The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-05 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS We have little to say to the rigmarole with which the ,'W 7il has favoured us in his I,t pricleatiori We re o ,,, h„,,, . er, se , him rich w ith respL.et to one assert 'en which he :ea-r; , e e ...„-, ar•rl now :ceeat t't• s ys that in the article. which lees disturbed hi= seventy so ereatly, we repres wed r.ar - or dinary average" circulation at .^,m'o per week. We never sak; any such thing. We sta•ed that thc`riu,ber of our im pressions had been steadily increasiog, was still increasing and tot on the precedirg w-el• it was close upon Some ; and such was the str et truth. Our average eircula , , -, n (which we never stated at mime pill be shewn by the return ~ • and perhaps will be greater than our generals contemporary would wish to see us enjoying. The Mail tn!ast% profusely of his ow•• flourishing' condition. Why can't he he satisfied with it. a , d keep his temper? Ills bitterness of tvec TQW:I , ,iS US is not the best evidence in the world that he deseises us.as a competitor for the favoiir of nservative public. In the coriclusioe of his remarks, t if asks us why we do not declare the numher of papers we are in the habit of printing weekly. ilk We may perhaps do so when he tells us how many he sells, and how many more he gi , es away. Since writing the above the following paragraph, in the notices to correspondents of en able provincial contemporary, has met our eye Need we say that we are most gratef u l f or such unsolicited testimonials of our influence and irsee i i nes ,o " K W.—The Liverpool Standard has. we believe. the lar4 est circulation of any paper printed in Liverpool It is patronized by all the leading men of the town, without regard to politics, for the talented manner in which it is conducted, arid the im mense mass of well-digested information which crowds its columns. K. W. it ay not find it in Popish beer-ilouses, but it may be seen at every respectable hotel." We differ from " A Conservative " Doubtless, state prosecu tions may be instituted before the existence of any treasona ble conspiracy ; but, on the other hand— " To save a state, Legal restraints may be employer' too late. And men may scruple tyrants to restrain Till all resistance will be found in vain." We have received from Robert Frank, Esq., .£2 for the Dispensa ries, which ,e have handed to the secretary ; and for-the " Case of Distress," mentioned in our last,from The pupils of the Rev. Mr. Fleming, 800t1e..."-,,,C1 1 5 Mr. Litter ~,,,VNIIIWNWWW.N.WV. NSW, • • • , ,,,,,V% ...W.... /I" W. 0 2 6 Mr. -•- WV, MM., ••••,, VW W V.I. WWW•AIMMIN WI MAW,/ ..., Y• 0 5 0 J. El ...---- , .----w.;..,--...-----.10 0 0 A correspondent urges the propriety of some means being taken to protect property in the neighbourhood of Edge-hill. He says, "There have been, to my knowledge, not less than seven houses broken open, within the last few nights, about the neighbourhood of Edge-hill and Mount Vernon. Many more hove been at tacked, and the yards suffer considerably In some instances the thieves have managed to carry away property of great value, and committed damage which will not be easily replaced. In one or two cases the villains ascended the staircase, almost to the bed room doors, which, awakening the family, Leased. them en-eat alarm. The excitement, I can assure you, about here, is worthy of regard, as they must be a desperate set of fellows, they seem so impudent and experienced." We have received a letter from Deborah Jones, of Birkenhead complaining of the eery filthy and neglected state of certain roads in the neighbourhood of the new church Deborah will observe that we have devoted a very large space (considering the crowded state of our advertising columns) to Birkenhead affairs, and especially to a communication from Zephaniah Smith, Esq., laying before the public the eel'eme of the proposed " Anglo Hi bernic Company." For the present we would recommend De borah and ner friends to provide themselves with stilts, until the present proposed great schemes are completed, and the packets have made sufficient cinders to mend the ways of the parties complained of and the roads for Deborah. The inconvenience alluded to by " A Poor Member of St. Jude's Church," is occasioned, according to his own confession, by the crowded state of the congregation. He must he aware that before the moveable seats were placed in the side aisles, the latter were filled with people who were content to stand during the whole service, and our correspondent now finds fault because the trustees have extended down these eisles the seats alluded to, which he states are not ' convenient" enough, an "evil" which, he asserts, "can be remedied at a very slight inconvenience and expense." Will he tell us how? If he has been long a tr: ember of St. Jude's, he will know that before the seats were placed in the side aisles the people were as much "in the way" as before ; and we know not what the trus ees could have done beyond preventing so many people crowding into the church, an alternative which our correspondent even, we presume, would be slow to adopt. He ought to have sufficient charity to believe that it is not " a matter of indiffe,ence with the trustees whether the poor man can kneel during his prayers or not" ; and he ought to have sufficient common sense to know that wherever the gospel is preached the poor attend in such numbers as to preclude kneeling accommodation, let the managers of the church make what arrangements they may. ebt Etherponi attanDarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, .1844. The council of the Anti-monopoly Association have just issued their " Free Trade Circular" for March, in which they have attempted, by a series •of laboured and most erroneous calculations, to get rid of the charge of dishonesty, fastened upon them by the letter of Mr. Sandars. We have already noticed, certainly at greater length than was called for, the effusiOns of some of the League journals upon the question at issue in this controversy, viz., the amount of charges on foreign wheat imported into this country; and we shall therefore only corn went here upon one or two paragraps of this " cir cular." In rep l y to the argument of Mr. Sanders that, when the position of the League party is that the charges of importation of foreign wheat are a suffi cient protection to the British corn-grower, such charges ought to be confined strictly to those which are peculiar to foreign, the Council of the Associa tion remark thus : ' " But Mr. Sandars affirms that foreign wheat is subject to no charge, to which English. ' anovccl from one port to another,' is not also subject. Even were the argument correct; it is nothing to the purpose, fora very small pro portion of English wheat is moved coastwise, whereas the greater portion of foreign wheat, after its receipt in this country, and before it finds its way to the consumers, has to incur expenses as heavy or heavier than its cost of im portation, to transport it to the various markets in the kingdom. By far the greater portion of English wheat is consumed at or near the place of its growth. There are certainly not more than five counties in England, not more than two in Scotland, which grow more wheat than they coniurne ; and Ireland, which in 1833 exported 83t),000 quarters, in 1842 only exported 200,000, and now grows little more than is required for her own consumption. " In estimating, then, the effect of a free importation u'on the British farmer, we are bound to add to the average cost tree on hoard at the various ports of ship want, the average expenses, including freight and all other charges incurred before the produce can be consumed." A greater amount of ignorance of the subject than is here exhibited could scarcely have been conceived. A very small portion of English wheat moved coastwise !" Why, the fact is known to every prac tical man that the English grain and dour moved coastwise very far Exceeds not only the average yearly importation of foreign, but the largest im portation ; and so far from its being true that the internal charges upon foreign wheat to the places of consumption arc greater than those upon home grown, precisely the contrary is the case. The car riage, for instance, of foreign wheat, from Hull or Liverpool, to the m ,nufacturing districts of Lanca shire, is far less than that of the home-grown wheat of Nottingham, &c., which forms the chief supply of those districts. And then we are told that " by far the greater portion of English wheat is consnmed at or near the place of its growth ;" and that there are not more than five counties in England which grow more wheat than they can consume." Yet nearly one-third of the population of England, viz., 4,397,791 soulz, are concentrated within the limits of two covnties (Middlesex and Lancaster), and a por tion of a county (the West Riding of Yorkshire). These counties certainly do not grow their own con sumption, which is drafted—moved coastwise or by internal river or canal conveyance from the other counties of England. A more consummate piece of hal . dillood than this annihilation of the greater part of the coasting trade of England we never remember to have met with. Such flagrant puerilities or falsehoods indeed we know not which to call them—are scarcely worthy of serious refutation. And now a word with respect to the mode adopted in calculating the average freight of foreign grain, which we last week sheaved to be grossly inaccurate. We have the same calculation given us in the Cir tular of the Association, and are informed that it was drawn up for the League by Sir Joshua Walms ley and Mr. Joseph Sturge—eminent authorities and most disinterested witnesses no doubt. But we are furnished, in the same circular, with another document most apropos to our present purpose, in- , asmuch as it furnishes us with a clue to an average something like the true one. The document in ques tion contains the replies of her Majesty's consuls for the various continental corn markets, to queries as to the quantity of wheat and other grain which could be shipped to England if the trade in corn was open. We give the quantities of wheat Quarters. From St. Petersburgh . „ Riga, not stated. „ Liebau „ Odessa Warsaw (via Hamhurgh) , 300,000 Stockholm. . „ „ ~, , 1,000 Dauzig, . , ~ , From Konigsberg- Stettin Memel 65,000 250,000 5.964 175,000 „ Hamborzh „ Rotterdam, not stated. „ A ntwerp, not stated. Palermo. . 200,000 2,222,464 Now w e as k of our readers to examine these qua nties ac curate l y , and to say in what way they would proceed to estimate the average freight of such wheat, imported here. Obviously the correct mode would he to carry out the calculations at the various foreign ports, and for the average to divide the gross amount by the total number of quarters. We may arrive near enough, however, by a mere glance over the figures. Of this two million and odd quarters, only 150,000 quarters from Odessa pay the high rate of 10s., and 200.000 from Palermo that of Bs. 3d. 838,000 from Hamburgh, including 300,000 qrs. from Warsaw, which is borne via Hamburg, pay 2s. to 2s. 6d. ; and the remainder the freights of the Baltic ports, which the Association circular puts down at 3s. to 4s. We have, therefore, 150,000 qrs. from Odessa, at 10s. £ 75,000 200,000 „ from Palermo, at Bs. 3d 82,500 838,000 „. from Hamburgh, at 2s. 3d 97,766 1,034,464 „ from other Ports, at 3s. 6d 181,064 Total freight Or, average on the whole 3s. 11d. per quarter. The average of Sir Joshua and his confrere for these same ports is 4s. 61d. to ss. 5d ; and we have given credit in this statement for even higher freights than they have. For instance, the statement of Sir Joshua and Air. Sturge gives the freight from Italy at 441 6d. to 65., which is nearly one-third more than present rates, and that from Odessa at Bs. to gs., whereas we have gone upon the exorbitant rates of Bs. 3d. from Italy, and 10s. from Odessa, as given in the consular returns. The jug gle, therefore, is palpably in the mode of calculation, adopted for the purpose of sheaving a higher average than-the real one. We feel that we ought to apologise to our readers for pestering them with questions of arithmetic, which any boy at the Blue School or the Mechanics' Institution could solve correctly. We are compel led, however, as a public duty, to perform the unin teresting task, when we find false conclusions sedu lously put forth, with the sanction of names, whose owners ought to be above such transparent disho nesty. If Messrs. Walmsley and Sturge, as mer chants, give to the world statements which it is to receive upon the strength of their mercantile cha racter, or the " young men," who compose the Anti-Monopoly Association, copy those statements approvingly, both parties are at least bound, in mak ing them, to use the same accuracy and fairness which the world knows they would use in the draw ing up of a mercantile circular or an acconnt cur rent. And this, we submit with confidence, they have not done ! Mr. Alderman Evans gets a little cantankerous on our hands. Dissatisfied with his position in the Dock Committee and in the Council—defeated too in his latest public appearance as a journalist—he has last week run a-tilt at the whole corps of re perters for the press, Radical as well as Conservative, charging them with the atrocious crime of com pressing their reports of the doings and sayings of the Dock Committee—of which, in imagination, he is still the foremost member—and more than insi nuating that in so compressing them unfairness is shown towards his own little section of the Com mittee. He overlooks unfortunately the fact that the paper 'which reports most frequently the meetings of the Committee, inasmuch as it appears on the day after their being held, is of the same politics with himself, and advocates the same dock crotchets ; and he has, therefore, by his random accusation, given serious offence to the whole body of the local press, and his own friends in particular. Now this conduct, we submit, is very unwise in Mr. Evans. The press is a very awkward body for any public man to r uarrel with ; and especially for a public man in his position. The worthy alderman no longer " bestrides this narrow world like a Co lossus." People are no longer agape to learn what are his peculiar opinions on any question, or what the particular hobby which he chooses to ride. His facts and statements, too, are not now in the best odour. There are actually, indeed, some people who think that the public could get on very without an Alderman Evans, either in the Council or the Dock Committee; and not a few of his own party who would he heartily glad to be rid of his domination in both places. Under these circumstances, it is a tempting of Providence--a risk of anticipating his probable future fate—to fly in the face of a body of men who might he provoked to give to him even less than that prominence before the public which he has hitherto been favoured with, as some ima gine, undeservedly. We say this in all kindness. We should be sorry to lose Mr. Evans; but we are much afraid that the reporters for the press may some of these days be tempted by the alderman's in judicious attacks to " stand by their order," and extinguish his eloquence altogether. Seriously, however, we must state, in self-vindi cation, and for our contemporaries as well, that the last of our public bodies who ought to complain of the reporters is the Dock Committee. In the first place the accommodation afforded them is very meagre ; and the conversational tone in which many of its proceedings are carried on, throws infinite dif ficulties in the way of their giving anything like complete reports. A fair one, however, we do be lieve, they endeavour to give. IA local contemporary, in one o f th ose astound ingly wise articles which lie sometimes achieves, pro pounded to the world the discovery that the present ministry should resign office, in order that her Ma jesty, without danger to her person, might visit her Irish people. The existence of a Conservative ad ministration, he asserted, was the only bar to the realization of that hope, so beautifully expressed by Sir Robert Peel, that the auspicious day might come when our gracious Sovereign " could alight, like some benignant spirit, on the shores of Ireland, and there lay the foundations of a temple of peace—when she could, in accents which, proceeding from the heart, speak to the heart rather than the ear, call upon her Irish subjects, of all classes and denomina tions, Protestant and Catholic, Saxon and Celt, to forget the differences of kind and of race, and to hal low that holy temple of peace, of which she l a id th e foundations—to hallow it with sacrifices still holier than the sacrifices by which the temples of old were hallowed—to hallow it WITH THE SACRIFICS OP THOSE EVIL PASSIONS, WHICH DISHONOUR OUR COMMON FAITH, AND PREVENT THE UNION OF -41 HEART AND HAND IN DEFENCE OF OUR COMMON COUNTRY." We did not, at the time, think it worth while be stowing any notice upon so ridiculous a conclu sion. It provoked a laugh, and was forgotten. Yesterday, however, much to our astonishment, and doubtless to that of the world at large, we had the same view of the proper mode of tranquillising (!) Ireland dressed up afresh in the columns of the Albion, in the following flippant paragraph, upon which we must offer a few words of comment. Aftrr quoting the above passage from Sir Robert Peel's speech, our contemporary proceeds to say:— " This, of course, is sheer fudge, for the thing is within his reach, and yet he will not take the step which will ac complish it. LET HIM RESIGN. The day which should carry over the news of such an event would see Ireland tranquil and peaceful within all her borders, ready and eager to welcome her Sovereign to her shores with all the enthusiasm of the most devoted loyalty. Yes! let him resign, for he is the only obstacle to the objects which he professes are so near and dear to his heart. We shall ap preciate the self•sacrifice, and none will withhold the praise. Oh, yes ! Set up a government which shall be the patron of agitators, and the protector of murderers. Send over a Normanby, to open the doors of the prisons of Tipperary and Clare; restore to liberty and fresh crime the midnight robber and the Agra rian disturber; give renewed vitality to the wide spread Ribbon conspiracy; giVe hope to the cupidity which longs for the plunder of the owners of the soil of Ireland; proclaim the destruction of that Protes tant Church which she has sworn to defend ; and with such a government—with such impunity for crime—with such incentives to outrage and blood shed —HER MAJESTY, a Protestant Sovereign, " will find Ireland tranquil and peacefnl in all her borders, ready and eager to welcome her to her shores, with all the enthusiasm of the most devoted loyalty"! The gaols would pour forth their thousands to meet her. The red hand of the undetected assassin would flourish the blood-stained bludgeon at her approach. Crime would hold jubilee in the presence of a Queen, whose message was thus one of mingled immunity for past, and of encouragement for future outrage. A Whig journalist can have the unblushing har dihood to make to the people of Englrnd, who have declared that IN :IRELAND THE LAW SHALL BB RESPECTED, a proposition so monstrous ! Yes ; the organ of a party, who, in power, ruled Ireland by a coercion bill; denounced the repeal agitation from the throne; discountenanced the agitators, as unfit for the favours of government; then truckled— basely truckled—to those very agitators; stooped to hold office as the venal price of their support in parlia ment—such an organ has the fatuity to imagine that the British people ha• ~,gotten all their incapacity, and would pay so feaiilli a price, as the sacrifice of one of the fairest portions of their country, for the plea sure of seeing them once more revelling in Downing street, and dipping their " itching palms" in the Treasury! Yes : these men imagine that it is for their presence in Ireland that the torch is lighted, the bale-fires glowing from hill to hill—that all this rebellious outrage is for love of them, whom the leader of Irish agitation has called " the base, bloody, and brutal," and the world has acknowledged as the most venal and incapable faction by whom the des tinies of a great nation were ever wielded ! Strange mistake ! inconceivable blindness ! Why, it is to this very party, whose tampering with rebel lion, and fondling with rebels, has been so abun dantly manifested, that Ireland owes so much of her wretchedness and disorganization ;—that, in that misguided and unhappy land, life is "cheaper" than in any country upon which even a gleam of the light of civilization has shone. But folly has its lessons to teach as well as wisdom. A straw, thrown up, shows the direction of the wind as well as the most complicated piece of machinery. A goose saved the Capitol ; and this very fatuity of Whig journalism unfolds to us the present and coming policy of whiggery as palpably as if an oracle had proclaimed it, and Lord John Russell had not gone out of his way to disclaim it—as well as if we bad had no nine days debate upon the affairs of Ireland, and no Whig coquetting with Ireland's convicted disturber. The Whigs are once more ready to ride into office upon this man's shoulders—to crouch a his feet—to pander to his griping mendacity—and at the allotted time, when they have sacrificed all that is high, and holy, and just, to appease his vora cious appetite, they are prepared to be spurned from him, to find " in the lowest deeps a lower deep," in which they may hide their political degradation from the eyes of an incensed nation. The petition of the electors of the city of Durham against the return of the Leaguer, John Bright, on the grounds of bribery and other violations of the law, is abandoned, as will be seen from the following paragraph, which we quote fry, our valued con temporary, the Durham Advertiser DURHAM ELECTION PETITION.—The petition against the return of " honest John Bright" has been withdrawn. Why, it will be asked, has this been done? A very few words will answer the inquiry —a want of "the sinews of war"! The petitioners, or those who were entrusted with the management of the petition, were in possession of a vast mass of evidence to prove that treating to an almost unprecedented extent was practised at the late election, and that bribes were given to influence many of the electors; but the inqui y to establish these facts was likely to be of so long continuance, and the expenses con sequent thereon of such magnitude—far exceeding the amount of the funds provided—that it was deemed pru dent rather to abandon the petition than persevere under such circumstances. It will then be seen that it was under no conviction of the purity of " honest John" that the petition has been abandoned, but solely on the score of expense. • Does this untoward affair teach to Conservatives no lesson ? Surely yes. The electors of Durham had, we are . confidently assured, an undoubtedly strong case. They had abundance of evidence to substantiate that case. But the tools of the League had gone serpentlike about their work. They are no bunglers in their trade. They had, moreover, a hundred thousand pound fund to draw upon for the purpose of defending their achievements. But, un fortunately, the defenders of England's interests have no such fund to look to in an emergency like this petition against Mr. Bright. This, then, is the lesson which is taught us by this affair. It is not alone by the dissemination of tracts, lying speeches, and jesuitical anti-monopoly circulars, that the League is about to work upon the constituencies. That pure body can bribe as Drell ; and, when attempted to he bronght before the legitimate parliamentary tribunal, to defend their delinquencies, they are in possession of a long purse, wherewith to escape justice, and set at defiance the truth. They can, in fact, ride roughshod over the constituencies, and, with mill dust and children's bones transmuted into gold in the aie►nbic of the factory, stifle the voice of public opinion throughout Great Britain. Surely the Conservative party will do something to break down this tyranny of capital. Surely the nobility and the gentry of England will not permit themselves thus to be pushed out of the councils of the nation, and a heterogeneous swarm to vault into their places. If we are to have an Anti-League movement, let us have as well an Anti-Leagu e fund, not to provide lecturers merely, to address them selves to men whose minds are already pretty well made up upon the great question at issue —which is THEIR OWN EXISTENCE AS A CLASS, THE MOST VALUABLE OF ENGLAND'S PEOPLE — but to neu tralize, as well, these attempts to beat down, by the force of money, the constitutional expression of the very opinions which they seek to disseminate. This hundred thousand pounds, wrung from the sinews of the poor, must not be shaken in the faces of Bri tish men, to awe them into submission to an odious tyranny, without an effort being made, BY THE LANDLORDS OF ENGLAND, to fight the anti-national faction with its own favourite weapon. Surely the defender of his own homestead, and the prosperity of his dependents, will not begrudge the cost of the THE LIVERPOOL STANOARD. demonstration necessary to be made that his defenc may be succes,ful! It i2s too perhaps, now to move in the Do , ham petition; but we must have no mrwe mistakes! SALE OF AMERICAN PROVISIONS.—OOT..tIN:IO, several considerable lots of Aineriran beef, 11:1113, ,r.; &c., were submitted to auction sale, at the Corrimer . ' , Sale-room, in Temple-court, on aecourir the .inport-r -by Mr. G. Badenach and by Mr. Gardner, brokers. sale was announced for twelve o'clock, and at that, how large muster of the trade were present. The first lots p, up consisted of American lard, which were withdrawn Mr. Badenach at 335., as the limit. Some other lot however, found buyers at prices varying from 32e. 6d. t 345. 6d., the highest price raid fair a smolt lot of very su perior quality. Mr. Gardner then offered a number e lots, a portion of which were knocked down at prices vary mg from 31s. to 335. 9d., the holders of the rernaindf, refusing to submit to these prices. The next articl offered was a lot of 284 barrels of American beef, fit which, however, no bidders came forward. A similar re suit attended the attempts to get rid of a .small quantity of pickled rounds and tongues. A lot of 501 canvasser. American hams was put up in fifties, and 200 sold 30s. 6d. and 31 ~ the rest being withdrawn. A lot of 35 casks, of better quality, was also withdrawn. 50 English hams, first quality, were next sold at 30s. 6d. per cwt.. and 48 of the same lot at 28s. 6d. A lot of second quality brought only 28s. 6d., and a lot of thirds 255. To ac count for these low rates we may remark, that the sound ness of the articles appeared to be doubtful. A quantity of cheese was then offered by Mr. Gardner in lots, the greater portion of which, however, were withdrawn. The prices of those sold ranged from 38s. to 445. 6d. per cwt. for fair and good qualities. A few inferior were sold at 30s. to 325. 6d. ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST'S CHURCH.—This neat place of worship (at the north end of Hope-street) has recently undergone several interior alterations and im provements, and may now be considered one of the most comfortable churches in the town. The pulpit, which was before between the two entrances, has been removed to the east end; the pews have been remodelled and made uniform,—rising in steps on each side from those in the centre, so that the entire congregation may be seen from any point; and the whole have been covered with watered rnorine. The voice of the reader or preacher is also by this new arrangement rendered more audible. But the greatest improvement—and a novelty in itself—is the manner of lighting the interior when gas is required. This is effected by a single, but large and splendid, Bude light, suspended from the centre of the roof. The intensity of illumination is subdued by the burner being fixed in an immense dish, or bawl, of frosted glass—perhaps a yard in diameter at the top—and of an ornamental form, it being fashioned, at the upper part, into leaves, curving gracefully over all round, so as to resemble huge flowers of the rose or lily tribe. This has a beautiful and pleasing effect, 'minding one of the vertical sun, and though not dazzling to the eye as is the orb of day, it diffuses so even and brilliant a volume of light throughout every part of the building, that even those in the remotest seats and corners can see to read the usual print in small devotional books. From its great height—only a few feet below the ceiling—its rays descend on the objects below in' a more natural and efficient manner than can be attained by a num ber of minuter lights placed at intervals only a little above the heads of those assembled, and tending to perplex by producing intersecting shadows. This splendid lamp is suspended in a bronze fixture, of handsome classical de sign. It was, we learn, furnished by, and erected under the superintendence of, F. L. Hausburg, of Church -street, who has thus added another laurel to those he has already achieved in the production of articles of taste and virtu. We entertain little doubt but that the efficiency of this light, its brilliancy, without injury to the eye, and its moderate cost compared with its advantages, will induce its adoption on a similar principle in may of our churches and other public edifices. GUANO—FIRST ARRIVAL AT THIS PORT FROM AF RICA.—The extraordinary qualities of guano, or bird manure, from Peru, have been gradually developed during the last few years, and it may be said to have become a regular article of import. The discovery, however, of the same, or a similar substance, on a desert island on the coast of Africa, about twelve months ago, directed the attention of numerous speculators to the spot—the vogage to it out and home being much shorter, and consequently less costly, than to Peru, which involved the doubling of Cape Horn, and a long stretch thence to the northward and back, along the western shores of South America. The " secret" no sooner became known, than a great number of vessels—perhaps not fewer than fifty in all —were des patched fi om England and Scotland together, in quest of the material, priceless in all but in the digging, loading, and conveyance. The first cargo from this new natural depst was imported into Dumfries, in June last, and a part of it was sold at £9 a ton. The second import of this article to this country arrived here on the 19th ultimo, by the barque Levenside ; and this cargo, amounting to three hundred tons, was advertised for sale by auc tion, (the first sale of the kind here,) on Wednesday last, at the sale-room of Messrs. Roscow, Arnold, and Leete. The interest excited on the occasion was very considerable, and the room was much crowded. In order to suit purchasers, the whole was divided into five and 10 ton lots.—Mr. Roscow stated that he had tried the African guano (out of the first cargo) himself, and found it nearly the same in effect as the Peruvian. The quan tity of ammonia which it contained was stated to him to be about 30 per cent. The first bid made was £5 10s. a ton for the five tons offered, and the biddings rose, by half crowns, to £B., and there hung. Mr. Roscow stated that offers bad been made to the owner, and that unless an ad vance were made on £8 Is. 6d. he should not sell. There was no other bidding. and £9 was named by the owner, aq that it TOt bidders at the advance required, were withdrawn. A part was afterwards, we learn, sold at £8 10s., and the cargo has since been advertised to be sold from on board, at £9., with a discount to farmers bringing their own bags. The statement made in the Dumfries Courier, that the whole " was sold at once for £8 17s. 6d. per ton, to be delivered at the Clyde," is, therefore, inaccurate.—A small lot of 12 tons of guano stated to be Peruvian, and of which a sample was produced but not guaranteed was next offered by Mr. Baring. The first lot (half of the quantity) ob tained a bid of £B., and rose to £8 7s. 6d., when it was knocked down. The other lot was taken in. It was stated by some in the room to be of rather inferior quality for Peruvian, but of this we do not assume to be judges. It was somewhat remarkable that the same species of com paratibvvelayoneetteiona, onerticlparcele should from h be offered, t ee a s t ttem h the first so r e s sale, o r of it Southern Africa, and the other from the far apart, an 4 much more distant western coast of the continent of ...count America. CORPORATION LAND AT WALLASEY POOL !—On Thursday last, the land belonging to the Corporation of Liverpool, on both sides of Wallasey Pool, was again offered for sale by auction, by Mr. Winstanley, at the George Inn, on leases for 75 years, and subject to certain conditions. The lots were the same as at the attempted sale some weeks ago—fifteen in number, of various ex tents, from 11,000 and odd yards, in thirteen of the pieces, to 54,000 and odd—the two largest lots being res pectively 94.640 and 160,010 yards. The conditions (which were but slightly altered from the last) comprised, on this occasion, liberty to make docks, basins, slips, and other similar works ; and also to excavate clay for bricks to be uved on the land, to the depth of eight feet; and to quarry stone to the depth of thirty feet. The attendance was not quite so numerous as at the last sale, but there were present many of the same monied parties interested in the future anpropriation of the Pool, and from the lati tude given in the conditions, it was expected that business would be done. The Town-clerk and Mr. Franklin were again present to give explanation. The same condition was retained as to the purchasers being required to build, within two years, a sufficient sea-wall, or quay, opposite the respective lots they might purchase; and the precise line of wall on each side not being definitively fixed upon, a question was put, whether, in the event of the final line extending beyond the present margin of the Pool, and consequently enclosing more land than was marked in the plan, the purchaser was to pay for the difference? The Town-clerk said that it more were enclosed (or made) that would not be charged for ; and if less„ deduction would be made accordingly. He also stated in reply to a question by Mr. Jackson, that be had no doubt but that parties making bricks, and selling them for use on other sites, beyond what they were required to build on the lots (to the amount of one-eighth of the purchase-money within four years,) they might do so on the payment as proposed, of say 2s. Gd. per thousand, or thereabouts, to the corporation. The auctioneer then proceeded to offer the Ist. lot of 21,530 yards. Mr. Jackson bid Ss. a square yard, and Mr. Jno. Laird, 9s. There was no further bidding, and Mr. Franklin declared the reserved bidding for the corporation to be 21s. No offer was made beyond that amount, and the lot was consequently withdrawn. For lot 2 Mr. Jack son bid Bs. and it was also withdrawn, the reserved bid being also 21s. For lot 3, 65., and finally 6s. Gd. was bid, but the reserve was the same. Lots 4 and 5 met precisely the same result. For lot 6,6 s. and 6s. 6d, wes bid,—re serve 21s. Lot 7. Mr. Jackson offered 45., Mr. Laird 4s. 6d.,—reserve 255. The other lots, (with the exception of 13,) were formally put up with no better success, the reserve on some being 15s. and the bidding but 4s. Mr. Jackson remarked on one of these that he would sell equal land as to situation, and which was freehold, for Bs. The whole were consequently withdrawn. Mr. Winstanley returned thanks to the gentlemen present, who then dis persed. VESSELS LOADING IN LIVERPOOL.—We do not re member so large a number of " ships loading" at our port as at the present time. We find, by the Custom-house list, that no fewer than 249 ships (most of them of large tonnage) are loading for foreign ports, and our own pos sessions and colonies abroad. The ports for which they are destined comprise almost every accessible port or place of traffic throughout the known world. Of coasting vessels loading the number is also greater than usual at any one time, being about 100. What between craft large and small loading or discharging, our docks, spacious as they are, are filled to repletion. This affords a gratifying indication of a revival of trade. Mit. C. DICKKNS.—On Tuesday last this original and popular writer unexpectedly paid a visit to the Weller family, and afterwards lunched with them at the residence of Mr. James C. Shaw, who married the eldest daughter. Mr. Dickens was astonished at the various accomplish ments which nature has bestowed on this talented family, and remarked, that "one of the bright gems of his exist ence was his introduction to them." Mrs. Shaw and Miss Weller "discoursed sweet harmony" together on the piano with that exquisite poetic feeling which has de lighted the best musicians of the day. Subsequent to this visit from Mr. Dickens he forwarded two characteristic verses of poetry to Miss Weller, which were proriuced from his mind when acted on by the gratification he ex perienced at the Breck„ OPERATIVE PROD:S.I'AM ASSOCIATION. avling, distri , .!t meotiog of this Association was to St. Jade's Churo.li, ► ,ken by L,,, -s y,i t .t r h e e e t s , Rii h eu r v i r t: .!, a wa s tGl i e t tir o !‘ -s si t e.viN ci a me f ro, k y n oth, d ,eg respect OA; s tc ha ir c l w e : r t ! ,y:non present, we noti::cd the [tee. Thomas Nolan, the ;Let- D. And,rsoli, the Mr. Cragg, &c., &c. The CHAIRMAN, the proceedings with gayer, addressed the awheric!e at some length. He said, :at as many of them as •ii I tr,i iced carefully the objets tr which he hid ju,t G d's blessing would have ierceived what, in his jitig-in nt, was the true nature of heir present work. Tticy waited to have such good done o themselves as that they might do good to those around hem, so that, by their means, through their neighbours, 0.1 might be done to the town, and, by means of the own, good might be done to the country, and, by means ,f the cow,try, good might be done to the world. (Hear, 'tear.) For Proiesaiitistu was good: it wa s no t mere l y pr.}test against evil; it was in itself good. He had lately in illustration of this which suggested itself to his own mind in rather a curious way, and he would mention it now—the circumstance first, then the suggestion, mid then he application, for the instruction of those present. He re ceived a letter, soon after the beginning of this year, and on opening the cover, found inside two slips of very thin paper. One of them was blank, and the other had a song written on it—a party song, cleverly written. It so hap pened that just at the time he got those two slips of paper he had a £lOO note in his hand, which he was going to change in order to pay his bills ; because he thought it a part of Protestantism for every man to keep his bills paid. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) It so happened, then, that he had those three slips of paper in his hand at the moment ; and he tholght to himself that it was a curious circumstance, and that it spoke something to a mind capable of getting instruction. He said—" here is No. 1, a blank ; No. 2, a party song ; and No. 3, a £lOO note." Now, what was Protestantism for protesting sake good for—just for finding fault's sake with others ? It was a blank piece of paper, not worth the trouble of tearing it. (Hear.) What was Protestantism for the sake of politics worth ? A clever song not worth keep ing. (Hear, hear.) What was Protestantism for Chris tianity sake worth ? It had the water-mark of the bank on it,—the true bank of God. (Loud cheers.) So, now,tliesort tn otfbetnProitnestathnatitsmplachee, and dd he alwaysaa recommended bold to say, in every place where they had heard him recommend it, was the Protestantism that had Christianity for its object—which protested against Popery, not for the sake of finding fault. It would be a joy to him, and to those who laboured with him in the same cause, that there was not an individual on the face of the earth that required to be found faul. with. One of their glorious hopes was fixed on that millennium kingdom in which there would be nothing to find fault ; and they bad the germ of that kingdom of Christ within them now, being children of the light, and their heart's desire was, to have j nothing to find fault. Therefore they did not protest against Popery for the pleasure of finding fault ; and if any man were a Protestant for the sake of finding fault, he had not a right sort of Protestantism in him : it was a Piece of blank paper. (Hear ) They protested against Popery, not for the sake of raising up party politics ; but he would tell them why they protested against it. There were a great many to join them in their protest when they wanted to achieve a political object, before the change of the government, when the late ministry were guiding the counsels of her most gracious Majesty, whom God pre serve and her li tie family,—(loud cheers,)—men who had only the song of Protestantism, and who came with their political song to join the association. Their object was political; that of the association was Christian; but the association could not separate between the two. It never could tell, when a rich man or a poor man came to join, whether his object was political or Christian : he called himself a Protestant ; lie joined the ranks ; swelled the cry ' • increased the meetings—meetings which we re then so large as that they filled the Amphitheatre. And why wasn't it so now? He (the chairman) would tell them the reason : all the political ones had fallen off and took no further concern; circumstances had separated between the two parties; and the Cnristian Protestants, who were few always, were shown to be few now; and this was the secret of the matter. (Hear, hear.) What, then, did he and others protest against Popery for? He had already said, not for the sake of finding fault—not for the sake of a party, political object, but for the sake of God's truth both in church and state. (Cheers.) They protested against it, because, whenever it was received, the liberties of men in this world and the salvation of men in the world to come were endangered, it not destroyed. (Loud cheers.) They valued liberty here, and they valued salvation hereafter. Therefore, for the sake of liberty here, not party politics, but national liberty,—for the sake of having the laws of England to govern, and not the domination of the Pope of Rome, — for the sake of keeping their old statute-book, and not to be overridden by a foreign potentate,—they protested against it. This applied to all Englishmen. It was not the basis of party politics; and yet this was what was called political in him and others. His politics embraced England, and desired England's liberty—the liberty of whig as well as tory—the liberty of the Roman Catholics, too; and would to God they had liberty! (Hear, hear.) 'This was the application to this world, and the higher application still to salvation, for there was a protestan ism which did not reach the heart in its theory, and therefore did not reach the life in its practice. There was a pro testantism which did not alter the temper, which did not restrain the tongue, which did not guide the affections and desire, in the love of the heathen, to do them good in life. There was a species of protestantism which, he grieved to say, had done their true cause much harm. What he desired was. to see Christianity at the root, and the protest against error nuatuoonea, not rot 1,0 0.,a0 sake, but for the sake of that precious root which was to be preserved. (Cheers.) They object they had in view was to deepen and to give solidity to the PrAestatit ism of their neighbourhood. The way now'to do good was for every man in his place to give sound instruction ; be cause, to protest against error, without having direct in struction in truth, would never satisfy thinking men. Every man in his place, then—every master in his family —every young man amongst his companions, his brothers and sisters—every clergyman in his church should endea vour now to convey, both by precept and example, a true, sound, scriptural instruction, which was the only safeguard against Popery. (Loud eheere.) Popery could win its way, directly or indirectly, against anything anal every thing except scriptural truth. Armies would not keep it out; and *hat the armies of Paganism filed to do, the Bible, in the hand of Luther, did not fail to do. (Vehe ment applause.) Moreover, he would tell them another thing—a secret, and he would not ask them to keep it either—(hear, hear, and a laugh)—that the public mind, commonly so called, now in England, had got into such a diseased state that it recoiled from truth. They had heard tell of Popery being increased by Evangelical n n o g o e d t h a v nd e e r a y c ra u long two, with a nunnery having been opened near St. that t t w p a e s op s le aid go i t t e -j i y the poor Catholics thought they'd support a nunnery. s jt d ti ( hg iEd eeo( d ia , e s n' h g swu b —i tgt(th' nunnery. iya o gN u . n %h , ' t i th t r e h a 3(rr s ,C ) t — h in i l itih n s p nta d r ui di e aea a sdv r o b e i h ien c fe i lg o n o nh i u g l — bgts ael f eutt o ) g enni . r a ret i .ae o )ocd t s h ph, t p eery, that (Hear, hear, and continued laughter.) The fact was, the public mind was in that diseased state that it recoiled from anything positive; a positive statement of error caused it rather to recoil to the truth ; a positive state ment of truth made it rather inclined to the error; and a everything—that wocb doubtfulowleaurnelek c o n sc i ences. eachh oeeTpry s er t or a yrt to sety , c f m be aue feared h w t dt Noatlshs, Christianity, teach a t cmti l, h asserted they, ,s s trc s h e te r na t e that were nothing a t wasnland love, o question ed that was Christianity now-a-days in England. (Hear, hear. and cheers.) What, then, were they to do? They wanted not to make men in love with popery ; and yet if they spoke of it as the reformers did, as the homilies of the church did, immediately there was a recoil in its favour. Should they hep teach euanaipuseled white, it n nhtrii y, n in dos for t o o r atr d hn e tai th r t ,a t tf h o a rwo t totruomerely Ipeoplemighttdh,ssake to condemn, neithers their e i t p t ruthee o r e pl theye; for readingt thereo d to wase Bible no thing They in their protest iieir against Popery could own tongue. (Applause.) The rev, gentleman proceeded at some further length to inculcate upon the working classes the necessity of early attendance at church upon Sunday mornings, and concluded amid loud cheers. The Rev. THOMAS NOLAN then addressed the meeting at considerable length, in the course of which he referred to the propositions lately propounded in the Times news paper, whereby Humanism would, as he contended, be more firmly established in the sister country. tic also referred to the education afforded at Maynooth, and to the evil influence exercised by the priesthood throughout the length anti breadth of Ireland. The reverend gentle man proceeded to say, in effect, that if the Irish church were put down—if it were deserted by England—it would be a woful day for the empire at large. And he must say, though with pain, vet with candour that the apathy of the English Protestant s h a d b ro u g ht her to the position in which she then stood, and that to England it was owing that Popery in that country had become such as it was. He then took a cursory view of the prominent features of ecclesiastical history from the days of Henry II to the present time, and pointed out in strong language the tyranny of Romanism as exercised by the priests in Ireland, on a confiding people, who were possessed of feelings and sympathies which, were they instructed in the true faith, and not deceived, as they were, would render them a happy, virtuous, and valuable portion of the com munity. (Loud cheers.) Let, he said, Evangelical preachers go amongst the peasantry of Ireland ; let the Church of Ireland have but a fair chance for ten years, and he feared not for the result—which would be the downfal of Popery. He then passed a high and feeling eulogium on the character of their friend and paster, Mr. M'Neile; alluding to his arrival amongst them at a time touched, l.le Rev. but STEPHEN E p i already E Nc 1 t A trespassed next when Protestantism was sorely beset in the town ; to his hoisting high the standard of the true faith ; the obstacles he had met with ; his imdomitable perseverance in the face of immovabe obstocles, and his final triumph i n rendering the cause, and even in changing the character of the Town Council, so that they had now scriptural education for their children, and other blessings. (Cheers.) They must still, however, be wary ; for a change might stayan o d f e s r u ro p i p s or in t. p O H p e e r yw on nuld whichente r h e into ha d some t ex planationsyet yet arrive. They must cleave to their Bible, as their only sure subvert rtsngi in tehur which meeting. o il n i lc th t w h s e ha i se r cheers.) that the church in dlaiismtrestosinsguptnpofirntd; even and some m b e eh n o f ve l d ne them bi nobles so of exertthe a t II i ttr m tecwi eama. Ireland ( as w L ma o aen u snd d toaep a bff n el no d e ir, y r t s e ll repeated of said,tePoperydenounced e ten s : . and to counteract the insidious hind—those who occupied the big i i n ia ,i d ee a d c themselves !lest niems in the state March 5, 1944. evincing an inclination to destroy that church. a et , upon all tru e P ro t es t ants to d e f e ,d t he churc h - -- to the most of their p ower , an d t h roug h h er the hest , and the liberties of their con,try. (Cheers) dff on in an energetic manner or derolnstrate th-ellsl peril, and th e necess i ty o f t h e i r unit i ng t o deprive ii baleful iiitilenoe, adducing a number of facts in sarrLi his argumt-nt ; but we retret that the lateness atm:: prevents us from aff , rding even s sketth of his reit:iglo:o' W. can b u t a dd th at severa l ot h er gentletnen.,_,P pry` in forcible t e rms add resse d t h e meet i ng , which, 3 ".lV ing the dox o l og y, di sperse d , grat ifi e d an d rostra the proceedings of the evening. FRANCE. The Paris Papers of Saturday, bring the of the debate on the affair of Tahiti in the Chen; Deputies on Frid a y, w i t h t h e di v i s i on on the ree ti : t y M. Ducos, " That the Chamber ass t o the order 0:1 day, without approving of the conduct of gin i t e c tri The scrutiny havi ng b een d eman d e d , t h e Chamber' by ballot, when it appeared that there vvere— For the m o ti on 187 Against 03 Majority for Mi n i s t ers . 4 o of This success, which went far b e y on d the anticiP 3P o l, of the most sanguine supporters of the Goverrp and which must have been gratifying to 3 1 • after the scandalous attacks made upon him. The British and North American royal mail A T" ship Caledonia, Captain Lott, sails for Halifax Om ton to-day. 'Pp, To-day a new ves se l, o f a b out 360 tons reg i s ter, ' P O, launched from the shipbuilding-yard of Mr. 1 '• southwest corner of the Brunswick Dock. tM • SlMONY.— Amongst the new wor k s a dver tise d In it!, metropolitan papers we pe rce i ve one entitled „mnom relating to Simony considered, with a view to its res te mt by William Forsyth, Esq., late Fellow of Trinity C° o oo Cambridge. The learned gentleman is a son of Forsyth, Esq., of this town, and is a member e• northern bar. HOUSE WARMING.—We beg to direct the attenti t y o f our readers to the adve r ti semen t o f M r. Harris, Exchange Hotel, whose opening dinner takes Pl et •;10 1 morrow week. The great renown that friend Harr i „ d t obtained in providing exc e ll en t c h eer , f ore t e lls it - 0 0 tuous feast, and his numerous and increasing friend' insue, we doubt not, an excellent attendance. THE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE was last night reoPeej under the management of Messrs. Van Amburg" l yr Sands, with th e w h o l e o f the former gentleman ' s c° 01 tion of animals, and the celebrated American comPe';; l o equestrians. The house was well filled, and the f o ci went off with great &tit; but the grea t pres s s' c ett matter prevents us entering into detail, which, borne we promise to do next week. WATERPROOF LEATHER. --We have been favour e d Mr. J. Russell, of 4, Upper Duke-street, with a seep h ict of sole leather, submitted to a chemi ca l proce ss e'!i renders it comp letely d impervious to damp without init4 its quality or destroying its softness. There is Maser - 0f but this useful invention will entirely supersede thf a of cork soles, as articles to which it is applied $ 1 1:0 much neater, and will c e r t a i n l y muc h more e ffee resist the wet than th ose ma d e o f t h e or di nary m at e , LIVERPOOL ASSOCIATION OF ASSISTANT Tits MEN.—We are gratified to learn that the Earl of 0 0 has placed his name a t th e h ea d o f t h e requ i s i t ion-o'a foot by this association for a public meeting to promote? early closing of the shops. We trust it will be Emma° t y signed ; and, as we know that the Mayor, the clergy s . magistrates, and the greater portion of the wealthy j°l. bitants are favourably disposed towards the accomP, R ; f i ment of this most desirable object, we believe Oats 'L a i full meeting may be anticipated, and we trust that P" good may result from this proceeding. P er _,' THEATRE-ROYAL, WILLIAMSON-SQUARE.—The be formances at this theatre, d ur i ng th e past wee k, t'i p t, consisted of " The Christm as C aro l " an d t h e panto 01 if upon both of which we have commented already , A 0 addition, Mr. Collins, h as a bly susta i ne d a roun d 0(.9 characters. Last evening, Miss H. Gardner mad e r 0 first appearance this seaso n , as Wilh e l rn i na, i n the " 0 of "The Waterman." A press of matter preventego giving more than this outline, but we shall devote to,j space to theatricals next week. The public will be olef, f o to see that Mr. Charles Mathews and Madame Ve r. make their appearance on Friday next. THE MAGAZINES LIFE-BOAT.---011 Friday evED O about six o'clock, some of the crew of the Magq e jt Life-boat, who were, a s usua l, on th e l oo k out, d e sert the sloop on shore at the b ac k o f t h e N orth Bank, secloit flag hoisted at the R oc k Li g h t h ouse. The who le was mustered, and the boat launched as speedily se 1 70 sible. They rowed hard against a strong flood tide 0 1 heavy head sea, an d reac h e d t h e vessel, which they flpe to be in a sinking state, and nearly full of water. 0 $ crew of the Life-boat got on board of her, an d while 0 0 1 of them turned hastily t o pump i ng, the others ras de idoi on the vessel. By this means they succeeded in 1 131 ; ehe y the shore at the Magazines before she went down. Jibs got her on at high water, and w h en th e t id e l e ft her n isi leaks were stopped, and she has since got into dock. Lk sloop was the Rosemont of D u bli n , l oa d e d w ith pot s;0 and having a crew of three pe r s ons . B u t f or the ese r : o idt of the beat's crew, both the hands and the vessel Wu in all probability, have been lost. vivott.i A MOTHER LEAVING HER C HILD IN TE M oo r 4 HOUSE.—A woman named Mary Wilki nson w as ur f r o& before Mr. Rushton yesterday, on a charge of g oiog bje to the Workhouse, and there leaving her child charge.% aw the parish. Mr. Lowndes appeared for the Pa r l s doo,bl thorities, and stated the case, but expressed 501t,00 .. .. , t as t un whether, under the present poor law act u ,,ere Ore s be pshed for deserting it, as she knew it wo:A t e, . - at AA,. t that he agreed with Mr. Lowndes that such conas e d u ct morally wrong. He told the prisoner that her ° n ot was highly culpable, h u t th a t t h e l aw did not a t Pre tbe reach it. There was an act, however, now, before et legislature, and w hi c h wou ld pro b a bl y pass i n to 1014 ., be would reach the offence, and if sh e th en r epeated It 0, would visit her with severe punishment. As it vitr o ll mitted by Mr. Lowndes that the prisoner behare°„ftt, when in the house, and only for g ot h erse lf w hen ottt_ ", e bt it was agreed, on the sugge s ti on o f M r . R us ht o n, th a t' should be again admitted. An officer was accord!" sent with her that establishment. yv My re , THEFT F ROM A D WELLING - HOUSE. — At the l' ° d i t ov court yest er d a y, fi ve young persons, three boys an girls, were placed at the bar. on suspicion of being cerned in stealing a portable writing-desk from a dwellliajj house; but, o n th e case b e i ng gone into, one of the gie and one of th e g i r l s were d i scharged, and the otherrof was taken as a w it ness. Th e case was then heard 8g.a.,"00, ' the remaining t wo , J o h n M aclean and Robert D I t appeared that on Thursday the window of a hous e to Wesly-street had be en left open for a few rainnt' s d permit th e smo k e to escape, when some one had rerle'ro through it and ab s t rac t e d t h e d es k , which was afterliice found i n t h e possession of Mrs. Mack. The girl.'" r, Quick, said th a t w hil e s h e was coming down AI e On 'Thursday, the two prisoners met her with the d e " to told her they had won it at a raffle, and asked h er 3. pawn or s e ll it f or t h em. Sh e agreed, arid took it to •',1,1 Mack's, offering it for sale ; but the latter said she ' ll° ,o have n o money until the morning, and it was left "ioe her. I n f ormat ii on o f t h e robbery had in the meae t e re been give n , an d th e d es k was found. The prisoners ', committed for trial. 0 A MOTHER DESERTING HER Chun.—Yesterd 3 p slend er an d f ee bl e l oo ki ng young woman, named l‘itli Welsh, was placed before Mr. Rushton, charged • Oa having, on Ash Wednesday, left her infant child of ti( e months old, in a basket, at the door step of its Pe t t l o d father. It w a s fou n d by a f ema l e o f t h e neig.hbour; and taken care of. A dec en t l oo ki ng woman sal u e prisoner, some time ago, came to her house as a loVe and was in great poverty and di s t ress . Sh e was confined. Witness, finding her so destitute and m isery f o r made her a bed on six chairs. Prisoner said she 10 bet, some weeks slept in pettics. She also gathered fe l : iv eo about 55., and her ( witensse's) acquaintances also he r e her by sending things to her. On Ash WednesdaY, for went out saying she would go to Manchester and se e k er. work, work, and that she would leave the child with its o ,` t is She went out taking the child with her and a bas l ;`,3o which she had a few articles. She came back and rlO she had !eft it w ith t h e f at h er. Witness added th3"1,05‘ prisoner said she was a s i ng l e woman, an orphan switwoot friends, and that the father of the child was a joiner' yet out of his ti me , an d w h o li ved in Mayor-place, ''bso lington-street. The p r i soner, on b eing asked what sh e t sb to say, said, that poverty made her do it, and 0 9 , 1 0 0 , had no th ing to su p por t t h e child upon. Mr. 11.° s a d said she ought to have applied at the parish offjqj she she would have re ce i ve d re li e f. Th e prisoner I d d 1 , 0 5 had done so twic e ,— once , a wee k b e f ore t h e Ch i tha t j born, and again, three week s a ft er it was born, ;be d she was told nothing could be done for her, Of o r they had before, n o a n r d c c not belong to Liverpool.—M r . R us ht on sent 0' Evans and Mr. Gray, and repeated the priaonefg „ t oil ths t b 6 certainly did not apply to the m . Th e prisoner so',ierl' y did not see them. but a c l er k. M r. Evans said the.; Oil the b t hprisoner said t h had no authority to g i ve a rep l y.-11 Ir. Rushton 531; had olle : be of prisoner must be indict e d. If t h ese women had not it i! went to the m .e v seener he more tenderness fo r th e c hild t h an she had her self a i might have perish e d. Sh e f a d thrown the hurt" —n 0 5 its support on one of them, and must go for trial• added that the father must be found and made to paw LIVERPOOL TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1844. 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