The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-10 00:00:00

Providence had, in former days, tried the virtue of our fa thers ; that we are fallen upon times, and men, and measures, in which principle is sacrificed to expediency, and the wel fare and prosperity of the nation to the love of place and emolument ; that the " standing orders and principles of the Church of Rome are now ripened into a full, well-orga nised, and daring system of airzression er ---.<*nt oacuwent upon our Protestant church and state; and that Popery and whiggerY, and malignant radical dissent, are leagued toge ther, to rob us of our chartered rights and privileges, and to erect Romish ascendancy upon the ruin of the Protestant religion in this great country. (Hear:) It is, therefore, sir, our bounden and imperative duty to be up and stirring, to rouse from our lethargy, to awaken from the torpor of in sensibility, and seek, in the aid of confederacy and associa tion, the means of the national safety and protection. It is, therefore, sir, our duty as Protestants, as true and sincere Christians, to strengthen our spirits, and animate our cou rage and resolution, by the contemplation of the noble ex amples of firmness and constancy, of patriotism and devo tedness, to the principles of the glorious reformation, in defence of which our fathers burned at the stake and bled on the scaffold, and which they have transmitted to us as the best and dearest inheritance they could bequeath to their posterity. (" Hear, hear," and loud applause.) The good old Church of England has been shamefully de serted by her hollow friends, who have loved the wages of unrighteousness, and followed the example of Balaam, the son of Bazor. The Church of England now stands alone, and, thank God, she is able to stand alone. She has wea thered many a storm. She has survived the wreck of ages, the revolutions of empires, the fires of Smithfield, and the bloody atrocities of the Marian persecution. Yes, sir, she has outlived the earthquakes of civil commotion, and the perishable, shortlived, and blood-stained triumphs of malig nant Puritanism ; and, with the blessing of God, neither the gates of hell nor the powers of darkness shall ever be able to prevail against her. (Loud applause.) lam aware. sir, of the industry that has been and is still employed, and of the untiring efforts that have been made, and are daily making, by the advocates of the Church of Rome, and with what zeal the imposture is echoed an d circulated by a whip-radical Popish press, to persuade the people of this great country that Popery is altered, and that it is no longer the monster of bigotry, persecution, and intolerance, that it was in by gone days. Do not suffer yourselves to be misled by the misrepresentations of an hireling press. I tell you, Pro testants of Liverpool, that Popery is unchanged and 'un changeable. I ask, without fear of contradiction, is not the Church of Rome, wherever it is predominant, a persecuting church ? 'And do not her essential principles naturally pro duce intolerance? Political considerations, it is tire, may restrain, anti modify, and soften down the general tendencies of the system, but what is the principle of the canons, and councils of that church ? Does not the Church of Rome deny the right of private judgment? And does she not con sider any instance of deviation from her creed as heresy, and all without her pale as schismatics ? And are not heresy and schism, according to the impious language of her councils, mortal sins, which, if unrepented of, will secure the inevitable daMnation of those who commit them ? Has not the Church of Rome always employed, when she could, the power of the civil magistrate, to assist her in carrying into execution the sentences of her ecclesiastical courts? Hence the well-known phrase, " to deliver to the secular power," by which the transfer of her victims is made. And has she not most un equivocally recognised and established the principles of per secution in the decrees of her general councils Is it not one of the principles of the ChurA of Rome, that, themost solemn oaths are binding only so far as they tend to promote, and may be broken without scruple when they interfere, with the temporal and spiritual interests of the church? Is it not one of the standing orders of the Church of Rome, " that no faith is to be kept with heretics," but, on the contrary, if the good of thechurch require it, that it is lawful to murder them, lest they may destroy the souls of the faithful by their poi sonous and damnable errors ? Does not Popery plant in the very errors of society a despotism encroaching invariably and indefatigably upon every other power which exists on earth ? And where it is acknowledged by any state to be the estab lished religion, have not all its efforts and energies been exerted with unvarying success, for the subjugation of the state to its own policy and councils ? Where is the country of Modern Europe, where the Popish priesthood has been for a very long period invested with the authority and privileges of an established church, that its constant and uniform aim has not been the acquisition of political power ? The character of popery has ever been the same, grasping, ambitious, cruel, treacherous, and blood-thirsty. Look at it in the palmy days of its ascendancy, and in the height of its supremacy, deposing princes, trampling upon the rights of kings, and alienating subjects from th e i r a ll eg i ance to their lawful sovereigns ! Look at it in the reign of the eighth Harry, mean, temporising, and rapacious ; triumphant, per secuting, and intolerant, in the reign of Mary; restless, plotting, and rebellious under Elizabeth ; wholesale assassins in the time of James the First ; and destroyers of liberty in that of James the Second. Look at it manifesting the same genius and disposition in the reigns of George the Fourth and our late king ; and look at it now in Ireland, notwith standing the concession of what is falsely termed Catholic emancipation, in 1829 ; not content with equality, but agitat ing for a repeal of the legislative union, threatening a dis memberment of the empire, if justice be not done to Ireland, and unequivocally declaring, that, by justice to Ireland, it means a separation of the two countries, and the complete and exclusive government of that country by the Roman Catholics. It was thought, sir, nay, the most solemn pledges, the most impassioned assurances were given to Protestants by the advocates of that measure, that emancipation would have proved a healing measure, a panacea for the evils of Ireland—that it would reconcile two antagonist religions— that it would introduce peace and tranquillity into Ireland, put an end to all jars and jealousies, and heart-burnings, between that country and this—that it would make the people a nation ,of brothers—that it would be the bulwark and security of the established church in both divisions of the empire —that the Roman Catholic hierarchy would return to the proper sphere of their duties, and issue circulars to their clergy, to dissolve their unhallowed connexion with politics, and to withdraw their countenance and support from all agitators and demagogues—that the Romish altars and pul pits would for ever cease to be the arenas of political dis- eussion, and that no sound would be heard in future in the 'tallish chapels, but the healing voice of Christian charity— that the Roman Catholic brethren would become dutiful and loyal subjects to a Protestant government—that the Irish Peasantry would become peaceable and industrious—that it w i _auld procure respect and attachment the ersns and aracters of the Protestant clergy, pres o er t ve their houses an d properties from violation, and themselves and their f amilies from the dagger of the midnight murderer and ruth less assassin. But, alas ! sir, the hopes and expectations of Protestants have been disappointed—all these pleasing illu siOns have vanished, and I am afraid, for ever. (Hear, hear.) Let the repeal of the union, and the final separation of the two counties take place to-morrow, would that satisfy the demands of Mr. d'Connell and the priests ? No, sir, the next demand would be the restoration of the forfeited estates. Let them be given up, would that satisfy the de mands of Mr. O'Connell and the Irish agitators? No, sir. The monasteries and nunneries must be rebuilt, the church lands restored to the •See of Rome, the Saxon heretics ba nished and totally extirpated from Ireland, and Popish supremacy once more re-established upon the ruin of the Protestant religion. And now, sir, were all this accom p►lished, I ask, would there, then, be peace and tranquillity in Ireland? No, sir. They would be glad to get the Saxons back again to keep them from murdering each other. It is much to be lamented, that the chartered rights and privileges of the Irish municipal corporations, together with the constabulary force of Ireland, are already in the actual possession of Mr. O'Connell and the radical party ! And, sir, had it not been for the firmness and determined stand of the House of Lords,—(applause)—the hereditary advisers of the crown, the ruin and spoliation of the protestant church of Ireland would have been effected long before now by the Whigs, in concert with the lawless agitators and dem agogues , who have unfortunately but too long ruled the destinies of lay unhappy country. Had it not been for the firmness and constancy of the ancient bulwarks of the constitution, the repeal of the legislative union, and the final separation of the two countries, would have been effected before now by a re formed House of Commons, composed of ruling popish radi cals, and infidel architects of ruin. Had it it not been for the stability of the pillars of the Corinthian capital of polished society, and the firmness of the hereditary supporters of the throne, the restoration of the forfeited estates would have been, long before now, awarded back from their present own ers, by the irresistible voice of the seven millions. Yes, sir, by the powerful arm of that fierce and savage democracy, which Mr. O'Connell now wields, and with which he swears, in the plenitude of his power, and in the pride of his ascend ancy, to annihilate protestantism altogether in Ireland, and to extirpate, root and branch, the still lingering remains of an expiring faction. The Lords, by their firmness and virtue, have saved the constitution from the encroachments of de- mocracy, rescued the empire from the horrors of civil war, and quieted our apprehensions of anarchy and blood. The Lords, by their firm and manly conduct, have earned for themselves an imperishable fame and glory, and have esta blished an eternal claim not only to the gratitude of all the existing moral worth and excellence in the nation, but to the esteem and gratitude of futurity. (Cheers.) All true and Sincere lovers of rational liberty have reason to rejoice, that there is another tribunal in this great and complicated em pire, to guard the constitution from the often dangerous and destructive measures of the House of Commons. The friends of sober and rational liberty have rather reason to rejoice, that the dissolution of the present ministry has been delayed, until their morals have been ripened to that maturity of cor ruption, at which the very worst examples cease to be con tagious. The friends of the constitution and of monarchy have reason to thank God, that the retreat of the present ad- ministration, and their fall from power have been deferred, until whiggery and papacy have so completely developed their true characters, and exhibited themselves in such hideous and aggravated features, as to produce a general confederacy of all that is good and virtuous in the community, to hunt , these monsters from the land, and shame them for ever from society. The mind really sickens and recoils at the scenes of public depravity, of personal baseness, and moral turpi tude, of 3haracteristic drivelling and incapacity, of destruc- tive fatuity almost universal, which have - passed before our eyes, not in dramatic representation only, but in sad and la- nientable reality, since the present whigs were called to the government of this once happy and flourishing kingdom. The dissolution of the present ministry and their fall from Power cannot be far distant, and when that happy and long Wished hour shall have arrived, their names shall not be shel tered from infamy, by sneaking out of life and shrinking into oblivion. I am not come here to excommunicate the church of Rome. No, I am not so ungenerous or unmanly. lam not come here to night to bring charges against the church of Rome which I cannot prove and substantiate. No, but I come here to night, to Cell the protestants of LiverpOol that Popery is unchanged and unchangeable, that its principles and standing orders are the same now they ever were, and that they will continue to be the same, until the predictions of prophecy shall be fulfilled in the fatal catastrophe of the Man of sin, and final extermination of the papal anti christ, " whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his Mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming." Yes, sir, until the "mystery of iniquity" be completely obliterated from the earth. Not only my rcord, sir, of past times, but every day's experience, demonstrate the indisput able, but melancholy truth, that popery is ever the same— lemper cadent. _ The rev. gentleman then proceeded to detail the persecu tions to which he and a dear friend had been subjected by the Catholics, which was listened to with the most marked attention, and he concluded a speech of nearly an h our long amidst the loudest applause, at - 20 minutes to twelve. The resolution which he proposed was, the appointment of the committee for the ensuing year. The Rxv. MR. ALLEN briefly seconded the resolution, Which was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then gave the three watchwords of the namely—" Church extension," " Scriptural educa q°4,' and " Protestant ascendancy," which were received With enthusiastic cheering and waving of handkerchiefs, after Which the doxology was sung, the blessing pronounced, and t he meeting separated in the most orderly. manner at twelve o'clock. INFLUENCING VOTERS The following copy of a letter from a canvasser in the whig radical interest has been handed to us for publication. The °t iginal is in the possession of a gentleman who will not hesi tate to produce it to any respectable party who may be dis -I)%ed to doubt its genuineness : Om:. SIR,—If you can give the bearer employment at any " t ng—even if you have nothing for him to do, try to find lum 80rnething just to keep him on until the 2d November is over, a n d I will tend something for him after that.—Yours truly, (Signed) JAMES ALDERSEY. 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Yesterday the first meeting of the Town Council, since the municipal election, was held in the Town-hall. Both parties were present in formidable strength. Indeed there was only one member absent, Mr. Sandbach. Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY took the chair. He said, that previous to the commencement of business, he had one request to make from the council, and that was for permis sion to take a copy of the painting of Liverpool in the Town hall. The request was immediately granted. LIME-STREET WARD. The MAYOR said that the Town-dell( had taken the opi nion of counsel upon the erroneous return for Lime-street ward ; and, in compliance with his advice, he (the Mayor) had thought it his duty to sign the certificate of the election of Mr. Kilshaw, which was made by the aldermen and the assessors, and place it on the outside of the Town-hall. He had also sent for Mr. Kilshaw and Mr. Blackburn. Mr. Blackburn had previously signed the declaration; Mr. Kil shaw had done so this morning, and was now in attendance. lie (the Mayor) now called upon the Town-clerk to read the opinion of the Attorney-General, the late Attorney-General, Mr. Starkie, and Mr. Wightman, which he had taken. The TOWN-CLERK commenced by stating that the return as originally published for Lime -street ward, gave a majority of two for Mr. Blackburn ; but•on the application of a bur gess, the voting papers were examined, and in the result there appeared to be, on the face of the voting papers, a majority of six for Mr. Kilshaw. Under these circumstances. he (the Town-clerk) deemed it his duty that the Council should be prepared with the best advice that could be ob tained as to the proper course to be pursued. He had there fore taken the opinion of the present Attorney-General, the late Attorney. General (Sir Frederick Pollock), Mr. Starkie, and Mr. Wightman, which was as follows : " We are of opinion that the best course to be pursued, is, that the Mayor should publish the certificate of the Aldermen and Assessors certifying the mistake in their former declara tion; so that Mr. Kilshaw, who had the majority of legal votes, should he permitted by the Mayor and Town-council to make the declaration, and take his seat for Lime -street ward, leaving it to Mr. Blackburn to take such steps as be may be advised. "J. CAMPBELL, (Si gned) " FRED. POLLOCK, "T. STARKIE, " WM. WIGHTMAN. " Westminster, Nov. 7, 1840." On the consultation which preceded this opinion, he was advised that counsel expressly declared their opinion to be, that the act which directed the returns to be made by two o'clock, on the second day after the election, was not conclusive but only declaratory. On this opinion his duty was to advise the council to receive Mr. Kilshaw as a member of it, leaving Mr. Blackburn to assert any right which he might be entitled to, if he had any. Mr. J. N. WOOD moved that Mr. Kilshaw be introduced into the Council. Mr. JoHN SMITH seconded the 'motion. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE asked whether he correctly under stood the Mayor to say that Mr. Blackburn had signed the declaration ? The MAYOR replied that Mr. Blackburn had subscribed the declaration in proper time. The TOWN-CLERK said, that at the time Mr. Blackburn subscribed the declaration in pursuance of the act, only one return had been made to and published by the Mayor, which was that Mr. Blackburn had been elected. Mr. Blackburn therefore was perfectly right in making the declaration. Subsequently, however, the certificate of the alderman and assessors, rectifying that return, had been published by the Mayor ; and in due time Mr. Kilshaw made his declaration. Mr. Blackburn could not have been better advised than to make the declaration, because he thereby completely exone rated himself from any liability to pay the penalty incurred for not making the declaration within five days. In the next place, if the advice of counsel had been different from that which lie (the Town-clerk) had just read, it would have saved the Council from a very embarrassing point, and that was what should be done upon an extraordinary vacancy, for if this opinion had not been in favour of Mr. Kilshaw, and Mr. Blackburn had not made the declaration, the five days would have expired, and there would have been an extraordinary vacancy. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE was fully satisfied that Mr. Black burn was correct in taking the course which he bad ; and he felt also that he (Mr. Lawrence) was also justified in asking the question. The MAYOR then put the question whether Mr. Kilshaw should take his seat, and it was unanimously carried in the affirmative. Mr. KUSH AW was then introduced by Mr. J. N. Woo, and Mr. John Smith, and took his seat. ELECTION OF MAYOR. The MAYOR said the next business on the paper was the election of a gentleman to fill the office of mayor for the en- suing year Afr.EvANs then said he rose for the purpose of moving that Mr. Thomas Bolton be the Mayor of Liverpool for the ensuing year. His qualifications for the office, and his claims to the high honour of holding it, were so well known to all that he felt relieved from the necessity of going into any detail of his merits. Mr. Bolton had passed a long mercantile life in Liverpool, where he had acquired an inde pendence without reproach. The same persevering industry and good judgment with which he had advanced his private fortune, he had carried into the service of the public, for whose welfare be had been ever ready, under all circumstances, to devote both his time and money. Mr. Bolton was not one of those who claimed public honour in right of their private wealth, for he had ever acted upon the principle, that the greater the wealth the greater the responsibility—and the more we should give of that wealth and of our time to the service of that society which tolerated and protected inordinate possessions. There could be no doubt that wealth in its proper place was no crime, that it ought not to injure any individual, but upon the contrary should always have its due weight and influence in society. But when, instead of being used to forward the purposes of society, it was used against them, or was kept altogether in abeyance from their benefit; it became an evil to mankind, and almost a crime in the possessor. He trusted that the high honour of pre siding over a great town like this would never be sullied by any considerations of wealth unaccompanied by merit, in proportion to that wealth, and adequate to the uses of it ; and he hoped that every gentleman who was offered the ho nour of the mayoralty of Liverpool would be able to produce his merits in his labours, public services, and character. Mr. JOSEPH HORNBY had heard with great pleasure what Mr. Evans had said, as it relieved him from the necessity of saying much in favour of Mr. Bolton. He was quite certain that the council would be perfectly justified, both in its own and in the eyes of the public, in selecting Mr. Bolton as the mayor of Liverpool. For a long time he had devoted him self to the promotion of the trade and prosperity of the port, and to the extension of those political principles which he (Mr. Hornby) hoped the majority of the council still main tained ; and he felt certain that, at the expiration of his year of office, if it pleased the council to elect him, he would re tire not only with the good opinion of the council, but with that of the town at large. . _ _ Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE then rose. He said that without venturing at all to enter into the comparative quali fications of the gentleman who had just been proposed as mayor for the ensuing year, and of the gentleman wham he was about to name, he „ should say little more—for there was no necessity for saying more—than that the name he was about to propose did, in the very strongest manner, recom mend itself to the notice of the council. (Hear.) If inde pendence of character, if sterling and honest worth, if—and he begged to be understood that his remarks applied merely to the individual of whom he spoke—a gentleman in mind and a gentleman in manners, a liberal in his actions rather than in his professions—(applause)—and, if still more was required, he might add, although it was unncessary, great interest in the growing prosperity of Liverpool—a man, too, strongly attached to the institutions and liberties of this town, as well as to those of his native country—if these were quali fications for the high position of mayor of Liverpool, no fur ther comment was required from him when he told the coun cil that it was his intention to propose Mr. John Shaw Leigh, as a fit and proper person to fill the office of mayor for the ensuing year. (Hear, hear.) He should not attempt to oc cupy the attention of the council at the present time, more than to remark upon a hint which appeared to be thrown out by the gentleman who proposed Mr. Bolton. From what that gentleman had stated it might almost seem that to pos sess wealth—though he agreed that it increased responsibi lity —was absolutely a curse. From the manner in which the subject was hinted Pt, he presumed that if Mr. Leigh pos sessed wealth, and any other gentleman possessed less wealth, that was a disqualification instead of a qualification. (Hear, hear.) Now, whether Mr. Leigh was a rich man, or whether he was a poor man, was a question which !had not occu pied the minds of those with whom he (Mr. G.) acted for one moment. Bad as they might appear to be, they had not made wealth their leading star. (Hear.) They wished only to see a gentleman possessing the qualifications which he had enumerated filling the high office of mayor; and he and his friends were unanimously of opinion, that such a man was Mr. John Shaw Leigh. He, therefore, begged to move that that gentleman be elected mayor of this borough for the en suing year. MT:BUSHELL rose to second the nomination. Concur ring fully as he did in the sentiments uttered by his friend Mr. Gladstone, he had great pleasure in seconding the nomi nation of Mr. John Shaw Leigh. (Hear, hear.) And he thought he should be able to bring forward some arguments in favour of the election of that gentleman, and in favour of those principles which Mr. Leigh had ever held, and which he trusted lie ever would hold, which, as there were certain members of the council who were not bound down to do as they were dictated to, and who had yet left to them the high privilege of exercising their own judgments, although they entertained different opinions to Mr. Leigh, would induce them, for the reasons he should state, to give him their votes. (Hear.) He felt that this was not an improper time to enter into some details with regard to the present position of the council ; and, in endeavouring to enter upon those details, he should do so with that good feeling which, he trusted, would always govern his remarks, however much the senti ments which those remarks embodied might not be in ac cordance with those of the majority in the council. In undertaking this subject, he felt it his duty to go back to the position of the body which formerly occupied the council chamber. Charges were alleged against that body, whether rightly or not lie did not now pretend to say, which might be embraced in the following terms—exclusiveness, self election, and extravagance. (Hear, hear.) It was for him to enter now into an exposition of the acts of the present body, in order to shew, as far as it was in his power, how the very same charges, brought by the men a majority of whom now filled the council chamber, against their prede cessors, had been acted upon, and been the mode of action, of those very individuals. Let him go back to the first election of the reformed council. When the n - .ajority en tered the council-chamber they found a gentleman filling the office of Town-clerk with credit to himself, and satisfaction to the town at large; but what was their first act ? Inveigh ing bitterly against exclusiveness, against bigotry, and tyranny, their very first act was to displace from the seat which he occupied the gentleman who then filled the office of Town-clerk. (Hear.) What did it serve, although it might be said " we have given you a gentleman of high integrity, of strict honesty, of unbending impartiality, and of great legal talents ?" What said it in favour of the appointment, if seeking, as they had doubtless sought, a willing and time serving tool, they had been disappointed, and the town had had reason to rejoice in the honesty, the integrity, strict im partiality and talent of the present Town-•clerk ? (Hear.) Because Prussia had been blessed with a benevolent and en lightened Sovereign, could that be used as an argument in favour of despotic government? The principle was the same. The next act of this council, still inveighing against exclu siveness, was to appoint aldermen exclusively of their own political opinions. (Hear.) What was the object of that but to raise up an influence within the council-chamber, which should, in effect, be the means of putting the votes and voices of the town at large at defiance? (Hear, hear.) What was their next act ? It was to nominate magistrates for the appointment of the crown, who entertained exclu sively the political opinions of those by whom they were re commended ; and what was here the motive ? To create such a municipal and parliamentary influence, as, it was hoped, would prove an effectual barrier to conservative aggression. (Hear, hear.) And to judge from the acts of those ma gistrates, he should say that we had found among them men who, being bound by their position to be protectors of the law, unless they were much belied, had become themselves the breakers of the law, by making others the Protectors, (Uproar and cries of " Name, name." What was their next act ? Having the power, they had the disposition to shut out from the committees gentlemen who had been re rurned to the council, of high talents, of great integrity, and whose position in life was equal to that of any other gentle man in that council. (Hear, hear, hear.) What was the intention of that ? The intention was to show to those constituencies, who dared to send into that cham ber representatives of political opinions opposed to those of the majority of that body, the contempt in which they were held for their non-allegiance to faction. (Hear, hear.) What, although the town might return such men as Mr. Sands and Mr. Hodgson, men who were fitting representa tives at the direction boards of railways and of banks ? these gentlemen standing thus high in the estimation of the town, had been the very men who had been excluded from the committees. (Hear.) Was this exclusiveness and par tiality, or was it not? (Hear.) But what had been the ef fect of all this ? Why, with all their government influence, their municipal influence, their aldermanic influence ; and though last not least, their committee influence; (hear, hear)—they now found themselves in the posi tion—which he thanked God they were in to-day—of be ing a majority of the exclusives certainly, but a woful mino rity of the elected. (Hear.) And what now was the charge they themselves brought against the electors? In the year 1835 they were pure, honest, unsullied, and enlightened ; but in 1840, when acts which had gone forth from that coun cil chamber had brought them into disrepute, the electors were corrupt, bribed, and bigotted. (Hear, hear.) He beg ged pardon for going thus far into detail, and he would now forbear. But he would ask what were the qualifications of the gentleman whom the majority of the council this day de lighted to honour ? Were they that he held political opinions which were at variance with those held by the great majority of this great community? Were they that he entertained religious opinions which were certainly not professed by nineteen -twentieths of the inhabitants of this vast commu nity? Was it set forth that his mercantile position was such that he was the only man fit to fill the civic chair in this town ? If these were the arguments urged in favour of that gentleman, he (Mr. Bushell) would ask whom he and those with whom he acted opposed to them ? They opposed to them a gentleman who stood high in the estimation of every one who knew him ; whose political opinions eminently fitted him to occupy the chair, and to preside over the deliberations of a council the majority of the elected in which was purely conservative—(cheers);—whose religious opinions were such as peculiarly fitted him to preside over the destinies of a constituency decidedly Protestant—(much applause) ;—and whose great wealth, although, like Mr. Gladstone, he thought wealth was not to be compared with character, was expended in the best direction. These qualifications he trusted would have great weight, even with some of those who differed po litically with Mr. Leigh. With these views, and entertain ing these opinions, he (Mr. Bushell) called upon those mem bers of the council who were not bound by the cliqne which assembled at the Angel, who were left to give an unbiassed vote, and whose opinions were unshackled, to fulfil the duty for which they had been sent into that chamber, and to bear in mind that they were not the representatives of a faction, but the representatives of the town at large. Let them con sider how the " liberal" majority in the council was consti tuted. Had they not flown in the faces of their constituents by electing more than one-half of the aldermen from the re jected of the people? Would they then bring an unjust ma jority to bear against the wishes of the people. (Hear.) If they did so they were the intolerants and the bigots, who having liberality eternally upon their lips had nothing like it in their hearts. (Applause.) He once more called upon those who were not bound by the faction at the Angel, to give Mr. Leigh the support to which, from his character and qualifications, he was entitled at their hands. He was no bigot in politics ; he was no waverer in religion ; and, there fore, for the sake of good feeling, which ought to be held dear by every honest and upright mind, he hoped the exclusiveness which they themselves condemed in others, and the bigotry which they disclaimed against, would cease to exist in that chamber, by electing for the chief magistrate a man who had qualifications not to be surpassed by any gen tleman in that council. (Applause.) One word more and he had done. There was a motto often quoted by the libe rals of this town, and perhaps by others too. He trusted that that small party whom he had been addressing,—those who still remained free to act for themselves without the factious motives of those who led and governed the majority—he trusted, he said, that that party would bear in mind the motto—" Fiat justitiat, mat ccelum." Mr. Bushell then resumed his seat amidst much applause. Mr. ISAAC HOLMES rose amidst some cries of "vote, vote," but through perseverance he obtained a hearing. He said he could not say he was astonished at hearing Mr. Bol ton proposed as the next mayor, because the fact had been an nounced eleven days ago. He supposed, indeed, that Mr. Bolton was elected at that very time, not, certainly, by this council, but at the Angel, or at the Reform Association, or probably by the Protector Society. (Hear, hear.) Now, when the announcement was made so long before of who was to be the mayor, it was a proper topic for enquiry, what was the degreeofinfluence exercised•upon the couuciland by whom. Vicar, hear.) The majority in that council were really in a strange situation; but it was a situation in which individuals and countries had often been placed—they had called in the aid of mercenaries, and afterwards became the slaves of those whom they had called to protect them. (Hear.) In like manner he feared that the party which ruled in that council were the servants of their Protectors. (Hear, hear.) It had been stated, as one of his claims on the mayoralty, that Mr. Bolton had manifested a great degree of public spirit. In deed ! One of the instances of his " public spirit" was a public opposition to the town dues, whereby he put the town and corporation to the expense of nearly £30,000 in their de fence. (Hear, hear.) When Mr. Bolton was not in the council, he considered it improper and unjust to levy town dues ; now that he was in the council, and a candidate for the mayoralty, he considered it quite proper to levy them, and even to increase the salary of the individual who had been the great instrument in retaining them. (Hear, hear.) On the church question, too, a great sum was expended—a sum, he thought, amounting to £lOO,OOO, and Mr. Bolton was one of the chief causes of that expenditure by the corporation. Were these, he would ask, claims to be urged on the council for that gentleman being elected mayor ? (Hear.) He thought not •, indeed he considered that the " public spirit" which Mr. Bolton had manifested, so far from being service able, had been detrimental to the interests of the town and of the corporation. (Hear.) But there was another reason, for which he considered he should not be doing his duty to himself, and to those who had electedhiru, if he did not pub licly oppose the election of Mr. Bolton. Mr. Bolton was one of the first to vindicate the manner in which the commit tees were composed—not that he had used language at which he (Mr. Holmes) ought to take offence. He, indeed, had not, but other individuals had. If those individuals would but give him satisfaction out of doors, he cared not what lan guage they used, but they would not— Mr. R. V. YATES rose to order, contending that Mr. Holmes ought not to be allotved to use such language. The MAYOR called Mr. Holmes to order. Mr. BOLTON asked Mr. Holmes if he meant his observa tions to apply to him ? Mr. HOLMES replied, certainly not. Mr. Bolton had far more sense than to use the language to which he (Mr. H.) alluded; but at the same time, he certainly had been a party to the act which excluded himself and others from the differ ent committees. (Cheers.) That conduct, he considered, was exhibited only to gratify the malignant feelings of some individuals who had been displaced from their seats at that council. It was an insult to the wards which had elected them, and it was hypocritical in those gentlemen who pre tended to have objections against meeting those individuals in committees whom they had formerly met, to advance the reform or liberal interest. On this point, however, he should have more to say when the committees were formed. He should not now dwell further on this question; but he would say to the individuals opposed to him, and who, were still the dominant party, that a littl e more modesty would become them. (Hear, hear.) If it h a d no t b een f or th e part i a li ty o f the aldermen ast year the numbers would have been more. equalized, and the feeling of the town having been manifested so clearly in the last two elections, it became the dominant party to pay some deference to that feeling. He hoped, therefore, that the business of the council would be con ducted with something like liberality during the ensuing year, that there might be something like union and concord with each other. (Cheers.) Mr. COGLAN next addressed the council at considerable length, declaring that if the tories had been in power, they would certainly have elected aldermen of their own way of thinking, as the reformers had done. It was unfair to charge it as an offence against them, that they had removed the late town-clerk, because they had a right to choose their own le gal adviser. What Mr. Bushell had said with reference to the magistrates, he did not hesitate to say was a libel upon them, unless he named the particularindividuals to whom he alluded. Mr. BUSHELL said he would name them. Mr. COGLAN proceeded to observe that one gentleman had stated that Mr. Bolton had been chosen by a certain clique, in consequence of his religious opinions. Now, he (Mr. Cog lan) did not expect that in the year 1840, in this enlightened period, and from the intelligence of the gentleman who made the remark, any parallel would be drawn between the religi ous opinions of one man and another. The law of the land had given to Mr. Bolton as good a right to fill the office of mayor as Mr. Leigh. Mr. Holmes had stated that Mr. Bol ton had been appointed mayor eleven days ago. Now, he (Mr. Coglan) interfered in the affairs of the council as actively as any member, but, upon his honour he knew nothing of who was going to be proposed, till this morning ; and he believed that no such arrangement as that described, had ever been made Mr. Isaac HOLMES observed that Mr. Coglan must not have been quite active enough; as it was notorious through the town that Mr. James Brancker, at the Mayor's dinner, had proposed Mr. Bolton's health as the future Mayor. (Hear, hear.) Mr. COGLAN concluded his address by stating that for 25 or 30 years there had not been a more public spirited man than Mr. Bolton. Mr. EARLE wished to make a few remarks upon the ques tion. He should not have taken any notice of the speech of the gentleman who seconded Mr. Leigh's nomiation, if it had not smelt so strongly of the lamp. It was studied in every respect; and he (Mr. Earle) should not be surpised, if Mrs. Bushell had had to sit up all night while her husband was preparing it. Mr. BUSHELL rose to explain, when Mr. HUGH HORNBY called him to order. The Council could not allow him to speak more than once upon the question. If he really wished to explain or to correct any expression he had used, he was entitled to be heard, but if he rose to defend himself against any charge he was out of order. Mr. BUSHELL said, he had merely risen to explain, and in doing so, it was impossible but that he should take some notice of the observations which had been made by Mr. Earle. They were totally uncalled for. • The MAYOR: Mr. Bushell, you will please to confine yourself to your explanation. Mr. BUSHELL : If you had been pleased to check Mr. Earle when he was making that gross and uncalled for allu sion which caused me to rise, my explanation would not have been called for. But the bane has now gone forth, and must have its antidote. (Cries of " Chair.") I trust, sir, that the courtesy I have always received from von, and which you have invariably shown towards those whii think and act with me, will be extended to me. We are quite willing to give you all the credit you deserve for strict impartiality in discharging the duties of your high office; and I trust on this your last day, you will s h ow towards me the same spirit of impartiality which you have always shows before. I say then, sir, that the remarks of Mr. Earle were uncalled for, that they are unjust, and that they are contemptible. (Great uproar.) I will stand here a week but I will be heard. (Re newed uproar.) The MAYOR : I call you to order, Mr. Bushell. In speak ing of any gentleman in the Council, you must confine your self to proper language. I cannot permit you to speak of the observations of any gentleman as contemptible ; and if you say, that you will stand there a week but you will be heard, I must take the means which will prevent you, i f you persist in that determination. Mr. BUSHELL.—You may do as you please, M r . M a y or , but I will be heard. (Much confusion.) Mr. EARLE said, he intended to make no improper obser vation, but if he had, he was ready to answer for it. Mr. HUGH HORNBY spoke to order, maintaining, th a t a speaker had no right to address the chair twice. O r d er hav ing been restored by his remarks, Mr. BUSHELL concurred in the remarks of Mr. H orn b y , and he beggad to explain, that in his observations relative to t t h h e e s b e e w n c e l l d o s f_Thet some magistrates,he of those had h s e e d s , h o e r ta intended ha have been to use, the protectors of the law had been breakers of the law, and had made others Protectors. If there was any breach of order in that remark, he left it to those to whom it applied he had brought no charge against the whole bench of magistrates, and if he were called u po n for his reasons for the observation, he should be prepared with them. (Applause.) Mr. ROBINSON, in reference to what Mr. Coglan had said about the Town-clerk, observed, that if the conservatives came into power, he for one should never think of removing the Town-clerk. The votes were then taken. When the mayor called Mr. Bolton's name, Mr. BOLTON expressed a wish not to vote. The MAYOR reminded Mr. Bolton of the rule, that he must either vote or leave the room. Mr. BOLTON then said, he should feel it necessary to de. part from precedent which had been made in higher guar ters—he meant in the case of voting for a Speaker of the House of Commons. He always considered such votes in sincere, and should the- e f ore vote f or hi mse lf . For Mr. Bolton. —Aldermen Sheil, Booth, Hornby, Ros kell, Leathom, G. Holt, Jones, Benn, Earle, Moon, Evans, Barclay, Bulky, T. Hclt, Freme, Harvey, and Councillors J. Holmes, Quayle, Thornhill, H. Holmes, Mellor, Aikin, Bolton, Priestley, Woollright, Bright, Hornby, Yates, Morecroft, Slater, Coglan, Platt, M`Kee, Jordan, Currie, Mather, the Mayor-37. For Mr. Leigh..—Councillors Hodgson, Isaac Holmes, Houghton, Copeland, Case, Blundell, Wright, Toulmin, Barton, Sands, Cooper, J. Lawrence, Robinson, Birkett, H. Lawrence, Wood, Procter, Gladstone, Bushell, Kilshaw, Rigby, Jones, G. H. Lawrence, Leigh, Smith, Harbord-26. Absent. — Councillor Sandbach. For Mr. Bolton 37 For Mr. Leigh, Majority for Mr. Bolton ll Mr. BOLTON was then conducted to the chair, when, having triode the usual declaration, he addressed the council. He .begged the council would receive his sincere thanks for the honour which they had conferred upon him in electing him as the chief magistrate of Liverpool for the ensuing year. It was his anxious desire to act with faithfulness and impartiality in the fulfilment of the duties which devolved upon him. In that council some allusions had been made to the prominent part which he had taken in two important local questions, and, he trusted, he should be excused if, peculiarly situated as he was, he might advert to them. It was only to declare, that, in neither, did he seek to procure any personal interest or any exclusive privilege for himself. If, when the Town Dues Question was agitated, every merchant had possessed the same equal rights and privileges, he should not have been one in the contest. As regarded the question of the endow ment of the clergy, if it had been for the good of all denomi nations, instead of for the one only, he would not have applied for an injunction to stop it.. In both cases, the impelling motive with him it was the extinction of monopolies.— Throughout his life he had hitherto endeavoured to act justly and conscientiously towards every human being. In dis charging the office to which he had, through their kindness, been elected, he was determined to act by the same rule, and he should also endeavour to profit by the excellent examples of those who had preceded him. He hoped to have the kind indulgence and support of the council to assist him in presi ding over their deliberations. He could add, with truth, that in his conduct in the council he had, to the best of his ability, exercised his judgment upon all occasions, for he did not consider that he was under an obligation to follow the dictates of any man, as every vote which a man gave ought to be the result of conscientious conviction. Once more thanking them, he would call upon them to proceed to busi ness, of which they had much before them. ELECTION OF DOCK COMMITTEE-MEN. The MAYoI stated that it was necessary for the council to elect two members of the dock committee, in consequence of the retirement of Mr. Segar from the council, and the resig nation by Mr. Robertson Gladstone of his seat in the com mittee. Mr. LEATHOM proposed that the vacancies should be filled up by the election of Mr. Aikin and Mr. Sands. Mr. BENN seconded the motion. Mr. lsAA.c HoLmEs said that as 12 out of the 13 members nominated by the council were radicals, it was a very unfair proportion for the party. He mo ve d that Mr. Wood should be a member of the dock committee. Mr. WOOD declined to serve. Mr. IsAAc HoubrEs then consulted with his friends, and was advised to make no further amendment. The motion of Mr. Leathom was then carried. MAYOR'S ALLOWANCE. - - . The Mayor's allowance was fixed, as heretofore, at £2OOO. subject to a deduction of £7OO. towards defraying the expen diture of the town-hall establishment committee. APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS. The officers who hold their situations by annual appoint ment were all reappointed, with the exception of the bellman, into whose conduct the Mayor is to make inquiry, and then decide whether he shall be reappointed, or a fresh officer chosen. STANDING ORDERS The TOWN-CLERK then read over the standing orders, to gether with a new one which he had drawn up for the approval of the council. This new standing order was to the effect that no resolution or recommendation of the council should be rescinded or varied at a subsequent council, except on a motion made on notice, which notice should specify the ob ject, and refer to the resolution to be rescinded or varied. After a long conversation with respect to the propriety of confirming the new standing order without time having been allowed for consideration, the council went to the vote. There were for postponement 37, for immediate confirmation 35. At the suggestion of the Town-clerk, it was then de cided that the whole of the standing orders, together with that now proposed, should be printed, and taken into consi deration at the next monthly meeting. ELECTION OF COMMITTEES. _ _ Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY said, that previous to entering on this portion of the business, it would perhaps be better to introduce a motion which he intended to make, namely, " That it be an instruction to the committees, that at the last meeting of the council in the present municipal year, a return be furnished by them to the council of the number of meet ings which have been held, and of the number of meetings which have been attended by each member of the committees, respectively." He thought it would be in the remembrance of the council, that about two years ago he proposed a similar motion, which was then rejected, he believed, because it had a retrospective, as well as a prospective view. He thought, however, that it was due to themselves and to the public, to furnish their constituents with a knowledge of the way in which members attended the committees. Mr. MELLOR seconded the motion. Mr. SMITH observed that such a return as that would be unfair to the hardest workers on the Watch Committee, namely, those who attended daily duty, whilst it would be favourable to those who might be termed the amateurs, or those who attended the regular meetings. Mr. BIRKETT thought it would be unjust to many of them who had seats on other boards. He, for instance, was a member of three committees of the highway board, and as a churchwarden, of four sub-comtnittes, and if he were put on two or three committees of the council, it would be very un fair to judge of his labours by such a return as that proposed. If he were put on any committees, he would do his best ; but, being already upon seven, it was impossible that he could attend them as others might. Mr. H. HORNBY quite ° concurred in the prupriAy of the motion made by Sir Joshua Walmslev. He really could not see that the arguments used by Mr. Birkett were at all ap plicable. What they wanted was, to see how members of com mittees attended to their duties. If Mr. Birkett had to attend other committees than those of the council, he might fairly allege that to he public for occasional neglect, and it would be received by them as a legitimate excuse. If, how ever, Mr. Birkett had duties totally incompatible with those of a councillor—he (Mr. Hamby) did not think such was the case—he should not have excepted the office. He (Mr. H.) had also various duties to perform ; but he did not allege that as an excuse for not performing his public duties. When he found that he could not attend to those, he would resign his office. Mr. EvANs said, that if the arguments of Mr. Birkett were good for anything, they went to show that he was al ready sufficiently occupied, and should not have come into the council. (Laughter.) Mr. COGLAN had no objection to the motion; but if it were passed, it would place him under the necessity, provided his health continued during the current year as it had been du ring the past, of publishing a bulletin of his health, in order to excuse his absence from committees. Mr. HODGSON should approve of the line proposed, if he thought it would answer the end in view. Though he had not hitherto been allowed to participate in any committees—. a grievance of which he did not personally complain, though he thought it was highly disrespectful to the constituency which he represented ; yet he must say, that the mode of making returns was no criterion of efficiency. There were many men who would be chosen, not for their regular at tendance, but for the able way in which they discharged their duties ; and there were many men, who, though they might be found, nominally at their posts, were of no use when they were there. Mr. SHIEL supported the motion, as did Mr. BUS HELL, and, after Sir Jos. WALusi,Er had replied, it was carried. APPOINTMENT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. Mr. W. W. CURRIP. said, in pursuance of the course which had been adopted hithe r t o in the formation of the committees, it devolved upon the chairman of each, for the past year, to propose the members for the ensuing year. In that capacity, he took the liberty of now offering himself. He would first read the names of the finance committee as they stood on the Ist of November, then the alterations which had taken place, and lastly the manner in which he proposed the committee should be constituted for the ensuing year. The constitution of the. committee last year met with the cordial concurrence of the council, and the same principle which was then adopt ed in its formation had not been lost sight of this year. Mr. Currie then read the names of the old committee, and said, that in place of Mr. Blackburn he should propose Mr. John Holmes; of Mr. Pilcher, Mr. H. Lawrence; of Mr. Ros kelt, Mr. C. H. Jones ; and of Mr. Bolton, Mr. Alderman Freme. __- Mr. ISAAC HoLmEs thought that, in order that the com mittee might be settled in a manner consistent with the pre sent constitution of the council, there. should have been a conference between Mr. Currie on one side, and Mr. Glad stone or Mr. Lawrence on the other. Mr. Holmes then contended that four.thirds of the committee ought to be conservatives. Mr. H. HORNBY said the constitution of the council now was thaee-fifths reformers and two-fifths conservatives, which was exactly the constitution of the finance committee as pro posed by Mr. Currie. Mr. .t3RRIE added, that he had spoken to Mr. Case, Mr. Leigh, Mr. Houghton, and Mr. Lawrence upon the subject, all of whom expressed their perfect satisfaction with the con stitution of the committee. The names proposed were then put separately by the MAYOR, and the following are now the finance committee : W. W. Currie, John Holmes, R. Houghton, J. S. L e i g h, J. Moon, J. Thornhill, H. loroby, T. Case, G. H. Law rence, J. N. Wood, E. Harvey, Sir J. Walmsley, H. Law rence, C. H. Jones, and W. P. Freme. The TOWN-CLERK then read the duties of the committee, for the information of the members. APPOINTMENT OF THE IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE. Mr. BARCLAY said, that in the place of Mr. Jones, s•ho had been appointed to the finance committee, and Mr. Horn by, who had expressed a wish to retire, he proposed to sub stitute the names of Mr. R. B. B. H. Blundell and Mr. D. Hodgson. Mr. BIRKETT asked whether it was the intention of the majority in that council to exclude any, and if so how many, gentlemen on the other side from the committees. The MAYOR knew nothing about whom it was intended to propose, until he heard the name ; but every member of the council was competent to propose, either by way of amend ment or original motion, any one whom he might think fit to perform the duty. . _ Mr. BIRKETT did not wish to object unnecessarily ; but whilst the committees were being gone through, he wished to take care that none were intentionally left out. The MAYOR said it was not in his power to answer the question. - Mr. SANDS repeated the question in a different form, and Mr,BIRKETT also put it again. Mr. M'KuE said they lead no right to ask it. They had no right to inquire what had passed at the Angel. Mr. EARLE.—We might just as well ask what has passed at the Conservative Association. Mr. ISAAC HOLMES contended that the question ought to be answered, because it might be intended to propose some other individuals than those named by the chairman ; and by this means the council vcould be enabled to judge whether those who had keen inimical to the majority were to be passed over. . . Mr. EVANS protested against time being occupied in such questions. (Great uproar.: - The MAYOR said it was mpossible that they could be an swered ; but when any name was proposed, it was compe tent for any gentleman to riove an amendment upon it. Mr. COGLAN said, that to his knowledge there was no understanding who were tobe the members of the different committees. Mr. BARCLAY then prceeeded to read the names. He first proposed the name of Mr. Thomas Booth. Mr. ISAAC HoLmEs, seconded by Mr. TOULMIN, moved that the name of Mr. Birkdt be substituted. Mr. HENRY LAWRENCE said that course, if adopted, would be objectionable. [f Mr. Holmes would withdraw his proposition, he would Ow a course, when the next com mittee was proposed, which would answer all the purposes sought for. 'ir. HOLMES assented, and the amendment was with drawn. The committee was then agreed to as follows :—T. B. Barclay, W. Earle, T. Booth, E. Evans, H.R. Sandbach, J. Platt, - J. W oo llright, R. B. B. H. Blundell, and D. Hodgson. APPOINTMENT OF THE WATCH COMMITTEE Mr. THORNHILL read over the list of the whole committee and of twenty-five'names which he intended to propose. Mr. CASE hoped that the Council would allow him to withdraw his name, that his health was so indifferent that he could not attend. Mr. SMITH proposed that substituted instead of Mr. Case's. Mr. H. LAWRENCE hoped that would be withdrawn, as he should propose a gentleman who was supposed to be ob noxious, and let him take his fair chance. On the first name being proposed, he should move an amendment, that Mr. Isaac Holmes be substituted. Mr. THORNHILL read the name of Sir Joshua Walmsley. Mr. H. LAWRENCE said, Sir Joshua would understand his motives for moving the amendment. Mr. BIRKErr seconded the amendment. Alt.. Rigby's name should be Mr. H. HORNBY said, the whole difficulty might be got rid of if Mr. Holmes's name was substituted for Mr. Case. Mr. H. LAWRENCE intimated that that would satisfy him, and that he would make the proposition on Mr. Cases name being read. Mr. THORNHILL then read twenty-four of the names, and was about to read the twenty-fifth and last, when Mr. H. LAWRENCE protested that faith had not been kept with him. Mr. THORNHILL.—There are 24 names now, and I move that Mr. Kilshaw be the 25th. (Uproar.) Mr. GEORGE HOLT stated that Mr. Lawrence had an nounced that when Mr. Cases's name was called he should propose that of Mr. Isaac Holmes. Mr. LAWRENCE strongly complained of the breach of faith towards him. The MARO said his understanding of the matter certainly was the same as Mr. Holt's. Mr. COOPER spoke to the same effect, and Mr. THORNHILL said he had omitted Mr. Case's name because the council had excused him from serving. Mr. SMITH and Mr. H. LAWRENCE sheer position was groundless. (Great confusion .d that this sup- - Mr. 11 vex HORNBY said it was most desirable, as they were sent there to perform the public business next year, they should discharge it harmoniously. It must not be for gotten that the conservatives now formed a large portion of the council, and it was quite absurd to expect to keep them from their fair share of business. (Hear, hear.) Such was not his intention, and he believed it was not the intention of those with whom be acted. He was anxious that they should have their share of duty. They had been sent there by their constituents, and whatever might be the opinions of those constituents the council were bound to respect them. (Hear) With regard to the appointment of Mr. Isaac Holmes, which appeared to be the love of contention, that gentleman had been moved by Mr. Lawrence and seconded by Mr. Sands ; and he (Mr. Hornby) put it to those with whom he acted whether it would not be wise to consent to the proposal. (Hear, hear.) Mr. EARLE declared that he would not act in committee with Mr. Isaac Holmes. He was not bound to state his reasons there, but he would state them elsewhere if called upon. (Great uproar.) Much discussion followed of a very uproarious character, in the midst of which, Mr. Rigby was proposed and se conded by Mr. BRIGHT and another, as the 25th member of the committee. The MAYOR having decided that that mo tion must be put, an amendment was moved to the effect that Mr. Rigby be allowed to retire, he having expressed a wish for that purpose. The votes were taken on this question. For Mr. Rigby's retirement, 43 ; against it, 15 ; majority, 28. This being considered decisive of the main point, no further opposition was offered to the appointment of Mr. Isaac Holmes. The following is now the constitution of the Watch Committee Sir Joshua Walmsley, W. Earle, Jos. Cociper, Jas. Mellor, Richard Harbord, J. Woolwright, C. Bushell, R. V. Yates, Thos. Robinson, Geo. Quayle, Thos. Morecroft, Jas. Lawrence, Wm. Slater, Thos. Coglan, Jas. Proctor, Wm. Thornhill, Francis Jordan, G. H. Lawrence, Daniel Mather, John Smith, Richard Bright, W. P. Freme, W. Birkett, D. Hodgson, Isaac Holmes. APPOINTMENT OF THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE. Mr. H. HOENBY, in moving the appointment of thiscom mittee, regretted, independently of party considerations, that the public had been deprived of the services of two of its most able members, Mr. Blackburn aad Mr. Rathbone. He was desirous that the committee, as well as others, should have a fair number of conservatives upon it, because, as they said they should have a majority in the council in the course of another year, they ought to have an opportunity of seeing the practical working of the system of education, adopted in the schools. There was now no doubt or ques tion that it was the duty and the interest of all classes that the children of the poor should have education, a moral and religious education also; and he wished that the system now followed in the corporation schools should be understood practically as well as theoretically, by those gentlemen. On this ground he ventured to propose the names of the com mittee, amongst which would be found some conservatives. Mr. Hornby then read the following list :—H. Hornby, W. Earle, C. H. Jones, R. Roskell, R. Sheil, T. Bulley, T. B. Barclay, J. Priestley, R. V. Yates, W. M`Kee, Sir Joshua Walmsley, G. H. Lawrence, T. Case, H. R. Sandbach, and T. Sands. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE regretted that he should not have had some notice of the intention to propose him as a mem ber. He disliked shrinking from the duties of any com mittee ; but this proposition to put him upon the Education Committee placed him in a very serious and difficult posi tion. It was not from any apprehension of the toil that he shrunk from serving, but because he had a conscientious ob jection to being a party to the system of education pursued in the schools. So long as the Irish extracts were to go as a substitute, or as a kind of compromise for the Bible, he never could sanction it ; and if he should agree to serve, he must be considered as not sanctioning or patronising the system. If the Council would let it be understood that he was as strongly opposed as ever to the system, as far as he could understand it, he had no objection to join the com mittee ; but it must be on those terms, and those alone, that he could consent to attend its meetings. The MAYOR said there was no test here to administer. Mr. H. HORNDY said, of course Mr. Lawrence would not be considered as pledged to the system of instruction. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said there were grounds for his objection, as this was something more than a mere difference of opinion, it amounted to conscientious objection. Mr. H. Hoß,Nny did not mean that Mr. Lawrence should give in his adhesion to the system, but that he might have an opportunity of seeing the workings of it. Mr. HODGSON was particularly glad to hear the exposition of Mr Lawrence, and he hoped that those gentlemen who were put on the committee in opposition to the principles they had espoused, would not consent to act without a similar express declaration of their sentiments, so that no mistake might go forth, or any impression, that they were sanctioning an un godly and an unchristian mode of education. Mr. EARLE rose to order, and complained of the terms " ungodly" and " unchristian." Mr. HODGSON contended that he was in order, but he would pay honour to the chair. The M - AVMR confessed that the terms " unchristian" and " ungodly" were unauthorised and improperly used, and he trusted they would be withdrawn. Mr. HonGsoN was ready to pay every deference to the chairman, but there was a higher chairman whose will he would obey, whether it pleased or displeased any man living. He conceived it quite impossible for any gentleman to go into those schools, professing the Christian religion in its purity, and uphold a system directly opposed to it. He was convinced that, whatever was the mode of conducting them, the principle was wrong. Mr. EAItLE said that was paying a very high compliment to the corporation. Mr. HoncsoN continued. He trusted that it would not be very long—God send that it might be soon—when the corporation would be in the hands of the conservatives, and the schools conducted according to the system of the Pro testant establishment. There was nothing whatever taught in those schools which could compensate for the want of sound religious instruction, which ought to be the basis of all other instruction. Mr. EARLE defended the education committee, and said that he had a lad in his service, who had been educated in the corporation schools, and did honour to the instructions he had there received, and which Mr. Hodgson might do well to copy. He said, that although the schools had been denounced from the pulpit of the church to which he be longed, the parties who so denounced them had never ex amined them. Mr. H. HORNBY regretted the turn the discussion had taken, but said that no member could charge him with hav ing commenced it. He then read the names of the proposed committee over again, when Mr. CASE said he had peculiar motives for objecting to serve on that committee. He did not object to the educa tion of all classes, or to the corporation dispensing a portion of its income fur that purpose ; but he objected to the educa tion of all classes together, because that was virtually the exclusion of one certain party. Mr. H. HORNBY said the question now was, not the merits of the system, but the appointment of the committee. Mr. CASE insisted on assigning his reasons for declining to serve. He objected to the present system, because it was unwise to educate all sects together, inasmuch as, by so doing, you virtually excluded the ministers of the Established Church, and many members of the establishment too, and he believed that many parents would not send their children to be , educated there for that reason. Mr. EVANS said that, until education had become a party question, the children were taught by scripture extracts with out notice, and that the facts which Mr. Case alleged for not being on the committee were no facts at all, for the clergy of the Church of England were not prevented from going to the schools. Mr. BIRKETT said that the rectors and the clergy ob jected to the schools, because the daily instruction did not commence with prayer, and because there was the; ein taught what one man believed to be idolatry and another blasphemy. He did not wish to use any language which was too strong ; but in his opinion, the system was little better than heathen ism. How, therefore, could any clergyman sanction such a system ? Mr. BUSHELL thought that this discussion was scarcely warranted, as they were met for a special purpose named in the paper. The • MAYOR said that the merits of the schools were hardly in question ; but he thought that some latitude might be allowed, as the question related to their management. Did the Council think the reasons stated by Mr. Case, for wishing not to be on the committee, satisfactory? Mr. CURRIE : Certainly not, for the reasons he (Mr. Case) had given ; but he hoped he would reconsider the matter. Mr. CASE said he was in the hands of the Council, and if they would accept him with the reservation of opinion which he had made, he would be willing to act. Mr. SANDS said, that he was, on this occasion, placed in somewhat singular circumstances. He was either in a situa tion to thank the committee for having done him the honour of placing him upon it, or, he had a perfect right to quarrel with them for having omitted his name on a former occasion. Not that he felt it as far as he was personally concerned ; but, because he felt, at the time, that it was an insult to the con stituency which he represented —one of the most intelligent, respectable, and wealthy in the town—not to allow them to have a fair representation upon the committees. He hoped, however, that all this sort of conduct was at an end now; and he further hoped, that his constituents would resent the insult, as they had upon a late occasion, whenever they had an opportunity. After some further remarks the committee was constituted according to the list read by Mr. Hornby. APPOINTMEN T OF MARKETS COMMITTEE. Mr. H. HOLMES moved the appointment of this com mittee, whereon Mr. H. LAWRENCE said he should propose an amendment to each name, because faith had not been kept with him on a former occasion. Several amendments were then prOposed, and much con fusion took place, in consequence of the efforts of the liberals to exclude the conservatives; but eventually the committee was constituted :—H. Holmes, W. Thornkill, E. Evans, F. Jordan, W. M'Kee, J. Smith, and J. Kilsbaw. Mr. AIKIN rose, amidst loud cries of " adjourn," and required Mr. Bushell to state openly and fairly the grounds upon which he had founded his charges against some of the magistrates. (Great uproar.) The MAYOR said, that however objectionable the words might be, the time for taking them had gone past. Mr. AIKIN attempted to renew the subject ; but the Mayor declined hearing him. Mr. SMITH then moved an adjournment till this morning, at eleven o'clock. Mr. HODGSON seconded the motion. A scence of confusion ensued, which it would be difficult to describe. One party cried out " Adjourn," whilst the other shouted as loudly, if not louder, " No, no ;" both con fident in their numbers united in calling for the votes to be taken. They were at length gratified when the numbers were found to be— For the adjournment, 28 ; Against it, 21. Majority, 7 The council therefore adjourned till this morning. d' ..d. CAPTURE OF A GANG OF HOUSEBREAKERS, AND VIOLENT ASSAULT ON THE POLICE OFFICERS. A company of thieves, who, as appears evident by the quantity of plunder in their possession, have committed de predations to a considerable extent, were, on Friday last, captured by the police-officers of this town, at a house in Laurel-street. The case was partially investigated on Satur day, before Mr. Rushton. Sufficient evidence was produced to show with certainty that the prisoners have been con cerned in one recent robbery, and that two of the police-officers who went to apprehend them, had received very serious in juries in the course of the resistance which was made to them. As these two officers are at present in the Infirmary, the sur geon of which has certified that they are in <Treat danger, no evidence has been p ro d uce d to s h ow clearly by' what hand the injuries were inflicted. Under these circumstanees, the pri soners stand remanded for a fortnight. - The prisoners have given their names as Henry Stephen son, John Francis, Henry Mitchell, and Louisa Mitchell. Stephenson is a middle-aged, broad -set, and rather respect able-looking man. His real na me i s E vans, an d he has long been known in Liverpool, as a locksmith and brazier, in which line of business he once kept a shop in London-road, in this town. The police have had their regards upon him for up wards of ten years, many circumstances havingexcited strong '^ions that he was connected witt , fiiipyes. He has been more than once in custody for havin possession; but as he alleged that his rendered it necessary that he should have and as nothing decisive could be broueht • . . hitherto escaped everythin firmly believed, that lie had fur housebreaking implemt and elsewhere, and tl lcock, who was t a young man, of lecent appeara o keys and othe th . in Liverpoc with zanzs in dressed in his best apparel. J He is son in-law to Stephenson. Henry and Louisa Mitchell, who, we believe, pass for man and wife, were also decently attired, and a casual spectator would have taken them for quiet re spectable people of the working class. The circumstances which directed the police to the disco very were as follow :—The prisoners Henry and Louisa Mit chell had resided in Laurel-street about six or eight weeks. Next door to them, at the corner, was a beer-house, kept by a Mrs. Parkes, who became intimate with Mrs. Mitchell. 't short time since a robbery was committed on the premises - -•th, who resides in Grove-street, which r• A number of valuable 'Jaurel-stree Articles shawl, parallel with - were stolen, amongst which were an Indian camel- hair two cloth riding-habits, &c. At the beginning of last week Mrs. Mitchell made Mrs. Parkes a present of sonic lace, and a day or two afterwards she called upon her, and offered for sale two riding-habits. Mrs. Parkes told her that she had no use for such articles, and declined to purchase them. They were, however, left in her possession. Mrs. Parkes g heard of the robbery at Mr. Forsyth's house, had some suspicions, which were perhaps not very definite, but they induced her to go to Mrs. Forsyth, and ask her if she had lost any property of that description. Mrs. Forsyth immediately knew that the riding-habits were her's, and she sent information to the police. Mr. Dowling sent officers 126, 173, and 512 to examine the prisoners. The two former entered the house with Mrs. Parkes. Kirkham, one of the officers, on entering, said, pointing to Mrs. Mitchell, " Is that the woman who gave you the things ?" She replied in the affirmative. There were three men present, but she was unable to say who they were, as what followed gave her great alarm. One of the men hearing the question, seized a ham mer, and raising it, exclaimed, " Do you mean to say that?" He immediately aimed a violent blow ; but whether it was intended for the woman or the policeman, Mrs. Parkes could not say. It, however, fell upon the head of the officer, who was immediately covered with blood. Mrs. Parkes conceiv ing that they would murder her if she remained, ran out of the house and gave the alarm. As the policenien have not yet been examined, there is, at present, no certainty in the evidence as to what occurred within the house. A and scuffle were heard by the persons outside, Francis rush ed out, pursued by Kirkham, who was bleeding profusely. The former was stopped by a labourer and secured. Officer No. 512, who was stationed at the back, saw Mitchell rush out through the yard door, and at the same time saw Steven son on the wall, with a hammer in his hand. Stevenson was secured, and Mitchell was subsequently found concealed in a horse midden. Upon entering the house, it was found that the other officer, Stevenson, had been beaten severely about the head : and it appeared that the implements used were a very heavy instrument, similar to what is denominated a life preserver, and the before-mentioned hammer : the latter was covered with blood. The injured policemen were taken to the Infirmary, and Dr. Brandreth, after examining their wounds, certified that they were in considerable danger. Mr. Dowling, having heard of these transactions, proceeded to the house for the purpose of examining it. He found an immense quantity of property, and a number of implements for housebreaking, some of them of very ingenious construc tion. The following is an inventory of the mere articles of jewellery found in the house :-42 gold brooches, 7 bracelets, 2 gold clasps, 17 links of beads, 46 gold rings, 11 gold pins, 8 gold lockets, 40 seal and brooch stones, 3 silver watches and 1 gold watch, 1 watch-guard, 2 gold chains, 4 gold seals 3 gold watch hooks, 7 gold w , ' silver knives and fork- great noise keys, 107 . t . 3ilver spoon . . 57 forks, 3 pencil-cases, 3 vinai ,ther vase, 1 silver coffee-pot, 2 silver thimbles, 3 ) snuff-boxes, 26 foreign coins, 3 silver cream • , ..ar-tongs, 24 pocket knives, 6 silver id tray. gold eyeglasses 2 pairs of silver candlesticks The implements for the pursuiioi business are 107 skeleton keys, 311 keys of various descriptions, 81 blank keys ready to be made to fit, 17 latch keys, 41 files, 12 small saws, 25 punches, 2 vices, 7 centre-bits, 10 pick-locks, 3 crucibles for melting metals, 49 pieces of piano -forte wire, 1 breast-plate as a rest for a centre-bit, 1 pair of compasses, 1 plate for cutting screws, and 1 plate for taking impressions of skeleton There was also found an ingeniously-constructed machine for forcing doors. This instrument, which works by a strong screw, will noiselessly exert a force of several tons, and open the strongest doors, It has been examined by Mr. Chubb, of this town, a son and agent to the patentee of the cele brated detector-locks, and he states, that it is similar to a machine called " Jack-in-a-box," formerly taken from a notorious and successful housebreaker in London. The machine was submitted to the inspection of Mr. Chubb, sen., and he took measures in the safes which he afterwards con structed to guard against its effects. The instrument is of ao great size or weight, but it is beautifully fabricated and strongly put together. Mien the pilisoners were placed before the Stipendiary Magistrate, on Saturday. a large chest of goods was produced, which was stated to contain property stolen from the house of Mr. Forsyth. Mrs. Forsyth was examined, and she gave evidence touching the robbery, and afterwards identified the camel-hair shawl, before-mentioned, and several other ar ticles. Mrs. Parkes also gave testimony which substantiated the circumstances above related, so far as she was concerned in them. She knew that Mitchell resided in the house, and she swore that she had repeatedly seen Stevenson go in and out of it. Evidence was also taken as to the dangerous state of the two officers. Mr. Rushton asked the prisoners if they had any questions to put to the witnesses. Stevenson asked the witnesses generally, if they had seen him at the house on Friday. Mrs. Parkes made the same reply as before. She said she did not know that he was one of the three men whom she saw, but she had frequently seen him at the house. Poliee-officer 512 stated, he was sure he saw the prisoner coming over the wall with the hammer. The other prisoners declined saying any thing, and Mr. Rushton remanded them all for a fortnight. CORONER'S INQUESTS (Before P. F. CURRY, Esq.) An inquest was holden yesterday, on view of the body of Anne Carroll, an infant five months old. It appeared from the evidence that a disturbance had taken place in a court in Newman-street, arising out of a quarrel between the father of the deceased and a neighbour, on Friday evening last ; and though no evidence was adduced which led to the sus picion of any violence being offered to the child in the con tusion, it exhibited, when taken to Mr. Harboard, the sur geon, on the following morning, several marks of external injury, and died at noon the same day. The jury returned a verdict of " Died from external injury, but by whom in flicted there was no evidence." MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A GIRL BY A SHOT FROM A VERY - _ SMALL CANNON, ON THE FIFTH NOVEMBER. Yesterday an inquisition was taken on view of the body of Martha Frewin, a fine young girl, who came to her death under the extraordinary circumstances explained in the fol lowing evidence:— William Lovatt, superintendent of police, being sworn, said—On Thursday afternoon last, about minutes past four o'clock, I was on duty in the neighbourhood of Ashton.. street, in Toxteth-park, when I was informed that a child had been shot by a small cannon in that street. I imme diately went there, and proceeded to the house where the child was lying, and found her quite dead. 'I made enquiries whether any one had seen the cannon fired off, and a woman of the name of Mary Morgan informed me that she had seen the cannon fired, and could identify the boy who had fired it, but she did not know his name. I was then told that I would most probably find him at some stables in Parliament street. I went there, and found the boy now in custody, and who calls himself Thomas Calligan. I asked him if he knew who fired the cannon in Ashton-street, and he said it was a boy named John Davis. [The cannon is a very small brass one of about 3 inches long, and the bore would just admit the handle of an ordinary steel pen. The jury and all pre sent were surprised that so small an instrument could have produced so fatal an effect as that which will appear in the sequel.] The witness continued—The boy told me he had loaded the cannon with powder and paper only, and the way he had charged it was by a wooden ramrod, and then pushed it against the wall. I was soon after shown the place where it was fired, and also the place where the deceased was shot. I stepped it, to ascertain the distance, and found it to be about 15 feet. Mr. John Leach, surgeon, being called, said—l was called to the deceased on Thursday afternoon about four o'clock, and found her quite dead. There was a very small wound on the nipple of the left breast. I did not make a particular examination of the wound, as the child was quite dead. I have since made a post morton examination of the body. I found that some solid substance had penetrated both the lobes of the left lung, pericardium, and heart, and had struck against the eighth rib, behind, on the left side, and which caused death. I made a very diligent search, and have not been able to discover what made the penetration. It could not have been a very large substance from the size of the wound externally; the wadding of a pistol or small cannon could not have produced it ; but a shot fired from the cannon now produced might have caused such a wound. This being all the evidence, the Coroner proceeded to com ment upon it. He said, that the manner in which the de ceased had died was clearly shown in the evidence before the jury. She had just risen from her tea, and was going out of the cellar, when the cannon was fired just at the moment her breast was on a level with the street. One of the boys was identified, and admitted that the cannon was his, but that another boy had fired it. He then explained what consti tuted manslaughter in such cases, and illust ra t e d hi s positions by several cases in point, and decisions of the higher courts. The deceased was shot through the heart, with some solid sub stance ; but that had not been found. Had it been found, the case would have been complete, and the jury must have found a verdict of manslaughter. A question might be raised as to the moral responsibility of the prisoner, in consequence of his youth ; but he must remind them, that that responsibi lity commences from the time a child can distinguish between right and wrong, —as was exemplified in cases of pocket pick ing. Had a party of lads been firing the cannon, and it had burst amongst them, it would not be manslaughter, inas much as all of them had taken a part in loading it and setting it off. In the present case, the deceased was not amongsl them and was going out, as it was to be presumed, on a law ful purpose. But as the shot or substance could not be found by the surgeon, who could not discover what it was, he thought they should find a verdict to the effect that a mortal wound was received, but from what cause was unknown, The jury then found a verdict to the effect that the de ceasee, while in the act of coming out of the cellar, received a mortal wound in and upon the left breast, of which she there and then instantly died ; but how or in what manner the said wound was caused, no evidence appeared. As Miss Watson, of Zoar-street, Trowbridge, was sitting by the fire on Thursday afternoon last, with the front door of her dwelling open, to her surprise she had a visitor of the feathered tribe, in the person of a beautiful partridge, whi ch walked up to her with as much assurance as if domesticated. The lady took up the bird, and while admiring its handsome plumage, it suddenly died in her hand without a struggle. Arl ,•••"' POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--FRIDAY APPLICATION FOR DAMAGES IN CONSEQUENCE OF COLLISION BETWEEN TWO VESSELS. ..as a charge against the defendant Eccles, master of the tug steam-boat Albert, for damages under the following circumstances. The complainant is master of the flat Old England, and about 8 o'clock on the morning of the 20th October, he sailed from Seacombe ; as he was proceeding down the river, near to Egremont, under a light head wind, he was called to by the master of the tug boat to tack. At this moment the tug boat had fastend her tug to the American ship Narragauset for the purpose of taking her to sea, and in consequence of the engine being at that moment put in motion, the stern of the American ship came in contact with the rigging of the complainant's flat, and carried away the * 4 0.. 4 The damage sustained by the flat was estimated at £l4 14s The defence set up against the claim was that the ship was under the management of the pilot, and that the master of the tug boat was obliged to obey the command of the pilot, and, consequently, not liable. It appeared that at the time the master of the tug hailed the flat he was distant about 60 fathoms ; and, as the magistrate conceived the master of the flat had sufficient opportunity to keep clear of the danger, the case was dismissed. Mr. Rushton expressed himself that not the least blame was attached to the pilot. ASSAULT AND ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY A rough looking fellow, well known to the police, named John Stewart, was charged by Mr. Arkwright with assaulting him, and attempting to rob him. Mr. Arkwright stated that he was a pork butcher, and had a shop in Whitechapel.' Ile resides at Windsor. Between ten and eleven o'clock last t, in going home, he went through Myrtle-street South, and when at the corner of Chatham -street, the prisoner, 'lng with another man, came up, and one of them, without I hold of him, and tint his hands over his eyes and mouth, and knocked his legs from under him. He fell on his back, and when down he felt hands at his pockets. He cried out murder, and two gentlemen came to his assistance. The prisoner and his companion ran off to wards Chatham -street, where the prisoner was taken into custody by Mr. John Moore, stable-keeper, Heath-street. On the way to bridewell, prisoner said, " It was not me that intended to rob you; it was Jack Heap." Complainant did not miss any of his property. The prisoner was committed to take his trial. saying a v YESTERDAY DESPERATE RIOTS AND ASSAULTS AMONGST THE IRIRB ALAN NEARLY KILLED.-TWELVE PRISONERS REMANDED TO THE BOROUGH GOAL TO IN LAC -STREET AWAIT THE RESULT. Yesterday, at the Police-court, the following twelve pri soners were placed before Mr. Rushton and Mr. Ha dinen Earle, on a charge of rioting in Lace-street, on Sunday, and attacking a man named Patrick Rafferty, in a maw er so brutal that his life is in imminent danger :—viz. James Wal dron, Thomas Costello, Patrick Malonv, Michael Moran, Thomas Henry, Harry Moran, John Sweeney, Margaret Nicholson, Catherine Casey, Margaret Bolton, Catherine Butler, and Winny O'Brien. The whole of the parties were of the humbler classes—as might be assumed from the Licality of the street ; and they appear to have been actuated by that spirit of desperate feudal hostility which has frequently ma nifested itself in faction fights between the northerns and southerns in the sister isle. Bridget Finnegan was first called. She said—l keep a lodging house in Lace-street, in a court. I was standing at my door when Patrick Rafferty, a hod-carrier, came out with his hands in his coat pockets It was about two o'clock. The prisoner, Winny O'Brien, caught him by the collar. She said—" have my rein nge out of you ;" and then she took up a big stone and struck him on the ear. The prisoner, Margaret Nicholson, then came and struck hi m w i t h a b r i c k in the face. The elderly prisoner, Catherine Butler, then came up and threw slutch in his face. Hugh Cowen and Harry Allison (not in custody) then came out, and both struck him, the first with a stick anti the other with a poker. Patrick Malony next caught hold of him, and said—" If he's not done, we'll do for him," and he then struck him on the head with a loaded whip, and he (Rafferty) fell down. The magistrates then had the parties accused by the witness brought to the front of the dock, and asked them separately if they had any questions to ask. They all entered into statements, and elicited nothing favourable to the few ques tions they put. Michael Gilmore, a boy, being sworn said,—l live by selling things at the docks. Yesterday, about half-past two o'clock I saw Rafferty in the street. Two men came and struck him, one with a poker and the other with a stick. The prisoner Catherine Casey came out and struck him with a brick. I saw Patrick Malony afterwards pull Rafferty out of Cubin's house by the legs. Harris had the poker. The crowd ran down the street. Casey and Malone asked witness, - ii on his oath, he saw them strike, and he affirmed that he did. Mary Kewley sworn.jf live in - Lace-street with my brothers. There was a crowd, and Rafferty was beaten. He was afterwards taken into a house for shelter. Elizabeth Haney called —I live at No, 1, Lace-street, at the top. I saw Rafferty abused, and heard cries of " Don't murder the man !" He came up the street with his face to those striking him, and his hands up to save himself. Michael Freeman, Tommy Gallagher, and Hugh Coin, (not nere) struck him. They had all sorts of weapons. In getting into the house for shelter, he strove to catch the panels of the door, but fell into the house. If he had not fallen I be lieve he would have been killed. John Griiiiiil;;;Ornii aniaiabourer and live in the street. About half-past nine yesterday morning, the prisoners, Pat- Tick Malone and Michael Moran, were going up and down the street. Moran had a poker. Two men, named Galla gher, and several others (not here) were also amongst them. Moran was asking who would come against him. They were all sober. Michael Freeman (not in custody) ran into the house, got a poker, and joined them. After that they all went into the house. Thomas Rafferty (the brother of the man hurt) came down the street, about ten o'clock, with James Welsh. Thomas Gallagher came into the street and struck James Welsh. Rafferty (the brother) made his escape. After that, Mark Burns and two more were going to work at the docks.* The prisoner, James Waldron, came up and struck Mark Burns on the temple, and he and his companion made their escape. There was a second attack about two o'clock. Patrick Malone and a man named Hornsby came out and attacked Rafferty, Malone with a whip. Winny (Winifred) O'Brien came up, and said to Rafferty, " You may fetch your coffin with you." Winifred O'Brien struck him with, I think, something she had in her hand ; but of this lam not quite sure. When he was going into the house, Malone seized him by the leg, and Hornsby by the collar. He was beaten by them. I went away. Patrick Malone said that they had had the street too long to themselves, and it was time they (his party) should have it to themselves. Mark Burns said :—I was going to work at tide work at about two o'clock on that day. Pat Malone and others were in the street. I went on the other side. The prisoner Wal dron came behind me and struck me. Warburton.—Did you not come up with a spade to my house and strike me ? The witness replied in the negative. Honour Tolly sworn:—l saw the old woman (a prisoner) come up with two or three bricks, which she put on the road in readiness. She threw them at Wm. Fanegan, and would not let him pass till the crowd came up. I saw Margaret Bolton and Catharine Casey. Mrs. Casey said that she'd be revenged for the money she had lost, and would wash her hands in Rafferty's blood. Margaret Nicholson said, " I'll be revenged for the money that's lost," and she struck Raf. ferty•with a brick. Her husband came up and struck him with a poker. 1 saw Mary Moran. She came up with a small scuttling spade, and struck Rafferty's wife. Margaret Bolton told the crowd to keep together. Thomas Costello, the lame man, had his crutches, and said, " if I get a blow at Rafferty with my crutch with the ferrel on, it will put him a-sleep." He gave the two other men (Gallagher and Horn by,) two sticks, and said to them " Fight like men, and have one of their lives." The parties implicated by the last witness were called to put any questions, but asked nothing, eliciting answer, in their behalf. Thomas Burns spoke to seeing Rafferty about ha f-past two, and every one of them striking him. Costel.o wanted to give Rafferty a blow when he was down, and said. if be got it that would be enough. Biddy Rafferty (the wife of the injured man) being sworn, was questioned by Margaret Moran as to attacking her with a scuttle spade. The witness said, she was struck and tum bled into the channel, and her cap was torn tram her tread, but she did not say by whom. They wanted to take her hie, as well as her husband's. Several police-officers were then examined. None of them had seen the tights, but they had been frequently called to the street, and had three times dispersed the mutt, and, appa rently, restored quietness. One of them, Alexander Suther land, found Rafferty a little before three o'clock in a cellar, in an insensible state. John Burn pointed to Warburton as one of the men who had struck him. The witness produced a bar of iron, somewhat fashioned like a poker. It was about a yard long. On each witness being examined Mr. Rushton enquired what witnesses they had in their behalf, and their names were taken down. Th e y were a ll now called in and examined. Their testimony did not go to invalidate the evidence against the prisoners; but in one case, that of Michael Moran, some time was to be allowed to produce Mr. Teal, sen., and Mr. Teal, jun., who have the management of the cleaning of the Clarence Dock and Basins, by whom he said he was employed, and had worked for two tide ways—including part of the afternoonin question— which, if it covered the afternoon in question, would, of course, amount to an alibi. Mr. Rushton addressing the prisoners, said, that they had all been clearly proved to be present when the violent assault was made upon the individual who was now lying danger ously ill. It became, therefore, his duty to remand them to the Borough Gaol until the fate of that unfortunate individual became known by the result ; and should that be fatal, they would have to abide their trial by another tribunal. Mr. Teal, sen. and Mr. Teal, jun. afterwards appeared in court and stated that Moran had worked two tides in the sewerage of the Clarence Dock on Sunday, and that he re. turned to the second tide-work at about half-past two in the afternoon. Mr. Rushton said that he was glad the prisoner stood clear of being present at the principal assault; but as he was sworn to as one of those present at the first riot in the morning, he could not release him without bail—himself in £lO and two sureties in £5 each. * We think the Dock Trustees might dispense with men working in the docks and basins on Sundays. The Grand Jury at the Stafford Sessions, on Thursday, returned a true bill against George 'Wynn, the registered proprietor, and Alfred Jolly Caldicott, the publisher of the Staffordshire 'Examiner, for publishing in that paper an article inciting.the populace to riot at the Conservative ban quet held at Bilston on the 7th of August last.— Wolver hampton Chronicle. A PROLIFIC Sow.--Mr. Birchby, of the Red Lion Inn, Euxton, near Chorley, a tenant of J. G. Wainwright, Esq., has a sow, (which we noticed in April last) of the Shropshire breed, that farrowed a few days ago sixteen pigs. This is the fifth litter, and the total number of the five litters is eighty! The first two litters she had seventeen each, and the third and fourth litters were fifteen each.—Preston Chronicle. DEATH OF GENERAL BLlG . H. — Lieut.-General th e H on. Edward Bligh died on the 2d i nstant. He was born in Sep tember, 1769, and was grand-uncle of the pres en t E arl of Darnley. The only record . we find of his services in " The Royal Military Calendar, is as follows :—" This officer was a lieutenant-colonel on . half-pay of th e 107 th foot, the sth of March, 1794 ; colonel in the army the Ist of January, 1798 ; nera majol r th -g e 4th of June, 18eneral the lst of J 11 anuary, 1805 ; and lieutenant ge- FACT AND SENTIMENT. --A gentleman, partial to romantic associations, being informed that a slip from the willow which has for many years over-shadowed the grave of Napoleon, was growing in the garden of an inn near Bristol, made a pilgrimage to the spot. His inquiries after the object of his search was at first unsuccessful; but ou accosting a labourer on the premises, the reply was—" Oh, yes I you'll find it growing , on 'tother side o' th e gar d en — r i g ht aga i ns t th e pigsty.; THE ROYAL CHEESE.—This celebrated produce of 750 cows progress es rap id ly in ripeness and p e rfect i on at the farm of Mr. D un k erton, of West Pennard, and still continues to attract visitors f rom a ll parts o f t h e country . No precise time is fixed for its preeentation to the Queen, nor is it yet determined in what manner it is to be conveyed to London ; but it is in contemplation that it shall be d rawn thither by eight of the fi nes t an d mos t beautiful cows the West of En land can produce.—B a th Chronicle. g NORTHALLERTON SESSIONS.—Last week a deaf and dumb man was tried for felony, and found guilty. The prisoner will have one advantage—the silent system will not interfere with his usual organs of speech.— Tyne Afercurii•