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pump or a month at the treadmill

y au-

but instead of such

a whole Some infliction, the petty demagogue was se-
lected for promotion to the magistracy. The favour of
Government and the factitious importance which it
conferred alone enabled the poor inflated. being to per-

petrate the crime for which a fel(ln's doom has been
justly awarded ; and it is but natural that the exile,
laying his misfortunes at the door of the minister,
should expect and receive at the least his affectionate
remembrance if not his active sympathy.
With respect to the effect which this leniency to-
wards crime of so deep a dye as that committed by
Frost and his fellow-traitors is calculated to produce
upon society, we will not now remark. Our only ob-
ject is to impress upon our readers the fact that a mi-
nistry which fosters incipient treason and rewards its
abettors cannot be expected to deal severely with those
of their allies or creatures whose mistaken zeal has

led them to embrace.the monster in its maturity

LOCAL NEWS

AMPHITITEATRE.--On Friday evening the Earl of Sefton
visited the Amphitheatre, in company with several families
of distinction.

PILLAR OF SNOW.—We were much pleased on Tuesday
afternoon in witnessing the completion of a snow pillar in
imitatiotrof a rock in the Castle-yard, It was commenced
on Thursday evening by several of the debtors for the want
of better employment. They took great interest in the erec-
tion and worked in right good earnest, although little accus-
tomed to the use of the .line or spade. It measured 21 feet
in height, and 57 feet at the base, and contains many tons of
snow. The master builder and his assistants drank a bottle
of brown stout on the summit, wishing those who had been
present at the finishing might not witness its fall.—Lancas-
ter Gazette.

ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.—In directing
the attention of our readers to the advertisement inserted by
Signor Zandotti, in our columns, we would also remind them
of the riches which are to be dug from the vast mines of Itali-
an literature. In poetry and the drama it is scarcely to be ri-
valled, whilst in history, there is rio country in the world
which can vie with it. We need not here enter into the causes
—it is sufficient to announce the fact. Signor Zandotti in
his youth, received the best education his country could give,
and afterwards matured his knowledge by travelling ; he is,
therefore, admirably fitted to accompany students into a do-
main, over which many of the master spirits of the present
age rejoice to linger. The signor's plan of elementary in-
struction is one that ensures the steady progress of the
learner.

TOREN OF RESPECT.-4 subscription liaving been entered
into for the purpose of presenting the Rev. S. Birley with a
gown, a cassock, and portable Communion service, a com-
mittee, deputed from his congregation, waited upon the rev.
gentleman, at his house, on Monday last, for the purpose of
presenting the articles. Mr. Stephen Blair, Mr. John Sla-
ter, Mr. Sharpies, and Mr. Thompson, constituted the de-
putation, and were commissioned to express to the reverend
gentleman, the high estimation in which he is held by all
classes of his hearers. The following inscription was en-
graved on the Altar Cup :—" To the Rev. John Sheppard
Birley, M.A., Incumbent of All Saints', Bolton, this small
Token of Respect is presented, by his grateful Congregation.
January, 1811."—Bolton Chronicle.

DESERTION OF VESSELS BY SEAMEN IN. BRITISH
AMERICA.-At the Police-court, on Friday, several impor-
tant cases relating to the desertion of their vessels by sea-
men, were heard of by Mr. Rushton. James Brian, a
seaman, appeared to a summons to answer an information
against him, of having deserted the ship Naparina at Qubec,
and run away, so that his place had been supplied by a
zuhstitute, at a heavy expense to the owners of the ship. Capt.
White, of the Naparina, said he had engaged the defendant
to perform the voyage out and home at the rate of £2 15s.
a month, and he had signed articles to that effect. The ship
left Dublin in August last ; and when at Quebec, on the 2.5 th
of November, the defendant and three others of the crew
deserted, when the ship was ready for sea, so that in order
to bring her home, he bad to find a substitute for him, to
whom he had to pay 18 for the run home. It was admitted
that the defendant had been committed to gaol by a magis-
trate at Quebec, where he remained 29 days. He returned on
hoard, and afterwards deserted in the absence of the captain.
The signing of the articles were proved, and the requisite
entries in the day book were shown. Mr. Rushton, strongly
condemned the too frequent practice of seamen deserting
their vessels in this manner, thus taking advantage of owners
and captains, and even seriously endangering life and property.
The defendant, he said, must, under the statute, lose all his
wages and all his clothes, and moreover pay the difference
between what he would receive had he served and the sum
paid for a substitute. The amount was £l4 10. and he must
also pay costs, or in default be sent to prison. Thomas
Regan, another seaman of the same ship, was charged with
the same offence, and dealt with in like manner.

MEETING AT THE SCHOOL FOR THE. BLIND.-011 Friday,
the annual meeting of the directors of this excellent institu-
tion, was held in the Board-room, London-road, J. H. Tur-
ner, Esq., in the chair. The treasurer, Raymond W.
Houghton, Esq., read the accounts connected with the school,
and It. L. Carr the accounts relative to the church P ttached to
the school. In the school there are now 107 pupils. During
1840, 18 pupils left the school, and 18 had been admitted.
There are now 27 male candidates for admission, and 10 fe-
males. Mr. Houghton stated, •that during the last year not
a single musical instrument had been presented to the insti-
tution_ , This was to be regretted, as musical instruments
were very serviceable in the school, and any which had been
thrown aside by the parties using them would be very ac-
ceptable. S. Turner, Esq., moved a vote of thanks to the
Bishop of Chester, to the late vice-presidents, to Mr. Hough-
ton, the,treasurer of the institution, and to the chaplain, Mr..
Hull,.for their services during the past year, in the course of
which he complimented those gentlemen for their exertions
in behalf of the 4chool for the blind. James Aspinall moved
the appointment 9f Cresswell Cresswell, Esq., as the presi-
dent for the present year, and IL L. Carr, ; G. Deane,
Aikin, and William Jackson, Esqrs., as vice-presidents,
which was carried unanimously. Some conversation occur-
red respecting the appointment of the officers, the gentlemen
present being anxious that persons only should be selected who
would take an active part in the management of the institu-
tion. The names of the gentlemen selected will be found in
our advertising columns. Thanks were voted to the chair-
man, and the meeting separated.

,
EMBEZZLEMENT OF PICTURE FRAMES.-At tue police-
court, on Friday, an elderly man named Peter Malley, (whose
case had been remanded from the previous day for further
evidence,) was placed at the bar on a charge of obtaining and
disposing of two picture frames on false pretences. A wit-
ness stated that on Thursday week, the prisoner Caine to
him and ordered two picture frames, which he said were for
Mr. Crisp, of Church-street. He gave the dimensions of
them, and was told that they would be done. on Saturday
night. He called for them then, and wished to take them,
referring for payment to Mr. Crisp ; but as he was a stranger
to the witness, they were not delivered. He called again on
Monday, and induced the witness to accompany him with
the frames to Mr. Crisp's, who, he said, would pay for them.
The witness went with the prisoner, and when they got to
the door of Mr. Crisp's premises, prisoner said he would
take in the frames and get the money, requesting witness to
wait, which he did for three-quarters of an hour in vain,
for the prisoner did not return, he having escaped by a tho-
roughfare into Brookes-alley behind. Mr. Ratnsden, a
teacher, said the prisoner had for some time been in gaol,
where he conducted himself Well. He therefore endeavoured
to get him into work at his trade as a cabinet-maker, but
did not succeed.. lie afterwards had given him small sums
if money from time to time, and finally, on his representa-
tions of distress, employed him to make a number of pic-
ture-frames for him, giving him drafts of the different sizes,
kc. he wanted. The prisoner brought home the two frames
moduced, as two of those ordered, and represented that
;hey were made by himself. He wanted 7s for them, but
Ur. R., thinking the price exorbitant, gave him Gs., and
vithdrew his order for the others. The frames were iden-
ified as the property of the first witness. Mr. Crisp stated
hat he had no knowledge whatever of the prisoner, having
lever to his knowledge seen him before. The prisoner was
ornmitted for trial at the sessions. He was formerly, we
earn, in creditable business as a waster-cabinet maker in
'ancaster.

The rule for a new trial in "Jones, jun. v. Littler," which
the radical papers connected with the " Conno
was discharged, on Saturday last
DESTITUTE

account of t
Society." j

, by the Court of Excheque

destitution the poor of .this town are in :
Tuesday, 234; Wednesday, 192; Thursday,
371 ; Saturday, 495 •—total for the week, 16

hers have increa

nearly inurfol

Monday, 1-15
180 • Friday

T. AVIOUR'S ORGAN.-By an advertisement in
column, we perceive that Mr. Thos. Venables- late of t
Coronation German pedal organ, St. John's, Chester, is al
pointed to St. Saviour's, in this town. This is the first orp,::
erected in any church in Liverpool on the German scale ;
has two octaves and two notes in the pedal organ, enablint
an accomplished performer to execute the pedal fugues of
Bach, Mendelssohn, Rinek,• &c. The authorities of St.
Saviour's may consider themselves fortunate in having se-
cured the services of an artiste accustomed to this peculiar
description of instrument, and capable of developing its pow-
ers. Mr. Venables, who is now settled here as a teacher of
music, delivered the essay at the last soirée of the Royal In-
stitution.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT. - - about

-- Yesterday afternoon,
twenty minutes past four o'clock, as a cart loaded witl
bricks was passing aloilg. Whitechapel.
Kind's shop, corner of Church-t:'
leaning with one band on the shaft, was mu,..,0
ward, in consequence, it is supposed, of another cart bein,
near, when his foot slipped and he . fell on his back, anc
being unable to recover himself, the wheel of the cart passed
over- his head, and crushed it in such a dreadful manner as
to produce instant death. The body was carried to the dead
house. The cart was, we learn, the property of Mr. Fair-
dough, builder, Richmond-street. We could not obtain the
name of the unfortunate deceased.

METHODIST TEA-

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nated their anniversary by a to
of 160 of the most respectabi

sisting of upward:
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present, the former occupying
the secretary, Mr. John Renshaw, read the report, wine,'
noticed increased attention on the part of the children, and
determination of the teachers to devote thomselves with
greater energy and increased activity to their several duties ;
also, the establishment of a sick society for the benefit of the
Children, under the superintendence of Mr. Wm. Harley, as
secretary. The meeting was afterwards addressed very ener-
getically, and in some cases, eloquently, by Messrs. Farn-
worth, -Cross, Whittaker, Harley, Ellis, Lee, Lyon, Davies,
and others.
FRAUD ON A_ SHIPMASTER

7S. V ever
the chair

—Edward Shins appeared be-
fore Mr. Rushton on Saturday, and claimed £6 as the Wulance
of wages due on a voyage from Quebec. The plaintiff had
shipped as an ordinary-seaman at £8 per month, which he
asserted was £2 per month below the current rate of wages
'at Quebec. The wages per month out of Liverpool, for ordi-
nary seamen, range from £1 lOs to £2 per
.month. The
captain refused payment on the ground that when the plain-
tiff got on board, he knew not the least item of a sailor's
duty. He was 'set to feed the pigs, but in all other respects,
he was in the way. Tile plaintiff tacitly admitted this, but,
as seamen had been demanding such high wages, he seemed
to think that the captain had him very cheap. As the plain-
tiff was not entitled to any wages, the case was dismissed.
The captain had, it appeals, offered tile man £2 out of mer,
commiseration, but this he refused.. The captain, at the con-
clusion of the case, however, very kindly paid the last-men-
tioned sum into the hands of Mr. Davenport, the plaintiff' 's
solicitor.

CORONERS' INQUESTS IN 1840.—During the last year
there were 402 inquests held in Liverpool, of which 52 were
on persons burnt to death, 3 accidentally choked, 23 found
dead, 81 accidentally killed, 28 found drowned, 106 died by
the visitation of God,ll manslaughter, 9 scalded, 10 overlaid,
8 died from want, 12 apoplexy by drinking, 4 stillborn, 7
wilful murder, 11 committed suicide, 3 by bites of dogs, 4
felo de se, 13 accidentally drowned, 5 smothered, 8 chance
medley against sundry persons, and 1 want of assistance at
birth.

CHESTER CONSISTORY COURT.—On Thursday the Rev.
Chancellor Raikes gave judgment in a case respecting the
occupancy of a pew in West Derby Chapel. The promovant
was John Butler, Esq., and the defendant Alexander West-
more, chapel warden. The promovant had purchased
Greenfield-house from a gentleman of the name of Ashley,
who resides at West Derby, and in right thereof had become
possessed of a pew in West Derby Chapel. The last-named
gentleman contended, that the pew had not passed with the
purchase. He vut a lock on the door to debar the promovant
from occupying it. The suit against the defendant was for
perturbation of seat, as the promovant contended he was dis-
turbed by his connivance. A great number of witnesses had
been examined on both sides. The Rev. Chancellor went
through the evidence pro and con, with great minuteness, and
gave judgment to the effect that the promovant was not to .be
disturbed in the occupation of the said pew, and condemning
the defendant in the costs of suit. Notice was given of an
appeal.

DARING ROBBERY OF A WAREHOUSE.—Yesterday, at th.
Policii-court, a car-driver, whose name we could not learn
was placed at the bar under the following charge :—Johi
Fairbrother, warehouseman to Mr. Win. Colton, a wine
merchant in Oldhall-street, said, that last night (Sunday)
about half-past seven o'clock, he was passing through Suf
folk-street, when a car backed up to Lockett's bonded ware•
house door. He suspected there was something wrong
and told two friends that were with him to stand still, and hi
would go and see. He crossed the street toivards the car
and the driver, who heard what he said to his friends, dro'vi
off at a furious rate. He found the warehouse-door open
and called out, " Stop the car—the warehouse has beet
broken open." Ho fell over a bairof coffee at the ware.
house-door, who" • He got up and callei.

.f the horse's reins anc
stopped him near. the corner of Pitt-street. Witness ke'
hold of the door of the car. I,

it trying if all was salt
One of his friends got hold o

about five mil:1111es th

pelice came to their assistance. One of them searched the
car, and I saw him find three bags of coffee in it. We took
the prisoner, who was the driver of the car, and the car, back
to the warehouse. We got a light and searched the place,
but found no person there. The bag I fell over appeared to
have been removed from No. 1 Room, "where the bulk was
kept. I gave the prisoner in charge of the police, and then
left him. I saw that all' the locks of the doors had been
forced. There was no persomin the car except the prisoner.
—John Grahani, a custom-house officer, corroborated what
the last witness had stated. He: went into the warehouse
with the last witness and another, but found no one there.
The custom-house lock had been wrenched off from the door
of the room where the coffee was kept. The stock-lock had
marks of a crowbar upon it, and he believed had been
picked. Two locks in the store-room had also been wrenched
off, and there were marks of violence apparetitly made with a
crowbar. Three bags of coffee were found in the car. He
described the marks in the bags. The prisoner was taken to
Bridewell.—Henry Critchley, warehouseman to Messrs. W.
and J. Lockett, said that firm rented the warehouse. On
Saturday afternoon he lacked Room No. 1, and afterwards
the street-door, and the custom-house officer afterwards put
his padlock on. On hearing that the premises were broken
into, he went there, and found the warehouse as described.
Some of the locks were wrenched off, and one of them
picked. He saw the three bags in the car, and there were
three missing from the whole (41 bags). He knew the marks
and numbers. The weight of the coffee taken is 2 cwt.,
3 qrs., 6 lbs. The duty was not .paid.—The prisoner was
fully committed for trial at the sessions. His accomplices
(and he doubtless had some) have not yet been discovered.
PARISH CHURCH OF WARRINGTON—INTERESTING DIS-
COVERY.—A most interesting investigation is at the present
time going on in this ancient fabric. A few days ago, on
taking up the floor of the chancel,. near to and beneath the
altar, and digging into the earth below it, for the purpose of
laying down flues for the circulation of heated air, the work-
men came upon the remains of a spacious apartment, the
roof of which had formerly been supported and ornamented
by beautiful groined arches, rising from brackets rudely
sculptured with grotesque heads. At the instigation of our
worthy rector, the excavation was continued, and the whole
of the rubbish •removed, displaying the original size of the
interior, and likewise four spacious windows, which, before
the work of demolition was begun, were probably of the
same rich order of architecture as those of the higher portion
of the chancel. No solid flooring has been found, and there
seems little doubt that the whole space was formerly occupied
by a well, probably consecrated to St. Elfin, the original pa-
tron of the church, and much resemlling (though upon a
much smaller scale) the celebrated well of St. Winifred, at
Holywell, in Flihtshite, except that no terrace round. it ex-
isted for the use of visitors. Even now, the water springs
abundantly, though not sufficiently clear to allow of ready
chemical analysis. The original mode of access to it is not
yet clearly ascertained, but from one corner a winding stone
staircase in the interior of a buttress on the north side of the
chancel, the existence of which has been known .for some
time, leads upwards to an opening in the wall, at the point
where the pulpit formerly stood, immediately over the pre-
sent rails of the altar. The dimensions of the apartment are
twenty-one feet in length by eleven feet in breadth, and the
height, from the highest part of the roof to what appease to
have been the level of the water, is also 11 feet. The period at
which the work of havoc took place will probably ever remain
a mystery, but it is most likely to have been the result
of that excited feeling which, at the period of the Re-
formation, overthrew every object, however sacred, which
bore the least resemblance to a relic of popery ; and, in doing
so, resorted to measures of rapine and violence, which the
admirer of antiquities has in an especial degree often had
reason to deprecate and deplore. The manner in which the
filling up of the apartment has been effected, appears to have
been by breaking in, in the first instance, the arched roof,
and mullions of the windows, covering these to the level of
the floor of the chancel with earth taken from the church-
yard. This is obvious from the number of human bones
confusedly mixed throughout the whole, with one exception,
where portions `of an entire skeleton were dug out from a
great depth, and found to be imbedded in lime, without any
traces of a coffin. This would seem to indicate that the in-
dividual, whose mouldering remains have thus again been
brought to light, after the lapse of ages, had either died of
some prevailing pestilential disorder, or suffered the severe
penalty of the law. It is probable, rewise, that he belonged
to the ecclesiastical order, for to these alone was the privilege
reserved of interment within the precincts of the chancel.
An inspection of the spot, even in its present dilapidated
condition, will amply repay any one whom curiosity may
induCe to visit it ; and as the flooring of the chancel must
necessarily be replaced in a short time, no better opportunity
than the present can possibly present itself for the purpose.
It is but due justice to mention, that the work of excavation
has been greatly expedited by the public spirit of William
Alcard, Esq., who liberally furnished a supply of the men
in his employ on the railroad, to aid the workmen previously
engaged in the task. The rector, Mr. Powys, has expressed
himself as warmly desirous that an attempt should-be made
to restore all or part of the ruin to its former condition,
which is practicable at a comparatively light expense. As
the edifice is perfectly unique of its kind, in this part of the
country, it is to be hoped that this praiseworthy desire will
meet with many supporters ; and if we may take the pleasing
result of our last exhibition as an illustration of what the
personal exertions of a few zealous individuals can effect, we
cherish the hope that our ancient town will, ere long, num-
ber this amongst the many other attractions which it already
possesses, in the shape of relics of the olden time.—Man-
Mester &trier

MARCHMONT PEERAGE.—The claim of Captain Sir F.
D. Home, Bart., to this peerage, which has occupied much
of the time of the Committee of Privileges during the last
three sessions of parliament, and which has already received
nine lengthened hearings of their lordships' house, will, we
understand, come under the final review of the Lord Chan-
cellor for decision, immediately after the meeting of parlia-
ment. Sir Francis, now in his 54th year, is one of the cam-
paigners under the gallant Moore; was -close by the person
of the hero when he received his death-wound in the hard
fought field of Corunna, and was afterwards in many of the
principal actions of the war. lie unites in his person the
representation in the male line of the ancient and distin-
guished border farniles of Home of Wedderburn, and Home
of Polwarth or Marchmont.

We understand that Lord Brabason, one of the members
for the county of Dublin, and the lion. Grantley Berkeley,
one of the members for the western division of Gloucester-
shire, will move and second the address of the House of
Commons to her majesty, on the speech from the throne, at
the opening of the ensuing session of parliament.—Minis-
terial paper.

SINGULAR BAPTISMAL NAMES.—Jonathan Collins, cot-
ton spinner, at Heywood, has lately caused four of his chil-
dren to be're-christened in the following names, at St. Luke's
Chapel, Heywood :—First, John Jonathan George ; second,
Martha Maria Hannah Victoria ; third, Sergeant Hall Oliver
Cromwell; fourth, Catnereska Albert Napoleon Louis the
Twelfth.