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isse m ,,... rd its[' II 27, 18.;5. trade of low and unprincipled politics is pushed as far as it can go; and it is singular enough that some of the vilest of.the London journals sell for a higher price than either the Standard or the Times. We do not go the length of Lord BROUGHAM in asserting that the pressure of the stamp tax has given rise to the ithmense number of trashy unstamped publications which are now seen every where. The stamp had nothing to do with it. They owe their origin, in great part, to the bad example set by Lord BROUGHAM himself. We never considered the Penny Magazine to be anything else than a fraud upon the newspapers. His lordship's magaiine was tb?ver intended for, and, by his ownadmission, is hardly ever read by the labouring classes. It.is all very well to inform certain persons how silk" worms how 'cold the ocean is at certain depths, how pearl oysters are dived for, and how wild cattle are caught in South Xtnerica. But this - is not the reading which the wOrk iag man wants. He desireS to know when " our member', spoke in the house, what he said, who attacked him, who elieered him, who laughed at him. He Wants to know what was done at the assizes, at the sessions, : and at' public meetings ; who were tried, condemned, or - quitted ; who are belt,* who are Married, who have died. * A native of Cornwall or Devonshire, if lo cated at a distance, .readS with the greatest avidity :the first accounts of the :pilchard fishery. A sailor reads the sailings, the speakirigs, the arrivals, the shipwrecks. _ILI short the Penny Magazine contained everything but what was really most sought for; and the consequence was that other poachers enteted the field. Lord BROUGHAM has* been fairly beaten by his imitators. Such Publications, if tolerated, will always abound, whether the stamp be four-pence or - . four far things. It is riot the faul(of the newspapers that' they exist, but of the, - stampLoffieg„ . which during t)e whig atlininiatration did any thing but its duty, particAarly in the provinces. . . But there is a still more important argument in favour Of cheap newspaperi, ,and it is this. .The working man .seldorri or never reads a, newspaper in his own house. Re cannot afford to buy one. He accordingly reads it in . the - public house or beer Am): ,He has ale for three- Peace, - and news for nothing nothing as he thinks. But it is the. dearest news possible. if a ..newspaper could he sold for four-pence it ,would be sure to find its way into catagei where a newspaper has, perhaps, never been seen. The mechaMicand labourer would then read it by. the light of their own fires. If this could be accom plished a great moral improvement would be the result, Which wouldamply,.coMpensate for all the evils which are dreaded, *even shoUld they arise, v , ,:tich, as we have said before, is a delusion. The House of Comtngtis is beginning to experience the effects of having a Speaker who does not understand, or who has not the courage to perform, his duties: On Monday night the . performances were of a tragi-comical nature . . The.member for Bath, who is a sort of political flunkey to Mr.. Josarn HuME , protested. against being Shot. Nobody was meddling with hini—no one threat ening.4im—no one snapping . apistol pointed 'at the place commonly belie'ved to hold the brains. To calm the se. riot's apprehensions of Mr. ROEBUCK the house ought to Pass a resolution that to Shoot any gentlemen with this Odd name, out of seiuon, is felony, but pehaps Mr. IfustE, to protect his friend, will re-enact the old . game laws. We dO not think, after all, that there is much aanger. . An Irish member of the name of BARRON made a very coarse attack.upon ministers, but he was neatly . set down by Sir HENRY HARDINGE, who told him, in language that he quite understooi, that he, Sir HENRY, would not submit to such "vulgar impertinence." Colonel Ev.ltcs . took up the cause of the opposition, but he was exceed ingly tame. The secretary for :Ireland is not a man to lake 'anyliberties'with,--andThegallant 'colonel knows it. These alteioaacins 'not have taken place if the speaker [lid - done his duty. He suffered ;Ur. BARUON to use the mosiunparliainentarylangUage,,and he only in "terfered'Whers it was too late. howeVer, is the way to compel the Whig-radical faction to pay some regard to good nanners. They have .( 11 :etniia . tirig for th4la'Si three ar I now that all hot of displacing the ministry is at an end, they are positiVely desperate and Mad, They.have little or no thing to urge against the nresures of Sir ROBERT PEEL, but they give loose to theiv vexation and their spleen in violent personal inyectives.. , The right honourable ba ronet hoWeVeilia;;; We susp ect, silenced Milo; for the BA:RIION is also muzzled ; O'CONNELL is inelaneholy ; RUTHII2!`: has been turned out of one, house in Ireland, ancl,he is about to be turned out of another in England ; so that the " tail" are by nnmeans, at present; in the best of spirits. _ 'An attack Upon the press was meditated by the Whigs °n - Tuesday night, in the Commons. The Times and Morning Post had published certain documents in their own defence, Which went pretty far to prove that Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON was guilty of the mean vice of falsehood. The Post boldly accused him of it; but Sir EDWARD, instead of calling the Post out, made known his wrongs to the house; and was taken under the pro tection of Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The noble lord, brim fullrof conceit and importance, gave notice that he would bring the important snbjed under the consideration of the house on Wednesday. Wednesday came, and the Poet was to be cut. down. The whigs are the best friendS of the press, and Lord JoRN was to prove it, by pommelling the printer, and "upsetting the coach" of our excellent contemporary. It was a shocking breach of privilege to charge a whig withlalsehood,.and dire was to have been the penalty. Meanwhile, and before the sun had got over the main- . Yard of Wednesday; Lord . JOHN" discovered That what Sir EDWARD cotnplained of as a breach of privilep was no breach at all ! The charge had reference, not to a s Peech delivered in parliament, but to a private letter written by Sir EDWARD . to . Mr. G. R. DAWsoN. The Mouse of Commons had no jurisdiction—the prosecutor waatiot in the proper court.' - The terminating scene . on Wednesday evening in the Louse was highly comical. It had all been rehearsed in the morning, and it was, of course, well acted. First appeared the hero of Navnrino, 'who begged the noble lord, as a particular avour to himself, not to proceed with his motion. Not a word was said as to the mistake. Lord JOHN thus appealed to, consented to withdraiv it. The farce then ended. How ridiculous, if not contemptible, must all thi. bake the parties hi the eyes of the people of England! C ORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN SIR. ROBT. 'PEEL AND MR. HUME. A reference to our parliamentary report will more fully explain Loa expressions to which the following letters refer :-- • .. • " House of Commons, March 20, Friday Evening. "Sir,—ln the course of the debate this evening I understood ro to make use of expressions of which the purport was, that ,was pursuing a course in respect to the measure then under "lscussion that was inconsistent With the conduct of a man of L "Thinking it probable that such expressions fell from you Hi eonsiderately; and in the warinth of debate, I gave you the "Pportunitv of recalling them, by an appeal to you in the house. . I could not with propriety pursue the subject further at the t ine, but I am confident that you will feel that the expressions ?.1 which complain are uot consislent with the usages of par 'lament, and not warranted by the fieedom of debate, and that You will therefore nut hesitate to disavow them as applied to me. " 1 have the honour to be, Sir, your obedientserrant, "Joseph nume, Esq., M . P. " "ROBERT PEEL." " House of Commons, March 20. fiir —I expressed myself in the debate, to the best of my teeolle c ti on , strongly condemnatory of the conduct of the go verunient of which ydu are the headjuasinueh as you and your party bad objected to and. rejected the bill of last set,sion- for, settling the tithes of Ireland, as inconsistent with the welfare ()! the country; and -I added, t hat I did not consider it honour able to have done so, and then to come down, as you had now 4 °°e, to propose a measure every way similar. When you appealedthe house as to the words I 0 11 used, and whether I intended to. cast imputations on your ,°ooor, m y i mme di ate answer was, t h at I cou ld not say what .our feeli ngs o f h onour were, b ut t h at I , as a political man, should not have considered it honourable conduct had so acted. "It is, therefore, quite clear in my recollection, that whilst I tr!ade my observations in allusion to what I W.uld have done, I did t • h ad ° • impugn your honour as a gentleman in the course you taken, as the views you take of your political duty are doubt 7,bg as pure as my own, or those of any other member, although' v Tr political conduct be the reverse of mine. f„ r t r i am not aware, therefore, that you bad any just grounds gent l i nderstauding my'expressions to impugn your honour as a ch a ' e man. I had no intention to make any such personal sO !Re; and I regret that in the heat of debate I should have expressed myself as to convey a meaning I did not intend. "I remain your obedient servant, " JOSEPH HUME." 'bight Hun. Sir Robert Peel, M.P." LIVERPOOL POLICE REPORT. Monday.--BefOre the M A you and Mr. Alderman ROBINSON. Ax OLD OFFEN ogit.—An elderly disorderly, in the person of a decrepid female, with a gin struck countenance, was placed before the magistrates on a charge of drunkenness and riot. It appeared from the evidence of the nightly ceniprehender, that Charlotte Thompson, the prisoner, had, on the previous night, whilst influenced by the evil spirit, gin, created a great disturb- • since in the streets, to the annoyance of all peaceably disposed personi. The - charge being proved, the magistrate inquired whether the prisoner was an old offender. Oh no, your wor ship, said the prisoner, I'm not, I hasn't been in Bridewell this fortnight. On the bridewell keeper referring to the black book, it appeared that the present was the prisoner's seventy-sixth appearance before the magistrates. She had been discharged eighteen days ago, and upon calculating.the different terms of imprisonmentto which she had.beeu sentenced, since her debut. at the police-oftice. it tvas found that no less than seven years.of her existence had been spent within the walls of a prison. An extra mouth was in consequence conceded to her, VIOLENT STREET RoßßEßY.—Patrick M'Daniel, a fellow of forbidding appearance, was charged with robbing a man named Hugh Williams of two sovereigns, fifteen shillings, and a watch. It appeared fmm the, evidence hat the complainant, a few nights ago, got intoxicated at a public-house in Standish-street. He left there about eight o'clock to go home; and as soon as he got outside be . was kubcked down by two men, who robbed him of the money and watch. He was so much in liquor, that he could not identify the men, but a little Rirl, who was playing in the neighbourhOod, and saw the transaction, ,described their,per-- sons to the pellte officers; and the prisonel, who had been in the public-house with'the complainant, was apprehended. The girl swore to his identity, and the magistrates remanded him for further examination. •- . ArrumeT AT BURGLARY.—TWO men in the dress of sailors, the one named Jones and the other Williams, were charged with attempting to commit a burglary in the house of a Mr. Marshall, in Sparling-street. Mr. M - arshall, it appears, was awoke at an early hour in the morning by a noise in his. yard. Ile opened the window, and saw the prisoner Jonas and another man, whoni he supposed to be Williams, snaking their escape over the wall, He gave the alarm, and prisoner was taken into custody. by the watchman. The.other prisoner was sitting on a step in the street opposite to the yard, and as Jones claimed an acquaintance with him, he also was apprehended. On examin ing the yard door, thelock was found to have been forted by a crow-bar. The prisoners having been asked If they had any thing to urge in their defence, Jones said that " he was the chap chat did it, the other prisoner being a perfect stranger to him.'.' .It further appeared from the evidence of Mr. Street, a brideweli-keeper,, that Williams lodged opposite to where the robbery has enturnitted. He was quite drunk at the time, and in such a state thakit was impossible he conkllet over the wall. He belonged to the ship Hamilton, of NewAork, which sailed on Sunday. Under these circumstances Williams was dis charged, -andlones, who is a• notorious thief, was committed for trial. Pick txo POCKETS.—Two lads, named Jolin Fogo and Wm. Crowther, were committed for trial for pickiiig a gentleman's pocket of a silk handkerchief, in St. John's Market, on Satur day last. YESTERDAY:—(Before the MAYOR and Mr: Alderman PETER BouttNE.) • PICKING POCKETS.—A young lad named Moore, well known to the police as an experienced pickpocket, was charged by Mr. Tate, • the master of a 'vessel, with abstracting a silk handker chief from his pocket the same morning. It appeared from the evidence of the. complainant that he was walicmg along South John-street, at about ton o'clock, when a young Man stepped up to him and said that some boys who had just passed appeared to have picked his pocket. He felt, and missed his handkerchief and, perceiving the lads running towards Castle-street, he Tan after them and overtook the prisoner, in •Whose•possession he found it. In answer to a question from the magistrate, the com plainant said that he was about going to sea, and therefore it would be inconvenient for him to appear at the sessions. Under these circumstances the •prisoner was committed for three months, as a roue and vagabond. STEALING COTTON.—George Wilde, a young man lately em ployed by Messrs. Stock, the cotton brokers, of Exchange buildings, was charged with stealing 2 01 bs. weight of cotton, the property of Messrs. Stock. Mr. Stock, jun., said that at about four o'clock yesterday afternoon, as he was leaving the warehouse, he observed the prisoner, who was not then in their employ, carrying a small bag of cotton out at thecloor: - He asked him what he was doing with it, and he_ answered that he was taking it to Hughes, the warehousemen. He 'asked him where Hughes -was, and he did not appear to know. He then•suspected the prisoner was steal ing it, and, on questioning him more closely, he acknowledged that Hughes had not sent him for it. Samuel Lloyd, the constable, was sent for, and the prisoner given into custody.—Cominitted. ROBBERY,B Y. A SEIIVANT.—A young woman of decent ap pearance, named Allice Bandrich, employed as a domestic ser vant with a •Mrs. Stewart, of Lambert-street, was charged with stealing a quantity of wearing. apparel, the property of her em- Oyer. Front the evidence it • appeared that on the 12th of February lust, a.' coat; waistcoat, some shirts, and other articles of.wearing.apparel were missing from. the complainant's house, and it was supposed that thieves had entered the premises and stolen them. : The prisoner was consequently not suspected;' but, a few days ago, a pawn-ticket was found in her possession, and, a constable having been sent for, he took her into custody,. and subsequently ascertained that she had pledged all the ar ticles stoles}, with a pawnbroker named 3°11e5...7-Committed. EXTENSION OF STEAM NAVIGATION. (From a Correspondent.) In the spring of 1834 a light steam-boat wa,s built at Nantes for the navigation of the upper portion of the tiver Loire.' This vessel is built entirely of iron, the plates or planking beiriune-: eleventh of an. inch in thickness ; the vessel's gunwale - an d keel are of comiitOn iron bars, as it is very difficult and expensive to get angle iron in-France. The iron portion of the sides ,of this boat is two feet six inches high; the entire length of the boat is ninety-one French feet, and the bieadth ten and a half French feet at stem; and ten and a quarter feet at stern ; the Paddle wheel is .. eleveti feet in diameter, and three feet in breadth, ,tid has a dip of Mr - inettes. 'The boat, with wattr the - bOrler, coal (something under two tons) sufficient for a voyage of seventy-two miles, even wine and provisions fhr the restauraute, &c., draws barely ten. French inches water ; and. with the largest cargo . she has yet carried, viz., 1.111 passengers, luggage, &c., ' she has never drawn more than fourteen inches French mea sure, just eq,aal to fourteen and three-quarters The personn - who planned end built this boat,. Mr,. Alexander Thomson, (fOrmerly. of Lanarkshire,- - Scotland,) states the en tire weight of the boat, engine, machinery, and,fittings.nreto be about twelve tons. The bottom of the boat is flat, but is made to rise about six inches at the turn of the'sidee, but' this rise does not begin at or near the middle of the bottom. l'he boat rises 'slightly at each extremity, beginning at _ twelve feet from the how, which isSortned like a - spoon. The stern follows the seine formation, but is drawn to a point. The boat 'has answeied re- Markably well' the expectations of the builder, which was to .keep upon the passage Of the river Loire, from Nantetv to An gers, during the slimmers, when from numerous sand banks and shoals the communication by steam-boets, or, indeed, any ves sel, is stopped. 'limo Vulca!,l the name given to this new boat by the builder,.plied between Nantes and Angers all last summer, though there 'has seldom, if ever, been a summer during which the waters 'of the. Loire were so low. Indeed, she frequently passed over sand-.banks where there was not much more than six inches draft of water. The Vulcan has made the voyage from Nantes to Angers, 72 miles, against the rapid stream of the Loire, iu.,less than eleven hours, including all stoppages, which are very numerous, and has come from Angers to Nantes with the stream m less than six hours. Of course the water was always low - when she plied, as by agreement, with the proprie tors of the other boats, which draw, when light, fully two French feet of water. The" Vulcan only plied when the river was so low as to prevent this other boats attempting the . journey. Mr. Thomson considers that with angle iron, and generally better m aterials, he could form a mach stronger boat with lighter plates, an di that thus, by lengthening the boat a little, the draft of water . might be much diminished, and the speed of progres sion increased. On its present length and breadth, the area of displacement, or parellelogram within which the Vulcan is built, is just about actual to thirty tons on each foot of immersion, sup posing the boat to be formed square. This gives two tons and a half of buoyancy on each inch of immersion, and the Vulcan, therefore, when drawing fourteen and three-quarters inches of water, shows a displacement on her area of formation fully equal to thirty-seven tons. Taking, then, her weight at the extreme given by Mr. Thomson, viz., fourteen tans, and allowing for coals, water in the boiler, crew, &c. - three tons, and allowing the passengers to weigh on the o rdin a ry c alculation of fifteen to a ton, in all nine tons and a quarter, the gross weight floated is then twenty-six tons in all, or nearly a third less titan the amount shown on the area. This calculation gives eleven tons as the amount of buoyancy sacrificed to formation: It is ,a credit to Scotland that the projector and b u ilder of this boat is n Scots man. He was, when young, for many years a workman in the Greenhead Foundry, near Glasgow, and was afterwards, for some time, in the employment of Mr. Fawcett, of Liverpool. Mr. Thomson has introduced a number of ingenious contriv ances to strengthen the Vulcan, trussing and suspending the sides, bottom; &c. &c. If such a boat had peen used by poor Lander in exploring the Niger, his valuable life might have been saved, as the vessel-would not. have taken the ground. From the reasons before given, the speed of the Vukan has never been fairly tried with the other and heavier boats, but she has beat them all the few-trials made. Mr. Thomson, however, (who is a most exact man,) says there cannot be a fair trial, as from the light - draft of water of the Vulcan she makes always a straighter course. The further prosecution of Mr. Thomson's valuable improvements bids fa ir to convect every streamletin -the world into a navigable viatcltioute. It is to be hoped this notice may excite the enterprising merchants of Liverpool to the prosecu tion of an improvement which will extend their commerce into countries now almost unknown, and entirely inaccessible. The Vulcan is now plying on.the Loire, between Angers and Blois, waiting the fall of the Water in summer, when she will return to her old course,. whiCh etas - been a most profitable ouc to the pro prietor. T. G. Nantes, March 5, 1835. FIRE AND WATER. TO THE EDITOR OF TEE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Stu,—The public are much indebted to you for the zeal you have shown iu recommending the adoption of Mr. Moore's plan for a better supply of water in the event of fires; every one must admit that a prompt supply of water at a fire would often prevent extensive loss, and the question now 'is, would Mr. Moore's plan afford that prompt supply in a way more desirable than is done at present ? 'Although you appear to be perfectly confident, I have consi derable doubt on the subject, and perhaps . you will be good enough to afford me an opportunity of assigning reasons for that doubt. In the first place, are you quite certain that the canal com pany can spare—l take their disposition to do so for granted— the quantity of water required for the purposes contemplated ? Mr. Moore purposes not only to promote the convenience of the town; hut to ornament it; he would not only clean se th e sew ers and water the streets, but furnish a surplus for jets to public fountains. Now, barring 'the jets, as Paddy would say, the canal would have a sinecure during the winter months. The streets, goodness knows, are abundantly watered froth . Septem • her to May, and, consequently, it is in summer that *e need the water carts and "fountains spouting through the air;" it is, in that season of the that the sewers are least agreeable, but unfortunately it is, I am assured, in that very season that the canal annpany can spare no water! I would be sorry to im pute to Mr. Prloore the •offence implied in the charge of .suppres sin yeti, but I cannot conceal my wonder, that. in all his state ments, repeated nearly annually, he has never, by any chance, mentioned the fact that the canal itself is sometimes, if not fre quently, so deficient in water that the boats are obliged to go with diminished loads. I am told that this is the. case. Mr. Moore will not deny that there are times when water could not be spared, even, I believe, in winter; and the company, in their resolution, intimate much, for they engage to supply water only when they do not - want it for their own use. When Mr. Moore forgot this fact he also seems to haie overlooked another, namely, that those parts of the torn below .his . "levels" are precisely those in which water, for purposes of convenience, is least wanted. • His plan, therefore, may he considered solely with reference to fires; a od it is, perhaps, a subject of regret that the overflow from the canal, even in winter, cannot be made available fur tii es- supposing the expense to be iii) consideration—to any very useful extent. rhis arises from its want .of elevation, and its want of depth. Its level, according to the tables in your paper, is only 30 feet above the dock quays, and though it is a few, feet higher than that of several streets, many of these streets would- be in accessible without a forcing pump, and many others, though lower, are not. low enough to render water conveyed thither in pipes available for fire engines. We all know that water will invariably find its level, but I need not tell you that the speed with which it flows depends mainly on three things—the. nature of its channel, the degree of descent, and the depth of the rp-. servoir, when it proceeds from such a source. When MT.. Moore tells us, in a note to his table, that " a pipe of fourteen inches diameter from a height of two feet" would deliver 47 gallons per second, he tells us nothing to the purpose unless he adds the distance , and the depth of the reservoir. The same sized opening at the depth of ten feet will deliver more than at the depth of five feet, and at twenty more than at ten. " The friction or resistance," says Dr. Aruutt, "which fluids suffer in passing along pipes is much greater than might be expected. An inch tube of two hundred feet in length discharges onlyone fourth part of the water which would escape directly frum the reservoir; and air passing along tubes is so much retarded thift when gas-lights were first proposed some engineers feared that this circumstance would be fatal to the enterprise." Water for fires, therefore, conveyed from the canal would have to over come not only the friction of extended pipes but of a collapsed huSe in length, varying from ten to one hundred and fifty feet, and before entering the hose it would have to rise itself in a stand-pp cock of four feet. It would, you will observe, have to do this without the advautage of descent iu its passage or d-..pth iti the reservoir, and, consequently, except.elongthe line of the docks the impetus would' be iusuthcient to throw it in anything like a Sufficient quantity into the tire engine. When Mr. Moore gives the_ difference iu level between certain streets and the canal you must deduct at least eight feet, and, allowing, for a necessary impetus, you must give ten feet more, so that in every street which stands twelve feet higher than the docks the canal water would be comparatively unavailing. Engineers may say what they please, but practice is better than theory. and , have an illustration of this point in Liverpool already. T.he Bootle water is supplied from reservoirs considerably higher than the level of the canal, and it is, permit me to remark, al ways in the mains and always available at fires, bid still, unless when near its source, it does wit run through fire plugs suffici ently strong to keep the smallest fire-engine in full play. A want of practical knowledge may have led you and Mr. MoUre into an amusing error. You propose to run pipes ahing• the sheds of the docks in order that a hose might be .affixed -to them,, so that water, in the event at the in a ship, might be at onceejected on the flames. Firemen know that this is purely fancifiik and had you , at teuded a five, otherwise than as a spec.- tafor, you would have discovered three things, first, thatlvuter,. unless from a forcing pump, cannot be thrown to any distance; • secondly, that you can seldom uppruach very near a fire ; and, thirdly, that fires are extinguished nut so much by water as by the force with which water is made to strike the. burning mate-, rials. ,Water,,to. be useful, must, therefore, he thrown by auengine, engine, and as an engine must be employed, and as - there is al- Ways abundance of water in the docks, there is no occasion to bring an additional supply to their immediate neighbourhood. Still, it may be said, though not available in every place, why not adopt Mr, Moore's plan, since it would qit times afford a reasonable supply in. several places?. 'rho- first answer is the expense. . If that were not a consideration the Mersey itself might. be made tributary to a similar purpose. Mr. Moore's ,plan, though it were unobjectionable, cannot be adopted, be cause it would cost too much. lie has given us the means of estimating tho expense. 'l'he laying down a mile of pipe of fourteen inches diameter would cost £2,316, of pipes six inches .diameter £696, of ten inches £1,4.52; allowing, then, for a main of fourteen inches, and of branches varying from six to fourteen inches, average ten, and we.arrive. at something like a probable result. Supposing the main to run from the canal basin to the top of. St. James's-street, that is a mile and a half, and we have £3,560, and supposing the branches to embrace all intermediate streets, they will extend at least to fifty miles. Add to these: £lOOO for plug pipes, &c., and the total will stand thus Maio Branches 72,600 Plugs, &c. E 77,100 - Where is this money to come from ? Perhaps after all there is no occasion fur this outlay; at all events Mr. Moore has not made out a case why it should be even contemplated, for taking his own list of fires, the result is as follows : Fires at which nu engine was employed 6 Below his level Unavailing, aceordisp.g,to-my estimate Not wanted, (being near the docks, &c.) Available -8' The loss at the twelve fires where the water could have been available was under £91310, for I except Lancelot's-hey, and would the loss have been less had his plan been in operation. The truth is, that no plan tvili.always prevent mismanagement, and unless where there is mismanagement there can now be tui.- .real. Want of water. Wherever the water comes • from there must be watermen ; and unless these are prompt in attendance there will be a deficiency. Manchester is supplied from a reser voir ; yet if you look at the Manchester papers of this clay you will.tiud that eta fire there this week there was a loud complaint Of the want of water. At all events all the advantages which Me. Meore.undertakes to provide• are already available. The Har rington Water Company, in addition to the Bootle, have two re servoirs,.one near Paul's-square and.the other in Norfolk-street, and these supply all the streets within Mr. Moore's level, until. 'superseded by water from one of the company's powerful engines, and from which alone, or a neighbouring reservoir, water. can be adequately supplied. With every respect 1 deny cenfidently that there has been recently the deficiency of water at fires which. you assert. .The statements in. the Mercury, to which you icier, have been long since disproved. I know no recent instance, of..want of water, except at Beckwith-street fire. Having now disprised of Mr. Moore's plan, permit me to question the truth of your statement respecting the number of tires and the amount of loss sustained thereby in Liverpook If you had taken the average of eight instead of three years you would havo found. reason to believe that it was . not enuiriCra.= Lively greater ,than in other large towns. In Manchester fur in'stanct , , the average annual loss, previous to the establishment of the fire ptiliee, was:1;50,000. N'Vas it greater in Liverpool ? Whatever the loss was you were hardly justified in attributing it to the imperfection of the tire police, that establishment haVing been iu existence only a few months; but, if you be correct; itu present state is not very encouraging. You say, " The fact is, that the tire pulice,froni. being deprived of an efficient director, is now in a worse state tha,n ever.." , Gentlemen, who have reported Officially, have given a somewhat different repre sentation; but as you are responsible to the public for a state ment which so unequivocally impugns the efficiency of an.im portent establishment, you 'have done so, no doubt on very sufficient grounds—from your own personal knowledge, or on theinformation of competent and trustworthy persons. I have.to apologise fur trespassing so far on your space, and in conclusion beg to assure you that I should be sorry any sv- . marks I have made could be considered, in the remotest degiee„ inconsistent with the high respect in which Mr. Moore. is de servedly held hz the public. No one can entertain a higher regard than I do for the goodness and purity of that gentleman's motives.,-Your's, &c., A FIREM.IN. . March 21. . THE LIVERPOOL STANDATA RADICAL MEETING. On Tuesday evening last a meeting, called together by public advertisement, at the instigation of an itinerant ,reacher, 1 ing himself the Rev. Tully Crybbace, was held in the Music Hall, Bold-street, fur the purpose, as the placards expressed it, of .petitioning parliament m favour of the right of the people to elect their,own ministers, to 'relieve the bishops front political service in parliament, to abolish all compulsion in support. of the, gospel, and to mentorialize his majesty's government regarding: . defesits in the new marriage bill. Atr. LAWLIENCE HEYWOUTti was appointed chairman. ' The principal speakers were the chairman, the rev. gentlenien alluded to, and a Mr. Peter Hope, of Whitechapel, who indulge'd in a, strain of invective against the established church and its ministers. They contended that a priesthood was altogether inconsistent with the intention and doctrines of the New Testa. tneut; that their practice had ever been to defraud the people of the fruits of their honest industry by cajolery and cheating ; that all compulsory payments in Support of religion were contrary to the teller of the Scriptures. Did thepublic feel the pressure of taxation ? As the only remedy they must reform the church. Were they burdened with the maintenance of a standing army Reform the church, and it would no longer be required. W ere they further' burdened with the police, magistrates, and gaols ?. Reforixt the church, cud the moral renovation that would take place would render all such things useless, &c.: every complaint and grievance which they f e lt was more or less connected with the church. They wished all to unite with them in this object. They came there in the name of Jesus of Nazareth; but they would combine even with infidels and atheists, provided they had the same end in view; for this could be done with perfect. consistency, and by their union of purpose , they would be ena-• bled to scatter all the minions of corruption.' The standing army was merely kept up to keep the people in darkness and superstitious:awe, and to assist the clergy in collecting their tithes. They need only reform the church, and the working classes would be in a snore prosperous condition ; and one por tion of the people would not be suffered to prey upon another, The principle of non-interference adopted by many.diaeenting ministers was condemned by wholesale; and Mr.'Crybbace hoped the meeting would maintain their, right to interfere with any religioureor political - establishment with which-they did not themselves' agree, and to set their determination against a , church which ; iii - order to be maintained, sent police officers to: seize tie goods of the people, and.soldiers to murder them.. The fact was, he believed that the church would have been reformed long ago hed•it not been for the apathy of dissenting ministers, who so hing as they.could get their own little differences settled were satisfied. In the saute way the speakers went on, amidst alternations of cheers and hisses, and an occasional "Turn him out !" followed by summary execution, winding up their pro ceedings with a petition and memorial embodying the sentiments of the speakers, and " humbly" requiring tjeit the king should resign his usurped headship of the church; that the bishops should vacate their seats in the House of Lords ; that the- uu natural and anti-seriptural connexion between church end state should cease, together with all compulsory church payments; and that the propelied dissenters' marriage bill should be amended' iu six particulars, which the gentlemen were con siderately pleased to pointout, for the consideration and guidance of Sir gobert Peel. In conclusion, the meeting having held together as well as it could, by dint of hearing some objectors without anSwering them, and putting others aside without hear ing them, voted a committee to -4o what they liked with the memorial—either to convey it to Sir Robert through the me -0.. which consisted of between 3110 a nd 4(X) o f ap parentlydium of Mr. I:wart, or of Mr. Abercroinby, the speake r . The rneetin the lowest rabblei . , then dispersed. A collection of pence was made at the doork but for what purpose none of the speakers explained. THE LIVER EA. r Rl' —BENEFIT ';v_lGllTs. We have frequently had occasion to notice the life infused into this place of public amusement by the really good ballet"; performed there under the direction of Mr. Lectenn i who, in additiOn to an excellent taste in tlese matters, pessesses an infi nite fund of buinour. One of the family trio will, we under stand, owing to an interesting domestic occurrence which gives to the world another votary of 'Terpsichore, be prevented from being present. This circumstance will, we presume, strengthen his claims to public patronage. •• • Mr. Raymond's night is fixed for Monday, when he will move "That the house do resolve itself into a laugh" at the richness of his brogue as a genuine Irishman—nut in a long and laboured harangue, like those of his countrymen "in anot her place," but in a series of conversational speeches, full of wit and repartee. We have no doubt that the support given him on this occasion will be fullv.commensurate with. his merits as an actor, and his Spirit and 'judgment as one o f th e managers o f th e theatre. - Hamniond, we have heard, is engaged in London. It so we shall miss him much. NEWS CorroNs.—Jouathan is determined on having the New World, in all things. Eie has commenced printing his news upon cotton instead of paper. We should add too, that the impression is remarkably clear. We apprehend, however, that the cost will prove fatal against any general adoption of the plan. PARISH OF WEST DERBY On Wednesday last the annual meeting of the parishioners of West Derby was held in the Boat d-rOom of the Workhonte, .fvr the purpose of examining the accounts of the .overseers of the poor last year, to nominate the overselrs and other officers for the ensuing year, and to transact other business of the township. Mr. THOMAS REVEL I. was called to the chair. • From an examination of the accounts, which were unani mously passed, on the motion of Mr. Thomas Roberts, seconded by Mr. Lund, it appeared that the parish was in a very pros perous condition, there being, after paying salaries, supporting the paupers, and defraying every other expense, a balance of £335. 15s. in the banker's hands. Mr. Thomas Massey and Mr. Thomas Close were appointed overseers for the ensuing year, and the paid Servants of the parish were reappointed to their several situations. Mr. Dolling, the assistant overseer, and Mr. Pennell, the collector, were each voted a gratuity of in' addition to their" present income. Mi. Jesse Wirt'Walicl; the parish accountant, Mr. Fell, the surgeon to the workhouse, and Mr. Lvthego, the constable; were presented with :i gratuity of fc: 10. each as au additional recompense for their services. • The .routine business being dispas;d of, Mr. Thomas Freme complained of the great want of a bridewell near West Derby Chapel, and inquired whether funds sufficient to build one could not be granted from the poor's rate. The chairman replied in the negative, and advised that an appliCaticn should be Made to the commissioners of waste lands for the funds requisite for such a purpose.. Thanks were then voted to the officers of the last year, to the'Rev. Mr. Swainson, the Rev. Mr. O'Neil the Rev. Mr. Gardner,.and the Chairman, for their gratuitous aid, and the meeting separated. PARISH OF EVERTON. r The annual meeting of the parishioners of Everton was held the same day for a similar purpose, when the accounts-of the year were examined, unanimously passed, and the public office rs reappointed. EXECUTION AT LANCASTER.—Yesterday morning (Thurs day;, a few minutes after Eve o'clock, John Orrell, who was convicted on Tuesday for the wilful murder of his daughter 'Elizabeth, a child of eight years of age, by poisoning her at Great Bolton in February last, was executed behind the castle, pursuant to his sentence. We understand that the wretched wan ; up to the moment of his conviction, entertained a cunti dentTxpectation of art - acquittal ; and it is said that up to the 'last moment he - persisted in asserting his innocence of the crime for which he died. . EXTENSIVE TrOLLF.IfY OF PLATE A.T WiGA*-Tro.ll Satarrla night or early on Sunday' morning last the iltopeof Mr. John , Fairhurst, pawnbrolrer of Wigan, was feloniously 'entered and money to a considerable amount; together with -other articles, stolen therefrom, consisting of ten silver watches, table spoons, dessert spoons, tea spoons, several pairs of sugar tongs, Cream :tug, half-pint cup, salt spoons, silk handkerchiefs, several pairs of new shoes, and a large quantity of other articles. A hand some reward has been offered for the conviction of the offenders, but we are sorry to add, that notwithstanding the Unremitting exertions of the constables, no clue has been obtained to lead to the conviction of the depredators. FIRE.—On Wednesday night, at half-past eleven o'cl.ck, a fire broke out in Mr. Gladstone's foundry, Bath-street. It ori ginated in the workshop,. and burst through the roof. Three of the lire-police engines were promptly on the spot, and, there being no want of water, it was soon got under. At first great fears were entertained of the flames extending to the adjoining warehouses, in which it was said considerable quantities of gun-. powder were deposited. - - - - STAIeIP DUTIES.—A petition from the -shopkeepers of this town is in the course of signature, praying the legislature to repeal the duty on small receipt stamps. THE NEW KINGDOM OF GREECE.—The Bavarian papers contain melancholy accounts of the state of Greece. It is said that all Messenia is in a state of insurrection; "and that the ► troops ordered thither by the regency, far from being able to overcome theta, were obliged to capitulate with them. The rebeli are said to have demanded, as conditions. that the King shall immediately assume the government, and grant a liberal constitution ; and that the regency shall be called to account for its administration, and for the disbursement. of_ the subsidies. It is feared that the insurrection will extend to a great part of Greece, and that the troops which the regency has at its disposal will not be sufficient to suppress it. Coletti, who by his influence has hitherto kept the contending parties balanced, is said to have declared, on this occasion, that he must remain neutral." STATISTICS OF CRIME I'N THE METtioeotas.—By the criminal returns showing the number of persons' taken into custody the metropolitan police, and the result of the charges, in the year 1834, which have been recently printed . , it appears that 64,269 persons were taken into custody, of whom 34,499 were discharged by the magistrates, 26,302 were summarily convicted ,or held.to bail, 3468 were committed for trial, 2565 were con victed and sentenced, 651 acquitted, 329 not prosecuted (bills not found,) and 23 whose cases have not been ascertained. The criminal charge under which the greatest number appears .is that of uttering counterfeit coin, 929 having been taken into custody under that charge, of whom, however, 819 were dis charged by the magistrates, and 98 convicted and sentenced. The charges of murder have been 26; but only 11 proSechtioris upon them have been instituted, and 9 convictions obtained, of which last 8 were declared manslaughter, so that only one exe cution followed. Not less than 19,779 have' been taken - into custody , for drutikeuness, of whom 10,944 obtained their dis-• charge without fine, and 8835 summarily convicted. A com parative statement of these returns with those 'published the three previous years shows that from 1831 to the end of 'lB3l there is a decrease in the number of persons taken into custody of 8555, an increase during the corresponding period of 513 of committals for trial, and of 4459 convictions by magistrates. The comparative statements of the intermediate years, following one another, do not exhibit any sery remarkable differenee, the. increase in one year of souse cases being counterbalanced by a decrease in the next. INFLUENCE OF ?Music ON THE MIND.—Of the solace o music—nay, more, of its influence upon, melancholY,',l need no look for evidence in the universal testimony ofantiqtnts, nor re mind-'ssareh au audience of its reeorded 'effect Upon the gloomy distemper or the perverse mind of Saul. I myself have witness ed its power to mitigate the sadness of seclusion, in a case where my loyalty as a good subject,. and my best - :feelings as a man, were more than usually ,interested in .the re storation of my patient; and also remember its • salutary operation in the case of a gentleman in Yorkshire, many years. ago, who was first stupified,•and afterwarda became insane. upon the sud.;en hiss,of his property. This gentleman could hardly be said to live—he Merely, vegetated; for lie was motionless until pushed, and did not speak to or notice any body in the house far nearly four months. The first indication of a return of any sense appeared, in his attention to music played in the street. This was observed, the second time he heard it, to have a More decided force iu arousing him from his lethargy, and in duced by this good onietil the sagacious humanity of his super intendent offered him a violin. He seized it eagerly, and amused himself with it constantly. After six weeks, hearing the rest of the patients of the house pass by the door to their common room, he accosted them—" Good morning to you all, geutlemen; I amquite well, and desire I way accompany you." In two months more he was dismissed cured.—Sir 11.1iallord's Essays and Orations. THE PRESS IN SWITZERLAND.—There is not a printing office in the whole canton of Underwalden. This fact has just come to light in consequence of the answer of the government of Obwald to that of Zurich, which had requested that the parti culars of the legislation upon the press in the former Canton might be communicated to it. The counsellors of °herald W.ote • in reply " How can you ask us for a copy of a law on the press when there is not one printing-office in the whale canton ?" If ignorance be bliss 'tie 'folly to be wise."] .• SToams IN THE NORTH SEA.—Such has been the state of wea th er for so me weeks past, that great losses have been sustainedl atsea.. The Donlop of Belfast, from Heine! to Liverk6l. With timber, put into Lerwick on the 23d ult. Of six vessels sstriCh sail ed with the Dunlop, from Memel, she only has escaped ! The vessel hired to carry the mail from Lerwick to Petersheart, Sailed on the 29th January, and did not return till the' 7th February, having been thirty - days on the trip.—Scuisman.. PRA ynk.—Pra)er is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of our recollection, the seat of me ditation, the rest of our cares, and the, calm of our tempest; pr-aver is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is • the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness; and he that prays to God Kith-an angry, that is, with a troubled and discomposed spirit, is like him that retires into a battle to me ditate, and sets up his closet in the out quarters of an army. A ng er is a perfect alienation of the mind frtnn prayer, and , therefore is contrary to that attention which presents our prayers is a right line to God. For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upward singing . .as he rises, and hopes to get to heaveh, and climb above the clouds; but thei poor bird was beaten back with the lotid sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and unconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libratiun and frequent weighing of his, wings; till the little creature was forced to sit down and hart, and stay till the storm was over, and then it was a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned music and motion from au angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his minis tries here below; so is the prayer of a good man.—Bishop Tay- Or. By the premature death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart., at the early age of twenty-five, the Baronetcy of Parker of ,Rapping- , bon;n, in the county2o.f.lisaex (conferred on Sir 'Parke4 Aniniral of the Fleet, 1783), has become extinct, the deceased's two brothers having died. before him. The father of the late' lamented young haronet;-. Captain Sir ,Peter .Parker, It. N., was mortally wounded whilst commanding a party of seamen and marines at the storming of the American camp near Balti more, August 3, 1814, and his widow married Michael Bruce, ,• Esq.• Inn MM.& MURDER AT SEA.—The latest intelligence from India states that while the Young Rover, belonging to Messrs. Cockerell and. Co., of Calcutta, was on her way from Moulmein to Bengal, tivo.Manilla seacunnies, named Junto and Madrino, had destroyed the vessel by fire, and murdered the captain and . •several other persons. It appeared that while one of the of ficers was sitting upon the deck, Justo stabbed him in the aria wills a knife. lie immediately threw himself iloWn the hatch way and awakened the captain. Ou the latter attempting-to come on deck the two mantilla men threatened to kill him, and on his drawing back, apparently with the intention of araii•ng himself, they closed the hatchway on him, the mate, and a .Christian passenger. Justo then stabbed two Choolich mer chants who were on deck, on which the Serang and all the Las ,cars flew to the. rigging. The Manilla men then took charge of the vessel, and ordered the Lascars down from the rigging' to their orders, one-of which was to fasten the stem wmilows. - On the following moreing, Justo, not knowing what course' . would bring the vessel to Rangoon, opened the .hatches, and asked the captain, on which he fired a pistol, loaded with two nails, but only a small charge of powder, and wounded Justo in the cheek and breast. Exasperated at tbis the two Manilla .men determined to burn the vessel and destroy the captain. On the following day they collected combustibles and a quantity of tar, which they scattered about the deck, and rigging, and threw down the main hatch.. 'rimy then ordered out the jolly-boat,' making the crew and passengers, amounting t 0.16, get into it; they then set fire to the vessel, in which were enclosed Captain - E*tir (the co.nimander,) Mr. Rode (the mate,) and a -native 'Christian passenger. liaviug then gone into the boat them selves, they waited on their oars at a short distance from the vessel, till they saw it so nearly consumed as to leave no • doubt of the three victims being burnt. The sea cunnies then caused the Lascars to row for the shore, forcing seven persons over board on their way, and stabbing .and spearing them to death in the water. Not able to reach the shore from the swell of the sea, they returned and took from the wreck 8 to 10 vise of silver which had melted by the fire, there having been on board a lac • and 40,0tX) rupees in specie. On proceeding towards Rangoon some of the Lascars told what had happened at a small village, when they were all taken into custody by a native magistrate; but the two sea cunnies escaped by bribing the ogicer who had - charge of them. They were, however, afterwards apprehended, and confessed the whole. The British Resident -(Colonel Burney) could not believe,the story, as it was incredible that two men could awe so large' a number, until the sea c.uunies in formed' him that the conduct of the captain had been so violent that all the men, with the exception of those destroyed, had en tered into the conspiracy against him. The two men ale to be sent to Calcutta to be tried. LANCASTER ASSIZES. CROWN COURT.—MoNnAy, (Before Baron PARRS.) .[His lordship did not take his seat this morning until ten o'clock, iu consequence of the execution , of Welch..l INL NDIAUISM. Thomas gpeight, aged 33, was indicted for wilfully, malici ously, and feloniously setting fire to a barn, stable, and out house, belonging to John Alston, at Scotforth, near Lancaster eu Monday the 26th. January: last. • Mr. Henderson conducted the case for the prosecution, and Dr. Brown defended the prisoner. John Alston said he was a farmer residing at Scotforth, near Lancaster. Had a barn, stable, and two shippons, which were in one range on' fire on the morning of Monday the 26th of January last. First saw the tire about five or ten minutes be fore . uiue. The roof of the stable, which consisted of wood and straw, wits then burniug This was the south end of the build ings. file ,wind was S.W. The fire lasted about two and a half or three hours. There was a stack and half of beans, about twenty thrave' of wheat straw, about twenty loads of potatoes, and three or four cart loads of turnips, which were all either destroyed or rendered useless. The stable, the shippon adjoining, the barn and outhouse were all destroyed. The total loss might be about £5O. ,The prisoner was in witness's service hired half yearly. On Thursday before the fire he had remonstrated with the prisoner for using a sieve instead of a wisket to cut turnips in, on which-lie said "-as--n you, your are always grumbling about something. I wish nothing worse may happen to you than cutting turnips into a sieve. 1 doubt you will be worse .put about than ever you were before." He then turned.. round and added—" D—n you, you will be worse b--e---d up-than ever you were in your life." Witneis asked hint what he meant, but he walked away without returning any answer. On Saturday before the fire, prisoner, contrary to his usual practice, left the house, and did not return until past one on Monday morning. On that morning he was called up about six o'clock and accompanied witness to a barn, to fetch some straw with a lantern. Ibis lantern was first hung up in the shippon, until about a quarter or half-past seven o'clock, when witness put out. the candle, and placed it on the ground between the stable and shippon 'loons. After going in, the wit ness observed on his return that the lantern had been removed. Prisoner and witness took breakfast about eight, and then the former was ordered to go to dress a hedge some distance from the house. About nine o'clock the premises were found to be on fire, andAhe cattle were with ditficulty got out. The pri soner stood in, the field, and did not conic to assist in putting Out the fire- - at all. After the fire, the lantern was found in a corner of the stable, where witness had placed a bottle of straw the anorningprerious. About an hour after the fire,. the witness called prisoner to him, gave .hits iris wiiges and said "Begone from; these pmnises, you dirty - rascal, ;1 Wave every reason to believe you .buve burned these buildings. " 0 1-le took the money and went awky. . In cross-examination by Dr. BROWN, the witness said he last saw the prisoner in low shippon, about ten minutes before he went to breakfast. Ile was then going to remove the manure from behind •the horses in the stable to the midden. I lost sight of the'hintern before the candle was put out, whilst I was in the house putting coals en the tire, and whilst I milked two cows. About ten or fifteen minutes after the prisoner had gone to his work, the prosecutor's son called out that the stable was on fire. Went the night before, about eight o'clock, to the stable to look at the cattle, and to see whether all was safe. Last May but one was in the stable about ten o'clock when the constable came to him (witness.) His wife and he had had some words, and thought he would stay in the stable till the passion was off her, and then they could get into bed comfortably toge ther. Never said to a person nettled Wilson, (who had been servant with him) that if the building.did not tumble he would set it on fire. Saw Wilson the day prisoner. was brought to Lancaster. Did not tell him the prisoner had taken a lantern Out of the house, but it had no light in it. Did not tell him he (witness) had found the lantern under a bottle of straw, after the barn was fired. Did not tell Wilson that his (witness's) son Thomas would swear he had seen the prisooer put the lans tern under a bottle of straw.: Once stood; at the bar in. West moreland, and my learned friend, Mr. Baron.Alderson, will state the case to you. (Laughter.) Was tried for being cut in my hand.. The prosecution fell to the ground. Was one night, about ten o'clock, foddering my- cows in a barn I farmed from Mr. Bleasdale, who had seine hay there, when two men got up off the hay mow, and asked if I made a practice of that? I was taking hay off a cart of my own,- and was doing it at that late hour in cousevence of having been late at market. Mr. Bleasdale was sent for; but I did not make any apology to him. There was some scandal circulated about sharp tongues; but I have taken means to dress that up.. When I told the prisoner that I suspected him .in consequence of the words he had used the Friday before, he denied having made use of any such words. :. . . Thomas Alston, son of the prosecutor, was next called, and gave a long account,of the proceedings el• the morning of the tire, anti, according to his statement, it was pretty clear that it originated in accident, on which the learned judge directed the jury to acquit the prisoner. fhe jury, after asking a few questions respecting the fire, re .turned a verdict of Nut Guilty. His lordship said the prisoner went out of court without a stain on his character, but the con duct of the prosecutor was very , improper, and when the learned counsel applied for costs, his lordship said the witnesses might have their costs, but he should not allow any to the prosecutor. FORGING A DEEn.—John, Stainton, 49, was charged with forging . a certain deed to convey certain property at Pease Bank, in Dalton, near Ulverston, with intent to defraud John Fazakerley; other counts charged the offence with the intent to defraud the Duke of Buccleugh, the lord of the manor of Plain Furness. . Mr. STARR in and Mr. ARMSTRONG were for the prosecutor, Mr. BRANDT defended the prisoner. Mr. Cranke, solicitor, of Ulverstun, said he was steward to the Manor Court of Plain Furness. The custom of the manor was, that no person who came by heirship ,to an estate• in the manor could .devise it unless a deed of surrender was mad e , which was generally done at the time the will was.made. Where estates were purchased there was no such instance. On the 19th of August Mr. Cranke saw the prisoner at Pease Bank, when he,informed witness that the late Mr. Richard Pemberton had made a will, making him the sole executor and residuary lega tee,..With.power to sell the ~estate. C,-inquired of him whether there was a ileed with the will, and the prisoner replied there was not. Ile asked witness what he must do to get pos session of the estate. Witness told him he bad better bring the will to the next court, which was only about two months off. In September the prisoner was served by witness with a notice to give op possession of Pease Bank estate. Several letters thou passed on the subject, in which the prisoner still stated there was no dead. However, on the 24th of October the prisoner gave a , deed to a young man named Salmon, which was handed to Mr. Cranke on the dal .the court sat. Mr. Cranke handed it to the jury, who returned it to him with their verdict. Deeds of this kind were obliged to be presented at the Manor Court iu order that they might be licensed. Mr. C. declined to license the one in question. This was the deed alleged to be forged. It was dated the 25th of February, 1833, and was a conveyance fur the purpose of giving effect to the will of the estate called Pease Bank froni Richard Pemberton to the prisoner, John Stainton. The signatures of Richard Pemberton, and Leonard Gould, and Geo.. Simpson, the attesting witnesses, were proved not to be in the handwriting of the persons whose name they professed to be. There w a s a nother attesting witness named dward Stainton, but he was not called, the counsel for the pro secution stating that he .was the son of the prisoner. The benefit of the new stamp regulation was of service in this case, for it turned out that the parchment on which the deed was drawn was stamped on the 9th January, 1832; and not issued until after the 11th January in that year. When the case for the prosecution had closed, Mr. BRANDT took an objection to the indictment which the learned judge overruled. . The' learned . JI;DGE having summed up. the case, the jury, after a few minutes' consultation, found the prisoner Guilty. The learned JunnE, in sentencing him, to transportation for life,.saidlie.o4ed it to the mercy of his prosecutors that he was not indicted for forging the will, for there could be.no doubt he had forged it as well as the deed, and had he beep convicted of that offence be should certainly have felt it his duty to leave the law to have taken its course. As it was, his duty was, that he should pass ou him as severe a sentence as the • law would per ruit,--that was, transportation for life. The legislature has lately made some regulations on this head, and criminals sen tenced to transportation were divided into three classes;—there were sonic confined for life in the penal parts of the colony, where they must, in a dungeon, endure severe labour in chains. His lordship said he should not go swear as that in the present instance, but should consign him to the second class, where he would have to remain in challis in a gang, labouring on the pub lic roads for eight years before he could either obtain a ticket of absence; or a pardon from the governor. SENTENCIL UN ROGER WH ITEN A I).—Roger.Whitehead hav ing been placed at the bar, Mr. Baron PA IOU: addressed him at some length, stating the particulars of the offence of which he had been convicted, and obserVed, that ou his being made bank rupt the whole of the shameful transaction was brought to light. Whitehead.—Will your lordship allow me one moment; -1 owed Pollard nothing at the time. The JUDGE.—Th at statement, that you owed Pollard nothing :s perfectly ridiculous. You. acknowledged it by:granting him .a mortgage fur £630. Whitelead.—lf. your lordship would have allowed me to have gone into my defence, I had witnesses to prove I did not owe .him anything atiell. The 3 unuE.--jrhat is quite immaterial, and these interrup tions are rather out of place; . 1 cannot permit them; and I must tell you, as I did that unfortunate and wicked,inanjust now, that for this offence, previous to 18:11, von would have been punished with death; and it was only a short time before that, that it wai u the universal practice to leave such persons as you for:exec - 611On. You are fortunate that the law is altered, but I hope you did not commit the offence under - the idea that you would get off with a slight imprisonment, or transportation for seven years,4or our offence is unpattionable. A profes sional man oughtCto set an example to others, who always ex pect he will treat them with honesty and fairness. His lordship, after informing him that be was to labour in chains the re mainder of his life, unless his life was very exemplary indeed, sentenced him to transportation for life. Prisoner.—l have one thing to observe to your lordship ; I do not suppose it can do me any good, but I may as well men tion it fur the sake of my character, that instead of owing Pol lard anything, he owes me £lOO. The learned JunuE ordered him to be removed fro m the bar NISI PRIUS, MoNnaY. (Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON and a Special Jury.) WHITEHEAD' V. 'PRICE AND OTHERS.—This was an action on a policy of insurance fur f.:4000, effected on the Union Mills, Oldham, by Mr. James Whitehead, the proprietor, with the Protector Fire lusurauce Cumpa,ny, of which the defendants, Mr. Richard Price, Mr. Joseph ()wen Harris, and Mr.' Richard Harris, were directors. The case was tried before a special jury, consisting principally of Liverpool merchants. The counsel for the plaintiff • wore Mr. BLACKBURN, Mr. ALEXANDER. and Mr. WIGHTMANi for the defendants, Mr. CRI,SSWELL., Mr. TOMLINSON, and Mr. WATSON. Mr. WIOIITSIAN opened the pleadings. The declaration steel that the plaintiff had effected a policy •Of insurance On the Mills in question, amounting in the whole to £4OOO, with the company of which the defendants were directors, and had paid the premium theretm; that the said !premises weit'destroyed. by .tire on the 27th of June last, and that on application to the de fendants for the amount-insured they refused payment, alleging that they were not liable.' To • this the defendants pleaded Ist, that a memorandum endorsed on the policy had been endorsed without their authority • 2ndly, that the premises were not de scribed either in the policy or endorsement as they really were; 3rdly, that the premium in the policy mentioned iced not been duly paid; 4thly, that the steam engines on the plaintiff's pre liaises had, without the leave of the def e ndants, theii knowledge or consent, been worked by ni g ht a nd no t by day only, contrary to the conditions on which the policy was granted, sthlr, that the fire had been occasioned by the negligence of the piailltiff, his tenants, or servants, for which the defendants were not ac eountable;_6thly, that the plaintiff's seam-engine had been worked for the purpose of turning machinery in adjoining premises, by means of a shaft communicating between the two; ithlv, that the plaintiff's mill did not stand apart and detached froni all other mills as described in the policy; and Sthly, that these eircumstancesof additional risk bad not been communi cated to the defendants at the time the policy was made. The plaintiff denied the allegations of the defend-ants, and on these picas issue was joined. .. T _ . Mr. Bear en toter: stated the case to the?ury. The plaintiff was proprietor of th e U n i on Mills, at '0 Oldham, which were erected In 1823, and had since been insured iu the Protector Fire Office at the rate of 16s. per cent. premium. The plaintiff did not himself work the mills, but had let them to others who did. In 1826, a person named Wharton, a manufacturer of steam-engines, built a shop adjoining the plaintiff's premises, and having need of steam power in turning his lathes was sup plied with it from the steam-engine of the Union Mills by means of a shaft connecting his machinery with the engine. There was no increase of risk occasioned by the erection of Mr. Wharton's shop, and the plaintiff continued to insure with the defendants at the same rate of premium till April, 1834 when, finding that other offices were insuring at lower rates, he applied for a reduction. On this application the company directed their agent at Oldham to make certain inquiries respecting the pre mises. He did so, himself examining the mill for that purp ose , and on his report a letter was received from the secretary in Loneon, authorizing him to reduce the premium from I6s. to -14 s. per cent. The reduction was accordingly made .by the agent, as specified by a memorandum endorsed in the policy, and on Lady-day, 1834, the plaintiff paid the premium at the reduced rate fur the ensuing year. In June following the premises were destroyed by fire, and the defendants on being applied to for . the sum insured with them, refused payment, al leging that the premises had not been properly described, and that the endorsement had been made without - their authority. If, hoive , :er, the premises had been erroneously described, that was the fault of the company's agent, not of the plaintiff; the company were bound by the act of their agent, and the plaintiff under the policy of the endorsement, on which he had paid the premium, was entitled to the sum which he now sought to re cover at the hands of the jury. The learned gentlemen called the following witnesses. Mr. John Booth, agent to the Protector Fire Office, at Old ham, stated that nine years ago he had received instructions to insure the Union Mills, and had done so at the rate of 16s. per cent: In February, 1831, the plaintiff applied for a reduction of the premium to 14s. Wrote to the office on the subject and received an answer directing him to put certain interrogatories respecting the premises, and the mode of working the mill. Went cud examined the premises himself, answered the questions put, and wrote back to London - stating the result of his inquiries. These interrogatories were afterwards put in. The most material of them were these:—" Is the mill detached flour all other mills?" and " Is the mill worked by night and day, or by day only ?" To the first question the answer was " No," with an explanation referring to a plan Which the agent sent to the office in London, and to the second "By day.only." The witness then produced a letter, dated April sth, 1831, from the secretary to the company. It was to the following effect: — reply to your letter of the 2d instant, it appears from the answirs to the interrogatories put. by us under the policy, No. —; Mat Chis mill (the Union) &es not stand - apart from all others, b,ut this, I apprehend, simply means that the part marked A in the plan is not apart from B, and vice versa; and not filet A and B or one of them adjoins a neighbouring manufactory. I am fortified in this opinion by the fact that the ground plan shows no adjoining erection whatever. If, therefore, I am correct in my supposition, you may endorse that policy as per the annexed ferns and not otherwise." The form referred to in the foregoing letter was as follows: " 11 , 1einoraudurn. The boilers he!onging to the steam-engine being completely outside the building insured in this policy, — and the mill being completely detached from all other mills, — the premium to be reduced to 145., say in the whole E2B instead £32, subject to all the conditions within mentioned." The witness then stated that he had made a corresponding memorandum on the back of th© policy, and that the plaintiff had paid the reduced premium. He (witness) was aware that the machinery in Wharton's shop was turned by a shaft com municating with the plaintiff's steam-engine, but did not. think that that circumstance increased the risk' so as to affect the premium. Mr. E. H. Levison, agent for the Globe Fire Office, at Man chester, stated that he had insured part of the machinery and stock at the Union Mills at l is. per annum. Knew the premises. The risk was not greater than the common risk of cotton fac tories. 'Wharton's shop did not increase the risk. The shop was insured at ss. The mill might increase the risk of the shop, but the shop could not increase the risk of the mill. He would not insure the shop for less than I is. 'Working "by day " only meant with one set of hands. Mr. H. C. Morris, agent for the Union Office, Manchester, gave similar. testimony. • Several other fire office agents, manufacturers, and cotton spinners were called to show that the risk had not been increased by the vicinity of Wharton's premises or by the circumstance. of the machinery there being worked by.a shaft communicating with the plaintiff's mill. No evidence was riven on the part of the plaintiff respecting the fire or the extent of damage, it being agreed between the parties that in the event of a verdict fur the plaintiff the amount of damages should be settled out of court. Mr. CRESSWELL, for the defendants, contended That the fire had occurred through the negligence of the plaintiff's tenants, (Messrs. Bowden, Garside, and Mayhall,) who had kept the engine going by night as well as by day to furnish power to work machinery in the adjoining shop, and that if by their neg ligence or misconduct, or by working the mill out it the time covered by the policy, they had occasioned the fire, it was against them the plaintiff should bring his action, not against the insurance office. He also contended that the agent, Booth, bad exceeded his authority in endorsing the memorandum on the policy, when, according to the evidence he was about to lay before the jury, it dearly appeared that the mill was not de tached as described in tfie policy, and that it was worked by night as well as day, contrary to the stipulations contained therein. Several witnesses were then called, from whose testimony . it appeared that on the night before the fire the men at the Cialou Mills left work at eight o'clock, and the wheels were thrown out of peering, but that the engine was kept going till half-past twelve o'clock the following morning, turning the machinery of Mr. Wharton, who had.a.particular job in hand, which he was requirod to tinish.by a certain time. About two o'clock in the morning smoke-was observed issuing from one of the upper stories of the mill. and in a short time the whole building was in flames. The object was to show that the fire had been occa sioned by the friction of the machinery. Mr. Baron A's,nxitsos,.in-strinaiirtg uptheF•evidence, observed that the main questions for the - jury were, whether the agent had authority to make the endorsement on the policy—whether Wharton's shop, adjoining the plaintiff's premises, was to be considered as coming under the term "mill"—and whether the plaintiff or his-tenants keeping the 'engine at work to turn Wharton's machinery, was to he taken . as a working of the mill by night, contrary to the conditions of the policy. The Jury-, after remaining an hour iu consultation, found ge nerally for the plaintiffs, subject to a motion in some of the issues. _ _ . --- The court was occupied during the rest of the day in tle;•iding a dispute relating to an !Attorney's bill of cuts, Greenhaigh v. Thutnely, which ended in a verdict for the defeudant. CROWN COURT, TUESDAY. .Tohn Orrell, aged 40, was placed at the bar, charged with the wilful murder of his daughter, Elizabeth Orrell, at Bolton, in February last, by administering a quantity of arsenic. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. BRANDY, with whom was MY.TRAFFORD, stated the case. Sarah Orrell was then called. She said—l am going of six teen, and am prisoner's eldest daughter. My father returned from Lancaster on the Bth of January. On the 4th of February my mother died, and was buried on the 11th. My father then lived at Barrow Bridge. On the my father went to live at Bolton, stunk with my sister and brother. My sister was eight years old, and my brother four. I was living with my grand- Mother, and ou Sunday, the 22d, went to Bolton. Saw my brother dead in the cradle, and my sister was very ill. She was sick twice, and purged twice. My father said my brother hail never been well since be went to Bolton. Prisoner showed me a little bottle, and said it was for • Godfrey, and he had given the boy some. By the Judge.—My brother and • sister were in very good health when they-went to Bolton. • John Orrell, uncle of the prisoner, lives in Bolton, about turn doors from the cellar which the prisoner occupied. Ile came there on the 17th Feb. (Tuesday). I called to see him several times. No one lived with himlut the two children. On Sun day, the 22d, went to his cellar, and found the boy just dead. The girl was ill; saw her vomit once or twice. Was in on the day the boy was buried, and heard the girl ask for water. Pri sumer wanted to give her gin and water, but she would,not have any. On the next duty was knocked up between one a nd t wo t s r ai s d tl;:s.' Ll ' ncl I "Uncle, I wish you would come in tressed myself, and went in; a y bi t t h , c ourprisoner, girl one very eiso e she was very ill, and did not live fifteen minutes after. Prisoner said he should want Some one to lay her out. On the Wednes day night told the prisoner he had better get a doctor, and said if he could not afford, if he was acquainted with any of the sub scribers to the Dispensary he might get a recommendation, and he said he did not know of any. By the Judge.—Prisoner was out of work when he came to Bolton. lie had been a fanner. The cellar appeared to me a close unhealthy place, and damp. Thomas Youne.—l am in the employment of Mr. Fletcher. On. the 16th Feb'. prisoner came and took a cellar belonging to my master. lie came to it next day. There is a beam across the top, about eight feet from the ground. I swept out the cellar, and remember particularly sweeping the beam. John Burrows, constable of Bolton, said he found the parcel • produced on the beans which goes across the cellar; it centained . arsenic. A child eight or ten years old could not have reached the place. . - • , Thomas Young said the last witness' pOint4d out the 'peace where he found the parcel, which was the same place he. had_. carefully brushed, and where he found a piece of brass. • !The cellar was unoccupied from the 12th Nov. to the 17th Feb., when the prisoner took it. Margaret Pincoek recollects the prisoner coming to tho cellar its Bolton. Saw him the same day. Was called iu to as sist its laving the little boy out on the Sunday following; his uncle John asked me. There was no one else there. The Thursday following . his uncle cause again for me. Thegirt was then dead. Primmer said he was very sorry the children were dead—that they had died so suddenly. The girl was very sick the Sunday and Wednesday before. Selina Morns.—The prisoner's wife and my husband were brother and sister. On Monday, the 23d Feb. saw the prisoner in the cellar. His daughter visit he were at tea. She had drank one cup, and the prisoner had poured out another for her, which sitevery it t e a r t . t e n i sr r t i e so d n t e o r dwriinpekd, u u t p. laid He it sa dy down he at,.gain,as was so ill. Prisoner was.cating, cold bread and butter, and the '- never had. , deceased ht. h e s a s d t t h o a a t s k n E o l w i za o b r e e t x li e w e i a )t s t a h e h e s a m lt a t p c o h x il . d ; • thrisjana Seddon went to see prisoner on Wednesday, the. 25th Feb. Prisoner had just finished his tea. '1 he girl wag very ill in bed; she vomited a good deal. Prisoner said the child had been eating an orange. Prisoner said Elizabeth would not continue long, ; two of the eldest could do for them selveseand the two boys were with his soother, and then heshould be by himself. The child was very ill, and prisoner offered her gin, hut she refused it, and asked for water. I asked him if-he would get a doctor? He said uo, it would he of an use, for if • she would not take good stuff she would not take physic. The child cried out, "0 my belly." Heard of the child's death next morning, and called on the prisoner. Ile said she died about two o'clock. Mr. Richard Daley, borouehre eve o f 13olten, went to the ' , cellar of the prisoner .ou Friday, 27th Feb., with Burrows. The • prisoner was not. at }time, and the door was locked. - Went - again about half-past two with Burrows and Mr. Heap, and forced the door open. He found the body of the child laid out. We then searched the cellar, and Bus r ows found a small par cel, tied up in a rag, on the beam near the fire-piece. In the rug was paper with "arsenic—poison" written on it. Burrows found a piece of brown paper, but nothing in it. Mr. liesis examined the pa rce l. Mr. James llorrocks said the writing onthe parcel was his.. . Recollects it from omitting the letter " a", out 4.f the word ar e settle. It was either on the 11th ar 12th of Feb.—thinks the , • latter. It was not the prisoner I sold it to. '1 he quantity I sol o was two oun ces . I sa il a t th e time it was not customary to sel' such a quantity without there being some one present who knew him, and he referred sue to a person at the dear, but cannot say. whether he was the prisoner. 1 was making up an order at this time for Mr. Davis, at Iluthven, which occupied me two days. Beej. Davis weighed the arsenic brought to him by the con stables; it was one ounce and one drachm. John Lennox Heap examined the parcel found by the con- , stable, judged it to be arsenic, and found it was so ell tasting it. Opened the body of the girl; found a quantity of mucus, and eight ounces of trowu fluid in it, mice d with a white powder. - i*maEw