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71 la Burke or ,1 la Pox ; but purely in a style of his own—a
happy mixture of the " malaprop" and " bubble-and-speak"
schools of oratory. As is the case with most great speakers'
the knight turns " ever and anon" a lozenge in his mouth,
and gets rather red in the face—a characteristic of the-fervid
and impassioned speaker. His addresses, too, have one ad-

mirable quality ; viz., that in perusal you may begin in the
middle or at the end without losing the sense. Nay, we
once tried the experiment of reading only each alternate sen-
tence, and found the sense improved rather than the reverse.
With respect to his general attainments, we are not aware
that the worthy knight is a great classical scholar, or is pos-
sessed of deep historical, philosophical, metaphysical, or

We are informed, however, that be is so
far proficient in the Welsh language—although it is so re-
cently that his attention has been directed to its study—that
he is at present engaged in the compilation of a Welsh ad-
issued in the event of a dissolution of Parlia-

dress, to be

tnent ; and that there is every probability of his becoming a
competitor for the bardic prize at the next Eisteddfod. We
have heard, too, that he has an ambition to contend for the
prize of honour as a performer upon the Welsh harp; but we
disbelieve the rumour. Sir Joshua is after all but a Whig;

and no man who has " music in his soul" was ever a Whig

LITERARY NOTICES

The Asiatic Journal. 11

Allen & Co., Leadenball-street

At a period when our relations

ith India and China are

more complicated, and involve graver results than heretofore,
the number of the Asiatic Journal for March is peculiarly

acceptable, containing as it does a

able and comprehensive

. . _
st of the recent important events in the eastern world,

besides a variety of interesting articles of a lighter and amus-

ng characte

The " Review of Eastern News,

which forms

the opening paper, will be perused with deep attention, par-
ticularly as regards Affghanistan and China. " Hindu() Wo-
men," as described in a discourse delivered by a native young
zentleman, at a new Society for the Acquisition of General
hes a .gratifying example of the growing
acquireinents and taste of the better order of natives, and
gives promise of the refinement, by intellectual culture, at no
very distant period, of the people of India. " Wood's Jour-
ney to the Oxus," is a pleasing detail of eastern adventure
and discovery. The article entitled " The Poetical Charac-
ter of Bishop Heber," is a tribute of merited admiration to
the genius Of an accomplished divine and truly amiable man.
The " Memoirs of a Griffin" is an amusing sketch of a first
visit to India. The description of the approach to Calcutta
by water is excellent, and conveys a lively idea of the luxur-

, furnisl

iant outskirts and the general splendour of that proud me-
tropolis of British India. The other articles, including a
" Memoir of the late Lieutenant Loveday," and a " Review
of Glegg'saleinoirs of Warren Hastings," are of considerable
merit, and we can safely recommend the whole number as
well worth the attention of all who feel interested in the
affairs of the east.

'he Law and Practise relating to the Constitution and
Management qf Assurance, Banking, and other .Iqint
Stock Companies. By Swinton Boult, secretary to the
Liverpool Fire and Life Insurance Company. London,
Ridgways : Liverpool, Wareing Webb.

This is a judicious pamphlet, well timed, and written by
a man evidently conversant with the subject. Mr. Boult

says he

aims at nothing be

ad an elucidation of the wants
experienced, and of the principles which should test the real

value and probable operation of any suggestion to supply
Whilst advocating the joint-stock system, he has
discussed these points with such moderation and knowledge

as cannot fail to recommend his views to the public

Site Lessons in Short-hand. By P. B. Templeton. Lon-
don : Orr and Co. ; Manchester : Heywood.

The basis of Mr. Templeton's system is Taylor's, whose
alphabetical characters are neat and lineal, and when written
may be readily deciphered. The work before us, however, is
not a mere rehash, but is in effect a new, and certainly one
of the best treatises on the subject of short-hand published
for some years. The rules, which in reality are kw in num-
ber, but which in some. works have been minutely sub-
divided, so as to be almost incomprehensible at the age when
their study should be commenced, are here rendered exceed-
ingly simple. " He that runs" may indeed read them. An
additional recommendation is that they are brought down to
the present state of the art, as practised by the best news-
paper reporters. On these grounds we have no hesitation in
recommending this publication to all who feel interested in
the progress of a science of so much public utility and private
advantage as stenography. There are quacks in all profes-
sions, and short-hand has not escaped, as the following little
anecdote, which we quote from Mr. Templeton's preface,
will shew

Between three and four years ago a person named -,
had been for some time in Manchester professing to
writing, mental calculations, short-hand, &c, found his
to Middleton, a little town midway between Manchester
Rochdale, where he issued flaming bills announcing the
• he was about to perform in the way of communicat-
nowledge. The author of

wonder

—its treatise, happening to
hrough the town in company with a friend, who is

passing t

good stenographer, was hidwied, by way of curiosity

. .
to call upon this professor for the purpose of seeing what his
capabilities were in reference to short-hand. The worthy
teacher, after showing his alphabet, and reiterating his assur-
ances that if we took his four or six lessons, we should be
very competent short-hand writers, exhibited a specimen of
what one of his pupils had done with the aid of his instruc-
tions. This specimen, which was written upon one side of a
common sheet of writing paper, (which side, by the way, was
not half filled, the writing, too, being in a very large charac-
ter)—this specimen, we were assured, contained the whole
of a sermon which had occupied three quarters of an hour
in. the delivery. Having expressed our astonishment that so
much matter could be comprised within so limited a space,
the professor, in (miler to convince our stubborn understand-
ings, began to read it. The task, however, was not quite so
easy as was expected ; and after having gone over, in the
most bungling fashion, four or five lines, which was about
one-third of the whole specimen,-and occupied something
like a minute and a half in the reading, the gentleman, with
the greatest possible composure, laid down his specimen,
and proceeded to expatiate on the extraordinary things that
might be achieved by stenography. We assured him we had
often heard what wonderful feats short-hand writers could
acomplish, but that nothing we had ever either heard or seen
was at all to be compared with the superiority of his system,
which seemingly could enable a pupil to take down a sermon
occupying three-quarters of an hour in its delivery, the whole
of which he might afterwards read in five minutes ! The
gentleman had not another word to say."
After this, though it is scarcely necessary, we should be

SINGULAR CASE OF LOCK JAW.—On Friday an
was held on the body of John Hill, a boy eight years old, who
died of lock-jaw, under the following singular circumstances.
Another boy and the deceased were playing together on Thurs-
day week in Hill-street, Toxteth-park, on some balks, and in
the act of running over them a piece of wood stuck into his
foot. The deceased pulled the splinter out, and the wound
bled a good deal, but by putting some oakum to it he was
enabled to walk home. His mother saw his foot swelled the
next day, and on asking him the cause, he said a piece of iron
had fallen uprn it. On Saturday it appeared to get worse,
but the boy was still able to walk about. On Tuesday night
he went to bed quite hearty, but the next morning he became
sick, and could not get up. From nine o'clock on Wednes-
day morning until one o'clock on Thursday afternoon, he
had a constant succession of fits, which terminated in his
The. medical roan, Mr. Leech, whe❑ called in, found
the instep. The usual medicine was ad-
-the disease was lock jaw,

a slight Scratch c
ministered, but it was unavailing—
of which he died.

THE GOVERNOR FENNER.—This unfortunate vessel, it
would seem, has gone to pieces on the coast of %Vales. The
mate, we understand, has been down to Criccieth and Aber-
tfraw, and recovered a trunk belonging to himself, and another
the property. of his wife, which had been thrown up in that
neighbr'urhood. The beach for sixty miles along the coast
was thickly strewed with portions of the wreck. At Aber-
tfraw, a chest belonging to Wm. Thorns, one of the passengers
from Cheltenham, we believe, and containing wearing appa-
rel, books, and sixty pounds in money had been fdund, and
at Criccieth, a trunk, full of female dresses, belonging to a
couple lately married at Chester,butwhose names are not in

our possession, has been cast up by the waves. In the trunk
of Mr. Thorns, a letter was found, written by Mr. Dugan, of
Waterloo-road, recommending the bearer to his relatives in
America. Him they made acquainted with the affair, and he
immediately wrote to Mrs. Thorns on the subject; and on
Friday morning Mr. Dugan and the widow returned from
Wales, bringing-with them the contents of the trunk,
sisting of clothes, 13 sovereigns, 2 American eagles, and

dollar;, which she sold to Messrs. Durandu anti Luff, money
brokers. It is stated that several other boxes have come on

shore at different parts of the coast, and the hull of the Go-
vernor Fenner was seen only a few days since. It is to be
hoped the vessel play be recovered, as there is little doubt
there are many valuables still remaining in her.

OPERATIVE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—A numerous
meeting was held in St. Michael's School-room, Parr-street,
on Friday evening, for the purpose of forming a branch of
the Protestant Operative Association in connection with
Pitt-street and Great George-street districts. The Rev. H.
Carpenter presided, and, after opening the proceedings with
prayer, addressed the meeting at some length, in the course
Of which he stated the objects the association had in view,
namely, to enlighten the members of the Church of England
on those great and fundamental truths on which themselves
and the Church of Rome were at issue, and to lay before the
members of the Church of Rome the errors in which they
are involved, in order that, by contrasting those errors with
the gospel of Christ, they might embrace the truth. After
stating that the Rev. Mr. Ould was prevented by indisposi-
tion from being present, Mr. Swindley proposed and Mr.
Ashbrook seconded the first resolution, which was to the
effect that Popery was opposed to the freedom of the gospel.
The Rev. Mr. Marshall proposed and Mr. Woooburne se-
conded the next resolution, that the encroachments at pre-
sent making by the Romish church in Great Britain, and the
apathy of professing Protestants, call loudly for active exer-
tion cn the part of the Operative Protestant Association.
The next resolution was proposed by the Rev. Mr. Mansfield
and seconded by Mr. Crisp, to the effect that the district
branch be formed. Several other excellent speeches were
made, a large number entered their names as members,
thanks were proposed to the rev. chairman, and the meeting
Ul the resolutions were unanimously carried.

separated
DISPUTED SEAMAN'S WAGES.—Captain M'Pherson, of
the Mary Ann Peters, appeared on Saturday before Mr.
Rushton, to answer a summons obtained against him by a
seaman named Williams, to show cause why he refused to
pay a balance of wages said to be due. Williams stated that
he shipped on board the Mary Ann Peters, in Calabar, as
chief mate, at £6 a month, and arrived in Liverpool on the
3rd February. On his passage home, the captain "'knocked
him off work," and refused to pay him his wages.—The ap-
plicant is a well-known character at the police court, having
applied, within the last few days, more than once for wages
disputed, and which the court has refused to enforce, it being
shown that he had misconducted himself whilst on board the
respective ships for the service in which he had claimed com-
pensation ; in one case it was shown that he had incited the
crew to mutiny.—Captain M`Pherson stated, that, when at
Calabar, he had taken Williams on board out of sheer cha-
rity, he at that time being in irons for mutiny in another
vessel. On the passage home he found that he was totally
useless, and that he was inciting the crew to insubordination ;
he therefore determined to put him on shore. The captain
gave a case to prove his assertion, but, unfortunately, it was
not entered in the log.—Mr. Rushton said, under the cir-
cumstances, as the captain had no legal objection to resist
payment, he must order that the amount due be forthwith
paid, but expressed a strong opinion on the conduct of Wil-
liams, more particularly as he had attempted to injure the
character of Captain M`Pherson, as he had done those of
several other captains. He was sorry that Captain Wilber-
son's charity should have been thrown away upon so worth-
less a fellow.

THE ROCK HARMONICON.—TO Mr. Richardson, inventor
and proprietor of the rock harmonicon.—Sir, We, who have
hereto attached our signatures, being the teachers of the
children in connexion with the charity. schools, who have be.
nefited, and at the same time been delighted at hearing the
sweet music of your admirable invention, the rock harmoni-
con, beg, on our own and their behalf, to return our sincere
thanks for your liberality, in granting gratuitous admission
to those to whom, on other terms, the pleasure must have
been sacrificed. Having been made acquainted with the his-
tory of the invention, the children have had an opportunity
of learning that industry and perseverance can extract sweet
melody and dulcet notes even from rocks. With our sincere
wish that your ingenuity and liberality may meet with its
just reward, we have the honour to be, sir, your obedient
humble servants, William Henry Bell, master of Harrington
Free School: Anne Braithwaite. mistress of ditto _ William

Washington, St. James's School; R. Bulman and D. Wright;
Elizabeth M`Bride, Caledonian School; J. Lees, St. Mi-
chael's School; Jane M`Bride, ditto; John Jones, Moor-
fields School ; Mary A. M'Comb, ditto ; Richard Simm, St.
Paul's School; M. Allanson, ditto.
DOG STEALlNG.—Yesterday Mr. Thos. Kaye, proprietor
of the Liverpool Courier, appeared before Mr. Rushton at
the Police-court, to prefer a charge of stealing a dog, his
property, against two brothers named William and Matthew

. . -
Stroud. It appeared that one morning, about two months
ago, a boy in Mr. Kaye's service was going along London-
road with the dog, and when he was near Lime-street the
prisoners met him, and asked him to whom the dog belonged.
lie told them it was his master's, and they then desired him
to give it to them, and to say that he had lost it, but he re-
fused. When he had gone a little further, he discovered the
prisoners running away, and that one of! them had the dog
under his arm.—The prisoners said that Mr. Kaye had had
the dog since that time. Mr. Rushton asked them what
business they had to steal it? In reply, they denied the
charge.—Mr. Dowling explained that the dog had been re-
stored to Mr. Kaye, but had been stolen again.—Mr. Kaye
told the magistrate that the boy was naturally much dis-
tressed after he bad lost the dog, and went to his mother to
know what he should do. His mother went with him to the
cellar in which the prisoners lived, and there found the dog
tied to the bedstock. The boy claimed the dog, and it was
liberated. He (Mr. Kaye) then went to Mr. Whitty, to
procure the apprehension of the prisoners, but the officers
could not succeed. On Saturday last, the dog having es-
caped from him (Mr. Kaye) whilst he was in Bold-street, it
occurred to him that it might be in the cellar where it was

found before. Search was made for it this morning ; the
animal could not be found, but the two prisoners were met
with and placed in custody. He (Mr. Kaye) should be sorry
to occupy the time of the bench with such a trifling case,
had there not existed in this town a regular system of dog-
stealing.—Mr. Rushton inquired the value of the dog ?
Mr. Kaye replied that he had paid 30s. for it some time ago.
A dog of value could scarcely be kept at all anywhere ; but
when it was stolen, if a reward of 10s. was offered, it was
frequently brought back for the sake of the reward.—ln
answer to the magistrate, Mr. Parkinson said that both the
prisoners hail been previously before the court.—Mr. Rush-
An Essay on Deafness. By D. Cronin_ Wertheim, ton ordered them to pay 305., the value of the dog, and a
penalty of £5 in addition ; in default of payment, they must
London. be committed to hard labour in the House of Correction for
This essay, to those afflicted with deafness, will prove very one month. And, further, if they were ever brought before
acceptable. Mr. Cronin appears thoroughly to understand him again for dog-stealing, he would apply the other provi-
the construction of the ear, and seems well acquainted with sions of the act to them, and order them both to be well
its diseases. A variety of interesting cases are given in the wtohpipapyetdhtewmicoeti—eyTheTphrei
y eso
werenrs sasiodn
steb euy
nwerere
clot omtapJtetpeadred
work, which have met with a speedy cure in Mr. Croniu's Mr. Kaye stated, that the boys in the neighbourhood of the
hands. We recommend this little essay to the notice of all cellar had annoyed his boy, from whom the dog had been
who require the aurist's aid, and doubt not, under the an-
stolen. Mr. Rushton desired the names of any of them to
be given to him who had been guilty of such proceedings.
thor's treatment, that the valuable faculty of hearing will be One was given, and an officer was ordered to enforce his
restored. His method is simple, but at present a secret to attendance to-dav (Tuesday).
himself.

unjust if we omitted to mention that Mr. Templeton is an
excellent practical reporter, well competent to discern and
expose the tricks of such pretenders. We anticipate that his
book will be the means of preventing " payment in advance"
being obtained by these impostors.

In conclusion, we again recommend these " Six Lessons."
The work is neatly got up, and by no means dear consider-
ing the quantity and the quality of its contents.

Ex
are s

N OF POOR-LAW GUARDIANS AT FORMBY.—We
ry to hear that the poor in the township of Formby
ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVER SITY are in .a ost lamentable state of destitution, and that the
INTELLIGENCE. paltry relief doled out under the new poor-law system barely
keeps them from starvation. Some old women 70 or 80 years
of age are compelled to subsist upon Is. or Is. 6d. per week.
The election of the guardian for this township, according to
the information we have received, does not appear to proceed
accordinc, to the much boasted practice of purity of election.
One of the rural police has been placed at the disposal of the
clerk of the board of guardians, and this gertleman takes
half of the voting papers, and the assistant-overseer (whose
duty it is to deliver the 2vhole) attends to the remainder.
The parochial constable enters each house as soon as the
assistant-overseer has left it, offers to assist the ratepayer in
signing the paper ; and at the same time uses his influence
to induce them to vote for a guardian obnoxious to the ma-
jority of the ratepayers. The parochial constable secures
the paper after it is signed, delivers it into the hands of the
assistant-overseer, instead of, according to the directions of
the poor-law commissioners, allowing it to remain until the
23d, when he (the assistant-overseer) is bound to call for it.
The whin method of carrying out one of their projects is ge
nerally as objectionable as the measure itself,

(From the Oxford Herald.)

PROMOTIONS

Rev. R. Allen, Rector of Barcombe, Sussex, to the Pre-
bend of Exceit, on the presentation of her Majesty.
Rev. C. H. Bromby, 8.A., of St. College, Cambridge, to
the Head Mastership of the Stepney Proprietary School.
Rev. G. 0. Townsend, to be Chaplain to the British Resi-
dents at St. Germain-en-Laye, in the room of the Rev. W.
Wright, D.C.L.
Rev. S. Edmund Walker, M.A., late Crosse Theological
Scholar in the University of Cambridge, to the Rectory of
St. Columb Major, Cornwall, void by the death of the Rev.
John Trefusis ; patron, Edmund Walker, Esq.
Rev. T. Townsend, Curate of Dooms, to the Rectory of
Kilruane, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Hawkesworth.
Alfred Wrigley, 8.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge,
to be the Mathematical Master of the Artillery and En-
gineers' Seminary at Addiscombe, Surrey.
Rev. Owen Jones, Curate of 'l'alyllyn, to the Vicarage of
Towyn, Merionethshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. J.
M. Edwards; patron, the Bishop of Bangor.
Rev. R. Dixon, M.A., to be Principal of King William's
College, Isle of Man, in the room of the Rev. A. Phillips,
resigned.
Rev. Henry Robert Lloyd, M.A., to the Donative of
Taliaris, Caerrnarthenshire, vacant by the death of the Rev.
J. Roberts; patron, William Peel, Esq., of Taliaris.
Rev. William Aldrit, to the Chaplaincy of the Wells Union
Workhouse.
The Lord Bishop of Hereford has instituted the Reverend
Oliver Ormerod, M.A., incumbent of Birch-within-War-
rington, Lancashire, and Domestic Chaplain to the Lord
Viscount Canning, to the Rectoy and Vicarage of Presteign
and Discoyd, in the diocese of Hereford, vacant by the death
of the Rev. James Beebee ; patron, the Earl of Oxford and
M ortimer.
On the Bth instant, the Rev. George Edward Maunsell,
8.A., of Christ Church, was instituted, by the Lord Bishop
of Peterborough, to the Rectory of Thorpe Malsor, North-
amptonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Young ;
patron, T. P. Maunsell, Esq.
The Rev. W. W. Tirernan, M.A. Fellow of Magdalen College, has been presented to the 'Rectory of Bowers Gif-
ford, Essex, void by the cession of the Rev. J. Bluck.
The Rev. Daniel Butler, M.A., of Lincoln College, has
been elected Master of the Clergy Orphans' School, St.
John's Wood, London.

SUPERSTITION.—An inquest was held on Tuesday, at the
Infirmary. on the body of P. Hayes, aged 40, a labourer,
unmarried. It appeared from the evidence of Mary Cooper,
landlady of the " Fortune of War," Marsh-street, where the
deceased lodged, that on Wednesday night, the Bth inst., he
got up between twelve and one o'clock, and fell down stairs.
Witness, hearing the noise, asked what was the matter? and
Hayes replied, "It is me; lam dead." He was at that time
a little in drink. The witness then proceeded—" The next
morning he complained, and was brought here (the Infir-
mary), and attended by the doctors of this house. I rather
think he saw a ghost, which haunts the house. It is the
ghost of a lady in Silk, and has been troublesome to some
former lodgers. Two or three lodgers have been killed in
the same house, and no doubt frightened from the same
thathave
the never
deceaseds e e n theh
deposedcsoanusel!!
Ighost myself." Mr. Wat-
ad received injury in the eel.,
vical vertebrae, for which proper treatment was used, but he
died that morning. Verdict, accidental death.—Bristol
Journal.

ROYAL. INSTITUTIVN.-At a meeting of the Philosophical
Society, last evening, Sir John Salisbury in the chair, a most
delightful paper was read from the pen of Mr. Winstanley,
on the life, character, and works of Raphael. The essay
appeare&to excite profound attention, and was much admired
for the learning and research exhibited in it. Mr. Winstan-

ley illustrated leis observations by many fine engraving

ILLEGALLY PLEDGING.—DanieI Atkins, a mulatto, was
yesterday charged, at the Police-court. with having pledged
some clothes given him to get washed by seamen. The case
was proved, and he was required to pay 195., the value of the
articles, also a penalty of 505., or, in default, to be impri-
soned for one month. The prisoner was tried last assizes

for stabbing

but wa

.cquitted

FORCIBLE ENTRY INTO A DRAPER'S SHOP BY A STRANGE
STOMER.—Yesterday evening, a cow, that was being dri-
long_ Berry-street, suddenly bolted through the shop

window of Mr. Grace, smashing in a very large pane of crown
glass, without damaging the wood work. The animal, when

she found herself in " boutique de toile," appeared no
less astonished than the inmates, stood stock still, and Rer-
.. • . .

mitred herself to be quietly ejeced. It is not known whe-
ther she performed the feat by being overdriven, or by taking
fright at some object in the street.

DEATH BY SCALDING.—An inquest was held on Satur-
day, before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Esther Bibby
Potts, a child of two years old, who lived with her parents in
Cotter's-place, Cotter-street, Toxteth-park. On the morn-
ing of Thursday deceased was scalded by a pot of hot coffee,
which was left near her on the table. Her left side was
much injured. She was taken to the Dispensary, and
dressed; but gradually declined until Friday morning, when
she died. Verdict, " Accidental death" accordingly.
STEALING LEAD.—At the Police-court, yesterday, Geo.
Johnson was charged with stealing a quantity of lead, the
property of Mr. Foster, from the top of a pantry, in a pas-
sage leading out of Renshaw-street. He was found carrying
it by a police-officer. He said he had received it from ano-
ther man, who said he would give him something to can y it
for him to Fontenoy-street. The prisoner had before been
committed for felony, and he was sentenced to three months'
imprisonment in the House of Correction.
STEALING A COPPER PUMP.--A man named Elias Hughes
was yesterday charged with having obtained felonious pos-
session of a copper pump._ Evan Jones said_ be was an en-

gineer in the service of Messrs. Richard and Cornthwaite,
who have a rice-mill in Manesty-lane. The prisoner came
to him in the engine-house, and said he wanted Mr. Taylor's
pump. Witness was aware that the prisoner had worked for
Mr. Taylor, but afterwards found he had given the pump to
the wrong person. The prisoner was watched as he carried
it away, by another person, into Hanover-street. Mr.

Samuel Taylor, oil and colour merchant, Seddon-street. said
the prisoner had been in his service up to the 11th instant,
when he discharged him. He was aware that witness had a
pump at Messrs. Richard and Cornthwaites', hut he was not
sent for it. It was worth from ..-£5 to .1::13. The prisoner was
found by the police in a cellar in Circus-street.
SUICIDE.—An inquest was7held on Saturday before Mr.
Curry, on view of the body of Patrick Wallace. Catherine

Taylin: said the deceased,'who was 60 years of age, and a
tailor by trade, had lodged with her for five years, in Rut-
ledge-court, Blundell-street. On Thursday he went to bed
about half-past Bight o'clock, a little in drink. She did not
see him again till next day, when she had occasion to go into
his room, and on opening the door she saw the deceased in a

sitting posture in bed, with something black round his neck,
and the other end fastened to a hook in the wall. She thought
he was hanging and screamed out, and some persons came to

her assistance

He was cut down

saw him dead on the bed

and she soon afterwards

She had never observed anything

manner that induced her to think he was at B.'ll de

ranged in his mind

He was a very quiet, inoffensive man,

and used to take a little drink on a -Saiurdziy or Sunday. and

came home

littletipsy,but never in a state of great intox-

ication.—Peter Jan.son had seen the deceased on the same
day, a little in liquor, and conversed with him. He was
called in by the last witness, and found him as described,
with a piece of listing round his neck, and the other end
fastened to a black silk stock, which was again fastened to a
hattpin in the wall. He was cut down, and was found to be

quite dead and cold. A surgeon was called, but could ren-
der no assistance. There was nothing in his manner that led
him to think he was out of his mind.—Francis Williams,
publican, Blundell-street, said the deceased had called at his
house on Thursday morning, and asked him to let him have
a glass of whiskey, which he refused, as the deceased was in
liquor. He appeared perfectly well, and spoke rationally.—
Martha Mills, who lodged in the same house with the de•

ceased saw him on Wednesday, when he appeared quite well
She observed nothing in his manner to lead her to think by

•
was deranged ; but a few days before he seemed to be in a
melancholy state of mind, and talked of going to Dublin to
see his daughter, who resided there. He was rather re-
served .but appeared togbe quite in his senses. The jury re-
turned a verdict of
.felo de Be, and orders were given for the

interment of the body privately within the hours'iixed by law

A SEAMAN'S WIFE DROWNED IN THE COBURG DOCK.
—Yesterday, an inqUest was held before Mr. Curry, on
view of the body of Ann Smith, wife of one of the crew of
the lazarette Newcastle, now lying in the Coburg Dock.
Edward Tilly, one of the hands, said that on Saturday night
last he was in the vessel, when deceased came to the quay
and wanted to come on board. He opened the gangway,
and placed a plank from the ship's side to the quay. He
was assisting her on board, and had hold of her hand; and
while they were walking along, deceased tripped and fell,
and both fell into the dock. He was not able to swim, and
called for help, and a policeman came and he was taken out.

Before he was'rescued he had hold of the clothes of the de-
ceased, and kept her up ; but he did not know whether her
head was above water or not. She was taken out directly
after, and carried to the station-house ; and when he next
saw her, at eleveh o'clock the same evening, she was dead.
Deceased was about 48 years of age. When she fell, she

struck against one of the fenders which is placed against the
side of the ship. John WKnedle, the police-officer, said
that a man went down by a rope, and kept the deceased up
by his feet till she was got out. She appeared to be dead.

She was in the water from seven to ten .niinutes.
wascalled, but she was past recovery. Verdict—

A surgeon
Acciden-

tal death

LIVERPOOL OPERATIVE PROTESTANT Assoc: ATION.—
Last evening a very crowded mee►ing was held in the

school-room underneath All Saints' Church, Grosvenoi

street, for the purpose of forming a district branch, for Scot

land-road, of the Operative Protestant Association, and o
promoting the general interests of the Protestant ea Ilse. The
Rev. Andrew M'Conkey, incumbent of All Saints' Church,
occupied the chair, and addressed the meeting in an able
speech. Mr. James Matthews followed, and with consider-
able eloquence exposed many bf tho errors and falsehoods
propagated by the Romish church. The other speakers were
the Rev. Mr. Orme, Mr. Gleaves, Mr. Leatherbarrow, and
Mr. Ashbrooke, each of whom produced much effect. All
the resolutions were unanimously carried.—We perceive that
a meeting of the St. Simon's branch of the Operative Pro-
testant Association is appointed to be held on the evening of
Thursday next, in liackin's-hey School-room.
DEATH BY FALLING FROM A SHANDRA Y.—An inquisition
was held before the borough coroner on Saturday, touching
the death of John Anderton. Alice 1-hinter, cousin of the
deceased, said that he was about 35 years of age. Last Sun-
day afternoon, the deceased and another man, named Bates,
drove up a shandrey to the house in Lambert. street where he
lined. Deceased was supporting the other man, who was
driving. The former got out, and Mr. Bates was taken into
the house; bleeding at the head. The deceased took the
horse from the shandrey, and put him into the stable. On
his return witness, (having heard that they were thrown out,)
asked him if he was much hurt, and he said, " not much,
but that he was shaken." On the following day he com-
plained of being hurt, and that he felt it in his hip. On
Tuesd.,y he was not able to get up, and a surgeon was spoken
of, but he would not consent. Re became worse on Wed-
nesday. A draught was procured for him from a druggist,

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and, as he gradually becameworse, a surgeon was called on
Thursday afternoon, but he died on the same evening between
9 and 10 o'clock.—William Bates stated that he was a la.
bourer, and a friend of the deceased. They were returning
from Roby, both fresh. When as far as Kensington they
observed a gig before them, going the same way. The de-
ceased was driving, at a middling brisk trot, and overtaking
the gig. Just as they were passing it, the near wheel of the
shandrey got fast between the off wheel and the body of the
gig, and both vehicles were upset, and deceased and he were
thrown out. Witness was hurt and became insensible, and
recollected nothing until the following morning. Deceased
was quite capable of driving at the time.—William Fitz said
he saw the shandry coming up. The horse was at a gallop,
and the driver was whipping it. Both parties were thrown
out. There was room enough for the shandrey to pass the
gig. There were in the gig a gentleman and two females.
When they recovered from the shock they drove away. The
parties in the shandrey were alone to blame.—Francis Wil-
son, surgeon, attended the deceased on Thursday. He found
him in a sinking state. He did not complain of pain. He
made a post mortem examination. Death was occasioned by
injury to the lungs, the result of external violence. The
jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased's death
was occasioned by injuries accidentally received. It is re-
markable that the deceased appeared to be much less hurt
than his companion who recovered.

SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY OF IRELAND.—Last evening
a meeting of the Liverpool Association Auxiliary to the above
society was held :in Christ Church School-room, Christian-
street. The room was crowded to excess by a most numer-
ous and respectable assembly. At seven o'clock the chair
was taken by the Rev. Fielding Ould, who opened.the busi-
ness with prayer, and then explained at considerable length,
and in a very eloquent and impressive address, the object of
the meeting. It was to interest the people, and to obtain
funds in aid of the Sunday School Society for Ireland—one of
the most important and useful institutions in whose behalf
the sympathies of the British public could possibly be soli-
cited. It had been established upwards of thirty years—had
commenced when there werc not more than two Sabbath
schools in all Ireland, but has now more than three thousand

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such:schools under its own care. The goad AV hiCh it had been
the means of effecting was incalculable, and he earnestly be- •
sought the meeting to contribute liberally to its aid. A. few
ladies of his congregation, who interested themselves in
its behalf, had for some time been enabled to collect
about sixty pounds a-year—an example which he re-
commended to the imitation of others--The Rev. Thomas
Gregg, of St. Catherine's Church, Dublin, then pleaded
the cause of the society in a very powerful speech, re-
plete with highly important and interesting statements,
which excited the deepest attention. The operatives of the
society, he said, had been so successful that it would be now
impossible to put the work down. It was in the power of
friend to help it forward, but
it t was not in the power of
princes, of earth or hell toput down ---for the Lord had
blessed, and was still blessing lit.—Some other rev. gentle-
men then addressed the meeting, which, after a collection
had been made, separated shortly after ten o'clock.

EXTRAORDINAY CASE OF ASSAULT.—On Saturday last
William Kelly, a pale, withered old man, who appeared to be
suffering much pain and to be enfeebled by sickness, appeared
before Mr. Rushton, to complain against William Martin,
who had been apprehended by warrant for assaulting him.
The statement of the complainant was to the effect, that on
the 25th February last he went to the house of the prisoner,
who forced him to remain the whole afternoon. When at
night he wished to go away, the prisoner placed a chain across
the door, and fastened it so that he could not get out. Next
morning lie was very desirous of going away, but he found
that the prisoner had hidden his boots. He sought for them
a long time, but could not find them ; he was, therefore, com-
pelled to walk about barefoot. The prisoner was, meanwhile,
frolicking about the house, or, as the complainant called it,
" cutting his capers", till at length he commenced persecu-
ting him. After he had thrown him down once or twice, he
forcibly pulled down his stockings, and with a knife which he
held in his hand cut part of the feet from them. He then,
with the same knife, inflicted a severe gash on the complain-
ant's foot, across his instep. Then, having made the poker
red hot, he told the old man he would make a forrester of
him. After he had brandished the poker for a short time, to
the infinite terror of the complainant, he put the hot instru-
ment to his foot and burned it severely. The complainant
stated, that he then wept bitterly and begged to be allowed
to depart. The prisoner, however, had not yet done with
him. Kneading a piece of new bread till he had made it soft,
he pressed it firmly on the old man's eyes, and, at the same
time putting over his head the noose of a rope which was
passed over a hook in the ceiling, he pulled at it, and Kelly,
who had his arms at liberty and had taken the dough from
his eyes, was terrified lest his persecutor should hang him.
He managed to slip his neck from the noose, and again he
wept and begged to be set at liberty. Upon this Martin, after
shaking him for a short time, threw him heavily to the ground,
by which four of his ribs were fractured, A certificate from
a surgeon was produced, showing, that the cut and the burn
on the foot had been very severe, and that the ribs of the old
man had been fractured. As Kelly had no witnesses present,
Mr. Rushton ordered a constable to go for Mr. Mitchell's
servant, who, Kelly said, saw the whole transaction. The
servant fully corroborated the testimony of the complainant.
The prisoner stated, that the old man told him he had been
a soldier, and he (prisoner) took him home to his house, and
fed him and used him well. He attributed his misconduct
to the influence of drink. Mr. Rushton ordered him to find

CONCEALING TOBACCO.—James Moore, steward of the
ship Eleanor, was placed before Mr. Rushton, on Saturday.
charged with having concealed beneath some bread, on board
the above ship, 1211bs of cigars, for the purpose of defrauding
the revenue. The officers who went to rummage the ship,
found the cigars in a canister and box, and the prisoner ac-
knowleged they were his. His defence was,that he was a
stranger, that he brought them for his own use, and he did
not know there was any limit to the quantity allowed. He
was convicted in the penalty of £lOO. In default of payment
he was to be imprisoned 6 months. A representation of the
will go to the board.
extenuative circumstances

MELANCHOLY DEATH.'-0n Tuesday last, the 19th in-
stant, an accident of a distressing nature occurred at Lowton,
near Newton, the following are the circumstances :—The de-
ceased, a young woman of the Daum of Mary Hart, aged 20
years of age, resided with her uncle at Lovvton, and on the
night of Friday she went into the garden at the back of the
house. Deceased had been absent about half an hour, when
her uncle, who had been expecting her return for sometime,
went in search of deceased, and in a short time discovered
her in the garden lying with her face in a small pool of water
in one of the walks, which was not more than a foot in depth,
quite dead. She had apparently fallen down in a fit, with her
face in the water, and by that means she was suffocated.
There is no reason to suppose that the fit she had would, of
itself, have caused her death, if she had happened to fail in
any other spot than where she did fall. The deceased had
previously been subject to fits, and a ter Years ago had the
misfortune, whilst labouring under one, to fall on the fire,
by which she was so severely burned as to have endangered
her life, she being several months before she perfectly re.
covered. The inquest was
.to be held yes erday, and the ver-
dict no doubt would be accidentally drowned or suffocated.

bail for his appearance to answer an indictment which would
be preferred at the next sessions, himself in £5O and two
sureties in £23 each.

DEATH OF SIR JalIN RICHARDSON.--This distinguished
lawyer, some years since one of the judges of the Court of
Common Pleas (which situation he was obliged to resign in
consequence of ill health), died on Thursday at his res:dence
in Bedford-square. Sir John was considered by the profes-
sion as one of the soundest lawyers of the day.

GRATIFYING ADDITION TO THE NUMBER OI

CHURCHES IN LIVERPOOL

We have in a previous number i

tile ret

tablished Church, afte

separation f

•om her of several years

Into the cause of the rev. gentleman's estrar

during that period, we
have no time nor space to enter ; but we sincerely congrE
late

into the history of

gement, and

his proceedi

:e mem

ational establishment, no less than

Aikin himself, uTon the circut

nce we

tioned. During Mr. Aikin's connection with t

ye men-

" Christian

e erec-

hearts, while iu external arrangements, with Christian liber-
ty, with wisdom and discretion, they set things in order for
themselves. The reason and mercy of this are obvious, in a
religion which, unlike localised Judmism, was designed to
extend to the north and the south, to the east and the west ;

ivated cir

ty, and the

flora
gregE

to assemble its con-

,ns in eve

_ varying latitude, from the burning sands
la and Peru, to the icebergs on the coast of Norway

of Gu

and Greenland

attainment
and clear i

particu

ad ceremonies for the

nd order, yet it contains very distinct

of the Christian

church had authority to dc

Paul certainly bad such

.sed to exercise it, when he came to Co-
uage to Titus, already quoted, would
if Titus also had not possessed such

- Obey them that have the rule over
submit yourselves. for they watch for your souls as
it must give acco ' Here dutiful submission to
tctions of their r ors, is inculcated upon the Chris-

Christian Hebrew

they that must give account "

tian laity
Comp

these things together, and see what follows.
nandments in the Scriptures cannot be scriptu-
)me external arrangements of rites
previmisly agreed upon. The Bible
I ceremonies : it leaves them want-

withot

id cereal- on

but it commands the ministers of the church to set in
order the things that are wanting, and it commands the lay
members of the church to submit themselves to the minis-

ments and ordain

,tiara church to make such arrange-
rites and ceremonies, and a scriptural

thing in the people to submit themselves to the decent and
orderly adoption of such arrangements so made • but it fol-
lows also, that it would be an unscriptural dereliction of
duty in the ministers of the Christian church not to make

;uch array

it would be a negl

.igent ex

!epic and themselves to the inroads of inevi6

Dsure of

e con-

ach as the Word

fusion, _ .k.iod condemns. And, likewise,
it would be an unscriptural dereliction of duty in the people
not to submit themselves to such external arrangements,
rites, and ceremonies as the ministers of the church enjoin.
Must, then, those arrangements, rites, and ceremonies be
always and everywhere the same ? We answer, No. Had
they been prescribed by divine inspiration in the Bible, no
man might dare to deviate from them. Unity in ceremony
would in that case be like unity in the faith But such is
not the case. They have not been prescribed in the Bible,

but, as we have seen, purposely omitted.
But as the pastors of the church have scriptural authority
to prescribe rites and ceremonies, if we have it handed (lowa
to us, that some of them in any particular country, at any
particular time, did prescribe certain particular details, is it
necessary that their model should be everywhere adopted ?
Again we answer, No. Because this would be to invest the
appointments of men not only with that local and temporary
obligation which the Scripture assigns to them, but also with
a universality and perpetuity of obligation which belongs to
the Word of God, and to that alone. Thus speaks our Eng-
lish Church, Art. XXXIV.

is not a

all place

and those arrangements, rites

:ssary that Traditions and Ceremonies be in

ver thr

be ordained and approved

ment last