The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-09 00:00:00

, , ---.....„,,,,,..........._,___.,,,____,.„____..„-••-------- ——- - - __ _______ _ _ .. , tit: ionyit 9, 1 835 . ......... . „„,.,,..„,-,-:,.,..... r..i;.....,,.....,...-.,,...-,,,,—.„.,,,,,-z.. ~.„.r.,:„.,gw,,,,....,r.,,T,r:,,.......__:. ~ .......- _ _ __--- 1 ., trafficked on the turnpike and byroads of the land, levied . LONDON LATEST NMVS. a "rint" from passengers under cloud of night, and, like ' City, Wednesday Et.ening, Half-past S'iven o'clock. A DANIEL, had his tail of expert and kindred scoundrels. Our Money Market has altogether worn an appearance of Surely this personage could not have been one of JOSEPH heaviness, and there would doubtless have • been a considerable r . Pattxtts's itinerant commissioners; if so we might have depression but tint large purchases-of Consols have been made accounted for the extraordinary favour shown him ; but occasionally by the Accountant-General on behalf of the colo ,. from what appears on the face of the indictment, he nial claimants, and these have tended to prop up the market. seems to have been strictly independent inhis professional i There has been, notwithstanding this aid, little disposition to pursuits.wards buoyancy, arid when Consols have touched 91i, on ac .. A congeniality of mind, we know, makes men count of the purchases, then cessation has invariably sent them feel sensibly for one another, and in his "country's hack. The closing price of Consols for Account this afternoon l Cause" it is quite possible that this highwayman may have was 9t ri 91. r rendered essential service to : the popular government. Exchequer Bills and India Bonds have little varied during 9 This, however, is a mere surmise, and we do not insist thelast day or two. The premium on the former left off at 14 r . upon it; but what could have been the motives for libe- to 16, and'on the latter at 2to 4. The intelligence from Madrid by express this f ore noon; that. A rating him, after conviction, and turning him adrift once M. Mendizahal had 'succeeded in forming a ministry, has served Pii More uon society, we leave to the ingenuity of our the i purposes of the Stock Exchange gentlemen to speculate the readers. The Manchester Chronicle seems to think that, spanish Bonds up atiout li per' cent. The" price of the' old the whole truth will transpire upon his next trial at the bonds at the beginning of business was 431 1, from whence they ensuing assizes. We think not. Great pains will be went up to 45, and closed at 441 1. So far as . our private f taken that no questions are asked relative to the exercise op inion m a y be worth an y thin g , we do not hesitate to say that 1 ' of-the Royal clemency. It will be Lord JOHN'S business, M. Mendizabal might as well attempt washing the blackamoor E should he be then in office, to look to this. white as to re-establish Spanish credit., sunk as it is under the mass of obligations it has contracted, and in the face• of an The case of this robber is not the only instance in empty treasury and a civil war, affording little hope of an early which odiotri.criminals have recently been suffered to es- termination. It is utterly impossible 'indeed that he can even cape the just 'punishment of the law. It will be recol- make the first step without another loan, and when we reflect lected•that at the last assizes held in Liverpool three men that the last, contracted for at 60, is at about 411, (for that is were convicted of two equally abominable atrocities, and the price of the bonds of 1831,) it would be the height of ah imagiue any body of capitalists, however interested sentenced to be hanged. Two of _them were concerned surridniftaYtutoa ted, would advance money with such a prospect before in the one case and one in the other. The evidence was t o hem. The truth is, the whole of the Spanish foreign debt, whether clear, without a loon to hang a doubt upon. The juries contracted by the cortes, or by the Christinos, whether levied returned unhesitating verdicts, the judge concurred, and on the English or French markets, have only been so many all who heard the trials were satisfied. If there was a jobs by the liberal promoters of discord, who, from first to last, shade between the criminality of the two cases, that where on the Bourse and in 'Capel-court, have hatched political and ' • the single prisoner was concerned was the darkest of the financialplots, have brought forward this bubble one day and that the nxt, ci gull theunwary until they have iinpove;ished two. The evidence of the injured party was corroborated their countrymen who swallowed unreflectingly the baits thrown in every material point by respectable and uninterested out to '..hem, and-have-Anade the country they professed 'to sere witnesses: For reasons;' bOwever, which .have not yet a scene of ruin, anarchY;desolatiOn, and . beggary from one ex transpired, but which must' transpire as•soon as parlia-) treme to the other. men t meets, some unknown persons, through some secret Little business is doing in Portuguese Bonds, the price of and mysterious channel, procured a • heating from Lord the T hSeperre .Cents ..r . is.BB e ~ an t d . t n he th 3 a p n er n c f e l n i t t s e . a in re the sB. bonds of the .roues RUSSELL, and by means of the representations they 'republics, made, or, what is more probable, by the influence they various Chilian being at 44 45 ; Colombian at-. 331 34; and Mexican at 39. 'Brazilian Bonds are also firm at 851 ; possessed, obtained a respite, and finally, we believe, a re- Russian are 107 x; Dutch 5 per Cents. 1001 ; the 21 per Cents prieye, so that this last person, convicted of one of the 514; and Danish Bonds 761. foulest crimes ever committed in a civilized country, hai , Our Share Market, so far as regards mine shares, is corn been slurred over without any adequate punishment. pletely deserted, but there is a great mania for railway shares, the London and Greenwich are 7' prem., and the Great Western When the judges, Chief Justice TYNDAL and Lord 61 prem. ABINOER, heard of this transaction, in which their Accounts have been received from Senegal to-day to the 24th sentence was virtually impugned, without so much as of August. An English division, consisting of a frigate, a car consulting them, they naturally enough felt indignant at vette, a brig, and smaller vessels, had arrived before St. Louis treatment so, unusual, so discourteous, and so undeserved. a few days previously, accompanied by the brig of war Endy.. But the relaxation of punishment in the one case im- mion, on its way to Portandico, to cause the raising of the posed upon them a serious duty. They reasoned thus:- blockade established there by the French government. The If in comparison the greater criminal is allowed to es intelligence had caused t reat consternation among the mer chants of Senegal, more however on account of political than cape the gallows, through the interposition of the Home commercial matters. It was supposed, however, that it would Office, probably on false representations, or from caprice, compel the French to make a disadvantageous peace with the or from some theoretical notion respecting capital pun- tribe of Trelzas, to whom the English were said to have die ishments, how can we leave the lesser criminals to meet patched agents, as the weakness of the French military force at a fate, which, if the other did not merit, they, with more Senegal had campelled them . to re.lynupon on h the blockade h. as h the it fairness; do not deserve ? There could be no answer to ownalsykmneoawnns toofhmavaekdinogne an but that the arrival of th e e which this but in the performance of their citify. They stayed division would put an end to. That measures had been adopted execution On the remaining malefactors, .and the whole on the part of the English authorities in consequence of the three have escaped the gallows! blockade of the French being contrary to the treaties existing When these last facts are considered, need we be sur- between the two powers relative to the trade on the coast of prised at the liberation of the Rochdale hicavvayman by Senegal. LordJOHN RUSSELL ? Why-have we laws at all, juries The advices from Havre. state that the receipts of the customs there, for the three first quarters of 1635, exhibited a diminution to convict, and judges to determine the legal punishment, of 3,644,000 francs, compared with those of the corresponding if the Home Office, without inquiry or deliberation, is to perl l r t id of 234 : f the present year the an receipts eit of de l fi h eien fi c r y s • t have supreme power Over life or death, over banishment eight falling m°u off of tie-reeeipts was attributed in a great measure and imprisonment ? There was a time, we admit, when to ii the comparative sroilnes- arrivalof le t s h s e tan those o f o r tlho,n preceding c s e ur n r , the law appeared to be unnecessarily severe 'and sangui- years.t ere'hiving been considerably g nary-when men.were executed for imitating a one pound RUM, AND COFFFE. bank note, anti others were transported for life for frank- SUGAR, ing a letter in the style of a liberal member of parlia- t:' ei ei cr r 4 : ::, g;' - v't ~.,7-: meat ; but there is no analogy between these cases and ts Oa.IT. - - 9 9 .e . i - 7. .qc2Er.7l -- ;aS, those we have alluded to. The crimes of the three col- . a. . c .>...F.,•, ~. P a- , z' r•- , :as a '>-- 0 ; -, e .., 0 ;.= - ma prits were of the deepest, dye. They are crimes which . 6 .• s • •.- ' ~,,, w•....... 9 ~,, • ::...., >. trench upon the dearest interests of socie.ty-7-:which out- . - , q- ~,"?., ~.: ‘..e: K. :t! p c, rage decency, virtue, peace of mind, and future happi- • ,1 : 1) . ! F,' , a g. ,- --- 2 t Oq P CD 't 0 0 7 . : - nessand which, if tolerated or but slightly punished, A ' U- ; i; -.2 •-i P . would expose a christian .community to all the wanton 5.. '2.1 . if F., o;-„-- ...., horrors of savage life, and encourage every brute to 6 0,• . r• - ' ? .9, _a ,0 ...e '"--„-_,.., make a wife and daughter, and, by consequence, a bus- :-... 1 3 .19 17,' : -.--: .7.. . .t ..---.:-. .1 . . . . hand, father, brother, and sister, miserable and degraded 3 . _ .!-- -- V SP dniing their whole_ existence. They are crimes which, 27 e.;30• 4 -. • if passed by lightly in the award of punishment, must • e. B _ inevitably let loose upon the chaste and virtuous portion I ,-- 5 . of' a Mixed and unprotected community all the worst pas- • • c „.„, e:-. sinus of drunken and untamed.ferocity - -make our streets ''::-- ..8?);2 .•,--):-/s0514-:::- - -$::74 - r a '6- t and our domestic hearths unsafe even on the Sabbath- li R cc 54, 9 2 , w-:.,•ZIt - .BV-75c..3:2 and call in mortal and deadly revenge to vindicate that Which the law is prevented from punishingHustly as • : I LT concerns the deed-beneficially as regards the example: • ...• --1 5 .. e .- -.. . - ...... .7., . ' - o p "... 9 .14., c?, - --1-- •.:..ic ••••;....i.s ye? c-- -. Here at least, to our own knowledge, are three detest- :N. 4 ) i,f,cc I ac - ..0a.-,....3,,. : ,:-7.: r , n able criminals permitted to escape through the philan • -----•--- . 7A: 0 c P F , thropic intervention, or for other reasons which we can- 7 , B not name, on the part of Lord JoiLl RUSSELL. But will P.P ... so ' s-- •7 ;' - 52 this booby statesman, who is, after all, inasmuch as he is § ?-'. t-44,C -' '' . E 5 : . 2C ; F the son of a•whig nobleman, but a tool in the hands of • ~; the more crafty of the' radicals-will he condescend to re- el -, ''''7" ID n fleet far a moment, if he be capable of reflection, to what g L:1• 1 C7 - ,i6 1 ` 3 5-I . iti :- ;,; 2 „a a ~ his shallow philosophy and his false philanthropy must ' **(.? '5, „,..SKS:i'st,,,,•:-4 F.' a lead, if allowed to be carried much further. It may be t;', A-• 'P. C: b., GO 00 CO 00 tv tO A.D ta., --'" . P. O ' 5. convenient enough at the present mcment to refer all the • .1:1 - > o a sentences of •the judges to him at the Home Office. He • ~,s , Ia a I 0, . - - ~. • 0 ., sa az bp c..." .a..... 0 .1 ,-.ora e' . may deem it.good policy, di - Conducive to enlarged pa- - -,-,-, - - -.,,- s-- ,- I ._ l r .-. g 2, tronage, to revoke every sentence, and make the judges - 8 . - 1, li§htl , . E a appear as mere walking wigs over old-fashioned robes, - 0 5 a Ig 0 .! .i., .., in the ceremonial ofa criminal circuit. But where is all $ 9 ''" ca C'' , -. IN DND V , .... co t.„, cD 'iy ;•11' .._, this to end? The lenient representative of majesty may L .., op o 3 ...) - i Na ~.c , ~, Qie ••••4 c A p. ,_.. 9 0 . ...,!• 0 2 4 'S ° ..'''.: - P ' 4 ' ,V - ', -.1 .1"' Zr C- c .. - A carry his reforms too. far, and his love of secondary pu- , 1..., --.,* ~isc, `6"ta''' r P') c' ' ,3 §gre ' ig ° v 5 ..:.- 0 at a -4 nishmeuts may lead town alarming increase of crimes o . - rEe'' P 1 - the first magnitude. Let us illustrate this point to the I . - --, '4 0 •-.... 0 • n. :It 0 meanest understanding for ,the benefit of Lord JOHN S:AO wig ,:.... .• 1 :6 It • • % 3 'cis' r.rl RUSSELL. co .4:F2 ez cri r . ... 6. ea . ,"5626 - ei„E • n = , 0 Suppose a father has a daughter wronged, or a bus- 0 0.- . z . .. I band a wife, cr a brOther a sister, in any degree approach- .7 . 3 r e ; Zi CP .5' f l P $3.1 CI > ; . 4 . ing to that in the case we have alluded to-that the law co is.." .4„, et c , ,c. ...1 y,7 IT ig CD ,". 4 .,0A 1 :7 :1 FCA t • U er.) 5 . . c c' is stayed in visiting the crime capitally-that Lord .101 l sr, , 0 8110, cP2t. l oos• - 9z . A - .1-1 r . . ,-- „... 6 w- , . v.05.ZA55..!.•-. ..., 't as Home Secretary, winks at, and consequently connives at, if he do not more directly encourage the crime-sup- • ..- g - • § P pose this-only for the sake of argument-and what - c then ? The law would be held, as the King's minister is, ..Fo' „co c-': 5 .:--I:4•sc , - 0r , •.; l• • a a. • in d er ision and contempt-the injured man, infuriated by '',.: " - . l "2 ,!tii ?, ....w.DEt6-swa 6- P A.: , rage, shame, and disappointment, would raise his dagger '-' aloft in despair-the pistol would arbitrate upon that j . E upon which the laW was silent-the guilty violator, deem- ---, ......, , ri - ... . • E"" ing himself safe under.the RUSSELL shield, would be fol- t 4ge,Z7:4'403.?i, q t.„;,, ....... c.:,..... ~...- ...... ,—• ''' lowed to his hiding-place and murdered-insensate dis- -, 0 - ci ..,-. appointment would make•short work with modern libera- a 2.. • e , lityiler•those who suffered wrong in the degree . vire • have . , . i' - Mated, instead of appealing to law-des Jaw-would ~T '1Fg" . 412 --.814 - c-: - , .c cr ..,_ k., r . make a law for themselves, become their own judges, their own jurors and executioners. - ~... ...., If Lord foRN be prepared to brave all this we do not 1,, - I .-I c . ' g G . Eggr.4. P " ''' envy. his feelings or his fortune. l'hat he is encouraging . ',•• e t* l ''qt'"c p =l F 1 a •-' such derider - appeals we have adduced enough - to prove. - ctz4 -4 &Sr. t.. c._ . -, ;...•. sy That he may not exactly comprehend the natural . conse• > • c a; quences of his own measures we are not inclined to dis- . c''' s•Q 7•7; a .j.cc.. ts:, r 3 ,-, pate; but his conduct has been so glaring, and his rea- . s . -..,..- ss ~. ---;.,:. ,„. - L . ' . Sons of interference so inexplicable, that we are quite at , F Epsil 7 =iftEg l .l. , •3 Qo --; -...isssa-4-c., a ~,7, ' Fa Z 9 '7 i 7.- a loss to determine whether his conduct ought to be as- a -B• • • - • cribed to ignorance or malevolence. In charity we adopt ' .ss• IF:'. the former. . § s k :E i' L2.c 4F . 5 .0 ......,..h.. ...r... -- I N D I _ .^..) ...............----....., • 1 71 ,:q§Tilfig.U. __ In the afternoon of Monday last, as the carriage of Sir George • r- Drinkwater, (in which was the daughter of W. 1,. Driukwater, - . > 1 , 1 ' Esq.,) WaS d riv in g a l ong D u k e - s t ree t, one o f i ts hi n d wheels •I = • came in contact with a cart which was taking in goods from a shop, , 0 F,', Whereby the horse and cart were thrown over, and the carriage c 7., sa x ,PD ~... , received damage, but fortunately, the young lady escaped unin- • .:,.. c,.3 AP. CI *Pa. 4. 0-. 2 - _:-.. jtired, though greatly alarmed. We have frequently cautioned ttl-Ea'SBti • n coachmen and others against immoderate driving through the . ?-, iTil narrow streets of this town, and hope that the above, and many ... „c, . $.l - • .P • .' other recorded accidents, will be sufficient to defer from similar . practices in future . -Monas Herald. t g m78 1 .,'.;42' r CZ ND 1,:..... ,, 1C*“.-;4.. , - c• THE WEAZHER.-Since the memorable harvestof 1816, when ti ;';§:°.2-giti-1• . ' the earth for some rantlaig 1,101 il rPrI Ph Pa mitt- rein ...I.:A, .1 . THE WEATIIER.—Since the memorable harvest of 1816, when the earth for some mouths was drenched with rain, which at length nearly destroyed all the crops throughout Great Britain, we have not had a more gloomy week at this season than that which is just passed. From Sunday until Thursday evening, the atmosphere was almost uniformly dark and lowering, or agi tated by storms, to the serious loss and diappointmint of the numerous body of men employed in the herring fishery, who were unable to put to sea before yesterday ; although conscious (from the partial success of a few daring adventures) that the adjoining coasts are swarming with herrin g . B u t the fishermen are not the only sufferers by the unfavourable state of the wea ther. The grain still remaining in shocks or uncut must be greatly injured, particularly the former, so me o f w hi c h cannot e fit for human food. It. is to be feared also that the quantit.c of corn thus exposed to detriment is much larger than has been generally supposed; and that the damage it has already sustain ed will prove vet), injurious to the quality and colour of the crops Mien mantiLicturci and hi-might to inarket.--Mona's Herald. It is indicated, by a fact recorded in the New York Mirror, that a young lady has "dramatized Mrs. Butler's Journal,' " and that the same " is in rehearsal at the Bowery Theatre." Here then, at last, is a novelty. There is something new under the sun; and to what an endless succession of new things does it point! Dramatize "Ml's. Butler's Journal?" If that may be done, why not adopt the suggestion of a weekly contemporary, and dramatize "Johnson's Dictionary P" Why not adapt the Municipal Bill for stage representation . ? or the Almanac for 1836? or "Hervey's Merliattirrh§?" or Fishsance ? or the Lon don Directory ?• or all, these; and hundreds of other capable sub jects in succession: Want ; novelties! Why, novelties are so common as to be pristiVely Inickriied. Let the new lessee Ameri canize his sCstetti: Ltt bini . drarrititize the days of, the month, and niiietltifig9o E4filffiti:Uopciti dtftlt>ty: =ltlotith lu Magazine. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WHIGS ~+a+w THE • LLvEIWbbL • STAlsibAlia LIVERPOOL POLICE. MONDAY.—(Berote the Ms volt and Mr. Mclennan Jon* BOURNE.) AN EXTRAORDINARY GENIIS. —A singular-looking nonde script, dressed in a hit-ourer's white smock frock, whose appear ance altogether bespoke himn .to be .naJre ofd player than a labourer, describing himself, in Cockney jargon, as coming from Lannen, was placed at the bar charges by the officers of police with singing and capering in the streets, in order to obtain a few pence, and 'by way of affording amusement to a gaping mob, and thereby' obstructing the King's highway. It was proved from the evidence of his Majesty's representative that the prisoner was in the habit of frequenting the streets, making a blustering noise which he called sin g ing, at the same zime ac companying the harmony with divers thumps on the pavement withlis'shoes ' which the admiring multitude considered danc ing. He had repeatedly received warning to " cease his funning,P but being determined to proceed with his vagaries he was lodged in the cage to sing at leisure. On being asked by the Alderman how he procured a living the prisoner said, - " . 1 comes, your worship, from Lannen, were I've astonished a few with my wocal abilities afore now." Magistrate.—Why did you not stay there and astonish them still more ? Prisoner.—lry, you sees, yer vorship, that there's so many extraordinary jenniuses in Lannfit that the market's over stocked with'em, some on us consekerventiv is obliged to take a tower in the country occasionally. Mr. John Reeve was here the other day at the threeatte, Mr. Power and .sir. Strickland is also announced, and there'll be a jolly lot of us-starring it presently. Magistrate.—Do you belong to the theatre ? l'risoner.—Oh no, your vorship, I belongs to the more hum bler valks of the perfession. I does my feats on the pavements, and, though I says it, some of my pirouettes is equal to Oscar Byrne's, Noble's, or any o' them ere tip toppers rot cuts sich a rigler dash. I knows chat's vhat, anti I knows its only envy and jealousy that keeps 'me avay from Baguigge Veils and the Grecian Saloon. _ Magistrate.—Well, you must not get your living in Liver pool by obstructing the streets. Prisoner.—Just see me sate out of this place, yer vorship, and I'll take to a snore respectable perfession. I can turn my band to selling race cards and Usser, and singing a few select songs. Magistrate.—Will you promise to leave the town, and never show your face here again ? Prisoner.—Without a doubt. I swear by Terpischore and Apollo. Alagistrate.—Never - mindswearino.. Go about your business. (Exit prisoner with a profound how') • Rotsßartv - BY A SERVANT.—Mary Woodward, a servant em plbyed by 'Mr..Griffiths, the master of the Attiencoum News room, was charged with stealing a sovereign, the monies of her roaster.. From the evidence of Mrs. Griffiths, who resides at No. 26, Brownlow-hill, it appeared that on Saturday night last about ser, or half-past ten she had occasion to go into the kit chen where the prisoner was alone. Mrs. G. had a reticule with 'her containing twenty sovereigns and ten shillings, which she hung upon a chair back. After leaving the kitchen she recol lected having left the reticule there, and in going hack for it observed that it had been removed from the chair, and appeared to be tied up in a different way to that in which she had herself tied it. These circumstances excite: her suspicions, and in counting the money over one sovereign was missing. No 'per son had been in the kitchen during the time the bag was there but the prisoner, and she was charged with the theft by Mrs. Ciritliths: Pretending to know nothing of it, Mr. Griffiths called in a watchman, who immediately sharpened the prison er's memory, as she pointed out where the sovereign was secreted; and where it was found. In answer to an interrogation from Alderman Bourne, Mrs. Griffiths admitted that she had pro mised to forgive the prisoner if she would tell where the sovereign was, and under these circumstances the magistrates discharged her with a eaution. Av AFFIDAVY MAN.—Patrick Regan, who might have been styled one of the "finest of pisantry," barring a pair of swivel eyes and bandy legs, was charged with being discovered half smothered in mud in one of the channels, at two o'clock in the morning, being at the seine time unpleasantly overtaken by the evil spirit whiskey. "Mv case," said Paddy, on being asked what he had to urge in his defence, "is quite pardonable." "How so," inquired the magistrate? "Bekase, you see," says he, "its a devil of a hard case if a man can't get beastly drunk at the expiration of his time. I'm a haft' Davy snail, yer honours, and I haven't :toted my nose to the smell of a drop, nor my whistle to a taste, for six months before." Bacheldor, the Bridewell keeper, here explained that the ri 'soner was what is termed amongst his countrymen an affidavit man. It was a custom with many of the hard drinking Irish men to take an oath to refrain from liquor_for a certain period, and .generally the oath was most religiously kept; but pit the expiration of the term of temperance, the "interregnum" was amply made up. Paddy was fitrA 25., and advised to enter into another agree ment for six months with the whiskey. PICKING PockErs.—Two adroit conveyancers, known to the police by the names of Trainer and Armstrong, both lads of about 13 years old, were charged with picking the pocket of Mr. MiGuilie, druggist. of Oldball-street. The complainant stated that on Sunday night he was passing through the Ex change-square, when he observed the two prisoners and some other lads loitering about. Having gone a little diStance, he Missed his pocket handkerchief, and suspecting the lads had stolen it, he went back, but they had fled. Sometime after wards,.the same evening, on his - return home, he observed the lads loitering about as before, he seized them, and on Trainer found his lost handkerchief. Armstrong was possessed of an other Bandanna, no. doubt stolen from some other gentleman. They were committed for trial. DIST U RBING A Corionnoartox.—A grey headed old sailor was charged by the clerk of St. Paul's Church with entering that place of worship during divine service in a state of intoxi cation. and disturbing the congregation. In his defence he said that he had no intention to do any harm to the church. He recollected going in after prayers were over, and crying out "God bless von all ;" but nothing more, lie was fined 2s. 6d. STREET ROHRER Y.—Two wretched-looking women, named Lynch and Coleman, who live by . robbing the thoughtless and unWary, the former of whom has nine times appeared on various charges before .abe magistrates, and the latter.. sixteen tune: ? 'were again charged with robbery. JaS. Armstrong, a Scotch man, who st id that he vies a complete stranger iu the town, stated that on the previous night he was inquiring from two women who stood at a door the way to Lawton street. They made him no - answer, but pulled him into the house, where he was knocked down and robbed by the women and a man of £6 Iss. A watchman, named Hughes. said that the house was one of a lea l description in King-street-lane, Atherton-street. The complainant came to him and described the robbery, but he could not speak to the persons of those 'who robbed him, He (Hughes), however, accompanied by M`Gaffey and another watchman, proceeded to the house, and found the exact sum missed by the complainant secreted there. Coleman offered them £2 to say nothing of the matter. The prisoners were dis charged in consequence of the complainant not being able to identify them. Cs OztoN To PERSONS Hut txc r.n . RANn ADS.—Shopkeepers and others cannot be two cautious in Making inquiry into the characters of boys wham they hire as errand or shop lads, as it is of very frequent occurrence that thieves who have just left the treadmill fur felony obtain situations in that capacity iu respectable establishments, merely for the purposes of robbery. To-day, two of this description, named Lloyd and Halsten, who have previously appeared at the bar for felony, were charged with robbing a number of shopkeepers into whose ser vice they had crept by means of false and forged characters. A woman, named Jane Houghton, with whom the prisoners lived, was also charged as the receiver. The first case was against Lloyd, who, in August • last, was in the employ of Messrs. Gibson and Glasson, linen drapers, of Bold-street. It appeared that in August last Messrs. Gibson and Co. sent a parcel of goods to Mrs. Lockwood, of Everton, by Lloyd, send ing at the same time the sum of £3 IBs., in order to give the lady change for a £5 note. He never returned with either money• or ends.. The complainants' s hop m an, a day or two ago, discovered the lad's residence, and, on a constable going there, found upwards of sixty pawn tickets on the woman,. many of which were for goods stolen from the complainants. It was proved that she had pledged them at different times with a' Mr. Downey and other pawnbrokers.—Mr. Nelson, another draper, into whose service Lloyd had insinuated him self, claimed some muslin dresses which had been pledged. — Mr. Hunt, and several other shopkeepers, with whom - the pri soner Halston had been in service, claimed articles pledged, 1 and the cases being fully proved, the magistrates committed 1 them to the sessions for trial. TOESDAY.—(Before Aldermen Sir Tuomas BR ANCEER and P. BOURNE.) AN IRISH Row.—Barney Mooney was charged by Paddy M`Govering with having committed a very serious assault on his person. M.Govering stated that on Sunday night week, just as he was about going to bed, a thought struck him in his head, that he would go out into the court, and spake to a neighbour of his. "Well," continued he, " out goos, and up he comes, and down he knocks me, flat as a flounder. Dhen, not contint wid (that, he kicks me while I was down, which your honors knaws is not plain English. Well, up I gits agin, notwithstanding and nevertheless, and down he knocks me agin, and kicks •me condly. Well, up I gits agin, and ditto repeated—down he knocks me agin. Thin up comes another man wid a spade, and strikes me on the hid wid it. Well, thin, I'm onsensible; and they carries rue in." Several witnesses, who had been present during the transaction, were then called: Thee quickly altered the aspect of the case, by showing that Paddy 111‘Govering and Barney Mooney had been fighting with each other at intervals during the whole of the afternoon; that the court in which they resided had been kept in a constant uproar by them; and that their partistis and friends had also thought it incumbent on them to strike a few blows just to keep up the customs of their • country. The case was dismissed. • BRUTAL ASSAULT.---'•A man named Smith was charged by Harriet,Green, the keeper of a beer-shop, with having assaulted her. The complainant stated that the prisoner had entered her house in' a very violent manner, and had asked for a quart of ale, which she refused to draw for him. Upon this he • seized a jug and said he would draw it for liiinselt. Knowing prisoner to be a dissolut e , mi sc hiev o us fellow, she remonstrated with, and endeavoured to prevent him, upon which he krrocked her down, and abused her a most brutal manner. The officer who executed the warrant said that the conduct of the prisoner, when they went to take him into custody, was most outrageous. They gave on excellont character of the complainant, who, it seems, is a widow, with four children depending on her for sup port. The prisoner was ordered to pay a fine or £1 and costs. In default of payment to go to the House of Correction for one month. AN UNrnovoKEn ASSAULT.—A neat lassie, frae the north, appeared before the magistrates, and complained in broad, hut prettily turned Scotch, of an assault from a dissipated looking female, who was placed at the bar. complainant stated that she was gaup doon Pawradise.street, jest thenken nae manner of basrin tae oily body, when the pri.oner and anither body set upon her and struck her, and sairlv abused her, insomuch that her body was livid with the contusions which she had received. A witness corroborated this statement; and the complainant, in reply to a question from the magistrate, said that she was not conscious of ever having in her life said or done anything that could have given the slightest offence to the defendant. The latter did not deny the charge, and was ordered to find bail that she should keep the peace. YESTERDAY,—(Before the M alma and Alderman JOHN BOURNE.) A Spsrlcrous C A SE.—A few days ago a woman of the name of Jane Montgomery was placed at the bar on a charge of drunkenness in the streets. On her person was found a silver watch, and it was suspected by the police that she had become possessed of it by irregular means. She was detained in couse vence, and this morning she was again placed at the bar, when a man named Solomuns appeared and claimed the watch as the husband of the prisoner, saying that he had purchased it in Bir mingham. In answer to questions put to the claimant of the watch by the magistrate and Mr. Parlour, the superintendent of police, he said that he lived at No. 37, Sawney Pope-street. Unfortunately, however. Mr. Parlour,' who has had some ea-1 perience amongst the metropolitan police, recognized the claim ant as a Jan, claimer oraqthing valuable, and as one proba bly connected with the litisOill% The magistrates, therefore. refused to give up the watch ki . Mishter Solomon, and the pri soner was remanded for further examination,, MSTURR A NCES AMONGST WOR man'namea Thos. Prinre, lately a workman in the employ of Messrs. Forrest anal Co., ironfounders, of Vauxhall-road, was charged with assault- :711fGs..:_1WICa+Fllt~tf%~Jc.~t- TFrt,,2~-: iug two Scotchmen in the Same business. It. appeared from the evidence of Mr. Forrest, and the statement of his solicitor, Mr. J. Lace, jun., that in July last the workmen in Mr. For rest's employ "turned out," and Mr. Forrest not choosing to acquiesce to their dictatorial terms, went to Glasgow and engaged operatives,_ leaving the. refractory workmen to their own re sources. Since the introduction of these men they had been subject to every description of annoyance from the discarded workmen ; and on Friday last the prisoner, a mob of Others, assaulted the complainants by beating them when com ing from their work The assault was proved. and the Mayor held the psesoner to hail, himself in £5O, and two sureties iu i.:25 each, at the same time stating that he was determined to punish all turn-out workmen, or others who obstructed those in discharge of their duties to their masters. LETTER L TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sta,—Little ingenuity is required to ascertain the charac teristics of party from the influence of their principles on the minds and conduct of individuals. Certain moral effects as surely follow the formation of certain principles .in the mind as a definite effect follows a cause in the natural world. I shall not enter into the question whether whig characteristics arise from principles or the principles from the characteristics.'lt may be theffeelings similar to those of the whigs can only find entrance into hearts peculiarly constituted; or, on the other hand, it may be that the feelings we see exemplified in their conduct arise from the gradual developement in their minds of the principles which have, from the operation of certain Causes, found admission there. Into that question, I say, I shall not enter. It is enough for us now to know that there are peculiar feelings common to those who call themselves whigs, in politics, rhich are as infa lible marks of the constitution of their moral nature as the products of Or soil are of its distinctiveproperties. I do trot allude to the persons who are ranked as whigs, because they have happened to rank themselves as such at a moment of excitement, or in a fit of caprice—l do not allude to those who merely display whiggish propensities by occasional votes for the destruction of something valuable, nor to those who allow per sonal prejudice to warp their judgments and overcloud their reason. I confiae my observations to the genus " wing," and I therefore exclude from consideration all who are merely so by popular estimation, or from temporary accident, in the same manner as in describing the genus "serpent" I should care. fully exclude all remarks on four-footed animals. The first characteristic to which I call your attention is that general one of pride. Why does Lord John Russell lead the House of Commons in preference to his far more able colleague Sir John Hobbouse? —Because he is an aristocrat. Wby did Ponionhy for years lead the whig opposition inrpre ferenee to Brougham ?—Because he was an aristocrat. What gave Lord John Cavendish that offica?- : Pis aristo crifiCai connexions. ' What seat Tvlaeauley (the ablest mark of his party) to India? is poverty. He was a parvenu: \%That kept Sheridan out of the whig coalition ministry, and the whig government of 1806 ?—He was not an aristocrat. What induced the whigs to give,Burke the situation of Pay master of the Forces without a seat in the cabinet?—The consi deration that he was not an aristocrat. What made Lord Henry Petty Chancellor of the Exchequer? —He was an aristocrat by birth and temper. What gave Erskine the chief judgeship in equity—the chan cellorship, in preference to hominy, Leach, &c. ?—He was an aristocrat. What is the chief and common characteristic, individually, of Lords Grey, and Melbourne, and Lansdowne, and Carliste Durham ?—Their pride of birth. _ _ What made Lord Dunannon Home Secretary and after wards Lord Privy Seal ?—He was an aristocrat. _ _ _ What gave Lord Morpeth the chief Secretaryship of Ire land?—His adventitious advantage of birth. What rendered Whitbread ridiculous ?—His assumption of aristocratical rank. What kept Broughamfrom the Premiership—Plunkett from the English Cabinet—Horner from Holland House—Mack intosh from the House of Peers—and Ricardo from the elite of the Whig coterie ?—lt was their misfortune not to be born aristocrats. What was Lord Carlisle's treatment of Byron, when friend less and unconnected?—The result of deep-rooted pride. It is a matter of history, that for years during the reigns of George the First, George the Second, and George the Third, the whig party's effort was to obtain the government of the country for the confederacy of great whig peers: The Norfolks, Devonshires, Portlands, Spencers, Berifords, Buckingliams, and Shelbournes, and all the records of those times from Bob Doddington's Diary and Nicholl's Reminiscences, attest the fact, that the efforts made by the whig party aimed at that end . The India bill alone would prove that they sought a monopoly of power. Thus it is, as a party, the whits advocate "equality," and "liberty," and "toleration," and all those things which slip so glibly from their tongues at contested elections; but still their motive is pride. They are impatient of controul—they labour to throw off the necessary restraint and authority of the law. " But," squeaks some miserable being who has looked only to names and dates in history, " the whig party is not the tame as it was before the India bill; their cliaracteristics are surely altered!" They are altered ;.pride is not now their on/y.party characteristic; they have others, but pride remains; for they pre serve all that is bad, they have abandoned all that is good of 'their former characters. They still call themselves whips—they still labour under " the -superstition, of a name ;" but every remnant of Somers's principles—every constitutional prejudice has long vanished. Those prejudices once did divide the empire o( with . pride aunpliett by rancorous hatred of all they before revered—by indifference to telighn—by sordid grasping selfishness. They are abased, fur they are servile—they are degraded , for they are the slaves of a demagogue . ; but their pride has no more vanished than did Satan's on his fall. Still do they aim al monopoly—still dO they labour to put down all opposition; but in the present time they are reckless of the means—they look only to the end; for if the 'peers are against them, they must sink to raise them—if the church opposes, it must be de stroyed. Their reform bill was an experiment to establish whig power—they preserved whig boroughs—they destroyed conservative inflitence. Their corporation bill—their attack on orange lodges—their assault on the independence of the bench, in the case of Baron Smith—were all facts of that syStem of policy which they have been so long ptsrsuing, but happily, as yet, pursuing in vain. From their India bill and their trick at Oczakow, to their corp Oration robbery and church spoliation— from their infamous coalition with Lord North, to their atroc . - ous conspiracy with O'Connell—in every possible charge and variety of conduct—they have acted upon one principle and from One motive—more or less perceptibly—pride. They may have slightly repressed it for a moment—they may have stooped low for a special purpose ; but never have they entirely expelled it from their breasts, even in seasons when, as in the present, it would be even impossible to render their degradation more complete or more contemptible. In my next I shall make a few remarks on another character istic of the party—inconsistency. I am, Sir, yours, &c I. M. N. COMMENTARY ON THE SPEECH OF THE MARQUIS OF SLIGO, ON OPENING THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, By A GENTLEMAN JUST RETURNED FROM JA MAICA. "Efficiency of the Police?" The speech was delivered on the 4th August. On the 15th of July, the apprentices (about 150 in number) on one property in the parish of St. David's, behaved so badly as to require the interposition of the police. Three police stations are in the immediate neighbourhood of this property, namely, those for the parishes of St. David's, St. Thomas in the East, and Port Royal. Notwithstanding which, an express had to be sent to the Marquis of Sligo for a military force, and two companies of King's troops were forthwith ordered from head-quarters to the disturbed estate ! This is only one of many instances of the "Ifficiency" of the police. That a police force has become necessary in consequence of the emancipation act, is as obvious as is the notorious fact that crime has since become frightfully on the increase. It is well known that the major-general of police° is no more fit for that situation than an opera dancer; and it is the vile system of patronage which has been adopted in the minor ap pointments that renders the whole thing disgusting, eminently useless, and expensive. "Undisturbed tranquillity." Look at the burnings on Belvidere estate, in St. Thomas in the East—the condemnation and subsequent pardon of the guilty men—the outrages in St. George's, Trelawney, and St: James's—and, lastly, the fact above alluded to in St. David's, and say, is 'it not monstrous in any nobleman to address any assembly of men possessed of common sense, with these facts before their eyes, and tell them of the "undisturbed tranquil lity" of the islands in which they reside? It is an insult to the understanding, and a violation of troth. With respect to the "error" in the statement of the crop of 1835, as compared with the average of the last five years, that is a matter of figures, accessible to all; but how such a mis statement could have found its way into the speech of the " King of Jamaica" remains to be explained. One word about the cutting of canes and taking off the crop. The writer was in the parish of St. James about four months ago; he spent some little time on "Bogue" estate with the proprietor, Mr. George Cragg, a gentleman remarkable for his industry, honesty, and retiring habits. The writer was shown 30 acres of canes, which had been planted at very considerable expense by Mr. C., rotting in the ground for want of labourers to take them off, while his own apprentices not only refused to work their own time for hire, but occupied that which still nominally belongs to the pro prietors in idleness and dissoluteness. Three times had the magistrate been sept fnr; hot each time he made bad worse, by exciting the apprentices against their masters. _ _ Mr. C. is not a man of large fortune, and ho was Very deeply affected when he extended his baud over his ruined property. He had written to the governor—but promised the writer to petition him again —merely giving a detail of the above facts. The magistrate then on that parish was afterwards removed. Nothing has done a greater injury to the beneficial welkin!: of the new system, both as regards master and apprentices, then many of the acts of the present governor. He has destroyed in the bud that mutual feeling of confidence so essential as much to the happiness of the one as the interest of the other. * Ramsay, n hanger on of the government house, holclinz three other official situations-- a lawyer, moreoveri without blisiness: DEFICIENCY OF CROPS IN JAMAICA. In another of our columns will be found an official return from the Customhouse, Kingston, showing the exact quantities of sugar, rum, and coffee, the staple articles of the island, ex ported from Jamaica in the years ending August 1, 1834 and 1835 respectively. The year 1834, it should be observed, was remarkable for the deficiency of the crops when compared with `that of either of the five or six preceding years, and, therefore, if the return be intended to show the actual loss sustained by the planters in consequence of the adoption of the " apprentice system," a most unfair comparison has been drawn by taking it as the standard, instead of taking the average of the five years previous. However, the official return of the exports from the island of Jamaica for the year ending August 1, 1835, when compared with that of 1834—a year.he remembered in which there was a great falling off in the exportations—exhibits the following deficiencies in quantities and value, estimating the Value at the average prices netted to the planters on their con signments of 1831: Sugar 10,`296 tons, at £2O £205,920 Coffee 3,290 do. at £BO Rum 529,262 gallons, at 2s. 4d. 61,747 Making a total of £5:l3X7 the loss sustained by the planters in the year eliding August 1, 135, a year which promised to be eminently productive, if they kid possessed the means of maturing the grov.ezh of,:ithe produce of their estates, and preparing them for the markets. But the loss does not end here. In addition to the twenty millions now in course of payment by the British public for slave emancipation, end in addition to the increased price which every consumer of sugar must now pay fur that necessary of life, the loss sustained by the shipowners should also be taken into consideration. Had the .supply of freights in this equalled that oflast year from Jamaica they would have received for carry ing the deficient quantities the following sums:— Sugar at £5 per ton Coffee....d0. Ruin at,6d. per ga110n.... 13,231 £81,161 This sum, large as it is in amount, forms but a part of the shipowners' diminished profits on the carryiug trade from the West India islands. Hitherto, we have not alluded to the de creased value of freights in consequence of the decreased supply of produce, nor have we referred to their other losses from the same causes operating more or less powerfully throughout the whole of our West India possessions. However, in the absence of any positive data we shall not be far wrong if we say that the amount of loss already stated will be more than doubled. It may not be generally known that the consumption of sugar, the produce of the West India islands, in Great Britain, amounts to 220,000 tons annually. There are but very few housekeepers who have not by this time discovered that the in creased price of this article averages two-pence per lb.—an ad vance produced by 'no artificial means, but by a positive discre pancy between the supply and the demand. By this rise in the value of sugar the people of Great Britain have to pay in addi tion to the interest of the slave emancipation loan, no less a sum than £4,106,666 Ms. 4d., to say nothing of the proportionally increased price of the Brazilian, Mauritius, and other sugars in common use. In these calculatiens nothing is haz ivied on conjecture or on assumed grounds;—they are founded on an official document, and supported by the simplest rules of arith metic which the veriest tyro in any national school can work. We have foreborn to notice the articles of rum and coffee, the prices of which are also, to use a mercantile phrase, "looking up." The annual consumption of West India coffee, in Great Britain, is from J 8 to '2O millions of pounds. An advance of six pence or even three-pence per lb. on this article would mate rially increase the amount of the sacrifices we have made to give "complete emancipation" to the slave population of our West India and other colonies., Honest John Bull was impa tient until he had obtained his whistle ;—he has got it, but he has not yet paid f ,r it. Let us see, then, in plain figures, how the account stands, and what we are called upon to pay annually for this fine nica- sure:— Interest of twenty millions Rise in price of sugar.... .. . Rise in other produce 1,22x,C00 Loss to shipowners 165,000 TetiDivf the whole This is a pretty tax to begin with for the first year. Next year we calculate that it will increase, and so on year after year. John Bull, you are an ASS ! TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND4RD. Stu,—At a period of comparative cessation in the public business of the country I feel assured )ou will find room in your valuable 'paper for the following observations of a local nature. While the law of the land takes severe cognizance of any personal injury received by any of his Majely's liege subjects, and when we consider the many and fatal accidents which have taken place in our town under the different warehouses, when removing goods either in or out of the same, it is a subject of very important inquiry how such risks as at present exist may he avoided, and the plan which I would offer to general notice I conceive would have the desired effect; and either it or some other, which can be shown to be better, ought to be adopted, as the increase of passengers in our streets an'a the building of new warehouses are daily adding to the evil complained of. The plan which 1 offer is as follows, which I will endeavour to detail as briefly and concisely as possible, so as to be understood We will suppose the breadth of the doorways in a warehouse to he five feet, and the breadth of the side-path for foot passen gers to be eight feet from edge of warehouse to edge of water course or Channel. On the edge of channel, and opposite to each side of.ground floor doorway of warehouse and the height of that ground floor, 1 would put two strong upright cast iron pillars on a foundation of stone or brick work ; from each pil lar to warehouse at the upper end a strong piece of oak, well secured both to pillar and warehouse; also another piece from pillar to pillar, and secured to the two first. On these I would build a superstructure of brick work, with the doors of ware house placed in front, txcepting those of the ground floor being left as before, as well as those of the cellar. At the top of this projeCting building, and in front, as is usual, I would place the cathead for the jigger rope to pass through, and the top of the whole roofed with slate. This addition to every warehouse would give these advantages:Ho the public it Would afford se curity by passengers walking under the portico formed over the footpath, and the carts loading outside the same, and, instead of the goods hanging over the footpath, they would he beyond it; to the proprietor it would give additional room for a hogs head or two of sugar, or two or three bales of cotton, (as the goods may be,) in each story, which would nearly coinpensate him for the expense, and it would in no way be an inconveni ence to the public. Indeed, the plan recommends itself strong ly, if- only as a security against those accidents, the very.idea of which makei one shudder to think of. For who cannot but recollect the sudden and melancholy death of that highly re spected merchant Mr. EL at the George's Dock, by a lifty-six pound weight falling. upon him, or the nearly fatal accident to Mr. B. by a bale of cotton falling, as well as the numerous in juries recorded at diflerent periods in the papers from this cause. But one of the most dangerous periods is, when remov ing. goods from one room to another, (not at all uufrequent,) when the innocent and unwary passenger, seeing no cart, passes 'on unconscious of any danger, and sees not "the sword hanging by a single thread" above his head. The Common Connell have very partially obviated this griev ous evil by the erection of piazzas, but on a plan; as a general one, quite too expensive for individuals to attempt, - and, there fore, hits not the advantage which that has which I have offered.- , To attempt the plan I have endeavoured clearly to. explain, '(and which I should like to put into practice myself, in order to 'escape consequences so serious to my fellows,) I believe it would be necessary to - have the consent of the Cominon Council and special vestry, if, indeed, they are empoWered to grant it with out the authority of an act of parliament; but when its advan tages are considered, (and I would that it were in better hands fully to set them forth,) in my humble judgment it ought to be made imperative to make the addition to all warehouses in great thoroughfares, and in the erection of all future warehouses. - If a ' more eligible; or economical, or safe plan can be sug gested, it would give me great satisfaction to see such put .into practice, as it must be self-evident that it would be a benefit conferred upon the .town at large, and show on the part of the authorities a paternal care over the lives of "the inhabitants. by doing away with a disgraceful and a crying evil.— Yours Sec. IN H ABITA'N S. Liverpool, 7th October, 1835. The Rev. Frederick Barker, WA., has been licenFed by the Lord Bishop of Chester to the perpetual curacy of St. Mary, Edge-hill, on the nomination of the Rev. C.' L. Swainson, of St. Giles's, Oxford. REA' ISING 'BARRISTERS COURT.--,SUSIM A OF TOE HALI FAX DISTRICT REVISION.—The objections raised by the con servatives were 752, of which number 503 were sustained against the radicals before the revising barristers. The radicals mus tered 141 objections against the conservatives, of which 74 only were allowed.-LHatifax Guardian. MEDlCAL.Secturt. — The first Meeting of the Liverpool Me dical Society was held at the Royal Institution, on Wednesday evening last, when the following officers were appointed for the session, IS:15-6 :—Presidents, Dr. Carson. Dr. Baird, Dr. Ban ning, Mr. Worthington; Treasurer, Mr. Batty;. Secretary, Dr. Thorburn. MCNICIPAL CORPORATTONS.—The Gazette of Tuesday con tains an order in council extending the time for fixing the limits and boundary lines of the wards, into which certain boroughs are to be divided; to sixty days from the passing of the corpora tions' bill, instead of six weeks as prescribed by that act. The same order in council also directs that the council of every bo rough named in the schedules A or B shall appoint their town clerks on the Ist of January, WS. THE POUT OF, ChSTEIES, ST. LCCIA.—This port, under f ' the act to reg,ulite . the trade of the British possessions abroad" has been declared by order in council to be a ftee warehousing port for all the purposes of that act. ADVANCE ON SUGARS.—In consequence of the advance in raw sugars, full 10s. per cwt. front the loss est point, the retail grocers have agreed to snake an advanc:' , of hi. per lb. to their customers. I.l' B AP #7 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE . cOSISIOI.; COUNCIL: . . The Common Council h e ld th e i r month!). meeting on (Jai , list, when the business was found to have accuunilated con- - shierably in . consequence . of there . having ,been nu meeting, except one for special business, for three moriths.past..N.Othing: however, of very material interest was brought befoie the for consideration, with, the exception of the subject of securing permanent remuneration to the clergy, the disctiiiinn of which was' entered into, but the settlement Postponed fora future meeting. . . The members present w ere the Mayor, Messrs. Lace and Pownall, bailiffs. Messrs. J. Bourne, Stiiiforth, Wright . , T. Case, Leyland, P. Bourne, Robinson, Sir Thomas Braucker, Messrs. tilandbach; Horsfall, Foster, COrrie, W. W. Currie, 3. D. Case, Bold, Earle, Leigh, Ripley, Ewart, Thompson, Shaw; Ilollinshead, Ashton, Gladstone, Crosbie, Cockshott, and Walker. At the request of the Mayor, th e T ov i t i- c le r li r e a d the pro;, ceedings of the • last (special) council, which were then con firmed. The proceedingiof the various committees for enrolling freemen and for leases te.be confirmed by vie co mncil were then read and passed. .The council, however, anticipating the elec tion of a new body, ordered that fourteen days; instead of a month; as heretofore, sho u ld b e g iv en only to part i es who ap plied for but did but avail thems e lves of th e i r p r i v il ege o f renewal of leases. . . The proceedings of the select finance committee were then read; they embraced matt ers possessing little or no ittterest, but were various in their character and much in detail. The only point which caused any discussion was one of granting to Mr. Yates a lease of land at the corner .of Canoing-plaCe and Pool lane, which was opposed by Mr. William Earle on the Supposi tion that the land would be required; anti that the space between it and the new Custom-house was already too much confined. On being informed what the space really was, his Objectionti were not pressed, and the proceedings of this committee were passed and confirmed. The dock committee proceedings were then read and confirmed. They contained nothing of interest beyond the appointment of a committee• consisting of Messrs: Horsfall, Sauubach, Latham, Potter, and Gladstone, who were • appointed by the trust to prepare a new bill for the entire sepa e ration of the dock estate from that of the corporate body. These proceedings were passed and unanimously confirmed. An application on behalf of Mr. Luirt ? for his re-enfratr'ehise nent, was, after some di scuss i on , n egati ved.. The proceedings of the school committee were read arid confirmed; likewise those of the 'Custom-house committee, in whieh the council were in formed, from the architect's report, that the Imilding was so far advanced as to be ready ncr its fitting up by the Board of Cus toms fur occupation early next month.... Cenguierable difficulty had occurred in procuring stone for the pillars, Which had de layed their completion. The Mayor then inf orme d th e counc il, that th e m unicipal reform bill had passed the House 'of Lords and received the royal assent, and that on the 2Gth Deeetritteribe present council were to resign their 6ccupatioDi, hut that he and the bailiffs were to continue their duties until that period. The council, in fur therance of this, then passed nresOlfitieti, that on the 18th Debt , her the usual annual allowance of f:I,M) Should be made to the Mayor, and that for ,the billet master.to the bailiffs; and that the Mayor be requested to keep up the usual hospitalitiet at the Town-hall, for which his expenses were to be allowed during the extra period of his mayoralty. The Mayor read a letter conveving,the expression of thi thanks of the High-sheriff for the reception and accommodatiod af f orded to the judges and officers of the assizes during their stay in Liverpool. The subject of the renewal of Mrs.,Jones's lease of the King'S Arms Hotel was again brought forward, and urged very strongly by Mr. Wright. It was, however, opposed by several other members, who considered that the archway over Cook-street should be removed for the widening of the street; that the hotel was no particular matter or convenience, inasmuch as the hoteli in Dale-street were already numerous ; and that the site of the, hotel would sell for infinitely more as building land. A motion was made, granting a new lease to Mrs. Jones, which was se conded. An amendment was inored, that the consideration be ' postponed, which was lost by 5 votes to 25; and the resAutinti then stand, that a new lease should be granted to Mrs. Jones for seven years, the council reserving the power to remove at any time the archway over Cook-street: . Mr. Clough, on the resignation of Mr. Grey, was appointed organist to St. Nicholas's Church, and Mr. &idiocy to t: Martin's-in-the-Fields. The MAyottbrought before th e no ti ce o f counc il a letter fiotri the Temperance Society,.requesting that the use of the .N oral Free School might be allowed to them for their meetings. This subject was referred to the School committee, with full powers. A petition from Wallasey, respecting the removal of the Powder Magazines, was read by the town-clerk to the council. The MAYOR. then introduced to the consideration of the council the provision for the clergy; and, at his desire, th 4 town-clerk read a most talented and impressive letter from. Lord Sandon on the Subject. The mayor also himself read a letter fruits Mr. Lawrence, who. on account of the severe indis position of a member of his family, was necessarily obliged to be absent on the occasion, ?dr. Lawrence entered very and with very great candour and ability, into the considerestiun of the subject, in which he did not fail to expreis his opibion, that it was the duty of the council to proceed fearlessly and faithfully in this matter, fearing no public odium, but conscien tiously discharging what they felt to be right. Mr. Lawrence'i letter was received with the utmost respect by the council: Mr. Robinson, Mr. Lace, Mr. Horsfall, Mr. W. W. Currie Sir Thomas Braneker, and the town-clerk each addressed the council; but as the sitting had already been protracted, and every member felt that they had not had sufficient time allowed. them for coating to a decision, and that the subject was one of vast importance, the whole council resolved themselves into a committee, seven to be a quorum, to meet from time to time, between that day and that day fortnight, when a special coun cil would be summoned by the mayor to receive their report. A vote of thanks from the common council was then moved and seconded to several noble lords for their able and powerful exertions in opposing the obnoxious clauses in. the municipal reform act its the House of Lords; which passed with the ex ception of an objection from Mr. William Earle, who thought that the bill would have been much better as it originally stood. Mr. Wilton/. then moved that the gold snuff-box intended foe the Duke of Wellingto:l, no bite p,sritee4.mti Lot vet visited . Liverpool. should be forwarded .to him, the council regr ! Ating that an opportunity had not occurred for presenting his grace also with the freedom of the borough. The council broke up about three o'clock ; a meeting; however, of the committee takes place on Monday next. MELANCHOLY. " durrh dunkle SuchengUnge." 'Where the midnight moonbeams glimmer Yellowly orr One-tree leaves, Where the death-black ware looks dinimer; As the stooping willow grieves ; Where around forsaken walls Icy bratiches greenly eltisster; Where the mist at twilight falls When the bowers have lost thed, lustre Where 'mid elm/Ming pile and column One lone tree is seen to rise, Where the owlet sings his solemn Ditty to the stormful skies; %There, among the Alpine hollows, Mountain torrents dash and race, Where the moaning night-wind follows Shrivelled leaves from grave to grave Where the moonlight on the !Atrial Ground in sickly silver sleeps, And besides the yew funereal . Hopeless Ft iendship darkly weeps ; Thither, thither, far apart From the world of Mirth and Pollyi With a wrecked yet wistful heart Wends thy votary Melancholy ! There he feels a sacred yearning Tow'rds his great eternal gaol ;- There, at length, a flood of burning Tears relieves his weary soul ; And he hears, as roll the million Worlds that gem the vault above, Every stir through I-leaven's pavilion Whispering downwards—" GOD Is Lova V I —Anthologia Germanica—Dublin University Magazine. THE MINING JOURNAL—Under this nerve a Weekly . Nets; paper, conducted with great spirit and ability, has been re cently established in London, devoted prineipally, in accord' ante with its title, to that important branch of our national wealth—the mines of the United Kingdom. We - should alsd observe, that in the pages of the illininy.liorrnal will be found much valuable and interesting matter connected with the mines of other.countries. together with a great variety o► other . gence on the subject of British and foreign einmeicegeneralty. CHANGE IN TURKISH, FASHIoNS.—A change, whit:ll4as at first regarded us a most•alarming innovation, has recently oc curred in Constantinople, viz., the. adoption of the European costume by the Turkish ladies, at the instance of Sultan /dab moud, the great. Turkish reformer. , The priliosa.l at first met with the most strenuous_ opposition in the haem; but the pre judices of the Lir inmates having been once overcame, the very objects which a year ago were considered so hateful have now become the objects of predilection, and European spencers, gigots, - tippets, ribands, flowers, stockings, gloves, and French shoes, are in common use among the fashionables; and some 01 the sultanas have carried the .new fashions to such an ex treme as.to wear their bonnets and cloaks within doors. NEWSPA 'ass A CaNTc lY AGO.—The Motithly Amureerent consisted of news English and foreign, and generally contained the translation of a French play or novel. Its sale was net very extensive. Its editor was a Mr. Ozell..T he writer of a pamphlet published in 1i33 speaks of the Review, a weeklypaper of which Defoe was the projector), being at that.time "quite exhausted, and grown very contemptible and Whiggish." 'The Menitur, ,l which nt one time was extremely popular, 'l5 described in " al- . most the same wretched condition" es the Reuierc. The her, and the Whig Examiner, had a very extensive sale, and the former was frequently reprinted -to supply the demand. 'I he Medley, which was attributeu to Olcirnixon and Mavnwaring, was a weekly paper. also in great circulation. The Groder and the Whisperer appeared about the same time, but their literary liver were very short: The British .d polo was . It e• fuss newspmper which recommended itself to public notice l y &ring to decide wagers at cards, and bets of every discriptium as some of our "1 Sunday papers do now. Connwrr ON LOYA LTY.-111 1802 Cohbett wrote thus in refer-: . once to the melancholy end of Charles the First :—" Stick to the Crown, though you find it hanging on a Lush,' was the pre cept whieh a good old Englishman gave to his sons, at a tulle when the monarchy was threatened, with that subversion which it afterwards experienced, and which was attended with the per; - petratiou of a deed which has fixed an indelible stain on the annals of England. Blessed be God, we are threatened with no such danger at presenti but a repetition of the precept can never he out of season as long as there are whips in existenee f and as long as there are men foolish enough to liiten to their insidious - harangues. The crown is the guardian of the people; mom es pecially is its guardianship necessary to those who are destitute of rank and wealth. The kin' gives the weakest and poorest of . us some degree of consequence; as his subjects, we are upon a level With the noble and rich; in yielding him bedience, vene-: ration, and.love, neither ohsturity nor penury ean.repress ussr desires or lessen the pleasure that we feel in rettirn, lie is the fountain of national honour, which. like the sun, is tie respecter of persons; but smiles with equal wasenth on the palace dud the. cottage: in his justice, his roagnapiniity, his piety. in the wisdom of his counsels, in the splendour of his thrOle, in the glory of bid arms, in all his virtues, and in all his honours, ice shale, not irc. cording to rank or riches, but in proportion tv the attachment that we bear to land that gave us birth, and to the Sovereign whom God has commanded us to houuur and obey." 4.7 allM ‘.— :