The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-26 00:00:00

THE tberpoot :t,tanbarb+ THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1856 FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. MONDAY MORNING. THE QUEEN and the Court continue to reside at Bucking. ham Palace, and it is pleasing to observe that, amidst the con tentions introduced or fostered through Ministerial impru dence in both Houses of Parliament, HER MAJESTY remains in the enjoyment of individual repose—that in defiance of the ascerbity created by the unconstitutional stretch of the ROYAL prerogative, recommended by the LORD CHANCELLOR, and backed by the Cabinet, the popularity of the SOVEREIGN remains unimpaired. On Tuesday, accompanied by the PRINCE CONSORT, and attended by a party of ladies, the QUEEN visited the Arsenal at Woolwich, and inspected the trophies brought from Sebastopol by the Bucephalus. HER MAJESTY appeared much gratified by the inspection, and, as she always is, was received with gratifying demonstrations of loyalty and affection by the crowds who had assembled to see her passing, both in the Metropolis and at Woolwich. On Wednesday the first levee of the season was held at St. James's Palace. The attendance of those who held the privilege of entree was very great, and the number of presentations was unusually large. HER MAJESTY, who wore a magnificent dress of blue and white brocade, and whose head was encircled by a tiara of diamonds and rubies of great value and splendour, appeared to be in admirable health and spirits. On Friday, HER MAJESTY held a chapter and investiture of the most honourable order of the Bath at Buckingham Palace. At this chapter, Sir RICHARD ENGLAND and Sir GRAHAM EDEN HAMMOND were invested with the military grand cross, and Lord PANMURE with the civil grand cross of the order. Rear-Admiral S. LUSHINGTON, General J. W. SLEIGH, and several others were invested with the military order of knight eommander, and a considerable number of others were invested with the military order of knights companions. In the evening, the QUEEN* and Prince ALBERT, attended by their suite, honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence. It is now understood that the Court will leave London for Windsor some days earlier than was expected,—about the 19th instead of the 22nd proximo, as had been originally stated, when the PRINCESS ROYAL will receive the holy rite of confirmation. The Life Peerage question, which has occupied so much of parliamentary and public attention for the last ten days or a fortnight, has come to a termination, for the present, at all events. On Friday night, after a debate of unusual bril- Laney, the House of Lords, sitting as a committee of privileges, decided that neither the letters patent, nor the letters patent with the usual writ of summons issued in pursuance of those letters patent, entitle Lord WENSLEYDALE "to sit and vote in parliament." This conclusion was arrived at after an unsucessful motion by Lord GLERELG (long ago known as Mr. CHARLES GRALITT), awakened for the occasion after a legislative slumber of many years' duration, who proposed that the validity of the title to sit and vote should be yeferred to the judges. This proposal was negatived by 142 to 111 votes. Another mode of disposing of the ques- tion without deciding in opposition to the Ministry, and yet discountenancing the creation of life peerages, was proposed by Earl GREY ; but it met with no better fortune than that of Lord GLEIXELG, being rejected by a majority of thirty five, in a committee of one hundred and forty-nine peers, no proxies being taken on votes of the house while in committee. The course pursued by Lord WENSLEYDALE throughout the tedious, and to him unpleasant, if not absolutely painful proceedings, meets with very general approbation, both in parliament and oat of doors. From the first he declined to appear personally or by counsel, as a party to proceedings Which involved a collision between the first and second estates of the realm. During the whole of the discussions en this unseemly recommendation of the Ministry, every one felt, and probably none more keenly than the noble lord who led the opposition to the anomalous and unconstitutional use of the royal prerogative, that by it Lord WENSLYDSLE was placed in a most invidious position; but a stern and uncompromising sense of duty prevented the adoption of any other course. The newly-created peer,—whose patent of nobility was pre- rented to him, shorn of more than half its honours, had its legality been uncballengable, but rendered doubly obnoxious by the constitutional objections to which it was exposed, —has small reason to thank those by whom the tarnished honour was conferred. That the noble and learned lord was, in all respects, through character, talents, and acquirements, com petent to fill a distinguished place in the House of Lords, and even to confer lustrA upon the peerage, is admitted on all hands, and it is broadly reprobated in many quarters, that he should have been selected as the first member of acomparatively degraded peerage, as is alleged, because, personally, he was so entirely unobjectionable, and had so many friends, as to make his introduction a matter of probable ease, where others, less favourably circumstanced, in these respects would, on their individual merits, have had no chance of success. The un- worthy attempt has been defeated, and now it is to be hoped, that, taking heart of grace; Lord PALMERSTON' and his col leagues will do what they should have done at first— recom mend the letters patent, creating Sir JAMES PARKE a peer, . . to be extended, so as to embrace the ordinary conditions of the peerage. Much acrimonious feeling has been displayed by the Ministerial adherents in connexion with this subject, which, it is now to be hoped, has been set at rest for ever. These parties profess to say that Lord LlrxnntrusT, and those who acted with him, provoked and carried on a war against the prerogatives of the crown, bringing the privileges of the peerage into direct collision with those prerogatives. Snch a pretence is scarcely worthy of refutation. The per- sonal feeling of the Sovereign has probably never been enlisted on either side. Lord BUOIIGHAM broadly stated that the creation of a life-peerage is as constitutionally illegal as the levying of taxes by the crown without the con sent of parliament; and in answer to the alleged precedents which exist for such peerages, he says there are quite as many in favour of such a levying of taxes without parliamentary consent; but he cogently demands, " will any one stand up and justify the levy of a tax without consent of parliament on the strength of such precedents ?" He emphatically answers no ! and most people believe he is right in that opinion ; at any rate he is followed in it by Lord LYNDHURST and Lord ST. LEONARDS, and the opinion of those three distinguished legal authorities is endorsed by the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of Eng land. In the present position of our- foreign relations, any thing likely to shake the stability of Lord PALMERSTON'S government is to be deprecated; but even the urgency of such a consideration cannot be admitted as a sufficient reason for permitting inroads upon the constitution, and he is no true friend to his lordship who would even hint that, taking ad vantage of his accidental position, that accomplished senator would lend himself to an attack upon our institutions, which he, as the chief responsible adviser of the crown, is bound in an especial manner to protect. Besides their laborious defence of the constitution, as ruled by law and settled by practice, in reference to life peerages, the brilliant talent and mature judgment of the House of Lords have, during the past week, been engaged in attempts to maintain the practical working of our executive within the bounds legally prescribed by the Legislature. A laudable in stance of this was afforded by the Earl of DERBY, on Thurs day evening, in his attempt to lift the veil of mystery which shrouds the connexion between the Horse Guards and the newly-created Ministry of War. That his lordship was only successful in eliciting an evasive instead of a direct answer from Lord PA.irmrnE, is no fault of the Earl of DERBY ; but it is something to have learned, as he did learn, that the pa tronage of the army is managed. in a sort of semi-conjoint semi-disjoined manner between the Commander-in-Chief and the Secretary of War. While the noble Secretary of War had his hand in at giving an explanation in which nothing is ex plained, but in which a determination to avoid explicitness. was very clearly manifested, he took occasion to allude to a 'rumour, which, for years past, has obtained both currency and credence, to the effect that the army patronage—during Lord HARDINGE'S tenure of office, at all events—has been a medium through which a Field Marshal, not less distinguished by his illustrious position than remarkable for his "conduct in the field," exercised authority without responsibility. His lordship 'alluded to the rumour, as he said, merely to give it a flat con tradiction. S'excuse, s'accuse, says the French proverb : .no one asked his lordship any question upon this particular point; verburia sap., if he should see this, the noble Secretary for War will probably understand its application. The pretended friends of the working classes had a " field night" in the House of Commons on Thursday. On that oc casion the "poor man's friend," Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY brought forward his motion for throwing open the Britisl Museum and the National Gallery on Sundays. The philan thropic knight made a long and elaborate harangue," horribb stuffed with" platitudes about the meliorating influences o knowledge upon the hard fate of the "working man." HI dwelt with pathos on the pleasing pictures which he "fondly drew" of decreasing immorality with increasing laxity of Sun day observances. Commencing with Edinburgh and Glasgow, where, he said, the Sunday observance was most stringent and the immorality greatest, he took London next, where, he assured his wondering auditory, that as Sunday observance was less rigid, so also was virtue more predominant. Taking next an excursive sweep over the continent, in which he omitted Paris, where Sunday observance is n t held to be one of the cardinal virtues, but the moral purity of which he pro bably regarded as too dazzling to be rashly paraded to public gaze, he fixed upon Switzerland as the Elysian field of modern virtue and morality; seizing the opportunity of informing, by insinuation, those who knew no better, that the virtues of the Swiss were mainly attributable to their general disregard of Sunday observance. As usual, he concluded his diatribe by a fling at the Church, for which he entertains the same affection that a nameless personage is averred by Romanists to hold for holy-water. His great measure for improving the minds and the condition of the working classes was appropriately seconded by Sir J. SHELLEY ; and, what was far worse, was supported by Lord STANLEY in a speech of great length and specious plausibility. The motion was ably opposed by arguments of great weight, by Messrs. PELLATT, BAXTER, NAPIER, CAIRN s, and others, and on a division negatived by a majority of 376 to' 49. In course of the debate, Lord PALMEESTON spoke in a tone of levity and with an affected sarcasm which gave offence to both sides; he, seeing the way in which the strength of the house lay, made a virtue of necessity, and threw in his vote along with the majority. In the meantime it does not escape the remark of all ob serving parties that the House of Commons is once more busy in the reckless production of legislative work, crude and fanciful, and more voluminous than can be overtaken in this, or indeed in many coming sessions. There is absolutely no end to the introduction of new measures. The particular hobby of each member is again finding form, though greatly lacking consistency in the shape of a bill; and for every so cial grievance, as for many a private whim, some enactment or other is proposed as a remedy; no one takes the trouble of considering what the law is, but all are busy in isolated at tempts to make the law what each thinks it ought to be in regard to his particular hallucination ; so that the list of " orders of the day" already assumes the dimensions usually belonging to it in the middle of the "dog days." Nearly all of these, it is well known to their projectors, must necessarily be overlain and smothered in the ordinary progress of legis lation, so that their introduction is at best only Wasting the time in strenuous idleness.' When it is borne in mind that not these alone, but that even measures of real practical usefulness must necessarily be over taken and trodden down, or jostled aside by the resistless and inevitable peace or war debates which await the energies of Parliament, and which, ere many days are over, must be taken up and disposed of, the early promise of an abundant legislative harvest becomes more and more problematic and remote. Amidst the rushing stream of proposed legislation, it is singular, as well as pleasing, to note that the old-estab lished grievances of " mob-orators" have nearly disappeared from the list. With the exception of Mr. H. BERKELEY'S annual speech and motion on the " vote by ballot" whimsy, Lord Joax RUSSELL'S yearly display on "national education," and his lordship's cast-off suit of the ROTHSCHILD livery, which has" been picked up and donned by Mr. Munn?. Cassom, Parliament is not threatened with any of the old clap-trap motions for " extension of the suffrage," `s annual Parliaments," " the no-property qualification of members," and the " payment of representatives :" these, and the pro lific spawn of their congeners, have entirely disappeared from the notice-paper. Notwithstanding the "good riddance" from these stock pieces of parliamentary declamation and out of-doors agitation, the legislative path is yet encumbered to such a degree as fairly to defy progress. Take Tuesday night's proceedings as an illustration, and the obstructive influences will at once be seen. A series of questions addressed to Ministers on a variety of topics initiated the proposal for a select committee to consider the propriety of having tribunals established to settle all disputes which may arise between masters and workmen. The committee was granted. This was followed by a proposal from Mr. LOCK KING, to get prepared for the use of the House an edition of the statutes at large, with all the obsolete or repealed statutes left out. This was refused; but it was only one of a host of motions of similar import. The next subject was miuister's money in Ireland, and a bill' was introduced to settle the sub ject, as it is facetiously said, "for ever." The subsequent step of the evening's parliamentary diversion was the introduction of a bill for more effectually carrying out refora atory institu tions in Scotland ; followed by another bearing on the qualifi cations of commissioners of supply in the Scotch counties ; so far were "Scottish Rights" vindicated. After this the premier introduced a bill to extinguish certain rights of way and to shut up certain roads near the camp at Aldershott. Next committees were appointed to consider and report on the adul teration of food; on civil service superannuations; ou silver and gold wares ; and on the ecclesiastical commission—the reports of all these committees to be followed by bills on the numerous subjects to which they individually refer. Here it will be seen that on this oue night work was cut out for the legislature on a variety of important topics, more than suffi cient to occupy its attention for a complete session ; yet was Tuesday only an ordinary night, in so far as regards the Sysiphian labours of legislation, almost every one for the pre ceding fortnight having been nearly as prolific. The new loan and its concomitant incidents have formed fertile topics of conversation among City and West-end circles. The time for asking it took most people by surprise, and in the money market the smallness of the amount demanded excited still more general remark. It was fully anticipated that, at the usual time of making his financial statement, a loan would be negotiated for the full amount the necessities of the Government required ; but that at so early a period a proposal for a loan, and for so small a loan, only £5,000,000, and the funding of £3,000,000 of Exchequer Bills should have been made few were prepared to bear. The small financial morsel was immediately swallowed up, and con siderably more money than was wanted was almost at once tendered. The general solution of this pecuniary riddle is supposed to be that given by Lord PALMEESTON, that Government is in immediate want of money ; and the out siders add that they have asked for so small a sum in the meantime in the belief that, should peace be established, they will be able hereafter to raise a much larger sum on easier terms than they could now obtain. Be this as it may, little room exists for doubting that the alacrity displayed by capitalists to furnish the Government with means for carrying on the war will be productive of the most salutary effect in giving weight to the arguments adduced by the plenipoten tiaries of the Allies, at the t..nference to be opened this day in Paris, for agreeing, if possible, ou the terms of a lasting peace. An immense sensation has been created throughout London and all over the United Kingdom by the determined and un expected suicide of Mr. Joxs SAMLEIR, M.P. The announce ment of the fact, and the singularly resolute character of the circumstances attendant on the deplorable act, were of lemselves sufficient to account for much of the interest felt in the sad event. If these- were of so startling and unusual as nature as to excite surprise,. the- disclosures since made, taken. in conjunction with those which can as yet be little more than surmised, have been sufficient to awaken the utmost degree of astonishment, as they must, if true, be productive of wick-- spread misery and ruin. Frauds to an almost incredible ex-. tent have been perpetrated. by the deceased, with a reckless ness of audacity and a successfulness of ingenuity which throw the exploits of Messrs. P 4.133, STRATIAN, and BATES, as well as the most accomplished of public defaulters, completely into the shade. It is believed that the frauds he has perpetrated will amount to the enormous sum of £1,000,000. Among these, rumour has it that the deceased forged and issued no fewer than 50,000 shares and obligations of the value of £5 each of the Royal Swedish Railway Company. It was also said that he has forged and negotiated several deedsand mort gages of estates in Ireland. "But," says a London morning journal, "perhaps the boldest and most daring forgeries of all are those which relate to deeds for 'the purchase of property in the Encumbered Estates Court of Ireland. These forged deeds purport to bear the signatures of the Commissioners, the registrar, the chief clerk, the solicitors in the- various causes, and the Commissioners' seal. The extent to which this class_ . of forgeries has been committed may be inferred from the fact ' that the stamp duty alone on these amounted to several hun. dreds of pounds." With such an amount of crime and danger hanging over his head, it is not to be wondered at that the unhappy man should have contemplated self destruction as a means, indeed the only means of escaping from the labyrinth of wretchedness in which he had so completely enwoven himself. The act, it is believed, al though long contempleted, was precipitated by the circum stance that one of the holders of deeds relative to the purchase of one of the encumbered estates, .who had advanced a large sum of money to Mr. SADLEIR, had gone over to Ireland with his solicitor on Saturday se'nnight to have the deed registered. Mr. SADLEIR, it is said, did everything in his power to dissuade the party from going ; but having failed in doing so, and being fully aware of the disclosures which awaited him, he put an end to his miserable existence. With the disclosures which must ensue upon the death of this wretched criminal will in all probability, it is to be feared, begin a black chapter in the moral as well as in the social history of many a prosperous family—want, and all its con comitant evils, being heaped upon them by the daring wickedness of him who has completed the catalogue of his - crimes by the destruction of his own baleful life. TURKISH REFORM BILL. —Advices received at Vienna by tel egra ph an nouncethe following as the twenty-one points of the Turkish Reform Bill which has been sanctioned by the Sultan :--- 1. Maintenance of the liatti-Sherrif of Gilliland). 2. Gua rantee of ancient ecclesiastic a l p r i v il eges t o th e G ree k an d Armenian churches . 3. Deprives the " Patriarchate" of tem poral and judicial power. 4. Equality of all co n f ess i ons . 5. Abolition of persecutTn and punishment on account of chan g e of religion. 6. Admission of Christia ns t o s t ate o ffi ces. 7 . Introduction of civil jurisdiction for th e R ayahs (Turkish Christians). 8. The existing civil and criminal laws to be collected into one code or digest. 9. Code of laws to he in all the languages used in the empire. 10. Prison reform. 11. Police reorm. 12. Recruiting among the Rayahs. 13. Ad mittance of Christians to military honours. 14. Reformation of the provincial authorities. 15. Rights of Frank s to possess real property in Turkey. 16. Direct taxation. 17. Improve ment of highways. 18. Public budget. 19. Representation of Christians in Council of State. 20. Credit bank for com merce. 21. Reform of the currency. LIVERPOOL TOWN DUES.-MEETING OF THE INHABITANTS: Ox - Friday last, a public meeting of the inhabitants of Liverpool was held in St. George's Hall. The meeting was convened by his Worship the 2;layor, in compliance with a requisition addressed to him, signed by nearly 2,000 of the " bankers, merchants, brokers, And other inhabitants" of Liverpool, to protest against the proposed measures as "sub versive to all established rights, of property, to agree to a petition to both Houses of Parliament against the proposed bill, and to adopt such other measures as may best tend to avert so monstrous and unjust an innovation." The Mayor, J. STEWART, Esq., presided, and upon the plat form there were, amongst others, the following gentlemen:— Messrs. J. P. Heywood (High Sheriff), Ambrose Lace, James Aikin, R. A. Macfie, Ingram, F. A. Hamilton, (B. S. and C 0.,) S. R. Graves, G. J. Duncan, J. Lyon Jones, William Rathbone, Lawrence Peel, G. Roscoe, David Hodgson, P. F. Curry (coroner), Wrenn, Troutbeck, John Lockett, Robert HOrsfall, Thomas Avison, Adam Hodgson, Henry Danson, James M. Wood, David Rae, James Smith, William Fisher, Ralph Brocklebank, James Reay (Secretary to the Guardian Society), Backhouse Robinson, Robert Dogfish, Roger Lyon Jones, Charles Saunders, James Thomson, Christopher Bushell, M. J. Sidney, J. B. Lloyd, S. Holme, J. Holme, R. L. Gardner, T. Toulmin, George Holt, E. Bradley, J. A. Picton, D. Cros thwaite, J. Robertson, W. Preston, T. D. Anderson, Alderman Cooper, Thomas Godfrey, Ald. Parker, Beckwith, M`Gowan Woodruff, Wagstaff, and Ald. Dover. There were about 2,000 persons present in the body of the hall and in the galleries. Letters of apology for unavoidable absence were read by the Deputy Town-clerk from Messrs. Charles Turner, J. A. Tobin, H. Hornby, W. Earle, J. H. Turner, and Richard Brooke. The MAyou, who on rising was received with great applause, said he felt great pleasure in calling this meeting, parti cularly when he found that upon so important a subject the requisition had been so numerously signed by gentlemen of all political parties; by the bankers, merchants, shipowners, pro fessional men, tradesmen and shopkeepers, who have all cor dially united in a desire to preserve those dues which had been legally acquired, and judiciously as well as faithfully. ap plied to the public benefit. (Applause.) The great amount of these dues appeared to him to be the chief bait which attracted the cupidity of those by whom the right 4 of the cor poration were attacked. The magnitude of those dues, it must be recollected, did not arise from the largeness of the individual portions of the impost, but rather occasioned by the great extension and expansion of the commerce of this great borough ;—(hear, hear !) —by the accommodation which has been afforded for ships and shipping, and for mercantile transactions generally. But whilst some are attacking U 3 for the purpose of abstracting this amount of dues, they forget that they are loosening one of the great strongholds of society by which property in this country is held, not only by muni cipalities but by individuals. (Hear, hear!) He could assure them, from the very highest authority, that there is property, to an enormous extent, held, not only by municipalities, but by noble lords, noble dukes, and others, derived from that very title of which our town dues form only a small part. (Hear, hear ! ) For gentlemen will recollect that the conveyance, which was originally made to the citizens of London, com prised the dues of Liverpool, then a very trifling portion, in deed, in the whole transaction. It was, in fact, to extinguish' a debt of upwards of £300,000 ; and at that time, early in the reign of King Charles 1., the dues of Liverpool were a very small drop indeed, in the great amount ; but one title, one con veyance, carried the dues of Liverpool, with divers rights over fairs, rivers, manors," and so on, which are now held by a variety of individuals and communities. If Liverpool is to submit to this,—if an inroad is to be made on those rights of property which have hitherto been held sacred,—even those who may exult at the deprivation of Liverpool, may yet be whipped with their own rod ! (Applause.) J. P. HEYWOOD, Esq., late High Sheriff of the county, moved the first resolution, which, along with the others, will be found in our advertising columns. In moving the adoption of the resolution, he said he could see neither reason nor justice in this proposal of the government. (Hear, hear.) In his opinion the corporation of Liverpool had always expended their large income, not solely for the advantage of the town of Liverpool itself, but for the- good of the kingdom generally, and more particularly for the advantage of the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Cheshire. He must confess that he had always been amazedat the unfortunate jealousy with which Liverpool had been regarded by its neighbours, instead of gratitude, to which he thought the town was entitled, for' the many advantages which its judicious expenditure of the revenue derived from the Town Dues had conferred upon the country at large. (Hear, hear.) He concluded by moving the adoption of the resolution. Mr.. GEORGE HOLT seconded the resolution. It appeared that the bill now proposed lay the vice-president of the Board of Trade was an attack upon , the municipal institutions of the country, and an invasion of those rights and privileges, which, in all times, bad been found of great service to the prometitni of freedom, and of an enlightened policy. The principle of self-government—municipally in our corporations and parochially in our vestries—had been the foundation of' much free thought and of the-English character. HiStorians and commentators had always.regarded . municipal institutions its the foundations of civil and religious, and especially of commercial, freedom. Concurring in this opinion, he must say that he viewed with considerable alarm a measure - like the present, coming from the ministry, and making an attack upon property which, he meant - toshow, had been appropriated in the main to national, and not merely to local purposes.. The mayor had clearly set forth the foundation on which the title- of the town to these dues rested. After the minutest investigation the courts of law had solemnly decided that they , were the undoubted property of the corporation. The dues levied had. been expended for purposes in really national, although to some extent these purposes might appear' local. Land had been purchased by the corporation for the purpose of making communications to facilitate necessary intercourse; and, indeed, in the very first instanced- the corporation of Liverpool had voluntarily alienated a portiond their property for the purposes of the dock estate; free from taxation forever. From time to time they had made-other grants, or had sold land at a nomimal price, in furtherance of the same great national.object, and besides have paid the- whole .expenseof the conservancy of the river, iu.whatever hands that conservancy had from time to time been placed. Then-let them look at the landing-stages, which. would. cost the corporation not much less than £200,000, and which were necessary, not for the accommodation of the inhabitants of. Liverpool alone, but, like the docks, were required by the country at large. (Hear,. hear.) And even the noble building .in which they were then assembled, and which was a very sore subject with some people, was as much built for the hundreds of West Derby and Salford, as for the town cf Liverpool. Was it not for the-• administration of justice in this division, of the-county? And if the cost of it had not been defrayed out,of the town dues, must not a very heavy rate have been laid upon the county for the erection of some building for that purpose? He (Mr.. Holt) believed that the legislature, with a full knowledge of" the facts, would never permit this bill to pass ; and therefore,. without further remark, he would cordially.second the resolu tion,. which was unanimously adopted. Mr.. GRAVES, vice-chairman of the Shipowners' Associa tion, moved the next resolution. When the repeal of the navigation laws took place in this country, it was universally! admitted that all the burdens upon British shipping should hie removed, and to a great extent this admission had been car ried out. But there were burdens of a practical nature still remaining, and to which the attention of the Board of Trade had been repeatedly called ; and had the vice-president of the Board of Trade come forward with a measure for relieving the, shipping of this country from the- burdens of our consular system—(hear, hens)—had the boardeozne forward, following in the footsteps of France and America, to charge the lights of this country upon the Consolidated Fund, he should hare been inclined to believe in the good:intentions of the president of that board. But, no ; to the clamours of a few individuals, he had got a pet grievauceof his own, a grievanee which had never been complained °flay the shipowners of this country, and from which they had never asked to be relieved (hear)—he proposed, by the Local Dues on Shipping Bilk to change the ccaection of the dues-of this port from the hands of the corporation to the hands of icier Majesty's Customs, ulti mately to reach the hands of the Board of Trade, who,.b an order in council, at any moment,_ could either abolish or con tinue those dues, or allocate them for their. own purposes. (Cheers.) Ire, as a shipowner, denounced the bill which,he held in his hand as nothing more nor less than mockery. (Cheers.) In place of being a boon to the :,hipping interest of this country, it absolutay became -a burden. He did not speak thus from his own ihdividual opinion, only. The shipowners of this port had unanimously recorded! their disapproval of this measure, and had, openly declared their-intention to oppose it; . Having. read an extract from the-petition adopted by the association at their meeting, on Thursday, the speaker said that *,hg's forcible repudiation, emanating : from, the interest which the bill was intended to relieve, could,not fail to arrest the attention of the members of the Houses of Parliament, when they were called upon to record their votes. upon a measure which, for the first time- in. Parliamentary, annals, openly avowed, and undis guisedly justified, the confiscation of acknowledged rights.— (Cheers.) Proceeding to show why he considered the bill a, burden upon Braish shipping, Mr. Graves said that the works. undertaken and contemplated by the Corporation of Liverpool: 'es connexion witletbe shipping interest, were absolutely necese sary to the vast- and. ever-increasing commerce of the port; ; -works which had been truly described as-.having rather, a: national than a local, character—(hear, hear)—but which : it, would be impossible-to carry out, if the revenues of the Corpo, ration wereseized, except by increased taxation. He believed, that the very first measure which wouldfollow the passing . of Mr. Lowe's bill would be to increase the Dock-rates to.their maximum amount—(hear, hear)—and it was in this way that the bill would be a burden upon the shipping, anda,positive and direct injury to the trade of tho,port, and that of ! the sur rounding towns and district. (Cheers.) The Vice-President of the. Board of Trade had conjured up a ghost of restricted trade e but if this bill became law, Mr. Lowe would, see this ghoit of restricted trade chang, - ing its habitation from the Mersey to the Dee. (Laughter.) Great stresa had. been laid upon. the Differential Duties which had been leviedwithin the port,. and Mr. Lowe had brought prominently forward cases of great hardship. Mr. Graves would not deny that these Differential Duties, caused by antagonistic interests, had proved great obstructions to. the commerce of this port ; but it would have considerably raised in his mind the reputation of the Vice-President of the Board of Trade-for candour if be had at the same time stated that there. was then in the house •a bill which, in the conse.of a short time, would abolish the double dues existing within the Mersey, and would, when it .became law, terminate thegrievance with which he sought to gain the sympathy of the. house. The bill, if it were sifted, mightcontain points which would be a boon to the shipping interest of the country, but he thought he was speaking the sentiments of his brother shipowners when he declared that they would not be tempted to receive benefits of such a nat - aro at the expense and sacrifice of those great principles which had ever upheld the commercial classes of this country in their just and existing li, its. (Hear, liter, and applause.) Mr. ROBERT RANKIN, in seconding the resolution, cha racterized the bill as one of spoliation, and said that as a re fident in Liverpool for seventeen years, and. a member of a house which had paid these dues for forty years, he was not one of those who could desire to deprive the Corporation of what lie conceived to be their legal rights. Mr. JAMES AIKIN supported the resolution, and, in doing so, referred to the trial in which the title of the Corporation to the town dues had been challenged, and said that he, as one of the associated merchants, bad been a party instrumental in causing that action to be brought. The result had been to prove in the clearest possible manner the title of the town to those dues —never, indeed, had a title to any description of property in this country been more clearly established. (Hear, hear.) It would be a very interesting thing for the meeting to trace the dues through different possessors, during the long period of six hundred years, until they finally became vested in the town of Liverpool—sold first by the Crown to the Cor poration of London, and by that Corporation to the then Lord Molyneux—they were by him leased for a term of one thousand years to the Corporation - of Liverpool—held by the Corporation, under that lease, for about a century—and even tually purchased in fee simple oft' Lord Molyneux's descendant, Lord Sefton. The title of the Corporation to the property thus purchased was never questioned until about a quarter of a century ago, when it was deemed advisable to ascertain whether those dues could be strictly and legally demanded. The trial took place before the Lord Chief Justice; the most eminent counsel of that day were employed; the case went to the jury ; a verdict passed for the Corporation ; and al though, in the first instance, a bill of exceptions was . ten dered to the ruling of' the. judge, the parties resisting the dues found, upon consulting counsel, that they had not a leg to stand upon, and they therefore said to the Corporation— "We see you have a title, but we think there are some few particulars iu which the rates ought to be modified." They were requested to point out the modifications which they would suggest. They did point them out, and those modifi cations were made 'to the entire satisfaction of the trading • community of the town of Liverpool at that time. (Hear.) Mr. JAMES SMITH also supported the resolution, and in doing so, said the bill proposed by Mr. Lowe adopted this principle—that the property of a corporation stood in a dif ferent position from that of a private individual, and that in the case of the Corporation of Liverpool there should be no compensation for its removal. With what did the corporation pay for_ that property to the Earl of Sefton ? They paid for that property out of money which they possessed and derived from certain other property, and he defied any man to show that, under such circumstances, if Liverpool was to be deprived of the dues, she ought not to be compensated as thoroughly and completely as if they were the property of a private indi vidual. (Hear, hear.) He had carefully looked over the bill, and he must confess that he could not properly ascertain the drift of it. It might mean one of two things; either that the town dues should be entirely abolished, or after defraying any existing charges upon them, it provided that the dues were to be collected in future by the customs, and to pass into the hands of the Board of Trade. If so, there was one of two ways in which they might appropriate them. They might appro priate them to harbour purposes all over the country, and deprive the port of Liverpool of almost any advantage from them, or they might lay down as a principle, that these dues being collected in the port of Liverpool, should be appro priated, as they might imagine, for the benefit of the shipping property of Liverpool. But if these dues were abolished, so far from having anything to hope for in the way of relief, the ship owners must look forward to a very large increase in taxation. (Laughter.) No gentleman there, he was sure, could look at their extended line of docks, now reaching almost five miles, and not see that it was almost impossible to carry on the trade of the port for want of a wide thoroughfare extending through the whole line of docks. But deprive Liverpool of the town dues, and the burden of providing such improvements was thrown undoubtedly upon the Dock Estate, and how could the latter carry out such improvements without increasing their rates ? He had said also that the Board of Trade might ap propriate these dues to general purposes, and Liverpool receive little or no benefit,. though be could hardly believe that any government would commit so glaring an act of injustice as this. But in case they were applied for the benefit of the commerce of Liverpool," who_ were to be the judges ? The Board of Trade. And was it not extremely probable that the board would justify their appropriation of the Liverpool town dues by pointing to the large sums of money which they had expended upon Holyhead harbour—(hear, hear)--though the' Holyhead harbour improvements would not afford the slightest advantage to the interests of the commerce and shipping of Liverpool. (Cheers.) In conclusion, Mr. Smith repeated that, as a shipowner, he could see no advantage whatever to the shipping interest by depriving the Corporation of Liverpool of the dues, but every advantage, not only to the commerce of the port, but to the commerce of the whole country, by the dues remaining as they were. The resolution was unanimously adopted. Mr. AMBROSE LACE moved the next resolution, and, in doing so, contended that the title of the Corporation to levy these dues was clear and indefeasible, and, if eta, Parliament could not abrogate them without granting compensation. He declared that, upon the very principle laid down in the bill, Government was not justified in taking the dues. Those who looked at the bill would see that they were very careful to de clare that all individual owners-of tolls should be compensated, and that only corporations should not.- Well, then, if the Cor poration of Liverpool had possessed these dues for so many years, and• had applied them to purposes for whialrotherwise they must have levied local rates, had they not, in. point of fact, got a title to them by time ?—( Hear, hear !) Did not any person r in buying property, eonsider what the dues and rates were to which that property was suhject ? and would he not give a greater price for property—say on the north-side of Parliament-street —because he knew that, to the extenVotten per cent. upon his rental, he would be relieved from local dues ? Where- would be the difference, he asked, between taking one-tenth of the dues of Covent-garden market from the Duke of Bedford, and taking from the people of Liverpool one-tenth of their dues ?—( Hear, hear 1) It was precisely-the same thing. Mr. RA.LPIT Bnoeirnaessit was very- happy to second the resolution. On the introduction of the • measure, Mr. Lowe very disingenuously stated that it was-intended to relieve the shipping of the port from some of its enormous taxation ; but. the-fact was, that it would relieve the-shipping interest from no charge whatever; —( Hear, hear o—and the probability was that, were the town-dues to be taken away from Liverpool— which•God forbil•!—the shipping interest would be more hea— vily taxed than hitherto. As a shipowner and merchant, an, - 1 he believed he !spoke- the sentiments of the other shipowners-- and merchants of Liverpool upon this matter, .he would not to derive-any advantage from a reduction in tolls which,• was obtained by means -so unjust and illegitimate. (Cheers.) Mr PICTON, at gr eat length, and in a speech of considerable jecnlarity, supported the resolution. I-Fe-read extracts from the 'proposed bill, and argued that if these-were carried out as law, the • Board cf Trade would be empowered to reduce the dues, to raise them again if they thought 51t, and do with the as they liked. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. R. A. MAC3I/3 moved the adoption of - the next resolu tion. Referring to the 'remarks of the Mayor of Salford, (at the meeting in Mitnehester on the previous- day) Mr. Macfie quoted a paragraph, to the effect "that there was not a person who walked along the street who did not contribute in' some degree to•these dues ; and especially there was no female that passed along the street whose dress did not con tribute to them." NOw, sir, (said the speaker;) what if I should say that the-firm with which I am connected pay of dues, or at all events import goods liable to.these dues, many times more than the- amount paid by the whole of the ladies and females of Manchester. (Hear, hear.) lam not aware that any house in Manchester, or the district, consumes so large an amount of goods liable to these dears as we do, and yet 'I do not complain. (Hear, hear.) He alluded to the bene ficial uses to the working classes, to which these dues had been made applicable, along with the- other sources of income. We have excellent public baths, libraries, museums, botanic gardens,. parks, an observatory, hospitals, a costly supply of water, ,an efficient fire-police, and .other advan tages; but notlf_ng for the rich—we have no colleges, no academies for the sons of the-better classes, as they are called — no. The attenticn• of the Liverpool Corporation seems to have been mainly directed to benefit the mass of the community. (Hear, hear.) Oar Manchester friends may say—" That is ' not connected with trade; you have been, looking to your : selves after But it is the docks that bring to us this great populatiot4 for whore this provisiond4-made; and a very great part of the crime, and the casualties, and the law cases of Liverpool, are in connexion with these docks, and that trade, which certainly passes through our-streets and docks, is the trade, at the- same time, of the whole nation, and of the whole world. Mr. CHAR/ES , SAL'S2NESS briefly seconded the resolution, which was unaaimomiy adopted. Mr. W. RAMBONE, in moving the next resolution, said he was rather surprised at the modesty—not-usaal with members of his profession—and still more at the , morality, of the Vice- President of the Board of Trade. (ffean, hear.) He should have thought-that no lawyer would have said that property belonging to corporations might be spoliated any more than, the property of individuals. (Hear, _hear) That was not his moralit74: and be should be glad to know how the share— . holders in those great corporations, the London and North western, the• Great 'Western, and the, Great Northern Raih. way Companies would like to have--their property in those. concerns taken bold of by the government ; or what their friends in. Manchester would say if a hungry government should seise upon their corporate-interest in their gas works. (Hear, hear.) He was called a radical reformer, but he was not an unprincipled revolutionist. (Hear, hear, and cheers.} He was quite sure, if the people .4 England understood the question, that government would 4ose , the bill ; and he hoed, if they persevered with it, they. would lose their places- too. Mr..Heastr.ron (Brown, Shipley, and Co.), while he- pro tested earnestly against this bill, was not prepared to oppose any reasonable plan for the abblition of town dues ; but he thought, as the country wovid have the advantage of the abo lition, the country should bear.theexpense of it, and that it should not fall on individual3towns. (Hear, hear.) This bill hadino man's good wishes.. It neither abolished the dines nor did justice to the town. (Hear, hear.) It simply transferred the dues to the government, taking them out of the hands of the local authorities, who.were always ready to do what they were asked, to meet the-requirements of trade. He-had him self had occasion to represent to the Dock Committee that there were large stearaers enough, whilst there was-no aecom modation. What answer had he received ? Ho- had been asked to state what he•required, and was assured, that every ' thing should be done-to meet his wishes. (Hear i hear.) The result was that a steamer of 74 feet, requiring gates of 80 feet in width, was, on, her arrival, immediately accommodated, which, if he had had,to go to the government, might:have been in the river to this day.. Mr. CHRISTOPIISII BUSHELL_ supported the resolution, Board arguing that tba.measure of the Board of Trade was a direct attempt to subvert those municipal institutions which, through their various ramifications, constituted the. basis not only of our liberties, but of our prosperity also;, that no act of mal administration,.on the part of the Liverpool corporation, could be proved to, justify the powers which they at present pos sessed being removed ; that a principle, of right and justice , ought not to be violated, whether an individual or a number of individuals were concerned ; and that, least of all, shoedd principles. of right and justice be violated by a government. The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. Mr. Da,NsoN moved the adoption of the petition, and repro-_ bated, in severe terms, the spirit which Mr. Lowe manifested, on the introduction of his bill, in Owing Liverpool in thesame category with a number of places, which had abused the public funds with which they had been entrusted, thus placing Liver pool iu a false position with the house and the , country. Rams,gate, Bridlington, and Whitby were empowered to levy dues, because they professed to be ports of refuge for ships in distress; and the honourable member (Mr. Lowe) himself, declared that not one of these. places, which had for years past been levying port dues, were. enabled to discharge one single public duty in return. This, however, was not at all the case with Liverpool, and it was most unfair to class her with such places. Mr. Denson complained also of the wrong impressions which Mr. Lowe had conveyed by his ignorance of the subject in connexion with Liverpool, and by his mixing up of dock and town rates. Speaking for the shopkeepers, he said that they were heartily in unison with the merchants upon the question of the town dues. With regard to the case of the corporation, when it was fairly known, he believed it to be so strong that they could afford to drop their legal claim altogether, and rely upon the fact that the prosperity, not only of Liverpool, but of the whole country, depended upon the present relations of the corporation to the trade of the port remaining intact. (Cheers.) - Mr. SYDNEY, in seconding the resolution, expressed his regret that Lord Palmerston should have introduced such a bill,—deprecated the attempted distinctions between corporate and private property,—and refused to believe that so un righteous a measure would ever be sanctioned by a British House of Commons. The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. Mr. DA.VID HODGSON moved a vote of thanks to the chair man, which was seconded by Mr. J. TORE, and his Worship ' , aving briefly replied, the proceedings terminated, THE TOWN DUES. IA SPECIAL MEETING of the Select Vestry was held on Wednesday, for the purpose of considering the propriety of I . _ petitioning parliament against the proposed abolition of the Liverpool Town Daes. The Rev. Rector Campbell presided. On the motion of Mr. Churchwarden WOODRUFF, seconded by Mr. SHA.W, the following petition to parliament was adopted : To the honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, the humble Petition of the Select Vestry of the Parish of Liver pool, who are the elected Representatives of a Population numbering by the last census 265,000 souls, Sheweth,—That a bill has been introduced into your honour able house by Mr. Lowe, intituled "a bill for the abolition of passing tolls, and the regulation of local dues on shipping." That the said bill proposes to deprive, without equivalent, the Municipal Corporation of Liverpool of the dues upon goods carried in ships, commonly called town dues, a property which, originally created by the undoubted prerogative of the Crown, was purchased from an ancestor of the present Earl of Sefton, by the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgesses of Liverpool, and was declared, in 1833, by the Court of King's Bench, to be, by the said purchase, the undoubted property of the municipality. That the said town dues so declared to be the legal right of the Liverpool Corporation have not been restricted in their outlay to local objects. On the contrary, vast sums have from time to time been expended in works of a national character, in the creation of customs and excise offices for the collection of the revenue, in the erection of St. George's-hall for the facility of public justice, as well for Manchester and the neighbourhood as for Liverpool ; in the conservancy of the river and the port; in contributing to the formation of ex tensive docks, which have ever bean exempt from local rates ; in large convenient landing stages, and in every way to in crease to the utmost possible extent the commercial facilities of the port. _ _ Thai your petitioners submit that the right of the Corpora tion to the town dues in the present case, instead of having been weakened by the Reform Act, as is argued, was only strengthened and confirmed thereby. That your petitioners also submit, as the guardians not only of the poor, but of the funds of the ratepayers, to whom as burgesses the town dues belong, that the proposal to take away the town dues without compensation under such cir cumstances is fatal to the title of all corporate property, and dangerous also to the secure enjoyment of all other property whatever. Your petitioners, therefore, humbly trust that for the reasons herein assigned the said bill may not be permitted by your honourable house to pass into law. And your petitioners will ever pray. The Cue rumax, before putting the resolution, said :—My great objection to this bill is, that it is an act of confiscation ; it takes away property, which I maintain is the property of the burgesses of Liverpool, without compensation. This is an act of confiscation which is not justifiable. In contradiction to the specious casuistry of theorising politicians, that cor porate property is public property, liable to confiscation at the caprice of the legislature, without equivalent or compensation. I believe that the property of the municipality of Liverpool is the private property of the burgesses of Liverpool, that the Town Council are its trustees, elected by ourselves as its guardians and conservators, and that to rob us of it without compensation will be an act as unconstitutional as it would be to rob the Earl of Derby of his estates, or the house of Russell of its property at Woburn Abbey, Tavistock, and Covent-garden, granted to it by . the crown out of the plunder of the church ; a corporation is defined as a body politic authorised by the King's charter to have a common seal, com prised of members, able by their common consent, to grant and receive in law anything within the compass of their charter. The town dues were bought for a price by the bur gesses of Liverpool in their corporate capacity, and are now the legal property of us, the burgesses of Liverpool, in our corporate capacity, and can only be taken from us,.without an equivalent, by a violation of the law. I grant that corporate property; like all other property, is the creation of the law, and therefore subject to the reguLatiou of the law; and that property may he taken from a corporation for the public good in the same way that a man's house or laud may be taken from.him for the public good, as in the-case of rail ways or street improvements • but they are not taken away without au equivalent. To confiscate the property of a corpo ration upon the pretence that it is public property,. is- to give a handle to the dangerous errors of Socialists, who-maintain that all property is a theft, and an usurpation ; that the great and crying evil of the time is•thensurpation of the land s the gift of God, from the people—that all the land, houses, and mines must be restored to the people—and that without the-restora-• tion of this property reforming is unavailing. If the pro perty of the Corporation of Liverpool is injurious to the public interest, take it away ; but first prove that it is in jurious, and then give compensaticn. But what is the injury of the town dues ?- The charge, I am-told, upon a bale of cotton is 4d. and I can hardly think that this will justify confiscation upon the pretence that it is restriction on the freedom of trade. The petition wiz-unanimously agreed to, and the chairman was authorised to proceed to London to make the necessary arrangements for its -presentation to the • House of Commons. The Vestry then broke up. LIVERPOOL CHAMBER cf'COMMERC:Z. A SPECIAL meeting of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce was held on Saturday, at the Offices, Exellange-buildings, to take into consideration the government bill in favour of: Limited Liability in Partnership. The- chair was occupied by Mr. - Charles Holland, the president ; and there was au unu— snally . large attendance ..of :members, among whom were Torr, the vice-president, Messrs. Christopier Bushell, Alder— man Bennett, Sheil, Katy, Lamont, Hitbback, Gill, Cooke,. Bibby, Macfie, Jackson, Heath, Johnson,. Lister, Holderness„. Forget, Dixon, Tomlinson, Prowse, Farnworth, Rea, Frost,. Pitkering, Walker, Lang, Lamb, Robertson, Beazley, Hey worth, Swinton Boult„ Francis Boult, Fisher,Boyd, Anderson, Mendell, &c. Tona affirmed that the principkof limited liability was fraught with mischief; and pointed, in proof this, to the tbot that a number of rotten and decrepidconcerns were look ing to the anticipated act of parliament-to-prop them up. The mercantile community could not allow a measure of this kind to pass without the strongest remonstrance against the want of protection of the public which it displayed, and the pre mium it almost seemechto extend to fraud`: Under these cir— cumstances, he moved, "'That the bill introduced into parlia ment entitled Bill to amend the Law•of Partnership,' is fraught with' evils of the greatest magnitude to the true in terests of the commerce and credit of this. country." • Mt. CHRISTOPHER FATSHELL, in a leng,thy‘speech, seconded e proposition, believing that the bill recenth introduced into , the house by Mr. Lowe was fraught witlnevifs of the greatest magnitude to the commerce of the country. Mr..EDWABD HELCH, ex-president of the Chamber, had, no hesitation in reiterating the sentiments he had on former occasions freely expressed on this subject. Having urged that it was a libel on all commercial and trading integrity to say that partnerships under this bill would not be as honestly . entered into as those framed' under the old law, lie concluded by - .moving, as an amenarnent, " That the.principle of the bilL is sound, and worthy. of adoption, but that provision should , : be made for capital lent under the clauses of this bill remain— , lug liable to all debts-contracted while in the hands of the • borrower to connect: responsibility strictly with ostensibility], . and to give facilities to the public for aceertaining when loam are withdrawn." Mr. JOHN Dixom seconded the amendment: . Mr, ROBERT 1.,a0mx.,. in supporting the amendment, sug =sted the insertion: of a paragraph, to-the effect that a clause. should be introduced into the bill, postponing the claim of the lender of money until all the creditors-were satisfied. After a discussica & in which several members took part, 'lle, amendment was kst by about two. to one. Several other amendments were- successively negatived, and the origiiaal motion was carried,by 25 to 12. tFEBRUARY ing to the company, the directors r' pass a resolution authorising them of £31,400." The CHAIRMAN stated that, thou, tion in the amount recommended f oi in the amount of gas from 4s. 6d. to upon the funds of the company, w' sumption could not at present et great faith, however, in the elastici , were only allowed to preserve unl their way. The most serious charg( them, not only as a company, but in but he felt confident that, iu the rei had fairly met and refuted all these the company would meet the officials, by the council to test the metres, as they believed such an appointmen both to themselves and to the, public. adopted, the dividend of 5 per cent tioned; and the directors empow , under the provisions of the act. The dation of the £25 A shares was carrii ECCLESIASTICAL IN' PREFERMENTS AND AP Rev. E. L. Blenkineopp, Perpetut Lathom, to be officiating Chaplain to tl Rev. A. Carden, B. A., to the Perpe Gloucestershire. Rev. A. Cazenove, 8.A., of Exet, Curacy of Fritteuden, Kent. Rev. W. R. Colbeck, 8.D., Vicar of honorary Canonry in the Cathedral of E. B. Cowell, 8.A., of Magdalen Hal, ship of Modern History and Political E, College, Calcutta. Reir'. W. H. Denny, to the Stipendiai Liverposll.__ Rev. H. Hall, M. A., to the Rectory o; Rev. E. M. Hall, M.A., Incumbent the North Bierley Union, Bradford. Rev. H. F. Hamilton, 8.A., to the II( near Weymouth. Rev. It. M. Hope, to the Vicarage of Rev. E. G. Hunt, M.A., to be Chap' Ottery St. Mary, Devon. Rev. W. S. C. Lowndes to the Rectos Hampden, near Aylesbury. Rev. I. P. Prescott, M.A., to the RI with Shellow Boweits, Essex. Rev. F. Simpson, sen., to the Vicam thorpe, Yorkshire. Rev. C. S. Taylor, to the Curacy 01 (Me insertion of the Rev. D. B. Bini Curacy, a few weeks since, was erroneol Rev. M. Wilkinson, to the Incumbe , near York. DIOCESE 91? CH. TIEE LORD BISHOP Of CIIESTgEt ordination at Chester on Trinity S ordination on that day must send in to Charles J. W. Parry, Esq., Chester, on or before Monday the ith April can be received,• eseept under special Tzg BISHOP Os' LITCIFFIELD A , Fon PRkm—The following addre diocese, from the Lord Bishop of published :—" To the Reverend the Litchfield.—Eccleshall, Feb. 18.-INi We are at a crisis-of no little icnporta: The war, for the successful issue of implored the protection of Almigh realised the anticipations of difficulty which we entered upon it. While, upon its events,•we have much-cause have much came to be'thankful, also, ances and successes with which our and yet more fottheunparallelect mini the sufferings of . our sick and woui forth. The war still continues ; bnt about to be held at - Paris opens a pro:. To the issue of that conference we eommon anxiety, involving as it muet this nation alone; but - of Europe at 4 then, I trust, be regarded otherwise in due season,' if I new ask , you.to pecple under your pastoral care to be tions to Him who disposes the hearts He will be pleased to give such a s: wisdom to those who are appointed• ti ferenee as may lead to a peace conchn and therefore bonourabls• and bene the security and prosperity of nation: Christ's-kingdom of ` grace and trut spoon earth. - no need to enlarge upon the subject; it speaks for itself; ~ the thorrightful and the patriotic, to the benevolent aria religious. Earnestly commending-it to your consideratio n, remain your affectionate brother and faithful servant , LITCHFIMD." 26, 1856. PE] L( request the propriet ors to re-borrow the likes '' ' As 13. I eveni ugh there was no dinair l , ll ;215 's-( ag or dividend, the redsc..,tl°' i mi rd 0 4s. had made an for' qk „ it ALE which even increased 7," ~' Petty_ :ounterbalance. Alf the pith a I :its of the concern, il .- - f as co harassed the even teller,!!, .boltrglat ;es had been made ag : ' 4l( leoali a their individual Wei' some 1 sply of the directors, thei I. ea k im ., e charges. In conclusil , us s, who might be aPPol'i t t r Southa ,vi le ee i . n dr e t duT h n e hatoeni most thrbepoo ruo c rsro o lt r wy d .o i a :3 l 3 0 i P t, : , ~! ' t;, * ,., , : e i 'll l s gp L oi 1. nt would be advantgrq , ' in...y o , b n i e ec h rut. for the - half-year 53 1,° C ; 110, resolution for the co 3s° ' ' 0_ a ‘,o,verni hard 4 VTELLIGESCO lb BM, — PPOINTMENTS. sal Curate of St. Mad bet`-rfY the Army in Turkey. etual Curacy of Tredin her ~, ,4 h ter College, Oxford, to ii- ''. to h Fressingtleld, Suffolk, to a . 1 a ( ;abed Norwich. • LII, Oxford, to the Professor' 'th C. 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' WI '' and 1 ~,,44 , 'ens r I.ND THE NEGOTIA . t"; , ) ' t 4 ?SS to the clergy of ~ h, to t Litchleld, has just li e f ,'v hi Clergy of - the Diocese, . il w y h ß ic e h ve w re e nd no ß t r lo e n th g rer si,,... , , , : : :: r n ii e i ante in our natioual std as was i lty God, has more ° P i, ` 41 ( 1 y and danger and loss wi - ttr n, ' therefore, we- look P e ; i„ le 'a• ' „,i'imil'ae,o,:ieleier,tci tie sto be humbled. But r ! „' ' the io, for the signal delic e ` ' w ged, • arms have been blesr .: ; f e tk las nistrations of mercy wllihi L'Qe nt ended soldiers have cs'' . 4 ' ll l 2 the peace conference,ll,o, 'udi; )spect of its termivao;,o ~,Were cannot but loorriwit i Vol I ' 44 :led R the best interests, ac''',l t ' l l end - ,11 the world. It will 11 ,",; ''' Put than as ' a word 5p0,,`.2 li tl i o T n i ' beseech and exhot - t ~:'," I, tc e earnest in their supPn ' ' . ; and minds of ment-tn l' , s 3 tsfiopcii take k te o o f aa m pi la, o r d eto e inrnadtui theocniv 0 : :: ‘ R t il i f u ' , i . ided -.Von right • lsJ e ' . ' f or princ. to 0 4 4. , ith'is; a n u ct p, ' ,ll to etharethex.teTnshieoros.4,, 41 Y n ‘4 ha . ate C4ttscti, COURT A3rD' THE Kier,,- of Prussia has named • Count Virtor Schvie;i "hereditary head cook "in Pomerania; to be apeer, or me° for life of the-First Chamber. THE Queen-has created the Earl of Kenmare, in the Pee rss of Ireland, a Baron of the United Kingdom, by the title ; Baron Kenmare; of Castle Rosse,-in the county of Kerry Ix is considered probable that the Emperor of Akstria *( to consent to be the godfather, by proxy, to the expected be ir ek the French throne. An Austrian regiment is to bear name of the Emperor of the French:. THE QUEEN has directed letters patent to be passed under 4 Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the 11 111 0 . .Kingdom unto Sir• Gilbert John Ileathcote Hart an d to p heirs male, by the name, style and:-title of Baron Ayelau" 'Meland, in the-eounty of Lincalu. SIR HENRY Eixas resigned his responsible post as priO librarian to the-British Museum, cm-Saturday. The vet e has • served the public faithfully fora more' than fifty Ye s t r i; during which time- he has not merely filled his office with s 5 faction to men of letters, but has made important additio lls o ., the great body of documentary illustrabions of English hist ° '—Athenmum. PRINCE DE TORELLAi of Naples, after -having, a fen' 3 1: since, passed the-evening at the home of one of his frie%o on his return home-was found dead- in. Lis carriage froni q o attack of apoplexy,: The Prince was. the head of one of bra branches of the ancient house of Carractiolo, from which f'" i ,• proceeded many illustrious warriors, cardinals, and even Por to - APPROACHING. ISTARRIAGES.—A marriage is arranged 4 take place early in: the spring between- Sir Frederick Leoni Arthur, Bart., and Uwly Elizabeth Hay, third daughter of ti Karl and Countesa-of.Kinnoull. The-marriage of Lady A y r gusta Hay, fourth daughter of the Ezrl- and Countess of noull, with the Hbn. John Twisletrw,Fiennes, eldest so' Lord Saye and &le, will. take place at; the same time, IT is rumoured' that Lords Cornermere, Strafford, Se s l and Cathcart, have,been named as members of. the Cour t oi Inquiry about to- assemble, to consider the Crimean repo i r it Sir John M`lsreillt. As much of the s-abject; in question re' .3 o to the cavalry, it is-highly desirable that experienced cav,, officers, such as Generals l3rotherten i ..Levell, Maclean, ' should be associated with the above distinguished veteran s ' assist them in their deliberations. THE Queen held the first levee of season on - in St. James's Palate. Her Majesty wore a train white silk brocrifit, trimmed with white blonde ; satin petticoat, trimmed with white-satin ribbon blonde. The Queen wore on the head a dial:non( circlet. His Reyal Highness the- Duke of Cam', his Serene Highness Prince Edward of- Saxe W( present at the ?ewe.. The presentations. were UMW 4 . 111 g t thi Oar Tuesday morning, Her Majiesty„accompanieu Albert and a party of ladies, and attended also by Lord visited the Arsenal at Woolwich, for: the purpose of the trophies brought from Sebastopol, by the The principal object which attracted, the attention party was a field-piece with a ball, stuck fast at It is presumed, from the peculiar-position .of tin gun, that the .latter was struck by a shot from piece just as- it was discharged.. The edge of, tit thereby flatbned in such a manner that the ball come out. The royal:party havingetayed about tin of an hour,. returned to town, atnoon. The election for Leominster terminated, on _Tue. return of the conservative modidate; the numl close, being- 7 -Ilardy, 179 ; Campbell, 101. 1511 Hardy stood for Bradford on, the Conservative si along with Mr. Wickam, Ure.present represents father, John Hardy, Esq., a great proprietor of i the town, represented Bradfsrdiu, two parliament G. Hardy, is a rising man onathe northern circuit, second-class at Oriel College,..Oxford, the year in I were only one or two first-class men. Be . is am. fortimeAhough a younger-sou. His father left hi, His politics are decidedly- asaservative, but moden Tim; .death of the Drake of Norfolk, Premier hereditary Earl Marsh-al of England, took place at Arundel Castle, after -vv years' gradual deal though it was only on; then day of his death -1 symptoms exhibited themselves. The deceased ..- born on the 12th o. Aligust, 1701, and mar Tien half-yearly meeting was held on Tuesalty;. Mr. C.. December, 1514, Lady. Charlotte Leveson Co. H. daughter of Granville-first Duke Of Sutherland, Lawrence in the chair. the present Duke. By that marriage the late Puke Dir_ra : CaTtsoar read the-following report : sons and two dauf•hters—namely, the Earl of 2: Surrey (now the. seventh • Duke of Norfolk), 1-4 1, "At the half-yearly meetingin klebruamthe directors have Fitzalan Howard,M 4 P „married to Miss Talbe‘niece ° I only to request the proprietors to authorisesthe payment of a : late Earl of Shrewsbur . Lord Bernard Howaad, who di,s' dividend arising from the current year's profits up to the 31st Egypt a few years Lord Mary, married to Ord. December, 1855, as the annual accounts will not be made up- Lad% Ad ego., Lady last autumn y ' l ta.. Lord ir naafi' the 30th une.„,pursuant to the company's Act of Farhat and ` -. j, slue., nient. anners, M -.. The late Duke, when Earl,, e i so t i the first, Romanist who took the oaths. and hut riF ,l The directors, after a careful examination of the accounts, • •• are prepared to recommend to the proprietors now to declare the House. of Commons after the passing. of the Ree t td, Emancipation. Act- in- 1829. The bill xeeeisiod the .o'l, of a dividend, for the...half-year ending tbanlat December last, at assent on the.l.3th of A ril, and Mr. It. H. Hurst, lti.'ll the rate of £5 per cent. on the consolidated stock of the com pany, and of Its. 7d. on the £25 A shares;. such dividends to Horsham resigned his i! seat, and the- l!arl: of Surref..4 be payable on the 26th instant. returned for.that borough, and took, his seat in the 11°1 ' , ', / P o •rek i Commena on the 6th of May following. Tie w as 0 i At the meeting of the proprietors, in August leat„their attention wasealled to the inquiry on gas supply then pending returned' for II ham at the. general elections of 1 83 4 , ' Tr i WY/ kt 1 1_ .. At the next . general election in 1832 he was r i e ve p it , 4 0 th before a committee of the Town Council. Subsequently that in eon junction with Lord, George Zennox, for the "' uf a 3 a' c ler. committee made a report., a copy of which, was officially trans mitted to the directors, wherevon they gave it their full - con- ioi Davis' lof Sussex, and continued its p teseu . il ,p ( L sideration,and without delay prepared and sent to the Council i 1841 when his Grace was. summ 0: 0 : i :ran 3laltravers, (me of the-ancient titits of the ' (ip 4.e t of L'ords, during the lifetime of, to set and on the 16th of March, 18 (434 la b - y fa wr tb i er t , to by the t , lll,loo o o , e ; ;; ;li i: e e e r r their reply. Both documents. have been extensivelycireu- • fated, and therefore the directors felt it unnecessary was appointed in tl t i e e d d T e r a e t a h su o r f er hi o S f the. fa ther. s4l,ti h e e e i n s a: wee l ., :z e : o ,yl :l , s ed i ; F ei l: o 3:9 9 d t , l :: a le :l„, i o : j ' s ; jo .o " ' 4l' it ' il l e. I. o lll 4 ll l 4, 4ll ' i i te t il'r' l them forth at length in this report. The directors have rea son to believe that their reply was favourably received by the. t. Privy Counci ll or. O n Si r. R o b er t- Feel's public, and that it hns tended to remove no inconsiderable office in July, 184 . 6, he. succeeded tb, portion of the prejudice which has been created by paYtieet whose interest it is to keep up a constant agitation with of the Horse, which office ha- held kty . a f Earl of Derby's ministry, respect to gas supply in this borough. '-- :lie formati-°., 04) 1 t t e 0 "- t ) .e Ertl of Aber De ,adq... dee' t '1 0 " ' 4ll ' The Town Council, at their meeting on the 9th day of,fairl of Jersey, a 5 0 ( 010 4 4 b o a u i s ui eh a oid , c_. .,. o : l l) l l:a .:. ' January last, passed certain resoktions on this sub Net, a office, he was made Lord StewW, o f t i je, copy of which was transmitted to the board, and tin seine, afterwards relinquished that with the directors reply thereto, will be subm;...ted totho bee, 1853. In politics his Cry ace v - ,a s a Whig. He " s .eP o cc,;!,Val P i. ace t'.., Earl Spencer, l_P o lltf . ..t, t ,_ 4 meeting. The Town Council, at its meeting on 'the 1 . 3t 1t instant, ` pounced the :lnsed at the Romish ar 0 e ild joined the Ana j ot e l s e ,i re took into consideration the question of I•as sur• tg a , ,t Y, which they The deceased is sumer? .; , •re and the sante Tll a tuo t ial, , y and sane- ed its the dukedo H m tioned the appointment of an inspect jr O f the protection of the honours by his n_s n :on ; Henry Crranville, Earl of .tr a l oVil i ; considered all that was neeessar'y. for 4 .* I, 181'4, and married on the lv . 1 . P ro tl i alli,;' public. 1839, to AUFZUS l S l .ritit ° The directors can only l iege -- , Lyons, • . a Mary, daughter of Admiral tot ,tc, I ~e 6 0 G C.B ' Surrey, bor N , Commander-in-Chief of the lin e e e' fo P o ' l N l. ewe consumers • - that . no exer tion on their part sha''_, 1-,-• - .. .fleet, by wly• 4 wanting taehfully to carry out An . be has a youthful family. The Pr i jis„,ol *._ c every provision in 4 ,1 e ' " interest, ment forme I in the Royal Horse Guards, and 01 1 ,0 V, es! .4.• • act of parliament for their and that, too, wi-n 4 • - ment fr r Y in 1837, entered the HOUSE) 0' to , I the just claims of the -ne utmost liberality consistent with the as ra . .om the army, for Arundel, which lie sat fo;, 16,4 Any A the who' - . p.raarkttors. ' pa- . .;presentativ e for the city of Limeyieb- te f`. I,_Ktit A shares, ' 'ae ai.: - ,unt has been paid up on the 1270 £25 1 - ,liaments. He also sat ~_i a . 0 l`qa inclusive dehv the shaves numbered 8081. to 9350, both months. Tbe Duke is a rabid Romanist, and 10 7 , 70, e p, t ,.. The late Duke was a W„'Ill e PP t a ut verte( - 1 .-' ' t hb 41 rPc.;tors recommend that they be now COn Iby the Romish clergy. , 1 and several" c oo, t. t czi .. into ton r • take eff - ter, a Fellow of tbe loya Society, . _.1% ij , fro' ii th „ , 5 Aulated atoel;: sigh S•9l.lvyo-On. to e sp.tt or . ,-,r A. 1 Ail .' . . Jet I ties. ti. The hereditary office of Earl Marshal, so I °' e L i t a4 l '. That iaason . ''' ' • " n - feim'' v in t Norfolk family, is descended by the „ e i . a ' 4 ' , - • t l o the Nal- ~ ell as the ' - jIA sPs .al iOO, w 1 ~ secured `Thomas De Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham, 1' J England. 0 1 the Co - sum Of bee. ''l IdsOUAC 4 k W I- b l r'' .l S e 01.1,- M P I RY, Ilas b ee. V a Marshal of E Mr. MACFIIi that moved " That thaeouncil of this-chamber be instructed to take immediate action upon the foregoing resolution, and by a petition embodying such resolution,.and declaratory of the former decision cf the chamber, supported by a deputation from the council, toprevent, if possiblo,, the bill to amend the law of partnership passing the legislature,. or any other measure which seeks to introduce so material an innovation." This gave rise. to another warm,discussion, and ultltoately it was carried 31y 20 to 9. On the proposition of Mr. TGMLIISSON, seconded by Mr. Fisnee, the oonncil were recommended to inquire vigilantly into the proviAons of the bill for the incorporation and regu lation of joint-stock companies, and to apply to parlh.taent for a further ani:isufficient extension of time before it was sent to the committee, in order that they might be able_to make them selves acquainted with its provisions. This concluded the business.; and, after a sitting of four hours, a vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro. ceedings. 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