The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-05 00:00:00

THE WAREHOUSE QUESTION

The MAYOR said the next communication he had to read
was the following letter from Mr. North, secretary to the
Association of Warehouse Owners

" Office of the Association of Land an
Warehouse Owners, 2nd Feb. 1841.

" TO THE WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR, IN COUNCIL

" Stu,—On behalf of this association wb be., to acknow-
ledge the receipt from the town-clerk of the resolution of the
council of the 27th ult., adopting the repbrt of the special
committee on the dock bill, which report has been submitted
to special meetings of the association yesterday and to-day.
' " And our reply shall be very brief. With a firm and un. -I
alterable conviction in our minds of the inipolicy, us well as
the injustice of the dock- warehouse scheme; feeling as we
feel, that what is unsound in principle, and unfair in opera-
tion, can never be made acceptable by any Modification of its
injurious character ; we will not affect to conceal the ex-
treme reluctance with which we eutertain:the idea of com-
promising this great question. Nor would Eve now do so on
any other consideration than that of the miserable inequality
of a continued struggle in parliament between a class of in-
dividuals paying their own expenses, and a public body in
command of a public purse • and on this, probably our last
appeal to you, we request that it may bd distinctly under-
stood that what we partially yield we yield only to a power
which in pecuniary means alone we cannot cope with.
Strong, with this exception, in everything that should ensure
and deserve success, we concede only to the force of circurn-
:stances what we deny.to be either rightful or expedient.
" With such preface in justice to ourselves, we now revert
to the report, by.which are. proposed certain alterations in
the bill, important, no doubt, as tar as the go, and facilities
not less important for the better working of the docks ; and
for the reason already given, we reply, that if that report be
fairly, fully, and faithfully carried out, according to its spirit,
in settling the clauses of the bill, and in its progress through
parliament, all parliamentary opposition to the bill by this
.association shall cease. :But to ensure this, and for our se-
,curity so far only, and not with any hostile intent, it may be
necessary for us to present a petition, and appear by counsel
against the bill, which we therefore reserve power to do it
needful.
" We observe with satisfaction that, under the 13th clause

of the report, the necessary alterations in the bill, and the
adjustment, in the spirit of the resolution, of all matters of
detail, are referred to the Finance Committee; and in order
to the settlement, so far as may be, of all differences, and the
prevention of unnecessary trouble and expense, we request
to be favcsured at their early convenience (and a sufficient
time before the bill goes before the parliamentary committee)
with the substance of their recommendations, and a copy of
the amended bill. _ _ _

" We refer once more to the subject of costs, but not as
supplicants ; we appeal only to the justice of the council.
More than once during the last session of parliament the
costs of this association were offered to be paid, as the price
of concessions by us, then asked for. That our opposition
was reasonable the concessions now made to us at least
prove ; and we conceive, therefore, that we have a moral right
to indemnity against the expense of defensive proceedings
thus justified by their result.

'or the Commat

A Warehouse Owners,

" .INo

Noani, Secretary."

The MAY or. suggested that this document should. lie re-
ferred to the Finance Committee. The suggestion was adopted
without eliciting any remark.

THE HEAD CONSTABLE.
The MAYOR said that, upon leaving the council-room yes-
terday, the head constable had placed in his hands reports
concerning the meeting at the Queen's Theatre, and he called
upon the Town-clerk to read them.—The substance of the
reports will be found in the subjoined letter of Mr. Whitty,
which was written at the request of the Mayor :
TO HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR.
Sin.—l have heard with regret that complaint has been
made in council of my not having reported for your worship's
information, that some kind of meeting had taken place on
Sunday week, in the Queen's Theatre. Of. such meeting I
had no official information whatever ; and, although the cir-
cumstance, some time afterwards, was mentioned to me by a
gentleman in the course of casual conversation, I considered
that as the proceeding had passed over without having excited
the observations of the police-officers on duty, it was—how-
ever reprehensible—unworthy of further notice. From that
moment the subject never again recurred to my memory.
The instructions given to me are to afford protection to all,
but to interfere as little as possible with the proceedings of
any political party. To these instructions I have scrupulous-
ly attended ; and your Worship is aware that I have never
made reports of public meetings, or public proceedings of
any kind, unless when a breach of the peace had taken place,
or had been apprehended. The proceeding in question, as
mentioned to me, was unattended by any manifestation of
of disorder, was unpremeditated, and never likely to be re-
peated. Had I been present, I would not have felt myself
authorised to interfere, and, consequently, not called upon
to take any sunsequent proceeding. Your Worship, I am
sure, will acquit me of all improper motive, in omitting to
report on the circumstance, for it would be absurd to at-
tempt to conceal a circumstance published in all the news-
papers. . . .

On Saturday last-I was ordered, by the Watch Committee,
to make inquiry and report. The result of my inquiry, in
the form of reports from the superintendent and inspector on
duty, was early yesterday morning deposited in the hands of
the secretary, and these, ;by permission of the chairman, Sir
Joshua Walinsley, were shewn to you yesterday, immediately
after the Council had broken up. Enclosed your Worship
has copies.

From personal inquiry I find, that on the occasion in ques-
tion Mr. John O'Connell had privately met, in consequence
of agreement at the dinner in the same place on Saturday
evening, a few friends previous to his departure for London.
The circumstance having got abroad, several persons as-
sembled in Christian-street about half-past four o'clock.
Their numbers have been differently estimated ; but all
agree that they occupied only a portion of the opposite foot-
walk. The landlord of the. public-house states that, not
wishing to have a crowd opilosite his house, he proposed to
admit then) quietly into the boxes and gallery of the theatre,
the body of the theatre being then occupied by workmen,
getting ready for theatrical representation the following
night. The persons so admitted were addressed briefly by
Mr. O'Connell, and then withdrew, the whole time of ad-
mission, address, and departure, not occupying ten minutes.
There were no preparations; no lighting up for the occasion ;
no banners, except those belonging to the scenery. There
was no charge for admission, no collection made, no discus-
sion.—l have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,
M. J. WHITTY, Head-constable.
Watch-00m, Feb. 4, 1841.
The MAYOR said the town-clerk was prepared to give his
opinion upon the legal part of the case.
The TOWN-CLERK then said, that in looking into the act
of parliament, his opinion was, that neither the head consta-
ble nor any of the constables present could have legally put
down that meeting. The only act of parliament that applied
to the subject was one which entirely depended upon money
being taken, or tickets being issued for admission, or any
contrivances to effect the attainment of either of those ob-
jects. If the meeting was either for public amusement or
public debating upon any subject whatever, it was illegal,
and, being a disorderly house, might be summarily punished.
There was no doubt the parties might be subject to ecclesi-
astical censures, but beyond that the present seemed to be
that description of case referred to in the Queen's proclama-
tion, which was read every session at the opening of the
court, as to which " the visible displeasure of good men
must supply what the laws cannot altogether prevent." He
must say, however, that with regard to the persons working
there in their ordinary calling, and who perhaps were guilty
of a less moral and religious offence than those who had
called forth the present inquiry, they would have been, and
still were, liable to information for penalties.
Mr. HODGSON considered the letter of the head constable
a very flimsy attempt at an excuse, as he had told him him-
self that he did not think himself called upon to make a re-
port on any such matter.
Mr. ISAAC HoLmEs said he had been informed by a per-
son who was willing to come forward, that at least 1200 per-
sons went into the theatre, and that there were from 400 to
500 in the street.

After a few words from Mr. GLADSTONE,
and the MAY OR, the conversation dropped.

Mr. BRIGHT,

INLAND BONDING.
The MAYOR said the next business on the paper was Mr.
Birkett's motion on this question. He did not know, how-
ever, whether Mr. Birkett was aware that all bills affecting
the interests of the town were under the special care of the

Finance Committee
Mr. BIRKETT said he rose for the purpose of moving the
appointment of a special committee, with full powers for
opposing any bill which might be brought into parliament
during the present session for inland bonding. He thought it
better and more respectful to the council to state in the first
instance that he had a precedent for this motion, and next
to state the reasons why he had taken up the subject at the
present time. In the. year 1833 or 1834 a measure for inland
bonding was first introduced, by the then Chancellor of the
Exchquer Lord Althorp. A meeting of merchants was called
to oppose it, and the council of that day appointed a deputa-
tion to join the opposition out of doors, and the council paid
the whole of the expenses. Mr. Sandbaeb, the father of the
member for Vauxhall Ward, was the chairman of that depu-
tation, but owing to some circumstances the ministry went
out, and the bill went out along with them. The question
was not renewed till the session of 1839, when Mr. Poulett
Thomson, president of the board of trade, brought it for-
ward. A meeting was called of the parties interested in this
town, and a memorial was sent to the council asking them to
oppose it, but they refused. Nothing was then left to them
but to appoint a deputation, and send them to London.
That deputation met others from the outports, and they
memorialised the Chancellor of the Exchequer, then Mr.
Spring Rice. They had an interview with him which lasted
for some considerable time, and the only reason which the
Chancellor of the Exchequer adduced difficult for the depu-
tation to answer was the fact that that council had not spoken
against but resolved not to oppose it. The measure was car-
ried through the House of Commons, but it was opposed in
the Lords by the united deputations of which he was one,—
and it was thrown out in consequence of the Duke of Wel-
lington considering it to be little better than a job. Last
session it was again renewed at a more early period : it was
opposed by Mr. Goulbourn in the commons. Unless
ministers would consent that a special committee should
be appointed to inquire into Uthe whole question. A
committee was appointed which sat for four months ;
they took a vast deal of evidence, and when those
who ought to have had an opportunity of answering
the case for the measure were called upon, they wer-
restricted to four or five witnesses, all the time having been
consumed by the other parties. On thatoccasion the Town-
council was again asked to interfere, by the bye, a bare ma-
jority of one refused. The select vestry then took the matter
up; and it was only due to them to say that they did it un-
influenced by him, although ha had the credit of it, for he
was out of town at the time. They made a special report to
the inhabitants in vestry ; and among other matters they
charged the Town-council with having abandoned their duty :
one of the largest and most respectable vestries that ever as-
sembled in the town was called, and resolutions were passed
unanimously, at least only from four to seven persons dis-
sented, that the select vestry should oppose the bill. The
select vestry, therefore, immediately appointed a deputation
to proceed to London, and of that deputation be was ap-
pointed chairman. He watched the measure as well as he
could: he got as many witnesses summoned at the expense
of government, on behalf of the town, as he could ; and, in
consequence of the opposition which they raised in the upper
house being made known, the government abandoned the
bill. (Hear, bear.) It was for these reasons he had in-
truded himself upon the notice of the council, and he thought
it was only due to himself to say, that he was practically ac-
quainted with the whole subject, and the manner of opposing
any intended bill. He might be met with the statement
that no bill was yet before parliament. That. might be very
true, but it should be recollected, that within the last fort-
night a large meeting had been held in Manchester, at which
strong resolutions were passed in favour of an inland bonding
bill. He had no doubt, therefo.e, that government would
introduce one, and he thought it the duty of the council to
be early, earnest, and sincere in watching over the interests
of the town. Those parties.who were desirous of extending
the inland bonding system did not disguise the fact that it
would be an injury to Liverpool. Was it not therefore their
bounden duty, as public trustees, to stand up for the welfare
of the town. With regard to the general subject then was no
question that it would cause a very large addition to the ex-
penditure of the country in the provision and maintenance
of a large extra number of officers. Besides the security of
the revenue must be very materially weakened, as the system
was now confined to the outports, government held posses-
sion of the property imported until the duties had been paid ;
bat, in transitu they must part with that possession. In inland
transit the government could not refuse the bond of any man
who said that he was the representative of property, though he
was not worth sixpence ; and it was in evidence that one suc-
cessful fraud, either in brandy or tobacco, would make the
fortune of any man; therefore, upon the ground of extra ex-
penditure, of the want of security, and of unfair competition
with the fair trader, it behoved that council to oppose the
bill. If the council agreed with the principle of appointing
a special committee, it was, on the one hand, due to them to
say, that care should be taken that no wasteful expenditure
of funds should take place, and, on the other, they should
be satisfied it would lie a bona fide opposition. To accom-
plish this, he should suggest that a committee of 9 or 11
should be appointed, of whom the members of the finance
committee should form one-half. He begged to move the

resolution.
Mr. COOPER seconded the resolution, because on former
occasions the council had not done its duty to the town, in
defending its interests ; also because he believed that the best
interests of the town had been absolutely sold for the object
of getting the warehouse bill. He also supported the motion
because the sense of the parish was decidedly in favour of
and he thought if
,the committee were appointed according
to Mr. Birkett's suggestions, it would be most likely to carry
its opposition forward with vigour.
Mr. EVANS opposed the motion in a speech of consider-
able length. He said that the question upon a former occa-
sion had every justice done to it, when the council decided
upon the principle of non-interference. In doing so, he
considered that they had consulted the ends of justice, which
ought certainly to prevail over those of private and national
interests. The vague apprehensions which were entertained
by the warehouse-owners concerning that measure, he was
quite convinced were entirely' nugatory. Every bill which
had been introduced had contained clauses carrying with
them regulations which were completely subversive of any
chance that they could have, in the inland towns, of
carrying their projectS into effect. When the question was
brought before the council oh a former occasion, it was found
that Manchester and the inland towns entertained most hostile
feelings against the corporation, and even against the people
Of Liverpool, in consequence. Was it right now to renew
all their jealousies and dislikes which had been overcome, in
a great degree, by refraining 'from acts of injustice against
their rights. He 'hoped the council would not avail itself of
the public funds, and lend itself to a party interest, which
wished to have their interests preferred to the general rights
of the country, at the expense of the public. The council

had been neutral i and it ought to-be neutral. It hdd never,
and unquestionably it ought not to interfere to do that which
private interests alone were able to do. They could make a
perfectly legitimate opposition; and they ought to make the
legislature acquainted with their case, without the aid of that
council. Mr. Evans then proceeded to argue that building
warehouses in the interior could not injure Liverpool, and he
ridiculed the idea of the vestry representing the wishes of
the inhabitants on this subject, and that it was very impro-
bable warehouses would be built iu Manchester. He further
contended, generally, that the justice, as well as the policy,
of the case required that the bonding system should not be
confined to the outports.

Mr. ROBINSON, in support of the motion, contended, that
owing to the increased facilities of communication, and to
principal articles of import being sold by sample, there
would be no great public convenience, whilst there would be
a decided loss by giving the bonding system to inland towns
Mr. BUsSIELL said V-

one aing was quite clear. ..,very
member of the Council must have gathered from the speech
of Mr. Evans, that he did not deal in wine. Mr. Evans
dealt in tobacco ; but he (Mr. Bushell) trusted if the inland
bonding measure should be carried seeing he should be a
sufferer by it; that Mr. Evans would give him a quid pro quo,
and make him some compensation. He was often much
enlightened, (he supposed he must say), by the speeches of
Mr. Evans, but on this occasion, he had totally failed in en-
lightening him on this occasion. That circumstance, per-
haps, arose, not from any want of ability on his part to
grapple with the question, but from his havitig, become an
advocate in a bad cause, and, therefore, he conceived he had
entirely failed. First, Mr. Evans had told the Council that
non-interference was the course they should pursue. Now,
he (Mr. Bushell) declared, that non-interference in a matter
of this sort, was, in effect, positive interference, because
Manchester would go to Parliament and say, " Liverpool
cares nothing about it—her Town Council has refused to
interfere—the guardians of her local interests say they will
offer us no opposition." (Hear, hear.) Was this " non-
interference ?" Was it not the very best argument with
which their adversaries could be furnished? lie repeated
that by non-interference the Council armed the advocates of
the measure with one of the best weapons against the in-
terests of this town. (Applause.) In speaking of this
scheme, which was first brought under notice of Parliament
by Mr. Poulett Thomson, Mr. Evans called it " visionary."
He (Mr. Bushell) presumed that Mr. Evans was a particular
friend of Mr. Poulett Thomson. Mr. Evans had expressed
a firm belief, that only one or two warehouses would
rise up in Manchester, if this privilege were conceded.
What, then, must be thought of Mr. Evans as a political
economist if such should be the fact ? What ! would he en-
tail upon the country the burden of £200,000 per annum in
rearing up in Manchester a Customs' establishment, whilst
the same amount of business might be done here without one
farthing increased expense, for the sake of giving permission
to visionaries to pursue a visionary scheme ! (Hear, hear.)
But while on this part of the subject he might be permitted
to say, " Is it to be supposed that, if this• privilege is to be
conceded to Manchester, it can stop there? Will not Leeds
ask for it, and if Leeds obtains it why not Birmingham ? If
Birmingham succeeds why should not Sheffield, and If Shef-
field why should Wolverhampton be refused? (Hear, hear.)
And looking at the question in a national point of view, would
any man venture to tell him seriously that one additional
pound of cotton, sugar, tea, coffee, or any other description
of produce now imported, would be introduced or consumed
by reason of the proposed change? In the management of
their own private establishments—at least he found it so in
his—they found it advisable to keep no more cats than could
catch mice ; in like manner why should government raise up
additional establishments, at an immense annual charge upon
our already exhausted exchequer, to do the same duty, or
rather to receive the same amount of duty? (Hear, hear.)
Although it had been argued by Mr. Evans that it was not
the duty of the council to interfere in national matters, he
believed he had been among the foremost in the town-council
debates upon the corn-law question. (Hear.) How men
could differ when it suited their purpose ! (Cries of " No,
uo," answered by " Yes, yes." _

Mr. Sum.- brought the corn-laws before the council,
and perhaps I may have the pleasure of doing so again.
(Hear, hear, from the liberal side.)
Mr. BUSH ELL continued.—Now with regard to the nuga-
tory clauses in the proposed bill, of which Mr. Evans had
spoken, as effectual barriers to the ultimate success of the
measure—they knew that it was argued, with regard to the
warehouse question—let us get the principle established, and
we will soon have the system carried out to its fullest extent.
Now, in like manner did the council suppose that Manches-
ter was anxious to carry out only the present bill ? Would
she not come again before parliament to obtain more extended
privileges, before the bill had been in operation twelve months,
or perhaps as many weeks? (Hear, hear.) Mr. Evans had
thought fit to beat down the expression of opinion by the in-
habitants of the town in this (to them) most vital question :
he laughed at the idea of a vestry meeting, but he (Mr. B.)
contended that at that vestry meeting, there assembled in
considerable numbers those inhabitants whose representatives
he now addressed on their behalf. It was the duty of the in-
habitants of the town to express their opinions, seeing that
Liverpool was so deeply interested in this question. It was
not correct, therefore, in Mr. Evans to sneer at the vestry
meeting. He contended that there were two classes in that
council who were bound, if they were consistent, to support
the motion. They had bad divisions on the warehouse ques-
tion, and the classes he alluded to were those who supported
and those who opposed warehouses. Now the advocates of
increased warehouses were bound to support the motion, be-
cause they had argued, if those warehouses were built round
the duck quays, they would facilitate and increase the trade
of the port. To shew these gentlemen what would be the
efiect of the inland bonding scheme, he would read them an
extract from a recently published pamphlet on the subject—
" The customs' duties at Liverpool are four millions, and
Manchester pays more than two millions and a half of these
duties.'. The customs' duties paid by the Manchester dis-
trict alone, are nearly a million more than the whole of Scot-
land, half a million more than Ireland, and one-eighth of the
whole of England."
Now if it were the fact that the produce, which was now
bonded in warehouses in Liverpool, belonged—the most of it
to Manchester ; if, as he learned by this pamphlet, the bond-
ing of goods here was to be decreased considerably more than
one-half, what was to become of the new warehouses said to
be built for the purpose of giving increased accommodation?
(Hear.) Why, it was like lighting a candle at both ends.
(Hear.) He saw no consistency in first building warehouses,
and afterwards promoting a scheme which woul.l effectually
defeat the object for which they are proposed t. oe erected.
Having shown that the advocatcs of dock warehouses could
not reasonably oppose this motion, he would now inquire
into the position (as regards the proposed privilege) of the
opponents of warehouses. They said, at least one of them
had said, in that conned, they had a right to advocate their
own interests, against the interests of the public, and that
he for one would not consent to cut his own throat. Would
be than consent to cut the throat of the body corporate?
As stewards of the enormous amount of property which they
had under their management, were they not bound to protect
the interests of the corporation, and those of the town at
large ? (Hess, hear.) Was there to be found in that coun-
cil a single individual who had the courage to say that he
would protect his own individual interests against all aggres-
sion, and yet refuse to interfere, when ihe vast interests of
the town, of which he professes to be a guardian, are assailed?
For consistency sake he hoped not. He thought, therefore,
he should have with him on this question both the advocates
and the opponents of warehouses. Again, would any man tell
him there was a single interest in Liverpool which was not as-
sailed by this inland bonding question? Would not the porter
be deprived of his labour, or be compelled to seek another
field for it? Would not the business of the carter be affected ?
Would not the warehouse owner ? Would not the broker ?
And upon'the principle that if you diminish wealth you di.
minish expenditure, would not the tradesman in Bold-street
be a grievous sufierer ? Would corporation land or corpora-
tion, houses retain their present value ? (Hear, hear.) With
all these interests at stake, be could not, by any possibility,
understand on what principle the council should refuse to in-
terfere on this great :Ittestion. (Hear.) It might be said
they bad no right to interrupt the course of free trade, and
that private interest must give way to public good ; but this
was not a case of private interest opposed to public good. It
was private interest against private interest, neither was it
for the national good, but for the national injury ; because it
would not increase the revenue a shilling, but on the contrary
create an unnecessary annualexpendlture of several hundreds
of thousands of pounds. He might have said something, for
he did not lose sight of the enormous patronage this inland
bonding scheme would give to government, but he refrained.
He felt deeply interested in this great question, and therefore
desired to avoid every allusion which could by possibility give
rise to party feeling. In this they had all one common in-
terest : privileges had been conceded to the ports, upon the
faith of which an enormous capital had been embarked ; these
privileges should not upon slight grounds be withdrawn. He
had attempted to show that the public interests required no
such sacrifices as Liverpool was now called upon to make;
and whether this v sionary scheme (to use the words of Mr.
Evans) were supported by the President of the Board of
Trade of the present or any other government the duty of
this council is clear, and they are in duty bound to oppose
this contemplated measure.

—Mr. EARLE had not intended to have spoken one word,
but as his name had been particularly mentioned—
Mr. BUSHELL.--I beg to say. that I mentioned the name
of no person.
Mr. EARLE.—But you must have meant my name, be-
cause you made use of expressions wnich I have used before.
I beg to ask Mr. Bushell whether he did not mean to refer
to me?
Mr. Busum.L.—l believe I did.
Mr. EARLE.—I thought you did.
Mr. EVANS.—I admire the good tone of this, at any rate.
Mr. EARLE explained, that although he had expressed his
intention to vote in favour of his private interest as a ware-
house owner, he had also said, that if the warehouses were
found advantageous to the public, he should not allow his
private right to interfere with the public welfare.
Mr. AIKIN opposed the motion, on the ground that it was
little on the part of Liverpool to oppose what was a just
claim on the part of other towns.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE supported it, not upon the ground
of private interest, but because it was fraught with serious
danger to the revenue of the country, and because he be-
lieved the scheme was brought forward by the government
for the purpose of increasing their patronage.
Mr. MELLoR said he would have supported a petition
representing that the establishment of bonded warehouses in
inland towns could not bring one shilling to the revenue, but
rather be attended with great expense to the country ; but
he could not consent to send a deputation, because he con-
ceived that its object was to promote private interest.
Mr. SANDS said; that if Mr. Evans was right in saying
that no possible injury could arise to Liverpool from inland
bonding, it followed that no possible good could arise to
Manchester and other towns which might have the privilege.
The ground of his support to the motion was the enormous
expense which the machinery of the warehouses would re-
quire.
Sir J. WALMSLET opposed the motion, and Mr. HODG-
SON supported it.
Mr. SLATER, Mr. SHEIL, and Mr. CASE opposed it.
Mr. BIRKETT replied, lie said, that by the division he
should have the satisfaction of seeing who were for the town,
and who were against it. A great deal had been said about
private interests; he admitted that he was there as an inte-
rested man ; but how different was the situation of some of
the gentlemen who had spoken. They had no interest in
the place ; and whether they slept in the town, or whether
they slept in Abraham's bosom, could make no difference.
The constitution of the committee which he had proposed
was a pledge • gainst wasteful expenditure on the one hand,
and of a bond fide opposition on the other. He thought the
gentleman who had spoken against the motion would be far
better sitting in the Manchester than in the Liverpool town-
council.
Mr. EARLE.--I suppose that is what you call a clencher !
The council then divided. The numbers were—
For the motion
Against it

Majority against the motion
The council then separated.

. The Lord Bishop of Chester will hold an Ordination at
Chester on the 14th of this month.

EAST SURREY ELECTION.— REIGATE, Tuesday.—The
" liberal" candidate attended the monthly market, which
was held here to-day.
He came into town with a very sorry
accompaniment of
.followers, and arrangements were made
for a meeting.of his friends at the
. Town-hall at 3 o'clock.
The hon. candidate in the mean time proceeded to the Swan
Inn, where, upon his own invitation, he joined the farmer's
dinner. The " meeting" was afterwards held in Town-hall,
and Mr. Alcock made a novel speech to the few who had as-
sembled. The current opinion among the electors is, that
Mr. Antrobus will be returned by a much larger majority
than the conservative candidates were at the last election.

MEETING OF THE OPERATIVE CONSERVATIVE

ASSOCIATION

A special general meeting of the members of this associa-
tion was held last night at the large room of the York Hotel.
One of the principal objects of the meeting mas to consider
the propriety of petitioning against the total and immediate
repeal of the corn laws, in opposition to the agitation of the
Anti-Corn Law League. The attendance was very nume-
rous, the room being nearly filled. DANIEL LEDSON,Esq.,
president of the association, took the chair.
The CIIAIRMAN rose amidst great applause from all parts
of the room, and addressed the crowded assembly as fol-
lows :—I am much gratified to see so numerous an assembly
of the operatives of our association present this evening. You
have been called together for the purpose of agreeing to a
petition—which will be submitted to you—to the houses of
parliament, against the repeal of the corn laws. (Cheers.)
You are aware that the anti-corn law league are issuing their
pamphlets, and are getting up petitions in all parts of the
kingdom, for the repeal of those laws. (Hear, .hear.) The
committee of this association have, therefore, thought it very
desirable that we should hold this meeting, in order to ex-
press our opinions upon this all-important question. (Hear,
hear.) In the Liverpool Courier of Wednesday week there
is an able and admirable article in answer to the Anti-Corn
Law Circular, previously issued, and, if you will allow me,
I will read you one or two extracts from it.. (Having
lead these extracts, the chairman continued his address.)
After this I do not think it necessary that I should at all oc-
cupy your time with any further remarks, but I will leave
them to those who are about to move the resolutions. One
gentleman in particular, I am happy to say, is present who
has studied the question in all its ramifications, and he will
be able to give you some good arguments and statistical in-
formation which will bear materially upon this much agitated
question. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, you are quite aware
that the anti-corn law league are now paying compliments to
the people. (Hear, hear.) As I remark td upon a former
occasion, they fancy they possess such an exclusive monopoly
of the people, that to venture to suppose that any of them
could entertain conservative opinions would be a sheer flight
of the imagination. (Applause.) They look upon the peo-
ple as their own peculiar domain ; they regard their under-
standings as a sort of quiet and snug preserve upon which
they can sport to any extent. (Hear, hear.) But there is
now a singular change: the people do not consider it part of

their political creed to be indifferent to their country and dis-
loyal to their queen. (Cheers.) Mark the difference. The
" people" immediately undergo a sort of transformation, in
the opinion of these gentlemen. (Hear.) For a long time
we heard nothing but compliments to the " sovereign peo.
ple"—to " the people, the source of all power." (Hear,
hear.) The people had all kinds of flowery and reounding
epithets applied to them—but the moment these same " peo-
ple" see the necessity of entertaining just notions of good
government—the moment they cease to be the despoilers of
the law and the deriders of religion—from that moment they
sink-in the estimation of these gentlemen. (Hear, and great
applause.) They must not "come between the wind and

their nobility." (Cheers.) They undergo a sort of trans-
mutation ; and the " sovereign people," the " source of all
power," immediately sink into the category of " deluded vic-
tims of the tory party ;" they immediately become a drunken
and reckless " mob," devoid of the power of forming just
notions upon the subject of good government. (Loud cheer-
ing.) Such are the remarks of these aristocratic dispensers
of gentility ; such are the rewards fdr an unflinching adhe-
.

•ence to quiet and orderly opinions. (Renewed applause,
In the town of Liverpool the anti corn-law league may ag

ate; the advocates of repeal may agitate and agitate; but I

am ',road to say that it-has alv;rays been the distinguished

,vilege of this town, swarmingas•it does with a dense

d industriouspopation, to save exhibited to all Eng-

Id an example of the greatest order and the greatest

,yalty. (Loud cheers.) - Within the walls of Liverpool
ie harangues of fanatical politicians have met with
D sympathetic echo—(renewed cheers)—and I rejoice
► say that when the voice of the people is heard in the strife

the electoral battle, it is loudest and strongest upon the

le of conservative principles. On-linens

applause.) . Wiihe

else, I ask, in England, did the orations Ok Chartism meet
with more derisive smiles and listless ears than in the Old

Infirmary-yard ? (Cheers.) And where, I may enquire with
confidence, have the monstrous doctrines of socialism, from
men and women, met with more execration and more abhor-
rence ? (Tremendous applause.) Our opponents are con-

tinually sounding in mil-. ears the great prosperity of the
country and the great prosperity of our commerce ; I will
leave you gentlemen, and the mercantile world, to judge of

those two facts. (Hear.) But I will remark that wldstour
navy stands unshaken amid the wreck of nations, our com-
merce will not only be protected but enlarged. (Hear, and
applause.) Difficulties always call forth
_the resources of a

at peciple, and the resources of England—though they

may be crippled by whig-radical misrule Z-1 am proud to con-
fess, are not yet exhausted. (Cheers.) She possesses an
extensive commerce, and her capital, her industry, her en-
terprise, aided by a government which will ever stand for-
ward in defence of her national honour—(hear, hear)—will
always break down every barrier which may be opposed to
her prosperity. But, however, it fortunately does not belong
to any ministry to control that energy or to repress that spirit

of enterprise which has given to the commerce of this country
an influence and a sway which throw the recollections of
Tyre and Carthage into the shade, and which has constituted

the private traders of England the merchant princes of the
world. (Immense cheers.) By nothing is that sway and
that influence more extended than by the intimate bond of
anion which exists between the operative and the middle

classes of the country. (Hear, hear.) It is associations of
this kind, fostering and promoting that union, which have

;en called into existence by the continued presence in office
the strangest ministry—(laughter)7that_ this nation ever

beheld. (Bear, hear.) On what point of national policy,
may I ask, are they unanimous? (Hear, hear.) Is it upon
this same question of the corn laws ?—(cries of no, no)—f-when
the premier of England denounces it as one of the wildest
end maddest schemes that ever entered into the head of
reasoning man, whilst all the rest of his colleagues are
unanimous for their repeal ? (Hear, bear, and loud cheers.)

it upon the vote by ballot, When Lord J'ohn Russell indite

a pamphlet to prove that it is at once useless and dangerous
to the constitution, whilst the rest of his_ colleagues sitting on

self•satne bench exhaust their declarnation and record
ir votes in its favour, as the great requisite to the stability

their party ? (Renewed theirs.) Upon many other clues

,ons—in fact, gentlemen, upon no great question of national
olicy is this ministry unanimous. (llear, hear.) Is it upon
he war in Syria, which has proved that even under whig
►ungling our courageous tars have not forgotten the traditions
and the triumphs of a Howe and a Nelson? (Applause.) No.
Upon each and all of these questions we have a divided and
distracted administration, turning in helpless despair from
heir own disputes in the cabinet to the still more dreaded
liscussions in the Commons' House of Parliament, which, I
rust, will speedily terminate their miserable political exist-

ence. (Hear.) It is not to the country they must look for
help. (Cries of " No, no.") At Walsall, in spite of the in-
timidation, in spite of the corruption that took place there by
the supporters of the anti-corn-law candidate, I am glad to
see that Mr. Gladstone has been returned as its representative
to the House of Commons. Mr. Smythe, who has also been
returned for Canterbury, remarks, in his address to the elec-
tors :—" He knew that he had a very formidable antagonist;
he knew he was opposed by the whole power of a doomed
and a tottering government ; he had, besides, the opposition
of a unanimous corporation; he had a wealthy opponent.
He (Mr. Smythe) came there in full opposition to all the in-
fluence of Downing-street, of the Canterbury Guildhall, and
of Chelsea Park." But I am. glad to say, gentlemen, that in
spite of all this influence Mr. Smythe was returned by a ma-
jority of 163 votes—(loud cheers)—and that both he and Mr.
Gladstone are now ready to record their votes in favour of
Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill. (Renewed cheers.)
And recently in Carlow—that Carlow which was bought and
sold by the great agitator of Ireland, Mr. Daniel O'COnnell
—(hear)—we have a safe guarantee that at the next gene-
ral election a rich harvest of conservative victory waits to
salute a requiem over departed whiggery. (Tremendous ap-

lause.) ft is also true, gentlemen, that the patronising at-
mtions of this same government are not always reserved for

the advocates of social' order. (Hear, hear.) The lines now
and then fall in pleasanter places for the violent assailants of
the constitution, nay, even for the revolutionary incendiary
himself.. (Hear, hear.) It may be that when such an one
carries his attacks to an unguarded length he may go through
the trite formalities of transportation or imprisonment ; but
what is transportation, or what is imprisonment, I ask,
when perhaps their horrors are cheered by a snug and
profitable clerkship in Sydney? (Cries of " Hear, hear,"
and immense cheering.) Is this the way to reward those de-

serving members of siiciety who, though they honourably oc-
cupy the lower grades, are still satisfied to do their unobtru-
sive duty to their country and to their families, and pu►sue
an orderly and a quiet career ? I allude to the operatives
whom I see before me. (Loud cheers, and cries of "No, no.")
Whenever an election does take place, I trust that not only
in the loyal town of Liverpool, but also in every borough and
in every county throughout the country, the question may be
asked of those who ask us to join in the work of destruc-
tion and misrule—" We see what you are going to destroy,
what are you prepared to construct ?" (Cheers.) In the
place of that venerable church which we have been accus-
tomed to regard with feelings of reverential affection, whose
divines are so laborious in their vocation through good and
through evil report, whose services have so often imparted to
our hearts the words of consolation and the words of peace,
what new Babel of sects are you about to call upon us to sub-
stitute ? (Cheers.) In the place of those time-honoured in
stitutions which the civilized world admires and respects,
which of your crude theories shall we adopt? (Hear, hear.)
We refuse to be the prey of those vile parodies of religion
that walk our streets, the dissolvents of all the purity
and the graces of Christianity ; nor will we sanction those
new fangled schemes of politics, those specious " charters"
that come reeking to us from some midnight manufactory
of treason and the torch. (Immense cheering.) No, gen-
tlemen, against these incitements we have a firm bulwark and
buckler in upright and conservative principles (hear, and
cheers) ; and so long as we see those principles thrown into
discredit, so long as we have a ministry so unworthy, and so
incapable of ruling the destinies of this great country (cheers)
—so long as that ministry have a majority, however apparent
and however vaccillating—so long we shall feel it t-.) be our
duty in the town of Liverpool to unfurl the banner of the

conservative democracy. (Tremendous cheering.) Gentle-
men, are we not banded together in a holy and a just cause ?
(Hear, hear.) Are we not banded together to defend the
institutions of our land ? (Cries of " Yes.") Yes ; and we
will defend them. (Loud cheers.) Are we not banded to-
gether to defend our church? (Cries of " Yes.",) Yes, and
we will defend our national church because shi.;s Elre holy,
the just, the tolerant, and the pure church. biter"(t eers.)
In conclusion I would say, that when the day of battle arrives
we shall be found at our post (hear hear), and if our oppo-
nents will but meet us fairly we will meet them, whether it
may be in the municipal battle, or in the parliamentary bat-
tle. (Hear.) We will give them fair and honourable battle.
Trusting to the justice of our cause, we can afford to look
with inexpressible scorn upon all the efforts, and upon all the
agitation of the Anti-Corn Law League. (The worthy and
eloquent
,chairman then resumed his seat amidst loud and
long-reiterated cheering.)
Mr. I. LLOYD (late of the Liverpool Standard) proposed
the first resolution. He spoke at considerable length on
the repeal of the restrictions on the import of foreign corn.
The people of this country were, he said, the periodical dupes
of political frauds. The reform bill, the vote by ballot, the
municipal reform bill, were frauds that had succeeded each
other, and now they had the greatest fraud of all—the most
magnificent humbug—the repeal of the corn laws. He ad-
duced a variety of arguments to show the evils that would
arise from such a repeal. The wages of workmen would
inevitably be reduced; land would be thrown out of
cultivation; the great proportion of the agricultural
population would be thrown out of employment, and
would swarm into the towns, causing a further reduction of
wages ; and entailing new burthens on the parish ; and if we
become dependent for our corn on foreign countries, what
would become of us if a general war were to come ? -We, in
fact, should be reduced to absolute famine. He thought that
this country ought to look for an increase of her commerce
and her general prosperity to her colonies in the East and
West Indies, Canada, and New South Wales, which afforded
ample fields for the enterprise and industry of our manufac.
turing and commercial population. Another evil of the re.
peal of the corn laws would be the draining of the country o
much of its capital for corn, which would be employed it
rearing manufactories abroad to our great injury. He moves
the first resolution.
Mr. MIINCASTER seconded the resolution, and it was car
tied unanimously.
Mr. ISAAC HoLMEs then addressed the meeting at so'

length. He wasreceivecithroughout with repeated cheer:
ings ; but we regret that thelateness of the hour prevents us
from reporting this or the subsequent speeches. He moved
the second resolution.
Mr. R. JONES, jun., stated that he should prefer a fixed
duty to that now in force. He cordially seconded the reso-
lution, which was also unanimously carried.

Mr. JACKSON then moved the petition, which was read by
the secretary, seconded by Mr. WATSON, and agreed to.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the chairman, and,
after giving three cheers respectively for Sir Robert Peel,
Lord Stanley, Lord Francis Egerton. the Hon. Bootle Wil-
braham, and other distinguished conservatives, also for the
conservative press, the meeting separated.

MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE

The weekly meeting of the Dock Committee took place
yesterday. The following members were present, Messrs.
Berm, Barclay, T. Holt, H. Holmes, Smith, Aikin, Booth,
Mellor, Tobin, Chapman, Ripley, Martin, Middleton, Evans,
and Quayle, the new member appointed by the Council on
the previous day. Mr. Benn, having been appointed Chair-
man of the committee by the Council, presided.
The CHAIRAN after having announced that the Council
had thought proper to place him in the chair, said the first
business of the committee would be to elect a deputy chair-
man.

Mr. Aims moved, that Mr. Charles Horsfall be appointed.
No man had devoted so much time to the affairs of the Dock
estate, and therefore none were better qualified to occupy
the deputy chair.
Mr. MELI on said he had great pleasure in seconding the

Carried unanimously

RMAN st
expresser

at the last meeting,

)me record should be
placed on the proceedings of the committee, of their sense
of the loss they had sustained by the death' of their late
lamented chaiaman, Mr. Lcathoin. He believed that Mr.
G. Holt was prepared with a motion upon the subject.
Mr. G. BOLT said, that in the absence of Mr. Horsfall.
he had been requested to move that the following minute be
entered on the proceedings, as expressive of the feelings of
the committee on the loss of their late chairman :
" The committee, deeply lamenting the loss of their chair-
man, Thomas Leathoul, Esq., are desirous of recording their
lively sense of the unceasing industry and zeal with which he,
during many years, watched over the interests of this trust,
and of the anxiety with which he on all occasions evinced, to
give thereto the benefit of his extensive local and commercial
experience."

Mr. BARCLAY seconded the motion.
Mr. TOBIN enquired how many years Mr. Leathom had
•

gland from the year 1821 to 1828 ; on his re-
turn he was elected a member of the committee, and had
continued a member of it until his decease.

ober of the cot

ie ccnnns-
to enquire into the management. of the rif-
k Estate in the years 1822 and 1823. He was

replied that he was one of

sent fr

The motion was then carried unanimously.
On the recommendation of the Sub-committee of Works,
the walls of Queen's Graving Dock No. 2 were ordered to be
altered according to a plan produced, which had been framed
on the suggestions of several master shipwrights.
A fire was reported to have occurred on board the packet-
ship Sheffield, lying in Prince's Dock, during the Aight, and
half-a-guinea was ordered to be presented from the charitable
fund to the shipkeeper for his vigilance.
The remaining part of the business was then postponed till
next week, in consequence of an adjourned council meeting
being appointed for one o'clock.

THE EXHIBITION OF PICTURES BY THE OLD
MASTERS, AT THE POSTOFFICE-ROOMS.

These pictures will attract great attention, and the con-
templation of them will correct the taste for the fine arts in
this town. The proprietor deserves the gratitude of all for
thus risking his very valuable property, and for enabling the
amateur to enjoy a sight that cannot fail to be appreciated.
His liberality is beyond praise, for allowing artists to copy
from these works. No man but au enthusiastic lover of the
fine at ts would give such permission, and we doubt not that
the opportunity will be eagerly embraced.

The catalogue contains in all twenty-four pictures, several
of which have not yet arrived, but will be hung in the course
of a day or two. The exquisite " Madonna," by Elizabeth
Serani, is amongst them.

No. 1 hangs over the door. It is painted by Paul Vero-
nese. The subject, " St. Cecilia Playing on a Mandola."—
This picture is remarkable for its delicacy of colouring and
expression. The arms and hands are very sweetly drawn.
The neck is symmetrical and graceful. The flesh is plump
and firm. The face has a pleasant cast. The drapery is
effectively thrown.—Paolo-Cagliari, or " Paul Veronese,"
as he is usually called, was born at Verona in 1530, and died
i❑ 1588, aged 58 years. His principal works are at Venice.
Although his colouring is less delicate than Titian's, he must
always rank very high amongst the painters of the Venetian
school. He was cotemporary with Tintoretto and Titian.
His picture of the " Marriage at Caine" is a wonderful per-
formance.

No. 2. Pontormo—" St. John Preaching." This is a
singular picture. St. John is represented in the wilder-
ness, preaching to an attentive and numerous auditory. It
is remarkable for colour, and may be considered a fine spe-
cimen of the early school of painting'.
No. 3. Rubens and Vandyck—" St. Jerome in the De-
sert." A painting from the hands of two such masters can-
not fail to be admired. The present picture is known as
" L'Ange au Plume." St. Jerome is seated examining a
scroll, which is displayed across his knees. An angel or
cherub is offering him a pen. A lion, recumbent, or couch-
ant, as heralds have it, is at his feet. The figure of St. Je-
rome is magnificently painted. The limbs are muscular and
finely proportioned. The face has a dignified and thoughtful
expression. The countenance of the cherub is very delight-
ful. The drapery is finely put on : the folds are broad and
massy. The sky in the background very cleverly relieves
the picture. This is a noble painting, and will bear the
nutest examination. This picture was once in the possession
of Marshal Soult, from whom it was purchased by Mr. Bu-
chanan.—Rubens was born at Cologne in 1577, and died at
Antwerp in 1640, aged 63 years. He is often styled " the
prince of Flemish painters." On all subjects he was con-
versant. and applied his brush with equal facility. Land-
scape, portrait, and animal, allegorical, or historical paint-
ing, he was a complete master of. His versatility was asto-
nishing. His colours are glowing, and his execution perfect. '
Vandyck, Jordaens, and Snyders were his pupils. He was
thrice married, and was highly educated. Rubens was not
only 'remarkable for his_ genius as a painter, but also for his
diplomatic abilities. He was entrusted with several mis-
sions, all of which he executed with satisfaction to his em-
ployers. He visited England in 1628, during the reign of
Charles the First, and arranged the differences between
England and Spain. He enjoyed the friendship of many of
the sovereigns of Europe. Charles the First knighted him.
—Vandyck was born in 1599, and died in 1641, aged 42.
He was the pupil of Rubens, and, if not his equal in suhli-
mity, was his superior in design. He is more chaste, though
' not so vigorous. His figures are easy, graceful, and unaf-
fected. ' There are many works of Vandyck in the country,
all of which are held in high estimation.
No. 4. Jan Sleen—" Tim Effects' of Intemperance." A
picture of much humour in design, and beautifully painted.
It represents a Dutch boor and his " vrow " taking a nap
after dinner. The remains of a plenteous repast exhibit
their love for the " art gastronomic." 'faking advantage of
their " temporary absence," the cat is seen at the casement
attacking the bird,—the dog is on the table at the oie,—the
monkey is examining the ink-bottle,—while the children are
diving into the vrow's pocket, and the servant lass and lad
are entertaining themselves with a wine-flask in the back-
ground. This painting has gieat merit in all its details. It
is not only a fine work of art, but bears a moral with it. All
the subjects are well and most naturally expressed. This
picture is from Mr. Beckford's collection at Fonthill.
No. 5. Annibal Caracci—"'Sahta Barbara." The sub-
ject of this picture is taken from a Roman legend. In this
small picture may be traced the characteristics of the Bolog-
nese school.—Annibal Caracci was born at Bologna in 1560,
and died 1609, aged 49. He received the first principles of
art frOm his cousin Ludovico. He studied with great care
the works of Correggio, titian, Tintorett, Del Saito, and

others, from whom hitiiitippy mode of colouring

are daub a

rid expres-

No. 7. Fra Bartolomeo—" Virgin and Child." No. 11
is on the same subject, and by the same master. These two
paintings' are perfect little cabinet gems. The colours are
brilliant.

No. 8. Sebastian del Piosnbo—" Christ bearing his Cross."
This picture exhibits the very extreme of human suffering—
not only mental, but bodily. The subject is taken from the
affecting incident of the peasant taking compassion upon our
blessed Lord, and offering to bear his cross. The peasant
appears lifting the weighty timbers, while the attendant sol-
dier looks upon him with scorn and contempt. The face of
the principal figure is finely painted : a thorn of the crown
is deeply piercing the forehead, which almost appears to
quiver with the pain. A splendid light is thrown upon the
drapery, which is of a deli Cate blue tone. The hands are
finely painted, exhibiting the strain that is upon them. The
arm of the peasant is wonderfully drawn and painted : it be-
trays the muscle and power of a giant. The face is also re-
markable. The prevailing colour of the picture is a brown,
of great depth and firmness. There is a fine breadth about
this picture, and it may rank in the first place in this collec-
tion. It was sketched by Michael Angelo, and exhibits all
the vigour and savageness of his powerful and active mind
and style.—Sebastian del Piombo was born at Venice in
1485, and died in 1547, aged 38. He was intimate with Mi-
chael Angelo, and frequently painted from his designs. He
studied under Giorgione. His picture of " The Raising of
Lazarus" was sold in London for 3,500 guineas.—Michael
\.ngelo was born in 1474, and died in 1564, aged 90. Michael
.tigelo pointed chiefly fresco. His sculpture is of the high-
't order. It is asserted by Mr. Buchanan, in his clever
Memoirs of Painting," that there are very few, if
ay, of this master's works in oil.

work'

No. 9. Titian—" Ecce Homo." This painting exhibits
meekness and humility, mingled with acute pain and suffer-
ing. It is a fearful subject, and is treated in a masterly
manner. No one can look upon it without a shudder.. The
flesh, as does always the flesh of Titian, appears to have the
blood running in it. Titian's figures are all full of life. This
painting is from the gallery of Lucien Buonaparte.—Titian
was burn in 1477, and died in 1576, having thus lived nearly
a century. He studied under Bellini. His works are nu-
merous, and at all times command the attention of-amateurs.
He may be considered a model for the imitation of all paint-
ers. His execution is brilliant—his imagination vivid and
poetic. Titian painted in two manners—one is styled " the
golden," the other " the silver." The colours used by him
are never of a glaring nature. His pOrtraits are unequalled
for expression. It is said that he laid on his masses of co-
lour with his thumb.

No. 10. Marcello Venusti—" A Holy Family." Painted
with much 'brilliancy of colour, and great expression. It is
a highly-finished performance. Venusti studied under Mi-

:hael Angelo

We have ❑ow gone through about half the number of these
exquisite productions, and our notice of the remainder we
reserve for Tuesday.

` STRANGE ADVENTURE.-SUPPOSED CASE OF

FRAUD.'

An article under this head, which appeared in our publica-
tion of Friday last, and was copied from the Manchester
Chronicle, contained several serious misrepresentations cal-
culated to do great injury to the character of a most deser-
ving and upright individual. We are, therefore, anxious to
correct or retract them, and we think we cannot do so more
effectually than by giving the following statement of facts,
which have been supplied to us by one of the principals of a
highly-respectable mercantile firm in Liverpool, on whose
authority we can place the most perfect reliance. No blame
whatever can be attached to Captain Frietas, than whom,
we are informed, a more courageous or honourable man does
not exist :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

`~ S 1R,—The Activo, Captain
Frietas, sailed from hence on
her voyage to Lisbon, on the 30th October, 1810. She had
a prosperous voyage up to the 3d November, when most
tempestuous weather came on, which continued up to the
lith, when she shipped a sea, that, with the loss of the mate
and three men washed overboard, left her a complete wreck.
On the 19th, in the morning, the Danish brig, Sex Sondes-
kende, Captain P. J. Junker, came in sight, and providenti-
ally saved Captain Frietas, and six of his remaining crew, all
in an exhausted state, and some bruised and wounded. Capt.
Junker succeeded on the Ist December to land Captain
Frietas aad his men, not in some Spanish port, biit at Faro.
Such was the manner of the abandonment of the Activo.

"The Activo was afterwards met with on the 23d Novem-
ber, by the Danish barque, Johanna Maria, Captain John
Christman, and was towed by hitn to between the islands 9f
Porto Santo and Madeira, where, after having transhippeld
part of her cargo into his own barque, he then rigged the
Activo with jurymasts, &c., and placing on board or her his
mate and some men, directed her to proceed, as it is said, to
St. Croix or St. Thomas. Captain Christman then made
sail to Madeira, where, without mentioning what had kaP-
paled, attempted to sell the goods taken out of the Actin,.

The circumstances of the e
were seized, and the cartain t
milreas—say about £6OO.

" The prceding facts speak for themseli
tion that it was sworn in the papers sent h(
twin, that the Active had been seen to zo
abandoned, is false, and cowardly the
" Captain Frietas is well• known i
been in the service of his late empio)
years, He had on beard, of his own
insured, but not last voyage), and by
vessei he lost all

Li verpo

" The report, as given in the paper from whirl
it, is false—scandalously and cowardly false.—Y(
" DUARTE BROTHERS

A pers,

REMARKABLE BIRDS
ing some wonderful little birds, which
curious and really clever tricks.
THE BRITANNIA STEAM-SIIIP.—TI
Cleland, (one of the four Halifax an:
sailed yesterday evening, at seven o'cl
ment of passengers, and an immens(

newspapers, &c

The Britaur

line alit run with the mails, recently

overhauling at Glasgow, and is in ever
order. The vessels are not exceet4-
by any in the world.
THE ROCK HARMONICON.
spite the unfavourable weather,
to listen to its dulcet tones. Since Mi.
ced performing upon it, the original plave
improved. The variety of airs ,
less : all tastes are readily suited

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they exec

ask for an air, and quick as thought it ►s
style. Mr. Davies contrives '—
from the Harmonicon, surpassing even the
On Monday evening Mr. Davies will perform, to
who are not able to attend during the day to he
cal musical phenomenon. Who would hay'
musical stone ? The head of Memnon, it
when the first beams of the morning stri'
not believe it—nor should we have bel;
wonders of the Harmonicon, if we '
upon.

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THE SUPPOSED MURDER AT WICHBOLD..
is the verdict returned by the jury in this (
Found Dead.—Worcester Guardian.
SPRING !—On Tuesday last, some young lz
walking, picked several full blown primroses
hedge. Crocuses, single and double prinarc
nuts, and pansies, are also in bloom in the g
Baer, near this town.—Carnarvon aid.

Last week, as six young men were going down
in the neighbourhood of Llangollen, to their work
broke, precipitating them to the bottom; the
about 80 yards deep, they were all killed on t
Chester Chronicle.
THE ARCHIMEDIAN SCREW
we have lately experienced continued
Humber would not have been navig
the present construction : the ice v
working of the paddle whtels. B
the difficulty would be obviated, as i
tions several feet beneath the surface
no ice is likely to reach. Might
with a screw and strongly built,
canals free from ice ?—Hull Rock;

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It is with unfeigned regret, that we have to
distressing event which has thrown the family
Henley, Esq. into the deepest affliction. It af.pi
Thursday evening last the third son of Mr. Ile
13 years of age, had been shooting on the estatt
perry, attended by his father's gamekeeper, az
return home, the young man being a little in a
gun of the keeper by some accident went off, an
of the charge entered the body of his young m
unfortunate gentleman lived in the greatest agora
three hours, when death put a period to his s
Oxford Journal.

REIGATE BOROUGH ELECTION.—Three candidate
the field for this borough—Lord Eastnor, Mr.
Mr. Bedford; the latter is an out-and-out
this Mr. Bedford is nobody seems to know,
forth placards and expressed his determinat
electors of Reigate an opportunity, as he say
their independence, by voting for a liberal c
has taken up his quarters at the Crown, and
says that he is determined to go to the poll.
officer has fixed this day for the nomination, a
of a poll being demanded, it will take place to-
Eastnor will of course be elected

THE LIBERAL PRESS.—TWO conditional orders for
nal informations against Mr. Barrett, proprietor
Pilot newspaper, were yesterday granted by the Co
Queen's Bench—one at the suit of Mr. Coffey, prop
and the other at the suit of Mr. Dunlop, editor of a c
liberal journal, which we are pledged never to condesc,
name, supposed to have been established by Mr. Puree
coach owner and government contractor. Oh! the,
rals, these liberals ! let them gnaw each other's vital'
means. If the law had not stepped in to chasten U
their end would be like that of the Kilkenny ce
tails only survived their mortal combat.—Dublin
THE EATON FAMlLY.—Yesterday morning
special train was engaged for nine o'clock in thr
convey the Marquis of Westminster and pr
Chester Station of the Grand Junction Rail,
An entirely new first-class carriage w.
rectors for the occasion, built by Mr. Tr.
coachbuilder at the Chester works. It is
structure. A second-class carriage was placed betweer
the engine tender. The party consisted of thr. -
Viscount Belgrave, Lord and Lady Robert Gr.
Uniacke, Esq., and two Miss Uniackes. Th
Crewe was worked in thirty-two minutes, beit.,
of forty miles an hour. The noble marquis and as
expressed themselves much gratified at the trip. M
Gladstone, the engineer who constructed the line,
with the train.—Chester Courant.
THE STATUE OF MR. WILBERFORC E.—The sta
late benevolent and pious William Wilberforce,
shown to the public in the collection of statues an
the exhibition of the Royal Academy last summer
placed in Westminster Abbey, and now forms one
naments of that venerable cathedral. The statl
seats the venerable philanthropist seated in au
one hand holds a book, which is probably the
other, the left hand, is placed on the breast of
which is habited in a sort of morning gown, and
the figure in which the angular outline of moder
is avoided, and yet tha identity of the orie lis
The legs of the figure are crossed, and on tr feet
The whole attitude :_ •
.on. The head and features preserv.e
the original. The statue is placed in th
the transept, and next to the old, moo
Conrcy, and very near to Chantrv's mop
ford Raffles, which is also a seated star

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FATAL ACCIDENT.—THREE LIVES LOST. ,-
and.fatal accident, attended with loss of life to three
duals; occurred on Saturday morning last, on the line
Manchester and Birmingham railway, at Holmes
Cheshire, where a viaduct is being erected over thi
Dane, somewhat similar to the one at Stockport.
seven o'clock on Saturday morning, three youths
John Riley, John and Thomas Butterworth (brothe
a married man, whose name our correspondent has /
able to ascertain, were pushing a waggon, loaded N
along a temporary wooden bridge laid across the I
one of the large timbers composing the bridge brol
whole fabric fell with a tremendous crash into the
carrying along with it the above four individuals
others who were on the bridge at th
above-mentioned, with the exception <
were killed by the materials falling up
seriously injured: The body of 'l' ho;
buried under the ruins which fell in the river, a
found at ten o'clock on Sunday morning. Ti:
unfortunate persons resided at Stockport r
commencement of the viaduct over the Dane
Guardian

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ECCLESIASLICAL APPWNTMENTS.—The Worshir
Chancellor—Rural Dean of Chester; the Rev. C. A
low, Rector of Malpas—Rural Dean of Malpas,
western part of Nantwich ; the Rev. John A'
Vicar of Sandbach—Rural Dean of Middlewich,
Nantwich ; the Rev. George A. Elliott M
Bangor, in the county of Flint—Rural Dean of is,
the diocese of Chester; the Rev. Charles Kew'
Rector of Stockport—Rural Dean of Mar
the Rev. J. Thornicroft, of Thorni,-
Macclesfield South ; the Rev: Jose'
Rostherne—Rural Dean of Prodsham
Greenall, Incumbent of Stretton—Rural Dean of 1
West. —The Rev. Wm. John Kicli: -
Matthew's, 'Manchestet, has been lie.
Curacy of Didsbury, in the county of I
David Chas. Stewart has been
racy of Hutton Roof, in the pa,
the county of Westmoreland, on
Vicar of Kirby Lonsdale.—The Rev.
worth has been licensed by the Lord
Woodhead, in the county of Chester.-1
Beechy has been nominated to the Pe.
Christ Church, Thornton, in the palish of
shire, by the Trustees of the Church.—The ,
Bentley has been licensed by the Lord Bishop
of St. Matthew's, Manchester, on the nomi
Dein and Canons of Manchester.—The Rev
has been licensed to she Perpetual Curacy of
county of Lancaster.
'EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF
Thursday last, Superintendent Besw
police, from some information he had
panied by Sergeants Livingstone and
Moor, near Bolton, and proceeded to a 1
by a person named Andrew, otherwise
There was only a girl in the house, wl'
and mother had both gone to Ma,
searched the house, and up stai'
pounds of indigo. They then

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found a

Found in it a further quantity amour],
They also found a box containing a lar,
and cutlery, the value of the whole k.
nearly £3OO. Mr. Beswick then sent 1
station to watch for Andrew, and dire
stay in the house, while he himself watcher
however, never made his appearance • but
about eight o'clock, and was instantly secured. Tt
was brought away in a cart; and the prisoner was 1
at the Borough Court, Manchester, on Saturday
Mr. Beswick stated the above circumstances, and
on the preceding Monday night, or early on Tues
ing, the premises of Mr. Bignold, dyer, of the Mo'
street, Manchester, were broken into, ant
indigo, corresponding in quantity and qu,
in the prisoner's house, was stolen, but
then in attendance. The. prisoner, when a 5„....
got to say, replied that she knew nothing of tl
that the jewellery and cutlery belonged to a
Graham, who lived in Bolton.—She was reme
terday, when she was again brought up, an(
applied'for a further remand, saying that t'
not been apprehended.
day.—Manchester Guardian.
REFORM IN VIE COLLEGE OF
lowing is an abstract of the report pres..
committee appointed by the Colleges of P
geons and the Society of Apothecaries.
first-named body. It states the grievanc
be—the want of a general registration of
ers ; the absence of uniform"-
qualifications to'practise • _
cils of the colleges and the court of
sion of licentiates of the Colle
brary and museum ; the non-licensing of chemis
gists ; the non-establishment of a br."—'
and the absence of some restricti
dicines. The committee having
gations, recommends that all
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exclu-

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tiates of the college, without examu
fees to be hereafter determined ; t 1
annually a.certain number of their
to be eligible as fellows, the nominat i to b,
ballot ; the licentiates to have acccs to the
seum ; uniform medical qualificatio ,s to I
the British universities, and a degret, thus(
for practice in the three kingdoms, the gru
member of the Collegstetiodfy,PtiloYspicri:d'uteein
iesides,graduate of such universities ~tip
iluagtedfutlhfiliiretelostuwcsne aotc*ourse, and to undergo; an
before the censors. There is to be only one lick
able' sat eboml
sohfetiettel
miners, and one uniform
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doss of extra lieeezi

to the 1

requ'

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and of