The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-19 00:00:00

• WerrlaseiesseWe draw the attention of those requiring Assistance in (telegraphy to Mr. Thompson's card of charges. To be perfected in Writing in twelve lessons is worth a trial. Corti:gets FOR THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF CHESHIRE. —We learn that Faithful Thomas, . Esq., the able coroner, who has for so many years filled, with so much honour and . ability, this responsible situation, is about to retire. There are already three candidates in the field, and amongst them Mr. Cunnah, a gentleman who not only possesses first-rate talents as a lawyer, but who is in every way qualified to un dertake the situation. THE CENSUS.—The return of the census lately completed, we are informed, will show an increase of upwards of 30 per cent.- on the population of 1831 in the great manufacturing districts, and a decrease of about 2 1 per cent. in the agricul tural districts. The rate of increase on the whole nation is about 12 per s cent. The most rapid increase has taken place in Lancashire; Lanarkshire, and Forfarshire.—Spectator. • The Liverpool correspondent of the Sun complains, that Captain de Peyster, of the packet-ship Sheridan, instead of delivering the parcels to the agents for the papers, sent his bags to the Post—office, by which much time was lost before the news the papers contained could be made public. The complaint is not grounded strictly on fact. Capt. de Peyster not only allowed the bags to be opened on board his ship in the river, but every news agent present was permitted to take the parcels addressed to him. It is quite true that a few par cels went to the Post-office, but they were mixed up with letters, and there was not time to sort them for prior delivery. A long acquaintance with the commanders of the New York packet-ships enables us to say, that they are, one and all, extremely anxious to accommodate the public, and particu larly the press, by the delivery, immediately on their arrival, of the newspaper parcels ; and we have proved sufficient to show, that Captain de Peyster did, on his arrival on Friday last, do everything that any reasonable man had a right to expect to facilitate the delivery of the papers contained in his bags. Tax ROAD TO RUIN.—A good-looking young girl, about thirteen years of age, was, on Saturday, placed before Mr. Rushton, accused by her mother of gross misconduct. The general complaint of the poor woman was, that the girl was in the habit of going out, and getting drunk with men, and, when she returned home, behaving in a riotous and improper manner. She (the mother) had done everything in her power to reclaim•her, but without success. Mr. Rushton, after a few remarks, committed the prisoner to gaol for one month. As the girl was leaving the dock, she bawled out a coarse imprecation against Mr. Rushton, and told him he had done his worst. Mr. Rushton called her back, and ordered that she should find good bail for her future conduct, or be impri soned three months. She was not yet subdued, however, but departed uttering imprecations and threats. FEMALE ATTRACTIONS.—ALLEN V. MANLY.—This case was heard on Saturday before Edward Rushton, Esq., and John Holmes, Esq. Mr. Owen, solicitor, appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Davenport for the defendant. The plaintiff is Mrs. Sophia Allen, relict of an officer of the 10th Hussars : the defendant is Mrs. Manly, keeper of a lodging-house, in which Mrs. Allen claims to be co-partner. The accusation was, that Mrs. Manly had wilfully and violently assaulted Mrs. Allen by pulling one flannel petticoat from her head as she lay in her bed, and further by pulling the whole of the bedclothes from her head, tumbling her on the floor, and rolling, pushing, pulling, and beating her as she lay on the saidfloor, thereby inflicting divers wounds, bruises, and con tusions, &c. &c. Mr. Owen stated the ease on behalf of his client, characterizing her as a " victim," averring that she owned half the furniture, and was joint occupier of the house with Mrs. Manly. The learned gentleman laboured to show that the case of his client was a particularly hard one. Mrs. Sophia Allen was called. She said that she and Mrs. Man ly, whose conduct had been so unwomanly, slept together. They slept very comfortably all night, but when Mrs. Manly got up in the morning and was dressing herself, she suddenly pulled all the clothes off her, (Mrs. Allen,) tumbled her to the floor, and there rolled her over in the most unfeeling manner. Mr. Davenport asked Mrs. Allen if Mrs. Manly had done more than take away her petticoat, which Mrs. Allen was detaining from her. Mrs. Allen said that, as Mrs. Manly had deprived her of her pillow, and appropriated more than her due share of the bedclothes, she was compelled to pin the petticoat over her head and shoulders to keep her warm. She was not content, however, with resuming pos session of her petticoat, but she had absolutely pulled her (Mrs. Allen) out of bed. Mr. Davenport further questioned Mrs. Allen with the view of eliciting from her an admission that she was a mere lodger with Mrs. Manly. She per sisted, however, that she was a partner and co-proprietress of all the chattels. Mrs. Manly, a very pretty lady, was in court, and smiled very sweetly at her accuser. A Mr. M'Arthu r . a l o d ger i n th e h ouse , s t a t e d, th at , attra cted by the noise which lie heard, he went to the bedchamber of the ladies, fearing that something alarming had occurred. He saw them struggling together. Mr. Rushton dismissed the complaint. Mr. Owen said his client was willing to leave the settlement of the business between her and Mrs. Manly to any third party. Mr. Davenport said his client had no objection, providing the party were one of whom he might approve. Mr. Wardle, solicitor, was named and approved of by both parties. BREACH OF TRUST.—Eisen Holt was put forward at the Police -court, on Friday, on a charge of having robbed her employer, Mr. James Fairhurst, pawnbroker, of Springfield street, of the sum of £1 Os Bd. The complainant deposed that the prisoner had been in his service since the 27th of August last, and that in consequence of some suspicion he entertained against her he took an account of his cash in the shop drawer, to which she had access in the course of busi ness, on the night of the 12th instant. On the following day he also kept a strict account of his cash, and on balancing at night found a deficiency of £1 Os Bd. On Thursday he called Constable Ainsworth into the shop and charged the prisoner with having stolen that deficiency from the cash drawer. She denied it. Ainsworth then searched her boxes and found £4 8s 4d, and in her pocket 2s 9d. The constable cautioned her not to say anything which would criminate herself, whereupon she admitted that she had taken a sove reign, but denied that she had stolen any more money. She was committed for trial. HOLYHEAD.—Loss OF THE BRIG DlDO.—During a heavy squall from the northward, on the night of the 12th inst., the brig Dido, of Liverpool, Carpenter, master, from the Coast of Africa, from Liverpool, with a cargo of palm oil, was totally wrecked on the Skerries Island. Boats pro ceeded there on the morning of the 13th instant, and brought the crew (35 in number) ashore. Two medical gentlemen, of thenames of Morgan and Reed, lost their lives in endea vouring to land from the wreck. The former belonged to the vessel, the other a passenger. The chief mate has been in irons during the last nine months for mortally stabbing the second mate in Africa, and on landing at Holyhead was delivered to the custody of the constables, who took him be fore a magistrate to be committed to prison to await his trial. The cargo is completely lost, neither has the captain nor any of the crew saved anything besides the clothing they hid on when they landed from the vessel. Twelve of the crew were sent on to Kingston from Holyhead by her Majesty's mail steam packet, and were brought to this port on Friday by her Majesty's mail steam-packet Medina, William Smithett, Esq., commanding, who very kindly provided them with every necessary they stood so much in need of. They all felt very grateful, and returned a thousand thanks to the gallant captain for his great kindness and attention. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.— During the last week a highly -interesting course of lectures have been delivered at this institution by our townsman, Mr. James Robinson, on Remarkable and Picturesque Scenery. On both occa sions the theatre was crowded to excess, and the audi ence fully testified their approbation of the lecturer's scien tific explanations and pleasing descriptions of the varied Phenomena of nature. The illustrations were not the least interesting part; and Mr. Robinson appears to have paid great attention to his beautiful and novel method of illus trating his lectures. They consist of views of mountains, • rivers, volcanoes, alpine passes, lakes, architectural scenes, Ssc. &c. ; and were displayed on a large surface, each view covering 400 square feet. We understand that the apparatus employed in producing these peculiar optical effects is the largest and most complete ever yet constructed, and that our fellow-townsmen may shortly have an opportunity of hearing a repetition of these lectures, Mr. Robinson having consented to deliver them again on his own account, as soon as he has made the necessary arrangements. THE LATE EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF PLATE IN MAN CHESTER.—On Saturday last, Mr. Thelwell and William Moobav were again brought up, on suspicion of being con nected in the robbery of plate, &c., from Mr. Thelwell's premises. The parties alluded to on the last occasion having been brought over from Ireland, were also placed in the dock. Their names are—James Thelwell, Bridget Jones, Patrick Rafferty, and Mary Rafferty. A great number of witnesses Were examined. The evidence principally tended to show that James Thelwell had given a false account of himself in Ireland, and of the way in which he became possessed of the of the money. The Irish depositions were read, and then Rafferty and his wife were removed from the dock and placed in the witness-box. Their evidence tended only to inculcate James Thelwell and his wife, and it was extremely vague and improbable. Not a particle of evidence was adduced to carry the churge against Mr. Thelwell beyond where it stood the previous Saturday.—After the court had been occupied upwards of seven hours, all the prisoners were discharged. SINGELAR DISCOVERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY.—Three boys and a girl were charged at the Police-office, yesterday, with having stolen a piece of meat from the stall of a butcher in St. Martin's Market, and their apprehension has been the means of discovering, if not the actual thieves, at least the receivers of some property which had been stolen in the course of last week from the house of Mr. Pickering, (of the firm of Schroeder and C 0.,) Breckfield-road North, Everton. The girl was apprehended near the butcher's stall, and was taken to Rosehill lockups, but the boys effected their escape. In the course of the night, however, the bridewell-keeper heard some one outside the bridewell call out " Sally," where upon he went out, and finding the three boys who were "wanted" for the robbery of the butcher, he made them pri soners. On the person of one of them was found a pearl counter, which answered the description of some which had been stolen from Mr. Pickering's. An officer was imme diately sent to the lodgings of the prisoners, —brothels in Ford-street, Vauxhall -road, and Adlington-street, Great Crossliall-street, from which he brought seven girls and two boys, all of very tender years, a man and a woman, who were said to be the keepers of the places. On several of the chil dren were found pearl counters, of the same kind, with holes drilled in them for the purpose of being suspended from the neck by a ribbon. One was also found upon the female who kept the brothel in Ford-street. Many other articles, such as gown-pieces, machine tools, &C., were found, placing it beyond doubt that the two places were receptacles for stolen Property. Mr. Pickering having described the r obbery upon his premises, s aid the counters produ ce d were very similar to those he had lost, and that several other articles were m go a t elf an in entrance whilst stolen, apparently by some au persontheu locked having hi into the drawing-room and committing the felony. A servant girl of M r. Pickering's identified one of the boys, having seen him upon the pre mises, when he asked her for the gardener. She was away from the door not more than three minutes, and during that time it was supposed he crept into the drawing-room and effected his object. Mr. Rushton discharged the girl wh o had been apprehended on the beef care, but remanded all the others for further enquiry. GREAT GEORGE•STREET CIIAPEL.—TiIiS edifice will be be opened for divine service on Thursday next. The follow ing description of the structure may be acceptable to some of our readers. The principal elevation consists of a portico of ten fluted columns, of the Corinthian order, after the elegant example of the Temple of Jupiter Stator. The height of the column, including the plinth, base, and capital, is 33 feet, the shaft being in one stone, a circumstance without prece dent in this country. The entire base of this front is ap proached by a flight of eight steps, corresponding in outline with the portico, and of stone from the Yorkshire quarries. The front wall, from which the portico stands out in bold reli e f, i s i n channeled ashlar, with only three openings therein, the centre of which forms the general entrance to the whole chapel, the other two being for exit only. The columns are surmounted by an entablature enriched wtli carvedimodillions and gentiles, and the cyinatium with lions' heads. The cir cular portion of the portico roof is formed with stone in radiating courses, having moulded ribs and terminals. Above this is an appropriate continuation of the circular vestibule, the centre of which is enriched with a continuous perforated quillochi, to light the vestibule. Above the cornice is a trussed springer for the dome, which is panelled and ribbed, and surmoanted with a carved gilt lineal. The flanks of the building are decorated with pilasters (ten on each side), with continued plinth and base course capitals, and enriched entab lature, corresponding with the front elevation, these sides being terminated with an attic. Between the pilasters are lofty windows, with circular heads, and surrounded with moulded architraves, eighteen in number, and by which means the spacious interior is abundantly lighted. The extreme length of the building, including the portico, is 127 feet, and the breadth 66 feet. There is pew accommodation for 1750 persons, besides children's galleries. P4WIT,PAem•it very useful Article unda Ms title has jut been introduced into this ' country. It is used ter making soups, jellies, blancmange, &a., and is a sort of isinglass. We have tried it and found that it answers the purpose ex tremely well. A quart of excellent jelly can be made for a shilling, and a bowl of very fine soup for a mere trifle. To families and persons going abroad we particularly recommend it, as being invaluable. LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF A NEW CHURCH. —On Friday the Committee of the Ten Churches Association commenced, on Pin Mill Brow, the erection of another new church, to be called the Church of St. Silas. It is to be built in the Norman style of architecture, with square towers, sur mounted by octagonal spires, circular windows, and clustered columns. The dimensions of the church are 56 feet by 90, and it is calculated to accommodate about 1100 persons. One half of the sittings are to be free.—Manchester Guardian. ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.—A boy of bad character, named Charles Dogherty, was, yesterday, examined before Mr. Rushton at the police-court, and committed to hard labour for three months, for having attempted to commit a robbery in the house of Mr. John Rigby, Sandon-terrace, on Satur day last. ENGLAND AND AMERICA.—His Excellency Sir Charles Bagot, it is understood,:awaits the arrival of the Caledonia, with news of the result of Mr. M'Leod's trial, and of the real facts of the alleged seizure of Grogan, before embarking for Canada, in order that he may carry out with him the de termination and final instruction of the Home Government AMPRITHEATRE.—A new and very splendidly got up spectacle was produced at this theatre last night. It is en titled " Sir Huon of Guyenne." The story is taken from the nursery ballad of " Oberon, King of the Fairies." The whole of the scenery is new and very beautiful, painted by Mr. Beverley. The dresses, decorations, and properties, are also new. We may safely say that such a gorgeous melo drama has not been seen in Liverpool for years. In our next we shall notice it at length. MISSION PRIZE. ESSAYS.—We are happy to learn that the long expected decision regarding the above has just taken place, and that the public are likely to have three essays, of great merit, on the subject of missions. It was originally intended that there should be only two ; but the unanimity of the adjudication in favour of these three, and their singu lar, though various, excellence, has led to the proposal of adding an extra prize, that none of them may be lost to the Christian cause. TESTIMONIAL TO THE REV. ALEXANDER ORME, LATE CURATE OF ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, LIVERPOOL.-1I is at all times a pleasing duty to advert to any testimony of regard shewn by a congregation to their minister; and it is with great satisfaction we refer to the fact of the above rev. gen :le man having received a tribute of esteem on his leaving the curacy of All Saints' Church, in this town. The testimonial consisted of a complete and elegant " Pocket Communion Service," with an inscription stating briefly what were the motives leading to its being presented to him. Mr. James Matthews was deputed to convey the gratifying testimonial to Mr. Orme, and the rev. gentleman acknowledged the gift in the most pleasing terms. We have copies of the letters now before us, but cannot make room for them. THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE.—We had hoped fiat the iniquitous proceedings of this hypocritical body had reached a climax. Not content with uttering the most pal pable falsehoods—with doing all in their power to create a feeling of hostility between the aristocracy and their depend ants—with making religion the stalking-horse for forwarding their diabolical projects—they intend next Sunday, by way of `• feeler," to outrage the sentiments of all right-thinking persons, by a gross desecration of the sanctity of the Sabbath. We learn from a paragraph in the Albion of yesterday, that Mr. Giles will deliver a lecture on Sunday next, on what is most shamefully styled " the oppression of the poor," and a collection will be made afterwards, the proceeds of which are to be given towards carrying out the schemes of the anti corn-law conference. We are glad to see that the dissenting ministers of the town have refused this itinerant the use of their chapels, and he is therefore compelled to make use of the Templars' Hall to pour forth his ill-digested sentiments. We hope few people will countenance such a lecturer on such an errand. How TO SEND A NLWSPAPER BY POST.—Envelopes are unnecessary. Fold the sheet in four, with the pa g es in their proper order ; lay it on a table with the front page down, and the last page upmost ; double it twice equally ; it will now be in the form in which it is generally left by the newsman. Keep the title downwards, and turn the edges of the paper towards you ; double the edges, or outer margin, over to the inner margin, covering as far as the fifth column, and that which you have so doubled, double again ; then turn the sixth column over upon these folds, which you must take in a body, and insert in the outside or uppermost tuck fur nished by the inner margin part of the paper you have just turned over upon them, in the manner of folding a letter. A compact parcel will thus be formed, requiring neither string nor sealed paper to keep it together, while it relieves the post-office people from the bother of looking for stray envelopes, and affords them an easy opportunity of examin ing the paper, to see whether you try to cheat them of a penny by a surreptitious communication. Superscribe or direct the paper under the title Of the paper, and low enough down in the margin to prevent it being cut or torn off without carry ing some of the print with it. Papers thus directed seldom fail to arrive at their proper destination. ASSAULTING A POLICE-OFFICER.—At the police court yesterday, two brothers named Harrison, and Jones, their clerk, were charged with having been concerned —one of them—in assaulting a young woman who was passing along the street, and who had offered no provocation, and the others with an attempted rescue. They were in toxicated at the time, and were required to pay a fine of 20s. each and costs. INQUESTS.—On Saturday last, an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of a female infant—name unknown. It appeared that the child was eight or ten days old, and was found in a box on some balks, in a vacan piece of ground in Cambridge -street. No clue was discovered to the mother, nor could it be ascertained, on a post mortem examination, of what it had died. The jury. therefore, re turned a verdict of "found dead."—Same day au inquest was held on view of the body of a man unknown, which was found in the Canning Dock gut. Verdict to the effect that the deceased, who was unknown, was " found drowned." THE CALEDONIA.--This vessel, the regular days of whose sailing was the 2nd instant from Boston and the 4th from Halifax, has not arrived at the hour we are compelled to put our paper to machine to be in time for the early morning post. Whether she sailed on her regular day, or was detained either at Boston or at Halifax, has been a matter of conjecture since Friday, on which day she was, according to the aver age passages of the royal mail steamers, due at this port. Her arrival, which was anxiously expected before the im portant news by the Sheridan was received, is now looked for with increased anxiety, in the expectation that, if she was detained either at Boston or at Halifax, and not retarded on her voyage by some mishap or heavy weather, she will be the bearer of still more important intelligence. The general im pression seems to be that she was detained by Mr. Fox, to bring some important despatches which in all probability he will have to forward to Government. THE BRITANNIA.—This vessel should have proceeded to sea to-day. On Sunday, however, an order was received at the Postoffice from the Postmaster-General, that her sailing should be postponed forty-eight hours. The detention has been ordered, no doubt, in the hope that the Caledonia will arrive meanwhile, and enable the government to answer the despatches and the merchants the letters she may bring. On the voyage which will commence on Thursday next the Britannia will, for the first time, be commanded by our townsman, Captain John Hewitt. This gentleman. who had distinguished himself as the first officer of those splendid and well-known Liverpool Indiamen the Bland and the Euphrates, was engaged in the same capacity by the proprietors of the Royal William, in which vessel he sailed when the adveturous attempt to cross the Atlantic in a steam-boat, during the winter season. was first hazarded and achieved. He was subsequently employed as the chief officer of the Alexandria mail boat, the Great Liverpool; and, more recently, of the steamer to the command of which he is now promoted. The compliment is the more flattering to Captain Hewitt, since it originated in no consideration of private connexion or li personal influence, but was conferred as the reward of superior merit and tested ability. AN ARTFUL DEFRAUDER.--At the Police-court yesterday, a man in a black velveteen coat, and otherwise decently attired, named John Tims, was charged with having de frauded a female, a shopkeeper, of a sovereign, under the following circumstances. About half-past eleven o'clock on Saturday night, he went into the shop and requested to be accommodated with change of a£s note. A young man, an assistant in the shop, went out with the note in order to assure himself that it was good ; and during his absence, the female, who belived it to be good, gave the full change. This, however, he denied, stating that she bad given him only ; and as he made a disturbance, she went to her own box and gave him another sovereign out of it, though on count ing the first money in the shop, which she had seen shortly before, she found a sovereign short. It also appeared in evidence that he had gone to another shop shortly before, to change the note, and after getting three and a half sovereigns, and the rest in silver, he tost two sovereigns into the drawer from which it had been taken from some other money, and asked for six half sovereigns in exchange for three sove reigns, which he said he had deposited. The cheat was, however, so obvious, that it did not succeed. Another wit ness said that he well remembered the prisoner. About 12 months ago, while he (witness) was conducting a shop in Sheffield, the prisoner came in in a similar way and asked for change, which he got. He then said he wanted some smaller change for a part of what he had got, and before wit ness was aware, got round the counter close to him, and tossed some of the money back against the other, and alleged that he had put back double the amount. By this manoeuvre witness became a loser of 55., and had he ac ceded to the demand of the prisoner, he would have lost double the amount. On a subsequent day he returned to the shop, bought a hat, gave a £5 note, and attempted the same trick, but was ordered away. Mr. Rushton said that he could not take cognizance of a transaction in another town, and at a period so far back ; but the two other cases showed that he was an accomplished and cunning thief. He sent him to the House of Correction for a month, and or dered that the expense of his maintenance there should be defrayed out of the money (£4 195.) that was found upon him when he was apprehended. THE MOST PUBLIC PAPER IN LIVERPOOL.—A gentle man in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, being desirous of giving the greatest publicity to some contemplated improvements in locomotive engines, forwarded through the post a letter, con taining the details of his plans, and directed "To the Editor of the Most Public Newspaper, Liverpool." This commu nication, as a matter of course, reached the office of the STANDARD, the post-office clerks considering, after mature reflection, and with praiseworthy discrimination, that the STANDARD is for all useful purposes most likely to advance the interests of those who are wishful of rendering all possi ble publicity to their advertisements and other announce ments. We merely mention the subject to show our good friends at the .tliercury-office that, however much they may be enamoured with their vaunted circulation, no other person considers it (such as it is) any recommendation for additional publicity. LIVERPOOL MARINE SOCIETY.—On Saturday the mem bers of this society held a general meeting in the room of the Shipmasters' Association, Old Hall-street, for the purpose of receiving and adopting, if agreed upon, the amended code of rules which had been prepared by a committee. Thomas Murray Gladstone, Esq., president of the society, took the chair, an d h e rea d over t h e whole of the rules which he stated had been submitted to Mr. Tidd Pratt, and certified by him as being in conformity with the act of parliament, for regu lating the enactments of benefit societies. A long discussion ensued upon them between the chairman, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Aiki n, Mr. Potter, Mr. Rowett, Mr. Y ates , M r. A . Smith, jun., Mr. Duncan Gibb, Captain Roper, Mr. Sutton,- and others, at the end of which a resolution was unanimously passed on the motion of Captain Roper, seconded by Captain Strein, that the amended rules be adopted. They appeared to give perfect satisfaction, every ground of objection on the part of marine members being removed altogether. Mr. Gladstone then announced, that in consequence of his in tended removal from Liverpool, he should be disqualified from officiating any longer as president of the society, and, therefore, he begged leave to resign the situation he had at present the honour to hold. The resignation was accepted, and on the motion of Mr. Rowett, seconded by Mr. Duncan A G l i e b x b a , n \ d V e i r lli s a m m it P h o , tt i e u r n , ,Icvaieee of -pre: T i r d . en G t l , ad w s a t s o u n n e a,n and fir. appointed president in the P was appointed to the office of vice president. Mr. Stitt was appointed a member of the gene ral committee. The business having been disposed of, the thanks of the society were presented to Mr. Thomas Murray Gladstone, and the proceedings termi na t e d. ACTIVE PRINCIPLES OF TEA AND COFFEE IDENTICAL. —A correspondent, who has lately visited Professor Liebig at Giessen, informs us that this distinguished chemist has lrtely ascertained the principles called • Caffein and Thein to be identical.—Gardners' Chronicle. MUNICIPAL ELECTION. ST. PETER'S WARD. The conservatives of this ward held meeting on Friday Melt, in the large room over Mrs. Peacopp's, in Paradise street, for. the purpose of taking measures to secure the re turn of Ebenezer Rae, Esq., as their representative in the town-council, in the place of Mr. Woollright, who again comes forward on the radical interest. The place was crowded. CHRISTOPHER BUSHELL, Esq., was called to the chair amidst loud acclamations. The CHAIRMAN, in commencing the proceedings, said— I have been called upon to take the chair upon this occasion, and I assure you it affords me much pleasure to do so. First of all, I consider it a great honour to have had my name mentioned in the way it has been, as a conservative member of the town-council ; not that I consider it, of itself, an ho nour to be a member of the town-council—for I think there are some men holding places within that chamber who do not act in a way that either does honour to themselves or to the town they represent—but because to be a conservative coun cillor in the strictest sense of the term is to act upon all oc casions upon conservative principles, to deal honourably and fairly, justly and uprightly. These are true conservative principles, anti if I am worthy of such a title, then indeed am I honoured. (Hear.) Gentlemen, I consider it a privi lege to preside over you upon this occasion ; because, first of all, the cause which you espouse is dear to me, and next because I highly respect the gentleman whom you intend to bring forward as your candidate. 1 have known that gen tleman for many years ; I have knoain him in business, and in private life in some degree ; and I am happy to say that you could not, both from his sound conservative principles and his straightforward dealings as a merchant, have fixed upon a man more worthy of your confidence. (Cheers.) It is not necessary for me now, especially as you know my opi nions in reference to all matters brought forward in the council, to enter into the course of conduct to be pursued by your representative in the town council. (Hear.) You have shewn that you understand what those duties are, and therefore it is unnecessary for me upon this occasion to at tempt to teach you. We have arrived at an important crisis. The town has declared—l may say the conservative town of Liverpool, has declared, for some time past, that she will have as her representatives in parliament none but men of sound conservative principlei. (Hear.) If it be necessary for her to have her representatives in parliament of those principles, surely it is also necessary she should have in her local government men of similar opinions. (Hear.) In fact, it is au anomaly which can scarcely be understood, that Li verpool should be represented in parliament as she is, and in her town council as she is. (Hear.) This must be changed —not that I would have you to change your parliamentary representatives, but your municipal. (Hear.) That this is in the course of coming events, I am perfectly confident. Look at the strides we have made within the past few years ; look at what we have done, and how little remains to be done ! (Hear, hear.) But although it seems that our course is clear, that our duties are anything but arduous, and the victory within our grasp, it is by entertaining such opinions tog confidently that we may lose all we have been struggling for, and therefore I would impress upon you most earnestly to strain every nerve, to use every effort, by every means—honest means of course—in your power, every con stitutional means you possess, to carry out that great victory which has been already so well commenced. (Hear.) I must dwell a little longer upon this point, because apathy may ruin us all. If you fail now, upon the Ist November, to secure that which you really have in your grasp, the op portunity will be lost to you for some years to come. If you lose this victory—and your oppnents are aware of this fact, your loss will be carried on to a period of time which it is impossible for me to mention. They are acting upon this knowledge, and are struggling with all their energy to de feat you, but I trust you will counteract them by your ener gy, and prove on the Ist Novhmber that you are not to be defeated. (Hear.) There is another thing which is a matter of congratulation—the sort of men who now come before you as candidates for municipal honours. Look at the class of men whose addresses are now upon the walls—our leading merchants and professional men—men who will fearlessly do their duty to the town if elected. (Hear.) I will not, how ever, dwell further upon this subject, but conclude by again impressing upon you the strong necessity there is for you to unite as one man in the great work, in order that it may be forwarded and perfected. Your opponent—and I desire to speak of him with all respect—is a man of great respectability, but let not his respectability induce you to forget his political opinions. Separate the one from the other. As a man, he is worthy of respect, but as a politician, drive him out of your service. (Cheers.) Mr. RANICIN moved the first resolution, declaring Mr. Rae to be a suitable person to represent the ward. With the others it will be found in our advertising columns. Mr. HODGSON, in seconding the resolution, said, that by unanimity, perseverance, and exertion, he had no doubt of Mr. Rae being returned. At the last election great efforts were made to secure his success, but it unfortu nately happened that at the preceding election the ward was not contested, consequently the conservatives scarcely knew how they stood upon the register, and the double votes not being available, in consequence of the election being upon the old list, the contest was carried on under great disadvan tages. But now their course, comparatively speaking, was open, and he would impress upon all conservatives in the ward the necessity there was for exertion to secure the return of Mr. Rae. If they succeeded they would have broken through " the Gibraltar" of the town of Liverpool. That ob servation was made by one of the councillors for this ward, who he (Mr. Hodgson) believed was a worthy man in private life, and whose conduct had given great satisfaction to his own party, and certainly it was a very bright idea. If the conservatives gained the citadel they would have in Mr. Rae an Elliott who would maintain it. (Cheers.) Unlike the Elliott of the present day, he would not win the city one day for the sake of marching out of it the next. (Cheers.) Tne resolution was then put and carried unanimously. Mr. PERRIS proposed the second resolution, which pledged the meeting to support Mr. Rae in the ensuing contest. He thought it would only be necessary for him to read it, as he felt assured that it could not do otherwise than meet the commendation of that respectable meeting. Mr. Perris then went into a long and interesting detail of the causes which had lost them the election last November; but as they would now command the duplicate votes which they had on the former occasion lost, he was convinced that by using a little energy they would not only have conservative aldermen, but a conservative mayor also. He stated that the result of the municipal revision was in favour of the conservatives in St. Peter's Ward. Mr. Perris concluded a very interesting speech by proposing the resolution. Mr. MATHEWS seconded the motion in a speech of great length and eloquence. He said that the conservatives had been termed the whisper of a faction, but it was such a whisper as had driven Lord Melbourne out of office, and it would also drive the radicals from the town council of Liver pool. (Cheers.) Let their motto be nil desperandum, and, like the men of Derry, let their cry be " No surrender." They ought to compare what they had received from the hands of the whigs after their ten years of misrule, with what they had promised to give at the time they took office. The whigs had said that all they wished was a fair division, but that division had turned out to be a one-sided one. He called upon the meeting to stand firm by their church and constitution, as handed down to them by their forefathers — that constitution which " for a thousand years had braved the battle and the breeze"—to rally round the standard of conservatism and drive the radicals from their ill-gotten powers. Mr. Mathews was much cheered throughout, and sat down by seconding the resolution. The resolution was then carried unanimously. Mr. RAE, on making his appearance for the purpose of ad dressing the meeting, was received with the most deafening shouts of applause, which lasted for several minutes. After silence had been restored, he proceeded to say that, on being waited upon by a uumher of gentlemen requesting that he would again come forward as a candidate for St. Peter's Ward, he had much pleasure in responding to their request, and he now stood before them a candidate for their suffrages. He would earnestly solicit them to come forward and support him in the present struggle, and he trusted that their votes would be recorded in his favour. (Cheers.) Upon the last occasion he had only lost the ward by twenty, but as they had now a number of duplicate votes at their command, which votes were intended to go to the wards which should most stand in need of them, he thought they might be certain of success. (Hear, hear.) He did not think it would be necessary for him to enter into any state ment with regard to his political opinions, as he was well known to the electors of the ward. Cheers.) He might say this much, however, that whatever was for the good of the town—whatever measures were brought forward, either in a maritime point of view, or for the improvement of Li verpool, and those measures were good—they should have his support. He would not detain them longer, as he thought there were other gentlemen 'present who wished to address the meeting. After thanking the meeting for their kindness, he resumed his seat amidst loud applause. Oa the motion of Mr. HODGSON, seconded by Mr. RAE, a vote of thanks was presented to Mr. Bushell for his kind ness in presiding, and for the able manner in which he had conducted the proceedings. Mr. WEBSTER here said a few words, in recommendation of an active canvass. Mr. Rostrum. said be had had but one other feeling than that of great pleasure in presiding over this meeting, and that was from his occupation of the chair of a gentleman who from circumstances, which he sincerely regretted, was unable to attend. He meant their respected friend Mr. Ferguson. (Applause.) He was happy, indeed, if his conduct had given satisfaction. They had had some forcible observations placed before them by Mr. Webster, and he begged they might have a proper impression upon their minds. Meetings such as the one they had held to-night, were very good in their way, but they would not win an election. They were simply the means to an end, and that end was success. (Hear, hear.) If they desired to win this ward—which had been termed "the Gibraltar" of Liverpool—they must work, and that work must be canvassing. (Hear, hear.) They must each of them make up their minds to gain over some doubtful man. (Cheers.) Let that be the task to accomplish which every man should make up his mind, and success was certain. (Cheers.) He hadseen the celebrated rock of Gibraltar, and a most formidable rock it was, but St. Peter's Ward was scarcely worth the title—at all events, he apprehended, it would not be a rock upon which the conservatives would split. This ward had also been termed " the refuge for the destitute ;" but it was not that, for Mr. Rathbone had not yet appeared in it as a candidate. He would not, therefore, have the conservatives to despair. If the) worked with all their energies, he felt confident they would win. (Loud cheers.) The proceedings then terminated, and the meeting se parated. NORTH AND SOUTH TOXTETH WARDS. A meeting of the Conservative electors of both these wards was held in the Toxteth Hall, Mill-street, on Friday evening, for the purpose of nominating fit and proper candi dates to represent each of them respectively. in the Town council at the approaching municipal election. The build ing, which is very capacious, was crowded to excess by a nu merous and respectable body of the constituency, and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed throughout. The chair was occupied by THOMAS CHILTON, Esq., who briefly opened the proceedings, by stating that it would be solely owing to the apathy of he electors if Conservative members should happen not to be returned for both wards. Mr. Councillor HARBORD proposed the first resolution to the effect that Alexander Smith, jun.. Esq., was a fit and proper person to represent North Toxteth Ward. In doing so, he highly eulogised Mr. Smith's public and private con duct. He said that he was a kind-hearted man, a friend to the poor, possessed of extensive commercial knowledge, un compromising in his principles as a Conservative, consistent in his course of life, and of an unspotted character. lie concluded by observing that Mr. Smith had been a cham pion for the borough members at the recent parliamentary election, that he had fought on behalf of others at the muni cipal elections, that he fought nobly at the former election for North Toxteth Ward, and that there could be little doubt but he would ever do his duty in the council as a true Pro testant Englishman. (Cheers.) Mr. JAMES ROBERTSON seconded the nomination of Mr. Smith. Mr. J. SHEPPARD proposed the second resolution to the effec!, that Simon Lee Trotman, Esq., was a fit and proper candidate to represent South Toxteth Ward. In doing so, he said he felt a p r id e an d sat i s f act i on a t having been de puted to propose such a resolution as the present. He was sure the electors would come forward boldly and manfully to support the gentleman whom the committee of South Toxteth Ward had deemed worthy of their choice, and he assured them as their former candidate—as a man who had stood by them and fought their battles often before, and as one who would do all in his power to fight the battles of Protestant England over and over again—(cheers)—that he thought Mr. Trotman.a very fit and proper person to represent them in the Town-council. (Hear.) He had been informed that Mr. Trotman was a most respectable merchant, that his pi- - nate character was estimable, that he was an extensive ship. owner, and that he was constantly about in their neighbour. hood. He therefore trusted that they would support him strenuously. (Cheers.) The present were times when they ! ought to return to the council men of sound principles, men who would neither turn to the right hand nor to the left, men who would support those principles in which they gloried, and which they were quite right in maintaining—namely, the Protestant principles of the empire as carried out by Sir R. Peel, the Lords, and the Commons. (Hear, and cheers.) In sending representatives to the council now, it behoved them to think that questions of vital importance would have to be considered there during the next year, involving the system of national education for the rising generation of this great and mighty country. On this question there had been a diversity of opinion, because it had been boldly alleged by their opponents that the Bible had not been excluded from the corporation schools. It was, however, for the electors to send men to the council who would ask boldly and inde pendently for a committee to be appointed to inquire into the truth or falsehood of such an assertion, and for that com mittee to state to the conservatives of the town whether or not the Bible was honestly and fairly laid before the Pro testant children of this great community. And if it should appear that the Bible was honestly and fairly laid before the Protestant children of the town, then the conservatives would have nothing to say but " content"; but if it should appear that there had been any subterfuge, or any under hand work used to prevent the Protestant children from reading it, and hearing it read, and possessing it in every way that a Bible ought to be put into the hands of a Pro testant child, then the constituency would have a right to demand from the members they returned a fair, open, honest, and manly account of the circumstances, so that they might judge for themselves. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) It struck him that the Roman Catholic part of the co►n munity had a right to be educated in the schools, provided the committee should report that the original grants con ferred upon them that right, but if they reported that protestants, who were now no more, had left money with a solemn pledge that it should be devoted to the particular purpose of educating protestant children alone, then he would say that the protestant children had a right to derive the benefit of the grant. (Hear, hear.) If, upon the other hand, the money had been left for the purpose of educating dissenters, he would say, in the name of every Englishman, " give it to them ;" but then another question arose—viz., whether, in case it should appear that the grant had been left for the education of all classes, the protestant public would be satisfied to have their children educated under the same roof with the Roman catholic children, or with only a curtain between the two denominations. Although he was not a bigotted person, he certainly conceived that he had a right to do all he could to assist the protestant children in their education; and if he thought, as he did, that many of the doctrines of the Romish church were erroneous, then another building ought to be set apart for the protestant children, and that they ought to be educated therein. (Hear, and cheers.) Mr. Sheppard next proceeded to express his gratification at the auspicious change which had recently taken place in the administration of the country and his confidence that the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel would act honourably and honestly, protecting the rights of the protestants, and affording fair and equal justice to the Roman catholics. After referring to the impudent assertions of the demagogues, who asserted that her majesty's life would not be safe, and that there would be a rebellion in Ireland if the conservatives came into power, he con cluded by expressing his belief that if they returned Mr. Trotman, they would find him an able, zealous, and excellent representative. Mr. Sheppard resumed his seat amid loud cheers. Mr. Busn BY seconded the nomination of Mr. Trotman. The candidates were here introduced to the meeting, and their appearance was hailed with thunders of applause. Mr. SMITH addressed the assembly in the first instance. He said, that having been returned on a late occasion as their representative, he felt extremely proud and grateful to them, and that he felt equal pride and gratification in having again been selected by them to become their candidate to stand forth as the champion of conservative principles at the en suing municipal election. It was unnecessary for him to state to them that he professed conservative principles, be cause he believed the fact was well known to the chairman and to every individual in the ward ; and it might be equally unnecessary for him to state that those principles he was determined to support with the beat sacrifices of his mind, and, if necessary, his body. They had had a very severe struggle in North Toxteth Ward on the last occasion. He knew not whether they were to have an equally severe one on the present; but, as far as he was able to hear anything of what was going on, there appeared to be some little diffi culty in meeting a regular candidate to oppose the party he had the honour of representing. (Hear.) However, be that as it might, he hoped and trusted that every elector in the ward, who professed the same sentiments and opinions which he did, would do him the favour to support bins with all his might and energy. They knew that they had very slippery folks to deal with, and that what they might be intending or purposing to do was at present unknown to them ; therefore the conservatives should not lie on their oars, for they had a very large constituency in the ward, and knew not what men or what measures their opponents might bring forward to secure their election. On the last occasion it was well known that every possible effort had been used by the opposite party ; but the result proved that radical principles would not go down in the ward any longer. (Hear and cheers.) Since lie last had the honour of addressing them as a candidate for their suffrages, they had had another election of much greater importance than the present one in the town, and many things had then occurred which must have given great pleasure to every conservative, not only in Liverpool, but throughout the country. By their efforts and those of the conservatives at large they were enabled to return two conservative members to the Commons House of Parliament, who, in conjunction with others that were returned, had been ena— bled to supplant the radical administration then in power, and, in lieu of them, to place Sir Robert Peel and his party as the ministers of her majesty. This was a very great vic tory which had been achieved, and he hoped it would be fol— lowed up by wresting from the radicals in the borough their domination in the town council. The conservative party in Liverpool had been steadily going forward in the same way as the conservative party in the state had been going forward, gaining year by year, and, as a seat had become vacant, re turning a conservative in place of a radical, and now came the great battle for the borough, similar, in some respects, to the one for returning members to the House of Commons. So far as appearances went, there appeared every prospect of a majority of conservatives being returned, hut each ward should do its duty, otherwise it would be impossible that the victory could be achieved. (Hear, hear.) They had, as yet, had very little of the addresses or speeches of the opposite party reported in the newspapers. He had, however, seen two or three in the Mercury of that day, in which they preached a good deal about liberty and free trade, and ex pressed the moral antipathy they had to the distribution of the revenues of the town being placed in conservative hands. (Hear, hear.) Now he (Mr. Smith) wished to ask the elec tors whether it was in the power of the conservatives, even if they became the dominant party, to do worse than those men had done who had been in power for the last few years ? He should like to know what they had done for the town ? (" Nothing" from a hundred voices.) Really nothing. He believed there were more people out of employment at pre sent than was the case for the last century ; and to what was this owing? Why, every improvement had been put a stop to ; not a single thing was doing ; and, until lately, when they commenced to build the new courts of law, there had been no expenditure of money. There would, indeed, be an expenditure of £lOO,OOO for the building of the courts, and £30,000 more for another erection ; but those sums had been wrung from the radicals as if the conservatives had been squeezing from them their hearts' blood. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The truth was that the dominant party in the council had set their faces against everything like improvement, or the promotion of public works, unless the hobby of the aldermen, that of erecting docks with warehouses around them, were to be considered as such. But this circumstance of the docks and warehouses had been the means of preventing a very large sale of land near the docks ; and the consequence was that the treasury of the corporation had been drained to the last dregs, so that nothing could be done in the shape of improvements, the widening of streets, or a thousand other things, which, in so large a town as Liverpool, were constantly required. But he trusted the day was near at hand when, in the place of professions, they would have acts of liberality, and that something would be done to improve the streets and neighbourhood, and offer better ventilation to the dwellings of the poor. Mr. Smith next referred to the necessity that existed for having the streets of the ward better lighted, and for other improvements to be made ; and, after promising to render his best assis tance to his constituents and the town at large, sat down amidst loud applause. Mr. TROTM.IN next briefly addressed the electors. He promised, it elected for South Toxteth Ward, to discharge faithfully his duties in every respect. He appeared before them as a conservative in the strict sense of the term, and he should ever endeavour to promote their interests, to support the established religion of the land, and to inculcate the ne cessity of having sound scriptural education imparted in the corporation schools. He thought it was essential that the masters and mistresses of those schools should be members of the Church of England. In conclusion, he trusted the electors would recollect that the ward for which he was a candidate had never yet been won, and it was their duty, therefore, to use their best exertions to carry it on the Ist of November by a triumphant majority. (Loud cheers.) A GENTLEMAN—I trust Mr. Harbord's sentiments in the council on the subject of education will be universally adopted by the conservative members. (Cheers.) Our excellent mem ber did himself immortal honour upon that occasion. (Re newed cheers.) Mr. Smith said his principles upon the sub ject of education were in accordance with those of Mr. Har bord. He believed a plan for the management of the schools was to be proposed early in the ensuing year by the rectors and clergy of the town, and he had no doubt but that plan would be universally adopted by the conservative members of the council. Mr. HARBORD, after alluding to his speech in the council on Wednesday last, assured the meeting that he was for no other teaching than that of true protestantism and no sur render. (Mr. rapturous applause.) The meeting was subsequently addressed by Dr. Harbord, and in a very effective speech by a protestant operative named M'Cleane, and the meeting separated shortly before ten o'clock, after having first given three cheers for the respective candidates and the conservative cause. GREAT GEORGE'S WARD MEETING. Last evening the conservatives of Great George's Ward held a public meeting at the house of Mr. Nathan Parr, St. James'-street, foi , the purpose of proposing a fit and proper person to represent the ward in the town council. The meeting was very numerously and respectably attended. Among those present we noticed Mr. Cooper, Mr. Robinson, Mr. G. H. Lawrence, Mr. T. Bold, Mr. Kilshaw, and many other excellent conservatives. Mr. INNIAN, c h a i rman of the ward association, took the chair. The CHAIRMAN, having briefly opened the proceedings, said he was quite sure that when he mentioned the name of the gentleman they were met to put in nomination, it wou ld be received with all the applause which his past conduct de served. (Cheers.) This ward had ever been a conservat i ve ward, the eyes of every other ward in the town were upon i t, and he trusted it would never be picked out from among the others as a " refuge for the destitute." The rejected of Pitt-street and of North Toxteth had had the presumption to come into this truly conservative ward, and the conserva tives would show him, at four o'clock on Monday week, that his conduct in doing so had been presumptuous, for they would send him back to the place whence he came, namely Greenbank, where they wished him every happiness. (Hear, hear.) Ile hoped and trusted that this ward would not be disgraced at the forthcoming election, for it certainly would be a disgrace if the rejected of two other wards took away the plume of victory when the conservatives had it in their power to return a man of such talent and respectability as the gentleman about to be pro posed. (He ar , h ear, hear.) He (the Chairman) could not account for M r . R at hb one again, except it was , having the temerity to come forward upon Rory O'More's principle, there s luck in odd num bers ;" and so for the third attempt he had selected this ward. (Hear, hear.) After a few further remarks, the Chairman concluded by ca lli n g upon the mo ver of the first resolution. Mr. GEORGE HALL LAWRENCE then came forward amidst loud cheers. Before he asked the concurrence of the meeting in the resolution entrusted to his care, he hoped he might congratulate them upon the large and important muster of conservatives whom be saw present. Such an at tendance was, to his mind, a favourable omen of the success which w ou ld a tt en d th e m in the ensuing st rugg l e. It was now only a few months since not only the conservatives of Great George's Ward, but of Liverpool, gained one o f th e greatest political victories which it ever fell to the lot of a party to achieve. A few months ago we had the satisfaction of returning Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell as th e repre sentatives of this borough in parliament—(hear, hear) — and it would indeed be a sad thing it, after having distin gnished ourselves as wo then did, we should stultify and neutralise all our efforts by allowing ourselves to be con quered upon this occasion. (Hear, and cheers.) He knew it had been asserted, and that it was the consolation of our opponents to say, that we had upon that occasion the assist. ance of the old burgesses or we never should have triumphed. He was not quite sure whether that assertion was borne out by the fact, hut, whether it were so or not, he confessed he was not one of those who envied them a con solation of that nature. (Hear, hear.) He was not one of those who thought that the parliamentary constituency was not a proper one : he thought it a happy admixture of rich and poor, of the rate-payer, and of the lowest burgess who had obtained the suffrage by the sweat of his brow ; and be considered that the parliamentry franchise, or any other franchise, could not well be intrusted into better hands. Be this as it might, he was satisfied with the verdict they pro nounced upon that occasion, and though our opponents ob jected to it, and were willing to try the issue by the result of the appoaching contest, still satisfied as be was, he was nut unwilling to give them the opportunity. (Cheers.) He was willing they should take advantage of the approaching fight— he was willing to meet them ; whether upon local grounds or general political principles, still he was ready to fight the good fight, and he was not afraid for the result of the Ist of November. (Cheers.) It was, at times, a matter of regret to him that our local struggles on the Ist of November should be so completely political. (Hear, and eheers.) He had often felt that it was not always essential for a good re presentative in the town council that his principles should be either conservative or radical ; but we had no alternative. (Hear, hear.) The practices of those who had ruled us for the last six years had left us no alternative, for they had pur sued a system of undeviating hostility towards conservative principles, and upon every possible occasion had they thwarted and opposed us. At a time when the phrensy of the people gave then uncontrolled power six years ago—though he believed the people repented of it now—when they had no less than forty-four members in the town council ready to support them in any measures they proposed, when they had sixteen aldermen's places to fill up, not one single conserva tive alderman did they venture to propose. (Hear, hear.) At that time, when the old magistracy by the act of parliament were no longer in existence, and when it was left to them by the favour of Lord John Russell to supply their places, not one single conservative magistrate did they propose. No, they had no respect for the conservatives. (Hear.) They thought they had got the power into their own hands ; they thought they could trample conservative principles under foot ; they thought we should be extinguished for ever ; they thought the representation of the borough was in their own hands, together with the command of the town-council and the docks ; with the influence they might have as magistrates acting together as one man, there was no longer any chance for conservative principles. (Hear.) But conservative prin ciples were based upon higher and better grounds ; they were not to be strangled in that way ; they had now rallied and grown stronger and stronger each succeeding year, till at last the ball was at their feet, and they had now almost nothing to do but walking triumphantly into the council. (Hear.) They had exerted themselves for this, and they would still persevere ; it would not do to rely merely upon idle words ; to suppose they had nothing to gain yet or nothing more to do. They had still a hard day before them, but hap pily they were in good hands ; happily those in Great George's Ward had a candidate proposed to them upon this occasion, who was ready and fully equal, to take upon himself the ar duous duties of representing them for the future. (Hear.) The past conduct of that gentleman was a full assurance of that. He. of all other men, had been honoured by the ward, and he was ably qualified to represent it. On the first occa sion when he offered himself all parties were willing to do him justice ; there was not a whig or a tory who did not ac knowledge Mr. James Lawrence—for he was the gentleman he was about to propose—(cheers)—to be the fittest man for the office. (Renewed cheers.) On the second opportunity on which it was his turn again to appear as a candidate for their suffrages three years ago, the ward again decided he was the fittest man to represent them ; and he (Mr. G. H. Law rence) asked if Mr. James Lawrence had done any thing to forfeit their esteem and confidence? (Loud cries of " No.") Whence this hostile array that they heard of ? Whence this opposition to Mr. James Lawrence's return now ? He considered if there was a man deserving well of his townsme❑ that man was Mr. James Lawrence. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. G. H. Lawrence) had had opportunities of sitting with him almost daily in the Watch Committee. He had seen the unpretending yet able way in which he conducted the business there assigned to him, and he should say the council and the town would sustain a great loss if by any cir cumstances he should forfeit the good opinion and the repre sentation of this ward. But he had no such fear. Notwith standing that the Protector Society had loaded the register with Irish Jumpers, notwithstanding the burgess roll showed names which had no more equitable or moral right to give their votes in this election than they had to choose the Em peror of Russia—(hear, hear)—notwitstanding that we were to be assailed by their attacks, he had no fear for the future. He had no apprehensions for the safety of the conservative cause, and for the result of the contest in this ward upon the Ist of November. (Hear.) Nay, notwithstanding they had at last got an opponent worthy of them, for they had now no obscure person from the other end of the town, but a respectable individual, he had no fears for the result. They had got a person whom all had heard of before ; for they had got Mr. William Rathbone, the rejected of Pitt-street and Toxteth-park, to try his pre tensions in this ward ! He (Mr. Lawrence) could not pro phesy or promise that gentleman a very favourable reception; but it was satisfactory to them to have somebody worthy of defeating. It was satisfactory to feel that in Mr. Rathbone all pinciples which are obnoxious to conservatism were embo died: against him, therefore, they would fight might and main. Honest and sincere he believed Mr. Rathbone was, but, at the same time, he was most misguided and impracticable —(hear, hear),—and it would truly be a real misfortune if, in the present state of things, that man should be permitted to usurp the place of a candid and a moderate (and he laid great stress upon the term moderate) repre sentative, whom they would have in Mr. James Lawrence. Mr. Rathbone was a kind and a well-meaning man, he knew, but he was not at all suited to represent this ward ; and when he considered the important subjects which would soon be brought before them—he alluded snore especially to the edu dation of the poor in the corporation schools—it would indeed be a reflection upon them if Mr. liathbone were returned. (Hear, hear.) When he alluded to the corporation schools and to Mr. Rathhone, the ) , must not suppose that he was supporting one who was anxious to employ the corporation funds for the maintenance of the Church of England children alone. They did not wish to do this, at least his friend Mr. James Lawrence did not; but he did think they were more likely to conciliate the clergy and Protestants and Church of England people to the schools of the corporation by re electing Mr. James Lawrence, than by choosing such a man as Mr. Rathbone. By past experience they knew they had nothing to hope from Mr. Rathbone. (Cheers.) Having said this much he (Mr. G. H. Lawrence) would leave his cause in the hands of the meeting. (Cheers.) Dr. DICKENSON briefly seconded the motion. He strongly impressed upon the meeting the necessity of a sound religous and protestant education being given to the children in the corporation schools; and he said that if soundness of judg ment, activity of habit, integrity of purpose, accompanied with a willingness and ability to carry into effect the dictates of an enlightened judgment, were necessary qualities in a town councillor, they would all be found in Mr. James Lawrence. The resolution was then carried unanimously. Mr. W. It. COLBORNE and Mr. THOMAS BOLD, in moving the second resolution, (which was unanimously carried,) strongly urged the burgesses to united and persevering exertions. The CHAIRMAN, after alluding to the unavoidable absence of Mr. James Lawrence, said the meeting had the honour of the presence of the other two representatives of the ward, Mr. Cooper and Mr. Robinson, who would now address the meeting. _ _ _ A motion was then proposed and carried, thanking those gentlemen for their services to the ward. . Mr. COOPER thanked the meeting for the honour just conferred upon him ; and he could only say it afforded him great satisfaction to see the prospect there was of returning Mr. Lawrence again to the council. Hear, hear.) They had fought together in many a battle against their ra dical opponents, and since the year 1835 to the present time they had not had a single defeat—they had not missed to return a conservative representative to the town council. In the year 1835, when the change took place under the mu nicipal bill, they were completely defeated, for everybody was then desirous of change for the sake of change. In the year 1836 the burgesses discovered that radicalism was not for their benefit, and they returned Mr. Charles Lawrence by a majority of 37 ; in the year 1837 he (Mr. Cooper) was re turned by a majority of 40 ; in 1838 Mr. James Lawrence was returned without opposition. In 1839 a new era sprung up ; an attempt was made to swamp the constituency by placing upon the register sixty of Mr. Daniel O'Connell's body guard; they thought they had success in their own hands, but Mr. Robinson came forward, and he was re turned by a majority of twenty-two, besides having a great number of duplicates available for other wards. In 1840, he (Mr. Cooper), was then brought for war d, an d h e was re turned by a majority of nine, notwithstanding all the diffi culties they had to encounter. He had great pleasure in finding, on looking at the register, that, with exertion, Mr. James Lawrence might be returned with as large a majority as any conservative had yet been returned by. (Cheers.) Mr. Cooper then proceeded to point out the mode in which a change of parties in the corporation would work benefit to all classes, and he concluded by again congratulating the meeting upon their prospects of success. Mr. ROBINSON then addressed the meeting, and contended that Mr. Lawrence had been one of the most efficient mem bers of the council. He held in his hand a statement of the constitution of each committee, which would show that the conservatives had been unfairly treated in the appointments. He was afraid we should not be able to secure the appoint ment of a conservative mayor, but it would be in our power to appoint the aldermen, and also to controul the constitu tion of the committees. He would read the numbers in the principal committees at the commencement of the year. Committees. gad. Con. Total. Finance Improvement Markets Town Hall Education Dock Watch l4 .... 11 .... 25 (Hear, hear.) Mr Robinson proceeded to comment with much force upon this state of things, and upon the want of connection with the ward by Mr. Rathbone. Mr. GLEAVE, an operative, then addressed the meeting, after which thanks having been voted to the chairman, and the assembly separated. RATHBONE'S DREAM. I dreamt a dream, a sad and fearful dream : Methought I stood outside the council chamber, A disappointed and disgrac'd old man, Musing upon what efforts I should make To gain once more a seat within its walls ; When suddenly Ambition stood before me, And, with " winning look," thus spoke the tempting power : " Rathbone ! be bold and stedfast; treat with scorn " All English aid ; trust thou to alien voices, " And thy heart's first wish shall be accomplish'd." Thus spoke he and withdrew. I ponder'd long Upon the mystic . words, sorely pe r pl ex 'd To trace their hidden meaning, when at once The sense rnsli'd to my mind. Three hundred votes, Three hundred alien votes, I knew were plac'd Upon Great George's Ward. My heart rejoie'd : For now from Irish help I hop'd to gain That which my fellow-townsmen had denied. With hat in hand I sought the greasy rogues ; I bent before th' unwasli'd, th' unshirted crew, And heard their vile mouths shout, " Hurrah for Rathbone ! " Hurrah for Rathbone ! for O'Connell's friend ! " I was delighted.—But an awful form Then rose before my sight. I knew it well : 'Twas Pitt-street's gua r di an gen i us. H ow I qua il'd Beneath its withering frown, whilst thus it spoke : .‘ Rathbone, beware ! Bethink thee of November " And of Toulmin. Defeat again awaits thee." And I did think, and in my inmost heart I curs'd the ward and a ll t h at i t conta i ne d. The genius vanished—but another came: A giant form, it tower'd aloft, sublime, The mighty guardian of North Toxteth Ward ; And thus it also spoke :—" Poor, wretched man ! " Heed not Ambition's voice : he leads thee on " Only to sink thee deeper in disgrace. " Think of November last, and think of Smith ! " " Toulmin and Smith ! loath'd names," I madly cried, " Ye fell destroyers of old Ratbbone's peace, "My curse light on ye both ! " Then I awoke, And found 'twas but a sad and fearful dream. Everton, 18th October, 1811. RADICAL WARD MEETINGS. CASTLE,4ITREET WARD. —On Friday evening a mecUng of the elector of Castle-street Ward took place, at the Claren don-rooms, South John-street, for the purpose of nominating a candidate at the ensuing municipal election, in the room of Sir J. Walrusley, who has intimated his intention to retire in consequence of changing his residence. Mr. James Aikin presided, and it was resolved to bring Mr. John Holmes forward. Mr. Holmes at present represents Everton Ward. SCOTLAND WARD.—Last night, a numerous meeting of reformers took place, at the " Traveller's Rest ", Scotland road, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the re presentation of the ward, at the approaching municipal elec tion, in the room of Mr. Isaac Holmes, who, tho' ceasing to be a member of the council, by rotation, again appears in the field. Mr. W. Smethurst, the chairman of the committee, presided on the occasion, and opened the business of the meeting, expressing a trust that a gentleman had been found in every way capable of rept esentling the ward with honour to himself and the inhabitants. Mr. Wm. Sankey eulogised Mr. Geo. Quayle, as au honest and tried man, who had long been before the public. He moved a resolution, to the effect that the principles entertained by Mr. Quayle on free trade and freedom of religious opinion, and with which he had identified himself, entitled him to the support of the electors. This was seconded by a gentleman, who ran over the municipal history of the ward, admitting many defeats, and, on being put, it was unanimously carried. Mr. Quayle then entered the room, and was received with much cheering. He entered upon an exposition of his political views, but in a very subdued tone of voice, avowing himself to be a stauneh reformer, and enthusiastically devoted to the cause. A great struggle was to be made, and it was intumbent on every man to come forward, to lend his aid in what he considered was best to be done for the country. The tories had held the reins of government of 60 years ; the reformers for the last 10 years. The former had left almost every thing wrong ; the latter, though they had not accomplished all that was expected, had yet done much that was praiseworthy, and which would stand recorded in the pages of history. He referred to the measures of the Whigs, which he said had ended in an attempt, though fruitless, to improve the finances of the country, and to increase the comforts of the working classes by an amendment of the corn-laws and the extension of the franchise. He then alluded to the improvement in the police force, and to the mercantile facilities afforded by the reformers. Though himself a member of the Church of Eng land, he entirely approved of the system adopted in the corpo ration schools. Apart from the gaudy trappings of the church, or.the intolierance of a section of its members, that system had he thought, proved that it was practicable so to conduct those establishments that they would, as they ought to be, be bene ficial to those of all Christian denominations. The tories proposed to take the town to themselves—if the could ; but if the reformers had a remembrance of the past, and a hope for the future, they would frustrate their attempts and be successful. He concluded by repeating his thanks, and sat down amidst much cheering.—Mr. Roderick mooed a resolu tion pledging the meeting to support Mr. Quayle. This was seconded by Mr. Kaye, and was also carried unanimously. Mr. Banks proposed a committee. The motion was seconded by Mr. Gardener, and was carried. A motion, highly com plimentary to Mr. Thornhill, was then proposed and carried. —Mr. Thornhill returned thankj in a speech of some length, and in which he eulogised the principles and charac ter of Mr. Quayle. Should he (Mr. Quayle) be elected, they should pull together. He noticed a placard pnt forth by Mr. Holmes, which he designated as falacious. Mr. W. Rathbone next spoke. He noticed in condemnatory terms the conduct of the former corporation in their church en dowment measure and others, and took credit for the savings effected by the whig corporation in turning out Mr. Forster, and appointing Mr. Radcliffe as town-clerk, &c. He complained that the tories had turned out many efficient ser vants of the parish and the corporation, merely on account of their political opinions, and challenged them to prove that the whip had been so ungenerous and partial. If electors did their duty, " the tyrants would tremble, and England would have her rights again."—Mr. Rosson spoke in behalf of the Protector Society, which he had the highest authority to pronounce legal and constitutional, and made an energetic appeal to the electors to do their duty. He compli mented the mayor and the municipal assessors on their late conduct in the revision court. Alderman Evans spoke at some length. He was followed by Mr. Harvey and Mr. Walter Nl`Gregor. A vote of thanks was then passed to the chairman, and the meeting broke up. EXIIIBITION OF PAINTINGS, POSTOFFICE-PLACI: GALLERY. We continue, and conclude, our notices of the works of art now exhibiting. _ _ _ 508. " Italian Festa." A. EGG, Liverpool.—On looking for the " local habitation" of this artist, we were surprised to find that his "habitation" was really "local". We find he has two other works, 32 and 288, in the rooms. There is much talent displayed in this picture. The colouring is good, and the figures are picturesquely placed. 512. " Chapel of the Virgin Mary, in Rouen Cathedral." H. GRITTEN, London.—Mr. Gritten appears equally at home in, architectural as in landscape painting. This interior is well painted, conveying a good idea of the vastness of the edifice. The light is brought into the picture with a mellow tone. This is a clever work, and reflects much distinction on the artist. 517. " A Seventy-four Leaving her Anchorage." T. WOODWARD, London.—A marine picture, with some merit, but cold in colour. 524. " The Astrologer." C. DUKES, London.—This picture pleases us greatly. We did not expect to find a work of such merit placed in such an out of the way corner. The subject is a girl having her fortune told by an astrologer, who is seen seated at a table, with a large tome before him. The old stargazer is capitally painted—the expression of his face well managed. The girl is very lovely ; a charming touch of thought is cast over her fair countenance ; the fleshing plump and natural. Her dress is well executed, as are all the ac cessories to the picture. The table cloth may be particularly noticed as carefully done. This is a meritorious painting, and will bear examining. The hand of the lady may be im proved. 538. " 'Mechanics' Institution." G AIERDM AN, Liver pol.—A spirited and faithful water colouring of the Mecha nics' Institution, Mount-street. It is a pity that the con fined nature of the street prevents a good view of this building. Mr. l - lerdman presents us with the appearance of it as if seen at a distance. Mr. Herdman has two other works in this and the next room, viz., 612, " A View of Lancaster," and 620, " Danluce Castle," both painted in a free, sketchy, bold style. 330. " The Sisters." J. FISHER, Bristol.—Three posi tive graces. _ 535. " Portrait of Joshua Lace, Esq." J. DICKSON, London.—An inimitable likeness. 557. " Design for a Public Building." J. PARRY, Li verpool.—ln the true Liverpool mustard pot and pepper castor style. The portico is bold. 538. " Residence of a Gentleman, near Frodsham ;" and 510, "Frodsham Bridge." R. HARGREAVES, Liverpool.— Two clever pencil drawings. " Frodsham Bridge" is most faithfully drawn. 541. " Portrait of a Lady." T. CRANE, London.—Mr. Crane has several clever works in the rooms. For style and manner we prefer this to the others. There is an ease and gracefulness about it which render it pleasing. The introduc tion of the antique chair is somewhat original. 315. " The Window." BONE, London.—A pretty idea, but not new. A lady is seen sitting at a window, with a dog beside her. 519. " Beech Trees." C. W. SHEPHERD.—An elaborate drawing of a noble grove of beeches. 55-1. " Flowers." Miss HUNT, Liverpool.--Sweetly painted, and cleverly arranged. The dewdrops are well in troduced. 557. " Frankfort." ITAsn«•lcs, Bath.—Well drawn, but rather too light for moonlight.—No. 570 is by the same artist, representing the " Ancient hostelrie of the Fourteen Stars, at Bristol." 563 and 566. " Views near Guildford and Farnham." NOBLE, Fulham.—Mr. Noble has not wandered through sunny and fertile Surrey without advantage. He has pre sented to our notice two picturesque spots of rural beauty in the above vicinities. The lights are nicely introduced. 573. " Vase of Flowers." Mrs. HARRISON, London. — This lady has several very charming specimens of her talents and taste in the exhibition this year. 574. " Rosalind and Celia." J. W. WRIGHT, London. —These two sweet creations of Shakspeare's genius are here introduced to us in an original manner. 581. " Mont Blanc." W. G. HERDMAN, Liverpool.—A view of old Mont Blanc, with his eternal smAtcapped pin nacles. Looking over the Lake of Geneva we see Byron's house amidst the trees. This is drawn in the artist's usual free style. 590. " Mother and Child." BunnANks, London.—A clever portrait of a cat and kitten. 591. " Winter Scene." G. PICKERING, Chester.—A view of the Dee frozen over, with skaters. The artist has introduced part of the City-wall and St. John's Church.— No. 600, " Bolton Abbey," is also by Mr. Pickering. 592. " The Glove." Mrs. SEYFEARTH, London.—The subject of this work will be learnt from the following extract from the catalogue. It is one of those pictures that does not tell its own tale. It is elaborately coloured ; the expression of the faces excellent.—" Francis the First, with his assem bled court, Mary Tudor, Dowager Queen of France, and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, were being amused with the fighting of wild beasts, when the Lady Kunigund, throw ing her glove into the arena, said ironically to the Knight Delorges, If, sir knight, you indeed love me as ardently as you daily swear, prove it—fetch me my glove ! ' Instantly the knight sprang amid the contending monsters, and, seiz ing the glove, calmly returned with it to the lady. Com mended and applauded by those who had witnessed the bold deed, he threw the glove to her, saying he no longer desired her love; and from that hour forsook her." 601. " The anxious Mother." Miss F. CORBEAUX, London.—A mother watching beside a cradle, in which a " baby lies sleeping" ; a clever work. Miss L. Corbeaux has a good drawing, No. 609, " The Merry Beggar," a boy playing a mandola. _ 610. - " Composition." F. MACKENZIE, London.—A sweet little drawing, with good t ffects of light. 617. " Cuckoo." Miss NICHOLSON, Liverpool.—" The cuckoo sings on every tree," quoth Shakspeare. Here we have this singular bird very well drawn and coloured, swing ing on the " pendant boughs."-582, a beautiful " Group of Flowers," is also by this lady. 631. " Portrait of a Young Lady." G. HARGRnAvEs, Bold-street, Liverpool.—Decidedly the best miniature in the room. The colouring is exquisite. Put one of the ghost-like photographs by the side of this, and then exclaim with Hamlet, "Look on this picture, and on this." Here we are reminded vividly of youth and beauty, and "the time when life was new"—while in the photograph, we may fancy a spectre rising to claim our acquaintance. In the sculpture-room Mr. Jackson has several capital busts, and a figure of Andromache—" On her fragrant breast the sleeping baby lay." The Messrs. Spence also have some good busts. We have now come to a conclusion. We maw occasionally revert to those we have not noticed in our journev round the town. We are conscious we have omitted drawing attention to many very meritorious works, while we have omitted cutting up and abusing many very bad ones. If we have said anything which may appear uncivil, we have not intended to give offence. If artists will hung bad pictures up, and of course invite criti c i sm , t h ey need not grumble at finding their works roughly dealt with. We perceive the Manches ter folks are adopting the London plan, of giving away a plate to each subscriber of the art union there. If the Liverpool Academy would adopt the same plan—which, indeed, is now very generally practised—their number of subscribers would greatly be increased, thus giving more encouragement to artists, and satisfying the public, who would readily catch at the opportunity of a chance of a good prize with the err taint y of having aquid pro quo for their money. The pope has re-established the order of St. John, of Je rusalem, w ithi n its states, and conferred upon it the direction of the I'ontificial Military Hospital. It was from th e exer cise of similar functions these knights derived their primi tive titles of Hospitalers of St. John. COUNTRY BANKS ISSUING BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES EXCLUSIVELY.—From the second report of the select com mittee on banks of issue, Appendix, No. 2, we find the number of country banks acting with Bank of England notes exclusively, having fixed amounts assigned, are twenty-live in number. There are seven in Liverpool, the total amount of their - credit being £1,035,000 ; six in Birmingham, credit £382,000; four in Newcastle, credit £395,000 ; three in Manchester, £670,000 ; two in Portsmouth, £45,000 ; one in Gloucester, £180,000; one in Swansea, £28,000; and one in Hull, £20,000. Total amount of credit £2,655,000. DISTRAINING FOR RENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST4IVDARD. SlR.—The frequent abuse committed by persons who are employed to distrain for rent loudly cries for the legislators of the land to enact laws and appoint persons duly author ised to this important duty, and thus prevent the abuse of fraudulent sales, gross impositions, and unprincipled men interfering in the matter. At present a person finding it necessary to distrain for rent, usually finds out an auction room where such men usually assemble, and not knowing better, commits his warrant of distress into the hand of one of these men, who makes the most of the matter by levying of the property immediately, unless the person dis trained upon will consent to pay something as a bonus to prevent this; or if this cannot he done, the next object is to get the landlord to allow the bailiffs thus employed something handsome (as they say) to obtain the possession of the house by the tenant giving up the key; and for this purpose the advice given to the tenant by the bailiffs is, not to give up possession unless the owner will consent to the terms pro posed ; but if the property be removed for sale, fraudulent accounts of sale can be rendered and improper charges made. This is a short sketch of the many abuses practised. Any alteration, so that owners of property and tenants may be secured against these abuses is very desirable ; and some necessary information might be obtained by consulting the officers of the sheriffs of the county.—l am, &c. HUMANITAS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sin,—As a vindicator of public rights and public preroga tives, I hope you will grant space sufficient for the insertion of the following in your earliest periodical. A petition to the Mayor Aldermen, and Common Council having been drawn out, and numerously signed by ratepayers, praying for a new foot-path on the east side of Scotland place, it was handed over to our respected member of the Council, James Parker, Esq., for presentation to the afore said body ; when, in council assembled, on Wednesday, the 13th instant, instead of his Worship the Mayor, Thomas Bolton, reading the contents to whom it was address e d, he ordered it to be submitted to the consideration of the Sub-committee ; furthermore, he positively refused to disseminate its contents in the Council Chamber, although Mr. P. repeatedly and alternatively begged and requested that the independant prerogatives of his constituents, in petitioning for redress of grievances, would not be trans gressed by the non-fulfillment of the letter of the memorial which they had requested him to present. In interrogating the validity of this desultory system of disposing of publlc petitions, I eschew all dishonourable intentions towards his worship ; but I most assuredly con sider that he has exceeded the duties of his temporary capacity. by so erratically disposing of petitions, more especially when the supplicants are all ratepayers. My motives in thus addressing you are, that by the afore said disposal, there will be considerable delay in the abolition of the stated nuisance ; and furthermore, that should its discontinuance take place, there will not be sufficient security for the public unless there are stoops and chains, (as men tioned in the petition,) which I fear will not be the case if pursued only in secret committees.—l am yours respectfully, ONE OF THE PETITIONERS. Byrom-street, October 18th, 1841. SHERIDAN KNOWLES' NEW COMEDY. On Wednesday a new comedy, by Sheridan Knowles, was produced at Covent-garden. It was eminently successful, and the applause throughout was frequent until the curtain fell. The notice of repetition was received amidst unfeigned manifestations of pleasure. The Morning Herald says e— " The chief merit of this work consists in the spirit and delicate piquancy of its dialogue, and the nicely-devised em barrassments by which the progress of its two leading actions is amusingly retarded until the arrival of the just moment of eelaircissement. It is not, in any degree, remarkable for strongly-conceived dramatic situation, but terminates with a fair concurrence of effects. It was performed with much animation." As a literary work, we believe that this may rank amongst the most successful of Mr. Knowles's dramas. In act four, where Lady Blanche appears to her friend in the dress of a cavalier, we find the following vivid and poetic passage : Lady Blanche—Give me a kiss ! Lady Anne—A kiss ! I never yet gave kiss to man. Lady Blanche—You have kiss'd me many a time ! Women forget Their girlhood days ; Their lofty age o'erlooks Such tiny things ! Lady Anne—Kiss'd thee ! Lady Blanche—When we have stroll'd Along green lanes in honeysuckle time, With thrilling throats mocking the merry birds ; When we have chased each other 'mong the sheaves, Whose ears have lent us gold to make us crowns ; When forced to keep the house in winter, of Our plays we have made fires to warm ourselves ; Or when we have coax'd spring on with primroses, Till hedge-rows leaved, and trees were all a-bloom ! I have kiss'd thee all these times. not to recount How often we have sat on the same chair, Or made a chair of one another's lap, On the same carpet roll'd—slept in one bed ! Lady Anne (shrieks)—Ah ! Lady Blanche—You may shriek—There was no shriek ing then— In short, were comates more than hand or glove, For still were we together !—Kiss me Anne ! Lady Anne—Hos! help !" Mr. George Vandenhoff played Sir Thomas Blount, but in consequence of a severe domestic calamity which occurred that morning, he was unable to give the character with the spirit it required. We find, however, that his acting since has been highly extolled by the London press. The Sunday Times says, that he has developed the beauties of the cha racter per sultum as compared with his first representation. We were surprised to see it stated that Mr. Vandenhoff was heavy in the part, as the character so well suited his talents. The reason we have accounted for. Mrs. Nesbitt, Madame Vestris and Harley are reported as being excellent in their respective parts. The play has been greatly improved by some judicious curtailments. The reader of this comedy will find much mere in it, in a high vein of composition, to reward his careful perusal of it. SHOCKING CATASTROPHE-BURSTING OF A BOILER.-SEVEN MEN KILtED AND NINE SEVERELY INJURED. At an early hour on Wednesday morning, the neighbour hood of Jersey-street, Ancoats, Manchester, was thrown into a state of the greatest alarm and excitement by a loud explosion of the engine boiler, and the falling of one end of a three storied building, situate on a branch of the Roch dale canal, a little below Poland-street, belonging to Messrs. John Elce and,Co., machine makers' A number of people were speedily attracted to the spot by the noise of the explo sion ; and the scene of distress that ensued, it would be im possible to describe. Parents were seen looking for their children, and wives for their husbands, fearing lest they might be amongst the sufferers. With respect to the cause of the explosion, nothing is known with any certainty ; but, as the engine was not at work, and can hardly have been short of water, there seems to belittle doubt that the accident was caused either by an overloaded or a detective safety-valve, or by the boiler itself being too weak to bear the pressure which it ought to have sustained. It appears tolerably clear, from the circular end of the boiler which was found in the yard, and which was evidently the one nearest the engine, that the commencc ' went of the explosion was in that e n d. The injured parties were in and over the engine-house at the time of the explo sion. [Since the above was in type, another of the unfortunate sufferers has breathed his last, and two others are lying with very slight hopes of recovery. The inquest, which was held on Friday, was adjourned to yesterday. The deceased are all young men in the prime of life, of the respective ages of 21, 18, 18, 17, 22, 19, 25, and 17. Three of them were mar ried, and have left wives and families.] THE THIMBLE Rio.—At the Southampton Sessions last week, five persons were indicted "for conspiring together to cheat and defraud the sabjects of the Queen of their money, by procuring them to play at an unlawful game called thimble rigging," and thereby obtaining divers large sums of money. Mr. Edwards, a planter of Antigua, stated that he left England in 1804, and returned in July last. He at tended the Southampton races in that month, and saw there several persons, in a ring round a table, who immediately made way for him. He first staked a sovereign, which was lost. He was then induced to try his luck again, and the man at the tahle having challenged any man to bet £59, Mr. Edwards put down a £5O note, which was all he had in his pocket, and which was immediately lost. The parties about the table then induced Mr. Edwards to borrow money from several apparent gentlemen who stood near to the gamblers, and the game went on until Mr. Edwards found that he had lost £7O of borrowed money, in addition to the previous sum of £5l which he had in his own possession. For this £7O Mr. Edwards gave a memorandum in writing, payable that evening at the " Nelson" Public-house. After this Mr. Edwards foolishly engaged again in the game, and borrowed £52, which he lost. One of the parties occupied in thus duping Mr. Edwards, represented one of the gentlemen who lent the money, as a traveller for an eminent house, and another as a man of immense fortune, who could buy half Southampton. Mr. Edwards did not keep his appointment at the Nelson that evening, but went there on the following day with his solicitor, where he met three of the prisoners, who were immediately taken into custody. Other witnesses were then called, who proved that they had seen these parties " waiting upon" Mr. Edwards. A policeman stated that he was on the course in plain clothes, and observed one of the prisoners with Mr. Edwards. The others walked behind, and he heard one of them say " leave Ben alone ; he'll draw him if any one can." The jury found all the prisoners guilty, and the Recorder, in passing sentence upon the pri soners, said their offence was one which appeared to him to derive uo extenuation from the fact of such practices having been extensively tolerated; that fact only called for a more rigorous application of penalties of the law, when any one came forward to demand that the law should be put in force. He should not be discharging his duty if he did not take the opportunity of making an example of them for the benefit of others. It happened that poor persons who took only a small amount of property were compelled to atone for their offence, for offences which were white indeed as compared with their conduct. He regretted that it was not iti his power to transport them, for if he had had such power, he most unquestionably would have exercised it. He hoped the punishment he should now inflict would have the effect of keeping such persons at all events from coming within this jurisdiction, if it did not altogether put an end to such fradulent practices. There was a distinction in their cases, and therefore the sentence would be that Parrott, Purcell, and Ferrier, should be imprisoned for two years, and pay a fine to the Queen of £ 5O each ; and that K emp an d C urran s h ou ld be imprisoned for one year, a n d pay a f i ne of £25 each, and that they should be further imprisoned till the fines were paid. This is the first case of the kind that has ever been tried. IMPROVIDENCE OF THEODORE HOOK.—Theodore Hook was buried in Pulliam churchyard (within one foot of the east wall, near to the tomb of Bishop Gibson), on Monday, August 20, attended by Messrs. Brodcrip and Powell, solici tors, and A. Milne and D. Lyon, Esqrs. On their return t from the grave they made the heart-rending discovery that Mr. Hook had left six orphan children, with their mother, without the least provision whatever. These f o ur t. h ic o . n r ot . i_ _.- ble men did not separate till they had put down a their . c tr 0 0_ a-piece as a nucleus round which the friends anodf hisd Lmily,f Mr. Hook's genius might rally for the support and this sum (to which it is to be hopedtill the banking-house subsequent subscriptions), is deposited account of the trustees of be added many his disposition— of Messrs. Ransom and o. to the ace() of Mr. Hook's family. The carelessnesse ___ zi , it had involved his non-attention to matters of him in difficulty at the Mauritius, nw u n u gappily prevailed with was the one to be afford another instance p him r iz e w d 11 , ialne and life his s laste d. life,an d 'f tigotrfonssgeon of imomentt, without a particle of what is of extraordinary talent IS proving that he who wrote most elaborately upon the called worldly wisdom, and proving of enjoying life, and put he was still a guard against folly and vice, was the first to forth precepts to joke—and ready wit—often cost others a pang, and practise what he taught others to guard against. His fond himself a frien • d In distress and suf f ering when landing at St. Helena on his joker; for instance, s way ness of a h o me, a prisoner, from the Mauritius, h e was tact by Lord Charles Somerset, who, astonished at seeing him, asked him how it happened he was homeward bound ? "Oh !" said H oo k, " I am ordered home—some disorder of the chest, I believe, is the cause of it."