The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-08-02 00:00:00

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Wria ti°l3' use their Ice Tn et n in all -; for c°ll w ill th e , r , to Jo ? perfectly AUGUST 2,1 S&, cords with its title and ostensible object.* It professes to be a measure for the extinguishment of tithe in Ire land, that fruitful source of so mans' evils; for that evils have flowed hem the Irish Tithe-system no man of can dour can deny; and we know that we speak the senti 'lents of -the. Irish Protestant Clergy when we say, tha t no set of men in the empire—not even the Roman Catholic pavers of this tithe—more ardently desire the change which this bill, if passed into a law as it has come from the hands of the Peers, is well calculated to bring about. If, therefore, Ministers suffer themselves to be made the instruments of throwing out this bill for the Purpose of exhibiting O'Connell's.power, and of promot ing his designs against the Protestant Church, and thereby deny to Ireland what Ireland has craved for a ges• great indeed w ill be their resp o n s ibility. Upon thei r guilty heads must rest the bloodshed which may hereafter take place in Ireland through resistance to the payment of Tithe. A contemporary has shown that, independently of the Weighty and influential considerations above stated, the actual interests of the Melbourne Ministry are involved in passing the Bill as it is. To adopt it would be to Close the session with something like usefulness, and would at any rate insure the possession of office to those who now hold it for at least six or eight months to come; for even assuming that O'Connell might take offence and stand aloof with his tail, that circumstance could do tile Government no harm . during the recess with the w ''''sr part of the pOpulation ; whereas the adoption of the measure with a good grace, and for the good that it is likely to produce, would gratify the King, be a grace ful mark of deference to the House of Lords, and ensure t he support, if not the respect, of the conservative party generally throughout the cou s htry. In some things ministers evince sufficient tactwith regard to their con venience-- or 'party interests. Why so obstinately bent upon this mischievaus'ab4raction•which they call "prin ciPle ?" Ah ! they could tell Us if they Would. It is a Part of the Litchfield .11orrecorrip'act ; a part of the bar gain by wldch they hate purchased .powerli and were they to run counter to"ao 4 ,oOnnell in this "matter, he would 11°t only, as he phrases it, shake them -off, but probably reveal that which Miniaters WOuld as soon hear as their Ow n death warrants. We are, therefore, prepared for another of Lori John Russell's half-insolent, half-abject speeches; that is to s ay, insolent towards the Crown, the House of Lords, t he protestant Church, and the Conservative feeling of t he nation ; abject towards O'Connell, the Hume-led infi dels and radicals of the English clique, and the uc unscientious" dissenters, who show the superior piety Of which they boast by joining in the work of those . whos e aim it is to strike down the Gospel itself. Look ing at the past, we are warranted in supposing that the little leader, in more senses than one, will contrive to /fl uster a majority, and th a t th e Bill w ill b e re je c ted ; but We may confidently predict that, although Lord John 18 making immense efforts to increase his numbers by the despatch of special messengers and circulars in every direction, commanding, begging, praying, entreating at tendance, and a lth o u g h th e agenc y o f O'Connell has be en put in requ i s iti on f or th e occas i on , th e ma j o rity will Le e less than the memorable six-and-twenty. Momentous consequences hang upon the decision. It is not merely a question whether a wicked and incapable Ministry hall remain in office two or six months longer, more or less ' It embraces much higher considerations—great mo ral principles—mighty political results. If the repre let:natives of what may be called the unmitigated demo cratic Spirit are formed of that class who either Will not °r c annot comprehend the obligations of h o n our , th e duties which they owe to a nation. as contra-distinguished rom their entanglements with faction, then the remedy 14 an obvious one, but by no, means of easy appli tion. Woe to the Conservative. members who fail 14 performing their part from any consideration of Personal convenience. Not a week passes without affording additional reason I,or thanking Providence that we have a Honse of Lords. ut for that house there would be scarcely any limit to Injustice perpetrated in the guise of legislation. Our readers are aware that early in the present session ano ther' passed the Commons—passed, too, with a St afford the Disfranchisement of the Borough of '3lafford on account - ot.alleged . corruption 'and bribery in til e electioriiiilB.3l ••'; :ten Wh a t wicked if that led tlifi eie;tor'S Of.Staf-" f ord 'to firigers and sell their votes ? This qe Tory is no less a personage than Sir John Camp bell, his Majesty's Attorney General, the official prose tutor of such practices! ' Sir John was most anxious fo r a seat in Parliament in 1831. He had been rejected i n another place, despite of his money, and he went do wn to Stafford, setting aside £2OOO for the express Purpose of bribery ; and it is in evide nce th a t o n e hun dred pounds more than that sum were paid to electors w hn had lent or rather sold themselves in Sir John's Part., ses. Now mark the mode of punishing this offence. The t "tion made is not for the expulsion of the ‘Vhig lawyer .4 1, 3 unworthy of a seat in the House of Commons, but to i rin g in a bill f or the disfranchi semen t o f t h e B oroug h ; mr t aking away the votes of nearly fifteen hundred electors, because five hundred of them had been corrupt ed by Sir J o h n C amp b e ll. Th e proper course was to 4 'e puni s h e d t h e gu ilty i n en f orc i ng t h e l aw. B ut, , 1 c l ee. wh o was to be the prosecutor ? Si r John Camp 0. course. And as Sir John would probably feel nearly m uch reluctance to take a brief in such a cause as in takin g tt a peerage for his wife in lieu of promotion to the „ership of the R o ll s , his political friends hit upon th e Pedient of punishing the. whole Borough by perma nent de privation of the franchise! . b Th e Peers, however, are not prone to take thing s " 13° n trust, nor to rece i ve w i t h i mp li c i t f a i t h t h e ti4surances of such persons as Mr. Wason or Mr. C. Oi ler, they called witnesses to their bar, and examined the m upon oath. If the clearest testimony is worth a ° Sir J o h n C ampbell ' s de li nquency was provedbe of nd questi on; b ut i t was also proved that only a port i on in the el ectors had been corrupted ; that since the pass fr4. t he R e f orm Bill t h ere h a d b een no repet i t i on o f t h e t h ence ; and on F r id ay even i ng t h e H ouse of L or d s, on b _ e 'notion of th e L or d Ch ance l lor himself, sanct i oned Y Lord Melbourne, decided that there was no case .11tg_iainst the B oroug h , an d that the Bill must drop, and ulvrePped accordingly. • e apprehend that the next time a Whig candidate : PPe ars in Stafford, it will no t requ i re th e a id o f b r ib ery to in duce the electors to send him to the right-about. It Wa s proved before the Lords that a Gentleman in the linifid ence of the ruling powers had offered certain in fluential eutial persons i n St a ff or d a new wr i t prov id e d a Whi g e re turned ; b u t th e con di t i on was re f use d , an d t h e riP!rseeution b y Bi ll went on—to terminate in defeat and "Isgrace. 'rhe Ministerial papers show the importance of the c ew castle El ect i on by t 418 e gloss u he efforts they make to put a ' pon it. ~.,..eapt. Blackett, they argue, was a turncoat, and Mr. nod hi, Don is a n h onest liberal, who will vote ac co rdi ng t o t limtr ' co nscience, an d w i ll support the Melbourne Ali y. ~..All th ese assertions are fallacies, except that Mr. ti t°c''gson is an honest man and will vote according to his n scien c a. I n his speeches before the electors, lie dis tictlY declar e d that he will not support the present tinisters; that he will not lend himself to the promotion of ° 'Connell's schemes ; that he is opposed to the ap propriation c l ause; and that he would rather abolish the ~ a The bill, as passed --- by 1.11-1 ( 7 ------ " of Lords, reduces the illl.oUnt of tithe by more -than one-fourth. It commutes tithe _ions9rent-charge; it extinguishes all rnoral.possibility of colli _ between the clergy and the poor. If it does nut establish it`l.arnple fund for the education of the helpless poor of Ireland, NI: by reason that the provision for granting X. 50,000 to that ri,.Pose was trickily and shabbily mixed up with one for autho 411e Under the odious name of " appropriation," an endless expung of ,t insatiable plunder of the clergy; and, therefore, the 'louse in ''''''' ,l 3, not being entitled to alter a money clause, b y of R the a ppropriation principle, and substituting another mode rais inL' £50,000 for education, were under the necessity of as abill for reforming the tti''ili!fting both. We say, then, that , pec,",e_systein. of Ireland, this measure in itspre present state is curate et. It is a measure of reform in itself—liberal, ,0 mil, cal itistd for duration, and frau g ht with every clement ~1 pea c e, pe r " , and prosperit y. The career' of civil war and popish ~ 4ecution hb sot out of it by the roots. Then, we ask, th at a bill hich the existing miniters will dare to throw out ? ilmes, w ►iuion !oven t- ORN- Royal, kugust. Clarke. Irish Corporations than pass such - a Bill as that lately pressed upon parliament by Mr. O'Connell's Ministers. In a word, Mr. Hodgson is a sound. and : fearlesS Con servative, and will stand by the insiittitionS of , the coun try, though most ready to reform all real abuses where- . ever he may find them. At Newcastle, the...election was decided expressly upon the ground of opposition to his Majesty's Ministers ; and the electors were strongly appealed to by Mr. Doubleday, a Whig-radical of talent , and a member of the New Corporatinn, to reject Mr,, Hodgson, because his return for a Borough like New castle would be a death-blow to the Melbeurne Cabinet, inasmuch as it would break the charm of their supposed invincibility in the Boroughs under the Whig Corpora tion system. Doubleday added that if such an example were set, it would be followed in other places. He was right. It will be followed. And we again congratulate Lord Melbourne on the confirmation his belief receives that he has a majority of the country in his favour as well as a majority of the House of Commons. The little knot of Manchester Unitarians, led by Potter, Wood, and Co., and kept in countenance by Poulett Thomson, have had to send the subjoined peti tion to the House of Commons:— "To the Honourable tho House of Commons in Parliament assembled, "The petition of the Standing Committee of United Dis senters of Manchester, appointed at a public meeting in March, 18.34, " Humbly sheweth,—That it has been the glory of the town of Manchester to be freed and exempt from all corrupt corpora tions; civil and ecclesiastical (except the Collegiate Corpora• Unt), and that your petitioners have heard with deep regret of the introduction into your Honourable House of a Bill, founded on the recommendation of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Which provides for the institution of a new bishop of Manchester, with a political character to sustain as a Member of the House of Lords. " That the parish of Manchester comprises a poptilation of not less than 300,000 persons, and that the county of Lancaster contains considerably more than 1,500,000 inhabitants, the great majority: of Which are Dissenters and seceders from the Church as by'lai.established, who support their- oWn'religious institutions by volnntary contributions. " That in the county of Lancaster there are 292 churches, and 581 Dissenting. and other chapels, being a majority of nearly two to one in favour of the Dissenters. "That although there are about twenty churches in this large parish of Manchester, they are principally maintained by their respective congregations, like all Dissenting chapels, and few of the resident clergy receive any adequate emolument or bene fit whatever out of or from the parconage-houses, glebes, tithes, baptismal, burial or wedding fees, except the Warden, Fellows, Chaplains, Scc. of the existing Collegiate Church, all of whom are ministrants in this one church, and three of them pluralists. That your petitioners conscientiously believe that no religious advantage can by possibility accrue to the inhabitants of Man chester, by inflicting on them the residence of a Bishop, Dean, and Chapter. " That this monstrous misapplication of the Church property in Manchester is legalized by two old charters, the first of which was in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when the population o the parish of Manchester was below 10,000, and there was only one church, and no Dissenting chapel whatever in the parish. "That all experience has shown that wherever the influence of an Established Clergy prevails most, the real interests of religion wither or are stunted: to increase, therefore, the power of the law-church in this neighbourhood would be, in the opinion of your petitioners, not less injurious to the Christian religion, than it would be unjust to the majority of professing Christians of every other denomination. " That it is in evidence, during the long existence of the Collegiate Body, the members thereof have uniformly entered into all the political opinions and convulsions of the day. That during the reigns of George I. and 11. the Fellows and Chap lains were proved jacobites, and active promoters of the two rebellions in 1715 and 1745. In the reign of George 111. the members of the College were abettors of the ruinous American and French, wars, and decided enemies of reform. and religious liberty: and in our own times, as formerly, they have been opposed to all liberal measures proposed by Government, and active : partisans in all political feuds. "That whilst the industry, wealth, intelligence, and liberal opinions of Manchester have a special claim on the favour of an enlightened administration, your petitioners cannot withhold from an expression of their most lively fears that to plant a 'bishop, dean, and chapter in this important populous district would not only endanger its peace and prosperity, but tend greatly to alienate the affections of the people from his Majesty's government, to uphold which many of your petitioners have cheerfully given much of their time, vigorous efforts, and no small proporticin of their prdperty. " That the augmeniation and concentration of the political power of the clergy of this district under a bishop will have no beneficial influence whatever on the religious and moral we'. fare of people not attendant on their ministrations; but, on the contrary, cat' tend only to' revive the feuds of former times, and to sow the seeds of - future'strifes, and interrupt the trade and commerce of the town; thus, by rallying about the new dig_ nitary to be created alt the worst influences of religious ran cour and political animosity, will be endangered the now hap pily increasing harmony.which exists among all classes of the people. "That the Dissenters of Manchester have always been the best and constant friends of liberty and the House of Hanover; and the Collegiate body have, on their part, been the enemies of both. Your petitioners deem it unjust, therefore, to increase the power of a party which has ever been hostile to religious freedom, and equally so to those principles which placed the reigning family on the throne of these realms. " That in the event of any subsequent commotions similar to those which have existed in the manufacturing districts hereto fore, the presence of a bishop and his assistant would tend great ly to aggravate the danger contingent on any check given to the peace and prosperity of this densely populous town and neigh bourhood "That as the members of the Collegiate corporation, except the warden, are self-elected, and having the patronage and right of presentation to nearly all the churches in the parish; and are in no wise under popular control, being bound together by oaths not to reveal the secrets of the Chapter-house, your petitioners humbly suggest that all self-elected and irresponsible corporations, but more especially such as are professedly eccle siastical (although almost if not exclusively political), are of antiquated origin, unadapted to the circumstances of the times in which we live, incompatible with the progress of religious and moral improvement, injurious to trade and commerce, and subversive of civil liberty, and that all such monopolies ought to he dissolved. " Your petitioners, therefore, taking into consideration the above premises, humbly pray that there may be no new creation of a bishop for Manchester; but, on the contrary, that the Col legiate corporation of Manchester may, by acts similar to those which created it, be for ever dissolved ; and your petitioners will ever pray. "Signed, by order and on behalf of the United Dissenters' Committee, at a meeting specially convened and held this 18th day of July, 18.3 G, THOMAS II AHBOTTLE, Chairman." This document makes a tremendous inroad upon our space, yet it is too important to be lost, because it ex emplifies in the liveliest colours the surpassing impudence of modern faction. If there is one thing more than another to which these people object, it is to what they term the interfer ence of one sect with the internal arrangements of another sect; yet here we have this mere sect presuming to interfere with the internal arrangement of the Esta blished Church, no~w•ithstanding that the new see will not take one farthing of money out of their pockets. But the impudence of this petition is not its gravest fault ; it is literally stuffed with falsehood and libel from beginning to end. The Manchester dissenters, forsooth, were always the firmest friends of the House of Hanover, whereas the Collegiate Clergy were jacobites in 1715 and 1745; the inference being, of course, that the ex isting Clergy are in their hearts jacobites also. Prove to us that they are no better friends to the House of Hanover than the Standing Committee of these " United Dissenters of Manchester," and we shall be ready to ad mit that King William the Fourth ought to keep them at arm's length ! Their fiction as to the superiority of their numbers over those of the Establishment is effectually disposed of by the statistics of a Manchester contemporary : "The petitioners assert that there are in Lancashire 292 churches and 381 dissenting chapels. Everybody knows that no comparison can be instituted between the extent of sittings in churches and chapels; the Collegiate Church of this town, for example, would furnish sittings for more people than half-a dozen of the largest dissenting chapels in the town. But we wil go a step further, first premising that the Wesleyan Methodists, who are always, in these calculations, taken as dissenters, are in fact not so, but a faithful branch of the church. Either they must be counted as actual churchmen, or for the present purpose they ought to he taken as neutrals; the latter probably is the fairer course. We find, then, according to an actual survey made three or four years ago, that there are, in Manchester and Salfoni, ,i!tin,,:s in the churches I'm. about 30,000 (exclusi ve o f the S cotc h church) persons; in the methodist chapels for up wards of 9000 ; and in the dissenting chapels for about 21,0001 including therein nearly 1:l0t) Roman, Catholic chapel sittings, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARa and the places of worship of Jews, Unitarians, &d. &c. In ibis' statement we do not include the churches now building, which_ will accomodate at least 4000 additional persons. Again, it is known that in 1833 the Statistical Society in this town made a careful investigation, through their intelligent agent, of the state of education in Manchester. They found that the Church Sun day-schools contained 10,284 scholars; the Wesleyan Metho dist, 9066; the dissenting, (inclusive of the Scotch kirk school, &c.) 13,846. This number be it remembered, includes all sorts and conditions of religionists—Roman Catholics, Independents, Unitarians, Jews, Baptists, Quakers, Presbyterians. It is also, we believe, a notorious fact that some time prior to this inves tigatkinan agent of the Statistical society bad investigated the condition of the population in . a district of the town inhabited by the poor class almost exclusively : what did he find there He visited 4102 families, of whom he found that in religion 2021 were members of the Established Church, 1473 Roman Catholics (are they dissenters?), 591 dissenters ,(including Wesleyan Methodists) and 17 professing no- religion." Apply a similar test in other places--in Liverpool, for instance—and the boasted numbers of these extremely, forward and disgusting people will vanish into thin air. We say to this " Standing Committee," " take heed lest ye fall." It is to please such worthies as these that Lord John Russell consents to throw aside two out of three of the Bills recommended by his own Church Commission, after he'himself had declared that Ministers were bound, in hanour to pass them or resign! It affords us the utmost gratification and delight to find that the amount already subscribed for , the erection of the new Protestant Schools exceeds the sum- of Ten Thousand,P6unds. We never for one moment supposed that the Protestants would willingly turn a deaf 'Or to any Call that might be made on them in the cause and in , the defence of their religion. But when we .bring, to mind that'this contribution has been effected. within the limit of .a few weeks—When we recollect that, crowded to suffocation 'almost as the Amphitheatre was, at the period of the late meeting, it still could not contain more than a mere fraction of the Protestants of this town, who. then.. had the opPOrtunity afforded thein'orliCaringi impressive' statements that were put .forth.:i:..Witaii,4e: call these circumstances to rerneinbranee,46'reelih4`bite expectations have been even more than abundantlyrealip-., ed, and that we in common with the major part of this great community, or, rather, shall wefnot, sap with t e Protestants of every town and village in the kingdom . where the glad tidings may have reachedtheir,eitrs',',feel deeply grateful to those reverend gentlemen who called that meeting together, and who themselves fearlessly stood forward as the champions of the Church to- defend her from the attacks of her foes, and, with a still further view, to provide for the future instruction of the sons and daughters of the poor and needy, that instruction being based on the pure and unadulterated Word of God. In whatsoever light we vievrthe intrinsic importance of that meeting, whether local or national, we cannot, at the first glance, form a proper estimate of the results that are likely to accrue from it. The circumstances under which it was called whilst they pointed out very clearly the course the Clergy have since pursued were, at the same time, somewhat novel in their character. The expulsion of the Bible from the Corporation Schools, by the band of Reforming unbelievers who now rule our local concerns, had not been contemplated by the Protestant Body. They were aware that their in terests were in the bands of those who, for the most part, were not Christians ; but they did not suppose that an act so disgracefully insulting to a Protestant community bythe new Town Council. W e would ever be attempted' pause, .too, when vice :consider the fact that the expulsion of the Bible from the. Corporation Schools met with the approbation of the Mayor of Liverpool, himself professing Protestantism. , This we would rather have passed over in silence, but justice requires that we should notice it; collectively, however, we do not now regret the course that has - been adopted. It matters not to us. whether,the projector of their deeds be 'a papist or an unitarian—both are the avowed enemies of the church; but of this fact we are morally confident, that no human power can ever raise the new town council from the depths into which they have fallen by their conduct in excluding the Bible from the corporation schoOls. They have, it is to be, hoped,,. learned, cellectiVelyAnd indivi dually, that the real protestant is not the mere.professor of religion; that his Bible is to him the way, the truth, and the life ; that with it he lives, without it he languish es and dies; and that, deprived of the light of its pre cepts, the world presents before him a thick, impenetra ble cloud of darkness and misery. For this the protes tant is prepared to offer up more than all his worldly gains can ever give, and to hold that breath which to day is and to morrow is cut doWn ready to fall in defence of his religion. But, apart from the high importance of the example Liverpool has thus held out to other towns to follow her footsteps, there are still advantages to enu merate, of which we have not yet spoken. We yield to none in feeling and appreciating the value of a pure and religious education to the poor, whence the Bible is to be made the corner stone; but in no way could the town council have so completely raised a monument to perpetuate .the remembrance of their unholy proceedings as by denying to the children of the poor the perfect word of God, and thus urging on the protestants to their protection, and to the proceedings they have taken. We are delighted to hear that 1,200 children are now daily drinking from the fountain of the pure water of life—a number not less than were formerly in the old corpora tion schools. We learn that three schools, one at each end and one in the centre of the town, are to be erected immediately. We would suggest that over the frontal of each building should be a written record of those circumstances which caused the schools to be built, in-which the act of the town council would form a prominent feature—an act which, had it succeeded in its object would have robbed us of our stronghold and left us poor indeed ; an act, of which one cannot speak more appropriately than by holding it forth as a fit object for the finger of scorn to point at. Nor does the exposure end here. We see by the list of contributors to the fund who the real friends to religion are, and who they are not —the faithful and the faithless, the wheat and the chaff securely separated—and above all we discover him whom we have long 'suspected, but valued at little cost, the Whig-pretending Protestant. LIVISI?.POOL Ur•onmaTtoNs.—On Friday last, at the Police-office; John Bolds was fined 2s. 6d. awl costs for placing a quantity of bricks .and mortar across Juvenal-street without having any railing, so as almost to prevent persons from getting to their houses, as the street was very narrow.—John Thomas appeared on the in formation of Gibson, a police-officer, charging him with having contracted for the removal of a quantity'rifarubbish in Mersey street, and alloWing it to remain without being enclosed. He was fined 2s. Gd. and costs.—Mr. Peter Bradshaw, who keeps a flout-shop in Straw's-brow, was fined 2s. 6d. and costs for hav ing suffered sixteen sacks of flour to remain on the footwalk on Monday last, and causing an obstruction.—Patrick Maher, who keeps .an egg and fish shop in Vauxhail-road, appeared to an swer an information charging him with having on Monday last suffered twenty-four casks and boxes to remain in the middle of street during the whole of the afternoon. longer than was necessary for housing theni. It was stated that it was his con stant habit. He was fined 10s. and costs.—Leigh Humphreys, a manufacturer of ginger -beer, appeared to answer to an in formation charging him with allowing his cart and horse to remain in Grosvenor-street without any one attending it from two, to six o'clock on Monday last. Fined 2s. 6d and costs. — John Edwards, the driver of Mr. George Barker's cart, appeared - to answer to au information charging him with having on Tues day evening last, in St. Ann-street, ridden in his cart with his back to the horses. There were two horses in the cart at the time, and there were no reins. He was fined ls. 6d. and costs. —Thomas Hesketh appeared to answer to an information charging hint with having on Tuesday, last taken away a quan tity of cow manure front Mansfield-street Soho during the- day time. The. manure was in a very wet state, and ran down both sides of the channel. The stencil arising from it was very bad, and the neighbours were complaining. He was fined 2s. 6d. and costs.—The driver of William Gregson's car was summoned to appear before the magistrates for an overcharge. A gentle man named Henderson said be bad been so frequently annoyed by . pvercharges and the insolence of car-drivers, that he was, determined to make an example of every case in future. On Tuesday he took a car from Castle-street stand to the pierhead, and was charged 25., a shilling more than the fare. The driver • was fined ss. and costs. Ii.OBBERY.—On Saturday, a sailor named Charles Smith, was brought before the magistrates, charged with having stolen 17 sovereigns, a quantity of silver, and a watch, from a person named Birkett, at whose house he had lodged. Margaret Bir kett, the wife oftlie complainant stated, that her husband kept a lodging-house atl7, Hurst-street. On Sunday evening, the 24th instant; the prisoner came. to lodge at her house and re mained till breakfast time on Friday and then went out. Be ttteen nine and ten,cealock 'that morning she went into the 11.61ft:sitting room where- heulinen. and money were kept in some ,drawere, there were four watches,. 17 sovereigns and a half, apd about six pounds in silver. The money and the Vetches were safe there the day before. On going into the room• else found . one orthe , drawers open and the things Mitch disturbed. She in consequencet,examitied the other drawers, aUtl Nand the one coutaiaing.themaoney had been broken open Sothis knife, and all , theivratiney. , .end one,-.o(,:the watches bad 'lleenttaken oUt;viStwloittid4lie, knife with ,which the ;drawer beetrWerted therei. ,- : , Shetsustrected the - prisoner and sent 't*O then after him. He had gone down to the Brunswick 'Doclt in the 'morning. with her .husband. The prisoner was loin; to Arnericajutthe ship Salors. Jolsa Frederick Birkett, flidirsband of the last witness, deposed to going down to the Bruilsivick Dock the morning before, along with the prisoner. rn 4out an hour two men came down to him to give him some infolination 'respecting the . robbery; the prisoner was then ,',standing near him. He went up to hint and told him that his drawers had been broken open, and that he suspected him. The prisoner said he knew nothing about it. He, however, gave him rote the charge of a policeman, and he was taken to the Station-house and searched, but nothing but ls. W. was found on -him. They then went down to the prisoner's vessel, and demanded the prisoner's chest and bed. They searched the bed hut found nothing in it.. On looking under the bed they found an old shoe, and in it was the watch which he had lost, and a handkerchief of his which contained three sovereigns and £4 Bd. in silver. The bed and chest were then taken to the Station-house.. In the chest was found a piece of hard soap, which on being cut open was found to contain four sovereigns and-a-half. The prisoner had seen him take money out of his drawer. Tegeson, the Dock policeman, who took the prisoner into custody, corroborated this statement. The prisoner, in de fence, said that he came ashore on Sunday, and on Monday he received nine sovereigns and some silver, which the mistress saw him put into his chest. The informations for the trial of the prisoner were ordered to be taken. FEMALE QUARRELS.—PULLING CA PS.—On Saturday, at the Police-office, a female named Mary Davis, appeared before the magistrates, to prefer a charge of assault against Elizabeth Halcome, a female whose sharp features betokened a very vixen. This was one of those disgraceful quarrels which to the number of five or six occupy the time of the magistrates nearly two hours daily in adjusting. A casual observer would almost imagine, from the number of these cases, that the women of Liverpool did nothing butfight, pull caps, , and tear one another's hair all day long, instead of exercising that gentleness of which the sex take 'the credit of possessing the peculiar attribute. The complainant 'deposed that on Wednesday night last the defendant had licked her child, threatened her, run after her in the street, torn. her cap off her head, and a great part of her . hair, and swore she would hav e h er lif e . Th e - defendant, who appeared scarcely.able to contain herself whilst the complain ant, was giving her eVidence', - said that there was not h Word of truth in this statement. ".Not a woid. She has got a four wheeled carriage, please your honours, and she 'run it before my door, and I have a child that is very ill and he could not bear the noise, and I told the boy that was - dragging the car riage to give over, which he did, when Mrs., Davis came and run the carriage up and doWn herself, and said "I defy you, you old So I went out and pushed the carriage away, when she threw the carriage 'at me and bruised my leg, and tore my cap off of the value of 65., and I tore her cap off of the p v a e l r u o e r .a of e t i n i gwh with' defendant snap finished of h er finger s . her The oratorica l magi strate (Mr. Rathbone) said it was a most disgraceful thing for them both to conduct themselves in such a manner. He had not sat long on the bench and they had both been before him several times. If they would take half the trouble to make noes. another corafortable_that missy did to make one another miserable, they. would both be happy. It was disgraceful for two women, bytheir own confession, pulling caps in that way. Witnesses were called, who corroborated- the statement of the assault on both sides. The magistrates said they should bind thetn,both . over to keep the peace to one another. CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION FOR SERVICES RENDERED AT SEA.—On Saturday last, before William Rathbone and Adam Hodgson, Esqrs., John Allanby and others, the captain and crew of the steam-packet, Windermere, appeared against Mr. P. Pybes and another, the captain and agent of the ship Jona than Gertrude, of Rotterdam. The information set forth that the plaintiffs did. on the 26th of July, render assistance to the above ship, she being in great distress and danger. The plain. tiffs brought the case before the magistrates that the latter might award the amount of compensation pursuant to the statute 11 Geo. 4, chap. 14, entitled an act for extending and amending the several acts relating to the docks and harbour of Liverpool. The defendants requested the magistrates to adjourn the case to a future day, as they had been unable to procure the attendance of the Pilot. who would be a material witness in their behalf. The plaintiffs did not wish to agree to this, on the ground that Captain Pybes might leave the town before the case could be heard, and that it would put them to serious inconvenience to detain the Captain of the steam-packet, as the Windermere was a regular packet between this port and Ulverstone. The de fendants, said that the Jonathan Gertrude was then on the Crosby Bank, and the captain could not leave Liverpool for some weeks. They were willing to appear on any day that might be most convenient for the plaintiffs. It was ultimately agreed, that the case should be adjourned to Wednesday (to morrow.) It will be heard at one o'clock. TO WILLIAM !MART, ESQ, M.P. 11,—Absenee from Liverpool, in a remote district of Ireland, must plead my excuse for not having sooner noticed and replied to your letter, which appeared in the Albion newspaper. Agreeing, as I do, with the Roman satirist, where he inquires— _ videntem dicere verum, Quid vetat I determined, on the occasion you refer to, to combine the pleasantness of imagination with the gravity of argument, and the accuracy of facts. The passage of my speech, quoted in your letter, was spe cially pointed out to the meeting as belonging, not to the his torical, but the poetical part of my address. The meeting un derstood it so ; but as you seem to take it seriously, I have ' neither difficulty nor hesitation in assuring you that I receive as authentic history your statement that you " have never had the slightest communication with Mr. O'Connell, with any of the priests, or with any of theiTown Council upon the subject I ,• alluded to." airvitr, You I doubt not, readily admit that " it was within the bounds of possibility" that such communication might have taken place, and that I was fully justified in supposing such a possibility, by the manifest coalition between you and the party ►n question in general politics, and the prominent support you recently received in parliament from that quarter, in a matter intimately connected with the Town Council. I rejoice, however, to find that your support of the pro-popery party in the state has not extended to any patronage of their scheme for imposing upon protestant children a system of edu-. cation so opposed to protestant principles. Aud I beg to ex press my earnest hope that you w►ll speedily see your error in hir,ing,, in any way, connected yourself with a party whose ob vious aim (however it may be for a tune disgu►sed behind plausible terms of reform,) is the subversion of our glorious con stitution. As a lover, first of truth, then of peace and order; a lover of real liberty secured to the poorest of our fellow-countrymen; a lover of revealed religion in all its holy and saving power, un mutilated by infidel compromise, and unadulterated by super stitious traditions, I am a lover of our constitution, (under whose genial influence all these lovely fruits have ripened,) and as far as lieth in me, its humble and sincere defender against any organic change. I have the honour to be, sir, Your obedient servant. HUGH APNEILE. Ballycastle, 28th July, 183 G. P.S.—This letter cannot reach Liverpool in time for inser tion in the AV,ion of next Monday. It will, however, appear in some of the other papers, from whence the Albion will, I hope, see the propriety of copying it. The Rev. Joseph Woolf, the missionary, on his wav to Tim ,, buctoo, arrived at, Cosseir from Suez, in the H ugh - Lindsay, Indian steamer, on the Bth of May last. It was his intention to proceed in the same vessel to Djiddah,,in the Yemen, and then cross the 11 , ,d Sea to the coast of Aby.ssinia, ,, Malt,s GeoeSte, June 22, MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECKS. On Friday evening, betwixt seven and eight o'clock, a storm of wind and rain broke over the town. The wind, which had previously been blowing gently from the south, began to blow with such violence from the N.W. by N. that, in a short time, it assumed all the features of a hurricane. A number of vessels had, in the course of the day, passed Holyhead, inward-bound, but none of them seem to have been so near the banks when the gale sprung up as the John Welch, Captain Woodhouse, from Savanilla, on the Spanish Main. The pilot, finding it impossi ble to claw off, ran for the S.W. Lightship, with the intention of attempting to enter the port. The vessel's sails were, how ever,.torn to tatters by the fury of the storm; and, betwixt seven and eight o'clock, she struck on West Hoyle, outside the Light ship. She was got off in a short time, but. she had sustained so much damage by the striking on the bank that, before she reached the Dove Spit, she had several feet of water in the hold. The pilot now ordered the anchors to be put down, in the hope, by their assistance, of riding out the gale. The vessel, however, dragged, and, between nine and ten o'clock, she was driven on the bank near to Jackson's Buoy. The masts were now cut away, and the crew made every effort to save themselves from a miserable death, almost within sight of their families and their homes. The longboat was got out, but no sooner was it afloat than it was stove in by the pitching of the wreck and sunk. The crew gave themselves up for lost. The vessel's stern being turned to the sea, in a short time the rudder was broken off and with it part of the stern. The sea now swept thedeck, carrying overboard several of the crew, who instantly perished. The remainder sought refuge in the rigging. Giadually; however, they were swept off, until only Iwo men remained, one on the fore, the other on the mizen rigging. The man who had sought refuge in the mizen rigging, having been exposed to all the fury of the waves as they broke over the wreck, was in a state of complete torpidity, or rather ofinsensibility, when, at four o'clock in the morning, lie was taken off by the lifeboat from Hoylake. So fast was the poor fellow in the iigging that the lifeboat men had actually to cut him out with their knives ; whilst the cloth e s had been nearly all washed off his body by the continued action of the sea during the night. The other man, having ensconced himself in the fore rigging, was not so much exposed as his companion to the fury of the waves, and, though he too was in a torpid state when taken off the wreck, he soon recovered. Both the men were treated with the greatest care and attention by the people on the main; one of them has since died from the effects of extreme exhaustion. The number who perished by the me lancholy wreck of the John Welch amounts to fifteen. The names of the two taken oil' the wreck are Peter Deverick and John Hudson. The John Welch was a fine British-built ship. Captain Woodhouse, who had commanded her ever since she was built, was well known as a steady, clever man, and his uatimely death is greatly deplored by a large circle of friends. He has left a f a intly of seven children. A good part of the cargo is expected to he saved, but the ship is a complete wreck. On Saturday morning the underwriters applied to Mr. Dow ling for his assistance to protect the wreck and cargo from plunder, as the usual appearance of "wreckers" assembling on the coast in great numbers gave token of an intention to adhere to the custom of appropriation formerly pursued in these unfor tunate cases. Mr. Dowling immediately left Liverpool , with an inspector, two s er jeauts, and a party of constables armed with c utlasses. Having hired conveyances at Seacombe, they soon a rrived on the.beach opposite the wreck, and made arrange ments fur guarding the coast. Several gentlemen connected with the vessel arrived soon after, and socceded in gettinr to the wreck. With the assistance of a number of men who Were hired on the spot, and some of the coast-guard officers, a num ber of bales of cotton were conveyed on board a flat, and many other things were taken on shore and deposited under a guard. The party remained with the wreck until the tide forced them to retire. Mr. Dowling finally mink arrangements for a constant guard to he placed along the beach. day and night, until the cargo shall be landed, leaving Mr. Tyrrell, the inspector, in charge. Parties of w rec k e rs constantly make t heir a pp earance, and are obliged to retire, apparently wit h considerable reluc tanee.• Up to this peri o d the most complete protection has been afforded to the wreck and cargo. During the storm, the William, from Dublin to Chester, was also li.st. She stru c k on Bed Wharf Bank, and all on board pet ;shed. Some coasting vessels, it is feared, were also wrecked, and the greatest anxiety prevails a S to the safety of many of the vessels who a day or two previous got out to sea, after being wind-bound for a length of time. Since writing the above, three of the bodies have trashed up, 4441 of rhi , :h is that of the TO THE RDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND4RD. Liverpool, Ist August, 1836. Sir:—ln your critique tipon the performances of the Liver= pool Cboral. Society, whose first public meeting took place at the Amphitheatre, on Inesay evening last; you Conclude by stating, " We 'scarcely know an exatnple of a town Of - anything like the extent of Liverpool where the science of musts is so little cultivated and encouraged;" you also state, "and we be"- lieve we are correct in saying that the Choral Society is the only public musical body in the town."— I - fully concur in the sentiment contained in the first extract, that the science of music is not sufficiently cultivated and en couraged ;. but with respect to the last extract, when the Choral Society is named as the only public musical licitly in town, 1 beg leave to differ with you for a very . cogent reason; viz. That there is another society in existence in Liverpool, dendmi nated the "Liverpool Musical Society," whirl, has greatly contributed to the increase of vocal and instrumental talent, under very inauspicious circumstances, having already given tifty-one public quarterly performances, and although an at tempt has been made to join the Musical and Choral Societies together, for the express purpose of forming a more "Efficient Choral Society," and some of its members have seceded, still the Musical Society, as a body meet' regularly every week, and will, in a short period announce their 52d quarterly perform ance.— My reason for addressing you on the subject, is to correct the report of only one society being in existence in Liverpool.— Begging the insertion of the above in your paper of to-mor row, I remain yours, respectfully, it A MEMBER OF THE L.M.S. FlRE.—This morning, about two o'clock, a fire was disco vered in a joiner's shop at the hack of Mr. Cartmell's Machine Manufactory, in Wood-street. From the inflammable nature of the articles in the shop the fire quickly spread. Two of the engines, with a body of firemen and Mr. Whitty, were soon on the spot, and one was got into play; from the want of water, however, not a drop being to be got, save from the water carts, the engines were for some time inefficient, and the whole building became gutted. Fortunately the fire was extinguished without extending any further, a large warehouse being imme dirtely adjoining. The following has been received from Lord Sandon, enclosing the handsome donation of .C 25 towards the fund for establishing schools in connexion with the Church of England , " Londw,, July 29. " Dear Sir,—l have witnessed with admiration the noble efforts which have been made in Liverpool for the purpose of securing to a large portion of your population the blessing of a sound religious education, and have been only deterred from at once contributing 'my mite by the apprehension that the smallness of my contribution might discourage others, who per haps have greater eans than myself, from making larger sa crifices for the object. I cannot, however, refuse myself the pleasure of showing thy perfect accordance with the feeling which has been displayed upon the subject by offering, through you, as treasurer, a contribution of £25. " Believe me, dear sir, yours, very truly, SA N DON." CRICKET MATCH.—On Thursday next a match at cricket will be played between the Everton and Rochdale clubs, on the Liverpool - cricket ground, Wavertree-lane. the gentlemen of that having kindly offered the loan of their ground on this Occasion, wickets to be pitched at 10 o'clock. SOUTH LANCASHIRE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.—We have reason to believe that the Marquis of Salisbury will not be able to preside at the annual dinner of this society in September nest, the consent of his lordship, to which we alluded a few weeks ago, having been given under an erroneous impression as to the month in which the dinner was to take place. The Earl of Wilton is expected to preside this year, and the Marquis of Salisbury will most probably be the president for the next year. We understand that a lot of land in Greenland-street, mea suring 700 square yards. has been bought as a site for the erec tion of the South School in connexion with the Church of Eng land. THE POLICE COURT. Yesterday, at the Police-office, there were no less than 150 persons booked to be brought before the Magistrates, of which 49 were for felony ! LTCNCI/11 FRENCH ACADEMY.—We have very often heard complaints that education, and accomplishments especially, are expensive and laborious to acquire. It appears, however, that a system has been adopted calculated greatly to remedy both those difficulties. On Thursday evening last, Monsieur Jules Lefebvre delivered, at the Lycwurn Lecture-room, 'a lecture explanatory of the eclectic system of teaching, which has originated with him and Monsieur De L'Osier. He re viewed the Jaeotot, Hamilton, and Dufief methods, and, so far as we were able to judge, the best features of these and other methods seem to be combined in the eclectic system. The lecture was most respectably and numerously attended, and we should imagine, from the satisfaction repeatedly expressed by the audience, that the classes established for teaching on this plan by these gentlemen will obtain such a number of pupils as will prove the estimation iu which so desirable a system stands. THE ZOOLOGICAL GAR DENS.—The spirited proprietor of these gardens is preparing a novel exhibition for the Liverpool public, Mr. Yates, the manager of the Adelphi Theatre Lon don, and his assistants have been engaged, and it is intended to give an entertainment similar to those given in the Cheltenham Pitville, and Bath Sydney Gardens. An appropriate erection will be made in the gardens for this purpose. Mr. Yates will give his celebrated "recollections" of the principal London actors, and his delineations of the passions. This entertain ment will he enlivened by a concert, for which Miss Betts, of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, and Mr. W. H. Williams, the comic singer, have been' engaged as principal vocalists. The whole will conclude with a splendid exhibition of fire-works by Mons. D'Ernst. The fete is to take place on Monday and Tuesday next. We hope the weather will prove favourable, and that this novel and spirited undertaking will answer the expectations of the proprietor. 'DEFINITION OF A LUMPER.—Yesterday, in the Insolvent Court, during the examination of a debtor named John M 'Avoy, by Mr. Wilkins, the barrister, as to the trade of one of his creditors of whom he had borrowed £2O, the debtor, whose flow of language appeared rather scanty, described him as a man that ~ `dischargei and' loadi." The Commissioner. " What; is he in the army ?" Debtor. " Shur, army, no shur ; he's a he's ar— himperthey call that's id." - THE MANCHESTER FESTIVA L.—The Journal of Saturday co. pies part of an article on this subject from the Manchester Advertiser, commenting in severe terms upon Sir Geo. Smart for the miserable remuneration offered to the provincial vocal end instrumental performers. However correct the charge' of inade quate payment may be, we are authorized in stating that Sir George Smart has nothing whatever to do with it. Sir George engages none but the instrumental performers from London, whom - he brings down with him; all the other performers are engaged by the respective committees. We understand that the scheme of the festival will be out early next week. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS.—We understand that the land for the site of both these schools is purchased, and their building will be commenced in a few days. We hive heard that it is the intention of the conservative members to walk' in procession when the first stones of the schools are laid. At present there are in the North School 390 boys and 230 girls, making a total of 620; in the South School 250 boys. 189 girls, and 65 infants, making . a total of 504. Upwards of £9BOO has already been collected,- exclusive of subscriptions, which amount to £250, for their erection and sup Port. VESTRY MEETING, LOW-HILL.,— ti public , meeting of the rate payers of certain parts of the township of West Derby, (that have lately come under the operation of the act for watching and lighting) situate at, and in the vicinity of Low-hill, was held at the Public-office, Low-hill, on Thursday last, for the purpose of examining and passing the accounts of the Inspectors for the past year. Robt. Wright Wood, Esq., in the chair, The ac counts having been found accurate, were audited, and duly pas sed. On the motion of Mr. Grundy, and seconded by Mr. Vitt kinson, it was resolved that a call be made on the Overseers of the poor for the sum of one hundred and thirty pounds, for the expenses of lighting certain parts of the township for the cur• rent year. Mr. John Jones was elected au Inspector, and Messrs. J. W. Carter, J. W. Whitehead, and Thomas Clare, were re elected Inspectors for the year ensuing. The thanks of the meeting were then unanimously voted to the Chair man f or his able and impartial conduct in the chair, and the business of the meeting terminated. ICEBERGS.—The ship Rachel, commanded by Mr. Moffitt, ar rived in this port on Friday from Sydney. She was beset with icebergs on her voyage homeward, during the greater part of the month of April, and was frequently in danger of being sunk by the icy mountains which towered above her masts while she lay near them becalmed. On the 21st of April, about 2 p.m., she was struck on both quarters with a large iceberg, which broke and shattered its fragments over the quarter-deck, caus ing great dismay and confuhion on board, their escape from de struction appearing impossible. In the course of three hours, with great perseverance at thepumps, she was got clear from the ice, when it was discovered that considerable damage had been done by the concussion. On the 23d April, at noon, she passed within 'a quarter of a mile of a field of ice, at least •six - miles in circumference, detached pieces' floating in all directions, .and she with difficulty made sail through them. . . BOOTLE BAZAAR.—This bazaar, which we before have no ticed, got up for the purpose of paying off the debt far building the Natidnal School, at Bootle, commenced on Thursday last, arid continued until Friday night. Many of the ladies:Of, Li verpool, and most of the ladies in the neighbourhood ) ceptri buted fancy articles, the work of their own delicate fingers,, for, this benevolent object, and the various stalls presented a gay and variegated appearance, the fair sellers doing their utmost to set off- their fragile..stock to the best advantage, and, to.in_ theduce: the visitors to purchase. Amongst tike most conspicuous of fancy articles was a large screen covered with a variety of a ricatures and prints; and an embroidered fire-screen iu on gant mahogany frame, the work of Lady Stanley. There also a pair of very elegantly embroidered hand st• leer_ Aiver was .Y hand somely mounted with carved ivory, the work also 0 . I. d v Stan ley. An elegantly embroidered' o tt o man, the wink of Miss These were put up in lotteriesn brought from £5 to £lO each. The bazaarrthwe sec ond day and a s held in the Na tional,School-room. At the outside wasi o ta i t r i s o ( le i ro d J o zoiltioffo'ts both.tary band, which played many enlivenui; s days and added much to the hilarity of the visitors. O n t h e throughout by a highly fa the prettiest and most va luable' day the bazaar wascroided f o LadyStanley and family, shionable assemblage, and many luable' articles were disposed. oil. a rrived early in two carriages, and We observed and tato Misses Hornby. sold:aelone of the stands during a l parithe day. also, Mrs. Blundell, of Crosby; 11 rs. Lyon, of Appleton Hall ; and several other ladies of note whose names we did not learn. —ln the north of the building a very handsome dessert was set out, which was• pres ented to the bazaar by Mr. 'rowers, of the Angel Inn:: this act of liberality contributed greatly to the re ceipts. The amount received on the first day at the door, and for articles sold in the bazaar, was nearly £3OO. The second day, during the early part, was not so crowded, but towards evenin,o , the room began to fill and w as very f u ll b efore the close Many- o f the articles were then got off by lotteties, which crea ted much amusement, the fair sellers using all their attractive arts to induce the gentlemen, as long as a shilling remained in their pockets, to become purchasers. The receipts on the se cond day were about £l5O, leaving altogether a very handsome surplus after paying off the debt on the school, sufficient to af ford the master a handsome addition to his salary for sometime. We doubt not, alter the success which has ;mewled this bazaar, but this pleasing mode of "raising the wind" will be frequently resorted to for accomplishing. similar objects. Since the clos ing of the bazaar, by subscriptions and by selling off many of the things which remained, the total amount obtained has been raised to £477. A splendid map of the manufacturing districts, by Messrs. Crutchley, of London, has just been completed. 'The scale is one inch to a mile, and it is engraved on steel in the first style of the art. The railways which intersect those most im portant districts are enclosed . so as to distinguish those that are completed from those that are in progress or in contemplation. The population of every city, township, and parish are given, according to the latest parliamentary returns; and, at the same time, the boundaries of the boroughs and of all the parishes are distinctly marked and coloured. Bot,zoN.—The number of buildings which have been in course of erection during the last six months in Bolton and neighbour , hood is wholly unprecedented, and nothing like a sufficiency of bands can be obtained to supply the demand for labourers. , At this time cottages for families cannot be obtained. Mechanics of every description are in full employment; and weaversi specia of fancy goods are in great request. INSOLVENT DEBTOR'S COURT. This court opened On Saturday, before nenry Revell Rey nolds, Esq , his Majesty's chief commissioner for the relief of insolvent delitors. Andrei Davidson Kinchanan was examined oti his petition to be discharged: Mr. Davies, surgeon, of Islington, was the de taining creditor. The commissioner What business are you ? Petitioner: I wits id the tea and coffee trade.—Whb is your de ' taining creditor? Dr. - Davies, of Islington.---Forwhat amount ? For Us., including the expenses, of Which I have paid £2.— Is not the trade a prosperdus one; I hear a good. deal in this county of tea-tOtalleri • I should imagine ted is a beverage which must be much drunk i I dare Say it is pretty well not` :; sir ; but this is after inY time.—Were you ever here before; I believe von know a little of the practice of this court ? I was here in 1830.—Were you discharged? No; I was imprisoned eight months.—And remained the frill time ? Yes.—When did you commence business again ? About four months after.—Did you, Succeed ? No.—What then ? 1 made an assignment in 183`a to my creditors.—What Were yoUr debts ! About £400.-=What assets had you ? I gave up the shop and fixtures, the stock, and the furniture, &c.—Of what value were they ? They sold for .E 90.—1 dare say after this notable assignment of yours for the benefit of your creditors, after the attorney's bill for exe cuting the assignment and the auctioneer's bill for selling the goods were paid, nothing came to any creditors but the two as-, signees; did you ever hear of any creditor getting a fraction ? No, sir.—And that is the case with the majority of theie private assignments for the benefit of creditors; "they should be called private assignments for the benefit of attorneys and auctioners; having sold these things what became of you afterwards ? I got an appointment as an accountant to an estate in Cheshire, and afterwards I was appointed as a bookkeeper in Liverpool.— How much have you been in debt since that ? I owe one bill of LIGI, and another of £l7o.—How long have you been in Liverpool? About twelve years.—Where did yott Hie when you were arrested ,here? In Harper-street; I was attested as I was going down to the dock office, where I was as bookkeeper.— How much money had you then? Sixpence in my possession.— How much money bad your wife at home? Probahly3s.or-45.; no morer 7 -Ho* lias she been supported" during ythir imprison= went? Ily.snbscription of the clerks of the oflice.—Since yeti made that assignment does any other persou tiOe you any money ? N0.:,--Discharged: Michael Rourke was heard on his petition to be dischargerL: He was opposed in his discharge by the secretary of a burial club, fora debt of £l5, owing to the Flub. The commissioner What are you? The petitioner: lam a labourer at preSent_; I have been a beerseller.—Did you not find it answer ? Sir ? Did you not find it answer? I don't understand that, sir; repeat it again, if yoU please.---,Did you keep a beer shop ? Yes, slr, sure.—HaVe you given it up ? Yes, sir.--W hen ? At the lat ter end of April, 1835.—Wilat have you paid Mr. Davenport ? Nothing.—Has he done. your work for nothing ? I suppose not, sir.,-Who hes paid him ? I applied:to the governor.—You owe only £25? That is all, sir, debt 'and costs.—To James Ketv ? is•he? lle is a .Chairsuaker. by4ratle.=--. Whitt do you owe him money for ?. ,With-regard to a! sort of society, sir.—What sort a society;?,,A buying society.—A burying society I Why you are not dead yet, man ; ho* can yoti owe the money ? What, is it to linty yoe when you are dead; eh ? Aye, that is it, sir; it is for a 'burying soeit.,ty.--I can't - make out What you owe the £l5 for? It is during the time-I kept a beer house.—Perhaps it was for the men that were dead ' drunk in the beer house? No, sir; at the time I kept the beer house several of the members owed me money-, and they ordered me to be paid out of the fond, and I was so,-- - -The commissioner (to Mr. Venables:) Do you understand what he meats ? Mr. VENARLES : No, indeed, I do not, unless he means that the . funds of the society are buried in Michael Rourke. (Laughter.) The commissioner: Explain that, debtor,.. will you ? The pe titioner : There were several of the members of the burial club who owed me money, and they agreed to pay me out of the funds of the society by iustalinents every month; and then the secretary took the sense of the members against it, and said, after I had got the money, it was not legal to give it roe, and then they sued me for it.—The commissioner: They sued you then for the debts that other people owed you. The petitioner : Yes, sir.—The commissioner: It is the oddest society that I have heard of for some time. Where is the list of your debts ? Oh, here they are, I see, abotit 31 in number; all bad, and all for ale. Where have you got them all ? How could you recol4 lect the names; you have no books? The petitioner : I had a list; they were chalked down.—The commissioner: Where is the list; where did you get it ? The petitioner: I gave it to Mr. Davenpurt.—The commissioner : b 1 r. Davenport, have you it? Mr. Davenport: No, sir. The petitioner: I made away with it.—The commissioner: Were they all Irish ? The peti tioner : Yes, all Irish. (Laughter.)—Dennis O'Sullivan ? Yes.—Paddy O'Rafferty ? Yes.—Phetim O'Roone ? Yes.— Tim O'Doniihue ? Yes.— Here they are all, on a bit of paper ? Yes.—And because these men did . not pay you £l5, they iin prisoned you ? The costs made it up to £`s.—Are these men, of which here 'is a list, all buried ? Sir! (Loud laughter.)— Are all these men buried I see down here ? They are not bur tied yet! they have not died.—Mr. LAWRENCE : From what I can gather, he says the members of the club owed him money for an ale debt, and he was paid out of the funds of the society ; for which an action was brought by the society, and he was beat in that action.—The commissioner: Well, I will let you out alive now.—The petitioner: Thank you, sir. The folloWing is a summary of the cases which have already been disposed of. To be discharged forthwith:—Samuel Walker, William Clarke, John Fisher, Andrew Davidson Bu chanan. Wilson Jackson, Michael Rourke, James Morris, Robt: Platt, Eliza Amson, James Clarke, Mary Graham, John Cross, Matthew Heston, 'Ann Lawson, Henry Mason, Mary Mull holland, Samuel-Jones, Robert WillianwEliza liice, William Rankin, Alexander Scotland, James Gunning, H. Stephenson; and John Farrell. Petition dismissed :hrWilliam Jones, James Williams, and William Beckwith., 44)A4.,uf custody :—Thornas Carmout. William Shewell trii be entitled to his dis charge after remaining six months in custody from the date of filing his petition. James Davidson 40.., hp ; entitled to his dis charge after being imprisoned five nrontka.—The court was adjourned to this morning, when the cases.are expected to be got through. REVISING. RARRISTRIIS.—We hear that ah intimation has been „►iven-from the Home Office, to the senior judges of the present assize circuits, in whom the appointment of revising barristers for the current year is vested by the refonn.act.ilkat their lordships should abstain from appointing any barrister to revise the lists of any place which he had revised the last year. MILITARY FLOGGING.—The total number of persons upon whom corporal punishment has been inflicted since the issuing of the circular, dated Horse Guards, 21th August, 1833, is 586, of white 270 were for mutiny and insubordination, R) for drunk enness on duty, 139 for sale of- arms, 52 fur stealing from coal- • rades, 47 for disgraceful conduct. RA ILHOADs IN EGYPT.—A letter from Mr. Waghorn. dated Alexandria, July Ist, says " The Suez railroad is not yet come menced. Mr. Richard Galloway is occupied by the I its laying down two railroads from some stone quarries near the Marabout side of the harbour to the eater's edge, for the easier transport of stone for the works now in in progress." INVOLUNTAIIV TESIPEDANcE.—`` Will you promise to keep sober it I let you go?" said the sitting magistrate at the Police. office, the other day, to a woman who was brought before him • for being drunk and disorderly in Carpenter's-row. " I will, . Sir, replied the culprit, adding in a tone that must have carried conviction to the minds of the most sceptical, " for I have pawned all my own and my children's clothes. nod I can get nothing to drink." The wretch was discharged. • DIVING.—A certain LorenzoGiorriano of Nininara, has found the means of remaining for six hours at a time in the deepest places at the bottom of the sea. with the power of walking at the rate of a mile an hour. For his secret he asks the sole right of doing this for two years, and the half of what he finds in his submarine peregrinations. FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES.—Since the 4th of July last ; the flag of the United States has been spangled with twenty six stars, two being added in consequence of the admission of •_ the states of Arkansas and Michigan into the Union. In 1818; . the number of states being twenty, an act was passed, " That, on the admission of every new state into the Union, one star be • added to the Union of the Flag; and that such addition shall take effect on the 4th day of July then succeeding that admis sion. " The thirteen stripes denoting the thirteen original states, were on the admission of Vermont and Kentucky, increased to sixteen ; but as the number of states was further enlarged, it was perceived that the flag would not, eventually, admit of at a stripe for each, and so an act was passed, fixing the nu i n t rt he c 4th thirteen, as before. The last added to the flag w of July, 1832, in honour of the state of 11lissouri a , s w ° 1 ' ich .was admitted into the Union on the 10th August, 1821. The . star •. for Maine was added on the 4th July, 1820. EUPHRATES EXPEDITION: Loss OF LIFE.-- ' l:he 'following rn ex m t u ra n cted from . a letter particulars relative to the loss of the. Tigris steam-boat, one of t ii~atmu with India; ' %, i e e re ve r s e s ( e .e ls iv a e p d p o o n inle h d u t r o sd f a a;i . lit -T aT e t y. he a e r o sent by the commander of the Tigris, who was sayeicilaf::mwadstoean'..., ing, although twenty of te crew and a passenger Lieute n ant ' •'• • 21st f The 'Tigris on the o - came on, 2.._ • the atmosphere was clouded almost to darkness. Great effort!, bat though her engine Ni-lnhiah,,iipietrhisehleul.phrates, when a violent• tempest• • iw r she was driven were made to make the vessel fast ashore, was working to keep her head towards the gale, stern first her bow out and gradually With her broadside to it; the water was then forced over her and in three minutes she • foundered, about eight minutes from the commencement of the hurricane. By the united tombs of two hawsers, and the:en gines working at full power, the Eoplirat es Steamer maintained her position at the bank until the storm abiited. The commander and lieuteuant Lynch (relatives) went down together ; but, io their struggles for life, while in the water, the cammanderstates, in his letter to his friends received on Thursday, he shook the Lieutenant off and was saved. He adds, that; on recovering himself, he found that tWentv of his braite crew had perished:, A committee of officers - bid, as usual,aat to investigate the mat ter, and they had reported in favour of the skill. intrepidity; and ' • Judgment of the commander. tinder the trying circumstances in which he had been placed. The letter conveying these details • is dated on board the Euphrates, another of the vessels employed in the expedition. The following are the 'tames of the suf ferers ;—Lieut. R. B. Lynch, 26th Regiment Bengal N. 1.., passenger; Lieut. R. Cockburn, Royal llegt. Artill.; bite' preter, Ensoff Seder; Engineer, John Struthers; Acting Se r. geant, Riehard Clark; Gunner, Thomas Jones; Ditto, Roge r • Turner; Ditto, James Moore; Ditto, James Hay, Royal Reg rt Artill.;, John Hunter, Private, R.S and M., Archd. M'Donald Benjami`. Gibson Thomas Booth, Thomas Batty, an George Liddel, Seamen ; Aboo, Wusoo, Jacob Johir, Mannend and Pedsor, Natives. THE NEW STEAM-BOAT NOVELTY.,--The recent successful, expetirnent of driving this boat, of the largest class, with an- • - thracite coal, against the tide, and a strong current from heavy rains, at the rate of 16 miles in the hour,' has caused much re , mark in our city, as an astonishing fact of : great importaice n o a n_ the subject of fuel, which may lead to revolutions in stea m n i vigation. Dr. Nott, the distinguished president of u Col lege, is the well known proprietor of theNnoe,,i- eiitv, w hic h h constructed, we believe, with machinery modelled afterli own ingenious invention, so as to adapt it ultimately toe economical principles of combu stion which hate giN t •e h n e c s a u n c l . The fact of the prac h deserved celebrity to his patented sto n y produce as great a degree . of a v s 'e t c o in ' ip - ort their wood at exot bi liability of using anthracite beiniga: poeiw.aeawsacte,drt,awinielidnsool longer e t ( r ) compel steam-boat p remete bv, and indeed almost at he n 11 tripsO‘Vtlol Maine and the shores of tent prices from the inael.hties,uscegeosasnfttlitlies. navigation t;f,t 11.0 dthoeo„:„,C,h:;ahP„esa.eket.hFSe't'hrerareit'e coal mines of Penns•ylytinia, of the difference in cost between' wood and proprietors forests of Novelty, it is ascertained, would be 19 WO anthracite, for the t o Europe, is made in favour of dollars ovleiblraayrnsy7fsosri boineesea variety,s season, certain. 'Among advantages mut be the vast saving of hu man other life, as it is believed the steady intense radieated heat • from great loiir A a t l an a n ri i t hi i c re • some degree, .a security against those sw id en aceunailations which arise from the inflammable blaze :Cite will be in o f pine wood. There is also an eriEre freedom froial.-the,annov once of smoke and the danger of file from showers. .of spaik - s. Wood is now selling on the. Hudson at ,five to six dollars a cord. The cost, in fact, of pine Wood is shout double that of anthracite. The passage and .freight; therefore, must, soon be reduced to half the present rates. The Novelty is remarkable for the ease with which she glides throngh the water, the,motion being with-. • out any jarring. --New Yerk Evening Star. The following from Naples, of the 12th instant, is extracted from the Augsburg Gurette: . —ft Every thing: announces thee .a new eruption of Vesuvius is at • hand. The smoke is not, how. ever, as yet very perceptible, but the inclined plane .near the crater is burning, and the excessive heat of the soil can hardy be endured;".. 4 • • 4.