The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-03 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS fa rep:y to the Tester of our correspondent, upon the subject of toi:(e's Bells, which we cannot to=day find space for. we ty inform him that the Church E)Lienditure C•immittee Dave: had the swkject of ringing that - fine peel of bells before them, and are inclined to prefer such proper use of them as c,onmon sense would dictate to the silence imposed by a strict read'n4 of an act of Parliament. nit Riberpopl TUESDAY 1110t?NING, SEPT. 3, 1844. Another bombshell has fallen, and exploded too, aver our town, and a second time we are bound to consider ourselves as a done-fur community. With such feelings, at any rate, the Mercury would have us treat the announcement just made from the other Side of the Mersey of a new railway from Birkenhead to Manchester, by which the cotton of 'Liverpool is to he " trucked" off, in the most jaunty style imaginable, from the vessels' side in the docks of Wallasey to the spinners' door in rslanchester, and; consequently, freed from all those charges of cart age, porterage, &c. which " bales are heir to.'' Wonderful discovery ! Surprising people, indeed, these Commissioners of Birkenhead! But let us'be serious, if we can, for a few minutes, and examine calmly this last and most astounding product of the brooding enterprise of our Cheshire neighbo , rs. A new railway from Birkenhead to Manchester - would not be so very had a thing in itself. hwould be a little roundabout, to be sure, for us on this side -of the water;. but then its formation might, with this disadvantage even, convince a certain Liverpool Company of the propriety of affording their greater facilities at a little less than what we pay for them, and thereby confer a boon upon the public. How much less the new concern could carry us for we cannot guess; but from their known liberality we may presume that their rates would not be much more than sufficient to cover the cost of working and Coo price of land : the expenses of construction works on the Cheshire side of the water being so insignificant, and the merchandize traffic being likely to be of such vast extent as to render any great revenue from passengers unnecessary. One circumstance, however, connected with this new scheme we cannot but remark upon, viz. the alleged advantage gained by the power of conveying C,DEIOn, &c. from the ships, per railway, to the manu facturing districts. If we forget not it was dwelt upon as one of the greatest advantages of the Wal lasey Docks that vessels could discharge their cargoes there into flats for Runcorn and Man• Chester with greater convenience and at less cost than in the docks of Liverpool. Runcorn, we know, was in extasies at the prospect, and Man chester merchants were getting ready engraved bill beads with " Port of Manchester" on their foreheads. Whence is this change from water to the rail,—from the flat to the locomotive ? If the cotton of Man chesteris now to go only under the locks of Run corn instead of through them, whit is to become of the Duke's and what of the Old Quay ? Of course we cannot, at present, pretend to ex press any opinion as to the prospects of the shary holders in this undertaking. We are told that its stock is already " all taken up," or applied for, which is the same thing in Cheshire; and we are therefore bound to conclude that it is a good thing. It is not very handsome in its concoctors, however, to keep it ail to themselves. They might have left the Dicky Sams a small slice. The detailed description given on Wednesday last, by the Chairman of the Dock Committee, of the &teratiors which had been decided upon in the formation of the new docks on the North Shore, has elicited, as we anticipated it would, a lively feeling of gratification in the mind of every supporter of the intert-ts and prosperity of the good old town. An addition of twenty-nine acres of dock area has been gained, without a sensible increase, or an increase at all, in the amount of the estimate of the proposed works. Besides this, the present plan affords much grcater facilities of working, more manageable docks, and more quay room. With the original plan of one dock on this site, running north and south, it is pro bable that. five years at least would have elapsed be fore a single ship could have entered its gates, and the present pressure upon the resources of our Dock Estate could have been relieved. By the present division and alteration of the plan to one embracing four docks, running east and west, the Committee will be able to have a dock to the north and one to the south, communicating with the Leeds canal, ready for working within two years, without in the slightest degree retarding the construction of the remainder of the works. The grand total of the dock accommodation of Liverpool, when the whole, bre•h north and south, are completed, will be 195 acres 3731 yards, and the extent of actual workii g quay , l etce win exceed thirteen miles in length; "an mount of accommodation," as remarked by Mr. Bratnley-Moure, " not to be found in any other town ih the world, and exceeding that of the metropolis itself." We believe we are correct in stating that to the activity and talent of that gentleman himself, aided by the ability of the Dock Surveyor, the public are mainly indebted for this . judicious alteration ; and 'we are confident that his fellow townsmen will pay off that debt with a lasting gratitude. To Mr. James Alin, also, much credit is due for important sug gestions offered ; and we gladly seize this opportu nity of awarding our humble meed of approbation to &gentleman politically opposed to us, but whose talent and honesty of purpose are undeniable. It is pleasing to see, in a body to whom is confided such important trusts,—by whom such great powers are wielded—political rancour ceasing, and political dif f.erences and even prejudices laid aside, for the prac tical advancement of the pnblic interests. With all as members working together in this spirit, we have little fear indeed of the Dock Committee of Liver pool being able, with the vast resources at their com mand, to neutralize all the efforts of competing bodies and competing localities, and to maintain the noble estate committed to their keeping in its pros perity and unparallelled usefulness. There is one puint of Mr. Bramley-Moore's speech upon which we must offer a few remarks, inasmuch as it appears to have given rise to an idea that the worthy alderman is veering round in h is opinions upon what has been known as the warehouse ques tion, to the opinions of the minority in the Dock Committee; that, in fact, he is getting Evansized— the word has been coined for our use. There seems, However, to be a trifling mistake here as to the chairman's meaning. When we had this question a dock warehouses originally broached, we were told that its great value was the centralization of its management in the hands of the Dock Committee. That body were to become the warehouse keepers, carters and porters of the whole town, and were to conduct everything as nobody else could conduct it. They were to fight private individuals with the pub lic's money; and to such a course the public natu rally, and very justly, demurred. Mr. Bramley- Moore, however, hints at no tuch project. He is cDnvinced that warehouses round our central docks would much promote the convenience of business and increase the facilities afforded by our port ; but lie sets up no central and no monopolizing body to work them, to the ruin of private property. He says the sites for such warehouses may be leased to pri vate individuals or to companies, to be worked, of course, as other property is worked, for profit, and, therefore, so as not absolutely to ruin such other property, and to absorb into one hand the business of whole classes of our fellow townsmen, as would have been the effect of the gigantic scheme of mo nopoly at one ime contended for by the Dock Com mittee and happily resisted successfully by the peo ple of Liverpool. A re-perusal of this portion of the Chairman's speech, and a little reflection, will, we ere confident, abate any apprehension which it may, at first, have created. COMPLAINT AGAINST A TEACHER IN THE CORPORA 'MN Seim°Ls.—At the Police-court yesterday a com plaint was heard, brought by a boy named Joseph M'Cabe, i‘gainA John Harris, a teacher in the North Corporation Schools, to the effect that the complainant had been savauelv beat,n by his teacher and several bruises in dicted with a cane upon his body. Upon the boy being sworn, he stated his age to be eleven years, but, when questioned : he seemed so ignorant of the consequence of f a l se swearing that Mr. Rushton at once refused to receive Lis testimony. His mother, however, narrated the cir cumstances of the case and called a witness who saw him g r ipped on coming home from S c h oo l and noticed the marks upon his bojy. A monitor of the school, h oweve rt, avery intelligent boy, who was present on the d ay in question, deposed that he saw the boy punished by mere bearint: onthe hand, and that he had no other punishn ent whatever on that day. It appeared on re examination of the mother that the boy was subject to epileptic fits of a serious nature, and was Occasion a ll y beat by his father ; and Mr. Rushton was not satisfied that the bruises shewn on his body had not been the con sequnces of such a beating. The teacher was at once 411sobarged. We cannot but remark , before leaving this case, that it won!d hire been much better if our stipendiary magistrate, before grantia a warrant, unon the evidence of a boy, so ignorant as-tbis boy, from the effect no doubt of his dispo,ition to epilepsy appears, had had his attention drawn to the following Rule of the Corporation schools and allowed the complaint to go through the course there prescribed. The' rule in question is No. 10, and is exhibited in the Sellonls.— "As the Committee will take care that no injurious treatment or improper correction will be allowed, the parents or friends must freely submit their Children to the discipline of the school, and for, bear from disturbing the master or mistress with complaints; for by such conduct, the Chrildren will be countenanced in their faults, and the master and mistress discoui aged in performance of their duties ll,liowever, a parent or friend really believe that there is good ground for complaint, the Committee will at all times willingly hear the case " By a . proper attention to this rule much public scandal might have been averted, and the time of the Bench saved: NAVAL PREPARATIONS.—By a letter Just received from a friend in Devonport, dated August 30 - h, we learn that, in addition to those previously announced, two ships ~of the line, the Superb and Vanguard are to be commis sioned next week, and active measures are being taken to obtain able-bodied n.en for the service.. Placards are ex tensively posted throughout the harbour, inciting able -bodied seamen to' enter the service, and offering, as an in ducement, to allow them to be borne on the books of the flag-ship until drafted off. Between five and six hundred supernumeraries are at present on board the St. Vincent, waiting for other ships to be ready to go to sea. Great activity is also apparent in all the dock yards. Several men of war building are being pushed forward with all despatch, and shortly be ready for launching. A Welsh Main at Bowls will be played, at the Far mers' Arms, Park Road Green, on Tnursday next, Sep. sth, between sixteen first-rate players. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Six o'clock. ~_ [BY EXPRESS.] ME SWAT E rf DECISION OF THE JUDGES. It will be seen that the Judges are unlnimous in their de cision that the judgment CANNOT BE REVERSED by a writ of error, though their lordships take a somewhat different view of parts of the question. The House of Lords met yesterday at ten o'clock, when immediately the house was crammed. After a short interval, the case of O'Connell v. the Queen was called on, when the greatest anxiety was ma nifested. Lord Chief Justice Tindal said—ln this case the first question propounded to her Majesty's judges was if any of the counts in the indictment were bad in law, and if so, which of them ? The answer to this question (upon which all the judges were unanimous) must depend upon the framing of the different counts. If the counts had been drawn in loose and v tgue terms, the defendants were entitled to the benefit of them on demurrer, and they were entitled to the same benefit in writ of error. To constitute the offence of eonspiracy, it must be clearly proved that two or more persons combined together for known illegal purposes. The gist of the offence was, did the parties meet together for the purpose of knowingly breaking the laws? Now the wording of the first five counts in the indictment were not disputed; those counts related to the character of the offence; the 6th and 7th counts charging the defendants with creating dissatisfac tion in the minds of her Majesty's subjects, &c. The judges all agreed that these counts did not state the offence charged in the indictment with sufficient legal accuracy and certainty. Although the object of the defendants might be to break the law, they considered that it was not stated with sufficient certainty. The counts ought to have stated what person or persons it was intended to intimi date and raise discontent in, but the counts only alleged that such intention was certain by a display of numbers. They did not think those counts had been drawn up with sufficient certainty. The Bth, 9th, and 10th counts in the indictment set forth tha purpose and objects of the defendants, which, it was alleged, were an intent to violate the laws of the land, diminish confidence in the existing government, and bring into disrepute the administration of justice. Now if either of those offences was proved, it was a most grievous and se rious offence. The answer of the judges therefore to the first question propounded to them was, that they were of opinion the 6th and 7th counts were not valid in law, and if they had stood alone, no judgment could have been had on them. The next question then arose with respect to the finding of the jury—whether there were any errors in the finding. They all agreed that the finding of the jury on the let, 2d, 3d, and 4th counts were not sound in law, as set forth is the indictment, & had not been sus tained by legal evidence. Each count charged all the defendants with one conspiracy, and therefore there ought to have been only one finding. It was not compe tent to find some of the defendants guilty of some parts of the charge, and others ❑ot guilty. It was not a valid finding to say that the defendants were guilty of several conspiracies, when the counts only charged them with one. The judges, therefore, considered the findings in the first four counts were not correct in law, and there fore improperly entered on the record. The third question was, whether there was any reason to reverse the judgment, in consequence of the defect in the finding of the jury in some of the counts in the indict ment ? On this point there was a difference of opinion amongst the judges, and therefore he now only delivered his own humble judgment. He was of opinion, that if one or more counts on which a defendant was convicted were good, and some of the other counts were defective, it was not a sufficient reason to reverse the judgment on writ of error. Their lordship? question must, therefore, be a swered in the negative. The fourth question was, whether the plea of abatement was a sufficient reason to reverse the judgment? The judges are all of opinion that it was not; and their lord ships' question must be answered in the negative. The fifth question was, whether the trial being conti nued during the vacation, was a sufficient reason to re verse the judgment ? The judges all agreed that the trial bad been properly continued, and therefore they ans. werep the question in the negative. The sixth question was, whether there was sufficient to reverse the judgment, in consequence of the objections taken by the defendants to the jury panel. `-The judges were of opinion that the sheriff was bound to select the jury from the jury book. He could not be held respon sible if a mistake occurred; for instance, an overseer in the country might neglect, or there might be a mistake in the sending in the jury list of a particular parish in the county. If that was held to be a valid objection, the greatest difficulties would arise in England. Business at county mimes might be suspended, as all trials could be stopped by one party or another. The judges were all agreed that the objections taken to the jury list were not sufficient, and this question must be answered in the negative. The seventh question, whether the objections taken to the continuance of the trial were sufficient to reverse the judgment, the judges were of opinion they were not; that the trial had been properly continued, and they therefore answered the question in the negative. The next and eighth question was, whether there was sufficient to reverse or vary the judgment, in consequence of negligence or irregularity in entering the recognizances. This question the judges answered in the negative; they did not consider sufficient bad been stated to reverse the judgment. The ninth question, whether sufficient had been stated on the assignment of error to reverse the judgment, the judges answered in the negative. The tenth question, whether sufficient grounds for re versing the judgnnnt, in consequence of irregularity in the record and the time of entering the judgment of guilty against the prisoners, the judges were of opinion the answer must be in the negative. They were of opinion there was no sufficient reason to reverse the judgment. The eleventh and last question he (Lord Chief Justice Tindal) considered must be answered altogether in the negative. He gave this as his own opinion only, as he understopd some of his learned brothers took a somewhat different view of parts of the question. Mr. Justice Patteson said he agreed with the answers given to their lordships' questions, except as to those which related to the first, second, third, and fourth counts; he thought on those counts the judgment of the court be low could not be sustained. He was of opinion, how ever, that the other counts were good. Mr. Justice Maule shortly stated, that he agreed in the answers given to their lordships' questions. He was of opinion that the judgment could not be reversed on the writ of error. Mr. Justice Coltman said, he was of opinion that there was sufficient substantially to support the judgment; al though there were some technical imperfections in the proceedings. Mr. Justice Williams considered there was enough sta ted in the record to sustain the judgment. He,therefore, answered all their lordships' questions in the negative. Mr. Baron Gurney, who spoke in a low tone of voice, was understood to say that be agreed in the propriety of the judgment, and therefore his answers to the questions were in the negative. Mr. Baron Alderson at some length stated his opinion on the questions propounded to the judges. It was the rule of courts to give judgment on the good counts of an indictment, and not on the bad counts, and, therefore, in considering a writ of error, it was necessary to ascertain whether there was sufficient in any of the counts to sup port the judgment appealed against. The learned baron, in conclusion, said his answer to all their lordships' ques tions must be in the negative, and in confirmation of the judgment pronounced by the court below. Mr. Baron Parke said it must be recollected, when considering the questions submitted to the judges, that convictions in criminal cases were very different to ver dicts in civil actions. If on writs of error verdicts in civil cases were set aside, a new trial might be had ; but in criminal cases the effect was different, as the prisoner was at once set at liberty. The learned baron, after citing a number of legal authorities, said he could not altogether agree with the majority of his learned brethren. He felt bound to answer the third and the eleventh questions in the affirmative. Ile answered the other q uestions in the negative. Lord Chief Justice Tindal said, one of his learned bro thers (we could not hear which) was too unwell to attend; but he had authorised him to say that his answer to the questions was in the negative. The Lord Chancellor, after the judges had read their opinions, rose and said, the case before them was one of the greatest importance ; he therefore moved that its fur ther consideration be adjourned until Wednesday next. Lord Brougham.--And that the opinions of the judges be printed in the me a nti m e. The Lord Chancellor.—Yes, certainly. The consideration of the judges' opinions was then postponed until Wednesd a y next. THE LIVERI'OO I 4 S !AND ARO. THE WATCH COMMITTEE AI;D THE MAGISTRATES. The'public will no doubt rememler a proCaeding, Which we commented upon at the time, as a strange piece of ma gisterial —we might almost call it presumption, but lye shall only say—inadvertence, in which the stipendiary ma. gistrate of our town was the chief actor, and some eight or nine poor policemen, who had been guilty of the presumed offence of belcinging to the Order of Loyal Orangemen, were the victims. Upon the occasion in question, Mr. Rushton, aided by a portion of the bench, laid it down as his decision, without any previous consultation being had with the Watch Committee, whose province it had always been considered to be to appoint and to determine upon the character and qualifications of the parties to be ap pointed. and remain members of the police force, that the policemen, thus found guilty of Orangeism. should either withdraw at once from the order, or, in default, be dis charged from the force. Very naturally, this decision — this encroachment upon their privileges—created some dissatisfaction amongst the members of the Watch Com mittee, as it had done in the mind of the public. The Com mittee conceived that they had been treated by Mr. Rushton, and by the Mayor acting under his advising, with less courtesy and respect than were their due : and. as the issue, a legal opinion was directed to be taken by the Town-clerk, who had coincided in opinion generally with Mr. Rushton. Under these circumstances it was deemed desirable, and indeed imperative, that a case shonld he submitted to counsel; and accordingly the Town-clerk was instructed to take the necessary steps and we readily accord ' him the credit of having taken all possible steps to lay such case fairly and impartially. We know that he tool( care to be provided with every document extant showing the nature, objects, and obligations of Orange Societies. • Upon information derived from the order itself, with that derived from its opponents, his case, we believe, was drawn up, and no doubt fairly drawn up, and sub mitted for the opinions of Messrs. Kelly, Cowling, and Cardwell, a tribunal not to be supposed either as politicians or lawyers, to lean towards the poor Orange delinquents. Well, the opinions upon this case have at length been received, under date of the 23d of August—mind, after the police, coerced as above, have consented to leave the Orange order, and forfeit the advantages of the benefit societies to which they had belonged for years past. And what is the result? Does it hear out the interference of the magistracy ? Does it inflict the wished-for pains and penalties upon these poor and loyal men ? By no means. We will ive its s übstance in proof of our assertion. With respect to the powers of the Bench to dismiss the men from the force, as the penalty of their refusal to leave the Orange order, it says—(we are not quoting the pre cise words, which we have not by us) — We think the Justices could not regularly and law fully dismiss any constable for refusing to leave the Orange Society. So said we, at the time ; and so said the members of the Watch Committee. Again, the opinion says—We think the Justices, by passing Mr. Bolton's resolution, (to the effect that the policemen in question must either leave the Orange order or the police force,) and communicating it through the Head Constable, have acted in an irregular manner, and claimed to exercise a power not vested in them. Further, with respect to the powers of the Watch Com mittee, as distinguished from those of the Bench, the opinion states— We think the Watch Committee is like the Courts Leet at common law; and that power is vested exclusively in them. The real powers of the Bench are thus defined, as we anticipated they wou!d be defined and restricted—The Justices have power of adjudicating cases and dismissing for bad conduct. - Finally, with respect to the policy which ought to guide the Watch Committee, the counsel state, in reply to the case put,that circumstances might arise in which Orange men would not he proper custodians of the public peace, that—belonoing to an Orange Society is no prohibition according to the rules of the Watch Board; and, as the circumstance of Orange constables being called upon to repress a disturbance in which Orangemen are prime movers is too remote to be provided against, it is in itself no disqualifying matter in a constable that he belongs to such a society, but purely a matter for the consideration, as to its propriety, of the Watch Committee itself. We are proud to be able to lay this gratifying result of an appeal to high legal authorities, which, we repeat, the Town-clerk of Liverpool himself declares must he re ceived as impartial and fair, before the loyal Orangemen of this town and of the kingdom. And, beyond its im mediate bearing upon the question originally at issue, we beg to direct the attention, not only of the conservatives of Liverpool, but of the entire kingdom, to the great issue which it decides. It has been said that the Orange order is an illegal order; that Orangemen are an ill gal body of men, combined together in defiance of the law, and which, consequenlly, no good Protestant and Chris tian, anxious to pay due obedience to the powers that be, can consistently join. Here, then, is the answer. The Orange body is a legal body—a body worthy to be ;I'2- trusted with the task of preserving the peace of the realm! No light privilege is here accorded to them—no light compliment paid to their loyalty and devotion to the throne and the laws. The lying slanders of Popish journalists, and the cold shoulder of timid Protestants may henceforth be equally disregarded. The devoted supporters of the principles of our glorious Reformation —the pledged defenders of the reigning family of these realms—are no longer to be treated as unworthy the pro tection of the laws of Protestant England. or of the en joyment of the liberties of conscience of which English men are permitted to boast. IN e thank the learned func tionary whose meddling has brought about, unwittingly, a consummation so much to be desired. We thank Mr. Edward Rushton and his prompters in this great enter prise, whoever they may have been. The subscription for the public walks in Manchester already exceeds £12,000. ATLANTIC STEAMERS.—The Boston Post says, that the arrangements for the conveyance of the mails from Boston to Montreal are complete, and that the mail steamers will ere long run direct between Liverpool and Boston, not touching, as at present, at Halifax, which is justly deemed the most disagreeable and dangerous part of the route. The time saved by this change will often be material, and on the average a day would be gained in the passage. The New York Herald says there is a fair prcopect of the establishment of a line of American steam ships to run between this port and New York. THE NEW AMENDMENT TO THE POOR LAW BILL. —At the Police-court yesterday, a number of women applied to the magistrate for summonses, under the new law (which we noticed same time ago) against the fathers of their illegitimate children, in order to compel them to maintrin them free of burthen to the parish. They were each examined as to the time of birth, the party liable, &c. and r rdered to attend on Saturday week with such witness or witnesses of their respective intimacy with the man as they could produce, These are the first applica tions here under the new statute, and we doubt nut but we shall hereafter have to report on its total inadequacy. Mit. ISAAC'S CONCERT.—We ne zer remember to have seen within the walls of our Amphitheatre, or of any theatre in or out of Liverpool, a more brilliant assem blage than that gathered together on Tuesday evening to partake of the rich musical treat provided by Mr. Isaac. From an early hour the doors of the house were besieged by parties anxious to secure the best seats in the pit and gallery; and, long before the time appointed for the com mencement of the concert, carriages began to arrive with. parties for the boxes and stalls, every place in which had been previously taken. The arrangements inside were very excellent. The front of the arena was boarded over, carpeted, and formed into stalls, which were filled with the elite of onr town, the pit behind being also crowded with a respectable audience. The spacious boxes, filled to ovetflowing, presented an array of beauty and fashion rarely seen congregated together; and the gallery even was crowded to the ceiling. The front of the stage had been covered over, to separate the space allotted to the orchestra from the space occupied by the scenery, and to throw the sound forward into the house, which object wns completely effected. We never, indeed, attended a concert in any public place where the sound from the highest to the lowest notes was more distinctly heard by the whole audience. The orchestra, which was very ef fective, and wss admirably led by Mr. Herrman, gave the overture to " Der Freitchutz" in an excellent style; but their best performance was t h e overture to "William Tell," which was magnificent, and electrified the house. This overture, in itself a fine composition, was certainly never heard in Liverpool to such adventace. Of the vo cal part of the entertainment we shall net attempt to give any detailed notice, so far, at least, Its those well know . n singers, Madame Grisi, and Signors F. Lablacoe, Ma lo and Paltoni, are concerned. Of them it will he suffi cient to say that on this occasion they sustained we'l their pa-t reputation, and elicited the marked applause of the audience, testified by several encores. Signor Mario, in partieullir, was in fine voice, and has very greatly improved as a singer since we last heard him. Upon Madame Favanti's singine, however, we may be excused if we remark more at length, inasmuch as that lady is a stranger to a Liverpool audience, and her abilities and qualities have been the subject of some little difference of opinion amongst musical critics. We place her very far below Grisi in general execution, and even in correctness of ear. She is not the same finished singer. And yet at times she manages her wonderful voice so as to produce effects, which would induce one to believe her possessed if she greater powers of m o dul a tio n than those even of Grisi, she would put them in requisition. There is a fascinating originality in her style, which to us is far more pleasing than the more ambitious and ornate style adopted by some other artistes ; and the studied plain ness of the greater portion of her efforts brings into more beautiful and striking prominence the bursts of song, and of exquisite tower mid execution in which she occasionally indulges. On the whole we much question if it can be said that admiration more hearty was ever awarded by a Liverpool audience to a new candidate for their favour, than was on this occasion awarded to Favanti, mingled, however, with a disposition to impute occasional faults, a feeling which is, perhaps attributable to her peculiar style. The pianoforte performances of Mr. Isaac were very ex cellent, and di s pl a y e d g reat power of execution and taste. They were deservedly and loudly applauded. THE COAL TRADE.—we understand the formation of a company is in contemplation to introduce steam-vedels upon a new construction into this description of trade. The enormously increased consumption of coal renders it an exceedingly desirable object that every effort should be made to supply th a t m i nera l as cheaply and quickly as possible, and it appears somewhat singular that no suc cessful adaptation of modern improvements has hitherto been made in the construction and arrangement of ves sels so employed. We find that upwards of 10,000 col liers entered the port of London last year, the consump tion being about 3,000,000 tons, and, if it be satisfactorily shown that a steam-vessel from 300 to 500 tons can be brought to London, and land her cargo at any wharf between the bridges, for 2s 6d a ton It ss freight than at present charged, we think that the utility of the corn , ?any cannot be doubted.—Mining Journal. SOUTH EASTERN AND DOVER RAILWAY. Yesterday afternoon, an adjonrned Weird meeting of the Liverpm"..l Proprietors of the South Eastern a n d Dover RailwaY was held at the Clari , ndon-rooms, for the purpose of receiving the reply of the London directors to the reso lutions passed at a tnee'ing held at Liverpool on Friday week. Upwards of forty proprietors were present, com prising various influential gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood, and the greatest unanimity prevailed. Shortly after two o'clock, the chair was taken by William Cook, Esq. The CHAIRMAN commenced the proceedings by ei . . pressing his belief that they were all aware that this was an adjournment of a meeting held at the Clarendon-rooms, on the 23d of last month ; but as it was possible there might be some gentlemen present who had not attended the former meeting, he should read the resolutions passed on that occasion. He then read the four resolutions, which stated, in substance, that the small weekly returns for the carriage of goods on the line were unsatisfactory ; that the correspondence between the company and all car riers should be published ; and that the accounts should be so kept as to show the cost of each portion of railway untl opened for traffic. The Chairman then read a copy of his letter to the London Board, in which he enclosed the foregoing resolutions, and expressed a hope that they would receive the serious attention of the directors. He next read the reply which had been received from Mr. John Whitehead, the secretary of the board, and of which the following is an abstract : I have b en instructed, in compliance with the request con tained in the 2nd resolution, to forward to you copies of the correspondence which has taken place with the carriers using this railway, and, in so doing, to state that the directors do not consider they would bejustitied in publishing the same, without the consent of the carriers themselves previously obtained. Forwarding the correspondence to you may, however, answer every end. In reference to the and resolution, I am instructed to state, that the interest on unproductive capital having, up to the pre. sent time, been charged to revenu • with the full privity and sanction of the proprietors at large, it rests with them to deal with the question hereafter as they shall deem best. The directors feel gratified at the interest ou take in the management of the line. The CHAIRMAN said it would be perceived from this reply that the directors declined the publication of the correspondence with the carriers. It rested now, how ever, with the present meeting to decide whether it should be read or not. Ile was quite satisfied there was not a gentleman in the room who would not be disposed to pay deference to the dir, ctors, and to treat them with the greatest possible courtesy ; but he left it entirely to the meeting to det:l . rnine the question. Mr. Alderman Mem. imagined that the correspond ence was sent for the purpose of being read by the Liver pool proprietors, and not for the exclusive use of their chairman. As he understood the letter, the wish of the directors merely was, that it should not appear in the Li verpool newspapers. (Hear, hear.) It was then agreed that the correspondence should be read, but not published. After it had accordingly been read, the chairman spoke as follows : I have carefully perused the letter from the carriers to the directors of the railway, and I must say the result ap pears to me only to make is more apparent from the evi dence of the parties the roost interested in producing a contrary impression, that the proprietors should become carriers on their own line. (Cheers.) I have also no he sitation in saying on further consideration, that I think the proprietors ought not any longer to sanction the system of charging to the revenue account from tr.ffic, the interest on unproductive capital. The schemes not completed are the Maidstone Branch, to open this moneh, which costs a sum approaching halt' a million—the Tunbridge Wells Branch, to open in March, which will be cont'nued to Hastings—the Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate, Branch—and then the line to Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham direct. These are all undertakings most capable of bearing their own burdens. 1 feel confident the pro prietors would not have any objection to find the capital to construct them by a creation of new shares not bearing interest until the respective branches were productive, but to assent to the interest on all these very desirable adjuncts and future feeders of the traffic being made a drag on the trunk line now, and so being allowed to keep the whole property in a state not to pay a dividend worthy of the name is, 1 am sure, what the proprietors will assent to. (Hear, hear.) It is my opinion that the advantage of what I may call our plan being acted on will be so appa rent that the directors will now feel much obliged to us for having urged it upon them. (Hear.) lam quite ready to take my share of the responsibility of its being adapted, and of acting with what I hope I am not saying too much in calling becoming firmness, in our communications with the directors. (Hear, hear.) To those gentlemen I entertain no unfriendly feeling, but at the same time I, for one, will not fail to oppose them when I think them in the wrong ; and I shall be equally ready to support them to the utmost, in all sound mea sures for the protection of the property of the South Eastern and Dover Company. The general meeting of proprietors takes place in London on the 10th instant : it is an adjourned meeting from a previous one. The ac counts, therefore, that were then laid before you, are still awaiting your investigation and revision ; and I am glad to be able to say, that I believe our principle—the true one—of treating them will give a handsome dividend, though it may prove to be the smallest the company ever pays. (Cheers.) Mr. Laerence HEyworrrn said he had to apologise for not having been present at the last meeting. He had, however, been kept away by the indisposition of his ' brother, who was now, he was happy to say, convalescent. He had heard the correspondence 'Which had just been read and he felt more confirmed than ever that the pro ceedings of the last meeting were perfectly correct. (Hear.) Those letters justified every inquiry and step which had been taken. There was only one of them, (No. 6 ) which gave them any accurate information; and that information was calculated to confirm them in the opinion that if their goods traffic were properly managed, - and taken into their own bands, it would yield them a largely increased revenue. (Hear.) He begged it, how ever, to be distinctly understood that though a meeting had been held here for the purpose of considering the proceedings of the Directors, the Liverpool proprietors had nothing inimical towards that body : on the contrary, they held them in high estimation and none more so that the Chairman of the Directors (Mr. Baxendale.) They knew that gentleman's general good management ; he bad displayed great ability and great powers of mind ; and he had moreover framed different resolutiors to carry out the scheme advantageously. He (Mr. Law rence) had had the honour of sitting at the same board with him, and there could be no doubt that he was a man of business, sound at heart and determined to proceed in a masterly style. (Hear.) Therefore, they had nothing inimical to either him or the direc'ors : their only object was, to place the carrying business on a better footing and to alter the system of charging the interest, with a view of doing justice to those who sold out their, stock. He had great pleasure in moving : " That the Proprietors now assembled are confirmed in their opinion, by the information this day receiv.ed, that a thorough change in the system of carrying Goods on,the Sout'.-Eastern and. Dcver Railway is imperatively called for, and they record their conviction that it would be as much for the advantage of the Public as of the Company that the South Eastern and Dover Proprietors should themse yes become carriers." Mr. CHARLES GROVES, in seconding the motion, said it was difficult fairly to estimate the value of the goods traffic. Under the present system, by which they probably got only one-thild,of the value they, ougnt from it, the average weekly receipts in August. 1844, were fully double that of August, ]B43,—being £493 against £242. But September, and the two following months, were of con siderable importance in respect of revenue from goods ; fur, last year, they yielded the weekly average of £397 for September, £760 for October, and £437 for November —a great part arising from the carriage of hops. But now that a branch was being just opened to Maidstone, the very heart of the hop country, and the most populous town in the county, it would not be unreasonable to ex pect £l5OO or £2OOO a week for the month of October, even under the present system. But, if the company be came their own carriers, £4OOO, or even £5OOO, might be expected per week during that month. This, therefore, was the time for urging on the directors the necessity of making a change in the system. (Hear-, hear.) I The resolution, together with the two subsequent ones, was put, and carried unanimously. Mr. N. D. BOLD said that his opinion so completely coincided with that of the chairman, with regard to the system of charging the interest, that he had great pleasure in proposing the second resolution, which was in itself sufficiently explicit : " That it is the opinion of this Meeting that the net earnings from traffic, from the Ist October. 1843, cannot in equity be charged with interest on Capital then unproductive. and there. tore such net earnings, allowing for the subsequent opening from Folkstone to Dover, and of the Bricklayers' Atms Branch, are applicable for a dividend." Mr. DANIEL WILLINK seconded the resolution. Mr. Alderman Nicol, said he was absent from the last meeting, and that when he heard it was intended to hold such a meeting for the purpose of considering the con duct of the directors as regarded the goods traffic, he viewed it with alarm ; and knowing that meetings of the kind had before led to differences which had caused a de preciation in the value of stock, he confessed that he was considerably alarmed. But, when he read the proceedings of the former meeting, he took a very different view of the matter; and to-day he had great pleasure in agreeing with the shareholders in all that had passed at both their meetings. (Hear, hear.) But the information they pos sessed was very incomplete. It might he that the direc tors could explain every point fully and satisfactorily. He hoped it would be so. He was glad to hear every gentle man who had spoken that day express a desire to support the directors, and to co-operate with them in all that was likely to be for the advantage of the company. He was extremely glad to find that no unfortunate feeling at all existed among them, and that their desire was, to do everything to forward the general good of the establish ment. (Hear, hear.) He concluded by moving : "That the Proprietors present pledge themselves to support the Directors in all sound measures for the protection of the South Eastern and Dover Railway Company." Mr. JAMES BUCHANAN seconded the motion. The CHAIRMAN said he had himself been present at one of the annual meetings of the company, and that he could concur in all Mr. Heywo , th h td said respecting the courtesy and ability of the chair ma t of the directors, Mr. Baxendale. He was sure no gentleman present would throw anything in the way of a conciliatory course bring pursued towards the directors, and that the present meet ing would only be viewed as one of a friendly nature. (Hear, hear.) Upon the motion of Mr. Alderman NICOL, a vote of thanks was unanimously passed to the chairman for his kindness and attention to the interests of the company, and the meeting separated at three o'clock. BRA.P.N.M'S CONCERT.—This interesting musieal enter.. tamment will (as elsewhere advertised) take place on Monday next, and not on Tuesday. as before stated in our paper. We wish the veteran ♦ocalist, who is accolvparded by his son, every success. SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS AND CAPTAIN WARNER. We have all along been at a loss whether to consider the gallant captain, whose vaunt of the possession of some wonderful powers of destruction, applicable against either fleets at sea, or stronger works ashore, has, of late years, excited such attention in military, naval, and even scien tific circles, as an enthusiast or a patriot. Few men really possessing a secret, so important to his country to pre serve, and of which it is in all respectS so important•to the liberties of mankind, that a forbearing and humane use Should he made, could have withstood the magnificent offers which Captain Warner is said to have had made him, or kept his temper under the rebuffs which he has certainly received from various ministers to whom he has submitted his inventions for purchase, or from profes sional men who have been appointed to determine upon their merits. We are still unwilling to believe that he is to be classed under any other tide than that of an honest and a truithfui man. But, if coming before the world in the light we would fain view him, we cannot admire the spirit which has of late characterized his remarks upon the conduct of many of those British officers, to whom his been deputed the •task of testing his supposed powers. These are in bad taste; much calculated to injure him in the estimation of his fellow-countrymen, however much disposed, like our selves, to think well of him; anti shere a frame of mind which is anything but likely to attract, either from go vernment or the British public, that candid consideration of his claims, which the importance of the question which he brings before them demands. In particular, the style of his attack upon the gallant representative for Liverpool, recently addressed to the editor of the London Times, merits, in our opinion, reprobation, whatever may be the degree of truth upon which it is founded. To no man, we are convinced, would Sir Howard Douglas do a de liberate injury; arid Captain Warner should have been very careful before imput ng to a man of high honour an inclination to commit injustice or to sport with a claim legitimately made by any one, least of all by a member of either branch of the service. We did propose entering at some length into an exami nation of the charges brought by Captain Warner against the conduct of Sir Howard Douglas,' in his character of a commissioner appointed to examine into the merits of his invention. We shall do this in our next. Our present space is quite inadequate for such a task ; and the late period at which the necessary evidence has come before us, scarcely leaves us time to form a candid judgement of the merits of the case. PROPOSED JUNCTION OF THE SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER, AND BIRMINGHAM AND MANCHESTER RAILWAYS. WI '1 H THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER LINE. We understand that the long-contemplated junction of these railways, by a line to the south of Manchester, with a central station in the neighbourhood of Oxford-road, has been fully determined upon ; and, from tbe energy with which railway improvements are just now being prosecuted, we may anticipate its speedy formation. Our readers may remember that we contended for the advan tages of this junction long before the present Doe through 'Manchester to the present terminus in H unt's Bank was conceded. We foresaw that such a junction with two such powerful companies as the Sheffield and Manchester and Birmingham and Manchester must eventually be made, and that a more central station than that at Hunt's Bank, for the Liverpool traffic, would be loudly called for; and it may now, at least, be questioned whether the Board of the Liverpool and Manchester did well at the time in submitting to waive their admitted preference for that junction, and expending so large a sum upon the line through Salford, by which nothing but the Leeds traffic is benefited, and to pay for which rassengers between the two towns have to submit to the imposition of an addi tional shilling per head in fares•already exorbitant. Whil4 upon this subject, we may be excused if we throw out a hint or two to the Directors of, what we may call, our own railway. The station to be formed in Oxford-road will, no doubt, be one worthy of three such wealthy companies as those which it will unite. The• existing stations in Manchester are sufficiently commit. dious and splendid. Compared with them, the Liverpool station is a paltry affair in every respect, and affords per haps the least amount of public comfort and convenience to•be found at the terminus of any it.ading railway in the kingdom. Surely this might be amended; and comfor table• waiting and refreshment rooms at least might be provided, if we are to have nothing better. We pay quite sufficient for travelling upon this line to entitle 113 to look for decent accommodation at both its termini. NISI PRIUS COURT.-YrSTERDAT. CROSSKILL V. GROUNSEL. This ease was resumed. Mr. KNOWLES briefly addressed the jury. His LORDSHIP then summed up, and the jury, after a few minutes' consultation in the box, returned a verdict for the plaintiff. RIGHT OF FOOTPATH THROUGH A-FIELD. PAST V. JAMES ELLISON. Mr. MARTIN, for the def. ndant, stated this case to the lury. - Mr. Jbhn Part, of the firm of Woodcock and Part, Solicitors, Wigan, appeared as plaintiff, but was only no minally so, the real plaintiff being C. Scarisbt ick, Esq.. a wealthy proprietor in the neighbourhood of Wigan; and the action was brought against the defendants, James Ellison, a weaver, and another, for breaking down certain walls that blocked up a certain foot-walk leading through a field, known as Folly Field, " near Wigan-lane, (north of the town.) and which the plaintiff had in No vember last enclosed for beneficial purposes-to himself. The defendant stated, in defence, that the road, which had been in public use as long as the oldest inhabitants of the neighbourhood could remember, ought not to be so blocked up. Hundreds had daily passed along it for at lest 70 years. A number of witnesses, all of them of great age,,were then called by the defendants, and proved generally that the rt ad in question (and also another path, with respect•to which another action bad to be heard) had been in use upwards of 60 years without interruption to those• who used them. After a variety of tedious evi dence was heard, as to the long usage by the public of the particular foot. path referred to in this action, the plaintiff agreed to withdraw a juror, so that the case fell to the ground, it being understood that an arrangement would be made for the accommodation of defendants. The other case was by consent similarly disposed of. ALLEGED BREACH OF CONTRACT, VON DADELZEN V. LUND AND ANOTHER. Mr. Baines and Mr. Denman were counsel for the plaintiff, Mr. Watson and Mr. Crompton appeared for the defendants. The plaintiff was a German merchant, carrying on bu siness in Liverpool on an extensive scale ;• and the de fendants were soap manufacturers in this town. It ap peared that, in ept. 1834, the defendants had a quantity of palm oil on hand, and they were anxious to notice the stock without at the same time bringing down the price of the article in the market. They accordingly consulted Mr. J. H. Reyner, a broker, and it was-agreed that Mr. Von Dadelzen should take 200 tons of oil:at £27 per ton, he, at the same time binding himself to sell to the defen dants some time between the Ist of February andlthe 30th of June the same quantity at the same price. Aft r that the price of the oil began t' rise, and the defendan a were congratulating themselves on their profitable specu lations. The price continued to rise during the months of February and March, after which time its tendency was downwards. On the 18th of June the plaintiff write to the defendants, informing them of his readiness to deli. ver the 200 tons. On the 22nd he again wrote, informing them that the oil was landing, but, receiving no alum r, he, along with Mr. Reyner. waited upon the defendants. They saw Mr. Lund, who said Mr. Unsworth knew about it, and he wo❑ld have nothing to do with the matter. Mr. Reyner wrote out a delivery order; but Mr. Lund rt.. fused to sign it. Nothing more was heard of the matter till Saturday, the 29th of June, when, after Mr. Von Da delzen had left the office, the delivery orders were sent to be signed. Mr. Von Dadelzen not being at his office. his clerks refused to sign the orders, and on the ground that the contract had not been completed according to agreement the defendants refused to receive the oil. Ac cordingly the instead of being kept—seeing that the markets were falling—was sold by auction. The gross amount of sale was £5,012' 2s. 3d. ; and after deducting expenses plaintiff received only £4,930 15s. 2d. The price at which the oil was invoiced to the defendants was 45.228 4s. Id., so that loss accrued to the plaintiff of £297 Bs. 3d., which sum the plaintiff sought to recover. After a long investication the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. NDICTMENT.- REGINA V. THE MANZHESTER AND LIVRRPOOL RAILWAY. This was an indictment preferred by the boroughreeve and constables of Salford against the Company of the Li verpool and Manchester Railway, for a nuisance alleged to have been committed in violation of their act of Par liament, by the placing of pillars for the support of a bridge in New Bailey-street, Salford, which contracted the footway on each side to the extent of two feet six inches. The questions resolved themselves into a point of law, and the jury, under his direction, found the de fendants guilty. Leave was given to enter a verdict for the defendants, should the court above be of opinion that the defendants were authorised by their act to make this obstruction. Ki The Court adjourned at six o'clock. There remain now only four cases for trial, but the Court is not expected to get through them to-day. fn,aaNategentmnri te, s cai o t wpnieit r nntegrt a baogfo n lauytnsfa g mthles e eertHtrszh, coincidence the reign of James 11. The marl came from Drogheda O fields, he found a superintending n M onlay the las t ' spreading as a ge piece of the n t o l gentleman someae bn celebrated n t me d lN a : bl o r r oc k ns i s n om g n t ee o , n loefy w h a oi was as ballast in a collier, and was brought from a little up the of the collier and the gentleman alluded bdtdriveroheoternhe donors r worthy der conclude Boyne hormiynnacgpsl a ut a b heds o irtes v o e wsr. h. Drogheda. tohrOn to were Orangemen. TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN. —The Rev. J. C. Wood —recently appointed curate of St. Thomas, Toxteth park —has been presented on his leaving his curacy, at of D'Oyley and Mant's Bible, " as," as NwietwhtaonneHatecaothp,yby the teachers and scholars of that place, ra,elsanunsnwf ministration suTcpaiuervasutrmeffheihenseboecdtrefi etadnitn ß iyothnadn y eseotealt stated in the accompanying address, " a small tribute of their affectionate regard ; and beg of him to accept their sincere and heartfelt thanks for the good se iea r nm v t i eb c .:e e ,h s paa r lTrf e th n cyi. consisting of the teachers of the Sunday shools of Newton etn e nse a apee t maem h cre,t ; ;:o w lffva h itct z e hhk. n e:, ,pbßyir. Heatheiravm.appro priate eWood ihraiFnmrpaet inscription tniw_nvoioeeot expressive a beautiful Pocket Communion Service, presented to him teachers and scholars. The chalice bears a highly appro donors.. The rev. gentleman is the youngest son of the burn. Sept. 3, it MANCH ESTE R.-MONDAY NIGHT. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The commercial transactions in our staple articles b ar been, on the whole, on a very limited scale as compare with any week during the previous three m onths. fereito,n trade especially ha s b een excee dingly dull, a' particularly in printed calcoes. On Tuesday, there aP; neared to be a disposition on the part of spinners aud manufacturers to submit to a reduction, but not to such an extent as to induce buyers to purchase freely, and the , consequence was that nO very great amount of was tran , •acted. On .Thursday and Saturday, the FA me spirit prevailed, b u t p r i ces seeme d t o ass ume a firmer ole aspect. Our advices by th e C a l e d on i a are , on the vrh c i favourable ; the s t oc k s are reported light in the Un ite States, and, it is sa id, th a t some very heavy orders for goods suited t o th e f a ll tra d e h ave b een rece i ve d. Ma . l of our p ac k ers are b usy w i t h g o o d s f or t h e I n di a n 034 `' kets, and, also. for South America. • busines MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. t , This (Monday) morning, the half-yearly general care ing of the proprietors was held at the Companies " fe e London-road ; al s o. a s p ec i a l general meeting at thes l . l a place, to authori s e th e di rec t ors to su b scr ib e for a rert al e , number of shares in the Tr en t V a ll ey Railway. Thriis port stated that the gross receipts have excee d e d by £ ail C. the amount received i n th e correvondfng halt of last Yea e The directors recommended a di v id en d o f £1 per 6b3rs (less income tax) on th e 30,000 £4O s h ares . Th e director, lu conformity with the resolutions of the I roprietors e ba a " guaranteed a return of 4 per cent, on the capital (1 ,01 ceeding £250,000) t o h e expen d e d on t h e M,nchcster an Buxton Railway, and they have now to call upon the Pr cl i prietora to sanction the subscription by this co rupanY.? . £200,000 towards the consto uctionot the Trent Valley ll4 way. The Directors have constantly kept in view the illy portance of connecting this line with the Liverpool as Manchester Railway, and they hare now the pleasure to announce that arrangements ha ve b een entere d into wi l b 7, the She ffi eld railway C om p an y an d t h e T rustees of t u u : late Duke of B r id gewa t er , t o app l y to P ar li amen t, in 1"" ensuing session, for powers to make a line cf railway en ra* municating with the Liverpool and Manchester raira'aP and also a B ranc h t o Altrincham." The chainv, ll ,l (David Waddingt on , E s q.,) sta t e d th at th e j unct i on woul be carried over G ran by- row fields across Oxf or d-road, an d through Lord Francis Egerton's property in Castle-fields cor - '° The report was a d o pt e d, an d th e di rectors were aut horise d to take up 10,000 shires in the Trent V a ll e y Li ne . and 1 ° pay a deposit of £2 per s h are out of the npanY fund= , Sir Robe S dy eretn Jraolentaendfolrlisilraetpda.ssedTtheroguaglilLtthivsettoerwana yesterday, b a and his suite sailed in the Maiden City Steamer for Lon donderry. The vessel was gaily decked with fkgs on the occasion, and the inhabitants of the loyal city of Deal are prepared to give the noble hero a hearty welcome. it will be seen from an advertisement that the splenkli steamer, Maiden City, will in future sal' from th's for Londonderry on Tuesday in each week, instead of Monday. A new steamer is about to be added to the line. CAUTION TO BAKERS : —JUVENILE SYSTEM/al ° THEFTS.—Two little girls, Mary Wood, and anoth er w re yesterday placed before Mr. R us ht o n, c h arge d With obtaining under false pretences, and disposing o f a COw siderable number of bread tins from various I, , keg' They had gone, generally together, to bakers in 801 street, Brunstor-street, &c., in their neighbourhood. 0 1: or other of them, stating that they had come from a femw housekeeper (named) to borrow one or more bread-fin g ' and they were accommodated, no suspicion , arisint The prisoner not named could not be sworn to. thong° there were strong circumstances of suspicion. The othe r was identified by several parties, some of whom had lost two tins, others four, others six. Several of the tins ha d been sold and were recovered. Woods was committed for trial ; the other was remanded, further evidence being expected. BANK OF ENGLAND—The returns of th e c i rcu l a tion of notes in England, Ireland. and Scotland, for the foot weeks ending on the 17th of A ugus t, f urn i s h t h e follow'? !emits upon a comparison , with th e p rev i ous s t a temen' The circulation of the Bank of England has been aug mented from £21,448,000 to £21.980,000, and that of. thy private and joint-stock banks of I re l an d f rom £1,57-1, - 1 to 1,993,533. The p r i va t e b an k s o f E ng l an d h a ve re duced their circulation by £73,826 ; t h e j o int-sfoc. banks by £135,866 ; the chartered, private and joint-steel banks of Scotland by £8,469 . ; and the Bank of Irele° by £62,575, or to £3,378,125: Total of issues RS Per Pr' seut return £38,001,324; last time £37,730,8 11 . I°- crease in the aggregate, £270,513- ad- THE FUNDS, SATURDAY NIGHT.—The funds e nt vanced to-day: and notwithstanding the limited 611 : °t' the of business transacted, there was- much firmness s f market. The official contradiction of the rultw ar . yesterday respecting war with France has done soin eta ' 6 tmOorneesytoireett ofr the confidence ; seite a o n f d th fo e r ap th ee e ul a a c t r o o rs on . C9sniturtafnkr re- Stock, 198 to 199 ; Exchequer-bills 745, ter7e6nst.. pre mium ; India Stock, 279 to 281 ; Three' Per " Bonds, 95 dared, 91* to 1; Long Annuities, 121; to 97 premium. Spanish followed in the the Five nee English stocks, and rallied to 224 to I for per Cents. Th 2 Cents., and to 331 to for the Three_ .with increased bust other foreign securities were steady, . Bel ness, but no material variation occurred in Prinei:. n nos eian closed 1014 to 1021 Brazilian, 831 to 841; e 131 to India a wake of the f A r D es ;n 3 i l sh r B n B 3 l 6 to t WI to 61 - f; the Five per Cents.. 1041 to I ; Mexican 351 to i ; the Deferred, 151 to ; Peruvian; 23 to 25 ; 11 ° Portuguese Cony., terl, 431 to 441. BC9hai;liapn,,,tlcoh3Ttowol?asn;dC..o_llln TlT:en; CHARGE OF EMDEZZLEMENT.—A: tan good-looping the bar of the police court, charged with a b y ;v p ia la gs young man named Neil M`Vicar, was yesterd bezzled from his employer sums of money to a conow_.,7,nd amount. Mr. Wardle appeared for thercomPig i t wine- Mr. Davenport for the defendant. Mr. merchant, of this town, said that thearbrn'lsr:a as town employed by him from the Ist of A`Pril fast, nd g eneral traveller or soliciior, and also as cash-keePer , a receive' superinteedant of thebusiness. For this-he w a ., to _ sa ,__ , £3O a year, and 24 per cent on the nett amount ofle' to to be computed every quarter, and without referencedraw losses in trade. An agreement in writing hadbeen . one _ up by witness, but had not been signed. The pris ► (witness added) had to enter the money received b , 17, 13 8 1 . 7; daily, and submit the books weekly or his (Mr. R. v_ proval. Mr. Rose had been ill for about three weegsa, Cent% the house, and it was during this time-that the great s part part of the defalcations had taken place. Many had been recrived lately and none entered in the nu_ e- .. (produced) after the 12th of August. The agreem r en ferred to had, the witness added, been taken from his °- "- tbe er had been locked desk, and he believed had been taken away by prisoner. —Mr. Davenport stated that his client was no in possession of the document, a copy of - which bad Re d. taken from him by the police when he was apprehenae_a —A packet found on the prisoner was then produced , M, the alleged copy was taken from it, and handed to. ej to ; c Rushton .who said it accorded with what the comp's"' had stated, but his attention was called to the latter Pt ti t by which it appeared that some other allowance than Lu_e before stated was to be made for certain services, n " jobbing" in the trade. Only one case. to the Ow e amount of 103 6d was then brought against the pril e r (which w.as not entered,) it being stated that in the o e cases the witnesses could not yet be procured. Mr. Itt; who urged his case strongly against the prisoner, saidd he had gone round to all his customers, and had fn u r, many receipts for moneys. Mr. Wardle under the c y s t cumstances applied for a remand ; and'as he stated • least three of the cases could be proved to-morrow ('" day) the prisoner was accordingly remanded for a do3 7 ._i n g It will be seen by an advertisement in another column tha t to the dissolution of partnership between Messrs. liCrlpps and S the field, the whole of the extensive stock is about heing sold off by former partner, uho will continue the HALE FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL estab li SH m l, sh We 19 ent t dirt' tention to the announcement of the grand annual shevy delightful village of Hale, which will take place on Thu" week. IlauNswlcx HOTEL.—It will be seen by an advertisentel o sel another column that the extensive alterations that this uniq ue f o ot has of late been undergoing are now completed. The coffee to and restaurant has been greatly enlarged, and the worthy b?, s b eel use his own words, is determined to profit, in future , by steaks' instead of " ' sweep 4takes.' 0 15- We are glad to perceive that Mr Weithrecht, the Interes.ogrtlie o sionary who caused so much attraction at the late an n i ver sary % fir Church Missionary Society, has published his work on Indiall r ';i j ed , siens. We understand that the first editi on was entirely subsetiA for before its publication; and w e h ave no d ou b t the second edi will meet with as ready a demand from the Christian public gene LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, SEPT. 2 1 . (11 There was a large show of all kinds of stock to-day , ,, numerous attendance of buyers. Leer 5d to sad ; Mutt on to sfd ; Lamb Sid to Sid LIVERPOOL PROVISION NIARKET, SEpr• vise The finest Butters, winch are by no means iu heavy sip rt 3 support our last quotations; whilst middling and i n ferint si Ttlit we quote 2s per c t. lower. Irish Beef and Pork retnahlogw o prices noted in our last. Foreign (in bond.) may b 4 c ite s almost upon the purchasers wn terms. Bacon is 1101 , .' t p334' . brisk, but the extreme price lately quoted (4as) for Bea l° dies, is the currency of this day. r• -• LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SElrr r ' ke t ffr ef The gloom which previously pervaded our Cotton mar eas e considerably increased by accounts received per Boston - cro , j on Friday, stating that the prospects f the f or thcolni" e ffectii, were very auspicious. Since th en . sa l es h ave been 00 ,, I1 „ - is d il „ 0 at *d per lb decline, and eve n a t thi s d ec li ne , the me t nn' 4 r ° heavy, and inanimate, with th ree se ll ers f or on e buye r. to 5,000 bales sold to-day. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE• MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2.—Wind S.S.E. lig ht ' ~pr A RlllVED.—Fenella, from Hambro'—Wm. Rushten. Forster, f rom AutwerP — sAlL , E f p ro ..... mL e o t n o d k o a n , —: p n i d ar ß e e n i , nd f e o e r r N , — ew yo , r f k r_on a t r li t e i i f f b- or Agr o ; can, Pritchard, for ht. John, N.B.—Georgiana , Beh r e ritt , t ip delphia—Gazelle, Shepherd, for lchaboe—Rosit a, Fe,za-0° adiz—Ann Gales, Timperley, for Constantinople --L c for Jamaica—and Highland Mary, Crosby, for Quebe. c i • sa I' Well' Wm. Parker, Sewell, from Calcutta, at this pot= .. t he • ~c a April. On 24th July, in lat. 11 N, long. 25 W. artii t ia. ltit , ville. On 17th Aug. in lat. 39 N, long. 34 W. the .`.; Del , '" bay to Clyde. On 27th August, off Cape Clear, b" - n pt On 31st Aug. off Tuskar, the Eshelby. ataC ia ' Ganges, Walker, and Frankland, Christie, , frorn vo St. Helena was sP° Great Western, (steamer) hence to New York. - K , 2lst August. at 5 p.m. inlong. 23 34 Off CfQ° Duke of Wellington, Hargreaves, from haven Higginson, Hogg, from Barbadoes, ditto nn 13 t ,, ti Ceres, from Morocco, ditto e ‘-- tor' Independence, Nye, from New York, off C ov e ._,OO Aug, in a squall, lost main top mast, and fore and F" . gallar.t masts. -------'' Marlins, LIVERPOOL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBE R 3, 1 844 ' „ PRINTED AND EVERY TUESDAYPUBLISHEDILiN MO i ` BY tree t Old JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE , of 53,Grove-sl, LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-stree At No. 4,ST. Osonas's CUBSCE NT, LIVAItIO0 1,. O,