The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-02 00:00:00

PARISH OF LI CONTRACTS WA IRON MANSION THE Public are respe ING (the first of tl INSPECTION ie-stre m Para SE EXHIBITION CHIN TE abc COLI XHIBIT e Arts, Manufs, treat attra, It is als t, A MIC DISSOLVIN G e. a splend a and A a VIEWS, r, A cn ; Six to Hall e, 6d. each. Children unuer Ten years of age Half- past N PATRONISED BY THE ROYAL FAM AND T PRINCIPAL NOBILITY AND GENT.RY OF GREA T BRITAIN AND IRELAND. PRIN GTHORPE'S splendid E XHIBITION of WAX- S WORK FIGURES, Grand COSMORAMIC VIEWS ROCK HARMONICON, &e.. is NOW OPEN for I , spectiou, at the LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREF'" solenaidly fitted up for the purpose. Arti.t eral of J • Spßrs Ur _ Ladies, Gentlemen, and t and its that he has ENTIRE NI gards sp . idshed Inc Haying tame—in fact a ham '---- i c an Exi Ten in the mparison W Open from MUSIC, F BAND ot and Music from I. The Ex r Strauss newest 0 s and G Half-prig ,men, 01 1 e Season Tick ants and Child, wrable, 43. Di :.—=-:----------" WATER CURB ESTABLISHMI 70, MOUNT-PLEASANT, LIVER -,...i no with all fleet ,y Appara .. H RON IC THIS El 1 WS fo B and ,yi-s fitteci urAUT PROL; gent. °f ATHIC --- CUREROP HyD DISEASE, b now Ope: Reside: tiate of * M.D.,Licen and Author of r College of Physii is, Loud f Diseas "Tbe Hydroy ' Treat: TRUMAN, HANBURY, BUX TON, AND CO.'S LONDON PORTER DEALERS are reeveetc.,ii...:_, a ENTENSIVP S•roci , TRIMAN and ►s PORTER Qualktiv a! is consta i TiIiZECT -t N - 9 G . DRA raft D g or O r ANY II ORDERS are also LONDON, for eitlu dADB TC REIGN PORT, A.PPLICATMR.AIor. A - RMIT AGE, CTREET, LIVERP OOL 22, KING- E AGZI4 Also, on SALE, in PORT, SHERD, and TENERIT (Brand PAg' BOND , . R FE (Vido WINE, d o, te, aILA C trA Q 1 Home Con- NEAR PRESTON, I STUD PADDOCKS, LYTHAM 1843._ rl -1 0 COVER THIS SEASON, I Sovereigns, Groom Ten Shilling! Qhithugs', oroughbred Mares Six Halfbred Mares Three le Grey Horse NEW ..rand-dam Fair Ch FASHION, b: Remnant, (sisi rington) was 0 3" . n---:-:t.te Dr On Sir Walter, ou dam Lady Jai P"&"' Toole t of MISS LO was a good five R to n oing places during the ". Whittles, where he t• of the day. The Horse will a ttend Season :—Every Tuesda ' I remain: will remain from ix.. ton, to the Eagle and C from two to four, then Arms► rroa St • Helen's, to Mr sBME~. ursdaY, at Tarlt( 7astle In: WALTON'S VI )ot, W the Talbot Inn, Orm s K Bridge, from eleven to oi Preston, all night Sett Lytham , at Prat, red Stall NEW FASHION, its TiellitUrili Meeting, for 'the best Tborougi. besting Amurath, King of Diamonds, Dra —Da himself a r su e old -.icing. _ 01, s w. t i 'lL .otter. New Pas] [Jo • r if or ket price, stock are remarkauLy Good accomroodat Barren Mares, 7s &mod_ TT .q 7 ILLS &NTI IS M R. cocKi, ; 0 - f Glquc Duke of Grafton Duke of Mancheste Duke of Bedford Duke of Argyll Duke of Beaufort Duke of Rutland Duke of Marlboroug Duke of Bucc Duke of Devo Duke of Suthl Marquis of 19 fl - 00- •I'l/;'cl‘leout Marquis of No Marquis of Aile Marquis of Wi . Martinis of Ab, Earl of Eldon Earl of Harrowby Earl of Minto Earl of Carnarvon of Kinno ' Earl of Errol Earl of Moon. Earl of Darlington Earl of Guildford Earl of Scarborough Earl of Oxford Earl of Thanet Earl of Athlone Ear! of Roscommon Earl Cowper Earl Amherst Earl of Leicester Earl of Gainsborough Viscount Melbourne Viscount Palmerston Viscount Ilowick Viscount Fordwich Viscount Torrington Viscount Acheson Viscount Alford Lord Arundel Lord Hill Lord Plunket Lord -Murray Lord Kinnaird Lord Bentincx LOrd Fitzro Lord Middleton Lord Frederick Gordon Lord Willoughby d'Ere Lord Hay Lord Redesdale Lord Seymour Lord Hartland Lord Western Lord Sy d e nham Lord Du Archbis hop m of Ara Bishop of rha Bishop o f Chester Bi s hop of Bath and We ' Bishop of Norwich Bi s hop of Salisbii- Bishop of Peterboroug And numerous Fatx Mr. COCKLE. ds ana °elm , . -- ESTIMATION o f bit Letter which that gent] " I have or tions of the s ions of i state 0 sl and cons. opportunities of w t. Hon. M. P• J ~. Colonel A., ~ Cust,K•C.H Whea FOSTER, Mr. RYALS ►rHE the 1 ii-e-u- RMANN, M Mr. LE went, but furt I A GEN,TI,.; 1: can not claimed Apply at the Kensai station ca It is u has also t ES can be The masons are heldi )ny of his late r mourning Alter c in depth 1 foot measures. 2 , fe, me material similar panel.. In the cc atifully executed OG. M • J -T- aCdral Sir Fral i'' g.C.13 M.P. Si Gerard Noel, Bar Sir Robert Grant, Bart Henry Blake, Bart. 1 Fludyer, Bart Paxton, Bart. r_ Sir touv Forbes, Sir John ...._ ndrew Agnevr, Bart. Sir A Philip 13.1 r. Broke, K .C.B Sir Sir John Tyrrell, Bart' S i r Henry Smyth, Bart , M.P. ' Wood,Bart,M.P • .12,2,4_ Sir Matthew v Sir John de Bea Si r Thomas B. Mash Sir Sol. Gen Thos.Wilde,M.P. Sir Frederick Pollock, M.P. J. Wildman, Esq., Chilhara 1 Tynte, M.P. l on el Stbthorp, IVI.P I.Del-,‘ Stoke Pa B i,'Olonel Cowell Captain Pechell, Matthias Attwood, Esq Surrey Alderman Thompsou, by Charles Walker, Esq•, r • Mr. Serjeant Talfourd, M.P Mr. Sergeant Ludlow • Yen .Archdeacon of Colcbesti bridge Rev. ofSt.ban Rev. Dr. French , Cambridg, Rev. Dr. Benson nagh Rev. Dr. Birch Rev. Dr. Marsh Robert Renwick, I Is C. Waddy, Esq,, ,LI• ..-....."--, late Bil.r 1. S Olen Miss STOTT, Miss ARMSTRONG, H ERRMANN, Mr. DAVIES ONARD, and Mr. EYTOL;. at the Piano-forte Six pen( to ty it the Music ierved Seats ?OLYTECHNIC EXHIBITION will OPEN, at MUSIC-HALL, BOLD-STREET, OR MONDAY next. rtaininents are too numerous to mention in an_acl- __ particulars may be gathered from imme, which will be extensively circulated. EMAN in this town is in possession of a plan dily EXTINGUISHED, y can be immediately pre ted spreading y aa,• ies name may be obtained at the Standard- 1170UND,aNEWFOVNDLAND BITCH. The Own'er • - -- on giving description, and paying expenses , fore the 10th instant she will be sold. DUKE OF SUSSEX arrangements for the funeral have at length been com and Thursday next, the 4th instant, has been fixed upon as the day on which the mortal remains •of the late ;mistrials prince will be removed from Kensington Palace, tacombs of the General Cemetery at mausoleum worthy of his exalted for their recep thstanding the wish of _the s of their late illustrious Master to the tomb, their offer ties by ti as been declined ween t nobility and the purpose of obtain- Jug which the procession I highness'a remains lying in nvton Palace on Wednesday rs of ten o'clock a.m. sours all persons attired ill be admitted. The preparations for are fast hastening towards completion, be finished by Alon is composed of mahogany, and is covered lk crimson velvet. In length it is 7 feet 5 inches, lches, and in breadth across the shoulders kes. The inside is lined with plain dge.is decorated with a fluted plaiting The outline of the coffin is marked by iple gilt and burnished nails. Each side is ) three panels, formed of triple rows of similar Dei Gratia Brita Fidei De I For( uouu Dublin a Hatchell, Esq., a plea sure in laving . ABERNETHY'S -row. London proper the number of deat grea and in the most acellent fair all times w They are ordinary to Her Serene HESSE HOMBURG, and cine Venders, in boxes, a Let it be especial CARY," in white let This mark of authc dangerous and deleterious im 18, New Ormond-stret SIITHRILLANDSHIR Duke of S and have Siglimentiments w lk-;z7t. PA. _ .11 •TO FA S DOWDAI rIR AN A N KING BUILD: IS NOW. 01 ;Half P. medi- on is a E i v ' f elve Antibi al,) anti 1 JAMES.‘ NOTIC —The late a I had d a know L LIEF of Dis- 1 exqut- upper Part resembling a .v - e - d a royal ducal crowr are, having and chaste ed into three panels. In 'ldle of amostuniqu-E ducal crown, and in the lower a rr r of the Order of the Ga r, having irrounded by the Honi soft qui mal y . pens centre panel will be ras s plate, on which will appe, r the following " Depositum sttissitr Principis Augusti Frederi Ducis Sussexiz Antiqu Honora ssitni Ordinis Cardui Clitoris de Balneo Victoria, niarnm Regime; Oblit die Vicesimo Primo Aprilis, Anno Domini MDCCCXDIII., tis sum LXXII gSPIRACY AGAI t will have eight corner CST THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND le Morning Post, of Thursday, contains a somewhat ,hened correspondence between the Rev. Dr. Hook, vi. I Leeds, and Mr. Hamer Stansfield, an agitating Dissen - who is a considerable manufacturer in that town. This s, in a very marked and conclusive man od and forgery to which the ene nd resort in order to defame her ishment. It shows also Church of Scotland are , n 1 system, either as instigators, or .nd. that th, :o cordially hand-in-hand congenial work of detrac- stated by Dr. Hook, took its rise delivered at wernment. In attack- --- ,„ land, this dissenting agitator made the stated in one of the -Leed ispices of this new school Tot in His name in this several trans- The writer affirms, that ' the rite of aniinist6'ecl. preacb M ,a conven ordained by a the conventicle rites do not bind the parties ; that marriage by the statute law, without the benediction of a priest of the Catholic Church, is, no marriage at all : it is but legalised adulteky.' the Eaablis Strong hsapprobation.) Is that the religiou of tied Church of this country, into whose hands e asked to entrust the education of the rising genera- God forbid ! Oh, let not our legislators, by passing 11, aid and . abet this . proud . assumption of a _priestly example and throw dOwn the rena of conscience—let them not place in Dr. Hook; this . against whom general attick . on the church was more particularly, though covertly, directed, immedi ately wrote to e M a r b . ov S , tansfield, requesting a sight of the tract After some days' delay stausfieldr- containing t Mr. ... returned the following answer, which . we quote in full, as it affords an unmistakeable clue to the real source of the calumn Headingley Lodge, April 21, 1843. ----,—l have delayed replying further to your note of the 15th, in the daily hope of being able to furnish you with a copy of the original tract on matrimony, which I un derstand is in the possession of the Rev. John Burnett, of Camberwell. I have - Written to , him, but have as yet •nQ reply. In the meantime I enclose you a reprint of the tract, and that the original existed and was sent from Leeds, the fol lowing .extract. of a. letter from Hugh Miller, editor and printer of the Witness, on Edinburgh journal, incontestibly proves. " The letter was addressed to a friend who had made inquiry ' I am sorry to find that the Puseyite tract. to which you refer, and which was presented some time since to the readers of the Witness, was cut up into slips by the printers, and can not now be recovered. I can refer, however, to the fact:of its existence to very unexceptionable testimony. It was sent me anonymously through the post-office, under a cover bearing the Leeds post mark, and, before using it, I showed it, among others, to the Rev. Mr. Buchanan, High Church, to Mr. John Hamilton, to the Rev. Mr. Goold, and to the Rev. Dr. Symington. I read parts of it also to Dr. Chal mers.' " " Tile difficulty in procuring a copy arises from the tract not having been published as usual, but circulated•privatelp. perhaps ssist you in your endeavours to meet with one to mention that report ascribes the authorship to Mr. Ward, formerly, I understand, one of your curates ; at any rate of so do le him to contradict` the report if c esirous —I remain,ie,;erelci; Yours respectfully. " HAUER STANSFIELD ley. W. F. Hook, D.D." ' We regret we have not room in to-day's paper for the re ply of Dr. Hook to this singular epistle. In that reply he ex poses most ably the pitiful explanation of Mr. Stansfield. Di. Hook utterly denies, the truth of the allegation that any tract containing the sentiments quoted by Mr. Stansfield, ever emanated from the Leeds clergy, and he as strongly re pudiates the doctrines laid down in the tractlwhich had been ascribed to him. lie further gives a letter from Mr. Ward, his former curate, contradicting in the most distinct terms the statement that he was the author of the tract, or pre- I tended tract. The Edinburgh Post says that the truth of the affair ap pears to be as follows :—Some enemy of the Church of •,lat?d, being aware of the hostility entertained towards it _he violent members of the Church of Scotland, printed a s per containing the assertions quoted - by Mr. Stansfield, as ell as other 'gross misrepresentations • and then forwarded „ l e fraudulent document to the editor of the Witness, as the Ireadiest recipient of such calumnies. The editor appears., then; to have communicated with his advisers, Messrs. 13,1 7 chanan, Hamilton, Goold, and Dr. Symington, and also Dr. Ili:tiers, who appear all to have thought it a cap it al ground was . gtven to the world clai;ed with their other proofs of the alleged popish tendencies of the Episcopal Church. The same weapon seems to have been equally acceptable to the Socidians of Leeds ; and Mr. Stausfield, finding it sd paraded in the Witness, attempted to turn it to his own ac- There appears, indeed, to be a regular manufactory )f falsehoods and slander's against the Chureli'tif England, - , t , -;‘..tinns nowhere find a readier market than for attacking forg the Church of THE 16:N the Commis .SIIIP OF ers of 14; icciaenrs ma v.. A n clause in the act of Parli t compels the railway companies to give returns of a ----• ;nts of a public nature, unattended with personal injur arsthat there th of rail 3 rncrt now 1 29 miles railways amounted to 18453,60 The number of pas seneerS carried upon lift ,t.class pass. 9213;98 0 w mounted t . third-class stinguished. ross receipts fro following are lines upon whic exclusive of stoppages r hour ; Great Wes the trains :—North- a,33, dit : Nortb-Midland les per hour )44h`14 Mr. W.. Roper, temperance lecturer, wag mobbed and brick-batted at Owens Station, Missouri T 'a few weeks since. He escaped with , his life. Letters from Champagne state, that, in consequence of the njury done to the vines by the late frost, a considerable rise a place in the prices of wines Count Gilbert de Voisins, whose serious illness we have announced, died yesterday.—Paris paper. [This gentleman was Taglioni's husband.] A new church is now in progress of erection in Vienna. he interior of which is to be decorated with fresco paintings, •epresenting scenes from the Crusades. The Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem has obtained from the authorities of Bevrout permission to go on with the building of the church he had commenced in the Holy City. The subscriptions towards the in_ relief fund. paid into the hands of the commander-in-chief by the na tional guards of Paris and the Banllene, amount to 87,342 f. A grand bull-fight took place at Madrid, on the 17th ult. No remarkable accident, says a Madrid letter, occurred, but 15 horses were killed. • ,Several persons. having been lately poisoned at Bayonne and St. Esprit by eating mussels,: the municipal authorities have issued an order suspending the sale of this shell-fish'. On Palm Sunday the Bishop of Gibraltar, assisted by seven clereymen of the• Church of England, consecrated the new Protestant church at Athens, in presence of the Duchess of Oldenburg, the queen's sister, and a number of English residents and travellers. By advices from Alexandria we find that the Pasha of Egypt has acknowledged the receipt of a gold medal voted to him in London for his keeping open the li‘dian route during the perplexing year 1840, and for the protection which he has afforded to Englishmen. Y . THE SOMNAUTH GATES.—We must not forget to an nounce the removal into the magazine this morning of the Somnanth gates. The only observations we have heard either froni Hindoo or Mussulman during oar stay here, has been a surprise at so much fuss being made about a couple of maunds of rotten old - wood. The trappings for this piece of foolery will, from what we have seen of them, very probably cost some 2500 rupees.—Delhi Gazette. CONVERT FROM JUDAISM.--Of Easter-day the interest ing ceremony of the public baptism of a converted Israelite, Mr. Henry Friedberg, of Kalish, in Poland, was celebrated in the parish church of Binegar, Somerset, agreeably to the injunction of the Special Commissary of the Diocese, acting for - the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. The holy rite of baptism was administered by the Rev: James Mules. THE REvoLuTtolsr IN HAYTI.—By accounts which have been received at FalmOuth, we learn that on the 26th ult. every thing was in perfect tranquility at Port-au-Prince. The Patriot army, in two divisions, consisting of about 14,000 men, had entered Port-au-Prince under the command of the two generals, Herald Rivere and Lazarre. The inhabitants had appointed a Committee of Public Safety for the main tenance of order, and for the protection of persons and pro perty, pending the election of a new president. A gentleman . who has just landed from the Hector mentions, that it was a most agreeable feature of the revolution in question, and alike creditable to the principals and subordinates, that the most perfect order and good feeling prevailed, aud 'was likely to continue, the better government of the country appearing to be the sole object of the change. This will be most satis factory to parties in England having connexions in St- Domingo. The same gentleman also communicates, that to his certain knowledge Boyer, on his departure in the Sclla man-of-war brig took no more specie with him among all his family than 50,000 dollars. A nen POINT.—One of the principal clerks in the office of the Minister of the Finances some time since sent a secretaire to a cabinetmaker to be repaired. After a lapse of two days, he recollected that, in his haste, he had left a quantity of money in a secret drawer, and immediately went to the cabinet-maker, who told them that he had not yet ex amined it. Upon this, the owner opened the secretaire, and, pressing the miring, discovered that his treasure , was gone. The cabinetmaker having denied that he had taken anything from the secrelaire, the gentleman went to the commissary of police of the quarter, who, with one of his officers, searched the premises of.the cabinetmaker, and very soon discovered 3,000 f., partly in bank notes, enclosed in a Russian leather pocketbook, and the rest in gold, contained in a silk purse, corresponding precisely with the account of the loss previ ously given by the owner to the commissary. The cabinet maker now attempted to justify himself by stating, that as he had been told before he removed the secretaire that it had been completely cleared out, be supposed this money had be longed to some previous owner, and that it became the right of the first finder. This plea was not held good by the com missary, and he sent the cabinetmaker to the prison of La Force, to answer for his fraudulent conduct. AN ODD RENdoNTRB:—The Gazelle des Tribunaux gives the following :—" A strange scene took place on Friday last at the' promenade of Longchamps. A hanflsome cali:che passed along, containing a lady, said to possess great dramatic talent, and anxious for an engagement, and a young man with black moustachios, who paid the greatest attention to his beautiful companion. Suddenly a lady, on a beautiful chest nut mare, of great value, rode up to the vehicle, and peered in 'very rudely for a few seconds. The young man seemed Overcome •with alarm, and the would-be actress grew pale through her rouge. The appearance of the horsewoman, on the contrary, was highly animated, and anger sparkled in her eyes. After continuing her survey for about a minute, she suddenly raised her riding-whip, and, with a vigorous arm, struck the gentleman and the lady across the face, leaving them both well marked ; then flinging her card into the car riage, she rode off at full gallop. This was only the first scene of the adventure. The second took place on Monday, in the Bois de Romainville. Two elegantly-dressed women arrived nearly at the same time in cabriolets, and at once proceeded to business. ' I have the choice of weapons,' said the lady that had, been- struck, and I suppose you are not •nisious than I to have seconds in what is about to take haughtily replied the other, lam entirely at You took from me a friend, whom I did not wish to leave to you without the striking accompaniment, which you may remember.' 'Oh ! you mean the horse whipoirm Why, yes, I certainly do, but -I did not like ' Don't put yourself under any restraint, —., replied the other, for I swear to you that, before cwo minutes are over, the word will not produce any greater effect on you than on me.'- .Saying this, she. opened. her dress, and taking from under it a thick and heavy whip, com menced belabouring the other with all her force. The origi nal assailant, bruised and covered with blood,-was'on the point of sinking to the earth, when one of the woodmen, attracted -by her criesi.catne up and rescued her; The two combatants were taken before the Mayor, who was ungallant enough to forward them to Paris under escort. The third act of the piece 'is to take place, we are informed, in the Correctional Tribunal. If so, we shall give- an account of It." • your orders usini the word THE SUGAR TRADE (From the Times.) The merchants and others connected with the sugar trade . have lately directed much attention to the statistics of this important article of, their commerce. The result of labours undertaken with a view of throwing light on the matter, and of presentlhg in a condensed form-information which has only existed in a scattered state, has already been printed ; but the wish is 'generally expressed, that it should be more extensively circulated. The fact shown by this information is, that the consumption of sugar has not advanced in the' same proportion as the increase of population ; while at the same time the value of the colonial trade in sugar, both to the revenue and to the shipping and commercial interest, is set forth in a very clear point of view. Thus it is found that in 1840 the quantity of sugar imported into this country was 4',035,854 cwt., and the quantity exhorted was 229,511 cwt. of raw sugar, and 235,018 cwt. of refined. By the importa tion employment was given to nearly 141,000 tons of shipping from the West India, to 30,000 Mauritius, to 26,000 from Bengal, and to 36,000 from other countries, and employ ment was given to about 23,000• tons of shipping sailing to various parts. These large amounts, of course, represent a quantity of employment to the various clssses connected with shipping, besides the labour expended in the manufacture of the article. The revenue derived from sugar was £4,449,033 in 1840. £5,049,189 in 1841, and £4,884,415 in '1842: The great importance of this trade of course renders its manifest decline a matter of anxious solicitude, and it is ascertained - by tabular statements, that although in the ten years ending in 1841 a larget quantity of sugar was consumed than in the ten years ending in 1831, the increase has been below the average rate, notwithstanding the increase of population has exceeded the average. In the years 1838, 1839, and 1840 the quantity retained for home consumption was below the ten years' average, and it appears perfectly clear that sugar be comes more and more inaccessible to the poorer classes. Other tabular statements have been furnished, which show the decline of consumption in parallel order with the increase of prices paid. From 1831 (which was a slave-labour year) the price, which was then 475. Sd., steadily advanced to 7.15. 2) 2 d. which is the average quotation for 1840, a decline - taking p lace in 1811 to 655. 3Ad. Under all the circum stances thus briefly set forth, great anxiety is shown for some method of obtaining sugar at a cheaper tate, without, at the same time, encouraging the slave-trade. ALARMING ACCIDENT TO MR. BRUNEL.—We deeply regret to state that this distinguished gentleman is at present in a state of extreme suffering, not exempt from serious dan ger, (at his house ih London) in consequence of a goodnatu red endeavour to amuse the children of a friend. The father and Mr. Brunel, pretended, by sleight of - hand, to pass money froin the mouth to the ear, and vice versa, when Mr. Brunel, plicing a half-sovereign in his mouth, it unfortunately slip-• ped into the trachea, where it stuck, and every effort to remote it proving ineffectual, Sir B. Brodie has been called in,.and an operation, by making an incision in the thorax, wa* determined upon. This critical operation was performed wit remarkable skill and precision, by Sir. B. Brodie, assis ted by three other eminent surgeons. Very little blood was last by the incision in the windpipe, hut coughing and irrita:- tion supervened in such violence that the forceps could not be 'Used, and the hall-sovereign still remains in the trachea. The orifice of the ineision, however, is kept open, and Sir wile 'speaks favourably' of the case, trusts that the substance may be evtracted. The operation occupied a ctinsidei . able time, and Mr. Brunel endured his sufferings with remarkable fortitude. We are happy to state, as the latest intelligence we have received, hopes are entertained that the coin will be extracted when the irritation subsides, which will probably be in a day or two.—Bristol.Journal. —LIThe London papers of yesterday state that another oper ation will he performed in a day or two, and that the medi cal gentlemen are not without hopes of success.] BowN.—This singular individual, who for a series of years was considered one of the curiosities of Matlock, still lives, but• in wretchedly reduced circumstances. The visiter.of Matlock of from fifteen to forty years since will not fail 'to remember Phoebe, her singular mode of dress, consist ing:partly of male'and partly of female attire, from its very oddity attracting general .attention. Phoebe herself was, ,hoWever, a far greater piece of singularity than her dress, and when we mention a few only of her daily avocations, this /ill easily be believed. Shelves reckoned an expert breaker of horses intended for the use of ladies, and possessed be sides a knowledge of agricultural affairs in general, consi derable skill in .the, selection of live stock, and her opinion in the department of cattle breeding was frequently'required. Pli4be was enthusiastically attached to music, nor was her knoWledge in this branch confined to one instrument alone. She, was a pleasing,, if not a very scientific, performer on her favourite instrument, the flute, and was almost equally at home on the harpsichord and violoncello, on which instru ment she accompanied Abe - choir. at, Matlock Church for several years. ' From a comfortable little independency, the ' oor dame in declining. years became chargeable to Mat towloc parish, and she still occupies a poor cottage at'Matlock f . Thoebe is (to use a „word recen t ly de s ignated in the Ho se of Lords as " very learned") a decided monomaniac, her mania being, however, of a very harmless description, and consisting chiefly in the belief that she is able to perform .;tes. by , means of witchcraft, these miracles relating chilly to the discovery of hidden treasure. She. has latterly, however, got hold of a new crotchet : --namely, that she shall die qn the 4th' of May, and some we e k s ago, on a lady and.. gentleman of acquaintance calling on her, and attempt ing to ridicule the prophecy, she produced a suit of ;grave clothes of a peculiar fashion, which she" had recently made up for herself in anticipation of the event whicli she so posi tively prognosticates., She, however, in this instance dis played a Want"of the tac t so frequently accompanying certain, j; played degr a esonfeinc femaleanit Y asgaar l i r e g nt, wi w th hie b l e i r sh sh d ro in u f ti mo & e c 4 ., tsilliee'ldaids ,,, 29, she had just completed, and which, thqigh of coarse material, I Ke spee d, ( ex . was i eautifully made, and from its texture calculated to wear a length of time. —Derby Mercury. •- • -- • - - Ottriifi Oveßtoino HOUSE OF. LORDS—THURSDAY. The Duke of WRLLINGTON, in pursuance of notice to that 'effect, moved for an address of condolence to her Majesty on the lathented death of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex . . The address was agreed to. HOUSE OF COMMONS—TIIURSDAY, Mr. LANE Fox gave notice that, on the 11th of May, he would call attention to the agitation in Ireland for the pur pose of procuring a repeal of the union, with the view of Jutting a stop to it. Mr. MACKINNON moved for a select committee to ascer .ain the revenue, expenditure, and condition of the harbours tnd lighchouses on the coast, from the mouth of the Thames to Portsmouth. Mr. CunTats seconded the motion. Major BERESFORD moved as an amendment that the in quiry be extended from Languard Fort to Portsmouth. Sir R. PEEL said that th e selection of the sites, and all other matters connected wi t h harbours of refu g e, should be w i t i ons would be made to extend it to other parts of the coa s t, and left to the Gove rn ment. If th e y were t o ent er u p on the pre sent inquiry prop they would ultimately find that they had entered upon a n interminable inquiry. After a few •words.from Mr. A. CHAPMAN the house divided, and the motion was negatived by a majority of 79 to 34. Lord WORSLEY moved for returns of the fees received by clerks of petty sessions in England and Wales; and also of the number of convictions during the last three years, and to what purposes the fines had been applied; also similar re turns respecting fines paid on convictions before justices.— The motion was agreed to. Mr. JEuxis obtained leave to bring in a bill for improving the proceedings in the supreme courts in certain actions for amounts not exceeding £ 2O . Lord ELIOT moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend and continue the laws relative to the registering of arms, and the importation, manufacture, and sale of arms, gunpowder, and ammunition in Ireland. Leave was then given to bring in the bill, and the house adjourned Tiiii4Tfiß.4oV4Ti f TAVIMiIt/Oi SJCQND NlOll7 , OP MR. CHARLAS T HIS EVENING, TUESDAY, May 2nd, the Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth Mr. Charles Kean. To conclude with the Fairy Extravaganza of THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. TO-MORROW (Wednesday), MACBETH Mr. C. Kean. With a favourite Afterpiece Macbeth TO CORRESPONDENTS The Albion says the proceedings at the last Council we re " from first to last, as good as a lively and amusing five act comedy." This comparison is so ingenious, that it excited our admiration. In his report of this " dramatic" exhibition, we find the following pleasant embellishment of Mr. Alderman Earle's speech, concerning the houses in Hanover-street:—" The frequent mention of the word ' privy' induced the reporter for the Standard to whisper laughingly to one of his friends, ' Is this a privy Council ?' Mr. Earle, who overheard the query, said, laughing, I am asked if this is a Privy Council. (Loud laughter.) I am sure I don't know—(looking archly at the gentleman who had used the expression.) The bon mot is not mine, gentlemen."—We are assured that, for this representation, so far as our reporter is concerned, the public are indebted to the imagination of the Albion itself. The bon rnot (such as it was) was the offspring of a witty councillor on the Liberal side. TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, AND OTHERS The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. Qrbr Elberpoot RPtanDarb. of our own Church, with f the Witness. PARKS.—We uaderstand that d Forests do not intend to :outv-ranzers. Sir Augustus sferred to the d into their ofli us meeting• of U. s-nlace, Lo C. R. Weld, Esi alysis of. the v observe s only t HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of the bill for facilitating the conveyance of real property, by shortening the verbose pi olixity of such conveyances. He proposed the adoption of a parliamentary form of conveyance which might be contained within the compass of a bank -note, and that solicitors should be paid according to the value of their services, and not according to the length of the documents they had to furnish. _ _ _ The LORD CHANCELLOR took several objections to the bill which rendered it impossible for him to support it. The bill would only apply in cases in which its application would be of little use, and he was wholly opposed to having a par liamentary form of conveyance, the smallest mistake in copy ing which would vitiate the transaction. He, therefore, mooed that the bill should be read a second time that day six months. Lord LANGDALE was opposed to the bill, and said that the great evil was the system of paying all departments of the profession according to the length of the proceedings, and not according to the actual service performed. After some observations from Lord Campbell, the Duke of Wellington, and the Lord Chancellor, the second reading of the bill was negatived without a division, and their lord ships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS..—FRIDAY. Lord STANLEY §tatad - that seieral of the noblemen an gentlemen connecte 3 . h the British-American Emigrati Association had 'ed sums for the relief of the t fortunate emigrants who 'cad been sent out to Prince Ed ward's Island, but who had fortunately for themselves bee driven back by stress of weather. 41e also expressed a'hope that the example would be followed by the remainder of those gentlemen. • In reply , , to a question from Mr. LEFROY, LordEmoT said that government was by no means in different to the agitation in Ireland for the repeal of the union, which could not be persevered in without danger to the public peace. Sir G. GREY then resumed the adjourned debate on the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Courts' Bill, which he had resolved to support, because the chief object of the bill was to carry into effect many of the recommendations of the ecclesiastical commissioners. He hoped, however, that his proposition of referring the bill to a select committee would be adopted, that its technicalities might be carefully consi dered, and some objectionable provisions removed. There was at present a divided testamentary jurisdiction in matters relating to real and personal estate leading to great inconve nience and expense by causing parties to go into two courts in order to prove the validity of one and the same instrument. This should be altered, as should also be the exclusive mo nopoly of Doctor's-commons. All these matters could be much better considered by a select committee than they could possibly be in the committee on the bill. The ATTORN EY-GENERAL said that the defects and in convenience of the ecclesiastical courts had been long the subjects of complaint. The ecclesiastical commissioners re commended that all the courts of peculiars should be thrown into three provincial jurisdictions ; but this bill proposed to give all the business to one central and supreme court, which, in his opinion, was an improvement on the recom mendation of the ecclesiastical commissioners. One strong argument in favour of the bill was the importance of having during a war a body of civilians well acquainted with inter- national law Lord R. GROSVENOR ' said he was a strenuous supporter of lepal reform, but to this bill he had objections, amongst which was the perpetuation of the monopoly of the Doctors'- commons practitioners. The defects he perceived in the bill would, he thought, defeat the benefit which it was intended to confer. Dr. ELPHINSTONE thought something ought to be done to remedy the evil of the conflicting decisions of the various ecclesiastical courts, but by fixing the minimum of jurisdic- tion at X3OO, the bill in effect made good law for the rich and bad law for the poor. There were many objections to the bill, but he thought they might be remedied in committee. Mr. Escorr regretted being obliged to oppose the bill, but the objections he had heard urged against it bad confirmed his opinion that it would prove unsatisfactory and insufficient. The Secretary for the II ome Department had said be would blush for the house if personal interests led them to reject the bill ; but he would rather blush for the insufficiency of his own arguments to support it. Mr. G. H. VERNON, as chancellor of the province and fudge of th 3 Prerogative Court of York, was aware of the many evils of the present state of the ecclesiastical law, and of tl'e conflicting decisions of the inferior courts, which called for a remedy, which he firmly believed the present measure would provide, and be thus most beneficial to the country. Mr. T. DUNCOMEE, in an amusing speech, contended for the total abolition of the ecclesiastical courts, and said that in his opinion the whole business of those courts should be transferred to the courts at Westminster Hall. He was op posed to the bill, though not upon the same grounds as those put forward by Sir R. Inglis. He was inclined to think with Colonel Sibthorp that it was a " Doctors'-commons job," though the expression was one not likely to be used on his (Mr. Duncombe's) side of the house. (This assertion of the hon. gentleman in support of the extreme modesty of his side of the house produced roars of laughter.) He was of opinion that the bill was an attempt to bolster up a rotten system, and he should therefore oppose it. Sir R. PEEL, said he had rarely seen a bill opposed, as this was, by gentlemen of such discordant opinions, and it be came therefore necessary to classify the objections and prove to the house in replying to them th a t thi s bill e ff ecte d a ma terial improvement in the present state of the law by re moving many of those evils which had been long felt and complained of. Many of those evils had existed more than 300 years, and had been denounced by Lord Stowell and other great authorities, and haMixisted because those who felt the evils would not lie con t with moderate refo rm , however useful it might tre in gettin g r id o f th e mos t ser i ous portiOns of the evil. was this always t o go on ? O r on t h e other hand would it not be better to go into committee on the bill, and endeavour to render it as effective as possible. instead 4 opposing the principle on the second reading? He was quite aware that there was much weight in an observa tion of Mr. Escott's that if the Government went on with this bill there was a powerful body, who would remember them in the day of trial. Ile knew that any executive Go vernment attempting the reform of legal abuses raised against them for a time a powerful body interested in the main tenance of those abuses, even though (hey took every care that in applying the remedy the interests of the individual should not suffer. They were not, however, to be deterred by such considerations, and he therefore trusted—indeed he could not for one moment credit that the house would strangle in its birth this attempt to apply a remedy at all risks to a very serious evil. The bill attempted to carry out reforms recommended by the highest ecclesiastical and judi cial authorities, and if the House of Commons should reject it 'let no hon. member hereafter taunt Ministers with not doing anything in the shape of improvement. The Govern ment had brought it forward, so help him God! from no im proper or interested motive whatever; and he never could believe that the House of Commons would defeat a measure of reform in a system of law which all admitted to be full of serious evils. Mr. Hulls supported the bill, although he did not think the bill went far. enough. • Fourteen years ago the house abolished the power of these courtsin Scotland, and since then every thing went on satisfactorily, by transferring the jurisdiction to the courts of law. He could not, therefore, understand why the same course should not be pursued In England. . Sir . H. W. BARRON supported the bill, for although it did not remedy all the abuses in the ecclesiastical law, yet it did remedy those which might be considered the most im portant. Mr. ROEBUCK would vote for the second reading of the bill, though he wished it to be understood that, though he agreed in all that portion of the bill which went to pull down, he entirely disagreed in all that portion which went to build up, and unless that portion was -struck out or materially al tered in committee, he should feel it to be his duty to oppose the bill altogether. The gallery was then cleared, and on a division the second reading of the bill was carried by a majority of 186 to 184. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. COLONEL CHATTERTON.—The magnificent piece of plate voted by the conservative electors and citizens of Cork to Colonel Chatterton of the 4th Dragoon Guards, has been presented, with an address containing the signatures of the subscribers, amounting to three hundred. The gallant officer has returned a suitable answer, in which he says :—" Be 'assured, that wherever my military duties may require my services, I shall always bear with me a warm attachment to my native city, and a most grateful recollection of the friend ship I have experienced from my fellow-citizens ; nor can I ever be unmindful of the steady and cordial support I have retreuegivgeleddfrm together to maintain. those sound constitutional you upon several trying occasions, when we principles, whereby, as y ou so j ustly observe, the rights and struggled liberties of all the subjects of these realms are so entirely and so happily secured." TUE DUCHESS OF NOR TR ODABERLAND.—At a meeting at Alnwick, on the 21st instant, the folloWing anecdote was .related illustrative of her grace's benevolence :—Mary Atkin son was the daughter of humble parents. dwelling in a wild part of the country near Alnwick. The father, who was a hind, attended the M arc h hi r i n g of that town on a day of extremely fierce storm a n d sno w-drift, and anxious to reach home the same eveni ng , as ma y b e s upposed, in order to corn munieate the result s o f t h e d ay , he persevered in plodding his way towards his place of residence, amid the fury of the storm. He, reached within half a mile of his own house and perished in the drift. Meanwhile his wife, restless and alarmed, ventured forth to anticipate his coming. Disap .,pointment led her on to within A few yards of where her hus band lay dead, but not so near as to render it probable she had ever learned his fate, and there she too perished in the snpw. , Mary Atkinson and a brother, we believe, were thus left orphans, and totally destitute. The sad tale reached the ears of the humane Duchess of Northumberland. She proved more than a mother to the poor forlorn girl, sent her to board, educated tier, and obt a i ne d her a s ituation in Edinburgh, in • a respectable family. Mary Atkinson was now about 20 . years of age, when the symptoms of that most insidious dis ease —consumption—bez an to manifest themselves. She fell very ill. No sooner did the duchess bear of her condition than she requested that, if at all possible, she might be re moved' to Alnwick, which was done. It is needless to say that every attention was ministered to the sufferer that could be supposed capable of mitigating her distress. But in vain. She died about 9 12 monks ago, and sleeps inAluvvick church yard, with' an affecting tribute to her memory from the Duchess of Northumberland gracing her bumble grave. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1843. It would be a circumstance truly humiliating to our human nature, if it should turn out that the storm of dissenting opposition, which has been directed osten sibly against the educational clauses of the proposed factory bill, has had its leading source in hostility to the limitation of the hours of infant labour contained in that bill ; if the fears which have been so plausibly put forth, of the consciences of little factory children being oppressed by the iniquity of the Church of Eng land Catechism, have not been prompted by the greater fear that such children were about to be emancipated from the bondage of that tyrant, capital, and the cruel selfishness of inhuman parents, which at this moment are, together, wearing into soulless and fleshless ana tomies, or degrading into reckless criminals, so many thousands of the children of the working classes. And yet it is too much to be feared that such a feeling has been uppermost in the minds of the prime movers in this demonstration. Sincere as may have been the convictions and the motives of many, who have since plunged themselves into it, we greatly suspect that if the hearts of those who pulled the wires and set the puppets in motion, could be searched, too much of MAMMON would be discovered there—too much of griping selfishness—to allow of our entertaining any longer a doubt that the question of education is not so much a religious, or even a sectarian question, as it is a question of the pocket —a struggle between selfish avarice] on the one hand and Christian philanthropy on the other. That such is the case, in the immediate districts af fected by Sir James Graham's bill, can scarcely be doubted by any one who has closely watched the pro gress of public opinion, there, upon the subject. Let us glance at a few evidences, as to this fact, which have crept out during the past week in the neighbour ing manufacturing metropolis—Manchester. It has pleased that very sapient body, the town council of the " metropolis" in question, to hold a special meeting to exhibit its wisdom in opposition to the bill, from the proceedings at which we take leave to cull the follow ing morceau One of the members, a cotton spinner, as reported in the Guardian, stated that " he should be glad to see education promoted either by this or any other bill ; but he thought this bill would be a failure, inasmuch as it would have the effect of inducing masters to turn children under 13 years of age out of employment." Why would the bill have such effect ? why turn children under thirteen years out of employment ? Because children are to be educated upon this, or that, or any system ? Not at all ; but because masters will in future be permitted to work such children only six hours and a-half per day ! Clearly it is not the educa tional clauses, but the limitation of the hours, which are here excepted against ; and when Mr. Alderman Murray tells us, therefore, that " he should be glad to see education promoted either by this or any other bill," we must take leave greatly to doubt his sincerity, unless some system can be bit upon by which children can be at school and at work at the same time. Another gentleman, a manufacturer, at the same meeting of collective wisdom, informs us that " he be lieved the effect of the present bill would be to turn children under thirteen years of age out of the factories into the streets, and then there would be no provision at all for their education." Again we ask, why turn them into the streets ? Are millowners Christian men ? Are children who can read their Bible and say their prayers unfitted for the meridian of a cotton-mill ? Not at all ; but they cannot be worked the long hours of adult labour. But what followed from this pattern of manufac turing. morality is still more worthy of admiration. This same personage " believed it was intended to throw the maintenance of children upon their parents for three or four years longer" —a circumstance cer tainly not to be deplored if we had, as the result, their training in a healthier system of religion and morality. We can see nothing to be admired in a system by which parents increase and multiply juvenile " ma chines" rather than the germs of a future generation of Christian men and women. He also regretted this operatiim of the bill, however, because it would " pre vent children contracting early marriages (0 It was, therefore, calculated to PRESS VERY HEAVILY UPON THE POOR (!)" Strange •objection to the bill, this ! It will prevent children under thirteen years of age getting married ! We couldn't wish it to do a better thing, though we can scarcely see how this admirer of early marriages can trace such to be its operation. At a meeting of the inhabitants of Salford upon the same subject, we find another gentleman, of whom we never heard before, stating that " he had been told by a manufacturer that the effect of the bill would be to throw 20,000 children out of employment ; and that, in order to avoid the necessity of employing older and giving higher wages"—is this the sore point after all ?—" the manufacturers were fitting up machinery to supersede manual labour!" Can there be much plainer speaking than this, as to the real objection to the bill. It rescues the demoralised factory infant from his phy sical slavery and his moral degradation ! There is no thing of sectarian objection here ; no objection to Church of England trustees, or Church of England Catechisms; but a very perceptible objection to paying adult men and women for the unnatural toil extracted from the life-blood of children. Most emphatically we must express our conviction that this latter gentleman libels, in this assertion, the great majority of the manufacturing body. They are surely not prepared to commit an outrage to decency so gross as would be the discharge from their employ ment of the whole of their juvenile population, 'because the legislature has declared that they shall be edu cated, and they shall not be over-worked ! If such be the case, the world can have little respect for their own morality, or their "liberal' professions of care for the welfare of those classes which Providence has thrown into dependence upon them. Pony ao4 prneltips praetisod in tiio thin swill 0441 mines of England and Scotland, as exhibited to us by the report of a parliamentary committee. We were shocked, more recently, by the appalling ignorance and degrading vice, exhibited to us as existing in the ma nufacturing districts; and we have now to look upon a similar record of mingled cruelties, selfishness, and suffering, which is brought before us by a report of the "Children Employment Commission," as existing amongst the population employed in the lace manufac tures of this country. We shall take leave to bring a few of the details of the report in question before our readers, premising only a few explanations necessary to enable them more clearly to understand the subject. The manufacture of lace comprehends a number of different branches, in all of which, and in some' exclu sively, young persons and children are employed— some of the latter, to use the language of one of the commissioners, " as soon as they can tie a knot or use a needle !" The first of these branches, which we shall notice, is that of "drawing," which consists in draw ing out with a needle the threads which hold together the separate widths, which make up the entire piece as it comes out of the machine, In the Nottinghamshire district the children commence their work at four, five, and six years of age. Mr. Grainger, the commissioner before referred to, found one child placed at its work by its parent (7) BEFORE IT WAS TWO YEARS OLD ! We quote a portion of the evidence collected by this gentleman respecting the hands employed in drawing : " Mrs. Houghton examined.—ls a lace-drawer, and has four children ; Harriet eight years, Ann six, Mary four, and Eliza two years old; of these the three elder are employed as lace-drawers. Harriet was not quite three when she began to work, Ann was about the same, and Mary was not quite two years old ! ! Eliza ' has tried and drawn a few threads out.'—[Sub-Commissioner.—All this was interrupted with Mind you work,' Take care,' Make haste,' Now, Anne, get on,' Mind your work.']—Begins generally at 6 a.m. in the summer, and 7 in the winter; in the former goes on till L dark, in the latter till 10 p.m. The two biggest children work with witness these hours ; Mary begins at the same time time in the morning, but she leaves off about 6 p.m. The children have no time to get out to play. They go out very seldom.' Have breakfast when they have time to get it ; the same with dinner and tea. Have about a quarter of an hour for each meal. The children are obliged to sit at their work. They sit all day. [` Mind your work.'] The work tries the eyes. The black is the worst. It is drees work.' [' Now, mind your work.'] The children have very good health." " The children have very good health !" So says the parent ; and the commissioner remarks that " they are very fine and pretty girls, and appear healthy." But let us only reflect upon the amount of toil which they endure, and ask ourselves how long such mere infants can hold up under it. The " two biggest" work, we are told, in summer, from six o'clock till dark, and, in winter, from seven till ten, p.m." The latter is fifteen hours; the former may be seventeen; on the average, therefore, they work sixteen hours a day, sit ting the whole time on chairs, "their legs being too short to reach the ground." And was this inhuman amount of toil imposed upon these innocents from ne cessity ? No. The father of these very children was earning 235. per week as his regular wages ! Now, what does the reader imagine is the paltry sum for which mere infants are thus mercilessly sacrificed ? —for, we are told, that a few years of such labour re duces them to mere shadows in body, and to a condi tion of mind little short of idiotcy. Three shillings per week is stated to be " a very high average," whilst ano ther is convinced that it is "much more than is usually named." The next process, " threading," is performed princi pally by boys about the age of eight years. At the age of 15 the girls become winders, and the boys go to the machines. During the seven years they are employed in " threading," they are mere parts of the machines, and must work for the 16, 18, 20, or 22 hours per day that the machines work ! One child stated that he had often stopped from four o'clock on one morning till two o'clock the next, and that, twice or thrice in one week. It is common to stay all night at the machines; and the children are compelled to attend at whatever hour they may be called for, and often in the middle of the night. A constable, examined, states that "he fre quently sees a number of children, many as young as eight or ten, little things hardly as high as the knee, going to various factories as threaders, at all times of the night," or coming out in the middle of the night in, light clothing, and apparently suffering from the cold"—a circumstance scarcely to be wondered at, when we are informed that the temperature of such factories, when the gas is lighted, is sometimes as high as 85 degrees, whilst that out of doors, at night, may be below freezing point ! Another witness, Mr. Wm. Hinde, states that hundreds of these children have been sent to their graves by their incessant labbur and want of rest. •` They have no regular time for their meals: they have their meals sent them, and eat them when they can ;" and so irregular is their sleep, that they are frequently seen lying down in the middle of the shop floor, or under the tables, or on the old coats of the men, glad to catch, in any discomfort, a temporary ob livion of their sufferings. The process called " winding" is almost invariably performed by children and young women, who begin to work at the age of 12 or 14. The commissioners declared it to be proved that in this employment they have " no regular and certain time whatever for sleep or recreation, being liable to be called upon at any "pe- - riod during 16, 20, or 22 hours out of 24, while they have frequently to go from one place to another, often at considerable distances, at all hours of the night and at all seasons." They are employed in the same facto ries with men, and in a great majority of cases no pre cautions are taken for the preservation of morality. " In the town of Nottingham," says Mr. Grainger, " all parties—clergy, police, manufacturers, workpeople, and pa rents--agree that the present mode of employing children and young persons as threaders and winders is a most fertile source of immorality. There can, in fact, be but few states more immediately leading to vice and profligacy. Children of both sexes are called out of their parents' houses at all hours of the night, and, as it is quite uncertain how long they may be required, whether for two hours or the whole night, a ready and unanswerable excuse for staying out is furnished. The threaders, who are usually boys, and the winders, who are generally girls, are required at the same time, and thus they have every facility for forming improper connexions. The natural results of such a noxious bystem are but too apparent, and must have contributed in no slight degree to the immorality which, according to the opinion universally expressed, prevails to a most awful extent in Nottingham. In addition to the immediate evils to the children themselves, the domestic peace and comfort of the families of which they are members are sacrificed to this most unnatural state of things." Another witness, the clerk to the Nottingham union, says "the extent of early sexual intercourse is dread ful. A principal cause of this demoralization is the facility of boys and girls mingling together in the streets at night, and the almost total absence of parental con trol," whilst the vice-chairman of the board of guar. dians gives the following striking description of the operation of the system : " I have known many parents come out of the country merely to live on the labour of their young children. In one case, a short time ago, a widow came with three children, of 12,14, and 15 years of age, out of Derbyshire. These chil dren were sent into a factory, the mother being only employed in preparing their meals, and getting them up early enough in the morning. They did not come home to their meals ; they were taken in the factory. All these children died in eighteen months. I think this resulted from their employ ment. Almost all the families employed in the manufactures of Nottingham are, with few exceptions, supported more or less by the labour of their children! Among other evils of this system is that of reversing the order of nature ; children become, at an early age, independent of their parents; in many cases the latter are even obliged to act as menials to their children. Another class of evils is, that worthless fathers are enabled to spend their time in low pothouses out of the earnings of their children. The vice and immorality springing from such a system, are too obvious to require illustration." The above are a fcw only of the appalling fact s brought before us by the re • port, but, we fear lessly, are they not quite sufficient to warrant the he im mediate interference of parliament, in order to p ut down a system so dreadful ? In what are the p eop l e who can tolerate this awful sacrifice of infant life and Purity upon the shrine of cupidity, better than the wretched fanatics who stain their idols with infant blood, or plunge them into the fire or the flood as offer ingto their ideal Gods ? Better! Why the Christian people, who thus mercilessly bestialize and slaughter their offspring, are worse—a thousand times worse -than the benighted heathen, for whose civilization our mission?ies are to be found labouring in every clime! It is . doubtless good to engross the commerce of the world. It is a boast that we are able to supply vay marlot of tim Moi3; t fw to trt be ot;lo to point tO our osalanktiooi inonuitY °1 Pro' throughout the range of our manufactured ducts, and to wield the vast wealth which they bring us ; but if these triumphs can only be achieved by the sacrifice of the health and morals of our working P°e pulation—if our wealth is to continue thu s dyed inin blood of infants, and its acquisition to be tracked "peris crime and suffering—we are prepared to say that wealth—perish that manufacturing suprernacY which is pur c h ase d a t s u ch a cost !" o f Most sincerely do we trust that the p rovisions Sir James Graham's Factory and Educatio n Bill may be at once e x t en d e d to the population empl o y ed in the d lace manufact ures o f Great Britain ; for surely after this he must be indeed a hardy ma n who can contend that the bodily a n d i n t e ll e ctual training of th e children th of the working classes can be safely left to the il; checked control of e ith er e mployers or paren ts. What can voluntaryism or the Sunday school system de' what have they d one —t o me et such an evil as W e have here exhibited ? Comparatively nothing. And yet we dare say that the very people, under whose daily d contemplation are these scenes of festering vice and a human suffering, are at this momen t loading the tables of the House of Commons with petitions against against a mea sure o f e d uc ation and protection, ter, children simila r ly s it ua t e d i n the factory districts, an talking forsooth o f th e i r o pposition to it being _-for conscience sake ! raw f4WIPP There can scarcely be any man stupid enough j: believe that the recent unworthy attack of Mr. Ear s upon certain members of the Watch Comm ittee ' e Wa instigated by any better feeling than to give annqaucn: It imputed, by a sidewind, to no less than sevellgets tlemen, equal in every respect—in character, Pie° and position, as well—to himself, the possibility, °r ra t tlier probability, of their being influenced by motives in the performance of their onerous dutie s ' ho. , said to them, in substance, " y ou ar e not men °f • t nour; you are capable of acts in your official cap , which, performed in your i n di v idual capacity , ' O o r render you unworthy of the name of gentlemen even honest men." We should not have th oug ht it worth while to allude to any thing so contemptible, were it not for the ° th r e portunity which it presents to us of urging upon ~, the better conducted p or ti on o f th e "liberal" Para npat . en " - ci to council the propriety o f, if p oss ible, putting uic h the scenes of personal attack and recrimina tion too frequently disgrace the proceedings of that b tbe ) y Is it not possibl e f or gent l emen , opposed though i in , may be in politics, t o d e b ate ma tt e rs of merely opal ci, terest without forgetti ng th e or dinary amenities 01 vilized society ? It may certa i n ly be difficult t° ' of strain, within any reasonable grounds, a geoti elt r i f be Mr. Alderm an E ar l e ' s pecu li ar orga nization ;b u - or will persist in his unseemly displays, s urely it possible to allow hi m t o rema i n " alone in h is g i° l; 3 - Why should a n y men w h o h ave re spect for their cable ratter contest with suc h a one his very qu estion honours? LOCAL N.EW.Y. The Great Western e steam shi ), Lieutenant goskent sissy on Saturday f or N ew York.- 'She carried ou t abov passengers. place last evening. We understand it was _ ert 00 i .. MESSRS. HERRMANN•—Messrs. Herrnaann's e elau isdta lP went off with spirit. w ho • 13. D" his PREFERMENT.—The Rev. John Newton Pell!, t , , its t reeently officiated as curate of St. Acustine's,Chure' " 13otolPlit town, has been presented to the Rectory or St. Cambridge. ...I s CO' . On Saturday, in Bold-street, a horse in a gentlenl'ibe loci page kicked its companion violently on the knr . e% orat o d u.. tOE thes- To advertisementN' s C 9 jury was so serious that the veterinary surgeon vv"% s i on` - fer N re l the wound found it necessary shoot the oor anti to well attain' spot. N'CEitT.-o—f, o re 1 , 1 ,,. ' .r'Aulrr musicalE Vt O I l' s fer°i el:I:le : g a t /4 i ; 6111I'C' t 0 11 will take place on Frida next. Mr . 8 ton has c ," e i l len t the available local talent of the town to afford acn e—. town to ti his friends and supporters.bean ell tbe Mr. F. \V. Brearey, who has been delivering a 1 a w ith e fully illustrated lecture ou the Holy Laud conn ee , t , e i, inite e s n i 3 s• prophecies, at the Adelaide Gallery, London , w i i ' t , - tb e h - s llf approbation, s is about to repeat his lecture, wilquoic-P -lvingviews, at the Poltechnic Exhibition, Bold-street, on Monday evening • next. b „, er t th e " D evi TUE Ass • in, COURTS.—We understand the o f the t be of Mr. * John Torukinson for erecting the carcass r tot ins: Assize Courts, has been accepted, and we beg gran f Yi 1 amount of the tender was about X - 8 000. it ... .sat e eP- s t i l d reflection that we have a townsman l ' w ith seffic-s did and enterprise to undertake the . of s uch 'll re W- t erection ~,,,,,, wi _ As o building. No doubt the erection of the lipil , q t 7 e h cow' proceeded with immediately, and with all den' with its durability. no Ilie a n o li ted FINES UPON PUBLICANS AND BEERSELLTOI-...101°.- Or ber of •f . ' on _ in ormations against publicans and beersellei owe r and Friday to twelve. Nine of these were again st be forlii three against beersellers. The ages agains,t4 eoch fors ii were disposed of as follow * —T o c fined . Ole 0 , ' .w we re 2 and c osts; s eller a costs; three £3 each and costs , one a bee f an and costs; and two were a • Of the three t , 03 cquitted. , o the two were fined £3 each and costs, and th e costs. o f the , MR. Ar • .n . ' ;.: g COP,Ytli °' : A L DER MAN FAILLE.—The following.:- - Ear l e ve ers' amendment on adopted by the Council upon xf. .7, , hrer mo ti _i e relative to the ineligibility of spirit-merehVr-Alder, this & ~ to sit on the Watch Committee.‘ That 0- "' A tha• fC : for a nd .. s t s• Earle's motion •- is unnecessary and uncalled i 4 cits re of its Council d •de the freuent personal a t ' m bell t hr made in the . Council-room upon individual n'e i i inte tu ter body, which have a tende bring this Co'' t n e. nc to pleas ori repute, provoking rejoinders of a most un re Mr, which it is • highly desirable to avoid." bete*" Th e INQUEST ' dal An inquest was held on Satur bo ys.. t he Curry,. on view of the body of Edward Hunßaeoer.ilelice. deceased,__ ur who was 19 years of age, was a psi the x e re' B ough gaol, to which he was committed iron' sio ps il l A court in January last. He was tried at the se n ' t otioefoea binary, w and sentenced to seven years' trai ler a was ba t days after his sentence he became unwell. eneorgeoe'riiecl, in the hospital, where he was attended by the_,ben he gradually declined until Saturday morning, " h Verdi o rs et—" Death from natural causes." the eh I r,) We understand that the anniversary sertnonsfor ~ (V. fol 0_ Missionary Society will be preached in LivernSToo theorellf Sunday, May 21st, and meetings will be held St° 0 ,1 , 1 lowing days. Rev. E. Bickersteth, Rev. nufebatooie other C. Barrett, incumbent of St. Mary's, Birn'ree;ot. ~ we friends of the society are expected to be r , s , o ° o o Rev. •rust the Chancellor will preside at the nieet te ; s pel e oo t t the , that the same zeal for the progress of the . F_ Dicm.„ioB heathen, which has hitherto characterize.tin:the ceoTtbef branch of this valuable society, will di s tingto e !,, c oal e ho t e anniversary. W e are happy to learn that the iiL de d ti ..bo lo any Parent Society has. during the past year, ads, the " a 0 preceding one by several thousand pouou' ~ the t m unt .._,collected last year being £115, 0001 4 fterne i 'l se" U"" RUN AWAY WITIL—On ThursdaYb-s. ha il bii driver of one of Mr. Bushby's mourning O ac i i: o°los i i l down a party at the gates of the Necrolin the es horses' head round, ding Ig nd “ tb e and left them sten ,-, ; s lit a irlit hor the street. oil' corner at a fearful rate down Brusvvick-road, J n ' ts et ' l , l ; e s" of Moss -street, the coach came in e° !' t to Plead- seei i .i n rails of a gentleman's house, which broke I MO' ed r t! o e u stne time smashing the coach almost to s oh pr oc fro ab 2 sIY injuring one of the horses. Had the e t ' a fats' , e t ree t. a few yards further, it must have produc e ji , the ° in , among about twenty children who were plitY ing eiz Oig g 'loe l i FRACAS IN THE WO K 5E.7.-TWO Y°T;ncl I.u.r.rgel. mates e in the Workhouse ß , natim°eud Willians 1-18'_..doy, cirri°. withrY were brought up at the Police-court, lest . e . ,, os tsb ' 4 o o _ 182,assault and disorderly conduct. Police -six sod a ; th i ' t stated that, on Sunday night, between tone s fr otl a wall o'clock, he saw the rig Hall throwing to res ist ;. ov e' of the probatio p nar' on w e a r rd : he refused to ads pris to gr) Thetlas with considerable difficult . y that he was I :Wre a t he f e e ; other prisoner, yesterday morning. was .. ,„,;fist o bo, , before the Deputy -G f me Offene e " - t for. e prl gulations, and, as he overnor or o so officer was s eo borp ty I' o to he kicked in the gruiu. refused, Mr. aßnshton, orderedars tbseviefee manding the prisoners for their conduct, _ o he, sentencedto two months' imprisonment. - 1- rer aor f ar question from Mr. Rushton, the Deputy-Go..,oossyo that there were now 30 esns ,in the c ation war s la and 72 women and children in the classification & Al t to TIIFUNDS, SATURDAY EVENIN-Ate illifi e .. le co e ' Consols to-day were . • , scar ce., e oatd ( very liniited, ano , Ther ea, Lbw o support the advance prices noticeo- t o pen o ce i o era 4 sid ble .irnme • they ss in when firs „ e st t oo the eP l i r C ° oel‘ was, how • eser, subsequently checked b notationfor St er , one or two sellers. The final stioneY Os,. ark l w e 7. s . 9 6 a to 1, and for the account, 961 buY e i6l3; P' to ' - , s , toff at 178 tb 179 ; India Stock, 266 to issue, 675• ea cl i f bills, 2d. issue, 655, to 675. pm.; the lid, Thcei:e,llAeie pm. ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 951 tn i -l a ' r ee-a n „d // 3 ,10 Half per Cents. Reduced, 1013 to 1; New ---12 i a- in " per Cents., 1021 to ! ; Long Annuities', bes inO s b i s ' 5 Bons, 755. to -••• ' • -absence °I span ls aSel foreign securitiesA o iis. caused lhe tie d ~,- b ft . M for a share of the change. 'Actives lett ou c ote. sea flat,_ athaving opened at 221, and the'New Three P e e l ' . ion clotivel _ 321 buers, havina'onened at' 33 to il . ; Al. ' e se, e ° oelo t 29 toy . th -.-. -. . i yortug n g 6; a ,4 , e Deterred; Bto-s ; ss to 404. to ' f t bis 105 i ; Colombian; 2-1 to 51, ; Danish , , s 0 ; 0 0 to 106 ; and Brazilian, 75 to 76. , w eetit o la t ' i• , 00LINCIL MERTING.--Tile usual MOlltil_wing IT' e 90 04 b oft IT will be - held to-morrow. when the foi 'Linder the * r ib de rahte Courts of Law Committee will ent t ra s lisel Pee c oe _ ion of the council :—" That upOil afu K. an. lat e Ol i o Mr. Elmes of the report of the. Town ' c "pra t a Al, To.to. ,taii ao.oive to Town -clerk in favour of the proposal portion_ of the building of St. George's n i t is re' te d,, b oos tilaluatrts to the purposes of the Police oust, ' ad?P.„ o; : ho t would, report cannot, with adva ntag d e e 'terier e" 7 ocil ; r " whole , on the contrary, hazard great - to t he ce coo si i ic h the e plans; and that it be reconamended. „ e t to f e p vf j e c originalation plans be proceeded with, spa siog vvu se a er o e as to the ventilating tower, bY d t %e pr° o ol hY th e the tioncommittee find that the estiin. a te for,. a adOP t A 0 0 e d• council, the site of the Islington market,.'i An' p rae e o re' resoluiti' would be considerably dimi nishe s or e r4 tlie in ions of the council of the sth insta ° ‘, with, ,bls re a d , $ g " no . " the Finance Co mittee atl. variane',, It s bal „ s te dee lotion may be rescinded so, far as necessary; s epar io ten t he jog nbe carried the daily Courts will, sit ar ight ily._, on t be Mr." the site of ISlinc,ton market, as ~ niotwofor the John Holmes has placed the follow7iiittelf tea k 0 , books, which he will ask leaveP to make WO_ been pr e ° of 1 proceedings of the Finance Committee hav* t ao oo ..og iri6 d e, referred to b motion •• • been se . 1 epP` oer ft ry mittee ; . 1 1 the y y the haying. • coeo ci , a se e ve , the water e Comons—" That the S eth anli by , OA' bill of the commissioners Mr Pa o h i . e oe o- or do instruct mean the Fire Committee to support4o to pl t o petition; their power, and for that purrs to a ff° and that the Mayor be authofse. thereto.