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doubted not they would take care of them ; but in exercising
their judgment on that point, he trusted their decision would
be in accordance with morality. Taking this view of the sub-
ject, he could not sufficiently condemn the narrow-minded
system, and exclusive, which it was proposed to pursue
towards our neighbours, for whom, on all other occasions,
they expressed their greatest fellowship. If he was himself
one of the most narrow-minded warehouse owners, he would
hail the measure proposed in parliament. It was a measure,
indeed, which of all others he remembered erected expecta-
tions that could never be realized ; which in fact " held the
word of promise to the ear, but broke it to the hope." He
defied the owners of inland warehouses, restricted as they
would be by this bill, to injure Liverpool. Those warehouses
could only receive goods destined for local consumption.
Nothing could be received in them, but what was prohibited
from being exported. Even corn was thus restricted. They
were reduced, therefore, to articles of local consumption.
The principal advantage would be simply in wines and spirits.
He hoped that the narrow-mindedness of the last age would
not be perpetuated by such motions as that before them, but
would disappear in this ; and that they would act upon higher
views and principles,—views more allied to sound discretion
and morality. With regard to the Association of Warehouse
an I Land Owners, about whom so much sympathy was
manifested, he begged to remind them, that they had long
ago (as we understood him) said that they would go in with-
out the aid of either the Corporation or the Dock Committee.
As a body, they were in constant communication with the
commercial heads—the leading men in the country. They
had Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell all to themselves.
They were so independent 'and so potent withal, that the
Corporation could do them no good. If they consented to
this proposition, the world would point at them the finger
of scorn ; they would accuse them of returning to the old
trade of jobbing ; of making, in fine, the community subser-
vient to party interests and feelings. They are bound to
protect the interests of the town exclusively, so far as that
could be done justly ; and to interfere with the affairs of
others only when they could do so with credit to themselves.
The case before them was not, he thought, one in which
they could so act with justice, honour, or consistency, and
he, therefore, supported the amendment.
Mr. MASOZ said he thought the warehouse-keepers had
been rather too forward on the present occasion : they had,
to use a homely phrase, been pulling the string rather too
tightly. He could not see upon what principle of sound
policy or consistency, they could interfere with a measure, the
object of which was to extend the commerce of the country.
He felt disposed to protect the special interests of the town,
as far as was consistent and fair ; and so far would he protect
the warehouse owners ; but when they came forward as mono-
polists, he could not help entertaining some doubts as to their
real intentions. He could not, indeed, suppose that their op-
position was roused merely for their own sakes ; and he
shrewdly suspected that if the measure had been introduced
to parliament by some other gentleman who differed from
Mr. Thompson in politics, they would have met it in a very
different way. (Hear.) He thought they had made it too
much a party question. This was, be believed, no real ground
for the interference of the council in the matter. It was a
question which had no connexion with individual interests,
or with the corporation as a body, and ought not, therefore,
to be interfered with by them. On the whole he was de-
cidedly opposed to the proposition of Mr. Holmes, and should
vote for the amendment.
Mr. IsAAc HOLMES said that no injustice would be done
to Manchester or other inland towns, by the withdrawing of
the measures proposed to parliament. In this town no
bonded warehouses were allowed above 500 yards from the
docks. But, by the proposed bill, the people of Manchester
would have bonded warehouses 40 miles from the sea. He
agreed with Mr. Bolton that the measure would be inopera-
tive. He believed, indeed, that for every 20s. drawn at
those new bonded warehouse, the cost would be more than
equal to the income. Much money would thus be unneces-
sarily drawn from individuals, and this would be injurious to
Liverpool. The only advantage would be to the present
government, which in the officers to superintend these ware-
houses in Manchester, Birmingham, &c. would obtain an
accession of patronage. If in these towns there were ware-
houses already, the question would be different. It would
then be unjust to interfere ; but they had no warehouses,
and therefore no injury would be done to them by the mea-
sure being withdrawn. The corporation were trustees for the
property of the town. A great part of the land on which
the warehouses were built belonged to them, and they ought
to protect it. But if the bonded warehouses were to be ex-
tended in the town; if this was found necessary, they ought
to represent to government that such warehouses ought to be
built two miles from the dock quays. .
Mr. GLADSTONE said that if the question be admitted that
the measure of Mr. P. Thomson would injure the corporate
and other property of the town, it was their bounden duty to
protect it at all hazards. The question as to whether such a
course was liberal or illiberal to inland towns. it was not
for them but parliament alone to consider. They ought
most strenuously to protect their own property.
Mr. SHELL said the two last speakers had strongly urged
that the council should protect the property of the town at
all hazards. He would not be so exclusive. Their first
allegiance was to the community at large—their next to the
monarch on the throne. Many people argued from the cir-
cumstances under which they were placed. If oppressed
they were loud in praise of liberty, and redress. If they en-
joyed any particular privilege, they were unwilling that others
should partake of it. When London enjoyed the tea mono-
poly, they did not wish it to be broken. Liverpool, however,
urged their claims to partake in the trade and obtained their
point. With what consistency then could they endeavour
to prevent other towns from obtaining bonded warehouses ?
As an abstract right every town ought to enjoy the same
privilege of bonding. He concluded an address of consider-
able length by urging the propriety of leaving the matter in
the hands of the government.
Mr. WALfususs- said that he did expect that those who
supported the motion would have shown how the warehouses
were to be injured. But they had failed to do this. He con-
sidered the motion an unwarrantable interference, and op-
posed to the principle of " Do unto others as you would ba
done by." How would they like the merchants of Manches-
ter to tell them they should build no cotton factories in
Liverpool? He believed that the measure in place of being
injurious to Liverpool would be beneficial ; for the new
facilities afforded would increase the general commerce of the
country and consequently benefit the town.
Mr. BLACKBURN recapitulated the motion, and contended
that it did not pledge the council to the support of the ware-
house owners as against the measure, but merely sought an
investigation before a decisive step were taken. He thought
they had a simple duty to perform at the request of the ware-
house owners.
Mr. EARLE said be bad seconded the resolution in the
hope that a discussion would ensue, in which the injury to
the warehouse owners would be shown. He quite concur-
red with Mr. Blackburn.
Mr. COGLAN thought if the resolution were agreed to, go-
vernment would inevitably consider that the council had
taken part with the warehouse owners, against the measure
of Mr. Thompson. He expressed himself strongly against
all monopolies.
Mr. CURRIE explained.
Mr. JOHN HOLMES briefly replied—when the amendment
of Mr. Harvey was put from the chair, and the votes taken
by the card. The following was the result :
For the Amendment.—Councillors J. Mellor, T. Bolton,
E. Filcher, J. Walmsley, J. Woollright, W. Rathbone, W.
Lassen, T. Harvey, V..lliggins, T. Morecroft, J. Mason, E.
Segar, and T. Coglan ; Aldermen R. Shiel, J. Hornby, G.
Holt, R. Benn, E. Evans, T. Bulley, T. Holt, W. P. Freme,
and E. Harvey,-22.
Against it.—Councillors J. Holmes, R. Houghton, Isaac
Holmes, W. Shand, W. Preston, B. Frankland, G. Wright,
H. Holmes, J. Bibby, J. Cooper, J. N. Wood, R. Gladstone,
T. Blackburn, J. Smith, W. M. Duncan, and W. W. Currie ;
Aldermen C. H. Jones, W. Earle, J. Moon, T. B. Barclay.
and the Mayor,-21.
Majority for the Amendment,-1.
POSTAGES.
The Mayor then submitted a letter from Mr. GEORGE
MOFFAT, Treasurer of the London Mercantile Committee
on Postages, relative to the penny postage. This was
referred to the Finance Committee, and the Meeting
broke up.

Why is Mr. M`Neile's new curate like the fine weather ?
Doye give it up?—Because he has raised the Mercury!
CHURCH or ENGLAND ScnooLs.—The collection on be-
half of these schools at St. Jude's church, on Sunday last,
amounted to £6B 9s, amongst which was a sovereign enclosed
in a piece of paper, on which was written " from T. M. who
has witnessed in merica the demoralizing effects of educa-

tion without religion."
NEW LIGHT Honsr.—A new light house is in the course
of erection at Crosby Point, about eight miles from this town.
We understand that it is to be 112 feet above high water, and
will be finished in August. The signal will be found very
useful to mariners entering this port by the north, or New

Channel.
A MISCREANT.—Since our last publication a man, in the
garb of a gentleman, answering the description which we gave
under the head " Caution to Parents," has been detected in
practices alluded to in the letter of a correspondent. He was
sentenced to a fine of £5, or to undergo an imprisonment of
a month, and he preferred the former ; he was advised by the
magistrate fortwith to quit the town. If he should disregard
the advice, and be again brought before them on the same
charge, we trust that he will be consigned to the treadmill,
as many better men than himself have been.--Mercury.
THE IRISH MAILS.—At present both mails leave Dublin
wi thin six hours of each other—in the evening and at midnight;
whereas, the mails from Liverpool leave in the evening and
morning—twelve hours apart—the one carrying the evening
papers and correspondence,`the other the morning papers and
letters. This is business-like and straightforward. But not
so in Ireland; there, we suppose, everything must be done
after an Irish fashion, to bother the natives. One mail is
started at half-past five o'clock to tell the people of Liverpool
that a second packet is coming after it with the same news
Was ever any management so truly Irish as this ?
DEATH FROM APOPLEXY.—On Friday an inquest was
held on view of the body of Jane Nokes, a woman sixty years
of age, who resided with her son, a joiner, at No. 47, New
Johnson-street. The deceased kept a fruit stand in William.
son-square, and on her way home, on Wednesday night
became ill, and fell in the street. She was taken home in-
sensible, and expired soon afterwards. On a post mortem
examination, it appeared that the deceased had died from an
apoplectic fit. A verdict was given accordingly.—[ln the
depositions in this case, strong blame is attached to the con-
duct of several police-officers, who were called to the assist-
ance of the deceased. The case will, we doubt not, be inves-
tigated in the proper quarter. Persons may be unhappily
seized with other diseases in the streets than that produced
by drunkenness.]—Journal.
NORTHERN AUTUMN CIRCUITS mu.. 1839, FOR THE
RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS.—H. R. Reynolds, Esq..
chief commissioner. Rutlandshire, at Oakham, Wednesday,
Oct. 23. Yorkshire, at Sheffield, Friday, Oct. 25. York-
shire, at Wakefield, Monday, October 28. At the Town of
Kingstown-upon-Hull, Saturday, Nov. 2. Yorkshire, at
York and City, Tuesday, Nov. 5. Yorkshire, at Richmond,
Thursday, Nov. 7. Durham, at Durham, Friday, Nov. 8.
Northumberland, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Town, Monday,
Nov. 11. Cumberland, at Carlisle, Wednesday, Nov. 13.
Westmoreland, at Appleby, Friday, Nov. 15. Lancashire,
at Lancaster, Monday, Nov. 18. Lancashire, at Preston,
Tuesday, Nov. 26. Lancashire, at Liverpool, Thursday,
Nov. 28. Cheshire, at Chester and City, Monday, Dec. 2.
Flintshire, at Mold, Wednesday, Dec. 4. Denbighshire, at
Ruthin, Thursday, Dec. 5. Anglesey, at Beaumaris, Satur-
day, Dec. 7. Carnarvonshire, at Carnarvon, Monday, Dec.
9. Merionethshire, at Dolgelly, Wednesday, December 11.
Montgomeryshire, at Welchpool, Friday, Dec. 13.
REFORMED CHURCH AT BIRR.—A long letter from the
Rev. Michael Crotty appears in the Dublin Statesman, from
which we learn that that gentleman has had some misunder-
standing with his cousin who was associated with him in the
pastoral care of the reformed church at Birr. It appears that
the Rev Miehael Crotty was deputed to England, for the
purpose of obtaining pecuniary aid, to carry on the Birr Re-
formation, (previous to which the two gentlemen had come
to a mutual agreement that they were in the course of some
time to join the Established Church,) and, that during his
absence, he discovered that the church at Birr was converted
into a Presbyterian Meeting House, and that his cousin was
received into connection with the Synod of Ulster. He im-
mediately returned to Birr when his cousin informed him,
" that the conversion of the Reformed Church there into a
Presbyterian Meeting House was not his act, but that of the
people—that, on the contrary, he strenuously opposed it—
that four or five of the congregation wrote to the Presbytery
of Dublin, to send down a deputation to Birr, to receive the
Reformed Church there into connection with the Synod of
Ulster." Mr. Michael Crotty then says that as this transfer
was made without his consent, it is illegal, he being recog-
nised in the trust-deed as the principal minister, and one of
thelriisteeinf fife chdreh, and that he intends to go down
to Dirt to &gaud poste&wall.

THE MARINERS' CHURCH.

The Floating Church Establishment, at the south-west
corner of George's Dock, though known to many, is worthy
of a passing notice, in order that it may be more generally
visited by those who are interested in the spriritual welfare
of that industrious, useful, and adventurous portion of the
community, the mariners of the port.
The Church was formerly a frigate belonging to the Royal
Navy, and being lent by government for the purpose, was
some years ago very neatly and commodiously fitted up as a
church. The whole hull is so appropriated, and, by judicious
alterations and interior fittings, is rendered a roomy and
commodious place of worship,—being also well lighted and
aired. The centre part of the upper deck was taken away,
and an erection with numerous windows at the sides raised
from end to end, giving the whole adequate elevation. The
lower sittings are on the lower, or orlop deck. Two rows of
seats also rise in tiers against the sides all round. Above
these last, on each side what was the main or gun deck extend
galleries ; and at each end, on the upper deck, and within
the erection before noticed are two high galleries,—the whole
being calculated to accommodate a congregation of 1,000
persons. On each side the pulpit at the north end are pews,
behind it in a semicircular recess is the altar, very neatly
embellished. The whole is neatly painted in oak graining
throughout, and strangers never tail to express their astonish-
ment and gratification to find so large and beautiful a temple
devoted to Christian worship within a ship, and continually
afloat in the dock. The approaches both to the body of the
Church and the galleries are easy, and the whole establish-
ment when the sublime object to which it is devoted is taken
into account, and the success attending the efforts of those
who are connected with it, is well worthy of the general
support of an enlightened and religious community.
On Friday afternoon divine service was performed at this
interesting place of worship, and although the day and the
hour did not permit of a very full attendance of those for
whose benefit it is more peculiarly intended—the mariners and
their families, the assemblage, including many highly re-
spectable individuals, was numerous. It had been announced
that the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, of St. Jude's, would preach a
sermon on the occasion in behalf of the funds, and the result
was a highly gratifying and appropriate discourse.
The Evening Prayers were emphatically read by the Rev.
William Maynard, the clergyman of the church.
The Rev. H. WNEILE then offered up a short and em-
phatic thanksgiving, and afterwards proceeded to address a
powerful appeal to his auditors. He took his text from
the sth chapter of the Book of Revelations, 9th and 10th
verses, " And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art
worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof ; for
thou vast slain and hast redeemed us to God with thy blood,
out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests ; and
we shall reign on the earth." The church in which he
then stood, (said the reverend gentleman,) was a church for
mariners ; a church especially designed to teach the sacred
truths of the gospel to men employed to go out into every
kindred, and people, and nation. It was a church designed
to inscribe, upon those who attended it, the letters of sacred
and divine truth, so that they might become our epistles known
and read of all men. It was a noble thing to find such a
church. And where were they likely to find it but in such
a country ; where but in a maritime, a highly privileged and
a christian country? If they looked to the map of the world,
their eyes would naturally be directed to England ; and in
looking at her, if there were a city celebrated for her enter-
prise and commerce ; a city whose port was proverbially
distinguished by its forests of masts ; which was famed for
its industry and wealth, and the energy of its christian minis-
ters, Liverpool was the town which they would naturally
expect to provide such a church. On the map of the world
they came to England, and on the map of England to Liver-
pool; and he saw in the church in which he stood, a beau-
tiful and interesting emblem of the great truth he should
endeavour to lay before them. Here was a vessel intended
for the destructive purposes of war, converted into a temple
of piety and peace. Here was a frigate once belonging to the
navy ; her decks partly renewed ; her port-holes closed;
the din of her cannon silenced ; the shouts of her warlike
crew no longer heard, but supplanted by the joyful sounds of
peace and salvation, and where the mariner might learn in
his tongue, the wonderful works and mercies of God. The
truth referred to in the text was the deliverance of the world
from the devastation of war, and enmity, and bloodshed, and
redeeming it to that everlasting peace and joy that would
attend the second coming of Jesus upon earth, with all his
saints. The apostle John beheld anew door opened in Heaven,
and was invited by a voice which said, " Come up hither, and I
will show thee things which must be hereafter.' And on the
right hand of him who sat on the throne he saw the book
with the seven seals. He heard proclamation made by an
angel—" Who was worthy to open the book ?" and after a
space, he was grieved that no one was worthy to open it, and
he wept. And one of the elders said, " Weep not : behold
the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, bath pre-
vailed to open the hook, and to loose the seven seals thereof."
And the apostle looked again, and saw, " in the midst of the
elders, a lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and
seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth unto
all the earth." The apostle was at no loss to find that the
lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David—the one as
touching his manhood, the other his divinity—was none other
than Jesus himself. The horns and eyes were emblematical,
the first of strength, the last of wisdom. The number, seven,
was the number denoting perfection ; and why ? God chose
to divide time into seven portions or parts. In six days he
created the world, and on the seventh rested from his labours.
There was, strictly speaking, noeighth portion of time, which
commenced from one to seven, again and again. The seven
horns signify perfect- power. and the seven eyes perfect wis-
dom. They are interpreted to mean the seven spirits (or
perfect spirit) of God, sent forth into all the earth. The
risen lamb is thus presented to the apostle as invested with
the holy spirit, by whom he exercises power and wisdom upon
earth. The lamb had died, but had risen again. The person
so described then came and took the book out of the right
hand of him who sat on the throne, and the four beasts and
four-and-twenty elders fell down before the lamb ; and
they sung a new song, saying, in the words of the text,
" Thou art worthy to open the book, &c." Those who
sung were of various nations, and they are described as
being in heaven, singing a new song of thankfulness.
The open book mentioned, meant the Bible ; and the
whole of the revelation here alluded to was in accord-
ance with the Old Testament. The whole Bible, indeed,
related to Jesus Christ. HE it was who spake to Adam in
the garden ; to Abraham on the plain ; to Moses in the
mountain; and Joshua in the camp. The sealed book was
the title deed of this world, redeemed by the blood of the
Lamb. The preacher then referred to the current law as
laid down in Leviticus, 25th chapter, 23d verse, showing
that land could not be sold in perpetuity, but was redeemable
every jubilee, or fifty years. The right of redemption of
land was also proved by Jeremiah, 32d chapter, verse 7,
before the expiration of the fifty years. The sale was regis-
tered in two books of purchase, one open and the other
sealed. Now, the open book alluded to in the text, (the
bible) proved Christ to be the purchaser of this world, which
he would yet redeem at his second coming. True, he had
left t for a time. He had allowed the Devil to retain his
usurpation over it, and malice, hatred, deceit, blasphemy,
Sabbath-breaking, and other crimes to exist in it for a time.
He had left it in a state of captivity; with but a few wit-
nesses for him ; He-had left it for a season to its enemies ;
but He would yet redeem it to righteousness, and the whole
people would rejoice in his coming, and would imitate those
who were in heaven when they sang and said, " Thou hast
redeemed us with thy blood." In that song there was no
mixture of praise to man's dignity, or man's merit ; no
Unitarianism, no Popery; they simply gave praise to the
Lamb of God. Those who sung that song were all descended
from Adam, and, like themselves, children of sin and wrath ;
but they had become redeemed with his blood ; and he prayed
that, if there were amongst those he addressed worldly-
minded men, who thought more of their wealth and their
warehouses, than their salvation ; or giddy women, more
intent on ornaments for the flesh, than in looking after the
immortality of their souls, they would turn from the madness
of their ways, and yet sing that song of thankfulness for their
redemption. He implored the wealthy merchant to have some
regard to the safety of the souls of the sailors, who perilled
their lives to enrich him, as well as his warehouses and his
luxuries; for if a man could not sincerely sing that song,
all the gold of the mines of Golconda would not avail him.
When Christ returned to the world he would purify it and
render its inhabitants righteous. He would break in pieces
the Chaldean beast, and the Grecian beast, and the Popish
beast. He would do what those did who changed this ship
into a place of worship ; who converted her cock-pit, before
a scene of blood and blasphemy in the hour of battle, into a
place of thanksgivings and praise. Yes, men when redeemed
should yet, in the language of the text, " reign on the earth."
The land was not sold for ever ; but would be redeemed by
its great kinsman and purchaser. This world was not to be
blotted from the solemn system, and a gap left in the uni-
verse ; but man redeemed would yet live under the second
Adam, and that was Christ, in harmony and virtue. This
was a delightful prospect, and ought to stimulate them to
piety and education. The Bible, that wonderful book, told
them they should yet reign on earth, not as disembodied
spirits, but as beings, (as men) combining both spirit and
matter—to reign on earth with Him, and in his image.
The rev. gentleman concluded a long discourse by a powerful
appeal in behalf of the Mariners' Church. The wealth of
the merchants of Liverpool was great, and it was to be
lamented that they expended so little of it in diffusing the
light of the Gospel amongst the seamen who assisted them
to accumulate it. He strongly reprehended the apathy of
masters in this respect towards their servants,—masters who
said they paid their servants wages, but had nothing to do
with their religious instruction. Such culpable indifference
savoured strongly of infidelity. It was the duty of all
masters to forward religion amongst their servants. It was
lamentable to find that this little place (though beautiful in
itself, and creditable to those who supported was the only
Mariners' Church belonging to the establishment, and in a
town of such magnitude as Liverpool; and the donations
were moderate from persons who ought to give their hundreds
of pounds. He hoped they would yet extend their donations ;
but in the mean time, they must endeavour to make up the
deficiency.
A collection was afterwards made, which amounted to
£2l 3s. 6d.

BRITISH QUEEN, STEAM-SHIP.

We announced, in our second edition of Tuesday last, the
departure of the above splendid vessel from this port. She .
had a fine run down the Channel. On Monday afternoon,
when 51 hours out from Liverpool, she was off Brighton,
where several gentlemen, a number of whom were on board,
landed, and proceeded in a post-chaise to London, to report
the progress of the vessel. Next morning, at nine o'clock,
she anchored at Longreach, in the Thames, where she had to
wait several hours for water to go up. The Directors of the
British and American Steam Navip:ation Company, accom-
panied by a large party, left Blackwall, about eleven o'clock,
in the iron steamer Rainbow, (the celebrated Antwerp boat,
built by Mr. John Laird, of North Bi.ikenhead,) to meet the
British Queen. The Rainbow, though 600 tons measure-
ment, and by far the largest iron steamer afloat, looked most
diminutive alongside the British Queen. The meeting of the
two steamers gave rise to mutual congratulations on the part
of the individuals on board of each. The reception of the
British Queen was, indeed, most gay and gratifying. The
officers of the Artillery were on board the Rainbow; they
had brought their band with them, and a variety of favourite
airs were played during the progress of the ships up the
Thames.
The average number of strokes made by the British
Queen's engines, during the passage from Liverpool to
Gravesend, was 16 per minute ; and the average speed of the
vessel was 11 miles per hour. She behaved uncommonly
well, was remarkably easy, and entirely free from tremulous
motion. The pilots all say, that she steers so well they can
manage her as easily as a 6 or 700 ton vessel.
Crowds in boats were alongside the British Queen all
Saturday. Not many persons were, however, admitted on
board, as few tickets of admission had been issued, in order
that the taking in of coal and cargo might not beinterrupted.
A large party of noblemen and gentlemen are to be admitted
on board to-morrow.
The British Queen will certainly sail from Portsmouth on
Wednesday morning next (to-morrow.) She will, it is ex-
pected, be full of passengers, and have a large quantity of
fine goods on freight. She will, we calculate, reach New
York about the 25th instant.

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—Last week, as some la-
bourers were engaged in digging the foundation of a thresh-
ing mill, about to be erected at Ballindalloch, and when about
fifteen feet under the surface, they came in contact with a
large sandstone. In the
in
course of their operations, they
split the stone into two pieces, and a cavity in the heart of
it they found, greatly to their astonishment, a toad—a lively,
active "brute, "six- inches in length. and of proportionate
Inwih-b mid thanaim !--Itoicerapa ,"collard.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

FRIDAY.

CASE OF SHOOTING.
A respectably clad boy, of about fourteen or fifteen years of
age, with his head bandaged up, applied for a warrant to ap-
prebend another boy, of about the same age, who had fired
a pistol at him, by which he had lost his left eye. The ap-
plicant was an orphan. It would, of course, be improper,
on an ex pante statement of the unfortunate circumstance,
to state further, than that Mr. Rushton, on hearing the
evidence produced, granted a warrant.

CASE OF STABBING.
A man named Halliday, was charged with having, in Lower
Pitt-street, violently assaulted and wounded a man, whose
name we did not learn. The complainant had been in com-
pany of the prisoner, but, as it appeared, had given him no
offence ; vet the prisoner had in a passion, not only struck
him, but used a clasp-knife, with which he inflicted a wound
in the left arm-pit of the complainant, whose clothes at that
part were saturated with blood. The complainant admitted
that the wound was not serious, and gave a very clear and
generous testimony of the circumstances. The prisoner
attempted a sort of violent defence. Mr. Rushton said that
his conduct had been most brutal, and that he was deter-
mined, as far as possible, to put down the un-English resort
to the knife. He ordered that he should pay a fine of
or be imprisoned for two months.