The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-03-20 00:00:00

MARCH 20 18:38. would deprive: the farmer of that protection %Able!) lie now enjoys, and by which alone he is enabled to live, and then they would inflict upon him an increased amount of taxation 1 But this would not be the only evil which the farmer would experience. When we reflect that the small land lords own the greater part of the soil of Great Britain — that they would be the greatest sufferers by a free trade in corn—and that many of them, in consequence, would be forced to become practical. farmers—when we bear these things in mind, it is easy to conceive that a great number of agriculturists would be forced to relinquish their farms, and become labourers, or emigrate to other countries. In short; the repeal of the corn laws would be little short of universal ruin to the landholders throughout the country. A free trade in corn, notwithstanding the specious ar guments to the contrary, would he greatly injurious to the manufacturing interests. It is scarcely necessary to say that the landlords and farmers of this country consti tute the most important classes of customers for the sta ple manufactures of Great Britain. By depressing and impoverishing these classei the manufacturer must ine vitably be a sufferer. It is preposterous to speak of the inerease.of cur foreign trade from the repeal of the corn laws, as if those laws had any tendency to diminish our foreig n exports. It is a well known fact that our foreign trade has actually been more than doubled within the last few years, notwithstanding the restrictive duties on . the importation of corn. The tables of exports for the • last seven years will show that our trade with Russia, America, and all the corn-growing countries abroad, have been steadily increasing. The exports to America have been doubled within that period, whilst the exports to Russia have advanced from £1,800,000 to £2,300,000. T he Same tables also show that in those years when we imported most corn we exported least goods—a triumph." ant proof that our existing corn laws do not operate in juriously upon our foreign trade. But the tradesmen, labourers,' and mechanics .would be the severest sufferers from a free trade in corn. It is. Well known that the price of corn regulates the rate ofl wages. A reduction in the price of corn is always fol lowed by a corresponding reduction in the rate of wages, and vice versa. It is easy for our pllitical•economists to assert that this does not necessarily follow ; but let them ask any labouring man—any artisan or operative in the country—whether what we have just now asserted is not strictly in accordance with his own experience. We. have no doubt that the answer, in every case, would cor roborate our views. In fact, the labouring classes are better off when bread is dear, and for a very good rea son. When bread is dear wages are high, and the la bourer is enabled to purchase the other necessaries of life with greater ease. -But when corn is cheap, and wages are reduced, he finds that the prices of other arti cles of ordinary consumption are not reduced, and he, therefore, finds'it more difficult to maintain its family. What can it signify "to the labouring classes that they get their bread cheap, if they find that their reduced wages will only enable them to procure the same number of pounds of flour per week, whilst all other articles are as expensive as when their wages were higher? From this reduced scale of , wages, which is always the consequence of a reduction in the price of corn, the tradesman must necessarily be a sufferer to a great extent. The best class of his customers, because the largest, will not be able to lay out as much money with him as when corn is dear and wages high ; and this loss will only be compensated for to a very insignificant degree by his own saving from the diminished price of ead. But there would be another source of loss to the tradesman. from a free trade in corn. The landowners would nut be enabled to spend so much upon their houses, carriages, &c., and would have to reduce their establishments in proportion to their diminished incomes. From all this the tradesman would be a sufferer, and that to a very serious extent. - We leave entirely out of consideration the conse quences which would result to the public charities of the country from any scheme which would impoverish the class by whom they are mainly supported. What care our philosophical radicals about the claims of charity or benevolence ? The only parties that would be gainers by the repeal ofthe.corn laws would be the moneyed interes tl fundliOlder and the large capitalist. They would, no doubt, find it very advantageous -to reduce the price of 1 4our to one-half its present amount. They would re joice to find the farmer ruined, the landlord robbed, and the industrious classes ground down by the most abject poverty, if their own profits were thereby increased, and •their own means of enjoyment multiplied. But we very much question whether the people of England would to lerate the perpetration of such injustice. . - W e have only one further consideration to submit to the notice of our readers before we quit this subject. The repeal of the corn laws would be followed by an ac tual diminution in our national wealth. Under a system of tree trade in corn, nea-ty one-third of the land at prp -sentin cultivation in G.cat Britain would b !con e an linvrofi tabl e waste. The farmer could not produce corn opon the inferior soils, at the same price as corn could be imported, even if he got his land rent-free. And where, we ask, is the man who would be so mad as to recommend a plan invol7ing such an amount of national loss —such a wholesale abstraction from the public wealth of the country ? is there one so insane ? We are sorry to say that ninety-five -members of the House of Commons have been guilty of such insanity. That we • 41re justified in designating their conduct as insane will be evident, when we consider that the immense wealth which annually arises frotu the cultivation of inferior soils—amounting to * several millions per annum—and win c h wealth is now expended in this country , -= would be absolutely annihilated by the adoption of the plan which these radical philosophers recommend. :It would be almost as rational to propose the burning-of our ships, or the des ruction of our manufactories. TILE ELECTION COMMITTEES.—TiIe Dublin Ezeni%). Post, the Dublin Castle journal, writes as follows : " DUBLIN is safe—eight to three. "CARLow COUNTY is safe —six l,,fice. . , " WALSALL is safe —eight to three. "low Borough is already secured. ." After all, the Greniille Act is not so eery sad. With i the, ,deplorable exceptions of Belfast and Marylebone it has really ‘worked pretty well during the session." • The whir.,-radical journals on this side the channel in ,dulge in a similar strain of exultation. The Morning ch ron icle, the Globe, the Courier, and that abusive and scurrilous print, the Liverpool Ckronicle, are equally delighted with the results of the various election peti tions which have been already decided —excepting only those in reference to which the committees have evinced a disposition to administer justice. AL the commencement of the session all the revolu tionary papers were violently in favour of the repeal of the Grenville Act. Now their tone is altered—they speak of it either in terms of approbation or subdued moderation. And well, indeed, may they, and the fac tion whose interests they advocate, be satisfied with the 7"anner in which it is made to work. It is of no use to 'Teak mincingly on this question. There has been some scandalous trickery practised in order to render the ap.: Pointment of election committees subservient to the 4 1ccess of the ministerial party. We pass by the fla • grant injustice perpetrated by those committees in which t he'‘ - adiCals have preponderated. We pass by the arbi trary mode in which' they have stifled all inquiry into the 'real merits of the petitions on which they were sworn to adjudicate. We say nothin; as to their refusal to ope n the registry in various instances. We take no note of their gross part i a li ty i n com i ng to d ec i s i ons com pl e te- Y . at ‘' . ariance w ith t h e ev id ence . W e com pl a in rather i onhe myst er i ous manner i n w hi c h t h e comm i ttees h av e constituted—of the infamous juggle by which the r i itlicals have been enabl e d t o p re j u d ge th e me r its of t hree -fourths of the petitions by obtaining a majority of their Own friends on the committees. We do not profess 1 () know by what means this end has been accomplished, n6l. Whose d uty i t i s to ta k e cogn i zance of t h e mo d e i n ‘ _ • l ilich t h e committees iire struck ; but . whatever may ve been the means employed, or whoe%er has been guilty of conniving at the trickery practised, we do no t hesitate to say that there has been "foul play"—a tam pering in some way with the ballot-box. _That the com mittees have been unfaitly balloted fur must be quite evident to any man who knows any thing of the doctrine of chances. The conservatives have been sedulous in their attendance in the Housethey compose one-half of the House, within a trifling fraction—and yet, the number of radicals on the committees have doubled those of the conservatives Indeed, this is not the only sus picious circumstance connected with the appointment of the election committees. There is a singular peculiarity in the manner in which certain names have been called over in close succession to each other. This is a subject which ought to engage the attention of the House, as we have no doubt it will, before another month has elasped. We subjoin the following statement of the relative numbers of Whigs and conservatives on the several com mittees, which have been already ballotted for, as far as we have been able to ascettain the particulars : Roxburgshire Committee ....Whigs B.... Conservatives 3 Salford ditto ....ditto 7.... • ditto 4 Ipswich ditto ....ditto 5.... ditto 6 Longford ditto ....ditto 8.... ditto 3 Belfast • ditto ....ditto 1.... ditto 10 Petersfield ditto ....ditto . 8.... ditto 3 Sligo ditto ....ditto 8.... ditto 3 Bristol ditto ....ditto 8.... ditto 3 Marylebone ditto ....ditto 3.... ditto 8 Tynemouth ditto ....ditto 5.... ditto 6 Youghal ditto ....ditto 5.... ditto 6 Taunton ditto ....ditto 4.... ditto 7 7 London 1 , ditto ....ditto 6.... ditto 4* Queen's County ditto ....ditto 9.... ditto 2 Newcastle-under-Lyne ....ditto 7.... ditto 4t Durham ditto ....ditto 6.... ditto 51: Tralee ditto ....ditto 7. .. ditto 4 Reading ditto —.ditto. 6.... ditto 5 Evesham ditto ....ditto 6.... ditto 5 Carlow ditto ....ditto 7.... ditto 4 Carlow County ditto ....ditto 6.... ditto 5 Walsall ditto 8.... ditto 3 Dublin ditto ....ditto 8.... ditto 3 Shaftesbury - . 1 . ditto ....dittq 3.... ditto 8 Kingston-on-Hull ....ditto 8.... ditto 3 Saunderson, Tory, excused. ÷ Sir Charles Grey, doubtful. • :t. Mr. Townley, doubtful. Here we have a list of twenty five committees. On seven of these the conservatives had a majority. On the remaining eighteen. the whigs had a majority. Out of the seven on which_ the former had a majority, two have - deCided in layout' of the whigs; one came to no decision 'at all, in consequence of the retirement of the member „petitioned against—two have decided in favour of the conservatives!—and two have not yet terminatEd their inquiries. In opposition to this, we have only to say, that no committee in which,the whigs preponderated, -has come to a decision favourable to the conservatives. NATIONAL EDUCATION.—We perceive that the radical philosophers of Liverpool—the anti-bible agitators—the enemies of our national religion—the abettors of Popery and infidelity—have got up a petition in this town in fa vour of a system of national education. We are not in formed in what manner it originated ; but we know that it did not receive the sanction of "the people" in a Clayton .square meeting. Our impression is that it was hatched in some hole and corner gathering of the Unita• rian clique, and that it was submitted for approbation to the Popish priests of the town, before any degree of pub licity was given to the matter. The radicals, with their usual cunning policy, have announced that the petition lies for signature at thirty three different places in the,town. The object of this is palpably evident. It is done in order to enable those zealous tools, whorl) they employ and pay for doing their dirty work, to multiply their signatures at pleasure. The plan answers well—for their purpose—that of ob, taining a great number of names. Nothing in the world can be more simple than the way in which ten or twelve thousand signatures are procured for a radical petition. They need not be obtained under false pretences, as the names which were attached to Mr. Elphinstone's requisi tion. The trick can be done in a much more expeditious Way. It is only. necessary for some twenty of the "runners' of the faction to go round and sign their names ten times at each of the places where ,the sheets are lying—allowing a short4interval to elapse between each period of signing. In this manner 600 signatures can be very easily - obtained, which, with four• or five thousand genuine signatures, will make a vety formidable impressiOn in 'the House of Commons. We are not joking. This trick is habitually practised by the radical faction. We dare them do get up a petition in favour of a God-denying system of national education, and let the same lie for signature exclu4vely at the Exchange, Athenaeum, Lyceum, and Union news-rooms, and let the name, profession, and residence of every individual so signing it be stated at length. We defy them to do this. We pledge ourselves to produce a counter petition signed at the same places, and in the same manner, with four times the number of signatures. So much fur the radical boast that the respectable and intelligent people of this country are in favour of the Socinian nostrum of a national system of education. As to the object which the national education agitators have in view we need say little. From the characters, connections, and opinions of those itinerating philoso phers, who have rendered themselves most conspicuous in their advocacy of this wily scheme, it is evident that the end contemplated is the eradication of the Protestant religion from the soil of Great Britain. Mr. Wyse and his party have uniformly attacked all our scriptural schools without exception—National, Lancasterian, Sun. day, and Infants. The language of the petitions on this subject, as well as the public add' esses of the of the education committee, is totally irreligious. It is true that Lord Brougham protested against the idea that any one could be so mad as to introduce a system of purely secular education—a system which excluded the bible from the hands of the youth of Great Britain. But the Bishop of Londoh confronted this eccentric peer with evidence of an incontestable character, proving that such was the " mad idea" of the leading men among the edu cation agitators. Indeed, no other plan could obtain the sanction of the Popish priests and the Sucinian teachers. We need not travel out of Liverpool for an illustration of the plans which the advocates for a system of national education, based upon the principles to which we have adevrted, intend to adopt. We have here seen an at tempt made upon a limited scale, to banish scriptural education frow the public schools. That attempt has been so, far successful as to make religious instruction a separate thing from the business of the schools. 41 is only permitted as an, act of supererogatory zeal. But any such plan, we are confident, Will be met by a similar de monstration of Protestant feeling throughout the king dom to that which was provoked in Liverpool by the in troduction of the " Irish Extracts." Two op' A TRADE.—We perceive that the proprietor of the (Cork) Southern Reporter has brought an action for libel against the editor of the Cork Standard. This is certainly a very extraordinary proceeding, and can only have its origin either in party spleen, or in motives of lucrative jealousy. If we thought fit to adopt such a mode of retaliating upon our contemporaries, by strain ing the law of libel in our favour, we could get up actions enough to engage the judges andcounsel on the northern circuit the whole year round. We trust, for the credit of the press, that the proprietor of the Southern Reporter, will see the utter absurdity of affording such an untr'ades manlike precedent. RADICAL NOTIONS OF POPULAR ELECTIONS.—The Journal of Saturday last, after alluding to the election of officers for the West Derby Parochial Union, and ani madverting upon the appointment of Mr. Dolling, pro ceeds to remark that— "The appointments by the guardians are not final, but are subject to the approval of the Poor Law commissioners, who possess and daily e.zercise a peremptory jurisdiction. Let the rate payers then, if they have any sufficient grounds for condemning the appointment which the guardians have just made, state them on memorial to the commissioners, and if their complaint be well founded, it will not long be unredressed." Now, as the Guardians have been elected by the rate payers, we contend that the appointments made by the former are ‘'irtually those of the rate-payers. But the liberal editor of the Journal prefers the " arbitrary juris diction" of the Malthusian triade at Somerset House to the :expression of the rate-payers' feelings conveyed through the recommendation of a vestry meeting. Such is Radical liberality. fAIVVRPOOI , STANDARD LECTURES IN DEFENCE OF POPERY• 7'o Mr. Egerton Smith, Editor of the Liverpool Mei eery. Sirt,—The policy of Romish priests in England is to dissem ble their. real principles, conscious that naked popery would startle and shock the undisciplined beholder, therefore they endeavour to draw a veil over the most prominent and disgust ing peculiarities of their system. This veil I endeavoured to tear sway in my last letter. proving, as 1 think, that the Rev. Mr. Parker of St. Patrick's chapel Was " speaking lies in his hypocrisy" when he denied the charge, that the Roman Catho lic Church condemns heretics, as they call Protestants, to ever lasting perdition. You decline entering into any controversy, because you consider it improper to discuss religious topics through the medium of the newspaper. How is this, Sir ? • You do not consider the newspaper an improper medium for abusing and calumniating a faithful minister of the gospel, because he denounces superstition and idolatry as pernicious and antichris tian ; neither did you consider it an improper medium for calling the "especial attention" of Protestants to the sentiments expressed by a popish lecturer. I rather suspect, that the real cause of your declining any controversy is a consciousness of your having a bad cause to defend. One point, however, you endeavour to controvert. You say, •` if Protestants believe in the doctrine of justification by faith only, they are at variance with St. Paul." You may well decline entering into a contro liersy, if you have no more knowledge of the sacred scriptures than to make such an assertion. I shall prove that Protestants agree with St. Paul in maintaining, that " we are accosmled righteous before God only for the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ, and not for our own works or deservings." St. Paul says (I quote from the Douay version,) " Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God bath proposed to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to the showing of his justice, for the remission of for } tier sins; through the•forbearance of God, for the showitrg of his justice in this time; that be himself may be just and the jus tifier of hi m w h o i s o f the faith of Jesus Christ. Where is then thy boasting ? It is excluded. By what law ? Of works? No! tut by the low of faith. For we account a man to be justi fied by faith without the works of the law." Rom. iii. 24, &c. And again, " Being justified,•therefore, by faith, let us have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Ruin. v. 1. Again, " Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also believe in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified." Gal. ii. 16. Once more. "For by grace yon are Saved through faith, and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God, not of works that no man may glory." Ephes. 8, 9.. Many more passages might he adduced, tint these are. sufficient to, prove to any unprejudicd mind that St. Paul was no Papist, but a Protestant, clearly maintaining that great Protestant principle which Luther calls " the test of a standing or falling church," justification by faith only. But you bring two passages of scripture (the other is quite hireign to the sub ject) which asserts that faith without works is dead. So we maintain. But we contend that where there is justifying faith, it will work by love. There is a cold assent to the truths of Christianity where there is no love, which produces no good works. 'lbis is what St. Janice alludes to when he says "-Thou I• belie-vest that there is one God : thou doest *all, the devils also I believe and tremble." But justifying faith." works by love''' t. 1 . 1 . 1 ( 1 overcotttqat kike and the maul who possesses it may be known just as we know a good tree• by the fruit which it produces. But who does not see that you must have the tree before you can have the fruit. The fruit does not make the tree good, but the fruit giies an evidence ,the tree is good, so good works do not justify the sinner, hut they'. are evidences that he is justified. Therefore, says our Saviour, by their fruits ye shall know them. We contend that a man Ain do 770 good works until he is justified, for St. Vaul says, '• whatsoever is not of faith is sin," and again we read "the ploughing of tbewicked is sin." Therefore; all that a sinner does, however good the thing may be in itself, not being done as God bath commanded, we doubt trot but it bath the nature of sire. Therefore, we con clude, that God justifieth "the ungodly," tnat Christ saveth sinners, and that the Popish doctrine of human merits is un set iptural. Tire doctrine of justification . only distinguishes the religion of the bible from every false system. ln this point Paganistn, Mahonretanisin, Popery, and Socinianism, are ge nerally alike—they all agree in this, that the Divine favour is to be obtained by Man's OWN DOING 01 suffiring. But the Bible and Protestantism which is based - thereupon, call upon mankind utterly to renounce all dependance upon self, and to repose exclusive confidence in the sufferings and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ." Yours, &c. March 9th, 1838. CANDOUR: NEW MARKET IN JAMES' STREET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. I was much pleased to perceive that a correspondent in your paper who signed himself a Whig, has drawn the attention of the Improvement Committee to the necessity of erecting a market in James-street, for the benefit of the shipping and the inhabitants of Cheshire. As one connected with the first, I should, in common with many others, hail with great satis faction the institution of a mat ket in the very desirable locality pointed out, and I hope the council will most "seriously in cline" to take the matter into consideration. As a shipmaster, I am often eninpelled to pay a considerable sum for carriage and porterage of provisions from the markets to my vessel, and when detained for any length of time in the port, the tax be comes burdensome. The populous neighbourhood of Lord street, Castle-street, Routh Castle-stteet, &c., would be much benefited also by a commodiotta mart in their immediate vici nity.. NAUTIC US. Liverpool. 19th March. ST. PATRICK'S DA r.—Saturday last, being St. Patrick's Day, the members of the various Hibernian Societies paraded the streets in procession, with banners and music. , CONSERVATIVE PIIESS.—A new journal, to be called the Hull and East Hiding Times, is about being started, under the editor ship of Mr. Henry Quin, formerly of the Hull Packet. Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles MattheiiS i haVe been en gaged by Mr. Price to perform for twelVe tro-nibs (or more) in America; but it is not expected that they will leave England until August- LIVER TII E A TRE.—Last evening, Mrs. Raymond had an ex cellent benefit at this theatre, the house being clowded notwith standing the unfavourable night. Mr. T. P. Cooke made his appearance in a nauticaldrama, and played with his accustomed effect. His engagement we understand is continued. MR. RANDALL'S BENEFIT.—Mr. Randall's benefit- takes place on Friday evening. The feats of strength and agility the performer exhibits are highly astonishing ; amongst them the balancing a beam two hundred weight, is accomplished with the greatest facility. The bill is otherwise very attractive. The trustees of the late Rev. Charles.. Simeon have presented the venerable Archdeacon Law to the Rectory of Bath, vacant by the death of the Rev. Chas. Crook. It was rumoured, in Liverpool, that the Rev. Hugh M'Neile had been offered the appointment. LADIES' BAZA AR AT RUNCORN.—We have great pleasure in announcing to our readers, that a bazaar will be held in the National School Rooms, Runcorn, on Thursday and Friday next. The proceeds are to be applied in aid of the fund for building an additional church in Runcorn. It will be seen by an advertisement in another part of this day's Standard, that Mr. Laidlaw, the proprietor of the splen did exhibition of the Panorama of Jerusalem, &c., prolongs his stay in this town for a short time longer; and to enable all per sons to see this really pieasing exhibition, we find that the prices of admission have been reduced. . Mr. CLAititE.—We are glad to state, that Mr. Clarke, the respected manager of the Liverpool'and Manchester Theatres, whose serious illness, a few weeks ago, we announced at the time, is considerably better, with every prospect of a speedy return to health. We rejoice at this event, in common with every one who has experienced that gentleman's uniform urbanity and polite ness. CONSERVATIVE FESTIVITIES IN SALFORD.—In addition to the ent er t a i nmen t to be given to Mr. tarnett by the Conserva tives of Salford, on the Tuesday in Easter week , we understand a that a ball, on large scale, will take place in the Pavilion, on the Thursday following; and that the Operative Conservatives, their wives and families, will also have their party and ball in the same building on the Monday. IMPROVES) PATENT FELT.—We have before us a specimen of this useful substance, which fully justifies the high terms of commendation in which it is universally spoken of. It forms an admirable material for sheathing ships' bottoms, for baling and wrapping, for roofing, out-buildings, sheds, &c. It is im pervious to wet, and resists the attacks of the worm. We have no doubt that this sheathing felt must soon supersede every similar article. CHURCH RATES.—On Tuesday last, a meeting of ratepayers was held in the parish church, Present, for the purpose of laying a rate for the wants of the ensuing year, when au amendment was proposed by a radical junto, who had beat up for the mere purpose of fruitless annoyance; hut on its being put to the vote, a very large majority showed themselves in favour of the Established Church. Not content with this, however, the above-named clique are desirous of still further manifesting their weakness by demanding a poll. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THE REV. .1 AMES WIDDOWS.—A. small but chaste tea service of plate, which had been subscribed for among a few of the friends of the Rev. Jaines Widdows, ' connected with the Congregational Chapel in Gloucester-street, on the occasion of his leaving this town, to take the pastoral charge of the Congregational Chapel at Raiuford. was pre sented to that gentleman on Thursday last, as .a tribute of re spect to his piety and worth, and to mark the regret which was felt at his leaving a place where he had so long laboured with the spirit of a truly pious Christian mir.ister. LANCASTER LENT AssizEs.—These assizes commenced, on Saturday, at Lancaster Castle, before Mr. Justice Patteson and Mr. Justice Coleridge. William Blundell, Esq., of Crosby, the High-sheriff, arrived at the county town from Preston, and made his entry accompanied by the usual cortege. The state equipage is described as a very handsome one : • the liveries are blue with white facings. W. Hawstorne, Esq., acted as Under-sheriff. The calendar contains the names of sixteen prisoners for trial, six of whom are charged with the offence of manslaughter. The other cases are but light ones, several of which would, no doubt, have been disposed of *he sessions, at Lancaster, had not the assizes intervened, and required a general g aol delivery of per sons confined. The cause list is not exp ec t e d to be a heavy one. The trial of the first indictment against the chemical nuisances, at the north end of Liverpool, was fixed for yesterday, before a special jury. Upwards of 200 witnesses are in attendance to be exatnined for the prosecution and the defence. OPHTHALMIC INFIRMARY.—We regret to find, from the an nual report, that the funds of this excellent institution are not in so prosperous a state as they were last year, the balance in the hands of the treasurer being only £23 Is. 21d., whilst there has been a considerable diminution of donations, and a very trifling increase of permanent contributions. This is the more to be lamented'as the institution is the means of conferring in calculable benefits, not only on working-men affected with the diseases of the eye, but also on their wives and families, who but for its intervention, might be deprived of their only means of support. The following is an extract from the report: The total number of patients who have received the benefit of the Charity, in 1837, is 2196 In the year 1836 1965 Showing an increase of 221 Whilst the number admitted in -1833 was 1129: thus, there has been in four years an increase of patients, comparing 1833 with 1837, of no less than 1057. The total number relieved from the first establishment of the charity is 24,704. These facts, the committee trust, will justify them in appealing to the public for further help. THE COLUMBUS STEAM-SHlP.—This vessel may now be seen in the Trafalgar Dock. She will proceed on her voyage early in April; but, this b e i n g an experimental voyage, she will not carry passengers. She is a beautiful steam-ship, and is neatly fitted up with accommodations fur about twenty-five cabin passengers. She is, it will be recollected, propelled by Mr. Howard's patent vapour engines, of about one hundred and twenty horses' power, and can carry fifty days' fuel at the same immersion as a steam-vessel of the common plan, of equal power and tonnage, can carry twelve days' fuel. She will make about eleven miles per hour. The following description of the machinery will be interesting :—This steamer differs from all others in having, literally. no boiler, she has steam genera tors in which water in small quantities is made to drop from an orifice on a heated plate, which rests upon a stratum of mercury about three inches and a halt thick, which is heated up to the temperature of three or four hundred degrees by means of a tire underneath. The rest of the engine is similar to the common low pressure engines, except that the cold water cistern is kept cool by means of pipes of cold salt water running through it. It is originally filled' with freils water; so that the evil of using salt water for condensation is avoided. The fuel horned is coke and stone coal, and the vessel wiltearry sufficient for fifty days' consumption. - The vessel steamed all the way from London, and frequently attained a speed of eleven knots per hour. Such is the construction of this vessel; and it must be acknowledged, that great advantages,- even for short voyages, are obtained by the use of machinery occupying so little room as this does. We are told, however,that it is extremely difficult to keep the joints of the vessel containing the mercury perfectly I tight, and that the effect has been seriously to affect the health of the men employed. It appears to us, ho . Wever, that some sub stitute for this volatile and dangerous metal 'might be employed, say, Newton's fusible metal, which melts at two hundred de grees, and which is not at all volatile.." LIFE BOAT.—We were yesterday invited to examine an im proved hydrogen life-boat, invented and built by Mr. Joseph Francis of this city, for Captain N. H. Holdredge, of the Liverpool packet-ship, United States. The boat is 23 feet long and 51 feet beam, is of the best material, clinker-built and copper fastened , throughout, and has a double ceiling; within the boat are 14 tubes 13 feet long, placed from the keel to the gunwale, containing 52 cubic feet of hydrogen gas, which will buoy up 4000Ibs, of iron while the boat is filled with water. To the sides are attached twenty life ropes, which with the boat are capable of giving support to 100 persons iu case of necessity. In the bottom of the boat is a plug-hole, through which the water escapes as fast as six men can hale it into the vessel; and the experiments tried have convinced such as have examined her that it is the best invention for the preservation of life, in case of ship-wreck, that has ever been offered to the merchants and masters of vessels for their patronage and support. Captain Pennover, of the packet Neptune, had two boats similarly con structed, which he took to Charleston, and so well convinced were the proprietors of the Wilmington and Charleston line of steam-packets of their utility, that they would take no denial from Captain P., but gave him his own price for them. Captain Henry Holdredge;of the Liverpool packet, George Washington, which sailed hence the Bth inst. for Liverpool, has taken one of I the boats with him, and will, on his voyage snake experiments of its utility, as occasion offers. The insurance essuipanies of Philadelphia were satisfied of their qualities, and ordered three .boats, as have also the insurance offices of Charleston, by an agent sent to this city, for the purpose of examining them. The utility of these boats is of importance town mariners, in saving lives and property in case of shipwreck at sea or on oar coast; and when once known, they will impart confidence to the wreckers which is so essential in rescuing the un fortunate suffer ers in heavy gales of wind, when attempts, in ordinary boats, are almost certain destruction.—New /ink paper, Feb. 2.3. — [We noticed this important invention a fornight ago,. but we did not then know, that one of the beats might. be seen on board the packet-ship, George Washington, in the Prince's Dock. Captain Henry Holdredge will be happy to show his boat to all persons desirous of seeing it; o bile Captain Nat ban Holdredge, of the packet-ship, United States, lying in the Wa terloo Dock,, wilL be ecinallv twiny to show his.— Albion.l CANADA. (From our Second Edition of Friday.) The London-line packet-ship Wellington, which ar rived at Dartmouth, on Wednesday evening last, has brought intelligence of the renewal of disturbances in Canada. Private correspondence corroborates the facts detailed in the American papers, so that no doubt can be entertained of the truth of these reports. The disaf fected party, commanded by General Renssellaer and other rebel commanders, have again taken the . field. Their numbers are estimated at from 800 to 1000 men. Every means had been taken by the loyalists to defeat their objects. By some private letters we learn that an attempt was made in Lower Canada to effect a rising in lat quarter. With regard to commercial affairs the papers state that re sub-treasury scheme remained still undisPosed of in the senate. The premium upon good European bills had declined nearly three per cent from the last advises, and the market exhibited tokens of a still further de- Money was also very scarce. We have but space for the following extracts, but which contain most important information relative to the renewal of the war : cline. (From the new York Evening Star, Feb. 19. The Patriots are again breaking into the public' depositories of arms. The council room at Cleveland, Ohio, was broken into on the night of the 9th of February, and 17 stand of arms taken off by one of the gentry. The patriots are in motion again, as before announced, about Sandusky and Toledo, Ohio. On Feb. 6th, " the army," so called, under Gen. APLeud and Col. Start, commenced their movements at Sandusky city for the islands opposite. Col. Sutherland and a remnant of the Navy Island band reached Toledo the evening of the 6th from Tecumseh. They had an ammunition waggon drawn by four white horses. On one of the boxes was a tall man with sandy hair, supposed to be Van Itenssellaer. Au advanced guard of 70 were at NloQroe on. t►e sth, and some 3or 4W were behind with some Cattaraugus diens. St. Clair, above Detroit, is supposed to be the point of rendezvous. Extract of a Letter to a Gentleman in this City, dated in Vermont, Feb. 11, 1838. • The Canada fever is in some degree revived hoa:e . , It is supposed that an incursion into the lower province is soon to be made, and at the same time a general,rising is to take place. The arms and munitions of war collected and purchased in this state (Vermont), have, in the course of the last week, been transported to the frontier. From the increasedt vigilance in the province, and the collecting of arms and men it is ap parent that the plans of the patriots have been communicated to the Canadian government. 'the efforts of the patriots, I think, must fail. The force of the government is too great to be overcome by the means now in the hands of the revolutionists. We are expecting every day to hear of the attempt to enter the province. The following letter, written by a highly respectable merchant in New York, and addressed to the editor of the London Standard, affords additional evidence, if it . indeed were wanting, of the fatal policy pursued by the government relative to the affairs of Canada MONTREAL, Feb. 13.—Lord Gosford, after feasting and car ousing with the heads of the French party, to the exclusion of the British interest, was ready to take his leave o us, when, unfortunately, his lordship experienced a fall, and, not falling on his head, is suffering from the effects of it. This will delay his departure for eight or ten days, and, whilst he remains in the country, the government remains with bins. " This is most annoying to us, as every day he remains is considered an infliction. Sir John Colborne was to have been sworn in this very day. The prisons will be kept filled longer than we had hoped. Mr. Andrew Stuart, of Quebec, is going home to join in representing to her Majesty's government the absolute necessity of a legislative union of the two provinces or the union of Montreal to the upper province. We are deter mined, for the future, to have something to do with the manage went of our own interests. It will no longer do to allow an ignorant French patty to have the commercial key of both pro vinces—to keep us in constant hot-water, and to prevent the entrance of British population and British capital. in short, we must be made more a British province'to be enabled to show our own capabilities, and do justice to the resources of the country, and the glory of Great Britain. The last division of the 34th regim* crossed the St. Law rence to Quebec on the 9th, without aMilent, and in high order. One of Lord Gosfurd's last acts was ordering a day of thanks, giving on the 26th, for the termination of the rebellion!' This be it observed, is in the face of the martial law still existing, and not without reason. No doubt it ig to bolster up the fudge fying loyal addresses,' which he is carrying home to lay:at the foot of the Throne. Arrests still continue, notwithstanding. (From the New York Journal of Commerce of Feb. 19.) MONEY AND EXCHANGE. Money is scarce, though there is no great difficulty in ob taining good notes, being discounted at 7 per cent. European exchange fell a good deal. The business of packet day was done chiefly at 71 down to GI for good and private bills on En gland, but the packet being detained, further sales were made. and the price continued to drop, the last transaction being 54 for prime bills, and 51 for southern bills of unquestionable strength; some of the banks were large buyers, and at the rate of their purchases they will procure returns of•specie below par. In Stock, the bnsiness was extremely small, but : appeared rather better towards the close. Further intelligence from Canada may now be daily expected, and will be looked fo , !: .. with great anxiety. REBELLION IN CUBA. By the Leeward Island mail we have received our re gular file of papers, those from Jamaica reaching to the Bth ult. Some insubordination had been displayed on several of the largest estates on the west coast of De merara. The legislature of Montserrat had decided on the final termination of the apprenticeship system on the Ist of August. The Jamaica Kingston Chronicle of the 2d February has the following extract : By a gentleman lately arrived at this port from Cuba, we re gret to learn the tidings of an insurrection among the negroes of that island. The revolt is stated to have broken out on the 12 inst., on a very extensive estate in the district of Trinidade, which the rebels had burned down, along with two others. Se veral overseers and book-keepers have been killed; the pro prietors only saved themselves by flight. By the last accounts they were completely surrounded, to the number of 2000, by the militia, and there was every reason to expect that they would soon be crushed. THE NEW POOR LAW A meeting took place on Friday, of the Board of Guardians for the West Derby Parochial Union, at which the following appointments of assistant overseers were made: — Township and Assistant Overseers. Salarv. Security. Ince Blundell, Peter Lovelady £l2 .... £313 Thornton. Mr. G. Jones 5 .... 15 Litlyerland, Edw. Webster, jun. Kirkdale, John Duinbell 53 .... 150 Fazakerley, John Pennington Everton, Mr. Shaw 75 .:.. 235 Aintree, Thomas Meadows Garston, B. Myttou 25 1 ... 75 W. Derby, municipal, Mr. Dolling .. 1:50, Bt3 per cent. :,.. 300 Do. Do. rural, Mr. Hodgson 3 per cent. .... 200 Netherton, Moss , 4 .... 12 Wavertree, William Andrews - 22 .... 66 Sefton, William Aspinall Lunt, Robert Bothwell 4 12 Little Crosby, Richard Rainford ' 13 .••• 49 Bootle, James Orme 3O • .... 90 Walton, Chat les Adcock h? .... . .25 .... 75 Great Crosby, Samuel Bradshaw ; ...... 18 .• • . 54 Orrell and Ford, John Gandy '3. . • . 9 Kirby, George Bainford , 25 .... 75 Toxteth-park, Abraham Bellis Do. William Barlow Do. E. W. Bridson Do. John Dawson Do. Josh. Whalley 100 .... 120 TRIBUTE TO THE REV. R. BLACOW.—We have pleasure in announcing that a number of the congregation of St. Mark's Church have just paid a deserved tribute of respect to their worthy pastor, the Rev. R. Blacow; after a zealous ministry of thirty-five years, by presenting him with his portrait, a good likeness, painted by M r. Thompson, EARTHQUAKE IN Str Rocs ti aE.—The shock of an earthquake was veto distinctly observed in Sbrewibury, and at several places in the immediate vicinity, about one o'clock in the after noon of Saturday last.—Solopian Jonrnal. A new subscription gas company is about to be established in the town of N'ewcastle. The prospectus was issued on the morning of the 6th instant, since which time upwards of 8000 out of 10,000 shares have already been subscribed for, princi pally by gas consumers. —Sunderland Beacon. The continental journals are filled with accounts of the great earthquake which was felt throughout Europe from the Black Sea to Cherbourg. on the 23d and 25th of January last. It is understood that the shock was felt in France, about seven hours later than in Southern Russia, and that the vibration was com municated by the rocky structure of the Alps. A second dividend of 4s. in the pound has been declared by the assignees of Messrs. Foster, bankers,. Carlisle; and it is expected that, in the course of the present year, a farther divi dend of two shillings in the pound w►ll be also paid. By a parliamentary paper just published, it appears that the number of beer-houses liitensed to sell beer by retail in Eng land and Wales, during the year ending the 31st of December, 1837. is as follows :—Beerhouses licensed to consume the beer on the premises, 49,1112; not to consume the Leer on the pre mises: 5,292. Total, 45,394. Lord Glenebg has recalled Captain llindmarsh from the Governorship of South Australia. and has delegated t -p selec tion of his successor to the commissioners, for the eulutliZ.al.ion of that extensive territory. CORRESPONDENCE. THE METHODIST BAZAAR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIFERPOOI, STAArDiRa Sits, —My attention has been directed to a letter which appeared in the " Liverpool Mail' of Tuesday last, re , lative to the intended Bazaar, in aid of the funds of the , " Wesleyan Methodist Day and Sunday Schools." Had the writer of this letter openly avowed his hostility to methalism, I should have given hint some credit for honesty, however I might have censured the means he has employed for prejudicing the public mind against the prpposed Bazaar. But such con cession I am not prepared to inake r inasmuch as he has assumed , the sigoatureof "A Wesleyan Methodist," the more effectually to impose upon the thoughtless and credulous, and attach wore weight to his false and malicious slanders. But methinks the Editor of the Mail should have hesitated ere he gave publicity to this foul libel upon the whole body of the Wesleyan Me thodists.: By giving his authority and sanction to the docu meut, he has exposed himself to the just rebuke of an insulted people. His opportunity of acquiring information upon this sabject, should have led to the immediate rejection of a letter, evidently dictated by hatred to Wesleyan Methodism. But I have been reminded that the Editor of this Journal has made a public apology for the insertion of this letter, so that I am spared the necessity of commenting upon his conduct with that severity which I think the case demands. But, sir, how lightly must the public esteem the direction of the public press, when an apology is offered to an insulted community in the terms and manner in which the ',resent crate is couched. Why entrust the examination of documents affecting the honour and reputa tion of any public body to a man, who, with childish simplicity, is now free to confess that he did not know how to act in the absence of ' the more responsible party.' rhe antidote is scarcely sufficient to counteract the poison which has been so freely ad ministered. However, as the Editor has absolved himself from any participation in this foul libel, it is my present purpose to confine my. observations to the writer of the letter. With regard to his connexion with the Wesleyan Methodist Socie ty, of which I ant in doubt, I have only to observe, that if the public are to judge of him by his letter, it is perfectly clear, from his igOorance both of the constitution and rules of that society, he is but ill qualified either to defend or reprove the one or the other. The confidential tone in which he speaks of the resolution of the committee, and his boast of being acquaint ed with the sentiments of a large portion of the members of the society are quite in character with the anonymous signature he has adopted. But perhaps he entertained the opinion that the adoption of this signature would give greater weight to his re commendation to do away with the bazaar, and make au appeal to the public in behalf of these benevolent institijtions. Some imeortauce, indeed, might.have been attached to is suggestion ltadloi# accompanied it , with a very liberal donation iu aid of the 4..ti0d5.[:,84t shrewdly suspect- that he is as bankrupt in purse as in -character.. The protest which this foul slanderer makes against what he •calls the " principle" of a bazaar, is an insult offered not only to the Methodist Society, but to the whole community of Christians wha have sanctioned this mode otlin creasing the - funds of any benevolent institution. "To obtain money uuder false pretences" is a direct violation of the law of the land, and could not be practised with impunity for any con siderable time. But lamat a loss to discover from this charge what is the " principle" of a bazaar, and should feet obliged if this wiseacre would communicate this information through the public press. " I run truly grieved," says the writer of this letter, " that parties professing to be the disciples of John Wesley should entertain the idea of getting money from those who would not give it without a quid pro quo !" 'Now, perhaps, the author of this letter, from his extensive acquaintance, can favour the public with - the name of any single individual who ever entertained this absurd opinion; but if correct, so far is it from rendering unnecessary the benevolent exertions of any christian community to excite the liberality of those who are proof* against a private appeal, that it is the best argument for establishing a bazaar, where the quid pro quo can readily be ob tained. I would, fur a moment, direct the attention of " A Wesleyan Methodist" to the ciicumslances attending the cele bration of a 111 issionarvanniversary. It is invariably regarded as a joyous festival, and friends and relations meet assuring a holi day to share the pleasures and pat ticipate in the excitement in separable from such an occasion. And this excitement ua tuially produces increased liberality, and a praiseworthy emu lation amongst all classes to increase their exertions in be halt of the heathen. Now these festive occasions, when sanc tified by prayer, have a tendency not only to unite all in the prosecution of their delightful labours, but very frequently it is accompanied with donations, which nothing but the passing in terest of the (nutrient could have elicited. This slanderer, how ever, would no doubt here also find room for accusation. Ile might describe these assemblies as 'unfilled revels, as scenes of drunkenne s s an d r i o t, &c. an d with just as much of truth as he indulges his prejudice against the establishment of a bazaar. The motto which the writer states is peculiar to the Wesleyan Society, "Love not the world," is, 1 would remind him, a scriptural injunction binding upon all Christians; and I cannot see how it is violated by ofering fur sale such articles as may be acceptable even to the men of the world. If exemption is to be made, and the Church of Christ is to receive no support from the men of the world, at once we must renounce the idea of a church establishment. But however valuable the voluntary system may be, and in many respects I admit it is not only de sirable, but preferable, still it is inefficient for the great work of evangelizing the world. What would the voluntary system have done in emancipating the slaves of the West India Colonies ? Years of active benevolence might have passed on without any improvement in the condition of that enslaved population; but the aid of parliament was thankfully received, and the united efforts of Christians and the legislature not only obtained for them civil liberty, but also provided for their religious instruction. And, it on such an extensive scale it was of importance to secure such auxiliary aid fruits men not in connexion with the Christian Church, is it not equally - desirable to receive the generous aid of the public in the furtherance of any benevolent enterprise? But 1 must now introduce a few observations with reference to . . a more delicate part of the subject, in which the writer intro duces those young ladies who are taking an active part in pro viding articles fur sale at the approaching bazaar. If at any time it is ungenerous, unmanly, and 'cowardly to expose the fair sex to public censure, it is especially so on au occasion when zeal for the interests of the pour has drawn them front retirement, and led them to take part in furthering the inter ests of any charitable institution ? I would make an appeal to Christians of all deumninations, if the character drawn by "A Wesleyan Methodist" is true? In how many instances have the drunkard, the swearer aim the Sabbath breaker, been found attending a bazaar for the sake of gratifying themselves with a sight of th'e young ladies who attend? That there is an attrac tion, and a powerful one, wherever ladies preside, 1 ant flee to admit, but that affords no reason why the usages of society are to be lust sight of, and courtesy give place to rudeness and vul garity. It is, indeed, but a poor compliment to the fair sex to suppose that none but the would-be-gentlemen and members of the swell mob, can appreciate their society and patronise their existence. But this is sufficient reply to the false and insulting accusations of this foul and unprincipled slanderer. Such is his hatred of virtue and of religion that he darkens into crime the most exemplary virtues, and attaches guilt to every innocent am usement in which both sexes participate. But, sir, I have trespassed too long upon the attention of your readers, and upon a subject which scarcely - demands notice, but if my attempt to restore to confidence those young ladies who are engaged in this labour of love proves successful, 1 shall reap a ric h reward. 'l O his native obscurity I therefore commit this slanderer. It is well he is shielded from the indignation of those who are pre- pared to vindicate the honour and pinny of that sex which gives grace and ornament to every circle of life. With the concluding observations in the letter referred to, 1 have but little concern. That there may be found many metn bars in Christian society, who do nut adorn their profession by a consistent life, is no well grounded accusation against the society itself. The information this writer possesses is some what peculiar. The " red bonnets" and the "green kerchiefs" which he states are worn by the members of the congregation in Brunswick Chapel, may be noticed by any stranger, but how the writer has made the discovery that " brass bracelets" and "gold washed copper ear-rings" are worn, I am at a loss to judge, unless indeed he forms his opinion by the circumstances of his own family. But my curiosity is further excited by " a thought" of this amusing scribbler. He says " I have ofte n . thought how Mr. Wesley would open his eyes could he make an entree into the Brunswick chapel on a Sunday moining, and there behold the red bonnets," &c. Now Sir, just fancy a man, having eyes, making a public entree into a chapel or any other place, and not opening them until he saw the "red bonnets, green kerchiefs, brass bracelets and gold washed copper ear-rings," and you can form a. pretty correct e s timate of this writer's talents. I think out or sheer pity, the junior editor of the Mail might have corrected the logic of his corres p o ndent; but perhaps he dare not take such liberty in the "more responsible party." 'l 'o conclude, I would inform a f " " d a an Wes leyan sur prise to Mr. Wesley , could he revisit our world, than all the cir abseuL'e theor the writer of the letter what would occ asio n snore c p u ri m n e s a p s i s e c d e s slandererdetailerl daabroev lay e. claim tthoatth character puhlic l Methodist."-1 am, sir, your obedienl i s i e E rv o nt 141ILUS. Rodney-street, March 17, 1838. POLICE' INTELLIGENCE, DIVFDI'NG HIS ATTENTIONS.—On Thursday, at t& soli office, a young man, named Wolverhampton, an apprentice t: man named Bradshaw, a watch finisher, appeared at the ba: prefer a complaint against his master for not teaching him trade, and for refusing to pay him his wages. The complaina - • stated that his masts, never taught hint anything.—Mr. 1 What does he do all his time ?"—Apprentice: 't Why he has a wife, and a woman be keeps, and he is three days at one placs• and three at the other, and betweem 'em he teaches inc nothing." (Loud laughter.) Mr. Hall:, "•Then he divides his •attentions ?" Defendant (with much sang livid) "That's dividing 'em fair any how." The apprentice then went-on to say that his master o-Wed him nine weeks wages, at is. a 'week, amounting to £3 3s. ' • which he could not get paid. Defendant: , It wouhl be as Well if you would ask him how inany,weekske has worked out of these last nine?"—Mr.. Hall: " Answer the first part of his charge, about not teaching him his trade?" — Defendant: ".Oh, hers instructed as far as others for his time." Mr, Hall:: " But von have no right to leave him e , —Dcfe:id - ant: " I should like to know how I am to' support my family and the other woman as he talks about, if . 1. am away con stantly ? I kept a publ•ie-house a shoat time, and I did then. I confess, attend to' my work properly."—Mr. Hall . •` What do you say about the wages for the last nine weeks?' Defendant : " Well, I will pay."—Mr. Hail : "It is . a yet. - improper thing: This boy keeps himself out of his wages, a•: , you keep him waiting nine weeks without them. What is he I, do? They ought to be paid punctually. You must pay tb £33s. immediately, and if you do not teach the apprentice F .rc. perly, I shall grant a warrant against you." ROBBING WITH A Ktss.—Yesterday, at the Police-office; a female named Mary Gore, was placed at the bar, charged 'uv e. countryman with having robbed him of a sovereign. Thc complainant, who appeared quite unsophisticated, said-" war cumin' blip Mount Pleasant last noight, and I met with that woman, and she pretended to know me, and axed me he-J , I wuz, and got a holt of me. I told her I wuz very well, an then she gay me a kiss, and at sane time I felt her hand in mL pocket. I said you have robbed me?' She replied, are a liar,' and then ran away. I stuck to her till I sar policeman, and then I gave her in charge. I had a sovercl - i a half-crown, and a sixpence in my pocket, and she had to rer the sovereign." Policeman No. 20 deposed to taking the pi goner into custody,- and she owned that she had the soveregi) and said the complainant bad given it to her instead of a shilling. The prisoner, in the most brazen-faced mane :r, swore that this was the fact, and that an improper intimacy had taken place between them, for which the money bad been - given to her. The complainant appeared thunderstruck with astonish ment, and reiterated his former statement. The prisoner was sent for a month to the Borough House of Correction. BOBBING A TlLL—Yesterday, at the police-office, a named Win. Hewson, was placed at the bar, charged by . Brown, Druggist, of London Road, with having attempted ! . .o rob his till on Sunday night, when he heard a noise, which thought like the sound of a drawer being opened. He looked it)t , i , his shop, and saw the prisoner bobbing his head up above thc counter, beside the till which he had been attempting to ro'.7. Ile had twice before had his till robbed. The prisoner, cr.. being asked what he had to say, said : "Please stir I was orCy going into the shop for a ha'porth of Spanish." Mr. Parkinsvr. said he was very well known, and had been committed. Mr. Hall transferred him once more to the Borough House of Correction for three months. THE DEVIL AMONG THE TAILORS. —We believe it has be a frequent remark that the artizan tailors are, as a class, tt ik r most profligate set of men, with whout it is an established ;II:: _ tom, from which it is considered a degeneration to vary, to quite drunk three days in the week. Yesterday, at the polio office, no fewer than 9 or 10 of this fraternity were chareo. with having been drunk, disorderly. fighting in the streets, ztr: - 1 so forth. Amongst the rest, Patrick M'Quillan, a "tailor n' trade," was charged with having been exceedingly riotous ;-).. ,- r disorderly on Sunday night. The prisoner was a very diminu tive and sickly looking individual with elbows peeping out of his coat, hair standing on end, and n ose an d c hi n po r n ' _.,:, as sharp asithe needles of his trade, in fine, one whom it.w0,.:,.1 be no libelln call "a fraction of a man." A policeman sti:‘, .: that he had been 'called into a house in Scotland Road tf - . the prisoner out, he behaving in a mast riotous arid ilisoi;; manner. After a great deal of trouble he succeeded in ' nettle.: him out, but he fought and went on in such a way, that he w obliged obliged to take hint to Bridevvell. Mr. Hall; Why did y( behave in this way ? Prisoner.—Why the person of tL: house had got a cat of mine, and he would not give it no., Mr. Hall: A cat ?—Prisoner: Yes, a eat. (A laugh.)—Mr. Hall: But you should not, because he has done so, go to hi's house caterwauling and making such a noise?—Prisoner-: Well, he'd got a cat of mine;. and (in a pathetic tone of voice) it's only a fortnight since he stole a bitch of mine, and left Ivo with two pups but a fortnight old—(loud laughtery—and 1. thought it rather too much to take both; and instead of tlig policeman protecting my property he beat and abused me; and ' I thought it better to come and see if he was justified in doing s o .—Policeman : He told me about the cat, but the man their; told me he had not taken it.—Mr. Hall; It seems to me that. the tailors are growing vet y riotous. Will you promise to con duct yourself better for the future? The prisoner made the re quired promise and was discharged. ONe Use OF NEWSPAPERS.—Yesterday, at the Police-of •-e, two apprentice lads, named Middleton and Murray, wer,: placed before the Magistrates, charged with having conducted themselves in a riotous and disorderly manner in the streets Or_ i Sunday night. Inspector Thompson deposed that he fon them iu the streets making a very great noise, and shouting t . • parently for their own amusement. He desired them to 1.;c• quiet or he should take them into custody, and they passed i...i. About au hour aftel wards he found Chem in Scotland-ro; _. making as great a noise as ever, so he took him into cus:oi. . They told him they cared nothing about being put into Brit well well ; they should only have to pay si, for being drunk , .i. 1.. they 'were frightened of was being put in the newspapr7s. Middleton said he was a watchmaker, and Murray that be wai. a book-keeper. Both behaved with great levity and very in• decorously before the magistrate, ana seemed to think it ww , 3 an excellent joke. Mr. Hall ordered each of them to pay st. for being drunk, or in default to be committed to the Borough Gaol for three days. On hearing the fine imposed they 1.)(0. burst out into laughter, and Middleton whirled his hand ront4, in the air in derision. Mr. Hall told them if they were brou t h.i. up again they should find bail. , , EXTRAORDINARY DEFALCATION. At the close of last week it became generally known, that there was, as is called in sporting language, a screw loose in. tl.e establishment of Messrs. J. H. Stanway and Brother, pcbl.7. accountants, Manchester, and who have not only transacted most extensive business, but who have also enjoved the pubic:. confidence to an unlimited extent. The imtneiliate cause .of bringing to light the delinquencies, as it at present appears,. of Mr. Samuel Stanway only, was a meeting of commissioners of bankrupts on Saturday last, in order to declare a dividend Oil an estate to which Messrs Stanway were accountants—of cfiursc whose presence could not be dispensed with. Mr. J. H. Stan way, however, only was in attendance, although Mr. Sari - or Stanway had had the entire management of the estate; and, c being asked the amount of assets in band, informed the comm::„ • sioners that he had neither any funds nor documents belonfg;;.., to ate estate. This declaration, as may be supposed, utte: . -i confounded the commissioners, they having reason to know itv: something like £4OPO had collie into the accountants' hands. This disclosure ,:as quickly heralded through town, and, ri before noticed, the.. business of this office being well known have been extensive, caused many parties interested to set about ascertaining how their individual interests were likely to be affected, who upon this discovered that Mr. Samuel Stanway (on whom had for some time devolved the principal manage ' ment of the concern) had become non est inrentus, and it itr•at this moment unascertained the extent or number of dccumetite and amount of money he took with him. Officers, however, are in hot pursuit ; but with what success time only can show. There are several estates, ,and public bodies, and committecri, who, it is understood, will be considerable sufferers, among whom we have heard— 'rho Conservative Committee for the late South Lancashire Election, report says ...£3000 The Committee of the Operative Conservatives.. 300 Botanical Gardens.. 4OO The estate of C. Evans, Banker , of Philip Gans of Taylor, Herdle, and Co., the amount stated in all is said to be £ll,OOO to, 14,000 The former sum appears to he most correct. It is reported that the trustee to an estate under inspection, had deposited cheques signed but not filled up, to enable Messrs. truet any S t an greatway —e extent, s e may fi S tan way to meet any sudden demand; and, that these checle,,, o u te i r ) v t e o beensuit himself. made use 'this, if of Samuel volve innocent parties to a large amount. EXTRAORDINARY PLATES OV GLASS.—There are now de posited at the warehouse of the 'Thames Plate Glass CCU,- p u ny, Savoy-street, Strand, two of the- largest plates of tll •R ever made in this country. Their dimensions are 12i 71 feet, beiniz within a few inches as high, anti much wider the mirrors of the ball-room at Windsor Castle, each of wt•iL:b., however, is formed of two plates. THE BALLOT.—The ballot would necessarily destroy abuse the character of the voter, and make a hypocrite of hi,t.7 throughout his whole existence. It would make his life oils continued lie. If he secured secrecy at al!, it would Make him who had voted contrary to his promise true in hypocrisy. ,He who could conceal the side on . whicli he voted—he wbo.coula keep the secret from his friend, from his wife, could never bt, true in any relation of life, nor would any one believe him to•btl so. Lord Brougham, in 1830.. • THE MAGNETIC POLE.—ln the year 1819, Sir Edwd. Parry, in his voyage to discover the north-west passage round Ainericl, sailed near the magnetic pole ; and in 18`24, Captain Lyon; on an expedition for the same purpose, found that the magnetit: pole was then situated in 63 deg. 26 min.sl sec. north latitude, and in 80 deg. 51 min. 25 sec. west longitude. It appears. from. latter researches, that the law of terrestrial magnetism is of con. - siderable complexity, and the existence of more than one mag . netic pole in either hemisphere has been rendered highly pro.. pable; that there is one M. Siberia seems to be decided by t his recent observations of M. Hansteen, —it. is in longitude 102 deg. east of Greenwich, and a little to the north of the 60th deg. of of latitude ; so that, by these data, the two magnetic poles in the northern hemisphere are about ISO deg. distant from each other ; but Captain Russ, who is just returned from a voyage in the Polar seas, has ascertained that the American magnetic pole is in 70 deg. 14 min. north latitude, and 96 deg. 40 min. west longitude. The magnetic equator does not exactly coin cide with the terrestrial equator; it appears to be an irregular curve, inclined to the earth's equator to an angle of about 12 deg. and crossing it in at least three points, in longitude 113 deg. 1-1 west, and 66 deg. 46 min. east of the meridian of Greenwich, and again somewhere between 156 deg. 30 min. of west longi tude, and 116 min east.—Mrs. Somerville's Connection of the Scienres. DISCoVERT OV ANCIENT SCLAVONIAN MANUSCRIPTS.— Accounts from Servia announce, that a monk of the order of St Basil has just discovered a collection of historical mann setipts in the monastery of Monte-Negro. Being ordeleci to inspect the vaults which extend in difTereut directions under the church of the convent, he found that the numerous coffins depo sited there, were all decayed or broken to pieces, except one, which remained entire. When this report was received by-the superior, he consulted with his brethren, and it was resolved to open the coffin. This was done with due solemnity, and their astonishment may be imagined, when it was found that this , coffin, which was of lead, was filled with bundles of papers, in a very good state of preservation, each wrapped up in oiled cloth. On a general examination, they were discovered to be chronicles, written in different Sclavonian languages, and to extend front the first invasion by the Sclavonians, of the countries watered by the Danube, to the year 1721. These chronicles contain the history of Wallachia, Moldavia, Servia, and Bulgatia. and. numerous details relative to the crusades, the empire of the East, the wars of POW and Hungary against the Ottomans the whole written and composed by eye-witnesse , Miloseh has purchased this precious erdlection of ti.antisOripta for 5,000 ducats, and has commissioned his private secrettil; Mr. -Wouk Woukanowitch, and twenty-four learned Servittir. r immediately to ex.ataine, and to class them according to thus dates; and these obersoments will be forthwith rtihlistied, tlt:ta I expe Ilba of the prince.--Atiatreasitia.