The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-15 00:00:00

ho Cape. The 101 lto the revenue from ilia reduction le estimated at Z 170,000, Upon foreign timber Sir Robert proposes that the duty should be reduced in the year 1842 to 1843 from 555. per load, the present duty upon square timber, to 305., and upon deals, to 355. per cubic foot, and lath wood, 20s. ; and in the year 1843 to 1844 to 255., 305., and 20s. respectively. Upon Canadian timber a corresponding reduction will be made from 10s., the present duty, to is. upon square timber, and 2s. on deals and lathwood. The proposition of the late go vernment with respect to this article, it may be remem bered, was to reduce the duty upon foreign timber to 455., and to raise the duty (+) upon Canadian timber from los. to 15s. To the consumer, to the Canadian, or to the British shipowner we need not state which proposition is the most favourable. By this reduction the loss to.the revenue is estimated at £600,000 a year. It is next proposed to abolish altogether the duties levied • upon exports of manufactured goods, which amount at present on woollens to £30,000 per annum; upon linen yarns, to £4,000 per annum ; on silk, to £4,800 per annum; on manufactured iron, to £24,000; on some other articles, to £9,000; on glass and earthen- ware, to £B,OOO ; and on provisions, to £5,200: making altogether £Bl,OOO, which, added to the duties on mi nor articles, makes a total of £lOO,OOO a year of esti mated loss to the revenue from this source. To countervail the advantages possessed by railway companies, it is proposed to decrease the mileage paid by proprietors of stage coaches to a uniform rate of lid. per mile, to take off entirely the assessed taxes upon guards and coach.nen, and to reduce the present licence duty of 6 guineas to 3 guineas. It is proposed also to take away the duty imposed upon the letting of job carriages. By these reductions the loss to the re venue is estimated at £70,000 a year. In connection with the equalisation of the stamp duties in Ireland, previously mentioned, it is contem plated at the same time to make some reduction upon those leviedrUpon . some at:ticles in Great Britain. In particular, the duties upon policies of insurance are to be modified, the ditty of 355. upon charter parties to be reduced to 55., and the stamp of 3s. upon a bill of lading to 6d. The effect of these reductions, however, upon the revenue, is included iu the statement, given above, of the effect of the proposed equalization in Ireland. The financial arrangement of Sir Robert Peel as a whole may be thus summed up : Estimated deficiency on present income for the year ending sth April, 1843 Reduction on various articles of tariff, as raw ma- terials used in manufacturing, &c Loss on coffee Logs on timber £2,570,000 270,000 Repeal of export duties Repeal of duties on stage-coaches, &c 170,000 600,000 100,000 70,000 £3,780,000 4,310,000 Amount of new taxes, as detailed above £530,000 to meet increased estimates for India, increased charge for China, and remission of duties on account of com- Surplus mercial treaties FEELING ON. 'CHANGE WITH RESPECT TO SIR ROBERT PEEL'S FINANCIAL PROJECT. We do not remember any public measure of a financial nature, the first announcement of which created one-tenth of the sensation with which that of Sir Robert Peel's finan cial project, delivered on Friday in the House of Commons, was received in this town on the morning of Saturday. Gratification and surprise were in every face we met ; the words, " A property tax," " An income tax," " Revision of the tariff," were upon every tongue ; but the most prevalent feeling, we feel bound to say, was amazement at the courage of the minister who had had the boldness to come forward, uncalled upon by any dictation or even suggestion out of doors, and propose to parliament so gigantic an innovation. Independent of the merits of the plan, in detail, such were the feelings with which it was viewed by our commercial community ; whilst, with respect to the manner in which it had been propounded by the right hon. baronet, there was but one feeling in the minds of men of all parties—that of UNMINOLED ADMIRATION. We cannot report that a more mature consideration of the subject in all its bearings has materially changed public feel- ing in our community as to the merits of the measure. It is admitted by all intelligent men, that the resort to a tax upon property and income had become, in the existing state of things, a step of urgent necessity, or at the least one which it was desirable to resort to ; and the ministerial proposition is. accepted with very general cheerfulness, in particular, by those classes whom it most affects. In some quarters there is a little grumbling at being called upon thus to pay the penalty of Whig mismanagement of the public Affairs; some little dislik'e, too, is expressed by politicians of a certain grade towards the alleged inquisitorial nature of an income tax. Such tvhispered cavillings, however, can scarcely be said to weigh to any extent against the general approbation with which the relief from a state of financial difficulty, and the power thus afforded to government to loosen the strings of commerce and industry, are viewed by the generality of our commercial men. With regard to the details of the reductions in our tariff, we 'have not as yet had an opportunity of noticing the opinion entertained, as these only arrived amongst us at the close of 'Change hours yesterday. So far, however, as they were pointed to in the statement of Sir Robert Peel, with one exception, noticed elsewhere, the changes made are looked upon with great favour. STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c Our cotton market has been freely supplied with the raw material during the past week, and a more than average bu siness has been done, the sales for the week amounting to 26,700 bags, but closing heavily, with prices somewhat de pressed. The attendance of buyers yesterday was numerous and prices firmer, a better feeling existing, created iu part by the satisfaction given by the financial statement of Sir Robert Peel. The sales were 3500 bags. The disastrous intelligence from India, together with the announcement of two or three failures, have thrown a gloom over the Manchester market, and the sales which have been made are at a decline in prices. The stopping of two or three factories, and a proposed reduction of wages in some districts, have also contributed to a general feeling of depres sion. We cannot at present state the effect produced here by Sir Robert Peel's recent statement of his financial plans. We do not, however, anticipate any immediate improvement in feeling amongst the manufacturing classes to result from it, it being too apparent that the hopes of the manufacturers are built upon coercing the government to the adoption of ultra free trade measures, by prolonging to the utmost the duration of their existing embarrassments. The improvement previously noticed in the clothing dis tricts of Yorkshire still continues. LOCAL NEWS THE LIVERPOOL ALBION'S VINDICATION OF THE NI ANU FACTUReita.—A correspondent of the Liverpool Albion, who signs himself " A Merchant," complains of the " vul garity of style and inaccuracy of statements" in an article upon the abuses of the manufacturing system in our last pub lication,. and takes upon himself to defend the practice of feeling manufactured goods, as one which " defrauds no one," and which " has existed as long as calico printing it self." In reply to this pseudo " Merchant," we shall only say that, with respect to one part of the offence which he brings against us, we have never been solicitous to adapt our style to the model which is likely to be pleasing to gentlemen of his calibre, and that, with respect to the " inaccuracies" in question, it would have been easy to have pointed them out. With respect to the practice of fenting printed calicoes being one of " old standing," we are afraid that the Albion's correspondent is not " A Merchant of old standing," or he would have known that the practice in question was not per mitted until the abolition of the duty on printed calicoes by Earl Grey's administration. Even now it is deprecated by every respectable calico printer, and if the Albion's corres pondent can prove it to be a salutary one, or one even con sistent with common sense, he will show himself a greater philosopher than we take him to be. His argument, that " fent shops have been the means of introducing clever men to better things," is about the best thing of the kind we have seers for some time, although the example given, we must state, film some little knowledge of the " first printers in Manchester," is.apocryphal. Our " Mentor" says, that if we " could have shewn that the calico printers, by fenting, reduce pieces to 26 yards, and sell the goods for 28 yards, we might have had something to was t e our pow d er an d s h o t upon." Possibly so; but then we never had any notion that such was the fact. We did state—(how could we show it ?) —that, in consequence of such fenting, printed and other goods were exported short of measure; and if our Mentor be " a Merchant, receiving consignments for foreign mar kets, he may satisfy himself by examining the lengths in any average number of packages which come through his hands. The gentleman in question is a very Green Merchant, or no Merchant at all, or he would have been aware of this fact, which, to use the words of the old song, " nobody can deny!" We would recommend, in conclusion, to (sir " Merchant" (without any reflection upon his real appellation,) th e motto " Ne SUTOR,” &c., which the editor of the Albi on , w h o h as of late become amazingly enamoured of Latin, will, we have no doubt, be happy to translate for him. ComaturmENT.—A girl, named Margaret Jones, was yes terday charged at the Police-court with robbing her benefac tor of several articles of wearing apparel. Ann Stanley, w ife of George Stanley, car-Owner, Bridport-street, said that on Friday morning she met the prisoner in Whitechapel ; s h e was a stranger to her, and began to cry, saying she had no where to lodge. Witness took her to her house, where she When witness got up, about had remained till that morning. eight o'clock, the prisoner had gone, and she also mi s sed from the house her bonnet, a dress, a shawl, a cap, a pair of shoes, a basket,..Bcc. The articles were safe on th e_previous night. She afterwards saw the prisoner-in Londo9-road, and pointed her out to police-officer Guy. She (prisoner) hid witness's bonnet, gown, and shawl upon her person. The constable, on searching the basket she carried, found a duplicate for the shoes, which it was proved she had pledged the same morning with Mr. Sorton for a shill in g . The arti cles were identified, and the prisoner was commi tted for trial. There is now in liverpool on American iady who has crossed the Atlantic fifty.five times! The Liverpool Improvement Bill, and the Toxtath Park Improvement Bill, were brought into the House of Commons on Friday by Sir H. Douglas, and severally read a first time. SACRILEGE.—On Sunday night some miscreants broke into the Mariners' Church, and stole therefrom a few books and about five shillings in silver, the produce of the sale of prayer-books, &c. LECTURES ON TIDE CREED OF POPE PIUS THE FOURTH —From a pressure of matters of immediate interest, we are under the necessity of postponing our report of the Rev. Dr. Tattershall's able lecture on the second article of the creed of Pope Pius,' delivered in the Music-hall on Friday evening. It shall appear on Friday. The roof of a house kept by a gentleman named Atkinson, in St. James's-road, Holloway, was blown in during the storm of Wednesday night, killing one of his servants, and so injuring another that her life was despaired of. SCOTCH CHURCH, OLDHAM-STREET.—We believe Dr. Laurie is likely to succeed Dr. Ralph in the pastoral charge of this congregation. Ihe reverend gentleman has been many years in the East Indies, in connection with the Scot tish missions in that quarter. COURSING AT ALTCAR.—The Earl of Sefton has kindly Tranted permission for three days coursing over Aitcar , on hursday, Friday, and Saturday next, when several large stakes will be run for. The dogs to be entered and dra%.n to-morrow, at the Waterloo Hotel, at four o'clock. THE ASSIZES.—The assizes for the division of South Lancashire commence in Liverpool on Thursday week, before r. Baron Parke and Mr. J ustice Wightman. The former will preside in the crown, and the latter in the civil, court. We have not been able to ascertain the exact number of pri soners for trial, but we understand they are very numerous ; and that the cause list will be unusually heavy. LAMENT.% BLE OCCL EIEENC E.—On Thursday morning last, as two individuals were walking along the shore, near Lime kiln-lane, Tranmere, they saw a human hand a little above the water, and, on going to the spot, they dragged out of the river the body of a gentleman. It was conveyed to Mr. Quigley's, the Queen's Arms Inn, and soon recognised as the body of Mr. Gray. a gentleman residing in Tranmere, and carrying on the business of a ship broker in this town, who had been missing for a few days. ROBBERY AND ASSAULT.—At the Westmoreland assizes on Friday last, before Mr. Justice Wightman, Christopher lon, who lately kept a public-house in Vauxhall-road in this town, was arraigned for feloniously making an assault on and stealing from the person of Mr. John Benson, carrier between Sedbergh and Hawes, three guineas, six £5 notes, and ,other moneys, the property of the said John Benson. The occur rence took place in November last, and full particulars of it appeared in our columns at the time. No new evidence of a material nature was adduced, and his lordship sentenced the prisoner to transportation for life. THE FORTH, MAIL STEAMER.—The following is an ex tract of a letter addressed to Mr. Shaw, of the City of Dub lin Steam Company, from Captain Cobb, of their steamer City of Dublin, dated Vera Cruz, 9th February last .—" The gale of yesterday was hard, with a very heavy sea. About three p.m. the Forth steamer came in among the banks with signals flying and firing for a pilot. None would or could go off to her. Finding her stop is the situation named above, I procured five volunteers to accompany me, and I suc ceeded in getting on board and bringing her safe in through a channel, (surveyed by me during my leisure hours since I arrived here,) and anchored her in perfect safety about 4 30 LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—A special meeting of the proprietors of this company will be held at the Cotton Sales'-room, Exchange-buildings, this morning, the 15th instant, for the purpose of taking into consideration, and deciding upon, the most expedient course to be pursued with respect to the several proposed lines of communication with the Manchester and Leeds Railway, namely, the line from Cross-lane, Salford, via' the New Bailey and Hunt's Bank to St. George's-road ; and the south or new line from Ordsall-lane. vid Castlefield and Store-street, to the Man chester and Leeds Statioh, Oldham-road. CURIOUS COINCIDENCE. — On Friday Mr. J. C. Shaw, of the City of Dublin Company, received a letter from the City of Mexico, dated the 22d January, and a letter from Cal cutta, also dated 22d January. The circumstance is curious. On looking at a map of the world, on Mercator's projection, England forms very nearly the apex of an idosicles triangle with these two places, as the crow flies. CHURCH COLLECTIONS.—On Sunday last the following sums were collected at the respective churches mentioned for the objects specified. At St. Bride's, after a sermon by the Rev. J. H. Stewart, for the Jerusalem bishopric, £B2. At Christ Church, for the schools in connection with the church, after two sermons by the Rev. Hugh Stowell, £B3. At Aig burth Church, after a sermon by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, for the Liverpool Infirmary, the sum of £5B I7s. 4d. At St. Luke's Church, after two sermons by the Rev. Dr. Byrth, for the schools attached to the church, £23 14s. ; and at Trinity Church, after a sermon by the Rev. Thomas Bibby, for the Deaf and Dumb Institution, £2O, making a gratify ing total of £267 Ils. 4d. A WEALTHY BEGGAR.—On Thursday a most miserable and poverty-stricken creature, so far as appearance went, re joicing in the name of Matthew M'Quinnon, was brought be fore Nicholas Robinson, Esq., at the office of Mr. John Sanders, solicitor, Leigh-street, on a charge of having been found begging in the streets. The officer on searching him found two bags of money upon his person, consisting of a ten pound note, 19 old guineas, 11 sovereigns, seven half sovereigns, £1 17s. in silver and copper, and an acknowledge ment for £l5 which he had deposited in a loan society in Liverpool, upon consideration that he should receive at the rate of 31 per cent. for the sum advanced. It appeared that the fellow was a native of Ireland, that lie had a wife and six children, that he resided with his family in the cellar, No. 15, Walker-street, in the Park, and it is supposed that he raised this large sum of money by obtaining the alms of the public, and plundering them whenever occasion offered. Be was committed for a month under the vagrant act, and or dered to maintain himself at his own expense while in prison. WILFUL MURDER.—In our last we gave a few brief par ticulars of the death of a young person caused by ill usage in a place of amusement. On Friday last a coroner's inquest was held on the body. Thomas Lon g being sworn, said he wa s 16 years of age. and lived in Brooks-street. Knew deceased. His name was John Chambers. He was 16 years of age. On Friday, the 25th of February last, between seven and eight o'clock in the evening, witness had been taking a walk with the deceased, and they came into the neighbour hood of Vauxhall-road, and heard some music playing at a place called the Prince of 'Wales T4eatre, in Vauxhall-road. They went past the place, and in consequence of hearing what was said of it, and the price being only one penny, they went into a set of seats called the gallery. They sat down, and the deceased took the seat just above witness, but close to him. Witness did not know any of the persons sitting near him excepting a girl named Ann Lee. She was sitting near them. The performance began soon after witness and deceased entered the theatre. It had proceeded about a quarter of an hour when the boys above them in the gallery and some sweeps who were below them began to shout to a girl who was singing and dancing upon the stage, " Who made the boy (or boys) spend a week's wages ?" Some girls who were near them told them and the other boys to shout, " Emma Templeton." Witness supposed it was in answer to the question , " Who made the boy to spend his week's wages ?"rhey appeared to be shouting it to a girl on the stage. After they had shouted, the girl on the stage shook her head and pointed her finger at the deceased, as witness thought. Witness and deceased shouted " Emma Temple ton" when others did. Witness and deceased only shouted once, but the boys and girls both above and below them shouted as often as the girl came upon the stage. The per formance was over about nine o'clock. Witness &IS de ceased waited in the theatre till all the people nearly had gone out. Before they left the gallery, and while the lights were burning, John M`Camley and John Kelly came up to the deceased and knocked his cap off. When deceased was stooping down to get his cap, both prisoners struck the deceased with their fists about the face. Deceased covered his face with his hands. The prisoners, not satisfied with striking him with their hands, kicked him while be was stoop ing down with his hands up to his face. They kicked him hard about the side. The deceased said, " Oh! there was more besides me," meaning that more people in the thea tre had shouted besides him. The deceased did not com plain at the time. Witness called frequently to see deceased before his death, but did not speak much to him, lest he should hurt him. Deceased said he was very bad. Deceased did not strike .either of the prisoners. Witness did not know if the prisoners knew the deceased.—The grandmother of the deceased said, that on the night in question, about half an hour after he came home, he moaned dreadfully, and in the morning he could not dress himself. He went out the Saturday night after he was kicked, but he could not walk, and was never out afterwards.—Mr. John Craig, sur geon, residing in Mount-pleasant , saw deceased first on Mon day last. He was in bed, lying on his back. He complained of great pain in his belly, which he (Mr. Craig) found to proceed from retention of urine. Witness relieved deceased. On the morning of Wednesday, deceased laboured under great difficulty of breathing, and he was of opinion that it was caused by lesion of the spine. He died of asphixia, or rather from paralysis of the organs of respiration. He ex amined the spinal column after death, and found the cellular substance, which connects the posterior substance of the sheath of the spinal marrow with the bone, filled with a very concrete bloody purulent matter. The morbid appearance extended from the base of the skull throughout the whole course of the spinal canal. The sheath covering the spinal cord was slightly injected with blood, and the spinal marrow itself appeared softened in one portion. He was of opinion that death was caused by the pressure of the matter stated upon the. spinal marrow, and that this matter was the effect of inflammation resulting from internal injuries. Judging from the evidence of the case, and the symptoms be himself saw, he should say that the injury was caused by violence. — James Hansel, police-officer, said that be apprehended M•Camley at a smithy in Neptune-street, and told him he was taking him and Kelly, who, with inother person, had kicked John Chambers, who was then dead. M•Camley said he did not kick him with the intention of injuring him. Wit ness found the prisoner Kelly in a smithy in Robert-street, and told him why he apprehended him. Kelly said to the men as he left, " Well, will you come and see me hang ? The deceased should have kept a still tongue in his mouth. I did kick him once on the leg." Witness then took them both into custody.—Mrs. Chambers, being re-called, said, that when she rubbed the deceased's-back it was quite black in the flesh, and so sore he could hardly bare to have it touched.—The coroner summed up, and the jury consulted about fifteen minutes, when they returned a verdict of wilful murder against both prisoners. IMPORTANT TO TEACHERS AND PARENTS.—At the late assizes for York a case of some importance was tried. The Plaintiff (Mr. Green) lives at Liscard, near Brighton, on the Cheshire coast, opposite Liverpool, where his wife keeps a school for young ladies, and defendant (Mr. Emery) is a ma nufacturer at Halifax. In January, 1840, defendant sent his daughter to Mr. Green's school, where she remained a year, and then was removed without the quarter's notice required by the terms. The plaintiff therefore sued for ten guineas, the amount of a quarter's schooling. It was proved that the defendant's daughter attended the school, and Mr. Watson endeavoured to prove that the defendant had a copy of Mr. Green's printed circular, in which a quarter's notice or an equivalent was stated to he required. It was also endeavoured to be proved that the defendant bad admitted the debt. The proof was this ; after the defendant had received a letter from the plaintiff's attorney, demanding the quarter's payment, Emery desired a friend to call on the plaintiff's solicitor, and offer five guineas to settle the natter. Mr. Watson sub mitted that this offer was an admission of liability. The judge thought it was only an affair of compromise for the sake of peace. Mr. Watson, therefore, called Miss Emery, daughter of the defendant. She admitted that she saw the printed terms at school, but she did not take a copy home, nor had she seen one .at her father's house. She thought her mother sent a servant to a friend for one, but did not know that she got it. She knew nothing about the three months' notice till she had left school. She supposed Mrs. Green and her mo ther had arranged terms. Mr. Watson then called a Mrs. Dearden to prove the interview of Mrs. Green and Mrs. Emery, who said that Mrs. Emery said she hoped to per suade her husband to let her daughter go to school ; but no thing was said about terms, and the prospectus was not named. Mr. Watson submitted that the terms of the school were proved, and it might be reasonably presumed that the defendant knew them before he sent his daughter. The only point which the judge left to the jury was whether the offer of the five guineas was made merely for the sake of peace, and the jury being of opinion that it was, the plaintiff was nonsuited, as his lordship said the plaintiff had failed to i ,i,sl eo r raise r brin g h ome a knowledge of his circular to the defendant, or ;tin the e nable presumption, by proof of public adver newspapers, that the defendant must have Lard Sanders had an interview with Lord Stanley on Satur. day at the Colonial...office. ELecTioar OF GUARDIANS OF THE POOR.—The public will perhaps remember the circumstances which attended the election of the Board of Poor-law Guardians last year, and which resulted in the adoption, without opposition, of the list containing twenty-five conservatives. For the present year, we understand, it was the intention of the conservative party, after having consulted with several of the leading mem bers of the reform section, to propose a respectable and respon sible list, including eight gentlemen of opposite political views, who, nevertheless, entertained moderate opinions with respect to the administration of the poor-law. This list was arranged by a deputation of the board of guardians, in consultation with the churchwardens and overseers of the poor. Amongst other personages to be consulted in the making of this arrangement, however, was Mr. William Earle, who, in his capacity as a magistrate, is, ex officio, a guardian, and who, on being called upon yesterday for his acquiescence in it, to avoid the expense and the turmoil of a contest, took upon himself to insist upon a gentleman being included in the list who is known to be an advocate of the arbitrary and rigid carrying out of the Somerset-house system. To this proposition it was strongly and justly urged, that the admis sion of such a gentleman into their board would bring them into constant and unnecessary collision with the commission ers, (in whose views and his they could not coincide,) besides entailing considerable and useless expense. The irascible alderman was not to be thwarted, and, in conclusion, openly threatened the guardians that if his protegee was not at once accepted, he would himself, regardless of the expense and the peace of the town, for which he did not care a rush, propose his nominee, and proceed to a contest, and left the room in the most angry mood with such determination. Yesterday was the last for the nomination of guardians, and Mr. Earle handed in a paper in the course of the day, nominating a Mr. Mould as one of the Board of Guardians ; and we presume, therefore, that the votes Of the ratepayers will have to be taken on the subject. ROYAL INSTITUTION SOIREES.—The last of these highly instructive and delightful meetings will take place this even ing, when Mr. Montagu Phillips will deliver a lecture on electro-magnetism, illustrated with extensive and novel appa ratus. it gives us great pleasure to learn that the Soiree Committee have made great exertions to render this evening's entertainments of peculiar interest, and we have no doubt that the numerous experiments to be exhibited by the talented lecturer cannot fail to meet with the cordial and enthusiastic approbation of every visitor. TOXTETH-PARK CllAPEL.—Amongst the number of cha pels which the Unitarians have succeeded in taking unlawful possession from the Presbyterian body, that in the neigh bourhood of this town, at the Dingle, has not occupied by any means the least conspicuous position. We are informed that the trust-deed specifies the doctrine to be taught in this chapel with the greatest distinctness; and we are glad to learn that the Presbyterians are at last taking effectual means for wresting this place of worship from its present possessors, and devoting it for the purpose intended by its original found ers. We believe that the salary of the present minister of the chapel is withheld for these reasons, and if this be so no doubt the question will be brought to a speedy, and, we feel sure, a satisfactory issue. RESULTS OF INQUESTS.—In our paper of Friday last, we furnished a few particulars of the death of a child, named James Culshaw,—supposed to have been caused by the ad ministration of an over quantity of gunpowder, for worms. At the inquest held on that day, it appeared, from the evidence of the surgeon, that the deceased died from natural causes, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly.- 7 Same day, an inquest was held on view of the body of Eliza Dunn, who, it appeared, (as stated in our last,) had been maltreated by her husband. It appeared, however, froni the voluntary evidence of the latter, at the inquest on Friday, that the deceased had fallen against the chimney-piece, which caused a wound on the temple that resulted in death ; and there being no further direct evidence, the verdict returned was " accidental death," and the husband, who had been in custody, was discharged. THE FUNDS.—SATURDAY EVENlNG.—Mexican Bonds rose to 40, but a slight reaction on realising speculative pur chases slightly depressed them subsequently, and they left off at 39i to Colombian were 24 to Brazilian 66 to 7. Spanish Active with the Coupons 24i- to Portuguese Five per Cents 331 to 41, the Three per Cents 20 to 1. Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents 52 to /, the Five per Cents 102/ to 3. Belgian 103 to 4. As an effect of the advanta geous impression and the confidence created by the financial scheme as expounded, Consols advanced to 891 to for mo ney, and 89/ to for time. Exchequer Bills, however, heavy, at 28s. to 30s. premium. Holders are beginning to be apprehensive that it may be in contemplation to reduce the rate of interest on unfunded debt, since the recent reduc tion in the rate of money advances at the Bank of England. THE MURDER AT ESCRICK.—At the York assizes. on Friday last, Jon. Taylor, aged 61, was put to the bar, charged with the murder of his wife, Ellen Taylor. at Escrick, near that city, by strangling her, on the 26th October last. The prisoner is a hale old man, of highly respectable appearance. He had on a close brown wig. The expression of his face is goodnatured rather than otherwise, and he has a remarkably small dark keen eye. He pleaded " not guilty " with some what of a smile on his face, and continued, throughout the trial, to possess the air more of an unconcerned spectator than a culprit. We gave the particulars of the case at the time, and it will probably be remembered that the deceased was found lying across the hearth, quite dead, by her daugh ter, on returning from work, and as she (the wife) lived apart from her husband, and he was seen loitering about the house on that day, coupled with other suspicious circumstances, she was supposed to have been murdered by him. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and the judge left the prisoner for execution, not holding out to him any hope of mercy. LECTURES AT THE MUSIC-HALL.—The next lecture a t the Music-hall, on Friday, will be delivered by the Hey. J Lyons, of Bolton, and late of All Saints, in this town. As this is the first appearance amongst us of the reverend gen tleman since his departure from Liverpool, no doubt a lar ger audience than has yet attended any of these lectures will be present to see and hear an old and tried friend of Pro testant principle and evangelical truth. Mr. Lyons is well known as a very talented controversialist and deep theologian ; and his consistent, unaffected piety adds considerable weight to his arguments arid deductions. The subject of the lecture is as follows, being the third of the novel articles in the creed of Pope Pius the Fourth :—" I also profess that there are truly and properly seven Sacraments of the new law, insti tuted by Jesus Christ, our Lord, and necessary for the salva tion of mankind, though not at all for every one; to wit, Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Orders, and Matrimony, and that they confer grace; and that of these, Baptism, Confirmation, and Or ders cannot be reiterated without sacrilege : and I also re ceive and admit the received and approved ceremonies of the Catholic Church used in the solemn administration of all the aforesaid sacraments." DEATH BY DROWNING.—An inquest was held, yesterday, before H. H. Statham, Esq., deputy coroner for this borough, on view of the body of Thomas Newton. Thomas Allen, a labourer, living in Gore-street, Toxteth-park, said that that morning (yesterday) about six o'clock, he went down to the King's Dock pier-head, and on to the bank, the tide being out. While he was walking along the bank, he fell over something, and, on looking to see what it was, found it to be the body of a man. He was quite dead, and lying about two hundred yards from the water's edge. Witness immediately gave information to police-officer Rogers, and assisted him in bringing the body out. The body was removed to the dead-house. John Newton said he was master of one of the . Egremont steam-boats. The deceased was his brother, and was about 38 years old. He was in witness's company on Snnday evening, and they parted about eight o'clock. De ceased was then quite sober. He was master of the flat Baltic, which was lying at the King's pier -head, and used to sleep on board the flat. This (yesterday) morning he heard that the deceased had been found drowned, and he went to the dead-house and immediately recognised the deceased. Verdict, " Found Drowned," but how the deceased got into the water there was no evidence to show. FOUR 'WELL-KNOWN THIEVES COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. —Yesterday, four boys—Michael M'Caffrey, James Irvine, John Knight, and John Robinson—were placed at the bar of the Police-court, charged with stealing a watch from a shop.—Dorothy Pullen, wife of Wm. Pullen, watchmaker, No. 9, London-road, said that between four and five o'clock on Saturday afternoon last, while she was in a room behind the shop, the door of which is half glazed, she saw the pri soner M'Caffrey come into the shop, put his head into the window, and take down a watch, which he put into his left hand waistcoat pocket. She ran to him, and seized him. He struggled with her. and struck her on the neck. She held him until he pulled her into the channel. He asked the other three prisoners, who were outside, to collar him, and held his hand out to them. Her husband came up, and he and witness pulled M'Caffrey into the shop. The watch was afterwards found. It was worth about £G.—Geo. Briscoe, a painter, said that about the time stated he saw the four prisoners in London-road. They went into several shops till they reached Mr. Pullen's. He saw M'Caffrey take the watch from a hook, and corroborated Mrs. Pullen's state ment as to the struggle. He afterwards pointed out Robin son to police-officer M`Millan, who took him into custody. Between five and six o'clock the same evening, he saw the prisoners Irvine and Knight looking through the shop win dow of Powell and Tunstall, in Scotland-place. He knew them again, and watched them into the adjoining street, where be found police-officer Grundy, to whom he gave them in charge.—The latter stated, that on the way to bridewell he saw Irvine put his hand towards a boy named Nathan Huson, who immediately handed witness a silver watch, and said the prisoner had passed it to him.—The prisoners were all committed for trial. Robinson had before been once committed ; Irvine also once, and five times discharged ; Knight five times committed, and four times discharged ; and M'Caffrey fourteen times committed, and six times discharged. LIVER THEATRE.—Last evening a full house greeted the metropolitan favourites who are now appearing at this theatre. In the course of the evening Mr. Raymond read the following address on the subject of a notice which has been served upon him and his company by the lessees of of the Theatre-royal :-7b the playpoinp public qf Liver pool.—The public is most respectfully informed, that in consequence of the late petition to her majesty to grant a patent of protection to this theatre having been most gra ciously received, and a new patent having been actually or dered, and in part made out, the lessee, anxious to meet the approval of his friends and the public of Liverpool, on the faith of the promised grant, immediately entered into arrangements with London artists to improve and de corate the theatre in a manner worthy of their presence and support; and also entered into other extensive engage ments with many distinguished perfornlers who have al ready appeared, in addition to that accomplished lady— Mademoiselle Celeste, Mr. Webster, and Mr. Strickland. The manager could not, for a moment, suppose that un der. such circumstances, and the disappointments and ex penses he had incurred, an attempt would be made to frustrate the arrangements which so far have been sanc tioned and approved of by 11,000 signatures of his towns men, with which the late petition to hermajesty was honoured. In defiance of consistency, or of the slightest regard to pub lic opinion, a notice was served late on Saturday night, stating that if the three last-mentioned distinguished per formers appeared at this theatre, legal proceedings would be instituted against them. Of the conduct of persons who thus think proper to oppose patents in one theatre and up hold them in another, the public will be the best judge. The manager feels much pleasure in announcing, that immedi ately on hearing of this unjustifiable and illiberal attempt, Mr. Webster, Mademoiselle Celeste, and Mr. Strickland, in the kindest manner, offered to appear for the week gratu itously, declining to accept any remuneration whatever, de , termined that the interests of the theatre should not suffer through them, and that the public should not be disappoi n t e d. This act of generosity, both unexpected and unprecedented, will at once annihilate a mean attempt to annoy these dis tinguished artists, or disappoint the patrons of the theatre, The kind and liberal offerof Mr. Webster, as a stranger in Liverpool, cannot easily be forgotten, nor of Mr. Strickland, as an old and established favourite ; and it is needless to ob serve that this effort to injure and annoy a lady like Mademoiselle Celeste (one of the greatest ornaments of the stage, arid most distinguished favourite that ever appeared in Liverpool) is, to say the least of it, unmanly. The signatures of the play-going public are again most respect fully solicited to another petition to her Majesty for a protec tion for this theatre. The public, with every due respect, are informed that the present Liverpool patent (even if un impeached) gives no exclusive right nor power to interfere with any other theatre ; it is a protection only, and any one attempting to put the penal code in force (which has long since been looked upon as a disgrace to the statute book) cannot do so in any way of right whatever, and can only act in the capacity of a common informer. Sheets for the peti tion will be immediately left at the different entrances to the theatre and other places, and those who have kindly sent for I sheets before can instantly be supplied at the box-office." MEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL, A special meeting of the Town Council wag held at twelve o'clock yesterday in the Town-hall, for the purpose of "con sidering and determining whether there be a vacancy in the office of councillor for St. Anne's ward, to which Mr. William Slater was elected, and if there be, of declaring such vacancy ; and also for the purpose of determining upon a motion by Mr. Councillor Birkett, that the clause in the general Im provement Bill for the' closing of public houses during part of Sunday shall be struck out of that bill, and in lieu thereof that as soon as practicable an enactment should be obtained to the purport of the said clause, but extended to seven miles from the Town-hall, to be computed by the nearest public road by land or water." In the absence of the MAYon, Mr. Alderman BARCLAY was appointed to preside over the ouncil. VACANCY FOR ST. ANNE ' S WARD The TOWN -CLERK reported to the Council that it had been duly and properly ascertained that Mr. William Slater, one of the councillors for St. Anne's ward had become bank rupt, whereby the Council were required to declare the said office of councillor to be vacant. This proceeding was founded upon the 52nd section of the Municipal Corporations Act, which he read fur the information of the Council. Mr. BIRKETT enuuired whether the Town-clerk had a copy of the Gazette containing the bankruptcy ? The CHAIRMAN also asked the Town-clerk what proof there was of it ? The TOWN-CLERK, in reply, said the proof was that the Town-clerk pledged himself to the fact, and made a report of it to the Council. It would be analogous to the course pur sued under such circumstances in the House of Commons, if some memb.tr for the same ward as Mr. Slater were to move that the office was void. Mr. PARKER then moved that a vacancy be declared in the office of councillor for St. Anne-street ward. Mr. JoNEs seconded the motion. Mr. AIKIN said the word " thereupon" occurred in the section, and he asked the Town-clerk what it embraced ? The TOWN-CLERK replied that it meant the council should proceed immediately upon the declaration of the bank ruptcy. Mr.. AIKIN also observed that just previously to the word " thereupon" there was something said about penalties. The TOWN -CLERK said there was, but he did not think it was applicable to the case before the council. The penalty applied only to voluntary absence, but he would read the words. Having done so, he proceeded to say, that if the mayor, aldermen, or councillor chose voluntarily to absent himself for the period mentioned in the section, [six months] by that voluntary act he was liable to a fine ; but those words did not apply to the present case. Mr. Coot'Eß wished to ask the Town-clerk whether it was absolutely requisite that the vacancy which had just been re ported should be filled up—whether indeed the election could not be postponed till next November ? The TOWN-CLERK said, in answer to that question, he ought to state, that if the council did not proceed to declare: the vacancy, they would be liable to a mandamus from the Court of Queen's Bench. The mandamus could only issue upon the ground that it was the duty of the council to de clare the vacancy, and to proceed to a new election. Conse quently their duty wus to declare a.vacancy. Mr. BinKETT observed, that even if that were not the case, it would not be fair towards the ward to leave it with out its proper representatives. The TOWN-CLERK said the observation of the last coun cillor was correct and just, for it was the duty of the council to see that every ward was properly represented. Any sub ject of the realm might have recourse to the process of man damus, and the court would grant it on the ground that it was the duty of the council to declare the vacancy ; and the mandamus would compel the council to discharge that duty. Mr. PLATT added that it was also imperative upon the council to proceed to another election within a certain time. The TOWN-CLERK said the duty of the council was imme diately to proceed to a new election ; and one of the sec tions in the act, as referred to by Mr. Platt, prescribed that that duty should take place within ten days. These words were considered as only declaratory, but at the same time it was the duty of the council to proceed to a new election. Mr. JOHN SMITH thought this discussion was taking up a great deal of time unnecessarily. The CHAIRMAN then put Mr. Parker's motion, and it was unanimously carried. THE PUBLICANS' CLAUSE IN THE IMPROVEMENT BIM Mr. Braxerr, in accordance with the notice he had given at the last council meeting, now rose to bring forward an amendment upon that which the council were then pleased, by a large majority, to direct to be done, namely, that a clause should be inserted in the Improvement Bill to compel publicans to close their houses till one o'clock upon the Sabbath day. He did not wish to take up the time of the council unnecessarily, after what had been done, but not having had an opportunity of then expressing his sentiments, he now wished to state the reasons why he thought this a question which this council ought not to meddle with, at all events at present. He considered it the duty of government to take up this matter if they thought it was one affecting the morals of the people •, but at the same time he should be glad to see an enactment like that proposed, not only for Liver pool but all England. It was, however, carried out to a very great extent by many of the most respectable publicans of this town. The late government if they had been pressed, would have given their attention to the subject ; and the pre sent government said they had so much upon their hands, and that they had no intention of taking it up this session. The council would have to consider whether it was their duty to take it up, and for his part he thought the clause which they had already agreed to should be modified so as to ex tend to seven miles. They professed to agree to the clause as it stood in consideration of the morals of the people, and he objected to it because it would not have the effect that they thought it would, and that if it had, it was not doing it in a fair way. There were two parties to be considered in this matter ; one was the m o r a ls of the people, to which every thing ought to give way, and the other the branches of trade affected by it. With regard to the first he contended that the existing clause would not put a stop to immorality, and if it would not be takingup too much time, he could convince the council of it. They would only remove the nuisance to the edge of the borough and over the water ; and the effect of the clause would be to encourage low beer houses to be erected just at the outskirts, and par ties who wished to avail themselves of it would go there. He could not look upon this clause in any other light but calculated to transfer what was a nuisance from one portion of the town to another without putting a stop to it. There were four, or rather he might class them as two, arguments against his proposition—one which eine erned the morals of the people, which was brought forward by Mr. Evans and Mr. Aikin, and he should not have alluded to this if it had not been that what he thought a most unwarrant able plan had been taken by Mr. Evans and Mr. Aikin, by alluding to party m otives ; because if they were upon every occasion of difference in opinion to charge one another with being actuated by improper motives, the effect and end would be, that they must come into personal collision and violence. It could not lead to any thing else. With regard, however, to what had been said by Mr. Aikin and Mr. Evans, he thought they had got such a quilling from Mr. Aspinall up on that occasion, that there was no necessity for him to pursue the subject further. The CHAIRMAN thought if Mr. Birkett would confine himself to the merits of the question, the council would get through the business before them much better. Mr. BIRKETT said he would bow to the decision of the chair, if the chairman thought he was out of order. Mr. Alderman EVANS : No, no; go on. Mr. BIRKETT repeated that he would bow to the chair. Mr. Smith, at the last meeting, had made a very start ling statement, and one that was really very horrifying ; and from what he said it might be supposed that those who took the line he (Mr. Birkett) did, were the par ties to agree to continue such conduct. God forbid that he (Mr. Birkett) should ever be a party to stand up for murder or for drunkenness ! He had been a manufacturer for some years, and had a considerable number of men under his charge, and he had never in his own case set them the example of a single case of drunkenness, and he never would. Then Mr. Robinson, the member for Great George's Ward, said this was a case with which the council had noth ing to do, and that they ought not to go out of the borough to legislate ; but if this w as hi s view, he must say that Mr. Robinson took a very superficial view of the subject. He (Mr. Birkett) was for legislating for the borough ; but at the same time, as the municipal act said that persons were eligi ble to sit in that council who lived within seven miles, he thought that seven miles ought to be the boundary of this clause. He thought that if its operation were extended to seven miles, it would very nearly, if not altogether, put a stop to the evil. Those who wished to get drink could not go seven miles, and be hack by one o'clock ; and another point was, that those who lived upon tle3 edge of the borough would not be infested by the influx of had characters. He dwelt tpon this the more because his plan was the best to put a stop to immorality ; and it was not liable to the other objec tion of injuring trade. Mr, I3irkett then concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that the clause as agreed upon at the last council be rescinded, and be amended by extending its operations to seven miles beyond the borough. Mr. COOPER had great pleasure in seconding the motion, from a conviction that if the clause was good which the Council had already agreed upon, the one which he supported was much better. As it did not interfere with the principle of the bill which he had voted for upon a former occasion, but rather extended it, he considered that he was not deviat ing from his former vote. The publicans of Liverpool felt considerable alarm at this bill, and they had reason to be so, for it threw them quitein to time police's hands. Now all who had anything to do with the police must know that they were not parties to be trusted a great deal. He had had sufficient experience of these men, who were notorious drunkards themselves—(Cries of " Order, order.") Mr. JORDAN protested against Mr. Cooper thus attacking men who were not present to defend themselves. Mr. Coopeit, in continuation, said that if Mr. Jordan would take the trouble to look at the police books, lie would find charges of drunkenness brought against many of the police, and he would say that he (Mr. C.) was not far off the mark. There was another clause in the Improvement Act to which he objected, namely, that which prohibited publicans from selling spirits to persons under sixteen years of age. The TOWN-CLYRK said that clause was another part of the bill, which did not come within the present motion. Mr. JOHN SMITH.—Let us confine ourselves to that which is the business of the meeting. The CHAIRMAN wished the Council would do so. lie should be glad if gentlemen would confine themselves to the immediate subject. Mr. COOPER apprehended that be had a right to comment upon these clauses in the Improvement Bill. Mr. THORNHILL said Mr. Cooper had nut, as the Council were now discussing a particular clause. Mr. COOPER said, he was only showing, from the nature of these clauses, that the publicans had reason to be alarmed. The TOWN-CLERK said that Mr. Councillor Cooper must see that the clause on which the motion had been made was different to that on which he was speaking, and that he should confine himself to the motion, us he had seconded it. Mr. COOPER would confine himself to the motion. lie was satisfied that if the clause was extended to seven miles it would do away with the opposition of the publicans. Every respectable publican had a great wish that the bill should be carried ; but they did not think it right that they should be made liable to its penalties, w hil st others just beyond the boundaries of the borough were not, Mr. Alderman Nicol, asked the Town-clerk whether Mr. I3irkett's motion, if it were now carrie d , would be compati ble with the notices given of the Impr ovement B i l l ? The TowN-cLealc. must certainly s t ate that i t was not compatible with the notices of the present bill to entertain the present motion, It would be dangerous to every part of that bill if the council were to entertain it. In the next place the motion was , that " as s oon as prac ti ca bl e an enactment should be obtained to the purport of the said clause, but extended to seven miles from the Town-Hall, to he computed by the nearest public road by land or water." If the council were to entertain thi s proposition for one moment, the great risk would be , lest, h av i ng i n f r i nge d th e standing order of the House of Commons and the House of Lords also, they became subject to the penalty of having their whole bill turned out of the house. At the same time he insist point out to the council that the words " as soon as practicable" had referelice not only to this bill but to any other proceeding. Mr. BIRKETT asked, if the motion were carried, whether it would have the effect of rescinding the previous decision of the council ? The TOWN-CLERK said certainly. As far as the power of the council went, it would go to the extent of rescinding the previous determination of the council; for he conceived that the whole bill was before the council for amendment, until it went before the committee of the House of Commons. Mm. BIRKETT wished to ask the Town-clerk whether or not it was in the power of the committee to introduce any clause they might think fit during the progress of the bill in committee ? As he had stated at the last meeting, he thought the council had a far better chance of carrying the clause which he now proposed than their own. Both the members for the borough thought it wax right the clause which he pro. posed should be inserted, and that it would not endanger the bill. The TOWN -CLERK certainly thought that if a committee, by which he understood tie committee of the House of Com mons—[Mr. BIRELTT :--Yes]—should be pleased to intro duce a clause of this kind, they could do so without peril to the bill ; but if the council connived at any such clause being introduced, they might be subject to the penalty which was sometimes applied to parties before the house, of having the bill thrown out. He recollected a case in point—the memo rable case of the dock bill of 1836, which was thrown out of the House of Commons because the parties had introduced a clause, contrary to the standing orders, seeking exemption for Runcorn. The council might be subject to the same penalty if they agreed to this proposition ; but, no doubt, it would be in the power of any committee of the House of Commons to take the liberty, if they thought proper, of in terfering with the standing orders, and force such a clause upon the bill. There would then be no grounds for the coun cil being visited with the penalty ; but he should say that the council was the last place to originate such a proposition. Mr. Alderman Moor. said his reaso❑ for asking the ques tion was to prevent the time of the Council from being occu pied with discussing the merits of this question, when they had already decided upon it. If it were impracticable for the Council to introduce the proposed clause, it was unne cessary to proceed with the discussion. The Town-clerk would bear him out when he stated that it would be an un usual thing to introduce a clause into any bill, of which no tice had not been previously given. It would he interfering with the interests of parties who had haU no notice ; and he believed they must have had notice of it before it could be introduced into the bill. The TOWN-CLERK said he must the force of Mr. Nicol's observations. There was nothing in which the Speaker of the House of Commons so guardedly protected the House against as any attempt to legislate for parties without notice, and that for very good reasons. He had good reason, for recollecting—and there was an alderman now in the Council who had also good reason for recollecting —the very terms which the Speaker of ti e House of Com mons used on the Runcorn clause in the Dock Bill of 183 G. He explained that the standing orders were enacted for the protection of all the subjects of the realm against legislation without notice. The Speaker was very strong on that point, and he carried the whole house with him. Mr. THORNHILL said that Mr. Cooper had brought a serious charge against the police, which he was hardly justi fied in making. He had said that a great many of the police were notorious drunkards, and that he would riot trust them. Mr. Cooper had been a member of the Watch Committee. and he should have hesitated before he used such language unless he had good grounds for it. The Liverpool police were allowed to be the best in the kingdom, and he hoped that Mr. Cooper's observations were more the result of in advertence than from any serious opinions, for he was sure they were not open to any such remarks. As a body of men they were as respectable and as trustworthy as any men in the town ; and as to drunkenness, out of a force of GOO men, it was not to be supposed that every man was sober. but whenever cases of drunkenness occurred, the offenders were punished. Mr. COOPER said he had merely referred to drunkenness'; he had said nothing else with regard to the police. Mr. TuouNutu, insisted that Mr. Cooper had declared he would not trust them. Mr. COOPER said he had not. (Cries of " Question." ) Mr. 1301:1 ON considered that there wasno occasion for fur ther discussion after the explanation of the town-clerk. The title of the bill was "a bill for the improvement and re gulation of the borough of Liverpool," but Mr. Birkett's motion went to extend the powers of the bill beyond the bo rough. He might just as well have brought in a bill for the improvement and regulation of the churchwardens of Liver pool. He trusted, therefore, that the mover would have the good sense to withdraw the motion, as it was at variance with the preamble of the bill. Mr. BIRKETT said he should do no such thing as with draw the motion. Mr. PROCTER submitted that the motion was perfectly re gular. If it were not, Mr. Aspinall's certainly was not. The motion was that the clause objected to be struck out of the bill, and that in lieu of it, as soon as practicable, an enactment be obtained to the same purport, but extended to seven miles. It did not follow that Mr. Birkett's clause should be inserted in the bill. _ . The TOWN-CLERK said there could be no doubt that the motion was regular to the extent that the existing clause be struck out, and that it was regular so far as it applied to the introduction of another clause as soon as practicable. Mr. PROCTER.—Yes ; you may go for it next year. The Tow`-CLERK had already given his opinion, that the clause extending to seven miles could not, upon the motion of that council, be properly introduced into the bill without risk of the penalty for infringing the standing orders—danger to the whole bill. There was no doubt the council might, if they thought proper, withdraw the existing clause from the bill, and pass a resolution that as soon as practicable they would introduce a clause into a public act, or sonic other bill, as proposed by Mr. Birkett ; but he was bound, in duty, to tell the council that they were not to be parties to an at tempt to introduce such a clause into this bill. Mr. JOHN SMITH thought that after this . Mr. Birkett would withdraw his motion. Mr. BIREETT declined. Mr. BRIGHT opposed the motion at considerable length ; and, after a few words from Mr. THORNHILL, Mr. COOPER withdrew his charges against the police. Mr. MELLOR contended that the motion of Mr. Aspinall, and that of Mr. Birkett, were substantially the same, the effect of both being to throw out the existing clause. The council having already decided upon Mr. Aspinall's motion, he considered that they could not entertain Mr. Birkett's. Mr. AIKIN also argued that the present motion was sub stantially that which was repudiated and rejected upon the motion of Mr. Aspinall. If the Council had known that Mr. Birkett's motion would virtually have become Mr. As pinall's, he (Mr. Aikin) was sure that not one member would have agreed to have met again to have considered a matter which had already been decided upon by large majorities. Mr. Aikin then proceeded to contend that those who sup ported the present motion. and voted against youth going to the Northern Mechanics' Institution, where they might gain useful knowledge, were guilty of gross inconsistency. Mr. Birkett had chosen to read the Council a lecture which was appropriate to him, seeing that it was unintelligible to every one else, in which he had talked something about quilting— Mr. BIIIKETT.-I used a term which I heard upon 'Change. Mr. Alderman EARLE.—What was it? Mr. AlKlN.—Quilting Pray what does it mean? Mr. Alderman EARLE.—Tossing in a blanket, I suppose. Mr. AixiN proceeded with his remarks, and said he would advise Mr. Birkett, when he was commenting upon the con duct of others, to be a little more guarded in the phrases which he used. He was not warranted in -using the word " unwarrantable," in speaking of the opposition of Mr. Evans and himself to Mr. Aspinall's motion. The majority of the Council had decided that it was altogether " unwar rantable," and he (Mr. Aikin) would add that it was unjus tifiable in Alt. Birkett to have used such a word. In con clusion, Mr. Aikin, at considerable length, defended the existing clause, on the ground that it would tend to promote morality by preventing drunkenness. Mr. PARKER warmly contended that those who had voted against the Northern Mechanics' Institution and supported the present motion, were quite as consistent as Mr. Aikin and his friends. He (Mr. Parker) was discharging what he conceived to be his conscientious duty t- his constituents in supporting the present motion; and wnenever they found fault with him for he part he took, he should be ready at that moment to deliver up his trust. That council were sit ting to do justice between man and man ; and because there were some among them who supported Mr. Birkett's mo tion, were they to be called inconsistent men, drunkards, and the promoters of drunkenness? Could not one member differ from another without having his trade referred to in this way, " that man is a spirit merchant, and that man a brewer." Now, although he (Mr. Parker) was connected with that branch of trade, he went upon no such bias. He should do his duty to his constituents in whatever situation he was placed, and he trusted that in doing so he should have protection of the chair. Mr. Ms:lN.—Did you vote against the Northern Mechan ics' Institution being open on Saturdays, and in favour of the other? (Mr. Aspinall's motion.) Mr. PARKER had voted against the Northern Mechanics' Institution being open upon Saturday nights for the exhibi tions that were there made, and, therefore, Mr. Aiken said he voted for the public-houses being open all Sunday—in short, that he voted for the continuance of drunkenness ? Now he thought if the magistrates would but do their duty the evil would be cured. You could never legislate to cure drunkenness, but the magistrates might punish it, and he called upon Mr. Aikin, as a magistrate, to see that the laws as to the punishment for drunkenness were put into execu tion. Those laws were sufficient to check the evil, but they were not carried out by the magistrates, and that was the cause of the greatness of the evil. Mr. AIKIN said the inconsistency was still unexplained. The Tows-CLERIC here repeated his view of the question. It was to the same effect as his explanations given above. Mr. Alderman EVANS said the gentleman who had made this motion commenced by a declaration that he did not in tend to go into the discussion, but so far from abstaining from it, he run over the whole of the former debate, and criticized the speakers after his own manner. If there were any additional reasons wanting to induce the council to per severe in their bill Mr. Birkett had furnished them himself. lie had said that the government when applied to declared that they were too much occupied with other things to un dertake this, and that they could not touch it this session. He believed from our experience of the occupations of the government of this country, it was to be supposed that many years might go by before they would have either time or inclination to do anything of this sort. But after a reply of that sort, and being convinced of the utility of what they desired, ought the council to lose one moment in endeavour ing to do,that which they had now an opportunity of doing? Was it not highly desirable that Liverpool should show the way to the whole empire in this matter: Why should they not to go in advance of the government instead of tailing be hind them ? After entering upon the question of morality at some length, and urging that it was not the province of the council to legislate for the whole country, he proceeded to say that he really was not aware that either his friend Mr. Aikin or himself had sustained the chastisement which had been so elegantly characterised by the word " quilting ;" but he gave his friend upon his right (Mr. Aspinall) credit for not having very ferocious intentions with regard to either of them. If he had a giant's grasp, he would not use it in a giant's way. (Laughter.) The question had been so com pletely decided already in the minds of the council, that he should hope there would not be even a division. Mr. Alderman TURNER then moved, and Mr. Alderman IsltcoL seconded, an amendment, that the propositions of Mr. Birkett be taken into consideration that day six months. After a few words from Mr. FRENte, Mr. BIRKETT replied. The town-clerk had given a law yer's opinion when he stated that the effect of this seven "miles clause would be to endanger the whole bill. lie thought that was a sound opinion ; but when he (Mr. Birkett) was in London, he took a great deal of trouble in this matter, and he thought he had paved the way for the introduction of the clause. Mr. M ELLOR.—By whose authority did you do so ? Mr. BIRKETT replied that he had done so upon his own authority, as a burgess, and not as a member of the council. He had stated to the mayor and the town-clerk that the course he had adopted was not as a member of the council, but as a private individual. . - . Mr. Alderman EVANS said it now appeared they had pri vate parties seeking upon their own authority. Mr. Birkett'e principle, with regard to the council, appeared to be that of " Ego el mous re.e." After a desultory conversation, Mr. Bilucurr consented to withdraw his motion. The amendment was also with drawn, and the business being over, the council separated at half-past one. LAUGHABLE INCIDENT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. —During the discussion which followed Sir Robert Peel's financial expose, on Friday night, Colonel Sibthorp recom mended to the consideration of the government the propri ety of imposing an absentee-tax. He thought such a mea. sure would operate beneficially, especially in Ireland; although, if they adopted it, they might be charged with in fringing the liberty of the subject. (Laughter.) Mr. O'Con nel said he was sorry to hear the hon. and gallant member declaim against an Irishman, for he (Mr. O'Connell) could prove him to be one in point of law. (" Hear, hear !" from Colonel Sibthorp.) Ther e was a law p asse d in the Itith year (we understood) of the rei g n of Henry VI., whi c h prov id e d that no man should wear hair on his upper lip without in curring the penalty of being considered an Irishman. (Loud laughter.) Great laughter was afterwards occasioned in the house by Mr. O Connell walking ac ross t h e floor with the ' statute-book open in his hand, and presenting it to Colonel Sibthorp, pointing to the clause of the statute of Henry VI. to which he had alluded, and which the h on . an d ga ll ant mem b e r, raising his hat, commenced perusing. MEETING OF THE PRAYER-BOOK AND HOMILY SOCIETY. Yesterday evening the annual meeting of this society was held in the Music-hall. The attendance was numerous, the room being nearly filled. On the platform were many of the clergy of the town and neighbourhood, and a large body of the friends of the society. _ The very Rev. Chancellor Raikes, Chancellor of the Dio cese, was called to the chair, and at his request the Rev. Mr. Maynard opened the proceedings by a short and im pressive prayer. The Cllantslas said that the first communication he had to make was, he regretted to say, of a painful nature. It was a letter from their esteemed and respected triiend, the Rev. Hugh M'Neile. The language of hiS note, and the request which it conveyed, would, he felt assUred, meet with the ut most attention. Mr. M'Neile stated, in allusion to a late do mestic calamity, that in the present state of his feelings he must apologise for not attending the meeting, as he felt that he could not expose himself to the gush of sympathy that would, doubtless, be evinced towards him by the numerous warm friends who would be present ; but that the society had his prayers for its success, and when occasion offered he should do everything in his power in its behalf. He (the Chancellor) said, that however much they lamented the absence of his rev. friend and some others, the cause was one whicht stood on its own merits, independently of mortal aid. That cause was one which God himself would prosper, for its ob ject was the dissemination of formularies founded on his holy word. The simplicity of the object of the society, had not obtained for it that popularity which other religious soci eties enjoyed, for it did not so strongly as some others appeal to those feelings and associations which were more immediately interesting to the community. But it could riot be denied that there was a great and growing necessity for the dissemination of the doctrines and formularies of the Church of England, which was the object of the society. If any one thought that the homilies were written for the peculiar age in which this had first appeared, and were not suited for the present, they had but to look around, and mark the different forms of error that had lately risen up, to be convinced that the formularies and articles of the ChurCh of England were still the great standards of a pure Christian faith. It had been well said by physicians, that we should not leave off our great coats too soon in the spring, on the supposition that because we had a few genial and mild days, we had fairly got into the summer, and might with impunity take to lighter garments—trusting unwisely to a treacherous climate. In like manner, in mat ters of religion, we should not throw aside those securities that protected it in its early propagation, and were still re quired to shield it from error and innovation. The doctrines and formularies of the church were founded on the scrip tures; and they were drawn from the fountain of truth, and the homilies, in particular, were the grand standard by which they ought to abide. Mr. MAYN Atm, the secretary, then read the report, from which it appeared that great numbers of the prayer book and homilies had been distributed. many families and ships visited, and much good done. Within the ten years ending 1841, the loss in the distribution and sale of books, and the expenseofagencies Scc.,.had been so much beyond the income in subscriptions, that the society had incurred a deficit of £275 to the Parent Society. The committee urged the com munity to increased efforts in behalf of the society. The secretary related several affecting anecdotes relative to the beneficial effects of the society'. _ _ The Rev. J. H. STEWART moved the first resolution—the printing of the report—in a very forcible address, in which he related many instances of its beneficial effects both on shore and at sea. He lamented that, in a town containing 10,000 sailors, so small a sum had, for the last few years, been col lected to promote the desirable objects in view. Mr. T. SEWARD ably seconded the resolution, also sup porting the objects of the society as admirably suited to arrest the progress of socialism, popery, and infidelity. He stated the remarkable fact, that the first homily the society had printed in Hebrot was seen by the present bishop of Jerusalem—a converted Jew—who inquired how it was to be disseminated ; and, strange to say, he was shortly afterwards consecrated, and became himself the bearer.of it to that city. The resolution was unanimously carried. The Rev. Mr. JAMES moved the second resolution, in an admirable and most argumentative - address, in the course of which he noticed, with great effect, the conduct of those ene mies of the Church who had recently impugned her doctrines in the Oxford Tracts. He pronounced a warm appeal in be half of the prayer book and other formularies, as suited for every class and every circumstance in life, and concluded by reading some extracts from a recent Catholic book, in which the Virgin Mary was held to be the principal mediator. The Rev. Mr. \VIIITNE seconded the resolution, for which see the advertisement. The Rev. Dr. TATTERSH ALL moved the next resolution, which.was seconded by the ltev. Mr. PA RKlig, and carried. Mr. HOWARD moved the thanks of the meeting to the chairman, after some cogent remarks, on the peculiar privileges of the laity of the Church of England. The mo tion was seconded by Mr. CARPENTER, and carried by ac clamation. , • The en AinsirAs returned thanks, and spoke at some length, and with great eloquence, on the peculiar advantages and adaptation of the Litany, the Prayer-Book, and the Ho milies, concluding by a warm appeal to the audience for aaditional support to the society. " Praise God, from whom all blessings flow." was then sung, and the meeting dispersed. A collection was made in the room, which amounted to about £7. CORRESPONDENCE , PIIILO JUSTITIA AND ADMIRATOR TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. " Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." Matt. vii., 20. SIR,—I am aware of the great demand for space in your valuable columns at the present time, but, as some " would be wit " or Romanist priest has, after a lapse of near two mouths, attempted to throw ridicule on the hypothesis, on which my argument against the popish system of education was founded contained in a former letter, I crave as a parti cular favour the insertion of a few lines in reply to the goes- . tions " Admirator" has addressed me. I beg to inform him that my knowledge of the devil is founded on his character as revealed in the written Word of God. Thui; I find the devil was a liar from the beginning, and his children are known by their fruits : for instance—the Word of God gives me a second commandment against idolatry ; popery tells me it is of no use ; therefore I know popery to be a lying system. The Word of God tells me that the body of Christ shall not see corruption ; popery tells me that, after the priest has said " Hoc est corpus meum " over a bit of paste, it becomes the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ, and yet it sees corruption; therefore I again know popery to be a lying system. The Word of God tells me not " totrust in roan whose breath is in his nostrils " ; popery places man's 'salvo-, tion on the intention of a wretched, miserable prieit ; and I again know it to be a lying system. Being obliged to be brief,. I cannot now go on multiplying ins tances ; buti cannot find it in my heart to leave off without calling " Admirator's attention to the brazen effrontery of popery in asserting that the Douay version of the Bible, after having been translated from two languages, gives as true a version of the minds of the sacred writers as our authorised version translated from the original Greek. Does not common sense pronounce this a glaring, barefaced, detestable lie? To conclude, does not the "written Word" and history call to our notice three important facts'?—lst. That when the devil could not con tend against the growing power of Christianity, he because one in order to corrupt it, and the man of sin beCime re vealed in the Pope of Rome.-2sid. When he could not contend against the demand for reform in his own peculiar church, he turned reformer, and in the creed of Pope Pius IV. is to be found his " brutuni fulnien" of all that he thought requisite to ensure for his followers what it is so re . -: plete with, viz., curses.—Lastly. When he could not control Christian exertions for education, he turned schoolmaster ;. and to shew that he was the same as of old, he piously (he is. a much-maligned old gentleman, after all) preferred Scrip ture extracts, that he could pervert, to the whole Bible, that lie could not resist.—Your obedient servant, T PIIILO JUSTITIA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. perceive that the liberal Editor of the Liverpool Chronicle is mightily offended because a few Orangemen, out of respect to a departed brother, accompanied him to his grave on Sunday last. He calls the attention of his readers to it, on Saturday last, in a leading article, from which I extract the following passage :—" On Sunday last, a number of indi viduals dared to parade themselves before their fellow-citi zens, wearing the party colours of this detestable order. True it is, that the pretext was to accompany to the grave the re mains of an Orange news-vender, but we warn the authori ties that it was probably intended to try the disposition of the magistrates. if they appear disposed to permit them, we have no doubt that on the next 12th of July, or perhaps peace of the town invaded by earlier, we shall have the Orange riots." You perceive, sir, he calls the Orange order a " detestable order," and no doubt they are, and ever will he, a very " detestable order," in the estimation of all radicals,. papists, and revolutionists. And why ? Simply because they are a loyal body, attached to our glorious constitution in church and state, and united together for the support and maintenance of those good, great, and Christian principles, for the defence of which, " the glorious, pious, and immortal William," Prince of Orange, was called to the throne of these realms. This, I repeat, is enough to make them detestable in the estimation of the enemies of our Protestant constitu tion. But he says, " They dared to parade themselves before their fellow-citizens, wearing their party colours." There was surely no great parade in quietly walking in a funeral procession, and as it regards their !! party colours," they bad no need to be ashamed of them, for they are not the badge of treason or rebellion, but the badge of loyalty to their Queen and country. But he insinuates that the funeral procession was a kind of feeler as to whether the magistrates will allow Orange processions, and says, that " no doubt on the next 12th of July, or perhaps earlier, we shall have the, peace of the town invaded by Orange riots." Now I, for one, have no very great desire to see Orange processions in Liverpool ; but if the authorities of 'the town will allow the feelings of this loyal Protestant community to be outraged year after ' year on St. Patrick's day, by large processions of Irish pa pists, carrying " party colours" and banners, I think, in common justice, they ought not to prohibit a procession of loyal men, who are united together for the laudable purpose of protecting those privileges which they hold dearer than life itself. Why does not the Editor of the Chronicle call the attention of the magistrates to the notice of the Popish pro cession to take place on Thursday next? He seems to be much afraid of the peace of the town being disturbed by " Orange riots," but seems to apprehend no fear from Po pish riots. But this is quite in keeping with radical liberality. Radicals in general are mighty liberal towards popery and rebellion, and as illiberal towards Protestantism and loyalty. But, sir, I tell the Editor of the Chronicle that the Orange men of Liverpool are not to be frightened, or deterred from doing what they conceive to be their duty, by ally, or all, the radical papers in the kingdom. Many of them are the de scendants of the poor Protestants of Ireland, who were butch ered in the rebellion of 1798, at Enniscorthy, Virregar-hill, and Scellabogue ; and they do not, and cannot forget the wrongs inflicted on their fathers ; and though they do not wish to return evil for evil to any man, on the contrary, they can and do pray for their "enemies, persecutors, and slan derers," yet knowing by better experience the persecuting and intolerant spirit of the apostate church of Rome, and that she only wants the power, not the will, to " compe l h eretic: to be of the true church," they conceive it to be their duty to their God, to their Queen, to their country, to themselves and to their children, to endeavo ur , w ith th e bl ess i ng o f the Almighty, to preserve their religion and lib er ti es , f or the preservation of which their forefathers spilt their blood ; and should the time unhappily ever arr i ve , w h en t h e sp i rit o f re bellion should again break out and threaten us with destruc tion, 1 trust that the Orangemen of Liverpool would rally round the altar and the throne, ant i, lik e th e i r f at h ers b e f ore them, sooner die than surrender.—l am, sir, yours, &c., Liverpool, March 14, 1842. AN ORANGEMAN. t 1 11.10 US WAGER.—We e are informed thatof the principals of the A mer i can equestr i an company, one vi , hich ar rived at this port on T ues day l as t, h as undertaken to drive ten horses, tandem fashion, through the streets of Liverpool, in the course of a few days. We are informed it is a favour ite feat of the party who has undertaken the wager. SOMETHING ODD.—Lord John Russell, who f° ll°wed O'Connell jn the debate on Mr. Duncombe's motion, - stated, " that in the county Middlesex it Was p ec uliarly re quisite that Roman Catholic priests should be allowed to visit the prisoners in the jails, as the great proportion of them were Roman Catholics !! !" Query.—ls it not odd that in Protestant Middlesex, where •the Protestant popula tion is twenty to one, it should happen that there aro more Itoiaan Catholics than Protestant s moil! Thetrp. 14 .1 J ■ s~~ P ADDRESS TO THE LION OF ENGLAND, ON THE RECENT ATTEMPT TO INTRODUCE POPISH INNO VATIONS INTO THE NATIONAL CHURCH. Come, rouse thee, bearded monarch, from thy ocean-girded den ; Silent too long has been thy roar, now let it peal again; Chill to the hearts of all thy foes that voice shall send once more, And drive them from the beetling cliffs which circle Albion's They come ! but not those gallant hosts, proud Gallia's gilded pride, Who chronicled on Waterloo her glory as they died— They come ! not fierce - 1 - li;pania has sent the o'er the deep, In turret-like Armada ;—nor from the summit steep Of Himmalay, nor far away from China's ancient wall, — Thew come the hearths and altars of our country to enthrall. Ho f to the van, old England's strength! rouse, yeoman, from thy rest, And thou, the son of noble sire, whose old baronial crest Has come to thee from Agincourt and Cressy, tented fields, Ho ! high and low, speed young and old—now woe to him that yields! 'Tis not the crown, that glorious crown, your hundred—mo narch's pride, That peril'd is, altho' for it each one had gladly died; Nor e'en your homes, your happy homes, where lovely virtue dwells To guard whose heaven-encircled peace each bosom nolly swells : Still dearer is the guerdon now, more holy still the call Which bids you to the battle-field, it is your Faith, your all ! Now, Britain, to thy Temple see! it stands upon thy hills, Its shadow is thy safety guard, Jehovah's presence fills Its walls, cemented by the blood-of all thy martyr'd sires, — Its beacon-light, pure Faith's bright torch, enkindled at their fires. Guard, England, guard thy Temple well! false sons are in its bound, And Rome's embattled legions have its walls beleaguer'd round. Strange voices come at eventide adown yon sacred height, Not heaven's accustomed psalmody ; nor is that dingy light The holy flame which brightly burned within those sacred walls, When our own RIDLEY trimmed the flame which lit these holy halls. Those are the sounds of enemies ! the mumming Mass of Rome, And Superstition's deadly voice from England's Temple come, God's Holy Word, our charter-right, our guide, our stay, our all, Before Tradition's meanless page, is hidden now to fall ! Rome's myrmidons are thronging- fast around each holy pile, And, locust-like, stein covering the green sward of our isle. And where are those whose high behest is watch and ward to keep, • With mitred:brow and crozier'd - hand, o'er Christ's most precious sheep I Where are they ?—rouse, ye shepherds, rouse; ere yet too late it be ; Shame, startle I the wolf Is at the fold—will ye like hirelings flee ? Oh! will ye bask in silken bow'r, or rest in lordly hall, While holiness and Gospel truth aloud for succour call ? Thanks, gracious Heaven, it is not so !—thy serv an t s s il ence break,- 7 Good CursTakieads the glorious charge, and follow in his wake High Canterbury, Exeter, Ripon, and Lincoln too, Old London's shepherd, Chichester, and others brave and true. While, far away from Erin's shore, the noble Arrnachan And Dublin's prelate lift their voice, nor fear the face of man. Up, guardians all! and lead the way : truth's champions • ready stand To shield the faith, and far away drive error from our laud. Come, rouse thee, England's Lion, then! no monkish cowl • may hide The dastard Roman from thy frown—be will not, dare not bide. The thunder of thy waking roar true sons shall rally round, 'Till not a hoof of Popish herd within thy shrine be found. But hark ! " a sound of going" on the lofty hills is heard ; Is it the tempests hidden might that on their tops is stirred ? No ! 'tis the coming of His foot—the Lord of Hosts, llis name ; His ear has heard His people's prayer; and, as of old, he came To be their .". Strong Deliverer," and pontiff-chain to burst, So comes He now to save them from its bitterness accurst! Who follows in His glorious train? Ho, PROTESTANTS, arise ! Unfold your banner of the Cross, and bid it kiss the skies! There.plant it in the solid rock, where stands your church, for aye; Be Christ your King, supreme and sole! Amen ! we say amen ! CRUCEARMIGER SUDDEN DEATH FROM DISEASE OF THE HEART.— Yesterday, an inquest was held before Mr. Statham, deputy coroner, on view of the body of Mary Cannon. The de ceased, who was 75 years old, lived with her son, a stone mason, in a cellar in Henderson-street, Toxteth-park. Mary Hale, a married woman, who lived opposite, said that on Saturday morning, in consequence of a girl calling, she went into the deceased's cellar, and found her lying upon the ground upon her face. A little blood was flowing from her forehead, and sonic also got into her mouth. She never spoke, but breathed once, and almost immediately died without a struggle. The son of the deceased had left her getting her breakfast about half-past ten on Saturday morning-, and she then appeared to be quite well, and did not complain of any ailment. Mr. James Bruce, surgeon, said he happened to be passing along the street on Saturday morning, and seeing a crowd collected went into the cellar, and found the deceased dead. He made a post mortem examination of the body, and found the cause of death to have been disease of the heart. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. The Right Honourable Henry Ellis, formerly ambassador to Persia, is mentioned ,as the probable successor to Lord Elphiustone, at Madras. . . .„.. The Duke of Wellington has caused cards to be issued for a grand entertainment, on Friday next, at Apsley House. Lord John Beresford, brother to the Marquis of Water.- ' ford, haying completed his terms at Trinity College, Cam bridge, has entered holy orders. His lordship was ordained .by his relative, the Bishop of Kiln4ore. It is said that the late Marquis of Hertford died worth nearly two millions of money. Viscount Scabam, son and heir of the Marquis and Mar chioness of Londonderry, will attain his majority on Tues. day, the 26th of April. The Earl of Lincoln, Lord Dinorben, Lord Dacre, and Mr. Baring, have taken ground on the line of the new road from Bayswater to Kensington, for the erection of villas.— London paper. It is understood the Duke of Cleveland will receive the Appointment of Colonel of the Durham militia. The head quarters will probably be removed from Barnard Castle to the city of Durham.—Durham Chronicle. At the Sligo assizes, Mr.-Henry Irwin, the coroner, was found " gnilbh u .of giving. an order on the county treasurer to a surgeon foiKattendiug, an inquest that never took place, and sentenced to transportation for seven years, During the evening and night of Sunday se'nnight, the neighbourhood of Barnard Castle, and the upper part of the Vale of Tees and Lune Dale, were visited with a succession of vivid flashes of lightning, and several tremendous peals of thunder—a circumstance of .rare occurrence at this season of the year.—Sunderland Herald. Why is the peacoCk, the favourite bird of a heathen god dess, like a prominent feature on au Israelite's face ?—Be cause it's Juno'sl(Jew nose). Cavanagh, the fasting' man, was committed by the police magistrates of Queen-square, London, to hard labour in the I - louse of Correction for begging in the streets. Loss or Two ,LIVES.—A very lamentable accident hap pened in the river• Tees .on :Tuesday last. On the morning of that day, Mr.. Robinson and his son. aged five years, the former hind to Mr. Jervis Robinson, of Darlington, were setting the father of the former person across the river Tees, at Rockliffe, near Hurworth, in a cart ; and on their return, after leaving the old man on that side of the river where he wished to be, the water rushed down suddenly, the mare in the cart was taken off her feet, and the cart upset. The consequence was, that Robinson and his son were both drownul, mid their bodies have not yet been found. The mare, which was worth £3O, was also lost. The following are the receipts of railways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, viz. :—Birmingham, £13,416 ; Great Western, 1:10,155; Brighton, £1,918 ; Blackwall, £646 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, £1,433; Manchester and Bir mingham, £358 ; Eastern Counties, £703 ; Croydon, £326 ; Greenwich, £846 • Northern and Eastern, £B6O ; Manches ter and Leeds, ' £4,133 ; Birmingham and Derby, £1,019 ; South Western, £4,299 ; Great North of England, £l,lll ; Midland Counties, £2,300 ; Grand Junction, £7,266 • York and North Midland, £1,657 ; and Edinburgh and Glasgow, £l,Ol . VOYAGE EXTRAORDINARY.—A very singular circum stance, which occurred a week or two ago at Cuddalore, is described in a letter now before us, and is not undeserving of permanent record. A boat with three burmese on board was, a short time since, blown in upon the coast at a distance of about ten miles from Cuddalore. These men stated, that they had been out on a fishing excursion on their own coast, when a typhoon suddenly came on in the night and broke the straw rope by which their boat was made fast, when they were immediately blown out to sea. They had, they said. only rice for three days on board, and for the remaining 17 days, for they drifted about fur a period of 20 days, they had nothing more than rainwater to subsist upon. The boat in which this extraordinary voyage was performed is 46 feet long, made of a single tree, and it is surmised that there were originally many more individuals on board who perished from hunger, or may even have been sacrificed to the necessities of their companions. This, however, is mere conjecture. Of the three men who reached our shores, one died shortly after, and a second within a few days ; the only survivor is, 1 " ) r ." ever, in good health an d excellent condition, not . to have suffered at all by the unprecedented hardships he , has undergone. The di stance this boat has drifted must much l-1 fur ther.—lndia . are n been at least 1000 to 1200 miles, probably, indee d , paper, Qv ALIFICATIoN NititCHANT SER VIC E.—Ca A. Johnstone. IM.P. ; M•P. M" " • M.P. ; Baird, M.P. ; Mr. Gill FE.lll_claPpaitaAiSnTliFnitSzrAoNy,D,M.ATls.ni.N: T;:i.: ,_ M.P. ; Lord Dalre . Vq_ , _ i:" , i•. 1) Mr. John Dennistoun,M r. George Duncan, Iv • • , . Chamber of Com merce of Glasg ow ; Mr. A. Nl'Dowall, of with Mr. Wardrop, chairman ot the Glasgow ;. Mr. R. Henderson, of Mincing-lane; Mr. J. Fleming, of Claremont ; Mr. K nox, and Mr. Deans, had a conference with the President and Vi ce -President of the Board of Trade on Thursday , o n the s ubject of a proposed legislative measure to establish boards in various parts of the country for ascertaining by examination the qualifications o f masters and mates in the ma rine merchant service. it at,. peared that a great number of memorials from the OUtpurts had been transmitted to t he Board of Trade in favour of this i m p or t an t measure, and the president and vice-president took a deep interest in the statement made by Capt. Fitzroy and other gentlemen w ho attended and entered with great minuteness into the question. Their leaning seemed favour able, but before coming to any final conclusion they desired to be furnished with a more full statement in writing as to the necessity and effect of the measure. Lusr.—A short distance from Jeric ho o named from our ' • stands the mount • ain of Quaratita,,v "forty days • This is of great altitude, b avinm passed there of an Evangelist, an " exceeding high or, in the language view from it is exceeding grand of mountain ;" and the Dead Sea, the peaks of Neb the plain of Jordan, the °Pisgah, and places, and which may truly be • of time. ° • It was to this said to be seen " in a moment bap tised in Jordan, had been s olitude Christ, afte • b • led by I beingto its summit is most! brushwood and briars ; ydifficult, from being covered with and stockings, which and more so to tho se w ith ou t shoes many of the religious dispense with to come at it, i n the vi ew of performing certain ceremonies during the p er i o d of l horrid precipicesle nt. Besides, near to thi s may be seen abode of others, , a nd caverns or cells hewn out of rock, the the exampl e of wh o the Saviour fasting in the mountain. 'magic nation cannot adapted for picture a more desolate spot, and better the votaries of abstinence.—W. Rae Wilson on