The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-05 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. " Justice " cught to have furnished his name to us, as well as to the gentleman mentioned in hi> letter, We have a c )mmunication, headed " Clairvoyance and its Blas phemy,'" torn Mr. Hutton, professing to explain his adver lisement respect ng Herr and Frau Von Goennern. Mr. 'Hutton says that his meaning of false certificate has been , misunderstood as if he attributed to the Goennerns a forgery;" and denies that he intended to injure them by so wrong an 'imputation ; and proceeds to say, correct it by stating that .1 intended wholly to allude to their having no authority to publish any certificate from the gentleman in question." 'Mr. Hutton is certainly in a s'range state of canfusion as to the man ng of words, or as to what is calculated to injure an napratectett foreigner, a stranger in our land. We cln only say taat we hav seen the certificate referred to; which says, .• I have had various opportunities of seeing Madame Goen ale m's powers of clairvoyance tested, and I may truly say that • she has been surp7isingly successful in detecting and describing the nature o' cl.se lc is a duty to state facts, and I do nu more." When a man fee s it a duty to state facts, we presume it is not intended that his statement is to be locked up un seen. The latter part of Me. Huaoi's communication shows such a disposition to t inure language that we decline to in sert it in our c• - ilurniis. As Mr. Hutton has been compelled to withdraw his impatation from the Goennerns. we suspect his ether statements will not be listened to with much con fidence. !lit tibtrpoot 'taizbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1846. We would direct attention to a letter in our secon'd page from Mr. Isaac Buchanan addressed to the Liverpool Times in reply to some statements of our contemporary last week. The able address of the honourable member for Oldham, Mr. John Fielden, in moving the second reading of the Factory Bi 1, contains some state ments which, as shadowing forth the views of a practical man, with respect to the future state of the social system in this country, under the operation of the measures which government are now pressing forward, ought to receive the earnest consideration of the legislature, and of the community at large. Mr. Fielden says, in concluding his speech— " The arguments that I have used in endeavouring to convince thrift that it will not suffer have been wrung from me by the opposition that has been offered by the manufacturing body in every attempt to abridge the toil of their workpeople. I call upon the house, in conclusion, to recollect that as the manufactures go on increasing day by day, a: assuredly they will do, this species of la bour is becoming, not merely the occupation of a class, but of a nation ; that the vast hives of industry in the north of En Bland and in Scotland must become more and more vast ; that, with their increase, there will be neces sarily an increase of the vices and miseries peculiar to them, and already abundantly proved ! and I urge on the house the necessity that there is for giving the young children whose labour I seek to shorten time for personal relaxaiion, time for education and religious instruction, time for observing the routine of domestic duties, without the knowledge of which it is vain to hope that they will be a creditable, or even a safe, community." We may remark that the "young children" for whom the honourable member pleads, are young males and females between the ages of 13 and 18 years. Children from 8 to 13 years, it may be remembered, were restricted by the act of 1844 from working above six hours a day, the remainder portion of it being set aside for education in the factory schools. Those of both sexes from 13 to 18 years old, he reminds us— " Have now to work 12 hours a day, which, with time spent in going to and from the factory and the time of meals, makes 14 hours occupation—a period of labour much too long, in my opinion, even for adults; but, if 14 hours' occupation be too long fur adults, who can deny that that length of daily labour is a shameful infliction upon children from 13 to 18? I must say that the Par liament has shown a total disregard of those between 13 and 18 years of age—a period of life well known to be the most critical, when more rest is required for the growing and weakened frame of a young person. The factory com mission of 1833 reported to this house that our demand for a ten-hour bill for all ages did not go far enough to wards the protection of those whom we most desired to protect—that was, the young. children. They told you, that for children from 9to 13 years of age, ten hours' labour was excessive, and therefore you passed the act of that year, limiting the hours of such children's work to eight per day. Subsequently, you have again limited the hours of the younger children to six per day; but why, I ask, do you still keep up the hours of work for a child of 13 to 18 to the utmost limit that is compatible with the strength of an adult? The real reason of it is this—that the Government has always been so jealous of any inter ference that could possibly lead to a diminution of the labour of the adult labourer, that it has not scrupled to sacrifice the child that works by his side. We may explain, to render more intelligible the important cor siderations placed before us in the first extract given, what has been, and must be, the obvious operation of the existing law—what is the extent of its seeming mercy to our manufacturing population. The adult, and those from 13 to 18, must work for twelve hours, or fourteen hours including meal times. There must, therefore, be a double set of children between the ages of 9 to 13, in each factory—a double amount of our population trained up to factory occupations—or we must supply their places with an increased number of the now adult males and females between 13 and 18, upon whom the present hours of labour press most severely. Now, let us see what is the condition of these classes, and the tendency of the present law. Mr. Fielding quoted the following passage from a petition in favour of a Ten Hours Bill, presented to the house by "the millowners of Dundee connected with the Free Church of Scotland " " Whilst resolved, as opportunity shall serve, to multi ply the means of education, and render more available those already existing, we must be permitted to remind you, that no school education, however protracted, or however excellent, can ever compensate to the factory fe male operatives between the ages of 13 and 18 for the want of that home education which forms the future housewife and mother. This, we believe, is at the root of most of the social evils of Dundee ; and what but more time at home can provide the cure?" The Rev. Mr. Gibson, at a meeting of the Free Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, thus described the condition of the factory operatives of that district:— " Those of you who have paid any attention to these subjects know what is the fearful state of our manufac turing population. I wish not to make general or sweep ing charges, but the system is such as to make it impossible for private individu .1 parties to extricate themselves, however much disposed, without some general legislative measure. Toe vast multitudes of this portion of the peo ple are worn down in mind and body. They have not the time nor strength to attend upon the means either of reli gion or education. The hands of ministers of the gospel and other religious men are rendered powerless, and all your efforts fruitless. What is the state of the case ? When you offer visits during the day the male head of the family, and even the ft male head of the family, are em ployed in the factory. The greater portion of the junior members are there also. Even some of us who have adopted the plan of commencing visits from six to nine in the evening find that the greater portion of that time elapses even then before they can return from the long and exhausting labour of the day. As, for instance, in visiting a family in these circumstances between eight and nine in the evening, I found the parents at home, and just as I was finishing my exhortation, at nine o'clock, two young grown-up and evidently respectable daughters bad just come in from the factory in another part of the city, having left their house at five in the morning. Suppose I had waited till ten o'clock, and it had been proper to do so, how could these young women be expected to sit down and hear my exhortation, exhausted, weary, and hungry ? The thing is out of the question." And, with respect to the effect of such long hours of labour upon the physical health of these classes, IVIr. Peter Ainsworth, of Bolton, a manufacturer, quoted the following : At a meeting held at Bury the other day, Mr. Ilinxman, a surgeon, speaking of the evils to society that arose from the present system, said.—" That many young persons employed as piecers had to walk forwards aed backwards while at work in the mills upwards of 24 miles per day. He had often called sit the cottages of factory workers, he had seen children come into the houses and immediately fall asleep on the floor before they had time to eat their supper; but of every 350 persons employed in factories .only 144 of them enjoyed good health; whilst out of the same number of persons not employedkin factories, 241 had good health." The same gentleman went further, to shew that a reduction in the hours of labour would lead to an improved scale of health. Ile said he had received that morning a letter from Mr. Gardner, a gentle. man well know in this district, who has tried the system of eleven hours, and found it as profitable to him as twelve, in which be remarks, in reply to a question as to the health of his workpeople : " I beg to state that in my opinion they are generally enjoying better health now and since the adoption of 11 hours than when working 12. They express themselves so, and their appearance bespeaks it." Now, in many concerns of this kind there are established sick clubs, and it is rather curious that in Mr. Gardner's establishment the sick society tr•a.s scarcely ever• called upon, at least to the extent it was formerly, from the less frequency of invalids in that es ablishment. Mr. Gardner says,— "The sick club formed amongst my workpeople em braces about seven-eighths of the male adults in my mill, the particulars in relation of which fully bear me out in respect of the improved state of health enjoyed by the members of the club. I find on comparing two years pre vious to the adoption of 11 hoursovith two years subse quent, that the number relieved by this club was 60 per cent. less in the latter period, and the expenditure 40 per cent. less in the latter period, than the former, the num ber of members being in both instances the same." The latter period was that in which the mill only worked eleven hours per day. And, with respect to the time devoted to education under the same experiment, and the fitness of the operatives to spend well the hour deducted from their day's toil, Mr. Gardner says : " A good feeling existed between the employer and the employed ; and again (which was answer to a statement now seldom beard, that the factory operatives were wholly unfit for the boon they sought), that the numbers attend ing school at nights, before the introduction of the eleven hours' system, never exceeded 20, but was mostly much under, and the numbers that now attended (many of them adults, and women learning domestic acquirements, with ou! which they could :never perform the duties of wives and mothers, including knitting, sewing, and many other domestic accomplishments), instead of being under 20, was every evening considerably snore than 100; and he had no doubt, by very little persuasion and management, would increase until those attending night schools would comprise a good majority of the whole number of the hands employed at those mills." Turn back, then, to the consideration of the pas sage quoted from Mr. Fielden's speech, at the com mencement of this article. We are going to render factory labour " not the occupation of a class but of a nation." We are going to render our hives of industry " more and more vast." Yet of what are these hives to be composed ? 01 men, the develop ment of whose physical and mental powers has been checked; and of enfeebled women, who have never had time permitted them in youth to learn the ordi nary duties and arts of domestic life, the knowledge of their duties as wives or mothers, or the know ledge even of their God ! This is the boasted frame of society after which manufacturing cupidity and political economy is hankering. We say emphati cally, with Mr. Fielden, that a community so framed " can never be a creditable, or even A SAFE, co;n munity We - are not in a frame of temper, after reading this debate, to expose the heartlessness of the principle, and the perversions of fact, or to hold up to public reprobation the selfish grounds upon which the measure is attempted to be opposed by statesmen, and in the " Commons (!) House of Parliament of a Christian nation. We say that, with such tendencies of our present system before us, incontestibly proved, as they are, there ought not to be a week lost in removing such a scandal from the nation. Nay more, that there ought to be an immediate and an earnest appeal to the legisla ture, and, if necessary, to the throne itself, to snatch these poor suffering over-toiled children these young shoots of a future generation, Englishmen and English wives and mothers—from an oppres sion which is wearing away their health and their strength, and training them up, stunted alike in body and i►t mind, without a hope in this world or a sure and certain hove in a world to come. It would certainly be a most desirable consum mation if, by any measures, the better observance of the Sabbath by all classes could be brought about, and increased habits of sobriety could be p:omoted generally amongst our population. On the ground of its tendency to improve the morals and the comforts of the working man and his family, we advocated strenuously the closing of taverns from Saturday night until one on Sunday; and that experiment, we submit, has been produc tive of most satisfactory results. It has afforded to many a working man's family a Sunday's meal, the cost of which would otherwise have been spent in debauchery. It has cleared our streets of the re volting spectacles formerly to be encountered by the well-conducted of our population, on their way to the house of God. It has thinned the cases of drunkenness which every Monday used to occupy our Police-court; and at this motnent, amongst those even who regarded the measure at the time as an oppressive one, we do not think there are many to be found who would look upon a return to ancient practices as aught less than a calamity. We cannot, however, by closing public-houses for a few hours on the Sabbath, reform a whole population. To elevate the morals of a people, we must educate and Christianize them. If we wish to make the poor man more virtuous and orderly in his conduct, the rich man must set him a better example. If we wish to draw him from the tavern, we must teach him the way to the church door ; provide him with places of worship to go to, and with faithful ministers to guide him in his course through life. Hence we have not reaped all the advantage which some anticipated from our recent Sabbath regulation. We have still to deal weekly with a mass of crime, engendered by habits of in dulgence in stimulating drinks. We have closed our public-houses for a portion of the Sabbath; but we have neglected to provide for the working man enjoyments of a higher character as their sub stitute, and we have continued to leave the mass of the rising generation in a state of semi-barbarism. If the Council to-morrow affirm Mr. Horsfall's resolution further to close the public-houses, we hope they will not stop there,—indeed they cannot consistently do so. The cheap trips by railway and steam-boats must be put an end to, and the Council, to justify their taking the initiative in such a pro ceeding, will, we hope, make some great effort to advance the moral character and improve the re ligious habits of the people. They have not hitherto done what they might or ought. They are liberal patrons of art, it is true. They have lavished vast sums, and will have to lavish more, upon the erec tion and decoration of St. George's-hall. They pride themselves that they are about to complete the most elegant building and the most powerful organ in the town. But where are their endow ments for religious purposes ? We look for them in vain. They were invited to contribute towards paying off the debt of the Collegiate Institution; and their reply was they were too poor, and the effort was left to such men as Mr. Horsfall, who is thus consistent in advocating the proposed re striction. We hope also to see the Council urge upon the Legislature the adoption of a large and liberal mea sure of church extension, an increase of the means of religious education for the young, and the recognition of the duties incumbent upon us as a nation to legislate for the improvement of the moral and social condition of our working classes and our poor, and in this way we shall be making progress in the right direction, and attain eventually that re sult which all good and wise men must look forward to as much to be desired and prayed for. But whilst we throw from us, as a nation, all care for the provision of increased means of religious teaching for our own increasing population, whilst our com mercial policy is daily drawing that population into our large towns, and it is left to the exercise of indi vidual beneficence, necessarily as human nature is constituted, insufficient for the task—to provide those masses with religious teaching and proper surveillance, whilst the object of all our legislation appears to be to afford increased power to ca pital, and to heap n w burthens upon the backs of the poor, we cannot expect to witness a much bet ter state of things than that which we see around us. A population brought up, and left in igno rance of its responsibilities to God, is not the most likely to recognize or pay any great deference to those conventional rules of conduct which society has set up. Ignorance of God it is—not mere un lettered ignorance—which is the fruitful source of crime and of that dissipation which is complained of. The toil-worn man, scantily fed, and inade quately paid, flies too readily from his comfortless unhealthy home, to seek beneath the glaring lamps of the splendidly lit up gin palace a temporary ex citetnent and forgetfulness of the hardlessness and hopelessness of his lot. It is his Saturday night's enjoyment ; and we fear greatly, that until we can elevate his moral character and his tastes, and add besides to the comforts of his home, it will continue that of a portion of his day of rest as well, not withstanding any restrictions which we may now throw in the way of its gratification. At the same time it is desirable to use all the means in our power to prevent the horrid scenes of drunkkenness which are to be seen on the Sabbath. The magistrates may do no little with a view of attaining this desirable end. The majority of the cases of breach of the present arrangement for closing on the Sabbath forenoons, and for per mitting drunkenness in their houses, are the cases of beerhouse-keepers and a few taverns in streets of known disorderly character, which, had our licensing magistrates acted upon a different principle, during the last few years, would long ago have been re moved to respectable localities, where licenses were wanted by the new neighbourhoods springing up, instead of the existing number of licenses being in creased, or their places supplied by disorderly and ill-conducted beerhouses, vending poisonous trash instead of an honest commodity. We have never taken a decided part in the dis cussion going on between the Highway Board and the Town Council with respect to the merits of their respective bills for supplying the town with water, or by whom the powers of any bill for such a pur pose should be exercised, although without the slightest disrespect for the Board, we have expressed an opinion that the latter body is the most fitted, by its position and constitution, to undertake and per form the duty with advantage to the inhabitants. Nor do we intend to enter at length into the clues tion now, when the ratepayers themselves, at the meeting of Friday next, are about to decide it. Our object is to impress upon both the advisableness of a timely arrangement, and the impolicy of two local bodies. both presumed to be actuated by a desire to promote local interests, and both composed of hon ourable and disinterested men, appearing before their constituencies and before Parliament in a con flicting attitude. Our object is to suggest to both the advantage to the town of their working amicably together ; and to assure the Highway Board that, after conceding to the Council in this matter of the supply of water, they have already in existence, and in prospect, within their own immediate depart ment, an amount of useful employment quite suffi cient to tax their utmost energies, and for the effective performance of which the inhabitants of Liverpool will be sincerely grateful. One of the greatest aids to the improvement of the health of the town, and the comfort and credit of its population, is a well-devised system of sewer age, of road formation, and surface cleaning. To the Highway Board the carrying out of such a system is especially committed. But is that duty of theirs efficiently performed at the pre tent moment. Are they not vastly in arrear with the wants of the public in their sewerage and drainage ? Every impartial witness will answer yes ; and every practical person will say, also, that it will require a great outlay of money, and quite as much engineering ability as the Board has shewn itself to be possessed of, to bring their works fairly up to the requirements of the present time, and to repair past blunders. Then look at the future; see the town branching out in all directions, no one can predict in which first, or in which chiefly ; see our docks now progressing south, now north, and each way carrying a new suburb with them ; new traffic, requiring new and substantial roads; new streets, requiring a new system of sewers, and a perfect net-work of house drains. See those docks again progressing eastward, into the heart of the built over portion of the town, sweeping away whole masses of streets, and creating the necessity for spacious thoroughfares, well-paved and well sewered roads, where, hitherto, we have had only narrow alleys with surface drainage, or very imperfect sewerage. Is there nothing here which requires enterprise, ability, and great watchfulness, or is the body, to which the necessity of displaying these qualities is committed, likely to have much leisure on their hands ? Indeed it is not. The Hig hway Board will have enough to do—enough money to raise and to expend—without grasping at the management of matters beyond their sphere. There is, moreover, a vast improvement to carry out in the cleansing of the existing streets and courts of the town—a great quantity of paving to execute, many unsightly and unseemly obstructions to re move, which will require much energy on the part of the Board, and, perhaps, no trifling outlay of money. Look in what quarter we will, there is work for the Board to do, and useful work, conducive at once to the health, the safety, the convenience, and the comfort of our population. Here stagnant pits of water affect the nostrils of the passers-by; there open drains pour their noxious vapours upon the atmo phere ; here we come upon dangerous por tions of unfinished streets, or open and unsecured cellars. In removing all these, the Board may well expend its newly awakened zeal. We may be told, however, that they can do no thing in the way of cleansing without the command of an ample supply of water. That, we answer, Parliament will give them power to demand from the Corporation. They want money, perhaps, for some of the required improvements. Shew Parliament, however, that snch improvements are necessary for sanatory purposes, and that they are the body peculiarly adapted for carrying them out efficiently, and money powers will be granted them, and rates cheerfully contributed by the owners and occupiers of property in the town. We would strongly urge, in conclusion, that such an arrangement as we have above suggested should be brought about; and that the meeting of the rate payers, on Friday, should be allowed to devote themselves to a careful discussion - of the clauses of the bill proposed by the Town Council, with such amendments, to render it more operative and ad vantageous to the town, as the harmonious judg ment and united experience of both bodies can devise. MEETING OF THE MASTER BUILDERS. A large meeting of this body was held yesterday in the Portico, Newington, Mr. John Tomkinson in the chair. Letters were read from Manchester, Birmingham, Shef field, Bradford, Preston, and other towns, expressing an opinion that a general association of masters throughout the kingdom was the only measure now left to protect thrm in future from the. annoyances which they had suf fered from the exorbitant demands and dictation of the Operative Unions; that the tradesmen in almost every place had already been driven to the necessity of forming local a , sociations for defensive purposes, and stating that a general meeting should be held at Newton for the purpose of forming a permanent Association of Masters. A Com mittee was appointed for the purpose of engaging the large room at Newton, for such eeting, on Thursday next. Many railway contractors attended the meeting, and stated themselves willing to join the Association. Messrs. Furniss and Kilpin said they had nearly one hun dred men at work. Messrs. Holme, it appears, have about 250, all of whom have signed the declaration. Messrs. Walker, of Birkenhead, have a few bricklayers at work and an abundance of joiners. It appeared that the shops of all the masters are daily becoming stocked with new men. A resolution was passed, to the effect that the masters would employ strangers, and those who have se ceded from the Union, in preference to the men who still adhere to the strike, and would give protection to the men now at work. A letter was read from the Earl of Sefton, who stated, that on being apprised that the men who had left a re spectable builder's employment bad been inadvertently employed at Croxteth-hall, where alterations are now being made, he had written to request that the works should be suspended ; and his Lordship further added, that the combination of the workmen would eventually prove injudicious to their best interests, and that he was then contemplating the erection of various buildings, all of which he was determined to postpone, rather than employ workmen belonging to a combination which was calculated to do such extensive A communication from the Bishop of Chester was also read, in which his Lordship extended to Messrs. Barker the time in which they had contracted to erect a parsonage house. A letter was also read from the agent of the Earl of Derby, (Richard Earle, Esq.,) disapproving of the con duct of a builder at Prescot who had taken into his ser vice some of Mr. Tomkinson's workmen, and consenting on his Lordship's behalf, that the works upon he was engaged should be suspended. Several other gentlemen sent letters announcing their intention to suspend their buildings until the termination of the strike. The builders of Glasgow sent a communication desiring to be put in possession of what is go ng forward in the building trades, and stating their readiness to co-operate if necessary with the builders of Liverpool. The meeting was very harmonious but decided, and the proceedings occupied upwards of two hours. We believe that about 1000 workmen are now engaged at the various building establishments in this town, but this is not the number employed by Messrs. Ilolme, previous to the strike. In Manchester, a large body of the men still remain out; but 300 joim•rs and carpenters, 100 plasterers, 40 plumbers, arid 80 bricklayers, have signed the drchrition of the masters, and are at work. On Friday a c,nference took place between a deputation of the masters and a similar one of the men, in the presence of the Mayor and the Town-clerk, which lasted two hours and a half, and terminated without any arrangement having been come to. The men agreed to accept the wages offered by the masters before the turn-out. The hours of labour were agreed ti , on both sides ; but the workmen were firm in re fusing to sign the masters' declaration, which they con sidered degrading to them. This, therefore, as both parties are equally firm, is the only matter prevent ing a settlement of the dispute, and the return of the men to their usual avocations. It is said that, even should the turn-out end immediately, there would be a large number of the Manchester workmen, who would be left unemployed owing to the check to the commencement of building opera ions which it has caused ; and we be lieve the same may be said of this town. Tne result will be a serious blow to the shopkeeper, and, indeed, to most classes of tradesmen, even reaching the merchant himself. Sir Howard Douglas paired off with Lord Ingestrie in favour of Mr. Hawes' motion on the Danish Claims. The hon. bart was detained from attending the house at the division by the happy event of the marriage of one of his sons. The Liverpool Standard has published a pamphlet supplement, ❑nder the title of "A Descriptive Account of the Railway Accommodation of Lancashire and Cheshire." The information will be found valuable. As a specimen of typography it is a beautiful production. much in advance of this class of works.—Railway Herald. At the Council meeting, to-morrow, Mr. Alderma n Nicol will move an address of congratulation to be pre. sented to the King of the French and his royal consort on the failure of the recent attempt to assassinate his Majesty. At the same meeting Mr. Councillor Procter will intro duce the following motion :—" That it be an instruction to the Finance Committee to take into their consideration the propriety and necessity of still adhering to the "Wa. vertree-hall estate as a site for a new gaol, and also to take into their consideration the propriety of laying out the Wavertree-hall estate in connexion with the Botanic Gardens, now offered to the corporation for one half their value, as grounds for recreation, and for promoting the general health of the inhabitants, and report to the Coun cil thereon." CLOSING PUBLIC HOUSES ON THE SABBATH -MEETING TO SUPPORT MR. HORSFALL'S MOTION. Last evening, a meeting of the inhabitants of the town favourable to Mr.Horsfall's motion in council fot closing public-houses on the Sunday from three o'clock until five o'clock on Monday morning, was held at the Music hall, Bold-street. The chair was occupied by Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., and on the platform were the following gentlemen :—Dr. Burrows, Mr. Eden, the Rev. H. Hampton, the Rev. Mr. Robinson, Mr. J. Brown, Mr. J. Edwards, Mr. Wm. Williams, Mr. A. Barns, &c. The CHAIRMAN said he felt great pleasure in occupying the chair on an occasion like that which had called them together, the object of which was to discuss the propriety of a measure calculated to benefit a whole community. He then read the placard calling the meeting. He said, there was already a local law which operated to the closing of the public-houses till one o'clock on Sunday, but the motion of Mr. H orsfall went to close them during the whole of that day, except between the hours of one and three o'clock. Ile considered the motion ought to receive thesup poit of every individual who was friendly to the improve ment in the morals of the people and the general welfare of the community. It especially recommended itself to those who professed themselves total abstainers—to those who, in common with himself, held the opinion that all intoxicating drink contained a poison which was injurious to the human constitution, taken in any quantity, whe ther small or great. It was also the opinion, not of tee totallers merely, but it had been that of medical men for a long time. He quoted Dr. Abernethy, who had told a patient, in reply to a questio❑ put to him as to whe ther he might not take a little spirits ; that a little would not do him a great deal of harm, it would do him a little harm. He (the chairman conceived that a great deal would kill any person. So far back as the time of Solomon intoxicating drinks had been de nounced, for he had said, in reference to tasting wine that was red and unfermented, there was death in the cup. He looked upon Mr. Horsfall's motion as a very reasonable one, as it was directed to the closing of those places which were productive of a greater amount of wretchedness and misery, and crime, than anything else he was aware of. It would be infinitely more reasonable to keep open the bread shops, the drapers, or any other class of shops than the public houses, on the Sabbath—he could see no reason why a shop that sold poison should be opened on the Sunday at all. He regretted that parties should be found who made a gain of that which was destructive to the souls and bodies of their fellow-creatures—he almost grieved for them—and hoped the day would come when they would have a more legitimate employment to follow. He hoped those gentlemen in the trade would be silent as regarded the motion, as he felt con vinced the more re spectable portion of them would not find themselves in jured. (Hear, hear.) Look at the degradation consequent on the opening of the gin palaces ; he could almost think it as reasonable that brothels should be opened on the Sabbath as those places and public-houses. The trade was little better than robbery. He contended that the attempt which had been made to remedy the evil com plained of demanded their support, and he hoped that meeting, as well as others which might be called, would adopt such resolutions as would show that public opinion was against the opening of public-houses on the Sabbath day ; and he need not tell them that public opinion must be brought to bear in doing away with all great evils, and nothing else. Mr. \\TALKER, of her Majesty's Customs, wished to krow whether the meeting would allow of a fair discussion on the merits of the question, or whether it was for a a ty purpose. . The CHAIRMAN read the placard, observing that the meeting was not for a party but a general purpose, and it involved a question connected with the interests of the whole community. It was, however, a specific meeting, and they could not admit of any discussion on the sub ject. (Loud cries of disapprobation and hisses.) The CHAIRMAN said that if any parties wished to dis cuss the subject, he was willing to appoint another even ing for the purpose, and he would either preside, or come forward as a speaker. (Loud applause.) Mr. MuLocx thought the question had not been an swered by the chairman. He conceived that, from the terms of the placard, any person who dissented might offer his opinion, and if discussion were excluded, it could not be a public meeting. lie then stated he should with draw, conceiving 't to he a private meeting. Mr. BROWN said the licensed victuallers had a meet ing of their own a few days previously. Tne CHAIRMAN explained that nothing would have been more consonant with his feelings than to have en gaged in a discussion, but the committee who had got up the meeting had no idea of such a course, and had not prepared for entering upon a discussion that evening. Considerable disappointment was here manifested, and it was some minutes before order was restored. The chairman having secured the attention, then called on The Rev. Mr' ROBINSON, who rose to move the first resolution, and commenced his remarks by deprenAting the infusion of passion into meetings for the discussion of questions of any public nature. He had nu enmity towards the speakers who had preceded him. On the contrary, he had been led to expect that the respectable portio❑ of the publicans themselves, and he believed that there were a large number of respectable •men en.. gaged in that trade, were in favour of a restriction of the hours of keeping open public-houses—that they desired themselves to h we an opportunity of keeping the Sab bath, which now they had not. The speaker then en tered at length into some remarks, enforcing the duty of advancing the interests of the community, by taking every step possible to repress the habits of intoxication too prevalent amongst the people. Sorely there would still be sufficient time for the legitimate sale of spirituous liquors on the Sabbath between one and three o'clock. Did the gentlemen who opposed this resolution wish to have a further hold upon the votary of drinking, in the hope of prevailing upon him, when no longer master of himself or of his reason, to spend more and to go into further excess and self abuse. He acknowledged that he was a parson, as he had been charged with being by some party in the meeting ; and in that capacity, in the houses of many of the poor, he had had the oppor tunity of knowing that much of their poverty, and most of their suffering, had arisen from the vice of intemperance. As many speakers more able had to succeed him, he would here conclude. The resolution was as follows : "That it is the opinion of this meeting, that a great amount of poverty and crime will be prevented by the closing of the public-houses on Sunday, and that the so cial comfort and peace of the town will be promoted thereby." The Rev. H. HAMPTON seconded the resolution. He was not a teetotaller, but conceived he would not be do ing his duty if he did not come forward and show on what side he was. (Applause ) He scarcely thought it possi ble that in Liverpool, or even in England, any individual should come forward in that room opposed to the gum. tion before them. The effect of keeping open public-houses on Sunday was not only to take away the poor man's money, hut induced him to take that into his system which was most ruinous to him, and productive of every species of crime ; and their being closed would contribute to his happiness and comfort as well as benefit the town generally. In the district to which he belonged, (St. James's.) he could speak to the evil effects of the system of keeping open on the Sabbath, more especially in the evening, as a great many individuals got intoxicated, and were unable to attend their duties on the Monday. He mentioned an instance of the awful effects of drunkenness, during a visit which had been made by Mr. Butler to one of the dwellings of the poor. Mr. Butter was a gentleman appointed to visit the poor in his &strict, and, on one occasion, was sent for to the house of a poor family ; on his arrival he found the man laid out as if he had been a corpse, arising from his being in a state of beastly intoxication. His wife lay by his side in a state of such loathsome drunkenness that she did not know what was going on, and in that state brought forth a child by the side of her own husband's corpse. if there hail been no drunkenness, there could be no such scenes as that. He took very high ground on the question before them, as he looked upon the opening of the public-houses on the Sabbath as a direct revolution of the law of God,—" Remember the Sabbath day to kf ep it holy," and if there was one thing in the me morial, it was that part which gave three. hours of that day to be devoted to other purposes than those for which it was designed. (Hear, hear.) He could not sanction the slightest infringement of the Lord's day, and con ceived that every part of it sh ,uld be given up to him, as a pi oaf that giving up the use of intoxicating drinks Was beneficial. He mentioned that the Rev. H. Stowell, of Manchester, had given up taking the wine which he was in the habit of using, to enable him, as he conceived, to undergo the fatigues consequent on the duties of the Sabbath, and found :binistlf as strong as ever he was in his life; he now used only water, beim: a confirmed tee totaler. (Applause.) 'line motion of Mr. llursfall was highly creditable to him, coming, as it did, from a man in his station of life ; it spewed there were persons on the Lord's side, and he did not see how any individual could come forward and lift up his voice against it. He con cluded by observing that by the memorial being carried out, a blessing would be conferred on the poor, as well the community generally. Mr. ANTHONY BARNs, licensed victualler, Dale.street, supported the resolution. He had been twenty years in the trade, and had always considered Sunday trailing as one of the greatest evils that could be inflicted on the community. It prevented a man from appropriating that money to the support of his famly which he ought to do, and from following his occupation during the week. Not withstanding that he had been a dealer twenty years, he had never allowed any person to taste either ale, wine, or spirits in his house on the Sabbath day. He approved of Mr. norsfall's motion, and thought the respectable portions of the publicans would be favourable to such a measure which would be one of the greatest boons that could be conferred both upon them and the community. Even as a matter of pounds, shillings and pence, it would oe no loss to the publicans, because those men who were prevented drinking on the Sabbath would be able to attend 'heir employment during the week, and have more money to lay out providing they thought it necesshry to indulge ;n intoxicating drinks on the other days excepting Sun day. He concluded by observing that the measure met his most cordial approval. The CHAIRMAN put the resolution, which was carried. Mr. 'l'. PARKINSON came forward to the platform, and said he begged to state on behalf of himself and several other parties, that they did not vote, he having been told it was not a public meeting. Mr. BURROWS, surgeon, then rose, and proceeded to sneak at great length upon the text that alcoholic beve rages were not required by the economy of man. Aleohol was a poison, and we ought to endeavour to put down al together its use. The speaker attributed to tine use of al cohol the fatality attending the cholera, and named one large town in which, whilst the bulk of the cases of death were those of persons addicted to the use of intoxicating drinks. whilst only two total abstainers died from the same disease. He concluded by moving the following resolution :—" That this meeting considers that much of the sickness and mortality in Liverpool is attributable to the drinking of intoxicating liquors, and that the closing of public-houses on Sunday would Le the means of pro moting the health and happiness of the cocomnnity." Mr. Thomas EDEN, surgeon, next rose to second the resolution, and combated the popular notion that a mo derate use of intoxicating liquors is safe. He had found ' in his practice many cases of moderate drinking men who never indulged to excess—whose deaths nevertheless he found to have been hastened by their use. The memorial to Parliament was then read to the meet ing. after which The Rev. J. R. CONNOR addressed the meeting in terms of great approbation of the motives of those who had got up the meeting. He then proceeded to answer the ques tion—where are the travellers to go ? With respect to them, he thought that they could not, if religious men, who had, perhaps, in the morning attended the preaching of the gospel, go into houses which might be called the portals of death. A friend of his on the platform had told him that only about 25 sailors, on their arrival in port, required the use of ardent liquors; and how absurd it was to complain of the want of these customers amDngst a body of two thousand publicans. The reverend gentleman proceeded to offer some eloquent remarks upon the higher importance of the question before the meeting, which the time and space at our dis posal are utterly inadequate to give expression, and which was received throughout with enthusiastic applause. and concluded by moving that the resolution should be signed by the Chairman on behalf of the meeting. The CHAIRMAN, after a few words of explanation upon the subject of another petition, which was being signed, to the Council, and which was read by the Rev. Mr. Hampton, called upon Mr. Layton to se^ond the resolu tion After a short speech from this gentleman, very im perfectly heard, the motion was put and carried, and the meeting adjourned after ten o'clock. THE NATIONAL CLUB. A meeting of the members and friends of this society was held on Saturday at 12 o'clock, in Willis's-rooms, and there was rather a full attendance of ladies and gen tlemen upon the occasion. Lord Kenyon presided, and among the company were the Earl of Charleville, Lord Combermere, Sir B. Bridges. Sir D. Maekworth, Sir J. Nasmyth, Colonel Verner, M.P., Mr. Spooner, M.P., Mr. Colquhoun, M.P., Mr. Bennett, Mr. Plumptre, M.P., Mr. Frewen, M.P., Mr. Rashleigh, M.P., E. Grogan, M.P., the Rev. Dr. O'Sullivan, the Rev. R. M•Ghee and others. The following resolutions were agreed to by the meeting :—" 1. That the recent endow ment of Maynooth forms part of a series of measures cal culated for the encouragement of Popery, the discourage meht of Protestantism, and the ultimate endowment of the Church of Rome. 2. That the bills introduced into Parliament by the Lord Chancellor and Mr. Watson for relaxing the Act of Supremacy, pet miting the publishing of Popish bulls, the open exhibition of the ceremonies of the Romish Church, encouraging the progress of the order of the Jesuits, and permitiing the Rornish hierarchy to assume the titles and dignity of the prelates of the Estab lishment, tends to subvert the Protestant constitution of the empire, and are opposed to the supremacy of the British Crown. 3. Tb ,t the bills for the administration of charitable trusts vest in commissioners appointed at the pleasure of the Lord Chancellor a summary and in quisitorial power over the funds and proceedings of chari table trustees, encroaching on private and personal rights, and is injurious to the true exercise of charity. 4. That this meeting acknowledges the importance of united ex ertions to carry out the principles of the National Club, and for that purpose invites zealous co-operation for the great objects of maintaining the Protestant Church and constitution, and raising the religious and social condition of the people. The Secretary read letters from several noblemen and gentlemen who were unable to attend the meeting ; also a letter from the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, of which the following is a copy : " Liverpool, April 27. . Sir,—The documents which I have received from you this morning appear to change essentially the character, or at least what I supposed to be the character, of your approaching meet ing. The letters had previously received led me to imagine that it was to he a Protestant meeting in the ordinary accepta tion of the term. I know n thing of the Charitable Trusts Bill, or of i:s probable operation, as descr bed in the resolution you hwe ent me. lam aware you do not wish me to speak on that particular resolution, but I am unwilling (I hope not unreason ably so) to be mixed up with a discussion upon a subject with which I am altogether unacquainted, and concerning which it is quite possible that, were I duly inform d, I might not be able to coincide with the sentiments expressed in the resolu- tion. As your meeting is to be a political one, involving a dis cussion of m:scellaneous topics, such as the alleged despotic en croachments by the Government on private and corporate rights, I feel it my duty not to lose a post in withdrawing the consent which, in my letter of Friday last. I gave to take part in it. I hope you will not have made any public announcement of my name before you receive this; but if you have I must beg you to give similar publicity to this letter. I am, my dear sir, yours faithfully, HUGH M`NEILE." Mr. Colquhoun, in the course of his speech, adverted to the impossibility which he and his friends had felt, notwithstanding political associations, of acceding to the principles and measures of Government in regard to the church. He also dwelt upon the circumstance that minis ters appeared to be influenced in their recent policy, not by the Roman Catholic people, but by the bishops of that religion in Ireland, who were members of a league the most powerful and concentrated in the world, and to which the league of which lately so much had been heard as overpowering the Government and Parliament pf Eng land was as uch inferior in talent and authority as were manufacturers of Manchester to the collected intellect of Europe. Lord Combermere said he had always opposed Ro m anism , and having had an opportunity of seeing its baneful affects in Ireland, he would continue to oppose it on every occasion where he had a vote. The Rev. R. J. M`Ghee said he rejoiced to see the noble and gallant lord corning forward to vindicate the cause of religious truth. (Hear.) He did not believe that ever a public meeting was convened on a more im portant subject than they were called upon that day to can sider. The question of the resolution (No. 2) was this, whether, under the semblance of a false pretext, great and disastrous evils should be inflicted on the constitution of England ?—(hear, hear)—not merely an organic change in the constitution, but whetl.er, in point of fact, a death blow should be given to the religion of the country? (Hear.) The necessary operation of certain measures which had been introduced into parliament recently was to place under the sanction of the British law a code of secret tyranny unknown to and abhorrent from the British constitution. (Cheers.) They would introduce into this country over all her Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects a power superior to the law of the land, above the authority of the crown itself, and above the power of the legislature —(applause)—a system of secret treason, which it was the duty of all her Majesty's subjects to endeavour to repress. (Applause.) There were two things to be remarked in the bill brought by the Lard Chancellor into the House of Lords. The first was the title of the bill, and the next was the authority on which it was introduced. It was en dorsed " Religious Opinions' Relief." He suspected the very name of the bill. (Hear.) It was one of the infidel developments of Popery, invented by Mr. O'Connell for the purpose of imposing upon the people of this country — that indeed no man should be deprived of political power for the mere religious opinions he entertained, and that in fact the only thing we had to look to were men's acts. He never knew a more dangerous or more awful principle than that. (Hear, hear.) The revealed trivia of the Eternal God presents to the immortal soul of man facts of the deepest and of everlasting interest. (Applause.) There could be no appeal from faith learned from the Scrip tures except it was made by those who had no re ligion. But the danger was increased when they corsidered the authority by which the bill was presented to parlia ment. It was said to have been presented by the Lord Chancellor, and when they reflected upon the subject, and learned that it related to the laws of England, they must view the circumstances with the most aggravated apprehension; for who would presume to place his opinion in opposition to that of the Lord Chancellor on any subject connected with the statutes of the realm, or who could suppose that that high functionary would intro duce anything into the law which would affect the authority of the Crown, or the I.berty of the subject ? The cha racter, the station, the talents of the Lord Chancellor forbade the least suspicion that he would be guilty of an inten'ional violation, in any enactment, of the law. But here lay the evil. The Lord Chancellor undertook to legislate by the law of England for the laws of Rome; and if he was not thoroughly acquainted with the one, no matter how deeply he may be versed in the other. He (the Rev. Mr; M'Ghee) believed the Lord Chancellor had been practised on by some deep, designing Jesuit ; for it would be as far from truth and fact that the learned lord would lay his hand on the statute books and call them the religious opinions of the Protestants of England, as that he should introduce a bill, founded on the bulls of Rome, and call them the opinions of the Roman Catholic subjects of the Queen. Without at all attempting to derogate from the high character and legal attainments of the Lord Chancellor, he would say that a greater man — he meant Mr. Pitt—had sent forth questions involving the liberties of this country to the Roman Catholic uni versities of Europe ; and those questions, while they bore the stamp of Mr. Pitt's authority, were in point of fact sent forth by a Roman Catholic lawyer in the city of London, of the name of Charles Butler. The rev. gentleman then read several of the bulls of the Pope, and argued that they were totally inimical to the Act of Supremacy, and ought not to be tolerated where Pro testant institutions existed. The reverend gentleman went on to os;serve that neither in France, Spain, Austria, nor any other Catholic country, could any of the Pope's bulls be published until the governments of those coun tries respectively had examined them, andissued a fiat of permission ; and the reason was, that those governments knew that if they allowed full sway to the pap a l p owers in their dominions, the ecclesiastical power must soon necessarily overturn the civil power, and all the rights and lands which those countries enjoyed would be brought into subjection to the Pope. The Rev. F. P. Parry, 8.D., is announced to deliver a lecture in the Toxteth Hall on Monday evening next, on " The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this realm of England." BtcAMv.—Yesterday. Edward Darcy, a seafaring man, was brought up on a charge of bigamy. It appeared from the statements of the wit nesses , th a t th e p r i son er was married on the 11th July, 1836, to Mary Ann Hall, at St. James's Church, Liverpool, and again in January, 1843, to Mary Brown, at St. Peter's Church, the former wile being still alive. The prisoner was apprehended on Saturday by p o li ce - cons t a bl e Ai nswor th, at a house in Maguire-street. The certificates of marriage were l•ro duced. The priso ner was com mitted for trial.—The first wife was then taken into custody, and brought up on a similar charge to th a t preferred against Darcy. The evi dence went to show that on the 24th February, 1845, she was married to Charles Oakes, a mariner, at St. Nicholas' Church, in the name of Mary Ann Darcy. The certifi cate was produced. She also was committed for trial. EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS. OVERLAND MAIL. TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH. (From Yesterday's Herald.) The treaty of peace between the India Company and the Maharajah of Lahore was signed at Lahore the 9th March. By Art. 3, the Maharajah cedes to the Company all the territory comprised between the rivers Beas and Sutlej. By Art 4, the Maharani), finding it impossible to complete the payment of the indemnity agreed upon, cedes to the Company all the mountain territory com prised between the Bess and the Indus, enclosing the provinces of Cachmere and Mazarah. By Art. 5, the in demnity to be paid by the Maharajah is settled at fifty lacs of rupees. In a word, the Company obtains by Art. 10 the right of passage across the territory of Lahore by the troops whenever required. By Art. 12, the Maha rajah recognises Goolab Singh as independent sovereign of the territory which he at present possesses, and of whatever the Company shall choose to cede to him here after. On the 16th of March a counter-treaty was signed at Umritter, between the Company and the Maharajah Goolab Singh. By Art. I the Company cedes to Goolab Singh the ter ritory at the east of the indus and west of the Rave. Art. 3 stipulates the payment to the Company by Goolab Singh of 1:800,000. By Art. 6 Goolab Singh engages to join all his troops to those of the Company in the operations which may take place within the limits of the Company's territory. By Article 10 Goolab Singh recognises the supremacy of England, in testimony of which he will pay annually to the English government elesen goats and six Cachmero mules. THE INSURRECTION IN SPAIN. On Saturday accounts were received from Madrid tO the 25th ult. The news from Galicia received by the government continued to be of a favourable nature. The people had nowhere joined the insurrection. On the 2lst General Concha marched from Orense upon Santiago, to attack the rebels commanded by Solis, whilst Brigadier Blaser was to operate against the insurgents at Vigo. The squadron destined to blockade this last harbour sailed from Corunna on the 17th. The Eco del Comercio quotes a letter from Logrono of the 21st, stating that during the night the police had en tered the houses of the former commander of the Carabi niers, Isourraguire, and the administrator of Espartero:s property, Tomas Alonso, and ordered the first to repair forthwith to Pampeluna, and the latter to Bilboa. Se veral other inhabitants had likewise been banished. In addition to the above, the Morning Herald of yes terday gives the following, received by extraordinary ex press :--Concha entered Lugo the 26th ult., and took 300 prisoners. Lugo was the first to raise the standard of re bellion. CHESTER RACES. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) CHESTER, 8 o' Clock, Monday Evening. The gond old town, as usual, is as busy as can be, ever/ thing on the qui vine, and, as usual, continual changes are being made. Al'hough a better meeting was never anti cipated than the coming one, the Cup is the whole talk , and the amount of starters expected to be not less that' thirty, some say thirty-five: a good field certain, with more starters than will be pleasant, when each is in search of a good place, and pot-luck is likely to be the dish of the day —every man to his own " sow's pick.," The town-folks are in high glee about the quanluns svf, of engagements, every bed and other restiable being bespoke. What will become of the entire strangers? The citizens will no doubt make room, and shift for thernselvel somehow or other; but not without making the late ones pay the piper. The arrivals were this season later than usual. Fin varagh, only, shewed on Friday; Saturday brought in more, and Sunday wonders. A larger or better meeting could not have be n anticipated than was then made cer tain of; and the unusual quantity of strangers, and, to boot, " race rs ," cause d th e c it s t o l oo k up . Th e fashion able world have not yet arrived, although some sprinkling of the lords came yesterday, to see the sweating this morning.- To-morrow will bring the &Us, and to-night will very nearly disclose the secrets of many stables - * what is here, and what is not. At present the following have arrived :—Wndlow has eleven, Dawson fon. teen , Scott five (including Hope), Price three, Lord George Bentinck five, Wm. Scott two ; from other stablest Connaught Ranger, Wittonian, Ruff, Miss Burns, Vol au-Vent, Miles's Boy. Dipthong, and Mostyn's five, &C. &c. There will in all probability be from eighty to oat? hundred horses in all. This mor n i ng near ly ever y an imal on the course looked well, and various anxious eyes nar rowly watched their manoeuvres. Of the lot, Ruff toot my fancy ; the Baron next ; Roper's Daughter and Magnet followed. Out of these four I presume the winner will come for the cup,—Sweetmeat is very small and looks rather "weedy"—Hope not up to the mark—Pedometer th e same —Bill y P urv i s , w h o m , did not see, lam told looks well ; so does Polish. Of all the lot of Irishers I would stand on Finvaragh, the other cracks I hardly think are worthy of notice. I may be wrong but am content to risk it. I have given this in ne Irish way, beginning at where I ought nearly to have ended, but I trust I may not be the worse prophet for that. The Grosvenor stakes will go with Burlesque first and Lightning second. Sweepstakes of 5 soya. to Druid. Queen's guineas, Lightning or Khorassan. Third day,—Wirral stakes, Camelia or Princess Alice must bear the palm of victory away. Of the other matters for contention, the course seems best suited for small outlays, and for the reason that partie s , if they have patience, may always have a race for their money. The incessant rain which has fallen during the day has materially affected the state of the turf matters, and has brought about considerable changes —a portion of the " non-thought-ofs " hiving come into favour. The comae is now very heavy—a state of things much wished for by same, and lamented by others. But the freaks of Nature will come and visit Chester, too, in its great holi day affairs, " in spite o' them a'." Should the rain continue, alterations will be occurring t momentarily ; and the old adage may still h o ld go " Keep your powder dry." LATEST BETTING AT CHESTER LAST 7 to 1 agst The Baron 15 to 1 agst Miss Burns 7 1 „ Best Bower 16 1 „ Inheritress 1 „ Magnet 16 1 „ Hope 8— 1 „ Sweetmeat 22 —1 „ Vol-au-Ven t b . 12 1 „ Clumsy 22 1 „ Roper's Daol 12_ 7 — 1 „ Pedometer I ter No Derby or Oaks betting of any consequence. TILE BETTING IN LIVERPOOL LAST NIGHT. t e But I.ttle was done in this town last ni g ht. The 10 0 mo ing ones were, however, sweeter on Sweetmeat, and thri d , who had posted on Hope were by o dd s more hooe 1 4( Amongst t he few bets madewere 5; to 1 in pon;es Bestl3o" i t ! against Clumsy, 8 to 1 against Best Bower, Mer e against Roderick, 80 to 50; and M agnet aga i ns t BeP Bower, for 100 even. We give the following trom an esteemed contemper a ; the Shropshire Consery , tive:—" Last year we cave best prophecy extant upon the Chester Cup and Pe r m Scanning the merits of the probable starters for Chester Cup on Wednesday next, we place them tbus' Sweetmeat.. Hope.... Glossy Inheritress and Roper's Daughter will, no doubt, good places. Sweetmeat must win, if well, and nobbled." Another friend favours us with a PROPHECY, BY SOMNAMBULIST. Polish.. Glossy e a. INDIAN ARMY.—The Court of Directors have 1 0 ,.. 6 0 11 resolution for promoting deserving privates and non, missioned officers of their European corps to the ro ll ensign, with an allowance of £lOO for outfit. putt Yesterday the rem sins of a woman who had been ~,, to death were discovered in a house in one of the cir o or in Ducie-street. How she took fire cannot be a twined. .110 r el The markets in nearly all the counties in = r otors , during last week were much better supplied wi , h P ° o otP' and corn than they had been for upwards of two 13) previously. opte d THE COERCION BIL , --Amongst those who 0,100.; Friday for the fi rs t rea di ne o f thi s bill were Lord S i tpts i i Sir H. Douglas. W. Entwistle, Sir P. Egerton , Gladstone, and Sir S. R. Gly nne . I n th e m inority p 4 it we find J, Brotherton, R. C o bd en , W. Ewalt, " II 4 , Thornelev. , 0 4 1 : 1 ? GLASS MIER PANS.—The repe a l o f th e duty V"? which ltd to the employment of thi s su b s tance I° 4o l l for the conveyance of water, has been succeeded 0 1 0 01 0 for milk pans, which are not only much Inc re w itb ° cleaned than metal, but may actually be scalded is any fear of fracture. • too lc ite' On Saturday a man in the garb of a mechani c . 0 , 0 0 stand opposite the residence of Sir Robert Peel, In s Itib i o ( hall Gardens, and watched narrowly the carrig e ntlf , drove up to the door. He declared aloud his int e to ( shooting Sir Robert for imprisoning his country er e Io S. O'Brien) and as all attempts to pacify hint fi fectual, he was taken int o cus t o dy. a o e- t a j ILLEGAL MARRIAGES.—The case of "the, the Rev. Richard Taggart, parish priest," wa' :Of Friday by the Court of Queen's Bench, Plw,: s 'Oe' o o' Taggart was found guilty at the last Dow° — in e f i l dsr marrying two persons of the Protestant religio n we T t he licensed place, contrary to the provisions of t 1 1 . 6 ,1 se: e sft riage Act. That marriage was clearly inve'l l e 'per' person who solemnised it rendered himself liab t o C o to punishment. The question was brought befu r , e e s 0 ,5 be on points reserved at the trial ; but the f u d g e. 1/ 1 mously decided against them. His r evere'. pp asilL' brought up for judgment this (Tuesday) ni °r _ n' r eas e to b e The meetings for railway" dissolution " ilicti,ea newt Upwards of seventy meetings, already adce!,,, mo o t! held in the next fortnight, are, in the tne.i(l rl ' e d o ,to , ' for this purpose. This week there have not u t e he opt,. record. The Cornwall and Devon Railway' nt l lietiotif t and Belfast Union Railway, the Lanarkshire a ro gs fro da Railway. the London, Hounslow, and Wel t : W g the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railway, t'cistirlietegoo Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway , a n t he C i t % C° ll' Dumfries Railway, may each be included intneut 9 of the week's business, so f a r as this , be' cerned. In many instances it has been deter"' re to be to " wind-u,. ;" i n o th ers , f u t u re meetings e be, bto for final determination on the suect. . berc 710 DIED.—At Lo n do n , o n the 24th AP ri g i ;0 4 gone for medical advice, aged 50, M r ' a. hook -keeper. of ChariPl-itreet, Birkenho' Li V ERPUO L 184 6 . G. H TUESDAY, MAY 5, ..; f v. PRINTED AND PLIBLISRA - EVERY TUESDAY 14 `' t, . 14 MY JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE o f 13. Gro"4tree t " LEONARD ADDISON , of 14 G r eat Orfori•001. At No. 4, ST. Gielltere CASII4IOII illy an Lid Wi v4l t. 114 1 THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. May 6, 1846.