The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-05-06 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

EFFECTS OF JEALOUSY.—OR Tuesday Mrs. Catherine Aikin
appeared before the magistrates to complain against, Mrs. Ann
Macdonald for having, under the influence of the green-eyed
monster, threatened her life. Mrs. Aikin, in stating her com-
plaint, said, " Please your worship, this woman continually
abuses tie till I am afraid of my life, because she says she once
saw her husband come into my house, which is quite false. Last
night she came to my house with a knife and threatened to tear
me in pieces. She then called on the neighbours to burst the
door open and pull me out, and if they could, get me .out she
would get a thousand Irishmen to tear tie in pieces; and please
your worship (dropping; a courtsey) I should wish her to be
bound over, for I am afraid of my life." The prisoner, assum-
ing a most whiinsical whine-and bobbing a courtsey, said, " Och,
if the lady witl allow me to get flee I never shall offinil. Mrs:
Aikin, will you allow tne to go io my poor childher. I never
offinded any body of my own knowledge, an' Mrs. Aikin,
(putting on a persuasive smile,) you're the last woman in Li-
verpool as I 'Lid otlind." Mr. Hall.—" Have you any one to
give hail." Prisoner." Not a one yer wortship." Mr. Hall.
You must find bail to keep the peace." The prisoner was
then put down, crying, " Och, I've not one i' the wide world
but My poor childher."

ROBBERY.—On Tuesday last John Lawler, one of the pro-
fession, was brought up before the magistrates charged with
having robbed Mrs. Simpson of her husbands " inexpressibles."
Mrs. Simpson said that that morning she was awoke by Mrs.
Kendal, a neighbour, screaming out " Oh, you rascal." " Stop
thief." She jumped out of bed and ran down stairs, and found
the drawers had been opened and clothes strewed all about the
floor, and she missed her husband's inexpressibies. Mrs. Ken-
dal said that they lived in a small court, and that her house was
exactly opposite the complainants. She thought she heard
somebody about the yard, and kept a look out, when she saw
the prisoner and another boy run out of Mrs. Simpson's house.
She then cried out stop thief, and awoke Mrs. Smith. A con-
stable deposed to hearing the cry of stop thief, and seeing the
prisoner running with a basket containing a pair of trowsers
and other articles, he succeeded in taking him into custody, but
the other escaped. It appeared that Mrs. Simpson's husband,
when he had gone to work, had thrust the key under the door,
and the thieves had obtained an entrance into the house by pok-
ing the key out with a hooked stick. The prisoner, in defence,
said he heard a cry of stop thief. and saw a boy running, he ran
after him, and the constable took hitn by mistake. The magis-
trates committed him for one month to the House of Correction.

STEALING FROM EMPTY HOUSES.—OR Tuesday, Mr. An-
derson appeared at the police office to .perfer a charge against
one of the numerous young theives educating in this town, for
having stripping a house of his, in Merton-street, of all the
locks, brass, lead, &c. capable of removal. Mr. Anderson said
he had the management of three empty houses in Merton-street,
belonging a bankrupt's estate, which at various times had been
coinpletelv stripped. He had got the key of one of the houses
in his pocfet, and on going round one day to look at it found
the lock of the front door torn off. He had barred, bolted,
and barricaded the houses like a prison, and they were now
actually breakieg a way through the brick wall. He had a per-
son repairing some houses in the neighbourhood on Thursday
last, and he told him to look over these houses after he had
done; on the man going there, he saw the prisoner and another
lad in the yard of the premises. They saw him and made.their
escape, but from a description he had given he had obtained
their addi'css from a boy who saw them running away, and one
of them, the prisoner, had been taken. He had suffered a very
great deal of damage by these depredations. Batcheldor said
the prisoner was a known thief. The magistrates committed
him for two months to the borough House of Correction.
InFottsisTioN.—On Tuesday last an information was laid
against Watkin Thomas, the builder, and William Hancock,
the owner of some houses erecting in Lumber-street, for not
having Oven notice of such erection to the surveyor of build-
in 's. Mr. Barton, the building surveyor, deposed to the build-
Mils erecting being in a dangerous state, and that he had not
received any notice of their erection. The defendants pleaded
that they were strangers and ignorant of the rule. Mr. Hall
said they must pay the costs, and he should suspend the penalty
which was £l3, and if the directions of the sum veyor Were not
complied with the penalty would be inflicted.
CAUTION TO CAR DRIVERS.—On Tuesday last a number of
car drivers were fined in small amounts for allowing their cars
to remain on the stands with broken windows and dirty.
CUTTING A HAWSER.—On 'Tuesday, a gentleman named
Merlin, was summoned before the magistrates, on an informa-
tion charging him with having cut the hawser of the steamer
Francis. It appeared that Mr. Merlin was apassenger on board
the Ribble steamer coming from Woodside, and the Francis was
aground near George's Pier, and the nibble instead of landing
the passengers went to assist the Francis by towing her off.
Mr. Snowball, on behalf of the defendant, contended that the
Ribble was leaky, and persons were at the pumps, and several
ladies on board were. greatly alarmed and screamed out, and
that Mr. Merlin had in consequence cut ;he rope. He hoped
the magistrates would take into consideration the state of the
ladies' nerves, and that Mr. Merlin had done it to relieVe them.
Mr. Hall said the offence was a serious one and might lead to
dangerous consequences; the penalty was very heavy. He
hoped, however, it would nut occur again. He must pay the
penalty of 'lOs. and costs over and above the damage done the
hawser. The full penalty was Ea).

ASSAULT.—Yesterday, a descendant of Abraham appeared to
lay a complaint against a man named Patrick Sweeney, for an
assault. The complainant, who gave his name Isaac Josephs,
having been sworn on the five books of Moses, said, " Lash
night, as .I vbas going down Vhitechapel, about eleven o'clock,
I met thish man and three more. He sheize me by the collar
and put his fisht in my fashe. I tell him what he du that for,
that be ish a tame blackgurd, and be came and do it again.
Some shentlemen come by and say Ish there uut a polishman
to take him. into custody ?" Oh,' shays he, making mock
sham, and holding hish arm, hesh broke my arm vid his um-
brella.' You are a blackguard, saysh I, and looked about fora
polishman, when they ran off. I followed, and gave thish man
into custody. He wash quite sober." The police officer, 'low-
ever, said .the man was drunk. Complamant.—" Vhell, I
dont know, I sheed no liquors in him." The prisoner said be
accidentally shoved against complainant's umbrella, when he
struck him with it and gave him into custody.. Tho magistrate
fined him ss. for being drunk.

FOUL CHlMNEYS.—Yesterday, a number of persons were
summoned before the magistrates and fined 2s. 6d. and costs,
for having suffered their chimney to take fire.

BENEVOLENT AND LIBERAL.

'We hear with pleasure that a merchant of this town has
placed in the hands or Messrs. Robert Dudgeon, Union Cham-
bers, Thomas Mac Gill, Tower Garden, and Hugh Craig,
King-street, in trust, a handsome donation, as the commence-
ment of a fund for establishing, in the neighbourhood of the
docks, a school for educating the children of Scottish sailors
and labourers and others, oil the system pursued in the
parochial schools of Scotland, which, as an essential part of the
national church establishment, have materially contributed in
forming, such as it is, the intellectual, moral, and religious
character of the people north of the Tweed. In Liverpool, the
Scottish churches have been placed too near each other, and all
of them, as well as the Caledonian Free School, are at a distance
from the river, in the vicinity of hick most of the families of the
Scottish sailors and labourers reside. The parents 'in conse-
quence, are irregular in their attendance at public worship, and
the children often absent from the school, through indisposition
after bad weather, many of theni living so far off as Vauxhall-
road. The Caledonian Free School, Oldham-street, is now at-
tended by three hundred poor children of Scottish parentage,
and a few of them ate Highlanders. The school for the boys is
crowded, and the committee, at every meeting, has to refuse
admitting more scholars. to the disappointment of many a nxious
parents, not a few or them the wives of Scottish sailors, who, no
doubt, think that in the absence of their husbands, engaged in
distant voyages, in Liverpool vessels, their children would be
safe in such a place from the corruptions that prevail in this
great town. .

We understand that the trustees having received many
assurances of support, are looking out for a lot of land near the
North Docks, for a site for the school, and for play-grounds for
the children. An eininentarchitect has promised to furnish a
design for the building, which will be planned to serve also for
a Scottish Mariners' Chapel. If sufficient funds can be raised,
application will be made to the Church of Scotland to send a
licentiate to Liverpool, to act as missionary, by visiting the
Scottish poor in their own dwellings, and as chaplain by
preaching on Sundays to the Scottish sailors and their families.
Fhe friends of the religions education of the poor, those who
have attended the Scottish universities, and all who are con-
nected with Scotland by birth and by family ties, we trust will
come forward voluntarily and liberally with contributions for
the accomplishur,tht of the object desired by the benevolent
gentleman who has commenced the fund for establishing—
" The School for Educating the Children of Scottish ;Sailors
and Labourers and oihers, on the System pursued in the
Parochial Schools of Scotland."

CHUTER RACES.-TUESDAY.

His Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. Tilt-ice round, rather more than

tliiee miles.

Sir R. W. Bulkeley's gr g Isaac, 5 yrs
Mr Nanney's bl h Sir William, 5 yrs 11 Jones 2
Mr Farmer's b g Timothy, by Lottery, 5 yrs ....T. Davies 3
Nine tirew.—Sir William the favourite, 4 to 1 agst Isaac, and
6to 1 agst Timothy. Cat harina was weighed for this race, and
came on the ground ready saddled; but, for whatcausewe know
not, she was taken oil', and several of the Manchester swells
have paid for it dearly, having backed her before the race at 4
to I against the field, p.p. Ran in 6 minutes 49 seconds.
"The case respecting Catharina having been referred to us,
and having beard such evidence as we could obtain, we are of
ol)inion, that ail bets made on or against Catharine, for his Ma-
jesty's Plate, should be void; and we cannot express in Leans
sufficiently strong, our disapprobation of the conduct pursued
by the person having the management or Cat barium, conceiving
stich conduct amounts to a deception of the public, and tends
materially to injure the interests of raying.
"E. M. LLOYD MOSTYN,
"T. S. M. STANLEY,
" Mat/ 4, 1836. " F. R. PetcE."
A Free Handicap Stakes of 30 sacs each, 10 ft, for three and
lour sear olds. Once round and a distance.
Mr Mostyn's b c Tom Shipman, 3 vrs, ist 41b Lve 1
Mr Thompson's ch Lord Francis, 1 yrs, fist 71b Whitehotse 2
Sir J. Beswell's br f Butterfly, 4 vrs, ist 71b .... Wakefield 3
Two paid--Tom Shipman the favourite; won very easy.
Sixty Guineas (clear) the gift of the Members for the City.
Heats, once round and a distance.
Mr Wyatt's b c Fidelio, 4 yrs Darling 1 1
Mr Nanney's b c Bravo, by Fle::ible, 3 yrs .. W. Jones 3 2
Mr Shirley's hi fby Belzoni, 3 yrs G. Whitehouse 2 3
Five drew. Bravo the favourite; first heat won easy, and
second cleverly.
WEDNESDAY.—The Dee Stakes of 50 sovs each, It ft, for three
year olds; Derby weights. 7 subs.
Mr Mostyn's br c Trap Ball, by Battledore
Sir T. Stanley's eh c Japhet, by Teniers 'l'empleman 2
Trap Ball the favourite. After one false start the Maid of
Wirral went off at a rattling pace; Lye, waiting with all the
patience he is master of, let out his horse at the distance, and
won .by half a length easy.
The Stand Cup, value 11k/ sovs, the gift of the Stand Commit.
tee, added to a sweepstakes of 10 soya each.
Mr Mostyn's br f Queen of Trumps, 4 yrs Lye
Mr G. Cooke's br h Red Rover, 5 yrs . M. Jones 2
Fifty Sovereigns, given by Messrs. Smith and Chalton, pro-
prietors, and the Coachmen and Guards of the Chester White
Lion and Eastham establishments, and Mr. Whaley, of the
White Lion Hotel, added to a sweepstakes of 5 sovs each.
Lord Derby's ch c Arnurath, by Langar Arthur, jun 1
Mr Price's ch c Stafford, by Memnon Lye 2
Lucifer, Mersey, Dovetail, Fury, b c by Langar, b c by Mena-
non also started. Won by half a length.
The Annual City Plate of tiUgs, given by the Corporation.
Mr Giffard's ch g'l reveller, by 'I ramp Lear 1 1
THURSDAY.—,A Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, with 50 sovs added
by the Stand Committee. 7 subs.
Mr Allanson's ch Vulture, by Langar M Jones 1
Marquis of Westminster's b Sarcasm J Chapple 2
A Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each. Three quarters of a mile.
IClr. Bowers's b c Lord Stafford, by Langar W. Lear 1
,Sir I'. Stanley's gr fby Dr. Syntax Templentan 2
The Marquis of Westminster's Plate, 'value 100 says. in specie.
Mr. Mostyn's br f Queen of Trumps . Lye—walked ov,ar. •

PRICES OF SHARES, I.IV EN1'001„ MAY 2, ISIG.

Per Share.
Liverpool Coal Gas
Liverpool New Gas and Coke Corn
PanY, • • ..£100

New Shares, premium £SO
Liverpool and Harrington Water orks
Bootle ditto
Exchange Buildings
Liverpool and Manchester Railway £lOO paid 290 0 t
Ditto Old Quarters 25 72 0 0
Ditto New Quarters- • • 25 71 10 0
Boltori and Leigh. ditto
Ditto
Warrington and Newton ditto - 170 0 •
Kenyon and Leigh ditto
Wigan Branch ditto
Preston and Wigan North Union Line ditto 5O 70 10 0
St. Helens and Runcorn Gap ditto lOO 40 10 0
Leicester and Swannington ditto 5O 60 0 0
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Rail way and Canal 48 83 10 0
Leeds and S?lby Railway
Grand Junction ditto 5O 130 0 0
London and Birmingham ditto
Birmingham and Gloucester ditto 5 11 10 0
Manchester and Leeds ditto • 3 25 0 0
North Midland ditto
Midland ditto
Edinburgh and Glasgow ditto
Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven—. 1 4 5 0
London and Gravesend ditto 1 1 0 0
Bank of Liverp00l
Bank of Manchester 25 38 0 0
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank l5 a 3 0 0
Commercial Bank of Liverpool.... lO 23 10 0
Liverpool Marine Assurance Company 25 16 0
Oldham Gas Light and Waterworks lO 21 10 0
Manchester Fire and Life Assurance Co lO 10 3 0
Ocean Assurance Conspany - 10 0 0
Northern and Central Bank of England lO 16 13 0
Union Bank of Liverpool
Commercial Bank of England S 7 10 0
Birkenhead Ferry • 0 -- 0 0 0
Tradesmens' Bank £2 10s— 4 0 0
United Trades' Bank £3 Os— 5 7 6
RICHARD DAWSON, Share Broker.

THE EMPEROR of RusstA.—The following extraordinary
extract Of a speech, stated to have been delivered by the Empe,
rtir Nicholas, has been published in the Journal du Commerce,
on the authority of a letter from. St. Petersburg:—" England
will not intervene in Spain. We shall imitate it by (qy? not)
intervening in Turkey. If it (England) attacks on principles
we attack its commerce. It could not remain in the PeninSula;
as for us, if we once entered ConStardinople we should remain
there." This language is rather explicit. There is nothing
about it of the obscurity and no-meaning of a Palmerston pot-
tocol. It confirms all that we have ever written of the designs
of Russia in the East, where thanks to the incapacity of our
Foreign Minister, she is prepared, whenever she pleases, to
annihilate our commerce as she has already destroyed our
influence. The French Journal adds the following' note:—lf
England does intervene, however, we shall see what will (oh
low." What will the Autocrat say to the 700 British marines
that are about to be smuggled into Spain to support the princi-
ple of non-intervention ?"—Morning !-Jerald.
A QUAKER WOMAN'S SERMON.—Dear Friends—There are
three things I very much wonder at:—The first is, that children
shoUld be so foolish as to throw up stones, brickbats, and clubs
into fruit trees to knock down the fruit; if they would let it
alone, it would fall itself. The second is, that men should be so
foolish and even so wicked as to go to war and kill one another;
if they would only let one another alone, they would die of
themselves. And the third and last thing, which I wonder at,
is, that young men should be so unwise as to go after the young
women; if they would only stay at home, the young women
would come after them.

AN IMPERIAL SuuGaoN.—Peter the Great of Russia* not
only studied but actually practised the healing art. In the year
1698 he studied anatomy in Leyden, and subsequently in.
Anisterdam, under the celebrated Ithysch. He attended the
lectures on anatomy given by Bidloo in Moscow, and was often
present at the dissections; and it is reported of his zeal that he
ordered the dissection of a half-witted page, who had died
drunk, to be imsponed till he could attend in person. His at-
tention was particularly directed towards monstrous formations,
and he ordered all that could he collected in the empire to be
brought to St. Petershurgh hence the immense number which
are still to be seen in the Museum. He did not confine his
similes to the theories alone, but was himself a practical surgeon,
and always carried about his pet son two pocket cases, the one
containing .iiathematical the othei surgical instruments. The
latter was furnished with lancets, tooth-forceps, a saw-knife, a
spatula, a pair of scissors, &c. He gave orders that he was pre-
viously to be informed of any remarkable operation, either in
public or private; and, it it were possible, he attended and
assisted in the perormance. Alt the minor operations, as tooth-
drawing, bleeding, bandaging, &c., he continually performed
himself. A merchant who had an abscess in the foot was cured
by the Emperor, who himself made an incision, and the opera-
tion was successful ; but the circumstance coming to the know-
ledge of the Duchess of Mecklenberg, who had a similar disease,
she left the city in post-haste for fear of his assistance. The
chef d'tetLvre of his operations was the paracentesis abdominis,
which he performed upon a inerehant's wife, who had resisted
the advice of her doctors, and would not submit to the operation.
This coming to the ears of the Emperor he visited her, and
persuaded her to let him perform the operation himself. In the
presence of the faculty he drew off twenty-four pounds of
water; but the operation was performed too late, and the pa-
tient died.—From the British and Foreign Medical Review.

'Tex EMPEROR CHARLRMAGNE'S BIBLE —Yesterday there
was offered for sale, at Evans's, Pall-mall, the Emperor Char-
lemagne's bible, "unquestionably the most ancient manuscript
now in existence of the Latin version of the Holy Scriptures
by St Jerome." It was written for the Emperor Charlemagne
by Alcuine. one of the most distinguished of the Anglo-Saxon
scholars, a native of York, the favourite d;scipline of Bede, and
a name distinguished in Anglo-Saxon literature. This Alcuine
read theological lectures at York : he first advised Bede to write
the Ecclesiastical History of England, and was greatly instru-
mental in furnishing materials for that early and authentic re-
cord of our antiquities. The fame of his great learningattracted
the attention of Charlemagne. who bestowed on him various ec-
clesiastical preferments. In 778, at the solicitation of Charle-
magne, Alcuine engaged in a revision of St. Jerome's Latin
version of the Holy Scriptures, that he .night free it from the
numerous errors committed by unskilful copyists. Having finish-
ed it in 800, being too far advanced in age, he sent this fruit of
his labours by his friend and disciple Niithaniel, to Rome, who
presented it to Charlemagne on the first day of the year 801,
during the ceremony of his coronation. Charlemagne made
honourable mention of it in his will, dated 811. It is written
upon vellum, in double columns, in remarkably clear and dis-
tinct characters, in Latin., Itronsists of 449 leaves. Prefixed
is a richly-ornamented frontispiece in gold and colours; it is also
enriched with four large paintings. ft is wonderfully splendid,
and very curious, valuable and rare. Five sides of rhecatalogue
are occupied with describeding it, and its history, and the
authorities as to its genuineness. Lothaire 1., the grandson of
Charlemagne, after having lost the throne of France, entered
the monastery of Prum, in Lorraine as a monk. There he de-
posited the Bible of Charlemagne. In 1576 the convent was
dissolved, and the Benedictine monks preserved the Bible with
religious veneration, and carried it with them to Grandisvallis,
near Basle. It remained there till the occupation of the episco-
pal territory of Basle by the French, in 1793, when all the pro-
perty of the abbey was sequestrated. In that year it became
the property of Mr. Bennot, Vice-President of the Tribunal of
Delemont, from whom, in 1822, it was purchased by Mr. Spevr-
Passanaut, who forwarded it to the present sale. It excited a
(treat deal of interest, and after a long contest it was knocked
down at fifteen hundred pounds ! [On inquiry who was the
purchaser, we learnt that it had been bought in at the sum.]
PARISIAN JUVENILE OFFENDERS.—A new prison fnrjuvenile
offenders, in the Rue de la Roquette, Paris, is on the point of
being opened. It is divided into live principal compartments.
The first,- second, and 'third are to he occupied by those who are
under sentence ; the fourth for those who are sent in by their
parents for correction ; and the fifth for those who are under
examination or have been committed for trial. The kitchens
are in the basement, and the dormitories in the first and second
floors. The registrar's and other offices are in front. Each
division has a number of separate chambers, a workshop, a
school For mutual instruction, an infirmary, a purloin in which
the prisoners may see their rriends, and a court planted with
trees and having a fountain in the centre. These fountains are
supplied by pumps which are to be worked, by way of punish-
ment, by such of the prisoners as may misconduct themselves
in the prison.

A THUNDERBOLT ON SALE.—The following notice is at pre-
sent posted in a shop-window, in a bye-street, leading into Alders-
gate-street :—" To be sold a genuine thunderbolt, which was
picked up at Brighton a few days -after the late tremendous
storm." .

THE GREAT SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 1836.—0 n the 15th of May,
the sun will be eclipsed to an unusually visible extent in this
country, it being what is termed annulax, the sun appearing like
a ring. At Greenwich and to the whole of the South of England,
10 degrees will be eclipsed out of the 12; at three o'clock in the
afternoon it will be dark enough to discern many of the stars.
SALE OF TEAS.—The cargo of the Alice from Canton to
Leith, consisting of 5881 packages, was sold in the Exchange
Sale Room, Leith, on Tuesday last, and went off with much
spirit, at-an advance of 4d to 6d perpourul •upon the finerquali-
ties. &Jima in large chests fetched 914 to 101 d., in Congou
packages 102 d to Is. Id. One break of fine Fokein Bohea,
which it is expected will be charged Congou duty, sold at is ad
to is. Id. Congou from Is. 3'd. to 2s Sid. to 2s. 10d. Hyson
Skin, Is. Id. to is Bd. Hyson 35.21 d. to 45. Id. Imperial, 35.2 d.
to 3s. 3.1(1., and Gunpowder, 4s. 3d. to 4s. 80. The impression
seems to he that teas will advance in price, as it is a well known
fact that in London particularly, large parcels have been sold
at a loss of 20 to 30 per cent, on the shipping prices at Canton.
The last advices from Canton report fine teas to be scarce and
prices higher.—Scotch paper.
EUPHRATES EXPEDITION.—Accounts from Aleppo to the
14th February have been received. The lighter materials and
stores had reached Port William on the Euphrates; and the
heavier parts of the Tigris steamer, boilers, diving-bell, &c.,
were about to be conveyed thither by animals provided by the
Pasha. Colonel Chesney was on a tour to Adena, Marrash,
and Orfa, in search of coals, fuel, and supplies; and on bis re-
turn the expedition was expected to move down the river.
Nearly all the officeis had been ill, but were recovered; nine-
teen of the men had died. The great additional expense which
has already attended this expedition—forty instead of twenty
thousand Founds—
we are sorry to hear has indisposed the
,go-
vernment to engage in other undertakings of a similar descrip-
tion.— Literal 4 Gazette.

leswlCH ELEcTroN.—In the Court of King's Bench. on
Monday, the Attorney-General praed the judgment of their
lordships on Edward tolton F
inch,Joseph Berle Ducent, John
Pilgrim, and Arthur Bott Cooke for bribery at 'lpswich, at the
last general election. The prosecution was instituted by order
of the House of Commons, at the close of the proceedings which
unseated Messrs. Duodas and Kelly on the petition of Messrs.
Morrison and Wason. Mr. Justice Littleciale sentenced the
defendants to the following terms of imprisonment in the Mar-
shalsea (King's Bench) prison. Finch, four calendar months ;
Dacent, two months, and to pay a fine of Eli.X.); Pilgrim, six
months; and Cooke, four months. When the Stafford disfran-
chisement bill was recently under consideration in the Bowe
of Lords, Lord Lyndhurst, referring to the evidence upon which
the Rouse of Commons had passed that bill, expressed his as.
tonishment to find in that evidence *. direct charge of bribery
brought against the Attorney-Gene& himself when he was one
of the candidates for the borough as! Stafford, and upon this fact
.grounded his opposition to the bill,until witnesses had been ex-
amined on oath at the bar of the House of Lords. .Should the
'witnesses about to be examined before their lordships confirm
:the evidence already given before the House of Commons, pro.
'bably-the latter honourable house will direct his Majesty's At-
!torney-General to prosecute Sir John Campbell, Kni_g ht.
Should Sir John become the Lord Chief Justice of the High
Court of Chancery, or of the Court of King's Bench,- the rose-
icution will of course be confided to his successor Attorney-
'General.

MAY 6. 18:16,

PRIVATE AND JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
( From the London Gazette.)
Au account, of the aggregate amount of notes circulated id
England and Wales by private banks, and by joint-stock bankl.
and their branches, distinguishing private from joint stock
hanks, between the 2itb Dec., 1835, and the 26th March, 1836,',.
from returns directed by 3 and 4 William IV., c. 83:—Trivate,
banks, £8,353,891; joint-stock banks, .E 3,094,025; totali
L 11,447,919.
Stamps and Taxes, May 3, 1836. JOHN WOOD.