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Varliamtntarp 43rocrebing5 ...,n. ft ....... LORD Her Majesty's a kddress wal rl of ABERDEEN laid Ile cope and Am 3ROUGHAM eXpri Lea and certain returns a amendment in the pr which, after afew arl of Wick- that an opportunit e system of t, Lord CAMPBELL was intended by the Go- ement of the ad- and a third bill relating to the la. Duse the same law of had passed eir lord nfortunate accident, had .st time, after which their lordships HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAV stion from Mr, MILNER GIBSON, as to on of the government to maintain rye up t When the Ca, ‹, as soon vered the following ju( • ecurity whatever to is also equally el which became due about the month of Septet:oriel. Subsequently, and before the malt was sold, Armitage and Co. became bankrupts, being at the time indebted to the crown nearly £7,000 for malt duties, not then due. The Board of Excise having ascertained that Armitage and Co. were insolvent, issued a writ of extent, and seized the whole of their property, including the malt deposited in the hands of Walmsley and Co. and Trueman, upon the " security" of which they had accepted the drafts of Armitage and Co. The question now in dispute was, whether the crown had a right to effect such a seizure—they having had the malt re gularly consigned to them—and having accepted the bills upon that distinct and specific security. The object of Walmsley and Co. and Trueman, was to compel the crown e proceeds of the malt to them, and call upon es of Armitage and Co. to make good their defalca- A was finished, the Lord C,lief Baron .cated that the points which had been raised,, by the argu ments of counsel, involved questions of so much importance to the trade of the country, and the excise duties, that the court would take time to consider its judgment. On Monday government, and I we - as the court sat, the Lord Chief Baron deli- Igment, which is decisive for the crown and in favour of the sureties, and proves beyond all question, that all malt and other property belonging to a maltster, with all other exciseable commodities, into whose hands they may have passed, or under whatever circumstances tl of a Lona fida sal held crown for duties upon it, or tor any a may be e to the rs of duty, and can ny person advancir ar, that the rown will not ,on the sureties, so long as ther s any other property to be found. Lord Abinger. in delivering the judgment of the court, said, that it had been argued by counsel for the defendant, that as the statute of the 3d and 4th Victoria, under which the writ of extent had been issued, was not in force at the time the goods were deposited with the defendant, they could not be seized under the preceding statute of the 7th and Bth of Geo. IV., which had been repealed by the statute of Vic- The argument was a very ingenious one ; but it ap that, by a former statute of 27th of Geo. 111., vas still unrepealed, all goods, materials, and com modities in the custody of the maker of such goods, or in the ly other person for the use of such maker, shall eon and the E g to the LORD CHANCELLOR said t at so .ead a fi at an ear nv in existence, as Stade duties vosition of t. 1 N-overx , withdrew a committee of supply t a sapp granted to has been in- 5y which ilst going It cam e THEIR 1E QIII aer Cot ETIE~ y important c cl was arg )EEPLI' TERS, AND :s final pying the —M essrs 3 factors, maltst settles the qu ers, and their sureties f Exchequer Chamber, on demur- .ue arguments occu nie nature of the case was as follows : litage and Co., of Wakefield, who were ae malt trade, had deposited about the 1 5.41., in the hands of Sir Joshua Walms- S. H. Arm and Co., of LiVerpooi , and of Mr. Michael Trueman, of Manchester, a quantity of malt, about 1,300 loads with each, for the purpose of holding it for higher prices, until the fol lowing harvest. On the deposit of this malt, the two parties agreed with Armitage and Co. to accept their drafts on them, at three months' date, for three-f our th s o f i ts va l ue ; they gular consignment, as security he bills became due, they were to renew them if re- The price of malt having advanced several shilings rtain prospect (from the unfa- per load, with the almost c vonrable appearance of the harvest) of its goi higher—which proved to be the cas.-- considerably 1 the bills were re- lewed, with anunderstandin that the parties should be a 1 the malt, in time to meet the latter bills ded on duties on foreign ned to answ I to the Briti ntries, and tt wt, therefore interpretation as sent 'esent c template 1 in the British therefore, had taken play whether ust become necessary s or make new arrangements I, and had been so f lon after ac reasonab Sir G. S oops fri lye enactmen mg-Kong ? r the question, and said he a similar course in respect to all other questions be asked relating to other articles of the tarff. questions from Lord PALMERSTON, :EL said that the Brazilian government had of the treaty between 'een the two states ber 28, 1844. Her ye to Brazil for the pur- hich might )eriod than the expiration of d. With Le government of Hanover had _ estions from Mr. LABOUCHERE respecting ling commercial 'negotiations between this country governments of France and Portugal, amented the delay which had taken place regarded our commercial intercourse wit!. Now the goods in the possession of the de- 3is case had bi 'or the use o defendant excise, t exc place in the therefor+ so as to be e quest at the ( residing at or r ranged ith a y servant to a s 6 )at as th should not atten after in arri ence to th common u the N a spring, cc nunicating with a bel condut tion as to t oung woman 1 , ommon omnibus 1 home he took out his I he and the young part of the band- a pocket, and in heir playful be subject to all arrears of excise duties ,debled in arrears to th t the consig and the judgment A CONSCIENTIOUS LEGATEE.—A Liege journal states that the brother of a shepherd at that place, who died lately at Dork, in Transylvania, has received notice of his being heir to a fortune of 1,500,000 f., which his brother had be queathed to him, but which, in the event of no claim being made by the heir, is to go to the poor of Dork. The shep herd, who is 67 years of age, has refused to touch the legacy, assigning as a reason, that he could ❑ot be happy with a for tune acquired by a man who, by his misconduct before he left France, had abridged the days of his parents. The cou sins of the old man, however, who are less scrupulous, are said to have commenced proceedings against him as a lunatic, bled to claim as his representatives. SUDDEN DEATH OF A BROTHER OF THE I SIDNEY SMITH.—CIo Tuesday, Mr DATE SIR M,P., held i and Horses, Welbecklstreei, (.;aven- dish square, on the body of Mr. Courtney Smith, aged 69 or 70, Park-street, Grosvenor-square. The deceased was bro ther of the late gallant Sir Sidnc: `' ' baker, No. 69 Hinde-street, Mancheste Smith. Stephen Stanners, -square, stated that ibout half-past the deceased, on Saturda two o'clock, entered his shop, saying " May I be allowed to rest for a few minutes ?" Witness, who was behind the counter, said, " Certainly," and deceased sat down upon a chair, immediately upon doing which he placed his right alarm on the counter, and, resting his head in his hand, seemed to faint. Witness thereupon asked him if he felt unwell, but he was unable to answer, and merely shook his head. A surgeon being instantly sent for, deceased, on his arrival, was pronounced to be dead. The Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, M.P. for Northampton, deposed that the deceased, who was a gentleman of independent fortune, was his uncle. Witness had not seen him for six months, but he had ascertained that deceased left home on Saturday, about one o'clock, beina in the enjoyment of his usual good health. The jury returned a verdict of " Natural death." TIC DEATH 0 —The Inverness Herald details t ch occurred durin H IGH L AND melan - g a snow storm in the r Riconich of Rea, Sutherlandshire,ar ig female, of the name of Dolina herd in Assynt, to meet her on the 13th ult at her sister's house in that parish, and accompany her o visit to her mother, residing at Edderachylis. Althout day was snowy and drifty, the piper kept his appoint girl did not make her appearance, he proc t ,r mother's, leaving injunctions that the girl ipt to follow him on so stormy a day. Shortly ived, and accustomed to the inclemency of the weather, would listen to no caution and brook no delay. She took the road and soon missed it, and became benumbed and overcome with cold. When it was discovered that she had not arrived at her destination, the whole inhabitants of the countryside turned out in quest of her. After several days of fruitless search, she was at last found frozen, in a sitting posture, beside a stream, within a mile and a half of the ferry of Kyle Sku. She appeared to have been in the act of changing her stockings for a dry pair she carried with her, when she was arrested by the hand of death ; and was found with one hand holding her plaid about her head, and the other resting as a support to her body upon her knee. THE STORM.—LOSS OF LIFE.—At high water this morn- ing, about half-past three, the tide, owing to the strong northerly wind that lasted all the previous night, was so high in the river Thames that the houses and wharfs on the banks at Lambeth, Vauxhall, and several other places, were flooded to an alarming extent. The houses in Upper and Lower Fore-streets were inundated to the depth of upwards of ten feet. And in c onsequence o f th e ra pidity o f th e fl oo d, aided as it was by the wind, much damage was done to the numer ous vessels lying in the river, and also to the ground-floors . of the various h ouses , more espec i a lly t o th e prem ises be longing to Mr. Fleckney and Mr. Lancaster, publicans, whose cellar stock h as b een severe l y i n j ure d . Wi t h such rapidity did the tide overflow that the police were unable to get round towards the river side to call up the parties. The overflow in the nighbourhood of York-road was the highest ever known, and boats took the place of the usual mode of con veyance. This was also the case at High and Broad-streets, Lambeth. At Westminster-bridge the rapid current ren dered the lighters and other craft totally unmanageable, and one man, na me un k nown, was thrown from the steerage of a lighter by the concussion of the vessel with one of the wrecks, and has not yet been found. The lighter, however, was, after much tossing to and fro, brought to a mooring. The amount of damage done to the small vessels lying up in the river is very great. The inhabitants of the Belvidere-road, at Bankside-road, at Bankside, also sustained much loss by the overflowing of the river.—Tim SrE, .E IN SELKIRK COURT. —On January 31st two men ging to Galashiels, John and Adam Dryden, brothers, were tried, on a charge of day poaching, before Major Pott and Sir James Russell, of Ashiestiel, when a scene occurred certainly very uncommon in a court of justice. One of the panels, Adam, sat with a stick in his hand, which he brand ished in a threatening manner towards the Court, keeping at the same time his bonnet on his head. The superintendent of police, seeing this, took it off, and laid hold of the stick, when in an instant two fellows jumped from the gallery and assisted the prisoner in struggling for the stick, which was broken in the scuffle. One of the justices directed the offi cers to let the prisoner alone, who accordingly wore his bon net and kept the broken stick during the whole of the trial. The result was, that the two prisoners were convicted in full penalties faith expenses, which not being forthcoming, Adam was sentenced to two, and John to four months' imprison ment. Upon this they both declared that all the officers of Selkirk should not take them to gaol ; and it was only after a desperate struggle between them and the officers that they were placed in a cell in the Council-house, where they im mediately commenced breaking the windows and furniture. John Dryden was soon after dragged by the police towards the gaol, the officers being followed by some hundreds, a great part of whom seemed determined on his rescue ; but he was at length secure l y l odged in that strong-hold. The su perintendent of police then called out an additional force, and having hound the other prisoner hand and foot, carried him also to the gaol. I t would appear that these despreradoes have been educated in their lawless oocupation by their own father, who is at present in Jedburgh gaol for illegal fishing, and was not long ago a month in Selkirk prison for the same crime. —Caledonian Mercury. NEW PATENT OMNIBUS.—A patent omnibus, constructed for the purpose of affording greater —^.--"- ..,olic tha❑ are given by the has just been completed by Mr. Warburton, of —w-road. An experimental trip was made with it on Saturday afternoon. The patent omnibus is about the usual length, and has a coupe, over which the driver has his seat. Immediately behind the coupe is the portion of the omnibus which constitutes its chief feature—this is a sort of railway carriage, with room for four persons, and is fitted up in such a manner that it can, at the pleasure of those seated in it, be made into four isolated compartments, each having its win dow on the side of the carriage. The doors of this portion of the omnibus open like those of a private carriage, with this difference, they are necessary double for the convenience of the passengers. The steps are so contrived that passen• gers can be easily taken up from and set down on the kerb. Each of the four compartments alluded to is furnished with ion and conveni neles now in iced close a also with a flexible tube,' having an ivory mouth-piece a tached to it. This tube runs along the top of the omnibu and has its outlet on a level with the head of the conductor 1 the c .', which the omnibus is required to b( ibus is ventilated b 'eans of narrow s auze wire fixed immediately over the windows, binder part of the vehicle is precisely the same as the The fare in the carriage portion is Bd., and in the coupe and the hinder part W. The fore wheels of this omnibus are of the same diameter as the hinder wheels. This, while it renders the draft lighter, mak es th e " pulling up" a more difficult matter, and a sort of drag, at the corn_ ly ' mand of the conductor, has been placed on the hi n d er axle- ancbo_ It appeared to the court, therefore, that the case was perfectly plain, as it was the scope of all the acts of parliament on the subject, )ods once chargeable for arrears could not be discharged an actual bona fide sale. No such sale had taken present instanc e entered for the crown THE 7TH DRAGOON GUARDS.—After a continuous tour of home duty, the long duration of which is unprecedented in the military annals of this country, the ith Dragoon Guards have at length been placed under orders for foreign service. They are to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope so soon as the requisite arrangements for their conveyance thither can be completed. It has also been determined to send the Ist battalion of the 45th Regiment to the same station.—U. S. Gazette. nit to t to a ones Sir ROBERT PE cant to pri r a commercial tri rably ri be entertained of an n ,tion from Mr Ro 3er to terminate the nego . Wit i respect to France, bad been re- •ance, that beneficial arrange- said that rs which government respecting the Affghan war would afford to Inity of judging of the policy of nd the Indus. It was not fullest op po it r troops spers except those which were rs to form an op troops and their leaders ion. mem on of t: a the conduct of the withdrawa. Sir J. GRAHAM, in rep! o a question f WALTER ated that it was his intention to introduce the subject English poor law during the present . . within the In repli at fortnigh to a question from Lord J. RUSSELL, ERT PEEL said it was intended that the vote of Inks to be proposed respecting the Affghan war • ~ as to be d he did not in- t any opinion upon nd the om be nfinectio the military (3peration's ote as express of the withdrawal of 'the tri nel RUSFIBROOKE withdrew his motion for a new writ rough of Sudbur TFNELL moved that a new writ should not issue 20th of Mare,h. After the motion had een as- ie hon. member again moved for leave to bring in to exclude the borough of Sudbury from sending les to serve in parliament. r. BLACKSTONE moved, as an amendment, that a special mittee should be appointed to inquire into the corrupt tices said to have prevailed at the last election for that g had occurred to alter his he should therefore support sfranchisement of the borough. 3. PEaL said that not ct, and ent was negatived ,ut a division The house ssion, the amendm Priginal motion was agreed to Limed. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDA arter of the ations, with a d fallen from him relative to the ob- rmer occasion ri rica to a ontainin of search 824, the Ameri- to the right cting to its extension to the American objection, because it was as unlikely that ,uld be in the waters of New York as 1 those es. If this one point had been waived, the right ght now have been in existence for the last nine- Lo'rd DENMAN moved the second reading of the Law of rd CA MP LL hoped the bill would receive the unani- s consent of their 1( 'ew observations from Lord BROUGHAM, the bill ime, and was ordered to be committed on OMMONS.- -TUESDAY N aske e intention of Govern- n the fullest relianc to a question from Mr. T. DuNc nment with respect to church-rates r to preclude 'or the proper Government was in anticipation m Sir H. Pottinger upon certain points sub- upon his ability, energ: MBE as to tE id it was not his intention to bring forward 1 the subject, but he did not mean by this e himself from legislating upon the subject WALLA moved for a select committee to inquire reatment of the unemployed and destitute people of :xclusive of the parochial poor) from May, 1841, Sir J. GRAHAM, on the part of the Government, acceded the motion, leaving it to Mr. Wallace to constitute the tee fairly r. FRENCH moved for leave to bring in a bill for the r regulation and extension of medical charities in Ire- land Lord ELro said he saw great diffi ies in the plan pro- mber, ind in candour to him he would could not promise him the support of Govern 1r the measure Leave was then given to bring in t On the motion of Mr. Hums certain returns were ordered relative to the case o Mr• ROEBUCK then moved sented to her Majesty, r" sons who had penal Rajah of Sattara at an ad ,ould be pre ing for a pardon for all those per- I transported from the Canadas to our Homes for political offences during the late outoreak e colonies. The hon. and learned gentleman passed the highest eulogiums on the course pursued by the present Government towards the Canadas, and said that, as the leaders of the outbreak were now taken into the councils of 11,ne,rp141k:sti, he hop e d th a t th ose w h o h a d ac t e d i n accord- tam advice might be allowed to return to their country, and that the Government would thus add the coping stone on the arch which it had raised, and secure, by such well-timed clemency, the affections of all classes of the people. Mr• Ewmur seconded the motion. Lord STANLRY said it was always ungrateful to interpose ,aercise of the royal clemency, and it was more particularly so after a speecn so - ous, and so calculated to win upon the house, as that of the hon. and learned gentleman ; but still, he must say. it would be very unwi se f or the House of Commons to revive, by such when, a course as th at proposed, former animosities, as the hon. and learn e d gentleman admitted, the population of the Canadas was satisfied upon the whole with the course pur sued by the British Government. He feared, that if an en tire amnesty were given to the parties in whose behalf the bon. gentleman had pleaded, those who had stood up in de fence of British interests and had risked everything to quell the treason of which those parties had been guilty , have great reason to complain if they found that a pardon had would been granted to them, and that they were once more placed upon an equal footing with those who had stood faithfully to their allegiance. There had been no great or unde severity ased in the suppressi on of that rebellion, and considering the , arions shades of guilt w hi ch pertained to the parties whose ause the hon. member advocated, nothing could be more njust and unwise than to include them all in one general Leasure of pardon, whatever might be the criminality of 'me of the number. Some were transported for seven, some years, and some for life • and yet t o a ll o f them a ',ardor' was propos ed by the hon. member to ied. It would be a most dangerous inter prerogative of the Crown, and he, therefore, a would reject the motion ; but he would, at say that the Government would be ready, in case, to listen to any favourable represents ^ made for mercy, but to an indiscrimi ',e must say it would be most un- operate and or fourteen measure of fre h could Government should complete run, and, notwithstanding the irties, should grant a free par and thus put a final termina neartburnings which might prevail Canada. La that th ice of motion with deeper )f the hon. member for le object he totally distil:, It was an interfe therefore calcu- W : -A and on his r, crows. W f from s and he to prevent her --- la, iff, and ar►ng off the whole face and top of his neous death.—Belfast paper. it in his under jaw, tree, after the manner of the carriages of the French malle ad, causing install- post, to lessen the work which would otherwise be thrown upon the horses.—Times. CHINA TING T imperial edict I REATY WITH ENGI s been issued by the Em. a the treaty with the English In reply to the report of the imperial commissioners, Keying, Elepoo, and Newkeen, on the 27th day of the 7th moon (September 1), the following imperial edict was re ceived:— " Keying and his colleagues have sent up a document con taining a report and rough sketch of the articles of the con vention discussed at a personal conference (with her Britannic majesty's plenipotentiary in China). I have inspected the report, and have a full knowledge of the whole of it. " I, the emperor, seriously consider the evils to the unac countable number of the people, and the important conse quences to the greatness, power, and station of the empire, and I cannot avoid being constrained and forced to grant what is requested ; it is but one time of bitterness and trouble, but the ease, repose, and peace may he reckoned on for ever, and not only the two provinces of Keangsoo and Chekeang be preserved entire, but the empire will be held altogether in its integrity ! As to those items in the report relating to trade, they are improper, and require further consideration : —now, as the barbarian ships are willing to leave the Chang river, and are also willing to retire from Chaoupaou-hill, that which they have before requested relative to a free trade at five ports, the country of Foochow must be excluded ; per mission to trade thither cannot by any means be granted, but another port may be exchanged for it; they may be allowed to trade, coming and going, at the four ports—Canton, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shinghae. " As to the matter of the Hong merchants' debts, the said great ministers must necessarily accommodate themselves to circumstances, and in a perspicuous edict (explain the matter thus to the English) : "The said nation has traded with China for more than 200 years, and heretofore all has been harmony and good. will, and the trade has always been transacted by barter and money; but as the Hong merchants and yourselves have be tween you mutually transacted the affairs of trade, our public officers have hitherto never examined into or troubled them selves about the trade. The affairs of the rise and fall in prices, whether low or high, are very petty, trifling matters. Further, our speech and language are unintelligible to each other, and, most decidedly, the district officers will not be able to manage the matter. " Hereafter the Chinese merchants at all the ports will adopt extraordinary modes of giving trouble and cheating, even to cutting, i. e., demanding excessive discounts, when there will be no hindrance or fear of laying a clear statement before the district officers, who will certainly punish the said merchant (delinquent) ; decidedly there will be no indulgence shown. As to the £6,000,000, it is proper that I should give them, by which my sincerity and good faith will be manifest, and they are to be collected from the salt commissioners and provincial treasuries of the three provinces of Chekeang, Keangsoo, and Gahwuy, the richest supplying the deficiencies of the poorest. As to correspondence being conducted on terms of perfect equality between the officers of the two go vernments, and the barbarians who have been made captives and the Chinese who have been seduced (into the employ of the English)—l grant all these supplicated favours; let the captives be released, and I order that all the matters (the three just mentioned) be allowed, which have been re quested. . _ " Further, with reference to what is contained in the report about sealing ; the said barbarians do not require your seal as proof, but the imperial seal of the empire to be fixed as a guarantee (of the treaty); so I shall not fail in dignity, and the feeliags of my imperial station will not be lost. " Before I have disseminated my imperial rescripts to each of the dependencies of China, all sealed with the imperial seal of the empire; and I order that my rescripts be sent under a flying seal with the despatches from the Board of the Civil-office, and they are to be forwarded in this ceremonious manner, that the clauses which had been clearly reported may be properly managed. . _ " From the time of This settlement the said great minister must specially report to the emperor, behaving with perfect sincerity ; of the things supplicated there are none which have not been granted. " From this epoch of a thorough free trade, there should be everlasting peace and harmony; your nation should also treat us with mutual, perfect sincerity; and certainly nut again commence military operations, in direct opposition to heavenly principles; for not only have you already caused troubles and confusion in many provinces, but you must again come, seeking causes of quarrel and war ; and just so, the coast and territories of the provinces of Canton, Fuhkeen, Teawan (Formosa), Chekeang, Keanguan, Shantung, Chile, and Sbunteen (Peking), the barbarian vessels of war are not allowed to enter and frequent. " Since, at this time, we are at peace, of the officers and troops in each province, there are some that should be sent away and others detained. k 1 e have already consulted, as to the ancient cities of China, signal pyramids and batteries ; and it is proper that they should all be rebuilt successively, according to former custom. These have not been of modern erection ; but they were built for the purpose of guarding against and seizing the pirate, and were not established to guard against the said barbarians ; and we certainly must not incoherently and disorderly produce suspicion and apprehen sion in those distant provinces which have not yet heard of or possess a full knowledge of the peace :—if any of your (barbarian) ships abruptly enter and are suddenly attacked, you must not make this a cause of screening yourselves, bor rowing pretences, and mouthing. "The whole of the above matters are wholly in the deep consideration and extreme care of the said minister and his colleagues ; let them be wholly true and sincere in deliberating and deciding, and so for ever put an end to the risings of war ; and there must not be the least misconception or misunder standing. This is not an affair or time to be idle, or to dis miss the matter in a hurried, remiss, and irre but regard it with severe and serious attention !—with sincere and serious attention r gular manner, !gard it ! " Hurry on this edict - at more than at the rate of 600 le a day, and order him (Keying) to inform himself of its con tents.—Respect this."—Canton Register, Oct. 24. ELLIGENC. GENERALS NOTT AND POLLOCK (From the Bombay Monthly Times for December.) A discussion has of late been going on in Calcutta as to the relative merits of Generals Nott and Pollock. The subject appears to furnish so few grounds for controversy that it dis plays considerable ingenuity to discover what are the points on which any comparison whatever betwixt the two can be instituted. The simplest mode, perhaps, of coming to any , definite or intelligibl e c o nc l us i on , i s t o t a k e a s h ort review o f the actions in which the two commanders have been more immediately engaged, endeavouring, by this means, to de termine the merits of each. From the time of the commence ment of the insurrection. in November, till the final retire ment of our troops, there are only four actions in which General Nott appears to have commanded—that of the 12th January, where each side numbered 5,000 men, we having the ark ;.ntage of 16 guns , th e enemy h av i ng none ; the series of skirmishes betwixt the 6th and 13th March, where num bers were once more equal, and about the same as those above stated, but where the Afghans out-generalled us, got into our rear, and nearly succeeded in burning our canton ments ; and those of the 29th August and 9th September, where Shumsooden, with 12,000 irregulars, was beaten by a British force of 7,000, with 18 guns. To proceed in detail, however. The first opportunity on which General Nott had occasion to act after the insurrection of November, 1841, was that of the 12th January, when Mahommed Atta, the insur gent chief, and Prince Sufter Jung, moved down the Urgun dah valley in the direction of Candahar, with an army of about 5,000 men. General Nott's force at this time con sisted of 7.200 men, with 18 pieces of artillery. Leaving a sufficient force to defend the city, he marched out to meet them with 51 regiments of infantry, 16 guns ,and 1,000 horse, a force probably about equal to that of the enemy. Having drawn up his men in proper order in front of them—an operation which seems to have occupied some couple of hours —he at length opened fire ; it is needless to add that before such a battery, the wild and irregular troops of Affghanistan broke and fled. 150 were found dead upon the field, and about 200 more were reported to have been wounded. With 1,000 horse and 16 pieces of ordnance on the field, no attempt whatever appears to have been made to take the enemy in flank or rear, or cut off his retreat. Her Majesty's 40th and the Bengal 39th were so galled by the matchlock fire, before the veteran general got them "in order duly set," that they are said to have broken their ranks and rushed upon the Aff ghans. Surely there was nothi ng i n thi s " v i c t or y," which the Europeans of the force with a couple of guns could readily have effected, calling for our special commendation. It is not very marvellous that 5,000 B r iti s h t roo p s , with 16 guns, should beat a similar number of Affghan irregulars without any guns at all. The next affair of which we read in the despatches is that of the 6th of March. The general once more moved out with a force of about 5,000 men and four pieces of artillery, to attack the enemy, who approached Can dahar about 6,000 strong. He app ears t o h ave suffered him self to have been decoyed by them 30 or 40 miles from the city ; when, leaving 2,000 of their troops to keep him in occu pation, the remainder got into his rear, and made a dash upon his quarters. They succeeded in setting fire to the Herat gate; and, had their fortunes been as.much better as their generalship was more skilful than ours, they would to a certainty have succeeded in destroying our ammunition and commissariat stores, compelling us to fall back upon Quettah, 150 miles in our rear. From 600 to 1,000 men are said to have fallen on this occasion in the attack upon the city. Nott had then less than half the requisite number of baggage cat tle. Over a part of the 150 miles he would have had to tra verse, the snow lay thick, and the whole country was bleak and barren. It was his luck, not his skill, that saved his army from a fate a few shades less disastrous only than that of Cabool. It was during the seven days' absence, from the into use to the 13th of March, that Gener a l N o tt b roug ht use the village-burning system, afterwards so highly pa tronised as a noble innovation in the art of civilised war ! We pass over Col. Wymer's affair of the 10th of April,—it appears to have been a brilliant one : with 1,500 men under his command, he left 300 of the enemy dead upon the field ; but this was none of the general's doings. By much the most spirited and triumphant fight in which the Candahar force ap pears to have been engaged was that of the 29th of. May. The enemy were about 6,000 strong, and we had about 3,000 in the field, with a park, however, of 12 guns. The Aff ghans were not only beaten and dispersed, but pursued to their camp, with a loss of upwards of 400 men. In this, Col. Stacey appears to have had all the merit : when the fight was brought on, he was sent out to reconnoitre. Gen. Nott does not appear to have been in the field. The desul tory, village-burning, orchard-destroying expedition which concluded the campaign, appears also to have been well-ma naged; but the arrangement o f the troops sent out for duty on this occasion was all the share the general possessed in it. We now come to the preparations for the advance on Ghuz nee. It was of such sovereign importance that General Nott should keep op en a li ne o f forts in his rear connecting him with Quetta, in c ase o f acc id ent, that we should have no hesitation in affirming that Kelat-i-Ghilzie ought, from its position and strength, to have been re-occupied and main tained by, say 1,000 men, notwithstandi ng its previous aban donment. This could, however, most readily have been accomplished-7,000, the force which moved on Ghuznie was in f ac t super fl uous l y strong for the work to be per formed, and troublesomely numerous for the state of the commissariat. In this case he would have had Quetta as the base of operations, connected by Killa Abdoolla, Candahar h n a t ve o h f ee t h he ih enemy ' s the most and Kelat 7 i-Gbil z i e , a l ong t h e route of the main army, main tang country, perfectnt ry, and condition w e re to oh maintaintroo ps taming a li ne o f no less than 230 miles running right into wthoeuldee re themselves till the approach of winter made it convenient to retire. They would have proved a check to all annoyance from the rear, and kept that part of the country quiet • and as the distance from Ghuznee round by Quetta, and acr oss the country by D e j erat to Jellalabad is less than' 100 miles, and may be t raversed in eight or ten days, instead of Gen. , Pollock being k ept ent i rely in the dark as to the nature of their progress and operations, the mos t per f ect concert might have been maintained b e t w i xt t h e armies. Kela t-i-Ghirzie is 320 miles, or little more than a month's march from Dadur : so that, so soon as it was ascertained that the ar mies had met at Cabool on the 17th September, the forts _.ave been abandoned in succession, and successive de .cnments falling back upon each other, and all been in Scinde in the month of November. The abandonment of all these forts, leaving the advancing force in a state of utter issoration, seems one of the most inexplicable and censurable measures with which even the Affghan war has supplied us. 'Jr] the 30th of August our army met with the troops of 3humsooden, mustering about 12,000 strong, with a couple , f field pieces. A battle ensued —we, of course, were victo ions. General Nott, on this occasion, employed but one alf his force. Why he reserved the other half is not ex. lained : an hour more of day-light would have enabled lie merely him to have destroyed their infantry ;" as it Iv, , drove them off the field so little affected by defeat, that they were able to meet him on his way to Cabool, ten days after wards, in similar strength as before; on this occasion, again, he was merAy able to clear the heights, and push thorn out of his way, without the slightest manifestation of general ship. The preparations for the assault on Ghuznee appear to have been very judiciously managed, though not called into use; but these seem to have been attributable to Major Sanders and the engineer and artillery officers alone. We know little of the share General Nott had in the arrange ments for descending the pass. The correspondents of the time spoke very generally of the contempt with which the Candahar army regarded the crowning of the heights, and other essential precautions so ably carried out in the ad vance; and if it be so that such were their views, they were any thing but creditable to them. There has since then so much acerbity, and consequently uncertainty, crept into the communications of the writers of the different forces, that we shall not pursue our examination further than Cabool. We see no reason to doubt that the whole of the retiring army conducted themselves like British soldiers, and we can say no more We have confined our observations to the military character of General Nott, whom we believe to be a brave man, who would lead a regiment as gallantly into the fight as any one, without the fear of personal consequences, but who would always like to see at least twice as many troops around him as there was any real occasion for. This is the sort of person who is called a " safe officer"—he is un ilkely to lose a battle, because he will never fight where there is any chance of success for the enemy, but he is incapable of discharging the proper duties of a general. His despatches indicate an intellect of the narrowest calibre. Ho had under him as fine and well-appointed a force as ever took the field —who, when on separate duty, as under Brigadiers Wymer and Stacey, always distinguished themselves ; and who only failed to do so under General Nott because they were never furnished with opportunities. This last is the only point on which they have reason to complain of their unhappy fate. THE MURDER OF LIEUT•COLONEL STODDART AND CAPT. CONOLLY, IN BOKHARA The fate of that distinguished officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Stoddart, distinguished alike for his talent, character, and enterprise,—massacred in the meridian of life by the mandate of an Asiati c d espo t, has excited a ver y genera l i nterest to become acquainted with the circumstances of his o r igi na l de tention, hi s l ong captivity, the varied forms of insult and cruelty to which he was exposed, and the c-use of the last act of the bloody tragedy which closed his existence. It is of especial importance to the memory of Colonel Stoddart that some reports, which have originated without the slightest foundation, and been circulated without inquiry, should be contradicted — namely, that after his duties as military secretary to Mr. Ellis, our ambassador at the court of Teheran, were terminated, Colonel Stoddart remained in Persia on his own account, and without any official authority from the British government, and afterwards proceeded simply as a traveller to Bokhara, the capital of Asiatic Tartary. We are enabled to furnish from authentic sources the following facts :—Upon the return of Mr. Ellis, Colonel Stoddart remained attached to the mission in Persia under Sir J. M'Niell. Those conversant with eastern affairs will remember the activity and efficiency of Colonel Stoddart's services in inducing the Shah of Persia to raise the siege of Herat in 1838. From Herat he was despatched by orders from government on a friendly mission to the Ameer of Bokhara. For a few days after his arrival in Bokhara he was treated with a show of hospitality. At this period many false rumours prevailed in Toorkestan respecting the designs of the English in marching an army to Affghanistan, and probably occasioned the object of his visit to be suspected. Colonel Stoddart was treacherously seized in his host's house, with his attendants, stripped and thrown into a pit, where he was left for two days witnout food ; from thence he was taken and strictly imprisoned for nearly two years, during which time, but for the kindness of the Meershub, a police-master, and one Futoollah Beg, the gaoler, who took compassion on him, he would have perished from starvation. After months of imprisonment the state executioner was sent to put him to death, unless he would become a Mahomedan, and his grave was dug before his eyes, but he evinced no fear, and ap peared to have calmly resigned all thoughts of life, when the Meershub and Futoollah Beg, the kind gaoler, most earnestly besought him to avert so foul a murder by repeating the form required by the Ameer, saying, " It is well known to all that your faith will remain unchanged," and on their solicitations the disguise was adopted. On the arrival of despatches from the Indian government the Ameer was convinced of the authenticity of Colonel Stoddart's commission, and releasing him from prison treated him with the highest consideration during eight or ten months, making repeated promises alas! but delusive ones, of release. Du r i ng th e ti me o f his libera tion from restraint, Colonel Stoddart laboured most de votedly to promote the interests of his country and the enlightenment of the barbarians. At one period the inter vention of Russia in behalf of his liberation was declined, from a chivalrous feeling of honour that he should await despatches from his own country, but the arrival of applica tions for his release, both from our government in England and India, as well as others from Russia, Constantinople, Khiva, and other neighbouring states, were. equally disre garded, nor were the hopes which were entertained in consequence of her Majesty addressing a letter to the Ameer destined to be realised. In consequence of the intelligence which reached Bokhara of the disasters which had befallen our troops in Cabool, the tyrant threw Colonel Stoddart a second time, together with Captain Conolly, an English officer recently arrived at Bok hara, into confinement. in the house of Topshee Bashee, where they remained until June. At that period a letter ar rived from Akhbar Khan and other chiefs at Cabool, inti mating that if the Bokhara chief feared to put the two English officers to death, as they had done those at Cabool, he had better deliver them up to the writers of the letter. Thus stimulated, the Ameer no longer hesitated. On the 13th of June, 1842, both the officers were seized and removed to the common prison. In stripping Colonel Stoddart, a pencil and some papers were discovered round his waist : the Ameer insisted upon knowing from whom they were received. Upon Colonel Stoddart's resolutely refusing to betray another to the despot's fury, he was beaten with heavy sticks, and this treatment repeated for two or three days. but in vain no re velation escaped him. On the 17th of June the Ameer gave orders that Colonel Stoddart should be put to death in the presence of Captain Conolly. They were both led into a small square near tee prison, where Colonel Stoddart's head was cut off, and on Captain Conolly refusing to embrace Mahomedanism, he also fell under the headsman's knife. Their bodies were buried on the spot, in the graves which had been dug in their presence. From ColOnel Stoddart's earliest career to the time of his death, whether pursuing his studies at the Royal Military College, as an officer in the royal staff corps, in which he ob tained his eommission in 1823, and served in New South Wales and Canada in his post as secretary to the Naval and Military Museurri, secretary to the Institution of Civil En gineers, or as a member of the mission in Persia, it is not too much to assert that he gained general esteem. He was indefatigable in the pursuit of general and p ro f ess i ona l know ledge, and was present within the French li nes at t h e s i ege o f Antwerp. Deeply devout in his principle s an d con d uct, un shaken u n d er his severe trials, and even acknowledgmg in them a spiritual blessing, after a short but eventful career his arduous duties are closed at the age of 36, b e l ove d an d mourned, not only by his relations, but by a large circle of friends, as a sincere christian, and a soldier devoted to his sovereign and country. peror of Chi The folio sioner WEST INDIES By the Solway s teamship of the W es t I n di a li ne, t h e ad vices from Jamaica are brought down to the 4th o f J anuary , and from De m erara to tne 3d ; from Trinidad to the 31st of December, and from Port au Prince to the 24th November. The Solway brought upwards of 600,000 dollars, and 276 bags of cochineal. _ The House of Legislature of Jamaica was prorogued on the 30th December to the 7th February by a speech from Lord Elgin. A new tariff had been arranged and published, with increased rates of duties. The imports and exports of Jamaica, it may be observed, show a rather remarkable fall ing off in 1842 as compared with 1840. ,• Imports, British manufactured goods, 1840.. £1,256,881 706,656 750,115 Exports, British manufactured goods, 1840. Id. - • 392,694 99 .20,030 297,698 The news from Demerara is unimportant. Complaints were made of the inconvenience to which the colony was exposed under the present system of steam-packet commu nications; and great anxiety was manifested to know the determination of the Colonial Department on the question of immi2ration. IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO From Mexico city the dates are to the 26th of December, and from Vera Cruz to the 28th. Another revolution had broken out and been accomplished in the capital, at the head of which General Bravo, the provisional President, placed himself with the troops. They had proceeded to shut up the hall where the Congress held its sittings, and to dis solve that body by proclamation. The cause was the per sistance of the members in discussing and voting a federal constitution against the known determination of Santa Anna, who was resolved on a strong central government ; the only sort of government, it may truly be averred, under which Mexico is likely to prosper or re ma i n un it e d. Gen. Bravo subsequently nominated sixty leading persons, whose opi nions were known and who could be depended upon, whom he had constituted into an Assembly of Notables, and on whom the charge of drawing up the sort of constitution de sired was devolved. The federal party, on their side, thus deposed from functions, had issued a declaration in vindica tion of themselves and their measure. There the matter rested. In the meantime Santa Anna was at his count house, ostensibly taking no part, but in reality directing t whole affair The revolution appears to have been effec without bloodshed THE AFFGHAN WAIL—The following is a passage from a letter addressed by the late Marquis Wellesley to his ne phew, well known as Mr. Long Wellesley, but now, by the death of his uncle-, Viscount-Wellesley. It appears in a pamphlet just published by the noble Viscount, entitled, The Fifth Political World :—" Kingston-House, August 20, 1842. Your Mots auv Beiges were excellent; but we think of nothing here but our own most disgraceful riots at home and our disgraces abroad. The former I trust will be soon quelled by the firmness of the government; the latter, of which the main branch is the war in Afghanistan, was a project begun in folly and madness, thefirst success of which, as lforetold, led to disaster and disgrace of the most appal ling kind, and would have terminated in the ruin of our no ble Indian empire, ff . the grace of heaven had not interposed to save us by the downfal of the Lambs. My brother Arthur and I are quite united again, thank God ; and I am on the most intimate and friendly terms with Sir Robert Peel, who is a man well deserving w h a t he possesses in a high degree, the public confidence. Arthur holds my proxy in the House of Lords. If God will grant me health and strength for two hours, I think I could still rouse their lordships, as you re member to have heard me when I quoted— '" Duo fulmina belli.' " THE TREATY WITH RUSSIA.—The Times, of Tuesday, says—" We have very great pleasure in submitting to the notice of our readers the treaty of navigation and commerce recently concluded with this country and Russia. The generai purport of the articles (which are sixteen in number) is to secure for the vessels of both nations reciprocal privi leges and immunities. Th us , the ships of Great Britain, on entering o r d epart i nz from an y Russian port , will not be sub jected to hi g h er d uties than those i mpose d on R uss i an s hi ps, whilst, in re t urn, the latter, on enter i ng our p or t s , w ill b e treated as if th ey were British ; also , British and Russian veesels arrivi ng f rom other countr i es th an th ose o f th e con tracting partie s are to be admiited on p a y men t o f the same duties as wou ld b e required of them b y t h e i r respect i ve na tions.A n II, generally, tt the vessels a nd sub j ects of the two nations are t o en j oy all the privileges , in their country , to which th e y would be entitled i n their own. Thus, whilst French orators have been disclaiming against the arrogance and pretensions of perfidious Albion —whilst the French press has been exulting in the supposed decline of British commerce—and whilst Portugal has been hampering both her own and our tra d e b y deferring the execution of a commercial treaty which wou ld b e most b e neficial to both nations—the most powerful state of northern Europe enters into a con tract which we believe will prove not less beneficial to herself than to Great Britain. We look upon this treaty as the pre lude to a relaxation of that restrictive system by which the levelop ment o f R ussian resources—resources i n fi n it e i n th e i r lumber and vari e t y —h as h i therto been obstructed ; and a s he first fruits o f a sound. temper ate, and vigorous policy, which, without vaunt i ng or pr o mising much beforehand, will yet steadily and surely extend the influence of British :ornmerce, and the fruits of British industry, to the moat emote, and now most unf r i en dly nations of the earth." ROYAL LIVER THEATRE FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. BUCKS7'ONI THIS EVENING, (Frid a y,) th e 10 t h i nstant, t h e Per formances will commence with i YOUTH AND GE; Or, The Young C o l one l a n his Old Woman. Michael Witzgoff ..... : . Mr. Buckstone The Countess Xenia . . . Mrs. Fitzwilliam. After whict, THE SNAPPING TURTLES. To be followed by BELLE OF THE HOTEL; or, American Sketches The whole to conclude with A KISS IN TIIE DARK TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c, The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday —occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. IjPZtherpool Alan ?mat. FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1843 The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society —as we anticipated from a body possessed of such a super fluity of misdirected zeal and distorted philanthropy— have come forward already, as the opponents of the government plan of emigration from Sierra Leone to the British West Indies, the details of which we re cently brought before our readers. The gentlemen in question are a little in the habit of moving in the dark; and we therefore know not whether it is with the ap proval of their entire body, or only at the instance of a few zealots, who presume to lead their agitation in the name of that body, that the present step has been taken. Certain it is, however, that their petition, or rather protest, against the plan propounded by Lord Stanley, has been presented to Parliament; and we address to the entire body the few remarks which we now offer upon the subject. . And first, may we ask of these gentlemen, what is it that they meditate, as the ultimate fate of those noble possessions, in which Great Britain has made a great experiment, whose result has been watched, with varied emotions, by every slave state, and by every fettered African upon the face of the globe ? We told the world that we could raise the valuable produce of the tropics, by means of free labour, CHEAPER than it could be raised, in our own or in any other tropical pose sessions, by slave labour. As yet, we have not suc ceeded. Our failure is notorious. It is acknowledged in the fact that the very men, who were most sanguine in the professions which they held out of such a result being achieved, are at this .moment the loudest cla mourers for the admission into British ports of the cheaper produce of slave labour in the Brazils and elsewhere ! Though aided by high discriminating du ties—though, in fact, allowed almost a monopoly of the home market—the British planter has sunk, year by year, more deeply into difficulties and embarrass ments. Noble properties have dwindled away from the hands of their possessors; once fertile plantations have become arid wildernesses; once thriving and wealthy ports—the marts of a valuable commerce— have become scenes of insolvency and beggary ; and the conviction is before every man, who has discern ment enough to read coming events by the shadows which they cast before, that the time is not many months distant at which we shall be compelled to with hold the only support—the existing protecting duty— which retards the entire abandonment, by British ca pital and British enterprise, of these once. magnificent colonies. Did the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, when they urged this great experiment upon the nation —when by their agents upon the platform, or by se ductive pamphlets, they fired the public mind to this attempt—when they preached the doctrine that free labour in the tropics is cheaper than slave labour ; did that body then meditate the ruin and failure which every man of real philanthropy —every real well-wisher to the African—must now bitterly deplore ? Was it humanity towards the Negro which inspired them, or hatred—unforgiving, passionate, furious hatred—to wards the British planter ? Or was the moving incite ment to their agitation that love of the admiration of ignorant assemblies—that fondness for display, when display is rewarded by the tears of sentimental misses, and the applause of the self-righteous—which to weak minds is a feeling so seductive ? One of these, or all these, dilemmas, the anti-slavery party—we refer to the leaders, not the dupes—must embrace. They were designing, they were ignorant, they were unprin cipled, they were vain To one of these, or all these, imputations they must plead " GUILTY." And now let us see towards which of the above de finitions of the motives of the body the present course of the committee points. We have said that the free labour experiment is, as yet, a failure. For all the nobler purposes which its success was to secure, it is so. We proposed, not alone to promote the happiness and temporal comforts of our own existing Negro po pulation in the British West Indies, but to promote, as well, the adoption of our humane policy by other slave-holding states. We said we would shew them that it was the wisest policy; that, ac men of business, they • must adopt it : and, in the exuberance of our imagination, we trusted that, by the temporary sacrifice we had made, we had struck a blow at the existence of slavery irt every clime. In these expectations we have failed ; and, such being the acknowledged fact, what is the course which the Anti-Slavery Society pro pose to our acceptance ? We cannot produce cheaply, because we cannot procure the necessary quantity of labour; because, in fact,—and it is a striking fact—. free labour tends so rapidly to THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE LABOURER! A wise and humane govern ment proposes to permit, under a strictly guarded sys tem of immigration, an additional number of the be nighted people of a benighted land—of wretched beings snatched from the deck of the foreign slave-trader—to be introduced into those colonies in which industry, so rapidly and surely, leads to independence : to permit the native African, torn from his wretched home and his degrading superstitions, to be placed beneath the benignant protection of British laws, and the blessed influences of civilisation and Christianity. In the ac quisition of an abundance of willing labour by suc h a measure, a wise and, we repeat, a humane government, sees the last, and only available, human instrumentality, by which the ruin of valuable possessions, and the failure of the measure of emancipation, may be averted But to this proposition the British and Foreign Anti, Slavery Society says " No !" Reader, the conclusion that we are to draw from such a course—what is it? We shall not say that the opposition of the society is grounded upon the fact, that the planter's ruin is to be averted by the proposed measure ; because in that we might be wrong, for a meddling ignoramus sometimes does not know his own motives, or has none, beyond a wish to be busy. But that pure, unmixed philanthropy has not the most dis tant connexion with the present opposition of the anti slavery people, we shall proceed to shew, by analogy. For the past six years, it is well known, that a sys tem, not of emigration, or immigration, but of migra tion, has been going on in this country. Forced mi gration, too, this was. Migration, not from the swamps of Africa to fertile Jamaica, Trinidad, or Guiana—no t from barbarism, slavery, and superstition, to civilis a tion, freedom, and Christianity—not from darkness to light;—but migration from the pure air and healthy pursuits of the agricultural districts of England, to the fetid, smoky air, and the debilitating and demoralising )ursuits and society of the manufacturing districts. The union workhouses of the south of England have furnished the slave depots ; the commissioners of Somerset . House, and the local guardians, have acted - - respectively the parts of the slave traders and the princes. Pickford's boats, or a cattle train upon railway, have supplied the luxuries of a middle passage, and the millocrats of the manufacturing districts—a quaker, by the bye, and a member of the Anti-Slavery Society (.9 was the most prominent promoter of the system—have occupied the place of the slave-owning planters! Thousands of men, women, and children have been the victims of this system—to which the proposed system of Lord Stanley is as light to dark ness—and, we ask, has the Anti-Slavery Society ever uttered—not a protest but—even a whispered depreca tion of it ? Point out to us such a thing ! You can not! The victims were WHITE; the parties benefitted were "liberal" cotton lords, free-trade quakers, phi lanthropists, and not loyal British colonists ! Gentlemen, permit us to point your attention to the result—the denouement—of this measure of hardened " liberal" infamy. We give it in the words of a " liberal" member of the House of Commons—Mr. Ward, the member for St. Albans—he of the far-famed appropriation clause. Thus spoke the gentleman in question on Friday evening last : "An honourable member connected with Yorkshire spoke most feelingly with respect to the labouring population in that part of the country ; but he (Mr. Ward) was prepared to confirm that testimony from his own knowledge of what took place in the southern part of the island. Hundreds (of paupers removed under the migration system of the Poor Law Commissioners) were day by day coming back upon their families, ignorant of the pursuits in which those families were engaged, and therefore in a very short time becoming candidates for admission into the union workhouses." Gaze upon this picture, gentlemen and ladies—phi lanthropists par excellence Compare it with the sys tem which you have so glibly denounced. Compare the poor African, at the end of five years, returning, with a passage paid in a government ship, to the coun try which he left penniless and little removed from the condition of a savage; possessed now of the means of moderate independence, and the knowledge of the white man's God—who is his God, too !—with the worn-out drudges of the factory, returning penniless to his or her native fields, degraded and debased by the associations to Which the reckless and guilty ava rice of others has driven them. You whine of the pos sible guiltiness and danger of the former system ; you wink at the appalling evidences of guilt and danger in the latter. " Oh, for a forty-quaker power, to sing Thy praise, HYPOCRISY ?" When, in our last publication, we remarked upon the naughty poetical studies of our modest friend, John Bright, we were certainly not aware that he was so soon to be brought up in his poetical career. So it has chanced, however. The exuberant fancy of the young quaker, and the ignorance of the reporters of the Manchester Guardian, have brought him into a serious dilemma. In a recent philippic, delivered in Manchester, the juvenile quaker described the sup porters of agricultural protection as lifting their hand in the face of the Almighty, and exclaiming, " THou Foam. !" We are not precise about the exact words; but the winding up—the climax of the passage— " thou Fool" is as delivered; and, as is perhaps natural, the friends of the orator have pretty universally ex cepted against the expression in question, as profane and irreligious. The objection will be admitted, and now for the ex cuse offered. The expression, it appears, from a leader in the Manchester Guardian, was borrowed from a poem by Ebenezer Elliott, the Anti-Corn-law Rhymer. Six or eight lines from the poet in question had been quoted by friend Bright ; but either the unmusical ear of the quaker had led him to mar the harmony of the versification, or the reporters had not " a soul for '—Ebenezer Elliott, despite his virulent politics, is a poet;—and, as the result, friend Bright's poetical burst was prosyfied, and upon himself was visited the reproach which ought to have fallen upon the Shef field vendor of steel and poetry. Now we submit this ought to he a lesson to Bright. It ought to teach him that the utilitarian school of po litical philosophy is the very worst in which he can let off his poetical fancies;. and in the next place that, amongst the professedly religious, he must steer very warily, if he hopes to be witty, or, forcible, without approaching the borders of the profane. Had we to advise so silly a youth, we should say " eschew poetry —eschew everything in the slightest degree above your very limited comprehension—talk of cotton cops, warp, weft, longcloths, power looms, mules, spindles, or the thousand-and-one matters which appertain to manufacturing pursuits ; but leave poetry and philo sophy, and all similar abstract matters, and matters of taste, to such sublimely-gifted and correct people as Cobden or Ashworth, or John Brooks, or the editors of the Manchester Guardian." The latter sages music", never err ! In our advertising columns will be found the report of the select vestry on the subject of the alleged immo rality and insubordination in the Liverpool workhouse. We did not receive the document in sufficient time to enable us to do justice to the whole matter in our pub lication of to-day. The report, is, however, sufficiently explicit where any specific charges have been made ; but such sweeping accusations as have been hurled against the Board of Guardians, the governor, and the chaplain, can with difficulty be replied to. It is im possible Eto conduct such an establishment as the workhouse without occasional acts of impropriety on the part of the inmates, but nothing we are sure, can exceed the anxiety evinced by the parochial authorities to conduct every department of the building with as great regard as possible to the morality and order of the paupers. We shall not wonder to see as the result of these proceedings the retirement of many of the honorary and other servants of the parish ; and, indeed, we were informed last night that the governor has already tendered his resignation. The concluding paragraph of the report is sufficiently significant. LOCAL NEWS We are informed that William Garnett, Esq., High Sheriff of the county of Lancaster, has appointed Mr. Thomas Car son, solicitor, of this town, his Under Sheriff. Messrs. Rawstorne and Wilson, solicitors, Preston, will transact the business of the office as usual at that place. We have much pleasure in announcing that our worthy townsman, Capt. A. D. Kellock, was, on the 7th inst., ap pointed by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company, to the command of the splendid new steam-ship,:the Bentinck, lately launched from the yard of Messrs. Wilson and Co., of this port. ASSAULT ON THE CAPTAIN OF ONE OF THE ROCK FERRY BOATS.—Samuel Ashley, captain of one of the Rock Perry steam-packets, appeared yesterday before the magistrates, at the Birkenhe a d P o li ce -court, to prefer a charge against Wm. Wright, one of the seamen in the employment of the same company, for an assault, the defendant haying kneeled him down and beaten him so severely, that he had been under the surgeon's hands for several days. He was find 20s. and costs. LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. —We are happy to find that the evening schools of this institution will be opened on the 20th instant, with a staff of masters which must command success for it. The shipping interest will have ample reason to rejoice in the appointment of Mr. Edward Melling, jun., (one of the best naval draughtsmen in the town,) to the superintendence of the naval architectural department, and of Mr. J. A. Sharp, from the royal naval schools at Greenwich, (from which our merchants have hitherto obtained their cleverest apprentices,) to the depart. ment of nautical astronomy and navigation. We understand that it is the intention of the directors that those students who may attend the latter classes shall be only charg ed fo r such periods of ti me as t h e i r stay in port may enabl them to devote to their studies. THE HIBERNIA, new steam-ship, belonging to the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Company —and to be added to the fine line of packets now running between this port and Boston and Halifax —arrived here yesterday from Glasgow, where she was built. She is commanded by Captain Judkins, a gentleman who "nas long been in the same service. We have not yet seen the Hibernia, but learn that she is somewhat larger than the vessels now on the line ; and that experience has dictated many improvements for the comfort of those on board,—although we cannot help re _ marking that her predecessors, and now conjoint ships, will be " very hard to beat," either in this respect or in rapid transit across the Atlantic. We shall notice her in our next publication. ME FUNDS, WEDNESDAYIEVENING.—A sum of ;£50,000 invested this morning in Consols by the broker to the Ac countant in Bankruptcy gave a firmer tone to the market though the quotat i ons remains the same as yesterday, viz. , 34+ to for m oney and the account ; Three per Cents. Re. duced are quoted 25i ; Three-and-a-half per Cents. Reduced, 104; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 101 ; Long A n . nuities, 121 ; Bank Stock, 173 to 174 ; India Stock, 267 to 268; Exchequer-bills, 635. to 655. premium. The non -ar rival of remittances by the Solway for the payment of the dividends on Mexican stock caused a decline of nearly 2 per cent. There was a great deal of speculation in this security in the course of the day, which caused a fluctuation in the price, and the final quotation was 301, the partial revival being caused by the assertion that some portion of the money, ; though a small one, h a d arr i ve d. B e l g i an left off 1 03 to 104 Brazilian, 751 to 761 ; Colombian, 231 to 1 ; Danish, 851 to 861 ; Duth Two-and-a-half per Cents., 54 to D utch Five per C ents., 103+; Portuguese converted, 3 1 7 ; 1 to 38 ; Spanish Fiv e per C ents. , 181 to ; di tto Three per Cents., 23+ to LIVER THE 'l3nel:stone's benefit, it . will be seen, is advertised for this evening., when several of hislwa dramas will be represented, in which he and Mrs. Fitzwilliata will appear. DERBY SWEEPS.—The new mode of " risking a little for the gain of much," appears to be very generally adopted throughout the kingdom in the sporting houses. It will be seen that Mr. Whiteman, at the Brunswick Hotel, has opened a subscription book for this purpose. ST. DAVID'S DAY.—We understand that the anniversar! of this day will he celebrated with more than the usual festivities by our Cambrian friends. Lord Dungannon has consented to preside at the dinner, which will take place at the Adelphi Hotel. THE EUROPEAN TIMES.—The attention of those who sail by the Great Western is drawn to this new and clever publication. A more acceptable present they could not pre sent to a mercantile man on arrival at the other side of the Atlantic than a copy of this newspaper. Those who have correspondents in the States will at once perceive its value in imparting the latest intelligence to them through its columns. The last number was got up with care and accuracy : we maY anticipate this will be equally worth purchasing. MALICIOUS MISCHIEF AT WOODSIDE FERRY.—On Wed nesday last, William Barton appeared before J. Deane Case, Esq., at the Birkenhead Town-hall, charged with malicious mischief to the works of the company. It appeared that the defendant, his brother,and a person named Cochrane, on the previous evening walked down the slip shortly after the half past ten boat had sailed, and that Barton took the fire-box, which was near the bottom of the slip, it being low water, and wheeled it over the slip into the river. He then made off, but was shortly afterwards taken into custody. He was fined 2s. for the offence. POACHING.--Joseph Lloyd and Thomas Porie r f were brought before the Rev. R. M. Fielden, and J. Deane Case, Esq., charged with poaching in Sutton, on Friday last. From the evidence of one of Sir William Stanley's gamekeepers, it appeared that on the previous day he found several gins set in a gorse cover, and was in consequence induced to watch the spot, when about ten o'clock on Friday morning he caught the defendants in the act of removing them. The magistrates convicted them in a penalty of £1 for the offence, and in de fault of payment ordered them to be committed to the House of Correction for two months. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Wednesday an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Mary Blackburn. The deceased, who was twenty-five years of age, was a mar ried woman, and resided at No. 16, Bent-street. For the last six months she had complained of a pain in her left side, but had not had medical assistance until Monday last, when she got some medicine from the Eastern Dispensary, part of which she took. On the following morning, at half-past eight o'clock, a f ema l e w h o was i n th room with her saw her lying on the side of the bed, with her arm hanging down, and on going up, found her stiff and dead. Mr. Pearson, surgeon, was called, and stated, that on an examination of the deceased after death, he found that she had died from disease of the heart. V er di c t accordingly,—" Natural death." NARROW ESCAPE.—A letter from Palermo, dated 14th ult., contains the following :—The brig Alexander, Captain Murray, of Liverpool, at anchor in our roads, just escaped from running aground or being shattered on the rocks that have been deposited to lengthen the mole which protects the inner harbour of Palermo, called La Cala. he was exposed to all the impetuosity of the gale from E.N.E. She broke two cables and made reneated signals of distress. No attempt was made to save her, though the government had two post office steamers i❑ the port, and one of them quite ready to sail. The poor vessel was expected to go immediately to pieces. when 10 men belonging to English ships in the port set towards in a boat, and, by their assistance, she was brought in and laid up under the protection of the great mole." LORD ABINGER AND THE CHARTISTS,—A flaming placard headed " Lord Abinger, the modern Judge Jefferies," was posted all over Liverpool on Tuesday. By means of this dis graceful effusion its authors convened a meeting at the Nelson assembly rooms, in this town, for Wednesday evening, the Bth instant, " to take into consideration the unjust manner in which his lordship sought to prejudice the minds of the jury at the late special commission, and the evidently vindic tive manner in which sentence was passed upon some of the political victims, and also to take into consideration the pro priety of petitioning parliament for his removal from the bench." Of course we were not present at the meeting, but the placard further stated that a lecture would be delivered by Mr. Davis, of Howick, when a collection would be made, the surplus of which, after payment of the expenses, would be given to the " victims of Abinger's cruelties." THEATRE-ROYAL. —The " School of Reform," by Mor ton, was admirably played on Tuesday last, to a very g ood house. From the applause that frequently burst forth, it appeared that this sterling comedy was greatly appreciated. Mr. Rayner's Tyke was admirable in all its bearings. Mr. Stuart played Lord Avondale with much ability. It is an up-hill character, and excites but little sympathy in the audience. Mrs. Seymour impersonated Mrs. Ferment with considerable humour and archness. In conjunction with Mr. Browne as Ferment, she frequently excited the house to " loud laughter and cheers." Madame Simon played Mrs. Nicely very nicely. Mr. Conway has evidently the stuff in him to make a good actor : he, must, however, step down from the stilted style, and aim at being natural. The comedy was as well played as we have seen anything for some time. Mr. Hammond afterwards delivered an address, which will be found elsewhere in our paper to-day. Although touching upon the dangerous ground of family affairs, he did so in a way that reflects great credit upon him. INQUEST.—On Wednesday, an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Thomas Salisbury Richard son, aged 58 years. A fortnight ago deceased and a nother man were engaged in loading a lorry with cases of sugar, by means of a ginn, at the Queen's Dock. One case had been put on the lorry. While the second one was being hoisted up the deceased was standing a short distance from the ginn• The lorry had to be backed under the ginn, in order to get the case on it. As the lorry was backing, the case that was hoisted up struck against the one on the lorry, and the gin" upset, and the pin at the bottom of one of the legs of the ginn struck the deceased on the toes of the left foot. He polled his shoe and stocking off, and it then appeared that the little toe was cut underneath and bleeding. He was taken to, the Southern Hospital, where his foot was dressed. Mr. M'Clellan, surgeon, said he was called to deceased on the day he was luta, and found he had received a fracture of the small toe of the left foot. -Erysipelas had set in. Evert thing was done for him, but the disease increased until 10 died—on Sunday last. Erysipelas was the cau se of deat!' and arising fro m th e f racture of the toe. Verdict, "Ace dental death." DEATH FROM A FALL ON S H I P - BOARD.—An inquest w 5 held on Wednesday, before Mr. Currie, on view of the boa,' of David Jones. It appeared from the evidence that the de' ceased, who was a seaman belonging , to the schooner Ann Dixon, of Glasgow, was taken to Egrernont in the firt 4 instance, but not b e i ng a bl e to walk, he was put on board the steam-boat, and brought to the Northern Hospital. He stated to the police-officer at Egremont that his name wall David Jones and the informatio n given by those in the boat was to the effect, that he' had fallen from the mast-head of the vessel. He complained of beinc , hurt in his chest and head, and th ere was a cut on his forehead. ' Mr. parker , house surgeon to the Northern Hospital, said that he ess; mined the deceased when he was brought there, and found that he had sustained a scalp wound, with contusions on rious parts of the body. Every thing was done for him, 11 9' he died on Sunday morning last. On a post mortem exagu; nation, inflammation of the membrane of the abdomen, and effusion of blood, &c were found, arising from a rupture el the spleen. The inflammation was the cause of death, an; the rupture was the result of internal violence. Archibald Balfour, the beadle, having stated that he had ascertained that the deceased had received the injuries of which he died' on board the schooner named. which was at present at Glas gow, the coroner adjourned the inquest to the 16th instant. DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION WHILE EATING.-011 nesday, an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, borough coroner, on view of the body of Henry Walker. The de ceased, who was a sailor, was 34 years of age. On Tuesday night, the deceased, his wife, and several of his companion!: sat down to supper, i n hi s h ouse in Bridgewater-stre They had beefsteaks and potatoes. Whilst eating, his wife remarked that he stared very hard at her, and said to him' " Henry, d on 't ma k e such a noise, " as he was making a noise in sw a ll ow i ng. Sh e added, " Do not look so silly a t p and c t me and make fun of me." He never spoke. She then ge d urie out, " Oh, good God ! he is choking !" $ l l , slapped hi m on t h e b ack, and put her finger in his mont'l d but could not get anything out. She became confused, an did not kno w w h a t occurred afterwards. He put his fing er into his th roa t an d tr i ed to get up the piece of meat. A ie t ; male who was p resent ran for a surgeon, and on h e r retu L r o the deceased was d ea d . —James Mugginnity, a painter, who lived in the same street, heard a noise in the yard, and we n to the house o f d eceased and found him leanin his head ov e.. ; a tub. He, finding deceased was chokin g g, put his finge r into his mout h and pulled a piece of meat out of his throa .. ,_ He was th en , it appeared, dead. Two surgeons afterwards came, but deceased was quite dead.—The jury returned $ verdict of " Death by casualty or misfortune." AMATEUR THEATRICALS.—The first public perfornial of the am a t eur " Sh a k spearian Society " took p or lace, at toe Portico, on W e d nes d ay evening last. The play selected the occasion was t h at b eaut i ful creation of Bulwer's dramstic genius, The L a d y of Ly o ns; and we have no hesitation ib saying, that, throughout the performance, there was al, less necessity f or t h e extension of that indulgence us ually granted to amateurs than we have ever previously knof" e The young lady w h o susta i ned the part of the ber e .l e manifested considerable t a l en t i n h er development o f character. Some of her readings merit the highest prins, showin g a d e li cacy and depth of sensibility in the more 13!„. thetic pa r t s , an d an energy of feeling and expression in otb r portions, which wou ld h ave done no discredit to the rnp st matured of any stage. Claude Melnotte was, upon the who ably personated by Mr. 'Mortimer. The less passionate (04, it may be, e qua ll y pass i onate, but less boisterous) part of t's character was more to our taste—especially, perhaps, a s tendency t o rant (that sturnblinblock to tyroes) e vi, dently the pri nc ip a l f au l t with which - Mr. Mortimer will ba pe to contend. We must not forget to instance Mad. Desche l fi: pets, anti the Widow Metnotte, as being both creditable. P e p, sonations ; nor, indeed, Glavis, which, though comparativ.ver'. one of the unimportant characters, was ably rendered by.i vl u i Vincent. This was, perhaps, as well sustained throngt, as any; and the gentleman's conception of the fop w 5 ,5 quisite. Beauseant was a wretched caricature, sinWIY A be cause the part was totally unsuitable to the talent (ar l `,, i f has talent) of the gentleman who played it. Danias,Monst r 7 o t Desehappels, and the minor characters of the drama, do o t call for particular notice. The play was most tastefully u th up," (we must except to one or two of the dresses, w " ao . were execrable;) and, notwithstanding the occasional refr_ . .... tory conduct of a scene, &c. in being shifted, we were s w o t prised at the effect produced, when the limited amount of available stage-room was taken into consideration. Ti chestra was tolerable. We did not remain to see the a ft er' piece, Th e I r i s h man in London. The following Intr oductory ed Address (c ompose d f or the occasion by J. M. L.) was / effectively spoken by Mr. Mortimer : Ere we our glad, yet arduous task commence, To please alike your fancy and your sense, Your kind indulgence would we first engage, For all the errors of our youthful stage ; Allow not frigid criticism's eye Harshly to scan the scenes that we supply ; Let mercy, " blessing those that give and take, Smilc on the feeble efforts that we make. • Untried by us the mimic world bath been, ~, , Where " A r t a m i rror h o ld s to N ature ' s scene Content, till now, our parts alone to fill, The world and we have yet to learn our skill! From you, the jury of this court, we wait The awful verdict that decides our fate. If, when our case before you has been laid, And with our inexperience duly weighed, Your censure you withhold, and kindly cheer Our first attempt to plant the drama here, 0 1, Our hearts, with j o y ous , h ope f u l thoug h ts i m bue Shall throb, too, with the pulse of gratitude ; But if, when you have judg'd what you may se e ' Your verdict one of condemnation be, Though our ambition may regret the woes Which gave our comedy a tragic close, No censures, on your taste unjustly thrown , Shall mingle with the failure of our own. And now, while gloomy fear and hope all gaY Rule o'er our fancies with alternate sway, We haste to learn our doom, whate'er it be- - Better the worst, than worse uncertainty ! Yet, let me whisper this, ere I retire, 'T will soften, if we st ill must feel, your ire-- To yield you pleasure is our highest aim, And your applause the only boon we claim •