The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-05 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1840.

Advices have been received from Jamaica to the 20th
of March. Our files of the Royal Gazette and Ja-
mica Standard only extend to the 14th of the same
month. The news contained in these papers is, on the
whole, of a more favOurable character than it has been
for some months previous. The liberal, wise, and con-
ciliatory policy pursued by his Excellency Sir Charles
Metcalfe, since his assumption of the government of
the island, had succeeded in restoring general confi-
dence. Political agitation had, in great measure,
been suspended. All parties were raining that happy
.state of peace and comfort inseparable from
.the well-
doing of a community. We are sorry, however, to
find that the Baptist missionaries Prid their, coadjutors
have again been endeavouring to disturb the peace of
the island, by inflaming the minds of the negroes, and.
creating a bad feeling in them towards their employers.
It is evident, from the reports before, us, that the ob-
ject of these restless agitators is, to instigate the black
population of the colony to rebellion. We cannot, on
any other suppositiJn, adequately account for their ex-
traordinary proceedings. It appears that the negroes
were beginning to alter their ways, and to evince a
greater readiness to accede to such terms as the plan-
ters could afford in return for their• labour. This dis•

position to labour alarmed the grievance-mongers—
their craft stood in danger—their agitation was likely
to receive its death-blow. Conscious of this, Mr.
Knibb—the O'Connell of Jamaica—and the worthies
who, like him, fatten upon the miseries of the negroes,
immediately began to fulminate their anathemas against
Sir Charles Metcalfe. Their firebrand organ, the Bap-
tist Herald, has indulged in a series of virulent and
and abusive tirades against his Excellency, in which it
is more than insinuated that the policy which he is now
pursuing will lead to incendiarism and bloodshed. The
truculent language of this abominable publication is
calculated to incite the coloured population to rebellion.
We sincerely trust and pray that its diabolical attempts
may end in failure. We have great confidence in the
firmness and integrity of Sir Charles Metcalfe, and we
have our hopes that he will finally succeed in repairing
the mischief created by his intemperate predecessor.
Sir Charles Metcalfe had given great satisfaction on

his tour through the island. It seems to be his con-
stant study and endeavour to conciliate all parties.
While a portion of the Baptist missionaries were re-
viling his government, he confounded and put to shame
the sedition-mongers, by partaking of their hospita-

The Royal Gazette gives but an unfavourable account
of the agricultural prospects of the island. Some pro-
perties were doing well, but it is surmised that the
whole of the present crop will not exceed two-thirds of
the last. The crop of 1839 amounted to two-thirds of
that of 1838. The crop of 1840 will only be two-
thirds of that of 1839. And yet Mr. Scoble and his
fellow-agitators have the audacity to allege that there
has been no falling off in the trade and produce of Ja-
maica ! Can the power of impudence go any further ?
The falling off in the staple products -cif Jamaicais
ruinous in the highest degree. Renewed agitation, and
the threatened equalisation of the duties on sugar, will
assuredly prove the death-blow to Jamaica as a sugar

colony.
The coffee-crop in some districts, it is stated, will be
lamentably deficient. In the parish of St. George,
where 931,000 lbs. were made, the quantity has been
reduced to 157,000; and in the beautiful and prolific
parish of Manchester, which has been torn and dis-
tracted by internal dissensions, the decrease will be
tremendous. " But," as is well remarked by the Royal
Gazette, " coffee is a production which will thrive in
the island, provided the planters can obtain labourers;
and the only way to overcome the dculty is, by a de-
termined and energetic spirit of immigration. Let the
tide of immigration flow towards the island, and it will
yet recover itself—without immigration it must retro-
grade." This is language with which we most heartily
agree. We rejoice to find that the question of immi-
gration is forcing itself more than ever upon the notice
of the colonial press, and assuming an accumulated
degree of importance. Would that we could persuade
our brethren of the conservative press in England to
bestow more attention upon this subject, and to join
with us in a simultaneous effort to force it upon the at-
tention of the Hothe Government.

T•he silk companies in Jamaica were going on pros-
perously. Mr. Whitmarsh with the Alpine, and Mr.
Bradford with the Multicaulis, were both sanguine;
and the Royal Gazette expresses a hope that a supply
of silk would, ere long, reach the London market from
the island.

The spirit of improvement was effecting wonders in
Kingston. Considerable taste is said to be displayed
in the various public buildings in process of erection.
A company was in course of formation for supplying
the city with water, and hopes were entertained that a
gas company would be soon established.
The Planters' Bank had declared its first dividend at

five per cent, for the first six months, placing a large
amount to the surplus fund. This institution appears
to he in a very prosperous condition, having recently
had a large increase of wealthy shareholders, connected
with the agricultural interest.

We have received our files of the Guiana Times and
of the Guiana Chronicle to the 6th of March, inclu-
sive. We regret to find the latter of these journals
occupying so much of its space with paltry personal
disputes, instead of devoting itit energies; as hereto-
fore, to the social and general improvement-of the co-
lony. This is a time when personal animosities should
give way, in each of our western colonies, to a grand
and simultaneous effort to procure the inestimable boon
of free immigration. Everything should be made sub-
servient to this. Of course, we are alluding only to
secular matters when we thus express ourselves.
Wo have already transferred to our columns an ex-
cellent article from the Guiana Times, on the state and
prospects of British Guiana. 'We hope that its peru-
sal has effected much good.
We learn from the Guiana Chronicle that the Court
of Policy at Demerara had voted considerable sums
for the support of parochial clergymen throughout the
Colony, as well as for the promotion of religious edu-
cation in general. We mention this in answer to the
cavils of such men as Mr. Scoble, with whom it is a
customary charge against the planters that they have
done little or nothing in the way of instructing, or pro-
viding for the religious wants of the negro population
of our colonies. _

We regret to learn from the Guiana Chronicle of
February 19, that an incendiary fire had taken place
at Malgre Tout, by which property had been destroyed
to the amount of three or four thousand pounds ster-
ling. Governor Light had offered a reward of one
hundred pounds for the discovery of the perpetrator
of this outrage. Several of the planters had also sub-
scribed liberally for the same purpose.
The Chronicle of March states that the "good work"
of immigration was progressing. Two schooners had
just arrived with a number of immigrants from Barba-
does. They were procured through the active exertions
of Mr. Day. The success of this experiment induces
the Chroniale to inquire whether it would not be expe-

client to try the piker islands, in several of which, it is
said, there is a redundant population.
Great complaints are made respecting the conduct
of the German immigrants who had arrived in the
colony,—especially of their refusal to pay the expenses
of their passage, &c. It is not, however, alleged that
they are unfit for the work provided for them.

We have received our files of the Sydney Commercial
Journal, and of the Sydney Gazette, to the ith of De-
cember, inclusive. From. these papers we learn that
Mr. Abraham Polack—the George Robins of Australia
-7-had placed in the hands of trustees the whole of his
property, for the purpose of securing to the creditors
of John Thomas Wilson (whose escape we mentioned
in a recent number) the sum of fifteen shillings in the
pound, and for the further purpose of meeting all his
own liabilities. Mr. Polack was about to sail for Eng-
land.

Intelligence had been received from Bathurst of the
capture of five bushrangers, who had escaped from the
gaol at Goulburn. They were taken "by Ensign Hil-
liard, of the mounted police, and a small party. When
seized, they had in theii possession eleven stand of
arms, five horses, waddles, ammunition, &C.
The district of the Hawksbury had been visited with
a tremendous hail-storm, from which the crops are
said to have suffered severely, whole tracts being beaten
down by its violence.
The Sydney Gazette declaims very strongly against
the appropriation of the land fund of New South Wales
to defray the charges of the embryo colony of New
Zealand. A portion of the colonists had come forward
and petitioned for direct taxation, rather than thus
cripple the resources of the colony.
The wheat market at Sydney, in consequence of the
reports of the partial injury of the crops here and there,
was endeavouring to get up, but it was expected that
the attempt would prove fruitless. The first quality of
flour was quoted at from 365. to 50s. per 100 lbs.; se-
cond ditto, 305.; ration ditto, 255. to 285.; bread,
Is. 4d. per 4 lb. loaf. In the market for vegetables,
turnips were sold at from 3d. to 6d. per bunch; car-
rots, 4d.; broad beans, 2s. per peck; French ditto,
2s. 6d. ; potatoes, from 14s. to 18s. per cwt.
The rates of insurance to London and LiverpOol, at
Sydney, were from 24 to 31 per cent. Freights to
London and Liverpool were—wool, IN. per lb.; oil,
old measure, from £4 ss. to £4 15s. per tun; timber,
10. per load ; flax, £6 per ton.

In another column will be found several extracts
from these papers. It appears that the colony is in a
very thriving condition. Trade was brisk, and pro-
duce abundant.

We beg to call the attention of our readers to a
conversation which took place on Friday evening in
the House of Lords, on the presentation, by Lord
Fitzwilliam, of a petition from the " bankers, mer-
chants, and other inhabitants of Liverpool," for the
repeal of the corn-laws ; which petition the noble earl
took the liberty of assuring the house was "agreed to
unanimously at a meeting convened by the mayor by
public advertisement."
We pass over the inaccuracy—to use a very mild
word—of this statement. His lordship is far from
being a Solomon, and no doubt was duly crammed
for the occasion by some of those unscrupulous gen-
tlemen who do the dirty work of the Whig faction in
Liverpool. Our business at present is to notice ano-
ther representation of the noble earl, which we imagine
will be news to some of those weak people who have
allowed themselves to be deluded by the plausible
speeches of the anti-corn-law agitators.
In answer to a question from Lord Wynford, whe-
ther the petitioners who now called for the repeal of
the corn-laws were ready, at the same time, to forego

the protecting duties on manufactures, his lordship
replied, " that the petitioners were unanimous upon
that point. They were willing to forego the whole of
those protecting duties." Now, with all submission to
Lord Fitzwilliam, his lordship is a noodle to suppose
any such thing. We readily grant that the cotton-
spinners of Manchester—the Gregs and the Philipses

—the men of the League, with sour Cobden at their
head, and sweet, tender-hearted Thomas Potter for
their tail—are quite sufficiently imbued with the Mal-
thusian doctrines of free trade, to consent to any sacri-
fice of their neighbours' comforts which will result in
filling their own pockets. These men are satisfied that
they themselves have little to fear from foreign com-
petition in the home market, and are quite ready,
whilst eating' their cheap foreign loaf, to enjoy, at the
expense of the British artizan, the luxury and the
cheapness of foreign hoots, shoes, gloves, silks, lace,
furniture, &c. ; but we really imagine that the indus-
trious portion of the inhabitants of Liverpool, whilst
petitioning for a repeal of the corn-laws, contemplated
nothing of this kind as its accompaniment. The
shoemaker or the cabinet-maker would scarcely he
benefitted by a reduction in the price of his loaf, if

:he condition of that reduction was to be the diminu-

tion of his wages to the level of the miserably-paid
workmen of Belgium or Germany ; and we scarcely
think that the great body of the well-paid artizans of
Liverpool are anxious or able to enter into a competi-
tion with the lightly-taxed and miserably-paid artizans
of the Continent.

In one respect, however, we fully coincide with the
Manchester repealers, whose sentiments Lord Fitz-
william erroneously represents as those of the oppo-
nents of corn-laws generally. If the protection hitherto
accorded to agriculture be withdrawn, that given to
manufactures of every description must be also with.
drawn. If the farmer and the farm-labourer be placed
in competition with the same classes in other coun-

tries, these parties will demand, and have a right to
demand, the same facilities and the same cheapness
which the foreign grower possesses. They will de-
mand a free ingress to the cheapest markets for every
article of consumption or use. They will no longer
be compelled to take their shoes, their gloves, their
hats, and their clothing from the British manufacturer;
and the artizan will find that the fancied advantage of
eating a cheaper loaf will be more than counter-
balanced by his diminished means of paying for it.
We wish that our industrious fellow-countrymen
would reflect a little before they countenance, by their
signature to anti-corn-law petitions, such utter de-
struction of their comforts and means of existence as
would surely follow the granting of their prayer ; and,
in the name of the industrious artizans of Liverpool,
we protest against the assumption of Lord Fitzwilliam,
that they have ever contemplated giving up that legis-
lative protection against foreign competition which
they at present enjoy. These men may have been
deluded by quacks and theorists such as his lordship,
but they have not yet become totally insane.

On Wednesday evening the bill of Lord Stanley,
for amending the system of registration of voters in
Ireland, will either be allowed to go into committee
and have its merits fairly examined in detail, or be
factiously burked by the venal majority of the House
of Commons. The former course would at once be
adopted by a body of legislators whose real object was
the good of their country, and not merely that of party.
As a measure of detail, in which there may fairly exist
some differences of opinion, and some principles en-
tertained in common by both sides of the house, the
legitimate and honest course would undoubtedly be to
go into committee; but we must confess that we have
doubts whether this will be permitted. The ministe-
rial lash will, we fear, be unsparingly used, and the
true interests of the British people postponed, to
assuage the howl of Irish agitation, and to procure a
few more weeks or months of pay and patronage for a
ministry, whose only claim to the support of its party
is the facility with which it abandons principle at the
bidding of faction, and the baseness with which it yields
up bulwark after bulwark of the British constitution, to
be trampled beneath the feet of a fierce democracy !
Whatever fete, however, may attend Lord Stanley's
bill, in the House of Commons during the present
session, we are satisfied that its ultimate success will
he secured, at no distant period, by the concurring
voice of the vast majority of the empire. It cannot
now be concealed that the agitation, got up in Ireland
to impede it, is a failure—an utter and ridiculous
failure. The treasonable spoutings of the hacks of
Irish faction have led to no corresponding demonstra-
tion on the part of the Irish people. The cry of repeal
has been raised, but even that cry has fallen.upon list-
less or averted ears. -The great Leinster demonstra-
tion, on Tuesday last, which was to have surpassed all
former efforts of the agitator, presented only a "

cable account of empty benches," and an equally mise-
rably display of empty braggadocio. Ireland will not
listen to the voice of the charmer, " charm he never
so wisely." Her interests—the interests of the moral
and industrious portion of her population—are beco-
ming day by day more strongly bound up with those
of the British nation ; and the trammels of a blinding
superstition, the goading dictation of a tyrannical
priesthood, and the disgusting whine of a bloated
mendicant, pampered by the dishonest gains wrung
from her fears and her credulity, are not strong enough
to burst asunder the feelings of kindly affection and
mutual interest, with which time is cementing toge-
ther the people of Great Britain and Ireland.

The same result has attended the numerous attempts
made to stir up an opposition to Lord Stanley's mea-
sure on this side of the Channel. The ministerial
press has in vain fulminated its slanders against the
motives of its author and its supporters—in vain mis-
represented its provisions and condemned its princi-
ples. The jaded hack of the treasury, dispatched
under the tutelage of the Coppock, of Reform Associ-
ation and Ludlow notoriety, to the fondling care of
our Coppock,—the Coppock of Stockport,--has made
the appeal ad misericordianz to the provinces; and
equally in vain. The tag-rag of Liverpool, the men
of motley, hodmcn and nightinen, lumpers and exca-
vators, with a sprinkling of hangers-on of the corpo-
ration and a few of the " galled jades" of that august
body itself, are, at the moment we write, assembled in
Clayton-square, to witness the:performance of a farce,
in which the actors are equally as worthy of approba-
tion as their illustrious progenitors 'of the time of
Bottom the weaver ; but, alas ! flap roaring of their
lion is infinitely inferior to the performance of that
renowned professor of the histrionic art, and marvel-
lously more like the braying of a. certain quadruped
than the notes of ",any sucking dove." The farce
itself is farce travestied ; and the world may go to bed
assured that its actors will not succeed in setting either
the Thames or the MerSey on fire. The provinces will
not move. England will dance no longer to Whig-
Radical piping; and, " strange to say,"—we quote
the doleful but candid admission of the Liverpool
Mercury, —" the people of England and Scotland, if
we may judge from the absence of public meetings
and the paucity of petitions, seem to think that this"
(Lord Stanley's bill) " is a matter which does not affect
them" !

So far as regards the people of Great Britain and
Ireland, the principle and necessity of Lord Stanley's
bill are approved; and it now only remains to be seen
how the measure will be treated by the House of Com-
mons, which affects to represent the opinions and feel-
ings of that people. We have certainly little confi-
dance in the 'amnesty of a portion of that house; but
we think it will require a somewhat extraordinary de-
gree of reckless assurance in ministers and their sup-
porters, to refuse to commit a bill, the main principles
of which they have aircady admitted. However well

it may accord with the peculiar notions of morality
which some of these gentlemen entertain, to vote that
black is white, for a factious purpose—to deny to-day
what they affirmed yesterday—to refuse an acknow-
ledged good because the hand that offers it is not
smeared with the honey of the treasury,-,-the people
of England will not for ever submit to have this jug-
gling policy played off under their very eyes. If there
is in Lord Stanley's bill any portion of good—any
portion of the principle of the measure brought for-
ward by the Irish government
,of Lord Melbourne in
1835, and which at that time met with the cordial
support of these tricksters—let that portion he given
to us, and let the details and its mode of application
be regulated in committee. If we cannot have a com-
plete cleansing of the Augean stable of Irish corrup-
tion, let us have at least so much as the government
of Lord Alelbourne have before offered us. We our-
selves contend that the measure of Lord Stanley is, in

its main features, identical with that of Sir Michael
0' Loghlen, the Whig Attorney-General. If it differs,
that difference is in matters of detail, which we are
perfectly willing to leave to the judgment of a com-
mittee of the House of Commons ; and, even if we
get only the leading principles of the measure, we are
content to accept of these as an instalment. The
Whig-Radicals have themselves taught us the value-
of taking a part as an instalment of the whole. Let
us, therefore, have an evil, admitted by the government
itself, corrected by the best measure we can get We
care not ourselves from whom it comes.

But this degraded administration Nvill not—DARE
NoT—meet the question except on the grounds of

faction. Skulking behind the brazen shield of O'Con..
nell, they will only bring against the sound arguments
and convincing statements of Lord Stanley and his
supporters, that shuffling evasion which characterises
all their policy; and, under the tricky pretence• of
seeking protection, as ministers, from the assaults of
Conservatism, they will repudiate those principles to
which, as men, they stand pledged before the House
of Commons and the country. They will succeed, we
dare say, in defeating, by misrepresentation and fraud,
an attempt to control the system of perjury, priestly
intimidation, and corruption, upon which their present
tenure of office is based ; but they will effect this at a
sacrifice of honour, consistency, and truth, which will
stamp them as THE BASEST AND MOST PROFLIGATE
PARTY WHICH EVER WIELDED THF, GOVERNMENT
OF THIS GREAT EMPIRE!

A word at parting to our Conservative friends in
the House of Commons. We must observe the ab-
sence of no Conservative member on Wednesday even-
ing, unless from urgent necessity. The contest in
which they are now engaged is no mere tilting match,
no jousting with blunted spears for a lady's glove,—

but an encounter, with vizor down and pointed lance,
upon the result of which depends, in all human likeli-
hood, the happiness and security of millions of our
fellow-beings. The question at issue is one upon
which Conservative and Protestant England is pre-
pared to stake her all, and she will not lightly suffer
her claim—her righteous claim—for JUSTICE to be
perilled.
We would suggest also to those country gentlemen
who, although on most questions of real buiiiness
agreeing with the leaders of the Conservative party,
are ready, at the sound of the treasury whistle, to rush
to the rescue of the present servile and degraded fac-

tion, that upon this question the sound portion of the

people of England are resolved to think and judge for
themselves. Vulgar insolence, nicknames, and bare-
faced misrepresentations, may pass current, instead of
argument, with a Liverpool or a Dublin mob; inane
twaddle, coming from the mouth of a member of the
government, may be swallowed by a herd of noodles
assembled at a half-crown dinner in the enlightened
borough of Stockport ;—but, on a great question like
this, the people of England, we repeat, will read the

evidence—the debates in the House of Commons—
and judge for themselves. We should therefore sug-
gest to these trimming gentlemen that the eve of a

general election—and to that we are approaching—is
not the best possible time to venture upon a factious and
dishonest vote.

There was a time when the gatherings of Whig-
Radicalism in Liverpool comprised some portion of
respectability—when decent men, habited in broad
cloth, were not ashamed to be found likening to the
professions, and applauding the principles, of our
would-be Solons. But, alas ; that time has gone by;
and even the prospect of hearing the laboured elo-
quence of a Blackburn, a Currie, and a Rathbone,
with the assured certainty of seeing once again the
everlasting white ducks of our dear, delightful colonel,
can only muster a ragged concourse of idlers, from
whose " most sweet" persons it would be difficult to
collect the materials for one decent suit, presentable at
church or passable at a wake.
The assembly which on this good " Saint Monday"
has graced the area of Clayton-square, to petition—
save the mark !—against Lord Stanley's bill, was most
assuredly not one which is calculated to convey the
idea of any additional strength or respectability ac-
quired by Whig-Radicalism in Liverpool, or, at any
rate, of that portion of it which is content to rake in
the same gutter, and feed from the garbage polluted
by the foetid breath of the mendicant ruler of Ireland.
Popery, Socialism, and Socinianism contributed their
hordes from the docks, the alleys, and the stews; but
the respectability of the Whig party kept aloof, and,
except the few exhibitors upon the balcony, a sprin-
kling of Conservatives drawn together from curiosity,
and a few moderate Whigs looking unutterable thingii
as they buttoned up their breeches-pockets and slunk
away dissatisfied with their convoy, the entire re.

spectability of the meeting might have been transported
by one omnibus licensed to carry thirteen inside and

one out.

Meagre, however, as the meeting was in respectabi-

lity, and, considering the means and the time chosen
for assembling it, in numbers also, it was evidently an
object of gratification to some of the leaders of the
Whig-Radical party, who have not lately had an op-
portunity of riding the high horse in public. The
countenance of William Rathbone was radiant with
pleasure; and, as he expressed his wish that " HE

HAD THE VOICE AND LANGUAGE OF AN ANGEL,"
we were at a loss whether these attributes were in-
tended to match the august assembly he was address-
ing,or his own refulgent looks.

The proceedings, of which we have given a brief
sketch,—as much, however, as their importance de-
manded,—were of the kind usual at such demonstra-
tions. A few got-up speeches were delivered : the
leaders of the Mercury and Albion, with the bragga-
docio and stage-thunder of the Irish showman, were
hashed and re-hashed. Words were "plenty as black-
berries," but of argument there was literally none.
The bill of Lord Stanley was set up in ejigy, and then
valiantly knocked down, amid the cheers of the motley
assemblage. We could have fancied, if we did not
know the men, that the speakers were ashamed of
offering argument, or even truth, to such an audience.
In that case they would have explained the working of
the present system, and the difference between the
proposed system of Lord Stanley and that which the
Whigs a few years ago themselves proposed, and which
the agitator himself advocated. But, knowing the men,
we cannot wonder that no such explanation was at-
tempted, and that, during the whole course of the
proceedings, not one syllable was uttered to intimate
that the present system of Irish representation was
any other than perfection itself.
Upon the individual eloquence of the speakers we
shall not venture to set ourselves up in judgment. We
never thought much of the talent of our LiverMol
Whig-Radical illuminati ; but we must confess we
never thought so little of it as this evening, after hear-
ing their laboured efforts at a meeting, in which they
had all their own way. We should seriously recom-
mend some of these gentlethen to withdraw their most
sweet faces from the public for the future. It is of no
use, we assure them, attempting to `• call spirits from
the vasty deep" when none " will come when they do
call," and we particularly press this advice upon Mr.
Wallace Currie who is—we assure him with all pos-
sible respect and esteem—no conqueror.
As a whole the speakers were worthy of the audience,
with the exception of one gentleman, Mr. Rosson, we
believe, who is evidently as far superior to the company

he got amongst, as " Hyperion to a satyr." His
address was, of course, heard with listnesness and
impatience.

The resolutions adopted at this trumpery affair will
no doubt go forth as the unanimous voice of the people
of Liverpool, we readily acknowledge, and that they
had, as any other resolutions would have had, the al-
most unanimous assent of the meeting. But when
we still state, that the slightest evidence of dissent
from the opinions of the speakers, and of the Irish
portion of the audience, was rewarded at once by a
savage assault, and the dissentients unceremoniously
handed off by the police to meditate in a lock-up
house upon the Whig Radical interpretation of free-
dom of discussion, we do not fear that the country
and the legislature will attach more to them than their
true weight, which is nothing.

We perceive from the advertisement, that a general
meeting of those ladies and gentlemen who feel inter-
ested in the establishment of the Liverpool Female Or-
phan Asylum is announced to take place, this day, in
the Lecture Room of the Royal Institution ; when his.
worship, the Mayor, will take the chair. We under-
stand that the Rev. Rector Brooks, the Rev. Hugh
M‘Neile, and others, will address the meeting, in advo-
cacy of the truly benevolent objects of the proposed
charity. We trust that there will be a full attendance
on tTie occasion, and that the meeting will result in a
fresh impulse being given to the promotion of a cause
which presents so many claims upon the sympathies of
a Christian community.

EMIGRATION.—A number of Prussians arrived here with
Mr. Phillipson, by the Tiger, Capt. Knocker, from Hamburg,
on Tuesday last, on their way to Liverpool, and from thence
to New York. We are informed that great numbers will
pass through this port and Newcastle, to emigrate by way of
Liverpool, during the summer.—Hutt Times.
TFIE ANATOMICAL VFNUIL—We are happy to hear, that
our townsmen are likely soon to become 'well skilled in the
anatomy of the human frame, for their studies of the beauti-
ful subject, known by the prefixed title, have been indefa-
tigable. The ladies, too, have rivalled the gentlemen in their
desire to contemplate the mysteries of structure in the genus
homo. The crowd of ladies who thronged to the exhibition,
on Friday last, was so great, that if female curiosity continue
to increase in the ratio that it has done, the proprietor of the
figure will be compelled to appropriate an extra day for the
fair ones.

STEAMER ADMIRAL.—This remarkably fine vessel arrived
here yesterday, on her third experimental trip. 'W e cannot
praise her more highly than by saying, that of the many fine
steamers that Robert Napier. of the Vulean Foundry, Glas-
gow, has yet turned out of his hands this one excels them
all,--a credit to him and an ornament to the port. It appears,
that in speed, &c., she has realised the sanguine expectations
of all interested, and is believed to be the fastest merchant
steamer afloat at this present day. The Admiral proceeds
to Glasgow this day, or to-morrow, and in the course of a
fortnight, when her cabins are finished, she will take her
placa permanently on the Liverpool and Glasgow station.

THE LAW OF EVIDENCE.—AIthough this may, to the
uninitiated, appear at times somewhat arbitrary, and scarcely
just, it is yet said to be beautiful in itself, and to be founded
upon very correct principles ; but, whatever may he thought
upon other testimony, that of enemies, when favourable, is
invariably deemed authentic—because unsuspicious ! Who,
therefore, for one moment can doubt the -sincerity of the
following recently published testimony respecting ATKIN-
SON'S INFANTS' PRESERVAT4VE, by one who is anything
but a friend to the present proprietor of that deservedly cele-
brated medicine ? To all mothers and nurses," says he,
" it is confidently recommended, being entirely free from
those narcotics and pernicious drugs which are too commonly
introduced into medicines for the use of children. It is a
most safe, agreeable, and useful medicine, almost invariably
giving instant relief in all those numerous disorders of the
stomach and bowels which arise from a redundance of acidity,
as well as from other causes which produce flatulency,griping
pains, looseness, convulsions, internal fits, the thrush or
frog, difficult teething, the rickets, worms, &c. It may be
given with perfect safety to the youngest and most delicate
infant, and i s use persevered in without the slightest fear of
ill consequences. In most cases it gives immediate relief by
neutralising the acidity and soothing the pain, and soon re-
stores the little sufferer to perfect ease and health."
INQUEST.—Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr.
Curry, on view of the body of George Crumbie. It ap-
peared that on Sunday morning, about three o'clock, John
Poole, a policeman, was called from Hill-street, by hearing
a rattle sprung, and on going into Gardner's-court, Perry-
street, was informed that there had been a fight in a house
there, and that a man had been killed. He went into the
house, and saw a man lying dead upon the floor, stripped to
the waist. There were two officers and a surgeon in the house,
besides another man and a woman. He was informed that
the deceased had been fighting, and that the man who had
killed him was up stairs. Ile went up and found the prisoner
in bed. He was also stripped to his waist, and there was much
blood upon him. He gave his name as John Hillan. He
admitted that he had been fighting, and that he was intoxi-
cated at the time. A labourer, who lodged in the house with
the prisoner and the deceased, said that about 1 o'clock that
morning, deceased and he came home, neither of them very
sober. Prisoner came iu soon after ;he was not sober either,
and brought with him some rum, of which they all partook.
The deceased shoved the prisoner's wife on one side, and this
caused a quarrel, and they both stripped to the waist. They
were separated, but began again. They fought several rounds
and had a good many falls. The List round the deceased fell
undermost, and the prisoner fell across him, and the deceased
never moved afterwards. The deceased struck the first blow
before they fought. An alarm was given, and the doctor and
the police officers came in. The deceased was about 30 years
of age. Other witnesses corroborated these statements. Mr.
Hutchinson, surgeon, said he was called in to the deceased
at the time stated, and found him dead. He had made a post
mortem examination, and the deceased was much bruised
on the head, and there was an extensive effusion of blood
at the base of the brain, which, in his opinion, caused death.
The heart was also diseased. External violence was, he
thought, the cause of death. Some further evidence being
required, the inquest was adjourned to this day.
INQUEST.—On Friday an inquest was held at the house of
Mr. Westmore, in West Derby, before John Heyes, Esq.
and a most respectable jury, on view of the body of Sarah
Watkin, a young woman, 18 years of age, who came to her
death under the following singular circumstances. On Wed-
nesday night about 8 O'clock, deceased and her sister Eliza-
beth were fetching clothes from some lines not far from the
house—there is a pit close to the lines, and a girl, named
Susan Queen, about 19 years old, was fetching water from
the pit—the sister of the deceased had part of a blind cord in
her hand which she shewed to the girl, who asked her for it,
and was refused : the girl got hold of it, and just at the time
the deceased came up and said, " give it me, won't you."
Susan Queen had not it at that time but they struggled to-
gether in play—both of them fell to the ground, and being
close to the pit, both of them rolled into it. The sister of the
deceased tried to catch hold of them, but could not succeed,
and then she screamed out for help ; several persons came,
and soon rescued Susan Queen, though nearly lifeless, but
the deceased was longer in being got out, they were obliged to
get drag-hooks, and when she was brought to the surface life
was extinct. She must have been in the water a quarter of
an hour. It appearing evident that the deceased and Sarah
Queen were merely struggling in play and not in anger, the
jury returned a verdict of accidental death.
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