The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-09 00:00:00

PI ,~ •July 9, 1 S-14. TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. On Wednetiny the usual monthly meeting of the Cowl- El Was held at the Tawn.,hall. FINANCE COMMITTEE. Prom the proefedirirri of the 1 ,, n nice Committee it ap peared than. the Town-clerk had received a corninunici tiot.i from the solicit or o f the ve n ders relative to the de!av Which had taken plat .t in the settlement of the purchase oft heWavertre,-hall estate—that all parties were at pre sent in treaty for an amicable arrangement, and that it i ras hoped the settl emen t wou ld t a ke place in a few days. he proceedings were confirmed. The Corn WATCH COMMITTEE. mittee reported that on the 25th ult. a pars raPh ha d appeared in the Morning Post, to the effect street that the late fire in Bancroft's ware4ouse, in Redcross stable h was the work of an incendiaoy. Tie Head Con fu., , reported that there was not the least ground r Believing the fire to have been the act of an incendiary, and that reuort had been forwarded for insertion in the 31orning Pont. DOCK COMMITTEE. The proceedings of the Dock Committee, under the ex isting acts, having h-en read, Mr. BRAMLEY-MOOR.E moved th--ir confirmation, and rethird ported t' , at the Liverpool Dock 1311 had pissed the readin; in tile House of Lords just as it went from wl7;,,;," u ncil, with the exception of the leasing clause, ."" was restricted to twenty-one years. This was the only to that had been made. • The Ni Alcoa expressed his gratification at hearing the intelligence. IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE. lipnn t' ne proceedings of the Improvement Committee being read, Mr. ti • v as a • HORNBY said it appeared that Parker-street arrang-re , en the bout to be widened, and that any new undertakings part of the committee were contrary to previous fi nau - elt, Particularly in the pre , ,ent state of the tb n,,ekes of the corooratin. The widening of the street, •12 - b" . exceedingly desirable. would entail a heavy ex ...-nse. taMr, B "e Y, ARCLA Y said it was not to be done with any new on l b ut with mone y the expenditure of which was T h : 1 Y co , itemplat:d. - Proceecq rig , were confirmed. in moving o RTs OF LAW COMMITTEE. Mr. H • LAWRENCE, CO proceedings of this committee. took the opportunity of St ating that, as he should be absent from Liverpool ,nr fo t r o a r COnSitleTahle time, and as it was essential n ly_nr e c v e n ss te L .. thftenembers of the committee to attend and ii ci s selves to their arduous duties, he wished place to be filled by some other gentleman. Mr._ Barclay had given valuable advice. and greatly assisted the committee, and be.proposed that at the the ens in u e it a tt ti c ai o e u , n i c le il Mr. Barclay be • elected a member.(Mr. Lawrence) begged leave to resign his seat on the committee. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE asked, with respect to the in ternal arrangements of the Law Courts, whether he un derstood the committee to express an opinion in their proceedings that the courts were likely to be inconveni ently large, arid whether they were proposing to remedy that defect by calling on the council to incur an additional outlay ? Mr. LLOYD said that Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Baron Alderson were consulted on the subject, and that the for mer had expressed an opinion Chit t e courts were too large. I n consequence o f t h. s the committee had asked Mr. Elates, the architect. to make a report ut on the ne • eessary a lt erat i ons, so t h at t h e council might have the fullest information. Mr. Elrnes thought it desirable to erect some co l umns, f rom w hi c h curta i ns might be drop • sp e d , '0 that when the public took an interest in any trial, a nd th e court was crowded, the curtains might be drawn P, as was the case in some of the London courts. The - columns would not make any alteration in the roof. The proceedings were confirmed. EDUCATION COMMITTEE. The been read pceeding s o f t h e Ed ucat i on C omm itt ee h av i ng , ro Mr. MOLYNEUX moved their confirmation, and said that at the next council it would be necessary to fill up the vacancy i n the committee, occasioned by the death of Mr. R as. t,Mr. G LADSTONE said he wanted not to excite any un easunt feeli ngs b y offering remarks on the subject of - ` 4le4t inn, Yet h e cou ld not but express his regret that, onnrtssidering the important objects of the schools, the re tieuf the Education Committee to the council ebould . ao limited in their details—so meagre and unsatisfac 16utramend 7_4°7. H. . Perfectly recollected that some time ago a reso vt as passed by the committee, and of erwards con the i iio toirt b !ne the cau • 1 derin it no longer necessary on lehoolas": the comnitt r e e e n to n g piirt to the council the re enominations of the cnildren who attended the But he ne ver un d erstoo d by th e a doption of that I);_e.etetnoe:lfiu i that th e counc i l were to h e k ept i n a state of gnrrce as to the efficiency of the schools, and tl He Y were conferring on the community. hoped the committee might think it necessary to take an early °PPortun ity of stating the advantages which the e leTsnorer classes especially were deriving front theac. ; for a s :, i dered that the council would not discharge their duty the on re p r esentative s of the people unless they saw that 'dicio nci - "e Y expended in the support of the schools was ju re - t 'slY and proper! expended , and that the community eeived ao Y .. r. adequa'e return. acho o t ' II• LAWRENCE, on the part of the South ,dueealw ,s, challenged any inquiry which could be instituted. of s Perfee tlY satisfied the schools were doing a great , cotnea . good. i - 1 there was anything wrong in them, the lad report it tee would immediately come down to the council ,fa c t ori ; but so long as everything was going on satin ' tePort tag no report was needed. The committee did not Thad e .:'" names or creeds of the children—indeed they • Stile dll •,° infl l fTieS of 'th e ki n d. 'fli r ty 1E44 not whether he the u lir eL l 'vela Roman Catholics or Protestants ; and s ties. e co __ T ii! it nttee was a wis e d eterm i nat i on on th e p a , t of h ot h irl and council to abstain from all such inept • curtain, w a surest way to prevent lioman Catholics from • Mr• N o !: t° ask such questions. (Hear.) ~ n wh at t i sr n asked whether Mr. Gladstone would point numb the ilia could report ? They repotted the upon which .attendance ; and if there was anything else objection t,,lararination was required, there could be no r 1-I„re"rt it. Lasts --s " cm rea ker, and ne agreed with the observation of the was ineth c i enpu t!'ud that if Mr. Gladstone tin ught there what ' principles decid e d ..: i' it colisisted u . ::, l " s aht to go and examine, and see in l 'a schools we.e conducted on the them ales ""n by. the council. Tne conduct of Wwilishet ' altsnde lie knew not dr tceeding in a manner satisfactory to those whether Mr. Gladstone eniar r the eotemittee to report the examination of parti the i. the s ; but it' he attended and saw any deficiency, tou .I(7lthit,ee should feel obliged to him fur information fn ( In anything he discovered incorrect and not ttswer g islet,ir w e or which the schools were instituted. litid if he P b 8 . fi d with what he witnessed, lie (Mr. Ilotivor) was he would report the tact to the coutii,te 'C''• 1311 E user ything was going on from day d to o. da e y i o ti f ac ordinary course of every school, and w.th u a nde e r ,, degree the tivity and diligence on the part Schools were placed, that was a o l f to t g h e o t s h e er satisfactory to Gladstone would point out any t he committee. thing that the adopt f com mi ttee could specifica ly do, they should be happy to In hi t s wishes. (Hear.) Mr. HORNDY obsctved that he was extremely ave rse t o saying anything. g on a td subject ; which had excited so mu c h tinoleasant feell that he would nest advert to the n principle on which i a the schools were conducted. He agreed, however, with Mr. Gladstone that it was most de airaLle to have a report of the advantages of the system of e ducation which was being pursued by the every other department they required a strict account of every l farthin • expended ; and in a matter of so great on . Portanee as the education of the poorer classes, they ought " have a much more detailed account than that they ge terallv received. in." Pro All he wished for was an account of gress the children were making, and what num- Air r er 4 r ' n e eiving education— ' Mr . n • lt • LAwnersco.—That you have. those ' "RNIIY concluded by repeating that he had made se?bservations without reference to the principle of education.r decided on by the council. b_ i n. • GLADsTONE said reference had been made to what _eettfitouglit necessary in the drawing up of the report. In 1 I d azt place, he con-idered that ail classes of society p oraq equal right to the benefits derivable from the . cor to k now expenditure ; and if this were the case, he wished the t;_ w whether, without distinction of religious creed, b e new_eerr classes were deriving benefit from t r l e te nd s e c r l i i n o u ol7 .t . • aneriseevesa understood, when the resolution ehildr Was to report the religious . denomination of the -en w of en t l h icenit as passed, that the chairman, or any member r a e c n ati nn Committee was not to Ilse and state that n the or different religious denominations were But lt council had never heard i'eures t ne subjec . t ; and beyond the mere matter of . • he td a la s to the there numbers in aVendance, he had never _mngle c ircumstance worth listening to. Surely ka a k in wust 1, of thiBg hat er b e some children in attendance who were Proficiency . der t h e than others. He was certain fer the details of the education proceedings un • Z e nt hitt) particulars sYstem were 'extremely full, and that they tioy!t aurysasrticulars of all kinds; and when a number of tt e l ntee t a C: ed others, there was generally some sort of c at . dark . il t cif them. But now the council were quite in eteeaa!td he de really knew nothing of what was going eef v i 4 n Lated ,ged any member to rise and say . that he was on tk! fron t t l l the advantages the community werere . '.ll r - T, was , schools, and that the money expended to be se hail" and judiciously laid out. . the m. ', t ea by . 44 1 the advantages of the schools were • the c onh l h,ere e r 2 e rY individual who chose to frequent periodical -"n was r-*" no difficulty about it ; every member of self, exam. re to go and visit ; and there were • . b e t if he s inatioos He frequently walked in him -asattauld • saw anYthi S. ' he conceived to be wrong, n littoedi a , ag which delights ever yet they' te Y bring it before the council . ; but he , . e that h was not highly gratified and ... VinelPle oni"ndeed, Mr. e Gladstone was * aiming at the • tin o r ; P arke r 7 i l ie b the education was conducted, which he by the 'r h e ciatbe.r thought he was, that was . another commit etto,..itnurnittee carried out the principle adopted 1 4 ' to th stra nge ee h ad very letter ; and the conduct of e etedge for m done them credit. (Hear.) It was very v it r. Gladstone to get up and oppose the pro as It n n the ro 144 Ptnisible t o und that the reports were vague.. How , p ri t.teti coa ~,. make any other reports, seeing that the It a ! le lPle e ra ;'" the council were being carried out, that the •ti ...lor ,ty of thepretty well settled, and that, so long as the . t r IZIPIe vio..;.council was constituted as at present, that tite r ! Y i er war ",; (l be maintained. If Mr. Gladstone would M' ne (mu any specific charge against the man.age that tiilleackr• Parker) should be happy to support him. l 'ae ° r epot nu ltN, while agreeing with Mr. Gladstone • aztr ts were • sanest tee ms! d • ere meagre, candidly admitted that it said iffioutt to make them otherwise. The bu tnakeNllt i , of ordinary schools of this kind could not in the it tr,ter_oryard in a report in such a manner as to appeTriProec4tlng ; and the fullness of detail observable wi th ,!nfe tit i c tlgB of former committees arose out of the ale. 014, some of the boys as monitors. He agreed 's etone as to the right of all parties to receive educa ion at the Corporation z-chools; bat that poi , In he,o l alrea iy se - tied. In otter r.,pe , ts i.e did not tie committee con id give any general iotorm , tion e-pect mg a co,nmon selrmi of tttis descriation. (I-Jeer ) lle had only voine to the schools ontte, in emoequence of a r,inark having been made in the council wh'eli made him think that lie was n t a very welcome vision - . Mr. G. 11. I,AwßENcE.—Yiere was no feeling of that sort : I am sure we shall he very glad to see Mr. Black burn th-re at any time. (hear.) Mr. HonusoN thought Mr. 131.ckburn had mistaken the feeling of the committee. They were orpased to his views, but, nevertheless, they should be glad to see biin at the schools, and to attend to any observations he might hive to make. (Hear, hear.) He had an undoubted right to ga there ; and he (Mr. Hodgson) hoped every gentleman would feel that while the maj rity in the coun cil took tin it present stand on the subject of education, they respected the feelings and motves of those who dif fered from them in opinion. (Hear.) Mr. BLACKBURN thought it would be des'rable to no tify to the Council when the public examinations at the schools were ab nut to take place. It was understood that a notification to this effect would in future be made. The proceedings were confirmed. HEALTH COMMITTEE. The proceed : flys of the Health Committee comprised a report on the washhnu-es mud baths for the last two years. It appeared from th s report that the omnber of baths used in 1813 was 11,661 and in 184-1, 16 ; 323, showing an increase of 4662. In 1843, 9837 tubs of clothes hal been broueht to the washhou•es, and in 1814, 12,067 tubs, showing an increase of 2230. The receipts from the baths and washh ons ,- s in 1843 amounted to £159 118. ld., and in 1814 to £2BO 2s. ILL, showing an inerea.e of £l2O Ils., and a total income for the two years of £439 13s. 2J. Th e proceedings of this committee, also comprised a report from the Town-clerk to Sir James Graham, on the sun ject of cellar occupation. It appeared an idea was enter tained at the Ronne-office that the measures rusotted to by tie authorities of Liverpool for putting an end to the occupation of cellars were accompanied with inconvenient sev , rity ; and the letter was written with the view of dis abusing Sir Juices Graham of any such erroneous inn pression. It set forth that, by means of notices and oh cards, the number of inhAhed cellars in crurts was re duced from 700 to 551, and at present to 117; and that this was dote wits one ,tinv penalty being enforced, any forcible proceeding being had recourse to, and without a single complaint of harshness. In the sane manner, the inhabited cellars, not in courts, wou'd be dealt with— mildly but firmly. There were 6315 of such cellars in Li verpool, and of these 2334 might pe wide conformable to the act, leaving 3978 to be dealt with. - CO RON ER'S ACCOUNTS. The coroner's account:, qmonnting to £62 93. 6d. were referred to the Finance Committee, tor consideration and payment. REGISTRATION' OF VOTERS. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said it appeared by a recent act, that the council had to certify the expenses incurred in registering the borough voters in Liverpool and the out-totmsliips. Those expenses accounted to £299 18s. 4,1. in the present year, which sum would have to be divided, according to the number of voters in each patish or dis trict, among the respective parties. There were, in all, 15,581 voters in Liverpool, and the aforesaid sum of £299 the parish would have to pay out of the poor-rates. The expenses were certified accordingly. ST. ANNE'S WARD. The TOWN-CLERK said it would be recrllected that a memorial from certain burgesses of St. Anne's IVard was presented to the council at the List monthly meeting, and that no directions were at that time given. Since then he had received two communications. The fir- t was dated the 2iith of June. and signed E. Bradley. It was to the effect that he (the Town-clerk) would facilitate his inquiry as to the alleged disqua ificatton of Mr. R•,bert Jones by applying at the Parish-office, Harper-street, where it would be found that Mr. Jones's name had been erased from the books, as a person assessed for the relief of the roor. It fu•ther stated, that the occupancy of the brewery in Rose-bill had passed into other hands, and that the board at the gate was painted " R. Garrett, successor to Robert Jones ;" and it concluded as follows :--" The truth is, Mr. Jones's furniture is disposed of, and he is in lodgings." Then he (the Town-clerk) received another communication, signed R. Garrett, the person, be be lieved. referred to in Bradley's letter; and this certifies that Mr. Jones at present occupies a house from Garret, in Bedford -street, and that he is his tenant. Under these circumstances, he (the Town-clerk) had no authority to proceed ; his duty was, to lay the communica ions before the council ; and it would be for the council to give direc tions as to th - proper course to pursue. He (the Town clerk) had had no communication with Mr. Jones. Mr. Thompson, Mr. Parker, and Mr. Chalmer were appointed a committee to inquire and report on the sub ject. The council broke up at one o'clock. DOCK COMMIITEE. There were pre&ent at the tneetinir on Thursday last Ales,rs. Moore, Nicol, Barclay, Holt, Holmes, Moly neux, Tobin, Kendall, Sandbaca, Bald, Bulley, Middle ton, and Ripley. It was referred to the Surveyor to report on the pro priety of lowering the bottom of No. 2 Queen's Graving Dock- The number of days the flags, indicating the docks to be full, had been flying duti g the last qu , rter, was stated to be as follows :—Waterloo and Victoria Docks 37 days, Prince's 54, George's 65, Canning and Salt house 24. The three keerers of the transit shed requested perm's 'sloth as they had been working suffrage, to charge the merchants something for overtime. The application was refused by a majority of 11 to 4. Mr. 'slim, cared attention to the circumstance that the cargo of the Cantinas had been put into the transit shed without being weighed, and tl:e importers finding they could have the sheds without rent, the cargo not having passed the scale, declined to get it weighed, to the inconvenience of parties who bad cargo in the vessel, for they could not get it. Some are angement should be made with the Customs, otherwise a few parties might keep the sheds altogether. It nas resolved to refer the matter to the Warehouse Committee. M r. TOBIN thought it was desirable that the committee should h ive printed copies of the evidence gi,•en in both !mutes of p itliament on the Liverpool Dock 13111, that they might see who sere the friends or otherwise of the docks, and whether paid dock servants bad done their duty or not. The parliamentary committee ought to have had the evidence printed. The CHAIRMAN said the printing would cost at least £3OO. Mr. Tony.; said if it cost £3,000 it would be of service to them. Mr. RIPLEY said they had better also print the evi dence on the Birkenhead Dock 13i11. Mr. Them. would have no objection, as it would show that the opposition to the schen)o over the water was en tirely upon public grounds. It would also show that if the navigation of the river was injured they had doue their duty. Mr. EVANS thought their cash account, showing how Much the opposition cost, was quite as much as was ne cessary. Mr.' RIPLEY said he was not serious, but he felt that if they were going to throw away £3OO on the evidence on the one bill, hey miAht as well do so on the other. lie added, that the evidence on the Birkenhead bill had been printed, and that they had received copies of it. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to Mr. Tobin as to the state of the Liverpool Dock Bill, said it had been read a third lime, and had gone down to the Commons for the verbal alterations to be approved of. It had pas,ed in the same state as it had left the committee, with the exception of the leasing clause, which was reduced to twenty-one years. lie entered into a statement, to show that the publication of the evidence would be of great importance in reference to several matters, which he named, relating to the port, the receipts of which had decreased £4,000. Mr. Nicor. said the opposition to the bill in the Lords would cost £2,000. _ Mr. EVANS said, " that opposition was intended to save £25,000, which I am prepared to say will be thrown away. lam prepared for the war. The press is open to us all. lam prepared to substantiate every thing I said, and to justify it." After some further conversation the subject was defer red till next week, so that an estimate of the cost of print ing might be obtained, and the meeting adjourned. THE LIVERPOOL EYE AND EAR IMFIRMARY. It must be highly gratifying to the benevolent supporters of this institution to find that its benefits extend even to remote districts, and that their liberality is appreciated, as is evinced by an interesting case, the particulars of which were recently supplied to the Newry Telegraph, by Roger Hail, Esq., a gentleman of high standing as a magistrate in the county of Down. Mr. Hall, in his letter to the editor, (dated 28th ult.,) states, that " the patient is the son of one of my labourers, and I can bear testi mony from his report of the truth of what is set forth, (in the report enclosed,) as well as to the kindness, libe rality, and humane attention with which he was admitted by the managers of the Eye and Ear Infirmary, in Liver pool, through the interest and recommendation of Mr. Neill, the surgeon of the institution, to whose skill and care, under Providence, the boy owes the blessing of the restoration of sight." This case (from the report-book of the institution here) is then given. The patient was " Absalom Hanan, aged 12 years, an intelligent boy, from near Warrenpoint. county of Down, who was admitted an in-patient, under Mr. Neill's care, January 16th, 1844." His statement, on entering, was as follows : " When about six years old he was attacked with small-pox, which deprived him of sight, and from that time to the present he has been quite blind. He was taken to many medical men, who pronounced his case hopeless. Steps ere taken to have him admitted into the Blind Asylum of Dublin, when Mr. Hall, of Narrow-water, County Down, thought it would be well fi r st to try if any operation would restore his sight, and he sent the boy to Liverpool." The state of the boy's eyes, when admitted, was a com plete atrophe, or destruction of the left eye : the pupil of the right eye was obliterated, and the iris thickened and much diseased. (We condense the remainder of the re port.) Mr. Neill—though with little hope of success — performed two operations (in February, and again in larch) for the formation of an artificial pupil, but in both instances an unhealthy action resulted, and the pupil which had been formed again closed. In April he again operated, and succeeded in removing a considerable portion of the iris, "leaving an excellent pupil—no inflammation en sued ;" and when the eye had been accustomed to lights, a very useful amount of sight was obtained. In three weeks he was allowed to run about and amuse himself. Ile one day absented himself from the hospital, and his absence for six hours created uneasiness in the matron. On his return, being asked where he had been, he replied, "To the docks," and described shat he had seen. It was afterwards ascertained that he had passed through crowded th nong'tfare.. and round the docks, without assistance. lie was sent home On the 7th of May. Th, remarkable pnin , s in the case are. that he was six years blind; ilia one eye wa• destr , yed and t' e vt , er nearly so, as the light was quite shut oral; yet, e'er two unsnevessfol operations, the third suec-eded : the ease al-o shows how- much in jury thc, eve e::n sustlin without destroying the parts essential for sight. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. morning, about two o'clock ; and our iiivrmaiit saw about twelve other perroms carried or led away. gretvlY injured or shaken. One !ail was covered up in the ruins up stairs, and when a spade used in clearing away aeci deinally touched Iti4 head, the little fellow cried out, ' Oh, mother, mether !' and. on gettin , out, shook himself, and added, ' I'm worth two dead folks yet !' It. will be some two months before work can he 11 sumed in the mill, as the machinery and buildings will have to undergo extensive repars, in addition to the renewal of the boilers. One of the large chimneys is also so much shattered, that it must be pulled down and rebuilt." FURTHER PARTICULARS. The following additional particulars are derived from an article in the Al nchester Guardian of Wednesday : immediately after the explosion, the entrance of the mill from Bridge-street was besieged by the mothers of the children:employed in the works, and their fears were heightened by a mechanic named !Ogg being led out pro fusely bleeding from the head, and after him the fireman, apparently dead ; but the apprehensions excited were re lieved by the appearance of several girls and others who came-out unhurt, and it was soon afterwards announced that the hands in the mill itself were all safe. Bark-street was covered with heavy materials, and had any persons been in at the time, they must have been klled. Two or three windows were completely forced in by the concus sion, one of them without a pane being broken, and a great number were destroyed by the flying missiles. Roofs', doors, and window-shutters were also injured. One portion of the boiler, the top, fell in Bark-street, and another in the interior card of the factory, m'ssing a shed in which many were employed. H ad it fallen on the ro,i, the destruction of ife would have been great. The shock to the whole ranze of building was so great, that the hands shrieked out and thought themselves lost. The fema'e, Bridget Hart, (before noticed, and since dead.) was first discover: d; afterwards, the bodies of two men, James Swift and James M'Donald, dreadfully mutilated. They awe employed in the drying-room over the engine house. Three or four others were seriously injured, but arc expected to recover. The end of the mill next the engine house was so much shattered, that it must be taken down. No satisfactory reason has yet been assigned for the accident. The damage will be from £1,500 to £2,000. James Swift has left a wife and four children, all grown up ; M`Donald has left a wife, now pregnant. Bridget Hart was a married woman, and has left three children. An inquest was held on view of the bodies on Wednes day, and adjourned to Tue , clav (this day.) THE NEW POOR LAW. The following is Lord Sandon's speech in the House of Commons, on Friday, on this subject. His lordship said he was exceedingly glad to hear the di-claimer that the pripciple of _the new poor. law was ..the workhouse test. (Hear, hear.) Although it came late, he repeated that he was glad to hear it; but it certainly was not the language held in the earlier discussions in that house upon the sub ject. (Hear.) But the attempts which had been made to carry out this law had led to this result. There was the most convincing evidence, that the workhouse test was unfit to be applied to the condition of a country like ours. (Hear.) The right hon. baronet had alluded to the report of the Commissioners of Po o r-l aw I nqu i ry i n Scotland in terms of just praise. And from that report he would extract a decisive denunciatio n o f th a t t es t. "The distinguishing principle of this system is, that its efficacy as a test of destitution or stimulus to industry depends upon the restraint it imposes upon personal liberty. (Hear, hear.) In proportion as the regulations of the workhouse cease to be irksome, the operation of the test is obstructed. The discipline of the gaol must be approached by the discipline of the workhouse, which is of a purely mechanical character—(hear, hear)—ap realing only to the lowest principles of our nature." (Hear.) "It did not promote the development of any intellectual energy, neither did it foster feelings of manli ness and independence." (Hear.) " Its influence dries up the last impulses of social life." (Hear.) "It de stroys all feelings of self-respect—(hear, hear)—and alienates the inmates from almost every sympathy which either in equals or superiors is inherent in rightly con stituted natures." (Hear.) " Repulsion and discomfort being the sole means by which this workhouse test works —that repulsion and discomfort must be carefully kept up for its operation." (Hear, hear.) Here , was a de scription of the " workhouse test," written, not by po pular wrirers, but by calm, learned, able investigators, among whom were men like Lord Belhavetrand Mr.' Home Drummond. (Hear.) And he believed every word of it. (Hear, hear.) He knew the system was worked only by mechanical means ; and which had begotten those feelings of irritation, and - that sense of harshness in the people, of which such unhappy symptoms were not wanting. (Hear.) Toe evils of the old system were of course industriously detailed, and none would defend them; but they had all been reproduced under the new law. • (Hear, hear.) Let it. be asked, had wages been raised by that new law? (Hear, hear.) He could not find that this had been the ca- - e anywhere; although there had been at first the ex traordinary stimulus of railway speculations, which pro duced some temporary effect on labour, permanently, wages had been left where they were (hear); while dis content, resulting from the operation of the Poor Law and from distress, had pro lured its terrihle consequences— fires. (Hear.) It was said by some that destlution, in deed, alone was to be regarded in administering relief; that there should be no discrimination as to character. But the commissioners whose report he had just quoted said, far more truly, " We hold that no just system of poor laws can exist, excluding, in the distribution of re lief. the consideration of character—which should be a fundamental consideration." (Hear, hear.) " The man who has conducted himself with activity and industry for the bettering of his condition, and has only fallen through misfortune, not by fault, has a just title to the sympathy of his fellow-men." (Hear, hear.) " And not only that the necessary relief.be cheerfay accorded, but full scope given for all the ministrations of charity to his comfort." (Cheers.) How, with such testimony on record, could those who opposed parts of the new law be properly sub jected to the reproach of pandering to pouular passions and prejudices—(hear)—the accusation which was so un fiirly applied to them? (Hear.) The size of the unions, it could not he denied, was a vest practical grievance to the poor. (Hear.) tie felt, however, the difficulty of a suniniary and sweeping condemnation of the present law without any substitute for it ; and therefore he could not assent to the proposition at present before the house. Ile preferred trusting to the processes of improvement— through public opinion —in which so much progress had been made ; and he relied on public opinion also to con trol the practical administration of the law. THE BIRKENHEAD DOCK BILL. The proceedings of the committee in the House of Lords on this bill was resumed on Tuesday, when the committee, throogh the Earl of Stradbroke, announced that they considered that sufficient evidence lied been given as to the great advantages that would accrue from the proposed works ; and thought that the opposers of the bill should now show in what their construction would be ijurious. On this intimation Mr. Hihiyard said he should call no more witnes•es, and should proceed to sum up in the morning. —On Wednesday morning the room was crowded. to hear the swim - dog up for the promoters, arid the opening on the part of the Corporation and Dock Trustees, the opposers. The co nsel, solicitors, and agents of the latter mustered in great force, and among their wi nesses in attendance were Sir Thos. Brancker, Messrs. Okil Sothern, Askew, Hunt, Nl* Bride, Gurniss, Hudson, H its has, Chaff,rs, Cooke, and others. Mr. Hildyard's summing up occupied two hours. He considered the Corpora ion and Dock Trustees as one body. He noticed ;he open and accurate survey of the port last yea , by Mr. Rendall. There had been no con cealment ; and Mr. Laird had distinctly stated that his purchase had been made for dock purposes. He alluded to the two attempted sales of land on the pool by the cor poration ; at the s.-cord sale the land was offered with full litierty to build docks, but was not sold, in consequence of the advanced price repuired." - A large portion or the Bir kenhead estate was also sold to Mr. Jackson and Mr. Pot- ter, on the express condition that they might make docks and other w. rks. On the sth of March, as soon as the contract was completed, a petition was presented against the bill ! The corporation, after the plan was matur,d, sold £I - 15.000 worth of the land, at an advance of 6s. a yard, an advance caused by the works grey now opposed. He then went into the engineering part of the question, contending that Vie walling up of the pool would cause no diminution of the water, as the narrowest part of the chan nel was across from Seacombe, below the pool. The en gineers agreed that the tide would have greater velocity, as did Professor Chan s. Tire whole evidence went to show that the proposed works would be highly advanta geous, and. not injurious to the navigation. The Lords of the Admiralty and the Lords Conservators'of the River, approved of the bill, and he called upon their lordships to rep , •rt. Tne Earl of Stradhroke said that Mr. Austin should explain the conduct of the corporation as regards the sales of the laud rtated• for it did appear to be tar from being clear, open, and emir. _ Mr. Ausdir said this was one of the many misrepresen tat ions made-against the two bodies for whom he appeared. He entered into an exposition of the constitut.on of those bodies, which did not act in concert, but frequently op posed each other. He read Mr Jackson's speech of the 7th November, which presented a plan very different to that now before their lordships. The entire accommoda tion was now confined to a tidal basin of thirty-eight acres, one dock of three, another of ten, and a beach of six acres, instead of the great plan original y announced. No warehouse yards or quays were here proposed ; all was confined to one huge, penned up pool. A very small amount of accommodation would by the measure be afforded to Liverpool, the docks of which now extended over 112 acres, and when finished, would extend over 116 acres. He commented on the engineers evidence at great length, an-I stated he should Bali witnesses. It was then agreed that Mr. Lowndes, who appeared for certain owners of coasting vessels, should be heard be fore any witnesses, arid the committee adjourned. On Thursday. Mr. Lowndes was heard in support of a petition against the bill from 186 persons interested as owners of coasting vessels. There were two classes of coasters—one class that used Wallasey beach, and the other that did not. The petitioners were of the fornrer, and con-idered the measure very injurious to them. The beaching ground was most valuable to them when their vessels could not enter the docks at Liverpool. Four hundred vessels were in the custom of resorting to the beach, or the anchorage opposite the pool, which afforded them ample accommodation—such as the projected docks and basins could not supply, and there was no power in the present bill to extend them. There was, however, space on the south side of Woodside pier, and also on the north side of the pool ; and he prayed their lordshira to insert a clause to compel the construction of the requisite works, and to oblige the commissioners to keep at all times a certain level of water in their ten-acre (or free) dock, and keep it from silting up, otherwise not to receive an money from vessels entering it. Mr. John Askew, harbour-master of Liverpool, was the.first witness. He said the erection of a sea-wall off the pool would destroy the anchorage-ground there, by causing an increased velocity of tide,—already so great . that no pilot would anchor a ship off Seacombe. there was good anchorage off the Magazines, and from Birken head towards the Sloyne, as well as off the pool atVal lasey ; but if a gale of wind came on when a vessel was at anchor in a race like that off Seacombe, the probabili y was, the anchors would not hold the ship any more than a pair of scrapers. He had recently ascertained by the log, that the tide ran 71 knots an hour. There would be very great difficulty in getting into the Birkenhead dock with a west wind, and with an east wind vessels would have to be warped out. It would take as long to warp two vessels out of the pool, as would enable sixty to make sail from the anchorage or the beach, and it would not be safe to lay in the open basin in certain winds. In cross-examination nothing particular was elicited, except that an objection he had before entertained to Woodside Pier could be removed by its being raised to the level of the sea-wall. Mr. Hudson, master of N 0.2, pilot-boat ; Mr. Hughes, a pilot ; and Mr. M•Bride and Mr. Garniss, dock• mas ters, were successively called, and their evidence was to the effect that the proposed works would be prejudicial to the navigation of tire river, and in some p arts quite im practicable. Air. ride ") advantage esß rebn e t r hat and co M u r d . F ac o c r aw gave st e a e n ; t p l e a e n k e e e t o s f the for which they are agents at Liverpool, upon thereent ground that their cargoes were much divided amongcon rsuhe to e t i h r e a r ecc accurate e l d d b e e ii t v h e e r y g greatest t them.e t Catty,difficulty in sig however,earranginges f n o fd r o mrt that a large portion of the import cargoes of the steamers, which could be safely landed at Birkenhead at any time. 'l'nere were no docks in the places to which steamers resorted in Ireland, Sec., except in Port Rush, and vessels could lay as well, if not better, in Birkenhead tba^ any of these ports. Mr. Chaffers, the floating -stage keeper, and Mr. Cooke, of the pilot-office, spoke on the state of the river. Mr. Bellasys then said he .shoull call engineers as wit nesses, Mr. Coulthurst was called. He is an assistant to Mr. Page. His evidence was principally to prove cer tain data on which the calculations of other witnesses were based. He produced various sections of the river and several tables of calculations, which in some few in stances of quantity agreed with those of the promoters' engineers, but in the far greater number of cases were widely different. His statements showed that the opera tion of the time of the scouting power would, on 36 days in the year, be exactly 1 minute and 54 seconds. Upon cross-examination he admitted he had not had much ex perience in the construction or management of harbours. It being half-past four their lordships adjourned till Friday. On Friday, Mr. Russell, the author of several papers on the construction of steam-boats, upon tidal basins, currents. and other works on similar subjects, was the first witness examined. lie was of opinion the current of the Mersey would be injuriously operated upon by the adoption of the proposed plan. He was followed by Mr. George Rennie. Upon the committee re-assembling on Saturday morn ing, the examination of engineering witnesses for the trustees of the docks and the corporation was renewed. Mr. Lewis, professor of mathematics at Putney, was the first witness examined. He was followed by Mr. Vig noles, civil engineer; the Rev. Henry Mozley, a gentle man who has written an elaborate treatise on hydrosta tics, and was lately professor of mathematics at King's College, London ; Mr. Maughan, a dockmaster ; and Mr. Page, whose cross-examination terminated the proceed ings of the day after a sitting of nearly six hours. The scientific witnesses were unanimous in condemnation of the proposed plan. In the course of the examination on Saturday, there were no fewer than thirty maps, plans, and diagrams exhibited. The committee adjourned until Monday (yesterday). EXPLOSION OF A STEAM-BOILER IN BOLTON, AND LOSS OF LIFE. In our first, and also in our third edition of last week, we gave such particulars as we could at the time obtain (and which we stated were necessarily imperfect) " of the bursting of a boiler at the linen -manufactory of Mr. John Brooks, in Bolton, by which several lives were ascer tained to be lost, besides many seriously and some fa tally injured." The following is a copy of our third edition, published at one o'clock, with such corrections as we are since en abled to supply : " The factory, and extensive premises attached, are situated close to St. George's Church ; and 540 per sons, young and old, were employed within. Two engines were at work, one (as before noticed,) stated to be of 50. horse power, and the other of about 60. The boilers of one of them burst about eleven o'clock on Monday fore. noon, owing, it is said, to the carelessness of the tenter, and the destruction of the other soon followed, throu g h the force of the shock. These were each in an extensive well-built out-house, on the north- west side of the factory, and the destructive effects were instant there and on the contiguous part of the main building. The engine house was demolished ; the windows of the factory in that direc tion blown in ; its interior framework was much shat tered, and largo masses of building material scattered far and wide. The top of the boiler of the larger en g i ne was lifted into the air, and lighted in the street about fifty yards from its original position. Two of the work_ people were found dead in the ruins, but the precise num ber our informant could not ascertain in the hurry of the moment, there being various outlets by which they mi g h t be removed. A large and very heavy balk of timber, that had been fixed over the engine was blown clear over some adjacent buildings, (which it would otherwise have crushed in,) and lighted in a beck passage or area, sixty or eighty yards from where it had been fixed, and in a direction from the factory. The materials of the ruins were chiefly hurled into a street called Bark-street, about fifty yards from the point of exphlsion. The gllss in the windows of the houses on the opposite side was nearly all blown in by the shock. One woman who was picked out of the ruins, and who had cne of her hands crushed or blown off, and was otherwise much hurt, died on Tuesday LOCAL NEWS, The Hibernia, Captain Ryrie, sailed at one o'clock on Thursday, for Halifax, with a full complement of passen gers. WOOL FROM ALEXANDRIA.—The first importation of wool from Alexandria to Liverpool arrived in the :Mersey on Friday afternoon. BIHRENIIFAD FAlR.—This fair was held on Wednes day last, and although numerously attended, there ryas scarcely a good horse or cow shown. and few changed hands. IMPUDENT THEFT.—On Tues,lav, at the police-court, Catherine NJ urily, an dilrr y female, was committed for trial on a charge of hating stolen coats and hats nelonging to Mr. Greatley, solicitor, of this town. The prisoner was employed as charwoman in Mr. Greatley's office. Mr. William Humphreys, principal excise surveyor of this port, has been appointed collector of her Majesty's customs at Glasgow. George Taylor, Esq., late Surveying General Examiner, of Loudon, has been appointed his successor at this port. SUNDAY TRADING.—On Tuesday at the Police court, Joseph Shepherd, newsvender, of Scotland-road, was fined ss. for having followed his usual calling on the Lord's day. The police-officer at whose instance the summons had been obtained, stated that he had received directions from his superintendent to inform against any person trading on Sundays. THE WIZARD OF THE NORTH.—It will be seen by the advertisement, in another column, that Mr. J. H. Anderson, who has been astonishingand delighting crowded audiences in London for five hundred nights with his feats of natural magic, legerdemain, &c. intends appearing again in his original character beforea Liverpool audience, on Monday, at the Royal Liver Theatre, Church-street. THE OJIBBRWAY INDIANS. — These celebrated repre sentatives of a once powerful tribe of North American Indians, better known as the Chippeways, have, during the past week, at the Royal Assembly Rooms, given a se ries of representations of the manners and customs of their people. They attracted crowds of visitors, who were highly delighted with their performances. KNUTSFORD SESSIONS.—The general quarter sessions of the peace for Cheshire, was held last week at Knuts ford. Amongst, the magistrates present were James Pownall, Esq., of this town, and J. D. Case, Esq. Mr. George Gallop, deputy governor of Pentonville prison, was appointed governor of Knutsford House of Correc tion; to succeed Mr. Burgess. The other business tran sactions were unimportant. NEW MAGISTRATE FOR CHESHIRE.--Sir Thomas Joseph de Trafford, Bart., of Trafford Park, whose name has been in the Commission of the Peace for upwards of two years, took the oaths, &c., at the Knutsford Quarter Sessions, on Monday, as a magistrate for the county of Chester. WOOD Is PARK•LANE. — In the sinking of a new sewer in Park-lane, the workmen, at a depth of ten feet, in the end near the Custom-homse, found four large pieces of oak, lying in a direction from east to west. Mr. Davies, the surveyor inspected the place, and is of opinio n th at they bad floated there when the tide extended to that vicinity. They lay upon a turf bottom, and were much decayed. A FIRE BALLOON.—On Wednesday evening last, about six o'clock, the parties on George's Pier and on the decks of the several ferry boats, were a good deal amused and interested by the beautiful ascent of a large fire-balloon, which was let off the quay, near the erection known as the Camera Obscura. In obedience to the impulse of the light air then prevailing, it took a direction nearly due north; rose steadily to a great height; and, after dimi nishing to a mere speck, finally disappeared in the distant " etherial blue." BOOKBINDERS' ANNIVERSARY.—The members of the Liverpool Journeymen Bookbinders' Society celebrated their anniversary on Wednesday last, by dining together at the house of Mr. John Brighouse, Park -road. Several of the employers honoured the men with their company, and advantage was taken of the occasion to present Mr. Thomas Smith, of Castle-street, with a token of respect. It consisted of a very neat silver snuff-box, which bore the following inscription:—" Presented to Mr. Thomas Smith, by the Liverpool Journeymen Bookbinders' Society, as a tribute of respect and gratitude for many favours conferred by him on their distressed brethren." 7 / PUBLICANS AND BEER-SELLCRS FINED.—Ten were orar.l at the •ut-t, on Fri lay. The resulti wet e es follow :—l3r.roker, U t oter Ilarritivton, Paned 205.; Glover, beersellcr, litclimond-roN, 20 .; Scott, beersel-r, £5; t 1 il.en. beerse!ter, Wolt.stre t, 204. ; Ginter, beerseller, Ewon-street. qulted ; Tornhins in, brcrseller, Potte, les, 605.; Chad wick, heerst4ler, Sotrh•street, 20:.; sown, beerseller, South street, 40s. ; Alitchell, brersaer, Circus-street. £5; Smith, publican, Hent-street, 20s. The total fines imposed amounted to ;£2O, exclusive of the costs, which were inflicted in each case where the party was fitted. FOREIGN ICE.—A great quantity of ire has recently been imported into Liverpool from the northern parts of the United States, for the use of the confectioners and hotel keepers. Tow irdsthe close of list week, lar g e cart-loads of the a:ticle , in immense masses or square blocks, from one and a half to about two feet in thick ness, were seen in transilu from the docks to the several ice-houses. Thu tl icks were beautifully pelucid, r e g em . bliog the finest crystal. The sun was powet III!, but they, appeared to form, to a great degree, an atmosphere for themvelves; for though • uncovered, the leakage., from melting, was very trifling. EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.—On SatnTilay a female of haggard appearance, named Brown, was bron;:ht tip at the Police Court, under the f flowing circumstances :—lt appeared that her unfortunate child, an infant only sixteen months old, was observed to tumble Out or the windlw of its mother's wretched abode and t r fall noon its side on the pavement. The height of the window from the ground was said to be +hair en feet, and the child in fall ing- broke its thigh, and its life is in danger. On going up. to the room, the prisoner was fi urni in a wa'e r.f intoxica tion, sitting close to the waldow fri m which the accident happened; and it was supposed that the chill had fallen, and was not thrown out. The prisoner was remanded. DEATH OF COOKE THE CELEBnATED EQUF,STRIAN.— This patriarch of the Circus died a few days ago in this town—ill peat distress we regret to say, so much so, that a few friends who knew Urn in hi; p-asperity are now getting up a suhs,Tiption for his destitute widow. The Royal Amphitheatre, Great Charlotte-streA—the nobl e st edifice of its kind out of London—is one of the as any structures he bu It in the course of his txtraordinary and diversified career; and there is no town in the empire where he and his troop were rot well known some twenty or thirty years ago. He has left some mana.cripls of his life behind him, which will probably be published when properly revised for the pre-s. FIELDING, THE MURDERER—This individual, who committed so many horrible atrocities on hoard the Sa ' years. a e d a i r n s. , a wr c r c : o se u yw n et t i s lild o kfn7wtwhrinec_ihindieLativoyegfeibtphe,e,orrri Liverpool. nre a e o h steltri ; here pipers, a long at present, and has been a resident o f th e town f or some but he allowed 9s. a week, which she received at the pa rish-office. Upon being nand , acquainted h his tragi cal deeds on board the Salidin, she manifested little or no surprise, as she had often been stej,eted to ill treat ment at his hands; but she expres s ed muc h concern at hearing the fate of her unhappy son, who, it will be re collected, was thrown ovetboard after the father. NEW WATER WORKS,—These works are now in pro gress. The contractors for sinking the well are Messrs. Jones and Ouseley, and they have already got deep enough into the " hotels of the 1111. i" to drain all the wells and pumps in the neiehhourhood of the OA Sean. 'f frhoem thenecir tsbeen wateris a little: istbeyond o bef(r the e edt o Cat a g INa eicirskt cistern ; t 1 near the Necropois. and from-thence, by means of pipes, is to be di-tributed through the different streets in which property is in the greatest danger from fire. The con tractoi s for the mains are, we believe, founders near Birmingham, and the pipes may be expected here in a few weeks. The well, however, will not be completed until next June. PAWNBROKERS FINED.—On Wednesday last, Mr. Ro'ioson, who appeared on behalf of the Churchwardens of Liverpool, preferred three charges against George Richards, pawnbroker, of London-roof, for demanding more than the lega rate of interest allowed by act of Par liament. The magistrates ordered him to pay a fine of £5 and 4s. 6d. costs, in each case, arid expressed their determination to inflict the fall penalty in future, which is £lO, as they were deft T nined to do their utmost to put the system down. Mr. Richards expressed himself to the effect that he should reserve his d fence for the ses sions.—On the same day, Henry Adamson, Burlington street, was fined £5 and costs, for a similar offence, having charged 6d. for interest on some goods pledged at his shop, instead of 2d., which was all he had a right to A DISAPPOINTED FORTUNE ITUNTER.—A young man, named Thomas Dempsey, was c!lacged at the Pol:ce coutt, on Thursday, will having, for upwards of ten months, neglected to support his wife, who Lad become chargeable to the parish. The wife, a pretty looking girl. fifteen years of age, to whom the prisoner had been mar ried upwards of twelve months, appeared to substantiate the summons. In reply to the charge Dempsey said he did not conceive that he was bound, tither morally or ►egally, to give such support ; when he married his wife it was on the condition that he was to receive a " small decent fortune" with her; this condition had not been fulfilled. therefore he thought himself freed from the one he had made, that he would "love and cherish." lie eas sent to gaol for a month, to ruminrite on the errorvoui opinion he had formed of the duties and tesponsibilities of a husband. CHARGE OF FELONY AGAINST A WEDDING GUEST. —At the P lice-court, on Monday. a toung man, named Thomas Seaton, was placed at the bar before Richard Houghton, Esq., charged with felony. The complaining panty, a man named Morgan, stated, that, on Saturday last, he was sent for to the house of Mrs. Svers, who hid that day been married, and she paid him £25 in a £2O note and a£s note. When he came down the prisoner and another person asked him to go and have a game at bowls, at the Derby Arms. He consented, and, after having placed three games, went into the house arid sat down iii the parlour. The prisoner sat next to him, on his left hand. Ile had the notes in his left band waistcoat pocket. In a short time he missed his money, and said aloud, " I have lost my money, and it is in the room, for no one has b, en out or in." There were then six persons present. The money was found in the trou ,, ers pocket of the prison r. who declared that he had not put it there. The whole of the party were considerably in drink, but perfectly conscious of what was going on. He was re manded, and subsequently discharged. PROVINCIAL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ASSOCIATION. —The annual meeting of the Newton branch of this Association, was held at Newton, on the 27th instant. Among the members present were 1.) , !5. Bohm., Lyon, and Black, and Messrs. Anis% orth, Wilson, and Whitehead, of Manchester; Sir Arnold Knight, M D., and Messrs, Neil, and Eden, of Liverpool ; Dr. Kendrick, of War ring on. The members assembled at twelve o'clock, tinder the presidency of Dr. Lyon, of Manchester, when the transactions of the society during the past year, and the report of the council were read by Mr. Hamilton, the secretary; after which various interesting subjects were brought forward and discussed by the different members. At three o'clock they sat down to dinner, Dr. Lyon in the chair, the vice-president bring Mr. Eden, of Liver pool, and Mr. Jordan. of Manchester. The u , ti II toasts connected with the occa-ion were proposed, and the mem bers.separated, impressed with the utility of such meetings in promo'itg the diffusion cf scientific information, and fostering th it feeling of friendly intercourse which ought to exist amongst all members of the profession. MEETING OF THE BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS. — On Tuesday evening last the monthly alerting was held in the Town-hall, " fur," as a shrewd conteroporary is fond of stating on such °coos:tins, " the dispatch of business." There were fourteen corrimisioners present, and John Deane Case, Esq., took the chair. A conversation arose on the subject of the water carts, from which it appeared ' that they were to co over the town generally, and that one street would not be favoured more than another. The salary of the person appointed to survey the building of the lodges (now going on) in the perk, was st ited to be two guineas a week. Mr. Jackson, in reply to a question tion to use Roman pre vious to being planted, and this would be done in the from Mr. Sudlow. said the park shou t l e d haa b ut e set e n d sy c o e m d hea in ddelna3ot. course of the autumn. They wished to procure handsome as it would ' cause aa r i n( ? ii i o, railing cementntagive additional o f: n ii :xorki e nert e ait. oil the flooring gel t st e oe r oerf n fe i te s and ir£o , :eri2rl ,oionroet oentl.ddi market,as They recommended that the arches, as previously proposed, should be pro ceeded with, which was agreed to. The receipts of the ferry were stated to be going on ' favourably and it was hoped that all th e b oats wou ld soon be in operation, so that Monk's Ferry could also be effectually worked. Mr. Sudlow asked several questions relative to the borrowing of money—a loan of £lO,OOO being taken at four per cent., which he thought too much. Had they advertised for loans ; Mr. Greene said they had not in the instance of the £lO,OOO, but would hereafter when they wanted mor• money. lie thought Mr. Sudlow had better attend the Finance Committee, of which he was a member, and there discuss such matters. Mr. S. said the day of meet ing (Friday) was inconvenient for him. The proceedings were then confirmed, and the board adjourned. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AND RESCUE OF A PRISONER. —William Edwards, a car driver, in the employ of John Wright, of the Golden Lion, Neston, was summoned be fore Sir Edward Cust and J. D. Case, Esq., f or an assault on John Brooks, a carter, at Lower Bebbington; 'Wright was also charged with rescuing Edwards after he had b L e o e w n e r taken i i n n g t t o o k b G Brooks d ep i o i s ffi e t s h , a t t h h e e constable tcahoml coming through Bebbington, on Sunday evening, a b out eight o'clock, with a horse, and when opposite the Ship Inn, he saw Edwards, who began to tease him, upon which complainant h Vt , o ' r r s ig e h w t, ith wh h o is wwahsip.on B h r i o s o o k m s n th ib et u a s s , a s i t d ru h ck complainant's es‘,ouldpuil him off his box, when Wr i g ht told Edwards to strike him, knockingim then down t up, and tried to defen d himself, when he was again knocked a w g , h a i i c a h st th t h e e l w a t i t: e r el doifd omnibusthweithls ii fis t ; o down under the horses' f ee t. He was taken up in a state insensibility, hav in g received a severe wound on the head, a portion of the skull being laid completely bare. He was attended by a surgeon. Griffiths, the constable, stated that he took Edwards into custody, when Wright, who is a tall, powerful man, came and released him, say ing he would be responsible for the consequences. Ed wards said he had been drinking all day, and did not re member anything that took place, and Wright denied that he had taken the prisoner away by force, but had done so with the officer's consent, The magistrates observed that it was one of the worst cases they had ever heard of in that neighbourhood. Very great outrages had been com mitted at Lower Bebbington on the Sabbath, and frequent complaints had been made. Edwards was ordered to pay the sum of £3 ;s., being the amount of expenses, &c. incurred by the complainant, including also the loss he afterwould a sustain a d b m y o b a e it i r i l o g a kept from e magistrates,h employ.is was 45. i. , 1 / LAUNCH OF THE "THOMAS WILSON .--0111111i . r . -day a he iron steamer. for 111. Seacornh eferry, boutby Messrs. Wilson's. the builders' y ird, ninth shore. ~h e i ran etous n az i p s ri: , : e ! c o t ts t:a r r s:l t e v s ;k r ) s ,,y P i .: a r , r i v in te e n d, le a l he frostlug light, but ran priceentel rite excursi n.' An aboridint and elegant repast, inclu brig every deticacy, was therefore sttread in the spacious room on the pleasure groan of the. Seaeombe !rote'. Mr. Parry took the chair, and Mr. W. Rigby , oflieiated vice-president. A r umber of gen sta.) I g : - C -e tt t t t i d e t ticmin of this town, S - acombe, and the neigllbonrh rod were present, including Mr. Meadows, ag-tut to the Lord of the Manor, M•ijor Fletcher. Carl tins Edw ' , cis and Al 'Pherson, Miissrs. tile bu'Llers. &e. The prin cipal toasts were—" The TIIMIIas Wils(l,e," (which had received her name from Miss Margaret Smith, the iiite resting daughter of her captain.) and the health of Mrs. Parry, who has so creditably conducted the Seaeombe hotel for upwards of 41) veers. Mr. Richard Parry, her son, returned thanks in feeling and affecting tu rms. The vessel will be fitted with a powerful engine on the most approved principle, and we doubt riot will omice a great acquisition to passengers to that delightful! firrv. MR. PILKINGTON, MASTER OF THE WOMZTIOUSR ScniooL.—Wc have great pleasure in approoriatangthe following paragraph from the Journal of Saturday. The feeling which has d:ct oed the concluding remark, ha highly honourable to the writer, and forms a rental kab'e contrast to that sit long evinced by his r 'dicta brothers of the pttss, in their unhtunded and malignant vituprrat ons against the officers of the Workh , u, :—Yesterday, the boys of the Workhouse School, preseoted their schoolmaster, (through the Rev. S. Crags, chaplain,) with elegant Wide aid Church Service, as a token of respect. On a silver plate, affixed to the back of the Bible, is this inscription :—" Presentcd to Mr. Geo:iv! Pilkinenon, by the boys of the P ar . ac i t i a l S c h oo l , ( comp icing different d - nittninations.) and their parents, as a triune of respect, for his unwearied diligence iii promoting., for upwards of eLht years, the education of the youth committed to his cal e. July, 1841." When it is consid-red that ttiis pre sent was made by pauper children, Roman Catholics as Well as Protestants, it must be exceedingly gra iiyis,g to the rate-payers, as a convincing proof that the master has the interest of the poor children at heart, and has secured their affections. SHARPERS.— Birkenhead fair did not pass over without a sharper doit.g a Mile business. A tall man, dressed in black, and yeserntilaig a gro u Pm, intrndue d himself to a gentleman, repiesenting himself as Sir William M. Stan ley's groom, ana, after observing 'h !t lie knew the gen tleman's son who had titint , d witn Sir William, said there as a horse that would suit him at the Albion, but he had quarrelled with the ovvmr about - the price, and should feel obliged if he - would do Sir William a seivice, bargain for the house, and par the man £45, and he wcu d.repay him. After some altercation among the parties, and the gentleman believing Vie sharper to be a groan] of Sir W. M. Stanley's, he was iiidueed to advance the money, which the other sharper fingered, and then bolted with his arcemp'ice, leaving the . geutletnan to make the best he could of a hors, worth only a few pounds. Tile sharners had tried the trick on several gentlemen, under various pretences, hut without succet.s, and it is thought that they are the same parties who tr i ed the same game in Liver pool on Tuesday last. The fortunate purchaser has since been roasted almost to death about his bargain, and feels the more moritied at his own verdure as precisely the same trick was played at the fair last year. • IN QU ESTS. Four inquests were held before the borough coroner on Tuesd•ty. 'file first was on the body ut John Guy, a child, thirteen weeks old, son of a cart owner, in Preston -street, who died from the congestion of the lungs. Tne second was on the body of James Brown, who acci dentally fell a few days since from a pile of cotton in a warehouse in Carleton-street. and died in consequence of the injuries in the Northern Hospital. Toe third was on the body of a Mrs, Harper, who, whilst washing clothes at a publican's house became suddenly ill, fell upon the floor, and died almost instantaneously of disease in the heart. The fourth was on the body of a child picked up in St. Paul's church-yard, in a s ate of decomposition. Verdicts in accordance with the evidence were returned in the several cases. On Thursday, on the body of the in fant daughter of Evan .Vaughan, of Meadows-street. The deceased was found dead in the cradle, death having been caused by convulsions. Verdict accordingly. On the body of William Collaton, the infant child of Patrick Collator), of Dawson-street, who accidentillv ill under the wheel of a cart in Houghton-street, on Wednesday- The evidence went to show that no blame attached to the driver, and the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. CAUTION TO CAR-DRIVERS.—On Saturday, a man, named John Egerton was brought before Mr. Theodore Rathbone, on a charge of having embezzled a parcel con raining some small articles, the property of Mr. Gebrge Wainwright, merchant, of this town. Mr. Wainwright stated that he had landed from the Achilles, steamer, at one o'clock the day before, and had engaged a car, at the Clarence Dock, to take him to his office, in Dale street. He put into the car a box, a coat, and the parcel in question ; and. on arriving in Dale -street, he jumped out in a hurry, told the driver to carry the luggage into the office, and paid him .Is. 6d., the amount of the fare. Immediately after he missed the parcel; and, after a good deal of troub'e, he discovered the car. The prisoner who appeared to be the driver, but who was not the . per son that had driven from the Clarence Dock to Dale-st, eat, denied all knowledge of the parcel; but, ater having been threatened with the consequences, he promised to find the actual driver, who was a person of the name of Miller, and with that view, took Mr. Wainwright to an adjoining public-house, where, instead of asking for Miller, he told the servant to bring him the parcel. It was accordingly brought ; nothing WNS stolen out of it, but it had evidently been opened. Mr. Rathbone said the case was one of .considerable suspicion, but that, as there was want of evi dence to bring home the felonious intent, the prisoner should be discharged with a caution as to his future I conduct. WHOLESALE PLUNDERING.—James Partridce, a young man in the employ of Mr. Jones, draper and mercer, Old Haymarket, was charged, at the Police court, on Thurs day, with having plundered his employer to an extensive amount. It appeared that the prisoner had been in Mr. Jones's employ about nine months, during which time he had hail the management of one dep rtment of the busi ne sof the establishment. The prisoner bad represhated to his employer that he was residing in a private house in Mount-pleasant; but on Tuesday, Mr. Jones received information that he lived in Scolind-road, and that his wife kept a millinery shop. For some time past, Mr. Jones had missed a great quantity of goods ; and in con sequence of seeing pieces of ribbons and other articles of which the prisoner bad the control in other than their usual places, and froM the information he had received as to his residence and his wife's calling. he was induced to put a watch over the prisoner's conduct, and on Tuesday two of the assistants in the shop marked a roll of ribbon, and cut from it a piece, in a peculiar - way ; the roll . was then placed in a drawer, and after the prisoner had left the shop at night, it was found the ribbon had been taken. Mr. Jones obtained the assistance of police-officer Lloyd, and the prisoner's shop was searched, and goods, consist ing of ribbons, scarfs, lace, &c., to the value of between £lO and £lOO, the property of Mr: Jones, were found, amongst which was the marked roll of ribbon. The goods found were produced in court, and identified by Mr. Jones and his assistants ; and it was stated that they could net by possibility have been sold, as they were not marked off the stack. The p.isoner was committed to the sessions f.r trial. Mr. Jones i, po.itive of having lost property to the value of from £2OO to £250. CH URCII or ENGLAND SCHOOL.—Recently a meeting was held at the Bull Inn, Preston, of the friends of the Northern Church of England School, about to be eate i bliShed at Rossall. hall, for the education of the sons o clergymen and other gentlemen, under the direct super intendence of the E,tablished Church, upon a plan nearly similar to the Scholastic Establishment at Marlborough. The Bishop of Chester presided, and there v:era also present the Chancellor of the Diocese, the Archdeacon of Manchester, and several of the clergy of the town and neighbourhood, as well as a large proportion of the gentry and eminent manufacturers of Preston and its vicinity. It appears, that upwards of £5,000 has been already sub scribed ; and it is expected that the establishment will be opened in the course of a ver y f ew wee k s for the reception of pupils. The resoluti ons w ill b e f ound in our adver tising columns. The wors hipf u l an d R ev. C hancellor Raikes in moving the first resolution said, " he never pro posed a resolution at any meeting wh;ch carried moie sa tisfaction to his own mind that it would meet with the entire approbation of those to whom it was submitted. Every clause seemed to involve in itself a point of the greatest importance, and some point on which there could not be a shadow of difference in opinion. (Hear.) It stated that it was highly desirable that a school on similar principles to the one established at Marlborough should be established in the North ,of. England. That school bad realised the expectations of its founders, though when it was established the founders see m ed as it were , t o put to sea without chart or compass. Its success depended upon the merits of the plan; and it succeeded. Now they were adopting a system which had already answered in another place ; and seeing that the one at Marl borough had answered they were justified in expecting that the corresponding school established at Fleetwood would also succeed. There was every reason it should do so. No doubt when Marlborough was chosen for the situation nf the school it was on account of pos sessing some local advantages ; but it had also the dis advantage of competition, for in that part of the coun try there were already established many schools. When they considered, too, the great increase in the number of the clergy, and the impossibility of providing for_ the edu cation of their children in a proper manner from-their own resources, an appeal might be made to other classes for the support of this institution. Various societies were supported in a most liberal way by the public. When be looked at the great inc rease and the divisions of districts according to the act of Sir Robert Peel, be could not but anticipate great distress among the body of the clergy, if it were not for institu tions of this nature. There was another feature which could not fail to commend itself to their attention, and that was, that the school was for others besides clergy men's sons. He could not but consider it honourable to the clergy, for their sons, being educated at the school, was a recommendation for others. Here was one of the best securities for future character. He could state from his own experience, when chooiling a school for his own sons, that it was not merely the character and attainments of the masters that were looked to, but also the character of the families by whom children were sent to the schools. Whatever influence was exercised by the masters, there was an indirect but subtle and powerful influence exercised by schoolfellows, and he was anxious to know by whom such influence should be exercised on his children. These schools would offer the best security for, this influence being beneficial, when the scholars were principally the sons of the clergy. They would carry into school those habits of religion which characterised the clergy them selves, and two classes of society would reap the advan tages of mixing together. All ide a s of separate interests would be done away with, by making the children of the clergy the schoolfe ll ows of the children of the laity."