The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-24 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. ral advts., &c. this town by ti but Le Prince (1 te, brct .er of Napoleon, Cambria, steam- , hip, the Musignuno, son of Lueien te, agec 3rd ultinuo we inserted a letter from a correspondent 'e of regret at the want of Church Accommodation art of the town from the bottom of Shaw's brow to Kir kdale.' We have much pleasure in stating that s efforts are now making for the erection of a Church ighbourhoocl of Roscommon -street, to be dedicated imothy. The trustees are the Rev. Chancellor ley. Dr. Tattershall, Rev. W. W. Ewbank, Charles :sq., and Adam liodgs ,n, Esq., ail most unexcep appointments. We understand that consi :erably up ' r , th-usand pounds are subscribed, and if our cor :d work, lie has now The greater part of to recently taken neighbourhood d that in the irn is a population of upwards of eight thotisandsOnis, itinpool 'ta ibarb. MORNING, itIAR H 24, 1846 have been shown a letter received on Satur m a peer of parliament, in which his lordship It the Government commercial measure will .t of the Lords by a majority of four at .3 the lower house can be brought to a xed duty In conferenc Although the last arrival from America, per mail r Cambria, could not, from the short interval r from her arrival out, with the details of Sir el's proposed measure, and her departure pected to bring any ti - Ing with respect to the feeling with which sures were regarded by the Canadian are not without tolerably sure grounds cting what that feeling will be. With to Canada East—the only part of those _ s country, be ns in which the news had been received— t date, the Montreal Gazette of the 25th s remarks upon them : en Lord John Russell, now some fifteen years ne down with a proposition for demolishing the boroughs, an honourable legislator said that the ity of the proposal " fairly took his breath away." , oldness of the financial scheme of Sir Robert Peel, ig at once at provisions, corn, and timber, at every h of trade in this colony, on the protection of which oducers had relied, has had something of a similar here. The majority yet remain in breathless asto :ent, mingled with no little consternation and alarm, of the less so that we are so remote from the scene of o, and that in all probability the deed will be con iated before our remonstrances can be heard." se writer goes on to state it, as the opinion of najority of the merchants composing the Mon cal Board of Trade, that nothing save some cor mding concessions to the commerce of that nce can save it from gradual decline and ulti extinction. Amongst other concessions they ^nd that Canadian corn and flour should be d into the British market duty-free; and certificate of orijin should not be required; ae present duty on American corn, on its through the province for shipment, should imposed, in order that the Canadian ship should still retain the carriage of it; and that dl provincial duties on produce coming from the Canadian frontier should be repealed. These mea sures, combined with the levying of a moderate rate )f duties on the great canals, and encouragement :ded to the construction of the St. Lawrence Atlantic Railway, the Montreal Board of Trade - :.eive would enable them " to divert into this line ^vigation no inconsiderable portion of the export nport trade of the western states, and even re good deal of their export trade to the West " should a contrary and short ] line of policy be pursued, a melancholy ca - I ;ne is before us." They add We have quoted from this article, not from any on of its intimate bearing upon the question to the probable fate of the Canadas, in :he passing of the ministerial measures .n their present shape; but because the sentiments which they contain are to be stated in a memorial to the home government, by which they will no doubt be used as in sotne measure a reply to the opponents of their policy upon colonial grounds, and moreover because they strongly hear out the state ment of our esteemed correspondent, Mr. Isaac Buchanan, (an important letter from whom appears in another column) that the opinions of such bodies as the Board of Trade, or the merchants generally of Montreal and other ports are not those which ought to be taken as affording a fair reflex of the opinions of the Canadian people, and especially of the agricultural people of Canada West. These gentlemen evidently look only to the continued en joyment of their present profitable connexion with 4 ‘ the export and import trade of the western states" —of Canada and the United States. To protect themselves they are obviously prepared to make the of wheat of Canada West in a worse posi v. would be in by the passing of the onnected with any such delusive ac- They delude themselves, moreover, ite of things, s industry must be from the British crificed to the farmers of Ohio and the r•ri states of the Union—Canada West ave anything to export or can afford to import ; and by supposing that its hardy and enter g settlers would tolerate such treatment by iother country, without taking some resolute to separate that province alike from Great ain and its sister province of Lower Canada. pamme le supposition that, in such a Far more important and trustworthy evidence we nabled to present to our readers in the follow t from the letter of a member of an emi n America, bearing the same date, which ng extr ve here subjoin Dlont,•eal, 25th February, )ility of an American war, which until the al of the packet was the ail engrossing topic, seems to be viewed as but of minor importance, contrasted The poss the evil likely to result to tise province from the con lated changes in the corn laws, and the duties gene- Landed property here is now regarded as worth 50 per cent. less than it was previous to the arrival of the packet. Of course the worst view is the one in which it is now d at With r gard to the immediate effect of these changes in ur produce market, the prevailing- opinion seems to be tlp.t the dearth of bread stuffs at home p will neutralize, to t extent, the evil that would otherwise have resulted at least for this season. It is not expected hat flour will fall in price immediately. It is thought it will open at something between 275. 6d. 0 30s. from them, With such evidence before us, we can well afford to pass by tile sneers of such speakers as Mr. Charles Buller, notwithstanding his vaunted expe rience, his former " official connexion with Canada, and his intimate knowledge of the circumstances of the country,"—which, by the bye, appears to be confined to those of Lower Canada. We feel a deep conviction that in their pursuit of a measure so vitally affecting colonies so important to us— allied to us by so many binding ties of consanguinity .est—vvernment ought to i ause, and, at east, allow their voice to be heard and proper de erence to be paid to their feelings, before they take L step which it may be beyond their power to recal. mother packet, we feel convinced, will bring to this country other and darker representations of the excitement caused in the Canadas by the course which we are pursuing than we have dared as yet to place before our readers. The course of the ministerial customs and corn bill does not promise to be quite as smooth, in its passage through the House of Lords, as it has proved thus far in the House of Commons. Hitherto, the idea of any serious opposition being offered to it by the lords, has been treated as extremely chimerical. The protectionists in that house have been supposed to consist only of such!a body as would be willing to confide themselves to the leadership of men of such ultra views upon the subject as are known to be held by the Dukes of Richmond and Buckingham. The aspect of affairs has, however, been materially a few remarks which fell, on Friday, from - Lord Stanley, which clearly place that noble lord in the position, for which he is well fitted, of the leader of the peers of Great Britain in an effort to resist the domination of the Commons over the two other branches of the legislature, and to procure for the agriculture and the industry of the country afair and reasonable amount of protection. To no wild and ultra effort, we feel convinced, would his lordship lend the sanction of his deservedly great influence and commanding talent. In presenting several petitions in opposition to the ministerial measures, his lordship intimated that " Concurring with these petitioners in the apprehen sions they expressed of the probable consequences which would attend the removal of protection, he joined with them in deprecating the adoption of the measures which had been brought forward, and in expressing the wish that if they came from the other house of Parliament they would not receive the assent of their lordships (hear. hear)." It must be tolerably clear that the battle in the lords will be sternly and stoutly fought under such cchampionship; and that if victorious, the minis. Raikes terial phalanx will not be permitted to walk off , without having first sustained some stunning and damaging blows. What the result may be, of course, it is difficult to predict. If, however, Lord Stanley, as we anticipate from his keen perception of the spirit of the times, should meet the ministry with a moderate compromise between extreme protection and the present measure, it is not at all unlikely that he may carry the majority with him. The result of obstinate resistance, on the part of the ministry, to such a settlement of the question must be a dissolu tion ; and however much such consummation is to be deplored at the present moment, when the com merce and credit of the country are in a most dan gerous and precarious position, the blame must be upon the head of those, whose rash and unasked for measures have brought it upon our heads. We durst risk any reputation we may have for discern ment upon the fact that what Lord Stanley is pre pared to propose, as a substitute for the ministerial measures, would, if brought forward at the com mencement of the session, before the public mind had been excited by the announcement of their more imposing policy, have satisfied the country. Sir Robert Peel, however, is enamoured of the coup d'etat ; and if, in this instance, he has overrated his power and the forbearance of those great interests, against whom his favourite strategy has been di rected, he has only done what greater men upon other fields have done before him; and, like them, he must pay the penalty of his rashness. The ministerial standard of the value of human life in Ireland, as compared with that of other commodi ties, appears singularly low—so low that,like the agri culture and industry of the nation, it is judged un worthy of being protected. A fortnight ago she heard the Home Secretary, Sir James Graham, remarkino how "lamentable" it was that the progress of the " great measure" should be interrupted by a discus sion about a " workhouse squabble,"—the investiga tion of such "squabble" involving, however, no less important a matter than the question whether the paupers in the workhouses of Great Britain were to be reduced below the condition of beasts, and allowed to feed upon the pickings of putrid bones. This week we have it laid down, by the Premier himself, as a matter affording "deep regret" to him, that the same " great measure" must he retarded, for a few days, to enable the House to read for a first time only, after which it is to be shelved until a more convenient season, a Bill which has already passed the House of Lords, having no less important an object in view than the prevention of the crime of assassination in Ireland, and the rescue of that un happy country from a state bordering upon anarchy. Lest the incredulous readers should imagine that we are misrepresenting the Right Hon. Baronet, we give his ipsissinza verba : " On these grounds"—the anxiety of speculators and others to have the Corn Bill passed, and grain taken out of bond at once under the low duty—" I am most anxious to proceed with the utmost expedition, consistent with due deliberation, with the Corn Bill—(cheers)—and it certainly is my intention to permit no ordinary business of the Government to interfere with the progress of that measure. But then we are in this position with respect to a bill of very great importance sent down from the Lords — a bill, the introduction of which nothing could justify but an urgent necessity, in the opinion of the Government, that some extraordinary measure is demanded by the state of Ireland. If we take no step whatever with regard to that measure until the Corn Bill is disposed of, I appre hend it might be impossible to read it even a first time till after Easter, and I think it would be a most unusual course to postpone for so long a period any decision what ever with regard to an important bill sent down to us from the other house of Parliament. (Hear, hear.) I am, therefore, compelled to take this course, and I take it with great regret:—After the second reading of the Corn Bill, I think it would be right that the house should have the opportunity of expressing an opinion on the first read ing qf the bill for preventing assassination in Ireland; but I should not propose that any other stage of that bill should interfere with the Corn Bill. I propose, therefore, to fix the first reading of the bill for the prevention of assassination in Ireland for Friday next. It is possible that the debate on the second reading of the Corn Bill might terminate on Thursday; if not—if the anticipation of my noble friend (Lord G. Bentinck), that it would be prolonged to Friday, then certainly to terminate—(hear, hear)—be realised, I should propose that the continued debate on the Corn Bill should have precedence on that day, and take the Irish bill on Monday following. Think ing it at least possible that the adjourned debate may ter minate on Thursday, I shall fix the Irish bill for Friday, on the und , Tstanding that it shall not interfere with the second reading of the Corn Bill." The pocket question first; protection to life is only secondary in ministerial estimation. A. week's inconvenience to the holders of a million quarters of bonded wheat is a calamity by all means to be avoided ; but three millions of loyal and industrious men, women, and children, in Ireland, crying for protection from the bludgeons or the bullets of a confederation of assassins, must wait the perfect convenience of Parliament ! Let us see what was the state of things in that country at the time when Sir Pobert Peel was thus adroitly playing the game of Daniel O'Connell and other apologists of Irish turbulence and opponents of measures for its repression. At Ennis, in the county of Clare, a most exemplary magistrate, Mr. Pierce Carrick, had just been shot, for no crime which even repeal morality could suggest. And from Thurles. in Tipperary, a Roman Catholic gentle man, and a friend of Daniel O'Connell, has addressed that arch mendicant and impostor, beseeching him, " as he valued the peace of Ireland, to give up his opposition to the principle of the Bill about to be introduced into the House of Commons for the pro tection of life." The circumstances upon which this gentleman grounds his appeal, are so affectingly stated, and so forcibly illustrative of the present dis organised condition of the country, that we cannot resist the temptation of giving them in full : " I am not" says the writer, " a tyrant landlord who asks you to do so. lam a friend to popular rights, and so far back as the year 1828, when you called me to the chair of the Catholic Association, to the present time, I have been one of your humble but strenuous supporters. I have given more employment than any man of my means in Ireland. I never did anything in my life that could call forth the odium of the lawless, or the revenge of the assassin, unless that I assisted in endeavouring to bring the murderers of Mr. Milo Bourke, late of Spring field, and Mr. Andrew Bourke, late of Greentawn, to justice. These two inoffensive gentlemen were murdered for no other reaso7: , but b= .cause their lives were in leases of land. They were brothers and uncles of mine. I lost £3OO a-year by the murder of Mr. Milo Bourke ; and Mr. Bourke, of the Shelbourne Hotel, to whom the pro perty of his brother Milo reverted, has been obliged to sell it for one-tenth of its value, because he did not like cominr , to this country to receive his rents. Since that period there have been ten malicious injuries done to my property, and two attempts made on my life. I shall not trouble you with a detailed account of all, but merely state what occurred on the 7th of March. instant. About eleven o'clock on the night of that day, while my wife, one child, and myself, were in my parlour, nine bullets, from a blunderbuss, were discharged into the window ; three bullets were lodged in the shutters, and one struck the fender round which we were sitting ; the other five bullets bit the wall outside. All my family, consisting of ten children, and five servants, were in the same room, et night prayers, a few minutes bejore the shot was fired, so that the assassin did not care whether lie killed one per son or seventeen. He who attempted this wholesale mas sacre is well known, although he cannot at present be brought to justice. It is but fair to state that suspicion of this crime is not attached to any of the murderers of Meyers. Bourke. The murderers of Milo Bourke con sisted of five persons, drawn by ballot, out of 24 under tenants. Two of them came by untimely deaths; one was transported for another crime, and two of them re • main in the count, y, now 15 years, well known, but could never be convicted. One of the deceased murderers was himself murderer!, lest he might give evidence against the rest. Such is a short outline of the deplorable state of things in this county. While lam writing, my courageous but broken-hearted wife, with her ten helpless and inno cent children, are assisting each other in barricading the windows of an upper room, to protect us from the deadly attack of the midnight assassin, who, we hove reason to think, is nut far distant from us. As you love Ireland— as you hate injustice—as you abhor outrage and crime—l beseech you, I implore of you. I call on you as a duty you owe your country, to assist Government in accelerating the bill for the protection of life through the House of Commons, of which yon are so distinguished a member." Alas ! whilst this persecuted gentleman was thus appealing to a heartless and selfish demagogue for the cessation of his obstructive efforts, directed against a Bill "for the prevention of assassination," the Prime Minister of a Christian country was him self rendering that appeal a vain one, and setting down human life as of less value in the eyes of the English people than the saving of a few shillings upon a quarter of wheat ! The facts brought before the public in the charge of the Recorder at the March Sessions, of which we gave an accurate report in our last publication, are calculated to attract serious attention to the state of crime within our borough. The number of persons tried and convicted at Sessions appears to have de creased during the five years from 1841 to 1845, from 613 in 1841 and 702 in 1842 to 443 in 1845. Perhaps we may safely follow Sir James Graham, in attributing this decrease to the increased pros perity of the country during the last three years ; for we certainly cannot attribute it to any laxity of the police force or of our local magistracy. The number of persons charged with felony, and brought before the magistrates, in the four years from 1842 THE LIVERPOOL STANUARIi. • • to 18-15 inclusive, as given in a return furnished by THE LOSS OF THE COLONIES OF ENGLAND the keeper of the Main Bridewell, Mr. Parkinson, exhibits a similar decrease. In 1842, they were TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. much gratified iy . your notice of my 6,029; in 1843. 4,950 ;in 1844, 4,582 ; and in R—la m efforts v e t r y humblelthis country 1845, 3,889. These tables, the Recorder remarks, to a sense of fatal theo awa k enlowt the mechanics to be struck at their would be consolatory, as sheaving that the number prosperity by Sir Robert Peel's measure. of felonies had progressively diminished, were it Even the cotton trade will, I sincerely believe, be in not that other minor offences appear to have pro- jured from the first, although, as the employment in that trade is chiefly to mechanics, girls, and children, the con gressively increased in number. In 1842 the num- sequences of failure or depression in it wilt not be so her of persons charged before the magistrates with fearful or heartbreaking as would flow from want o f em ' other offences than felonies amounted to 10,371 ; ployment f o r the II EN, the hardworking men of iIF • nning in 1843, 10,665 ; in 1844, 10,702 ; whilst in 1845 ham, Sheffield, &c. it had increased to 12,854, or more than one-fourth I have no direct interest in agriculture or timber, either over that of the year preceding. The Recorder in this country or in Canada,_ and, as Ido not re t urn t o that colony, I may, perhaps, be permitted to esca p e f r o m adds, that the bright portion of the above picture is the imputation of what Mr. Cobden calls COLONIAL SELF already beginning to be clouded, the business of the ISIINESS. Quarter Sessions having increased since October My interest, as a shipper of British goods, is, in fact, last—a circumstance which we may again attribute identical with that of the maker of these goods; for if his in part to the changed circumstances of our popu- manufacture is beaten out of Canada, (either through fo reign goods, while it remains a colony, or by American lation. tariffs, after Canada shall have become a State of the With respect to the great increase in the number Union,) my trade as an importer of British goods (not a of persons charged before the magistrates during foreign merchant) is also extinguished. the past four years with minor offences, we believe Now as free trade in England means also free trade in the colony with all the world, and as the extra or protec tive may in part be accounted for without the suppo sition that any material increase of criminality has manufactureslve duties prevents froritierir .English a fa n vai a r n o o f wreee i taken place. It is, however, a sufficiently appalling ing her cotton and coarse woollen fabrics, loaf sugar, &c. state of things, when we find that fully five per cent. &c. from America, and many other manufactures and of the population of this great and flourishing town productions of continental countries, including cutlery and other German hardware, it follows that, as merchants, we are yearly arraigned before the bar of justice ; and must either be driven by Sir Robert Peel's measure to buy in it ought strongly to urge upon the authorities the America, Germany, &c. &c., or be driven out of the necessity of vigorous measures for the amelioration i trade. of the moral and social condition of that population. Whilst admitting this, and willing to offer our hum ble advocacy in behalf of an effort to improve its condition, we cannot go the length, which some of our contemporaries go, of placing Liverpool lower than the average of large towns in the scale of mo rality. We believe, on the contrary, that Liverpool, so far as its native population goes, is far from being in that position, notwithstanding what is alleged of the temptations in which it abounds, from the cir cumstance of " its docks being unenclosed " (strange that, even in discussing such a question as this, local faction must, by men of some grades of mind, be introduced !) It should be borne in mind, whilst looking at this question, that in this town we have a large migratory Irish population, herding together in cellars and courts, indulging, if em ployed, in continual outrage, which brings them into the clutch of the law, or, if unemployed, and consequently steeped in wretchedness, urged to crime by their very misery. We have also a con , stantinflux of sailors from every clime, whose pro verbial improvidence and ignorance of the snares of life ashore render them absolute decoys to crime. Above all, it must be remembered, as a circumstance to be deplored, that in this town—unlike most other large towns of the empire—we are almost totally without the means of employment for the mass of our juvenile population, who, as an invariable consequence of idleness and want of parental super vision, fall into courses of petty crime at the onset, and ultimately furnish a large proportion of those confirmed offenders who fill our prisons and swell the list of our police cases. As a remedy for the latter sad feature in our local statistics of crime, the Recorder recommends im proved prison discipline, the classification of pri soners, and, as necessary to carry out these views, an enlarged and more commodious place of tempo rary confinement and punishment. We have ex pressed our opinion upon this subject, in a recent article commenting upon the movement made for carrying out the same object by the corporation of the City of London. We want, quite as much as we want prisons, properly so called, reformatory establishments, in which the juvenile offender against the law could be placed temporarily, and from which he might come out again free from the gaol-bird taint, and with improved habits and means of re acquiring—or acquiring, if he had never had it— an opportunity of earning his bread honestly. With such an institution, or two or three such, properly conducted, we are not at all certain that any greatly enlarged means of gaol accommodation will, after a time, be needed. As an adjunct to such institution, or institutions, it would be well worth the while of philanthropic men and capitalists to inquire whether the locality of Liverpool might not be made availa ble as the seat of many branches of industry, in which our juvenile population might be employed, advantageously to the community, and profitably to themselves. We render our unqualified meed of approbation to the Recorder for his truly humane conduct in calling the attention of the public to this vital ques tion. In doing so, however, with all our respect for his humane character and ability, we cannot give up our own convictions, which are opposed to the idea of any great object, so far as reformation of offenders is concerned, being gained by solitary confinement, or any other of the modern specifics for bringing about this grand desideratum. A vir tuous and a comfortable home is, after all, the only really effective place of cure for juvenile depravity. Example is better than coercion; and if we do not carry into the dwelling of the parent that infallible instrumentality which cleanses both the moral and the physical being, we fear that we shall try in vain to wean the child from crime, or to place him in his just position as a responsible being. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE AND THE REV. HUGH M'NEILE. The latter is the alternative which, as an individual, I shall adopt, because the moment that I see free trade in troduced into England I shall see danger to life and pro perty, before very long, in reserve for Canada in achieving her independence, (which I have no confidence the good sense of England would allow to be brought about peace ably, although no man could show any, the slightest interest British America will have in continued connection with this country, but quite the reverse, after the colonial or protective system is broken down.) When Canada is lost to England we shall have to pay for our timber in gold, (instead of in manufactures as at present,) just as we pay for three-fourths of our raw cot ton from the United States ; but who can assure us that, EVEN FOR CASH, we could always get a supply of timber from foreign countries ! It is well ascertained that the Baltic alone could not furnish the supply now required, say two millions of loads, (although we were always at peace with these continental powers,) so that we must depend on North America for a lame share of the timber wanted in Eng land. But Sir Robert Peel forgets that, in 1869, the public mind of England was convulsed on the subject of timber. A local contemporary has expressed his dissatisfaction with some portions of the third edition of this admirable and universally read discourse, on account of its " unge nerous feeling," and likelihood to beget an ".ungentle feeling." Such, however, is not by any maans the opinion of the public generally, nor of the press. The following extract from an excellent review of the sermon in the Nonconformist paper of Wednesday, is as generous and honest as it is correct and deserved. " We notice this sermon because we like its tone. Mr.lll'Neile is decided in his views, and in his expressions of them. He is seldom caught doubting or hesitating. What with many would amount only to a probability is with him a " demonstration." He is a thorough Churchman, has very fixed notions respecting Dissent, and Voluntaryism, and Indepe n d enc y, and is not-afraid or ashamed of giving utterance to them. And yet there is not a single word that we recollect which. as N onco nformists, we could honestly object to, in the sermon before us. We differ from the preacher, but cannot say that we disapprove of his language or his temper." Our contemporary then candidly states the leading fea tures of Mr. M'Neile's arguments, and recommends his readers to peruse the sermon. The enmity of the governments of the Baltic cut off our supply, and the price rose from 4:5 to £l6 10s. per lead. Parliament was called, but instead of following Sir Robert Peel's fret-trade course, the statesmen of that day raised the protection to colonial timber from 20s. 9d. to 575. 4d. per load, and gradually British timber was pre pared, through the erection of immense saw-mills and other lumbering establishments, at a vast outlay of British capital in Canada and New Brunswick, and imported in sufficient quantity to regulate the trade (say two-thirds of the whole). The price was thus permanently reduced, as low as ever it was when the entire supply was foreign, paying only a duty of 10s. 11d. per load ! before the day of England's necessity drove her to raise up, by protec tion to British labour, in the forests of British America, that great national interest which is now being given to the Americans by our adoption of the anti-British theory of free-trade. The effect of free-trade and its consequences (on the currency, &c.) in Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield, Glasgow, &c., will be utter and irreparable ruin to tens of thousands of the most deserving and hard-working men in the world, which I view afar more serious conse quence than the loss to the British empire, and the gain to the A►nericar. republic, of three thousand ships and sixty thousand sailors. The free-trader may tell us that gold does not go to America, but he is too intelligent not to know that it goes to the Continent to pay for luxuries sent to America, and for which America cannot pay by any other possible means than through drafts on England, or English gold. America draws these drafts on us to more than double as great an amount as we send her goods, so that there is at least two-thirds the nominal amount of the American trade, wsi'cts YIELDS NO EMPLOYMENT OR PROFIT TO THE English artizmi. If, through the loss of Canada and the West Indies, two other great staples, timber and sugar, were put in this position, there would be no safety (even as a matter of simple existence) for our over supply of English arti zans, hut in their transferring themselves to the United States, to get under shelter of the protection of the Ame rican tariff. It is my sincere belief, that time is all that is required to show that FREE-TRADE IS SUICIDE ON THE PART ON THE PART OF BRITISH ARTIZANS, and that by not preferring a moderate protection to out and out free-trade, the liberal party will become very unpopular in this country. There is no man on either side of party politics who understands the practical interests of the empire better than Sir Howard Douglas, and no one expresses them so well. In his speech on the late debate, Sir Howard Douglas explains the true policy of England The whole amount of manufactures exported to India does not at present exceed .•"8,000,000; iu 1841, £7,691,666, includ ing- Ceylon. If we were to encourage, as we might, the natural productions of British India, to enable her the better to pay for British goods, there is scarcely any assignable limit to the in- crease of that vast market of consumption for the production of British industry; the demand for British cotton goods. in particu lar, if the population took but at the rate of Its. per he. d, would amount to re51i,00. , ,000 sterling ; and the demand for woollens, silks, pottery, glass, plated wares, cutlery, iron, brass, and copper implements, and an infinity of articles for domestic use, would be prodigiously increased." Let us take Sir Howard Douglas's advice, and endea vour to give employment to British subjects instead of foreigners. Let us reorganise the Colonial system (which is the cause of England's power and greatness) on the principle of moderate protection. Let us prefer to produce our cotton, sugar, timber, &c. from the labour of British subjects, who have British ha bits, and consume British manufactures entirely, rather than from the degraded labour of the American slave ; and then our demand will be for manufactures and not for gold, the national currency will get out of the present feverish excited state, which gives no dependance to the manufacture r, and keeps the labouring class always within a few weeks of absolute want. At present it is no matter how good and certain a mer chant's prospects are of disposing of goods, he cannot buy them if the British money market is deranged, or, in other words, if specie (which is the groundwork on which is built all confidence and credit) is being exported to foreign countries, or beyond the limit of the home and Colonial trade, _ Even the comparatively slight trial we have had of the fruits of Our HIGHLY-WEIGHTED ARI IZAN BEING RUN AGAINST THE UNBURDENED FOREIGNER, has been what I call ruinous both to the minds and bodies of the people. The aggregate capital in England, Ts true, has been in creased, but it has found its way into the hands of the money-lenders, with whom the manufacturer now shares his profit, and none of it has remained in the pockets of the working classes, who, in fact, are getting more and more crushed in their circumstances and degraded in their moral and intellectual condition. Rather tha❑ buy our commercial pre-eminence at so dear a price as the distress of the working classes and a continuance of over produc tion, let us, by a parliamentary grant of the public money, (a million pounds a year, if that were necessary,) in sup port of Scnooes OF EXPERIMENT, (with their travellers and ramifications all over the world,) make, and educate the people in, those advances in manufacturing science and knowledge, which are found necessary to keep us first among the nations. Rather than not have a radical change in our systems, and to enable it to be attempted safely,. I would support the minister in laying on an income tax for three years, of twenty per cent. for the first year, 15 per cent. for the se cond year, ten per cent. for the third year, to enable him to construct an immense system of emigration to the co lonies, to push forward our colonial cotton and other pro ductions, and to ameliorate in every possible way the con dition of the industrious classes in the manufacturing dis tjicts and Ireland. There never was before so glorious an opportunity as the present for this country to return to homely and sound principles, and there may never be again. The effect of the construction of railways on the LABOUR MARKET is such that (independent of Sir Robert Peel and the political economists) every man, woman, and child can get employment and high wages, and that at a time when there is scarcely one article of manufacture for which there is one-half the demand usually experienced at this season of the year. But the construction of railways, like foreign trade, is at best but a temporary employment for a population, and if GREAT NATIONAL means be not now taken to pro vide permanent outlets both for the people and their la bour, it is easy to foresee that wretchedness and distress among all classes of the community, will by-and-by be greater, more severe, and more lasting (so overwhelming now is the increase of our population) than we have ever before experienced in the worst times ; nor will it matter whether nominally the colonial system or the theory of free trade is in operation. The agricultural interest of this country was at a cer tain disadvantage in fighting the battle of protection as a matter of merely agricultural selfishness; but they will, be sure to triumph at a general election if they ask for a five shillings' protection to British and Colonial corn as THE ONLY CONDITION ON WHICH THE COLONIES CAN BE RETAINED, AND, AS A CONSEQUENCE, OUR NAVAL POWER SUPPORTED, coupled with their defence of the British artizan from the cruel competition of the fo reigner, with which Sir Robert Peel's bill threatens him, the foreigner having the run of the British markets for his surplus labour or sweepings (which can afford to be sacrificed), while the British weaver and mechanic is ex cluded from the foreign market. A truly British party, now starting up under whatever name, will get the support of the working classes, who are tired of the present SYSTEMS OF MEN " (as they get tired of quack doctors and their specifics). If that party (kindly descending from the distance and coldness of abstract theories, or, in other words, of mere political economy) will pass a. NINE OR TEN HOURS BILL, and by parliamentary grant will provide intellectual employment, with' the means of health and recreation for the poor in those hours of happiness, which they have been the bles sed means of calling into existence. Let the new government also pledge parliament to give half a million each year to a NATIONAL SYSTEM OF COLO NISATION. Let them so systematise matters that, through the la bour of a British colonial population, we will each year be LORD GEORGE BENTINCK AND THE CORN AND CUSTOMS' DEBATE We believe there were very'few persons, either in or out of Parliament, who, a month ago, were prepared to give the above noble member for King's Lynn credit for a tithe of the statesmanlike ability which he has displayed throughout this debate. Like Lord Palmerston, his lord ship appears to have sprung at once into a knowledge of his own powers, and has certainly taken up a position in the house second to that of few of the party amongst whom he has ranged himself. In the debate on Friday night, upon the subject of the timber dnties, he displayed an amount of business knowledge, and acquaintance with facts and fiaures relating to an important branch of commerce, which reflected upon his industry and talent. A great portion of the statistics, which he quoted with admirable lucidness of arrangement, we observe his lordship stated, had been furnished him by Mr. Rankin of this town, who certainly could not have placed them in better hands, well calculated, although they were in themselves, from the importance of the house from which they emanated, to have great weight with parliament and the public. ST. JUDES' CHURCH SCHOOLS.—The Rev. Hugh M`Neile will preach the annual sermons at St. Judes' Church, on behalf of these excellent schools, on Sunday morning and evening next. _ _ _ CHRIST CHURCH SCHOOLS.—On Sunday last, the annual sermons were preached in Christ Church, in be half of the schools in connection with the church, by the Rev. Fielding Ould and the Rev. Hugh M`Neile. The congregations on both occasions were large and attentive, The collection in the morning amounted to £45 75., and in the evening to £4O, being the largest amounts received at the church for many years. SUSPICIOUS DISCOVERY ON CHATHAM ISLAND.—A letter received at Lloyd's, dated Guatimala, Dec. 3, 1845, mentions the discovery, by the Captain of the "Black Cat," of London, at the Gallapagas Islands, of a number of watercasks, and some spars, v hich had been carried in land, belonging apparently to a vessel of 180 to 200 guns. A heap of cinders was also found, where a fire had been burning, in which valuable sextants, compasses, &c., had been destroyed, along with a quantity of gold buttons to the weight of two ounces, which the captain brought away. Several casks of stores, hardware, &c., were found buried near the spot. No accurate conjecture can be formed as to the ship, or the cause of her destruction. We noticed in our paper a short time ago, that the crewe of the barque Portland, of London, had been saved and brought to Liverpool by the Denison, Captain King, from Demerara. Since then we have been favoured with a copy of the following letter from the captain of this barque to Captain King : " Irvine, March 14th, 1846. " DEAR SlR,—Accept of sincere and heartfelt thanks for the great kindness which 1 and my crew experienced when on board of your ship, and more especially for sending your boat and men, at the peril of their lives, to rescue us from our dan gerous situation. May it never be your lot to be so situated, but as there is no telling what a day may bring forth, if ever yon should be 29, and a' me sail heave in sight, may it be done to you as Ikn ,w you would do to them. I am sorry. I have nothing but thanks to carer you, but if my prayers availed aught, you have them. That God may bless and prosper you and yours, and give you fair and favourabl sales, untainted by adversitz, sickness, or sorrow, to wait yna wont this transient stream of life, shall ever be the fervent and prayer of your riuskt obliged and anxious well-wham U. WALLISTEIt i '' To captain William EIJI, getting more and more cotton, more wheat, more timber, more sugar, more sheeps' wool, and all other necessaries, PAYING BRITISH LABOUR FOR THEM, AND NOT BRI TISH GOLD, A 9 AT PRESENT. And let such a government, rising superior to the petty influences and considerations of the London Land Specu• lators and Companies, assure every family which, by its own or its friends' exertions, can reach Canada or any other British colony, where there is unconceded lands be longing to the crown, of their getting WITHOUT CHARGE, AND AS THEIR PATRIMONY OR BIRTHRIGHT, A LOT OF LAND (200 ACRES), (with the cost of clearing three acres, as a commencement, and a year's provisions till their first crop is got off the ground (to be repaid to govern ment), to such as have only means to take them out, but whose reaching the colony by their own exertions will be sufficient proof of their being the proper parties to emi grate). You may depend that it is not in human nature that the oppressed labouring classes should misconstrue sub stantial benefits like these, by whatever minister or party offered; I am, Sir, Your obedient humble servant. ISAAC BUCHANAN Glasgow, 19th March, 1846 *** It is self-evident that the paper currency to be safe must be small and fluctuating in this country when the bulk of our trade is with foreigners, as they do not take in exchange its manufactures (or labour) ; for commer cial confidence (or credit) exists less or more just as there is less or more movement or exportation of the precious metals. I. B. INDIA.-DEFEAT OF THE SIKHS. BY EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS. [From a Second Edition of yesterday's Times., with which we were favoured by Mr. Aylward.l We have just received by Extraordinary Express a copy of the following TELEGRAPIIIC DESPATCII FROM MARSEILLES :- " CAIRO, MARCH 8. " MARSEILLES, MARCH 21 " On the 29th of January a division of the Sikh army was attacked by the English forces under the command of Sir H. J. Smith, at Alivert. The Sikhs were forced to cross the Sutlej, leaving behind them all their artillery, amounting to about 69 pieces of cannon. " The loss of the English has been four officers killed, 14 wounded, and about 400 soldiers killed and wounded. The loss of the Sikhs appears to have been very consider able. " A salute of 21 guns had been fired at Bombay to ce lebrate this victory. [Last night's- London papers contain no farther intelligenc SOUTH CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS On Sunday last, two sermons were preached in St. Michael's Church, by the Rev. Ambrose Dawson, for the South Church of England Schools recently attached to St. Michael's Church. The church was extremely well attended on both occasions, and Alderman Lawrence; and the councillors' for the ward, together with a great number of gentlemen unconnected with the con gregation, but no doubt desirous of showing their respect to the estimable preacher, were also present. In the morning, the reverend gentleman took for his text the 7th v. of xix. Ps., "The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testi mony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple." The preacher began by showing that salvation was all of grace, and that from the sinful condition of man no other way of salvation could meet the emergency of his case than that revealed in the Gospel, in which forgiveness through the blood of Christ was proclaimed to the sinner, "free, unconditional, and irrespec tive of his own merits." But free grace does not supersede the use of means, but is communicated by instrumentalities ap pointed by God for this end. Among these stands "most conspicuous his own Word ;" and after enlarging on the bless ing to be derived from the Word preached, " the grand ordi nance of salvation," and the Word read, he proceeded to enforce the duty of communicating that Word to all, particu larly to the children of our own poor. He pointed out the dangers to which the young were exposed from immoral and infidel publications, and called upon all who valued the Bible and felt for the best interests of man, to aid in giving a Scrip tural education to the dear children they saw before them. He enforced this Scriptural duty in his own impressive manner, and reminded all, young and old, of the importance of studying the Scriptures, with earnest prayer for the teaching of God's spirit, without whose aid, as the preacher illustrated' by an interesting - anecdote, there might be head knowledge, but heart knowledt Word nv •J• 11, CaLlellilC“ uy 611 G JIM IL it Ll,llll In the evening, the reverend gentleman took text the 103 d v. of cxi. Ps.—" flow sweet are thy words unto my taste; yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth." After alluding to his ministry in past years in St. Michael's Church, and citing the example of St. Paul, as authority for frequent appeals to their liberality, he proceeded to show how mental and spiritual operations were often illustrated in the Bible by bodily acts. Thus, Gospel doctrine is compared to manna, milk, and meat ; Christ to bread, and the receiving him by faith into the heart is likened to eating and digesting food. An appetite, a cry for food, is the evidence of life in a new-born babe, and how can any know that he is spiritually alive except he hungers and thirsts for the spiritual food of God's Word? He then showed with great force and beauty in what the sweetness of God's Word consisted ; how sweet it is to a minis ter to proclaim such good news to sinners, and how sweet to hearers to listen to andreceive such a revelation of mercy and love; and concluded his discourse, in which, as in the morn . lA, ■ic VW, 111l11:11 nunuul on LUAUS IV UM, Dy - again appealing to the sympathies of all present in behalf of schools m which more than 500 children were receiving a Scriptural education, by which, with God's blessing, they would acquire a taste for the sweetness of the Bible, which would render irreligious and immoral books insipid and even bitter to them. Ile reminded his hearers that God could do without their help,. if he pleased, but it was his pleasure to use their aid, and so- multiply his servants and glorify his name. The two collections amounted to snore than .-445, including a liberal donation from the preacher himself. The boys, girls, and the infants- were pre sent morning and evening, and sung in a touching-manner the appropriate hymns chosen for the occasion, aided by the chil dren of the Corporation and Stanhope -street schools. The manner in which all these children sung, morning and evening, reflects the greatest credit on the masters and riirstresses of tlif several schcols to which they belong. It will be seen that the Rev. A. Dawson, and the'Rev. W. M. Falloon will preach the annual sermons on Sunday next, at St. Clement's Church, Windsor, on behalf of the schools. SOUTHERN lloseiTAL.—On Sunday morning last,. after a most excellent sermon by the Rev. Thomas Nolan, the estimable honorary chaplain of this institution, upwards of .t 66 were col lected in aid of its funds, at St. Anne's Church, Aigburth. The words selected for the text were admirably appropriate to the occasion, being the 21st verse of the 19th chapter of Job "Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, 0 ye my friends, for the hand of God hath touched me.' The collection was the largest ever made in the church. The Aletheroma still continues on view. The opportunity of seeing the extraordinary scenes should not be lost. STEALING FROM A SHOP.—Two little boys, Josiah Dobbins, and James Jones, were committed for trial by Mr. Rushton, charged with having on Saturday night stolen from Mr. Hobbs's hat shop, 64, Byrom-street,.two fur caps. FATAL FALL.—A working man, named Peter Tyler, fell acci dentally from a three-story building in Ford-street, last week, and was so much hurt that. he died on Saturday. The celebrated Russell gives two entertainments, in the Con cert-hall, on Thursday and Friday next. DEATH FRONI A FAL L. -.1 ohn Sheppard, a respectable brick layer, fell into a cellar at Mount Vernon, on Saturday last, and was so much injured that. he died yesterday ,morning _ _ BODY OF ANINF. , ,NT FOUND.—On Saturday last, The body of a full-grown male child was found on a bank. near the King's Dock. It was sewed up in a piece of canvass, and appeared to have been a considerable time in the water. SUDDEN DEATIL—A woman, named Bridget Raley, aged about 65, residing at 31, Brick-street, fell down.. in the house, on Saturday, and expired immediately. An amateur performance will take place at the Theatre-Royal, on Monday next, for the benefit of the Licensed Victuallers' Charitable Institution. The charity well deserves support. FATAL ACCIDENT.—A man, named Barnard Campbell, who was at work on Saturday, on board the "Gipsy," in the Can ning Dock, was struck with the Winch with such violence, when hoisting some pig iron, that he was killed on the spot. STEALING COTTON FROM THE QUAYS.—A girl named Ann Hackett was yesterday committed by Mr. Rushton to gaol for a mouth, for taking a quantity of cotton from disrupted bales at the quays. _ _ ASSAULTING THE POLICE.—A young man named James. Bateman, was yesterday tined 10s. and costs, at the Police court, for riotous conduct in Concert-street, on Sunday morn ing, and afterwards striking a police officer. THE TRANSPOSING PIANO-FORTE.—This is an exceedingly ingenious contrivance for adapting the piano -forte to any peculiar voice or instrument. It may be seen at Mr. Smith's, Lord-street.—Nee advt. WIGAN ELECTION PETITION. —After all the boasting of the League, we understand one of the electors of the borough is so convinced of the groundless nature of the allegations in the pe tition, that he is determined to defend the seat of Captain Lind- :louse to permit IjEATII FROM INJURIES IN A FIGIIT.-011 Sunday fortnight, a tight took place at a beer-house in Kensington, when a man named Henry Sherlock was so severely injured, by, it is said, some Irishmen, that he died, on Sunday night. The case is un dergoing investigaiion. _ It will be semi, on reference to an advertisement is another part of our paper, that Mr. J. Walinsley, one of our oldest publishers, is about to remove from his present premises to Lord-street,—premises more extensive and central, and equally commanding. STREET ASSAULT.-At the Police Court, yesterday, three young men, Terence Connell and two others, were charged, the first with having, on Friday, knocked a man down and at tempted to steal his watch, and the others with looking on and abetting I'. Connell was sent to gaol for three nionlhs, and the two others f•;r on Some few years since Queen Victoria presented a very hand syme carriage to Queen Pomare. It appears that the Queen of the Sandwich Islands. is now in such very straitened circum stances, being entirely without revenues, that she has been compelled to offer the carriage for sale, and an advertisement appears in the Polynesian, a weekly journal published at 110, nolulhu, the capital of the Sandwich islands, offering it for dis posal. _ . . CAUTION TO Boys streets and bye -r( The offence of throwing stones in the Is appears to be on the increase, and where nays have been laid, the annnunition used for the practice , and were lined ss. each, and seveeely repr manded by Mr. Rushton, who had himself witnessed On Sun day a regular melange amongst a number of beligerent urchins, in the neighbourhood of Windsor. • - _ _ DEATH FRO?,I rOISONING.—An, elderly man, named Wil liam Hutchinson, who lodged in Beresford-court, Beresford street, went into the house and to his room on Wednesday night, and was observed to sit moping, as if be were ill or in toxicated. Next morning he was found in the same position. The woman who kept the house afterwards found a bottle at the back of the lire, which he said had contained oil. He kept much in the same way, and died on Friday mo rn i ng . Th e bottle, it appeared, had contained laudanum. He had been long ill, and being in the habit of taking laudanum, had pro bably overdosed himself. _ CHILDREN STRIKING PARENTS.—At the Police Court, yes terday, a youth named Patrick Harlequa was charged with abusing and maltreating his poor mother on f requen t occas i ons . He was required tofi bail, himself in £4O and two sureties in .t'2o each, or be imprisoned for three months.—John Pugh, for abusing and annoying his father, a hard-working sawyer, who had employed him and made a comfortable home for him ; and also for maltreating his old mother, was severely addressed by the magistrate, who ordered bins to find two sureties in .41 . 5 each, and to pay five shillings fo r b e i ng d run k , or to b e impri soned, on sparer diet than he had with his father, kw two months. THE WATERLOO BANQUET.-Mr. Keys, of I3old-street, has had manufactured, expressly . for this splendid eng;aving, an elegant frame, which, in point of beauty or adaption to the peculiar character of the picture, is not surpassed by any of the numerous elaborate designs hitherto :produced in papier machee. The subdued marks of the chisel may be traced las distinctly as in the most costly carvings, the former having an advantage in regularity not to be attained by any other process. .tkt each corner of the frame is a lion's head, and round the outer edge of the moulding are twined in graceful clusters, thistles, shamrocks, and roses,—emblems of united efforts used on the great occasion this banquet was called to commemorate.' The centre is surmounted by a helmet and shield, the banners of victory, and numeroui other trophies of war, forming an eactedially prattle gnu?. March 24, 1846. THE APPALLING FEVER REPORTS We were told by the minister a few days ago, with an ominous mystery of fate and manner, that be would shortly lay before the house a mass of reports from every part of Ireland, which would startle the country, and afford convincing proof of the urgency of the necessity upon which he had based the great changes proposed in the policy of the country. We have now the documents referred to before us, in the shape of "abstracts of the most serious representations made by the several me dical superintendents of public institutions (fever hospitals, in firmaries, &c.,) in the provinces of Ulster, Munster, Leinstert and Connaught ;" and certainly they display a tact on the part of those by whom they have been got up, which must render those gentlemen invaluable to a minister, although they scarcely make out the case which was promised. Moreover, the case is scarcely strengthened by the admission on the face of the document that "the most serious representations" only have been presented. We should like which it has been found convenient to derstand better the real value of the v garbled documents instead of mere al examine those and re should lai d we had the 1111- In its pre hibit the amount of ilisea land, it is simmlarlv inclusi !at state, howeve r, as a document intended to ex ❑d wretchedness existing in Ire• The very first extract, headel! Jandalstown," is a fair spec says simply "Jaundice and diarrlaea exist from unsoundness and insufficiency of food. Breaking out of disease appq' hended where destitution exists." The second from Verner Bridge, after admitting the existence of diarrham, concludes-' " if provisions keep high, fever and other diseases are feared to break out." The third extract we wondr to have seen at all. It states that fever and influenza have increased in the propor tion of four to one within the last two months ; but not el? tirelv attributable to insufficiency and unsoundness of food." The fourth states that "it is very probable that fever will break out." The fifth states—" breaking out of disease apprehended with certainty from destitution arising out of scarcity of food." The sixth "apprehends breaking out of disease from destitu tion." The seventh "apprehends fever in district." The eighth apprehends breaking out of disease where seareitY exists." The ninth, " breaking out of disease apprehended in the spring and summer." And so on through the whole docu ment. It is "apprehension" throughout, varied by the almost synonymous phrases of "fear," "dread," "probability,” Ste. Now we submit that this is not a document to which the legis lature and the public are bound to pay any very great amount of deference. It is too evident a concocted document. It has too evidently been "made to pattern." The very fact of the same phrases, "Disease is apprehended," "Di sease i s feared,'". " I dread disease," &c., recurring throughout nearly the whole of upwards of a hundred of abstracts of reports almost mill!! out to us the very wording of the letters of instruction, "PI! you apprehend ?" or " do you dread" disease in such and sue , a case ? 4ntrirn— a of the rest, But take it at the utmost of its worth, what does it provef Simply that Her Majesty's Government have not adopted the most suitable measures in a great emergency ; and that al though they are justifiedin now adopting curative measures, -- ; the erection of fever hospitals, esc.,—they might •have saves great suffering to the Irish people and a heavy drain upon the treasury of the empire by preventive measures. As far back as November last, ministers had declared that they foresaw 0' preaching calamity and destitution in Ireland. What have they done since? What has been their leading measure to put an end to that destitution ? They have b roug ht i n a corn bit: for the relief of a people too poor to buy a meal of potatoes! They are taking away the reward of the industry of the Irish people, employed almost exclusively in , agricultural pursuits , to enable them to buy foreign corn, the produce of foreign in dustry, which is thus to displace their own, when they cannot at present, whilst their industry is rewarded, afford to can same a grain, of their own productive stra nge paradox ! Won derful inconsistency ! (Conclusion of Yesterday's Assizes from page 5.) in connexion with the transaction of his been delivered in the middle of October. 30th of September the shares were bo, lie;it should ba' it being on the plained that the shares had been bought bv the defenda at 2 Gs. 3d., and sold to the plaintiff at t 2 7s. Gd., making 0! commission 2s. Gd. instead of Is. 3d. The plaintiff had notbiaN to do with the amount of business, or the pressure of the mar ket ; the reasonable time was the time understood when the contract was entered into. The reason for keeping possessiol l of the plaintiff's , money, and holding hack the scrip, wasi no doubt, that the market was falling, and the completiOn of the transaction might have operated to their disadvantage. Fr e concluded by observing, that, under all the circumstances, the plaintiff was fully entitled to a verdict for the amount be sought to recover. His Lordship summed up the evidence, remarking that the question of the jury would be wheth er a reasona bl e timebaa been allowed in the delivery of the scrip before the 30th of tober. He agreed with what had fallen from the learned counsel for the plaintiff; that a reasonable time was not thae which might arise out of anything contingent upon the trans" action, but must depend on general circumstances attending the course of dealing in the transacti on t o w hi c h t h ey we re w apply the rule. The jury, without hesitation, returned t. plaintiff for -£'l2l 17s. 61. Mr. WATSON intimated hi intention to mo NON-FULFILMENT OF A , CONTRACT—HAI If URST.—Two actions were settled by the with In the first case the plaintiff, a thread manufacturer at Silfort a verdict for t V. DEW' . of a jurol:. :=•utiglic to recover trom tne uetenuant, a dyer in the same tow... damages for the obstruction of his lights, and for the Un substantial erection of a chimney. In the second case Dew" burst was the plaintiff, and sought to eject Harding from the tenancy- of the premises. John Wier was charged with bigamy. It appeared the Pri" sorer was married to Sarah Crossley, at Middleton Church, in IS3B, and in 1840 to Maria Johnson, at St. Peter's Church , Liverpool, the former wife being still alivo. Witnesses Wer e produced to show that the prisoner had been married on th e occasions named. The registry of the first marriage was 11° : produced, as it appeared that a ft er th e ceremony t h e prisonei went away, alleging that he had no money to pay the fees- The prisoner stated in his defence, that he had .married the second time believing the first to be illegal. He was found guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment a nd labour. The Court rose at half-past five.. The cause list contains 49 cases in the Salford list, and 112 in the West Derby list. The last of the course of lectures, on the Errors of the Church of Rome, in the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson street, will be delivered this evening, by the Rev. Hue. APlNeile, the subject b e i ng " Th e Ch urc h o f Rome tu" apostacy predicted by St. Paul." AssizE DINNERS.—The Grand Jury dined with Judges last night, a t th e i r l or d s hi ps ' lodging 9. t Adelphi Hotel , thi s even i ng . and they will also dine Nv tto and Grand jury w ill di ne w i t h t h e Hi z l i - s beriff , tu t the Mayor, at the To wit-half ; • izia - Trar, - - There were no less ti manslaughter at the late May o ass i zes .. A deputation respecti ng capper . i nc l u di ng M r . Vivian. M.P., Mr. Muntz, M.P., Vi scount S an d on , M.P., and Sir Howard Douglas, M.P.. h a d an i nterv i ew with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday at his-official residence in Deal in a cr-street. A deputation respecting soap, i nc l u di ng Mr. Flaw„, e6 M.P., Mr. Masterman, M.P., Mr. ',van, MY., II Pattison, M.P., Viscount Sandon, \I.P., Sir flowe r Douglas, M.P., Viscount Ebrington.Al. P.. and Mr.Cra sc ' ford, had an interview on Saturday with Si r . R. Peel. the jud eg DREADFUL AND FATAL FlRE.—Yesterday (Mondati morning, about one o'clock, a. fire, atte n d e d with fatal' consequences to four persous, father and three children. and serious results to several other parties, broke out os the premises belonging to Mr. Simpson, chemist No. 77 : Crawford-street, Marylebone, London. A fire escor was quickly at hand, but before it c o u ld b e fi xe d , a femael e a apparently about 40 yea=s of age, su dd en l y appro ached one cf the front windows and th rew h erse lf i nto t h e s treet' She fell partly on her back and h ea d. Th e poor creatu re was so dreadfully injured that the only thing she c oulds” was, "Oh, my poor children are in the house." This htbe coming known, the conductor of the escape ran up !L . ° machine, in the expectation of being enabled to save 1 e parties in the place. When, however, he had got upoe, t ,,",„ top of the escape a sort of explosion occurred in the suri which blew the shutters off, and the flames rusbt, through set the escrae in a blaze. The poor men ° it tempted to slide down, the canvass bag, when he fell deli, through the hole made by the fire. Lighting on his b e i t ier he received a serious if not fatal injury to the sltull. female and the man were promptly removed to the Mrs tal. As soon as the b u ildi ng was su ffi c i ent l y c oole number of firemen entered to search for the parties t o ot ing. Upon entering the second floor a sight of a 1 7 4 0 distressing character presented it se lf. I n one o f the r 0 ," 1 ,4 were to be seen the bodies of Mr. R o b er t B a tt e rs aid three children. They were not much b urne d, and d e appeared to have resulted from suffocation. sol e ' Mr. Calyle, lyle, of Bold-street, it will b e seen , has 0 0 , i9 t, some first-rate water-colour drawings, by eminent orj;..- - - 1 twenty-four convictions for Artrtlvicy from Laguira SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY, MARCH 23.—Wind S.E., fresh. n ook -Ariel, Griffiths, from Rio Grande—Ocean SAlLED.—Patrick Henry, Delano Halewyck, for Ostend—Washing land—Adelaide, bourley, for Ha Price, for Montreal. r for New York -- g , on.lrving. Caltha ell, toy . and Minna. Toby. for Ner —and Souter Yohol' 61* Emilia, Dodson, from Rio Janei ro , a t thi s port ; F- 1# Feb. H.M. Packet Seagull was to sail ab ou t 14th Feb.l° mouth. Tartar. Gordon, from Ma!ta, at Falmouth Perilian, Care-a, for Havana, at Holyhead Amity, Forrest, for Newfoundland, ditt , Wanderer, Palk, for Leghorn, ditto San Juan, Bedati, for Bilbos, ditto Rival, for Barbadoes, off ditto 21 s t insta n t r ot, The Balius, Pendlebury, from Jamaica to Liver, totally wrecked 28th Feb. on the south side of Fa/a" , man and a f' ~ , ,th sails split .emale passenger drowned def t ' ilmoleon, Dyer, from New Orleans to London.. ; a , Ad discharging % 1 04. 1_40 Arrum, Robinson, from Clyde, at ditto, for New Yo r- 'd I" Lord Wenlock, from Hull at ditto, for Newfoundla' ' DSB of sails and rudder broken x ditto, Cahawba, Sherman, from London for Savannah , 9 ' 4 leaky, and would probably be condemned Conte Hartig, Persich ; Elizabeth, Ki ng , an d Eliza' hence at Rio Janeiro Matthaw Fearce, White, hence at Laguira eig Sylph, Raisbeck, from Constantinople, at Cove _ vi a str rl s Priscilla, Purdy, hence at Kingstow n , leaky. h al "01) WEXFORD, nitt 21.—Two vcsse -e 7 0 , 0 rpool, f r _ r oin st rs itch, l'e °- .„te Captain. 0136 le t ch ar c reporte d shore at Kilmoro Wicx. March IS.—The Belfast, of Live] Monte Vide ), was driven on shore 15th M Point, and it is feared will be a wreck. seven men drowned TELEGRAPH OFFICE, MAXCn 2%, Wind at Holyhead, West, moderate in the mottlin,7o.O, gentle breeze, at 12 at noon; We-t, moderate at 5 3° r • bar 9 t 4 06' 1 - IGlyhead, at 10 a.m. No, 275, Robert Hendersot:4o,4 30 from Calcutta ; 8026, Mary Ann, brig, from St. Do n l a , 0 30 p.m., and 4693, Hannah Sallteld, ship, from Ca lcut p.m. at into Holyhead, at 3 p.m. No. 2 Janeiro. Ul yss es, sch‘ — e fCI lite; LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, A' s .:ll i C er The supply of Beast at market today has been T he , g eo than last week, with little or no variation in price•_,.ol o of Sheep rather larger, which m a y be stated a Beef 50 to bid pir lb. Mutton 8d to 83d. Off the port, at 6 p.m. 2 brigs and 5 schooners MARCH 23, 1846. s. 4. t Hay, old 2411, 0 7 a) a 10i Potatoes, V 9 01 b s. d. s. d. , g Clover 0 0 --0 Si Kemps ...... 36S lo 3 6 4 . Vetches o•— 0 0 Short Tops .. s - 4 4 Grass straw, Wheat 0 S— 0 4a Pink EYe s " .. 2 0 ...-51 i Oat .... Barey Carrots 22 0 —3l 0 Manure ...... ._ .., LIVERPOOL: ig4 6, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, -- yi Ft PRINTED AND PUBLISHED . TUESDAY MOll N JOSHUA FLETCHER LACr of 13. Grove-Itiets . t 1.11 LEONARD ADDISON, of 14. Great Orford-itros,. At No. 4, IT. 6iestax' 4 Caimans 101111/- EVERY