The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

Jan. 27, 181 Q. LOCAL NEWS. C HARGEOPMANSLAUGHTER.-011 Sunday week,"Jane Osborne, a woman who resided with her husband, in Dan aie-street, died from what was stated by the surgeon to be erysipelas. It appeared that on the 9th instant the de ceased and her husband, Henry S. Osborne, had a quar rel,. and some bl ows were struck. On this being known, Osborne was taken into custody, and a post mortem exa mination made of the body of the deceased, when certain a ppearances were discovered leading to the conclusion that death—th e i mme di ate cause of wh i ch was erysipelas— had been produced by violence. A verdict of man slaughter was returned against Osborne, and he was com mitted for trial. SELECT VESTRY. On Tuesday, the Rev. Rector Campbell presided. Mr. Hart, with reference to the pay ment of the chaplain's stipend, read a letter he had re ceived from the poor-law commissioners. On referring to the provisions of the 34th clause of the local act, in conjunction with the interpretation clause (the 64th), the commissioners concur in the opinion of the select vestry, that the select vestry are exclusively empowered to regu late the salary of the chaplain. The chairman facetiously remarked upon this letter, that it showed the amazing power of the church. Mr. William Harper, relieving- O fficer, was ordered to be dismissed, and Mr. Thomas Marshall was appointed in his room. A letter was read from the poor-law commissioners, approving of the ap pointment of Mr. and Mrs. Gardner as master and mis tress of the infant-school. In a second letter the com missoners expressed the gratification they felt at hearing of the zeal of the vaccinators of Liverpool, and their re gret that the profession should have had opposition to encounter on the part of the poorer classes. The chair- Man read a letter from Mr. James Eckersley, the super intendent registrar, saying, that if some office were not Provided for him on or before the Bth proximo, the vestry Would have to pay at the rate of £lO a month for the Office he at present occupied. After a brief discussion, upon the motion of Mr. Bright, seconded by Mr. Whitby, the following resolution, drawn up by Mr. Lowndes, was adopted :—'• That the superintendant-registrar be in formed that it is the intention of the select vestry to erect at the Workhouse, in Brownlow-hill, a suitable building for register offices as soon as they can do so, &c.” TO XTETH-PARK.—On Wednesday, a meeting of the r atepayers of this township was held relative to the Town Council and Commissioners of Paving and Sewerage hav ing each given notice of their intention to apply to Parlia ment to rescind the Toxteth-park Paving and Sewerage Act, and to determine upon the propriety of prosecuting an application to Parliament to obtain distinct powers for Toxteth-park. Mr. Alexander Ryan, the chairman, stated that a copy of the bill for which they proposed to go to Parliament had been drawn up. and it embraced the best provisions of Lord Lincoln's bill.—Mr. R. Harbord thought there might be an abundant supply of water if the management was in the bands of the Corporation, and su ggested that a consultation should be held with the Town -clerk and the parliamentary committee of the Cor- Poration.—Mr. Appleby thought nothing would be gained by a coalition with the Corporation, and contrasted the i mmensity of the seweraging of Liverpool with that of Manchester.--Mr. Plaw supported and Mr. Sheppard opposed such an amalgamation.—Dr. Harbord hoped they should not be brought under the provisions of Lord Lincoln's bill ,• that they -would consider well before they expended £2OOO for obtaining a bill, which would incur a rate of 4d. in the pound ; and supported the suggestion of conferring with the Council.—Mr. Stewart moved a reso lution to the'effect, that the commissioners be requested to make application to Parliament for distinct powers.— Mr. Plaw -moved as an amendment, that the trust of Tortetb-park be united with th Coporation.—Dr. Har bord seconded the amendment ; e and after an irregular conversation the original motion was carried by three to one: —It was then resolved that a rate of 4d. in the pound be levied for expenses in going to Parliament. WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—At the weekly Meeting on Tuesday, a letter was read, from the Secretary of Public Works, making a call on the union of the sum £419 125., being in payment of interest on money ad vanced.,__ by Government for the building of the Union Workhou se viz., £163 14s. 11d., and towards a liquida tion of the principal sum yet owing, (4093,) an instalment of £255 17s. Id. This call is to be in by the 9th of next .. t a_onth.—Fro m an answer rece i ve d f rom th e Vicar of Ealton, it appeared that there is a portion of ground in Walton churchyard where poor persons having a legal settlement within the parish may he buried.—A letter was read from the Poor-Law Commissioners, stating that they did not see how they could give any assistance to Mr. C. Watson, who complained of the decisive steps ta ken by the overseers of Toxteth-park, on assuming pos session of the books, and dismissing biro from his office of Rate-Book Clerk.—A new arrangemeutfor the dis pensing of outdoor relief to the poor in the Union was submitted by the Poor-Law Commissioners. The scheme proposes a division of the Union into three districts, to !Etch of which shall be assigned a relieving officer • and it Is proposed th a t th e t wen ty-th ree t owns hip s ;hall be classed as follows :—First District—Toxteth-park, Aller tan, Childwall, Garston, and Wavertree.—Second Dis tict—West Derby, Evertco, Kirkdale, and Bootle.— Third District—Fazakerley, Kirkby, Walton, Aintree, Great and Little Crosby, Ince Blundell, Litherland, Lunt, Netherton, Orrell and Ford, Sephton, 'ft:orator) and Crorteth-park.—The variation on tn►a dered by the Commissioners for the choice of the guano Tana, consists merely in the removal of Bootle from the 111(0 Lne mint (mulct ; ana a transpose zakerly, Kirkby, and Walton, into the second THE GYMNASIUM IN TARLoN•STREET.—The gym nastic season, at this place of healthful, elegant, and in vigorating exercise, was commenced on Saturday afternoon ; a meeting of the pupils of the talented and active instructor, Mr. W. G. Creagh, and their friends, having been invited on the nreacinn_ The uucabsin. hue attermance was nu merous an d - nighty respectable, and the feats of strength and agility performed by the pupils were far beyond our previous ex pectations, favourable as they were to this principle— revived, and improved, we presume, from the athletic Fames of the sturdy Romans of old. Mr. Creagh has, we le.arn, upwards of one hundred and fifty gentlemen under his Physical tuition. A great number of them were in attendance, and surprized the visitors by their extraordi nary performances, which embraced every variety in exer cises of strength calculated to develope the utmost extent o f muscular power and activity, and consequently of =- Proving the constitution and endurance of the human f rame i n a ll who partook i n t h em . W e can not. within the limits of a paragraph, enter into details, and it moat suffice to Say, that leaping ' over elevated horizontal poles and Flishio ns , even higher than the heads of the performers ; 14 Scaling roves hung from the ceiling ; in swinging, in --- aPParently perilous positions, up to the lofty ceiling with out aid ; in balancing; and in various feats in which great , 13 ,;cogth and aptitude of the limbs were required, his pu- Os acquitted themselves in a manner highly creditable to 'aro as a teacher, and to themselves as emulators to excel. We fancy, and we believe we are in the right, that many of these now muscular young gentlemen joined the este '"iislirinent in delicate and precarious health, and that not a f ew of th em o f s h or t s t a t ure h ave , lik e th e i r ag il e mas t er , become little Herculeses. His own performances were peculiarly elegant and easy. We were induced to remain beyond our intended time, and never did the conv!c- Fou come upon us more strongly, that wholesome exercise is far beyond all the drugs in the pharmacopoeia. If the Youth of England be thus trained generally, we need have l l ° tear of the "rumours of wars' that are floating about; one man will be worth two or three of the ordinary ig ud, who ne ver fi n d .out of what powerful stuff, if well Zerked up, they are made of; and we should be enabled, , the prowess and activity of ur men. to cope with, and io drub to their hearts content, o any and all of our pugna cious foes, be they Yankees or who they may. HIGHWAY BOARD.—The usual weekly meeting of this board was held on Thursday. Upon the proceedings of . IPe last meeting being read, Mr. Higgins took an objec tion to the framing of the latter part of the resolution pp r oposed by M r . D en t on , w ith reference to the letter r oposed the Bootle Waterworks Company, being referred to the P arliamentary Committee, and the power apparently given them of negociating for the purchase. He consi dered the b us i ness was exceedingly irregular, the motion D ot having b een rea d a ft er it was t a k en d own by Mr. s "lie. A warm discussion ensued, in which Messrs. k,avvrence. Higgins, Proctor, Tinne, Cooper, Denton, and Walthew, took part. airing the discussion, it was uPr_oposed and seconded that each gentleman should here. !te.r write down his resol u tion, an d sub m it it to the chstrrnan.—Mr. Denton moved, and Mr. Brancker se conded, that the p rocee di ngs o f l as t wee k b e con fi r m e d. 7— Mr. Higgins moved an amendment, which was se re Lawrence, that the latter part of the read to referred to be rescinded, because it was not to the meeting, nor was it intended to give such Power to the Parliamentary Committee.—Upon the vote being taken, there appeared eight for the motion and six for the amendment. For the amendment—Messrs. Guy t?", Gladstone, Tinne, Lawrence, Higgins, and Kilshaw. For the motion—Messrs. Brancker, Morris, Copeland, Cooper, Walthew, Proctor Kaye, and Denton. Messrs. Gladstone and Guyton, tw o o of the directors of the Li "erPool and Harrineton Water Works. viitine in the mi- •-• nority. On entering upon the proceedings relative to the Bootle Water Worrcs, Mr. Proctor moved that the re- Porters withdraw, on the ground that it would be a breach of confidence on the part of the board to make the fin in cial statement known. Upon a show of hands the motion was carried. During the absence of the reporters, a re tort was read, signed by Messrs. Brancker, Cooper, and ltrroctor, relati ve t o th e negoc i at i ons entere d i nto w i t h t h e ,00tle ' Water Comp an y f or th e sa l e o f th e i r W or k s . nhe c pany asked £200,000; they w ere offertql 4,1E4,6160m , which th e y re j ec t e d ; t h e o ff er was then i n creased to £186,000, which was accepted. The purchase t i. ) l° n; , Y to be paid in instalments, by the commissioners' the mean time, and bearing interest at the rate of £4 10s. per time, The works to be taken as they stand on the 41 st October, 1846. This report was adopted ; an amendment,moved by Mr. Tinne, and seconded by Mr th hi tbY, to th e e ff ect t h at t h e report b e referred b ac k to e com mittee, and th a t th e su bj ec t b e postpone d, t he view th e of furnishing the requisite evidence relating to s tate and condition of the works, the quantity of the "'vin likely to be afforded, an d t h e mo d e o f o b ta i n i ng it, g been lost by six to ten. a Mr. Keating, of St, Paul's, who has obtained so great _ecotoriety with the public for his Cough Lozenges—the o "f r ts of which in curing disorders of the pulmonary , are trulyteV is astonishing, and to which we can bear :_pe unony—is now beginning to reap the benefit of his ,_noulation of introducing them. We, are given to under •is ! .4 q, that there is such a demand for these Lozenges, it wit h difficulty h e can keep pace with it : some of the first wholes a l e houses, who were at one time contented min n:l g for their dozen boxes, now require almost as ore)gross to sup p l y t h e i r country orders. Need we say with cOne word! If any of our readers are afflicted I:iugh, whether recent or of long standing, let them have r t ecourse to these Lozenges at once, and we will yen ?n _ assert they will thank us for our timely advice. — '4 O don Merchant, January 21, 1846. CORRESPONDENCE. EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Permit me, very shortly, to reply to " Specta tor's" observations on the Rev. Mr. Ewbank's address. 1. Dr. Cox is not an embodiment of the Alliance. Supposing that what Dr. Cox said was contrary to the declared resolution of amendment, to which Mr. Ewbank alludes, what then ? Must every society be judged by a speech from one of its members ? 2. But did Dr. Cox say, that in conscientiously oppos ing the system of the Church of England, he would feel bound to use all uncharitable and unscriptural bitterness, and misrepresentation, and unfairness? Did be engage, in short, to use, in speaking of the Church of England, such language as that employed by Mr. Campbell, who has not joined the Alliance? Certainly not. Let Dr. Cox conduct his arguments against the Church of Eng land with temper and fairness : let him speak what he be lieves to be the truth, in love; and there is no honest 'and truth-loving churchman who will not be willing to enrol him amongst the number of his friends. Are the ser vants of Christ to keep themselves apart from each other, and not to join for united conflict with sin and the devil, because they cannot agree on such a question as the union of church and state? 3. But does" Spectator" expect that every member of the Evangelical Alliance will be perfect at once ? I dare say that " Spectator" is a good man and a real Christian. I dare say that he has confessed his past sins to God, and resolved to amend for the future. But will " Spectator" never sin again ? Nay, may there not be some things really wrong, which worthy " Spectator" does not yet see to be wrong, and which, therefore, he is not yet prepared to give up? Let Dr. Cox be judged as kindly and fairly as " Spectator" would judge himself, and then the doc. tor's sincere humiliation may be quite consistent with the doctor's sincere determination to oppose what he believee to be wrong in the Church of England. For these three reasons, or any one of them, I think that " Spectator" is quite wrong, and the Rev. Mr. Ew bank quite right. Allow me, sir, to say, as a member of the Church of England, that I have so good an opinion of my church, as not to be afraid of anything which may be said against Ler by Dr. Cox. True,she has serious abuses within her pale. I cordially join with Dr. Cox in de nouncing them. Let the vile be taken away, and let the precious remain.—l _ am sir, your very obedient se rv a n t, tk. SOUND CHURCHMAN. [Without siding with either of our correspondents,it is only fair to observe that the observations of " Spectator" by no means implied that " Dr. Cox is an embodiment of the Alliance." On the contrary, •' Spectator" expressly said "The principle laid down by Dr. Cox was ratified by the Conference, and has since been adopted generally by the members of the Alliance. It is officially announced by the London Branch of the Provisional Committee."] TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—Many parties have blamed the Rev. H. M`Neile and those other evangelical clergymen who have refused to join the proposed Evangelical Alliance. But, I think, Mr. M'Neile's reasons for not doing so ought to satisfy every unprejudiced mind. I have felt confident all along, since the thing was first proposed, that it was utterly im possible for Churchmen :to co-operate . with Dissenters— men who have such deadly hostility to our Established Church, and who labour and pray for its overthrow. And I am now more than ever confirmed in this opinion, from reading an article in a small periodical, just published, called The Christian's Penny Magazine. It is a dis senting publication, under the sanction of the Congrega tional Union of England and Wales, and may therefore be regarded as expressing the sentiments of Congrega tionalists generally. Will you allow me, sir, to give a few extracts from the publication in question, in order that those clergymen and laymen who have joined the Alliance may see what " The Congregational Union," think of them and their church.. The article from which I am about to quote, is headed, "Why I dare not conform to the Church of England," and then follows eight reasons for nonconformity ; and such a tissue of falsehood and misrepresentation I never read in my life. But, sir, you and your readers shall judge. The first reason commences thus : " Because it is not a proper Scriptural Church, but a political system, instituted by worldly men for worldly ends, and is altogether a worldly body." This is a fair commencement, you will say, Mr. Editor; but to pro ceed, " The Church of England is a society formed by act of parliaments and made up of all sorts of people. The ministers, or priests, as they are profanely called, are very few of them faithful men ; Puseyism, or Popery, in place of the pure Word of God, is preached in many of the buildings, ignorantly called churches ; while a rite, simi lar to the Lord's Supper, which Papists and Churchmen call the Sacrament, and try to persuade men (oh, awful delusion !) it will, if properly given and taken, save the soul, is offered to people the most' wicked, therefore it cannot be a true church, &c." Again, " But that it is no church, I prove, secondly, from the Bible." This is in consistent with what is stated before, " It is not a proper Scriptural Church;" but now "It is no church" at all. " But let us ha the proof from the Bible. Christ says, My kingdom IF not of this world ;' but the Church of England plainly is." The article then proceeds to give reasons for saying that the Church of • Eng en- I land is "no church," and, amongst other hard things, as dealers in a mar: a parish says, " The parsons trade for livin„ ket, and keep, or exchange, or sell the souls o like worldly goods." Hear that ye good, charitable clergymen, who have joined the Alliance ! Further— " Luxurious lords and foxhunting squires, as ignorant of real religion as the heathen, oftentimes put, for companion ship in sin, men of like mind and habits with themselves into a parish pulpit, to blind by their teaching am'. deprave by their example the poor slaves of their spiritual power." I had ' I se-- - -1 1 I thought of market. _ _.al other extracts, whicn _ _ _ giving, but lest I should take up too much room in your valuable paper I will only cull out a sentence or two, so that your readers may judge pretty nearly of the tone of the remainder of the article. Hear the following—" A. trifling and religious mummery and an irreligious for malism, and not a worship of Him, who is a spirit, &c." " It teaches the awful untruth that its ministers can save souls by baptism. This is solemnly avowed before God, when a babe is christened, as people paganly term it." " It exceeds the sin of Korai), Dathan, and Abiram, whom God destroyed in anger." " This church makes its mi nisters assume to be God, for in the rite of confirmation and ordination its lord bishop (poor sinning mitred mortal) pretends _to give the Holy Ghost." There is agreat deal more of this kind, of what I cannot but call blasphemous misrepresentation ; but enough, surely, sir, to open the eves of the derv. , of our church. who have been induced to give their countenance to the proposed Evangelical Alliance ; and to justify the conduct of those who have stood aloof from it. I am, Sir, yours truly, CANDOUR. January 19, 1846. IMPROVEMENT OF THE TOWN, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,—I perceive, with regret, from the tenor of Mr. G. H. Lawrence's remarks, as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the 'Council, that we are not to expect a very extensive improvement of the town for some years hence. I cannot see the propriety (from a niggardly economy) of deferring for an indefinite period, an object urgently required, and of paramount importance to the community at large, for which the public voice is now being raised in a tone which cannot be misunderstood. I presume that since the Municipal Reform Act became lawithe hands of our Common Council are not quiet tied up, so as to be unable to proceed with measures of great public utility. If so, the sooner we return to our former position the better. Surely a wealthy body, similar to our corporation, might raise half a million sterling in a case of emergency, to be applied in widening and rebuild ing many of the miserable courts, &c., with which Liverpool unfortunately abounds. No pecuniary con sideration should be an impediment to the amelioration of the wretchedness of a large portion of our townsmen living in abject poverty, bereft of the means that would render their bumble abodes attractive, by not having better and more comfortable habitations provided. Let it be borne in mind that the money there expended for the promotion of the health and convenience of our popu lation would revert to the coffers of our Council in an in-. creased ratio from the enhanced nature of the residue of land, and a variety of combined circumstances brought about and put into operation from the improved aspect of the locality where so desirable, a change has taken place. _ , Should the plan I have suggested be acted upon, it would suffice for carrying out many very indispensible improvements ; to wit, salt water swimming baths, with private hot, cold, and vapour baths attached; likewise public parks and cetnetries; taking down and rebuilding old delapidated cottages and other tenements, upon the most improved principle for health and ventilation ; as also widening narrow crooked streets and alleys. Ido not intend that the sum borrowed should be laid out in a twelvemonth, but be disposable or taken up on interest for the purposes aforesaid ; at the rate of £4O or £50,000 annually for the space of ten years, having it thereby at command when any favourable opportunity for compassing 1 points in question cau be embraced 6 1 / 2 January, 1816 A BURGESS P.S.—I omitted to state that a complete metamorphose might be effected, provided a vigorous effort were made to remove the stigma from Liverpool—from being a most unhealthy town, it might become a pleasant, healthy resi dence, if a well concocted plan of improvement were carried out. This is now essential. The Dock Trustees seem determined to make the port first-rate (probably in the world), by affording extra accommodation to shipping ; it therefore behoves the civic authorities . to use corres ponding exertion as to internal arrangements, on a scale commensurate with the wants and wishes of the inhabi tants. An exhibition of anti-fire-proof cement took place at Manchester, on Tuesday, in the presence of the Mayor, &c. It was successful. The Guardian says :—One of its most remarkable properties is, that of its being the most extraordinary non-conductor of heat we have seen. It is elastic also, capable of great expansion and contrac tion ; and, in short, seems to possess a more extensive combination of good qualities as a fire protector, an adhe sive cement, and an artificial stone or marble, than any substance with which we are acquainted. In calling the att, ntion of our readers to the excellence of Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam, we cannot forbear the pleasure of stating that we fully agree with our contem poraries, when they ask us the cause of our public streets being so clear of persons suffering from asthma, influenza, coughs, colds, hoarseness, shortness of breath, and other affections of the chest and lungs ; we have no hesitation in stating it must be owing to the excellence and efficacy of Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam ; we recommend it with confidence for the ahove distressing complaints, as an un failing remedy, givingimmediate relief, and a cure will most assuredly follow the use of it.—See adv. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 19. REGISTRATION APPEALS-SPLITTING FREEHOLDERS TO CONFER FRANCHISE RAWLINS, APPELLANT; BREMNER, RESPONDENT This was .an appeal from the division of the revising barrister of the southern division of the county of Lan caster, and it appeared from the case stated, that James Peck and his four brothers claimed to vote in respect of one-fifth share each in a certain house situate in Prospect place, Liverpool. The barrister had rejected the claim of all the five parties. These parties, it seemed, being ambitious to gain the franchise for the county, applied to several persons infiu entially to convey them, as tenants-in-common, a tene ment for this purpose. At length Watson Peck, their father, by deed dated the 18th of January, 1845, con vexed to them the estate in question, in consideration of £4B ; it did not appear whether that sum was the full amount of consideration, or whether each of the b ro th ers paid that sum ; it was clear, however, that the parties en tered into possession, and received the rent of £l2 per annum, and that the property in the estate actually passed. It was admitted that the object of the father and sons in the sale and purchase of the property was to con fer and obtain votes, and the point was, whether this in tention invalidated the purchase and avoided the right to vote. Lord Chief Justice Tindal.—The Court will consider this case with the others upon the same subject. NEWTON, APPELLLANT V. RARGREAVE§, RESPON Another appeal, as to the right of splitting votes, from the northern division of the county of Chester. One Robert Hargreaves being seized in fee of certain lands, proposed to his two sons to confer upon them the power of voting for the county ; a deed of gift was prepared, whereby, in consideration of natural love and affection, two closes of pasture land were conveyed to the claimants for their lives as tenants in common ; the deed of gift re mained in the hands of the solicitor who prepared it until a few days before the revision court was held, the claim ants depastured their cattle by the consent of the grantee upon the land, and it was admitted that the conveyance was made partly for the purpose of conferring the fran chise, and partly as a provision for the claimants. The revising barrister negatived fraud, and decided the case did not come within the 7th and Bth of William 111., c. 25, and therefore retained the names. Lord Chief Justice Tindal.—This case will be consi dered also with others upon the same point. HEYLAND, APPELLANT, V. BREMNER, RESPONDENT. This was the last case in the list involving the same point as to the right of splitting freeholds, and was from the southern division of the county of Lancaster. Certain members of a society at . ll l lancl;esie - r,Citlled the Anti-monopolist Association, purchased a qualification for the county of Lancaster, at a fair marketable value. Each received the a moun t of rent sufficient to qualify him as a voter; the solicitor of the vender knew of the object for which the property was purchased ; the vender him self knew nothing about it one way or the other. The revising barrister was of opinion that the case came within the 7th and Bth of Wm. IV. cap. 25, and that the convey ance was void, being made for the purpose of multiplying votes, and therefore rejected the names. Lord Chief Justice Tindal.—The barrister came to a wrong conclusion ; the decision must be reversed. Judgment reversed accordingly At the Rolls Court, on Wednesday, the injunction ob tained by Mr. Cooper to restrain Mr. James Battersby from selling or otherwise parting with certain shares of stock standing i❑ his name in the books of the Birming ham and Liverpool Grand Junction Canal Company, was dissolved. In the Court of Common Pleas on Thursday week, in an appeal from Scarborough, against the decision of Mr. Temple, the barrister, the Court decided that the name of a Mr. Flounders had been rightly expunged, because he had not ;nserted the number of his house in the list of claimants. This the Court held as necessary for complete and ready identification. The rumour is revived that Lord Lyndhurst is about to resign, and that Mr. Pembe: ton Leigh has resisted most earnest solicitations from the Premier to succeed to the Woolsack : and that, in consequence, the following ar rangements are contemplated—Sir Edward Sudgen to be Lord Chancellor, and Sir Frederic Thesiger to be Lord Chancellor of Ireland. A commission, of which Mr. B. Hawes is chairman, is gaged in a revision of the laws relating to bank ruptcy and insolvency. They are expected to complete their report by the end of this month, and shortly after wards propose to call a public meeting of merchants and traders, at which its recommendations are to be discussed. The report will subsequently be laid before parliament— most probably in the course of the present session. now en LIABILITY OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEEMEN.--I 0 the Court of Exchequer, on Tuesday an action was tried before Mr. Baron Alderson, in which a printer sought to recover £172. 10s. 6d., the amount of his bill for blank scrip and other articles in printing and stationery, sup plied to the Irish West Coast Railway Company. A res pectable gentleman, named Burdett, one of•the provisional committeemen was sued, and the Judge and the bar all agreed that he was liable for so much of this bill as had been incurred after he joined the undertaking. When a verdict had been returned for the plaintiff, Mr. Baron Alderson remarked,—" It is of no use to read a lesson to some men ; they will run their heads into a halter —the world will go on as it likes. However, it is to be hoped that this case will do good in some respects, for it will let people who have gone on to provisional committees know what foolishness they have been guilty of. GENERAL MISCELLANY, The Lords of the Treasury have refused to make Fleet wood a packet station for Belfast. The Duke of Sutherland has contributed £3OO to the South Staffordshire Hospital. Sir James Graham, the Times says, is to withdraw his medical bills. The duty upon the importation of foreign wheat last week advanced to 16s. per quarter. The Rev. Mr. Newman was making a short sojourn at Stonyhurst last week. A man at Huddersfield died of hydrophobia last week. He was bitten five weeks since on the thumb by a dog. It is said that Government intend to propose this ses sion the abolition, of the Scottish University tests. TLe Messrs. Darby, Coalbrooke-dale, have given £2,000 to the League Fund. The article onm Parliamentary Privilege," in the Edinburgh Review, is by Lord Denman. Lord John. Manners has given notice that he will to morrow move for leave to bring in a bill for amending the bequests' act. On Friday, at Bow-street Police-office, a surgeon, named Cobb, was committed to Newgate on a charge of bigamy. A vessel last week discharged a cargo of iron at New port, Monmouthshire, from France. This is like sending coals to Newcastle. Without an order of council the militia cannot be called out till the 10th of October, and it is highly improbable that it will be called out at all.—Glasgow Examiner. As a proof of the mildness of the season a jargonell pear tree was in full bloom on Sunday last, in the garden of Mr. It. Richardson, Bridge-end, Elland, Bradford. . . .... It was stated at a meeting of magistrates , for the county of Norfolk the other day, that fifteen incendiary fires had taken-place in the county during the last three months. A GOOD CHANGE.—The committee of the Wakefield Church Institution have taken the room in Crown-court, formerly occupied as a Socialist Hall. ~.. There is at present in the garden of Willia m M oore , at West Lavington, Wilts, a sparrow's nest with four eggs, upon which the hen bird is sitting. _ _ _ The vessels in the Wet Dock at Leith are lying three and four tier deep at present, which speaks well for busi ness, and is rather unusual at this early season of th e year. Mrs. Partis, founder of " Partis College," near Bath, for the widows and daughters of clergymen," and for other gentlewomen." has just expired. A new literary publication, to be called The Literary Herald, comes forth next month. Its avowed object is to introduce and encourage unknown authors. The total number of militia regiments in the United Kingdom is 127, of which 61 belong to England, 14 to Wales, 14 to Scotland, and 38 to Ireland. Persons at Leeds throwing orange peel on the footpaths are to be taken up by the police and are liable to a fine of 405., under the local improvement act. The Glasgow Constitutional asks, " is Lord John Rus sell, the new-made citizen, bound, like all other burgesses of Glasgow, " to grind his corn in the town's mills"? IDENTICAL.—In the Quebec shipping-list for tt,e 10th of December, we find the following :—" Sir Robert Peel !n the mad, but supposed to be safe." A servant woman in London, on Monday week, Lurst a varicose vein, and although the aperture was not larger than would admit a pea, she bled to death. A verdict of wilful murder has been returned, at Ilan• ley against Sarah Bowyer, for having starved to death her Mr. Isaac Cohen has hft £15,000 to the various chari ties in the metropolis ; £3OOO to the Jowl:di school, and £3OOO to the synagogue to which he immediately belonged. DISTRESSING SUICIDE.—Mr. Evans, smith and bell hanger, of Newport. Nloninnuthshire, a very intelligent tradesman. destroyed himself on Saturday by firing a loaded pistol at his temple. Verdict, insanity. It is said that Mr. Bright will offer himself as, a candi date for Wolverhampton, on the dissolution of parliament, to replace Mr. Villiers, who is to stand fur South Lanca shire. Mr. Miles, of Freeleigh Court Farm, near Tiverton, a few days ago, was Charged with wilfully pushing Mr. Butt, of Telbury, into the river near French Weir, with intent to drown him. _ _ John White, retailer of beer at Chatham, was last week convicted in the penalty of £lO, a mixture of sugar and salt, which is sometimes used for adulterating beer, having been found on his premises. A public meeting was held in Birmingham, on Tuesday evening, " to petition Parliament against the proposal to call out the militia, a nd in favour of introducing an arbi tration clause in our treaties with foreign powers." The Hon. James Stuart Wortley has been appointed Judge Advocate. A vacancy therefore ensues in the re presentation of Bute. In all probability, however, the hon. gentleman will be re-elected without opposition. On Monday, a labourer, who had been previously ob served desponding, threw himself down on the Great Western line on the approach of an engine, which passed over him, and killed him instantly. The other day, as a flock of pigeons flew over the house of a gentleman in Locharran, he shot one of the birds. It dropped down the chimney into a pot of soup which hung over the fire !—lnverness Courier. In consequence of the non-publication of the state of the pole at Carmarthen, on the neat day but one after the last municipal election, as required by the ac t, J ust i ce Patteson has, on application, decided that there must be a new election. One of the auxiliary improvements at the London Post office, is an engine of 12-horse power, by which the bags and men are raised and lowered from and to the upper story. _ _ _ The Halifax Guardian says that the Leeds and West Riding Bank has had its drafts dishonoured by the Lon don agents. On Friday the bank was crowded with per sons getting its notes changed. All the rats and other vermin caught on the farm of the Rev. A. Huatable, at Sutton Waldron, are thrown into Sulphuric acid, by which they. are soon converted into manure as valuable as bone dust. A large pond, situate between Rhymney and Tredegar, broke through the sides, and, in its impetuous career, drowned an aged woman, and swept away two frail cot- • A valet of George Hudson, Esq., M.P., named Adams, a night or two back, in a state of intoxication, fell over a bannister, at the Burlington Hotel, London, and was killed. The Morning Post states that Lord Farnham was to have seconded the address in the House of Lords, but after hearing the royal speech read at the Duke of 'Wel lington's, he withdrew his consent. On Wednesday week, a soldier, of the 92nd Regiment, being rather in liquor, attempted to escape for the night from Edinburgh Castle. He got on the wall at the Argyle rampart, was immediately precipitated over the precipice, 200 feet in height, and killed on the spot. The Presbyterian Review states that the Jesuits have published an edition of " The Wandering Jew" in English, expunged of all the terrific exposures of Jesuit ism contained in the original edition ;—a very Jesuit-like act. It perhaps may not be generally known that the new First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Ellenborough, was once a midshipman in the navy, having commenced his career in her Majesty's frigate L'Aigle, when she was commanded by Captain Wolfe. CURIOUS COINCIDENCE : QUITE A TRAGIC AFFAIR. —On Wednesday week, at the Marylebone Police Court, Macready was brought up for disorderly conduct, and im• mediately after that case was disposed of, Kean was charged with being a deserter, and was committed. On night, part of the steeple of the church lately T erected atdhill, near Reigate, was blown down. The stones, &c. fell through the roof and shivered many of the seats to splinters. It is uncertain whether the church will be again fit for service. PERVERTS. — The Rev. J. B. Morris, fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, has joined the Romish Church. This makes forty from Oxford. J. B. Watford, Esq., under graduate of St. John's, Cambridge, has also joined that church. This makes fourteen from Cambridge. TWELFTH CARES.—CAUTION.—The Derby Reporter of Friday, contains a long account of an inquest held on the body of Sarah Ellen Woollatt, a girl four years of age, whose death had been caused by her having eaten some of the ornamental part of a twelfth cake. We understand that an increase in the army, to the extent of 6000 men, will be proposed in parliament. It is said that the Duke of Wellington was anxious to add 10,000 men to our military force, but tna , opinion was overruled in the Cabinet.—Post grace's The Medical Times mentions a case of hanging, in which Dr. Noyce restored the patient by effusion of cold water after respiration had ceased, the heart's action con tinuing, though. feebly. Respiration was completely re stored, and venesection produced consciousness. _ _ A grave-digger lost his life at St. Thomas's burial ground, Birmingham, last week, owing to a quantity of earth having fallen upon him and entombed him at the bottom of a grave, 15 feet deep, which had been dig- ging. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. On• Wednesday week, Mr. Clark, of the firm of Clark, Plummer, and Co., flax dressers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was killed by a fall from his horse. The deceased was nearly 70 'ears of age, and (.1 highly respected. A rumour gains ground that the Queen proposed to Lord John Russell that the rank and dignity of King Consort should be conferred on Prince' Albert, and that Lord John held out no hope of accomplishing the mea sure. SUBSTITUTE FOR A MACINTOSH.—On Thursday, at the Borough Court, Manchester, a drunken tin-plate worker, who was charged with disorderly conduct on the previous night, said he had been to Bury, and had certainly taken a drop, but it was to keep the rain out. On Tuesday an "immense" meeting in favour of the abolition of the Corn Laws was held in Norwich. Mr. Cobden attended, and Mr. Wodehouse, the county mem ber, in vain proposed an amendment in behalf of protec tion. ADVANTAGE 01? SMOKING.—An inveterate smoker in the neigbourhood of Matlock, was told by his medical at tendant, a few evenings ago, that tobacco would be the means of shortening his dais, to which he replied, _ never mind, it has afforded me the means of l eng th en i n g many of my nights.”—Derbyshire Advertiser. A REMINISCENCE OF GUY FAWKES.—On Thursda3 morning, according to custom, about two hours before her Majesty's arrival to open parliament, tilt the House of Lords underwent a " Well e cellars under :rict search Chamberlain, the Usher of the Black Rod, and Kincaid, with a detachment of the Mr. Harrison Ainsworth has resumed the editorship of Ainsworth's Magazine, which he was understood to have relinquished some months ago, when he entered upon the editorship of Colhorn's New 111:nthly. Both these pe riodicals are now under Mr. Ainsworth's literary ma nagement. . . . . aotion has been occasion, is of a le , meant to be Ire in- bers, in revealing the co strictly confidential. Two distinguished niembe volved in this charge, and a coldness, on the part of their The Right ner, on 'Tuesday, the Alexander lonial-office, and Other gentlemen connected with that department, Mr. Bonham, late of the Ordnance, Dr. Phillimore, and others. One of the Ojibbeway Indians (the bird of the tempest) died at Brussels the other day, of the small-pox, and an other (the king of the bitterns) is dangerously ill. The former was baptised by a Roman Catholic clergyman a few hours before his death. The other Indians are still at Ghent. -- Mr. Kirby, the owner of Lanercost, is desirous to take a bet of £6OO to £4OO that his (Lanercost's) produce wins the Doncaster St. Leger, in 1847, against the produce of any other horse in England ; or an even bet of £5OO, his produce against that of any other untried horse for the same race. _ _ _ _ Monmouth, on Saturday, Mr. Lapham, a sporting gentleman, was charged with stealing one of his own horses, which, left with Mr. Newman, had been sold by auction by that gentleman to pay expenses. The magis trates decided that as Mr. Newman was not a licensed dealer, he had no right to dispose of the animal, and dis missed the charge. raIUGGLED MALT.—On Friday last a large quantity of malt was discovered in an unentered house, by Math an excise officer, of Solva, Pembrokeshire. is, we understand, a young woman, who is on the eve of being married, and the malt was intended to be converted into cwrw da, on her bridal day. Perhaps it was only a peck or two. The Quebec Gazelle records the loss, at Cape Chat, of two outward-bound vessels, one of them supposed to be the barque Montreal, Captain Douglas, which sailed hence on the morning of the 28th November, with the loss of her crew and passengers. Several of the bodies have been washed on shore, among them a woman and a The maltster POACHING AFFRAY.—On Saturday night a battle took place between Bridger and Cadd, two of the Duke of Buckingham's gamekeepers, and some poachers at Hills don. The keepers heard firing near " Preston Bushes" and came up to three poachers. An affray ensued in which both Bridger and Cadd were knocked desperately cut and wounded. The poachers escaped. A few days since, as Mr. Sheppard, governor of Wake field House of Correction, was walking along the lane leading to the prison, some person behind a wall fired a pistol close at his head. Mr. Sheppard's hat was blown off, and the ball entered about an inch and a half above the head. £2OO reward has been offered for the miscre ants apprehension. A Spanish Torn Thumb has arrived at Cork. The vessel which was conveying him to London put in there from stress of weather, a. !own and g propensity for the height of an ordinary man's top-boot age, very intelligent, and has a str stirring the fire —is of mature A tree has been cut down at Ratnroerselles, for the purpose of being converted into sleepers for the Caledo : !Ilan Railway, of whi ch the following are the dimensions Circumference at root where cut off, 11 feet 2 inches; diameter at widest part, 3 feet 9 inches ; height, 90 feet ; contents of titnLer. 106 feet. The rings of growth num bered 87 ; so its age may be estimated at about a century. It has been rerniirked whenevera severe winter is abniit to take place, that the ants bury thews-lves very deep in the earth. Last winter, which was very severe, these in sects were found at the depth of two reet below the sur face of the earth, while this year they were only two inches under ground. The same with the bees; last to they had sto ped every avenue to their hive son the entrance to th - em is scarcely closed MUNIFICENT DONATIONS.—ThOMES Clapham, Esq., of Stackhouse, near Settle, who died last Friday, has left £lO,OOO to the Leeds Infirmary, £lO,OOO to the Wilber force Blind Asylum at York, £5,000 to Harrogate Bath Hospital, and £5,000 to the Clergy Orphans' Fund, be sides smaller charitable bequests. CURIOUS CIRCITAISTANC .—On Wednesday morning the Holyhead mail was compelled to turn back new: Pen maen Mawr, to Conway to wait for better weather wind came with such power for a mile round the rocks, as to turn the four-horses and the coach completely round. Another attempt was made to proceed by taking away the leaders but all was fruitless. After reaching Conway again the wind fell, so as to allow of turning out at b. o'clock, occasiouing a delay of four hours. FATAL AFFRA Y.—A dreadful encounter took place on Wednesday morning, on the grounds of the Ear: of Mo ley. at Siltram, near Piplloath, between a party of , and his lordship's gamekeepers. poache ten in number An unfortunate keeper ; named Cottell, pursued the sore time, when one of the_poachers levelled l;is fired, and the keeper dropped down and immediately ex- pired. A man named Reed, a sawyer, of Plymouth, has been captured as being one of the party, and is now un dergoing an examination before the magistrates. A few days ago, a registrar of births, deaths, and mar- riages, proceeded to the residence of one of his neigh bours, not one hundred miles from Sunderland, for the purpose of registering a birth, and on enquiring of the mother the day and date of the child's admission to that enlightened portion of her Majesty's dominions, received the following characteristic reply :—" Deed, Mr. H—, I neither know the dey of the week nor the day of the month, but the bairn was born the day after Roger Lums den's pig waa killed !" At the Stafford sessions, last week, the chairman was lout to discharge a boy accused of stealing wt bov, in reply to the magistrates, stated thathe had no father, and, in a flood of tears, said that his parent had been transported for seven years. On this a voice was beard--" Fen his father," and a decently dressed rnecha- nic stepped forward, and was rejoiced to claim his son. The father had returned from transportation, and he and his son were made known to each other in this romantic manner. The two left the court together, the father say ing he had employment for his son. FORGING STAMPS.—At the Lambeth police-office, on Friday, Edward Watkins, an aged and plain man in ap pearance, and who is reputed to be worth £lO,OOO, his wife and son were charged with being concerned in the sale of forged bill and receipt stamps. The prisoners have been engaged in so doing for a length of time, and out of 933 stamps found in their two shops 791 were prisoner being sei iously i►i, the magistrate said he would accept bail for him to the amount of £4,000. Another man, named Hancock, from whom the prisoners obtained the forgeries, was remanded on a charge of forging the stamps. ANCIENT LETTER.-At a meeting of the Literary and Philosophical Society last week, the President (J. B. Yates, Esq.) handed round an interesting letter, address- ea ny ming unarles 1, then a prisoner in the Isle of Wight, to the Governor of Newfoundland, reccomtnend ing to his good offices Lady Hopkins, t 9 wife of Sir William Hopkins, one of his staunch erents whom the body of it was written is rather ut et tain , Cu . the concluding part, and the signature, are t undoubt. weeks previous to h ,xecutior The original was found Yates's library, a mass of contemporary papers in Mr relating to the times of the Commonwealth LEATI Monday, licott, 53 years of age stated that I was held on Westbt atop, on the body of Jane M ed- The husband of the deceased, was a schoolmaster, and had five children ; ys had had bad health s was rather flighty, but qu his wife al away a good deal lately, and used to complain of being ungry ; witness himself has been three or four days with out anything to eat, and has often been without anything ase except a few potatoes which they h )plied to the parish for relief ; he think; his wife died of starvation; witness has nothing to live upon now but what seme ne liged to go to the paris hbours give him, and,will be ob- SCENE IN PARLIAMENT. --- Ti. curious sight while Sir Robert Peel fresh sentence brought a round of ar, ause from his oppo nents—the Treasury benches were n,ute and silent. A faint cheer was attempted when the Premier stated that Lord Stanley had persisted in thinking the supply of - he country 0- nntato cr mse pr was speaking 211.1(1 LUC ap a plentiful one, notwithstanding all the evidence that had been sub mitted to ministers; but it was such a che' ill-sustained, that we really felt sorry f ment followed argument from " faint, so them. As one of which demolished some pet theory which had been risked at protection meetings by a noble chairman or a stray duke.the silence became deep snd more deep.— Morning Chronicle. LONDONPOSTOFFICE.—In the principal (or se cretary's) offic there are 64 offs 3, in, the solicitor's office 4, accountant-general's 1, money-order office 170, inland and foreign office 645. The inspector of letter carriers' office, which is an adjunct to the inland office, contains an inspector, 7 as sistant-inspectors, 147 sub-sorters; ship-letter office 8. dead and returned letter office 21, London district office bout 600. In the sorting offices there are 2 presidents, 2 window men, 14 chrks of divisions, 12 first econd ditto, 10 scrters, 31 sub -sorters, an aectbrs, 8 junior inspectors. 16 4 vice dittc assorters, 12 inenertnr 9 1 total of 1600 person appointed in the London offices 57 of tlie various " receivers" and other I officer :hp. Rt. K d in ti lhout any being allowed her by the union —Times rs Mr. F winter Sig ROBERT'S TACT.—A. Manchester contemporary says that Mr. Cuiquhoun was prepared with an amend ment to the address, and as soon as Mr. Beckett Denison, the seconder of the address, had sat down, he rose with his amendment in his band, evidently prepared to move it. At the same moment, however, Sir Robert Peel, with admirable tact, presented himself to the house ;•and being called upon by the speaker, commenced his speech. • THE " PRESIDENT' ? STEAMER.—SODID Spanish fishing boats lately picked up a bottle at sea, containing some pa pers; but the following fragments, which hare been pub lished in the Madrid Gazette, are all that could be made of them :—" Ship President, We are blocked upon Tre.. and .. • ... we cant live much time....... . What time ! Kind friend will acquaint 0ur...... We are dying of hun ger.. THE WEARDALE MiNgus.—A numerous meeting was held on the 9th instant, in a field adjoining St. John's Chapel, when the deputation appointed to wait upon Mr. Sopwith made their report, which gave great satisfaction to the miners. It is expected that £2 per month subsist ence-money will be allowed at the next binding, and that each miner will be allowed to earn 15s. per week, exclusive of charges for blacksmith, powder; and candles.—Gates head Observer. The magistrates at Whitehaven have decided in a case which lately came before them at the public office, that if the captain of a vessel should not, on his arrival in port, or within a reasonable time thereafter, give notice to a seaman who had been contracted to assist in putting out ballast, that he is not to remain in the vessel, such sea man has a right to claim the wages to which he would have been entitled if he had assisted in vatting out the ballast, although he may not have performed that part of the contract. ig it for - some - distance, st s to have inanity, we are still more at a loss to palliate the conduct of those whose barbarity set her an example of cruelty which, at the worst, she did but imitate. The suggesters cally that thelfe of her infant was not worth oaring for THE DAILY NEWS.--We have received the numbers of this journal since its commencement on Wednesday. It much of its space to railway matters. It resembles very much in its general appearance the Times and Herald, and its only new feature consists of " Travelling Letters, written on the road," by Charles Dickens. It is the ge neral opinion that the new candidate for public favour has not come up to the expectation formed of it. An Edin burgh paper says that it starts with a capital of £lOO,OOO, which has been subscribed in four sums of £25,000. Mr. head, the great railway proprietor, are two of the subscri bers. Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, the proprietors of Punch, subscribe another fourth. The great feature of interest will be Mr. Dickens's contributions. It is said that he is to receive £2 000 a-year, an is to bring out his works in the cancans of the paper, which will adopt the fashion of the French feuilleton. (a de'partrnent devoted to _ . coadjutor in the . Mr. Dudley onblanque and his literaz, Examiner, Mr. Foster, are mentioned. Costello is to superintend the foreign department, ►RIFF OF 1612.—1 n explaining the circumstances which had brought him to advocate free trade, Sir Robert Peel, in his speech on Thursday PERATION OF THE night, remarked •` In 1844 ther were imported 2,800 oxen and cows, and in eleven months of the year 1845 there were not less than 15,000 imported, showing avery great increase. responding degree or in any by this large ithportation? In 1£344 the contract price for the victualling stores in the navy for salt beef was £3 18• , . 21. ; the contract price en tered into for the navy in December, 1815, was, I regret to say, £6 Bs. 81. The salt pork th This sea- i in 1544 was £3 15s. 101. a tierce J it was £6 12a. The contract price for fresh beef for the navy 1811 was I , ls. 9.1. ; the contract price in 1845 was £2 2s. 2d. Now, all this increase in price was attended with increased importation ; one prophecy, if I recollect rightly, was, that there would be an importation into this country of 3,500,000 pigs, and that the price of salt pork would be immensely reduced. There was no article last year that caused so much alarm as lard. In 1840 there were 97 cwt. of foreign lard imported into this country. In 1842 the duty was reduced from Bs. to 2s. a cwt., and there were then imported 48,312 cwt. ; in 1814, 76,000 cwt. were imported ; and in 1845 the importation h a d reached aboye 80,000 cwt. And what has been the price of domestic lard at Belfast during that period ? In 1844 it was 48s. a cwt. ; in 1845 it was 675. ; and in January of thelpresent year, notwithstanding the increase caused by this importation, the price has risen from 48s. in 1844. to 625. Another article of great importance was that of wool. We proposed in 18-14 that the duty on foreign wool should be altogether done away with, and we were again met with the argument that wool would suffer from the reduction But here again there has been a wholly dif ferent result. In 1842 there were 45,880,0001 b. of foreign wool imported ; in 1814 there were 65,079,0001 b. ; and in ten months of the last year it amounted to 65,216,0001 b., —all in consequence of the reduction of the duty. Now, what has been the price of wool ? In 1842 the price of South Down wool was 111 d. per pound ; long wool was ]od. per pound. In 1843 South Down wool was lld. ; in 1844 it was Is. 2d. ; long wool was also Is. 2d. ; and in December, 1845, eighteen months after the reduction, the price of South Down wool rose to ls. 41d. per pound, and the price of common wopl was Is. 2d. per pound. Such has been the effect of those reductions that were made in 1842 and 1844, and which were regarded as a protection to domestic industry. The Sun states that immediately after Sir Robert Pegl's announcement of his plans, Lord Delawar, the Lord Chamberlain ; the Marquis of Exeter, Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert; and Lord Arthur Lennox, will retire from the government. The Earl of Essex, in consequence of the present un . . certain state of his health, bas been forced to - decline the offer tendered to him by Sir Robert Peel of the Lord Lieutenancy of the county of Hertford, vacant by the demise of the Earl of Verulam. MODEST !-Mr. Ward the Member for Sheffield, gave on Thursday what he calls the annual account of his Stewardship in the House of Commons, at the conclusion of which Mr. Biggs, who seems to have been rather dis satisfied, proposed that the government should lend to the labouring population a sum of £20,000,000, in owl-- afford them or soil, the governme' ortunities for finding employment on the arrow the money at f cent., the - people to pay t cent.—A moderate prop( money to come from in ti )ock Cc in 1844, 101 9 last 3, ; and in 1845, 119,917—being an increas ,car of 10,562 tons over the year preceding. goods delivered in 1843 were 105,935; in 1844, 105,233; and in 1845, 117,200, being an increase in the last over the Preceding year of 11,967. Goods remaining in 1843, 69,293 ; in 1814, 65.415 ; and in 1845, 60,126—being less la-t year than 1844 by 5289 tons. The decrease of the stock remaining in dock is attributed very reasonably to ' p unprecedentedly large delis , . —oduced by the alte- 4a,es ration in the duties by the Premier's new tariff. usual dividend was declared. POOR-LAW CRUELTY.—Since we adverted a day or two agc to the alleged murder of an infant by its mother. who had been sent away from the union workhouse without any covering for her offspring, we have discovered that this inhuman practice is a very common one. We have received an extract from the Worcestershire Chronicle, culars of a charg gaunt a mother for attetnptir murder her child - by exposing it in a field entirely naked and uncovered. In this case, as in the one on which we lately commented, the mother had been suffered to leave child, and wi After carryin sing, p the bus ri to Lord Morpeth. In aaditien, Mr. Archer G'u r rney, Rock Vale, Devon, has addressed the electors of the Riding, offering himself as a candidate for the honour of repreeenting them, He presents himself as one who " botb in English and foreign publications has consistently advocated the principles c n and Sismondi. as a protectionist," and who is resolved in every way he can to secure remu nerative prices to every class of productors. Mr. Gurney, moreover, declares that Lord Ashley's Short Hour Bill has his most decided concurrence. Mr. Gurney intimates his determination to withdraw should Mr. Lascelles, or any other local candidate, present himself. The writ for the election has been• issued, and the nomination is ex pected to take 'place next Monday. ATTACK ON TIIE ARISTOCRACY. -- At Manchester, Mr. Bright went a step farther towards the "beginning of the end," as may be seen from the following extract n f hi. II sJ7 vi all Lne narsn words and all the arguments you could bring against the reasonableness or unreasonableness of maintaining our aristocracy, nothing could be thore damning than the fact that the aristocracy ire at issue with twenty millions of people on the vital - er these people should There are people who It would be a pitiable condition uced to if they were all at one have ulterior 01, be people v hemselves mark—if some were not moving on faNter than others: but I may tell the Duke of Richmond and his co-la bourers in the cause of monopoly that they themselves hold out for the great maes . of the to go on with that which we have begun, and to wrest from them the power they have exercised to the great injury, or, 1 would say, to the ruin of many thousands of the people of Great Britain." A LETTER TRAP.—Ori Thursday evening last a gen tleman of Glouester having put a piper into the bole of the box at the post-office, was surprised to find that it would not descend into the basket. He pushed, and pushed again, and still it stuck fast, and therefore he went round to the door to notify the circumstance. The post office clerks, equally surprised as the applicant, naturally turnel to the box itself for an explanation of it, when 'y damage( lad it been e credit of they discovered an - successful, would have serious,, the establishment, by cheating a large number of persons of their letters and papers. A silk bag had been let down into the aperture, bullets being placed in each corner to distend it, and it was secured to the mouth of the aperture by hooks of wire. The bag was nearly full of letters and papers which had been dropped into the hole, and this was the reason that the paper through which the discovery I . _ ,as made would not descend. Probably the practice of this trick would account for many of the post-office losses. Unfortunately, the trap was not left until the thief came to remove the big and the spoil, and therefore he is quite —Gloucestershire Chronicle. SUICIDES.—On Tuesday morning week, in London, Mr. James Ede, aged 68, who, for the last thirty years, has been a suitor in Chancery for property valued at £lOO,OOO, having an execution served upon him for a small debt, went up stairs and deliberately cut his own throat.—On Friday an inquest was held in London, on Mary Day, aged 26, a domestic servant, who, being falsely accused to her mis'rtss, of having been the worse 'or liquor, was so much affected, that sl,e destroyed her -At Preston, Mary Hulme, an un self with 0) married wc antic acid An, thirty ye lodge of water at the N had an it of w, drowned herself in a ► Mills. The deceased, who rant, had been in a low s to for several weeks, and was ]house. On con- apprehensive of being sent to the v r mother, she said, " Do ❑ot say any more about it; I shall make wyEelf away ; ,it will fessing her situation t( publican, London, was found hanging from a bed _ his own room, and quite dead.—Captain .Burrell, late of the 55th Foot, committed suicide on Eaturday week, in his own house, London, by shooting himself with a pistol, in consequence of heavy losses by railway speculations. THE PREMIEIL'S EXPLANATION. We confess we should like to see the Premier undertaking an explanation or a confession somewhat more retrospective than_that on which he spent his heart and his strength on Thursday evening. He has served four Sovereigns, and, enjoying the personal confidence of three, for nearly twenty years he has been the leader of a powerful—and for his sake we will suppose—a patriotic and intelligent party. Yet, strange to say, his apology recognizes no longer a term than the last three years of this period. It might be sup posed that four years since was the date of his first intro duction to his Conservative friends. It is only the last act of these four years that in his opinion requires defence. He is now doing right. He appeals to the experience of the last three years, and its legitimate effect on his judg ment ; he appeals to posterity ; he appeals to everything but the past, and does not show how it is that a man *ho for so many years possessed so great a mastery over mind and over matter in this country, should have brought men and things into such a state as to entail at last so abrupt a transition, and so great a violence to the weaker minds, or the lesser souls of his party. Sir Robert Peel says he is right now, but he does not bring out into quite sufficient relief the obvious inference that be has hitherto been most grievously wrong.—Times. _ _ - • AMUSING INCIDEIS Thursday night:s Disraeli's sr )een imperfectly heard, i t is not:conajjed he hon. gentl of the addre. upon the mat ro for him. As it h a very conspieuo Denison was attired in the tenant of the county of Y, very generally felt RIVAL SHOWMEN.-At Huddersn.._ Wombwell and Hilton pitched their tents (4. other. Each party paraded an elephant, an through Queen-street to Wombwell's, when fronting each other in defiance, the lady o. elephant holding up a young lion by This was soon replied to by her eopard, which, with Aeemin lap, and was greeted with equal piau quadrupedal celebrity their re The abelligete spectivd camps, foil and, n tbstandi we learn that their success w wards evening, AUGMENTATION OF THE ROYAL ARTILLFRY.-Appli- cation was made some tim se of ►.he Royal Regiment of Artil ' each company, and it ha the ext rein stations, co f 22 men to , eendecided that an increase 1v the r added to the regiment will be /4,-. Lisburn, Ireland, where Lieutenant Clerk has recruits ready to be sent to head-quarters, the recruiting in other parts,:especially in Scotland, is very unsuccessful, and it is the general opinion of those acquaintectmith that branch of the service, that the only effective plan to insure fine young men to enter the service is to grant a pension .911 W _ of Is. per day after 21 years' SE would be no difficulty whatever s in that case there coy of NEW STEAM-ENGINE Bier M. Arnaud Seguier read a notice of a new st- m-engine, the invention of M.M. hoard and Mer- —At the Paris Ac, Sciences, Luc uouaLruct.ton or tins engine, M. Seguier says,—lt differs from all that has hitherto been invented, not only in its construc!ion, but also by the special manner in which the steam is employed. In stead of being conveyed from the great generator to the way, or at the the losses due to said thlt ses of Vnrl Aliened aracters :e of five per 33 to have gallery, as obert Peel had prevailed Lancaster to stand bail ncis Egerton wore Icl, last week halted V ombwell's, of bravado. s her rival in ien retired to is of y of the wea etty good, especially to: motive apparatus, and un moment when its action is of the cooling i in a very elevated tem- the diminution of volume by the can process, the steam is mair in such a way that the heat does not escape by the orifice Renoir- -r temperature which until it has _ ....red an i permits it to act at once Oar • WISED SYSTEM SERVANTS.—E:dward Ec one of the metropolitan CHARACTERS TO 3 on Friday, at ffices: with having ob- tier to Sir J. So h, of the :haracter pui sons of 'n th, enabled to obtain ad- names of Guest, nd a variety of ascertained that I situations on the sentenced led the situation of OUervatory, Kensington, b In the o quiry pu tion was obtained of a -1. different character were trent . liiing - in Guilford-street, who assume Lady Cotterell, Mrs. Colonel Fra other names and titles The police have the agency of this war strength of Pals 'he pris to pay a fine of £2O, or suf FREE TRADE BASHFULNESS.—Tbere are R _ anonymous contributors to the League's Quarter Million Fund. How is it that men will g but will not lend their names to this fund no case for adopt The ye men and mo would be_like a regiment of nary motives t benevolent put who can all have s o rapidly gr the inconsi of their property - as tin( ye their money former butor to some 1 1 out of re such w their free ey are men v to of protection as to feel it, and to be as bashful I bankrupts ? ?-12 for ted ast ,na ins )e -tau al ro- to tp-