The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-14 00:00:00

WM. WILLIAMS, HODSV and LANs AGENT, 57, RANSLAGH-STREET, grateful for the very liberal en couragement already received, begs leave to inform those gentlemen who may have Property for Sale or to Let i Bootle, Seaforth, Crosby, or Neighbourhood, that h h e as OPENED an OFFICE, in BOOTLE-ROAD, opposite the Postoffice, where every attention will be given to those who may favour him with their orders. / To be SOLD, by PRIVATE CONTRACT, very extensive Range of OFFICES, near the Custom-house; a splendid MANSION. with Coach-house, Stables, extensive Gardens and Land, Holt-hill, Cheshire : extensive Freehold Pro perty, Dale-street; Four Reuses and Shops, St. James's street ; extensive Freehold Property, Bold-street; Nine good Houses, with Gardens, &C., near Kirkdale ; Three excellent detached Houses, about two miles from the Ex change ; Two Houses, Oxford-street ; Two Ditto, Soho square ; One, Mount-pleasant ; Three Houses and Shops, Scotland-road ; with several large Lots of BUILDING LAND; 27,000 Yards of Land, Crosby, near Waterloo ; 12,000 Yards Ditto, Linacre-lane, Bootle ; Three well-built Houses, Bootle-road; also, various Lots of COTTAGE PROPERTY. The following to be LET:— Very eligible Warehouse and Offices, Chapel-street ; Ditto, near the Custom-house; a splendid HOUSE, with Coach house, Stables, Gardens, &c., Holt-hill, Cheshire ; an ex cellent Ditto, near Waterloo; One Ditto, Bootle Marsh, facing the River; One Ditto, near Hamilton-square; One Ditto, Peel-street, Toxteth-park •, One Ditto, Mile-street ; One Ditto, Bedford-street ; One Ditto, Rodney-street ; One Ditto, Edge-hill ; One Ditto, Falkner-terrace, Parliament street; One Ditto, Waterloo-road; One House and Shop, Great George -street ; One Ditto, Ranelagh-street ; One Ditto, with Bakehouse, St. Anne-street ; One Ditto, Pitt street ; One Ditto, Byrom-street • an excellent Spirit Vault, Cleveland-square ; an excellent Pew, in St. Mark's Church. The sum of SIX THOUSAND POUNDS to be Lent on Mortgage, on good security. Apply to W. M. WILLIAMS, Estate Agent, 57, Rane lagh-street, and Bootle-road, opposite the Postoffice. Mr. Orde's Bee's-wing won the gold cup at Ascot races on Thursday. Between 7000 and 8000 persons bathe daily in the Serpen tine river, Hyde-park. The Birmingham town council, on Friday, resolved to petition parliament against the introduction of the new poor law bill into that borough. A poor woman last week threw her child, only one month old, into the canal, near Lucan, Ireland. She confessed that she committed the unfortunate act from want. Mr. Corbelly was returned for the county of Meath, on Friday, without opposition. _ The petition against Lord Alfred Hervey's return for Brighton has been withdrawn. Why is hope like a piece of decayed cheese? Because thousands live in it. CONUNDRUM.-Why is sympathy like a man playing at blind-man's-buff ? D'ye give it up ? Because it is a fellow feeling for a fellow creature. The splendid weather experienced for the last ten days has caused hay cutting to be general in this neighbourhood. — Bristol Journal. Numerous testimonials have been presented to the Rev. Archibald Boyd, on his leaving Londonderry for Cheltenham. On Wednesday last, a printer named Griffith Owen Evans, and on Friday last Mr. John Huddleston, woollen draper of Chester, were drowned whilst bathing in the sea. The Rev. Robert Daly was sworn in Dean of St. Patrick's Dublin, on Wednesday. The law costs between him and Dr. Wilson amount to £4,000. At the Killarney petty sessions fines to the amount of £270 were recovered against a number of Lord Kenmore's tenants for the burning of land. From all quarters of Ireland there is most cheerful promise of an abundant harvest. The corn, fruit, and potato crops will be at market fully a month before those of last year's harvest. PROOFS OF EARLINESS OF THE SEASON.—Strawberries are beginning to appear in the market, and stalks of wheat in full ear are beginning to be shown as curiosities. Rye crops were in full ear last week.—Ulster Paper. New CHURCHES. — The Rev. F. Close stated on Friday, at a meeting held at the Masonic Hall, Cheltenham, that in a report recently presented to the Lord Bishop of the Dio cese, it was recommended that three additional churches should be built in that populous town. PRINCELY DONATION.—On Friday afternoon, at the usual annual meeting of the London Female Penitentiary Society, the secretary stated, that a few days ago the society received from a gentleman, who wishes to be, and is, entirely unknown to the society, the princely donation of £l,OOO. COLLIERIES IN LANCASHIRE. — From a statistical state ment of trade, &c., in Lancashire, we learn that there are 330 collieries in that county, employing, when in full work, about 1,400 persons. The yearly consumption of coal by all the steam-engines is estimated at about 3,000,000 tons. Hay-making is becoming general in this part of the country (Chemlsford), and some quantity has already been stacked, the weather being very propitious. The wheats in this neighbourhood look pretty well, but we cannot say so much of them down in the Hundreds. Peas and beans are indifferent in quality, but oats and barley look well.—Essex Standard. A marked sensation was produced in London on Friday morning by intelligence that the highly respectable firm of Briggs, Thurburn, and Co., had suspended their payments. The immediate cause of this unfortunate event is understood to be the continual absence of returns from Calcutta for ad vances made upon consignments, and of remittances to meet draughts upon the house. This firm was one of agency merely, and had no speculation on its own account, so that a moderate return to them of their assets will enable them to cover all their engagements. Messrs. Briggs, Thurburn, and Co., were the agents of the Agra Bank, and it will be satisfactory to the parties holding the bills of that bank to know that the funds and agency have been transferred to Messrs. Coutts and Co. We further learn that the inter ests of Messrs Briggs and Co.. of Alexandria, are unaffected by this event, and that they will only have to arrange for a fresh agency in London. The Waterford election committee have come to the fol lowing resolutions •,—" Resolved—That W. Christmas, Esq. and W. Morris Reade, Esq., were not duly elected to serve in the present parliament for the city and borough of Wa terford, and ought not to have been returned." " That Henry Winston Barron, Esq., now Sir Henry Winston Barron, and Thomas Wyse, Esq„ were duly elected, and ought to have been returned." The chairman said he was directed by the committee to move the house that W. Christmas, Esq., W. Morris Reade, Esq., and ;11 - other persons properly qualified so to do, be at liberty to petition against the amended return within fourteen days, and dis pute the validity of the election of Messrs. Barron and Wyse. DESTRUCTION OF A COTTON -MILL AT MANCHESTER.— On Wednesday morning, at about half-past four o'clock, a fire was discovered in the premises of Mr. Thompson, cotton spinner and power-loom cloth manufacturer, in Pin Mill brow. The mill is known as " Pin Mill Factory." The building is one of the oldest mills in Manchester, but has, from time to time, been rebuilt in parts and repaired. The machinery, however, was modern, and some of it very valu able. The mill itself, independently of the engine -room and some recent additions, was about forty yards long and five stories high, in which upwards of 300 hands were employed, more than one-half of whom will be thrown out of employ ment by this accident. In about two hours from the com mencement the whole building was completely gutted, the floors giving way first on the top story, and carrying with them down to the bottom the floors of the whole building, burying beneath the ruins about £7OOO worth of machinery and stock, exclusive of the building. During the progress of the flames, a part of the side walls and one of the gable ends of the mill fell in, and the remaining is so injured that it must be pulled down and rebuilt. Fortunately no lives were lost, nor have we heard of any persons being seriously injured. The building, engine, and mill gearing belonged to Mr. Leonard Willan, of Lancaster, and was insured, it is said, in the County Fire Office, to the full extent of its va lue. We understand it was previously insured in the Nor wich Union, but that office gave it up about eighteen months ago. The machinery belonged to Mr. Thompson, and is covered by insurances in the West of England and Atlas offices. The total damage is estimated at from £lO,OOO to £12,000. Nothing is yet known of the origin of the fire. RIOTS AT CLARE, WITH Loss OF Live.—The Limerick Chronicle gives an account of some alarming riots which oc curred on Saturday week and Monday last at the village of Clare, and in the subjacent districts, in the course of which one or two of the police were severely injured, and the latter fired upon the mob, killing and dangerously wounding no less than twenty-four individuals. The first emeute occurred at the village above named on Saturday night. The poor of the district have, for some time past been suffering severe privations. On the night in question, a sail boat, which James Bannatyne, Esq„ had loaded for Kilrush with meal and flour, (most part of the former bought by a Roman Catholic clergyman in that neighbourhood for the poor of his parish,) was invaded at the quay of Clare by a large con course of people ' who soon overcame the crew, and carried off most part of the cargo before the police came to the rescue. The constabulary were placed in charge of what remained, but the mob on Sunday night made a second attack upon the vessel, and, having overpowered the police, Possessed themselves of whateyer was left on board. Whilst the outrage was being perpetrated on the boat and cargo, showers of stones fell on the deck from the mob, on the quay rwhich thejtwo policemen suffered, and one of the plun .erers was, also, severely hurt in the head from a missile bur lby his own party into the hold. The police subse quently recovered some of the flour, and made near a dozen " the r ioters prisoners. On Monday a meeting of the tuatistramiff tes th e was held, and a dispatch was sent to Limerick for ing st at r o j , 111 .,!1 the police was called in from the surroud quarters "uring the day the mob collected in various symac e ,g7tded the streets of the town, and exhibited strong an early b e g a ii ...,_eltelnent. The police were on the alert from ten o'clo c k a ti re? the orders of the magistrates. About Mr. Bann / d r .:l s t furious crowd collected opposite one of gates and wi e 7,l4 s t i aras,,,, and commenced an attack upon the and, with some aiii e „Lhe Police were shortly on the spot, clearing the spa ce i n i r n`r , succeeded in repelling the mob and ordinary excitement ti r of the stores. There was extra the increasing sympto : s aiti? the town at this period from the knowledge of the trifling turbulence in the !crowd, and general protection, Re d , Z a t , Police force available for its as ia i e t .e wa ! ‘, being further wea kened by small detachments (l it i b n the banks and in certain provision stores and o'clock the mob appeared to be dispers ing, out half-past eleven the police retired from the store to patrol Min..... 4111 1 1 was but a stratagem. In thei r abseno T a mil s, however, and the mob had just succeeded in was again made,breaking one of the gates when the police returned, and endeavoured to drive ones were now hurled at th e police from front t h em back. n table had his skull fractured. S u b-i n . spec t o r Browne rear, one constable and s CaptainDe Runynes were both lit The police got o rders to form two fronts back to back, • when they fired on the crowd, About twenty-five shots were fired and almost every one took . effect, but the crowd supposed th e discharge was b lank cartridge until the fall of the woun dedetnhe women too late convinced them and the screams of only the assailants began to dig eeeuiefdromto this of its fatal effects. T perse amidst the greatestT uhperowaro.un period was excessive. Theded excitementw e • hospital, where two o f them expire d immediately, and most man of the o the r s were found to be so severely The woun be de ll d that was no hope was entertained of their recovery. demanded blood, despatched round the town to call the inhabitants together and the mob, with threats of veng eance, n n detes for blood. All the persons in authority. denied having given the police orders to tire, and all agreed in express tation of the action, promising the people full uest sat on investigation and certain justice. On Tuesday a coroners inq the body of case Cathar . ine Sheehan, one of the persons killed. The in vestigation • t all the circumstances of the oc cupied three days, in o • on Thursday last. The jury, after a retiremen of near ly an hour, return ed Catharine Sheehan, the follow ing. verdict We Sheehan, came by e find that the deceased, Catharine death in seqnence of a gunshot wound inflicted by on her eon town of Ennis, on al : of a party of police on duty in the morning of Tuesd ay , th niOt of Monday, the 6th June, or Sect the property of •th June instant, called out to pro aforesaid, further find, • Barmatyne. And we the jurors ceive sufficient provoca tt the party of police did not re tumultuously assembled, to°ll from the people, who were the people and we f erther vair i Xt them in at all firing at alone , that those belonging to the . police force fired not tithout order from the magistrate or any other offic er positive orders of their officern." Tt in opposition to the that several of the Most severely wo latest accounts state, to sUrVive, untied are not expelled REPRESENTATION OF BELFAST.—The Ulster Times an nounces that it is the intention of Lord Hamilton Chichester to offer himself as one of the candidates at the ensuing election. The property tax will be deducted from all dividends paid by the bank down to £I6G 13s. 4d., but not from incomes below that sum. The whole of Lord Ashburton's homestead, situate at Clapham, a romantic village about two miies distant from Bedford, together with twelve houses in the village, were recently totally destroyed by fire. - - ATTORNEYS.—Last Easter Term 162 gentlemen gave no tice of their intention of applying to he admitted attorneys of the Court of Queen's Bench, and there were also 11 notices of re-admission to practise. During the present (Trinity) term 128 notices of application for admission to practise have been given, and 17 notices of re-admission. In the last four terms between 600 to 700 gentlemen have been added to the list of attorneys practising in the Queen's Bench. TEE TURNIP FLY.—A. correspondent suggests the follow ing preventive of the ravages of this insect :—Wet the seed before sowing with train oil ; if the seed remains wet with the oil an hour the better ; afterwards dry it for sowing by adding flour of brimstone, precisely after the manner of brining and liming wheat. The seed thus prepared is said to come up sooner, to grow faster, and the plant, whilst in the seed leaf (which is the only time the fly attacks it), is effec tually preserved. On the Ist instant, the Rev. Daniel Nl`Gelligan, a Roman Catholic priest, was committed to bridewell for refusing to disclose tne circumstances which took place at a meeting be tween himself and two persons who had a dispute about a horse. The priest alleged that, though the facts did not transpire in the confessional, he nevertheless thought he ought not to disclose them. A rumour is very prevalent, and is believed in well-in formed quarters, that six sail-of-the-line are to be immedi ately commissioned. We are quite aware that it is usual, and very advisable, to have ships put into commission to wards the fall of the year, when seamen are returning from the timber voyages, and ships for the India trade are not fitting out ; but there does not appear in the political hori zon to be any cause for this addition to the naval force ; however, we understand the armament for the Vengeance and Collingwood, of 84 guns each, has been got ready in our gun wharf.—Hamphire Telegraph. LIGHT GOLD COIN.-1n 1837 £8,322,902 of gold coin was tendered in London, of which 1,105,375 was rejected as light, while the same year, at the branches of the Bank of England, £6,450,559 was tendered, and £631,003 was rejected ou the same occount. In Town and Country In 1838 was tendered £13,431,065 Rejected £2,223,230 In 1839 ditto 16,329,252 ditto 2,762,416 In 1840 ditto 17,627,499 ' ditto 3,798,635 It is calculated that our gold circulation amounts to about £12,000,000, and it is pretty certain that about one-half is light, which will be a loss to the public of 21 per cent. upon the amount of £6,000,000 or upwards of ~C 150,000. In 128 years, from 1631 to 1816, the gold coinage was one hundred millions and a half. The gold coined in England from 1/90 to 1833 was £75,000,000. In 1821 the gold coined was £9,500,000 sterling ; and in 1834 £1,292,000. PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO THE BISHOP OF CHI CHESTER.—On the elevation of Dr. Gilb ert, Principal of Brasenose College, to the See of Chichester early in this year. and on his announcing his intention of resigning the Headship before the long vacation, a strong wish was ex pressed that he should not retire without receiving some lasting token of the esteem and affection of the Society. A subscription therefore was entered into by the Fellows, which it was thought right to extend to other members of the College, who might from personal considerations be not un willing to join in this desirable object. This suggestion was most promptly and liberally met. The subscription amounted to six hundred guineas. Messrs. Rundell and Bridge were accordingly intrusted with the execution of a service of table plate to that amount, consisting of the following articles : eight corner dishes and four covers, four oval dishes and two covers, a rich tureen, and one large handsome salver, on which are engraved the arms of the College, the arms of the See of Chichester, and the Bishop's private arms. THE BUDE LIGHT.—The following description of the Bude light, of the principle of which perhaps little is gene rally known, appears in the Polytechnic Journal. The Bude light originally consisted of an oil argand flame, having a stream of oxygen thrown over its internal surface, which pro duced a very vivid illumnination. It was found, however, after having been used for some time in lighting the House of Commons, that oil lamps, thus fed with vital air, were ex pensive and difficult to regulate. Mr. Gurney then tried to illuminate the house with naphthalised coal gas in argand burners, similarly supplied with oxygen ; and though this produced a light of sufficient intensity, he encountered a for midable obstacle to its continuance from the deposition of liquid naphtha in the tubes of distribution. He next, hap pily, devised a method of obtaining from ordinary coal gas, purified in a simple apparatus of his own, and burned with oxygen derived from the atmosphere, an effulgence adequate to every purpose of internal and external illumination, which is now used in the House of Commons with perfect success, and at a cost of I2s. per night, whereas that of the candles previously used there amounted to £6 Ils per night. THE BICENTENARY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN IRELAND.—On Friday, the 10th of June, 1642, the first regular Presbytery was held at Carrickfergus, when five mi nisters and four elders constituted themselves into a regular church court, in the name and by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. From that small beginning has sprung the great and flourishing church of Ulster, which now numbers about 500 ministers, which is the connecting link between England and Ireland, and but for which, in all probability, Popery would have swallowed up the whole of the Green Isle. Each of the presbyteries held on Friday a special meeting in the chief town of its district, when appropriate address were delivered, and collections made for church extension. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, THURSDAY.—THE QUEEN V. ALLEYNE.—This was an indictment for sending a hostile message to a Mr. Power, of Atherstone, in the county of Warwick. The provocation which had induced Mr. Alleyne to send the challenge, consisted in the fact that Mr. Power had circulated a report that Mr. Alleyne and a lady, whom be represented as his sister, were, in fact, not brother and sister, but husband and wife. The case has been before the public in several shapes, and the defendant was brought up for judgment in this court in the course of the last term. After a long discussion upon the former occasion, the court directed the case to stand over. In the course of this morn ing, Mr. Sergeant Goulburn, upon being called upon to move, informed the court that the defendant was ready to receive judgment if the prosecutor thought proper to pray for it. Lord Denman, observing that the prosecutor's counsel did not think proper to act upon this suggestion, proceeded to call upon another gentleman to move, and the case, therefore, has for the present gone off. FIRE IN ELY CATHEDRAL. - At eleven o'clock on Wed nesday morning the city of Ely was thrown into the greatest consternation by the ringing of the fire-bells, and a cry that the cathedral was on tire. With an alacrity beyond all praise, within ten minutes after the announcement the whole of the inhabitants, women as well as men, had assembled, and had formed themselves into double lines from the neigh bouring wells, by which means a most ample supply of water was conveyed to the engines ; and within half an hour, from the very great exertions of the people, all danger was en tirely removed, and the fire was completely extinguished, with but trifling damage. The fire originated in some sparks from a temporary fire-place, carried up for the purpose of heating the irons for the plumbers who were at work on the roof at the time, and was first seen flaming through the in terior by the verger on duty, it having happened during the performance of divine service. LIGHT GOLD.—A great quantity of light sovereigns and half-sovereigns were received on Saturday in London, from France and Holland, by the Ostend, Calais, and Boulogne steamers, to be changed at the Bank. The annual amount of the precious metals exported to Paris, Hamburg, and other parts of the Continent, is considerable, and the procla mation of June 3d has produced no little consternation in the Jew money speculators. The deficiency in the weight of the silver coinage of the realm is, perhaps, greater in proportion than that in the gold, especially in the crowns, half-crowns, shillings, and sixpences of the coinage of 1817, the greater part of which are worn quite flat. The Stamp-office, Cus toms, and Excise, which at first refused to take light sove reigns and none but full weight, it is said will take them during the ensuing week on the same terms as the Bank of England. Several bankers :;n the city and at the west-end, for the accommodation of the public, and to prevent their being sacrificed by the Jews, have notified that they will take them on the same terms—viz.. £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce. At the Great Western, the London and Birmingham, Eastern Counties, South Western, and the London and Brighton railways a similar notice is put up ; also on board the steamers. CHILD MURDER.—An inquest was held at Pill-house, Gloucestershire, near Chepstow, on Monday last, on the body of a female child, found in the privy of the above house. From the evidence of Mary Bull, it appeared Eliza Dash, the prisoner, had been in the service of Mr. Hall nearly three months ; from her appearance she was questioned by her mistress as to her being in the family way, which she strenu ously denied ; on the morning of the 4th witness observed her to absent herself from her work for some time, she then saw her coming from the privy, and from prisoner's agitated appearance, inquired of her whether she was unwell ; the embarrassment of her manner, induced witness to mention to her mistress that she thought something was wrong with Eliza. Eventually she admitted the birth of a child, and to its being concealed in the privy ; on search being made, the body of a fine female child was found, which, from the evi dence of the surgeon, had been born alive. A verdict of " Wilful murder" was found by the jury. FATAL ACCIDENT IN A BATIL—The following lament able occurrence happened the day before yesterday, in the bath establishment in the Rue du Temple :—A lady of every appearance of respectability entered and ordered a bath, and, when prepared, told the attendant that she would ring when she wanted her assistance. As three hours elapsed without her being summoned, the woman became alarmed and en tered the cabinet. She found the lady completely immersed in the bath, the cock turned on and still running, and the cabinet flooded with the water. The lady was taken out, and medical aid called in, but all endeavours to restore animation were unsuccessful. No doubt of the catastrophe having been caused by a fit is entertained. The name of the unfortunate lady has not transpired.—Galignani's Mes- sewer. MURDER.—A King's County correspondent of the Dub lin Pilot narrates the following horrible circumstance : " This neighbourhood has been thrown into a state of the most extraordinary alarm for the last week, in consequence of a brutal murder at Killeen—near the demesne of Durrow, where the late lamented Earl of Norbury was most myste riously, but most barbarously, murdered—of Mary Wheela han, on the night of Tuesday, the 31st ult., who was strangled to death by Walter Wheelahan, her husband, who had her body concealed in a tillage field under ground, near the dwelling-house, until last Sunday. The supposed cause of this murder is an unaccountable hatred of the wife, produced b) , perhaps, a criminal . attachment of her husband to ano thern* they did to female. This good and virtuous woman had been two days murdered before she was missed by her friends. Upon inquiry they were told by the husband and his relatives, that, zidcolour, not live happily together, she got some money u le se n t t isfa America. The statements of the husband were through the that he produced a letter, to give them accounts tile to be written by the wife, and conveyed home for for post-office to the husband, in which she tory statements America. feigned intention of secretly leaving and it was evidently .a Tfohrigserlye.tteTr This s on c t i a r i e n u e m d sta c n o c n e trad im ic i ; n i e t a bad no post mark of any post-office, ahan was murdered by the conviction that Mary lA,Theel pressed every mind ) her husband ; and he and some of Wheel his relations were consequently given into custody to the police till he had acycoeunted for his wife- Upon serrch tillage field, about fifteen 7;enrihenheglel the body was found in the being made on Sunda from the dwelling house. a O ri r d i Nafroensdpaeyetaanbleiu jury. After wasA Mr. Dillon, coroner, ter a long by and minute examina tion of witnesses, in the presence of immense multitude of the people, the doctors in attendatic a giv v i e n r g di their opinion that death was caused by strangnlation, e Murder' was given, to the satisfaction of the pucbtl?cf `Wilful the unnatural husband, who, with his aged father as' an ac complice,hes been committed to the county gaol. This been murder as nothing whatever to do with the peace of the country, or with party of any kind, both families h av i ng remarkable for good and peaceful conduct at all times. They are of a very decent class of landholders, and are connected with most of the old families of that p sh. The :murdered female was a robust, healthy, and most indust person she was plain in her appearance, but very agreeable, well disposed, and charitable. finperfal parliament. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY Viscount MELBOURNE suggested that the income tax bill should be read a second time sub silenlio, and that the dis cussion should be taken on going into committee. He pro posed this in consequence of the sudden illness of the Mar quis of Lansdowne, who had given notice of an amendment on the subject. The Earl of RIPON assented to the suggestion, and the bill was therefore read a second time, and ordered to be commit ted on Tuesday. The Bishop of EXETER asked if it was intended to proceed with the bill for the improvement of the ecclesiastical courts this session. Notice was given of it in her Majesty's speech; but, at so late a period of the session, it was impossible that right rev. prelates, whose interests it so nearly affected, could be present at the discussion. The LORD CHANCELLOR said. that if the right rev. pre. late would repeat the question on Monday, he should be pre pared to give him an answer. The Bishop of EXETER said he should be obliged to leave town upon his visitation. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he could hardly think that a misfortune. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY In reply to a question from Mr. Fox MAULE, Sir J. GRAHAM said that it was not the intention of the government this session to introduce any measure to settle the differences which had taken place in the Church of Scot land. Sir R. INGLnS moved a new writ for the borough of Not. tingharn. Mr. G. KNIGHT, in seconding the motion, designated Mr. Roebuck as the Simon Pure of the house. _ . . Mr. ROEBUCK denied that he had anything to do with the suspension of the Nottingham writ, nor did he affect any peculiar degree of purity ; but he was certainly desirous that the constituencies throughout the country should not be bought or sold like sheep in the market. Sir R. PEEL was of opinion, even though the retirement of Sir G. Larpent immediately after his election was declared to be valid might have been owing to illness, that still there were grounds for suspicion and inquiry. He would, there fore, oppose the issue of the writ for Nottingham. After a short discussion the issue of the writ was negatived on a division by a majority of 13G to 41. Mr. ROEBUCK moved the third reading of the Witnesses' Indemnity Bill. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was of opinion that the bill was too general, but if the hon. and learned member would consent to expunge the second clause, which be thought gave superfluous powers to the committee, he would not oppose the bill. After some discussion Mr. ROEBUCK assented to the pro ' position of the Attorney-General, and the bill thus altered was read a third time and passed, the borough of Bridport having been inserted in the preamble on the motion of Mr. C. Buller. In reply to a question from Mr. Hymn, Sir R. PEEL said that considerations of revenue compelled the government to retain the duties on cotton and woollen raw material. . . ..... .......,........ The house then went into committee on the new tariff. In schedule 14, Mr. GurmsuiTcH moved that the existing duties on thrown silk should be retained. On a division, however, the amendment was negatived by a majority of 240 to 22. ... ___ . Considerable progress was made in the tariff, after which the Chairman reported progress, and asked leave to sit again. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the Louse adjourned. SUICIDE OF LORD CONGLETON It is our painful duty to announce the suicide of Baron Congleton, better known as Sir Henry Parnell. The parti culars attending this melancholy event are given in the de positions at the inquest. The deceased Henry Brooke Parnell, Lord Congleton, who was raised to the peerage by the Melbourne ministry in 1841, was the second son of Sir John Parnell, Bart., by the second daughter and co-heir of the Right Hon. Sir Arthur Brooke, Bart. He was born in 1776, and was consequently 66 years of age. He married, in 1801, the eldest daughter of the Earl of Portarlington, by whom he has left a son, the Hon. John Parnell (now Lord Congleton), and five other children. His late :lordship succeded his eldest brother to the baronetcy in 1812. He was chairman of the finance com mittee in 1828. In 1833 he was appointed a member of the excise inquiry commission, and filled the post of secretary-at war in 1831. In April, 1835, he was appointed paymaster general of the forces and treasurer of the Ordnance and navy, which offices he continued to hold till June, 1841. He re presented Queen's County in parliament from 1803 to 1832, and Dundee from the latter period till 1841. His lordship was author of a well-known work on financial reform, and of a great number of pamphlets on currency and banking ; also of a work upon roads and road-making. THE INQUEST. The coroner, having taken evidence of the deceased noble man being found suspended to the bed-post in his sleeping chamber at half-past nine' o'clock on Wednesday n ight by his valet, Manning, and of prompt medical assistance hav ing been called in, he proceeded to examine the Hon. John Parnell, his lordship's eldest son, as to the state of the de ceased nobleman's mind. The witness stated that in the early part of the month of April last, his father had a severe attack hisof fever, whichlordship hadb e e n broughtatt attended delirium,ed b y Mr. and Bolton,from and occasionally by Dr. Chambers. Witness arrived from the country, and found that it was necessary that a watch should be kept over his father, and Mr. Boltondesired that every instrument with which be might injure himself should be removed from the room. This arrangement was entered into between Mr. Bolton and the witness's brother before he reached town, and after the lapse of a few da y s he found his father had got considerably better, and left his room. This was in accordance with his father's expressed wish ; but Mr. Bolton, upon learning that he had done so, said lie could not allow the deceased to be left unattended. Up to that period , witness did not know the exact circumstances of the case, but imagined that the reason his father was watched was in consequence of his having had a fit. Mr. Bolton gave direc tions that the decased nobleman's razors should be removed, which was done. After that he appeared to have got quite over his attack, but not having recovered his sleep, the me dical gentleman continued to attend him. His father had de sired that the instruments of self-destruction should be re moved from his reach ; but about a week or ten days after his attack, he inquired the reason he was being watched, and told his medical attendants that he had ceased to have those im pulses to self-destruction, and he wished to regain his for mer habits as soon as be could. The witness added that his father was very unreserved to him in the statements of his bodily health and mental feelings ; and he knew, as a fact, that the deceased had. been, out of the last thi r ty- s i x d ays , nineteen days in a low and desponding state. By the Coroner.—About a week since, one of the bell ropes had fallen down, and his father seemed very desirous to know what it was lying there for, and of what use it could be, and begged that it might be taken away, and put into its place. On Tuesday last he appeared to be in a low state, and witness offered to sit with him in the room, but he de clined the offer, and said he would rather remain alone. The windows of his rooms were never fastened down, nor did he (witness) believe that the scissors ever were removed— such articles it was not thought necessary to remove, unless he himself suggested it, and expressed his alarm. About three weeks ago, he gave witness a large packing-needle, and told him to remove it. Mr. Bolton did not suggest that a person who had experience in the care of insane persons should be employed to attend upon the deceased. Latterly, he used to find that his faculties were, in some respects, gone. He endeavored to read the newspapers, the Edinburgh Re view and Blackwood's Magazine, but could not. He did not request that anybody should read to him, but preferred being alone. He usually occupied his time by taking walk ing exercise. He never recovered his sleep, and was con sequently growing more debilitated and weak. He never complained to witness of any ailment of the head. On one occasion he was at Richmond, when he swooned away. He thought that was a fit, and described that the feeling came on at the heart, and ran up to his head. He sometimes complained of giddiness in the head, and a rolling sensation from ear to ear. Latterly he had the whole management of the house and servants, witness having some time ago made up his accounts, and delivered everything up to his father. The coroner asked the jury if he should adjourn the inquest for the attendance of Mr. Bolton, or if they would like to have the second son of the deceased nobleman examined ? But as they made no reply, he briefly summed up, and observed that it was their duty to inquire, in all 1 cases where a person was found hanging, whether it was the act of himself or not, and after some further observations, the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." THE GOLD COINAGE. The great interest which the proclamation respecting the light sovereigns has excited is illustrated by the number of letters which have been received on the subject from parties connected with various branches of trade, all of whom are complaining of the inconvenience to which they are sub jected. Some seem to be at a loss how to dispose of their sovereigns at all ; so completely have they been used to con sider them merely as coin, that they do not seem to have thought of the Mint, or of the bullion-merchant. Others complain of the difficulties they have met at the Custom house, from the receivers exercising a vigilance which had not been known heretofore. The chief misfortune is, that the hardship falls to the greatest degree on those who are engaged in retail business, and consequently on many who are not in the most opulent circumstances and have nume rous difficulties to contend with. Formerly the loss fell upon the bankers, but since the proclamation these have re fused to take such sovereigns as have not the full weight, and consequently the tradespeople are left with them on their hands. The average loss on the light sovereigns seems to be, if we compare different accounts, about lid. in the pound. The sort of alarm which has arisen from persons not knowing how to ,dispose of their sovereigns ' or from their fearing a loss in the shape of the bullion-broker's profit, or the delay they would be subjected to if they took them to the Mint to be coined, will be now in a measure dispelled by a notice issued to-day from the Bank of England, and which is as follows : " Bank of England, June 9, 1842. "At the request of the right hon. the Lords Commis sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and for the relief of those who have in their possession the gold coin of this kingdom below the legal current rate. " Notice is hereby given, that from and after this day any quantity of such gold coin in amounts of not less than £5O will be taken in at the Bank of England at £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce, from the hours of nine o'clock in the morning till three o'clock in the afternoon, until further notice." By this it will be seen that those who take sovereigns to the requisite amount to the Bank of England will incur no further loss than the difference between the nominal and bullion value of their coin. It is to be feared, however, th a t some of the small tradesmen and others of the humbler classes, who rarely have the amount of £5O by th em , w i ll still be subjected to som e inconvenience, either in the shape of a delay at the Mint, or the profit of the bullion broker.-- Times. EXTRAORDINARY VETERINARY OPERATION. —Th e rare and very difficult operation of extracting a stone from the bladder of a horse was performed by Professor Dick on an aged pony, on Wednesday last, at the Veterinary C o ll ege here, in the presence of a great many of the most distinguished medical gentlemen of the city. This is the first time that this operation has been performed in Scotland on this animal, the disease being, as we believe, vary rare. The stone was of a very large size, and weighed eight ounces after its ex. effected safely traction, although a considerable portion of it had been broken off during several attempts at its removal, which was rendered difficult from the depth of the wound, the rough. 'less of the surface of the stone, and the presence of a large tumour which was found to occupy the passage through which it had to be extracted. Several pairs of extracting could when forceps having f a il e d to accomplish this, it was ultimately operation well, of the bladder without apparently ; and ihe depth and size of the wound may be conceived, wi. Y by Dr. Mercer passing his band into the cavity and arm nearly to the elbow had to be introduced before the stoneproperly understood. thatf tlTiehewlainoilemoolf h b i o s re ha t n h d e on being untied walked and perly laid hold o . into . its loose box Courant.Fd' b 1 havin g suffered muc h p a in,--- . al urg i COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. WEST INDIES In the Jamaica papers received i by the Dee royal mail steamer, the protection which Sir Robert Peel extended n his financial review to our sugar-producing colonies is alluded to as an incentive for the population, both planters and la bourers, to renew their endeavours to raise the character of the island, which it is stated had drooped under the injustice . which it was supposed would, by the admission of slave grown produce, have been dealt out against all our West possessions by the whig administration. The West India interest are, naturally enough, strong supporters of the po licy of the new administratien in this respect, and it is not, therefore, to be wondered at that a great portion of the lead ing columns of the various papers are devoted to panegyrics on the plan laid down by the government to regulate the su gar duties. One of the topics arising out of this discussion is the wasteful expenditure of the funds raised by loan to en courage the project of general emigration : and, in the midst of this, the improvements of the age at home appear to be regarded with a watchful eye. Had these funds, which according to all accounts have been most extravagantly used, been directed to the forming of good roads, the opening of a canal, or the constructi on of a rail roa d, th e i m poverished Jamaica proprietors, it is stated, might have found some re lief from their heavy encumbrances. A railroad or canal, successfully opened, with improved machinery for the manufacture of sugar and ruin, would, it is contended, do wonders towards restoring the condition and credit of the island. It appears that the Assembly are not disinclined to appropriate votes for the encouragement of local improvements, but the great fault appears to lie in the want of practical skill to carry them out, in the absence of which theoretical attempts are made ending in the total expenditure of the money without any real benefit to the community. To obviate this continued disbursement of the public funds to the prejudice of sound and wholesome pro jects when they are brought forward, is the sole desire of the Jamaica editors, who predict from' the mighty and en ergetic strides which the present Ministry is making to re vive confidence at home and abroad, a new era in Colonial prosperity, which they say is sure to bring with it, in the course of time, if not immediately, those much desired fa cilities for the profitable and less expensive production of the West India estates. A preliminary report as to the practi cability of draining the great lagoons between Kingston and Spanish Town was before the public, the suggestions in which go to show that it can , with some expense, be accom plished, and that the channel of general drainage is adapted for the line of a navigable canal up on w hi c h li g ht ers an d drogghers may ply with advantage and profit. Addresses continued to pour in upon Sir C. Metcalfe, the colonial go vernor, regretting his speedy departure from the govern ment, as, in the opinion of the majority, it is under his hands that Jamaica has been saved from much of the discord and the distress she would, considering the tendency of events, have otherwise experienced. In his answer to the address of the St. George's Agricultural Society, he says, "I sympathise in the feelings you express arising from the want of certain and continuous labour. It is ma- nifest that in many parts of the island this disheartening evil weighs heavily °I - Cale agricultural proprietor, and the more so because the only perceptible remedy may be slow in coming, and cannot be thoroughly realised with the requi site speed. European immigration has been tried, and as a general or immediate relief has proved a failure. The mode has not been discovered, without sacrifices on the part of their employment which few can afford to encounter, of re conciling the Europeans generally to a residence in those parts of the island best suited to their constitutions. They become dissatisfied and flock to the towns in the lowlands, where many die. I hope the day may come when they may be located in numerous villages in proper positions in the interior, where I am sure they would add much to their own comfort and happiness, and to the welfare and prosperity of Jamaica ; but it is difficult to anticipate whence the means will be derived for a plan which will necessarily, in the first instance, be expensive." This is the deliberate and re quested opinion of an experienced witness of the result of European emigration, who appears to be most de cidedly averse to an attraction of labour from the mother country ; but while this is the case he urges the continuance of endeavours to create a free emigration from the shores of Africa, Bahama, and America. " There is," he says, " abundance of space in Jamaica for any number of new labourers that can be obtained, without the slightest injury to those who at present compose the labour ing class in the island, and it is the general want of a constant supply which causes the sluggish progress in the development of its natural resources." These papers bring no important intelligence from Carthagena, but some vague accounts are published of the assassination of Cannona, and the outbreak of another insurrection at Santa Martha. The government troops had, according to the same authority, triumphed, and an order had been issued for their immediate banishment. _ __..._ ......,.. The other West India papers are quite destitute of news, and beyond the mere mention of minor local events, are quite taken up with the particulars of the new tariff, which are discussed with much earnestness, as proving the capabilities of the leader of the ministry for the post he now occupies. The interests in the several islands appear to be perfectly aware that some reduction of the duties on foreign sugars would be proposed, as has really been the case, by the oppo sition party, but feeling the strength of the government they seemed to have no apprehension for the result. GROWTH OF SUGAR IN INDIA (From the Bombay Times, April 6.) The capabilities of India, the fertility of the soil, the cheapness of food and labour, and the certainty that the best cotton, sugar, &c., can be produced there, has long been ad mitted. Many other articles of extensive consumption in Great Britain and foreign Europe have long been shipped from India; and we are continually adding new staples to our imports from thence, such as tea from Assam, linseed, tallow, &c. Of all East India produce, the article which most decidedly takes the lead in British and European markets, classed with the same article the produce of other countries, is indigo ; and is this to be attributed to mere chance? No; for we find (with a very few exceptions,) that it is only the indigo from factories under European management which may be classed as fine, whilst the quality of that under native mark is generally very inferior, and almost always falsely packed; the best being placed at the top of the box , whilst the bulk is inferior and rubbishy. In the growth of sugar and cotton, there are only solitary instances as yet of Europeans being concerned. Hitherto the principal consumers of sugar in India have been the Hindoos themselves ; it is impossible to say what is the consumption of 130 millions of people ; all eating more or less, according to their means, from the raw cane of the poor, to the refined sweetmeats of the rich. The quantity of sugar daily eaten by a Hindoo would sicken an Englishman, and rating the exports of Bengal to 60,000 . tons, I should say it was a small amount in comparison with the consumption of Indian grown sugar in India. But the high rates ruling in England have been such as to cause very high prices to rule in Calcutta, and, during the time when the bulk of the crop was coming upon the Cal cutta market, in June to September, 1840, Company's ru pees 11 to 15 per maund were the prices current for fine white Benares, which cost the native, grower not more than 6 to 7 rupees per maund to lay down at Calcutta. These high rates induced a decrease of native consump tion ; for a greater portion of the year's crop was shipped to Calcutta than was ever known before. When prices rapidly fell in England, there was no corresponding effect in Cal cutta, though prices did not give way, in consequence of less eagerness to purchase for export to Great Britain ; but it af forded the Bombay merchants an opportunity of buying, the native inland bazaars were better supplied ; and even those who were large holders in Calcutta clearly saw that the great accumulation of shipping (requiring sugar for return cargoes), with English crews, officers, and commanders, would take more injury in being exposed to the heat of a tropical sun than their sugar would, stowed away in their godowns or warehouses ; and, even in the face of discouraging advices from Great Britain, the prices which had fallen, in May, 1841, to as low as Company's rupees 11. 8 per mannd, ad vanced to 13 rupees, whilst freight declined from £6 10s. to £2 per ton of 20 cwt. There are perhaps nowhere to be found cleverer salesmen or buyers than amongst the native dealers of Calcutta ; and though the grower could afford to sell fine white Benares sugars at Calcutta at from six rupees to seven rupees per maund, it is not likely he would do so as long as he could by any means obtain eleven to fifteen rupees for it. Merely because such rates have been ruling in Cal cutta, it would be an unfair inference to suppose it cannot be produced for less. Indeed, the following statement of the cost of growing sugar at Gazepore will entirely do away with any such idea : Ten ploughings, at four annas each . Watering once, at one rupee per beegalls . Three ploughings, at five annas each Fifteen bundles of cane for seed, at five bundles per one rupee Cutting, cleaning, and sowing the above Watering for two months, three times Hoeing nine times, at three annas each time .. Manuring .Tyeing the canes, in August Cutting the cane for manufacturing, including carry ing Rent of land Expressing the cane, and reducing it to ghoor (or boiled juice) Expense of manufacturing the ghoor into sugar— Thirty maunds of tire-wood, at 25 rupees per 100 maunds Servants employed Sward grass, used for the purpose of claying Earthen pans... Hire for boiler 2 8 1 0 0 15 3 0 O 6 3 0 1 11 O 8 O 5 7 8 4 0 1 0 0 8 Produce :- 74 maunds fine white Benares, at say 5 rupees 1 3 ditto grey ditto ditto 3 ditto I••• 46 8 3 ditto molasses. 41 ditto dirt, &c. But, to be well within bounds, we will supose fine white Benares sugar to cost the grower seven rupees, laid down at Calcutta, which, with freight at £4, and insurances 205., would stand in 255. 6d. per cwt., landed in bond in England ; but which, at the rates ruling at Calcutta, from 11 to 15 rupees (average 13 rupees), costs 41s. 6d. bonded in England, with the same freight and insurance. The high prices which began to rule in Calcutta in 1840, had the effect of immedi ately bringing a vastly i n creased quantity of land under sugar cultivatio n ; b ut the result of that increased cultivation will only appear in the Calcutta market in 1842, and here in the fall of this year, as the cuttings take one year in coming to maturity ; and, as the prices which h ave been ruling there since May, 1840 , up to the date of the latest advices received, have been such as to yield a profit to th e native g rower of from 25 to'loo per cent., the probability is, that the culture of the sugar-cane is still rapidly increasing; for it will con tinue to increase so long as the grower can make even a small profit by it. The culture of the sugar-cane, and the manu facture of it in the native way, by which the finest white Benares sugar is now p ro duced, requir es ver y little ca p ital. The poorest farmer, with the smallest portion of land, may grow and manufacture it, and secure to himself the profit of his labour ; whereas, in the production of silk and indigo, much capital is requi re d, the profits being absorbed by the capitalist, whilst the many employed are oppressed. There is wheat in the ear at Tallington and in some few other situation s aroun d St a mford. The appearance of the country is beautiful almost beyond precedent, and the pro mise of early and plentiful crops of both grass and grain never was better.—Stamford Mercury. THE SIX CLERICS' OFFICE.-It appears now, and is gene rally believed among the legal profession, that a bill will be immediately brought into the House of Lords, by the Lord Chancellor, to abolish the Six Clerks Office, and to appoint a board of taxing officers, record keepers, and other officers, whereby a considerable expense to the suitors will be saved. Verbal warrantie s are AN EQUIVOCAL W ARR ANTY.- - ‘‘ not to be depended upon, by reason of their being liable to misrepresentation. For example, in a case of fraud brought some years back before the magistrates of Bow-street, it appeared that a person in the character of a Quaker was asked by a purchaser if his horse could draw ? ' Thou wouldst bless thine eyes,' said he, if thou. couldst see him draw.' On this implied warranty the bargain was effected ; but, on its being found the horse would not draw, the Quaker was remonstrated with, and made this answer—' I told thee, friend, it would delight thine eyes to see my horse draw ; I am sure it wou ld delight mine, f or I never could m a k e hi m draw an ounce in his life.' "—The Horse and the llovnd, by Nimrod. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Mr. G. VANDENHOFF and Mrs. WARNER ►HIS EVENING (Tuesday), June, , l4th, THE STRANGER. The Stranger Mr. G. Vandenhoff. Mrs. Haller.....jrs. Warner. To conclude with Mr. g./M elbv's New Drama of MAXIMUMS AND SPECIMENTS, Which continues to be received with shouts of laughter and applause, and will be repeated Every Evening this Week. EIGHTH GRAND ROMAN FESTA. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. ON FRIDAY EVENING next, the 17th instant, and will be repeated every FRIDAY and MONDAY during the Season, THE PICTORIAL MODEL OP ROME At dusk, this novel exhibition will be seen under the aspect which the scene presents curing the rejoicing in cele bration of Il Giorno di San Pietro, when the whole vast Edifice of St. Peter's is Illuminated, and every detail of the glorious Architecture shines forth in lines of resplendent light. It is on such festive occasions that the celebrated Girandola, or great FIREWORKS of ST. ANGELO, are displayed from the summit of the Castle and Bridge. beyond all comparison the grandest display of Pyrotechnic Art ever invented. A fac simile of this GORGEOUS FESTIVAL will be represented. Amidst tremendous FLIGHTS of ROCKETS, and CASCADES of FIRE, FOUNTAINS, and STARS, the whole of the Eternal City will appear as visible as by the broad light of day. Pyrotechnic Artist, SIGNOR SEMONI A first-rate MILITARY BAND, under the able superin tendance of Mr. STUBBS, will perform during the Season. ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. STAMP RETURNS The quarterly return of the stamps taken out, and the advertisement duty paid by the press of Great Britain, from the Ist of January to the 31st of March, is now before us ; and that influential portion of our fellow townsmen, who support the principles advocated by THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, will, we have no doubt, be pleased to notice the steady improvement in the circulation of this journal. During the past guar ter,—one peculiarly barren of anything striking in the way of news, and marked with much commercial difficulty,—the STANDARD, and one contemporary only, have improved their position, as compared with the circulation of the previous hall year; another journal has just maintained its position, whilst SEVEN of our contemporaries have declined, and some of them very materially. The next return, from our sale thus far, we are enabled to state, will show a further in crease ; and for the patronage which thus enables us, advantageously and cificiently and, we may add, pro fitably to ourselves, to advocate Conservative inter ests, and to promote the spread of sound principles in this town and district, we must here record our grate ful thanks to a kind and indulgent public. It is a pleasure to vs to labour in such a cause; it is doubly a pleasure to find our humble labours appreciated. The LIVERPOOL STANDARD undeniably occupies now a leading position amongst the journals, not only of our own town and neighbourhood, but of the United Kingdom. The respectability and influential charac ter of its circulation, we can say without hesitation, is surpassed by none. To those of our Conservative fellow-countrymen, therefore, who wish to be presented with an honest expression of sound constitutional opinions we point with confidence to its columns, and to the approbation which a large portion of the public have accorded to that expression in time past. No exertion, no attention, no expense, we promise, shall be spared, in time to come, to merit and increase that approbation. To ADVERTISERS this journal now offers increased and increasing advantages, from its advancing circu lation, and its now recognised character, as one of the most influential mediums of communication with the gentry, clergy, merchants, and middle classes of the community. Whilst recording, therefore, our thanks to those of our friends who have so liberally favoured us hitherto, we beg to impress upon their consideration our added and increasing ability to do justice to their favours. We may remark, that we have never been in the habit of making a display of our amount of circulation and advertising. We do not, in fact, regard either as the infallible criterion of the value of a public journal, to the community or to advertisers. Having received, however, the government returns, immediately upon their issue, we have taken the opportunity of bringing them here before the public : Number each Publication 7000 3000 2307 2153 1460 1423 1381 ]2OO 1000 730 Advertisement Duty Paid. £272 2 0 . 167 5 0 . SS 14 6 . 125 15 6 . 66 IS 0 . 276 12 0 . 87 19 6 . 140 15 6 . 135 16 6 . 229 1 0 . 0 13 6 Mercury Albion Courier Chonicic Journal , Advertiser Times.... STANDARD Mail Mercantile Gazette European EIR Eiberpoot gPtanbaria. TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1842 When the Whig party set about the formation of a new electoral system, there were weak people in the world who anticipated, from the hands of such un doubted philosophers, the conversion of this empire into a political Arcadia. Corruption, bribery at elec tions, every evil practice which had crept into the con stitution, were to have been put down for ever ; the transfer of the electoral privileges from Gatton and Old Sarum to the pure and enlightened ten-pound house holders of Bolton and Stockport was to exchange rot tenness for perfection, disease for health, ignorance and utter recklessness of principle for enlightenment and political virtue. " Schedule A" was the grand arca num—the pivot upon which turned the destinies of the nation ; " the bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill" was to bring about the political regeneration of the world ! And yet within ten years from the passing of this measure the astounding discovery has been made that political immorality never was more rife ; that bribery and corruption at elections were never practised to a more scandalous extent, or with more complete impunity than now ! Constituencies—not merepocket boroughs, but large constituencies—are bartered in open market; bought and sold in the light of day ; jobbed in every variety of way by every variety of men ; all pure patriots, all babblers of their respect for popular rights and freedom of election ! Is a Radical Reformer anxions to hear the sound of his " most sweet voice " in the House of Commons, a seat-broker of the Cop pock school can fit him to a hair. Here is a constitu ency which can be had for a consideration, bestowed upon some knot of local Radicals who dictate to the sensible people (.9 upon whom the legislature imagined that it was conferring the franchise. There is one which some worn-out philosopher will hand over, by a kind of hocus-pocus arrangement, still for a conside ration! Here is a large town which can be purchased by a sop to Popery and a few hundred pounds to pro vide bludgeonmen sufficient to beat the principles of the candidate into the obtuse skulls of the opposing party ; there a snug small place which can be had for a few barrels of beer and a few rolls of ribbon. Sud burys and Nottinghams, Ipswiches and Newcastles abound ; whilst the unreal dream of which reform was in such ardent quest,—purity of election,—it would take a year's travelling to discover in the land. And why is this so ? Why is the attempt to secure purity of election by the Reform Bill a failure ? Sim ply because the notion of perfect virtue, in such a world as this, is an utter farce ; because the notion of popular representation, in any other than an imper fect form, is an idle absurdity. There have always been malversations in all electoral systems ; there al ways will be, despite the holy horror with which men profess to view them, and despite of all the severity which the legislature may resort to for their suppres sion. In fact, there is too much reason to believe that this very severity—this excessive touchiness upon the subject of election expenses—is doing more than any other influence to rob the constituencies, throughout the empire, of the privilege which the Reform Bill professed to confer upon them, and is virtually crc ating a mass of boroughs more rotten than the rotten est which that bill disfranchised. Take an instance of this. Enter any large borough, and examine the working of the present system. The Reform Bill declared that candidates for a seat in the House of Commons should not pay any except certain small expenses ; and forthwith every candidate stipu lated for his return free of expense. Yet money is spent, and necessarily and even properly spent. The candidate must make his opinions kno wn ; he must advertise and print and placard ; he must pay coach hire for himself and for his voters ; and these things, in the case of a large constituency, are not done for nothing. Then, who provides the money ?—for the candidate, especially if a Whig or a Radical, boasts that he pays nothing. It is raised by a subscription ; it is, in most cases, the contribution of a limited num ber of the most influential or busy of the inhabitants ; it is administered by a committee formed from amongst them ; it may be spent in bribery or in treating ; but the member is a pure man—a patriot of the first wa- ter—and goes into the House of Commons as the cho sEn of the people,—the immaculate and spotless choice of an unbought constituency ! And yet what is the fact ? Why, in five cases out of nine the man is no more the choice of that constitu ency than his own horse, if he have such a quadruped ! He is the representative of a small clique only ; and may be actually distateful to the great mass of the peo ple whose representative he is assumed to be. We could point to twenty large boroughs, and to some counties even, where the representation is, virtually, as completely under the dictation of the few individuals who provide the sinews of war—who pay the election expenses of the needy patriot sent up to do small pri vate jobs at the bidding of his patrons—as that of Gatton or Old Sarum, or any other ditch or heap of stones, was controlled by its proprietors in the old days of corruption, before Whiggery had tried its hand at tinkering the constitution ! We have no wish to witness a return to the system of electioneering practised in days gone by—when an estate was spent upon a single contest. We have no wish to see candidates lavish their money in treating and bribery ; but we are convinced that an amount of evil, quite as much to be deprecated, is involved in the present system. Let men pay their own expenses at elections, and, as suggested by Lord Sandon, let the law declare what are to be considered reasonable ex penses. We shall have fewer needy patriots in the House of Commons—fewer political jobbers of the Hume and Bowling school ; but we shall have more honest men; the people will be better represented, and it will not be in the power of a disappointed faction, in every borough throughout the kingdom, to harass in dividual members and take up the time of parliament with endless inquiries into the existence of practices which no candid man can be found seriously to deny. As a remedy for abuses of our representative system, we have more faith in the efficacy of a return to com mon-sense principles and openness than all that legis lation can do, if it persists in maintaining the skew of consummate morality, which can only lead to secret corruption, aggravated by the disgusting hypocrisy with which it is sought to be cloaked. We are much concerned at the proceedings of the Poor Law Guardians, in reference to the selection of designs for the new Workhouse Schools. When pro fessional men are invited to enter into honourable com petition, the most disinterested justice ought to be awarded; and those who sit in judgment on the de signs ought not - to know who is the author of any one plan : but they ought to make the selection without the least bias or partiality. To canvass a gentleman for his vote under such circumstances is to offer him a gross inealt, and is as bad as if a defendant in an ac tion were to offer a bribe to the judge of assize who is to try his cause. If Mr. Scott's plan is the best, let him have the prize due to him ; but let strict and im partial justice be administered, that talent may have free scope and merit its just reward. It appears that professional men, such as Mr. Weightman, Mr. Holme, and Mr. Stewart, who are all too independent to be biassed, and who, from their long experience, are com petent to form an opinion, have declared that Mr. Scott's is not the best design, and that there are others sent in which are much to be preferred. The Poor Law Guardians ought to remember that they have been elected to administer justice indifferently, and not to gratify private or personal predilections; and as the public will have to pay the cost of the building, so the public have a right to expect that the best design will be approved. In the case of other public build ings, the character of the town has been upheld for impartiality ; and we sincerely hope that it will not be injured by the puerile proceedings of the Board of Guardians. The decision come to a fortnight ago, of leaving the matter in the hands of professional men to decide, none of whom or any of their connections are competitors, was undoubtedly a wise decision, and one which would have given satisfaction both to the public and the competing architects themselves ; but to an nul such a resolution at a subsequent meeting is really so childish, and places the board in such a ridiculous position, and exhibits them in such a vacillating cha racter, that we hope, for the sake of justice and con sistency, they will adopt their former resolution, and so end what has been from the beginning something worse than a farce. Unless this be done promptly, no architect of talent and character will for the future be at the trouble of making out designs. The public will be deprived of the benefit of men of ability, and the architecture of the town will suffer from these pro ceedings. Canvassing for the selection of individuals to fill public situations may be allowed; but it cannot for a moment he admitted that it is either wise or just to canvass one of the individuals so elected for his vote and influence in a case where an impartial opinion is not only desirable, but absolutely demanded, both by justice and reason; and where the reverse would in flict an injury on a number of honourable men. We have been waited upon by several gentlemen connected with the Timber Trade of North America, by whom we are assured, that the feeling amongst the trade, generally, against any further reduction in the duties upon Baltic timber and deals is much stronger than we were aware of when we alluded, in a recent article, to the course taken by Sir Howard Douglas upon the discussion of this portion of the tariff. It is not, we are informed, one particular Canadian interest whose opinions our respected representative gave ex pression to, and whose petitions he presented to the House, but that of the owners and growers of timber as well as those interested in shipping property through out the colony. We are heartily sorry if we have inadvertently misrepresented the position of our representative with ;respect to this matter; but it must be acknowledged, that the tone and expressions of Sir Howard, upon the occasion in question, fully warranted us in asking to be enlightened with respect to their origin. Sir Howard had " been pressed" to make the motion which he did ; and when we remembered that the only public meeting called upon the timber duties question in this town was something very much like a failure, and were told that the "twenty-one petitions" which he presented were from people in Canada, we had a perfect right to ask, whether the pressure spoken of had come from this constituency or from the- people of some other place. We, of course, took our own opinions with respect to the justice of Sir Robert Peel's proposition, from the best sources within our reach at home, and those opinions were strongly in its favor. We remembered, too, that there were many interests, and, above all, that of a community to be consulted upon the question ; and we thought at the time that that community had been somewhat slighted in the matter. It is, there fore, exceedingly gratifying to us to find, from the evi dence, both documentary and oral, which has been placed before us, that, however individual opinions may differ with respect to the question at issue between the Colonial Timber Trade and the Government, Sir Howard Douglas has acted with perfect consistency and fidelity to his duty as one of the representatives of this great commercial port. We have, we may repeat, as strong a f ee li ng of interest in the welfare of ou r Canadian trade as Sir Howard himself ; and could we have been convinced, as no doubt he was, that the tariff of Sir Robert Peel would injure that t ra d e an d . the shipping connected with we should probably have taken the very course which lie pursued. STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, Scc Our market for cotton during the past week has been less lively, yet has maintained considerable firmness, notwith standing the temporary check which b us i ness appears to have sustained in the manufacturing districts, since the arrival of the last India mail. The dispcsition to stand out for ad vanced prices has subsided, and 26,610 bales have been sold during the wcek. Of these speculators have taken 2500, and exporters 2010, leaving 22,100 bales taken for consumption. On Saturday we had again a quiet market, the buyers hav ing the advantage, and 3100 bales were sold. Yesterday 4000 bales changed hands, a few hundreds for speculation. Business in the mai tufacturing districts has relapsed into its former ruinous Etat r, the bad prospects from the East having, confessedly, had the most material influence in para. lizing the improvement which we noticed a fortnight ago. In the country trade, too, little is doing, and a few failures which are mentioned have deepened the feeling of gloom which hangs over the market. STATE AND PROSPECTS OF THE CORN MAR KET, AND OPERATION OF 'TIE NEW Law. We have now had a month's experience of the working of Sir Robert Peel's amended corn law ; and if the intent of such law was to put (town that tampering with the averages which alternately withholds supply, until a famine price is attained, and then gluts the market with a large stock at a. nominal duty ; if it was designed to secure regular and mo derate prices, and, at the same time, a regular trade—as we submit Was the object of its supporters—the experience which we have sO . far had must, we think, afford sufficient proof of its entire success. We shall endeavour to collate together a few particulars which will perhaps suffice to afford our rea ders the means of forming a judgment for themselves; and dispel the illusions with which the interested advocates of ultra free-trade doctrines—and especially our wise contem porary the Liverpool Times and others—have sedulously striven for weeks past to surround the subject. The duties under the amended scale became payable on the 2d of May, at which time we held under bond, in Liver- Pool, about one-fourth of the entire stock of foreign grain in Great Britain ; viz., 209,032 quarters of wheat, and 165,166 barrels of flour. We had at the same time in the market 25,000 quarters offree wheat, 5,000 barrels and 5,000 sacks of freeflour. On the 31st of May, after four weeks' operation, the stock of foreign wheat in bond was estimated at 229,136 quarters, showing an increase of 20,000 quarters, or one-tenth of the entire stock on hand. Of flour, how ever, the quantity of bonded was only 111,548 barrels, or a decrease of 53,618,—which will render the stock of both descriptions as nearly as possible equal at the two periods. The quantity of free wheat on the 31st of May was 20,000 quarters, and of free flour 30,000 barrels and 3,000 sacks, from which we can assure ourselves that, since the operation of the duties commenced, importation and the payment of duty for consumption have gone nearly hand in hand. A few days, however, will perhaps make a considerable altera tion in this balanced state of things. The last average de clared, reduced the duty from 12s. per quarter to Ils., and some people were sanguine with respect to a further reduc tion. Some, in fact, went so far as to prognosticate a reduc tion to the lowest point ; and, consequently, importers and consumers have deferred releasing their stocks. The excel lent accounts, however, of the approaching harvest, and the prospect of its being some weeks earlier than was anticipated, has caused speculation to flag. Prices are declining instead of rising ; and in all probability our next week's circulars will show large entries for duty at the present rate of eleven shillings per quarter. It must be borne in mind that the stock of wheat in farmers' hands was never lower than at this period, and con sequently that there was never a fairer opportunity presented for speculators to work upon the fears of alarmists. Yet what has speculation been able to effect upon prices ? On the week previous to the operation of the new law the price per quarter throughout England was 61s. ; on the Gth May it was declared at 60s. Bd.; on the 13th at 595. 9d. ; on the 20th at 60s. 9d. ; on the 27th at Gls. 10d., and on the 3d June at 635. Gd. It is now, we expect, on the decline, and will continue so until harvest. Again, has foreign importa tion been able materially to swell our stocks? It has not; for although we have had an absolute certa:,ity of the duty this year not rising higher than 13s. per quarter, the rate at which the scale came first into operation, and it has since declined successively to 12s. and now to lls., yet the stock, as we have shown, remains at the same point as on the 2d of May The operation of the new law, then, by permitting the introduction of a moderate supply of foreign grain for consumption, when prices were still at a moderate rate, has protected alike the farmer and the revenue from the consequences of an inordinate importation, at a nominal rate of duty, during the present season. At a duty of lls. to 12s. we may now assure ourselves that, except in seasons of extraordinary abundance, a regular trade will take place; and although it may be thought that a favourable harvest this season will act as a prohibition, yet we are scarcely satisfied that such will be the fact. For it must be borne in mind, that from the deteriorated condition of a great portion of the wheats, upon which the average for the regulation of duty is at present being made up, we are paying the present duty of lls. per quarter upon a price nearly 10s. lower than the market value of sound well-har vested grain. A good harvest therefore, although it may lower the value of good wheats nearly 10s. per quarter, may probably give a merely nominal addition to the existing duty upon foreign importations. We fully anticipate that this will be the case ; that the duty will rarely exceed 125.: that, in fact, as we originally calculated, it will range between Gs. and 12s. ; and that we shall thus always be able to command a timely supply of foreign grain, for mixing purposes, at a moderate price and duty. Surely this is a consummation which few advocates of a fixed duly upon foreign corn, and no one who wishes the na tive agriculturer to receive adequate protection, can except against ! LOCAL NEWS, PORTICO.-Mr. Russell's lecture on Character, at the Portico, is expected to be well attended. A great treat may be anticipated. BODIES FOUND. — On Friday morning two boatmen picked up a body which was floating near the light-ship, and which turned out to be the body of Robert Grierson, aged 30, who had been missing three weeks.—On Saturday morn ing a body was picked up near the Rock light-house, which was identified as that of James Taylor, aged 28, who, live weeks ago, was with another man upset from a boat in a squall while returning from New Brighton. CAUTION TO BATHERS.—On Thursday last a young man named Edward Smith, aged nineteen, was drowned whilst bathing near Beacon's Gutter. He could not swim, and was wading in what he probably supposed to be the level shallow when he suddenly plunged over head, but immediately rose to the surface, and again sank struggling in the water. A. man with only one arm went to the rescue of the youth, and endeavoured to push him into the shallow with his feet but could not succeed. The body was taken out of the water in a few minutes, and means were used to restore animation but without effect. An inquest was held on Saturday, before Mr. Curry, and a verdict of " accidental death" returned. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—it is our painful duty to re cord the death, by drowning, of Master Thomas Cram, son of George Cram, Esq., of Everton-road, and a pupil of the Rev. J. A. Wilson, of May-place, West Derby. It appears that the deceased and two of his companions had separated themselves during play hours, on Saturday afternoon, from Mr. Cadman, the assistant master, and the rest of the young gentlemen; and that the two elder ventured upon two large doors which'had been taken a few days previously for a tem porary purpose, and inadvertently lett at the edge of a pit in a field adjoining the premises at May-place, all approach to which Mr. Wilson had specially and recently interdicted to his pupils, except in his own company or that of the assistant master. When they had proceeded a little way the boards began to sink, upon which one of them, who was able to swim a little, made for the bank, which he succeeded in reaching, but Master Cram seems to have gone almost im mediately to the bottom. The survivor lost no time in giv ing the alarm at the house, which was only at a short distance from the fatal spot, and assistance was procured in a very little time, but the body was not recovered until Mr. Cad man, who had been seeking for the missing young gentlemen in another part of the premises, came up, dived into the pond. and, after two or three efforts, found it, and brought it to the bank. As soon as the body, which might have been from ten minutes to a quarter of an hour in the water, was deposited upon the bank of the pit, immediate measures were tak en t o restore animation. Meanwhile two medical gentlemen had been sent for, Mr. Latham, from Wavertree, and Mr. Hill, from the Old Swan, and when the body bad been conveyed to the house, all the means recommended by the Humane Society for the restoration of suspended animation were per severingly employed for two hours by the surgeons and their attendants, but, we regret to say, without effect. An inquest was held upon the body yesterday (Monday), and a verdict of accidental death was returned. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—It will be remembered that about twelve months ago, two of the clerks employed by Messrs. John Bibby and Sons, Wapping, absconded from their employment, and immediately afterwards some defal cations were found in the accounts. Notice was given to the police, to whom a description of the parties was handed, and they have since been on the look out for them. Their names were Joseph Webb and Roger Dauber, both about 35 years of age. On Friday morning, about half-past one o'clock, Inspector Maddocks apprehended Dauber, while he w as walking from this town to Edge-hill, where it appears he re sides, and the prisoner was taken before Mr. Rushton. Mr. Edwards, cashier to Messrs. Bibby, said that the pri soner was shipping clerk, and had to make out the freight notes, &c., and Webb was collector. For some time pre vious to their absconding, he (witness) had frequently ob dseersvireednt not t e m t i b n e e o a v r e n r e h s e t s p r d r a a n t e d c h o a n d v e h r i s s a s t i n o s n p , i c a i o n n d s evincing a some thing wrong going on between them. On the 6th and 7th of April some defalcations of monies paid for freights and not accounted for, were discovered, and on the former day Webb absented himself, and has not yet been found. The prisoner left soon afterwards. The witness read a list of amounts paid to the prisoner by Messrs. Samuel and Thos. Ashton, which he had paid over, with the exception of £2 165., to which he had given a receipt. Another sum had been re ceived in December last, and not accounted for. The books had also been falsified. The parties who had paid them to him were not, however, at hand, so that direct evidence of the fact could not be immediately adduced. Other sums were also deficient, but the particulars had not yet been ob tained. Under these circumstances, Mr. Rushton re manded the prisoner until Saturday, advising Mr. Edwards in the meantime, to go over the books, make out a statement of e defalcations, and bring up the necessary witnesses. The prisoner, who was before considered a respectable man, said, on being apprehended, that he had paid over all he had received to the cashier and to Mr. Jones, another clerk in the employ. He was accordingly remanded.—On Saturday he was again brought up, when the following evidence was read against him :—lt was Isis business, amongst other things, to receive money and pay it over to the cash-keeper, with a statement. On the 6th April , last y ea r , he handed to the cash-keeper a statement setting forth that he had received £56 10s. 2d. from Messrs. Ashton and Co. On the 7th April Mr. Edwards, the cash -keeper, had a conversation with him respecting the other clerk who had absconded. Mr. Edwards went to another part of the office for a few minutes, and on his return, found that the prisoner had departed. On the Bth April, Mr. Edwards received a letter from the prisoner, which set forth that he (Dauber) " had avail e d hi mself of the term culling." m r • Edwards proceed e d to Messrs. Ashton ' s office and there discovered that the amount paid to the pri ' son er was £59 6s. 2d., and that h e h a d , consequently , re tained £2 16s. On Friday Inspector Maddox met the pri soner in Canning-street. Mr. Maddox accosted him, and he replied,o am glad you ha ve met me, f or now i t w ill a ll There were oth er against the prisoner, il were Th not gone into. e prisoner had nothing to bcumte the y o cases say, and was, on Saturday, committed for trial. At the close of the hearing, the prisoner's wife, a well-dressed, lady-like individual, who wept bitterly and appeared overwhelmed with distress, applied to Mr. Rushton for permission to see her h us band, which was at once granted.