The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. " CaliAhenes " and " 11. C." postponed solely from want of room. The remarks of " Viator" are certainly just, but we doubt the expediency of alluding to the subject when the mischief is done. If the 1: tter of." A Ph'lanthropist" ever came to hand, it has been unfortunately mislaid. We refer G. U. P. to an advertisement. We regret exceedingly that, in consequence of the long reports which we furnish to (lay, we cannc t find room for the sting ing and well-written letter of " Fair Play." Could we have inserted a tithe of th e communications which we have re ceived Ln the subject of the unwarrantable conduct of our stipendiary, it would afford him some idea of the indignation which has been aroused in the town by his vituperative ian. gunge. We may observe, ho, ever, that meetings are about to be held in various wards, to exrftess the sentiments of the town. Our Contemporary of the Albion is really shameless, in persist ing to impute a disposition for " hole and corner work " to the Watch Committee at their former meeting, with the full explanation before him of their proceedings on Saturday, of the circumstances under which our rep. rter was refused ad mission. We tell him again, and we believe he A- saws it to be a fact, that the Watch Committee would have whit tted re porters, had an application ceme before them, The character in which Portia appears in court, in the " Mer chant of Venice," will he readily understood from a perusal of the Way. Impressed with the difficulties of the cause to be tried before him, the Duke has sent for the opinion upon it of a learned Doctor of Padua, Bellarmo. Portia, by his persua sion, appears in Bellarmo's stead, recommended by him, in the character of a young legal student, as informed of his views, and possessing besides, valuable lezal knowledge of his own which may be made available. Portia, therefore, oc cupies merely the position which Beilarmo would have occu pied —one by whose opinion, upon a difficult and unpa alleled case, the Duke was willing to be guided. lie had no jurisdic tion independent of the Duke. iltberpooi &tanintl3. TUESDAY 11101?A,ING, DEC. 3, 1844 Most firmly are we convinced that the great struggle of the coming session must be for the main tenance of the Protestantism of the British Con stitution. It is in vain that we seek to hide from ourselves the fact that an inroad is about to be at tempted, by a professedly Protestant and Conserva tive Ministry, upon the principles of the Reforma tion—that Popery, conciliated, or attempted to be conciliated, by repeals of the penal laws, by greater toleration given to her professors, by the yielding up of revenues left for Protestant purposes to aggres sion from every quarter, and even by direct encou ragement to the wrong, and obstacles thrown in the way of the spread of right principles, is about to have extended to her the helping hand of the state, and to become an institution—not a tolerated error, but an established and protected blot upon the face of British society. She is no longer to he merely winked at in her steps—no longer to be merely per mitted to darken the faith of millions with the blighting shadow of her superstitions—but to be placed erect, and aided in her fell attempts against the liberties of Englishmen and of the truth which, above all others, they have fought for and wor shipped. The Church of Rome is to be endowed! The blackness of her darkness is to be burnished with British gold. The money of the industrious Pro testant British people is to flow into her coffers, to give splendour to her shrines, to add meretricious adornment to her idolatrous ceremonies, to feed the vanity and the rapacity of her domineering priest hood. And all this is to be done for conciliation's sake; for expediency's cake; in the hope of making that priesthood, what it has never been from the first hour of its blasphemous apostacy, a loyal and obe dient body of men to a Protestant, or a truly Chris tian government. Vain hope ! Fatal expectation ! Vain in its very fallaciousness, and fatal—assuredly fatal—in its calamitous results to the liberties of the people, by whose rulers it is attempted to be rea lised ! But that such an attempt will not be permitted to be made, without strenuous opposition from all faithful men, we feel assured, as we do that it will recoil with fearful effect upon the heads of Sir R. Peel's ministry. Let us not be despairingly told of the strength of that ministry to resist all interference from without ! There never, in all previous history, was a ministry strong enough to outrage with im punity the feelings of a majority of the British peo ple. There never was a dynasty which succeeded in such an attempt. We may be sunk in mammon worship ; we may be blinded with undue confidence ih our rulers; we may he too much wrapped up in reliance upon the elastic properties of our institu tions : but we are not beyond hope, we shall yet be aroused when the Protestantism of the realm is openly assailed. Truckling statesmen may imagine that we shall "die and make no sign ;" that we shall , bow unresistingly before aggression from imagined friends ; that we shall kiss the hand which smites us, because such hand is one which we have clasped in fellowship : but truckling statesmen, even though they may be such men, so valued, so respected, as are Sir Robert Peel and his Conservative collea gues, will discover their error when the day of trial comes. The attempted outrage upon our Protes tant liberties cannot succeed, and will not succeed. Why are we thus confident ? It is because we have amongst the clergy of our Church, despite of recent wooings of Rome and her ceremonies, faith ful men who will not hesitate, at all sacrifices save that of truth, to stand up in the van of the battle, which we know to be approaching, and to encourage ill that struggle the laity, which looks up to them for advice and support. We know that by those faithful men the apostee'.ce of Sir Robert Peel, or whatever other minister may abet them, will receive prompt and indignant rebrobation. Nor are we without present promise of such faithful teaching, or evidence that it exists throughout the British com munity. We have before us a letter by the Rev. W. Tatham, 8.D., the respected minister of a se cluded parish (Oswaldwistle, Lancashire), which proclaims already the spirit in which the projected attack upon our Protestant privileges will be met, and contains more than one passage of indignant re probation of its unprincipled nature, and more than one warning of its calamitous effects. The following extract we cannot resist the temptation of offering to our readers : " The religion of the established church is the religion of the reformation or it is not ; if it be the religion of the reformation, then is protestantism the religion of the state ; and who that knows the Bible can doubt that pro testantism is the religion of God. What is the papacy ? To call it a religion in any Christian sense, is an abuse of the term—to call it a church is to give it a title which the 19th article of the established church declares to belong ' to a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ad ministered,' not one of which requisites is possessed by the papacy. It is in reality a political system with an ecclesiastical mask, and has no pretension to be called a religion, except so far as its ecclesiastical exterior con tains some of the worst corruptions of Christianity, which it brings to hear with fearful force on the natural weak ness of fallen humanity. Its objects are secular under a spiritual cover. Its kingdom is of this world, and the weapons of its warfare when and where they could be safely used, have ever been carnal and cruel ; the sword, the rack, and the faggot. The path of its triumphs has ever been marked by persecution and intolerance, and wherever it has risen in supremacy over the minds of men, it has invariably revealed itself as ' the woman drunk with the blood of the saints.' Wherever she has been able to embody her principles in acts, she has aimed at a com plete ascendancy over the rights and liberties of man; for what is the history of Europe but a history of what the papacy can effect to retard the civilization of the hu man race—and how her religious corruptions have curdled the very life-blood in the heart of Christendom ? Where ever it has been planted and grown, everything around has withered but itself; like the tree described by Hum boldt, in the Andes, that flourishes most, when it has ruined by its roots, the soil from which it springs. Even in the distant islands of the Pacific we have at this time an instance of her aggressive policy,—and we see in the conflict there, on a small scale, the antagonism of protes tant truth and papal error. The history of her missions is the history of her conquests, 7 -the passion of Romanism is the passion of proselytism,—in all lands, in all ages she has acted on the principle of universal subjugation, and wherever shs has succeeded, she has erected a tremendous tyranny over mind and conscience, and exacted from h er victims, a blind and implicit obedience to her authority and her laws." Such a church, then, it is which Sir Robert Peel proposes to aggrandise !—a church whose objects are secular, under an ecclesiastical mask, and which is, at this moment, only seeking, in humble guise, the secular aid of government, as the step to tyranny over that government, and the subjugation of the British people to its yoke. And it is to propitiate (!) such a church that we seek—to propitiate a rapacity of power which in all ages of Christendom has shewn itself inexhaustible ! Absurd folly ! wanton and indescribable madness ! The attempt is made, however, to justify, or at least to palliate, the guilt of such aggrandisement. Popery, it may be said, has changed. In an age like this it cannot but have received some naedificatio n from the advanced state of useful knowledge,' the increase of education, and the improvements of science; or if not, it may be modified by a little more conciliation and conces sion. But popery has not changed, it cannot change: the very secret of its power, of its existence, is its unchang e . ableness : the slightest transformation would be its de. struction. It is the apostacy of eighteen hundred years, and a corruption of this duration cannot be cured in a gradual way. The fallen angel may counterfeit, but he never can become an angel of light. Lucifer once fallen, has fallen never to rise. When Rome is to be destroyed, it will be suddenly, in an instant, as by the fall of a mill stone her plagues shall come in one day.' We must either come out of her, or perish with her. Rome, then, has surrendered none of her pretensions, and of this the government of the nations stand warned : in spirit and principle she is as vigorous this moment as at any period of her history—imperious and intolerant, insisting on as cendancy and prohibiting freedom of thought and inquiry ; •and she can as little as ever be governed by a sense of ob ligation, for that conscience by which subjects should be guided in the discharge of their civil duties, is not an oracle within or a light from heaven, but a decree of the Popedom ; and, as regards her connexion with secular governments, as long as Romish bishops swear the bishop's oath, and Romish priests their assent and consent to the creed of Pope Pius IV., it is hopeless to expect that en gagements or treaties will be kedt longer than there is op pertimity or ability to break them. " Such is the system from its very nature and constitu tion antagonist to the religion of the reformation, or the truth of the established and united Church of England . and Ireland. Are their claims compatible? Is it pos sible to pacify or conciliate popery without the subversion of protestantism, or the church which establishes and teeches it in the land ? Will Rome be propitiated by any other sacrifice ? Will the policy of what is called moderate protestantism appease or satisfy her ? Moderate protes tantism, or the protestantism of expediency, is a contra diction. Protestantism, from its very essence, excludes all neutrality and compromise; it par akes too much of the religion of the Great Teacher, who declared, that he who was not with him was against him, and whose ser vice is so exclusive as to know no other master, we must either hate tile one and love the other, or hold to the one and despise the other. " Here, then, is on the one hand, an established church, whose truth the state is bound to defend and propagate; and, on the other hand, a false, idolatrous, and dangerous system, which it is, by necessary inference, bound, by every fair and legitimate means, to discountenance and weaken. It would be culpable i❑ the state to stand neu tra► even between two such antagonist systems. What must be the guilt of aiding and abetting the enemy against the ally—of supporting and fostering that which is op posed to the truth of the established church, as darkness to light, and especially of patronising and endowing that college, the nursery of its priesthood, which 'trains and educates those who are the chief agents of its propagation, the teachers of its blasphemous fables—the performers of the horrible sacrilege of the mass." The concluding portion of the letter, from which we have taken the liberty of quoting, contains an appeal to Sir Robert Peel, which with such effect and eloquently conveys our own sentiments, that we cannot resist giving it, although we have already trespassed largely. Would that Sir Robert Peel was to be persuaded to follow such advice, and save himself from the utter destruction with which his character for Protestant fidelity is menaced ! " Sir, what multitudes who admire your matchless talents would rejoice to see you take this decided stand for truth and give a tone of resolution to the thousands who are wavering under the almost uncontrollable influ ence of your example. Boldness and faithfulness like this would raise up f o r yo u a h ost o f the best of friends and supporters, and give you a position as the chief minis ter of this great protestant empire, that could never be shaken ; and you would have the solace and satisfaction, to your conscience in the view of a coming eternity, and that judgment at which you must account for your im mense responsibilities, that you did not use the opportu nities and influence you possessed to the advancement of a system, opposed to the temporal and spiritual welfare of your country, and happily through your instrumenta lity our national church, threatened as she is by the as saults of open foes without, and the treachery of false friends within, may yet emerge from. the trial and the I danger, with he r unc h angea bl e d octr i ne, an d her celestial voice. " If, however, you have already resolved on a policy that must only strengthen the hands of her enemies, while it cannot give stability to your government, and, as has been proved by past experience, only give them greater power in enforcing their demands for further advantages ; for the true meaning of the present outcry in Ireland, is not the repeal of the union, but the repeal of the reforma tion ; then we may tremble for the ark of God, then in deed will her enemies have triumphed over her. But I fervently hope, if you have taken such a resolve, it may yet he shaken. 0 let it not be recorded in the page of history, that in your administration the church was at last betrayed by the state : that in the administration of him who passed the fatal bill that blotted out the great national protest, was the work of evil irretrievably con summated, and, perhaps, by the only man who could have warded it off, the final blow was given which sealed the doom and destruction of the established church (I speak of the church as a national establishment, for the invisible church is indestructible), hut from that period may be dated her decline and fall, and with the fall of England's church, the setting of her national glory." In another part of our paper we give a report of the proceedings of the Justices of this borough, at a meeting held in the Magistrates' Room on Thurs day, and the consequent proceedings of the Watch Committee, at their weekly meeting on Saturday last, which on that occasion was thrown open to the reporters for the local press. To both of these we shall have to call the attention of our readers; and, as the first in order, we proceed to examine the proceedings of the worshipful the bench. The meeting of this body appears to have been called for the purpose of receiving its sanction of an irregularity, which we noticed in our last, committed by Mr. Rushton, an individual magistrate, in direct ing Mr. Dowling, the acting heed-constable, to ab stain from carrying out that portion of the resolu tions of the late meeting of the bench, by which he was ordered to enter those resolutions amongst the general orders of the police force ; and also for the purpose of considering the request of the Watch Committee, to have handed to them a copy of the depositions taken by the magistrates in the case of Mr. Parker. Of the propriety of such a meeting there can be no doubt. The Bench, in their origi nal resolutions, had committed an "inadvertency" —so it is termed—in directing the performance, by Mr. Dowling, of an illegal act ; and Mr. Rushton having been guilty of assumption, in volunteering his individual interference to stay the execution of such act, took the only course open to him to pro cure the sanction to such interference of the collec tive body. The necessity of such sanction being sought for was an admission, on his part, of error in taking upon himself undue powers, as the fact of his interference was an acknowledgment of the unad vised haste of the proceedings with which he felt himself compelled to interfere. The application of the Watch Committee was so much a matter of course, and so reasonable in itself, that it could scarcely have been expected to excite discussion. Under such circumstances, it is painful to find that a body of gentlemen, such as those composing the bench of this borougn, could not meet on such an occasion without having to witness the unseemly explosions of temper which occurred—without wit nessing the manifest predisposition of a portion of their number for a collision with the members of the Watch Committee, represented there by its chairman. We are perfectly ready to admit that, in the explanation of his conduct which Mr. Rush ton felt compelled to make, there was much seeming desire to conciliate, and even to flatter the Watch Committee upon the tone with which they had met the views of the justices. But when, in doing so, he repeated the claim of superior authority over t he police force put forward by the magistrates and re pudiated by the committee—when he claimed a " pre-eminent right " in the magistrates to issue orders, amounting to "regulations," directly to the police force—when, moreover, he imputed to the committee, as evidenced i n th e " skilful drawing" of their resolutions, a disposition to fencd with the question at issue between the two bodies—he could not be surprised that the chairman of the Watch Committee should feel himself compelled to lay fully before the meeting the views of that body with respect to the whole subject under discussion, and Mr. Rushton's own proceedings in particular. We challenge any man to point out in Mr. David Hodgson's remarks a single instance of unnecessary asperity, in language or manner, which could call forth from any gentleman, possessed of that equable temper which should adorn the judicial bench, the warmth and violent feeling displayed in reply by Mr. Rushton. Mr. Hodgson had a perfect right to condemn the interference of that gentleman with the execution of the orders of the assembled bench. It was, to all intents and purposes, such ?n inter ference with an officer in the discharge of his duty as the magistrates had already condemned. It was a precedent which could not come from any quarter with impunity, and which, if it had been set, under any pretence, by Mr. David Hodgson, in his indi vidual capacity as a magistrate, would have drawn down upon him the severest reprehension of Mr. Rushton himself ! Mr. Hodgson had also a right to state his impressions of the influences under which Mr. Dowling had acted in obeying Mr. Rushton's dictates—impressions which, although not borne out by the examination of the Commis sioner of Police before the magistrates, have been fully borne out, as warranted, by subsequent in quiry before the Watch Committee. There was nothing, we repeat, in Mr. Hodgson's tone and manner, in laying his opinions before his fellow magistrates, which ought to have excited warmth of feeling, still less unworthy passion and persona lities. We beg to direct the attention of our readers to the very opposite temper of Mr. Rushton's reply. We wish we could place before them his infuriated demeanour. W e ask Mr. Rushton himself whether it was in keeping with the magisterial character to bully a brother magistrate with threats of personal chastisement—whether the threat of what he would have done, as a private individual towards a prirate individual in another place, ought in decency to come from a man judicially entrusted with the pre servati( n of the public peace ? We ask him, fur ther, what is the meaning of his passionate inter jection addressed to Mr. Hodgson—" The less you sit with Mr. Rushton the better, if you please," as given by a contemporary of Friday; or, as our rep3rter and that of a Saturday's contemporary have it—" The less you say about Mr. Rushton the better, if you please " ? In either version it is scandalously improper, unbecoming the place where uttered, or th e p arty y whom uttered. Of the subsequent proceedings of the meeting, and particularly of the indecent manner in which the attack of Mr. Rushton was seconded by the small fry of the Radical faction—the Earles, the Rathbones, and Boltons, who, although put forth by, the indignant voice of their fellow-townsmen from all interference in their local concerns, are still unhappily permitted to perform their antics upon the magisterial bench—we shall not trust our selves to remark. Their convicted imbecility is their safeguard. We turn with pleasure from this sad display to the more calm and dignified proceedings of the Watch Committee on Saturday; and, first, we shall briefly glance at the preliminary conversation which took place with respect to Mr. Parker's case, for the purpose of correcting an imputation which we re cently brought against Mr. Dowling, of over-offi ciousness, and something like truckling to the magistrates, in that matter. We assumed on that occasion, as of course we had a right to assume, that the charge against Mr. Parker of "interference" with the officers, at the Rose-hill station and at Allen's house, had come before the magistrates in the ordinary way, by information from the proper authority. We were also warranted in this assump tion by the expressions used by Mr. Rushton before the magistrates—" Here is a man " (pointing to Mr. Commissioner Dowling) " in whom I have unbounded confidence, who has taken every step without consulting me "; and again—" If I read my functions aright, or understand the law of England, every man ought to applaud Mr. Dowling." Certainly a plain-enough intimation this that the commissioner had taken some leading part in caus ing the whole subject to be brought before the sti pendiary ! Now what are the real circumstances of the case, as they have transpired before the Watch Commit tee ? In the first place, it is a remarkable circum stance that there is not a report in the books of the Rose-hill station-house of any interference of Mr. Parker with the officers there, or of any other charge against that gentleman, although those books record such trifling and minute matters as the " finding a gate open or a gas-light out." There was no information of such interference laid of their own accord by the officers, or by Mr. Dow ling, before the magistrates. Fi na ll y , as we are informed by Mr. Hugh Hornby, " a magistrate, having read the circumstance in a letter inserted in one of the public prints, asked if anything was known with regard to it. The stipendiary magis trate stated that the information had come to his knowledge incidentally, and that he had not heard it from the chief commissioner." And further, " the magistrates directed the head constable to report." Plainly, then, Mr. Dowling owes our wrong con ception of his conduct in the matter to the fulsome adulation heaped upon him by Mr. Rushton, by which the entire onus was strangely—and, we may , add, unfairly, as calculated to injure the commis sioner with the Watch Committee—removed from the shoulders of the former to those of the latter. If Mr. Hugh Hornby has correctly stated the facts of the case now, so far as Mr. Dowling's share in it is concerned, Mr. Rushton mis-stated them before, The two statements are quite irreconcilable with each other; and we leave Mr. Rushton to the task of explanation. A gentleman so forward in impu ting incorrect statements to others, should keep his own free from th possibility of being doubted. We pass from this portion of the proceedings, referring our readers to the manly letter of Mr. Parker, and the very proper course taken upon it by the Watch Committee; and now proceed very briefly to notice the evidence, upon which Mr. Rushton's charge of falsehood against Mr. David Hodgson has been r e b u tt e d. It is clear from the whole of this evidence (saving that of Mr. Hugh Hornby and Mr. Thornhill, the latter of whom was not present during the whole period of the meetings of the 20th and 23nd), that Mr. Dowling consi dered, and left the impression upon the minds of those with whom he spoke upon the subject, that Mr. Rushton's intimation to him of the course to be pursued in case of his refusing to obey the orders of the magistrates, was virtually a threat of dismissal. It is true that, before the hoard he guarded himself by saying that " he drew his own inferences," an expression significant enough; but to Mr. Thomp son he distinctly stated, that he regarded the object of the threatened meeting of the magistrates to he, " that he might be dismissed." Under these cir- cumstances we cannot but regret, that before the assembled bench, the replies of Mr. Dowling were not more straightforward, and that he should have appeared more inclined to permit Mr. Rushton to enjoy a temporary, and after all a pitiful triumph, than boldly to acknowledge what he considered the real meaning of the threat held over him. We have 'trespassed already so largely upon the very limited space to-day at our disposal, that we must waive for the present the consideration of some matters arising out of these proceedings, of far more importance to the public, than the proceedings themselves. We shall return to them. The report of the proceedings at the last repeal meeting in the Conciliation-hall supplies us with materials well worthy of the attention of the magis trates of this town, as evidencing the wide spread of treasonable feeling amongst the Irish portion of our population. The sum of £lO 15s. was pre sented by Mr. M. O'Connell as the weekly contri bution of the repealers of Liverpool to the parent association, when that gentleman took occasion to, state, as an incentive to the people of Dublin, that whilst that city, the centre of the agitation, contri buted only £lO3 per week, the average amount from Liverpool was £2O per week. Surely such a fact should be a lesson to the authorities of our town, and impress upon them the necessity, whilst so much anti-English sentiment is silently smoulder ing beneath their very feet, to strengthen themselves by placing around them, as th e guar di ans o f t h e i r property and their lives, men of assured loyalty and tried fidelity to the institutions of their country Surely this is not a time for them to turn the cold shoulder to such men—to make their very loyalty a disqualification for every office of trust, whilst no notice is taken of the presence of would-be traitors in the very force to whose watchfulness and fidelity are confided the peace of the town and the safe keeping of the vast masses of property which it contains. How many of these repealers are mem bers of our police force ? How much of this twenty pounds per week is either drawn from the funds of the borough, or from the pockets of those Conser vative merchants, who fill their warehouses with plausible and designing Irish Papists, whilst Pro testant Englishmen, natives of their own town, because not so fawning in manner and specious in tongue, may walk our dock quays or our streets, willing to toil, and yet penniless ? This must be reformed. The practice is not kindly to our own, and, moreover, it is not safe THE FUNDS : SATURDAY NIGHT. The absence of business to-day caused a slight depression in the value of the English securities, and quotations for Consols left off rather lower than those quoted yesterday, the money price being 1004 buyers, and for the account 1001 to 101 sellers ; Bank Stock was steady at 287 to 209 ; India Stock, 287 to 289 ; Exchequer-bills, 575. to 595. premium ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 991 to 100 ; Three-and-a.. Quarter per Cents., 1021 to ,4 ; and Long Annuities, 12 1-16. In the foreign house the dealings have been of the most limited description, but quotations, generally speaking, exhibit much steadiness. Spanish Five per Cents. left off 241 to 1; and Three per Cents., 3n to a ; Russian, 1181 to 1191 ; Peruvian, 241 to 25/ ; Portuguese, 55 to 56 • Mexican, 364 to ; the Deferred, 16a to i ; Dutch iwo-and-a •Half per Cents., 621 to 638; the Five per Cents., the Five per Cents., 99 to 1 ; Danish, 89 to 90; Colornbiun, 131 to 141; Cbilian, 100 to 101 ; Buenos Ayres, 36 to 37 ; and Belgian, 101 c to 1021. CAUTION TO SEAMEN.—Yesterday, at the Police court, an American seaman named M'Cappin, of the ship Solons, wa4 charged with smuggling 10113. weight of tobacco. Mr. Brook, of the Customs, conducted the case, and proved, by several officers, that the article was found in the prisoner's chest nailed to the side with tacks, and that the prisoner gave a key which fitted the chest. The prisoner said he was ignorant of the laws of the country, and thought he would not be guilty of smuggling, unless he brought the tobacco on shore, which he had no intention to do. Mr. Rushton said be was clearly liable, and adjudged him to pay a fine of £lOO, or be imprisoned, intimating, however, that the prisoner might memo rialize the Lords Commissioners for a mitigation. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MAGISTRATES. I think that, in the absence of the direct provision of a place of refuge for those unhappy gentlemen who, though anxious to display their wisdom in public, have been ig nominiously kicked out of the council chamber by their fellow burgesses, the frequent summoning of the bench appears capable of being made into a substitute. The magistrates' room is not certainly so large a place to figure in as the Town-hall; but a more fitting erection might easily be provided, and, instead of his worship the mayor presiding, we might have Mr. Edward Rushton as "perpetual dictator," with en aristocracy under him, ranking in authority, according to the number of times each member had been rejected by his constituents. These honours (!) might be marked by stripes, or X's upon their coat collars, or bells upon a pyramidical cap, which Prince Albert would, perhaps, be willing to design for their use. William Rathbone, William Earle, and Thomas Bolton would, from the number of their rejec tions rank high amongst the aristocracy. Perhaps the former, from the number of his honours of the kind, and his small quantity of coat collar upon which to display them, might be allowed a kind of belt, or wear an apron hieroglyphically adorned. The new building might be called " forum," in compliment to the classical tastes of Mr. Rushton ; and the seal of office might bear, as motto, the observation of Bully Bottom— " I can roar you as gently a , any sucking Dove." I think, whatever Mr. Rushton may think, that when he said to I'dr. Dowling, " you are either to obey the or ders of the magistrates or not ; if you decline to obey their orders, the magistrates must be summoned," he tittered, what most men would interpret into, a threat of dismissal, unless they could bring themselves to regard the magistrates, as men who were likely to resemble that king of France who ------" Marched up the hill With twenty thousand men , " and afterwards, nobody but himself knows why, " Straightway marched down again." I think Mr. Rushton's expression, " Ring the bell, and send for Dowling immediately," was scarcely complimen tary to that gentleman. Mr. Dowling, the stipendiary might remember, although " acting as head constable," is a barrister, and, as such, entitled to be addressed as a gentleman. I don't know, by the bye, who the prelimi nary, " ring the bell !" was addressed to, or whether the mayor, or what other magistrate jumped up to execute the mandate. I think when Mr. Rushton asked the " acting head con stable" if " he believed that he had any hostile feeling against him," and the latter authority said " No," both parties must have forgotten a certain collision which oc curred not a hundred years ago i❑ the Police -court, and was not calculated to leave behind it a conviction that either of them could rely upon the good feeling towards him of the other. I think that a gentleman, in whom the stipendiary expressed such " perfect confidence" on a re cent occasion, had little occasion to have held out towards him a threat of being reported to the magistrates in case of disobedience to orders. I think it never was - sufficiently explained how Mr. Dowling is to be whitewashed for not having read to the police force that part of the proceedings of the magistrates which reflects upon the character of Mr. Parker. The matter at present stands thus. A portion of the resolu tions of the bench—the concluding order, as to entering them upon the watch committee's books,—was set aside by Mr. Rushton's order; another portion, the preamble, was omitted reading to the force by the discretion exer cised by Mr. Dowling. Thus we have three parties con tending with the watch committee for authority in matters relating to the police force; viz. first, the bench of magis. trates, secondly the stipendiary, and thirdly the " acting head constable." Which is pre-eminent in authority? How are we to reconcile their difference of opinion and superiority in discretion. This puzzles me, and I think it will puzzle wiser heads. On Sunday week the sum of £44 was collected at St. John Baptist's Church, Toxteth-park, in aid of the schools attached to that church, after sermons by the Rev. T. Nolan and the Rev. W. W. Ewbank. SAILORS' HOME.—It will be seen from a❑ advertise ment that subscription books lie at the usual places. We trust every friend of such an excellent object will, as early as possible, afford his aid to it. The 49th Regiment, from Winchester, will succeed the 6th at Chester and Liverpool. On Thursday night, the office of a merchant in Goree Piazzas was broken open, and bills and notes to the value of £BOO, together with some silver spoons and other plate were stolen. The dinner to Sir Henry Pottinger w:11 take place on Tuesday, the 17th instant. Several distinguished charac ters have already accepted invitations, and there is no doubt that this will be one of the most splendid enter tainments ever given in the Town-hall. GUANO.—The arrivals of African are numerous, both here and at the outports. The demand is exceedingly limited, at £5 les. on the spot ; at sometsing under this rate there are large buyers. For forward delivery there is rather more inquiry, but very little business doing. Peruvian is without change. ARMY MOVEMENTS.—The following removals of troops are ordered to take place :—The 56th Foot from Ireland to England, the depot of the 14th Foot from Ireland to England, and the 67th Foot from England to Ireland. The 72d Foot embarked at Cork for Gibraltar, on the 27th ult. SIR HENRY POTTINGER.-The gallant General, with his aide-camp, Captain Fane, paid a visit to Chester Gar rison on Friday last. The veteran hero was received with military honours by the Royal Artillery and the Gth Regi ment of Foot. Sir Henry left for Newton, near Chester, the residence of Major-General Sir W. Warre, whose guest the gallant officer was. On Saturday last an inquest was held before the borough cot oner on the body of Mrs. Standin g , o f Devonshire place, Everton. The deceased was in her usual good health on Wednesday night, and on the following morning was found dead in bed. A post mortem examination of the body was made by Mr. Jonathan Greenwood, surgeon, Kirkdale, who found the cause of death to be enlargement and ossification of the heart. HAND BOOK OF BIRKENHEAD.—We last week paid a well-deserved compliment to the typographical plan of the Lancashire and Cheshire Railways, kindly lent us by the proprietors of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Since then our attention has been called to a pamphlet with the above title, to which is prefixed a " plan issued with the same newspaper, an d compose d entirely of moveable types. It is more than double the size of last week's plan, and executed with equal care and clearness. It is certainly a great curiosity.—Railway Record. On Sunday last, the largest and most respectable fune tal that has yet visited St. Mary's Cemetery, Kirkdale, followed the remains of Mr. Joseph Onions, late foreman to Messrs. Wilson, iron ship-builders of this town. lie was universally esteemed by all who knew him ; he was beloved and respected by the men who worked under him, for his kindness and humanity, which was plainly proved on Sunday, by between 400 and 500 men of various cal lings in the iron and foundry business paying the last re spect in their power to his remains. DEMAND FOR WAGES.—On Friday, at the Police court, Captain Treadfoot, of the ship Sir John Beresford, appeared to answer the summons of Peter M'Lellan, one of his crew for refusing to pay him £9, alleged to be due for wages. The captain showed that during the voyage the claimant had not only shown ignorance of seamanship, but had disobeyed orders, and had, in conjunction with the mate, been insolent and insubordinate, putting him (the captain) on one occasion in fear of his life. Mr. Rushton reduced his claim by ss. per month, and said he should also proportionately reduce the wages of the mate. POST -OFFICE ROBBERY.—Some ingenious thief has managed to commit a robbery upon the Ely post•oflice. A. packet, containing £350 in country notes, was posted, it appears, at March, in Cambridgeshire, some time since, and addressed to a banking-house in London, the postage having been duly paid as upon an ordinary letter. The packet was missed from the office previously to the making up of the bag, and was not heard of for five days after wards, when, strange to say, £290 reached the house in London ; the thief having only taken £6O in Bank of England notes, THE QUEEN v. MURPHY.—The Irish judges decided on Thursday, by a large majority, that the conviction of Mr. Henry Murphy, the attorney, at the last commission, for wilfully destroying documents relating to a cause in Chancery, of which he had the conduct for a Captain Richardson, was wrong, inasmuch as the document proved to have been destroyed by the defendant was merely a re ceipt for rent—an exhibit proved at the hearing of the cause, and that it was not such " an original document " as was contemplated by the legislature when passing the 9th George IV., c. 55, under the 21st section of which the prisoner was indicted. The result, of cours will be the discharge of Mr. Murphy. PROPOSED NEW CANAL.—It is now pretty generally understood that a canal is about to be cut from Sankey to Warrington, in order to connect the Sankey canal with the river Mersey, the point of junction being near the Warrington Bridge. By this arrangement vessels from Liverpool will be able to come up to the town at all tides, which they are now unable to do, by entering the canal at Runcorn Gap. It will also directly connect St. Helens and the coal district with Warrington and Manchester. The necessary surveys have been completed some time, and the plan proposed has, it is said, been sanctioned by most of the landowners on its line of progress.—Cheater Courant of to-day. CHESHIRE WINTER ASSIZES.—The Commission was opened yesterday (Monday) at Chester Castle, before Mr. Baron Gurney. We hear that Mr. Jervis, Q.C. is specially retained to defend Mr. Winterbottom ; and that Mr. C. Wilkins, of the Nortbern Circuit, will appear for Mr. Port, the Cancer Doctor." At half-past two yesterday, the High Sheriff, Geo. Wilbraham, Esq., proceeded from the Royal Hotel, with his carriage and the usual retinue of officers and javelin men on horseback, to meet the learned judge, Sir John Gurney, who arrived from London by the Grand Junction Railway Company. The elm mission was then opened with the accustomed formalities ; and the business of the assizes will commence this morning. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—About a fortnight ago one of the dogs, named Libertine, belonging to the Lanark shire fos-hounds, disappeared when hunting at Jervieston, and notwithstanding every search, was not discovered until 11 days afterwards, when the pack were in the same locality, and some of the dogs stopped suddenly at the mouth of a coal waste, and would not leave it. The huntsman, in looking down the pit, discovered a dog which he supposed to be Libertine ; and having got ropes and sent down a man, the missing dog was brought up so little the worse for having dropped down twenty fathoms, or 120 feet, and been starved for eleven days, that he was able, after geting some warm milk, to walk to the kennel, and he is again in good hunting trim. KIRKDALE CHURCH.—The following collections were made after the sermons preached on the occasion of re opening this church :—On Thursday evening, after a sermon by the Rev. Hugh Stowell, £l9 Os. 10Id. On Sunday morning, af,r a sermon by the Rev. D.. James, incumbent, £43 10s. fild. ; and on Sunday evening, after a sermon by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, £37 12s. Id., making a total of £lOO 3s. 6d. LIVERPOOL, ORMSKIRK, AND PRESTON RAILWAY.— Of the many railway schemes now in progress, and in embryo, there are few that have stronger claims on the attention of the public, more particularly of the inhabi tants of Liverpool, than this line, forming as it will the most direct communication between Liverpool, Preston, the North of England, and Scotland. We have, there fore, learned with pleasure that the arrangements for car rying the bill through Parliament are proceeding with every prospect of success, the requisite plans and docu ments having been lodged within the prescribed period. MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.—At the monthly meeting of the Town Council, to-morrow, the proceedings of the Finance Committee will comprise a recommendation for the purchase of Mr. Logan's premises in Oldhall-street, and a recommendation for the sale of the reversion of a piece of land, in Upper Islington, for the erection of an Irish Presbyterian chapel. The Mayor's communica tions amongst other things will comprise a letter from Mr. Alderman Horsfall, resigning his seat as a member of the Dock Committee ; and a memorial of the Directors of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, praying for a grant in aid of that institution. THE CANADIAN REBELS.—The American line of packet Switzerland, which left the St. Katharine's Docks on Friday afternoon, for New York, had on board, in ad dition to a full cargo of British manufactured goods, a large number of cabin and steerage passengers, among which latter were upwards of 30 persons who were con cerned in the riots in Canada about four years ago, and were in consequence taken prisoners by the British au thorities and transported to New South Wales. '1 hey have recently received an amnesty for the offence in con sideration of having undergone a portion of their sentence, and having arrived a few days since from Sydney in a ves sel lying in the Lcndon Docks, are now on their way back again to their native country. SERIOUS EXPLOSION AT ROCK FERRY.—At an early hour on Friday morning, an alarming explosion of gun powder took place in Limekiln-lane, Rock Ferry, on the premises of Mr. Carrington, customhouse broker. Mr. C. had a son who had returned from sea as mate of the ship Fairfield, which arrived in the river from Ichaboe on Thursday. The magazine boat, not having, as is custo mary, gone alongside to remove the gunpowder on board that depository, the powder, consisting of one barrel, and paper, containing in all about 321 b. of the combustible, was deposited in au outhouse, as the ship could not go into dock with any powder on board. The immediate cause of the explosion is not precisely known, but it is stated that a younger son found his way into the place, and was handling the paper when the explosion took place, and narrowly escaped with his life. The outhouse was levelled with the ground, and the windows of the ad joining house destroyed. The boy and a servant girl were severely but not dangerously injured. THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY.—The proprietors of this company held their annu it meeting in London on Friday last. The report noticed the contract made with the Govercment for the extension of the mail service to and from India. The financial arrangements fcr carrying the object out have been made by the directors, and the proprietors have paid the first instalment of £5 per share on the 4,000 new shares of £5O each. The directors have entered into contracts for four new ships of 1,300 tons each, and one vessel of 700 tons, to be ready for sea next year. It is expected that the new monthly line of communication to Calcutta, Madras, and Ceylon will commence in Janu ary next, and the communication to China will be opened as soon as the new ships can be placed on the line. The company have at length purchased the Precursor steam ship for £45,000, and £5,000 contingent upon a mail con tract 'being obtained. Her original cost was about £BO,OOO. An additional sum of £B,OOO has been ex pended in increasing the accommodation of the vessel. Some arguments were used at the meeting in favour of a railway from Alexandria to Suez, but the chairman (Sir J. Campbell) explained that the company was chartered for the purposes of navigation only, and could take no steps in the improvement of the passage across the isthmus. The profits of the last year (eliding 30th September) were stated to be £140,042 which, with the undivided profits of the preceeding year, makes a total of £199,897. The usual dividend of 31 per cent, was declared for the six months eliding Ist October, and the undivided profits after deducting this and the Ap r il di v id en d, were state d at £72,020. To reduce the insurance the investment of £lO,OOO was voted towards the formation of an insurance fund. On Sunday last, according to announcement, his Worship the Mayor, accomp-nied by several members of the Council and a large number of influential gentlemen, attended divine service at St. Barnabas' Church, Parlia ment-street, where a sermon was preached by the Rev Thomas Nolan, in aid of the Southern and Toxteth Hospital. Among the gentlemen present we noticed the following—viz., W. Shuttleworth, Esq., Town Clerk; P. Wright, Esq., Clerk of the Peace; Aldermen Chilton, Houghton, Griffith ; J. N. Wood, R. Rigby, T. Roy den, G. G. Hornby, J. Aiken, R. L. Jones, J. B. Yates, J. Platt, Duncan Gibb, J. Wilkinson, Dr. Dickinson, T. Robinson, T. Rimmer, J. Rimmer, A. Browne, S. Martin, J. Ingram, D. Clarke, G. Barnsley, A. Robertson, E. Whitelegg, J. Cooper, Kendall, John Lawrence, W. Wagstaff, T. Wagstaff, Richards, &c., &c. At half-past ten the procession left the Town hall, preceded by the officials of the Corporation, the Re;cls. T. Nolan and C. A. Graham walking with the Mayor. Upon arrival at the church, the Mayor, Town Clerk, and Clerk of the Peace, were shown into a pew very handsomely fitted up for the occasion, over the entrance of which was erected a neat arch, with a beau tiful carved Liver on the top, for the purpose of holding the civic regalia. The remainder of the gentlemen were accomwodated with seats adjoining the Mayor. After the p s had been read, in a most impressive manner, by the Rev. C. A. Graham, the Rev. T. Nolan ascended the pulpit, and took for his text the 13th and 14th verses of the 9th chapter of St. Matthew—" They that be whole need not a physician, but they that be sick," &c. The subject was discussed in the most eloquent, touching, and energetic manner, well calculated to make a lasting im pression upon those who were privileged to hear it. We cannot refrain from expressing our delight at the manner in which the service was conducted throughout, and par ticularly the musical portion of it which, we understand, was performed by the choir belonging to the church. At the conclusion of the service the handsome sum of £62 was collected. larsx SOCIETY.—SPLENDID DONATION.—The ad vocates of this institution made out so satisfactory a case last week i❑ this town, that the society is likely to derive very substantial benefits from it. The Rev. Hugh M'Neile presented, in an intelligible shape, the masses of the Irish people, for whose especial benefit the society was formed. He described them as consisting of three classes. First, such as are altogether ignorant of the English language; secondly, such as are acquainted with a few common-place phrases in English,.but unable to read, or understand the reading of an English book ; and, thirdly, such as are so far acquainted with the English language as to be able to read it a little, and to carry on their traffic with the neighbouring market to by means of it ; but who still think in Irish, and convege with one another in Irish, and are wholly incapable of receiving any moral or religious instruction, except through the medium of the Irish language. The first class he esti mated, from some documentary evidence, at above 600,000; the second and third classes at about 2,000,000. For the instruction of this large body, impervious as it is by the English language, nothing has been done, except by the Irish soceity. All the public money voted for education in Ireland has been expended through the medium of the English language. Thus nearly three millions of our fellow-subjects have been left uncultivated. After discussing the higher branches of the subject con nected with the salvation of the immortal souls of these people ; after showing and urging the duty of giving them, arid teaching them to read, the Holy Scriptures in their own language; and after answering, in a concise but convincing manner, the objections commonly urged against the perpetuating of a barbarous tongue, Mr. M`Neile truly said that the people in question, being so numerous and so neglected, could not fail to become dangerous, giving physical weight to the will, however arbitrary, of the priesthood—to the agitation, however pernicious, of the demagogue.—We advert to this now because we are requested by Mr. M‘Neile to state that, as a fruit of the case so made out, he has received for the society, from a gentleman who desires, in very decided terms, that his name may not be mentioned, a donation of ONE THOUSAND POUNDS. CHARGES OF PASSING BASE COIN, &c.---At the Police-court, yesterday, a man named Peter Bower, and a boy named Joh❑ Hampson, were charged—the former vith having in his possession implements used for coin ing, a. , ld the latter for uttering base sixpences. Mrs. Francis, publican, Milk-street, Tithebarn-street, said that on the 26th of last month the younger prisoner came to her house, and gave her, in payment for a glass, a six pence, which, after giving him the change, she put into a drawer in which were no other sixpences. After he had gone sbe discovered that it was a bad one, and re solved to observe him if he came again. On Saturday last he went to the house, and offered another bad six pence, when he was given into custody. On being searched, there was found in his pocket a letter addressed to himself at a house in Enerdale-street, and thither the Inspector went, some further evidence in the case. The house was tenanted by the elder prisoner, and he found in it, up the chimney, a mould for making sixpences, a small quantity of plast er of Paris drying in the ove n , a peculiar knife, a file, some lead amongst the ashes, &c. Bower's wife and family lived with him in the house, and he was a mat-maker. The younger prisoner said he had received the sixpence from a young man, named Jones, who lodged there with him, and from whom he had borrowed it—he having always plenty of moneF. The elder prisoner said he cer tainly kept the house, but knew nothing of coining. Th e other prisoner and Jones (alluded to) lodged th ere, and always paid. He made mats for a living, an d went out part of the day selling them, Both prisoners were re manded.—A man named M`Leary was next charged with uttering two base shillings. Mary Ann Moran, publican, in Wapping, said that some days ago the p r i soner came in and tendered her a bad shilling, whi c h s h e detected, and told him of it. He said that it was not bad to his knowledge, adding thatif she would g i ve i t back to him, he would go and geta good one for it. Sh e was persuaded again, with n returnaoe man,t. On and Su nda9 night l as t h e came gave in payment another bad shilling, which she immediat e l y noticed, and bent it. The prisoner very impertinently asked h er to return it, but she refused, and detain e d hi m. The other man made off ; prisoner attempted to escape, but was secured. He was fully identified, and was committed for trial. Dec. 3, 1844. A BIT OF MERCURIAL BATHOS. Our contemporary of Lord-street certainly gets more amusing in her dotage. In a leading article—or, more properly, a leaden article—on Friday, she informs us of the following striking fact, with respect to the recent presidential election in the United States. Mr. Polk, it seems, is a free trader, and, withal, an advocate for the annexation of Texas, the seizure of the Oregon territory, and other fire-eating projects of Brother Jonathan. Our good old lady, however, maintains that Mr. Polk is likely to put aside his free trade, or anti-tariff leanings, and W base his policy upon the encouragements of the fire-eating projects in question. "If this should prove true," re: marks the Mercury, " and if the democratic party should leave the tariff untouched, we shall have gained" (?)" b i the election of M r . P o lk, s i mp l y th e i mm i n ent probability, of a rupture with A mer i ca i ns t ea d o f th a t realization ?! free trade and its glorious consequences which our ern" rent townsman, Mr. William Brown, so ably advocates in his letters to Mr. Wilson Patten, and, so forcibly de scribed in his speech at the Rochdale meeting of the Anti- Corn-Late League." Stupendous !! What a pity it 15 that we could not bring our dullness sufficiently to appre ciate the ability of Mr. William Brown's " L et t e rs to gr. Wilson Patten," or his " forcibl e d escr iption" in bis speech at the Rochdale meetin of the Anti-Corn -LBW League." When poor Joh n Bull shall become the , 11 , 1 11 1 fortunate victim of " a rupt ur3 w ith A mer i ca ," we Su l: have to write over hi s grave , di e d o f a non-peru sal of th e Letters of our eminent townsman, Mr. William Brown, and his speech at the Rochdale meeting of the Anti-Corn' Law League ! ANOTHER DISCOVERY BY THE SAME EMINENT AUTHORITY. The Mercury has just di scovere d, " i n a l oca l print ° very moderate circulation"—( we p resume th e Liverpo a Times is referred to)—" an official notice of an intended application to parliament for p owers t o ena bl e the Gran d Junction Railway Compa n y t o f orm a railway, unit,,in.: with their present one at a poi n t i n th e t owns hip of Ke` e ; wick, near Runcorn, and terminating in the Liverpoola n ! Manchester Railway at Huyton." This discovery je: little clever, if our contemp orar y fi rs t ma d e it from to` columns of that " local print of little circulation," the Liverpool Times, which we doubt, however, inasmuch?, we gave, a fortnight ago , b o th a d escr i pt i on o f the ra w' and a plan of the railway in question. We hope our con: temporary will not be vi s it e d b y th e St amp - o ffi ce, as IP sums to apprehend, for such amazingly novelinformatiot l • We agree with him, however, that companies such as the Grand Junction should give " extensive publicity" to their projects by advertising in papers which are everywhere seen and read. For ourselves, we seek for no exclusife favours from this or any other company, and have already been prepared to anticipate the reverse as an effort of Pee r revenge for our advocacy of the claims of the public. This studied " obscurity" wears, however, in our minds, 11 ,1 in that of our contemporary, " a suspicious appearance. It is not the straightforward way, or the way of seekia public confidence. Her Majesty is expected to visit the Duke of Welling' ton, at Strathfieldsaye, the week after next. THE CABINET.—The Duke of Wellington does not leave town for some days. Sir Robert Peel departs for Drayton Manor to-day, and Lord Stanley goes to.the Earl of Derby's seat in Lancashire to-day to meet Ladf Stanley and family. Lord Wharncliffe, accompanied 1)/ Lady Wharncliffe, leaves Curzon-street in the cours e of the week for Wortley Hull, near Sheffield. The Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Sir James Graham remain for the present in town. The Hon. R. Otway Cave, M.P., for Tipperary, died, on Friday, at Bath, after a short illness. Lord Nugent has fractured three of his ribs by falling from his horse. On Thursday Mons. Sallior was tried at St. Omer for the alleged murder of Mr. Thorn, at Calais, the partied' lars of which we gave at the time. He was acquitted. The Monmouthshire Merlin of Friday last contains all account of an explosion of fire damp, by which upwards of fifty lives were sacrificed. Considerable doubt let however, entertained as to the truth of the statement. A little boy was killed in Cork a few days since, in cow sequence of having drank a quantity of spirits from 3 decanter, which his mother had imprudently left within his reach. The coroner's jury, at the inquest in the case of Mr. Dean killed last week by the collision on the Midland railway, have returned a ver di c t o f " mans l aug hter against Mr. Lightfoot, the regulator of the trains. THE FIRST BISHOP OF NEW BRUNSWICK.—Tbe Rev. Prebendary Medley, Vicar of St. Thomas's, in the diocese of Exeter, has received the appointment to the bishopric about to be constituted in the province of New Brunswick, in North America. The parties charged with the riot and attack at Stone leigh a few weeks since were tried at Warwick on Satur day, and found guilty. They were twenty-eight in num ber, and were sentenced to t erms o f i mpr i sonmen t vary ing from three years to three months. __ ---- Sir William Stanley's splendid pack of fox hounds will meet at Birkenhead Hotel, on Thursday morning, at hair" past ten o'clock, where they will be joined by a number of influential gentlemen from Leicestershire and other places. The hounds will then proceed to the Prenton and Storeton covers. The Gazette of Saturday last consists of no less than eight sheets and a half. The first article in it is the copy of an order of her Majesty in council assigning districts, under the 16th section of the 59 Geo. f 11., cap. 134, to eight chapels, all in the parish of Rochdale, in the coun ties of Lancaster and York. GROSS DEPRAVITY.—Ann M'Cormick, a domestic servant, was convicted, at the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday last, of having stolen a sovereign belonging to a feliow-servant, arid of having attempted to entice her master's daughter, a little girl ten years old, for the pur pose of introducing her to a life of prostitution. She was sentenced to seven years' transportation. THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM SHIP.—The first ex perimental trial of the engine of this vessel took place on Wednesday last, in Cumberland basin. The screw made 36 revolutions, at about half speed. The trial was per fectly satisfactory. The Great Britain will leave the basin on the 11th instant. She will remain in Kingroad for a short time, whence she will make a few experimental trips ; after which she will proceed to the Thames. AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Friday night last , about seven o'clock, an affray took place at Wollaton, near Nottingham, between a gang of poachers and the keepers of Lord Middleton, of Wollaton Hall. The keepers (four in umber) had apprehended two poachers, when about sixteen or eighteen of the accomplices of the latter came up, released the offenders, and brutally beat the keepers. One of them had his mouth shockingly torn, another lies in a very dangerous state. All the poachers escaped. Two FACTS.—In the Rev. Mr. Trench's national school of Cloughjordan, where no Protestant religion can be taught to objecting Romanists, there is not a single Roman Catholic male child. The schoolmaster of this school, our readers will remember, was murdered, having been denounced from the altar by the priest. In the next parish—Shinrone—a school of the Church Education Society, in which no Romanist child can be without being instructed in the Scriptures, nearly one-half of the chil dren are Roman Catholics.—Dublin Statesman. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY. Dacumaan 2.—Wind S.S.E. moderate, A RRI WED.—British Queen, —, from Antigua—Elizabeth & Jane, Thompson, from Marseilles—and Milliades, Mituna, from Piraeus. SAlLED.—Unicorn, Touzell, for the Gulf of Mexico—John Gregg, Wright, for Ichaboe—New Holland, Parsons, for Alex andria—Jupiter. Morrison, for OW end—Wonder, Ramsay, for Calcutta—and Pollock, Frazier, for New Orleans. Robert Henry, Legge, from Larache, at Cove BELMULLET, Nov. 23.—The Robert A. Parke, Donald, from Quebec, parted both chains last night in a heavy gale from S.W. by W, and drove on shore near this place LIVERPOOL PROVISION 11.1ARKbr, DEc. 2. Consumers of Butter hang back, diffidently hoping that a change in the market favourable to themselves may be the result. It is, however, all in vain ; —it is difficult to give a cor rect quotation. At fi ve o ' c l oc k to night, however, we heard an influentia. party declare the price of Belfast to be 1 os. NeW Beef has made its appears nce, the quality not very fine, fo r which 100 s is asked, but w e b e li e ve 95 s w ill not be refused. Pori, is scarce, and re ma i ns a t our l a t e quotat i ons of dos to 75s per barrel. Bacon recovering. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, DEC. 2. The eupply of Cattle at market to-dr , y has been similar to last week ; the greatest portion of inferior quality--anything good fetching high prices. Beef 5d to 50 : Mutton Sid to 6d. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 2. We have passed through another week of a miserable sort of Cotton market, not only are prices lower than ever they were known before, but even at the decline there seems no confidence t 0 the article, and consumers merely purchase for their immediate wants. To-day, 3,0'10 to 4,C00 bales have been sold.. 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