The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-26 00:00:00

TO BUILD VoTM CHARI her Ma county, at Spring Assizes, 1841, and amended s, 1842, it is the intention of the Commis ppointed now to CONTRACT for BUILD- PRISON. irous of Contr _ing for the same may see the lating thereto at the Office of Mr. ty Surveyor for Antrim, Donegall- after the 12th day of April, 1842. 3 the proceedings of parties intending abovementi , oned Work, they are requested Office of Mr. Lanyon, on the day above he purpose of nominating or appointing a out the quantities of Work in said proposed t. similar Person will be appointed on the part of the Com ssioners, so as that each may be a check on the other. Cony of " the Quantities" so ascertained will be given to tending to Tender. vhose Tender shall be accepted will be required Measurer appointed as abovemen- the execution of the above Work, to be 24th May, undercover, addressed sioners of Belfast Bridewell required. JOHN COATES s of thi forwarded on or before the " To the Clerk to the Comt 4nti House of Correction, Carrickfergus 16th Mit THE INCOME TAX Tax Bill, ordered by the House of Commons be printed, has just been published. A brief ::ontents will be found interesting to all those he tax is to be charged and levied from and ay of April, 1842, and is to continue in force of April, 1845, and no longer. There are five B, C, D, E, which describe the different rates )e levied, and the various kinds of property liable That for all lands, tenements, and be iges in Great Britain, there shall be e, for every twenty shillings. 'or all lands, &c., in respect of the occupa ...., the sum of threepence *alfpenny shall be twenty shillings of the annual value thereof, ,„......d the sum of twopence halfpenny" ale C.—Upon all profits from annuities, dividends, es of annuities, payable to any person, body politic rate, company or society, out of any public revenue, all be charged sevenpence for every twenty shillings, patanc THE M ;he annual profits or gains accruing Great Britain from any kind of pro- , whether in Great Britain or elsewhere, there I Revenpence for every twenty shillings, and 7ery twenty shillings upon the annual rson whatever, whether a subject of , re - siding in Great Britain, or any pro inployment, or vocation exercised within rules by which the profits arising from trades and ns are to be determined, must be particularly inter e quote the clauses in full. 'hat the duty to be charged in respect thereof shall uted on a sum not less than the full amount of the )1 the profits or gains of such trade, manufacture, .e, or concern, upon a fair and just average of three Kling on such day of the year immediately preceding of assessment on which the accounts of the said facture, adventure, or concern, shall have been or on the sth day of April preceding the it, and shall be assessed, charged, and paid, ction than is hereinafter allowed ; pro trade manufacture, ad- to fasten. in cases where been set up or commenced years, it shall be lawful to Won for one year on the average of the ha ts and gains from the period•of first setting vided also, that in cases where the trade, x concern, shall hay nod of thr r concern, shall have been set up and com the year of assessment, it shall be lawful to utatiou according to the rule in the sixth case luty shall extend to every person or persons, lities, fellowships, compa t, mystery, adventure, or m respectively, in Great Britain or aforesaid; except always such adventures or about lands, tenements, hereditaments, or 'e mentioned in schedule A. and directed to be nd to every ar alance of profits and gains charge purpose of assessing the reset against or deducted iinst or deducted from, such It of any sums expended for repairs purpose of such trade, mane nor for any sum expended by n- repairs, or alterations of any imple articles employed for the purpose of D, or f nufacture, adventure, or concern, SeyOnd the pended for such purposes, according to an s preceding the year in which such ma account of loss not con- such trad manufacture, ad• of any capital with ms employed or in- oyed, as a - pital in such trade, ma- concerr nor for any capital t of premises occupied for the manufacture, adventure, or )r on account or under pretence of any ch might have been made on such sums, if laid >t; nor for any debts, except such debts or such f, as shall be proved to the satisfaction of the rs respectively to be irrecoverable and desperate, - loss beyond the actual amount of loss ~, nor for A ny sum recoverable under an in ntract of indemnity. amoua ) dedu of profits and gains arising made on account of any of professions, &c.,lithe following :rules will I duties on employments shall be construed ry employment, by retainer, in any character ler such retainer shall be annual, or for a er period ; and to all profits and earnings of subject only to such exemptions and allow reinatter granted. 2. The duty to be charged I at a sum not less than the full amount of )fits, gains, and emoluments, of such pro . vocations (after making such de by this act are allowed) within the in the first case, to be paid on the its or gains, without any deduction, ms as are made in the first case in ierage, in the cases of setting up ch professio n , em pl o y men t, o r vocation erein limited. 3. The third and fourth se shall also extend to the profits arising cond case, as far as they are applicable." E.—Upon every public office or employment of pon every annuity pension, or stipend payable sty, or out of the public revenue (except annuities Schedule C), there shall be charged for every llings yearly the sum of sevenpence. Exemptions n favour of Friendly Societies, charitable institu k or dividend belonging to her Majesty, or to Minister from a foreign state. Clause 97 Pro ls carrying on two tomes or professions may ' he one against the profits of the other. 1 in advance subject to discount, and after parties may compound for three years. All in carrying the Act into effect, are to make vill not disclose any particular contained in it or schedule, except to such persons as shall be r statements. The act is to apply only 1 of an income of £l5O a year and Like provisig period of av tDER IN FREDERICK-STREET, RE PARK, FIVE YEARS AGO. (From Yesterday's Times.) ;e and very contradictory statements being cur , a clue having at length been obtained which, will, in all probability, have the effect of causing capture of the murderer of Eliza Davis, who was Mr. Wadley, landlord of the King's Arms, Fre et, Regent's-park, our reporter has instituted a lat inquiry as to what has recently really taken ive to this dreadful affair, and the result is as ars that a few nights since, at a quarter before 12 ‘jr. Wadley had closed his shutters, and was about e hisdoor when a middle-aged man, attired in coat, figured wa i stcoat, an d li g h t trousers , entere d e and and politely requested to be served with a glass of wate r ; be was supplied with it, and after par r a small p o rtion commenced t a lking in a somewhat nt and strang e yes at Roe manne r o f th e l ate d rea dful murder of am pton,and in the course of his remarks that admitting Good had killed the woman, he ;nk much the worsasked Mr. Wadley e p f f him for that ; after a brief Davis was murdered,ihaeodwoans hisno tbeiinngtrheaptlipelad to `ice, he made somel;ard observations which were lligible, with re to the blood found on , g to the finger-mark) supposed to have been the murderer in making" (who s h e o gress from the hed to know if WilcoxE at the period ,n of the diabolical deed, w was pi;iietman) was d that he was, and also that still y's) service. While this conversa7as no one in the bar but the landlordianudwthaes nking as above referred to,Wilcox having past 11. It will be borne in mind that suspected of having committed the, mar f plaster, and that from his frequent vi. ns for months prior to the discovery o f -in his person was well known to Wil_ as also of opinion that he should be •nv future period should he chance man made some further remarks , d Mr. Wadley if he thought he e imagined had cut the Wadley) replied (look- I think I should, and He seemed rather 4 having finished -le abrupt ^ then es with Wadle house was f the murderer ot , day Inspector Aggs , of the S of what had occurre d, and, th Mr. Wadley upon the subject, himself to the utmost, with the view , the supposed gpilty person, but as e has been heard respecting bim. It is much retted that Mr. Wadley did not act with more de and judgment in the matter, by detaining the man upon hisp rem i ses until he had called in a po i case such other steps might have been taken lave had the effect of setting at rest tike question ner nis suspicions were well grounded of other gs, who is acquainted with the whole of the facts with the horrid murder, is still actively engaged ag up his inquiries relative to the myateriow affair. floptried - - MUSE pF COMMONS -THURSDA,, M. SI-JARMAN tjp.AWFCIRD brought,forwg4,a p-, 44 e i on , th e purport of which Was to pledge the howse NY' a into its early consideration what are comnionly, !mown. i 1 the " five points of the charter, viz.—extensian of the iio'Erage, equal ised electoral districts vote by haiiot, anatral parliaments, the payment of members, ard abolition of waalification. He did not ask the house to pledge itself to all these points, but to go into the consideration of them, wit'a a view to a full and fair discussion. Mr. O'CONNELL seconded a motion A discussion ensued, in which Mr. Wallace, Dr. Bowring, Mr. Ward, Sir James Graham, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Wakley, Mr. Bernal, Sir John Easthope, Mr. Villiers, Sir Robert Peel (who declared, that what he now heard of the working of the reform act, disinclined him change .o entertain any new , and, affirmed, that though our representative sys tem was not free from defects, he yet believed that sympathy with the people would be better shown by passing his income tax and his financial measnres, as being better calculated to benefit them), Mr. Muntz, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Roebuck, Lord Stanley, Sir Thomas Wilde, and other members took part. The house then divided, when there appeared,—For the motion, 67 ; against it, 226. The house adjourned at a quarter past twelve o'clock. *4lO, iniZt 3 , EN, that there will be a Id at NEWTON-IN-TIIE-WIL )f May, when ti I NAIL aIVEN wt.) shall offer for Sale the best less than f,ve in number. r who shall offer for Sale the best 5 not less than five in number. Mare offeced for Sale for Farming Id Colt or Filly offered for pn shown, and serving Mares in the ,a_ adapted to breed from for Farm. n of Farm Horses shown in the roperty of the Farmer. Fair shall commence at One o'clock in the CONTRACTORS PRISON AT I 3ELFAST EREBY GIVEN, that a presentment for idewell and House of Correction at Bel of Antrim, having been made by the Grand n shall be HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY The Earl of RIPON moved the third reading of the Spirit Duties (Ireland) Bill. Lord MONTEAGLE said that there ought to be a more equal imposition of duty on spirits distilled i❑ Ireland and Scotland. Spirits exported from Scotland were entitled to a drawback of eightpence, whereas no such drawback was al lowed to the Irish distiller. The Earl of WicKLow feared that the increased duty would tend to illicit distillation, and thus counterbalance the bene ficial results of the exertions of the apostle of temperance in Ireland. After a short discussion, the Duke of WELLINGTON post poned the third reading until Monday, to give time to con sider the facts stated by Lord Monteagle. The Corn Importation Bill was read a third time and passed. The Merchant and Factor Improvement Bill was read a third time and passed. The other bills on the table were forwarded a stage, after which their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. Sir R. PEEL moved the second reading of the Income Tax Bill. Mr. C. BULLER moved that it be read a second time that day six months. Now that he had read the bill, he must say that all the fears he had seriously entertained were very much increased. He perceived that it went to create whole hosts of commissioners armed with the most extraordinary powers, foreign to the feelings and habits of Englishmen. The com mercial tariff, which was assumed to be the consideration for the income tax, was supported by the most contradictory ar guments, for sometimes it was said that it would reduce the expense of living, while at other times this result was wholly denied. He was aware that the principle of direct taxation had been advocated by many hon. members on his side of the house, but he could not acquiesce in that opinion, for he thought that the principle of direct taxation was both unjust and unequal—it was, in fact, a resource of barbarous times. As to the assertion that the income tax would press only on the richer classes of society, it was fultile. Even the char tists understood that any lessening of the funds out of which the labourers were paid must necessarily be felt by the la bourers. _ _ . . _ Mr. EWART expressed himself friendly to the principle of direct taxation, though opposed to the imposition of an in come tax. He approved of the tariff generally, but objected to the proposed duty on coals as detrimental to our steam commercial shipping. Sir J. WALSH contended that the same charge of inequa lity which was levelled against the income tax applied with equal force to every kind of taxation. The trading and com mercial classes would be largely benefited by the new tariff, and it was therefore only reasonable that they should con tribute their proportion to supply those deficiencies occasi oned by wars for the protection of their interests. Sir W. CLAY said that, after making every allowance for the reductions in the commercial tariff, he did not think there was anything in it to compensate for the imposition of an income tax, which was uncalled for. Mr. WAxtgy said there was a very general opinion in favour of a property tax, but it was thought that it should be levied upon a graduated scale, by which means the greater portion of the burden would be borne by the wealthier classes. Instead of doing this, however, the right hon. baronet by his income tax threw the chief burden upon the industrious por• tion of the community. It was said out of doors that Sir R. Peel bad made a gigantic effort to place the finances of the country in a proper position ; but when they came hereafter to pay the income tax, they would soon find out the justice of a sliding scale and insist upon its adoption. Mr. DISRAELI supported the second reading, and ex pressed his opinion that the first duty of the house ought to have been to have instituted an inquiry into the causes which led to the disasters of our army in India, and to the defi ciency in the financial affairs of that country. Mr. CHRISTIE supported the amendment of Mr. Buller, and condemned in the strongest manner the resorting to a tax so odious, unequal, and unjust as that on income, with its disgusting inquisition. The hon. member then argued upon the injustice of assessing income derived from trades and professions in the same ratio as income derived from land, and instanced cases in which the ta; would apply with peculiar hardship and oppression. Mr. SMYTHE supported the second reading. The country was called upon to make strenuous exertions to redeem the reverses of its army in India; and, at such a time, no slight objections should be permitted to interfere with the struggle which it was necessary to make. He was content to give his vote for the tax, as a vote of confidence in Sir R. Peel, though be admitted a great proportion of the evils attributed to the measure. After a few observations from Mr. W. 0. STANLEY and Mr. SCOTT, the house divided, and the second reading was carried by a majority of 155 to 76. The Roasted Malt Bill, and the Excise Duties Compounds Bill, were severally read a second time. The remainder of the evening was occupied in committee on the Railways Bill. ARRIVAL OF TWO WEST INDIA MAIL STEAMERS. FALMOUTH, APRIL 20, HALF-PAST NINE, P.M. — The Forth, West India steamer, is just arrived ; sailed from the Harman,* 15th March ; was detained at Nassau ten days for the mails, when the Tay arrived ; but, through some mis understanding about the mails being transhipped trom one vessel to the other, both vessels left for England on the 2nd of April, arrived at Bermuda on the otb, anti Fayal on the 14th. The Tay is expected early to-morrow. The Forth left Fayal on the 14th, but has brought no Jamaica mail, which, it is said, is on board the Tay. The Forth has brought only four passengers : the Tay has about thirty on board, and about 500,000 dollars. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 21.—The Tay, Capt. Hayden, arrived here at eleven o'clock to-night, having landed her mails at Falmouth, but which will not reach London till Saturday morning. The Tay left Havannah on the 27th of March, Nassau on the 2.9tb, Bermuda (where she took in 300 tons of coals) on the sth instapt, and Fayal on the 14th. During the latter part of her voyage, she had strong easterly winds, yet she made the distance to Southarapto, by Fal mouth, 1380 geo. miles in seven days. There is no truth whatever in the reported loss of any of the company's steamers. The Dee was at the Havannah. The Clyde also had arrived there, and the Actaeon also had safely reached Barbadoes, on her return from Jamaica. The Tweed, from having run short of fuel, on her passage from Chagres to Jamaica, had been compelled to take refuge in Puerto Ca bello, from which place she was to sail on the 27th of Febru ary,in order to beat up to Jamaica. Ili; accident has thrown this vessel more than a month out of her time, and is one cause of the detention of the Jamaica mails, and the consequent derangement of other parts of the service. This derangement Lis been greatly aggravated and extended by the quarrels between the Spanish authorities and the British Consul at Havannah, which necessarily retards the trans mission of the mails to Europe. Instructions have, we learn, gone out by the steamer, which will, we are given to understand, soon after her arrival in the West Indies, restore the whole service to its regular course. The following is an extract of a letter from a passenger on board the Forth, Lieutenant Fayrer, R.N.:— " Steamer Forth, entering Falmouth Harbour, 20th April, 1842, " I am most happy to inform you of my arrival thus far on my passage home, after unprecedented detentions, caused by the mal-arrangements of the directors, commanders, or mail agents of the Royal Mail Steam Company. Our first long detention was the non-arrival of the packet at Vera Cruz for ten days after the time specified by the general advertise ments in the public papers : and, secondly, by twelve days' detention at Nassau, 'Yew Providence, for the arrival of the Windward Islands mails. On the arrival of the steamer Tay with these mails, neither of the captains nor mail agents would give up their mails or passengers; both persisted in their right to go to England : they remained inflexible and obstinate. The result was, that they both started, the Forth with five passengers and the small mail of the Gulf of Mexico; the 'fay with about thirty passengers and the Windward Island mails. Both ships coaled at Bermuda nearly at the same time, and the Tay came to Fayal as we left. I suppose she may be about six hours astern of us. You may easily conceive how, by some bad management, this company has been, taking it in round numbers, put to nearly two thousand pounds expense, money completely thrown away, as well as taking one ship off her station where she was actually required to establish some kind of regularity." The actual performance of the West India mail steamers have fallen far short of the expectations formed of them by the projectors of the company. Of the two steamers just arrived, one was due nn the Ist and the other on the 15th instant. Yet, in the "Details of Service to be performed," published last year, they were expected to arrive with such punctuality that the calculator of the tables remarked, at the close of the last, " On re-examining this table, eight hours in time might, without difficulty, be saved. This is an object of some importance. as it would go to bring the mails to"the General Postoffice, London, by 8 a.m., and in time for the morning mails for the North I" THE ROEHAMPTON MURDER RD-EXAMINATION OF DANIEL GOOD. excess, and the windows and On Thursday morning Bow-street fi w i f e s d toc w ro i w th de r d espee ex ta c bly. , seat on the bench, which broughtdr e respectably dressed i n persons , the prisonto witnessvinou about mouse-tops arrival twenty minutes Good, and The w A a t s hr n - s p e a l s y t t e e r n ow M de r d . I w la i ll th to th ok e his nobility and in a few fainted, . greatly dejected, prisoner was in a few minutes . placed in minutesthe dock. He ap pearedafnftremr former p partaking ositi n ngentry.but ,ofreasgtilnagss h o is t water right h ar e m re o v n iv t e h d e , resumed his the s dock. Several witnesses were examined, bu h t e w e h o o r s o e ne e r vi a d t en th c e e was a mere repetition of that given before t inquest. Good's son was in the room adjoining the court; his youthful appearance created a general sympathy. At the close of the inquiry Good requested to be sent back to Clerk enwell Prison ; but Mr. Hall said, he felt bound to commit him to take his trial. It was his duty, therefore, to send him at on ce t o N ewgate. Richard Gamble And Mary Good were then placed at the bar. Mr. Hall said, at that late hour it would be impossible to go on with the case against them, therefore he should again remand them till to-morrow (Friday), when the evidence would be gone into. The three prisoners were immediately conducted to the police van, which was waiting for them, Daniel Good to be conveyed to Newgate, and the others to Clerkenwell Prison. The mo ment Good was seen by the immense concourse of persons who had assembled, he was saluted by a volley of hideous yells and groans. Hundreds of persons followed the van as it drove away, and continued shouting as loud as they pos sibly could. " I can't bear you," as the sea said to the leaky ship. FINANCIAL C . ONS : -Iyhy is part of the government financial plan like directions on deal boxes? Because they s acks and ink 'em!—Why another portion of it like antiy slavery fanatics ? Because they don't touch sugarl—Why another like an order for the play given to a certain city alderman ? Be cause it is getting Wood to the boxes cheap ! Wh y d oe s the revised tariff oblige all to dress decently ? Be cause no new cluiy (nudity) is impos . ed . !—Why is the whole plan like a cheap plaster? Because it is the " poor man's friend !" SECOND EornoN, T H E Standard-office, Three o'clock ROEHAMPTON MURDER, BOW-STREET POLICE-COURT-YESTERDAY RE-EXAMINATION OF MOLLY GOOD AND RICHARD GAMBLE, CHARGED_ AS BEING ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT TO THE MURDER OF . . _ Yesterday morning having been appointed for the re examination of Molly Good and Richard Gamble on the above charge, the neighbourhood of Bow-street was much crowded. When the prisoners were brought to the court, the most discordant yells and execrations broke forth, and which did not subside until the prisoners had been placed in their cells. Mr. Maule said it was his duty shortly to state the case against the prisoners at the bar. They were charged with being connected (after the fact) with the circumstances at tending the charge of murder, on which Daniel Good had been committed to Newgate—that they were accessories after the fact—that knowing the offence with which Good was charged, they received and harboured the offender, and as sisted in his escape for a short time. Perhaps, however, if the evidence only went so far as to prove that they received the stolen goods of the murdered woman knowing them to be stolen, that would be sufficient in law to constitute them accessories after the fact. Mr. Maule then referred to the opinions laid down by Mr. Justice Blackstone, and continued—it would be necessary here to show that Daniel Good was the offender, and then to prove the connection of that person with the prisoners. He should prove that he fled from Roehampton on the 6th of April, after the muti lated body was found, that he proceeded to the lodgings of the deceased, and took away property belonging to her, that he then went to the house of the prisoner Mary Good ; that they were seen together there disposing of the property of the deteased, and he finally left her on the 9th of April. With respect to Gamble, he should prove that he was seen at the house of the female prisoner under circumstances the most suspicious ; that he went at late hours of the night without a bundle, and returned afterwards with bundles, At the house of both prisoners property belonging to the de ceased bad been found. He should also produce evidence as to conversations which bad been beard between the prison ers, which he thought would clearly prove that they were cognisant of the offence which Good was charged with having committed, and they had secreted him, and assisted him in effecting his temporary escape. At all events of this he (Mr. Maule) was confident, that be should be able to establish such a strong case of suspicion, that it would be the magis trate's duty to commit them for trial before that tribunal which could alone finally decide their guilt or innocence. Evidence was then produced toestablish the truth of these statements. Mr. Pelham said, he wished to know how the Court in tended to deal with this case. He understood that this wo man was the real wife of Good, and if so, then she could not be charged with harbouring him. He beiieved if he had time he could show that they were married in Ireland, as abundant witnesses, he understood, might be called to prove it. So if Mary Good was Good's wife, she could not be committed as a receiver of stolen property, in consequence of having re ceived it from her husband. These were the two difficulties he felt press upon him in this case. Mr. Hall asked the male prisoner if he had anything to say, and cautioned him against saying anything, as it would be taken down and used against him at his trial. The prisoner Gamble then remarked—" I have nothing to say." Mr. Hall asked Mr. Maule what course he wished him to pursue ?„ _ Mr. Maule pointed out the conversations that had been spoken to as having taken place between Gamble and the female prisoner at the George and Guy, and between Mary Good and the female at her own house, and with the potboy at the Spotted Dog, which, he contended, showed that the prisoners were aware of the commission of this offence. He might rest his case upon the prisoners' own declarations ; but what was the fact? The prisoners were proved to have been at hide and seek—they both had property that belonged to the deceased, which they concealed, and denied they had possession of when questioned by the police. Now if he was right in the inferences he drew, he thought there was abun dant evidence to put them on their trial as accessories after the fact. On the other hand, if the magistrate thought the evidence was not sufficiently strong to convict them upon that charge, then he begged to direct the attention of the Court to the fact of Good having feloniously possessed him self of Jane Jones's property after the murder, and that pro perty having been found in the prisoners' possession, was enough to establish a prima facie case to put them on their trial as receivers of stolen goods ; and it would then be for them to give a satisfactory account of how they became pos sessed of them. Mr. Hall said he had not beard the smallest evidence that either Jane Jones, the deceased, or the female prisoner, Mary Good, was the wife of Daniel Good, and therefore he was not bound to deal with the prisoner in that character. Then, with respect to the man Gamble, there was this strong fact, that some gowns belonging to the deceased were found under his bed, and one of them was traced to have been in her possession the day before she disappeared. There were also two shirts, which it had been clearly proved had been entrusted to the deceased to wash. It therefore appeared to be much more clear to his mind that he should commit him as a receiver of stolen goods, and the solicitor for the prose cution might prefer any other indictment he thought proper. With respect to Mary Good, the evidence against her was much stronger as an accessory after the fact, because con versations of an important character bad been overheard to have taken place between her and other parties. She had been traced to various places sleeping with Good, and the workboxes belonging to the deceased had been sworn to by the little boy as having been in the possession of the deceased, even so late as Monday, the 4th inst., the day after the woman was missed. This, to his mind, clearly established a case of receiving stolen property against her, and therefore be should prefer committing her on that charge, although the evidence was of a very strong character against her as an accessory after the murder. However, Mr. Maule might prefer an indictment against her for that offence as well as for the one upon which she was committed, if he so pleased. They are, concluded the worthy magistrate, therefore both com mitted for trial as receivers of stolen property. The voluminous depositions having been read over, the prisoners were removed in the van to Newgate, amidst the oud execrations of a dense mob. The examination did not conclude till half-past five o'clock. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—THIs DAY (From Messrs. R. MAKIN & SONS' Circular.) Although several English, Irish, and Foreign vessels have arrived here since Friday, the supplies of Grain fresh in for this day's market are collectively but moderate, and of Flour and Oatmeal very inconsiderable. The New Corn Bill, having passed through the Lords, is expected to take immediate effect, which, combined with the depression in Mark Lane yesterday, and the continuance of fine, though dry weather, serve to increase the languor pre viously noted; we have accordingly to report an exceedingly dull trade this morning, for English, Irish, and all Foreign, duty paid, Wheats, and a further abatement generally, thereby reducing our quotations 2d. to 3d. per 701bs below the rates of Tuesday last. -Home-made and Irish Flour hardly sustained late prices, and States, as also Canadian, declined 6d. per barrel, with a plow limited sale for all de scriptions. Ih bonded grain no transactions have been reported since Friday ; and except a few hundred barrels for export, few or none in Flour. Barley and Malt, attended with occasional sales, retained their former value. Beans and Pease remained stationary. The Oat trade having been extremely heavy, was decidedly rather lower ; and Oatmeal, being taking off sparingly, re ceded 6d. per 2401b5. ARRIVALS OF CORN, From the Igth to the 25th April, 1842, inclusive DESCUPTION COAST- CANADA FO -I,AND. I VISE. U.STS. REIGN. TOTAL 1310 I Wheat Qrs. 760 5359 709 Barley Qrs. 202 202 Malt Qrs. 2530 2530 Oats Qrs. 3030 445 3475 Rye Qrs. Beans Qrs. 8 95 163 Pease. Qrs. l 695 695 Shelled Barley . Qrs. Indian Corn Qrs. 1875 1875 Rapeseed Qrs. Oatmeal .... Loads 1705 27 1732 Flour . Sacks 195 30 1000 1225 Ditto Brls. 1496 Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise :—Wheat, qrs.; Oats, 840 qrs.; Oatmeal, his; Flour, sacks. EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs.; Barley, qrs.; Malt, qrs. ; Oats. H 4 qrs ; Pease, qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oat- Meal, loads; Flour— sacks, 118 brls.--Ireland. Wheat, 974 qrs. ; Pease, 2 qrs. ; Indian Corp, 25 qrs. ; Oatmeal, lds. ; Flour, sacks.--Coastwise. Wheat, 295 qrs. ; Bar ley, 287 qrs. ; Malt, 27 qrs. ; Oats, 32 qrs. ; Beans, 20 qrs. ; Rye, qrs. ; Pease, 13 qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, 20 ids. Flour, 304 sacks 401 barrels. Average pricks of Grain, for the week ending April 15, 1842. Wheat 595. iOd. I Barley 264.11 d. 1 Qats.. 19s. 2d. I Rye.. 325. 6d. Beans.. 30s. 1 id. j Pease.. 303. bd. Aggregate average of the six weeks. Wheat.. Hsi d. Barley 265. yd. I Oats.. 18s. yd. Rye.. 335.10 d Beans.. 30s. 6d. Pease.. 31s. 2d. Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week Wheat 285.8 d. I Barley 225. 10d. I Oats .. .Igs. gd. Rye.. lgs. gd. Beans 245.30. I Pease .. 225. gd. I Ind. Corn Os. Od. Flourlys.2id, Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe. Wheat.... ss. Od. I Barley.. 2s. tid. I Oats ..2s. Od. I Rye.... 3s. Od. Beans.. 3s. I Pease.. as. I Indian Corn.. Os. Od. Flour.. 3s. Od. Liverpool Averages, week ending April 19, 1842. Wheat. I ath. 1 Beans. e. (Ws Prices Od. 1196 0 Od. 375. 110 Pea Od. s. s Od. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, 3 P. 34 Only a very moderate enquiry for Cotton to-day. About 2000 bales sold at yesterday's prices; about 200 bales taken for export, with a steady and firm feeling. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE TUESDAY, APRIL 26.—Wind South Muir VED.—Coronation, Richardson, from Savaunah—Sisters, —, from Nassau—Ann & Kate, Smith, from Wexford —and ElnitY, Wood, from Woodbridge. Otterspool, Little, from Calcutta, off the Cove ; sailed 24th Nov. and from St. Helena 16th Feb. Passad a ,great number of vessels, homeward bound, off Cape Clear Pandora, from New Orleans, off the Cove Mary, Henderson, from Savannah, off Cape Clear Packet, from Laguna, ditto Oxford, and Chieftain, hence to New York, off Cove Dykes, hence for Newfoundland, off Kinsale TEE OPERATION OF THE TARIFF.—A gentleman of Bradford, who visited the south of Scotland last week, has favoured us with the following " notes of a traveller' :—ln the prospect of Sir Robert's tariff acting injudiciously to the farmers' interests, sheep and cattle are weekly falling in va lue. At a large sheep market held the week before last in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, a fall of 20 per cent. was experienced on last year's prices. Cattle have given way £:3 per head, and leave a direct loss on the winter's keep. Wheat, which is scarce, rates at 635. to 655. ; oats about 255. ; barley 365. The growers are sadly in the dumps respecting the approaching clip of wool, and from what I could gather, will be somewhat more supple and pliant with the stapler than they have been a whilome back. They are now ready to acknowledge, that live stock, as well as produce, has been rgooywnivelly, 500 unnaturally and unwarrantably high.—Bradford Observer. swan from fair CASE.—It is said that the special retaining fee to several Follett u i ß n e u s t s t ; (a besidesstuff Glou . o:l o e r tt f , ee f s er his half hour's work in the Court of -Fer.lai3t' week, was 1,000 guineas_Lthat of Mr. Fitz tgbueinvteras ; and u that o of 2 M oo r g . estern ircui , , added, the fees • paid to each of them• , 0 T this may be paid 'Mr . C . M r • Ke . ripps, M• P., and 1 r. e Wig fees of 48 guineas p aid . clerks innuinerable... ot!: thejury, and lawyers► and lawyers , be. bk , tt uii(ic`mra—on natton has now to pay for The income tax is the pric z e misgovernment. THE WAKEFIELD EI.EOTION COMMITTEE has decided diet Mr. Holdsworth had not been duly elected, and that Mr. Lascelles had. A DISCOVERY.—We understand that there is a man in town, who has talked to a man, who has a piece of the breeches of the man who knows who married Capt. Schinley. —New York paper. A gentleman in Towcaster has made a wager that he will, by the 29th of September, gather seven bushels of peas in the pod, the produce of seven peas which are at the present time growing in his garden. AN AMERICAN EXCEPTION.—The Boston (America) Atlas says, The steam-boat Oneida, which left Wheeling on Thursday for Louisville, took fire and was burned to the water's edge, with everything on board except the passengers." THE COST OF A SOLDIER. — La Presse calculates that in England the annual expense of a soldier is 540 f. ; in France, 340 f. ; in Prussia, 212 f. ; in Austria, 240 f. ; and in Russia, 120 f. A VOLUNTEER TAR-PAYER.—The Chancellor of the Ex chequer begs to acknowledge the receipt of £5OO (transmit ted to him under cover to Mrs. Goulburn) by one who styles himself " a sincere admirer of the manly spirit in which you have met the difficulties of your position by a direct taxa tion," and to acquaint him that the sa id sum w ill h e pa id i nto the Exchequer . — Downing-street, April 18, 1842. MAILS FOR INDIA.—The following notice has been issued by the Postoffice authorities :—" General Postoffice, April 20.—The next mails for Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, and India, via Falmouth, will be despatched hence on the 30th instant. The next mail for India, &c., via Mar seilles, will be made up here on the 4th of May." A commission of bankruptcy has been issued out against Messrs. Wilson and Beere, the proprietors of the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, which they: purchased some five or six years ago for £3o,ooo—they paid £lO,OOO in hand and 5,000 sub sequently, by instalment ; the premises are covered by a mortgage for the difference, and if the mort gagees ge t pri ority, there will be hardly any thing for the other creditors. Their liabilities amount to £30,000, £20,000 of which are due to English creditors, principally in Liverpool and Man chester. THE JOCKEY CLUB.—The following is an official report of the meeting on Tuesday laat :—" Lord G. Bentinck stated, that anxious to conciliate the good w ill o f t h e clu b , whilst he adheres to all the principles and maxims of turf law laid down in his protest of the 12th of February, he is desirous to withdraw and express his regret for so much of the language in which that protest has been couched as has been felt to be offensive to the feelings of the Jockey Club." It was unan imously resolved, that this statement was satisfactory to the club. REPRESENTATION OF STOCKPORT.—It is whispered in privileged circles that one of our radical pair of representa tives is " indisposed," and, therefore, about to accept the Chiltern Hundreds. It is, moreover, asserted by others, that he is not so much indisposed as having a desire to vacate his seat in favour of the Hon. E. J. Stanley, who has, there fore withdrawn his pretensions from the Montrose Burghs, in the hope that an arrangement may be quietly entered into with the Stockport constituency.—Stockport Advertiser. DARING ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND SUICIDE AT SOUTH AMPTON.—On Thursday night a respectable man rushed into the shop of Mr. Morris, shoemaker, Above Bar, and, seizing a knife, made an attempt on the life of the errand-boy, by making a plunge at his throat. The boy was dreadfully cut across the upper part of the chin, completely severing tne lower lip. The assassin then endeavoured to stab himself, exclaiming, " I have done for the boy and myself too." At the station-house, the prisoner refused to state who or what he was, and expressed no concern whatever for the innocent object of his attack. He is considered to be insane. THE QUEEN'S FANCY BALL.—At the grand ball our young and lovely sovereign is to enact Queen Philippa—her royal consort, the Hero of Crescy. Prince Albert will wear the panoply of Edward the Third. The costume of a queen of that period will be embarrassing, although no doubt it will be ably modified by her Majesty's costume maker. When we say this, we allude to the headdress rising so high, and so pointed, and bearing on its sides such exuberant appen dages. All the great officers of the Crown are to wear the costume of their offices in King Edward's reign. It has been suggested that the ambassadors of the different courts should adopt the costume of their country in the 14th cen tury.—Morning Post. BERLIN, APRIL 11.—The English residents here, whose number has recently greatly increased, intend to build a church for the English ritual, and the subject is to be taken into more particular consideration on the return of the Eng lish Ambassador, the Earl of Westmoreland. We also learn that a new evangelical church is to be built at the Potsdam gate. Including the Catholic church building at Kopwick fields, Berlin will soon be adorned with three new splendid churches. A Court Counsellor has been directed by autho rity to visit England for the purpose of observing the style of ecclesiastical architecture in that country. The following are the receipts of the principal railways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the re spective returns are made, viz.:—Brighton, £2,259 ; Black wall, £700; Birmingham and Glocester, £1,517 ; Hull and Selby, £911; E as t ern C ount i es . £870 ; Manchester and Birmingham, £343; Birmingham, £16,941 ; Greenwich, £797 ; Great Western, £12,954 ; Northern and Eastern, £1,128 ; Manchester and Leeds, £4,427 ; South Western, £6,002 ; Birmingham and Derby, £1,036 ; North Midland, £3,987 ; Midland Counties, £2,529 ; Edinburgh and Glas gow, £1,821; and York and North Midland, £1,567. AN ANECDOTE OF LORD ROLLE. — " We have lost a good master," said an old crabber ; " he was a very kind friend to me. Before there were any revenue men I was had up by the excise before his lordship for a little smuggling affair, and obliged to find two bondsmen. So I attended at the justice room at Bicton. The excise officer examined my bondsmen about their property, and refused one because his property was leasehold. I said it would be a great trouble to me, as I was then engaged to attend a gentleman's yacht, and I thought a leasehold under his lordship would have been sufficient. No, he would not take it. We bad some trouble to get him to take the other surety, but his lordship said, ' Oh, I know him ; he has property, and is an honest man.' However, this one he (the officer) would not take, when presently his lordship stepped up to the offihecer, "You won't object to my b e i ng one , will you " T excisemn was (to use th e fi s h erman ' s wor d) s truck quite pale when his lordship took up his pen and signed himself as bond in the sum of £5O for the poor fisherman. It is not astonishing to find the poor and friendless regretting the loss of the noble and wealthy, when, by such acts of kindness, they rivet to themselves the best affections of the people, and our aristo cracy are not lax in deeds of kindness and mercy. THE FRENCH POST-OFFICE V. VIVIER, ONE OF THE COURIERS OF THE " MORNING HERALD," AND OTHER LONDON MORNING PAPERS.—" The tribunal declares Vivier guilty of having interfered in the transmission cf let ters and parcels, and the president, alter haiing read the articles let and sth of the Arr'et des Consuls, of 27th Prairial, year 9, as therein specified, condemns Vivier in 150 francs and costs. The court grants six months for the payment of the same, in default of which, to be arrested and imprisoned." This extraordinary case, at the same time, produced the most rigid activity and unprecedented severity on the part of the French authorities, as regards the penalty for carrying letters. Two others of a similar nature, as regards the se verity of the law, have met with the same f a t e ; one was an English lady, who arrived from Dover by mail packet on the 3d instant, who was also fined 150 f. (X 6), the same as the courier, for two letters which were found by the custom officers in her pocket-book. Captain Wingfield, of the Emerald steamer, belonging to the commercial steam-packet company, was also fined the same sum for bringing a letter from London, directed to the company's agent at Boulogne. It is highly important that this severity of the French post office law should be made known to the public, who, from motives of complaisance (as was the case with the lady in question) may bring upon themselves such serious conse quences ; for the whole expenses may amount to £lO. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY OF A MISER.—A miserable old man, named Costello, died a few months ago at Boyanagh, near Castledaly, in the barony of Clonlonan, leaving a large sum of money—which he scraped together during a long life of penury—to one of his sons, on condition " that he should take care of it and never spend it." A few days since this' son was seized with typhus fever, and during his Wriest; his priest (Father O'F.) attended him, and when "in extremis" got him to make a will, bequeathing a sum of £5O for the redemption of his father's soul and his own, out of purga tory—the money was agreed to be expended on the building of the new Roman Catholic Chapel of Longford. On the 13th instant the £5O was to be handed over to the rev. gen tleman, but the nursetender having told the patient in the mean time that he got a cool and would recover, he thought it better to reserve a life interest in the £5O, and so deter mined on disappointing his reverence for the present, He was, however, destined to part with his treasure much sooner than he intended, and in a manner that neither he nor the priest once calculated on, for on that very night a gang of seven desperadoes, with their faces blackened, entered Cos tello's hovel, raised him out of bed, ripped open the tick, and much to their surprise found no less a sum than £l2o—all made up of old six, five, and three-shilling pieces, seine half-crowns, and but two notes for £3, es the old miser bad always a dread of the banks failing. The captain of the party took possession of the booty, and jeeringly told the young miser that they were good doctors, that he bled well, though not freely, and as they softened his couch and left him nothing to fret about, they would insure him a safe and speedy recovery. Information of the audacious outrage and robbery was speedily conveyed to the adjacent constabulary station, and on Thursday last they succeeded in arresting three notorious characters in the neighbourhood, Jem Claffy, John Daly, and Owen Glynn, one of whom, we understand, is identified by the nursetender and servant girl, who was in attendance on the sick man during the occurrence ; and a clue is obtained, which, it is hoped, will ultimately lead to the apprehension of the rest of the gang. The unfortunate miser is recovering from the fever, but the loss of his loved treasure has so much affected his mind, that it is feared he will be a lunatic for life. Mr. Fallon, acting county inspec tor, has since paid a visit to the house of Costello, regardless of infection, and found some articles which the robbers dropped, and which are likely to lead to the remainder of the gang being detected.—Westmeath Guardian. BLASTING ROCKS BY GALVANISM. —A spectator gives the following description of the blasting operations at Wester Craig's Quarry on Tuesday ;—" The workmen, under the Superintendent of the quarry, had nearly completed their part of the operations before Mr. Roberts (the inventor of the new system) and Mr. Wilson made their appearance, ac companied by assistants, with the battery and connecting wires for conveying the galvanic current to the charges of powder. These gentlemen assiduously and carefully super intended the placing of the charges in the rock, and connecting coils of wire with the cartridges. When the arrangements were completed, and it was observed that the battery was placed on the top of the precipice over the quarry—whence the distance to the charges to be fired was shortest, and en tirely free from danger—the spectators, by Mr. Roberts's advice, placed themselves on the summit of the precipice, and at the outside of the curved line of the rock, from which an excellent view could be obtained of the effects. The two charges at the foot of the rock were first to be fired ; and having been u ncerta i n where I s h ou ld place myself, I was in the act of moving from eest to west alo n g the to p of the pre cipice, whe n the signal was given while I was immediately behind and close to the battery at the moment the two gal vanic poles were brought together. The effect was instan taneous as the lightning's flash from " summer clouds. " The bill upon which I stood was shaken to its foundation, as if by an earthquake, and the riven mass of rock went crash ing down into the depths of the quarry. This was startling and beautiful, but fell far short of what took place upon the second application of the galvanic current to the two charges placed over each other in the face of the perpendicular cliff. A short time was required to remove the scaffolding that had been used by the workmen in preparing the two upright blasts, and i n placing th e connecting wires, and applyi ng screens in fro n t o f the charges to prevent the scattering of the splinters of stone when - the explosion tool place ; these arrangements gave me sufficient time to gain an excellent position for observation. Everything was at length com pleted, and every eye then was fixed, and the br eath held in anxious suspense ; then came the ready from Mr. Wilson, who remained in the bed of the quarry ; the assistant at the battery brought the discs in contact, and the whole face of the rock was riven asunder from top to bottom, and from 300 to 400 tons of stone were torn from the bill, and came thundering down like an avalanche. It is impossible to imagine anything more grand or interesting than this triumph of science as applied to practical utility, in rendering a hitherto most dangerous process perfectly safe and simple in execution Glasgow Chronicle GAM WrEITEENT RAll o w47,lpti hAve bun ludo that the receipts for this company reac R 20,000 a week dinin this gunmen—T. Mpgazine. Sir I. Brunel, the eminent engineer, has left England to visit the• King of Sardinia, to ascertain the capabilities of that country for the construction of railroads. Mr.' Thornton has commencedan action against the stewards of the Jockey Club, for a libel, in pronouncing him, according to their long-established laws, " a defaulter " on the turf. CURIOSITY.—Some English people were visiting an ele gant private garden at Palermo, in Sicily, and among the little ornamental buildings, they came to one upon which was written "Non aperite," that is, "Don't open." This prohibition only served to excite their curiosity, and they very uncivilly proceeded to disobey the hospitable owner's injunction. On opening the door, a forcible jet of water was squirted full in their faces—a very just, though not a very severe, retribution. RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN GERMANY.—FRANKFORT, APRIL 18.—Yesterday evening there was a collision on the Tannus Railway, at the station of Ilattersheim, between the two last trains from Frankfort and Mentz. Several car riages were dashed to pieces by the dreadful shock, and 30 persons more or less injured. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—The share holders of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway met last week to sanction an application to parliament for the exten sion of their act, which was given unanimously. The ques tion of Sunday travelling on this line was not raised at this meeting, but Sir Andrew Agnew reserved to himself the right of bringing it forward on any other occasion. At the Devon quarter sessions, last week, the Earl of De von, in his charge to the sessions grand jury, referred to the bill intended to be brought in by the government for the im provement of the present county constabulary force. Lord Devon said, " From what I have heard of the details of the proposed measure, I am inclined to think it one that will give very general satisfaction. It will enable two or three parishes to unite, for the mutual raisingand paying a sufficient number of properly qualified persons to act as constables, without in fringing any local privilege." ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—On Saturday afternoon a boy about 12 years of age, residing with his parents at No. 10, Parker-street, Drury-lane, London, went into the room of a lodger in the house, named Ellen Smith (a woman of dis reputable character), for whom he had been in the habit of going on errands. Upon his entering the room she imme diately seized him with her left hand, and at the same moment inflicted a severe wound on the side of his throat with a razor which she held in her right hand. The mother of the boy ran into the room upon hearing his screams, and rescued her son. The police soon after arrived, and conveyed the woman to Bow-street. She declared her only reason for attempt ing the boy's life was that she had made up her mind to commit a murder, and he was the first person that came in her way. It appeared she was drunk at the time. The boy was taken to Portugal-street Hospital, and although very weak from loss of blood, yet it is hoped that he may recover, as none pf the principal vessels were injured. FALSE ALARM.—In the forenoon of Sunday last during divine service at St. David's church, Exeter, and while the minister was engaged in reading the Litany, the congrega tion became alarmed by loud reports, evidently in connection with the pipes of the steam apparatus by which the church is warmed. The alarm spread, and the terror became so strong that the cries of distress were uttered by females, and numbers quitted the church, many females being minus their shawls, boas, brooches, &c. The Rev. E. C. Harington, the incumbent, who was officiating, remained in his reading desk, and endeavoured to calm the fears of the congregation ; and it was soon discovered that the cause of those reports was an insufficient quantity of water in the feeder or cistern, and that in consequence of this the pipes became filled with hot or rarified air, which having in its progress to encounter that of a colder and denser description, occasioned the sounds which led to the alarm. Finding, however, at length, that that calm which:is so requisite to the profitable performance of divine worship was not likely to be soon restored, Mr. Harington addressed those of his congregation who remained with him in the church, saying he thought it advisable to conclude the service, and that the afternoon service would commence at the usual time, which was the case.—Bristol Jnurnal. POWERFUL OPPOSIITION TO THE NEW TARIFF.—On Wednesday last a public meeting of the very wonderful num ber of 20 agriculturists, took place at Newport Pagnell, in this county, to oppose the tariff proposed by her majesty's government. From what passed at the meeting the public may judge of the absurdity of getting up a meeting to oppose the new tariff, and of the little sympathy the farmers exhibit in matters which so slightly affect their interests. To cut the matter short, the meeting nullified their petition, by the adoption of a proposal to introduce into it a declaration of confidence in the government, made by T. A. Boswell, Esq. ; but the Rev. Mr. Lawe came to the rescue, and got 14 of the company to vote for leaving it out against six, and thus " saved their bacon" by a very large majority of eight.— Bucks Gazette. About four o'clock in the afternoon of Friday last the good people of Middlesbro'-on-Tees were thrown into a state of consternation, by something resembling the shock of an earthquake, which was found to proceed from the explosion of the boiler of an engine, at the iron-foundry of Messrs. Blockon and Vaughan. The roof of the building was com pletely blown off, fragments of which were scattered in all directions, and in some instances at a considerable distance. It was soon ascertained that one man had been killed, and several others severely injured. How the accident occurred seems at present to be veiled in mystery. Verdict of a coro ner's jury, " Accidental Death," with a deodand of I on the engine. —Durham Advertiser. TRADE OF DUNDEE.--We are happy to observe that the accounts just received from the manufacturing districts in England are not so desponding as they have been for some time past. The feeling is now becoming pretty general that prices have seen their lowest, and that an improvement is certain as soon as the Ministerial measures are considered secure. Our trade has undergone no change worthy of no tice within the last eight days. Flax on the spot is a shade lower, which is, no doubt, owing in some measure to the re cent arrivals from the lower Baltic ports. Tows and codil las maintain their prices, because of their continued scarcity. In hemp, hemp codilla ' and jute, there is little doi ng , an d prices are th e same as formerly. Yarns and linens move off slowly at their old low rates; and, with the exception of some weights of flax yarns, there is nothing accumulating in this market.—Dundee Cormier. A Cadiz journal gives an afflicting account of the suffer ings of that city from extreme drought. Water is so rare that a small barrel is not to be obtained under two reals, and all articles of food have become so scarce and dear, that the population is in danger of sinking from hunger as well as thirst. The magistrates have held sittings to devise, if pos sible, means for relieving the general distress. Mr. Lockhart, in his interesting " Life of Sir Walter Scott," gives the following anecdote, which, as it is indica tive not only cf the great good sense f that eminent charac ter, but is of universal application, inasmuch as it reproves a very common fault in society, we take leave to extract : " Sir Walter's daughter Anne one day happened to say something (on what subject is forgotten), that " she could not abide it—it was vulgar." "My love," said her father," you speak like a very young lady ; do you know, after all, the meaning of the word vulgar? 'Tis only common; nothing that is common, except wickedness, can deserve to be spoken of in a tone of contempt ; and when you have lived to my years you will be disposed to agree with me in thanking God that nothing really worth having or caring about in this world is uncommon." SINGULAR DEATH FROM LOCK-JAW. -On Sunday morning Mr. T. Horwood, the master baker of Newington workhouse, Surrey, expired in Guy's Hospital, London, from the effects of a lock-jaw, produced under the following singular circumstances :—lt appears that on Monday week Mr. Horwood was assisting a brewer in carrying a cask of beer into the house, when the little finger of his right hand accidentally got jambed between the edge of the cart and the slings, by which the skin was lightly grazed ; no notice was taken of it until Friday evening, when it began to swell, and the symptoms rapidly assumed so alarming an appear ance that it was deemed advisable to remove him to the above hospital, when lock-jaw took place and he died in a few hours. HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY.-- , Th.?, accounts presented at the Hull and Selby meeting, held last week, were in their general results satisfactory, the receipts for the last six months having been £16,722, showing an increase of 50 per cent. It was stated that if the profit of the company in creased in proportion to the receipts, there would be a rea sonable expectation of a dividend of 5 per cent. being divided among the shareholders. Economy was urged in the work ing of the line, at present about 55 per cent., and the direc tors promised they would endeavour to reduce it if possible to the average of other lines, stated to be about 40 per cent. This line, it appears, has cost in construction £llO to £ll5 per mile. ARREARS OF CASES IN THE COMMON LAW COURTS.— There are 94 rules for new trials standing undisposed of in the Court of Queen's Bench, the first of which was moved so long ago as Easter Tenn, 1841. The list of the same court, called " the special paper," contains 5 demurrers, and the " special cases" upon points of law for argument and the de cision of the court. The new trial paper does not comprise any motions for a new trial in actions tried before the sheriff, which are disposed of as ordinary rules. In the Common Pleas there are 31 " new trials" and 23 demurrers, &c. In the Exchequer there are 15 rules for new trials, 16 in the special paper, and 11 in the " peremptory paper." The num ber of new trials will be considerably augmented in the course of the present term from the causes tried at the late assizes. Of the sixty-nine words which make up the Lord's Prayer, only five are not Saxon. In our moat classical writers, as Milton and Addison, the Words of Saxon derivation greatly predominate. IF NOT AN INTELLECTUAL, AT LEAST A. CHEAP SURGEON.—The following is an exact copy of a bill delivered to Mr. Greenhalgh, one of the relieving officers of the Bolton union, this week :—" Bradshaw, March 22d, 1842, Mr. Edward Greenhalgh to Doctor Platt, Dr.: to 9 times dressing sores, and fisick and ointment, and Jornes and calico for plasters and sope and water, for washing the Boyels of Mary Greenhalgh, total amount £0 Os. 6d." The number of effective horses for the military service in the inner territorial divisions of France amop - its to 56,865. Deducting those of the gendarmerie and municipal guards, of the officers of the other corps, and those at the Riding School at Saumur, there will remain 38,944 for mounting the cavalry in general. The horses are renewed by eights, or 5868 per annum, costing a yearly expenditure of 2,716,191 f, which may be thus divided—viz., 806 horses for the heavy cavalry, at 750 f each ; 1343 for the dragoons and lancers, at 550 f each ; 1208 for the chasseurs and hussars, at 480 f ; 37 picked horses for the school at Saumur, 533 f ; 1070 for the artillery and waggon trains, at 500 f ; 414 for the horse artillery, of which 332 are geldings at 600 f, and 82 mares at 540 f. If to the above sum of 2,716,191 f be added 199,946 f for the purchase of officers' horses, the total annual expense for the general remounting of the army, according to its effective force on Ist January, 1841, will be 2,916.131 f. In the above calcula tion are not included the newly-formed regiments of chas seurs and hussars, comprising about 2200 horses, the annual cost of which may be estimated at 132,000 f. The daily ration of each horse, according to the contracts entered into for five years from the Ist January, 1830, was if 13c, but since 1840 this price has been increased by 2c a ration. CURIOUS EPITAPHS.—In the churchyard of Truro are the following epitaphs " Here lie two little ones, Whose ears were tender as their bones." The second is equally original : " Father, and mother, and I, Chose to be buried as under : Father and mother lies buried here, And I lies buried yonder!" STATISTICS OF MANUFACTURES.—From a work recently published, entitled " Fowler's Compendium," we find the following results, showing the number of manufactories and persons employed in the three kingdoms :—England, Cotton mills, 1,705 ; woollen and worsted ditto, 1,655 • flax ditto, 186; total, 3,546. Persons employed—Cotton mills, 220,000; woollen and worsted ditto, 80,709; flax ditto 16,600; total, 317,300. Scotland—Cotton mills, 198 ; woollen and worsted ditto, 117: flax ditto, 189; total, 504. Persons e m pl o y e d — Cotton mills, 35,576 ; woollen and worsted ditto, 6,076 ; flax ditto, 17,197; total, 58,549. Ireland—Cotton mills, 25 ; wool len and worsted do., 47; flax do., 44; total, 116 mills. Persons employed—Cotton mills, 4,622 ; woollen and worsted ditto, 1,231; flax ditto, 9,017; total, 24,870. From this state ment, we find that the relative proportion, according to the population of each country, employed in the manufacture of cotton, woollen, and worsted, and flax, together, to be as follows :—ln Scotland, one in every 45 of the whole popula tion • in England, one in evsry 50 of the s imici in Ireland, one in every 552 of the same. ' TIMATRE.HOYAL, LIVERPOOT This present TUESDAY, April 26, Shalcspeare's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM; which will be repeated on Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri day, after which it will be finally withdrawn. The entertainments of this evening will conclude with, for the second time, Hood's Farce of YORK AND LANCASTER, Oa, A SCHOOL WITHOUT SCHOLARS, Which was received on Friday last with shouts of laughter and applause. EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITION. NOW OPEN EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AT THE ROYAL LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH- STREET, A GRAND CENTRIFUGAL RAILWAY, 11- 200 feet long, with a vertical Circle upwards of 40 feet in circumference, round which a Carriage 200 pounds in weight, containing a Lady or Gentleman, will revolve at the rate of ONE HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR, with perfect safety ; also, immense Iron Weights and Buckets of ,Water will be placed in the Carriage, and, although the whole will be completely inverted, not a weight or a drop of water will be displaced. Also, a brilliant Display of the ON Y HYDROGEN LIGHT, with other interesting Scientific Experiments. Open from Three to Five in the Afternoon, and from Six to Nine in the Evening. Admission—Boxes, ls.; Pit, 6d. lir R. TEMPLETON announces his intention of giving a CONCE UT, in the Assembly-rooms, Albion Hotel, Birkenhead, on FRIDAY next, the 29th instant. For particulars see Bills. One of the Woodside Steamers will leave for Liverpool im mediately after the Concert. Tickets to be had at the principal Hotels, Birkenhead, and principal Music-shops, Liverpool. CONCERT AT MR. LASSELL'S ROOM, GT. RICHMOND -STREET, ST. ANN'S. Vr R. WEISS t a k es th e lib erty to i n f orm hi s F r i ends and M the Public that he intends giving a CONCERT at the above elegant Room on THURSDAY, the sth of May next, in order to Introduce his SON, just arrived from Paris, to a Liverpool Audience. Mr: WILLOUGIIBY WEISS will be assisted by Madame BALFE, and his Preceptor, Mr. BALFE, Mr. Donn, and Mrs. ST. ALBIN. Mr. WEISS will feel particularly obliged by an early ap plication for Tickets, as -no more will be issued than the Room can comfortably accommodate. Tickets, live Shillings each, to. be had at the principal Music Warehouses. TO CORRESPONDENTS The STANDARD is forwarded to the The Advertiser Office, Stockport, every Tuesday. The letters of " P." we will do our best to make room for, but he would oblige us by keeping them as concise as pos sible. Eibrrpool attanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1842 There could be no better example of the difficulty attendant upon any amendment of the tariff of a coun try, containing interests so varied as our own, than is afforded by the course taken, with respect to the pro position of Sir Robert Peel, by the timber trade of Li verpool. Upon the first promulgation of the govern ment measures, an influential portion of our timber merchants were up in arms to exclaim against it. We were then told that the proposition to bring the altered duties into immediate operation was fraught with cer tain ruin to the trade. A deputation proceeded to London to urge their views upon the premier and his colleagues; the doors of the Treasury and of the Board of Trade were besieged with supplications; and, as the result, by the amended scheme, the period from which the operation of the measure, so far as timber is con cerned, was to commence, has been postponed from the sth April to the 10th October. By the proceedings of a meeting held on Friday last, it will be seen, however, that by another section of the trade—and, we believe, the most important section—the postponement in ques tion is viewed as infinitely more ruinous than the car rying into immediate operation of the measure origin ally proposed. The government and parliament are now urged, as they value the interests of the trade and of the public, to rescind their changed determination and to act upon their own original measure as the best for all classes of the community ! How, we ask, is a minister to act in such a case ? With what justice can he be blamed if, after having bestowed the fullest consideration upon the details of a measure—having weighed each conflicting interest, calculated every circumstance, and formed, upon deli berate conviction and upon the best of information, an impartial judgment—he refuses to be swayed by the outcry of parties who imagined themselves to be ag grieved, or who, not being the majority of those inte rested, are, in reality, aggrieved? The best course, we maintain, is to abide by his original conviction, if arrived at upon sound and well considered data; and we are therefore satisfied that it would have been infi nitely better if the period of the coming into operation of the altered duties upon timber had been adhered to by Sir Robert Peel as it was fixed upon in his original proposition. We will not enlarge upon the motives of the party by whose urgent representations to government the adoption of the altered plan, which is now found so in jurious to the trade, has been procured. The facts are tolerably notorious. A few influential firms through out the country had made a leap in the dark, and leapt in the wrong direction ! The records of the custom houses in our principal ports would sufficiently show how and when the grievances so loudly complained of, and which have had so great an influence upon the de termination of ministers, arose; and we do think that a reconsideration of all the circumstances and the re flection that the concession which has been made must have the effect of completely paralyzing an important branch of industry during the whole of the present year, would fully warrant Sir Robert Peel in retracing his steps and determining upon an adherence to the details of his original measure. We are convinced, moreover, that, in adopting this course, he would re ceive the thanks, at last, of the very parties upon whose representations he has deviated from the course which he had at first laid out as the most just and politic. In expressing this opinion we are occupying no new ground. From the first agitation of the question we maintained that the then holders of Canadian timber had nothing to fear from the immediate reduction of the duty. The stocks at that time on hand had been laid in at prices which bade defiance to all competition from importers under the new tariff; and if, as is un doubtedly the case, the few holders of bonded stocks were more favourably situated than the majority of the trade—(and this was the pinching point o—those gen tlemen who, acting upon the result of a speculative impression, and hoping to improve their position, had, within afew days of the introduction of the tariff, paid the'existing duty, had surely no right to complain if their neighbours, who trusted to chance merely, were more fortunate than themselves ; and to secure these gentlemen from the consequences of a step, taken to advance their own interests alone, Sir Robert Peel was not called upon to grant a concession which must throw into difficulty and distress so large a number of enter prising merchants, tradesmen, and industrious ar tizans. The London Times , of Saturday contains the follow ing paragraph, which we recommend Co the perusal of those politicians who give faith to the amusing fiction maintained by Lord John Russell and the opponents of the proposed income tax, that Great Britain is at present in a state of profound peace ! "MORE TROOPS FOR INDIA.—On Wednesday afternoon the transport-ship Columbus, of 467 tons register, Captain Short, chartered by the Hon. East India Company, on go vernment account, sailed from Gravesend for Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. She carries out 220 troops, to aid in avenging the butcheries committed by the treacherous Affghans. The Columbus, along with the transport-ships York, Captain Legg, and Nith, Captain Shaw, also for Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta, left the Downs early yester day morning. The following ships are also engaged to con vey troops to the seat of war in the East, and all are expected to sail in about ten days—viz., the Inglis, 400 troops ; Berk shire, 200 ; Rajasthan, 300 ; Margaret, 300 ; Henry, 180 ; Ocean Queen, 230; Mermaid, 200; Volusia, I 60; Dauntless, 150 ; Princess Royal, 250 ; Ann, 250 ; Mellish, 190 ; Ma dras, 120 ; Princess Royal, 150 ; Frances Smith, 200 ; Morley, 200 ; Repulse, 400; Mary, 250 ; Lord Lynedoch, no ; Boadicea, 160 ; Lady Feversham, 150 ; Charles Kerr, 200 ; Royal Consort, 170 ; Brooke, 230." Five thousand five hundred and ten British soldiers are here shown to be preparing for instant embarka tion. " Other transports " too, we are informed by by the same journal, are " about to be chartered for the conveyance of troops; and the greatest activity prevails in getting them fitted out with the least possible delay." Another five thousand men, we may therefore conclude, shortly follow the detachment which is now in the act of embarking; and before the complement is made up not less than twenty thou sand troops (. 9 will have left Great Britain for the scene of recent slaughter and shame in Affghanistan. And with what great object in view does this gallant army leave our shores ? Is it, as we are here told, "to In Avenging, tho butcharlez committed by the troy. Will our slaughtered fellow countrymen, sacrificed by Whig recklessness and cow ardice, sleep sounder in their bloody graves because the thunder of the British arms has been heard volleying in triumph through the mountain passes of Caboul ? Will they sleep sounder because a heathen lustration has been poured over their ashes and the blood of the murderers is made to die the same sod which is already red with that of the murdered ? With no such unholy end in view these troops, we trust, are sent out by a British and Conservative government. History, we trust, will never have it to record of Great Britain that she entered into a war of extermination against a horde of ignorant and fanatical barbarians, with no other ob ject in view than that of exacting vengeance for disas ters which the meddling and imbecile policy of her own rulers alone brought down upon her head. No—no ! A better reason—a juster and more defensible reason— than this of mere passion can surely be given for the dispatch of twenty thousand British troops to the banks of the Indus; for all the cost, the sacrifice of life, the rending asunder of those ties which bind even the sol dier to the land of his birth, involved in such a step ;—and from the government of Sir Robert Peel, the country will, ere long, we trust, receive a full expo sition of the policy and the pressing necessities by which it is demanded. clicroug Afrghana We are well aware, it can never be permitted that the defeat and disgrace which Whig meddling in the affairs of Affghanistan has brought down upon our arms, should be passed by in humiliating submission. The honour and the name of England—if we are still to maintain in security our noble Indian empire—must be vindicated. Let it not be said, however,' that a blind desire for vengeance is the chief inducing cause which actuates us in the warlike operations upon which we. are entering. If vengeance, only, was demanded, it is not upon the wretched fanatics of Affghanistan that we would ask for it to fall, but upon the heads of the sel fish and dishonest faction by whom a gallant army was sacrificed to their ignorant fury. To the preservation of British pre-eminence in India impaired by Whig imbecility, the armament which is now leaving our shores is alone directed. To promote this object it may be necessary that the power of the British arms should be felt where their weakness and shame has so lately been witnessed; but there is not, we trust, throughout Great Britain, one man in ten, or in a hundred, who desires to see the shedding of one drop of blood more than is required to repair the injury which defeat has brought upon the moral strength of our position in that great continent. Yes, to avert the consequences—the danger and in security—with which the reckless policy of Lord Mel bourne's government has surrounded our Indian em pire, we are now called upon to furnish fresh troops for the conquest of a valueless territory in which the hostile foot of a British soldier ought never to have trod. Let this fact be ever before the eyes of the Bri tish nation ! Let us not, by an appeal to our passions, be led away from the true positior. in which we are now placed; let us not, by a cry for " vengeance against the Afghans," allow the reprobation, which is their due, to be diverted from the heads of the real offend ers ! The blind and selfish councils of Whiggery, alone, have plunged us into this struggle. It is these which have induced the necessity for a further sacrifice of blood and treasure in this unjust and ill-starred quarrel; and although we know that by every loyal and devoted Englishman the sacrifice will be cheerfully made, we would have every coin that is paid and every drop of blood which is poured out, accompanied, not with curses upon the wretched beings who are doomed to be swept before our destroying onset, but with a re cord that such is the penalty which humanity is doomed to pay, when the affairs of a great nation are entrusted to the guidance of charlatanism, dishonesty, and be sotted folly ! The Whig party have always been fond of imputing the practice of bribery at elections to their political op ponents. In every contest where success has crowned the Conservative cause, the cuckoo cries of " Bribery," " Corruption," " Intimidation," have been rung into our ears by the defeated, in every variety of intonation from the shriek of a Rathbone to the growl of our venerable Mercury. The snow was not more spotless than Whig-Radicalism ; Diana herself was not more pure than this political vestal, who shrunk, we were told, with sensitive horror from every contact with pollution; whilst Conservatism was eagerly branded with all manner of wicked epithets, and reputed as guilty of every species of electioneering naughtiness ! We live, however, it seems, in a changed world. The once pure and immaculate thing Whiggery has fallen from its lofty position and " taken to bad courses." Listen reader—listen ye much vilified free men of Liverpool —to the following resolutions of the committee appointed to inquire into the validity of the election of two Whig gentlemen—two of this exces sively pure and chaste faction—for the borough of Ips wich ! But first—Freemen of Liverpool !—did you ever hear of such a man as RIGBY WasoN ? You have ! Then we proceed : " 3. Resolved unanimously—That Rigby Wason, Esq., and George Rennie, Esq., had by their agents been guilty of bribery at the last election for theborough of Ipswich. " 4. Resolved unanimously—That this committee are of opinion that extensive bribery prevailed at the last election, and that the issue of a new writ for the said borough ought to be suspended until the evidence shall have been taken into consideration by the house. " 5. Resolved unanimously—That the chairman be re quested to move that this report, together with the evidence, be printed, and that the speaker do not issue his writ for the return of two members for the borough of Ipswich until such report and evidence be printed and submitted to the house." If we remember right, one of these very gentlemen, Mr. Rigby Wason, did, not very many years ago, move the House of Commons to disfranchise the very corrupt people we are now addressing—the freemen of Liverpool. That, however, was in the days of Whig, purit—in those days when a Whig candidate was in sufficient odour to be able to solicit the suffrages of a respectable borough without the necessity of having a bribe in his fist ;—when whiggery had not been drag ged through so many political sloughs that electors cannot be induced to embrace it without being pre sented with money to buy soap to cleanse themselves from the consequences of the contact. Then every Whig was a patriot —a Reformer —the friend of the people—the lauded of democracy which knew him not; now Whiggery is —found out, and that's the whole of 4 , We are especially sorry, however, for poor Rigby Wason. Last night, we find from a notice on the Journals of the House of Commons, this very imma culate was to move an obstruction in committee upon the Income Tax Bill. Alas ! he was found, however, to have made another kind of motion, and in company with the respectable sombre gentleman kicked out for bribery from the adjoining Borough of Sudbury, was at that very hour chanting the melancholy lamentation " Who will fill our vacant places ? Who will sing our songs to-night ?" SLATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c. Our market for Cotton this week has shown an improved spirit, and a large business has been done, at improved prices, 39,920 bales having been sold during the week ending on Friday. On Saturday 4000 bales were sold, and 4500 yester day, to meet a steady and healthy trade demand. With all the rumours of closing factories and short time which we hear around us, it is important to notice the trade purchases this year are greater than at the same period last year. 339,000 bales have been taken for consumption since the Ist January, 1842, against 321,000 bales up to this date in 1841. The firmness displayed in the Cotton Market has been felt in Manchester, and a better demand for Cloth has been evinced. Still, however, things Ire far from being as we would wish them in that market ; and we are afraid that some time must elapse before confidence is restored, and a profit upon business transactions will be derived by the manufacturer. MECHANICS' INsrrTuTioN.—Arrangements are now making to ren d er t h e a pproaching Exhibition of Works of Art, Manufactures, &c. in Mount-street, one of th e most complete and i n teresting exhibitions that have ever yet been opened in this country. Among the many attractions which it will possess may be mentioned Mr. Catlin's large collection of the North American I n di ans. e l . els than six t ons, and it is intended. T of h p is ai c n o t l i t n ec g t s io c n o w st e t i i g m h e s s n , to erect a shed, 90 feet long and 50 feet broad, for its exhi bition, which will cause great expense, and render a small extra charge necessary. The pre sent collection is the fruit of several years' residence among the I n di ans, and not only are their nature and habitsfflustrated by p a i nt i ngs, & c. , b ut several of Mr. Catlin's assistants will be present, dressed in full Indian costume. The success which has attended Mr. C., and the interest which his collection h as exc i te d , through out the country, warranti us n saying that it will form one of the greatest attractions of the approaching exhibition.