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. • - ~ /72 ./ zit") ./ NlArtcH 8,18 A. f-tnprriaL 4iiintairtcnt. HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY (Continued front the Stan.lard of .Friday.) PRIsoNEns COL NsEL BILL. 'rue house un the motion. of Mr. Wiz Ewart went into comteit Pe on this bill. '['be clause ring to prisoners 'the right of hving defended when charged ore a justice of the peace by counsel, attorneys or agents was negatived; 110' voting for autli9:l against it. The other clauses were agreed to add the house resumed. CORPORATION OF PoOLR., Mr. Poulter's motion for the ap- Poiutment of a select . ctiniMittee to inquire into the circum stances attending theelection of the municipal town-council of route wa s negatived by a majority of I'2B against and 70 fur that proposition. The house adjourned at one o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS.. THURSDA Y. MI% BERNAL brought up the report of a select committee of the House of Commons appointed last session to inquire into the subject of bribery at - elections. Petitions were presented by Lord Hatherton, from Berwick, praying for poor laws in Ireland; by Lord Wyuford from the owners of land in the hundred of Dartford, Kent, complaining of attricultural distress; by Lord Ellenborough from a place in Cumberland against the probate clause of the ecclesiastical totals bill; by Lord Ashburton, from the guardians of the poor or a union in Norfolk praying for amendment in the poor taw a mendment act; by the Duke of Newcastle from East Retford c enaplaining of the spirit duties (Ireland) act, and praying for t he repeal of some of its provisions, and by Lord Vernou, from a body of protestant dissenters praying for relief. On the motion of Lord Wvnford,•as chairman of the agricul tural committee, certairrrettirns of paper money, issued by the Bank of England, for the last ten yea's, were ordered, as well as, for a like.neritl, the amount of bullion in the coffers of the Bank, and the amount of deposits. ORANGE LODGES. At the request of the Earl of Winchil s,ea, the Marquis of Londonderry postponed his motion to Mon "Y, fur a message to be sent to the li , use of Commons, re questing the report of the Select Committee on Orange Lodges • with the minutes of the'evidence given'. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY. `Leave was given to. bring in the Durham South West Juric 7 tion Railway BilL Petitions - were presented to the. house by Captain Gordon , rout Aberdeen, against the equalization of the timber duties; by Sir It. Ferguson. from the dissenters of Nottingham praying for relief, and anodic - r from the mayor and corporation of the same town praying for an alteration so that part of the munici pal reform bill which requiFed a declaration from dissenters be fore they could fill any office to-Which they might be elected ; by - Mr. Bernal from the licensed victuallers of Chatham against the duty on spirit licensa; by Mr. Sliiiiinan Crawford, from a parish in Ireland, praying for the "total extinction of tithes in name and reality ;" and by Mr. Leonard from a place in Essex, complaining of dissenters grievances. Tistnim DUTIES.. Mr. RoniNsoN presented a petition from Nova Scotia; against the scale of duties recommended by the select committee of the timber duties. He expressed his entire concurrence in the views of the petitioners. The proposed al teration, in his opinion, would inflict seriousinjury on the ship- P i ng interests, .without conferring the slightest benefit on the Public. On the contrary, he was convinced that the consumer Would be a loser, instead of 4 gainer, by it. As a commercial !nail, he thought that the public had a right to know what the ntentions of the government were. He thought it extremely hard that the government could not answer the question put the other night, whether or not they intended to bring forward IU ItlY question on the subject in the course of the present session ? his opinion the.question in importance yielded to none, not "en to that of agriculture itself. ..He th . ought, therefore, it 9ught to he brought forward at an early period of the session— if at ali—and not at a period when there would be but a thin attendance ofinembera. He trusted - thaWheathe question was Drought forward, an opportunity would be given for its due co nsideration, and that members would not allow their votes, I Pcm a question which affected the best interests of the coon ,ry 1 and the colonies, to be swayed by any party feeling. He trusted they would not read the evidence of the committee par for he was convinced that • no impartial man who read that evidence carefully could bring his mind to consider that a ny alteration of the timber duties was necessary. He could Illet but call to the attention el the house to the great length of time that had elapsed between the making of the report of the select committee on the timber duties, and its being printed and delivered. 8 4fter a few words from Mr.. Roebuck, Mr. Young, and Lord radon, the petition was ordered to lie on the table. I BOROUGH OF P ats LEY. A new writ was ordered for the bo- V4agb of Paisley, in the room of Alexander Spiers, Esq., who (1 accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. CHURCH RATES.—Sir ROBERT PEEL asked Lord J. Rus sELL wheth er h e i n t e nted to bring forward any measure on the su.ltject of church rates, and when? Lord John Russell le- Phed after the Easter recess. Poott RetrEs.—Mr. Powlett Scrope brought in a bill to pro- N' i ,ide for th e levy Of the poor and highway rates in all parishes °' England and Wales upon a uniform system of valuation and assessment. COUNTY BUSINESS (IRELAND.) — Sir R. Musgrave obtained e ave to bring in a bill to improve the system of grand jury pre ''eirments in Ireland. POOR LAWS FOR IRELAND.—Mr. W. O'BRIEN obtained leave to b r i ng i n a bill to provide for the destitute poor of Ire land. iieuelia.caLo:r DuT tEs (IN Dis) uRAH A m moved for a ge- L u A in g it r t e e e e d to to i . oquire into the state of the salt monopoly in P UBLIC REVENUES.—Mr HumE moved for returns connect " With the public revenue.—Ordered. The Slave Compensatiou Bill was read a second time. , The Stafford DisfrauChisethent73ill was read a second time. ourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY. n T he Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Exche .. ikr bills hill, th, e transfer of Aids bias the Dean Forest bill, 4i:l33Cwine priv a t e hill s : ISHOFRICK OF DCHHANI.—The Marquis of LoNnotinininv, afßishop a high tribute of respect to the memory of the late p of Durham for his piety and munificence, would suggest to Lord Melbourne, before q the ecclesiastical report was laid uPon the - Cible, to Consider the peeTitiai - eiteithsifiti 'which the county of Durhatn.was placed. The bishop had always enter tained the judges. Now if the sheriff, were to have that char,e attached to the office it would be very heavy; and in conse quence of there being so few indepewlcut landed g entlemen re 4nlent iu that county, when once the routine had been ex haiisted, it would he difficult to find persons quAlitiod 'to exer cise the office of high sheriff. These.were topics he ventured to, Sugg est for the consideration of the noble lord, anti he hoped that the funds,olthe see would be retained sniEcietnly large to 'liabl e future prelates to exercise . a becoming dignity. - Lord Melb ourn e concurred in the just euloginin pronounced by the boble marquis on.the late Bishop of Durham. The report of 111 e commissioners had been signed on that very day. H e 'lusted that the arrangement made would be found satisfactory beneVial to the see. L , rd GLENELG brought in a bill for the better administra ofjta,tiee t , in the colonies.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. --Term. C RItAILVi A Y HOUSE, motion of Mr. WARD, the London and `- On railway bill was read a second time. On the ne tion of Mr. AesTiirst, the London and Blackwell 1' l Way bill a as, read a second time, A petition from the corn- Vssioners of high Ways against the last bill was presented by COUN TY OF CA rt Low.—Mr. WA L L ACE presented three peti tions from f, eeho'ders of the couniy of Carlow, complaining of n PPeessi in on the part of Colonel Bruen towards them, on ac „onut cf th e vo n s they had _giveu at the late election for that e - - ,•, 6 f ' t , 4l tY• The hist was from Wtn. Murray, an elector, a tenant for',done' Bruen, who had also served him as '• rent driver ;" 1 „ the vote lie had ' given, this man had been dismissed from his e""cy, and fro m an office worth LIU a-year paid to him for 78ervices as a collector of rents, &e. The second - Was from Murphy another tenant. ef the gallant officers. In 0 O - this man voted for the reform candidate, and in rouse- . • nce of having d o ne se, was deprived of part of his posses ; they were restored to him in 1b32, on a-promise that he vote for Colonel Bruen and his colleague. His eon iscienc„, however, would not suffer him to do as he had pro- O"pt, and the consequence Was, that he was removed from the u T'he hadeultivated with his own hands. The third petition as ,siened by 19 out of 22 tenants of Mr. Alexander. This ELR'eta4n induced his tenants, the petitioner, to vote, as he ,kuselt voted, in 1831 for, the radical candidates.. In 1835 he L a nged his politics, and vote 4 for Colonel Bruen and Mr. C v anee,h,,ancl lecause they, the petitioners, would not follow e 'B example,. they were all suhjected tags the most vexatious and I :rusire law proceedings adopted inst them. The hon. thsseber concluded by. saying that some means of inquiring into th e e transactions, should be adopted by the house, in order „ at. they tome to some decision en the subject, and if eessary, some measure for ,the protection of the electors of Barlow shOuld be introduced. Benere. for himself and the other landlords of Carlow, er,_senked Mr. Wallace for bringing this subject before the house. 0 , 11 Colonel then read a letter from his land agent, detailing ;le facts of the terse of the first petitioner. In 1821, two years' 4et 't had been forgiven him, and a reduction of five shillings an -ere had been made to him on the plea of his poverty. In 1 7 , 4 . . , he. ()wed an arrear of £B3 2s. 6d. In. the April of that „ ••I lie was ejected, but he redeemed the land by paying up the err e • „t,rear with die exception of a balance of L 4 15s. 2d. 'I he p'ea beenvey was found to have been untrue. The man' had never that employed on the estate in any capacity ! except being told if ha, protected the game somethiug, perhaps, would be hiul. With respect to Murphy, he was to pay a rent of tSo a-year, which he allowed to accumulate to the amount of the in fact, he paid what and when he pleased like the rest of the tenant s . He had several letters from Murphy expressing te ° leepest gratitude . fot the forbearance shown him on several th fi easi "s• The Colonel then read en extract from a letter from ti -5 " - in•law of' the petitioner, in which.he says, " with refer b , u to the management of the estate, a receiver was appoinied Court of Chancery, .during`the• minority of his brother 1n ►t o : Wi and. the assentemder . the .Court; was compelled to te le th e such tenants as were either unwilling or unable to pay , their rents to the Court.; with this you had nothing to do. eti ocar, ) How Mr. Alexander, the gentleman complain vviisf, might think proper to proceed with those of his tenants er refused; to,pev either tithe or rent. was not for him (Col. 13:) any one else to inquire. But he knew that, to nu man was 4: ll:'dild more iudehted than to Mr. Alexander for the extraor- G7, 4 r3' impravemonts. he had made in an extensive district. He I ,' l l built- the most extensive mills in Ireland; a handsome Ill'ioeise for himself, with comfortable houses inhabited by a nu tint.,?us, bapPY, anti grateful tenantry, in constant employnient, or Or their sins, Father Kehoe torned politician. The effects e eti .l B pious labours may be gathered in some degree from the non. Alexander still remains the same kind and liberal elanLe that his acts have proved him ; but lie does not choose to e (it ,, b ,edit and sold, AO has the hardihood to say so openly. Rt , t u_nel Bruen then proceeded to state that he had received, allegations from both in letters and affidavits contradicting - the tr , l ' l LTations of Mr. `Vi , petition in every particular. After vto.il!enting at some leugth on these documents, time house aft :id Observe that a number of idle and disorderly people, had Th is l !nicle kindness and generosity shown ahem, been removed. tu th e eyes of the political priests, was an offence not to be b ee 'l l • iv !qi• Their consequence and their power as a;Yitators had th e !mPaired. These were the deluded people at whose head pee ry, sts the country in all di- Placed themselves, and scoured Pei s i "S• by day and by night; they sallied forth from the cha- Rie u :" l 'he Sabbath-day, having. first duly iiiflamed their reli ihr--;,2e4% ahema the freeholders at the head of mobs, ati;; - ,f"ing with death, and destruction to their houses ve en ruPerties it' they did not vote for their . priests and their Te ets 1 7- Colonel Brkien then gave a graphic sketch of the ef-, ra Ltes o i Priestly insolent domination in . Ireland, .and . the out ' exer committed upon all who dared dispute . their will , by the for el 'e of their ten judament. Take, continued the Colonel,' weexaceple th e ' tr an s ac tions of the last few years in Carlow and Liv e been hawked abOut like a bale of goods to every fair fe, e ,market in the country,: we have been offered to one, tipre f and forced upon a third, till we have become to re dill , in th e mar k e t . The patriot in Ireland, the radical eilas n g b iiiii, have both been eqnally deaf to the voice of the et 4 Possibly. the liberal of SCotland may have had his ul tidu tickled by glowing descriptions of this safe speculation TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1836. By the Echo, Captain MALLETT, which arrived at this port on Saturday from New Orleans, we have important and extremely disastrous news from Mobile and the southern limits of North America. The Echo sailed on the 30di January, on which day a New Orleans paper published the following extract from the Mobile Chro nicle : • • "There are various rumours in this city from the seat of In dian warfare, that Tallahassee has been surprised and sacked — that Apalachicola is in the possession of the savage enemy, and that C.,lumbus is likely to share the disastrous fate of the Florida towns and fortifications." 1 In addition to this it is stated, that the Captain of the Echo was informed, when he was on the point of sailing, that racial despatches had reached New Orleans, an nouncing that Tallahassee had been taken by the In dians, and that the inhabitants, to the number of 2,000 persons, had been murdered in cold blood by the savages. it is also said that the Indians have joined the blacks, that both have received arms from a vessel hovering of the coast, and that dreadful enormities had been committed upon the whites in all directions. We sincerely hope that these accounts are exaggerated. In our second edition of Friday •we were enabled to publish the last special message of Mr. PresidentlAcK.- sox to Congress in relation to the proffered mediation of England. We repaint it here. "The government of Great Britain has offered its mediation for the.adjustmeut of the dispute between the United States and France. Carefully guarding that point in the controversy, which, as it involves our honour and independence, admits of no compromise, I have cheerfully amepted the Offer. It will be obviously improper to resort even to the mildest measures of a compulsory character unit it is ascertained that France has declined fir accepted the tnediaiion. I therefore recommend a suspension of all proceedings on that part of my special mes sage of tyl rith of January last which proposes a paitial non intercourse with France. ' " White we cannot too highly appreciate the elevated and highly-disinterested motives of the offer of Great Britain, we have a just reliance upon the great influence of that power to restore the relations of ancient friendship between the United States and France—and know too that our own peaceful policy wilt be strictly adhered to until the national honour compels us to depart from it. We should be inseusible to the exposed con dition of our country, and forget the lessons of experience,if we did not sualciently and sedulously prepare for an adverse result. "The peace of a nation dues not depend exclusively upon its own will, nor upon the beneficient policy of neighbouring powers; and that nation which is found totally unprepared for the exigencies and dangers of war—although it came without having given warning of its approach—is criminally negligent or its honour and duty. I cannot too strongly repeat the re commendation already made to place the sea board in a proper state for defence, and promptly to provide the means for amply protecting our commerce. "ANDREW JACKSON: " Washington, Februarq 8,183 C." All that we can substract front the above is that it is a very flimsy excuse; for procrastination which cannot possibly lead to any good results. Lord PALMEnSTON'S hand is visible in it. The President declares that no fluffier apology or explanation can be wrested from him, and in the state in which the new French ministry are placed we contend that they dare mot pay the money. What then ? We have Corfu papers to the 25th January, from one of which we extract the speech of the Lord High Com missioner, Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS, to the Legislative Assembly, at the close of the .session, on the 23d Ja nuury •: "Mot Excellent president—Most Noble Signors,—The ses sion which is abotit - toc%io will always be distinguished in the parliamentary history of these states us a business-like, harmo nious, and useful meeting, in which measures have been adop ted and completed of the first and greatest importani•e to the welt-being; of the country; and which cannot fail to produce permanent advantage to the lonian population. You have adopted Unanimously, and so brought to a happy conclusion, a measure, honourable alike, to the protector and the protected, for fixing the amount of the contribution to be paid by the lonian States, in lieu of separate payments for mili tary protection, and which settles most advantageously to these islands a difficult and long-contemplated arrangement. I thank you in the name of the protecting sovereign for your unanimous, prompt, and grateful adoptitin of that proposition The gracious and generous spirit in which that proposition was conceived, and the terms in which it was expressed,' are so marked and explicit as to preclude the possibility of misinterpretation ; but, should any doubts arise in construing the terms of that ar rangement, I hesitate nut to assure you, in the name of my gra cious King, the Sovereign and Protector of these states, and on the part of his ministers, in the sense too in which I inn sure the great and magnanimous nation to which I have the honour to belong would pronounce, and fur myself I most ex plicitly declare, that any such doubts will receive a construction the most favourable to these states. . . . . " You have adopted unanimously andpatriotically the project which has been submitted to you for the improvement of agri culture, that great basis of the public wellbeing, and for the encciuragement of industry throughoUt these states. You have concurred unanimously,: liberally, and philanthropically in ar rangements for more generally diffusing over the population of all these states the hletiAiigS and benefits of general education, and for giving effica4 dird extension to tho. seminaries in which learning and science, adaptcd to the wants of society and suited to the necessitieS and dignity of the state, may be disseminated. You have adn'tfe'd Measures which firm the first step in the great ohjeei 8f intro'dneing gradually and generally the Greek :ISt . but this is not the first, second, or third time, that we hac'e been put up to auction, and here we are at last, knocked down like a lot by 13 r. George Itoliins. In conclusion, Col. Biuen said, "I put it to the house—is not all this enough to authorise and earnestly to call upon his majesty's government to grant this commission, not on;y that the liberty of the elector may be secured, but that all his majesty's loyal subjects may be pro tected from outrages that would disgrace Barbary." The petition was ordered to lie on the table. N AVY EST I ATES.—Mr. C. Wont), in a committee of supply, moved the navy estimateS, the - chief feature.of which was an in crease of the navy to the extent of 5,01:0 men. Sir B. Peel, Lord Duill4 Stewart, Sir E. Codringtnn, Lord Palmerston and others, supported the increase, maintaining, that such was the conduct of Russia, in particular, that the navy of England ought to be maintained in a most efficient state. In the course of remarks on the resolution regarding the pay, Sir J. GRAHAM expressed the hope that the pay of the petty officers might be increased,.as an inducement to men to volun teer into the naval service. He adverted to a rumour, hoping it was not true, that Lord Auckland, previously to becoMing Lord of the Admiralty, had stipulated for a retiring pension of £2,000 a-vear. UME observed that if there had been any such bargain it was not reputable to the governm,ent, and trusted that it would be contradicted. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER answered that the statement had been very disingenuously made. Lord Auck land had a sinecure of £l - ,000; and a pension of £6OO, both for life. He resigned both to become First Lord of the Admiralty, and therefore, considering his circumstances, there was nothing dishonest or unjust in the transaction. - Lord Howtcx and Lord J. RUSSELL spoke to the like effect. The estimates were agreed to, and the house adjournedto Monday (yesterdas.) GRAND SELECTION OF SACRED MUSIC. • UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR. AND OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE LIVERPOOL FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY. MR. G. HOLDEN respectfully announces his intention of giving a PERFORMANCE 'on au extensive scale, of SACRED MUSIC, selected from ttie most celebrated COir= posers. Principal Vocal PerVormers : Miss HARDMAN, (Of the Manchester Concerts,) Mr. PEARSALL, (Of the Birmingham Concerts,) Mr. WALTON, and Mr. MACHIN. Leader—Mr. ALDRIDGE. The names of other principal Performers will be shortly an nounced.. The Band, (including all the leadinv. talent of the town,) will be upon au extensive scale, and the Chorus will be full and ealcient. The Petformance will take place at the THEATRE ROYAL, on TnasDAY EVENING, the 29th March, and parti culars, with the Scheme, wit! be given as soon as the arrange ments are completed. 44, Staffbrd-street. ; il.ll ; • LIVER THEATRE, ClitiltQH-STREET. mISS HAMILTON has the honour to announce that • her BENEFIT NIGHT is fixed - FRIDAY, next, the 11th instant, when the following pieces will be performed:— THE WATER WITCH, First time these three year, Arleta de .Bwhare, Miss Hamilton, with the admired ballads of "Come -dwell'with me," " Through the wood," and, first time - in Liverpf", " Pin o'er ynung to marry yet." The other principal cha cterS'hy'Mr. Hammond and Mr. and Mrs. LeClercq. After which, a favourite interlude, in which Mrs. Raymond will appear. To conclude with THE PRESS-GANG • Or, ARCHIBALD OF THE WRECK. The principal characters hy . Miss Hamilton, Mrs. Herbert, and 'Mr. Rae. In the course of the evening a variety of Songs and other Entertainments will be introduced, which will be particularised in the bills of the day. - Places to he taken, and Tickets to be had at,the Box-office of the Theatre, and of Miss HAMILTON, No. 34, Russell street. Ebc ;'libtrpool g-tattharb. _._ / _. THE LIVERPOOL STA:A.R.D. as the sole recognised language of all official proceedings within these states anti that of the protecting power, as the only lan guage to be used as the medium of translation whenever the national tongue shall become by law the official language. You have sanctioned unanimously the adoption of a measure for making current here the coin of a nation with some of the do minions of which these states carry on a considerable traffic, and you have thereby provided for an extension of commerce, for which the geographical position of these states is so favour able, and to increase which in every way my best efforts will ever be directed, in co-operation with the most excellent the Senatethe supreme executive power of the state, whose study, amongst the other occupations of that enlightened body, is di rected to secure to the people all the advantages which a sound commercial system is calculated to ensure. "In releasing you from your labours, which have been brought to this happy and harmonious conclusion, I expreSs with the greatest satisfaction my entire approbation of the very enlightened and efficient manner in which you have discharged your parliamentary labours, " With a retrospect I shall look forward with confidence and plea Sure to a continuation of that spirit of harmony for which ymirdeliberations have been so distinguished. You will retur❑ to your homes, and re-enter your local societies, taking with You tlie consciousness of having well done your duties to your country in this short but useful abscence. Under these influ ences you will enjoy, and, by your example, promote, union and harmony in your respective islands, and throughout these states generally; and when we meet again in this place the same spirit and desire will, I doubt not, prevail to advance the interests of these islands severally, to consolidate their union, and to cement the connection which so happily subsists between the lonian States and that great nation under whose wings you are placed, and which connection it will be my consiant desire to make in the highest degree advantageous to you, and honour able to my gracious . King, your Sovereign Protector. "By command of his Excellency, (Signed) • "J. FEAsErt, "Secretary to the Lord nigh Commissioner." The lord of the Carlow swineherd—the driver of the Carlow priests—who deals in the one on the account of the other—that is to • say the friend of RAPHAEL, who offered a baronetcy to the " most incomprehensible of all imaginable vagabonds," is as near as possible upon the brink of being kicked.out of the House of Commons by the committee on the Dublin election. We at least in fer as much from the explicit nature of the resolutions. All the objections urged by his counsel have been over ruled, as far as they have gone, and these are of vital importance. The paving rate has been declared a mu nicipal rate. The necessity of paying, in order to qua lify as an elector of Dublin, has been affirmed ; and no thing now remains'but to strike off such votes as by the decision of the committee have been found to be inadinis sible, in order to pass DANIEL over to Ireland as an im postor, there to find a new constituency in the best way he can, for never again, while he lives, will he or Rum- VEN be the representatives of Dublin. The pretexts under which O'CoNNELL has managed to sit for more than twelve months, as the member for that city, are only worthy of himself, and - they are conse quently exceedingly disgraceful; but they also reflect small - credit on the House of Commons.. This impudent person was indulged as no man ever was before indulged by the Commons of England. His return was petitioned against in due form. its allegations were succinct and relevant. It charged the sitting member with procuring persons to vote who had no right to vote at all, just as if our Mr. WILLIAM EWART had searched all the lanes and the back slums of Liverpool to procure cellarmen paupers, not burgesses, nor ten-pound householders, to force their way to the hustings and swear to a qualification which they did not possess. O'CONNELL or his agents did all this, and " something more." But when challenged as to the fact, he whimpered before the: committee—talked of persecution and the hardship of his case—complained that it was an attempt to ruin him by exposing him to extraordinary and unnecessary expense—and instead of bringing his witnesses to England he prayed for a com mission to examine witnesses in Dublin. This was granted him, and, as we think, without any shadow of proof that the merits of his' case depended upon witnesses. DANIEL'S pocket, however, was on this occasion \respected, 'the Only part or him the string of which are connected with his nervous sensibility. The commission Was appointed ; but it turned out that the question did not hinge upon evidence 'at all. but Upon a point of law. The beggar tried hard to swear out the case—to witness away the time—to browbeat the com missioners into irrelevant examinations; but they wail fully and honestly resisted, and he failed. The point of law was, as we have before stated—Had certain non-rate payers a right to vote at the Dublin elcCtisnt ? The commissioners, in revising the,lists, found thatiAtear three hundred persons had voted who had ing,akd certain 'after all, cou ld a s easily have been and consequently theirs was an easfltask , which, rates; xeeedrill London as in Dublin':-) 10 liga 19 ' 1 " f't All this was pl:tin sailing. But itiV:lt i leommissioners, having their reputation as professional goitlemen at stake, did not choose to enter into the ahstnird and views .of O'CoNNELL, only assumed to gain itne and procrastinate defeat, they were arrogantly l ard dently censured and denounced by the demagq'tie' and his factious allies. There was no justice done to Ireland ! The meaning of this is, DANIEL had justice adi j i l l'inistered to himself; the fraud he had contemplated reedited upon the cheat. The widows and orphans were,turnpd.adrift in the cold and the snow ! That is, the beggar could not bully honourable men to do wrong, and pollute them selves by being the accessories of his guilt. He accor dingly contested the decision of the counnissioners, and , went. so far, in downright insolence, as to question the legality of the commission which had been appointed at his own earnest and suppliant request. The committee, radical though it be, is composed of gentlemen, and however favourable they may be to O'CoNNELL's views in other respects, they appear to be actuated by a sense of justice and self-respect, and, in deed, by principles which a low Irk!' papist never acts upon and cannot understand. They have therefore come to such decisions as must unseat O'CoN NELL and his col league RUTLIVEN. The fact is, RUTH EN does not even defend himself. He has no counsel before the collimit tee—he has virtually abandonedulm a row days we shall expect to find that plitcltit O'CoNNEt.t. is no longer the member for'DUblitr2'llAas, by his base and mean subterfuges;'qaPed eribilAmik)Apenses upon the country. The cost of the„99lP.4llWip l m'Ust upon the public. He has been qere r dity. r , his dis4nestconduct, and his corrupt voters, ailler3atiOnal exPri.44,:and we hope some member will have the courage to wove for a returp of the money paid out. of the public treasury in' defending O'CONNELL'S election. It will be a black item in the books of ivhig - gery. It will look suspicious when bound up with the self-denying declarations of Lord MEL BOURNE ; and, when all the facts are fairly considered, it will become a poptitar question—what is the word of a whig minister worth ? But , the Carlow affair—the baronetcy business—the two thousand pound job—the long bills drawn upon a brewery—what of these ? We must not say a word. The Cottenham cheeSe is not yet ripe. To quote the words of Lord BYRON-- f. " Decay's effacing fingers" are doing the rotten work well ; the offer of the baronetcy is proved ; and that some one or other of his Majesty's ministers is implicated is as clear as were the marks upon FrEscries face both before as well as after he was execu ted. in a few days, we trust, we shall be enabled to pre • sent the evidence to our readers. The Newcastle Journal of Saturday contains the fol lowing paragraph : " It appears that, though the commission of the peace for the borough of Newcastle-on-Tyne was received in this town nearly a fortnight ago, the individuals named in it have not the power to act as magistrates, what is technically termed the deditnur not having yet been issued by the proper authorities. Mr. Joseph Parkes, of Birmingham Political Union notoriety, and who still fills the office of Secretary of the Municipal Reform Commisson upon the comfortable salary of fifteen hundred a year; has signi fied that, on the transmission to him of five pounds in respect to each magistrate, the requisite power will be sent down; and thus does he, like a true Whig of the liberty-and-popular-rights schoid, aim to turn every branch of his calling to a profitable account . We trust there are individuals both here and elsewhere who will have spirit enough to resist this scandalous attempt at extortion. There is. no law to enforce this demand, and let Mr. Joseph Parkes be informed that, if he deems the regular emoluments of his - office an insufficient return for his services, it would be far more becoming to ply his patrons for an increase of salary than to levy contributionS on a borly of individuals, to some of whom we verily believe the jive pound: are an object," This is far from being civil, if it be not absolutely cruel, on the part. of Mr. Josr.Pit PitixEs. Five pounds is a large sum to pay for any honour or office in a re formed corporation, and whether the worthy persons " of the new commission" can affbrd to pay it or not, we con tend it is an infringement upon the liberty of the sub ject and a grievous tax upon the pocket, which cannot be too soon redressed awl repealed. _ But is it true that JosEPti PARKEs is thus permitted to play JOSEPH Ao with the legion of magistrates created under the municipal bill ? With all due respect to our Newcastle contemporary the story is hardly credible. Et may be, and we believe is, true, that five pounds are charged for each Dedimus, but what can the one Jositpn any more than the other JOSEPH have to du with these warrants ? When the magistrates of this borough were appointed the present town-derk informed them, by a circular, that, on being sworn in, the usual fees would not be exacted from them personally, inasmuch as the costs of the warrants would be paid out of the borough funds. This generous intimation was felt to be an insult by some of them, for in Liverpool several if not all of our justices could sport their five sovereigns without be ing damaged or inconvenienced by the sacrifice; but if borough funds can be applied in this way, in order to make honour more acceptable on the score of cheapness, why did not the corporation . of Newcastle advance the cash toits liberal justices, at least to such of them to whom the sum of five pounds is " an object ?" Perhaps the councillors upon the Tvne were advised of th e illegality of such an appropriation. Be it so; but if illegal there it must be equally so on the banks of the Mersey. The magistrates of boroughs form no Consti tuent part of any corporation. They are justices for life or during the plea Sure of the crown; and surely when the King appointed them, or sanctioned their appoint ment, his Majesty did not contemplate that by so doing he was imposing a tax upon the burgesses. We know not hoW many, if any, availed themselves of the borough fund here for so mean a purpose ; but this we hesitate not to say, that if any Magistrate has had the fees of his warrant paid out of the town chest, simply because he would or could not pay the fees himself, such a man is not fit to be a magistrate, and ought nut to be a magis trate. If on - the other hand the 'payment of these fees was a voluntary,One onthe part of the council, then we charge thetnitaitiva-tvilfhl - and unjustifiable misappropri ation of (helikiiiM44. , 'fhey mak toast either side of this cake as they please. There is nothing in the bill ‘VrtAlf;,ptvides for the initiatory cost of justices. They are ikt presumed to be in any way con nected with or deppMent upon the corporation. They had as much clainimpon the Blue Coat Hospital as upon the borough fund. The overseers of the poor were as much warranted in paying their shabby fees out-of the poor box, as the council wet e in extraeting them front the town treasury. .11Lthe one, case the poor would have been robbed ; iriflie'other die•burgessesWortld have been plundered ; in both cases the public would have been defrauded. But we confess we are greatly in the dark on this sub ject. The small jobbing transactions of these reformed councils are as carefully concealed from the vision of the public as Were those of the most corrupt of the old cor porations,---even of the old Whig corporations. We shall therefore feel obliged if some gentleman in the secret will favour us with a clue to the facts. What we wish to know is—Did the town clerk perform. his promise, and pay the fees of the new magistrates out Of the borough, fund Our honourable and learned contemporary, Mr. Councillor of the MercUry, some time ago moved that a grint of motley should be voted out of the corpo ration chest for the relief of the IA halemen supposed to be frozen up somewhere near the north pole, but that be neyOlent motion was hooted and cried down as illegal by his colleagues, on the gibund, we suppose, as in this case of the magistrates, that charity begins at home. The tran saction in the best light (ies not Wok sweet; but if it should appear that the fees have been paid by,the corpo ration—that JOSEPH PARKES is the receiver—that he, .Jo- SEMI, has received, or is to receive, three, four, or iive pounds for every borough justice made in England,— all we shall say is, JOSEPH PARKES is a fortunate, and Jo- SEPH Anr-an unfortunate and ill-used man! We request the attention of our municipal authorities, and consistent politicians of all grades, to a modest metaphor, which our excellent friend Colonel WILLIAMS will explain if need be. When men who wear Russia indefinites in cold weather, as a satire upon degenerate woollens,suddenly cut the ducks and wear the cloth which they formerly affected to despise—when such men adopt the fashion or the principles which they have long con deinned—have we - not a right to pity or laugh at them just as the morality or the charity of the occasion may dictate t,,n so,: The affirmative of this we suppose will at onte-be cAiceded by all professors of 'common sense, 'Ail all admirers of enlightened liberality. But we ask no man to recognise its fairness with more coo Pence than we do. Mr. Counciller JAMES Anus !of LiVerpool. This gentleman, we understand, voted on 'Wedriesdav last', with the majority of the Common Council ,in rejecting, the terms oifered them by the rate payerS of the Dock Estate. He is consequently one of those who have un— dertaken the responsibility "of contesting the right of the rate payers to elect-their own managers, and he is also an assenting party to the monstrous proposition of ex pending, not his own, but the funds of the borough, in this wasteful and useless contest before a committee of the House of Commons. If the inhabitants of Liverpool would for a moment glance back to the month of November, 1832, when Mr. - JAMES AIKIN at a public meeting of the rate payers advocated the broad and liberal principle that the con tributors to a public fund, or the rate payers to a public trust, should have the first voice in the choice of its governors or guardians, they will find arguments enough to satisfy them that what Mr. AIKIN held to be reason able in 1832 ought to be quite as reasonable in 183 G. What is the question at issue? The Trustees of the Dock Estate, during the existence of the old corporation, were elected as follows :-13 by the council, and S by the rate payers. The old corporation, however, is defunct. A brighter race of Salons has been called into office by means of popular election. The nation, by its represen tatives, has decided that the source of power is in the in terested and responsible portion of the people—that those who pay taxes shall elect those who impose taxes— that governors shall be elected by the governed, and trustees by those who have a direct interest in the mode of management and the appropriation of trust estates. That principle, so long contended for by Mr. Jets. ALKIN, .and the ambitious party to which he belongs, is now re cognised as the pervading principle of political and mu nicipal legislation, and we have a right to call upon Mr. AIKIN to respect the' dogmas and the utifitarian notions of friends, for the sake of policy and consistency. But what does be seek ? We are almost ashamed to write it, for it converts into burlesque all the liberal pre tensions of his lifetime. He claims for himself and the reformed corporation the right of self election, in as far as the managers of the Dock Estate are concerned! It is hardly credible, but still it is a fact, that the new mu nicipal authorities, reckless of the principles they have profeSsed, and the pledges they made to their constitu ents, arrogate to themselves the right of self election, by nominating to the trusteeship of the Dock Estate a cer tain number, and an overwhelming number too, of the members of their own town council Was it for this that reform was advocated by the great mass of the people? Was it to make popular election the stepping-stone to self election, to quiet jobbing, and irresponsible power that the corporations of England were thrown open to the public ? Mr. JAMES AIKIN must think so, because he contends for the exercise of it in his own person, and in that_of his own municipal col leagues. He forgets, or appears to forget, that when he was elected a councillor • he was not elected a trustee of the Dock Estate. The burgesses who favoured hint with their votes never dreamt, and never could have dreamt, that they were concerting power upon hint to violate the fundamental principles of the reform bill—to make po pular representation a farce—to enable him to do violence Iv if s_ _~_ .~ . to the declarations of his.par!y, by Making public opi nion the apology for a jolt. The electois of Liverpool could not have imagined that, before the lapse of three months, their patriotic councillors would be the first to run headlong. into the errors of their unreformed prede cessors. But so it is, and they and we must abide by the consequences. That the corporation will fail in establishing their pre posterous claims before parliament, we have no doubt whatever. Lord JOHN RUSSELL himself must be the first man to deprecate and repudiate them, for the noble lord cannot now in the face of the world advocate prindiples so diametrically opposed to all his former declarations. The reformer of municipal corporations cannot support self election in trust estates. But the worst part of the case is, that the liberals of the Liverpool town council have . resoled to expend the funds of the commonality in prosecuting their abSolute claims befdre the House of Commons. They are to tax the public for the igdulgenee of their personal vanity. Surely this will not be endured. Representation must be confined to the tax payers. These la'st are the only legitimate electors, and their rights must be respected by a reformed parliament. LONDON LATEST NEWS; City. Saturday Eceaing, Halipast Seven 6'clock. The only quotation in Consols for Account this Jay has been 911 7 alternately buyers and sellers. FOr Money, the price was 911 Exchequer Bills steady at 19 to 21, and India Bonds at 4 to 6 premium. • ' Spanish and Portuguese Stocks have experienced a further depression, but a slight reaction took place yesterday. Foreign Bolities have not, however, materially affected the Northern onds. The laq quotations are, Portuguese 5 per Cents. &l ; New ditto, 79; 3 per Cents. 401; Spanish Consols, 45.1 • Rus sian, '.lOB, ex-dividend; .11anish, 771 ; Austrian Metalliques, 104. There has been a further improvement in several or the Rail way Shares this afternoon. Consider.'We orders have been re ceived for investment in the Great Western Shares, - -vhich have raised the premium from 31 to 361. The Brighton (Steven son's) touched 14k, and those of It enhie's line-2 premium to, day. The London and Birmingham are in demand at an ad vance to £75 premium. - and the Birmingham. and Derby rose from 10 to 13 premium. Almost, all the other railway shares have improved to-day. SHArtEs.-13inoingharn and Derhe, 18; Birmingham and Gloucester, )4; Bristol and Exeter, 9-1 . 5 Calcutta and Seugur, 4.; Cheltenham and Great Western, 61; Commercial Black wall,34 ; Great North of England, 4; Bull and Selby, 9; Leeds and Winchester, 20; Brighton (Stevenson's,) 19; Ditto (I{ennic's,) 4; Blackwall, 3i; Dever,' ; Gravesend, ; 123; Greenwich, 3A - ; - Southampton, 23.1.; North' 121; Great Western, 461 ; South Eastern, 4 ; York and North Midland. 52• ' Danube and Maine, 6-;; Provincial Bank of Ireland, 432 ; London and Westminster Bank, 23. THE ST. PAUL'S SCHOOLS. We have great pleasure i❑ publishing a letter addressed by Lord Sandal] to Air. William Roberts, of Plumbe-street, in closing a donation of five pounds in aid of the funds of these schools. Our other representative, if applied to, would, no thiubt, as the friend of education, be equally munificent. " London, March 3, 18.36. • DEAR Sta,—There are no occasions-1u which lam mare anxious to give my support to a benevolent purpose than such as that which you have placed under toy consideration, namely, the maintenance of a school i❑ connexion with St. Pani's Church. I consider the maintenance of such a school is an essential part of every congregation, and that no church is com plete without it. To every well-wisher of the established church it must now especially be an object of the first importance. I beg to offer you a contribution of five pounds towards your funds. " Believe me, dear Sir, " Your faithful Servant, (Signed) " SANDON." VACANCY IN TIME COIIIiION COUNCIL—Mr. Sharples, a member of the Common Council. expired, after a short Illness, yesterday morning, at his house in Toxteth Park. Stitt' LAUNCH.—On Saturday morning, a tine ship, burthen 325 tons, new register, was launched from the building yard of Messrs. SeddmianctLeadly, Woodside.. The ship, considered by the connoiseurs present, a beautiful model'of naval archi tecture, as she passed from the stocks to her Future element, re ceived from Mrs. Littlerland the name of the " Heyes," being that. of the senior partner of the Iniuse for whom she was built, Messrs. Heyes, Lithe].land, and Co. After the launch a party of about two hundred ladies and gentlemen partook of an, ele gant dqeuner d is jioeheite in the Model Room. The "Heyes" is intended for the Barbadoes trade, and will, it is said, be ready to sail in a fortnight. LANCASHIRE ASSIZE.—The next assize will commence at Lancaster, on Saturday, the 251 h March, and at Liverpool On Wednesday, the 30th March. The records in causes to be tried as at Lancaster, and at issue on or before Tuesday the 15 of March, should be ordered on that day. 'The last days tor wak ing up issues in time for the trial at the next assizes will be in causes to be tried at . Lancaster,Mirsday the I7th of March. The causes to be tried at Liverpool, Monday the 21st of March, on which days the records must he ordered. Eight exclusive days' notice of trial to be given for the next assizes in,causes at issue, in time for trial at the last assizes. The jury process for the trial will be issued at Preston, on Sat at day morning the 26th day of Marcia instant ; and for the trial of causes at Liver pool, ou Wednesday morning, tee 30th day of Match instant. Rule day before the assizes, Thursday, the 3d day of March. • Rule cla:v-after the assize.i, Thursday, the 28th .day„.or_April next. Declarations against defendants in gaol on writs of ea pias or detainer must be filed on or before Tuesday, the 29ilt day of March. Its pursuance of the General Rule of Court, of September Assizes, 1824, the causes • iotended to be tried at Liverpool -sill be entered in the following order :-Ist list, Sal ford Hundred ;2d list, West Derby Hundred The business of the police offices will be transacted at Preston during the assizes. DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Abont half-Tiast three o'clock on Sun day morning, large volumesofsmoke and flames were discovered by the watch issuing from a warehouse in Cooper's-row•. The lower part of the warehouse was oecuoied by Messrs. Barchuson and 1 awcett. colourmen and drysalters, and the two upper stories by Messrs. Maxwell, as corn stores. When discovered, the three upper floors appeared to be on tire. The tire engines from the police tire-station were quickly on the spot, two of Arhich, being placed in Paradise-street, played with great effect o❑ the south side of the warehouse. The staircase being burnt .,down, and the roof higher than the surrounding bitildiugs, great difficulty was for some time experienced in playing effectively upon the fire. A large pile of warehouses on the north side of Cooper's-row were at this time in imminentdanger, the corner of one of them having taken fire. One engine was directed entirely to the preservation of these buildings. The supply of water, in he first instance, from the carts was amply sufficient. Three ot her enginesarrived,and very soon waterwasohtained from the ar rington fire plugs. The fire was got under by about five o'clock, but the engines continued playing throughout part of Sunday on the ruins. The cause of the fire has not been ascertained; but it is supposed to have originated in consequence of the grain of the upper floor having become heated, and which bad not been turned for a considerable time. The building was hi cured in the Imperial Office for £1,000; hut the damage done to it has been much more. Th's goods of Messrs. Barchuson and Fawcett are said - to have received £2.000 damage, £l,OOO of which is insured in the Phwnix-office. Mr. Maxwell had about £1,500 of grain in the upper stories, the whole of which was fully insured. FIRE AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Yesterday, at noon, whilst the keepers of this ga►den were at dinner, the monkey house took fire, it is supposed from the flue .being overheated. The roof was completely burnt, as were also the partitions of the cages. One or two of the monkeys were burnt to death, and several of them have been severely scorched. The poor creatures made a tremendous screaming. MANSLAUGHTER. CORONER'S INQUEST.--011 Saturday morning an inquest was held in the court over the Police office, before John Heyes, Esq.. county coroner, on view of the body of Rebecca Hug,lies, wife of Hugh Hughes, keeper of what is called the Saloon, in Wiliiamson's-square, who had come to her death front injuries inflicted upon her by her hus band. Hughes, who had been apprehended the day previously. in St. John's market, was brought up in custody of one of the officers of police. Mr. Dodd, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the prisoner, and cross-examined several of the witnesses. After a patient examination of several witnesses, the jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of manslaumhier ag-ainq Hughes, who was fully committed to take his trial at the en siling assizes. We had prepared a lengthened account of the evidence taken before the coroner, but have been obliged to omit its insertion through a press of other matter. • THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS' PETITION.—The petition from this bode, after having been signed by between three and four thousand persons, has been forwarded to London, for presentation to the House of Cumulous. Mr. Divett'S motion upon the subject of the repeal of the 50 per cent duty comes on to-day. DEATH FROM BURNTNG.—A little girl, aged two Years z ,nd eight months, named Martha Cropper, residing with her parents in Mill-street East, was burned to death on Thursday last in A somewhat extraordinary bud u naccountable manner. It ap peals her mother had put her to bed its the evening, and after wards gone out, leaving a small fire burning in the grate near to the bed; and on her return she found the bed clothes on tire, and the poor child severely burned. She took it itnmediately to the Infirmary, where it died the next day. Anot DEN T.-A bov, named George Knowles, 13 years of age, was ruts over in Islington, on Thursday a ft ernoon , by a car belonging to a man of the nattle of Roberts. An inquest was held on view of the body of the deceased on Saturday, when a verdict of accidental death was returned. No blame whatever was attributable to the owner. ACCIDENT AT WALLASEY.—Last Friday morning three young men, who had been in the neighbourhood of Wallasey shooting, when one of them incautiously placed a can of gun powder upon the fire, mistaking it for the entice pan. Imme diately the powder exploded, with a loud noise, and. we regret to state, that the three men present were all dreadfully burned. A little boy, who was likewise present, was almost totally de prived of his sight. The utensils in the room in which the ex plosion took place are entirely destroyed, and the room itself and apartments adjoining are otherwise Much injured. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Wednesday evening last a man of colour, named John Brown, was found dead in a disorderly house in Maguire-street. It appears the deceased had been drinking with some females in one of the cellars of the saloons in Williamson-square, and had afterwards retired with one of them to the house mentioned, in which he had died in the course of the night. Upon the body being opened it was found that he had died in consequence of an enlargement of the heart. LIVERPOOL TRADESMEN'S BANK.—AI a meeting of the shareholders of this bank, consisting principally Of tradesmen resident in Liverpool and the neighbourhood , held in the large room of the Royal Hotel, Dale-street, y e sterday afternoon , Jo hn Taylor, Esq., corn merchant, in the chair, five directors were unanimously chosen to conduct the affairs of the hank for the .ensuing year. LIVER THEATRE.—Miss Hamilton, a young lady who bids fair, or at least possesses powers which ought to place her in the first rank of English singers, takes her benefit at the Liver Theatre on Friday night. THE ARREST FOR DEBT BILL—Sir John Campbell's bill for abolishing arrest and imprisonment for debt is delayed until Lord Brougham is sufficiently recovered to take charge of it in the House of Lords, where it will be introduced in the first instance. _ . TOWN COUNCIL fiROCEEDINGS. On Friday last the council again ►net, at cloven o'clock, ac-: cording to adjourn►uent. TOWN•CLEIZK. The MAYOR announced that he had received a letter frord Mr. Radcliffe, stating "that he accepted the appoint ment of the council,•as expressed in the resolution of their last Meeting." And in stating this to the council he had to tell them that Mr. Radeliffe accepted it with a cheerful and willing mind, without a single feeling but of perfect contentment. (Applause.) THE CORuSEIiSHIT. . The MAYOR announced a nced the receipt of letter frdin Mr, Richard Brooke, who had been a candidate for the office of co roner, withdrawing hi s c l a i m on th e g ro und that be could nut appoint a deputy in case of unavoidable absedte ur sickness. THE FERRIES. A memorial was presented respecting the ferries, Which was suggested to be referred to the finance conniiittee. , , . 111 r. Councillor SHtEL begged that , it be ieferreil to the bye laws committee, as the only committee that eould deal with it. Mr. Councillor EARLE said the inellicient lauding at thy picrii were alluded to is it, which the bye-laws counnittee could not interfere with it. Councillor Dr. CARSON Would beg to observe that the petition should be read first, before being referred to a committee. It would be for them to judge what committee it, ought to he as, signed to, or whether it be laid on the table without being referred at'all ; or perhaps they might decide on it immediately. It ap• peered to him that their plan of referring to committees was not quite what it ought to tie. He would wish this not to be the rule. The MAYOR.—If the petitions themselves were matters of importance he should of course instantly proceed to read them, as they had always done until that day. But he felt less desire to do that then in order to save time, knowing that it must be received ;e.•ain froot that committee. He did not wish to gidss over any thing, but deferred reading it because" they had many houri wet k before them • at the same time, if any gentlimian wished it, it shott!d he read. Mr. Alderman ItontNsoN hoped the Mayor would not read that mass of papers. Mm. Councilzor RATHBONE.—It appeared to him that th 6 time of the council was taken up with trines, and matters of im portance were hurried over. The MA TM: begged to say that no petition should come had his hands which ;ltoit!d not he picSenied.to that council: If any gentlornan dein ogled them to tie read he had a right to demand it. tie had acted_ us he had dune because they bad art iinimense quantity of business to get through that day. The town-clerk should read the petition. Councillor Dr, C withdrew his motion, The TOWN-CLERK then proceeded to read the petition, which set forth that the proprietors of steani.Loats claimed for them selves the exclusive right of the ferries, to the exclusion of others, thus preventing competition and improvement, and subjecting the petitioners and oth ers o f th e p u blid t o grea t anno y ances an d inconveniences. The petition was, on the motion of Mr. Staitit, seconded by Mr. BLACKBURN ) referred to the cononatee on bye-la.n7s. COnPoI:ATION PIiINTINE; Au application from Mr. Jones, of C;vtle-street. for some of the corporation printing was referred to the finance committee. OYSTER YARD. A petition was read, praying for the removal of the oyster yard from the neighbourhood of St. John's Market. which. was described as a great noise ore, from the stench Which it cau,t.scV The petition was signed by about thirty iudividuals.—lleferred to the improvement committee. NUISANC,E. An application was made Praying for the removal of a caravan from St. George's-place, London-road, which was drscrilied as creating disturbanceS and being a nuisi:nce.—Referred to the magistrates. • THE PICTURE OP THE C7ICCIPIXON. An application was made liv the Royal UPhernian Society for permission to exhibit, at their approaching exhibition in Dublin, the fine pi ture of the crucifixion, the property of the corpora tion ; offering, if granted. to send a proper person to have charge of it and bring it back. Mr. EARLE, seconded by Mr. RAWDoN, moved that it be granted. Mr. Councillor iklotiEcitouT would ask, was it the property of the council; and suppose it were shipwrecked, who were to pay for it. The MAYon.—The parties who sent fur it most certainly. THE CHRISTIAN SOCIETY. The MAYOR said he Imo received an application from the Christian Society..in treaty for land in Hope-street, complain ing of injustice. The document was not authenticated with any signature, but, as Ire understood it was the copy of o n e presented to the finance cotinnittee, nhich was authenticated. he would receive it. It prayed for the set...lenient of -a difference, in the recent purchase ' between the Medical I ns i tat i un ar id it se lf.— Referred to the finance committee. AUDITORS AND ASSESSORS. The return of the appointment of the tiro auditors and 32 assessors was officially produced., DEPUTY TOWN-CLERK'S OFFICE. Mr. Councillor RATtinoNE would here a,k 1r the matters with which the last council concluded Were not to take precedence of all other business? The MA yon presumed it would then be regular to read the applications for the ofilee of the deputy tOwn-eleik before they entered on the business of the salary. Mr. Councillor RATEmoNec presnmed they could not take that into consideration before they fixed the amount. Lie thought it would be more regular if applications were Made at a future day, after the emolument was determined on. The MA yeJZ.—Mr. Ii athbone was one of the persons hti moved that the assistant-solicitor should he appointed that day. (flNtr.) Mr. Couocillor ATHBONE had forgotten it. It was a matter of indifference to hint ; bat as they did not foe the salary-on Wednesday, as original:y intended, it would he right then to fix the emolument, and un another dity to make the apianut- The MAvon.--The order of the day Was to fix the salary first and afterwards the appointment . If any one chose, he might move au adjournment. POWNALL-SQUARE MARKET. Mr. Alderman Sr, ART, before they proceeded with this question, would present a petition to the finance committee, through the council. The M A roll, after obtaining the assent of the council, allowed the presentation. -- Mr. Alderman STrAnT had lunch pleasure in presenting a • petition.•sined by 42G9 individvals in Pownall-square and the neighbour howl, praying for the market to be re-establiihed iu Pownall-square. The TOWN-CLERK then read the petition, which was from the inhabitants of St. Paul's Ward, stating that there was a great, want of a market in that neighbourhood, ;sod that St. Marlin's Market did not adequately meet the wants of the inhabitants. Mr. Alderman STE/1;1T did not know the reason why the market in Pownall-square had heen discontinued. He pre sinned it was only' from the circumstance of St. Aartin's ket beim , established at a Yen - small distance from there. Two thirds, however, of the inhabitants of the northwest district were as far off St. John's Market as they were from St. Martin'4 Market. Sr. Martin's Market, too, instead of increasing iu its receipts after the stopping of Pownall-sqnare Market, had di minished, showing that the public wy re °Wiped to go elsewhere.. He believed the parties who signed that petition were not inter ested by any-personal into ices. The establishment of a market there could be of no inconvenience to any one; it was nut a great thoroughfare, and it could not, therefore, be considered as a nuisance. He would conclude with moving that it be re ferred to the finance committee, and by them he reported. Mr. Councillor RA W DON seconded the motion. 1%1 r. Councillor EA lILK said this question had frequently been brought forward on former occasions. lie was not proceeding • to say that St. Martin's Market Was the Ust in the world; but Pow nall,quare was it considerable thoroughfare; and was sur rounded with public-houses and drarn-shopi, and on that ac count it was that tivy were anxious to have a market there to induce people to drink. All the neighbourhood had MAI kets sulleiently near. He would rather it. were put to the council at once and negatived. It' any one would second it, he would move that it be. Mr. Councillor MEI.Lon said it ironld ill hecorne that council to refuse examining theanerits of a petition presented by up- wards of four thousand inhabitants. ( Hear.) On that ground they would be in error not to refer it to the finance committee. Mr. Councillor EARLE was perhaps in the "tong in taking that view of the question; but it arose front his having heard so much of it liefore. He would withdraw hiS ametfineut. Mr. Councillor Boetoet remarked that Poe nall-square was very populous part of the town, and it tt as a very great couveni; ence to the inhabitants to have a Market in the neighbourhood: It would be a great accommodation to them to have that market opened. Mr. Councillor E. SMITH was one of those who attended the meeting where the petition was originated. Mr. Earle would probably tell them the motives for discontinuing that market, for he never could ascertain. If there was any reason existing, it eeisted then. This ought to be taken into consideration, that they did not pray for anything new. Mr. Councillor EeI:LE said it was considered a great tho roughfare and a general nuisance. If they were to have a market, they had better have one in another situation. Mr. Councillor J. LI ot.tki Es thought it would save time to refer it to the finance committee. (Hear.) Referred to the committee. THE r HiPUTY TOWN-CLERE'S OFFICE—RESI: MED. Mr. Councillor R ATII BONE again rose. In conformity with the report which he had had the honour of laying before them, as chairman of the town-clerk's committee, he begged leave to move that the salary of the assistant be .C 1,600 a year; and he bereged the indulgence of the council on this occasion if he al luded to other matters connected with that report. : That report was stated to have been laid before them by the committee after mature consideration. It had been met in that council by a member of that committee by au amendment and by an impute tion upon his motives and conduct ; it was said in a quiet tone, and therefore he had no doulit escaped the Mayor's no tice, or he was sure he would have been ps ready to have pro tected him from others, as he bad been vet y properly foremost to protect others from him. lie had the right to assume that that spee(3 'vas a - deli'harate, a prepared speech; it was a speech not applying to the course of argument, but to what had taken place at another meeting. Ile thought the remarks were tin e proked ; they had not the character of impulse, and therefore he thought they wee premeditated. (The Mayor bete lose ) Pardon me (continued Mr. Rathbone) I have dot beea much accustomed to speaking, and interruptions do throw a man like myself much out. Mr: Rathleine then satdown. The Mayon thought it would be a very bad practice to refer to proceedings which took place at 'net:erring meetings. Per haps Mr. ltathbone would allow him to se tie the question by saying, although that speech was' delivered with a great deal of catinneSs, yet he considered the observation as one of those rhetmical ornaments of speech which meant .nothing, and he had not consequently interfcred,. his it would be implying a very ill opinion or the council on his part if he thoug,4t they were tole "entiapped. Mr. Birch here rose— aCnodultic;iilslturr„lit,layT. n uoNE said he was in possesSion of the am satisfied that i,o 3 , w to the d n e l e e i a s t i i o t:i o a c h nothing t il h i i ° l r ik ß l A h 'l' a l v i e " a N tL . lTt i to tin s what I have to say • chair; The M s YOlt,—lf Mr. hat one thinks It personal to himself, I, made. b Mr. Councillor RATHBONE thought the remark of 111 r. Birch was strong. and more applicable to him in his capacity of chair.; let him li fi ?iuct i In sh icY . man of that committee than it would have becn to another. But he wa , going on to say that, with respect to it. he was sure the council would hear him out th a t h e did on :hat occasion give, in the iThAt good-tempered way he could, sufficient oppor tunity to Mr. Birch to say thal he meant nothing personal, and he did not take that opportunity, and, therefore, the present opportunity ought to he taken by him (Mr. R.) to notice it. But such observations lest their hitternegs when there was nu. response within. Ile would nit, ttwretore, tare op the time of the council, but go on with the business. If Mr. Birch had any thing to say, not i n right, but in courtesy he would allow an interruption to hisA . peeeb. • Mt. Councillor Briwn was IllOSt. FeHMiOlig to • avail himself of the courtesy of Mt. Rathbone, for trewas deo - irons that this pression should he removed front' his'lniud. He was certain that he could have no intentioirofgivingpain to Mr. Rathhone on the contrary, al! his opinions with respect to him were tn.-