The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-25 00:00:00

THE EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS. The Exhibition improves upon inspectian. We grow more and more pleased with it the more we criticise it. The pre- sent Exhibition is a strong proof of the value and benefit of such an institution, in the improvement of taste, and in lead ing to an improved cultivation of the fine arts. The number of good paintings in the present Exhibttion is tenfold that of preceding Exhibitions. Iu the former Exhibitions, a good picture might be said to be the exception—the rule, as to paintings being barely passable, and sad trash. Now the case is altered, and good paintings may safely be pronounced to be the rule. No. 21. •` Highland Gillie restraining two Deer Hounds until tke wounded Hart breaks from the Herd," is a good picture, boldly and well drawn. The dogs are exceedingly well and spiritedly painted. The scenery strikes us as too craggy and broken. No. 22. " A Halt on the Fells. Cumberland," is one of Cooper's best and happiest efforts. Apart from his known excellence as a cattle painter, the whole scene is beautifully and aatarally drawn, and the colouring is exquisite. It re presents a halt of bullocks and sheep on the fells, to rest and refresh them, and the peasantry arriving with pails, to bargain with the drovers for the milk. The bull and cow in the foreground are beautiful specimens of animal painting. The blue misty appearance thrown over the background scenery and the distant hills, is exceedingly fine. Altogether, this is a very splendid painting, and a great ornament to the Exhibition. No. 23. " View of the Upper Lake of Killarney, Ireland," is one of Williamson's beautifully finished paintings of fairy like scenery. It represents a lovely landscape view, which is so exquisitely finished—has such a soft mellowness of ap pearance, that it is more perfect than nature. It is line to a fault. No. 24. " View on the Forth, Stirlingshire," is a well painted and well chosen landscape scene, by Miss Jane Na smyth. The style is easy and natural, and the colouring good. No. 25. " Forest Scene," by Deane, represents a forest scene in autuinn's„varied garb. It is well painted, but the colouring is rather gay and glaring. No. 26. " Near Elastings—Sunset." The light and the reflection of the setting sun on the water are well managed. The sun, however, can hardly be called ". setting," as it is in this painting represented a good hour above the horizon. No. 27. " Curlers." This represents a winter scene on the ice in Scotland, and a number of men actively engaged is the game of " curling." This is a game peculiar to Scot land, and the spirit of it is barely understood by us Souther ners south of the Tweed, by whom it is not practised. If the painting gives a fair idea of the game, it would appear to be one of great interest and excitement, and one that seems to warm the blood of old men engaged in it. The game is similar to the English game of bowls. It is played on the smooth and slippery ice with round kettles, the handle of which is at the top, and the kettle is made to spin round on the ice, and is projected to a mark at some distance: each Player being armed with a whisk, anxiously sweeps away every particle of ice from the smooth surface, which can stop its onward " curling" to the mark. The painting is beauti fully drawn, and is full of spirit and character, and there is a L eautifel glow of colouring over it. Altogether, it is a sweat Nintinz. NO. ( 2S. " Ilindostanee Nautch during the great annual festival at Modlali, with the tame tiger of the city of Hyder abad, i n t h e Deccan, East Indies." This painting represents a rnotley group of Eastern figures, assembled under one of the magnificent East Indian forest trees. There is touch fine colouring in it; but to us the background seems flat—it seems wanting in perspective and confined—indeed, it ap- Pears like a painting on canvas. There is a warmth of co inuring about the whole, which distinguishes it as one of Havell's paintings. Ng. 29. " Portrait of Ms. Nesbet, s neighbour Con- stanc e , in Sheridan Knowles' r Comedy t a of the Love Chase,' " is a highly finished and beautiful painting of a very beautiful and accomplished woman. No. 30. " The Light of the Harem," is an indifferent, gaudy picture, representing a Mussulnian reclining on cus hions. and a fair Circassian serving hint with coffee. No. 31. " A Hunting Scene," is a small, well finished Painting of a mounted huntsman in the foreground, and .hounds breaking cover in the distance. No. 32, " Scene near Shrewsbury," is a well painted snatch from nature of the beautiful scenery of the midland counties. It is placed too high for so small a painting, to be fully appreciated. A 0 • 33. " Landscape —Evening," is a pretty miniature snatch of scenery. Nei. 34. " Looking at the Procession," is a very indifferent painting, representing some children or ladies looking out of winder: at a procession. The idea is commonplace, and that is ant redeemed by its execution. Na. 35. " Still Life," is a feather painting of dead game. Rather a misstruner. Ne. 36. " A Fresh Breeze," is a sketchy miniature sea Painting, of small pretensions. Ne. 37. '' Sunset," is a very small, but exquisitely beau tiful landscape scene, with the tints of sunset upon it, by Havel!. It has alre.idv beer: sold. 39. " Winning the Game," is an exceedingly beauti ful painting. It represents an aristocratic-looking room, before the time of carpets. The carved wainscot, and the Polished oak floor, and the stained glass windows, with he raldic symbols, are beautifully painted. The room is strewed about With a number of little elegant luxuries. In the fore ground the aged lord and lady of the mansion are engaged Playing chess, and the lady is looking with - a quiet, yet tri uitiphant smile, at her puzzled and thoughtful opponent, as "" is giving the move which wilt check-mate him. In the ?,Ckgruund, a voting gallant, dressed in the gay trappings of , times, is paying particular attentions to one of the daugh ters, whilst her sister, svholhas considerately moved to a dis tance, is quizzing and slily watching them. Altogether, it is a very beautiful painting. "The Lonely Watch," represents an Arab, watching outside his teat. It is well and freely drawn. No. 41, Troutbeck, near Ambleside," is one of those kiautely fi nished and luxuriant specimens of many-tinted v egetation which distinguish Haven's style from his con teugorariss. 0 - 42. " Edinburgh, f ro m Greyfriars Church-yard," is well drawn, hut sketchy as a 'minting. NO. 43. " Fl owers , f ru it, i nsec t s , & c ." Thi s i s a n exqui 1141Y finished paintin g of fl owers , & c ., by M r . Willia m Bur ar4d. It is one of thoselpaintings which requires close exa ani4ation and attention to appreciate its full merits. There Ira souls green leaves amongst the flowers, the veining and !haling of which are b eau tif u l : Th e co l our i ng o f some o f t h e dowers is also very fine. On a pear there is a large blue bottle fly, which looks like a nerfect reality. A drop of water bent fane of the flowers, ton, is a triumph of art. A hay straw downwards, is a chef d' neurre of imitation. No. 46. " Portrait of a Child," is a sketchy daub, repre senting a delicate child and a rocking horse. No. " Scene in Gunton Park, Norfolk," is a coarsely Painted, badly coloured forest scene. CORRESPONDENCE. ST. PAUL'S WARD, TO TIIP, EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. 81 w.— Your inserting the following facts will confer an o ra . h o li n gat n i t o . n on one w h o h as from his infancy to his present shared in the adversity and prosperity of th,e_Cou serrative caus e , A CORRESPONDEN , 1 . . BlR t — Kuowing to burst the b d .3'be ever ready to resent injustice, s ot t yranny, and represent the injuries of those who are guided by a f 1 . izainst a tharngies3 and factious ing of manly independence' Reformers of Liverpool, who sa d eclare w that re their primary he there is no object a disi n t erested struggle for the people's rights. The people's right s i n d eed ! Away with such whining sophistry, when it has in nurnbeiless instances been clearly proved that the hackneyed ruotto is but a bait used to delude and to slecoe, Without any further preface, let us come at once to the facts of the case. In the first place, I would respectfully draw your attention to the period when the gentlemen who no w wield the civic or town-council influence were out of office —,,,hen they thought it hard, very hard, cruel in the Aareme, that th e l ate common council of Liverpool should been a self-elected body, and thought it vile that the voice of the people was not the lever by which the vacant Vats of h onour were titled or renewed. ' All this, Sir, must tyir try fresh in time recollections of those who never coveted anneal blister," the shape of mu n i c ip a l re f o rm, at I)"Lit in it s present shape, which has been conceded to the : ° Ple as a nat i ona l b oon ; and it cannot he forgotten how t h e " 'liberal " press thundered forth its remon ati:"eee, denouncin g in the strongest terms, with feelings b e most vena l , because a leaning was shown to those who .h* of the same politi c s as th e th en common counc il . B ut the mi g h ty c h ange! What say they now ? Is there head ▪ 1 ""jog, arty alteration in their sentiments on • this is P As Jonathan would say, I guess there is. I wonder there any similarity between this race of perfection and Iry I" Pe ent•Whig ministry—full of retrenchment, justice to k.; Sa d, liberty,. freedom, short parliaments, vote by ballot, Will in the civil.list, no placemen, and about fifty more , ss se/ien out V power but now that these i t " Ws are in power, what. To use a vulgar phrase, they di mum : their memory rather bad, their eye-sight rather lit their mind's eye pearled, their judgment altered, their v f eeiings frosied, their means straitened, indeed their erili everything altered. • 4 " i ng over this subject for the present, I would further ,o._}hese puritans, these professed sticklers for the public protecto rs of vested rights, or rather usurpers over that ecuted body, the licensed victuallers of Liverpool—lf 40 '7 vrisre weighed in the balances of justice between man l ec ,„ n 'all, where would they be? My humple opinion is, ri t ,;",ll- And if men will not blind themselves to the inju willeY hare sustained, and their future interests, a tale hill Peels told these usurpers on the Ist of November next, tool t r i n lPaels these liberals men's noses tire not to be held he h e , -4 , i ng-sten e without knowing reasons why, or at least ,r_. l 3F such gentle treatment in mind. „ . apart th is innovating system, 1 charge the liberal 4 , 4 ▪ _ O l the council of Liverpool, in the next place, with the car ry glaring partiality, because they have endeavoured to ksti, glarin g the full extent, that line of conduct they so scecondemned in thei r p re d ecessors; sure ly th e mos t A,:j" r e will not quest i on that ?—for those who run may read. ilp et :;tglert, without fear of c on t ra di c ti on , th a t th e y have je t t , 1 4 every lib era l can did ate w h om the peop l e h ave re ,al. to the snore honorary o pst of an alderman, whenever ''',i(•", h ey' has occurre d , in very defiance of those whose to st ' l pretend to hear, an d whose interests they profess re„t ie Nttheti and to guar d. Oh, s h ame on suc h hyp o crisy! ri,j,i4re *haute to those who will tamely yield to he thus 4 u,i, eit c)‘;er rough-sh o d by suc h i nsu lti ng and tyrannical It • that 1)e s a id h ow can you avo id i t? M y answer is— ay, People w h om t h ey h ave every thing but spat u_pon, si r• thou' the means of chastising this tyrant majority. Yes, 4 le itn have now a rod in their hands; but how will . the}i t , 1 ;41 t•\.-.ann--that is the question; perhaps, although convince( y does prevail, and that the liberals have not Jl l ,l i , 'en. duty, yet there are haps, some scrapings of pre pat:: h eft, and they may ,user the rod, like a too indulgent fo ld vfould Over an erring child, and when it is too late, I `;e lir fond infatuation, he has made a rod to whip himself. `44i.l`"ear with me a moment longer, and let us lake one t'r. instance, say St. Pauli. On the first municipal t), Mr. Stuart was one of the three candidates for St. b P r w ard, a n d i t was the peonle's pleasure that he should y e s toil • but th ese wily c'reatures of the council-room biiiitothahail not reject Mr. Stuart, and, consequently, elect ti ty ce,more honorary post of an alderman. as ,li‘oeirLitinstances occur that places St. Paul's ward minus t e , , / ,, t y,illen a greater part of the year. Now, mark how ~e xl i u l ll ' the inhabitants of St. Paul's ward are treated The ensuing November election arrives, and Mc on,, who perhaps, Sir F. Burdett would Ri PiAmire ; and be it known, this gentleman, considers it degrading to his dignity, or hee l a matter of gre ' at condescension, to petition the , ranel i of the legislature, the 'louse of Lords.— '' .ll, ‘ ll 'Peech at the meeting of the Reform Association, s Peakin • t • • • f for Ireland.) Well, , thi s g mun i c ipal refo rm ‘hq the rush gentleman is a candidate for Scotland ward, equ i , e 7 electors feel it their pleasure to eject him from the • but wh at t he urm vott shal l say . Town-council to this? It is our kljni not reject Mr. Shiel, and they take and ' 4 41 1 v 'oren Our throats, in the room of Mr. Alderman •u(l• • , CPx who 11), !I ~ would ask any man . has a spark of r unt s ,,, his blood does not boil with the most con ts i ndiLtnation at such conduct ? hl Pat "°- are more dirty tricks vet. On the first muni '"lecii A'ieieceilin on for St. Paul's Ward, the polling-booth was i it most convenient and central part of the war d , sleCti,Mother's, Earle -street, but, on the followi ng ativ,a2 cause Mr. Mather had consented to allow the con - HE siCh th e to O ccupy his parlour for their com mittee-room, v e it radicals had t h e time before, they (the radicals) toe / 4 . l ,, ° ,.'nFvPd; w h ere would you think gentle reader? (and 4 " Gave obteined th e consent of the Mayer for it) only next door but two to the reformers' committee-room, and within a few yards from one extreme part of the ward. Here is reform, here you have justice and liberality, ye 'people, the very quintessence of it, but if any person would assert it to be such, in its true literal meaning, I would un hesitatingly assert it to be a measureless falsehood. Reform, indeed! why it would be scarcely possible that there could he a greater burlesque, or a word more bucked or gibbetted. Oh, if the tories had been guilty of such base transactions ! all Pownall-square, (the sink of radicalism) and hell itself would have gaped together, nay, the very stones would have left their resting p laces with maddening revenge ! Yet, we " poor tory wretc hes" have had to put up with it like dumb dogs. But, I trust, the time is not far distant, when we shall be able to exterminate these reforming radicals for ever, at least, in this ward. Leaving these honourable representatives of the people to digest these subjects at their earliest conveni ence, and reconcile them to reform and their consciences. I would respectfully, but 'earnestly appeal to the conservative duplicate voters of the ward to lead us on to that victory which awaits us—we are in their hands—and who will doubt, but that they will discharge a moral duty they owe to the town, to society, to themselves, their families, and posterity, as becomes men who are determined to burst the bonds of a tyrant, and radical faction.—Yours, truly, A DICKEY SAM. THE NEW LICENSES. TO 7HE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND4RD. Ste,—ln reading over your valuable paper of this day, I am happy to see that you have taken the licensing system up. I am convinced that some have been granted to individuals, and in situations, where there were none wanting, and to the great injury of tradesmen, oito have paid large sums of mo ney for their licenses. There is one case in particular that I wish you to notice. Perhaps you are not aware that the magistrates have given a new license to one of the Corpora tion servants. I will just describe the situation, and then you will be able to judge how some of them have been dis posed of. When 1 heard that this man had got a license, I took the liberty to survey the neighbourhood where he lives, and to my surprise I only found four houses in the street, with stabling belonging to the houses on the south side of -- square. horned the corner of the street, which is about 40 yards long, and saw a public-house within a stone's throw. lam quite at a loss to know what occasion there was for a new license in this obscure place. Perhaps one of the worthy councillors of the ward will be able to throw some light on the subject, as I hear that this same man lived as a servant with him. 1 hope the councillor will give him a hint to resign his situation. If he does not, I hope our worthy mayor will. Formerly, when an) corporate servant thought of embarking in the. public line, he was compelled to resign his situation immediately, though perhaps he was about to pay from 200 to £3OO for his license. But this man seems to think they cannot compel him to resign. I hope if he is allowed to retain his place, that some independent member of the council will bring this matter before the next monthly meeting. I am, Mr. Editor, your's, &c. A CONSTANT READER. RAILWAY TIMES AND THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAN'D.4RD. Sta,—l am greatly interested in the progress of railways, and particularly in the Great Western line, which has been so roughly handled and condemned by the Railway Times— a paper professing to be edited in an impartial spirit, and originally introduced for the purpose of giving every legiti mate support to the railway system. It has been the practice of this paper to write with specious ability against the en gineer, the directors, and the principle upon which - the Great Western Railway is constructed; and whilst it gives publicity to every article to its prejudice, written principally to serve stock-jobbing purposes, it has studiously avoided and sup pressed every communication favourable to the line. The Editor has, accordingly, been gravely charged with being influenced by unworthy motives, either as a speculator or a paid agent; and by a reference to the last number of that paper, it would appear, that there is much truth in the ac cusation. It will be seen that there is, for the first time, an advertisement of the Great Western Railway Company, and, for the first time, there is not a single word said against the railway, though we have been promised for weeks past, some further exposure of its demerits. This, Sir, speaks volumes for the animus of the writer, and shows ow unfairly the public may be misled, and brought to sacrifice their property. I am happy to say, (although I am not insensible of the errors that have been committed in the construction of the Great Western Railway,) that I have not been one of the alarmed, for I have ever been sanguine that it has merits to carry it over all difficulties, and place it among the best rail way property in the kingdom; but I know many of our townsmen who, not having troubled themselves to detect the illogical deductions of the writer in the Railway • Times, or who have not been to view and judge for themselves of the merits of the line, have been induced to sell out at a ruinous sacrifice ; and it is to prevent the further spread of this in fluence that I offer these remarks, which by your insertion may serve the public and will oblige—Yours. &c., SCRUTA'rOR. September 24th, 1838. THE AIKINITES AGAIN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND.4RD, SIR, —Knowing you to be a friend of true religion, I may naturally infer you are opposed to hypocrisy, in whatever shape it appears. An assumption of godliness—the outer cloak of sanctity, often covers a heart of uncharitableness. I beg leave to call your attention to the following instance of Methodistical sanctimoniousness. On - Sunday °veiling. last I went with a friend, for the purpose of hearing the Rev. Mr. Aikin, in his chapel, in Hope-Ntreet: hut upon finding it was the Mr. Bromley who occupied the pulpit, we were pre paring to leave the chapel in as quiet a manner as possible (having sat at the door): but the officious piety of an indi vidual in the congregation prevented oar carrying our design into execution. Ile jumped from his seat, and closing the door, demanded, in a most impertinent tone, what we meant by daring to leave the chapel in the middle of such an excel lent discourse ? (The excellence was a matter of opinion.) Now, Sir, I had always imagined that so as the congregation was not disturbed, an individual had the right of leaving any place of worship. But it appears that the liberality of a mo dern Methodist will not allow a person to leave a chapel when he hears what, in his ignorance, he considers a piece of ihodomontade and fustian.—Your's, &c. A LOVER OF TRUE RELIGION. SHAREHOLDERS IN RAILWAYS. 7'O THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STrIND4RD. Sin,—Since the appearance of W. M.'s able letter, (in serted in your valuable paper of Friday last.) exposing part of the system adopted by the London and Liverpool Stock Jobbers, of fleecing the unwaary Shareholders in Railways, a considerable improvement has taken place in the prices of the various respectable lines. lam glad to see that W. M. is determined to follow up the expose, because he is protect ing the property of the hottest and bona fide holder of tail way scrip, against the vulture-like rapacity of the railway gamblers. I have been told, that if the holders of railway shares (and I believe it from W. M.'s letter,) would stick to them through good and bad report till next February, that we should see the London Gazette contain the names of many of these railway sharks who have been feeding upon the vitals of the weak and timid. One of these voracious fish made a bite at me to-day, but. having read " Waterton's Natural History," and " W. M.'s" promise to attack them again, I knew how to evade them. Both of the above writers say, "Be firm, never mind paltry stories, and you will protect your own property." It is said that infinitely more railway shares have been sold for next month and the month of January than could be delivered, unless prices can be driven down; and, this being the case, if the holders will only hold on, they will raise their own property to such a level as it should occupy in the scale of prices. I remain, with great respect, Your most obedient servant, WILL WATCH, Shareholder. 24th Sept. 1838. POSTING BILLS ON THE SUNDAY TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST47VD4RD. SIR,--I trust von will notice in your paper the practice often followed in Liverpool, viz., that of posting bills on the walls on the Sabbath-day. Yesterday I saw men engaged in posting four large bills—one front the Zoological Gardens, announcing a grand fete; another, the Conjuror's perform ance at the Liver; a third, Cooper's benefit at the Royal; and the fourth was issued by the County Building Society. I have noticed this desecration of the Lord's-day for some time, and foolishly hoped our reforming Town-council would have put a stop to so flagrant an outrage on the decency of the religious portion of our townsfolk. I beg to observe, that these men were pursuing their vocation while people were proceeding to their places of worship.—l am, &c., G. M September 24, 1838. [We feel convinced that the fault of which our correspon dent so justly complains is attributable to the bill-posters, and not to the parties by whom they are employed, as all such bills must be printed at an early hour on Saturday.— E. L. S.] TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sits,—ln consequence of the numerous observations which have emanated from the Radical press against the Conserva tive body ofSt. Paul's Ward, leading the public to believe, that the objections have been made vexatiously; the following statement is considered necessary to refute the culumny. Previous to the last municipal election, the Radicals made about 130 frivolous and vexatious objections to Conservative voters to this ward, which put them :o considerable inconve nience, particularly the pilots. Therefore the Conservatives not knowing the intentions of the Radicals this year as to this disgraceful system, first adopted by the Radicals, and permitted by law, the Conservatives were compelled to act i❑ the manner they have done purely on the defensive. I am, Sir, yours truly, A CONSERVATIVE ELECTOR. DETERMINED Suicion.—On TuesdAS: morning, the 18th instant, an inquest was held at the White Lion Inn, Holt, on the body of Mr. John Parry, farmer, late of rata-dutton, in the parish of Holt, who on the previous day was found dead at the mouth of a brook, which empties itself into the Dee, by some boatmen. The deceased had a rope bound round his body, at one end of which a large stone 92Ibs weight, was se curely attached; and also a neck handkerchief twrown over the top of his hat and tied under his chin. It appears from the evidence of Mrs. Parry, his wife, that he left. home on the morning of Tuesday, the 31st ult. to go to Mr. Jones's of Ridleywoud, in order to clean a clock, a profession he had of late taken up. He, however, came to Ilolt, and about four o'clock of the same day, he was met by a person carrying hay, of whom he enquired if that was the.last load, and he was answered in the affirmative. It is supposed he went a short distance, where a quantity of large red stones lay about forty yards from the place where he was found; and that he carried the stone which was found attached to him, and made it secure, and then committed selfdestruction. Verdict, "the deceased drowned himself in a state of temporary derange ment." He has left a most industrious wile and tour small children to depltrre their loss. THE MUNICIPAL LISTS. The Overseers' Lists of Burgesses entitled to vote in the different wards have been published, in pursuance of the act of Parliament. The list of persons claiming. to be placed on the Burgess Roll, as well as the list of persons on the roll objected to, have also been published. The following table has beers constructed front the respective lists:— No. of Burgesses. Claims. Objections. 1 Everton Ward, 1837. 1838. 1837. 1838. 1837. 1838; Evertongownship.. 493..5.38.. 11.. 5.. 75.. 47 Kirkdale Ditto. 192..206.. 6.. 3.. 49.. 26 2 Scotland r.. 552..550.. 9.. 0.. 80.. 30 3 Vauxhall .. 298..355.. 3.. 1.. 96.. 66 4 St. Paul's 394..468.. 7.. 11.. 171.. 163 5 Exchange 6 Castle-street 690..685.. 5.. 3.. 17.. 18 7 St. Peter's . 634..630.. 8.. 14.. 38.. 105 8 Pitt-street 9 Great G..ore 424..334.. 6.. 2.. 309.. 48 10 Rodney-str eet 5'30..651.. 3.. 6.. 62.. 81 11 Abercromby. 580..685.. 16.. 12.. 180.. 349 12 Lime-street 13 St. Anns 308..490.. 3.. 5.. 8•1•• 81 14 West Derby 15 South Toxteth 318..371.. 2.. 4.. 158.. 38 16 Nortlauteth 700..720.. 6.. 6.. 92.• •37 8373 9138 141 95 2023 1322 Increase in 1838 over 1837—,765 REMOVAL OF THE HAYMARKET, A public meeting of the inhabitants of Toxteth-park, con vened by requisition, was held in the Public-office yesterday, for the purpose of petitioning the Common Council relative to the proposed removal of the Haymarket; Mr. Henry Lucas in the chair. The following resolutions were unani mously agreed to, and a memorial prepared for presentation:— " That it is the opinion of this meeting that, in conse quence of the removal of the Haymarket limn its present site to the northern section of the borough, it is become es sentially necessary, fur the wants and conveniences of the densely populated districts of Toxteth-park, and the whole of the central and southern parts of the town, that the Hay market should be established in the immediate neighbour hood of this township. It was unanimously resolttd,—That the memorial now read be signed by the chairman, on behalf of the meeting, and presented to the council at their next meeting, by W. Wallace Currie, Esq., and that the aldermen, and other members of the council, be respectfully requested to support its prayer. " To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Mem►bers of the t'umnlon Council, in Council assembled. - " The memorial of the inhabitants of the extra parochial place of Toxteth-park, " Humbly shweetit, " That your memorialists have learned that the Haymarket is to be removed from its present site to the northern part of the town. "That your memorialists most respectfully represent that while the wants and conveniences of the inhabitants of the northern district of the borough would be greatly facilitated by such an arrangement, the absence of a haymai ket in the neighbourhood of St. James's Market will be severely felt. " That your memorialists, trusting to the spirit of your Honourable Council, which has invariably been employed in favouring the real wants and conveniences of the inhabitants of the borough, respectfully solicit your worshipful body to appoint a site for a new hay market in the immediate vicinity of this township. And your memorialists will everpray. " ( Signed on behalf of the Meeting.) " HENRY LUCAS, Chairman." The thanks of the meeting were then voted to the chair man, and the meeting separated. CEREMONY OF LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION STONE OF CHRIST CHURCH NATIONAL SCHOOL. Yesterday the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the intended national school in connection with Christ Church, was gone through at twelve o'clock. The site of the intended building is in Christian-street, near to Christ Church, where an old house has been pulled down for the purpose. In the foundation a platform was erected for the accommodation of the ladies, about 200 of whom were assembled to witness the ceremony ; the rest of the ground was occupied by about 250 children, belonging to Christ Church Sunday School, and by several hundred spectators. Over the foundation stone a banner was erected with the inscription—" Christ Church Sunday School, March 4th, 1838." Several Union Jacks and other flags floated in the breeze over the beads of the spectators. In the centre of the ladies' platform a table was placed, from which the Rev. Fielding Ould, the respected minister of Christ Church, read a portion of the communion set vice, the children responding. After offering up an ap propri4te prayer, the Rev. Hugh M`Neile read several pas sages from the book of Proverb; after which he addressed those assembled as follows:—Men and brethren, friends and fellow-townsmen, I congratulate you this morning. Here is a scene cheering to every eye, animating to every heart ; but especially a scene well calculated to touch the best feel ings of every parent, and to minister the most quickening encouragement to the Christian pastor. My reverend brother, (turning to the Rev. Fielding Ould,) I congratulate you. When you first entered upon the enterprise of procur ing a school in the immediate neighbourhood of your church, many were the obstacles which stood in your way. It seemed difficult to procure the necessary funds; it seemed impossible to obtain a suitable site or piece of ground. Many persons would have desponded under the difficulty : their heads would have hung down; their spirits would have drooped, and driven by their forebodings into despondency and supine ness, their fears, their inactivity, would have accomplished the failure which their apprehensions indicated. Very dif ferent has your case been. You saw the difficulties, but you were determiuertnofto yield to them. You had no notion of being overcome, if I understand you aright (hear, hear). 'You grappled with. them; you saw your high duty, ar.d you entered upon it trusting in God. God has prospered your zeal; the funds have been obtained, the piece of ground has been procured, we are all witnesses to that, (a laugh) and now you are able to step there (to the foundation) and lay the foundation stone of a scriptural school house (cheers). Thanks be to God. You have requested me to address your assembled friends on this occasion; and how can I better do it than by reminding them, especially the parents of the children of this district, who may be here present, that your work is for their good, and the good of their dear children in time and for eternity. You desire to teach their children the word of God. Now "in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God." The word of God is Jesus Christ—the living word. The bible, the written word, is the testimony of Jesus Christ. The tes timony of Jesus Christ is the Spirit; that is the true mean ing of every prophecy, every type, every narrative, every parable. Jesus Christ is the only way to God; the way of communication with God which man had when be was first created, and which I suppose all men would have had if no man had ever sinned. That way is shut up ; sin caused a breach in it; no man can pass it; the communication is broken. Compare it to a chain. There was a chain in the hands of the Creator, and in the links of this golden chain, man, amongst other creatures was caught, and held in con nection with God. Sin snapped the chain, and down fell the man. The holy links in the hand of the holy God, are up as high as holiness; and the fallen links that clung around the heart of man are down as low as corruption. Who shall re link the chain ? Who shall re-bind man to his Maker? Sin broke it; who shall mend it? To what forge can the chain be brought that it may be re-linked together? The dead weight falls front the living hand and there it is. Down it is, anti down it must remain, unless the living band follows it to lift it up. N - ow the living hand followed it to lift it up in the incarnation of the word of God. God came down and laid hold of man in the womb of the living Mary. The incarnation is the re-linking of the chain ; the way, the only way for fallen man to come to God. Nature cannot bring him, for nature is fallen along with hint. The external world cannot teach hint ; the external world is blotted along with him. The planet he inhabits cannot re store him to his Maker, for the planet is fallen with him that had the charge of it. All that it contains was entrusted to Adam: "Have thou dominion over all, said the Lord." And God dealt with the world on this head—when Adam fell, his kingdom fell. The world is fallen; nature is fallen; the beasts are fallen, and tear one another, instead of living in harmony, as they did in the garden of Eden. Their in stincts are against one another; some made now—or rather unmade—so as to tear others; one creature living upon the torture of others; th e f oo d o f one being the flesh of another. We ourselves have become carniverous animals, through the sin of our first father; and the poor sheep and the poor cow must bleed in anguish unto death, that man, the head of the fallen creation, may gratify his appetites, and live.' The world, then, cann o t b r i ng us b ac k to God. ' Philosophy in all its branches must let it alone for ever. Jesus Christ is the way. Therefore, in our scriptural sc hools, we give Jesus Christ the precedence; we don't have him for one hour after we have spent our day at philosophy (cheers), but we have him first. He is the Alpha, that is the first letter in the alphabet, and lie is the Omega, that is the last letter of the alphabet; and the Bible calls him " the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, that was, and is, and,is to cone , '' Ilse Almighty, the glorious Saviour of fallen sinners, (Cheers.) This, then, is the way of God, and this is what we teach children in scriptural schools. But mark, it is not only the way, and the only way, but Jesus Christ is the per fect way to God. He needs no help, no brother man to guide. For mark what he did. How far did the living hand descend in order to seize upon the fallen links? Did he descend only to a certain distance, and from thence call upon the dead chain to rise and meet him? Did he descend only within a certain range, and elevate some fellow creature to come, and be the intermediate link between him and the fallen ones? Why, how could any fallen creature rise above the fallen creature, so as to be the intermediate link? No; the Lord God descended, and laid hold of the substance of a woman, the seed of Abraham, the seed of David—" he was made of a woman, made under the law,"—that is, He came down the whole way, and laid hold of the fallen flesh of fallen man. He took it, indeed, without sin; but he took it. He did not stand where fallen man was, and call on him to come up and meet Him. He must come down all the way. But still there was a gap between them. He did come down all the way, and was incarnate of the Holy Ghost by the Virgin Mary. The power of the Holy Ghost came upon her; the Lord God overshadowed her; and therefore the holy thing born of her was called the Sou of God. Here is the perfect ie-linking of the Son of God with fallen man. He took our nature with all its frailties, sin only excepted. We want not his mother to stand between him and us: we want not an angel to stand between hint and us: we want not a sinner to stand between him and us. Nothing can be nearer to us than he is; our brother, flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone, while at the same time very God of very God; so near to God, that none can be nearer; so near to man, that none can be nearer. He is the perfect, as well as the only way to God. Thus, while on the one side we exclude philosophy in bringing us to God, on the other side we exclude Popery from helping Jesus Christ to bring us to God. This is what we teach. I am bold and honest to tell you, because I would not wish any one to bring any child under a mistake to our schools; and if I understand your minister aright, I speak his sentiments when I tell you plainly and freely that we are open, decided, bold, uncoinpromising, enemies of both unitarianism and popery. (Cheers.) Now, there is no mis take. (A laugh.) If you send your childern, you know what you send them to be taught—the Lord Jesus Christ. Further, in teaching the Lord Jesus Christ; we are teaching them first of all the love of God, who first loved them, We love him because he first loved us, and the proof of his love is the giving of his 8011. Therefore, in teaching them Jesus, the way to God, we are teaching them the love of God, and therein all that belongs to the devotional part of a christiah's character, particularly prayers, reading the scriptures, with all the tenderness that marks the man who walks with God. And, secondly, in teaching them Jesus, we teach them the love of men, for whom Christ died,'and therein we teach them truth, that they speak the truth one to another, be cause they are brethren for whom Christ died. We teach them honesty, that none of theist shall go beyond and de fraud another, because that the Lord Jesus Christ is the avenger of all; and we teach them purity, delicacy, that no evilcommunication shall proceed out of their mouths. We want no further motive than the love of Jesus for teaching all this, because it inspires the love of man. 'We teach them also sobriety—sobriety to put a check upon their evil pas sions, upon their appetites, upon their desires of sensual in dulgence. 'Here is the true source of sobriety and love of man, derived from the love of Christ. We teach them purity in all their conduct ; we teach them gentleness in all their tempers; here are the operations of the Christian cha racter, which show themselves amongst men. Thus, in teaching Jesus, we are teachin the way to God—the only and the perfect way. We are teaching the love of God with all the devotional virtues; we are teaching the love of man, with ail the moral virtues—morality and sobriety, because it emanates from the love of Jesus Christ, the only morality that is acceptable to God. This is what we teach the children entrusted to our school. We originate no inferior motives; we bind them by no pledge to any duty, except the pledge of love to Jesus. We do not make ourselves ac countable to any secondary motives; we invite them to be under the influence of the highest motives of all. And now, what do we want ? We want just the cordial co-operation of their parents; we want you to take care of them at home as we do at school; we want you to show them a good example, to be sober in their presence—to be chaste ir. your conversa tion before them. l'o be watchful in your conduct, to act as an example to your children; we want you to second us. We want you to be your best friends in forming the charac ters of your children. And men and brethren, let me en treat you to give us your interest for your own children. Who are your best friends? The ministers of God. Help us then. We condescend to be beggars at your door, in or der to do you good ; it is not to do ourselves a portion of good that we take th e ease flow' yourselves to form the cha racters of your child ren, it i s to d on you good. We rise early, and striv e in our secret c h am b ers , in prayers and rea soning in our pulpit s , an d a ll to d o you g ood. It is for your own sakes that we b eseec h you b y e mercy of God, to atat tend and do your se l ves g before him, and that lie had ood.—After expressing h i s grati fication at witnessing the scene attended, the Rev. G ent l eman conc l u d e d amidst loud ap plause. The ceremony of covering and laying the foundation stone was then gone through. As soon as it reached its final destination, the crowd gave three hearty cheers. After this a hymn was sung, and then the National Anthem " God save our gracious queen." The assembled crowd then quietly dispersed, POLICE INfELLIGENCE. EMBEZZLEMENT.—A boy between sixteen and seventeen years of age was on Thursday brought up before Mr. Hall, charged with having embezzled a large sum of money from his employer, Mr. Whitehouse, agent for the West of Eng land hire and Life Assurance Company; but, in consequence of an insufficiency of evidence, he was remanded until the following day. On Friday, he was again placed at the bar, and Mr. Bourne attended to prove that he had paid to the clerk of Mr. Whitehouse, on Wednesday, his insurance ac count, which became due on the 19th, and amounted to £36. 15s. As he was rather busy at the time, he had not taken sufficient notice to be able to say positively whether or nut the prisoner was the person who had called. Two of Mr. Bourne's clerks also attended, but neither of them was able to identify the prisoner, and it was in consequence deter mined to rest the prosecution upon another case, in which, it r itp:Kwdoeura:vuotvismuyvii Wednesday,tntseeii t t igd:t a oyaw t n ttdeehehdadd, that there htobhhhaiuoanedislty rt huoieepn:auvnas insurance uebd u r. d aaAtnaßinhi b ,csi ear e e.tfat toba n coitec o (cehit:e s ouhty u auheneg c gent l a : ni):btulrbusiness doubt lsms(te,:e::lnilha eueeahasri a t lis,lups s ,t oroa:t remanded ipgdortr. t it,n.h h heuoeeja e enr:r: cah:lr John thesA) n Abbot bu r o 's o n : might cl r ee7 t ,dsa had i6ni b ic ru e . The bill was receipted by Mr. Whitehouse when presented, but, in order to make it perfect, the date of payment (which of course had been omitted) was inserted by the boy. Mr. Whitehouse stated that the prisoner had been in his office for some time, and occasionally had been in the habit of collect ing money, and immediately handing it over to him. In the present instance, be had acted without any orders, and had not handed over the money which he had collected. Mr. W.'s suspicion was excited by the boy absenting himself from the office, and on enquiry at his parents' residence, it was ascertained that he had t rot been at home during the Wed nesday night. A search was forthwith instituted, and the lad was found at the railway station on Thursday morning; he having taken a place for Manchester. There was found upon him £9312s 6d, being the whole of the money which he had embezzled, with the exception of £2, which he had spent during the night. The prisoner was put back to his trial.— During this investi g ation, an incidental conversation took place respecting the date at which policies become due. Mr. Whitehouse stated that Mr. Kaye's and Mr. Bourne's be came due on the 19th ; but, although a note iutimating that' fact had been forwarded to each of the parties, the accounts had not been sent, as they, in common with other insurance offices, were in the habit of allowing fifteen days for the re newal. Mr. Hall said that persons might be in the habit of taking the fifteen days' grace; bu', for his own part, he shoald be sorry to do so, as in the case ofaccident, the objection might be taken that the policy was void. Perhaps no respectable office would raise the objection; but he thought that they could do so if they liked, as the policy distinctly bound the insurer to renew on the date of the policy. Mr. Crewe stated that he had known the objection to be taken. Si r. Bourne thanked the magistrate for his caution; and stated that, in common with the majority of insurers, he had occasionally taken advantage of the fifteen days, thinking that he would be perfectly and legally sale; but he should henceforth take care to renew on the date of the policy's expiry. ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—Two persons, master and man, were placed before Mr. Hall, on Saturday, charged with having been concerned in the illegal manufacture of spirituous liquor. Mr. Rowland, Supervisor of excise, stated, that, in consequence of information which ,he had received, he went to the premises, occupied by the prisoners, in Brownlow street. There, in the lower part of the house, built up with bricks, so as to render discovery next to impossible, he found three stills, an extensive assortment of utensils proper for dis tillation, 10 gallons of spirits of wine, 800 gallons of wash, and 10 gallons of low wines, so warm that they could not have been more than two hours from the steel. The apparatus was so extensive that it waacapable of manufacturing spirits to the amount of £BOO per week. One of the stills was so well concealed that he did not find it till after a very close search. One of the prisoners told him, that he was a servant on the premises, and received 18s. per week. The other said, he was the manager °Elbe concern; he lived in the cottage rent-free, and had been four years in the employ of the principals, who lived in Ireland.. The gentleman who hired him he had met, some time ago, in Ireland. He did not know him, but he entered into the agreement with him. The prisoner afterwards mentioned the name of the person to whom he alluded. Mr. Rowlands added. that, upon learning this, he returned to the house, and searched it. lie found certain papers which had given him some valuable information relative to the affair. Mr. Hall recommended, that the contents of these papers should be kept secret for the present. The prisoners were each fined £3O; in default of payment, they were to be im prisoned for three months. The prisoners said, the money would be forthcoming in half an hour. In less than twenty minutes, the sum of £6O was paid to Mr. Parkinson. IRISH OUTRAGE. --Yesterday, at the Police-office, a person named Heains, appeared to complaint against two Irishmen, named Thomas Burns and William Smith, two of a party of five men who had violently assaulted him on Sunday morn ing, between seven and eight o'clock the prisoners and other three men came into my house. Mr. hall.—Do you keep a public-house ? Complainant.—No, a private house ; I heard a skrike down stairs, and before I could get out of bed, the with b an ea d d s he e prisonerwuuid Burns came i t n a i t n o a s my t r ; o m b n e s s v t i t t u h u a k l a ir; k m e r y , the poker, but 1 guarded it with my hand, and he has knocked my hand almost to pieces. The rest of the gang then com menced throwing stones into the house. Mr. Hall.—What is the reason of all this? Complainant.—That is what 1 want to know. A respectable female here stepped forward and stated, that the two prisoners knocked at her door at four o'clock on Sunday morning, and she got up, and opened it to see what was the matter. They then forced their way in, and asked her for a shilling. She asked them to go out, and told them she was but a poor woman; but they swore at her, and demanded tobacco, and sat in the house smoking till after six o'clock, when Burns tore her pocket off; and began beating buther. a woman.l'he ot h w e r m he tai they told u yl h f t i m her n o t b t t ey o % st r . eu i tke across e ra , to Brown's she St was s public-house, and kicked up a row there, and from thence they had gone .to Mr. Heains. Bums in defence said, he knew nobody in the town, but he had got a little drink, and was kicked out of a public-house. When asked why he went into the woman's house as he had done, he flatly denied it. Mr. Hall said he never heard of any thing more audacious in his life than their conduct had been. Tffey must each pay £5., including costs, and in default of payment, be committed for two months to the Borough Jail, and further, find bail to keep the peace, themselves in £30., and two sureties in £l5. This, or a sound hiding, is the only way to serve these Irish men out. if they happen to get a title drink, which they will have, nothing satisfies them but kicking up a row, and as saulting every person they may meet with some murderous weapon or other. . . EXCISE CASE. THE QUEEN V. EDWARD HOLT. On Friday last, pursuant to a writ of extent issued from her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, a Sheriff's Jury was con vened at the Excise Sale-room, Revenue -buildings, for the purpose of inquiring what amount of available property was possessed by Edward Holt, glass-dealer, of this town, and of assessing in respect to the portion'of such property that should go the Crown. Mr. Hutton. barrister-at-law, presided on behalf of the Sheriff; Mr. Bateman, solicitor, of London, appeared for the Crown; and Mr. Bardswell, solicitor, of this town, at tended for the defendant. Mr. BATEMAN opened the proceedings, by briefly stating the case to the jury. He said, the jury had been summoned to investigate the amount of property and claims arising out of the ease of Mr. Holt, who had been engaged to the Crown in a bond to the amount of £9OOO. This bond bad become forfeited, and there had been an order from the Crown for the confiscation and seizure of all Mr. Holt's property. It would be the duty of the jury to try the amount to this pro perty, and, having investigated any claims that might be put forward upon it, to declare what was forfeited. Mr. Gilmer deposed to the seizure made by him of the fur niture, coaches, and horses belonging to Mr. Edward Holt, at his dwelling-house, in Falkner-street, which were valued at 544 10s, and of the stock-in-trade in the warehouse, in Hanover-street, which was to the amount of £7OO 17s. `Both these valuations had been purposely made much below the real value. He had also found the books now produced.in the office of the warehouse, but had not been able to discover any deeds or other writings which related to the disposal or appropriation of any property. None of the articles above mentioned had been claimed. The valuation of the carriages were included in the sum of £544. The only cash property he found in the warehouse was to the a mount of three half pence. (A laugh.) Mr. Gilmer further stated, that there were some articles found on the premises Which we re claimed by Messrs. Tory, Holt, and Co , Messrs. P. Stewart and Co., and some furniture by Mr. Thomas Hensman. Mr. James Lister, manager of the Union Bank, stated, that the only sum belonging to the defendant, in their possession, was a balance of £2ss 7d. Mr. Holt, about twelve months since, had 95 shares in the capital stock of the bank, valued at about £l2OO, of which a bona fide transfer to Mr. Firth, of gd ienntednt defendant snore solicitor, Northwich, was made in August last. As he (Mr. Lister) had heard that Mr. Holt hail been accused of defrauding the revenue, he refused to hand the money over, though he was it. He was of opinion that the shares had been sold at a great ready to pay it to those who were duly authorßiseedgistotrvr.eocffieieve: sacrifice. Mr. BATEMAN said, the Crown had a prior claim, and Mr. Lister would be bound to pay the money to the She riff, on his order. Mr. Lockhart, of the Ship proved a transfer to the defendant of a vessel called the Com batant, for a mortgage of £lBOO, and other sums which had been advanced on it. Isaac Conch, of the Excise, proved the correctness of the accounts which he bad assisted to make out, and stated, that the defendant's books had not been posted for the last four years. Mr. Holt, father to the de fendant, proved the property of the latter in houses and sheds in H a nover-street, and in a map of Ireland, to be published by a person named Hobson. He had lent his son money to get bun out of difficulties. Mr. BATEMAN asked Mr. Holt if he were aware that his son had lately been living at a high rate. Mr. Holt replied, with much indignation, "This is no question to put to a father under the circumstances. It is a cruel and a hard one." Mr. Crump, of the firm of Lee, Bell, and Co.. proved, that the defendant had a share,. worth £4OOO, in the Victoria Iron Foundry. Mr. Samuel Solomon spoke to the possession by . the defendant of certain property, worth £6OO per annum, in Oxford-street, which had, how -1 wortha proved, n d d h. aa belonging ed I theos ooei, ever, been mortgaged. He had heard that the property in the map above alluded to had cost Mr. Holt £5OOO. In re . s m p e r c . t H t e o l l , a a q u glazier,antity nit aglass Sunda!'. sai soonto I a v after e iti hconveyeddiscovery t o of Mr. Edward Holes frauds, Mr. Hall stated that he had uj a jonothins : r:u t tt i uh l a l rev d ri theae. isyn stated, (Ithiaaler: ;el 7 dl n t aovreatttsniloc,t te i ltgeoladis‘e%te, oin:dreente hdt f (o w e ia,ut n a nfis o s ete a; ne(oi claimed defendant, Mr. at them for a debt due from Mr. Holt. There were 315 boxes sealed and 114 unsealed. He demanded the glass to secure thanhimself co a v g e against i ns hist loss; cla and . would, mr. p t i c t ) . e s , o l e d atgt glass s fair price, manufacturer,inore had, it appeared, received 1848 boxes of glass, value £3251, his property, from Mr. Holt, on the Ist, 4th, 7th, and Bth \v i f r ee . furniture, S e p te mb e r. Mr. Edward Hensman, father-in-lawresumed. iN t eosv,:fliroeuede fendant, knew no thin , g int o gh f a, t it l a i y e h.e aff h a a ir d s ionf thhieslaptotsesre,isb,shuiootnciaaicmaerdt, some furniture found on the premises. After the examine lion of several sureties of the defendant, the c vd a e s T e tre w e •a , I s v ad journedor ihn ant, proved that e e - s i treet, e n h o ei t ii m ie r s ir o t- f 11 brother nd ih t o G t rl h o e hv l'sl l o (M rth . and South beencost o it about the gthaeg mort gaged, :fee which A n l i d a r a t t n e H t r hh ae dd The map, Mr, Holt said, was awkward( • situated Wales Batik. as his brother had advanced about 1.: 2 )00 ; i nasmuc h on i t ori ginal ly designed by a person named Hobson In co. It was of the blunders of one person , the first plat consequence plates were incorrect, and were thrown aside, when new plates were s maller scale. The original publisher hadexecuted on a parted with the first plates, and the subscribers refused to take the new map. Plates The person into whose possession the old had caused them to be corrected, and Was had fallen f r om them. His brother had the power o about to publish a b o ut three weeks ago, he was about to slopping this, and, c proceed ings for that purpose. Mr. Bateman pminence should seize his interest in both maps.ignified, that they that the defendant had left Liverpool ten It appeared further, seizure of glass by the Excise. days aft e r th e first Mr. SOLOMoN, as solicitor for Mr. Hal t& the jury. He stated, that Mr. Hall I 1 , tucn addressed claimed a balance from Mr. Holt for Work done for many years and painting, under a contract that all done in plumbing for in glass. When he first heard of Mrwork should be paid on Sunday, he went to him and obtained fromliolt's difficulties, in question. It was removed at the earliest moment after Mr. Holt gave his permission, certainl the Sunday even ing, but no co ncea lment was intend e d or iass in the verdict, attempted. Mr. Solomon urged th e m not to include th e as the loss of this debt, so long due, wo u ld i be utterly ruinous to his client. If the jury decided against Pilo, his only re medy would b e an application to the where, as the C ro wn, even when defeated Court of Exchequer. debt would be absorbed in the le , pays no costs, the ;aI expenses, The verdict in favour of Mr. Hall could not damage the Crown, as this was but a preliminary proceeding, but a verdict for the Crown would deny all justice to Mi. Hall. Mr. BARDSWELL addressed a few words to the jury, show ing, that on the part of Mr. Tipton the transaction had been one of fairness and openness. The glass had been taken from Mr. Tipton by Mr. Holt, for export. When the latter found he could not export it, he returned it to Mr. Tipton, it being his property. The case, Mr. Bardswell pointed out, was not similar to one of fraudulent preference in bankruptcy. The decision of the jury was not final. The parties could traverse, if the verdict was different in Mr. Tipton's case from what he hoped it would be. By giving a verdict for Mr. Tipton, they would save him the trouble, anxiety, and expense of further proceedings. Mr. HULTON said, the present inquiry was merely preli minary, for the purpose of putting the case in train for ad justment. Mr. Hultou expressed his agreement with Mr. Bardswell in respect to Mr. Tipton's case. He saw some difference, he said, in respect to that of Mr. Hall, inasmuch as the - glass was sent to him at a time when it ought not to have been sent. The jury retired. In about ten minutes they returned. The Foreman said, "We find a verdict against the Crown in respect to Hall and Tipton, but all the rest in its favour." Mr. BATEMAN said, Mr. Hall did not claim the whole proceeds of the glass, but only so much as would cover his debt. Mr..HUI.TON pointed out this difficulty to the jury. There being a second writ, the jury were sworn to the in quisition under it. A new verdict was given as regarded Mr. Hall's claim. The jury found for the Crown, subject to a lien by Mr. Hall to the amount of his debt. Mr. HUtTON took the verdict as follows :—That the jury found for the Crown, with a recommendation from the jury, that Mr. Hall's claim should be investigated. THE DUKE OF BRIDGEWATER'S CANAL. OPENING OF THE LOCKS To THE lItWELL. The inconvenience experienced in want of a water commu nication from the Duke of Bridgewater's canal to the Irwell, and the consequent necessity for an enormous amount of cartage through the town for heavy goods requiring trans shipment in boats on various other canals; the need also for sonic better and cheaper mode of transit fur coal, lime, &c., from certain districts of this town, led Lord Francis Egerton some time ago to determine upon having such a communica tion formed between the canal and the river. The place se lected for• the site of this water passage was a pike of vacant land, part of the trust property. lying, between the canal and the Medlock, near the confluence of the latter with the Irwell, between Dawson-street, which bridges the canal, and the old pile of buildings called Hulme Hall. - The principal ob jects sought to be effected by this connection of canal and river navigation were, first, the formation of a communica tion with the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal, which enters the Irwell, from its opposite bank, about fifty yards above the Liverpool and Manchester railway bridge. This communicatiou was desired in order to give increased facili ties to the coal trade on that canal, and to enable the coal to be brought by boats into the centre of the town, instead of the present expensive practice of cartage. It was also de signed as a means to effect a communication for the convey ance of limestone, iron, and other valuable mineral products and merchandise to the centre of the town—the general junc tion of the canals westward, at the wharfs in Picadilly, in stead of the cartage before necessary, which operated as a heavy duty upon the transit of bulky and heavy commodities. The works were commenced in September, 1837, and they were completed within twelve months of their commencement; the excavations being to the extent of twenty-five thousand cubic yards of material, a great portion of which was cut through a mass of the red sandstone rock which is the dis tinguishing geological feature of the neighbourhood. The works commence a few yards south-west of the Dawson street Bridge over the canal; the canal being considerably widened on its north bank, so as to form a sort of basin. Thence two single locks conduct the boat passing riverward, in a south westerly direction, to a tolerably spacious basin, considering the size of the craft navigating this canal, and thence the third single lock is entered nearly at a right angle or northwest, and it opens into the river Medlock about 20 yards above its confluence with the Irwell. The works will be found correctly laid down in the plan of Manchester and Salford accompanying Messrs. Pigot and Son's directory of the town. The locks will all admit vessels of the ordinary size, say 75 feet in length and 15 feet in width. The depth of water-way or fall, in the whole declivity from the canal to the Irwell, is sixteen feet ten inches. The junction is formed, as we have said, by three locks ; all of them single. The whole of the sides, not only of the locks, but of the ponds. are constructed of masonry—which gives the whole an ap pearance at once of solidity, neatness, and security. The design and superintendance of the works, we believe, were confided to Mr. Smith, the engineer to the Bridgewater trust. It was intended to open these locks with some little cere mony, and last Monday was named as the day; but, although the whole .of the works were then complete, it was found that Lord Francis Egerton would not return home in time to be present, and the ceremony was accordingly postponed. Sub sequently, Thursday last was the day named; and it was un-- derstood that his lordship would not be able to witness the opening, being at present, we are told, at Leamington. However, he wished the opening to be no longer delayed, and it was understood that Lady Francis Egerton, and her family, would come from Wortley in his lordship's barge, which vessel was to have the honour of first passing through the locks. Accordingly, on Thursday morning, preparations were made to give all possible eclat to the scene. nags, gene rally of blue and white, the election colours of Lord Francis and Mr. Bootle Wilbraham, were displayed from the roofs of the various warehouses at Knot Mill, belonging to the Bridgewater trust. In the immediate vicinity of the lockage, too, several flags were displayed. Opposite the upper gate of the third lock, on the ground between the works and Hnlme Hall, a temporary platform was erected for the ac commodation of Lady Francis Egerton and her friends .and family. This situation was chosen at the angle of the works, as commanding a view of the whole water-line from the canal to the river. The platform was canopied with an awn ing, and several small blue and white flags adorned this platform, inscribed " Success to Lord Francis Egerton," " Lord Francis Egerton for ever," &c. On the opposite bank we noticed a large white flag, inscribed " The -Man chester Grocer's Company." In the canal, near the entrance gate of the first or upper lock, was stationed one of the canal boats, which was intended to make the first passage of the locks towards the river and back to the canal, going in the wake of the private barge. This canal boat, we believe, is an old servant; it is named the Duke, John Shaw, master; tonnage about seventy tons, of the usual dimensions of canal boats, and 13 years old last June- In honour of the occa sion the "Duke" was newly painted, looking very fine in a coat of red and blue, and displaying his facings of these colours wherever it was possible to use a brush. He was also equipped with new canvass and a new towing rope. From the mast head floated several flags, colours, and streamers; the yard was also dressed with flags, in holiday fashion, in scribed " Victors," " Long live the Queen," &c. In short, the " Duke" looked as gay as his age would allow, and flags and paint could make him. The hour fixed for the opening was twelve ; but it was about a quarter past before his lordship's barge was discerned by the watchers comingalong the canal, drawn by two horses, each mounted by a boy as postilion, wearing a blue jacket. Immediately on its being perceived, a number of small can non, which had been mounted on carriages in a field over looking the canal, and lying between it and Hulme clairch, fired a salute, in honour of her ladyship and the occasion. Lady Francis landed on the canal bank, nearly .opposite Huhne Hall, with her two little girls and their governess She was received and conducted to the platform by Mr George Marsden, the Manchester agent to the trust, and Mr. Smith, the engineer. Her ladyship's brother, Mr. Greville. and three sons of Lord Francis, remained on board the barge, which entered the first lock, amidst_ cheers and discharges of the cannon, about twenty-five minutes past twelve. The barge passed through the pond and into the second lock, before the " Duke," his deck crowded with holiday passen gers of both sexes, passed into the first lock. The gates were alternately opened and shut slush* the progress of the two vessels through, so as to keep as much water as possible. On the " Duke" passing beneath the platform, its passen gers gave three cheers for Lady Francis, which was responded to by the crowds that lined the banks, and every eminence commanding a view of the spectacle. The barge proceeded into the river as far as Hahne Hall, and then returned; and the " Duke" took the same course, and thus both vessels re passed the locks—the whole progress to the river and back having been accomplished before one o'clock. Her ladyship then re-embarked, and, we believe, shortly afterwards re turned to Worsley. The gates, though a little stiff, worked well, and were easily managed. We heard of no accident, except one from a most culpable piece of rashness and carelessness. While one man was ramming down the charge in One of the small cannon, another applied the fuze to the touch-hole, and, in the discharge, the hand of the former was severely injured ; but to what extent we could not learn, as be immediately left the ground, with his hand blackened, bruised, and bleed ing, to obtain surgical assistance. In the afternoon, a substantial dinner was provided in one of the warehouses, for the workmen employed on the locks, &c., as well as for those in the employ and the service of the trust. We have heard that upwards of 200 individuals were to partake of roast beef, ale, &c.; and no doubt the after noon would be much 'enjoyed.—Manchester Guardian. ABSTRACT OF THE DOCK ACCOUNTS. The Trustees of the Liverpool Docks have recently pub lished their annual statement of income and disbursements, a short abstract of which will doubtless be acceptable to our readers. From June, 1837, to June of the present year, the receipts of the Dock Estate, it appears, amounted to £170,500 13s. 9d., of which the duties on tonnage form £76,324 Ils. Id., and the duties on goo d s £69 , 965 12 s. 10d . Among the other items of income are £5,638 2s. 9.1. for lighthouse duties; £2516 Bs. floating light duties ; £5579165. graving dock duties; £1524 4s. 6d. graving block duties; rent of cranes £5BB Os. Bd.; from the weighing; machines, £263 19s. 94., From the Corporation fur site and materials of old dock offices, £6160, &c. &c. The bonded debt of the estate in June, 1837, amounted to £1,382,097 9s. 4d., since which another issue of bonds has taken place to the extent of £51,650. The bonds and assignments paid off since June, 1837, amount to, £44,950; so that the debt now owing by the estate amounts to £1,394,797 9s. 4d. The expenses of the surveyor's department amount to £l,lBBO, including an annual salary of £1,500 to the surveyor, Mr. Jesse Hartley ; £250 to his clerk, Mr. Gilbert Cumming. The expenses of the secretary's department are limited to £450, consisting of £350 salary to the secretary. Mr. Daniel Mason. and £lOO to his clerk, Mr. E. B. Lloyd. The salaries in the treasurer's office amount to £2,053 Ils. 3d., including £6OO to the secre tary, Mr. George Withers, and £250 respectively to Mr. W. Marrow, Mr. 'I amen. and Mr. Evans receivers of duties on tonnage arid goods; besides minor salaries to hook-keepers and check-clerks. Mr. Askew, the harbour-master, receives a salary of £3OO per annum; Mr. Hodgson, master of the Prince's Durk, £319 14s. Id. ; Mr. Purnell, master of the George's Dock, £207 18s. 6d.; Mr. Garuiss, master of the Queen's Dock, £345 16s 10d. including an allowance Of £4O a-year for house rent; Mr. A'sbridge, master of the King's Dock, including ditto, £263 141. 5d.; Mr. Cosnahan, master of the Canning Dock, including ditto, £190; Mr. Edward Horsfall, master of the Half-tide Dock, including ditto, £145 ; Mr. M•Bride, master of the Clarence Dock, including ditto, £240 ; and Mr. Easton. master of the Brunswick Dock, including ditto, £240. The master of the Waterloo Dock, Mr. Rea, receives a nett salary of £2OO per annum, and Mr. Humble, master of the Clarence Basin, £lOO. The special auditors, Mr. H. B. Hornby and Mr. Joseph Kelsall, are paid a salary of £l5O each. The expenses of the marine surveyor's office amount to £93215. 44., including Lieutenant Denham's salary, £7OO per annum, and Mr. William Lord's ditto, (assistant draftsman,) £l5O. The police force for the docks cost £10,733 7s. 31, exclusive of £844 6s. 9d. received for lights, &c. The gross annual salaries of the lighthouse keepers at Point . Lynas, Bidston, Mockbegg ar, Ho)lake, Black Rock, and Formby, amount to £670 - 15 s. 6d• The telegraph establishment costs annually £l,OBl 15s. 5 , 1, in cluding the salary, of the superintendent, Mr. B. L. Watson, £2.50; his two clerks and an office boy, £l3B 35., and twelve keepers at the signal stations, £58845., with other items. The wages of the dock-gatemen amount to £4,257 4s. 9d.; wages and provisions for the master and crew of the floating light vessel, £B4l 4s. 9d. ; wages and provisions for ditto in the New Channel, £683 10s.; assistant-clerks, foreman, and labourers, £21,715 17s. 11d.; carpenters, £3,926 165. Id. ; masonry, £14,350 16s. 10d. ; timber, £7,653 Bs. 3d.; expenses of quarrying and hewing granite stone, £9,148 Bs. 11d., &c. . &c. There is an item of £lOOO paid to the Corporation-the proportion of the expenses of the Dock Estate towards the Mersey Conservancy Bill. THE EARL. OF DERBY.-It will be gratifying to a numerous class of our readers to learn that his lordship is gradually re cover;ng the use of his left side, and that a most satisfactory account as to his lordship's ultimate restoration is giVen by one of his medical attendants, MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN IZING THE JEWS. Last evening the annual meeting of the Jewish Missionary Society was. held in the Music Hall, Bold-street, the Rev. Mr. Buddicom in the chair. Many of the clergy of the town were on the platform, and amongst them the celebrated missionary, the Rev. Joseph Wolff, L.L.D. The announce ment. that so extraordinary a man would attend and address the meeting, had the effect, notwithstanding the rainy night, of effectually cramming the Music Hall, and about 1200 per sons were present, a large proportion of whom were ladies. Wishing to give as much space as possible to the speech of the Rev. Dr. Wolff, we are reluctantly compelled from the late hour at which the meeting concluded, (10 o'clock) to curtail other speeches made, several of which were well worth giving in full. This, however, will plead our excuse. The Rev. Dr. TATTERSHALL, the secretary of the society, opened the meeting with prayer; after which, The CHAIRNIAN at some length alluded to the object of the meeting, and our obligation; to the Jews in havingtrans mitted to us the gospel. We ought therefore to aid such a society as the present, which had for its object the conversion of the Jews to Christianity, and whereby we might repay to them the heavy obligation we were under to them as a nation, and excite a flame to the glory of God. Dr. TATTERSIIALL, the secretary, then read the report, from which it appeared that the society's receipts were £592 in Liverpool this year, being an increase of £6B over the receipts of the previous year. The Rev. Mr. BATES, assistant minister of St. Bride's, moved that the report read be adopted, printed and circulated under the direction of the committee, and also that the officers and committee of the society be requested to continue their services for the year ensuing.. The Rev. Mr. CARTWRIGHT, secretary to the Parent Society, seconded the resolution at considerable length, and in the course of his observations, detailed the proceedings of the society and its gratifying success at Jerusalem, Constan tinople, and Tunis, and stated, that annually hundreds of Jews were baptised at each of those places, in the name of Christ Jesus. He also gave an account of the labours of the ,society in printing the Scriptures in Hebrew, Greek, and German, for the use of the Jews of different countries. The resolution was unanimously carried. The Rev. ANDREW KNOX, of Birkenhead, moved the next resolution, earnestly praying that a blessing from on high might follow their endeavours for the conversion of the Jews, in the various parts of the world, and pledging the meeting to assist the society in those endeavours. He also noticed an establishment in the town for supporting such Jews as were converted, which . was connected with the society.• _ _ The Rev. Dr. WOLFF next rose, and was received with much cheering. He spoke in broken English nearly as follows :—Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gentlemen, I second with pleasure this resolution—"'That this meeting rejoices to hear of the establishment in this town of an institution for supporting and converting Jews, as well as for performing weekly Hebrew service in St. Simon's chapel, and earnestly prays that a blessing from on high may follow the endea vours thus made for the benefit of the Jews resident in this town " Before I endeavour to make any remark at all about the different jouruies I have made, and state, at the same time, some of the results of these missionary perigrina lions, you will permit me, first of all, to give you the list of those countries which I traversed, many of them, not only once, or twice, or thrice, but many ten times. In • Persia three. times. You will permit me first to mention the places I traversed first as a mission ary to the Jews, and also to the Mahomedans, but especially to the Jews, these 18 years. From Loudon to Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Cairo twice, Mount Sinai, Syria, Jerusa lem, Mesopatarnia, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Circaisia, Crimea, Persia, Khorossaum,' independent Tatary, Buk hara, Balkh, Affghanistaun, Cashmere, Hindoostan, Abys sinia, Yemen, St. Helena, and America. But I must, how ever, first of all mention two instances by which you may see the inscrutable ways of God to bring people frequently to the knowledge of the truth. When lately, last December, at Washington, the capital of the United States of North Amer ica, 1 was requested by the Congress to lay before them an account of the state ,of the Jews throughout the world. John Quincy Adams, the late ex-President, nroposed it to the Congress, and both houses most kindly adjourned on a week day, Saturday, and there 1 was allowed for four hours to ad vocate the cause of the Jews. 1 confess I must make the remark, you will find it a little perhaps extravagant when I should have thought of it, when I so advocated the cause of any nation before the representatives of the greatest republic in the world—that is, America. I thought if I only could on my return to England to my duties to advocate the cause, and to show the importance of conversion of the Jews before the House of Lords. (Loud cheering.) However, we must leave all to Providence; perhaps it may come to it. Now, last when I entered the Congress Hall, received a letter from Sir Thomas Baring, which was trans mitted to me by the President Van Buren, including also a letter from my friend Mr. Cartwright, telling me that my brother had arrived—Matthias—and the president, Sir Thomas Baring—the president of the society, requested me to give him my candid opinion about him, as s he wished to enter the Christian church. I confess that I thought it was the work of the Lord, and that he can bring people in a most remarkable way to a knowledge of the truth. The Lord in a moment can strike him with the lightning of His grace. That it appeared to me very strange, for you remember it is now 28 yea's ago . I came from my uncle, in Bohemia, where at that time my brother was, about 12 years of age. I told him, "I am now going to be baptised;" the moment I said this he turned away from me, and these were his last words to me—the Jews here will understand it in Hebrew (giving it in Hebrew)—this means, " Thy name and thy memory should he blotted out." It is a curse, and so I saw him no more. Hearing this I was surprised that he wrote to Sir Thomas Baring, and I said to him, "Though he is my bro ther, I can give no testimony about his chara c t er; I - have never seen him, and therefore I don't wish to be in the least answerable about him." Well, that brother—after this Mr. Cartwright most kindly took care of him. He then returned; and after any return to England I went to Ireland, and during that time he writes to me, and writes to me that on his arri val at Munich, where my another resides, he had met with, by accident, my journals about Jerusalem, and soon after came into company with Mr. Goulberg, a missionary at Dresden; and thus by God's grace he came to a knowledge of the truth, and at the same time he sent to me a letter, and 1 give you here a translation, and tell you after from %shoal this letter is, and I am sure you will be surprised:— " Reverend Sir,—Having always felt the greatest interest in your missions and wanderings, I recommend your own brother Matthias Levi, the leader of the Synagogue, of Amos Green,, who has gained the estimation of the Jews and Chris tians for hts steady conduct, and desirous to be baptised, and l'pledge myself for his sincerity. Assuring you that you . have the regard of every liberal Roman Catholic in Bole mia, and that any letters of your's will be read with . the great est interest. (Signed,) VICAR GENERAL, and COUNCILLOR AT PRAGUE." This was from a Roman Catholic Priest. Now you see as always say it is wonderful how the light of God penetrates where ever it comes. So I have found many during my pe regrinations—many Roman Catholics, who after I told them candidly my belief, embraced me as a brother in Christ Jesus. Now I soon came back to my family to England. My brother I did not take to my house the first week, till I first heard of his good behaviour from Mr. Cartwright and Dr. M'All, and it was to my greatest joy that at last I e baptised him—the' brother, the brother,—in the episcopal J w's Chapel at Lon don. It_ was verily an interesting night. I don't know how I was able to read the service—that brother who cursed me —my own brother—the same mother and same father. And after this, I must give you a little more particulars; I ex pounded, and preached the text in the 11th chapter of Romans. " God has not cast away his people; for there is a kindness according to the election of grace, even to this present." And so I had at this present time—at this present time— there I see my own brother. Is not this a very remarkable thing, how the scripture truths so tangibly tell to this present time. (Applause.) How delightful. But, however, ano ther remarkable such instance at America. At Philadelphia, I preached at the church of Dr. King—at the Episcopal church in that town. I soon after went to preach at a place called/Salem. During my stay at Salem, I received a letter from a person signing himself Myers Arnold. He writes— " 1 heard you preach in the church of Dr. King, and hav ing so often heard your name, Wolff, I suspected that you must be the son of Rabbi David Wolff, my dear mas ter, who licensed me as a reader—gave me the cabella, and I knew you, when you were eight years of age. If 1 do not mistake, pray, come to me, I have to speak to you." Now, I set out from Salem to the place where he resided, and wished to take some clergyman with me as witness, and therefore, took the episcopal clergyman, and went to Kroots town, at Reading, and there 1 saw that person whom I saw when I was eight years old, surrounded by his family—a Jewish family, and he introduced me to a Lutheran clergyman. The Luthereau left the whole ar rangement to this Jew, and there the Jews of Krootstown, were the first that acccotnpanied me into that church to hear me give an account of my missionary proceedings. I re mained there till two o'clCick in the morning. And now, his nephew is baptised by the Bishop of New Jersey. 1 must here give you a few more accounts of my last missionary proceedings. It was stated to me by some of my friends, that, " your proceedings are too rapid; you are too quick through the country; what use can it be? My dear friends, yes, great use. I do not say, now mark, that every other missionary should follow my way. God has bestowed his gifts in divers ways, and therefore, let every one go in the way and manner as the Lord points him out. But, however, these my own proceedings with God's grace have also been blessed. Now just a few instances—how one may preach the Gospel of Christ, and be a missionary in every circum stance of life. When at Hinorosan in 18:32. just when I had left a place called Joorjish, on the way to Turkistan, the whole country was in confusion with the khans warring with each other Before I came to Joorjish, I saw often whole villages burnt down, and the people carried away as slaves. How can one go through such a country? Then, my friends, when I was in the British empire at Teheran, many said it was impossible for me to go to be a missionary, I should be murdered or made a slave. I said, " by God's grace, a missionary, though a slave." Altogether 15 miles dis tant from Mishoopoo, and just having left a few Persian testa ments and bibles in a place called Rusbneabod, not to Jews. for though Jew myself one has learnt not first to ask, " art thou a Jew, or a Gentile?" So I was always happy when I was able to preach these tidings to Mahomedans, or Jews, or Gentiles. Setting out for Rushneabod, riding at that time on horse, there suddenly came—boo—a firing from all. sides. I thought this does not look well (a laugh). I. looked around me, I saw my camels on which my bibles were, all in con fusion, one running here and another there. I am rather short sighted, but I saw at a distance people on horse-back with spears in their hands, and guns. 1 thought I will not run away, for I had a good horse that would carry me away sa fe, but I must not leave my servants behind to bring the whole inissiouary cause into disgrace—that they might say "he has run away like a coward." (Applause.) Then II returned and I stopped for 10 minutes. They were engaged in binding every one the.) , got hold of. There were with me about seven muleteers, my camel driver, and my servant. I returned; at last came one up to me, takes hold of the bri dle of my horse, and says in Persian, "give money, give money, give money." I put out my hand and gave him. "Have you not more?" "Oh yes, in my trunk." "Then," says he, " don't tell my companions." (A laugh.) You see these fellows rob themselves. At last they all came, and said, "Pool, pool, pool," —money, money, money. I said, " I gave it to your companion," and they gave him a good flogging. ( Laughter.) They stripped me; and they did more; they bound me on a horse's tail,—(laughter)—and wooip, wooip went the whip. (Loud laughter.) Now, my friends, you laugh about it; but 1 assure you, you would not have laughed. (Continued laughter.) Now, I must coins to the point. At last, there 1 made au expe rience that I will never, never, never conceal it; in that moment one learns—one has the proof of the truth of christianity which neither a Butler, nor a Chalmers, nor any of the philosophers can give. It cannot be given by any external evidences, namely, that these pro Mises of Christ contained in this book one experiences to be true. This was always to me a proof of the truth of christianity. My dear friends, prophecies can be cavilled away ; the most clear, the most lucid prophecies, a Jew like Moses has put aside al together. But his promises, once experienced, cannot be dis puted. Why? Why is it they cannot be disputed ? Why, if one has been in - a beautiful garden, and has smelt the odour of the roses, and has heard the song of the nightingale, this cannot be set aside from one who has found it. And we know the Lord Jesus Christ says, "Whatever you shall Pray for in my name, the Lord will give you." Well, this I have had experience and this is to me a proof that Jesus Christ is a self existent Jehovah, for he hears prayers and he grants petitions. Now, mark, while the rest of the Maho medans were around bound, one of the chiefs of the party Caine up to me and tells me in Persian, Keliasti, who art thou ?" I tell him I go about for the sake of God, nothing more. And that chief instantly ordered his people to un bind me and permitted me to ride on horseback, and gave some rags around me, and j was wore com 7 fortable. Now, you see here is a complete hearing of prayer. And now we come to the first place and there they made a large fire, and give me to drink a little of my tea, which they had robbed from me (laughter) end we were at that time valued at what we were each worth, My servant—a great rogue (laughter)—he was valued at £6, and myself, his master, only £3. (Much laughter.) Well. I did not care about this, how much worth they thought of me; but at last they got more serious; they took out what had with me—my passports from the King of Persia, a passport from Lord Dudley, and a firman from the Sul tan—and then they looked at me. "Ah !" says one, "this fellow, I don't like him; he has eyes like a bul lock ; he is a dangerous fellow ; his papers show he is not a common man, and Abba Mirza is now in the country, and if he only hears of him and writes to our chief, we shall be obliged at once to liberate him, and on his ac count all the rest, and, therefore, it is better to kill him. I therefore spoke to them, you are completely right; I shall be ransomed by Abba Mizza as soon as he hears of it; but de pend on it if you kill me, God will avenge my blood. But if you take my advice, you value me at £3, I will get you £lOO, give me my bible. Now I wrote in this bible.—"To the Jews of Zoorbad. I, Josiah Wolff, of Jewish nation, but going about for the sake of Jesus of Nazareth ;—I have been made slave. I beg you to ransom me for 100 tourmans, and I shall remain with you till I shall be able to repay you 200;" for I would have refunded it to them, and written to the British Ambassador at Teheran, and he would have paid the money. " Now go and see what noise this will make among the Jews." Well, so they did. We arrived at Tea rbad. Imagine in what a state—only a few rags about me, in the month of November —snow, for it snows on the mountains—and with such a horrid set. At last Jews came, and the moment I saw them, I exclaimed, " Here, Israel, Jehovah, one God, Jeho vah is one." They at once surrounded me, and said to the robbers,—" Assan, you permit this man to go with us: we pledge ourselves to pay any sum for him: permit him to go with us to-night to our house." They said, however, I must be back with them the next day, until the whole sum is paid. Well, I came with them to their houses. Now entering in this way—now shier, frozen again—l desired them to give me a cup of coffee. They said they bad no coffee, but they can give me brandy spirits, and I am sure that every tee-to taller would have drunk it. (Laughter.) Now, don't be afraid. I shall not say any thing against the Temperance Society; I only state here a fact. Now, you will see bow one is a missionary in such a state. There they were around me. They said—for they had g ot my Bible—you have sent us the five books oaf Moses and the Psalms, these we know ; but this here, the New Testament, whet book is this ? And I explained to them what book it was the whole night. That I assure you huw we can warm in speaking of the Gospel, that forgetting our misery through the whole night, I prayed and explained the New Testament to my nation, till at last the woman and children came and we were obliged to adjourn to the synagogue, and we remained all night in the synagogue. Next morning I was sent for by the roboers, and put in a dungeon, bound, together with 30 slaves, bound to gether in the dungeon at least an hour and a half. There was a knock at the door. "Is an Englishman here ?" I said, Pelai, Pelai, Yes, Yes; and my chains were taken away; not only so, but every one else was liberated, and so I became the liberator of about 40 slaves. Immediately after, you will see how one is a missionary in a town. I was brought before Naboun Esah Khan—a horrid tyrant. When I came there, there were lying in his room my Persian and Arabic Bibles and Testaments. • He said take them away, I don't care about them, Abba Mirza has written about it. Exactly what the robber had said. The people told Abba Mirza what bad happened; he said, this can be no one else but Joseph Wolff, and bad me liberated. He ask me how much money they take from me? I said "80 too maunts''—about £7O. "The rascals, you shall see my jus tice." He got them flogged, got out every penny from them; and, in order that I might see his justice, he put every penny into his own pocket. (Laughter.) I remained 14 days with my Jewish brethren. At last they gave to me two of the Jews to accompany me to a famous town, Mecca. And there is a most beautiful mosque, with a golden cupola upon it; and when the Mahomedans came to it, they per formed their devotions. This was like a shock to t be Jews who accompanied me. You will never take from the Jews the ex pectation of returning to their own land ; and so they shall re turn. These prophecies never can be in vain, that if any of thine be driven out from the utmost parts of heaven, from thence will I fetch you, and bring you to your own land which your fathers possessed ! This is Canaan, Jerusalem, nothing else. When these two Jews came and saw these cupolas, they said, "Oh, when will the time come?" And mark, these are Jews without all doubt, of.the 10th tribe, who never returned from Babylon, but remained there; .these Jews said, "Oh, when will the time come when the tribes shall go up; and when will the time come? when the Messiah our King shall come." I went with them to Mecca, and there prayed in the chapel, and several of them were baptised. And let me bring you to the dreary desert, and show how one can be a missionary in the desert. Five days journey from Mecca, Jews wandering about in the desert, living like taor manna, but separated from them, never intermarrying with them. The very first day they sing the following hymn, and I will give you a translation, and then if you will permit me, I will give you an example of the wild desert-like melody : The Messiah, our King shall come, The Mighty, with the Mighty is He. The Messiah our King shall come, • The blessed one with the blessed is He. The Messiah our King shall come, The Great one with the Great is He ; _ . _ and so on. They sing it in a wild way. Now round the wild desert, amidst snows. There was together the Toorgomauns, standing in this way, just as when reading the Koran, hav ing a respect for these words of Moses, 'and singing in this way. (Singing the above poetry in Hebrew, in a melan choly sweet air.) Well, with these Jews I abide 20 days in the desert; smoked a water pipe with them, what they call in India a hookah; and there, sitting reading the gospel alont , with me, they were very earnest. They have very large' beards, and sometimes they gut so earnest in th e ir argument that they took hold of my heard—(laughter)— and I took hold of theirs,-delightful life it was. (Continued laughter.) Now let me here at once bring on to the deserts of Mirvi, bordering on the Caspian Sea, formerly described by General Alorave, on the road to Siberia in Persia. Now, there in the desert snow se. how the gospel can raise the people. If nothing had arisen to me but this, I would have been compensated fur all my fatigues in that vast desert. There the Jews were in four camps, about twenty miles dis tant from each 'other. Now fhese Jews coming from all Harts for the purpose of hearing, as I said the holy man from England speaking about the Messiah. And with the Toor gomans, and in the vast wild howling desert a had my Jewish nation around me 14 days, preaching the glad tidings of salvation. Now, within the last two years, you remember I have so often told you of the Rechabite in the deserts of Mesopotamia, in 1824. I gave him a bible and testament in Hebrew. The Rechabites are descended from the brother in-law of Moses; they drink no wine, and plant no vineyards, and sow no seed. In eighteen hundred and thirty six, in the month of October, having been obliged to go back from Abyssinia with Mr. Gobat on account of his ill ness, I wished previous to my return to Abyssinia to come to Mecca, the Holy City, where the Queen of Sheba is buried. I wished to see a city called Lalla inhabited by the Rechabites whose numbers amounted to twenty thousand. The Rev. speaker then went on to detail a very interesting narrative, which we regret our limits oblige us to curtail, of his visit to Lalla and the Rechabites and the mode in which he disarmed their hostility, and drew them to listen to him in the temple while he explained to them who was the Messiah. And also gave several anecdotes of the mode in which the bread of scripture had been cast upon the waters and returned after many days. In 1821 it was attempted to dissuade him from going to Jerusalem, and there was no one there to preach Christ crucified. But they had sent their missionaries over, and now at last they were about to establish a church at. Jerusalem ' - and, therefor e , l e t t h em not be discouraged. Considered by one party as enthusiasts, and by another as fanatics, see the power of the grace of God. The reverend gentleman concluded amidst loud ap plause. The Rev. FIELDING OULD moved a resolution, pledging the meeting to sympathise with the society, and to endeavour to attain its object, the conversion of the Jews The Rev. JAMES FURNIVAL seconded this, which was unanimously adopted. A doxology was then sung, and the meeting broke up at a few minutes before ten o'clock. BOWLING MATCH.—A bowling match for a silver snuff-box took place during the present week on Mr. Leonard's green , adjoining the Zoological gardens. Mr. Bl ac k well, of Crox: teth, was the successful player. The day was extremely fine, and the party enjoyed themselves highly. The green attached to the Derby is one of the largest and best in this district. DEATH OF A CHILD FROM A WOUND IN THE BYE.—On Tuesday an inquest was held on the body of a child belonging to Jane and Daniel Whittle, who live near the Dog and Gun public-house, West Derby. The child in question had been playing in the garden of its parents in which there is a ditch about two feet deep and a plank across it, used for draining the garden. The child fell off the plank into the ditch, and got something into its eye, which caused it to bleed profusely.. It was picked up and taken to a surgeon, but died on the way. From a post mortem examination of the body by Mr. James Cooper, surgeon, it appeared that something had passed be tween the upper part of the eye and the socket, extending to the posterior part of the socket, at which point there was a fracture of the bone, and a punctured wound of the brain, which was the cause of death. The deceased had fallen on something containing an old nail, or some hard sharp pointed substance. Verdict—accidental death. THE ROYAL. WILLIAM.—The passenger's fares of the Royal William, which sailed on Thursday last, together with freight on cargo, parcels, and letters, amount to upwards • of 1.200.0. Amongst the passengers were James Gordon Ben nett, Esq., the able and energetic, though eccentric, editor and proprietor of the New York Morning Herald, and other papers, who came to England to see the coronation, and has since been sojourning amongst us, " taking notes" of man .ners, customs, and institutions, in various parts of the coon try,--to say nothing of a trip to Paris in the meanwhile, doubtless intending his countrymen to profit by his observa tions ; —the Rev. William Bettridge, his lady, and two daugh ters: and Miss Yielding, were also amongst the passengers. The vessel has on board 40 tons of the prepared peat-stone fuel, the invention of C. W. Williams, Esq., the active and intelligent manager of the City of Dublin Steam Company, each ton of which goes as far as three tons of coal. She has, therefore, been enabled to take fifty tons of cargo, with her full complement of passengers, and yet had seven inches less draught of water than on her departure the preceding voyage. We understand that the proportion in which this fuel is Lurut in connexion with coal, is one ton of the former to six tons of the latter. Above 4,000 letters were received on board, within the last hour, before sailing. We heartily wish the Royal William a prosperous voyage, and her owners every success which their spirit and enterprise deserve. NOSES IN DANGER.—The new Russian minister to the United States is called Somonosoff (saw my nose off) An attache of the same legation in Washington, Blowmanozorf (blow my nose off.) Besides which we have Colonel Kutma nosof, of the imperial guard (cut my nose off), Marshal Pull manosuff (pull my nose off ), General Nozebegun (nose be gone), and many others.— Washington Metropolitan. HORRIBLE DEATH.—As four men were employed about a Lime Kiln, at Breedin, and whilst in the act of loosening the top part of the Kiln, which sometimes congeals, (so as to leave the Kiln hollow,) the mass fell suddenly down, and the men having hold of crow bars were all precipitated into theXiln, by which one man lost his life, and the other three had all their clothes burnt, and wete everything but literally roasted alive.—Bolton Chronicle. THE LEIPSIC RAILROAD.—LEIPSIC, SEPT. 10.—On the 16th instant the road opens from Leipsic to Dahlen, and from Dresden to Oheran, so that there will he 42 miles in operation. The King went yesterday along the line, and came the whole distance from Dresden to Leipsic (75 miles) in five hours and a half. Up to the 31st of August 360,503 persons have travelled along the railway in 2.264 journeys, or 112 per voyage. "NOTHING IN A NAME."—We hare been told that there is "nothing in a name,', and that "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." We are not inclined to dispute the correctness of these axioms, for we are about to relate an an ecdote in support of them. A worthy gentleman of this town, distinguished alike for the urbanity of his manners, and the hospitality of his table, invited a few friends to supper one evening, when he discovered at the festive board a Lyon, a Hogg, and two Lambs all feeding out of one dish.—Ciimber land paper. The death of Lord Carrington has caused a vacancy in the representation of High Wycombe. A numerous and highly-respectable requisition to George Robert Smith, Esq., the late candidate for the county, was got up in a few hours on Wednesday, and yesterday a deputation waited on that gentleman at his seat, Selsden Park, when be con sented to become a candidate It is confidently expected that his election will take Flace without ,aper.