The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-13 00:00:00

r 13, 183 h. THEATRE.ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. ITALIAN OPERA. indev the Patronage of the MAYOR and BAILIFFS. In consequence of many Families having been disap ated in obtaining Places on Signora Cesari's Benefit, Proprietor • begs to inform the Public that: the perform vs of Tuesday will be repeated This Evening. • 1F Nobility, Gentry, and the Public of Liverpool are most respectfully informed that this present FR IDAY, 3th •instant, will be performed the chef d'amyre of the rated Maestro Vaccai, GIULIETTA .E ROMEO. • Giulietta . Madame Kyatherland. Capellio....Signor Deval. Adele Signora Campi. _ Romeo Signora Cesari. • Lorenz') Signor Boisragon. Tebeldo....SignOr Galli. / • ' the Opera Will be performed Weber's eel. rated Over ture to Oberon. ietto Buffo, (in character.) "Non temer i o bel cadetto," the favourite Opera, II Posto Abban to. del Maestro :adente. ena, "Traitress! in vain thy terror w rld plead for more r," from the Opera Angela. of Venice, composed by Mr. • Herrmann. by Signor Boisragon. eon ed Aria, (in character,) "Elena oh to ch' io chiamo," Itussini'S favourite Opera, La Donna del Lago. Malcom Signora Cesari. irlesque Trio, (in character,) " Vadasi via di qua," corn d by Ma r tini, Madame Kyntgerland, Signors Deval and ani. ) conclude with• Rossini's celebrated Double Quartette, for it Voices and full Chorus, "L' Asia in Faville e Avvolta," bich the whole strength of the Company wilt appear. So2rani—Madame Kyntberland and bliss Emily. Contralti—Signoras Cesari and Campi. Tenori—Siguors Deval and Boisragon. Bassi—Signori Galli and Maratu rice' of Admission. —Lower Boxes, 4 s. ; Upper Boxes, ; Pit, 2s. 6d.; Gallery, Is. lours will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Performance continence at Eight precisely. 'he Box-office is open from Pleven till Four. THEATR E-R0 Y AL, LIVE tt I'oo L. ITALIAN OPERA. Unfree the Patronage of the MAYOR and BAILIFFS. IHE Nobility, Gentry, and Public of Liverpool and its Vicinity are respectfully informed that on FRIDAY the 20hil instant, will he pie.-ntad TWO FAVOURITE OPERAS,. a a variety of other Entertainments, for par 'culars of which see future advertiseinents, ing for the BENEFIT of •Monsieur D VIN, Manager. )n which occasion the Marquis 'De Muti apazurri will Lead Overture and Second Act, and in t ourse of the Evening ig a celebrated Aria. dons. DEVIN wishes to inform the atrons. of the Italian era that, although the Engagements of the Company con ,de on, the 18th instant, the WHOLE of the ARTISTS have idly tendered their services on the above Evening, being SITIVELY their LAST A PPEARANCE THIS SEASON. Prices of Admission :—Lower Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes an I 2s. 6d.; Gallery, Is. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. FOR TITE BENEFIT OF MRS. W. J. HAMMOND. )N MONDAY:EVENING next, the 16t instaut, when will be performed, for the first time out of ondon, the new 4 .llighly-popular domestic Burle'tta . of • THE SCHOOLFELLOW— . 'rat= by D. J . ErtnoLD, lEsq., Author of Hazard of. the " Itearts and Diamonds," " Rent ay," &c. .To which will be add , Mr. TnomAs TO!t ' NS, 61, CHURCH-STREET, L 'RIPOOL. In the course of the Evening, a gre variety of Singing and 'ancing by Messrs. W. J.: Hammond, Alelvin, Raymond. Mrs. aymond, Miss E. Hamilton ' Mr., Mrs., and Miss Fanny Le .ereq, M a dll e . Eloise and Juliette, and the Brothers Jackson. To be followed by the favourite Burlesque OTHELLO TRAVESTIE. To conclude with THE MASQUERADE. Tickets may be had of Mrs. W. S. HANIMOND, 17, Suffolk .reet, and of Mr..CARIJAN, at the Boxoffice. Doors to tieoPeri at Half-past Six o'clock, Performance to ommence at Seven. Boxes, 35.-'—Pit, 2s.—Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Boxes, 2s.—Pit. ls.—NoSecond Price to the 4tllery. Second Price at Half-past Eight. Erbe Eibtrpool eetantiarD. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1835. By the Phcenix, Captain HA.RTLEY, which arrived on Vednesday, we have files of Demerara papers to the 19th January. These still continue to represent the fliancipated negroes as being much excited, insubori %late, and indolent to a high degree. The Guiana Chronicle, of ,the 21st January, gives the following in illustration of what is daily occurring. The present, however, relates to only one estate:— "There were six women and three men sent to gaol by S. W. Gordon, Esq., chairman district C, on the Ist October fast, to await their trial at the Supreme Court, for conspiring toge ther to - resist the beirtemtee of the District Court Lela at planta tion Great Diamond, on the 16th September last—not remain itg in the field 7% hours according to law—refusing to be put in the st oc k s when so sentenced by the court—and setting at defiance the authority of the managers, overseers, drivers, con stables, and every one in authority over 'them on the estate. They were kept in gaol from. the Ist 'October to the Ilth January, when they made their appearance on the estate in great glee. Consequently, the estate has suffered a loss of 792 working days. The reason they were released -is not known, as they brought no letter with them. The rest of the gang, since the Ist August. have not one day performed the quantity of work they ought to have done; and, in August, September, October, and part of November , they did not perform one-half. consequently, it is thought, the example now set them—viz., releasing the above-mentioned people without being brought to trial—will make them worse than ever.—Plantation Garden of Eden, Jan. 12, 1833. "Since writing the above, part of the gang have struck work, in the middle of the day, declaring they would work no longer, although under a regular agreement to work their extra hours for hire, the contraethaving been drawn and signed in presen ce of one of the special justices of the peace. The rest of the gang have not performed one half of their usual work. This is the beginning, and God knows what they will do next. It is ex pected, in a day or two, they will be doing what they think proper." The same able and uncompromising journal, in refer. ence to other properties, proceeds to say : "On another estate on the same hank of the river—the Farm — twenty-three people are, and hive been for some time, absent from their employment and the property, while the remainder of the gang who have not absconded are in the most unsettled and refractory state. "We were . likewise to-day informed by a magistrate, who sat on the bench at the District Court held on Monday last at plan tation Montrose, that, so far from any improvement in the con- Al:ret of • the negroes being evinced, the cases were much more numerous than at the last sitting of the court, and were of a darker character, being principally for combination and a most determined hefusal to obey the signals for the hours of labour. Twenty-oue culprits were sentenced to the treadmill frOm two eitates alone. " In addition to this, twenty negroes attached to the Little Diamond:--the most incorrigible vagabonds—escaped that pu nishment which, no doubt, the court would owe awarded to their crimes owing to some slight informality in their commit reent by the special justice; and it is to a similar cause, we appre bend, that the unexpected return of the Garden-of Eden negroes, tie spoken of in the inanagees account, is to be attributed. These irregularities in the required local form s are dee p l y tube regretted; they rob justice of her due, while they produce the very worst possible effect upon the mind of the negro, and, at the same time, sets a most baneful example to all his associates. Ile will not he induced to believe, that it was a pure accident or inattention that saved his back from the lash, or his feet from the treadmill; nor will his narrow cseape from the tender-mer cies of the law Act,on him as a salutary warning to check his future conduct ; but he immediately supposes, that he owes. his redemption from punishment to inability on the part of the judges to inflict it. " Baekra no able to punish aw•wee !" • the trimilphant scoundiel will vociferate on his return to his de lighted ; •arftl; . th . ey being nowise loth to oelieveldin, the baneful infection soon spreads over the whole estate, while like " Rise neighbouring properties become imbued with the - same erroneous ideas, and rebellion and disorder are speedily gene rated. We trust, however, that this case will act as a strong caution to our special justices to be more guarded in future, and (hat it will not again be our duty to record cases where the ;guilty have thus evaded justice to their own future detriment., .and manifeStly to the immediate and serious injury of the cotn oninity at large." . The governor, fur reasons best known . to himself, had declined to.publish the answers to his monthly circulars, addressed to the stipendiary magistrates. The govern ment journal, however, represents them tobe favourable. If so, why are they not published ? The - Chronicle takes 'op the subject as follows: " His excellency informs us Olathe has received and carefully examined the reptirts from the twelve juisicial districts for the xnontli of December, end that they are of a highly satisfactory . manure, depicting, as they do, the colony to be in a "state of ' P Ellnefr tranquillau." Win", we would ask, are we not, on this occasion, as on the last, furnished with the reports, to let 4.hein speak for themselves ? We admit that it is an unpleasant 4hing to have these reports directly Contradicted by the evidence 4 4 the gaol returns; and we must say that it does not increase -our reliance on their trutb, when baif the colony are ready to testify to their falsehood—as occurred with the November re . ort s—nevenheless, open dealing demanded that we should have been favoured with a sight of these es well as their prede cessors. We are obliged, therefore, to suppose that there were certain reasons which rendered it convenient to withhold them. " His excellency next desires his congratulations to all inter ested in the colony for the happy state of present affairs, and for the brightness of their future plospects. Are these congratulations, we would ask, addressed to those .planters who have now.raN TtiOu.sAND ACREj,i or canes rotting 0 11 their fields from want of labour, owing to the disobedience .t 441 insubordination of the negroes to take them off!' Or are these congratulations addressed to those starving orphans and widows whose sole support formerly existed in the services of 'one or two negroes, but who now are left to pine in destitution and want because they can receive no labour from their depend ants, owing to the very salutary measures of our executive? Nay, rather should we think that these grattilatory expressions are addressed m the (tatters of Brazil, or the merchants of the east—who, in the prospects of our ruin, and the desolation of the West Indian colonies, may see much cause of rejoicing, as Improving their gains." We have received several files Or New York papers, r eaching to the 19th February. They are filled with 4 ifitnasiOns on the French question, and it is manifest tiAlt preparations of a warlike nature are going on. The WW I next packet, that of the 24th February, will probably bring us the decision of the House of Representatives upon the subject of the claims. These papers also contain some terrific exposures of the shameful and terrific jobbing in the postoffice depart ment of this pure model of a republic. We shall endea vour to make room for some of the details in our next, when the reader may expect a rich treat. Ministers obtained a large majority on Tuesday night against Lord CHANDOS'S motion for a repeal of the malt duty, the speech of Sir ROBERT PEEL being one of the most masterly and argumentative efforts that ever was listened to, we should think, in the House of Commons. Thus there is.an end to the factions! The question was a touching one in a pecuniary point of view, it being plain that the only alternative, after repealing the malt duty, must have been the imposition of a property tax. This came home to the hearts,-or rather the pockets of the whigs, the money lenders, the landholders, the an •nuitants, and all persons of fixed. incomes, and they accordingly voted with ministers. Patriotism loves good ale homebrewed, but it is inconvenient to dig out from ten to five . hundred pounds per annum from one's in come, simply to save a penny upon a quart of vulgar drink. Patriotism for ever! The whigs profess an amazing affection for their " fellow citizens" who drag their carriages occasionally through the mud, and cheer them at the hustings, but they do not choose to give them too much cheap beer. How considerate I _ . In the King's speech at the opening of the present session, his majesty is advised to " lament" that the agricultural interest " still continues in a state of great depression." The motion of Lord CHANDOS, therefore, had for its object a measure of relief—such a measure as he conceived would benefit the suffering cultivators of the soil. That liarliament as well as ministers must be anxious to devise some plan to promote that object can- rx:.a. for. mon-et - It b doubted, and tha r•nls quopatni. , p, concerns the: . motion or Lord CIIANDOS, is, whether the repeal of the : malt duty would give such relief as would be equal to the great sacrifice of revenue that would necessarily :ensue ? We confess we do not think i t would. We cannot see how the cultivator of barley would, be benefited if he did not receive a higher price .for his barley, and if he did, we cannot see how the labourer and the other consumers of ale would be benefited, for the advance in the price of barley wouldiirevent any reduction in the price of beer. As to the farmer going back to the old habit of brewing his own beer., that is now entirely out. of the question. The farmer and his labourer are now completely sepa rated, and are totally distinct classes. Formerly this was not fir() case. They lived in the same house, fared at the same board, tapped the same barrel, and drank out of the same tankard. All this is at an end, except in some very remote districts. The homely bonds are broken, the manners are changed, the sympathy is destroyed; and we defy the art of man to revive a system now obsolete, and incompatible with the present state of society. That the excise laws, and the malt duty in particular, wrought the change, we are ready to admit; but this is another queStion. The evil is done—the farmer and labourer are completely alienated from each other—re cent events have rendered it impossible that the union and the confidence can be restored—and therefore it be comes the duty of every wise statesman to seek a remedy of a far different kind. The landowners generally, and a large proportion of the farmers of England, are at prese i nt in the condition of the planters and proprietors of the West Indies. Their estates are deeply mortgaged. The farmer is also in debt, either to his landlord, to a neighbouring banker, or some rich corn factor or cattle dealer. So that, which way we turn, , Ive find difficulties of an almost in surmountable nature. During the war, rising prices led to improvements, and encouraged speculation. The money borro(ved at 5 per cent. interest, and expended in cultivatingwastes and making corn and grass grow where they never grew before, was a safe speculation so long as prices continued to adVance. It was, at all events, a specu lation of a 'post desirable kind in g national point of view. Every acre of land .which we recovered from the waste and wild was something gained for the ,country. It might take a thousand pounds to convert the peat bog into a corn field ; but, "although the land thus reclaimed might afterwards, owing to the fall of prices, not be worth half the money expended upon it, still the country was considerably benefited. The speculator may have been ruined—the cultivator, in sheer despair, may have drowned himself in the deep ditch by which he drained the waste—still there is the blooming spot yielding crops of corn and potatoes for hungry weavers and ungrateful nailors. The whole evil has been caused by the change in the times, the fall of prices, and the unfortunate alteration in the monetary system of Mr. PlTT—doubly unfortu nate in this respect that at the time it was made this country was upwards of six hundred millions of pound in debt, contracted for in paper when paper money was not worth half the present value of gold. This, at once, put an end to improvement on a great scale, and it re duced the working obligant to the necessity of either parting with his land to the mortgagee, or toiling for his interest in a capacity little above that of a slave. He walked the earth, like a free man, but his independence was gone, he was under the surveillance of some lawyer, MOSES SWEAT-THE-GUINEA held his bond, there was a mark before his name in the tax-gatherer'sbooks, OBADIAH MUCKLECHEAT would not renew the hundred-pound bill which he had renewed every three' months for the previ ous fifteen years, charging a commission each time, so that the poor man dreamt of the workhouse by night and saw a sheriff's officer in every tree by day. The land owneris much in the same situation as the farmer. His father, when rents were high, and wheat from ninety shillings . to one hundred and twenty shillings per quarter, made handsome settlements upon his younger children, leaving-1)1s eldest son burthened with the payment and the interest of the borrowed paper which gave this un natural rise to prices. We call it unnatural, because it was . .so:in appearance. In reality it was otherwise. Wheat rat eighty shillings, paper money, in 1813, was not so. high as wheat at forty shillings, gold money, is at present. However, we are-over head and ears in this difficulty, and there is no use in disputing about its proximate cause, or the parties who were instrumental in producing the chang. We are all in the same ship► now—one class beinghigh up in opulence, and another low down in debt and almost in despair—both being convinced that we cannot safely retrace our steps without entirely destroying the .credit, commerce, and industry of the country. • Still something must be done for the fanner. We cannot allow that most valuable portion of the people, who are in fact the heart and soul of the country, to linger on in bitterness of spirit, in the melancholy of hope long de ferred, toiling in vain fur a pittance, and wasting their blood and sinews in supporting a suspected solvency. But then, admitting the necessity, still the question presseg—WHAT IS TO BE DONE?. Sir ROBERT PEEL has not answered it yet. We are bound to admit that he has not had sufficient time for the consideration of so complicated a question. That some relief will be given during the present session we feel confident. The country. expects it at. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S hands, and it will be grateful for whatever he can afford. We cannot see how the right hon. baronet can remove any portion of the pressure which comes from the mort gagee interest unless he were to countenance an . issue of state paper which should be inconvertible—declaring it to be so at least for ten years. There are many things, however, which he might do easily and benefici ally. He might induce parliament to suspend the present corn laws for three years, or say fire years, prohibiting the importation of all kinds of foreign corn during that period, under any circumstances whatever, except an actual scarcity, in which case the privy council should have pwer to restore the suspended laws during the re cess of parliament, and the parliament to have the power when sitting. This would be a Godsend to the agricultural interest. It-would revive the spirits of the farmer. It might raise the price of corn to a remunerating price, but not higher, for then the executive or the parliament would interfere. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. We most seriously and imploringly recommend this ex- I periment. It is not open to the -slightest objection. It would suspend the collusive bargains of the corn dealers of Mark-lane, and it would give to the farmer the advan- tage of everfkind of•season which Providence is pleased to order. Lord Liverpool used to contend that steady prices were not only desirable, but were a great blessing. We hope this fashionable absurdity is worn out. It wars against all the rules of a bountiful .Creator. The Almighty sends a blight to teach us prudence and :ec6-, nomy in our consumption of the fruits of the earth. -If, the cup were always full, we should have no motive for being moderate in our habits or calculating in our policy. Steady prices, caused by foreign importations of corn, is a denial of justice to the home cultivator. He has a bad season, but by this rule he is prevented from having a corresponding high price. The short crop and the low price is ruin—for with an average crop the price must necessarily be low. Lord Liverpool's maxim was a most mischievous fallacy, and we are sorry to perceive that it is not yet quite exploded. It is said that the farmer would receive considerable relief from a measure for the commutation of tithes. We have no objection to the experiment, but we are afraid it is delusive. , Church rates are hitched in the same way. Abolish them, say we, but do not calculate that the farmer will feel the change. No, no; the evil lies deeper; and if some such scheme as that to which we have alluded be not adopted, we shall despair of any relief arising from any clipping of farthings in this way. Adopt a bold measure—and the country will soon not only be recon ciled to, but will eventually applaud it. Under the head "Contemporary Press" will be found an article on the consequences likely to arise from the recent death of the Emperor of AUsTRIA. As it embo dies all that we could say, and is admirably written, far beyond our humble pretensions, we recommend it , to the attention of our readers. The new Emperor is a man of itrotigTeplings, and of hasty teniper, but he is sagacious in his policy, and is not likely to alter the prevailing state of things in Germany. LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Half-past Seven o'clock, Wednesday Evening. ... .. . . The only political event of much importance since our, last has been the demise of the Emperor of Aus'iria, the illness to which we then alluded having, as we predicted, proveil fatal. It is somewhat remarkable, however, that this event, which cannot but be of mo ent as connected with continental politics, has had no influen in the value of our national securities. The result of the in ion for the repeal of the malt tax has had m advance in our stocks, and Consuls lto 'count, at 92h 1, but closed at 92h ; the 3 are 9.11 i. Exchequer Bills and India the premium on the former having been Bto 41, and that of ie latter, 23 to 24. a tendency to, caus day were, for the Al per Cents. for Money Bonds are both bette - - In the Foreign Miket there is very little to notice ; there has been no intelligencc'Of Moment from the South American states since we last wrote, and the bonds are within a fraction of our former prices. There has been some speculation in both Spa nish and Portuguese Bonds, but without any material alteration in the price. The following are the closing prices of the various securities : Bank Stock 3 per Ccut. Reduced 3 per Cent Consols ....MI y a 33 per Cent. Consols 31 per Cent. Reduced shut New 3% per Cents .... 99i India Stock shut India Bonds • 21 23 Exchequer Bills Consuls for Act ..... 92% 21 • • . 41. 3 Brazilian Bsk Buenos Ayres 3l 31 Chilian . 41 Columbian ' ' 37; i Dutch 5 per Cents ..: —lO3l 6 Do. 21 per Cents Mexican 4ll, 42i Portuguese -92 i 1 Spanish Scrip 6l 7 61 i Belgian By accounts from Tampico we learn that a rupture had taken place between Santa Anna and Bustamenti, but the particulars are not stated. It was generally current that the president was not likely to advocate the church party to the extent originally expected from him. We have accounts from Quebec to-day which represent the province as in a state of great excitement.• A grand meeting of the Constitutional Association had taken place to petition his Majesty to protect the settlers of Irish and English origin from that nionopoly of power now enjoyed by the settlers of French origin, who had obtained the franchise to such an extent that, although the former class consisted of more than one-fourth of the population of the province, they were unabie to return•more than fourteen members out of a house of eighty-eight. We have also advices from New Brunswick which contain the speech of .the governor, Sir Cohn Campbell, on the opening of the legislature. It is of a cheering tendency : announces that the harvest is good, and that the commercial interests of the colony were prospering. LIVERPOOL POLICE. WEDNESDAY. ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—EilenPlughes, a servant-girl in the service of Mr. Greetham, of No. '24, Bridgewater-street, was charged with stealing three sovereigns, the monies of a lady named Mary Anne Evans. The complainant, who resides at Dee Cottage, Chester, it appears, was on a visit to Mr. Greet ham, and had placed thirty-one sovereigns in a drawer in his house. She had occasion to look at the money the day after depositing it, and missed the three sovereigns. Suspicion fell upon the prisoner in consequence of her having purchased new dresses, and other articles of wearing apparel,—and she subse quently acknowledged to stealing one sovereign. The felony was proved, and the magistrates committed the prisoner fur trial. Five disorderly characters, residing . in a low court in Lam bert-street, London-road, whose names of William Sauderson, James Kitts, William Lewis, Anne Clarke, and William Cross are tolerably familiar to the readers of the criminal calendar, were placed at the bar charged with stealing a quantity . of wear ing apparel, the property of Anne Taylor, of Brunswick:view. The complainant, it appeared, is a woman who takes in wash ing, and a few days ago she placed on a line, to dry, a counter pane, some shirts, and other things entrusted to her to wash, when they were stolen therefrom. Information was given to the police, and Thursbv, the officer, suspecting the prisoners,. went to the house in which they reside in Lambert-street, and there found some of the clothes stolen. It was also proved that 'each of the prisoners had, at different times, pledged a portion of the goods stolen with Mr. Harris, a pawnbroker. When takeninto custody the prisoners were preparing ducks to roast for dinner, which have since proved to have been stolen froth No. 23, Peach-street.—Committed. • YusretnAs.—(Before the Mayes and Sir THOS. BRANCK ER.) CHARGE OF DRUNKENNESS AGAINSt A WATCHMAN.—In a recent number of the STANDARD, we gave a police report headed " The Tables Turned," wherein it was stated that. " a watchman named Hacknett had brought up a prisoner before Sir Thomas Brancker charged with drunkenness, but on inves. tigation it was elicited that the prisoner was sober and the watchman drunk." Sir Thos. Brancker at that time desired Mr. Whitty, the superintendent of the watch, to lay the circum stances before the board of commissioners. Mr. Whitty did so, when the witnesses against the watchman failed in establishing the charge they had previously made before the magistrates, one of them denying that the watchman was drunk. M e , Whitty was desireil by the watch commissioners to communi cate the result of the inquiry to Sir Thomas Brancker, with a view to exonerate the accused; and this morning, on Sir Thos. entering the court, he acknowledged the receipt of a letter front Mr. Whitty. The subject havinc , been spoken of, Mr. Parlour said he was given to understand" that notwithstanding, what the witnesses had averred before the commissioners, they still persisted in their former statement. On hearing this, Sir Thomas called the two witnesses, via., Lucas, the constahle, and a person named Gleave. Lucas said the watchman was in liquor, and that he had stated so before the commissioners. Cleave, on being interrogated, admitted that out of compas sion to the watchman, whom he feared might lose his situation, he had told the commissioners he was sober, but the contrary was the fact. Sir Thos. Brancker severely reprimanded Gleave for his pre varication and falsehood. He had desired Mr. Whitty to lay th'ri.ase before the commissioners, so that the man, if culpable, might be punished, and, it not, his character cleared. Whitty said that he believed the watchman was not to blame, as Captain Kerr-of the watch, who was a very superior man, had seen him on the night in question, and he had stated hat. the watchman was sober. The subject theu dropped. , A GENU-WINE KENTUCKIAN.--A rough-looking American seaman, whose wild appearance might perfectlyjustify a Yankee gazetteer in describing him as half alligator, half hymua,or half an ything . but a human being, was placed at the bar charged with having forgotten the lessons ou temperance learned in the United States, by getting beastly drunk on the previous night, and wallowing in the kennell, thereby obstructing the wheels of carts and hackney coaches, and disgracing the American nag. The prisoner, clothed in a capacious frieze wrap-rascal, or great coat, with huge black whiskers and long lankey hair to match, was introduced to his worship by the watchman, who in nate Irish said, "This devil-the-care feller, yer worship, I . catched last night, at half-past one this morning, chateing his lodgings by taking a snoose in the kennell; and so, says I, " Ilolloh! me King's K h i l i g ig h , w s his weight highway, he, I could whip and Pua the King's repre sentative."i s , .t.h e p—n the in wild cats, and your's too—Pin a Kentuck." ' ".Mvver mind, my swell," says 1, "%rot you is—Pai a watchman ;.'' nd so I wins him to Bridewell, and here he is to answer the ne. The Mayor (to the prisoner). — What are you ? -.. Prisoner (yawning). — l guesses Pin a man. (Lang .) A constable.—The ;Mayor asks what trade y ou are . Prison er.—l calculates lam agenu-wine Kentuck. (A laugh.) The Mayor.—What do you say for getting drunk? Prisoner (in a singing tone).—l've a notion' that I don't know, but I considers you must do something with me. The Mayor.—Have you any money? • Prisoner.—Oh no, 1 guesses I havn't. The Alaym.—l think I had better discharge you. Prisoner.—l think so too. The Mayor.—Well, go about your business. Prisoner (staring with his mouth wide open, but not offering to go,) . The Mayor.—Why don't von go? Prisoner.—Oh yes, (laughter,) exit, with a hop, step, and a jump. POT-VA LI ANT.—A poor starved tinker was charged with being drunk and courageous at two o'clock in the morning. Please yer honour, said the guardian of the.night, this jiiitle man was elevated at an unseasonable hour, and said as how he could lick forty watchmen yer honour. Mr. Whitty here acted as interpeter, from whom it was un derstood that lick, in the vulgar tongue, meant feat. The Prisoner.—Lord bless yer grace, I could not lick one. The Mayor.—l dont think you could, you nosy go. The prisoner then made his escape with becoming speed. STEALING WEARING APPAREL—A man of bad character, by trade a watclimaker, and formerly the driver of a cab, who gave his name Frampton, was committed for trial for stealing and pawning two pair of boots and it suit of clothes, the property of a young titan named William Chantrell, with whom be Joeii-cd. ASYLUM FOR THE BLIND. There are some people who have an amazing fondness for running their heads against a wall,tnd there are others, alas that they should be clergymen I who, to use a homely phrase, are never apparently happy but when they are up to the chin in hot water, and making them selves troublesome and ridiculous. We regret to say that the Reverend EDWARD HULL is a gentleman of this class. On the 29th of January last this reverend personage addressed a letter to the Liverpool Courier, in which be poured forth a flood of unmeasured abuse on the conduc tors of this journal. The accumulated bile of many months was emptied upon us, and he calculated that we should not survive its acescent potency. The minister of the chapel for the blind had valorously undertaken the task of " writing down" the STANDARD, and some few simpletons looked forward to the catastrophe with consi derable interest. Poor man ! How miserably did he miscalculate our strength, and overrate his own powers ! We are not to be blown :up by a bottle of ginger -beer, nor swamped in a Lilliputian tempest. But the most characteristic part of Mr. Htmes letter was its last sentence, which we beg leave to quote. "The proprietors of the STANDARD," he says, with pompous gravity, "are at full liberty, henceforth, to per mit or direct their drudges to attack me as they think fit. I will never, hereafter, condescend to reply to any arti cle which may appear in its pages." This is very condescending towards us "drudges" on the part of the reverend gentleman. Like a mischiev ous boy behind a wall, he throws a handful of mud at the passers by; but the moment they detect the urchin and are about to, return it, he runs away. He, is quite welcome to pursue this ccurse with others, but he must not-try tile experiment upon us. We can get to the in side of the hedge as well as himself. At any rate, Mr. HULL has not kept faith with his friends according to the terms 'of his letter. Weltad occasion, on Friday last, to notice the reverend gentle man's conduct at a meeting of the committee of the Blind Asylum, in the early part of last week. His con duct on that - occasion did not evince either meekness or temperance, or any of the christian virtues, but we sim ply gave the leading points of the discussion and the re sult. Mr. HULL, nut satisfied with our report, conde scends to reply to it in the Liverpool Times of Tuesday last. We congratulate him, therefore, on his re ap pearance in the public journals, despite his declared re solution to the contrary, and we hope lie may be enabled to retire from the field in no worse condition than for merly. It is true that he does not give his name to the article, but it is impossible to mistake the quarter whence it emanates, or who dictated it. To be brief, we assume it to be the reverend gentleman's own statement, land we shall treat it accordingly. First.—He says in the Times : "On Tuesday, January 6, Mr. Lucy, the superintendent of the school for the blind, informed the Rev. Mr. Ilull, as he was entering the committee-room, that Mr. H aymond Houghton, the treasurer, had directed him to send Robert Stiles, the master roper, to the hustings to vote for Lord Sandon, and that he wished to know for whom he was to give his other vote." As this statement is calculated to implicate Mr. Hot:Grrros, we have taken the pains to make the most minute inquiry into the real facts of the case, and we learn from several gentlemen, who are members of the committee, that there is in the above extract statements which are untrue: Mr. HOUGHTON did not direct Mr. LUCY to " send ROBERT STILES," but merely left a card, with Lord SANDON'S name on it, requesting Mr. LUCY to give it to STILES, and to say that if lie had not promised his vote, he (Mr. HOUGHTON) hoped he would vote for Lord SANDON. He did not interfere in any other way, and attached no importance whatever to the request. The answer of ROBERT STILES to Mr. Lucy was, " I have always voted for the red." It should also be stated that Mr. HOUGHTON, the treasurer, al though a captain canvasser, and a very active one, so far from dictating to or directing STILES, did not even include him in his "returns to the election committee, nor did he mention to 'any one that he knew or was aware that STILES intended to vote for Lord SANDON. Un the ground that such interference on the part of the treasurer (which was no interference at all) might be injurious to the charity, Mr. HULL, says the Times, on the morning of the election, proposed the following resolution at a meeting of the committee:— "Resolved,—That none of the officers of this institution interfere with, the masters employed in it as to the way in which they shall give their votes at the election of members of parliament." It was then sugvested that, instead of the words "officerF of this institution," the words "members of this committee" should be used, which was accordingly dor.e. A further discussion of the subject took place, and the communication made by Mr. Lucy was entered in the waste-book by the yentkman who acted as secretary." This is not a correct statement. No such resolution, or amended resolution, appears on any of the books, waste or otherwise, of the institution. It is true that ROBERT STILES was called into the presence of the committee, and told that he might vote for whom he pleased, and a minute of this important communication was finally entered in the waste book. It was among other things to expunge this minute that the committee met on the 3d February, when Mr. HULL, according to the statement in the Times, was absent from indisposi tion: ! It is very convenient to become indisposed when anything unpleasant is about to happen, and Mr. HULL'S illness came on precisely at the hour when the expunging committee were to assemble. The reve rend gentleman was seen on the steps of the Athenaeum on the previous day in good health, seeking, or, as some sac, preserving his ‘"cold" for the next day. Very ill indeed! He knew what subject was to be discussed. The Times proceeds to say: — "At the last meeting of the committee on the 3d instant, Mr. Hull addressed the meeting at considerable length. The fol lowing is the substance of his address:— "The resolution to expunge the record was altogether unpre cedented. That record had been submitted to the last annual meeting of the trustees of the corporation; and the committee, which Inserted it in the book of proceedings had received the thanks of that meeting; and still the record was afterwa►ds ex punged by a new committee." We must here premise that the manner and tone in which Mr. Hutt addressed himself to the committee was in the highest degree irreverent, passionate, unseemly, and even insulting. He commenced his oration (duly prePared beforehand, and perhaps read in the street to a certain barrister) by stating that he did not intend any personal - offence to the committee, which was no sooner said than he began an attack of the most personal and virulent kind. The article in the Times does not contain a fair y o portion of the substance of what Mr. HULL said. \ ill Mr. HULL deny that he made a most unbecoming anc in temperate attack upon a reverend gentleman, a men, her of the committee, of which the reported speech in the Times does not contain a word ? Will Mr. HuLL deny that he stated in the course of his speech that several c‘ i gentlemen with whom formerly he lad been on terms of intimacy and friendship had now ince the appearance i of the "foul-mouthed monster" in the Courier) reduced their acquaintance to a passing nod, or words to this effect ? . In the last extract, Mr. HULL, it will he seen, called the act of expunging his minute from the waste-book an unprecedented one. He continues also to call it a resolu- pronounces it to be illegal, absurd, useless, uncour teous, blunt, coarse, unceremonious, and so on. These are ilki , soft words from a mini -. the gospel ! But to whom are they addressed ? ' number of gentlemen of ac knowledged and undoubted respectability, who volun tarily and gratuitously conduct the affairs of a valuable institution, whose paid servant Mr. HULL is, and who is dependant upon its prosperity for the stipend he now enjoys. " It could not be imagined," says Mr. HULL, " that Mr. R. HOUGHTON would condescend to pack a e,m rnittee." The sneer is well understood, but it only insi nuates a falsehood. The meeting was not more nu merous than usual, there being present only two gentle men mnre than attended the corresponding meeting in the previous year. Besides, it is a fact that the gentle man who moved that the minute be expunged,-as well as several others, did not know anything of the circumstance, and did not know of any such minute, until they came into the committee-room. Bat the rcrerend gentleman broached a doctrine on this occasion which is quite new to us and of vast im portance to the institution. He contends that the Cur,- poration of the institution have no more right to expunge a minute than they hare to reduce his salary from the maximum of £5OO to the minimum of £3OO. The first point merges in the second and more important position. Let us examine it closely. It is admitted that the Rev. EDWARD HULL is chaplain for life, and his stipend is fixed and regulated by the 26th clause of -the act of parliament. It is in these words : " And be it further enacted, that for the maintenance of the chaplain for the time being• of the said chapel the persons who shall be wardens thereof for the time being, in pursuance of this act, and their successors, shall, by and out of the rents of pews or seats erected therein, yearly and every year, well and truly pay or cause to be paid to such chaplain, as snag be directed by the said committee, a sum not less than three hundred pounds nor exceeding five hundred pounds of lawful English money, without any deduction or abatement for taxes or otherwise how -1 soever, on the Ist day of January and on the Ist day of July iu each year, by even and equal portions, and the money s o to be paid shall be allowed to such wardens in their account; and a due apportionment of tie said salary shall from time to time be mark between the executors or administrators of any chaplain of the said chapel dying in the interval between the h:alf-vearly days of payment and the successor of such chaplain so for and in respect of the half year wherein such death shall happen." If the wardens or trustees of this charity have no power to regulate the chaplain's salary, this clause is utterly devoid of meaning. Mr. Humaas received £5OO a-year since 1826. In 1829 the act of parliament was obtained, and shortly after the bill had received the royal sanction, the chapel-wardens met and passed the following resolu- on : " sth May, 1829. Resolved that the chapel-wardens be di rected to pay the sum of £5OO . per annum to the chaplain, which sum was unanimously voted to be paid him by the annual meet ing of the subscribers in the year 1526, and that the same be con tinued to he paid so long as he shall continue to perform the duty in person." The first question to be considered\here is—is this re solution a strictly legal one, according to the provisions of the act of parliament? We humbly submit th6t it is not. The chapel-wardens, in 1829, had no right to bind their successors during the lifetime of Mr. HULL. We contend that they had no right—that they hare no right to vote Mr. • HULL a single farthing beyond the stipu lated £3OO, except from year to year. They do this in the case of the clerk, the organist, and the sexton, and they are bound to follow the same rule in the case of the chaplain. The vote being illegal, Mr. HULL'S claim falls to the ground. It is of some consequence that the com mittee should give the point their serious consideration; because the time may come when they will be called upori to provide a curate or assistant to the chaplain; and it will be hard indeed tip saddle a charily with seven or eight hundred per annum for two sermons per Sunday. But we leave the matter in their hands. LIVERPOOL REFORM ASSOCIATION. With reference to this association the Albion says:— " We are much gratified to be able to refer the reformers of Liverpool and elsewhere to the advertisement of the Liverpool Reform Association, which will, we trust, serve as en example to the reformers of other places, who should remember, that " when bad men" (politically bad we mean) " conspire, -good men should unite." Chance has thrown in our way one of the circulars of this august, and, of course, "politically good" body. The list of its officials comprises th names of the most distinguished level lers and spouters of froth in the "good old town," and we are rejoiced to find among them thatof our respected friend, Lieut.- Colonel Williams, the "late" member for Ashton. Without the assistance of ancient Pistol the radicals would cut but a sorry figure. One of the laws of this association directs that a committee of twenty-one members be appointed, with a president, vice-presi dent, and a treasurer. and that the committee shall have power to add to their number, to appoint a paid secretary, &c. &c. This looks vastly like self-election and nomination, and ap proaches very near to the corrupt close-corporation,: system which the reformers profess to hold in such utter abhorrence. However, these little discrepancies, these trifling differences between the theory and the practice of reformers, arc not unusual in reforming operations. As the declared enemies of our institutions in church and state are combining to effect an end which is well understood, we hope the friends of these establishments will the more cor dially unite in their defence. On this subject we cannot per haps do better than repeat the quotation of our contemporary —" When bad men (politically or otherwise) conspire, GOOD MEN SHOULD UNITE." THE ITALIAN OPERA. Signora Cesari's benefit an Tuesday night attracted the iarg- . est audience We have yet seen at the Theatre-Royal during the present season. Five of the pit benches next to the Orchestra, were railed off and occupied as dress boxes. The appearance of ladies attired in all the bravery of full dress costumes relieved the usually sombre appearance of this part ofthe house. The opera of "Ginlietta e Romeo " was performed for the second trine on this night. To an English audience, to whom the " Romeo and Juliet" of Shakspeare is familiar, the quarrel of the Cp.pulets and the Moutagues is tame and spiritless when described by the chorus singers of the Italian opera. Hence, the first act was rather heavy. Cesari made an admirable Romeo, and particularly in the closing scene, where, supposing Juliet dead, he swallows poison. The Juliet of Madame Kynther land reminded us of the slight difference that is souletiines found to exist between the sublime and the ridiculous. Juliet's recovery from suspended animation was very well acted by Madame Kyntlieriaud. The dying exclamation of Romeo "Giulietta" was touchingly tender and thrilling, and in perfect keeping with the English character of- that love-inspired hero. At the moment Romeo dies, Gialietta swoons and the curtain falls. This was the signal for what we may call three hearty rounds of applause, in the midst of which, to show that Rwn'a was not dead, and that Giulieaa had recovered, these two charac ters appeared, and walked across the stage to express by gestures their gratitude to the audience for their kind reception; this they did very gracefully. After the opera some comic and other con certed pieces were performed, which it will be seen, together with the opera, will be repeated to-night. THE NIGHT POLICE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.4NDI,IRD, Stu,—Perceiving in last week's Courier a paragraph intimating that application is about to be made for an act of parliament to estabbsu a day police, after the manner of. the London police, it may be useful to take a review of the present system of police, or Constabulary, now existing in this town, and the inconve nience and disadvantages the {(public: at large labour under for the want of a well organised body of men to protect the peace, and speedily bring to justice the disturbers thereof. Generally speaking, the men at present erne loved are a very civil anii obliging set, and some of them very sharp, active, and ener getic fellows, and I should not have any objection to apply this designation generally, if I were allowed to weed out of the employ some natives of (he sister kingdom, who invariably in cline to screen and pardon their own countrymen, and against whom they never can be persuaded to act with that hearty enemy with which they lay bold of a poor intoxicated pro vincial. The paragraph mentions that " the dais police is in tended to he assimilated to the night police." certainly the night police patrol the streets; but • in the case of any 'little affray, even if you offer them assistance, you cannot . get them to act on the spur of the moment to the utmost of their powers, but they must go to the end of the street, and rap their sticks until they have congregated thine or four of their brethren, before they will put themselves in bodily danger. Indeed, I have seen them wait for a poise of half-a-dozen before they would attempt to seize a pair of drunken blackguards, and in many instances the greatest culprit has altogether escaped, and given them leg bail. I have even known them wait for their captain before they thirst commence operations, or seize any offender. The fault appears to be a total ignorance of their duties. Raw inexperienced men, and some of them with leSs' nerve than an old woman, will even stand by and see poor men, honest hard-working mechanics suppOiting families, most shamefully abused by ruffians before they will exert their strength. They ought to be commanded to seize their man with one hand, and spring their rattle at the same time with the other hand, if assistance was really wanted, the same as in London; and unless they have nerve to do this, they are not tit for a night policeman; and when assistance is called by the public, they ought instantly to go to the place, and, if need be, spring their rattles as they go along, and let assistance fol low them. I am sure if they were on good terms with the re spectable residents in each neighbourhood, they would have little to fear, and even in the worst neighbourhoods, however soon they arrive by the rattle going, another policeman would be there in a few seconds from the arrival of the first ; they could never come to serious harm, otherwise let each man be fully armed fur extreme cases, as the night force is a far too great proportion of raw inexperienced men. In many districts this certainly is the case, and they actually, on the most urgent cases, hang back and wait for the instructions of their captain or sergeant how to act. But the most active, resolute, and ex perm • need men are required for the duty at night, otherwise they will never be a match fir the infernal villains and felons that have, during this winter, been prowling our street., con gregated from all parts of the globe. Nor do I think the MM. ber of eight police sufficient. lu London a policeman is either within sight or call in the night time; but in some parts of this town you may run a street, yea, two or three streets, before you can find one; and even in the day time, in London, a polices man is always visible in every street of any length, and where there appears a tumultuous mob, or a dozen or snore persons gathered together in a contused assemblage, or a disorderly man, two minutes cannot elapse before a policeman is on the spot. I have lived in London and in this town, and in the couree of the year I reside a great proportion of the months in each town, and I speak impartially when I . say the multitude, or lower orders of Liverpool, are more disorderly, more un couth, and touch more offensive and insulting than in London. And how are the public protected from their violence? A drunken blackguard assaults a re-pectabie woman or man, fre quently without cause, pushing them off the parapet, and, when remonstrated with, gives great abuse; and, in nine cases out of ten, commits a great parsonal assault by kickiug or striking the very person whom he has made the aggression upon. Now these are instances occurring daily in Whitechapel, Byrom street, Paradise -street, Tit liehaen -street, Oldhall-street , and many other thoroughfares, and particelurly under the Goree piazzas, amongst the warehouses. The party c ommitting the assault is unknown to the person assaulted, the latter wants to secure him and have him punished; but where is a constable or policeman? He is to fetch, parhaps, from bridewell; and who will hold the man in the meantime? Perhaps a person is public spirited enough to do so; but he gets tired before you can find a policeman, and lets him go. There is no town with a less effective police fur the size of it. I do not cast any indi present carps. vidual disparagement on the members of the 1 1 However, unless they are better organised, and better located, the inbabitaants might as well look to each other, as the town increases, for protection. And some further check is loudly called for with respect to the hackney coach and cab nuisances and extortions. At present respectable females, even two or three together, dare not engage one; if t hey do, and even offerthe full fare, and per haps a trifle more, it is rejected, and generally doable fare demanded, or more than double; end, unless they pay in stantly, they are seized by the urns even. I have known a cloak snatched off, and a reticule taken; and when they are terrified into giving the extortion money, if they attempt to look at the name and number, they are jostled, pushed, and personally insulted. No constable near to seize the ruffian. Indeed these vehicles and fares are a very great nuisance both to the male and female public, who are almost completely de prived of the.. advantages and use they might derive from them. There is a table of fares attached to the directory, where we have a list of the fares from Castle-street to a reason able number of places, and from the Adelphi, where coaches do not stand, and from the Waterloo and the hotels in Clayton square, to eight (only) different places, and from the Angel Inn, Dalesst:eet, and eight other different inns in Dale-street, we have the fares enumerated to the eight same places, and a few country places are enumerated, with the fares attached; hut how does this expect, in the first instance, to apply to the residents. I am a good deal about town, and on a wet day frequently hire more than either two or four cars, and sixpences overpaid each fare amount to pounds in months; and what guide have I, ex cept taking the lengths of the streets, and thus .making myself a table of fares for my own use unsauctioned ? I constantly use hackney-coaches and cars, and have lots of squabbles, and a • few tiffs with these fellows, and invariably when travelling to cross-angles I have both trouble and quarrelling. Suppose I want to go from St. James's Market to the north market, or from St. James's Cemetery to Scotland-place, or when I get back from Cheshire want to go to Low-bill, Edge-hill, or Pem broke-place, or the New Market, St. John's, or from St. Luke's Church to Scotland-place, from St. Luke's to Kiikdale Sea sions'-house, or from the Theatre to Scotland-place, or from the Theatre to Boundary-place, Erakine-street, or take a coach passing down Church-street and go toltbercromby-square, or from Abercromby-square to Mile-end, pray what is the precise fare, and where the sanctioned rates ? Certainly these tables want amending and enlarging for the benefit of the resident public, whcse interests ought first to be consulted. Observe, if I a coach at St. George's Church corner to go to Edges hill 1 am obliged to pay an extra sixpence more than from the stand in Castle-street, although the St. George's stand is the . lesserdistance, else waste half-a-day in attending summoning the coachman, &c. The list or table ought to specify from the stands at St. Georg . e's Pier to Toxteth-park, Edge-hill. Low bill, Railway Station, Everton-hill, New Haymarket, Kirkdale Sessions'-ho . use, and sundry intermediate places, and from the Castle-street stand, and also the stands at St. George's Church, St. James's Market, Clayton-square, particularly - from Wil liamson-square, Scotland-place to Tuxteth-park, from Edger hill, as betere enumeruted, and to Castle-street, Abercromby square, Windsor, and . the Exchange, and also meet -of - the. intermediate distances; surely a table to this extent might easily be drawn out, sanctioned, and published. It would be a great benefit to the public, prevent numberless impositions r and annoyances, and when the new police act is framing it should certainly embrace the hackney-coach regulations, if required ; at least it might extend the present powers to grievances and offences committed out of Liverpool, and lay a claw or check upon the coachmen and cards ivers in Kirkdale, Everton, Low hill, Edge-hill, and 'roxteth-park, and make these men amena ble to some /au , or moral decency. For if you hire a coach or car from any of these places to the Railroad Station you have nearly to pay double fare and be insulted by an intoxicated driver—for you are out of Liverpool and master will hare his fare, sir!"—generally one-third more than it ought to be. Be sides, smother very desirable object is to embrace Toxtetls-park, Edge-bill, Windsor, Low-hill, Evertor, Kirkdale, the North Shore, and Bootle, in the police -clause, making everyone of the police constables for those districts also, so that they Cats follow their men or search for them, if suspected to have wandered into those townships. During the summer months you may see herds of felons and culprits herding and congregating together, sleeping in the fields and iu the waste grounds at the verge of everyone of those townships, characters well-known to the Liverpool police and wanted by them, but net known to the constabulary of those townships, or if k..een, perhaps not then wanted, when a Liverpool police reconuoitering these rendez vous, and enabled to- seize his men would soon lay hold of the greater number of them; even the township police and borough police are both desirous to have these townships embraced in the new bid, and they are — certaiuly become most populous places now; they might, nevertheless, be rendered liable to the maintenance and support of the individual constabulary em ployed and engaged in each township respectively ; such regula tions might easily be secured as nut to make the. rates more burthensome than what each township required.—Yours, a :clod townsman, BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. PATRICK.—The annual ex amination of the children educated at this school will take place on Tuesday next, at the society's school -roots, Pleasant-street. The examination will commence at eieve❑ o'clock in the morning. THE CALEDONIAN SCHOOL.—The sum of £1 IQs. mcovered front the captain of the American ship Russell, in the Court of Requests, yesterday, by Mr. Archibald Robertson, has been left with our publisher for the use of this institution. The dispute between Mr. Robertson and the captain of the Russell arose from the imperfect manner in which a piece of carved work was said to have beets executed. Mr. Robertson, feeling this allega- lion to be an imputation upon his character as an artist, brought an action for the recovery of the debt—not, however, caring for it in a pecuniary point of view, as he has proved by the manner iu which he has disposed of the sum recovered. FINES AND RECOVERIES' ACT.—The Right Honourable Sir ' Nicholas Conyn{,►ham Tindal, Lord Chief Justice of his Ma jesty's Court of Common Pleas, hath been pleased to appoint Julia Ausdell, Esq., of St. Helen's, solicitor, to be one of the peipetwil commissioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds, &c., under the recent act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, in and for this county. In the Journal of Saturday last, an intimation is thrown out that the proposeTnew :Medical Institution is regarded by the Editor as the nucleus of a Medical College in Liverpool. We are fully . authorised to state, that the projectors of that institution neither have-now, nor ever have •hed,- shy intention of establishing anything like a College of Medicine here. Their sole object is to obtain a suitable building for the Mc•li cal Library, for a Pathological Museum, and for such other accommodations as the present state of the profession in Liver pool requires. MEETING OF PUBLICANS.—Oti Wednesday last, a respect able meeting of the publicans of this borough was held in the large room of the Royal Hotel, tbr the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of petitioning the House ofeom mons to reduce the impost of fifty per cent. laid upon publicans' licenses by the late administration. Mr. James Morgan, of Hanover-street, was called to the chair. The meeting was ad dtessed by Mr. Butte!), the secretary, Mr. Brennan, Mr. At kinson, and several other publicans, who enumerated many in stances of hardship upon the licensed victuallers, and patticu- . lady enlarged on the unfairness of the late imposition of fifty per cent. additional duty on the license of the retail spirit dealer at a period when they considered almost every other class of the community was benefited by a reduction of taxa tion. The meeting ultimately cause to the resolution of pre parinq a petition for presentation to the House of Commons ' to the efieet that they could not refrain from pronouncing their disapproval of the late imposition, and praying for its removal as being oppressive and unjust. The petition being read and adopted, it was moved that its presentation be entrusted to Mr. Ewart. This motion led to some discussion, as it had been stated that Mr. Ewart voted with the late ministry for the ex tra tax being imposed. it was proved, however, be Mr. Bry den, who produced letters from Mr. Evart, that (his was not the case, and Mr. Wm. Musker, of Gildart-street, was in con sequence induced to withdraw an amemlnieut, which was to the effect that the petition should be presented by Lord Sandon. A resolution was subsequently entered iota that Mr. Ewart be requested to present the petition to pariiatneut, and that Lord Viscount Sandon, together with the members for the county, should be requested to co-operate with Mr. Ewan in support of • the prayer, and that the chairman be deputed to communicate with the hon. members thereon. The proceedings of the meet ing were then ordered to be advertised in each of the Liverpool newspapers, and that the petition should be left for signature at each of the newspaper offices. The meeting then separated. CoRPonAL PeNIsHMENTs IN THE VltMY.—The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the great seal, appointing Lord Wharneliffe, Lieut.-General Sir James Kempt, G.C,B, Viscount Sedition, Sir Edward Hyde East, Bart., the Bight Hon. R. C. Ferguson, Lieut.-General Sir Edward Barnes, G.C.8., Major-General Sir Thos. Reynell, Bari: and K.C.8.; his Majesty's commissioners fur inquiring into the several modes of punishment now authorised anti in use for time maintenance of discipline and the prevention of crime in his Majesty's land forces, and to report whether, after a care. ful reference to all the circumstances and conditions under Which the British army is constituted anti governed, and all the services it is called upon to perform, it may be practicable to dispense with the power of inflicting corporal punishment, or to make any other changes or modifications in the punishments' now applicable to offences committed by the soldier, without detriment or danger to the paramount object of maintaining strict discipline and effectually repressing crime in the ranks of the British army, throughout all the various contingencies of military Service to which his Majesty's troops arc necessarily liable.— Leaden Gazette. T. MALT Tex.—. Sir Francis Berdett voted against the motion of the Marquis of Chandos for 'the removal of the malt tax. Sir Roger Gresley, who also voted with the majority, has addressed his constituents, the electors of the county of lierny, declaring that he did so to prevent the resignatien of Sir Hebei t Peel and the "formation of a democratic cabal, Whose first measures would be annual parliaments, universal suffrage, vote by ballot, secularisation of church property, th e oe„ation of the church 'from the state, confiscation of private propeety, the abolition of the hereditary peerage, notional bankruptcy, and civil war." ( Liverol,) menti o n s th e PEESEEVATION rig A VEssEt. nY A FISH. —The Holyheadespondt, eduesdey' s letter : e fo o l r l r o e:p in o g nd c e u n r t io o u f s Lloyd's circumstance nuomi,h his The brig Endeavour, Gregory, from Whit ehayen to Drogheda, put its on the morning of the kh instant ill a very leaky state, having been out under the heavy gale of the 7th. ileing hauled up the harbour her bottom was examined this morniug, when a small fish called the sea five inches in length, was found pressed into one of the seams under her bottom, and alive. The fish was certainly the means of saying the vessel and the lives of all on board. The fish is preserved." L EGAL PeeceneNTs.—lt is a maxim among lawyers, that whatever has peen done before may legally he done again; and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formetly made against common justice, end the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they pro ducethe most iniquitous opinions, and as authorities, to justify the judges never fail of directing accordingly.—Swift. A BuTTEneLY WITH Fl VE I NGs.—ln the Zoological Journal (No. 13) it is recorded that at a meeting of the Liniixan Society, on March 11, 1832, Mr. Stephens exhibited a remark able monstrosity in a sp ec i men of Panessa Urticrs. pos sessed , fi re wings, the addi t i ona l one being fornied by a second but smaller hiudet wing on one sitie.—Milror. THE TRI,E PAPVITES—from which paper was formerly made, and which %eve thought to lie lust,. has been, it ie discovered at Syracuse growing wild, and that, after various experiments, pap er h as been manufactured from i t e i nm il ar t o. that used by th e E gyptiaas.—elthenatton. We are informed by letters from Vienna.of. time 2d, Isat the first act of the Emperor Ferdinand the First was to send circular, letters to Prince Metternich and the great officers of state, con firming them in their situations, and expressing his approval of time policy hitherto pursued. Mr. W. Harvey has already begun by declaring the church revenues of England to be .five natlious. Two years ago they were given out to be nine or ten millions, and the Irish church revenues to be three millions. To time last possible hour delu sion and misrepresentation will be kept up; and even the go vernment commissioners have declared the one to be about three millions only, end the other not much above half a million. There is nothing, however, like full inquiry, which will gradu ally deprive time adversaries of the church of the power to abuse the public mind. —,Scottish Gmordian.