The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-10 00:00:00

March 10, 1846. e bee° and fa. Eat° Veiroar )wag er. 0 pal 3 caPo he wn i f t llaile ss bOO. Bill bar °1 ecl t° tbe rs In ,1 the Lvr n ~ a °- ant, a o f tbe , the 13 qt rs eug re „ a tioll 3f Co VideS O e ,fore the ord. of t" - ' e elre s - m - Ef e revc ainghtt° If -yearlY WMeg ate W er ber la -4r was de. -tas, ,itb, an h, w h n en rgh ° a. we up tho . r neg n- ,, t :eds 3° ' unctioti; an ° von A istol 14 ar 1 ",, 5 0 less,Peo Luce u pe r c e ce J nrile P h ed illy 3 ,re oft, o s the co, () • gilled 011 0 04: coo' „ t or the : e co: ter as Pl as co t id es, t sO f art l3 oti • o ts eO 5 o 0 e-li` lj hst e - tittle Zara! anb Vrttintial 3etils. Ile Liverpool and Harrington Water-works Bill passed the standing orders on Wednesday last. Livhe er American screw s t eamer M armara , we ll k nown a t pool, was l os t on t h e 3d u l t., on t h e S pa li nadores, near the Island of Scio ; crew and cargo saved. S c„011 dnesday, Miller a seaman on board the ship neridanWe was fined £lOO for smuggling a quantity of to bacco. SELECT VESTRY.—Th e p rocee di ngs a t thi s b oar d on "'dal.' were unimportant. Mr. Austin, the poor-law commissioner, was present. Recrtiiting is now carried on with much spirit in the obtained 'one istricts and we have heard that 76 were in day in Manchester. COLLIERS' STRIKE AT BOLTON.—The master colliers B. olton are obtaining a large number of hands from " . ales and other parts, so that there is every probability of ltit"eccessfully resisting the claims of the workmen for a fur rsr adv ance All the native colliers are still out. te,s-nirig the past week, George Johnstone, the late cap s,:of the Tory, Samuel Overt', and Eliza Huntsman, ted o were tried at the Central Criminal Court, but acquit , on th e find diTrdineg s.ro wn • ground of insanity, have been removed to the o h f er ß m eth a l j ern Hospital, where they will be con esty's pleasure. L•MBLANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Monday week, about his o'clock, the captain, Cain Woodrow, and three of crew belonging to the schooner " Republican," of Yar mouth, lying near the Mill, at . Lytham, went to take h t „ • t 'ae anchor in the boat, and in throwing it out the th;,. ; R a ve a sudden lurch, which threw the whole four into Th e taste captain and one of the men being drowned. who fortunately got hold of the oars, was car dA• l to the shore ; the other man also reached the shore. WacOdept ACCIDENT.—On Friday week, a fatal ent befel Captain Hearne, of the ship Virginian, while arrived at this port from New York on Friday. _ e de leaning on the companion, a heavy sea struck the } lo ss i e l, on the larboard-quarter, and, forcing the quarter .E.',rom the davidts, it struck the captain and sent him „'unst the corner of the companion. He fell instantly on the deck, and died from the effects of the blow in Ze_laVerysfour hours afterwards. The body was brought to that " WORKMEN OF BIRKENHEAD.—We understand e , a general combination exists amongst all workmen I , l f.aged in building to turn out for an increase of wages. s te l e s applies to joiners, bricklayers, stonemasons, hod th and all kinds of labourers. On Saturday week . 'Callnotice given by the joiners throughout the township, ed, and, on Monday morning, all refused to resume ver unless their wages were increased from,23s. to 275. i,,,Week. This was refused, and, in consequence, about 1,7 ) men are out. It is said that the leading builders Tribeen giving for some time past 265. per week. q uA -41.1 1 OF A GRANDMOTHER FROM A DRUNKEN de -air'xo BETWEEN HER GRANDSONS.—On Wednes -1111 week, an inquest was held, at Blakeley Moor, near ckburn, on the body of Rebecca Board, aged 84 su Years. From the evidence, it appeared, that two grand ur:B,were at her house on the Saturday evening but one 4rlous. They were both in liquor, and, a quarrel ' Fa ng, they seized each other, and began to wrestle ohnethe confusion, the deceased was thrown against . a prodst of drawers, and some of her ribs fractured, which low llee d inflammation, and caused her death on the fol -1,14 Saturday. tit: RN- OUT IN MANCHESTER.—On Monday morning 'era e t w as a general turn-out of the joiners and carpenters t uer ,P . °Yed in this town. The number who left their employ au 7.,4 ' WI " about 3,000.' The object sought by the men was ts ser 7vance of wages from 265. to 295. per week. The beic eta Dloyed at 16 establishments, about 1,500 in num theirreturned in the course of the morning to their work, the r . e ,roilloyers having complied with their demand, and fai n '$ no doubt that the remaining number will not re theii,ll,ont of employment many days, as the demand for the h is unusually pressing. Several hundreds of ?e t _ricklayers also turned out the someday, and have not treturned to their work. :155 I NFORMATION.—On Wednesday, John Carns, cha r :‘e_,h mak er an d j ewe ll er, o f P ara di se -street, was eig tir l e r with having a quantity of foreign manufactured that, his pos sess i on w i t h ou t a perm it. I t appeared Rio the 24th o f J anuary last, upon information being tiesdi" Carns's premises were searched by Mr. Robt. Were f eu e x cise-officer, and thirty boxes, containing cigars, A plai tted nd in various parts of the house. It . was ex moor, , that Mrs. Rigby, a tobacconist, who lived next 'caad deposited the cigars for a sum of money, which W t. ho p r a n nle. had lent her. Several parties were in court, Ci - n v t a the legal purchase of the cigars by Mrs. Rig- A s et -- "eartog this, Mr. Rushton dismissed the case. Magistrate IN COURT.—An occurrence took place in the In viola e Court, Blackburn, on Wednesday, which set Aged man motion the risible faculties of the lookers on. An °fa refractoryan ng become bail for the future question cduct . youth, was asked as usual the q, did slut a ? ,k nowlecige to owe our sovereign lady the queen, the a leh °li t en pounds, &c." " Noa," rejoi n ed the asto h, ii Jed bailsroan ; "I ne ' er bought clog soles or hides of her Zsty toy life. Owe the queen ten pounds, indeed ! !xe.n° ll , that's not just, any The clerk having Ish• a nied that he would not be tableto pay the queen £lO tinr refractory friend kept the peace for the required pe ap„ be wonder-stricken man of wooden soles and leather acid re to be satisfied with his undertaking, and retired j dst loud laughter. ATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SANDS.—On Sunday morn -118 week, John P ar ki nson, son of Wil l i am P ar ki nson , o f f,,, e , , ton-le Sands, was d rowne d w hil st out fi s hi ng w ith hi s r liaes, n About 11 o'clo c k, th ey were seen b y two fi s h er- To o James Stackhouse and Peter Parker, on the far side Il u; e t ac Keir, in peril of being overt a k en b y t h e t id e . Th ese t o n ran ran to warn them not to attempt to cros s; b u t b e i ng o tt ;', l ased, the son being of weak intellect, the latter was 401 1 off by the tide. The father was with difficulty la tu i e " a nd dragged out by Stackhouse, who in his time tlis 4 l L a Yed many lives. He would not have accomplished neigut?ehout the aid of a horse, which he pr ocure d f rom a th e satZ s i ut farm. The body of the deceased was found and sun Were about a mile from the spot. The father s Th e gathering gathering cockles and muscles for private death, e c oroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental Rt uzb , ! :a eetio„.' 2 "QAD COMMISSIONERS.—At theusual monthly ulteudeVM Thursday, a report was read from the super ta at - R f . °F,. the ma ) rket exhibiting the consumption of `v dohn's, Gill-s , treet, and St. James's Market, heetrePool, along with that at Birkenhead market, when it Ras i tt , s°l ved that there had been no unnecessary waste of at the Lhe latter. In consequence of the increased traffic , r 4t ,eatu.t e . "lrY : it was resolved to purchase the Toby Mors? The oat, belonging to the Egremont Ferry Company. Il h ait ir s i ee l li PtS at the (correspond in February last were Z 1484 er. 24 7 in the ing month of last year. Bt i , l >io e 4 e . i Pta for the year ending 23d April, 1845, were ey F rom April, 1845, to the end of Feb., 1846, Laeutiovre £20,498. The total expenditure during the last " t esss B ll Pericd was ,109, including £2,142 paid to jecouet F orrester, and £2,000 to Messrs. Hodgson, on a rid °f new boats. It was determined to redeem the of th. a l of th e township, amounting I:i'v A od to £llOO, at the cost ar ious land owners . LLA SEY COMMIS •lONERS.—At the meeting of this 1 7 8 o i pi ° '! Thursday, it was resolved to submit a case for c c ' t be f"_,T l or counsel as to whether the Magazines could ;ctie t „' Y 'aicted as a nu ' isance. The thanks of the Commis i:!tlare-,,were voted to Mr. Littledale, for the gift of 756 , I "ere e rrds of lands near the National School, on which .Ptthlic offices for the commissioners business. An • ati on ur c h , from the Rev. Mr. Tobin, of St. .John's eite fo_A-Iscard, for a piece of land at the Magazines, as it :ler ed ra school, was negatived, because it was not con fLlat the commissi o ners were in a condition to eempriseed land. The Finance Committee . proceedings s,:alet,„; a report from the surveyor, stating that the 1 , - 0 11 1d 4 si l r - a t outlay for ordinary repairs, &c. up to July next 0 Old ount to about £2,635, and that £1,500 or 1:2,000 b e t a k toi tt e , r equired for the erection of public offices. The ts;` l ,ors o e r ,ecornmended that the sum of £5,006 should aA B rit'ect by the commissioners, in such amounts as re ed oe required, and at such rate of interest as could be )4 ' QN t , r °, T l N lnd that tenders for loans be advertised for. T O Joh DERBY UNION.--At the meeting on Tuesday I)l.teti, Rowla n d was appointed relieving-officer for tr" T s iiPark Dist r i c t a t a salary of £l3O per annum. f ie fs of xi , tr ana was appointed relieving-officer for the die 41:aithin est Derby and Walton, at a salary of ICO. Mr. 4 1 '44 )0 °Y e(1 that the resolution appointing Dr. Harbord tii,!.au,,,"'l surgeon in Toxteth• park, at a salary of £BO 4.'isi ee " ol , with other emoluments, be rescinded. On a Be' : there as It, When were ten votes for this motion and ten th e °Or. A en the Chairman gave his casting vote in its r e p r i ne (? , letter was read from Dr. Harbord, stating that t k edi 'Pal cause for tendering his resignation had been 41 14 ed by bkr eloeh y h a better definition of his duties ; and as, for e was independent of private practice and . of oot el zoluments, he would voluntarily relinquish r e Rht d (34. the £BO salary, to be expended as the board rli a °ly ed ee ro best for the poor and the ratepayers. It was ,i i ree tin that the letter of the Poor-Law Commissioners, heave r „ a n increase to b e made in the number of guar ed oxtethark, West Derby, and Everton, should s r 'ed u er t e.(l at the next A vote of censor! was of „,ati o ; "Ir. Smith for having, in the course of his ob heitost"eloo the latter subject, alleged that the interests it 'd s s o, - Park had been " victimised by the board—a c r : hi g t I t ?" was, in fact, a political engine, and that it th roe those interests should be protected by in -144„ e number of guardians for the township." Do; held Ay BOARD.—The usual meeting of this body t o (3R Thursday. A p l an o f th e a l terat i ons pro tiohgetiorl be made in Gloucester-street, by the Grand het of theaiivrav Company, was sent in for the inspec t), oti.k board. —The Law-clerk said the committee No W ahs h n daY, but were not in a situation to report, as Le br eu a g d it he . en laid before them. The . plan had been tr i 4 141, t , In.—ln reply to a question put by Mr. eo n tit, I ,:_ e _ l 4,.aw . clerk said the board had no power to 110, Pa tty, ; they &maid, however, prevent the Ittitte;Leyis'ilyndietnlcnt, from carrying out the work.— l er e PYthi h ,,w_as glad to hear that they had such power,. attar Wo u i d lotlglit to be done to prevent what he consi 'lN, Whi c h a great evil.—The Law-clerk then read a to had been received o the company, signed e l , he nth, asking kt s , iid orth side of permission Gloucester fo n t a narrow slip of lend .street as an approach for thevehicles to the railwa station. ' By this arrange ott,4 the ,se°ovenience of c th bl . ld be consulted, to 44 tltl' "st ant inte -e pu would t omnibus r . ruption to foot . passengtrs by the ies going in and conn . ng out of the ,pre eot„..o.tu k _ en ranee would be avolded.—Mr. !Anne ' 1, 1` . 7,° whether it was true that the Parliamentary ,a t i,• then, had compromised with Toxtcth-park to wlth ,4 'rem t h •,, ellg e eut fr o m e mi. they (the board) were going to !!iioe u r•---The Law -Clerk said that such an ar- Ou e ° W ere I !ad bcen conic to, as the Toxteth-park autho -4e re Idenendent as regarded sewerage, &c.—Mr. Ctilttlla:iteidgererettiriltthat such a course had been adopted, as ti e en would interfere with the proper sewering Wo u l d 2 . the surrou n di ng di str i cts . H e t h oug h t ti ,ac t 4 Views impaired by it.—M r. Hi gg i ns expresse d u e 'ed,-... ) 4_ 1 he. subject of a public meeting was next x, ~ 11l tfs thggins moved for its being held on Fri is was defeated by 11 to 5. ALARMING FIRE.—On Friday morning, about two o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in Mr. Moore's ex tensive soap manufactory, Vauxhall-road, Liverpool, by which the greater portion of the premises and plant was destroyed. The fire is believed to have originated in the oil room, Circe stories high. A number of poor people's houses adjoined the building and the inmates were first apprised of their danger by seeing the red-hot appearance of the walls.' The inhabitants rushed forth with their wives, children, and sick relatives and friends, some in a state of almost perfect nudity ; most of their property, however was fortunately saved. A part of the front of the soap manufactory with some vats was saved. The accident is attributed to the over heating of the flues. The damage is estimated at several thousand pounds. The warehouse is rendered utterly useless. The stock is insured for £l5OO in the Royal Exchange, and for £l5OO in the Atlas. The building is insured for £lOOO. REMARKABLE STORY OF A SLAVER.—Mr. Wasey, of the Alert sloop, Commander Bosanquet, appointed acting lieutenant nearly a year since, on the promotion of the late gallant Lieutenant Lodwick, arrived at Liverpool, last week, in a merchant vessel, with some seamen be longing to the Alert, from the south-east coast of America, and immediately reported himself at the Admiralty, and the circumstances under which he presented himself. It appears that the Alert captured a Brazilian slave vessel, without colours, and name unknown, having between 70 and SO slaves on board, at Cabenda, and having put Mr. Wasey and a prize crew on beard, he was ordered to pro ceed to Sierra Leone for adjudication. The gales, how. ever were unpropitious, and he was driven by their force on the south coast of America. He managed, however, by almost superhuman exertions, to reach Maranham, one of the northern presidencies of the Brazils, although he had frequently seven feet water in the hold, with fresh leaks breaking out at intervals, and only kept her afloat by dint of extraordinary perseverance, in working, with great difficulty, the pumps, and baling. On his arrival at Maranham the British consul rendered every assistance, and an endeavour was made to secure the officers of the government in obtaining proper protection for the slaves until a vessel could be procured to take them. In the mean time, whilst Mr. \Vase) , was engaged on shore with the President in endeavouring to effect his object, a body of about forty or fifty armed men, in the uniform of the national guard, proceeded to the vessel, saying to those on board that they were instructed to take the slaves and crew, and conduct them to a place of safety for the night, it being then impossible for any one to remain on board as the water was washing over the decks. The English sea men refused to leave the vessel in the absence of their officer; but all the slaves, together with the captain and crew of the slaver, landed with their visitors. Mr. Wasey soon after returned, and finding the eighty slaves and the prisoners gone, he immediately instituted inquiries, when he ascertained that the visitors were a party of brigands in disguise of Brazilian soldiers, who had made themselves masters of the cargo, and had marched them off up the country. An appearance was made on the part of the government to recover them, but, of course, without suc cess; but finding allatterepts fruitless, Mr.W. embarked his men on board a merchantman for Liverpool. Great credit is due to Lieut. Wasey, for his conduct throughout the affair. He preserved this vessel under the most disad vantageous circumstances of wind, weather, and cargo, until she reached a place of safety, and on the voyage succeeded in preventing an outbreak, which he had rea son to apprehend was meditated on the part of the slaves and the slaver captain, and of which warning was given him by one of the slaves who could speak a little English. Like the Jews when rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, they had to work all day and night with their arms by their side, baling out the water, or their vessel would have gone down. SERIOUS CHARGE,—At the Police-court, on Tuesday, Mr. William Gartside, of the firm of John and William Gartside, dyers, Ossett, near Wakefield. charged Mr. Spence with having disposed of 119 casks of oil, which had been left in the hands of Spence, Cochrane, and Co., on sale, by complainant and his brother, and with not having accounted to them for the money. The facts of the case are briefly these :—ln the month of October last, Mr. B. P. Bilbrough gave up business as a broker to Messrs. Spence and Co., and circulars were issued by both firms to that effect. At that time Mr. Bilbrough held in his possession, as agent to Messrs. Gartside a large quantity of oil, and in writing to Messrs. Gartside to know what should be done with it, had recommended his successors to their notice. Messrs. Gartside consented to the transfer of the oil to Messrs. Spence and Co. as agents for the disposal of it. On Friday last Mr. Spence went over to Ossett, and informed Messrs. Gartside that unfortunately the firm had been obliged to suspend pay ment. Messrs. Gartside then said—" Well, that will not affect us, as you have not disposed of the oil." Mr. Spence then admitted that in an evil hour he had pledged the oil, about six weeks ago, to Messrs. Irlam, Wanos trocht, and Co., brokers, for £2,500 ; but he did not con sider them (Messrs. Gartside) as creditors of the firm ; he would pay them in full, if they would keep the matter quiet until the affairs of the firm were arranged, as soon as he possibly could. leitssrs. Gartside were thunder struck at this announcement, and after a little conversa tion, asked him if he could give any security for the pay ment. The prisoner had said that his father was in the West Indies, and that he had no other friends to whom he could apply. Mr. W. Gartside then determined on ac companying the prisoner to Liverpool, and had an inter view there, in company with Mr. Bilbrough, on the Sa turday, when it was arranged that the prisoner should draw up a statement of his affairs by Monday. On Mon day, Mr. Gartside and Mr. Bilbrougb again waited on Mr. Spence; but finding that no arrangement could be made, he had been given into custody on the charge above men tioned. Mr. Baidswell, attorney for the prisoner, at tempted to prove that, from the fact of Messrs. Gartside having endeavoured to obtain security after the oil had been actually disposes of, they had acknowledged it to have been a common commercial transaction. Mr. Rushton observed, that the offence came clearly within the meaning of the Factory Act, the prisoner having pledged goods deposited in his hands as agent, without the knowledge of the parties to whom they belonged ; and, as the case was one of great importance in the commercial world, he felt it to be his duty to send it to the assizes. He should commit the prisoner for trial at the assizes ; but bail was taken, the prisoner himself in £4OO, and two others of £2OO each. The sureties were Mr. Thomas Willey Robinson, tanner, York-street; and Mr. Thomas Healey, shipowner, Wavertree. The prisoner expressed himself as most anxious to exonerate his partners from all share in the transaction. DOCK COMMITTEE.-THURSDAY. After the alterations made by the Council" in the Dock Bill had been read, Mr. TosiN took objection to the word " instruction" in the resolution, as inserted in the Stand ard of last week. He said if they admitted the power of the Council to instruct the Dock Committee, that would be putting the rate-payers and the Dock Committee also under the control of the Council, and this would be quite a new thing. A long conversation ensued, after which a resolution was passed that the resolution as to the word "instruction" should be . received under protest. . . Mr. HORSFALL said, if the Council had a right to in struct the committee to apply for a bill, or get a clause inserted, the ratepayers at that board were a mere nonen tity. A resolution was adopted approving of the altera tions in the bill relative to the erection of warehouses, subject to such modifications as it might be necessary to make on consultation, and not to endanger the bill. Mr. MANN called the attention of the committee to an article which appeared in the last Courier, respecting the loss of the Bencoolen, and the efficiency of the life-boat establishment. After reading the article, Mr. Mann pro ceeded. He said, in the first place, it was stated that the Dock Committee had not an efficient life-boat establish ment. Now he believed the life-boat establishment at tached to this port had no parallel. They possessed nine life-boats—two at Liverpool, two at the Magazines, two at the Point of Ayr, two at Iloylake, and one at Formby. The crews were a most efficient set of men, and on every occasion when called upon had proved themselves to be so. The cost to the estate exceeded altogether £2,600 to £2,700. There were £llOO for wages, and £BOO for other expenses, independent of the sum paid for steam-power. They paid £420 to the Steam Tug Company, for having one of their first-class steam-boats always ready for the purpose of towing out their life-boats, and £25 for each service, which last year amounted to something like £3OO or £4OO, making altogether about £2,700 a-year. Tbat, he thought, was a sufficient :answer to that part of the statement which alleged that the Dock Committee had not a sufficient life-boat establishment. The next charge was that the crew of the Bencoolen might have been saved had there been a life-boat on board the Formby Light ship. Now he (Mr. M.) had seen the master of the light ship, and he said that if the life-boat had been alongside of the ship when they saw the Bencoolen touch the ground, even in such a case it would have been impossible to have saved the lives, the vessel having within ten minutes gone to pieces after they saw her aground. With regard to keeping the life-boat on board the light-ship, the light ship was too small for the purpose, and they could not, under any circumstances, when it was blowing a gale of wind, permit the men to leave the light-ship, because, if thcy left her, they would be unable to get back to her, and much more serious mischief might occur if any accident happened to the light-ship, and no one on board of her. Even supposing it was found necessary to place life-boats on board the light-ships, full crews must be kept there, and full crews also on shore, because the men could not always live on board the vessel, and reckoning the ex penses of the three light-ships, the additional cost to the estate would be £3,000 a-year. But there was another consideration—would it be well to place a life-boat in that particular place ? He found that in the year 1845, the number of lives saved by the Liverpool boat was 180; the Magazines boat 171; the Hoylake boat 182; the Point of Ayr 122, and the Formby but seven lives ; whilst in 1841- 42.43-44 the Formby boat saved no lives. It was very rate that any accident took place within the range of the Formby light-ship. The accidents generally took place to the westward. It would be seen that the Point of Ayr boat had saved the lives of nearly double the number of any other life-boat, being to the westward. He (Mr. M.) did nor think it necessary to say anything more on this subject, except that having been a member of the sub committee for sixteen or eighteen months, he never heard the subject mooted, or any resolution moved in that com mittee, although the statement alluded to said that the owner of the Bencoolen (Mr. Ripley) had advocated for years the necessity of a life-boat and crew being kept on hoard the Formby Light-ship. The CHAIRMAN said the answer to the statement might be summed up in one word,—the committee were not called upon to provide a boat in that particular station, for in this particular instance it was proved that the ves sel was lost through the blundering of the pilot. Mr. TOBIN said any one acquainted with nautical mat ters would see it was not the fault of the pilot, but an er ror of the man at the wheel, who put the helm starboard instead of port. Mr. KENDAL said that was the opinion of the captain of the light-ship. The committee then proceeded to private business. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. able to bear the pressure—they had proclaimed themselves unwilling or unable to know what the truth was. They had declared that they did not know what was the truth, and they asked with a taunt and a sneer, " what is truth?" There were advocates of all shades of falsehood associated in one assembly, namely, the parliament of Great Britain. Socinians, Papists, and others, as well as Protestants, were united in the great assembly of the na tion. Then they were told by noble lords and honourable members that they avoided raising any religious questions. It was easy to talk of sending petitions. They could get petitions prepared, and they could be numerously signed by honest men, fully convinced of the errors of the Church of Rome. And what became of the petitions when they went up to the house ? Our reformed parliament paid precious little attention to the petitions of the people, un less those petitions happened to agree with their own no tions of what was proper and right. What, then, was to be done, and why bring those exposures forward ? He turned to the second instrumentality. He said that un less the people of this country were instructed in, and de termined to maintain the reformed religion, the blessing of a reformed church would very soon be taken from us. How were the people to be instructed ? it might be said. In answer, he would say, that he believed mostly in the Church; but such meetings as the present were calcu lated to extend Christian instruction. He believed they had arrived at that crisis, at which one of their very best services was to give Christian instruction at such a meet ing, direct and indirect, positive and negative ; to teach the audience what they hoped some knew, what none knew enough, what they all ought to know—true religion, real Christianity, and to teach them what was that false religion which was aiming at universal supremacy over the world. Objections were made to talking in a serious tone at such meetings as the present. It was said that that was preaching. And why should it not be made preaching? They were commanded to preach the word in season and out of season. And he be lieved that they were not to take for granted that the peo ple knew that word. He was also of opinion that the heresies of the few were made dangerous by the ignorance of the many. Romanism was a corruption which the devil had introduced, and which was delighted in by the carnal or natural man; while true Christianity was a religion which God had revealed, and was delighted in only by spiritual men. True religion must be confined to spiri tual men, because it was a spiritual thing. The natural man would not receive the things of the spirit of God ; they were foolishness to him—he could not know them be cause they were spiritually discerned. True Christianity must be confined to spiritual men ; but the profession of Christianity had never been confined to spiritual men, neither had the profession of carnal men been al ways insincere. Then how was it possible for uncon verted men sincerely to profess Christianity ? O n ly by mixing what they called Christianity with some or more elements congenial to the natural man. In such a case reasons were not sat up for renouncing Christianity, and, therefore, the only way to manage was to corrupt Chris tianity. Then they could profess it, and could profess it sincerely when it was corrupted. For instance, the grand subject of Christianity was Jesus—Christ himself was the son of the system—in everything he had pre-eminence. In his Godhead, however, he was invisible, and in his manhood he was absent. How, then, was he to be pre sented to man ? He was presented by the word of our faith. That was quite sufficient to the spiritual man, but what were natural men to do with that ? They had no faith. Christ was preached to them. It was music, but they had no ear for it. Then what had the carnal man done? He had recourse to corruption, be bad managed to do without faith by presenting images of Christ in wood, stone. and other materials. Was not that a pal pable instance of the manner in which the Roman Ca tholic Church had degraded Christianity into a matter of sense? The Christianity that is unseen is out of her reach. The true glory of spiritual worship was its spirituality. But what had carnal men done ? They had corrupted it. The rev. gentleman then commented at some length on the pomp, splendour, and music and services of the Romish church, which her members called Christian worship. He also sheaved at great length, and with much force, huw she bad corrupted the most vital doctrines of Christianity. He then referred to a subject brought for ward by Dr. Pusey in a sermon which he was recently per mitted to preach at Oxford, grounded on the well known words of our. Lord to his disciples, "As my father hath sent me even so send I you," and showed that the simili tude did not apply absolutely in every respect, but as the Father sent Christ to bear witness of the truth, so he would send the Holy Spirit into the Apostles to bear wit ness of the truth. In that respect they did go and bear \ witness to the truth—they spoke the truth infallibly, because the coil forter was in them. It was true of their word, as it was of our Lord's—" The word I speak unto you the some shall judge you at the last day." When the apostle Paul was about to finish his course, he gave a charge to his successor in the church what he should do. What did he say to him ? He said, " I charge you preach the word." Christ to the inspired apostles said, " Even so send I you ;" the apostle Paul to the uninspired Timo thy said, " Preach the word." The word was preached, and was written by the apostles. And having caused such writings to be produced, Almighty God had caused them to be preserved. And without continuing plenary inspi ration in any man, God had continued truth in the church. The commission Christ gave to the apostles the clergy had not—the commission of which Paul gave to Timothy they had. Mark this further difference ; when Christ was sending out his apostles, he told them not to premeditate what they were to say. But when Paul wrote to Timothy, he said "Give yourself to meditation—to reading." The difference was marked. The words " even so send I you," were cut off with the apostles. If the commission were continued, then the clergy had the power of adding to the scriptures; for they to whom Christ said, " even so send I you," spoke as infallibly as Christ spoke. And practically that was Popery, for the Rornanists had an interminable bible. The rev. gentleman then urged on the meeting to be guarded against the doctrines of "development." If, said he, that doctrine be true, antiquity was done for, and vice versa if the claims of antiquity were good, the doctrine of developmenwas done for. He then argued at great length against the claims of the Church of Rome to infallibility, and again pressed upon Protestants the necessity of be coming thoroughly acquainted with the grounds on which their great principles rested, that they might be prepared for the coming struggle, which was not then to be dreaded. He then described the terrible s system of the confessional as it prevails in France, from the details of M. M chelets book, and concluded his eloquent and powerful speech as follows :—" This was what they had in France, and what we should soon have in England if the English people presented no more resisting front than the English parlia ment had presented of late ; and oh how John Bull would cry out when he was under the lash of the Jesuits. They had long wished to have the thumb screws on. England had long been an eye-sore to them. England had been far away from mother church—far from the supremacy of St. Peter ; it was the black spot on the map ; they were praying for the conversion of her inhabitants. Universal sway w as the object of Rome. England alone stood in the way, and if she could subdue England, the world was at her feet. The colonies would soon follow the example of the mother country; the small congregations of Pro. testants on the continent would become an easy prey ; the disorganised churches of America would offer no resist ance, and soon there would not remain one single citadel unstormed—one single voice to protest against even the murder of the last of the heretics. If England stood in her way, they might fancy what would be the anxiety and what the practical efforts of Rome would make to gain her over. They were sending money over - to England, they were building new churches—churches where there were no congregations—to entice, and catch, and raise up con gregations ; they were making huge efforts, they were making small efforts. They were sending their beggars from door to door, for only the other day six young fe males of the ages of 15 or 16, came to him and asked him for a shilling, and he discovered that they had been sent out to a distant part of the town, where they were un known, with orders to visit every house, and if possible obtain a shilling for the repairs of their chapel. The Manchester Courier, in remarking on the pro ceedings of this meeting, says, " that they are pregnant with interest to the friends on the church and constitu tion, and make it clearer than ever that a decisive stand must be taken, and that soon, if true English Christianity is to be maintained in this country." INQUESTS BEFORE Til F. BOROUGH CORONER ON SATURDAY. On view of the body of Mary Davies, who resided in Parr-street, and was 35. years of age. On the Bth Decem ber last, deceased was at the Salthouse-dock, when she stepped down into the hollow into which the gates swing, and fell down on the stone-work, a height of five or six feet, by which her right thigh was broken. She lingered until Tuesday last, when she died from the injury, which was a compound fracture. On view of the body of Elizabeth Jones, eight years old. Deceased lived with her parents in Frank-street, Toxteth-park. About three weeks ago, she was left alone in the house, and her clothe:3 took firc, burnin g her no pc verely that she died on Friday. On the body of Terence Mulligan, a labourer, aged 44. On Wednesday last he was eng,aeed with others in taking down the wall of a warehouse in Love-lane, and were un derpinning it. Deceased was asked to put some loose bricks under it, but refused, and it fell upon him. He was taken to the Northern Hospital. Both arms were broken, and he died on Friday. • On the body of Penelope Alovsia Jackson, aged 73. Deceased lived with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Potts, in Windsor-street. On Friday night she went to a party at a friend's house, and returning at an early hour in the morning, went to bed, where she was found quite dead. At eight o'clock deceased had been dancing at the party. Mr. H. G. Harbord, surgeon, who made a post mortem examination, found the cause of .death to be syncope, consequent on ossification of the valves of the heart. Verdicts accordingly. TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. The usual monthly meeting of the Council was held on Wednesday, at the Town-hall. The Finance Committee recommended that Newsham House, and about seven acres of land surrounding it, be advertised to be let by tender. They also recommended that Mr. F. Venn be allowed £lOO per annum for the office of sergeant-at-mace; and that the salaries of the clerks in the Town Dues office be increased as follows : Mr. Ellis, from £l5O to £2OO per annum ; Mr. M`Nangh ten, from £135 to £lB5 ; Mr. Kaye, from £lOO to £125 ; and that the reversionary interest of the corporation pro perty in Gloucester-street and Sidney-street be sold to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE, in moving the confirmation of the proceedings, informed the Council that the arbitrators appointed to assess the value of the reversionary interest of the property at Wallasey had awarded the Council £113,000 as compensation for the loss of their property. Ile was disappointed at the amount of the award, but he would not impugn the decision of the arbitrators. He mentioned that the Birkenhead Commissioners were ap plying, in an act of parliament, for a clause which would deprive the Council of the power to send three gentlemen to represent Liverpool at their Board, on the ground that the Council no longer retained the large interest in Che shire, which they once enjoyed. He bad hoped that their animosities towards the Council would have given way to a better state of things; but at the same time he admitted that there was much force in their argument on this occa sion ; and he did not think the Council would feel it wise to take any great trouble in defence of the privilege which they now possessed. The expenses of the arbitration would have t' be borne by the Birkenhead gentlemen. In reply to some observations from Mr. Higgins, Mr. Lawrence said that their principal reason for letting Newsham House was, that if no tenant were in it, it would rapidly deteriorate, but they only coupled with the house seven acres of land out of 280, and they did not propose to make any further appropriation of the property until they came before the Council with a defined plan showing how the property could be laid out for the general benefit of the town. The proceedings were confirmed. Prior to the confirmation of the Dock Committee pro ceedings, Mr. T. LLOYD gave notice that he should move at the next council that slips and landing-places should be erected at the south end of the town for the convenience of the inhabitants of Toxteth-park. After some little opposition, a motion was carried with out a division, for closing the markets at ten o'clock every Saturday night; at seven o'clock every other night during the winter, and at eight o'clock every other night in sum mer. Plans were submitted for decorating the grand and other staircases of the Town-hall, with Scagliola paintings, at an expense of £800; and the Town-hall Committee were authorised to carry the best plans into effect. In answer to a question from Mr, Thomas Lloyd, Mr. LACE said that nothing could be done at present towards providing salt water baths. The proceedings of the Observatory Committee con tained the following report from Mr. Hartnun, the ob serv?r " I need not remind the Observatory Committee that the main object of this establishment was to facilitate navigation, and I need scarcely add that good timekeepers, with steady rates, are of the first importance to this object. lhe principal difficulty in trying a chronometer is that of being able to test its perform ance in definite and steacy degrees of temperature. The appa ratus which has been constructed for this purpose, under the direction of your surveyor, answer admirably, and I have the honour of laving before you to-day some of the results of my trials. My practice in rating chronometers Is to subject them to temperatures, varying from 45 to 80 degrees, and to register the mien temperature of each day opposite to the daily rate. When the chronometer is returned to the maker he can then see whe ther it gains or loses by au increase of temperature, and so alter the compensation as to get the performance most favourable, either to the specific circumstances of the intended voyage or the general exposure of the timekeeper. Chronometers, for in stance, for Greenland or for a tropical voyage should be differ. ently compensated. " No blame can be fairly imputed to the makers for considera- Me error in the compensation. Few possess the means for accu rate experiments on the effects of temperatures, or can it be ex pected, at the moderate price at which the chronometers are sold, to give that attention to setting and keeping true time, which is absolutely necessary in these researches. The excel lence of the workmanship in general I can strongly vouch for, as this is shown by the regularity of the changes due to tempe rature, and the returning to the same rate under the same cir cumstances. " The records of the observatory will show that about one fourth of the timekeepers sent there, though otherwise good, change their rates so much from 45 to So degrees that the re sulting error in longitude would, in a month's voyage, be from So to 60 m les. "To show the nature and extent of this alteration of rate, I give the daily rates of six chronometers, with their correspond. ing temperature. The smallest change is 3i seconds, the largest 6i seconds daly, and these are evidently in other respects very good chronometers. "I propose in time, with your encouragement, to make fur ther experiments, but in the mean time will content myself with saying, that several chronometers, being found imperfect in their compensation at the observatory, have been sei.t to their makers for alteration, and returned either cured or very much improved." Mr. AncrN said that some of the best makers in the kingdom were sending their chronometers to the Liver pool Observatory, and that the more the advantages of that institution were made known, the more highly would they be appreciated. The Ferries Committee reported that it was not desira ble to grant the use of the landing stages after midnight to the Birkenhead Commissioners. Mr. EARLE moved, " That it be referred to the Finance Committee to settle with Mr. Gladstone, by arbitration, the price to be paid to him for the land required for the improvement at the corner of Hope-street and Mount pleasant." Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said it was for the Council to decide as to whether this was one of those improvements which they ought to make. For his own part he thought it was not. Mr. TURNER coincided in opinion with Mr. G. H. Lawrence. Mr. EARLE complained that he had been very badly treated by Mr. Lawrence, for he had gone to him and said—" George—(laughter)—draw out my resolution for me," and George had drawn it out, though he now op posed it. If it had been left to him (Mr. Earle) he would have drawn it out in a much more spicey manner. (Loud laughter.) As for Mr. Turner, if he would only put on a double pair of spectacles be would see that the rounding of the corner would be a great improvement to Mount-plea sant. Loud laughter.) The motion was carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr.EARLE ; Sir T. Brancker, Messrs. Nicoll, Horsfall, G. H. Lawrence, Stewart, Tinne, Lace, Earle, Aikin, and Turner, were appointed a committee to consider " a general and comprehensive plan for the im provement of the municipal borough." All the speakers on this subject seemed to think that the only plan to carry out a comprehensive plan of improvement was to lay an improvement rate. The MAYOR then said he was authorised to ascertain the views of the Council as to whether it would be desi rable to purchase the Botanic Gardens. He thought the best plan would be to appoint the Finance Committee to confer with the Committee of the Botanic Gardens, and to report. Mr. HUGH HORNBY strongly advocated the propriety of making the purchase, and said the gardens could be had for £3,600. Ile moved that the subject be referred to the Finance Committee. The motion was carried unanimously, and after the Mayor had announced the untimely death of Mr. Pem berton, and stated that the necessary steps would be taken immediately to fill U.) the vacancy occasioned by that gen tleman's demise in Rodney-street Ward, the Council ad journed. MANCHESTER PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting of this Association was held in the Corn Exchange, Manchester, on Tuesday, when the im mense building was densly crowded by a highly respect able audience. Fifty clergymen were present. The speak ers were the Rev. Hugh Stowell (chairman), the Revds. Hugh M'Neile, J. H. Maguire, W. Huntingdon, W. Charlton, H. W. M`Grath, T. Lowe, and W. Read. All the resolutions were passed in the most enthusiastic man ner. The speech of the evening was that of the Rev. H. M , Neile, who was very warmly received. The following is a mere outline of his able speech. He said—" The Jesuits were the master workers of a master system. That system he called a master system, because it was arranged exactly to suit the ay stem of human nature. The Jesuits were taught metaphysics—they were taught the workings of the human mind, and suited their system to these work ings, The Romish system was constructed upon a very deep view of human nature ; and the great object it had in view was to keep man satisfied with himself upon the whole without any real change—acting upon his fears and indul ging his love of sin, as his fears and his self indulgence alter nately prevail. It was, he repeated, constructed for the purpose of keeping man as he is, content with himself all his life long, without any real change of heart towards God. Romanism had no intention to save men—its intention was to play on men, and make money of them. But why tell these facts—why expose the falsehoods connected with their simplest statements ? It was to warn Protestants. The chairman had alluded to a letter which'he saw in the last Record newspaper, where a priest wrote concerning a young lady, who was taken to a convent at Hammersmith —and the priest said the young lady had not seen a priest at all. It was very extraordinary that they could not even in a small matter like that write truth. He (Mr. M`Neile) happened to know the young lady referred to, and her fa ther—and he happened to know the young lady did see a priest by stealth, and that he (the priest) did write to her long ago, and planned her leaving her father's house. And now they wrote she had gone there as an encouragement to others ; and that she had not seen a priest at all. Tht Rev. Gentleman then read theletter, which was as follows: " Chapel House, Chelsea, Feb. 10, 1846. " The Rev. Mr. Sisk presents his compliments to Miss—, and requtsts to be permitted to her the enclosed, which is from a true and fervent friend. He is not unacquainted with her his tory, which is, and has been, that of many others. He has now on the point of reception, et Hammersmith, a .ady who perse vered thirteen months in opposition to the efforts of a violent father. She never saw a priest or a chapel, till where she now is. She is the daughter of Major-General Sir W. D—. Whatever the writer of this can do, he will be most happy to perform Persevere—persevere, — what does it profit a man to gain the world, and lose his soul." Mr. Sisk wrote that the young lady " never saw a priest till where she now is." Now he (Mr. M,Neile) said she did, and the young lady was his authority. (cheers.) And be hereby challenged Mr. Sisk to come forward and deny it The rev. gentleman then called the attention of the meet ing to the instrumentalities by which true religion could be maintained in this country—the one was by the consti tuted authorities of the country, and the other was by the people being so instructed in true religion, and so deter mined to maintain it, that even if the authorities turned against it, the people would not have it thrust from them. The authorities had long maintained true religion. Chris tianity was part and parcel of the law of the land. But that instrumentality was no longer to be looked to. Our constituted authorities bad given it up—they had not been GENERAL MISCELLANY. The town of Keswick is now lighted with gas. Last week, Mr. W. Finch, solicitor, Worcester, fell into the canal, in a state of intoxication, and was drowned. BRICKS.—The amount of duty paid in England upon bricks in 1814 was £135,730. In 1845, it was £558,415. Charles Donking Esq., has recently sent £l,OOO to the Secretary of the London Philanthropic Society. A registration has been effected by a firm in London, of " an instrument for holding up ladies dresses." A box containing watches worth £2OO was stolen from be Eastern C9unties Railway last week. THE READING MURDER.—At the Reading assizes on Wednesday, William Spicer was tried for the murder of his wife in August last, found guilty and sentenced to death. Three men were suffocated at some chymical Works, East Greenwich, on Saturday week, by the fumes of a chymical preparation. NOVEL POSTAGE.—On Sbrove-Tuesday, a tradesman of Monmouth sent presents of six pancakes to some nephews and neices, through the post•ofce. The late Mr. Gaily Knight has bequeathed his Firbeck property, consisting of the house and upwards of 1,200 acres of land, after the death of his wife, to the Ecclesias tical Commissioners, to be applied by them to charitable uses. The managers of a London Amphitheatrehave so offended against decency, as to prepare a piece for the stage en titled " The battle of ilfoodkee, and death of the hero Sir Robert Sale." The other day, a farmer's lad, at Wigmore, lay down among some straw. A man who required some of it, threw a pike to another, which entered the poor boy's eye and killed him on the spot. Within the last two years and a half, there have been upwards of. eleven thousand persons sent from the Peni tentiary Prison, Millbank, to endure their several sen tenzes of transportation. At a meeting of the Birmingham Plate and Crown Glass Company, on Wednesday, it was resolved to in crease the capital, for the purpose of carrying them on more effectually. At a numerous meeting held lately at York, a petition to parliament for the prevention of the sale of intoxicat ing liquors on Sunday, and a memorial to the Queen, were unanimously adopted. EXTENSIVE FAILURE.—There was a report in London, on Thursday, that Mr. Spottiswoode, the Queen's printer, who has been largely concerned in railway speculations, had failed, and that his liabilities exceed £600,000. WAR WITH AMERICA.—English underwriters have al ready introduced a clause into their policies, stating that they do not ensure agai ns t ca pt ure , or d es t ruc ti on by an enemy. On Wednesday night the corn-mill of Messrs. Fer nandes, at Wakefield, was destroyed by fire, along with a large quantity of wheat, flour, &c. The loss is estimated at £l,OOO, all insured. On Friday, at a general meeting of the proprietors of the E. I. C., thanks werelunanimously passed, with strong expressions of approbation to the officers and mea in the Indian army for the brilliant victories achieved on the bank of the Sutlej. On Saturday week a lady was safely delivered of a child in a railway carriage on the Worthing and Brighton Railway. On the arrival at the terminus the lady was wrapped in blankets and conveyed to her residence, and is going on favourably ; but the infant has since died. BANKRUPTCY.—The number of bankrupts during the last year amounted to 1,025, comprising nearly all trades and professions. The highest number was that of victu allers, which was 63, and the lowest, attorneys, there be ing one only. The only business excepted from the bank rupt's list was that of undertakers. EXTRAORDINARY.—On Monday a hive of bees belong ing to Mr. John Hall, maltster, Over-Monnow, in Here ford, swarmed and were safely hived. This singular cir cumstance occurred about two o'clock in the day, and is a further proof of the extraordinary mildness of the sea son. Her Majesty's Theatre opened on Wednesday. The performance was Verdi's " Nabucodonosor." The house looked very gorgeous in its new dress. The debutantes, Mesdemoiselles Sanchioli and Corbari were well received. Mr. Lumley, and the new conductor, Mr. Balfe, came in for a share of the applause, and everything passed off as a first night should do. On Monday last, Mr. John Shaw, an American mer chant, residing in London, committed suicide ,by cutting his throat. The deceased, who was married only two months ago, had been for some time in a low way, which was attributed to his fears of losing considerable pro perty in Hudson's Bay and other parts of North Ame rica, in the event of war with that country. DEATH FROM EXTRACTING A TOOTH.—A few days ago, Mr. Rowling, of John-street, Tottenham-court-road, died in consequence of the extraction of a tooth. It ap pears that he fastened some silk round a tooth, it being decayed, and a friend of his extracted it by pulling it violently. The consequence was, that a small blood vessel was ruptured, which no surgical aid could stop. The deceased was only twenty-six years of age. IMPORTANT FACT.—It was etated by Dr. Guy, before a parliamentary committee, that heat, not moisture, is the chief cause of sickness: that in London in 1842, the maxi mum disease was in August (the warmest month), the minimum in January. In accordance with this fact, the Zoological Society of London have lately exposed their car niverous animals to the open air in the place of continuing them in artificially heated dens, the result being an im proved state of health mid fewer deaths. The Grand Jury at the Manchester Borough Sessions, on Tuesday week, made a presentment to the effect that " very great facilities and inducements are offs-red for the committing cf felonies, from the indiscriminate practice of pawnbrokers lending money on new property, by way of pledge, without exercising a vigilant inquiry as to the mode by which the pledging parties received possession of such property, in many cases obviously dishonestly ob tained." SIR JOHN Ross.—ln consequence of the unfortunate bankruptcy of Sir John Ross, so well known as the ex plorer of the Arctic Regions, his appointment as Consul- General at Stockholm has been rescinded. The salary attached to the office was £550 per annum. His bank ruptcy is attributed to his connexion with the London and Dublin Trades' Bank, of which he was Deputy- Chairman, and being called upon to pay his quota of loss to the shareholders. - FATAL AFFRAY.—On Friday week, two poor labour ers, named Boucher and Oldfield, employed at Enville, near Kidderminster, quarrelled while at dinner together, and a scuffle ensued, which ended in the death of Oldfield, who was stabbed by the other. Both bad the knives with which they were eating their dinners in their hands. The wounded man died almost immediately. Boucher gave himself up to the police. The coroner's jury returned a a verdict of " manslaughter" against him, and he was committed for trial. SIR ROBERT SALE AT BALING.—The hero of Jellala- , bad was, in his boyish days, a pupil at the celebrated gram mar-school at Ealing, under Dr. Nicholas. On a pane of glass in one of the windows lie had scratched his name, which has often been an object of interest with the alumni of the establishment. A curious coincidence connects this memorial and the man—the former continued in safety amid school perils until a few weeks since, when, about the period of Sir Robert Sale's death, the pane was un fortunately broken, and thus memorial and man may be said to have perished together. A young leopardess escaped the other day from the Clifton Zoological Gardens, and created a good deal of alarm before it was secured. The most marvellous thing that occurred during the time it was at large, was to a poor lame beggar man —" A poor sailor, your honour " who came limping up with that characteristic shuffling step which seems to belong peculiarly to the craft. He was warned of the approach of the leopardess, when his lameness was instantaneously cured, the shuffling step disappeared, and he bolted at a pace that would not have discredited a first-rate pedestrian. CAUTION TO NURSES.—On Sunday, during divine ser vice, the nurse at the rectory of St. Olaves, London, placed the rector's youngest daughter, aged 21 months, on the sill of an attic casement window, and was in the act of playing with her there, when the fastening gave way, and in an instant she was precipitated on to the paved yard below, a depth of 45 feet. On being taken up the little girl was found perfectly sensible, and it is hoped that she has sustained no internal injury, butthat through the providential mercy of God she will escape with the minor evil of severe contusions and a broken thigh. LAUNCH OF AN IRON STEAM-SHIP.-011 Saturday last, Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare launched from their build ing-yard, at Blackwall, a fine iron steam-ship of 800 tons, for the Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. She is to be fitted with engines by Penn and Co., of 360- horse poiver, and is guaranteed under a heavy penalty, by the builders to the company, to be the fastest sea-going steam-vessel afloat. She is intended, it is said, to be pla ced on the line between Alexandria and Marseilles, for ac celerating the Indian mails, and it is expected w ill do the whole distance in five days, which will bring Egypt and London within eight days post of each other. DRUNKENNESS AND CRISCE.—At the Newcastle as sizes, before Mr. Justice Coleridge, on Saturday last, a prisoner who had pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary, urged in his justification that be had been in the army 19 years, and th,t the burglary was committed while he was under the influence of liquor. The judge remarked that that was an aggravatign rather than a justification of the crime; and added that three-fourths of the crime committed in this wintry was committed under the in• I. fluence of liquor. Ile verily believed that nothing would tend snore to make the people of this country moral, and to make the ccurts ofjustice empty sinecures, than to ab stain from excessive drinking. GRATIFYING ACKNOWLEDGMENT.—Sir R. H. Inglis, in the coarse of the debate, on Monday, en the vote of thanks of the House of Commons to the Indian army, said that in the announcement which Sir H. Hardinge made to the president and council of the victory he and his brave army had achieved, Sir Henry begged of Eng land and India to remember to what that triumph was owing ; that it had been gained, not by his arm, nor by the respect in which that arm was borne; but by that " other arm " and that other " right hand," and " the light of that countenance," to which all success and all adversity was alike attributable. He (Sir R. Inglis) took advantage of these phrases of Sir Henry's to recognise Him i who is the giver of all victory. RIOT AND MURDER.—On Sunday week the labourers on the Hawick branch of the North British Railway, as sembled to the number of about 1,200, armed with blud geons, &c., and demanded from the custody of the police two "navies" who had been taken into custody. They broke open the cells, and liberated the men, and were re turning in triumph along the road, when they met the I district constable, named Pace, whom they savagely at tacked, and one of them laid his skull open with a pick axe. He died from the injuries the same afternoon. Thirteen of the rioters were apprehended. On Tuesday they again assembled in large numbers, and set fire to row after row of the temporary huts of the liish labourers. the wretched inmates being compelled to fly. Several parties received serious injuries. The origin of the out break is said to have been, that the Scotch labourers on the line were determined to drive the Irish altogether from it. A MELANCHOLY TALE.—About the beginning of De cember last, Mrs. John BroWn, wife of the farmer at Murray's-hall, near Stirling, was seized with malignant fever, and died about the middle of the month ; the female servant next took ill, and has lingered on till now, but there are some hopes of her recovery ; the eldest boy, aged 12 years, was next seized, and died on the Bth February ; by this time the father had been prostrated by the same fell disease ; and during his illness a second boy, the only other member of the family, aged nine years, was also seized and died on the 12th February. Before this last sad event the father was understood to be gradually reco vering, but since that he sunk every day, and died on Wednesday ; and in addition, a sister of the servant, who had come to assist during her illness, has also been seized, and died on Saturday last ; and thus within about two months rooted o o u r t o f little t m h el o a r n e, a do ft thrivinghenfmga and d s n fily o a b hind.—Stirli n g Observer. tmawhreacskbleeefnt A BRAVE FAMILY. In the House of Commons, on Monday night, Sir R. Peel, in moving a vote of thanks to the Indian army, for their gallant • conduct during the recent disastrous con flicts, gave the following touching narrative of the self denial and bravery evinced by Sir Henry Hardinge and his sons. " I believe," said the right hon. baronet, " The night of the 21st of December was one of the most memorable nights in the military history of this country. The right of the British army was led by the commander-in-chief, Sir 11. Gough ; the left, by the Governor-General, as se cond in command. They made a brilliant attack, but they had not time to complete their victory, which, how ever, dissipitated the Lahore army. The details are given with admirable clearness in the despatches ; but there are private letters which speak with less of formality, and give a more vivid account of the scene. I will read an extract from a private letter writte❑ by the Governor-General to a member of his family : " The night of the 21st was the most extraordinary of my life. I bivouacked with the men, without food or co vering, and our nights are bitter cold. A burning camp in our front, our brave fellows lying down under a heavy cannonade which continued during the whole night, mixed with the wild cries of the Sikhs, our English hurrah, the tramp of men, and the groans of the dying. In this state, with a handful of men, who had carried the batteries the night before, t remained till morning, taking very short intervals of rest by lying down with various regiments in succession, to ascertain their temper, and revive their spirits.' [That is to say, Sir H. H ardinge spent the night in going from regiment to regiment, lying down with them, anima►ing their spirits, thus insuring, as far as hu ma❑ effort could insure it, the conquest of the zoming day.] ' I found myself again with my old friends of the 29th, 31st, 50th, and 9th, and all in good heart. My answer to all and every man was, that we must fight it out, attack the enemy vigorously at day-break, beat him, or die honourably in the field. The gallant old general, kind-hearted and heroically brave, entirely coincided with me. During the night I occasionally called upon our brave English soldiers to punish the Sikhs when they came too close and were impudent ; and when morning broke we went at it in true English style. Gough was on the right. I placed myself, and dear little Arthur by my side, in the centre, about 30 yards in front of the men, to prevent their firing, and we drove the enemy without a halt from one extremity of their camp to the other, cap turing 30 or 40 guns as we went along, which fired at 20 paces from us, and were served obstinately. The brave men drew up in an excellent line, and cheered Gough and myself as we rode up the line. the regimental colours lowering to me as on parade. The mournful part is the heavy loss I have sustained in my officers. I have had 10 aides-de-camp hors du combat, fi ve killed and five wound ed. The fire of grape was very heavy from 100 pieces of cannon. The Sikh army drilled by French officers, and the men the most warlike in India.' " I say, sir, that with my affectionate rezard for that gallant man, I feel proud to exhibit him during such a night as that of the 21st of December ; to exhibit him passing from regiment to regiment, lying down on the ground with the men, keeping up their spirits, and ani mating their ardour; and having had twelve aides-de camp, when ten out of them were disabled, placing his young son, a boy of about eighteen years of, in front of the British regiments, in order that they might not be in duced to fire, but that they might drive the enemy from their cannon by the force of the British bayonet alone. (Cheers.) There is, sir, a characteristic trait of my gal lant friend in this very letter. He says he had two sons with him, one of them having entered the army, had been present throughout the whole of the action at Moodkee, and the early part of the 21st; the other was a civilian. On the night of the 21st he sent the civilian to the rear, saying that his presence in the field disturbed him. When the son refused to go, he said he would send him out of the field in custody, if necessary, as his presence disturbed his mind, while he says the presence of the son who was in the service, and who had a military reputation to form, only made him the more determined and resolute in the discharge of his duty. (Loud cheers.) He says also, that on the 22d, when the danger was over, in visiting the hospitals be took one of his sons with him, who has had the misfortune to lose a foot, and telling the wounded men that they saw a Governor-Gener a l who had lost a hand, with a son who had lost a foot, consoled them under their wounds, by showing them that men of the highest rank are subject to the same calamities. He says, " I visit the hospital and comfort the maimed by showing them a Governor-General without a hand, and his son without a foot, and these practical illustrations are conso latory to our poor fellows.' I think, therefore, that this house will agree with me that the Commander-in-Chief and the second in command. that the generals of the army, and the army they led, have performed an exploit worthy of the British name. And I think I may assume that the gratitude of this house will be expressed to them for that exploit." (Cheers.) • FREE TRADE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD. FlR,—This fascinating term has become the cant watchword of the liberal free traders of the present day ; they apparently use it without having well considered its meaning or practical application, and regardless of conse quences adopt it as an authority for advocating the admis sion of foreign corn into this country duty free ; whereas the true and ever-understood meaning of it is, a recipro cal exchange of the commodities of two independent coun tries, each admitting the productions of the °User free of duty. The system now pressed upon us by the free traders is of a very different stamp and character, divested of every principle that has hitherto constituted free trade among nations. For in place of the reciprocal exchange of the productions of each, free of duty, on either side, they pro pose to admit the free importation of foreign corn here, whilst these countries refuse to admit the importation of our productions into theirs, in a similar manner but. on the contrary, exclude them by the imposition of pro hibitive duties, thus violating the sound principle of reci procity, which is the sure and only basis on which free trade can be practically conducted beneficially to both the parties. The proper name is barter, or mutual ex change, but here that principle is abandoned, and in place duty y eutoa goods, free, thei t, owhenever fruits go without of t t e our may of an exchange of p ro d uct i ons t h e f ru i ts o f t h e mutual l a- Lour of the people of each country, we are to recei ve th e i r corn nr h disposedand dr e seek tandureturn, n and nd i t for their interest to supp l y us w i th i t, refusing to accept o obliging us to pay for th e i r corn w i t h gol d , when we hap p else where for a market for our goods if we can find it. I hope some liberal free traders will take the trouble to inform the British public what they mean by free trade, with which they profess to be so deeply enamoured; and to let our manufacturers know, when they have purchased the corn of the foreigner, who will only consent to receive their goods subject to heavy duties acting with prohibi tory effe(t, by what means they propose to enable them to provide funds to pay for the foreigners' corn? I ask what avails it to the poor man to be tad that he may buy the foreign loaf at a low price (which, after all, is a ques tion that remains to be proved) when be is without money to pay for it—the foreigner having shown that he prefers to keep it rather than adopt the principle of free trade, and exchange it for the manufacturers' goods, the fruits of his labour and skill ? Hitherto our people, of all classes, generally fully em ployed, as at present, well paid for their labcur, appa rently contented and happy, were they permitted by the factious free traders to remain so, have been fed from bread made from home-grown corn, the fruits of British labour, and the manufacturers have paid the agricultural labourer in the practical spirit of free trade, with their goods in barter, through the medium of our current mo ney; but if this new system is adopted and acted upon he will be told that unless he has money ready to pay for it, be can have no foreign corn to convert into bread, and may starve, if dependent upon it, and cannot otherwise procure it. I will, in House of Commons language, suppose that our manufacturer, in the spirit and practice of free trade, says to the foreign corn-growers, " Well, my good fel lows, we will buy and consume your corn, as we don't care much about home-growers or their landlords, (al though they ale constant consumers.) if you will consent to take our goods in return for payment ?" But they answer, " No, we cannot agree to such a measure of reci procity, because we, like you, have now an overgrown po pulation, a considerable portion of them have become also manufacturers ; they can supply us with all the goods we want ; they receive and consume our corn in payment ; it is our duty to encourage and protect them, and you, no doubt, know that charity begins at home." I say may God preserve us from the delusions and blessings of such practical free trade, and I pray we may be so from our liberal friends, whilst we endeavour to keep out of the fangs of their foreign ones. AN OLD TRADER. Londcit, Feb. 23, 1546. [The writer of the above letter is, we are credibly in formed, a gentleman who was long and extensively en gaaed in business in this town. His opinion is entitled to the greatest weight, and were.we at liberty to give the writer's name, it would be a guarantee, independently of the irresistible force of the preceding statements, that his opin;ons deserve from commercial men the very greatest attention. We are glad to have the fallacy of free trade exposed by such an experienced hand. The free traders are here placed on the horns of a dilemma, from which they will find it impossible, by sound argument, to escape.] CAPTURE OF A GANG OF SWINDLERS.—On Wednes day last, a person named William Henry Chapman, before well known for malpractices, was brought before Mr.ltush ton, charged with making a forged bill of exchange. The prisoner, it appeared, in connexion with Win. 811, then in Lancaster Castle for debt, wrote, in May last, to Mr. Alston, capsule manufacturer, of Birmingham, for ten c ieand , gross of capsules. The order was sent, and a bill of ex change purporting to be drawn on N re ff months, i Co. and accepted by Ellis Williams, amounting to £29 S n s s" m and et ay Mss payable in thns returned dishonoured, upon which some of the capsules was transmitted dto endorsed Mr. Ablysto Bell,n. i p- he acceptance order was were returned, with a letter stating that if the bill were returned by Mr. Alston, £lO would be sent to him. Mr. A. came to Liverrool, and saw the prisoner, who said there was no such firm as Noreliffe and Co., and that he had adopted his mother's maiden name. He was taken to the Guardian Society's office, and repeating his statement was taken into custody. Bell was brought from Lancaster. and also brought before Mr. Rushton. Letters were read shewing the connexion between the parties, and implicating them in the transaction. The Gila' (Ilan Society, it was stated, had other letters, shewing other si milar fraudulent transactions. The prisoners were re manded for a week. This exposure is another instance of the vigilance of Mr. Reay, secretary to the Guardian So ciety. EWS PAPER - . 47 1 -