The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-09 00:00:00

DOCK AFFAIRS

The following report of the Dock Committee was read :
" The sub-committe appointed to examine and report upon
the evidence taken by the Dock Committee, with regard to
alterations suggested to be made at the entrances of the se-
veral docks and basins, together with various plans recom-
mended as improved methods of working the docks, and fa-
cilitating the despatch of business, in order that such of the
plans recommended as may appear to be of real utility may
be adopted, having given their most serious consideration to
the important subject referred to them, report, first with re-
gard, to the inclosing of the
" PRINCE'S Docx BASIN.—That all the evidence is op-
posed to the placing of gates at the entrance of this basin ;
and with reference to

" GEORGE'S Docx BASIN.—That, with the exception of
the harbour-master, none of the other parties examined were
in favour of inclosing the basin.
" KING'S AND QUEEN'S DOCK BASIN.—The evidence as
to the advantages and disadvantages of inclosing this basin
is more at variance than with respect to the others ; yet the
majority are decidedly opposed to the inclosure, the cost of
which is estimated at £73,500. Some facilities would be af-
forded as to admitting into and letting ont ships from Nos. 4
and 5 Graving Docks ; but no more work could be done in
those docks than is done at present, nor does it appear that
any accident has ever occurred on the present system. The
inclosing of the basin would totally destroy the graving blocks
there, which are now in daily use, and for which no other
eligible site could be found.
" OUTER BASIN AT TILE" ENTRANCE OF BRUNSWICK
HALF-TIDE DOCK.—The inclosure of this basin appeared to
the committee so obviously necessary for the accommodation
of large steamers, that it was determined, on the 19th of
July, 1838, to proceed with the work, which is now in a state
of great forwardness. _

" GitAviNo Docxs.—The sub-committee are of opinion
that some additional accommodation should be given to ship-
smiths and carpenters, by placing forges and sawpits within
the walls of the inclosed Graving Docks, under proper regu-
lations, as early as they can be erected.
" CRANES.—This subject has often been under the con-
sideration of the committee ; a few cranes, both with refer-
ence to the loading of machinery for steamers, as well as for
more general purposes, are already on the quays, and others
are in progress, which will be placed where they may be
wanted.

" STAGES.—There is much difference of opinion as to the
advantages of providing stages at the expense of the docks,
but the sub-committee recommends a trial to be made at the
Prince's, and the extension of them to other docks, if found
to be generally desirable.
" OPEN SHEDS.—An extension of open sheds has -been
constantly in progress, and the sub-committee recommend
further erections where necessary.
" PIERHEAD MASTERS.—The committee have already
directed the appointment of pierhead masters of the Prince's,
George's, and King's Piers, and will doubtless appoint others
should they hereafter appear to be required.
" BERTHING VESSELS IN THE DOCKS.—Much evidence
has been taken on this point, but no suggestion offered which
the sub-committee consider, upon the whole, an improve-
ment. The general discretionary powers formerly possessed
by the dock-masters having been much abused, a recurrence
to any similar system would require very careful considera-
tion before its adoption ; the more so as the harbour-master
has sufficient authority to meet special cases.
" NUMBERING OF QUAY BERTHS.—The sub-committee
recommend the quay berths to be numbered, and the number
conspicuously placed either on the boundary wall, the sheds,
or pillars of the sheds opposite each berth ; this will enable
the dock•gatemen on duty more readily to give information
where ships may be found.
" OVER-CROWDING OF THE DOCKS.—This may, in a few
instances, have unavoidably taken place ; but although for
general convenience a different mode of distribution of ships
amongst the docks might be desirable, nothing compulsory
in this way could to attempted without inflicting probably
far greater evils upon trade. The desire manifested by mer-
chants and owners for certain docks, under all disadvantages,
of less accommodation in point of room, is evidence of con-
sideration received for such disadvantage.

" GANGS OF MEN TO TRANSPORT SHIPS TO AND FRO IN
THE DOCKS.—The power which the dock-master now pos-
sesses of sending men on board where needed, is considered
sufficient, but each dock-master Ahould timely ascertdin
whether the ship he intends to move has hands on board
adequate for that purpose.
" EMPLOYMENT OF ONE SET OF MEN IN DISCHARGING
AND WEIGHING SHIPS' CARGOES.—Tbe sub-committee
think the adopting of this measure highly desirable ; but as
the committee have not, at present, the power of carrying
it into effect, it should be provided for in the next dock act.
" FINES FOR LEAVING GOODS UPON THE QUAY.—The
sub-committee think it desirable that a relaxation of the laws
with regard to fines should be considered by the committee,
particularly with reference to the time which goods should
be allowed to remain on the quays.

" MAINTAIN A UNIFORM LEVEL OF WATER IN THE
Docxs..—No plan has yet been suggested by which this can
be accomplished ; nor has it appeared to the sub-committee
that an adequate supply of pure water could be obtained for
the purpose, either from the canal or other sources.
" MODE OF PAYING THE DOCK-MASTERS.—This was long
and maturely considered by the committee, and the present
mode of payment adopted in 1827 ; the sub-committee do
not venture to recommend any change at present: .
" APPOINTMENT OF AN ASSISTANT HARBOUR-MASTER.
—An officer to share the duties of the harbour-master, and
perfect the superintendence of the docks, has long been con-
templated by many members of the Dook Committee, and
appearing to the sub-committee to he necessary, they recom-
mend the appointment to be made forthwith.
"DEPOTS FOR SHIPS' SWEEPINGS.—The sub-committee
are not at present prepared to recommend that this sugges-
tion should be adopted.

" OVERFLOW OF WATER FROM PIPES ON THE QUAYS.—
The Dock Surveyor has this matter under consideration,
with a view of remedying the defect complained of.
" SWING BRIDGES OVER THE ENTRANCES.—The sub-
committee urge the early completion of a sawing bridge for
foot passengers to be placed across the entrance of Canning
Dock, which has been ordered for some years.
" FIRE ENGINES.—The four fire engines belonging to the
docks having been placed under the fire police, as the best
mode of employing them when necessary, the sub-committee
are not aware that more are required. _

" DEEPENING OF THE QUEEN'S DOCK.—The sub-com-
mittee are of opinion there is no pressing necessity for the
immediate adoption of this measure. The work would oc-
cupy a period of not less than eighteen months, and occasion
serious inconvenience to the general trade of the port, but
they recommend that the consideration of it should be re-
sumed by the committee as early as convenient.
" MEMORIAL AND STATEMENT OF THE MERCHANTS.—
It is to be regretted that this memorial was not accompanied
by any of the parties who signed it. The advantages which
were experienced from via voce examination of other re-
spectable witnesses, many of whom were induced by that
course to relinquish opinions which they had previously put
forth with much warmth, led the committee to desire the
presence of some of those under whose sanction this memorial
has been drawn up. In reference to the suggestions con-
tained in the memorial, the committee find little affecting
in the docks that has not, at various times, occupied the at-
tention of the Dock Committee, which appears to have had
sufficient reason for the non-adoption of some, and the post-
ponement of carrying into effect others of the numerous
projects which have been suggested for their consideration.
" Some alterations, it is well known, in the working of the
docks, might be effected with advantage, if accomplished in
combination with other improvements which the Dock Com-
mittee have not the legal power to effect. These proposed
improvements are to be found enumerated in the draft of a
bill which the Dock Committee intended to obtain from
Parliament, but which failed to receive the confirmation of
the Town Council, and, what is more extraordinary, never
seemed to attract the attention, much less to procure the sup-
port, of those merchants in hose memorial the following
excellent declaration is to be read :—` Nor is the vast im-
portance of the subject only local,—the well-being of this
port is every way a national object ; and there is, perhaps,
all things considered, no single object in the state of more
momentous interest than the efficient maintenance, manage-
ment, and improvement of the harbour and port of Liver-
pool.'
" The project of letting the docks on lease to individuals or
companies having a prominent place among the suggestions
contained in the merchants' memorial, and being in ap-
pearance based upon the popular principle of ' competition,'
requires, in the opinion of the sub-committee, some
lengthened notice. The present system of dock management
operates equitably and beneficially for the whole public, from
whom no more than the expense of maintaining and working
the docks is taken, and as there is no ground for supposing
that this expense could be reduced by any management
materially, if at all, below its present amount, it follows, if
the docks were let, that to compensate the proposed dock
lessees—to 'give them 4 beneficial interest—additional bur-
thens must in some way or other be imposed upon com-
merce.

" The docks now minister to all the trade that comes to this
port—in the hands of lessees they would do no more—and in
respect to the accommodations of shipping, the management
of the latter would probably be far less satisfaCtory than that
now existing ; open docks offer no field for a lessee—to give
him scope for management and profit the machinery of
warehouses attached thereto is necessary.
" The idea of competition in favour of the public, to arise
from letting the docks, appears to the sub-committee to be
a fallacy. The trade of Liverpool has too nearly kept up
with or exceeded its dock accommodation to admit of such
competition amongst lessees. There being little or no redun-
dance of dock accommodation, those who held it would be
monopolists, and those—the merchants—who wanted it,
would be competitors,—a result the reverse of all that which
the unreflecting would expect from letting, thus takes place.
" Under these circumstances, it appears to the sub-com-
mittee, that so far from any advantage, by possibility, being
derived from letting the docks, no measure could be more
injurious or fraught with more danger to the trade of this
port than that which would create a formidable tenantry with
vested rights" and permanent control over the great in-
strument of the commerce of this port. Such a body must
ever be disposed to obstruct, by all means in their power,
further dock extensions or improvements, as interfering with
their interest.

" Btit in addition to the foregoing objections, the sub-
committee sees others of so decisive a character, that they
cannot suppose two opinions will exist as to letting the docks,
when the subject is fully considered. The idea of letting
was derived from the fact of the docks in London being the
property of companies ; but the distinction of locality and
physical circumstances have been inconsiderately overlooked.
and that which is totally dissimilar has been taken as analo-
gous. The London docks are mere adjuncts to the river
Thames,—itself,,in fact, a vast natural dock, whence ships
never go into the artificial docks but for a special purpose,
the greater proportion of the shipping business of London
being always done in the river. Liverpool not having the
advantage of such a river, and being in effect placed upon
the margin of a turbulent sea, finds her harbour to be in her
docks, which, being the only place of safety and refuge,
must be open, upon demand, to vessels of all descriptions.
" The docks are, moreover, connected together with a
strong tide, flowing through the line from north to south,
and every entrance basin from the river serves for the access
to at least two docks. To the sub-committee it would ap-
pear to be quite as rational to let the Mersey or the Thames,
as to sever from public administration, and consign to the

•
the °frit'
sway of various adverse private interests,„o,
Liverpool, which serve such high public Prbeor
so interwoven with each other as to require te
management. life?
" Amongst the suggestions contained in the,ver.4
the only one which possesses unequivocal 11- n oft'' f
proposition to supersede the existing constitutiothe del
government. To this extraordinary proeo,3l,3prin„trf t
mittee have not the power to accede. They 3"hetoi--#
administer, not to destroy, the constitution ofheiratt!,
fided to their care ; and in this discharge of
are supported by the belief that the change I)—f tbe 0)
be most injurious in its results to the interesta°,,,,i,eit
and subversive of that salutary controul eNei'deb ortf
local authorities over an establishment upon '''.._„„orto
the commercial welfare of Liverpool. Such a'torrote'
►
deep interests, in the opinion of this subtarie,
never be safely handed over to stipendiary ae- 10 0
they believe that the peculiar situation alit'
.ciracoceli; aAY4O
this port will admit of much improvement '"
tration beyond that which would be acquired hY
of the London ck warehousing system, as., oto ri
memorial of themerchants, so comprehensio.
,to.
as to minor improvements, and so enterprisi%s,
organic
.changes in the government of the nuoitf
pettedly and unaccountably silent. This 4.°prof t 4
notice of dock warehouses, in a statemen' ; at/
suggest improvements in dock management, "feeWi
remarkable as it is in direct contrast with th!int tbei
played in a passage when -the memorialists 8,5-, 10 an at?
to prevent their. silence being misconstrue('
for alluding to questions of another character, r rinto.4
same time, they did not feel at liberty to enTe,oo,,r
" The memorialists hold out the St. Kather't fej
don Docks' system as ' excellent models Of d Jilt
Tcohmospelieshsteadbibi);hgnioeondtsoredeertra,
innileythfootdin, activity, 3"
—ode'-'#
are striking examples of vast benefits ‘tocxbceeldiete,illoel;
warehouses especially, as contrasted with 01'..et
e '
approximation to this admirable London oY.z.on not
,a,/
complish much for Liverpool, and, in the
committee, the only proper remedy for the be r'S#
ient preference now given to certain docks al, 111
the convenience of dock warehouses, which, sr h,h,,t
would render one dock equally eligible as an°`,,j,co.9
engaged in importing foreign produce. The
cannot dismiss the subject without again e'lojiieeie
disapprobation Of further interferences to Priop,
equal distribution of shipping amongst the
compulsory means of discriminating rates, L'tiifor)
opinion, being to produce the end by means ll';thore
those concerned, and particularly injurious to
e_roty
which it is the especial interest of this port to tbttr
facilities and the lightest possible charges.
" The sub-commlttee observes with some stin'iooli'AF
memorial of the merchants, addressed to the -"d
tee, has been printed and sedulously circulate_the
progress of the inquiry to which it related, befell', oto:.
evidence obtained thereby could have been taken
deration, and that a report made by a dock
the general committee has likewise beep print coo,
to the merchants' memorial, without previonstsd,
t.;
tion with the committee, its chairman, or seerefel`,,,.
Mr. MASON said, withoutl pretending to he
ened on the subject of dock afiairs, and with tb
be very closely acquainted with the proceeding:re
Committee, he could still easily discern that '0;0511,
very considerable degree of dissatisfaction reg- ef"'
nagement of the docks, and a great dealt it w' of tbei
!mined to be done in order to meet the wishes
eititel,
Of the gentlemen of the Dock Committee hew 04
most high opinion, and he would not suOll°'4;•ctioo
that they would be guilty of a wanton dere",o2,llV
He gave them credit for a great anxiety to.";,tbeviiifi
right and proper ; but it was lamentably to obse"r;of
faction that, notwithstanding, prevailed. 1" Peep'
need only refer to the memorial signed by tbr
.t, co!il/
the first mercantile houses belonging to the,,°elooo°,
ing in strong terms of the existing defects. vora'Ao
of these grounds of complaint, he feared, inig Dine 1
tributed to an overweening fondness liu,hpiocnh
tsheopeo_cDo;o
the Dock Committee had for forcing
rally, a measure which he would venture to say' 1;101
carried, but which, if carried, would be Pr.°., the
most injurious consequences. It would he the
tion of those who heard him, that in March la_„0
adopted a report of the Finance Committee,
suggestions on the subject of improving therect
tba
dation. The report arose out of the '41`4,,i-os
Warehouses on the dock quays. The reportded
of a patient investigation, and was grout"
evidence which was not only valuable hecaarn-
that the docks were at present very bacllY,thatif4
pointed out objections to warehouses, shewinz'a,
bet itr
Committee were beginning at the wrong defe'co.
valuable because in pointing out the existing 000°1 so:joi
pointed out remedies. Under these Cl
Finance Committee thought it right to recoe.l,ooell anti
was under these circumstances that the,,'„oeil,,.
proper to adopt it, and without doubt the L'°,7toil "Vor
that report under the idea that it would be ,en:br
had not been acted upon, and he had a rib it,
there had been no intention of acting nr,°;olaVil
diately. the Dock Committee withdrew their ' othc :ty
e g in!
cation to Parliament for a bill. The same J f oiCo,
this report, where it treated of the subject of
on the quays in lieu of warehouses. H treat
Dock Committee if they intended thus to ,co 04
mendation of the Finance Committee and t'oeeord:, "re
pefect indifference. They were silent, it BP'iihrqtrtif
that they might bring forward their darling t '
he thought, would greatly endanger prosneritr,orY l'll/9
first read, they would observe the extraordil oierito:„
which the committee met the memorial of ,thti, thl,to4ll/
to the necessity of competition. They told t"eld be
be salutary in London, but in Liverpool it won
erioo,Qi
and that the difference in locality had been id: !,11-
might say the same as regarded the warehein-se,',
cates for the warehouse system had taken f.T.
things which were entirely dissimilar. he itrl
for his own part, thet if it were necessary to ha rbe 44.,"
competition was the only system that could ere 0144v$
They had alluded to London as an e.a.iplet
sidered it as an example worthy of imitation11.5
0014
1 .
to erect warehouses on the quays, though 1 crii:11 a 4 0
V
would entail pecuniary loss : they wished to to it '
of enterprise by establishing in opposition a
di,
powering monopoly.
den ote
Mr. EVANS said, in an important ones jog tits'
wished gentlemen would come prepared with:aref4ir°
ledge for the discussion. He had a great Va to Pfbetee,
shpiseaskpeere,chb u. t heHe thinkdciodmnmoetnee d b
yhsea3hzd add eb e 10`11,
knowledge of mercantile or dock affgaitrrBteeveeft4
borne out the assertion, for he (Mr. Evans
t..feet
speech which offered a stronger example of y tbeh-oti
on these points. No mancantile man trealooailirdi
hand, could possibly have treated it as Mr.. o'ool
Ever
.y
in on they had the rivermerLchoanndtthereknewtlhatco where s mPetittqhe
of
it
ptop.4
dock, and they had in point of fact a surPlaut et ttba
Let a merchant go on 'Change and ask ar
would ask " are we to go up or go dos„,ll,'„teforertieV,
on hand? What is the consumption?" -1-'ll coap'j
tion of the Dock Committe was correct, all of 111
niy ,(04)
Liverpool, where there was a scanty suPc.rion tbe wv,r,
would become a monopoly—the comPe,nbe to
amongst the people, and the effect would be 01;054
ratio from that intended. Could anything oot 014 f
than to suppose that the warehouses Comittee iy tO.pr
poly, where they wanted eenalf,° the
per cent. on all the warehouses in Liverpool of
quired that they should have a preponderarinorti°4ivatr,
To talk of the holders of an insignificant,drers°' Vii,
monopoly, would be like saying that the he' ,toeloilet
of cotton would be a monopoly against a ,roh° .diet
bales. It signified nothing who built the 7005e5;19
would be filled in preference to all other ware„, erec't4
was the reason why he wished to see thel—oooee'd, 4
was that, and that only, which terrified the, °:e thrliele).l
measure. The memorialists asked for close iiolf
(the Dock Committee,) had offered close 910.0013,0,/,
answer the office of warehouses. But tbeY Jr,
the opponents, unless they were weighted 1)37„e
(the Dock Committees') object was f
to ren-ere°
de, every obstruction to the property, 0 vial eieo,o,
enable this port to compete successsfullifbeir l';.01);
Hamburgh, and to get one hundred fniat:tecl
t 0 ailed:r
ness. It was absurd to say that they w",t.'"theY
warehouses of Liverpool, because, even nubd
crease the trade of the port, and they "I), (o°o toltri
trade to a certainty, why they asked eartes ejelirdi
Parties wished to keep manacles and su'pets eb it
merce of' the town. The Dock Committe",,
And
pressed with the importance of this subject' worl‘''ol4lll
should not be considered too lengthy in hi' fpotioe, r-t re 4
his duty to press the subject upon at" the Je'
theirs to listen. He had heard it asserted h?'„t theirtor •
that it was proved before the committee, Ora go 4
worst managed docks in England. He '''°°eri the,tber '4l's
that evidence, and would assert that it pros' I win; to otel.
were wanted. Let them look at Liverpool rail ftheh
tered Docks, one of the greatest evils thq,tge
with. When these exposed Docks
sea, as it were, were compared with' the oni`volooteli4
on the 7:t tioroo,
of London, it was a monstrous comparison'.efi ef?
differences, the docks of Liverpool were le
were the best managed docks in the wh°l 0.00974
was considered what they had to contern._ra so 101,14
called upon the whole town to come for!“,',d,vllcy:
information. Many gentlemen came foris,aciov 0'1.014f
opinions, and almost every one of them "roftheoptelb
the questions which were put, and went o,a.
1100,e 0,6
ing different opinions. The memorial w‘Peetshiof:6l
signed. He saw almost all that was resrPe
pool amongst those signatures. But thee , „je;
fixed to those signatures which convince otte;io ft;
whose names he saw there had not
its
they were signing. There was one .'"Y Coo'' he/
would be glad to know what induced th einbeiro°':id'
such an expense recently in having
to secure the local government. He wis 0W0,4
the gentlemen alluded to mentioned the reseOt or
peared in the memorial :—" Whether the P.„ be,.;,telfr!‘
of the Dock Committee is what it ought r1;11-ro hto
the rate-payers are entitled to be better or feeitbeiod
sented there, are questions which we d'_3,inutie toe 51:cr!'
enter into on this occasion, and only
ci,
'f" he!, OPI
vent our silence from being misconstrued j,
were these persons about their silence ! olettiorTotefi
word respecting the warehouses in their,.At
lent models for management they said td 140
system pursued in the St. Katharine s, John
under the judicious management of Sir go"),,pe
Powles. How easily they had found ont,_'','t tioo:ore,„,
easy management of the London Docks,l7o bi 'looo6]
the warehouses. There, Sir Johli Hal 6e•etteil
his warehouses ; he coud pull a be11,4,'1 oan tod
obeyed. It was astonishing that they ile`,looo,
tion the warehouses which sheltered tn ire if broo
the managers to move ships as they WO to to rePto ej
board. If the speech to which he hau,e bee ~017
made by a mercantile man, it viTalividdashontnebaost; tt°?ogrbi
compass, but the address of Mr.
many detached matters, and it was n°t JYci.e d.
in a compact form. Hei would be haPP3'dingt.ve,
meeting, to have an opportunity of defe" es." $l3ll,
' aggt the to°
.mittee. Without intending any thin„ that deo oith,,i),i
put it forth in a tone of friendly defianeta4iclY,
the subject to be put in a form to be
Mr. PLATT suggested that a coran"Pltiee, an°rl' glefelt
of the Dock Committee, the Colwell_ °ion
,11?irt
owners would meet, and het was certain 3. ° t
ohs° rt "
arb at'
come. been rep° gga
Mr. LATIIAM stated that he had f the theria
pool. He expressed his admiration 0
oi,e of t coo or 4
been made during his absence. He SP th 300.00
of the committee, and their wish to bqeet of.tierstl ;
for the benefit of the port. The e__"d2r coastv
ih
left on the dock quays had been Lin tb,r ecepee
sub-committee, who were to reportia tike P ool' leo,
derable relaxation, he believed, sreulent that A ti°l' v
spect. Every facility and improveni eotei; jit
primetry. bceuandßofEtedthwououghldt biet could
should come to a conclusion on that he
.erl roor
moved the . too'
etbrooiri,
sideration. He, therefore, wolf_ Currie prO
luiog
ceedings, with a reservation. „„. be 3P 093010
ing resolution :—That the proceeninc„,voce%/0,
and confirmed ; the council not,. fs b 00, ti
conclusive determination on the vle"._ whie
ttel6
expressed, with regardto any Ina
be brought before them. otion ameore 0.10 r,
AMrl.oJn.g HdoeLbmatnes
esnecsuoneddedorl. themre
12g''
length the council went to the Holni , tan julii
for the amendment—Messrs. J• pq' .131tet,,cil
Henry Holmes, Shand, Preston, osier, Cindy
Mann,Doetlifi'e
Lawrence, Wood, Lassell,
Platt,molo
Lawrence, Leigh, Jordan,
Moon, Freme, and the mayor.

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Atter some e amendment was lost.
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__ farther conversation the proceedings and report
tioe i°lned, with the understanding that the co n
On an no pledge for the future.
Nleehat apPlication from the committee of the
_Northern
1 that
t4e
Nrtrir,s Institute, it was moved by Mr. Wall
;tirr' their
lise, ,i'lte'l Corporation School should be granted The eoutiTDt_i°,r.l was carried.
actlourned at a quarter past three o'clock.
Tilt'
—ATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.
'ill Ni i ---
,I.e.4treg.itoflNlß. and MISS VANDENHOFF, of the
engaged for a
utotted 11 Ya , Covent-Garden, who
the u umber of nights, previous to thareeirdeparture for
NI \ 'led
Statcs
Corj,lll,„ of MR. ANDERSON, of the Theatre-Royal,
im, en, who is also engaged for a limited period.
IV Present FRIDAY, August 9,
-'4. Serjeant Talfourd's popular Tragedy of
1839, will be rpeated
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with the Burning of
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bn NORN/NG, AUGUST 9, 1339.
rru
Ntiti° esday night the. House of Lords affirmed the
he Mol'ed by Lord Brougham by a majority of
2. The llotnbers being, for the motion 86 ; against it
itwept e late hour at which the division took place,
ilt) a' minutes to four o'clock On:Wednesday morn-
tilniull).,°l tile dulness of a great part of the debate;
'glioran'ce ettlivened by n6ive confessions of the rofound!s
mtheand jocular attempts to laugh off the inquiry
theP4llof Lord Melbourne, and by searching sarcasotp
bP.art of Lord Brougham, prevented the majority
elHig so large as it otherwise infallibly would have
Sllitt ;ellse, however, of their Lordships has been
°Y
sPoken ; and, as the Premier and Mar-
t, °f Nor
tt. Inanby chose, in the course of the debate,
°le 1•e Interpretation of a criminatory charge upon
ice4lluttens,
they must now be content to sit under
'after'lire of one branch of the Legislature upon a
11
4bit4 grave and serious as the dispensation of cri
414 Justice in a third portion of the British domi_
It ‘1,4
ktothe Ivholly impossible for the House of Lords to
iiiAt;ise than they did last night, if they had the
44Vight regard for the interests of Justice—the sligh
the
unhappy country of Ireland is afflicted.
tit,t,ra evidence, with proof " as strong as Holy
f
telltriphal tuat the Lord-Lieutenant had made a
/15411,4 Progress through various towns in the
nh 11e Was sent to govern, and had unbarred
!lesee
°Dors and let loose upon society, without evenhad
intY of bail, a vast number of felons, who
iNer - Many instances, convicted of—and were
.then
goi
4tt ng the punishment by law awarded for--gnev-
-414 doll • llpon
SallitS Property and life; that his Excellency
,r 4 the je,tilis, sometimes without asking the opinions
'tied, ariatiuges before whom the offenders had beend
kNetina by whom they had been sentenced, anit-
:Ntt:B bY going through the mockery of consu
thei and then contemptuously acting in defiance
t!t teatir:ishes and advice. There was also the stronhg.-
-,tll4(ll,ltet -Cody bornebeen to the fact that the effects of t
most injurious, and were at this mo-
it' Peratingg
most banefully in Ireland—that the
and n"
as Lord Normanby calls it, had signally
I.42ellti:he ends of criminal justice—namely, the
141:tY (thil of crime—been defeated, by the misplaced
tjf
give it no worse a term) of the ex-Viceroy of
the
Iv Here then was a plain case. The allegations
t4le oriititlesses who deposed to these facts were either
(1-!.se• If false, why were they uncontradicte
d ?
N .
tte ilot Lord Hatherton, on whom in the corn-
41'01.
ed the duty, or who, gratuitously and
'4
the Itlsly' assumed the task of defending the conduct
Ilehti,sh Government, call contradictory evidence,
'llltrad'"ve assertions which, if unexplained and un-
40111,:hted' convey the heaviest charge that can well
7 t against a man who is thought fit by his col-
It.4lsNletzzbiereentrusted with the Government of such
.a
land ?----why did the active and indefati-
Si:cl3runlmond allow to remain upon record such
;f if they were capable of being gainsayed
Sim ;11,g a different and more favourable complex-
L 48141) because it was impossible to do so. Lordo
ehnt, was there, with his unrivalled power
sat.
te4a, eross-examination—Lord Wharncliffe sa
t 1)13 IllabicAssed, and impartial chairman—Lordb-
ret
46e °lted on with eagle eye—and every
tt and
17ei Poor excuse would have been sifted sub-
al k"le it left the defence more naked and miser-
-114 'ever,
te4 he it
the observed, that all that could be done to de-
plan by he.°llllct of the Marquis of Normanby was
Cltte op t Partizans in his behalf. They now com-
-1:1' been hie itidecent haste with which these resolutions
Nttl iltried before the notice of the House of
I'.lj,let'eaen ollfcl.ftitl,le short period allowed for their limited
(.1 to digest and comprehend the mass of
t 11,,. 41,14_ u by the Committee. A more dis-
Ilat at:l%as never practised by any set of. men_
'l4' emPted to be palmed off on the public
.by
JeqY' •
t4N misters. When they saw that an in-
\,,,t111141,t ''as inevitable, conscious as they wereathoa-t
rarlsPire utterly disgraceful to them as g
14Ie 3 the,
tpjY tested against the justice and expe-
the,tiebily Enquiry into their delinquencies at all,
tiin •es fro r-4eiv gc°ounced their determination to absent
were~th. In the Committee, and in no way sane-
Ings, in order that when the charges
A.oet, e
a,lrni htio and out, and the report presented, and the.
It of
th "tratio the prerogative of mercy under their
tiiißht 111 rendered as clear as the noonday sun,
ktsllN
an " able to turn round and say that the re-
,l5,Y oieree!,/5. arte one, that the witnesses were un-
%lll 'gat th :11t and
ene e ,ecu.. • might have been contradicted
three e and ations were got up by enemies in the
11to e 144 "ehind the back of the accused. These
Ni aesertions
ttki • orma are each and every of them false.
'ltt"Ll4' and 114 are
in Lord Hatherton an active,
tit,tee nosy
wholly incompetent defender through-
qt", qrtll4l4tigation, and every explanatory or pallia-
t° sitanee that the nature of each case admitted
Itteiletheed toti,rld recorded in the pages of the Report
144(i• a °Y Witnesses favourable to the govern-
ad t:401.11,4 g,an Ministers complain, and especially
wining t 15°Y reiterates the cry, that they have not
° read
41 through the mass of folio pages con-
eh e evid
th reeetitea ellee between the time when the Report
kc,i,eesintion to the House and the evening on which
111.1 444 eltAbsi,eallie on for discussion. But this is a
eweit-1,74Y,; sn.bterfuge. As fast As the evidence
41111 Y and Ptinted, and copies were sent to Lord
tt 'nata Ministers, so 'that day by day they
bled •
t IA tf th
k- acts chose, to make themselves masters
141( t 4nd th 41e time before the Report was presented
_
C
'44 044e,:s.h°110wess of this pretext for postpon-
,vellit) .415kett 111%11 was demonstrated in the case of
1 OP A
lar
° qese,\ self, whose speech alone on Tuesday
41Initi•
that Istrati t -e name of a defence of the Vice-
athat theat be • He, over and over again, de-
debate'au not had time to go into the evidence
(t) to •
41t h
bedsw Premature—and that their Lord-
ettb. kt not
'air .sufficiently masters of the facts to
Otl4i bst, eist". And yet, as Lord Brougham
'hi tite(l -i'ved, the Irish Chancellor was perfectly
tleenh had with ev,„.
Ilk, '4y be . Part and tittle of the Report
15 Ned bear
upon the resolutions which had
k\t'l.!4 kid hadthewith
N by -- Come shotted to lips
ti L'Y the 41e could
t4e tvid give to the various facts es-
h t° with Cheten".
they 4-4 the falsehood that the Peers had no
)*ed ePo before they were called upon
nee.
have turned whole of the pages to which
their eyes, as they were told

again and again beforehand, amount to a number not
exceeding 40; and therefore, unless, like the con-
temptible Prime Minister, who unblushingly confessed
that he had not read a word of the Evidence, and was
in the darkest ignorance of the whole subject, they
preferred trifling amusements and fribble occupations
to their duties as Senators, they might have been as
familiar with the facts on which they were to adjudi-
cate as Lord Normanby is with fashionable novels or
Lord Melbourne with the contents of her Majesty's
kitchen.

To get rid of the resolutions Lord Melbourne moved
the previous question. Now every one at all versed in
the usage of Parliament knows that this is only done
in order to avoid the discussion of facts which are not
denied to be true, but which are brought forward at
an inconvenient time. Therefore, inasmuch as the
Premier did not dare to move an amendment, which
would have had the effect of negativing the inference
to be drawn from the motion of Lord Brougham—and
he by his own interpretation of it considered it in the
light of a criminatory charge upon his Government—
he adopted the unheard-of course of begging their
Lordships, by passing to the previous question, to delay
the expression of that censure of himself and his col-
leagues which he admitted they deserved ! Truly,
Quos Jupiter cult perdere prius dementat.
As for Lord Normanby, the Mantalini of the House
of Lords, no exhibition could be more pitiful than that
made by him in his most lame and impotent apology.
It consisted throughout in complaints of want of time,
and that the charge was stale—(in criminal matters
there is a maxim of our law that nullum tempus occurrit
regi)—that Lord Brougham had been once his friend
(under one aspect of circumstances) and was now his
enemy (under another, just as a man might have given
Fauntleroy a character before his forgeries were found
out)—and that his intentions have been innocent and
proper. He is as weak in intellect as he is vain in
pretension, and is no more fit to attain political emi-
nence than, Lord Durham is to lead a party. And yet
these are the men to whom the Radicals look up !
Such be your Gods 0 ! Israel.

When Sir Robert Peel left town for Drayton, the
balance of power in the House of Commons changed
hands for the remainder of the Session. But we doubt
if his departure caused any great joy to the little Leader
(as he is called by courtesy) of that paramount branch
of the Legislature, who felt that he was falling into the
ruthless hand 4 of Mr. Wakley and other fellow-Re-
formers, " ready to give a better account of the Minis-
ters, when their Tory patrons should be gone :"—just
as the voice of the master is formidable enough to
disorderly little urchins at a school, and they band
together to shirk froth detection, and set authority at
defiance ; but no sooner does he turn his back, than
the bigger ones begin to bully the less, and these begin
to wish most heartily that order might be restored, to
save them from their tormentors. Lord John-Russell
is precisely in the position of such a mischievous pickle.
At the commencement of a Session he tries every dis-
ingenuous device to evade Sir Robert Peel's masterly
detection and exemplary chastisement : at its close,
when all real dread of punishment is gone for the time,
he flies to his protection from the irregular assaults of
his much-pretending and much-courted friends.
Meanwhile, whatever of public respect and homage,
whatever of substantial power, whatever of real and
lasting glory has been gained in the Parliamentary
conflicts of 1839, clings to the Conservative champion
of his church and country. Place without power,
office without confidence, the name of Minister without
the substance, is left to the miserable Whig in Parlia-
ment-street. Dignified and learned leisure, surrounded
by the best and ablest of his countrymen, respected
and followed by them all, as the first Parliamentary
Leader of his age,—such is the enviable and well-
earned portion of Sir Robert Peel. The support of
men whom he inwardly loathes and abhors, the de-
testation of the wise and good, the stings of remorse,
and the prospects of a Chartist winter, are the destiny
of Lord John Russell. Day by day, and week by week,
he will find himself more inextricably entangled in the
meshes of his own net, and perplexities which he has
brought upon himself will draw him nearer and nearer
to sure and irretrievable destruction.

This is no happy prospect ; but there was only one
chance of escape for the doomed and despairing Whigs.
It was a chance they were' not minded to run,—the
premature accession of the Conservative party to power.
With a hostile Court, with a House of Commons bit-
terly leavened with faction, with the train deeply laid
in every populous district in England for insurrec-
tionary outbreak, with a system of Foreign Policy (if
Policy it can be called) that had brought us to the very
verge of war in every quarter of the globe at once,—
it would have been a godsend to the Liberals to have
relieved them from the responsibilities of their perilous
position. We believe the less purblind of the party
saw their interest plainly enough, and really wished to
retire, to seek the only safety of forlorn despair. But
thanks to the fribble Normanby, and to the wisdom
that shines unseen in the recesses of Buckingham
Palace, this escape was cut off from the Whigs. They
are still left to battle, as best they may, with those
elements of confusion which they have called into play.
This is as it should be. The game which began in
1830 has not wholly worked itself out : but we have
reached at least the beginning of the end. Non-inter-
vention, Retrenchment, and Reform are pretty well
understood; and when once the Liberals are sent to
the place where their deserts will be rewarded, their
exclusion from power will be permanent. They will
be bankrupt without certificate. They came in as men
of the country—they go out as men of the Court :
they came in with huge professions—they go out in
utter destitution of all performance : they came in with
a character, and (we will give the Devil his due) they
go out with a character,—of which, like Backbite in
the play, they would be much obliged to any one to
rob them. Whiggery and the Whigs stink in the'
nostrils of England.

The Whigs have been to the poor Negro much the
some kind of friend that the exemplary Mr. Fagin was
to Oliver Twist. When the Abolition of the Slave
Trade became a popular cry in England, the Whigs
took it up, and not till then. When the Emancipation
of the Slaves became a popular question, it was worked
by the Whigs, and not till then. They have invariably
and unscrupulously employed it for their own party
purposes, and they made it the stalking-horse of their
return to power, in Lord. Morpeth's celebrated amend-
ment to the address of 1835.

In the same spirit spoke the Under-Secretary to the
Opposition Peer the other evening when the Portu-
guese Slavery Bill was rejected,—" Thank you for
your division : give us a few more such, and then we
can dissolve."

Of course the Bill was rejected, as Lord Palmerston'
probably intended. It was an absurd .scheme, and
wholly unadapted to its end. What care Foreign
Courts or Foreign Flags for the brutum fulmen of
the British Parliament ? They know nothing of our
omnipotent House of Commons, and they care nothing.
The procedure would have answered one single end—
it would have brought the statesmanship of England
into contempt. If the object were to intimidate Por-
tugal, why not tell Portugal plainly, through the voice
of the Sovereign, that WAR would be declared at once
if she persisted in her contumacy ? But these wretched
imbeciles dare not do anything as an Executive. They
dare not carry even a penny postage, much less pro-
claim a war, without a pledge from their myrmidons
in Parliament. They ought not to be called a Govern-
ment.

If they had brought in a Bill authorising them to
declare the odious and detestable traffic Piracy, we
would have gone with them heart and hand. But this
they dared not do. They may trifle with Portugal,
but they dared not speak out boldly to America and
France, even in the plain behoof of Justice. It is
Piracy : and, under whatever flag, its perpetrators
should be hunted down like wolves.

In 1833, when Admiral Napier was commanding
the Portuguese Fleet, Portugal was at Lord Palmer-
ston's feet. He might have obtained from her any
Slave-Trade Treaty that he would. In 1834, when
the Quadruple Alliance had not been blown to the
winds, and the hopes of the Spanish Povernment were
young, he might have asked for what he would from
Spain, and she would not have refused. But he never
cared really about a matter that did not concern his
selfish interests ; and he had not forecast enough to
see how nearly the interests of his party might prove
to have been concerned. Nothing would have been

easier than to obtain the most complete and satisfac-
tory guarantees by Treaty, which his Lordship might
now have enforced by arms : and the British Nation
would have backed him as one man.

But the Portuguese Slavery Bill was a mere blind—
a mere dishonest artifice, designed to enlist in the
Liberal ranks all the enthusiastic and well-meaning
men, whom, because they feel so deeply and so right-
eously upon this great question of humanity, the Li-
berals (who think all feeling mere folly) think they may
easily and safely gull. And this while they are actually
endeavouring to introduce Slave-Trade Sugars, to save
themselves a halfpenny in the pound, and to promote
the trading interests of some of their unscrupulous
partizans ! ! When did a Liberal sacrifice his personal
interests (even in the smallest degree) to the dearest
claims of humanity, or the most obvious demands of
justice ? Dissolve on the Portuguese Slavery Bill !
The trick is too transparent a great deal. For once
Lord Brougham is deserving of credit. His resolu-
tions were both wise and just, and his course in the
whole affair discreet and temperate.

We have observed in Radical columns a report of

the Reverend Robert Carswell being tried for a very
grave offence against one of his female servants; and
although the evidence did not warrant a conviction,
his conduct was most severely and justly reprimanded
by the Judge, as utterly at variance with his duties as
a man, a clergyman, and a master. With his accus-
tomed candour, the Liberal forgot to say that this
pseudo-Reverend was a clergyman not of our Honoured
and Holy Church, but of the Presbyterian (which in
England usually signifies the Socinian) persuasion.
Perhaps it is not worth while to quarrel with these
impostors about the assumption of a title to which they
have no more right than we have : but surely it is too
bad that under the shelter of it they should cast out
their scandals on the Church. So much for the Re-
verend Robert Carswell. •

By the Parker, Capt. Risien, we have received a file
of the Guiana Chronicle, to the Ist of July inclusive.
They contain no news of interest, beyond the an-
nouncement that Governor Light had threatened to
change the seat of government by removing to Ber-
bice . This idea is strongly ridiculed by the Chronicle,
which says, that " if he but stir to make the mad
attempt, we shall speedily change our governor."
An ordinance " to regulate the immigration of
(unindentured) labourers into British Guinea," had
been passed by the Court of Policy, and promulgated
as law. This act was founded, principally, on certain
acts of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, and
certain suggestions of Lord Brougham, and made
ample and scrupulous provision for the safe transpor-
tation to Demerara of individuals and families, free of
expense, from Calcutta, New Providence, and some
convenient point of the coast of Africa. This act,
however, is likely to remain inoperative, and must be a
dead letter, owing to the influence of the Governor in
preventing the appropriation of £30,000, which had
been previously voted for immigration purposes.

By. the packet-ships Memphis, Capt. Nichols, which
arrived here on Tuesday, and the Cambridge, Capt.
Bursley, which arrived here on Wednesday, we have
received New York papers to the 19th ultimo inclu-
sive. We are glad to announce that Capt. Bursley
received from the Board of Underwriters at New York
a very high testimonial of approbation, for his active
and seaman-like conduct in protecting his ship from
damage, during the severe gale of January last.
A serious accident had occurred at Portsmouth Navy
Yard on the 10th ultimo, by which one man was killed
and another dangerously wounded. The damage done
on the occasion. was estimated at from 20,000 to 30,000
dollars.

The progress of the President continued to be the
principal topic of conversation at New York.

The news from Canada is quite unimportant. Some
trifling disturbance seems to have taken place at Co-
bourgh, Upper Canada, the particulars of which were
as follow :—" In the forenoon of the Bth ult. several
waggons were furiously driven into Cobourgh, from
the township of Haldimand, filled with a band of per-
sons denominated Durhamites,' with the intention of
holding a public meeting, in approval of Lord Dur-
ham's report. They had two flags, inscribed Lord
Durham and Reform ;' and proceeded to erect a hus-
tings in front of the Town-hall. ' But,' says the Star,
the British blood of the bystanders could not brook
this audacious display of insolence and rebellion—we
say rebellion, because men who were a short time ago
absconding or imprisoned traitors, had the hardihood
to present themselves on the hustings before a loyal
population.' A few old countrymen demanded a sur-
render of the Durhamite flags; and upon this being
refused, a scuffle and riot ensued, in which the men
from Haldimand were completely routed, and some of
them severely wounded, though it appears that many
of them had fire-arms, with which they defended
themselves. The flags were seized as a trophy of vic-
tory, but were soon afterwards torn to pieces, and
trampled with contempt." This account seems to
confirm the opinion, that there are still a number of
evil and discontented spirits in Upper Canada, who
are ready to embrace every opportunity or pretext to
agitate the country, and keep it in a perpetual state of
anarchy and confusion.
The only other news of importance is that relating
to the affairs of the Argentine• Republic, respecting
which we extract the following from the Morning Cou-
rier and Enquirer of the igth ultimo :

" SOUTH AMERICA.—Of the result of the battle—of which
the details are now going the rounds of the papers—between
the troops raised by the Governor of Corrientes, one of the
provinces of the Argentina Republic, who had made common
cause with the present government of the Oriental Republic
against the Federal Chief of the Argentine Republic, General
Rosas, at Buenos Ayres, and the troops of the province of
Entre Rios, who had remained faithful to the latter, we some
time since received accounts by the way of Rio Janeiro, with
the additional news that so elated had Rosas become at the
defeat of the disaffected Corrientians, that he had rejected
the overtures made to him by the French Admiral blockading
Buenos Ayres, and had demanded an indemnity from France,
of two millions of dollars.

"To a clear understanding of the circumstances of this con-
test we must refer to antecedent events. The former Go-
vernor of the Oriental Republic, General Oribe, at Monte
Video, was in close alliance with General Rosas, at Buenos
Ayres, and consequently refused to countenance the hostile
demonstrations of France against the latter, denying the
French Admiral permission to sell the prizes he made of
Buenos Ayrean vessels at Monte Video. General Rivera,
who had been for some time in open insurrection against the
government of General Oribe, but whose hostile operations
were confined to the distant provinces and apparently pro-
mised little success, was suddenly, through the aid afforded
him by the French Admiral, enabled to appear before Monte
Video, and expel Oribe, who fled to his friend Rosas at
Buenos Ayres, and place himself (Rivera) at the head of the
government of the Oriental Republic, when in conjunction
with the French naval forces, he captured the Buenos Ayrean
Island of Manuel Garcia.

" It is very evident that the French Admiral finding his
blockade of Buenos Ayres insufficient to compel Rosas to
comply with his—in our view of the case—unjust and arro-
gant demands, sought an alliance with Rivera, whom he
succeeded in establishing in the government at Monte Video,
and then continuing his intrigues against Rosas, caused the
standard of insurrection to be raised against him in Corri-
entes.
_ _

" This insurrection, it appears, has now been completely
subdued. Another governor of the province of Corrientes,
favourably inclined to the cause of Rosas, has been appointed,
and the alliance which had been formed between the disaf-
fected chief of that province and the French, and Rivera,
annulled."

The following are the only additional extracts worth
quoting :
(From the Courier and Inquirer of July 18)
The British Queen still continues out, and the impression
now exists that she had not been able to get away on the Ist
instant—her arrival, therefore, must be looked for as un-
certain, though likely to take place during the present
week.

THE CROPS.—JOHNSON COUNTY.—The following extract
from a letter from a friend in Johnson County, dated June
20th, gives a flattering prospect for the farmers in that section
of our State. In all parts of Arkansas, the prospect is
equally fair, and we anticipate a most abundant season :
" Enclosed I send you two blossoms that were full blown
On the morning of the 17th, which is much earlier than they
have ever been known toenake•their appearance in this section
of the country. Cotton crops are, at this time, truly flatter-
ing ; but one great misfortune attends our citizens, which is,
that
,a very few are growing it. Should storms and droughts
not visit us in this section of the country too early, the crops
of corn will be very abundant. Our harvest was in the
latter part of last month. By harvest, I mean gathering
wheat, as this is .the only small grain here. Wheat is good,
and will yield more than most persons anticipated, after the
very unusually cold weather and freezes during the first days
of March last."

(From the Courier and Enquirer of July 19.)
THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 18.—A large business was
again transacted at the Stock Exchange to-day, and generally
at prices showing a further tendency to decline. Sales were
made of United States Bank at 1141, Delaware and Hudson
Canal Co. 671, Bank of Kentucky 78, Mohawk Railroad
Co. 58k, Harlem Railroad Co. 461, and Stonington Railroad
Co. at 25.

The transactions in Sterling Exchange for transmission by
the Liverpool packet of to-morrow, have been chiefly effected
at 10 per cent. premium, at which rate the Bank of the
United ,States is drawing freely ; the business has not how-
ever been large.
There is nothing new in the general markets to-day. Flour
continues heavy at our reduced quotations of yesterday, and
cotton also has been more quiet. The steam-ships remain
out, and most anxiously looked for.

From Savannah we have the weekly report of the 12th
instant. The cotton market was very dull, the sales only
reaching 135 bales for the week, at prices + cent higher than
had been current, previous to the arrival of the Liverpool.
The stock was reduced to 2,866 bales Upland and 279 bales
Sea Island.

INQUESTS.

STABBING.-COMMITMENT FOR MURDER.

On Tuesday last an inquest was held before Henry Heath-
cote Statham, Esq., Deputy Coroner, on view of the body of
Mary Millikin, a woman of disreputable character, who
came to her death by being stabbed by a Belgian seaman,
named Francia Joorens, belonging to the galliot Pauline,
now lying in the Brunswick Dock. A number of witnesses
were examined, but as Joorens is committed to take his trial
at the assizes, to commence on Tuesday next, we do not
deem it necessary to supply more than a narrative of the
principal facts, the evidence of which was concurrent
throughout. It should be premised too, that the principal
female witnesses, who were alone cognisant of what occurred
in the house, are all of disorderly character.
The deceased lived with two females named Rosa Rylie
and Mary Delany, in Hale's-court, at the bottom of New
Bird-street. On Saturday morning last, between one and
two o'clock, the prisoner Joorens, came to the house with
the deceased, and they both went up stairs into the top
garret, taking a candle with them ; after being a short time
together, some words passed between them, and the prisoner
was angry ; but no blows were struck by either, and in less
than a quarter of an hour they both came down stairs. The
woman Rylie, who keeps the house, and another, said they
observed that the prisoner, when he was up stairs, had in his
hand one of those long knives which is worn hung by a
strap round the waist. He had it out of the sheath then,
and had the strap off then.. The knife fell out of the sheath
while he was in the house and was picked tip by one of the
females and returned to him. In consequence of the words
alluded to, the sailor was about to leave the house,
,and
asked another female who was present to light him down
stairs. The female was prevented by a companion from so
doing. The sailor then requested Millikin to light him out.
She did so, and when at the bottom of the stairs a cry from
the woman was heard of, " Oh, Rosa, Rosa, I am stabbed
with a knife!" and the noise of the door slammed to was
heard. Rosa Rylie and another female went down, and
found Millikin lying at the bottom of the stairs. Her clothes
were cut, and she had a severe wound on the left side, just
below the last rib. The knife had entered the abdonien, and
wounded the intestine. Blood was flowing very freely from
the wound. The seaman was not then to be seen, but he had
been observed going in haste down the passage, without a
hat, and was met at the bottom by a policeman, who ques-
tioned him as to what was the matter. Joorens replied that
there were some persons up the entry who had attempted to
rob him. The policeman went up the entry expecting that
the seaman would have followed him. In this, however, he
was mistaken. He found the woman lying in a pool of blood,
and after having taken measures to obtain surgical relief for
her, the officer went in search of the culprit, and found
Joorens on board the Pauline. Not being positive as to the
identity of the man, he took him to Millikin, and asked her,
in the presence of Joorens, whether that was the man who
had stabbed her. She distinctly replied, " That is the man."
The knife was afterwards found in the entry, covered with
blood, and was identified. The hat of Joorens was also
found, was identified, and claimed by the prisoner as his.—
A Custom-house officer, stationed on board the Pauline, de-
posed that Joorcns came on board the galliot about two
o'clock in the morning of Saturday. The witness saw him
running hastily along the quay. When, he got on board he
undressed himself on deck, and took a couple of buckets of
water from the dock, but what he did with it witness could
not say. On Saturday the wounded woman was conveyed
to the Northern Hospital, where she died on the following
morning, at eleven o'clock. The wound was about an inch
and a quarter in length, about three inches deep, and had
passed through the intestine and entered the left kidney.
There was no hope of recovery from such a wound. The
prisoner declined to say anything. The jury returned a ver-•
dict of Wilful Murder, and Joorens was committed, as above
stated to take his trial. The witnesses were bound over to
appear, in recognizances of £lOO each.