The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-05 00:00:00

united to the six Financial Representatives of the people, and by the concurrent authority of which alone can taxes be raised or appropriated. That body, after a protracted debate of four days, decided by a majority of ten against a minority of five to substitute for the Project which we have detailed another, embodying a Civil List, scarcely less liberal to the Executive and its subordinate officers, and far more liberal towards the religious and educational establishments of the colony, but insisting on the coexistence, with the term of the Civil List, of complete exemption from the vexatious restrictions now lying on immigration, a complete con troul over the public revenues devoted to this purpose, an import duty of 2 per cent., and a guarantee of the integrity of Legislative privileges. The stand thus taken by the Combined Court ren dered inoperative all Mr. Young's negociations. The Governor professed his inability to comply with the requisitions of the majority. Still there is a locus Prenitentie left for the Court of; Policy, who cannot Proceed without the concurrence of the Financial Re presentatives. The Court of Policy was to meet on the 4 th of May, when, it is to be hoped, they would re trace their steps, and reject the humiliating conditions imposed upon the colony by the Home Government, no doubt, at the instigation of Mr. Young. The Guiana Chronicle of May 1 states, that a rumour pre vailed that an application would be made to appoint two delegates to proceed to England, for the purpose of being heard at the bar of the House of Commons, against the imposition on the colonists of the new Civil List. A liberal provision, it was understood, Would b e voted by the Council of Ten, to meet the ex penses of the deputation. We have not space sufficient at our command to enter further into this question at present. We shall recur to it in our next. ID We perceive from an advertisement in the Guiana 'LW Gazette, (with a file of which we have been P ol itely favoured) that a public meeting of the Roman Catholics and "Liberal Protestants" of British Guiana was convened byDr.Clancy, the Popish bishop of the Colony, for the ixurposa of drawing up a petition to the Queen in Council, " against the injustice attempted to be perpetrated by a few Financial Repre sentatives, in withholding the means of competent support voted by the Court of Policy for the Roman Catholic clergy of the colony. 'Phis impudent titular forgets that the " few Financial Representatives" to Whom he alludes are elected by the people of British Guiana, and that they have only expressed the feelings of the great majority of the respectable inhabitants of the colony. To add to the impudence of this proceeding, Dr. Clancy appointed the meeting to take place on Sunday, and at the time of Divine Service. We have received our files of the Jamaica Royal Gazette and of the Jamaica Standard to the 25th of April, inclusive. They do not contain any news of importance. The Baptists were holding meetings in every parish throughout the island, " to take into con sideration the Governor's first despatch to the Colonial Secretary." Respecting one of these meetings the Royal Gazette exclaims, "We can imagine with what astonishment our good friends in the mother country will stare on reading such an announcement. What ? the persecuted Baptists—the maligned, injured, and suffering peasantry—groaning beneath the load of ty ranny and oppression—assemble in their chapel, at the command of their meek and loWly pastor—to do what ? To s it in judgment on an official document, written by th e Executive, to her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Colonies." The resolutions passed at these meetings display that arrogant and presumptu ous spirit, and are couched in that dictatorial tone, Which characterise all the proceedings of these incen diaries. They denounce as exceedingly impolitic the official expression of any opinion by his Excellency so soon after his arrival in the island, and stigmatise the strong censures which he cast upon the Baptist mis sionaries, as "in the highest degree disingenuous and unjust." They insinuate that Sir Charles Metcalfe, from the commencement of his administration, has " identified himself with a party hostile to the interests of the lately emancipated population." These officious Proceedings of the .Baptists are calculated to effect Much mischief, by keeping alive:,among the negroes feelings of hostility and discontent, and from the ten dency which they .will have still more strongly to for tify the prejudices of these planters who may have shown a disposition• to deal harshly with their labonr ers. We trust that Sir Charles Metcalfe will narrowly Watch the progress of the _new agitation commenced by th e Baptists, and, if necessary, interpose the strong arm of the Executive in defence of the peaceably in clined portion of the inhabitants of the island. The best proof of the Governor's good intentions, and his resolution to ace justly and impartially, is to be found in the malignant• abuse which such men as Knibb and Oughton have so lavishly bestowed upon him...• The Jamaica Standard, after quoting some remarks of our own on the deficiency of produce in Jamaica and British Guiana, adduces the circumstance of the great extent of the provision grounds as one main cause of the excessive falling off in those colonies. These provision grounds afford the greatest facilities to th e labourer for supporting himself, in comparative ease and affluence, without adding one sixpence to the revenue or commercial wealth of the country. Thus it is that, actin{ on the bad advice which they receive, the peasantry are able to maintain their ground against th e masters. AS long as the latter permit the unlimited cultivation of pro Visions, they can expect no other re sult. The Standard suggests a judicious curtailment of these grounds, as indispensably necessary in order to secure a greater amount of labour on the estates. The policy of this step . is so obvious, that we cannot avoid the expression of our astonishment that the plan ters have not generally adopted it. They have proba bly been deterred from doing so by the violent oppo sition and dangerous interference of the Baptist mis sionaries. We hope that this obstacle, under the firm administration of Sir Charles Metcalfe, will speedily disappear. We perceive from our shipping intelligence that the Thomas Coutts, which sailed from China on the 4th of February, had reached the Cape of Good Hope, on her way to London. She has brought intelligence that the Chinese were determined to resist all attempts at accommodation excepting on their own terms. They had purchased some EurOpean ships, with the intention of arming and manning them for the approaching war with Great Britain. The 'next overland mail, which may be daily expected to reach England, will probably contain some very important intelligence—to a much later date. me great meeting held on Monday , last, in Exeter Hall, for the abolition of the slave trade, at which his Royal Highness Prince Albert, for the first time, ap peared in the arena of public affairs, has, if we mistake not, been the means of striking a blow at the ministe rial faction in a quarter to which of late the real opi nions of the people of England have not been accus tomed to find admission. . As president of that meet.: ing—a meeting -composed of the most eminent men in the empire, without distinction of sect or party—ad vocating a cause noble in itself and further ennobled by the distinguished countenance under which it was held—we leave out of our consideration the particular policy by which that cause is attempted to he advanced —it must have been impossible for his royal high ness to omit noticing the superior estimation which the leaders of the great conservative party enjoy in the eyes of an assembly of respectable and right-minded Eng lishmen, compared with any to which her Majesty's present ministers can justly lay claim. Where, we ask, on Monday last, were the chiefs of the Whig party ? Where were the Russells, the Nor manhys, and the Morpeths on that great occasion ? We know not where they were, but we know that at the meeting at Exeter Hall they were not ! A sprinkling of the small luminaries of the party did venture to shew themselves upon the platform before the assem bled worth and intellect of the empire, and to .mingle their feeble voice in the loud acclaim which greeted the presence of the consort of Royalty, and hailed, with pride and delight, the support which great principles and great objects received, and ever will receive, from the conservative leaders of England; but the ministe rial phalanX,, so powerful upon their chosen battle ground, the floor of a venal House of Commons—so prompt to advocate a corrupt job, to defend a national dishonour, or to lead in an attack upon those national institutions which they have sworn to defend and maintain—did not, because they . durst not, at that meeting, present themselves before a mixed assemblage of the people of England ! They shrunk, with a das tard fear, from the comparisons which their presence might have caused to be instituted, and from the pos sibility that such comparisons might have been fol lowed by some public demonstration of their result. They knew the deep loathing with which they are re garded by nine-tenths of the people of England, and they feared its unequivocal expression in the presence of one from whose lips their true position, in the esti mation of the empire, might at length reach the ears and startle the Sybarite slumbers of a beleaguered and betrayed Sovereign ! But, with all their, esuitical cunning, the whigs were disappointed. Political, like moral guilt, brings down upon itself, slowly sometimes, yet always surely, its own retribution. That obscene mendicant, the popish reviler of the purity of the wives and matrons of Eng land—that hoary democrat, at whose truculent feet the Whig faction are' ever ready to prostrate themselves, and to beseech for protection from the indignation which their own shameless imbecility has provoked the traitor and ruffian O'Connell—dared to present his un clean person upon the platform, and to attempt to open his corrupt lips in an assemblage of English gentle men—in an assemblage of the husbands, the wives, and the daughters whom he has so foully slandered. We thank Heaven that English honour and English manhood is not yet so utterly lost as to have submitted to such an indignity ! We thank Heaven that a noble cause was not allowed to be defiled by the advocacy of so consummate a scoundrel! In the torrent of scorn by which the appearance of O'Connell was greeted, the meanness, the contemptible baseness of the minis terial faction received a more crushing condemnation, more fatally directed, than any which the presence of their own insignificant persons could have called down upon them. We could imagine the effect which the scene, pre sented upon the appearance of O'Connell upon the platform, .must have produced upon .the ingenuous mind with which the youthful Consort of our beloVed queen is reported to be endowed. There stood, cower ing and abashed for once in his shameless career, this ruthless and unprincipled demagogue ; whilst the black passions of his soul, restrained from bursting forth only by his innate cowardice, were fearfully depicted in his writhing countenance. There he stood, livid and black by turns, and there stood also the ministers of Eng land's Sovereign, impaled in his person by the contempt and scorn of that vast assemblage ! Yes—in that des pised and execrated form—that concentration of moral and political profligacy—upon whose head was poured so unequivocal an evidence of the detestation in which his character is held by a great nation—the youthful Prince had presented before him a picture—strongly delineated, it is true, but faithfully and fearfully correct —of the strong feeling of reprobation with which the policy of the ministers of his Queen is viewed by the virtuous and enlightened people of Great Britain. The storm fell only directly upon the member for Dublin ; the burning levin of a nation's scorn fell only at his feet; but the shock was not felt—was not meant to be felt—by him alone. It has scorched the souls of the degraded and imbecile crew, who, for the corrupt pur poses of faction and plunder, are ever willing to rely upon his contaminating and debasing influence ! We trust that the truths which that scene must have flashed upon the mind of Prince Albert, and the im pressions generally which the meeting of Monday must Lave made, will not be locked up within his own breast ; but will be communicated without reserve to one whose true happiness is so deeply involved in that of her peo ple, and whose noblest pride, we are confident, would be to secure her people's affection and respect. Whether these objects are best attained by the present alliance of her government with the detested vampyre, who feeds upon the vitals of his own impoverished country, and insults the virtue and the decency of the remaining portion of the empire, we leave to his Royal Highness to determine. The people of Liverpool are now about to experience the benefits of a corporation, composed of genuine liberal mate rials. The immunities and privileges, by the enjoyment of which this great town has been enabled to raise itself, in little more than half . 11 century, froM the condition of an ob scure fishing hamlet to the proud position which it now oc cupies, of being scarcely second in commercial importance to the metropolis itself, are about to be bartered for a mere party object ;—in order to procure, for a despicable and sinking faction, the means of corruption and patronage, by which they hope to prolong for a few more years the baneful ascendancy which they at present possess and misuse. The proceedings of the meeting of the council on Wednes day—which will be found fully reported in our columns— will serve to throw some light upon the ends which our local' legislators have in view, and the means by which they are to be accomplished. To these proceedings we entreat the ear nest attention of our readers. Let them be weighed and carefully digested. Compare the grain Of patriotism with the mountain of faction and fraud which they evince ; and then let our readers treasure up the result of this examina tion, and brace up their loins for a struggle, at the next op portunity which offers, to rid themselves, their townsmen, and posterity, of the certain ruin to the best interests of the town of Liverpool, which this corrupt Whig faction is seek ing hourly to bring down upon it. Let them mark the men, and the principles by which they are actuated ; and whenever a Whig—a Liberal—aut quocunque alio nomine gaudet— shall have the assurance to intrude his hypocritical face upon their leisure, to entreat that he may be entrusted with their liberties and their property in any capacity above that of a scavenger, let them kick such a caitiff into the nearest kennel, as the shortest method of forwarding his progress j towards the filthy courses in which it is his nature to delight. We shall not to-day enter fully into the question which the late proceedings of the corporation have raised, for our consideration and that of our townsmen. Its importance is too great to allow it to be treated lightly, and we have not yet had sufficient time to awake from the stagnation of sur prise into which we have been thrown by the exposure which Wednesday's proceedings have occasioned. In our next we purpose entering fully into the question. We shall then lay " a plain unvarnished tale " before our readers. To-day we shall content ourselves with picking up a few of the rich crumbs which the illuminati of the council and the Dock Committee have allowed to drop during their discussion of the question. _ . _ Our Liverpool readers are no doubt aware that the leader of the shameless attack made by our Dock Trustees upon the rights and property of individuals, and which has led to the impending sacrifices by which the corrupt object of the Whig faction is alone to be attained, is a certain Alderman Evans — a gentleman who, according to the orthodox Whig practice, was pitchforked amongst that honourable fraternity as a re ward for being soundly plucked of his pretensions by the constituency from whom he requested the honour of being elected a councillor. Upon this gentleman was conferred, on Wednesday, the somewhat questionable honour of an nouncing to the inhabitants of Liverpool the exact amount of sacrifice, by which their pure and patriotic Corporation were endeavouring to create for its own party a fund of patronage, and to revenge upon a few individuals, most of whom, unfor tunately for themselves, happen to entertain sound Conserva- tive opinions, the lack of estimation in which Whig pretension has of late been held amongst the electoral body of Liverpool. Mr. Alderman Evans accordingly delivered himself of a long oration—spluttered through a vast quantity of shallow ab surdity—in praise of himself and the illustrious body to which he belongs, and in vindication of the bargain by which Liver pool is to give up the privileges secured to her by law, in order that Whig-Radicalism may be secured in the possession of the patronage and authority of corporate office. The worthy Alderman appeared to be rather offended that the Committee of the House of Commons had designated the council by its proper name—" a political assembly," as distinguished from " a mercantile body." " There were noble lords and others" said Mr. Eians, " who were abused by clapArap words about political assemblies and mercantile bodies ;" and then the worthy Alderman proceeded to the astounding conclusion, that " that council was and ever must be a great mercantile body !!" " They contained within themselves all the mercantile knowledge, all the in terests of the ratepayers, with the responsibility of being the representatives of the community at large! !" We must confess that we are not at present precisely of Mr. Evans's opinion, that " all the mercantile intelligence" of Liverpool is in the council room. We fancy that the worthy Alderman himself would find it difficult to point out the select few in whose hands this mass of intelligence is concentrated. We could ourselves save him some trouble by weeding out a number of gentlemen upon whom no such intelligence is wasted. With respect, however, to the existence of politi cal feelings in the council—how can Mr. Evans imagine that, although he himself is ready to forget, a committee of the House of Commons will also forget the very recent manifestations of such feelings ? Has the council never en tered 'so far into political discussions, as to warrant its being called a political assembly, and being suspected of an in clination to use any new powers, with which it may be intrusted, for political purposes ? We pause for a reply. Mr. Evans is not, we should imagine from the following passage, the most discreet gentleman in whose hands the council could have confided their case. Alluding to one of the points in dispute before the committee of the House of Commons—viz., the constitution of the Dock Committee— the worthy Alderman admits that " if the Dock Committee at this moment were elected out of the ratepayers, the Coun cil would have seen such a spirit of opposition to Dock Ware- houses, as would positively have foiled the bill !" We really should not wonder ; and we could further hint to Mr. Evans that, if the Council were at this moment to be elected, a still greater di f ficulty would arise. We are quite prepared to believe, with the illustrious. Al derman, that " the whole advantage" of the proposed Ware housing Bill " will depend upon the Dock Committee (query the Council ?) having the management of the warehouses in their hands." Not a doubt of it, good sir ! The deprivation Of such an advantage would " take away in detail the great materials for municipal good government," which, doubt less, means municipal Whig government—government with out patronage ! ! It might also " lessen the inducement for men of the highest orders to enter the Council !" We won der what the worthy Alderman means by men of the highest orders, and how many are to be found in the present Coun cil. It is possible, however, that all the difficulty and the darkness, the mystification and moonshine, which Mr. Evans, who is not a councillor, but " only an Alderman," contrives to wrap around his subject, may he dispelled by a few words, which that indiscreet gentleman Mr. Earle, who is also an Alderman, suffered to escape him, and to which we beg to call the particular attention of our readers. " Talking about political interest"—exclaimed Mr. Alderman Earle, " why there is a political interest. lam not ashamed to avow it. Is any man more anxious than Mr. Evans .to have on the Council, good, right, staunch Radicals ? And why : For THE PATRONAGE—THE POWER IT WOULD GIVE US OF COURSE 1 ! and it is in vain to talk that it does not give us power and a certain degree of influence." Weigh this last sentence well, electors of Liverpool. We leave you to ponder upon it for the present. A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE LIBERALITY OF CHURCHMEN AND DISSENTERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I had occasion some months ago, through the medium or your valuable paper, to vindicate the Established Church from the charge of illiberality brought against it in a published lecture, by a Dissenting Minister of this town.* The effect of that vindication has ben this,—that the author of the charge has felt himself compelled to cancel it. so far as regards all institutions which have for their object the relief of human suffering, and the bettering of the condition of the poor. With the manner in which he has partially withdrawn his accusation I have nothing to do : it is in perfect keeping with the usual tactics of dissenting ministers, when called upon to substantiate their charges against the church and its usages. When the preacher in question stated in general terms, and without making a single exception, that " Civil Establishments of religion exerted an influence in destroy ing the grace of christian liberality," I of course understood it as a general charge, involving every form of charity ; and when in illustration of his view of Christian liberality, he quoted a passage from St. Paul's second Epistle to the Corinthians (ix. 12-14.) which speaks exclusively of supply ing the temporal wants of the saints, I could notdo otherwise than receive that passage in the sense in which it stands in holy writ. But it now appears from the Preacher's ex planation of his own lecture, that when he made a general charge, he meant a particular or special one ; and when he quoted a passage from Scripture,' speaking of temporal relief, he meant " the support of Gospel ordinances, and the diffusion of Gospel truth. But, sir, there was no mistake, and there shall be none ! The church must be defended against insidious as well as-open attacks. England is not more distinguished for its constitutional liberty and commercial enterprise, than for its public institutions of charity and noble monuments of christian sympathy; and the funds for the erection and continued support of these splendid institutions have mainly been supplied by church men. Let the following statistical tables show how the matter stands, and enlist in defence of our national church every operative and labourer in the kingdom, for the church is their best earthly friend. She provides munificently for the accidents and disasters of human life, not forgetting the example of her great Head, who healed the sick, the deaf, the blind, the lame, and the lunatic, and took the children that were brought unto him in his arms, and blessed them. Here are the proofs of the church's care for such , people : BEDFORD—GENERAL INFIRMARY. 1834. Sums subscribed. Churchmen. I Dissenters. Annual Subscriptions..... z£1,036 0 0 Life Governors Total of Legacies and 16,500 0 0 Donations. Total I £27,481 0 0 In this instance Churchmen have giv 'OUNDS for every one given by Dissenters. BRIGHTON CHARITIES. Sums sul Churchmen. Institutions. Sussex County Hospital,' Annual Subscriptions. I Benefactions to Do Congr. Collectns. 1827-33 £1,393 12 0 7,570 12 0 2,435 1 0 258 9 0 1,613 6 3 358 8 6 168 8 0 70 15 0 147 11 0 Dispensary Collections, 1810-26 Provident Society Orphan Asylum Dorcas Society Maternal Society £9O 0 0 161 0 0 500 0 0 I £751 0 0 'en THIRTY-SIX [834. )scribed. Dissenters, £l9O 0 0 299 5 0 85 4 5 47 15 6 139 10 9 18 4 6 17 8 0 4 0 0 26 8 6 Total i £14,016 2 9 I £827 16 8 In this instance Churchmen have given SIXTEEN POUNDS Or every one given by Dissenters. BRISTOL. 1833-4. Sums subscribed. Churchmen. I Dissenters. Institutions. Infirmary—Ann. Subs Do.—Life Trustees, don. 1 of 30 guineas each.... I Do.—Legacies, 1833 General Hospital Do.—Donations, 1833-4 Blind Asylum Do.—Life Members Do.—Legacies, 1833 Eye Hospital Penitentiary . Do.—Legacies. Dispensary Do.—Legacies, Clifton Dispensary Do.—Legacies & Donation, Asylum—Orphan Girls' Do.-11 last Legacies Do.-11 list Donations £1,513 6 0 2,736 12 0 2,064 2 6 436 19 0 554 11 6 57 7 0 416 10 0 100 0 0 54 11 0 153 15 6 90 0 0 299 6 0 176 9 0 232 10 0 364 19 2 247 17 0 1,346 18 2 680 0 0 £398 15 0 601 0 0 0 0 0 293 3 0 397 9 6 8 8 0 63 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 0 44 1 6 0 0 0 159 12 0 0 0 0 14 4 0 0. 0 0 74 10 0 0 0 0 100 0 0 Total... .. Thus in Bristol, one of ti Churchmen give FIVE POU seaters. CAMBRIDGE—ADDINGBROOKE'S HOSPITAL. 1834. Sums subscribed. Churchmen. Dissenters. £11,525 13 10 I .f 2,165 14 0 le boasted strongholds of dissent, NDS for every one given by Dis- £77712 0 £54 12 0 3,740 15 0 168 0 0 20,000 0 0 0 0 0 Annual Subscriptions, 1832 Donations. Total of Benefactions and Legacies Total, This account of annual sul name of any parish or collei one of which might be added matter as it stands shows t 1 £24,518 7 0 £212 12 0 bscriptions does not contain the ge subscribing as a body, every 1 to the churchmen's list, but the that Churchmen have given ONE MINDS to this charity for every HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN P , one pound given by Dissent CHICHEE :ers. iTER. 1833-4. Sums subscribed. Churchmen. I Dissenter.t Institutions. MEETING OF THE PROPRIETORS OF THE BOTANIC-GARDEN A meeting of the proprietors of the Botanic-garden was held at the Clarendon-rooms on Tuesday, for the purpose of dis c u ss i ng 'the propriety or otherwise, of opening the garden to the public on Sundays. The room was crowded by clergy men and gentlemen of both parties in politics, amongst whom were several members of the town-council. The chair was taken by Charles Horsfall, Esq. The CHAIRMAN said, the meeting had been convened in consequence of a numerously signed requisition complaining that at the meeting at which Mr. Turner's motion had been carried. not more than one-fifth of the proprietors werepresent. Mr. T. B. HORSFALL, as one of the requisitionists, begged to be allowed to make a few observations. He should greltly regret if it were supposed that they acted from a spirit of fac tion, or with any want of courtesy towards the gentlemen who were opposed to them : nothing was further from their inten tions. The question having been before decided by so small a majority, at a meeting were not more than one-fifth of the proprietors were present, many of the proprietors having re ceived no notice of it whatever, They came to the conclusion that it was proper, before the subject could be considered as decided, that another meeting should be called. He would respectfully call to their recollection the amendment made, he believed, by their worthy rector, that it would be unwise to open the gar den to the public on Sundays. 'ln that opinion he concurred. It would be unwise, as leading to sabbath desecration, and it would be unwise considering the injury that might be done to the gardens. All acknowledged the sabbath to be, at least, a day of rest. The same authority which declared it to be a day of rest, said that when God rested the seventh day, - he also blessed it, and made it holy. Ile had yet to learn, that throwing open the gardens to the public on Sundays, would not lead to scenes of riot and dese cration. He moved that it would be unwise to open the gar dens to the public on Sundays, and that the • resolution of Mr. Turner passed at the last meeting be rescinded. • The Rev. Rector CAMPBELL rose to second the motion. He did so with great reluctance,—first, because from the state of his health he could not do proper justice to the subject— and secondly, because he was reluctant to take any part which would seem to abridge the enjoyments of the labouring classes, or curtail the number of their harmless recreations. Yet he must deliberately avow, that he was adverse to anything that would have the effect of congregating any large number of individuals in any particular locality on the Sunday. Such congregations always ended in levity and dissipation, if not in actual vice. He had seen such scenes of digusting dis order on the opposite side of the water, in the neighbourhood of the ferries on the sabbath, that he trembled to think of anything that was likely to bring about similar scenes on this side. The rev. gentleman read an extract from the Railway Magazine showing that the directors of the Croydon railway —by way of bringing grist to the mill—(and he believed it was for grist to the mill in the shape of £2OO a-year from the council that this proposition had been mooted) had erected a number of booths at Norwood, the consequence of which was that parties were to be seen fishing, rioting, and drinking in that district on the sabbath, the place having all the revolting characteristics of Greenwich Fair. He would not libel the people of Liverpool so far as to say that they could be guilty of such excesses : he would not libel the magistrates so far as to suppose that they would permit them : but there would be a difficulty in preventing the desecration of the sabbath if these gardens were thrown open to the public on that day. He was rather adverse to what might be termed sabbath legis lation. He should be cautious how he advocated the enacting of laws to prevent sabbath desecration, but he should be still more cautious in enacting laws to promote such desecration. He believed that this was wished for merely as a precedent for opening other places : and thus would they soon get to a Parisian sabbath. Mr. TURNER said, he had listened with great attention to what had fallen from the speakers who opposed his views, but had not heard anything that had altered his opinions. Why did the people go over the water on Sundays--why did they go to gin-shops? Why, because here was a town con taining two hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, and they had not a park or a public garden to go to! He moved that the resolution passed at the last meeting be confirmed. The CHAIRMAN said it had been intimated to him that there were several ladies outside who had attended for the purpose of recording their votes. He would suggest that some gentleman should go outside and take their votes, as it would prevent them from being put to- the inconvenience of pressing forward into that crowded room. _ _ _ Several conflicting opinions were expressed on this subject. Mr. Earle and Mr. Martineau said they had informed several ladies, who had put the question to them, that there was no means whereby they could have their votes taken. It was at length decided to be the general opinion, that, though ladies might vote, it was not expedient that any person should go out to receive their votes. There were, however, several dis sentients to this opinion, The Rev. ROBT. DAVIES was not surprised that the ladies wished to record their votes in opposition to the motion for opening the gardens to the public on Sundays, for many of them would of necessity be compelled to pass by the Botanic gardens on their way to and from Edge-hill church, on the afternoon of Sunday ; besides, there was on Edge -mount a ladies' academy, consisting of a large number of pupils,— these also would have to pass through therabble, which would necessarily be collected around the door of the gardens. Admission would not be granted to all; some discrimination would necessarily be made ; the more decent and respectable would be allowed to enter, while the lowest and vilest would be excluded. Through this low and vile mob these young ladies would be forced to make their way to and from church ; and he would ask what parent would willingly subject his daughter to the disgusting scenes, the profane and obsce ne language with which their eyes and ears would be assailed ? Mr. WILLIAM EARLE thought there was a material dif ference between those persons who conscientiously believed that no person could walk innocently in a garden on the Sabbath, and those who, while they had no scruples in walk ing themselves in their gardens, and examining and com paring their flowers, would yet prevent other people from doing so. It had been said that injury would be done to the plants. There had not seen any injury done to the plants at the Mount-gardens, when the public were admitted to them. Between four and five thousand persons had visited the Botanic-gardens on the Monday preceding and not a twig . . injured. The Rev. Mr. MARTINEAu went into arguments to show that the Sunday, the Christian Sabbath, the first day of the week, was not the day (the seventh day) respecting which the command was given that it should be kept holy, and that if .it were to be so considered, still there was no violation of the command in walking forth in a garden. The Rev. Dr. TATTERSHALCNIShed to call back the minds of those'prcsent to the circumstance that the Sabbath was a hallowed day, which was not to be desecrated in any way or manner. If they observed this day as the Sabbath, they had the commandment of God, who had blessed it and hallowed it, that they should keep it holy. With .respect to the ques tion of health, he had yet to learn that the religious poor, who would not use the Sabbath as a day of recreation, were less healthy than those who did so. Mr. C. S.,PARKER, in reply to the remarks of Mr. Walter Fletcher„ avowed himself to he one of " the unenlightened and bigoted" majority of the committee, who decidedly op posed the admission of the public to the gardens on the Lord's day, and read from their original minute book, TWO resolutions for the entire closing of the gardens even to pro prietors, on Sundays, passed (the latter unanimously) at general meetings held in 1802 and 1808, when the historian of Leo the Tenth, and the biographers of PoggiO Bracciolini and of Robert Burns, as well as Dr. Traill, the Rev: John Yates, Mr. William Ratitb-ane; sen., and Mr. Thomas Earle, were . officers of ,tlie institution. Mr. P. then gave notice, that, at the next ann ua l mee tin g , i n J anuary, he sould move the re-enactment of the original law (which remained in force till May, 1814,) for the entire closing of the gardens on Sun days. A very general call was made for a division. A show of hands was taken, but the Chairman could not with certainty decide, though he thought the majority was against the open ing of the gardens. After some discussion, it was decided that each individual should sign his name on a paper marked so as to indicate which way he voted. The result was as fol lows :—Against opening the gardens to the public on Sun days, 129 ; for opening them, 78 ; majority, 51. In answer to a question from Mr. SHEIL, the CHAIRMAN stated, that the committee had already passed a resolution to open the gardens to the public on the afternoons of Monday and Friday in each week. The time when this privilege will commence is to be announced. Mr. RATHBONE proposed the thanks of the meeting to the Chairman, with many warm eulogies on the latter for his - cxcellent and impartial conduct. The meeting separated at half-past three o'clock. [A contemporary of yesterday, in his report of Mr. Hors fall's speech, has volunteered a correction which was entirely uncalled for. Mr. Horsfall, in the course of his speech, re ferred to the discussion which took place in the council on the subject of the Botanic Garden, and quoted the following words as having been spoken by the Mayor, in reference to the voting on the occasion : " Gentlemen, I have no hesitation in saying, that if mem bers had kept their seats, the decision would have been the Very reverse of what it is." On this quotation our contemporary remarks : " Mr. Horsfall, we think, must either have read an incor rect report or have been misinformed. His worship said, or at least we understood him to say, the very reverse of what is attributed to him by Mr. Horsfall—namely, that if all the gentlemen who had left the room had remained, and voted in the minority, the result would have been precisely the same. A reference to figures will prove this. At the time of the first division there were 12 present ; at the second, 36. Now, if the six who left the room had voted with the minority on Mr. Yates's motion, the numbers would have been-23 for, 19 against." Now, on referring to the report in the Mercury, we find the following words attributed to the Mayor : " The Mayor said it might be as well to notice, that if all the gentlemen who had gone out had voted, they would have altered the decision of the question as it then stood." Between these expressions and the language quoted by Mr. H orsfall we can only discover a slight verbal difference.) ANTI-CORN-LAW FALLACY. Our contemporary of the Liverpool Times devoted a long article, on Tuesday last, to the purpose of controverting an argument brought forward by Lord Sandon, during the late debate on Mr. Villiers's motion. His lordship is reported to have said, that, even supposing the supply of foreign corn, for the consumption of Great Britain, to be a regular quan tity of three millions yearly, still a drain for specie would be the result, as there was no probability of that amount be ing paid for in manufactured goods. Our contemporary ar gues, that although this may not be the case at first, yet that eventually the three millions worth of corn would be exchang ed for manufactured goods, and the trade between the corn exporting and corn-importing countries become simply one of barter. We have some doubts of such an interchange of commodities ever being brow.-ht into operation with the con tinental or any other corn growers : but even admitting its feasibility, we cannot see how Lord Sandon's position is se riously affected by it. Let us examine carefully the nature of such a transaction — call it barter if you will. We import, say from Prussia, corn to the amount of three millions, on condition that Prussia takes from us, in return, the same amount in cotton yarns, cotton manufactured goods, woollens, and silks. From this transaction our contemporary would have us conclude that no demand for bullion would arise. We must have the raw materials for the manufacture of these goods, and eventually we fear that the transaction will be one of pure barter only so far as regards that portion of the commodities furnished by us which consists of labour and skill. The difference — the cost of the raw material—is still to be paid for ultimately in bullion or its equivalent ; and that difference will be found, blind ourselves to the fact as we will, to be just the amount which we abstract from the pocket of the English agricultu rist, to place in that of the foreign grower. It is sheer folly to argue that an import of foreign corn to any extent can take place without causing a drain of bullion from this country, unless we pay for that corn in some article not only manufactured, but produced, by ourselves ; and if even we could do this, we should not, as a nation, be any the richer by the exchange. The manufacturer individually would be benefitted to the amount of his skill and labour, and the foreign grower would reap the profit which otherwise would have gone into the pockets of the British agriculturist. It must be injurious to us as a nation to .take from a foreign country any produce which we are capable of raising in our own. No sophistry can disguise this fact. We are, how ever, sometimes obliged to import corn, and the question, how the injurious consequences of this necessity can be best alleviated? is one which is not to be disposed of so flippantly as our contemporary seems to think. " Vixere fortes ante Agarnemnonem." There have been political economists be fore our contemporary, who have failed in satisfactorily set thug this difficult point. FATAL AccIDENT.--Yesterday afternoon, a man named Daniel Cull, who was employed on board a vessel in the QueUn's Doek called the Jane Way, fell down the hold of the vessel, and was mortally injured. Dr. Moore, of Park= lane, was called, but the vital spark was extinct. LECTURES ON ASTRONOMYI — We perceive that Mr Walker intends to give a course of three lectures on the sublime science of astronomy, at the Liver Theatre. The first of the series will be delivered on Monday next. The attractive nature of the subject, illustrated as it will be by Mr. Walker's splendio orrery, will, we doubt not, secure a numerous audience.—See Advt. Tif EATRE-ROYAL.--The performances this evening, it will be seen by the advertisement in another column, are for the benefit of that talented actress Mrs. Keeley, whose delinea tion of the character of Jack Sheppard has drawn overflow ing houses during the past week. In addition to this will be introduced a new piece, entitled the " Devil in London, or Sketches in 1840," which we believe will be found well wor thy of the attention of our play-going townspeople. We trust that Mrs. Keeley will not be disappointed of that sup port of which her anxious endeavours, added to her ability, to please, render her so justly deserving. INQUESTS, BEFORE P. F. CURRY, ESQ.—On Wednesday, on view of the body of p, young man, aged 19, named Joseph Mason, belonging to one of the pilot-boats, who fell overboard in the Crosby Channel, on the 17th May. It will be recol lected that a reward was offered for the finding of the body. Verdict, " Accidental Death."—Yesterday, on the body of Catherine M`Kendrick, who died at the Infirmary on Tues day, in consequence of being severely burnt through her clothes taking fire on the previous night. There was no evi dence as to how her dress became ignited. Verdict accord ingly.—Same day, on the body of Catherine Sparks, Chris tian-street, who hanged herself in a fit of temporary insanity. Verdict accordingly. The deceased was a respectable lodg ing-house keeper. MEETING OF THE Docx COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting of the Dock Committee was held in the office, Custom-house, yesterday. The following members were present :—Mr. Thomas Holt, Mr. Barclay, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Holmes, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Smith, Mr. Hornby, Mr. Bulley, Mr. Segar, Mr. Horsfall, Mr. Mellor, Mr. G. Holt, Mr. Martin, Mr. Dixon, and Mr. Tobin. In the absence of the chairman and deputy chairman, who are in London prosecuting the new dock bill, Mr. Thomas Holt was called upon to preside. The accounts having been read and passed, the secretary read a letter from the north harbour master relative to the remune ration to be paid to the ship carpenters who had rendered valuable assistance to him on the occasion of the accident to the ship Tweed, in the Clarence graving dock. The harbour master recommended the sum of twenty shillings to be given to each man. In reply to a question from one of the com mittee, the harbour master stated that eighteen men were em ployed on the occasion. Several members expressed an opinion that twenty shillings would be too much, but on the harbour master stating that it would be desirable to show that useful body of men that their services on such occasions in future would be properly appreciated, it was ordered to be paid. The committee then separated. • COMMITMENT TO THE SESSIONS. —Yesterday, Hugh Pardon, was placed at the bar on a charge of having com mitted a serious robbery. Mary Livingstone, a widow, who keeps a• public house in Parliament-street, said that on Fri day morning, about eleven o'clock, she put eight sovereigns, a half-sovereign, and twenty sixpences into a small tin box, and also nineteen half-crowns, twenty-two shillings and six pencead pn i t n t t o h e a tn p u i n r t s e e . a safeT he p in u t r h s e e k a i n t d d h b e o n x snheenat: ther a p p fi e r d e in p T a l p i e e r r e , was no lock on the safe. Soon afterwards, the prisoner, a a man named M`Donough and another, went into the back p, ita,nadndorndleterendshseomeale. returned S t h h e e w pr e i n se t n t e o r t‘hveascenllaetr into the room. M`Donough went out and fetched him. They had more ale, and she went to draw it. On her return, she found the prisoner in the kitchen, which he left, and walked out by the front door. She afterwards found the safe open, and the parcel and money were gone. The prisoner was afterwards brought back by a police constable. There had previously been found the tin box in the prisoner's house. On being searched, there were found upon him eight sovereigns and a half-sovereign, also a quantity of silver money, the whole corresponding with that missed. The priioner was seen stooping near the 11.•c s in the kitchen of Mrs. Livingstone. He was fully committed for trial. THE ATHENIEUM NEWSROOM.—This room has recently been altered, and much amended in shape and appearance. It will be recollected that the door was originally in the mid dle, and a boxed-off inside door was required, which had an unsightly appearance. The bar was also partitioned off from taken away,—so that the sstlecuotottri.storthfl eicoi tmecohr behind.e:isee'rnersl the room at the south-west corner, which left only a sort of large recess at the back, and destroyed the uniformity of the apartment. The original door has been removed, and the spacets the esat occupied r i r t etent, tfhreo fl others t i v d iai racdat e pde; ciii i wleroN n la,ota. arat t snhsrhr o l de e ar round-topped spacious e 0 - s u t o es p nl p et e e h d rhe window o t wia taken precisely dneoe ffr ta et the east end, in lieu of it. The original bar has also been nearlyow ng n ed f aysrhneubwiodegepfi hpfnoanursupporting wnserieonhng a t: ashi ocltame p eilbtur e eublstr r ntoet f eket i pi perfect iatt square, sobtourfosettotnevatide.cienh.t t hgeeeaTtn withnhsdhue columnsee poimn f pn ocoauott entablature true: ua N toi is a h th in ityh i a The room has been entirely repainted of a light salmon colour. New chimney-pieces of black marble, and new grates, have been provided, and new furniture has been, substi tuted for the old, handsome round mahogany ta bles on circular pillars, and round-bottomed massy arm-chairs of the same material, the seats covered with crimson embossed velvet. New carpets have also been laid down, and three handsome bronzed chandeliers of five lights each are suspended from the roof. The new principle of ventilation adopted is found to be efficacious and agreeable. The fresh air is introduced by pipes from the lower part of the front wall under the floor, and passes into the room by oblong brass gratings fixed betwen the columns in the middle of the room, after passing through which it is carried out by correspond Tbp e r n eor t ventilators through the roof. In the lobby is placed one of Dr. Arnott's stoves. The bar is formed at one side the room, and is at once compact and commodious. The general improvement produced by these alterations is obvious at a glance, the news room being now perhaps the lightest, and for its size the handsomest and most commodious in the town. -- --- NV rrsEssEs.—lt is a curious fact, that persons who in their usual vocations can speak so as to make themsel ve Q heard at the distance of half a mile, lose their voices th e moment they enter a witness-box. For instance, a sail or who is able to stand on the poop and hail the forecastle in a gale of wind ; or a bullock driver who could very conveni ently stand at the Queen's wharf and hold a conversation with a man on the new jetty, can never be coaxed to speak so as to enable the jury who are about twelve feet from hi m , to hear a word. "We can't hear a word," complain the jurors ; " Speak up sir," says the Attorney-General ; " You shan't have a farthing of your expenses if you don't speak louder," says the judge ; but it's no use , the witness will keep mumbling on in about the same pitch that " soft non sense" is whispered in a ball-room, and, generally speaking, the counsel has to stand close to him and repeat every word he says.—Sydney Herald. £18,221 0 0 I £55 13 0 Churchmen have given THREE ;EVEN POUNDS for every ONE NFIRMARY. At Churches. 1833. At Popish and Dissg. Chapels. Congregational Collections! £1,128 18 911 £59 12 1 EIGHTEEN POUNDS to one in favour of the church. The grand total produced by these sums respectively is as follows : SUMS SUBSCRIBED By Churchmen. By Dissenters. £169,995 0 6 I £5,722 8 9 Shewing a clear balance in favour of the Church of the enor mous and overwhelming sum of ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO POUNDS. With the uncancelled part of the l ec t urer ' s charge of illi berality against the Na tional Church, Viz., that " Civil esta blishments destroy the grace of liberality, as it respects the support of Gospel ordinances., and the diffusion of Gospel truth," I shall deal on a future occasion. I have not yet done with the general charge. lam waiting for the return of the respective contributions of Churchmen and Dis senters to t h e various charitable institutions of Liverpool. In the mean time, let the young men of this town who have formed themselves into a " Voluntary Church Association," ponder over the above astounding facts, and not forget that it is written, " is not this the fast that I (the Lord) have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens —to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house ? When thou seest the naked that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? • Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily, &c. 58, 6, 11. I remain, sir, your obedient servant, D. JAMES. Kirkdale, June 4, 1840. * Mr. John Kelly. GO IT Bours!—A Mrs. Boots, of Pennsylvania, has left her husband, Mr. Boots, and strayed to parts unknown. We presume that this pair of Boots are rights and lefts. We that Mrs. Boots is ri g ht , cannot say, however, but there is no mistake that Boots hiMself is left. At the last accounts he was pursuing her with all his might. Go it, Boots. — Picayune. £712 1 0 129 1 0 38 6 6 53 11 0 28 1 0 110 2 6 47 12 6 £1,149 1 6 favour of the eh, ;Y. 1833-4. Sums sul Churchmen. £123 8 6 106 13 6 , 170 18 0 161 7 10 1,002 16 0 595 11 1-?,' 390 14 3 33,205 7 5 £9l 9 0 11 0 -6 3 3 0 22 1. 0 15 4 , 6 0 10 . 6 8 2 6 £l5l 11 0 Ira. ,scribed; Dissenters., £42 1. 0 38 1 0 26 13 6 37. 17 0 88 4 0 59 8 0' 0 0 0 1,093 IO 0 £1,385 14 6 VE POUNDS for (scribed. Dissenters. 1.30 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o 0 o 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 14 0 Infirmary . Relief of Sick Poor Lying-in Charity Lancasterian Boys' School Do. Girls' National Schools . Bible Society Total SEVEN POUNDS to One in DERB Inatitutions. Lancasterian School Be'nevolent Society. Parochial Dispensary. Bible Society General infirmary Do.—County Collections.. Legacies Do.—Life Governors' 1 Donations—total Total £35,756 16 7 Here again Churchmen give TWENTY-F 1 every one given' by Dissenters. HEREFORD. 1833-4. Sums su Churchmen. Institutions. General Infirmary—Subs Do.—Benefactions .. Lunatic Asylum—Benefs Blue Coat School Do.—Legacies. National School—Girls' Lying-in Charity Clothing Society Infant School £31,363 11 6 £l7 8 0 have given the sum of ONE THOU.. ,TD FORTY POUNDS for every one Total In this place Churchmen SAND EIGHT HUNDRED A'? round given by Dissenters. HUNTINGDONSHIRE. 1834 Sums subscribed. Churchmen. Dissenters. Institutions. Infirmary.. Dispensary £152 5 0 £4 4 0 120 15 0 3 3 0 Total £273 0 0 £7 7 0 Here are TillltTY-SEVEN POUNDS to one in favour of the church. LYNN CHARITIES. 1836. Sums subscribed. Churchmen. Dissenters. Institutions. West Norfolk Infirmary, 1 Subscriptions Do.—Donations Free School . Lying-in Charity Clothing Charity. £6ll 0 0 £35 14 0 3,762 17 6 27 12 0 102 12 0 18 5 6 42 7 0 3 2 0 42 12 0 3 7 0 Total This table shows that Churchmen have given FIFTY-ONE FOUNDS for every one given by, Dissenters. STAMFORD & RUTLAND INFIRMARY. 1833-4. Sums subscribed. I Churchmen. I Dissenters. Annual Subscriptions ... • l3enefactions Donors deceased Legacies Bequest by H. F. Collections and Donations, Total ............ I This table shows that HUNDRED AND TWENTY -S POUND g iven by Dissentei WORCESTER I £639 5 6 28,165 17 7 1,881 7 0 99 8 0 317 6 5 57 17 0 82 13 - 0 50 0 0 69 17 0 £8 8 0 42 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 £426 0 0 5,566 0 0 932 0 0 760 0 0 8,219 0 0 2,318 0 0 LIVERPOOL STEAM TUG COMPANY. The annual meeting of the proprietors of the Steam Tug Company was held in the Clarendon-rooms, South John street, on Wednesday, for the purpose of receiving the report of the directors, and for the transaction of other business relative to the company's affairs. The meeting was nume rously attended, the proprietors present holding more than seven hundred shares. WILLIAM ASHLEY, Esq., having been called to the chair, briefly explained the objects of the meeting, and called upon the secretary to read the report of the directors for the past year. The SECRETARY read the report, and in the course of it the directors recommended that the steam tug boats of the company be not, for the future, employed upon the Sabbath day, either for towing vessels to sea, or from dock to dock, except at the discretion of the directors. Mr. COTESWORTH moved a resolution to the effect that the recommendation of the directors be adopted. Without referring to the religious part of the question, he was con vinced the company would benefit by the change in a pecu niary ,point of view. In addition to his conviction of the advantages derivable from more exertion during the week, he would observe that by the present system the crews of the steam tugs had no opportunity whatever of attending places of public worship on the Sabbath. He was quite sure that whilst the energies of the men would be increased, the prospects of the company would be considerably improved. by such a change in the system. Mr. STILL seconded the motion. Mr. CIIAPMAN - begged to move, as an amendment, that the directors should have no discretionary power—that, in fact, the boats should absolutely discontinue working upon the Sabbath day, either for the purpose of towing vessels to sea, or from dock to dock. A PROPRIETOR seconded the amendment. • Mr. JAMES AIKIN said he did not conceive that this com pany had any right to dictate to the public as to the purposes for which the Sabbath day should be employed. He had no notion of tolerating the puritanical canters who were so com mon in the present day. A PROPRIETOR observed, that in Scotland vessels were not allowed to sail on the Sabbath day ; and he did not see why the same practise should not be observed in Liverpool, as far as it was possible. Mr. AIKIN thought that could not be the case, because Vessels were continually arriving in this port from Scotland on the Sabbath day. The PROPRIETOR replied, that the arrival in Liverpool had nothing to do with the day of departure from Scotland. Fur ther, those which sailed on the Saturday had always a clergy man on board for the purpose of celebrating divine worship at sea the following day. Some further discussion took place, and the question being put, the amendment was carried by a large majority. Several other resolutions were then passed, and the pro prietors separated. A BILL OF THE PLAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—The following is the copy of a posting-bill which adorned the walls of Southport only last week (in the year of grace 1840). Surely a more precious document never sprung from priestly pen or printer's press! I cannot help transmitting you a copy, premising these two things :-Ist. That the heading of it, " New Catholic Church," is beauti fully true, since the Romish church is peculiar, and if at the same time it be catholic or universal, it must be very parti cularly new indeed. 2d. That. the amendment I beg to offer on the exquisite original is, in my opinion, for truth and beauty, " something more exquisite still." " NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH.—The Catholic church at Southport will be opened on Wednesday next, May 20,1840. Tickets for admission may be had at the Bold Arms Hotel ; at Mr. Whitehead's, London-road; the Reverend James Newsham's, Sea Bank-road ; and at Mr. R. Johnson's, printer. Morning tickets—Front seats, Ds.; back seats, 35.; standings, 2s. Afternoon tickets—Front seats, 2s. 6d. ; back seats, 2s. ; standings, ls. An ordinary will be provided at the Bold Arms; dinner at two o'clock. Tickets, 2s. 6d.; wines, &c. [mark the B S .c.!] extra." PROPOSED AMENDMENT. " NEW Cittincit.—The universal peculiar church at will be opened for public entertainment on Wed nesday next, 18—. Admission tickets to be had at the box-office, or at Mr. G►imaldi's. Boxes, ss. ; pit, 3s. ; gallery, 2s. Half-price in the afternoon—Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; pit, 2s. ; gallery, Is. Refreshments in the saloons and lob bies of the theatre." Whether my amended bill meet with acceptance or not, sincerely do I hope that the professors of Popery will long continue to issue such inviting circulars. They declare the real character of the delusion, and are a warning to the judi cious and an exposure to the ill-advised.—Yours. truly, ANTI-HUMBUG. THE MAGAZINES. Owing to a press of other matter we have been obliged to withdraw our customary " Literary Notices," and to postpone then► until Tuesday. We have only space briefly to remark upon the leading magazines of the month, re serving until our next a more detailed critique. Blackwood's. Magazine.—The number for this month com mences with a long and powerfully written article on the opium and China question, in which t his important and intri cate subject is examined in all its details. The writer concurs in his general views with the Duke of Wellington. The tale of " Carlo Sebastiani" is concluded in this number. The interest of the tale is exceedingly well sustained to the end. The continuation of " Ten Thousand a Year" will be found well worth reading. Its sketches of character are drawn with great truth and fidelity. Fraser's Magazine.—The first article in this number contains some very severe but just animadversions on " Milman's History of Christianity," which is characterised by the writer as " a bulky appendix to Gibbon." We have been highly delighted with the description given of modern Greece in the account given of a tour last summer in the Archipelago. The article on " Eloquence" continues the parallel between the great English and French prose writers. " The Shabby Genteel Story" promises to afford a rich fund of amusement. We intend to transfer to our columns the powerful article on " Women and the Social System," on account of the many important truths which it contains. Dublin University Magazine.—The continuation of the Adventures of " Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon," in this number, has almost caused us to split our sides with laughter. It is well worth the price of the magazine. The " Memoir of Swift" is now brought to a close. It is an ex tremely well written piece of biography, replete with interest ing anecdotes. Sir Philip Crampton, the Irish Surgeon- General, adorns the " Portrait Gallery" this month. " Our Fellow Lodgers" is an extraordinary article on the animal cuhe which exist in the human frame. Master Humphrey's Clock.—The last number of this po pular production is far more interesting than the preceding. The introduction of our old friend Pickwick or. the stage, accompanied by the inimitable Wellers, has greatly augment ed the interest of the work. W e shall hail the succeeding numbers, after these acquisitions to the dramatis. personce, with great delight. CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND WRESTLING. On Wednesday last, the Cumberland and Westmoreland Wrestling Society held their annual meeting at Mr. Coward's, High Park House, Park-road. The wrestling took place on the Bowling-green, and the attendance of the admirers of the old English athletic sport was very numerous, including a number of respectable gentlemen. The interest excited was very great, and the repeated shouts of the spectators as their favourites threw their antagonists were loud and long. .The sports were excellent, and the attendance of wrestlers, fortunately of heavy weights, was numerous. The wrestling commenced about three o'clock, and the sport, including a laughable sack-race, did not conclude till dusk, when the parties who had contended for the prizes, and a number of their friends, sat down to an excellent din ner, prepared in Mr. Coward's best style, and at which Mr. Bigland, one of the umpires, ably presided. We regret that the lateness of the hour prevents us from noticing the whole of those who " stood" or " fell." The folloWing were the winners : LIGHT WEIGHTS.—First prize, a silver watch value Edward Edgar, (Cumberland). Second prize, a watch, value £4.,—Hutchinson. Third prize, a silver snuff-box, value £2. 10s.,—Henry Wright. The other prizes were of minor value. HEAVY WEIGHTS.—First prize, a silver lever watch, value XS—John Nichol, book-keeper at our Bridewell. Second prize, a watch, value £4 10s—William Sleigh. Third prize, a snuff-box, £2 10s.—Lupton. Fourth prize, a watch-guard, value t;l—Joseph Nicholson. The others were of minor value. The several struggles for mastery were excellent. Any weight was admissable amongst the " heavy" wrestlers ; the light was limited to 101 stone. One of the " heavies" was 6 feet 5 inches in height, and weighed 19 stone. After throwing three men he encountered Nichol, weighing little more than 15 stone, and took him up iu his anus like a child, but when the latter gained his feet he threw his gigan tic antagonist in a masterly manner. . . The greatest good hurnourprevailed throughout. Another meeting will, we learn, take place on Monday next, at Mr. Barnes's, Old Swan. The prizes to be contended for are valued at £44. 'HE MAIN BRIDEWELL. On Monday last, Charles Fazakerly, a letter-carrier, be longing to the Postoffice in this town, who had, with his wife, been lodged in the main Bridewell, tinder a charge of felony, put an end to his existence by hanging himself. The de c e as ed, who was forty-two years of age, had been a letter-carrier in this town nearly twenty years, during which time he was principally employed in Castle-street, and the districts sur rounding. He had latterly been suspected of having purloined a letter containing a twenty paund note, and as proof was obtained that his wife had offered such £2O note for change, she and the deceased were apprehended by constable James Halsall. They were lodged in Bridewell about four o'clock on Monday afternoon. They were placed in separate apart ments ; and Fazakerly, at his own request, was lodged iu a large and comfortable room, Mr. Parkinson, the governor, having at once acceded to his wish, not to be placed amon :st the common prisoners. About ten minutes after. he was locked up, he asked for a drink of water, which was supplied to him, and he was left alone. About six o'clock, when the officer on duty went his rounds, he found Fazakerly hanging suspended from a hook in one of the windows in the manner which will he afterwards described. He was quite dead. He had used for the purpose a mere piece of twine, which he had been accustomed to bind round his letters, and as there is a long seat under the window, which is very low, he must have drawn up his legs beneath him, in order to let his weight bear sufficiently on the string, which he had tied outside his stock. The widow of the unfortunate man, who is left with five children, was not informed of the dreadful occurrence up to the time of being brought before the magistrates on Tuesday morning. The examination took place in the private room, and it is easy to suppose that the duties of all parties were sufficiently painful. The result of the investigation was, that she was discharged ; some of her friends being in waiting to receive her, and to bleak to her in a proper manner the me lancholy event which had occurred during the incarceration. The evidence brought against her, will have, as a necessary form, to go before the authorities of the General Postoffice ; but, under the circumstances, it is not likely that she will be prosecuted, particularly as it seems pretty certain that she was acting under the commands of her husband, An inquisition was on Tuesday taken before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner, on view of the body, when the following evi dence was adduced : James Halsall, police-officer, stated, that he had been for some time past acting under the direction of the Post-mas ter of this town respecting a twenty-pound note that was missing after having been put in the Post-office. After making various inquiries, and being quite satisfied that the deceased and his wife had been connected with the lost money, he took them into custody on Monday afternoon, and about four o'clock lodged them in Bridewell. He (Halsall) had known the deceased about 15 years, during which time he was a letter-carrier. When the deceased was taken to Bridewell, witness did not perceive any difference in him from what he had been formerly. About an hour and a half afterwards witness was informed that a man had hanged him self in Bridewell. He went there, and found that it was the deceased. •He (witness) never saw anything whatever about the deceased to lead him to think that he was at all flighty ; if he had been so, it was not likely that he would have kept his situation. _ William Parkinson, governor of the Union Bridewell, stated, that the deceased and his wife were brought there on Monday afternoon, about four o'clock, charged with felony. They were placed in separate apartnients. When the de ceased was brought to Bridewell, he walked up to him (wit ness) and said—Mr. Parkinson, I hope you will not put me into a room amongst thieves and bad characters, as I am in nocent of the charge laid against me. He. about ten minutes after, asked for a drink of water, which witness directed-to be given to him. He had been placed in a large comfortable room by himself. There were three windows in the room, with iron bars on the outside. Two of the windows had small iron hooks on the inside, to prevent the windows from pulling down. The deceased appeared to be perfectly col lected. About six o'clock, witness having been informed that a man had hung himself, went to the room where he had placed the deceased, and found that it was him. He was cut down, and a surgeon sent for. One of the policemen opened a vein, but no blood would flow. lie was quite dead when the surgeon came. Witness had known the deceased many years, but never had observed anything extraordinary about him. Isaac Hartley, an officer of the Bridewell, sated, that the officers went off duty usually at six o'clock. On Monday evening at that hour, on going round to see if the prisoners were all safe before going off duty, he went to the room in which the deceased was confined, and found the door locked, and not knowing that the deceased had been placed there, he opened the wicket and looked in, when he saw him hang ing. He unlocked the door, and went in, when he saw that the deceased was suspended by the piece of twine produced, one end of which was fastened to the iron hook within the window, and the other placed round the neck of the deceased outside his stock. Witness cut him down i mme di a t e ly, but he was quite dead. There is a slope down the window seat, and his head was about three inches below it ; his shoulder rested against the corner of the wall. Had it not been for the latter circumstance, the twine, by which he was sus pended, must have broken. When found, his right knee rested upon the form which was under the window. Henry Collard, inspector of l e tt er - carr i ers a t th e post office, in this town, stated, that the deceased had been a let ter-carrier many years. During all the time witness had known him, he was always regular in his business, and wit ness considered him one of the best men he had, till within the last few days, when he had reason to think he was con nected with the abstraction of a letter which had been for warded to Liverpool, containing a £2O note. The deceased was at the post-office on Monday afternoon, and about a quarter - past two o'clock settled his account according to his daily custom. At that time, witness did not think he was aware that there was any suspicion of his honesty. There was nothing about him to lead witness to think that he was deranged. The jury returned a verdict of felo de se. Viscount Palmerston has appointed Mr. George Canning Backhouse, godson of the late statesman, to a junior clerk ship in the Secretary of State's office for Foreign Affairs. Mr. Backhouse is the son of Mr. Backhouse, the Under Se cretary for the Foreign Depratment. (70 1., .- -- CF - 6 0 4^ Z) ,ll' i ; 0.....) , \•,.„,• , .., t , g 7 t 7 - 4 •< - :reiV ii l '"" , - • ' 4 WI C f . .. 1 ' f f 1171 4 ( t* ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS ' N BIRKENHEAD. In giving a hurried account in our last publication, we find our reporter was u nw itti ng ly l e d i n to one or two slight mis takes, which we take the earliest opportunity to correct. • We divided the two parties into Conservatives and " Liberals," from which it might have been inferred on a casual perusal, (though we stated the question at issue), that the contest was chiefly political, and not as was the case, more of a local than a political nature. There were in fact "conservatives" in both lists. We were, however," virtually" right in our classification. The one party were " conservatives=' of the true interests of the public, in continuing their opposition to the tram-• road being carried over the surface of the town, to the con tinual endangerment and inconvenience of the lives of pas sengers, young and old. The others. conservative as they may be in other points, were far too " liberal" in conceding or favouring so objectionable an object. Triie,- as vi• . e b e fore stated, the Railway Company have, for the. present, aban doned their purpose ; but we think. public CoMpanies; how ever immaculate they may assume to be; are alt the better for being kept in check by public opinion ;. - and the - parties who in this case, though un.uccessfully, opposed them, de serve the highest credit for their motives and exertions. Mr. Seddon, we learn, was not " declared" to be ble ; but, from being underrated, was generally believed to be so, and was not therefore nominated or voted for by his friends. The polling commenced at ten o'clock, and was continued with great spirit by both parties until four o'clock, the hour of closing, when the following was the result:— . For the tram-road across the streets.—Pis, 318 ; William Fry, 316; Laycock, 301; Greene, 299; Prichard, 281; Cole, 281 ; Brodribb, 280 ; Horner, 284 ; Hanson, 262. Against the tram-road, neross the streets:—Appleton, 123; Whalley, 117; Gilbertson, 115 ; Jackson . (Church street), 11l ; Smith, 110 ; Ball, 109 ; Singlehurst, 100; Ri chard Fry, 113 ; Davidson, 102. COURT CIRCULAR.-TUESDAY. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby with their company, last evening. at their residence in Hill-street. The Queen and Prince Albert were accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, and• were attended by Lady Portman, Hon. Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Mar q uis of Ileadfort, Lord George Lennos, Sir William Lumley, Sir George Anson, Col. Buckley; and, Sir Edward Bowater. • The Earl of Albemarle and Viscount Melbourne had audi ences of the Queen, yesterday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing, yeSterday in an open carriage. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by' Lord Robert Grosvenor, Mr. George Edward Anson, Earl of Mor ley, Lord George Lennox, Sir Edward Bowater, and Mr. Francis Seymour, went, yesterday, to Exeter Hall, to preside at the meeting of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade, and for the civilisation of Africa. Colonel Buckley has relieved the Hon. Colonel Grey in the duty of equerry in waiting on the Queen. _ _ _ . . Her Alajesty the Queen Dowager, attended by her suite, rode on horseback in the parks yesterday. The Duke of Sussex paid a visit to her Majesty at Marlborough House. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge visited the Princess Augusta at Claremont House, St. James's. The Princess Augusta of Cambridge also visited her Royal Highness on Saturday. The Duchess Ida, with the Princesses of Saxe Weimar, took an airing yesterday afternoon in an open carriage and four. HORRIBLE MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUS BAND, AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER. (From the Morning Herald of Wednesday.) - Yesterday forenoon, about a quarter before 12 o'clock, the neighbourhood of St. John-street-road and parts adjacent were thrown into the utmost state of consternation and alarm by the circulation of a report that a man named Gingell, who about ten months since carried on business as a greengrocer in Goswell-street, had while passing down Compton-street, in his wife's company, taken a razor from his pocket, and having succeeded in cutting her throat, had also in a similar manner, and with the same instrument, put a period to his own exist ence. The rumour turned out to be too true. It appeared that Gingell, who had previously been a widower, and left with two children, is about 40 years of age. He married his late wife, who was the daughter of a respectable tradesman, named Shol, residing in Islington-terrace, Islington. They had lived most unhappily, and during the twelvemonth she had been separated from him, and returned to her father, three times. Yesterday they were seen passing down Comp ton-street, and on arriving at No. 57, the residence of Mrs. Gingell's brother, she was in the act of raising her hand for the purpose of ringing the bell by the side of the door, when her husband seized her by the baCk of the neck with one hand, and with the other, which grasped a razor, he cut her throat from one side to the other, dividing the windpipe and arteries completely to the vertebra. Death was instantaneous, and the body of the unfortunate woman reeled lifeless on to the pavement. The persons who saw the occurrence were trans fixed with horror and astonishment, and before their presence of mind returned sufficiently to enable them to raise an alarm,• the husband had himself inflicted an equally frightful wound on his own throat, and fell on the pavement beside her com pletely deluging the place with their blood. A vast body of persons immediately collected round the appalling spec tacle, and information having been conveyed to the police, constable Redman, 224 G, was first on the spot. He found the wife with her head leaning against the scraper of the door, No. 57, and the husband within a foot of her, both in a large pool of blood, which was still flowing from dreadful wounds in their throats. A surgeon was present, who pronounced the wife quite dead, but the husband still alive, and advised their immediate removal to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, which was done. On their arrival at the hospital, •Mr. Knight, the house surgeon, pronounced in both cases life quite extinct. On searching their bodies three letters were found addressed to the wife, upon the subject of their sepa ration, from the husband ; two in the possession of the for mer, and one in Gingell's own pocket, bearing date last Saturday, and requesting her to return to him, adding that he had taken respectable lodgings at Kin g 's-cross, and he had no doubt but they would be more comfortable than they had been. The unfortunate young woman's father being aware that Gingen had importuned her again to return to him, strenuously urged her not to comply, being cognizant of his violent dis position, and the fact that he had made several attempts on her life before. It is also stated that he had made previously three attempts upon his own life, twice by cutting his throat, .and once by endeavouring to eed himself to death. On searching for the razor with which he succeeded in com mitting.the last horrible and two-fold crime, it was found'in the midst of the blood in which the bodies lay, and is now in charge of the police, together with the letters, a bunch of keys, and other docUments found in his possession. Both husband and wifi., were attired in a respectable manner. The coroner's inqust is appointed to take, place this day when a full investigation into all the circumstances will be entered into. The Morning Herald of yesterday contains an account of the coroner's inquest on the bodies. Evidence was adduced Which went to prove that the murderer and suicide was labouring under temporary insanity. The jury then retired to consult, and, after a short absence, returned a verdict, "That the deceased, George Gingell, committed both acts, being at the time in a state of temporary insanity, brought on by jealousy." The, supplement to the Malta Times contains a letter of Khiva, dated May 2d, which confirms the account cfthe total failure of the Russian expedition. The invaders had lost by the cold 15,000 horses and 10,000 camels, Few men have . , . , perished; but the army was unable to effect its retreat to Orenburg for want of transport. The cold was many - drys below 30 degrees of Reaumur. RISE IN THE PRICE OF PAPER.—At a meeting of paper makers, held here on Friday, it was determined to advance the price of all kinds of paper from this date, in conse . quence of the late additioi► to the duty on that article. — Glasgow paper. THE CROPS.—Wheat is coming forward rapidly, and with the exception of the late sown, which is weakly, looks re markably well. Barley and oats suffered from the drought, but the late rains have proved beneficial to them. On the light soils rain is wanted for the Lent corn. In the Isle of Thanet the crops generally have wonderfully improved. — Kentish Gazette. A HINT FROM Junct: LyNcit.—At a meeting of the citizens of Natches, recently held for the purpose of devis ing means to rid the town of incendiaries, the following reso lution was passed :—" Repolved—That the pickpockets, gamblers, and loafers, who have no ostensible mode of making a living, be allowed forty-eight hours to leave the city, all those remaining after that time may expect to receive their just dues." BROWBEATING A LAWYER. — At a late trial belbre a justice of the peace in Mount Vernon, Kty., a lawyer, Who was concerned in the case, had the temerity to call the justice a meddlesome fellow and a rascal ; upon which the dignitary arose, and taking up the bench upon which he had been sit ting, with a single sweep brought it in contact with the lawyer's head, with such judicial force that the learned coun sel was prostrated, and the trial also. VARIETIES OF FLOWERS.—There are dispersed over the surface of the globe upwards of forty thousand distinct species of plants which bear flowers ; and from the number of new species which have, in comparatively recent times, rewarded the labours of collectors, we cannot suppose 'that the entire number, or anything approaching to it, is yet known, even to those best skilled in plants. The vast number of flower producing vegetables is variously distributed over the globe, in its different regions, according to its several latitudes, climates, and characters of soil. In this respect, the usual estimate is, that there are upwards of thirteen thousand flowering plants, natives of the intertropical parts of Ame rica, considerably more than five thousand in tropical Africa. In Australia and the numerous islands with which the wide expanse of the Pacific is studded, either within the tropics or not very far without them, there are about 5,000 species already known, though some of the largest and most tropical ' of those islands have been but imperfectly explored. Tem perate America, in both hemispheres, contains about -1,000 ; temperate Asia, about 2,000; and Europe, which lies wholly within the temperate zone, contains at least seven thousand distinct species of plants which bear flowers.—The Florists' Journal. GLANDERED HORSES. — The recent disclosures that have been made relative to the practice of selling deceased horses in Smithfield has caused a great stir in the city; but the whole of the facts connected with these disgraceful proceed ings have not been brought to light. Our correspondent, who has had good opportunities of acquiring information on the subject, states that the extent to which glandered horses are employed and sold in the metropolis is almost incredible. There is a gang of fellows in the neighbourhood of St. George's-road, who deal in nothing else but glandered horses, and every market day at Smithfield they are sent there, con federates being disguised, some as countrymen, some as grooms, and in a variety of other ways, to assist in getting rid of the diseased animals. It may be a matter of sur prise where the animals are obtained from ; but the great coach yards where the stages make their first or second change of ho:ses from London supply a great number of them. The horses that work in these stages, from their high keep and fast work, are particularly liable to this dreadful disorder, and they are attacked with it in the most sudden manner ;• but the moment the foreman sees a horse begins to " weep," the technical term for the discharge from the nostrils, with a small lump or " jug " on the jaw bone, he is taken out of the team, and placed in a box by himself; and if the disorder increases, he is sold for what he will fetch ; and there are fellows who regularly go and buy horses of this description, because, as they are mostly young, good shaped, and if sound, worth a considerable sum of money, they are better calcu lated to assist the vagabonds in defraudinga purchaser. They frequently in this way get hold of a horse six years old, in good condition, and which cost probably a short time before £4O or £5O, for £3 or £4, and they then make use of a strong injection to the nostrils, which has the effect of stopping the discharge for a time, and when this is effected, they do all in their power to induce some person to purchase him, and to this end all kinds of fraud and deception are practised, and unfortunately, with but too much success. In many cases these diseased horses come into the hands of cabmen, and it is notorious that a great number of them are worked in the night cabs about the streets, to the imminent risk of spread ing the disorder in a most frightful manner, as it is of a highly contagious character. It is to be hoped, from the f; i x e pos r t i i e r v e! that have been made, and the manner in ance has been taken up by monstrous evil. means will be devised to put an end to this Iwo —Morning Herald. the city authorities, that griev ance ,~ -.-