The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-12 00:00:00

k7 . ` ll . ll4 eMili 12 4 1833. delivered OVer to the adrnibistrationlof the catholic and the socinian, Let it, however, be remembered, that with the rights and possessions vested in corporations may have been conferred the power to ALIENATE them. Now, let us ap ply thii principle more particularly to the corporation of Liverpool. The debt of the corporation is nearly a million ;—that of the docks, of which the corporation are ex officio trus tees, nearly a million and a half,—the united debt exceed ing in amount that of all other corporations in England and Wales affected by the .proposed bill. We ktave al ready pointed out the change which will take place in the parties who are to be responsible for these vast sums. Our opinion, we have reason to know, is far from being Singular The bondholders have already taken the hint, and require to know the intentions of the corporation re garding them. As respects these important considera tions much depends upon the - vigour and promptitude of the existing municipal authorities. Let them,-as we have before'said ; call together the bondholders. Let the bond holders select a:conimittee for their own protection out of their own body, .and require substantial security for their- loans-while such security can be given, or failing this, the payment Ojtheirt. Let a board be appointed to,regu latethe estate; Which may be vested' in trustees for their benefit and security. Let such board appoint their re ceivers and 06e . r'officers, and let each bondholder have voteS'in the 'Management of the trust estate in the' ratio of tite r - amount of debt; as is the case in the India Board. We - throw this out to the corporation as a popular mea sure, and as' - an act of justice to their creditots. To the creditors themselves we need not say more than wet have ‘already done. .The depreciation in their securities will he their best-monitor,- while the portion of the widow and - the orphan,.more- peculiarly our care, will, we trust, by prompt and. vigorous, measures -for the general security, :be thus restored to its original value. With regard to the dock-estate V4,6' , different cbuise suggests itself. It is clear that the proposed enactment can never be ren dered practicable for the purposes of municipal govern ment in this town, and that a separate act will have to be passed for Liverpool. The proposed netv act of Lord Jorrx, for instance, vests in the future municipal gover nors orate. town all the powers exerciied by the existing eouncil,—among-st these is the right of veto upon the re solutions of the present dock committee. Can it be sup ' posed-for 'd moment that the:merchants of Liverpool will submit to the control of the tinkers and tailors of the town in council assembled ? Not they. The merchants 'of - Liverpool wili take the dock estate under their own , . — immediate superintendence, and secede from the filthy coalition in store forthem. They will and must have a • separate act. The frauds to which the conductors of newspapers are exposed are. of so serious a . nature, that in the present state of the law they have no other defence than in ex posing them. Any scoundrel may for a few shillings in jure the character and reputation of an honourable man through the medium of the press. We are as careful as it is possible to be under such circumstances, but when a person of respectable appearance presents an advertise ment for which he pays, it is impossible for publishers or clerks to have any suspicion of the fraud which he in tends to commit. As an Instance of this, relative to ourselves, and to a . fraud and a forgery committed upon the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, we beg leave to submit - the following let ter to our readers : TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SI tt,—ln your paper of Tuesday last you inserted an adver tisement that I had oil sale 50, 20, and 10 shares of 1:10 e ac h in the New Cot k Steam Packet Company, on which a deposit of 1:1 per share had been paid, and that they would be sold at a dis count. This was published upon a forged signatuie, and with cut my privity or consent, .1 therefore repiest you will insert this notice in your publication to - morrow.— Yours, &c., JOSEPH ING. 16, Exchanye-buytiings, May 11th. Stock and Shar K e Broker. • We exceedingly regret that the'advertisement alluded to by Mr. KING should have been imposed upon us. All we have to say is this, that a well-dressed person called at our office, on Monday last, and tendered the following, advertisement, for which he paid, as in due course of bu siness. Fifty Sharer ; Twenty Sharer,- and Ten Shures,'of £lO each, in The new CORK STEAM PACKET COMPANY, On which a Deposit of £1 per share has been paid: these will Le sold at a Discount.—Apply to JOSEPH KING, Share Broker, Exchange-buildings, Liverpool. • Upon - inquiry we have ascertained that the above is an infamoui forgery, and that Mr. JOSEPH KING'S name, who ts . a most respectable nm, his been used by some fraudulent person in order to do him a serious injury., Mr. KING never authOrised such in advertisement, and is, of course, exceedingly aggrieved by its publication. We, ; .fie f the purpose of suppressing such frauds or ma liciouS representations, and to protect the press against the, practices of the low -scoundrels - who impose upon it, hereby oti l 'er 4. re iiard of • • • • ONE. • HUND RED POUNDS to any person or persons who will discover and prove to .conVictioithe author of the. above fraudulent advertise ment. Any person who can give a clue to the discovery of the , autbor will be ensured the reward by applying to Mr. CARSON, solicitor, Castle -street, Liverpool. The foTged advertisement will be exhibited at the STAND A RD OFFICE, .in order that all merchants, brokers, attorneys, .and others, may. have ,an opportunity of identifying the band-writing. LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Wednesday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock. We are without any colonial arrivals, and the foreign intel ligence, if we except the accounts from Spain, is of little mo ment. The situation of our foreign money market chiefly oc cupies public attention here, and the Spryilish bubble may be considered as having completely burst. The English market is coniparatively. steady, although money is again scarce, and the closing quotati6n this afternoon was 911 I fur Consols for - India - 410nds and Exchequer Bills have both been. very buoyant ailed intriast report, the former being'at one pe riod 17 prensium . ,.atuf the latter 35 to 37. Both -are, however, heavier to-day, the premium On. Exch.equer Bills being at 31 to 33, and on India Bonds 8...• •• • In the foreign market the immense amount of Spanish Bonds thrown upon the Echange ,has ,completely overwhelmed the br*rs, and a further depreciation has - occurred in these secu rities. . - The long-open account of the 29th ult. still remains un aettled, and, 'sn' far' al aPpeaianees go, is likely to remain so. It appears that the fOreign enlistnient bill is to be so far re pealed as to atinlit of the'levying.of troop4'for the young Queen .!z!f . Spain, and that an.officer ha,s3 arriveli from Mad.rid to...raise 41 force of 20,600 men here and in . Belgium. We, do not ima gine that 'Zumalacareguy will be very apprehensive of the " briroe•Belges," and from the tenor of the advices from Spain it would appear that. Unless time be taken by the forelock, the 'capital will be in the possession of Don Carlos ere the levies of England or Belgium touch the shores of the Peninsula. By advises from Alexandria we learn that the plague had ex .. tendedits ravages much in Upper Egypt, and with fearful viru lence: The number of deaths in Alexandria from the first ap- PearanCe of thiS' dreadful disease was 17,000. EXAMINATION AT MR. STOKES'S ACADEMY. son. • On , Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings the young . 1 Rentlemen educated at this school were examined previously to the commencement of the midsummer vacation. The gentle hien who assisted Mr. Stokes on this occasion were the Rev. Thos. Tattershall, A.M., minister of St. Augustine's Church, Laend late Fellow of Queen's Colter, Cambridge; the Rev. J. . Chapman, A.M., Fellow of Imlay College, Dublin; the !,tev. Charle s Haskins, A.M., Trinity College, D u bli n; J ames `ylvester, Esq., St. John's C o ll ege, Cambridge; and some other gentlemen. The subjects on which the youths were examined were the tlebrew, Greek, Latin, and French languages • history, geo kraphy, arithmetic, geometry, algeb ra , mental arithmetical Englisi grammar, catechism, the holy scriptures, Vie. The par en t s an d guar di ans o f the pupils sent their own itten judgments as to the degree of improvement made during the last half year by their several children in the art of writing. to 4 hese were-read at the close of the examination, and, with one . two exceptions, conveyed expressions of great satisfaction. 1.1 mental calculations the boys acquitted themselves F. urpris 'ngly well by their ready answers to some of the questions, which l'h'ere of considerable difficulty. In these cases they were re uired t o exp l a i n t h e rules by which they arrived at the results. e prizes were awarded to the following young gentlemen : Pirst Prizes.—Masters George Hadwen, Edmund Marshall, 'oreelius Sherlock, William noose, John Pennington, Willi am and Stanhope Gresham. &co*/ Prizes.—Masters Hugh M 'Sherry Joseph Ellis, Tho- Heildrick, James Roberts, John Sewell, John Forrest, and Pennington. Masters W./ firm Marshall, John Simon, and Joseph Wright Rata found scr nearly on an equ a lit y , t h at the pr i ze in their class withdrawn, add aorue other reward riven to each. RituisTRATIoN Bit.i.—We have seen a letter from Lord t ett es Stuart, to a friend in Ayr, in which he states. "I have 4eeson to thi n k, from a conversatio n I h ave h a d with Mr. Sten 4itt: that he will not se proceed with his reg i strat i on bi ll this ses °ll.''—Ayr Advertir. CORRESPONDENCE, TO VIE CONGVRGVITIOX OP ST. JUDE'S CII URCH. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,-With the justest indignation you will nave observed that a paper devoted to the interests of popery, the Livetpool Journal, has, in the most rancorous and scurrillotts .manner, attacked your talented and truly excellent pastor, the Rev. H. M'Neill. Advocating boldly and tea lously, is Mr. does, the scriptural doctrines of the church iff England in their purity and simplicity, and as a true protestant, protesting against the false doctrines of the Romish church, and the vain, self-exalting fancies of the sec tarian, who can wonder at these attempts to silence, or at least. annoy him? Is it singular that those who have attempted to shut up the.holy bible of God should also try to stop the mouth of one who so fearlessly and uncompromisingly upholds the doctrines of that blessed book, which are so decidedly hostile to their God-abasing dogmas, and "blasphemous deceits." It is natural for them to wish to bind the hands that wield with such power that two-edged "sword of the spirit," every stroke of which is fatal to one or more of their "old wive' fables and traditions of men." - But deep as is the hatred manifested by these frightened and angry curs, and clamorous as are their yelpings, their attacks must appear to every person of a sane mind as unworthy any but the most contemptuous notice. And it is to be hoped that Mr. M'Neill will continue to hold on his way without regard ing them, leaving it to others less exalted to whip them to their kennelfi. Every one oho has read the triumphant replies of "Cyinro," in the Standard, to the letters of "A Protestant Layman,* (?) and the remarks of the editor of the Journal , must see ttre superiority of one " who, hath his quarrel_ just" over those who would defend a system of blasherny and lies, or assail those who. are -exerting - their strength in "pulling down such strong . holds'-' of the wicked one. It may, however, happen that some of you, having taken' but a superficial view of the matter, have allowed the _specious complaints of these "lovers of darkness" to lessen yonr confidence in, and your love for, your faithful minister, and have seen persuaded that what they (the murderer accusing his judge, of cruelty!) cal" the bigotted intolerance of Mr. M'Neill, is as culpable as they would fain make it appear. ' s'ome of you may have been led to believe this,. and to suppose that Mr. M'Neill, in denounc ing what he (in Cmacnon with all true protestants) believes to be the b/aspienicas - doctrines' of the church of - Rome, exceeds the bounds and Warranty of scripture. Take your bibles, you who think this, arid .1 am sure you will find there, over and above the numerous texts cited by "Cypro," a multitude of passages speaking language no more courteous or gentle to wards the teachers and upholders of error than that employed by Mr. M'Neill. I will not waste time in proving that this intolerance of Mr. M'Neill applies, not to the persons, but the doctrines of those whom all true protestants believe to straying from the right way; no one, I ata assured, can pe suade you otherwise. With respect to "political preaching," are we to consider that Mr. M'Neill oversteps the bounds of his duty as a chris tian minister and a good subject, in warning his fellow-sub jects against those who, to serve their own ambition, would set the feet above the head, and make a brutal and misguided mob the depositaries of all power in church and state ? No, my friends, examine the matter calmly and seriously, with con .stant reference to the word of God, and I doubt not you will at last agree with me in thinking that your worthy and enlightened pastor does not exceed the rules of that blessed book which, whilst denouncing in the severest terms all departures from the way of "truth, teaches us to "Love the brotherhood: fear God. and honour the king." * Does this worthy "Protestant Layman" earn his title by defending the absurdities of the papists ? or does his very ex tensive charity (?) prompt him to encourage them in their ad herence to what' his superior sense teaches him to reject ? But who will believe that he is a protestant ? The wolf in sheep's-clothing is betrayed by his howling. LIVERPOOL PUBLIC SALE-ROOM. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOk t STAND,IRD. . SlRS — Nothing surprises me so much in Liverpool, where I find, generally, every possible facility afforded for the conve nient and quick despatch of business,aqie want of a p u bli c sale-room, i n some d egree commensurate with the increasing importance of its trade. Are you aware that the room now used for this purpose is tuate on the top of the Exchange News-room, I may say, lite rally, in the roof of that high building? The approach to it consists of eighty steps, a tiresome and wearying ascent ; and when the room is crowded, such is its heat and closeness, that I cannot imagine the black-hole of Calcutta to have been a place of greater torture. The sale-ioom, I should observe, is lighted only by sky-lights, upon which the sun is shining the whole of the day. Independently of the inconvenience arising from its extreme heat, it is equally objectionable on account of its want: of space. The ground-floor of a warehouse in the immediate ileighboitrhood of the. Exchange might.surely be -obtained ;---: inileed I see no reason why a new sale-room might not be erected by subscription. The private sale•ruoms are for the most part too small, now that the Liverpool sales are attended by brokers and dealers from every part of the empire. A hint from you would, perhaps, direct the atientiJe of the LiverpoOl brokers and merchants to this subject.-1 am, sir, yours, &c., A B ROK El; TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sta,—ln a letter addressed to the Rev. Hugh MiNeill, in the Journiil of Saturday last, it is asserted. that 187 catholics Were ripped open and boiled in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, because they did not to the protestant Worship. Your con: respondent will be glad to be infoiined in what work that eir euntstanee is-related? A SUBSCRIBER.' Jui4 1,0;1835. . • NEW music. Beautiful Eyes, .d : %Mad. By Charles Blondell. London: 'George and - Mat?by; Liverpool, J ames S m i t h , Lord -street. The poet'Wb owrote this pretty_ song tells us when the witchery of beautiful'eyes is most felt. He says it is— . " When a tear on the lash • Gently tempers the flash, - And the soul. leaves the heart to peep ont at the eyes." Our business is .not to dispute this knotty point, but to inform the world that "Beautiful Eyes" is really a very beautiful ballad. • : . • LIVERPOOL POLICE. WEDNiesiisY:—(Befere Alderman Sir JOHN Torun.) DETAINING GAS METRRS.—A person named James Hornby, residing in Mersey-street, appeared to a summons, issued by the Oil Gas Conipany, for arrears of rent due, amounting to between two and three pounds, and also for detaining a gas meter be longing to the company. The defend a nt a d m i tte d t h e debt, and said that he could not pay until the 22d of next month. A clerk at the gas works stated that the company had no objection to give the required time, p rov idi ng the defendant gave up the meter. The defendant said that he considered the meter be longed to him. Mr. Loyd, the attorney, who attended for the gas.company, said that the rules of the gas works were to charge 265. for a meter if the consumer purchased it, and if not, a renta l of Is. 6d ; per qu arter'w as c h arged. " In thiscase the defendant rented it, and therefore it remained the property of the company, and the defendant; by 'retaining it after being demanded, ren dered himself liable to a penalty of £lO. Sir John Tobin said there was no,deutit but the meter was the property of the com pany; and the defendant acknowledging himself satisfied on the paint, agreed tolitte it' up, the company foregoing the penalty and giving the required time to pay the arrears. GROSS ASSAIIT.—A resp ecta bl e l ooking man, named Wil liams, charged J ohn - : Jones, a ruffianly f e ll ow , w i t h v i o l ently assaulting him the previous: evening at the Bush Inn. The complainant stated that he went to the inn to take a glass of porter, and whilst there, the prisoner, who seemed to be intoxi cated;,came in.- i.He .eninrnenced using abusive and indecent lan„amige to Ike landlady, and on complainant remonstrating with him, he ; rushed 'WWII him and struck him a violent blow on the mouth, which knocked out two of his teeth. Complain ant here exhibited to view the two knocked out masticators, which he drew from his pocket: The prisoner, in defence, kid that he was intoxicated, and the magistrates ordered him to find bail, to keep the peace. YESTERDAY. —(Before the MAYOR and Alderman Sir THOMAS BRANCKER.) PUBLIC -HOUSE ROBBERY.—A young thief, named John Roberts. was charged w i t h committing a robbery at the Whit tington Public-house, in Russell -street.. A servant-woman em ployed in the house stated that about half-past eight o'clock the previous evening, on entering one of the bed-rooms, she heard a noise, and, on looking under the bed, she observed the pri soner secreted there. Captain Jones, of the watch, was imme diately called in and the prisoner given in custody. In the prisoner's shirt was found a gold breast-pin belonging to the' landlord, and a quantity of wearing apparel, which had been taken from a line, was packed up ready to be carried away.— Committed to the sessions. • EXTORTION NY A-CAR DttrEa.---James Watson, car driver of Wm. Elders's car, was summoned before the magistrates by a gentleman named Odell, charged with demanding more than the legal fare from , Vauxhall-read to the railway. Froni the statement of Mr. Odell, it appeared that he engaged the de fendant's eat to take himself and three others to the railway from the house of -Mr. Scruton, in Vauxhall -road, the de fendant stating that the fare would he 2s. 6d. He had occasion to drive round to the corner of Cheapside, Tithebarn-street, for some parcels, and, in consideration of that the complainant in tended to have given him an extra sixpence; when, howev, they arrived at the r a il w a y yar d , the defendant demanded one shilling, saying that one shilling and sixpence each was quite little enough. The complainant said that it was an overcharge and he would not pay it, upon which the defendant seized com plainant's friends' luggage, and swore that he would keep it until he paid the six shillings. Mr. Bilberry, the superintendent at the railway, being ap pealed to, insisted upon the luggage being given up, which was done, anti the defendant was paid four shillings. An altercation then ensued, and Mr. Edwards, a county magistrate, coming up at the time, ordered complainant into custody, and refused to allow his friend to proceed by the railway, and he was con sequently compelled to take a chaise to Manchester by the rail way, there being no 'ether train going that night. The com plainant then went on to state that he was a tradesman, well known in the town, and he considered that the interference of Mr. Edwards was unwarrantable, especially in giving him into custody. Uad it Rot been that the constable knew him, and took his wnlit to appear before the magistrates, he must have gone to Bridewell. Mr. Edwards, who sat on the bench, here said that the com: plainant was violently beating the car driver, and be interfered in order to keep the peace, , LIJ2 ,T. \ t .LxvvioooL • SIANOIIID. - • -- The bar driver here said that he - Inid a charge against the omplainant fur the assault. • Mr. Odell was proceeding to explain ; and further to allude to Mr. Edwards's interference, when he was stopped by the Mayor had Sir Thos. Brancker, who stated that, they could only take cognizance of the overcharge made by the car driver. The as sault having taken place out of the borough they should not en tertain it, and if the complainant felt himself aggrieved at any thing,Mr. Edwards had done in his capacity as a county' magis trate, they must take a proper course at the Kirkdale Sessions. Mr. Edwards said that he should be glad to satisfy' the magis trates by entering into an explanation of the circumstances of the case, but the magistrates declined hearing him, on the ground of the assau l t h av i ng nothing whatever to do with the present charge. Mi.t'Shuttleworth, the magistrates' clerk, said that he had calculated the fare, and the. legal demand from the complain ant could-only be 3s. The complainant p rove d th a t t h e d emand was 65. , , and the payment 4s. In defence the driver stated that he merely went into the yard after the gentlemen to ask for his fare, as they were going off by the train, and the complainant only offered him a shillin". He refused to t a k e it, an d , as t h ey wou l d not give him more, he detained the luggage, when the complainant began beating and kicking him. He denied having demanded 6s. Sir Thomas Brancker (to the defendant.)-- . -But 4s. was more than yOur due. How came you to take the extra shilling? Defendant.—l took it because they abused me. Mr. Odell said that the defendant had a person with him on the. box, who refused to get off when told. These cads were Carried by car-drivers on purpose . to bully passengers out of more than the legal fare. The defendant was then fined in the penalty of five shillings and costs, the Mayor informing him that he was sorry the in formation had not also been laid for carrying the man upon the box. tie had given instru c ti ons t o t h e consta bl es to l ay in formations against car-drivers for that offence in particular, and he was astonished that more were not laid. Mr. Martindale, the inspector of hackney-coaches, said that it vhis difficult for constables to obtain the information, unless the 'passengers would came forward theniselves, and there was a reluctance to do so. Mr. Alderman Lawrence stated that the disorderly scenes which constantly took place near the, railway called for extra assistance from the constabulary force; and he hoped the Mayor would allow the attendance of au officer for the better protection athe The Mayor said that he had no objection to do so, but he trusted the constable s o f th a t di str i ct would lend more assist ance to bring car drivers to justice than they did on a former occasion when a constable was stationed - there. In a case against a car driver some time ago, the constables of the rail way had said they had something else to do than to lay in formations against car drivers. Ax itusu DEFENCE.—Miss Biddy O'Sullivan charged Mr. Dennis' O'Flannagan -with au assault. Mr. O'Flannagan denied having ever struck the complainant as alleged, for said he in his,defence--" Thunder and turf, your honours, wouldn't I be a great unmannerly blackguard to strike a female ?—f wouldn't do it for St. Patrick ; and sure I didn't strike her at all; she caine to my house bothering wid her prate, and I only kicked her out to be straight wid her." As Mr. O'Flannagan appeared to-. be ignorant that a kick was as expensive as a thump, he was ordered to keep the peace towards Miss Biddy, by way of teaching him. The will of Mrs. Elisabeth Cook, the wido* of Capt. James C'ook..the great : circumnavigator ,. has been proved .at the: office of Mr: John Box, .in Doctor's Commons, by -.---Bennett i of Merton, and J. D. Blake, Esqrs., the executors, and the pro perty sworn under £60,000. The deceased bequeaths the Cop ley medal, struck in honour of her husband. by the Royal So ciety, and the medal also struck iu honour of her husband by order of George 111., (of which there never were but five,) to the British Museum. The Schools for the Indigent Blind and the Royal Maternity Charity are benefited to the amount of nearly 121,000 Consols, besides various other public and pri vateseharities. Mrs. Cook survived her husband upwards of fifty dears, and resided at Cl a ph am. ERASMUS ENGLAND.—His reputation as a literary chas• racter seems to have earlyentitled him to the notice of courts and princes; fbr we find him selected to pronounce the pane gyric of Philippe le Beau on his arrival at Brussels in 1504—an effusion of eloquence for which he received a_ Present of fifty - gold ducats. . In 1506 w e discover him again in England at the seat of Lord Mountjoye, near Greenwich, from which his visits to Thomas More, then a simple student in chambers in Lincoln's Inn, were frequent, and no doubt mutually delightful. In his retrospective essay prefixed to the collected edition of his works, published long afterwards at Bale (1540), he rec urs w i t h pleas ing emotion to those int erv i e w s With the embryo Chancellor ; and among tither circumstances records the details of a visit which he and More made on horseback to Eltham, then a sort of nursery for the family of Henry VII.—" There we saw all the royal progeny, except Arthur, th e e ld es t . H enry, then only nine years ofd seemed a boy of goodly promise; on hi s r i g h t was Margaret , his sister, aged eleven, since married to King James of Scotland; the Lady Mary, four years old, was play ing on his left, and the infant Edmund was carried in arms." In the same curious document he relates a singular conversa tion which be had w ith Groscyn in the boat that plied at Larri beth ferry, as he returned from a visit to Archbishop Wareham, to whom he had been presenting his new translation of the Hecuba of Euripides.--- , Fraser's Magazine. Shine of the circumstances of a mysterious oc6urrence which have transpired during the past week have excited groat horror in Monty,ornervshire and .Shropshire. It appears that on Fri day week Mr. Thomas Evans, a respectable mercer of POol, ex pired.at Berriew, the residencg of his sister, to which he had 014 in consequence of ill health. An inquest has been subse quently held upon the body, and a verdict of " Wilful murder" returned against the wife of the 'unfortunate deceased and a person named Edward Rogers, who was his shopman: The wife of the,deceased has absconded - With Rogers, and it is supposed the parties are endeavouring, to escape from England: On the night before Mr. Evans died, his wife and Rogers packed up valuable goods in the shop, 'out were prevented frbm carrying them off by the prompt interference of the neighbetirs; they, however, escaped to Shrewsbury, thence posted to Hay Gate, or Welverhampton, and were then taken up by the Wender coach, and it is 'supposed w e r e se t d own at I slingtOn. Such are some of the facts. Among the rumours as to the evidence at the itoptest; it.is stated that Mr. Evans died by poised (tartrate - of antinmy) administered in small doses from time to time in his medieine. It hii said that the woman is accomplished, that her friends are highly respectable, and that she will be entitled to considerable property on the death of a relative. It is also said Mr. Evans met with her at Bath, and that they were married at Gretna- Green. The dying man, although conscious of the injury .he had sustained from his wife, was so much infatuated that he seemed to wish that the supposed guilty parties might escape. There are three children living. • The Moscow Gazette contains an o ffi c i a l i nvitation to pr o fessors; native and foreign, to become candidates for the vacant chair of veterinary medicine and surgery in the 11.1ediciechirur gical Institute of the University of Wilna. The annual salary is 5000 roubles which, after 10 years' service, is increased 500 roubles. After 25 years of irreproachable service, the professUr is at liberty to retire on full salary; which he is permittted to en joy even in a foreign country, with the title of Emeritus Pro fessor. The Earl of Gosford, Captain of the Yeoman Guard, ap pointed Chief Commissioner to Canada, will take his passage for that colony in the Pique, new frigate, Hon Captain Henry !tons, which has been waiting at Spithead 70 days to take out the commissioners. Sir Charles Grey, brother-in-law to Lord Dinorben, who was formerly a judge in India, is associated with his Lordship in the commission, which has been signed by his Majesty.—Standard. Considerable excitement, not to say alarm, has been created in this town for the last two days by the receipt of intelligence from London that a Committee of the House of Commons, which, it has leaked out,has been quietly sitting two months, in reference to the m er it s o f Valentia Harbour,' in Ireland, had come to a decision to recommend that port being made theper mament establishment for the packets in - preference to this.— Falmouth Packet. FRIGHTFUL SHIPWRECK.—A passenger who was one of the 15 saved from the wreck of the Monteith of Liverpool, Captain Jackson, states that there were 240 souls on board, and that they were six days on their way to New York, when she struck ! about midnight, on Thursday the 28th ult., being then in charge of the mate, who was intoxicated-225 souls perished. The Captain, three sailors, and 11 passengers were picked up hy the Francis Mary, Flynn, Master, and brought into Dublin. '1 hese passengers were mostly from the County Limerick—there were only a few from this County, amongst whom were persona of the name of Kenshan and Maher, from the neighbourhood of Cashel.— Tipperary Free Press. • One of the rival organs of ultra-liberalism in Leeds has hi upon a pleasant mode of illustrating the issue of the recent cont test for the representation of the West-Hiding. The return o- Lord Morpeth, we are told, is like the fastening of a "batteredf kettle" to a dog's tail. We . protest that we think the simile most - felicitoug ; we like it amazingly; and, pursuing our.labour s o f "criticism," we find no difficulty in the application of it. O'Con nell, of course, is the dog, and surely no fitter instrument of emptiness and sound could have been selected to Perform the part of kettle than the noble secretary for Ireland. We wish his lordship joy of the compliment and of the battering he is to re ceive in his helter-skelter progress after the tail. We trust it will give him an additional relish for the "fair scenes of his home," and teach him that even the "accid en t o f birth" is less intoler able than ignoble subserviency to the purposes of an unprinci pled faction.—Leeds Intelligences. • l.oti o CHANCELLDIIS AND THEIR PENSIONS.—It appears by . a return that has - just been raid before parliament, on the mo tion of Mr. Hume. that Lord Eldon held office as Lord Chan cellor 21 . vears,and 329 da ys; hi s p ens i on i s £ lOOO a,year, which digs' heolertszeceiring. since - At! rs.l„ 1827,0 the peasiasusol. LsrtS.ls .Isynclhurstirn4 Brougham are each £5 . 000 a-year, and they held office only 4 years each. There are two Irish Ex-Chancellors receiving each a pension of £4OOO a-year, Irish curreuey— namely, Lord Manners and Sir E. Sugalen; the former held office 20i years, the latter one qiiarter and 2-1 days. The pen sion granted to Lord Plunkett is suspended in consequence of his re-appointment.—Murning Herald. It appears very certain that secret agents, accredited by Prus sia, Austria, ahci Russia, have established themselves at the head-quarters of Don Carlos. These agents are, it is true, but of the third class; they effected their journey through France in the same manner as Don Carlos and the Comte d'Espagne. and the active police of M. Thiess knew nothing of the matter' Ise Temps, Paris paper. • • 'The old Lancashire sheep, where they exist without intermix ture, are a large coarse class of sheep, with hollow bails, flat ribs, and a hanging belly, They are slow feeders, and their mutton is not esteemed, but they yield a very heavy fleece of, long wool—Lore's Elements of Agriculture, ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FlhCDS.—The election for Board of Guardians, pursuant to the precept of the Commissioners under the new poor law amendment act, has at length terminated, after a long and severe struggle; and on the numbers being cast up, 'l'idd Pratt, Esq.. the returning officer, announced that nineteen gentlemen out of the liberal list, and five from the se lect, or conservative, list, were duly elected. —Courier. SIR ROBERT PEAL AND THE KING. —At a recent public din ner in Devonshire. James Peel Cockburn, Esq., a near relation of Sir Rob er t P ee l, re t urne d th an k s f or a complimentary toast, and stated, as a fact, that when Sir Robert Peel attended to give up the seals his Majesty said (with tears in.his eyes), " Sir Robert, as long as I have you and the country withime I have nothing to fear." This well authenticated anecdote sets at rest all doubts as to the real sentiments of our gracious King, and is corroborative of the intimation given by the Duke of Welline ton at the city dinner to the effect that the right hon. baronet's resignation was deeply regretted by his Majesty. 'The new Comptroller of the Household, the Right Hon. George Byng, eldest son of Lord Strafford, has sold out of the army as captain in the 60th Rifles, in consequence of having accepted office under the present administration. Captain Byng, in addition to the large estates of Lord Strafford, will inherit the extensive property of his uncle, the venerable mem ber for Middlesex, who has no family. The right hon. gentle man, by his unibn with Lady Agues Paget, has a numerous family. THE NEW COINAGE OF HA r.F - SOVEREIGNS.--II should be known that a new coinage has just been issued of half-sove •reigns, which are much thicker and much less in circumtereace than the old ones. This alteration in shape is supposed to have been suggested by the facility with which gilt sixpences have been passed for the latter. A singular circumstance occurred in Maidstone within a few days. A young woman who had re ceived one of the new half-sovereigns, after offering it at two shops,where it was refused, took it to a jeweller to sell it for the value of its gold. He weighed it, and very conscientiously 'gave he? Bs. for it.—Maidston e Gazette. GOVERNMENT WITHOUT PATRONAGE.—WaIIiII ten days after the accession of the whigs to office orders were issued from the Board of Ordnance to give all advertisements connected with that department to whig-radical newspapers. This is the true whig mode of governing without patronage.-Maacbester Geri vier. The Home Office, upon information of the course taken by Sir F. Roe, at Wolverhampton, has sent doWn directions for the admission at' the reporters for the press, arid the parties deputed by the magistrates, the military; and the townspeople, to watch the proceedings and produce evidence.—Globe. The serious illness of Sir Oswald - Mosley, Bart., M.P. for the north division of Staffordshire, excites great apprehensions among his friends. EGG 'TOLL.s--In Newcastle-upon-Tvne there is an egg col lector appointed by the corporation; he collects the toll of an egg on each basket; these are the perquisites, of the mayor. The average number of eggs collected annually is about 2,613, or more than 7 a-day.—Mark Lane Express. We have no authority to state any specific measures as deter mined by our government with the object of affording facilities to the enlistment of British subjects in the service of the Queen of Spain. We believe, however, that there are grounds for an ticipating some such measures, suspending the enactments of the foreign enlistment bill, and enabling English officers to act as volunteers in the Spanish service without the loss of their half-pay.—Globe. EVERY MAN HIS OWN TILE -MAKER.—An experiment appli cable to this principle has lately been made, and is to be presently in operation on a pretty large scale, at Afton Lodge, Parish of Tarbolton, the property of the Misses Stewart, under whose auspices it has been successfully carried into effect. instead of the curved tile now in use, it,is proposed to introduce the com mon brick with a concave passage to admit the water alongst it, and to lay one in the bottom, concave side upwards, and ano ther over it, concave side downwards, thus forming an inclosed space into which nothing but water can possibly enter. Clay of a sufficiently good quality to make the bricks may be had in almost every field of a clay soil, the preparations are executed at a comparatively small expense, and the heavy cost of car riage is thus in most instances entirely superseded. Mr. Bal lantyne, senior, and hi s son, M r. J ohn Ballantyne, who lately published an essay on draining, have the merit of introducing this experiment, which they hope will not only increase the fa cilities, but materially lessen the expense, and promote the efficiency of draining land. We are gratified in mentioning that the Misses Stewart have afforded every facility in their power to forward the matter, which promises to be of public utility. They have ordered a large quantity of the bricks for their own property 20,000 of which are itireav finished, mid a greater number in a state of preparation. Agriculturists kind others who feel interested, are invited to visit and inspect the operations, which, we have reason to know, the Messrs. Bal lantyne will be happy to show. A few of the bricks may also he seen at our office, where they %vete sent last week for the ex amination of our agricultural friends. As this improvement in the draining , of land, from the many advantages it combines, and the great facility with which it can be carried into opera tion, is likely to be very generally adopted, we would recom mend to the Messrs. B. to furnish to the public a, concise ac count of the whole process and probable expense, which we ,have no think would prove amply illustrative of the title pre fixed to our brief notice, that " every man may be his own tile inaker."—slyr Advertiser. for the amusement oftheir nel-content frieeds and the abbey - tined of the public. It is the peculiar characteristic of wrigliehruen td brood over imaginary evils; indeed honest John Bull is never so happy as whets he is told that he onedit to be most miserable, Upon this national feeble of ours the party of the hot. gentirinara live, move, and lisive their being; it is the breath of their hos; trils, the aliment they feed upon, the gently foundation on Which ertaitt e adder levation, : h r( jec e tsv,tc y .astaito l aor ai nli et e d, t ieta h rhy.g e ee;c i t ivurar; cared tich, : aart r hi rn i aec t ; y h.neo .. i tehi ,eit had e i i.vail e iiv e urrma : ol,:il e orred i tht eittlehaedreple: w . tlae f thil e ita: s t.cd s ahlo t omi nuariwe;lanvoia)it bill;. al like us take their oWn dear let bill, Let as an illustration., Does. this rneaShee exhibit any of their' boasted sympathy for the poor? Poverty is an evil inherent td man in his fallen state. The inspired historian and great law giver told the Israelite's that " the poor shall never Cease out of the land," and wisely was this decree pronotinced be oinniscience, Were there no poverty aniline Ili, the finest chord . of the human heart, charity, would remain untouched, acid beanie nature would sink to the level - of the beasts that perish. Sympathy for human woe, vrhethtr arisidg from bodily paid or the priss- , thins of want, is the solder of Sudety, the grand ciluileetin fink between ma n an d man. Poverty Makes the rich pitiful and tender-hearted; the dread of it is the great spur tb industry; and s knowing, as every man living must know, hil liability td, this evil, It teach es moderatien to the rich in the enjoyment of the blessings bestowed upon them. But lam wandering from the subject matter of debate. To return to ii;—l w ou ld as k what proof has th e h onourable rtietnber addtteed tb show the universality ofthe distress and Misgovernment of ivfiich lie ebra.: plains? Undoubtedly he has enumerated several Very iiiipore taut branches of our manufactures which may by poSsibility, be on the decline. Assuming, for argument sake, that tht cone • sumption of Eitrton toffee has decreased, may not a cheep:is of taste or of fashion hate caused this decrease? That nothing might be wanted to complete the climax of our distress, we have been told that the good old English game of cricket is falling fast into desuetude. Here again fashion has interposed be the establishment of gymnasia; and it so happens that but a few hours since J saw the honourable gentleinan'himself, by his flights and by his dext er i ty, excite the envy and admiration at - all his emupetitors; mine, I frankly tell him, was mitOiandecii - I - believed that he had reached the summit of human greatness; and that he was born to be " theforeniost man in all th e wor ld , " a demi-god among, nieliff heit-;i:et, is' a still loftier flight; but fearplike the - Son of Diedalue, he Sault! fly so near the sear thanthe wax of .his wings will bon:milled, and that the fate of that aspiring Youth will be his. The honourable member has deplored, aide the disuse of cannon and fireworks : This, however, will be ml loss to the public—the explosions, thei se uilms and crackers'iie have just heard are enou g h to fright the isle from its propriety. For the reasons Which ['have adduced, and for (Abets which 1 would advance but for the fear of futigu- , ing the house, I protest against the nietion, and shell therdfore conclude with moving " the previous question." •• Muster C. Ale R ' S /I A LL.--'4lly hon. frieed • who , epened•thiti debate was perfectly correct in his prheheev whets lielacetold that his motion would be met by a direct negative froni the mi. , nisterial side of the house. The speech of the right honotieable gentleman who has just sat down, contained nothing but a selection of common-places fr om t h e speeches of his official predecessors for the - last hundred years, and exhibits eh admie table specimen of the syetem of mechanical - - govettimetst and mechanical legislation Whicti the refined bill was fetended to destroy. Are we, like blind or hoodwinked mill horses, never to travel beyond the circle prescribed for us by these icieratroui _worshipper. of " thi ngs as t h ey are? " The right hon. secres tars dares nut impugn the principles of that bill—duel. not ate tempt to touch even aimir of its head, although he orposed infancy and dreads its manhood; but such is his anxiety td " keep things as they are," he would fain persuade both himself and the country that the bill is an end geitied, stead of being the means to gain further ends. I tell the eight honourable gentleman and the legion of placemen whom he is surrounded, that their puny efforts will be unavailing to atoll the progress of reform; that he may as wellatteinpt to "hide the sun from us with a blanket, or put the- moon in his pocket," or to inclose within bounds unbounded space: (Hear.) My hen: friend who. Seconded the motion new under discussion, has - • spoken with becoming indignation of the trammels imposed lii • our public and private scholasti c i nst i tutions upon the risiu4 generation of-1 was going to say- free-born—Englishmee. „shall, howeverolisniiss this subject by - a single query. Are the the lessons extorted by ancient pedagogues from their helplessevictims consistent wi t h t h e freedom of - which we so vaingloriously boast? (Loud cheers on both sides of the house.) We have given freedom to the black slave„ while we retain in worse than negro bondage our own immediate offspring, and this we continue to do in spite of the reform bill. which professes to give liberty to all! But the reform bill must itself tie teformed. At present, however precocious in bodily :growth or mental attainments, the youth, the lifeblood of the country, by an absurd and arbitrary rule, are ineligible either to sit in parliament as representatives, or to vote as coestie tuents, although, while their sires remain in their pristine ignorance, the youth of England have stripped the tree of knowledge of its last leaf. Shall we be content to listen for ever to the drowsy maxims of helpless, inane age; for ever swallow its narcotic draughts ? Shall we for ever sail on their waveless ocean and steer our bark by their rude and worn-out compass ? The.petiud is arrived when these things must be reformed. I tell these ancient would-he monopolists of wisdom that knows ledge is power; that the newly trimmed lamp gurus with the brightest lustre ; that the glory of the setting dot.h not equal the splendour of the rising sun ; and lastly--by way of hint only— I tell them that the boys —aye, " the boys" of the Polytechnic School sustained the conflict and gained the victory of " the three glorious days of Paris." (Hear, bear.) .If the youth of Great Britain have a-right to complain of the exclusive clitte meter of our institutions, what can be urged in defence of the • manner in which we treat our women ? of the still more absurd and arbitrary rule which • permits a lady to ascend the throne, and denies to her sex the right of eitizeneseship. To • all here - present, and more espaeially to those also are husbands, I aps peal. In the first place I would ask whether any family can be either prosperous ur happy unless•it is under the direct controel of female government ? 'l'he reason is obvious—mvornan's gentle sway is founded upon the superiority of mind over matter., and to her substituting for brute force the high-pressurepower of her . persuasive eloquence. If the:heavy cannonade of het totsguee fail to batter down the standard of opposition to her will, she • brings to her aid the light artillery of her personal charms, oe .outflanks the enemy with a battalion of her sighs or her teart4 • Send' when she - calls-these powerful auxiliaries - into - the field s She; is absolutely irresistible. Her voice " Like music on the moonlight see ; Whose waves are lulled to rest," charms beyond the power of hyperbole to express. To *entail; titan's obligations are infinite. /s:wetured and cradled in her bosom, the first dawn of manhood liesimeaks his anxiety to u - itt her smiles, and her love becomes his cunicest and most valued possession. 'Tis woman's hand that smooths his couch, and if she share it not with him, his repose becomes mere !minuet, joyless torpidity. When pain and anguish wrings his brow ; woman is the ministering angel w h o a ll ays and assuages his sufferings. Without woman's presiding genius his house bee comes ;desert, and the word " home" loses its tragic influence over his mind. From his entrance to his exit (ruin the world, man is the object of womau's peculiar care; she wraps him isi hie swaddling clothes; she dresses him its his windieg sheet; she at tends him dying, she mourns over him when dead ! And eet these beautiful creatures, so exquisitely sweet in their tempers ; so tractable, so silent, so placable in their nature, the connect-; ing link between men and angels, are fraudulently an d b ase l y deprived of even th e s h a d ow o f a direct ' representation, either-As o/Jr reeresentatives or os the representatives of their own sex !! This, 'Mr. Speaker, is another monsti rams grievance .which cons=mon sense loudly call s f or the removal of. In truth, our whole system of criminal and civil jurisprudence; of commercial, ems reign, and domestic policy, is, froth the want of' system, a met e chaos. All this ancient lumber, the bit-by-bit reforms of out ante-diluvian ancestors, must be destroyed. The government of the country must be conducted and its laws based on grand comprehensive and philosophical principles. The youth of the country must be supplied more liberelty with cash to spend in such articles of hijouterie as become their age and condition, as the reservoir containing the wisdom of all ages. To enable them to measure time and appreciate its value, exert male tehi shall have attained the full age of three years and six mouthy should be furnished with a gold chronntneter. At the age nine every man should be entitled to vote for the rep:vs.-eta- - live of his choice; at eleven be eligible to sit ih parliament on proof that he possesses halfsa-crown, paid weekly ; and at thirteen to claim a certain share of his father's possessions, or the profits of his daily toil. I move, by way of rider to the mourn of my honourable friend, that it be an instruetiod to the committee Id take into consideration the present condition of the male mid noritage and of the ladies of Great Britain. Master-E. MARSHALL.—The speech of the honourable and learned gentleman who has just sat down retnints me of an en= ecdote related by Baron Munchausen in his admirable volume of travels. The Baron, when travelling near time North Pole, found that the guard was unable, from the severity o f t h e frost, to produce a single note on his bugle, although he attempted to play every tune he was acquainted with, the airs being in fact frozen up as fast as they were blown into the inetrumeet: When' the coach arrived at the end of its jouiney, the bugle teas hung up in the chimney corner, and in 4 few minutes, from the change of temperature, performed, of its own accord, all the tunes the guard had previously blown-into it. (A latigh.) 'the /mower- , able and learned gentleman has, in like manner, bate ticritu full of a peculiar set of political ideas or notes picked up at random from the writings of certain theorists and from the speeches of - radical orators, which it must be admitted hate lost twee of their original - melody or wildness by being re-issued from his mouth. I have, in common with every member of the house, listeued to his speech with the most profound and admiring tendon, and I predict that ere mane days have elapsed, he will have the honours conferred upon him usually decreed to - patri4 otic orators. Here, perhaps, it May not be iftimppottune to give a few of the modern definitions of word's of e'imble origib, wtei s e illustrious descent will prnbablyebe doubfed.by future genera tions. " Patriotism" was once supposed to describe "love of • country," or zeal for our country's good." "Who would not die in his dear country's caese. Since, if base fear his dastard steps withdraws, • From death he cannot fly;—one (mission ;siev e IteceiYes at last the coward and the brave!"-(Heise.) These feelings constituted the patriotism of our forefathers; but the patriot of modern times is UDC who reviles with flueuey end bitterness the laws and institutions of his coutitrv,—a trader in politics, or a dealer in blasphemy. The .Wendc "eloquence" used to convey the idea of "one gifted smith the !ioiver of speak ing with fluency and elegance;" now it simply means the gift of the gab, or the area cloudiug the season rind inflaming (lie passions. is utidersto o d to meanti man. above vulgar' resin . ' e i aa s;;ej v u it l i( i u prejudices—lrliuitesschose system of morals is :"Pinlissee t t i o i , r s op en y l , r agne d to he restrained by ordihut'v r[t]es. d philosuplry "—I pity from my heart the. ialtefl greatness of these beautiful words—indicate the cant of drivels lers and the rant of knaves. By "men of.gredt tact," or . highly talented men," I always Understand truth rata-players, patriot;, or pickpockets, •But. for the fear of fatiguing the pa tience•of the house I could esitmenite a great number of other words and phrases whose,aecient definitietis are now not tinder , stood. 1 shall, therefore, on this subject ttontent myself—as all our old lexicons are becoming daily mere - and more useless— with recommending the honnuse mud learned gentleman to add another rider to the umcition before the house to the effect -7 " That it be an instruction to the committee to take into its consideration the pressing necessity ter an immediate reform of • 'Johnson's Dictiminary.' '' (A WO.) Although the senior the honninable metnimer who seconded th e motion, and of his honourable friend who last addressed the house, I hod the hap piness of receiving instruction from, one of those "scholastic' institutions " where these gentlemen contrived 4t seems to rob the tree of knowledge of its last leaf. Hutt they abstained front robbing other trees— Master C. Mum:tette—Mr. S.geeker, I rise to order. Does the honourable gentlensan mmiii to tintmete anything. honourable to me? Master G. l'orrEa,-.-l'he cparar . 30 in a leitcate allilsi°ll • the insulting - thsintiation calls for an instant need emple npologys The honourable gentleman knows well that we paid both in purse and in person for our indiscretion. Mr. Speaker, to you, sir, t appeal, Is this parliamentary language Y. The Snuessein—Certeiniv not; but, bad the both geatleman • who rose to order permitted the speaker to conclude his sentence, lie might perhaps have ended by putting the objestnerable pert honourable gentleman will deny that he meant to glue pereoha I , I h ie Y e P n °tl l l t e ig ti h . l a y ilY iUr i te l :o d ro b u e s n a o t t id do u r Tip t a h r i l a i'a l n i l i e s n ia ta n r g y u . age Pfe v it i p s h . a ti v i : offence. Master 13, MAILSHALLe4 (10 tint hesitate to say th.t I THE LATE RICHARD DOBSON, ESQ, WATERLOO.—This delightful and fashionable watering place, a most desirable summer retreat, so early in ,the season begins to assume a gay and brilliant appearance from the great influx of visitors th a t are d a ily h onour i ng it with their, presence. The beautiful Marine scenery from this spot, coupled with the picturesque landscapes in the neighbourhood, render the situation highly attractive to those who wish to spend their leisure mouth s awa y f rom t h e f at i gues of business. Mr. Towers, of the Angel Inn, bale -street, has reopened the spacious hotel, which is fitted. up with entirely new furniture and decorations, selected with a view to . the comfort o f f am ili es. T he opening . dinner of the hotel is announced for the 24th of this month. IEnONLAMPASTRON.—It iS said that "a prophet is not thought of in his own country"--this, we fear, is the case of the artist who has with great perseverance, skill, and labour, produced the ieronlampastron—as, in consequence of the little supporeit has yeceival, he intends closing the exhibition to-morrow. The effeet ea entering the.r , Kint. is very singular,* ttnple of vixid light presents itself to the eye, in the midst of the most pitchy darkness, surmounted by two circles of brilliant stars. The workmanship of the centre of the larger circle is most elaborate and elegant, while the other side is equally admirable, but more gaudy front the combination of the various shades and colour's. The temple itself is well worthy of notice, the pinacles of, or towers surroundin g it, producing a finished and beautiful ap pearance. We hope to-day and to-morrow the visitors will (ouster so strong as to induce the artist to forego moving away his constellations, and that he will wait a short time longer. Tits reo.ders will remember that, in the month of October last,•the Thetis, one of his majesty's Post-office pack ets, was partiallvdestroyed by fire, whilst i lying at her moor i ngs in the river.-We have the pleasure to announce that she is now regenerated, if we may be allowed the expression, and is in active service, under her former worthy and skilful commander, Captain Townlev.• The Thetis is now a splendid vessel, and we under stand the largest on the postoffice establishment belonging to this station. Her cabins are elegantly fitted up, and in the con- struction. of them every advantage has been taken to afford am ple and convenient accoinodation to passengers. The packet was re,construeted by ;Messrs. Humble and Milcrest, under the. iminediate.and able superintendence of Captain Townley ; and we offer him our sincere congatulation on the successful comple tion of his onerous undertaking. The Thetis has two engines -of eighty horse-power each, whi c h were made by Messrs. Boulton and Watt, and completed under the personal inspection of Mr. Bennett, the eminent engineer, of the firm of Wren and Ben. , nett, of Manchester, whose well-earned fame will prove a suffi cient guarantee for the superiority of the engines. On Thursday last, the Thetis was tried afloat for the first time, and in a n ex cursion of three hours, h er exce ll ent sailing, and the. admirable working of the machinery, exceeded the most sanguine expecta tions of all parties concerned. On Saturday evening she was put ; on the station and sailed with the mail for Dublin, with upwards of fifty passengers on board, and nobly accomplished the pas-. sage in eleven hours.—Courier. ACCIDENT ON BoAnn A STEAMER.—James MorrisOn, a wa terman, belonging to the boat "Dick," which plies for hire on the river, was proceeding with his boat on Tuesday last towards Wallasey Hole, when near the west wharf he observed the body of a man floating on the water. He towed it to Seacombe Slip and delivered it to a police-officer. The body was subsequently ascertained to be that of Jacob Leech, a shoemaker, residing at Runcorn, who fell overboard on the 24th of May last from the Duke of Bridgewater, steam-packet, as it was iiroceeding round the Floating. Light.—An inquest was held tipon the body, and a verdict of Accidental Death returned. • Bony Forikn.—Yesterday morning, at an early hour, as a boatman was following his avocation on the river, near the Red Noses, he'observed something floating on the water. Ou near.; ingit turned out to to be the body of a female. Several bruises, and apparently cuts were found about the head and face. The body; which•appeared fresh in the water, was conveyed to Li verpool in order that an inquest may be held. SFLOCKINCi ACCIDENT. , —Another inquest was held the same day..on view of the body of a lad named George Pennington, a plasterer's apprentice; who met with •his death whilst working at the New Custom-house. Bernard Connell, a labourer in the employ of Mr. Robert M`Kee, plasterer; with whom the de ceased was au apprentice; said that about ten o'clock the same morning the deceased, who was doing work for Mr. McKee at the New Custom-house, came to him upon a scaffold which was placed inside of a dome at 'the'west side•of the Custom-house ter some plaster to apply in a part of the work at which he was engaged. Witness gave it to him, and he ran away with it along the seaffolding; but he, had not proceed e d f ar w h en h e dropped' to th e b o t tom o f the dome, a distance of about eight ' yards. He bled very much ; and witness immediately ran for a surgeon; but before the surgeon arrived he was dead.—Ver diet, Accidental Death. • DEATH ptiom BATtimn.—An inquest was held before Am brose Lace, Esq., one of the coroner's for the borough, on view of the body of Wiliam Foxwall, a trunkmaker, in the employ of Mr. Thomas Watson, of Lord-street. It appeared from the evidence of Robert Barlow, also a trunkmaker, that on Tuesday evening last the deceased, witness, and two other shopmates went to bathe on the North Shore, in a bathing machine. Witness and deceased swam into the stream in the river, and in a few minutes afterwards deceased was missing, and witness subsequently saw him dead at Breckell's public-house, on the North Shore.—David Griffiths, a cordwainer, residing in Towera's-buildings, who was also bathing, said that about tell minutes'efter he get into the water he saw the deceased talking to a boy, and heard him say that he had not bathed for thirty years before. A short time afterwards. when witness returned towards the shore, .near to the spot he had first seen him, he observed a body, with the head and feet i n th e water. Witness raised the be a d up and saw that it was the deceased apparently quite dead. Deceased was then taken to Breckell's public house, and Mr.Sharrocks, a. surgeon, was sent for, who used every means to restore life, but without effect.—Verdict, Ac cidental Death. EMIGRATIoN.—On Tuesday last, the Romulus sailed from Greenock for Quebec, with 107 emigrants—Total emigration this season fro m G reenoc k to N ew York,, 668—t0 the British Colonies, 342. LORD BROUGHAM, O'CoNNELL, AGITATION-DINNERS.— When Lord Brougham goes to such places, and mingles in such company, he incurs a necessity of acting in character. He must abase his style, his manners, and even his feelings, down to the level of his company, or rather below it; for as he goes to flatter, he must subdit to the sycophant's condition of infe riority. In that fawning speech in which the dowager Chan cellor fawned upon Lord Melbourne and the rest who have cast him off, in the hope doubtless of his (Lord Brougham's) regaining the woolsack, the noble and learned lord was pleased to warn his late colleagues against Yawning upon the court. An honourable and independent•minded man will be indisposed to fawn on any one, court or kennel; but if the necessity be imposed, good taste and good feeling will certainly give a pre ference to the court. as the less offensive an t less exacting grant. Lord Brougham, however, has chosen the other side; he fawns upon the dregs of society, and that courtier has doubt less• a strong .stomach who would treat his sovereign with. flattery as fulsome as this once able, and we believe once high,. -J minded man, pours out before the meanest and most worth- 1 Icss of the populace.—Standard. . It is our painful duty this week to record the decease of our excellent and much esteemed townsman, Mr. Dobson, which ' melancholy- event occurred at Everton, on Tuesday morning last. He pad been for some time unwell, but not so seriously as to cause his friends to apprehend any immediate danger. On Saturday last he was in town, but on his return home he complained of severe pain, and " notvrithstanding every effort was used that skill and affection could dictate he gradually de clined until Tuesday morning, when he breathed his last, in the 53d year of his age. Few men have passed through life more generally and de servedly esteemed. It. may truly be said of him that be never had an enemy. Firmly and conscientiously attached to the in stitutions of the country, he was ever ready and prompt to ensure their stability both by his influence and example. In the cause of benevolence he was foremost, and notwithstanding his avocations, few have devoted so much time to the cause of charity, or learnt so fully the luxury of doing good. Mr. Dobson was an active and diligent member of the Sewer age Board—but his loss will be most felt as a member of the District Provident Society, and as the treasurer of the Blue Coat Hospital. For nineteen years he has filled this responsible situation ; and the.writer of these lines has often had occasion to admire his unwearied patience, his unremitted attention, and his deep solicitude for this admirable institution, even in seasons of peculiar trials and difficulties. Here his loss is almost irre parable. As a mercantile min he was highly reSpected for his manliness and integrity, his decisions and his conduct were the result of deep rooted principles; and while we deplore the re moval of one so active and benevolent, and whose death mar be justly considered a public calamity, the regret is softened - by the dheering reflect►on that "be rests from his labours," that "his works will follow him," and that our loss is his eternal gain. z I I .-z A RIVAL PARLIA':-‘IEgT. We need hardly offer any apology for subriiitting to ' our readers the following curious and rather amusing debate; for it .proves that even •in schoolboys there may be found mote intelligence and much more elocitierice than amongst a large portion of those who by courtesy are called the representatives of the people, and consti tute what is facetiously termed the " collective wisdoiti" of the nation. It is necessary, perhaps, to explain that, previous to the commencement of the summer holidays, the pupils belonging to Mr. Stokes's classical academy, in Norton street, after being severally examined by competent judges as to the progress they have made in their several studies, wound up thewhole proceedings by forming them selves into a juvenile House of Commons, and debate a question previously submitted to them. The debate on this occasion was as follows it was attended by the parents of the pupils and many respectable and fashion able friends, and the whole scene was interesting and amusing iu the highest degree: The young- senators entered into the spirit of the discussion with all the ar dour and dignity of graver persons, and conducted them selves with delightful propriety. On a raised platform the youngsters were ranged on benches on each side the chair, that being placed in the centre, facing the audi ence. The speaker had a table, but no mace, before hiM . ; but had Mr. Abercrombie seen how the young gentleman conducted himself, the strict order he kept, the unparliamentary language he reprimanded, and the fair ness and the impartiality of his deportment, he might have taken a few useful hints. DEBATE ON THE STATE OF THE NATION. • Mr. SPE A KEP.—The hon. member, Mr. George Hitilwen, will now be pleased to proceed with the motion of which he has given notice. Master G: Il,i owser.e--I rise, Mr. Speaker;'' under no or dinary degree of embarrassment and dread lest so young a senator, so inexperienced a debater, so feeble - an advocate as I am, should 'disgrace the important constituency , to Whoin I am indebted for the honour of a seat in this assembly ; and under a still greater degree of dread lest the momentous question which I have pledged myself to bring under the - consideration of the house should suffer from not being undertaken -by an abler or a" more influential member. But, sir, I hope the sages who are most frequently in the habit of addressing you will extend to me . the same measure of indulssenee which is usually granted to persons in my- situation. The esubject of the motion purpose submittinpi to the consideration 'Of rahe - heirile'lii - one of paramount importance to the country, one that has been, unhap-: pilv ' too long uni s q u i re d i nto, one that no mi n i s t er h as , as vet, had sufficient co.irage to examine—" the present state of - the nation." The great charter of our liberties—the reform bill—if its principles are to he carried into operation, secures to the people of England the redress of all their lung accumulation of grievances, real or imaginary, and to their descendants an ex emption from future wrongs. (Hear.) Ifl have rightly inter preted the object of that measure, we who sit here in virtue of its provisions, as the representatives of the people, are hound to institute a rigid and searching investigation into the origin of those eVils which afflict our unhappy country. W e must_pot, like unskilful leeches, treat the constitutional disease of the bode politic as a mere local affection ; no, we must find out the hidden cause before we presume to apply the remedy; we must lay bare the gangrened parts, and, when we have done this we must not hesitate to apply the caustic. There are some daring spirits who are haedy enough to deny that any peculiar or greater than ordinary degree of distress exists in the country at the present period; these, perhaps, will discharge against me the whole artillery of their arguments founded upon the statistics of trade, of population, and of crime. But, have these statisticians ever yet attempted to give us a tabular analysis of human suf fering or of human misery either in an abstract or a detailed form ? I shall be told, no doubt, that the country is in a most flourishing condition, happy beyond all precedent, and con-' tented beyend all former example. To such as may be dis posed to persuade themselves that this is really the case, I an swer, "look through the land arid behold the wretchedness of its inhabitants;"—turn.your eyes either to the east, the west, the north, or the south, and you will see nothing but poverty—dark poverty, Twin broth er o f despair,"— goading the people to acts of savage e rnaddened vengeance; you will see destitution in its most appalling, forms ;—and if you do not understand the hints whir% the bunting embers of your farm houses and corn-stacks. are intended to convey to your blunted intellects and hardened hearts, you will shortly see the picture which now adorns your palaces of "the man tearing the lion," replaced' by th a t o f " t h e lion tearing the man." (Hear.) Again :—I shall be told, perhaps, that the motion which I meals to propose is vague and indefinite in its character, and that I should bring forward specific measures of redress fur specific and well ascertained grievances. This, sir, is the hackneyed official oft-repeated answer of every administration, from the days of Bute, North, end Pitt, down to those of the present hour. Thank God, the time is now passed away when the people will be satisfied with an answer so ruffles-they are now in reality what the late Duke of Norfolk was punished for saving they were theoretically—"the source of power." The minister of the day —nay the King himself—is now the sertiant tj'ilie people, to whom he must "give an account of his stewardship." To palter or trifle with them icon' is impossible, and therefore he who governs must forget all his ancient maxims of state polity, and no longer maiutaiu "-the right divine of Kings to govern wrong;" he roust submit to that tribunal which in Athens banished Thernistocles, and in France hurled the Bourbons from the throne of their an cestors. Hitherto, Mr. Speaker, I have addressed you on the general state of the country. To descend from generals to-par ticulars, to come more immediately in contact, -to. grapple with and explain the sufferings and depressions of the menu facturieg, monetary, colonial, tOinmercial e aneleagricultural interests of the couutry, I shall proceed to state the of some inquires which 1 have wade at great personal trouble and inconvenience for the purpose of illustrating my arguments. I hold in_ my baud, sir L iereturn from one of the oldest manu facturing establishments in the couritry--AMITee /nag Everton, which spews a frightful falling off in the consumption of that necessary of life ; since the access's a of the present ministers to office the diminution in the homeitrade - of that con cern has amounted to just three and seven-eights per Cent. ; Eccles, a town in Lancashire, depends chiefly upon its cele brated manufactory of "Eccles cakes" for its piitsperity—in the consumption of these the falling off within the present year is something snore than four and a quarter per cent., notyvithe standing the trade at th e new railway station; a still gre a t er falling off' has taken place in the use of Ormskirk gingerbread, Banbury cakes, and Chelsea buns :—this the conductors and proprietors of these concerns very naturally refer to the de pressed state of our monetary interests arising (torn excessive taxation. The falling off in the consumption of these articles must necessarily affect not only the foreign trade but the agri cultural interests of the country. A manufacturer, of bats and stumps, extensively used in the noble invigorating old English game of cricket, inTerins me that the demand for these articles has almost wholly ceased; this, as might have been expected, has been•attended with very serious consequences to the timber trade, to the shipping interest, and to the British sailors em ployed in that branch of our commerce. If we look to the state of the currency we shall find things in an equally unsa tisfactory condition. The establishment of savings banks, those well-constructed engines of o pp r e ss i on, h ave ten d ed to reduce to a most alarming extent the circulating medium. The money that used to be freely expended in the purchase of tops, marbles, kites, hoops, 'balls, bows and arrows, pea shooters, squirts, sixpenny cannons, gunpowder, and fire works, is now absorbed by savings - banks; or, in other words, by the government, for that is the leviathan, the swallow-all into whose capacious maw the whole of the money so collected . has found its way.. Th e o p erat i on o f these penny-farthiug banks is obviou s . The money deposited in them is withdrawn from the epinmerce of the country. The mechanics and attizans employed in the manufacture of the articles I have enumerated are thrown out of employ; the dealers hi them are for the most part ruined. In this state of things can it be a matter of sur prise that the spirit of dissatisfaction is advancing by rapid and mighty strides through the realm ? Can it be a matter of sur prise that this house is besieged with petitioners? The motion before the house pledges us to nothing more than an inquiry; when that shall h ave been gone into, wh en th e cause of t h e distress we labou r under shall have been properly investigated and ascertained, we can apply ourselves to such remedial ineas sures as the nature and extent of the evil may appear to re quire. I have purposely omitted any allusion to a greater variety of subjects connected with the motion, ,feeling cou vioced that I have glanced at a sufficient number to induce the house to agree to the motion which I have now the honour of submitting, namely, "That this house, do, on the first day of April next, resolve itself into a committee to take into consi deration the present state of the nation." Master G. POTTER.—Sir, my hon. friend, in his able, eloquent, and argumentative speech, has left me but little in deed to say in seconding the resolution which he concluded , by moving. But there are some points to which he has not adverted, and to these I will endeavour to draw the attention) of the house, as additional reasons why we should enter upon the proposed inquiry. We all remember the large promises of uninterrupted happiness and prosperity which we were told would be the natural and necessary consequences of carrying the reform bill. Have these " words of promise" been kept or broken? True, the taxes on "foreign sweets" have been re duced; but I would ask gentlemen on either side of the house, first, whether their finances have been increased, and, secondly, whether "sweets" are cheaper now than they were under the unreformed parliament? .We have heard much of the spread of knowledge; we have been told, too, that the schoolmaster is abroad. Again I appeal to honourable members on both sides of the house; I appeal to their personal knowledge of the fact, and ask if he be not as much at home as ever—and if he be not the same arbitrary, tyrannical despot he has ever been since the time when Soioinon recommended the frequent use of the rod, as if the growth of "young ideas," like that of the walnut tree, would be accelerated by frequent beatings? (Hear, hear.) if th e p eop l e o f E ng l an d are st ill to b e ruled by those ancient maxims of government which the reform bill professed to abrogate; if legions of armed men, regiments of police, and squadrons of revenue officers are necessary, first to pillage, and then to keep them in subjection; and it every village, nay, almost every street in every town, possesses in its schoolmaster, an unconstitutional officer who "nips i' th' bud" o f th e i nfant mind the opening- blossoms of liberty, by the uncontrolled exercise of his power, the reform bill is a thing of naught, a mere lullaby to hush babes to sleep, and as unsubstantial as the shadow of a shade. These, and more especially the latter, are wrongs of which the people do cnmplaiu; these are some of the grievances into which we must inquire, and for which the people will have redness. On these subjects they are now humble petitioners to us their representatives • .we may turn a deaf ear to th e i r com pl a i nts —th e h ouse stay be cajoled into a rejection of the motion; but, should we be so besotted as to commit such an act of unparalleled folly, such an act of abso lute insanity, they will soon force us to obey their couainaudse they will soon address us in language less courteous, such as he "who runs may read," and ajmut which there can be "no mistake." Unless, then, the house is prepared to act in direct opposition to the declared wishes and feelings of the people, the motions of my hon. friend will be carried. I shall, not, Jr. Speaker, occupy your attention any luuger, but 'conclude with seconding the motion before the house. Master J. FlieNketN.—The 'notion just read from the chair is, perhaps, if considered merely as an abstract proposi tiou, unexceptionable. But I object to it in rotor—first, be cause such ait inquiry. ie. impracticable ; secondly, because it would occupy the times of the house most unprofitably; thirdly, because by entering upon it we s h ou ld exe rt s bows tort to blast them, or creat e i n the public mind a feebug of uniningled scorn and contempt for our proceedings; fourthly, because the coun try is generally in a state of unusual prosperity; and, lastly, because I foresee, if we enter upon this inquiry, we shall, like the mountain in itthour, be delivered of—a mouse; or, more probably a much less re s p ec t a bl e brute, (Hear.) Dunning's celebrated resolution "that the influence of the crown has in creased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished" is the Adam, - or first parent of , the hon. gentleman's motion. Since the days of that great political charlatan, this stock-farce of the opposition, with same trilling variations in its phraseolo g y, has been annually performed, like the tragedy of George Batustell, i/ . ...- 7..