The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-09 00:00:00

THE BUDGET.

The house having resolved into committee on the Post-
office Acts,

The Cli.u.srcELLon. of the EXCHEQUER brought forward
his annual " financial statement" (budget,) and particularly
his plan for carrying into effect Mr. Rowland Hill's plan re-
garding uniform rate of postage. The results of the financial
details are that there is an increase in the amount of charge.
The income of 1839, and 1840, was £48,128,000; the expen-
diture he estimated at £47,988,000; leaving a surplus of
£140,000. In the expenditure of last year there was an ex-
cess over estimates of £919,000 ; to meet which there had
been an excess in the receipts over estimate of £611,000.
With regard to the Post-office plan, he proposes the adoption
of stamped penny covers, testing and limiting by weight,
without any reference to extra sheets. He calculated that
the loss to the revenue in the outset would be £400,000. He
concluded with moving a resolution to the effect of pledging
the house to make good any deficiency in the revenue that
might result from the adoption of this plan.
Sir R. PEEL, in the discussion that ensued, expressed him-
self adverse to the adoption of the experiment, unless there
was a far larger surplus than the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer had given any intimation of ; and, in conversation
between the right hon. bart. and the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, it was ultimately determined to take the further
discussion on the plan on the bringing up of the report of
the resolution on Friday next.
The remaining orders of the day were then disposed of ;
the Bills of Exchange Bill, and the Inland Warehousing
Bill, were forwarded'a stage; Sergeant Talfourd's Copyright
Bill was deferred sine die. After which the house adjourned.

ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVA-
TION OF LIFE FROM. SHIPWRECK.—This excellent institu-
tion held a dinner on Wednesday at the London Tavern, at
which Admiral Sir C. Adam presided. It appears from the•
report that the number of persons whose lives have been saved
from shipwreck since the preceding report (up to March,
1837) is 728. Of these, many have been saved by the use of
the lifeboats, and other apparatus established by the commit-
tee of the institution on various parts of the coasts of the
united kingdom, and besides this service, the institution has
awarded to those whose humanity and courage have been dis-
played in their exertions to save those suffering from the
dangers of the seas ten gold medallions and fifty-one silver
medals. Of late, it appeals, the exertions of the committee
have been but feebly supported, and they have been forced to
encroach on the reserved fund to the extent of one thousand
pounds, the annual subscriptions amounting to less than two
hundred and twenty pounds. The committee altogether have
voted sixty-three gold medallions and two hundred and seventy
medals of the institution, as honorary distinctions of merit,
to those persons who have signalized themselves by their in-
trepidity, which, with the pecuniary rewards they have paid
of five thousand one hundred and forty pounds, amounts to
upwards of six thousand pounds. And they have expended
upwards of five thousand pounds for lifeboats and other ap-
paratus.
CONDUCT OF THE BANE DIRECTORS .—The London Times
of Thursday, adverting in its city article to the composition
of the board of direction in the Bank says—lt is impossible
not to be struck with some recent changes it has undergone,
and which havebecome, independently of the general merits
of their administration, the subject of much blame in the city.
We allude to the extent to which the members have become
agents for American state stocks and joint-stock undertakings
of various descriptions, and which conveys the suspicion at
least of having availed themselves of the ruin of the American
banks, which they are charged with having brought about, to
rake together all the business they possibly could of the same
kind. And, independently of this view of the case; which
may possibly admit of some palliation, there is the violation
of principle which they have .uniformly inculcated in de-
nouncing as mischievous the introduction of all such securi-
ties into this country. It is not to be wondered at, that,
sanctioned as they have been of late by the name of Bank
directors, they should have been adopted very widely by the
public as investments. We have heard these American se- •
curities described by intelligent practical men as the "plague
spot" upon the money-market of this country, meaning that
so much capital is locked up in them, through the tempta-
tion of higher interest, that all other money transactions arc
cramped and impeded. If the proprietors of Bank Stock
possessed any power of united action, or a proper sense of
their own interests and importance, they would call upon
every Bank director who has lent himself to these transactions
to resign and make way for purer and better men.
BRUTAL AND MURDEROUS ATTACK.—The state of popu-
lar feeling in Hyde, Dukinfield, and Newton, and the ad-
joining places, is truly lamentable, the better classes being
treated with disrespect, . and the authorities with violence.
A most inhuman attack was made on Friday night on Man-
ley, an intelligent and efficient officer under the constabulary
act, and who, since it became known that he was an impor-
tant witness in the prosecution of the Rev. J. R. Stephens,
has been subject to the most personal and offensive treat-
ment. Indeed, on this account his life has been. frequently
threatened; and he has been somewhat 'alarmed in conse-
quence. On Friday night, Gatley (the deputy-constable of
Hyde) and rylanley made their customary visits to the pub-
lic-houses and beer-shops, and when opposite the Commer-
cial Inn, in Newton, they separated, Gatley proceeding to
Hyde, and Manley making the best of his way to his resi-
.dence in Dukinfield. When passing over Newton Moor, he
was met by a man who, looking under Manley's hat, said,
" Who art thou?" to which the reply was, " What 's that
to you?" The man then retired a few yards and whistled,
and cried out "He 's here !" He then seized Manley, and,
in an instant six other villains came to his assistance ; and
Manley, who protected himself with his staff, was repeatedly
knocked down and kicked in the most inhuman manner.
The scuffle was not of long duration, but a violent one,
during which the six maintained the most tacit silence. His
staff was taken from • him, and the fellows continued to beat
and kick him while on the ground, until they supposed life
was quite extinct. Yet doubting, in their murderous treat-
ment of him, whether they had effectually destroyed him or
not, they lifted his helpless body from the ground, and threw
it forcibly down, exclaiming, " We've done for him ; let's
be off!" They then ran away. How long the poor fellow
lay in this state cannot be told, but in the course of time he
contrived to crawl to.the nearest house ; and at five o'clock,
having been attended by a surgeon, he was conveyed home.
He was most inhumanly kicked and beaten about the head
and face, and tracks of blood were observable a considerable
distance along the road.. The gashes are indeed frightful,
his features being literally held together by plasters, and
several of the wounds, one more particularly in the nape of
the neck, are dangerous ones ; and unless the greatest pos-
sible attention be paid to him, he cannot recover. It is
much to be regretted that none of the villains are known ;
however, the home secretary has been written to on the
subject, and. we trush,thatastempSingsewaedwill be offered
to induce some one of the seven villains to impeach his felr
lows. '.We hayejust heattd•tbat Manley is.somewhat better.:
—*Stockport Ackertiser,