The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-15 00:00:00

NEW TEA WAREUOUSE, 34, RANELAOII-STREET, LIVERPOOL JAMES COOPER begs to return pf ledgements to the numerous friendi who have 'patronised his TEA ESTABLISHMENT dOring the link perione has been in Ranelagh-street, and particularly so since the intro duction of his present system, adopted by bim when Free Trade Tea was first brought into the Liverpool Market ; •on which occasion, now seven years ago, he inspected the first cargo of Free Trade Tea on its arrival in this ort, and purchased with all the advantages afforded by pay' g duty on teas at the Liverpool Custom House, instead of etting them from the London Market. The system then adopted by him, and since Alen uniformly conducted with the greatest satisfaction t his wholesale country friends and the Public of Liverpool , ,e still continues to act upon ; and by selecting his own Teas ere in bond, and paying his own duties, thereby saving brokerage, commission, &c., and selling at the lowest remuneratin g p ro fi t, b ot h i n the Wholesale and Retail Business, he is enabled to give to the Retailer and to the Public the full benefit of his services, and all the advantages of his system, which, although he has acted upon it for the kW seven years, competitors commenc ing business are now claiming to themselves as new. But he trusts a discerning public will see through the pretentions, however plausible, of inexperienced young houses.endeavour ing to palm off their goods, and claiming to themselves superior judgment over parties of known character in the Trade, with practical experience, cash to purchase, and every other qualification necessary to guarantee advantages which inexperienced young men can hardly be expected to possess. COMPARISON IS THE BEST CRITERION, and without offer ing his Goods to the Public through EXPENSIVE PARADE, which must eventually fall upon the Consumer, or by an exposition of extraordinary Low Prices, merely inserted to catch the attention, J. C. respectfully solicits a continuation of those favours which have been so liberally bestowed upon him, and begs to assure his friends that it shall, at all times, be his study, to supply them with an Article (according to price) that no House in the Trade, to do justice to then- selves as well as to the Public, can surpass ; and he takes this opportunity of guarding his friends against being led away by the specious gilding of every Ephemeral Establish ment offering this important Household Beverage to their notice. The Article of COFFEE he still continues to have Roasted daily on his. own Premises, by an improved method, (which can be inspected by any person,) thereby retaining all the beautiful Aroma and fullness of flavour which is so desirable, and ao much appreciated, by all connoisseurs in that Article. MACKIE and GLADSTONE'S SCOTCH and IRISH WHISKY STORE, WELLINGTON BUILDINGS, No. 46, SOUTH CASTLE-STREET LIST OF PRICES SPIRITS. Finest Islay Malt Whisky Campbeltown Do. Old Scotch Do. Full t r O e l n d g . Do Good Arish Do Beet Cognac Brandy ~ Old Hollands iristojr Jamaica Rum Peelmperial Gallon I. X 0 16 6 .... 0 16 0 0 15 6 : ... .. 016 6 0 15 0 0 10 0 1 12 . 0 • 1 12 0 17s. and 0 14 0 .. . PORTER AND ALE Per Dozen Quarts. Pints Best Dublin XX Porter.. £0 4 G £0 Best Irish Ale ~ Edinburgh Ale 0 7 0 0 4 0 Burton Ale 0 6. 0 0 3 1;14 India 0 6 0 0 3 6 Alba Table Beer 0 210 0 0 - 0 ROYAL INSTITUTION.—LAST SO'REE. THE COMMITTEE beg to annouocetha e FOURTH and LAST SOIREE of the Season Ibe held This DAY, (Tuesday,) the 15th instant, whe MON'FAGU J 4. PHILLIPS, Esq., of Manchester, will we a "LECTURE on ELECTR.O-'MAGN"TISM,whic will be illustrated by Models of the Electro-'nlegrapb, a Galvanib Apparattis fox at Sea, an Efectro-IVlagnetie Clock, &c. taking Soundit • . GEORGE FRECKLETON, Esq Chair. • . M.D., will take the Tickets may be had On application at the Royal Institu tioii, on Monday arid Tpesday-,. the 14th and 15th instant, between tie hours of Ten and Four, or may.. be Secured any day previously by A note' addreso.to, the Treasurer or. Se- cretary of the Soiree Committee; Royal Institution. Tickets,.3s'.:6tl: each: • GEO. FRECkLETON, M.D., President. THOS. NV INSTANLEY,, Treasurer. Colquitt-street, March 8; 1842. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. NOTICE IS HE R EBY' GIVEN, that a S ECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the . LIVER OL and MANCHESTER RAILWAY COMPANY 11 be held, at the Corrox SALES' Room in the Exchan -buildings, in Liverpool, THIS DAY (Tuesday), at On o'clock in the Afternoon,,for the purpose of taking int onsideration and deciding upon the course to be pursued ith respect to the several proposed lines of communication with the Manches ter and Leeds Railway, and other Railways and places of traffic in Manchester and Salford, namely, the line from Cross-lane, Salford, to Hunt's Bank and Saint George's road, in Manchester, and the south, or new line, from Ord sall-lane, by Castle Field and Store-street, to the Manches ter and Leeds Railway Station, in Oldham-roltd, in Man chester, and on other special affairs. Dated the first day of March, 1842. C. W. CLAY, Clerk of the Comp'any BOROUGH OF LLVERPOOL, ELECTION for an ASSESSOR .for SCOTIEND WARD and of an ASSESSOR for V AUXH L WARD. THE Mayor and the Alderman and Assessors of ach of the above Wards DO HEREBY GIVE NOT E, that the ELECTION of an ASSESSOR for the said ards, respec tively, that is to say, an Assessor for Sco d Ward, in the room of John Dixon, elected on the Ist da f March instant, who has not qualified ; and for an Ass ssor for Vauxhall Ward, in the room of John Hardman, elected on the said Ist day of March instant, who has also not qualified, will be held on TUESDAY next, (this day,) the 15th day of March instant. The following Polling Places have been appointed by the Aldermen and the Assessors of the respective Wards, with the approbation of the Mayor : For SCOTLAND WARD, A House, No. 20, on the south side of Burlington-street, in the occupation of Mr. E. R. Huson. For VAUXHALL WARD, John Carron's House, No. 137, Vputhali-road, opposite the end of Blacksiock-street The time for Polling is from Nine o'clock in the Forenoon to Four o'clock in the Afternoon ; but the presiding Officers have power to close the Poll at any time before Four o'clock, if one hour shall have elapsed during which no vote shall have been tendered for any Candidate. By order, RD. RADCLIFFE, Town-clerk. Town-Hall, 12th March, 1842. TO Win WORILIOFY, LivsgPooi INII4IIITANI ~AND J. EDGLEY, with grateful expPrieuce ‘,. • high and coatinued'patfopage which has been vouch safed to their Establishment, beg to propitiate their former Patrons in favour of their Successors, Messrs. Wm. MEARNS and Co., who will continue the Rosiness same Premises, and who are authorised to receive ant Debts connected, with that Firm on the pay the Wm. MEARNS and Co., in reference to fication, beg to intimate that arrang' by them to render this Establishmei kingdom ; and in order to achieve that fruportant' task, they purpose SELLING OFF the present STOCK, at very REDUCED PRICES, so as to make room for every Fashionable Requisite connected with the SHAWL and CLOAK TRADE, to which they are determined, to devote their assidupus and undivided attention. The SELLING OFF commenced on Wednesday, the 9th March instant, and will continue for Three Weeks, when the Principal will visit the Manufacturing Towns, and every Novelty will be secured and faithfully submitted to their Patrons and the Public, without parade or ostentation, at the lowest remune rating prices. 44, Bbld-street, Liverpool, March, 1342. ements arsibeing made SILKS / AT WATERLOO WO SE, TOP OF CHURCH-STR T. WILLIAMS BRO HERS BEG respectfully to call the attention f Ladies ge to their AND UNRIVALLED STOCK OF SATINETTS CHENE SILKS V E P L A zfi S I L AND SUPERIOR SILVER-EDGED PLATED GO DS, in Tea Sets, Waiters. Cruet and Liqueur mes, Candle sticks, Dishes, and Covers, &c. &c., of th iewest designs, at THOMAS DISMORE'S, 35, BOL -STREET, MANUFACTURING SILVERSMITH & JEWELLER TO THE QUEEN. • An Estimate of the Weight and Cost per Onytf Silver Spoons, Forks, &c. will be given on application MESSRS. HOWORTH, HAIGH, ;d GREGORY beg to announce to their Friends nd the Public, that they are . NOW OFFERING (and until the end of the month), at a very GREAT REDUCTION, the • whole of their valuable STOCK of WINTER and FANCY GOODS. 60, Bold-street, March, 11, 1842. SUPERIOR YORKSHIRI FLAGS, ,LANDINGS, STEPS, AND A.SIILERV RICHARD CHAFFER begs to returnais sincere thanks to his Liverpool. Friends for the litutsi support he has received from them for the last ten years in the FLAG and STONE TRADE, carried on •by him at No. 10, LEEDS STREET, and GREAT HOWARD-STREET Flag Yards, where he still continues his usual extensive Stock of Polished, Tooled, and Self-faced Flags, Tombstones, Landings, Steps, and Ashlers, of all dimensions, with hewn Sinks, Guttering, and Wall Coping. BENJAMIN HOWORTH, Agent, , R. C. begs to state he has opened another Quarry of su perior Flags, and also another of Ashler Stones, in addition to his former Quarries, from which he hopes to supply his Friends with an Article superior to any in the Town; and on the shortest notice.... . • Lirerpool, February 25, 1842. HENRY DODD, MANAGER AND SUPERINTENDENT 70 THE LATE MARY .DODD, BEGS respectfully to inform his Friend and the Public, that be has succeeded to her iness, the oldest established Paper Hanging and Deco tive Warehouse in Liverpool, No. 17, BOLD-STREET, where he hopes to have a continuance of the support so long and generously given to his late Mother. He has now on hand for the ensuing season a most superb Collection of Swiss, German, French, and London Paper Hangings, together with an immense and very superior Stock of his own Manufacture, which, for elegance of design and workmanship, cannot be equalled out of London. H. D. also particularly wishes the public to take notice, that the greater portion of his Patterns cannot be seen in any other House in" Town, he having made arrangements with some of the first Foreign and London Manufacturers to supply him alone with their new designs. In consequence of several and serious mistakes which occur daily, there being another of the same name and trade in Bold-street, H. DODD cautions the Public, as he particu larly wishes it to be understood that he has no connexion whatever with any other house in town. 17, BOLD-STREET, Three Doors from the Palatine Club-house. / RICHARD DODD AND CO., No. 33, BOLD-STREET, WISH to inform their kind Friends and the üblic, that they have now ready for inspection Selection of French, German, London, and other PAPE lANGINGS, in addition to 30,000 pieces of their own ufacture ; that, having made their purchases for cas nlv, subject to a heavy discolint, they are enabled to sell t prices that will defy all competition. CHAMBER PAPERS, from 9d. per piece upwards. R. DODD forbears making any allusion to a very offensive paragraph in the advertisement of his brother. Henry'Dodd, who is in the same line of business. The public are the best judges as to where they can be best supplied. It. D. has now been eighteen years in the trade, during the greater portion of which time he was in partnership with his late father, under the firm of " James Dodd and Son, 4, Bold street," and had the gratification to secure a great portion of public favour, which he will, to the utmost of his power, endeavour to preserve,—not by vituperation on others in the same business, and particularly those of his ownfamily, but by producing a grid article at the lowest possible price. Oassave-33, Bold-street, near Newington. wlYis Per Dozen. Best Old Port Quarts. Pints. , .2 0 0 1 0 Fine Do. .. . Good Do. ...•116 0 01 6 0 ..... 1 0 Best Old Sherry ....... .. 2 0 012 0 1 10 0 0 Fine Do. ... ..... 1 16 0 016 0 Good Do. ...... Superior Cape Tern's, 0 0 0 0 Cash ; and no less quantity than One Pint Sold FRUIT, SHADDOCKS AND FORBIDDENuh J. /vIIDDLE FOR PRESERVING, MARmAL — An sold, I N addition to the 46 Barrels per the Lireena7',.kebe. 1 WOOD has received several small lots whi Wholesale arid Retail, at unprecedented .lot Will bidden Fruit, 375. per barrel, and3s. to 6s, p er r sen e • .For _ bidden quality docks, 50s. per barrel, and 125.. to 18s. per dozeTa ; • Sh T t a Fruit has arrived in excellent condition, will keep, and " is inferior for Preserving to the garden, or that a J-3 fruit, and at half the.price. . FOR DESWKRTS, INVEIDS, J. M. has 50 Barrels of SHADDQ‘ S & FORBIDDEN FRUIT, selected from the same grens as those sent from his establishment to her Majesty e Queen, acrd so highly appreciated at the Royal Table ; being produced from grafted trees, is the earliest fruit imported, And arrived in the Sisters, from Nasiau, in December. it is now in high perfection, and not inferior for Desserts to any Fruit grown in or imported into England. Forbidden Fruit, Is. to 2s. 6d. each ; Shad docks, 3s: to ss. each. lity J. M. ill constantly supplied with first-qua St. Michael's J. Oranges, .Ameriean Apples, Grapes, Ch esn uts, Walnuts, lar g e Filb ert 4 or Cob Nuts, kaisins, Almonds, tine Nonpareil Pigs, Portuguesean d Fren • Plums, P . F ru i t in season, F. di Pines, and every choice East and Westlndiaine Orange and Shaddock Marmalade. Preserved Ginger, Tamarinds, &c.. &c., J. MIDDLEWOOD'S PAM A I T LY FRUIT WARE LI OUSE, 6. PARKER-S MEET, ESTABLISHED UPWARDS Gir THIRTY YEARS, AND NOTED FOR SUPPLYING TUE BEST FRUITS IN THE KINGDOM. BOTANIC OlL,for the growth and embellishment of the human hair. J. M. is the sole proprietor of this inestimable Oil ; and, in addition to the many proofs of its superior effi cacy, he begs to observe he has used it thirty years, and his hair has not experienced,the least decline during that period,' and is NOW more healthy than for ;considerable time previous to i ts use . J. M. can with confide nce recommend the Bota nic Oil for clearing and rendering the hair and scalp coal, soft, and healthy. Sold in pot boles, 2 5., 38. 6d dti T 1 55., sad fourteen for a dozen. Mr. Serjeant Merewether is a candidate for the office of town-clerk of London. A donation of one hundred guineas has just been received by the Church Pastoral-Aid Society, being the produce of the sale of a carpet worked for the Queen Dowager, in. separate squares, by a number of ladies, chiefly in the neighbourhood of York. We understand that the Rev. James Marshall, who lately seceded from the Scotch church, has been presented to the rectory of .St. Mary-le-port, in this city, vacant by the de cease of the late Rev. James Neale.—Bralol Journal. MENTAL ALIENATION. — Mental 'alienation, according to the best authorities, appears to occur more frequently in Great Britain than in any other country except Norway, the proportion in England being one insane person to every 783 inhabitants, and in Scotland oncin 573, whilst in Norway the ratio is one maniac in 551- of the population. Mania seems to increase as man recedes from the warm or southern countries bordering the Mediterranean, and approaches the colder regions of the north. In Italy ie scale descends so low. as to give not more than one insane,.person . to every 3,755 inhabitants, VOlalTleOli A. Pox RATTING SEVERELY PIJNISTI; ED.—Mr. Richard Roberts; of Black Mill, about seven miles above Bridgend, had. in his `possession a fox,'which . he reared for the purpose of turning ottt before his harriers by War cif •a svina=ttryto the season: - Ittlnitik & tilbifkli iterated in'the same kennel with his future destroyere; was remarkable for great gentleness and docility. Sporting and gambolling with any of the hounds that might be inclined to humour him, except on occasions of being fed, when he would display his natural ferocity, as will be evinced .by the following : A short time back, an old and favourite cat of Mr. Roberts' returning successful from a hunting expedition with a large rat in her mouth, unfortunately passed the crib, where Rey nerd lay snugly inclined. He- incited thereto for aoliare of the savoury morsel, immediately made attack " vi et armis," when Grimalkin, not inclined to give up her prey without a struggle, brought all her wiles and arti fi ces to her aid , and vigorously repelled the assault ; but, alas, all was of no avail, she soon fell beneath the power of the ,arch-destrdyer, who, not satisfied with devouring:the rat e " the original bone of contention." proceeded to treat his• antagonist .in The same unceremonious manner, leaving nothing but a " dollup of bones grizzling g r in his den,"• and the head alone to tell of poor Grimalkin's whe rea bout, and her wretched catastrophe. —Welsh We bear that the present home secretary, Sir James Gra ham, intend s to i ntroduce an eleven hours' factory bill into parliament during the present session, similar in many of its principalsenactments to the bill introduced during the ses sion of 18 , 10, by Mr. Fox Motile. According to report, no children arc to be•allowed by the new bill to work in factories under fourteen years of age, nor for more than six hours a day from fourteen to eighteen years of age. Very little in terest is at present felt, in the manufacturing districts of the country, on the subject of factory legislation; which is,scarcely ever mentioned by the wurkpeople or their employers. — Leeds Mercury. THE INComp TAX.—A correspondent in yesterday's of persons whose incomes' are pesa unjustly Times considers that this tax w the following illustrations : professional ineome (and I have nomy on that class own case—my net xi o o t o l o cr) is £475; my derived_ LTake from trade, and cites n a t 7 i nuch as the per o C u oits; books and furniture may be worth the protection of this income and property I shall pay for marl who has £13,000 in land, or £16,000 and unproductive property to probably twice the In order to make some prov►sion for my family, I insure my £3,000, paying an annual premium of £9O. This reduces my spending income to £385 ; so that, with a. spending in come of £385, and £3,000 for my family, I shall be taxed as heavily as the man wish a spending income of £4BO, and an estate worth £15,000, or £16,000 in the 3 per Cents. for his family. . fpfiTt mhizslfiV in SINGING. For Terms SON. 07, Church-street, wi SONG, THE IVY THAT SIVC" II fvl I P 3 040 ft'fl2 ply.% .Meisne. Hlgz and w4fbe had E. L. III" )WS ON THE OLD ADDEV/WALt LESSONS IN MILLINERY AND D SMAKING. THE ART of MILLINERY and I ESSMAKING have been bro ug ht t o suc h an ea sy 4stem, Mesdames indertak#,t r o convey to persons of the smallest capacity, a corre knowledge of CUT TING, FITTING, and executing i❑ the most finished style, iu Six hours, for One Guinea. The correctness of this mode can be fully substantiated by reference to pupils. Parties going abroad would find a few lessons much to their advantage. 36, Nelson-street, Great George-square. RUSSELL, from Condor , DANCING AND CALISTHENIC EX CISES. A jr,R. HARWOOD, PROFESSOR OF ANCING, 42, IV-.1 NELSON-STREET, Great George-s are, continues to give INSTRUCTION in every m 0 of Fashionable DANCING, either by Private Lesson or in Public Classes. . The JUVENILE ACADEMY is Open every THURSDAY AFTERNOON, and SATURDAY MORNING and AFTERNOON. Academies in or out of town attended. THERE ARE VACANCIES FOR THREE PUPILS AT MRS. MIDDLETON' BOARDING AND DAY ESTABLIS ENT FOR YOUNG LAMES', 19, CLARENCE-STREET, MOUN -PLEASANT, LIVERPOOL. YOUNG LADIES are instructed on the most approved modern principles by which SOLID EDUCATION is ensured, while the inculcation of.fashionable etiquette and courteous demeanour receives especial attention. Mrs. M. is assisted in the French and Italian by a qualified foreign teacher; in 'Drawing and' Colouring, by an able artiste; and in the English Department, by Mr. Middleton. Lec tures are given on Astrondmy, Geography, Geology, and Natural History. The Quarter to commence from the day of entrance. PRIVATE TUITION Mr. Middleton and Assistants give Private Lessons in the various branches of Education. Writing, Shorthand, Book keeping, and Arithmetic, taught in 'dew easy Lessons. Governesses desirous of further improvement in the Globes, Mapping, &c., &c., will have unusual facilities afforde4,tiem. A circular; if desired, forwarded by Post,' THE MOSCOW QUEEN PINE j WILMOT, ISLEWORTH, has a StOck of this v su e/ • perior variety to dispose ofg 10s.. 6d. ea , strong p Succession Plants ; smaller ditto, is. 6d. And he season is coming on, they can be forwarded witho ots any dis tance packages included), by a Postoffice or eing remitted to his Forcing Establishment, Isleworth. J. W. has also some Plants left of his new and superior BLACK HAMBUICGH GRAPE, in pots, at 105 , ..6d: each. ...... . RAILWAYS IN GENERAL RB. WATSON, and Co., of Leeds,,beg to intimate • to those interested in Railway Property, chiefly in t y the Northern Counties, that they are ena ed to give infor mation and an opinion, as to 'those lines i which it would be advisable to invest money at this particular period, founded upon a knowledge of the trade of'this district, - acquired dur ing a residence of twenty years in Hull, and twelve in Leeds, ten of which R. B. W. has been a Commercial Broker, and six a Share Broker, thus giving them an ad vantage that few possess. `PRAYER BOOK AND HOMILY SOCIETY AT a numerous MEETING of the Friends of this Society , held at the Music -HALL, last night, the following reso lutions were unanimously adopted : That the report read be received, printed, and circulated, and that this Meeting, concurring in the, sentiments ex pressed in that Report of the great usefubtess of the,Prayer Book and Homily Society, both in its labours at - home and abroad, earnestly commends it to the enyirged support of the Christian public. That in the present position of the Church of England, as it respects those who in any way impugn 'her doctrines, it appears desirable that a wider circulation should be made of those works which, being standard authority, clearly set forth her opinion agreeably to the literal and grammatical sense of the works containing such opinions. That in the judgment of this meeting the Prayer Book and Homily Society is well calculated to effect this object, by the circulation of the standard works of the Church, and the mode it recommends and adopts in its associations, of diffus ing information through the medium of its members, by the loan and distribution of the said works on the plan of Dis trict visiting; and that, in accordance with-this plan, the Clergy be respectfully invited to encourage the communi cants and other suitable persons in their respective congre-, gallons to assist the Society by circulating the Homilies and other authorised works of the Church. HENRY RAIKES, Chairman. The Chairman havinK vacated the chair, it was resolved— That the sincere thanks of this meeting be given the Rev. Henry liaikes, the Chancellor of the Diocese of Chester, for his kindness in taking the chair this evening; and to the Right Reverend the Patron, and to the several Officers of the Liverpool Association, for the patronage afforded the Society, and the labours executed on its behalf during the past year. WEbT INDIES We are at last enabled to announce the arrival of the ttowal Mail Steam -Company's vessel, the t Tliarnes, on Thursaay afternoon. from the Havannah ,and West Indies, being some days overdue, occasioned by detentions from various causes at .the different places called at. Her dates of departure are — from the Havannah the 15th, Naisatithe 19th, anti Bermuda the !,13d of February, and Fayal the sth of March, bringing mails from those quarters, as also from Mexico, but none from Jamaica, owing to the steamer at that island not having arrived at Nassau when the Thames quitted, although she had been expected some days.. She has'-brought 200,000 dollars on freight, besides 130 serons of cochineal, and 16 passengers only. It was said that the great size and general plan of construction of these steamers do not at all answer the expectations of theii officers. In the Demerara papers it is stated that the planters and labourers are still at variance respecting wages, although in all other particulars the " rules and regulations" of the Ist of January had been aban doned. The labourers were absent from the various estates, and it was believed, before any work would be performed, the current rate of wages must be paid. In Berbice the la bourers were working with wages equal to the market price of their produce, and it was understood they would be hence forward remunerated accordingly. The Trinidad papers notice the arrival of a vessel from Si erra Leone without emigrants, in consequence of the advance in wages on the African coast, which, with other causes, sAch as the number of vessels seeking for passengers, and the no tion disseminated by the missionaries of the little control the emigrants have over their own persons, had left the people little temptation for emigrating to a foreign country. The contemplated removal of the captured Africans at St. Helena to the West India colonies for distribution had been column .nicated to the government authorities. As a means of reim bursing the government for the expense of their maintenance at St. Helena, they would be allowed to be apprenticed for two years, on the payment of £4 sterling per head by their employers. &return published in these papers shows the value of the imports for the year ending 30th September, 1841, to be £506,799, of which Great Britain had contri buted £403,548, British West Indies, £23,355, North Ame rican colonies, £57,092, United States, £17,260, and foreign states, £5,841. INDIA We gave in our last very ample details of the intelligence from India, received by the overland. mail. We stated then that some doubt existed as to the rumour, to which credence was given in several of the metropolitan journals, about the deStruction of our troops at Cabul. It would appear that there are good grounds for this doubt, as the subjoined letter, addressed by Captain Tuckett to the editor of the Times, will testify. That officer was for . many .years is India, and the statements which he makes,.in contradiction to the sinis ter reports of the natives, are strong and very consolatory. We hope most fervently that the gallant captain's surmises Will turn out to be correct. Sir,—lt is with extreme regret I pfrceive, in a leading ar tielp in the Times of this day, that credence is given to a let ter containing an account of the destruction - of our troops in Cabul. The letter in question is supposed to bedated Jella latmd, the 18th of January, and as the steamer left Bombay on the Ist of February, there is only 13 days allowed for the transmission of the news from Jellalabad to Bombay. • I have no hesitation in denying the possibility of news be conveyed from Jellalabad to Bombay in that time. From Jellalabacl tp Loodianab, under the most favourable circum stances, would occupy eight days, and from our frontier post at Loodianah to Bombay 16 days by the mail, being through our own territories; thus making 21 days for news which is said to have arrived in 13 days. By any other route the pe riod would be longer. _ _ As Dr. Brydoes statement. quoted by The Times, is dia metrically opposed to that made by me at the Seamen's Hos pital Charity, I have to request the actual date of the letter; on which such reliance is placed, may be given; the name of the place from which it is written ; the post-mark of whence despatched, and the date of the post-mark. These are points by which persons conversant with Upper India will be ena bled to'judge of the authenticity of the intelligence given in to-day's . Times. Where so many persons are deeply inte rested in the safety of their friends, it is only just the fullest examination should be accorded. I can see no reason to withdraw my assertion, that the troops at Cabul are perfectly safe. Reports were prevalent in India, previous to the date fixed in Dr. Brydon's letter for the troops having left Cabul, that Colonel Shelton and some officers of his brigade were made prisoners. In Dr. Brydon's letter Walsh is mentioned as one of the hostages left with the chiefs at Cabul, whilst letters were received from Walsh a month since mentioning that h 9 had left Cabul, and was safe with General Sale's, brigade. Also the death of Captain Trevor, who was assassinated with Sir W. Macnaghten, was announced in the English papers, giving the Indian news, last February. This shows how completely dates have been disregarded; and I feel confident, when this intelligence is sifted to the bottom, no good grounds will be found for the statement attributed to Dr. Brydon, and that it is merely a tissue of bazaar reports inju diciously forwarded to England. I would further call your attention at all times to a comparison of dates with the geo graphical position from which reports are received ; the usual rate at which intelligence is conveyed being four miles an hour, and less on cross roads. Had the troops been forced to leave Cabul, Which I still maintain they had not, they never would have retired on Jellalabad. They were aware of the difficulties General Sale had experienced in the mountain passes from the sudden hostility of the people. Therefore Colonel Shelton would not have attempted those passes, incommoded with 1,100 cavalry and horse artillery, when he could, by returning through the open plains to Ghuznee and Candahar, derive the greatest advantage and protection from those arms of hii force, beside being strengthened by the troops at Ghuznee and Candahar, the latter amounting to 3,000 men. The report quoted in The Times to day is stated as re ceived at Jellalabad on the 18th January, 1842. The Agra Ukbar, 700 miles distant from Jellalabad, quoting.news received from Cabul up to the 28th December, 1841, in the paper of the 22d Jan. mentions, " as a report. not to be believed," that the ladies of the camp had fallen into the hands of the enemy, and that Colonel Shelton and some officers of his brigade had become prisoners. The de ptruction of the English was an easy addition to a bazaar re port, and completes whole of what is now -published as autheiitie . and occurring after the sth of January, and first made known at Jellalabad on the 18th of January. I trust the party in possesion of Dr. Brydon's letter will give the date, place, and post-mark, and thus enable a pro per estimate to be made of the value of the intelligence. " 1 have the honour to be, Sir, ,Your, obedient servant, HARVEY TUCKETT. 29, Poultry, March 11 The following observations on Captain Tuckett's letter appear in the Times of yesterday, and as so much interest is attached to every particular connected with the fall of our troops, we are anxious to give our readers all the information in our power : TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES have read with pain the letter from Mr. Harvey Tuckett in your valued paper of this day, as it is calculated to give rise to ill-founded hope to' all who have relatives in the unfortunate Cabul division of our army. I may inform you that at this club, ever since Mr. Tuckett made the statement he did at the public dinner a few days ago, every one asks, " Why does he not give his authority ? Why did be not bring in his pocket the letter or letters in which his information as to the safety of the army was conveyed ?" In his letter in to-day's Times he denies the correctness of your statement, and, singularly enough, asks for those very proofs which he himself ought to have given to the public, when he gave a statement at variance .with all the bazaar re ports, private letters, and information received by her Ma jesty's ministers, as given by Sir kobert Peel in the House of Commons last night. Let Mr. Tuckett give up letters, postmark, and date of the postmark, or the public will not be satisfied. _ _ I am one of those ' persons conversant with Upper India,' and am grieved to state that I have no doubt the melancholy statements you have given are correct, although they may not be quite so in the details. There is probably an error in the date of the letter from Jellalabad, but, if the army left Cabul on the sth of Jain-try, there was plenty of time for the disastrous intelligence to reach Bombay via Pesbawer by Ist of February. Mr. Tuckett appears to forget that the in telligence was forwarded by estafette, whilst he talks of the travelling rate by the usual diik of the Post-office. Mr. Tuckett is reported to have stated at the public dinner before alluded to that he knew of the murder of Sir William Mac naghten a month before the last overland mail arrived. Now, Sir W. Macnaghten was murdered on the 25th of December. and the previous mail left Bombay on the Ist of January. How does he . account for his information reaching Bombay in six days, when he does not give credence to the reports which reached Bombay from Jellalabad (a shorter distance) in 14 days ? There is no doubt that a report did reach this country of the death of Sir William Macnaghten before the arrival of the mail of the Ist of February, but it only reached. London as a bazaar report by the India steamer which left Calcutta on the 10th of January, and arrived about a week before the Bombay overland mail on the Sth instant. I remain, Sir, Oriental Club, March 11. INDICUS. THE PROPERTY TAX Sir Robert Peel having determined upon proposing a pro perty and income tax of sevenpence in the pound, in order to make good the deficiency in the revenue, a brief sketch of the former - property tax may not be out of place, nor uninterest ing to our readers. The first property-tax was introduced in 1303 by Lord Sidrpouth, frt a rate first of . fiye,per cent. This was increased by Mr. Pitt to 7 - 1 per cent. ; by the Mar- . quis of LatiSdowne, when chancellor of the exchequer, in 1806, to 10 per cent. in 1809 its, exaction began to be rigo rous and oppressive • the arrears from this year be came h eavy , . a4td payments' throughi tbi• i'Ancec^utive jreaali rat,or otherwise avoided by large masses of the people. hi 1815 the opposition to the tax became so universal throughout the country, that it was at length found impossible to.withstEind its ultimate repeal. In 1815, the property-tax having reached its utmost amount, raised upwards of 1-11 millions, of which nearly 51 were paid by landlords, above 21 by occupiers; whence, says a writer of the period, we may inter that the income of the former was about 55 millions, and of the latter 28 ; but adding eight and four respectively for the incomes below £6O, we have the whole income arising from land, 95 millions. When the machinery of the tax had attained perfection, hardly.any pro perty escaped. The property-tax ceased on the sth of April, 1815, but was revived for one year more (1815, ending sth April 1816), in consequence of the renewal of the war. It was always looked Upon as a war-tax, and . therefore the nation became clamo rous for its repeal immediately after the termination of the war in 18—. Paley's opinion, with regard to the property tax, as to the scale of equitable proportion, - proposing to affix certain rates of taxation upon certain amounts of property, proportioned to the general convenieney of subsistence of those by whom such payments are to be made, is worded thus : 6 6 We are accustomed to an opinion, that a tax, to be just, ought to be accurately proportioned to the circumstances, or more correctly perhaps to the amount of property of the per sons who pay it. But upon what, it may be asked, is this opinion founded, unless it could' be shOwn that such a pro portion interferes the least with the general conveniency of subsistence? Whereas I should rather believe that a tax con structed with a view to that conveniency, ought to rise upon the different classes of the community in a much higher ratio simple proportion of their incomes. The point t o be than the d is, not what men have, but what they can spare ; and it is evident that a man who possesses . a thousand pounds a year can more easily give up a hundred than a man with a hundred pounds a-year can part with ten; that is those habits of life which are reasonable and innocent, and upon the ability to continue which the formation of. famili es , de _ pends, will be much less affected by the one deduction than by the other. It is still more evident that a man of a hun dred subsistence by a d eman d f rom him of ten pounds', as a ma n pounds ay ear w o u ld not be so much d i s t re s sed in his , of ten pounds a-year would be by the loss of one ;to which , we must add, th a t th e o p population of the cou ntr y bei ng re plenished by the marriages of the low6t rank of society, their accommod a ti on and relief beco M e o f m ore importance p to the state than the conveniency of any higher but less nu merous order of its citizens." TOR fltoPofigl3 MARITAtin rir-1 (14'00i peaertioy'.,9 Lortilou Times _ have an early opportUnity of reverting to the very iu portant subject which called forth our rentarks tin Thursday, occasioned by the announced motion of Lord Francis Eger ton, to legalize the marriage contract between a man and his deceased wife's sister. Various k lions also, as we have fore said, of a similar nature'liave been made by others. We trust, however, that we shall be able so to explain this whole subject, as.to-induce Lord Francis to desist from his attempt, and to lay the matter at rest fur ever. The English are a great people; let us also be a pure one. But expediency is urged upon this occasion :—" Who is so proper a protector," it is 'said, " of the deceased wife's children 's their aunt?" Who, indeed, so proper? But then, observe what you do by making that aunt their step mother as well as aunt : you overpower the feebler tie of nature by an obligation of a closer character, if the new wife have children of her own : and the argument supposes her to be a young woman; for if she be an old one, and the children consequently groWn up, the whole case is an absur dity, and there is no occasion to marry at all. Does our legendary lore tell us of no cruel uncle, who preferred his own children to his brother's? Religion and a sense of duty may induce the stepmother-aunt to treat the two families alike externally, but it is impossible that she should not feel a stronger affection_to her own children than to those of her sister. No trials with respect to property are more frequent in our courts of law than those which result from the pre-' ference of children to nephews and nieces. You enfeeble the protection of the aunt—perhaps convert it into aversion —by giving her children of her own from the same father, and thus making her,•as we have said above, a stepmother aunt. _ _ • — Besides, look at the mixed blood which you throw into the children's veins. What is their relation to each other? They are first cousins, we suppose; may they in that cha racter intermarry ? (You will come to that at last, after your first incestuous step.) No; they are brothers and sisters besides—only in the half blood. What classical scholar does not recollect the amplifications of. tortured Orestes, in the scenic Poet, praised by Longinus, after his unhappy mar riage 1—( Vide Smith's Longinus.) But look further at the unhappy position of the surviving sister, after the death of the first wife, if you allow the hus band to offer his addresses to her in a legalized form. He may be the object of her aversion personally. It is, indeed, hardly probable that she shiiirld prefer him to every other man ; but she must either accept him, or be content to tear herself for ever from the orphan offspring of her deceased sister. It is impossible she should any longer live in the same house with him and them, after the declaration of his passion, if she reject it ; she cannot even see them often, or in his presence. By this, and even without this, you sever, or render impossible, a pure intimacy, in order to gratify, what we must call, an unholy passion. Is this protecting the children ? On the contrary, it is exposing both aunt and children to the severest trials. But there is another sense alsp in which you are depriving the orphan children of their proper protector. It is most probable that the widowed husband, being young and having no notion of any legal cohabitation with their aunt, will look out for some other union. Should the new stepmother prove unkind, to . whom could the ill-tfeated children fly to utter their complaints and claim red-fess but to their aunt? You have robbed them of that resource by having made that aunt their steprnother. Fhe aunt, in fact, can perform all,the duties required of her to the orphans of her deceased sister without the forbid den union with their father: That union weakens every. rno tive,'both of nature and of duty. We hope to bear no more of it. 'People of pure feelings are shocked at the proposition. 'Your first step towards carrying it into effect must be the re peal of that religion which has said, "They twain'shall be one flesh : wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh." Mat. xix., 5. Look at the endearing appellation also which has sprung from this eternal law of the Saviour of mankind. What has the aunt beeri used to call the husband while her sister lived ? "My brOther-in-law," or "my brother such an one." A brother converted into an husband! Two more observationa we would make,:of a theological character, though we generally avoid such. One is -this We would ask thdse who found their feelings On their reli giOn, and their religiOn on the 'Bible, what distinct authority theygliave tbr abhorring any the most terrible form of incest which is not also 'applicable to this ,gerieral feelings and popular notions of apparent exnediencyare deceitful things, —nay, even our own sink with the scale of popular morality, —though we obey them, and must do so. And the only ex press law promulgated by Divine authority (LeViticus xviii.) includes this.conmexion in the same terms, and under the same denunciation, as those which most shock our nature. That law draws a distinct line, and we have no other guide. Is it a safe thing to remove such a land-mark? Next, the law so stated is not mere Jewish law. If so, its authority doubtless would be slight. It would furnish at most but an analogy. But the context shows that divine wrath rested on those who did such things before the promul gation, as it will do after the revocation, of that the first written law.- After recounting these forbidden unions, in connection with one or, two othr crimes of a still deeper die, it - adds, not' a command to Israel only, bnt a terrible warning to all people :—" Defile not ye yourselves in any " of these things : for in all these the 'nations are defiled " which I cast out before gt ; and the land is defiled : " therefore do I visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the " land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants." , We may have spoken severely ; but it is time to speak so , when a respectable Christian legislator proposes to legalize what Holy Writ has laid down among the crying iniqui ties of the Canaanites when their. iniquity was full. mml.m=limilautanwmczma THE LATE SCANDAL CASE IN PARIS The following are extracts from Lord William Paget's statement of this extraordinary affair : "Another trifling circumstance had also some little weight which was, in deciding me that upon my r emon strating • with Mr. Cassidy on the brutality and indecency of hiS 'con duct, he exculpat e d hin i self by placing in my hands a note, hearing the initials o f Miss Bellew , making an ii - Signation to receive him in he r bedroom.* Under these ci r cu mstance s, I ventured to decline the honour proposed for Lady William, and Miss Bellew took her departure from Paris. I heard no further on the subje c t until I lerlrnt , by the public journals, Abet Lady William and m y s elf ha been engag e d i n inveigling a young heiress from Devo ns hi r e to Paris " Unfortunately, however, for the veracity of their in formants, neither Lady William nor myself had been in Devonshire at all; nor had either of us accompanied Miss Bellew to Paris, no r did we l ea ve London fo r severa l day s after her departure with blr. errs4c/k,.nor had our original intention of visiting Paris the most remote reference to her ; although, from the accidental circumstance of my detention in London owing t o the illness of t w o of my children, I unfortunate/y made her acquaintance, and thus became tangled with her and her friends , in this affair; And, after' all, one whole knowledge of tliis:aMiableyoung,lady, exte n d s but to five days' acquaintance in ton don, (if, i ndeed , such trifling intercourse as we had with her during so s h ort a period can be called an ac quaintance,) and four days in Paris. " The public, I think, will wonder that a young lady of rank and fortune (and with clean hands) should resort to the columns of a Sunday Pape r, instead of the laws of h er coun try, to address her wrongs and to' establish her innocence. *** *. And here I may ask, had Miss B. no friends, no father, no uncle, no brother, no male relative to come for ward, and bring to a just account, by some means' or other, some one, at least, among those who have so wronged her ? It would appear she had not. " It has always been quite Clelipto me what has been the' head and front of Lady Williarir'soffence and mi ne t owar d s this young' lady—namely, the rejection'orher appeal to us for protection, under circumstances in which I think, as a husband, I was fully justified.. But, even for this Lady William is not to blame (if blarrie there be); for so utterly ignorant was she of,'lny motives for declining to make her the future depository of Miss Bellew s s virtue, so entirely with out a suspicion was 'she that Miss Bellew. entertained any but the most friendly feelings towards her, that, unknown to me, (and quite as a matter of course), on her arrival in London, she wrote to know when and where she would see her. Ido not feel called upon to .nak e a s i ng l e remar k upon ,the conduct of any person Connected with this affair, but that of Lady W. and myself ; but I cannot help'declaring (which I most solemnly do) that I never saw on the part of any of the famous conspirators tlie slightest attempt to influence or control Miss Bellew in. anything ; or anything but the greatest kindness shown towards - her ; and, without at tempting to defend the conduct of Mr. Cassidy, 1 will say that no man could recciveibe encouragement which he always received from Miss 'Bellew without having a right to suppose that she intended to become his wife.— For my own part, I am quite ready to confess that I looked upon a marriage between Mr. Cassidy and Miss Bellew as so probable an event, and I believed the parties to be so equally matched, in point of - worldly position and circumstances and both so fully aware of what they were doing, that if I did Say or do anything which might have had a tendency to the furtherance of this object (hut of which I am ignorant), it was only in accordance with may feelings, and with my belief that there existed no grounds whatever against it ; and 1 am sure if I had been asked by Mr. C. to do anything to forward it I should unhesitatingly have done so. On the other hand, if Mr. Cassidy was himself aware of, his impending bankruptcy (which does not at all follow as a matter of course), or if any of the other parties mentioned. ,were aware of it, which rdo not believe, I can find no words to express my detestation and disgust at such atrocious vil lany towards Miss 8., as well as towards Lady William and myself. In conclusion, I shall only add, that every syllable which bas been uttered or written, whether by Miss Bellew or her friends, to the prejudiee,of • Lady William Paget and myself in regardlo this affair, is a scandalous and infa mous falsehood. • . . " * This letter is in tbe, hands of my solicitor, Mr. Bebb, of 12, Argyll-street, wbo has my full Permission to show it to the curious in such matters." The Rev. R. W. Sibthorp has, we have just heard from private sources, subscribed two thousand pounds towards the erection of a large Popish.- meeting.house, at Nottingham, and that he is about to be sent on a mission to that town as soon as the 'intended 'meeting-hnuse is. completed, to pervert people from the Catholic, church and, the simple Catholic faith to the Popish sect and the Tridentine faith.—Church . .144elligencer. - - , - . PERILOUS EXPLOIT.-It having been found necessary to make some repairs-in ,the weather-Cock on the spire of St. John's Church, in this. city, the work was commenced this week, and the operation has developed instances of daring courage, and cool presence of mind in circumstances of un expected danger, which are almost romantic. The turret of the church is about 40 feet high, above which a slender spire rises, we should suppose 100 feet. The only workman em ployed in removing the weather-coek was a young man, named John Shipway, 26 years ut age, a native of Stone, • Gloucestershire, in the employ of Messrs. Wilcox and Sons, of this city, but acting in this case on his own account.. Of this young man, who undertakes such business, it may be proper to state that he has ascended the spire of Salisbury Cathedral, 399 feet high! and those of several other churches, by the same daring and singular proeUss as he used in this in stance. On Wednesday . morning lait, shortly before eight o'clock, he raised ladders reaching to 54 feet of his distance, which he ascended. • From that point he clambered, amidst the gaze of hundreds of astonished spectators, by only his hands and feet clinging to the holesAtithc sides of the spire, to the summit.. He there found that the vane was planted on the top of a strong iron bar, 7 feet 4 inches in.height. As this was beyond his reach, he formed, in that dangerous ele- . vation, a noose in a rope which he carrie up w ith, him, and, uscendini by it slung it strongly over the weather-cock , to the required height, while he clung with one arm to the iron bar, with the other he took off.the mimic bird. Placing this in due equipoise on his right shoulder, he descended in the same manner as he went up, and safely carried his trophy to the office of Mr. Alexander, the churchwarden, in Broad street, by one o'clock. But John Shipway, on his voyage into air, had, Like other voyagers, made discoveries. I n his : descent he clambered round the steeple at a certain part to examine if it was perfect, and observed a place where a block of stone about two feet in length was loose, and likely to come down. He also saw that it was necessary, for some purpose, to shorten the iron bar by two inches. Accordingly, about half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning, he again ascended in the same manner, to commence cutting the bar. When at his highest elevation the gale was So strong that he was unable long to, keep his footing, and he commenced his de. scent. In coming down he felt.his knee touch the loose stone above-mentioned, and knowing the consequences that would follow, in full confidence in his own nerve, he called " Ware the stone" to the crowd below, in time for them to be out of reach, when it fell to the ground, and then firmly keeping the grasp with his hands, directed his feet to a place on which he could stand. After this he caine down in safety.— Bristol Journal. T H t ow TArtxry (Corrceled from 140 1:imoo of Yeetertio.) BESOI,OTIONS ON CUSTOUP PUTIE TO BE pßoupogP BY SIR ROPERT PEEL We have been favoured with u copy of the proposed scale of duties,, from which we make the following extracts. The late hour last night at which we received this important docu ment precludes us from giving a more complete summary of its details. The subjoined * statenient, however, of some of the proposed changes comprised in the first resolution will be found interesting to our commercial readers : Horned Cattle.—At present prohibited. The proposed duty is for oxen, cows, and calves from foreign countries, 205., 155., 10s., respectively ; from British possessions, 10s., P. • 75., 5s Horses.—The present duty of 20s. is reduced one-half, in respect of those imported from British possessions. Chicory.—The present duty of 20s. on the kiln-dried ma terial is reduced, upon British produce only, to 10s. Fish of all kinds from British possessions are to be admit ted duty free ; those from foreign countries upon a much re duced scale. Fruit.—Upon all raw produce not specified, the duty upon British produce only, to be reduced from 5 per cent. to 24. Upon enumerated articles the duty is to be generally reduced, British produce being favoured to half the amount levied. Licorice.—The duty on the juice to be reduced from £3 15s. to 20s. on foreign produce, and 10s. on that of British pos- sessions. Oil Seed Cakes.-The duty of 2d. is to be increased to Gd. on foreign, 3d. on British imports. Buller.-The present duty of 20s. is to be reduced to ss. on British imports only. Cheese.-The duty of 10s. to be reduced on'British imports only to 2s. Gd. only. Spices.-The duties on British produce are to be, in most cases, reduced 50 per cent. Clover Seed.-The present duty of 20s. to be reduced to 10s. on foreign produce, and ss. on that of British posses sions. On all other seed a reduction of 50 percent. in favour of British as compared with foreign produce. Madder. -The present duty of 2s. reduced 50 per cent. on British produce only. Skins.-The present duty on squirrel skins of lls. 6d. re duced to ss. on foreign, 2s. 6d, on British produce. Hides, wet:-The present duty of 2s. 4d. reduced to is:. on foreign, 6d. on British imports. Hides, dry.-The' present duty of 4s. Bd. reduced to 2s. on foreign, and ls. on colonial. Gloves.-The duties of 45., 55., and 7s. have been respec tively reduced to 25., 2s. Gd., and ss. upon foreign, Is., Is. 3d., and 2s. Gd. upon British imports. Ores, Minerals, and Metals.-A general reduction of duty. Olives.-The present duty of £4 4s. reduced to 40, upon foreign, and 20s. upon British produce. Bark (for the use of tatiners).-The present duty of Bd. reduded to 6d. on foreign, and id. on British produce. Indigo.-The present duty of 4d. reduced one half upon British produce Only. • Silk and Manyaclures of Silk. 7 -The duty has been gene rally reduced '5O per cent. in favour of British imports. Upon foreign manufactured silks no material change. l'ar.-The present duty ,of 15s. has been reduced to 6s. upon foreign, and 3s. npop British produce. • Tic7erairie..---The present. duties of 4s. 4d.', ss. 4d.,' and £1 . 6s: 2d.; haVe been reduced generally to Is. upon foreign, ann 6d. upon . British produce. Bristles.-The present duty of . 31d. is reduced to 3d. on foreign, ails:l'lld. on British produce. . Cork.-The present duty of Bs. is reduced to 2s. on foreign, and on British produce. • Straw Plat.-The present duty of 17s. is reduced to ss. upon foreign, and 2s. 6d. on British imports. TallaW.The present duty of 3s. 2d. is reduced to 6d., and that of ls. on the produce of British possessions to 3d.. Duty. . - Timber.=-Canada timber Foreign Deals (cubical contents) Eathwood For the year ending the Foreign timber Deals • Lathwood Coffee.—The present duty of Is. 3d. is to be reduced upon all foreign coffee to Bd., and upon all the growth of British possessions to 4d. Mahogany.—The present duty of 30s. per ton upon that imported from the Bay of Honduras or the Mosquito Shore, as also that of £4 upon the growth of British posessions, is to be reduced to 10s.; while the duty of £5 upon that other wise imported is reduced to 30s. upon foreign, and 10s. on British produce. sth of April, 1844 SECOND RESOLUTION Resolved—That in lieu of all duties of customs payable on goods, wares, and merchandise exported from the united kingdom to foreign parts, there shall be levied the following duties outwards, viz.:— s. d. Clay; the cwt. Coal exported to any place, not being a Bri tish possession., in any ship, the ton Ores, for every £TOO of their value, 5 per cent. Wools and silks, the cwt. ... Manufactures, or pretended manufactures, slightly wrought up, so that the same may be reduced to, and made use of as wool again, mattresses or beds stuffed with combed wool, or wool,fit for combing or carding, the cwt. 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 THIRD RESOLUTION That tbe duties imposed in the foregoing, schedules on ar ticles other than spirits and timber shall be respectively sub- jest to the charge of five per cent. imposed by an act passed in the 3d year of her present Majesty, cap. 17 ; and the du. ties imposed in the foregoing schedules on spirits shall be subject to the additional rated charge laid on spirits by the said act, and the duties imposed in the foregoing schedules on timber to the additional charge irriposed by the act 3 and 4 Victoria, cap. 19. Mr. Hughes Hughes, the Hon. Secretary to the Times Testimonial Fuqd, a barrister, and formerly a member of the House of .Coinmons, is .a candidate for the office of town clerk of the city of London, with favourable prospects of success. THE BANK PARCEL ROBBERY.—Moody and King, the two men who stand charged with stealing upwards of £lOOO in notes from the Perseverance Bury coach, were brought up for examination at the Mansion-house, London, On Friday, and again remanded, Superintendent Berwick, of the Man chester police, having gained •some important information,* but which lie could not at present distinctly prove.. It has been ascertained that King left London on the 2.lith Feb., and returned by one of the early trains from Leeds, accom panied by a-female, who brought d painted deal box, sup. posed to contain the stolen property. Bills have been issued ` offering a reward to any person who will give inform a tion as", to where the prisoners had been lodging, for the last four of five days previous to their apprehension. BRIGHTON, MARCH 10TH.—The wrecks in the Clantnet. we are afraid will turn out to be very numerous. At present we' have beard of two, and in one of these cases, the whole of the crew, 8 in number, and 2 pilots, who had gone on board to conduct the vessel into the harbour, have unfortunately met with a watery grave. The vessel was the brig Economy, of Littlebampton, belonging to Mr. Thomas Isemonger, of •Littlehainpton, laden with coals from Sunderland, in burden about two. 2511 tons. Four or five other coal vessels were, yesterday, in the Littlebampton roads, and all succeeded in making the harbour. The Economy, however, .drew too much water, and was obliged to remain in the roads, waiting for the next tide. In the evening the hurricane, as we have stated, sprang up; and, notwithstanding the efforts of the captain and crew, the vessel has gone to the bottom, and not one of the crew was able to reach the shore. The master of the vessel was Captain IsetnOnger, brother of the owner. The second case occurred off Brighton, at 3 o'clock this afternoon. A shooner wcs seen in the Channel, in the morning about 10 miles at sea. A Shoreham life-boat put off to her assist ance. At 3 o'clock the life-boat could be .discovered return ing, but no trace of the schooner was visible. . It is con-. jectured that the crew have been taken into the life-boat, and that the vessel has gone to the bottom. The life-boat is at this moment returning, and is now (4 o'clock p.m.) 8 miles distant from land. : - ALARMING FIRE.—We stop the press to announce, that this morning at half-past three o'clock, a fire, which threatens most extensive conflagration, broke out in the drying-room of the extensive tobacco warehouse of Mr. W. 0. Brigg, on Welch-back. The fire-engines were rapidly on the spot, and were plied with incessimt energy by the firemen and the police ; but such was the mass of burning matter seated far in the rear of the building, that the flames are at this moment raging with fearful fury. At the moment we are writing the bells of the churches are giving the alarm, and the utmost consternation prevails for the safety of the adjacent premises. Half-past four.—The fire appears to be got under, and hopes are entertained• that the adjacent houses will be saved.— Bristol Journal, Saturday. USELESS KNOWLEDGE, OR EDUCATION WITHOUT RELI GION.—In the Central Criminal Court, some time since, two young men, John Wingfield and William Kennedy, the for mer 22, and the latter 24, were tried for a most extensive robbery committed by Wingfield, on his employers, aided by Kennedy, who received and disposed of the stolen goods. Both were young men of most respectable connections, (Wingfield heir to a considerable fortune,) both persons of genteel manners and appearance, both what is called " well educated ;" " but," said the recorder, in passing sentence of 14 years' transportation on each, " this is a melancholy case, affording another instance to those already, unhappily, so very numerous, that education, mere intellectual educatipn, WITHOUT A MORAL AND RELIGIOUS ONE, has very little hold upon the human mina." BURGLARY AND SPICIDE.—We have been. favoured ,by the Rev. George Beadon, vicar of Axbridge, with the follow ing particulars of an awful catastrophelhat occurred in his house a few days ago :—" On the evening of Sunday last, a light was perceived in the parsonage-house, when it .was sup posed that it would be empty, by the clergyman and his ser vant being at the evening service at the church. The neigh bours, with a kind promptitude, came to the door, and rang the bell, &c., and in a short time entered the house, both at the back and front. Before "any one was seen, the report of a pistol was heard, near the front door, and , on reaching that spotia yourfir-trarrr; well knoWn to all, was found lying dead, with a discharged pistol in his right hand, a loaded one in his pocket, and a stick, with lead at both ettds, by his side, and an iron instrument under the front door. It was concluded that, seeing escape to be impossible, he had shot himself. Not an article in the house was missing, or seemed displaced. No accomplice was discovered. An inquest was held on the body, and a verdict of self-destruction by a pistol returned. No ball was found in the other pistol. The body is now be ing privately buried in the church-yard . The young man was James Headford, about nineteen years of age, an appren tice of a smith residing in .the town. On his person were a life preserVer, eleven keys, a ' jemmy,' made on the best principle, one 'skeleton key, and picklocks of various descrip tions ; also the key of the front door, which had been lost about five weeks before, and by which no doubt the entrance was effected."—Bristol Journal. . • SCANDALOUS OUTRAGE.—The Re v . M ar k Clarke, •on Tuesday, received a letter from the Rev. Mark Galway, Rector of Clonbeg, requesting him to inter a protestant pa rishioner of his in the churchyard of Latice, of which parish the .Rev. Mr. Clarke is curate, under the Ecclesiastical Com- . missioners. Mr. G. stated in. his letter, that deceased (who was in his 84th year) had been a strict protestant, and that he attended him in his illness, and that in consequence of his having married a Roman Catholic, there had been a schism in the family, and that ia his last moments when he was in a state of insensibility, a priest was introduced, but his son. a prOtestant, requested that his father should be interred by the Rev. Mr. Galway. - Immediately on receipt of this let ter the Rev. Mr. Clarke went to Latice, and met the funeral at the churchyard gate, headed by three priests from the parish of Clonbeg. When Mr. Clarke began the service, one of the priests commenced reading also ; however. the former persevered until they came to the grave, though an noyed and interrupted in every way possible. While the grave was digging the priest came up to Mr. Clarke, and said he was surprised at his interfering, as deceased was a Roman Catholic. The rev. gentleman's reply was, " I attended in consequence of Mr. Galway's letter, stating to the contrary and am determined to do my duty:" Well, said the priest, you must take the consequences. " Boys (addressing the' crowd), I have done my part." The priests retired. When the coffin was place(' in the grave, immediately on Mr. Clarke resuming the service, he was set on tiy.a ferocious mob, who made a rush at him, and he was precipitated headlong into a' gravel-pit, on the brow of which the churchyard'is situated! lie was then obliged to retire, amidst the shouts and hisses' of the people, having received some bruises, but he is thank ful to.the Almighty, for having escaped with his life.—Lime rick Chronicle. Tlinkrrtit4toyAL, t#tvnripooL Vlldo the Management ANDE rtl4ON atul W. J. HAMMOND Second Price to all Parts of the House at Nine o'clock, T HIS present TUESDAY, March 15th/1842, MONEY. / And the PANTOMINIt. THURSDAY next, Marih 17th, A JUVENILE Nl(hiT. THE PANTOMIME EARLY IN THE EVENING First Price.—Lower Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. Gd. ; Pit, 2s. Gd. ; Gallery, ls. Second Price.—Lower Boxes, 2s. Gd. ; Upper Boxes, 25.; Pit, Is. Gd.; Gallery, Gd. ROYAL LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH. STREET LAST WEEK OF THE SEASON BUT TWO. THIS present TUESDAY, thelsth, and TO-MORROW (Wednesday), the 16th instant, THE MAID OF CROISSEY; Or, Theresa's Foiv. _ _ _ Theresa Sergeant Austerlitz. Walter . Madlle. Celeste Mr. Webster. Mr. Strickland. After which, TEIE WOMAN HATER. Baron Ravenspurg Mr. Webster. Stork Mr Strickland Lelia Blumenthal To be succeeded by a new Interlude, called JOHN JONES. Guy Goodluck Mr. Strickland The whole to conclude with THE CHILD OF THE WRECK. Maurice .... (the Dumb Boy) .... Madlle. Celeste Griendel Frantz FRENCH STAY AND CORSET ESTABLISHMENT, 122, BOLD-STREET, FOUR DOORS ABOVE COLQUITT-STRLrET•_ MRS. CUTTEII;;to inform the LadieS of Liverpool and its Vicinity, that in consequence of the increased patronage her improved system of Stay and Corset making bas received, it is her intention to be in' attendance every day from Eleven to Five o'clock, in order to assist in fitting those Ladies who may prefer her persopal attendance, and begs to assure them she will spare no expense in producing the most elegant•fitting and highly finished description of Stays, constructed so as to remove the injurious and deform ing pressure so justly complained of by the Faculty. . . Mrs. C. particularly .directs the attention of Mothers to the great importance of having' well-constructed Stays for growing Girls, which would, in many cases, prevent the -ge neral, though in its first development trifling - , deformity in their figures. Invalid and Gestation Stays and Belts on Sale, or Made to order. Two Respectable Young Females wanted as out-do. APPRENTICES tEbe Zitirrpool ~ tail barb. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1842. Whilst we cordially approve, in its general features, of the financial measure of Sir Robert Peel, as brought before the House of Commons on Friday—(although we by no means pledge ourselves, at present, to its de tails)—there is one portion of it, in the good policy of which we cannot by any means coincide. We allude to the duty of 4s. per ton proposed to be levied upon coals exported from Great Britain, which we are pre pared to show will be one peculiarly injurious to our shipping interest, and, beyond the trifling revenue to be derived from it, affording no 'countervailing advan tages to the manufacturing interest, for whose protec tion it is ostensibly intended. The pressure, however, upon our space and time to-day will not allow us to do more than briefly allude to it ; but on Friday we shall endeavour to enter fully into the subject. The Liverpool Albion, yesterday, has a long leader, in his - peculiar vein, upon the subject of the financial measure of Sir Robert Peel, in which he demonstrates, to his own satisfaction, we presume, the infinite supe riority of that proposed in the last session of Parlia ment by Lord Melbourne's administration ; and enunciates the startling and hitherto undiscovered fact that the proposed modification of our commercial tariff is merely an adoption of the principles put forward originally by that administration ! With respect to the proposed income tax, however, we are to be treated bye and bye with an immense commotion. The middle classes, against whom that tax is directed, our contem porary maintains, have a dire horror of the tax gatherer, "whose ghost the constituencies who elected Tories, and the tradespeople who shouted Sandon and Douglas,' will be amazed to encounter so soon again." "No one qualified for statesmanship," ex claims the Albion, " could suppose for a moment that any premier could impose, under existing circumstances, an income tax, and retain office beyond the tenure of his own parliament." In fine, Sir Robert Peel has committed - himself irretrievably; - and " if the . Liberal's do not now stultify themselves they will again have the ball at their own feet "! What a pity to dash ..so flattering a prospect as this must be to Whig expectants llow the fingers of the .hutigry . tribe must itch as they read this sage diatribe ! We are compelled, however, at the risk of dissipating this pleasant delusion, to whisper to our contemporary the fact that,.whether 'the Liberals stultify themselves or not, the ball is as far from their feet, or further, than it was previbus to this suicidal measure of Sir Robert Peel's government. The people of England may pos sibly'make a few wry faces at the presence of the tax. gatherer, and the patriotic middle classes may long to button their pockets and shut their doors in his face ; but they wily not forget whose malversations have cre ated the imminent necessity for his odious presence ! Before proceeding to lay before our readers the ge neral features of that comprehensive scheme of finan cial reform which has just been laid before Parliament,. as the result of the convictions arising from a dispas- Sionate examination of the position of the country, by the conservative ministers of the crown, we cannot hut express the regret which we feel at our inability to transfer verbatim to our columns the able and con vincing address of the right honourable baronet in which it was conveyed. The great majority of our readers, however, we are satisfied, will already have taken an opportunity of perusing it in the columns of our London contemporaries, by whom it has been very . fully and ably reported ; and referring that portion of our readers who have not had the opportunity or the leisure for such a perusal, to the sketch of it which will be found in another part of our paper, we shall now endeavour to bring its leading principles, the grounds upon which they are based, and their practical bearing, in a distinct and intelligible form before them. And, first, let us look at the financial position of the country, with which, upon their assumption of office, the present ministry had to deal. In the spring of last year the Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. F. T. Baring, in bringing his annual statement before the House of Commons, estimated the deficiency of reve nue, as compared with expenditure, at £2,421,000, which he propoSed to meet, in part, by a reduction of the sugar and timber duties, and the imposition of a fixed duty of Bs. per quarter upon foreign wheat, still leaving a considerable balance, together with the accu mulations of deficiencies in former y ears, entirely un covered. That plan, our readers Will remember, was rejected, and from its reiectipi!_ resulted the overthrow of LOM MeilMurne's adMinistration. In the financial year ending the sth of April, 1843, the deficiency is estimated by Sir Robert Peel to amount to an addi tional £2,569,000, taking even the most favourable view of the resources of the country. To the defi ciencies of these two years, hoWever, are to be added those of four years preceding; and, for the sake of perspicuity, we will place the whole before the reader in a tabular form : In the year ending April 5, 1838, deficiency was £1,428,531 „ „ 1839, do. 430,325 „ „ ~ 184 0 , do. 1,457,223 „ 1841, do. 1,851,997 „ ” ~ 1842, (estimated) 2,334,559 If ~ ~ ~ 1843, (certain deficy.) 2,570,000 Total deficiency in six years .. £10,072,000 In addition to this accumulated deficiency of TEN MILLIONS, as the result of ten years of Whig legisla tion, which were commenced with a considerable sur plus revenue, it is shown also by Sir Robert that in the administration of affairs in India, the same incapable legislators have reduced the net revenue of that great empire from a surplus of £1„520,000, in 1836, to a de ficiency in the past and present year expected to be not. Jess than £4,700,000, or, in round numbers, FIVE MILLIONS NIORE! With such a state of our finances then, as applied to India and to Great Britain, we have before us the certain prospect of wars in India and in China—wars to be carried on at vast distances from the seat of our resources, and which, if we must carry them on with a due regard to the reasonable safety of the troops employed and of the honour of the empire, we must no longer treat as " little wars ;" besides these external difficulties we have at home an unbar raued enrnmerea rola enfr6rirsa industry; and it be. came, therefore, in the estimation of Sir Robert Peel and his Conservative colleagues, their duty to look all these facts and all these difficulties manfullyaon the face, and to set about providing for them an effectual and prompt remedy. The time was now come in which peddling legislation, small expedients, and jug gling legerdemain would no longer avail ; in which the evil must be sternly and resolutely handled ; and in which regard for the fame and the safety of England could no longer be trifled with and postponed. To meet this state of things Sir Robert Peel has called upon the patriotism of his fellow-countrymen for a direct tax upon the property and the income .of the country. Experience has shown that the produ cing and consuming power of the nation is no longer susceptible of being made to sustain an increased bur den of taxation. A reference to the statistical tables furnished by the right honourable baronet, the sub stance of which will be found in our columns, will show that, whilst an increase of the rate of duty im posed upon articles of consumption has almost totally failed to produce revenue, a reduction of duty upon many articles has almost equally disappointed the ex pectations of statesmen. The additional 5 per cent. put upon the Customs and Excise by the late Chancel lor of the Exchequer has produced little more than per cent. increase; whilst, with one or two excep tions, the reductions which have been made in late years, and from which increased consumption and in creased revenue were anticipated, have resulted in a considerable loss to the income of the country. In ad dition to these considerations, the magnitude of the amount required, to enable the ministry to extricate the country effectually from it's embarrassments, has sug gested direct taxation upon property as the only step which would at the same time bring in the immediate revenue required and place them in a position to'legis late for the relief of the commerce and the industry of the people. With these views Sir Robert proposes that a tax be levied, terminable in three years, unless otherwise de termined by Parliament, at the rate of 7d in the pound, or £2. 18s. 4d. per cent. upon the property and the in come of the country,—exenipting, however, all in comes which do not reach £l5O a year. In estimating the amount of this tax, the right honourable baronet divides the objects of taxation into five classes or sche dules : The first, or Schedule A, embraces the profits or rents of land, the rents of houses, the tithes, dividends arising from railways, canals, &c., and the profits of mines and ironworks; and under these heads he estimates the total amounts as follow, viz Rent of land.. Rent 'of houseS £39,400,000 25,000,000 - 8,400,000 Tithes. shares, mimes, &c, £72,800,000 Upon this amount, deducting one-fourth for incomes under £l5O per annum, the duty will £1,600,000 The second, or Schedule B, embraces the profits in respect of lands occupied, which Sir Robert takes at one-half the rental,—(the calculation under the old income-tax was three-fourths,) — and which, deducting one-fourth for profits under Xl5O a-year or rentals under £3OO, where the occupiers have no other sources of income, he supposes will produce.... The third, or Schedule C, relates to capital in the public funds and securities, which is estimated to amount (omitting capital in saving-banks) to £30,000,000, and which, deducting one fourth for incomes under £l5O a-year, will produce an annual duty of The fourth, or Schedule D, embraces profits of trades and professions, which are estimated to be yearly £56,000,000, the duty upon which will be, deducting one-fourth as before, . . The fifth, or Schedule E, embraces the income of all public officers, estimated at £7,000,000 an nually, the duty upon which, deducting one: fourth, will be The total produce of the duty proposed may there fore be estimated as follows, viz Schedule A Schedule B. Schedule C. Schedule D. Schedule E. 150,000 646,000 1,220,000 155,000 £1,600,000 15Q,000 646,000 1,220,000 155,006 Total income duty.... £3,771,000 For the levying, of this tax in Great Britain the ma chinery already exists ; but the same remark 'does-not apply to Ireland. Upon this and other grounds the ministry propose to exclude that country from its ope ration, except so far as the incomes derivable from land, &c. in Ireland are spent in England, when the absentee will be taxed equally with the English land owner, thus holding out a bonus for landowners in Ireland to reside'upon their property in that country. In consideration, however, of this exemption, the stamp duties levied in Ireland are to be equalised in some cases with those of Great Britain, and a shilling additional is to be placed upon spirits, making the duty, at present 2s. Bd. per gallon, equal to that charged in Scotland—viz., 3s. Bd. per gallon. The amount derivable from stamps is estimated at £160,000 and from spirits £200,000. It is further proposed to impose a duty of 4s. per ton upon all coals exported from the united kingdom, whe ther borne in foreign,or in British bottoms. At pre sent a duty of 4s. is payable upon this article shipped in foreign vessels. The operation of the reciprocity treaties has, however, decreased the productiveness of this duty from £50,000 a year in 1831 to £6,900 only in 1840, whilst the quantity .of coals exported has in creased from 356,000 tons in the former year to 1,307,000 in the latter. By reimposing the duty, and making it bear equally upon British and foreign ship.; ping, it is expected that d duty will be derived of £200,000 a year. The entire produce of .new taxes may be recapitu lated then as follows, viz. : Income tax (in round numbers) Stamp duties, Ireland.... Spirit duties, Ireland 250,000 Export of coal Total new taxes. Deduct from this amount [the estimated deficiency of income:as compared with estimated expenditure 2,570,000 And a surplus will remain of £1,740,000 applicable to a reduction of duties by a re-modification of our commercial tariff, or to contingericies unforeseen. We come now to the reductions of duty proposed by Sir Robert Peel for the relief of the producing and consuming classes. Into this part of the subject, how ever, we are not at present able to go seriatim, inas much as the details of the entire plan, comprising a complete re-modification of our 'exi.Wny commercial tariff, are not as yet brought before us. We lake, however, the chief:headS . Of reatietiOn aSstated . bj the right hon. baronet. . In entering upon this modification of the tariff the government proposes, "in the first instance, the re moval or relaxation of all duties of a prohibitory nature; and, secondly, a reduction of the duties upon the raw materials for manufactures to a very considerable ex tent"—in some instances retaining only a nominal duty for the purpose of statistical information, and in very few cases imposing more than five per cent. Of 1,200 articles of consumption it is proposed to reduce the duty upon 750. Upon the remaining 450 articles no alterations are to be made, except in some cases where the duties are only retained at pre sent to be made the subject of future modifications 'in favour of countries with whom commercial treaties are pending. Amongst the d ut i es so i n a b eyance are those upon French Wines, brandy, &c., 'and the products of Spain, Portugal, and South America. The amount of loss to the revenue from all these reductions is esti mated at £270,000 per annum. • We have been told, with some evidences of glee, by the Whig-Radical press, that it was the intention of Sir Robert to " throw over" the West India interest, and to propose an extensive reduction of the duties on foreign sugar. It is, therefore, with some pleasure, and with hearty concurrence in the views which have induced his determination, that we find no such re- duction amongst those brought before parliament on Friday night. As . a boon, however, to the consuming classes and, to some extent, a propitiation to the de- mands of the Brazilian and Cuban planters, it is pro posed, in the first instance, to reduce the duty. upon British colonial coffee, from 6d. to 4d., and:to adMit foreign coifee, imported direct to thiS country, di fluty of B d. per lb., instead of ls. and as paid al: pre sent if imported direct, or 9d. per lbjf.sent . ro4o iy