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'.. - .„... tibcrpoot tantiarb. TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 6, 1853 A COMMISSION is now sitting on the oft-debated question of the laws relating to bankruptcy and insolvency. It is not often that repeated altera tions in laws prove beneficial, inasmuch as they disturb long-settled customs, and substitute ill digested theories ; but it must be acknowledged that a considerable improvement has been made in the bankruptcy laws, though there is much which remains to be done before they can be considered to be placed on a really satisfactory basis. One of the great faults attaching to the previous system was the too great leniency to debtors, upon the presumption that, unless a man were effectually discharged from obligations which he had no means of satisfying, he would have no inducement for further exertions, and would, therefore, be hope lessly insolvent. If such reasoning were applied only to honest debtors, whose inability to pay had arisen from no fault of their own, none could dis pute its justice ; but when applied indiscriminately, so that a certificate is obtained as a matter of course, unless in cases of glaring fraud, it holds out an encouragement to dishonesty. In cases of bankruptcy, the defaulting trader is called upon to account for all his cash transactions since the time when he became insolvent, and if he does this to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, he is declared to have passed his examination, whatever may have been the preference to relations, the obtaining credit without reasonable probability of payment, or other devices to which he may have resorted in order to maintain himself in business. But, sup posing his conduct to have been such as to deserve the reprehension of every honest trader, the extent of punishment which a well-meaning Commissioner awards is a suspension of the certificate,with or with out protection, or in extreme cases the withholding of it altogether. What is required is a more strin gent law against palpable frauds upon creditors, and in all such cases the bankrupt should be prosecuted criminally. In minor cases of robbery of property, embezzlement of small sums, or obtain ing goods under false pretences, the law imposes punishment by imprisonment or otherwise ; but the trader who avails himself of his credit to prac tise similar kinds of fraud may appeal to the bank rupt laws when his means of continuing his career are exhausted, obtain protection for his person, and having made a clean breast of his offences, as far at least as he is compelled to divulge them, obtains from the Court an indemity for all his past con duct, and a license to renew his practices. We could state an instance which happened a few years ago, where a man commenced business with a small capital, borrowed from his relations, to whom he owed, or pretended to owe, about £5,000. He fitted up a handsome counting-house, made a show of wealth, obtained credit, and kept his accounts according to the most approved method of book keeping. In the course of a few years he paid his relations the £5,000, failed for about four times that amount, his late manager was enabled by some means to purchase the concern, and employed the bankrupt in the same capacity, so that they merely changed places. The Commissioner complimented the bankrupt on his excellent book-keeping and awarded him his certificate, although the creditors could see that they had been literally cheated, in, order to enrich their debtor's relations. He had committed no offence against the Bankruptcy laws, though, morally, he had been committing a sys tematic and ingenious fraud. In all such cases— and unfortunately there are too many for the honour of trade—the Commissioner should either be in vested with more discretionary power to punish dishonesty, or the law should be more clearly de fined, so that the offenders should not escape. If a certificate is to prove a protection for the unfor tuate trader, its privilege should be confined to those who are insolvent solely through misfortune ; but when it serves as a screen for those who have been wilfully reckless, or even negligently dis honest, it is a punishment of the innocent for the sake of the guilty. With a sharp-witted attorney, not over-scrupulous, an insolvent trader•may pass through the Court with comparative ease ; but obstacles are needlessly placed in the way of credi tors, who, having been the victims of misplaced confidence, are anxious to prevent an opportunity being given for the repetition of such offences. Honour is the soul of legitimate commerce, and if it cannot be maintained by the innate sense of its importance which every man in trade should possess, the law should impose efficient restrictions on its violation. Misfortunes are to be pitied, for no man in business is exempt from them ; but when insolvency has arisen from any other cause it ought to derive no protection from the law. IF we may believe the authority of the Morning Herald, HER MAJESTY'S constitutional advisers have counselled her to withhold her customary letter in behalf of the Society for the Propaga tion of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and the National Society. The cause for this unusual course is said to be the alleged Tractarian ten dency of the proceedings of both these societies—a charge which ought to be supported on better proof than mere suspicion, when the important operations of both bodies are taken into considera tion. The former society has now been in existence more than a century and a half, and has been the means of disseminating the Holy Scriptures and the knowledge of the Gospel in many foreign lands. In such a work it would be difficult to say in what way Tractarianism can be shown to have any influence, and more particu larly as it is governed by the whole bench of The National Society, it is well known, was established for the purpose of promoting Bishops Christian instruction in national schools also under the management of the English episco pate. We need not, however, discuss the grounds upon which such a resolution has been arrived at supposing the statement to be true ; but we may ask what effect it will have upon those members of the Cabinet who have been elected to Parliament for their supposed adherent the Church. Will niversity o: hford re T. GLADSTONI for his consent to such a rejection of the Church soc i e ti es ? Will Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT found upon it a claim Wiltshire ? It may haw been done in spite remonstrances. of then pseudo-Churchmen so, it shows that the boasted unity of the Coalitiou- Cabinet is a mere fiction The Observer. gives a End of ambiguous con tradiction, by saying " We have. the best authority for correcting the mis statement of a contemporary, to the effect that the Queen's letter has been , withheld in favour of the collections an nually made in churches• for the funds of the National Society and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. There is no foundation for the mis statement, and the collections will be made this year in the usual way in the• churches, upon the letter formally and officially addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primate of All England." Our more orthodox contemporary, John Bull, says : "We cannot say that we ' deem' the ' authority' of our contemporary sufficient' to induce us to give cre dence to so extraordinary a statement ; on the contrary, we incline to think that some wag has practised upon his credulity and ecclesiophobia. Not that we consider it at all improbable that those members of the Cabinet who are supposed by some to be the pillars of the Church in that ill-compacted body, would at any time, if it suited their cards, sacrifice the interests of religion to the crotchet of Liberalism, but that we conceive such an act of hostility towards the Church too suicidal to be contemplated by any government, whatever may be its principles." WE were told, through the Radical press, that the meeting which was held in Manchester to ex press sympathy with infidel Turkey would be fol lowed by a similar meeting in Liverpool. Such was the announcement, but, alas, for its fulfilment The preliminary meeting was called for one day early last week, and w as attended by the one indi vidual who had summoned his fellow-townsmen, and a reporter for a Radical contemporary. These two, having waited for some time without effect, adjourned till the great meeting, which was called for Friday last, at the Royal Hotel. At the hour appointed, there were only eight in dividuals in the great room, all Reporters, when it was suggested to vote one of their own body into the chair, in order to make a show of doing something ; and at no time were there more than sixteen persons present, so that a sympathetic demonstration in Liverpool was a complete and utter failure. This is creditable to the great em porium of commerce, the centre of true Conserva tive principles. The gentlemen of Liverpool have not sunk quite so low as the men of Manchester, who, placing all their faith in cotton goods, make Christianity a subordinate question, caring little whether they support Mahometanism, Buddhism, or any other phase of infidelity, so long as they can find a market for their manufactures. Liver pool has an equal, or greater, interest in commerce, but has more regard for principles, without which neither commerce nor manufactures can be of any real value. THE Morning Chronicle, which is the organ of the PEELITE section of the Cabinet, that strange compound of semi-Popery and Free-trade, absolu tism in religion, and republicanism in commerce, has published a list of English boroughs, which, it says, " may regard their doom as sealed." The authority for such a declaration may be taken for as much as it is worth, though it may serve to show the animus of at least a portion of that mongrel compound known as the Coalition. The list which is thus put forward, as condemned to extinction from representation, comprises fifteen boroughs, each having less than three hundred electors, returning twenty-three representatives and forty-six boroughs, with between three and five hundred electors, returning sixty-four repre sentatives, making a total of sixty-one boroughs and eighty-seven members. The former list includes Andover, Arundel, Ashburton, Calne, Chippenham, Harwich, Honiton, Knaresborough, Marlborough, Midhurst, Northallerton, Reigate, Richmond, Thet ford, and Wilton. The second list includes— ABINGDON, DROITWICH, MORPETH, BANBURY, EVESHAM, PETERSPIELD, BEAUMARIS, EYE, RIPON, BEWDLEY, PROME, TAMWORTII, 110111411,/, (TREAT MARLOW, TAVISTOCK, BRECON, HELSTON, TEWKESBURY, BUCKINGHAM, HORSHAM, . THIRsK, CHIPPING WY- HUNTINGDON, TIVERTON, COMM?, KENDAL, TOTNES, CHRISTCHURCH, KIDDERMINSTER, WALLINGFORD, CIRENCESTER, LAUNCESTON, WAREHAM, CLITHEROE, LISCARD, WELLS, COCKERMOUTH, LUDLOW, WESTBURY, DARTMOUTH, LYME REGIS, WHITBY, DEVIZES, LYMINGTON, WOODSTOCK. DORCHESTER, MALMEIIBURY, With reference to the political principles which operate in the several localities, it cannot be said but that the list is so far fair, inasmuch as it con tains a large proportion of Whig boroughs, the strongholds of Liberalism, the selection having been made apparently with sole reference to the number of electors. The proposal, however, comes from the PEELITE faction ; and, by making popu lation the test of representation, they virtually adopt the Chartist principle of electoral districts, while the effect would be to throw all the governing power of the House of Commons into the hands of the manufacturing towns. They certainly possess the preponderance of population, but the late strikes will show how small is their claim to the possession of intelligence, or any of those higher social quali ties which make good subjects and worthy deposi tories of political power. It is evident from the channel throng,' which this announcement appears, that it is by no means the opinion of the Cabinet generally, nor is it easy to believe that Lord JOHN RUSSELL has so far forsaken his Whiggery as to give up the sources of his political strength. It is more likely a straw thrown up to see which way the wind blows, a specious manoeuvre by the disciples of the great master of plausibility, the minister who never advocated a cause he did not ultimately betray, and never opposed a movement which he did not ulti mately support. These men naturally look for support to the centres of manufacturing industry, where PEEL statues are raised in the market-places ; and what can be more plausible than to allege the paucity of electors as a sufficient ground for dis franchisement, without the slightest reference to local interest, ancient associations, and established communities Another movement in the direction of reforming the Reform Act is an interference with the fran chise of the counties, and this has been taken up by ➢Tr. LOCKE KING, whose bill on this subject wrung from Lord JOHN RUSSELL the promise to bring in a comprehensive measure— a promise which he does not know how to realise— and which, it is to be hoped, will have the effect of splitting the Coalition Cabinet into its original fragments. Mr. RING proposes to reduce the limit of county qualification to that which rules in boroughs, and founds his argument in its favour upon the proposition that from the lower scale of rents in rural districts, the inhabitants of ten-pound houses are of a higher grade of intelligence than those which occupy houses of similar value in populous towns. Such an argument might be worth something if its application were confined to dwelling houses, but in the country the rating ap plies to land as well, and little boast can be made of the intelligence of a farmer who pays £5O a year rent, when we consider the specimens of it exhibited by provincial juries. The limit for the qualification of mere occupiers was low enough as fixed by the celebrated CHANDOS clause, but to reduce it to the borough limit would open the representation to every cottar who rented more than an acre of land. unless le rating were to be confined to dwelling ind then perhaps there alight be no tan knother point started by Mr Bible objection KING is an alteration in the mode of registratior of county votc before they can registNlion Lists who must send in their elaimf he inserted h the overseers in, thc e preposes . that the practie( shall be assimilated to that pursued in the boroughs, where the overseers must make. out a list of every person qualified. The difficulty attending such an alteration is, that whereas in horoughs the qualifi cation depends simply upon rating, which is within the knowledge of the overseers, the qualification for county voters depends mainly upon ownership, which can only be known by the parties claiming to vote, so that th utility, is worth little or nothing: All the labour which has yet been bestowed on the question has not elicited any sign of improve. ment, nor can it be shown that any popular demand has been made for any change whatever. Organic changes in the Constitution are to be condemned as an evil, even when some necessity for them appears to exist, but in this case nothing of the kind has been shown. No petitions for such an object have been presented to Parliament, no public meetings far its advocacy have been held, and if the question has been discussed in the public press, it has been for the simple reason that Ministers have held out a promise which they know not how to realize, and very few people seem to care whether they do so or not. IF the question were asked of the most att reader of the daily reports from the seat of war be tween Russia and Turkey, of the present state of affairs between those belligerent powers, he would find it 'difficult, if not impossible, to frame a satisfac tory answer. The tenor of many of these de spatches may be thus stated :—" A telegraphic de spatch has just been received from Vienna, with in telligence from the seat of war, contradicting the report which was received yesterday." At one time we are told that a Russian steamer was at tacked b 3 a Turkish ship of war in the Black Sea, and captured after a smart encounter ; and a day or two after we are gravely informed that the ad venture did take place, but that it was a Turkish steamer which was captured by the Russians. Again, the news arrives of a great victory gained by the Turkish troops under OMAR PASHA over the entive Russian army ; shortly afterwards it transpires that the Turks were fighting with sharpshooters behind entrenchments ; and in a few days more we have the intelligence that the victorious Turks have evacuated all the province of Wallachia, with the exception of Kalafat, and that the defeated Rus sians are in full possession of the field. This has barely made an impression on English credulity, when we hear once more of the advance of the Turks, and fierce contests for the possession of an island in the middle of the Danube, ending in the Russians retaining it. The intelligence as to ar- rangements for future operations are in no way more satisfactory. One day the EMPEROR of Rus slA is anxious for peace, and willing to listen to any reasonable proposals, and the next he is sending to the northern extremity of his empire for immense reinforcements, determined to overwhelm his infidel opponents, and make himself master of Europe. Perhaps the safest course, amidst such a Babel of contradictory intelligence, would be to believe in none of it, but attribute all the despatches marked " important" to some ingenious writer of fiction at the other end of the telegraphic wires, who is amusing himself by supplying the English people with " news" at this dull season of the year, when there is nothing moving but stagnation. We may, however, give so much credence to the reports as to believe that several skirmishes have taken place between the advanced posts of the Russian and Turkish troops, with various success, the Turks having found themselves unable to expel the Rus sians from Wallachia, and yet strong enough to prevent the enemy crossing the Danube to the Turkish side ; a movement, however, which the latter do not seem to have yet attempted. In the mean time, trade is carried on as usual under neutral flags, and the principals in the affair may, perhaps, be quietly negotiating the terms of settle ment, without reference to a question of such minor importance as the loss of a few soldiers. The EMPEROR OF RUSSIA is not very careful of the lives of his troops where he has an object of political ambition to gain; and it is well known that the SULTAN OF TURKEY was prevented from conceding the note agreed to by the Conference at Vienna, on account of the warlike enthusiasm of his Mahometan soldiers, who left him no alternative but a declara tion of war or abdication. He has gratified them so far without any sacrifice of political power, and when their rage has been sufficiently cooled by the blood-letting of Russian bayonets, and an immense amount of indignation has been wasted on the apathy of England, in not rushing at once into the fray, and involving all Europe in the horrors of war, we may hear that the good offices of the EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA have been accepted, that the SULTAN OF TURKEY has agreed to such a note as will satisfy his sense of national honour, and that, thereupon, the EMPEROR OF RUSSIA has con sented to withdraw his troops from the Danubian provinces. LABOUR VERSUS CAPITAL ,we are writing, has come out of the strikes in our own inrmediate- neighbourhood —no force, be it remembered, has• been need to drive them from theii-point, beyond the force exerted by exhausted resources—no arguments have been advanced more conclusive than their own self-inflicted. misery ; yet thousands of the men have expressed them selves willing to resume work on the same terms against which they struck but a short time since, while many of they() are prevented from resuming operations at the dic tation of those who alone have profited. by - the general loss. We read, with indescribable sorrow and pain, it relation to these misguided - following :—"`Some of them go out sin 6 bouring towns, or selling ballads . - iiag-in the -g - ballads, and derive a miserabi pittance , by begging from door to door." Is this th proud position to•which the British artizan, aspired, whet asserting his unquestionable, right to work for whom, and to work where, he pleases ? He declared 'his resolution tc work only on certain terms, but forgetting the rights of his brother workman, he practically denied to him the selling his own labour to the best advantage fatal retribution. Preventedtfrom exercising industry by his fellows, helms sunk into the ..cant ba. i-monger —the wandering street mendicant. right of and mark thy, his intelligt itine,,- • THE A'SSIZ:ES-OPENINa air THE COMMISSION.. Yesterday, Mr. BARON ALDERSON 21141 Mr. BARON . MARTIN, the judges appointed to hold the Special Winter Assize, arrived from London shortly after four o'clock, and were received at the- railway-station, in. Lime-street, by the Hon. Talbot Clifton, of Lytham, the. High Sheriff; by Mr. J. B. Lloyd, the Mayor, in the state carriage ; and other gentlemen. Their Lordships at once proceeded to St. George's Hall, where, in the Nisi Prius Court, the commission was read, and both courts were then ad journed till ten o'clock this morning.. Their Lordships afterwards, accompanied by the Mayor, paid a brief visit to the great hall, to inspect the finished ceiling, and the progress of the other works. Subsequently they proceeded, the Mayor following in. his carriage, along St. John's-lane and Whitechapel, to St. George's Church where Divine service was performed: Prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Walker, curate of= the church, and an eloquent sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. Robinson, the sheriff's chaplain, from the 3rd chapte r of Malachi, and the let verse :—" Behold, I will sena my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me?' CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. THE monthly meetinr of the Council was held yesterday, Thomas Bouch, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. After the usual routine business, a' circular was ordered to be distributed inviting those firms who have not yet joined the Chamber to become members. alteration in the bye-laws fie arbitration was agreed would fat - to, whic of references and of Mr. Brown, M.P., the Special Com age was re-appointed, with the - 4 - a Decimal System, and a House of Commons on t, subject was arbitrations. On the moti nittee on Decimal Coi view of the memorial t, Among the communications were letters on of Postal Communication wit ferred to the Postal Committe Chamber of Commerce, on the to be forwarded to the Shipou opinion mittee, the Orkney Islands ; -from Newcastle-on-Ty': ation Laws Association for their Sunderland Trade and Commerce Coin- ,citing the co-operatiou of the Chamber towards procuring the aid of H. M. steamers, when not otherwise employed, in towing grain -laden vessels on English ac count through the Dardanelles and the Straits of Gibraltar; it was ordered that the subject be brought under the notice of the Shipowi •s' and Underwriters' Association, and that the president be requested to sign a memorial to the Admiralty on it. THE RECENT CASE OF FORGERY. YESTERDA.Y, Mr. James Riley and Mr. J. S. Riley, were brought before Mr. Mansfield, the Stipendiary Magistrate, on a charge of having been accessory to the escape of William M'Curtin, of the firm of Messrs. M'Curtin and Riley, who stands charged with having forged and uttered a bill or bills of exchange. Mr. Aspinall appeared for the defence. Mr. Clough, in stating the charge, said he laboured under considerable disadvantage, as the solicitor for the bank was not present, on whom dependance had been placed, to some extent, for bringing the case forward. The charge against the younger of the two rested on the allegation, which he hoped he should be able to prove, that ne had assisted in aiding the escape of Mr. M'Curtin, who had passed a bill for £l,BlO, purporting to be accepted by Sir David Roche, of Cork, and which had been returned, with a letter stating his signature to be a forgery. Mr. Aspinall wished it to be specifically stated what was the charge against his clients, and by whom it was pre ferred, as he had reason to believe the bank repudiated it. He apprehended the case was based on some of the illegal proceedings of the Liverpool police, and his clients had reason to complain of the course taken, as besides being innccent of the charge laid against them, they were severe pecuniary sufferers by the malpractices of the party they were represented as aiding. Sullivan, detective officer, said he was instructed, on the 17th of November, by Mr. Clough to make inquiries relative to a forged bill for £1,840. issued by M'Curtin, and, in pursuance of those instructions, he apprehended the Messrs. Riley. It was on a charge of having aided and abetted MCurtin to escape. Mr. Aspinall here expressed a desire to see the charge book, as he was inclined to believe the charge was not so entered. Sullivan continued ; on the 20th of November, he went to the offices of M'Curtin and Riley, and also to the house, No. 80, Grove-street, in search of Mr. William M'Curtin, 'but was not able to find him. On the 22d, he went with another officer to the house, were he saw the elder Mr. Riley, and, having told him he was an officer of police, took him into custody, telling him— Mr. Clough here interposed, and said he had that in stant been informed by the lady, (Mrs, Macdonald) on whose information the case had proceeded, that she had mistaken Mr. Riley, junr., for Mr. M'Curtin, and he now begged to withdraw the charge, as it had evidently pro ceeded on a misapprehension. Mr. Aspinall, on the part of his clients, suggested the necessity of some further inquiry, as on the part of the Messrs. Riley he must say he did not believe the state ment. The police, he had reason to understand, had been repudiated in their proceedings by all the parties most interested in the case. Here was one of the superior officers of the Liverpool police force authorising a course of proceeding which was now abandoned as untenable. The magistrate remarked, as the party bringing the accusation had admitted it had proceeded on a mistaken notion of identity, Messrs. Riley must be discharged, and he thought without any prejudice to their respectability. If under the advice of Mr. Aspinall, or any other party, they chose to make a formal demand for him as a magis trate to inquire into the case, of course he should do it; but, as there were other means open to them for procuring redress, he thought it would be better they should not call upon him. Mr. Aspinall then said he had no wish to press any complaint against Mr. Clough, whose proceedings he believed to have been instigated by a desire to discharge his public duty, The case then dropped. POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY. ••••• night;TlLE i T r ual periodical meeting of this society was held last IN a recent number of the Liverpool Standard, we Horner, meetn president of the society, occupying the took occasion, while t glancing at the impolicy and wicked- chair. The . was numerously attend v ed.ad terest of the varinuf discussions was animated. The business edness edness of strikes, : o show that the war waged against was commenced by Mr. Scorr. who exhibited an ingenious aa model of an im capital and capitalists was directed by a mischievous and i s a c r r o e v: , ..ment in the mode of fixing regul ating the fins of unnatural spirit, in so far, at least, as that the race of ca of a n n a y g v e ,c o s f se bfin w g h re c adily regulal l eXnlCs . possessed e le a rt a ;The propeller recommended Scott tc pitalists had sprung from the industrious sons of toil. - to the working . peculiarity pitch its h farther endeavoured to show that the exercise of We igr i a a n g g i e t m o e a n t t i;e it ao sa r / c 0 resistance i'n h je t rtl also showe n d g io ' fie he on ta a a n d ;m ar working ilI. :co l ?' ot II i a a n d ot ; s durability. , - directed industry,combined with prudent self- t c h ont w ro ell ul - proved principle as regards and intelligence , is the way, and, we may add, me A , lr rs M a r. m S o cott had concluded ' tair,Ton sr N s sevral way, to convert labourers bowers into capitalists. Since then, we n the g A w l h ß o m m tN were Mr. Alderma e n r` l3 ..,AWSON: ,aa(lthers, asked questions, and r learn, with much regret, that the war, the unholy war of made remarks generally Mr. Scott. approving of the plans suggested by the employed against the employing classes, so far from Alr. SCOTT replied t o the various questions, and satisfact having yielded to the cruel lessons of self-inflicted misery, rily explained the allies which had been started. a mple CHAIRMAN then, .n the name of the Society, thank still continues, and, by . means of delusive names and shift- . Scott for the interesting suggestions he had brought uend tablished ing devices, stretches its impoverishing influence over the der notice. SiIIBALD then introduced to the n Society an invention, deluded victims of its false and destructive theories. The b l7 D ta, ‘",: c h e ic a h a :i means of communicatio p v re e a ssvesanel however, s movement has now,itsee assumed the mock - dignity n o t i l i e l d er v a e t ss s e e ls and the shore, or be t w ee n Passing ea c 7 of what is to be termed a ms Lbour Parliament, which is I t l i e le a s l a lu in d e ed to a previous a. inv i e n n b troinn g public for not, it is said, to interfere in any way with the action and h e admitted complicated or functions of the present trades' unions and working men's cases of shipwreck The combinations, but is to content itself with organizingpresentablei.' byits simplicity, proposal niity, we:on one which recommended of emerec compressible, ge a x e l! la po b v o re u r r in i t i o o d us s ' uch a confederation as shall centralize the i f l i l i e row sere, with a coir o ti fl3llo of •an a t 3h t iT w i a n into the water, would cwahrriiiell lineia h the i y g intelligence of the working masses, action of r t o h m e wind tle il the shom uncoiling so direct a hstrength as to turn them in aviaolnuider such s c rn a progressive revolutions. r a gale p w p a a a ra i tls w c i o n u g ld only be useful i e n x bi liena l othersl oloatndo Vin i p n w ed reck ha s t wl l ie n Z of the labo t ur e i i n r g many against the emploYing few. futility of such combinations has been practically thus rendered unavliitanbrie other ; aad :Lean d s thv of ulni c ed o h m a m d n demonstrated again and again : and if argument uncoil cgei in line, lit e ht th w ou ind, which beingt testedsufficienta c a its n o or the example th taught by experience could avail ' r e , s i o f r i e t would work undef any degree, that e working man must long ere this haten'glee satcati;olinthoefda gentlemenoperatein a strong t one. i ti a gg a w e i t n ic d al ir would S evera lt m o o t r h t e ar rel a a n tqej l ' e tficiency discovered such combinations have invariably fr en. omfotahoiss of i compared vfi% ` iii i e es te n , s tre rocket thralled and degraded him—have robbed him of theA ecommunication.ap explained that all of those meth Dr. Slim were dom of indivival udgment and action—and have led ee" d him into a line of conduct j by which he has ' gentlemen not t eective. in so far as they propelled their proje e c x t v i r le o e s d u a s e g d am h s is t earned only the wind, whereas by his process the gale itself was made to r observationso pr iate by bitter disappointment and increased privation. ' The in- assist ‘tr in t the a ogr i a a tioT disapprobation. :if cl a ero e g w aify approval of auguration of this new parliament, it seems, took place lately in Manchester, and on a Sunday ! The chief acquainted with such subjects, as h • dency practically to PA damage nN Es to Luseexfpurleasasel vrtion in public esteem. a ten•• g c l ir n t c e a h ra ad i .., he said, often directors of the movement were those birds of ill omen to Captain be very valuable the working-man, Messrs. JAMES Wri,LrAms and ERNEST scheme, as o one like rh ly ab o r b d e cr us s e u iu c l b . with an uncoil an empty cask,tances as those c J i o p N all E y s.The arguments of this worthy couple were prin- m re p d la t ted h ry ieonociutl contemplated s e i b a attached id,sh t e o c i o t n , l s l i % d •o a e ua in,,::, ...___ _ . e ; but this pfr confined to the enunciation of a principle declaring of "r • - _ f or w ar d l, be readily e t madewhich,hes e r i r O a r i Capt. BALLANaTslNaßmtemXplr,eerSaoefd"chilslePne - - the working-men entitled to a share of profits. The the views stated by Capt. Parnell. 'acquiescence in Mr. RowETT, fallacy of such an argument is at once evident, when we be happy to lend his aid in having th e Pilot Committee, would Dr. Sibbald's apparatus consider that profits consist of the residue after paying fairly tested in the pilot service.• , unveyed to Dr. Sibbald the thanks the very valuable communication he had and in doing s o o ff ere d hi s congra t u lations to on the great probability of his invention proving now of tilos, Ms. H ST. PETER'S CHURCH, SACKVILL STREET, EVERTOIV: TEE interior decorations of this very handsome churck, of which the Rev. S. B. Sutton is incumbent, have received an important and'elegant addition by the fitting-up of the beautiful chancel window with stained glass. The window is about twenty-fire feet in height, by twelve feet in width, and is divided into five bays or lights, united at the top by tracery of a unique. and graceful character. The centre light is filled in with a figure of St. Peter, the four evange— lists occupying two of the lights at each side. • The figures are appropriately draped, and the emblematic devices; allotted to each of them is felicitously introduced at the bottoin of the lights. The tracery is filled in with. the conventional symbols of the Holy Trinity, and with angels,; seraphim and cherubim. The general tone and balance o colour can hardly be surpassed, the transparent depth of. the blues and rubies, and the richly harmonious colouring of the draperies, will sustain comparison with the best specimens of ancient art. - The congregation. are entitled to high comme n d a ti on . for their spirited libe ra lity, in so artistically decorating' this substantial and noble specimen of church architecture , The architects, the Messrs. Hay, have also, eve understand; contributed liberally towards the cost of this window; ani the active and indefatigable conduct and aid of Mr. Sutton, the respected incumbent, in accomplishing the undertak— ing are beyond all praise. The artist, Mr. John Cairne3-, of Glasgow, who has, executed the work, will add greatly to his reputation, when it i s com p are d w ith o th er w i n d ows of a similar description. A reredos, intended for reception of the Decalogue, the- Belief, and the Lord's Prayer, has been fixed up to the. eastern wall of th e church. These inscriptions are in. gold letters, in the Old English character, on a vermillica . t_ ground, upon polished plate glass, and promise to be not• only an effective decoration, but the plan offers a very' superior means of ensuring their permanent preservation- This is a novel and valuable application of plate glass suggested by the Messrs. Hay. We are sorry to learn that two of those beautiful plates have been completely destroyed in the course of their transit from Glasgow,. which will occasion some delay in having the design fully carried out. LIVERPOOL COUNTY YESTERDAY COURT---•••• Before JOSEPH POLLOCK, Esq., Judge.) TILE first December Court opened yesterday, before Joseph Pollock, Esq., the judge, but the proceedings were. totally devoid of interest. FElun StrmsfoNSES.LOrders for committal for thirty days to Lancaster Castle were granted against the follow ing parties :—John William Hopkins, for a debt of 14s. B*.L. due to W. Simpson, of Manchester ; Edward Thomas, 15, Westmoreland-place, Scotland-road, for a debt of 17s. 6d due to Alexander Sloan, of No. 71, Islington, draper; Wm. Owen, 19, Llewellyn-street, for a debt of £6.148. S(L due to Messrs. Dickins (the warrant not to issue for a month) ; John Cookson, police-officer, at the suit of Alexander Stuart, 85, draper, Islington, for £l. lls. 3d. Timothy Hughes, coal-heaver, at the Coburg Dock; for a debt of £1 ss. 3d. due to William Morgan, 1, Providence-street, Toxteth-park, rigger; Robert Jame son, blacksmith, Hornby-street, for 19s. due to Thomas Witherington, 73, Limekiln-lane, grocer ; Samuel Morri4 shipwright, of 26, Ray-street, for £1 15s. sd. due to Henry Quayle, Prussia-street, spirit-dealer, (warrant, not to issue for a fortnight) : Richard Newby, 6, Morris's Cottages, Obi Mill-road, Everton, watch-finisher, for I'2 4s. 6d. due to Thomas Cain, tailor, of 77, Sir Thomas's-building s ; Wm: Harrison, book-keeper at the London and North Western. Railway Company's station, Great Howard-street, for £3 13s. sd. due to James Henry Pye, of 27, Saint Anne street, estate agent; George Sudlow, clerk, 15, Argyle street, for £1 ls. 6d. due Joseph Watson, of 127, White chapel, hatter, (warrant not to issue before the 12th of January.) INSOLVENCY CASES.—The case of Isabella Wallace, • who should have come up for her final order, was adjourned. till the next court.--Lawrence Holden came up on his ad journed examination. This, it may be remembered, was a case in which it transpired, at the hearing, a fortnight, ago, that Mr. Fazakerty, the late trade assignee, after the dismissal of insolvent's petition, had obtained an order for him to draw, on his own private account, the proceeds of au . action, to be brought against one of the insolvents debtors, and in which he had actually so received E 46 Mr. Aspinalt, barrister, appeared on Mr. Fazakerley's behalf, and argued,. in opposition to the severe remarks made by his Honour at the former hearing, that he was justified in the course which he had adop ted. The insolvent was then himself examine, when the judge expressed conviction from his evidence that there• had been no corrupt arrangement made at the time that Mr. Fazakerley was assignee ; but he expressed a strong opinion that there had been an error of judgment on the part both of Mr. Fazakerley and of Mi. Toulmin, his attorney, in making use of a process of the court for compel the insolvent to give evidence in the action, which it appeared had b een b roug h t, not for the good' of the estate, but Mr. Fazakerley's own private benefit. After this decision, Mr. Fazakerley stated that the money which he had received should be at the disposal of the court, but his Honour refused to make any suggestion as to its application. As to the insolvent, who in his schedule had made Mr. Fazarkerley his debtor hi the amount of £62105., he thought that a palpable fraud upon. the court. His petition, therefore, was not a honest and bona fide representation of his affairs, and he shoukt. direct accordingly that it be dismissed.—John Turner came upon his adjourned examination. Final order granted.—Denis O'Sullivan, flour dealer, &c., appeared is an adjourned audit, opposed on behalf of Messrs. Roberts and Co., Royal Bank-buildings, and the case was still further adjourned to the next court,-Robert Douglas ap peared on his first examination. Final order fixed for the first January court.—Thomas Elliot, passage broker- Petition dismissed.—Thomas M`Donald. Final order fixed for the first January court.—Thomas H. Potter. Ad journed till the next court. —John Wagstaffe. Final order fixed for the second January court.—William Anderson.. Adjourned till the next court. The court rose at half-past three o'clock. THE HON. G. S. STAFFORD JERNINGLIA3I, now se cretary to the embassy at Paris, is appointed Her Majesty's; Minister at Stockholm, in place of Sir Edmund Lyons Bart., G.C.8., whojtas resigned, on his appoint men t to the Second Command of the Mediterranean Squadron. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.-There were the unprecedented number of ten inquests held yesterday, before the coroner, five. of them being children, whom their mothers had negligently " overlain."-The first was on Peter Hum phries, a baker, in the employ of Mr. Ayes, steam-bread manufactory, Strand-street. On the 21st of October, whilst working some dough, deceased got his hand entan gled with the machine, by which it was severely lace rated. Lock jaw ultimately set in, and he died in the. Southern Hospital.- On Margaret Jones, of Hornby street, who three weeks ago was severely scalded.-Onr Peter Guy, residing with his daughter in Highfield street. Deceased, who was 75 years of age, and very deaf, was taken by a little ,child to- a barber's shop in Tithebarn-street. On leaving there, he had wandered Ink Great Crosshall-street, where he was run :over. by a, car and died from the injuries received last Thursday.-On Thomas Parker, a fireman belonging to the steam-shirr Africa. Whilst cleaning the machinery, as th e vessel lay in the river outward bound, about three weeks ago, de ceased fell from the engine to the " bed," a height of about twenty feet, receiving severe contusions of the head, of. which he died on Saturday last.-The children overlain. were George Tregelgas, whose parents reside in Frederick street ; Sarah Ann Green, the illegitimate daughter o 1 Ann Green, residing at 16, Preston-street ; Margaret Battle, Fontenoy-street ; Isabella Higgins, Midgehal/- street ; and James Woodward, whose parents reside in at. cellar in St. James's-place.-An infant named Jane Lloyd,. whose parents reside in No. 1 Court, Edmund-street, west.: also found dead on its mother's breast. PLUNDERING ON BOARD SHIP. -Joseph Weir and John! , Row, the second and third mates of the American shire. Franklin King, were on Thursday charged with plunder ing two seamen on their passage from New York to Liver pool. The vessel arrived at the Wellington dock on Mon day, and the prisoners were given in custody by the coin- Plainants. The prisoner Row was charged by two youths,- one of whom was named William M c Gowan, with stealing: a coat and a pair of trousers, and Weir was charged by another seaman with stealing a pair of b oo t s , w hi c h werec found in the prisoner's berth. It appeared that, immedi ately after leaving New York, the prisoners commenced ma system of plundering and intimidation, and very few of". the crew escaped their depredations. The three com plainants were robbed of nearly all the clothes they pos sessed, and during the passage they were afraid of making any remonstrance. One of the complainants, who stated._ that he had followed the sea for twenty-five years, tent years of which ha had served in the English navy, met with an accident the second day after leaving America,,. and during his confinement to his berth he was plundered of all he had, except the clothes he wore ; in consequence~ of which he could not change his dress after having beem exposed to wet. This complainant estimated his loss at £lO. Upon the ship getting into dock, four of the crew lirhmicedh icaotita e l l h y le led, ft theit was s ship, w!itphpofsoedur, thebags baoondty pde foti u r n box ret el trofumttuhree,cotomspailail ninanEt4lisMhr.slhlansips. In r ad ep t the the youths ma g ed to is trate, the elder complainant stated that his wages were ;518 a month, and said his reason for not sailine , in ars. English ship was because he had lost his register ticket:. Mr. Mansfield hoped the circumstance would be a warning to him, and said that shortly there would be no difficulty . about register tickets, for the act rendering them neces sary had been very recently abolished. Weir was them remanded for a week ; and the other prisoner was mu,- mitted for two months. _ _ A NEW EDUCATIONAL SCHEME. ^ The Manchesten Guardian, speaking of the recent proceedings at Burn says :—" His lordship (the bishop) is sanguine enough to encourage our hopes that 'in a few days another g rea t step towards this end will be accomplished, by the bring,— ing forward of a new system, 'which secures to every p er :. son his right of conscience, and to every denomination' the full integrity of the right of teaching the tenets a their own persuasion to all who are willing to receive the same; and which also allows those who are disposed to frseesearscpuloaltiriis:asbetiliNiottvuyNerv:iiwsslciubllh Such schools ease! ol conditions, nthdo secularisehowever , llv es actuallyt enunciatethem i on their ownt fulfilled, would 4 indeed, leave little to be desired ; but we own to grave. anticipatedletha thntoter .iticism that will be d ue t o t h e sc h eme when formally propounded.---Since the above was i n typ e we h ave l earne d . or tw will only serve to whet e nature of the new or modified The visit to this city • of the De r by atmpttiteo solve it /acts which, howeve the public curiosity as i., scheme to be shortly i of Sir John Pflir;ll,34trn °uncle( Colonial Sea have int to connexion.— et, the Lord_ iiis*Topofulilancliestc t Rev. the that he lig ictive ir. en present , fanchesten t, which is- said to I a bill, parliaanejltvAt'h;; Sir John Pakin g t on, and r.,*smo .11Prez Joduced kob - friMiusa of Commons by house by the Bishop of Manchester ; the'7lsia:Nliig each case confided to their care during its Deiilotis'imslagm illnOngst the rocks and shoals of p ar li An , 7; en vrs progress. of the society, f claim upon any share in I laid before it ...vb.!. fn rAPPiVt?. all AMYL. Dr. Sibbald eminently usef The CHAIRM .._ - . mating by the public. He de- I for the uniform co from the membf pective engine, ier em veuture to pr( us ask, has ever been the result tc from these combinations alscontent, and Author next .proceeded to give a brief recapitura a progress and operations, at the conch]. fifteenth year. He was glad to say . the !ussions had been generally recognised individually begged to express his thanks urtesy and kindness he bad experienced He next glanced at the importance of As which had been brought under cousidera“ Ay. He suggested that the ie directed to such subjects a useful, instancing the stear s promised to be prat m and ether _engine alluded to the use of the electric light which NI y been introduced into the dock operations in Franc' :oncluded by recommending to the consideration of ti ihers the enntpmnislted visit of the British A.-- i;ociat let I 7" them ;CM promoting th lasses the meeting. Mr. BOLT in a neat and complimentary address proposed ation, I - a vote . of thanks to Mr. Horner, which was carried by accla degmdation, What, even roation, and the meeting broke up.