The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-26 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

Lady Stanley and her infant son are both going on very
favourablimi
The EWf Derby, we understand, is enjoying most ex-
cellent bodily health, and contemplates going to town from
vill* Kno first week in March.
Lo ton'a celebrated dog Waterloo passed through
Liverpo ast week, on his way to Ashdown Park, to run
his match against Mr. Goodlake's Gracchus.
NEW SHERIFF.—We learn that Sir Thomas Bernard
Birch, Bart. of the Hazles, near Prescot; has been appointed
to the office of high sheriff of this county for the current
year, and that he has nominated William Rowson, Esq. of
Prescot, to be his deputy.
RELIEF OF THE POOR AT KIRKDALE.—In consequence
of the successful appeal made by the Rev. D. James to his
congregation on the 17th instant, in behalf of the suffering
poor in the township of Kirkdale, the minister and church-
wardens have been enabled to distribute, in the course of
last week, not less than 56 pairs of large-sized blankets, and
250 yards of flannel, besides provisions to a large amount.
TAXATION AND WHIG ECONOMY.—The public may now
be assured that a great reduction in taxation is about to take
place, as the treasury has sent down an order, directing that
the pens used in the courts of law shall be forwarded to the
treasury, in order that they may be disposed of for the public
benefit.
PROFESSOR BERTINCHAMP'S LECTURES. —Professor
Bertinchamp delivered the first of his course of two lectures
explanatory of his system of teaching modern languages, in
the Royal Institution, on Friday. There was a respectable
auditory, to whom the explanations of the professor seemed
to give much satisfaction. The last lecture will be delivered
on Friday.
COUNTY VOTES.—We remind our readers, who are about
purchasing copyhold or freehold property, that if the pur-
chaser is in the actual possession thereof, from the 30th of
January, he may claim to vote for members of parliament
for the county, in which the property is situate, provided it
be of the required value of 40s. freehold, or £lO copyhold.
Vide Reform Act, 2 Gul. IV., cap. 45, sec. 26.
CIRCUITS OF HER MAJESTY'S JUDGES, APPOINTED
THIS DAY IN THE QUEEN'S BENCH.—Home—Lord Chief
Justice Denman and Baron Parke. Norfolk—Lord Chief
Justice Tindal and Justice Bosanquet. Midland—Lord
Chief Baron Abinger and Justice Pattison. Oxford—Baron
Gurney and Justice Coleridge. Western—Justice Erskine
and Baron Rolfe. Northern—Justice Maule. Mr. Justice
Littledale has tendered his resignation, which has been ac-
cepted, but his learned successor has not yet been appointed;
the Solicitor-General is talked of. Judge at Chambers—
Baron Alderson.—Globe of Thursday.

THE PUBLICAN'S PREROGATIVE.—A case has lately been
decided in which a piano-forte maker appeared as complain-
ant, against the landlord of a public-house. The complain-
ant, at a late hour, came shabbily dressed, and insisted upon
being admitted to the parlour of the house of the defendant,
who resisted, offering him refreshment in the tap-room,
where there was a good fire. Complainant created a disturb-
ance. The magistrate said—" There has not been any offence
committed but in what the complainant has brought upon
himself. He might as well have insisted upon going into any
other room where the landlord might have kept his property.
It is a gross error to suppose any one can go to any room in
a public-house he may please against the will of the landlord.
He must go into that which the landlord chooses, or leave
the house."

THEFT FROM A SHOP.-011 Friday, at the Police-court,
Richard Houghton, a young man was charged with stealing a
pair of boots from a shop in Lord-street. Market constable
M`Guire, was passing along between six and seven o'clock
on Monday night, when he heard a cry of " Stop thief !" and
apprehended the prisoner, with the boots in his possession,
at the top of a yard, to which he had run for concealment.
The property was identified, and the prisoner was committed
to gaol for three months.

COMMITMENT.-At the Police-court, on Friday, a young
woman named Mary Bee, was charged with stealing a cheese
from Mr. Gilbank's shop, No. 259, Scotland-road. On
Thursday evening the prisoner went into the shop to make
some small purchase, and was observed to take up a cheese
(weighing 321 b.) which she put under her cloak. On being
questioned she said " Is not this the shop where 1 was to
call for a cheese ?" She said in court, that a female had
employed her to bring it, saying it was her's, and that she
had promised her a gill of ale to do so. She was committed
for trial at the sessions.

DEATH FROM WANT OF THE NECESSARIHS OF LIFE.
—An inquisition was taken on Friday before P. F. Curry,
Esq., coroner, on view of the body of Catharine Connelly.
The deceased, who was a widow, and her mother, Mary Han-
skin, a poor, old, infirm, and blind woman, lodged in a room
in Midghall-street. They went out every day, and the per-
son who kept the house went into the room one day, and
observed that they had no bed to lie on, and only a few crusts
to eat. They lay on the floor with only a cloak to cover
them. On Monday the deceased went out (probably to beg)
and there being snow, she caught cold, and was taken ill on
the night of that day. A doctor was sent for, but she was
beyond all chance of recovery when he arrived, and died on
Wednesday. The coroner's jury required a post mortem ex-
amination to be made, and the inquest was accordingly ad-
journed to Saturday, when, it having been ascertained that
the deceased died of consumption, a verdict was returned to
the effect that her death was natural. The mother of the de-
ceased was strongly urged to go to the workhouse, but seemed
inclined rather to starve than become an inmate of that asylum.
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.—The total number of
Roman Catholic chapels in England and Wales is 474 ; in
Scotland, 66 ; besides stations where service is performed.
The number of colleges in England is nine, namely, St. Ed-
mund's, Hertfordshire ; St. Mary's, Staffordshire ; St. Pe-
ter's, St. Paul's, and St. Gregory's, Somersetshire ; Ilshawy
Durham ; Stonyhurst, Lancashire ; St. Lawrences, York-
shire ; and German, W orcestershire ; one in Scotland, namely,
St. Mary's, Blairs. Of convents the number is nineteen, of
which four are in the London district, in the central five,
Lancashire, one, Yorkshire two; northern one, western five,
Scotland one. The total number of missionary priests in
England is 542; in the London district, 106; central, 110;
n western, 58 ; Lancashire, 124 ; Yorkshire, 59 ;
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15;4 : Wales, 19 ; Scotland, eastern district, 21;
western,
and northern, 2e. Totalin Scotland, 81 ; grand
ne aosrtterr , 3
33 ;
total, 642.
EXTRAORDINARY SPEED, EQUALLED ONLY BY STEAM.
—lt has seldom been our lot to record so unprecedented a
series of short voyages as those performed by the barque
Columbus, Captain D. Green, belonging to Messrs. M`Cal-
mont Brothers and Co., and which arrived at this port, from
Pernambuco, on Saturday last. We understand that, not-
withstanding she has had to contend against a great deal of
o
stormy and adverse winds, she has completed four voyages,
and home, in little more than twelve months. Her last
voyage, out and home, was performed in seventy-five days !

ACCIDENT IN A COTTON SHED.•-On Saturday last Daniel
Ford, a porter in the employ of Messrs. Leech, Harrison, and
Co. merchants, met with a serious accident in a shed, near
the Prince's-dock. He was in the act of trucking a bale of
cotton to the door when a large pile of cotton fell upon bhn,
breaking his right arm, one of his legs, and dislocating one
of his hips. He was promptly removed to the Northern
Hospital, and it was found necessary to amputate his right
arm. The poor fellow lies, as might be expected, in a pre-
carious state.

FIRE IN BYROM-STREET.—Sunday evening, about half-
past five o'clock, a fire was discovered on the premises of Mr.
Gillham, hatter, Byrom-street. Information was given to
police-officer 243, who immediately called ore of Mr. Gill-
ham's assistants to the spot and despatched intelligence to
the fire-police station. The officer then broke open the door,
and found the second floor in a blaze, which had been com-
municated by some burning materials which had passed down
the flue from the next house. Mr. Whitty and Mr. Hewitt
were quickly on the spot, but the fire had been completely
subdued by the police-officers before the arrival of the en-
gines. Some trifling damage was done to the stock and pre-
mises.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.—The examination for the ho-
nours at the Bachelor of Arts' commencement took place on
Thursday last. The number of candidates for distinction
was 145, but only 117 went into the Senate-house. Mr.
Stokes, of Pembroke College, was the senior wrangler, Mr.
Jones, of Trinity, second, Mr. Sykes, of Pembroke, third,
Mr. Ragland, of Corpus, fourth, Mr. Boultbee, of John's,
fifth, Mr. Swainson, of Trinity, sixth, &c.- The Lancashire
men stood high on the list of honours. Mr. Jones is the son
of the Rev. Mr. Jones, of Newchurch, Winwick ; Mr. Rag-
land is nephew of Chas. Birch, Esq., Mr. Boultbee, nephew
of James Pownall, Esq., and Mr. Swainson, son of Anthony
Swainson, Esq., all of Liverpool. Mr. S. was educated at
the Royal Institution Schools. •

OBTAINING GOODS UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—AIIdreW
Telford was placed before Mr. Rushton, on Saturday, charged
with having obtained certain articles of wearing apparel from
Ann Kerr, under pretence that they were for her husband,
who is a prisoner in the Borough Gaol. Between two and
three o'clock on Tuesday last the prisoner called upon Mrs.
Kerr, and told her, that the gaoler had sent for a pair of
worsted stockings, a silk handkerchief, and a sheet of paper
for Andrew Kerr. She gave him what he asked for, and he
took them away. Next day Mrs. Kerr went to the gaol,
when she learned that the prisoner had not been sent for any
tiling. He was immediately apprehended. It appeared that
he was discharged from gaol on the 19th instant. He had
pawned the stockings at Messrs. Medder and Syred's, in
Oldhall-street. He was committed for trial.
HOLYWELL, FLINTSHIRE:—Mr. David Pennant has con-
tributed the liberal sum of £lOOO for the completion of
Bagillt Chapel (towards the erection of which the Downing
family had already subscribed £600), and for the purpose of
forming a permanent addition to the inadequate income of
the vicars of Holywell. He has also given an acre of valu-
able land for the site of the chapel;

TESTIMONIAL TO MR. BRINDLEY.—A number of the
inhabitants of Bristol, who are well, acquainted with the
sacrifices Mr. J. Brindley has made, in order that he might
devote himself to counteract the progress of Socialism, have
resolved to raise a public subscription as a tribute of their
respect, and of their gratitude for his most able and effective
exertions in the advocacy of Christian truth against the in-
fidel principles and moral pollution of Socialism. By the
last accounts which we have received, upwards of £lBO were
speedily subscribed.

SPOTS ON THE SUN.—For some time past the spots on
the sun's disc have been numerous, and occasionally very
large. At present there are two or three of considerable
size, besides some clusters of small ones. About a week
ago one disappeared at the west limb, which had been ob-
served during two revolutions of the sun on its axis ; but its
size had considerably diminished between its first and second
appearance. When first observed, it was of an oval form,
and its longest diameter about 27,000 miles ' • but, on its
second appearance, was reduced to 14,000, and had become
nearly circular. Two of those at present visible are about
the size of the earth. They may be distinctly seen with an
ordinary telescope and dark glass.
SQUINTING.—A squinting person will soon be a rarity,
Mr. Atkinson having effected, in every.case submitted to his
care, a perfect cure. We are given to understand that the
operation is very simple, and almost without pain, besides
being certain.
ROSCOE'S WANDERINGS IN WALES.—This very excellent
and beautiful work is now publishing in parts. This will be
very acceptable to all those who cannot purchase the work
entire. " Roscoe's Wales" is a book that will endure to all
time.

BATHS.—We beg to draw the attention of our readers,
and especially those who are invalids, to Mr. Bird's announce-
ment of his baths. For convenience and comfort they are
unequalled by any of a similar description. The great bene-
fits derived from shampooing makes this description of bath
in much request.

THE MODEL OF THE LAKES.—We are glad to find, upon
inquiry, that the model of the lakes, by Mr. Flintoff, is at-
tracting many visitors, who all express much admiration on
inspecting it. It is one of those exhibitions which most for-
cibly show human skill and patience.

THE CARACCI PICTURES.—We regret to perceive that
these pictures will be removed from Liverpool on the sth of
next month. The interest excited in them appears, instead
of abating, to be increased.
LIVER THEATRE.—Mrs. Raymond's benefit was a com-
plete bumper last night. The house, it is expected, will be
as full to-night. The performances went off with the great-
est eclat, and appeared to give general satisfaction.

THE AMPHITHEATRE.—MR. EGERTON'S BENEFIT.—
This theatre continues to attract good audiences. On Mon-
day next Mr. Egerton will take his benefit, when "Mazeppa,
or the Wild Horse of the Desert," will be produced; with
" Cherry and Fair Star," from the fairy tale. Mr. Eger-
ton's unceasing endeavours to provide entertainment for the
public, and his wish to give satisfaction, besides his liberal
outlay of capital, give him a strong claim upon the public,
and we trust all his friends will do their utmost to fill the
house for him, and give him a bumper, not only to the brim,
but overflowing. The " War in Syria" continues to draw.
Mr. Weston's Kangaroo excites much laughter ; it would be
still more droll if he would stick to the text.
Sc lISCRIPTION CONCERT.—The last concert of the season
will take place this evening, at the Theatre-Royal. The se-
lection is, if anything, an impiovetnent upon the last. The
demand for tickets is, we believe, unusually great : it may,
therefore, be expected to be extremely well attended.
COLLECTION FOR THE POOR.—OD Sunday morning last,
nearly £l6 was collected at St. David's Church, for the pur-
pose of aiding the humane and charitable efforts, which are
now being made, towards alleviating the distresses of the
poor during this inclement season. The collection was made
without any previous notice.
FINE ARTS.—We beg to draw attention to the announce-
ment of Mr. James Ward, relating to his collection of very
fine pictures. We intend to notice them fully in our next.
THE OXFORD MEMORIAL.—A supplement of the Oxford
Herald, to be published on Saturday next, has been for-
warded to us. It contains a beautiful wood engraving of
the memorial about to be erected to commemorate the mar-
tyrdom of Archbishop Cranmer, Bishop Latimer, and Rid-
ley, near the spot where they were called upon to yield their
lives in defence of scriptural truth. A complete list of the
subscribers accompanies the engraving. We recommend
any of our friends who are wishfu to procure a copy of this
supplement, to forward their names to the office of the He-
rald, with a remittance enclosed.
COMMITMENT TO THE SESSIONS. —Yesterday, at the
police court, a woman named Mary M`Dermott, was com-
mitted for trial at the sessions, on a charge of having, on
Saturday, stolen a piece of pork from the standing in St.
John's Market, of William Pennell, dealer in pork, &c.,
Highfield-street. _

CAUTION.—On Saturday as a youth about ten years of
age was on his way from Low-hill to Fairfield, with a basket
containing some necessaries for which he had been sent, he
was met by a lad apparently about fourteen years old, who,
after some talk he allowed to carry on the basket. After
carrying it a short distance the fellow pretended to have
dropped a shilling into the basket, although it was a covered
one. Of course the lost treasure had to be searched for, and
during the investigation the fellow contrived to transfer some
toffee, tea, and soap into his own pocket, with which he got
clear away. There is no doubt but this system of robbing is
extensively practised upon children sent on errands, but we
trust after this notice, that parents and others will guard
against it.
SHAMEFUL CONDUCT OF TWO BAILIFFS.--YCSterdaYr
at the police court, two bailiffs, James Rittle and Edward
Smitten, were placed at the bar, charged with having carried
off two beds, from a house, without just cause or authority.
Miss Clarke, a member of the Society of Friends, and
keeper of a lodging-house in Newman-street, said, that
wishing to get rid of an unruly lodger, she called in the two
bailiffs to eject him. They did so, and afterwards took away
a bed from the room that had been occupied by the lodger.
In a short time afterwards, they came again and carried off
another bed from the room of another lodger, which they
had no authority to enter. She told them the beds were her
own property, and wished to know why they took them.
They replied that the taking of them was a mere form of
law, and that she might have them returned on payment of
one or two shillings, by going to Silbowden's, auctioneer,
Tithebarn-street, where they had been taken to. The pri-
soners stated that the complainant had authorised them to
take the beds in security for the payment of the expenses.
This the complainant denied, and affirmed that she had paid
them the whole of their demand. Silbowden, in whose
employ the defendants were, was asked by the magistrates
what he had to say in reference to the charge. He replied
by handing in two distress warrants, which, it appeared, the
men had Induced the complainant to sign to cover their ex-
penses. The complainant admitted that she had signed two
papers, having been persuaded to do so, but she did not
know what they were. Mr. Rushton said that no doubt a
very gross imposition had been practised upon her; but it
was committed under a form of law, and he regretted that
the offenders were not legally amenable. Had it been other-
wise he would have sent them for trial at the sessions. On
the prisoners being dischargerl,-he,ardered Silbowden to
deliver up the beds to the complainant, without any charge,
an intimation which he appeared reluctant to attend to. He
was told that if he did not, and that promptly, means would
be adopted to compel him. The parties then left the court,

MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY.—We are glad to be
able to correct an exaggerated statement of an accident on
this Railway, which has gone the round of the London
papers. The facts are, that a part of the facing wall of a
one arched bridge over the Railway fell down, owing to an
accumulation of water from wet sand behind it, one line of
road was stopped for a few hours, while the earth and brick-
work was removed; and in consequence of the highest flood
since 1795, about thirty yards of embankment, three feet
high, opposite the Loughborough station, was washed from
under the blocks, and stopped the road from midnight till
eleven the next day, when one line was restored, and both
before night.
SUDDEN DEATH.—On Friday an inquest was held on the
body of Mr. Thomas Bennison. The deceased, who lived in
Gill-street, retired to bed on the night of Wednesday, about
eleven o'clock, and his servant also went to bed soon after.
Shortly after twelve the latter was called up by Mr. Benni-
son, who desired her to get him some water ; she did so, and
the deceased, after taking some brandy and water, went to
bed again. She was again called up by the deceased, who re-
quested her to go to Camden-street, for Dr. Blackburn ; on
her return she found the deceased in the parlour dressed,
lying on the sofa, quite dead. Mr. Thomas Blackburn, sur-
geon, stated that the deceased was a patient of his, labouring
under a disease of the heart. He was called to him at an
early hour on Thursday morning, and found [him dead.
Although his death was sudden, it did not surprise him, con-
sidering the nature of his malady. Verdict accordingly.
Mr. Bennison was a surveyor in considerable practice, and
published some years ago, a map of Liverpool and its En-
vi.ons, which is remarkable for its size and accuracy.
BILL SWINDLING EXTRAORDINARY.—A most extensive
system of fraud has lately been detected in London, by which
the public has been robbed to the amount of nearly £20,000,
by means of forged and fictitious bills, and `f accommoda-
tion" paper. The guilty parties were ostensibly wine-mer-
chants, and, through the instrumentality of their agent at
Liverpool, they have contrived to let in several of the banks
there for heavy sums. The head of the gang has absconded,
to avoid the penalties of the law, and is now residing on the
continent. Another of the confederates has had recourse to
the bankruptcy court, in hopes of freeing himself from his
engagements. His liabilities are £13,000, and his assets nil.
The Liverpool agent is also made a bankrupt, but he cuts a
much more respectable figure than his masters, as he shows
assets equal to 3s. in the pound on his debts of £12,000 to
£15,000. The names are withheld at present, as it might de-
feat the ends of justice.

WRITING IN SUNDAY SCHOOLS.—The trustees of the
Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School, Oldham, have discon-
tinued the teaching of writing on Sundays in that school.

IMPORTANT TO MARINERS.—SAND BANK DISCOVERED.
—lt will be seen on referring to our Liverpool letter of this
clay, under the head of " Shipping," that Captain Sproule,
of the Circassian, is stated to have seen a sand bank under
water, but just visible, in the hollow of the sea, in lat. 1. S.,
long. 19. SV., which makes it in the direct tract of vessels
bound homeward from St. Helena, &c. Horsburgh makes
no mention in his directory of any bank having been seen
here, and it is more than probable that vessels have sailed
immediately over it. No coloured water has, that we are
aware of, ever been seen near here ; and, if it were not for
the difference of two degrees in longitude between this sup-
posed bank and that of Vigia, it might be concluded that it
Must have been the latter. As there can now, however, be
but little doubt, if the latitude and longitude given be cor-
rect, that such a bank does exist, it is highly important that
the Government should take some steps in this matter, and
that captains of vessels bound to the East Indies should en-
deavour to corroborate it for the safety of mariners.—Globe.

SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS IN THE AMERICAN LAWS
FOR THE REGULATION OF IMPORTS.—The New York
Journal of Commerce contains a letter signed "A Merchant,"
commenting on some suggested improvements submitted for
the consideration of the coming administration by a former
correspondent. The writer approves of the suggestion, that
compensation shall be made to the superintending officers
by adequate salaries, instead of permitting such officers to
take fees or remunerate themselves in any other way. He
also advances many arguments to chew the necessity of acting
on a second suggestion, which is for a repeal of the law
which gives one-half of the forfeitures to the collector, naval
officer, and surveyor, those officers being, as the law is con-
strued at the New York custom-house, greatly interested in
effecting forfeitures. The numerous evils arising out of this
regulation are very forcibly depicted by the merchant. The
writer suggests, that the three principal appraisers remain
with increased salaries and power to employ as many assist-
ants as they may deem necessary. They should have power
to call in the aid of others when they have no doubt about
their own judgment, and, when they have satisfied them-
selves as to the correctness of their appraisements, then du-
ties should be charged accordingly. if the importer considers
their appraisement too high, the appraisers might take the
goods at the importer's prices, giving him ten per cent. or
five•per cent., or any other per tentage that the appraisers
deemed just, in addition to the invoice value of his goods,•
to sell the same un account of the government, the duty being
charged on them according to the appraisement of the public
appraisers. A short practice, in this way, the merchant says,
would soon bring both parties to a tolerably accurate value of
the goods.

FICTITIOUS BEGGING PETITIONS.-At the Police-court,
on Yriday, two men, named James Johnson and John Smith,
were placed at the bar on a charge of obtaining money by
means of the frequent trick of a written but fictitious repre-
sentation or petition. In this instance the tale of distress
purported to be signed by Mr. Davenport, attorney, but was
a forgery. One of the prisoners, an old offender, had been
relieved by Mr. Musgrove, shopkeeper, several times, and
had brought the other prisoner to him, representing him as
a stranger in great distress. Mr. Musgrove afterwards saw
the prisoners and another man together in Mill-street, and
finding he had been imposed upon, informed the police, and
the prisoners were apprehended. They were committed to
gaol for three months.

A NEW TRICK IN TRADE.—AS a clever contrivance ought
not always to remain a secret, it may be well to publish the
following mode of obtaining labour very cheaply indeed. The
plan is, to engage a shop assistant, agree upon terms, &c.,
in a liberal way, but to stipulate for one month's services,
without salary, as a trial; then, at the end of the month, to
find a little fault, or pick a quarrel and part. In this way
twenty assistants may be had in as many months, without
paying any wages whatever ; and if this is not cheap labour
we know not what is. When we think of the rapacity which
originates this robbery of the industrious, and the deferred
hopes, and heart-breaking disappointments to which it leads,
the utmost indignation of the public seems too gentle a punish-
ment for the unprincipled perpetrators of.such a system. Our
brother editors should notice this, as a caution to applicants
for situations. Employers ought to have characters as well
as servants.—. Albion.

ANCIENT AIRS OF IRELAND—A work of Mr. Bunting
is now publishing in London, being a general collection of
the national Irish Airs. ur Cotemporaries speak most
highly of this work. The melodies of Ireland are dear to
every lover of sweet sounds : they " melt us as we sing them.',
REPEAL OF THE UNION.—A dinner was given in the
Queen's Theatre, Christian-street, on Saturday night to Mr.
John O'Connell, the member for Athlone, by an association
in this town established for the purpose of adding its mite
to the traitorous agitation for a repeal of the union. Having
received a ticket inviting us to be present, we went there,
but only to hear drowsy speeches without argument from
persons whom nobody knows, and to witness the entire
failure of what was intended to be a powerful demonstration.
About 200 persons dined. Many more could have been ac-
commodated, but from the total absence of anything like in-
terest or excitement upon the question here, no more, not
even including the Protectors, could be prevailed on to at-
tend. Mr. George Sherlock presided, and the meeting was
addressed by him, by Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Smythe,
Mr. Duffle, Mr. Pugilist Langan, the Rev. Father Wilcox,
and others. There was nothing remarkable in the speech of
the great, or physically speaking, the little gun of the even-
ing, which has not been repeated ad nauseam by the tail over
and over again ; whilst Father Wilcox laboured at nothing
so hard as to prove that his church, of course eulogising its
love of civil and religious liberty, had never been a persecu-
ting church. The other orators were mere personifications
of dulness and egotism. We had, notwithstanding our opi-
nion of them, prepared a tolerably long report of the proceed-
ings, but it is withdrawn to make room for the important
appeal case tried at Kirkdale yesterday, and the interesting
proceedings at the Tradesmen's Conservative Association last
night.—The following paragraph is from the Albion of yes-
terday. It will be seen that this young joint of the Irish
tail acts on the principle of the better day the better deed.—
" Mr. O'Connell had, we understand, arranged to meet a
few of his friends yesterday afternoon, at Mr. Bickerstaff 's,
Christian-street, for a friendly conversation on public affairs,
and afterwards to drink tea together. The appointment got
wind, and in the course of the afternoon, nearly one thousand
persons had assembled in the street opposite the house. As
the crowd did not seem willing to disperse without obtaining
a sight of Mr. O'Connell, it was deemed advisable to open
the doors of the Queen's Theatre and admit the people.
Mr. O'Connell then addressed the crowd on public topics ;
and at the conclusion of his speech, they quietly dispersed."