The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-28 00:00:00

sse brown had submi working to r n ftit iIIURSD t constitution o lowed, that at all eve: have been got rid of ; ana it that they would at the next general elegy,._ of having so grievously disappointed public expectation Lion feel the effects Mr. AGLIONBY would vote tOT the motion also, out in so doing wished to be considered as supporting the spirit of the resolutions only, and not tied down to the exact words in which that spirit was conveyed. He believed the poor law to be good in its principle, but some of its provisions were so harsh, that they had, in many parts of the cr-- country, rendered the deplorable condition of the poor still more deplorable and had, at the same time, given no satisfaction to the rate payers. Colonel SIBTHORP said he had a great esteem for the hon. member for Nottingham for the way in which he had brought forward this motion, and strongly condemned the wa which the poor law commissioners had been E The number of cases of cruelty, tyranny, and ever' oppression under the present syste fitted for their office ; and rather ti system he would advocate a return kind o proved t were un- poor law with all its evils. Mr. S. WoaTtEr said t thoug Vattanitenta HOUSE OF LORDS settling t Scotland. Lord WHARNCLIFFE ing, during which he thour government to legislate- confirmed, government would be prepared to lation, with a view to remedy an^ be uaaPy ifferences exis aid thal ere was an ar Should Iconvenier Lord BROUGHAM and Earl MINTO express, Some b , n the table were forwarded a stage ships adjourned HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THuRsDa Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in reply to a question from Mr. Lat if the appeal now pending in the House , e affirmed, and if that affirmation should Campbell, said, tl of Lords should t Church of Scotland in carrying out its extension and - - -• the go !rnment would not be indisposed to provide islation. With respect to the question of ..-... - the opinion of the government was still -.-- d in a letter from the Home Secre- tary to ien moved [owing resolutions : Fed Measures submitted a document ent Law Commissioners to his Majesty's appear passages ontronl shall have power, by an order, with such excep `isallow the continu ought necessary, to d than in a wo - oresaid ances, but not to enlarg accomplished, orders may t I kind,—after uch another perioc Ead of MIN HODS unification for th Lord J. RUSSEL' OF COMM The CHANCELLOR of the he Chinese treat The order of - the day for Mr. HUME rose to call attention to the of our naval ar that the and tha employment to t hus resuscit r. WILLIAMS contended that Governme budget before the house prior to calling ted or public money de to contort R. PEEL the se in naval y ;ndonndPn n to the revenu, co for c mendation of a Paili country within the lin' other Matt been b s to b gn powers a Sound policy requ the coast of China lediterr faith and I to the ext d the maintenar Mr.F. F but a rec he most perfect reli rice. In that count it of £832,000, ant had appc considered as cha Governrnen. dismi one for lif and his Lie was unanimous!, Sir G. STATJNTO Mr. S. HERBER' ment unni ad been fur hat ed in quantity until that mode of r f should be altered it substituted for fine white; ese proposi- .e:olution affirmed these provisions to have been .el and impracticable f admin lustry, to increase crime ma►ld s anity, sound policy, an commented st been acted upon and carried - lom, as far as was practicable owed. was not GRAHAM said the document referred to t ad been drawn up b 5 Drofessio nal ad- or law commissioners in order to pe to their propositions. About twenty 'And, and one copy had been given in the to a friend of the hon. member's, which ['ter a period of to been brok Sat the dodument was brou Lord Grey's Gove Y said it was now clew ad drawn up th kthetn to the Goveranne, ,abit of constan and he was therefore aware orst feel ht under the eon merit, and every one of the The right hon. baronet con- opposed to Christianit, Lion with ese infamous propositions, and af Earl Grey. He r classes of the community if no other benefit fol sistent ELACKSTON mtentied th, at system of poor L n continue t o the old tained in the resolutions he concurred with the hon. member for Nottingham, yet, from the shape in which he had brought the question before the house, he could not support his mo- General JolissoN contended that the present poor law placed the people out of the pale of the constitution, and de livered them into the power of three persons sitting at Soiner- set House Sir R. PEEL said that the present poor law was not principle with that of Elizabeth, or that it was ___ cruel or harsh in its operation. The workhouse test was not for the first time adopted in the new poor l aw , f or d previously been introduced in the 9th of George 1, and therefore neither a novel nor an unconstitutional princi- The right hon. baronet deprecated the production of lentiaricommunications, such as that quoted by Mr. convenient to the Govern n a great measure passed r, aslbeing exceedingi It, because there never ed many ce to which the Ministry of the day had not re- lications from various He alluded to sources, and sometimes most valuable OE several returns in order to sho in maintaining th 3 country than in any a reply to Mr. Walter . . urther argnmen „ the right hon. baronet concluded ...,-„ coo nouse not to tam per with the new poor law. Lord J. M ANNERS supported the resolutions, in order that e support of the poor might be placed on constitutional and and Mr. Aglionb: istian principles. Ir. MuNTz attributed the late insurrections in the north great measure to the aversion of the people to the poor ; - and would, therefore, support tne 11101 , 10E1. Sir W. JAMES opposed the motion. but . at the same time pres s ed his opinion that the question of the poor law could , t be settled without a well regulated plan of out-door relief. Mr. F ERRAN D characterised the new p oor law as being •• • •,_ hinndthirstv• He related nume- oppressive work ng of the new se all the statements of Mr. i reference to the union of Keighley, the inquiries in - i having shewn, that all he (Mr. Ferrand) had, on a occasion, asserted in that house was strictly correct. S. CRAWFORD gave his cordial support to the whole solutions of Mr. Walter. He instanced the case -..tp, 4 amounted to 225. in the in which the poor-ra Ae result of this was, that the poor had to be sup - parishes, and the lands had ,en determined to let the lands so El tes ur tijoining Oo had been now nine , r condition—and there uring all that period, a single able-bodied —constantly improving th. in tee parish. MILLS said, that after the assurance of Sir James 1, that those propositions did not form the basis of r Poor law. he could not assent to the motion before , ..,,........ t......k. Front his experience he cou ~ies so uncnristian as those .ent to the government of Earl with Mr. S. Crawford as to the ved the whole o. one of the assertiot He should suppor ad largly in: to operation, and agricultural than ; UISUICI,S. )lied, and said he did not feel I possessed 1 Sir Jaines Graham how he became ..um which he had q uoted, upon • .Ae might say, that it was not marked con . ...ad also that no document printed at the public use should be considered confidential. He instanced .e poor law committee of which he was a memb er. h tillcfn evide nce which was found to be adverst ....,, the opinions tee, upon which proposition was idence s hould be • -- e who were thefounders ( Sir James Gra had proposed, a whole of that da :uargeu wiin violating confidence aid that in accordance with ti he should withdraw all , • . The hon. ynemuu. hes of some of his solutions except th, d take the s; a Ilery was then cleared he motion was negatived by a majority of 126 to 58. Sir V. BLAKa moved for a committee of the on railway improvement, formation of harbours, all proved route by steam communication with North America, the distress of the country, th e corn l aw, and the s liding scale ; but upon the recommendation o f Si r R . P ee l an d Lord Palmerston the motion was withdrawn. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL obtained leave to bring in two bills tur the improvement of the law in certain cases. The house then adjourned. Palmerst HOUSE OF LORDS- --FRIDAY The Earl of MINTO moved for various returns connected with the present state of our navy, and required explanations as to why it was that there had been less ship-building last ea r than was expected , a n d wh y i t w as that, in the face of the decrease in ship-building, a reduced vote was proposed to be taken for the present year. In other departments there also appeared to be reductions, of which he also required expuinaLw.. The Duke of WELLINGTON doubted sought for by the noble earl should be given. The Earl of HADDINGTON..said he . had not received suffi cient notice for the extent o f i nformation required, a n d h oped the noble lord would give notice fur a future evening, w h en he would be prepared. The Earl of MINT() said he would confine his motion within the limits of the notice he had given. He then en tered into lengthened details upon the present state of b ness in the dock-yards, &c., and concluded by moving for if the information I __- ,4111 411., • v......aws The Earl of HADDINGTON said the reason tne ip-budding last ated was that it was 1 wilt in good deemed more conouncal to seep an to build new Ones. dockyard also steamers rip with respect imate for the Dme 1 edue- , owing to the sta, wrd gave rurth ns of the Earl of ation had been Lord AsußuwroN reg The Du WiatiNGToN published to the whole world infortriaj en communicated, and which st mischievous to th MINT() defended his ri the info e impotent in regulated .in such .d of controul shall be deter- sent f should lief was rried out on princ ever ab Walter putt/ it out anr an that his situation was not His character was stainless, office of Mayor of Portsmouth, to which id that Mr. I !n years in abeya s chosen by Mr. Hoskins had certain he members of being determined to Board of Admiralty political considE Mr. ( WooD sa' .alty should ha 11 mad mother appointed in his Hoskins. Sir R. FEEL said and the stood. T .ss of the le Hoskins did not z hon. baronet cont pointed) had that entitle Mr. it hon. baronet was a he did ted the trans would allow motion to be negative Mr. BLEWITT asked for information as to the course in tended to be taken by her Majesty's Government in reiatio to the North American boundary question. Sir R. PEEL said that all he could say about the Orego territory was, that friendly communications were going o the Gov ats of the two then wen into committee of suppl and the navy e .stimates on. gentlema❑ that acted whenever h appointed, w out salary, tl .tial for that particular occa- person 1' should, as i t anythi ed that 11r. G upon the sUt countries. The house Mr. S. H EiIBERT brought fo appeared from the statement of tt is to be a reduction of 4,000 men fo. is equivalent to a saving of £143,000. the navy estimates would be £-135,000, that after this saving the navy would still be in a state of lull efficiency. A discussion followed, which lasted the remainder of the he prese The total saving on d he was of opinion By a ret: oniniste nded REBECCA AND Hl? 22,—0n Monday gistrat 3. CHILD nd farmers c ARMARTHEN, FE Clear's, the s as held wickedness of their r ca's outrages first broke forth, he latter upon the folly and gs, and pointed out the very ,equences likely to result to themselves from per.: ch a cours, amount of coon larly in the ck they would have to pay to the police and yeomanry. This produced about 50 respectable farmers voluntarily came forward and were sworn m special constables, to preserve the peace; and the yeomanry were sent home that evening. On that very night a mob assembled, and destrc d the tOi and gate atlrevaughan, on the Whitland trust, in the county of Fem. bout six miles belo 3 persons were apprehended on in this outrage, and erfordwest of the men farm called Sunday, charged with being I were, upon very clear .vidence, committed to H gaol, to take the trials at the next assizes is a farmer of the name of Howells, occup Llwynnryssi, of the value of near £2OO per of the persons who came voluntarily forward and was sworn a special constable at St. Clear's on the morning of the 12th inst. These outrages are spreading, for on Thursday night a toll-bar, with the toll-bar, was destroyed and set on tire, at s I a place called Llandarog, about six miles hence on the road to Swansea EtAORDINARY CONSPIRACY N. very extraordinary ners to c ect their escape and which, had t not been defected, would in all probability have ended in I the murder of the keeper of the I ,son, was entered into on lalias " T he Switcher ;" James Evans; a ford; all of whom are confined in one cel The plan, winch gave infor ion, was that 1 Icry out lustily t duce Mr. tiluirl his Keeper, waiting rc 1 when the keeper 3 usuall outer door as to have been set upon by the conspi• ordered, and the key of the gaol takef son. On Mr. Muirh , ssion of by t n accordance with their plot, the three pt 4 soners commenced on Thursday evening to enact Lavery smashed to atoms the window. Leir severa ed ever After arnusill Evans and VI/ e possibly could in the cell, whilst tb out that he was Inurderit ry con Itford were taken out of t ued the whc ence of all this was been put cured of his mental c Police-oth( cell, where La- following extraordinary circ 19, of very prepossessing t appeared, was a native xt morning Layer / Register rs of S f Scotland, but she had t in Jwaica ever since she was tive years of age, with the f am ii74/10her uncle, Captain Macpherson, of the British Queen,itund to China, Sweden, Rome, and Madeira, and she had large expectations. About eighteen months arrived in England, with Miss Grove, a friend of her uncle go she e purpose of pleasure and curiosity, when they immedi: lk lodgings in Albany-street, Regent's Park. One she was leaving home by herself, to take a walk, eing n a a ttired in a Scotch dress, and she had not proceeded far y oun g gentleman accosted her, and asked " whe !'heewas Scotch ?" She replied that she was a nat i ve of i that she had passed nearly the whole of her enquired her name, and sh e t o ld hi m ' and she was niece to Captain s h Queen, and she bad come from and Captain Hooking. The ately toc evening. Macpherson, Vacpherson, of s . studying for the ba tleman James Hayward Inn. He continued to meet lions of love and attachment, and tit uer to Dover, Kent, where they were married by licence on the Bth of August last, at Penside Chapel. Subsequently to the marriage they proceeded to Calais, and three months on the most kind and af ----;noe she was to have re turned to India her hu ?rior to her mar Ise of IV rs. Jone.; she declined duingSo ded union, and Miss Grove re- th some property and returned to Dover, and fy her to tt, n-law, a ,ured he wv were reet, Islingt They after- longs at the ; but she ,ng mem. zninKing, from their i-away match. until they could when Mr. Hayward, senior, 'y were his son and daughter- Her husband's ,gs with a solicitor, and tither ultimately called received as lodgers to away, together with the gold watch d she had not since seen or heard a ..,ything of him, , and Mr. Turner, of where he was a pupil, and she could trace no " 4 - had also seen two of his cousins there, husband was insane. She and at an betel in the neigh_ Ong any friend • - 17 — • _, a I n on_ Iled to stress, she was com ce. The magistrate th Miss Grov. of their THE JEALOUS WIFE. Mr. Te LOrd Trinket Oakley Browne After which, the Drakt ;of OL.D AND YOUA" Nhich Miss Fanny Tertian, the ce rated Juvenile Ac tress, will perform TIIE FOUR MOWBRAYS. To conclude with THE LAST MAN THEATRE ROYAL, WILLIAMSON- F&R THE BENEFIT 01 SQUARE MR. STUART On which occasion Miss FANNY TERNAN (the Juvenile Actress,) Mr. STUART, Mr. TERNAN, Mr. BROWNE, and Mrs. TERNAN, will sustain principal charact ON MONDAY next, the kJ the Play of FIIE I Claude Melnott Gth March, will be performed DY OF LYONS Mr. Stuart, I Paulin • which, the Interlude of PERSONATION. Ternan La Roche, a Swiss valet, ) Lady Julia, Mrs. Ternan Madarue La Governante, 1' Ternan To be followed by the Farce of THE SPOILED CHILD. n which Miss Fanny Ternan will appear as Little Pickle, silor's Hornpipe, and Sing the Songs, " Since I am a bold and sprightly lad." then I'm doomed," and The whole to conclude with Shakspere's KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO. Petruchio Katherine i iicomem TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c yely increased ani most respectable circulation 'ay's Edition of the LIVERPOOL stupid] gst the mercantile OLC HESTER d that t ount of tt y should t ses cf t t should lay its in half imitted th iture of th dignity powerful in- the ravings I whic body in Manchester affords its proprietors the Brat fy ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to briny their advertisements before the notice of buyers in &bowing manufacturing districts. In most of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im- portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability committed to their care, TO CORRESPONDENTS ticed by " G. Y. T." is provoking enough. we had erased the word " learned," and but we know not if our correspondent would have approved of the Neither word was inserted by the compositor, i the mistake was rectified in the proof, e word by the printer offered The trut substituted t y not correctec We have frequently had occasion to call our contemporary of the Stockport Advertiser to order for his grossly un fair plagarisms. It is annoying enough for a journalist to s appropriated wholesale, without acknow- see his lab( 1" ..ement ; .0 see article after article mashed up into small paragraphs, and dished up in our contem porary's own gravy, is a little beyond our equanimity. Let the Advertiser copy us ` totusleres et rotundus, and welcome —nobody will mistake the dish for his icassees or lobscouse in is odious fashion ! J) Ribgrpoot &tanbarb. TUESDAY MOR\ING, FEBRUARY We claim to be permitted once more to address a few words to the Conservative merchants and trades- men of Liverpool, upon the subject of their duty in connexion with the present rampant agitation of the -Coiliqaw League. During the past week our town has been disgraced by the holding within it of a meeting assembled for the declared object of palliating conduct, on the part of the League, and in particular of Mr. Richard Cobden, which has called down upon these gentlemen the unqualified disgust of most other of the whole empire, and roust continue so to stand until we purge ourselves from the foul imputation by 1 and public protest, to every enormity of language and conduct, past and to come, of all the a dlgnitie reckle ncendiaries amongst that body ! We have submitted to be dragged through the slough of poli tical filth, at the heels of the contemptible faction which rides dominant over the manufacturing districts of this country ; and we must submit to be hurried on to the approval of revolution and bloodshed, even, if we hesitate now to take our stand firmly upon the brink of the abyss, and wash our hands of participation in a course, so full of disastrous and degrading results Co the very name of England I Shall we;then, tamely Shall we submit, not only to that utter )rostration of commercial energy and activity which must attend upon the continuance of the present mad agitation, but, as well, to the obloquy and contempt which our apathy is drawing down upon the character of this once-loyal Protestant town. permit this ? We trust that the answer to these questions will be an indignant "No !" We trust that we are not the fallen, contemptible community which any other reply would make us—that a voice can still be raised in Liverpool before which the howl of incendiaries will be drowned into a feeble whisper—that this voice will rise first from the merchants, brokers, and tradesmen of our town ; and we can promise with confidence that it will meet with such an echo from the hearts of thousands of loyal operatives as will convince the world that if amongst the working classes of other towns the revolutionary mania is triumphant, in this town the cause of honesty is in the ascendant, and the safety of the altar, the throne, and the institutions of the country, is watched over by that surest stay of a nation's greatness—an attached democracy ! To what circumstance, let us ask, do we owe every inroad which, of late years, has been made in the en- tireness of our glorious constitution, and in the pros perity and greatness of England ? The reply should sERvATIvI CON- SUPINENESS." To what do we owe, as community, the indignity with which for years we )on by a local faction within our own We [Pled u borough ONSERVATIVE S have wiped out the stain, it is true. NESS !" IVe have flung down the usurping faction to grovel in the mire of in cendiary agitation in holes and corners. But that, we submit, is no reason why we should resign ourselves to sleep and fancied security. The kicked and beaten thing is up again ; insults us from Anti-Corn-law platforms ; dares to lift its head in public places ; pre sumes to utter its disgusting falsehoods as the voice of the people of Liverpool ; and we ?—tamely submit to the degradation ! This must not be. The Conserva tive merchants of Liverpool, we trust, will never permit themselves to descend so very—very low ! But sup pose even that they do; still we venture to tell them that it shall not be! There are amongst us those who can lead us in the endeavour to wipe away the disgrace which must otherwise cling to us in the eyes of the world ; and if those to whom we now appeal hang back from the performance of their duty, we must turn our eyes elsewhere, and appeal to a quarter in which we know that appeal will not be made in vain ! That such a course is imperative upon us needs little to demonstrate. Look around us—see the giant efforts being made to undermine those institutions which we profess to revere—compare the indefatigable energy, with which our enemies carry on their efforts at destruction, with our own deep lethargy. Surely the prospect is sufficiently startling ! Already the League, unabashed by the scorn directed towards it by the press of the country, has sown the whole em pire with its seditious tracts. Incendiary appeals are ringing from town to town, from hamlet to hamlet. Its council sits in the metropolis of Great Britain, and fulminates thence its anathemas against all that is great and good in the land; and what, we ask, must be—we repeat emphatically, MUST BE—the result of such a course of agitation, unopposed, except by the merely desultory efforts of journalism, unaided by those who could speak in a voice of authority ? This ►rust he the result :—the government of this country ron2 distant period, be driven, by the voic excited to frenzy, to remove those landmarks, and to embark in a course of mad and violent legislation, whose issue must inevitably be anarchy and universal robbery ! Let us be wise in time, and put forth our strength whilst it is available. The declarations of the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, that it is not the intention of ministers to propose any measure of relief from the injurious work ing of our existing banking system during the present session of Parliament, we cannot but view with ex treme sorrow. That the system in question is at the root of much of the evils which afflict the commerce of the empire we firmly believe, and such is the opinion of a large and influential portion of the mercantile com munity. We observe, however, from the City Article of the London Times of Saturday, that " an opinion prevails amongst monied men that Sir Robert Peel's declaration is to be looked upon in reality as a pledge that, early in the next session, a general law, compre hending the Bank of England" (the renewal of whose bargain with the country wili then have to he reconsi dered) " and all banking, will be brought forward." Such a course, by which the whole subject may be gone into, may perhaps be more convenient than dis tinct legislation, upon the two questions of joint-stock banking and the management of that great company; and we must, therefore, perforce, submit to another year's continuance of the evil now existing, in the hope of a better-digested and more radical cure. Our attention has been drawn to this subject by the report which is before us, of a case, heard before the Birmingham District Bankruptcy Court, on Wednes day last, in which the Birmingham Borough Bank and a bankrupt named Chapman figure very conspi cuously. The facts of the case are briefly these. Some months ago the man Chapman was a bankrupt in Liverpool, and subsequently became an'accountant in Birmingham. In the year 1837 a concern called the Borough Bank was established in that town, and, on application, 100 shares were allotted to Chapman, upon which he paid one or two pounds per share. Here then was, at once, a foundation upon which to speculate. This Mr. Chapman had formerly had an account with that pretty Manchester affair, The Northern and Central Bank, of which a Mr. Goode was manager; and the fact of the satne Goode having transferred his services to the phoenix which was rising in Birmingham, was no doubt sufficient assur ance to Mr. Chapman that the same Prudent system of management would be adopted by the " Borough Bank." Let the reader trace the speculative career which the latter forthwith commenced. In 1837 he formed a concern calling itself " Kening and Com pany," and carrying on the trade of " fire-iron and fender makers, mill manufacturers, &c."—(how many mill manufacturers have joint-stock banks created, their annals in Manchester could tell !) The capital of this concern, with the exception of the bank shares of Chapman, appears to have been NIL. In 1838—a year afterwards—this speculative Mr. Chapman formed another concern, under the title of " Ryland, Smith, and Co., patent mill and press makers ;" capital of Ryland, NlL—and Smith, NIL, the said Smith being a clerk merely in Chapman's office ! Another firm was established under the name of " G. M. Smith and Co., sharebrokers and accountants, of Coventry and Lea mington," capital, NIL, of course, for Mr. G. M. Smith was the identical " Monsieur Tonson" of the firm of " Ryland, Smith, and Co." and clerk in Mr. Chapman's office ! Well, now for the mode of business, which is thus described by Chapman himself. Kening and Co. drew on Ryland and Co. and Smith and Co. ; Ryland and Co. on Kening and Co. and Smith and Co., to large amounts. These bills were taken to the Borough Bank, of which Chapman was a shareholder, and dis counted there. In process of time Chapman became of course) a director !—who more fit to be a director of a joint-stock bank than a man so proficient in the science of blowing bubbles ? and during the six months of his directorship, the bills of these firms were dis counted to the tune of no less than twenty-five thou sand pounds At the time of the stoppage of the bank, which ,of course was also the stoppage of its paper makers, they owed a balance of £l2,ooo—a fair amount fonitch men to owe. What the bank paid we have no means of J;nowing-i but Chaptnan's estate paid 21d. in the pound, Kening and Co. 64-d., and the joint estates of Ryland and Chapman 21d. in the pound. . _ . . Well, but the bank, it will be said, was swindled by these adventurers. Was it ? We shall see. Chap man, in his evidence, says—" I entered into these various partnerships under the advice of "—Who ? Why, of " Mr. Goode, the manager of the bank" ! And let it be duly considered that this was not a course resorted to by the mana g er in q u estion in order to prop a falling con cern, but resorted t o u p on it s fi rst establishment, to make a business for the bank. The case is, in fact, an episode in the history of bank making ! By the a dvice of Mr. Goode, the bankrupt Chapman had blank acceptances of the various firms always ready by him, " for the purpose of renewing the bills as they became due; " and occasionally, " when it suited the purpose of the bank itself to have one filled up for its own accommodation," Mr. Goode, the manager, " sent for Mr. Chapman," and the affair was arranged. The Mr. G. M. Smith, the promoted clerk of Chapman , and member of two firms, we ought to add, was a brother-in-law of Mr. Goode, of the Northern and Central and the Birmingham. Borough Bank ! Now here, we s ubmit, is as p re t ty a spec i men o f t h e working of a system which is even yet rife throughout the manufacturing districts, as the recent explosion of the Bank of Manchester— (" Timeo Danaos, et Bona ferentes," ought, by the bye, to be our reply to all Manchester joint-stock bank projectors) —serves sufficiently to shew. Here is a specimen of the prevailing mode of getting up manufacturing firms—of mill-making, to use the happy phrase upon Messrs. Kening and Com pany's card ;—and yet, when the natural distrust created by exposure after exposure is depressing the commerce of the country—when capitalists are hoard ing their money, afraid to venture it in the ordinary channels of trade,—we are told only of the corn laws ! Of such a system of banking may we not well say, in the emphatic words of Hamlet, " 'tis vißanous " Oh, reform it altogether ! " Sir Robert ; and the sooner the better ? The. Manchester tsk Guardi an on Satur d ay returns to hi disgustingv heh t hea task, League 'v th has a sa t hankering its disposal,a f after which the good things might be excused in a hungry dog, but is odious to contemplate in an influential journalist. The minister of this country, argues the Guardian, is " responsible" by the principles of the constitution itself. He is liable to impeachment for his acts. Admitted, most worthy and sagacious of philosophers ! But impeach ment before the bar of parliament is one thing, and the constant iteration of the name of the offender in the ear of hungry mobs, as that of the cause of their hunger and wretchedness, i s another thing. Respon sibility to parliament is one thing, and responsibility to the assassin and the m aniac is another thing. Bri tish law is one thing, and Lynch law is another : which is best we leave our disinterested contemporary to decide Sir Robert Peel, says the Guardian, is liable to im peachment. Admitted ; but did the Rev. Mr. Bayley point to impeachment as his punishment ? No : that gentleman pointed to something very different ! Has Mr. Cobden placed a notice of motion on the books of the House of Commons, for the impeachment of the Premier ? No : he only reiterated the senseless truism—by the Guardian's own admission a truism, and its constant iteration is just as senseless as if we were eternally told that two and two make four—that Sir Robe' t is responsible for his acts as minister ; and, m ore than that, he has taken for g ranted the very fact which the party impeaching would have to prove : viz., that Sir Robert's policy has produced the distress of the country Why, then, this same iteration of per. sonal and individual responsibility, unless it is used as a personal and individual threat ? But, presuming that the abstract right to insist upon this responsibility is established, and that no more is meant than liability to impeachment—(how silly, by the bye, would a an look who should stand up in the House of Commons, and, gravely and with eirtimaw circumstance Sir Robert, I hold you flammatory, and even wicked ? We will endeavour to put a case, out of which the Guardian, with all his well-known eel-like capabilities, will scarcely contrive to wriggle. We, like Lord Francis Egerton, attribute much of the present condition of our manufacturing classes, directly or indirectly, to the expansion of the powers of machinery, and the application of steam to manufacturing purposes, beyond the power which we possess, or can legitimately acquire, to consume. We presume there is no reason why we should be barred from entering upon a discussion of this feature of the case—from pointing to machinery as a fertile cause of distress, and, if we chose to be unwise enough, calling for parliamentary interference between its powers and the labour which it displaces. Yet how often has the mere mention of the offensive word " machinery,' as one amongst the causes of manufacturing distress, drawn upon Conservative journalists, from this very sensitive person the Manchester Guardian, the terms Luddite," " Tory-Luddite," and other similar polite appellations ! This, however, by the bye. We con tend for the perfect right to point to machinery, as the Guardian contends for his right to point to Sir Robert Peel, as the author of the distress around us. We look towards a parliamentary and constitutional re medy for the case which we put, with quite as san guine expectation as he looks towards his parliamen tary remedy in the impeachment of the Premie-. Thus far, then, the wildest denouncer of machinery is on a par with the man who points out Sir Robert Peel as the author of his country's sufferings,—with the exception, by the bye, that we do not remember many " Luddite" or " Tory-Luddite" placards headed " MURDER," and garnished by Scriptural quotations to warrant the term. But suppose that the passions of an excited people had been actively turned to the destruction of machinery as the cause of their suffer ing —that the mill of A or B had just been sacked, its power-looms or spindles broken up, and the 'life of A or B placed in peril,—would the Guardian say that the spouter, reverend or parliamentary, who chose such a moment of excitement to indulge in philippics against self-acting mules, and other instruments by which human hands are displaced, was a wise man, or one whose purpose, or the tendency of whose con duct, was defensible ? He would not. We know sufficient of the Guardian to convince us that his fiercest invectives would be directed against such a man ; and yet such is precisely the case against Mr. Richard Cobden and the League ! Can the Guardian deny that the cases are precisely similar ? Sir Robert Peel has already been attempted to be made personally and individually responsible to the assassin's pistol ; and these gentlemen chuse such a moment to expatiate upon the fact of his being individually responsible ! Sir Robert Peel is viewed as the creator of the pow erful Conservative phalanx now in parliament, and a 5 its head,—as he undoubtedly is both. The impression is abroad that, with his life, its influence—its entire uess—would terminate. There are men, we believe, in the council itself of the league who think this; and although we do not for a moment impute to these men a design so to overthrow conservatism as an influential power in the legislature by the commission of crime, the tendency of every attack levelled at the premier is to turn the minds of bad men—such as exist in every political body —to so summary a means of achieving a political end as would be his untimely death by the hands of an assassin. Surely, then, when such a feel ing is abroad—and that it is the Rev. Mr. Bayley is a witness which the League ought not to gainsay !—ho nest men, however they may differ from Sir Robert Peel, ought to pause before they give to it additional imputus ! Without presuming to dictate to the Select Vestry who or what class of persons is most likely to fill the situation of Governor to the Workhouse (now vacant by the resignation of Mr. Dowdall) with credit and advantage, we yet take the liberty of naming a circum stance which may be deserving of consideration. In such an institution as the Workhouse, where charac ters of every description are congregated, and where insubordination.must naturally be expected, it strikes us that a selection might judiciously be made from many of the officers of the army or navy, who are now unemployed. This crass has been selected for the management of most of the railroad.s.- where , discipline and obedience are so necessary ; and in the police establiltaents, and in many of the gaols and other public edifices, involving the management of the many and the refractory, naval and military officers have been appointed with eminent success. These men, having learnt obedience themselves, are admirably suited to enforce it in others. They are generally gentlemen in manners ; and their education and asso ciations, in most instances, give them a certain stamp which the generality of civilians have not so many opportunities of acquiring. Whatever choice may be made, it will doubtless be of a man who can correct irregularity, enforce obedience, and preserve order; while, at the same time, the feelings of the aged and afflicted must be respected, who have been compelled by misfortune to seek the asylum of the workhouse. LOCAL NEWS The Cheshire Foxhounds meet this day (Tuesday), at Ashton Heys; on Thursday, at Tarvin ; and on Saturday, at Mere Hall. Mr. BRA HAM'S CONCERT.—The admirers of pure English style of singing will be delighted to find that the evergreen Braham will sing some of his most popular songs on Friday next, at the Royal Assembly-rooms. ST. BRIDE'S SCHOOLS.—On Sunday last, the sum of £62 was collected at St. Bride's Church, in aid of the schools in connection with the church, after two excellent sermons by the Rev. Hugh Stowell. STEAM-VESSEL ON THE IRWELL.—On Friday afternoon some interest was excited at the Old Quay, Manchester, by the arrival of a new iron steam-boat, intended to ply on the Irwell as a passage boat between that town and Runcorn. She is 80 tons buraen, 70 feet long, is fitted with the patent spiral propellers, invented by Mr. Bennett Woodcroft, of Manchester, and is worked by two ten-horse engines. We understand that she promises to be very fast, having made the quickest passage from Liverpool to Manchester that has yet been accomplished; and when tried on the Mersey by the builders, Messrs. Mather, Dixon, and Grantham, of this town, she had a contest of speed with ' the Nun and the Mer sey, two of the fastest boats on the river, and passed them both. Her speed on the river Irwell on riday, on an aver age of trials, with and against the current, was eight miles — a decidedly greateer speed, we believe, than had been previously attained by steam in the narrow channel of the Irwell. STOPPAGE IN TgANSITU.—At the Police-court,• on Fri day, a person named John Field was charged by Mr. Moulds worth, manager to Messrs. Ackroyd, tailors and drapers, in Byrom-street, with stealing two handkerchiefs. It appeared, that on the previous day, a female went into the shop of Messrs. Ackroyd and asked to look at some waistcoats for a little boy who was with her. Whilst the shopman was show ing them, the prisoner joined them, and after remarking that the things were too dear, - advised the party to leave the shop, which they were in the act of doing, but were stopped at the door, and the prisoner was charged with stealing two hand kerchiefs from the counter, which, after some hesitation, he took from his pocket. Mr. Davenport called the female who was in the shop at the time. She stated that she and her husband had arrived in Liverpool from Somersetshire, from whence they had taken a passage to America, to Which coun try they intended emigrating, and the prisoner and his wife were going out with them -as servants, her husband having paid their passage, and she had gone into the shop for the purpose of procuring some clothes for her son, when the prisoner joined her for the purpose of carrying the parcel. The prisoner, in his defence, said he took up the handker chiefs thinking they had been purchased by his mistress. 'Mr. Rushton said, although the case was a painful, one, yet it was so clear a case that it was his duty to commit thn pri soner for trial. IMPORTANT TO PAWNBROKERS.—On Friday last, before Mr. Rushton, a Mr. Murrow accused Mr. Medder, pawn broker, Stafford-street, of • illegally detaining a watch, his property. The watch was taken from Mr. Murrow's bed room by a fellow-lodger, and pledged by the latter, who was brought before Mr. Rushton and condemned to imprison ment is default of payment of a fine of 505., with the 16s. received on the watch. Mr. Medder pleaded that, by the clause of the New Local Act, where no suspicion attached to the pawnbroker, he was entitled to the amount lent before giving up the pledge. He (Mr. Medders) had been in his present business for many years, and had carried ou his trade with respectability, and no stain could attach to his character for unfair dealing. Mr. Rushton said, that although a clause had been introduced in a recent bill to the effect stated by Mr. IVledder, that did not overrule the statute law of the country, and could not avail in this case. He (Mr. Rushton) had given his decided opposition to the clause in the local act when first propounded, and stated his reasons at the time for so doing. He considered the law of responsibility as re garded pawnbrokers as the most judicious that could be de vised, as it caused a greater vigilance on the part of the trade, and caused them to exercise a due caution in the receiving of pledges, which could not fail to prove highly beneficial to the public at large. Mr. Medder intimated that himself and others had been led astray by the clause above referred to, and thought that the law relating to pawnbrokers ought to be more clearly laid down, so that they might not err through ignorance. The magistrate ad m itt e d the latter complaint to be well founded, and said that there was not the slightest reason for supposing that Mr. Medder had acted otherwise than with the proper caution in the matter before the Court. Mr. Ellis remarkeeto Mr. Medder, that had the man who had stolen the watch paid the penalty inflicted upon him by the magistrate, instead of paying it in his own person by im prisonment, as he was now doing, Mr. Medder would have been entitled to have the amount of the pledge returned to aim, but, as it was, he must submit to the loss; to which opinion Mr. Rushton assented. The complainant (Murrow) elpped for the amount of the summons, to which Mr. Rush ton observed that this was coming it "rather too strong", and that the applicant ought to be very well satisfied with recovering his watch. Lord Sandoz) sad S. W. V guests at the speaker's third p, wcra amongst the my dinner on s THE DEATH BROM A STAB IN THE F our last the evidence adduced at the co Thursday. The inquiry was resumed on Friday, when no thing of further particular moment was elicited, and the jury, brought in, as we anticipated, a verdict of manslaughter against the boy, Moses Doyle. A fire broke out on Friday night, about a quarter to nine, in the cellar of the house of Mr. Jones, saddler, in London road, near to Hotham-street. The engines, with Mr. Whitty and Mr. Hewitt, were speedily on the spot, and, though it burnt with great fury for a time, it was soon ex tinguished, with slight damage to the property. COUNCIL MEETING.—The usual monthly meeting of the town-council will take place to-morrow. The only subjects of particular interest placed on the council paper for consi deration are—A recommendation of the Finance Committee to sell the Queen's Hotel, the appointment of Mr. Edward Bannister as chief clerk in the town-clerk's department, and the motion of Mr. North, a copy of which we gave on Tues day last. BODY FOUND.—On the afternoon of the 27th of January, Mary Ferran, twenty-three years of age, and servant to Mr. John Red, licensed victualler, Parliament-street, was seen in a state of intoxication in the kitchen of her employer's house, after which she was missed, and was not seen or heard of till Thursday week, when two boatmen, who were grappling for a boom iron, found her body in the Queen's Dock. Ver dict, " Found drowned." Tnn LEAGUERS IN LONDON.—These gentlemen go on apace. Their field of action is now in the metropolis; and they have publicly announced, at their late meeting at the Crown and Anchor, their intention to erect a "free-trade hall," capable of holding 15,000 persons! The orators, one would imagine, must use speaking trumpets, to be heard in such a building. They have not ventured, however, as yet to hold a meeting of their body in Manchester. London, or any other large town, without the precaution of tickets of admission. Their meetings are, therefore, packed meetings, in every sense of the word. THE FUNDS, SATURDAY EVENING.—The English secu rities have supported considerable firmness to-day, but there were few operations of moment. Very little variation occurred in quotations, though the market was hardly so bright as yesterday. Consols for money were last quoted 954 to I; ditto, account, 954; Exchequer-bills 665. to 68s. premium ; India Stock, 2674 to 2684 ; Bank Stock, 177 to 178 ; India Bonds, 675. to 68s. premium ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 964 to .1 ; Three-and-a -half Fer Cents. Reduced, 2034 to 4 ; New Three-and-a-half per Cents., 1024 to 4 ; South Sea New Annuities, 944; and Canada Debentures, 1111. In foreign securities a slight decline was noticeable in the value of some of the speculative securities, but Spanish and Mexican presented the chief alteration. Spanish Ac tives left off 20/ to 1; ditto, New, 271 to 1; Portuguese Converted, 391 to 40; Mexican, 301 to 31k; Mexican De ferred. 81 to 9 ; Dutch Two-and,a-half per Cents., 551 to 4 ; Dutch Five per Cents., 1021 to 103 ; • Colombian, - 244 to 1; Brazilian, 77 to 78; and Belgian, 104 to STEALING TOBACCO.—Yesterday. a boy, named John Johnson, was charged at the police-court with stealing two separate quantities of tobacco from a shop. It appeared from the evidence of a young lady named Procter that the prisoner had, on Saturday, gone into the shop of Mr. Robert Eccles, Great Charlotte-street, and asked for half an ounce of roll tobacco. She had the quantity cut off, and was handing it to him, when he said he would have it off a thicker roll. She took a thicker one down, and was about to serve him, when he picked up the whole roll and made off with it. An alarm was given and he was secured. The article weighed 21b., and was worth 6s. or is. Mr. Eccles's sister also proved that the prisoner had in a similar way, within the same week, snatched up another roll, weighing about half a pound, with,which he ran off. He was com mitted for trial. THEATRE-ROYAL.—On Friday last an exceedingly clever and pretty little child made her first courtesy before a Liver pool audience. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ternan, who are fulfilling a short engagement here. Miss Fanny Ternan is only seven years old, and impersonated the " Four Mowbrays" in " Old and Young " with a spirit, grace, and vivacity that drew forth hearty and genuine bursts of ap plause. There is an evidence of strong natural ability in the acting of this little girl,—there is an evidence of genius, for no teaching could make such a little child do what she does so artlessly, naturally, and with so much apparent finish.— The entertainments during the week have been of a varied character. Last evening " Othello" was performed. Mr. Ternan. Othello; Mrs. Ternan, Desdernona ; Roderigo, Mr. Browne ; and Mr. Stuart his old and favourite character of lago. There is no doubt whatever that Mr. Stuart has changed his style since he was last here. It would be absurd to talk of improvement in an actor of his high standing and ex perience, but he has, to use an artistic phrase, " toned down" all the too florid parts of his impersonations : this was observa ble in Pierre on Friday, and in lago last evening. It will be seen that this old favourite is about to take his benefit—when his friends and admirers will surely muster round him. The entertainments he has selected are extremely attractive. To-night the capital comedy of the "Jealous Wife" will be represented with a strong cast. We see by the bills that Mr. Farrell and Mrs. Glover are re-engaged, and that Mr. Webster, Mr. Strickland, and Madame Celeste will also make their appearance very shortly. CONTINUANCE OF THE EASTERLY WINDS.—ThEse winds still continue, and very few vessels from foreign ports or coastwise have arrived since our last. From the Ist to the 25th instant, only. fifty vessels from abroad had reached port, and of these nearly one-half-arrived on or before the sth. The number of vessels that have sailed for foreign ports, from the Ist to the 25th instant, has been 271. The southern docks are, consequently, from the few arrivals and the nu merous sailings, now•comparatively empty. In the Prince's Dock, the largest in the port, there are about fifty vessels. The southern docks, where the timber ships are laid up for the winter, as well as those on sale, which are still numerous, are not so bare of vessels as those at the other end of the port. Amongst the vessels now due are upwards of eighty from the cotton ports of the United States. At New Orleans, up to the 21st of January, thirty-three vessels had cleared for this port, not one of which has yet arrived. Of these, one has a cargo of 4,102 bales. one of 2,983, two of upwards of 2,600, one of upwards of 2,500, and nine others of above 2,000 each. The grand total of cotton now on its way from New Orleans is more than 70,000 bales. At Mobile, up to the 22d of January, seventeen vessels had cleared for this port, none of which have arrived. The largest cargo is 2,306 bales : the total afloat about 25,000. One vessel had cleared out at Apalachicola: another at Port Leon, a new port on the Mississippi. Up to the 24th of ,January, fourteen vessels had cleared at Saratoteih , for this port. The iargest cargo Is z,stio-batea t the total or au ale ships above 20,000. At Charleston, up to January 25th, fifteen vessels had cleared for this port, none of which have arrived. The total quantity afloat about 20,000 bales : the largest cargo 2,300. At New York three vessels had cleared for this port laden with cotton. Two had also cleared at Texas with cotton for this port, and which may be added to the gross amount, as cotton from that country formerly came through New Orleans. Thus, eighty-five vessels are known to be on their way with cotton for Liverpool. Their united cargoes cannot be much less than 140,000 bales. ST. BARNABAS' CHURCH AND DISTRICT SCHOOLS.-- Two sermons were preached on Sunday last in this church, and collections made for the purpose announced in previous advertisements. That in the morning by the Rev. Jonathan 8r00k0..M., rector of Liverpool, from Proverbs, xxii, 6. "Train* a child in the way he should go, &c." The ser mon wasn able argument on the necessity of Scriptural edu cation in general, and Church education in special, with a warm eulogy on the champions of the Reformation, and the excellence of the Liturgy, Articles and formularies of our Church. The collection amounted to £2O 4s. 4d. The even ing sermon was by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, from Psalm xl. 4. " Then will Igo unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy, yea upon the harp will I praise thee, 0 God, my God." Having established from the example of Timo thy, the sufficiency of the Old Testament Scriptures to make " one wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus," he proved. with his accustomed power and perspicuity, from the case of David, in the Psalms, how all the Jewish ceremonies had a Christian meaning. The altar sacrifices being designed as significant types of the one sacrifice of Christ, once, for all the sins of the world. He drew a dis tinction between the peace offerings and free will offerings under the law, assigning to each their anti-type and place in the Christian dispensation : and thus argued for the Word of God as the staple of a Christian education. Having alluded in touching terms to the sufferings of the poor, and their ina bility, from ignorance, and constant occupation, to direct the education of their children, he concluded with a forcible ap peal to the better feelings and sense of Christian obligation, on the part of those who had the means ; that they would make an ample free-will offering thus in furtherance of so good an object as the rescuing of the rising generation from the mass of wretchedness and crime by which they were sur rounded. The collection amounted to £3O 15s. The con gregations, on both occasions, were very numerous. That in the evening, with those standing in the aisles and porches, could not have fallen short of 2000 persons, and we are in formed that multitudes went away. The congregation of St. Barnabas, in these depressed times, has done nobly,—up wards of £250 being thus contributed by them in a fortnight, a sure earnest of eventual success. AN INFAMOUS TRICK.—EIIen Fallen, a slovenly i dissi pated-looking girl, was charged at the Police-court, on Sa turday, with having robbed a country woman of a sovereign. From the evidence of the complainant, Mrs. Ellen Grounds, a decent-looking country woman, clothed in drab cloth, it appeared that the money was obtained in the following man ner:--Mrs. Grounds was standing in St. Martin's Market with some butter and green stuff, when a lady went to her, purchased some butter, and offered a sovereign in payment. Mrs. Grounds took the sovereign, but held it between her fingers, declaring she could not change it. She asked the parties near her for change, but they also were short of that commodity. The prisoner stepped forward and said, " I'll get it changed for you : I'll go to Mr. Bird's ;" at the same moment she took the sovereign from Mrs. Ground's fingers and walked away. The poor woman watched her, and saw her enter the shop which she had named, but she waited in vain for her return. At length she went to look for her, but could not find her. She returned to the market and informed officer Maguire, who, on hearing a description of the prisoner, believed that he knew, her. He accompanied the poor woman in search - of the thief, and, after an hour's persevering labour, she was found in a house in Lace-street. Two women and about seven men were i❑ the apartment when Maguire and Mrs. Grounds entered. To his inquiries they declared, that they had seen no such girl as he wanted. Seeing an old crone smoking a pipe, with her back closely jammed against a closet, he desired her to move away. She refused, upon which he pulled her from her resting place by force. He opened the closet, and there lay the prisoner. The sovereign, however, had disappeared, the girl declaring that she had lost it in the street. Mr. Rushton asked her whot she had to say. She .replied, that she tried to get change at several places, but could not succeed. At length, two girls, whom she met, took it from her by force. She was committed for trial.—The poor country woman, who was greatly grieved at her loss, told Mr. Rushton, in reply to questions which he put to her, that her husband was a miller. but he had been many months out of work. She was compelled to support her family by making a few black pud dings, which, with the produce of a small garden, she brought to market for sale each Saturday. The butter was the pro perty of a neighbour, for whom she generally brought a few pounds of that article to market. She, however, received no profit on the sale thereof. Mr. Rushton,. pitying the poor woman, ordered that the sovereign should be paid to her out of the fund which the magistrates had at their disposal. Sh e evinced even more emotion on hearing of this unexpected termination of her misfortune than before. THE STEEPLE CHASE.—The course will be as nearly as possible that of last year ; that is to say, the start will take place either at the top of the course or in the field belonging to Mr. Wood, surgeon, directly opposite to the Grand S tand. The number of jumps in the first time round will be about seventeen, including the ditch at the front of the stand on the training course. The first time round, the horses cross the middle of the lower part of the course in a slanting direction on entering from Moss-lane, and run past the stands on the training course; but, the second time on coming from Moss lane, the line of the race-course is kept, and, one or two hurdles being placed across it, there may be an additional jump. A wall also is to be built on the training course, some of the Irish brigade supposine it may favour their nags. It is not possible yet to state, with certainty, whether the Sweep stakes, to which the Prince of Waleb's Cup is added, w ill fi ll, Saturday being the day appointed for closing ; but there is little doubt of it, as there are already three horses at Aintree to run for this prize. For the Steeple Chase, the number of starters will be over twelve and under fifteen ; such, at least, is our opinion : but the most interesting part of the contest will be between the celebrated old Lottery and Peter Simple, the latter carrying I2st. 10lb., and 51b., extra for winning at Hereford.—Albion. .ant of to Mr. stinctly under atisfaction with st certainly Mr. ess. The right 'son ap- harshr It: 000 4USIC r C FINE AET.S Ati.-0 who del i - attemied • 11 perceive tflat the 1... 'lnhofe. two celebrated pictures of Adam and Lye, uy v u.-- ` about to be exhibited here. Those who have seen t hee ' of in raptures, and declare them to be the finest specimen' modern art extant CATHOLIC CHARITY B A I.L.—This ball took pi --- lsi night at the Town• hall : 815 persons were present wben.it, went to press. Dancing had commenced with great sPh'bt and a very pleasant evening was anticipated, and no d°ll would be realized. er• Plum' ARMONIC.—The subscribers and the public will ceive that the full dress concert of this society is annouoc`; to take place, when Miss Birch, Mr. Machin, and Mr. iron will make their appearance. The subscription list's Ow on the increase; it is not too late for those who wisbbe enjoy the cheapest musical treat we know, of, to join " society an d EXCHANGE DINING-Rooms. - -These commod i ou s ,ot handsoMe rooms have been greatly enlarged since we the advertised them. They are now as convenient as any il l town. The excellence of the viands, attention to the gues.st and cleanliness of every department give the establ isbrae" strong claims upon the public patronage. LADIES' CHARITY.—A vacancy has occurred in the sits,!: tion of honorary physician to this excellent institution, I'l4 the unexpected and lamented death of Dr. Malins. we ad, informed that the decease of this gentleman was awfully slire den, and that it occurred on Saturday, at Birmingham , 'Al' e he had gone on a visit to his mother. Dr. Matins h as pe 'of long connected with the Ladies' Charity, and has bee° great service to the interests of the institution. COMMITMENT.—An elderly woman named M'Derraitti was yesterday placed before Mr. Rushton on a charge stealing a piece of beef in St. John's market. It aPP,s a h r „4 that she had gone to the stall kept by Mary Jones, a nd b oll handled the beef. and after standing some time made with it under her cloak. Market officer Furclough t 0 j t her into custody, and found the beef under her cloak. weighed 91b., and was stated to be worth 4s 6d. It aPP ear tSl that the prisoner had recently undergone twelve moat 0 imprisonment for felony. Mr. Rushton said there was 1 . ) ,4 hopes of reclaiming such an offender, and sent hes for tri at the sessions. TRADE WITH THE RIVER PLATE. — The merchants, btb of London and Liverpool, who are engaged in trade with t.,. River Plate, are indignant at the refusal of Rosas, Pre sideP` of Buenos Ayres, to submit his differences with Rivers , Pre ; sident of the State of Uruguay, to the meditation of Great Britain of France, as a serious impediment is thus creat ed ': the extention of a trade, which must otherwise soon becol highly beneficial and important to this country. The 004 progress. both in population and commerce, of the city . Monte Video since it was given up by the Brazilian trooll in 1829 sufficiently attests its importance. In the year I ' o the British shipping engaged in trade with that port V i 7,480 tons, but in the year 1841 it had increased to 3 4, , tons ; while the exports of hides alone have more than dou ble ; since 1837. Another circumstance which should raise LP " State of Uruguay the consideration of the British Gover n ' ment is the recenttonclusion of treaties for the suppressitin of the slave trade and for general trade and navigatioo. These facts and arguments will necessarily have their weig ht wish the Ministry ; and though the mediation of England h as been declined, they may still be able to exercise a very bene ficial influence in bringing about a better understanding b e ' tween the States of Buenos Ayres and Uruguay. RECOVERY OF PART OF A SUIT.—On the 16th ultiuto Mr. Richard Wainwright. merchant, of this town, missed.: pilot-cloth over-coat from a peg on which it had hung passage. Mr. Wainwright had noticed the coat three dais previously. On the 14th of January a man called at the sbl of Mr. Stuart, pawnbroker, and offered for pledge a P it° cloth coat, which he represented as the property of Geo rge Robinson, a car-driver. Mr. Thomas (Mr. Stuart's ass is ; tant) suspected that this man had not obtained the 0 :f honestly. Thomas called a constable, the appearance " whom so startled the pledger that he " bolted. ' The 03 .5 stable and his informant gave chase and secured him, an took him to Bridewell. On the following day be was take , before Mr. Rushton, when, no owner appearing for the 0 1 he was discharged. On the 18th of January Mr. Wainwrig'il had bills printed, stating his loss. One of them was left vl it hc Mr. Stuart, who lost no time in informing Mr. Wainwrig; c l that the coat was in his possession., and the latter shortly afterwards and had it restored to him. The thief Was ois quickly recaptured by the v police, and, on Saturday, he ,„ h g restored to his former eminence at the bar. Mr. Wainvvrn; appeared against him, with his coat on his back, and PP' Thomas identified him. He was committed for trial. AN OLD OFFENDER.—At the Police Court yesterdat% young man, named William Sumners, was placed before I. Rushton, on a charge of housebreaking. It appeared tur a on Sunday afternoon last the female servant at Capt. YouPg in Bedford-street, Toxteth-park, had occasion to go tisd leaving the house, in the absence of the family, locked up a ll be secured. She returned at seven o'clock, and found that t o front door was secured inside by the chain, so that she e oll d not gain admittance. She listened, and heard footsteps s, voices up stairs. Soon after the parties rushed down st a ir s ' .' and, as she could tell from what she heard (and as it ait e '' wards appeared), made their way out at the back windose! and escaped. Several articles had been displaced, in rea4,, e f ness to be carried off. A man's hat and a half-handkere h . l " o were also found on the kitchen steps outside. Inforroatie of the circumstance was given to Mr. Inspector TaversoPt who went to the premises, and recognised the hat as belong; ing to the prisoner. He had seen it and examined it s° te r weeks ago, when he had the prisoner in charge on ano tb % case of suspicion of felony.. He apprehended the prisoner s his house in Hay-street. The mother of the prisoner ,f called in his defence, and denied that the hat or handkerch i ' t were his, alleging that his hat was at home. The other t 8 was sent for, and the prisoner was remanded for further elv dence. BASE SHILLINGS. — The practice of uttering base s bi ' flags has recently become so common in the town that 4 _o ders of articles in shops, publicans, and others would don!, to be on their guard. Yesterday, two men were charged v/2 0 `,1 the offepce at' the police-court. The first had given a Y,„, shilling in payment, which was detected, but a good shi l n es "i was found at the time in his hand, and it did not aPP O , suf f iciently clear that he knew the other to be bad; and e re moreover, it appears that the mint are unwilling to prosee s , for the utterance of a single piece of money, he was nesle &wily' discharged. [We may observe that this practice ore; officers of the crown would, it appears to us, " be more his noured in the breach than the o b servan ce," inasmuch as It g e quite clear that gu ilty p art i es , k now i ng t h e f act, ma y, thtn e t Le" rally to poor ignorant people who may be readily deceive $ and thus totally escape punishment.] The other prisone r ' o , tall man, named Bartholernew Digman, had gone with se t be ther man (who had since es ca p e d) t o a pu bli c -h ouse , and , o f latter had given a bad shilli ng i n p a y men t f or t wo g lasse' e t ale, receiving 9d. in ch ange f rom th e l an dl a dy, w ho did li e u discover the fraud at the time. The prisoner a fterwa" - , went twice back to the h ouse by hi ms elf, a nd on each (S e e sion gave a shilling in payment. On the last oceasioo t he witness's suspicion was roused, as she thought it strang. e ye e should not pay her in the previous change she had g l e i him ; but he said she need not alarm herself as the Oleo was perfectly good. She thus got three shillings from ep e two, and, on showing them to her husband, they were fr i h o rl to be all bad. MreLowling said they were all bad, ann sse . all been made f rom th e same die. The prisoner was nor mitted until the law officers of the mint should decide v r a th e ther he should be sent for trial, and it is t o be presumed will decide in the affirmative. es er ean ° APPREHENSION OF INNOCENT PARTIES ON A OF FELONY.—At the police-court, yesterday, *ton M'Laughlin, John Lynch, and Dapiel Downing, young and Isabella M`Mahon, an elderly female—all respeet eu ; e io° appearance—were placed before Mr. Rushton, on susP ee je' of being concerned in a robbery of a warehouse in A t b,j o e o street. Police-officer No. 267 said, that ou the pre' ie , evening, about 6 o'clock, he met the prisoners in Ar e gl e e, street, two of them, including th e f ema l e , carry i ng somet'l o r. and accosted them. The temale, on his questioning ,ers asked her what he had to do with it, an d a ll th e pris°l-tee went into her house in Argyle -street. He found thilie be r articles were a whole piece of linen and a part of _, Bll° ,`ro• piece. He had since found that th e ware h ouse o f ivl e e 'kee Hanly and Roughsedge, in the sam e s t reet , h a d b ee n br" re' open, and that some linen had been taken away. The log house was about 10 or 15 y ar d s f rom t h e spot w h ere be The saw them. There were four or five men.round them• e . c leS female at first told him th a t a man h a d t h rown the ae"lees under a cart and run a wa y, an d t h at s h e h a d p i c k e d the P te up. Mr. Davenport a pp eare d f or t h e pr i s o ners, an d late sle gated the witness as to whether he had not heard the fe t P ij g; shout for the police. He said she did not in his hear s but told him she had got them in Gilbert-street ; that two men were carrying the articles in a sack, and had th, r „ri. some of them away and run off. The two first name d e r soners said they had gone up and were assisting to ear e ri eer The female also told him that she had gone to fet e ," t ees' daughter. He (witness) was at the time in coloured c c 'eer e William Ford, warehouseman on the premises that ,eOO robbed, said he had locked up the warehouse on the pre .04 evening, and left a ll r i g h t . O n return i ng yesterday niteole, he found a w i n d ow b ro k en , an d m i sse d tw o - w ee, pieces of linen an d a quarter o f a p i ece . H e a l s o r e au ee° a piece of shi r ti ng . H e id ent ifi e d t h e art i c l es prod as part of th e p roper t y .—l t was state d b y M r . Dave- eve that Mrs. M'Mahon was a respectable woman; that e he o eig seen the two m en w ith t h e sack in Gilbert-street, afte, e lie ie , for her dau g ht er , an d sen di ng h er h ome f rom a neig n ",i,s l3 " house; and, su s p ec ti ng t h at a t h e f t h a d been comulirtl had shouted for the police. The polieeofficer who had knot his testimony was in coloured clothes, and she did not . 0 , 0 he was an officer, and had, consequently, replied to bs,, be stated. The officer could not hear her call " police:aet• being at the time in Argyle. street and she in Gilbertl",lo6 —A respectable young gentleman, belonging to the nrlf bi s department, now surveyin g th e t own , sa id , t h at one e iffl eii t. clerks, who was present, co u ld corro b orate t h e state that the female had called th e p o li ce . Th e c l er k was 'per, on, and said that he and two others were in a Mr. lg l. t ed mott's house, at the corner of Gilbert-street, whe t ' „er g heard cries of " police," and, on going out, saw the ',Els, t he): carrying the articles. They inquired for the police, ar - c i wer e all went down to Airs. M'Mahons,with the articles. an io ere' met on the way by the first witness, who was in eci e , clothes. The male prisoners said they were in M'ne r re - e -° l e ; ; heard the cry of " police," and went out as stated. 'Lee bid male said she saw two men, one with a bundle u n " e " e cte; arm, and the other with something white. She o ,lre, 0 ,1 them, and, on shouting, one of them either stutnmeit dropped something near the cart, which sounded as i sr on a board. She called " watchman," and picked ti'e-t the e tides up. No policeman came up. She afterwards 111 , i" b e , first witness, but did not know him. They all wen' f :rie s e house together, her object being to give immediate in r (tli v tion of the finding of the articles. The policeofficeenfiio,, witness) was so confused that he conld not utter a eweit t ,',, word. With regard to herself, she was known to Me. for pe r' himself as a respectable woman, and her husband had been nine years in the police service. She could beltni:eetre ties who could speak to the honesty of her family for „,as the five years, and she thought that, as her sole object " e be s apprehension of the offenders, she ought rather to De e dee e thanked than put into custody. If the officer had .ieev e r • duty he might have followed up and apprehended the e soe s; The gentleman of the ordnance said, that the male er l oi j 0, had come en th e survey f rom I re l an d, an d they w e •f th e % have been r ecommen d e d t o th e i r presen t s ituations i . j ed had not be en res p ec t a bl e c h arac t ers . Mr. Rusht o n lice was satisfied with Mrs. M'Mahon's story, but, in I n s 5 1)° ,1 her, he would send for Mr. Whitty. That gen tleite , after appeared, and s a id th a t h e k new Mr. M'Ala"% 85t oll e io had always considered that he an d his family we re e sse ie respectable people. Mr. Rushton said that it was $ which the officer was, under the circumstances , P s ete d apprehending the parties; but the prisoners bad 9 . 0 praiseworthy manner, and would leave the court , _I pe ie e cte they had, f or the end s of j us tice, b een placed iie . 7 o position, without any imputation on their chara then ordered them to be discharged 0 018 THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD AGAIN.--The f°ll..° Furious note was sent to one of our country ag e ';iiritrof farmer and parish clerk residing at Holwick, nea r „. - rtiO n t, ton-in-Teesdale, for insertion in our columns , a P - oole - ip which, it is hoped, will afford our readers a little 0 10 1 , t iol' a r and at the same time show the great want of eou c e a Ovio that part of the country :—" A quer surmstanc e ac , ll l oo ll of Midltou in Tesdal. A partey of gentlmenn W er o'o rn the County of Durhem a Old Spoartesann ui," - 4 Hodgesone was watchen them To sea a curs and s olo l ti set in the County of Durhem and cald them bac pute her up and Miller a god Hasse cild pour Pu s a s t o or may Bute this Inn the papper if yow like it, yow it Beter then me." — Northern Times.