The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

March 17, 1846. -- - , ...--.! . total anb tarobinrial prlus. , DENSE FoG .— During the dense fog which prevailed SUPPLY Or WATER.—No a a wee here on Thursday morning, the Sarah, Cromwell, which large additional supply of orate __......._ put into this port on the 7th instant, from St. John's, N. 8., but it is not so easy to calci e go T l ?e Great Liverpool steamer was insured for £30,000. satingbound to Liverpool, in coming up the river, got on shore needed. The amount taken f v..re _ Workmen are erecting at the Zoological Gardens a co- near Rownham . Ferry. With the assistance of three course, vary according to the e pro' e d saloon, which will contain 4000 persons. steamers she was got tiff at seven the same evening, very Those who are cleanly in their arch, CELLA ' fi n... , , RS.—On Wednesday nearly thirty parees were much strained and otherwise damaged.—Bristol Journal. use more than others who Bret I, two . Irt, ,oy 11Ir. Ru s ht on f or l e tti ng off ce ll ars fo r habitation DOCK COMMITTEE, TIIHRSDAY.—Present, Mr. Bram- do not consider that our work ,'„co were not in accordance with the act of parliament. ley-Moore and sixteen members. Mr. Dawson, of Gro- informed as to the great impor ,alit ti `„e a l 3 , tain Clarke, son of the venerable Archdeacon Clarke, nant, reported the loss, on the Bth instant, of the " Co m _ agent, to mite use of the glum steads i e t_ stham, fell in the late battle in India, bravely fight- mender," on West Eloyle, and the services of the crew of see consumed. The present ained ' l B.tor the honour of his country, e hora . the life-boat. Mr. Henderson stated that Lieutenant poses, is probably much less It ef O xe ll Wednesday, a man named Williamsil:, i n the employ Lord's vocabulary for enabling vessels to communicate town in the kinedom, for it is I to hie lealY fe mr. Parrett, of the rice mill, Seel-street, met his death with each other at sea, was ready for circulation, and it in different places. Dr. Playft from the breaking of one of the grindiag stones. was referred to the sub-committee to fix the price. Mr. to the evidence of well-inform proud 104,,evrery splendid silver candelabrum has been presented Ripley stated, that not only the Bencoolen, but the barque consumption of Liverpool, ever iis. '_' l ,. James 'Wheeler, solicitor, Manchester, f or proles- Helen was recently wrecked on Taylor's Bank, the crew more than ordinary cleanliness u,WI services in many arduous public undertakings. of the latter saving themselves with difficulty. The lights tons daily." Taking the avert ti, e ilfiane Bro wn , ps sq ,, o f thi s t own , h as purchased from were seen by the life -boat establishment, but they could tages at 7 persons, as given by s el o e la ti reuis of Waterferd the extensive estate of Ford, in not effort! any assistance. He mentioned this to show the low less than 3 gil'ons a day to No r not berland, for £300,000. necessity of a life-boat being stationed at the place pointed laces the consumption for dome ( 1, hag Willi Li s am MacLoughlin, aged 16 months, residing with out by him. He had mentioned the matter to Mr. Mann at 4 gallons a-head per diem. ?Is 'riling ..., Parents in Albert-street, Toxteth-park, pulled a pan to the of the marine sub-committee, hut had received no support gisatn and Preston is, that a water off the fire, and was lio dreadfully scalded frem any member of the committee. It was stated that quires between 40 and 45 gallop Ales' 4 ,) die almost immediately. 278 applications had been made for situations of clerks, about 8 gallons for each ; and h4 ) 1 1 Tuesday, John Bennett, of Boundary-place, was wharfingers, warehousemen, coopers, &c. for the Albert the amount actually taken for °tics , fen," 40a. by Mr. Rushten for refusing a billet. The de- Dock and warehouses; and it was directed that advertise- gallons a day per head. How ersitY tece u i a .. at said the soldiers left his house in a burry before ments should be inserted in the papers, fixing a day, be- most, do these supplies appear, at it s t e v i i. :)g a proper answer. yond which no further applications could be received. A we lately mentioned of modern sty's .i vessels continue arriving at Liverpool and in the e ssrs. ~_re laden with heavy freights of provisions! This letter from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company was arte d spensed to every inhab; received, urging the formation of the cut to connect the oe still greater quantity of 3 pis w `ircs vvell for Irish landlords, who can thus drain a land canal with the river to be executed with as little delay as the empire ! Only a small port ,clod' f ri ll,i .‘ s on the eve of famine. possible. Referred to the Sub-committee of Works. used for household purposes; h fo -uhutsday, several parties were fined 10s. and costs, CHARGE AGAINST Ma. BRY,DEN.—On Tuesday, in ple involved in it, which we wis Sin' f .s'lli AIR,. n g 6, 11 unfit for human f oo d in St. e e h s w s market. compliance with a requisition, a general meeting of the and adopted in practice, namely eon'-... Belli seeeral dealers in Perk were fined 20s. and costs, for Licensed Victuallers' Society was held at the institution, stout supp'y for all who choose on a og unwholesome pork. St. Anna-street. Mr. Godfrey stated the nature of the of this will ever extend the ue a ti a 4 Wednesday week, a whale, weighing twelve tons, case. H e read four letters, to the effect, that the late We must have a water F pe s ts Sod' 41_ measuring 41 feet in length. was cast on shore at Pen- Mrs. Warren died on the 2d May, 1815. He referred to water must always be on at pr . the ,i titi r, Wales. It has since been towed into Liverpool, evidence which bad been taken, and which went the those who are so poor as not te r 'mac e e e l 'Sing on the shore at Tranmere. length of showing that her will had been drawn un by Mr. ate rate required, they must 1} , "Ir. Ingram, of Birmingham, has been selected by the Bryden, from an original written by the late Mr. Hughes, fountains.—Liverpool Health ei nee' il3lntnittee to execute the enamelled paintings and decora- o f th e Towle-hall, and that it was attested by the said THE LATE DEARLY•PURCHA bell e °ll4 for the grand staircase of the Town-hall at Liver- Mr. Hughes, and also by Mr. Bryden's son. By this will The following abstract of an efl Tile' wee . The estimated cost of these decorations is nearly she left the sum of £lOO to a Mrs. Barton, an old nurse, an intelligent and gallant sold alter' '. O OO. and £2O to a Mrs. Nicolls, a servant of the family. She his sister in this town, forms Mr e IN' Live• ohert Angus has been appointed manager of appointed Mr. Bryden her executor, and Mrs. Bryden her the three days fighting betwe i tr ee at' pool Commercial Bank, in the room of Mr. residuary legatee, by which, it was alleged, a sum of £3OO Sikhs ; and as it contains, mow 'yr th e 'Br Profi e gor, who has been elected a director. The nett or £4OO had been realised by the Brydens. By disposing may not have transpired from o i wa s m e . ; 8 of the year 1815 were £40,752. and after paying o f her property in this way, she had passed over her con- apology for its insertion. The Ise' cal half yearly dividend of five per cent., there was a sin, Mr. Rothery, and other members of her family, and pore. Feb. sth, after stating that g the h 1 ,,, , nee of £12,829. it was insinuated, but not satisfactorily proved, that at the heed attacked by fever and ague t ires' n r s i s ca tt is t e h e ne a D HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.—On time she trade the will, a day or two before she died, she hospital, sacs : b e l e. v e annual meeting of the above institution was was either drunk or insane, or, at Mfr. events, that she was " Dear sister,—l have in far o t of 1 4 , During the past year upwards of 280 patients had not competent to make her will. - tle, and such a one as has not be i t io ei t e n attended to at a cost of 6s. each. The total expen- ing himself, said he had made. the will according to de- back. This station is the high t th e ere for the year was £657, and there was a balance of ceased's dictation, and that she positively refused to leave lish, and is only divided from fS' 'f ., aue to the treasurer. her relations anything. He had lent her considerable Punjeuh by the river Sutledg s ore' st e , ° CAL Brees.—The Herculaneum Docks Bill passed sums of money, and when accounts were settled he should called Sikhs (pronounced Seeks d not 4„ing orders on Tuesday. The object is to sell the he very little in pocket. A motion was made that Mr. being disciplined and COMMA!' becks to Birkenhead parties. Pie following bills have Bryden he'removed from the office of trustee of the Li- Some dispute arising between or fO r n i ir read a first time :—The Birkenhead Improvement ceased Victuallers' Society. This was met by a direct they crossed the river some tin a bis ta t , is t le Birkenhead Small Debts Bill, and the Warring- negative, and, on a division, the criginal motion was lost up a strong position about six m ,rood s e ," aterworks Bill. by the casting vote of the chairman. The numbers were in the camp, were immediately r p °d ' ne ll* se tett 1 0441 ,„. r ii eel. ! head, iron steam-frigate, recetly launched —for it 25 ; against it, 25. barracks, with the other troops LIVERPOOL SANATARY ..EGUT.ATIONS AND ..M. s.'rveth with 60 rounds O. J . ca: e tr .Al • Laird's buildieg-yard, at Birkenhead,. has been 'lnc '' W 7 f b li e 14 Be st i ed to Sheerness to be fitted tor sea. She is the lay- PROVEMENT BlLLS.—These bills were submitted to the 15th, 16th, and 18th December, wl t o sott ee ' r ?n steamer in the British navy ; her engines being St a nding Orders Committee ef the House of Commons, enemy was marching for our ea Pee t nyele of 560.her e espower, and her tonnage, car- on Thursday last, The committee consisted of Mr. Home and marched about two miles, w 011 T he S measurement, 1,400 tons. Drummond, (chairman,) Mr. Crompton, and Mr. Forties lion ; but. thank God ! notleng ireilf tle. w e Pikt-schooner which left New York the day before Mackenzie. The Sanatary Bill was opposed on the part had heart to come they would ha reve l . sat t i is Henry.she ll ee . and was supposed' to have been de- of the Toxteth-park commissioners, by Mr. Coppock. as all we could muster was at Le der uet), e " by Mr. Patenham with the Oregon cnrrespon- Mr. Burke appeared for the Corporation of Liverpool, 70,000. However, there was at core , he ed t arrived at Cork on Friday week. She had encoun- assisted by the Town Clerk. The petition was read to marching here under the come r th e Ves ee te ry bad weather, and had been obliged to lie to for the eff e ct that it was desirable to improve the drainage and commander.in-chier, arid Sir He a ftef Al oud days. The Patrick Henry arrived at Liverpool on sewerage, which could not be done without an act. The General. It consisted of the I pe e- q - t, 37 fortnight. • Petition from Toxteth was also read. Mr. Burke object- 80th, the Ist Regt. of Bengal 4 11 , 1 ` 10 . -Upwa-ds of 11,000 tons were offered for sale ed to the reception of this petition, on the ground that it Light Dragoons, besides a large 'ste t lean w' ut 'sday. consisting of Ichaboe, Saldanha Bay, Chi- referred to the paving, sewering, and watering bill, and and foot. The Sikhs attacked ,00 0 ' leli s 'e' e c • About 600 tons sold . at £7 12s. 61 to £6 for not specially to the sanatary bill ; but the committee Je. were beaten. Twenty one. guns „two 41 41. " e • The remainder was taken in chiefly at £7 17s. tided to receive it, as it was beaded " Liverpool Sanatary We marched out on the 21st, a ' as 0 f Ii lewi er f or fine Echaboe, £4 10s. Saldanha Bay and Pos- Regulations Bill." The whole of the formal proofs of 12 miles, met the other brigad aro! ;J' iew ir 1 Inland, and £9 15s. Peruvian. The sale was but serving the notices being completed, Mr. Coppock pro- body on the enemy, who opened i 4,, re . ntlY attended. ceeded with his case; he contended that due notices had about four o'clock in the afterna 4 ~Gin ' 4 1(1 -.1 ANlcs' INSTITUTION.—The annual meeting was not been given to the commissioners, who held property half a mile. Our regiment beire ood• its Ott Wednesday. Tile girls' school is not only paying in Toxteth ; had sewered three miles of street; had leased verely. In the first charge we w to : 4 ; gene re i P:ees, but has contributed a handsome sum to the a public office for 14 years; and had borrowed money in the second charge I was shot ettort ;:epty-ene b r ie/ epee w e 'unds• The institution will have been in exist- under the act. The Corporotion, however, sought to shot. It passed through withou Raj years on the Elth June next, and a strong take their power from them, and to vest them in the I crawled to the rear, and was i re ar t , till t ; 1 ,0 be made to pay off by that time the debt which council. He called a witness to prove the facts stated. ground all night, my wound un toe° Rill h e ee 4i ns against the institution, by the time that it it appeared, however, that the Commissioners had no of water, until I was found next iord; e-e eted e attained its majority. Mr. W. Brown was personal interest except as trustees, and that they held charge which our brave chaps ga. O P ! SRA: re sident for the ensuing year. the property merely as representatives of the public; and confusion, leaving behind their c wile' a "Ilt. tomentted CRUELTY.—On 'Wednesday Mr• Rushton as they had receieed notice as such, the committee nnani- nu in the whole captured Oat fit on'" bly tor t t.. wo men to gaol for fourteen days, for baying mously decided that the standing orders had been corn- tied fining all night, and tat ;,e 5, ,s i ne t o te ered a eat. They applied spirits of turpen- plied with. The other allegations, which depended on morning, the 22d, but were again Ine s s ?rift, s ue animal's tail, set it on fire, and turned it the main question, were then withdrawn, so that the bell which time we have heard noihit p aw niti e , il ran into the street in ex . rerne agony, and was passed its first ordeal. The ImProtement Bill was next been told they are about for icilk la a telY kill tit ' were ed by some person s passing. The defen- taken, and there being no opposition, it was declared this, and preparing for anothei f tb e ...eab ro _ . employed at the Coalbrookdale Ironworks, to have passed the standing orders. army here is all to be presented cru e l C w, but the manager, on being apprised of their for their good conduct in the ff MORE ROMISH SO.UABBLES2—Mr. Eastwood, of Brin- - ' that' TH E nd uct, had dismissed them. 1 lie' tttr Sr die Lodge, hoping that the parties against whom a true _troops ran away. Our regiment BIKE AT BIRKENHEAD.—The joiners, whowere wounded, besides 7 officers. 11 i s reels,ne n bill has been found for an assault upon him in Brindle Out last week for an advance of 3s. per week, still In a few years more I will be hot Rowan Catholic Chapel, would refrain from a repetitio n i the . ?I t i d `,.' ,l idle, the refusing positively to give the to one Lion -se . . masters . .. • .2 - •, , of their outrageous conduct. r esoleed not to brine the enco . t th° Fel' 1) 65 : .aa In OCj W I ( pet ° p lot i f f sio II?* Great Li v e r p oo l s t eacc er was insured for £30,000. Workmen ' are erecting at the Zoological Gardens a co tered saloon, which will contain 4000 persons. ELLARS.—On Wednesday nearly thirty parties were uneC d by Mr. Rushton for letting off cellars for habitation Which were not in accordance with the act of parliament. Captain Clarke, son of the venerable Archdeacon Clarke, 1 ) f Eastham, the late battle in India, bravely fight- I ng.for the honour of his country, „Qat Wednesday, a man named Williams, in the employ Mr. Parrett, of the rice mill, Seel-street, met his death r ° lll the b rea ki ng o f one o f t h e grin di ng stones. l o tvery spl en did s il ver can d e l a b rum h as b een presen t e d ,; ""-Ir• Junes Wheeler, solicitor, Manchester, for proles al services in man y ar d uous p u bli c un d er t a ki ngs . W illiam B rown , E sq ., o f thi s t own , h as purc h ase d f rom sr Ma m quis of Wafoterrfor 00, d toohe extensive estate of Ford, in "orthberland, £3O. h; W illiatn MacLoughlin, aged 16 months, residing with ParelHS in Albert-stret, Toriteth-park, pulled a an of boiling water off the fire, e and was so dreadfully scalded to die almost immediately. a On Tuesday, John Bennett, of Boundary-place, was l e n e,d 40s. by Mr. Rushten for refusing a billet. The de .. noant said the soldiers left Ins house in a hurry before recei ; „ I - tug a proper answer. h vessels continue arriving at Liverpool and in the ih iv o'. laden ith heavy freights of rovisions! This - P e aks well for Irish landlords, who can thus drain a land nich is on the eve of famine. f ,1 ° Thursday several parties were fined 10s. and costs, Unfit for human food in St. John's Market. 80 several dealers in pork were fined 20s. and costs, for aelhnn unwholesome pork. IQti" Wedne s d a y week, a whale, weighing twelve tons, measuring 41 feet in length. was cast on shore at Pen '"pria,en, Wales. It has since been towed into Liverpool, - a ir " i s 'Ong on the shore at Tranmere. r . liagrarn, of Birmingham, has been selecte deco he t-9intuittee to execute the enamelled paintings andea s%B for the grand staircase of the Town hall at Liver eta) I . The estimated cost of these decorations is nearly th? • 1 ,": Robert Angus has been appointed manager of ti... Liverpool Commercial Bank, in the room of Mr. "regor, who has been elected a director. The nett . 4 t 2b' , of the year 1815 were £40,752. and after paying 1),-1 half }early dividend of five per cent., there was a bas of £12,829. PZIaIKENHFAD HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.—On the annual meeting of the above institution was li e „' During the past year upwards of 280 patients had W e're attended to at a cost of 6s. each. The total expen e're for the year was £657, and there was a balance of L due to the treasurer. 5t47,,,6e An Bints.—The Herculaneum Docks Bill passed , ) ng orders on Tuesday. The object is to sell the h,:eas to Birkenhead parties. j'he following bills have tall read a first time :—The Birkenhead Improvement . t r ',.!, l e Birkenhead Small Debts Bill, and the Warring (); " aterworks Bill Warring fro he Birkenhead, iron steam-frigate, recently launched ni ' r l 4- ' I \ l r. I.airii's building-yard, at 13irkenin ad, has been rest tred to Sheerness to be fitted tor sea. She is the I.ar iron steamer in the British navy ; her engines being P e' etir ely elY of 560-hrase-power, and her tonnage, car measurement, 1.400 tons. thA he Pilot -schooner which left New York the day before ph,',.altick H enry . an d was su pposed' to have been de -11,41-bect by Mr..l 3 ,ilenham with the Oregon correspon tr, ee, arri ve d at C or k on F r id ay week. Sh e h a d encoun tlev ve ry bad weather, and had been obliged to lie to for Alo" wl d ays. The Patrick Henry arrived at Liverpool on G U y fortnight. • °a I I AN ro• -Upwa-ds of 11,900 tons were offered for sale snap.,".lrsday, consisting of Ichaboe, Seldanha Bay. Chi leh About 609 tons sold. at £7 12s. 6:1. to £6 for ittai a ." ° „e- The remainder was taken in chiefly at £7 17s. terc•fine Ichaboe, £4 10s. Saldanha Bay and Pos ipripn Island, and £9 15s. Peruvian. The sale was but m it- rentl y attended. 1441 -Et" auics' INSTITUTION.—The annual meeting was its Wednesday. The girls' school is not only paying tetr P i er :ses, but has ' contributed a handsome sum to the 'nee t a ' "Inds. The institution will have been in exist trrt enty.ebe years on the Bth June next, and a strong r 'S to be made to pay off by that time the debt winch - h ern 'ins against the' institution, by the time that it e!eetere attained its majority. Mr. W. Brown was SH, pre sident for the ensuing year. h e(Y `rnitt „, t• CRUELTY.—On Wednesday Mr. Rushton two men to gaol for fourteen days. for baying tine t j tortured a cat. They applied spirits of turpen "rift , t he animal's tail, set it on fire, and turned it tili i ; it ran into the street in ex . reme agony, and was datitsatelY killed by some persons passing. The defen ea..)) were employed at the Coalbrookdale Ironworks, et tio r t'w ; but the marager, on being apprised of their l' n e "duct had dismissed them. 1 41. 4 " STRIKE AT BIRKENHEAD.—The joiners, who ,. tar p ,. out last week for an advance of . 3 . 5. per week, s sci d .ri idle, the masers refusing positively to give the joist . mas .Yesterday week, the reeks of the idlers were vie s t. 4 by the mason': who refuse to work under 28a. per st p ;,Z , their former''wa es 'being 265. Nearly all the 1 41,. 1 ,", s Birkenhead are g consequently stopped, The of brit and plasterers have declared their intention Oikia g to-day. 14 , ,Nucticn OF LIVERPOCL.—The town dues for the e4„ . 'year ending 28. h February, as compared with the Of period of last year, is in excess by upvrerls is c4 r)( 0, end it is more than probi ble, the gross tio,,Yne from this source, for the whole year, will produce the ard s £BO.OOO : this amount, when contrasted with wiiireceipts for tie years 1824.5 (a little over £44,000). tner e : t °one, evidence the rapidity with which the cot:tr il- (),.' the port has increased in the last twenty years. Pletc,esialldidiug business in Manchester is all but at a corn %tatters. „": Masons, bricklayers, joiners, plumbers and - re ra . l . rite rs , 11 'ng to are all out ; the masters in fact, in many employ even the few that object to turn Pek () c bet"u iefluenced by the opinion that no effectual *4l ' o ll lo Put to the unreasonable demands of the men to rpe . turni ng the entire adrift, and by this means, in I t e „, _degree, prevent the few who might be employed eirqeenntributing to the funds of the various trades' asst.). • a a ns ' nt e p t -,tneetina of the select vest . ry . on Saturday, it was tha - t a deputation, consisting of Mr. Scholfield, reh, t r. rughton, and the Vestry Clerk, should be dis los b to Londo n that evening, with full powers to adopt ,Ck e il ' t , Means of havi a chi ' use inserted in the new b t it Which would have the effect of making the Wap tbhc4:. \iYarehouses liable to the payment of church and 1 4 4 t th e like the Albert Dock Warehouses. It appeared Cuttl'ek Committee had been written to on the sub ,lat they declined to insert the clause. An inter hat' °e obtained also with the Mayor. f o 4 , li ngt,,"Y.—At Salisbury assizes, on Tuesday, Daniel e t ; ,' 3 ll e ) ,' Private in the Ist Dragoon Guards, was tried Weav e ug at his wife. He had been absent a fortnight, e ' and or his return beard some reports against his ilorter:tierhdaracter, which, however, were unfounded, and 4 4 % h 8 e xplained. 'Writhing under the pangs of jea -01 hise went out and got intoxicated, and on his return ek l t B ra te . thine at his wife but without wounding her. 4 te roe , Lter had always ' been good, and he had been 1 01.144 kind to her. 'She pleaded for hint and he was 10 1 . [Gallaghertr and his wife belonged to Liver led this was then a very ,thenwell-behavd g man. He I t o thi: f riends in Liverpool during furlougho h that s unfortunate occurrence.l ticIETIES --On Thursday, upwards of twenty t eat ' 4 l) 'eS against- defaulters to various lean societies, elssorre, Th e e and sureties, were beard before the inaeis cir4, of 'B4e. and were generally of the humbler de r tl . r nst r ,, ee 'etY, many of :them apparently in distressed np,,' l o o d ' ic es- St me of the sureties stated that they un thtr..hif °their liability only extended to the payment of Dr e ntte-third the amount borrowed, according as li i) „''ne t iVt be two or three sureties. Mr. Rushton ex inp " belief that loam, fund societies were a bounty e,„Prodigality of the poor, for whom they worked li, r tp of 0,441 e directed that an account be kept of the num t,tl th e " brought into court by each society, as he be -117, was some tlefect in the management of many here were some societies who never came there letter kss. tt,a t , REY "Uarrou.—At the m ee ti ng on T ues d a y a pcip t th ' rea l d fro m the Poor law Commisas relieving sioners, con %leer of ',,er-ction of Mr. John Rowland, t he e to oreth-park district of the union ; but decli ihnr t„,:tFtior i the appointment of Mr. Tristram for the keleeti,ulatriets; and urging the board to proceed to r et ,tyl,Q . of a separate relieving-officer for each ; to t ,. 1 .a at ,.. at the next sitting, a notice was entered by oq a er,erbarrow. The next subj-ct was the proposal top , tow'rinois,ioners to assign to each of the more popu- Dre'an 'll 'P s . — Toxteth-park, West Derby, and Ever atirPeard aoditional number of guardians. The additions tn i , 4l n't t ,: r e, re, seven for the Park, making the whole g"e; two for West Derby, making five for that ent one for Evertor] in addition to the two for " f rom thence. The expenditure ' of those town -11',11,11,11e three years ending on the 25th of the pre "' wns as follows :—Toxteth-park, £6,412; 1 11 0 e e o d hist 3,3 35; Everton, £1,078. Mr. Lloyd re- Di ! r) rni ssi . '° ll of last week on this subject, assuring . ai e- an ose,3 !nets that the Board cordially acquiesces in ii!ttct''ttd ;_ a _ rr angernent ; and that they be respectfully ~..t..,itoithoilit'njeleatheir instructions to have it carried into ' P e rled 8 , 4 ' 11 'IY. A long discussion took place, when th t ert p - 0 the c Prop osed . at, amendment, that i t be recom tee r is e tl t, ti le adatCamissioners to give to West Derby and eat a -- er fo r guardians proposed, and to reduce ti,.;`1a r ,,,, 8 carri e d b k from seven to four. The amend ee, rt ltga s j , a majority of 12 to 5. I,,qer,,_ Ir. b. ._`;NDucr.—About six or seven months it'lt,eseeeril, 01,.Lock wood, near Hudde• sfield, being at v ‘ 4 1 , 11 ot '4 l wth a young girl, a Miss B. 8., and ah o l " f ac al mng Permission to pay his address?s to Ati o ve -t, he hail a wife and four children. Since 118 , 1 " be 11 , ha s been most unremitting in his at ,Wiailttently tw !' being rarely less than once a fortnight. r)tl e cii he ed her t i o ce and thrice a week. A short time since Me bro, _ Prepare everything for the marriage, L ti n , ed her should most certainly take place :lt e „ pita „`" pre m ont h whi fr o , qeek, wh • In this way the affair passed th, t b her' hen the lady receiving a very ambiguous tee n, lt o di d on esceiver, determined to pay him a visit, ret_ded to Put or . _?n day , last, in company with her bro h,anrr,tieti", Lo e V w " the Swan Hotel. The brother pro ane,,,.`Yreteh th _ I() the i opti, to find his sister's lover, and both nn, where they took tea, after which the z l a to te g ororoe, ..,escorted his dupe round the town. In r,, lt ce edr. sin co .!' e tieglcted wife having heard what was rn, t.„ pley with her mother, and other friends s, e t're h'etit e hotel. Iler husband, however, on his I.l 4 ,'irt e b,atl e ntth . er than the front door of the inn, itf 'IN t he hisr in.orfant victim good night. On • -Dm, and shn rt arl y, w being informed of his accom tt, ere t ioie B . le as .cotnpletely horror-struck ; but te tti . :r nbotin,,l rallied, and her indignation and die rileettogirtOttn"-laeril. delehrll.ve.dif returned home in a state • The brother and sister 1.1) °° 1 tlie next day. — Manchr. Guardian. 'l'llE LIVERPOOL SANATARY REGUT.ATIONS AND IM PROVEMENT BlLLS.—These bills were submitted to the Standing Orders Committee ef the House of Commons, on Thursday last, The committee consisted of Mr. Home Drummond, (chairman,) Mr. Crompton, and Mr. Forbes Mackenzie. The Sanatary Bill was opposed on the part of the Toxteth-park commissioners, by Mr. Coppock. Mr. Burke appeared for the Corporation of Liverpool, assisted by the Town Clerk. The petition was read to the effect that it was desirable to improve the drainage arid sewerage, which could not be done without an act. The Petition from Toxteth was also read. Mr. Burke object ed to the reception of this petition, on the ground that it referred to the paving, sewering, and watering bill, and not specially to the sanatary bill ; but the committee De cided to receive it, as it was headed " Liverpool Sanatary Regulations Bill." The whole of the formal proofs of serving the notices being completed, Mr. Coppock pro ceeded with his case ; he contended that due notices had not been given to the commissioners, who held property in Toxteth ; had sewered three miles of street; had leased a public office for 14 years; and had borrowed money under the act. The Corporotion, however, sought to take their power from them, and to vest them in the council. He called a witness to prove the facts stated. It appeared, however, that the Commissioners had no personal interest except as trustees, and that they held the property merely as representatives of the public; and as they had receited notice as such, the committee unani mously decided that the standing orders had been com plied with. The other allegations, which depended on the main question, were then withdrawn, so that the b5ll passed its first ordeal. The Improtement Bill was next taken, and there being no opposition, it was declared to have passed the standing orders. MORE ROMISH SQUABBLES.—Mr. Eastwoed, of Brin dle Lodge, hoping that the parties against whom a true bill has been found for an assault upon him in Brindle Roman Catholic Chapel, would refrain from a it-petition of their outrageous conduct, tesolced not to bring the case before the grand jury. This, it appears, was taken by the men who had been held to bail to answer the charge for assaults at the sessions, as a triumph; since, no sooner were the grand jury discharged creGthe Saturday, than they, with several of their friendwesserubled at the Crown Inn, where refreshments on a Illsetaskecale were ordered for. them, and ribbons were purctipsed to decorate themselves with. With these decorations they proceeded homeward, . • stopping to regale themselves at several public-houses on the road. At Brindle Clopel the demand of a penny a head, which led to the first assault, has continued to be trade on Mr. Eastwood, and each member of his family, every Sunday ; and every one of the family persists in re fusing to pay the demand. The consequence has been, that in the scuffles that have taken place, the plates of mo ney have been emptied on the pavement, and the chapel has presented a scene of brawling, such as the old reform ers describe as scandalising the early chtirch during the collections of " Indulgence money," and " Peter's pence," prior to the purifications which followed the preaching of Martin Luther, Ridley, Latimer, and others. On Sunday last, Mr. Eastwood arid his family were escorted to and from the chapel by policemen, in consequence of alleged threats of outrage to which they would. be subjected if they again attempted to occupy seats without paying a penny each. The appearance of the police prevented any open act of violence being committed, but the scene that took place on Mr. and Mrs. Eastwood leaving the chapel after the service was over, was of a character which can-' not be too strongly reprobated. From the chapel door to the entrance of the burial ground, a distance of about 20 yards, a number of ill-conducted persons arranged them selves, so as to form an avenue, through which Mr. East. wood's family had to pass; and, no sooner did the family make their appearance, than they wet e assailed with hisses and other coarse and offensive modes of testifying disre spect and malevolence. This, we understand, has been the case almost every Sunday of late; and, it is added, that many of those who Dow attend at Brindle Chapel, go avowedly to " see the:fun," and not to worship.—Preston Chronicle. [The preceding is from a liberal paper, and it affords a melancholy instance of Romish irreverence for the House of Prayer.] HIGHWAY BOARD, THURSDAY.—At the weekly meet ing there were present Mr. Holmes, (chairman,) and 14 members.—A clause was ordered to be inserted in the new act of parliament, making it compulsory on parties erecting coal-vaults to adopt an improved and more secure iron cover than that now in use, according to a pattern. —An application from Mr. Hammond to put up four lamps opposite the Adelphi Theatre, in Christian-street, was referred to the Commissioners of the district to re port upon.—lt was agreed to serve a notice on Mr. Ford, prior to removing a step at the corner of Renshaw-street, he being compensated.—The Chairman said a deputation from the board had waited on the Dock Committee, but that body had refused the introduction of a clause as to the warehouses paying rates. Mr. Cooper was astonished that no one of the Council had attended to the interest of the burgesses by getting a clause introduced into the dock bill making the warehouses to be built round the docks li able to parish rates. The ( heirman stated that the amount of property which would be destroyed in the making of the docks would be in value £26,447. The parish rates on it would be £2920 3z. 9d. ; the paving and sewerage £1212 3s. ld. ; lighting end cleansing, tke £550 19s. 7d., making a total of £4,683 6s. 5d., in the shape of rates now paid to the parish on the property. Besides, they bad paid £3,052 for sewerage, £714 for water pipes, and £2,934 for pavement in that -district. The Law-clerk said he had received a note from the Dock Solicitor, stating that the Dock Trust would not intro duce any such clause as that proposed by the Board. Mr. Proctor said the only course would he to oppose the bill, unless the clause were inserted. Mr. Gladstone was not disposed to rate the warehouses, as these and the docks were for the benefit of the community generally. Great numbers of railways were now being made in various parts of the country for the purpose of connecting towns and facilitating intercourse, and Liverpool would, no doubt, be brought into the race of competition with those places ; because, by means of those railways goods might be sent to Manchester and other places. Ile contended that it was not a question for the warehouse owners merely, but one aff-cting every trade in the town, for it was to the interest of all that as many ships as possible should be brought to the port. His advice was, rather than make it stand against what, in his opinion, was for the benefit of the town, to make a compromise. Mr. Lawrence said that by taking down the property in ques tion the rates were increased on another class, and he thought the mercantile interest ought to pay in such a case. Mr. Cooper could not see the benefit of taxing all other property, and leaving the warehouses untouched. If Mr. Gladstone's principle were sound they ought to take the taxes off the present warehouses. Mr. Tinne said Mr. Gladstone owned as much property in the town as any one present, and he believed had spoken disin terestedly. It was a principle of free trade. (I aughter.) It was finally understood that the clause should be ap plied for, rendering the warehouses liable to the rates.— A letter from Mr. W. Rathborte, referring to the slippery state of some of the macadamized streets, was referred to the surveyor to repot t upon, and the Board adjourned. EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON.—AdmiraI Sir Hyde Par ker has it is said been a martyr to the Gout during the whole cruise, and confined to his cabin for half the time, and compelled to carry on his observations under intense suffering; but had he known of Blair's Gout and Rheu matic Pills, so serious a calamity to himself and inconve nience to the public service would have found a full and speedy antidote. HOW•WAY'S PILLS, A CERTAIN CURE FOR ASTHMA. —Read the following cure :—James Holmes, a cotton spinner, residing at Ancoates, Manchester, had been asthmatical for these last three years ; he was frequently so bad, that when rising from his bed he could scarcely sneak or breathe, and would cough and spit for half-an hour together, and often expected he would be choked. He was much reduced in strength, and after every other means of cure failed ho listed these wonderful pills, which have removed every symptom of asthma, and he is now as free from it as when he was a child.. SUPPLY Or WATER.—No one can doubt that a very large additional supply of water b requisite for Liverpool ; but it is not so easy to calculate the precise quantity needed. The amount taken for domestic uses must, of course, vary according to the habits of the consumers. Those who are cleanly in their persons and ;houses will use more than others who are not so ; but in any ease, we do not consider that our working classes are sufficiently informed as to the great importance of water as a sanitary agent, to m .ke use of the quantity which we yet hope to see consumed. The present supply, for domestic pur- poses, is probably much less than it oug Je in ever town in the kin, - tdom, for it is found to vary considerably in different places. Dr. Plavfair states, that, "according to the evidence of well-informed witnesses, the cottage consumption of Liverpool, even in the case of a family of more than ordinary cleanliness, rarely amounts to 20 gal lons daily." Taking the average population of our cot. tages at 7 persons, as given by Dr. Duncan, this would al low less than 3 gil'oris a day to each. Mr: Gravatt calcu lates the consumption for domestic purposes, in London, at 4 gallons a-bead per diem. The experience of Not tingham and Preston is, that a labouring man's family re quires between 40 and 45 gallons a day, which would give bou' I at Greenock and Paisley Liverpool, March 12, 1846 If the quantity of the food is increased in any country, there is a corresponding increase of the people. the amount actually taken for domestic use. is about 12 gallons a day per head. How truly insignificant at the most, do these supplies appear, when compared with what we lately mentioned of modern Rome, with its 250 gallons a day d spensed to evety inhabitant who chooses to use it. or the still greater quantity of 312 gallo.ts, in the days of the empire ! Only a small portion of this could ever be used for household purposes; hut there is a great princi ple involved in it, which we wish to see fully recognized and adopted in practice, namely,—an abundant and con stant supp'y for all who choose to take it. Nothing short of this will ever extend the use of water as it ought to be. We must have a water F.pe to every cottage, and the water must always be on at pressure; and if there be those who are so poor as not to be able to pay the moder ate rate required, they must be provided for by public fountains.—Liverpool Health of Towns' Advocate. THE LATE DEARLY• PURCHASED VICTORY IN INDIA. The following abstract of an affectionate letter written by an intelligent and gallant soldier, named O'Connell, to his sister in this town, forms an interesting epitome of the three days' fighting between our troops and the Sikhs ; and as it contains, moreover, some few facts that may not have transpired from other quarters, we make no apology fir its insertion. The writer, who dates Feroze pore. Feb. sth, after stating th a t h e h a d over three months heen attacked by fever and ague, for which he had been in hospied, says:— " Dear sister,—l have in fact been in the field of bat tle, and such a one as has not been seen in India for years back. This station is the h'ghest belonging to the Eng fish, and is only divided from the large territory of the Punjauh by the river Sutledge. The inhabitants are called Sikhs (pronounced Seeks), a strong warlike nation, being disciplined and commanded by French officers. Some dispute arising between our government and theirs, they crossed the river some time in November, and took up a strong position about six miles from this place. We, in the camp, were immediately ordered about a mile from barracks, with the other troops of the station, and were s, , rved with 60 rounds of bill cartridge per man. On the 15th, 16th, and 18th December, reports coming in that the enemy was marching for our camp, we were turned out, and marched about two miles, when we took up our posi tion ; but. thank God ! notleng occurred, for if they had had heart to come they would have cut every one of us up, as all we could muster was about 8000, and they were 70,000. However, there was at this time a large brigade marching here under the command of Sir Hugh Gough, commander-in-ehier, and Sir Henry Hardinee. Governor- General. It consisted of the 9th, 29th, 31st, 50th, and 80th, the Ist Regt. of Bengal Europeans, and the 3d Light Dragoons, besides a large brigade of native horse and foot. The Sikhs attacked them on the 18th, and were beaten. Twenty one guns were taken from them. We marched out on the 21st, and after moving on about 12 miles, met the other brigade, when we marched in a body on the enemy, who opened a fire on us with cannon, about four o'clock in the afternoon, at a distance of about half a mile. Our regiment being in advance, suffered se verely. In the first charge we were forced to retire, ard in the second charge I was shot in the thigh by a vane shot. It passed through without fracturing the bone, and I crawled to the rear, and was obliged to lie on the cold ground all night, my wound undressed, and not a drink of water, until I was found next morning. On the third charge which our brave chaps gave them, they ran in great confusion, leaving behind their camp, and 80 guns, mak ing in the whole captured 101 fine brass ones. They con tinued fiting all night, and attacked us again on Monday morning, the 22d, but were again completely routed, since which time we have heard nothing of them. I have since been told they are about forming about 70 miles from this, and preparing for another attack. The European army here is all to be presented with a medal each man, for their good conduct in the field. Most of the native Stoops ran away. Our regiment lost 93 in killed, and 193 'were wounded, besides 7 officers. My leg pains me much. In a few years more I will be home, wearing my medal." much improved by the exportation of corn, and they might, on, that account, begin to eat the wheat which they raise themselves, or war may suddenly stop the supply. Ireland arid British North America would be injured by the abolition of the corn laws, as those countries are much favoured by the present laws. _ _ All agricultural labourers would be injured, and conse quently the poor's rate will increase. Factory labourers will have the 'r wages lowered to meet the new price of corn. The home consumption of manu- factored articles will be lessened, and perhaps to a greater degree than the expected increase of articles exported. The abolition of the corn laws would cause corn to flue be a not serious evil. It would alsq be followed by the Poore► lands !Ring thrown out of cultivation, and turned into shtep walks. C. ARTHUR. MR. LAWRENCE HEYWORTH'S FLIGHT FROM STAFFORD. Mr. Lawrence Heyworth is far to virtuous and pure nniiided,for this naughty age of ours, or for association with the unscrupulous gentry who conatose the Anti- Corn-law League. A few clays ago, in a fit of exuberant love for chess bread, he set off, per rail, for the truly pa triotic 'purpose of indoctrinating the cobblers of Stafford with his own t' -4 free tra 4 - - ' beloved principles oi and procur ing his return to parliament as their representative. There was every disposition on their part, we learn, to listen and applaud; but the " men of wax" are a dry generation. With Shakspeere, they felt disposed to exclaim to the can didate, " dust think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?" They loved cheap bread and synary beer better; and after listening to an hour's lec ture upon enlightened commercial policy and other mat ters, thee thought fit, it seems, in imitation of Canning's " needy knife-grinder," to suggest ►.hat " Maybe his honor would ghee them each a sixpence, to Drink his honor's health " • Whether the reply was precisely that of the patriot in the poem— 3 637.231 tons, and 216,350 seamen 1839 1840, 1811, 184 L Revenue. £21.583,997 21.784,499, 21,898,814. 20,195.859, " I give thee sixpence ! I will see thee - first, Wretch whom no sense of wror.gs c in rouse to vengeance! Beer•bibbing vagabond, reprobate, degraded, spiritleis cobbler !" —or a free parody, such as we have furnished, we know not. Certain it is that Mr. Lawrence Heyworth turned his back upon Stafford, and returned to Liverpool dis gustedrwith the degeneracy of that shoe-making conqi tuency. A correspondent of the London Times says that a deputation waited on Mr. Heyworth from 300 freemen, who drew him into town, and who demanded 2s. 6d. for their work. To this Mr. Heyworth is said to have ob jected on principle, which, no doulJt, was the case, as the Staffordshire 2lftreury says that on being informed by his committee that the expenses were £l3O he gave a check immediately for £250. CORR r SPONDENCE. ON THE SANITAIIYATE_OF SOME PARTS OF LIVERPOOL TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD DEAR MR. EDITOR,—What think you of that " man. dus alter et idem" (that other world, and yet the same); where a " good old old town —previously supposed to be the pink of salubrity and pattern of a seaport by its doat ing inhabitants —was, in an evil hour. as many thought, demonstrated. by the revelation of . facts and logic of figures, to be the most unhappy specimen of a dense po pulati ill ; whilst her crest-fallen inhibitan:s, inst-ad of congratulating themselves upon possessing a healthy home stead, had to walk humbly in that Jay of proof that their town pas not only low in the scale of provincial towns, but absolutely the "lowest of the low"—that the rate of her mortality, the density of closely-packed por.ulation,, and her street ventilation and drainage, for badness ex ceeding that of the teeming hive of the metropolis itself- a Modern Tyre, in the several points of crowding,. filth. disease, and death, far outstripping a modern Babylon ? What think yon, Mr. Editor, would these -modern Tyri ans do ? Would they slumber upon the humiliating de. monstratioii; and, like the ostrich when hunte , i, bide their head under their wing, and because no longer seeing the pursuer, fancy such pursuing facts to be reduced to a similar non-plus of extremity? Would such a course be wipe, or would it not rather be the infatuation of the for mer conviction presenting itself a second time under the paralysed attitude of a dilemma ? What if that town suddenly found itself precipitated from the supposed regions of health, into the depraved condition of some serious and dangerous malady? would she act wisely in neglecting to atm herself with all the means and appliances for restoring her lost sanitary state? Were she to make a Turkish fatalism the grave cf her Hope, c uld such a course be commended ? Or, suppose she may have languidly raised her arm first in the theatrical attitude of appalled dismay at so close a danger, then dropping it slowly, taken up the pen between her but half-energized fingers, and at the dictate of a re turning semi-consciousness, applying for an act of parlia ment, which might he intended to remedy some at least of those evils staring her in the face daily and nightly ; then let the arm of prowess subside into harmony of inaction with its listless fellow reposing beside the trunk entangled gracefully in the folds of the wrapper of despondency. And suppose further, that " an act is obtained, and that it was innocently designed by its legal framers and House of Commons manufacturers to remove some sources of disease, some abuses of the body social, and to evacuate some dens of their in-humanized inhabitants. Yet, if the benevo:ent purposes of such act were frustrated in a thou sand ways through its imperfect provisions, so that a coach and six might be driven between its clauses, or if it be so deformed respecting its purposes as to resemble a Pro crustean bed—" a bed shorter than a man can stretch himself on it" —or, if like Gulliver's coat, it be constructed upon t-e mathematical principles of engineers and survey ors alone, without:practically taking the dimensions of the party to be fitred,—if the measure have not been taken by the tailor himself, nor obtained from the only party who ever did or could take the measure rightly,—how should a fit be obtained? Again, if the working of this " blessed act" be difficult —be next to impossible —an issue in absurdity—whereby, unless matters be closer glappled with, the condition of those upon whom this act is fired off will be rather da maged. if it be possible to compute and express, by adjec tives of comparison, evils incomparably ereat,—the adage " out of the frying nan into the fire" might be written, as embodying the bitter experience of modern Tyre, touch ing the in-sanatary working of her Act of Parliament, upon the back thereof, and it might be tied up with red tape, and duly enrolled amongst the obsolete memorials of the past. What think you, Mr. Editor, of " bearding the lion in his den," unless you are well prepared for the encounter you provoke? Would you not arm yourself so as to se- • cure all the chances of final victory over the provoked strong one? Would you pass from the effort of a manly cotohat, on to the child-like act of toying with his mane, until his blood boil, and his fired eye announces the awful bound of his fury upon you, his rash challenger and un guarded victim ? Or, what think you of that happy marriage of acts'of Parliament with local police regulations, in this mundus alter et idem, which passes away precious time in doing a thousand unasked-for things—perfotrning officious ser vices in one quarter, bestowing partial cures in another, a sort of french polishing of some streets , and a coating over of others with black japan varnish I That mundus alter et idem to which I .have thus, Mr. Editor, intro duced you, in the pardonable language of allegory, for the sake of illustration, is the good old town of Liverpool itself. You may feel, perhaps, indignant at the portrait. and accuse it of being a caricature. We often quarrel with the truthful profile of a friend or acquaintance, just be cause it does not correspond with our ideal of that friend ; and, therefore, we may discard the accurate for the ficti tious tracery of features, because our own judgment is warped by the prepossessing ideal. But I shall be able to convince you in my next letter, that, with a trifling con ventional allowance for figurative expression, the truth holds good in the main, and that your flattering ideal of your own town is as much a fiction as the Apollo Belvidere himself is a fiction of human form—a correctly formed figure of a man, plus the infusion of the ideal of the sculptor—an embodied fable of splendid Greece—but ne ver a fact, scarcely, perhaps, a truth. I purpose to show you, unveiled, the insanitary working of the present act. You may feel rather melancholy when I have sketched in the features of " Liverpool Proper ;" but weigh all, and let conviction, when wrought, energise your pen and voice, and all other pens and voices, and all other heads, and hearts, and hands, until the wretchedness and degradation be mitigated a hundredfold, and the cen sus of Liverpool can be fairly taken as that of so much human life. Sanitary Acts, and Building Acts, and Water Acts, and Highway Acts, and Anti-Landlord Monopoly Acts, and At the notnination, however, on Thursday, an oppcsi tion was got up. Cipt. Carnegie, who has accepted The office of a Lord of the Treasury, was opposed by Dr. Sleigh (a protectionist), and Mr. Watkins (a member of the Anti-Corn-law League.) The show of hands was greatly in favour of the latter, and next for Dr. Sleigh. A poll was demanded by. Capt. Carnegie and Dr. Sleigh. Only the two latter went to the poll, and at the close the numbers were, for Carnegie, 733 ; for Sleigh, 25. SPORTING I N TEL LI GENCE, all other similar acts, ought to be based upon medical Pit,. boxes, and gallery have been fitted up with ranch evidence as well as engineering data, or they must ever be taste and judgment. The style of ornament adopted is of only so many folio sheets of law descriptions and parodies the Elizabethan order, rich in ornament, and light and upon the first line of Cowper's " Alexander Selkirk !" cheerful in colouring. The procenium has been raised by In concluding this first part, though in one sense I eight feet, and every one seated in the house will have a write for the public—that is, for their benefit—yet in full view of the whole scenery and performances. The another sense I don't write for them, merely to give them stage department has a decided advantage over that of the pleasure. They may be pleased or they may he di s . other theatres in the town, in receding much further back, pleased; such is only an accident e ith er wa y, i nc id ent to so t h at process i ona l and di,tint scenes may be brought the path of duty. out to great advantage. The pit has been renewed on an For the present I remain, S;r, incline, which admits of every o7:e obtaining a distinct and Yours, faithfully, ea e y 'dew and hearing, independent of huge bonnets, G. C. WATSON. should they unhappily again come into vozue. The lights, amongst which is a splendid central chandelier, are dis. posed in a novel and brilliant manner. The stage, the EFFECTS OF. THE ABOLITION OF THE CORN machinery, and all the scenery are new and beautiful; and LAWS. the drop scene, yet unfinished, will be in itself a chef d'oeuvre. Mr. W. J. Hammond is the lessee, and he purposes to engage the first-rate talent of the land in the legitinnte, " When goods increase, they increase that eat them." as well as the lighter walks of the drama. Amongst the Fed. v. 11. The effect of the abolition of the corn laws first performers announced are the Miss Cushmans, Ma will; therefore, increase our population to the extent that dame Celeste, and Mr. Webster. There will be an excel foreigners can supply this country. Suppose two millions lent orchestra, conducted by the zealous Mr. Cummins, of English people to have been brought thus into exist- second leader of the Metropolitan Italian Opera. Many ence, and to be fed upon foreign corn; this would be a cistinguished families and individuals, becoming aware of most precarious subsistence. When the people of any the spiri ted operations in course of completion, have al country IN.come dependant on foreigners for the supply of ready declared their intended patronage, and the " R the staff of life. they are thereby subjected to the loss of Adelphi," will assuredly put all the other " Royals their own ,liberties. The condition of the Poles would be th , it mettle OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM. The papers laid on the table of the House of Commons on Monday night, and ordered to be printed. exhibit some very interesti:q results. The first of these is an account of the number of ves sels, the amount of tonnage, and the number of their crews, on the 31st of December in each year, from 1820 to 1841. In 1820 the number of vessels was 25.374, the tonnage 2,648,593. the number of men employed 174,514. In 1841 there were 30 9 9 052 vessels, of 3 512 480 tons, manned by vessels, of The number . of Briii:b vessels entered inwards in 1832 was 10,762, whose united burden was 1,936.846 tons ; the foreign vessels were 3,865, of 561,017 tons. In 1845 the number of British vessels was 15,964, and their tonnage 3,662,855 ; the number of foreign vessels 7,895, and their tonnage 1,353,735. The declared value of British and Irish produce and manufdctures exported from the Untied Kingdom to foreign countries and our colonid possessions was in— £36,860 376 1843........ £52.279.769 1841... 51.634,623 1841. 58,f)84,292 7842 47.381,023 Ti , ,f the C.- —le net revenue o. —ustom., and the amount of duty received from corn, from 1839 to 1815, were as follows: Corn Duties £l,t 98.858 1,156,C36 568,310 1,363 969 U 98.382 367,000 The quantity of silk of all kinds entered for home con sumption in 1814 was 2,119,974 lb., in 1824 it had risen to 4,011,048 lb.. but in 1834 it had only reached 4,522,351 lb., while in 1814 it amounted to 6,208,021 lb. The declared value of British silk goods exported from the United Kingdom in each year between 1826 and 1815 exhibits since the year 1835 a comparative decrease. The value of the silk exported in 1826 wag £168,801, but in 1835 this amount had increased to £973,786; and al though from that time the value declared continues to in crease, it bad in 1845 only reached £764,424. The quantities of foreign silk manufactures retained for home consumption since the removal of the prohibition upon them in 1826, exhibit a gradual rise from 115,278 lb. in 1827. to 310,153 lbs. !n 1815. The table respecting wool and woollen manufactures proves that an increased importation has had the effect of increasing instead of lowering the price of domestic pro duce. In 1821 the-number of pounds of foreign and co lonial wool imported was, 22 564,4 M ; and the price of a Southdown wool Is. 2d. pound_ In the (Mina/Inv vgnr the duty upon colonial was remoed, the import increased to 43,816,966 lb., and the price of Southdown wool simul taneously rose to Is. 4d. a pound. During the next 20 years the price fluctuated from 6d. to ls. Bd. a pound, and in 1843 it was 110., with an import of 47.78a,061 pounds. In 1844 the duty upon foreign wool was entirely removed, the quantity entered for consumption increased to 65,079,524 lb., and the price of English wool rose at once to Is. 2d. In 1815 the amount imported had fur ther increased to 76,828,152 lb., and the price of domes tic wool had risen to Is. 4d. Between 1831 and 1845 the declared value of British exports of woollen manufactures had risen from £5,389,124 to £8,741,728. In 1842 the total amount of revenue, exclusive of the corn duties, was £32,178,814; in 1845 it was £33,415,431, although during that period the amount of Customs and Excise duties remitted was £5,197,074. The amount of reductions in .ke public expenditure effected by the repeal of the duties on auctions and glass, in 1845, is not less than £52,636. A nu:uber of extracts from the letters of glassmanufac turers in every part of the kingdom, stating the immense increase of consumption consequent upon the removal of the glais duty, is appended. ALTCA.R.—An open meeting will take place over these mindc nn Thnrculqty anri PrMau ripiet th.,« onnne of the clays a match for £lOO will be run between " Harlequin," the winner of the Waterloo Cap at Altcar the week before last, and " Oliver Twist," which in that race was " ran up," AQUATIC.—A match has just been made between Cambridge and Oxford Universities to row a match f►om Putney to Mortlake, on the 3d of April. _ • . SPORTING MATCFI.—Lest week, Thomas Harrison, Esq.. of Harrog4te, backed his hunter Bachelor, for a bet of £5O aside, to leap 15 feet of water. Turnham Brook was selected, and the horse cleared 1G feet with perfect ease, winning the wager gallantly on his firs' essay. PEDESTRIANISM.—On Tuesday, some interesting foot races came off at the Beehive-ground, Wa'worth. The fir..t race, for a silver cup, was contended for by Martin, Patterson, Fibbins, and Jenkinson (the London Stan), 300 yards, With 15 hurdles at equal distances, and was won by Martin in two heats. TEM LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE WIRRAL FARMERS' CLUB The annual ploughing match of the Wirral Farmers' Club took place on Thursday, in a field near Houton Hall, the seat of Sir Wm. 111. St.inley, Bart. The day wee fine, and a large concour-e of farmers, spectators, and gentlemen of the 'surrounding district, was present. There were thirty-two competitors, and the ploughing Was pronounced .to be unsurpassed in this part of the kingdom, or even in Scotland. The teams were much admired, and the whole proceedings showed that the so ciety had bi4n the means of rousing the energy and acti vity of both farmers and husbandmen. Draining and manuring are consequently now more in vogue than for merly throughout the hundred, and were strongly urged 'by the spea . kers at,.the dinner. The country, in fact, is undergoing a surprising and gratifying change, and has already beeperie much more productive and attractive. Sir -W. , Stariley invited the judges, the committee, and other gentlemen. to lunch with him at Hooton Hall, after the matches.. The dinner took place in a pavilion erected for th'e purynse, near the Easthatn Hotel., and tastefully decorated. Toe dinner and wines were excellent, pro vided by Mr. Nicholl, i a n nd th a e bo c u b t ai l r 7 s g u e p n p t o le r m te e d n b s y at d do is w ti n n. : Sirgu A isl.3 ; h t eT e md r th uM e es. u tS s s u .ta al n p le r y eliminary toastS, and " Success to the Wirral Farmers' Club," the Rev. Mr. Fielden, in terms of high eulogium on his character, as a skilful and ener getic farmer, an excellent landlord, and a gentleman, proposed the health of the 'Chairman, who feelingly re plied. Since, he said, he had been in possession of his estate, he had drained upwards of 900 acres, at the rate of 2000 tiles to the acre. (Cheers.) This, he did not disguise, had been a work of considerable expense, but he aid not regret one shilling that had been so expended. He hoped all his neighbours would follow his example; for, although it had been the practice of some to spear[ with disfavour of the hundred of Wirral, he was convinced it only required industry to bring the land into the finrst state of cultivation. (Cheers.) When first he came there, he was told it would not grow barley, and it would not grow turnips; indeed he did not know what it would grow—(applause and laughter); but let them look at last year, the weather of which was not generally considered the most favourable, and for himself, he asserted fear lessly that he never saw finer crops in any part of the world. (Great cheering.) Tue list of prizes was then read, as follows ; PLOUGHING. FIRST CLASS — TWENTY-EIGHT COMPETITORS. I.—John Morris, ploughman; W. Webster, j u n., Up ton, owner ; Moreton, maker. 2.—Joseph Griffiths, ploughman ; Sir W. M. Stanley, Bart., owner; Barrowman, maker. 3.—Robert Di,bury, ploughman; R. W. Barton, Esq., Caldy, owner; Wilki!, maker. 4.—Charles Birse, ploughman; Tinley Barton, Esq., Barnston, owner; ,Moreton, maker. SECOND CLASS-FOUR COMPETITORS I.—George JiMnson, ploughman ; Mr. .1. Broster, Upton, owner; Moreton, maker. 2.—Charles. Bytnell, ploughman ; Mr. George Jackson, Noctorum, owner ; West, improved by Moreton, maker. 3. —Jos?. ph Davies, ploughman ; Mr. J. Belman, Brom bro', owner ; Aloreton, maker. 4.—Wm. Knowles, ploughman; Mr. John Knowles, Ledsham, owner ; Thomas Edwards, maker. A number of toasts, general and a;ricultural, were then ably introduced and as forcibly responded to,—the prin cipal speakers being (besides the Chairman), H. Craken thorpe, Esq., of Easthim ; J. R. Shaw, Esq. ; Charles Stanley, Esq., uncle of Sir W. Stanley ;'W. Neilson, Esq. ;' John Stanley, Esq. ; Robert Neilson, Esq. ; Wm. Jackson, Esq.; and Mr. Hieklin. Mr. Jackson, atter alluding to the rising prosrrity of Birkenhead, and its inserarable connection with the agricultural welfare of the surrounding district, announced that he would give a prize of £lO for five successive years, under the revile- Cons of the society, to the best thatcher and stacker.— (Great applause.) After the Chairman and principal guests had retired, Mr. Cooper was called to the chair, and the harmony of the evening was admirably sustained until a late hour. Txs'' NEW" THEATRE IN CHRISTIAN-STREET, The theatre in Christian-street, recently known as " The Queen's," and in former years (when it was a win ter adjunct to the then only " Theatre-Royal," and un der the same proprietary) as" the Circus," has for a con siderable time past been, through the enterprise of new parties, undergoing a renovation and change in every de partment (even in name), which promises to render it an entirely new and respectable place of recreation, arrd, at the same time, through its exterior adjuncts, to be as adornment and an example to the locality. The inn, forming the distinguishing frontage, has been, we may say, remodelled and beautfied, presenting, in place of the. former plain brick building, a highly orna mental façade, of greater elevation, in the decorative " composite" or Italian style, with handsome cornicing, and an entablature and coping to be surmounted by three classical figures in statuary. The entrance has been en larged, and its cornicing, as well as that of the windows, is architecturally enriched by florid trusses The building presents two small wings ; the corners are embellished with- rusticated quoins ; the lower windows glazed with huge sheets or plate glass; on the attic appears in Grecian raised letters the inscription " Royal Adelphi Theatre;" and the whole has a novel and pleasing effect. It should be stated that the former int-Tnal communication with the theatre (which was in many points objectionable) is cut off; so tbat it stands in its integrity as an inn, so newly planned and improved within (with a coffee-room below, and a spacious saloon above), that various grades of customers can be adequately and separately accommo dated. . . The theatre itself, which was originally one of the beat planned in this country, bad become, from neglect and disuetude, much out of repair; and it has outwardly and inwardly been entirely redeemed and highly improved at a great outlay. The box and pit entrances are still from Christian -street, but " the gods" must make their " en ,rances and exits" by a separate wide passage in Mans field-street, which will prevent confusion of classes. The lobbies are most spacious; a new and approved system of ventillation has been introduced, and no pains have been spared to ensure the comfort and convenience of all. The RAILWAY INTALLIGENCE, The Ely and Peterborough line will be opened in June There are 3,4.00 men eMployed on the line. The railway receipts for the last two months of the pre sent half year amount to £789,155, being an increase over the corresponding period of 1815 of £114,294. It was decided at Croydon assizes last week, that a director on a railway is responsible although be never acted. RAILWAY MISDEMEANOUR.-At Maidstone, James Bowney, 2.1, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour, for throwing a stone at a train on the Rochester Railway. The London and Yolk railway bill was read a third time in the House of Commons on Friday ; so were the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, and the Direct Lon don and Portsmouth Railway Bill. The Chamber of Deputies of Bavaria adopted, on the Bth instant, by a large majority, a bill for the construction of a railway, at the expense of the state, from Bamberg to the frontier of the kingdom. The Admiralty have decided against the plan by which the promoters of the Mold Junction Railway propose to cross the River Dee, at or near Queen's Ferry. This re solution, we presume, will be fatal to the bill. At the _Chelmsford assizes, last week, a clerk named Jones recovered from Mr. Watts, a provisional director of the Irish West Coast Railway, remuneration at the rate of is. per day for his services to the " company." On Friday evening the London and York Railway Bill was read a first time in the House of Lotds. It only passed the Commons the same evening, so that parties can move at " railway" speed at other places than the " rail." At a meeting of the inhabitants of Wolverhampton, on Tuesday, an amendment against the proposed conversion into a railway of the 13.rm , ugham and Liverpool Canal, which runs from Antherly to Nautwich, was carried by a large majority. _ A verdict was given, last week, in favour of the pro prietor of the Surrey and Kent Mercury, at the Maid stone assizes, to recover the amount of the bill for adver tisements connected with one of the projected Kentish railways, to which the defendant acted as solicitor. The total number of labourers and others employed in constructing the various railways in Perthshire are 2057, of these 1768 are Scotch, 114 English, and 175 Irish ; 1582 are employed on the Scottish Central, 393 on the Dundee and Perth, and 82 on the Scottish Midland, which has only recently commenced operations. As an instance of the facilities for locomotion afforded by " rail," we may mention that Mr. P. Miles, M.P. for Bristol, took part in the debate on Monday evening, in the House of Commons, and was also present the ssme evening at the Batchelors' Bill at the Bath Assembly rooms, more than 100 miles distant. WEST RIDING UNION RAILWAY.—This company have again a locus standi in parliament, the committee on standing orders having reported to the house " That in the case of the West Riding Union petition, for leave to present a petition for a bill, the standing order ought to' be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to pre sent a petition accordingly." The Liverpool and Leeds ditect railway bill has been withdrawn, and they have abandoned all opposition to the West Riding Union line. The proprietors of the former are to be paid £5009 towards their expenses, and have allotted to them 12,000 shares in the West Riding Union. These 12,000 shares are to be delivered at 335. each—being an allowance of 9s. per share, or £5,400 to wards the expenses of the Li v erp oo l an d Leeds district. RAILWAY TELEGRAPH BETWEEN LONDON AND LIVERPOOL.—At a meeting of the Trent Valley Railway Company, at Manchester on Monday last, Mr. Edward Tootal announced the intention of the directors of the amalgamated companies to have a telegraph laid down immediately from London to Liverpool, and from Lon don to Manchester, by which communications may be transmitted from London to Liverpool in three minutes or less, and an answer received in three minutes more ! FURTHER LIABILITY OF COMMITTEE-MEN.—MORE "DIRECT" LIN Es.—At the Maidstone Assizes, on Wed nesday, Mr. M'Dowall, a printer, of Fleet-street. reco vered £167 from a gentleman named Dunnington, being the amount of his bill for 'rioting supplied to the " Lon don, Nottingham, and Sheffield Oirect Railway." On the same day, and at the same place, Mr. Finlayson, a sur veyor, recovered from Mr. Pilbrow ( known for his atmo spheric apparatus) £32, the balance of an account for sur veying the " Gravesend and London Direct Atmospheric Railway." In the latter case, the brother of the plain•iff, speaking of a visit to the offices of th' company, said " he took away one or two of the prospectuses, in order that be might see whether they cont,iried the names of any responsible persons from whom he might recover the money due to him one of these odd days." One of the witnesses for the defence was Mr. Beaumont, the " Engi neer-in-chief of the company." Ile stated that " about the beginning of October they were.eesirous of preparing Hall of Com aout with a level on to go before parliament. lie merce, and saw the plaintiff walking his shoulder. (A laugh.) Mr. Chambers—l suppr that was to indicate that he wanted a job' laughter.) WitnePs supposed it wis " ? (,renewed POLITICAL NOTABILIA Ralph Neville, Esq., has been aonoin'ed a Lord of the Treasury, and was re-elected for Windsor on Saturday wirhout opposition At a larg meeting of the it was resolved to offer the mobt strenuous opposition to - - , sure in the Lords. d ineetin— the government meas... Lord Ashley last week attende at Bradford, Huddersfield, and other places, to forward the sLort time bill. Sir Howard Douglas was prevented, by unavoidable business, from voting a&ainst Mr. Duticon the release of Frost, Williams, and Jonrs 's motion for Lord Fitgivilliam is returning from Rome to vote against the government measure in the House of Lords, his lordship being in favour of a fixed duty for the pur- 'ses of revenue BIRMINGIIAM.-It is said that a requisition is now in progress in Birmingham, addres - ed to Sir Robert Peel, soliciting him to become a candidate for the representa tion of that borough at the next election. On Friday, in the House of Commons, Lord .1. Russell gave notice that on Thursday, the 'i6ll of March, he would move that the house should resolve itself into a committee of the whole house on the state of Ireland. WIGAN ELECTION.— We believe little doubt now exists that Mr. Gladstone will be brought forward, it being un derstood that there will Le no oppo•ition on the part of the Balcarras family to his retu,rn. in all pr, babillty the right hon., gentleman will be efected witbou A report has existed for some days that Govr,rnn ent Were prepared to reduce immediately 10s. a load on foreign timber, instead of a gradual rednction in 1847 and 1848. In reply to a memorial from [lull, the petitioners have been informed that ministers adhere to the proposal already submitted to parliament. contest FOR AND AGAINST THE REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS. —From the sixth report of the Cornmittre on Petitions. it appeers that .up to the 17th of last month there were 582 petitions presented to the House of Commons for, and 1766 against the repeal of the Corn Laws! There were also presented up to that time. 70 petitions in favour of Sir Robert Peel's proposed measure, and 63. STRANGE TITLE TO OREGO , .—rhe most singular and exciting portion of the debate in the House of R:present atives, on the 9th ult.. on the Oregon question, was the speech) of John Quincy Adams. After some nrelin,in nry Flinst it znin, 2.7t11, and 28th verses of the first chapter of Genesis, and then.went on to say, "That, in my judgment. is the foundation of our title to Oregon, and of all the title we have to any of the territory we possess. It is the foun dation of the title by which - you, sir, occupy that chair, and by which we are now called on to occupy Oregon, and cant do it without the . termination of t which we have agreed that we will not occupy it convention is Mr. Adams then requested the CI , rk to read the 6th, 7th, and Bth verses of the second Psalm, from which he said his case found additional strength. The Times says on this subject, " There are moonstrock madmFn both in and out of Bedlam, whose lunacy takes a colour fam H oly Writ, and is the more awful and distressing from the distortion and dehaiement of the sublimest truths which are em bodied in human language; but when we learn that the ravings of one of these fanatics were listened to with in terest and excitement by one branch of the most import- told that the text of SCiipture, which was to be polluted by this insane commentary, was read by the clerk at the table of the House of Representatives at Washington,— vagance is uttered as the apology r.r the pretext of an at rocious war, and that the promises of God are invoked to justify the rapacity arid the lawlessness of man, We look in vain for any parallel for such an i-xhibi4ion except in the midst of anarchy and revolution." TO THE RT. HON. SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART., &C. &C. Szz SIR,—No minister that has h'therto wielded the desti nies of this mighty empire ever commanded appliances more ample and means more potent for carrying on the government of the country than you did on your advent to powir in 1811. With overwhelming disgust prevailing from one end of the kingdom to the other, at the unexampled imbecility and criminality of a previous ten years' destructive Wbig government; with a total bankruptcy of the excheauer. and an all but total bankrUptcy of the country ; with the experienced difficulty of shaking off the bloodsucking leeches. that clung to place with a tenacity that defied all shame, that repudiated all responsibility to public opinion, of office; with public favour running high in your behalf, and an administration formed by yourself, and conse qufutly on your own model, there was nothing to prevent your carrying any measure calculated for the public weal. Without supposing you to be a profound, still we were disposed to consider you, probably the best, but certainly vantages it is little to be wondered at tbat.so.large a por tion of public confidence was yielded as to enable you, without particular offence, toimpose a property and income tax, so generally obnoxious as 'well to that portion of the community to which you looked for support, as to your political foes, and also to carry other measures, including your tariff, without jeopardising your own position, or weakening the confidence of your friends. This was a proui eminence to attain—one that any individual, however exalted, might envy, and one well calculated to carry down its fortunate acquisitor with honor to posterity, and clothe his name and character with imperishable fame in the annals of statesmen, and in the list of benefactors to h;s country. Upon this high pedestal stood sir Robert l'eel during the first arid second sessions afier his re sumption of office. From this apex could you look down on your political opponents with unshaken firmness and uriblauched cheek. But, alas! how short a period was requisite to shake that pedestal to its base, to humble that pride to its fall, to destroy that confidence, and to alienate that affection which would have supported you against all opposition, careed you through ail difficulties, and vindi cated you against all defamation. Your first act of delinquency was to desert your prin ciples by proposing and carrying an increase to the May nooth grant, notwithstanding the tables of the house groaned with the number and weight of the petitions pre. served against eren the original grant. This was the more obnoxious, inasmuch as it was gratuitous on your part. not only not being expected. but not even called for, by the Romanists themselves. This was a stab to confi dence unworthy of you to give, unworthy of Your party to receive. Nothing could justify your wounding the feelings of your supporters—the protestant, and conse quently the more enlightened and respectable portion of the community—by an act so revolt nO. to their minds as this most iniquitous proceeding. If there were one hope, one wish more deeply indulged than another, it was, that you would stop that he 'Moog career of destruction to the Protestant Church whic;i had formed the characteristic of your predecessors, and brought upon them that distrust and odium which ultimately overthrew them. This was a proceeding that staggered your most confiding friends — that robbed you of that countenance and support which would have enabled you to carry a specific bill to put down Ireland's agitator and agitation, and give the full benefit of that prosperity which had set in for her in the increased improvement of the times generally, and in the erection of her railways particularly—to have crushed, by another specific measure, the Anti-cnrn Law, and conse quently the anti-English, League. These prime and ne cessuiy•eneasur es might have been propounded and carried by you with the greatest ease : the times demanded and the country looked for them. These advantages and opportunities were thrown away; nay, the very opposite course of procedure was adopted. Steps antagonist to Protestantism, and derelict r.f principle, were taken with an avidity that emphatically proclaimed the desertion of our leaders and the disruption of our party. Roman Ca tholic c alleges were endawed for the propagation of error —more priests created to dis•ribute the poison of disaffec tion, which is now deluging Ireland with blood by the midnight assassin and the face-of-day murderer, render ing that country a byewntd and a proverb, clearly prov ing it to ,stand unequalled in ignorance and cold blooded atrocities by any country of savages in the known world. What crime and responsibility does this state of things fasten upon these priests and that religion which can only be maintained by keeping the people in a state of the most barbarous ignorance ? What a still heavier respon sibility must attach to the minister who, knowing these things, encourages them, not negatively only, but by act of parliament, thereby deStroying the integrity of the em pire, by making, the non-consenting Protestant portion of it parties to the crime. I will not charge you with hypocrisy in religion, but I must confess my utter inability to reconcile your sincerity in the belief of those articles of the church of which von are a member, with that conduct in the state of which you are the minister—conduct that depresses the one church which you declare to be true—and that elevates the other which you dec'are to be false. With all true Protestants, this r , ratuitous and uncalled for countenance and support of an heretical and idolatrous church and its demagogues and incendiaries will be looked 'lron as the crowning iniquity of your administration. By politi cians, however, the palm of guilt may possibly be yielded to the last act of the farce: your attempt to withdraw protection from the most important and overwhelming interest in the kingdom—the agriculiurA. Taken toge ther, they are monuments of man 's contradiction and weakness, and will denude you of that fair fame with which you might, but for these two acts, have passed to posterity. To prove your own dishonour and impolicy of the measure, we need only look how vrhiggerv, radicalism, and dissent, watch like vultures over a dead carcase, for the consummation of this diabolical ovation of the anti corn-law league, by which they hope to realize their fell intention to destroy the church in its temporalities. Well might O'Connell say, that if he " did not succeed in car ryiog repeal now, it would be his own fault," and well did his compatriot Bow ring add, " that in four yours they would rid the House of Lords of the presence of the Bishops." These are declarations and signs of the times too significant to be mistaken. In another letter, I shall enter further into the subject of your political conduct in still more recent days. ar I have the honour to subscribe myself JACOB FAITHFUL. 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