The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-15 00:00:00

bECEMBER 15, 1835 Whigs, - because they are not protestants; and cannot be balled reformers, fox' they are totally ignorant of the meaning, of the word. Neither can the popish priests of Ireland be called reformers. They detest the very term as far as they are able to comprehend it. They are sim ply rebels—some of them actual and others would-be as sassins—all of them furious and desperate men, who have no idea of improvement which cannot be identified with spoliation and destruction--who are dead to all sense of shame and crime, and are fanatical enough to believe that they are advancing the honour of their church, and fulfilling the commands of the REDEEMER of the world, by placing, by midnight, the burning brand under the thatch of the protestant peasant's cabin, instigating their slaves to waylay and murder the protestant ministers of the gospel, denouncing the good, the virtuous, and the innocent from profaned and bloodstained altars, and in ducing theni to despoil the property and plunder the lgoOdi of the honest and well-disposed. O'CONNELL, therefore, when he appeals to the " whigs and reformers of Ireland," is addressing a phantom. He might as well preach to the winds, or call upon his ken nel of beagles to take up the sinking and forlorn cause of his majesty's ministers. The ministers, he knows, have discarded him, if not openly, at least in their more private communications ; and this not from any sense of duty, justice, or decency, but from dire and overwhelm ing necessity. His connection Avith them has irretrieva bly ruined them. Every day the respectable members of the old whig party are going over to the opposite side. In addition to those whom we have named from time to time, we have the satisfaction of stating that T. W. BEAUMONT, Esq., M.P. for South Northumberland, has declared against the O'CoNNELL ministry. There are hundreds and thousands of gentlemen in England, of great power and influence, but who . are less generally known, who have done the same, and there are still more ready to follow the example at the most fitting opportu nity., _ . _ , _ _ What chance then remains for the (nominally) MEL BOURNE administration 3 DANIEL is not , ignorant of their hopeless condition. He knows that they owe all this to him. HE. HAS DONE IT !—and, in a fit of despair, he storms and raves like a madman. Hear his own words, in his latest letter to the " whigs and r&latm - - ers" " Ido not exaggerate in the least—we are on the verge of a volcano—nothing can preserve the country from v drerblful explo sion but the continuance in eke of his Majesty's present advisers, and their being encouraged and strengthened in their exertions to preserve peace and tranquillity. If Peel or Wellington re gain power, that third conquesi of Ireland with which Wellington once threatened us, will be, I doubt not, attempted. I do not hesitate to say, that the safety of the throne itself' is involved in, and identified with, the stability of the present adtninistralioh— anil that not only as regards the people of Ireland, but as results from the disposition and determination of the reformers of Eng ' land and Scotland." Mind, reader ! it is only PANEL who says this. Tie is in earnest no one else is in the slightest degree con cerned. - He is ruffled exceedingly he is in a state p of Hibernian inspiration, and sits howling Ps if at the wake of his Majesty's ministers. '-le is not exactly drunk; but his passions are distempered by an. overflow of bile, so that he seems intoxicated. The throne is in danger, raves the rebel, if the present ministers are ejected from office ! The crown is threatened should his Ma jesty dare to dismiss his servants ! are on the verge of a volcano, exclaims the savage beggar, if Lord Mtn.- . GRAVE be recalled and Lord JoRNI - .l7ssFr,r, turned adrift ! Nothing - can preserve Ireland from a dreadful explosion. — from fire, blood, pistols, whitefeet, and thunderbolts—but the - continuance in office of- his Majesty's preseni ad visers! It will be rapine, ruin, wide--spread calamity, pikes and blunderbusses,. and signs in the sun and inuon, if " PEEL or VELLINGTON regain power" ! What a storm in an uncorked quart bottle of parlia ment whisky ! tire are only surprised that the agitator did not threaten us NI ith a second deluge ; but soppesing that to be inconvenient at the " present crisis," why did lie not threaten to land in Wales with the eight millions at,his back ? - • • No: this last - were too bold an experiment. DANIEL • has no objection to hanging and starving his country men; but as to fighting with tiieut, or leading them on to battle against the Saxons, these are very d;ferent mat ters. He talks pistols, but heis too great a coward and too interested a beggar to use any. fie lives upoe death and misery but his own life, the curse-of Ireland, is too valuable to himself to be risked it, the brutal coono tions he excites. But O'CONNELL, although conscious of the weal.ness of •his ministerial friendwin England, and the real cause of that weakness, is:Yet imprudent enough (thanks to his intemperance) to divulge the cause. .nor this we owe him our respectful -acknowledgments. He blo , ters out at the close of his letter, by far, like a lady's postscript, the most important part of it, what follows: " The registry too long neglected—theproteetion of the voters • too long omitted—the organization of the counties, towns, and boroughs too long postponed the face of an active enemy, ail these delays, omissions, and neglects take place, whilst the Whig reformers are inactive. But this cannot be. Once more I sound the alarm—once again I respectfully implore all classes of reformers to combine. Let there be but a beginning, and the necessity for exertion will appear to every person enga!, ; ed so manifest, that the association will of itself increase and nitiltiply, and ensure success. We LOSE THE itEPR.ESENTATION OF MANY PLACES unless active, energetic measures be taken. - The enemy is awake. Why should the friends of Ireland be torpid ? Whig reformers, I call on you for the second time--Begin !" This is the truth, and nothing but the truth, namely, "we lose the representation of many places" I So says DANIEL, and for once he is right. }ie loses Dublin—lie loses Cork—and two or three counties, and as many bo roUghs at the next election. He knows this, and he is quite frantic. He professes to serve the ministry, but he is only dragging them more deeply into the mire. They are inextricable already—they are up to the chin.—but DANIEL, their friend, will not be content until he has soused them over head and ears, playing the part of an amphibious executioner pulling them by the feet. Tt is a pleasant position for any set of men to be in and there wo.leace them. We beg to call attention to a letter signed JII . STUS, which will be found in another column. It appears by that lettei that some of the most influential of the in habitants of Liverpool, among whom is our worthy Chief Magistrate, whose generous disposition, and fervent regard for the institutions of the country are above suspicion, have declined to subscribe to the fund for the relief of the Irish clergy, on the ground that the aid thus rendered by England is an encouragement of the voluntary prineiple, and is an usurpation of those duties whiCh the government is bound to discharge in maintaining the authority cf the laws in Ireland. While we lament the view which these gentlemen have taken, considering the urgent distress of the pro testant pastors in the sister island, we cannot altogether dissent from its propriety. When injuries are redressed in this way, is not something like a bounty held out to the Roman Catholics to inflict them ? The clergy have been robbed—the laws have been violated—just claims hate not been satisfied ; but is that any reason why the people of England should be called upon to pay for the negligence, the fraud, or the collusive criminality of the government ? The people of England should demand that justice be done to the Irish clergy by the British government—that the laws of the land be enforced—and that those Who owe a lawful debt be compelled to pay it. Now has this been done ? The clergy of Ireland re quire no pecuniary aid ; they only need protection ; they want nothing but the means of recovering their just rights, and these means the government are bound to supply them with. If they refuse, then Ireland is in a state of rebellion against WILLIAM IV. ; and the laws of the realm are, as in all rebellions, in a state of abeyance. But is this subscription to be a loan or is it a free gift ? If the former, and it is to be paid out of the tithes now acknowledged to be due, so far well, for in this case we cannot see how any good protestant can refuse his' contribution ; but if the tithes are not to be collected; if the subscription be a free gift, then the question is wholly altered, for it would become then not a free gift to .the protestant clergy of Ireland, but a ftee gift, by us the protestants of England, to the rebellious priests and papists of Ireland. Let gentlemen ; therefore, consider what they are da- They may ostensibly. be relieving . the suffering protestants, but they are in reality fostering crime in Ireland, and encouraging the Roman Catholics to perse- vere in their dishonest and tyrannous spoliations against our brethren—pocketting, in shod, the gains of insur rection at our expense. There is one fond, however, to which no Englishman can object or hesitate to increase by his subscription, and that is the fund of the "Lay Association for aiding the Irish Clergy in the Protection of Church Property." This society assists the plundered clergy in recovering the value of their tithes by a well known but expensive process in the Court of Exchequer. A notice of it, and its objects, as well as of its patrons and supporters, will be found in the form of an advertisement, and we are confident we need only refer to it in order to overcome the scruples of those who object to the relief fund. Let them give to the one, what they cannot conscientiously give to the other, and all will be well. We need not remind the municipal, electors of Liver pool that the day is drawing near when they will be called upon to choose fit and proper men—men of integ rity and intelligence—to fill the office of councillors in this great community. It is unfortunate for the peace of, the town that persons calling themselves liberals have made this a party and political question. They are so liberal that they Cannot tolerate as a candidate any gen tleman who does not entertain the same narrow and sectarian principles as those in which they themselves rejoice. From the first they have presumed to dictate to the whole town. They have by their acts declared that no man is competent to discharge the duties of a common councilman who is not a radical reformer, or who is not, less or more, dissatisfied with , and an enemy to, the esta blished institutions of the country. In short the whole of the boroligh has been searched, by a knot of aspiring and shallow upstarts, to find as many unitarians as possi ble to congtitute the members. .new corporation. Out of the forty-eight candidates on that side we have already stated that seventeen of them'are of this narrow and ambitious sect, that several are baptists and quakers, 'and that not more than ten can, by the utmost stretch of concession, be called churchmen. It is true that some of the writers or correspondents Of the libeial journals have cavilled at our list, and tried hard to rescue one or two names from the socinian batta lion, with what success we leave the electors to decide. But it is singular enough that none of the accused or challenged parties have pleaded not guilty. Not one of the whole list has had the face to disavow the connection, or his identity with the principles of the grasping sect in question. Perhaps some of our contemporaries are vain enough to imagine that their statements are, assumed to be true simply because we do not take the pains to con tradict them. If so they are only deceiving themselves. We do not think it worth . our while to waste powder and shot upon magpies, except occasionally for sport. If we assail any man undeservedly, or from false information, we are always ready to give him redress; if we call a man an unitarian, who is not one, we have only to re ceive his personal disavowal of the slander to induce us to give that disavowal all the publicity in our power. If we have offended, let him who is blamed say.so, and he can command every satisfaction he is entitled to. But no one has complained—no candidate his questioned the accuracy of our unitarian list, and therefore we disdain to reply to the unauthorised denials of the newspapers. But this by the way. We have . charged the wings, liberals, and unitarians, and the un-aristocratic reformers who are their dupes, with making the municipal election a party and political question. Is this denied ? Is it not notorious that they were first in the field, that their list of candidates was the first published, and that in that list there was not a single man belonging to the conservative party ? No man whose word is worth one of the much injured and neglected Mr. GODFREY BARNSLEY'S circu lars will dare to deny this. They know that the conser vatives never dreamt of proposing party candidates until they were forced to do so in their own defence. If, then, this is to be made a political contest, as we fear it will be, the inhabitants of Liverpool owe it entirely to the liberals and reformers. But if the conservatives, so compelled, have imitated the liberaisia. this-respect there is one thing in which we rejoice to say they have not followed their example. It is this. The conservatives have not extorted pledges from their candidates. They have neither degraded themselves, nor insulted their candidates, by imposing such terms upon them as every honest and independent mind would reject with scorn and indignation. Let us look, however, at the other side. We are in formed on good authority that the liberals have exacted two pledges from althost every candidate, and we pub lish them in order that the electors, the creditors of the corporation, and the wellwishers of Liverpool generally, may see what they may expect from 'a radical, liberal, and unitarian common council, into which are to be ad mitted (if practicable) two Irish Roman Catholics- to serve as a sprinkling of: holy water. Ist PLEDGE. They are, if elected councillors, not to vote for any alderman who does not entertain the same political opinions as themselves ! ! 21 PLEDGE. They are, if elected, to turn out of the Town-hall, anti every municipal office, every man who at present serves the town in any capacity whatever, or who received hid appointment from the old corpora tion! ! ! Electors of Liverpool ! these are your liberal candi dates ! If you choose them you now know a part of what is likely to happen. They have pledged themselves to begin their career by doing an act of gross injustice; and if you help them to perform it.y.ou will particpate in their crime. With this warning you may take their claims and pretensions into your serious consideration and digest them if you can. LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Saturday Evening, Hall:past Seven o'clock. Within the last few days several British vessels have been taken up at an advance of 15 to 25 per cent., to be engaged in the American trade should a system of non intercourse be adopted by America towards France. The transactions in the public securities to-day have been upon an extremely limited scale. Money continues pretty abundant, the accommcdation afforded by the Bank of England, by advances upon deposit of stock in approved securities, having wholly prevented any scarcity which might otherwise have been cccasioned by the large amount of money which is locked up awaiting the decision of the Commissioners' for the West India Claims. Consols for Account have only fluctuated during the day between 911 and 91, the latter being perhaps the nearest quotation at the termination of business. Exchequer Bills are a shade lower than yesterday, closing at 17 prem. India Bonds remain at 3 prem., and Bank Stock at 2101 to 211. The other stocks closed at the following prices per cent. Reduced, 98k; Ditto New, for the opening, .99'4 ; India Bonds 3 prem. ; Exchequer Bills, 17 prem. ; Consols for Account, 911._ The favourable tenor of the advices from Madrid pro duced but little effect upon the market for Spanish Stock to-day. The price, after advancing to 45, dropped again to 44:1, and closed about 1 per cent. higher. Portuguese Stock has varied between 834 and 833, the latter being the closing quotation. The 3 per Cents. left off at 54. The departure of the Lisbon packet has been delayed un til Monday next. It is understood that despatches -will be ready by that day ; and it is said that information will be conveyed to the government of the fulfilment of the measures for the dividends upon the 3 per Cent. Portu guese Stock, which falls clue on the Ist of January next. Russian Bonds have given way again to-day, closing at 1071,-; Belgian Stock has been sold at 9911; and Dutch Tt per Cents. at 541. A few bargains were made in Mexican at 38 to 38,.- 1 . 1-; in Chilian at 44; and in Colom bian at 31/. The Share Market is in a very dull state, and most of the railway projects have fallen in value. The Great Western Railway shares are now quoted at fit premium_; London and Greenwich at 6 pxemium ; North Midland at 11 premium; and the London and Birmingham at 47 premium per share. The Danube and Maine Canal shares are now at premium only: In most of the Dock Shares a considerable improvement has taken place re.; cently. Belgian; 99 Portuguese (new) 83 1 Brazilian, 84 Portuguese 3 per Cents., 54 Chilian 44 . Russian, 1073 Colombian; 311 1 Spanish Consols, 442,- Mexican, 31S1 1 Dutch 21 per Cents., 541 SHARES.-- - - - - - -Il l iaSi; . 135 ; Blackwall Railway, 43 ; ti i4 London tt"il Triltthinghatn, 92 ; North Midland, 6 , 1, • Da ntibe diii,,if,. ~.H.LLY; 51; Canada, 32, ; General Steam :"Navi-• atithii? iff: Pi'tp:rriti-d1 BATA: of Itelaod i 45..• THE LIVE POOL S;ii.A.NbAttli. --c-3+ rr: ~.s PROTESTANT. CHURCH, NEWFOUNDLAND We refer our readers, in the confident hope that we shall dri so in vain, to an appeal which will be found in another part of our paper, calling upon the protestants of England tiassist their pottier brethren in Newfoundland in their efforts to estab lish a protestant, or rather a church of England, church in that colony. The town of St. Johns contains above 13,000 souls, of whorl) 8,000 are catholics, and the remaining 5,000 are principally attached to the church of England. The only protestant epis copal church in St. John's accommodates abont 800 persons: the dissenting congregations are estimated at about 1,000; thus upwards of 3,000 protestants may be said to have no place of public worship. The question, then, arises—can we suffer these protestants, principally emigrants, who have, by the force of circumstances, been compelled to desert the land of their fore fathers, to merge into catholicism, or, in other words, sink into that state of barbarism which bas been so fruitful of crime and violence in Ireland? While the church of Rome is actively endeavouring to gain the influence in the new which she has lost by the exposure of her errors in the old world, it is the bounden duty of all protestants, duly sensible of the blessings they en joy, to be equally dilligent, if not in extending, at least in pre serving those blessings to the humblest, holding communion with them, wherever they may be located. The holiest, and therefore, in all human probability, the most lasting, of all ties between the mother country and its dis tant colonies is that which is based upon a community of religi ous feeling. The absence of this feeling precipitated the separa tion between Great Britain and America, and to fhe same cause may be attributed the revolutionary movements, all but ripened into open rebellion, in Lower Canada. This subject, if viewed prospectively, becomes one of infi nitely greater importance than it' considered only in reference to the few thousand inhabitants of St. John's, whose religious wants we are endeavouring to supply. On these grounds, which we consider stronger than the actually existing necessity sought to be relieved, we repeat our confident hope that our protestant readers will assist in establishing an episcopal protestant church in the colony o 1 Newfoundland. MEETING OF ELECTORS OF EXCHANGE WARD. On Friday evening Thomas Sands, Esq., and G. - B. Irlam, Esq., two•of the conservative candidates for the office of town councilmen for Exchange Ward, addressed about 3i.YJ hundred of the electors of that ward in the large room of the Golden Lion Inn, 1111 e-street. J. —. PUTTER, Esq., took the chair, and, in opening the business of the meeting, said it had been thought desirable that the candidates who had been proposed on their side should state their claims on the electors fur their suffrages for the odice of town councilmen. Two of those gentlemen were then in atten dance, Mr. Sands and Mr. Hato. Mr.33ent was unfortunately detained by a domestic calamity; and he (Mr. Bent) hoped it would not be considered as any mark of disrespect that lie was obliged by deputy to declare his strong attachment to the insti tutions of his country, and that, if elected, it would be his earn est endeavour to do his duty faithfully, firmly, and conscien tiously. _ _ THOS. SANDS, Esq., then said—l need hardly state to you. gentle non, that on an occasion like the present a person situ ated as I ant, totally unaccustomed to address public assetuhlies, must feel considerable embarrassment and difficulty. Difficuk ty, not because I do not understand the subject that has brought us together, but because I am not in the habit of communicat ing what I know to others through the medium of a speech, (cheers) and I am free to confess, gentlemen, that I feel a difficulty in expressing to you brit much 1 feel honoured by your confidence; and I assure you that I do feel greatly honoured by that confidence, for I am not one of those who disregard the good opinions of my fellow-townsmen: that good opinion I highly value. (Luta cheering.) It is because I highly value and appreciate it that I have a difficulty in giving expression to my feelings: (Cheers.) If it were necessary that I should make a speech to convince you hove much I feel honoured by the confidence you have placed in me, fear I should find my self inadequate to express my sense of obligation to you. (Loud cheers.) But, gentlemen, I ton not the less disposed on that - account—l ant not fur that reason to be deterred from making an attempt, at least, to state to yon some of the views which I entertain of the subject in question. Some of our friends on the opposite side seem to think that they only have a perfect right to think. We claim to ourselves the right of thinking, and we are willing to concede it to others. (Cheers.) They seem to think that political feelings, political bias, political sen ments, political considerations, (might to be.the test of a man's eligibility—the test of a man's suitableness to the office, the high office of town councillor. Gentlemen, Ido not quite agree with them in that opinion. My decided opinion is, that poli tical considerations of a purely party character ought as much as possible to be dismissed from the minds of the council, (great cheering,) whilst those affecting the general interests of the • town ought to be pre-eminent. (Cheers.) I wish - to be clearly understood on this subject. I say that political feelings of a purely party character have nothing to do with the town coun cil, whilst those local considerations for the improvement of the town ought to be first and foremost. (Cheers.) For, if the town council shall adopt such measures as shall promote and extend the general interests of the town, does it not follow as a-matter of .course—is it not as dear as that two and two make four—that every interest in the town will be benefitted eqUally?' All classes of society—the shoemaker, the tailor, the butcher, the baker, the block-maker, the ship-builder, the porter even—all men, from the highest to the lowest, must be benefitted in alt equal degree. (Loud and continued cheering.) I, therefore, gentlemen, as I have stated to you in nay address, am determined ever to support those enlightened principles of trade and commerce which have raised this town, and many other towns in England, and which have raised England itself, to the position which she holds in the scale of civilization. (Lund cheers.) Well, gentlemen, this I think is the first and primary consideration. The nest is, to relieve as much as pos sible the pressure of local taxation by the utmost possible econo my in the expenditure of the corporation funds. (Cheers.) I wish also to state to yoe, most explicitly and honestly, that 1 ant a decided friend to civil and religious liberty. (Cheers.) I wish every man to serve God according to the dictates of his own conscience —(cheers) —provided always that those dictates and that that conscience are regulated by the sacred scriptures. (Loud and continued cheering.) We live in an age, gentle men—and we ought to be thankful that we do so—we live in an age when every ratan can worship God under his own vine and tig-tree, none daring to make him afraid. (Cheers.) Gemle men,. having stated to von some of the views which 1 shall ever feel determined, ever feel disposed to snppoit, I may tom state to you one or two that I shall feel equally disposed to oppose. I am a decided enemy to all monopoly ; I think all contracts — private contracts of course, will be so—but all contracts of a public nature ought to be thrown open to the fair and legitimate competition of every tradesman in the town. (Cries of "Bravo.") And this is a principle I shall ever feel disposed to support and maintain. 1-loving stated thus much, I will only say, if I ant so favoured as to be seta to the town council as your representative, whatever votes I may, give, I will give— although they 'nay not always meet the approbation of toy con stations, they will always have the approbation of lily. own con science—l will give them independently. (Loud cheering.) — Gentlemen, I beg to express my obligation for the very kind reception you have given ante. (Continued cheering.) G. B. IRLAM, Esq., then rose and said, geutlemen, my friend Mr. Sands thought it necessary to apologise to you for any dif ficulty he , oight experience in, fur the first time, addressing a public meeting ; I shall not make any apology on the occasion, because I am quite aware that none will oe due to you—that you will very soon find my inexperience out. It has ever been my wish to stand well in the good opinions of my fellow-townsmen ; and I beg to thank you sincerely for the honour which a large portion of the burgesses in this ward have done me, in declaring it as their opinion that I am a fit and proper person to represent their interests in the town council. If that opinion should con tinue the same on the 21;th of December, and I should be elected by a ntajority of electors in this ward, I can only promise you that you will have my best endeavours to secure your interests. With regard to politics having been mixed up at all in this quee thin; I think it was very unnecessary. That is my own private opinion. I can only regret, however, that such has been the case. I can only declare to you what my politics have eser been—l deClare myself a conservative—(cheers)—l declare my self a member of the church of England—(loud cheers)—and I hope that I ant a member of the church of England without bi gotry. I ant a member of the church of England from convic tion. It is nay opinion that without such church establishment we should have rut toleration. An establishment we tonst have; so far as my own opinions go the church of England is as tole rant as any known establishment. Having said thus much, I can only again repeat any thanks to you for the honour you have done me by being here this evening to ;Ilford me an opportunity of thanking you for the good opinion which so large a body of the electors entertain towards one. (Cheers.) Air. LLOYD and Mr. PENINGTON afterwards addressed the assembly. A vote of thanks was then given to the chairman, and the meeting separated. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.,INDARD. Six,—Permit me to acknowledge, through • the medium of your paper, the receipt of ten pounds, from an anonymous cor respondent, in aid of the "Lay Association for Aiding the Irish Clergy in the Protection of Church Property." The money has been remitted to Sir George Rich, the treasurer.—Y(Ails,Mb., - HUG El 111'N BILE. St Jude':, 14th December, 1833. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I am informed upon the best authority, that many of our most influential townsmen, including our worthy . chief magistrate himself, withhold their support from thesubscription in aid of the Irish clergy because they look upon that subscrip tion as an encouragement to those enemies of our established church who are willing to throw the whole weight of the support of the clergy upon the eflicienry of voluntary contributions while, on the contrary, it is the opinion of the gentlemen in question, that the majesty of the law ought to be vindicated, and tithe property protected. The object of this letter is not to argue this point, or to urge the present claims of almost starving men as entitled to prece dence above any ulterior political considerations, however va luable in themselves. I mite to call the attention of our friends to the" LAY ASSOCIATION FOR AIDING THE IRISH CLERGY IN THE PROTECTION,OF CHURCH PROPERTY."- For this purpose I send you the names of the noble trustees and of the commit tee, together with a copy of the resolutions passed on the 15th of October last, and a list of the subscriptions up to the middle of November. By printing this in your widely circulated journal, you will, I cannot doubt, confer an essential benefit on a good cause. Our friends above alluded to will here find a most legitimate channel for the exercise, not of the charity, which under exist ing circumstances they think questionable, but of the patriotic jealousy for the honour of our national laws by which they are so laudably actuated. A public meeting in support of the lay association, convened by the Mayor, and attended by his influential friends, would be productive of the best results, supplYlng another instance of the indomitable determination of Englishmen that the laws of their country shall be respected.-1 inn, sir, your obedient servant, Liverpool, 14th Dec., 1835. JUSTUS. P.S.—The following is an extract from a letter from Dublin : —" The clergy of the established church, and the lay impropria tors are proceeding for the recovery of their tithe rents in the superior courts, and many Roman - Catholics, of the most active character in the line of anti-tithe conspirators, have found it expedient to give in, and settle as well as they could the de mands against them. There is no doubt that the countenance and aid which the Irish clergy have received from their English brethren have greatly tended to abash and disconcert their ene mies; and the opportune system which the lay society, in aid of the recovery of tithe property, has adopted, has been most effectual, and bids fair to upset the whole combination." lIHRARD GALLERY.—The artists connected with this esta blishment are about to remove to Manchester. Therefore, those who wish to have their profiles taken have no time to lose. THE LIVER THEATRE.—This popular place of public amuse ment will be opened on Monday evening next, under its old management, but with almost a new list of performers, culled, we have no doubt, with judgment from the metropolitan and from the la'rgest provincial theatres. REVISING BARRISTERS' COURT.—The revising barristers concluded their labours on• Friday afternoon, the list of claim ants having been got through about three o'clock. At the con clusion Mr. Benjamin Greetham presented a petition to -have his claim gone into, he having been• obliged to attend another court when his claim came on, but ahieh was refused by the barristers. They had strictly adhered to the rule they had.laid down, and they could not then make any exceptions. The cor rection of the original list was then proceeded with, bY the insertion of the claimants who had established their right to vote. THE rust! CLERGY.—The inhabitants of Carlisle, in imita tion of the example set them by those of Chester, Manchester,f Loudon, and other places, have opened a subscription for the relief of the Irish clergy. The sums advertised in the Carlisle Journal amount to about £2OO. The Manchester subscription has reached £1,208. 10s. 7d. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, LONDON.—Mr. James Boa den, author of the " Life of Mrs. Siddons," and the biographer of some other eminent members of the stage, was heard on his petition, and discharged from imprisonment by the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Friday. Mr. Boaden is now an old man. It appeared that his debts were very trifling, and that his insol vency was attributed to . want of literary employment. LANCASHIRE FIGHTING.—A coroner's inquest was held at Little Bolton on Tuesday last on the body of James Briggs, a labourer, who had been killed in a fight with William Monks. The battle arose out of a quarreloriginating in the drunkenness of the deceased, who appears to have been the challenger. After the parties had, fought for some time, Briggs gave in; but, on recovering his strength, he again attacked his adversary, and a second struggle ensued, from the effects of which Briggs died. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Monks, and the corcner committed him to Kirkdaie Gaol. Subse quently, however, bail was taken for his appearance. KING'S FERRY.—In consequence of the adoption of the ad mirable invention of Mr. James Boydell, jun., for working the the ferry boat, the River Dee may now be crossed with perfect safety at any hour of the day or night, and in any state of the tide or the weather. By this mute the road from Liverpool to Meld is shortened seven miles, and the saving in turnpikes amounts to ninepence per horse. The inhabitants of Liverpool being thus benefited by having a more ready access to the prin cipality, we have the greater pleasure in directing their atten tion to an advertisement in this day's STAN wow containing a list of the subscriptions already entered into for the purpose of presenting Mr. Boydell with some public testimonial-bespeak ing the value of the work he has so successfully completed. PORTRAIT OF THE RIGHT HON. FREDERIC SHAW, M.P.— The friends of the Recorder will be pleased at hearing that a very fine Portrait of that Gentleman has just been finished by Mr. Thompson, R.A., London. It is, indeed, a glorious, spe cimen of that style of art, - to the attainment of excellence in which British genius seems principally and successfully to di rect its efforts. To great depth and feeling are united the happiest gradations of tone and colour. There is a manly, frank, and noble bearing about the original, which the painter has admirably preserved, and renders this picture peculiarly adapted to the engraver's skill, in whose hands we hope soon to hear of its being placed—and thus the ardent and numerous admirers of this distinguished statesman will be enabled to pro cure a faithful resemblance of one who, in every station of life, public and private, has iu truth as well as courtesy, a claim to be termed Right Honourable.—Dublin Evening Mail. Mr DauotrEttit BOOK.—Too much praise cannot be award ed to the exertions of the editor of this highly popular and use ful book, whose object it is to facilitate the diffusion of moral and intellectual knowledge of the choicest and most instructive character. The volume before us has already gone through three editions, and our readers will perceive, by an advetti.e ment in our paper of to-day, that a fourth is on the eve of pub lication—a pretty sure indication of the intrinsic value of the book, and which at once reflects honour upon the talent and acquirements of the editor. THE DUBLIN COMMISSION.—The Morning Register is ex tremely angry with us because we do not fill our columns with all the filth and falsehood, and perjury, that is daily exhibited in the examination of witnesses on behalf of the sitting members. Our cotemporary need to have no fears of our giving him and his friends quite enough of this case, when the time arrives for developing the utter untruth of the evidence now in progress of being taken. It is the last kick of the defeated parties, and it is a pity not to. let them flounder through the mire into which they have precipitated themselves. We are as morally certain of the defeat of the sitting members, and of the due return of Messrs. West and Hamilton, as we are of our own existence; and there is one individual in Ireland with whom we never agree, and who seldom agrees with us, who fully coincides with the Mail in that opinion : and that individual is no less a per sonage than—Mr. Daniel O'Connell.—The game is nearly up. This class of alleged cases of bribery is the last on the list, and supposing every one to be proved—and there will not be one—the petitioners could afford to make their opponents a present of a hundred votes in addition, and be sure of the favourable decis ion of the Committee after.—Dublin Evening Mail. PRESENTS TO THE KING OF ENGLAND.—His highness the Nawab Nazim Bahadoor of Bengal is going to send to his Ma jesty the King of England a few valuable curiosities of the country, on the Sth or tenth of November next, under the charge of two of his English aides-de-camp. The names of these gen tlemen are not vet known, but an order to that effect has been passed in open burbar by his highness. The presents, it is said, are to be very rich, handsome, and worthy the acceptance of the great potentate for whom they are intended, and fully manifest ing the high sense of respect entertained for the head of the English nation by his highness the Nawab.—East Indian paper. THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S VESSELS.— One of the immediate effects of the anticipated rupture between France and the United States has been to greatly increase the business of ship insurances. Policies have been signed on American bottoms at 10 per cent., which includes the war and common risk. There is also a good deal of activity among the principal shipbuilders on the river, chiefly confined, however, to steam shipping. Several of this class of vessels, of a very superior description, are, now on the stocks, the largest and finest of which are for the East India Cinnpanv, the General Steam Navigation Company, and the Peninsula trade. The General Steam Navigation Company are said to be preparing vessels also for the river trade, of a class and character calcu lated to excel the surprising performances of some ofthe present firer Steam-packets.—lferald. LIVERPOOL POLICE. A TEACIIED.—A young man, who described himself as a teacher of the stenographic art, was charged by his landlady with having unlawfully pawned a flute belonging to her. Com plainant stated that the prisoner had occupied a drawing-room I and bed-room in her house. He had borrowed the flute from her and had kept it about a fortnight. At length, without •her consent, he had pawned it for twelve shillings. The prisoner stated that a sudden exigence had induced him to pledge the flute, and that he had intended to take it out that very morning. Lie had not had any intention of depriving the complainant of her property. The Mayor (aVthe prisoner,)—" What are you, sir?" Prisoner. —`• I am a teacher, sir." The Mayor.—" And is that the way you instruct your tonsils, sir? You are to pay twenty shillings as the value of the instru ment ;—you are fined forty shillings and costs, and in default of payment, you are committed to the House of Correction for two months." ExTnaonorNaßY FRA Ull.—A young man, about 25 years of age, a native of France, attired in foreign military costume, with a complexion bronzed apparently by a hot climate, as well as brazened by hardy assurance, calling himself Carlos Albert Henri Tudou 111auvais de Soubier, tits du Prince de Soubier, name never before heard of till he was brought before his wor ship by Mr. J. Thomas, the deputy constable of Manchester, charged with defrauding a gentleman named Pickering, re siding in Bold-street, of £lO. M r.Thomas stated that on Wednesday last he received informa tion in Manchester, from the authorities of Chester, that a young foreigner, answering the description of the prisoner, had swin dled Mr. Picketing, of Liverpool, of £lO, and there was reason to suppose that he had wended his way towards Manchester. A short time after the information reached Vnischester, the pri soner was apprehended. In his possession were found some gold rings, medals, and other articles, together with unsettled bills for fancy goods, which ap peared to have been purchased at bazaars. * lt was likely that other charges would he brought against hula. The witnesses in Mr. Pickering's case not being then ready, the prisoner was put hack for a short time. On their arrival, Mr. Pickering 'stated that, cm Sunday last, he and Mrs. Pickering were start ing for Liverpool from Chester by the Easthani coach, when a gentleman named Bellune introduced the prisoner to him as it fellow-passenger by the same conveyance to Liverpool. They were all inside passengers, and naturally entered into conver sation, and when some distance on the road, the prisoner sud denly exclaimed that he had unfortunately left Isis purse, con taining his loose cash, on Mr. Belluee's piano-i;,rte, at Chester. Complainant replied that he had better write to Mr. Beaune from Eastham when the coach stopped, and prisoner said he thought it would be the best plan ; and, on arriving at East ham, he wrote to Mr. Bellune, taking care Mrs. Pickering saw him do so. When on hoard the Eastham packet, he complained of not having a farthing of money to meet his immediate exi gencies. Complainant lent him five shillings. On landing from the packet, he s,ked which Was a genii hotel to stay at. and complainant having recommended bins to the King's Arms, in Castle-street, left him these. Mrs. Pickering, on reaching, home, said it was a pity that the young man should be in Liver pool without money, and advised complainant to go to the King's Arms and give hint some. He accordingly went and gave him a sovereign, and he walked to complainant's house, where he wAs invited to tea. He staid till ten o'clock, and then left for the hotel. The next morning he called upon Mrs. Pickering while complainant was absent, and said that he had sent for his purse from Chester, bet; as lie wanted some money in the meantime, he should be glad if she would lend him some. Complainant came in shortly afterwards, and the prisoner said that he was going to dine with an Italian friend, and should be mech obliged by the loan of-£lO until his purse came front Chester. Complainant believing the story, gave him a check for that amount upon his bankers in Chester. desiring him to go to Mr. Weiss, of Church-street, who would cash it for him. Prisoner then left, saying he would return to complainant's house, at nine that evening, to supper. Not keeping his ap pointment. complainant went the next day to the King's Arms, when the waiter informed him that the prisoner was not then in, but that he had taken a room there for the night. The next day he again called, and found that the prisoner had not re turned to the King's Arms; and also that he had not gone to' Mr. Weiss to have the check cashed. Under these circtuu stances he gave information to the police. A gentleman from Messrs. Drew's bank, at Chester, stated that he gave the prisoner cash for the check. Ile then gave himself out as the son of the Prince de Soubier, and stated that he had been over to Liverpool, and had taken apartments for himself and suite, and had found excellent accommodations for his. horses and carriages. (Laughter in which the prisoner joined.) Ile also said that he owned a diamond ring worth £3OOO sterling, and that the medals and other trifles he pos sessed were valued at half a million of francs. The duty upon them alone, before landing, was upwards of £lOOO. This being the substance of Mr. Pickering's charge, The Mayor (addressing the prisoner) said, " What are vou ?" Prisoner (smiling.)—What am I? I'm a prisoner! (Laugh ter.) The Mayor.—That is an improper answer to my question, sir. What is your profession? Prisoner.—l have been in iris army. I have bin great many nombre of tinge. The Mayor.—Where do you come from? Prisoner.—From Spain. The Mayor.—What is your name? Prisoner.—Carlos Alberz Henri Tudun Mauvais de Sdu brir. Mr. Thoinag said that when the prisoner was taken into cus tody, he said that he was a foreign prince, who had engaged in the cause of Dun Carlos, and, whilst leading the troops against the enemy, he was taken prisoner by the queen's Forces, and condemned to be shot. The night before the morning of his execution, he made his escape, and got on board an English vessel, which was wrecked on its passage home on the coast of Cornwall. That all hands but himself had perished. He (Mr. Thomas,) however, had understood that the prisoner had been swindling the inhabitants of Denbigh, in Wales. Mr. Be:lnne, the gentleman before alluded to, said that the prisoner excited his commiseration and charity by the same story. Pale Mayor.—Wliere did you find the prisoner in Manchesteri Mr. Thothas ? Mr. Thomas.—l found his highness playing at bagatelle. at the Robin Flood, public-house, in Church-street. (Laughter.) The prisorier who conducted himself with the most perfect non chalance, was then. remanded in order, to see whether other charges can be brought against him, and in the meantime the depositions in Mr. Pickeruig's case were ordered to be taken. Mr. Dentine read the note which he had received from the prisoner, and which was sent from Eastham. It was as fol lows:—" Dear Sir,—l haVe, by the most extreme chance, found the number and residence of Mr. Shacklady, a most extreme rich man. lam told that you go within seven leagues of hint. —Carlos, &c." _ The day following the prisoner forwarded a note to the mayor, requesting a private interview with him as " a poorpnhappy fel low," and premising his request by saving that "he distinguish ed in the mayor ' s features a great nobility of sentiment and ori ginality of character." This letter was handed round by the mayor, and created much laughter. PLAYING AT MARBLES. Mrs. Sinipson, a dapper, self-Satisfied looking-dame, fat, fair, and inure than forty, was charged with committing divers assaults on the windows of 2.lis. Ellen Flannagan, against the peace .of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity, and the peaceable inhabitants of Atherton street, in which both plaintiff and defendant reside, with a paving -stone, and br ea ki ng th e windowS of the said Mrs. Flannagan. Piaize yer honour, and bad luck to that Mrs. Simpson,-said Nelly, it was this morning, 'twiXt tWo and three o'clock, there came a great riot to house, and 1 looks out of the windy, and finds this Mrs. Simp son throwing Marbles at the windier, and this one (holding up a tremendous stone) sends in three squares of glass, and two of my teeth ; and I've brought her here to answer fur the saute. The Mayor to the accused,—What have you to say to this charge Mrs. Simpson.—The 27th of last May, your worship. was a tweiveinonth exactly, when I used to go to this woman's house, when 1 worked for tier, and 1 slushed for her. The Mayor.—Stop, stop; we don't want a history of your first acquaintance—what do you say to breaking the windows Mrs. Simpson.—Why, your honour, I was passing !,,irs.Flan nagan's house, when up goes the window, and down conies the contents. Magistrate.—Contents of stoat? Mrs. Sisupson.—The po, your honour. (Laughter.) The Mayor.—ls that the case, ..Irs. Flannagau. Mrs. Flannagan.—Sure, it's true enough, your honour; but she deserved pot an' all. The Mayor.—Were you sober ? Mrs, F.—l had had a soap, your honour. The Mayor.—Then you onght to ensue into court with clean hand.; r'lTat - as you appear to have Leen the first aggressor, l shall dismiss the case. The parties then retired to snake up their differences over another soap. SATi•aDAY.,--(Before. the Ms von.) A NVive.—Mary Taylor was chamed Li) George Taylor, her husband, front whoot it appeared she was separated, with an nt,ving him, and taking a hatchet and breat:ing open his door. The Mayor.—What relation are yuo to her Tit% for Complainant.—Whv, I did marry her as a wife, but she turned out such o drimktiOttliat I have never lived with her these two years and a half. - The Mayor to the prisoner. —Well, what have you to say to this ? Prisoner.—l came into the tocin and called at his house and wanted to see the child, and they wouldn't let me, so I took the best ►mans I could to get to see it; and twelve months since . .e'orwood, the overseer, said he was to pay me ss. a week, and I've never seen the colour of his coin yet. The Atavin.—Yon have no business to go into his house at all. Yon must nd hail to keep the peace. num STRALIN“.—EIIen North was charged by the watchman of Canning-place with having in her possession, at. five o'clock in the morning, whilst walking through Canning-plane, a large jug containing about six gallons of row. The May or. —How came you by that rum ? Prisoner.—Why, I carried it for a loan who I did not know, and who said he would give Hie a shilling if I would carry it for Ishii. She said she world never do so again; she kept a re spectable house, and her husband was servant to the Infirmary. The case was remanded to ascertain if her statement was true. 11.P.FFISA, OF RELIEF TO A INlENtutat BY TUE. .CAMBRIAN SociErv.—Mary Williams appeared to lay a complaint against the Cambrian Society for refusing to afford her any relief. Her husband had been a member of that society for twenty-two years, and had always paid his subscription' up. He had lately been afflicted with insanity, and was within the last few weeks so bad as to be obliged to be sent to an asl loin; and she claimed 1.55. a week for the last three weeks her husband had thus been prevented from working for her support. This the society had refused to pay. She put in a circular, which proved the society to have funds in hand to the amount of £IIJtJ, and also a certifi cate of her husband's insanity front Dr. Winstanley. The secretary of the society said he appeared there as one of the stewards of the society. I t was with feelings of considerable sorrow and regret ,that he appeared to oppose the claim; but, as one of the officers acting under a committee who came at their last meeting to a determination of refusing relief to appli cant, from rule 33 of the articles of their club. "That, when a person is under the necessity of going to the workhouse, or has been confused iu prison for debt or other offence, they are not bound to pay any contribution during that time," he had been compelled to act as he had done. Mr. Alderman Lawrence (to claimant.)—ls your husband in the workhouse ' Claimant.---No, sir; he is in the Medical Asl turn. Mr. Lawrence.--I don't think there is anything in that rule which applies to this ease. The Steward.—He is placed in that asylum by the parish officers. The Mayor.—He is not placed in the workhouse. The Steward.—lle was taken to the cont by the parish oficers, and we have no control whether they. pat him in the workhouse or in an ass loot. The .ilayor.—But he is not in the workhouse, not is he in prison he is in the asylum front disease, and not for debt. The Steward.-I'rovided he had been put into the workhouse for want, and during his residence there had been aftlicted with any disease, and sent to an hospital, according to wit naffs; we are not, as oCicers of the Cambrian Society, enabled to pay him anything. The Mayor.—He is neither in a prison nor in a workhouse. Mr. Norwood, the overseer.—;le is recommended to the nos pital by the parish, but we certainly do not call that parochial relief. The steward said, that the) had the parish order for the pay ment of 3s. a week to the wan. The Mayor.—lt is to facilitate the business of the asylum that the parish-officer makes this order out; but it is not relief. The Steward.—With due deference, I submit that he is now supported by the parish. Mr. Forwood.—The parish will not support any body so long as they can obtain his support elsewhere. Mr. Alderman Lawrence.—This man has been a subscriber twenty-Iwo years, and it is very hard if he is not now to be relieved. It was finally arranged that the society should pay through the pari, , h-officers 3s. a week for the support of the husband, and 12s. a week to the wife. GROSS OUTRAGR AND NORBERY.—On Thursday last William Hodgson, James Birtles, and William Dixon were placed be fore the Mayor, charged with haviog commit red a violent assault upon the person of Mr. Banner, one of the visiting surgeons to the Northern Hospital. The assault took place in the disorderly neighbourhood of Freemason's-row, and it was intimated that Mr. Banner's witnesses were fearful of attending to give their evidence, in consequence of the violent characters of their neighbours, and the threats which had been held forth against them. Mr. Banner and his pupil Mr. Woodward, however, succeeded in identifying two of the prisoners, viz., Hodgson and Birtles, who were committed to the House of Correction for three months. Dixon was discharged. Six other prisoners, from the same neighbourhood, were on Friday taken into cus tody by police-officer Cockburn. Their names are John Ro berts, Samuel Ilazlehurst, Grillith Jones, John Shields, John Garner, and John Marshall. They were placed before the Mayor on Saturday last, and, as the particulars of the case were similar both days, we choose to give the statement of Saturday, front its being rat her more full. It appeared on evidence that as Mr. Banner and Mr. John Woodward were walking down Freemason's-row, Vauxhall-road, on Tuesday afternoon last, to visit a sick person, Marshall, one of the prisoners, -attempted to nick Mr. Banner's pocket of his handkerchief; by means of a broom-handle to which a crooked piece of iron was fixed, but failing in the attempt, he threw the pole with considerable force, which struck Mr. Banner and Mr. Woodward. Upon turning round they perceived live or six fellows, apparently from 17 to `2O years of age, standing at the end of an entry, where they must have been secreted at the time the complainant's passed. They came up to them, when Thomas Marshall made an attack on Mr. Banner with the shaft of a donkey cart, and ran down the entry followed by Mr. Banner, and entered a house which it has since been ascertained is their rendevouz. Mr. Banner desired his friend to ruin for the police, and he would endeavour to prevent the escape of Marshall until their arrival. No sooner had Mr. Woodward left than a desperate , attack was made on Mr. Banner; a large clasp-d knife was put into Marshall's hand by a comrade, with which he attempted to strike Mr. Banner. Fortunately it was with some difficulty wrested from him. Ha klehurst also had a clasped knife in his hand, but was unable to open it. Several attempts were made to take Mr. Banner's watch, but without success; the only thing missing was a silk pocket handkerchief. None of the police being at the Vauxhall elation, r. Danner was obliged to give rip the attempt tuseeute one of the fellows before theii arrival front the Town-hall, to which place Mr. Woodward had proceeded, Mr. Banner had been:thrice thrown down, had his mouth and lip cot, and his head and other parts of his body contused from the kicks he re ceived. The prisoners, having nothing to say in their defence, were sent to hirkdalo for three months. RacEryiaiG STOLRN Goons.—On Saturday a woman named Elizabeth Cunningham was placed before the Mayor, charged by Catharine Lewis with having had in her possession a crock of butter. which she knew tobaye been stolen. The complain ant stated that she kept a shop in Plumbe-street. She had bought the butter at -eight pence per pound, with the intention of retailing it at tenpence per pound. On Thursday evening she went out, leaving her son in the shop. He, it appears, went out also, and during their absence the butter was stolen. On the next day Richard Lewis, the son, saw the butter in the pri soner's shop, in Key-street, exposed fur sale. He immediately went and requested his mother to purchase a quarter of a pound of it, which she did, at the rate of tenpence per pound. The son knew it again from some private marks he had made on it. When the prisoner was taken by the constables, she stated that she had bought it from a girl for four shillings, and that it was Worth no More. There was ISlbs. of it. The Mayor said that haYing boUght it at a low a price, the rate of V i d. per lb., and having afterwards sold it for 10d. per pound, was sufficient evi• deuce that she knew it must have been worth much more than she gave for it.—The prisoner was committed for trial. MONDAY.—(Before Mr. Alderman ROPANSON.) A YOUNG OFFRNIMR.—John Jones, a lad about eleven years old, was charged by Mrs. Caldwell - :tith picking her pocket on Saturday night as she was returning from market. Complain ant stated she felt something touch her side, and asked her friend who was with her if it was her basket, and, being answered in the negative, turned shay round and caught prisoner by the arm. She then called the watch, and two other lads, who appeared to be companions of the prisoner, ran away ; she, however, kept her hold, and gave the lad in charge. This was the third time she had had her pocket picked. in a similar manner when comin g from the market. Mr. Bat- cheldor stated that the lad had been there about two mouths before for the same offence. Mr. Alderman Robinson.—How old are you boy ? Prisener.—Eleven, sir. Mr. Robinson.—What is your father? Prisoner.—He is a tailor, sir, but he is in America. The prisoner was sent for three months to the House of Cur -1 rection ; the magistrate remarking that it was to be regretted there was no means of sending such lads out of the country, as sending them to the House of Correction only hardened them and made them worse. Pocxur PICKING.—John Fogo was charged by Mrs. Baylis with picking her pocket, in Elliot-street, on Saturday night: - •-` • There was a crOwd in the street, and al Ciiraplainant Wd4 passing the prisoner had committed the rubbry,.„ 5.14 caughi hold of his arm, and a gentleman detained him itrid gaie,ifini charge to the watch. The father of prisoner appeared. and said he had brought him up tn the shoemaking trade, but he was a very bad lad; ,he had been rather " obst cu p o lo ns ",onc e ortWice. Batcheldor exa mining prisoner's bands, said theie.„was very ; little wax on them.— tie was sent for three months to the Hou•sel of Cot rection. PRA OD ON THU 11„EvENt7E.—Arehibald Turner, a sai!or-look-: ing fellow, was charged by Brigharri,,ayrateninari for Toxteth park, with having a large Jar in his posSession,lilled with brandy, with which he was walking away the previous night between, nine and ten o'clock when he stopped him. Ali-. Brooke, solici for to the Customs,. supported the information. John Lock, deputy-warehouseman to the customs, proved that the brandy was French brandy. The jar contained two gallons and a quart. The case was remanded till neat Monday. RonnEnv.—Mr. Edward Hilton, a clerk, charged WilliaM Davis, who had lodged in the same house with him, with gettino up on Friday last rather sooner than customary and taking a walk, when his (complainant's) topcoat 'walked" with him. he prisoner denied knowing anything about it. The landlady here stepped forward and said, please, sir, the prisoner's one of the. falsest of men, there's no believing him at all. This man come to me on Saturday, was,eight days, and said he bbd some money to draw from a ship as he had come from Quebec with, and as soon as he could get it he would pay Me. I trusted him, and he has never paid me nothin; yet; and I .advanCed him Is. 6d. for iacrer. On Friday morning he got up before daylight and walked off with thisgenTman's . coat.---fhe prisoner was com mittee!to take his trial at the sessions. Ass A. LI LT.—John Edwards, a stout-looking man, who appeared with two very black eyes and his arm in a sling, charged John Thomas, a labourer, with violently assaulting him in Mr. Pain ter's•puhlic-house on Thursday night last. Complainant said he had been in the revising barrister's court a hearing what was, "a going on, and after it was ever he went into Mr. Painter's house to take a glass, and was saying the barristers had got as far as letter T, when a bit of an argument arose, and he said if he had twenty votes he would not vote for the present corpora tors, When .John Thomas abused him in a most dreadful manner and cut his finger almost off." On beingcross-exaMitted by Mr. Dayenport',. who appeared to Thomas, " he would swear that he was not so drunk but that he could take careof himself." Thomas, in defence, said '• he had two men doing a bit of a job for him, so says be, we will go and have a pint of ale a-piece, and we all went into Painter's hence. Well, sir, as I went Edwards says to me, says he, ." Will you take your vote up ?" No, says I, I've none to take up. Well, says he, " You scoun drel," and called the all manners of names as is not proper to be said here. " You don't pay taxes, von don't pay •nothin,". says he, and then he ch-illenged me to light in the house several. tunes. Mr. Edwards, says t, I want nothing at all to do with you ; says I. he quiet. 1. 1 .1 r. Alderman Robinson.—How did the assault begin ? I..dwards.—That was the assault exactly. (Laughter.) Mr. Robinson.—So you knocked him (lawn I suppose ? Edwards:—No, sir, by no manner of moans. John Stephenson, a Seotchman, was called as a witness's for the ik feave. . Mr. flavenport. —Now, was Co - 14 - 6764dt drunk ? StephenSon.—He war drunk. cartainly. Mr. Davenport.—Did he call any names ? Witness..--He did indeed ca' some verra ugly names. Mr. DAyenport.—Did you see Thomas strike complainant? Witness.--[ canna say - I did. Mr. Davenport.—Were there any blows struck Witness.--E canna say that there was. Complainant was taken home, he was sae drunk, by mysalf and Mrs. Painter, when he:come back agane. Mr. Dayenport.—And he returned again after you took bird home ? Witns.--Surely he did. . Mr. Davenport.--And did you again take him home ? Wituess.—l do believe I did. Mr. Davenport.-And complainant was very. !inruly ? r' \V ituess.-1-1 e war indeed; he carried it to a. ve rra gre't extent. (Laughter.) _ _ Mr. Davenp•irt.--•-Did Thomas strike him Witness.—No, I advised Thomas to do na ski) a thing• as strike him. I believe I knocked Lim loon mysalt, but it was in salf defence, while carrying him hanie, as he Was no at a' saft in his handlings. (Laughter.) The magistrates dismissed the complainant. There was nizi doubt hut complainant had been roughly used, but it appeared he had brought it all on himself. EXTENSIVE FRAUD ON THE REVENUE. Shortly after nine o'clock, on Friday night, as the watchman; Hahne, was passing through Tithebarn-street, he discovered the; door of a cellar belonging to a warehouse nearly opposite the Exchange standing wide open. Having made his captain (Bradford) acquainted with Lhe circumstance, the latter ascer tained, that a man, named Johnson, who resided in a court op posite the Foundry. in Vauxhall-road, was the warehouseman of the building move. They immediately sent for him; but before he could before he could he found upwards of two hours had elapsed. When he arrived, he told Captain Bradford a long story of the vault .having been let be Mr. Carson to a person named either Black or Blake, he could not tell which ; and that the latter was somehow connected with tome person who had broody-vaults in Conceit-street. Bradford and he went td Concert-street; but it betame evident that the statement had, been made merely with the view of misleading. On their re-; turn„ it being pa;t. one o'clock, they encountered Mr. Whittv ' the superintendant of the watch; on his rounds. He instantly sent ,o Bridewell for a light, and Batcheldor, the governor of that prison, soon arrived. with one. On entering the vault, they discovered that it was nearly empty. A few empty casks were dispersed about the floor, and in one corner they found a large hogshead, full of rum. At the upper end of the vault, they found a pump, made of leaden pipe, of some length. By fol lowing the direction which the pipe took, they *ere led to an excavation in the floor, close to the farthest wall of the vault, which decended for about a foot and a half, and then passed horizontally through the wall. In the opposite corner _was amother excavation, precisely similar. Through the first of these however, the leaden pipe which had guided them waspassed. This pipe was so constructed that it unscrewed, in two places, for the purpose of answering as a syphon, a cock and suction-pipe lying close to it, with a screw to answer the joints. At the upper end they found a long hose of leather, of three-quarter inch diameter. Mr. Whitiy tried those implements on the spot, and.tound that they were all inororking trim. A further examination has brought to light that the exeavaticus.above described commu nicate immediately (passing only under the party wall) With a bonded vault (Gardner's), in George's-street. which is situated at the back, and runs parallel with Tithebarn-street. It ap pears that these two vaults, the bonded and the one fronting . Tifhebarn-street, haVe both been let for sonic time past to one individual; and it is stated that he has employed the means which will at once be obvious to every person, after a perusal of the above particulars, to defraud the revenue to the amount of upwards of .43)00. It seems that an immense quantity of brandy, ruin, wine, &c., has been bonded in the George's-street vault, and that a proportionate quantity of water has been in troduced into the cellar in Tithebarn-street. The leathern hose has been employed to force the water out of the latter info the former, while the long leaden pump CO feet long) has been as actively employed in making a transfer of the spirits into the free warehouse. The bonded vault is completely full of rum puncheons, brandy pieces , and wine pipes, butts, hogs heads, &c., all tilled with water, while the more valuable com modity in the other cellar has all been removed in the vessels in which the water was brought, with the single exception of the cask of rum above mentioned. Messrs. Whitty and Bat chelder were so little satisfied with the vagite attempts at ex planation tendered by the warehousenian, wheM Captain Brad ford had sent for, that they deemed it expedient to hold him iii custody. On Monday he was brought before the magistrates; but there was no evidence against him, other than that he kept the key of the eider door of the warehouse, for which he re ceived a small annual sum. Nothing. having transpire; show ing that the warehouseman had any knowlcidge of the robbery: he was discharged. WRECK OF THE ST. DAVID. The barque Christina, Captan llogarth, arrived here rester day from Demerara. On the :I , ith November, in let. 35, she saw a vessel water-loged, which proved to be the barque St. - David, from Quebec, bound for Plymouth. The wind wart blowimz very hard at the time, with a tremendous sea; but Captain Hogarth succeeded in taking off the rigging fourteen of the crew and passengers; five having been previously washed overboard. One of the men thus rescued died on Sunday night, and the remaining thirteen were landed yesterday after noon, and removed to the Northern Hospital, their feet having been frost bitten. While in the rigging, the crew saw an American brig pass with a gilt scroll head, but she did not lay to or make any attempt to rescue them from their perilous situation. The - St. David had been eleven dayS from Quebec. We subjoin the following letter, expressing the gratitude of the captain and crew of the St. David to Captain lioitarth, their deliverer : Star and Garter Hotel, Liverpool, Alonday,,December 14th. TO TIVE EDITOR OF Tny. LIVERPOOL STANDARD. s Sin,--We should feel much obligil to vol; if you would al low us;through the medium of your valualile'paper, to exnress' our thanks to Captain I-Jogai-Ih. and crew, of-the barque Chris tine, for the noble way in which they relieved fourteen of us from the wreck of the barque St. David; and also to Captain( liogarth for the eessive kindness and Attention with which he treated us during the thirteen days we were on board tbe Chris tina.—We remain vont obedient servants, 'HENRY DALE', Captain of the St. David, HENRY CORYTON, Passenger. WRECK OF THE BRITANNIA. On the lath November the Britannia, AndreWS, sailed from Miratnichi for Cork, laden with timber. Ott the 2lst, in Ist. 46 14, long. 8941, she encountered a very severe gale, with a tremendous sea. After scudding for six hours under close reefed maintopsail, she rounded with a tarpaulin in the main and another in the wizen rigging, all the other sails having been previously blown away. lite crew were then obliged to( ease the vessel by cutting away the maintoNzallantwast and inaintoptnast yards. Notwithstanding this she was hove on her beam-ends, everything on the deck carried away, her waterways opening three inches on her starboard side, :When she righted the - men were constantly at the pumps for two days and nights, with 15 feet water in the hold. hinging they could not keep her clear, the men gave themselves up for lest, and declared they would sooner die than continue to endure the excessive fatigue they had unde t gone, being , in fact completely eihausterl. As she gave no indication of sinking, six of the men got some pork into the tops, and remained there font days and no hts, the captain, the mate, and the other hands kept on deck, under the shelter of the roundhouse, preferring the wet to the extreme cold aloft. After being in this deplorable situation for several days, the weather having Moderated. they contrived to bend foresail, and put the ship hefore the wind, - h av in g go t out of the track of vessels; hot the wind again blew we'st guns," and the gale came on with still greater violence, and eatticd it away. In this state of distress they were hailed by the Rialto, of Liverpool, and the crew were taken on board that vesseli and landed het° on Sunday. The Men arc in a most pitiable State, and their sufrel - ings from cold and hunger were most in tense. They state that they lived on raw provisions fur ten days! THE "GRASPING" CLERGY.—The clergy, with their usual illiberality. continue to make great reductions in their tithes in this neighbourhood. We adduce the following cases as a proof of this:—The Rev. J. C. Cooke, rector - Of Swilland, deducted 15 per cent. at his tithe audit, unsolicited, and this from a mo derate composition, which gave entire satisfaction to his parish ioners. At Fratnlingharn, the trustees of the Rev. J.,i th Nor cross have this year generously granted to his parishioners deduction of live per cent. upon their existing tithe eomposi. tions. The liadleigh•andit took place on Thursday; the 26th of November, when the venerable the Archdeacon t,Fall, with. his usual liberality, gave baCk 10 per cent. upon the tithes of that parish; after which the parishioners pat took of an excel lent dinner, consisting of every delicacy of the season, with 'ca.: pital wine, which was prepared at the Oeorge Inn, fly 141 r. Ed.; ward Sawyer.. The Rev. Edward Bi Barki,e, of BitetOtar'hitt late tithe audit, in order to meet the distressed state of the tithes,' kindly made a reduction of 10 per cent. on his tithes, which - x:4 thankfully received by the pariehiaaers. , —Sulhilk .