The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-17 00:00:00

3aritamtMarp Vrotttbiugs It wou )7 COM'A If the forged ,es under wh us. however icalmurlt Gevernmeri s were var was 1.37 att 262.000. ontiden n ennelnded bt movin nolo waff of naidered iorefore e life by MOND A fitly er made to had obtained hplire for lion they f Beaumont Stn tozsucL ask itathtti , iiANCILL was a ri t Lori JAMES DUKE, Mr F. Wu explatneu tue maim, n had acted. He contrived to get soi piloted for exchequer bills, and had is n time according to his n .asitiem a in. There was 2dividttals o ank were iota examination Ade' of these fc and the Chancel!, man the prope at the same time tmirs„ as to *he It was a W tt3 then itgreed me•e , resolve itself ated w prevailed, *anent •' ■5 tursecy, oq SP. 1 LIAM, bL •ud s lo rate of wa it color> w evil it was nt industri of Vas v whicb means t • cora law, awl a * was p r Oho AMP rc Whic - 4 which Skenb wiled at tit whic %ale, to az had tax paid g everyt the ale pita - 1 an& %.allSart to throw open audit( was now coon . A., e away' W I at once f of these barriers lgth is suppor al of tha.tand tar into tke no for considering time t mooest b to th• opera- ,e soils but Su ' he filistro f tree •X a from tit* r mould a, Se would nt fbe Isereaftw' ; that one, woutu iu • to • resoiu not load to otl he peop OSTOPIO said hG. f the p r 5 it rc 00100 p pro was an ah 'Lc akeu as a ossitisfai ns, in may, to ascertain It their re demand for the em- tion to the cor- awei by the Nolte Lava bees a as true there was hi lower class*, erlana cease ment•one foes calcu►a sm►l* c r /WM 1.1.•-•••• -♦ s' reveouo which bo nld las l'El4 I °Wend lord waa lent to th , ny among iples of relaxing ISuo4tion vas as to the e ie application of d t• cirry.64l of agileuit les of legi a to 4 .1 - he woald ask if It was said !ry spos the ■ classes: and a: aka, which are !regrets that in e of the atulet ar sr. 14131. strictions a nt to wh a of cap Lona was or Vis I tries her 1. course pals axes upon t o IS, xed du tut country ht perhaps pause if the go course, were to allow a free 1, and, in order to sustain a The right hon. barone read some 1 he extent of mortality in the autumn guar- 1 `), in various towns, as compared the year 1842 tie-number ninth ; from which at great as was the distress last ..•Iv exaggerated. It was I had avowed its in and it had been said by others that government intended, an last session was a miseraule pittance v► evw rm. It was supposed that government would by some parties because they would not repeal atd by others that they would not adopt a and with respect to the tariff, he believed he I might fearlessly assert that such an extensive step in com mercial reform could not be found in the whole history of the commercial legislation of the country. After all there was but little difference of opinion in that house upon the subject of free trade, for it must be evident to all that agri cultural prosperity could not exist in the absence of corn rcial paosperity. In fact the principles of free trade were s of every man of common sense, but in a country uisite even in the applica st false step producing 'eatest care was rec first princip lestructive consequences. The duty of the government was to apply general principles to the particular circumstances of the country, and tile true course of proceeding, therefore, was to obtain as large a field as possible for oar commerce, without allowing it to degange our domestic industry by the sadden ness of the change. He hoped the hoase would not enter upon such a vague course as that proposed by the noble lord, a course which could be productive of no one advantage, while it might, by exciting false hopes, greatly aggravate the distress it was meant to alleviate, but that, on the contrary, it would express its disapprobation by a large and command in majority. (Loud cheers.) Mr. BORTSWICX. then moved the adjournment of the debate, which was agreed to. ROYAL LIVER THEATRE FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. FI7'ZWILLIAM, And Positively her Last Appearance THIS EVENING, (Friday,) the 17th instant, the Per 1t formances will commence with a Petite Comedy, called MY TENDER CHARGE ! Tobn Dibbs Mrs. Fitzwilliam. , particular desire,) Mrs. Fitzwilliam's cele brated Monopologeie of WIDOW WIGGINS ; Olt, MUSIC MAD ! To which will be added (for the last time) Mr. Buckstone's celebrated Farce of THE CHRISTENING; on, Tnr, MYSTERIOUS BABY. Mr. flookins Twiddy .... Mr. Buckstone. The whole to conclude with the late Thomas Dibdin's cele brated Extravaganza of Harlequin Hoax ; or, Getting Up a Pantomime. Mr. Patch (the author of the proposed Pantomime) Mr. Bnckstone. I Columbine.. Mrs. Eitzwilliam. Laurette Seymour r wit; r 4 TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c The largely increased and most respectable circulation of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester qffords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country mann- facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver- tisiny favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their cart TO CORRESPONDENTS Lcreased ,eratior ~ of what had fallen from the mitant -, et upon the farmer 3, terminating in the motion and the notion, and said he was " temporary,' used by , because whatever was LP said that Sir R. Peel was giv _ es to tits opposition side of the house, while he benefits of his practice for his own. He hoped, lat ha would not make his stand upon the poor ce of commercial reform, which he had already con - *it)* respect to the timber trade the is of last session had been to raise the the importer was benefited, bat not the cort- I the benefit of country of the alter )f timber, . In the tr Russia excellent arrangements lg trude ; het and regulations were - made for t lar ge carr is was nothing to carry. for there Was no reductiorr riffs of either country such of the distress was d to the fact that treaties of commerce had latever in t Mr. D'ISRAEL/ contend ben carried out wit* France, Brazil, and other countries were consequently in a gr manufactures of this country b countries measure closed Those treaties 6iled from ct it thil negociators , as in th cam, of Fralo there was sometimes anything but a favour left of this country in the minds of fo- ss to ex sult from, and I les length a reform bill was the ruin of the country, ee trade to which Mr. He thought the present a check to the career of fr given tks first impulse. - •rn avr not injurious to commerce, while it imaintained, as ought to do, the prepondering influence of the landed in rest. Ha thought like that great merchant and great cc, the Doge of Venice, who, when looking out on the ones, covered with the ships engaged in the trade of the ant, said that, " notwithstanding all he saw, Venice with- • anions terra fare Lean eagle with one wing e say of England, and he seould not, therefore, lestroy the preponderating influence of the landed of this cointr' nll could not have stopper pies, for he believed that s of free•trade pr n the radical interest, nor t single oppo tof free trade had been returned. The lion. member gth in support of ti dual repeal of the corn laws Mr. B. 1-10 tended that the distr to the corn-laws. s of the g for- HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WDDNEsDA Sir R. PEEL, in reply to a question from Dr. Bowring, said that a despatch had been received from Colonel Sheil confirming the statement of the deaths of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conollyat Bokbara, which was recently and exclusively made in the Herald. The adjourned debate on Lord Howick's motion was then Peel) , I resume streng Dr. BOWRING contendec ade, associated as they R at principles of free interests and civili- .1111 WORTLEY belief that the nflammatory than by Dr. Bowring was mor , lything which had ever fallen from Mr. Ferrand. 1f the ,rn laws were repealed to-morrow, the effects anticipated Dye their removal would not be realised. The cause of the . . of the immense speculations in the United States, and D an assertion, entirely unsupported, that we did not ke tneir Mr• WALLACE, in supporting the motion, enlarged upon e distress prevailing through the country, pervading all NCCPQ of society, and , affecting every species of property. bate to the deran vent of American finances, for it had not itry, and concluded by calling this inquiry into the means of to enter upon dmittted the_d hich prevailed Ir. r.sc He believed the ob- motion or the supporters of th, the Corn ation or until they might eventually agree )r for no duty at all. It was sions bad fallen one-third three loaves instead of The note of an " Old Subscriber" has been forwarded to the rev. gentleman. It is, we conceive, the most likely mode of effecting the object of the writer. In the review of the Sermons of the Rev. J. H. Stewart in Friday's S2ANDARD, the word " proposal" should have been " prospect," and the word " age" was substituted in the last line bat one for " all." The price of the tickets at the dinner on St. David's Day was omitted, through a mistake of the printer, in the ad vertisement in the Standard on Tuesday. It is rectified to -day. We understand, that the committee for conducting the cele bration of St. David's Dav,in London, have postponed the festivities usually observed until the 2d March, in conse quence of the anniversary of the patron saint falling on Ash Wednesday. It would afford us much pleasure to see the directors of the steeple chase following the example. __ . We have received a letter from a correspondent near Holy e would make no alteration in the well, who strongly recommends that a life-boat should be 'sent session, because they inferred stationed at Rhyl, in addition to that placed at the Point at some future pe- of Ayr. He states that some casualty occurs during every 'len from ht severe storm on the coast between Prestalyn and Rhyl, yto t' . and that on these occasions the Point of Ayr life-boat is of the c little avail, as it has to be conveyed by waggon to Rhyl, (a to fold out false I distance of four miles,) and arrives, almost always too r agreed to, cue debate would late, to be of any service. We are informed, that, whilst the assistant Poor-law Corn- I missioner (who visited us on Tuesday) stated that the Workhouse was conducted as well as circumstances would admit, he, at the same time, recommended the erection of an entirely new building; so that we shall now reap the bitter fruits of all the unnecessary hubbub which has been raised about the management of the present establishment. We are assured, en very competent authority, that our stipendiary magistrate does not contribute to tne funds of the parish, as he at present resides out of the district. A correspondent (" A. B.") complains, and, we think, very justly, of the annoyance experienced by the gentlemen on 'Change by the number of boys frequenting the anon for the purpose of whipping tops, &c., ind by the importmaity of beggars, who, as our correspondent nays, hawk at this place, a great advantage, as their customers cannot move away as they do-in the street. "A. B." ikleo Worms las, that, some time since, a man was employed foe Qs Impose of preserving the area from these obstruatioae to Manes, and he thinks that the sense plan sushl is be adapted new. Our correspondent's letter should have appeared, as it is effectively written, but, we fear, the compositnrs would not have been able to decypher it. Ells ilibtrpeot Atantaro. FRIDAY ,11101114ING, FEBRUARY 17, 1843 By an announcement in the Manchester Guardian, we perceive that the League is forthwith to remove the scene of its operations from Manchester to the metropolis. A house is to be takes in the neighbour hood of Westminster—the hospital is Broad Sanctuary would be a* appropriate building—which, besides fur nishing the gentlemen of " the council," and the various deputations from the provinces who are expected to attend and aid in eating and drinking a portion of the fifty-thousand-pound fund, with committee-rooms, offices, &c., for the transaction of their weighty affairs, will serve at the same time all the purposes of a club house. From this establishment will issue the various proclamations, pamphlets, handbills, resolutions, and other paper pellets with which the Houses of Lords and Commons are to be bombarded ; here will be plotted the various parliamentary manoeuvres, with which the proceedings of government and the business of the country are to be obstructed ; here itinerant agi tators are to be crammed with sedition, and radical lords and commons, cotton lords, and ministers of ail denominations, are to be crammed with turtle, port, bottled stout, or gin twist, according to their various likings; and here—but we must pause : for in truth we know not, and posterity only can know, half the astounding things to be here enacted. One thing, however, which is to occur in this loca- lity, we learn, for the first time, on the authority of our Manchester contemporary ; and the informatior has largely increased our inability to guess at the pos• sible future performances of the gentlemen in ques• tion. The inhabitants of Liverpool—the merchants brokers, shipowners, tradesmen, and working people of the " good old town"—are to be represented at this resort of conspirators by no other personage than— MR. LAWRENCE HEYWORTII ! kindly and consi derately, that enlightened and excellent individual has volunteered—for he was never invited, that we know of wesent this large community at the League somevdiat cu -when the people could have oat the distress should have it isions had decli t follow thy“ price of provisio ar, that it ily dor ried that the distr t had E an. In I nploymet in pn , two — as the P some re was fit attack efr. Ross ncreas ned, fretn which it would I in the same ratio eople would be better away with. s was more severe taken place within icient demoralisation, i state of the )pe that an then mght forward to tip Incl. The ho trial , was to be Rand in retterviAO the r iorance of former tries. The Id follew trp their own principles coarse t ad 'last Tear entered * small f d cintyon corn eed on Li (Ho t he believed, when this motion that it was intended as a direct Ivernment ; and net withstanding k) who brought it forward had n, yet the hon. member for Na- ,rived by his speech to leave the matter once *rabic doubt. The hon. member for Belfast who wished thi government to prod in the e noble duk nded in the vote cernsta , ITODOSea ther or red bt n the ag no- to the army HADDINGTON oast, in en rations from the Ea ;:t of Sir H. Pottinger Th• Z orces 11 t- Aitet siog the co The vote was ag HOUSI OT COMMONS 3 AEMERSTON the Fre Er mov n the nature of f the Officers i a vote of e diMcul Sir C. S energy ierations were e rU/SD n of onr trea r of the es with France, t of search for f the caus ks to the of as against , e overcome, re tied to the thanks of The Government ,s services, auc anks was then put and carried I nc Mr. MACKINNON moved for leave to bring in a bi Ith..of tow s by forbiddi Mr: HUME he impo t the Governmeu Sir J. GRAHAM S but he able to do so r. H intormation tion of the bill, tho of last f the subject upon the nsive inquiries to or.ld not, h he could .ely .reap r ces of that dist r sense of ais character, idy put as his s f fir H. Pot Aely ackm hal, and t from the treaty of .egreded vices were diplomatic and lad, however, conveyed to re confidence in 11 to im -3 within conversa the/ wer Arisen fi en to bring in the iowick's motion was then at man who had been trader s in an e not tal .t for the :t was d n the emu produce Mr. G. KNIGH armed by the t Gladstone Mr. consen out the c mourab )f the price of s ariff, which form I winte ie depres ,elieved that t en k wa for a ,m ns that tinltht a town of xpense of °noted. • seaport was f the farmer. ❑ of agricul- of to be attri- to be attributed to the dis- districts v. al fo" rid also which not find food Id not Fecause, whateve lachincry in this country that Uld be overstocked a distress of deelaratit e. the natts .os vote of thanks must be in " hv the noble duke, to -Ash* was little of the I'l must be mon n China th - a - n the thanks of Earl MINTo severall services of the naval 1 of ABERITEEN a were possessed loess and :oneurred in eve s which 1 14 oat uto Ir —to re Now really, we must protest against this, as a little too bad. If we were selecting a champion to represent our prowess at some childish game, we might possibly be content with Mr. Lawrence Heyworth. But it is. for no such purpose that the gentleman in question is ?ear on our behalf. It is to take part in o of dangerous moment, that about to a Mr. Lawrence Heyworth is to form " a deputation" t the great metropolis; and, as their representative in such a case, there are not ten men in evert thousand of the male population of Liverpool—we sal nothing of the females, to whom his tea and toast propensities have apparently endeared him—who would not as soon think of deputing in their behalf a cup and saucer or a gravy spoon. We protest against the aivimption of this gentleman to represent, at this League convention, anything or anybody except his own important self. Let him ride his own hobby but don't suppose that we entered him for the stakes! The dishoOesty of Whig journalism is not a thing the discovery of which is very likely to strike tt.e world with wonder. The dishonesty of Whig tactic:., when in possession of office or in opposition, is no startling novelty. But the dishonesty of the course pursued for weeks past by the Whig press, and by Whig statesmen and Wlfig members of Parliament, since the commencement of the present session, ex- ceeds all our previous notions, and is almost incon- ceivabl e in its flagrancy. Let us briefly point at the instances to which we refer It is well known that, upon the accession of Lord Ellenborough to the governor-generalship of India, we had just sustained serious disasters in Affghanistan, and the army in that country was detached from its supplies and surrounded by difficulties. General Sale's division was shut up in Jellalabad ; Generals Nott and England were in a position of similar danger at Candahar. A number of British officers and ladies were prisoners; and, in short, British power in that country was almost annihilated. What was the course, according to Whig authority, pursued by Lord Ellen borough in such a state of things ? The result of that nobleman's policy is before us. Ample punishment has been itflicted upon our savage and treacherous enemies ; our army has been withdrawn, after a career of victory, leaving the prestige ef the British name in that country fully established ; and every prisoner re covered by force of arms. And yet for three months past we have been told by the Whig press—first that, on the arrival of Lord Ellenborough in India, orders were issued to withdraw the troops, without striking a blow for the re-establishment of our country's honour, and leaving upwards of a hundred of our unfortunate fellow-countrymen and coutlrywomen in the hands of the ruthless savage and murderer, Ackbar Khan ! The very date of the order commanding such withdrawal has been again and again referred to, by the Morning Chronicle, in a series of articles ; its production has been tauntingly called for in the House of Commons; the circumstance that no such feeble and un-english course, as that said to be recommended, was pursued, has been boldly and in direct terms attributed to the criminal and mutinous refusal of General Pollock to obey the orders of his superior in authority More than this, however, the policy of the ultimate with drawal of the British forces within the limits of the Indus, has been loudly denounced ; and in a recent speech of no less a personage than the leader of the opposition in the House of Commons—Lord John Russell—as a wanton abandonment of the policy most becoming and safe for Great Britain to have pursued. Well, the denouement of this disgraceful attempt to overwhelm the present Governor-General of India with lasting infamy has arrived. A " blue hook" containing the whole of the despatches and orders, sought to be perverted in their meaning and actual wording, has at length been laid upon the table of both houses of Par liament ; and by those despatches the following broad facts are proved :—first, that the order to evacuate Affghanistan, as a BEATEN POWER too, WAS GIVEN BY LORD AUCKLAND, previously to the arrival of his successor upon the scene of disaster; and that it was not complied with because the army could not move as directed, had even those to whom it was ad dressed been willing—which, however, they were not ! Secondly, that the prisoners were distinctly ordered to be ransomed by a money payment, instead of being rescued —the mode alone honourable and safe for the British nation to pursue in suck a case ! Thirdly, and neces sarily, that no such order as that referred to as dated the Ist of August, and containing absolute directions to General Pollock to retreat without the prisoners, was issued by the Governor-General; and lastly, that General Polloek never disobeyed, or had cause to dis obey, any order of that noble lord! The whole tissue of representations, upon which the Whig press and the Whig opposition have chuckled so exuberantly, is a tissue of wanton, direct, and gross FALSEHOODS ! Now, we ask, can any member of the late govern ment have been ignorant, whilst raising this outcry against Lord Ellenborough, of its perfectly unfounded We should say " No ;" and we say, more over, that if any circumstance could more strongly than another justify an enquiry into all the events of this disgraceful affair, it is the course of deliberate and misrepresentation respecting it, which has been systematically pursued by all parties concerned. We shall give crn Tuesday a leading article from tlte Morning Herald—somewhat long, but pertinent throughout—detailing the whole case, as elucidated by these documents ; and we recommend it to perusal as the most complete exposure of whig fraud which has of late made its way to the public. nature That must, indeed, be a bold man who dares attempt to reconcile the conflicting opinions of the members of the Anti -Corn-Law League. At present we have before us the debate in the House of Com mons, upon the /no tion of po L rt o io rd ii Hofostvhicek,cofomrmaucnoitmy mittee to i nq uire into th e p re s ent condition of the in. with s debate in an assembly, infinitely more infallible re. it its knowledge of all thatlates to the cotton, corn, and commercial legislation—the Manchester Chamber of Commerce;—and a more cooplete tissue of contra dictory opinions Mid theories, than is thus presented to us, it is scarcely possible to conceive. In one house we are told of kostiletariffs, as a fertile cause of the ex • isting ernbarassments it our commercial affairs ;—that we are excluded from the markets of the world by re aid, is the. other, the amazing talietory legislation ; discovery %is just been mad* that hoetilu tariffs are nothing, and that it is the policy of this coisntry t o re ceive freely all the products of etker nations, even although these nations return the compliment by prohi bitory duties ayainst the commodities which we have to barter ! Eut lest this be too astounding an absurdity to receive credence, Abe mast give its author, and the words it which it has been produced. The author, then, of this e k e , * light, thrown upon the science of political philosophy, a*d the nature of free trade, is Mr. Henry Ashworth, of Turton, near Bolton. We like to be particular in names, where such exemplary 'wisdom is it question. The occasion of the declaration which we propose to immortalize was an expression, or . rather a ispeech of Mr. Wre. Gibb, at the annual meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, in which the speaker complained that in he efforts of this country to establish free trade be tween nation and nation, we litad not been met by , re '2iprocal efforts. " I em astonished," exclaimed the worthy quaker in reply, " that in this enlightened age, and in this enlightened body (!) there should be found a man hardy enough to st an d up f or reciprocity." Why the thing is exploded! We want to concede all, and receive nothing in return 1 e want to buy cheap —to have corn and sugar why not lard, or " spoiled grease," friend Ashworth ?—and coffee and treacle, for next to nothing,—not to sell goods !—bless you, no sach thing. Goods will sell themselves, when we have screwed down wages a littl e , or—we beg pardon—" de creased the cost of production"—that is the fashiona ble phrase. And then comes the oracular dictum, which we give ipsi ss i m i s verbis. If we removed our restrictions in corn, and they (foreigners) put on 30 or 40 per cent. upo n our manufactures, who paid that ? , THEY MIGHT K EEP 0 T HE TARIFF AS LONG AS THEY LIKED. How excessively liberal ! Their own people paid the tariff Worthy brother of the Albion, what think you of the last sentence ? We should fancy that it is somewh at i n t h e t ee th of your philosophy. Seriously, however, what can the world think of a party which one day whines of retaliatory tariffs—tells us that they are destroying the commerce of England —and in the next tells us that an additional 30 or 40 per cent. is nothing ?—that we don't pay it—we don't suffer from it ? Surely there must be something rotten in a system whose advocates are thus at sixes and sevens as to the arguments to be used to uphold it ! What sent the illustrious Dr. Bowring to Paris, Brus sels, and a score of other places, but to bespeak recip rocity ? And y et RECIPROC ITY IS A FARCE! But go a lit t l e f urther w ith our wise friend Henry Ashworth. Throw r ec iprocity overboard. Grant the millocrat free t ra d e—free tra d e in all articles of foreign production —no import duties at all—and it will strike most reasoning beings that we shall make a little hole in our national revenue. We presume that hole must be filled up—darned, patched, or whatever the worthy Quaker may call the process. We must have a new tax put on somewhere—that is, if we are not to resort to the repudiation principle. Well, then, what is it to be ? Taxes on articles of consumption, mind, are to be abolished ; therefore, we can have no increase under the head of excise or customs. To direct taxation, therefore, it conae s s—to an income or a property tax, or both. Ane, how does friend Henry Ashworth pay the income and property tax which, thanks to Whig profligacy, we have already ? We give the reply in his own words, and with the benefit of our largest type. Our virtuous and patriotic Quaker declares that he and his brother have paid this tax "BY DIS CHARGING OVERLOOKERS, MECHANICS, AND OTHER WORKPEOPLE ; and that OTHER MANUFACTURERS HAD DONE THE SAME" ! ! These are Mr. Ashworth's own words, quoted from the Manchester Guardian of Saturday last. Mr. Ash worth says, distinctly, that he and his brother had adopted this course o' dismissal "to save their income and property tax Perhaps it may become a question whether Govern ment, in any financial legislation which it may have to offer on a future occasion, will provide for the case of such slippery subjects as our Bolton friend. May we suggest al course ? We are not to tax the working classes. Agreed. We are not to tax their masters — for they forthwith levy the amount on their workpeople. If we were to tax collarless coats or drab unmention ables, such moralists as friend Ashworth would find no difficulty in sporting a turn-over and sky-blue for the continuations. As our friends on the other side of the Atlantic would say, " you can't fix them." Well, then, we must be driven to the very questionable policy of taxing the engine ! That is fixed already; and they can't either reduce his wages or shorten his provisions. The monster would grumble ; and a strike from him would be a rather serious affair The more we reflect upon the whole case, as between the stipendiary magistrate and the parish authorities, the more deeply are we convinced that the course of the former gentleman has been hasty and ill-judged ; and that the outcry which he has succeeded in raising against the latter gentleman is, in a great degree, un deserved and, certainly, overstrained. 'We will pro ceed to give our reasons for forming, and for our being confirmed in this conviction. We say that the course taken by Mr. Rushton has been " hasty and ill-judged ;" that, in fact, he has, as it appears to us, snatched at rather than been reluc tantly driven to become the " public accuser" of his fellow-townsmen. Mr. Rushton, be it observed, is not himself so totally clear from the imputations which he so flippantly casts upon other men, who have had the onus and difficulties of parochial management upon their shoulders, as he would have the world imagine. Mr. Rushton was, we are informed, some time since a member of the Board of Guardians, and by virtue of his office was, we believe, a visitor of the workhouse since the administration of the affairs of the poor by the select vestry. If those affairs were ilhadministered, he had his course clearly before him ; and that course was an honest, bona-fide endeavour to correct the evils of such administration. That course Mr. Rushton appears to have had an indistinct notion of—viz. an appeal, as the last resource, to the Poor-law Commis sioners. We submit that the time for that appeal had scarcely arrived, when Mr. Rushton made his public display. Admitting, however, that it had, the mode in which that appeal was made is, we say confidently, not dictated by the best possible taste. Mr. R. says that " he sent for the governor of the workhouse, and the parochial authorities," to the Sessions House,—to do what ? to deliberate upon the best steps to be taken to place the workhouse in a state of efficiency ? To receive his suggestions as an ex-qificio visitor or as police magistrate ? Not at all ; but to hear them selves publicly arraigned, and the evidence of a re fractory pauper or two laid before the mixed audience which frequents the police court ! And why was it to be thus laid before the prisoners, policemen, witnesses, plaintiffs, and defendants, in cases of tavern broils, and other similar characters who frequent his tribunal Was that the place from which it could most advan tageously go to the ears of the watchful Somerset- House trio ? We submit, not. And yet, evidently— by his own admission indeed—that was the consum- mation desired " He was glad," he says, " that the statement" there made " found its way into the Times, and" thence " came under the notice of the Poor- law Commissioners." Now, we say that it was per fectly competent for Mr. Rushton to have brought his complaint directly " under the notice of the Poor law Commissioners." And we say, moreover, that, as an old member of the body complained of, and of whose difficulties, and proceedings even, hp ought to have been cognisant, the course which he did pursue was precisely that which good taste and good 'sense would not have dictated. The course adopted by Mr. Rushton was, we admit, calculated to elevate him in the opinion of the thought less and unreflecting, at the expense of parties scarcely more blameable—in the strict sense of the word—than himself. Mr. Rushton, we repeat, had seen the state of affairs at the workhouse ; must have known the moral and physical impossibility of its amelioration— to any great extent—from any course less than an ex tensive increase of the capabilities of the workhouse it self. But was his indignation directed against the physical difficulties and hindrances now admitted ? Not at all ! We heard of " want of classification"— " intermixture of the sexes ;" lint nothing of the im possibility of effecting these desiderata without exten sive enlargement Of the building. We heard of petty and paltry complaints of his protogee, Clarke, the ground of which only—upon his own shewing—existed for three days. But we heard nothing to lead to the supposition—a charitable one—that the authorities were doing all within their power, with the means at their disposal. We heard of " divided authority," and other similar faults of the system ; but these surely were not facts which it was necessary-to proclaim through the. length and breadth of the land—for the same divided authority we have seen existing in other departments of the public service; and Mr. Rushton will scarcely maintain that such unseemly brawls, as that which recently took place between himself and Mr. Dowling in public court, reflected credit on either party, or added dignity to the court in which it oc curred. We heard all these charges levelled distinctly against the authorities almost directly attributing the occurrence of the evils out of which they arose to the criminal conduct of the select vestry; and viewing such a course of action with the known fact that the political party to which Mr. Rushton belongs, and of whom he is the well-rewarded member, aspires to the absolute management of the affairs of the parish, or the return of the direction of the affairs of the poor to the absolute control of 'the Poor-law Commissioners, we are not surprised to find `lr. Rushton's indiscreet ally—the Journal—expressing a hope that he trusts to see the management of parochial affairs taken for ever out of the hands of the party at present in office ! April is not far distant ; and, without question, the present agitation is directed by many quite as much to the achievement of such a consummation, as to the professed object which it has in view—the ameliora tion of the condition of the poor in the workhouse. Don't however, for one moment, let us be presumed to sanction, in the slightest, the state of the things ad mitted to exist in that Workhouse. It is one—if one tenth part of what is alleged be true—which we trusted never to have witnessed in Liverpool. If it be neces sary, we say, expend ten times the fifty thousand pounds which—notwithstanding the Journal's clever ness—we believe will be required to enable us to carry out the New Poor-Law system, and give indoor relief to the able bodied poor of the town, rather than permit such immoralities to exist within its walls But Mr. Rushton knows that such an extension of the capabili ties of the existing building cannot be attained in a day. That gentleman knows, or ought to know, that the Select Vestry, at the very time which he chose for making his display, were actively engaged in preparing plans for the remedy of the evil complained of! He might have known, moreover, that those plans were, as soon as they could be got ready, to be laid before the Poor-Law Commissioners ; and he must know, too,— no man better—that the proposal to lay out one-half the sum required to make those plans efficient would have drawn down a perfect storm of scurrility upon the authorities from the very party which is now backing his unseemly efforts. Yes, every person must be aware that from no portion of the community would the Select Vestry have been visited with a greater amount of clamour and odium, in their attempt to procure for themselves the power to administer the Workhouse with proper attention to the requirements of morality and decency, than from the pure and patriotic Whig faction of the borough of Liverpool ! And now one word as to the meeting of magistrates by whom. Mr. Rushton has had his conduct white washed. May we ask how it is that some of these: gentlemen (one di two of horn have bee churchwardens, and others as county magintrates, ex officio members of the Board of Guardians) have never , before spoken out themselves upon this subject ? Were they aware of the glaring evils spoken of by sir. Rushton anti his witnesses ? If they were, then the result is palpable. If Mr. Rushton has done his duty, they have not done theirs ! If his charges are true, they have failed in their duty as visitors ! The dilemma s of their own choosing, not ours We did purpose saying a few words as to the animus displayed by Mr. Wm. ltathbone and Mr. R. E. Harvey towurds the chaplain of the Workhouse. We abstain however, owing to the length 'at which we have already transgressed upon the patience of our readers. The appeals against surcharges to the Income Tax being now in course of hearing in this neighbourhood, we may draw attention to a praiseworthy effort on the part of the churchwardens to prevent parties from being put to unnecessary trouble in this respect. We refer to a motion which, on the proposal of Mr. Birkett, was unanimously adopted by the Town Council at their meeting on Wednesday. The Income Tax, con- sideriug that it is a consequence of Whig extravagance and misgovernment, is sufficiently unpleasant in itself without being accompanied by any vexatious circum stances; and Mr. Birkett's zeal and activity in endea- vouring to remove a just cause of complaint are very creditable to his public spirit. The places of appeal for all persons resident outside the parish, though within the parliamentary borough, are Preston and Ormskirk ; a grievance which requires tnerely to be stated, we should hope, in order to obtain a remedy. A very proper objection has been made to the manner in which the papers have been made out,—they do not specify the particulars of the assessment, so that no person can ascertain from the document furnished him whether he is surcharged or not; and in many cases, in all probability, many will be led to believe that they are not surcharged, though the contrary is the fact. Little or no complaint has been hitherto made to the chur,chwardens on the subject of the surcharges. LOCAL, NETV,S The seven o'clock mail train from Liverpool to Manches ter, and, vice versa, has been discontinued. At a meeting of the Select Vestry on Tuesday last, Mr. Charles Chubb, jun., was appointed Registrar of Births and Deaths for Great Howard-street District. ,WIIITEMAN'S DERBY SWEEP.—The attention of our readers is drawn to Mr. Whiteman's Derby Sweep. The list of subscribers, we understand, is rapidly filling up. CAMBRIDGE.—On the 4th instant, Charles G. J. Jones, 8.A., was elected Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. The above mentioned gentleman is the second son of the Rev. J. Jones, Incumbent of St. Andrew's Church. MISSES SWAIN ' S CONCERT.—Misses Swain's concert, on Tuesday last, at the Royal Assembly-rooms, went off with much spirit, the fair beneficiares sang very charmingly a va riety of compositions. The programme was well selected, and the whole performance gave entire satisfaction. DEATH OF SIR T. H. HESKETEI, BART.—We have to re cord the demise of the above baronet, who expired on Friday last, after a short illness, at his house in London. He only succeeded to the baronetcy in August last, on the death of his father. The deceased was born in 1799, and married in 1824 Miss Bomford, Rathenstown House, county Meath. His only son, Mr. Thomas George Ilesketh, succeeds to the baronetcy and the extensive estates of the family in this county. MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.—We perceive that the Metropo litan Protestant Association have already prepared a petition against the annual parliamentary grant to the popish college or Maynooth. In the session 1837-38, petitions with about 11,000 signatures were presented against the parliamentary grant ; in the session 1838-39, the petitions were 199, and the signatures 51,202; in the session 1839-40, the petitions were 455, and the signatures 95,108; in the short session ending June 22, 1841, the petitions were 306, and the signatures 69,177; and in the session 1841-42, the petitions were 211, and the signatures 88,960. EXPEDITIUN.—An extraordinary instance of the facilities afforded by steam navigation is mercantile transactions oc curred here last week. A letter from Liverpool, dated on Friday afternoon, to the correspondents of the house in Glasgow, ordering the purchase of a quantity of cotton, was received on Saturday, at three o'clock . The cotto n was pur chased and shipped by the Liverpool steamer Commod ore , sailing that evening; and the ta i m n Liverpool had intima tion that the cotton was landed for them from on board the vessel before they had received,, in due course of post, advice of the receipt of their letter. STEALING FROM THE QUAYS.—Considerable quantities of soap have recently been stolen from the quays, where it had been laid for exportation, and the parties owning the ar ticle have, consequently, been on the look-out f or th e de predators. On Wedne;day, . inspector M`Gill observed two fellows lurking about some boxes of soap at George's Dock quay ; on going up he found upon them large knives, with which to open the boxes, and also a bag in which to conceal and carry off the spoil. As they were known as bad charac ters he put them into custody. Their names are Daniel Kelly and Thomas Mulligan._ They were placed before Mr. Rushton yesterday, and were each committed to gaol for a month. PUNISHMENT OF IMPRUDENCE.-A dissipated-looking woman, named Ann Campbell, was charged before Mr. Rushton on Tuesday with having robbed John Brian, cattle dealer, Tipperary, of £l7. 10s. The complainant stated, that on Monday night, about nine o'clock, he was going from his lodgings to embark on board one of the packets for Ireland. Near the Borough Gaol he met the prisoner, with whom lie entered into conversation. He sauntered forward with her till, in an unfrequented place, she was joined by two other women. Suddenly they seized him, threw him in a twinkling on his back, and the prisoner rifled his pockets. Having secured his cash, she handed it to her companions, who fled. He clung fast by the prisoner, however, until a police-officer came up, wko secured her. She denied having ever seen the coraplahuint, and was committed for trial. ATTEMPT TO DEFRAUD THE BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY COMPANY.—A respectable looking young man, named Robert Roberts, who stated he was a joiner, residing in London-road, appeared in custody of the police, before John D. Case, Esq., on Tuesday, charged by the Superintendent of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company with at tempting to get into the train whilst it was going along, and without having first paid his fare. In answer to a question by Mr. Townsend, the eaagistrateslclerk, the complainant said he had no Wish to press the charge against the defend ant; bis only object was to put a stop to a practice which was adopted by several parties lately of getting up the em bankment, as the defendant had done that morning, and getting on the carriages after they had started. In the pre sent case, had it, not been for the constable seizing him, there was no doubt his legs would have been cut off. The magis trate then reprimanded defendant, and he was discharged. TILE FUNDS.—WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The permanent securities have maintained much firmness, with a trifling ten dency to advance. sank Stock has risen to 1771 to 1781 , but in other prices, save a slight reduction in the premium on Exchequer-bills there is little alteration. Consols for money and the account left off 94 to 95 ; Three per Cetils Reduced 951 to #; Three-and-a-half per Cents Reduced, 1021 to I; Long Annuities, 12 15-16; India Stock, 268 to 269 ; India Bonds 6s. to 655. premium ; and Exchequer bills, 635. to 655. premium. Foreign stocks were steady, with a moderate amount of business. The absence of news to affect prices accounts for the unchanged condition of the market. Portuguese Converted have nearly recovered their old position, being to day quoted 38t to ; Spanish Actives were 19t to -1 ; ditto, New, 251 to I ; Mexican, 301 to -' 4 ` ; ditto, Deferred, 81 to / ; Danish 85/ to 861 ; Dutch Two and-a-half per Cents, 5-It to -1 ; Dutch Five per Cents, 11.21 to 1031; Colombian, 23+ to 4 ; Brazilian, 76 to 77 ; and Bel gian, 103 to 104. THE WORKHOUSE.—The following letter from Mr. 13. Nightingall, the House Surgeon of the Workhouse, appeared in the Courier of Wednesday :—" The statements with which both the metropolitan and provincial press are now teeming, in reference to the state of the Liverpool Workhouse, end the vicious practices going on in that establishment, are, sir, I conceive calculated grossly to mislead the public mind ; and it appears not a little remarkable that the ma nagement of the largest Workhouse in England, and which has always been held ep as a pattern for similar institutions, one also which has stood the test and scrutiny of large bodies of influential and philanthropic characters, such as abound in this great community, should by some occult working, in a moment, as it would seem, fall from its elevated position, and become the object of contumely and debasement. Sir, I contend that the facts elicited at the meeting of magistrates on Friday were derived from sources which do not warrant the conclusion arrived at. The examination on that occasion was almost ex-parte. Witnesses might have been called whose evidence would have given a far different feature to the inquiry than what it now to unmeritedly bears. Sir, twenty years' daily experience in so extensive an establish ment, and in a medical character, may 133 supposed to afford a tolerable opportunity of forming an estimate as to the mo rality or otherwise of its community : and if it were possible that the gross abominations said to have been practised there could be the fact, then I say that the officers of that institu tion have forfeited the confidence of the parishioners at large, for I maintain that these atrocities must have come to the knowledge of the beads of departments. The parochial authorities are so well aware of the bad adaptation of the Workhouse in its structural arrangements, for carrying out a salutary classification, that it would be futile here to make any remarks on that head." DAY AND SU/OAY SCHOOLS FOR ST. BARNABAS' CHURCH.—In our advertising columns will be found the re solutions passed at a meeting of the congregation of this .church, held on Monday night last, for the purpose of raising schools for the benefit of the district belonging to St. Bar nabas' Church; also the announcement of sermons to be preached, and collections made, in furtherance of the same object, by the Rev. Rector Brooks and Rev. Hugh M'Neile. At the meeting on Monday night names were put down for the amount of £B6 I is. Od., and more has been added since—a munificent effort, indeed, with reference to the number of per sons who were present, and to the means of the contributors. The indispensable importance of a school to the success of any church, but more particularly in such a district as that of St. Barnabas, is on all hands acknowledged; and the names of the advocates who have undertaken to plead for the erection and establishment of schools in this locality must secure for them the sanction and support of all sound and enlightened churchmen in Liverpool. This is of much im portance, the rather that the appeal for funds to carry on and complete this undertaking must not be confined to th e con gregation of the church, or the inhabitants of the di s t r i ct. The Church of England School Society, the National So ciety, and Committee of the Privy Council mty all be ex pected to aid in this good work; and .our more affl u e nt fellow-townsmen, throurol whose Christian liberality t h at church was built and.endowed, will not, we are p ersuaded, be applied to in vain itt herself of a work Mcessary to the full success of err trudertaking, begun by themselves for the spi of St. Barnabae Church in ritual improtemerat of that poorand destitute neighbourhood, and which, since the °Wring 1811, has been blessed to art extent that more than justifies the wisdom and proves the importance of planting a church in a neglected locality. The minister, churchwardens's, and congregation of St. Barnabas having done already so muoh themselves, and which will be proportionably followed up, can now appear with a good grace as claimantsron the sy mpat h y and generosity of the Christian public. They deserve to succeed; we are persuaded they will succeed; need we add, we• heartily wish them success. Runi6.ll.v.—At the Poliacourt on Tuesdays 3 lad aged about 17, and an old woman, were placed at the bar ehar:zed with having htolen twenty-eight gold rings from a jeweller's shop in Paradise-street. It appeared, that on Monday night a young woman, who was in the shop. in question, was buying some rings. She happened to let one of them fall and stooped to pick it up. On rising she caught a glimt.se of a youth leaving the shop. A little girl entered and said that a lad had run away with a box of rings. The thief, however, was out of sight. On Tuesday morning, how ever, the prisoner, who was identified by the little girl, was taken into custody, offering two of the rings for sale. The young lady from whom the property was stolen happened shortly afterward to be in a shop in Manchester-street, when the female prisoner entered, and showing a garnet ring, enquired what it was worth. The young lady recognised the ring as one of those which had been stolen. The prisoners were committed for trial. VIOLENT ASSAULT. — On Tuesday a rough-looking young fellow, who had the appearance of a blacksmith, was placed at the bar in company with a middle-aged female. Both were charged with having assault a decent-looking man, who brought forward a crowd of witnesses to confirm his accusa tion. The complainant stated that he was " jist going to sit down to tay in his own house" when the prisoner, armed with a huge bludgeon, broke his door, rushed in, and struck him several violent blows on his head. The marks of the injaries were distinctly visible. Several of the witnesses corroborated this testimony, and it was added that the assault was entirely unprovoked, and that the female prisoner ac companied and aided him throughout. The prisoners said they had been frequently assaulted by the complainant ' • but Mr. Rushton said that the female prisoner was fined 20s. and costs, and that she was to pe imprisoned one month i n default of payment, and that the male prisoner was fined 50s. and costs, and that he was to be imprisoned three months in default of payment. WIRRAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The annual meet ing of this society was held at Neston, on Monday last. The ploughing - match took place in a field belonging to Mr. Sothern. at Ness, and commenced at ten o'clock in the morning. There were eighteen ploughs on. the ground, and the ploughing was most excellent. The first prize was car ried off by Mr. Broster. of Neston, the second by Mr. Jack son, of Noctorum, and the third by Wm. Webster, jun., Esq., of Upton. The annual dinner afterwards took place at Mr. Wright's, the Golden Lion, when about one-hundred and twenty persons sat down to the bountiful and excellent provisions set before them by the worthy host. Charles Stanley, Esq., presided, and the usual toasts and edifying discussion on agricultural matters was kept up with harmony and hilarity until a late hour. It gives us pleasure to add, that to this useful society there were added, amongst others, the following new subscribers, namely, the Marquis of West-, minster, the Earl of Shrewsbury, George Johnson, Esq., of Eccleston, and Captain Glegg, of Backford. CAUTION TO AUCTIONEERS.—On Tuesday last Mr. R- Boughey, superintendent of the Birkenhead police, charged David Gray before the magistrates at Birkenhead with vend ing goods as an auctioneer in the Birkenhead Market on the previous Saturday without the licenses required by law. I t appeared from the evidence that Gray was in the habit of selling crockery ware by auction in Liverpool, and also in Birkenhead, and that he had removed a quantity of good from the former to the latter place on Saturday last, which he was selling by auction, when the officers stopped him and demanded his license. He produced an auctioneers' license, but was told that that was not sufficient ; he must also pro duce a hawkers' license, which failing to do, he was taken into custody and his crockery seized. Mr. Morrow, solici tor, of Liverpool, appeared for the defendant, and contended that the auctioneers' license was sufficient, as the goods had been consigned to him for sale. The latter part of the case was rebutted by the evidence of a person in the employment of the defendant ; and the magistrates being of opinion that the law required him to have a hawkers' license, he was con victed in the penalty of £lO. and in default of payment, committed to prison until the line shall be paid. STEALING LEAD FROM NEW BUILDINGS. — This offence . has recently become more than usually prevalent. Yes terday, a young man, named William Edwards, was placed at the bar, accused of stealing lead from a new house in Turner-street, leading out of Birkett-street. It appeared that about half-past seven oclock, on Wednesday night, Police-officer Waller, from information he had received while in Richmond-row, went to some new buildings in the street named, where he saw the prisoner and another young man on the roof of one of the houses. He asked them what they were doing there, and they replied, " Nothing." He next asked them how they got there, and the prisoner said "he was drunk, and did not know how he got up." The witness procured a ladder, and secured the prisoner, but the other escaped. On afterwards searching one of the empty houses, he found about 301bs. of lead in the fire-place. It was doubled up, and appeared as if it had been thrown down the chimney. Mr. Thornas Hughes, owner of the house, claimed the lead as his property, and witness, on going on the roof found about nine yards of lead guttering had been ripped up and taken away. The lead found fitted that left on the roof. Mr. Hughes said he was a joiner and builder and oNner of the house, and that the lead was no doubt his property. The prisoner was committed for trial. THEATRE-ROYAL — MR. HAMMOND ' S BENEFIT. — Las t evening there was a crammed and brilliantly-attended house, at this theatre, the entertainments being for the benefit of Mr. W. J. Hammond. The performances commenced with "The Clandestine Marriage," in which Mr.Farren sustaine d; his great part of Lord Ogleby, and Mrs. Glover her equally" inimitable Mrs. Heidelberg. It has been asserted that we' cannot raise up a standard of acting, so much depending upon taste ; but we think there are few that will not admit. that Mr. Farren's Lord Ogleby may be fairly placed as such,- with which all other attempts of the character may be tested! on the score of merit. It is the very acme in the art of act Mg—finished in details, and, as a whole, a perfect embodi ment of a vain, frivolous, hut still warm-hearted old beau , Mrs. Glover's Mrs. Heidelberg was replete with vulgar hi larity, and caused frequent bursts of laughter. Mrs. Sey mour played the pretty part of Fanny Sterling with much gracefulness and feeling. Miss Cleaver's Miss Sterling was done with vivacity and judgment. The capital farce ( , " Uncle Foozle " elicited much merriment. A new farce , called " Cousin Lambkin," wound up the evening's enter tainments. In this Mr. Hammond appeared, and was re ceived with warm and hearty welcomings from certainly the most fashionable, as well as the fullest,-house this season. This must have been highly gratifying to him, as a p roof that he still holds a distinguished position in the favour of the public. THE ASIIBURTON PACKET SHlP.—This splendid ne` g , ship, which arrived here a few days since, is thus describ ed ' in one of the New York papers :—" She is 1100 tons burtticor and can carry forty first class passengers. On deck o r noticed the same excellent accommodations for cows, pig s l poultry, and sheep, so necessary at sea, that were introduce"' on board the Cambridge when she was built. In betwee n decks there is plenty of cargo room; running fore and af t ' . equal to three thousand bales of cotton, or more. I n be" tween decks also there are large berths and clear air for th e ' steerage passengers, so much needed by the poor emigrants' Down in the hold is a water tank that will take four thousawl gallons of water from the Croton, and keep it pure and col,' all the time. There is a delicacy about the finish that la' really fine. In the windows are panes of richly-stained glasar with portraits of Ashburton and Western in the ladies cabin, and the colle d' armes of England and America in the' gentlemen's cabin. All the mahogany, .bird's-eye maplesr and satin wood, usually used in the cabins of our packets,' have been discarded, and the sides painted, as in the cabin* of the Great Western, with national sketches, not including,' however, the little Cupids on the doors. All, excepting these Cupids, is in the commemoration of the recent treatf of peace between Great Britain and the United States. i d. ll the state-room. the be r th s are fitt e d u p as i n the Stenh e ' Whitney, and the entranc es t o th em ar ea l'Anglais. Th e ; connect by doors, so that a family, in crossing the Atlantic► can have a suite of rooms, and not be separated night or d a y' which is not the most agreeable thing in the world. SUNDAY TRADING..---OTI Tuesday, two parties, residirt respectively in Vauxhall-road and Chisenhale-street , vie r ; summoned at the Police -court, by police-officer No. 36 2, 1 ", having kept their shops open, and serve d severa l custome r :' during the hours of divine service on Sunday morning last] The cases having been fully proved, each party was ofrl er e to pay a fine of ss. ; and the magistrate intimated to tbea l ; that, after the late repeated warnings they had r e ceived re ° e the authorities of the district, they could not plead ignorantly of the law. The police-officer stated that he was speei e ., o employed to look after the closing of sh o ps during the h ° "o of divine service, and had repeatedly warned the parties 11 ? 1 , fined of the consequences of their continuing this pract'_u e° He also informed the court that a gr eat reform had brought about the district in whi c h these parties res w :, by the very determined manner in which the churchvvar de o 'd of St. Matthias' Church h a d f o ll owe d u p the offenders ; a ct , that he could personally testify, that in Chisenhale-st re u ; Charter-street, Vauxhall-ro a d, St ew art-street, and Water lo o ° road, not less than eighty s h o p s , formerly open all day Sunday, are now all closed dining divine-service time , a s i most of them during the whole day. We would remind who doubt the power of the Lord's Day Act, that there Is clause therein which enables the churchwardens to order : 00 constable or other officer to seize the goods of any 11 r t be displaying the same for sale on the Sunday, and to sel l rs e same for the benefit of the poor of the parish. This e° ° ,o has not been hitherto taken, from feelings of dislike, bu t presume, on the part of the authorities, to act harshly ; 0 o f we are informed that it will be literally acted on in 06 further opposition: THE WEATHER.—After a generally open winter, tb e c u c t b , most disastrous in storms of wind, we have experiens 0 0 during the last few days, a severity of temperature iva .°ol , litte looked for as it was unwel c o m e to the mass of the (" 0 1• munity at so advanced a period of the year. The frost eeola menced yesterday week, and on the following day there tO a slight fall of snow—the th ermome t er rang i ng from 34°, until Tuesday night, when the cold became Inn r ,n,gl9 tense. On Wednesday the atmo s phere b ecame excee°, l lia• piercing, the same instrument indicating 22°. The col d d i eo creased until about three o'clock yesterday morning, tittle, the thermometer fell to 15° (it s gre a t es t d epress ion), iit tle , 17° below the freezing point ; at eight o ' c l oc k it rose a " o at' standing at 18° ; and at nine was at 29°, the sun being co r The baromer stood, on Sunday at noon, at 30° Obi, and tinued to fall slightly for the three following days' e ver' Tuesday, at noon, it indicated 29° 25'. Last night, 10 " t the it was again g e tting up, so that the probability is, tba rti• frost will continue until the next change of the moon--1000 cularly as the sky is clear, and the wind, which has fo r te rlP days been from the north, has gone a few points W., the Some of the ponds in the neighbourhood are frozen to °p oll hearing point," and skaters were, yesterday, numerous sips them. There was a slight fall of snow, which still redoa, on the field s and house-tops. We find by the CO10: journals o f y es t er d a y, th a t W e d n e s day was also the. the day of the se aso n in the city. On Tuesday roornl e a c ,iob thermometer fell to two degrees below the freezing P oss e ' with a nor th- eas t w i n d. The cold continued to inelei and on Wed nes d a y morn i ng the thermometer stood a s 0 0 1 , 26°, or six de g ree s below the freezing point. The P°erit the neighbourhood, arid the ornamental water in the 0 " Park, was frozen over. New FIRE ENGINES.— In consequence of t he i a g ee tt number of destructive fires that have recently taken P to th o the town, the Police Committee have, in additionvote_a contemplated improvement in the ready supply or re procured four additional new fire-engines, which we ogie ( l for the first time on Wednesday afternoon. Thes e „roo , '„r are of the largest size, and on the usual and mos t principle, with, however, the bore of the priming-1?.!, vie:b cylinders rather larger than those now in use- priming-,hey tie r o'f a t t lie 00 4 built by Mr. Bury, at his extensive iron-works end of the town. The ground chosen was the site of tie to if, ) , steam-mill of Mr. Holmes, near the canal, and a b t o cle„, o o north of Chisenhale-bridge. The engine, No. -,0 Mr. Merryweather, of Long Acre, London, in 18 3 " - , 4 up , be of the best belonging to the fire-station, was brows to.ja that by which the powers of the new machines w e siy e re , tested, and we may scarcely add that it was previa e r the best of order for the occasion. A strong body, J 01,.. Woe police were present to work the engines under ' e ro o e ~re a 0 and Mr. Hewitt, and a number of gentlemen 0- ~r e Committee and others interested in the result 11 ,!:, ri e o ground. The water used was froni the canal, tu ne vi.e ie r, being played on the bank. No. 9, and one of th e co eslY„ 0 5 were simultaneously and successively played, with e a b oaV t able length of hose, upon the tall steam-engine , the, je ~ the mill. which still stands amidst the ruins ; and er r ao who held the branches stood pretty close to its be s l r t tle, o o , was nearly perpendicular. There appeared to be an d difference in the power of any of the new engine s ,o ceps( If any, it was perhaps slightly in favour of th e " which may be accounted for by the others being_oe stiff. The water was thrown to within ten or t o e ot . the top of the shaft, or in other words, about bele, thl, feet in height ; and we doubt not an addition but for o e . fifteen or twenty feet would have been attained ter u , too , action of a rather strong north wind. The we „ a tion' at times muddy, which militated against the oPe' a from )f Ra-