The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-22 00:00:00

P ° l sl llation ; " and " we need be under no apprehension °f consumption declining, as there is ' room and verge eti°ll l4 l l' for twenty thousand millions" (!) instead of itB present population of short of one thousand mil- 1104 . This twenty-fold increased population of the *4l ( 1 —for which, of course, we must wait patiently 1113111d raise a consumption for British manufactures, a good return being found in articles for the British markets" —.for the seventeen millions who inhabit this em nparatively diminutive isle ! Can Quixotic folly, Ne ask, go further than this sample of sheer absurdity ? F or what is the inevitable conclusion which its pro iMunder forces upon us? Simply this—that we are Ma nufacturing beyond our power to consume the com 'Wities w hi c h we rece i ve i n exc h ange f or our exports. I Other words, we are OVER-PRODUCERS ! We are glut ting, with the products of our looms and our spindles, the markets of the world : and we are also glut ting the British market with foreign produce b e Y°nd our power of consumption. If the remittance 18 inconvertible, except at glut prices, such must also tie the prices of our manufactures in the home market, 4 rlti by them must be governed the price of labour, and °P . every other commodity which enters into the com- P 4 ition o f our manu f ac t ures ! W e th an k Mr. B u ckingham for the light which he has thrown upon hitherto dark subject. It is irresistibly striking! The address of Mr. Richard Cobden was of a totally di fferent character to that of the lecturer, Buckingham. ati t was rambling a nd flippant throughout ; but as it did dress itself to one cr two of the practical points of the gl e anti-corn-law question, it was more worthy of a 41 . 44 of sense to utter and of those who oppose the 1 l ews of his party to notice. Mr. Cobden is at issue now, net only with his co-agi , t ars of the league; not only with the entire agricultural hlterest; but with his own sentiments, uttered (as we trust rye shall be able hereafter to chew) during the present }e ar' with respect to the effect of a free trade in corn 11 \ 1 : 41 the cultivation of the corn lands of Great Britain. g4 t other men, and Mr. Cobden himself, we repeat, ha ve contended that at least some soils must, by ad r4tting the grain of other countries, duty free, be ithrown out of cultivation : but he is now ,prepared to co ntend th a t no su ch effect will be produced. And how ti ° es he argue this, perhaps the important point of the i , l , °l e question ? In the first place, he rakes up from ' i vion a pamphlet published eighteen years ago by a eGa nt of Lord Wharncliffe's, on " The Valuing of 'l'll- L C h g eB and Farms," in which it is laid down as a rule , at `` when wheat is 40s. per quarter, the rental of the hes t land should be 255. per acre ; and that the latter ,th ci ald ris e or fall ss. per acre, with every Bs. rise or 14,11 1, of the f ormer . With regard to the poor soils, when 11 gea t is 40s. per quarter, the rent should be Gs. per acre, Varyin g in the same proportion as the best land— viz. s s. per acre in rent for Ss. per quarter in price." b. su llaing this calculation, then, to be a correct one, maintains that if wheat was reduced to 325. per cillart er, the best lands would still be worth 20 s. per acr e, and the s orst is., and that, as "we know by his .(l.lT that th a t l an d was l e t f or 6d. an acre years ago, and 1 11 , it was cultivated and farmed, so if it was down to 6 4 an acre now, it would be farmed." of .' \ol v, we ask seriously, does Mr. Cobden, or do any t he congregated ladies who cheered this piece of ab ,kriclitY, suppose that any ten sensible farmers , or sen iule men of a ny profession, could be duped by such a Statement ? Putting out of view the dishonesty, upon w h l eh we may remark hereafter, of this cool mode of i, B P o sing of the rental of the owner of the soil, which 1 4 not t o " stand b etween t h e l eague " an d t h e realiza i°4 of its d es i gns , w h e re is the parallellism of the cases Put --the cultivation of land at one shilling per acre t, now, and its cultivation at sixpence per acre th erita l " years ago ?" What was the price of labour in th e e "years ago ?" A PENNY A DAY ! What were 'be Price s of other commodities ? They were propor- : 10ri al• The entire circumstances of the two eras were th different th a t no comparison can he drawn between r er n; and the very attempt to do so betrays an igno tlee and a confidence in that of his auditors which is perfe ctly o astounding ! rit What, let us ask, is the authority upon whose te c olations this silly attempt to answer one of the most gra pe objectio n s tothe abolition of all protection to native agric ulture is founded ? The writer of the directions fe t r ci Valuing Tillages and Farms"—whether those di qetrt,icils are based upon correct or incorrect data we a d not stop to inquire—was estimating the rental of of tici a t a period when the old corn law, with its limit 15 , 138 • per quarter, was in operation, and when low i ice s could only be produced by abundant harvests. It Perfectly possible that when such was the case his t gl4 ea might approach somewhat near to correctness ; e ilt to supp ose th a t they can possibly apply, under the 4. e ration of an entirely free trade, when low prices may haY~although the harvests of the British farmer may 14 44 proved an entire failure, is an assumption so wild It scarcely merits serious refutation. to Parliament Cobden may be quite at home when speaking, to Parliament or elsewhere, upon matters appertaining wivcotton and calico, exports and imports. He may, 1, 4 11 Safety to the cause of which he assumes to be the te4 (l . i ng advo ca te, be permitted to string together the In arY fallacies in which he deals, for the amusement Mob of millocrats and weavers, or the old women ti v c constitute the " great gatherings" and " grand fes 44'' got up by the Anti-Corn-Law League; but we 4 4 ate satisfied, by this one specimen which he afforded us criday evening, of his utter incapacity to argue the t i a °44 question of free trade upon an arena, where mere li ie lltr ap and sophistry are put hors de combat, and rl'B minds are convinced by sterling facts and sound p:, ° , rli ng. Enough, however, of so very small and so Y overrated a personage as Mr. Richard Cobden ! e4tt able wr i ter , i n t h e l as t num b er o f Th e Ch u rch of 1 4 la nd Quarterly Review, has the following remarks, a n articl e en titled " The State of the Country." Meer deprecating, and most justly, the principle that 14 ie tY must always be progressing, and that a govern -4:1,11t is bound to be for ever conceding to the 1e,, ; -4 , 11 ds of the admirers of novelty in theory and in t o °Ls tion, the reviewer proceeds :—" We say, then, 1 10 it Robert Peel, we have had enough of change; and secure to us some years of reflection, observation, ti v exPerien ce; a nd g ive a distinct and decisive nega e to all th a t s h a ll t en d t o re - ag itate the public mind ebvent the good which you hope to accomplish 14 d k th e measures you have taken for the relief of the k 4lll facturers and other classes of the community. greet the cry of the Corn-law. Repeal League by the ti: ; vio4B question. Meet the cry of the Radical poli -4'44 for the Repeal of the Union,' for 'The Ballot,' Universal Suffrage,' for `The doing away with i l el4 iastical Courts,' and for "The Abolition of ut ch Rates,' by the previous question. Say to those h t y ° Periodi ca lly agitate the country to its very centre ci l4 be ir false and dangerous theories, `'There is no ne e for you of success. We are determined to la w 4t °r e to society the reign of peace, order, and the D a , t : 'We have a powerful and an almost omnipotent i ll ' 3 ' in this respect to back us. We have been placed 1 % ,: ice to support and defend these principles ; and 0 141 1 , v iR discuss no more theories until the country A ti have s e ttl e d d o wn to a state of calmness and con- Vie w a great extent, we cordially coincide in these B of the writer in question. We say, too, "We ti o „, e h ad enough of change." We say, "Secure to us T h '"e Years for reflection, observation, and experience." a o : ,feverish excitement the panting anxiety for Of a .t4 Y -- --which has for years past existed in the minds b e - t g r eat portion of the people of this country, cannot c tt °° much deplored, or the principle condemned that it 4 : 44 ' 4 changes in legislation are for the advantage of Pr a ; t `, °rl . We have ever deprecated, in statesmen, the p oil -t 'ee of conceding to the expression of mere it o : ti a l ar opinion, what conviction has not already dis dietie`:,them to concede, independent of such popular it i t °ll . Concession should never be granted when ht it i una ccompanied with conviction of its advantage ; co ri e hold concession delayed, for one hour after such w ieti °n, to be injustice and tyranny. the e , a re far, however, from agreeing to the justice or )1 4 " ,!,, s(10 n1 of the advice which the reviewer would hate C o nservatives address to Sir Robert Peel. He lligh t i Lg i viogs with respect to the disposition of the I lltra - f " 3O . Baronet to concede to the demands of the th at ree traders and levellers. So have we. And for th ver Y reason—because we fear the want of firmness he t i: Pr emier to resist the popular outcry of these .444 to would not depend ourselves, or teach to th e 0 de pend, upon the mere strength of a majority tt Meet ouse of Commons. We would not say, he Propositions of these men r vious question ;" but, rather, meet them by that resistless power of argument which the cause of truth and order possesses within itself. Meet them thus in parliament; and call upon every true Conservative out of doors to weigh and reflect upon the facts and reasoning thus submitted to them, and to re-echo them, as the best reply to the agitation of their indefatigable opponents. It is the duty of Conservatives, whether they fear the pliability.of Sir Robert Peel or not, to strengthen the hands and re-assure the confidence of that states man in what we conscientiously believe to be his honest convictions of the right, in contradistinction to his mistaken convictions of the politic and the expedient. And further, we say that, unless they do this, they can not consistently complain if he is driven from the path of stern resistence to dictation, into the path of bit-by bit concession! Look around us; view the "demon " of our opponents—their " great festivals"— strations their organization. Look, for example, at the growing strength and the extraordinary activity and magnitude of design exhibited by the Anti-corn-law League. Can such determined efforts as are being made by that body—can its hired lecturers—its local committees, male and female—the tracts, mendacious but insidious, with which it is inundating every town, village, and hamlet throughout the land—failin inducing, eventually, a confirmed opinion amongst a vast number, even of Conservatives, in favour of concession, upon the corn question, to the demands of the free traders ? They cannot. All past experience —nay, reason itself—tells us that they cannot; and, even at this moment, truth compels us to acknowledge that this brawling agitation, sneered at by too many Conservatives and neglected by most, has sapped the principles of a large, and is daily sapping the principles of a larger, class of once staunch supporters of the agricultural, colonial, and industrial interests of the land. Surely, then, Conservatives who deprecate concessions by Sir Robert Peel to out-of-door agitation are not doing their duty to that statesman, to themselves, or to their country, if they do not, at once, put forth their energies to meet that agitation upon its own ground, upon its own platforms, lecturer for lec turer, pamphlet for pamphlet ; and thus save us from the necessity or the temptation for concession, by show ing to the Conservative body in the legislature, and to its eminent leader, that the heart of the people is sound, and its hand resolute and strong to protect and stand by the constitution and the true interests of Great Britain in all their entireness ! This, we repeat, is the duty of Englishmen. Let this be done; and then, perhaps, we may say with the reviewer, to Sir Robert Peel, "point to your majority, when these people assail you with their various nos " Until it is done—until the great Conservative party out of doors meet and put down their brawling opponents, by a refutation of their fallacies or a demon stration of their strength—they can neither say, with truth, to their leader in the House of Commons, " de spise them," nor have they any right to ask of that leader, a determined resistance, when they, who are his soldiers, thus abandon the field and leave him alone to bear the whole brunt of the battle ! trums By a letter dated Poonah, 29th September, from a surgeon in one of the East India Artillery Regiments, which arrived by the last Overland Mail, and which has been kindly shewn to us by a brother of the writer, a young gentleman in this town, we learn that the murderer of the late Lord Norbury has been discovered. It seems that the murderer was in one of the regiments stationed at Bombay. He was attacked with a violent illness, and, thinking himself on the paint of death,. made a confession before his officers that he was the man who shot Lord Norbury. By means of great medical skill the man had got better, and the government had immediately taken the matter in hand, buthad con ducted everything connected with the affair with such secrecy that nothing further had transpired. We are not aware that this circumstance has been before men . , tioned ; but as the discovery of the murderer (il-it really have taken place, of which we see no reason to doubt) will probably lead to other circumstances than the mere apprehension of the prisoner, we should not have been fulfilling our duty to the public had we not given insertion to the extract from this letter. After a world of cutting, paring, and lopping away of the more objectionable propositions, announced ,in their notice to Parliament, we believe we may now announce to the world the important fact that the Commissioners of Birkenhead have abandoned, for the present, the magnificent schemes of which they were so recently in hot chase. Such, at least, is the only rational construction which we can put upon a communication received yesterday from the Clerk'to the body in question, coupled with the various altera tions which we have remarked in the wording of the notice to Parliament, from the time in which it first ap peared in a Chester paper, and was dragged from thence before the public of Liverpool and Birkenhead, up to its present publication. We shall not presume to speculate upon the causes of the very sudden decision of these great projectors — a decision which we certainly regret, as we shall be thereby deprived of a very great pleasure, which we anticipated so soon as the plans of the " park or parks, dock or docks," and other great things in contempla tion, should have been lodged, with the books of re ference—those instructive documents—in the office of the Clerk of the Peace, at Chester. The same mystery with which they would fain have clothed their entrance, envelopes, for the present, their exit from the scene; and we can only pray to be enlightened by the worthy 0-missioners or somebody else, and have patience. LOCAL NEWS. The British and North American royal steamer the Cale donia, Captain Lott, sailed from Liverpool on Saturday for Halifax and Boston. She carried out a fair number of pas sengers. FATAL ACCIDENT.—About three weeks since, as William Jenkins, late mate of the barque Actaeon, was walking between decks, his foot slipped, and he fell into the hold, inflicting a severe wound on his head. On the following day he was exceedingly ill, and continued so until Friday last when he died. SOUTHERN HOSPITAL.—On Sunday evening last, after a sermon by the Rev. Mr. Nolan, at St. Barnabas Church, the sum of twenty pounds was collected in aid of the funds of this valuable charity. If we take into consideration the capabilities of the inhabitants of the district, the amount col lected is more than we expected, and reflects creditably upon the liberality of the congregation. THE GREAT PROTESTANT MEETING.—We are gratified to find that, contrary to the intention at the time of the meet ing, a verbatim report of the speeches delivered at the late annual meeting of the Liverpool Protestant Association, con taining the very important statements brought forward by the Rev. R. J. M`Ghee and the other speakers, is about to be published in the form of a pamphlet. The public will thus be able to possess themselves of these invaluable docu ments in a more permanent and convenient shape than can be afforded through the columns of a newspaper. THE QUEEN'S ARMS HOTEL.—The Albion of yesterday gives circulation to a rumour which it afterwards contradicts. that the Bank of England had taken, on a term of twenty four years, the Queen's Arms Hotel, for the purpose of con ducting the business of the Branch Bank, heretofore carried on in Hanover-street. We think it most probable that the Corporation will not let such an opportunity for possessing themselves of the property pass by, as the purchase will enable that body to carry into effect the long agitated im provements at the upper end of Cook-street. DEATH FROM LAUDANUM.—We gave, on Friday, the heads of an inquiry, at the Inquest-court, into the death of Joseph Charmers, a ship carpenter, in whose stomach, on the post mortem examination, was found a large quantity of laudanum, which was the cause of death. As there was some appearance of mystery in the case, the inquest was ad journed until Saturday, in the hope of some further eveidence being procured to elucidate the manner. It was accordingly resumed on that day, but nothing of importance transpired, and the jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased died from the effects of the narcotic, but how taken or admi nistered there was no evidence to show." THE FUNDS—SATURDAY EVENING.—At the Stock Ex change to-day, business showed no particular feature. There were sufficient purchasers to support quotations, and hence the currency of yesterday continues. Consols for money and the account closed 944 to 4 ; Three Per Cents. Reduced, 931 to 4; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1004 to 4; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1014 to a ' • Long Annu ities, 124 to 1 ; Old Annuities, 914. Bank Stock left off rather better—viz., at 169 to 170, as did also India Stock and Exchequer-bills, the former at 261 to 262, and the latter at 565. to 58s. premium. In foreig n securities very little change indeed occurred in the aspect of business. Quotations were maintained, and that was the great thing desired. Spanish Actives were finally quoted 184 to ; ditto New, 234 to I ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 624 to 531; ditto Five per Cents., 100/ to 11; Danish, 831; Brazilian, 65 to 6 ; Belgian, 102 to s ; Mexican, 324 to 34; Portuguese Five per Cents., 381; and Columbian, 114 to I. SYMPTOMS OF IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE IN THE UNITED STATES.—The American packet-ship Garrick, Capt. Skiddy, arrived at this port on Friday last, from New York, after a passage of twenty-two days,—a fine run at this season of the year. She is the first vessel arrived here on board of which the American seamen have received an advance of wages of three dollars per month,—the advance being from twelve to the sum of fifteen dollars. We learn that, from the improve ment in trade, this advance has been generally agreed to, on the application OTtii;.;;;;;;t1;oug-hout the states. The Garrick has brought between two and three hundred cabin and steerage passengers. Most of the latter have resided some time in the United States, where they were engaged in agricultural pursuits, in which they have been so successful that they have come to this country merely to spend the winter, and to return in the spring, taking with them their families and friends. The whole of the passengers by the Garrick express the greatest satisfaction with the excellent accommodation of the ship, and the kindness and attention of Captain Skiddy and his officers. The packet-ship Oxford, which was to leave New York on the Ist instant, may be daily expected. PORTICO.—The little theatre Lazary is about to close The entertainments are very amusing ; the transformations are extrernly curious. Some of the scenery is very prettily got up. AMPHITHEATRE. — One of the most celebrated French equestrians from Francones, in Paris, has arrived here, especially engaged to appear at this theatre. She is said to be a very handsome woman, and dances like a Taylioni. An advertisement appears in the Manchester papers, an nouncing the sale, by action, of the Manchester Zoological Gardens, with the collection of animals and birds, without reserve, on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th instant. THE WATERLOO COURSING MEETING.—We perceive that Mr. Towers has undertaken to provide for the hungry at the ensuing coursing meeting. If there will not be good sport there will be surely good fare, for Mr. Towers " towers above his kind" as a caterer. ®THE INFANT SAPPHO.—The attraction of this extraor dinary little child appears to increase, as the rooms every night present an improved aspect. She is really a natural musical curiosity. She executes all sorts of difficult passages with brilliancy and precision ; and we cannot help comparing her to a miniature edition of a full-sized operatic artiste. Her action and manner are essentially dramatic, and she gives expression to tender passages very charmingly. She is really a prodigy, and possesses remarkable powers for so young a child. Tar. CAeENHURST ROBBERY. —On Saturday, John Miihar, who has been sevetal times remanded on the above charge, was brought before the magistrates at the Birkenhead police -court on Saturday, and finally committed for trial. Evidence was furnished to show that he was in company with the Men already committed on the morning after the robbery, that he was seen with them at Bridge-end, and in the direc tion in which Boughy so fortunately fell in with them ; it was also proved that when taken into custody by Chapman, about six o'clock, his clothes were very much saturated with wet. Under these circumstances, the bench deemed it right to send him for trial. THE WEATHER.-It is somewhat remarkable, that while for some months violent storms, destructive of much life and property, have been experienced in almost every part of Europe, and her coasts, including more recently the east of England and the west of Ireland, as well as some time back, the Cape of Good Hope, the Madeira Islands, &c., we have in this locality enjoyed a delightful and prolonged summer and autumn, ar.d a winter, (so far as it has yet run its course) with but slight exceptions, unusually moderate in winds, and mild in atmosphere. Saturday last was rather an exception, as torrents of rain, accompanied with a raw and truly November wind, continued to fall during the morn ing, the day, and the succeeding night. Sunday and yester day was, however, fine winter days, though rather cold, ex cept for active pedestrians ; and last night the streets—before drenched and washed, were dry and comfortable, and the air agreeable—though of that sharpness which is the usual pre lude to a slight frost. STATE OF TRADE.—The cloth-market at Manchester is represented as having been very brisk last week, with an ad vance of 3d. per piece on printing cloth. The yarn market there is quite firm as to price, though perhaps a little quieter in demand. The drapers are giving their orders freely. At Bolton there is a " decided improvement" in counterpanes, quiltings, fine muslins, and power-loom cloths. All the mills at work are i❑ full employ. The markets at Leeds are represented as dull, the principal demand being for coarse winter cloths of inferior description. At Halifax there was an average attendance of buyers, and fair business done. On Thursday, the attendance at Bradford market was large, and plain fabrics were bought freely. The yarn market was more active ; and in the wool market the spinners purchased cautiously. GAS METERS.—A paragraph has been going the round of the papers, stating that the gas meters in use at present robbed the consumer of 100 feet of gas out of every 1000 said to be consumed. Mr. Crossley, a manufacturer of meters, in London, having been written to by Mr. E. Unwin, of the New Gas Company, on the subject, that gentleman in reply says, " A similar thing was stated, 15 years ago, in a Liver pool paper; a paragraph was immediately inserted inviting any person who doubted the accuracy of his meter, to bring it to the works, and see it tried by a gas-holder, the contents of which any one can ascertain—this settled the question at once. Every meter is tried before it leaves my manufactory, but it is more to see that every chamber is sound. I have no doubt of its accuracy. A meter never robs the consumer; it never goes without gas to turn it ; it may, if imperfect, stand still, and let the gas pass unregistered, and so rob the company." ALLEGED THEFT OF WHlSKEY.—Yesterday, three men, Archibald M`Goughin, Henry Cosgrove, and John White, were brought before Mr. Thomas Booth, at the Police-court, (Mr. Rushton being absent), on a charge of having abstracted a quantity of whiskey from some casks at the Clarence-dock. A police-officer stated, that at about four o'clock that morn ing, the first-named individual asked him to have a 'glass of grog with him, which he declined. He suspected they had some spirits about them, particularly as he saw Cosgrove coming from a part of the quay where there were soms casks on the quay. The third prisoner was drunk. He watched them, and finally found in the possession of the two first named, two common bottles, a stone and a pickle-bottle, .containing, in all, two quarts of spirits. M`Goughin was watchman to the Glasgow steamers that came to Mr. Brebner, and Cosgrove was a hand employed in one of them. He did not see the other man near the casks.—The watch man said that he had asked Cosgrove to bring him two bottles of whiskey from Glasgow for his own use, and that he did not take the spirits from the casks.—As the owner of the whiskey was not in court, and it had not yet been ascertained whether any, or what, defalcation of the contents of the puncheons was discovered, the prisoners were remanded until this day. ON THE POWERS ON LIFE IN HEALTH AND DISEASE.— " Health is a blessing dropt from Heav'n, Which money cannot buy ; The Life of Life : the Body's peace And pleasant harmony.' By an Eminent Divine. The powers of life are maintained in that relation to each other which constitutes health, the exhausting influence of external agents, being counterbalanced by the nourishment afforded through the instrumentality of the stomach and its subordinate organs—that vast laboratory, where to a mecha nical action NATURE superadds her vital influence, and elicits a compound to effect her ultimate purpose—the NU TRITION of the BODY. Thus evenly flows the stream of 'health—yet, when from irregularity and excess either of mind or body the organs become weakened, Nature's purpose re mains unaccomplished, and that disturbance of functions arises, producing an interminable chain of morbid symptoms of the BILIOUS and NERVOUS character. To remedy this latter state, and to enable the digestive organs to recover their lost tone, by relieving them from oppression and regu lating their secretions, Mr. COCKLE'S FAMILY ANTIBILI OUS PILLS are confidently recommended, having received the flattering approval of Sir Astley Cooper, Mr. Abernethy, and many other distinguished members of the medical pro fession, as well as having stood the test of public opinion for more than a quarter of a century.-IS, New Ormond street, London. If you are in possession of better means, " Candidly inform me ; if not, make use of these."-- BORACE.—See Adv. HOUSE-BREAKING.-At the Police-court yesterday, a rather well-dressed man, named John Moore, was placed be fore Mr. Booth (the sitting magistrate in the absence of Mr. Rushton), on a charge of breaking into a house in the absence of the tenant. Miss Sharples said she kept a tobacconist's shop in Slater-street, where she also resided. About three o'clock on the previous afternoon (Sunday) she went out, locking up, and leaving all safe. No one was left in the house. The back window was secured by a snap, and had no shutter. She returned about eight o'clock in the evening, and found the outside door as she had left it, but the inside door had been secured by some one. Police-officer Sharpe was near, and gave her some information which led her to examine the back window, which she found had been forced. —John Horrocks, a working jeweller, said that he lived in a court at Wood-street. Between four and five on Sunday af ternoon he was told by his wife that some one was about the last witness's house, and he accordingly went up into the garret, and in about ten minutes saw the prisoner go up to the back window of Miss Sharples's house. He ran down instantly, and found the prisoner in the yard. He (witness) asked him what he wanted there, and he made no reply, but pushed and struck him in attempting to get away. The pri soner ran along Wood-street. The back window of Miss S.'s house was forced open before witness went up to the garret. The prisoner was seen to run up into a stable-yard in Wood-street, where he was found, by the police-officer who came up, concealed under a cart. No property was missed from the premises broken into. A chissel was afterwards found, which fitted the marks found on the back window. The prisoner declined to say any thing, and was committed for trial at the sessions. THEATRE-ROY/U. — ln consequence of illness, Mr. Wal lack did not appear on Friday night. " The Ransom " was substituted, in which Mrs. Seymour played Pauline with great taste, feeling, and expression. " The Miser's Daugh ter " is an adaptation by Mr. Stirling of a story which we have frequently noticed in the STANDARD as running through the pages of Ainsworth's Magazine. Mr. Stirling has con trived, with much ability and knowledge of stage effect, to bring before the spectator the leading portions of the story, and give an interest in the various characters introduced. The scenery and tableaux are extremely beautiful, the groups being copied from the plates designed and executed by Geo. Cruikshank : in fact, we see on the stage the exact repre sentation of what the plates present to our notice. Amongst the most striking are the scene at Ranelagh Gardens—that which takes place at Vauxhall Gardens—the delivery of the letter by Randulph Crew to old Scarve—the scenes in the miser's garret—his death—and the attack upon the old mill. Of the acting we may particularly notice the talent with which Mr. Stirling does the miser (to be played in future by Mr. Addison, in consequence of Mr. Stirling's other engage ments). It is a repulsive character, but Mr. Stirling softens it down as much as possible. The scene in which he signs his will in favour of Frewin was extremely well played. Miss Cleaver's Hilda Scarve is graceful and natural—like every other character undertaken by this excellent actress — it is replete with pathos and feeling. Miss Cleaver at all times appears desirous to make the play go well, as far as she can influence it, and never loses sight of the author's intention. Jacob Post, by Mr. Nantz, is just the sort of line of business in which he shines ; he makes a character of it—perfectly original. Mr. Nantz's light comedy we like but little—his tragedy worse: his strange voice being ill suited to the first, while his very odd readings perplex us in the latter. But in such characters as Jacob Post, Long Tom Coffin, Mantilini, and Canterbury Torn (in " Maximums and Speciments"), he stands, as far as we can look around, quite per se; and, if any one of these characters were represented by him on the metropolitan boards, he would be stamped a favourite without delay. It appears as if fate prompted him to adopt the stage as a profession, for the especial purpose of filling such characters. His Jacob Post gave us a capital idea of the blunt, honest serving man. His grief on finding the old miser dead amidst his treasures shows what Mr. Nantz can do in the pathetic, connected with domestic life. Mr. Cooke as Abel, and Mr. G. Lunt as Trussell Beechcroft, looked their characters well; while Beau Villiers was well lisped and ambled through by Mr. Chaplin. Miss Gardner cre ated much amusement by her drollery and assumed affecta tion as Thomasine Deacle, and was well supported by Slaiter as Peter Pokerich. " Last, though not least," was Mr. W. J. Hammond's Crackenthorpe Cripps, which caused plenty of fun for those fond of laughing. The masquerade scene at Ranelagh Gardens—in which he appears as Harle quin to Miss Gardner's Columbine, Slaiter's Clown, and Jonas's Pantaloon—was very drolly acted. Miss Gardner In this scene sings very archly a song about " old bachelors." Those who have read the story will see the drama with much pleasure. It is extremely well got up, and reflects credit on Mr. W. J. Hammond for producing it so carefully and with such good effect, not only as to scenery, but to costume, which is " quite correct " to the time. MUNIFICENT BEQUEST.-Mr. Robert Malcolm has be queathed the sum of £l,OOO, to be paid, at the demise of his wife, to the Royal Naval School at Camberwell, to found a scholarship or exhibition, to be entitled the " Malcolm Exhibition." TRIAL BY JURY.—When Trim was asked by Dr. Slop what was meant by " honouring his father and mother," the honest corporal's reply was, "Allowing them 2d. a day out of my pay, an't please your honour." Sir Francis Burdett follows this practical lesson ; although he does not attend the dinners to celebrate the triumph of " trial by jury," and toast the memory of Horne Tooke, Hardy, &c., he allowed Hardy a pension from the time of his trial to his death, and he still generously continues a pension of £5O per annum to Hardy's widowed sister. It is paid regularly, is her only means of support, and furnishes the old lady with a neat cottage, and every comfort, in her native place near Falkirk, Stirlingsbire. LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT' OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting of the Liverpool Operative Protestant Association, was held in the Music-hall,. Bold-street, at seven o'clock last evening. The room was completely filled, and the warmest enthusiasm was manifested by the auditory. On the motion of Mr. John Howard, seconded by Mr. Crisp, John Middleton, Esq., was called to the chair. The proceedings having been opened with prayer, • The CHAIRMAN, after a feW preliminary remarks, ex pressed his regret at being obliged to state, that much disap pointment had been experienced with regard to this meeting. It would have been presided over by the invaluable patron of the society, the Rev. Hugh M`Neile (cheers); but he was sorry to say, that the rev. gentleman was confined to his room by a very severe cold ; and they would agree with him in s tying that it must have been severe indeed which would deprive him of the pleasure of meeting his operative friends on this occasion. (Loud cheers.) He (the chairman) trusted there was not one present in the assembly who would notjoin in the earnest prayer that the rev, gentleman might soon be restored to health and strength. (Renewed cheering.) He had also to state that the Rev. Mr. Baylee, who was to have attended, had been suddenly called away to Dublin, by the alarming illness of his mother; and the Rev. Mr. Bar rett, of Birmingham, was engaged in forming a Church In struction Society for the young men of his congregation •, so that neither of those gentlemen could attend. The Rev. Brabazon Ellis had been invited, but he was unable to avail himself of the invitation. He had also to observe, that troubles did not come alone, for they had not amongst them a single clergyman. This was to be regretted, but it was unavoidable, inasmuch as there was a clerical meeting that evening at the house of the Rev. Mr. Parry, upon particular business. (Hear.) The chairman concluded by saying, that able substitutes would be found for the gentlemen who were absent in Mr. Brindley and the speakers who would be in troduced to them. (Cheers.) Mr. GLEAVE, secretary to the society, then read the an nual report of the committee to the subscribers and mem bers, which, after noticing that the exertions of the associa tion have been very much crippled through want of funds, states that a tract committee, to distribute weekly tracts connected with the controversy, has been some time in ex istence, and that considerable eagerness is manifested by the receivers to obtain them. A reduction in the annual sub scription is recommended from 2s. to ls., in two half-yearly payments, which will entitle the members to all the privi leges of the library. The library has been removed from Elliott-street to Mr. Crisp's office, 20, Slater-street, and the subscribers can exchange books every Friday evening, from seven to nine o'clock. The report goes on to state, that if ever Protestant associations were needed, it is at the present moment, when a Jesuits' college and a nunnery are about to be established in this town ; and concludes by no ticing the benefit likely to result from the scriptural educa tion now disseminated amongst the children of the poor, and by stating the objects the association has in view, viz., spreading the principles and truths of the immutable Word of God through the length and breadth of the land. Mr. CntsP next read the treasurer's statement, from which it appeared that, after defraying the expenses, there remained a debt of £4O against the society. A considerable portion of the receipts had been accumulated by small donations and subscriptions, procured by a few active individuals taking each a collecting book. In continuation, Mr. Crisp ob served, that the treasurer's statement chewed what might be done by the combined exertion of even a few individuals. The large sum of £l6 had been collected in pence in this way, and he trusted it would go on. They could not chrry on their efforts without money ; and they must recollect that influential parties would not support them unless they were asked. He concluded by announcing donations from Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Beley, Mr. C. S. Parker, Mr. Jas. Parker, and Mr. John Howard. _ Mr. JOHN HOWARD moved the first resolution, which was to the effect, that the report be printed and circulated under the direction of the committee, and that the officers of the society be reappointed. The society had his most cordial wishes for success in the great cause which they had undertaken. There were some who were becoming luke warm, because the society could no longer be used as a political engine. They should remember that its objects were of a higher character; that it was aiming to preserve to ourselves and to our posterity the blessings which, through the grace of God, were obtained for us at the Reformation (cheers) ; it was aiming to counteract the evils of Popery, by every proper and peaceable means in its power. The society knew the tricks of the enemy—that he could be smooth-tongued and plausible when he had an object to gain ; but when he was in power, nothing but supremacy., would satisfy him. This had been proved even in our own town. Who would have thought that in Protestant Liver pool the health of his Holiness the Pope would ever have been proposed immediately after the health of our most gracious Sovereign ! (Cheers.) Not only was that so, but the most abominable of all societies was introduced here ; and a well-known character from the other side of the water had dared to profane the air of Liverpool with such a cry as " Hurrah for the Jesuits." (Hear, hear.) These were signs of the times; and he would ask his Protestant friends whether these were days in which to sit with their arms folded, doing nothing ? Whilst we were sleeping, the enemy was sowing tares •, it behoved us, therefore, to be upon the watch for the safety of our Church and the Bible. Mr. Howard then passed a high eulogium upon the zeal, earnest ness, and ability which Mr. M`Neile brought to this contro versy, and said he was convinced that this Protestant com munity had not done enough for that eloquent gentleman. They ought to present him with some public mark of their esteem and gratitude, and thus show to hls assailants, and to that vulgar press which had loaded him with insult and mis representation, that their abuse only enhanced their estima tion of him. (Loud cheers.) In conclusion, he prayed the society might go on and prosper. (Cheers.) Mr. BRINDLEY rose amidst loud cheers to second the re solution. After some introductory observations he proceeded' to contend that there were no reasons, now that the battle was fought and the victory gained, that societies like the present should cease their active operations. It was true that in one sense there was not any very great reason why they should still be active, as they had made Protestants more alive to their interests than they were formerly. There was another reason, which at first sight might appear ade quate—namely, that they had done so much good in enlight ening the public that Popery was not making the head it formerly was. But what was it which had brought about this pleasurable state of things? It was these institutions and associations. Take them away, then, make them less efficient and less active, and how much longer could th point to any good being done in the way of defeating Popery! , On these accounts he contended that it was absolutely essen tial that these societies to be continued. Owing to the con tiguity of this town to Ireland, there were thousands of Ro manists here ; and Popery, therefore, was . more in the ascendant here than in the midland counties. Since, there fore, there was a greater amount of Popery in Liverpool than in most other towns, it never could be said with any propriety that a society which had been the means of doing so much good should now be abolished. He contended that the society was not political in its object, although there was necessarily an enormous deal of what was political in it, because Popery not only struck at our religion but at our constitution. (Cheers.) But let us take religious principle first, and re member that when political conflict had subsided, we had to combat against a religious enemy, or, at least, one who would tak away from us the religion which was revealed to us in the Word of God. These were reasons why we should be more active than ever. The extension of the order of Jesuits in this town was another reason why our activity should be ceaseless, for they were insinuating themselves even into the church, and pretended to take a deep interest in Protestant meetings and in our Protestant institutions. (Hear.) In proof of this, he related the history of the pre tended Archbishop of Tripoli, who had very lately introduced himself to our clergy, and was in communication with them at the same time he was actually engaging in the celebration of mass at a Popish chapel in Chelsea. He then went through a review of the Oxford heresy, contending that it was, as in deed it had been declared to be, a conspiracy to destroy the Protestant Reformation in {this country ; and he expressed his deep regret that the bishops of our church had not more directly and emphatically set their faces against it. One of the tractarians—one of the six by whom the conspiracy was concocted—the Rev. Mr. Fowdes, in his Remains had gone even to the length of advocating transubstantiation and invo cation of saints ! If that was not rank Popery within the church, he did not know what Popery was. (Cheers.) Mr. Brindley concluded a most effective speech by an energetic call upon the meeting to petition against the Popish college of Maynooth. The resolution was carried. Mr. MATHEWS moved the second resolution, which pro posed that a petition be sent to parliament against the Col lege of Maynooth, making some very stringent remarks upon the various doctrines of the Church of Rome. Mr. HARBOARD in seconding the resolution, bore testi mony to the usefulness of the Protestant Operative Associa tion, which, he said, well deserved support, by our time, our means, and our prayers. The resolution was carried. Mr. MEREDITH moved the third resolution, which was seconded by Mr. CRISP, who urged the meeting to use their best exertions in obtaining signatures to the petition for in quiry into the education of Maynooth. Several donations were made in support of the objects of the association, and the meeting separated at half-past ten. The resolutions will be found in our advertising columns. The Liverpool steamer arrived at Falmouth on Saturday. The Duke of Brunswick, on Saturday, obtained a rule nisi for a criminal information against the proprietors of the Age, for the publication of a series of libels upon him during the present year. On Friday last, a public dinner took place to celebrate the return of the present conservative members for South Der byshire. D. S. Davies, Esq., has come forward to represent the county of Carmarthen, in the place of Mr. Jones, deceased. He is a staunch conservative. A correspondent of the London Times very properly pro poses that an act of parliament should be passed restricting the trade of lucifer match making from being carried on in densely populated neighbourhoods. ECLIPSES, 1843.—1 u the year 1843 there will be two eclipses of the sun and one of the moon, the latter only of which will be visible in these parts. This eclipse will be a pariial one, and occur on Wednesday the Gth of December. ALDERMAN T. WOOD AND THE TALACRE MINE. — On Saturday, a full committee of aldermen was held at the Guild hall, London, for the purpose of considering the most advis able course of proceeding relative to the inquiry into the charges made against Alderman 'l'. Wood. Sir P. Laurie moved a resolution to the effect that Alderman Wood be re quested to furnish a statement in writing, detailing the several charges referred to in his request for investigation made to the Court of Aldermen on the 3d instant, and the resolution was eventually earried. Mr. Burns has published a series of halfpenny volumes of a very diminntive size, for the use of very diminutive readers. These tracts consist of little histories, descriptions of wonder ful works of art and nature, moral tales, and such like, and form admirable presents for children of a tender age, who will be lured on by them to derive instruction from a source from which at first they seek only amusement. BENEFITS OF RADICAL CORPORATIONS.—Among the items in the bill of the Town-clerk for the borough of Ludlow are :—" To writing a congratulatory address to the Queen, on her rejection of a Tory Ministry, 10s. fid." "To obtaining signatures to petition for vote by ballot, £l. ls." There are many other items of a like kind. It is proposed that the councillors who sanctioned these expenses shall be made to pay them. Vice-Chancellor Sir J. L. Knight Bruce was, on Thurs day, sworn in before the Lord Chancellor, in the Court of Chancery, as Chief Justice of the Court of Bankruptcy. Her Majesty's letters patent were read, by which his Honour is invested with all the rights and authority of the office, but without receiving any additional salary. The patent directs that his Honour is to be admitted to the office without the payment of any fees or tines whatever, and also states that the Right Hon. Mr. Justice Erkskine, late Chief Justice in Bankruptcy, bad formally resigned that office. After his Honour had taken the oaths, the Lord Chancellor presented him with his patent of office. The estimate of the entire value of the manufactures of Great Britain for the year 1840, from statistical tables lately published by Longman and Co., from official documents, stands thus :—Total value of manufactured goods exchanged with foreign countries for their productions, £47,257,766. Value of manufactured goods exchanged for home produce, £133,300,000 ! Thus you see, sir, that so far from " employ ment for the people being only to be found in the ability of the manufacturers to exchange their productions for those of other countries," the whole of the foreign exchanges con stitute but about one-third part of the products of the labour and skill of the population of these countries.—Ten Letters Ito R. Cobden, Esq., M.P., fry a Shopkeeper. WIGAN.-MONDAY NIGHT DARING ROBBERY.—A daring robbery was committed on the night of Monday last, the 14th inst., or early on Tues day the 15th, from the magazine attached to Orrel Colliery. It was perceived in the morning of Tuesday, when the men came to work, that the place had been broken open, and, on searching, it was found that one barrel of blasting gunpowder, six new spades, and 5 lbs. of colliers' pit candles had been stolen. A reward of £2 was offered for the apprehension of the offenders, and police-officers, Smith and Radcliffe. were led to search the premises of an old offender, named Henry Highton, who lives in the Scholes. On searching the bed room the spades were found. and the officers apprehended Highton on the charge on Thursday last. He was brought before John Woodcock, Esq., county magistrate, on Friday, and committed to take his trial at the nest Kirkdale Sessions. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—One of the most melancholy occurrences ever known we have now to record s by which one of our highly respectable townsmen has met with his death. On Friday, afternoon last, Mr. Henry Latham went to the Commercial Inn, and having occasion to go down the yard, went out about five o'clock, in the direction of the re servoir supplying the flour mill of Messrs. Potter with water. It would appear that, after passing through the Commercial hall gates, Mr. Latham went round the enclosed area and through a door at the corner, opening on a passage, along which runs a stream of boiling water from the engine house attached to the flour mill. Shortly afterwards the engineer of the mill heard a scream and loud groans following it, but was some time before he could ascertain from whence the sound proceeded. Guided by the groaning he searched along the channel of hot water, but from the steam arising so thickly on it, he was some time ere he could find the de ceased, lying in the water and almost parboiled. Mr. Lathom was taken into the Commercial Inn, and stripped of his satu rated garments, with which his skin came off when being un dressed. He was conveyed home as soon as possible, where he lingered until Saturday night in a most agonizing state. Mr. L. was a gentleman who bore a high character for his integrity, and was accountant to the Wigan Saving's Bank for a number of years' past. A MATTER OF OPINION.—A good wife, the other day taking up a Manchester paper, said to her loving husband— " This is just as it should be ; the marriages are put before the births. The Guardian always has the births first, and I thing that very awkward." The husband gave opinion in favour of the Guardian, as he thought " people were born before they were married." The wife, however, persisted in the correctness of her views of the matter, and preferred the Manchester arrangement, as it was " a very ugly thing to have a birth before marriage." The deaths, it would appear, were each put in the right place, for they always came last. MOP LAw.—A servant girl named Mary Morgan was re cently brought before the Cheltenham magistrates for run ning away from service. She had been hired at Cirencester " mop" for a year certain on the 17th of October, and went away two days after. Her excuse was, that she " did not like the ways of the house." " Why ?" said the magistrate's clerk. After some coyness, and " because I don't like such ways," came out, " because I had to go through the man's bedroom to my room!" Mr. Ballinger said, "this is a com mon thing in farm-houses." and the girl was sent to North leach gaol for 14 days.— Worcester Journal. THE WORTH OF A LIFE. — .On Sunday last (says the Prepagateur de l'Aube) two young,journeymen, on arriving at the upper gallery of the theatre of Troyes, found only one vacant place, which they both pertinaciously claimed. A quarrel ensued, during which the stouter gave the weaker a push, which sent him headlong into the gallery below, whence he rolled into the amphitheatre. The people present fully expected to find the fallen youth with some of his limbs bro ken, or at least severely bruised. He, however, immediately got up; and exclaimed, whilst fumbling in his pockets— " Diable ! this is very unlucky! " Those around him obser ved that he might have been killed. "Ah bah!" replied he, " I wish that had been the worst of it—l have lost four sous out of my pocket." ROYAL "BICKER."—Among the various presents made to her Majesty during her tour in Scotland, one, and that not the least interesting, which has remained unnoticed till now, was a bicker or quaich, presented to her by the Earl of Mans field during her short sojourn at Scone Palace. The quaich was sent to the earl by Mr. M' Robie, lapidary, George-street, for presentation to her Majesty, who after accepting it, ex amined it cat efully, and expressed her admiration of the in genious manner in which it was fashioned. It was made of 500 pieces of four different kinds of wood, of Scottish growth, and did infinite credit to the artist who put it to ggther, an individual, we believe, belonging to the Carse of Gowrie. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, we understand, partook of dock-an-dhorris out of the bicker, immediately previous to the royal carriage leaving the palace.—Perth Courier. A. JEWISH BARRISTER.—A few days ago a gentleman of the Jewish persuasion was called to the bar by the Honour able Society of the Middle Temple. The gentleman alluded to is Mr. John Simon, LL.B. The usual forms were gone through in the presence of a numerous body of the benchers and banisters, with the exception that the new-made bar risters had to be sworn on the Old Testament, and which sacred volume, written in the Hebrew tongue, had to be sent for. .Another difficulty arose under the followingf circum stances : It is the usual practice in the courts of law for gen tlemen of the Jewish persuasion to take the oaths with their hats ow; but upon this occasion, owing to the size of the wig with which it was necessary that the head of the honour able gentleman should be covered, the hat could not be put on. In consequence the ceremony was gone through with out that customary observance. It is stated that Mr. Simon is the first Jewish barrister connected with the Middle Tem ple. A PARALLEL TO "THE GRAPES ARE SOUR."—A black slave in one of the southern states of the American Union, to whom meat was a rare blessing, one day found in his trap a plump rabbit. He took him out alive, held him under,his arm, patted him, and began to speculate on his qualities. " Oh, how berry fat ! De fattest I ebber did see ! Let us see how me cook him. Me roast him ? No ; he be so fat, me lose all de grease. Me fry him ? Ah, he be,so berry fat, he fry himself. Golly, how fat be be! Den me stew him." The thought of the savory stew made the nigger forget him self, and, in spreading out the feast to his imagination, his arm relaxed, when off hopped the rabbit, and squatting at a goodly distance, eyed his last owner with great composure. The negro knew there was an end of the matter, so, sum moning all his philosophy, he thus addressed the rabbit,— "_You long-eared, white-whiskered, red-eyed rat, you not .aperry fat after all !" NAPOLEON'S OPINION OF A WAR WITH CHINA.—The following extract from O'Meary's "Voice from St. Helena," will be read with interest at this moment :—" ' If,' said Napoleon, alluding to Lord Amherst's embassy ,to China, I had sent an ambassador to China, I should have ordered him to make himself acquainted with the ceremonies per formed before the Emperor by the first mandarins, and, if required, to do the same himself. Now, perhaps, you will lose the friendship of the Chinese nation and great commer cial advantages through this piece of nonsense.' I said,' adds O'Meary, ' that we could easily compel the Chinese to grant good terms by means of a few ships of war ; that, for example, we could deprive them altogether of salt by a few cruisers properly stationed.' Napoleon replied, It would be the worst thing you have done for a number of years to go to war with an immense empire like China, and possessing so many resources. You would, doubtless, at first succeed ,• take what vessels they have; and destroy their trade and cities; but you would soon teach them their own strength. They would be compelled to adopt measures to defend them selves against you. They would consider, and say, We must try to make ourselves equal to this nation. Why should we suffer a people so far away to do as they please with us? We must build ships, we must put guns in them, we must render ourselves equal to them. They would,' continued the Emperor, get artificers and shipbuilders from France and America, and even London ; they would build a fleet, and, in the course of time, defeat you. " NAPOLEON'S COMPASS.—A small compass has lately been offered for sale to the French Government, by a Chevalier Auriol, to which a curious history is attached. This little instrument, which is in a plain gilt case, and of English manufacture, was first sent, with other astronomical instru ments, to Louis XVI. by a descendant of Sir Isaac Newton. It appears that it was afterwards given by the unfortunate Monarch to the Dauphin, who had it with him in prison, and while there gave it a faithful dependent who had tried to as sist him to escape. This party had been at school at Brienne with Napoleon, and accompanied him to Egypt. There he happened to show the little compass to Napoleon, who ad mired it, and it was accordingly presented to him. Napoleon, on returning to France, and having become Emperor, being, as is well known, superstitious, set great value on the instru ment, had the letter " N " and his imperial crown engraved on it. and made use of it in his campaigns, and never parted with it until his captivity in St. Helena; and then, either considering it as a useless talisman, or as the best means of acknowledging the disinterested kindness of the party, he presented it to Madame Auriol. Marshal Soult is now in treaty with the Chevalier d'Auriol for the purchase of it, with the view of placing this Royal and imperial relic among the other objects preserved in the Hotel des Invalides, as having been about the person of Napoleon. SINGULAR ESCAPE.—The manager of a coal-works near Dundonald, during, last week, had occasion to keep his men closer than usual at work i n one of the pits which was under going some necessary repairs. Previous to leaving home after dinner to go to the pit, he requested his wife to bring some refreshment for himself and the men at work. Ac cordingly she did so, and on arriving at the pit mouth, in sisted on going down into the bowels of the earth to dis pense the good things of this life in propria persona. Her wish was complied with, and down she went in the bucket. and was received by her husband at the bottom, who ex pressed great surprise at her appearance there, and bluntly statet.this apprehensions of her reaching the upper world in safety. The husband and wife got into the creel to ascend, and had been drawn up the shaft about forty feet when the rope broke, and both, along with the bucket, were precipi tated to the bottom. Strange to say, neither of the two were hurt by the fall ; the only injury received was by the woman, on whom the broken rope fell, and slightly ruffled the skin of her neck. The bottom of the pit was boarded over, and the bucket broke two of the planks by the force of its de scent. Had it gone through, the probability is great that we would have had to record an accident of a fatal character, as, beneath the boards there was a continuation of the shaft of about forty fathoms, half filled with water, into which had they fallen they would never, in al: probability, have been got out in life.—Ayr Advertiser. THE WHOLESALE INFANTICIDE IN THE FOREST OF DEAN. — The inquiry into this extraordinary case termi nated on Thursday. Several additional witnesses were ex amined, who gave similar testimony to that which has been already published, and the only difficulty experienced was the connecting the man Thomas Yapp with a knowledge of the crime, it being a rule of law that in no case the confes sion of a criminal be made available against an accomplice, unless corroborated by other•evidence. This, however, has been supplied by the evidence of a man of the name of Wat kins, which shows Yapp, in addition to the circumstances of his having cohabited with the female prisoner during the last ten or twelve years, during which period the murders have been committed, and finding of the bodies of five out of the six infants buried under the kitchen floor, the spot where the female prisoner s a y s s h e b ur i e d them with Yapp's assistance, to have had a knowledge of the situation of the female prisoner at the time she gave birth to her last child. Watkins states that about last Christmas, he being . acquainted w ith Y a pp, was in the neighbour hood of Roardean, and having met Yapp, was invited by him to stay and sleep that night at the house occu pied by him and the female prisoner; he accepted the invitation, and slept in the same bed with Yapp in one room while the prisoner, Frances Bennett, slept in a bed in the adjoining room ; that at about twelve o'clock at night, and from that time until between two and three in the morning, he heard a suppressed moaning. as) of a person in great pain, in the room where the female prisoner was sleeping; that the noise kept him awake till between two and three o'clock in the morning, after which he dropped off to sleep, and did not wake again until about five o'clock, when the male priso ner , Thomas Yapp, got up and went down stairs to get a light, where he appeared to be searching for matches, but said h e could not find any. Yapp then returned up stairs. and went into Frances Bennett's room, but how long he remained there witness could not tell, as he again fell asleep and heard no more. Witness never thought anything more of the cir cumstance, but happening to be in the neighbourhood on Sa turday last, he saw the female prisoner, Frances Bennett, who, in conversation, asked Inm if he remembered sleeping there last Christmas? He replied that he did, upon which she added, " I deceived you nicely that night, for that was the very time when my last child was born." This closed the inquiry, and the jury returned a verdict of " wilful mur der" against both the prisoners, who were fully committed for trial at the next assizes. CORRESPONDENCE TO THE 'WOODSIDE COMMISSIONERS Cunt lutulentusflueret erat, q !zod tonere relies I Most worthy and worshipful Woodside commissioners, If you e'er take a hint from your brother parishioners, I entreat you at once, without any delays, Set about instantaneously " mending your ways"! For with every shower there comes such a flood, (Like O'Connell and Hume,) you " stick fast in the mud No sagacity 's wanting, I'm sure, to remark, That, if bad in the day, 'tis twice wors A hint from a stranger I'm sure You know " those who look on " in the dark ! in won't blame must see " n;ost of the How much worse (for we know that it might come to pass) If some Papist again try to let off the gas! Yes, he must be a Papist—l'm sure I am right; For the Papists, of all, most object to the light I perceived their attempt, but not I , n, , win,g a soul, The best person to tell was, I thought, Mr. Cole! Of course he looked black when he heard of the case, Nor indeed was he slack to proclaim the disgrace. See what beautiful roads HE made outside the town, • And I trust that success will his energies crown. Would you'd get him to mend—what road's worse, in repair Than from Trinity Church. on the left, to the Square ? Unless for our low lands we use High-land kilts, Or, abandoning boots, walk about upon stilts, Our lives are not safe—'tis beyond all endurance — For our " policy " now must be one of insurance If we haste to the boat or back, no matter which, We are oft on the point to fall into the ditch, Or rather the pit, you intend for a bath! Now all this would be saved if you made us a path. To be "Knight a' the Bath" some might think it a bliss, But who'd be benighted in baths such as this? Pray take, sirs, this hint ; for you know, I am sure, That " prevention is ever far better than cure ;" Unless you engage Mr. Pike by the year, To dive after all who perchance fall in here! Out of mercy he jumped into Mersey's pure stream, But (except for a Hero) plunge here he'd ne'er dream.' The road opposite this, and with it parallel, Is alike "ups and downs" —wants repairing, as well. If you take my advice, you'll contract fur the whole, And, to have it done properly, give it to Cole. But don't wait till spring, till the wet shall have dried, Or some wag will, I fear, call the to wn l an d Mud-side ; Pave with Kyanised timber, each pathway and street, And then you'll have " Woodside," and Woodside complete TOUJOURS PRET. Woodside, Nov. 21st. TOXTETH-PARK ROADS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD I beg to call the attention of the proper authorities to the shocking state in which the foot-walks are in Toxteth-park. They are really so dirty that it is far preferable walking in the middle of the road, than getting over shoe top in mud. Representations have been frequently made, hut to no pur pose ; and I assure you that I am only speaking the senti ments of all the pedestrians on that road ; and it certainly is disgraceful to any parties who have the management of public affairs that they have so long neglected their duty. A consi derable sum has been lately spent in levelling the road near St. James's Church ; but if the foot-walks had been attended to, which really wanted improvement, and even a single flag laid down, which would be a great benefit, it would have given more general satisfaction to the rate-payers; and really while the taxes are so great, it is only reasonable to expect something ought to be done. _ Hoping this public application may have a beneficial effect, I remain, Sir, yours, &c., A. RESIDENT THE " MERCURY' AND TUITION TO TILE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD SlR,—The Mercury of last Friday contains some remarks about the salaries given to the masters of church schools. The writer also states, that the teacher ought to be as well paid for his arduous duties as the minister is for service not more important, and much less difficult. The sentiment is in perfect accordance with the high toned liberality and im partial justice so often expressed, and so loudly proclaimed by many of the same party ; but is it in perfect accordance with their practice ? Do they place in their own schools men of greater talent than are to be found in ours? If so; what salaries do they pay them ? Is there one teacher of a free school of the Liberals (?) who gets £lOO a-year ? Or is there any branch of education taught at any of their schools which is not equally well taught at ours? lam not asking what Mr. Yates SAID he " would have taught to the working classes." lam not asking what any one said in the council, or at ward meetings ; but I am asking what is practised ? Where are Latin, and mathematics, and natural philosophy taught? And I would thank the writer in the Mercury for distinct answers to these distinct questions. A stranger, judging from the humane and truly liberal sentiments expressed at anti-corn-law meetings, would think that certain gentlemen—and of honourable women not a few—were most warm-hearted in the spread of knowledge amongst the poor, and that the teachers of their schools were living on the fat of the land. I find, however, that the enthusiasm about the elevation of the working classes is fre quently expended in the effervescence of public meetings, and soon subsides into a smooth milk-and-water level when removed from the public eye; that the knowledge which they are so anxious to disseminate is such as leads to a dis satisfaction with the laws and religion of the country ; and that they give themselves as little trouble about Latin, mathematics, or natural philosophy, as those who consider these branches useless to the working classes; that they pay their • teachers less salaries than are paid to some of our church school masters ; and that the education given in their schools, making some allowance for the show made for the satisfaction of visitors, is in no respect better than the educa tion given in church schools. We have, perhaps, erred in giving the Liberal party too much credit " for their honest intentions," without searching into their mode of realizing these intentions. The comparison between what one party does and what another SAYS ought to be done, is not a fair way to determine their respective merits. The frequency with which such liberalism has been forced before the public, and the importunity with which some men clamoured to get " a good education given to the working classes," induced us to institute some inquiries. The result is such as to satisfy us of the hollowness of these pyramids of morality, and the selfishness and parsimony of these patterns of generosity. — Tours, &c., INVESTIGATOR. London Road, November 21, 1842. " REMARKS UPON THE CONVERSION OF M ALPHONSO RATISBONNE TO ROMANISM." This title is given to an article in the last July number of the Jewish Intelligence, where an account may be found of the great politeness shown by the Pope to a rich Jew of Strasburg, aged 28, who is described as wandering alone through Italy towards the East. It appears that during his sojourning at Rome this young Israelite had " felt himself touched by a profound emotion, which he could not explain, in the church of Ara Cteli, near the capitol ;" that he pos sessed certain objects of interest, such as medals, blessed by his holiness, and ornamented with representations of the Vir gin Mary, as well as other matters equally worthy the adora tion of a thinking being; that having plied these things dili gently with the aid of a friend, who incessantly teazed him with legends, and Roman sight-seeing, and supplied him with proper prayers to the Virgin, he at last brought his efforts to a genuine Roman crisis, and, on the night of the 19th of Ja nuary, to all men be it known, instead of a sleep, he had a Vision,—" a vision of the design which exists on the reverse of his medal." The following day he had another vision, " precisely the same as the design on the obverse of his me dal ;" and here the miracle was completed. We cannot fail to commend the Israelite more or less in this matter,—the reverse and the obverse he had passed in review,—Jews mostly look on both sides of a coin, but we are disposed to find some little fault with the editor of the Intelligence for giving a serious notice of this ridiculous performance, when we need only know the dramatis person& to guess at the cha racter of the acting : the Pope, a wandering Jew, a quantum suflicit of cardinals, Baron Theodore de Bussiere and com pany • the scene being placed in one of the modern Roman temples, well furnished with images of beautiful virgins, equal to so many graces, and with the true effigies of various saints, equal to so many Gods ; so that the stage being good, and the actors well chosen, the thing could not fail to go off well, as the duty as well as the pleasure of the spectators was to attend, to believe, and admire. How, after his vision, Ratisbonne called out " I have seen her, I have seen her," we need not stop to consider, but he is said to have proceeded forthwith, in company with his friend, to relate his short tale before a confessor, sighing for instant baptism, and even martyrdom. The 31st of January was a great festival in Rome, for then Ratisbonne was baptised in the—Jesuit Church, by his reverence the Cardinal Vicar. During the preparatory devotions the young Israelite clasped fervently the rosary which he held in this hand, and gazed on the me dal which was attached to it, as if to derive from it fortitude to bear him through all the events of the day. After the psalms, &c., followed the Cardinal's breathing upon him thrice, to expel demons, the prayers of exorcism, the tasting of " the salt of wisdom," the prostration of the convert in the porch, and his kissing the Cardinal's stole ; then the baptism of water, a sermon, and mass. He was soon after presented to the Holy Father, who received him with expressions of the greatest kindness, and presented him with a crucifix blessed by his own hand. REFLECTIONS.—Many have joined the Freemasons and Other secret societies for the sake of knowing their mysteries, or for that of knowing whether they had any, and I can easily imagine a prying son of Abraham desiring to get behind the sacerdotal veil of Roman performances, and to study the moral and mental curiosities of the Eternal City, on his way to the holy land. After all we would rather give him credit for his sincerity, and suppose that by staring at the sirgin he became sufficiently hypnotized, and really saw both sides of the medal, which could not fail to have a miraculous effect, as we shall readily understand by viewing the matter philoso phically, and recollecting that. he had his first vision when wide awake, on the very night that he could not sleep,—that he saw the reverse first, and afterwards the obverse of the medal, and that plenty of time was allowed for turning the object between the first and the secon d appearances . " After the vision Ratisbonne became quite fanatical," kissed the medal, and called out as before remarked, "I have seen her, I have seen her," and next. i n St. P e ter's was overpowered by the real presence of the sacramental wafer, and displayed too many other items of miraculous condition to allow us to mention them here. It is a pity that moral definitions are not more like certain mathematical ones, that are short and self-evident, for then, perhaps, we might be allowed a concise illustration of this matter, in the expression, that "what is not sense, must be nonsense," and we need not take the trouble to examine whether or no this " miraculous conver sion". were in any way analagous to that of St. Paul, or this ingenious comparison has already been instituted;which re minds us indeed of nothing so much as an expression of Lord Bacon, that, amongst philosophers, some a re distinguished by an extraordinary talent for discovering. resemblances things, whilst others are famous for detec tin g their dissimi larity ; for indeed the Romanists must belong to the former class, who discover that the infidels who accompanied Paul resembled the priests at Rome ; that the sight of the medal was like the sound of the voice ;. that the Strasburg merc h ant was like the apostle of the Gen tiles ; that Gam aliel was the prototype of the Mayor of Strasburg, whose Common Coun cil, no doubt, should be compared to the Sanhedrim of Je rusalem ; nor should it surprise us that men who have the power of discovering such resemblances, should not be able to distinguish between Christianity, which we may call the religion of Jesus, and Romanism, which might well be styled the religion of Mary. X. Y. Z. Loss OF THE WATERLOO CONVICT SHIP.—It appears by a reference to Lloyd's Register of Shipping, that the Water loo stands ./E 1, that is, a second-rate vessel of the first class ; she bad a new deck and la rge re p a i rs i n 1833—bad her damages i repaired n 18 36—refitted, doubled, and coppered in 1839, a n d sundry repairs in 1842. She was surveyed by the East India Company's surveyor in April of the present year, and sailed on her ill.fated voyage i n J u ne last. By the same registerit appears that the Abercrombie Robinson, a vessel lost at the same time and place as the Waterloo, stands on the same let ter with scarcely any repairs.—Globe. S 113,1) GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. VEGETABLE GARDEN-lii-doOr Department Pinery.—Where the flue runs near the tan-bed, the latter is liable to become very dry ; where this is the case, it should be frequently moistened with water, and the plants will also require to be more frequently looked to than those at a dis tance from the flues. Ripening fruit should be set in the hottest part of the house. Grapery.—Houses;containing grapes will now require a little fire-heat during the day, and, if the weather will per:nit, the top lights should be opened a few inches. Remove all decayed leaves from the vines; and cut out the rotten berries as soon as they are observed. Peach-house.---The trees in the late houses may be pruned immediately the leaves have fallen, as the same reasons can not be given for leaving them unpruned till spring that are given for leaving those against the open walls unpruned till that time : the fruit-buds can be discerned as well now, by those having any knowledge of the matter, as at any time. Fig-house, ,, --The temperature of the house should never be allowed to get much below 40 deg., or the figs will receive injury. Those in pots may be removed to any house main taining that degree of heat. Prune and nail vines and other fruit trees as before recom mended. Brush the leaves off the peach and nectarine trees with a new birch broom, and unnail the small shoots. Fig trees will, in some situations, require to be protected. This may be done in a variety of ways, but we prefer gathering the shoots into several bundles, after being unnatled, and wrapping mats round them. Out of doors Asparagus.—Another bed should be prepared the latter end of the week if a succession is required. The frames al ready planted may remain covered up night and day during very cold weather, until the heads begin to appear. Celery.—lt is necessary to take advantage of every favour able opportunity to earth up all that requires it. Rather let it remain as it is than attempt to do so while wet, as it will afterwards rot in a very short time. Cucumbers.—The plants require constant attention in stopping and tying to the trellis. During very dull weather the plants should not be excited to so great a degree by heat and water as in clear weather ; neither should they be allowed to swell off so many fruit at one time. Herb Beds.—lf they are not yet cleaned and done up for the winter, they should be attended to without delay; a slight coat of very rotten dung should be laid on them, for the double purpose of protecting the roots from se4re frost, and to enrich the soil. Lettuce.—The cabbage varieties planted in frames, in tended for winter use, will not require much air if the soil is light and dry ; should they require a little water, give it to each individual plant from a watering-pot without a rose. Never expose the plants to heavy rains. Sea Kale.—A little leaf-mould, tan, or cinder-dust should be laid over the crowns of the plants ; pots may then be set over a portion of the plantation, and be covered with leaves as they are collected : if required for use in a short time, stable-dung should be used. Spinach.—ln gathering the leaves, the beds should be trodden upon as little as possible, as the growth is injured by having the soil so consolidated about the roots ; where it is sufficiently light and dry for the purpose, the surface of the soil should be loosened up. FLOWER GARDEN Slove.—Where plants are placed on a trellis, within two or three inches of the flue, they should be examined carefully every day, as they often want water, althoughlthey appear moist at the top. Very small pots containing plants should never be placed in such a situation. We have before re verted to this subject, and we do so again, knowing that many plants are lost by having the root at the bottom of the pot dried up. Greenhouse and Conservatory.—These departments should now be gay with chrysanthemums, after which forced flowers and autumn-sown annuals will come in. It is too often the case that a quantity of useless plants are harboured here, to the exclusion of those which are far more serviceable for de corations. Pits and Frames.—Commence forcing roses and other shrubs ; smoke them about once a fortnight to keep them clear of green fly ; open the frames containing plants when the weather is favourable, hut never draw the lights off when wet. Beds of choice bulbs should be protected by a coating of leaf-mould ; also cover the roots of erithrinas, alstreomerias, and similar plants. Continue to plant, prune, and dig, as before recommended. LARGE CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION.-Mr. Oswald Milne has just preferred his claim for compensation on the corporation of Manchester, for the loss of fees, not of office, which he alleges he has sustained, and will sustain, as clerk to the magistrates at the New Bailey to the entire of the pa rish of Manchester, in consequence of the Crown having been pleased to grant a charter of incorporation to that place. The claim made is for £34,700, a large sum, doubtless, even if loss of office had been sustained, but which is not the case, as the business of twenty-three out of twenty-nine townships is still transacted at the New Bailey. married man in Scotland was lately advised to rub him self well over with turpentine before going to bed, as a cure for rheumatism, under which he suffered ; and just as his wife had completed the operation one evening, she let the lighted candle fall against his person, in consequence of which his body was instantly enveloped in a blaze. She shrieked aloud, and a person ran to their assistance, who extinguished the flames by wrapping the man in a quilt ; but besides suffering the loss of his hair, &c., he was some time confined to his room, though he is now recovered. The Northern Bee announce that a very important im provement has just been introduced at St. Petersburgh in the manufacture of lamp-gas. This improvement consists in simplifying the apparatus, by means of which this manu facture, which was a very complex and dangerous operation, is rendered so simple that a man of ordinary understanding may learn it in six hours, without being exposed to the slightest danger. The following, according to this paper, are the advantages of this new process, the details of which it does not give;—`` The gas having been extracted from coals, oil, tallow, and all fat and oleaginous substances, the price of tife;gas is diminished by one-half; the execution of the ap paratus on a large scale is very cheap. It is not necessary to compress the gas, nor is there any steam-engine required toimanufacture it. With the old apparatus it took six hours and.alhalf to produce the same quantity of gas as the new apparatus produces in half an hour. The work of four men on the new plan is equal to that of forty on the old one; lastly, the quantity of lime necessary to purify the gas is very inconsiderable." ELECTION OF LORD RECTOR OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. —As we anticipated, the suffrages of the students have been given in favour of the lion. Fox Maule, who, by a gross ma jority of 82, has been returned in opposition to the Marquis of Bute. On Monday, the usual preliminary meeting of both Parties took place in the college; when, according to the Scottish Guardian, the conservatives found themselves in a " decided minority ;" while the Courier, with equal certainty, declared that " two-thirds of the meeting" were the decided friends of the noble marquis, and that there was no doubt whatever of his triumphant election. The meeting was an excessively turbulent one. On Tuesday, at the election, the numbers were as follow : Nationi Glottiani....., PP Transforthiani „ Loudoniani .. „ Rothseiani.... F. Maule. I3ute ... 92 67 ... 23 Majority for Mr. Fox Maule, 82, --- Mr. Pox Maule was thus returned by a majority of all the nations.—Glasgow Argus. A most calamitous event has just occurred in our harbour, and plunged several respectable families of this town into the deepest affliction. Mr. Gaunson, the master of a small schooner that trades between Sydney and Broulee, being at present in port, had invited a few friends to take a sail within the harbour, to see the regatta on the Queen's birthday. The party consisted of Mrs. Francis Gaunson, of Lower George's-street, and her four children ; Mr. J. Smith - add his eldest daughter; Miss Cook; two Misses Crawford, nieces of the Rev. H. Gilchrist, of Campbelltown, and one or two others. The vessel was returning to the Cove at dusk, after cruising about during the day, and had got within a few hundred yards of Pinchgut, when a furious squall caught her, and capsized her instantaneously. Providentially there was a boat in tow, in which some of the party escaped, after being all thrown into the water ; but we regret exceed ingly to state, that the two Misses Crawford, (recently ar rived with their widowed mother from the north of Ireland,) Miss Cook, two of Mrs. F. Gaunson's children, (a son and a daughter,) and Miss Smith. sank to rise no more.—Co/o nial Observer, 24th of May. ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Monday last, as the son of Mr. Armitage, machine-maker, of Ramsey, was returning home between eleven and twelve o'clock, he per ceived a light in a carpenter's shop adjoining his father's pre mises, occupied by Mr. Carter, of Bury, and feeling sur prised that he should work so late, crept to the door and peeped in, and saw a man named Cowling, of Wistow, taking down different articles in the shop for the purpose of removal. On seeing this, young Armitage quietly left, went home, and procured the assistance of his father. They both returned, and on opening the shop door the light was immediately ex tinguished by Cowling, whom the elder Armitage proceeded to take hold of. Cowling made a most determined resistance, I and drew a clasp-knife, with which he threatened and did ac tually cut Mr. Armitage on the forehead ; but the son being close to him he took the knife from Cowling's hand. Cow ilng tried by kicking and other means to release himself from the iron grasp of Mr. Armitage, but all to no purpose. Whilst the struggle was going on the son had fetched the constable of Bury. and the prisoner was at length taken to the Green Dragon public-house in the village, and there handcuffed. The constable and some other parties sat up with him all night, and in the morning the prisone r w as asked to have some bread and cheese, to which he c o nsented. His hand cuffs being removed, b e appeared to sharpen hi s k n if e several times, occasionally eating small p ieces. On th e l an dl a d y turning her head, she sa w the p risone r's hand at hi s t h roat, and having uttered an exclamation the constable's attention was drawn to the pr isoner, and he s uddenly seized his hand and stayed it. As i t was, a lar g e w ound was made in Cow ling's of thethroat, main arteries were sever e d. T h o f great length and considerable depth, but The man is likely to re cover. —Cambridge Chronicle. RAILWAY ENTERPRISE.---ENGLAND TO CHINA.—Thee appointed to the railway from Englan d arrangements sttceoen connected to superintend the prelimi nary . to China, beg to submit to the public the following statement. with the view of forming a provi a si r o r n an al ge c Company to carry out this vast national concern, by shares,f of i• • d 1 ..0 - her :—ln consequence of the ' consist present extreme difficulty at experienced in makingthe voyage to China and India, to gether with the delay and chances of shipwreck, it has been proposed, under to con struct a railway from thence to the Celestial Empire. The plan suggested for the end in view is to penetrate the bowels of the earth through the medium of /tunnel from London to Canto n , passing through the centre of the globe, thus obviating altogether the enormous expense usually incurred in the purchase of land, and avoiding the opposition likely to encountered from hostile nations. _From the report made t o the committee by Sinko Shaft, Esq., the engineer, who has descended some of the deepest wells and sewers in and about the metropolis, and has sounded the earth in various places at the outskirts, there is every reason to believe that the centre of the globe consists of a mass of softest soil, except where intersected by solid rocks of gold and silver, a n d en _ verns of precious stones ; and that from his examination, there is no reason whatever to believe, as some have conjec tured, that the earth is a mete crust, filled in the interior with nothing at all a state of things which would have rendered the cutting of a tunnel through it an expedient of some difficulty. As it is, however, the cutting will be ex ceedingly easy, except where the masses of precious metals and jewels interpose an obstacle ; but inasmuch as this ma terial, when extracted, will be immensely valuable, and, according to the most moderate calculations of our engineer, w ill be many hundred times more than sufficient to cover the entire expense of the undertaking, b u t little fear need be ap prehended upon this point. It is intended that the terminus in England shall be upon the pre • sent site of St. Paul's Ca thedral, London, which, for th e purposes of this undertaking, is to be pulled down. It is calculate) that the journey will be accomplished as soon as the pass engers ge t f rom one t er - Mount Vesuvi ratl way will pass immediately un derus, a station will be erected there, at which trains will stop for the u p rpose of taking in coals and lava, or Cyclops, should there be any residing in those parts. — Punch.