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I in parliament, shall —infid :land, so I motion s of th ,nd from t wish to c id that th instead The noble lord was 'most un' On a fo lecurity 11.-: the diplomatist was defeated by I divided on the original motion, when the then agreed to, and the d to arr ,ortant --.0...-- ositiTCM of Parliament as did the ease desirous of being divorced from Mr. ,ught th, N entertained a very strong feeling of the present course of proceeding, dry ; as t :nation of the testimony Is of divorc he house did not apply to the present argument, s of divorce were never entertained by the house low a divorce was first obtained a mensa in the courts be AN said that the house ought not to proceed in as was now proposed, unless an irresistible e one before them, was made out. From the owever, that he had read the petition of Lord convinced that it was a case in bound to ertere, to prevent a shame alous wrong from being successfully perpetrated. rl of WICKLOW said that if Lord Cottenham took )use ne snouia vote with nun, because be a strong proceeding ought not to be re which had been suffered to remain so long, nut any step ❑g taken in i Lord CAMPBELL supported the bill, on the ground that e case was one of peculiar hardship, which admitted of no LORD CHANCELLOR was of opin on that the bill ought .eme one; and if the facts case presen viduals but I a most scandalous wrong, —a scandelousw led no redress whatever estion, and c 'ednesday. Their lordships tl strong and also to nd in lieu of w read to the e clerical nd snc ainst the privileges of ng for which the lined to divide their lordships upon ;el were called in. An arrangement e for taking the evidence at ten o'cliJek on adjourned HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY In reply to a question.from Captain PECHELL, Si* "nected the exchange of the a France and Englar be reg, in a few days, when 'e effect to them. :he thanks of the house I to Lo aving brought America, relative The hon. member repeatedly urged in support ns with obation of his coon-fry plain, honest Scotch- folloWed in the eccer govOrnment had origi- rdAshburton's services es there existed . He would, e adjourn. amendment, not think- ry chance of collision to the thanks of the house, ny censure upon his lordship. lant officer should have met seeking to evade it by the serving of the thanks of .g this long-disouted question, and the hat they had no such able negotiator to act on hat the motion had been made, blame Lord Ashburton he did out of their way to thank him. d of the treaty, and supported r. V. Slum' said that Sir R. Peel had, on a former oc tted that he was unable to move the thanks of Pottinger, but it was not useful to give nd he was, therefore, surprised of the rizht hon. s to a "d vote of thanks in the case of Lo'rd Ash hat could be said of the noble lord's e were well out of the scrape. \lr. by the government side of the house ; since they were willing to follow him, mselves anticipated his motion, if in- s it not served the thanks of the house. s w prepared to overlook the want of ig at the treaty of Washington was a tii~ gad highly honourable to this ,eburton had not only succeeded in allay and ill blood between the two nations, but caused the Americans so far to alter their laws ~uch a case as that of M'Leod could never occur again. ihe terms of the 'treaty were more advantageous to this country than the award of the King of the Netherl a nd s , and deed they thoul Mr. C. Bur diplomatic ad :ry. Lord As vement than c )een pro- In future ected to t ~,ever, pro-, rical tr rdens, or the two 3f the thr ziven t all summon ;n, and col- taken the 'presented, than two e trust new pOVVE ants sw. j provid a, - child flssthan i!ss ion of the St. John which we had conceded was inced by other advantages which we J. HANMER; admitting the importance of the the establishment of a precedent 'inconvenient hereafter. said that th government, in the ordinary dings, would not have established, a new the thanks of the house to a negoti )wev-eisuCcessful he might have bpen ; but the cir- ioble lord htd been.most by Lord Palmerston, and this' it was secured to Lord Ashburton the unprecedented honour vote of thanks. It had been asserted -by the hon. suet - muicroutg,ii, u 21Salitift0n - 114U oy 11.118 aty cast a stain on "British diplornacy, but, from all that d passed that evening, it appeared that the treaty was by ► means a bad one after all, and the only objection now 'ged against the vote was,. the want of a precedent. Per- Ips it would be to point out a treaty which had ever en concluded in the face of such diffi'culties, or which had \oroughly removed the probabilities of a war between • "ountries. Lord Ashburton was successful in con v in a few months which Lord Palmerston was .....essful in protracting for severalirears. Indeed, .dtter noble lord had so embroiled the two countries that had left a most difficult task for Lord Ashburton 'to ac complish; and yet in less than six months he brought it to a successful issue. He denied that Lord Ashburton had corn'- promised the question of the right of search, although the supercilious style of Lord Palmerston, in addressing a sensi tive people, was not imitated by Lord Aberdeen. The United States had not received the right of search, for they agreed that it might be exercised, provided that the vessel delayed might receive compensation for such delay. In fact, in 1839, ing a treat erston had himself made a similar proposition to he now condemned in the treaty of Lord Ashbur- t whic ton, and yet he now contended that the noble lord had taken a step in a wrong direction. The case of M`Leod had been brought to a successful issue, and the recurrence of a similar occurrence guarded against, and a better military boundary for Canada had been obtained than that which was awarded by the King of the Netherlands. The noble lord concluded an animated speech by expressing a hope that the house would mark its sense not only of the merits of Lord Ashbur mit also of the party attack to which he had been ex greeing to the vote before the house. posed, J. RussELL expressed his astonishment that the G overnment should not have attempted the defence of Lord Ashburton until they found it attempted by a gentleman who cared so little for the honour of Great Britain as to have been the correspondent of the chief rebel in the insurrection in Canada. The noble lord had said that the speeches of Lord Palmerston and Mr. Macaulay bad led to their support ing this vote of thanks, from which it appeared that those speeches were so effective that they could only be counter- icied by resolutions of thanks passed by both houses of par iament without any precedent whatever. The Ashburton , tv had not settled the question of the right of search. - flat portion of the treaty which related to th e slave le had caused such an excitement in France, that it re red the utmost prudence, on the part of M. Guizot, in er to allay it. With respect to the boundary question, he of opinion that the tone adopted by Lord Ashburton in negotiations tended to lower this country in the estima- E foreigners. and be firmly believed it had lowered us in of reign nations, and created an impression iv , ced on the part of England bad only to to enforce concessions Indeed, the first Pu treaty s the passing of a bill, by .can senate, authorising the seizure of the Or .esult of the want of dignity of the pro- I he was relieved from entering fully into I took into tr consequence of the discuss casion. If the motion before the hou haracter, it was , to be remembered that of proceeding, in reference to Lord 11 more unusual and unprecedented. ) f the C n he v such attempts justified the aovernment in disregarding .dent for the purpose of supporting the character of a A;.interested and honourable man when assailed most his poht prejudic opponents. When the n of this treaty reached Engia„ _: - .;111, and it was only after that med down that the attempt was made at a most• advantageous adjustment Witli respect tween. the two c a trea believed. that •ere long a settl on .that subject, which was no the vah services of Lord treaty had not only allayed n the two countr e of Lord John RE re were moved azair ould feel it his duty to rneeisu one of - and yet the right hon. baronet had so far Chang, supperted a vote of thanks, whit former occasion, but wot ms on the jart of Am, d hoisttAmerican cc I would hoist Brith security. A propo y this vo )oft Ca under the peculiar• circumstances in which th family of Spain were placed, it was not desirable that ould have unqualified liberty to quit that country. _ _ Mr. ELP HINSTONE moved the second reading of the Mar riages and Divorces Bill, which was intended to correct the expenses and the injustice of the present system, to the judge of the Ecclesiastical Court the power divorces a vinculo matrimonii without the inter- vention of parliament. Mr. EWAILT seconded the motion. Dr. Ntcuou. said that the hon. member had not said that he had applied to any of the judges of either the Law or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He had, in fact, no authority in favour of a bill of such importance. The clause giving to the judge of the Ecclesiastical Court the power of divorce a vinanlo matrimonii was highly objectionable, and he should there , fore move that the bill be read a second time that day six months. After a few words in reply from Mr. ELPHINSTONE, the house divided, and the bill was negatived by a majority of 105 to 41. The other orders of the day were then disposed of and the house adjourned. ROYAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, GREAT GEORGE-STREET. iss M. LEACH respectfully announces to her Friends —VI- and the Public that she intends giving a CONCERT, at the above Rooms, on TUESDAY EVENING next, - the 9th instant. MISS SWAIN, MISS STOTT, MISS M. SWAIN, Mdlle. RICHAREAUD, (from Paris, her first appearance in Public,) MISS M. LEACH. - CALLS, and Mr. S. LEACH, (from the Southamp ton, Portsmouth, and Winchester Concerts.) Mr. R'Y Mr. EYTON will preside at the Grand Piano-forte Tickets—Body of the Room, 4s. ; Gallery, 2s. 6d. each ; may be had at the principal Music Shops, and of Miss M. LEACH, 137, Field-street, Everton. Doors to be opened at Half-past Seven, and the Concert to commence at Jight. Qrbi iLiberpol A)tanDarZi. I feel I uchar apply to ner, wt FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1843 Sir James Graham has made the attempt to remodel the educational clauses of his proposed factory bill, so as to meet the objections urged against them by the dissenting bodies; and, as any rational man might have predicted; has failed. What definite plan could possibly be devised, to fall in with such a strange mul titude of conflicting opinions ? What food could be made palateable to so infinite a variety of tastes ? ; and the failure of the attempt does not there fore disappoint us, though, perhaps, we may regret that it was ever made. A careful examination, how ever, of the modifications proposed does not very ma terially alarm us, with respect to the beneficial working of the measure, even in its present shape, though some of the concessions offered do appear to us to be marked by a generous liberality, somewhat too exube rant, towards opponents who have deserved little con sideration at our hands. The dissenting conscience has been sought to be gratified somewhat too much at the expense of the feelings of the Church-of-England majority of the people. The just claims of the Church have been shuffled too far into the background, whilst the obtrusive claims of sectarians are broadly acknow ledged; and especially we demur to the transfer from the Establishment, of powers offered her by the ori ginal bill, to the privy council. Dissent may be safer in the hands of the latter body than in the hands of the clergy of our Established Church ; but we much question whether the religious and moral teaching of the people is more secure under such control. As a whole, however, we repeat, our good opinion of the measure is not materially weakened ; and although the alterations made in it have failed in their object, so far as that object was to conciliate all the religious or politically religious bodies who were op posing it, there is one class of the religious commu nity, who were lately ranked amongst the numbers of its opponents, upon whom we trust those alterations will have' a conciliating effect, and whose DUTY, we feel convinced it is now to devote all their influence to its support. We refer, of course, to the Wesleyan body. If we have understood aright the feeling of Wesieyans upon the subject of the bill, their most ma terial objections were the non-recognition of their own day schools, as competent to grant certificates to fac tory children; the discouragement offered to their Sunday schools, and some objection to the composition of the board of trustees. The competency of such schools, and of all schools in which scriptural educa tion is afforded, is now fully conceded, as indeed we always expected it would be; and, where such schools uo not' slick reglilntions have - been made in the mode by whi c h dissenting child ren may. receive instruction from their own pastors in their own peculiar tenets; as must materially weaken their disinclination to enter the government schools. With respect to the rttendance of children of dissenting pa rents at the. Sunday schools of their own persuasion, a similar enncession has . been made—pushed indeed to an " extreme length which, it appears to us,, was quite uncalled for. Such dissenting Sunday schools aye not only permitted to receive the children of dissenting parents,: attending government schools in the week day; but, by 3.43lreteh of liberality on the part of Sir James Graham, are permitted to receive, as well, the children- of Church-of-England parents, thus enjoying opportunities . for proselytising which are sedulously de nied to the Church herself ! - And then, with respect to the constitution of the boards of trustees, how can Wesleyans—who are not, like the rancorous political religionists, the vowed enemies of the establishment and her doctrines—en. tertain now any very important objection? True, the Church of England trustees will always be the prepon derating body ; but a "liberal" member of the Church is not such a " rara avis in terris" that Wesleyans ought to fear having fair play. Two members at the board dissenters will always have. A third, in many districts they will acquire by the privilege of election given to donors or yearly subscribers to the ichool funds. And, of the remaining two, elected by the majority or the minority of the ratepayers, we much doubt that one, even, will be,the intolerant Churchman, whose character has formed the bugbear with which many of our Wesleyan brethren have been frighted from their propriety. The feelings with which the present system of education in our own Corporation Schools is regarded by the Wesleyan body—the per fect harmony with his Church-of-England colleagues with which a member of that body at present sits upon the Education Committee, and aids in directing the operation of a system similar to that provided for by the government measure—encourage us in the hope that, every reasonable objection having now been met, and with the conviction before them that, if this mea sure be permitted to fall to the ground, no measure of education can be hoped for, the Wesleyan party will at once disconnect themselves from the violent and fac tious of other denominations of dissent, and contribute their powerful support to government on this question. There is, by the bye, one other objection to the bill which may have weighed with some Wesleyans, and was alluded to as a grievance by Lord John . Russell. It may he urged that a master of the school should not be required to be a member of the National Church. It may he thought hard that trained teachers, because dissenters, should be debarred from accepting what may be advantageous situations. But the complaint, . - after all, is no greater, or newer, than that a dissenter should not be permitted to occupy the professorship of one of our universities ; and we rather suspect that the Wesleyan body would not, in practice, approve of the contrary principle. It must, if extended to any sect, be extended to all. If a Wesleyan, or an Inde pendent, be declared eligible for an office, in which religious teaching is one of the duties, how can we exclude the Non-Trinitarian ? Why not a Socinian ? Where draw the line of prohibition—for some such line there must be, unless we admit that the doctrines of revelation can be safely propounded by the lips of lity itself? On reflection, we are satisfied the Wesleyan body will see the difficulty of the subject, however plausible it may be at first sight; and rather consent to the government plan, with respect to teachers, than commit their children to the danger of hearing the sacred truths of the Bible deformed by the scoffing interpretation of unbelievers. From all the indications which surround us, the war of the political dissenters against the bill, as amended, is to be pressed forward with all the virulence by ch it has hitherto been characterised; and so san- guine are they of success, that they are already pro phecying its withdrawal by government, and singing Io Pcean s over their anticipated defeat of the Church, and their successful effort to stay the progress of the religious. and moral enlightenment of the people, . . - Shall such a consummation be accomplished ? We appeal to Churchmen, and to the WesleS'an body of dissenters, whether they are prepared to permit such a NIA totiit to thit wd hittig htla h4iipttigbd bt We twat that they arc izbt an prttiafed abd j tatnutly and affectionately, we implore of both to take those prompt and vigorous steps which, if taken at once, and taken firmly, will render it impossible for any govern ment, and most of all a Conservative government, to withdraw their hand from the great work which, at the last hour, they have commenced. Let the remon strances of a resolved people be poured in to strengthen the position of that government; and we may yet laugh to scorn the hostile efforts of our opponents ! Let those remonstrances be withheld ; and for what a crime will this Christian community have to answer at the bar of heaven ! If the farmers of Great Britain were bent upon de livering themselves up to the tender mercies of the ultra free-trade party, it would be impossible to con ceive a more effectual plan than the indulgence of that rancorous feeling, entertained by too many of them, against the members of the present government. For suppose, for a moment, the possibility of their weaken ing, by any instrumentality, the hands of Sir Robert Peel. Suppose it in their power to drive that man, who has reared up the Conservative party, and been for years the prop and stay of constitutional principles in this country, to resign in disgust his responsible position. Suppose the breaking up, by the influence of the agricultural body, of the present administration; where would they look for the materials of an admi nistration to succeed it, and to support their absurdly exaggerated views of agricultural protection ? The effort would be a hopeless impossibility. A Stanhope or a Buckingham administration could not withstand for three days the force of public opinion upon the subject of a fair development for the national industry; and, as the result of the overthrow of the Peel admi nistration, they would have a government which would at once rush to the extreme length of ultra free trade— to the abandonment of all protection to the national industry and the national revenue—and plunge at once the commerce, the manufactures, the finances, the colonial and agricultural interest of the country, into a condition of hopeless and irretrievable ruin. Do the agricultural community imagine that it is possible, now, for the people of this great country — em barked, as they are, in manufacturing and com mercial pursuits—dependent, as are the masses, upon the prosperity of those pursuits—dependent as is the very peace of the country upon the continuance of the means of employment of those masses,—to arrest the gradual progress of that forward march, in which every nation of the globe is at this moment involved ? Difficult as it is to di , cern to which bourne that march will bring us,—difficult as it is to discern by what agency it proposes to increase the sum of human hap piness—there can certainly be little doubt, now, that to stay its course is no longer within the bounds of pos sibility, and as little that no individual class or interest can safely be permitted to lay in its rear and impede its motion. When every other class of the community is competing for existence with its fellow class ; when manual labour is competing with the labour of the machine; when the noblest intellectual faculties of man are racked daily to the uttermost, to enable their possessor to sustain himself in the struggle with the giant power of modern days—the universal leveller— CAPITAL; can the agricultural class, alone, claim, with any show of fairness and consistency, to be exempt from the general lot? We submit that they cannot; and we maintain further, that those are false friends of the agricultural body who instil into the minds of the farmers of Great Britain a notion so preposterous and dangerous to their best interests. The agricultural body must, of necessity, look for ward to the arrival of a period- 7 progressively we trust —at which they must be content to depend more upon their own energies, their own skill, the outlay of capital in improved modes of cultivation, and upon improved means of internal cultivation, than upon any mere legislative protection. By these appliances the produc tion of our own soil may possibly become, in average seasons, sufficient for the wants of even an increased population. When this consummation shall have been achieved—and it is no distant possibility —the neces sity of protective laws wiil be little felt; and, year after year, as we approach that consummation, the need for such laws will decrease. In the mean time, however, whilst ngricultuTal science is putting forth its energies, the wants of the consumer must be fed; and that at a reasonable rate. We claim no undue sacrifices from the agriculturists, but merely a submission to the imperative circumstances of the tim es i n w hi c h t h ey are hr must i progress with the ti mes , an d share with external p ro d ucers to w hi ch t t o h thrown. competition 'They w every other branch of industry is gradually being sub mitted. Often as we have raised our voice against the course of virtual confiscation, to which some politicians would gladly consign them, we claim confidence in our perfect sincerity, when we assure our agricultural friends that their position, and the position of the country, is no longer one in which they can choose their policy, and say " stand still," when imperious necessity bids them " go on." With what reason, then, is this pettish jealousy of Sir Robert Peel's government manifested ? With what truth are the ' clamours of country meetings raised against imputed " breaches of faith," on th e part of that st a t esman and his supporters ? Never, that we are aware of, did Sir Robert promise the maintenance of prohibitory laws, or even of a sliding scale, which, at one moment, was prohibitory, and, in the next, deluged the country with duty-free foreign produce. Sir Robert Peel promised justice and fair protection to native industry. Upon these principles the meas ure w hi c h h e brought f orwar d was based; and although, d ur i ng it s operation w e h ave had low prices —(which, by the bye, we have had under the operation of the law which it superseded)—.the agriculturists are certainly not justified in imputing want of faith to the Government of their choice, until they can shew, be yond the shadow of a doubt, that such were its foreseen consequences, or were, at all, its consequences. We believe that neither alternative can be demonstrated. Neither Sir Robert Peel, nor any other member of his administration or party, ever anticipated as its result a state of the market such as the present; and unless aided by extrinsic circumstances—th e farmers' own fears not the least powerful —w e do not believe that such a state could have been brought about under its operation. It is quite possible, and very probable too, that the average price anticipated to be produced by it may have been calculated somewhat higher than will result In practice But is this not, we ask, to be attributed, in part, to the stimulated energies of the farmers them selves, and to the favouring weather which they have had for agricultural operations ? One-third greater breadth of wheat is said to be now in the ground tban in average years; and if, under such circumstances, we have continued cheapness, surely the law is not to be blamed. Farmers ought to remember, too, that their commodity is not the only one depreciated in price. Within the last ten years the money value of every article which enters into a farmer's consumption has immensely decreased ; and we believe at this moment, with the existing low prices, a quarter of corn, a bullock, or a sheep, would exchange for quite as great a quantity of the necessities of life as during what was considered the heyday of agricultural prosperity. However this may be, there can be no doubt that every effort of the agricultural body to injure the reputation of Sir Robert Peel's Government is a blow struck at their own interests. The unconcealed satis faction, with which the Anti-Corn-Law League regards the attacks levelled by country gentlemen at that Go vernment, ought to be conclusive as to their tendency. In his hands, and in his only, the progress of agri cultural industry towards that unaided competition with the foreign grown, which " Liberalism " con templates with such exuberant glee, will he of that gradual character which it may, perhaps, prove itself able to endure with little detriment to its solid pro sperity; whilst in oth ers, we may be dest i ne d to see i t , after a brief and h o p e l ess struggle, co nsigned at length to a position a mongst t h e b ubbling elements w hi c h fill the caldron of mod ern t h eoretical innovat i on. "Q uern Deus vult perdere, Ar i us dementat. " L et country gentlemen lay to their hearts the application ! ...nM.1m.,.....c...,.,,.,..,.,.... We have studiously avoided any reference to the position, occupied by a certain party in the church, with respect to the proposed government measure of education ; nor should we h ave not i ce d it now, hut for the unmistakeable manner i n w hi c h i ts o rgans have at rtdi ~ii~~}~~'~~► ~~~ riklii 040. bit to titimhiliSh kiaAM944tiT how/ triii&i ot the opositiob ; with 'rvhich tho bill of Sir James Graham has been tnet; is attributable to the jealousy with which the peculiar doctrines of that party are viewed by the great mass of the people. Under these circumstances, what should have been the course of men, professedly ardent in the cause of education, and in the spread of Church of England principles? Should it not have been an anxious solicitude for the success of a measure, by which a large amount of edu cational destitution is removed, and a large sphere of usefulness opened, for the first time, to that church ? And yet how contrary has been their course ! We have seen a restless stickling for the recognition of the church's supremacy in the administration of education ; but nowhere a manifestation of zeal for the promotion of education itself, even in its best form. We have been met with querulous complaints of slights offered to the church ; of powers withheld, and asserted rights not recognised with sufficient obtrusiveness. We have seen a cold-shouldered inactivity, at a time when dis sent was vigorously engaged in the effort to snatch from the church the admitted modicum of advantage offered her ; but nowhere have we seen, in the conduct of the party in question, a disposition, the most faint, to embrace that advantage, or to afford aid to the Government by whom it was tendered. RoYAL Ass' EMlA.v..noots.—Mr. and Mrs. irtaYthend, Mrs. Waylett, and Mr. A. Lee, have been delighting select and fashionable audiences at the above rooms durin g the week. This evening is the last of the entertainment. A's a long-esteemed and talented resident of this town, Mr. Ray mond ought to be liberally patronised. HIGHWAY RonnEny.—At the Birkenhead Police-court, yesterday, J oseph Forsbaw and Thomas Rodgers were com mitted for trial on a charge of robbing George Cooper of his watch on the high Way at Raby, on Sunday night, the 26th of February. Oti the application of Mr. Cudlipp, solicitor, the magistrates agreed to take bail for their appearance. BOTANIC GARDENS.—The first of the Horticultural exhibitions for the season, takes place in the Botanic Gardens this day, when, we hope, that such support may be given to the institution as to justify the Committee in making further efforts to secure its permanence. The weather promises to be beautiful, and the quality of the exhibition is anticipated to be of the first order, so that there will be every requisite to attend a numerous assembly. It wilt assuredly be a re flection upon the character of Liverpool if these gardens are suffered to decay for want of support. IMPUDENT THEFT FROM A SHOP.—A man named Wm. Taylor was yesterday placed at the bar of the Police -court, on a charge of stealing a pair of boots and a pair of shoes from a shop at the corner of Islington and Clare-street. It appeared that he had walked deliberately into the shop, seized the articles, and made off with them. The alarm was given, and he was pursued along St. Anne-street by a police-officer, and caught while endeavouring to get over the wall of a timber-yard. He had dropped one of the boots on the ground, and the other and the shoes were found upon him. He was committed for trial. ANCIENT ORDER ON FORRESTERS.—The anniversary of Court " Pride of England," No. 1016, was celebrated on Tuesday evening last, when the members sat down to a splen supper which was provided by their worthy hostess, Mrs. Langley. After the cloth had been removed, the Chairman prtsented (on behalf of the Court) a most elegant Star .medal to P.C.R. Thomas O'Mally as a token of respect for his very efficient services during the time he presided over the Court. The song and toast went round to a late hour, and the com pany retired highly gratified with the proceedings of the evening. Such has been the course of the party until the last few days ; but such is its course no longer. The af fected indifference, by which it has been characterized, is now laid aside —now, when it is becoming too certain that, without some powerful effort of the Church the attempt to educate the people, by any other than vo luntaryism, is hopeless—and in its stead we are met with sneers at the impracticability of any national mea sure, and, almost a suggestion of the abandonment of the proposed bill as impracticable and quixotic. The Morning Post, a somewhat indiscreet organ of the par ty, repudiates the bill in toto. The Times ridicules its provisions; and whilst acknowledging the impossibilty of refusing some toleration to other religious bodies, and acknowledging as well, the innocuous character of the concessions made by Sir James Graham, arrives at the conclusion, very intelligibly hinted, that the time has not arrived for the " modified system of money being permitted to undertake the proselytizing of the people" and that, therefore, the question of a national system of education may be postponed ! The attempt to in duce the entire community to look with favour upon teaching, is as yet not ripe for success ; and, therefore, the awful destitution of religious teaching, which has so recently been brought into prominent notice, is to be left uncared for ! CHARGE OF ARSON.—Yesterday, John Smith, a stone mason, residing at Liscard, was charged, at the Birkenhead Police-court, with setting fire to his house on the previous evening. It appeared that the prisoner had been indulging rather too freely, and, on his return home, quarrelled with his wife, beat her, and then attempted to burn his furniture, which would no doubt have caused the destruction of the house, had it not been for the interference of the neighbours. It appeared, however, that in consequence of some injury the prisoner had received to his head, he lost the control of his senses when under the influence of liquor; and in order to make some inquiries, he was remanded for a day. CHINESE EXHIBITION AT THE PORTICO.—There is at present open at the Portico a very interesting and well se lected museum of Chinese curiosities. The objects consist of implements of husbandry and warfare, dresses, specimens of carvings, laces, silk, drawings, &c. There is a curious model of the• car of Juggernauth. As illustrative of the habits and customs of the Cehstials, this museum is well worthy of a visit. Children ought, by all means, to be taken to see this collection as being likely to convey to their minds useful information. There are some beautiful dissolving views to be seen at two o'clock and eight in the evening. This museum requires only to be known to be extensively patronised. STEALING TOBACCO.—A boy, named John Dockery, was yesterday brought up at the Police -court, on a charge of stealing 21bs. of tobacco from the shop of Mr. John Crewe, Scotland-road. The prisoner was distinctly sworn to by the complainant; but two females, his friends, Cecilia Wallace and Nabina Hanley, attempted an alibi, but failed from a dis crepancy in their accounts. The prisoner was committed for trial. Shortly afterwards the two women were brought back into court, and charged with having threatened the com plainant for appearing as a witness against the boy. The case being proved, they were each required to find bail, them selves in £2O, and two sureties in £lO each, and, in default, were ordered to be imprisoned for 14 days. INQUESTS.—On Tuesday, on view of the body of William Fitzsimmons, a child of four years old. Deceased, who lived with his parents in New Bird -street, was left with another child, about a fortnight ago, and his clothes taking fire, he was so severely burnt that he died on Sunday last. Verdict, " Died from the burning, but how caused no evidence."— Same day, on view of the body of Henry Boardman, a child of two years old, who lived in Lambert-street. On Sunday the deceased was so severely scalded by a dish of hot broth that fell upon him, that he died on Monday night. Verdict, " Accidental death."--Same day, on view of the body of James Smith, aged 76. On the 12th ult. the deceased, while in Netherfield-road North, was accidentally knocked down by a horse, and received a fracture of the left leg and elbow, of which be died on the 29th. Verdict, "Acciden tally killed." As lovers of our National Church, anxious—more anxious than any member of the party to which we have alluded—for the acknowledgement of her pure doctrines and the spread of her usefulness, we cannot but deplore the infatuation which, thus stickling for the shadow—for the formation—of that church, loses sight of the substance, which is the spread of vital religion amongst the people. Much as we are disposed to deprecate unworthy concessions to dissenting cla mour—much as we deprecate the yielding up of an iota of the church's rights, we must deprecate infinitely more that pettish stiff-neckedness, which, because it cannot realize all its visions of authoritative rule, would sacrifice the power of Christian usefulness which is placed fairly and honourably within its reach. Her legitimate position as the instructress of the people we claim for the church. We long to behold the day when that position shall be universally acknowledged. But we cannot view that, as a feeling worthy of a Christian Church, which, under any circumstances, declares, in effect, that millions shall be left to crawl in darkness from the cradle to miserable graves. A CHEAP TENEMENT—A Mrs. Owen was yesterday pro ceeded against in the Police-court under the small tenement act, with a view to her being ejected from a good cottage house in Mary's-place, Gildart's-gardens, Maguire-street. It appeared that the house had been taken by her from a Mrs. Pritchard, her relation, at the weekly r en t o f 3d . — though the defendant contended that no agreement for the payment of rent was ever made. It appeared, however, that she had once paid 2d. a week, and on three other occasions 3d. at a time—the whole, for weekly rent, amounting to 11d. over a space of five whole years ; and this being considered proof of tenancy, she was required to quit—the notices hav ing been duly served—in 21 days. She complained of this decision as unfair; but Mr. Rushton said she certainly had a kind landlady ;—he wished his landlady were equally reason able and considerate ! ATTEMPTED ROBBERY 'FROM A TAVERN.—At the Police -court, yesterday, three suspicious -looking fellows— James Lee, James Smith, and Henry Francis—(supposed to belong to the Birmingham society of thieves), were charged with attempting to steal a quantity of money, on Tuesday last, from the house of Mr. Owen, the Shakspere Tavern, Williamson-square. It appeared they had gone to the house several times on Tuesday last, and on two occasions got change for a sovereign, the change being taken from a chest, where the money was kept, in the lobby. On their calling in again in the evening, it was found that the closet had been forced open, also a work-box inside of it, and that no one else was near it. They had, however, missed the money, which was lying under some papers about a foot from the box. They were apprehended, and on one of them was found upwards of £B, and on the others considerable sums, which they could scarcely have come honestly by'. It is sup. posed they were connected with a recent robbing in the town. They were all committed for trial at the sessions, . A MAN FOU ND D EAD ON SHIPBOARD.—An inquest was held on Wednesday, before Mr. Currie, on view of the body of a man named John Duke. The deceased, who Was about 60 years of age, was ship-keeper of the brig George, lying in the King's Dock. On Wednesday morning, John White, the carpenter of the vessel, on going on board to his work, had occasion to go between decks for his tools, and, on opeu ing the scuttle of the after hatchway, saw the deceased lying at the bottom of the hold, just under the hatchway, and a quantity of blood about him. A police-officer was caed, and deceased was f ound to be quite dead. All the hatches LOCAL NEWS. • of the upp er d ec k were closed, and he must have gone through the cabin to get between decks, where the hatches were all open. The body was taken to the dead-house. Mr. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—Some lectures, illustrated Wood, surgeon, made a ost ion, and by models, &c., are a b ou t to take place at the Music-hall, found an extensive fracture p of the nzortern skull, which examinat veas the cause which may be expected to be of an interesting character. of death, and was probably caused by a fall. The jury re turned a verdict to the effect, that the deceased was found THE 11TH HUSSARS. —Two troops of the 11th Hussars dead from a fracture of the skull, but how received there was arrived in this town on Tuesday from York. They are under the command o f L or d C ar di gan, who was domiciled during no evidenc e t o s h ow. the short stay of the regiment here at the Adelphi Hotel. A MAN NEARLY KILLED BY THE FALLING OF A DALE The troops embarked on Wednesday for Dublin. OF COTTON. —At the Police-court yesterday, a man named ST. DAVID' S C HURCH, L IVE RPOOL.—On Wednesd a y, John Hilt on , a l a b ourer, was placed before Mr. Rusht on , on the 3rd instant, th e t rustees o f St. David LIVERPOOL. s Church met pur a charge o f h av i ng, by his careless conduct, nearly caused the death of a ma n o f t h e name of Robert Wilkinson. It ap cancy of that chu rc h, w h en t h e i r unanimous choice fell on suant to notice, t o e l ect a m i n i ster to fill up the existing va- peared that at a b ou t 1 1 o ' clock yesterday forenoon, Wilkin the Rev. Benjami n M organ , curate of Aberystwyth, who, it s s zt . i e , e a butcher in- the e m pl oy of Mr. Ethill, of Oldhall t, was passing along Launcelot's-hey, in front o f th e is expected, will f or th w i t h proceed to Liverpool to di irherge warehouse known a s D av i es ' s, when a ha'le of co t ton f e l l the duty of his important benefice. - - t upon him fro m th e fi rst floor, and crushed him to the ground. MODERATION !—A beerseller, for infri ng i ng th e l aw a He was taken up apparently in a lifeless state, and conveyed Tranmere, and a publican for the same offence, were yester- to the Northern Hospital ; but after surgical assistance he day fined at the Birkenhead Police -court, the former ss. and revived, and it is hoped is not dangerously injured, though the latter 10s. Contrast this with what occurs at our Police- he was unable to appear in court. The bale, it appeared, court every Friday; and yet the beerahops and public-houses was thrown out of the warehouse into the street, with a view in that district are quite as orderly, if not more so, than in to its being put in cellar with some others of a similar mark. any other part of the country—proving that severity is not The prisoner said he could not deny the fact; but that he always the best mode of securing obedienc to the law. had, previous to throwing it out, asked a companion if the PORT OF MANCHESTER.—It appears that a party from street was clear, and being replied to in the affirmative, did Manchester were in Liverpool on Friday last ascertainging did not think any one was below. He was required to find the requisite fittings for a bonded warehouse, and that, in the bail to appear, if called upon, himself in £4O, and two secu present week a deputation from the Manchester Town Coun- rities in £2O each. cil are to wait on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to mature MERCHANT SEAMENS' FUND. —A petition'to parliarnent their scheme. Although the Lords of the Treasury have is now in course of signature in this town, by the sea-faring power to declare Manchester a port without going to Parlia portion of the (mulct:amity, complaining of the distribution of meat, yet an act must be, in this case, obtained to raise the this fund. The following are She principal clauses of the local funds to pay for the establishment. petition :—" Your petitioners beg to direct your attention to Tire STONE FOR THE Assize COURTS. —The stone to be the 2nd section of the Act, whereby it is provided that the used in building the New Assize Courts is to be brought from widows and children of such seamen only as shall have con e quarry in Darley Dale, Derbyshire. The workmen in the tributed to the fund for the space of twenty-one years, and quarry from which the stone will be obtained, have recently shall die a natural death, shall be entitled to relief ; and they discovered in it another of those caverns for which Derby- beg to suggest, that a much shorter period might be adopted shire is already noted. The following is extracted from the with great advantage to the fan:Kies of deceased contributors, Derby Courier of the 22d ult. :—" Last week, while some and without pressing too hard upon the funds of the Corpor men were ht work in the quarry of A. H. Heathcote, Esq., ation. That your petitioners are of opinion, that the present at Stonecliff Firs, parley Dale, they discovered the mouth unlimited power of the trustees, in receiving and applying the of a cave, which. on being entered, proved to be one of the funds, is prejudicial to the true interests of seamen and their most wonderful discoveries ever made in a quarry of that families ; and it can be shown that such power has been fre sort, and satisfied every inquirer of the great abundance of quently exercised with great partiality, whereby persons have the stone of which it is formed. The cavern is easy of ac- received relief who had no right thereto, and other just ceas, being entered by three different landings, and extends claimants have been neglected. And your petitioners hum to the depth of 81 feet. The bottom is of the same valuable bly represent, that as they cheerfully contribute the funds stone of which the sides are composed, in rocks of the great- they ought, in justice, to have a voice in the election of those eat size. On one side is a rock. 60 feet in length, 33 feet persons by whom these funds are to be distributed ; and that high, and of a breadth we could not ascertain. - The whole a report of the income and expenditure, with alt the partie quarry is esteemed by all that have seen it to be one of the ulars thereof detailed, should be printed and distributed most wonderful productions of nature. For largeness of annually. Your petitioners beg to represent, that the mode blocks,•superiority of quality, the colour of the stone, and of obtaining the certificates necessary to entitle claimants to its extraordinary durability against all kinds of weather, it relief f ang the fund prescribed by the said Act, imposes a bids fair to stand superior to all other gritstone in the king- great and unnecessary trouble and delay, amountir► in a don, and also to be productive of much employment for the great many instances to a prohibition of the benefits ig of the working class in this part of the country,' for whose interest fund ; and, they would humbly pray, that some more and comfort the worthy proprietor has always shown himself method may be adopted, by which the said trouble and el simpley solicitous. Mr. J. Vickers, jun., Darley Dale, is in posses- may be avoided, and the fund at the same time be protected sion of some samples brought from the bottom of the cavern, against imposition. That your petitioners are of o • pinion, which prove that there is not the slightest difference in the that a more liberal allowance should be made from the funds quality and texture of the stone, which extends throughout to shipwrecked and destitute Seamen, to enable them to a compass of at least 20 acres!" reach their homes. your petitioners be to point out what BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.--At the usual monthly they consider a peculiar hardship, namely, that if a seaman meeting of this Board, held on Tuesday evening last, the be drowned whilst serving on board a foreign, or even a colo following gentlemen were present :—Messrs. J. D. Case, nial ship, his widow and orphans lose all claim on the funds, (chairman,) J. R. Pim. Alex. Kerr, D. Appleton, T. Gil- through such sailor may have contributed largely thereto and never before sailed in other than British bottoms." ' bertson, C. Bentham, John Laird, Daniel M`Nichol, Wm. Horner, C. A. Watson, Samuel Stansfield, Wm. Cole, J. S. THE FuNDS.—WEDNESDAY EVENING. —.It seems no w t o Jackson, and J. H. Greene. The Watching and Lighting be generally admitted that the offer to settle the last dividend Committee's Proceedings, including the appointment of five on Mexican stock by a third of the amount in money and the persons as special constables on the Sunday, were read and remainder in stock ar par, has proved a complete fa:lure, and confirmed without observation, as were also the proceedings that the holders will naturally prefer retaining their coupons of the Road Committee. The Market Committee recona- and the entire claim which they represent to the relinquish mended that the market-looker should be appointed inspec- ment without consideration of more than a third of a chaini, tor of slaughter-houses, under the act, and the Board which would of course take place if they effected a stock at adopted the recommendation. The Ferry Committee re- par which is worth less than a third of its nominal value in ported that the profits of the ferry were steadily increasing, the market. But even this is a more favourable version of notwithstanding the unfavourable weather, and they requested the projected operation than e s given on the Stock Exchange the sanction of the Board to allow them to have a new boat where it is considered that the sacrifice would be equal to two built. Mr. J. S. Jackson, the chairman of this committee, thirds of the claim, on account of the great uncertainty showed the necessity there was for providing a new boat, in which pils as to the new k when issued consequence of the increase o f th e b us i ness, and after the would be reva marketable. wh The ether Committee stoc of the Stock Etc chairman and several other members of the Board had ex- change, have as yet pronounced no opinion on the subject ; pressed their entire confidence in the Ferry Committee, a but from their known dislike to defaults On the part of Go new boat was ordered to be provid e d. The annual statement verntnents, it is thought highly probable they will not allow of the accounts of the treasure r w as read and approved. the new stock to be marked should it make its appearance. The receipts of the township, during the year, were As yet, however, there is no occasion to take any such re £43,583 17s. 31d. ; the expenses, £43,232 16s. 6d., leaving a caution, as it is understood not a single dividenda s yet been. ther for a balance of cash in hand of £353 18s. Old. The property of claimed, and the holders are waiti i n le g the township vested in the commissioners, including the full or for some proposition that s t y e c i an deem preaaysmoenzatlien Spanish American stockhol-. cash in hand, is £94,617 18s., whilst the liabilities are only A meeting of the cornmitee of tee matter into consideration. £90,566 17s. 51d., leaving a balance to the credit of the ders is already convened to take better to-day : there was more township of £4051 Os. 61d. A letter from Mr. Henry Cole The English securties was referred to the next meeting. On the motion of Mr. J. business transacted, and w O r n e t A lle whole the market presented n advance of ne'arly one quer- S. Jackson, the Road Committee were authorised to meet a much firmer appearance. ,tslOrlel reduced. o ce i l i the sub-committee of the Finance Committee, with regard ter per cent. occurred in Consols, several good purchases investment. Their final quota to the continuation of Conway-street. and the Corporation having been made for private road. It was stated that Mr. Mallaby had just returned tion , for money was 961 to and for the account. 96;1 buyers. per r u c c e e d n from London —that the Improvement Bill had received the Bank Stock left off at 180 if t 'I O e l:3 c l e ; n T ts h . ree ß p e Royal assent, and that the Cemetery Bill had passed the 95k to i ; Three-and-a-ha p committee, and would be read a third time that night. The New Three-and to 267 ; India Bonds, 755. to 775. Board then adjourned till Tuesday week, when it will meet ties, 12k ; India Stock 2562 for the 3d issue, and 675. pm. to give directions to the Finance ConaMittee to complete the pm. ; ExChequer-bt , 'lls 65s to -a-half per , Cents., 1021 to L' ; Long A nnui. contracts under the new bill. 675. to 69a. pm. for the lid issue. Henceforth let Oxford cease to proclaim her supe rior pretensions to regard for the interests of the Church—we use the word in its broad significance— the Church of Christ—that Church whose Founder left upon his true followers the impressive injunction— " Suffer little children to come unto me." Truly, Were she tried by the conduct of her members upon this question, she would be found sorely and lamentably wanting ! The following extract from a letter recently received in this town, from a gentleman now resident in Switzerland, is an unanswerable reply to the absurd theories of - the anti-coin-law philosophers, who so confidently assert that in countries where there are no corn-laws, the price of bread is considerably reduced beyond the price at which it is obtainable here. Berne, 24th March, 1843. Surely it is discontent which calls for repeal of the Corn Laws, or else it is a vain fancy, for we have scarcely any duty on corn, and that a fixed one; yet bread is just as dear with us, if not dearer, for the beat bread is 2d. per lb., whilst yours you say is only id. ; the lowest, indeed, only lid. per lb., but the value of money is much greater with us, and no one complains. The Corn Laws in England are the scape goat of rebellion, and woe to them who make people believe that their misery has its source there. wait until the prope learned lord present case 'alled as x~ ~11 treet, Ever' toil. R f e : be l c r' ca ll: ;i l :rl i r t iTer i'-‘ ev r' as lj n 3 l 4'r p iaelkedtlet•ller r tili4; : bar, but she was subsequently made a witness. It appea.ens that on the night of the 21st December last, the preol above-mentio n ed w ere broken into shortly after seven o'cloeor the me m be rs of the two families who occupied them b g articles tuh(e,setistntoel.en.Ablottrtla4tiown,or‘tvhasogf ivaepttliatroel theand p olive, but the property was not discovered. On Monday nigh t, Mrs. Ball was passing along Bevington-bush, she whi c h" woman, named Mary Ann Edmondson, carrying a elij o children, n a little coat that belonged to one of Mr. Davis 9,,... which coat had been stolen on the night of the Z . 1 5! of December. She stated this to the woman, who told.tere that she had purchased the coat from Rebecca Stringer• inspector of the district was informed of this, and be we:: and took the poor woman, Stringer, into custody. It turn a out that she had purchased the coat for her baby from the. prisoner, Catharine Williams, and had afterwards Soloist, 1 Edmundson to enable her to buy food. The poor . Stringer, was greatly distressed. She trembled violentlY; and apeared scarcely a bl e to support herself. She vm_ taken f p rom the bar to the witness-bo p x p , and her evidence te_` ! taken against Williams. The latter having n othing to nue in her defence, was committed for trial. b- HARRINGTON DOCK.—The report of the comp any, mitted to the shareholders at their seventh annual meetine! recently held, shows that the prospects of this importan undertaking continue to improve. The rental for the pas t reference to year, including dock dues, has considerably exceeded they)! y th ea e r t , e a a m l ovualnuteingoftotht3c,Bo4m7 10s. 4d. the probable future receipts, this may bepatankye'snPars°aPel‘ornwtYcitawtat:utnall: dard. We brought under notice some time ago nsicu arrangements which were being made by Messrs. Todd Ns% for and Co., and others, upon a portion of the al come l e ; estate, for the importation and crushing of COP () . 1. Though the necessary works for this purpose are adyanellt rapidly towards completion, the business itself bas as P., scarcely commenced, and consequently th e whole of t he largo amount expected to be realised from this source in the shape of dock dues is in reserve, to swell the income of the sins Pri o i etors in coming years. We learn likewise that the ae the North American line of steam-packets have lately ta" a lease of land and water space from the companY for the t purposes of that establishment. This is another imp l a g circumstance, which cannot fail greatly to enhance the an ofu- t the property, as well as to draw attention to the ad theaes which it presents in a commercial point of view least among which is the moderate charge for insuranc,e. compared with- that which it has been found necessary,'" establish at the north end of the town. These are gratifynig facts, not only as regards the interests of the comPtill' e i a ddet l i s toi o it a ni s fidei r ( e d g ow a u dock the interests of the town, which are close ly i k th ac t c h o e m su m c o c d cs a s ti o o. of every project for affording a. taittott - _ DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT " THE DUKE S WAREHOUSES." fire W eS Yesterday afternoon, about a quarter past three, _ T wee observed in the fine pile of warehouses known as " th e se tee of Bridgewater's," (now in possession of the trustees y c l s od late nobleman,) and situated between the Dukes D ue :ses of the north end of the King's Dock. The range een s 'eelng east and west, and with frontage both to the north and S"_!„i, one continuous and handsome pile of 10 warehouses , with two bridges under the two centre ones for the con tee ence of discharging flats and barges that arrive fro .4 0 , interior of the country by the Duke's Canal, and from ! t he corn by the Mersey, in the small but convenient dock s see Duke's"—immedi a t e l y a dj acent to t h e prem ises; an u e t : s ere company are exte ns i ve carr i ers b y wa t e r, the roou', de, generally filled with valuable goods awaiting transit U r ' , s ad livery. They are s i x stor i es i n h e i g h t f rom the geounu re st, the two centre ware h ouses are e l evate d hi g h e r than th e by a peditire ment to each front. the ea $ The broke out in the third warehouse from - end of the ra nge , an d th e fl ames were fi rst se en to issu e ei el manner that threatened the whole, from the south doors the windows of the fifth story. They soon afterwards spreattet_usie e opposite frontaee, and to the unper or sixth story warehouse, and to the roof. The three top rooms were.entlea) with cotton, amongst which (probably in the room of th ° Ace! the fire originated—but from what cause is not yet exPlr os st In a very short time (about half an hour) the greater Pie of the roof fell in, and immense and alarming bodies n e_ tae tlf rose up through the apperture. The alarm was instat es„ conveyed conveyed to the Fire Station, and several engines an," e w ere carts, and a strong body of the fire and ordinary Pol e le`,', ve ry despatched with all possible speed to the spot. In lone( short time there were thirteen or fourteen engines statee opposite to the frontages and there being libundaVeecks,, water at hand, both from the King's and the Dukes e l' eria most of them were soon got to work, under the % P ore tendeuce of the superintendents and inspectors, w'''' e f the, assisted by the Mayor, Mr. Rushton, and other s ' r esod' authorities. They, however, laboured under m uch_ _ f oe vantage in the first instance, owing to the great height, !gee conflagration ; and before measures could be renderen ' w eb tual, the three upper rooms of the warehouse their contents, in a blaze ; and the two upper rooms s e heg res e t adjoining —east and west—also became ignited. 1 3 Y' le nt to and persevering exertions, however, of the superinten'. o eiss _ the fire-police (Mr. Hewitt) and his men, and °thea the tants, who, at great personal risk, ascended the sttlir i s bre nch two last-noticed warehouses, and introduced hose and A 0 t° pipes by the windows, the flames were so far arreste d h oe be confined to the three only : the roofs and two toP rb' uo t only of the two on each side of that in which the fir,; e 6re out having fallen a prey to the destructive element• le'heese had communicated to the top story of the second ws r ke from that first burning, on the west, and the sre ° , he Ova, issued from a circular window in' the pedimelit over tlo centre ones still further to the westward ; but the fir e dot on direction was soon arrested, and Hewitt and his tne u iesllet t the tops of the roofs at each end of the three that ha on in, and poured from several branches carried to tha t e n t" werei those well-directed copious and continuous jets of water uP t e t te burning materials below them. The cat-heads of theells! burning w are h ouses f e ll p i ecemeal to the groun d, as s n s and the remai ns o f th e i r wooden coverings ; and the be s eer pi timber of the tipper floors and roof s fell in like °a ! ' es h a ternally. Several of the men engaged with the meld 00* narrow escapes fro m th e f a lli ng o f p i eces o f timber an. work outwardly. uPg-r- About half-psst four o'clock, the cotton in the t e r app ear stories of Ll4c, first ,greb uu , e presente e the f twee' ance of masses of red-hot material• in the shaPt i o ift Pn An immense quantity of water was, however. th ril " ri Niit"' 4 ! it by the windowS and doors, and probably still raer e e ' s ente t ` h ; waste) from the hose on the resit's; and it soon Pr'iest darker and subdued appearance, giving indication ee ers;:' worst was over, and . that the fire would not ex teno e tuaq to the pile of buildings. The hope.thus excited was e lh - eose realized. The three lower floors of the middle ware is P. e e '; these on fire still stood firm up to six o'clock, an" ` e of "- mitted the parties interested to remove a great portietbets too property upon them, by employing labourers and ci s on tb e carry it out, and convey it on tracks to vacant spaee, e ode, quays and streets, But much of it was injured bY ° t otal': that had been thrown in by the doors or windows, 1); poured down through the floors from the upper st u e rl '„ - a t ve t , wind wind at the time was luckily from the westward, ausrl.tel.‘.;;o - (front the appearance of the smoke from the " el ' e a tu e ` s ' s so that the heat of the fire was driven easterly. " -- ero"( been a similarly strong draft from the eastward, the . 00 0 bility is that no human effort could, from the fi erce r n tWi th i, the fire a priori, have saved any part of the range , i iii dee standing the supply of water. The whole Pd e e: stands isolated and exposed to the breeze, wit h o ut. iiee deg from hill or height on any side ; and we think the eu i c h e io o ; serve great credit for their timely, energetic, and J e l l of, tb e exertions, at great personal hazard, in saving inu- e - join li t; property in the three warehouses and all of those e lls of t, pet, directing We observed Mr. Hewitt active on the top of the 'V B traw 4 o warehouse nest the tire on the west, with a speakin g,7l on jie hands that to his fearless and discreet mariagern el e iC e roPit e r e l attributed the preservation of the large amount "e i e s tear. eaved—of which that consumed or otherwise the men ; and we heard it adulate toy teeforms o n ly a per centage, neat tee An immens e num b er o f persons h a d co llected and of scene of action, both on the King's Dock Q ueY • s tieg' o cl Duke's Yard ; but excepting those who were a ' e s e l iente e s interested in the event, they were kept at a coot's — e sreei safe distance. The smoke and flames were seen frottbieshirit! palls of the town, and even . distinctl from the aeu t shOre, and the alarm and interest excited were cona eg _ A ! 1, great. s to.. ee The three top rooms of the warehouse that firs% - I , ere,' c , were filled with cotton, the lower rooms chieflY had Ont mostly wheat. The top rooms of the other two we re 0 1, some cotton stowed in them and other articles, but, 0 wee - so full. In the lower rooms' of these there was ad s , grain and flour, bags of white rags and cotton w es _ r e e sa l " e we 0 !:nac , &c. A large quantity of the latter articles t trom the fire though thereatuch of it saturated with we e e s terq, : i s e, twoof warehouses at amounto r i g inat eodf wasloss, occupied,chiefly n'ac. which was partly burnt, were in the pccuPa" - se lliel; eo as ,estat"` at ereq t Mark Nightingale, agent. - The warehouse i" ' 'frit e ot le to a n ri , , i l sri r any degree of accuracy ; but it has been stated (9,_ ° t eetP, I P 4:15,000 to £20,000. The insurance (but to w" 3 is. n ot e 124 we are unable to say) was effectedchiefly, S° the Royal Exchange Insurance Office. / W m About five o'clock; as one of the fire police ling Up, . I"ustory, tel 3bo) was at the north front, and in the act of hose to play into one of the windows in the third - si d e reP o l ,l l adder on which he stood, after he bed attaine4 a cons Pee olVtlrv.ePteudlebuTd wit • ieight : gave way and broke under hintand anotheir lee O' s „ low hnn, and he was precipitated to the grounnoios bee; picked up insensible and apparently killed, he I) are g lad t he , severely inlured on the head and side : but '.. 7: ar t e' o f say that he rallied so far as to be enabled to walk onll ho s way to the Southern Hos t Ithat he coinPlal ue , - pr° his side, and that as n pi a ; o bones are broken, there is a bility of his speedy recovery. I• u l et •e learn b severhe An officer of the navy (the commander , we M. steam tender Redwin ) • • the eroend e• pQ g, was on b iStaPCn of his men, and • iendered every possible as- the bur haw quantity of water thrown by the engines into • r el n et warehouses, in the• of ie e . hour u- uVr short space about f the may tie • • tetimated from the fact, that on one hoof e een a j et lf ts room doers of that to the westward being thrown 'd e of south front, it rushed out like a cataract for tipsy° ;In an hour. ei tea None of the walls of - the warehouses have falle n a h ere c . p cl side or out—they beingwell built and strong , th e u i t r d iegs , ' co t Perhaps 30 years ago. They are In truth, fine hu t ee Pr es s will bear competition with the best warehouses of . (as g e t to wh ic • lit) ? day not constructed on fire-proof principles , 0 ,1,5 Bards iron plating under the floors and roofs) theY Vic, qe ad ap t e d . who le During the height of the alarm, and when tue eite ee, the appeared to be i n danger, man office fixtures, f ur e from hag were removed w i t h great baste and much dantag (jol t the $ Ca' and most easterly warehouse,also from and et are counthig-house of Messrs. Patchett, ryaM'Ke' pretu see carriers by water. This was, unluckily, rathe ee ; e n wo ledment, as neither of the premises caught n se l i n dal; i b e , on u counsel parties who considet their proper e lY she p O L f e e whose such emergencies first to consult the heads o_ l e s toe nt ; to fia assistance they may have up to the last true ve such hasty fittings are quite equal de'' ' peared by to i five and present,. tai e rio e being, efficient scf throughout, and every The superintendents u esrite:ssa.n xanxious s to a d n o d inshis duty.pe eto r s °lvc manP;.°l‘i eueswd. tceeorreticrsi srYe fo r we regret to of theconfined in t biro The town is, hoawy,ever, indebted aL f o rce , and which discipline in which he has trained o o n' e P os io . n .e • the most s . " ' the We observedb'l was so prominently manifested on the 0 ,110 vi j r , P m %s x e w n e t :,, and even at the point of danger when amongst the most active gentl emen nired , reti conV an bll T he Inspecto r of salvages for the willinsuran proba.ty continue to w as still burning last night, and d quat t i l eil o burn for some time from the nature and the IP 4'o' u,materials, but it will not extend beYon ception of The whole will, however, be repaired for goods. al comparatively a few weeks' r "hile one of which will neeesori_Jthe re' -1'''''.......,..........-............... __Will WT'S AND W,.-Pa---t ~„ e rn are publicans- - ....NS BY AN EmINENT se triv,_ s o liable to t• subject to imoosition ? --- B ee " t i w er l i qloP . 1 'e in ns xy, . Lord H dog. ° a 's empty house )....__A.* .or was Ull bills ° p it Why i s t .. j c s , -oecause he had such lots ° --13ge° 05 ' - or • its !Needles. famous f : ' e ~.of Wight like Whitechape l • st l° Pf MoNEY.---" n to 4 e 0 Is this d , I sa id a 1113- r ebus t he cious looking, wa . goo TnOneY, sm all P,', l a s him. ~ It ought 8., who had made some ~i f .vi but answer. With th a t to be good, for I made it mYs' ' rY ; y he took the man in his d le ib e ". by fiddling, efenee proved that he liad nog up the man for forge ,„,,00( pleastu lited oi