The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. - A correspondent su3 - s, that for the first week in April last, the traffic upt n 1800 miles of railway was at the rate of G millions per Aril= ; and supposine the cost of construction to be on - art average £25, ,, 0 uer mile, it would give 45 milli:tns as the coat •of that length of railway. Ile deducts 4 1 per cent. for the cost of working, and it leaves £3 9 , 0,1:00, which will pay - a dividend of 81 per cent. The first week in April, he consi ders. w:11 be under the average rate pea annum ; and of the 21.300 miles, the traffic of the greater part is not yet developed. 'On the whoe, the result is such as to lead him to believe there is not mucli cause (whet the really bad schemes are .-swept away) to fear any ill effects from railway extensi . n. Ebt Eitnrpoof TUESDAY MO RNIN G, MAY 12, 1846. The statesmen who compose her Majesty's pre -sent Administration are, no doubt, individually and personally, men of the highest honour and truthful aess; yet it is strange to observe what a large an of the very opposite qualities they are occa sionally tempted to display. In their private capa city they would revolt at the slightest approach to a rnis-statement of a fact, or a disingenuous colouring of an argument ; but when breathing the atmosphere . Downing-street, or engaged in party conflict -within the walls of St. Stephen's, their whole men tal and moral economy seems to have undergone a transformation. The man isstink in the Minister ; =• rand weapons from which he would have shrunk with loathing, if used 'o advance his private views of interest or emolument, are seized hold of and used without compunction, when the object is to advance 'the interests of a party or to secure a parliamentary -.triumph. Does an opponent make a slip in debate, bow readily it is taken advantage of, and tortured frona..the sense which it was intended to convey ! . Has a Minister inadvertently allowed his personal , convictions to ooze out to the detriment of his con sistency as a public man, how promptly his col - leagues fly to the rescue, to repair the injurious con- ' sequences which may accrue to the measure which he is bound by his official capacity to support in ~defiance of such convictions! Disingenuousness has taken the place of straightforward, dealing ; and the search after truth, as the basis of legislation; is postponed to the longing to shine as a successful parliamentary tactician. The episode of the error in a recent return of the /Souse of Commons is not yet forgotten. The pub kc heir in mind that invariably such errors are in the right direction, They serve their temporary purpose of bolstering up a ministerial argument and swaying a majority; and any subsequent correction comes too late. Tire case in question was a bad one. It looked suspicious at all events ; but there was a subordinate official to hear the blame, and ministerial honour was left untarnished. An in- stance, however, of similar perverSion of fact by a cabinet minister has just occurred, where there is no such rea'y escape by the ordinary mode of trans ferring the onus to another. In the debate on Wed nesday week upon the Factory Bill, Mr. Fielden -quoted the father of the Premier as having demanded a great limitation in the hours of labour—as having, in fact, contemplated a term nearly approaching to that proposed by the advocates of the ten-hours hill. t-7 , ir James Graham, in his reply, gave utterance to the follotvi g asse,tion "All that Sir Robert Peel ever proposed was, not that len hours should be the limitation, but twelve, which is now the law. The limitation proposed by Sir R. Peel only applied to children of eight or nine years of age till the ape of sixteen." Xow here is a statement, deliberately made, with all the supercilious self complacency of the right hon. socretary's manner, uncontratlicted at the time, and I which, therefore, answered its purpose. Sir Robert Peel sate by and heard his father's views of the sub ject thus propounded. There were, moreover, mill owners in the house old enough to remember what those views were. Yet, what is the fact ? We give it in the words of a Jotter which has just been ad dressed by Lord Ashley to the Short Time Com .aarttee 1 'Lace now lying before me a copy of the bill intro draced by Sir Robert Peel in 1815, when the labour, as you know, was much less severe than at the present day. That bill passed the first and second readings, and was amended by the committee. Here is the clause :—`And be it tweeted, that no person, being under the age of eighteen -years, shall be emp oyerl in any such mill, manufactory, or building, for more than ten hours and a Win any arse day.' " The misstatement here is glaring enough, and Sir James Graham would do well to purge his reputa tion by explaining how it arose, or at least by con fessing that it was one of the too-frequently recur ring ministerial ruses. Another assertion, how ever, of the same speaker, on the same occasion, is so atardingly opposed to the truth, that we can only wonder bow the requisite amount of assurance was summoned up to enable him to venture upon its utterance. Sir James said : "An hon. gentleman observed that the working classes were greatly disappointed by the course which had been pereued by the house in reference to the proposition for the reduction of the hours of labour to 10 hours. I abso izw.tely deny that this house ever pronounced for a ten hours measure. - We give here Lord Ashley's confutation of the impudent statement : " On Wednesday afternoon last, we heard this positive language from the Secretary of State r—' I absolutely dewy that this house ever pronounced for a ten-hours Stems:Ere ' Let me put before you ihe amendment that I sawed in March, 1841. Hansard,' page 1.073, vol. 73. 3,1 series, ' Lord Ashley rose to propose the amendment of which he had given notice : " ' That the word night' shall be taken to mean from six o'clock in the evening to six o'clock in the following morning, and the word mealtime' shall be taken to mean an interval of cessation ot work, for the purpose of rest surd refreshment, at the rate of two [toms a day. with a :Stew to effect a lirnilaLion of the hours of labour to ten us the day.' This amendment I moved at the personal request of Sir James Graham. He stated to me in private previ (it Ay to the debate that I should much oblige the govern ascot by raising the question of my proposition at the wary earliest possible period in the bill, and suggested an atuendment on the word ni g ht' in the first or interpreta tion clause. I saw the difficulties of such a course, but to oblige the Government I complied with their request. awl drew up that form ot amendment which Sir James Graham approved (so far as it would raise the whole Aneation) before the opening of the discus-ion. " Hansard's pages will confirm my statement The form of my amendment,' said the noble lord, 'requires no preliminary explanation. I move it in its present shape a the request of my hon. friend and the Govern nowt, though I fear that in adopting that course I subject atreelf to some disadvantage.' Two divisions were then taken, and both were in.fa sour of my amendment, after which (I again quote from Hansard,' p. 1,260), Sir James Graham said that the decision which the committee had come to upon the noble Lord's amendment was a virtual adoption of a ten-hours bin without mod;.fication.' " la it not melancholy t 3 find the Minister of a great nation—the Minister, too, who is especially entrusted with the improvement of the morals of the people and the supervision of the adtnistration of justice—thus placed in a position so humiliating ? All the world remembers how the Commons of England, at the dictation of a minister, stultified themselves by negativing a principle which they 'bad twice affirmed. The printed votes of the House prove the fact. The pages of Elansard record it, and the acknowledgment from the lips of Sir James (graham himself, that " Mc decision which the House Awl just come to was a virtual adoption of the Ten Hours Billwithout modification." By what miserable shuffling can he reconcile with such evidence his pre, sent" absolute denial that the House ever pronounced for a ten hours measure ?" We are sorry to perceive the constant recurrence of such outrages upon the truth in high places. They degrade the character of statesmen in the eyes of that public, before whom it ought to be presented unspotted and above even the suspicion of blemish. Iffe may forgive apostacy and tergiversation—even great as have been those of the Right Hon. Baronet —we mayforbear in ouroppo_iti in to measures which Ave deem dangerous to the public and subversive of the true interests of the people. But when we see such means resorted to for promoting their passage through the legislature; when we see men thus crawling beneath the feet of a faction—throwing from them the feelings of high honour which ought to animate Englishmen —condescending to misre present facts, and even to eat their own recorded words—such forbearance and forgiveness itself be come almost a crime. We live in strange times ; amidst events which would be startling to the most lethargic, if we had not been partially prepared for them by "shadows cast before." We are, as a nation, day by day progressing, and each day faster than in the one which preceded it, towards one of two extremes — die establishment of Popery as the ruling influence in the state, on the one hand; or the repudiation of religion altogether, as having any Et tiled ground in aur institutions, on the other. The middle and safe way of tolerant Protestantism we have long ago deserted ; and we are drifting 110 W between the 'Charybdis of Romanism and the Scylla of Infidelity. We have enfranchised our Roman Catholic fellow countrymen, and admitted them to a share in the councils of the nation. We were making up our finds to see carried by an apostate Ministry and a too subservient Legislature, the endowment of their priesthood. There were few men, however, who thought that the temper of the times would at pre sent permit of our going further. The majority of the public were wrong. They had not measured the depth and breadth of legislative and ministerial faithlessness. They could not see into the recesses of the laboratory of Downing-street, or estimate the power of the Members of our two estates to live under the fumes emitted, and gulp down the results of the Ministry. We have lived to see the first experiment made upon our endurance by the Bill of the Lord Chan cellor in the Upper House, and the Bill of Mr. Watson in the Lower, both having for their object the further removal of the landmarks of Protest antism, as the distinguishing feature of the British Constitution. We will not say that we were quite prepared for either of these measures. We should not have been surprised to see some Member of the Ministry, inflicted by the cacoethes of conciliation, proposing the repeal of a few obsolete statutes, directed against members of the Roman Catholic religion in times when our fathers were more ear nestly Protestant and jealous of the truth than we appear to be in the present day. But we certainly did not expect to see the introduction of the Bulls of the Pope into this country made legal, or the order of the Jesuits, which has been denounced as a pest by every government in Europe, recognised in this once Protestant country. Our Legislators, however, it seems, are more forbearing towards this order, and more forgetful of past events con nected with its history, than ourselves or the ma jority of the public. In the debate on the bill, in the House of Commons, on Wednesday last, we heard the Jesuits styled the purest of the most spotless. They were learned and calumniated men, upon whom the House was challenged to fix the odium of a single crime. Yet where was the professing Protestant member found to accept boldly so impudent . a challenge -•to scatter to the winds, by a reference to the page. of history, which is blackened by the crimes of the order, such au dacious denials of 'fact, and misrepresentations of character ? There was none such found ; there was only a hesitating and hinting demurrer where there should have been a bold and indignant assertion of the truth, which nine-tenths of the world would recognise. Alas, how fallen off is this House of Commons of the present day, from the faith and the courageous assertion of that faith of former Parliaments ! The manliness of Protestantism is gone. It shrinks now from the expression of its convictions, lest it should be twitted with the crime of " illiberality" or "intolerance." It dare not denounce what even Roman Catholic popes, priests, and monarchs, have denounced. It dare not throw a stone against the order of Jesus, lest it should alight upon the head of a Jesuit in disguise in the shape of a Ca binet Minister, or a professing Protestant member ! The Jesuits are a learned and a pious order—so runs the cant of the day in Parliament and out of it;—an order devoting itself exclusively to good works,—to the spread of education, to the prose lytism of the heathen, to the enlargement of the boundaries of Christ's fold, and to nothing secu lar—nothing besides. They walk our streets hum bly fixed on the ground, and not a trace of spiritual or temporal pride to be discerned in their features or their carriage. But is it so in lands where the Church of Rome is more rampant than it is as yet in our own land ? We quote the following from the Paris correspondent of the Cheltenham Looker on as our reply :-- " As the Jesuits are forbidden in France, I know not how it happened (especial:) , as their own recent acts have lately revived the law which had slumbered in their fa vour), hut, happen as it might, the fact is, a Jesuit preached to the Queen, the royal family, and the densest multitude that ever crowned St. Ruch. Making allow ance for angry feelings at the law revived against his or der, for the death-blow struck by " Mich-let" against the undue influence of priesthood, concede all that is pos sible, and it still will be difficult to believe that this Jesuit glanced from his pu!pit at politics, and insinuated, if not spoke against, the reigning family ! The following Sun day, emboldened, I presume, by impunity, or lashed to wrath by angry meditation, he dared to speak of the reigning family as the origin of evils, as a curse, rather than a blessing, to the land. But, said he, who was the father of the King who reigns? Was it not one who styled himself 'EgaliteP and can it be wondered that the son of such a man should follow the footsteps (suivi les vas) of such a father!!! The Queen sat in silence till the set mon ended. Insult, gross and unprovoked, had been offered to one dearer than her life ; to one whose fair 1 fame is to her more infinitely pricious than the crown I she shares. She sent for the Cure, and told him that ' St. Roch could be her palish church no more.' The Cure, as may be supposed, was ' desol6,'—penitent, and grieved beyond measure. Ile assured her Majesty that the Jesuit should never be suffered to preach again. ' This is surely significant enough with respect to the dangerous character and the insolence of this order. The following, which we quote from the Morning Herald, is equally to the point : The Journal de Rouen publishes the following letter from a Paris correspondent on the subject of an address to the King of the French, on his recent escape from assassination : _ " The Kine had received, the evening before his ft!te, the Archbishop of Paris, who came to pay him the custo mary compliments. The archbishop's addre,s was little enough in conformity with the necessities of the moment —with the turn of men's minds—with the ideas of the Court—and even so unsuitable in form, as to astonish all who heard it. The King was much offended ; and during the evening, in the midst of his family and household, he seven,' times manifested his displeasure and his emo tion." Surely when an order cannot repress its arrogance in the presence of a crowned head, on an occasion such as that which called the Archbishop of Paris into the presence of Louis Philippe, viz., to con gratulate him on his escape from the bullet of his assassin, it is not likely to continue very forbearing and humble in a country where its members are petted and fawned upon as " learned men," " ca lumniated men," " pious and persecuted men," and where they see that every fresh claim is met with an increased measure of concilia.ion, and that they have only to ask a little to receive more than the amount of their demand. We have been most gratified to observe the cor diality, with which the proposition of Mr. Procter to appropriate the Wavertree-hall estate, purchased by the Council as the site of a new Prison, to the far more fitting purpose of providing, in conjunction with the Botanic Gardens, a park for the recreation of the inhabitants has been received. We shall thus, at a cheap rate too, provide for the keeping open permanently of one lung to the eastward of this rapidly increasing town. We shall prevent this beautiful portion of our out-skirts from being over run and deformed by those jerry-built erections which, though when first run up with their goodly outsides and their lath and plaster internal arrange ments bear the appearance of decent dwellings, and are eagerly occupied with respectable tenants, be come in a very brief space dilapidated nests of dis ease and fertile disseminators of impurity. Inde pendent of the uses of such a park as might be formed in this locality, its being secured by parties who would lay down a stringent building plan, in case of a portion of it being appropriated for build ing purposes, would be a boon of no ordinary value; and the removal of the prison, with which the neighbourhood was threatened to be injured, to some other available site is an event for which the inhabitants of the neighbourhood will be duly grateful. In connexion with this subject the suggestion of Mr. John Stewart that, in the laying out of this property for the use proposed, some broad and com prehensive plan should be devised, by which it might be worked along with the Newsham-ball estate, purchased last year, and a broad belt of open space secured round the Lancashire outskirts of the town was excellent. We trust it is not yet too late for Mr. Stewart's views to be carried out. With the Prince's Park and the Dingle at the south end of the town, the Wavertree property and the Botanic Gar dens, the Newsham-hall estate on the east, we are al ready more than half provided for the wants of the town in this respect. The only further desideratum would he a similar property to be laid out as a park for the northern end of the town, which might pro bably be found somewhere at the back of Everton and Kirkdale, provided with which it could scarcely be said that the town is unprovided with ventilating outlets, or the inhabitants with places of healthful recreation and enjoyment. By laying out such laws judiciously for the erection upon a portion of them of Villa residenees, handsome streets or squares, the venture on the part of the Corporation would not, we conceive, be a costly or a dangerous one. Had some such effort been made ten or fifteen y e ars ago, the Corporation would at the present time have been in the receipt of a large surplus of interest upon their investment; the outskirts of the town would not have presented their present strug gling and unsightly appearance, and the health of the population would have been materially preserved. The effort may, however, be made safely even yet. Liverpool is not doomed to see her rapid extension checked. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LIVERPOOL MAY SESSIONS. The sessions opened yesterday, before Gilbert Hender son, Esq., the Recorder. The calendar was unusually heavy, considering the short period that has eiapsed since the last sitting of the court, there being no fewer than 88 prisoners charged with felony, and 13 for misdeanaeatiours. Of these, 38 could rend and write imperfectly, 8 cou l d read and write well, 19 could read imperfectly, and 28 could neither read nor write. . The following gentlemen were sworn in to act as the GRAND JURY: William Fothergill Robinson, T.thebarn-street, bide merchant. foreman. William Ashley. Water-street. merchant. John Barne- Braneker, Exchange-alley North, broker. William Butterfield Colton, Oldhall.street, hide broker. Christopher James Corbally. Fenwick-stteet, merchant. John Coward, India- building , , cotton broker. John Irving Curie, North John-street, merchant. Thomas Philip Danson, Exchange-alley North, cotton broker, William Rathbone Duncan, Catherir e-street, merchant. Thomas Stewart Gladstone, Oldhall.street, breker. John Bore, George's-dock Gates, corn merchant. James Middleton, liumford-pace, merchant. Robert !WA ndrew, North John-street, fruit merchant. Daniel Mather, Mount- pleasa,t, ent!eman. Charle, Melbuish, Castle-street, merchant. Henry Murray, Rumford-street. merchant. John Moore Priestman, Chapel-street, merchant. Henry Alexander Stewart, Cable-street, ship broker. George Adams Tinley, Toxteth-park, sharebroker. George Johnson Wainwright, Dale-street, broker. The RECORDER delivered the following address. He said—" Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, the cases you are assembled to consider depend on the principles of the cri minal law, so familiar as to render any particular direc tions from me superfluous, especially as it will be in your power at any moment to command my best assistance if any c ise of doubt or difficulty should present itself. There is one charge of assault which seems to have arisen out of one of those disputes which exist between the workmen and the masters engaged in trades connected with build ing. Deplorable as such a contest is, it is still some satis faction to observe that it has hitherto been con ducted without those scenes of violence and disorder which have sometimes occurred on similar occasions. If the same spirit of conformity to the law should continue to, and it will be a strong proof, not only of the increased intelligence of the parties concerned, but also of their due sense of social duty. It is lamentable to think that the labour of so many skilful artificers should be so long suspended, and that the fruits which might naturally be expected from their exertions have been lost, not only to them elves, but to the community at large. However, gentlemen, as the law gives me no power to interfere to settle these disputes, 1 shall abstain from offering any opinion upon their merits. Gentlemen, the calendar contains the names of 112 persons to be tried for felony or misdemeanor, and I think it will hardly be possible for you to contemplate such a mass of crime without feeling an anxious wish for its diminution. In fact, gentlemen, this is a point not merely of local but of national impart ance. The government has for some years past found the proper disposal of between four and five thousand con victs, who are annually sentenced to transportation, a sub ject of extrome embarrassment and difficulty; and a new colony called North Australia is now being established at public expense. partly to receive those persons, and relieve our other settlements in that part of the globe, who complain of the oppression arising to them from the in flux of these unhappy persons. Now, Gentlemen, with a view to this state of things and to the diminution of crime, of the means at present untried there is none that seems to hold out more hope of good effects than the improve ment, and further improvement of our penal institutions. Gentlemen, the subject of prisons and prison discipline has of late years attracted a deep attention on the part of the most enlightened nations. It has been the topic of a speech from the throne in France. France, Prussia, and England have severallyiinstituted inquiries into the experience of the United States. The results of these inquiries are before the world ; and I only adopt the opinion of much better judges when I say that the value and importance of what is called " the separate system," and its superiority to all other means hitherto discovered for the treatment of prisoners, is now fully established. Gentlemen, of the truth of this opinion our local government seems at an early period to have been fully aware. That appears from the steps which they tl:en took. Unforeseen obstacles have since occurred to retard the completion of their intentions. Years have passed away, and it is now impossible that Liverpool should be foremost, but let us hope that it will not be the last to avail itself of those improvements from which we may most naturally look for a diminution of crime. The grand jury then retired to their room for the dis patch of business, and shortly after sent several bills into court. The trials during the day were unimportant, the particulars of them having already appeared in our pike reports. The following were the results up to the closing of the court in the evening : _ Margaret Bullen—acquitted. Matthew M'Coy—ten years' transportation. James Williams—five calendar months, twice whipped. James M'Keown—seven years' transportation. Hugh Doyle—two calendar months. Michael Phillips—seven years' transportation. John Sullivan—fourteen days, four days solitary, and once whipped. William and Daniel Kelly—each four calendar months. Elizabeth Burns—acquitted. Robert Speight—three calendar months, once whipped. Edwd. M' Caffery—four calendar months, oi.ce whipped. The Bishop of Chester has licensed the Upper Room of the Church of EnglLnd North School, Bond-street, for the celebration of divine service until a church can be built for the district of Bevington. On Sunday next the room will be opened for the purpose, when the Rev. A. Campbell, and the Rev. F. A. Power, the minister of the district, will officiate. Baptisms and churchings will be administered every Sunday afternoon. ORANGEISM.—GRATIFYING MARK OF RESPECT. — On Wednesday evening last, the Brethren of L 0. L., No. 42, who met at Brother Marshall's, Edge-hill Coffee house, presented their W. Master with a very handsome silver snuff box, bearing a suitable inscription, as a token of their great esteem, and high admiration of the able and courteous manner in which he has discharged the onerous duties of his office. We believe that this is the first in stance on record of a similar gift from a local lodge. We beg to call attention to the advertisement in our columns this day of the anniversary sermons and meet ings of the Church Missionary Society. We feel it unnecessary to say anything in commendation either of the excellent society or the object, both being already sufficiently advoceed and appreciated in our town ; and we are convinced that the liberality manifested at former anniversaries will be exhibited in equal if net larger mea sure at the next. We are happy to find that in addition to the deputation named in our advertisement, the Rev. F. Close, of Cheltenham, will plead the cause of the so ciety at St Michael's Church, on Friday. 291 h May not the 22d, as was supposed by some. Hand-bills with particulars of the meetings, sermons, and preachers, &c., can be had at our office. CHARGE OF &TV ALING WEARING APPAREL, &C., AND OF RECElVlNG.—Yesterday, at the police-court, a girl named Fanny Larkin, (residing in New Milk-street), and three women, Ann Rogers, Margaret Goggerty, and Mary Murray, were charged, the two first with stealing wearing apparel, &c., from the shop of Mr. M'Kenna, auctioneer and general furniture broker, Manchester-street, and the others for receiving the property, which. it appeared. was of hut trifling value. The evidence of the complainant and his witnesses went chiefly against the girl, but it ap peared that her mother, who as well as herself had been in the service of complainant, had been committed a short time ago on a similar charge, and that the daughter had thereupon been sent for to take charge of the house and what was in it, for the nature of which list she was not to be held responsible. The evidence against the other pri soners was by no means conclusive, and the whole four were discharged. LOCAL BILLS BEFORE PARLIAMENT.—A resume of the exact condition of the local bills now before the legis lature may not be without interest. The Dock Bill was under the consideration of the Standing Orders Committee of the El ease of Lords, last Tuesday, and it passed unanimously. This circumstance. however, is no indica tion of peace; for in the committee on the merits, a strenuous attempt, we understand, will be made to re introduce the warehouse building clause, whilst the good people en the other side the Mersey are by no means satisfied with the issue of their exertions in the Commons to procure a landing stage at George's Pier, for the ex clusive use of the ferry steamers. Hitherto no steps have been taken in the house to obtain a locus standi before the committee, by the parties who wish to retain the building clause ; but no doubt they will, in due time. As to the landing stages, the Birkenhead Commissioners are backed by a host of petitions, namely, from the inhabitants of Birkenhead, Chester, Trentnere, Neston, Bebington, Eastham, H o ot o n,Bromborough,Seacombe,Newßrighton, and Egremont ; from owners and persons interested in certain steam vessels running between Liverpool and ports in Ireland, Scotland, and other places ; from certain coal and salt proprietors; from owners of flats and other river craft, frequenting the port of Liverpool ; from the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company ; and from certain masters of fiats plying on the Mersey. The Sana tory Bill, the Paving, Sewering, and Watering Bill, the Liverpool Water Bill, the Harrington 'Water Works Bill, and the Toxteth-park Improvement Bill, go int) com mittee this day (Tuesday.) The committee will consist of the South Lancashire list, and the following selected members :—Mr. h . G. Ward, Mr. Gisborne, Hon. F. Berkeley, Mr. Rice Clayton, and Mr. M'Geachy. A great number of petitions against these bills have been referred to the committee and counsel ord,red. The committee on the Liverpool Improvement Bit is post poned until Thursday next. Mr. J. B. Lloyd is a pe titioner against it, probably only for . chiuses. The pro prietors of the Mersey and 'resell Navigation Company have petitioned against the He rculaneum . Dock Bill. In fact, all our local bills are opposed on different gi - ounds, and the several contests appear to promise considerable employment to all the parties engaged in them for at least a month or six weeks. TESTIMONIAL.—The following testimonial is well de. served : " The undersigned passengers in the ship New York, cannot take leave of its commander, Captain T homas B. Cropper, without expressing, most unfeignedly, their high sense of his merits as a skilful, prudent, and vigi lant officer; and their sincere appreciation of his conduct, as a courteous and accomplished gentleman. They tender to him their thanks, and avail themselves of this occasion to convey to him their warmest w ishes for h is future wel fare. " William F. Speer, Franklin Osgood and Rev. E. Lepelletrie, family, P. Mathews , F. A. Huntington , Rev. James Petrie, John C. Orton, J Bateman. E. Mills. William Todhunter, Albt. J. Tobias, Washington GreenhOW. " Liverpool, May Stb, 1444." ,ORRIBLE INFANTICIDES! POISONING A FAMILT .AT 11UNCORN TO OBTAIN FUNERAL MONEY. The hitherto peaceable and delightful little town of Run,lorn has been lately very considerably excited owing to the disclosure of most horrible offences—offences which, for the credit of human nature, we seldom either hear or read of. In the present case the parents of three children were taken into custody on a charge of murdering two of their own offspring, and attempting the life of the re maining child by the administration of arsenic. Their names are Joseph and Mary Pimlet, the former being a ship carpenter, and both, for the position in life in which they move, being considered respectable characters. They took up their residence in Runcorn about seven or eight months ago. At that time the husband was a member of the Weaverham Friendly Society, which allows a small sum for funeral expenses on the death of a member or any portion of his family. About the same period the children were entered as members of the Liverpool Vic toria Legal Burial Society—a society which collects sub scriptions of one penny per week for persons above five years old, and, in case of death, pays £5 at the expiration of twenty-four weeks' payment as funeral money; and one halfpenny per week under five years, and £2 10s. as funeral money. On the 6th of March last, James Pimlet, a boy only ten months old, died, and there being some circumstances connected with his death which required an investigation, an inquest was held before Henry Churton, Esq., the county coroner, and on the evidence of the mother, a verdict of "found dead" was returned. On the 16th of the same month another child, Richard Pimlet, aged four years and six months, was taken ill. That child died on the 21st, and was buried, at the request of the father, under the coffin of the former. On Monday, the twenty-seventh of April, a third child, named Thomas Pimlet, about three years old, was taken ill, and attended by Mr. Edward Pye, surgeon, who bad also seen the former child, and who had been induced to give a certificate of its death from the plausible represen tations of the mother. Thomas exhibited such symp toms as led Mr. Pye to suppose that he was labouring at the time under an attack of indigestion, in consequence of which he administered a purgative powder, with a view of getting rid of the irritation. Something, however, oc curring during the day, and the following morning, to ex cite suspicion. Mr. Pye deemed it necessary to place him self in communication with the proper authorities, and it is mainly owing to the judicious conduct pursued by this gentleman, and the talent and ability he has displayed, that the whole affair has been brought to light. He very properly narrowly watched the conduct and treatment pursued by the mother towards the only remaining child, principally with a view of taking care that another life was not sacrificed. On Wednesday morning, Mr. Pye called at the house of the parents, prepared to get hold of a portion of the ejects of the clb], with a view of as certaining whether his suspicions regarding her conduct towards the child had any foundation in fact ; but al though she told him, at his surgery, that the child had been very sick, and in consequence he bad directed her to preserve the vomit, yet she then said that the child had not thrown up at all, and thus artfully avoided producing the ejecta. She, however, entertained him with relating a dream, which she said she had had the previous night. She said she had seen her two deceased children taking hold of each other's hands in heaven ; that the elder, Richard, said " Mother, don't fret about Tommy, he is corning to us in a fortnight—there is a place prepared for him in heaven." She added, that on that morning the sick child, Thomas, had said to her, " Mother, don't put me Richard's shoes on ; I'll have my own on, for I am going to Richard and James." On Saturday, the autho rities deemed it requisite to act energetically, and accord. ingly the coroner was communicated with, and both the father and mother were taken into custody, and, we un derstand sufficient evidence has been obtained since to prove distinc'ly that arsenic had been administered to Thomas. The coroner, Mr. Churton, immediately or dered the bodies of the decea-ed children to be exhumed, and summoned Mr. Pye to make a post mortem exami nation of their bodies, which that gentleman did, assisted by Mr, Hutchinson, of this town. An inquest was held at the time, but adjourned to Saturday last, for the pur psse of giving time to perfect the requisite evidence. Accordingly on Saturday morning the jury c'.nsisting, of fourteen respectable and intelligent gentlemen, assem bled at the Royal Hotel, with Henry Churton, Esq., the coroner, to inquire into the cause of the deaths of James and Richard Pimlet. _ _ The father and mother were brought into the inquest room in cu , tody. The father was dressed in fustian trousers aid blue slop. His conduct during the inquiry appeared proper and b, , coming. The mother was respect ably dressed in mourning. Her ftelings during the in quiry, which lasted from ten o'clock until nearly five in the afternoon, were often so much excited that she had difficulty in supporting herself. The evidence of two of the neighbours, which had been given at the previous inquiry, was read over. It merely detailed the circumstances attending the deaths of the deceased so far they were acquai,ted with them. They added that both the father and mother appeared affec tionate and kind to their children. It was also proved that the female prisoner had purchased arsenic at the shop of a druggist in Runcorn, previous to Thomas being taken ill. The next piece of evidence was that of Mr. Edward Pye, surgeon, of Runcorn, who deposed that the deceased. Richard Pimlet, was brousht to his surgery on Monday, the 16th March last. He did not appear to be particularly ill. There was very little con stitutional disturbance. The mother stated that the child had been sick. His bowels had not been opened since the previous morning. Conceiving that the child might have taken some improper food, he gave it an aperient powder. On Tuesday, the child had had its bowels freed with the powder, and was better. On Wednesday, the mother again brought the child ; it was then complaining of vomiting and purging, and was ordered to have some alternative medicine. This was the lest time he saw de ceased alive. On Friday morning, the mother informed him that the child had complained of pain in the stomach and bowels, and was very thirsty on the previous after noon, and died in the evening. There were other symp toms, also, which led him to infer that the child had died in convulsions, and he gave a certificate of death ac cordingly. This he gave, not on his own knowledge, but on the representation of the mother. On Monday, the 27th of April, he made a post mortem examination of the body, in obedience to instructions received from the coroner. He had no difficulty in identifying the body as being that of the child which had been brought to his sur gery. The body was that of a child in full flesh ; and the progress of decomposition appeared, from some cause or other, to have been retarded. On opening the chest and abdomen, the viscera presented no external signs of disease. He tied the oesophagus about its middle, and removed the lower portion, together with the diaphragm, stomach, and the remainder of the abdominal viscera, ex cept the bladder; he also removed small portions of each lung. On opening the stomach, a yellow deposit was found spread on the MUCUOUS coat, and was greater in the more depending portion of that organ. The mucuous lining around the cardine and pyloric orifices was exceedingly vascular. The deposit appeared blended with the mucous coat, and in some places had penetrated through to the muscular layer, and could not, without considerabie diffi culty, be parted from it. This occu red where the deposit appeared concentrated, and was distinctly marked with such patches of vascularity. There was no ulceration. The yellow deposit was found, not only in the stomach, but nearly throughout the small and large intestines. These appearances are such as would be produced by an irritial poison, such as arsenic. They could not have been pro duced by natural causes. He did not, when deceased was brought to him, suspect the presence of mineral poison. He bad taken the stomach and two pieces of the small intestines for the purpose of being analysed. They were now in the possession of Dr. Brett, of Liverpool. By a Juryman.—Arsenic was an antiseptic, and would have the effect of preserving the stomach and body gene rally. By the Foreman.—Ulceration was sometimes a result of poisoning by arsenic. It was absent in ibis case. By the Mother.—Could not remember her bringing the child to him on the Sunday evening. She might have done, nevertheless. By the Father.—He might have ordered a warm bath in the course of treatment. Could recollect ordering a mustard poultice to the pit of the stomach. On the Ist May, witness made a post mortem exami nation cf the body of James Pimlet. The external ap pearances led hint to the conclusion that tl,e deceased had been a remarkably stout child for his age. There was slight decomposit on about the mouth and nostrils ; the abdomen was much inflated, but not discoloured by decomposition. On dissecting back the integuments of the chest, the whole of the internal organs presented signs if recent death, but no appearance of diseased action. The peritoneum covering of the stomach and intestines was remarkably white and glistening. He tried the mso phagus high up, and removed the whole abdominal viscera. The vessels of the brain were slightly congested, but pre sented no decided evidence of disease. The brain itself was healthy. The internal surface of the stomach was very vascular, and also the intestines, but not to the same extent. The greater portion of the internal viscera was conveyed to Dr. Brett, of Liverpool, for the purpose of being analyzed, without detailing any decisive evidence of poison. Witness also retained a portion of the stomach, abdominal viscera, and brain of the body of Richard. He analyzed a portion of the fluid contents of the stomach, and proved it to contain arsenic in portions of the brain, kidneys, spleen, liver, and oesophagus. [The witness produced several glass tubes before the jury, which ex hibited very clear specimens of chrystalized arsenic ] He added, that when arsenic was taken into the stomach, or applied to an external wound, it very soon, became absorbed. By the Jury.—lt did not necessarily follow that ulcers should be found in the stomach after Beath had been caused by arsenic. Should think in the present case that arsenic had been administered in very small and repeated doses. Dr. Brett, lecturer on chemistry and modical jurispru dence in Liverpool School of Medicine, was next called. He stated that he made an analysis of portions of the body of Richard Pimlet. The surface of the mucus membraue, he found, was covered with yellow patches, which lie had reason to suspect was sulphuret of arsenic. He there fore converted the sulphur into sulphuric acid, and re tained the arsenic in a metallic state. He next examined the tissues of the stomach, which. were as free as possble from the yellow stains, and obtained decided evidences of the presence of arsenic, from which he inferred that arse nic had not been administered in a state of sulphuret. He also found arsenic in the liver, spleen, and lungs. The next day he analyzed the contents of the st oma ch , which was a - fluid of a brownish colour, and measured about f 3 ounces. The learned gentleman detailed a va riety of modes he adopted with th is fluid, the result of which proved that about eleven g rains of white arsenic were contained in it, or, as he stated,'_etiough must have been taken to kill half a dozen persons. Subsequently he analyzed the internal viscera of the body of James Pimlet, the result of which proved most decidedly the presn , : e of arsenic. Mr. R. Hutchinson, surgeon, of Liverpool, fully cor roborated the evidence of Mr. Pye. Thomas Hornby, steward of the Weaverbam Benefit Society, proved that £1 50. hod been paid on the death of one of the children, and £1 15s. on the death of the other. George Penketh Mather, collector for the " Liverpool Victoria Legal Burial Society," was next called. When the testament was tendered to him he declined to be sworn, stating that he bad a conscientious objection to take an oath. In answer to the coroner, he said he was neither Quaker nor Moravian, but a member of the Chris tian Church. Capt. Jackson.—Of what portion of it ? Witness.—l consider there is only one Christian church. In answer to other questi ins, he stated that he attended the Wesleyans, but was not a member of their body. However, after being informed by the coroner that if he refused to give evidence, he bad no alternative but to com mit him until he consented to do so, he at length gave way, and took the required oath. His evidence went to show that all the three children were members of the Liverpool society, of which he was the collector for the Runcorn district ; that 255. had been paid on the death of one child, and £5 on the death of the other. Whe❑ the latter money was paid, the female prisoner entered herself and her husband as members of the society. The sexton of the church proved the burial and disin terment of the bodies. Mr. Richardson, head constable of Runcorn, deposed to apprehending the prisoners on the 28th April. He had since searched the house in the company of Mr. Irwin, special high constable of the hundred, when they found four powders, which were delivered to Mr. Pye. Mr. Pye being recalled, stated that two of the powders were what he had given the female prisoner to be adminis tered to Richard. The other powders were powder blue and mustard. _ The coroner then cautioned the prisoners in the usual way, after which the female entered into a long and ram bling statement respecting the illness of her children, which had very little bearing on the subi.ct of inquiry.. The Coroner then summed up the evidence most mi nutely, pointing out those portions most pertinent to the inquiry. He said there could be no doubt whatever that the death of both children had been produced by the ad ministration of arsenic. There could be no doubt of that if the jury relied on the evidence of Mr. Fye and Dr. Brett, and of the former he might say that the mode in which he had given his testimony proved, most satisfac torily, that he was a gentleman of very considerable talent and ability; and as to the latter, he thought toe character of Dr. Brett was too well established to need one word of commendation. No doubt be was one of the first ana lytical chemists of the day. According to both those gen tlemen, arsenic was found in the bodies, and therefore the jury must consider the other circumstances of the case, and come to such a conclusion as, in their judgment, the evidence would justify. The jury, after a short consultation, found a verdict of WILFUL MURDER against the mother only. On the decision being made known the prisoner burst into tears and loudly protested her innocence. The Coroner issued his warrant for her committal to Chester Castle and she was removed from the room in great distress. The husband was discharged and he wandered out of the room as if lost in amazement. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-THURSDAY. IN THE QUEEN V. THE COMPTROLLERSHIP OF THE CUS- TOMS OF THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL. An application was made for a mandamus to the defen dant to return to the Court why he did not admit to the register a British-built ship, the Aquada. There was a strong array of counsel. The question turned on the construction of the 23rd section of the last Shipping Registration Act, as tl the admissibility of a British-built ship, owned by foreigners, in company with others who were British subjects, to registration under 'the Navigation Acts. The Court interrupted the argument, directing that a return be made to the mandamus, when this very impor tant question to many shipowning companies may he raised on the return, and fully discussed and formally decided. May 12, 184&. AMERICA AND MEXICO. Late advices have just been received vid Falmouth, by j ship Eloßander, from Boston. Th; Boston Advertiser states, " that there is a wider dirf efem zt of opinion between the actual views of the two Goveraam,,ts than the public have been led to suppose." Th e m a maiusetts Legislature aiijourued on the 16th ultimo to the earl) Part of January, 1847. reOarz.he u in at New Ori t e a a t n e : . , at the dispo sall‘olfr.thSelidGtrel will rt/tnerit o By a communication from Washington, of the 15th ult., it appears " that the earrespondeoce which has taken place between Mr. Al`Lane and the Unitel States Govern• ment was understood to be of an unfavourable character. Though the letters of Mr. M'Lane, to which Mr. Web• ster referred in his speech on the no:ice question, were not communicated bv the President, yet they have been seen by some of the - Senators, and are represented as un favourable to a resumption of the negotiation. It has been hoped that the President had, through Mr. M`Lane, responded to theideclaration of Sir R. Peel, by expressing a desire on the part of the United States Government to receive an offer, and that the British Gozerument would accordingly make' one. None his been made." It was anticipated' at Vera Cruz, that General Alraonte would be sent on a mission from the M-xican Government to England. He had arrived as far as Falapa, on his way' to the sea-coast. Many doubted his accepting the mis sion ; others, that he contemplated a new revolution. Pa redes has declared himself a Republican, and that he had only allowed the recent a titles on the subject of " Mon archial projects" for his country to appear as they had doll , : in El Tempo newspaper for the sake of free discus. sion. THE STRIKE OF THE OPERATIVE BUILDERS. The weekly meeting of the master builders was held yesterday, at the Portico, Newington. In the unavoid able absence of Mr. Tomkinson, Mr. Jour; JouNso was called to the chair. Letters were read from severe:, railway contractors, approving of a defensive association of masters, and stating their desire to co-operate with them fur thst object. A letter was also read from the Manchester committee, to the effect that the roles• of the general association were nearly prepared, and would be ready for submission to the approval of the several local boards in a short time. It was reported that several of the masters had succeeded in procuring additional men, and that the applications to be taken on were daily increasing. Mr. WALKER, of Birkenhead, stated that he and his partner had a number of bricklayers now at work, in addition to a large number of joiners; tied that the whole of their workmen had subscribed a document to the effect that they had abandoned the unions. It was stated that a mechanic who had subscribed tootle of the clubs (called " a benefit society"), and who had met with an accident, was refused any relief by his society, in consequence of his having returned to his work. This case was referred to the committee for investigation, the refusal of relief to the man, under the circumstances, being considered unjust and illegal. Mr. S. HOLME proposed the establishment of a be nevolent society on a comp.( hensive scale, to be called " The Builders' Benevolent Society ; " to be conducted' by a joint committee of masters and workmen, and to' which all masters should be invited to suescribe. He proposed that the funds should be invested in Govern- , merit securities, and offered, on behalf of himself and partner, to contribute towards its formation. This suggestion was warmly received by every one present, and a general feeling was evinctd that such a society would be of great benefit to the working classes, by affording them an eligible and secure investment for the savings of the working clas , es. It was agreed that tbe men now at work should be immediately requested to join it. Mr. Johnson, Mr. Kilpin, and other gentlemen pro posed a delay of a week, in arder to make inquiries as to the best mode of carrying out the object in view, which was agreed to, so that the subject aid be resumed at the neat meeting. It was intimated that Mr. R. V. Yates had agreed to postpone some building in the Prince's Park, and that this was most handsomely conceded, inasmuch as the sus pension of the works was a great inconvenience to him at loss of time. Some other matters of secondary importance were then discussed, and the meeting adjourned until Monday next. At the two meetings of the Birmingham and Midland Railway Companies the amount of capit,l represented in the rooms, taken collectively, was-£10,003.0(t0. The English bar is composed of a:,)ve 3080 barristers, exclusive of 28 serjeants-at-law. There are 74 Queen's counsel. On Friday, the proprietor of the Dublin World news paper, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, for a libel on a clergyman. In the first week of this present month of May. there were ten thousand quarters of wheat and nearly seven thousand quarters of oats imported from Ireland into the single port of Liverpool. It is currently reported that there is every probability that the conservative member for Oxford, Donald Mac lean, Esq., will, in a few days, accept the Chiltern Hun dreds. The New York packet-ship Liverpool, which left that port on the 21st ult., was off Holyhead at six last right, and will no doubt be up in time for an early second edition._ THE RECENT ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE.—It is cone fidently said that the marriage of Lady Anna Gtenville, only daughter of the Duke of Buckingham, and Mr. Langton will not be solemnised before the week after next. The Caledonia steamship, which would leave Boston on Ist instant, may be expected here to-morrow or Thursday. Tne Great Western, which was to leavi: New York on Thursday last, will probably arrive at this port at a yerr early pt', lad of next week. PROTESTANT TRACTS.—It will be seen that the active committee of the Liverpool Protestant and Reformation Society, through their desire to spread scriptural princie pies, have opened a depot in London-road, for the sale of Protestant tracts. A reading-room and library, formemem bers of the association, is also open at the same place. THE UNICORN.—This fine steam ship. commanded hi Captain Delamore, arrived at Boston on the 17,th.ultimo . Her passage was prolonged in consequence of western gales and by a detention of about a week in the ice. She afterwards put into St. John's, Newfoundland, w hence she sailed for Halifax on the 14th. IRON TRADE.—The price of Scotch pig iron has, this week, manifested no appearance of receding. For: the best brands of all, No. 1, from 68s. to 70,. has to be paid , and from 635. to Cbs. for the other numbers, according as they are assorted. This article being now mostly out the hands of needy holders, may be expected to contine° firm. Scotch bars remain at .£lO per ton, and plates e' £l3 10s., with a brisk demand. --Scotch paper, Saturday MIDDLE TEMPLE, MAY 9.—The undermentione d members of the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple have been called to the bar :—Mr. J. C. Jones, Mr. W. "' Doyle, Mr. E. Boscawen, Mr. G. Roope, Mr. A. Ge.: nine, Mr. W. H. Claridge, Mr. W. F. B. Staples, 2 5 .,' J. G. B. Hudson, Mr. D. M. Logic, Mr. J. H. 1....-Vtitet, field, Mr. H. W. Morris, Mr. D. R. Blaine, Mr. '" Nalder, Mr. J. Bower, and Mr. E. K. Rodorell. Ire , A rumour is afloat in the city to the effeat • that tie, is to be an immediate consolidation of the Board of 0'; cise and the Board of Stamps and Taxes, so as to lea d only one revenue board for customs or foreign duties,„el t e l one for inland duties. It is even said that Sir R. r,`.. intends to make this arrangement part of his forthcotel budget. The repeal of many of the excise duties, e s , the expected repeal of others render some change nec..:4 sary, and the present united revenues of both the exi s ; l o boards do not amount to so large an income, it is sale' was formerly collected by one board alone. ki% The Electors of the County of Monmouth are 1ne,..01 the most strenuous exertions to reliese themselves 11 9 e, being represented by Lord Granville Somerset, in ec ri f r ee quence of his lordship's advocacy of the governmen t trade policy. A requisition to Captain Edward Somer_!:i calling on him to stand for the county on protecti?lfj, principles, has been signed by upwards of thirteen Duo. dred electors, in eighty-five parishes, while as yet I TbeS• turn has been made of the remaining sixty-one ner' s lo pt The Monmouthshire Beacon of Saturday opens eptbie leading azticl e on the s u bj ec t as f o ll ows :—" We h al- e olf day a most painful duty to perform—publicly and 0 1 3 410 . to dissolve our political connexion with Lord Gr an ola , Somerset, and to withdraw the support which vve,„,,.;eo , always tunct to rprld.r. rand ron"%tioa to him, as the head end representative of the !'rote' and Conservative feeling in this county." hue 111 1 1 THE IRISH MAAKETS.—The weather during I tu reg x gric,!,, the week in Ireland was rather favourable for operations. In the midland and southern conlip s ter potatoes are nearly all planteti. In Connaught an u ,„d field labour appears to have` been seriously retaractstoes the late heavy rains, but it is expected that the P,. ° . will be planted before the close of the ensuing wee,' o l, re', shoots of the early potato seed are reported to te ro ble markably healthy, and increased confidence is ebß e n uinfr, in all quarters amongst the small farmers, who ar e i r s tnet ing rather more than their usual quantity of P ° .. n pliev --. The markets have fallen in all directions, and the of food are fully equal to the demand. At N,, lr re o, 4th hi ; Friday, potatoes, oatmeal, oats, and barley, bited in large quantities and at reduced Pric e _ e rec". , Telegraph says :—" At half.past twelve o'clock 7 .1 „ ems, oned 167 loads of potatoes in the market, and he__u e :,ol had the least appearance of disease." There are .rr er i ott ; from the counties of Kildare. Carlow. Cork,eq 7 Armagh, Londonderzy, and Westmeath, of 00 gratifying character 11 , LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, M Y sti ost i o l ' es tTd to oday. ; Ni aT2›.°.°. LIVERPOOL ,IOI, : 12, 1846. s .„ 4 6, TUESDAY, PRINTED AND PUBLISHE D •,,, 1 - EVERY TUESDAY 111 Gl' , DV pet & Su JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53. Grove-str--„;. Orders and Advertisements are received by LEONARD ADDISON', of 14, Great Orford ett e ,,, - „,, g oi At No. 4, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCSNT LIVERr--‘.,01014,, esSlSiT ee t.St r p. CO , Warwick-square ; Barker and Whiteabole9l3%4o" Deacon, Walbrook ; Reynell.Chancery -lane' Corehill: pool' Birehin.lane ; Joseph Thomas, 1. Finch -lane. i. 8 . Re col' den Hammond, .27, Lombard - street ; Mite c ::tle-ol fts .ia ti V court, Fleet-street ; Lewis and Lowe. 3. -- mitiC.l. Cr: hill; at the Londou Commercial Coliee-house' oar er ics" at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, CornhiNouth Atesose fee-house, Paternoster•row ; North end., 9, Al e v - 0b_ 4 . 1.1 Coffee house. Threadneedle-street ; Pers °- QtleY , varr — .., lane, London ; Johnston and Co.• Eli , bittnieprzi Wheeler Exchange-street, and C H• Manchester; Haddock, and J. and W. so o°o dV I . Warrington; Clarke, Pilot-office, Preston i lin, Herald-office, Birinizsghtwo, NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. The brilliant expectancy of this meeting is now almost beyond a doubt, and will rival any previous gathering on the Heath. luesday's racing will be principally composed of matches, Lords Glasgow, Exeter, and Bedford, posting the principal portion of the " roudy." Wednesday will furnish a better day's sport. A Handi cap Sweepstakes, the Jockey Club Plate, and the Three years-old Sweep, the acceptances of which I am not now in possession of. The principal attraction of the meeting being the Suffolk Stakes (Handicap), with 17 acceptances, will produce a good field of the right sort—Corranna, Ruff, Marquis of Conyngham, and Maynooth, of North ampton notoriety, besides others of considerable preten sions, out of which I will try to select a winner. Lady Wildair, Maynooth, or the Marquis of Conyngham must be near by. Thursday's principal feature will be the result of the Two-years-old Sweepstakes. The list will have nearly the following : Eothen, Blacklock, Brother to Pawn broker, Dromedary, Lord Lonsdale's br. f., Vampire, and Broad Sword. The winner here is not ECP dif ficult to trace as in handicapped races—Lord Lone dale's br. f., Dromedary, or Brother to Pawnbroker, the latter for choice. Several matches will comprise the whole; but, doubtless, should the weather prove fine, plenty of sport will crown the result of the Second Spring Meeting.—Yours, &c. SOMNAMBULIST. P.S.—The Derby will have a touch of our crow quill. LATEST BETTING AT CHESTER. DERBY. 3 to 1 agst Sting. 5 1 Sir Tatton Sykes 10 1 Fancy Boy (taken). 10 1 Tom Tolloch (taken). 18 1 The Traverser (taken). 25 1 Crown Prince. 13 1 John Day's Lot. OAKS , . Offers to take 7 to 1 about Vanish.. As a proof of the extraordinary success of the Chester meeting, we may state that tbP receipts of the Grand Stand amounted to £1.420. We understand that the Race Committee intend to approptiate £lOO out of their greatly increased funds to a new rice fur three year olds, on the first day, to be called " the Chester field Handi cap," and, to insure ample accommodation for the bet ting fraternity, the ball-room at the Royal Hotel will, in future, be opened as a subscription betting-room, an en trance to which, w th the permission of the Marquis of Westminster, will be in Newgate-street. This will be a great accommodation, and the proprietor, we hear, in tends to place a liberal percentage on his receipts at the disposal of the Race Committee. The Stewards for 1847 are the Earl of Chesterfield, Sir J. Gerard, Batt., and Mr. S. Standish, CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.. —At the Birkenhead Police-court, yesterday, a young man, named William M'Clement, was charged by Mr. Primrose, bookseller, of Pitt-street, in this town, with having received several sums of money whilst in his employment, and not ac countaig for them. The prisoner, it appeared, bad been in tie service of Mr. Primrose, as a deliverer of. and canvasser for, periodical works, during which time he had received several payments which he had not accounted for. The c,se not being complete, the prisoner was re manded to this day. CONCERT.—A very excellent concert took place at the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson-street, on WednesdAy even ing last, at which the Misses Williams, Mr. John Parry, Mr. Case, and a multiplicity of other talent appeared. The house was most respectably filled, and elicited re peated encores, and, from first to last, the loudest plau dits. Mies A. Williams was in excellent voice, as also was her sister. Mr. John Parry was, as usual, trium phant; and Mr. Case, who was accompanied, by the piano -forte, played the violin in a style worthy a ::•_%ixori, exhibiting not only a str'ctly musical ear, but a taste and power of execution that denotes a future greteness. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CANNING-STREET.—This building was opened on Stinday, when sermons were preached by the Rev. J. R. Welsh, the minister, and the Rev: T. Guthrie, of Edinburgh. Liberal collections were made after each service. The building has a light and elegant appearance. The bold tower and spire in the front elevation have a fine effect, the top of the spire being 111 feet above Canning-street. The whole of the fronts are faced with white stone, from Stourton. The length inside, exclusive of the staircases, is seventy six feet, and the breadth fifty-four. The height of the ceiling is thirty feet. and the height under the gallery beam is ten and a ball feet. The pulpit, ornamented with crimson velvet, is ap proached by two staircases, one on either side, which adds to the uniformity of the interior ; andahe approaches to the galleries are of easy ascent, and on a new principle. The pews above and below stairs are numerous and spa cious; and the number of long narrow lancet-headed windows to vogue in the thirteenth century, shed a re dundancy of light through the building. At night the church was brilliantly illuminated with gas. We believe Mr. Hay, of St. George's-chambers, was originally em ployed, and prepared the design for this church, which has been partially carried out. CHARGE OF OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE FRE TENCES.—A man having the appearance of a foreman of mechanics, was yesterday brought before Frank Hayward and William Brown, Esqre., the sitting magistrates at the Police-court (in the absence of Mr. Rushton), on a charge of obtaining from Mr. Eastwood, publican ; of Great Cross hall...street, the sum of five shillings, on false pretences. The complainant stated that on Friday, the prisoner called upon him, and enquired if he did not keep a club-house there for mechanics, to which, as such was the fact, he replied in the affirmative. The prisoner said he was glad e ur to hTs p oere whereho e l cevi complainant n(gf, p u ed v ,hafl t anih him, plenty tee, obtainedar,se asked 3n h ky: t e ) es,od, hf 4 two a wodm d o, come hooavintl be2ty ahvonea4n f knno r od o l G. ti me: had procured Brown's joiners, nbnc o aduee w l ersra t sneo i d s otsaotta a t hhi t t ddeei rm ß en hoog batik,fef from, tow o he n n aat e and the ready reply was, "The Branch Bank". Prisoner then said he was loath to change even the £lO note just then, as he did not like to carry so much loose money about him, and as lie wanted a trifle for his immediate ex penses, he would feel obliged if he would let him haie five shillings, which he would return when be came to the club-room to engage the men. Mr. Eastwood in his sim plicity did not, it appeared ask for a sight of the wiles from the stranger, and the latter did not state that he wanted the five shillings on account of Mr. Brown. 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