The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-26 00:00:00

rroN y Hoßsr_ YAft riEREBY GIVEN, that there will be FAIR held at IL aP day of NTav, when V nor PREMIUMS WILL BE GIVEN Horse Dealer who shall offer for Sale the best Jr Cart Horses, not less than five in number. ro the Horse Dealer who shall offer for Sale the best of Riding Horses, not less than five in number. co the best Brood Mare offered for gale for Farming st Three years old Colt or Filly offered for WI CO.l s.—To the best Stallion shown, and serving Mares in the mediate neighbourhood, adapted to breed from for Farm- ing purposes. 6.—To the best Team of Farm Horses shown in the Fair, and being bona fide the property of the Farmer. • That the Horse Fair shall commence at One o'clock in the Afternoon of the day of the Cow Fair. Newton, April, 1842. NOTICE. TO BUILDERS, CONTRACTORS, 8(c. EXTENSIVE PRISON AT BELFAST. NOTICE IS -HEREBY GIVEN, that a presentment for Building a Bridewell and House of Correction at Bel fast, in the county of Antrim, having been made by the Grand Jury of the said county, at Spring Assizes, 1841, and amended at Spring Assizes, 1842, it is the intention of the Commis sioners therein appointed now to CONTRACT for BUILD PRISON. Persons desirous of Contracting for the same may see the Plans and Specifications relating thereto at the Office of Mr. CHARLES LANYON, County Surveyor for Antrim, Donegall square, Belfast, on or after the 12th day of April, 1842. In order to facilitate the proceedings of parties intending to Tender for the abovementioned Work, they are requested to attend at the Office of Mr. Lanyon, on the day above mentioned, for the purpose of nominating or appointing a Measurer to take out the quantities of Work in said proposed A similar Person will be appointed on the part of the Com missioners, so as that each may be a check on the other. A Copy of " the quantities" so ascertained will be given to each Person intending to Tender. The Person whose Tender shall be accepted will be required pay the charges of the Measurer appointed as abovemen- Sealed Tenders, for the execution of the above Work, to be forwarded on or before the 24th May, under cover, addressed " To the Clerk to the Commissioners of Belfast Bridewell and House of Correction, Carrickfergus." Sufficient Seiwrity will be required. (Signed, by order,) JOHN COATES 16th March, 1842. THE INCOME TAX ix Bill, ordered by the House of Commons _ printed, has just been published. A brief _ contents will be found interesting to all those !med. The tax is to be charged and levied from and the sth day of April, 1842, and is to continue in force te sth of April, 1845, and no longer. There are five dules, A, B, C, D, E, which describe the different rates to be levied, and the various kinds of property liable ssment. Schedule A enacts—That for all lands,tenements, and he ditaments or heritages in Great Britain, there shall be charged sevenpence, for every twenty shillings. Schedule B.—For all lands, &c., in respect of the occupa tion in England, the sum of threepence *alfpenny shall be paid for every twenty shillings of the annual value thereof, and in Scotland the snm of twopence halfpenny" tSchedule C.—Upon all profits from annuities, dividends, and shares of annuities, payable to any person, body politic or corporate, company or society, out of any public revenue, there shall be charged sevenpence for every twenty shillings, without deduction. Schedule D.—Upon the annual profits or gains accruing to any person residing in Great Britain from any kind of pro- perty J whatever, whether in Great Britain or elsewhere, there shall be charged sevenpence for every twenty shillings, and the same sum for every twenty shillings upon the annual profits accruing to any person whatever, whether a subject of her Majesty or not, residing in Great Britain, or any pro fession, trade, employment, or vocation exercised within Great Britain. As the rules by which the profits arising from trades and )fessions are to be determined, must be particularly inter- Aug. we quote the clauses in full. Y. That the duty to be charged in respect thereof shall be computed on a sum not less than the full amount of the balance of the profits or gains of such trade, manufacture, adventure, or concern, upon a fair and just average of three years, ending on such day of the year immediately preceding the year of assessment on which the accounts of the said trad manufacture, adventure, or concern, shall have been usually made up, or on the sth day of April preceding the year of assessment, and shall be assessed, charged, and paid, without other deduction than is hereinafter allowed ; pro vided always that in cases where the trade manufacture, ad venture, or concern, shall have been set up or commenced within the said period of three years, it shall be lawful to make the computation for one year on the average of the ha lance of the profits and gains from the period of first setting up the same ; provided also, that in cases where the trade, manufacture, or concern, shall have been set up and com menced within the year of assessment, it shall be lawful to make the computation according to the rule in the sixth case d duty shall extend to every person or persons, )odies politic or corporate, fraternities, fellowships, comps ' " dto every art, mystery, adventure, or )y them respectively, in Great Britain or s aforesaid; except always such adventures or or about lands, tenements, hereditaments, or as are mentioned in schedule A. and directed to be Icieties " 3. In estimating the balance of profits and gains charge able under schedule D, or for the purpose of assessing the duty thereon, no sum or sums shall be set against or deducted from, or allowed to be set against or deducted from, such profits or gains, on account of any sums expended for repairs of premises occupied for the purpose of such trade, manu facture, adventure or concern, nor for any sum expended by them for the supply, or repairs, or alterations of any imple ments, or utensils, or articles employed for the purpose of such trade, manufacture, adventure, or concern, beyond the sum usually expended for such purposes, according to an -erage of three years preceding the year in which such -srnent shall be made ; nor on account of loss not con out of such trade, manufacture, ad venture, or concern ; nor on account of any capital with drawn therefrom ; nor for any sums employed or in tended to be employed, as capital in such trade, ma nufacture, adventure, or concern ; nor for any capital employed in improvement of premises occupied for the of such trade, manufacture, adventure, or account or under pretence of any _ might have been made on such sums, if laid out at interest ; nor for any debts, except such debts or such parts thereof, as shall be proved to the satisfaction of the commissioners respectively to be irrecoverable and desperate, nor for any average loss beyond the actual amount of loss after adjustment, nor for any S= recoverable under an in surance or contract of_ indemnity. nected with or arisir purpose concern nor on " 4. In estimating the amount of profits and gains arising as aforesaid, no deduction shall be made on account of any annual interest. case of professions, &c.,lthe following :rules will 1.. The said duties on employments shall be construed to extend to every employment - , by retainer, in any character whatever, whether such retainer shall be annual, or for a longer or shorter period ; and to all profits and earnings of whatever value, subject only to such exemptions and allow ances as are hereinafter granted. 2. The duty to be charged shall be computed at a sum not less than the full amount of the;balance of the profits, gains, and emoluments, of such pro fessions, employments, or vocations (after making such de ductions, and no other, as by this act are allowed) within the preceding year, ending, as in the first case, to be paid on the actual amount of such profits or gains, without any deduction, subject to the like provisions as are made in the first case in respect of the period of average, in the cases of setting up and commencing such profession, employment, or vocation within the period herein limited. 3. The third and fourth rule in the first case shall also extend to the profits arising under the second case, as far as they are applicable." Schedule E.—Upon every public office or employment of profit, and upon every annuity pension, or stipend payable by her Majesty, or out of the public revenue (except annuities included in Schedule C), there shall be charged for every twenty shillings yearly the sum of sevenpence. Exemptions le in favour of Friendly Societies, charitable institu he stock or dividend belonging to her Majesty, or to redited Minister from a foreign s t a t e. Cl ause 97 pro- vides that persons carrying on two trades or professions may set the losses of the one against the profits of the other. Duties may be paid in advance subject to discount, and after assessr - 's made parties may compound for three years. All office s employed in carrying the Act into effect, are to make oath that they will not disclose any particular contained in any statement or schedule, except to such persons as shall be sworn to receive their statements. The act is to apply only to persons possessed of an income of £l5O a year and upwards. MURDER IN GENT'S-PARK FREDERICK-STREET, RE %., FIVE YEARS AGO. From Yesterday's Times.) Many strange and very contradictory statements being cur rent relative to a clue hating at length been obtained which, as alleged, Will, in all probability, have the effect of causing the speedy capture of the murderer of Eliza Davis, who was barmaid to Mr. Wadley, landlord of the King's Arms, Fre derick -street, Regent's-park, our reporter has instituted a most diligent inquiry as to what has recently really taken place relative to this dreadful affair, and the result is as follows: It a , 'Veers that a few nights since, at a quarter before 12 O t cl ock , Mr. Wadley had closed his shutters, and was about o fasten his noa doo t, r when a middle-aged man, attired in a black frock the house and politely figured waistcoat, and light trousers, entered hot rum and water; ii requested to be served with a glass of of a small e manner of was supplied with it, and after par takingincoherent and strange portion commenced talking in a somewhat Jane Jones at Roeha the late dreadful murder of observed, that admit?in`m,and in the course of his remarks Good had killed the woman, he did not think much the worse of him for that ; after a brief silence, he asked Mr. Wadley he was not in that place where Eliza Davis was murdered, and on his being replied to in the affirmative, he made some observations which were not clearly intelligible, with regard to to the blood found on supposed to have been the door (alluding to the finger his egress from the '- thereon by the murderer in making who., at the period es) and wished to know if Wilcox was potman) was perpetration of the diabolical deed that n he was still landlordversation was he was told that he was, and also ,wann and the 'Mr. Wadley's) service. While this co in there was no one in the bar but the who was drinking as above referred to bed at half-past 11. It will be borne in mind that in so strongly suspected of having committed the modeller of plaster, and that from his frequent avri ng's Arms for months prior to the discovery of transaction his person was well known to Wil- Wadley was also of opinion that he should be im at any future period should he chance to meet with Miro. The man made some further remarks upon Good, and then aske d Mr. Wadley if he thou g ht he should know the individual who he imagined had cut the barmaid's throat ? to which he (Mr. Wadley) replied (look ing him steadily in the face) " Yes, I think I should, and you 're as great deal like him youself." He seemed rather confused and offended at this remark, and having finished his rum and water, quitted the premises with some abrupt ness ; this was at half-past 12 o'clock. Mr. Wadley then spoke to a constable on duty near the spot, requesting him to keep a sharp look out, at the same time stating that the man (giving a description of him) who had just left the house was, to the best of hi s (M r. W a dl e y' s ) belief, the murderer of Eliza Davis. O n th e following day Insp ec tor Aggs, of the S division, m nn received i n f orma ti on of what had occurred , and, after timmeu'nicatin g with Mr. Wadley upon the s ub j ect, lost no in exerting himself to the utmost, with the view of capturing, if p oss ib le, the supposedguilt person, but as yet nothing more has been heard respecting him. It is much lr to be regretted th a t Wadley dick not act with more promptitude and judgment 11? the matter, by detaining the suspected man upon his mis until he had called in a po liceman, in which case such P other steps might have been taken as would have had th e e ff ect of setting at rest the question as to whether his suspicions were well grounded or other wise. Aggs, who is acquainted with the whole of the facts connected with the horrid murder, is still actively engaged in following up his inquiri es relative to the mysterious affair. the appallin and M ) indentify To the jat•ltamtnt. HOUSE OF.COMMONS.-THURGDAY Mr. SHA.I3MAN CRAwlonn iirouilit:forward a motion, the purport of which was to pledge the house to take into its early consideration what are commonly known as the " five points of the charter, viz.—extension of the suffrage, equal ised electoral districts, vote by ballot, annual parliaments, the payment of members, and abolition of qualification. He did not ask the house to pledge itself to all these points, but to go into the consideration of them, with a view to a full and fair discussion. Mr. O'CONNELL seconded the motion. A discussion ensued, in which Mr. Wallace, Dr. Bowring, Mr. Ward, Sir James Graham, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Wakley, Mr. Bernal, Sir John Easthope, Mr. Villiers, Sir Robert Peel (who declared, that what he now heard of the working of the reform act, disinclined him to entertain any new change ; and, affirmed, that though our representative sys tem was not free from defects, he yet believed that sympathy with the people would be better shown by passing his income tax and his financial measnres, as being better calculated to benefit them), Mr. Muntz, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Roebuck, Lord Stanley, Sir Thomas Wilde, and other members took part. The house then divided, when there appeared,—For the motion, 67 ; against it, 226. The house adjourned at a quarter past twelve o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. The Earl of RIPON moved the third reading of the Spirit Duties (Ireland) Bill. Lord MONTEAGLE said that there ought to be a more equal imposition of duty on spirits distilled in Ireland and Scotland. Spirits exported from Scotland were entitled to a drawback of eightpence, whereas no such drawback was al lowed to the Irish distiller. The Earl of WicKLow feared that the increased dutywould tend to illicit distillation, and thus counterbalance the bene ficial results of the exertions of the apostle of temperance in Ireland. After a short discussion, the Duke of WELLINGTON post poned the third reading until Monday, to give time to con sider the facts stated by Lord Monteagle. The Corn Importation Bill was read a third time and passed. The Merchant and Factor Improvement Bill was read a third time and passed. The other bills on the table were forwarded a stage, after which their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. Sir R. PEEL moved the second reading of the Income Tax Bill. • Mr. C. BULLER. moved that it be read a second time that day six months. Now that he had read the bill, he must say that all the fears he had seriously entertained were very much increased. He perceived that it went to create whole hosts of commissioners armed with the most extraordinary powers, foreign to the feelings and habits of Englishmen. The com mercial tariff, which was assumed to be the consideration for the income tax. was supported by the most contradictory ar guments, for sometimes it was said that it would reduce the expense of living, while at other times this result was wholly denied. He was aware that the principle of direct taxation bad been advocated by many hon. members on his side of the house, but he could not acquiesce in that opinion, for he thought that the principle of direct taxation was both unjust and unequal—it was, in fact, a resource of barbarous times. As to the assertion that the income tax would press only on the richer classes of society, it was fultile. Even the char tists understood that any lessening of the funds out of which the labourers were paid must necessarily be felt by the la bourers. Mr. EWART expressed himself friendly to the principle of direct taxation, though opposed to the imposition of an in come tax. He approved of the tariff generally, but objected to the proposed duty on coals as detrimental to our steam commercial shipping. Sir J. WALSH contended that the same charge of inequa lity which was levelled against the income tax applied with equal force to every kind of taxation. The trading and com mercial classes would be largely benefited by the new tariff, and it was therefore only reasonable that they should con tribute their proportion to supply those deficiencies occasi oned by wars for the protection of their interests. Sir W. CLAY said that, after making every allowance for the reductions in the commercial tariff, be did not think there was anything in it to compensate for the imposition of an income tax, which was uncalled for. Mr. WAKLEY said there was a very general opinion in favour of a property tax, but it was thought that it should be levied upon a graduated scale, by which means the greater portion of the burden would be borne by the wealthier classes. Instead of doing this, however, the right hon. baronet by his income tax threw the chief burden upon the industrious por tion of the community. It was said out of doors that Sir R. Peel had made a gigantic effort to place the finances of the country in a proper position ; but when they came hereafter to pay the income tax, they would soon find out the justice of a sliding scale and insist upon its adoption. Mr. DISRAELI supported the second reading, and ex pressed his opinion that the first duty of the house ought to have been to have instituted an inquiry into the causes which led to the disasters of our army in India, and to the defi ciency in the financial affairs of that country. , Mr. CHRISTIE supported the amendment of Mr. Buller, and condemned in the strongest manner the resorting to a tax so odious, unequal, and unjust as that on income, with its disgusting inquisition. The hon. member then argued upon the injustice of assessing income derived from trades and professions in the same ratio as income derived from land, and instanced cases in which the tax would apply with peculiar hardship and oppression. Mr. SMYTHE supported the second reading. The country was called upon to make strenuous exertions to redeem the reverses of its army in India; and, at such a time, no slight objections should be permitted to interfere with the struggle which it was necessary to make. He was content to give his vote for the tax, as a vote of confidence in Sir R. Peel, though he admitted a great proportion of the evils attributed to the measure. After a few observations from Mr. W. 0. STANLEY and Mr. SCOTT, the house divided, and the second reading was carried by a majority of 155 to 76. The Roasted Malt Bill, and the Excise Duties Compounds Bill, were severally read a second time. The remainder of the evening was occupied in committee on the Railways Bill. ARRIVAL OF TWO WEST INDIA MAIL STEAMERS. FALMOUTH, APRIL 20, HALF-PAST NINE, P.M.—The Forth, West India steamer, is just arrived ; sailed from the Havannah, 15th March ; was detained at Nassau ten days for the mails, when the Tay arrived ; but, through some mis understanding about the mails being transhipped from one vessel to the other, both vessels left for England on the 2nd of April, arrived at Bermuda on the sth, and Fayal on the 14th. The Tay is expected early to-morrow. The Forth left Fayal on the 14th, but has brought no Jamaica mail, which, it is said, is on board the Tay. The Forth has brought only four passengers : the Tay has about thirty on board, and about 500,000 dollars. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 21.—The Tay, Capt. Hayden, arrived here at eleven o'clock to-night, having landed her mails at Falmouth, but which will not reach London till Saturday morning. The Tay left Havannah on the 27th of March, Nassau on the 29th, Bermuda (where she took in 300 tons of coals) on the sth instant, and Fayal on the 14th. During the latter part of her voyage, she had strong easterly winds, yet she made the distance to Southampton, by Fal mouth, 1380 geo. miles in seven days. There is no truth whatever in the reported loss of any of the company's steamers. The Dee was at the Havannah. The Clyde also had arrived there, and the Actaeon also had safely reached Barbadoes, on her return from Jamaica. The Tweed, from having run short of fuel, on her passage from Chagres to Jamaica, had been compelled to take refuge in Puerto Ca bello, from which place she was to sail on the 27th of Febru ary, in order to beat up to Jamaica. This accident has thrown this vessel more than a month out of her time, and is one cause of the detention of the Jamaica mails, and the ' consequent derangement of other parts of the service. This derangement has been greatly aggravated and extended by the quarrels between the Spanish authorities and the British Consul pt Havannah, which necessarily retards the trans mission of the mails to Europe. Instructions have, we learn, gone out by the steamer, which will, we are given to understand, soon after her arrival in the West Indies, restore the whole service to its regular course. The following is an extract of a letter from a passenger on board the Forth, Lieutenant Fayrer, R.N.:— " Steamer Forth, entering Falmouth Harbour, 20th April, 1842. " I am most happy to inform you of my arrival thus far on my passage home, after unprecedented detentions, caused by the mal-arrangements of the directors, commanders, or mail agents of the Royal Mail Steam Company. Our first long detention was the non-arrival of the packet at Vera Cruz for ten days after the time specified by the general advertise ments in the public papers : and, secondly, by twelve days' detention at Nassau, New Providence, for the arrival of the Windward Islands mails. On the arrival of the steamer Tay with these mails, neither of the captains nor mail agents would give up their mails or passengers ; both persisted in their right to go to England : they remained_ inflexible and obstinate. The result was, that they both started, the Forth with five passengers and the small mail of the Gulf of Mexico; the Tay with about thirty passengers and the Windward Island mails. Both ships coaled at Bermuda nearly at the same time, and the Tay came to Fayal as we left. I suppose she may be about six hours astern of us. You may easily conceive how, by some bad management, this company has been, taking it in round numbers, put to nearly two thousand pounds expense, money completely thrown away, as well as taking one ship off her station where she was actually required to establish some kind of regularity." The actual performance of the West India mail steamers have fallen far short of the expectations formed of them by the projectors of the company. Of the two steamers just arrived, one was due on the Ist and the other on the 15th instant. Yet, in the "Details of Service to be performed," published last year, they were expected to arrive with such punctuality that the calculator of the tables remarked, at the close of the last, " On re-examining this table, eight hours in time might, without difficulty, be saved. This is an object of some importance. as it would go to bring the mails to the General Postoffice, London, by 8 a.m., and in time for the morning mails for the North I" THE ROEHAMPTON MURDER L GOOD. i crowded to excess, On Thursday mornin g tops filled with respectably dressedand the windows and house - RE-EXAMINATION gßow -street twenty minutes to nine. on the bench, which persons, to witness the arrival of Good, who was brought in the prison van, about At half-past ten Mr. Hall took his seat The din the dock. He ap pearedprisoner was in a few minutes place minutes was densely crowded with the nobility and gentry. greatly dejected, and in a few fainted, but after partaking of a glass of water he revived, resumed his former position, resting his right arm on theof the front dock. Seve ra l w it nesses were exam i ne d, but whose evidence was a mere repetition of that given before the coroner at the . inquest. Go o d' s son was i n t h e room a dj o i n i n g the court , his youthful appearance created a general sympathy. At the close of the inquiry Good requested to be sent back to Clerk enwell Prison ; but Mr. Hall said, he felt bound to commit him to take his trial. It was his duty, therefore, to send him at once to Newgate. Richard Gamble and Mary Good were then placed at the bar. Mr. Hall said, at that late hour it would b e i mpossible to go on with the case against them, therefore he should again remand them till to-morrow (Friday), when the evidence would be gone into. The three prisoners were immediately conducted to the police van, which was waiting for them, Daniel Good to be conveyed to Newgate, and the others to Clerkenwell Prison. The mo ment Good was seen by the immense concourse of persons who had assembled, he was saluted by a volley of hideous yells and groans. Hundreds of persons followed the van as it drove away, and continued shouting as loud as they po x _ sibly could. " I can't bear you," as the sea said to the leaky ship riNANcrAr, CONS. Why is part of the government financial plan like directions on deal boxes? Because the t a cks and ink 'em! — Why another portion of it like anti slavery fanatics? Because they don't touch sugar!—Why another like an order for the play given to a certain city alderman ? Because it is getting Wood to the boxes cheap ! Why does the revised tariff oblige all to dress decently? Be cause no new duty (nudity) is imposed !—Why is the whole plan like a cheap plaster? Because it is the "poor man's friend !" I►IISCELLANEOUS Contracts were made on Thursday by government for 60,000 pairs of boots and shoes for the army, and 8,000 pairs for convicts,. Sixty-six volunteers from the 88th Connaught Rangers joined the 86th in Cork barracks this day. The regiment is now complete, and waits orders to embark for Liverpool, en route for lndia.—Cork Reporter of Tuesday. STATE OF TRADE.—Whatever improvement in trade may have taken place in other parts of the kingdom, we are con strained to say that it has not extended to Leicester. Worsted goods are little in demand at this season of the year, but the stagnation in every department of the cotton hosiery is un precedented and unaccountable. The master manufacturers have wisely ceased to make until their present stocks are dis posed of. In fact, little of any kind of hosiery is making.— Leicester Journal. WOOD'S CASE.---It is said that the special retaining fee to Sir W. Follett, for his half hour's work in the Court of Gloucester last week, was 1,000 guineas ; that of Mr. Fitz roy Kelly, 500 guineas ; and that of Mr. Butt (a stuff gownsman from the Western Circuit), 300 guineas ; besides several minor fees paid to each of them. To this may be added, the fees paid Mr. Cripps, M. P., and Mr. Keeting ; fees of 48 guineas paid to the jury, and lawyers, and lawyers' clerks innumerable.—Globe. PEDESTRIAN FEAT.—On Monday a wager of 50 sove reigns, between Lieutenant Peel (nephew of the Premier), of the 60th Rifle dep6t, stationed at the Pigeon House Fort, and Major Wynyard of the 58th Regiment, in which the former undertook to perform the arduous task of walking 15 miles in three hours, was decided. The ground was in the Park, from Castlenock-gate to the Phoenix, one mile. A. very considerable number, principally of fashionable specta tors, was assembled on the occasion. Mr. Peel won the wager, performing his work easily, Il minutes within the given time.—Freeman's Journal. GLOSSOP.—Wages have fallen here this last month more than ss. in the pound. The mills continue working short time, and the poverty which prevails is truly deplorable. Emigra tion and enlisting for soldiers seem to be the only resources left for the labouring population. Last Saturday upwards of 20 persons, principally heads of families, left Glossop and the neighbourhood for different parts of America; upwards of 30 left Hyde for that part of the world, and 26 took their departure from Staleybridge. These steps have been has tened by the receipt of letters in this part of the country bearing good report from persons who have gone before.— Derbyshire Chronicle. THE OPERATION OF THE TARIFF.—A gentleman of Bradford, who visited the south of Scotland last week, has favoured us with the following " notes of a • traveller' :—ln the prospect of Sir Robert's tariff acting injudiciously to the farmers' interests, sheep and cattle are weekly falling in va lue. At a large sheep market held the week before last in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, a fall of 20 per cent. was experienced on last year's prices. Cattle have given way £3 per head, and leave a direct lose on the winter's keep. Wheat, which is scarce, rates at 635. to 655. ; oats about 255. ; barley 365. The growers are sadly in the dumps respecting the approaching clip of wool, and from what I could gather, will be somewhat more supple and pliant with the stapler than they have been a whilome back. They are now ready to acknowledge, that live stock, as well as produce, has been unnaturally and unwarrantably high.—Bradford Observer. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE AT NAPLES. —A more pain ful excitement has seldom been created at Naples than that arising from the following melancholy event, the particulars of which we gather from a private letter. The Rev. W. Jeans. brother to Mr. Jeans, the banker, left Naples on the morning of the 28th of March, with a gay party, for the purpose of spending the day at the Sybil's Grotto, Curare. The party, after enjoying the pleasures of the day, proposed to return home ; but, instead of getting into the carriage in waiting for them, they all agreed to walk on a short distance and catch the delightful breezes of the evening. Mr. Jeans, following the impulse of the moment, left the party, and took a different direction, when suddenly he arrived at the edge of the pre cipice, which he did not observe, being near sighted, and the evening having considerably advanced. lle fell headlong from the fatal rock, and was not discoverid until an hour afterwards, when the servant found him in dreadful agony, though still able to speak. is soon as he had been lifted into the carriage, he said, Thank God !my life is spared, but my limbs are broken." He died a few minutes after, though his friends were not aware that life had fled until Dr. Rookilly, the eminent surgeon of Naples, informed them of the dreadful truth. As well as several fractures, he had received a fatal injury of the spine. The unfortunate gentle man is said to have been engaged to a young lady who was one of the party, and their speedy union had been decided upon. Mr. Jeans, who frequently officiated at the English church at Naples, was much beloved by all who knew him. He is said to have been in his 28th year. THE NEW TARIFF.—The boot and shoemakers are agi tating strongly against the proposed reduction of duty on foreign boots and shoes, like men, whose " awl" depends upon resistance to the measure. The present duty on men's shoes is £1 4s. the dozen pairs, and the proposed alteration would make it 125., or a reduction of is. per pair. The pre sent duty on men's boots is £2 14s. the dozen pairs, and the proposed alteration would make it £1 55., which is equal to a reduction of 2s. sd. the pair. The present duty on that class of women's shoes of which the largest amount has been imported is now 18s. per dozen pairs ; the proposed altera tion would make Bs. per dozen, which is equal to a reduction of Bd. per pair. But now see the per contra. It is proposed that the duty on foreign dry hides shall be reduced from 4s. Sd. to 3s. per cwt., and on foreign wet hides from 2s. 4d. to ls. per cwt. ; and the duty on dry hides, the produce of British possessions, which is now 2s. 4d. per cwt., is pro posed to be reduced to Is. ; and on wet hides, which are no w, when the produce of British possessions, chargeable with ls. 2d. per cwt., it is proposed to reduce the duty to Gd. Again, the duty on calf and kip skins in the hair, which is now simi lar to that on hides, is proposed to be similarly reduced. Considering, also, that the whole amount of duty received on the importation of men's boots in 1840 was £1,147, and on men's shoes £ll3, and that the whole Custom's receipts on women's shoes was about £2,500, we do not see that any vital damage to their trade can be apprehended. The public also have not forgotten that when the great reduction on the leather took place some ten or twelve years ago, boots and shoes were to the full as dear after the reduction as before it. —Scotch Paper. The Limerick Reporter, detailing the particul ars o f th e dreadful murder of Mr. Roberts, (Mr. Garney's clerk,) whose head, it appears, was literally shattered to atoms, says, " There is very little doubt that his rapacity and hard-heart edness as an agent (he acted in that capacity independently of his employment by Mr. G.) was the cause of this murder." The Dublin Register, following up the palliation —or rather justification—feeler thrown out, tracks in with, " This, then, is another of those awful occurrences which clearly indicates the dreadful and appalling results of the hellish system of extermination. That atrocious system has led to most of the murders and assassinations which darken and disgrace our country, and yet such frightful warnings, such awful ex amples, seem to be still altogether unheeded by some of our Irish landlords. Good Heaven ! how long is such a barbar ous and bloody system to be put in operation ? Thousands of small farmers are annually cast upon the world houseless and homeless, deprived of the little spot of ground upon which their very existence depends ; and thus left to rob, steal, die, or seek th e ' w ild j us ti ce o f revenge .' " In plain English, according to the principle sought to be inculcated in the foregoing, once in possession, the peasant is warranted (no matter bow reckless and improvident his demeanour) in resisting to the death the being ejected from his holding. Might constitutes right in this case ; and all the misfortunes accumulating on his head, too often the result of constitu tional indolence, are sure to enlist the sympathies of haters of oppression, till the shedding of blood demonstrates the suc cess of their advocacy. CASE OF THE BARGEMEN AND BOATMEN.—A lecture was delivered on Friday evening last at the lecture-room of the Natural History Society, in this city, by the Rev. John Davis, Rector of St. Clement's, on the duty of promoting the religious instruction of this class of our countrymen. The meeting was numerously and respectably attended, and much interest was excited in its object. We were pleased to notice at the lower end of the room some boatmen's jackets and smock frocks. The reverend gentleman corroborated the statements he had on former occasions brought forward, by extracts from the Constabulary Police report, and from the report of the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Sunday Traffic Bill, from which it was evident that the men employed on our inland navigation are very demo ralised ; that the source of the evil is Sabbath desecration ; and that where any portion of them have been favoured with cessation from Sunday labour, and proper instruction pro vided, they have become much improved in character. Sir George Chetwynd, late chairman of the quarter sessions for the county of Stafford, stated in his evidence, that Ellis, one of the convicts left for execution at Stafford some time ago, for the murder of a woman under most atrocious circum stances, but whose sentence was commuted, made " such disclosures as beggar description, on the abominations that are committed on canals, and the habits of boatmen, their pilfering, and their horrid depravity." He further remarked, that Ellis considered that the abolition of Sunday traffic and receiving-houses would be one means of improving the con dition of this class ; that as to Ellis himself, " he had never been in any place of worship whatever until he was com mitted on a capital charge of murder ; that he is quite un educated, not having the least idea of God or a Saviour, or a future state : in short, having , no idea of religion wh a t ever till he came to Stafford gaol.' Sir George also stated, that he believed that there were " a great number of boatmen in a similar situation ;" but although as a body they are so "ex tremely illiterate, uninstructed, and depraved, more so than any other class he was acquainted with," yet he had reason to believe, from having conversed with some of them, and from what he had heard from others, that they were suscep tible of kindness ; and if clergymen were set apart for their instruction, and suitable places for public worship, provided for them, where they might a: , .,;;mble in their working dress, if on their voyage, they would attend and gradually become elevated in the scale of religion and morals. It was on the trial of Ellis and his companions in guilt, who were afterwards executed, that Baron Gurney remarked, " there are no men in this country so destitute of all moral culture as boatmen ; they know no Sabbath, and are possessed of no means of religious instruction." The rev, lecturer confirmed the testi mony of Sir G. Chetwynd by various facts of indisputable au thority. It was proved that there are many reformed watermen who have become most exemplary in their conduct in con sequence of obtaining the rest of the Sabbath. Mr. Lea's and Mr. Harrison's testimony before the committee showed that the boatmen on the Droitwich canal have decidedly im proved since Sunday traffic has been prohibited on that navigation. The term of rest is twenty-four hours—from midnight on Saturday to midnight on Sunday. Messrs. o robberies fthe Whitehouse and Son, canal carriers, have for fi ve ye ars g i ven Messrs. S a b Wb committeda a t r h d ; a n n no l so by y s n h t, haes whobeenm edn o, w t s h uh e s ot i r aai rn m ee e dq n ut io t e h tt e ha en p dt r r i oa v rd i d l e e e— g r e l n s y 0. not allow their boats to move on a Sunday, and who have provided a floating chapel on the Oxford canal, make a similar statement with reference to their boatmen. Mr. Lingard, agent to the Old Quay Company, at Runcorn, read to the committee several letters from clergymen on the line of the Mersey and Irwell navigation pointing out th e bene ficial effects produced, under the Divine blessing, from the religious advantages afforded to the watermen by the canal proprietors. The Rev. F. Wade, of Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, gave similar testimony with reference to the manifest im provement of the boatmen in his vicinity, who thankfully availed themselves of the religious privileges they have lately enjoyed by a place of worship being set apart for them, and a clergyman devoted especially for the discharge of the duty. The Rev. lecturer called attention likewise to a remark made by Lord Francis Egerton to the committee, that "too much must not be expected at first from a population which has been so totally destitute of all care and guidance in religious and moral matters," and read a letter from his lordship's agent at Preston Brook, proving the good which has resulted from the establishment of a floating chapel, which his lord ship, with his accustomed liber a l it y , had kin dly provided at that spot. After an earnest appeal by the rev. lecturer, a by the meeting expres siveimously adopted resolution was unanimously of their hope that the grant of the Sabbath would be universally made to this class throughout the kingdom; and that especially as relates to the bargemen and boatmen Worcesterand B . • em ployed on th e r i v er Severn and the irming. ham canal, some plan would be sp eedil y ado p ted, under the - sanction of the Lord Bishop of the d iocese, to promote th e spiritual welfare of this neglected body of men. We under stand from good authority that a bill with reference to Sunday traffi c on r i vers, cana l s , and railroads, wi ll be brought in by Sir James Graham this session of parliament. The Bishops of Chester, Winchester, Lichfield, &c., as well as our own worthy Diocesan, countenance plans for diffusing religious knowledge among these poor benighted men. We would notice th a t recently, out of thirteen male convicts in our city prison, six Were boatmen !-- Worcester Journal. Do_you run fa Not eXacti Y 1 but we've no old rater. )utt that does uncommon The income tax is the price the nation has now to pay for whig misgovernment. THIS WAKEFIELD ELECTION COMMITTEE has decided that Mr. I-loldsworth had not been duly elected, and that Mr. Lascelles had. A DISCOVERY.—We understand that there is a man in town, who has talked to a man, who has a piece of the breeches of the man who knows who married Capt. Schinley. —New York paper. A gentleman in Towcaster has made a wager that he will, by the 29th of September, gather seven bushels of peas in the pod, the produce of seven peas which are a t th e present time growing in his garden. AN AMERICAN EXCEPTION.—The Boston (America) Atlas says, " The steam-boat Oneida, which left Wheeling on Thursday for Louisville, took fire and was burned to the water's edge, with everything on board except the passengers!' THE COST OF A SOLDIER.—La Presse calculates that in England the annual expense of a soldier is 540 f. ; in France, 340 f. ; in Prussia, 212 f.; in Austria, 240 f. ; and in Russia, 120 f. A VOLUNTEER TAXPAYER.—The Chancellor of the Ex chequer begs to acknowledge the receipt of £5OO (transmit ted to him under cover to Mrs. Goulburn) by one who styles himself " a sincere admirer of th e man l y sp i r it i n w hi c h y ou have met the difficulties of your position by a direct taxa tion," and to acquaint him that the said sum will be paid into the Exchequer.—Downing-street, April 18, 1842. MAILS FOR INDIA.—The following notice has been issued by the Postoffice authorities :—" General Postoffice, April 20.—The next mails for Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, and India, via Falmouth, will be despatched hence on the 30th instant. The next mail for India, &c., via Mar seilles, will be made up here on the 4th of May." A commission of bankruptcy has been issued out against Messrs. Wilson and Beere, the proprietors of the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, which they purchased some five or six years ago for £30,000 —they paid £lO,OOO in hand and 5,000 sub sequently, by instalment ; the premises are covered by a mortgage for the difference, and if the mortgagees get pri ority, there will be hardly any thing for the other creditors. Their liabilities amount to £30,000, £20,000 of which are due to English creditors, principally in Liverpool and Man chester. THE JOCKEY CLUB. — The following is an official report of the meeting on Tuesday laat :—" Lord G. Bentinck stated, that anxious to conciliate the goodwill of the club, whilst he adheres to all the principles and maxims of turf law laid down in his protest of the 12th of February, he is desirous to withdraw and express his regret for so much of the language in which that protest has been couched as has been felt to be offensive to the feelings of the Jockey Club." It was unan imously resolved, that this statement was satisfactory to the club. REPRESENTATION OF STOCKPORT.—It is whispered in privileged circles that one of our radical pair of representa tives is " indisposed," and, therefore, about to accept the Chiltern Hundreds. It is, moreover, asserted by others, that he is not so much indisposed as having a desire to vacate his seat in favour of the Hon. E. J. Stanley, who has, there fore withdrawn his pretensions from the Montrose Burghs, in the hope that an arrangement may be quietly entered into with the Stockport constituency.—Stockport Advertiser. DARING ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND SUICIDE AT SOUTH AMPTON.—On Thursday night a respectable man rushed into the shop of Mr. Morris, shoemaker, Above Bar, and, seizing a knife, made an attempt on the life of the errand-boy, by making a plunge at his throat. The boy was dreadfully cut across the upper part of the chin, completely severing toe lower lip. The assassin then endeavoured to stab himself, exclaiming, " I have done for the boy and myself ton." At the station-house, the prisoner refused to state who or what he was, and expressed no concern whatever for the innocent object of his attack. He is considered to be insane. THE QUEEN'S FANCY BALL.—At the grand ball our young and lovely sovereign is to enact Queen Philippa—her royal consort, the Hero of Crescy. Prince Albert will wear the panoply of Edward the Third. The costume of a queen of that period will be embarrassing, although no doubt it will be ably modified by her Majesty's costume maker. When we say this, we allude to the headdress rising so high, and so pointed, and bearing on its sides such exuberant appen dages. All the great officers of the Crown are to wear the costume of their offices in King Edward's reign. It has been suggested that the ambassadors of the different courts should adopt the costume of their country in the 14th cen tury.—Morning Post. BERLIN, APRIL 11.—The English residents here, whose number has recently greatly increased, intend to build a church for the English ritual, and the subject is to be taken into more particular consideration on the return of the Eng lish Ambassador, the Earl of Westmoreland. We also learn that a new evangelical church is to be built at the Potsdam gate. Including the Catholic church building at Kopwick fields, Berlin will soon be adorned with three new splendid churches. A Court Counsellor has been directed by autho rity to visit England f or th e p ur pose of observin g th e s tyl e of ecclesiastical architecture in that country. The following are the receipts of the principal railways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the re spective returns are made, viz. :—Brighton, £2,259 ; Black wall, £7OO ; Birmingham and Glocester, £1,517 ; Hull and Selby, £911; Eastern Counties. £870; Manchester and Birmingham, £343 • Birmingham, £16,941; Greenwich, £797 ; Great Western, £12,954 ; Northern and Eastern, £1,128 ; Manchester and Leeds, £4,427 ; South Western, £6,002 ; Birmingham and Derby, £1,036 ; North Midland, £3,987 ; Midland Counties, £2,529 ; Edinburgh and Glas gow, £1,821; and York and North Midland, £1,567. AN ANECDOTE OF LORD ROLLE.—" We have lost a good master," said an old crabber ; " he was a very kind friend to me. Before there were any revenue men I was had up by the excise before his lordship for a little smuggling affair, and obliged to find two b o ndsmen. So I attended at the justice-room at Bi c t on . The excise officer examined my bondsmen about their property, and refused one because his property was leasehold. I said it would be a great trouble to me, as I was then engaged to attend a gentleman's yacht, and I thought a leasehold under his lordship would have been sufficient. No, he would not take it. We had some trouble to get him to take the other surety, but his lordship said, Oh, I know him ;he has property, and is an honest man.' However, this one he (the officer) would not take, when presently his lordship stepped up to the officer, " You won't object to my being one, will you ?" ' The exciseman was (to use the fisherman's word) struck quite pale wh en his lordship took u p hi s p e n and signed himself as bond in the sum of £5O for the poor fisherman. It is not astonishing to find the poor and friendless regretting the loss of the noble and wealthy, when, by such acts of kindness, they rivet to themselves the best affections of the people, and our aristo cracy are not lax in deeds of kindness and mercy. THE FRENCH POST-OFFICE v. VIVIER, ONE OF THE COURIERS OF THE "MORNING HERALD," AND OTHER LONZ:ON MORNING PAPERS.—` The tribun a l d ec l ares Vivier guilty of having interfered in the tr ansm i ss i on o f let ters and parcels, and the president, after having read the articles Ist and sth of the Arret des Consuls, of 27th Prairial, year 9, as therein specified, condemns Vivier in 150 francs and costs. The court grants six months for the payment of the same, in default of which, to be arrested and imprisoned." This extraordinary case, at the same t i me, produced the most rigid activity and unprecedented severity o n th e p a rt of the French authorities, as regards the penalty for carrying letters. Two others of a similar nature, as regards the se verity of the law, have met with the same fate ; one was an English lady, who arrived from Dover by mail packet on the 3d instant, who was also fined 150 f. (£6), the same as the courier, for two letters which were found by the custom officers in her pocket-book. C a pt a i n Wi ng fi e ld , o f t h e Emerald steamer, belonging to the commercial steam-packet company, was also fined the same sum for bringing a letter from London, directed to the company's agent at Boulogne. It is highly important that this severity of the French post office law should be made known to the public, who, from motives of complaisance (as was the case with the lady in question) may bring upon themselves such serious conse quences ; for the whole expenses may amount to £lO. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY OF A MISER.—A miserable old man, named Costello, died a few months ago atßoyanagh, near Castledaly, in the barony of Cl on l onan , l eav i ng a large sum of money—which he scraped together during a long life of penury—to one of his sons, on condition " that he should take care of it and never spend it." A few days since this son was seized with typhus fever, and during his illness his priest (Father O'F.) attended him, and when "in extremis" got him to make a will, bequeathing a sum of £5O for the redemption of his father's soul and his own, out of purga tory—the money was agreed to be expended on the building of the new Roman Catholic Chapel of Longford. On the 13th instant the £5O was to be handed over to the rev. gen tleman, but the nursetender having told the patient in the mean time that he got a cool and would recover, he thought it'better to reserve a life interest in the £5O, and so deter mined on disappointing his reverence for the present, He was, however, destined to part with his treasure much'sooner than he intended, and in a manner that neither he nor the priest oncA calculated on, for on that very night a gang of seven desperadoes, with their faces blackened, entered Cos tello's hovel, raised him out of bed, ripped open the tick, and much to their surprise found no less a sum than £l2o—all made up of old six, five, and three-shilling pieces, some half-crowns, and but two notes for £3, as the old miser had always a dread of the banks failing. The captain of the party took possession of the booty, and jeeringly told the young miser that they were good doctors, that he bled well, though not freely, and as they softened his couch and left him nothing to fret about, they would insure him a safe and speedy recovery. Information of the audacious outrage and robbery was speedily conveyed to the adjacent constabulary station, and on Thursday last they succeeded in arresting three notorious characters in the neighbourhood, Jem Claffy, John Daly, and Owen Glynn, one of whom, we understand, is identified by the nursetender and servant girl, who was in attendance on the sick man during the occurrence ; and a clue is obtained, which, it is hoped, will ultimately lead to the apprehension of the rest of the gang. The unfortunate miser is recovering from the fever, but the loss of his loved treasure has so much affected his mind, that it is feared he will be a lunatic for life. Mr. Fallon, acting county inspec tor, has since paid a visit to the house of Costello, regardless of infection, and found some articles which the robbers dropped, and which are likely to lead to the remainder of the gang being detected.—Westmeath Guardian. BLASTING ROCKS BY GALVANISM.—A spectator gives the following description of the blasting operations atWester Craig's Qu arr y on Tuesday The workmen, under the superintendent of the quarry, had nearly completed their part of the operati ons b e f ore Mr. Roberts (the inventor of the new system) and Mr,. Wilson made their appearance, ac companied by assistants, with the battery and connecting wires for conveying the galvanic current to the charges of powder. These gentlemen assiduously and carefully super intended the placing of the charges in the rock, and connecting coils of wire with the cartridges. When the arrangements were completed, and it was observed that the battery was placed on the top of the precipice over the quarry—whence the distance to the charges to be fired was shortest, and en tirely free from danger—the spe ctators, by Mr. Roberts's advice, pl ace d t h emselves on th e summit of the precipice, and at the outside of the curved line of the rock, from which an excellent view could be obtained of the effects. The two charges at the foot of the rock were first to be fired ; and having been uncertain where I should place myself, I was in the act of moving from east to west a l on g the to p of the pre cipice, wh en the signal was given while I was immediately behind and close to the battery at the moment the two gal vanic poles were brought together. The effect was instan taneous as the lightning's flash from "summer clouds. " The hill up on w hi ch I stood was s h a ken to its foundation, as ing down int o th e if by an earthquake, e and the riven m ass of rock went crash de o f the quarry. This was startling and beautiful, but fell far short of what took p lace upon the second application of the galvanic current to the two charges placed over each other in the face of the perpendicular cliff. A short time was required to remove the scaffolding th a t had been used b y t h e wor k men in preparing the two upright blasts, and in placing the connecting wires, and applying screens in front of the charges to prevent the scattering of the splinters of stone when the explosion took place ; the se arrangements gave me su ffi c i en t time to gain an excellent position for observatio n , Everything was at length com pleted, and every eye then was fixed, and the breath held i n anxious suspense ; th en cam e the ready ' from Mr. Wilso n , who re ma i ne d i n the bed of the quar ry ;the assistant at th e battery brought the discs in contact, and the whole face of the rock was riven asunder from top to bottom, and from . 300 to 400 t ons o f stone were torn f r om the and came thundering d own like an ava l anc h e . It is impossible to imagine anythin g more to g rand or interesting titan this triumph of science as applied practical utility, in rendering a hitherto most dangerous process perfectly safe and simple in execution Glasgow Chronicle. bean made that GREAT WFSTERN RXILWAY..—Bet. the receipts for this company reach £2OOOO a week Burin this summer.—T. W.—Railway Magazine. Sir I. Brunel, the eminent engineer, has left England to visit the King of Sardinia, to ascertain the capabilities of that country for the construction of railroads. Mr. Thornton has commenced an action against the stewards of the Jockey Club, for a libel, in pronouncing him, according to their long-established laws, " a defaulter " on the turf. CURIOSITY. —Some English people were visiting an ele gant private garden at Palermo, in Sicily, and among the little ornamental buildings, they came to one upon which was written " Non aperite," that is, "Don't open." This prohibition only served to excite their curiosity, and they very uncivilly proceeded to disobey the hospitable owner's injunction. On opening the door, a forcible jet of water was squirted full in their faces—a very just, though not a very severe, retribution. RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN GERMANY.—FRANKFORT, APRIL 18. — Yesterday evening there was a collision on the Tannus Railway, at the station of Hattersheim, between the two last trains from Frankfort and Mentz. Several car riages were dashed to pieces by the dreadful shock, and 30 persons more or less injured. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—The share holders of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway met last week to sanction an application to parliament for the exten sion of their act, which was given unanimously. The ques tion of Sunday travelling on this line was not raised at this meeting, but Sir Andrew Agnew reserved to himself the right of bringing it forward on any other occasion. At the Devon quarter sessions, last week, the Earl of De von, in his charge to the sessions grand jury, referred to the bill intended-to be brought in by the government for the im provement of the present county constabulary force. Lord Devon said, " From what I have heard of the details of the proposed measure, I am inclined to think it one that will give very general satisfaction. It will enable two or three parishes to unite, for the mutual raisingand paying a sufficient number of properly qualified persons to act as constables, without in fringing any local privilege." ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—On Saturday afternoon a boy about 12 years of age, residing with his parents at No. 10, Parker-street, Drury-lane, London, went into the room of a lodger in the house, named Ellen Smith (a woman of dis reputable character), for 'whom he had been in the habit of going on errands. Upon his entering the room she imme diately seized him with her left hand, and at the same moment inflicted a severe wound on the side of his throat with a razor which she held in her right hand. The mother of the boy ran into the room upon hearing his screams, and rescued her son. The police soon after arrived, and conveyed the woman to Bow-street. She declared her only reason for attempt ing the boy's life was that she had made up her mind to commit a murder, and he was the first person that came in her way. It appeared she was drunk at the time. The boy was taken to Portugal -street Hospital, and although very weak from loss of blood, yet it is hoped that he may recover, as none of the principal vessels were injured. FALSE .ALARM.—In the forenoon of Sunday last during divine service at St. David's church, Exeter, and while the. minister was engaged in reading the Litany, the congrega tion became alarmed by loud reports, evidently in connection with the pipes of the steam apparatus by which the church is warmed. The alarm spread, and the terror became so strong that the cries of distress were uttered by females, and numbers quitted the church, many females being minus their shawls, boas, brooches, &c. The Rev. E. C. Harington, the incumbent, who was officiating, remained in his reading desk, and endeavoured to calm the fears of the congregation ; and it was soon discovered that the cause of those reports was an insufficient quantity of water in the feeder or cistern, and that in consequence of this the pipes became filled with hot or rarified air, which having in its progress to encounter that of a colder and denser description, occasioned the sounds which led to the alarm. Finding, however, at length, that that calm which:is so requisite to the profitable performance of divine worship was not likely to be soon restored, Mr. Harington addressed those of his congregation who remained with him in the church, saying he thought it advisable to conclude the service, and that the afternoon service would commence at the usual time, which was the case.—Bristol Journal. e 2 s o d ay agriculturists,last ap u b/ a wonderful e n - POWERFUL OPPOSIITION TO THE NEW TARIFF.—On Newportll, very P Wberedonftook meeting place of the at this county, to oppose the tariff proposed by her majesty's government. From what passed at the meeting the public may judge of the absurdity of getting up a meeting to oppose the new tariff, and of the little sympathy the farmers exhibit in matters which so slightly affect their interests. To cut the matter short, the meeting nullified their petition, by the adoption of a proposal to introduce into it a declaration of confidence in the government, made by T. A. Boswell, Esq. ; but the Rev. Mr. Lawe came to the rescue, and got 14 of the company to vote for leaving it out against six, and thus " saved their bacon" by a very large majority of eight.-- Bucks Gazette. About four o'clock in the afternoon of Friday last the good people of Middlesbro'-on-Tees were thrown into a state of consternation, by something resembling the shock o f an earthquake, which was found to proceed from the explosion of the boiler of an engine, at the iron-foundry of Messrs. Blockon and Vaughan. The roof of the building was com pletely blown off, fragments of which were scattered in all directions, and in some instances at a considerable distance. It was soon ascertained that one man had been killed, and several others severely injured. How the accident occurred seems at present to be veiled in mystery. Verdict coro ner's jury, " Accidental Death," with a deodand of Is. on the engine. —Durham Advertiser. TRADE OF DUNDEE.—We are happy to observe that the accounts just received from the manufacturing districts in England are not so desponding as they have been for some time past. The feeling is now becoming pretty general that prices have seen their lowest, and that an improvement is certain as soon as the Ministerial measures are considered secure. Our trade has undergone no change worthy of no tice within the last eight days. Flax on the spot is a shade lower, which is, no doubt, owing in some measure to the re cent arrivals from the lower Baltic ports. Tows and codil las maintain their prices, because of their continued scarcity. In hemp, hemp codilla, and jute, there is little doing, and prices ate the same as formerly. Yarns and linens move off slowly at their old low rates ; and, with the exception of some weights of flax yarns, there is nothing accumulating in this market. —Dundee Cornier. A Cadiz journal gives an afflicting account of the suffer ings of that city from extreme drought. Water is so rare that a small barrel is not to be obtained under two reals, and all articles of food have become so scarce and dear, that the population is in danger of sinking from hunger as well as thirst. The magistrates have held sittings to devise, if pos sible, means for relieving the general distress. Mr. Lockhart, in his interesting " Life of Sir Walter Scott," gives the following anecdote, which, as it is indica tive not only of the great good sense of that eminent charac ter, but is of universal application, inasmuch as it reproves a very common fault in society, we take leave to extract : " Sir Walter's daughter Anne one day happened to say something (on what subject is forgotten), that " she could not abide it—it was vulgar." "My love," said her father," you speak like a very young lady ; do you know, after all, the meaning of the word vulgar? 'Tis only common ; nothing that is common, except wickedness, can deserve to be spoken of in a tone of contempt ; and when you have lived to my years you will be disposed to agree with me in thanking God that nothing really worth having or caring about in this world is uncommon." SINGULAR DEATH FROM LOCK-JAW. —On Sunday morning Mr. T. Horwood, the master baker of Newington workhouse, Surrey, expired in Guy's Hospital, London, from the effects of a lock-jaw, produced under the following singular circumstances :—lt appears that on Monday week Mr. Horwood was assisting a brewer in carrying a cask of beer into the house, when the little finger of his right hand accidentally got jambed between the edge of the cart and the slings, by which the skin was lightly grazed ; no notice was taken of it until Friday evening, when it began to swell, and the symptoms rapidly assumed so alarming an appear ance that it was deemed advisable to remove him to the above hospital, when lock-jaw took place and he died in a few hours. HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY.—The accounts presented at the Hull and Selby meeting, held last week, were in their general results satisfactory, the receipts for the last six months having been £16,722, showing an increase of 50 per cent. It was stated that if the profit of the company in creased in proportion to the receipts, there would be a rea sonable expectation of a dividend of 5 per cent. being divided among the shareholders. Economy was urged in the work ing of the line, at present about 55 per cent., and the direc tors promised they would endeavour to reduce it if possible to the average of other lines, stated to be about 40 per cent. This line, it appears, has cost in construction £llO to £ll5 per mile. ARREARS OF CASES IN THE COMMON LAW COURTS. — There are 94 rules for new trials standing undisposed of in the Court of Queen's Bench, the first of which was moved so long ago as Easter Term, 1841. The list of the same court, celled " the special paper," contains 65 demurrers, and the " special cases" upon points of law for argument and the de cision of the court. The new trial paper does not comprise any motions for a new trial in actions tried before the sheriff, which are disposed of as ordinary rules. In the Common Pleas there are 31 " new trials" and 23 demurrers, &c. In the Exchequer there are 15 rules for new trials, 16 in the special paper, and 11 in the " peremptory paper." The num ber of new trials will be considerably augmented in the course of the present term from the causes tried at the late assizes. Of the sixty-nine words which make up the Lord's Prayer, only five are not Saxon. In our most classical writers, as Milton and Addison, the words of Saxon derivation greatly predominate. IF NOT AN INTELLECTUAL, AT LEAST A CHEAP SURGEON.—The following is an exact copy of a bill delivered to Mr. Greenhalgh, one of the relieving officers of the Bolton union, this week :—" Bradshaw, March 22d, 1842, Mr. Edward Greenhalgh to Doctor Platt, Dr.: to 9 times dressing sores, and fisick and ointment, and Jornes and calico for plasters and sope and water, for washing the Boyels of Mary Greenhalgh, total amount £0 Os. 6d." The number of effective horses for the military service in the inner territorial divisions of France amounts to 56,865. Deducting those of the gendarmerie and municipal guards, of the officers of the other corps, and those at the Riding School at Saumur, there will remain 38,944 for mounting the cavalry in general. The horses are renewed by eights, or 5868 per annum, costing a yearly expenditure of 2,716,1911, which may be .thus divided—vis., 806 horses for the heavy cavalry, at 950 f each ; 1343 for the dragoons and lancers, at 550 f each ; 1208 for the chasseurs and hussars, at 480 f ; 37 picked horses for the school at Saumur, 533 f ; 1070 for the artillery and waggon trains, at 500 f ; 414 for the horse artillery, of which 332 are geldings at 600 f, and 82 mares at 540 f. If to the above sum of 2,716,191 f be added 199,946 f for the purchase of officers' horses, the total annual expense for the general remounting of the army, according to its effective force on Ist January, 1841, will be 2,916.131 f. In the above calcula tion are not included the newly-formed regiments of chas seurs and hussars, comprising about 2200 horses, the annual cost of which may be estimated at 132,000 f. The daily ration of each horse, according to the contracts entered into for five years from the Ist January, 1830, was if 13c, but since 1840 this price has been increased by 2c a ration. CURIOUS EPITAPIIS.--In the churchyard of Truro are the following epitaphs : " Here lie two little ones, Whose ears were tender as their bones." The second is equally original : " Father, and mother, and I, Chose to be buried as under : Father and mother lies buried here, And I lies buried yonder 1" STATISTICS OF MANUFACTURES. — From a work recently published, entitled " Fowler's Compendium," we find the following results, showing the number of manufactories and persons employed in the three kingdoms :—England, Cotton mills, 1,705; woollen and worsted ditto, 1,655 • flax ditto, 186 ; total, 3,546. Persons employed—Cotton mills, 220,000; woollen and worsted ditto, 80,700 ; flax ditto, 16,600; total, 317,300. Scotland—Cotton mills, 198 ; woollen and worsted ditto, 117: flax ditto, 189; total, 504. Persons employed— Cotton mills, 35,576 ; woollen and worsted ditt o , 6 ,0 7 6 ; flax ditto, 17,197; total, 58,549. Ireland—Cotton mills, 25 ; wool len and worsted do., 47; flax do., 44; total, 116 mills. Persons employed—Cotton mills, 4,622 ; woollen and worsted ditto, 1,231; flax ditto, 9,017 ; total, 24,870. From thi s state ment, we find that the relative proportion, according to the population of each country, employed in the manufacture of cotton, woollen, and worsted, and flax, together, to be as follows :—ln Scotland, one in every 45 of the whole popula tion; in England, one in every 50 of the same; in Ireland, one in every 552 of the same. TIIEA TRE.ROYAL, LIVERPOOL This present TUESDAY, April 26, Shakspeare's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM; which will be repeated on Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri day, after which it will be finally withdrawn. The entertainments of this eved,ing will conclude w ith, f or the second time, Hood's Farce oP_ _ YORK AND LANCASTER, OR, A SCHOOL WITHOUT SCHOLARS, Which was received on. Friday last with shouts of laughter and applause. EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITION, NOW OPEN EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING, AT THE ROYAL LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH- STREET, AGRAND CENTRIFUGAL 'RAILWA Y, 200 feet long, with a vertical Circle upwards of 40 feet in circumference, round which a Carriage 200 pounds in weight, containing a Lady or Gentleman, will revolve at the rate of ONE HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR, with perfect safety ; also, immense Iron Weights and Buckets of Water will be placed in the Carriage, and, although the whole will be completely inverted, not a weight or a drop of water will be displaced. Also, a brilliant Display of the OXY HYDROGEN LIGHT, with other interesting Scientific Experiments. Open from Three to Five in the Afternoon, and from Six to Nine in the Evening. Admission—Boxes, Is. ; Pit, Gd. MR. TEMPLETON announces his intention of giving a CONCERT, in the Assembly-rooms, Albi on H otel ' , Birkenhead, on FRIDAY next, the 29th instant. For particulars see Bills. One of the Woodside Steamers will leave for Liverpool im mediately after the Concert. Tickets to be bad at the principal Hotels, Birkenhead, and principal Music-shops, Liverpool. CONCERT AT MR. LASSELL'S ROOM, GT. RICHMOND -STREET, ST. ANN'S. MR. WEISS t a kes the lib er t y to i n f orm hi s F r i ends and the Public that he intends giving a CONCERT at the above elegant Room on THURSDAY, the sth of May next, in order to Introduce his SON, just arrived from Paris, to a Liverpool Audience. Mr. WILLOUGHBY WEISS will be assisted by Madame BALFE, and his Preceptor, Mr. BALFE, Mr. DODD, and Mrs. ST. ALBIN. • Mr. WEISS will feel particularly obliged by an early ap plication for Tickets, as no more will be issued than the Room can comfortably accommodate. Tickets,. Five Shillings each, to he had at the principal Music Warehouses. TO CORRESPONDENTS The STANDARD is forwarded to the The Advertiser Office Stockport, every Tuesday. The letters of " P." we will do our best to make room for, but he would oblige us by keeping them as concise as pos- sible. EN) Eibtrpool Attan TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1842 There could be no better example of the difficulty attendant upon any amendment of the tariff of a coun try, containing interests so varied as our own, than is afforded by the course taken, with respect to the pro position of Sir Robert Peel, by the timber trade of Li verpool. Upon the first promulgation of the govern ment measures, an influential portion of our timber merchants were up in arms to exclaim against it. We were then told that the proposition to bring the altered duties into immediate operation was fraught with cer tain ruin to the trade. A deputation proceeded to London to urge their views upon the premier and his colleagues; the doors of the Treasury and of the Board of Trade were besieged with supplications ; and, as the result, by the amended scheme, the period from which the operation of the measure, so far as timber is con cerned, was to commence, has been postponed from the sth April to the 10th October. By the proceedings of a meeting held on Friday last, it will be seen, however, that by another section of the trade—and, we believe, the most important section—the postponement in ques tion is viewed as infinitely more ruinous than the car rying into immediate operation of the measure origin ally proposed. The government and parliament are now urged, as they value the interests of the trade and of the public, to rescind their changed determination and to act upon their own original measure as the best for all classes of the community ! How, we ask, is a minister to act in such a case ? With what justice can he be blamed if, after having bestowed the fullest consideration upon the details of a measure—having weighed each conflicting interest, calculated every circumstance, and formed, upon deli berate conviction and upon the best of information, an impartial judgment—he refuses to be swayed by the outcry of parties who imagined themselves to be ag grieved, or who, not being the majority of those inte rested, are, in reality, aggrieved ? The best course, we maintain, is to abide by his original conviction, if arrived at upon sound and well considered data; and we are therefore satisfied that it would have been infi nitely better if the period of the coming into operation of the altered duties upon timber had been adhered to by Sir Robert Peel as it was fixed upon in his original proposition. We will not enlarge upon the motives of the party by whose urgent representations to government the adoption of the altered plan, which is now found so in jurious to the trade, has been procured. The facts are tolerably notorious. A few influential firms through out the country had made a leap in the dark, and leapt in the wrong direction ! The records of the custom houses in our principal ports would sufficiently show how and when the grievances so loudly complained of, and which have had so great an influence upon the de termination of ministers, arose; and we do think that a reconsideration of all the circumstances and the re flection that the concession which has been made must have the effect of completely paralyzing an important branch of industry during the whole of the present year, would fully warrant Sir Robert Peel in retracing his steps and determining upon an adherence to the details of his original measure. We are convinced, moreover, that, in adopting this course, he would re ceive the thanks, at last, of the very parties upon whose representations he has deviated from the course which he had at first laid out as the most just and politic. In expressing this opinion we are occupying no new ground. From the first agitation of the question we maintained that the then holders of Canadian timber had nothing to fear from the immediate reduction of the duty. The stocks at that time on hand had been laid in at prices which bade defiance to all competition from importers under the new tariff; and if, as is un doubtedly the case, the few holders of bonded stocks were more favourably situated than the majority of the trade—(and this was the pinching point !)—those gen tlemen who, acting upon the result of a speculative impression, and hoping to improve their position, had, within afew days of the introduction of the tariff', paid the - existing duty, had surely no right to complain if their neighbours, who trusted to chance merely, were more fortunate than themselves ; and to secure these gentlemen from the consequences of a step, taken to advance their own interests alone, Sir Robert Peel was not called upon to grant a concession which must throw into difficulty and distress so large a number of enter prising merchants, tradesmen, and industrious ar tizans. The London Times of Saturday contains the follow ing paragraph, which we recommend to the perusal of those politicians who give faith to the amusing fiction maintained by Lord John Russell and the opponents of the proposed income tax, that Great Britain is at present in a state of profound peace I "MORE TROOPS FOR INDIA.—On Wednesday afternoon the transport-ship Columbus, of 467 tons register, Captain Short, chartered by the Hon. East India Company, on go vernment account, sailed from Gravesend for Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. She carries out 220 troops, to aid in avenging the butcheries committed by the treacherous Afghans. The Columbus, along with the transport-ships York, Captain Legg, and Nith, Captain Shaw, also for Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta, left the Downs early yester day morning. The ftillowing ships are also engaged to con vey troops to the seat of war in the East, and all are expected to sail in about ten days—viz., the Inglis, 400 troops ; Berk shire, 200 ; Rajasthan, 300 ; Margaret, 300 ; Henry, 180 ; Ocean Queen, 230; Mermaid, 200; Volusia, I 60; Dauntless, 150 ; Princess Royal, 250 ; Ann, 250 ; Mellish, 190; Ma dras, 120; Princess Royal, 150; Frances Smith, 200; Morley, 200; Repulse, 400; Mary, 250; Lord Lynedoch, 250 ; Boadicea, 160 ; Lady Feversham, 150 ; Charles Kerr, 200 ; Royal Consort, 170 ; Brooke, 230." Five thousand five hundred and ten British soldiers are here shown to be preparing for instant embarka tion. " Other transports " too, we are informed by by the same journal, are " about to be chartered for the conveyance of troops; and the greatest activity prevails in getting them fitted out with the least possible delay." Another five thousand men, we may therefore conclude, shortly follow the detachment which is now in the act of embarking ; and before the complement is made up not less than twenty thou sand troops. (1) w ill have left Great B r i tain for the scene of recent slaughter and shame in Affghanistan. And with what great object in view does this gallant as We are h ere to ld , " t 6 a rmy leave our shores ? Is it, aid in avenging the butcheries committed by thelrea cherous Affghans ? " Will our slaughtered fellow countrymen, sacrificed by Whig recklessness and cow ardice, sleep sounder in their bloody graves because the thunder of the British arms has been heard volleying in triumph through the mountain passes of Caboul ? Will they sleep sounder because a heathen lustration has been poured over their ashes and the blood of the murderers is made to die the same sod which is already red with that of the murdered ? With no such unholy end in view these troops, we trust, are sent out by a British and Conservative government. History, we trust, will never have it to record of Great Britain that she entered into a war of extermination against a horde of ignorant and fanatical barbarians, with no other ob ject in view than that of exacting vengeance for disas ters which the meddling and imbecile policy of her own rulers alone brought down upon her head. No—no ! A better reason—a juster and more defensible reason — than this of mere passion can surely be given for the dispatch of twenty thousand British troops to the banks of the Indus; for all the cost, the sacrifice of life, the rending asunder of those ties which bind even the sol dier to the land of his birth, involved in such a step ;—and from the government of Sir Robert Peel, the country will, ere long, we trust, receive a full expo sition of the policy and the pressing necessities by which it is demanded. We are well aware, it can never be permitted that the defeat and disgrace which Whig meddling in the affairs of Affghanistan has brought down upon our arms, should be passed by in humiliating submission. The honour and the name of England—if we are still to maintain in security our noble Indian empire—must be vindicated. Let it not be said, however, that a blind desire for vengeance is the chief inducing cause which actuates us in the warlike operations upon which we are entering. If vengeance, only, was demanded, it is not upon the wretched fanatics of Affghanistan that we would ask for it to fall, but upon the heads of the sel fish and dishonest faction by whom a gallant army was sacrificed to their ignorant fury. To the preservation of British pre-eminence in India impaired by Whig imbecility, the armament which is now leaving our shores is alone directed. To promote this object it may be necessary that the power of the British arms should be felt where their weakness and shame has so lately been witnessed; but there is not, we trust, throughout Great Britain, one man in ten, or in a hundred, who desires to see the shedding of one drop of blood more than is required to repair the injury which defeat has brought upon the moral strength of our position in that great continent. Yes, to avert the consequences—the danger and in security—with which the reckless policy of Lord Mel bourne's government has surrounded our Indian em pire, we are now called upon to furnish fresh troops for the conquest of a valueless territory in which the hostile foot of a British soldier ought never to have trod. Let this fact be ever before the eyes of the Bri tish nation ! Let us not, by an appeal to our passions, be led away from the true positior_ in which we are now placed; let us not, by a cry for " vengeance against the Afghans," allow the reprobation, which is their due, to be diverted from the heads of the real offend ers ! The blind and selfish councils of Whiggery, alone, have plunged us into this struggle. It is these which have induced the necessity for a further sacrifice of blood and treasure in this unjust and ill-starred quarrel; and although we know that by every loyal and devoted Englishman the sacrifice will be cheerfully made, we would have every coin that is paid and every drop of blood which is poured out, accompanied, not with curses upon the wretched beings who are doomed to be swept before our destroying onset, but with a re cord that such is the penalty which humanity is doomed to pay, when the affairs of a great nation are entrusted to the guidance of charlatanism, dishonesty, and be sotted folly ! The Whlg party have always been fond of imputing the practice of bribery at elections to their political op ponents. In every contest where success has crowned the Conservative cause, the cuckoo cries of " Bribery," " Corruption," " Intimidation," have been rung into our ears by the defeated, in every variety of intonation from the shriek of a Rathbone to the growl of our venerable Mercury. The snow was not more spotless than Whig-Radicalism ; Diana herself was not more pure than this political vestal, who shrunk, we were told, with sensitive horror from every contact with pollution ; whilst Conservatism was eagerly branded with all manner of wicked epithets, and reputed as guilty of every species of electioneering naughtiness ! We live, however, it seems, in a changed world. The once pure and immaculate thing Whiggery has fallen from its lofty position and " taken to bad courses." Listen reader—listen ye much vilified free men of Liverpool —to the following resolutions of the committee appointed to inquire into the validity of the election of two Whig gentlemen—two of this exces sively pure and chaste faction—for the borough of Ips wich ! But first—Freemen of Liverpool !—did you ever hear of such a man as RIGBY WASON ? You have ! Then we proceed : " 3. Resolved unanimously—That Rigby Wason, Esq., and George Rennie, Esq., had by their agents been guilty of bribery at the last election for the borough of Ipswich. " 4. Resolved unanimously—That this committee are of opinion that extensive bribery prevailed at the last election, and that the issue of a new writ for the said borough ought to be suspended until the evidence shall have been taken into consideration by the house. " 5. Resolved unanimously—That the chairman be re quested to move that this report, together with the evidence, be printed, and that the speaker do not issue his writ for the return of two members for the borough of Ipswich until such report and evidence be printed and submitted to the house." If we remember right, one of these very gentlemen, Mr. Rigby Wason, did, not very many years, ago, move the House of Commons to disfranchise the very corrupt people we are now addressing—the freemen of Liverpool. That, however, was in the days of Whig purity—in those days when a Whig candidate was in sufficient odour to be able to solicit the suffrages of a respectable borough without the necessity of having a bribe in his fist ;—when whiggery had not been drag ged through so many political sloughs that electors cannot be induced to embrace it without being pre sented with money to buy soap to cleanse themselves from the consequences of the contact. Then every Whig was a patriot —a Reformer—the friend of the people—the lauded of democracy which knew him not; now Whiggery is found out, and that's the whole of We are especially sorry, however, for poor Rigby Wason. Last night, we find from a notice on the Journals of the House of Commons, this very imma culate was to move an obstruction in committee upon the Income Tax Bill. Alas ! he was found, however, to have made another kind of motion, and in company with the respectable sombre gentleman kicked out for bribery from the adjoining Borough of Sudbury, was at that very hour chanting the melancholy lamentation " Who will fill our vacant places ? Who will sing our songs to-night ?" SLATE OF TRADE, M ANUFACTURES, &c Our market for Cotton this week has shown an improved spirit, and a large business has been done, at improved prices, 39,920 bales having been sold during the week ending on Friday. On Saturday 4000 bales were sold, and 4500 yester day, to meet a steady and healthy trade demand. With all the rumours of closing factories and short time which we hear around us, it is important to notice the trade purchases this year are greater than at the same period last year. 339,000 bales have been taken for consumption since the Ist January, 1842, against 321,000 bales up to this date in 1841. The firmness displayed in the Cotton Market has been felt in Manchester, and a better demand for Cloth has been evinced. Still, however, things are far from being as we would wish them in that market; and we are afraid that some time must elapse before confidence is restored, and a profit upon business transactions will be derived by the manufacturer. MECHANICS' INsmurioN.—ArrangFnoents are n ow making to, render the approaching Exhibition of Works of Art, Manufactures, &c. in Mount-street, one o f th e most complete and interesting exhibitions that have ever yet been opened in this country. Among the many attractions which it will possess may be mentioned Mr. Catlin's large collection of paintings, costumes, of the North Americ an I n di ans. This collection weighs no less than six tons, and it is intended to erect a shed, 90 feet long and 50 feet broad, for its exhi bition, which will cause great expense, and render a small extra charge necessary. The p resent collection is the fruit of several years' residence among the Indi ans , an d no t on l y are their nature and habits illustrated by pai n ti ngs , & c ., b ut several of Mr. Catlin's assistants will be present, dressed in full Indian costume. The success which has attended Mr. C., and the interest which his collection has excited, through out the country, warrant us in saying that it will form ono of the greatest attractions of the:approaching exhibition.