The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-08 00:00:00

THE DESTITUTE POOR

Of all the towns in the British empire, we do not believe
there is one to be found wherein a greater amount of sym-
pathy exists towards the poor, than in Liverpool, If. Edin-
burgh lays claim to the title of " modern Athens," Liverpool
has surely a right to that of " modern Tyre." Like that
seaport of old, she is famous for her merchants and her
great dealings—for her ships, and the industry and enterprise
of her people. But it is not in her wide streets—her costly
shops or her handsome dwellings—that she should take pride ;
it is not in her docks, where may be seen floating the flags of
all nPtions—it is not in her warehouses, where are deposited
the produce of east, west, north and south—nor her quays,
on which so much wealth is piled up— upon which she should
plume herself and set a pattern to the rest of the world.
No ; it is her excellent institutions, her religious societies, and
her charitable associations, that make her uplift her head
above her contemporaries. Let but the hint be given, and
her indwellers and townsmen put forth nobly and liberally,
the melting hand of charity—they respond at once to the
call that is made upon them, to aid their poorer brethren.
Let trade be stale, flat, and unprofitable ; let times be bad as
they will—yet Liverpool can always find money to keep her
poor from starving, and the destitute from perishing ; nor
is it done with a cold or niggardly hand, it is done in a
princely way, and with a readiness that enhances the value
of the gift. Let any one look to the soup subscriptions, see
what names are daily swelling the list with handsome sums,
every giver feeling a proud satisfaction in bestowing liberally.
We hope that this feeling of emulation will go on, and that
thousands may be subscribed for so laudable and praiseworthy

an object.
At this season of the year, however, there is another so-
ciety in Liverpool that has claims upon the benevolent—it is
that of the " Strangers' Friend," the report of the annual
meeting of which will be found elsewhere. Let us draw at-
tention to that report. In perusing the cases which have
been selected out of many others, the benevolent will shud-
der at the details of misery, while even the most callous
cannot but experience some emotions at such recitals.
We implore assistance for this excellent society—from the
wealthy, who have abundance ; from the merchant, whose
gains are great; from the tradesman, who has wherewithal
and to spare; and from the artisan, who can at least afford
his mite. We seek assistance for the society from each and
all. One moment's reflection upon the destitute state of
thousands in this town, will shew the necessity for prompt-
ness in coming forward. There are numbers starving now,
who are without CLOTHING, FOOD, or FUEL. Let those who
are seated in front of the blazing hearth, or whose wartn
dwellings are furnished with all that luxury can possibly
suggest, or comfort require, to make life pass smoothly and
happily on, just picture to themselves that in the low
cellars there are hundreds of fellow-creatures starving with
cold and hunger, and that the bleak wind, that whistles and
.roars without, has cut with its keen edge the exposed and
chilled limbs of some poor inmate of a garret. Let such be
not merely complacently thankful to the Creator for his
blessings, but let them give a tithe even of their incomings,
to provide for the needy. If the wealthy will but open their
purses, those less rich will follow the example, while the
artisan will not refuse a trifle, when he remembers that
though his comforts may be comparatively few, there are
many of his neighbours worse off than himself. Let him
think of the many meals he can bestow by restraining him-
self from visiting the beer-shop or the public-house, and
giving the intended sum to be spent in carousal to some
charitable institution. He as well as the richest merchant is
as liable to beg the bread of charity. He cannot say it will
not be his lot some day to seek relief,—his mite may save a
fellow-creature from a bitter death.
To the fair sex we appeal, nor shall we do so in vain.
Woman at all times " feels for'others' woe." Who is there
that cannot exert some little influence ? Let that influence
then be used—let it now be exerted—wives beg of husbands—
sisters beg of brothers—gentle girls beg of your lovers—to
come forward in the cause of the starving, cold, and the
wretched. One smile—one kind request—will draw the
purse-strings, and bad at heart must that man be who can
give a refusal. But while you draw upon the sympathies' of
the other sex you must not forget to be generous yourselves.
Are new ornaments to be obtained, new dresses or cloaks
to be made ? Purchase at half the price intended to be laid
out, and give the other half to a charity. There will be as
much comfort in a plain garrne:_t as in a costly silk or velvet,
while the heart will become much warmer with the reflec.
tion that the humble dress has been the means of feeding the
hungry and providing fatal to the wretched and starving
creatures around.

By a recent regulation of the Board of Customs, all stone
quarried in this country is to be exempted from the coast
regulations on removal from one port in Great Britain to
another.

THR
"HtLE CARAcci.—We regret to see an announce-
ment that these beautifnl pictures are very shortly to be re-
moved from Liverpool. We strenuously advise all our read-
ers, and all who have a love for art, to inspect them. Upwards
of 5,000 persons have visited the Union Rooms since they.
were first exhibited.

CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.

The second annual meeting of the Liverpool Church Build-
ing Society was held on Wednesday, in the board-room of
the Blue Coat Hospital. The object of this meeting was to
receive the annual report of the committee, to appoint the
committee for the ensuing year, and to afford any explana-
tions that might be desired by the subscribers. The Rev.
Jonathan Brooks, senior rector of Liverpool, and one of the
vice-presidents of the society, took the chair.
The Rev. JAMES NORTH, one of the secretaries, having
offered an appropriate prayer, for the blessing of Almighty
God upon the proceedings of the clay,
The CHAIRMAN wished that there had been a larger assem-
bly of the subscribers present at this, the second annual
meeting of the society, as he was sure they would have been
gratified with the progress the committee had been enabled
to make with the churches now erecting. The report itself
detailed the principal transactions of the past year, and
therefore, it would be unnecessary for him to anticipate
them. He would, however, just mention that the first of
the churches would be consecrated in the course of next
month, and the two others, now in progress, would be fi-
nished in the course of the summer. One of them would be
consecrated early in the year, and the other in autumn : so
that, in the course of this year the committee would have
perfected and completed three churches. He would also
mention that, yesterday, the committee had a meeting, for
the purpose of determining upon the endowments. Gentle-
men present were, perhaps, aware, that by the act of parlia-
ment, the sum of £l,OOO was necessary to be invested for the
endowmentlof each church, previously to the trustees being
able to execute their duty of nomination. The Church Build.
ing Commissioners required this £l,OOO to be invested in the
funds ; and the committee had gone into an anxious inquiry,
to ascertain whether they could not apportion an additional
endowment, in such a way as not to trench upon the funds
of the society more than was necessary, and yet to ensure
to the minister, something like a remuneration—poor as at
best it must be—for his services. The first church to be
opened was that in Naylor-street, which was situated in an
exceedingly dense and thickly peopled district, consisting
entirely of small shopkeepers and mechanics employed in
the different manufactories at the north end of the town.
That in Greenland-street, was in a rather better district, and
had a large number of rented sittings. In Naylor-street
church, from the poverty of the district, it was considered
better that there.should be a larger number of free sittings
than in Greenland-street. In Naylor-street church there
were 1,330 sittings, of which 660 were to be let ; and in.
Greenland-street there were 1,200, of which 810 were to be
let. It was intended, with the concurrence and advice of
the bishop, to let these sittings at moderate prices, and at
gradations so as to suit the poorer and the rather better
classes. None of them, indeed, would be high rated, but all
would be 10 if, and in gradation as to price, so that any per-
son might have a sitting, and be, as it were, independent. It
was the desire of the committee to bring to. the church as
large a number'as possible of the poorer classes, so as to
create, a church feeling amongst the working part of the
people of those districts. The committee had, therefore,
come to the determination to add a thousand pounds to the
endowment of Naylor-street church, and five hundred pounds
to that in Greenland-street; so that the endowment of the
former would be £2,000, and that of the latter £1,500.
With regard to the endowment of the church erecting in
Windsor, the committee had not yet come to a conclusion,
as it was necessary to obtain more information. The Chair-
man concluded by calling on the Rev. Mr. North, one of
Secretaries to read the report. The following report was
then read :

" The lapse of another year gives the Committee of the
Liverpool Church Building Society additional reason to be
satisfied, that they commenced their labours some time ago.
For, during that period they have seen societies of the same
kind formed in various parts of the kingdom, bearing a general
testimony that some such an effort is required by the country
at large as has been made by the Christian community of
Liverpool

very general exertion of private and of public
bounty, new churches are now seen springing up so nume-
rously as almost to add a new feature to the landscape of our
country. Well, it must be pronounced to be, for that gene-
ration, which can be said to be in any degree characterized by
the building of houses of God throughout the land. The
root of Christian faith and love is shown to be vigorous in the
heart of a people while it sends forth such healthful upshoots
to the surface.

" For what has been already done in this way, the com-
mittee desire heartily to thank God ; and from it, at the same
time, to take courage as regards the future. For but little
more, it is to be feared, has yet been done by this or similar so-
cieties than to discover the universality of the evil which they
proposed to remedy. The appalling truth has thus only been
made the more prominent, that thousands upon thousands in
a Christian land are living, heathen almost in every thing,
but in the heavier responsibilities under which they lie. A
mass of ignorance, immorality, and irreligion, have thus been
brought to light which the good have shuddered to behold,
on their own account as well as their fellow creatures, as not
knowing what portion of the guilt of it may be attributable to
their own neglect.

"The progress which has already been made in this work
of church building has, however, its bright side as well as its.
dark, one. It has shown how much may be done towards
remedying that amount of evil which it has been instrumental
in drawing to light. Those who have watched its practical
results have seen almost wherever a new church has been
erected, a congregation gradually gathering into it, a school
shortly after rising up in connection with it, and a population,
which was once deemed almost irreclaimable, assuming by'
degrees an orderly and Christian aspect.
" It would be inspiring but a false confidence to speak of
our position in any terms more sanguine than these.
" An endeavour to overtake the omissions of the past has
been well begun, but it is yet far, very far, from being finished.
The expectation, indeed, would be unreasonable, to remedy
the neglect of a century by itny exertions of a year or two. _

" Along age of indifference to religion, which had spread
its baneful influence over every body of Christians, corrupt-
ing even the faith of some, had relaxed most grievously the
exertions of the church.
" She was content to stand still whilst all around her was
in progress. She suffered the population to outgrow her
means of justice without making any effort to extend her
limits.

In this supine and enfeebled course she was not, however,
permitted to reach that state spoken once so feelingly of his
country's decline by the Roman historian, when she could
bear neither her evilsnor their remedy.
" The mercy of God found her ere that and applied the
necessary cure, inspiring anew into her that breath by which
he would have her live and grow again.
" If; then, our prospect grows larger as we take a nearer
view of it, we are animated to press onward, as the mountain
traveller upon his apparently increasing journey, by the re-
trospect of heights already gained, and difficulties left far
behind in the distance. Of all the outward agencies of man,
which he has blessed for this purpose, the erection of
additional churches must certainly be considered the most
needful and efficacious. With such a means of good, then,
ready provided for their adoption, with such a Master in-
spiring and prospering the work, can it, be supposid that
Christians will' either slack their hands or grow weary and
faint in their minds.

" As was the maxim of the great hero of heathen anti-
quity, to deem nothing done which ought to have remained
undone ; as was the principle of the great Christian Con-
queror, in a better warfare, to count not himself to have al-
ready attained, but forgetting the things which were behind,
to reach forward to the things which were before ; so should
the rule of action be with the faithful Christian of the pre-
sent day : casting all that be has already won behind his back,
he should still be looking out for new points at which the
phalanx of sin and ignorance and error with which he is
beset may be successfully assailed; and what his hand there
findeth to do, to do it heartily, as unto the Lord.
" The committee have to announce a very gratifying ad-
vance in the several churches on which they are engaged.
The one in Naylor-street approaches most nearly to a com-
pletion. It is calculated to contain 1350 persons. The en-
tire expense of erection may be estimated at about £5,000.
" The church in Stanhope-street, Windsor, is in the next
stage of advancement. It is intended to contain about 1200,
and the entire expense of it to the Society will probably not
exceed £3,200, the remainder of the cost being borne by cer-
tain benevolent persons in the neighbourhood.

" The object Which the committee have proposed to them-
selves from the outset, is to give to each of their churches so
much of ecclesiastical character as should make them suitable
places for the worship of the Most High ; so to finish them,
within and without, as that all things connected with the
celebration of divine service may be done decently and in
order. In every particular beyond this it has been their
earnest desire and endeavour to study economy to the utmost
shilling.

" It is perhaps generally known that the act of parliament
under which the churches are built requires that an endow-
ment of not less than £lOOO should be made to each, in order
to secure the patronage to the parties who build them. The
adoption of this principle by the legislature has been hailed
with much satisfaction by every member of the church, as
recognizing the principle of a safeguard against the evil of
leaving a clergyman altogether dependent upon the pew rents
for a maintenance. It is the earnest wish of the committee
to move in accordance with the spirit of this enactment rather
than to confine themselves to its letter, by proposing an ad-
ditional sum for those churches which are placed in the poor-
est part of the town, and they confidently calculate upon the
sound church principles which prevail throughout the mem-
bers of the society to approve of this intention, and to enable
them to carry it into effect.

" The outlay already incurred presses closely upon the
amount of subscriptions actually received by the treasurer.
It will, however, be borne in mind that with the new year
a third instalment became due upon those subscriptions which
had not been previously paid in fall. This, when collected,
will probably serve to meet the present engagements.
" Should it after that be deemed advisable to appeal again
to the benevolence of the Christian public for carrying on
the work which has been deputed to the committee, the real
benevolence which they have already experienced, and the
cause which they have in hand, forbid them altogether to
doubt of a favourable result.

" Commending now their work so far as it has already ad-
vanced to the grace of Him who alone can make it to prosper,
and for what yet • remains to be done looking to the same
grace, ruling in the hearts of Christians, and disposing them
through faith to all good works, the committee conclude their
second annual report of their proceedings to the members of
the society."

Mr. MOLYNEUX, the treasurer, next read a statement of
the accounts. It appeared that the receipts for the past year
had amounted to £36,027 12s. 6d., and that there was a
balance remaining in hand, after defraying expellees, of
£5,741 2s. Ild.

The CHAIRMAN said he had the pleasure to announce that
he had received a donation, in compliance with the wish of
the late Miss Colquitt, of Greenbank, of £2OO. This dona-
tion, he stated, was in addition to the gift of £250 by the
Misses Colquitt to St. Clement's Church. (Applause.)
On the motion of the Rev. HUGH WNEILE, seconded by
Mr. POTTER, it was resolved, that the report of the commit-
tee be printed and circulated, and that the treasurer's ac-
counts be passed.
The Rev. Mr. HESKETH, seconded by Mr. MOLYNEUX,
then proposed the appointment of the committee for the en-
suing year. This committee, with the exception of one-third
who retired by rotation, was exactly the same as last year.
The CHAIRMAN then stated that if any gentleman wished
for any information as co what was being done, beyond what
the report stated, or had any suggestions to offer, be should
be glad to hear them.

An extended and desultory conversation then took place
between Mr. Jones, the Chairman, the Rev. Hugh M'Neile,
Mr. Molyneux, and some others, qs to the prices of the seats.
in the course of which it was stated4hat it was intended to
make them low, so as to create a complete church feeling
amongst the lower classes. It appeared, from a table read
by the chairman, that the number of rented sittings in the
body of Naylor-street church are 410 ; of free sittings in the
body 254; of rented sittings in the gallery 250 ; of free sit-
tings in the gallery 230, making 484 free sittings, and 660 to
be let. Then there was another gallery, which was intended
for the children of the school, and which was capable of hold-
ing 210: so that, whilst the sittings to be let were 660, those
free were 694. In Greenland-street church the number of
sittings to be rented on the, ground floor was 471 ; of free sit-
tings 236 ; in the gallery, of seats to be rented, 346 ; and of
free sittings, including the children's gallery, 147. The
Chairman said that, in point of fact, there would only be 236
free sittings out of 1200. This arrangement had been made
in consideration of the respective neighbourhoods of the
churches, Greenland-street being in one where the propor-
tion were of a better class than Naylor-street. The discus-
sion on this subject ended by Mr. Jones undertaking to give
his assistance in ascertaining the price at which the rented
sittings should be let.

After a little more discussion concerning the endowments,
the meeting thanked the rev. chairman for having presided,
and separated.

The D

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

The Council held their usual monthly meeting, for the
despatch of business, in the Town-ball on Wednesday. The

last Council meeting, and they were confirmed.
The report of the Finance Committee, on the evidence
submitted to them, touching the examination of witnesses

respecting

e conduct of the governor and chaplain of the

Borough Gaol, on the resignation of those officers, with
their claim for retiring allowances, was embodied in the ge-

neral minutes of the committee's proceedings. The report
was to the effect that the governor was not entitled to any
retiring allowance ; nevertheless, the committee recommend-
ed that his salary of £3OO per annum should be continued
throughout the current year, he attending the committees
when summoned, and communicating with them when re-
quired. The claim of the governor to repayment for money
expended in making certain alterations for the convenience
of the visiting justices, was to be inquired into. The com-
mittee recommended that the chaplain be allowed £4O a-year
for life.

Mr. JOHN SMITH was sorry to offer any obstacle to any
public servant receiving a reward for his past services, but
he must object to granting any retiring allowance to Dr,
Buck under present circumstances. There was a cloud of
mystery hanging over the matter, which must be dispelled
ere he would agree to give one farthing of the public money
for such a purpose. Various charges they understood had
been made, and it was proper that they should know accu-
shillinff of

Lt. those char

Mr. Sriiitl

recompense to the men over whoip they hung
concluded by proposing a resolution to this effect, that it
was inexpedient to vote any retiring allowance to Dr. Buck
till the Council had had an opportunity of knowing the ex-
tent of the charges against him, and of fully hearing the evi-
dence.
Mr. KILSHAW seconded the resolution:

Mr. THORNHILL said, being a member of the Finance
Committee, he had read the whole of the evidence, and he
declared his opinion that he did not think Dr, Buck entitled
to any allowance whatever. He was of opinion, further, that
the subject ought to stand over, so as to give every member
of the Council an opbortunity of reading the evidence. He
had voted against this allowance in the Finance Committee,
for he could nut see any claim Dr. Buck had to it. If they
went on in this way, and others followed the example of Dr.
Buck, they might in six years have six chaplains on the funds
of the Corporation

LIVERPOOL EPIPHANY SESSIONS.—TuEsDAT

THEFT BY A SHOPMAN

James Murray was indicted for having, on the sth of De-
cember last, feloniously. stolen a shirt, a handkerchief, and
th“ 1...-srtrrflialP hnheriblghPr

Mr. Denman conducted the prosecution, Mr. Murphy de-
fended the prisoner.

The circumstances of this case have been very recently laid
before the public. It will be remembered, that the prisoner
was observed, by one of his fellow-assistants, (John Furnival,)
to conceal a shirt under a basket in the shop. The suspi-
cions of Furnival were aroused by this incident, and he took
an opportunity to mark the shirt, unperceived by the pri-
soner. He had occasion, soon afterwards, to leave the shop
on some business. When he returned he looked under the
basket, but the shirt had heen removed. It appeared, that
the assistants went to breakfast in separate lots, and, while
Furnival was taking his meal, he communicated what had
occurred to his companions. One of the shopmen afterwards
mentioned the circumstance to Mr. Langdale, in consequence
of which, that gentleman directed one of his young men to

ask the prisoner for his keys. The prisoner give up his keys
and ,his box was opened in the presence of Furnival and
others. _ _ _

The shirt, which the latter had marked, was found in the
box, together with a handkerchief and a pair of gloves, all of
which were the property of his employer. A police•officer
was sent for, to whom the prisoner said, be had taken the
goods to see if they would suit him: if they suited him he
would have paid for them.

Mr. MURPHY, on behalf of the prisoner, stated, that it
was a custom amongst the young men employed by the shop:

Keepci4ut Lay. pout LO take goons on appruudLivii, auu, tt
they suited, to pay for them. The prisoner had taken the
shirt and handkerchief with this view, as he had stated to
the constable, and it was his intention to . pay the money to
Mr. Grundy, the managing clerk, to whom he had already
accounted for the gloves. Mr, Grundy was a very material
witness in the case, and he ought to have been called.
The Jury, after a few minutes' consultation, expressed a
wish to have Mr. Grundy called. Mr. Grundy was not in
court, and, it appeared, that it was not convenient to send
for him. The Jury, after a further consultation, returned a
verdict of Guilty, with a recommendation to:mercy.
The Court sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprison-
ment.

A BRIEF IMPRISONMENT

Alexander 111` Arthur, aged 27, was charged with having,
in December last, stolen twelve feet of lead piping, and
seven lead figures, the property of Silvester Conlon. The
prisoner, it appeared, was in the service of Mr. Conlon,
Buck I who expressed a high opinion of him. The case was very

clearly prqved, and, on the Jury recommending the prisoner
to mercy, and Mr. Conlon stating that he would again re-
ceive him into his service, the Court ordered him to be im-

prisoned one day

THEFT

A SERVANT GIRL

Sarah Burns, aged 18, was charged with having, on the
28th November last, feloniously stolen four pieces of chintz,
one frock, one dress, one pair of stays, two petticoats, three
handkerchiefs, one habit-shirt, and a few yards of ribbon, the
property of her master, John Taylor Gregson.
The articles.above Mentioned, it appeared, had been laid
out by Mrs. Gregson for the purpose of being taken to be
dyed. They were subsequently missed,and as Mrs. Gregson

suspected the prisoner, elle demanded' the key of her boa.
This the prisoner at first refused to deliver, but ultimately
access was obtained to the box, and there the property was
found.

The prisoner in her defence stated, that the house of the
prosecutor was a lodging-house. On the night when the
goods were laid out, a servant man belonging to one of the
lodgers returned home very drunk. He danced about the
kitchen and behaved so foolishly, that she advised him to go
to bed. With some difficulty she induced him to comply ;

but, having got him up stairs, he turned into her bedrOoin,
and he could not induce him to go any further. Here she
left him, and was thus compelled to sit up all night. She
went into the kitchen, and as it was dark, she put away the
things which she gathered up about the kitchen. Amongst
other things she gathered up the articles in question, and
placed them in a box, not knowing, at the moment, that it
was her own box. Next morning, she locked her box, and
when her mistress asked her about the things, it struck her
that she must have placed them in her own box ; and being
afraid, she refused to give up the key.

The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and she was sentenced
to nine months' imprisonment.

SHOPLIFTINC

Henry Jones, aged 16, was indicted for having, on the
17th of November last, stolen a crock containing 301bs.
weight of butter, the property of James Bawley, provision
dealer, Park-lane.
.

It appeared, that 'on the night in question, the prisoner, in
company with another womap, went to the shop of Mr.
Bawley, which was under the charge of a little girl. The
prisoner's companion first entered, and inquired the price of
certain fireworks. He was followed by the prisoner, to
whom the first lad remarked, " Oh, we are all here toge-
ther." They stood talking together for a few minutes, one
of them having his back against the crock of butter. They'
left the shop, and after a while returned again, and again
departed.
•Soon after this she missed the crock of butter.
In the meantime, the prisoner and his companion were met
by a police-officer carrying a crock of butter. The officer
stopped them, and asked them where they got it. They re-
fused to answer, and after a short altercation, the officer hav-
ing asked them who was the owner of the butter, they threw
it down, and bidding him " find it out," darted off. He
seized the prisoner and detained him, and soon after found
that the butter had been stolen from Mr. Bawley's shop,
where the prisoner was identified.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced
to seven years' transportation, with an intimation that he
would be placed in a penitentiary.

THEFT FROM A SHOP-DOOR

Catharine Cosgrove, aged 22, was charged with having
stolen three shawls and five yards of calico, the property of
Qeorge Maitland, draper, Whitechapel.
It appeared that, between four and five o'clock on the
night of the 4th of November last, the prisoner was seen
looking earnestly at some shawls which hung at Mr. Mait-
land's shop door. Presently she was seen unpinning the
shawls, and pulling at them as if to get them loose. She cut
the string which secured them, pulled them with her hand,
and they all fell down to the ground. There was a piece of
calico hanging on an iron bar. She pulled t,,c, calico down
also, and was holding it in her hand, when M; . ,'.oberts, one
of Mr. Maitland's assistants, hearing the line break, rushed
from the shop, and, according to his accountrsaw the shawls
fall from beneath the prisoner's cloak.
The jury found the prisoner guilty. Sentence deferred.
THEFT FROM A SHOP WINDOW.

Thomas Lloyd, aged 17, was charged with having, on the
Isl of November last, stolen a number of pocket-knives from
the shop of Francis Murphy.
Edward Cusack, a porter in the; service of Mr. Murphy,
stated, that on the evening in question, he was standing at
the shop door, when he saw three 'boys, one of whom was
the prisoner. The prisoner appeared to be tying something
to the end of a stick, and to be using the light at the win-
dow for that purpose. Witness went away, and returned
some short time after, when the prisoner and his companions
had departed. He noticed, that the window had been broken
in the interim. About an hour and a half afterwards the
boys returned, and he saw the prisoner put the stick throUgh
the broken pane. He looked for a police-officer, but could
not immediately find one. He seized the prisoner, and took
him to Bridewell, where he was searched, and two knives
were found on his person. These he recognised as his mas-
ter's property. It appeared, that a dozen knives, similar to
those found on the prisoner, were subsequently discovered
to have.been stolen from the window. The stick which the
prisoner had thrust through the broken pane was taken from
the prisoner. It had a pin, bent to resemble a hook, fas-
tened to one end.

Mr. VENanLis, who was retained on behalf of the pri-
soner, addressed the jury in his defence, contending that no
felony had been proved, as the prisoner had not been seen
to steal anything whatever.

The juryl found the prisoner guilty, and sentenced him to
10 years transportation, with an intimation that he would
probably be placed in a penitentiary.

WEDNESDAY.
Richard Johnson, 34, a publican, of Garden-lane, was
charged with having feloniously in his possession two £lO.
Bank of England notes, he knowing the same to have been
stolen.
Mr. Henderson was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr.
Murphy for the prisoner. The indictment arose out of a
case of robbery that occurred some time back. A clerk of
the name of Richard Knott Carter, was on the 15th Sept.
1839, robbed of a quantity of bank notes, by a woman named
Ann Fagan, with whom he was in company at a public-house.
She was apprehended, charged with the robbery, and on her
trial pleaded guilty, and was transported. Soon afterwards,
in consequence of information given to the police, the prisoner
Johnson was applied to by the police, and asked if he knew
Ann Fagan, otherwise Ann Twist, it being intimated to him
that she had committed a robbery of bank notes, and that as it
was ascertained that she had shortly afterwards been at his
house, suspicion rested upon him that he was in possession of
two of them. He denied having ever having known such a
woman as Ann Fagan ; admitting that two women had been
at his house on the 16th September, 1839, but that they merely
came as casual customers, and were served and went away.
The police-officers then gave him a description of the notes,
with their respective numbers, and asked him whether he had
such notes or not. He replied, " I have no such notes ; I
know of no such notes." The police then gave information
to Mr. Jones, the brewer with whom the prisoner dealt with
for ale, and also to Mr. Mulleneux, his spirit merchant, of the
robbery, and requested them to mark any notes which the
prisoner might hand to them in payment in such a manner
that they could identify them if called on to give their evidence.
Early in October last the prisoner went to the brewery of
Mr. Jones, and, in payment of his account, tendered a £lO
note. The young man who received it wrote the prisoner's
name at the back, submitted it to Johnson, and remarked,
"We shall know this again." He (the prisoner) replied,
"Oh yes ! we shall know it." Some time after this he ten-
dered another £lO note at Mr. Mulleneux's, which was also
marked in a similar manner. The police being informed,
he was taken into custody.

On the trial, Mr. Carter proved the robbery and the
numbers of the notes. The police-officers proved the inter-
view with the prisoner. Mr. Jones's book-keeper, and Mr.
Mulleneux, jun., deposed to receiving the respective notes,
and marking them in the presence of the prisoner.
Mr. Murphy, for the prisoner, dwelt upon the inconsis-
tency of his conduct, if he were aware that he had a guilty
possession of the notes, in offering them to the very parties
who of all others were the most likely to be applied to and
placed on the look-out. It was not sufficient to show that
the prisoner had possession of the notes to authorise the
jury to find him guilty. It must be clearly proved that he
had them knowing them to have been feloniously stolen. It
was shown, by the evidence for the prosecution, that the
prisoner had had possession of the notes. This he (Mr.
Murphy) was not instructed to deny. The only question
was how he became possessed of them. He (the learned
counsel) was in a position to shew by evidence, that shortly
before the time he had offered the notes, the prisoner had
changed two £lO notes for a person named Chambers, who
had since absconded. If he proved this to the satisfaction of
the jury, he thought they would not consider the evidence
adduced sufficient to warrant a verdict against the prisoner.
A witness was called. who deposed to being at the prison-
er's house about the time alluded to, and seeing a travelling
Scotchman, whom he had frequently seen there. Chambers
asked Johnson if he would change him a £lO note, and the
prisoner replied that be could. The note was handed to
him, and he left the room to go for the change. The pri-
soner shortly afterwards returned and counted to Chambers
nine sovereigns and some silver.
Another witness stated that he was at Johnson's on a sub-
sequent day, and asked him, in witness's presence, if he
would change him a note. He saw the note, but was not
sufficiently near to see distinctly its number or its value.
He would, however, swear that Johnson gave him more than
eight sovereigns in change.
Several witnesses were then called to speak to the charac-
ter of the prisoner.
Mr. Henderson for the prosecution replied to the defence.
The RECORDER having summed up the evidence, the jury
in a few minutes returned a verdict of guilty.
The prisoner prayed the court to be heard a few words
before sentence was passed. He had, he said,' two sisters,
and a grandfather, 87 years of age, solely dependent upon
him for support. Parties, too, had taken possession of his
house and squandered his property,. He had already been in
gaol for a length of time, and had 'lost the use of his right
side, so that he was not capable of hard labour.
The RECORDER :—You have been carrying on an abomi-
nable traffic with those wretched women of the town for a
great length of time, by giving them only a few shillings for
any bank notes they offered you.* What has aggravated your
offence is that your defence has been fouuded in perjury.

I as firmly believe as that I sit here that you have got up
your defence by perjury—infamous, naked perjury. The
sentence of the court is that you be transported beyond the
seas for the term of ten years.

* The woman who was transported for the robbing of Mr
Carter, had, we learn, made a confession after sentence

irriplientiug the prisoner, of whose guilt there were strong as-
surances in several other cases, but the police could not ob-
tain sufficient evidence to ensure a conviction until the pre-
sent case was investigated and pursued.

COURT OF PASSAGE.
The Court of Passage was held yesterday, but no trials of
importance took place.

IRELAND

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Dublin, 6th Jan. 1841

Emigration to the West Indies is altogether a novel specu-
lation in this country, and if it should become a favourite,
will have conquered many prejudices and difficulties which
now throw a powerful barrier in its way. The Romanist
Eeasantry, however willing to exercise their talents in merry
ngland, have never been greatly addicted to distant emigra-
tion. It has been frequently remarked, arid truly so, that
they cling to the natale solum with a desperate fidelity—pre-
ferring the poorest fare, and severest labour in it, to far
brighter prospects, or even certainties, out 'of it. The priest-
hood have invariably laboured to strengthen this feeling—
on a calculation, probably, that the larger their flocks, how-
ill in condition, the greater their own power and influence
must be.

Notwithstanding these opposmb , there is still,
as we well know, a tolerably large, stantly increasing
emigration from Ireland—the law of necessity being more
powerful than that of either priest or prejudice.
As a proof of this fact, I refer to the sailing of the Robert
Kerr last week from the Shannon, with, in a 11,139 emigrants,
for Jamaica. Now in this case every dissuasion was used to

influences
and coi

prevent the parties from taking—or persevering in—such a
step. Father Mathew had plied his eloquence, and sundry
professing patriots had done their best to divert the stream
from this coui4se, but in vain. The Robert Kerr has not only
sailed with her full complimentof passengers, but was obliged
to refuse many more from want of room. This is a striking
proof that the strongest prejudices may be overcome if due
means be put in operation for the purpose. Mr. Pirrie, the
owner of the vessel, acted by the passengers in the most libe-
ral manner, offering to all liberty to depart without charge,
after they had been, some of them several days, on board at
his expense. They declined .his offer however, and expressed
themselves perfectly content to remain.
There is a great want of correct information here with
regard to every thing connected with West Indian emigra-
tion— It is generally supposed that out-door labour at
Jamaica, or any other of the islands, woukl be immediately
fatal to European constitutions. • No distinction is made be-
tween situations, and no just conception is formed of the
nature of the work to be done. To remove this ignorance,
and disseminate more just notions, both with regard to
labour and climate, the press should be resorted to, through
its instrumentality, much might be done. At the same time,
we may rest assured, that in the experiment now in course
of trial succeed, it will do more to procure a supply of
labourers from Ireland for the west, than anything that could
be achieved through the medium of .printed publications.
I shall not sicken you by repeating the echoes on the sub-
ject of " repeal" and " Irish manufactures." Here one's
ears are dinned eternally with them. Or. the 18th the agitator
goes to Belfast to partake of a feed, to be given him by the
radicals of that town—thence to Glasgow, and other places
on a like tour of excitation. He has established a Repeal
Rent, which turns in something between £5O and £lOO per
week. This is a point, which among all his turnings, he is
quite sure never to forget. It is one of the mainsprings of
all his movements. His funds, I suspect, are rather low at
present; at all events he is most importunate for even the
smallest contribution. The new levy is a shilling a year—
with the advantage of being payable by instalments—" and

lys Daniel, " so base as be a slave, that may be
emancipated on such cheap terms ? A shilling a year ! why,
it is but a farthing a week, and a whole mouth for nothing—

transparent a Cheat can still find such a multitude of soft-

On Saturday morning last, the extensive printing-office of
Mr. Folds of Bachelor's-walk, was destroyed by fire. The
property consumed is supposed to have been of the value of
£3,ooo—and not insured. The circumstance, however,
which gives most interest to the occurrence, is the suspicion
that it was the work of an incendiary. Mr. Folds has been
for some time at variance with the society of operative
printers, and this fact, in addition to the unexplained origin
of the fire, and something mysterious in the mode in which
it broke out, has led to this supposition. The matter will
undergo a strict investigation, and is likely to lead to much
discussion. That no ground will be discovered to charge the
working printers, as a body, with so abominable a crime, 1
feel quite persuaded : at the sametime, combination amongst
workmen in this city has been, either immediately or re-
motely, the cause of so many disasters, that I should not be
surprised if it should prove to have been in some way in-
strumental to the production of the calamitous result in
question.

Lord Morpeth has declared war against the Royal Dublin
Society—an institution founded solely for the promotion of
science and the arts. The members were obnoxious as
being too conservative, and merely for this reason, the so-
ciety is threatened with.destruction. Its general usefulness
depends on the grants which it receives from parliament,
and these the whig secretary threatens to withdraw, unless

his various plans of levelling and equalising all classes and
parties, be acceded to.

A horrible murder was committed in the generally quiet
and peaceable county of Armagh, near the village of New-
townhamilton, on Saturday last, on the person of Mr.
Powell, a land surveyor, in the employment of Mr. Quin.
He was attacked by a band of ruffians while sitting at his
own fire•side, in company with his two daughters, dragged
thence and shot through the heart, just outside his own
door! His only offence was that of superintending the
building of a school-house, whose intended use was not
agreeable to the plans of that cursed power which reigns so
mightily yet mysteriously in this unhappy land.

AGENTS FOR IRON WORKS PERQUISITES

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlA,—Perceiving that the columns of your valuable journal
are devoted to the advancement of shipping and general corn -
mercial affairs, and that they are at all times ready to dis
cover any irregUlarity of an obnoxious tendency to those
interests, I have determined to address you, in order to
reveal to the mercantile public an instance of discrepancy
that has, for many interests, been too long overlooked and
concealed.

Having occasion in the course of my profession as a ship-
broker to visit the ports of Cardiff and Newport, places where
the most extensive iron export business in the united kingdom
is carried on, I was somewhat surprised upon learning the
singular manner in which the agents for the iron proprietors
conduct business, as-regards the interests of the consignees,
or parties at a distance, who give their orders to the iron-
masters, the said agents employers, and which are confided
to the latter gentlemen to execute. Now it appears that
these agents for the iron works, either upon their own re-
sponsibility, or by the permission of their employers, assimi-
lated the occupation of the shipbroker with that of their own
situation as agent; and I find that they not only connect the
professions, but blend the profits arising from both callings.
In the character of a broker they scrupulously exact the com-
missions arising upon the freight of all vessels chartered there,
or by them, thereby affording the shipmaster or owner no
alleviation from expense, although materially interrupting the
business of the fair and legitimate shipbrokers, and what is
more flagitious than all, subjecting the interest of the con-
signee, which they are by every principle of commerce, as
friends of their employers, bound to protect, to a species of
speculation which I shall now endeavour to explain.
1 find that the rate of freight which is paid by the con-
signees is left entirely in the hands of the agents to regulate
as per orders from the consignees with the shipmaster, upon
which occasion they assume the functions of the broker. The
difficulty for one agent to represent the consignee and the
shipmaster's interests became obvious to me, and must be so
to the minds of all those conversant on these matters. I was
therefore naturally led to inquire into the subject, when, as
1 suspected, I found discrepancies that fortunately must exist
when the affairs of the seller are placed at the disposal of the
buyer. Of these malpractices, when at Cardiff and Newport,
I received convincing, demonstration in several instances.
I have known sixpence and one shilling put on extra freight
to have been sacrificed as a matter of perfect indifference to
the ship's benefit by the agent, in order to secure a commis-
sion upon the freight, without any reference or attention to
the consignee's interests, but entirely subverting it to the
ship's—a lavish mode of proceeding that commercial enter-
prise can at the present but ill afford to tolerate, but which
must ensue, when the iron master's agent makes for himself
an individual interest in the ship's advantage.

When shipping at these ports becomes scarce, the afore-
said agents, as a last resource, apply to the established bro-
kers for tonnage, from whom they exact one-half of their
commission as brokerage. In fact, an intelligent firm woui.d
have long since addressed the consignees upon this subject,
but, allowing themselves to be absorbed by the trifling advan-
tages that these agents occasionally allow them, together with
their timidity at losing them, has restrained them from doing
so. However, as I am convinced, from the spirit already
evinced by some of the most respectable iron proprietors,
that this malpractice needs only to be generally known to be
immediately remedied, I beg to request that you will afford
publicity to this communication, as I believe you will agree

with me that such a desirable alteration is not unworthy of
being obtained through the medium of your influential and
impartial paper.—l remain, &c.,
A LIVERPOOL SHIP BROKER
AND SUBSCRIBER.

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Duties paid to government by the fire insurance offices for
the year 1839 :
SUN (established in 1710) .. £ 158,688
Alliance 25,512
Atlas
British ' 18,348
County
Globe 33,32(1
Guardian
Hand-in-hand
Imperial • '28,221
Independent and West Middlesex 2,071
Licensed Victuallers ,7 5,209
London
Phoenix
Protector (discontied) 1 130,149
Union
Westminster

18,211
18,662