The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

RAILWAY INTELLIUENCE.

Notice has been given of an intended railway from the
Birkenhead line to Parkgate.
It is calculated that upwards of £260,600 are paid
weekly to railway labourers in England.
The Bedford Branch of the London and North-Western
Railway was opened on Tuesday.
It is said that Major-General Pasley has ceased to be
the government inspector of railways, and that Captain
Coddington, deputy inspector, will probably succeed him.
The opening of the Penmaen Bach tunnel, on the Ches.
ter and Holyhead Railway, was celebrated last week at
Conway with great rejoicings.
A Fox OUTDONE.—A fox, in attempting to cross the
Whitstable Railway when the last train was coming to this
city on Saturday night, was run down, and its head com-
pletely severed from its body.—Kentish paper.
No passengers whatever are conveyed on the Edinburgh
and Glasgow Railway on Sundays, nor any work done
beyond what the post-office can compel by act of parlia-
ment, viz., the carrying of the royal mail bags.
A GOOD RESOLVE.—The Great Western have given
notice of their intention to apply to Parliament for powers
to erect bridges over the line where the public roadways
cross on a level.
The junction tunnel between the Midland and the Shef-
field and Manchester Railway is now open for the goods
traffic only, and the average number of waggons of goods
daily are from thirty to forty.
The works on the Trent Valley line have been pushed
forward with almost unparralleled rapidity ; and there is
every probability that the line will be ready for opening
by the middle of March next.
EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—AMOTIESt the powers
to be applied for by the London and North Western Rail-
way Company, of which notice is given for next session,
there is power to enter into agreement with the East Lan-
cashire Company, for the working of all or any portion of
that railway.
On Friday morning last, the early railway train be-
tween Kendal and Lanca-ter ran over and killed a fine
black cat, which was crossing the line with a mouse, and
was too intent upon her prey to notice the 'approach of
the engine. The cat was afterwards found completely cut
in two, with the mouse firmly fixed between her teeth.
The first general meeting of the shareholders of the
Paris and Strasburg Railway took place in Paris last
week, and went off satisfactorily. A very full account and
report of the state of the works was given, from which it
appears that the first 120 to 140 miles from Paris are ex-
pected to be opened in the spring or autumn of 1848.
SHEFFIELD CAN AL.—On Monday, the 9th instant, a
special general meeting of the Sheffield Canal Company
was held in the Town-hall, at which it was agreed to sell
the canal and property connected with it, to the Sheffield
and Lincolnshire Railway Company, for a perpetual an-
nuity of ss. on each share of the canal. . .

Mr, John Platford. who, owing to ill health, was
obliged to give up the managership of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway, has been succeeded by Mr. Eborall,
jun., assistant-general goods manager at the Birmingham
Station of the London and North Western Railway. Mr.
Hargreave has been appointed superintendent at the
Sheffield terminus, and Mr. Burney goods agent..
On Thursday, a workman left the Chesterfield station
in a railway carriags, taking his day dinner with him, but
on reaching his destination, he left it in the carriage.
Having communicated his loss to the station clerk, the
telegraph was set to work, and an answer quickly ob-
tained that the dinner was found, and would be sent by
the next train. .

The Norfolk Railway Company are about to erect a
slaughter-house at their Trowse station, about a mile from
the Norwich cattle market, for the purpose of slaying the
bullocks there, and taking the slain meat, instead of the
live bullocks, to the London market. This (says a corre-
spondent) is to obviate the complaints so constantly made,
of the beasts being bruised so much upon the rail in their
journey.
RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER THE TWEED.—The con-
tract for building the bridge over the Tweed, in connec-
tion with the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, haLjust
been let to Messrs. I‘,l'J ay and 131ackstock for £184;000.
The bridge will be a light and elegant structure ; its height
is 120 feet, the arches are twenty-seven in number, and
we need scarcely say that it will be one of the noblest ar-
chitectural objects in the kingdom.
SALE OF THE PAISLEY AND RENFREW RAILWAY.—

On Tuesday last, a competition took place at Renfrew
between the Caledonian and Ayrshire Railway Companies,
which are respectively promoting the Glasgow and Neil-
son Direct, and the Paisley and Hurlet Branch Railways,
for the Paisley and Renfrew line, which, ultimately, was
sold to the Ayrshire Company, who guarantee 6 per cent.
per annum, and which has raised the shares to £1 2s. 6d.
premium on the original stock.
THE NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION.—An undertaking
formed by amalgamation of the Leeds and Carlisle, the
York and Glasgow Union, and the York and Carlisle
companies, having obtained an Act for the formatio❑ of
two lines, which expressly provides that the two lines
shall be proceeded with simultaneously, lately decided to
proceed with the line up Wensleydale and postpone the
making of the other from Auckland to Tebay. The
shareholders resident at Barnard Castle are very indignant
and threaten law proceedings.
The Railway Times, in giving the paragraph from the
Sunday Times relative to the attempted bribery of a rail-
way official, appends " fudge at the end, whilst the
Railway Record says that Mr. C. A. Saunders. Secretary
of the Great Western Railway, is the official referred to.
The Railway Chronicle says that the idea of Mr. Saun-
der's retirement from the Great Western Railway Com-
pany has been Mooted, and that a sum has been talked of
as a proper consideration for his past services, and that
the report has originated from that circumstance.
The adjourned meeting of the Manchester, Midland,
and Great Grimsby Company was held on Thursday, at
Rotherham. The result was, that the old company is
dissolved—but the report presented by the directors was
so satisfactory, that it was determined to adopt their re-
port, and to carry out the suggestions of the directors, by
applying to Parliament for a line to connect Rotherham
with Doncaster, which has become necessary through the
contemplated changes in the London and York scheme
between Retford and Doncaster. The shares represented
at the meeting amounted to 10,455.
LIABILITIES OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE-MEN.—
In the Court of Common Pleas, on Friday. rules nisi
were granted in two cases, in which verdicts had been
given against Provisional Committee-men. The one was
in the case of Parratt v. King. in connection with the
Tonbridge and Rye Harbour Direct Railway ; and the
other was that of Shaw v. Clarkson, in the London, Ports-
mouth, and Chichester Railway. In the Secondlries
Court, Mr. Barnett, a printer, got a verdict for £ll2
against Mr. Newte, one of the Provisional Directors of
the Jamaica Southern and Eastern Railway.

VERDICTS AGAINST THE NORTH WESTERN RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.—TWO writs of inquiry were heard on
Wednesday, at Warwick. before the sheriffs of the county,
to assess damages in actions brought against the North
Western Railway, for compensation for injuries received
by a collision at Coventry, on the 2nd of June, 1845.
Juigrnent bad been allowed to go by default in both
cases ; the plaintiff, being Mr. Haywood, an attorney, of
Birmingham, and his wife. The first action was for the
injuries snstained by Mrs. Haywood. The collision oc-
curred whilst the train was waiting at the Coventry sta-
tion, and it was caused by the negligence of the man who
had the charge of the points. There were two collisions,
from the effects of which the carriage in which Mrs. Hay-
wood was, bounded twice into the air, and she was thrown
with great violence from side to side of the carriage; her
face was lacerated and she received a severe concussion of
the brain, from the effects of which she has not vet re-
covered. Sergeant Allen addressed the jury for the
plaintiff, who claimed £5OO damages. Mr. Macaulay ap-
peared for the company, and called for the production
of the correspondence between the plaintiff and defen-
dants, i❑ order to show that the company had manifested
a disposition to meet the injury in a spirit of fair and ho-
nourable
compensation. The jury gave their verdict for
the plaintiff for £3OO ; costs, 40s.—In a second case, in
which Mr. Haywood alone was plain iff, to recover ex-
penses to which he had necessarily been put by the illness
of his wife, such as medical attendance, travelling, &c.. a
verdict was taken for the plaintiff, by consent, for £7O ;
costs, 40s.

SEVENTH ADDRESS TO THE PROTESTANTS
OF THE EMPIRE.
BY THE COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL CLUB.

But, some say, though you repudiate Romish priests,
you admit, nay you invite the co-operation of your own
clergy. Where is the difference ? Why not get rid of
the priestcraft altogether ?
Our answer is-1 he English Church is an enemy to
priestcraft, by her principles, by her lows, by her history,
by the temper of her people, by the spirit of her clergy.
And if you wish to know the difference between an Eng-
lish clergyman and a Romiob priest, here it is :
The English clergyman is a counsellor of peace, hold-
ing forth God's truth ; the Romish priest is an instigator
of strife, hawking about the lies of Popery.
The English clergyman comes to you with the Bible in
his hand, and appeals to your judgment and your consci-
ence ; the Romish priest would rob you of your Bible,
and tells you to submit blindfold to the decrees of his
church.

The English Clergyman teaches men to worstip God
and to honour the King, to do their duty to their fellow-
men with the hope of heaven before their eyes ; the Ro-
mish priest teaches men to worship the Virgin and to ho-
nour the Pope, and, with the fear of purgatory before
their eyes, to pay their "duty" to the priest.
The English clergyman teaches men how, with "a con-
science void of offence towards God and man," they should
" hold fast the liberty wherewith Christ has made them
free ;" the Romish priest, prying into men's consciences,
and the consciences of their wives and children, rivets
their sins together in a chain, wherewith be holds them
fast in the bond of iniquity.
This is the difference between the English clergyman
and the Romish priest; and, therefore, the Burnish priest
is a fit tool for fastening the yoke of error and supersti-
tion upon the neck of a nation of slaves subject to the
tyranny of the Pope, while the English clergyman is a fit
minister for diffusing the blessings of Christ's grace and
truth among a nation of freedom subject to the lawful so-
vereign in the fear of God.

But, say others, granting that there is this difference
between the English clergyman and the Romish priest,
that the church of England is a blessing to this nation,
and the Church of Rome a curse to any people—still, why
call the English clergyman into your counsels, why make
him a party to the political action of the National Club,
and of the associations which rally around it-?

We answer,—That from the remotest period of our his-
tory, in British, in Saxon, and in Norman times, accord-
ing to the terms of the Magna Charts, according to the
principles of the Reformation, according to the settlement
of the Protestant Constitution by the Bill of Rights, the
clergy have always been one of the estates of the realm,
and as such have had their share assigned them in the ad-

ministration of public affairs; but that for more than a
century past they have been excluded from that influence
which the Constitution originally assigned to them.
That if the influence of the clergy had been allowed to
ue, our church herself would have been maintained
in a state of greater efficiency, and'safe from the lament-
able confusion and divisions with which she is reproached ;
the State would have been preserved from the course of
godless legislation in which it is engaged, and this Chris-
tian land would have been spared the curse and the dis-
grace of seeing a large portion of its population grow up
in a state of spiritual destitution and of practical infidelity.
That in a land where God's truth is recognised, and the
instruction of the people in that truth provided for by the
State, the business of legislation and public administra-
tion ought not to turn, and cannot turn exclusively upon
the affairs of this world.

That even in regard to the affairs of this world, the
principles of religion ought not to be set aside by a people
profe,sing allegiance to God's truth ; that more especially
all the institutions and all the laws which affect the intel-
ligence and the morals of the people must bear the stamp
of those principles, if they are to harmonise with the
- -

tion's faith.
That the ministers of religion are, by their very calling,
which is truly not of this world, responsible for the reli-
gious conduct of the nation not only in private but in pub-
lic life ; and that they ought, therefore, to have a voice—
and that an influential voice—in the discussion of public
questions.
Let but the clergy and the laity of our church go hand
in hand—let them but make an united effort to recal the
nation to its ancient principles, its hereditary faith ; and,
evil as the times are, we have no cause to despair. The
truth is mighty, it will preva.l!
RICHARD NUGENT, Hon. Secretary.
13, Cockipur-street, Nov. 20.

THE SHORT TINIE EXPERIMENT IN

LANCASHIRE

The Lancashire manufacturers are determined to prove
the absurdity of the idea of realising short hours by mu-
tual agreement. Their wiser workmen (being taught true
wisdom in the Ten Hour Bill school) have begged them
to curtail the production ; and have offered to take their
share of the loss. And after a while, when they had their
own interests in their eyes, most of the masters were un-
derstood to have consented to a general working of short
time. But we, says the Halifax Guardian, knew
them better than to believe that this would last long, or
go far. And now in these short weeks how do matters
stand ?

The Manchester Guardian and Manchester Courier of
Wednesday both tell the same tale. The markets are
dull, and prices falling. And yet, though the interest of
the masters is thus directly involved iu short time, the
Guardian says,—" We do not hear of any further exten-
sion of short time this week," for that " the attempts to
produce a general agreement for that purpose at Ashton,
Stalybridge, and Hyde have failed for the present." And
the Courier carries out this evidence of folly by declaring,
" We hear of several concerns that had gone on to short
time, !riving commenced full time again."
We therefore repeat our problem of the 24th ult., and
call upon tLe opponents of factory legislation to answer
(if they can) this simple rule of three question—" If a
rising cotton market, and a depressed demand for yarns
and cloth, cannot bring about a general agreement for a
reduction of the hours of labour, for the master's own
benefit, what extreme algebraic sign for an unknown
quantity shall represent the chance of such an agreement,
with none of these inducements, and for the sole benefit
of the workmen?"

" A NUT TO CRACK TOUCHING THE TREATY

OF UTRECHT."

(From the London Guardian.)
The Ulysses of modern Europe will not deserve credit
for the astuteness which distinguished his great prototype,
it he suffers his vaulting ambition to carry him over the
barriers of Utrecht, for no one knows better than he does
the value of that treaty to the House of Orleans ; and
although he may desire to repudiate some distasteful
clauses, which are now invoked against him, we suspect
that he will he reluctant to invalidate others to which he
may hereafter appeal.
That the aforesaid treaty was framed with one grand
olject—an object which the mutual renunciations were
intended to subserve, and by the light of which they
ought to be read ; that these renunciations, read them
how you will, do not bar rights acquired through colla-
terals—these are the positions on which Louis Philippe
founds his case. Grant them true—which we are well
disposed to do ; but let us follow them out to their legi-
tiroate consequences ; Has the King no other cause de-
pending in which these pleas may be used as admissions
against himself? Has he no favourite hobby, to which
they may oppose an awkward impediment?
His great object since 1830 has been to legitamise him-
self upon the throne. He would rather be King of
France and Navarre, by the grace of God, and by virtue
of hereditary succession, than King of the French by the
will of the sovereign people. He holds himself forth as
the veritable successor of Henri Quatre and Louis Quar-
torze. He rebuilds the chateau of Pau—he restores the
salons of Versailles ; Le Bon Roi reappears in Beam,
and Le Grand Monarque in Paric, both identified with
him, " pia nepotis Augusti munificentia redivivi." He
would fain he the head of the Bourbon family ; hence he
asserts an interest in tke marriage of Queen Isabella, and
forbids the banns with any but a prince of that ancient
stock. Ile sends to London, to be placed in the Royal
Exchange, the white shield, blazoned with the golden
lilies, although they are proscribed in his capital. He
cultivates the friendship of the Autocrat abroad, and of
the legitimists at home, describing the Duke of Bordeaux
tßou
t bee
vtehne
ugpeonnu ine
this rveiperwe sae nitiantki v tmhaeipasnteoiecnotnk)pilegse.
as impossible, and having thus set him aside, he claims
yeetofre
the chain of succession to Louis XIV., and that link is
supplied by the Treaty of Utrecht. The Dauphin, son of
Louis XIV., had three sons. The Duke of Bordeaux is
the sole male representative G f the Duke of Burgundy.
the eldest son. But there are not wanting descendants
of the Duke of Anjou, the second son, and the head of
that branch is Don Carlos, while Louis Philippe has to
trace his line back to the second son of Louis XIII.
flow, then. are the claims of Don Carlos, as next heir to
Louis XIV., in default of issue of the Duke of Bordeaux,
excluded ? By the renunciations of his ancestor, Philip
of Anjou, when established as King of Spain, to all claims
on the throne of France. But if the renunciations of the
Duke of Orleans to the Spanish crown are not binding on
his descendants, how can those of the Duke of Anjou to
the inheritance of his French ancestors be more obli-
gatory ? If Louis Philippe, who wants a throne for his
son, may repudiate one clause of the treaty, why may not
Don Carlos, who wants a throne for himself, dispense
with another clause ? If there are " no more Pyrenees"
visible from Paris, bow can they be viewed from the side
of Madrid?
We know of one mode alone in which this problem can
be solved. It is worthy of the genius of Talleyrand, but
it savours at the same time of the spirit of the Old Bailey.
Coxe mentions that the renunciation of Philip V. was
confirmed by a solemn oath, but that it was a remarkable
fact, that, either from negligence or connivance, the
Dukes of Orleans and Berri gave only a mere declara-
tion. This circumstance of the insertion of the words
" Nous jurons solemnellement sur les evangiles," &c., in
the acts, and the omission of the solemnity of the oath,
was commented on by Bolingbroke at the time, as " car-
rying something along with them which neither the
Queen nor he liked ;" but the renunciation was a fait
accompli, and the transaction too far advanced to be
" overhauled"—so it passed.
Are we now to learn the force and meaning of this
omission? Are we to be told that the descendants of
Philip of Anjou are bound by his oath, that those of
Philip of Orleans are unsworn ? We will not think so ill
either of the honesty or the sagacity of the King of the
French, as to believe that he will be willing to avail him-
self of this plea, or so audacious as to put it forward.
And if not, the arch-intriguer is caught on the horns of a
dilemma. If the treaty be binding, Lord Palmerston re-
lies on it for his protest against the offspring of the Duke
and Duchess of Montpensier. If it be of no effect, Louis
Philippe must descend from his lofty pedestal—he can-
not be head of the Bourbon family, but must be content
to reign a citizen king, with a patent bearing date from

July, 1830 ; for even supposing no such restoration to
await young Henry as was achieved by his illustrious
namesake, he must still be prepared to find a new pre-
tender to the throne of Hugh Capet in the Count of
Mentemolin, seeking to avenge, under the character of
Charles XI., the twofold wrongs offered to unf,rtunate
kinsmen—the forced abduction of Charles X. of France,
and the protracted imprisonment of Charles V. of Spain.

Nov. 24, 1846.

apologies made by those who were indifferent to Protest,
antism on behalf of Rome. He had always found this to
be the practical experience of almost every Christian,
that all forms and modes of error would close, conspire,
and co-operate when Bible evangelical truth was to be
put down or overturned.. _ He had met with a remarkable
exemplification of thii conviction during the last summer,
when visiting the west of England. He referred to meet-
ings he had held on behalf of the British Reformation-
Society at Bridgewater, Taunton, and Torquay, at which
places the Roman Catholic priests and the Sociniart
preachers combined to put him down. Their efforts were
not successful, and be entered into statements showing
that, by what they had heard at those meetings, many
Roman Cathol'es had been converted to Potestantism
and many wavering Protestants confirmed and renewed
in their faith. The reverend lecturer added interesting
accounts of his discussions with popish priests at Wool-
wich, Chelsea, and Bermondsey, in the history of which
he introduced his answers given on those occasions to the
doctrines of popery, and by this indirect route, be sug-
gested to his audience a vast variety of reasons for the
faith that was in them. The principal, however, of these
practical conflicts and controversies was at Hammersmith,
where he engaged with Mr. French, a Roman Catholic
barrister, in which the whole of the popish theology
seemed to have been sifted with a vigilance worthy of
Luther himself ; but as that discussion has been printed,
we need say little more than that it was upon the most
vital points of Romanism. In the course of narrating
the arguments on the Invocation of Saints, several atro-
cious corruptions in the Psalter of St. Benevento were
pointed out by the reverend gentleman. In the Te Deum
wherever the name of God and of the Lord occurred, they
bad been expunged, and the name of the Virgin Nary
substituted. The 95th psalm in our prayer-book com-
menced with, "0 come, let us sing unto the Lord : let us
heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation :" in this
matter it stood, "0, come, let us sing unto our Lady
Mary, let us heartily rejoice before the Virgin who brings
us salvation." Other psalms were named with which a
similar liberty had been taken. There was also the Atha-
nasian Creed. He had none of the dislike to this creed
which :rimy persons felt : but he did not like it one whit
the better for its popish " improvements," for it said,
" Whosover wisheth to be saved it is essential that be
hold a firm faith concerning Mary," and "unless be keep
this faith he shall perish." Then as to the Te Deum and
our noble Liturgy. The former was the nearest approach
to the sublimity of inspiration that could be conceived ;
and nothing would more rejoice him than to hear sang in
all the parochial churches of Scotland, "Thou art the
king of glory, 0 Christ," or to hear prayed that most
beautiful petition, " In all time of our tribulation ' • in all
time of our. wealth ; in the hour of death and in the day
of judgment, good Lord deliver us." (Applause.) He
recollected when he first entered an English parish church
after coming from Scotland hearing a clergyman who
prayed that prayer : he was not satisfied with reading, be
prayed it. (Hear.) fie ( Dr. Cummings) shut his eyes
and enjoyed it as thoroughly as though the supplication
had been extemporaneous; and he should never forget
those words. The Te Deum was meet praise for saints to
offer—meet praise for God to hear. But could the
meeting conceive how horrified he was when he read it,
as amended by a distinguished saint and cardinal of the
Rornish church ? "We praise thee, 0 Mary, as the mo-
ther of God : all the earth cloth worship thee, spouse of
the Eternal. To thee all angels cry aloud, Holy, Holy,
art thou, 0 Mary, mother of God : heaven end earth are
full of thy glory ! And so it went on to the close. (Hear.)
Then in the Litany it was said, "Be merciful to us
and spare us, 0 Lady !" " From all evil and mischief,
--, 0 Mary." "In all time of tribulation, in

deliver u

Korai anti probintial

FIRE.—On Sunday morning, about ten o'clock, a fire
broke out in the toy-shop of Mr. Ahlborn, situated at the
corner of Richmond-street and Whitechapel. Messrs.
Dowling, Maxwell, and Hewitt were immediately on the
spot, and the fire burned rapidly for a long time. Four
rooms on the second and third stories, together with all
their contents, consisting of a vast variety of children's
toys and smallwares, were destroyed. The damage is esti-
mated at about £4OO.
THE AURORA BOREALIS.—The appearance of those
beautiful phenomena, the northern lights, was most bril-
liant and interesting to the spectator, from the Mersey, at
Liverpool, on Tuesday evening. A little before 6 o'clock,
the appearance was that of immense clear rays of a soft
clear light flashing with various degrees of intensity from
the northern portion of the horizon, and losing themselves
high up in the clear-studded sky. In a short time the
rays assumed the shape of an extended arch across the
lower part of the sky; at first the arch was a slight curve,
but afterwards it became unore quickly curved. It is said
that the aurora is a sign of fine dry cold weather.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Tuesday night, about half-
past ten, a gentleman was proceeding homeward along the
Old Chester:road. When near the Tranmere Castle
Hotel he perceived two men in company with a female,
and the latter shortly afterwards accosted him, and asked
him to accompany her, to which he replied by ordering
her off. She, however, renewed her solicitations, and
threw her arms round him; at the same time, with the
quickness of a professional adept, she succeeded in ab-
stracting his purse, containing upwards of £2O, with
which she immediately made off, and joined her male
oompanions, who had kept at a short distance behind.
The police have obtained a clue which may lead to the
detection of the robbers.
DEATH FROM DROWNING.—An inquest was held be-
fore Mr. Curry, the borough coroner, on Thursday, on
the body of a man, name unknown, which was found in
the Waterloo Dock on the preceding Tuesday. Police-
constable Marrow deposed to hearing a cry of alarm as
he was on duty at the dock, on-Monday night; he ran
round to the side whence the scream proceeded, but could
discover nothing to confirm him in the impression that a
person was drowning. In consequence of his information,
however, a boatman, of the name of Stockton, belonging
to the fiat Edward, then lying in the Waterloo Dock,
made a search of the dock on the following morning,
which led to the discovery of the body. Deceased was
dressed in a harragan suit, and had the appearance of a
labourer. Verdict, found drowned.

in a few days the streets of Southport will be lighted
with oil naphtha lamps.
In compliance with a requisition, the Mayor of Man-
chester has convened a town's meeting to consider " the
oopressive and injurious tendency of the Salt Tax and
Monopoly in India."
Last Monday, Elizabeth Smith, an old woman aged about
77, living in Lionel-street, died in the Northern Hospital.
.A few days before, her clothes caught fire accidentally,
and she was severely injured.
At the Manchester Borough Court, on Tuesday last,
several cotton spinners, dyers, &c., were fined 403. and
costs for nuisances arising from the unconsumed smoke
from their works.
Four hundred pounds have been subscribed on behalf of
the testimonial to Mr. Traff)rd, on his retirement from
the chairmanship of the quarter sessions for the county of
Chester.

' The churchwardens of St. Augustine's Church have
appointed the Rev. J. H. Brown, Vice-Principal of the
Collegiate Institution, to take charge of the public ser-
vices of that church, and to be solely responsible for
them, until a new incumbent be appointed.
On Friday forenoon, a boy, carrying a tin cash-box,
near Liver Chambers, Tithebarn-street, was knocked
down and his box was stolen. Several persons seeing the
assailant running with the box gave chase, and the fellow
threw it down along with a bludgeon which he carried.
lid effected his escape.
RAPID STEAMING.'—The steamer Clementine, of whose
trial trip to Dublin we gave an account in our last, steamed
-to Folkestone from this port in thirty-five hours, against
a heavy sea and adverse winds—a rate of sailing rarely. if
ever attained, by our best packets. The Princess Cle-
mehtina is destined to ply between Folkestone and Bou-
logne, in connection with the railway communication
from London to Paris.
NEW HOLYHEAD PACKETS.—The Admiralty have
contracted for four new steam-packets for the Holyhead
station. One to be built by Messrs. Diichburn St Mare,
it is understood, on the lines of the Surveyor of the Navy
—engines by Messrs. Seaward and Co. ; one of wood, on
the lines of Mr. 0. W. Lang, with Penn's engine • one,
engines and vessel by Messrs. Miller and Co. ; and one
vessel by J. Laird—the engines by Forester, of Liverpool.
They ate to be called the Caradoc, the Llewellyn, the
Kathleen, and the Banshee.
duvENlt E THIEF.—A lad named James Dodd, who
made his abut at the Police-court some time ago, was
brought before Mr. Rushton, on Thursday.—Police con-
stable, 109, stated that he took the boy in Crosshall-
street, about five o'clock on the previous evening. Wit-
ness conceived he was lurking about with a felonious de-
sign ; and when he was apprehended, a large nail, such as
are used by tyros in the profession for removing small
panes of glass from the shop windows, was found on him.
—He was committed to prison for three months.

ATTEMPTED HIGRWAY ROBBERY.—OnSaturclaythree

able-bodied fellows, well known to the police, who gave
their names John Williams, Richard Smith, and William
Jones, were brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of
having attempted to rob persons in Vauxhall-road. It
appeared that between the hours of one and two o'clock
in the morning of that day, a man named John Edward
Brown was returning home alone. Vauxhall-road, when
the prisoners, and two others who had escaped, suddenly
sprang upon him, knocked him down, and turned his
pockets inside out. Fortunately he had no money about
him, or, doubtless, he would have been robbed of every
farthing. He was quite sober at the time, and they were
utter strangers to him. A sailor and his wife attended in
court for the purpose of deposing, that about the same
time, they were attacked by five fellows in Vauxhall-road.
They tore open the woman's cloak, and endeavoured to
rifle the sailor's pockets. They were.each committed to
gaol for a period of three months.
ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE AND ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.
—A most barefaced and daring attempt at robbery and
murder took place on Tuesday evening, at Broughton,
near Preston, at the house of W. Miller, Esq., surveyor.
At about six o'clock on Tuesday evening a knock was
heard at the front door,.and immediately, on Miss Miller
opening the door, six armed men with pistols rushed into
the house, and, presenting a pistol at Mr. Miller, de-
manded his money. Miss Miller, in terror, was endea-
vouring to make her escape, when she was shot at by one
of the men and wounded, slightly only we are glad to say,
on the head. Mr. Miller told the men he had not got
any money, when they replied they knew he had, when he
called to his servant, whom the intruders had shut up in
an adjoining room, to " ring the bell." It appears that
this bell is an alarm bell placed at the house, and that a
rope in the room where the servant was placed communi-
cates with it. At Mr. Miller's call, the servant rang the
bell, on which the men, after looking at each other with
astonishment for a few moments, suddenly decamped,
before any of the neighbours arrived. In a few minutes,
however, a considerable number of persons, attracted by
the bell, were on the spot, and an alarm was given to the
police. Five men were next day taken into custody,
charged with being concerned in the outrage; and we un-
derstand that three of them have been identified by Mr.
and Miss Miller. They are remanded for the present.
THE LATE DR. TATTERSHALL.—Dr. Booth's sermon
contains a happy reference to the scientific attainments of
the venerated deceased. "He was," says the learned
preacher, " a man, the bright benevolence of whose cha-
racter was only equalled by his learning and his talents,
as were those latter by the Christian graces with which he
was adorned. To dilate before you, his friends, his con-
gregation, on the kindness of his disposition, his sympa-
thies with the afflicted, his almsgiving to the needy, and
his universal charity towards all men, would be in me su-
fluous. As a scholar, his learning was accurate and ex-
tensive ; as a mathematician, his attainments were of a
high order; and as a divine, his knowledge of theology
was profound. He is one more added to the list of illus-
trious men who have adorned, by their learning and their
lives, that Church of which he was so b: fight an ornament.
And he, too, affords another striking example (were any
such needed) in refutation of a most erroneous opinion—
that the study of the exact sciences, or the pursuit of
physical investigation, indisposes the mind to the recep-
tion of religious truth; an allegation sometimes advanced
by those who are often remarkable more 'for their zeal
than their discretion ; and which is not more opposed to
sound reason than it is to acknowledged facts. It is op-
posed to sound reason, because such an assertion involves
the tacit assumption that there may be found some dis-
crepancy between the works of God as manifested in the
creation, and his will as announced to us in revelation—a
supposition utterly inadmissible, unless we are prepared
to deny that most indubitable attribute of the Godhead,
His unity, His oneness, His unchangeableness of purpose.
Such objectors unwittingly betray the very cause which
they profess to defend."

MANCHESTER PARKS.—The actual amount of pur-
chase money paid for each park, and the probable total
cost for each park, laid out and ready for the public ; the
latter in round numbers, are as follows :
Purchase Money. Total Cost.
£7262 8 2.... £ll,OOO
7743 3 8..... 12,000
8169 16 1.... 13,000

Queen's Park
Philip's Park.
Peel Park ....

Total .... £23,175 711 £36,000
Evms or IGNOILANCE.—On Thursday, two young lads,
named William Bell and Matthew Bell, were brought up
On a charge of stealing two pairs of slippers from James
M'Cann, The principal witnesses were two boys, from
ten to twelve years old, who, on being questioned, said
they had never been at school, and did not comprehend
the nature of an oath, or the consequences of telling a
falsehood. Mr. Rushton said there could be little doubt
of the facts of the case, but it was shocking to think that
children such as those in the witness-box had never been
at school, and were prevented from giving evidence in
consequence of their ignorance. lie directed the pri-
soners to be discharged.
RIVER NIGER.—A paragraph in a London paper, co-
Pied by some: of our contemporaries in Liverpool, repre-
sents that the experimental trial from this port by Mr.
Jamieson and others to open commercial intercourse with
central Africa " has failed.a second time." This is not
correct; there has not been a failure. The Ethiope
',steamer ascended and traded on the Niger last year as
Vgis. as Rabbah, five hundred miles from the coast, that
being the purpose of her mission to Africa, and she
would have done the same this year but for her boilers
giving way—an accident to which all steamers are liable,
and which may, of course, be remedied in ingland, but
not in the Bight of Biafra.
SMUGGLING.—On Thursday, John Ansley was charged
with having 2671b5. of smuggled tobacco in his possession
The prisoner engaged a carter, named George Coventry,
to convey a cask from Clare-court, Croston-street, Tox-
teth-park, to the Manchebter carriers, Dale-street. Dur-
ing the transit, the cart was stk:pped by the police, and
the cask was found to contain tobacco, and about bibs.
retire was found concealed on the premises of the pris-
oner. 11e was remanded until Tuesday.—On Friday,
David Coulter, steward of the ship Sophia, St. John's,
was charged with having concealed Slias. of cavendish
tobacco, in the pantry of the ship. The prisoner was
fined £lOO. . .

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DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Thursday, an investiga-
tion took place at the Aigburth Hotel, before John Heyes,
Esq., Coroner, touching the death of Thomas Matthews,
a farm servant, who had hung himself. The deceased had
been in the employ of. Mr. John Worrall, farmer, Aig-
burth, as carter, but in consequence of his dissipated habits,
he wag; discharged on Friday week. Since that time he
had been frequently seen about the house and outhouses
of his late employer, although he had been more than
once forbidden to come near the place. On Sunday morn-
ing week, about church time, when a boy belonging to
the farm went into the hay-loft he found the deceased

hanging.
DARING AND IMPUDENT ROBBERY.— OH Saturday
evening last, about six o'clock, whilst the wen in the em-
ploy of Messrs. Kennedy and Renner, 15, Goree Piazzas,
the window of which looks into the Back Goree, were
being paid their wages, some villain suddenly dashed either
his hand or an instrument adapted for the purpose (but
which, could not, from the rapidity of the act, be discerned),
through one of the squares of glass, and snatched away from
the desk placed against the window, a hag, containing about
£l5 in silver, and although some of the men from the
office immediately ran round to the Back Goree, the fel-
low had decamped with his booty, and we regret to add
that no traces whatever could, or have, as yet, been found
of the delinquent.
WATER FOR MANCHESTER.—There are no fewer than
four schemes contending for the honour and profit of sup-
plying the borough of Manchester with an abundant supply
Pure and wholesome water. They are the following :
irst, The Manchester and Salford Water Works Com-
ruY, who propose to derive the water from Lyme Park
441 the neighbourhood. Secondly, The Corporation of
Vanchester, who propose to bring the water from the
and
district. Thirdly, The Manchester, Sheffield,
Zt_l.(l Lincolnshire Railway Company, who propose to ob-
tain the supply chiefly from the Peak Forest and the
.7acclesfield Canals ;. and, fourthly, the Lancashire
eater Works Company, who propose to derive the supply
2.°M the Turton and Entwisle reservoirs, and the neigh-
bourhood.
DEATH FROM A NARCOTIC.—On Tuesday, an inquest
Was held before the borough coroner, on view of the body
of Michael Monaghan, a child nine weeks old, who lived
With his parents in Henry Edward-street. It appeared,
that when he was about three weeks old he was seized
Wite a fit of screeching, and that his mother got a penny-
worth of Godfrey's Cordial, and gave him a teaspoonful
uf it. Ever since that time she bad been in the habit of
giving him a pennyworth every week, but never gave him
more than about a teaspoonful at a time. Last week she
!lave the deceased a teaspoonful, and from that time until
five o'clock the next evening the child never awoke out of
d "P. When he did awake at last, he appeared quite
e',4Y, and on Sunday evening he died. Mr. Patrick
e, surgeon, was of opinion that he dof G odfied from the
ultB of some narcotic. A teaspoonful rey's
ilurdial would contain a drop and a half of laudanum.
a considered that a most injudicious quantity to have
treell given. The jury returned a verdict of '' Chance-
DISTURBING
y,uleY," thus r the offence below au.
e-'ISTURIIING Aeducing
CONCERT.—OD Tuesday,mansl Mr.g hter
Vin-
rAPg, father of the " Infant Sappho," appeared before
Rushton, to prefer a complaint against Edward Wor-
ll, who was in custody, for creating a disturbance on
Monday evening, behind the scenes of the Liver Thea-
tre. Mr. Vinning stated that, such was the increasing
V°Pularity of his daughter, he had hired the Liver Thee-
for a week, at a cost of X2O, and £2 for gas, when.
111 conjunction with the Tyler family, a series of concerts
Were to be given ; but on Monday evening, he said, a
' conspiracy " had evidently been formed to destroy the
respectability of the entertainment. The prisoner had
finie, it tcxicated, behind the scenes, having drink with
him, and created great disturbance. Mr. Vinning told
him if he would apologise and go away he would excuse
but his answer was that he would see him d—d
iltfirst. Five or six gentlemen from the pit leaped on to the
I„!ge, to put an end to the annoyance, and he was given
B'4'o custody. The prisoner, in his defence, said he was a
auger in town, having only arrived the day previous.
lie was sent from the Theatre Royal to the Brunswick
hotel for some drink, and had quite mistaken the thea-
treMr- Rushton :—" You will not get out till you find
or be imprisoned for a month."
HIGHWAY BOARD, THURSDAY.—Mr.. Duncan re-
ported that the tower at the new works in Green-lane
thes,."w up to within 23 feet of the entire height; that
thatTufing of the boiler-house was still incomplete, the
ti would be out of the hands of the blacksmith in the
in p'Se of the ether that the engine-fitters were engaged
meautting down pump-work in the well, and that the
and other pipes connected with the engine and
porte_r were nearly all fitted up. Mr. Duncan also re-
eent that the cooling ponds were in active progress,
tirra,"3' men being employed upon them, and that he had
wori;lea with Messrs. Jones and Homely to perform the
Iva,' In four weeks. With regard to the pipe laying, it
acre tenoned that the sluicing-cocks for St. Andrew-
laid et bad been received, and were in the course of being
tvori;4own. The Board complained of the delay in the
Joh a, arid the Town-clerk was directed to write to Mr.
Drosurt, to .say the Board were dissatisfied with the
ttlfress, and that the penalty of £5O a-week would be
Of theirthe
official year, he begged to propose that a return
Yeti," attendance of the commissioners during the past
!iiite_ at the weekly sittings of the Board and at the Com-
kbAri!eSt be submitted at the next meeting. The motion
ta;el,,:agabse_en seconded, several.. members expressed them-
-o.,,soo.pposed to the issuing of the return, as the du-
tiriee'it t doors were in very many cases of more impor-s
ae than that of attending the weekly meetings; and a
ao htest.unwould not show what was done out of doors,
rack estimate could be formed of the attention paid by
Tome gentleman to his public duties. No division was
w
on the subject, but it was understood the return
ue furnished.

IRISH PAUPERS—DEATH IN THE BRIDEWELL.—AII
inquest has been held on Friday, before our borough co-
roner, upon the body of an Irish pauper, named Patrick
M'Coy, aced 50, who, with four children, was taken to
the main Bridewell, at about five o'clock on Thursday af-
ternoon, for being found begging in the streets. He was
put into one of the cells, and the children were sent to
lodgings for the night. In the course of the evening, two
boys and a drunken man were placed in the cell with
M'Coy, the drunken man, in consequence of his violence
being chained to a ring in the wall. The Brideweil turn-
key entered the cell at various times, and at two o'clock
on Friday morning, the drunken prisoner, having become
quiet and orderly, had the handcuffs removed, and he
went and laid himself down on the bench. At three
o'clock, an alarm was given by one of the lads, that there
was a dead man lying upon the floor of the cell ; and the
turnkey, upon entering, found that it was M'Coy, who
had either been pushed, or had fallen off the bench upon
which he had been lying during the early part of the night.
He was quite dead. A surgeon was sent for, who, alter
the expiration of some time, made a post-mortem exami-
nation, in consequence of one of the lads having stated that
he saw the drunken man, after he was liberated, knock
M'Coy off the bench, and kick him in the chest after he
was down. There appeared to be no truth in this state-
ment, as there were no external marks of violence what-
ever; and the surgeon was of opinion that death was the
natural result of pulmonary disease. This poor man, who,
with his wife and children, was before Mr. Rushton on
Friday week for begging, and was only liberated upon
consenting to be passed back to Dublin (though he said
he might as well die of starvation here as in Ireland), ap-
pears to have contrived to evade the parish authorities un-
til Friday, when he was again apprehended. In all pro-
bability, his death had been hastened by the privations he
has undergone ; but it is clear the poor fellow did not ac-
tually die of starvation, as he had five shillings in his
pocket, the proceeds of his day's or week's begging. The
great and steady influx of Irish pauper& from Dublin, is
indeed becoming a matter of grave consideration among
the authorities here ; as it is utterly impossible for the pa-
rish to be burthened with them and it is a serious expense
to have to pass so many families back to Ireland every
week, which must either be done, or they must be sup-
ported in our borough gaol. They arrive here daily, lite-
rally by fifties and hundreds, clothed in rags, and without
a penny piece in the possession of any one of them. They
then pester the parish-office for relief, and finding that of
no avail, go about begging, until brought to the police-of-
fice. An inquiry is, we understand, about to be instituted
as to how so many Irish paupers manage to get their pas-
sage across the channel, it being shrewdly suspected that
the parish or some other authorities in Dublin are actually
paying their passage money in order to get rid of them,
utterly careless as to the result. _

'WRECKED Goons.—The recent devastations on the
coast have filled many of our drapers' shops with wrecked
Manchester goods. Mr. Briscoe, of Oldball-street, who
has been an extensive purchaser, is selling them at prices
almost incredible.

THE GREATEST LADY. All who have seen Tom
Thumb, (and who has not ?) would do well to proceed to
the Assembly-rooms, Bold-street, and enjoy the force of
ontrast,—for there Mrs. Armitage, in one sense, the
greatest lady that the country can boast, holds a daily
levee. She is of the extraordinary weight of 32 stone, and
is 4 feet 8 inches in height. Her countenance is hand-
some and expressive; her feet and hands of the ordinary
size, but, her obesity extreme. As we heard a wag re-
mark, she needs no " bustle." She is wonderfully viva-
cious and communicative •, although her step is far from
sylph-like, her bulk considered, she is withal graceful in
her carriage. The greatest difficulty is felt in travelling.
A camel could as easily go through the eye of a needle, as
Mrs. Armitage enter the door of a cab or railway carriage.
She is obliged to be content with the accommodation a
horse-box affords. A visit will be found to gratify.
EARLY'S BALTIMORE HAMS.—We last week briefly
noticed the importation of a quantity of Baltimore hams,
and conceiving them to be, in the present high state of the
markets, a boon to the working population, we have
taken an opportunity of testing them, and must at once
pronounce them not only equal to, but surpassing in rich-
ness, delicacy, and flavour, the finest produce of this or
our Sister Isle ; and we have the authority of a leading
medical professor to say, that " these hams are quite
as nutritious as our own curing, while they are
lighter and more easy of digestion." Unlike previous
importations of preserved provisions, there is in them an
almost total absence of salt ; and though highly dried,
when cut, they present that ruddy freshness that invaria-
bly indicates the superiority of quality. Those who have
not yet tried them, should do so at once, as they will fully
bear out all that can be said in their praise. An adver-
tisement in our paper of to-day, contains a list of the
leading grocers by whom they are sold; and, as the price
is extremely low, there can be little doubt that the market
will soon be cleared of them.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Last week, as the servant man ranges in the very first order of the facts I have been yen-
of Mr. Win. Forshaw, of Tarleton.hall, Scarisbrick, was turing to produce before the public. The first facts—the
returning from Liverpool market, where he had been with child's death, and the lingering convalescence of the mo.
a cart load of potatoes, he was met, about a mile from ther—might or might not be the effects of the cause sup-
Aintree race course, on .the Ormskirk road, by two fel. posed, taking them simply ; but when the links of addi.
lows, who, after demanding his money, seized hold of tional facts, testing all ambiguities, are rivetted succes-
him, and succeeded in taking from him six sovereigns, sively one with another, a chain results, of which the first
with which they made off towards Liverpool. After a link may be considered to stand as a cause, and every
few minutes' deliberation, he determined to follow them, other following as effect.

and tying his horse to the nearest gate, pursued and
nearly came up with them at the canal bridge, about half
a mile from the place where he was robbed, but he still
kept at a distance, unperceived by the robbers. When
they arrived at Walton, to the young man's great satis-
faction, he met with two policemen in the street. He
exclaimed, " these two men have robbed me of six sove-
reigns," when they were immediately taken into custody,
and both confessed their crime, and gave up the money,
which they had divided. On the following day they were
fully committed for trial. It is said that a subscription
will be got up in the neighbourhood, to reward the young
man for his

.obbers

perseverance ar

WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—At the
weekly meeting, on Tuesday, it was reported by the me-
dical officer of the fever-house, that, of the twenty pati-
ents left in the house the week before, eight had been dis-
charged cured, two had died, and that five new cases had
been admitted, leaving fifteen in the house. A letter

froth the Poor Law Commissioners apprised the Board
that the Commissioners are now prepared to carry into
practice the enactment of the last session of parliament,
for the augmentation, out of the national treasury, of the
salaries of union medical officers, schoolmasters, and
schoolmistresses, and for the entire payment therefrom
of the salaries of district auditors. Another letter sanc-
tioned the proposed division of the township of West
Derby into two districts, for the purpose of affording me.
dical relief. It recommended the continuance of Mr.
Greatrix, for the municipal division, and the appointment
of another officer for the rural division. The commis-
sioners also assented to a proposed addition of £2O to the
last quarter's salary of Mr. Greatrex, in consideration of
his extra labours and expenses through that period. The
Board then proceeded to the election of four medical offs•
cers, at the salary of £BO a year each, for the four dis-
tricts into which the township of Toxteth-park has re-
cently been divided. After some discussion and divisions,
the choice fell upon the following gentlemen :—For the
first district—Mr. H. G. Harbord, by the casting vote of
the chairman ( Mr. Sheppard); second district—Mr. Gil-
mour, apothecary to the Liverpool Workhouse; third
district—Mr. Ewing Whittle, of the Northern Hospital;
fourth district—Mr. G. S. Deane, of the Northern
Hospital.

DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—A report of the
working of fixed berths was submitted, but as it was con-
sidered in some respects not complete, it was referred
back to the Harbour-master's sub-committee. to be made
up for six months only. A. specimen of lanterns proposed
to be used in ships for the general docks was submitted
and approved of. The Chairman said he wished it to be
again understood that be had no responsibility in granting
the use of these lights. Mr. Tobin : I wish it to be un-
derstood I disapprove of them altogether. The Chairman :
I will be much surprised if you do not find ships turned
into workshops.—A bye-law was proposed for the regula-
tion of master-porters in discharging ships, to the effect,
that no master-porter acting in pursuance of the Dock
Act, should undertake the receiving, weighing, and un-
loading of any vessel using the docks, &c., unless nomi-
nated by the owner or consignee entitled to the largest
proportion. That in case no such application be made
within 48 hours from the reporting of any vessel, it shall
be lawful for the application to be made by the owners or
consignees of such vessel. After a short discussion, it
was proposed by Mr. Bold, seconded by Mr. Rankin, that
the time should be limited to 24 hours. Upon a division,
the original proposition was carried : Messrs. Bold, Ken-
dal, Locket, Saunders, and Rankin being thc parties who
voted against it.—A letter from the master the
in
the block and pump making business, complaining that
Mr. Drury, clerk in the Dock Office, was a partner with
Mr. Catterall—that when booking vessels for the Graving
Docks he was in the habit of presenting his card of busi-
ness to the captains of vessels, and that the memorialists
suffered materially in business therefrom.—The Chairman
said it was a very serious charge, and must be inquired
into by the sub-committee, to whom the letter was refer-
red.—A letter from the Rev. E. Hull, complaining that
Thomas Howard, a workman at the north docks, had
taken hold of his arm and pushed him out of the new dock
works, was referred to the Committee of Works. Mr.
Hartley said the man had only done his duty. A strong,
rough fellow was placed at the gate in question, in order
to keep parties out. It was a private entrance, and no
person had a right to go through it. If Mr. Hull had
gone to the right gate, he would have been received with
courtesy, but if he or any other person had gained admis-
sion through that gate, the man would have been dis-
charged.
__ . . _ _

2. A poor woman, in the greatest depths of poverty, was
twice confined in the Lying-in Hospital. On the last oc-
casion she was under the care of one of my colleagues,
who was requested to visit her afterwards at her cellar.
He permits me to state, that he found her in the utmost
possible destitution ; her hitsband was a sailor, absent at
sea, without having left her anything to keep her from
starvation ; he had not left her any ship-note, the usual
provision for a seaman's family. She was lying in a dirty
damp cellar, in a little crooked street between Gloucester-
street and Copperas-hill. Her infant and self bad come
out from the hospital well. The infant died in a few

_lit, but a miserable shake down of straw on the
damp floor—the walls were damp also. As for the win-
dow, it hardly contained one pane of glass, old rags sup-
plying the place of broken glass. She had hardly any
food, but a poor woman, occupying the cellar, gave her a
share of her earning*. to prevent her starving, and had
also taken part of the straw from her own bed, in order

to afford the starving mother a most insufficient covering
of the damp floor for an apology for a bed. At first this
straw was not more than many a common sized dog gets
to lie upon. The matron of the hospital went first to
see her, found her in this pitiable plight, and saw
to recommend her to make a little sup of gruel
child. She replied she had not the meal to make
could she get it except by the charity of her kind
fellow-lodger. She found her contending with this po-
verty ; and as a natural consequence of the want of pro-
per protection from damp cellar, shivered window, and
hunger, at this present inclement season last year, she
had become the subject of inflammation in her breast,
which went on to the formation of abcess, requiring to be
opened, &c., and she was some weeks before she was
well again. It is only justice for me to add, since I have
introduced the case, that when her want was made known
to the Ladies' Committee, suitable bed and bedding was
kindly provided for her, besides the needful temporary
assistance. The matrons of society can appreciate the
force of this case. It has been said that " one half of the
world knows not how the other half lives "—" starves"
would be the more correct term. It may with perfect
truth be added, that, a large proportion of thig, the
wealthy half, enhances the fault of omission to inquire, by
the sin of "commission" in hardening itselfagainst poverty.
It sits clothed in the gay garb of sordid indulgence, and
turns the deaf ear to the poverty-stricken, or listens to it
often but to visit it with the penalty as of a crime. The
chain of social sympathy is thereby broken, and the spirit of
human nature, which submits not to want with a contented
and becoming grace, is branded as lawletts and disaffected
towards that portion of society which revels in the lap of
luxury and sits at ease in high places. Some retrograde
movement will have to be made back towards the hospi-
tality and alms of the older world. The new poor-law is
no fair substitute, and the masses of poverty feel it to be
so ; it may sometimes possibly goad on, the despondency
of indolence and the unsuccessful, to another effort, which,
when made, by many might be dignified by the name of
heroic; but it fails to encourage the struggles of industry,
or to energize the hard-pressed; its grinding contest is
with human nature, and not with mere machines.
(To be continued.)
I am, sir, yours truly,

reason

it, nor
hearted

Bedford-street, Nov. 15, 1846

G. C. WATSON

DISTRESS AMONGST PROTESTANTS
• IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND.

The following is an extract from a letter from Tyrone,
dated 13th November, 1846, from a clergyman who was
recently officiating at Woodside, but has now

ncum-

bency near Tyrone

My Dear Mr. Groves,—The papers have no doubt
acquainted you with the great destitution in the south of
Ireland ; but of the Protestant north, or in particular of
this county (Tyrone), you hear little or nothing ; for
there is an honest pride in an Irish Protestant which
would induce him to starve rather than beg, by a spirit of
obedience to the law, which would restrain him from be-
coming notorious by crime. My object in troubling you
is to seek your interest and aid for starving fellow crea-
tures, who worship God under the same ritual as yourself.
I will state a few, facts briefly :—My glebe and church
are in the mountains, five miles from any house. I mi-
nister alone over a district nine miles long by six and a
half, numbering over 1,000 souls in my care. We have
collected above £250 for mine by the Deanery parish,
and expended it in food and labour. The public works
are not yet begun, and when they do, Bd. or 10d. a day
will not support families. Mean-
while the cotters are starving. Several families whom
my wife visits almost daily, are reduced to one meal in
the day ; and I have seen w,ll-dressed men come into my
farm yard, and gather the bits of turnips, the refuse of
my cattle at night. Ido what I can. Seventy pounds a
year, badly paid, does not nearly meet the labour of my
glebe land. Money I have none. What I can, I give,
but I cannot reach all. My object now is to collect a few
pounds, and to keep these cotters alive till the publio
works begin, and, if possible, to buy some meal and sell it
to them at half price when they are in work. They have
no potatoes—no meal—nothing to live on. The work-
house will now be quite full, and they who go there lose
their tenements for ever. My application is for no public
or general collection. It is a little private matter of my
own planning. I therefore expect- but- lift*: -
would go further in this way, than more in the public
funds. If you could do something for us promptly,
(meanwhile they are starving,) God would increase your
store and bless your Christian liberality. My heart is
sad when I think of it.—Ever yours faithfully,

SELECT VESTRY.—At the meeting, on Tuesday, the
chairman (Rector Campbell) expressed his belief that it
would be unnecessary to read the letters which had passed
between the board and the Poor-law commissioners, rela-
tive to the new parish-offices. It would be sufficient to
say, that they (the commissioners) had communicated
with the Building Committee, that the thing was now in
a fair train, and that the new offices would be immediately
commenced. The resolution passed by the magistrates at
their meeting held on Monday week, and inserted in our
last, having been read, Mr. Thornely, in moving that it
be recorded on the minutes, made a long address. He
said that although many unpleasant things had arisen dur-
ing the controversy, he was persuaded it would end in
good—that each party would see their proper position,
and Viet such an event was not likely to occur again.
There was a great deal, as Mr. Rushton had said, of paro-
chial business to be administered in Liverpool. It was in
every way desirable, therefore, that the board should have
the co-operation of the magistrates in the transaction of
that business; and now that they had come to a fair un-
derstanding. with regard to their relative positions, be
hoped, from this time forward, that they would have a
good understanding, and have the co-operation of the ma-
gistrates in all parochial business, whether it came from
the Workhouse or from the Select Vestry. Mr. Fergu-
son seconded the motion, and begged to say one word on
the subject. The statement he made, and which he
thought it his duty to make, at the last meeting, as to the
circumstances which had induced the Workhouse Com-
mittee to adopt the resolution relative to the police cases,
he made with, very great care. He avoided everything of
a severe nature. He might have said a deal more than he
did, but he avoided giving offence to any one. Subse-
quently, however, owing to some remark made by a gen-
tleman at the board, he was induced, on the spur of the
moment, to say something which might have been as well
avoided ; for though he should speak the truth, it was not
always prudent to speak it. He had never said anything
derogatory to the magistrates of the borough ; and now,
he trusted, things would go on more peaceably, and more
in accordance with the duties of the board than had
hitherto been the case. He seconded the motion. The
motion was unanimously agreed to. Mr. Hand deried
the truth of a paragraph which appeared in the Mercury,
and which charged him with having taken Mr. Horn, re-
gistrar of births, to vote in Abercromby Ward, and the
Mercury has since made an abject apology for the shame-
ful charge, more shameful because the charge was reiter-
ated after a previous similar insinuation had been denied.

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We understand that C. Groves, Esq., Rumford-place.
will be happy to receive and forward any contributions
for the above object, and we are sure that many of our
friends will be glad of an opportunity afforded them of
contributing to the deep necessities of their Irish brethren.

FINANCIAL SUMMARY OF THE WEEK

CORRESPONDENCE.

SATURDAY MORNING

The Consol Market has continued steady during the
last week, the only fluctuations having arisen from the
temporary influence of sales and purchases. Business
has generally been dull, and there has been but little
speculation.

The exchanges are still on the decline, notwithstanding
that the stock of bullion in the Bank is on the increase.
This may, in some measure, be accounted for by the con-
tinued demand for bills upon Holland. By the Gazette of
last night we perceive that the stock of gold and silver
bullion for the week ending Saturday last was £14,246,395
as compared with £14,235,885 in the previous week. This
shows an increase of £10,510 in the issue department,
while i❑ the banking department the stock of gold and
silver coin has risen from £524,621 to £602,458, showir
a total increase of £88,347, thus proving that the Bank is
in a much more favourable condition than last week to
meet a demand for bullion.

Money remains much in the same condition as it has
been for some time past, a strong evidence of which has
been the readiness with which buyers have discounted
their purchases, instead of giving acceptances, as usual,
which has been one of the causes of the recent scarcity of
bills. First-rate paper is, however, easy at the minimum
Bank amount, and bills falling due this year have been
taken even below that rate.
The Morning Chronicle says :

ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF SOME
PARTS OF LIVERPOOL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

" We are still firmly of opinion that the great absorp-
tion of capital which is going forward in railways will tend
to an increase of interest, and to a turn in the exchanges.
We cannot apprehend an immediate action on the circula-
tion, nor do we think that the public are unmindful of the
prospect before them ; and, therefore, that there is no
danger of any such crisis as would otherwise have arisen."

Consols left off firmly last week at 94i for money after
very slight fluctuation. On Monday no alteration was
perceptible, with the exception that all were seller at the
above prices. On Tuesday fluctuations took plane, but
without any assignable cause than that above mentioned,
viz., the influence of sales, &c. On Wednesday, from
the understanding that the Bank had received a larger
supply of bills than bad been the case for some weeks past,
the impression arose that money was likely to become of
higher value. On Thursday a slight improvement took
place, but last night the prices remained nearly in statu
quo.

In the Foreign Market little has been done. Spanish
Five per Cents. have declined from 26/ to 25/. Dutch
Four per Cents. have continued steady. In the remain-
ing stocks the prices have been merely nominal. Mexican
Bonds have bee❑ done for the account at 21.1, hut there
have been no transactions for money. Messrs. Schreider
and Co. have declined to deliver up the bonds and money
in their possession to Josh M. Mendoza, who has made
formal demand for them, as consul for Mexico; the re-
fusal being made on the ground that they were trustees
for the bondholders. The course pursued by Messrs.
Schreider is universally approved of in all the respectable
circles in the city.
Monday was the settlement day in the Share Market,
which has, however, gone off very satisfactorily.
There has been a very unusual delivery of stock, which
would lead us to infer that speculators have been exten-
sively realizing the profits which the recent rise of price
placed within their reach.
There has been a considerable advance in Oxford and
Worcester shares. There has also been a further advance
in the price of North British shares ; Eastern Counties
have also been firmer. With these exceptions, the market
must be reported as dull, with a decided tendency down-
ward.

The Grain Markets remain in the same depressed con-
dition, but the prices range nearly the same as last week.
SATURDAY EVENING.

The English funds have been heavy throughout the
day, but without variation from the closing prices of yes.
terday. Under ordinary circumstances the fall in the
French funds caused by the aspect of affairs regarding
Cracow might have been expected to produce a marked
decline, but the money purchases of the public continue
to counteract the operations of the speculators. The only
quotations for Consols were 91/ to / for money, and 941
to for the January opening ; Bank Stock left off 205 to
206; Reduced Three per Cents, 931; Three-and-a. Quar-
ter per Cents., 95}; and Long Annuities, 91, The Ex-
chequer-bill market is weak at Bs. to Ds. premium.
There was a degree of flatness in the foreign market
this afternoon, though the extent of business was by no
means important. The latest bargains were—Brazilian
at 85i ; Danish, at 86 ; Mexican, at 22 for money, and
21/ for the account; Portuguese Four per Cents, at 36
for money, and at 361 for the account; Spanish at 251
for the account ; the Three per Cents., at 361 for the ac-
count; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents., at 59; and the
Four per. Cents., Certificates, at 91.