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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-27 00:00:00

warehouses are of

and the

prznctp

are rated for our 1

other property. The assumption that we may next
propose to rate the Customs Revenue of the port is
a piece of silliness which does not come very well

from the organ of a community, which is at this
moment demanding that the public should pay for
a hobby of their own—the Custom-house of Man-
chester.

We have no fear that, ultimately, the claims of
rs of Liverpool will not be successful.

the rater
They mu

). when the whole facts of
the case are known, and the Legislature can afford
to be honest. The parishioners, in the meantime,
must be true to themselves. We must have no
more such exhibitions of anti-local feeling as we
ed by some gentlemen with respect
to this Question.

'save seen exhibi

THE farce of attempted legislation by a govern-
ment, representing the opinion of a minority only
Df both houses of parliament, is daily becoming
more transparent. During the past week, her ma-

ttle d

jestes Whip
with some 1

~viir. ters have excited our pity, mingled
le t at their apparent uncon-
' th ily tolerated, and are alike
?al and any definite policy.
'cal a-nd comprehensive is entirely
• _ all minds : and we may
,ately venture to predict that, beyond having un-
settled some half dozen questions, about which the
public does not care a rush, and perhaps attempted
some heavy blow and great discouragement against
interests, whose destruction is meditated by the
ultra-Radical party, in whose hands they are the
pliant tools, the close of the session will show us
nothing accomplished, to reconcile us to the inter-
minable flood of talk with which the public will, by
that time, have been nauseated.
It is a sub;

knythir

beyond the scope of

power

such a st

t of congratulation, however, that

ver brings about its own
?rice sufficient. that
One department of
lonial department—maybe said
Ls indefensible, by the
His defence of Lord Torrington's
'^i,and of the charges brought
tyrannical conduct

governmen

to have b

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premier Ili

ad minist

)wn over

tiruiana, was evi-
Fhe petulant Earl Grey
' the mountain ; a bur-
hen whose portability is rendered still more oppres-
sive by the necessity of having to endure the pert-
ness and flippancy of his under secretary, Mr.
Benjamin Hawes. In the other house. the noble
Earl himself exhibited on Thursday night a sense
f his indefensible position, combined with acrid-
r. and an obstinacy which was almost

towards tb
iently a de

ness oi

We cannot r

i man

adicron,

;lying a portion of
ie scene on the occasion, especially as it exhibits
a change of opinion, on the part of a portion of their
lordships' house, which may lead to important re-
sults upon any colonial policy.
In moving for a committee of inquiry upon the
subject of the best means to be adopted for the
suppression of the slave trade, the Bishop of
.Ox-
ford reviewed the efforts made by our blockading
squadron on the coast of Africa, and demonstrated
the large amount of success by which they were re-
warded up to the passing of the Sugar Bill of 1846.
In that year, however, owing to the stimulus given
to the production of sugar in the Brazils, upwards
of 65,000 slaves were imported into that country
alone; and the trade has since been carried on with
increased energy, accompanied with tenfold suffer-
ings inflicted upon the native African. Lords Aber-
deen and Stanley coincided with the right reverend
prelate in the necessity of the committee ; and the
latter expressed his hope that it would extend its
inquiry particularly to the cause of the increased
horrors of the traffic from 1846 to 1849. 'The co-
lonial secretary, in his reply, betrayed a rather inde-
cent amount of asperity. Referring to the speech
of Lord Stanley, he said :
" It was a characteristic specimen of the precipitation
with which he came to a judgment, that when the house
were unanimously agreed on appointing a committee to
ascertain the facts of the case, and were proceeding to the
vote, his extreme impatience to pronounce a sentence, the
burning desire to deliver himself of a philippic which was
brewing in his mind—that feeling which so characterised
him—induced him to come before their lordships, declaim-
ing against the government on account of the consequences
which he assumed to have resulted from their measure,
and saying, ' Look at these facts, this monstrous incon-

His lordship would have done wisely not to have
provoked this cutting rebuke.

We cannot congratulate the government upon
much greater success in other departments. It is
true that we are promised a reduction in the army
and navy estimates of some £850,000 upon paper.
These reductions are in part made up by the jug-
gling transfer of various items which have formerly
appeared under the heads of army and naval ex-
penses to the post-office, the packet, transport, and
other services ; and they afford us little opportu-
nity of congratulating ourselves upon any substan-
tial saving. The only other effort of the past week
worthy of notice, is a shabby endeavour of Lord
John Russell to pay for his election for the city of
London by a sidewind opening of the privilege of
representation to the Jewish fraternity, or rather to
his colleague, Baron Rothschild. This is a sneak-
ing sort of proceeding, worthy of Lord John ; and
will doubtless be scouted as it deserves in the
Lords, where there is still, thank Heaven, some-
thing of honesty and manliness left.

WE have received a multitude of communica-
tions on the subject of the meditated interruption
to the direct communication that has so long ex-
isted between Dublin and this port. But men may
talk, and journalists may write, and, after all, if
nothing he done, it is only so much breath and ink
wasted. We wish our brethren of the press would
take up the matter, and call the attention of their
readers to the important bearings of the question.
It must be done at once ' • for, if the removal of
the mail packets takes place, there will be no
receiving them hack again. And the very serious
inconvenience must continue thenceforward to be
felt, of making all our journeys and receiving all
our letters from Ireland by way of Holyhead. For
the reduced passenger traffic alone would never
justify the enterprising City of Dublin Company
in keeping, as at present, a line of first-class steam-
ers on the station, for the conveyance of passengers
only, to and fro, regularly every evening.

- „
The newly-discovered objections to Liverpool as
the station are the length of the passage and the
alleged difficulties of landing the mails, the pre-
ponderating advantages in favour of Holyhead
being, the short voyage and the swift boats. A
word or two on each of these points. The entire
severity of the passage from and to Dublin, in bad
weather, lies in that portion of it which is common
to both, viz., from the Head to Dublin. In such
weather, the excessive power of the newly con-
structed boats must be kept in abeyance, since, in
running through the water with such velocity, when
a heavy sea is on, a vessel is as likely to go under
as to rise buoyantly over it. The tine allowed for
making the passage in fair weather can thus be no
guide for the time it may take in a gale of wind to
perform the same, and so, according to the doc-
trine of chances, the mails and passengers must
necessarily be often late for the trains to London
during the winter season. And the experience of
the last winter only verifies the correctness of our
argument. So that the advantage of Holyhead
above Liverpool, even with reference to London
alone, is by no means so much as at first sight,
and without reflection, might be supposed. But
we are not writing against Holyhead ; we are only
vigilant, as we ought to he, for the interests of our
own " old town," and the manifold interests in-
volved therein. The entire manufacturing district,
Lancashire, Yorkshire, and all farther north and
east, are equally interested with Liverpool in maim-
taining the accommodation of a first-class mail
steamer plying directly between this port and
Dublin. Why is this accommodation not to be
still continued ? The new landing-stages are very
soon to be made available for sea-going steamers,
and by this means the task of embarking and
getting ashore both passengers and mails, irre-
spective of tide, is simplified at once. The Com-

pany in possession of the contract has always ful-
filled its part, alike faithfully to the public and in
the most accommodating spirit to each individual
passenger, and is ready now to renew its engage-
ment with the Post-office, on such
afford the utmost possible facilities both fc•r the

BRITISH PROTEST,

" We, the undersigned, having observed with regret. that
the 'American Colonization Society' appears to be gain.
ing some adherents in this country. are desirous to express
our opinions respecting it. _

" Our motive and excuse for thus coming forward are
the claims which the society has put forth to Anti-
' Slavery support. These claims are, in our opinion,
wholly groundless; and we feel bound to affirm that our
deliberate judgment and conviction are, that the profes-
, sions made by the Colonization Society of promoting the
abolition of slavery, are altogether delusive.
As far as the mere colony of Liberia is concerned, it has
no doubt the advantage of other trading establishments.
In this sense it is beneficial both to America and to Africa,
' and we cordially wish it well. We cannot, however, re-
frain from expressing our strong opinion that it is a set-
tldment of which the United States ought to bear the
whole cost. We never required of that country to assist
us in Sierra Leone; we are enormously burdened by our
own connection with slavery; and we do maintain that
we ought not to be called on to contribute to the expenses
of a colony, which, though no doubt comprising some
advantages, was formed chiefly to indulge the prejudice of
American slaveholders, and which is regarded with aver-
sion by the coloured population of the United States.
" With regard to the extinction of the slave trade, we
apprehend that Liberia, however good the intentions of
its supporters, will be able to do little or nothing towards
it, except on the limited extent of its own territories.
The only effectual death blow to that accursed traffic will
be the destruction of slavery throughout the world. To
the destruction of slavery throughout the world, we
are compelled to say that we believe the Colonization
Society to be an obstruction.

" Oic objections to it are, therefore, briefly these :
Will* we believe its pretexts to be delusive, we are con-
vinced that its real effects are of the most dangerous na-
ture. It takes its root from a cruel prtjudice and alien-
ation in the whites of America against the coloured peo-
ple, slave or tree. This being its source, the effects are
what might be expected ; that it fosters and increases the
spirit of caste, already so unhappily predominant; that it
widens the breach between the two races—exposes the

coloured people to great practical persecution, in order to
force them to emigrate; and finally is calculated to swal-
low up and divert that feeling which America, a Christian
and free country, cannot but entertain, that slavery is
alike incompatible with the law of God, and with the
well-being of man, whether the enslaver or the enslaved.
" On these, grounds, therefore, and while we acknow-
ledge the colony of Li ,eria, or ally othercolony on the coast
of Africa, to be in itself a good thing, we must be under-
stood utterly to repudiate principles of the American
Colonization Society. That society is, in our estimation,
not deserving of the countenance of the British public.
" Wm. WILBERFORCE, I LORD SUFFIELD,
WM. SMITH, S.*LUSHINGTON, M.P.,
ZACHARY MACAULAY, THOS. F. BUXTON, M.P.,
WM. EVANS. M.P., JAMES CROPPER,
SAMUEL GURNEY, WILLIAM ALLEN,
GEORGE STEPHEN, DANIEL O'CONNELL, M. P.
London, July, 1833."

CAUTION TO PAUPERS.—It has latterly become a
practice at Birkenhead for the lower orders of Irish to
break into empty houses and take possession without the
consent of the owners. On Saturday three families were
brought before Mr. Hall charged with this offence. The
worthy magistrate ordered the three men, whose names
are Martin Cavanagh, William Clowes, and Bernard
11I'Manus, to be com►nitted under the Vagrant Act to
hard labour for one month each in the House of Correction.
EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.—At a meet-
ing of the board, held on the 24th instant, the following
gentlemen, belonging to the North American Royal Mail
Steamers, were examined :—Mr. John Gabriel Wickman,
first officer of the Britannia, and Mr. Robert Leitch, first
officer of the Cambria, and were found duly qualified for
first-class masters' certificates. Also, Mr. George Hugh
Harain, third officer of the Cambria, and Captain William
J. Anderson, master of the Aberfoyle, of New Ross, were
found qualified for second-class masters' certificates.
THE WEATHER.—We have had a week of stormy, un-
settled weather, with the wind, up to Sunday morning,
from the west and north-west. Throughout the early
part of the week the air was clear, with heavy gales, but.
on Friday and Saturday the wean- tt -h less h"'

—aer, lough
teroug, was wet, cold, and disagreeable. On Sunday the
wind was from the south-east. About noon we had a
heavy fall of sleet, followed by a drizzling rain. Frequent
showers fell in the course of the afternoon. Towards
evening a sharp frost set in, and yesterday morning the
ponds in the neighbourhood wt-re coated with ice.
Throughout yesterday the weather was fine and bracing

the frost will most likely not last long.
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC POOR AND THE PROTESTANT
CLERGY OF IRELAND.—On Saturday, at the meeting of
the Constitutional Association, Mr. Samuel Holme said
he had been informed, by one of the first railway con-
tractors in Ireland, one who took a deep interest in the

public service and for the convenience of indivi-
duals. They are willing to place on the station a
superior class of vessels, but they first demand,
and very properly, that they be secured from loss
by the renewal of their contract. Let the hours of
sailing from Dublin be changed back again to six
o'clock each evening, and, with vessels of increased
power, we are bold to affirm that the arrivals in
Liverpool, except on very rare occasions, would be
in time for the dispatch of the early mails. The
advantage to London would be not the less, be-
cause that the interests of Liverpool had not been
compromised in order to serve them.
We are still of opinion that a movement in the
Town Council, for the attainment of this object,
would be attended with happy results. The gen-
tleman who introduced it would have the very
unusual lot of advocating a measure that would
win immediate and universal concurrence both in
and out of doors. The matter then would be
fairly before the public of the town. If they took
it up, as they surely would and ought to do, the
government would consent without a second word.
Should they prove themselves indifferent, they
will deserve to lose, and Liverpool must be over-
looked.

Whilst upon this subject, we may agc if some
step cannot he taken to secure for this port the
new line of steamships for the Brazils ?

welfare of his country, that such was the attachment of the
great body of Roman Catholic railway labourers, who
worked for him and other contractors, to the clergy of the
Church of England throughout the length and breadth of
the land, that to his knowledge immense sums of money,
their saving., were lodged in the Tittodo of 'prates of the
Church of England, these men having the utmost coon-
dence in their honour and interity. They declined to
confide their savings in the hands of their own priests.
IMPROVEMENT OF THE NEGRO RACE.—On Sunday
afternoon last a most excellent and truly scriptural ser-
mon was pazehed. in the church of St. Mary's, Edge-hill,
by the Rev. Alex. Crummell, an African clergyman, the
son of a slave, and a Presbyter of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church in America, at present on a visit to this town.
The sum of £l5 was collected after the sermon towards
erecting, in New York, a church for the African race in
that city, who number about 20,000 ; and amongst whom
Mr. Crummell has ministered as their pastor for ten
years. The reverend gentleman has brought recommen-
datory letters from two of the American Bishops, and has
received the support of several prelates in this country.
He has obtained the license of the Bishop of Chester to
officiate in this diocese. His own congregation are of
course helpless in the matter from their extreme poverty ;
and there exists among the Americans such an indifference
to the condition of this injured race, that every appeal to
their better feelings if worse than useless. From all con-
nexion with the white population of America Mr. Crum-
mell and his people are utterly excluded ; the principle of
caste allowing them no fellowship whatever, either in
social intercourse or in the provisions of education and
the ordinances of religion. We should be glad to hear
that Mr. Crummell had obtained permission to urge his
appeal from every pulpit in the town, for we are extremely
sanguine in our anticipations of the results likely to ensue
to his countrymen—both white and coloured—if his sob-
citations are properly responded to. We are glad to find
that it is intended to send Mr. Crummell home with the
honours and advantages of an education provided at one
of the English Universities, and that he will proceed to
Cambridge with that view in October next. Although
he has been denied the advantages of suitable instruction,
yet his fine powers of mind render him an intelligent com-
panion, and afford the promise of intellectual distinction
of no common order. His simple, warm-hearted, and
steadfast pi3ty has endeared him to many persons in this
country, and in the words of a highly respectable gentle
man, near Bath, whose guest Mr. Crummell was for seve-
ral weeks—" He possesses a natural grace of mind and a
modest independence, which at once place him at his ease
in cultivated and refined society,"

IN our last publication we offered a few hasty
remarks upon the subject of a movement which is
about being made in this town, in behalf of the
American Colonization Society, an institution esta-
blished about thirty years ago, for the removal of
the free black population of the United States to
the republic of Liberia. We were induced to think
that a Christian and free government, existing in
Africa, might afford important facilities for spread-
ing the Gospel in that Benighted continent ; and
would also exercise an ameliorating. effect upon the
social condition of its people, and especially be of

4 sistenoy,' with the qualification —' if facts they be.' service in putting a stop to the atrocities of the BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS. .
;n the (Hear.) * * He (Earl Grey) thought, that when noble slave trade.
have lords had agreed and determined on an inquiry, they might p
will as well wait till that inquiry took place before expressing We are sorry to state that a reconsideration of SPECIAL MEETING RESPECTING THE FERRIES.
the subject, and the perusal of a mass of evidence, On Friday evening a special meeting of the Improve-
nents an opinion. He thought, moreover, that when the noble
ment Commissioners of Birkenhead was held in the rooms,
tional lord chose to make attacks of this kind upon the govern- bearing upon the real objects of the Colonization Hamilton-square. Present,—Messrs. Bryans, Greene,
ivhich ment, it would be the more straightforward and manly Society, and of the feelings with which it is Fox, Ravenscroft, Adamson, Bentham, Laird, Watson,
Hughes, Golbourne, Williamson, and Stevenson.
course to make them in some manner that would enable regarded by the entire black population of the
Pr co- the opinion of the house to be taken upon the subject.
Richard Bryans, Esq.. took the chair.
=is- United States, for whose exclusive benefit it pro-
He, (Earl Grey,) for one, was in no degree shaken in the
The notice calling the meeting having been read, the
over- He,
to labour, have compelled us to withdraw minutes of the Ferry Committee- were produced for the
:rim- opinion he originally entertained, that the measure of
1846 was a wise measure with reference (apart from all the opinions which we bad formerly entertained on approval of the meeting. They stated that as the com-
;'oecre other considerations) to the ultimate extinction, not only the subject. We shall glance briefly at a few of mittee had arrived at the conclusion that they could not
K I of the slave trade, but of slavery. (.9 He was confident alter-
that when the real results of that measure cam e before the considerations which have influenced us. legally apply the funds of the Woodside Ferry to working
r the
In the first place, a glance over the reports pub- the Monks' Ferry, the committee recommended that the
Monk's Ferry be orked under separate management.
the house and the country, they would be seen to afford
lisped by the society itself affords conclusive proof Mr. WILLIMSON (chairman of Committee)
ected no ground for these premature taunts."
a the Lord Brougham also came in for a portion of his that the object of the society, in their entire scheme in moving the confirmation of the proceedings stated that
1 the
lordship's bile, owing to his having given notice for of colonization, is nothing less than an anxious in consequence of having received direct information from
a motion on the subject of the recent events in desire to get rid, in a country where slavery is an the Law-clerk, that any surplus revenue from Woodside
Ceylon, in the course of which he hinted at the institution, of the spectacle of a coloured gopula- .rornryk:,ol,lled not letflatllhy be apropri7t,ittoodc,rdryii,lg on the
cuonramitteeepzir,
caosmeeo
possibility of their coming before the house in the tion existing in the enjoyment of freedom. In the Monks' Ferry
they
-----2' shape of an impeachment. The learned baron's first annual report of the society we find the fol- to the ressioleutioenrrwyllvicalsi
had been read. The committee were of opinion that
reply was a most cutting and successful one. lowing passage :
erred "He would," he said, " add one word upon the ques- "In reflecting upon the utility of a plan for colonizing which was the reason why they had called . the board
into lion before the house. For himself, he did not require the free people of colour, with whom our country abounds, together that evening. •
further information before forming his opinion ;he had it is natural that we should be first struck by its tendency Mr. GREENE asked how it happened the committee had
i the evidence enough, and to spare ; but there were others to to benefit ourselves, by ridding us of a population for only just arrived at that conclusion?
tical be considered—there was parliament, and the country, the most part idle and useless, and too often vicious and Mr. WILLIAMSON said Mr. Greene was long a member
t so and the executive government ; and therefore he thought mischievous." .
of the Ferry Committee, how was it he had not found it
the inquiry most desirable. But he should go into corn- Such a population are obviously little calculated out ?
mittee with no bias or prejudice ;he should go to hear to forward missionary objects in Africa. In their Mr. GREENE said, if that was the opinion of the Law-
the truth, and act upon it. (Hear.) To be sure, the seventh annual report the society announce that— clerk, how did it happen he hac not discovered it before ?
Bill
Mr. WILLIAMSON said, the Law-clerk had not exactly
noble earl had said that the noble lord, (Stanley,) with ~ The require that the whole mass of free people of found it out, but, in the course of various conversations
!ear, his characteristic impetuosity and disposition to come to a colour, andy
those who may become thus with the cosent
re- premature conclusion, was labouring to bring out 'a of their owners, should be progressively removed from with the Town-clerk, it had been discovered, but perhaps
the philippic' upon the sugar duties and the slave trade, in among us, as fast as their own consent can be obtained, it would be better to hear the explanation of the Town-
their unhappy and most calamitous connexion, as he clerk.
)ers, and as a means can be found for their proper establish- Mr. GREENE said he had no intention of throwing
(Lord Brougham) maintained it to be. The facts were meet in Africa. Nothing short of this rogressive but blame on any one, only he should like to be informed how
ind, not to be got rid of ; and if the facts were as stated, they complete remov. al can accomplish the treat objects of
. and it was that it should not have been discovered before now.
put bore out all the oloomy prognostications of 1846, and thispme re, in relation to the security,gprosperity
ther showed in immediate juxta-position, and necessary and happiness of the United States." Mr. STEVENSON said he supposed it was owing to the
march of intellect. (Laughter.)idh
mild indissoluble connexion, the policy of 1846 and the exten- We need quote no more to shell, that the objects 'iie T yvi:.r
ired Btoi°anvocicdth e slave trade.
oen siv(eHetaier,
wheaasrin)
aNmoowo,dhteo%-ished
confer of the society are, at all events, tinctured with the Monks'O -
FeLrErßylc Z. n, ote maintainwas
n t
ittws:lrfe. before
it that
did
the
The slave owner of the United States not maintain itself then the money required must be
favours upon anythingthe noble earl (a laugh) ;he had promised selfishness.
rade him one. and he would confer another. If anything is afraid of the influence, upon his own serfs, of a taken out of the Improvement rate, as it would be illegal
state could be complimentary it was to say that the noble lord black population embued, as ultimately they must to take away a portion of the money received from Wood-
:1 in (Stanley) acted characteristically, and, doubtless, the be, with the intelligence gathered from their imme- side Ferry
have to state what was wanted for the Monks'
Mr. Ferry for that purpose. In laying the rate they
the noble lord aceepted it as it was intended, (a laugh,) and would
diate contact with civilization. How the con- Ferry, and no more money could be taken from such rate
took it eulogistically; in the sameway he(Lord Brougham)
was about to earn the thanks of the noble earl. (A laugh.) sent of that population to emigrate to a country, than the sum so mentioned.
nine He this evening with his characteristic—what must it be in which they can obviously no longer have any ties Mr. GREENE.—Does not one act refer to the other?
were called ? (laughter)—if the whole dictionary were floating remaining, can be obtained, except by its proscrip- The TOWN-CLERIC—Yes. . That is, a system is laid
aim before him (Lord Brougham) he would cull the very word tion as a class, it is not easy to perceive. We have down by the Woodside Ferry act, and the same system is
adopted in the Monks Ferry act.
the he thought would give most satisfaction—(a laugh)—with
abundant evidence before us, however, that the Mr. GREENE.—And in no way one applies to the other,
and his characteristic—say perseverance—that was harmless, free negroes of the United
so as to to
and most complimentary —(a laugh)—with his characte-
31n- ristic perseverance and courage (a laugh) the noble earl association, its objects, and the instrumentality The TOWN-CLERK.—No.
pre- had said that he was quite satisfied with all that had hap- with which it works, with unqualified horror. The CHAIRMAN.—There is nothing against it, I pre-
ate- pened since 1846, and that, instead of shaking, it only We might go on to skew that the moral and same.r R
TOA,v,EN-sLcEnorr. I beg your pardon, there is
3 of tended to confirm his form•T opinion. Really, if the facts
social condition of the people of the republic of The. —The commissioners are owners of
...A since 1846 had only tended to confirm him in his opinion,
Liberia is far from being in that Arcadian state two terries.
N C RK
"`" he (Lord Brougham) would not say that he was unteach-
yen able—would not sac that he was of the number of those which is pictured to us. Our only object, how- Mr GREENE.—The Monks' Ferry has no ferry rights of
led, upon whom all experience was thrown away ; but he ever, here, is to set ourselves right with our readers, itself, it is merely an asbunct of the Woodside Ferry.
ce a would say that the noble earl was happy in the possession and to correct what we last week rather hastily put The TOWN-CLERK.—That would make no difference—
of a sanguine temperament, (a laugh,) and that defeat, forth. We shall content ourselves,therefore, .
with
, we must assume that they are two ferries.
the most manifest and glaring want of success, producedA lengthened argument then ensued, Mr. Greene con-
upon
asking their perusal of the following document, tending that Monks' Ferry was merely part of Woodside
, upon him the same effect that the most triumphant vi,-
°el( tory produced upon other men. (Laughter, and cries of put forth at a period when the society was making Ferry, and Mr. Ravenscroft maintaining the contrary.
fur " Hear, hear.") such an appeal as their present one to the sympa- The latter wished to read the clauses of the act referring
of His lordship would have done wisely not to have thies of the British public
.• to the matter, but the Chairman and Mr. Bentham oh!
. . - --1.....1

A lengthened argument then ensued, Mr. Greene con-
tending that Monks' Ferry was merely part of Wood
Ferry, and Mr. Ravenscroft maintaining the contrary,
The latter wished to read the clauses of the act referring
to the matter, but the Chairman and Mr. Bentham oh.
jetted, the latter observing that they ought to leave the
constructions of the acts to their legal adviser.
Mr. RAVENSCROFT said they were as clear as dayligi.
Mr. BENTHAM said if they were so it was the first act
of parliament which did not admit of differences of opinion
on its clauses.

Mr. RAvErrscuorr still persisted in his desire to read
the clauses, but was at length stopped by the Chairman ;
and the Town-clerk being referred to, stated that accord-
ing to his reading of the acts the profits of the Woodside
Ferry could not be applied to working Monks' Ferry.
Some conversation then ensued amongst the members,
several wishing the Ferry Committee to propose a plen
for the workings of the ferries, but the members of that
committee wished the board to devise a plan for the
purpose, or appoint a sub-committee to do it.
Mr. GREENE and Mr. BENTnam thought the question
rather too serious to be hastily decided. The ferries had
been worked in accordance with a plan sanctioned by Mr.
Mallaby, and it was not exactly right at once to jump to
the conclusion that all their proceedings were illegal,—
more especially in the absence of Mr. Mallaby. He
should also wish opinion of Mr. Waln to be in writing,
and to appear uple their minutes, before any conclusion
was come to.

The TOWN-CLERK also wished to have the opportunity
of takinE counsel's opinion on the subject.
Mr. LAIRD at length moved that a sub-committee be
appointed to consider the mode of working the ferries
under separate management.
Mr.
WILLIAMSON seconded it.

Mr. GREENE moved as an amendment that the matter
be defered until the next general board, and that in the
meantime the Town-clerk be requested to deliver a written
opinion on the subject.
Mr. HUGHES seconded the amendment.
The amendment having been put, six voted for it, and
four against it, consequently it was carried.
Mr. Williamson, Mr. RavenScroft. Mr. Laird, and Mr.
Watson then declared that thay were so convinced of the
legality of the present mode of working the ferries, that

they would not take any further share in the manage-
ment of the ferry.
The board then broke UP.

ELECTION OF A PHYSICIAN TO THE IN-

FIRMARY

A meeting of the Trustees and annual subscribers to
the Infirmary met ii, the board-room of the institution
yesterday morning, for the purpose of electing a successor
to Dr. Freckleton, the retiring physician. Amongst the
gentlemen present were Edward Giblym' Esq., George
Grant, Esq., Daniel Willink, Esq., Jacob Willink, Esq.,
John Cropper, Esq., Richard Gibson, Esq., Alfred
North, Esq., (Treasurer,) Alderman Molyneux, Arthur
Thompson, E4q., Charles Reade, Esq., Dr. Turnbull,
and other gentlemert interested in the institution.
EDWARD GIBBON, Esq., being called to the chair,
briefly stated the business before the meeting, when
GEO. GRANT, Esq., proposed Dr. Turnbull for the va-
cancy, observing that he thought it due to that gentleman
to give him the appointment, he having been for some
time physician to a kindred and very important institu-
tion, and having obtained the approbation of every mem-
ber connected with it. He concluded with an eulogium
on the skill and ability of Dr. Turnbull.

DANIEL WILLINK: Eq., in a few appropriate words,
seconded the appointment, which was put to the meeting
and carried unanimously.

JOHN CROPPER, Esq., proposed that Dr. Freckleton
be appointed one of the consulting physicians to the insti-
tution.

RICHARD GinsoN, Esq., seconded this resolution,
which was carried with the same unanimity as the prece-
ding one.

Dr. TURNBULL returned thanks for the honour that
had been conferred on him, and gave his assurance that
his best exertions would at all times be used to merit the
good opinionotertained of his capabilities.