The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. the Morniiig Herat; Amongst the lett, ty by our reporters has dis ions which would otherwise antil next week the article from which we regret to postpone is an excellent uestion, showing in a short compass, but he reduction of the tea duties would not , f the country ie lett igned "A Mason," allow us to - nunication, and we will then 3ertion. We do not see at Itleman to whom it is addressed can consider the question as to its in present that _t s complained of On Tuesday next, the STANDARD will be printed with a new and elegant type, manufactured spe cially for the purpose by the celebrated house of Messrs. V. and J -qins, of London. THE STANDARD ALMANAC, In consequence of the extreme satisfaction which this elegant little Almanac has given, we have had an extra number printed of, which -may be obtained AT TWOPENCE EACH. It answers the double purpose of Almanac and Date Case THE " LIVERPOOL STANDARD " FOR THREEPENCE ! YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION in advance On credit The announcement which we make to our readers, that the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is now offered to the Public for THREEPE CE, requires from us a word or two of explanation. For some time past we have had in contemplation this step—a serious one to ourselves, and one of no trifling import to the community amongst whom our paper circulates. We have not been blind to , the fact, that newspaper literature must ultimately accommodate itself to the requirements of the age; that the great organ which aspires to direct public opinion, and which is hourly proving itself more powerful than statesmen or parties, should be ena bled to address its appeals more directly to the many—to address them in their own homes, and by their own firesides—to substitute its earnest teachings for the penny trash, which alone at present finds its way to the poor man's dwelling and to the perusal of his family. To e f fect this, cheapness is mainly required. The hearts of our humble fellow-countrymen, we know, are not too enamoured of the wretched sentiment and worse principles—the inflammatory doctrines and false philosophy—contained in the papers to which we have referred as constituting at present their usual mental food ; and we have arrived at the conclu sion, that we are only doing our duty as journal ists, conscious of the great responsibility which the march of circumstances has thrown upon us, in submitting to a sacrifice—we trust only a tempo rary one—of our personal interests, with a view to increased usefulness and advantage to the pub lic. Whilst making this announcement, we must assure our readers and those friends who have, thus far, so liberally rewarded our humble labours, that we do not intend to attempt to compensate ourselves by any parsimony of management, by which the article which we furnish at a reduced price shall be less worthy of their acceptance and approbation. We hope even to improve upon the past. The con sciousness that we are addressing a more extended circle of readers, calls upon us for increased energy and increased watchfulness for the interests of those readers. The task before us we fully recognise ; and we trust that we shall not be found unequal to perform it faithfully and bene ficially. Isom one source, and from one alone, we look for our reward, so far as mere pecuniary considera tions extend. We shall be able to give to the favours of our advertising friends greatly in creased circulation and publicity ; and it is only natural to anticipate that those favours will fall upon us in an increased degree. Henceforth we hope to be behind none of our contemporaries in the advantages which our columns uford to the advertising cammunity. We cannot conclude these brief remarks without re turning thanks to our friends and the public for the support which has raised us to our present position amongst our contemporaries; and we trust that our future labours will not be less de serving or less rewarded. titirrpulai gnarWarb. TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 29, 1846. A calm review of the difficulties which the present ministry have to face at the approaching meeting of parliament will leave little doubt that the session will be a short one, and that a dissolution must very shortly be resorted to by Lord John Russell, and our future policy be dictated by the constitutionally oice of the country. A weak govern ment cannot grapple with those difficulties. Upon many of the leading questions which present them selves for consideration, his Lordship is tolerably certain to be in a minority. Ireland has to be raised from the verge of famfne and degradation ; her turbulent spirits to be repressed, her miseries re moved. We have education questions in great Baitain to be decided upon, and financial questions pressing for consideration. The country has ad vanced half way upon the path of free trade, and asks to go further. There is an evident inclination to re-model our system of taxation; and there is a prospect that our trading interests will be shortly involved in difficulty, and the working portion of our population in suffering. Former experience of the policy of Whig governments warns us of at tempted "heavy blows and great discouragement" gainst the National Church, and it to be levelled a tain that the effort will be made to obtain a State endowment for a religion which the State itself has declared to be idolatrous, and the teachings of history proclaim to be dangerous to next to c of many ative party in this country the liberti, Is the 1 le into which they may shortly .estion is no light one. It is a matter of certainty that if the ministry of Lord Juhn Russell determine upon rushing into the set tlement of questions, upon which such wide differ uces exist amongst statesmen, as those atta.hed to preservation of our Protestant Establishment in 'ntegritv-*--if that ministry stakes its existence nut the principles of Whig-Radi _,,sed by the Melbourne and Ward school of politicians—if it attempts to increase the stringency of an odious New Poor Law, or a stand between the demand of our factory-workers for a long hours of toil—its days are in come to the struggle of epared for the strugg aye to enter The QUE upon carrying alisrn, on of th numbered a general election, which, from the duration of the present parliament, cannot in any case be far dis tant; and we ask again, is the great Conservative country, or are the Conservative Pro . stants of Liverpool, prepared for the struggle ? The very anomalous condition of parties, spilt up, divided, and each, apparently with objects in vises, which they hesitate to proclaim aloud, is one fea ture of the times which the constituencies would do well to consider attentively. The struggle of the Whig party is obviously to be derived from the dhesion of that section of the Peel Conservatives, vhose opinfons on questions of trading policy they lave offered themselves as ready to carry out. They ill probably be opposed by the country gentlemen io will seek to form a Pro- ody of th and the high d high for the sup ieh of these can Pro 'either. To preserve port of the in testantism re ant character of our institutions, require better, firmer, more soundly-principled men ; and where are such men to be found ? Cer- ()tact the Prote .rs of the new fangled or the misty rubbish of st the mere land- tainly not amongst the profe _ _ its of New Englar the Trac rcely anion lord party, and decidedly not amongst the coalition of Republicans, Papists sectarians, mere whips and apostatc? from Conaervatism, who will rally round the banners of R ell and Pee One of the most serious questions just now pres sing upon the attention of the observant portion of community, is the question—" What is to be repression of Crime, and, more par *le Crime ?" For years ,past we have been experimenting upon this object. We have tried model prisons, and separation of offen tems and lenient systems. The ticularly, of Juv ders ; rigorou schoolmaster has been at work amongst the classes, which ordinarily furnish employment for the magis trate, the judge and the turnkey; yet we have the painful conviction continually forced upon us, that hitherto we have made little progress, compared with the extent and cost of the efforts which we have put forth. The amount of committals, indeed, have in our own county exhibited a slight decrease during the past year. From an able statistical re port which has just been submitted to the magis trates by the Rev. J. Clay, chaplain to the Preston house of correction, we are informed that crime has decreased throughout the county to a most grati fying extent. Within the last five years the dimi nution of offences in England and Wales collectively, has been at the rate of 12.4 per cent.; while in Lancashire, "owing to various causes, among which the general revival of trade may be supposed to pre dominate," and in the borough of Liverpool, the decrease of crime has been double that rate ; and in the hundred of Salford, where everything de pends upon manufactures, the decrease of crime is in a ratio which nearly doubles that of England and Wales." The writer adds :—" So far, the local diminution in crime appears to be commensurate with the cause supposed to have produced it,—viz., the return from inactivity and distress to full em ployment and good wages." But, these temporary circumstances, which have tended to produce such a result, removed, we cannot doubt that we have still around us the same amount, or a slightly diminished amount of crime, and vicious inclination ready to rush into crime, on the first moment of temptation. That this state of things will resist the effect of all merely repressive steps is evident to most men, although it is certain that much may be done by judicious alteration of our prison system. However vigilant may he our police, and however attentive or strict our magistrates, little will be done until the cloud of ignorance which hangs over the masses of our working population is dispelled, and sound religious and moral training introduced amongst them. The same able writer remarks : " No one sees more 'clearly than the chaplain to a jail that ' public education is lamentably imperfect.' For successive years my duty has required me to lay before the magistracy of the county statistics of secular and re ligious ignorance, which, though at first considered scarcely credible, subsequent investigation by other and better qualified enquirers has corroborated. In 1839 these statistics, among other evidence of a similar character, were referred to Lord John Russell. That there are great difficulties in the way of any general measures for removing the ignorance so widely spread is admitted ; but I venture to think they are such as might be overcome, if those interested in the subject would consent to waive some minor points, and agree, by way of commencement, to rough-hew what is now a shapeless and useless obstacle — if not incumbrance—into what might be rendered valuable for the support and ornament of the great social edifice. It is not required from one holding my humble position to suggest the mode of operating on the unformed masses of ignorance ; but I feel that it is incumbent upon me to re port facts bearing on the question, and brought under my own observation, which evince the paramount necessity of doing something ;—to exhibit, unpleasant as it may be to all parties, the mere animal existence—it can scarcely be called humanity—which, in this civilised and religious country, yet remains uncivilised and without religion." The facts referred to are perfectly astounding ; and, as no doubt a similar state of things would be the result of an enquiry amongst the offenders within the jurisdiction of our own magistracy, we make no apology for giving them here. " During three years," Mr. Clay says, " the perfor mance of my duty has brought me into contact with— " 1,733 men and boys, and 387 women and girls, al together unable to read and mrite ; with " 1,301 men and boys, and 287 women and girls, who knew not the name of the reigning sovereign ; with " 1,290 men and boys, 293 women and girls, so in capable of receiving moral or religious instruction, that to speak to them of virtue,' vice,' iniquity,' or holiness,' was to speak to them in an unknown tongue ; and with " 1,120 men and boys, and 257 women and girls, so des titute of the merest rudiments of Christian know ledge, so untaught in religious forms and practice, that they knew not the name of Him who died for their sins, nor could they utter a prayer to their Father in heaven !" No mere prison discipline, it is obvious, can be effective in producing any great improvement amongst a mass of human beings such as the above, whose lives, it is well known, present only an alter nation of punishment and of the commission of fresh crime. The lessons and labours of a chaplain, how ever earnest, are lost upon them ; and when they leave their prison, at the termination of their sen tences, they fall back naturally into their old habits, unimproved, if not hardened in vice. An authoritative statement published in the Daily News informs us that Government are about to attempt the decrease of crime, by a new system of prison discipline. All transportation is to be sus pended for two years. The first year is to be spent in seclusion, as in Pentonville. Another, year the criminal is to be placed under the sllent. system ; and, afterwards, the probation system is to be acted upon, acid habits of hulustly intruaucetl, upon ale amount of improvement in which the the term of imprisonment is to depend. We have certainly little hope of the efficacy of this or any similar change, unattended by some comprehensive efirt to dispel the ignorance by which crime is generated —to remove the contact of evil example, which debases the minds of so large a portion of our poor. It embraces only the cases of the heinous offender, whereas the most material object to be attended to is the reformation of the juvenile offender. The present practice adopted towards him,- of com mittal for shoit periods, it is well known, produces evil instead of good. The young thief, kept for a fortnight or a month upon better food than he has ever found in the hovel or the cellar of the degraded parent, or the common lodging-house, emerges only to mingle with his dissolute companions again, and after a short perio I of riotous liberty, to return to his confinement. With respect to this class, we may quote some able remarks lately delivered at a special meeting of the Metropolitan Society for the Improvement of the Law, as regards penal discipline, by M. D. Hill, Esq., Recorder of Birmingham. After condemning the present practice of short commitments, the learned gentleman said : " Let the prisoner first commune with himself, learn to regard labour as a resource, and forego his evil habits, and then be gradually restored to society. He would not enter minutely into detail, as his object was to establish the principle that a person once rightfully imprisoned should not be suffered to go at large again till he should become thoroughly reformed. With a slight addition, he would inscribe over the door of every prison, Dante's awful inscription over the gates of hell, " Abandon all hope, ye who enter here," of departing unreformed. No doubt a certain per centage would resist reform, and be incapable of self-government, and these he would treat as lunatics, and subject them to perpetual imprisonment, no more painful than was absolutely necessary to prevent them from inflicting injury on themselves and others ; in fact, in many cases, mere detention. lie did not shrink from asserting his opinion, that a gaol should be regarded in the light of a moral hospital, and no patient should be discharged from its precincts until thoroughly cured. In one respect only he would make a distinction, for he would retain the morally diseased incurables in his hos pital. If this principle of treatment were acknowledged and acted upon, there would be an end of the morbid sympathy too often exhibited towards criminals by spec tators, juries, and even judges. The law would have the alliance of all mankind but- the criminals themselves, whose evil habits would be corrected, and whose com panions in guilt would have the assurance that, once im prisoned, offenders would never behold them again but as altered men. This certainly would act as a powerful check upon crime, and . remove many temptations." Combined with a comprehensive educational movement, to repress the growth of crime, such a treatment of am- existing stock of criminals• might not be without valuable results. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. in turn, where would he the " oneness of opinion," upon the advantage of which such stress has been laid ? Besides, it is very doubtful whether, for the performance of the kind of business laid down as the particular department of the unpaid magistracy, some of whom are representatives of constituencies, these gentlemen are the least questionable parties. Partiality in the decision of certain cases has been alleged against the magistrates under the old regime; and, whether the charge is true or false, human nature is not greatly changed since that old regime gave way before the lights of the present age. The appointment of an additional magistrate, with whatever division of duties may be deter mined upon, retaining at the same time the present central locality for the administration of justice, whilst it fails to meet the evils of our present diffi culty, fully admits the principle upon which we have based our advocacy of a division of the town into separate magisterial districts. It takes for granted all the facts which we have urged upon the public;—that the business coming before the stipendiary is already too much for one man satis factorily to perform ;—that the long detention caused to prosecutors, defendants, police, and wit nesses is becoming a serious evil;—that in conse quence of such detention the ends of justice are often defeated ; and that the absence of a large number of the police from their beats for some hours every day, to attend upon the Court, leaves a great portion of the town, during that time, un protected. But when we have admitted all this, why should we hesitate to make at once such a change as will meet all the evils of our present sys tem ? What should we have said of the wisdom of the authorities of London, if, when they had already d clared that a separate magistrate was required for the City, for Marylebone, for Lambeth, for Southwark, for Finsbury, and other divisions, they were to decide that the whole should sit in Saint Paul's Church Yard, or in the Mansion House ? We should certa-nly say that the arrange ment was a very absurd one for a large metropolis. And Liverpool is fast becoming such a metropolis. The appointment of a second magistrate, with the retention of the present Sessions House as a cen tral place of sitting, is only the postponement of a radical and thorough cure for an evil which we virtually admit. At the same time the plea of cheapness urged in behalf of the retention of the present central court is quite a delusive one, and is very unworthy of us. Suppose another stipendiary appointed, to sit in the Crown Court whilst Mr. Rushton sits in the Nisi Prius, or vice versa. Each of those functionaries, we presume, will require a law-clerk to sit under him. If the criminal business is divided, each will require an intelligent bridewell keeper to advise him of the character of the offenders coming before him. Mr. Ellis cannot divide himself in two ; nor can Mr. Parkinson. If the list of offenders is merely to be divided to suit the day's convenience, we shall have police and witnesses continually required in both courts at the same time. In short, the diffi culties are so evidently great—the complication so intricate—that we feel it suite unnecessary to go into any lengthened arguments against the proposi tion. It is a most inefficient substitute for an ar rangement which is quite within our reach. It re moves none of the difficulties of which the public have had occasion enough to complain, except merely that of unnecessary detention. We shall have, under its operation, still too far to travel in search of justice. Our shipping interest and our merchants will still prefer to submit to imposition, when they might successfully protect themselves, if they could do so without inordinate loss of time. We have a section of policemen at present occu pying ground south of Wellington-road and the Prince's Park, a mile and a half from a bridewell, and two miles and a half from the central court. Our eastern divisions are little better situated. Our northern divisions have to travel a mile and a half to Vauxhall-road bridewell with every prisoner, and two miles and a half to prosecute. Such a system cannot work well ; and nothing but a division of the business of the bench, and a separation of the courts in which that business is carried on, will re move the difficulty. We have a few more remarks to offer previously to the next meeting of the Council; but they will keep.. They are important. Since writing the above, we perceive that the following memoaial has been adopted by a number of influential parties, and «ill lie for signature at the Standard, Courier, and Mail offices, and at other place, ; ` TO THE WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE TOWN COUNCIL OF LIVERPOOL Merchants, "The Memorial of the undersigned Tradesmen, and other Inhabitants of Liverpool, " Sheweth, " That your Memorialists perceive that at the next meeting of the Town Council, a motion is to be brought forward for increasing the salary of the Stipendiary Ma gistrate. , " That it has long been their opinion, and that of many of their fellow-townsmen, that a better arrangement of the Magisterial business of the Borough than that now in operation might he come to, by which the administration of justice might be rendered more efficacious and public convenience promoted ; and looking at the great increase about to take place in such business, in part to be created by the coming into operation of the new Sanatory Bill, and in part by the vast extension going on in our Docks and in the inhabited area of the Town, they conceive the present a favourable opportunity of snaking such an ar rangement, which they consider will not be effected merely by the increase of Mr. Rushton's Salary. " At the same time, your Memorialists leave the nature and, details of such arrangements to the wisdom of your Council, satisfied that you will bestow upon their consi deration your earnest attention, and consult to the utmost of your power the promotion of public justice and mo rality within the Borough, and the interests and conve nience of the Constituencies. "And your Memorialists have the honour to remain, TRADE OF LIVERPOOL AND BRISTOL. On Tuesday last, we gave a statement of the arrivals in this port, by which it appeared that in the course of three or four tides, from Saturday Dec. 19th to Monday, we had arrived in this port upwards of 40,000 tons of shipping, about three-fourths from foreign ports, or from our own colonial settlements. On the same date from which our arrivals commenced, the 19th December, the port of Bris tol contained, in all, from foreign parts, 14 vessels, of 5,518 tons. Our own tonnage in port we cannot estimate, so enormously out of proportion was it with that of Bristol; and the bulk of the latter were vessels bringing timber for railway purposes. The arrivals up to Monday morning, the 21st, with which ours of 40,000 tons are to be com pared, are 9 vessels,—aggregate burthen. 1784 tons. On the 22nd the arrivals were "none;" on the 23rd" none;" on the 24th " one," and coasters. Of course the relative charges of the two ports have something to do with the re sult; yet some people complain of our own as excessive, in the face of the fact that timber vessels for Bristol re quire two shillings per load more than if chartered to Liver pool. THE COTTON MARKET.—Yesterday, there was again a good business done, and from 12,000 to 15,000 bales were disposed of, as may be seen from our Cotton cir cular, at prices quite as high as those obtained on Monday fortnight. We perceive from the Gazette of Tuesday that her Majesty has appointed Mr. Richard Harbord, eldest son of Richard Harbord, Esq., of this town, to an ensiency of the 36th Foot, which is under orders to proceed to the lonian Islands. THE LIBERAL (!) MERCURY.—OUT contemporary of the t' paper and a half for sixpence" announces his in- We are not without intimation that, whatever tention to advance (!) his price for subscribers, this year, may be the course taken, with respect to the pro- inasmuch as there will be in it 53 Fridays. This would posed increase of salary to be given to our stipen- have been all very well in a paper ordinarily situated. diary magistrate, an endeavour will be made in A papr i. however, already double the price of the majo rityn generous e t c ; l i s t e s m a i t i )s o e r r a ie e s r s , . might,ii:s casual o a7 n s c a t l , e , , h o a n y e e w b n e u en l 3 e some quarters to relieve that gentlemen from theer o ous ns to extreme pressure of business, which has been urged imagine, was sufficient to secure him from loss, to arise as the ground for such advance, and to provide for from the year being so prodigal of the particular day on which we were the first to advocate a division of which he shines. the duties of the bench. We have heard it sttg- THE PARISH OF LIVERPOOL AND , THE IRISH POOR. Bested, that those cases not involving questions of —The whole of last week, particularly Saturday, and again yesterday, the parish officers in Fenwick-street were be. law,—the drunken and disorderly cases, &c.,— sieged with masses of Irish paupers clamorously waiting should be disposed of by the borough magistrates, for relief. Great difficulty is found in inducing these sitting in a different part of the Sessions House. poor people, most of whom have landed in a miserable There are others, we understand, who would be state of destitution, to be passed back f to theireer afterown disposed to appoint an additional stipendiary, to the country pass ; has sd beenthe cases made a r n e u t b meansy t n ba o ybav e escaped ew , w from' the take, in another of our existing courts, a portion of officer in charge. What with those who are determined the general business now performed by Mr. Rush- to remain here, and with daily fresh arrivals, all in a con. ton. Some of the latter would give the dock and dition of the lowest pauperism, the funds of this parish nautical cases to one magistrate, and the remaining have unprecedented calls upon them, with no prospect business to the other ; and some would act upon wthhaante4viemrooffathmensileisghwteesrtearbealtieemveednt. of Lvrabsntmwebeky nfar fewer tnore our proposition of forming the whole borough, in- than 3000 were Irish. The relief dispensed was 12,000 eluding the docks, into two divisions, hut having still soup tickets, and 10,000 rations of bread, in addition to a central place of judicial authority. By two of these £525 in money. The money payments alone last week projects cheapness appears to be the object sought amounted to £l3O more than was expended in relief in . the of 1815 ; the bread doled out weighed after ; and, by that party who propose to devolve 3 corresponding n o week which, at .11d. per lb , would amount to a portion of his duties entirely upon the borough £23 Bs. 4d.; . Tile soup tickets cost upwards of £5O. Al magistracy, consideration for Mr. Rushton's claim together, mere than £6OO was expended in relief last appears to be the chief one. week. We are given to understand that the expenditure To the latter we feel that little remark need be of the present week will probably exceed thiS amount, addressed. If it is difficult now to get a borough f i rg e t t a s s w i e t r i e s ; g i for ven u o p ut t o yesterda yatt en or a l t e es soP l ai l n 2 2 o B o o f 9o rs n t ua magistrate to give an occasional hour or two to the week, and 2000 rations of beingb read, weighing 6 ounces each, duties of the bench, merely as an assistant to the or after the rate of twelve thousand for the week. The stipendiary, and to fulfil the requirements of the money relief yesterday amounted to £ll5, which, if law, it will be still more so to get those magistrates, it may be estimated as the daily average, would amount we as a body, seriously and regularly to devote their to a X r 6 s 9 n O nn fol; e t h e e ali week called up i o n n etoasiclisehargee ratepayers increased bueens, I time to the public service. If an arrangement i 1 unless some means can be devised to lighten the existing I could even be made that the duty should be taken pressure upon the parochial resources. DESTITUTION IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND The congregation of St. Jude's church are engaged, at this moment, in contributing most liberally, many of them upon principles of self-denial, to the relief of the destitute and starving poor of Ireland in this season of distress and famine. The appeal to them was initiated on Friday and repeated on Sunday by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile. A church collection alone being inadequate to correspond with the vast necessities of the occasion, and there being some difficulties on the subject of a general subscription, the reverend gentleman, from the pulpit, invited the members of his congregation to meet, in order to concert measures to give practical manifestation of charitable sympathy with their suffering fellow creatures. The meeting took place yesterday in the Clarendon rooms. All the leading members of St. Jude's congre gation were present. The attendance consequently was large, and it will be seen, in the course of the proceedings, that the original object of the meeting was enlarged so as to embrace the destitute poor in the highlands of Scot land, whose privations, though less known, areas great as those endured in Ireland. The Rev. Hugh M`Neile took the chair. In the room, besides many others, there were the Rev. Drummond Anderson, Mr. John Pinnington. Mr. Cotesworth, Mr. Win. Jones, Mr. Edward Jones, Mr. S. Woods, jun., Mr. R. W. Preston, Mr. Wynne, Mr. Bell, sen., Mr. Bell, jun., Mr. Pilcher, Mr. John Rigby, Mr. Carlisle, Mr. Langtry, Mr. Parsons, Dr. Taylor, Mr. Ketghtley, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. W. J. Paton, Mr. Stewart Ker, Mr. Skerrett, Mr. Frost, Mr. Bamber, Mr. Townley, Mr. Woodall. Mr. H. J. Webster, Mr. Jones. Mr. M'l\lxiLe opened the proceedings. Assembled as they were, in the midst of providential bleQsings, freely and largely bestowed upon them, to consider the condi tion of those who had been mysteriously deprived of even the common necessaries of life, he proposed that, in the first instance, they should bend their knees before God, to thank Him for his mercies to them, and to implore His blessing upon all they might do for the benefit of others. (Hear.) The whole meeting then devoutly knelt, and the re verend gentleman offered up a most impressive prayer. Mr. M'Nerr.e, in continuation, said, the purpose be fore the meeting simplified itself into three considerations. The first was the reality and extent of the existing dis tress; second, the relief to be supplied by that congrega tion ; and third, the mode of administering that relief. Upon the first of these considerations he need not detain them, because, by public accounts, too painfully authen ticated, they knew the reality, and something of the ex tent, of the existing misery in Ireland. He had himself received private accounts of it, some of which he would read. The reverend gentleman then read the following, among other documents of a similar character:— EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE REV. JAMES STEWART, LISLEE GLEBE, SOUTH OF BANDON (ON THE SEA COAST). Dated 18th December, 1846 ADDRESSED TO THE VERY REV. THE DEAN OF CORK. " We want all the assistance we can get, for our people are nearly starving, they are beginning to be in despair; our hall door is beset by great numbers through the entire day." FROM THE REV JOHN MURPHY Dated Glebe House, Bantu, Dec. 16th, 1846. "You can scarcely form an idea of the state we are in here, — crowds of starving people knocking at the door at all hours with tears running down their faces. At this moment a woman is at my window, saying that her son ( a fine boy) has died of starvation. For two months I have been giving soup to twenty families, but if I had a large boiler and a supply of Indian meal, I could supply a hundred families near me, who are in great want." FROM THE REV. RICHARD WRIGHT, ADRIGOOL PARSONAGE, KILCASKIN PARISH, CASTLETOWN BEREIIAVEN. Nov. lith, 1846. " I really do not know how the poor people exist this fort night past. No work going on in all this parish, and large families without food or money, and no one having means to relieve their poor neighbours as formerly. "The people are trying to live on a meal a day of cabbage or sea weed." FROM THE SAME November 30th "The people are in the most 6ieVciis state of hunger and destitution,. and many in consequence are falling sick, and as many coming for medicine as for food. Many poor farmers are starving as much as the labourers. Their pigs are sold and killed; their lean cows they can get nothing for; they are obliged to eat their seed-corn and potatoes; and they are now selling their hens as their last resource." FROM THE SAME December 9th "Relief and food will be of the utmost importance. A poor child was near dying of hunger yesterday, and brought back to life with the greatest difficulty. Other poor are almost ready . to die, some being almost a day or two without food." FROM THE SAME December 10th "By the relief you sent me several have been kept alive; some sick also have been recovered, and several now lying down are receiving relief. Scarcely a house in which there is not some one sick; the prevailing complaints are pain in the stomach and dysentery,—some become swelled from their feet to their head, and are lingering in that state not expected to recover." FROM REV. W. A. FISHER, RECTOR OF KILMORE, CROOK- HAVEN, 24 MILES WEST OF SKIBBEREEN "The want is'inereasing fearfully. There are over 2400 (young and old) at this moment without any means of support. " With such a mass of misery before us we do not know which way to turn. We raised nearly £lOO in this parish for the relief of the poor, besides vast sums given in other ways. We can scarcely sit down to our meals without two or three hungry faces thrust in at our low little windows craving some thing for God's sake." FROM REV. DR. TRAILL, RECTOR OE SKULL, 12 MILES Dated 15th December, 1846. "In this large . parish, the poor are in a state of great dis traction ; the misery here will soon be beyond description We shall be swept with the besom of destruction." FROM THE REV. RCIIIVIRT OLIVER, CITRATE CIF mVunct, FOUR MILES EAST OF SKIBBEREEN. Dated 21 oth December, 1846. "Indeed no language can convey an adequate idea of the state in which the people are here : feeding them is out of the question. We can only endeavour to keep them alive, and prevent them from falling at our doors. `• We have a soup-boiler, and are doing every thing we can to meet the present awful visitation." He need not :delay the proceedings by reading letters of this kind, for the details from every locality were sub stantially identical. They all told of real physical desti tution, leading to starvation and death. It remained therefore for him to proceed to the second branch of the subject, the relief to be supplied ; on which he would ask some of his practical friends, who understood details of business, to make some practical suggestions both as to the mode of arranging the committee among themselves for obtaining relief, and as to the mode of transmitting it when so obtained. MR. COTESWORTH said, that on Friday, after hearing the address of the Rev. Chairman, the congregation of St. Jude's held a meeting, in order to consider the best mode of affording relief to the destitute poor in Ireland. Two modes were suggested. The first was to request that a towns meeting might be convened, and the other to call upon their own congregation alone. After mature consi deration the opinion was unanimous that it would be bet ter to have a congregational subscription, because, by that means, they would have an opportunity of satisfactorily directing its distribution. He therefore thought they could not do better than to have a congregational sub scription, in the hope that the example would be followed by others. Mr. WNEILE said the observations of Mr. Cotes worth were most important. There were always people in this evil world ready to take advantage of the distress of others ; and there had been abuses in the administra tion of public money. which it was desirable to avoid in the application of private funds. The only way to do so was to employ parties in the various localities, upon whom dependence could be placed—real Christian men who would feel it a blessed privilege to administer what might be sent to them. This would be better done by a congregational collection than by a towns meeting. At the same time, he hoped that, althongh the present was to be a congregational collection, it would not end there, and that, without any exultation, they would be the means of provoking others to emulation in this good work. Yesterday (Sunday) £3OO was collected in Dr. Rafoes's chapel. He was glad of it. He had himself just received a £5O note from a friend who was unable to attend the meeting, and also an interesting communication from Messrs. Milner and Son. It was as follows : " Our workmen have foregone their Christmas supper this year, and by this sacrifice upon their part, they enable us to place in your hands 50 towards any fund that may be raised for the relief of our poor Irish brethren ; and they heartily join us in an invitation to every trading and mantifacturin, establishment to take the same course." The reading of this passage elicited much applause. Mr. W JONES read a letter from the Rev. Dennis Brown, of Enniskillen, suggestive of the utility of confid ing the subscriptions to individual direction. Mr. M'NEILE here stated that Mr. Pinnington had handed him a £5O note, accompanied with one important observation. Mr. Pinnington hoped no distinction would he made, either of creed or party, in the distribution of the funds. Of course there would be no distinction made; and it was in order to prevent this evil they were so cautious into whose hands they placed the money. Thei, friends in Ireland would make no such distinctions, neither would they themselves ; but whilst making no distinctions of creed or party, they wished to guard against abuse. Unfortunately, they had all heard distressing ac counts of what had occurred in the way of abuse. In one instance labouring men were furnished with work by the Relief Committee of the district by means of tickets. The members of the Relief Committee were each supplied with a number of tickets, which they gave to the poor men, who, on presenting them, received employment. It turned out that the priest of a parish, who was a member of a relief committee, sold the tickets he had received to poor men for Id. each, and securing one penny for him. self. This bras an abuse of which he believed no minister of the Church of England, or any dissenting minister would have been guilty. He did not mention the fact in the way of volunteering a charge ; but, as arising from the observation of Mr. Pinnington, he thought it impor tant to say the care of the committee would he to send the money collected to parties whom they knew would make no difference on account of creed or party. (Hear.) Mr. PINNINGTON—If the people are hungry let them all be fed. (Hear.) Mr. M'NEILE—That is our own practice. (Hear.) It is painful to be obliged to mingle the object we have in view with such considerations; but painful things are oftentimes forced upon us by unkind observations in other quarters. Some of us are characterised as harsh and un kind towards our Roman Catholic fellow-creatures, whereas, in truth, there is no harshness or unkindness in us towards them. You have all, perhaps, seen a paragraph in the papers with regard to my brother and myself in our conduct towards our tenants. I would add to that paragranh this fact, that every one of those tenants of mine is Roman Catholic—every one of them. (Hear, hear.) A GENTLEMAN suggested that clothing should be con tributed as far as possible, as it was next, in point of necessity, to food. If gentlemen would give of their clothing it might readily be made up and sent off to Ire land, where it would be found exceedingly useful. This suggestion was warmly received. The following acting committee was then appointed Mr. C. Bell, Mr. Wm. Jones, Mr. Coteswortb, Mr. Preston, Mr. Webster (treasurer,) with the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, and the Rev. Drummond Anderson. Mr. STEWART KER suggested that whilst subscriptions were being received for the destitute in Ireland, sub scriptions should also be received for the destitute in Scotland, who were undergoing eival privations. He was sure that, if this suggestion were adopted, there would not be a shilling less contributed for the poor Irish. The suggestion was agreed to unanimously, contributors being requested to state what portion, if any, of their gifts they wished to be sent to Scotland ; and as this ex tension of the original object would cause additional labour. Mr. Stewart Key and Mr. Keightley were added to the committee. Mr. COTESWORTH recommended gentlemen to induce the ladies of the congregation to use their influence in this good work. Mr. M'NEILE added that, although the present was a congregational collection, the committee would receive the subscriptions of any other persons who might wish to avail themselves of their means of distribution. The contributions sent in during the proceedings were then cast up, and the amount was found to be a few shillings more than £4BO. At the close of business hours yesterday afternoon, the amount contributed by members of St. Jude's congrega tion had reached to within a fraction of £5OO. MR. WILLIAM EARLE, OURSELVES, AND STARVATION IN LIVERPOOL On Tuesday last we had the painful task to record the death of a poor fellow creature from starvation, in this wealthy town. We did more than that. We proclaimed the fact in letters such as " he who runs may read," in our placard of the day. Mr. William Earle appears to be one of these running readers of every matter which does not happen to square with his own notions of fitness, social or political; and at the 'Vestry meeting of Tuesday he complained of such a statement being made ; said it was unworthy of any respectable newspaper to circulate it, and admitted that he had only read the account in our placard. It was however stated to him, that accordine to clear medical testimony the fact was as we had stated ; and he was then silent on that particular case. With res pect to another case, however, in which it bad been re ported that a man had died in bridewell from starvation, Mr. Earle was very jocular upon the fact that the poor victim, at the time of his death, had five shillings in his pocket. Now we happen to know something of this same five shillings, from a correspondent, upon whose word we can place implicit reliance. The poor man in question was found by our correspondent in a dying state in Tithebarn street, surrounded by a crowd of people. With the assis tance of two policemen, he was taken with his children to a neighbouring cook-shop, and soup was ordered to be administered to him immediately. His children eagerly grasped the offered meal ; but the poor man himself wa too weak to raise it to his mouth; and, in the expressiv language of our correspondent, " had to be assisted to like a helpless child." Some little nourishment was thus given him ; after which our correspondent, having pressing engagement, left two shillings and sixpence with the woman of the cook-shop for his relief, and received the promise of the two policemen that they would see him attended to. He was conveyed to bridewell as the only available place ; and there he was found dead the fol lowing morning ! He had five shillings in his pocket, Mr. Earle says, at the time of his death. Half-a-crown we have accounted for; and our correspondent suggests that he may have received more from other wi'nesses of his weakened state. There is nothing wonderful, however, in a man dying with five shillings in his pocket, who is so near death as to be unable to lift to his mouth the food that five shillings will purchase. Mr. Earle could indulge in his flippant incredulity of the truth of a statement of this poor man's death on Tuesday ; yet, possibly, at the very moment he was doing so another human being was breathing her last, whose death, from starvation on Tuesday, is recorded in our columns this day. Mr. Earle--a vestryman —a liberal— cannot believe that people die from want of food in a town where there is wealth, and—a workhouse/ Facts, how ever, are stubborn things, against which Mr. Earle'sjokes even rebound, and strike their utterer. Would that they could awaken in him a greater regard for manliness of character, and a little more kindliness of feeling! In concluding our remarks upon this sad case, we must state that we regard very lightly Mr. Earle's attack upon ourselves, for having performed our duty by giving it publicity. In matters like these we shall never study Mr. Earle's peculiar tastes. Pictures at the exhibition of the Liverpool Academy have been sold this year to the amount of £l7OO. HANDSOME COLLECTION.—On Sunday morning last, after a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Reifies, the munificent sum of £3OO was collected at Great George-street Chapel for the rtlief of the distressed Irish. SCREW STEAM SHIP.—The second steam ship be longing to the line of vessels between this port and Cork which are propelled on the screw principle, will be on the station e,rlv in January. THE GREAT BRITAIN.—The Londonderry papers of Saturday state confidently that Captain Coppin of that town has, after all, been engaged by the directors to get off this noble steam-ship. The Bristol Mirror, however, Bays, that final arrangements have been made by the di rectors with Mr. Brunel, the eminent engineer. ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH.—The Rev. George Cuth bert, who recently held the curacy of Christ Church, in this town, has resigned the incumbency of the church at Ducktnfield, to which he was appointed by the Bishop. and has accepted the incumbency of St. Matthew's Church, Key-street. This will be gratifying intelligence to the poor of that densely-crowded locality. SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday, an inquest was held on view of the body of Maria Wood, of Back Kensington, Kirkdale, aged 70. She was found in her bedroom on Saturday, lying on her back on the floor, quite dead. A post mortem examination was made, when it appeared that she had died from disease of the lungs, the result of natural causes. IMPORTS OF FOREIGN GRAIN, &C., REPORTED AT THE LIVERPOOL CUSTOM -HOUSE, FROM THE 19TH TO THE 26TH INSTANT. INCLUSIVE : - Wheat, 78,921 bushels ; Flour, 68,122 barrels : Indian corn, 195,317 bushels; Indian Corn, 2.261 quarters; Indian corn, 9,880 sacks ; Indian meal, 4,862 barrels. In addition, the ar rivals of other food, principally American, is very large. On Sunday morning last, the sum of £4B was collected at St. Jude's Church in aid of the fund for maintaining the schools in connection with the church. This collec tion, in addition to the annual sermons, has been rendered necessary in consequence of the indispensably large ex penditure for the efficient working of the schools, which are found to be of the very greatest benefit to the increas ing number of poor in this populous district. _ _ . . THE CORPORATIONWATER BILL.--RUMOUTSareabrolld that the plans prepared by the Corporation to obtain a supply of water from the source suggested by Mr. Hawkesley, are, or will be abandoned, The difficulties in the way of a cheap and constant supply from the dis trict described in the parliamentary notices, and in the deposited plans, are said to be impracticable in reference to the town of Liverpool. ACCIDENT AT THE NORTH DOCK WORKS.—Yester day, an inquest was held on view of the body of William Turner, a driver o' one of the waggons employed at the new docks. About eight weeks ago, deceased was crushed between two waggons, one of which was running fast. He was taken to the Nothern Hospital, and afterwards to his house in Lightbody-street, where he died, from the inju ries, on Sunday last. Verdict, " Accidental death." BRAZILIAN ORANGES.—Mr. Fletcher, fruit broker, offered for sale on Wednesday last, a quantity of oranges, the production of the Brazils, part of the cargo of the steam-ship Antelope. This was the first offer, in this port, of this delicious fruit from the continent of South America, and there was a numerous attendance. There serve of the importers prevented a sale at auction, but we understand that the importation was disposed of pri vately. Further importations will follow ; and those who know the quality of the fruit have sanguine expectations of a considerable trade in it. THE WEATHER.—On Sunday the weather continued severe, but scarcely so cold as on previous days. The roads, however, in our various outskirts were very slip pery, and the horses in many of our omnibuses, not be ing sharped, came down. At twelve on Sunday night we had the commencement of a shower of rain and hail, which lasted for a few hours, and then froze again ; and on Monday morning the whole town and its approaches were covered with a sheet of ice. To state the casualties which occurred at the early part of the day from falls — some of them serious ones, attended with severe injuries —is quite beyond our power, though we give a few else where. In the afternoon of yesterday a drizzling shower of moisture came down, which has continued up to the time at which we write ; and although we can scarcely say with certainty that the frost has gone, our roads and streets have become safe to traverse. During nearly tile whole of the two days the river has been enveloped in fog. THE STEAMER ANTELOPE.—This splendid steamer, constructed on the screw principle, whose passages to and from the Brazils within a shorter period than the govern ment packet, were amply noticed in our last, is now in the graving dock, having parts of her machinery strength ened. This vessel is the nucleus of a line of steamers between Liverpool and Rio, which will tend materially to consolidate our commercial intercourse with the empire of Brazil. The Emperor, who visited the ship, instead of merely taking a glass of water on board, as represented in some of the accounts, partook of a splendid luncheon. His Majesty expressed the greatest admiration at the feat of the Antelope turning in a space of water equal to little more than her own length. A paddle steamer which preceded her in part of the excursion round the bay, was totally unable to accomplish a similar object, and had to steam some distance stern foremost. The principle of the screw in steam navigation may now be pronounced established. A POLICEMAN FINED AND DISCHARGED.—At the police court yesterday, police officer No. 100, named Skillicorn, was placed in the bar, charged by Inspector Gregg with being drunk while on duty and assaulting him. Mr. Gregg said that early that (Monday) morning he met the prisoner in Pembroke place, and observing that he was in liquor said he would report him, and told him to go to the station in Hotham-street. The prisoner before he complied (said witness) aimed a blow at the witness, which he avoided, and fell duwn in doing so, the street being remarkably slippy. Prisoner afterwards went to the station and saw Mr. Superintendent Leverett, who also was of the same opinion —that he was drunk. Mr. Gregg afterwards went to the station, and when he entered the prisoner took up a large inkstand that was on the desk, and flung it at him with great violence, but it missed him. The prisoner denied that he lifted the stick to Mr. Gregg to strike him, but that it was accidentally done, and that he too fell from the ice at the time. It did appear that they had both fallen. An inspector stated that the pri soner bad been six years in the force, and was a good offi cer, but sometimes addicted to drink. Mr. Rushton said he could not be . a good officer if he were so addicted, and for assault with the inkstand and getting drunk, he was dismissed the force, and fined 40s. and costs, or in de- , fault of payment to be imprisoned one month. Dec. 29, 1846. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS) LONDON CORN EXCFIAN3E.-YESTERDAY, At this day's maket the supply of English Wheat was only moderate, and met a brisk sale at a further advance of 2s. to 3s. per quarter over the currency of this day week. The foreign is held for a similar improvement, and there is still a good demand for shipment to Ireland, but the rapid ad vance has somewhat checked business. Barley, M alt, Peas, and Beans are all Is. to 2s. dearer. On r arrivals' of o'ats keep pace with our consumptive de mand, and, although an improvement of Is. per quarter w a s generally required, the trade was inactive and slow at the ad vance, which mostly applies to foreign. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY. The Beef trade was somewhat active, at an advance in the quoTatione of 2d. per 81b., the primest Scots readily producing . . 4s. 5d., and at which a 7ood clearance Arm effected. The beast; were principally derived from the northern and midland coun ties. The numbers of Sheep were very scanty, owing to which-the Mutton trade was very firm, at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond last week's prices. In Calves a steady business wss doing, at extreme rates; while Pigs were in good demand, at somewhat enhanced cur rencies. MONEY MARKET.-YESTERDAY, There has been no change in the position of public securities from the close of Saturday. Consols have been at 04* z for the opening, with very few transactions dvring the morning. The Reduced Three per Cents. have been done at 94i 1, and the Three-and-Quarter per Cents. of 95Z, 96i. Exchequre-bills are 8 11 pm., and Bank Stock 206. The accounts from Ireland at length begin to excite apprehension as to the financial effect which the government expenditure must produce on the market. LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM INDIA AND CHINA. On yesterday, advices were received, via Marseilles, from India and China. The dates are—Bombay, Nov. 16 ; Calcutta, Nov. 8 ; Madras, Nov. 13 ; and Hong Kong, Oct. 30. The Cashmere troubles are over. A letter from the camp of Sir John Littler, dated November 1, intimates that the advancing force had been ordered to retire, the insurgent chiefs having submitted. The misunderstand ings at Mooltan hate been satisfactorily arranged, and the Dewan, having been re-invested with authority, has by this time returned to his capital and resumed his authority. There is every reason to believe that our armies will have left Lahore ere the first day of the new year, and that the treaty of Umritsur will be thoroughly carried out. Seven thousand men are about to be withdrawn from Scinde, which is tranquil and healthy. From China the news is interesting. A conflict had taken Pace between the Chinese and Portuguese at Macao. in relation to fiscal and general regulations, in the course of which several of the Chin-se "fast-boats" had been burned and sunk. Order had been restored in conse quence of the firmness of the Portuguese governor. THE UNITED STATES By the T. S. Sears, Captain Eleridge, arrived at this Port, yesterday, we have received, from Captain Johnson, arrived at Havre, advices from New York to the 4th inst. inclusive. The papers contain no new intelligence respecting the Mexican war. Reinforcements were being forwarded, and there was a good deal of complaint as to the badness of the means of transport provided, and the hardships which the army had to endure, Mr. Webster had been feted at Philadelphia, and in a speech of enormous length had passed in review the acts and omisions of the Polk Administration, the conclusion of the Oregon Treaty, the annexation of Texas, the adop tion of the new tariff, and the war with Mexico, with no friendly hand. He was received with immense applause, and it would seem that both in Philadelphia and elswhers the prospects of the Whigs were good. Mr. M'Duffie had resigned his seat in the senate on the score of ill health. The Stock Market was heavy, and all descriptions fell off in price. Exchanges were firm, without any particular dem-ind. The sales of cotton had been moderate, in con seouence of the unfavourable state of the weather, bat price swere very firm. PORTUGAL Advices were received in London yesterday to the 17th instant, from Lisbop. Oporto was in possession of the The Duke of Terceira was still incarcerated. insurgents THE LARGEST AND MOST POWERFUL ENGINE EVES BUILT.—An engineer in South Wales has constructed a locomotive with eight wheels, all connected. The mon ster both in apearance and power climbs up inclines very unfavourable, with loads that entirely baffle engines of any other construction. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY, 2Sth DEcamasn.—Wind S., light, ARRIVED.—Mason, Upshur, from New York— Rockshire, Evans, Quebee—Clementina, Symonds, St. Michaers--Rob.the- Ranter, from Sicily, and Farmer's Lass, from London. SAILED.—Union Cosmostellano. Ferret's. for Cadiz—Katinka. Casely, Azores—Russia, Preble, Philadelphia—Astrucan, Ford, and Yucatan. Caseley, New Orleans—Dora, Quick, St. Michaels —Chatham, Ballantine, Hong Kong—Grou\'ille, Touzel, Rio Grande—Woodpecker, Williams, Jamaica—Mose, —, Africa — Rattlesnake. Stauford, Trieste—and New World, Skiddy, New York. T. W. Sears, Eldridge, from New York at this port; sailed 4th December. Elizabeth Hughes, Mullen, from Havana, and Viredia, Wood ruffe. from Miramichi at Cove. • Henry Winch, from Valparaiso off Mumbles. Guicechan, Phillips, hence at Bombay id Nov. Blair, Newby, hence at Bombay 13th Nov. Bella Marina, Wood, sailed from Bombay Ist Nov.; Hindos tan, Lamb, 3d, and Calder, Campbell, 7th Nov., all for this port, and Inglewood, Smith, 10th Nov., for China. Earl of Lonsdale, Peel, hence at Calcutta 2th Oct. Anna Henderson, Cole, and Athol, Lang, hence at Calcutta 29th Oct. Robert Pulsford, Hoodless, and Duchess of Clarence, Birch, hence at Calcutta Ist Nov. Amoza, henbe at Hong Kong :4th October. Sanderson, hence at Hong Kong 28th Oct. Bonanza, -, hence at Lima. Helena, sailed from Shanghae for Manilla I3th Sept., and Li therland, for Cork, 25th Sept. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC The market closed on Thursday last (Saturday being a 1;oli day) with an improved tone and an advanced price; and this morning the attendance of buyers was very considerable, about 12,C00 to 15,000 bales having been sold at very full prices ; many say it is quite as high as this day fortnight—(the excited day o. 45,0110 bales ;)—however the tone is very firm, and cotton not freely shown. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, DEC. 28 The supply of stock at our market to-day has been smaller than of late, and with a numerous attendance of customers, the whole, or nearly so, met with a quick sale at a shade of advance in price from our last statement. Beef Sid. to 6id. per lb.; Mutton 64d. to 6id. BIRTH. On the 2nd instant, at madeira, the widow of the lato RAYNES WAITE DICKSON, of this town, of a son. DIED. On the 28th November, at Madeira, aged 30, RAYNE3 WAITE DICKSON, of this town, youngest son of William Dickson, Esq., Beethom, Westmoreland. On the S2d instant, highly respected and regretted, aged 76 years, JOHN LOWRY, Esq., formerly of Bunker's Hill, near Carlisle, and acting magistrate for the county. Yesterday, in the 67th year of his age, after a long and painful illness, Mr. GEORGE NICKSON, sen., formerly of Stafford. TUESDAY, the 29th Soups—Afacearoni, Gravy, Mock Turtle, and Mutton Broth. Fish—Codfish, Haddock, and Soles. One o'clock.—Roast Beef, Boiled Leg of Mutton _Pigeon Pie, and Harricot Mutton. Three o'clock.—Boiled Chickens, Hashed CaNes' Head, and Roast Lamb. Fire o'clock.—Broiled Turkey, Oyster Sat Shoulder of Mutton. and Roast and Mince Pi( '-pint of fine Amontillado, Sherri - , or fall-flavoured Port ; Pint, 2s. Quart, 4s. The RESTAURANT is open on SUNDAYS. Dinners from One to Six o'clock. Ladies will find the RESTA URA.NT a most comfortable House to call at Soaps. Oxtail. WEDNESDAY, the 30th. —Maccaroni, Mutton Broth, Mock Turtle, Gravy, and Fish—Soles, Codfish, and Whiting. One o'clock.—Roast Leg of Mutton, Boiled Turkey, JuggedP Hare, and Pigeon Pie. Thi•ce o'cl6A.—Roast Beef, Boiled Leg. of Mutton, Roast Goose, Roast Fowl, and Lamb. Fire o'clock—Roast Saddle of Mutton, Rabbit Pie, and Beef steak Pie. Rice Pudding Lt of Fine Amontillado Is.; Fint, and Mince Pies. Sherry, or Full-flavoured Port, ; Quart, 48. 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