesday, 15, at.. at eleven o'clock FEVER IN LIVERPOOL—The population of Liverpool is stated at 250,000; and of this number the ?corking classes are said to comprise about 175,000' Of these Dr. Duncan calculates that no fewer than 7,000 are annually afflicted with fever, " giving an average of 1 in 25 of the working population annually affected with fever ; a higher ratio, I believe, than is afforded by any other town in England." RODNEY-STREET WARD.—We have heard that a certain alderman, who has frequently shewn that he has no mean opinion of his own influence and power, has boasted that Mr. Birkett shall not be returned as representative for Rod ney-street Ward, at the next municipal election. Of course such an empty boast can be pardoned, whilst the party is smarting under its late ignominious defeat; and their only consolation left, is the indulgence of envy aga i ns t the leading gentlemen amongst their apponents, and the imitation of the conduct of children who forget the past thrashing in an un availing threat, "I'll be up to you next time." THREATENING SHIPWRIGHTS NOT NATIVES or THE TOWN.—Yesterday, three journeymen shipwrights applied to Mr. Rushton for summonses against a number of others, who had threatened them and flung stones at them while they were at work in No. 5, Graving Dock. They each stated that a crowd of shipwrights assembled, some of whom threw stones at them to compel them to give up work—stating that the society had come to ti►e resolution that none should work at the trade but natives of Liverpool. Mr. Rushton granted three warrants, stating that the magistrates would never per mit such conduct, and if they persisted they would them selves be the greatest sufferers. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE : A VESSEL SAILING AWAY The schooner Edward, Captain Hughes, with a cargo of coal, was lying at anchor off Woodside. On Wednesday last, the captain and crew having gone on shore, she was driven in the course of the night, by a fresh south-easterly breeze, seaward. Fortunately, about half-past six o'clock next morning, she was descried by three boatmen, namely, Richard Clapcoat, Thomas Fell, and Richard Blower, close to the Formby Lightship, and brought back to port. Had these men not fallen in with her, she would, it is probable, have driven 0 11 the North Bank, and become a complete wreck. Much cre dit is due to the three boatmen for their exertions in saving the vessel: they will, no doubt, be well rewarded. HEROIC CONDUCT.—On Saturday afternoon, as a female was stepping on board one of the Woodside steam-boats her foot slipped and she fell into the river, when Mr. William Pike, a young gentleman who resides at Woodside, who happened to be on board the packet, instantly threw off his coat and jumped into the river to rescue the female, and suc ceeded in grasping her when she was sinking the second time and safely brought her to land, amid the congratulations of a large number of persons who were on board at the time. She was conveyed home without sustaining any other incon venience than the loss of some trifling articles and a good ducking. The parties who witnessed the conduct of Mr. Pike are about raising a subscription for the purpose of pre senting this young gentleman with a testimonial of their esteem for his praiseworthy conduct. EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY.- - -It is with regret that, in drawing the attention of the public to this charity, we have occasion to allude to the present inadequacy of its funds.. We are given to understand that the debt, with which it com menced this year, has been considerably, increased, and the committee are fearful they will have to curtail its usefulness , unless prompt assistance is afforded. On reference to the last report, it appears that near ten thousand applications had been attended to, and medicines found, at an expense under £250, which alone is a convincing proof of the great good:resulting at so small a cost. When so many workmen from the various trades and public companies of the town receive the benefits of this charity, our astonishment is great at finding so few of the wealthy individuals who employ these labourers amongst its subscribers ; and we trust this short notice of its embarrasments may prove a means of bringing it fresh aid. MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.—To-morrow the first meeting of the town-council for the present municipal year will be held, when the following, amongst other subjects, will be brought forward :—The election of mayor •, the elec tions of two members of the council to be members of the committee for the affairs of the estate of the trustees of the Liverpool docks, upon two vacancies, caused by Jamey Mellor and Henry Robertson Sandbach Esqrs. having ceased to be members of the cou nc il ; th e election of four of the twelve auditors of accounts under the dock acts; the mayor's allowance; the appointment of the three following quarterly meetings of the council for 1842-43 ; the appoint ment of committees, with such powers under the local acts of the last session, in addition to former powers or other wise, and such instructions, geheral or special, if any, as the council may think proper ; the appointment of a commissioner under the local act for paving, &c., the township of Birken head, and for regulating the police thereof, in lieu of Thomas Bolton, Esq. who has ceased to be a member of the council; the appointment of a trustee under the local act of 7 Geo. IV, for establishin g St. James' Cemetery, i n li eu of Daniel Mather, Esq. wh o has ceased to be a member of the council; the appointment of ten members of the council as commis sioners to carry into execution the local act of 5 Geo. iv. for the better regulation and encouragement of pilots for the conducting of ships and vessels into and out of the port of Liverpool, in lieu of H. R. Sandbach, Daniel Mather, Thomas Bolton, James Mellor, Thomas Robinson, Francis Jordan, John Smith, Richard Bright, John Barton, and R. E. Harvey, .Esqrs. who have ceased to be memliers of the council; the appointment of the various committees for the ensuing year CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST A CAPTAIN.—At the _ court yesterday, Captain Kennard, of the brig fhornas, (who was last week, it will be remembered, tined for an assault upon his mate,) appeared to answer another and more violent assault, while at sea, on the person of one of his crew, who was witness on the former occasion. The complainant, Lorenzo Tichate, who appeared to be very and who came from the Infirmary, in which he is still patient, was permitted to sit while lie gave •his testinionY. Mr. Fischer was sworn as his interpreter, and a gentleman of the Consulate of Austria, (of which country he is a sub ject,) was also present. The complainant (a Venetian) gave a long account of the homeward voyage as affected himself , but a few of the facts (as his testimony was afterwards im pugned, will suffice.) He sailed with the vessel from Tam pico on the 26th of July, He was then well, but about 15 days after was seized with fever. On the 15th September the captain struck the mate, and afterwards him, and conti nued to beat him every day—on one occasion using a rope. then a piece of iron, and finally, when he was knocked down , trampled on and kicked him with the heels of his boots. fle struck him all over the body, and lie had been ill ever since. At one time he struck hint in the abdomen, and he after wards became ruptured in consequence. A formation ap peared four days after, which ended in the rupture. He had no such rupture before.-011 cross-examination by Mr. 'Wardle, he stated that he had a truss given to him at the hospital, but admitted that he had an old one on board before, given to him by the passenger who died , and that he had also, while on s h ore a t Vera Cruz, worn a truss as far back as three years ago, but only when he rode on horseback. He also admitted having committed a nui sance on board on more than one occasion, for which some of the floggings were given. —The log-book was here referred to, to show th a t, at the time the first flogging was given, al l the crew were in a state of disobedience, and refused to wor k the ship, so that " the captain was driven out of his wits, and had to " flog all hands round." The mate (Colthurst) , who last week charged the captain with assault, and in whos e writing the log was, was called on this point; but he stated , that although be had written the account there given, it was from the written copy and directions of the captain (whom he was obliged to obey), was not his own thoughts, and was not in fact true. This put the log-book, as evidence in the case, overboard.—After some further testimony of minor importance, Mr. Brandreth, house-surgeon of the Infirmary , was called, and described sundry injuries., including the rup ture, on the person of the complainant; also inflammatio n of the chest, which last, from•what the man himself had told him, he, conceived to be produced by violence, though it might have arisen from cold or other natural causes. The rupture appeared to be an old one, of considerable standing. —The French boy called in the former case was then called , and spoke to continual beatings given by the captain to the complainant, some for his filthy habits, and many others for the least things possible.—Mr. Rushton said no dependence could be placed upon the testimony of the Italian, who had evidently been ruptured before he went on board, so that that part of the case fell to the ground, though the circumstances were highly suspicious. It was clear to him that the captain had treated his crew—all of whom were ill—with unnecessarY violence—with, indeed, a wanton abuse of authority. There was some extenuation in the case, but nothing to justify such conduct to men who, in their illness, struggled to do their best.- He was not satisfied, moreover, with the treatment given to the poor man, Gray (who went overboard), but on this there was no distinct evidence. 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