The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-01 00:00:00

_.~, \IAT 18.13. for t of l'IlE• Afl4 YO NI) E R TIIE P. 4 I'ROAT.4c . E - pi lIE , POSTPONEMENT OF THE FANCY FAIR. 1 0 'conseque n ie - of Chester Races taking place on the days announced -fop: the: BAZAAR, the Proprietor has been solicited to POSTPONE the Public .Days until MONDAY, the 11th, ana-TuE§oA v, the 12th of : Mav next; the Fancy Fair will, tberefore, take place a week liter than originally announced... - • - LIVERPOPL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. IVR. ATKANS-, Proprietor of the above G ARDENS, begs leave most respectfully to return thanks Ao the Nobility and Gentry, and to the Inhabitants of Liverpool and the vim generally,. for the very flattering support which h.s Esta blishment has .received since its commencement, and to inform them that the Season for 1835-6 will commence on MODAv, the 11th May next, on which and the following day e anni versary of the Opening of the Gardens will be cel rated, as usual, by a BAZAMI AND FANCY. FM 11, 0 profits of which, together with a donation oportionate to the receipts, will be divided amongst the PUBLIC CHARITIES: 'On the evenings of those days the- Gardens and principal Buildings will be SPLENDIDLY ILLUMINATED. There will alsg be a GRAND EXHIBITION OF FIREWORKS, Under the . superintendence of Mr. 'L. G.yngell, 'Vauxhall. On'Tuasnay- Afternoon a splendid Balloon will ascend from the area of the Gardens.. . A FULL MILITARY BAND Will be in attendance on the'oriening days, and will perform three times a week‘during the season. Contributions from Ladies and Gentlemen of articles for sale at the Bazaar 'will be thankfully received, aud.duly accounted for at the Gardens, where any further information may be ob tained. Subscription Bunks for the season are now lying for sigriature Mr. Grapel'a, .Church-street, at the Lyceum News-room, and In the principal . Hotels and Newspaper-offices, where Tickets Islay be had. Subscribers are respectfully requested to obserie that, as the season for 1834 expires with the present month, old tickets are inadmissible on the opening days. Nou-subscribers will be ad suitted on those days with an order from a Subscriber, on pay ment of Two Shillings, till Two o'clock ;•after that hour, and for the rest of the season, at the usual:clarge of Ode . Shilling. The following are the • TERMS OF SUBSCRIPT/ON:— Annual Ticket for a single Subscriber £1 1 0 Ditto for a Fatnilv not exteeding four persons 3 3 0 bitto for any additional member of a Family above four 0 7 CI Ditto ditto above six 0 5 0 The terms for the admission of Schools, either for a single visit or for The season, may be known on application at the Carden. Subscriberi . to , enjoy the privilege of Writing Visitors' Tickets, withokit which INtm-subscribers will not be admitted. Tickets not transferable. The Gard e n are Open from Sevep or, Eight o'clock in the Morning, according to the season, till dusk, throughout the Year. . . . . a TO C9R4ESP9N.DENTS. ALPHA'S" letter, if possible,ln our next. W e are welt rtare of the fact, that a considerable number of aliens, who hate no right whatever to exercise the franchise, `voted for Ewart and Motris•at the last election. This will. perhaps, be prevented in future..• lVe have heard something relative to a subscription to reward certain barrister for his forensic eloquence, and his prying eisposition, as per instructions, on,asiecent occasion ; but we can hardly believe that anymemberof•the bar would submit to such an indignity. At some batik would not be tolerated. We shall, perhaps, as Lord Brougham used to say, "write to the King,on the subject."-_ rbt'Efberpoot ,iytAnbarb. FRIDAY MORNhVG, MAY 1, 1835. ' A:New York packet, the Orpheus, arrived yesterday, after a tedious passage, bringing . files from that city to tko.2d of April. They contain•nO news of any interest. It would appear that General LiciaoN has declared him- I favourable to the pretensions of Mr. VAN B u REN. as a candidate for:tie president's chair at the next election. Mr. JACKSON will probably, therefore, by means of a ft.-- fling delay, save himself the pain of making any apology to the government of France. Is Mr.'l 7 .4"N BUREN a less fastidious personage ? We bane been favoured with the . .folloWing extract of it letter addi'essed to one of the first ruereintile houseS in This town; 'the effects of the coloniaLetnancipatioti bill %re rapidly coming .to rriaturity, namely the utter ruin of our West India possessions, , and the. FRIGHTFUL INCREASI?, •OF SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE' 'TRADE in tite - Spanish, French, and other settlements • - • "Kt No sTirSt, 7th Midi, 1835: • " I am truly sorry to inform you that there coutittnes a great 7 7, trit of confidence , as` the ne - gioes airs not ing mere than one win ur-tize work tbry Iflry irk duri-us their own time formone . y. Timennsequenee is, prat our prodUee isdiminished one-hall,and is fetching enormous prices. Coffee was sold y e st e rday at 24 dolla rs per ewt.; sugar, 435:4d.; rum, 3 s. lid. per gallon.. Unless goveiument adopt measures to en"- foree labour this beautiful island in a very few tears will not be Werth theiriOotection,' The slave trade is earrred.on to a great extent in Cuba, no less than five vessels, with abtait from four ,to five hundred slaves iu each, have arrived there within this month, itiad-two of..these vessels were sold here and fitted i)Lit for the trade.: Our r"..uin, you perceive,•willdie the making of our neigiihmira the Spaniards." We have received Montreal papers to the 25th of March. In the', Moittieal Herald of the 24th March we . find the following . Let every man, that speaks the English language, read, • ttark, learn, and inwardly digest the following extract from .the Quebec Gaxstre . - Mr. Editor,—The following is cut out of, an Upper Canada newspaper, giving. the debate in the . assembly of that province on 111 r. Home's letter to the late Mayor of York... it is stated to he taken from Mr. APKlenzie's Colonial Advocate, as t ranslated from the Montreal Minerve of the 16th February, 1832. Similar sentiments have repeatedly appeared in the lifinerve, the Canadien, and the Echo du Pays, at different times since 1 832. Perhaps this extract may be- useful to some of your readers who see the Vindicator and its declarations, that the late elections were uninfluenced by feelings of nationality, and that . there is among the Fzench Canadians no opposition to emigia -lion. It may also serve to illustrate the honour and loyalty of those of the party who countenance and Supportsuch papers . tiblished in tho' French language, and . pay the editor of the • vindi cator f or t h e purpose o f deceiving 111 countrymen who do . Uot read French. AN P.M IG It ANT. EXTRACT : " In examining with an attentive eve what is passing 'around 119 , it is easy to convince one's self that our country is placed in wry critical.eircumstanees, and that - a revolution will perhaps e necessary to place it in a inure natural and less precarious g itnation.—A constitution to remodel a nationality to maintain ; these are the objects which at present occupy all Canadians. " I repeat it', an immediate reparation. from England is the only . means of prereicing our nattonactty. Some time hence, when ° Migration shall have made our adversaries our equals in num more da . ring and less generous, they will deprive us of our 'betties, or we shall have the same fate as our unhappy coun trYulen the Acadians.: 'Believe me, this. is the fate.reserved fur ` 1 ", if we do not hasten to male ourselves independent." When England is cursed with diiiinien and'fierce con tentions at, home, need we be "surprised at distractions. 47 1(1 threatened rebellion in her distant colonies ? While the people oT these islands continue to tolerate a faction ho seek the separation of. heland from the. British er °" - tvn, and the ascendancy of popery on the ruins of Protestantism, should it be a matternf wonder that Ca nada, a large . proportion of Whose population are French ` l ll Irish papiiits„should be desirous to Aiolate its elle- Riance, join the United States, or set up a' : republic for itself? 4 These deiections beyond die Atlantic are the natural "nsequeneesrof the troubled state of the mother country. When treason is openly taught with impunity, h ow is • it Posible to aiert insubordination and rebellion ? If Irish cl etnagogues•ate• permitted to advocate the dismernber, dent of the empire, and reCeivetribute for such advocacy f rom the ignorant peasantry of Ireland whom they delude, ..to we be ati;azed at seeing ,k'iericli Jacobins, aided by 14 :oglisli levellers; playing a Similar game on the shores of the St. Lawrence ? • : . We may . depend Upon it ' that, unless the gallows or t he bayonet 'interpose, and put down agitation and trea: k ° l l with a strong . arm, it will not be Canada alone, it wll l net be Ireland only, which w ill be severed from the 4lr itish crOwn. - The • democratic principle, when all Powerful, Ss.it was in France a few . years ago, and as it tg in Great Britain now, must inevitably lead to des: PNism, most likely to military despotism. The. power ° J • flemocracy:is . the power of brute form, of unrestrained Passion, of unthinking violence, of lawless confiscation, 1 1l which murder is-committed in order to silence the tries of the plundered, and hush the murmurs of the d esolate. For s om e cons id era bl e ti m e these principl es have made formidable advances, and they hie now ob 14ined so strong a-h Old over the public mind, are in .such 4ttive operation, and are rendered powerful by so marry !kn . blnations, that we much fear that it will - be extremely " r f Eeult tii.'dounteiaet perniei . Ons influence. The e of changais inherent inhtzman.nature.. Man seeks urlapt4llloilS to 4is . eirpntriStanceS; ; either from. neces -1"Y or caprice-,-as:ii,e •seeks.a:tliangeef :air or- exercise. a strictly artificial country like this the inducement to W experiments is exceedingly natural. He who , a cottage where his father. .lived, and whose range t ii ?efl not extend beyond the green field s w hi c h surroun d 4 , 411 , trust feel fewer inducements to change his habits or * elnr.nrnstances than 'an - artisan reared • in Ole atmo .s—phere of an iron foundry or Spinning factory.' The lat. ter is a being.whia,iaa he is not in a natural, can hardly be said to be in 'a healthy state, either as regards his mind or his body.... His dietis 'as artificial -as his atmo sphere, and new desires are created by his infirmities as well as by his associations. Persons -so reared are the most difficult to govern. They cannot understand why other interests of the com munity should also be entitled to the protective care of the government. A cotton-spinuS, of Manchester can not see beyond his mill. He cannot understand why wheat, and barley,' and cabbages should be grown bnt for his exclusive benefit. A Sheffield manufacturer of brass candlesticks sees by the light only of that which he makes. There is.no other sun in his heavens. He can not 'comprehend arty 'reason why he should pay a tax upon malt, or gin, or sosp, or foreign corn. This we admit is only ignOrance, but it unfortunately works injustice. We are far from" saying that no change in our laws, our fiscal regulations, or in other departments where taxation presses upon industry, should take place. We do not even say that what is called public opinion shOuld be despised, because public opinion is generally, and in this particular instance, decidedly wrong. In all matters not involving 'sacred principles and obligations, we think it the duty of the governMent to .relax liberally. Men are but children of a larger growth ; and there is policy in indulging them . occasionallyand within proper limits. Let us take in illustration the recent outcry against the malt tax. We are of those who think that it should have been repealed, not because we believed that its repeal would be productive of any salutary benefit to the British farmer, but simply because the speeches from the throne, the speeches of ministers; and hundreds of speeches in parliament, all admitted that the agricultural inOrbst was and is suffering extreme distress. Having admitted the fact, the government were bound to apply some remedy, and though an inadequate one, - though in many respects not a wise measure, still it would have silenced clamour, and been an earnest of more remedial concessions in future. But we were told that the minister could not afford to dispense with so large 'a share of the public revenue. WhOt of that ? If pat liament agreed to repeal the tax, it would have consented to a subatittite. Here is Ire land, for instance, where there are no poor rates, allowed to send all sorts of corn, cattle, and other produce to England duty free! Is that just towards the farmers of England ? A farmer who has a few miles of land carriage to his nearest market pays a larger sum for the transit of his produce than do the corn and cattle dealers of Dub lin, Waterford, and -Belfast, trading with Liverpool. If the loss sustained by the repeal of the malt tax were replaced by a tax upon Irish produce; it would be a measure of strict propriety and justice, The manufac turer would only . pay an 'increased price for his corn, equal to .the reduced price of malt. He would 'hot be injured; the farmer would be materially relieved. Now for the policy and justice of the measure. The poor-rates in- England amount to eight millions per annum. In most of the large manufacturing towns these enormous rates are caused by inroads of, the pauper and. starving population.of Ireland. In Manchester and the surrounding towns more than one-half of • the rates are expended upon the lrish.. In.-Bristol it is worse. In London a great portion of the poor are Irish. In Liver pool two-thirds of our t)oor-rates are paid to Irish pau pers, and the same may be said of various other towns. Seeing; then, thrif the landowners of Ireland, and those who poss-,..as property in that country, refuse to maintain their own poor—refuse to relieve them in any way—but on the contrary, encourage the se paupers' to migrate to 4'ngland—seeing .all this, we contend that it is only reasonable-that we should - resort to some mode of remov ing so unjust a "pressure from without." Let us tax ,the.produce of- Ireland is the ratio of the burthens - she imposes upon us, and then the British farmer would have less cause to complain. • • • • • This is one of the , many changes in our financial Sys tem which-is demanded by the changes of the times .ge- Tierally, and the improvftents in steam navigation in fuirtiouTero ale nut 4e le-e. up the aunt to d fait irial s .and makeinur: policy•applicable 'to the wants and alterations produced by improvements which do not con tribute their fair share to the.revenue of the country, we shall'most inevitably reduce the-farmers and labourers of England to the degraded condition of the peasantry of Ireland. Lord JOHN RussEEL's exposed " calumnies of the Wes.: leyan ,methbdists—witl; hope, contribute towards the signal defeat of that petty falsehood-monger in Devon= shire. Lord - Jomes - character is beginning to be under stood, and we are certain that the more' he is known the more contemptible he will be coicsidered. But base 'as were the caluMnies, the explanation or apolOgy he offers is of a deeper degree of baseness. The lcrdling scribe - says that he regrets having published them; and that he had fallen into error through the repre sentations of other authors. .It is several years since his book was written, and although be . has had many oppor tunities of retracting the slander, he has never until now had-the candour to do it. Lord JOHN is or was an occa sional writer in the Edinlurgh Review, and we believe that like most whip. of any influence, he was permitted to review his own work, the work in question, in that once celebrated periodical.• • No notice, however, was then or there taken of the slander. li . bas been allowed to adhere to the loyal and exemplary Wesleyans from that hour to tins, and only recanted at the present juncture, when the noble lord is soliciting th e votes o f t h e peop l e h e h a d so maliciously injured. He. Jells them that be will expunge the words from . " the second edition." Honest Ltoo When did any thing that Lord JOHN RvsSgt.r. has written ever reach a second edition ?. If the injured parties are to wait. for absolution until Lord JOHN'S . scraps of history are re -printed they will never snrvive the duration of the ana thema. The:following squjb. is not without point : " A CAS o.—Lord John Russell presents his compliments to the Wesleyan methodists, and i s sorry t h at i n t h e seco nd of the• " Memoirs of Europe - ' "lie 'sh ou ld h ave sa id any t hi ng against them, touching . theirfanaticism or morality; but if they will subscribe, and forward their subscriptions to his Committee- Room, at the Half Moon, he promises to write a third volume, • wherein he will say a great deal in their favour, and tell the world that what hj,said in his last was a lie.—Conuaittec-Room, Holf.Moon, April 25, 1835. Wotern Lumina? y." .„ there is nu probability of the public subscribing to a second edition, and asno.second edition will be pub lished until so subscribed for, the slander must. remain where it ; is, not unknown though in obscurity, not for gotten though unseen in the original text. . . • *As to the Devonshire election, ve admit its importance; but notwithstanding all thdt we hear we are totaliytina ble to forni an . opinion as to its results. The utmost exertions are making to raise subscriptions for Lord JOHN; Colonel - Evass and Mr. JOSEPH HUMS have given a pound each--O'CONNELL has put down twenty shillings for the whole . tail, being about sixpence per joint —one HAYDON, who calls himself an artist and an Esquire, signs for half a crown—sundry persons give a. shilling each--there are a few sixpences—and an Irish hodman and patriot has cheated his priest and O'CoN NELL by subscribing a penny . 1! There is one thing to .be considered in this contest, if' it be not favourable to the cause of the church we greatly deceive ourselves. It is this. DeVOrishire has uniformly been considered one of the strong holds of the establishment. it containsß vast numberof resident gentry, and it is not overrun by a manufacturing popu lation. The'clergy in Devonshire form a very numerous body, and the Wesleyan , methodists in the populous dis ntricts (*Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse, are also powerful alike in their characters and.numbers. With such auxiliaries the church, we should think, has no cause to fear—Lord JOHN not much to hope. If, how .ever; with all these appliances in our favour, we are de feated, and. faction, triumphs, then shall we be prepared ,to admit that a fearful if not mortal blow has been struck at the institutions of the country, and That the.altar and the throne are both-in danger. We trust it is unnecessary to do more than. call 'attention to two articles .in the present sheet; one from an American paper, 4;n thq ".dangers of popery," and the other from our abl43 . contntukor,aiy the Standard, con taining extracts from Mri E:slEAs MACDONNELL'S pamph let on the parliamentary oath taken 'by Roman catholics. In all that Mr. MACDONNELL states we 'heartily con cur. Indeed, it is needless to say so,,for we have asserted the same truths, (with less force, .we admit,) and have followed the same arguments before, but not with the power which he supplies. -- We defy any man, no matter Who he is, to rise from the perusal of the extracts we have given. without being convinced—without the dreadful conclusion being deeply impressed on his mind that every Roman catholic- who voted for Lord JOEIN . RUSSELL'S motion, in reference to the revenues of the established church, is guilty Of FOUL PERJURY 1 These are strong words—this is a grave charge,—but we are satisfied - that it is not more grave than true. The author proves that the leading Roman catholics—the leading clergy of the Irish Roman catholic church, ,be-• fore Roman.catholics entered parliament under theprovi sions of the relief bill, knew the nature, tendency, and object of the oath, and admitted that it denied them the right and privilege of legislating on any matters connected with the welfare—the spiritual or temporal concerns of the church of England. They swore, when they.entered parliament, to do nothing to weaken, subvert, or disturb property within this realm, particularly property belong ing to or settled by law (by law as it vtood!) upon the church of England. Have they respected the obligations_ imposed upon them by this solemn oath? Have they violated the pledge made upon the canons of GOD in the presence of the assembled commons of . England ? Let their deeds bear witness. Let the motion of Mr. Sum, of which he gave mitice, speak for itself. Let the votes of the House of Comthons be examined, and let those who can swear to the factsgiVe evidence at the bar of the house. If the' facts be as we believe them to be, and if it be true that thrty voted MLorti JOHN' 'S majority, which has not yet beefi, and 'we think' never will be, quektioned, then we say thati „serious and momentous duty devolves upon the House of Commons. We do not call upon the House of Conimon.s.tn. impeach them, for we are not cer tain if an impeachment would lie; but we call upon the house to expe l thew, whichlt has a dear right to do. . Will the house do this? No, as atpresent constituted ; but the proof of the crime should not be lost; the facts should be established ; for, unless we are to be given over immediately to revolution and destruction, in the vortex. of which every institution of the country is to perish, and every law and record of law consumed in the flames, the House. of Commons will, sooner or later, be called upon by the people of England, in a .voice which they must obey, to punish the perjurers of the church of Rome. Well, well, we have for the present.made no exertions. we expected—jobbing has succeeded—the unitarians and popish priests, the former supplying the money and the latter the slaves, have carried the day, and Mr. POULETT THOMSON is once more the sitting member. Well, well, we have for the present no exertions The conservatives will learn from this that they must in future trust only in themselves. Instead of being, as in other towns, an organized, they are a distracted body, all very ostentatiously disposed to make promises, but sadly addicted to forgetting them. We hate heard.of some names connected with some proceedings—but for the present, respect for the honourable and the true, and there are many such in Manchester, induces us to forbear. As to the conduct ,of the popish priests on last Sunday and a few previous days, we have also learned some curi ous but characteristic facts. Talk of the march of educa tion indeed ! it proves nothing but this, that the educa tion of the present schoolmaster is pernicious, and that ?very thrives under the patrobage of socinianism. LONDOY LATEST NEWS. City, Wednesday Evening, half-past Seven o'clock. We stated in our last that there was a hit c h i n th e ca bi ne t • and - at a fearfulprice has it been alleviated. It is understood that the O'Connell faction have at length begini openly to show their teeth, and they do longer.atrect to conceal that, as•their tender is Vie - oldster of the ministers, they themselves are deter mined to tote.the sweets of office. "The tail' , last week began to display an intention of not wagging at the skirts of the ad ministration, and neither. the manifest repugnance of Lord nor the more humble entreaties of my Lord John, to the great agitator, availed a jot. According to his own ac count he has suddenly lost all influence over his landless fol lowers; they have suddenly set up on their own accounts; • and he, whose nod has heretofore been law, and whose holding the 'power of "stopping the supplies" was an eternal check upon any whiskey-inspired refractory, was, if his assertion could be credite*-without influence to prevent "the tail" of the beast lashing its feeble sides. However easy it was to see through the shallow artifice, it was by no means so easy to prevent the con sequences of the rebellions display of the notorious band of O.'s. The result was, that another of :" the tail" has taken office, and Mr. O'Ferrell has become a Lord of the.Treasuiy, for which office the Globe., .who 'has hitherto concealed this individual's talents under a bashel, declares.lie is most titled. But this was not enough to satisfy . the hungry maw of the arch agitator ,—he demanded another victim, and Lord Anglesea's Under-Secre• tary of State, Sir William Cosset, • has been thrown to the dragon, and Lieut. Druriamond, the late. private secretary to Lord Abhor!), has replaced him. Against this Lord Melbou rne strongly held out; but alas, on no other terms could be obtaine d the assent of Mr. O'Connell and his hungry satellites to support the popish cabinet. This is but " the beginning of the end," . and it is not until the whole tail has wriggled into office and made way, after an Irish fashion, for the head to follow, that the fidelity of these will b e secure d , an d th en it w ill b e a -fid e li ty beginning and ending only with themselves. Things are indeed. in a desperate state with us; the ministers are in a state of the utmost embarrassment, the radical members are pressing upon them with a weight they have no means to resist; and we do not hesitate to say that not only the church but the throne itself is in danger. It cannot be wondered at that this state of matters alarms our capitalists and distresses the Money Market. Consols for Ac trOunt are 92, and all the heavy stocks are proportionably dull. There has been great speculation in the transatlantic bonds since our last. Colombian yestersply were chine at 44k, and tn.; day they have been 51. Chiller] wet e yesterday 51, and to-day they are 55. :Mexican Bonds fell yesterday to 45, and they are to-day 49i.. By accounts from Salonica we learn that the plague had been introduced there from Alexandria, and of seven cases four had proved fatal. Much alarm prevailed. We have no later arrivals to-day from any of the colonies. Tilt ..1 - AygiwooL Srt.-..NPARD. PARISH AfEtTIRC;. On Wednesday last, at, twelve o'cloCk, a Vestry Meeting was held in St. Nicholas's Church, fur the purpose of appointing eighteen of the most substantial inhabitants of the town to join with the Mayor, Recorder, and other justices of the peace of the borough, to carry into execution the several acts of parlia -ment for lighting, watching, and cleansing the streets. His Worship the Mayor took the chair, .Mr. WALES having stated, that at the last annual vestry a motion was passed, at the desire 'of the parishioners, that the accouuts of the board should be laid before the vestry prfor to the commencement of the business, Mr. Woo o, the law clerk, read the half year's accounts. • Mr. GEORGE GREEN then stated that he wished to inquire what sums in the expenditure liad been laid out with the com missioners, for articles supplied to the board for the use of the watch, fire-police;&e. Mr. lisueoan.—lt appears from -the accounts that there are no less than eight or nine commissioners who have supplied articles. (Hear, hear.) Mr.WALss, the late chairman of the board of commissioners, in explanation said, that during the past year the .coinit issioners had nut directly supplied anything to the board. There were some trilling articles furnished by them to the which the superintendent of that institution w as desired to purchase by lihn-(Mr. Wales). He was desired to go round to the dif-. fereut tradesmen, and purchase from those who would sell the cheapest, and it was found that the articles supplied were lower than could be got elsewhere. Mr. Gls:KN.—The superintendent who ,made the purchases being the paid servant of the commissioners. (Hear.) A RA TE-PA YER wished to know what the particular articles were that were furnished by the commissioners.' Mr. WALES said, that the item of £Bl was' principally for smith's-work done by Messrs.' JacksOn and Kno.vies. Ile was not prepared to say whether or nut the work to that amount was requisite to 'the trust, but he believed that, the goods 'supplied by Messrs. Jackson and Knowles were purchased from Mr.. Jackson's partner, and that Mr. Jackson was unacquainted with the circumstance. The different articles, however, having been supplied at the cheapest possible rate, he asserted, without fear of contradiction, that the trust could not be injured thereby. Other tradesmen were applied to, and their priees were higher than those of the coinuaissioners who had furnished the goods. Mr. Sum'. considered it highly imploper' that the . Com missioners should supply anything to the board, however trifling, and he should like to know who the tradesmen were to whom contracts were proposed besides the commissioners. If the su perintendent of the fire police was the person who had made the contracts, he might as well have. transacted the business of the whole board, and then the commissioners could have bven dis- • pensed with. He thought that whoever took upon hintscif the duties-of a commissioner was bound faithfully to discharge the . office and see that justice was do ne in th e distributionot the funds which the inhabitants entrusted them with the manage ment me The course some of the commissioners bad pursued was inimical to the interests of the trust. (Hear.) Mr. WALss replied that the purchasing of articles necessary On the formation of the fire poliee was left to the superin tendent. Mr. S HELL said that he. would leave it to the 'meeting whether or net it was proper to have furnished goods ordered by the st.l perintendent, kteloeing the paid servant of those from whom he purchased ? • COLLINS here rose and said that as the vestry, last year, had done him the honour of electing hint a caminissiouer, and he having sat at the board since that time, beggedlese to cifer a few observations in explanation of what had transpired, other wise he must share. in the 'obloquy. He had listened to the charges brougkit against some members of the board, and for his part he was surprised that - any commissioner should so far forget himself as to supply articles of merchandise - to the trust; how ever trifling, when, in doing so, he acted contrary to law. (Hear.) No well-regulated mind would 'ever ha ve,conteiu plated, under such circumstances, the supplying of articles; and those who had done so had, in his opinion, violated their trust and were no longer fit to be members of the board. (Cheers.) There was another matter which - he had to mention to the meeting, one that might not be pleasant to many of.the commissioners, for whom he entertained privately a great per sonal respect, but he had pledged himself to bring it forward at' that vestry: it was, that the tire police committee undertook to spend eight or ten hundred pounds without consulting the geueral board of commissioners on the subject. The committee which was nominated held their meetings privately—expended the funds, and transacted business without the knowledge of the. board. This was both a violation of principle and the privileges of the trust, and, when he saw - this, his only remedy was teenier a protest against it, as being illegal. His protest was objected to and overruled by the board, and all he received at their hands for his .pains was opposition and harsh words. Ile then pledgei himself to bring the subject before the annual meeting.. He considered that the course that had been adopted with re gard to the fire-police, in supplying articles, was not ouly a violation of the law, but of decency. whether the amlunt was sixpenee or a thousand pounds. (Hear.) . la the next place, having formed their committee, they undertook to purchase en- . . gines, - employ servants,' and otherwise expend moneys, moil the whole fund collicteck for the support of the establishment ie'as • exhausted. Mr. Wet as said that.sthat had fallen from Dr. Collins might leave an impression on the meeting that the tire-police commit tee tvas appointed, and had conducted their business in opposi tion to the cotnmissioners. It would appear from the statement made that the expenditure of the fire-police was incurred during the past year. This was not the fact; for two years ago the fire-police committee was appointed, and orders wete then given kir the engines. The cor p ora ti on agree d t o ere ct pre inises,eand the ereamissionere business was to carry the act :of parliament into effect. What' the late board bad done 'was merely to carry into completion the act of the previous boards, and their nroceedings in appointing the cdonnitiee had been sanctioned . by both Sir Thomas Braucker and Mr. Alderman llorsfall. Dr. Cult tNs said that the committee of the fire-police Was formed during the time he had sat On the board; and be tsp. : pealed to the books which contained minutes of its formation on the motion of Mr. Gill. Mr. WA tas said that that motion was to complete the fire- . police - establishment; and he read the resolutions on thii sub ject to the meeting from the books containing the names of the commissioners' appointed on the committee. _ 3fr, llosirs's - oN inquired how Many commissioners Were pre : sent'when the resolution Was adoptea, and was informed that it was a full board, held on the 9th of May last. Dr. COLLINS then alluded to a motion that he made, to the effect that a general special vestry meeting be called for the purpose of takiug into consideratiou•the necessity of a lite police, which was followed up by . an atnendinent that•the set should be carried into effect, and fits motion was.overruled, and a sub-committee appointed. He was proceeding, when - Mr. WaLlts observed that what the doctor was saying, was merely a continu.:tion ofa subject disposed of. Dr. COLLINS, in reply. said that it was not the first time Mr.; Wales bad interrupted him in the expression of his sentimente. His (Dr. Callines) impression was that the sub-committee ivas appointed this year without consulting the general board. How -ever, front the accounts be held in his hand it appeared that .for six months, with the exception of a few pounds, there Was not a single account connected with the fire police that had not been passed by the sub-committee without the knowledge of the board. Ile entered a protest against any m o n ey b e i ng expen d e d excepting by the board on the llth of June, 1831. He o bjected altogether to the principle of money being expended for any • purpose, without the sanction of the general b oar d, as being 's bdd . precedent, and, if allowed, might be turned by cunning and designing men to bad purposes. In bringing this subject be fore the meeting be disclaimed participating in any other feel ing than that of equity and justice, and by doing ao he might forfeit the friendship of several valued acquaintances. He, however, had seen a disposition to vote that black was white, and white was black, in the . board, but be. had always said that the day of judgment would Come. Mr. WILLIAMS said that he did not consider that Dr. Collins had stated anything that could militate against the honour of the commissioners. He would put them in possession of a few facts that had not been stated. To begin at the beginning—tlie meeting would be aware an act of parliament was obtained for the establishing of a fire police, and the management was placed in the hands of the commissioners of lamps, watch, and scaven gers, who did all they could by appointin g a sub-committee, to which the Commons they gave their countenance, to corn pletelhe establishment, and Dr. Collins, during the time he had been a member of the board, being opposed altogether to any fire . police, bad done all its his power to frustrate the boarchn their endeavours. With respect to the furnishing of goods to the board by commissioners, it had been asked, wiry leave the' purchasing of them tothe superintendent? He would ask, Who was so lit a persen to judge of the value of articles wanted for the fire police as the superintendent ? It had been said that the . expenses of the establishment bad been so great that it was new without funds. How did that occur ? Why, it was through the wilful waste and extravagance of one man, thirty-one fires' in Liverpool having cost the enormous sum of 1.3,0UU, which was more than the rate levied for the support of the establishment. When this system of extravagance was going forward, on the motion of Mr. Boss, a sub-committee was appointed to inquire into the state of the fire polite, with a view to its reformatiop,• and the result was the dismissal of the person who caused it.; Dr. Collins had complained that he hid not been chosen' a' member of that committee. Now, the name of Dr. Collins wits' on the list, and it was in consequence of his !analog to serve' that he (Mr. Williams) teas appointed. With respect to the charges lirous:ht against Mr. Jackson. he was confident that that gentleman, if he had enced, had not done au knowingly:• Mr. S'HEIL (to the speaker).—Will-you allow me to atik yeti . 1 who that single individual is to whom you attribute all - this ex travagance? Mr. Wits.tans.--Mr. Gailemore, the late superintendent of the fire police. Mr. Sus:lL—The answer speaks little for the consistency of who has just stated that the superintendent. was, the most tit per Son to be entrusted to purchase the al ticles. Mr. WILLIAms.—It was before we found out the extrava gance and waste which was going ou. Mr. 6Flatt.„---I dolll care whether it was before or after, ,the superintendent ought not to have had the power. Mr. Wit Lit.sis said that Mr. Gallemore was appointed •by the late beard, and iu consequence of the inisinallagetnent,shc (Mr. Williams) moved for his dismissal. It was found that at one.fire no less than a thousand men were engaged in extin guishing it. In that case bow could the connuissioners be aware .whether so many men were employed, and they were therefore. compelled to take the advice of the superintendent. Supposing the commissioners wished to know anything about the regulation of the nightly watch, which WiLS so excellently managed by Mr. Whitty, who su proper tb apply to as the superintendent. In answer to another question from Mr. SHEII., Mr. WALES said that it was impossible, in the first instance; to ascertain that Mr. Gallemoie was acting contrary to the in terests of the trust.. He came to the board exceedingly well recommended, and in many respects he considered him a very tit person for the situation he filed.. Mr. Gallemore probably thMight he was doing well, and his errors might be errors of judgment. Mr. liar:Bono said that be thought a great deal of odium. the whole in fact, had been thrown upon Mr. Gallemore, when he considered it attached to others. The whole of the money expended with the commissioners had been under the superin tendence of the chairman, Mr. Wales.. There had been some delicacy shown at oho meet i ng w i t h regar d t o mentioning names; but when there were charges it was better to speak openly and plainly. He considered that the over zeal of Mr. .Wales to serve the trust .had 'led him further than he *as war ranted •to without -the sanction of the hoard.. The matter rested between Mr. Wales and Mr: Gallemore, and they had better leave them both to tight the battle. • Mr. JAcicsoN, the ex-commissioner, here rose and said that when his partner supplied the articles charged in the accounts, he was not aware that he was acting contrary to law, or he 'would have cut his ri g ht h an d o ff sooner than he would have supplied the value of a penny. The articles purchased froM him Mr. Gallemore had gone round to other shops for the put pose. of ascertaining the price of, and he had informed him (Mr. Jackson) that they were much lower in price than any 'other tradesman charged. He wits not conscious that in setting them, as he said before, he was acting either contrary to law or custom, and he was willing and anxious that the bill should be scrutinized by other tradesmen. It had gone forth in one of the Liverpool newspapers that he had supplied buttons to the trust, -and charged one shilling cash for them. The fact was there were no buttons to be obtained in Liverp o ol of the kiud i and he wrote over to 13irminghatn for them, procured thent-al . . , the wholesale price, and thus effected a saving of 15 per cent. to the parish. He had never benetitted much from the custom. of Mr. Gallemore, and was one who voted for his dismissal from the situation. • Mr. IlansoaD said that:Mr. Jackson was not the only corn rnisioner who had supplied goods to the board, and he did not see why he alone should be singled out. It appeared, on refe rence to the accounts, that no less than eight or nine were similailv implicated. Mr. Hathord then read• the list., from which it seemel that charges were made by the commissioners fur almost every de.scriptiou of articles sold to themselves as a board, including paint, beer, oil, tamps, stationar y, ironmongery, and beds! " ' Mr. ItoefigsoN here asked whether there was any motion be fore the meetitig: The time. bad been occupied long in delcuss ing the expenses of the fire-police clothing, and. he considered that if there was not, it was tune there was. Mr. KEET observed, that a great deal had been said of the expenses of the fire establishment; but for an infant institution he was surprised that at its commencement the expenditure was not greater. (Hear.) Dr. Cot,t,tNs said that he begged leave to make a motion. If the fire-police had been the means of so impoverishing the funds of the establishment, that were it not for credit it could no longer go on, and when it was found that the commissioners were in constaat communication with the agents of tire-offices, who were merely servants of the fire-offices representing their interests, instead of those of the rate-payers— The MAYOE here interrupted the doctor by desiring that he would confine himself tohis intended motion. D.I. COLLINS then said that he should make a motion to the effect that no act of parliament should be applied for having for its object a further taxing of the inhabitants for the support of the tire-police. The MAyou said, that he must confine the doctor to the object of their meeting; as such a motion would take the parish by surprise, he could not sanction it. Notice °Livia to have been given that a motion to that ef f ect was to be 'nought for ward. Dr. COLLINSt consented to withdraw his motion. . Mr. LIARBORD then moved, that no commissioner appointed for the ensuing year should be allowed to supply any article, however !fitting, for the use of the trust, , which was received with applause, put to - the meeting, and carried unanimously. . Mr. BIRK ETA' thought that the vestry ought to pass a motion recommending the new commissioners not to lay a rate fur the ensuing year amounting beyond uinepence in the pound. Mr. WA iris stated that if that weie done, the parish, at the end of the year, would be in debt upwards of £2OOO. The notion was not pressed. Mr. Joti s TcttNER said, that although the old conitnistioners had received adiessing he should wove that the whole of them be re-appointed. (f.sughter.) This motion was of course negatived, but at the desire of some of the retiring cominissiouers Mr. Woods, the law clerk, read the names of the commissioners, with the number of times they had been at the board during the past year. , .Nfr. J. Geas.N having expressed a wisp that the meeting shouid proceed to business, proposed a list of eighteen persons to act as cominissioneis fir the ensuing year. Mr.,.S,'rtstt. said that he objected to any persons being elected bat those who had consented to serve, for, if otherwise, • the board 'night be neglected and the waste of the public money be greater than it had been. (Hear.) A Parishioner objected to any list being adopted, and pro posed that each individual should be put separately. The original motion of Mr. Green and the atneudinent were then put to tho meeting., and, the tatterbeing carried,- • . • ,Mr. 'rtIEAKSTOIS.E. said that, as there were many-respectable persons in the vestry, he thought. that individuals its the body of the church should propose the commissioners from those present. The vestry then proceeded to the election of the commission ers separately, and tho following eighteen were elected :—Mr. David Jackson, Mr. James Buchanan, Mr. William Thornhill, Mr. Joseph Co•iper, Mr. Win. S4tillev,• Mr. Edward Simonds, Mr. John Winder, Mr. Wildniai Williams, Mr. John Mind, Mr. William Alexander Smith, Mr. Robert Ciay, Mr. Win. Birketti Mr'. Richard Benson, Mr.. John Kilshaw, Mr. John Pierce, Mr. Michael. T. Boustiehl, Mr. Thos, Brown, and Mr. George Ameugst.the above commissioners elected. Messrs.Wi Mains and Sautlev are the only two who formed a part' Of the last board. Messrs. Wales, Ilea. M•Gee, Collins, Jack son„,kbra ham, and Taylor were all•rejected by the meeting. Messrs. heel and M`Gee were proposed a•second time and re jected. Wales was about to be proposed again, but that gentli qpin modestly hinted that he was s.disfied with the first decision they had come to iespecting him, and declared his positive deterniingtiin to resign even if they should elect him, and in consequence of this he was permitted to remain with out being again brought oat before the 'meeting. Mr. David Boss, of the Ciireeicie, (a liitecimmussioner,) Dr. M'Kenzie, of tho Journal, and Mr. flarbord, declined being ruminated. Mr. Robinson and M r . Sh e ll wore also named, but as they were ineligible, from residing out of the parish, they were not pro posed. The business of the vestry concluded •by the Mayor reading over the names of the commissioners and deelaring them duty elected. The announcement was received with great applause, and; thanks having been voted to his Worsuip fur his impartial conduct in the chair, the ineetia, separated. LIES OF THE RADICALS.. A paragraph recently appeared in the Globe, a dissenting print in London, and it subsequently found, instinctively no' doubt, its way into a.popish journal in Liverpool, charging the rev, incumbent of St. Paul's Boughton, Chester, with preach ing a. political sermon. The paragraph contains, in the space . of about six lines,,'three palpable deviations from truth. It. implies that the ITV. gentleman preached a sermon in defence of Sir Robert Peel's administration. This is untrue. What be advanced related simply and 'exclusively to the measure in reference to the Irish'ehurch. The icy. gentleman contended that in the event of that measure being carried into effect, the established church in. ire/and would fall, and•thra church'being the great bulwark :of protestantisin in, Ireland, protest an ti s . ii would fall with it;;aad popery there obtain the ascendancy. He further express id iso opinion that the downfall of the Irish established church would most probably involve, ultimately, the downfall of the established church in this country. Now, every Undid person will , a t once p erce i ve t h at th i s i s widely different frotii reaching a• politi ca l sermon i n f avour o f One political party against another political party, as the article in the Globe would naturally leazl the public to believe. We can take upon ourselves to say that the rev. incumbent of St. Paul's, Chester, never preached a political sermon in his life. He does not think the pulpit the p ro p er p l ace f or po li t i ca l . disquisitions; but he at the • same time contends that, whether popery or protestantiot is to hare the ascendancy i n t h ese king doms, is not a political but a religious question. Equally untrue are other statements in the Globe. Not a single individual walked out of his seat during the sermon. That the windows Of the clergyman in question were broken is entirely false. So much for the lies of the radicals. EVIL CONSEQUEgCES FROM PRACTICAL JOKES.—MOTe than one gentivman is, we regret to learn, addicted to the indulgence of practical jokes, and as we happen to know that in one parti cular case the consequermes have proved very serio4 . to the jokee, we think it our duty to recommend a discontinuance of such practices. The case refered to is this :—A Bolton gentleman • conceived a penchant for a Bolton lady, and with some difficulty prevailed with her to promise him au evening assignation,— Under favour of a cloudless sky, By moon, or starlight, and nobody nigh ; but, (from what reason we are not permitted to say) she was so imprudent as to communicate the fact (hour, minute, and spot) to somebody, who told it to another body, (under a pledge of secrecy, of course,) till it reached the ears of the practical joker iu question. His fertile imagination instantly suggested an casion for• what. he called fun, and having procured a lady's 'vestments, as like the fair assignator's as possible, he persona ted her punctually atthe appointed place. The lover, however,, had got the start, and no sooner did, he get a glimpse of what he took to be his fair one, than, in the ardor of his passion he caught her round the neck and clipped • her several ►imes (as they say iu.Lancashire ) ere a third party could come up to the disguised lady's aid, ( another Bolton joker), dressed as an officer, who rou4hivdernanded what he meant by taking such liberties with his lady love ? snapping, as be spoke, a clasp knife, which our Lothario took fora pistol, and hastily beat a retreat. 'He assured us he has been ever since in a fever, and begged we would not mention his name—which we promise not to do, as we don't know it.—Belton Chronicle. • 'ConEn's HALL—This celebrated seat of political science and wisdom was honoured on Saturday evening with a visit from Mr. Maurice O'Con.rill, who, in a long speech, attempted• . to 'expound the views of the New Min►stry. Mr. Maurice O'Connell's speech was, however, on all-hands admitted to be a failure, and it is said that nothing shot of a visit from the great Beggarrnan" himself wilt unlike to restore things to what they we re. —Jf‘a ning Post. • THE FLORAL AND TIORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. • The Corn Exchange was opened on Wednesday for the pur pose of displaying a show of plants, fruits, flowers, and vegeta bles, the first and choicest procfnctions of this quarter of the year. Although the weather was cold and 'unfavourable, the attendance was numerous, and, since our sojimin in the " good old town." we bare never had the pleasure of meetiuit a more elegant assemblage of the beauty and fashioiruf its Vicinity. Speaking of the extraordinary ameliorating etre.ctsproduced by cultivation, Dr. Paris, in his work on Diet, says, " There is scarcely a vegetable which we at present employ that can be found growing naturally. Buffon states that our wheat is a factitious production, raised to its pres,,ut condition by the art bf agriculture. lice, rye, barley, or even oats, are nut to be found will, that is to say, growing naturally -in any part of the earth, but have been altered by the industry-of man kind, front plants nut now resembling them, even in such, a degree as to enable us to recogniseltieir relations . The acrid and disagreeable opium graretiletir has been transfornied into delicious celery; and the cof,ieor!,. a plAnt of s'eauty leaves, not weighing altogether halran ounce, has been improved into cabbage, whose leaves atone bear many pounds,'orioto a cauli flower of considerable dimensions, being only the embryo of a new buds, which in their natural state would not hare weighed EIS many grains. The potatoe, - again, whose introduction has added millions to cur pOpulatioh, derives its Origin from a small bitter root, which grows wild in Chili and Monte Video. If any of my readers should be sceptical upon the subject of - such metamorphoses, let them visit the fairy bowers of horticulture, and they will perceive that her magic wand has not 'only con vet ted the tough coriaceous covering of the almend into the soft and melting flesh of the peach, but that by her spe:iS the•sour sloe has ripened into the delicious plum, anal the austere crab of our woods into the golden pippin; that this again has been made to sport in almost endless variety, emulating in beauty of form and colour, in exuberance of fertility and in richness of flavour, the rarer productions of warmer regions and more pro ,pitious climates." Owing to the 'state of the weather for the last three ii*eks the ; specimens of plants were not so numerous as at former exhilti- Lions, but those produced were remarkably tine andin greater number than could have been expected in a season so untavour-• able to their cultivation. 'The fruits and vegetables were much liner and of greater variety than upon any former occasion at this season of the year. The greater part of the collection was supplied from private gardens, greenhouses, and conservatories; and we regret to ob serve th a t - Messrs. Whalley and Mr. Thos. Davies, of Wavertree, were the only nurserymen who exhibited any specimens from their gardens. The most remarkable and finest specitneus of plants, &c., were exhibited by the fol!owing persons:— Mrs. H. Preston, a splendid Cactus Speciosisrimus. Mrs. llorsfall, a very fine Crimum Ameibile, and a very rare and curious plant, the Cynochis Loddigesii. Mrs. Dyson, a very fine Acacia Armata, and several beautiful specimens of heaths. Mrs. Cropper, an elegant basket of plants,' and a new variety of 3fiataus. Thos. Davies, \Vavertree, a fine specimen of the Erica Pattersovia. _ William Smith, Esq., Fullwood, a dish of very well grown Mberis of the Oxalis Crenata. The following is a list of the . prizei and of the pe rs ons t o whom they were awarded by the Judges:— PREMIEIt PRIZES.—t a t Stove, Cactus SpeciosiE•simus, Mrs. Preston; 2d,Ciinum Amabile,C.Horsfatt,Esq.-Ist•Green house Premier Prize, Acacia Arinata, Mrs. Dyson; 2d, Aruba Phinceeia, - John Hi ,s top. AU RICULAS. — White-edgerl ; Ist Prize, Venus, William • Myers;• Esq.—Sells; Ist and 2d Prizes, Seedling, Mr. Gandy; 3d, Mr. Carter; _Seedlin g A ur i cu l a , M r. G an d y. POLYANTHUS.—Ist Prize; Alexander, Mrs. Cropper; 2d, 3d, 4tb, and sth, Mr. James Smith; Seedling Polyamihus S, Smith: i T I:PLAINY STO CS,—lst Prize; SenningidOutt&a, C. Hors fall, Esq.; 2d, Cactui Jenkinsonii, Mrs. Preston; 3d, Gongora. Atropurpurea, C. Hor s f a ll,. E sq . ; 4th, Euphorbia Splend - ens, Thos. Foster, Esq..;. Canoehes Loddigesii, C. Horsfall, Esq.; 6th, kmatlis Aulira, John' HiShip:- , GREEN HOUSE PLANTS.—fst Prize; AZ a li a Hybriiia,. Mrs. Cropper; 2d, Acacia Armata, Mr, John Hislop; 3d, Lasiapetaitita - Solancea. Mrs.• Cropper; 4th, Epactis graw4i 11ora, Mrs. bvson; sth, Lacbnea Purptire.4, Azalia Ledifolin, Mr. John Hislop. ERICAS.—Ist Prize; Pattersonii, Mri. Thos. Davies; 2d, •Propen'lens; 3d, Tubitlura, Mrs. Dyson; 4th, Odorata i Messrs., Vhalleys; sth, Aretata, Mrs. Woodhouse; 6th,.Dophttifiora, Mr. Thomas 'Davies. HERRACHPUS.—Ist Prize; Verbena Chemedrofolia, Mrs. -Etyson ; 2d, Puhnonaria Virkinica, Mrs. Cropper; 3d, MimultiS . Variagatii, Mrs. Dyson : 4th, Mimulos Smithii, var. Mrs. Crop per; sth , Scarlet 'Turban Anemone: Thos. Foster, Esq.; . 6th, , Plenuea Intermedia, Mrs..Dvson: PELARGONIUM:S.-Ist . Prize, ilumii, 2d, Taylor's Con ear Supreme,. Mr. Thomas Walker; 3d, Macruntba, Dobson. ' • • • - • • . • • 7 HYACINT HS,Red, Ist Blue,-Ist Yellow; let White, -Messrs, Wholleys. •• . • . CUT - FLOWERS.-Ist Prize, Messrs. WhalleYs; 2d, 31 r•.• Win. Smith,Tutwood; 341; Mrs: Topha:n. BASKET OF FLOWERS —lit Prize, Mrs. Cropper; 2d, Messrs. Whalleys;•34, Mrs tyson. • VEGETABLES AND FliUlT.—Orange, Mrs. Dyson ; Lemon, William hirers, Eki.—Cucumbers, Ist Prize, Mi.r. Woodhouse; 24 and 3d, Mrs. Tophanr ; 4th, Mrs. Woodhouse. Asparagus, Ist Prize, ',Mrs. Preston; • 2d, •M re. Topham 3d, Mrs. Cropper; 4th, .Mr. ISt Prize, Mr: Roskell: 24,•NIrs. Cropper ;• 3d, Mr. Roskell; 4th, Mrs. Rath bone.—Kidney Beans, Ist and 24 Prize;Mrs..Woodlttnise; •W. Smith, Esq.; 4th, Mrs. l_son.-Potatoes, Ist Prize, Mr Stoekdale; 2d and 3d; W. Sulith, .I?.sq.—Sea Kale. Ist Prize, Mrs. 'Popham; 241, Mrs. Preston; 3:1 - , W.- Smith, Esq.; Mts. 'Popham.—MushroornS, Ist Prize, C. liorsfalli Esq.; 24, Mr. John Hislop.-Brocli, Ist Prize, Mrs. Cropper; • 2 , i.. New Tantarisn, Mr. John Hislop; •341, W. Smith , Ecq • 4th , Mr John Hislop.—Cabbage, Ist Prize, Win. Myers, Esq. ;. 2d, Mr. Walker: 31, Mr. Roskell; 4th, Mrs. Cropper.—Appl es Ist Prize, \Vykin. Pippin, Mr.' Dobs o n, 2d, Goldeo Muodi,' 3d, Golden Russet, W. Smith, Esq., Pulwood : 4th, Mr. Phillips: —Grapes, Black Hambio', Ist, 2d, and 3d Prizeg, Mr. Roskeli. —White Grapes, Prize, Mr. Thomas Davies. Pines, Ist, 2d, and 3d Prizes, Mrs. Tophatn.—Straw - berries. Ist and 24 Prize, Mr. Roskell.—Lettuce, Ist and 24 Prize, Mrs. Cropperg„cl.s. Mr. Gaudy. EXTRA -PRlZES.—Aertein Veriicillata, Mrs. Cropper.— Basket of Plants; Mr. Phillipt.—Psidiuni Cattleyana; Jahn Ewart. Capensts, Mrs. Dyson.—Cactus Jenkiu sonii, Mrs. Dyson. Pamata, W. Smit berg, Mr. T.-Walker.--Lemon, Mrs. Dyson. On Friday evening an inquest was held at the London iios;• pital, Mile-end-road, on the body of JaMCS Pegren, a barge man, aged 22, in the employ of' Mr. Lawrence, of Hertford._ The deceased and another were steering a barge under the half- j lock-hridge on the River Led when the crown of the arch caught hint by the hip, Lnd threw him on the cahin-head,,Le- Wen which and the bridge his body was jammed in. such k • manner as to stop the pi ess of the , The deceasec called out, as well he was able, to push the Earle astern, an. 4: his cotnpdnion after some diffmuny extricated htm. It appen that his thigh-hone was injured, ami he died,at the hospital .ittout two days., Verdict--Accidental Death. BLACKBURN CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. -- • The first public dinner of this association was given ow Thurslry week, St. George's Day, at the old Bull [nn, Black burn. and, of one hundred and sixty, its present number of members, one hundred and twenty attended on that occasion- John Fowden Hindle, Esq., of Wood:Otd, the president of the institution, took the chair. After the toast, "Sir Robert Peel and the rest of h a 117a jestv's late ministers" had been given, . Mr. Dixon Robinson said that, after the entbusiaStic feeling developed with respect to..the last toast, he had the greater plea sure iu submitting a proposition to the meeting-, in the full.cou lidence that it would be unanimously adopted. The town of Blackburn bad been the first to address his sNi:4...yowler the difficulties with which be was surronuded,. and he. thqught,the conservative association ought not to be the hiSt Id express to Sir Robert Peel personally, their deep regret that he had been obliged to resign. Mr. Robinson then, bmidst loud cheers, moved the following resoluti-Ja:— " That an adgress to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., be presCifted from this association, expressive of the high sense we entertain of his splendid talents, his uncompromising integrity, and his public political conduct; expressive also of our regret that, thr oug h the artifices of a despicable faction, our Sovereign and the country should so soon and at so critical a period have been deprived or the services i,f a minister so eminently qualified to direct our national affairs. That the address be stgned by the chairman, deputy-chairman, treasurer, secretary, and committee on behalf of the society at large, and that the same officers be requested to prepare the address in ac cordance with this resolution." Mr. Greeuway seconded the proposition, which was carried by acclamation. Earl Spencer has appointed the Rev. Henry Berry, chaplain of St. Michael's, in this town; to be his lordship's duiuestic chaplain. It will be in the recollection of our readers that a person, a native of Scotland, calling himself David Thomas, but whose rest name appeared to be *lhoinas Walker, Was brought before the magistrates of Liverpoo, on a charge of forgery,- and was committed fur •trial. Several letters were found upon the pri soner,- and, from the mysterious inauuer in which they .were written, excited a suspicion that some other persons were impli cated in the transaction. One of these iettets was addressed from Rochester, in Kent, and advised the prisoner to keep sober and to leave this country for. Anie-ica as early is possible. This at first sight created an impression very unfavourable to the writer of the letter, wile is a gentletuan of great !estate:a bility, and wile had ttained celebrity by writ iug a. w ee k teirfperance, and from tearing given evidence before a .c4rn mittee of the House of Coinntims upon this subject. From in formation we have subsequently received. confirmed by two greitlernen in this town, we bare the moat satisfactory evidenee that the gentleman in question is not snore celebrated for his literary attainments than -for his moral and religious character.• He had been in the practice. partly to oblige a near relation., of remuittitig small sums of money to the tar:saner, who had been in embarrassed circumstances for some time, and 'bade() other motive that, a generous disposition to- relieve him according to his ability. NV e regret that sorb an impression shoultL have been excited, but have the greatest pleasure in giving publicity to these flattering testimonials in favour of the unimpeachable integrity of this gentleman. FEXIALIE PkiNITIENTIA.ItY.--The annual meeting of the sub scribers to the Female Penitentiary, was held on' Priday at the Chantal& Ineti , ution-heuse, James Cropper, Esq., Mate chair, and was very respectably attended. The treasurer stated the receipt of £2IX), a legacy from the late W 4 m. Salthouee, Esq., and. oesides other receipts in the way 'ref subscriptions and deuatinne, the sum of £3;B 15e. sd. fur work done by the peni tents in the house during the last year, a ttiemphaut -answer to any who may. still be dispused to object to the institution out the score of its being a refuge for the itit:olent. In feet, it bad often turned out, that industrious' habits hid - been formed, fur the first time, in this asylum of mercy. Sieteen individuals had been restored during the year to their reconciled friends; or placed out to respectable s e r v i ces; and seventy-one applica tions had been received, of which only eight had been refused as uneuitablee a.'iray-one; penitents were pow in hoUse, and there were room for more in the probationary 'Ward. The meeting was addressed by the Chairman, by -Adam Hodgson, Req., this Reverends Dr. Italdh, George .- Marsden, James Lister, and other gentlemen, who effectually and ((trendy advocated the came: of this excellent institution,. as being in every way worthy of the patronage it'll,' support of the phitenthreirisi, the . patriot, and the chri.stian. ANCIENT LlVl3:llPool..—During the progress of cutting the - . trench for laying the main sewer on the south side of the new Custom-House, and the lower part of Hanover-street, the sub strata have been found intersected with nuntertium walls and foundations of buildings, from six to eight fret below the pave mein, many of theM formed of brick, -which, from their dimen sions, bespeak for them an antiquity coeval with the existence of the Old Pool, upon the site of which the above splendid building is now rising from the cradle of Liverpool's commerce. One of the most remarkable of these remains of the ancient town was a portion of a foundation of a -.building on the line of the cutting near the bottom of Park-lane; it consisted of •two strong walls, tine two bricks' and the Other one brick and a hairs length in thickness. forming, apparently, the nurthwestern augle of a building, which, fnim its position, lying as it did, in a diagonal direction, would appear to have beets situated with one front parallel to the Pool, which curved towa'tds Cooper's. row, as laid down in the map in the Stranger in Liverpoool. From this and many other remains of vaults, sewers, &c., which have been brought into view in the course of the . excavations, it would appear that; when the Old Do c k 'w a s constructed, the buildings Hear its site were hastily removed, without reference to the foundations under the soil. Doubtless were the entire line correspondiug with the margin of the 014 Pool to be laid open similar relics, the fragtuents.of buildings connected with the infant commerce of the port, might be discovered throughout its whole extent.-- . -Coorier. LAMP LIGHTERS L A DOER s.—The police complain that letup lighters employed by the Gas Works arc irr the habit of leaving their ladders in the - streets. acid that they have been made.iiseof by thieves and housebreakers to enter the tirst-floor windows of dweiling-houses. The eutopanv could• easily com pel their semi to ledge their' knitipre in a ptac'e - of safilybetween' the hours of lighting and turning off the gals, • • , . OBSTRUCTION OP FOOT-PATHS . —Many representations have 'hem madeto the Mayor and magistrates as to the practwe which prevails in some parts of the town, particularly in Stanley,and FOhtenoy streets, of exposing goods - for sale on the foot-paths, to the great annoyance of passengers. If ibis nuisence he con tibued, it is, we. understand, their intention to' indict the hill penities in all cases brought before them," LosS or THE Hero ST sAm-Bora.—The Hero steam-boat, from Liverpool to Mostyn, left George's -.pier on. Wcdneiday morning about three o'clock,. with a cargo of cotton and Ma chinerv,llor the Holy well milts near Mostyii ;• about five o'clock, when off the N.B. buoy, it was discover e d th a t from the start ing of a plank, or some other cause unknown, a leak had slitting, and that the Water was gaining fast. • Every exertion,was made to keep her clear, but it was found of nu avail. Ou hoisting a • signal of distress, the Richmond post•otlice tender came' , Up, and took her in tow, with the intention of running berm While thus employed, the Driljd, a steam-vessel in the 'mine employ as the flery, came to her assistance and took the crew on board, whose escape may be considered most provide n ti a l. Having got her 'on the awash, about. ten nailed from the Che shire shore, she rank in five fathoms water.—Too much praise cannot be awarded to Mr. Little, the owner, who happened to be on bawd ; he displayed, when the danger was most imminent, the greatest calmness and intrepidity. M A NCH E It •BLEcTioN.-The polling et this election emu menced on Tuesday morning last and ended at four o'clock on the following day, when the nurnbei's were : . . For Mr:Thomson 3 1913 •• 'For Mr. Bruidley Majority for Mr. Thomson Wila was consequently declared duly elected. PaNRYM ELECTION.—Mr. Untie baying been appoit.ted Solicitor-General under the new . adicinistration, end quiviiig thereby vacated his seat, he arrived at Falmouth on Monday last to canvass the united boroligh. Lard Tidlaniotire .eras hected, but declined the honor- for the present. Ills friends, owever, held a meeting on. WedneSday evening - at Pearyn, when it was determined to put his Lordship in nomination, notwithstaudinghis absence_ A very.ac;ive canvass for that nobleman, assisted by the friends of. Mr. Freshfield, hai since !aken place, and froth present appearances Mr. Rolfe will at the best have a severe struggle,' even if he- wins. . The Rev. Jelin Dodson has been instituted by the Rev. Wm. Carus Wilson, Reeler of Whitting ‘ ton, Commissary of the Lord Bishop of Chester, to the vicarage of Corkerhum, vacant by the death of the Rev. Richard Hudson, in .the prehentatiou of John Dodson, Esq., of this towit.—Lapeaster Gazette. WHALE OIL As A MAN t . nE.— . It appears. froto.tbe . report of the Doncaster Agi-iculturai Associittion, that one - gallou whale oil has been proved equal to one bushel of bones in raising turnips. Unrefined whale oil averages about Is. 3d. per gallon. Henry Parnell, Esq., second Sen . of Sir Fleury Parnell,:, • t Bait.. is shortly to he married tuMisS Bligh..the only chthi.Or the [lon. William and the lat,e Laity 'Sophia liligh. A, NoyEi. FACT.—We are en.ili,e t l tn State a most ex traordi- • nary fact connected witkliferlturethat upward; of one s- - two hundred thousand volffifies ofilitt works or Sir Walter Scott • ' have been printed and puhikbed inEdin rgrii . ."‘-Bi•etiin g pepar. • • ' Goon.—The Raman Catluilie Sentinel lately as,•erted that in speaking of P ro t es t ants genera ll y they did nut include the episcopal church, because the papal.. and elliseqal",eontinu- •' minas were only divided by a paper. Tali. Au hall in the New England Spe c t a t o r, replies; that that just the ' • thickness of the Btot.E.— Ph iladelFhiti pier.' • •'••TtiE , MONMOUTtiStiltteßortotrong.—The' scrutiny upon the return of Mr. flail, which was to conic on before a Committee . , of the 'louse of Commons ini:t he 211 t-of .Mity,.stands Postpcpes,l until the 2,i of Jiine; in eans.iluettee rcr:eut changes . tqi . the Administration; and the adjoui neuent of the [loose. It is now, however, sa id upo n aut h or ity that cannot be quest i one d , that it is Mr. Hall's -declared intention to rrive up - rather t h an go to anV:fort her expense, "the' troiraugh:s . having: aiieedflost biro nine thousand pounds," and it that hoelimirns . • at the demands ina , :e °port- his .porte: fur the high bonnet of being returned in his absence the choSen vopresetttative of the •• . peopleby a inajuiity of teur!! ; ! ‘ Be this us it mai , ' At t . Bxi2eq , jun., will well supply his pLice.—Glsti , ceste7 , hir e Loup. t,HArrcEr.Lott or are , ondrinen, ort ~ • satisfactilry au:fierily, that Sir Eiln 4 1 41 Stigden, on ietiringf rout :,• t the o&i:•e Lord Cuancellor of lrelawi, net return. to,this Bar, but accept the usual pensiou.., \ ti p think his (.3.4 pill • .(-t come within the statutes which colder pensi,,ndrj je,tkibl t t i v he elected Members of Parliament. -An instanetthatoceurrrti, • we icaderstand, in whreit a fcriner I,o,o:Tha.ncellor;of Ireidna sat ant) voted in the house of Cointu...its . ;-- 7 Legal Ob s o fixt .,.. l'OttGEllY BY A NI AGlSTRATE.—Considcrolle exeiternent prevails in Not folk, to rotoie oence of -a dis covery . a 'dewed to bare been recently uwle of fovrticss to. 'the extent Of .C 2.5,0041 . by JOhn Orris, Ebq ~ o rie of the magisttatps 0 ;' the no u ro v , '4.641 cliaicatiiu of the .6i.ooids it . is supposed, for America, lea Ott v ;of 12 voLng children without.a toucher, and thud y. uttlw4vifieci Tor. 'fits wife died : in child-bed last year.--Sw i d„, y The inhabit uts according to Sir Anthony Carlisle,_. ;, hi s twilittotiV before the medical committee of tht; [louse of cominotis; altWough ranging o‘er the greatest space of ( t3''• • • nation in the world, and through the greatest variety - . f tlini std;, .cotopreheading the most tefineil het ple and :nsost noilvitizect also, hara• no Women inidwiees, stud no practitioners to Maid- . • wifery at en. Of course, adds Sir Anthony, the African set oats • and this II indoor; are the Lnnte. WILALX CAPTURED --Ott this evening of Thursday, the of this month, as some men we: e H bratt litneeedwg to 6,h oa tit t - boat in the narrow sound or ~,t , ,t e jtiog !he 1.1.1ti1l or „.• front tht tnainlond of Lorne, krgyleshite, their attecticitslol*, arrestedtLe appe et once e l au enormous n hale, flouuderitigt a few , ferric frrun them; in the peaceful . waters rf tbe Tito tmot immediately prepared thews:Arts to struck this . rnir• . witch of tk deep—and with the dirt ore 10pat , ,,,1ke.,, they succeeded in disabling ttitr.,altbough he made tremenduatt efforts to escape. The poor victim was at firm') tneoreti to welts and stakes of wood,-o1) the Seib - shore, by ropt" , &11)011(1 its both - . its awful efforts, however, continued/ asst: :t+ 4.4ing and tritely melancholy groans were head far distant during the stillness of the night. Next morning -it was dead, ant on being measured it was found to be the great Itotih. tfatsvietty-elyhtfoet, ~: ~.. ~ . n n - ri ill