The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-10 00:00:00

t: : ii; . ~- ? pocessor in a rileillOranduril , whiPil if that auccessor had, f o l. towa d, thane un happy events would have been avoided. It was said that the sins of government were only those of omission, But such sins might be of the most grievous con sequence. if a rebellion burst forth, and no troops were called out, that was an omission; but was it a pardonable one? Sir James Graham had been taunted with his oppo sition to Lord Palmerston's bill for erecting a criminal juris diction among our countrymen in China. But when that bill was proposed Lord Palmerston knew all which had passed on the opium question, and stated not a word of it to parliament. If Sir J. Graham had been informed of those facts, his course would probably have been a very different one. Lord Palmerston however, who wasinformed of them did nevertheless, withdraw that bill. Mr. Gladstone then took an apologetical review of the measures adopted by the Chinese authorities for the suppression of the opium trade. The present motion was said to be advanced for the mere purposes of party. Not so ; this resolution went to declare, that there were abuses connected with the opium trade which required a remedy, we transfer the blame of the war from the Chinese to her Majesty's Ministers, and lay the foundation for an attempt at a peaceful settlement. Perhaps, indeed, an armament might have become necessary. Our own mis conduct had brought the affair into such a position, that force might now he required to effect for us what we were still in equity entitled to claim. Here was • the cause of censure against the Ministers of the British Crown. The war now undertaken he denounced as unjust. The flag of Britain so generally respected, was now ho isted to p rotect a contraband trade ; but, whether the trade were right or wrong, the charge of neglect was equally clear against the noble Secretary and his colleagues. Mr. WARD animadverted on Mr. Gladstone's defence of the Chinese, particularly a passage of it in which he under stood him to have palliated their introduction of poison into the wells, and their demand of an innocent Englishman, in retaliation for the murder of a native. Mr. PALMER; of Essex, said that Lord Palmerston having expressed his resolve to continue Captain Elliot as superin tendent, must be deemed responsible for that officer's acts. Mr. C. GREY then rote ; but Mr. BROTRERTON moved at an adjournment, and the debate was adjourned accordingly, half-past 12. COURT CIRCULAR-WEDNESDAY The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday morning, in a pony phaeton. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday, of her Majesty. Her Majesty had a dinner party on Monday, at Bucking ham palace. The company included the Swedish minister an d Countess Bjomstjerna, the Danish minister and Baroness de Blome, the Netherlands minister and Madame Dedel, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Earl of Erroll, the Earl and Countess of Listowel, Viscount and Viscountess Palmer ston, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, and Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor. The band of the Coldstream regiment of foot guards was in attendance during the evening. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the heredi tary Prince of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, honoured the per formance of Mr. Charles Kemble, as Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing, at Covent-garden Theatre last evening, with their presence. The royal suite included the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, Earl of Listowel, Mr. Rich, Hon. Col. Cavendish, Col. Bouverie, and Mr. Francis Sey mour. TOTNESS ELECTION PETITION. This committee met at 11 o'clock on Wednesday, Mr. Clive in the chair. Mr. Austen, on the part of the petitioner, Mr. Baldwin, took a preliminary objection to the informality of the notice of election given by the returning officer. Counsel being heard in support and against the objection, the committee came to the following resolution, which declares the election void :—" Resolved,—That the objection on behalf of Mr. Baldwin, relative to the informality of the notice given by the returning officer, is a valid objection, as the committee conceive that the expression in the act of the 7th and Bth William 1111., c. 25, four days' notice at least' must be understood as requiring four clear days, exclusive of the day of the notice and the day appointed for holding the election." Counsel on both sides agreed that the only duty which the committee had to perform was to report to the house that the last election for the borough of Totness was a void election. The chairman having assented, the committee separated. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY-HALF• YEARLY MEETING. The half-yearly meeting of this undertaking was held on Tuesday, the 25th ult., at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and a highly-satisfactory report presented to the proprietors, an nouncing a dividend of 6 per cent. from the profits of the past year, to he paid to the proprietors in two half-yearly instalments, the one on Thursday, the 30th April instant, and the other on the 29th October neat. The following statement was laid before the meeting, showing the increase of traffic upon the line during the past year :—From the conveyance of passengers the company have derived an increased revenue equal to nearly 23 per cent., from parcels above 33 per cent., fro► goods 842, coals 271, lime 10, and stone nearly 31 per cent. The total receipts of the year 1839 were £87,421 is. 9d., being £26,165 9s. above the receipt of the previous year ; and in proof of the further and increasing prosperity of the concern, it was shown, that up to the 7th March in this year, the revenue has exceeded that of the same period in 1839 by 231 per cent. The directors are rapidly proceeding to carry out the various improvements which have become necessary to accommodate their increasing traffic, and particularly the substitution of a doable line of rails in lieu of the present single line ; and we have no doubt that, with the proper and discreet management which they appear to be pursuing, this undertaking will ulti mately become one of the mast advantageous and profitable in the country. BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE EXTENSION RAIL WAY COMPANY.—The annual meeting of this company was held at Bristol on Tuesday last, but want of space, and the late hour at which the details came to hand, compel us to postpone the publication of the report, &c., till next week. The report touches principally upon the negotiations recently entered into with the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company, which negotiations, it is stated, are now wholly at an end. The directors, however, express a hope of being able to come to some arrangement with the Cheltenham and Great Western Company.—Railteoy Times. NORTH MIDLAND RAlLWAY. — Between Derby and Ro therham, (and on to Sheffield by the Sheffield and Rother ham Railway,) the principal operation is laying:the permanent road. A double line of rails is laid for a considerable dis tante north and south of Chesterfield ; this part of the line will be opened in May. The stations will be completed shortly, as most of them are now roofed in.—Derby Repor ter. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY' EVENING THE CHESTER CUP.—The attendance this morning, at the usual hour of business, was decidedly good, and the business gone through with on the important Cup race of Monday three weeks, important in a particular instance—that is, in the change of the premiership. " A catch-bet" of 12 tens to 1 was at the opening laid against Lord Miltown's Cruiskeen, but it was not long before the bubble burst, for 8 to 1 was accepted in ponies in one of the best informed quarters. The go-by given to Sir Thomas Stanley's horse was anticipated yesterday, when 10 to 1 would have been taken on the mare. 8 to 1 was frequently offered on the field bar Cruiskeen ; takers of 9 to 1 on Lanercost ; Gilbert Gurney was not backed, but we consider 11 to 1 about the ran of the market. The feather weight was repeatedly pro posed to be laid against at 100 to 8. Pops was not named, nor was there the slightest disposition to back King Cole, Tubalcain, Aimwell, Percy, &c. ; their prices must be con sidered nominal. Percy, we understand, was backed yester day at 25 to 1, and Apothecary and Imogene each at 25 to 1 to-day ; but there would probably be no difficulty in getting a point or two more. Melbourne has sprung to 100 to 8, at which price some money of moment has been put on ; it was, however, offered at noon. The closing offers were 7 to 1 on the field ; a point more was again obtained to the same sum, by the same gentleman, on Cruiskeen. 7 to I against Ld. Miltown's Cruiskeen—take 8 freely 8 to 1 „ Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy.—off 8 to 1 „ Mr. J. Henderson's Lanercost.—take 9 11 to 1 „ Mr. Fowler's Gilbert Gurney 100 to 8 „ Mr. Robinson's Melbourne.—off 100 to 8 The Feather.—off freely 100 to 7 Ld. Eglinton's St. Bennett.—t & then off 100 to 7 „ Mr. 0. Fairlie's Abraham Newland.—off 15 to 1 „ Mr. Price's Captain Pops.—t 100 to 6 18 to 1 „ Mr. Copeland's King Cole.—not backed 23 to 1 Mr. Allen's Percy. —t and then off 27 to 1 ~ Mr. Knox's George 27 to 1 ~ Lord Stanley's Imogene 27 to 1 ~ Mr. Speed's Aimwell.—off 27 to 1 ~ Sir T. Stanley's Apothecary 33 to 1 ~ Col. Peel's Dey of Algiers.—taken 100 to 8 2 , Dean and Imogene.—off THE Two THOUSAND GUINEAS' STAKES.-2 to 1 ag st A ng elica (taken and then offered) • 4 to 1 agst Confederate (offered) •,6 to 1 bar two. Even belting on Angelica for the Column Stakes; the horse has the call. Four score to 1 Angelica wins the two events (taken). Offers to take Bto 1 on Crucifix ; but no layers. THE DERBY.-9 to 1 was offered on the field ; a guinea offered to be taken for 100 Confederate beats any other; at last 50 to 5 was laid as " a sound" for the premier —the gen tleman named Angelica; however, 10 to 1 would not be laid on ; 90 to 10 bid. The market price against Launcelot and Confederate is takers of 10 to 1 about each. 500 to 12 was laid against Melody, with plenty of offers since to take 40 to 1, or lay 300 to 10. Prince Albert was in demand ; 600 to 20 was booked in one hand, and 200 to 5 accepted on Maroon. 2 00 to 8 offered against Black Bess or Ottoman , a nd three W points more v. ardai ;20to 1 offered v. Lard Jersey.— Theon, Gambia, &c. were not named. OAKS.-7 to 2 offered v. Crucifix; 4tol we think would have been taken ; 7 to•l, bar one, offered. 100 to 1 against naming the Derby, Oaks, and St. Leger, winners (offered) ; it was nibbled in two instances after the ring broke up. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER.--There was a fair demand for yarn yester day, though not quite to the same extent as on the preceding Tuesday ; the purchases for the Indian and Chinese markets having been suspended until the arrival of the letters by the overland mail, which are expected to-day. There was some demand for Russian account; but, on the whole, the busi ness done was to a smaller extent than last week, though without change in prices. For goods, on the contrary, there was a somewhat better demand, especially for printing cloths and domestics ; and a fair amount of business was done at the full prices of the preceding Tuesday. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, APRIL 6. There is no improvement in the flannel market to-day, an d b us i ness is, if possible, more gloomy than on the previous Monday. Prices have undergone no change. The wool market has also been dull and heavy : the manufacturers seem to buy only for immediate use. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, APRIL 7.—The demand for woollens is on the increase, especially in tweeds, buckskins, &c., of a low and middle quality, but prices are still ruin ously depressed. For light fancy goods there is a little im provement in the demand, but profit is out of the question at present. Wools remain firm, and in the middle and lower qualities better prices are demanded. On the whole, we may be justified in reporting a slight improvement amidst the mi serable commercial depression.—Manchester Guardian of Wednesday. 13LAcKariaN.—Our market has manifested no symptom of improvement during the past week, either in demand or in prices, with the exception of some descriptions of bundle yarn, which have met with a ready sale at former low and unprofitable rates. Fox CHASE EXTRAORDINARY. —Oneti day last week, as the Derby engine, belonging to the rt - iingtiain and Derby Railway Company, was proceeding with the train to the latter place, a fox was discovered runi ie nf ea al i ong the line in several times upwards of front of the engine. After keeping a mile, reynard began to get tired, and imes crossed the line, and was shortly after run over, and cuttcompletely in two. On the return of the train, the separate parts were picked up, and the head and brush were affixed to the engine ..4u, ..saphies. Z ( `.. \ .1 - • "' .5 ,•"". 7 .1. -7 ' - r-- I . Y. - /110,:•...-.; , -...i %, 4 .-- .--C`%...„;.• , V 1...;:e7 • ',..- , 1,.!•1 t,......:/ ,,, \ ..: 0 . , I ;44 g ...- -.... .4 ; t.„,... ...= , 67::: ' . I . Z• 4 • 4444. i , ) . );ii,:. .~ .w ;13 \ '`is.,,_ ~..,' _ } ~ .. 3 ..~, tHEATREAOYAL, LIVERPOOL, Tie Last Night of Piiiformiyq until Aq . ,sirr Monday. '(:)13. THE BENEFIT OF MISS ELLEN TREE, AND HER LAST APPEARANCE, On which occasion Mr. ANDERSON, of the. Theatre- Royal, Covent-Garden, (yho is engaged for this night only,) will make his appearance in his original character of Antonio Rondinelli, in the new Play of A LEGEND OF FLORENCE, and will perform Don Felix, in the Comedy of the WONDER. Miss ELLEN TREE will perform her original character of Genevra in the Play, and Violante in the Comedy of the WONDER. THIS present FRIDAY, Aprillo,lB4o, will rfo rmed Jr • Hiti for the last time, the new Play, written py Leigh Hunt, Esq., ani produced this season, with the greatest success, at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, calledit LEGEND OF FLOREnCE. Genevra . Miss Ellen Tree, Antonio Rondinelli Mr. Anderson, As originally performed by them in London. Francesco Agolanti Mr. Stuart. Fulvia Da Riva Mr. Chaplin. Cesare Colonna. Mr. W. H. Bland. Giulio Mrs. Tellet. . Miss Cleaver. Diana.... Mrs. Baker. After which, the Comedy of THE WONDER : A WOMAN KEEPS A SECRET. Donna Violaute Miss Ellen Tree. Don Felix Mr. Anderson. Colonel Briton... Mr. W. Howard. Frederick Lissardo.... Mr. Baker. Gibby.... Mr. Slaiter. Donna Isabella Miss Cleaver. . Mrs. Clarke. Isis Mrs. Tellet. Olimpia. Flora. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. LAST NIGHT BUT ONE OF THE SEASON. MR. F. GARDNEft begs to announce to his Friends and the Public of Liverpool, that his BENEFIT is appointed to take place this present FRIDAY EVENING, the 10th instant, being the Last Night but One of the Season, on which occasion he respectfully solicits their patronage and support. Mr. J. L. HATTON has kindly consented;yippear in Two Pieces. The Performance will commence with (fir time at this Theatre) a Drama, founded on fact ntitled PEDLARS' ACRE ; OR, THE WIFE OF SEVEN H BANDS. Long-fingered Jack (a youth that is not articular as to ap propriating other persons' property), Mr. J. L. Hatton, in which he will sing " Jolly Nose." Martyn Lessamour (the seventh husband to Maigaret), Mr. Barton. ___ _ Robert Laidlaw (the Pedlar of Lambeth), Mr. F. Gardner. Margaret Lessamour (the wife of seven husbands), Miss Baldie. Cyprian Gossamer (page to Martyn Lessamour, with a song), Mrs. Barton. After which, first time, a laughable Dramatic Caricature, as performed with great success at the Adelphi Theatre, en titled Pal HB H B Captain Funnell.. (a reg'lar gruff un).... Mr. J. L. Hatton. Betty Nangle.. (a nice young lady).... Mrs. Raymond. To conclude with, first time this season, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. S mike (an orphan) Mrs. Barton. Squeers.. Mr. Tilbury. Newman Noggs.. Mr. C. F. Marshall. Mantilini (a man-milliner) Mr. Higgie. In the course of the evening, a variety of Singing & Dancing. For particulars, see bills of the day. Tickets may be had of Mr. WEIS, Music-seller, Church street ; Messrs. HlM'', and SoN, Church-street and Bold street ; and of Mr. BREZE, at the Theatre, from Eleven to Three daily, where places may be secured. ` LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. RAYMOND, In consequence of several parties having been disappointed in gaining admission on Wednesday Evening last. T O -MORROW (Saturday) EVENING, the 11th instant, " GOD SAVE THE QUEEN," • Verse and Chorus, by the whole of the Company. THREE POPULAR PIECE; A FAREWELL ADDRESS Will be spoken o lyMr. RAYMOND. The popular Drama - ROR Y O'MORE. Rory O'More Mr. Raymond. Kathleen Mrs. Barton. A variety of Singing and Dancing, by Mr. F. Gardner, Misses Thomassin and Lidia, and Madlle. Chevallier. To be followed by the laughable Interlude, called THE VALET DE SHAM. Principal characters by Mr. Raymond, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Higgie, &c.—To conclude with DON JUAN ; OR, THE LIBERTINE DESTROYED. Don Juan • TO CORRESPONDENTS. We regret that we cannot find room for the letter of " A Member of St. Jude's." Our correspondents generally must exercise a little forbearance with us until the Assizes are brought to a close, when we hope to be able to bring up arrears. They must not construe the omission of their favours, under existing circumstances, as a slight towards them. CIA' Um:pool .otanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1840. We have received our files of the Guiana Chronicle to the 10th February, and of the Berhice Advertiser to the 6th of February, both inclusive. We have also been favoured with copies of the Royal Gazette to the sth of February. The contents of these papers are highly important; but we regret that we are compelled to defer our extracts until our next publication. The following is an extract of a private letter with which we have been favoured :—" I have been down on the east coast, but I am sorry to say that it is almost abandoned. The Negroes are doing just as they like : in fact, they are getting so independent, that unless immigration is allowed, the colony must be ruined. The crop last year is about one-third of what it used to be formerly. Some estates cannot pay their expenses." This description is not less true than melancholy. We learn from the Guiana Royal Gazette that the Court of Policy had equalised the taxes of Berbice with those of Demerara and Essequibo. This is :a boon which cannot fail to produce great satisfaction among the Berbiceans, who have hitherto been pressed with a much greater burden of taxation than their neighbours. They are now placed upon a footing of equality with the inhabitants of the other counties. In our next publication we shall give insertion to several important extracts ou the subject of immigra tion into British Guiana and the West India islands. We have received our files of the Jamaica Royal Gazette to the 27th of February, and of the Jamaica Standard to the 22d of February, both inclusive. We rejoice to find that these papers have commenced a salutary agitation on the subject of immigration into the West Indies, and that they have acknowledged, in suitable terms, the obligations under which those colo nies are placed by the advocacy of their interests by the British press. We cordially join them in the hope that public meetings will be forthwith held in each colony for the purpose of urging forward a scheme so pregnant with the greatest benefit to the colonists, as well as to the mother country; and we trust that the day is not far distant when each of the Legislative Assemblies will join in a powerful appeal to the go vernment at home on this important subject. We have no space to-day for any extended extracts from the papers before us : but we shall, in subse quent numbers, lay before our readers some of the very valuable documents which they contain. The subject of the equalisation of the duties on sugar has naturally engaged a considerable degree of attention in Jamaica. Petitions against the proposed measure have been forwarded to this country from the respective parishes in the island. On this topic the Grenada Free Press has put forth some very sensible observations, which we have transferred to our co lumns, and to which we beg the earnest attention of our readers. The Jamaica Standard has also some very powerful remarks on the same subject, which we subjoin : " The threatened equalisation of the sugar-duties, upon which some stir is now making in these colonies, is a mea sure which‘has not unfrequently been deprecated in this paper, and assuredly calls for the united endeavours of all parties, to prevent, if possible, any such sche me b e i ng car ried into effect. For this purpose, we observe, the colonists of Trinidad have already, on their peculiar behalf, prepared the drafts of a petition to both houses of parliament, show ing forth not only the impolicy to Great Britain herself, but the almost certain ruin to her colonial possessions, of ad mitting the introduction of foreign and slave-grown sugars into her markets, on the same terms as have hitherto been extended only to the former. The truth of this, no reason able man, who knows any thing at all of the subject, can doubt. It is morally and physically impossible, we assert, for these colonies, shattered as they now are in all their agri cultural concerns, by the ill-managed emancipation of their labourers, to compete for one moment with the variety of markets which would thereby be formed on the continent and elsewhere, for the supply of British trade and speculation in this important article. The commercial treaties of the British nation with slave-holding as well as other countries, it is not to be supposed would be long allowed to lie dormant, were the present restrictions upon their sugar-trade wiped away ; and we should soon find the English market the recep tacle for sugars of every clime, from those of the Brazil on the one hand, to China or Siam on the other. Nor is it else than a perfect mockery —a deception to say, as some of the equalization advocates do, that the benefits of this measure are only to be extended to countries where slavery is not re cognised by law. Well has it been said by the Trinidad pe titioners, that such distinction is impracticable. For, putting aside the treaties already existing with many of these coun tries, and which the Brazil Cabinet would fund it rather in convenient to disturb, there is this palpable difficulty in the way—that even in their own colonial possessions of the East, where they may be supposed to retain some power of sur veillance, the quantity of sugar smuggled from Slave States, ~# Into their several ports, and therefrom shipped as the produces 1 of free labour, is known and proved to be immense ; and yet , no steps have been, or can effectually be taken, to prevent it. With other countries possessing the same opportunities, and freed from the present restrictions, 'the sugars of the British West Indies, we advisedly say, would at once and for ever be shut out from the only mart where they could effect a sale. The encouragement to foreign sugars, by the withdrawal of the protecting duties, and the immense quantities which would then flow in, necessarily glutting the markets, would reduce the price of that article to an ebb at which its cultiva tion in these colonies must inevitably cease to be profitable. consequently, ruin—unmitigated and universal ruin must ensue. For where the staple produce of a country suddenly ceases, especially one situated like Jamaica, there is no time, no capital, no enterprise, no opportunity even, to attempt diverting her resourses into other channels ;—a few may lin ger on, who have not energy enough to carry them elsewhere ; —but, we warn the country—its agricultural and commercial prosperity will be gone for ever ! Surely, under these seri ously important circumstances, it behoves every man to unite heart and hand in praying the Brigish legislature to beware how they heap coals of fire, not only upon our, but their own heads, by thus entertaining, even for one moment, a measure so replete with mischief and desolation to their West Indian possepions. Let them remember, moreover, lest selfish con siderations should have greater weight—the lasting obloquy which would thereby attach to their name, for having thus fatally struck on the head every further hope of emanicipation ' to the slaves of other countries, by the warning which will have heeu sufficiently afforded them here. " But, say these popular advocates of this measure : If the colonies are no longer able to supply our markets with the necessary quantity of sugar, and therefore it is absolutely necessary to look elsewhere for it." Admirable presump tion! And so, it is now found out for the first time, that the colonies have really fallen off in their exports of sugar, notwithstanding the oft-reiterated assertions both in parlia ment and out of it, as well in the public prints as in public speeches—that the emancipation of the negroes in these colonies, and its attendant evils, had not deteriorated pro perty, and had not injured the planters ! What have they to say for themselves—thus convicted even by their own lips of the most foul and long-persisted in iniquity, of having knowingly and wilfully perverted truth, and asserted false hoods, so long as they answered a particular purpose : while they now, with other motives,,, equally culpable, admit that they have been liars, that they may there upon hinge the plea of dealing that last and finishing stroke to our existence ! We may search the annals of public crime from end to end, but we must search in vain to find an instance of greater turpitude, or more unmitigated villany than this !—Yes, reader, it is too true ;—by arts and interferences,slanderings and persecutions, they have managed to reduce the exportations of this island alone, upwards of 20,000 hogsheads, and every other colony in proportion, so that, as appears by the latest prices current for the city of London, as published in our last, the arrivals in that port alone in one year have been reduced to the enormous extent of nearly 60,000 hogsheads, or upwards of eighty-nine mil lions of pounds—and because of this deficiency, these very persons who are the cause of all, are now the first to cry out, and to demand, in consequence, the admission of other sugars on any terms, and at any sacrifice ! We trust, however, there is still sufficient honour in the British nation, to pr•e• vent any such gross act of injustice and oppression." We are sorry to learn from the Jamaica Standard, that incendiarism is becoming exceedingly prevalent in the island. This is a feature of fearful import to the prosperity of the colony, and one that strongly argues the necessity of an active and well-organised police, for the protection of life and property. The Governor was making a tour through the island, and was every where received with the greatest enthusiasm. Most of the addresses presented to him complain of the depressed state of agriculture. These complaints elicited from Sir Charles Metcalfe distinct assurances of his determination to do all in his power to remedy existing grievances, and to promote the general prosperity of the island. • Fhe ministry of Lord Melbourne must be overturned at once if England wishes to preserve her present mo narchical form of government or to secure the happi ness and prosperity of her people. The conservatives of England must no longer be contented to wage against it a war of resistance merely. The enemy must, not only be kept at bay, but crushed, as we would crush a reptile in our path. The fangs of the serpent must not only be drawn, but joint by joint of his loath some form must be struck off, and the slime of his trail no longer be allowed to pollute the sod. " Delenda est Carthago !" was the warning voice which at morning and evening saluted the ears of the Roman Consul. " The ministry must be destroyed" should be now the watchword of the conservative party and the friends of constitutional liberty throughout the kingdom. Let us no longer be deluded by the thought that it is 'powerless or contemptible, or that the government of the country is substantially in the hands of Sir Robert Peel and his supporters. - Let us no longer be told that the infamy which it is hourly accumulating in its truckling and dishonest course will ultimately overwhelm it amidst a storm of public exe cration. We admit all this. We know that, directly, the administration of Lord Melbourne can effect no great injury—can inflict nu " heavy blows" upon any portion of the constitution; but, indirectly, this is far from being the case. Not an hour is added to its loathsome existence in which some bulwark of our ve nerated institutions is not weakened, or some cherished object of our national pride defiled ! The axe may not openly be laid to the roots of the tree, but the poison breathing plant is allowed to entwine amongst its branches and blight its vegetation. The hand of the destroyer may not be allowed to invade openly the walls of that hallowed pile whose every stone has been ce mented with the blood of martyrs; but the stream of impurity and infidelity is suffered to enter at its portals, and the feet of the scorner to trample upon its green graves. Yes : the ministry of Lord Melbourne must be de stroyed at all hazards and at any sacrifice. We must impress again and again that truth upon the attention of the people of England until the spirit which ani mated the hearts and nerved the arms of their fathers shall be aroused, and the "accursed thing" driven forth to hide its loathsome form in kindred darkness. If we wish that the monarchy shall be preserved, which that ministry is hourly bringing into disrepute; if we wish that our national honour should be preserved, which that ministry is hourly bringing into contempt; if we wish that the peace of Europe shall be maintained, which that ministry is hourly endangering; if we wish that our commerce should flourish, which that minis try is hourly plunging into more hopeless difficulty ; if we wish that a loyal yeomanry should still exist as the object of our pride in peace and our trust in war; that a race of English gentlemen should still be preserved to rally round the throne in times of danger and of difficulty ; that a proud nobility, the descendants of the chivalry which raised the banner of St. George upon the fields of Crecy and of Agincourt, should still continue to interpose the shield of their unbending will against the encroachments of mob tyranny and mock liberalism ; we must take our stand now, and meet, with a bold front and resolved hearts, the tide of de mocracy which that imbecile and degraded administra tion is directing against all that is good and all that is great throughout the land. We do not exaggerate the danger which hangs over the destinies of our country. We are neither timid men nor madmen. We have never advanced a posi tion which we are not prepared to defend. We have never advised a course of action in which we were not prepared to join. We assert that the continued exist ence of the present ministry is pregnant with danger to the safety of our monarchical form of government. Let us examine that position. Our gracious Queen ascended the throne of her an cestors amidst the acclamations of her people. Eng land, Scotland, and Ireland with one voice and one heart poured out before her the expression of their allowed a n d to eternalre remain in sympathy and de vo ti on , an d t h e grate f u l sp i r it o f an admiring p eop l e rose up to Heaven in a prayer for her temporal en happiness. eiiearts H o a f s tb t e ha p t eope feeling l be of England ? We grieve to say it has not. The name of our beloved monarch has been dragged from the hearts of her subjects and prostituted to the vile purposes of a vile faction. The popularity of England's Queen has been used as a weapon of offence • against the liberties of her subjects, and the power of her prerogative di rected against the security of those institutions • which she has sworn to defend and preserv e. Y oung and, as youth ever is, unsuspecting, she has been led by the councils of the artful and designing faction which sur round her throne to seclude herself from the presence and slight the loyalty of those exalted men whom the great body of her people delight to honour—to encircle herself with profligates and convicted adulterers—to throw off the wholesome restraint of parental affection and to take to her bosom the parasites by whom her inexperienced heart might best be diverted from th e exercise of those virtues implanted in it by the anxious care of maternal love. The ease of Lady Flora Hastings is still fresh in the memory of the people of England, The pallid features of the martyred victim of court slander still haunt us in our dreams ; and, lest it should be for gotten, and the . memory of that unhappy error, into which England's maiden Queen was allowed to fall, should sink into oblivion, the royal matron is dragged from her bridal couch to patronise the obscene nuptials of a hoary debauchee, to outrage afresh the feelings of her people, and to check the tide of returning affection which had already manifested itself in her favour. " The Buggins" must now, we presume, be permitted to flaunt her well-earned dignity at the court of Eng land's Queen ; the " social partner" of a gross old re-' probate be held up as a fitting companion for the ma trons and daughters of England's nobility; and an example afforded in the very palace and in the person of an uncle of the Sovereign, of the impunity with which England's laws may be broken, and the moral and religious sentiments of her people set at nought and defied. Is this, we ask, a course which is calculated to strengthen and preserve the monarchy? Is an admi nistration which permits the name and character of a young and amiable Queen to be thus mixed up with impurity and extended as a cloak over the licen tiousness of an obscene dotard, so contemptible that we may with safety allow its protracted existence ? We think not ; and we urge upon our countrymen to awake from their lethargy and to spurn from them the foul thing which drops its poison as it crawls, and de files with its fetid breath the honour of our Womanhood and the dignity of our Throne. We assert that the continued existence of Lord Mel bourne's administration is pregnant with danger to the peace of Europe, with destruction to our commerce, to our agriculture, and to our national religion. Can this be denied ? We think not. At the present mo ment we are entering upon a war with a country whose resources are unknown to us, whose distance presents difficulties the extent of which no man can foresee, and whose population outnumbers the whole of Europe. We have not an ally upon whose faith we can depend, and the justice of our quarrel is at best but doubtful. We are entering upon this war with a declining and deficient revenue, with disaffection at home, with our colonies alienated, with Russia me nacing our Indian empire on the one hand, and Arne rica our Canadian frontier on the other. Where, we ask—in what member of that administration is the commanding talent, the lofty integrity, and the firmness which may be necessary to bring us through a struggle so full of danger as that in which we are entering ? is it in Lord Palmerston ? Few Englishmen, we think, will be found at such a crisis to place confidence in a minister so thoroughly and utterly contemptible ! We will not weary the patience of our readers by detailing the heavy catalogue of errors which are daily plunging into distress and difficulty our agriculture and our commerce. We will not attempt to number the insults which have been heaped upon our religion, or the attacks which have been directed against our church. But we will say that these things must cease, and the ministry under whose rule they have been per mitted must give way to honester and better men. We call upon the great conservative party and the friends of constitutional liberty throughout the kingdom to prepare for such a demonstration of their numbers, in fluence, and firmness, at the elections which, we trust, are approaching, as will wipe out for ever the-stain which has been allowed to sully England's name, and avert the storm which is even now threatening to des cend upon her shores. 'We repeat again, if the glori ous institutions of our country are to be preserved— if the torrent of infidelity which is now desolating and perverting the hearts of its people is to be stayed—if republicanism, sedition, and crime are to be checked— if the giant strides of Popery are to be resisted, and peace, contentment, and religion once more to be found in the cottages of her industrious peasantry or of her humble artizans—if England is ever again to resume her proud pre-eminence amongst the nations of the world, to stand forth the friend of the friend less and the protector of the slave—that consummation can never be attained whilst modern liberalism and li centiousness reign in the palace and Popery thunders at the Council Board! The uneasy feeling with which the motion of Sir James Graham on the affairs of China has been,re garded for the last fortnight by the ministerial faction, is fully accounted for by the astounding nature of the facts which that motion has brought, for the first time, before the attention of Parliament and the public. We certainly did not expect to find the management of any department of our affairs by the present government characterised by an extraordinary degree of wisdom or of foresight ; and least of all did we expect to find either of these attributes displayed in that particular department which is confided to the presiding genius of Lord Palmerston. Vie must, however, confess that we were not prepared to find, under any administration or under any minister, such gross dereliction of duty, such utter ignorance and such lamentable obstinacy, as is proved—incontestably proved—to have characterised the policy of the Foreign-office in all its proceedings affecting our relations with the Chinese empire ; and we cannot, therefore, wonder at the soreness with which the hacks of the ministerial press have endeavoured to depreciate the importance of the discussion which has precipitated such inconvenient and damaging dis closures. The question which the motion of Sir James Graham proposed to discuss was not, as the ministerial organs urge that it ought to have been, a question as to the justice or injustice of the impending war with China, or as to the mode in which that war was to be carried on. It was not a question as to the right of British subjects to carry on a legitimate or illegitimate trade with China, to purchase tea or to smuggle opium. Wisely and judiciously, we think, the right honourable baronet restricted his inquiry to the simple and intelli- gible question, whether the present untoward position of this country with respect to China was or was not the result of the ill-advised course pursued by our go vernment towards that nation. To this point Sir James Graham adhered ; and we venture to assert that a more triumphant case, containing more damning evidence of error and incompetency, was never brought against any British administration. We are not ourselves disposed to enter into the consideration of the justice or injustice of a war with China. We should, we must confess, gladly endea vour to secure to our countrymen tha commerce of that singular people; and we admit that England is not unprovided with just grounds for proceeding to enforce her claims, and to demand reparation for in juries sustained and insults suffered at the hands of the vapouring authorities of China. We know and value the immense field of enterprise which that coun try offers to our merchants; and — the importance of placing our intercourse with it upon a sound and last ing basis. But we are not prepared to say that, even to obtain so substantial and undeniable a benefit, we are justified in provoking a war ; and we are not so sure of a favourable result as to rejoice in having pro voked one. We are not satisfied either that even a successful war—successful to the extent which a war with a nation such as the Chinese would be—could secure to us the advantages which alone we ought to seek, viz., the extension of a legitimate and honourable We are therefore naturally driven hack to our original position, and led to ask, as a guide to our future policy, by u hat misdirection we have lost the good which for years we have enjoyed, and from which England has reaped a golden harvest, at the sole cost of humouring a little the prejudices and ab surd vanity of an incomprehensible and, at the same time, a harmless and peaceful nation. To this question the motion of Sir James Graham has elicited an answer the truth of which is undenia ble—an answer which establishes the fact, that to the negligence, the want of prudence, nay the want of ordinary diligence, on the part of our government, is to he attributed a misunderstanding which has preci pitated us into a war with a nation possessing a popu .lation numbering 350,000,000, with a revenue of £60,000,000 per annum, and which furnishes one sixth of our whole commercial revenue. We should naturally suppose that, with such a country, the mi nister of a great commercial people would be anxious to preserve the most friendly relations ; yet we have it admitted in this debate, that to the successive repre sentations of three commissioners (Mr. Davis, Sir G. Robinson, and Captain Elliot), all representing, in the strongest manner, the propriety of opening a corre spondence with the head of its government, with a commerce. view to facilitate commercial intercourae, no answer was vouchsafed by that minister during a period of five years ! We should naturally suppose that, for the protection of so extensive a ,commerce as has been carried on by our merchants with China, a wise go- vernment would have taken measures to furnish some adequate force, especially after a written recommenda tion to do so by a statesman of such acknowledged ability as the Duke of Wellington; yet we find, from the published returns laid . by that government upon the table of the House of Commons, that from March 1835 to September 1839, fifty-three months elapsed, and that during that period there was no ship of war at Canton, except for the space of eight months; and that when the government superintendent, after having exhausted himself with ineffectual requests for aid to enable him to repress the predatory proceedings of the illicit traders, and representing the danger into which they were bringing the entire commerce with China, was at length seized himself as a hostage, and his life perilled for their unruly conduct, lie was compelled to owe his safety to the accidental presence in the Canton river of two American frigates ! It will scarcely be believed, too, that during the whole period of the growth of the opium trade—a trade the carrying on of which has confessedly been one of the chief griev ances of the Chinese government, and the measures to be pursued with respect to which have formed the subject of a great portion of the despatches of the British superintendent—not one line of Lord Palmer ston ever touched upon the subject, the mention of the word opium only occurring in one despatch, and, even then, coupled with an intimation that her Majes ty's government were prepared to abandon to its fate the trade in that drug, which, if they had not openly encouraged, they had at least permitted to grow up unchecked and uncontrolled. • We are told, however, as an apology for the gross neglect of the Foreign-office, and in answer to the charge of Sir. James Graham that sufficient power had not been vested in the British superintendent, or suffi cient instructions given to enable him to regulate his conduct in the di►'licult :position which he occupied ; that it would be absurd for a government to attempt to lay down rules for the guidance of a functionary exercising his duties at so great a distance; and that the superintendent himself, residing upon the spot, was the best judge of the policy to be pursued to en sure the object of his mission. We admit freely and fully the latter part of the plea, but certainly not its application as an apology for Lord Palmerston. The superintendent was, or ought to hare been, the best judge of the policy to lie pursued in the various details of his arduous duty; but, then, he had no poWers. He urges upon the government the necessity of grant ing him powers, and his repeated applications and remonstrances—the remonstrances of the superinten dent, "residing upon. the spot, and best able to judge of the policy to be pursued"—are thrown aside and disregarded ! He tells the government that unless he is invested with the necessary powers—the same powers, too, which had been enjoyed by officers occupying a position similar to his own, under the East India Com pany—the suspension of our entire commerce with China must be the result-; yet he is denied that power, or it. is neglected to be furnished. And when the Chinese, stung by repeated violations of their laws, threaten measures of retaliation, he warns repeatedly and emphatically the government at home of the cri tical posture of the immense interests under his charge, and urges the importance of providing an imposing force to repel any aggressions which may be made upon them. Yet when those aggressions are made, when the hour of conflict arrives, the superintendent --the representative of the British monarch—has only a pinnace, a cutter, and a few small craft at his dis posal ; and, after a fire of almost half an hour against three war junks, is compelled (we use his own words) "to haul off" from failure of his ammunition ! As the next step a blockade was declared—still without the necessary power to enforce it, and without a previ ous declaration of war; but, upon a remonstrance being made by the American merchants, the blockade, although declared in the presence of the Chinese by the officer in command, was hastily abandoned, with out producing any other result than an impression that insolence and cowardice were the characteristics of the British character. Will it be denied, we ask, that the gross errors which we have detailed—errors which are scarcely attempted . to be denied by the ministerial faction -L. furnish strong and undeniable grounds for the cen sure directed against government by the motion of Sir James Graham ? The weak and negligent policy of the Foreign-office has certainly precipitated, if not originated, the present embroilment of our commer cial relations with China ; and it will require all the caution, wisdom, and firmness which can be brought to the task, to reinstate us in our for mer advantageous position. Whether this can best be effected by open hOstilities or by peaceful ne gociations, or, as is most likely to be the case, by a combination of the two, we have not now to enquire. Whether the people of England will regard a war with China as a just or an unjust war is not the question we have to discuss. Our position, and the position of the conservative party, upon the motion of the right lion. baronet, is one of aggression upon the past policy of the foreign office. We argue that sheer in competency, added to gross neglect of precaution and blind obstinacy, has shut out our commerce and our manufactures from one of the largest and most im portant markets of the world—has brought into peril our immense eastern possessions—and has degraded our national character in the eyes of a people who hitherto have looked up to us with respect; and we contend by implication that the ministry whose ill directed councils have produced this unhappy state of things, are not possessed of the honesty, the energy, or the capacity which may be required to provide a remedy for the evil. We understand that at the meeting of the Dock Committee yesterday the motion for rescinding that for the admission of Reporters was carried by 11 votes to 6. For the admission of Reporters—Messrs. T. Holt, Holmes, Horsfall, Gladstone, Hornby and Yates : Against—Messrs. Leathom, Benn, Mellor, Smith, Booth, Bulley, Segar, Tobin, Ripley, Martin, and G. Holt. ROBBING OF CIIILDREN.—The robbery of children in the streets of any loose article about them, whether of dress, or nament, or toy, has of late years been frequent, and the hat mediate actors have generally been children themselves, tu tored by unprincipled parents. On Tuesday last a flagitious case of this species of theft was disclosed at the Police Court. A woman, named Alice Irvine, who had an infant in her arms, and her daughter (a mere girl), were brought up, charged with robbing a little girl of a link of coral beads from her neck. It appeared that the mother had watched the child, who was going to school, and after witnessing the rob bery, had received the beads into her own hand. The mo ther of the robbed child seized the younger delinquent, and the other was -soon afterwards apprehended. Mr. Rushton stated that the elder female was well known as having trained her children to such practices, and committed her for trial. GALE'S WHITBY NEW LIFE-BOAT.—A fine life-boat on an improved principle has recently been completed by Mr. C. Gale, of Whitby, for the Liverpool Steam Tug Company. The builder is a gentleman of great ingenuity ; his merits have been much appreciated on the eastern coast of this our " tight little island,' where he is well known, and we trust he will become not less celebrated in the west. As it may gratify some of our friends connected with shipping, we sup ply a brief description of this new boat for the preservation of life on occasions of danger :—Her length aloft is twenty eight feet, and her breadth ten feet two inches, she has ten grunametted oars, with iron thouls, and two steering oars, which will be worked on iron swivels. Through her bottom are six lead tubes, by which, should she fill, the water, it is calculated, would escape in 20 seconds. In her bottom amid ships, she has a well or tank capable of holding about 14 cwt. of water, as ballast, which can be filled or discharged in three or four minutes if required. Should she upset, which, owing to her great beam, is not very probable, there is a large cop per tube, by which, on her righting, the water will be carried off ; there is also, in case of such accident, a number of cir cular stretchers, secured by ropes to the timber heads, for the support of the crew. She has portable wash boards at the bow and stern, and is fitted with horizontal air boxes. Her keel and sternplates are of iron. When fully manned, say with 12 hands, and 14 cwt. of water ballast, she draws only from 15 to 16 inches of water, and when completely filled with water her draught will not exceed 21 inches. We heartily wish her and her builder the greatest success, not forgetting the spirited and enterprising company for whom she has been constructed, and whose meritorious exertions in the preservation of life from shipwreck, not only in the memorable gale of last year, but during the present winter, are yet too fresh on the public mind, to require the slightest commendation. The attention of our readers is directed to the following communication addressed to Messrs. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton-garden, London (whose advertisement appears in another column). —Canterbury, Kent, Feb. 20.—Gentlemen, —I write this as a convincing proof of the efficacy of your Macassar oil. For nearly three years my head was quite bald ; during that time I tried several advertised preparations, but to no purpose. Your oil being in high estimation in this place, induced me to try it, and in a short time was wonder. fully recovered, and I have the pleasure to assert, the oil con tains those virtues which you express in your bills and essay; in short, my hair never was so comfortable, is free from dan driff, feels extremely pleasant, possesses a strong curl and is very thick. 1 shall make it my study to recommend it, and you have my free will to publish this note.—Your obedient humble servant, CHARLES EDWARD COLMAN. SOUTH LANCASHIRE SPRING ASSIZES. CROWN COURT.—TUESDAY. TRIALS OF CHARTISTS. The,ATTbRNEY-GENERAL directed that William Vickers Jackson, George Henry Smith, Christopher Doyle, and John Kaye should be called. Mr. liciriciss again rose, and said that the traverses of these parties had not been entered. His LORDSHIP said it was impossible to conceive that this continued delay had arisen from any thing less than inten tional disrespect to the court. He should order the recog nisances to be estreated. Mr. Sergeant ATCIIERLY detailed the circumstances o! the case to the jury; but as kis speech was principally a re capitulation of the evidence, is unnecessary to follow the learned counsel in his remarks. He observed that Jackson had been a minister of the Wesleyan Methodists, a body of Christians of whom it was impossible to - speak with too high respect. Walter Smythe, a police-officer, of Manchester, deposed, that on the 25th Jnly,last he attended a public meeting , at . . Hulme. He saw Jacicson, Doyle, and Smith there. He did not know who was in the chair. After the chairman, Smith was the first person who had addressed the meeting. He spoke at considerable length. Witness had made notes of the sayings, which he produced. Smith, after holding forth against the church, said he was armed, and he advised every body to be the same. Unless the charter were granted within a limited period, he would tell Mr. Spy that it would be ob tained by means that would for ever destroy his employment. The crowd gave three groans for the police spies. A man named Quin was pointed out as a person in disguise belong ing to the old police force. Smith announced two other meet ings for Wednesday and Thursday, in Travis-street, Man chester. Doyle spoke at the meeting about the poor-law, and followed Smith in. his remarks on the necessity for arming. He alluded to the approaching national holiday, and said, perhaps many would ask him how they were to live without work ? They must live as be had done, by a pointed argu ment. Smith said he had to attend another meeting that evening, where more would be done than police spies could prevent. Jackson presented himself, and was received with applause. He said he set the authorities at defiance, and did not care for the bloody police. He spoke of the necessity for arming ; but witness did not recollect his precise words. On the 25th July witness attended a meeting in Travis street, at which Smith and Doyle were present. Smith, at that meeting, moved a resolution, to the effect that the meet ing pledged itself to carry into effect a system of exclusive dealing, as a means of forcing the middle classes to join or contribute to the charter. The question worked well in Hulme, and before long it would be established from the Land's-end to John o'Groat's. He then spoke of the eco nomy of her Majesty's government, in having granted seven thousand pounds for the erection of her Majesty's stables. Mr. BRANDT put it over and over to the witness, whether it was 1:7000. _ _ The defendant Smith—lt was £70,000. (Laughter.) Witness—He did not blame the Queen—it was not her fault—he did not blame Lord Melbourne, nor Lord John Russell—but he blamed, John Taylor, of the Manchester Guardian ! (Loud laughter.) It was him and such as him! (Renewed laughter.) He said, he did not care for pig-meal (aot pigmy) Jack. Witness understood Lord John Russell to be called pigineal Jack. (Laughter.) Taylor had insulted the body of chartists, for he had said that the meeting of the preceding day consisted of only about five hundred people, of whom about fifty were boys ; but that meeting would lead to no child's play, for there were at least 4000 people at it. After what had taken place at Birmingham, he would never attend another meeting without coming prepared for the worst, as he then was. Ile would not tell them to do it, but he would tell them what he did in the case of being laid hold of by any of the Potters in the quiet discussion of his own affairs u Mr. Potter was the mayor of Manchester. As for little Jo*, if he applied to him for a character, he would give him such an one as would prevent him ever get ting employment for the future. If force were used against him, he must resist it. He advised that person who was a spy to begone. A man, who stood behind witness said, the first person who laid a hand upon him he woutd lay him dead at his feet. The speaker proceeded, that if any of the police interfered, they should have such a reception as Manchester had never seen before. How had the Americans got their independence? By physical force. Then, why should they not do the same ? Witness spoke of another meeting at which a person named Linney was in the chair. There was a banner held up at that meeting, on which-was an inscrip tion to the effect, that every man had a right to one vote for his representative in right of his existence, and the title deed was in his person. Jackson advised that they should be armed. It was useless to leave their arms on the mantel piece ; they were to bring their arms concealed, and if they were Peterlooed, England should be in flames from one end of the country to the other, and the soil should teem with blood. On the 31st July, there was another meeting at which Kaye was in the chair. He detailed a conversation which he had had with Colonel Wemyss, in which the latter had asked him what they could do against the soldiery. He replied that they had destructive instruments to throw amongst the cavalry to disable the horses, which would fall, and then the soldiery would be at the mercy of the thou sands. Smith addressed the assembly as " fellow-country men and fellow-slaves." He said they should he prepared with muskets. If a soldier were' to be knocked down, they could take his musket and sword from him. He told them fo meet next Sunday at the 'collegiate church gates, and make as good an appearance as possible, as they might as well sit on the soft cushions as the factory lords. When they had filled the church, they were to go to Jackson's room in Oxford-road. Witness deposed to another meeting held on the following week, at which Jackson spoke. Mr. Murphy cross-examined at considerable length. James Macdonald, an inspector of police at Manchester. He had attended the meeting at Hulme on the 23d July. Smith was there, and he spoke very violently of Government, and said it would be necessary for every man to be prepared as he was. The people shouted, "we are also prepared." He said he was going to attend another meeting that night, at which something of importance would be done, and no spies would be admitted. Christopher Doyle was there. He spoke generally of the weight of taxation throughout the country, and of the national debt, the interest of which, he said, was twenty millions. He spoke of the inutility of sup porting kings and queens at such an enormous expense. All should be prepared with arms against the coming sacred month. Physical force was the only means of putting a stop to these abuses. It would be necessary to be provided with arms, and if an outbreak should take place, he would be one of the very first to pull a trigger in defence of the charter. Some one, as the meeting broke up, fired a pistol. J. S. Howell, clerk in the Borough Police-office of Man chester, stated hat, on the 24th July last, he attended a meeting in Travis-street. There was a tri-coloured flag elevated, on which was the inscription, " The Rights of Man." This witness, as well as William Robinson, Thos. Taylor, Percival Jefferson, Joseph Saddler, and Mr. Bes wick, the chief officer of the Manchester new police, gave testimony in support of the charges against the defendants. Mr. Saddler, who is the head-constable of Stockport, on the sth August last searched the house of Mr. Thompson, gun maker, of Stockport. He found there a letter, which was read to the Court. It was an order for six guns, and con tained an assertion, that the writer (the defendant Smith) could dispose of some hundreds. Mr. MURPHY addressed the Jury on behalf of the de fendants. He contended, generally, that the testimony of police-officers, who trusted to memory, and did not write their notes till some time after the words were uttered, was unworthy of serious attention. The learned gentleman spoke at considerable length, and with much energy and eloquence. Mr. Serjeant ATCHERLEY replied. His LORDSHIP commented minutely upon the evidence, separating the points, which indicated that the meetings and speeches had a seditious tendency from those which merely exhibited notions which the defendants, in common with all others, have a right to entertain. His Lordship thought the evidence of conspiracy against Kaye was but very slight, how ever, it was for the Jury to judge whether be had not had a common object with the others in attended the meeting, at which he presided as chairman. The jury, after consulting a few moments in the box, re tired at half past three o'clock. They returned at a quarter past four and found Jackson, Smith, and Doyle, guilty on all the counts, and Kaye, of being at a seditious meeting. THE QUEEN V. DARKER AND DAVIDSON. William Barker and Frederick Davidson were charged with seditious conspiracy and riot, at Manchester, on the 12th August last. The defendants had traversed since last assizes. Counsel for the prosecution as in the last case, Mr. Wilkins defended. Richard Beswick stated that on the 12th August last, the day when the national holyday was to be celebrated, he re ceived, early in the morning, intelligence of a riot at Mr. Marsden's mill. He went there, and found the two defend ants at the gate of the works, at the head of a great mob, whom they appeared to be directing and controlling. They were kicking furiously at the gate, calling to those within to turn out the hands, and to the mob to come on. The two prisoners were captured. He received a dagger from a con stable, called Booth. [This weapon, a very formidable in strument, was produced.] Joseph Holmes stated that, on the 12th August last, he was engineer at Mr. Chappell's mill, which was not far from Manchester. About half-past five o'clock in the morning, a mob of two hundred people entered the yard, and made them stop the engine, This put a stop to the working of the fac tory, and the hands were turned out. He saw them go to another factory and act in a similar manner. On cross-exa mination, the witness said a great part of the mob consisted women and children. Thomas Lomas, an inspector of the Manchester police, deposed to having seen the crowd, with the two defendants amongst them, go to several mills and attempt to get the works stopped. The manager of Mr. Marsden's mill stated, that the walls about the mill and the gates were covered by people when Mr. Beswick and the police came up. Archibald M`Mullen stated, that Barker threatened to stab him, and produced the dagger above mentioned, which was taken from him by him and Booth. The jury found both prisoners guilty, and the Attorney- General moved that they stood committed. His LORDSHIP said, he did not wish to interfere, but he wished to know if it were intendato proceed with all these cases. Mr. MURPHY said, perhaps it might be conceived that, now a sufficient example had been made to answer the ends of public justice, and he was ready to undertake, on behalf of the other defendants to give bail for future good behaviour, and that they should appear at the bar if they offended again. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL intimated that he should pro ceed. He could nut do otherwise ; he had a public duty en trusted to him, and it was in some measure an anxious one, as his lordship knew. _ _ THE QUEEN V. LEECH. James Leech was charged with a seditious conspiracy and unlawful possession of arms at Manchester. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL sa id, a t th e ou t se t o f the case, that if the prisoner would express his sorrow in any way for what he had done, he would accept the defendant's own re cognisance to appear and receive judgment when called upon. His LORDSHIP explained to the defendant, after his plea of guilty had been recorded, that he would be liable to be called up immediately to receive judgment if ever he attended any more of these meetings. The defendant was then set at liberty on his own recogni sance of £2OO to appear to receive judgment when called upon, and to keep the peace for two years. It was stated that, in accordance with the Attorney-Gene ral's motion for the commitment of the convicted defendants, James Bronterre O'Brien, Wm. Vickers Jackson, Reginald John Richardson, Wm. Butterworth, and those convicted to day, were now in custody of the gaoler. NISI PRIUS COURT.—TUESDAY. GAY V. MARTIN. This was a special jury case, appointed to come on this morning. The action was brought by Mr. Gay, a travelling jeweller, against Mr. Martin, the proprietor of the Saddle Inn, Dale-street, to recover the value of a large amount of jewellery,. which, as our readers will remember, was stolen from the Saddle Inn, some few months ago, without, how ever, any impuation on the ,servants of the establishment. When his Lordship had taken his seat, Mr. WIGIITMAN, on the part of the plaintiff, intimated to his Lordship, that an arrangement had been made by the parties, by which his Lordship and the Jury would be re leased from trying the case. Mr. Gay, though a loser to a large amount, nearly £1,700 by the abstraction of a quan tity of jewellery from the house of the defendant, under cir cumstances, however, which excited no reflectio n on the de fendant, was quite well aware of the hardship o f forcing Mr. Martin to pay the value of the missing property, although that gentleman was legally liable. He (the plaintiff) had therefore Undertaken to enter into such arrangements as was satisfactory to the defendant, although Mr. Gay wou ld be a loser to the extent of two-thirds o f the value of his property. Mr. OttasswELL, who had been engaged for the defence, ho was quite well aware that the landlord, unless he had told the plaintiff that he would not take care of his pro perty, was answerable for the loss. Ile (the learned coun sel) had intimated to his client. that the law was against him, though the facts might be in his favour. Mr. Martin had, therefore, consented that the Jury should give a verdict for the plaintiff for £5OO. Verdict accordingly, ASSAULT AND FALSE IMPRISONMENT.--WORSLEY V. SMITH AND OTHERS. This was an action brought by Henry Worsley, a gentle man residing at Worsley-lodge, at West Leigh, against James Smith, Win. Taylor, and Thomas Darwell, for assaulting, handcuffing, and imprisoning him. Mr. Cresswell and Mr. Addison appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Alexander and Mr. Wightman for Smith and Darwell; and Mr. Wilkins for Taylor. Mr. CRESSWEL stated the case for the plaintiff. He said, that Mr. Worsley was a person having some landed property, on which he resided, in the township of West Leigh, in this county, The attack which had been made upon him by the defendants was one of a most grievous description ; they as saulted him, put handcuffs upon him, shut him up in a dungeon, and on the next day took him before the magistrates. The circumstances were of a most unusual kind, showing a very great disregard of the law on the part of those who ought to have known much better. The first defendant, Mr. Jas. Smith, was an attorney,. residing at Pennington, near West Leigh, and acting as clerk to the magistrates at Chowbent. It appeared, that on the 10th of September last, the plaintiff was at the White Horse public-house; he had apparently been making merry in the course of the evening, and from there he went to another public-house, the Royal Oak. Tay lor, who was the sexton of the parish, was a man extremely fond of drink, and when he came in contact with any one making merry, clung to him for the purpose of getting a glass or two. On the evening in question Taylor saw the plaintiff, and followed him to the Royal Oak. After having sat there awhile, it was proposed that Mr. Smith should be sent for to join them ; and according Taylor went to the house of Mr. Smith, and invited him to the White Horse, in the name of Mr. Worsley. Mr. Smith went, and joined the company. The conversation turned on various matters, amongst others, he understood, on a vacancy in the church, and :difference arose as to who was the fit person to fill the office. Mr. Smith, for the purpose of showing that he was a person in the confidence of people in a higher sphere, produced a let ter, and said vauntingly to the company, " Read that." It was a letter from Lord Normanby, concerning the police of • the district, and had been written by his lordship on the oc casion of some disturbances, or anticipated disturbances. Mr. Worsley took the letter • but, not considering it of the same importance as Mr. Smith evidently did, did not think it worth his while to read it. Mr. Smith, seeing this, said again, " Read that letter." " Oh, no," replied the plaintiff; " Rome was not built in a day ; I can't read it now," and put it into his pocket. Mr. Smith, too proud of the valu able document to trust it in the possession of another person, demanded it back ; but Mr. Worsley refused, on which Mr. Smith and Taylor made an onslaught upon him, and took it from him by force. Mr. Smith declared, that during this struggle the plaintiff had struck him, and thereupon said , "Go for the constable." Darwell, the constable, came ; put handcuffs on the plaintiff, and took him to the dungeon, a narrow, filthy, vile place, scarcely fit for the basest of man kind, and there shut him up on a night in September. The next morning, the attorney, perhaps thinking that he had done wrong, endeavoured to free himself from responsibility, and coolly said, that if Mr. Worsley would make an apology, he would not take him before the magistrates. " No," said the plaintiff; " I have done no wrong, and ought myself to demand an apology." He was then taken before the magis trates at Chowbent. After this, Mr. Worsley directed his attorney to write to the party on the subject, suggesting an arrangement, so as to stop further proceedings. This was an opening for Mr. Smith ; but no—he expressed his surprise at the letter, saying that he was not the aggressor, and that certainly he would not make any reparation of any kind whatever. Now, in the first place, the defendants had no right to imprison the plaintiff at all, for if there had been an assault—and it was not pretended on the record that there had been, a simple denial having been pleaded—the constable should have witnessed it before he locked up a person in a dungeon. . _ Evidence in support of his statement having been heard, Mr. WILKINS put it to his lordship, whether there had been any case made out against Taylor. The JUDGE.—Yes ; not a very strong case, but quite suf ficient to go to the jury. Mr. ALEXANDER then referred to the act 3d and 4th Wil liam IV, c. 90, and contended that under the GOth section Darwell, the constable, was protected from action for an) .- thing done in his capacity of constable, unless 21 days' n otice thereof were given to the inspector. Here no notice had been given; the township had adopted the act in question , and the constable was therefore entitled to the protection of that clause, and to his acquittal. ' Mr. WlintrarAN followed up by observing, that if the act protected the constable, it would also protect the other de fendants, who had merely aided and assisted him. Mr. CRESSWELL maintained that there was no power in the act to appoint constables, and that Darwell was no con stable under the act. The 3d and 4th William IV. related to lighting and watching, and did not at all interfere with the appointment of constables properly so called, but merely en abled inspectors to appoint watchmen, and to give to then' the same authority as constables, during the time that they were on duty. It was to enable those whe were vigila nt guardians of the night to apprehend people in a summary manner, when disturbing the peace, &c. ; but it would be monstrous to suppose that that applied to constables, and t° say that, under all circumstances, they might apprehend men on a charge of assault, without having seen the affair. Tha t would be giving them an authority et variance with the law of the land. The act cited was to establish a force in the nature of a police force, and quite independent of the ancie' t office of constable, recognised by the common law. Their powers were limited to the hours when on service ; they wereto do certain specific acts in accordance w ith cer t a i n spec"' rules laid down in the act. Now, it had been proved that parwell was not on service at the time—that, in fact, he wa g roused up from his bed. Mr. ALEXANDER said he could prove thist Darwell had been appointed under the act. Mr. CRESSWELL would rather it had been given at d ie proper time. He apprehended that Darwellwas totally 1 1 - side the protection of the act. And how could it be Ina ° out that Mr. Smith was a disorderly person under the mean' ing of the act? Mr. ALEXANDER could not see the distinction drawn by Mr. Cresswell between the constable for the country and th e , force appointed by the act. He recited the clause giv ia a power to apprehend in case of disturbance, to imprison, at, to take before the magistrate with all co ven i ent spee d. " he contended, was all that had been done, and was what the act impowered Darwell to do. The objectio n th a t th e act did ~ not extend its protection to Darwell because he happened `/ be in bed was, in his opinion, incorrect, because the duty °, the constable commenced at the moment he was summone u. His LORDSHIP said that it did not appear to him that Darwell was under the protection of the act, because the prn tection was only to persons in respect of any thing dollen' pursuance, or under the authority or colour of the act. It ar c peared to him that the defendant w a s not ac ti ng un der colo n c of the statute, because the 42d section gave authority to sw eL ; in persons as watchmen, sergeants, &c; and they were 000; invested with the like powers and authorities of cons t a bles l! watchmen. Therefore, as watchmen, they h a d o nly the Pri vi r , leges of constables, and a constable was not a llo we d to take , l' t r . a person merely because he was charged with having coun y ted a breach of the peace by an assualt. Unless the wat' , , o man had seen the assault he had no right to apprehend. `. t show that a constable acted under colour of this statute , I must be proved that he was in the position described by g .‘ e ; tion 41 ; it must be shown that he was on duty, not only 3 - 1 , constable, but as one of the watchmen, sergeants, or pat° , appointed by the act ; but it appeared from the eviden t e c that he was not, and that it was not his duty to be on a n o ' r beat. Darwell was, therefore, not acting as a watchman• did he pretend that he was acting as a watchman, but.:ls-4 constable, and he was entitled to all the protection 2 1 7 0 all the privileges of a constable, but to nothing more. apprehending the plaintiff, therefore, he had stepped beyo" his duty. Mr. ALEXANDER addressed the jury on behalf of his t; 4. 1 ; clients. He hinted at the outset that, by the decision ef ; o f lordship, and the rules of pleading, he had been deprive c , the opportunity of bringing witnesses to give a further 3 ,. count of the affair which had been submitted to the P r i ) i i; and, though he bowed with deference to the opinion of .e ' n lordship, he intimated that the objection which had bl y , raised by him would be tried before a . higher court. E, e bo t ing, however, on the story already given, lie contended 1 0 ,1 it formed a justification of the defendants' conduct. It t he been admitted that the plaintiff had been drinking in g 0 w course of the evening; that he left one public-house fries' to another ; that, apparently with the most perfect ship, he sent for Mr. Smith to join him ; that this gentility produced a letter on an interesting local subject, which i t then probably the subject of conversation ; that he handeuli to the plaintiff, who put it into his pocket, and p er tinaci l : s s refused to deliver it, although Mr. Smith stated that he of tired, and wished to go home ; and there could be no d° , • fi g that this shabby retention of an important letter, belonsihe to another person, produced a warm feeling between o f parties. In the scuffle which ensued, and the origius which was to be attributed solely to the plaintiff, it had I, ,c e t admitted that Mr. Smith had received a blow •, and the of Mr. Worsley having been bound over to keep the no by the magistrates, was a proof that they considered b in ' blame. M f r. WILKINS then addressed the j ur y on behalf o 1 to client, maintaining that such an insignificant individ o l, Taylor, who had been described as " Drunken BillY' be ea sexton, bellman, and tombstone engraver, had not ~d el brought there under the expectation of extracting dani , f, from him, but for the purpose of shutting out his testiln ° which a feared. The j w u s ry found for the plaintiff, damages £2O as Smith and Darwell, and for the defendant Taylor. His LORDSHIP, on the application of Mr. Cresswelh, titled that there was probabl e cause f or sn aking 'rap° party in the action. , l• RUNNING DOWN OF A VESSEL.—ROBINSON D. ROO- so t s This action (in which Mr. William Robinson was ito ly plaintiff, and Mr. James Robson, sew., and Mr- Jame' c° to son, jun., were the defendants) was brought to recover e A to pensation for a vessel belonging to the plaintiff, allege," t he have been run down and destroyed, on the evening °I. the Gth of January, 1839 , while at anchor in Yarmouth -r° the by a vessel belonging to the defendants, and throughoe negligence of the person having the management• the sum claimed was 4:750, the value of the vessel ; X 2 e j 'ight va l u e of the provisions on bo a rd ; an d £35, the 11 1; 3 10• that she would have received ;—making altogether ?s rt ic• It appeared that on the eve of the memorable and desoes tive storm, whose ravages were so severely felt in Llano' pool, the George and Ilenry, a brig belonging to the F ar go tiff, bound from Stockt on t o S ou th am pt on w ith a e t hen of coals, put into the Yarmouth-roads, there being , fl aig indications of an app roac hi ng s t orm . Later on the e v `i•soa l the Wyndham, a vessel belonging to the defendants' , ing' Shields to Rye, coal lad en , fi n di ng the w i n d gra dually 115 the returned into the roads, where she had been lying 1 1 ;1 will Ist until the morning of the Gth of January. The van c a nd then pretty stiff, and the weather h az y ; m in g led oQ it ); rain were falling. The Wyndham, in making for thatil e asg e the harbour beyond that part of the harbour where the wl Y, th e and Henry was lying at Anchor, came in contact ~ e tt io% last-named brig, catching her on the starboard, and e.°ooe her down to the water's edge, so that the crew ha d i weve r ' diately to get on board of the 'Wyndham. She. . sh e hail sustained considerable damage from the c ollision ta 'uing was making water fast, and the crew took to the b„,,oa t ,', hour j , with them the crew of the George and Henry. 'I vc ,'' a ce° . after they were picked up by another vessel, and aul e It was contended, on the part of the plaintiff, that `h ate o f aster arose through unskilfulness on the part of the: corn the Wyndham, (the captain had, in a fit of insani'l;', ) 11 ri and witted suicide in the course of the voyage,)ha", ALEXANDER, on the part of the defendants, that t ‘ i roc i i as been, as well as mutual loss, mutual negligence, illa - a jjefllt the vessel lying at anchor had no lights, and that, s°, l analg and unexpectedly did they come into proximity, that,. , .. n i,je o all was done that could have been done to prevent c i ,intit l , l it was unavoidable under the circumstances. The T et . c oin" witnesses said, that though the night was liazY , t" svit see to some distance, (a quarter of a mile,) whila t _ t e l mor e ,: nesses for the defence stated, that they could 110 c i s e c tice than two or three ships' lengths before them. Ev la t b s t the also called, on the part of the defence, to show the los t Wyndham (the value of which, 'and not that er, ; it hay' vessel, could only be recovered) s had been overrated, it b‘or-, ing been sold, seven months previously, for .1: 60 u , a T o ing suffered depreciation of 5 per cent. per a unts% p , wOn ld (the learned JUDGE observed, in his stinirning n . i . ; ) the have to be added, if the jury found for the plaloing timated sum of £B7 for freight, the valise of the . 1 , , ' being the injury, and the amount of the accruing fr ei g ht, that the plaintiff was entitled to recover.