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I Liverpool, October 30, 1856

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES

Sir, —I am happy to see that you devote a column to the
consideration of a question that vitally affects a commercial

'community.
Mr. Wills fights a good fight, and deserves thanks for his
able and clear defence of symbolical or paper money. In fact,
the whole di,cuseion turns on convertibility. Are we to have
a paper money. or are we merely tohave a certificate of gold,

as is the present five pound note under Peel's bill ? -
Then, how is the note to be worded ? It will never do for
the note to "promise to pay" (gold) when we never mean it to
be convertible. If we are to have a p,
trade, it must be the creature of ai
must run to the following effec

London, Ist January, 1806

Unclip alt frlen, that this Note is legal
tender for all Debts, Taxes, and Rates, to the
amount of Valid( .

)0, Out'

gequer.

Chief Clerk

Sir

RICULTUEAL STATISTICS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.

This singular and un

tion was met,
House of a
f 'rulers had stated

by one 01

that one or more

to him,

THE BEARD MOVEMENT

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES

ENGLISH v. ITALIAN. MUSIC

Musical directors must surely

tie more than is char

ed at tl

as a gen

p_e

NEW PASSPORT REGULATIONS FOR

RUSSIA.

—Will you permit me to occupy a portion of your
valuable j mrnal with a few remarks and suggestions on the
subject of agricultural statistics, a matter which has engaged s
large share of the attention of agriculturists, as well as of other
men of note. I rejoiced, in -common with many, when the
jocose Premier abandoned the bill on this subject, a measure
at once so crude and so cruel, the chief argument for which
was the advantage the farmers would derive, proposing, as did

the President of the Board of Trade,* that on their returns
of the estimate of their crops of grain being gathered
to a head ; and they should be informed FIRST, of the
deficiency in the crop 3, so that they might, by' hold'ng their
corn ,instead of selling it, obtain all the additional price the

tenant

had don

pest tor tnembei v •-••••••., • • ,• •••••
their convenience or opportunity for thrashing it, irrespective
of the rise or fall of prices. In Earl Grey's own words, they
had made fortunes by doing so, whilst others who had pursued
an opposite course had been ruined. And this will strike every
one (rovnisant of a farmer's calling) as the truth, To the

farmer the straw is essential for fodder, and its value consists
in its freshness. To thrash a large quantity at once—if he had
the. power to do so, which he has not—would be to render the
straw worthless for the purpose of feeding. He cannot unite
the business of a corn speculator with his own, without dia.
ordering his whole system. But I should be gind to le'irn
what is proposed by the Agricultural Statistics Bill? and I
know I shall be told that it is to ascertain the produce of the

kingdom ; and suppose it attained, what benefit will accrue ?
Suppose the deficiency of the crops, to the extent'of two, four,
or six millions of quarters of bread corn—will the Government
import as much ? No ! Why not ? The French Government
do, and we ought, or the labours of the Agricultural Statistics
Bill are of non-effect ! I hope I shall not be charged with

a love of ignorarce, or of a desire to be without th
knowledge of the quantity of grain produced in the country
I think, with Mr. Disraeli, that we possess in -the Tith

Commutation Act, and other paroc!)ial registries, a record,
almost complete, of the acreage of the kingdom ; and, from
the systematic routine of agriculture, a means of computing
an estimate of the produce, not inferior to France or the
United states of America, for I have yet to learn that either
of those countries possess the manipulating investigation the
Agricultural Statistics Bill (now before us) aspires to.
Supposing, however, that a more precise knowledge of what
we grow to be irequisite, I would suggest that the Comp.
troller of Corn Returns, and his staff of three hundred
inspectors, should cease from their labours, rendered useless
and unnecessary as they have been by and since the
abrogation of the Corn Laws. (Is it not a farce to have so
many pages of figures, as are exhibited in the Gazelle every
six weeks, stating " The weekly returns of the quantities

and pricea of British corn, as received from the Inqpntors
and Officers of Excise, in the following towns and cities of
England and ,Wales, from which the prices that govern
DUTY are calculated conformably to the Act 5 of Vic. cap.
14. Board of Trade Corn Department, and signed
HENRY FENTON huts, Comptroller of Corn Returns ;")
and that, instead thereof, the comptroller be empowered to
require from the local inspectors of corn, returns, in the 290
towns and cities where they are now located, returns of all the
grain that is sold, as well as bought, and that these returns
should be only from the farmer, or producer, thus confining
the report to British grain, and the returns front the farmer to
the proximate buyer, which must be the meaning of the act,
and not, as it has been perverted, to require a return of all the
British grain a miller or merchant may buy ; thus obtaining
a return of grain bought and returned a dozen times over.
For a farmer to make a weekly return to the inspector of the
quantity, price, and buyers, name of what hesells, would be neither
inconvenient nor invidious ; whilst the buyer, making also a
return of what he buys, and of whom, would, in my opinion,
give an inevitably correct account of the produce of the
kingdom.—Yours. &c., JOHN BERKtEY.
* Vide President of the Board of Trade's speech, on the
introduction of the bill in the House of Lords.

Sir,—The reintroduction of the beard is visibly pro
gressing. This is commendable, and lam glad to see it;
and were its physical utility only better understood, I am
sure all who value health would at once adopt it. Toe
moustache, particularly, is of incalculable value to those
in whom there is a tendency to consumption and asthma;
and to those who suffer from soro throat, and such like,
the beard is nature's own remedy.

Cold, dreary November, is rapidly approaching, so let
me advise my friends just to give it a trial for one winter.

ity CLIVLUIIIII/Ull6ll custom—wmca prevents us general
_appearance ; an,l many who would gladly wear the

me hope better things of our princely merchants
and others—let them try the experiment personally, and
then see if they don't like it. I am sure there is neither

he hearing

of Lord

THE TIPPERARY BANK

—a release w

rhyme nor reason in cutting off our natural respirators,
and then fly to the druggist to be supplied with an arti=
ficial one 1 Formerly, when it was the custom to wear the
beard, diseases of_ the lungs and chest. were not near so
fearfully rife as they are now. How is that ? Why, let
reason answer. Cannot you, Mr. Editor, induce your
readers to do something in this way ? M.D.
October 30, 1850.

be singularly ignorant of the real musical tastes of most,
audiences. Why is it that everybody, w•ho can afford to

e Si. George's Hall

.;;.jurrhy Evening Concerts, is supposed to be of such

and who

official manager has

SERIOUS AFFRA.Y IN SPITALFIE LDS,

LONDON

chapel.

RE-APPEARANCE OF MR. SPURGEOY

" The tumult of my thoughts
Doth but enlarge my woe ;
My spirit vanquishes—my heart

I
itals which have been lately introduced are
er than the isolated selected songs which
erseded ; but who can deny that even they

row to ;ions when niatli the sole staple of an evening's
entertainment ! Why, then, not divide the programme—
give the first part tolian music, and devote the
remainder of the evening to genuine English songs?—
songs, which, like the " John Anderson, my
Jenny Lind, would come home to each one in the
ence, and make every pulse beat. Tickets would not t),,,
any the less in demand were such to be male the case,
and time would show if the public, in this matt r. w- to
not of the same mind as, sir, your most obedient serva,,t,
MEDIUM.

Is-deBolate-and low."

assembled here this day with mixed feelings of joy and sou°
—jay that we meet each other again, and sorrow for those wh

The following ukase relative to the entry into Russia of
foreign foremen, workmen, &c., has just been published at
St. Petersburg :—ln virtue of the ukase of his Majesty
the Emperor, the Senate has received the report of the
Minister of the Interior of July 21 of this year, relative to
the imperial ordonnance published in a ukase of the senate,
dated Sept. 9, 1847, concerning the formalities to be
observed in regard to the entry within the limits of the
empire of foreign workmen and apprentices engaged by
Russian manufacturers and tradespeople. According to
this ordonnance Russian manufadturers and tradesmen
are to be responsible for the persons engaged by them,
and must present a special police authorisation for the
admission of these foreigners into Russia.
His Majesty has now been pleased to order as follows :
—Henceforward the Russian embassies, legations, and
consulates are authorised to deliver, as they may deem
necessary, and without demanding a preliminary permis-
sion of the Russian authorities, to all foreigners without
distinction, certificates and passports of entry within the
limits of the empire, with the following exceptions :
1 Persons whose entry into Russia is specially prohi-
bited by the government _ _ _ _

2. Persons-with regard to whom Russian embassies,
legations, or consulates, possess definite information of
an unsatisfactory character.
3. Gipsies, organ players, hawkers of drugs and
statuettes, and vagrants generally.

"As in virtue of these new arrangements respecting
passports, the measure of general safety required by the
ukase of the Senate of Oct. 21, 1847, relative to the entry'of
foreign foremen and workmen (by the terms of which our
manufacturers and tradesmen were to bo answerable for
the foreigners whom they employ, and were bound to
present in order to obtain their entry a police certificate)
become useless—the Minister of the Interior refers the
matter to the Senate, in order that they may take the
necessary steps to abolish the said measures."

THE PAUPER CHILDREN OF ST. PANCRAB.—EXTRAOR.
DINARY DISCOVERY.—A circumstance has just transpired
in connection with the recent removal of the pauper
children of St. Pancras to the schools of the Whitechapel
Union, which is not only calculated to teach the Poor-law
Board to look at home before they venture to interfere
with the affairs of other, but which is also likely to cause
the speedy recall of the St. Pancras children from the
Poor-law control. At the weekly meeting of the St.
Pancras directors, Mr. Churchwarden :Streeten pre-
sented the agreement between the directors of St. Pancras
and the guardians of Whitechapel Union for the signature
of the former board with reference to the keep of the St.
Pancras children at Forest Gate, and Mr. Cooper objected
on the grounds first, that the agreement was undated, and
therefore that it would be for twelve months from the date
of signature, and not from the date when the children
were sent, and that it compelled S. Pancras to pay for
150 children, whether they had that number in the schools
or not. Mr. Champ, however, made a still more impor-
tant objection. It would be remembered that the Poor-
law board had sent Dr. Bence Jones to St. Pancras, and
he made a great outcry that the children had only 450
cubic feet of air each to breathe in St. Pancras dormitories.
(Hear.) He had been to the Whitechapel schools, where
the St. Pancras children now were, and, instead of 450
cubic feet of air each, on measuring, the dormitories, he
found that they now had but 250 cubic feet of air each to
breathe, or but little more than half the amount. More-
over, under the windows, there wa:3 the most pestiferous
cesspool he had ever smelt. Mr. Dyke asked wild would
venture, after f...e.ch a statement, to sign the agreement ?
and moved that it be deferred till a committee had
reported, Mr. Stockton seconded the motion, and it was
carried unanimously.

NORTHERN TIMES LLIVERPOOt, TUESI

Referring to the present prospects of the Tipperary Bank
aff tiro, the Leinster Express, which has always shown itself
well informed on the subject, says :
" The case is simply this. The official manager has carefully
scrutinised all the sources whence proceeds may be available,
and he states it to be his decided opinion that, even with a
compromise; he could not be able to realise more than
X 190,000, or about 63 in the pound, in addition to the 2
already

paid, and 2s more which he expects to derive
from the property of John Sadleir ; and in order to effect
this he must be empowered to treat with the English share-
ho'ders who dispute their liability. The prudence of thus
dealing with them is obvious from the fact that they have
been releassd from all obligation by the decision of the

ned on

the appeal now pending- Wore the Lord
Chane4llor, and may be still further verified by the House
nese shareholders, previous to the decision in

vvtlL4, uaa offered £40,000 for an acquittance,
but since would not give ball that sum. Then a; to the
great bulk of the liabilities which must consequently come
upon the Irish contributories, it is certain that £350,00
could never b 3 screwed ont of the thirty persons who com-
with the exception O. f .V4ll nr thrpo

individuals, will be found-to be humble shopkeepers, nomi-
nal tratsferee=, or gentlemen whose estates are already in
the Ilcumbered Estates Court. Then as to the property of
those persons who have commenced suits against individual
1 likely to fare still worse; for the
lready taken steps to make any pro-
longing to these shareholders available for the
benefit of the creditors at large, before any execution can

take Waco in mselience of a private suit. It these state-
me its be true, and we see no reason for eoubting their
correctness, it is evident that the official manager has the
details of a most complex case in something like a clear
condition for arriving at an estimate of its real merits ; and
we think it nr,thible tin mil-Ili tee of eng

uiry will consider

it the interest of the creditors to come to a compromise as
the best means of securing any further dividend."

On S tturday night, at a late hour, there was a quarrel and
fight in Commercial Street, Spitalfields, amongst some
of the disbanded soldiers of the -Anglo-German Legion. An
Englishman named Henry Mole, of No. 2, Crown Court,
Spitalfields, interfered, with the intention of preventing mis-
chief, when one of the Germans, who was intoxicated, cut him
with a knife, inflicting a terrible gash, extending from the top
to the bottom of the face, Mole fell weltering in his blood,
and directly afterwards a young police constable, named Josiah
Warner, No. 33 H, who has only been in the force a few
weeks, came up, ar►d wade an attempt to arrest the assailant
T'

tie tierman immediately stabbed the constable on the left
side of the breast, and then inflicted another wound on his
thigh. The policeman exclaimed that he was murdered, and
fell. • Several bystanders and three or four police constables
made a rush on the German soldier, and after a severe struggle
he was secured and conveyed :o the Chapel Yard station, in
Spitalflelds, The wounded_ men were conveyed in cabs to the
London Hospital, where their wounds were dressed Inwctor
Weakford, of the R division, went to the hospital on Sunday
morning to enquire after the p ttientsi and upon going to the
bed side of Warner found him in a very weak condition. The
inspector put a question to the constable, which he answered
in a faint tone, when the house surgeon forbade all further
conversation, and pronounced the constable to be in a most
precarious condition. On making enquiries at the hospital on
Sunday evening, it was ascertained that both men were in a
very dangerous state, and very little hopes are entertained of
the police constable surviving. he has lost a great quantity
of blood. His boot was 'full, and there was a large pool of
blood in the street where he fell. The weapon with which the
wounds were inflicted was a long dagger knife, opening and
'shutting with a spring. The name of the German who inflicted
the wounds is LewisTheiss. Ho is a little man, and would
have been no match for either of his suffering victims if he had
not been armed with a knife. There are great numbers of the
Lnglo-German Legion, lately disbanded, moving about White-
chapel and Spitalftelds. They have given the police a good
deal of trouble, and their conduct is anything but what it
ought to be. •

THE SURREY GARDENS CATASTROPHE

On Sunday afternoon Mr. Spurgeon, pursuant to notice
privately, circulated among his congregation, resumed the
occupancy of his own pulpit in Park street Chapel, Southwark.
A great many persons were admitted by tickets before the

every nook and corner, as well in the body of the chapel as in
the galleries, was densely crowded by an eager auditory. Mr.

He appeared quite recovered from his recent indis-
position. He looked serious, but there was nothing extra-
ordinary in his countenance beyond that impulsive expression
which seems to.he the leading characteristic of his features•
The service commenced with a short prayer, after which Mr.
Spurgeon gave out one of Watts' hymns, in which it was
declared by some that the verso depicted the preacher's own
state of mind :

rho hymn sung, Mr, Spurgeon read and expounded a psalm,
Ind then invited his mills

w the first allusion was made to the ter-

rible eata,trophe of Sunday week. After invoking a blessing
upon hi; fl)ck, the preacher proceeded as follows

—We are

have suffered bereavements. Thanks to thy name ! Thanks
to thy name ! Thy servant feared he should not have
addressed this congregation again. But thou has brought him
from the fiery furnance, and not even a smell of fire has
passed upon him. Thou past moreover• given thy servant
strength, and he desires now to confirm those great promises
of free grace which the gospel affords. Thow kuowest, 0
God ! our feelings of sorrow. We must not open the sluices
of our woe. Oh God ! comfort those who are lingering in pain
:Lod suffering, and cheer those who have been bereaved. Let
blessing rest upon them—even the blessing of the covenant of
trace and of this world. And now, Lord bless thy people.
We have loved one another, we have rejoiced in each other's
)ye, we have wept together in sorrow. Thou has welded
us together, one in doctrine, one in practice, and one in holy

Oh that it may be said of each that he is bound up
in the bundle of life. Oh Lord, we thank thee for all the
slander, calumny, and malice with which thou hast allowed
tho enemy to honour us, and grant that we never give them
cause to blaspheme with reason." Mr. Spurgeon concluded
with a personal reference to the various classes of his hearers,
calling upon despisers to tremble, scoffers to weep, and bidding
all true penitents rejoice. A psalm was now sung, after which
Mr. Spurgeon spoke as follows, in reference to the melancholy
occasion above referred to :—" Now, my dear friends, I almost
regret that I should have occupied the pulpit this morning,
because I feel totally unable to preach to your prat- I had
thought during the relaxation I have had since that terrible
catastrophe that I was thoroughly recovered ; but upon coming
back again to the samo spot, and addressirg you from this
place, I experience the same painful feelings which well nigh
prostrated roe before. you will, therefore, I am sure, my
kind friends, excuse me if I make no allusion, or :carcely any,
to that subject. Indee 1, I feel that I could not preach upon a '
subject at all allied to it. I should he overwhelmed by the
torrent of my feelings if I recurred to that dreadful scene, iu
which it was my lot to stand. God will overrule that event
for good. It might not have arisen so much from the malice
of men as from some simply wicked intention to disturb the
congregation. I cannot entertain for a moment the
thought that there was any intention to murder
those fellow-creatures, whose lives were sacrificed on
that melancholy occasion. God forgive the instigators of
that horrid scene. They have my forgiveness from the depths
of my soul. It shall not, however, stop us ; I shall preach
there again yet—(suppressed sounds of approval—and God
shall give us souls. Satan's empire shall tremble yet more
and more. God is with us. Who shall be against us? Under
the circumstances I have mentioned I have chosen for my text
a highly comforting and consoling passage of the Scriptures,
and one which alone enables me to appear here before you
this morning, and which has brought comfort and consolation
to my still oppressed spirit. It is selected from St. Paul's
Epistle to the Philippians, chap. ii., v. 9, 10, 11 :—' Where-
fore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name
which is above every name. That at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in
earth, and things under the earth ; and that every tongue
should confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord, to the glory of
God the Father.' I shall not attempt to preach to you upon
this text. I will merely make a few remarks which occur to
me upon it. I have not been able to study, but I thought a
few words from me this morning would he acceptable to you;
and I trust to your warm hearts to excuse them." Mr.
Spurgeon gave an eloquent exposition of the text, and rivetted
the attention of his hearers for more than half an hour. The
discourse was almost entirely free from the strange metaphors
which have rendered this gentleman's preaching so notorious,
and probably many who came to be amused may have gone
away disappointed. A great crowd awaited Mr. Spurgeon's
departure from the chapel, and many eager admirers ran after
his carriage to grasp the hand which he extended from the
window of his brougham.

DISENDOWMENT OF ALL SECTS IN IRELAND.-It is announced
that the agitation in support of Mr. Mi4ll's motion, having
in view this object, is to be recommenced by a public
meeting, convened by the Liberation of Religion Society, to
be held at the London Tavern, Bishop?gate-street, on the
evening of Thursday, the 6th of November.
The Board of Customs have issued notices to all the
outports, ieforraing
Custom-house officers and receivers of
wrecks that floats were thrown overboard by Prince Napo-
leon in his voya2,e to the North Sea, and ordering that if any
of them are picked up theyare to be sent to Count de Per-
signy, in London, %s it]] a statement of the time and place at
wLi At they ale found.

THE GOVERNMENT PLAN OF COSIPETITION
AND THE BRITISH ARCHITECTS.

FRACAS ON THE HULL EXCHANGE.

It was anticipated that the proposal of Government to
throw open,all great improvement works to public coal-
petition would meet with general approval, and be
rogarded as a step- in the right dir!ction, towards
administrative r-` •nd the public generally con-

ratnlated the authorities for adopting so wide and
liberal a course. Some of our British architects, however,
cannot bear that the whiskered and moustached foreigner
should be permitted to hive a chance. They are very
indignant at what they term a breach of their privileges ;
while another portion of English architects complan that
the time given for the preparation of designs is not
sufficien ly long, and a deputation from the Institute of
British Architects is about to wait upon Sir B. Hall, to
ask for an extension of the time. Most people, however,
will consider that six months is quite long enough;
nothing like that period was given for the preparation of
designs for the Houses of Parliament, and yet there was
no lack of designs. The real secret appears to be this.
There are some dozen of architects who to their credit
compete for everything. These have got their hands full,
and they wish to be tree before they tackle the grew-,
work in question ; but this is scarcely a sufficient reason
to induce the Government to extend the tithe. Besiles,
it is of the utmost importance that the plan that will be
adopted should be decided on whilst Parliament is sitting,
because it will be necessary to get powers during the
next session of Parliament to carry out the. work with out
further delay. The plans will be ex!libite I for two
months, and then the committee to be appointed will

when we

narrow the council to a shop or c

takeable signs of ar
dollen who are I

have to make their selection, which cannot be done in a
day. From the extraordinary demand for th.; specifica-
tions, a large number of plans may be expected. More
than twelve hundred copies of the specifications hive
been issue.), besides those that have been translated by.
our consuls on the Continent. It is understood that
already some of our first architects have been hard at
work, and that their drawings are in a great state of
forwardness.

The King of Sardinia left Genoa on the morning of the
26th ult., for the royal villa of Polenzl.

At Neufchatel, a few persons slightly cumpromiied, hava
heeu released on b iil, bit eighteen or twenty are still in
close confinement, although treated with humanity.

Baron del Asilo, the Danish representmtive at Madri l, is
seriously ill, and fears are entertained for his life. M.
Bravo Murillo, formerly presid nt of the eiuned, who had
arrived from Paris, is also seriously ill.

" THE NEW SAFETY INKSTAND, we can bear personal
whiles to, secures to all classes one which will keep the ink
always clean and good, will prevent that accumulation of
°xi:le which spoils the finest writing, and de trovs the

best pen by means of this inkstand, too, the amount of
ink taken up by the pen can be easily regulated."—
Portsmouth Ti,lltB and Naval Gazette.—Sold by all Book-
sellers. Price 4s 3s, and is 6d.—Advt.
AND DEATHS IN LINDIN.--"The returns continue
to show that London h at present in a very healthy condi-
tion. The total number of deaths registered in the week
that ended on Saturday is 960, being 133 less than would
have occurred if the average rate of mortalty had prevailed.
Last week the births of 818 bays, and 868 girls, in all 1,716
children were registered in London. In the ten correspond-
ing weeks of the years 1546-55 the average number was

1,437. •
REVISION OF THE BIBLE.—At a general meeting of the
members of Sion College, in other words, the beneficed
clergy of the city and archdeaconry of London, to be held
on the 19:h of January next, the following q•testion is to
undergo discussion—" Is a revision of the authorised ver-
sion of the Bible desirable." The subject is to be intro-
duced by the Rev. William M'Call, M.A, Incumbent of St.
Mary's Church, St. George's-in-the-East, and is expected to
excite great interest, more particularly as the matter will
very shortly afterwards be brought before parlianzint.
A COUNTY DEBT.—A statement has just been made
public, showing the sums of money that have been borrowed
for the purposes of the county of Surrey, together with the
amounts still owing. The following are the items :—For

zreatest li

with personal encounter

on the part of sever

Ruts were

REFORM OF THE LONDON WATCIT

MANUFACTURT

An event took place lately which has given rise to a
great deal of conversation in the town, and is not unlikely, to
furniA employment for the gentlemen of the long robe,
As our readers well know, the present is a period of
municipal excitement, and the ordinary interest enacting to
the elections is this year further increased by the fact that
several gentlemen retire from the aldermanic bench. We tio

s not perfectly well known
y that 'a' very active intrigue has been for some
weeks on foot, in order to secure the election of sundry
purple gownsmen to the scarlet robes of the higher func•
tionaries, and that this intrigue has given considerable offence
to many burgesses, who have no desire to see the dignities of
the corporation disposed of in this fashion. Only last Monday
evening, at the Market place ward meeting, this intrigue for.the
aldermanship was pretty well canvassed and condemned in unam-
biguous terms. Amongst the speakers on that occasion was Mr.
William Young, who expressed himself to the effect that to
be made an alderman was "an honour, no doubt, but there
were other things which should he attended to; he did
not think that lie should himself vote for any particular
gentlemen becoming an alderman ; ho believed that one half
of the candidates intended, if elected, to vote for certain gen-
tlemen becoming aldermen, but he hoped they would not
1, something like six feet
tern of late mayors, sheriffs, and aldermen had been
Tcese remarks were received with unmis-
md gave great offence to the gen-
to have been hinted at. Of the

ty alluded to by Mr. Young, we do not suppose a single
f our readers will be ignorant after he has taken a walk
tcgth of Silver street. Mr. Young's sarcasm was not at all
table to the parties interested, ai it added to the emu-

what excited condition of those who take an active part in the
pending contest. It happened that Mr. Councillor Abbey, Mr,
Councillor Brown, Mr Thornhill, a candidate for East Scut.
coates Ward, and Mr. Young, the proposer of Mr. Clarke, one
of the candidate!! for Market place Ward, met in converaatiart
on municipal matters ja the Market place. Here it was the

unpleasantneis, to be succeeded by a personal encounter,
commenced. We may state that Mr. Abbey and Mr. Brown

are supposed to be two of the aldermen in expectancy.
During the conversation, aldermanic ambition came up,
when Mr. Young remaiked that be would vote for no man
who was himself canvassing for an aldermanship. Mr.
Brown (of Brown, Atkinson, and Co., the second partner of
which firm is ono of the candidates for Lowgate ward), sup,
posing, we presume, that the allusion, was intended for him,
and perhaps feeling open to the reproof of Air„ Young,
sharply responded ; adding that his position and wercantilo
reputation was fully equal to that of Mr. Young, We do
not know that the latter had made any insinuation on this
head, but further altercation passed, (hiring which Mr. Brown,
are informed, flatly told Mr. Young that he was " the
in Hull." For an expression so indiscreet to say

the least of it, the g.ntlernan addressed called upon the other
to retract, or he would punish him. Seeing that matters were
very likely to proceed to further unpleasantness, Mr. Abbey
took Mr. Brown by the arm and led him away, hoping by this
means to prevent a breach of the peace. The parties sepa-
rated, but the angry feeling which had naturally been
engendered did not subside between this period and the after.
noon. Between three and four o'clock, some of the parties
casually met again on 'Change, and here the quarrel which had
begun in the Market place was brought—not to a conclusion—.
but to a crisis. Mr. Young, smarting under the imputation which
had been so offensively east upon him, accosted Mr. Brown, and
demanded from him a retraction of the charge previously
male in the Market-place. This, we are given to understand,
Mr. Brown distinctly refused to do, repeating it, with other
irritating expressions. It seems that he had eq other fear, if
he had any remembrance of what Mr. Young had threatened
when the remal•k was first applied to him. The latter, upon
the refusal being given, at mice touched Mr. Brown upon the
shoulder, and at the same time somewhat disarranged his hat,
telling him that he was by that act to consider himself dis,
graced. This was a signal for further proceedings. The by.
sanders separated, and amidst much noise and clamour caused
by the explosion, Mr. Brown squared himself as if for a set•tne
This was too much for the ire of his opponent patiently to
submit to. • Mr. Young raised his arm, and being a powerful
man, fhored his adversary one blow in the face. We
believe that Mr. Mown was considerably bruised, bearing tha
conspicuous mark, which is typical of, and too often associated
'• eve. The greatest excitement
^,,nsiderable exertion

men, there is reason to believe tlku
wider. However, the evmbat!
ed, and business brought to a speedy
Here the matter stands at present.—.ffull Paper,

Last Monday evening an important and crowded meeting
was held in the Clerkenwell Temperance Hall, in the heart
of the London watchmaking districts, to hear a statement
from Mr. John Bennett, the well known watchmaker, of
65, Cheapside, of his views on the present position and,
prospects of this important English manufacture, and the
urgent and immediate necessity of adopting means to meet
the present competition with the watch manufacturers of
Switzerland. Mr. Bennett's advocacy, both on commercial
and social grounds, of the introduction of female labour
into the trade with which his name is so closely and widely
identified, has produced considerable excitement throughout
the watch districts of Clerkenwell, both among employera
and employed, and has been met by both, as was to be eze
peeled, with that amount of adverse feeling for which all
advocates of change of any kind mast be prepared. The
means advocated by Mr. Bennett are so important in their
character and results, that we rejoice to find by the sub-
joined report of the meeting in the Morning Advertiser,
that the feeling of the audience went with the lecturer in
his advocacy of the employment of women.
" After an elaborate description of ancient and modern
time-pieces, Mr, Bennett proceeded to observe, that for
years the condition and miseries of the women of our
working population had forced themselves upon our
admitted,
that and capitalists. It was generally
tte
that whilst the condition of our working men, in too
I.—arm:
cases, was deplorable in the extreme, still they woulddn i
n
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bear comparison with the degradationhi.s "
and
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e , the wrongs of this
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important class of our femP.le population, he touched a
chord in the national bead that at once ushered into
existence numerotn institutions to alleviate their distress
and elevate their condition. But whilst public and private
charity could deal with this gigantic social evil in
numerous individual cases, it was incompetent to fully
grapple with the emergency. With the true genius of
practicai Christianity, food and shelter had been given
to the afflicted, and trifling assistance to the more de-
serving unfortunate, and thus our wealthier classes had
substantially evidenced their goodwill to their humbler
brothers and sisters; but still the discerning philanthropist
had seen the little utility of all this. Whilst he could not
withheld his tribute of praise to such spontaneous and
cheerful -liberality, he saw that, so long as nearly every
remunerative employment was engrossed by men only, so
long must the wretchedness and slavery of women remain
what it is. Where is the remedy ? Mrs. Chisholm, backed
by numbers of our nobility and gentry, boldly launched hen
laudable scheme of female emigration ; but the love of
home and kindred put an effectual harder to the very
extensive development of this admirable scheme, Tha
question still kept pre3siug itself home to the intelligent
mind, Is there no employment for female labour on British,
soil ? for, until this can ba discovered, our best efforts see
comparatively useless. Political economy at once pointed
to its laws of demand and supply of labour, and indicated
the increased demand of female labour as the true solution
of this important social question. Mr. Bennett asks, if
female labour is so extensively employed in other coun-
tries in the more scientific departments of skilled labour..
why may ups England avail herself of the same agency P
Nine-tenths of the compositor's work in America is delta
by female hands. In the great Bible Society's web',
lishment in New York the whole of the bookbinding le
done by women. In the north of Germany, large name
bers of the clerks in even the bulks and largest nommer..
cial houses are females ; and even in Paris female labour
is much more in request in these department; than in
our own country. Mr. Bennett boldly Proposes the em-
ployment of his countrywomen in the making of watches;
and certainly his long and very extensive experience as
:
a London watchmaker entirle him to be heard on a gum
tion upon which he is so competent to give an opinion„•
In recent travels in Switzerland, the lecturer had found
is peculiarly
that this trade had deeply rootedmiatkseilnfg, and was fast
spreading, but that it trusted chiefly to female labour for
its further development. Watch
an English manufacture--itsghraesatheistEtknedra_itslo.icsohbveeireninegsetnkauenitdmxodaimne; provorents have boon the work of
industry. An English watch
not our nglish women be employed uTphoenn,
of a time.heeper ; and SO it is still. a why should
which their sisters in Switzerland prove themselves so
eminently adapted, and thus providen to a large eatent a
elevate
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and
dfw our labouring female poputaay-,
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Working
watchmakers have no need to fear the introduction of-
feznale labour, as the large demand that necessarily would
ensue,
when watches were materially cheapened in price,
would doubtless more than compensate any loss they might
temporarily sustain.
, •

` A vote of thanks was most cordially given at the close of
this very intertesting lecture."

MEDICAL ReFOß3l.—The Medical Times and Gazetts
announces that the beads of all the medical corporations o
England, Scotland, and Ireland, have at last agreed upon
the terms of a new Medical Reform Bill. The proposals for
the bill ore given at length in our medical cotemporary ;
and it is to be hoped that this aifficult question may be at
length settled to th
and the advantage of the nublie.
e t4atisfaction of the medical profession,
REsmNAlioN Or MR. AARON PLATT.—We are informed
that Mr, Baron Platt has resigned his seat as a Baron of
th 90117 i of Exchequer. Mr. Watson, Q.C., is spoken of
as litely to become the new judge.