The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-08 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

—.. . ...ai yieiu or 0,500,000 gallons per water question, narrated by us last week, with
we shall not criticise this document I day, or sixteen gallons per head per day for a p - respect to Mr. Hawksley's recent visit to Liverpool,
severely, inasmuch as Mr. Hawksley, whose letter is I pulation of 400,000 souls. Now it must be borne and the interview which, was to have-taken place,
dated on Tuesday last, only received a copy of the iin mind that the quantity, 20 gallons per head per between that gentleman and Messrs. Simpson and
report in the Liverpool .Albion on Monday evening, day, estimated as sufficient for the sanitary pur- Newlands. The Town-Clerk's explanation on Fri-
bad no previous knowledge of the conclusions poses of a community, includes the supply required day does not contradict a single feature of our
arrived at by that gentleman and Mr. Newlands, for manufactories and works of various descrip- narration. Mr. Hawksley was in town on the day
opportunity afforded him of arriving tions, at present supplied from these private wells, of the apppointed meeting. He was in the Town-
ledge ! We treat his reply as a hasty for street cleansing, flushing sewers, &c.; so that hall at the very time that Messrs. Simpson, New-
.-hand effusion of a gentleman, con- we are at present deficient only four gallons per lands, T. B. Horsfall,. Stitt, and the Mayor were
scious that all his professional conduct has been head per day, or a total quantity of 1,600,000 gal- assembled and waiting for him. He knew that
fair and aboveboard, and that, in his eminent ions per day for a population of 400,000. The they were so waiting, for the Town-Clerk says that
position as an engineer of works projected, he can question therefore suggests itself, can we, from our he brought a message from him, announcing that
afford to look down upon, and sneer at, the opinions present wells, by improved arrangements, more effi- he was ready for the interview, which message
of practical engineers of works successfully corn- cient machinery, a few deeper sin kings, a thorough unfortunately was not heard, or remembered, by
pleted. The first objection of Mr. Hawksley is rearrangement of the mains, and a better mode of any of the gentlemen to whom it was delivered.
with respect to these gentlemen's measurement of distribution, procure the required increase, or, in Mr. Hawksley and Mr. Simpson met at the station
the water shed of the Rivington district at 9,827 round numbers, say an additional two millions as described, unexpectedly to each other, although
statute acres, whilst he makes it 10,400 acres. We daily ? one would have imagined that parties anxious for
are quite content, however, to take Messrs. We submit that the evidence before us in Messrs. a meeting, either there, or in London, would have
Simpson, Newlands, and the ordnance survey Simpson and Newlands' report goes very far to taken measures to secure it by some previous
—r- Tockson, Professor Ansted, and show that this can be done; and it is confirmed by arrangement, or message; and, finally, they do not
,ext objection is, that it was several corroborating facts, which we shall adduce. appear to have had a meeting after all, for Mr.
to make approximate estimates of In the first place, we are assured by Messrs. Situp- Hawksley, in his letter, written the following day,
Id of that water shed, after " proper som and Newlands that the Green-lane well can appears to have been in total ignorance of the very
.nstituted, and the fact of the easily be made to yield an additional quantity matters, upon which himself and Mr. Simpson were
nso established." The answer to of 1,000,000 gallons per day. The machinery at to have met, and which both proceeded to London

at such knot
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myself."

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I'hese guagings were only in some of the other wells is out of order, and inca- to discuss with each other!
uwo years, which other guagings pable otherwise of distributing effectively the full We made no imputations last week upon the
in the district coincide in proving to have been very supply. A large quantity is wasted through dila- conduct of any of the parties concerned in this very
-ears ; and it is manifestly dangerous to esti- pidation of the pipes, and the bad system of pump- singular affair. We shall not do so now. But we
'c. capacity of a most costly project to supply ping directly into the mains. Besides, we have must say that if a meeting with Mr. Simpson and
ith water, to which is appended enormous little confidence that the four million gallons per the Borough Engineer, on the subject of their
.‘ies for failure in giving, previously to such day from all the wells, upon which the reporting report, was really intended by Mr. Hawksley,, the
supply, compensation water to other towns and to engineers have made their calculations, is the full latter gentleman took most infelicitous steps to
manufactories, from such years of extraordinary , supply which even the present machinery is capable bring it about. We suspect that had the report
rain-fall. Mr. Hawksley's complaint, that the cal- of raising; and could adduce a few circumstances, been more favourable to the Pike scheme, he would
culation of the rain-fall at Rivington from that of connected with the working of the wells during the have been more successful in his efforts.
inquiry of these gentlemen, which would corrobo-
has Belmont, is unfair, because the Belmont reservoir
rate our opinion. Apart, however, from any dis- MorrtniAnYt.h
only one guage, whilst the other has six, is
Whether a divisiEonxctHarpi NceEtwe'Olitehetmo'
inclination of the Water Committee's officials to
House of Lords, on the questione ofetlegNavi
extremely puerile. If the one guage erred in any
Navigation Laws,e
show, by the late experiments, a correct yield, it is
of the six years, over which the calculation extends, a very confident opinion is expressed on 'Change that the
it was quite as likely to err in Mr. Hawksley's clear from the height of water left in the wells on country will have to thank that body for nobly standing
favour as against him ; and, by-the-by, we observe the Saturday nights, after each week's pumping, in the way of one of the greatest and most suicidal inno-
that he objects against the assumption that " the and the fact that the springs flow faster, and are
cvoautinotnrs hileifetro
laturafpted upon :uhetcrstitrion of this
our wooden
wuuutdesutilwl are
mean of the six Rivington guages represents the the more difficult to exhaust, the nearer the bottoms
anxiouys'to have the facer recorded that oe exact average fall upon the whole of the district.,, of the wells are approached, that with more power- are still so far considered the bulwarks of our liberty and
ful engines and effective machinery a much more prosperity as to be worthy of preservation. If this mea-
howHow many guages would the gentleman have, or
few ? This question of guages, however, is satisfactory yield could be obtained. sure was demanded by the will of the country, then, in
the prreeasetnethsat:teesowf:iicciiietya,veanladutearkli
set at rest in the next paragraph of his letter, in Next, as to increasing the supply from deepening taking into colisciedeflaitrin
which he says, " the one important basis of all the present wells, by additional borings, &c. Wethe F.
believe that it has been laid down by Mr. Hawkes- Position of Europe, it would have beyen inadvisable for the
--et deduction, namely, that the Rivington dis- 1 Lords to have thrown out the bill; but as it is a uoto-
ley, as an established fact, that no sinkings in the rious fact that no such demand has been made, and that
id, in the years 1847 and 1848, wish a mean
men as Mr.
annual rain-fall of 55 inches, actually discharge red sandstone, deeper than about 150 to 153 feet, the ranks of its supporters are need by suchd
into the beds of the proposed reservoirs a quantity about the depth of our present wells, can be Cardwell,eso treidr
cootnh
the
euewnbtso
th:ele
atsutrnt
lei e 1 traitors f tiAiotrlrs
of water, according to my recollection, exceeding resorted to with advantage. This opinion appears 1
to be based upon the assumption that the water in can do is to reject the bill and .ivr. the neanle of this
1-3‘, ipressiilng their opinions, which
twenty-five and a-half million gallons per annum, , country
OnVy iiie"iii-OC-Igeonntzums
,cii3uetewsteioenn
-Rios wholly unaffected." Did actually discharge the strata is derived fror. percolation: %wimpy- ,
it *caWbe fairly settled,y whichin a crisis ofa mane::
'1 of the proposed reservoirs .1" How Mr. surface,.. and
.d4u,poti,,fow, `what' does experience representatives and constituencies.
actually' measured this di,
i tarte,bifiefact ?'eac'h us upon this head ? In sinking the present The Share market again gave way at the close of the
that such discharge was only that of two wet years, week. On Thursday the late reaction was checked,
Green-lane well the bulk of the water was obtained
without any apparent cause. London stock had reached
below that depth, in the loose friable stratum near 131, and Midland 69; but on Frida an Saturday these
its present bottom ; and the engineer was only stocks fell to 127 and 64. The market closesd this evening
I prevented going lower by the fear of a supply which slightly firmer : London stock is 127 @ 9, Midland 65
might have overwhelmed the miners. It is a fact, @7. Great Westerns are extremely heavy, and have
w.a c..
too, within the recollection, doubtless, of many given
The inty elligeonsiderabnce byly the Hermann is to the effect that
and gentlemen connected with the old water companies
“ct exist, , the canals are getting opened, and that the interior is
approaches to that the sinkings at the well in Water-street, groaning with produce of all descriptions, grain and
aluch irregularity, (Toxteth-park,) were carried to this depth without everything else, England being looked to not only as a
dm the average ova-
consumer, but as the
procuring a supply at all; and that it was actually principal market for it.
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the Rivington district is contemplated to abandon the well as a failure. Some Pernam and Bengal Sugars were sold on Satur-
..,ere about 12 or 13 inches, and Happily, however, they were induced to persevere day at very firm rates, nearly as high as the highest point
of the market. On Friday (after the circular was made
ry, whether the year be more or for another week ; and on tapping the hard black up) 800 bags of Native Ceylon Coffee were sold, good
_y wet; although (exactly contrary to the
...sed in the report) the evaporation is actu-
seam at the bottom, beneath which it had been parcels realizing 34/, which is an improvement of 2/.
in a dry year, and greatest in a wet year. In imagined that no water existed, the present ample
1000 bags of Rice were sold to-day at 10/6 for new fresh
eah we fl ad thate lo
irst case, because the water is not present on the spring burst upon them. Following the analogy B wer sorts were
moreng i l,nquiwhic red fore,r for ullreland.prices ;
nNit re continues heavy
,e ground to be evaporated ; and in ' 4of these facts, which can be well established, it is of sale at 11/6, and Saltpetre is a shade easier. 200 pun-
, it is present to be -- the only reasonable to conclude that by b •
being deepened cheons fair Demerara Molasses were sold from the qua
'ion wither. ,
,sture ; the other wells would be made to yield a largely on Saturday at 19/6. In other articles little or no change.y
,mates very increased supply. The Corn trade displays no new feature since Friday,
Had we now to commence operations de novo excepting a further advance in Indian Corn and Meal,
for the
erpool, whom purpose of procuring water, or were we in
_scion is undoubt-for the particulars of which see separate article elsewhere
The Cotton week terminated on Friday favourably for
to evaporate than other respects more favourably circumstanced, we the seller, and on Saturday a very healthy feeling was
.carcely needed a gen-
should, no doubt, prefer adopting the enlarged manifested ; 7000 bales were disposed of, and the ordi-
After his name to make scheme ofMessrs. Simpson and Newlands, of driving nary and middling qualities of American, of which the
tstersepLianscilizelnly
acnonseixstteends,iwyeeltinheantyn dearer.d To-day
a tunnel from the present Green-lane well, as more
iy within the observation of
scientific, capable of being most economically
,vsapnrciecese
ooy, who ever saw a green most cases of kd.v- lb in American oneF:iltlaey
chat in dry years " vegetation worked, and likely to be ultimately the cheapest The sales are estimated at 10,000 bales, 3000 of which
.e absence of moisture, and in wet and most effective, besides providing fully for future were for export and on speculation, 1400 Pernams being
.., a redundant supply." We must re- increased supply for the wants of a very greatly in- for the former purpose.
creased population. We are not, however, in Our Iron market continues in a very inactive state, and
firi:iixceesd
numbers,
reacted4isn/g .
riawksley, however, that he is through-
whole of the paragraph misrepresenting either of these positions. We have already in our
an7aaqrtu9te Scotchat6 Pig to
at
s.
I,irearlreise 4 , .
--. and Newlands. The deductions, hands the property of the old Water Companies ; Glasgow; Bars'at £5 2/6 f o.b. in and atl £5. 17/6
we have to pay the interest of a large bonded debt here; but the actual business doing is very small.
' -man, as to the proportions
'-""coded, in wet as incurred in their purchase; and these are certainly
-'n from the not times in which the already overburthened MAKING A FALSE DECLARATION.- A
woman, named
~;,n tradesmen of our town are justified in still further Margaret M'lsiamara' was yesterday charged at the Police-
taxing themselves to carry out comprehensive court, with making a false declaration before a magistrate,
andhe twhauss
committed uttering (biu schemes for the benefit of a future generation. Thefor trial
itt)tilli false ticket for a watch.
great evils complained of in years past have been NEW Cnuacn.—On Tuesday, the
e foundation stone of
the intermittent supply and the deficiency of water anew church, to be dedicated to St. John the Evangelist,
for the suppression of fire. Much of the effect of was laid at Kingsdown, upon a lofty cliff bctwen Walmer
these has been already removed by the sinking of Castle and Dover. The church is to be erected and en-
Esq., of Kingsdown, at a cost of
the Green-lane well and improved arrangements at
designs have been furnished by Mr.
the water-works; and much more may be accom- Johr Hay% of this town, under whose superintendence the
plished, now that these are placed under one cen- beautiful structure will be built.
-..,hwitsiey could tral management. By the adoption of the gravity-. BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY AND THE POTTERIES.—The
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e p wan- to execute the recis 9 pumping into the mains, we can have a constant ion principle and head reservoirs, instead of that of advantages of this railway, in its connection with the Bit.-
of embanking_ ei,4-1-;.,- 4.,.
... kenhead Docks, and with the railways to Wales and the
..._,, , . .
instead of an intermittent supply; and by increasing the active and persevering exertions of Mr. J. Roberts the yield of the wells, adding to the power of their the manager of the goods department, is becoming an
machinery, and perfecting and simplifying the ar- important item in the revenue of the company. On Fri-
rangement of the pipes throughout the town, we day last, a vessel called the Rigby arrived in the Birken-
feel confident that we may be placed in a position, head Docks, from Larne, in Ireland, laden with flints for
as to sufficiency and economy of water supply, the Potteries. The cargo was discharged in the course of
equal to that of any locality in the em
the afternoon on the railway waggons, and next morning
pire. the goods were at the manufacturer's door ready for use.
MINOR OFFENCES.—Two men, Hennessey and Hussey,
were committed for a month, for stealing Is. ld. in copper
from a poor man while he was counting a five shilling paper.
A foreign seaman was fined 40s. for concealing on board
of a vessel 541bs. of foreign manufactured tobacco. A man
for picking a ladies pocket in Basnett-street, was commit-
ted for three months. Two men, Gregson and Williams,
were committed for three months for obtaining money
from several parties by means of false letters, purporting
to be signed by respectable parties, the names being forge-
ries. A man was fined 20s. and costs for setting two
bull-dogs (one of them his own) a-fighting on Sunday
afternoon.

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..oil of Mr. Hawksley's letter we
shall One liberty of giving entire :
" have further to remark upon the entire inconclu-
,ess of all estimations founded upon per centages and
'oportions assumed to exist between rain-fall and
No such proportions do in fact exist,
deduced. The evaporation really approaches to
a constant quantity, though subjected to much irregularity,
within certain moderate limits. Thus the average eva-
poration from the surface of the Rivington district is
known to me to be somewhere about 12 or 13 inches, and
does not materirily vary, whether the year be more or
less than averagely wet ; although (exactly contrary to the
opinion expressed in the report) the evaporation is actu-
ally least in a dry year, and greatest in a wet year. In
the first case, because the water is not present on the
surface of the ground to be evaporated ; and in the second
1-.,•ause it is present to be evaporated. In the
former, vege,..._ hers from the absence of moisture ;
' - latter obtains a redundant supply."
,vriter of this paragraph evidently estimates very
the intellect of the people of Liverpool, whom
s intended to mystify. Evaporation is undoubt-
when there is nothing to evaporate than
re is abundance. It scarcely needed a gen-
__ .viio writes C. E. after his name to make
such a discovery. Equally within the observation of
any little blue coat boy, who ever saw a green
field, is the fact that in dry years " vegetation
withers from the absence of moisture, and in wet
years obtains a redundant supply." We must re-
mind Mr. Hawksley, however, that he is through-
out the whole of the paragraph misrepresenting
Messrs. Simpson and Newlands. The deductions,
which he attempts to impugn, as to the proportions
and water impounded, in wet as
._.., years, were not drawn from the
.ects of evaporation alone, but of evaporation
and absorption by the soil_

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compar

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is the asserted fact that he "is au-
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competent contract(

who are willing: to enter int(

works

• the due execution of the
his estimate, providing the

THE government and the supporters of the
Navigation Laws Repeal Bill, hard up for legiti-
mate argument in its favour, appear determined to
put in motion every possible engine of the execu-
tive which can excite dissatisfaction against
the present system. Although, in our East Indian
possessions, the Governor-General has ventured to
act as if the bill of Mr. Labouchere were already
law, there never was a period during which every
petty restriction, calculated to impede British com-
merce at home, has been more stringently insisted
upon. Our Customs' officials appear to have
been gifted, of a sudden, with more than their
ordinary lynx-eyed powers of perception ; and each
fresh instance of their newly awakened officiousness
has been hailed and chronicled with rapture by the
Swiss press of liberalism.
An instance of their eagerness to make a case and
to pervert the public judgment against our present
laws, is afforded in the following paragraph, which
appeared in the London Times of Saturday

SAUSAGE-MAKING.—In another paragraph we have
noticed the result at the police-court of an information
laid by the inspector of meat of St. John's Market,
against an individual who it appeared had, as a dealer in
sausages (or polonies) made use, as the main ingredient,
of horse-flesh, in place of beef or other legitimate but-
cher's meat. In the report of the case allusion is made
to another wholesale dealer, though not by name ; and in
consequence of this, Mr. H. Harding, wholesale manu-
facturer of Russian and other sausages, addressed Mr.
Rushton, stating in effect that the report in question might
seriously affect his business, were the second party al-
luded to supposed by general readers to be himself,
though (he declared) he used nothing but the best of meat
and other ingredients. The inspector of meat (Mr. Jones)
was in court, and stated that he had frequently inspected
Mr. Harding's establishment (in Rose-place), and had
found all the articles used perfectly sweet, proper and
wholesome. Mr. Rushton said that the applicant need
be under no apprehension, as it appeared, and would be-
come known to the public that he conducted his business
as an honourable tradcsmau.

-`1 PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE NAVIGATION
LAWS.—The American ship London, bound from New
Orleans to Liverpool with a cargo of cotton and grain, was
wrecked in December last on the island of Cuba; part of
the cotton was saved, and shipped from Cardenas in
another American vessel, and sent, in prosecution of the
original voyage on account of the original owners, to
Liverpool, where it arrived about a fortnight ago. The

Customs' authorities allowed' it to he landed as the pro-
duce of the United States, brottght in an American
vessel, and it was warehoused, and about being delivered
to other parties, when the Customs discovered that this
had been done in contravention of the navigation laws—
namely the production of America imported in an American
vessel from a Spanish port, and they have seized the
cotton. The owners are thus put to the trouble and delay
of memorialising the Board of Customs, and in the mean-
time the cotton is suffering from being in a damaged state.
There was no Spanish or British vessel at Cardenas to
bring forward the portion of the cargo saved, and if it had
not been sent in the American vessel, it probably would
still have been lying on the beach at Cuba."
Now what is the mighty " trouble and delay in
memorialising the Board of Customs" in a case like
the above I—or,1—or, rather, what would it have been
had no such extraordinary influence, such as the
wish to create dissatisfaction with the present
Navigation Laws, existed? The penning of the
memorial by any ordinary Custom-house clerk, or
broker, and the delay of a couple of posts, would be
the extreme of inconvenience and delay. Every
shipowner, and nearly every captain of a vessel, is
aware that such"-would be the only penalty;
under similar circumstances, the utmost facihtit
have always been granted by the Board of Customs ;
and,. consequently, there would have been no danger
of this wrecked property " still lying on the beach
',creased supply of water, sufficient for the require- at Cuba." The remark that " there was no Spa-
ments of the town, can be most economically se- nish or British vessel at Cardenas to bring forward
cured from the new red sandstone ; and, in deter- the cargo," only shows the consummate ignorance
mining this, the Council will have to take into of the Times; for the Navigation Laws, by the long
their consideration one or two important facts, voyage clauses, equally hinder a British or Spanish
which have not been previously sufficiently esta- vessel from taking such a cargo, transhipped at an
blished. In the first place, the fact, shown by intermediate port. Moreover, the Times, or the ini-
Messrs. Simpson and Newlands, is an important nisterial flunky, who furnished him with this para
one, that the private wells of the town afford a graph, knew very well that there is not at this mo-
supply at present of two million gallons and a ment a single shipowner, or protectionist, however
half, a quantity which we believe to be under rather ultra in his views, who would oppose such a re-
than overstated. The springs at these wells yield laxation of the Navigation Laws-as would make pro
an excess of supply above the wants of the various vision for an emergency like this.
works and dwellings to which they are attached ; -
and at this moment large quantities of water are Two of our contemporaries will, perhaps, be
doily running to waste into the sewers. Add to prepared to acknowledge that the were in a little
the above the four million gallons now shown to be too much haste to treat as altogether without
drawn from the Green-lane and other public wells,' foundation the little episode in the history of the
and vyrn Isnvv" . 4.-.1.-.1 --.:-1-3 _P P .....-. ...--- v.

DISTRICT COURT. OF BANKRUPTCY.

YESTERDAY,

IMPORTANT DECISION,

In the case of Augustus Mongredien, merchant, of this
town, Mr. Commissioner Perry gave judgment yesterday.
He said,—This was an application for the bankrupt's cer-
tificate, the allowance of which was opposed by Mr. Avi-
son, on behalf of the assignees, on the ground of the trade
and personal expenses of the bankrupt being, as he con-
tended, excessive as compared with the amount of profits,
and was further opposed by Mr. Lowndes, the solicitor for
the Stolberg Machine Factory Company, at Magdeburg,
who had employed Mr. Mongredien as their agent for the
purchase and shipment of iron. The circumstances of the
transaction upon which this further opposition was founded
were as follows :—The Magdeburg Company had employed
the bankrupt to purchase for them 200 tons of iron, of
which 185 tons were shipped, leaving the small residue of
15 tons of iron to be afterwards forwarded. A further
order was given to him to purchase 300 tons, which were
to be shipped to Hamburg, and three vessels' were char-
tered by the bankrupt for the shipment of the greater
part of the iron, i. e. 240 out of the 300 tons, and the
company were advised on the 13th of March, 1848, that
the vessels had been so chartered. No shipment took
place, the Magdeburg Company having requested, in con-
sequence of the state of affairs on the continent, that the
shipment should not then take place. The vessels were
re-chartered, and a charge of one shilling cr ton appears to
have been paid to a Mr. Herz, ship-broker, at Glasgow,
for the cancelling of the chartering of the iron. No iron,
in fact, was ever delivered to the company or purchased
for them by their agent, the bankrupt. He, however, in
August last, sent to the company an invoice, as well for
the 300 tons as for the balance of 15 tons, part of the first
order. The invoice bears•date the 7th of that month, and
is for 315 tons of pig iron, " bought by an -order and
for account of " the company." It represents the pur-
chase of 15 tons at 525. on the 25th of March. rn each 1
case interest is charged tothe company from the 'date of
the alleged purchase, a sum' of £l2 also for further re-
chartering three vessels to the island of 240 tons,- and
commission at two per cent. amounting to £l4 163. 9d.
The total of the invoice, including stamps, &c., is £7oB
6s. 64., after giving credit for a deposit of £lOO. For
this sum of £758 6s. 6d., the bankrupt drew bills upon
the Magdeburg Company, who having never received the
iron for which the bills were drawn, have been compelled
to come to this court to prove their debt, contracted under,
these eirenwmtancoc, againct Mr. Mongrcdicn'a catate.-
In one of the examinations which have taken place rela-
tive to this transaction, the bankrupt, in answer to the
question " Did you in fact purchase the iron mentioned
in the invoice,' said, " I sold it from stock that I held
of my own." And in answer to the question put by his
counsel, Mr. Tindal Atkinson, " HAd you the means, as
well as the intention, of sending the iron at the time you
chartered the vessels ?" said, "I' had," and he also
stated that he had 300 tons of iron in stock at the time of
making the contract. Since that conversation, a letter
was produced; which was written by the bankrupt, in
February last, to the Magdeburg Company, who had
pressed for the delivery of the iron sold to them about a
year before, and in which, after stating the suspension of
his payments, there is this passage, referred to by Mr.
Lowndes, in his argument, " The declining tendency of
the pig iron market induced me to delay buying, although
had you at any- time called on me for the iron,. I should
have been prepared to buy and deliver it." Such being
the state of circumstances connected with this transaction,
Mr. Lowndes pressed not for the refusal of the certificate,
but for the suspension of its allowance, for such a period
of time as the case might seem to merit. He contended that
the conduct of Mr. Mongredien, as a master, in the instance
merited strong marks of reprehension, and suggested
that it was by no means clear that, upon this invoice with
the receipt signed at the foot for the price of goods which
had never been purchased, a criminal prosecution would
not lie against the bankrupt—a point which he was not
called upon there to decide, and as to which. therefore, he
gave no decision. Mr. Lowndes further insisted that a
Person filling the office of factor and agent (which, in this
instance, was the case of the bankrupt) should be espe-
cially careful not to abuse the confidence reposed in him ;
and that here, even the alleged intention of purchasing
what his own stock of iron would not supply, was not
attempted to be carried out by Mr. Mongredien, who
delayed, even thus irregularly, to complete the purchase,
in order to advance his own interests. Mr. T Atkinson,
who appeared as counsel for the bankrupt, addressed
himself first to the objection of excessive expenditure,
and referred to items to show, as I think he did satisfac-
torily, that much of the expense incurred in the conduct
of the business was occasioned by high salaries necessarily
paid to clerks skilled in foreign languages—expenses which
would not have been incurred in a mere speculative busi-
ness—and by law costs, travelling expenses, postages and
foreign agencies. He then, for the purpose of proving
the good faith with which Mr. Mongredien had dealt with
the Magdeburg Company previously to the particular
transaction complained of, alluded to the fact, that the
company having commissioned him to purchase the first
lot of 200 tons of iron at a limit of 565., he had shipped
the greater limit of it at the lower rate of 525. Mr.
Atkinson urged also, that this was a single case occurring
among large dealings of the bankrupt, who, In his cha-
racter of broker and merchant, had not been shewn to
have been engaged in speculative transactions of a gam-
bling nature, and that it occurred partly in consequence
of the anxiety of the Magdeburg Company to avoid the
shipment of the iron while continental affairs were unset-
tled, He also called attention to the answer of Mr. Mon-
grectren, that he had, at the time of chartering the vessels,
both the intention and ability to procure the iron so seta to
the company. It seems to me that this transaction with the
Magdeburg Company is not to be judged of by any coni-
deration of what were the intentions or ability of Mr.
Mongredien to insure to the company the supply of the
iron, but that it must be examined on other and higher
grounds. This is the case of an agent employed to pur-
chase by another. The principal who so employs him has
a right to expect from a person placed in a situation of
such confidence the strictest good faith. It was said, in-
deed, in the course of this case, and he was sorry to hear
it, that it was not an uncommon practice in Liverpool for
an agent employed to purchase goods to sell to his prin-
cipal goods from his own stock, instead of going into the
market to purchase them. Surely, it must be known in
the great trading community that, where this is done
without the knowledge of the principal, the transaction
is contrary to law. But the bankrupt in this case,
though it appears that he contemplated such a sale to his
principals, has not committed a mere breach of the law,
but has done much worse. By the communication made
of the fact of delivering the three vessels, he, as early as
the 13th of March, 1848, led his principals to believe that
the iron had been purchased ; in August, he calls upon
them for payment, and receives not only purchase money
but interest from the dates of the respective purchases
mentioned in the invoices, and commission, also interest
upon money never paid by him for his principals—com-
mission on purchases never made. In the course of Mr.
Lowndes's address, some observations fell from him as to
Mr. Mongredien's general good character, and some ex-
pression also of a wish that one who possesses high quali-
fications for mercantile pursuits may not be prevented
altogether from engaging in them. To these observations
and to this expression coming from the party opposing
the certificate I have given due weight ; but as I cannot
find in any explanation of the transaction with the
Magdeburg Company given upon the proceedings, as
suggested by the ingenuity of the learned counsel for
Mr. Mongredien, the slightest excuse for the deception
practised upon the company, the allowance of the certi-
ficate must by suspended for two years from this day, and
I must for the present withhold protection.

SERIOUS CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT. A well-
dressed man, named Thomas Daley, was yesterday brought
before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having received va-
rious sums on account of his employer, which he did not
pay over or account for. Mr. Davenport appeared on
behalf of the complainant, and Mr. Grocott on behalf
of the prisoner. Mr. Samuel Bates, wholesale grocer
and spice dealer, Derby-street, said that he had known
something of the prisoner for two years, but not parti-
cularly until the last eight months, during which he had
been in his employ as clerk and collector. In January
last they had some conversation about becoming partners
in the business, but no arrangement was come to, as the
prisoner could not raise above £4OO, which he (com-
plainant) wanted him to put in, as the condition. Shortly
after prisoner came into his employ, he (Mr. Bates) bor-
rowed from him the sum of £5O, and as security prisoner
obtained from him a bill of sale for property to that
amount. Mr. Bates produced his books, which were kept
by the prisoner, and receipts were also produced from se-
veral parties in the town for money received by him,
which he had not paid over, or entered in any of the
hooks. On Wednesday last, complainant wished to have
him apprehended, but prisoner threw some obstacles in
the way, which prevented him from doing so until Friday
last. In the mean time, that is, on Thursday, the pri-
soner, acting upon the bill of sale, distrained upon com-
plainant, clearing the house not only of all his furniture,
his watch, money, and other property, but articles be-
longing to his lodgers, the whole of the value of about
£lOO. Mr. Gough, chemist, of Curry-street, said he had
on the 11th of November paid the prisoner, 10s. for Bates,
and produced the prisoner's receipt. No such sum had
keen paid over, nor was entered in the book. Mr. Her-
ring, grocer, Ranelagh-street, paid, him £3, and another
sum, to be handed to Mr. Bates. Mr. Charles Ebb,
grocer, on the 23rd April paid him £1 15s. Bd., and also
showed a receipt of Mr. M. Brown, of Stanley, had made
him a payment; and a Mr. Lockett had paid him £lO
upon an 1.0. U., with which Mr. L. would have to call
upon Mr. Bates for payment. None of these sums were
accounted for, £2O being substituted by £lO, to cover de-
falcation to the latter amount. It appeared that the pri-
soner, by retaining moneys, had more than paid himself
the £5O he had lent his employer, and that the small sums
stated above were additional appropriations, and yet he
proceeded to execute the bill of sale as above stated. An
attempt was made to show that the prisoner was a partner
of Mr. Bates's, but this failed, as he had told Mr. Her-
ring, when he paid him some money, that he was not a
partner, and had himself made, from time to time, entries
in the books of sums paid to himself "on account of
salary." He had never, in fact, been a partner. On hear-
ing the whole case, Mr. Rushton committed the prisoner
for trial. The accused, on being cautioned, declined to
say anything in his defence, or in explanation. An appli-
cation made to release the prisoner on bail, was refused by
the magistrate

BEBINGTON BAZAAR.—This interesting fete, which has
been for some time in preparation, and which is patron-
ized by royalty, and all the beauty and fashion of the
Wirral hundred is fixed to be held on the 16th, 17th and
18th current, and from the excitement which it has occa-
sioned, the work tables of our fair readers may reasonably
be expected to prove a most delightful gathering. A short
MS. poem byLord John Manners is amongst the matters to
be offered for sale, and some elegantly printed copies will
be supplied. The tables are likely to be exceedingly well
supplied, and the receipts, we hope, will be considerable,

PETER'S SCOTCH CHURCH, GREAT OXFORD-
STREET NORTH.—This church is to be opened on Wed-
nesday evening next, by the Rev. Dr. Hamilton, so well
known to the religious community by his writings, " Life
in Earnest," and recently by his inimitable series of tracts,
" The Happy Home." Other services are also announced
for the Sunday following, when the Rev. Dr. Hethering-
ton, the historian of the Church of Scotland, and of the
Westminster Assembly, will officiate. The church is a
very simple and elegant edifice, combining in a rare de-
gree symmetry of form with the utmost economy of mate-
erial and construction. The total cost of the building,
including masonry, carpentry, painting, iron railing, &c.,
we are informed does not exceed £3,300, scarcely more
than half the sum expended ou some of the recently-
erected Presbyterian churches in this town ; another in-
stance, were any needed, of the uniform skill which cha-
racterises the works of the architect, Mr. Hay. The
church contains, without galleries, nearly 800 sittings,
and there are excellent school-rooms, sufficient to accom-
modate between 500 and 600 children.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF THE DEATH OF A CHILD.—
An inquest was held yesterday, before Mr. Curry, on
view of the body of Catherine Ellis, who lived with her
parents in Lumber-street. Deceased was two years and
a half old. The mother said that at about seven o'clock
on Saturday night she put the deceaned to bed, and about
midnight she and her husband went to bed also. Deceased
lay between them. Some time in the morning the mother
felt deceased getting over her, and the deceased made a
spring and fell on the floor. She was lifted up ; and wit-
ness endeavoured to awake her husband, but not succeed-
ing, called the landlady of the house, and got a light, and
found the chamber-pot was broken, and deceased had a
wound on the right side of the neck, from which blood
flowed. When the light was brought deceased was quite
dead. Witness threw the broken pieces of the pot into
the ashyit, not, as she said, thinking they would be wanted.
Deceased had been in a burial club, but from witness not
being able to paw up, she had been out of benefit some
time. The husband made a similar statement so far,
stating that when he awoke he found the child dead. Mr.
Wood, surgeon,. who made a post mortern examination of
the body, found an incised wound on right side of the
neck, about one and a half-inch long, and about one and
a quarter of an inch deep. It had divided the common
integuments, the facia, and the broad muscle of the neck,
&c., causing great hiemorrhage, of which the child died.
It was possible that a sharp piece of earthenware would
produce the wound. The case was adjourned until this
day for further evidence. The parents of deceased were
kept in custody, in order to ensure their attendance.
THE LIGHT DUES.—The Daily News of Saturday
contains the following paragraph, which seems to intimate
that Government is likely to afford some relief from the
vexatious imposition of the light dues, from which our
shipowners suffer so grievously:—" There can be little
doubt as to the points on which Mr. Labouchere will
propose remedial legislation. First, there are the Light
Dues; imposts whereby those eminent protectionists, the
Masters and Elder Brethren of the Trinity-houses of the
United Kingdom unnecessarily add to the pecuniary bur-
thens of that navigation and commercial marine of which
they are, in words at least, such devoted friends. The
burthen of these dues on our shipping is in itself a serious
disadvantage to the shipowner and a heavy tax on freight.
Two parliamentary committees have at intervals exposed
their abuses and suggested remedies. What the necessi-
ties of the case require is obviously to place all lights in
the United Kingdom under the management of one cen-
tral board connected with the executive government, and
compelled to report their proceedings annually to Parlia-
ment. By such a board the expenses of the lights would
be greatly reduced ; and shipping taxed only to such ex-
tent as would defray the reduced expense of management,
and not, as now, Trinity House extravagance and dinner
bills. Last year Mr. Labouchere introduced a bill on
this subject; but it was, unfortunately, a halting, imper-
fect measure. It left the lights under the management of
the Trinity-houses, and of the Scotch and Irish boards,
but made their proceedings subject to the revision of a
central board. This was a complel and clumsy expe-
dient; one which would not have been thought of, except
from the apprehension that a thorough measure of reform
would be unacceptable to the Duke of Wellington ; to
whom Sir John Pell), and his brethren run and whine in
their distress. It is, then, to be hoped that another
year's deliberations may have infused more courage into
Mr. Labouchere, whose constitutional timidity at times
interferes with his good intentions and his sound prinei.
pleat"