The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

eThere is now growing in an orchard belonging to Mr. Pid ev, of Sowton, a young apple-tree which was never grafted, 'laving on one part blossom in full perfection, on another part apples set, and on a third part full sized apples.— Western Luminary. The Statesman mentioi as an instance of the fondness Bonaparte, t h at wn ch besets tha arrived is th years ago, after the affair at StraL himself to be sent round to all the the print-sellers being told they nu as they pleased, upon the conspicuous place in the iatire-shops in London, e condition of keeping one in p window. 'rum &morale TELEGRAPH.—This apparatus was called tit° action last week on the Great Western Railway, in con sequence of an Irish gentleman baying left, at one of the stations fiff, y miles from London, his great enat. containing he m a d e r( ery valuable snuff-boi. On ar ingin London I Ve and in three hours he v receiving it he exclai story i❑ Cork, but Six( ph was set to wor put in possession of his coat. On By the powers I may tell this re+. e lately witnessed on the p r emises of Mr. Evan Winstone, grocer, Brecon, a striking proof of the power of nature in supporting vegetation under the most unfavourable circumstances. In a small back yard, attached to the dwelling-house, a small platform, leading to warehouse from a flight of stone steps, is formed by a slight Joist of timber with a few boards thrown across, and from out of this joi s t a ti ne rasp b erry tree has not only grown to the height of five feet, but this summer has produced finer fruit than any in Mr. W.'s productive garden. Several smaller shoots are n ow ma ki ng their appearance, one actually pro truding through a plank, and all thi s w ith ou t an y earth whate,e; Wasrs IN A BALL Room.—On Tuesday evening last, as two young men, w h o had been taking a wasps' nest, were re turning to Chesterfield, on approaching the town they were attracted to a house b!,; sounds of music and rejoicing. It proved to be a dwelling where festivities in celebration of a marriage were taking place; and, claiming some acquaint ance with the inmates, the young men joined the festive throng. The wasps' nest, which was folded in a handker chief, was placed in a corner of the room, unknown to the company, and the dance proceeded. After . a time the two voung men above alluded to took their departure, leaving (whether intentionally or not is unknown to us) the nest in the room. The dance•continued ; when, lo! one of the fe males made an equivocal sort of movement, and retreat from the house ; her husband following heels, anxious to learn the cause of his wife's e conduct. Scarcely had the party left the bout cond, and a t hi rd, and a fourth of the female gut similar equivocal sytnptorus, followed by suppre_ and bewildered looks. The male members of the company looked anxiously and inquirin g l y at the ladies, who, in re turn, skip pe d about the room with wonderful agility, giving sundry i n di cat i ons that their nivsterious movements could not be satisfactorily explained. Suddenly the men became afflicted, though perhaps nut exactly after the same fashion as the ladies, and a very exciting, but at the same time oul very ea comical scene ensued, to attempt to depict which ‘v l!opeless task. It may be imagined, but certainly cannot cir nd b notbe The cause of this derangement of the festive orecipitat sely ;it her sis exhibited describes. cle was, however, soon apparent. The fiddler, who was sightless, feeling something very sharp enter his cheek, dropped his instrument, and applied his band with great force to his face, bringing to the earth one of the monsters that had been a source of annoyance. Suffice it to say, some f the wasps had escaped from confinement, and in revenge /or the punishment they had endured; crept up the legs of the dancers, and inflicted thzir sting. As many as three and f °t l r wasps were found upon some of the femaleg shire Ch ronicle. Derby- OUTRAGES ON CANALS AND RIVERS.— at the conclusion of the last Session of parliament, some pro vision has been made to prevent a repetition of certain of- Lences that have taken place on canals and navigable rivers. Inc act i s en titl e d, "A n A c t t o p r ovide f or k eep i ng th e Peace on Canals and Navigable Rivers." And in the pream ble, it is stated to have been framed to prevent a recurrence of former outrages and depredations. It authorises two ma gistrates' upon application of the committee or board of di rectors of any canal or river company, to appoint constables, who are to be sworn in the manner prescribed ; but by the second section they can be dismissed by two magistrates, the W atch committee of an incorporated borough, or the commit tee 01 ' board of directors of the company. And by th e f our th clause, if a constable be guilty of neglect of duty, he is ren dered liable to a penalty of not more than £lO., or in the dis cretien of a magistrate, one month's imprisonment, with or without hard labour. Sy the sixth section, an assault upon a constable in the execution of his duty, is to be punished by a fine not exceeding £lO., or an imprisonment, with or with out hard labour, of not more than two calendar_ months !Persons found upon a canal or river, or dock "g, with any tube or other instrument to carr, in their possession, or any one attempting to obta.._ nuors or other goods unlawfully, are rendered liable to natty of X 5., or imprisonment with or without hard labour, for not more than a month, and the like pe na lty t o b e i n fli c t e d upon any person w h o shall " unlawfully drink or wilfully sll or all ow to run to waste any liquors." Constables are em- Powered to apprehend, without a warrant, " any loose, id' and disorderly person whom he shall find disturbing the lic Peace, or whom he • shall have good cause to having committed, or being about to commit any felony, . demeanour, or breach of the peace, or other offence, cor trary to the provisions of this act, and every person whom he shall find between sunset and the hour of eight in the morning ly ing or loitering in or upon any towing path, wharf, bridge, railway, quay, landing place, lock, dock, or upon the bank of any such canal or river, and not giving a satisfactory ac count of himself." The constables are to be paid by the company, and are not to act within the jurisdiction of the metropolitan police or the city of London, or anywhere be yond the banks, towing path, or premise or river. An appeal is allowed against a summary conviction under the act where the amount of penalty adjudged to be paid exceeds M., upon the party fined entering into recog nizanees with two sureties. The town of hull has acquired for itself an immortal in famy. At a late meeting for the purpose electing a Lord Steward, (at which a Sir William Low —something most appropriately presided), the two candidates put up—cer tainly without the consent of the former of them —were the Duke of Wellington and the Marquis of Normanby ; the one the greatest warriorand statesman—the other the silliest fribble and coxcomb of this and any age. These Yorkshire cakes, however, looked, we suppose, to the office and not to the officer, and so preferred the minister to the man ; or they may very likely have heard of the, Noble Home Secretary's propensity for pardoning offenders, and letting loose gaol birds 'of every description, and, after all, they surely must be the best judges of what species of service the inhabitants of their beautiful borough are most likely to stand in need. Be this as it may, they have made their choice; and, as coming immediately after the Earl of Durham, we should say that the Marquis of Narmanby is radically better for the town of Hull than the Duke of Wellington, who truly should not " dip his hands," as Lord Froth expresses it, " in Fleet ditch."— A -By an act passed :lento belong ry away liquor IJUU.• iSpeCt of belonging to a canal -Argus. PORTSMOUTH.—The Belleisle, 72, Captain Nicolas, is ordered to be refitted with every dispatch at Plymouth, to return to the Mediterranean. The following line-of-battle ships are preparing with all practicable expedition for imme diate commission, namely, Indus, 84, and Vengeance, 84, at Portsmouth ; also the Britannia 120, the Bombay, 84, an d Clarence, 84, a t Pl ymout h ; and the Formidable, 84, and Monarch, 84, at Sheerness. The Howe, and Royal Ade laide, 120-gun flag-ships, are also getting ready for sea ser vice.. The docky ar d p resen t s a scene o f act i v i ty an d b ustle, and the town is posted with bills for men for her Majesty's na vy'. The Britannia, 120, will go out to Spithead this week, and immediately on the arrival of the Donegal, 78, fr oth Lisbon, that ship's crew will shift over to her, an d be completed to 820 men. She is to bear the flag of Rear-Ad- Mira' Sir John Ommanney, K.C.8., as second in command in the Mediterranean. The Rodney, 92, Captain Maunsell, was to leave Plymouth Sound on Sunday, direct for Malta, to join Sir R. Stopford's fleet with the least possible delay.- 1311 .9ht0n Gazette. THE MURDER OF THE HIGH SIIF.RIFF OF CHESHIRE'S GA MEKEEPER.—The Police Gazelle, or H oe an d C ry o f W ednesday evening, contains the following respecting the l 'orrit! affair :—"• Whereas, on the night of the 10th instant, b etween the hours of nine and ten o'clock, Thomas Hen _ 8114 w, of Huxley, near Tarporley, gamekeeper, was waylaid rbe was returning home, in Huxley aforesaid, and murdered, " r ing been shot 'with a gun the charge of which entered his left side, and was also robbed of e 2 95., a reward of £lOO will be paid to any person giving such information and evi dence as shall lead to the conviction of the offender or offenders, upon application to Mr. Thomas Bond Du mv ill e , solicitor Tarporley ; and a further reward of £lOO will be Paid to such person or persons by the Secretary of State for the Home Department ; in addition to which, his lord alliP will recommend the grant of her Majesty's pardon to arty Person (not beinc , the actual murderer) who shall give such information and evidence." ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT MURDER IN CHESHIRE.—At the very time that exertions were made to detect the perpe trator of the murder near Beeston, another murder was at leropted riot far from the same vicinity. On Tuesday night ast an under agent to Messrs. Jackson and Beane, railway Co ntractors, who have a contract on the Chester and Crewe railway, was returning from Wardle, through Crimes-lane, near Beeston, to his residence, when a shot was tired at him from behind the hedge, and a ball passed through his hat, and knocked it off, so as to cause it to fall several yards from him. He stopped to pick it up, and another shot was fired ; he heard something whiz past him, but luckily the charge did not take effect. He at once hurried home, and as might be expected, in a state of great agitation. Next morning, infor /nation was given t o M r . Hill, su p er i n t en d en t o f the Chester Police, who has since been indefatigable in his exertions to de tect the perpetrators of these sanguinary crimes. It appears Probable that the villains had been, for some time, waiting for their victim, as from the place where the shots were fired there were foot-marks which led to that inference. As the scene of this outrage is not more than two miles from where the Huxley murder was committed, it appears not improbable that the same parties are implicated, and that the sole object has been the plunder of the victims of what little money they may have had on their persons. We feel it necessary to say this, because some parties entertain the notion that the mur der of Henshall was primarily incited on account of his occu pation as a watcher on demesnes where the game is strictly preserved. There is not the slightest ground for such a sur mise. RATHER MARVELLOUS.—A very singular arid remarkable circumstance occurred a few days since, which, it is said, will shortly form the subject of an action in a court of law. A well-known merchant, residing in the neighbourhood of the Regent's Park, had paid away his acceptance for upwards of 4500 to a person whom, in the course of the summer, he had become acquainted with at one of the watering places, in c onsideration of his being introduced to a lady of the stran ger's acquaintance, whom he represented as a lady of fortune, single, and perfectly her own mistress. On the subsequent arrival of the merchant and his new friend in town, the in troduction was effected, and in a few weeks the lady and gen tleman became so well satisfied with each other that mar riage was the result. Upon the wedding morning the lady's tr4end claimed and received th e merc h an t' s acceptance for 4 ° oo . On Monday last it became due, and the acceptor, recollecting that his account at his banker's was overdrawn, B ,en!. his servant with the money to his banker's in the city, desiring him to take a cab in order to be there in time for the Presentation of the bill. The servant, however, availed him self of the cheaper conveyance of an omnibus, hastened to t he banke rs , paid in the cash, and was proceeding home wards, when' he remembered that he had a letter to deliver i f tt . the Bank Coffee House for his master. Upon searching that It, he could not find it anywhere, and it occurred to him the might have lost it in the omnibus. He proceeded to ti r sPot from whence he alighted a short time previous, and a e .re stood apparently the ;awe omnibus. Without asking 0 Nagle question, into the vehicle he jumped fortunately no e Was inside, and there, on the seat, was a piece . of folded ri;,, Pe i r, sure enough : upon examining it, he found it was not ,tg a tet ter, but a bill of exchange accepted by his master for delivered Tlie servant hastened home with his . prize, which he arp.ed to the merchant, who found that it was the identi !:4ll he had given lo his watering place acquaintance for int roduction to his wife, to meet which he had sent the p c ° , ll bill, eY to hi s b an k er ' s. Th e person w h o held theap r!, resided at Paddington, and was most probably journey ge,t In the same omnibus, to present it, that contained the e ; a vapt who was su p p li e d w i t h t h e money to mee t it ; an d i n ha 41 ,,, I Pog his pocket-hook, previous toalighting, it must "JoPPed out. The merchant who e sect of ae..._ a !tair, declares that lie will not pay the money, ac his ofT,iiacintance had misinformed him as regarded the property j a ', i t , lady he had introduced him to. The person, however, t n i na h t ° i• s s e favour the bill was drawn,. has expressed his deter ver th e " l.l of bringing an action against the merchant to reco amount—orning Herald. at'An after at 7ffi ford 20 Was 'oron to re, 3P cter of cted to !alcula ano- ferson, s, mea ers on !en ap ,lace of is to 's have For the ler ton; en - ce of 'ed be dmund ►didate -staf 'uesday ed him r Park, of the .;ceased t, 1815, Lad no w days e well- nsdale , rake of d four Iv-one Farm - .th was J. C. ice :--- )ersonS e s taffs ; those . iratOry e most v been ; hovel wasp. :eniOU! n ,--- front leaves pricot, rederic Jewark ug hi° is ex' It i S does expo' maberi Iption• ntends iprecu weeks Rail latural ih atilr we i g hs mule' of " a :sicliog led by ba n an 14 )unted ie ref o : rived Lsea !ctea. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL Second Night of the FRENCH COMPANY OF PERFORMERS, From the Prince's Theatre, (late St. James's,) London, wh are engaged for a limited period, and will appear in a va riety of French Dramas • the principal characters in whicl will be sustained by the following Performers from th Parisian Theatres : Messrs. ARM AND, TOURTOIS, ISIDORE Mesdames EDLIN, PILATI, VICTORINE, DE RUEL, CLEMENCE. EUGENE, A UGUSTE, C HARLE. TrIIIS present TUESDAY, September 22, 18400 e En tertainments will commence with the petit CAecly of THE LADY AND THE DEVI After which, MAURICE; OU, LE MEDECIN DE CAMPAGNE. 'auclevgle nouveau, en Deux Actes, par M. Melesville. M. Armand. Ferdinand.. M. Eugene. M. Tourtoi Le Baron de la Brianne, La Marquis de Villebranche, Caroline de la Brianne Marie M. Auguite. Mlle. Clemence. Madame de Ruel. . Madame Edlin. After which, the Farce of the RENDEZVOUS. To conclude with LES GANTS JAUNES. Vaudeville en Un Acte, du Therdtre du Vaudeville. Anatole.... M. Armand. Lamaire..... M. Isidore. Capitane de Gendarmerie .. Madame Remi.... Madame Victorine. Madame Durand, Portiere Madame Clemence. :Baptistine, sa Niece Madame Edlin. TO-MORROW, (Wednesday,) the Melo-Drama of the WANDERING BOYS.—After which, LE PLASTRON. The characters by the French Company.—After which, the Drama of the LITTLE JOCKEY.—To conclude with LE PHILTRE CHAMPENOIS. By the French Company. There will be an entire change of French Performances Every Evening during the Engagement of the French Company. THE LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION. PHE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the LIVERPOOL ACA DEMYof WORKS of MODERN , e..Nnitr . ARTISTS IS NOW OPEN for the Season, fr ' until Dusk. Admission, Is. Catalogue, Is. Se Ticket, ss. •SAMUEL EGLING ON, Secretary to the Academy. Exhibition Rooms, Postoffice-plape, September 14, 1840. EXHIBITION. THE LAST WEEK BUT ONE, CAPTAIN SIBORN' S MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. THE celebrated il6bEL — Ziii - 14-1 E ATTLE OF WATERLOO is NOW OPEN for HIBITION at the GALLERY OF THE UNION • S OMS, Slater street, Bold-street. Open from Ten in the Morning till Ten at Night. Ad mission, One Shilling each. TO CORRESPONDENTS We recommend " A Reformer," who writes to us on the subject of the corn-laws, to read the article "On the Working of the Averages," which appears in another co lumn. " Fair Play" Committee H. 0." ought to have furnished us with his name The paragraph headed " Welsh Honesty" appeared in this paper some weeks ago had better lay his statemeut before the Dock Zig iLibtrpool Otanbatt. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1840. The foreign news which has reached us since our last does not present any features of prominent inte rest. The French journals are chiefly occupied with speculations on the recently-published quadruple treaty. The proceedings of the revolutionary junta in Spain are daily becoming more and more violent. The latest from that distracted country announce the for mation of another ministry, evidently under the dicta tion of the rebel Esnartero. There is no news of any ... from Portugal importance. No change of any consequence has taken place in the aspect of Eastern affairs. On the 28th ultimo, Mehemet Ali had a conference of above four hours with Rifat Bey and the consuls of the Four Powers. At this conference, Mehemet requested Rifat Bey to pro ceed to Constantinople at once, and that matters should remain in statu quo until his return. The French pa pers have officially announced the purport of Rifat Bey's mission. It is stated that the Viceroy has of fered to cede Adana, Candia, and the Holy Cities, and that he demands only Syria for his life. This is de scribed as the compromise originally thought of by the French government. It is difficult to say how this proposition may be received. It appears that Commodore Napier continues to detain all the Viceroy's ships that have warlike stores. This is acting upon a system of " pacification " with a Ali was quiet at Alexandria at the date vengeance! of the last advice " Vive Ia liberty ! vive I 'egalite! vive Ia constitu tion !" three glorious words of the three glorious days. Thenceforth liberty of tongue and pen, and equality under the law, were guaranteed to France for ever, under a monarchico-paternal sovereign. To France did we say ? We beg pardon for the unintentional offence in confounding things without difference. To France? foutre ! a fico for that phrase! To condense revolutionary Frenchmen into a monosyllable, savoured too much of constraint, with fetters and bastiles, and such mementos of the old regime. The new and popu lar King stoutly swore that he would not be King of France, but of FRENCHMEN. This proof of love for his people and their liberties produced throbs of con vulsive devotion towards him. The canaille threw up their greasy caps to such a liberty-loving King, and even old Lafayette mounted his white horse and gal loped about Paris in unutterable ecstacy. ' Those were glorious days. Old revolutionists told their sons how the glory of their own youthful time was returning, when Lafayette, his horse, and la liberte" were all three young, and the Duke of Orleans took' the name of Philip Equality, citizen ; altogether re straining his private grief at the murder of his cousin, the king, in his love for social equality. Fathers pointed out to their gaping children the identical young La fayette, now grown old ; the fruit, the dried fruit in deed, of the first revolution ; and if Philip Equality survived not, who could better fill the place of a father than his "liberal" son ! All Paris, and, therefore, all France (we beg pardon again) hugged each other on the day when Philippe Egalite's son, Louis Philippe, good pay-triotic man, al lowed himself to he converted from Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom into King Louis Philippe I. It was delightful to study the motives of the patriotic citizen, the unambitious King of the Barricades. He could not wish, of course, for kingly prerogative; Charles X. had just been expelled for exerting it. He could not wish to form a DYNASTY ; he was himself the principle of elective instead of hereditary succession. He had been an exile and a schoolmaster, for, he hoped, the benefit of his country; and subsequently a stock job ber rather extensively, for the benefit of one portion, at least, of his country. But to be KING ! he, the an t?gonism of kinghood; the son of Philippe Egalite ac cept a crown ! The inconsistency may certainly have appeared considerable both to his own mind and others; but he allowed himself to be prevailed upon—" for the good of his country"—and possibly, also, with an eye slightly towards the Bourse, whose transactions may be occasionally modified by a King of the Telegraphs. But then his " liberal " sons, with whom Nature had liberally supplied him, what was to become of them? Of course, in the new liberal state of things and elective monarchies, they would not be thrust upon the nation, but obey their king, not dream of necessary succession, and serve their country to the best of their respective abilities, like other you men of respectable connec- The heir was simply the Duke of Orleans; the title of the heir to the throne, Dauphin, was studiously abandoned ; it was an appellative which was the re verse of fragrant in the nostrils of republico-monar chials ; it fumed of hereditary rights to one and conse quent bondage to many. Instances of such freedom from the idea of family aggrandisement, are perhaps rare; family considera tions were no doubt altogether as much out of the mind of the patriot king, Louis Philippe, as they have always been in the Elliotts and Russells, for instance, with us. For whoever heard of a Russell or an Elliott or a Fleming, obtaining post, preferment, or promotion, solely through the circumstance that a member of one family sits at the council table and one of the other presides at the Admiralty ? But to change our tone. A more ambitious, circuitous-coursed politician than Louis Philippe has seldom occupied the throne of another. Realizing in himself the traitorous schemes of the house of Orleans, which had for ages promoted troubles and torn asunder the peace of the kingdom, he seeks to found and perpetuate a dynasty. By con summate art wielding circumstances and working upon a popular delusion, carefully fostered by his partizans, he has clutched the sceptre, whose possession haunted the imagination of his remoter ancestors, and which his father, Louis Egalit6, unsuccessfully sought by self-degradation. The King of France we are not canvassing as a prl vate Character ; in many of the private relations of life he may be worthy the imitation of some of his subjects. But ambition is his master ; not the ambition of Na poleon, which, partaking of the same element, enthu siasm, aroused the enthusiasm and devotion of a nation; but an ambition, if equal in degree, more limited in scope and less looking to the proud association of glory. The one rallied an entire people to its further ,,,ance ; the other has widely engendered contempt or detestation. " Liberty," poor prostituted word, was the step by which Louis Philippe of Orleans mounted his throne. Did this ambitious man endeavour to secure his seat by maintaining for those who made him king the same sort of liberty as they virtually bargained for ? It is not to the purpose to say that such sort of liberty ought not to be maintained ; that strict order and stringent law, incompatible with real liberty, are necessary to a nation's welfare. His was a bargain. Has h e k e pt it with his people ? , Nay, when he considered his throne secure, did he counte nance even the men themselves whose opinions he was put forward to represent ? No. He soon proceeded in th kingly career of less " glorious" times. He dashed aside, like a sucked orange, when no longer needed, old Lafayette, white horse and all. Then the press was attacked—the press, which had mainly as sisted to make him what he was, by delighting to use the words " liberty " and " Louis Philippe" as much like synonyms as possible. Well, the press was as- saulted ; newspapers were prosecuted ; and editors, too honest to be bribed by the King, or so dogged in their ideas cf liberty as to canvass the advantage of the mushroom royalty, were arrested, fined, and 'incar cerated right royally. After a time, Frenchmen found that " la liberty," " 1' egalite," " la constitution," &c., although excellent words for making an extempore king, had become dangerous texts for those who had • made him so. Disappointed masses, be they French or English, will grumble; and a man in Louis Philippe's position does not require the ear of his fellow-schoolmaster and king, Dionysius, to hear their grumbling. Time reign of Louis Philippe has been painfully re markable : on his own side, for prosecutions and vio lence done to expression of thought, as well as for apparent absence of any other leading principle than that of consolidating his dynasty ; on the part of his people, by• emeutes, conspiracies, and, above all, re iterated attempts to assassinate the ,once-popular King —attempts in number, perseverance, and deliberate ness of purpose, hardly equalled in history. The DYNASTY was tottering amidst ill-suppressed conspi racies and undisguised ill will ; and its preservation might have baffled the talent of even Louis Philippe, " hark ! to the rescue," the EASTERN QUES TION springs up when, The eastern question was, and is, a godsend to the King of France. A reprieve suddenly appeared for his dynasty, and right eagerly he seized it. Clever, strong-minded, and persevering men want but oppor tunities; and Louis Philippe ,is all three. Under his treatment, the eastern question saves him. The point at issue is not the slight cast on France by the quadruple treatry ; but the quadruple treaty has been adroitly pounced upon, as a foil to hide deeper designs than the majority of his people seem to sus pect. After the publication of Lord Palmerston's note, the . French war-wishers were silenced awhile by conviction This would not do : the DYNASTY must be secured ; the nation must be united upon some one popular matter ; present grumblings, conspiracies, and premeditated assassinations, must be forgotten in one great enthusiasm for something ; Bonapartists, royal ists, republicans, must merge all differences in the glory and honour of France; and meanwhile, against the time when this hurricane of military preparations and enthusiasm of union have subsided, Paris must be girded with ramparts, bristling with cannon, capa ble of being turned upon the capital itself, when, in stead of the Four Powers, Louis Philippe himself be comes the subject, of lucubration. No more will be heard of barricades, and rebellioui faubourgs. Safe at Versailles, the patriot King may and would coolly command the destruction of his unquiet capital, to save Ids dynasty. This plan, when proposed some time ago honestly, raised a storm about his royal ears ; now, thanks to proper management of the eastern question, and judicious diplomacy " anent" the qua druple treaty,'his volatile people extol him for expend ing a million. - of francs on their own political destruc tion. That the threatening attitude and blusterings of France are solely attributable to this piece of domestic policy in the King of the Barricades, we by no means intend to assert ; but we do assert that he engrafts the success of his long-cherished domestic policy on the turbulent national excitement arising from the eastern question and its treatment. Even war, if decidedly popular, might work to his personal advantage; whilst, without doubt, his separation of French interests from those of Russia and England, powerfully arouses in his favour a large mass of Frenchmen. Still his main objects are in process of attainment, and the probabi lities of war are so far diminishing. These views, however, even in their widest scope, would not warrant our position. France threatens— nay, like a " liberal" in lack of argument, bullies. Eng land is unprepared for war, and, in comparison with French preparations, unpreparing. The silly remark of Lord Melbourne, in justification of Admiral Fle ming's appointment to Greenwich Hospital, that cou rage and success in action formed no merit in an offi cer, seems to meet with a corresponding principle, that precaution or national defence in a government is no duty. Whether war or peace result from present symptoms, one painful fact cannot escape the quadru ples or quintuples and France—that, under a Whig ministry, England may snarl at China, and bully Por tugal, but that the once mistress of the sea cannot equal a Russian or French fleet, nor can man a few ships without bringing vessels from the Tagus to draught off their crews ! That the energy of the nation would, if need called for it, repair the errors of the most unnational ministry which ever chanced to get office, we do not for a moment doubt; but despicable must that ministry be, which, in times of danger, throws the nation under unnecessary disadvantages. Still not fearing war, we cordially hope for peace. Some of onr radical contemporaries affect to be greatly horrified at the immense number of objections which have been made to the registration lists of mu nicipal voters. These objections, we understand, amount to about eight thousand. The Mercury is un usually angry and dolorous on the subject. According to our contemporary the objections are " frivolous and vexatious," and constitute a " systeth of mutual an noyance," which is " disgusting in the extreme," and " discreditable to all parties." In still stronger lan guage the Mercury proceeds to designate this system of wholesale objections as "a practice more like the spiteful recrimination of a parcel of angry boys, than the conduct of rational men," adding that " the nui sance has becoine so intolerable and notorious that it must lead to some legislative measure for its supres sion." The terms in which the Journal speaks of the matter are equally strong. We are glad that the radi cal journalists of Liverpool are beginning to discover a few of the beauties of the reform act. A little more experience of its working will, perhaps, enable them to form a still more correct estimate of the character of that bungling specimen of whig legislation, It is necessary that we should remind our radical contemporaries of a fact which seems to have escaped their notice when they ventured to declaim so virtu ously against the system of wholesale objections—viz., that the liberals originally commenced this mode of warfare, and thus rendered it necessary, on the ground of self-defence, that the conservatives should retaliate upon their adversaries. The necessity, on the present occasion, is still further augmented by the notorious fact that the liberals have thought proper to adopt a system of manufacturing spurious voters on a scale of unprecedented magnitude. It is necessary that the re gistry should be completely expurgated of the hun dreds of " Protectors" who have recently had their taxes paid by the "aristocrats" and "top-sawyers" •of the Whig faction. It is necessary that those " fungu ses," as they were felicitously called by Mr. Tindal At kinson, should be rooted up. We have all along warned the liberals that they were playing a game the consequences of which would descend on their own heads, and issue in their own discomfiture. It was scarcely to be expected that the conservatives would contemplate with indifference the recent nefarious at tempt of their opponents to swamp the registry, by in . - troducing among the bona fide ratepayers a horde of beggarly Irish Papists, to become a future burden upon the parish. We have no fears whatever, if fair play be allowed, of the result of the approaching revision of the lists of municipal voters. We believe that it will issue in the signal triumph of the conservatives. We look for ward, therefore, to the first of November with the ut most confidence. It will then, we have no doubt, be triumphantly demonstrated that the anticipations of future ascendancy in our " local legislature," in which the Whig-radicals have lately indulged, are utterly with out foundation. The sooner they retire from the con test the better. They will thus avoid the mortification which they cannot but experience from the sound drubbing which is in store for them. Our conservative friends, however, must not relax for one moment in their endeavours. Despondency, in their case, is certainly out of the question; but they may sacrificc, many advantages by over-confidence. Against this feeling we hope they will guard them selves. They must be incessantly active, both tending to the registry and in canvassing the electors, if they wish to secure a victory at once complete and final. ' We publish this day the particulars of another aw ful and atrocious murder, which was perpetrated on the person of an aged and inoffensive widow at New castle-under-Lyme. For several weeks past we have scarcely sent a publication to press without containing similar details. Crimes of the most aggravated cha racter are becoming alarmingly prevalent in all parts of the country, and more especially murderous assaults upon the person. We are afraid that the present mode of administering the law presents too many induce ments to the commission of these crimes. In too many instances we find juries unwilling to find prisoners, charged with takink away life, guilty on the more serious indictments ; and in too many cases the sen tences upon such criminals are .far too lenient. The murderer is thus led to speculate upon the chances in favour of his escape from the extreme penalty of the law. Punishment, in order to he effective, should he uniform and certain, excepting in cases in which there are extraordinary circumstances of palliation, to call into exercise the prerogative of mercy. But, as the prevention is better than the punishment of crime; it becomes an 'imperative duty upon all who are in authority among us to sanction and adopt such measures as ate calculated to obviate such atrocities as those which we now deplore. Among those remedial measures, we know of none which promises better results than a system of national education on Christian principles. Nothing short of such a system, pervading in its influence every town and hamlet in the kingdom, is calculated to raise the tone of national morality. It is under this conviction that we would urge upon our readers the necessity of supporting the various Diocesan Boards of Education which have been re cently organised in different parts of the kingdom. In the absence of a general provision on the part of the legislature, these societies are calculated to bring within the reach of all classes the means of procuring for the rising generation a sound, useful, and, above all, a religious education. The machinery is here pre gented for effecting a complete revolution in the cha racter of the masses—for it is a revolution of the most extraordinary character to change a vicious, ignorant, and besotted population into peaceable, orderly, sober, and virtuous subjects. Let all, then, who have the means, render a prOpor tional degree of assistance to the Diocesan School So cieties. They will thus contribute most effectually towards the reduction of our criminal calendars, and confer a boon upon generations yet to come, the value of which it is impossible to estimate. BIRKENHEAD BAZAAR.—This bazaar, for the endowment of the new church, commences to-day (Tuesday.) It pro mises to be fashionably attended ; and, when we consider the importance of the object to be achieved, we cannot but hope it will be eminently successful. Our next will contain a no tice of the proceedings. LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS.—The exhibition this year is of a delightful character, and we would recom mend our friends to lose no time in paying it a visit. We had written some remarks on a few of the paintings, but their appearance is unavoidably postponed till our ru..ct pr,blication. MR. BARKER, THE VOCALIST. — This gentlenlall has just concluded a very successful engagement at the Theatre-royal, Worcester, and has resumed his position in the corps of our Theatre-royal. He promises to become one of the first vo calists of the day. As a teacher of singing no professor could be more successful. His method of developing the voice is excellent, and we can confidently recommend him to all who wish to acquire the principles and practice of the divine art. PUBLIC BAPTISM OF A Jaw.—On Sunday evening an aged Jew was admitted into membership with the Church of Eng land, by the administration of the sacred ordinance of bap tism, in presence of the congregation of Christ Church. The Rev. Fielding Ould, the respected minister of the church, preached an eloquent and impressive sermon on the occasion, to an audience consisting of between 3000 and 4000 persons. THEATRE ROYAL.--The attraction at the Theatre Royal for the present week is the French company, which was performing at St. James's, London. Two pieces were per formed last evening, and they both went off with considerable spirit, notwithstanding that the house was but thinly attended, owing probably to the extreme wetness of the evening. We recommend those who wish to improve their knowledge of the French language to visit the Theatre during this engagement. ODDFELLOWSILIP.—Mr. J. Russom, of Tarporley, has just published a very excellent little work on this subject : it exhibits great merit, and treats ably on the subject. The principles of oddfellowship are clearly laid down, and the work will doubtless bring many members to these excellent societies. We recommend the members of every lodge to peruse the work, and committees would do well to distribute some thousands amongst their immediate circles. The craft are really indebted to Mr. Russom for this little work. ALBION ANTICS. — The•A/bion of yesterday, among other rubbish scattered over two mortal columns, called forth by the Diocesan Educational meeting, asserts that the speeches of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile and Mr. W. E. Gladstone, re ported in the Standard of Friday, were furnished to us by those gentlemen. This is a simple invention. The fact is, Mr. M'Neile's speech was printed from the notes of our own reporter, and that of Mr. Gladstone from the notes of ano ther shorthand writer, who had been engaged to assist us. The insinuation that Mr. M`Neile's speeches are invariably furnished, is equally without foundation. THE LIVERPOOL WELSH BRANCH BIBLE SOCIETY.— On Friday, the 4th instant, the annual meeting of the above society was held in the Music-hall, Bold-street, the Rev. Robert Davis, M.A., the president of the society, in the chair. The proceedings were wholly in the Welsh language. The spacious room was quite full. The annual collections were made on the two subsequent Sundays by the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, of this town, in aid of the funds of the society. The sums collected at their respective places of worship were as follows : s. d. Pall-mall Chapel £loo 0 0 Bedford-street Ditto Windsor School-room.. , 120 0 0 Rose-place Chapel.. 153 15 0 Pembroke-street School-room Burlington-street Ditto 4O 1 6 Birkenhead Chapel ' 8 0 6 Seacombe Ditto. 4 0 4 The other Welsh congregations connected with this branch have not yet made their annual collections in support of the society. GRAND UNITED ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS.—The mem bers of the Royal Hearts of Oak Lodge, of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, assembled to dine at their lodge, at the house of Mr. James Bibby, Farmers' Arms, Greenland street, on the 18th instant. The room in which they dined was richly decorated with royal colours and other emblems of royalty, the British union hanging over the N. G.'s chair, the beautiful conservative banner over the V. G.'s chair, and the royal standard over the N. F.'s chair, surrounded with abundance of laurel, Dinner was on the table at eight o'clock, when each officer took his proper seat. After din ner the following toasts Were given The Queen, and may she stand firm to the Protestant faith," by Brother Grahame, N. G. ;—" The Queen's illustrious Uncle, the Duke of Cumberland," followed by the Kentish fire, by Bro ther Sambrook, V. G. ;—" The glorious, pious, and immor tal Memory of King William the Third, Prince of Orange," by Brother Longworth, N. F. ;—" May the Tree of Odd Fellowship be planted in the centre of the World, and its Branches extend round the Globe," by Brother Wi n d ener , P. S. Other loyal toasts were afterwards given in succes sion. The annual report, which was read by the secretary, gave satisfaction to the members. The festivities of the evening were kept up to a late hour. • THE STEAM-SHIP PRESIDENT.--The directors of the Transatlantic Steam Navigation Company have placed at the disposal of the Mayor £7O 9s. 6d., the proceeds of the ad mission of the public to the steamship President, previous to her first voyage to the United States. His worship has portioned it amongst the following institutions -- The Northern Hospital The Southern Do. The Mariners' Church.. Seamens' Reading Room The Bethel Union Do £25 0 0 25 0 0 } 10 0 0 10 0 0 £7O 0 0 0 9 6 Casual Poor CHRIST'S CHURCH, ACCRINGTON, LANCASHIRI.—On Thursday the 17th inst., this church was opened for divine service, on which occasion two very able and appropriate ser mons were preached by the Rev. Wm. Villers, minister of St. George's, Kidderminster. The Rev. J. Hopwood, incum bent of Accrington, offered up the morning and evening prayer. The rev. gentleman was assisted at the communion by the Rev. M. A. Nicholson, the minister of this church. Although the weather was very unfavourable, and the con gregation consequently not so numerous as might otherwise have been expected at this most interesting solemn ceremony, yet the collection amounted to the very handsoMe sum of £237. In the evening a numerous company of clergy and friends to the establishment assembled at the National School to celebrate the opening of this church, by a tea drinking and other congratulatory manifestations. The population of this rapid increasing town like that of many other places in our land, has hitherto beep lamentably in want of church ac commodation, in some measure and for a time this deficiency will thus be supplied. The edifice is beautifully ornamental, besides furnishing room for 1000 more sittings for the wor shipping in our national Zion. Our fervent desire and prayer is, that while it stands a monument to posterity, recording the truly christian liberality of its promoters, it may prove a blessing to the surrounding neighbourhood, and be promotive of the glory of our God, even our Saviour, whose_ name it bears, and in whose service it will henceforth be employed. THE REV. HUGH M`NEILE AND THE EARL OF LOVELACE. The following mild and Christian letter, which we copy from the Ulster Times, expresses, we doubt not, the senti ments of all who have any regard for the reputation of Lord Lovelace, under the circumstances of his recent correspon dence with Mr. M`Neile. That correspondence has, we perceive, produced the desired effect. The Radical and Romish press are silent upon the subject. They cannot now hurl the Jezebel gibe at Mr. M`Neile without inflicting a heavy blow on their friend and advocate, Lord Lovelace. We congratulate the rev. gentleman on his noble shield. TO THE EARL OF LOVELACE. Cheltenham, August 14th, 1840. MY LORD,—Your lordship's character is such as to induce me, with confidence, to express to you an opinion upon a subject which intimately concerns your lordship. Though, I confess, the task is painful—but as the opinion is not an in dividual one, but held by me in common with all those, both of the clergy and laity, and they are not a few, with whom I have conversed upon the subject—l feel it my duty candidly to state it. Mr. M'Neile's correspondence with your lordship, lately published, has produced feelings of surprise and pain in all who esteem and value you. My lord, Mr. M'Neile's lan guage, in his last letter, is strong, but the charges brought against him affected his character as a member of society and his influence as a clergyman. If true, Mr. M'lsTeile would _ have been no longer a fit instructor for the merchants of Liverpoci and their families; he must have retired in disgrace. Was it right, in the world's estimation, was it Christian like, to reiterate such a charge upon the ipse digit of the editor of a provincial newspaper? The public say it was not, and much more, your lordship's kindly and Christian feelings, lam assured, will convince you it was not. Call it be right, then, can it be Christian-like, to express no regret at having done wrong? I leave the matter with your lord ship's conscience, and beg to subscribe myself Your faithful and obedient servant, A CLERGYMAN OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. THE STEAM-SHIP PRESIDENT The New York Evening Signal of the Ist instant contains the following remarks in reply to an article which appeared in the New York Morning Herald of the same date : " BLACK MAIL.—The vagabond of the Herald has the insane impudence to tell the agents of the President, Messrs. Wadsworth and Smith, that the reason that ship is not crowded with passengers is because they have not advertised in his paper. Why, the fellow has been puffing her with the view of fishing for her advertisement ever since she arrived, and he must either admit that au article in his advertising ' columns is of more service than. an editorial notice, or ciao he is convicted of lying by his own testimony. " In the following passage Bennett hints more directly at the object he has in view—the extortion of black mail. " ' They should give every publicity to their ship, by throw ing her open to visiters, and not issue tickets of admission to hundreds, only to disappoint them, as Wadsworth and Smith did last Saturday, thereby making many enemies.' " This is false, every word. From personal observation we can bear testimony to the perfect liberality and earnest desire to accommodate the public in visiting the President on the part both of Messrs. Wadsworth and Smith and Capt. Fayrer and all connected with his ship. No obstacle what ever was offered to visiters, except where delay was necessary in order to prevent the crowd from assembling to too uncom • fortable an extent, and in a manner to incommode the lady visiters on board. Bennett will have to pen a good many at tacks before he can extort any black mail from this quarter. " More than forty thousand persons have visited the ship since she was thrown open. In no astances have tickets been refused ; and in all instances the utmost attention and civility have been paid to visiters by all the functionaries of the ship. More than forty thousand witnesses can testify to the fact. The charges in the Herald are wantonly false. The object of them is palpable, and has met with the contempt , and derision it deserves." Lord Francis Egerton, has arrived at Dunrohin Castle, N. 8., on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Su therland, from Worsley Hall, Lancashire. Lord and Lady Stanley are expected to pass part of the winter in town. The f►mily will arrive in St. James's_ square about the first week in November, for her ladyship's aceouchernent. An extensive brewer of St. Helens has been particularly fortunate during the pa►t week, having drawn the winner in no less than three sweepstakes for the Doncaster St. Leger, one at the Waterloo Hotel. amounting to £lOO, and another (4:18) at the Brunswick Hotel, in this'town.—A Mr. Mars den, we understand, is the fortunate holder of the winner at Mr. Bake's, Bull's Head, Manchester, the prize amounting to something like £5OO. LIGHTING THE CHESHIRE SIDE OF THE MERSEY WITH GA.s.—Measures are in progress, we understand, for lighting the opposite side of the river with gas. The contract in cludes Woodside, Birkenhead, Traninere, and the neighbour hood. Mr. Jackson, of Hamilton-square, Woodside (late Church .street, in this town), has obtained the contract for a long term—twenty-one years, we believe ; and is busily en gaged in making arrangements to carry it into immediate effect. It will be a source of great utility on the other side of the water. ABERCROMBY WARD. — Froin the advertisement which appears in another part of our paper to-day, we are glad to perceive the conservatives of this ward are not prepared to submit to the flippant and unfounded assertions of our con temporary of the Journal, but have placed before the public, through their chairman, a prompt and manly vindication of the course they have pursued, relative to the vexatious and wholesale system of objections which have been practised by both parties in the town. We shall be anxious to see how the poor innocent radicals will answer this open and well timed declaration. RUNCORN.—CHURCH OF ENGLAND MISSIONS TO THZ JEWS.—The anniversary meeting of the Runcorn Auxiliary of the Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, was held on Tuesday evening last, in the Parochial National School. The Rev. Frederick Master, vicar of the parish, and president of the association, presided on the occasion, and he was supported by several of the neighbouring clergy and laity, among whom were the Rev. Samuel Bagnall, incum bent of Aston ; the Rev. Foster, curate of Frodsham ; the Rev. John Sheldon, curate of Runcorn Trinity Church; Thomas Keeling, Esq. ; Thomas Hazlehurst, jun. Esq. The deputation, from the Parent Society consisted of the Rev. T. S. Grimshawe, vicar of Biddeuham, and the Rev. H. S. Jo seph, lecturer to the Jews, and formerly Jewish rabbi. There was a very large attendance of ladies. The room was crowd ed in every part, and if the walls had been elastic, and could have been extended to enclose double, the space they do, the accommodation would scarcely have been adequate, for very many persons of respectability were obliged to return without gaining admission into the room. A more numerous and highly respectable meeting was never held in Runcorn on any previous occasion, and the object was worthy of all the zeal and interest evinced. To witness our church institutions supported in this spirited manner is truly gratifying, and cal culated to inspire our hopes with regard to the increasing spiritual rrosperity of our national Zion. INTERESTING TO NATURALISTS.—The barque Medora, Captain Harrison, which arrived at this port on Thursday last, from Bombay, brought as passengers a young lioness, a female kytena, unusually healthy and docile, and a beautiful specimen of the chetal, or white-spotted Indian gazelle. It is true that the importation of these animals into Great Bri tain is not an event of unfrcquent occurrence. The fact wits which the naturalist will be most especially interested is that, in the course of the tempestuous voyage which the Medora has completed, six chickens were hatched and reared on board of her. By the majority of naturalists it has been doubted, and by many of them it has been stoutly denied, that incuba bation could be successfully completed on shipboard, as the rolling, pitching, and lurching motion of a vessel must ma terially interrupt, if they did not actually suspend, a process, during the continuance of which it was imagined to be neces sary that the nest remain in an even position, and undisturb ed. The result of the experiment tried on board the Medora, it would appear, has settled the question, as the parent hen was purchased in Bombay, the eggs were laid by her on the the homeward passage, and the chickens hatchet; some fifteen days before the arrival of the Medora in Liverpool. This Indian brood are thriving as rapidly as if the " taking airs of the cold north were their native climate. It is presumed that the instance now recorded is, if not (as it is believed) unpre cedented, at least rare. ENGRAVING OF THE PRESIDENT STEAM SHIP.-Mr. Samuel Walters, the celebrated marine painter of this town, has just published a splendid large engraving of the President ateamer, which he has dedicated to his Excellency Martin Van Buren, President of the United States of America. It is without exception the finest print of a st eam s hi p that h as yet come under our notice, and is an admirable likeness of the vessel in every point. It conveys at a glance, to those unacquainted with shipping, the enormous size of the original, by the contrast produced by the appr ox i ma ti on o f a large river steamer, and a number of boats filled with spectators. The ship is represented as lying at anchor in the Mersey, with her sails unfurled. In the back ground is a fine view of a principal part of the town of Liverpool, in which the more prominent objects are St. Nicholas's Church, the Town Hall, the Baths, the Custom-House, St. George's Spire, and the intermediate buildings being intercepted from view by the hull and sails of the vessel. Great animation per vades the scene; the small boats, the steamer along side,. and the deck of the ship, crowded with figures, giving to the whole a bustling and appropriate effect. As a marine pain ter, Mr. Walters is not, we believe, excelled by any contem porary in tile kingdom; and we need scarcely, therefore, add, not only the hull, but the rigging, sails, &c. of the President, are pourtrayed with great beauty and accuracy. The water is also well defined. We wish Mr. W. that success with his print, which he so well deserves ; and we doubt not it will be much sought after. TRIAL TRIP OF THE "GREAT LIVERPOOL. - from time to time, noticed the alterations and improvements recently made in this vessel, and shall here merely recur to them briefly. She has been widened, or, in other words, increased in beam, by eight feet, which has given her much greater buoyancy with an equal weight of cargo. A spacious spar-deck has also been thrown over her, which will add much to the comfort and convenience of both passengers and crew. She has also received new boilers, and her cabin and other accommodations have been increased, so that in these points she much resembles her sister ship, the " Ori ental." As she might, therefore, be considered a new ship, a trial trip became necessary before she proceeded to South ampton and thence to the Levant. Accordingly, on Friday afternoon last, a ;lumber of gentlemen, accompanied by Mr. Shaw, the marine superintendent of the company, proceeded with her on an excursion to the Isle of Man. She started from opposite George's pier at twenty-five minutes past four in the afternoon, and, after a fine pleasant run, which show ed great improvement in the vessel, reached Douglas Bay at half-past eleVen o'clock. Some of the gentle men landed, and slept on shore, the hour fixed for the return being eight o'clock, but by far the greater number made themselves comfortable on board. At eight o'clock the anchor was raised, and at twelve minutes past that hour the steam was put on and she stood homewards. The wea ther was clear and bright, and the land of Wales, Cumber land, and the Island just left were distinctly seen during nearly the whole of the homeward trip. The invited guests were entertained throughout with the utmost hospitality. The ship behaved admirably, and her engines worked to admiration. Sail was set upon her both on going arid re turning; and, though at one time there was a briskish side breeze, she went on (to use a nautical phrase) " as stiff as a crutch," and is evidently calculated, with her additional beam, to carry any requisite weight of canvas. She also steers with great facility; is a truly handsome and safe ves sel, and will, we doubt' not, become a decided favourite. She carr e up the river at great speed, her engines performing from 16 to 161 revolutions per minute, so that independent of the tide way, she was probably running at the rate of 11 nautical miles an hour. She reached opposite George's Pier on her way to the Coburg Dock, at three minutes past three —thus performing the voyage from the Island in some minutes short of seven hours—an excellent passage, consi dering the weight of the vessel, and the fact that her engines from being refitted were as stiff as if new, and that consider able delay arose occasionally, both ways, in adjusting them. The tide being up, the vessel on her arrival immediately docked in the Coburg, and the passengers (or rather gue s t s ) landed highly delighted with the excursion and the attentions of Mr. Shaw, and the captain and officers. —We have, Died, at Inchbrakie, on the 7th instant, Colonel Grtemei of Inchbrakie ' aged 85 years. The co l one l was one of the few surviving heroic defenders of Gibraltar, under General Elliot, where he was wounded. He subsequently corntnand ed the Perthshire Fencible Cavalry.—Perth Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---FRI DAY EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A PROSTITUTE A respectaiie;;lniinitn, nirned Robert Knott Carter, charged a woman of the town, named Ann Fegan, with hav ing robbed him of £B5. Mr. Carter stated that he was a clerk in the service of Messrs. James Judson arid Co., of Hargreave's-buildings, and lodged at No. 23, Stafford-street. On Monday night, he was at a public-house in Great Char lotte-street, where he remained until between nine and ten o'clock. When he left he was a little in liquor. lie had one £2O Bank of England note, four £lO Bank of England notes, and 25 sovereigns in a leather purse. The name "J. Judson," was on the face of each of the notes. When he left the public-house in Great Charlotte-street, he went along the New Haymarket, and at the corner of Lord Nelson-street he met the prisoner and two other women, who seized him by each arm, and said, " Won't you treat us ?" He accompa nied the women to a public-house at the corner of Mill-lane, kept by a person named John Saughman. Complainant and the females were together in a back room. The prisoner sat on his right hand. The females " pulled him about." The third woman was, sent out of the room, and the others fol lowed to look for her. I n a s h or t t i me t h e woman who h a d first gone out returned, and after remaining in the room a little time, exhibited much uneasiness, in consequence of which the suspicions of complainant were aroused, and on examining his pocket, he found that his money was gone. The woman who remained was given into custody, and the number of the notes given to the police. Two £lO notes were shown to complainant, which he stated were two of those stolen from him. John Saughman, a publican, in Mill-lane, corroborated the statement of Mr. Carter, as to being at his house with the females, and stated positively that the prisoner was one of the women who was with him. Inspector Savage stated that, in consequence of informa tion given him this morning by a female, be went to a cellar occupied by a Mrs. Dalton, in Skelhorne-street. He found the prisoner there upon a bed. He requested her to get up, but she pretended to be very drunk. He searched her, and found something bulky in one of her stockings. Constable Morgan, who was assisting him, untied the stocking, and took from it two £lO Bank of England notes, which prisorier said she iiad earned honestly. The prisoner was committed to take her trial at the ses aims. Mr. Rushton (addres6ing Sauzliman) : You Fee how neces sary it is to observe what sort of women you allow to frequent your house. If you had read your license, and acted upon the tenor of it, this robbery would have been avoided. OFFENCES BY PUBLICANS. The following publicans were mulcted in the several sums affixed to their names, for offences against the tenor of their licences : , Charles Augustus Hammock, Queen's Dock Hotel, Cha loner-street, allowing drunkenness, (second offence,) £4 and costs. It was for permitting drunkenness in the tap of- Mr. Hammock for which he was fined, and which is let oft' to an under-tenant. David, Barry, North-street, a like offence, £5. It was stated in this case that there were twenty men and twelve prostitutes in defendant's house on Friday night, the majority of whom were drunk. In adjudicating in the case, Mr. Rushton expressed his determination to put down all night cellars and houses where disorderly characters were allowed to assemble. Such places were the nurseries for crime, and the keepers of them made extravagant profits, by encouraging the vicious and depraved, to the great injury of the morals of society. Matthew King, Crosby-street, for permitting drunkenness 40s. Stephen Fletcher, Brick-street, refusing admittance to the police, 50s. APPLICATION FOR WAGES. James Ellis summoned Captain Wilson, of the City of Poonah, for a balance of wages said to be due. The com plainant stated that he shipped as steward with Capt. Wilson; and performed a voyage to Bombay, for which there was a balance due to him for his services as steward. Captain Wilson produced evidence to show that the com plainant was incompetent to discharge the duties of steward, and that he had wilfully wasted the ship's stores. The complainant was disrated, which left him in debt to Captain Wilson. FRACAS BETWEEN MR. FORSIIAW AND DR. BRICE. Mr . Henry Forshaw, attorney, was brought before the court, having assaulted Dr. Charles Brice. Mr. Wright, attorney, appeared for Mr. Forshaw. Dr. Brice stated that this morning he had occasion to visit the Apothecaries' Hall, and, whilst there, a message was brought to him to say that he was wanted. He attended to the message, and, in the body of the shop connected with the establishment, he saw Mr. Forshaw, who said, " the period for which you were hound over to keep the peace towards me is, I believe, expired, and I am come to horsewhip von," and proceeded to put his threat into execution. His (Dr. Brice's) object was not to have the defendant summarily punished, he did not wish him to escape with a whitewashing of this sort; his wish was to have an opportunity of bringing the matter before a jury. Mr. Wright to Dr. Brice.—Dr. Brice, you recollect what took place about this time last year relative to your being bound over to keep the peace towards Mr. Forshaw? Will you oblige me by saying how it was ? Dr. Brice.—With pleasure. I Mr. Rushton interposed, by saying the matter was irrele vant to the present charge. Mr. Wright.—Dr. Brice made use of the word " white washed" in reference to Mr. Forshaw, I wish to know what he means by it. Mr. Wright was again about to allude to some prior dill, ferences between the plaintiff and the defendant, when he was interrupted by Mr. Rushton, who said all they had then to do with was the breach of the peace complained of. Mr. Wright said he was not desirous to introduce any thing relative to past transactions. Mr. Forshaw•admitted the charge made by Dr. Brice. He wished to know what Dr. Brice meant by the term " whitewashed." Mr. Rushton said he supposed Dr. Brice meant that he was not desirous the affair should he disposed of summarily, but that it should be taken before a jury. Dr. Brice assented to this. Mr. Wright.—lt is equally Mr. Forshaw's wish to meet Mr. Brice. Mr. Rushton.—l shall require Mr. Forshaw . to find bail. Mr. Wright asked Mr. Rushton if his officers had any right to take a person into custody for an assault, without having witnessed it, or the charge being made on oath: Mr. Rushton declined to answer. Mr. Wright said he thought it was not right that his client should have been brought into court in custody of an officer. Mr. Rushton said he thought those who took the law into their own hands ought not to he very ceremonious. It was stated, relative to a question whether the term of Dr. Brice's bail had expired, that the Doctor was, by some means or other bound over, in consequence of having sent Mr. Forshaw a challenge. Mr. Rushton ordered Mr. Forshaw to find bail to keep the peace, himself in £250, and two sure ies in £lOO each. Mr. Wright, and Mr. Richard Blundell, solicitor, became sureties. It was intimated by Mr. 'Wright, that Mr. Forshaw had taken the proceedings complained of, not with the view of inflicting violence upon Dr. Brice, krut in order that transac tions between them might lie gone further into. No reflec tion was attempted to be thrown upon the conduct of the officer. Mr. Forshaw said the officer had behaved in a very kind and proper manner. YESTERDAY. ATTEMPTED STREET ROBBERY. A lad named Henry Marshall was placed at the bar on a charge of attempting to pick pockets. Policeman No. 172 stated that he was on duty in Church-street between seven and eight o'clock on Saturday night, whet► he saw the pri soner lift up a gentleman's coat and attempt to take his pocket handkerchief. He took him into custody. The pri soner denied the charge, and said all he had done was to look through a shop-window. It appeared that he was well known to the police, having previously been three times com mitted and once discharged. He was committed to hard labour for three months. Harris Birched' was also committed for three months for a similar offence. Two well-known thieves named John Gregg and Manassus Coyle were committed for three months, having been found loitering late on Saturday night, near the end of Gloucester street, with other bad characters, with the intention of com mitting a felony. ROBBERY OP A PIG JOBBER. Edward Kirwan, an Irish pig- jobber, charged two men named Michael M'Dermott and Jas. Bowman with having robbed him of a sum of money amounting to about £7O. The complainant was in a state of intoxication when he ap peared in court; but from his statement it seemed that on Saturday night, instead of going to his own lodgings, he went to the house of the prisoner Bowman, who keeps a beer house in Lacey-street. He there played at cards with the two prisoners, and fell asleep through the effect of some drug in the liquor, as he supposed. When he awoke he found all his money and the prisoners gone. The money consisted of £2O in notes of .£5, and the remainder in gold and silver. He informed policeman No. 37; who went to Bowman's house. His wife said he had been gone to the harvest for five weeks, a statement which the officer knew to be false, as he had seen the man that day. The officer therefore conti nued his search, and ultimately he found the two prisoners in bed together in a house in Bence-street. Mr. Rushton ordered the prisoners to be remanded until the prosecutor was sober. Two prostitutes named Ann Cross and Alice Crowley were charged by Thomas Carruthers, a sailor, with having stolen a a silver watch, and a pocket-book containing a small sum of money, from his person. The prisoners were ordered to be discharged, as it appeared that the prosecutor had been in other company besides theirs, and he had no recollection of the place of the alleged robbery. STEALING FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE. Amelia Leigh, John Ril e y and Timothy Callaghan were brought up on a charge of having stolen a clock, the pro perty of Mr. James Lee, of No. 13, Williamson-street. Mrs. Lee stated that about half-past ten o'clock on Saturday night she saw the the two prisoners pass the door and walk towards Church -street. She left the door a-jar whilst she went into the cellar kitchen for a few minutes ; she returned immediately and saw Riley leave the house with a clock which had stood upon a pianoforte in the front parlour, un der his arm. The prisoner Callaghan was about two doors off, evidently keeping watch. Riley ran towards Richmond street followed by Mrs. Lee, who cried " Stop thief!" Mr. Pulman, a coffee-house keeper in Sir Thomas's-buildings, happened to be in a shop in Richmond-street, and he gave chase to the thief till he was caught by Policeman No. 308. On the way to Bridewell Callaghan made his appearance, and attempted to whisper something into the ear of his com panion, whereupon he was also placed in custody. The woman was apprehended at the same time, but there was no evidence to implicate her in the robbery. She was therefore discharged ; the two male prisoners, who both protested their innocence, were committed for trial at the next sessions. A SWINDLER Elizabeth Fields, a young woman, who this moving term was liberated from the Borough gaol, where she had been imprisoned for three months for an offence similar to that which she was now charged, was again placed at the bar. It appeared from the evidence, that on the 29th of May last the prisoner called upon a poor woman named Ma r y O wen, who lived in Lee-street. and said her " mamma" would re lieve her by presenting her with some blankets and clothing. Mrs. Owen expressed her thankfulness for the offer, where upon the prisoner desired her to go out for some little milk for her to drink. During her absence the prisoner took a silver watch worth £3, belonging to Richard Edwards, a lodger, from the mantel-piece. She then desired Mrs. Owen to walk with her for the purpose of buying the flan nel ; they went near the Exchange, when the prisoner de sired her to wait whilst she went to see her " mamma." Mrs. Owen waited, as she was desired, for several hours, and on going home she discovered that the watch had been stolen. The prisoner pledged the watch the same day for 205., with a pawnbroker in Pitt -street. She denied the charge. Committed to the sessions. John Wil son and James ASSAULTS Power were each fined 403., and in default of payment ordered to be imprisoned 21 days, for violently a ssau l t i ng the police on Saturday night, in Rose place. James Hunt was ordered to pay a penalty of -£5, and find bail for his good behaviour, for a violent assault upon his mother. Not being provided with the money, Mr. Rushton adjudged him to be imprisoned for two months. STEALING AN UMBRELLA. A respectable looking young man, named Bentley, was charged by Mr. Samuel Humbleton, draper, of Great George's -place, with having stolen an umbrella, his pro perty. The prisoner had been in the prosecutor's service for about two months, as a shopman, at a salary of £4O and his maintenance. He left on Wednesday last, and soon afterwards a new silk umbrella worth 21s. was missed.— Yesterday (Sunday), the prisoner called at the prose t ' cu or s, for the purpose of seeing a round man, and as he had the missing umbrella with lino he was detained. The prisoner told the magistrate this was the first offence of the kind he had committed, and that he would never again commit an act like it. Mr. Rushton ordered him to be remanded till 1 to-day (Tuesday.) ASSAULT UPON A CLERGYMAN. Mr. Thorn, a shipowner, was charged with having assaulted the Rev. Thomas Dismore on Saturday afternoon. Mr. 1 Dismore is a clergyman of the Established Church. He re. ceutly resided at Cork, but is stow in Liverpool with his fa -1 mily, con s i s ti ng o f hi s wife, sister, and seven children, wait ing for the sailing of the ship Georgianx for South Australia, where he intends to settle as an agent of the Society for the I Promotion a Christian Knowledge. The defendant is the owner of the Georgians, and the difference arose in conse quence of some luggage of Mr. Dismore's being pieced in the mess cabin. This luggage, Mr. Thom contended, created in ! convenience, and he represented it in strong language to the ladies. Mr. Dismore was told of it • 'and on meeting with Mr. Thom an altercation ensued, and the assault complained of was committed. Mr. Thorn did not deny the charge, but pleaded that he had been irritated into it. Mr. Rushton said there was no excuse for the defendant; he ought not to hare lifted his hand against a person who could net retaliate. It was a very unfortunate affair, but the magistrates had only one course to take. He must pay a penalty of £5. A blow was at all times degrading, but when inflicted on a clergyman it was unpardonable. SERIOUS ASSAULT James Bryce was ordered to put in bail to answer an in dictment at the Sessions for a most brutal assault upon a man named Andrew Curran. The complainant was a waiter at Carver's tavern, .in Derby-street, and the prisoner was a singer there. On Tuesday they had a quarrel, and the pri soner broke all the jugs and glass he could meet with upon the head of the complainant. To such an extent were the blows carried that the poor man became insensible, and in this state was conveyed to the Dispensary. The surgeon who attended him said he had an " innumerable number" of lacerated wounds upon his person, and that he would not be able to work for ten or twelve days to come. DOCK COMMITTEE PROCEEDINGS . On Thursday the Dock Committee met at the usual hour. Besides the chairman, (Mr. Alderman Keathom,) the follow ing members were present :—Messrs. Benn, Barclay, Thos. Holt, Holt, H. Hohnes, Middleton, Mellor, Builley, George Holt, Evans, Tobin, Chapman, Moon, and Martin. The proceedings of the former committee were read, after which several financial accounts were read and passed. The sur veyors and the Harbour Masters submitted their reports, on the plan of Mr. Alexander Gage, respecting some alterations in the construction of the docks. The writers of the reports gave various reasons for opposing Mr. Gage's plan, and con sidered that it would not be practicable to carry it into effect. Mr. Hodgson, deputy harbour-master, was favourable to the principle of Mr. Gage's plan, but did not approve of that sug gested by the committee. After some desultory discussion, the matter was left over another week. Tenders were sub mitted for the supply of 3000 gallons of sperm oil, from se veral establishments in London. The first was from Messrs. Bromenge and Co., offering the requisite quantity at Bs. sd. per gallon; from Messrs. Jeremiah Pilcher & Son, at Bs. 3d. per gallon ; from Messrs. Wolvert & Co., at Bs. ld. per gal lon :—another house offered to supply the quantity at Bs. 2d. per gallon. A tender was also read from Messrs. Charles Price and Co., also of London, offering a superior quality of oil, which, it was stated, would answer the purpose fully as well as sperm, at is. 4d. per gallon. After a copy of the cir cular had been read, requesting parties to send in tenders, and the report thereon, it was agreed, after considerable dis cussion, that the surveyors should make experiments as to the quality and strength of the various oils which had been sent as samples, and the order to be given to that house which furnished the best article. An application was made by the surveyers, requesting the gridiron, on the north side of the Clarence Basin, to be removed to the south. Granted. —Another application was made through the same parties, from one of the Glasgow Companies, to have one of the sheds of the Clarence Dock boarded, so as to protect their goods from the weather. Application postponed.—The South Har hour Master's Report on a passage leading from the Union to the Cobourg Dock, was read. This gave' rise to a long and desultory discussion, in the course of which Mr. Chap man animadverted upon the discrepancies of Mr. Hartley's statements respecting the state of the Cobourg Dock. Mr. Hartley said he was not aware that he had neglected his duty on any point, and Mr. Alderman Evans contended that Mr. Hartley could not fairly be charged with neglect of duty on account of the state of the Cobourg Dock. From various statements laid before the committee it appeared that the erection of a wall between the Cobourg and Union would add considerably to the convenience of the passage between the two docks. It was ultimately agreed to refer the subject for further consideration, in order to give the committee an op portunity of inspecting the works going on at the Cobourg Dock.—A motion, submitted by Mr. Chapman at a former meeting, that sheers be erected in lieu of a crane at the Co bourg Dock, was then taken into consideration. It was agreed, after some discussion, to refer the subject to the Harbour Master, with directions that he report thereon. Mr. Alderman Evans gave notice that at the next meeting of the committee he should move for a sub-committee, to. a be in structed, with the in s t ance o f th e so li c it or , to frame bill to be sought for in parliament, having for its object the con struction of a new dock or docks, and warehouses upon the clock quays, with such other additional regulations and im provements as may appear to them conducive to the efficient working of the docks, and the good management of the dock estate. The committee then broke up. The Duke of Newcastle has sold the Dolclettur estat near Aberystwith, to Mr. Hughes. Lord Riversdale is about to dispose of his estates in the aunty of Cork. They comprise nearly 8,000 acres. The Hon. Sir Win. Lumley intends disposing of Wink Ad Lodge, Berks. In the course of the week arrived at the Bedford Peniten iary Joseph Pedder, committed from Luton on the 15th tustant, convicted under the game laws, and sentenced to be kept to hard labour for two calendar months. This yciung i man is in his 23d year, and has paid no less than nineteen visits to this house of correction, and, we believe, has occa sionally visited others.—Hertford Reformer. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Saturday last, at St. ,James's Church, Westminster, the Hon. Edward Kenyon, youngest .son of Lord Kenyon, to the Hon. Miss Caroline Susan Catherine Beresford, third daughter of the late Lieut. Gen. Lord George Beresford. The fair bride was given away by Field Marshal Viscount BerestOrd. There were present at the solemnisation his Grace the Archbishop of Armagh, Viscount and Viscountess Beresford, Lord John Beresford, Ladies Catherine and Anne Beresford, Lord Kenyon, and a select family circle. Lady Anne Beresford gave an elegant chgune to the wedding party. DEATH FROM GRIEF. Mr. Burt, councillor for St. David's, died on Monday. He was in embarrassed circum stances, and an execution being put into his house by a friend embittered his last moments, and agonized his relatives. The poor gentleman never closed his eyes after the execution came upon him, till his last sleep bore him beyond the reach of friendship.—Exeter Times. The old and highly respectable banking-house of Lambton and Co. in this town, have just made arrangements to with draw their own notes from circulation, and to issue no paper but that of the Bank of England.—Newcastle Journal. Quick WORK.—We have now in our office a slice of bread made from wheat grown at Glenville, the residence of Mr. Nicklin, formerly of Tipton, which was cut on Wednesday the 9th September instant,—housed last Wednesday, the 15th—thrashed in the evening —ground on the 16th—and baked on the 17th.—Manz Liberal. AN EXCELLENT HINT.—We find the following in the Cheltenham Chronicle, and copy it for the benefit of all concerned:—" FIRST OF SEPTEMBER.—We are fearful our sporting friends have not met with much success ; at least, we conclude so, if we may judge from the non-appearance of hares and partridges which are usually sent to us at the commencement of the season." The Royal Agricultural Society of England have published their list of prizes for 1841, by which it appears that nearly X. 500 are set apart for the encouragement of stock breeding ; .1.:200 for the exhibition and trial of machinery, with an unlimited sum for a new invention ; twenty sovereigns for the best gorse-crushing machine; twenty sovereigns each for the best report on the 'comparative merits of different varieties of wheat and barley ; and ten sovereigns for tur nips ; twenty sovereigns for tha best account of the effects of subsequent crops of wheat ; ten sovereigns for the best directions to procure economical and nutritious food for labourers ; and the same sum on the application of lime as a manure. Lord Stanley has given prizes to the amount of 30 guineas, to be contended for at his annual cattle show, at Ballykisteen, on Saturday, the 26th instant. The new Bishop of Chichester, Dr. Shuttleworth, will be consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury on Tuesday next. Red ink for marking linen is made with half an ounce o vermillion and one drachm of salts of steel, finely ground with linseed oil to the consistency required for marking with a pen or hair pencil. MAKE WAY FOR ROYALTY.—On one of the Emperor Alexander's visits to Warsaw, there not having been time to clear the streets of a . quantity of mud which had been scraped into heaps, the Russian authorities ordered the windows on the ground-floor of the houses to be opened and the mud t hrown into the rooms. THE LAW or Lova IN AMERICA.—In I647, the ge nera l court of Massachusetts e na cted, th a t if any young man attempted to address any young woman without th e con spt of her parents, or, in case o f their absence, of a neiglibouring magistrate of the county court, he should be fined 4a for the first offence, £lO for the second, and imprisonment for the third. In 1660, Captain DI Blake was fined the first -named sum, but let off 'for £4 conditionally, " for making love to Edmund Bridge's daughter, without her parent's consent. IMPROVEMENT IN CALICO. PRINTING.—Mr. B ear d , o f Newton, has obtained a patent for an improvement in calico printing, the invention of Mr. Ch ap i er, a French gentleman, by the adoption of which a considerable saving of expense and labour may be effected. It has recently been introduced in Mr. lloutson's machine works, Exeter, with the very best results. One of the modes in work is applicable to cyiinder and surface printing only. The great merit of the invention is, that an al most unlimited number of calicoes may be printed by one operation of those colours in position exten sively variable. EXTRAORDINARY PIECE OF MECHANISM.---Sir Clifford Constable, of Constable, county of York, has lately received from Paris a new and most ornamental piece of furniture. viz., a mechanical orange tree, in full size, as you see them on the continent. The leaves are of bronze, the flowers of sevre china, the oranges are yellow glass lamps, and there are seven birds of the finest plumage, which sing, move their wings and bodies, and hop all over the tree from branch to branch. There is also a nest with three young ones in it, which open their mouths, and the old ones appear to feed them. NOVEL RAT-TRAP.—Take a barrel, and stretch a s ki n o f parchment over it with a string; cut it across and athwart, nearly to the outside. Take some dripping, and mix it with meal ; smear it on the middle of the parchm en t . T he rats will smell it, and treading on the parchment it will give way, and they will fall into the water in the barrel. Put a plank for them to creep up to the barrel's brink, outside, and strew some oatmeal on it. You must not let th e water b e too deep, but set a brick endways in and the first rat that is caught will make a noise, which will en ti ce more, so that they will fight for possession of the brick, and the noise will drei others. Thus, in one night, the house may be cleared of rats, be they never so many. Mi ce an d other vermin may be caught in a similar manner. GRIT.AT ADVERTISEMENT. —We believe the greatest act , vertisement ever given out to any printers in this country is that lately given by the corporation to the Evening Post and the New Era, of property to be sold for assessments. That advertisement was published once a week for thirteen weeks, and comes to over thirteen thousand dollars, or six thousand five hundred d o ll ars each. This is truly what is technically called a " f a t " advertisement, and tbe beauty of it is, that it was promptly paid —no running a second time—the comp troller gives his warrant on the treasurer, which is paid, if required, in hard cash. We did not complain of this • on the cont rary, we are gratified that it falls to the lot of the profession occasionally to receive a reward. Almost always political favours fall in every direction except into the hands of printers.—New York Express. There is an opera singer newly arrived amongst us, who warbles so sweetly, that the sugar-dealers have petitioned congress,to give him notice to ablocate. Their trade , aint of no manner of use, they say, while he's there.-- Vermont Journal. power on the s, and a dford yeah , firm, Long' erbi) ig Rothslr. 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