The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. Although it occasions us much disappointment, we can not find room for the letter of " Lynx." We are compelled, in consequence of a number of reports of n local nature, to postpone our notice of the Rev. R. Montgomery's sermon until our next. We have received several lengthy communications on the subject of the recent divisions in the Scotch' Church, but most of them are characterised by such a bitter spirit, and indulge in so much personality, that we think we are best consulting the interests of all parties to withhold their publication. Ebe Tifocil3 , lol taribarb. TUESDAY -1/ORALVG, OCT. 24, 1843. We have again and again entreated the attention -of the legislature to Cie mischievous operation of the system of joint-stock banking ; and we have this day before us, once more, the affairs of a con. cern which, above all others, has demonstrated to the world the ruinous consequences with which that system is pregnant. Need we say that the concern in question is THE BANK OF MANCHESTER? About eight months ago, it will be remembered, the commercial community was startled by the an nouncement, made at a special meeting of the shareholders in this wretchedly, if not dishonestly, conducted affair, that the entire paid-up capital, amounting to more than £700,000 sterling, had been squandered in propping up a multitude of bubble undertakings and bubble firms; and that it would still require an additional call upon the already-im poverished proprietors, to the amount of upwards of £lOO,OOO, to raise it from its position of insol vency. We had then statements of assets and lia bilities, of bills overdue and accounts overdrawn, the result of which, upon paper, flattered the de ceived victims, whose all had been nearly swallowed up, that, by a little additional drain upon their means—a little extra exhaustion of the savings of past years—they might be enabled to wash their hands of the trade of joint-stock banking, and sit down in their poverty, relieved from the fear of cir cular letters, slips of parchment, and visitors even more unacceptable and less easily evaded. Well, what is the result, as exhibited at a meet- ing of the same concern, held in Manchester on Saturday last ? Are these flattering promises rea lised ? Are the affairs of the bank wound up—the outstanding balances called in, and the liabilities paid? Not at all ± 'We are informed, indeed, by the report just published, that, up to the 30th June, 1843, " the liabilities of the bank, including those contingent on current bills, have been reduced from £801,440, to £440,936 ; and exclusive of current bills, from £581,860 to £408,499." The realisation of the assets has progre•se'l at a similar tardy rate, and are now stated at £388,576 ; and although up- wards of £lOO,OOO has been received on account of the call made at the last meeting, it is now disco vered that there is still an " estimated deficiency" of above £50,000 to be provided for by another call of £2 per share upon the unfortunate shareholders ! How many more "estimated deficiencies" may arise before all the bubble accounts which compose the " assets" are wound up, and the various mills and other properties,held by the bank are converted into cash, we know not; but we should be very sorry to guarantee any holder of stock that he will not have to put his hand into his pocket to provide for further "estimated deficiencies." The total estimated losses are now ..€937,117, and may be roundly stated at a million, the bulk of it the property of the most defenceless portion of the community, squandered by a clique of schemers to advance their own selfish purposes of aggrandise ment, and no small amount of it devoted to prop up their own political party in the borough of Man chester. Essentially this bank, it is notorious, has been a political engine, wielded by a faction. Its credits afforded a ready means of rewarding poli tical subserviency. They propped up the beggarly tools who agitated for the Potters, the Harhottles, the Dyers, and other of the prime movers in the various questions which for years past have occupied the attention of the manufacturing magnates. They have rewarded the mercenaries who clamoured most loudly for Incorporation, for repeal of the Corn-law, and other specifics of Manchester radicalism ; and, in fact, the total amount lost by the unfortunate shareholders may be said to have been sacrificed for the zurpose of party elevation. We are told, indeed, by the directors, that they have been themselves large sufferers. These gen- tlemen point to their own wounds, and assume the position of unfortunate and guiltless martyrs. We grant readily that, as shareholders, they may be, and doubtless are, considerable sufferers; but is it no thing that as traders, in an age of speculation—of manufacturing bubbles and railway and mining bubbles,—they have been enabled to have funds at command to advance their private emolument ? Is it nothing that, during a period of bloated prosper. ity, when trade was bringing in thousands where it now, under a healthy state of things, brings in hun dreds only, they were enabled to push their various concerns to an extent which amazed the world and placed them in a few years far above the position of those of their competitors who, trading on solid capital, and within their means, had no such aid to help them ? Assuredly men who have done these things—who have thus traded upon the property of a number of duped and befooled persons—must not be allowed to shelter themselves behind the fact, no doubt a true one, that by the same wretched concern whose operations towards them, as favored customers, have put tens of thousands in their pockets, they have lost a few thousands as mere shareholders. The fact cannot be lost sight of that for years oast—since 1836 indeed—these men either were might have been, aware of the insolvency of the "bank over which they presided. They were either • acquainted with it in IS4O, when their flattering report represented the concern as flourishing and its past losses as amply provided for, or, as a share holder at the meeting justly observed, they must have squandered a million of money within the space of lesi than two years. There is no man who can credit the latter alternative without believing the directors during these two years to have been mad men. They were not such. The board on the contrary was composed of men who doubted the solvency of the concern and we believe strove to avert the evils which impended over it. It was the " liberal" clique who had preceded them to whose anxiety to prop up their own ascendancy is to be attributed the disastrous ruin which has startled all sober men ; and retributive jus tice would enact that upon their heads should fall the loss which has made so many a deserving trades man rue that ever a Joint Stock Bank was tolerated by the legislature. The nuisance however must be abated; and we trust that another session of parliament will not pass by without a measure of stringent character being applied to avert the dangers attendant upon the working of the system in dishonest, or reckless, and ignorant hands. Mr. Alderman Evans—according to current ru mour as to its authorship—has been occupying his leisure in the concoction of a somewhat lengthy article, upon the subject of dock matters, which appears in the leader columns of our contem porary, the Albion of yesterday. In the opinions therein expressed we can find little that is novel. They are but the tedious repetition of " a ten times told tale ;" and we should probably have passed them by unnoticed had their expression not been accompanied with some assertions of fact, and an inuendo or two, which call for a few words of refu tation. Referring to a " recent extraordinary resolve of a majority in the Dock Committee to effect extrava gant purchases of land for the purpose of dock ex tension," Mr. Evans (from the editorial chair of our contemporary) addresses himself, in the first in stance, to combat the position of the Dock Surveyor, who, not having the fear of the alderman before his eyes, recently " volunteered his opinion that further extension of dock accommodation was required by the trade of the port." That opinion, our readers may remember, was a very strong one. It was stated by Mr. Hartley, that such increased accom modation was urgent—as urgent as when he first came to Liverpool, in 1824 ;—and when we look at the vast increase of space which, since then, has been covered with docks, and look at the admitted fact that the trade of the port is now increasing in a ratio equal with that of its past increase, such ur gency will readily be admitted by men whose minds are not preoccupied by their own particular crotch ets. It is urged, in reply, by the editorial alder man, that the inconvenience now sustained by the shipping trade would be obviated by the " simple putting up," in the three southern docks, so con nected at present as to render it impossible to " let dry" each separately, of dock gates in reverse— an operation not quite so simple, perhaps, as Mr. Evans supposes—and by the increased facility for discharging, and the increased space afforded, when the Albert Dock and his pet warehouses shall be completed. We contend, on the contrary, that such remedies are totally inadequate to the evil at present existing ; that giving Mr. Evans the benefit of the fullest realization of his hopes, with respect to the working of his warehouse scheme, and his " simple putting up" of transverse gates, to disconnect, when required, the three southern docks, the additional dock accommodation gained will barely carry us on to the period at which the earliest portion of the measures contended for by the majority of the Dock Committee could be brought into operation. And such, we need not say, is the opinion of nine prac tical men out of ten. In corroboration, however, of this view of the case, we have the return, just published, of the number of days during which the flag has been hoisted, to denote that our existing docks were closed against the admission of shipping during the past twelve months. The Waterloo and Victoria have thus been closed 175 days. The Prince's.. 5 _ „ George's 302 „ Average of North Docks, 7 months and 27 days. King's Queen's Union and Coburg .. Tosteth . Average of South Docks, 3 months and 13 days. Brunswick, the only convenient timber dock .. 251 „ Canning. . Salthouse Average of entire Docks, 4 months 26 days. Average, exclusive of Canning and Salthouse, 5 months 25 days. This vast deficiency, and the inconvenience occa sioned by it, the completion of the docks now erect ing, and of the warehouses, can do no more than make up for ; and we have therefore still to provide for future demand for dock accommodation. In what direction, then, are we to look for the land required ? Mr. Evans contends for "the great superiority which the Corporation land at the North Shore possesses" over the Harrington property "for dock and commercial purposes." Is that site, we ask, superior to the South Shore, for the timber trade, already established at that end of the town, provided at a vast expense with the necessary offices and yards, and having its principal dock filled for eight months and eleven days out of the past twelve months ? No man will assert either that the timber trade does not require increased accommodation, or that the removal of any portion of it to the North Shore is advisable or practicable. Independently of local advantages—of the trade being already esta blished in the south—the greater exposure of the north to currents and tides, points out that as the most unfavourable which could be selected. Again, where would Mr. Evans locate the dock, now day by day more imperiously called for, for the accommodation of our large Transatlantic steamers, and, indeed, for our coasting steamers, some of which cannot at present be adequately ac commodated, and for one of which—a Glasgow steamer—the entrance of Clarence Dock has had to be cut down ? Obviously, it is desirable that the north end should be the site of such a dock, and that the navigation of the river should not be ren dered dangerous by the constant passing and re passing of these steamers to and from the south end. But it is not upon the ground of merely tempo rary necessity or expediency that we advocate the carrying into effect of this resolution of the Dock Committee. Such a body, invested with such large powers, and having under their care such vast in terests, ought to look beyond the wants of the hour —ought to possess that common forecast which in dividuals exercise in the regulation of their private affairs. They have an opportunity now of purchas ing the Harrington estate—which no reasonable man can deny will at no distant period be wanted, if even the accommodation which it is capable of affbrding be not greatly wanted now—at a price (31s. Gd. per square yard) which every competent professional man consulted has declared to be below its real value. They have an opportunity, too, of purchasing the north strand to Beacon's Gutter, at a price less than they will be able to do when, as Mr. Evans himself states, they will have made that s trand into valuable land. If such purchases ought not to be made, then we say Mr. Alderman Evans is about as inconsistent a man, and as forgetful of his former declared opinions, as any that we ever met with. Perhaps we may be excused if we call the attention of that gentleman to the following ex tract from a memorial, emanating from a meeting of dock ratepayers, held on the 21st of September, 1832 : " When they," the Dock Committee, " made the King's and George's Dock, instead of purchasing for themselves at the outset the strand to the westward of the Dock Trust, they allowed the intermediate land, un purchased, to be enclosed by the sea walls advanced into the river at the expense of Dock Estate,"—the same operation now going on northward of the boundary of that estate ; " and after the strand so enclosed had been filled up with excavations from the docks, and thereby made ground for building, on part of it they" the Cor poration, " made yards and small docks, or basins, which they have let off at considerable rents, and on the part to the westward of the King's Dock they built the present Tobacco Warehouse, for which they received from the crown and merchants an annual income of £6,000." Now, if the Dock Estate had been represented by trustees distinct from the Common Council, (a body alike bound by oath and interest to support the Corpora tion,) it may reasonably be presumed that these inde pendent trustees, looking with a single eye to the interest of the docks, Would have had the common forecast to purchase from the Corporation the strand required for dock purposes, before it was reclaimed from the waters of the Mersey at the expense of the Dock Trust." And who do our readers imagine was the most active amongst the very influential parties by whom this memorial was adopted ? Why, Mr. Alderman Evans himself—the same most consistent personage TH E LIVERPOO who now discountenances that very forecast policy which, ten years ago, he so strenuously advocated! We shall not follow our new editorial acquaint ance through all the calculations and assumptions of comparative cost with which he has favoured us, further than to undeceive our fellow-townsmen with respect to the asserted enormous addition to the debt of the dock estate—to the amount, we are told, of a million and a half—which is to be the result of these purchases. The securing of the land is all that is contended for ; and that object, with the docks in the first instance contemplated, can be achieved with an outlay of under half a million. There are few men, save the alderman himself, who will maintain that the same amount of benefit, pre sent and prospective, can be secured by the expen diture of an equal sum in the erection of his favour ite dock warehouses. Independent of a little bitterness of feeling, known to exist in the mind of Mr. Evans towards the Har rington Company, and which he gratifies by an unjustifiable attack upon the motives of that body, and upon those of a gentleman—(the mover of the resolution in the committee, whom he represents as " recently the chairman of the Harrington Dock Association," when he might have known that that gentleman had retired from office a year before the act of parliament was obtained, and is now not even a shareholder)—the animus of the present energetic opposition of the alderman is easily seen through. Extend the boundary of the dock estate, and Mr. Evans's pet warehouse scheme sustains a " heavy blow and a great discouragement." Coop up that boundary, by the erection of valuable property around it, and enclosed docks with warehouses are assumed to be our only resource! This is distinctly admitted in the article under notice. " Had the advocates of dock warehouses," says the writer, " listened to suggestions urged upon them by insi dious or timid advisers, to go for an open dock, and to take chance for getting warehouses afterwards, Liverpool would never have seen a warehouse upon the dock quays; and if the present attempts to im pose open docks upon the public succeed, the fur ther acquisition of those invaluable instruments of trade, dock warehouses, will be rendered for ever unattainable." Cruel deprivation ! May the pro phecy be realized; and so it will be if the council and the public can once be convinced that this op position of the worthy alderman is only the ware house movement in a new and ad captandum shape! We have abstained hitherto from referring, ex cept incidentally, to the municipal contest, to be decided on the first of the ensuing month. The near approach of that period, however, leads us to enter upon an examination of the prospects of the Conservative cause, and the characters of the re spective candidates about to he submitted to the choice of the constituencies. In doing this, how ever, at a time when the whole of the candidates in the Whig inte est are not officially announced, and some not even hinted at, we would earnestly caution our Conservative friends against placing the least dependence upon the apparent inactivity of their opponents. We told them, months ago, that the organization of the Radical faction throughout the borough, was perfect. that, if they seemed to sleep up to the last moment, they would start up with unexpected vigour, when it might be too late to re pel their onset ; and we tell them now advisedly and seriously, that on the day of election they will find in every ward a candidate, with a body of canvassers, prepared to strain every nerve in the effort to secure once more the predominance of Whig-Radicalism in the corporate body. It will be, Conservatives may depend upon it, no light struggle in which they are about to engage. It will require no slight amount of energy and perseverance to carry them to a suc cessful issue; and we implore them, therefore, to lose not a moment in devoting themselves to active preparation for the day of conflict; to pause not one moment in their exertions, until the final close of the poll assures them that their exertions are crowned with triumph, or that they have been put forth in vain. In glancing over the names of the candidates proposed for the various wards, we must be excused if we pass somewhat briefly over those of some of our friends, against whose return, although an op position may, and undoubtedly will, be offered, if only to deprive the candidates in other wards of their double votes, we are confident that such oppo sition will be vain. Thus, in No.l, Everton Ward, we have Mr. David Hodgson, at present unopposed ; and in his recommendation we feet that we need say nothing. In No. 2, however, Scotland Ward, we have as the retiring candidate, Mr. W. Thornhill ; and of him we feel bound to say a few words. If to have been the tool, and the thoroughgoing, and wholesale one, of the Whig faction be a recommendation to the Conservatives of the ward to be inert and divided in their efforts, then Mr. Thornhill is the man of all the retiring Council whose claims are most to be respected. He is op posed by a " good man and tru.e"—a man of in fluence in the ward—Mr. Vernon; and if the Con servative constituents respect themselves, they will not leave an effort unmade to secure a triumphant result of the contest.. For Vauxhall Ward, we have at present as a can didate. on the "liberal" side, Dr. Chalmer—not him of pulpit fame, but the same disciple of Escu lapius who has heretofore been rejected by St. . Anne's and other wards. Surely the Conservative party will not allow such a man to walk the course t In St. Paul's Mr. Blundell, the retiring member, in whose praise we need not say a single word, is opposed in the Radical interest by Mr. Deakin— also one of the rejected. In Exchange Ward Mr. Thomas Sands, the present respected member, is opposed by Mr.G. Holt. In Castle-street, Mr. James Aikin stands, so far, unopposed. In Pitt-street, the retiring candidate,. Mr. Toul min, comes forward again, and is as yet unopposed. For Great George, Rodney-street, and Abercromby Wards, the candidates are Messrs. Sothern, W. Birkett, and C. Boutflower. To none of these gen tlemen is opposition at present offered ; or, we feel assured, can be successfully offered. In Lime-street Ward, however, we feel that an arduous contest is before us. Mr. Kilshaw, the retiring member, stands in the Conservative interest, and has already gathered round him a body of strenuous supporters, who are fighting his battle manfully—as well indeed as he deserves that they should. Although seldom presenting himself be fore the public as a speaker, there is not in the council a harder worker, or a more stanch member of the Conservative party. That such a member should be lost to the council, and to his constituents, would be to us a subject of deep regret ; and we, therefore, earnestly entreat of every Conservative in the ward to be unceasingly active, and, above all, of those who possess influence amongst the con stituency, to rally to his side. He is opposed to one of the picked men of the whig-radical party—one who, if elected, would prove a thorn in the side of the Conservatives; and we need not assure our friends in the ward that no effort will be left untried to place the whig-radical lawyer in a position upon the poll above that of the good specimen of an Englishman who now represents the ward; STANDARD For iVest Derby Mr. G. H. Lawrence stands as yet unopposed, and is unassailable. In the two Toxtqh's, however, we anticipate, as in past years, an arduous struggle. In South Tox teth, the retiring member, Mr. Platt, Radical, is opposed by Mr. T. Glazebrook, a Conservative of the right sort; and in the North, Mr. 11, Harbord, of whom we need say nothing in praise, is opposed by Mr. W. Lockerby, of whose claims the ward has heard before, and we trust will never hear again. LIVERPOOL OCTOBER SESSION (Before Gilbert Henderson, Esq., Recorder.) These sessions commenced yesterday morning, at ten o'clock. After the court had been opened with the usual formalities by the clerk of the peace, the following gen tlemen were sworn on the GRAND JURY:- Rd. Rathbone, merchant, South Castle-street, (foreman,) George Batty, broker, Exchange-buildings, Thomas Browne, broker, Netherfield-road South, Thomas Buddicomb Blackburn, cotton broker, Great Mersey-street, Samuel Bright, merchant, North John-street, Nicholas Crooke, merchant, Brunswick-street, Duncan Gibb, merchant, Strand-street, Edward H umble, broker, Blackburn-terrace, Robert M'Andrew, fruit merchant, North John-street, Thomas Crielilow Molyneux, iron merchant, New Quay, Walter Fergus M'Gregor, ironfounder, St. George's-hill, James Powell, merchant, Grove-street, George Ramsden, gentleman, Canning-street, John Rowlinson,'liroker, High Park-street, Mark Rimmer, merchant, Soho -street, Hugh James Sanderson, merchant, Brunswick-street, John Smith, wine merchant, Hanover street, William Whitehouse, broker, Exchange-buildings, Chomley Woodward, wine merchant, School-lane. Matthew Jee, broker, of Chorley-street, was called, but did not answer. After her Majesty's Proclamation against vice and immorality had been read, The RECORDER addressed the Grand Jury as follows : Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,—The bills which are likely to come before you on this occasion are in number about seventy. The duty which you are called on to perform has a very close resemblance to that of the magistrate who, in the first instance, investigates the preliminary charge. The bills will specify the precise nature of the offences which have been committed, and you will haye to direct your inquiries with a view to ascertain whether the offences have been committed, and whether the party accused is the offender. When reasonable evidence is wanting to make out these points, it will be your duty to dispose of the case at once by throwing out the bill; but if this evidence does exist, it will be your duty to put the case in a course of further inquiry by finding the bill. You will recollect it is no part of your duty to form a final opinion on the facts, or to investigate the evidence with that scrupulous minuteness which would become a jury in this court before they pronounced a verdict. You will find, gentlemen, the evidence in almost all the cases is short, and involving no question at all which calls for any comment from me. I would, however, remark, that the slightest possible removal of an article when intended to steal is sufficient to complete the offence of larceny. This I mention with reference to two cases in which, ac cording to the depositions, parties were surprised in the act, and left their intended plunder behind. In the one case a watch was removed from a nail on which it was suspended ; and in another instance some copper nails had been removed from a bucket, and put in a bag. If you should be of opinion that the articles had been re moved by the persons accused with intent to steal them, then, notwithstanding the slight nature of the removal, it is quite sufficient, in the eye of the law, to render these parties amenable to justice. Gentlemen, the offence of picking pockets, especially as committed by women, has become so prevalent, that it will be necessary, when the case is clearly substantiated in evidence, to make a severe example. With this exception,. the cases in the calendar are of an ordinary character,. and I think you cannot in vestigate them without seeing that much is due to the activity and vigilance of the police in apprehending and detecting offenders, and rendering assistance to parties who apply to them after they have been plundered cf their property. The jury then retired to their duties : shortly afterwards some bills were found,. and the trials were proceeded with. The calendar contains a list of 82 prisoners ; 77' being charged with felony, and 5. with• misdemeanours. Of these, 19 could neither read nor write, 36 could read and write in an imperfect manner, 25 , could read imperfectly, and only two could read and write well. The eases tried throughout the-day presented few fea tures of interest, being for the most part, where the pri soners pleaded not guilty, nearly similar in evidence to what had already transpired in the preliminary examina tions in the Police-court. The follbwing is a list of the prisoners tried up to yesterday evening, together with their respective sentences,. which were severally passed by the Recorder in a manner at once- appropriate and feel ing : Elizabeth Morris, aged 18-, charged with stealing a watch ins• September—four months!' imprisonment and hard labour, the last three weeks-solitary. Mary Evans, 29, stealing print—six- weeks. Robert Howell, 18-, stealing a purse and money—three months. Margaret West, 18, stealing a• pooket-book with bank notes—six months. Charles Finlay, 19, stealing Haan& gin, &c.—three weeks. Thomas Erskine, 19, stealing wearing apparel=two. months, and to be once whipped. Margaret Jones, 17, stealing. money from the person— six months.. Mary Ann Roach, 22, same offence and prosecutor— two months. Catherine Martin, 24., and Elizabeth Ross, 42, the principal aggressors in the last robbery—ten years' trans portation.. Charles Hilton, 18, embezzling money from his master —one mouth. Patrick Little, 16, stealing a watch (an old offender) — seven years' transportation. Thomas Leghburn, 15y stealing two jackets (an old offender)—seven years' transportation. John Leigh, 40, stealing six skins of leather—six months. James Wilson, 22, stealing clothes—six months. John Kinlay, 56, stealing joiners'tools—three months. Shortly before five, the court adjourned to a quarter to :en o'clock this day. We have been informed that the Rev. Hugh M'Neile has reeeived £2O for the Church Pastoral Aid Society— " a thank-offering from two members of St. Jude's con gregation, for merciful protection in imminent peril at sea on the 17th October." NEW- WATER Worms.—Mr. Simpson, the eminent engineer of the Westminster works, having been appoint ed engineer to our New Water Works, by the Highway Board', arrived in Liverpool yesterday week, and imme diately commenced operations. TESTIMONIAL.—The Rev. B. A. Marshall, of St. Marks Church, was last week presented with a suit of Robes, and a handsomely-bound Baxter's Comprehensive Bible, with the following inscription, " This copy of the Sacred Scriptures was presented with a full suit of Ca nonicals to the Rev. B. A. Marshall by a number of ladies of his congregation, at the close of the fifth year of his ministrations among them,.as a token of their sincere regard for him as a faithful Minister, an affectionate Pas tor, and a kind Friend. Liverpool. Oct. 18th, 1843. "Preach the word.' 2. Timothy, iv. 2." ALLEGED STEALING OF AN ANCHOR:AND CHAINS. —At the Police court, yesterday, John Daney, a respect ably dressed young man, was charged with having carried off an anchor and two chains, from the yard of a Mr. Wilson, on Saturday. The prisoner said he had bought them from Mr. Cumming, who had the sale of them. Mr. Cumming admitted that he had been bargaining with him, and it eventually appeared on cross-examination by Mr. Rushton that some agreement had been made about the purchase. Mr. Rushton said there had been a pur chase and sale, and discharged the prisoner. THEFT BY A SERVANT.—Yesterday, at the Police court, a female named Elizabeth Glover, in the service of a Mrs. Gordon, was charged with stealing a gold ring and other small articles, the property of her mistress. Some suspicion had arisen, and she was apprehended on Sun day morning, when the gold ring was found on her person. The prisoner, who appeared to be much distressed, said she picked it out of the ashes when she swept out the nursery ; that she had next day found four sovereigns. on the carpet, which she had given to her mistress, and had given her back all but the ring. She was committed for trial. FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. BEAN., The remains of Mr. Bean arrived in town on Monday last, per railway, and were interred on Wednesday. in the Necropolis, Low hill. The hearse was followed by six mourning coaches, and the private carriage of Robert Ellison Harvey, Esq. In addition to the large body of Mr. Bean's more imme diate connexion and friends, and who were present at the funeral, there was a numerous attendance of highly re spectable gentlemen, of all parties, on the funeral ground, many of whom gave unequivocal tokens of the respect in which they held the deceased. The service was performed by the Rev. Dr. Raffles. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.-011 Friday night last the first of a series of lectures on the beautiful and sublime science of astronomy was delivered, at this institution, by one of the first and most popular lecturers of the day, Mr. Wallis. The second lecture will be delivered this evening. The course consists of eight lectures. A large beautiful orrery and numerous transparencies, including a map of the moon, and mechanical apparatus, will be in troduced for the purpose of rendering the lecture additio nally interesting. The lovers of science, and all who possess a taste for the sublime and beautiful, will avail themselres of the opportunity of witnessing this highly interesting and attractive course. FALL OF MR. PLATT'S ROSEN: WORKS.—OR Friday evening, a little before six o'clock, part of the new rosin works erected by Mr. Platt, in Greenland-street, on the ruins of the late fire, came down suddenly with a tre mendous crash. As there were from a dozen to fifteen men employed on the premises, great alarm was excited for their safety, but fortunately two only were seriously injured, one of whom expired at two o'clock on the fol lowing morning. It appears that the top of the building consisted of a reservoir, filled with water, and that this became too heavy for the walls. The wall on the west side gave way, and unfortunately fell on the two men at work outside. They were both instantly removed to the Southern Hospital. The reservoir did not exactly come down, but stooped on one side sufficie e ptiv to flood the place and extinguish all the fires. COURT OF PASSAGE. This court, for the trial of civil causes, - within the borough, opened yesterday morning at nine o'clock, be fore Charles Crompton, Esq., the assessor. The atten dance was numerous and more than the usual number of barristers made their appearance,—a circumstance to be accounted for in a great degree from its being the first day of the borough quarter sessions in the adjoining court room. Several undefended causes of no general importance were first disposed of, after which the parties interested in those to be defended were called ; but for some time neither plaintiffs, defendants, nor witnesses answered to their names, and the crier of the court having thrice made " proclamation " that unless they came forward they would forfeit their subpoenas, the assessor complained of the irregularity in the business of the court and said he should strike the causes out of the list. Whether this was eventually abided by we know not, inasmuch as Mr. Venables afterwards stated, in the course of a case in which he was engaged, that the time of opening the court on this occasion was one hour earlier than usuual, the accustomed hour being ten o'clock. He also added that some of the subpoenas which he had seen were for the latter hour, having been filled up from copies issued under the old regime. The assessor stated that that was the fault of the attorneys, who had due notice of the hour of opening—adding that he had frequently found the same delay when the court opened at ten, and intimated his intention of not further permittine such excuses. MILLER V. MITCHELL, Was the first defended case tried. Mr. Venables said, he was for the defendant in that case, but had not yet got his brief. He was proceeding to address the court at some little length, to the effect that his witnesses were not yet ready, when the Assessor stated, that if he had not his brief he could not proceed at all. The brief was, however, soon afterwards handed to him by the defendant, and Mr. James proceeded to address the jury for the plaintiff, Joseph Miller. He said, the action was brought to recover a sum of £l3. 3s. for ser vices rendered. The plaintiff was a house broker, and the defendant had recently kept the Bull Hotel, near the Railway Station. The Corporation, in the progress of the improvements they were making in that quarter, re quired the house, that it might be pulled down; but, as usual with then in such cases, the tenant was allowed to remove his license, which he did to the houss of a Mr. Jones, in Dublin-street. The defendant, however, after wards changed his mind, and thinking the Legs of Man, corner of Lime-street and London-road, would snit him better, he entered into negotiations to procure it, employ ing the plaintiff to make out an inventory,• Sac., for which his charge was £3.35. While these were pending (it was further alleged by the learned counsel) the defendant authorised the plaintiff to let for him the house in Dub lin-street, which he did let to a person named Llewellyn for £3OO, and it was upon this letting that the plaintiff claimed the £lO commission, being in the usual practice of the trade, £5 for the first £lOO, and £2los for each subsequent £lOO. Llewellyn had paid his client £lO as his share. Witnesses were called to prove the allegations made. and amongst them two house brokers, who stated , that the per centage stated was the practice of the trade, when one let a house and the other took it, both employ ing the same broker. Mr. Venables cross-examined some of the witnesses, and then stated that as the brief had just been put into his hands, and he found he had not time to make himself fully acquainted with the merits of the case, and had been, moreover, spoken to by the defendant, who wished to take it into his own hands, he would relinquish it to him if the court were agreeable. This was acceded to by the Assessor and Mr. Mitchell cross-examined the remaining witnesses with a view to• show that he had been grossly imposed upon with regard' to the charge of the £lO. He afterwards addressed the jury at some length and with considerable ability, stating that while the negotiations were going on for the Legs of Man he had merely mentioned to the plaintiff that the other house was to be let, and that he might as well make something out of it if he could; but not employing him on his own account as he had given up the house and bad no interest whatever in it, even if it was not let for twenty years. He also stated that the agreement for the Legs of Man had been surreptitiously altered by the plaintiff during his temporary absence, and that he was induced to sign it, thinking it was the same. The assessor remarked that it had been altered, and in a diffkrent handwriting. Mr. MITCH - 21a called Mr. James Crellin, flour dealer, for the purpose of proving that alterations had been made in the agreement. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages three guineas. RR•ENTERING OF CAUSES. Mr. JAMES-asked the permission of the Assessor to re enter the first cause in the list, the record of which the plaintiff had been compelled to withdraw on account of the absence of his witnesses. After some little conver sation, the learned Assessor agreed, on the understanding that the other side would consent. At the same time, he said he wished it to be distinctly understood that after that court he never would re-enter a cause after it bad been struck out. If the parties were not ready, they must take the consequence. GOODR SOLD AND DELIVERED. ELLISON 27. M'KEAND.—The plaintiff' in this case was a-timber merchant, and the defendant a joiner and builder. The action, which was undefended, was to recover the the sum of £2, 25., for timber sold and delivered. Ver dict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. ILLEGAL DISTRAINT. MIDDLEHVRST V. EVANS AND OTHERS.—Edward Middlehurst was the plaintiff; John. Evans, Edward Barrow, and Henry Green, the defendants, and the action was brought to recover damages for a trespass made upon the premises of the plaintiff by the defendants. Green allowed judgment to go by default. The other defendants pleaded, first, not guilty, and secondly, denied that the premises were the premises of the plaintiff. Mr. JAMES stated the plaintiff's case. The plaintiff was a wine merchant in this town, and carried on business in Brooks's-alley. In June last he took the premises in question from Mr.. Banning, and occupied them without any trouble till the month of August last. On the 15th of that month, between nine and ten o'clock in the morning, when the clerk opened Mr) Middlehurst's premises, a bailiff, with two or three followers, entered the premises, produced an authority to distrain, and said they had come to distrain for rent owing to one of the defendants —Mr. Evans. It was then stated there was no rent owing to Mr. Evans ; that the premises were not held under him, and if they touched anything they would do it at their‘peril. Not. withstanding the repeated warning the parties persisted, and took away 70 casks of soda, breaking some of the windows in lowering it down, and injuring the jigger rope. Mr. James proceeded to remark that the distress was made out against Messrs. Grundy, Wright, and Crossley, and that the reason why the distress was made was in consequence of Mr. Evans having the soda on the pre mises) and refusing to pay the rent fdr it to Mr. Middle burst. He hoped in this way to get- possession of his goods without paying the lien upon rent for them. It ap peared from the plaintiff's evidence that part of the soda was seized by Mr. Ogle in the street, under a writ offi fa, and another part of it sold for the rent, the demand for which had been satisfied; the action was, therefore, for the trespass. Mr. DEMEAN, for the defendants ~a fter the minor parts of the case had been disposed of, callid.witnesses to prove tbat the rooms of the warehouse in which the soda was stored were occupied by Mr. Evans as tenant, and that there was no access to those rooms but through the plaintiff's office. The jury, after hearing the learned: assessor's summing up, found for the plaintiff—damages,.2os. CHARGE FOR OOMMI&SION. HASKAtYNE V. FORD.—IrI this case Mr. James Has kayne was plaintiff, and Mr. Ford the defendant. The declaration was for work and labour done and far com mission. The defendant pleaded never indebted. It ap-. peered that the plaintiff was a ship-broker in an humble way, and the plaintiff was a master mariner, at present being mate of the Jane Stanley, and the claim which the plaintiffsought to recover was the sum of £lO for com mission in assisting to purchase one-fourth of the Stanley, and for prccuring the command of that vessel for the defendant. The usual per centage on such.tran sections was 1 per cent. The share cost £440, and the remainder of the charge was for procuring the-com mand of the vessel. For the- defendant it was allowed that the plaintiff was entitled to 1 per cent on the mo ney actually paid, (which was only £300,) but the charge for procuring the situation of captain was entirely. repu diated. The jury found for the plaintiff—damages, £lO. DAWBURN A. 1 ,1 D • DAVIES V. CRITCHLRY.—in this Case Seacombe Dawburn and Joseph Davies, tailors and drapers, sought to recover £8 from John Critchley, for a suit of clothes.—Verdict for the plaintiff in. the sum claimed. EREACIL OF AGREEMENT. FRANCIS. v. D this case Charles-Francis was the plaintiff, and Thomas Davies the defendant. The declaration was in assumpsit and set forthun agreement was made between the plaintiff and defendant, whereby the plaintiff undertook to serve the defendant for a period of two years and five months, at a salary of £lO4 a-year, payable by weekly wages, the hours of servitude to be be tween the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and half past seven in the evening, illness excepted. The plain tiff averred that he entered into the-defendant's employ ment, and served up to July, 1843, according to the terms of the agreement, and was willing to continue up to the end of the term, but the plaintiff illegally, and without reason, discharged him. The defendant pleaded that the plaintiff did not serve according to the terms of agreement,, that he neglected his work, worked for other persons in his employer's time, used defendant's materials for such work, and fraudently sold the defendant's materials. Mr. James appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Arnold for the defendant. The plaintiff , was a watch jeweller, and the defendant carried on business in Bold-street, under the firm of Litherland, Davies, and Co. In the beginning of the year 1840, the plaintiff was engaged by the defendant for a period of six years, at a salary of 40s. per week for the first two years, and 50a. per week for the remainder. In 1842 some misunderstanding arose between the parties and another agreement was entered into in November. ~,By this the plaintiff was to continue in the service of the plaintiff for the remainder of the term for 40s. a week, but in July last the plaintiff was discharged, and the ac tion was brought to recover compensation for being so dismissed. On the part of the defendant, witnesses were called to prove that the plaintiff was very irregular in his at tendance at the shop, and also to prove that he sold jewels to the watch finishers, when they broke them, at a cheaper rate than they would have been furnished by Mr. Davies, and the inference which the learned counsel wished to draw from the evidence was that the plaintiff in his em ployers time put in 'the jewels for the finisher, charged them a certain sum for it and pocketed this sum, although he had taken a ,iewel belonging to his employer. The course the finishers should have adopted was to take the watch down to Mr. Davies, and get a ticket to plaintiff, who W. place in the jewels, and the cost was to be de- Oct. 24 i ducted from the workman's wages bY hee ppili Da w mc i aec t vne n ist e eis s soo s ,nr e eia s edns t d o iit p rai rctocotvthlere:tiilarin.ii according eDg i t v aeo e vd r i teefhsraaeuliulruclut::l ialranintfltilneosrtu.tsibie:otebtoetl 1/s4' discharged. The jury after consulting minutes, and not being able to agree,f e ' l ' jos In a quarter of an hour they returned et the plaintiff—damages £35. apt The court adjourned EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND 14 RAILWAY. ebl'e! After referring to the first paragrapb,,,,tol in our publication of the 10th instant-- 0 7i i ii tention of the public to the valuable sailmo would be derived by the above railway, thleed ful carrying out of - the two branches, 013.40 to connect it, on the one band with Lb? . lola Granton Pier, and on the other, wi tu Do.. Edinburgh with the town of Berwick -0P ,DO have been utterly unable to discover oeVe t re' should have drawn down those insolee.,,,et. appeared in the Railway Times of the 1 4 1," f d/ we commented last week. On all occeel ° ;ithe r , right to exercise our unbiassed judge in their b.lertroo railway matters; and upon that occasioothidie• and were utterly unconscious t hat in ealersoole, were stirring the bile of so excitable 5,1),„be. editor of that paper has proved bittisel wi r o f 0 1 tice of him has, we find, been the oc pd c": - visited with another shower of the Ol te,aer vinegar in which he is in th e habit upon that portion of it which peculiarll 00_4 we shall not condescend even to beatall %hp whilst we leave to the director s of the Melr Newhaven the task of dealing with ose which will probably be performed io 8 0., ceptable to him than it would be byouvaeene A regard for our own character, howelo-der and of justice towards this ill-used' colicead direct the attention of the public to the this day's STANDARD, of the proceeo.M, fdr Edinburgh of the Provisional Corn, Orro into execution the proposed branch linea_o4. Leith, which meeting was attended by poop"',, i a n d fl e u c en la t r i a a t l io in n b , a a b s i w ta a n s ts th o e f re tb u e na S n c i o n3 t o ti u s s VsyrA , sufficiently protects us from the c harge' 0 0 0 0 of the most hollow bubbles" of the dl i l / 4 pe t ti e il will neutralize the odium sought to be Edinburgh and Newhaven Line and its juncts by our atrabihous conternp.orarl. reor We cannot, in conclusion, refrain (rotelof the error which has been committed 11,0' 9 N in promoting by their support of thole ribee power which appears disposed to tyrannous a gripe'. d ert i OgY HOUSES TO LET. —Mr. AlderseY 0 - 1 „„,411 01 1 of excellent private and public houses in ro , w i HIGH TIDES.—To-day " and to-ultgillbe, two of the highest tides in the year. %titer," this morning, at ten- minutes before f our the height of the tide will be twenty feet 0 we beg, is IMPROVEMENT IN THE GurThrt.--.n.rtelvo readers to the advertisement of Sig- . 1 " - t s . th r t • seen are most splendid in torte, I ° 4 ' o o o column. The specimens of instrunlncogl 11 / il; jingling harshness so detrimental tothe rkato 0 THE HUBBARD GAIXERY Still en tl . st hd P I ff.a numerous visitors. Mt. Norman .-- a r t y. o ro several family groups —one, a singing P t gah4, and friends is a talented' production, 0 s orsL)r d semblance it bears to the parties, h 0 1_1 1 .1, , r l, establishment is now openi n the evew" ' to) 're d ,0„,," THE INDIAN MAIL.--We rec ei ved ~lei twelve last night, through Messrs. v , '""tbe '',,, f second edition of the Times; containing . 4 01 1 0# that should have arrived in the early Pies ' month. The papers arrived too be et° 0 0 I 00 ir; oar country edition, but we sha ll anno in-a second edition. A pef il 2, l oci GLASS SINGING.—Mr. WOOdWar.7_,tv-to or at his academy, Greek-street, gave a _,.'1 111 0 1 ,./ ing of the 17th instant, at Palmer's 11•0°7„;ste0 o,i when the various glees, choruses, 5ic., 14 , 1 "; el 10 ,, ( 1gt b9 ner•highly creditable to the teacher. ~Vbe 0' is not a breeze," and " Happy stars, ~..4, very.young performers, were much scl'il songs " Minona Astore," and' " I(llrble f g e glist which were given with great taste and d ) Ng.w MODE OF CURING MEAT.--14:0:10 is inserted in another column referring 1,0 curing meat.—We have inspected the PT o t opinion that it must be of great utib l ifl4l se l m th e e at air is town like this. The apparatus COnsists° 0de.',14., in which the meat to be cured is piec:, 0 4111 a, 11 0' i s s al p t u ed m w pe it d h , o a a n t d l a es b i r a i g ne as f y orc eu of of 300 T h. on every inch, the result of 0 ther bicil e li ' it is so essential to preserve. ,g lert f 3 BJIeKENHEAD SOCIETY FOit,?Re- e . ,,,,,pr 1 . ITT AMONG THE JEWS.—The annt,..oo this society was held on Wednesday ect i i i , Trinity'Church, and was most respFeteitfort , Rev.... 1 Baylee occupied the chai r ' d aderf„ 01 Knox gave a statement of the prOgr e t: paP i 1 ety in that flourishing district during ;110 showed- that the receipts had increased, 4s. 6d; The meeting was afterwara# ha Rev. J. H. Stewart, of St. Bride . 1 " - 0 01 i/ Nolan, and the Chairman, in eltionen" it ~20 / speeches, and at the close of t h e evenist e t;•olo was collected in aid of the object - th e 5 ...4 9- e a i j / 1,17 E W'. RPOOL PHILHARMONIC SCOW'. trtert / e r ii. O r We have much pleasure in drawing - . 13 ; i0 / I lovers of music to the Concerts adv er t this day, On Monday morning neat AP ate o it erroneously advertized in one of our .et w is A a r., full dregs concert will be given, at w,...hl e "ooo . , ° ”Cat the Oratorio of " The Messiah." 'l n ,00 011 ;f0raF of November, a full dress miseellafieoroo-ndeL, 7 0 0 0 concluding concert of the season, 0 ° P . ;O 4 18th of December. At this- last , we _,- .1 e l Jr: committee have secured the sereio""cfelo,4ll, Braham, and Mr. W. R. Isaac the toOrbi , which unsolicited addition to the other ki ll gf v 4 evening, must secure for them theetba l). " 040‘f 0 0 1 , hers and the public. .....ft. d i bi DEATH FROM TAKING LAUDANO'' f ie pi, held yesterday, before Mr. Curry, ° ° o 6o ll ' Al' of David Jones, aged 3e, Thel h ,“ o PIA a publican, lived in Pall-mall, . ant i ' "o,g. d os s /' being unwell for the last three In° ll `,, - ele P , casionally taken laudanum.. About wit)), viff I Flie' . 5 11 0 9 e i morning, he went to bed in his usna,,„ n e,h... t ! li sober at the time. About eight 0 u w ineewr I vour.eck to waken him, but could •not. .. 4 ,!0 1 ,° r same state two hours after, she eal l .' h t e 014,4 two surgeons, but he remained inse ol ,," e el f i f when he died. Elizabethßurnall; his '` sgos L ityi that just before deceasedswent to 100°0000 ~ she saw him drink the Le ts.ol. g t i ere°,oo l .4' r they contained she did not know. ti; 0 40V into the street. Mr. Game, surge o °' ', f h o t eg;go 1 1 hint in a comatose state.. He a pplied 0 ' g 44 king # 0 deceased could not swallow. On red Is bolly examination he detected the smen' - f tb!_ i ' stomach; and, from the. general stele °, p aor o ' no doubt but death was caused hl tkt i kiSi / 4 to the effect that deceased died frog' - co d 7' i of laudanum. 1 , O h % /Fri THE FUNDS.—SATORDAY lita lt " :- ; of - spipts gl stet was steady, without any great al; volt , 4 01 settlement of an estensive "opti on ,_ s ter, tyl course of the morning, 'and the ° l 2,, t ,eo_4o;f l i transaction is understood to have ,• 6 - 60 10 0 ' 0 0 . 1 i r tween 941 and 95 ,_having paid.in, s „tm e mi - aCetip , ,ol) per cent. for the call. About £2t7 , 7, o y be - o jff,7;, extent of the operation. At the 0 15 ' 0 5 8 11'41;A quotations were—Consols for m oneY. 1 i' ofrl count 951 to 1; Bank Stock, 1791 t° j to 6 41 ,1,efri 269 to 271 ; Ekehequer- bills, 62s , r 'hiee- i° , l - 0„le . '4 l , t i Three per Cents. Reduced, %Li; ',,•71, er e' ll i,ltrAif Cents. Reduced, 101,1 to i . New . 1 - - )2 'otr, Cents., 102/ to t; Long 'Aenuitiesin the ;"' India Bonds, 72e. to 745. premium- - 10 ' 0 rities prices ruled much as yesterdat a g iote I firmness was observable in the 1 0 ' 0 01 o lio Spanish left off 20 to i ;. the Three Pe t r o 1,..4 11 10 Portuguese,. 43 to 1 ; Mexican , 3 ° 1 ,r0 - P 7 : .g.I. A ; 91 tog ; Peruvian, 2Q to 1; Dutch .. g w ooltorr Cents., 54 to 1 ; the Five per Cents. , . 0 ,1;4 0 to 86; Colombian, ex. Venezuels„. ; 0 , 1 to 102 ; Brazilian, 72i to 731; end Bel 1 41 # l4 ' i s 4,0,90 ot lit 1 5 ' 0 0 4 0 Is 0 1 ( 1 , fy infer' / LIVET/POOL CATTLE MARKET , (-) DAY.—The number of cattle sold Iv 6168. Good beef fetched sd. per 119 ! quality, rather ahorc that figure; 41d. ;. mutton,. from 4d. to sd. P" TIDE TABL; DAYS. MRN. Tuesday 24 11 26 Wednes, 15 - Thurs ....6 0 33 Friday.. 27 119 Saturtlay23 2 9 Sunday 29 3 1 Monday 30 4 1 EvN. 11 48 20. 5 011 2 ° 3 0 6 19 1 43• 1 7 „, 233 15 10 330 14 4 36 1 12 10 As .mweriiicaoo."l:olo/4 -----"'" ---""!!"."1"--tr--______ --- .at LTVERPO" : 0 lir ii ll TUESDAY, OCTOB III s ok "L a PRINTED AND l i re lli g tr EVERY py , JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 3 -i orfv-0 4 ,0 LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Gr e ,.,o l ' l "pieif, le i At NO.4,ST, Osonox's Cas s e d l e /V i l Oders an 4 Advertisements are recelc 0 0 0 1 ,/ and Co., Warwick-square; Dar k _ er ,:. P i 'clsSie lli C, Walhtook; Roynell, ChancerY-I.';' 1•1 3 n Birchin-lane ; Joseph Thonlas, 100 i, d in of Munden Hammond. Vi, Lombaro-s d yet , N- soretehtThreadneedle-streets 51esSouthi Llou-con Fleet-street; Clarke a!: 14 / 411 0 tr 4 Colnalereial Coffee-house, Miaelrgn-frevnlls jvir Coffee-house, Cornhill; Chanter "'", Con, ' ~4 9 court,r n o e w e iu Co., Sise.lane, London; by e ssr ., s t Of. 4 ; Quay, Dublin; Mr.hl'Phun their Newspaper and AdvertiseOle.',,, 7,1-341,W; change-street, and Mr. C.. 11 ' ... L : .I. 3l3d oleri el Gias„:o ~,v chester ; M:. Haddock, and Mes.l,ot-e Cy sellers, Warraucton ; Mr. Clar k e ' ingl w.. ."ll iii Terms. M Q r . n . C e oyooepf: year, , al. Subscriptionun3 i o s n . .; s t half- r e t , y m. - car' -, _ itif: ;. : ,, f o r thio v s '. 4. le 119. .r. . p vdvunce—one year £1 15' i t o d i th k , t° twt