The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-03 00:00:00

Fes ` Oatmeal Rye... Load . Qrs Beans Qrs. Pease . Qrs. Shelled Barley . Qrs. Indian Corn . . . Qrs. Rapeseed Qrs. A t"' SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, Three o'Cloek. We are still without any intelligence respecting the Liverpoool, which has been expected at this port for the last four or five days. The Independence, the "th, - has not yet arrived. The Cam eft New York on the sth, arrived this .---Trnorning; but the news which she has brought has seen anticipated by the arrival of the Baltimore at H avre. packet of the bridge, w'nirh 1 LIVERPOOL MARKETS.—Tnis DAN.. CORN. EXCHANGE Since our return of the Ist instant, the arrivals of Wheat into this port consist of 7,52 G qrs. coastwise, partly duty paid foreign, and 990 qrs. from Ireland, but none direct from abroad. Of Irish Oats and Oatmeal, in addition to the large influx noted on Tuesday, we have to note a further good supply ; while of other articles the arrivals fresh in are only moderate. The operations in the corn trade here, from the close of Tuesday's market until to. day, were chiefly confined to some parcels of foreign Wheat for shipment to Ireland, with a few sales to consumers, and of States' Flour in bond at our last quotations; but in other respects the business done was un important, and prices were unvaried. Duties on foreizn Wheat are raised to 20s. Bd. per quarter, on Flour to its. sd. per barrel, on Beans to 3s. 6d. per quar ter, on British Colonial Wheat to ss. per quarter, and on Flour to 3s. per barrel, those upon other produce remaining unaltered. _ _ _ Previously, during the week, the quantity of Wheat and Flour released from bond is not yet officially announced ; the amount, however, paid for duties yesterday is stated to be about £lO,OOO upon all kinds of Grain and Flour; mean while we may remark that the importers of Wheat in general prefer to wait the result of future averages. Having, an em=dingly limited attendance of buyers at this day's market, the demand for all descriptions of Wheat was extremely inanimate, and in the few sales effected, a small decline from the current rates of Tuesday was partially con ceded.—English, Irish, and Foreign free Flour also appeared y !into notice, arid hardly maintained former to exciti prices To Barley, Malt, Beans, and Pcase similar remarks are applicable, each being nearly without inquiry. The supply of Oats, of which real good qualities bear a comparatively small proportion to the whole is, in the absence of demand, mostly going into granary, andalthorigh the best kinds arc held at late prices; all other sorts Were rather cheaper, and very difficult to sell. • ARRIVALS OF CORN. From the 31st Pecember, to the 2d January, inclusive. DBSCRIPTION IRE- I COAST- FO LAND. WISE. : REIGN u\lTSn' TOTAL STA'rE Wheat 00 7526 815 580 ors Barley 8516 1395 426 5261 Malt Flour Sacks .Is. D 5O I Ditto 302 6711 I 4 1 15:15 1747 I 2049 1 6715 EXPORTS.—Foreign—Oats. 32 qrs. Ireland Wheat. 522 qrs. Coastwise—Wheat, 295 qrs. ; Barley, 75 qrs. ; Oats, 50 qrs. ; Beans, 12 qrs, ; Pease, 27 qrs.; Oatmeal 50 Ids ; Flour, 335 sacks, 84 los. Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Dec. 27, 1839. Wheat.. 665. Zd. I Barley.. 405. sd. I Oats.. 235. lid. I Rye.. 389. 6d. Beaus.. 425. 6d. I Pease, 425. 7cl. Agregate average of the six weeks. Wheat.. 665. 10d. I Barley.. 40s. I Id. Oats.. 255. 2d. I Rye3B9. 6d. Beans .. 425. 6d. I Pease.. 429. 7d. Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week. Wheat 20s. Bd. I Barley Is. 10d. I Oats ... 9s. 3d. Rye .. 12s. 6d Beans.3s. 6d. I Pease. r,s*.titl. I Indian Corn, Is. Od. I Flour, 12s. 5d Liverpoql Averages, week ending 31st December, 1839. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beans, Pease. Qr 5..... 380 I 279 Prices.. I 603. 6d. 00s. Od. 279. Od. 008. Od. I Os. Od. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. FRIDAY, JAN UARY 3.—Wind W.N.W. Fair. AnatvEn.—Alert, Scott, from Berblce—Warree, from Africa and Gibraltar—North Star, Benenict, from Philadelphia—Constantine, Vansor, from New Orleans, sailed from the Bar Ist Dec.—Herald, Smith, from Lisbon—Norval, Torgerson, fru Odessa and Falmouth —Eleanora, De Velioukh, from Trieste— Rob Roy, Baron, f rom Cork—Rambler, from Wieklow—Matilda, Euston, and John and Henry, frem Ipswich Cambridge, Bursley, from New York at this port, sailed Dec. s, at noon ; at 3 p.m., off Sandy Hook, spoke the Liverpool, {steamer,] from this pOrt Maypo, Seymour, from Lima at this port, sailed 10th October. 500,000 dollars on freight George IV., Brownlas, from Monte Video at this port, sailed 31st October, in company with the Enchantress, for this port. The Reindeer was to sail on the Ist November, for thir port Urania, Berg, from Rio Janeiro, at Antwerp Barlow, Burns, hence, at St John, N.B. Vesta, Bowness, and Nile, Hepburn, hence and Lisbon, at Monte Video Mor, -, from London to China, was spoken 25th Nov in lat. 20 S. long. 28 :is W. out •J 3 days Blucher, , frotnTroon to St. Thomas, was spoken 14th Dec in lat. 22 N: long. 7.2 W. New York Packet, Dec. in lat. 24, lone' hence to Havana, was spoken 15th Irom the Clyde to Calcutta, was spoken 31st Dee. 7 - off Cork Jane Prows:e, Willicomb, sailed from Lima for San Blas on the 29th Sept. Mary Worrall, Gardner, sailed for Arica Ist Oct. and Thomas Worthington, --, sailed for Cerra Azul 2nd Oct. The Abbot's Reading' was to sail for this port on the 20th Oct. and the Georgina lath Oct. for South Peru to load for tins port TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS)L3 The usual monthly meeting of the council was held, for the despatch of business, in the Town-hall, on Wednesday. Josnun WALMSLEY, Esq., the mayor, presided. The DEPUTY TORN-CLERK read .the proceedings of the last council, and they were confirmed. He.next read the minutes of the Finance Committee's proceedings. at their meeting on the Gth December. from which appeared that the memorial of Mr. Okill, the clerk Of committees, was considered, and he was requested to report in detail the grounds ,upon which he applied for an increase of salary.— The deputy town-clerk further read the minutes of a special meeting of the committee, held Dec. 19th, at which an.offer from Messrs. Hetherington, Crindrod, and Addison, to sell the Birkenhead Hotel property, wa.s considered. It appeared from the minute that this estate contained about 43,000 square yards of land, and that the stun asked was J.:65,000. The committee resolved ,unanimously, to ; recommend the offer to the consideration. of the conned, and appointed a sub-committee to obtain further information. At the meet ing on the 27th, Mr. Okill's memorial was further consi dered, and the committee unanimously agreed to present the following report to the council:-7- REPORT ON MR. OKILL'S INJEMORIAL. "After mature deliberation, the committee have arrived at the unanimous opinion that the statements in the memo rial are fully sustained—that Mr. Okill's services have been of no common kind, and that it would be difficult to estimate _ _ too highly their great importance to the corporate estate To him the council may be truly said to be indebted for the knowledge at present possessed of the great concerns under their management. Previous to the period when Mr. Okill, in 1815, was employed to audit the treasurer's accounts (which had never undergone any examination from the time of that officer's appointment in 1789), there was an entire absence of system or method, and there was an almost total want of reference or guide to the corporation freehold and leasehold property, and an ignorance not only of the vast extent, situation, and capabilities of the estate, but of the number of the lessees or the terms of their respective leases. In support of this last observation, and as a proof of this want of knowledge, a premium was offered to the officers in the service of the council upon proof of the lapse of any lease. On the 13th June, 1814, the following entry stands recorded in the Select FinanCe Committee's proceedings of that date: — 'Resolved—That it be recommended to the council to allow the town-clerk, the treasurer's clerk, and the survey or's clerk, the sum of one guinea for each and every lease which any of them may prove hereafter to have lapsed to the corporation.' " The results of this investigation, and the suggestions arising from it, are fully given in the reports made by Mr. Okill from time to time. During the progress of his ex amination, an opportunity was afforded, of which he availed ,• himself, when permitted, for acquiring an 'accurate and ex= tensive knowledge of the corporate estate, and for reducing this knowledge into a permanent form, in Which it might be made of the greatest use. At this time; the only authentic map of the Estate was that,of Mr. Eves, made in 1765. Taking this map as the groundwork, Mr. Okill proceeded to construct the present enlarged map, now inconstant use, which must be well known to the council. On its prepara tion he laboured for several year's; having a most difficult task to execute, from the want of references and other in formation. It was at last completed, and presented to the corporation in 1822. On it were laid down the diffe rent freeholds anti leases, whether for lives or. years, the reversions sold, and the land or . property given up- . for public improvements,-each distinguished in ,the various streets ; and subsequently, upon. the important change in the mode of leasing from lives and years to sixty years, and afterwards to the present time of seventy-five years, these two classes of leases were also. added. Each leasehold property refers by number to street indexes and registers of leases ; and, as the system introduced and adopted by Mr. Okill has been carefully kept up, the leases, surrenders, .&c., being periodically marked on the book, and registered in the respective books, there is now no information that may be 'required, as to any of the corporate property, that cannot readily be obtained. The committee also found that a re gister is kept of the property still held for lives and years in each street, distinguishing such as annually comes upon the years. This list extends at present to the year 1860, being twenty-one years from 1839, so that it is known prospectively what premises in each year fall into the hands of the corpo ration, thus regulating their arrangement for the renewed leases for seventy-five years. The committee have reason to believe, that since the introduction of the present system there has been only one instance of an error, in a property comprising 4900 leases and grants. This was brought under the notice of the council last year, and the rectification of the mistake was honourably entertained by the party errone ously in possession. " It may be only due to Mr. Okill to partiellarise some instances of the advantages resulting from his investigations. In the early stages of his labours, but before they were brought to a close, the corporation had received, as appears by the books, the sum of £39,552 for ground rents and the sale of property out of lease, and he reported a further sum of nearly £19,000 which remained for collection at the close. In addition, he also reported. as actually lapsed, a list of 110 houses, besides upwards of 1100 houses on the years, of which the council were in perfect ignorance. The whole system of ground rents appears to have been equally neglected ; and from this source £7OO per annum were added to the corpo rate income, through Mr. Okill's investigations. The re gisters then in existence contained indeed this information, as is evident by the results, but no person appeared to have examined, arranged, and brought to light their contents, be fore the time of Mr. Okill. "To come to a later period. In the year 1828 a claim to the whole shore of the lordship of Liverpool was preferred by the Duchy of Lancaster ; but, through Mr. Okill's pre vious researches, and on the-production of copies and ex tracts from the records of the corporation made by him, this claim was at once abandoned by government, and the corpo rate title acknowledged; and it is on the title so admitted that the approaching conveyance of the site of the New Fort to the Board of Ordnance rests—a title declared by the town clerk to be clear and unexceptionable. " Upon the great question of the town dues, the committee beg to record their opinion that Mr..okill was not ade quately remunerated for-his services on that occasion, consi dering, as he himself states in his memorial, the immense importance of the property at issue, the success attendant on the line pointed out by him, and the sacrifice of his health.' The committee have very recently been put in possession of additional testimony to his valuable services upon this great trial, under the hand of the late town-clerk, and in the de claration, before the result was known, of Mr. Foster's im mediate predecessOr, ll r.,Statham.. " coming, as,the committee do, to the unanimous eor elusion to recommend a compliance with Mr. Okill's memo rial, they consider that they are . only performing an act of justice, and that his general services to the corporate estate —his peculiar and eitenSive knowledge of its character—his attachment to hill that relates to its welfare and prosperity — his devotion to and most intimate knowledge of the subject— the great increase of business in his office—and his length of service, all establish his strong claim to an advance of salary ; and the committee accordingly recommend, for the sanction of the council, that an addition of 2.0.0 per annum be made to his present salary of £7OO, eovamencing with the present quarter. • " It will be seen, however, and the committee hope it will be clearly understocid, by the • council, that this salary - is not viewed by the former as one to be attached to the office of clerk of the committee ; but- that it is recommended only with reference to the present individual holding the office, on the distinct ground of 'his great services to the estate already enumerated. They consider that it would indeed be difficult, if not impossible, to find a successor uniting so many and such peculiar qualifications for his office. It is, therefore, with great satisfaction that they direct the attention of the council to the concluding passage of Mr. Okill's additional statement. In this he says, that he _should.feel happy if he could transfer his acquaintance with the estate to his succes sor, but that experience and a similar devoted attachment only can attain that desirable end.' Availing themselves gladly of the feeling, and being assured of Mr. Okill's wil lingness to make the attempt, the committee strongly recom mend that the introduction of sonic person to the office of the clerk of the committees should be borne in mind when a fitting opportunity occurs, who may gradnally be initiated by Mr. Okill into a knowledge of the estate and of the present system pursued in its management, and who may also be pre pared to replace the services of Mr. Okill, when, from age or from death, he shall cease to fill his present important situa tion." BIRKENHEAD • HOTEL ESTATE. The TOWN-CLERK then read the 'followin g report of the Sub-committe of Finance on the Birkenhead Hotel estate, which was presented to the committee yesterday " The-property consists of the hotel and ferry, which are let, at present, at the nett sum of .000 per annum ; but the present tenant's term expiring, in eighteen months, a negoti ation is pending for .the increased .rent—such negotiation being subject to the 'present offer for sale. A dwelling-house let at .-.£150 nett yer annum. Varions• Plots .of building land, suitable for marine villas. The undisputed right to the ferry, and all the estate of the sellers under Francis R. Price, Esq., the lord of the manor, in the shore down •to low water-mark of the river, and to within twenty yards of low water-mark of Birkenhead Creek, or the outlet from 'Fran mere Pool. " The shore would admit of dock room to the extent of 300 yards by 100 ; and the position of the property is such as to command most extensive increase of dock accommoda tion, by purchases under parliamentary powers, whenever such accommodation may be deemed necessary. Valuable stone for dock walls can be got from both the land and the shore. " The increasing neighbourhood, and the completion of the railway, must add to the value of this property. Improve ment in the corporation estate at Wallasey would also add to it. The railway . company are subject to an undertaking made in parliament, and inserted as a condition in their act, that, before any extension of their line to Woodside, from its present terminus at Grange-lane, there shall be branch railways to Tranmere and Birkenhead Ferries. •" The whole of the laud, exclusive ashore, contains.about 43,000 square yards. The surveyor of the corporation values the land, exclusive of shore or any consideration of docks, and simply as if purchased by any individual having no peculiar interest, at one pound per square yard, or £43,000. To this amount be adds the buildings, piers, and basin ; and right of ferry, at £17,000, making together 4 : 60 ,000. The purchase money required is £65,000, and the proprietors are under a contract binding on them to sell at that sum ; but with a provision, oti behalf of the corpora - . tion, fox maki ng th e sa l e vo id , if lot adopted by the council e s recommendedeeili:condition contract hat on or before the 6th of February next. the eiotlteiltde determination i n a a d t j i e o u ri r o n f e the d fo question a.bo. ut a fortnight, to give time for consideration, and the obtaining further information. u;)n lt th i . " In the meanwhile the Finance Committee will be ready to confer with any committees or me hers of the council, and to explain their views on the subject of the purchase. " Towit-boll, 31st _December, 1839." Alr. Cuaitris said the first subject for the consideration of the C o uncil was the proposed increase of Mr. Okill's salary ; and when he stated ,that the report had been adopted ' imam mously—ll out of the 13 members of the committee having voted for it and the absent member being favourable—he. thou g ht th e Council would agree with him, that the com mittee had done right in recommending an advance to that meritorious officer's salary. Th e grounds for this recommen dation were so fully set forth iu the report that he would not take up th e t i me of the counc il i n a gain going over th e m, b ut content himself with i • the, cOntirination of the Finance Committee's procced' uoving .- . that the salary of Mr. Okill should • henceforth bel:9oo' instead "' v, of £7OO. • . Mr. JOUN Mum ° Mr. Alderman EVA' N s_e s Tded the inot191 1 • the council could be more deeply •i,,, pres , s ed . I , d ,t t i l , lat oo man in mi.. Okill than he (Mr. Evans) was, and he had ( pe merits of to that gentle man receiving the most ample no objection . . . , lay no stress on the fact of the ()1( remuneration. fic would, council was called t which irre sponsible, having given what they thought Mr. a proper compen , coun cil from establishing a precedent rot a t , h t , o p; otect the income iu any one department than wa'sgivi''g of a larger On a fair view of the merits and service s of Mr. correct. thought that the better plan would be to awarPtl. Okill, he the salary of Mr. Okill untouched.. if t•l:'eronus, and • any department were raised above the measure of a sa r lary in. d for the services performed, the effect would h e t o re war 0 v ,_ ken the attention and to impair the efficiency of the man hold ing the office, as well. as to bring into. play the ambition o f men in a higher class or . society, less fitted for the perform ance of the' duties, and who,. when once in office, would i n some measure he protected front removal by the extent of their Meanie. He had sufficient experience, even in that council, to know, that if, by any accident, an income was ever raised to a certain sum, a successor, whenever he came to be appointed, would think himself treated with a kind of slur or insult if the same amount were not given to him. If £9OO were made the salary of the clerk of the committees, that TELEGRAPH-OFFICE, JAN. 3. Wind at Holyhead, W. blowing fresh. No vessels to repert along the line A schooner on shore on the main—off Voel Nant at 9 15 a.m MISCELLANEOUS. Lord John Russell has arrived at Bowood, on a visit to the Marquis of Lansdowne.—Bath Gazette. Sir Arthur Brooks, Bart., has given an eligible site, in the sight of Brockborough, for a commodious Wesleyan chapel. Mr. Charles R. Colvill has presented a magnificent service of communion plate to Blidworth church. Nottingham Mercurg. The Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell has twice declined to he nominated to the vacant bishopric of Lichfield.—Stock- Port Advertiser. The Earl of Cardigan gave the Wesleyans of Horsfo r t - Woodside a pi ece o f has just bee n erecte d . ground for the site of a chap el, which -- ----- Tier Majesty will return to town from Windsor on Thurs day, the 9th of January, to be ready to open parliament. — Ministerial paper. Viscount and Viscountess Eastnor have arrived at Dray ton Manor, on a visit to Sir Robert Peel and Lady Peel, from their villa, at Leamington Spa. LARGE TWELFTII-CARE.— Mr. Dawson, confectioner. of 'Maidstone, last week made a twelfth-cake of an oval shape, aft. gin. in circumference and 1251b5. in weight. His Grace the Archbishop of N ork has given the munifi cent donation of £2OO to the York Central Diocesan Society for the education of the poor. His Grace had previously subscribed £2OO. THE KING or H ANovEe-z-We understand that his Ma jesty will arrive in this country, from Hanover, on the 30th or 31st of the ensuing- month, to be present at the marriage of the Queen.—Morning Herald. Lord John Russell has appointed a colonial land and emi gration board, on the principles recommended by the select committee of the commons on colonial lands.—Morning Chronicle. A. Su P.-Mr. O'Couaell in his last speech to his consti tuents, says—" The tones, we all know, are the most venom ous gang on the face , of the earth, w e s t an d i n t h e f ace o f heaven their equals,' &c. The Earl and Countess of Wilton left town on Saturday for Walmer Castle, the seat of the Duke of Wellington, in Kent. The funeral of the late Lady Emily Agnes Grey Egerton took place on Friday last at Grosvenor Chapel. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro are still on a Visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale, at Yes ter House, Haddingtonshire. The Marquis and IVlarchio ness intend to remain in Scotland until the assembling of Parliament, A Mr. M. Miller a country professor of music, has com posed an oratorio, called " Israel i n Babylon," which was performed by th e choral society of this town; In Basford Church, on Thursday evening, with perfect success.—Not. tinghana Journal. A splendid turkey, bred in Norfolk, stuffed with French truffles, and has been weighing between 50 and 60 pounds, exhibited during the past week in the shop window of a well known purveyor of articles of gout, in Piccadilly• We have authority for stating, that the reports. of the Bank Of England having refused to continue the arrange ments with country banks, which, having no paper of their own, issued that of the above monied corporation, are utterly unfounded.-3/wwing Chronicle. Lord Ellenborough has at considerable expense and labour completely renovated the ancient baronial hall at Soutliam, restoring all the fine features of the original architecture and style of decoration. D EAT H OF LADY CATHERINE BRECIINELL.—We regret to hear of the death of the above estimable lady,which t oo k place on Tuesday last. The deceased lady, who was the only surviving sister of the late Earl of Portmore, was bo rn th e sth November, 1779, and married in 1810, Mr. J. Bre c k ne ll . Her late ladyship was lady of the bedchamber to the late Queen Charlotte. —Morning Herald. THE OPAH.—A beautiful and rare fish, the opah or king fish, was last week caught on the coast at Hartlepool, mea suring in length 5 feet 4 inches, round the body 3 feet 4 in ches. and weighed sst. 71b. It was bought at Hartlepool, by Mr. William Brown, of Richmond, fishmonger, who showed it to the inhabitants of Stockton on the Thursday evening, the day it was caught, and on Friday and Saturday at Rich mond. On the latter day it was all sold at ls. 6d. per lb., and the purchasers were highly delighted with its remarkably tine ilayour.—Newcastle Journal. Igo MONEY.—A few (lays since, a couple who had been out-asked presented themselves at Marylebone Church to be married. On the ceremony being concluded, the usual fees were demanded of the bridegroom, who coolly replied that he had no money. At this unusual state of things, both the parson and clerk appeared dumb-founded, the latter threat ening.-suits in all sorts of courts, c i v il and ecclesiastieal. To this the bridegroom turned a d ea f ear , while the bride , chucking; under the chin, cried, " Never mind, Jim ; at any rate they can't unmarry us.—Newcastle Journal. HUMBUGGING A LAZY HORSE.—A few days ago, Jack Horsley, a waggoner at Hartley colliery, had occasion to since a horse and cart to Hollow-well san d s f or a f ot h er of gravel, and on returning, the horse (a very st rong b u t a very . lazy one) refused to draw load up the bank, (which is of considerable aclivity,) notwithstanding all the coaxing and threatening that Jack was master of; but, being determined to make the horse finish its work, Jack went off and brought another horse, which he put..right a head of the idle one as a leader, and pretended to attach the chains by rattling them against the trains ; after which Jack gave a loud crack with his whip, and a sharp call of encouragement, and away went the dupe with th e grea t es t eas e imaginable, supposing he was assisted all the time Berwick Advertiser. Nkti. ~~ ..,,-' , -9. ,‘ ~~~~~ hereaftkeslie • tip. ilk. salary larthcb*, aturwould litr - elptc ,sdecesser, that, but they were gradual getting up to those highe comes, and as sure as they did so, they w ould get themselves into the corruption of appointing more incapable persons, in 'it higher ,and more influential station of society. ..He wished the salaries to be such as would secure the services of men of a middling order, who had habits of labour, and not in- • comes that would lead the servants of the corporation to-de-. sire to mingle in society, and enjoy pleasures, that would oc-. cupy their time and abstract their minds from their duties. • He should therefore recommend that the circumstances be again taken into consideration by the committee, on the prin ciple of making Mr. Okill a bonus, of what amount he would • not name, for - that ought to be left to the committee. Mr. Evans concluded by moving an amendment to - that effect. Mr. Alderman BENN seconded' the amendMent. leap • peared to him" from. Mr. Okill's statement,- and from , the . 1 report of the committee, that he had bestowed great labour - upon the arrangement of the corporation affairs,. and there, - 1 fore that he must need recreation and rest. Mr. Olin had also suggested that a younger person should be placed in the office with a view to succeed him. Under these circum stances he (Mr. Benn) conceived it would be much better to award Mr. Okill a bonus, and place another person in the • office to assist him, and with a view to succeed hirri. This course he thought he would be preferable to Mr. Okill, be cause it would relieve him considerably from the cares of ' office. Mr. BOLTON differed from Mr. Alderman Evans. The subject had been fully discussed in the committee, and of the two modes which presented themselves for reward- • ing the very valuable services of Mr. Okill (to whom the old corporation had behaved very shabbily), the committee had • chosen that which best accorded with the feelings of Mr. Okill. He (Mr. Bolton) thought there was no fear of this proposed augmentation of salary having any influence in a future appointment, for it was recommended under peculiar circumstances, and for services which would :not again be needed. • Besides, he thought that the ;node proposed would be the most economical Mr. Pr.iver concurred in the motion of Mr. Currie. He thought that Mr. Okill richly deserved what was proposed for him. . • Mr. Alderman EARLE was glad to hear the grant of the old corporation to Mr. Okill styled shabby, because at that . time he expressed his opinion that it was the most paltry thing that ever had been done by that body. . . Mr. RATnnosts fully concurred in the views of Mr. Evans. He was glad to hear such a report, respecting one who was a high tory, from a committee that had often been taunted with being radicals and exclusives. Toryism, however, .had no thing to do with the question—(laughter)—but he did wish to notice that reformers were quite willing to do justice to a tory, when his merits came before them. Ile hoped that the report•would be-referred back to the committee. It was very well to say that the increase of salary had been recommended on account of Mr. Okill's merits ; but he knew that when a salary was once established, some excuse would be found to continue it. He wished the thing done in the most hand some way to Mr. Okill, but in a shape that would be more acceptable and complimentary than the one proposed by the report. Gentlemen had talked of economy, as if Mr. Okill would.not live very long. If he had a fixed sum given hint, it would be a compliment to him. Mr. Hoocsols wished to see the council cometo a conclu sion that would be satisfactory to all parties. He - agreed that some compensation ought to be made to Mr. Okill, and he also agreed in the principle laid down by Mr. Evans. Say what they would, if the compensation, .were given in the shape of a fixed salary the council would be called upon to • continue that rate of salary, whenever they had to appoint a successor. .He thought that a-mode might be hit upon which would do away .with all objection—namelyi by giving Mr. Okill his choice of a fixed sum,• in the shape of a bonus, or an annuity during his continuance in the service of the coun cil—the annuity to form no part of his salary. - Mr. Alderman Boosn thought that the best mode was that proposed by Mr. Evans, namely, to grant a suns equiva lent to the purchase of an annuity of £2OO. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE thought that the council should decide upon the matter, and not refer it back to the com mittee, as if they had not examined it sufficiently. He should support the motion of Mr. Currie, as that mode of remuneration would be most agreeable to the feelings of Mr.. Okill, who cared little about the money, but who wished for an increase of salary for the. purpose of raising himself in the scale of thecorporation officers. Mr. Alderman•HouNnv said. that he should like to give notice of another amendment. He thought that the proposed increase of £2OO was paltry, and that the council ought at once to make Mr. Okill's salary £lOOO a year. Mr. Alderman Slum, entirely concurred in the view of Mr., Evans, •and. had been confirmed io his opinion by what had fallen from Mr. G. H. Lawrence,. who had said. that Mr. Okill cared, nothing about the money, hut wished . to raise himself in the scale ofthe corporation. officers. Now, that was the very thing to. which Mr: Evans had . objected. If they raised the .salary of the clerk of committees; the situation would become an - object of ambition to those , who stood high in society—to men unlike Mr. Okill, and unfit for the discharge of the duties ;; and he was not anxious to do any such thing,. was one of those who thought that when a salary was once,fixed.at a high standard, it would be extremely difficult to reduce•it. He did not think -that the case of •the treasurer, who had been alluded to, bore upon the one before them, because they had all •conae iu most dreadful economists. He must confess that, if he wanted an office under the council, he would much rather make the application now than he would have done then. The report had very, properly stated all that.could be brought forward in favotir of Mr. OWL but it ought likewise to have mentioned L how much he had received front the old corporation. Mr. • Okill's services were under the old corporation, but, hie . claims had been referred to. a. sub-committee since the aim o pointment of the reform . -council, , tua llie:(Mr. Shell) r,qa,lly . thought it too-hard to throw back the blame on the old!ecigl. poration for their economy. —ln fact,,lie „was. beginning-. to find that he had been too severe-upon them; PE lie 100 . always thought that they had been, too extravagaut; but he found they had beentoo economical.- • • ~ey ti,,,.. _ . . .. .. Mr. M'Kaa reminded the council : that ,they onght,,P4./W careful in fixing high. salaries. The people out of .doOsoypny very jealous of these frequent additions, and the ,qopmil surely ought to pay same respect.to,their opinions. He hired Mr. Evans's.propositiou would he carried. Mr. HENRY LAwnENcE proposed to do away with the Ob jection. of Mr. Evans by a slight verbal alteration of the mo tion. He proposed that the X2(19 per, annum should be given to Mr. Okill, net in-, addititni to, but over and. ab0ve,..148 salary. . „ . .. , . . .. , .. . ~, . ... . . .. , Mr. BLACKRUAN.supported - Mr. Curries motion.. :. . Mr. CooLAN-exPressed his intention, to vote for : the amend- •• • , . • , . Mr. JORDAN took the same view of the question as • the Finance Committee, and should support the original motion. Mr. Alderman EVANS wished to reply, hut this was ob jected to by Mr. Currie and others, as being inconsistent with the usage of the council, which did not, following. the rule of the House of Commons, allow the right of reply to the mover of an amendment. Mr. Cullum-was proceeding with his reply, when.he was interrupted by the mayor, .to whom the town-clerk. had pointed out that the motion of Mr. Currie, which was for the confirmation of the proceedings of the Finance Committee, inclusive of the recommendation for the increase of Mr. Okill's ,salary, was wrongly worded:. it ought to have been for the confirmation of the proceedings, with the exception of that part having reference to the increase of salary, because, by the standing orders of the council, no salary could be in creased unless a month's notice had been given. Mr. RATnnoNE wished to know whether the town-clerk .had given his opinion as to whether that was the proper time or not for taking the proposed increase of salary into con sideration. lie thought that the common-sense view of the case said, that they ought not to have another debate upon the subject. The TOWN-CLERK read the standing order, and said that it was not in the power of the council to co into the considera tion of the report until the next meeting: ! Mr. CURRIE was proceeding,lwhen Mr. Alderman EVANS rose and objected, seeing that it - had been decided that the council could not take the matter into consideration then. He recommended Mr. Currie to reserve his ammunition till the next meeting. Mr. Cullum replied,that he should not be short of ammu nition. He then worded his motion as follows :—" That the proceedings of the Finance Committee be confirmed, with the exception of the report as to .the Birkenhead property, which is to stand over for consideration at an adjourned council, and the report on Mr. Okill's memorial, which, by the stand ing orders, must stand over till the next monthly meeting." The motion was agreed to without opposition. HIOH CONSTABLL'S. SALARY. In the proceedings of the. Watch Committee. there was a resolution that the. salary of Mr. Whitty, the head-con stable, should be raised from £525 to £7OO. This resolution will be taken into. consideration at the next council meeting. SWORD-BEARER. The Town-hall Establishment Committee recommended that William Houlton should be appointed to the office of sword-hearer, receiving £3O a year in addition to his present salary. By this arrangement £l2O a year would be saved.— This recommendation also stands over for confirmation. MEMORIALS. The MAYOR then presented the following memorial, which had been handed to him by Mr. Hodgson " Your memorialists have learned with satisfaction that it is the intention of your honourable. body to apply to parliament, in the ensuing session, for power to introduce into this borough several clauses of the metropolitan police act; amongst them the following :—' And be it enacted, that no licensed victualler or other person shall open his house within the metropolitan district for the sale of wine, spirits, beer, or other fermented or distilled liquors on Sundays, Christmas-day, and Good Friday, before the hour of one in the afternoon, except refreshment for travellers.' Your memorialists are of opinion that the introduction of this measure will tend greatly to check the drunkenness, im morality, and awful desecration of .the Lord's day that at present prevail. Trusting that your honourable body will persevere in your intention, and add this to the many other exeilletit - Measuri!s conferred upon us, which tend so• much to our comfort and happiness as individuals, and our safety and protection as citizens : as in duty bound, your memo rialists will ever pray." The memorial was signed by 554 persons. Mr. Honosos said that he had been desired to state, that in addition to the signatures appended to the memorial, (which had been placed in his hands since he came into the council,) there was a great number which ought and would have been appended, but for the circumstance that the indi vidual having possession of them was out of the way. Mr. JOHN SMITH inquired whether there was any memo rial from the licensed victuallers ? The MAYon. replied in the negative. • Mr. JOHN SMITH moved that the memorial which had been presented should be referred to the Watch Committee, as they would have to take the whole ease into consideration. Mr. CASE seconded the motion.-7--Carried. VACANCIES IN THE ALMS HOUSES. uoi tunh:di be t o The Mxvou called the attention of the council to the fact. of there being two vacancies in the alms-houses, as he wished. to have their advice as to the best mode. of tilling them. He stated that there had been frequent complaints as to the manner iu which the persons occupying them had conducted themselves. There were. forty-eight alms-houses, sixteen of idiseie..s" CASE which were in the hands of the corporation ; and he had spoken to the persons having the disposal of ie others,, and he believed that there was no disinclination on their part to accede to the proposal which he was about to offer—namely, that a police inspector should live in one of the houses now. vacant, and, by exerting a surveillance over the houses ge nerally, and by frequently reporting, they would thus be kept in better order. Mr. s eje -houses He himself was, allowing ;gtetilrialsedo bestowed tl 1 that th some 0 tn mayor eat t e h n a t 0 tnatkoe itn when be was in office. The Mayor's suggestion was a goodone. The , in the child en g ns with fa r t e n w ili u e l s 4 to the re y s r id e ! o ni ti j ai c i e le:l ‘i, t! r ie ,i r l e i : tle u i; n e d tte so r i tnhe an of eo th n e iru l oTt s ) t r ' o s t , he w l i s i . en li he nk w ,ss as th it e l h o u s es werecomined to the aeconnumlationof . old people, tor: whom they were intended, there would be sonic difficulty in. bringing about that order and, regularity which the mayor • wished to establish. Mr, RATHDOi4E thought that if some arrangement were mathe different proprietors to bring the whole. of the hoone thapagement, it would be better. there w .said that to permit a police inspector to reside deprive the poor of one of the houses. He • thought they should be unde r the s trict surveillance of some one..,' but he shOuld not like a h ouse to be taken awa y . uje ct was referred to th e Town-hall Establishment Committee. T RATE The MAyon read t he following resolution from fir.. Churchwarden Kilshaw • . " At th e Vestry Meeting eet . in •• held in the the Board Room of Parish-office, Penwiek-street D ec ember, 1839, Mr. l eet, the 24th Churchwarden Kil bhaw . in the chair, the vestry-clerk having -•• c --- - re i it rt s ed the result of the interview of the churchwardens an elf, as a deputation to wait upon the mayor and tows -cle r k, in refertnce to the inteMed bill as to watch rates —Resolved, That, relying upon tie intention expressed by the council that they wißproceed toobtain an act of parlia ment in the next session, so as to exmerate thy: 'parishioners 'from any additional rate under the ail - of last session, the ie lect'vestry, although well aware of tie anxiety felt by the'pa' , rishioners at large upon the subjectof the watch rate, - con ceive that they will best effect the v.ews of the parishioners by abandoning any-distinct application to parliament for this purpose.—Resolved, That 'a copy ofthe foregoing resolution be transmitted by the churchwardens to the tua.)or, with a request that his worship will be phased to lay the same be fore the council - at.their'llext- Meetiag.•- , —Extraated from the minutes." " N. D. LOVNDES, Vestri7Xlerk." , The TOWN-CLERK said .it was deirnble that th(46 should benomisUnderstandingWith'respect b the bill he was proceed . - ing for. lie then read' the report the subject, Whiehliail been 'appeoved- of by a committee', and - afterwards. by - the council, and in pursuance of which iotice had been given in . . the following terms. [The Town-cle , k read the notice.] The resolution of the parish, he said, •anieared to go to the exo- • neration of the parish, and he had io doubt, if no - change took place in the revenue of the corOration, that that would be the result of the bill. Mr. Curium, - in pursuance of the'recommendation of the Town-clerk, moved the following resolution :—" That the Town-clerk be directed officially to eiAnsmit to the Vestry clerk an extract from his parliamentay notice, so far as re lates to &bill in the next session, on he subject of the act of the last session, relating to watch - rates ;- and to state that he has the directions of this council to 'effect, by public or pri vate bill, the objects.of that notice." - The resolution was adopted withott opposition. DOCK CONINIITTrE Thy proceedings of the Dock Conmittee were then read over and confirmed. Some rules aid regulations for the Conduct of the dock-masters and harlour-masters were with drawni for•the purpose of amendment. LAYING A WATCH lI.ATE. Mr. THORNHILL, as chairman ofthe Watch Committee, Proposed that the rate for the ensiing year should be-2d, 33-64ths. The TOWN- LERIC explained: whs the proposed rate Was' higher than had formerly been leviel, namely, 2d. 6-17ths. At present they were obliged-to-lay , :herate under an act of the , FaSt session, which directed that: ihf , the -annual value of the premises being.eStitiaaid;at the rack rent, it should be estimated at the probable annual value for a cer tain 'lumber of years. It was therebre proposed that a de duction of one-tenth from the tack rent should betinide?that being the proportion which- the parish deducted; •By this course the 2d. 33-64ths would yielC Xls less than the 2d. 6-17ths had• yielded. The motion was carried without optiosition. APPOINTMENT OF COMNIIASIONER S ASD TRUSTEES. Messrs. Platt, Segal-, and Morecrvfc were appointed com missioners for watching, lighting, and cleansing the chapeiry of Birkenhead.- The Mayor was appointed a trustee of Mrs. Ann Moly-. neux's charity, in the room of the late mayor. The .Mali Or; Mr. Litisell, and Mr. Thornhill were aPpointed trustees of St. Jamea's Cemetery. Messrs. Benn and . Houghton, trustees of the school and chapel' for the indigent blind. , Forty-one members of the council were appointed com missioners under the pilotage act—namely, Messrs, -Hornby, • Leathoin,.Rathbone, Walmsley, Sheil, Gladstone, Booth, Sands, Sandbach, Mather; Holt, Case, Bolton, Mellor, Blackburn, Hodgson, Duncan, Bushel, Bulley, Jordan, Cur rie; Earle, John Holmes, Barclay, Lassell,Thornhill, G. Holt, Platt, H. LaWrehee. Quayle. Smith, Woolright, G. H. Law rence, H. Ilolnies, Bright, Priestley, Moon, Morecroft, Se gar, J. liornbY.. and Barton. The MayOri Illr. Leathoth, and Mr. Booth, were appointed auditors of the accounts of the Pilots' Committee. Mr. Johri Wybergh, treasurer for.the borough, was ap pointed agent of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, to prove all debts now or, at any time due to the corporation from any peisthi against whom a fiat of bankruptcy has or may be issued. ' The Council then adjourned, at a- quarter-past two, to Wednesday, the 15th instant, as a quarterly and special Council. POLICE INTELLIGENC_E.-TUESDAY. A WARNING TO SEAMEN, &C. The master of the ship Duchess of Clarence appeared to answer a charge of •assault, preferred against him by a man who had shipped as steward for the late voyage of the above vessel to Trieste and back. _ . Mr. Davenport appeared on the pact of the complainant. The hitter at the outset of his statement said that the assault was committed on the 17th September. Mr..Shuttleworth said he had procured a summons for an assault; alleged to have been committed on or about the 14th October:' Mr.'-Davenport hoped the Captain would consent to the case being heard there. The Captain replied, that he Alid not feel called upon to consent to anything, as he had never committed any assault whatever on the. complainant. Mr. Rushton said, as the Captain had been summoned to answer a charge of assault, alleged to have been committed on a particular day, while it was now stated to have taken place owanother, .the captain was undoubtedly entitled to a postponement for` preparation. He would, if the 'captain thought fit, issue *nether summons. The Captain said, it would be better that the case should proceed.' - . - - Mr. Davenport stated f .thot.the.comp,lainant was labouring under hernia. He was ordered to go aloft and " scrape the sityl.saileietmtheday when the assault•was committed. As higfdiselloseilwas' - of 'a -- very serious nature, he was nimble to e ct, h v gyetiffh this request ; and the consequence WAS' that the • • raHeffiuck•-him.J broke his mouth, - ..and caused 'him to bleed:fpr'dfosely. The complainant was 'first engiiged. as 4Witt4i but he was! removed from theetabin 'week iiireced;4 ' , nii• - their r va I• at Trieste. 'Atli:Voyage flceuiliedluheott Mit Tour days;•and adtedfuslotqamill atiewolidionflf HTlffstiComplainant,' hiving •beeny'Calledvistildl,hewitti . turnal iiitt of the:: cabin without any . reason ''whateierl • - ita objection to Oland haul when desired; or to Woi'leittboutlthe deek, but he could not , go alOtt;,and; when orderlfdAte Skid so, upon which the• captoin'4l6theod the• pooppanWstriiel him, and•broke' mouthi , if 'L. • ,• - . IT William Chester, a witness tailed' by -tho•vomplainant, • stated, that he saw the captain corne-off the poop-,,encl. strike th coin plai mint, either,oif thookin: ifoo ho ou th, could nottell,whieh. rifoidaLot hi- • • innff‘r , John Hohnes, oseaolanf.ar‘raikatedrtkeabove•testimoOSs and said,. that -the, confplainantrwestcpmpelled to go up the .rigging to:get out of the -eaptaiti's- way. The complainant • was suffering from rupore,..,' • c „ The captain said, he was never informed, that the ()111- plainant was afflicted with hernia. He shipped as steward. The complainant said, he told the captain himself,. that he' , . was so afflicted. The capt'ain; in reply, denied the charge in . told.. The two Men whom the complainant liad'eaNdwere the ringleaders . of a mutinous conspiracy on board'his ship, and be did not wonder at anything they might say. • Chester.—Then why did pot you say that before you paid. us.? You might have taken us into custody by law. Captain Brenan.--1 loOked over it. The' mate was called as a witness on behalf of the captain. He said he ordered the complainant to go up aloft'to'Scrap& the mast.. He refused to do so, and witness told the captain.' The'lattef took hold of him by the collar, but did not strike' •him. He had gone aloft frequently before. • A young seaman gave similar testimony. He said the captain was standing near the main rigging, and did not come off the poop at all. He merely collared the complainant, but did not strike him. • • • • The complainant,, in explanation of a statement by 'the mate, said , --he could go aloft, and had gime aloft before ; but he could not go where he was desired,' as he' should have to hold on by the bare mast with his hands and knees. The captain said, there were ropes rove for the purpose of supporting individuals who scraped the "sky scrapers—and he would, if he had thought proper, have been hoisted up. Mr.'Rushton—What. was he turned out of the cabin for-? Captain—For excessive dirt anti filthiness: • • Mr. Rushton had ; in the meantime, examined the log. 'He said if any assault had been committed it appeared to haVe been a very slight one; but. he could not inake np his mind that the complainant had been struck at all.' There waster tain conduct entered in the log-book which shoWed . that'he had behaved very ill -in many -instances during the tos•age; He was not, in this instance, entitled to redress. Case dis missed. A COUPLE. OF ORIGINALS. A singular-looking fernale,'7aged -abmit fifty-nine, very shabbily but very formally -dressed ; complained_ against a feeble old man aged perhaps about seventy, that he had assaulted her. !The lady, a very cadaverous, pinch-faced old dame, was called Miss Mayor, from which designation we gathered that she is an aged spinster. The defendant, who. was bent so that-his back was very nearly in parallelism with his feet, called himslf Mister -Michael Byron). Both were natives. of Hibernia whose brogue dropped rich and melli fluent as Milesiun honey from their tongues. The stiff-necked maiden stated, that being Chris-auras time, she was indulging at geem of caruds, (cards), when the ould gintleman came, in the most inhuman, brutal, and abo minable manner, an' striek her a tremendous blow on her head. The poor querulous old gentleman, who did not appear as if he had anything tremendous left about him, save his tongue, scarcely had patience to hear the. complaint to a conclusion, ere he broke in with his defence, which, in fact, amounted to. a charge of felony at least. Plase your worship, said he, thim saam carads that she snakes of were mine. She came to my house, and she took dim away. Och now, Miss Mayor, you know well dhat you are an old gambler, you are dhat same now, you always was, and you always will- be, for it isn't in dhe nature of you to lave it off. Here the defendant coughed loudly, by way of recovering his breath. Before the astonished maiden could rally to. the attack, however,he, was off again. Savin -yer prisince, and all dhe honerable company dhat are 'around me, she tould me dhat I might---(we.cannot follow the old gen tleman.) The shocked spinster lifted up her hands and eyes in speechless astonishment. Presently, however, she reco vered her powers-of utterance. Is it you, you old tory, she said. The old gentleman again interrupted her. Yes, that's just what she called me. You mild tory and rascal, said . she., said I want my carads you'old gambler--but, look you, gen tlemen, mark me ! 1 never struck her, and she owes me - ten shillings. • • Complainant : Well-, if - he'll swear that, • I'll pay him on the spot. Defendant : Och ! don't listen to one word she says. She's the wickedest woman between here and London. Mr. Rushton dismissed the case, as beyond his powers of discrimination to rectify or coniprehend.. The belligerents retired from Ole court, 'Calling each other. 'all manner Of evil names in a peculiarly quiet way, though the old gentleman seemed now to have the advantage of his opponent in coolness. YESTERDAY. • STEM,ING ON 11P-BOAR.D. John Brown and Edward ' Pierey two young men, were charged with.having,been found on board of a vessel, and attempting to break into the cabin. The ease was proved, and as it appeared Brown had once before been imprisoned for stealing .from a cabin, and had been transported for another offence ; and that Pierey was also .an old ceender ; they were sent to the House of Correction for three months. THI.FT FROM A LODGING-HoosE. William Scholes, a sailor youth, stood charged with steal ing a sum of . money from a ship-mute, Richard Elson, a sailor;- he lodged in Blundell-street... •He said" he had belonged to the • brig liunarr, and that he had been paid off on Monday last, when he received the suns of £6. 2s. .6d. He put the money into a dressing box, 'and, locked the box in his clothes chest. lie gave the key to ' George Spark, who brought him from time to time such slims- as he wanted. The.prisoner lodged at the same house. •,Oni Monday, he told the witness he'had no money:; and ,witness gave him five shillings. He was afterwards - ihnwn.tlse chest the staple of it had been forced ; the . dressisig linx . .had•also. been forced by a plane iron, and four sovereigns: were Missing . from it. The prisoner was (he said) a carpenter, and had • his tools in the same room. The robbery was described by : • Sparks (a witness,) and he and' complainant went in search of the delinquent, and found , him near the Adelphi Hotel, in the act of getting into a coach. He was riven in charge„ and there were found upon him three sovereigns, five shillings, two sixpences, a halt-crown, and a penny. Another y. , At4ess spoke to the prisoner being a t a public-housß,and gg mg change for a sovereign. -He t o ld the last wit4es,,s hp, r'-- eeived a letter informing him ' o f his mothee,s deatli,,v.} , '- miffing him three sovereigns to take hill - 11945 ? .'.F044 1 4) l'i soner, on being asked what he had to say.ipowal, y 3 t,9 o the charge, said—" I know nothing about it '::tye . piciwyrittnay own." He was committed for trial at .tlic j i§cs*)llf,ll t „ Tri .. syga y•s*” FIRST ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF TIII; CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY. On - Wednesday last, at one o'clock, a numerous meeting of members of this excellenesociety toOk place in the Board Room of AlA i 4lne.coat' lickspitaly*hool-lane, for the pur, : pose of receiving the report of the committee of the progress of the 'society - 1M to 'the present time. There were about forty,five,wltipipen present, e including most of the clergy: and many of the most influential inhabitants of the town . attached to the cause of Protestantism and the spread of relifiptistruptipp,innotig,§t the people. • - • • • '1 he nes,. lteetor nROOKS was unanimously called to the kritUoptieerttie business of th 6 meeting in a brief and appropri4e #101•95*. Ho t tiitid, that according to the rules of . .. • the sOCiety. they had asseinbled on .thejr first anniversary meiting°,''and The pleasing dUty 'of the committee to suhnito%thenv„the.report of the proceedings hitherto, which, he doubted not, they would find to be highly satis factory. 'As•yet the'society had done but little With - respect to the object they bad in view—.-the erection of churches were they were most wanted ; yet such had been the amount of the subscriptions, extending in all to £20;000, that they bad' taken preliminary steps for the building of three new places of worship. Two of these—one at the north, and one at the south end of the town—might be said to be already goin , !• on ; and a third was determined upon, which they would not have considered themselves justified in undertaking as yet, but for the very liberal offer of support which they had received from individuals favourable to the objects of the society. They were no doubt aware that the subscriptions of. the members were payable only annually, and, though a considerable amount of the sum subscribed had already been collected, the greater part would be. required for the erection of the two churches alluded - to - .; and the circumstance noticed, and which he should explain, had alone induced them to accede to the application made to the . committee for the erection of u third. They were all aware that in the neigh bouring hamlet of Windsor there was , a dense population, chiefly consisting of the poorer classes, and who were desti, tute of religious instruction. It - was represented to the committee that a church in that quarter was essential to their . well-being, and that the cost ,of .the edifice would be from £6OO to .000. The parties wholpropoSed its erection • to the committee, stated that they would subscribe an amount of £l5OO towards. it ; that they would. leave the nomination of the clergyman to the society ; and, further, that if they required it (in case of contingent , eiperiseo;• they would' grant them a loan of .£1,000: for. two •,years withoutinterest, provided they would undertake the building of the church. The committee, taking'this 'liberal. offer into full considera tion, did not think they would. be exceeding their authority in complying with the request, and the contracts had accordingly been made. With regard to the church at the south end of the town, the foundation-stone, as they knew, had been laid last week; the committee had agreed upon plans for the build ing, and the architect was occupied in making out the plans and working specifications. This church might, therefore, be said to be fairly commenced. He might remark of it that the site was'exCeedinglrefigible. It would he open on all. sides, and have one froat. to ,Parliament-street, and another to Greenland-street. As it would therefore form a conspieuois object, it was requisite tliat - ihe building should be more ornamental than the intended' church at -the. north end of the town. It was, of course, the object of the com mittee to give to these edifices a resne . etable and ecelesiastieal character. That at the north; in Naylor-street ,. would cost about 43,200, from whiCh there would be from .f 4/ to X5O of drawback ; th'ai at the south would, from the stated, cost about £l,OOO more. Both would-tavo spires ; and he trusted that they would not only be ornamental to the town, but (which was of greater importance,) that they would becoMe highly beneficial in their respective neighbour hoods, by promoting the religious welfare . and happiness of the' inhabitants. (Hear, hear.) • He should now Ball upon the Rev. Mr. North, the secretary, to read the report. The Rev. Mr. NORTH then read the following interesting REPORT : "The Committee of the Liverpool Church Building So ciety beg leave, in presenting their first annual report to refer briefly to the train of events, which led to the formation of the society. " For ninny years the ' Incorporated Society for pro moting the Enlargement, Building and Repairing of Churches and Chapels,' was the only public body which laboured to adapt the number of churches to the increasing wants of our population. As the sphere of its operations extended equally to every part of the kingdom,- the 'immense increase of, po pulation in this and the adjoining counties naturally drew a large portion of 'the Society's funds into our own Diocese. " To relieve the Parent Society in some degree from this pressure, and at the same time to call upon a county, the wealth of which is at least commensurate with its destitution, to contribute more equally to bear its own burden, the ' Chester Diocesan Church Building . Society' was esta blished, about five years ago, at the suggestion and under the immediate direction of the Bishop. " The expectation it held out of awakening a new spirit to the work of building churches, by bringing home to the rich the lamentable state of their own immediate neighbour hoods in this particular, has been amply redeemed by the erection of more than thirty churches,_ during the short pe riod. of that society's existence. If we regret that the measures of assistance afforded to it, has not enabled it to accomplish still more than this, we are at all events spared the reflection that any part of such an imputation attaches bathe town. of. Liverpool., She contributed to relieve the wants of the poorer parts of the Diocese in a way that hermarked . i4ell - gratitude, for the abundant blessings with which God had favoured her. " But the view of spiritual destitution which had thus been taken throUghout our neighbourhood, led to the further dis covery of it to a startling amount, even at our very doors. An. immense population was seen in our town, living indeed iiptin'the - confines of Revelation, whom yet no Heavenly Light haticver illumined, whom no voice of Divine.Truth.had vier reached,,,rtor any messenger of God .ever i cheered with the tiVAiel Message - of 'salvation. Initethia,distressing , condition of- a large 'portionof:•onr.. own immci,liito fAiOly,!intl;,honself old, .suggested tp _certain chari tinoleiniffiViediths, Village hearts the 'Lord 'head 'touehed, the solicuntllit; forming the' 'yLiverpoolChurelii3uildint Stwiety,! the 44:strmsarypf ,which w,e, are. celebrating, to day. )). 0 4' le lifse - eare Was to - SatiSfy themselves fully of the extent of theisvao which they •Tirpposed'to f , remedy, before, they pro - et: 1:1N to,aopeAl,4o,the syinpathies eff their fellow-townsmen. And - sallit?dall Vi'as the siglit'WhiCh - ucli. an 'inspection ex - hibited:s: Puy saw an ininiensepopulation, whose industry was eputributieg.daily to,incrense the • wealth and or of that' town, following_in theinOral course of U16'011416* the ditftates , of !their , cornypti•atid :fleshly; nature; teltillitesits rean.eared f lorir,&otils. ,Theysnlfirge distriettAarthiMi thou ands 'Of iiiliidoliar and a&ounfable - . beitis's Wet elm- . ~._. cutotilateti4 wittnitsti•ariti place' qi(l Divine WorsittpQwhoti• Anever, : to, _attest the tl l9owledg,e and .the ,presence., ~90 amongst it ‘ 1 ' " They saw a people too poor to provide Christiaiilngtrif6.'' tion for•theinselyes,oudtoo ignorant even to desireit,mwliom the so called ." VolitntarY Principle" had not reached, and wild:Oil - fey' were 'persitilded;' , Vothing else than 'the :*chttith principle ever could reaeh.cifeetutilly. Knowing, too„at,,the the same time the, wretched fallacy of the argument which they . foresaw might - probably be 'addressed with' effect to the avarice Of - - soine,—that .new churches could not ; be required . in one part of the town so long as a single bench remained, midden/nett in' any church in another 'quarter ; and Un deterred by the amount which ; had already been sub-. scribed for the same purpose, they appealed confidently, to' their Christian brethren for the forMatuni of the Liver pool Church 'Building Society ; and under the good providence of God, they were not dikappointed. "'flee stun of £20,J00 was very 'soon contributed, a large :portion of which, as "will appear from the statement of the. ,treasurer's accounts, has already been paid into the bank, and therenittinUr is 'in rapid progress of collection: - ' • n, :" Grateful .for. liberal means which have thus enabled them, tO,Fnabark. to, a considerable extent in their undertaking, the - oorninittee beg to express a hope that they shall shortly be permitted:3o carry ; some - of -their further projects into effect. , jig ,such .a...new impulse. to their labours they venture to' look especially to those friends of the church, and of their lellow-creatures, who have not yet:had theirattention fully, drya,w,;),to.,the„ohject. of this society. And they beg to O sngg - KI tUdgei'who are already subscribers to its funds, the priffipriOly of impressingupon others, the force of .those .claims whielk ; have...l - et:on:mended themselves so warmly to their Oivii'cOriScieneeS. With the blessings of God upon the itittiteilliberelityol• all their Christian brethren, they- hope .A . 0 --be perixt*.ea to celebrate each of several years to come, Wiflaile: autiOinicentent' of a degree of progress similar' to 'tlititiwhiell'JthOy have now the pleasure to report respecting i l,hehphM i ye,reeparations for building three new churches. , ." Shouldit appear to anYone that some of these ought to 4 ,'llitve , beelilitlVniore advanced state than they really are, the i ppottoittqc Ei lle,g, in : e x planation, to refer to circumstances which have hindered them from carrying their objects into effed , 'So- speedily , as they could have desired. In the first • place, there . was considerable difficulty in finding sites for the chniches. Plenty of land was to be had in the new parts of the town, - butAlind was wanted where spiritual destitution exists. • It wits necessary to go to the densely populated parts, and there the difficulty of obtaining land is well known. The committee have, however, succeeded in obtaining two sites : the one in Greenland-street, at the south end of the town; the other in Naylor-street, at the north end. Upon the former, the first stone of a new church was laid about a fortnight ago, and the committee are happy to state, that the working plans of the intended church in Naylor-street are ready, and, in the course of another fortnight, the contracts for the erection of that church will be completed. "The committee have also in operation another church, which will be upon the verge of the borough, in the hamlet of Windsor. It may be necessary perhaps to make some ex planations with regard to the choice of that site. If they had been left to themselves, without the liberal offer which had been made to them, they would hardly, at the present mo ment, have chosen that situation for one of their churches, although there is a rising population there of upwards of 3,000 persons who have no church accommodation. The in habitants and friends of religious improvement in that neigh bourhood, anxious to establish a church in it, have raised, or intend - to raise, the - sum - of £1,500 towards the completion of it. .They told your committee—' If you will establish one of your churches at Windsor, where we will prove that the des titution of the place really requires it, we will give you £1,500 ; we will subscribe to all the rules of the society ; we will give up the appointment to the church, to be vested in your trus tees, and - we will further lend you Xl,OOO without interest, for the period of two years, to assist you in completing the work.' They - also undertook to establish schools in connection with the church,' width indeed are much wanted in that neigh bourhood..' . Such an offer as this the committee did not think themselves at liberty to refuse, because by it they have ob tained the building of a church at a very small cost. These, then, are the peculiar circumstances which have attended the operations of the committee since they be gan their labours ' • and with this brief recital of them , they beg ,StitOonelude their report, committing their work to the good 4providence of Him for whose glory it is designed, and calling ' uptni all their Christian brethren to unite with them in au earnest prayer to the throne of grace, 'That in this and all . our other. ,works begun, continued, and ended and finifiHailtliyi: by we may be permitted to glorify his holy name, ;,his mercy, to obtain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord."' The CH AI nm AN said the meeting had heard the report, and he should be glad to hear any remarks, or to reply to any questions, respecting it. The Rev.':ffifoit M'Ni:ILE suggested the omission of a J ,9 l APse in a passage of the report, from which it might possi -1,14-be inferred, that the committee imputed to the members iii)f ,, the'voltintary principle, that they had " forsaken" certain parts of the town, in want of religious instruction. This (if - iso construed) conveyed, he thought, a reproach not merited ; imittinight: prOvoke hostility • towards the report, which he ,tho9ht unnecessary. He did not think that the voluntaries hail forsaken their posts, but he did not care ho w stron g l y the . :report expressed the inadequacy of the voluntary principle, for i the religious instruction of the people. (Hear.) He did not fliink the illusion necessary. , :t the ' CH AIRM A N explained that the language employed ~Was pot intended to convey such reproach, but merely pur ported that some of the districts of the town had not been 4iSited-bY Mt - parties alluded to. He, however, concurred • witlegr. , AP-Neile that the clause might be misapprehended, .. , . .. . 9 ' , and it was accordingly struck out. ' -, M r. 'Jos it HA' ED WAR DS' moved that the report be adopted, , end ,also. (on. the suggestion of the Chairman) that it be printed for distribution amongst the members of the society. The motion was - duly seconded, and it was unanimously passed. • - •::, . .; . - - The Clia i RN, AN said that it might not be improper to in- , 'form theineetitig that great difficulty had been experienced in the procuring of suitable sites for the intended new churches. They (the members of the committee) had tra velled day after dayin search of proper situations, in localities .win -• ,the; §piyitu a l wants of the inhabitants were greatest, at loi - gtds of the, town. They had seen various sites in the (f alorct that ' Were eligible • but the price demanded was so ex cessive, that .if. precluded them from coming to any arrange- I • . , . men(; and if they had not fortunately learned that Mr. John Wright 'had some suitable ground in Nayler-street, they would yet have been at a stand still, They called upon Mr. Wright, and explained to him. their object. That gentle man immediately entered into their views ; allowed theth to have the land at the comparatively low . price of 255. a yard ; and in the most liberal manner, subscribed the stn ,of £ l OO. towards the erection of the church. Nothing, indeed, could be more kind than his conduct towards their' ; and lieseem'ed most anxious to forward.thewishes of 'the society by any means in his power. They had been equally fortunate at the south end of the town. After the land (wilt . Of a plot) Was laid out for the Southern Hospital, there was, just: As. much left as they wanted for their church, so that its acquisition was aeeidental. - There had aISO been - great'lliflienity hi finding; a Site for the church „ be: ureeted talAW.ii34atikst9o,o,and piece of land further out pf . the town ? and near theAlarying toh docks; had'been taken 'for - it 31W k s yard. That • gentletrM,.. who had privately forwarded , the same ob ject as that of the society, had his contracts now in a state of forwardness, and the building; lie was' glad to ahhounce, Would be commenced, in - March,. or as early as the weather would permit. The cost of the church and,its endowment (£2000) would be in all £7OOO. Nor was that the only -work of -piety and humanity.in• which that . benevolent -individual was at present engaged.. was building. a Scotch national chhrch in his native town of Leith, to which schools would be attached, and also an hospital for females afflicted with incurable diseases. ,This latter. work he had. undertaken on the suggestion of his own 'daughter, who had been so afflict ed. She hadtemmiserated the_ situation of those who, when found incurable, were ejected_ from our ordinary hospitals, and her father had coinplied With lier'iimane request. The erection and endowment of these buildings in would be £30,000.; and, with a rare disinterestedness, the excellent founder purposed to give the whole 'up into the hands of others; fur the public good. • Whatever revenue might arise ' from the seats in the.new church liere was to be appropriated part to the necessary repairs of the church, and the residue to the augmentation of the clergyman's salary. (Hear, hear.) • In reply to a question, the Treasurer, Mr. E. MoLystux, stated that the total amount hitherto subscribed towards the funds of the society, as per list, was £20,021 19 0 Amount received in full of subscriptions 7,862 5. 6 Do. do. in instalments of do. 2,655 0 0 • Do. of subscriptions of which nothing . has yet been received Do. received as annual subscriptions l3 8 , 0 Small bills paid by . treasurer Amount in Royal Bunk, with interest, to the 31st December, 1839 7,684 14 2 Amount in the Bank of Liverpool, with . interest, to the 31st December, 1839 3,103. 1 5 Amount in banks Ist January, 18.40., £10,787 15 7 He, concluded by expressing his deep regret at the dernis7e of several of the sphscribers—including the Rev. Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Eden and Mr. Eccles. The motion was passed. The CHAII6IAN.said the .next part.of the business of the meeting was: to coMPlete the forMation of the committee for the ensuing year; as the rules required that One.4hird should retire annuallynamely, four clergymen (out of.',the twelve,) mid eighi laYMen, out of the twenty four who constituted the lay portion of the committee. The names of those retiring had been drawn agreeably to .the rules... They were all, however, re-eligible, if the meeting thought fit to return them or any of theta. -The rev. gentleman here read the names of the twelve, including that of Mr. Eden, deceased. The names of the live clergy were first proceeded with, and the following- were unanimously chosen—theie marked * being re-elected. The Rev. Mr. North* (to remain as secretary .) the Rev. Dr. Tattershall,* the R ev . M r . C a rpenter, and the Rev. Mr. Gladwin. The meeting then proceeded to elect the eight laymen as follows t--Mr. John Eden (in the room of his deceased faiher.) Mr. Edward Cropper,* Mr. Parker,* Mr. Robert son Glad,tone,* Mr. Edwards,* Mr. Alston, Mr. Hugh Hornby,* and Mr. Birch.* In reply to a question, the CHAIRMAN said the total amount subscribed was £20,021 19s. He stated that it was yet impossible to say how far the funds, if all collected would extend in the building of churches, until the two undertaken were completed ; but he thought it desirable that the Com mittee should be on the look-out for another site ; and that it' a very desirable one should be found, that they should be empowered. to. purchase it. • In reply to Mr. M`NEILE the CHAIRMAN said he con curred in the suggestion, that the names of the subscribers should be, appended to the printed report • and that, as this was customary , it should be understood diat the motion for printing the report should embrace that understanding. He added, that it would be well that the subscribers should be apprized that the second instalment, was due that day (the first of the year), there being an impression amongst some of them that the first instalment was only then due. This concluded the business of the Meeting, and the Chair man having vacated the chair, thanks were voted to him by acclamation, and the assemblage dispersed. INQUESTS. (Before PHILIP FtNen CURRY, Esq. coroner.) DEATII FROM BURNING. On Wednesday last an inquest was held on view of the body of Catharine Jump. The deceased, who was the wife of a ship-keeper, was 60 years old, and lived in Banastre street. On the evening of the 31st. October, while the deceased Was sewing, her shawl caught Are at the candle, and her clothes were soon afterwards in a blaze. She ran out into the street, and two female neighbours going to her assis tance, laid her in the channel, and extinguished the flames. She was much burnt over her back and .her breast. They bathed her with linseed oil. She was afterwards attended by Mr. Thomas, surgeon, who prescribed the -usual reme dies ; but typhus fever supervened, and the deceased died from exhaustion, on Monday last. Verdict—" Death from burnitig.!' , • • • ' • • r i rpE4Tif VIM* : Fp‘crunr, .0F SKULL. I YeSterdit:.," an' inquest was held on view of the body of John Hickson. The deceased was employed in - the stables liclongiug e itbe,rl3.9yA. Hotel, • in ; ,Dale,street, and was in' the habit' of sleeping in the hayloft, over_ the stables, tin . • WhietiAlie entY , iteeesS • was by a trap-door, • to reach which, - a Itulflgy,, , o4 fixed perpendicularly against the wall. The ilecedsect was found lying in the stable at the fdiSt of the laddei'SieWeiday . inorning, quite dead, and with body. The deceased, it appeared, was in the habit of drinking hard, ;and when last seen (be o'elthek.on'the previons evening) he (Rlllsl ixoxy named. Cadman, • used to sleep hay-loft mid was sleeping there on Tuesday ii} Her tlttelleittitiettr i dt'lig\vaS t !Anis& tipsy when he went Alptsleteri)(betweea six and Seven .o'clock), and did not know th h ai e Atty lidinippened to, the deceased until lie . was , "Mid ttrltr - that he was 'dead. • This witness said he lad soinuititues haiiilibfew words with the deceased, only in joke Onit t nigl i ring Aly..Qripps, surgeon, was called Yit affileditttety_dft the *de j egi4d being found . ; - but the body Asias ithevistireil and (the de r deased he'd evidently been dead' symlwilrf r . The skul was fractured, and. a portion of. the bone prease4' upon the brain. It appeared, too that, the ifeoc was dislocated ;•. 'hitt the injury td the head was Siiffi • cient.to account for death. Verdict,. ".Found dead, with a inert - el fracture of the which lie died • but hoW he received thefracture. there was no eY.idetioe to show." • ' .DEATH 11X FA :scr . Ll 4, iNWO DOCK. On the same day an inquest was held on view of the body of William Carss. The deceased; whinwes - about 35 years of age, was chietinate of thebarque Turk, .of, : Newcastle, lying in the King's bock. Ile left the vessel about three in the `afternoon -of Monday, and retrirned'iti 'the'dock, to go on board, about eleven at night. One of the sailors then in the vessel went•on shore to assist him to come on board, as he• was• very. tipsy. They had several vessels to cross before they could get on board their own ship, .which was , in- the middle of the dock. There was a plank placed from the quay to the nearest vessel, and the before-mentioned sailor offered to assist the deceased over it ; but he , would not allow him. The deceased then went on his hands and knees. on the plank, and - When about half way along it, he fell side ways into the dock. Assistance was immediately procured, and a young man went down with a rope, and fastened th e deceaSed to it and he was taken - out. He had not been more than a minute in the water but was quite dead. Mr. Gas kell, surgeon, was instantly called in to the deceased; who was carried to a neighbouring house, and he used every means to restore animation for an hour, but without effect. On introducing the air pump into the nostrils, a quantity of blood issued which is not usual in cases of drowning. Mr. Gaskell added, that from the account he had received, com bined with this circumstance, the deceased must either have died in a fit, or struck against something, but there were no external marks of injury. He was of opinion that the de ceased did not die from the effect of drowning. The same gentleman afterwards made a post mortem examination of the body, and said—" the lungs were filled with air, which is positive evidence that the deceased did not die from drown ing. At the end of the windpipe I found a piece of meat, and in the trachea I found several smaller pieces, and these, in my opinion, were the cause of death, by producing suffoca tion. Ido not think the immersion in the water had any thing to do with his death." • Verdict accordingly--" Acci dental death, through suffocation." A paragraph having appeared in some of the newspapers regarding the will of the late Miss Jones, of Stow, we are authorised to state, that the fortune left by her is very greatly exaggerated, and that no person has any right to any part of her fortune except her legal heir and executor.—Edinburgh paper. CHELTENHAM AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The railway bridge across the Lansdowne road, at Cheltenham, was opened a few days back, and now forms the " permanent way to Gloucester and South Wales. The portion of the road extending from the bridge to the proposed station, and the junction within the Gloucester and Birmingham line, which has been so long in a state of unprogression, it is ex pected will be proceeded with immediately, the centering and other impediments to the thoroughfare under the bridge hav - - jag been removed.—Gloucester Chronicle. LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE CHARTISTS.—We have ascertained, from an authority perfectly unexceptionable, that Lord John Russell has been served with a subpoena to attend as a witness at the approaching trial of the Chartist leader, Frost. It is well understood that the object of the legal advisers of the unfortunate prisoner is to call upon the Secretary of State, who appointed him a magistrate, to speak to the character of the man to whom he delegated so im portant a trust ; and, further, we believe we do not hazard a very presumptuous anticipation of the line of examination intended to be pursued by the eminent lawyers retained for the defence, if we say, that they expect to be able to esta blish, beyond cavil or controversy, that the first of the Chartist meetings at which inflammatory language was used, and dangerous doctrines inculcated, was immediately subse quent to, and a direct corollary from, the celebrated Liver pool harangue of the noble secretary who is about to be brought forward—a most reluctant witness. We are quite aware of the ludicrous terrors that beset, and the extraordi hary efforts made in the precincts of Downing -Street to con ceal the fact of the service of the subpoena, but our readers may rely upon the statement we have submitted to them. — Britannia. PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM.—The socialists are most in dustriously spreading the poison of their doctrines through out Liverpool, Birmingham, Sheffield, and other large pro vincial towns. Able and zealous men are engaged as mis' sionaries, a sort of itinerant ministers of vice, to each of which is assigned a district of circuit of country, which he is taimpregnate with the germs of Bocialisoz. They are un happily, succeeding in their work of demoralisation to an alarming extent, not merely in our manufacturing districts, where the population is dense, and public morals are at the lowest ebb, but in many a quiet and country village ; work. ing insidiously, distributing their tracts, and entrapping the unwary by their fervid zeal for 'the dissemination of their tenets. Their tracts generally contain the most awful blasphemies and the most depraved language, denying al together the existence of a God, and charging upon, Christi anity the majority of the evils which overrun the world. And yet the head of this atrocious system was publicly presented to our youthful and unsuspecting Sovereign, in the sight of all England, by Lord Melbourne; —Morning Herald. - - INTERESTING TO LADIES.-11C more delicate the beauty of a female, the more susceptible is it to the effects of our rigid winters. The fine skin of England's lovely women is not calculated to withstand exposure to their own climate, without the assistance of some soothing application to allay the smarting irritability produced by the action of a wintry atmosphere. No discovery has effected this purpose except Rowland's Kalydor, the application of which not only re moves the tenderness of the skin produced by cold, but all cutaneous eruptions. In addition to these advantages, by imparting a pliancy to the surface, which is delightful and luxurious to the sensation, it decidedly prevents the skin from being susceptible to the attacks of bleak biting. winds, — See advt. LIVERPOOL COTTON BROKERS' CIRCULAR. Liverpool, 31a1 December, 1830. Uproot's were wanting of the fallibility of all attempts to Peeetrate the mysterieSof: the cotton question, they are to be 'fijund in the history of Mum - last twelve months,•wherein are developed factaand conclusions so .widely at variance 'with tlw reeeonings andopposite predictions of men . equally sa-, eaCiettsiu .Commercial affairs, that the merit of being right. . even,by - eccident, .would seem to have been denied to all. . A brief . notice of tlie position of the market, and of the state-al public opinion at the commencement of the'year, will serve to.confirint he justice of this observation. • conflicting. Aecounts ae to the extent of the coming erOp had invested the subject ;ofd with amore that% or dinary interest. For two 4enees from. the Ueited Stat 6 had been eteadit); PPIPPOglot?,4 ll e. Probeihrlity-- ,of alargeale*ieuey; antlthe st-Itytteal i detail s by which they, were ecconaparned, iinpAited to tleein An. air .Of truth, well calculated to recommend them to.general acceptance ; though • it must be admitted that the. professed believers at this early period were comparatively few. The majority entertained doubts, partly from information derived from sources equally deserving of credit, and partly from the absence of any as certained.cause:sufficient to explain se extensive a failure in the crop as that alleged. The only one assigned was a drought in the spring; out, from the silence of the planters at the time, who are usually not A:4 to complain, it- was reasonably concluded that the mischief was neither serious nor wide spreading. Saying this, there had been nothing unpropitious in the seasons from wind or rein, or premature frost; and when it is 'considered that the growth of the United States had exhibited,: for a series of years, (with but a solitary ex ception,) a constant average increase of 120,000 bales, it did require a combination of adverse circumstances, far stronger than any which appeared, to surrender not merely the cus tomary annual increase, but to reconcile the falling off, be- - eides, of 150,000 bales. From the effects, however, which these reports, whether well or ill founded, had upon prices, it may be suspected that the numbers who secretly partici pated in the fors of a scarcity were by.no means ineoneid.e-e, rable ; though it may be regarded, perhaps, as a fortunate circumstance, that the less • sanguine views upon the subject . oit6isibly prevailed. None of the authorities in the cotton circles committed themselves to asinaller crop than 1,800,000 • bales, and the portionapproe r i a t e d t o thi s country var i e d f rom 900;000 bales to 1,030,000 bales ; adding to this the import from other places, estimated at 305,000 bales, the same as the preceding year, and -the -stock -in the ports; 32r,000 bales ; also the stock held by the trade above their uanal compli- Ment, stated to be '60,000 bales, and deducting 102,000 bales Of re,exportation, /q , geve a supulrfor the servic e o f th e y ear , ranging frntVl ' ,1,100 - bales7}o4;o4,lQQ, bales.. Fro m th e Smaller of ifiefe . l'quetititieS.A6 - more ardent believers in a ishort emote - defined a reduc t *:,Of 150,000 bales, leaving as a ieinimum, for the year's eoesuinption, 1,334,10(} bales. But \Vhatver diversity of opinion existed es to the supplies, the roost perfect. uniformity obtained 'on another no - less im pintalit item of - the calculation,- the consumption, which by cornmen consent Nem fiXed, at, not less than 24,000 hates,per T,t l4B ', ( x) 6l Yal6 . f#th'e 'year; being the moderate in - preaSeof e reoly pit t r cent, on fliat of the - year Atetneee hatAititterat ft the 'probability of any, material diminution would have, been, *ermae.d a sort of heresy, unlessindeed on the only grounds ,that; Were admitted, extrava,eantly. hightnices e owing tethe Seat'clek l bf the raw material ! Under the influence 'of these impressions, prices had gradually advanced !shim: October (when they were at the lowest) lid. to 2d. per tb ; portionfairUplands being at sad. per ii;,and other qualities iii pitc Such were the state and. prospects of the.cottemnamAtatintl the first week in January. Amongst other topics ofetpanell lation was the part which the " United-States Bank" intended to play in the commercial operations of the year. The wove ments of this body were therefore watched with somiliiiikty t as it was obvious that a crop so much reduced Woutilitier gar easy prey to its monopolizing grasp, and theit any. large por tion of it being held up, - whether on •the:other side of the water or on this, would tend greatly to aggravate the evils of a scanty supply. - All doubts, however, were cleared up on this point before the middle of the month, by the appearance. of a letter from Mr. Biddle, in which he distinetly declared, that, having succeeded in the purpose of hi s i n t er f erence , which was to protect the " prostrate planter" from the " reckless waste" of the British merchants, the means by which that object had been accomplished " were relin quished, but that now they had totally and finally.ceased." But. other parties had taken the field, " both willing •and able, as Mr. Biddle expresses it, to do justice to " American interests." The principal importers manifested the sin cerity of their own belief, by withholding their cotton as it arrived from the market, in which they were encou raged- by each succeeding account being more confirma tory than the last, as to the deficiency of the crop. The trade, on the other hand, fairly stocked with cotton, and without any corresponding demand for goods and yarns, de clined entering into competition with the speculator ; and, with their habitual scepticism, kept aloof, their purchases being considerably within what was required for their then weekly consumption. About the first week in March, how ever, when the advices from the States assumed a still more decisive character, their fears appear to have been thoroughly awakened, and joining with the speculators in a simultaneous rush upon the market, hi that and the two following weeks they secured 96,000 bales, at an advance, first and last, of ld, to lid. per lb. This seemed to be the expiring effort of-the market ; for afterwards it sank into a state of the most ex treme depression, in which it continued with scarcely agleam of sunshine for sixteen weeks. Between the 23d of March and the 18th of July, prices fell 21-d per lb., the sales to the trade, from the same period, averaging. only 12,000 per week. The spring demand had tailed in hringieg the anticipated re lief, and the stockS in the manufacturers' hands bad accumu lated to an extent that rendered the working " short time," with many a measure rather of necessity than of choice. Though this curtailment in the hours of spinning was suffi ciently extensive to produce a sensible effect on the amount of business, it was considered scarcely adequate' to explain so protracted a cessation of the demand, and hence it was rather hastily concluded by some, that the quantity held by the trade at the end of the year - had been underrated by some 20,000 or 30,000 bales. Could the existence of so large an error have been proved, the discovery at this critical juncture would, indeed, have. been a fatal 1)low to the hopes of the holders ; for the excess could -not be looked upon merely in the light of a simple addition to the stock, but from its hav ing contributed-to swell the apparent consumption of last year, and by consequence of this also, it would have led to a constantly increasing error in. the-stock in-the kingdont front the commencement of the _year " But the fo remost o f a ll t h e diffietiftlei:With whitioh - gimarket was beset, was the pressure for . money, which, taking the rate of oonuncreial discountias test, Was . always severe, end Sometimecintensely so; •The fairness of this critedeb,•-however,. as aemedium of cow- Parison with former y ears , may perhaps7he.euestioned; by the relaxation of the usury laws, an increased facility,er raisingemoneyarpon • billeeleW'fferlAiffiaea;" - th - the gscou ragement of other financial expetlietltmesterted to in ca s es of embarrassnitftit; \Odd), in gee' Shape 'tir other, are in reality inure costly to the parties eccommodated- To _this cause also-maybe referred the escape from those extremes in the depression of prices, (for fair 14ikanste-4giVe. never fallen be low Old; per lb:) Which on previous occasions of mercantile distress have been the necessarTreitirtOf a general tereing r of stales as the . only legal means:mot meeting- pressing.etigage meats. Towards the Jtily', l the stocks of cotton n the hands of the trade mere evidently exhausted, and the , 'market began to show signs of returning animatiun.... But:the _game was up ; the contest - bet Ween " short crop" and " short time" had terminated in favour of the latter, and the year was too far advanced to recover the lost ground, time quantity-on hand being more than enough toenSiver any calls that.in the scope of possibility could be made upon it. Although-Abu import by the third week in July, from the United Senesehad fallen short by - 280,000 bales, and from other quarters by 20,000 hales, the stock in this port alone tonaunteittOs33,ooo bales, which, being composed nine -tenths of American cotton, con verted the small numerical difference between the present and the stock at the corresponding period of the year preeeeding, into an increase of no trifling -magnitude. Prices had now reached their lowest point ; in the last week in July they ad vanced id. to id. per Ib, but in the next they declined id. per lb, which, however, was r ega ined in the f o ll ow i ng wee k. From the second week in Aueust the movement was uni formly downwards,-by gradations of id. per lb nearly each successive week, with a slight check about time end of Octo ber, till the middle of November, when prices realised id. per lb, on - some very vague reports of the crop having sus tained injury from another drought. The accounts by the next packet, however, dissipated these apprehensions, and the market relapsed again into its former state of inactivity, prices at the same time drooping, being lid. per lb lower for American descriptions on the last day of the year than on the first ; whilst the prices of Brazils ' which had not been sub ject to the same fluctuation s , c lo s ed as nearly as possible time same. Since the revival of the deniand in July, the market may he said to have been, on the whole, rather animated titan otherwise, the sales having averaged 27,667 bales - per week. Of this quantity 65,000 bales have been taken by speculators, and 64,800 bales bona' fide for export; leaebig for home con sumption 22,260 bales per week. It has already been ob served, that the state o f co tt on i n the interior was reduced to the lowest ebb at the end of June,' which, for the purpose of estimating the rate of consumption for the latter half of the year, may be regarded as a sort of starting point. Limited as, no doubt, the stock in the hands of the trade is at time present time, it must he greater than at the period alluded to by some 25,000 to 30,000 bales, as the quantity. .in l ralmsilu must always preserve a certain proportion with' the quantity in use. On these data, therefore, the average. consumption of the last six months, out of this market, will. appear to be about 21,050 bales per week; hat some mills for 'particular qualities of yarn are still working short time, and others, not a few, are wholly standupg for want of the means or the credit to carry them on. In the face of prospects so discouraging, it is surprising that prices should have - been so well sustained ; but many of the principal importers stood pledged to parties on time other side to wait the issue of the crop ; and specula tors were always on the alert to take advantage of monetary depressions. To speculation account must be placed, also a portion of the business reported for shipment, which, it is understood, was retained for re-sale, "on the spot. For full particulars, relating to stocks and: imports, refer ence is requested to the annexed tables, which have been much enlarged and improved, and will be found to contain a variety of details, useful and interesting to those who are minutely investigating the subject. The first object which will attract notice is a defalcation of no less than 308,540 bales in the import from the United States-e-a result con firming time accuracy of the advices early in the year, and furnishing an ample justification of those who tteted'upon them, whose hard fate it has been to pin their faith upon a single fact, which, could it have been foreseen in its reality, would have been pronounced, with one voice, to be alL.sufli cient to the anticipated end. Nor has the deficiency been supplied from other places, but rather the reverse; a small increase from India is more than counterbalanced by a fall ing off from Brazil, the import from which quarter has been nearly stationary cur some years. The imports of-Egyptian, and of miscellaneous ki n d s , are , as nearly as possible, the same. But the utmost important item is, the- decrease in the consumption. The stock, as ascertained by the annual returns, which there - is every reason to' believe have been made in the strictest good faith, amounts to 250,490 bales, of which there are in Liverpool 206,050 bales, London 31,640 bales, and Glasgow 27,800 bales. Deducting this quantity, and what has been re exported, from the total import into the kingdom, and the stock on hand on the Ist January, the deliveries to the trade have been 1,058,676 bales ; hut in order to arrive at the eonsumptiou, to this quantity must be added what is held in the interior less than at time same period last year, generally estimated at 70,000 bales, the trade being supposed to hold at the present time not more than 80,000 bales ; thus the quantity actually consumed has been on the average 21,706 bales per week, or a decrease of 1335 bales per week'from the consmeption of last year. In comparing the stocks as returned, with the weekly statements prepared by this . association, sonic important dis crepaneies will be observed: Of American cotton the quan tity appears to be less than was supposed by 27,830 bales, and •of Beazils by 5,100 bales, whilst the stock of Egyptian is 2,800.ba1e5,, and of East India 5,580 bales'mere. Assum ing that the stock bee. been correctly returned, of. which there is no'titnee to doubt, the differences can only be ac counted fore - lis follows; viz.: in' American and BraAls, by , supposing that a quantity of both aney h ave b een forwarded, unsold, up the country, the returns of which have been furnished bra different manlier to fernier years ; time excess in Egyptian_ and. Surat heslirobably.heen occasioned by con signments from London and Glasgow,, which, are krwwn to have been considerahlOiliiVisihich arill'fiut included in the import. nwf ••• It has been usual to conclude the summarF r of the ; year's transactions by some opinions of the future tliongli reeeet experience tendetila,llilreigaueretiiritk4ilthege:gt4atui ious predictions . . The mr i t. begiAT singWaryAtianfitrous one -to' .the Maiitifattut6t, 'f ,4 spinner, audit tre urerchant. • The former began the year encumbered with heavy stocks, entering into competition with the produce of the E 1 I