The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-22 00:00:00

" From morn to dewy eve" ;

and delighted Imagination beheld already rising up
around us a city of palaces, before whose splendours
the fame of Tyre in its day of glory was to be eclipsed
for ever. And yet now, at the end of six years of
Whig supremacy in the Council, what do we behold
of all these confidently predicted benefits ? Where are
the evidences of that superlative talent, purity, and ho-
nesty which the Whig party were to introduce into the
administration of our local affairs ? Where be the
public walks, which were to outvie the hanging gardens
of Tivoli—the " playgrounds," which were to rival
the Olympic or the Champs de Mars—the public wash
tubs—the corporation cork jackets, to " teach the
young idea how to swim "—the pegtops, hoops, bat-
tledores,—where be these components of the " rus ire
rube" which was to spring up beneath the fostering
care of the great Athelto of Vauxhall Ward and Lord-
street, and to be paid for by the cheeseparing parsi-
mony of the Whig finance committee ? Where, in-
deed ! We cannot see a vestige of them. They have
" dissolved" surely
—" The cloud capt towers—
The gorgeous pinnacles—the great Hum himself ;
* * * *
And like the baseless fabric of a vision,
Left not a wreck behind" !

Undeniably, so far as the public interests of the com-
munity of Liverpool are concerned, the accession of
the Whig party to power in the corporation has been
an utter and dire failure. They have not only failed
in securing any positive and permanent benefit for the

community and posterity, but they have failed even in
protecting efficiently the interests committed to their
charge. They have not only neglected important op-
portunities of advancing the interests of the port of
Liverpool, but neglected even the bounden duty of re-
pelling oppression upon its privileges. Need we call
to mind their suicidal policy with regard to the ques-
tion of Inland Bonding or the concessions wrung from
them by the Cheshire landowners, owing to their ano-
malous position in urging forward, in defiance of pub-
lic opposition, their pet whorehouse scheme ? We
need not. These things arc fresh in the memory and
rank in the nostrils of the constituencies ; and when
they are added to the insolence of tone which they
have on all occasions displayed towards the respectable
portion of those constituencies, and especially the
Church of England portion—when they are viewed
together with the reckless jobbing which they have
introduced into every department of our local govern-
ment—with their gross mismanagement of the revenue
of the town, and with the deterioration of its morals
which has taken place during their administration of
the police and the magistracy—we think we need
scarcely urge upon the Conservative burgesses the
necessity of prompt and vigorous exertions in every
ward to deprive them of any further power in the mal-
versation in our local affitirs.

in every ward, we repeat, Whiggery must be put
clown. Notwithstanding the filthy alliance with which
it is endeavouring to strengthen itself—notwithstanding
all its newly acquired strut and bluster—the thing must
be trampled upon to extinction. The town is sick,
heartily sick, of the whole crew of tricky imbeciles ;
and would gladly see them drummed out of every ward,
to the tune of " The Rogue's March," with a poker
and tongs accompaniment—or to any other tune, or
with any other music that would befit the accomplish-
ment of so happy a riddance. Their whole career in
office has been marked with alternate bombast and in-
capability, selfishness and insolence, pretension and
failure; and if the interests of the community are to
be advanced, the first step towards such a consumma-
tion must be a clear sweep of the Council-room, and
the restoration of the power of the corporation to the
hands of men of business and Conservatives, who have
in view higher and nobler ends than the administration
of its patronage for party objects. " Liberalism," in
the Council, has had its day ; it has left its mark too
wherever it has been able to reach. Conservatism has
gagged the monster already; and another week, we
trust, will see it kicked out of doors and hooted into
obscurity.

In our last number we stated a few of the reasons
why, in choosing municipal representatives, it would be
a great error on the part of the electors to give their
support to any man of doubtful principles, and that
Conservatives ought to vote for none but openly avowed
and express Conservatives. We did not say but that
there may be many very excellent and worthy men
who would rather avoid being classed in this or any
other great political category—marvellously proper
persons in business and in private life, but willing to
indulge themselves with a sort of amiable neutrality as
to general politics ; but we endeavoured to show that
neutrals of this sort would by no means answer at the
present time : , .

Non tali auxilio, nec idefensoribus istis,
Teropus eget.
We are under a stringent 'necessity to discard .such

trifh dee earttpadd Id it by the entidget ntthlr
adversaries, who utterly reject them, and will have to

unless it be our pleasure to give the ascendancy to tt

opposite side, we must abide most strictly by their
example. This is the necessitits re; ; but we have

shown that there is a better reason for the practice,
and that if we were quite free to- act at our own dis_

cretion this is the course of conduct.we ought to pur-

sue for its own intrinsic worth and fitness.
To say that a man is neutral • on the great questions
of general politics, and has his party yet to choose, is
simply acknowledging a defect of character ; neutrality
is not his virtue, but his fault; and it is a fault in

these times so serious, that it is a duty, perhaps pain-

fully, hut certainly, and really incumbent upon his fel-
low citizens, to.exclude him on this very account from
a post having any sort of political trust connected with

After the ample and bitter experience which the

country has had of the consequences which follow
from the ascendency of Radicalism in the national
councils, there can be no object more worthy of a good
citizen than to use every means in his power to prevent

the recurrence of so great a calamity. Now there can-
not be a doubt that this object will be very powerfully,
though indirectly, assisted, by shutting.out the princi-
ple and the party in our municipal, and every other
institution, with which an influence is connected. Let
us make the Corporation of Liverpool conservative,
and we shall, by that act, give a moral support to the
administration of Sir Robert Peel, of a value propor-
tionate to the importance of so large, populous, and
wealthy a town. It will be another leaf added to the
crown which our glorious cause has lately achieved ;
and the advantage will not be without its reciprocity,

for we do expect that if the government of Sir Robert
Peel would derive any additional weight from Liverpool
chopaing a council whose political principles should be
in harmony with his, so Liverpool would be, no loser
by affording this additional proof of its political identi-
fication.

The religious question connected with the direction
and management of the schools, is a distinct evidence
that neutrality is a disqualifying circumstance, or
certainly ought to he such, in any man coming for-
ward as a candidate for municipal preferment. It is
not, as we have before intimated, the question just now,
how or in what way the educational course of the schools
ought to be conducted; but as there are schools in which
a large portion of the children of the humbler classe's
derive their education, and as the Radical party con-
tend for a system of an extremely latitudinarian chaiacter
as to religion, it is necessarily a point of great importance
to give a preponderance in the council to men of whose
attachment to church principles we have the strongest
Let the burgesses in their several wards
choose good Conservatives, and then we shall be satis-
fied that the " plan for the management of the schools
to be proposed early in the ensuing year by the rectors

assurance

and clergy of the town," as mentioned by the gentle-
man who attended at the Toxteth Wards meeting, on
Friday last, or whatever other plan may be deemed ad-
visable, will be fairly considered. A Conservative
council, it must be presumed, will act consistently with
its own principles on this point as well as upon every
other, whatever those principles be. Our Liberal
mayor [hunts a non lucendo] may deem it "imperti-
nent" for a councillor to make any inquiry concerning
the religious profession of the master or mistress of a
school endowed or supported out of the civic funds;
but a Conservative mayor or council will think differ-
ently. What we would expect of a Conservative coun-
cil would be the establishment in the schools of the
religious ascendancy of the national church, but not
in such a way as to he intolerant of religious liberty in
such as may conscientiously, though erroneously, dis-
sent from •it. This is the principle which has been
adopted by the. Presbyterians in Ireland, and upon
which they now receive aid from the National Board
of Education in that country. The rule of their
schools is Scriptural education, and the Catechism of
the General Assembly--that is to say, in other words,
Presbyterian Education ; this is their rule, but it is
not a rule to which they make no exception ; it is the
rule, but they relax it in behalf of Roman Catholic
children whose parents come forward and record their
disapprobation. By this means Roman Catholic and
other children are not debarred the general education
conveyed in their schools. Less than this we could
not expect from any body of men who were sincere in
their own religious profession, .more, we do not know,

that we_should require. This is the principle on which
all men who would be consistent must act. We are no

friends to any intolerant, persecuting, or exclusive
system ; we wish men first to act consistently, and then
with a proper feeling towards the weakness and errors
of others, and a due allowance for the exercise of a con-
scientious liberty. All this will be observed in the course
which we suggest ; we should then have a Conservative
council establishing a system of education in conformity
with its own religious principles, just as it should do; but,
at the same time, not rendering that system exclusive,
nor insisting that all the children who attend the schools
shall partake of its benefits to their full extent, if the
parents of any come forward, as in the Presbyterian
schools alluded to, and state their objection thereto.
To accomplish an object so important, there is now the
strongest appeal made to the municipal electors of Li-
verpool. It rests with them ; they have the power ;
and if they have the. will also, they cannot but find the

At the numerous meeting of the electors of North
and South Toxteth Wards on Friday evening, Mr.
Alexander Smith, jun., the Conservative candidate for
North Toxteth, in vivid terms presented us with a re-
view of Radical administration in the Council, and its
results :

" He would ask the electors," he said, " whether it was
in the power of the conservatives, even if they became the
dominant party, to do worse than those men had done who
had been in power for the last few years ? He should like to
know what they had done for the town ? (" Nothing," from
a hundred voices.) Really nothing. He believed there were
more people out of employment at present than was the case
for the last century ; and to what was this owing ? Why,
every improvement had been put a stop to ; not a single
thing was doing ; and, until lately, when they commenced to
build the new courts of law, there had been no expenditure
of money. There would, indeed, be an expenditure of
£lOO,OOO for the building of the courts, and £30,000 more
for another erection ; but those sums had been wrung from
the radicals as if the conservatives had been squeezing from
them their hearts' blood. (Hear, hear, and cheers;) The
truth was that the dominant party in the council had set their
faces against everything like improvement, or the promotion
of public works, unless the hobby of the aldermen, that of
erecting docks with warehouses around them, were to be con-
sidered as such. But this circumstance of the docks and
warehouses had been the means of preventing a very large
sate of land near the docks; and the consequence was that
the treasury of the corporation had been drained to the last
dregs, so that nothing could be done in the shape of improve-
ments, the widening of streets, or a thousand other things,
which, in so large a town as Liverpool, were constantly re-
quired."

We may add to this, that all they have done by their
cosmopolitan system of education, seems to have been
a produce of just' such fruits as one might a priori
have reasonably expected from it. In the Sixth Report
of the Inspectors of Prisons under sth and 6th Will.
IV., recently published, the inspector of the northern
district states it as his belief, and gives his data for the
conclusion, that the amount of juvenile criminality in
Liverpool is proportionably greater than in the metro-
polis, or any of the most populous manufacturing and
commercial districts in Great Britain ; and that, judg-
ing from the description of the offences, and the num-
ber and frequency of the recommittals in this class of
prisoners, the character of juvenile delinquency is ge-
nerally, and in Liverpool in particular, more desperate
than that of the adult class of criminals. May we not
fairly trace this melancholy and disgraceful state of
things to the want of sound religious instruction, and
education for the poorer classes; or, in other words,
to the non-religious system patronised by the domi-
nant Liberals of our Corporation ? The fruits are
indeed most deplorable, and leave every man who pre-
tends to the smallest feeling of benevolence, without

excuse, if he neglect to use whatever influence or pri-
vilege he may possess for the purpose of putting an
end, we hope for ever, to so ruinous a domination.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ST. HELEN'S AND RUNCORN
GAP RAILWAY.—On Tuesday last, previous to the departure
of the first afternoon train from the St. Helen's station, a
porter, named John Baxter, in the employ of the company,
was killed by some waggons which had just been detached
from the engine running up to some other waggons which
were being discharged of their loads, and against which he
was standing, in the centre of the line. It appears that the
deceased saw the waggon coming, but was unable to get out
of the way, as a horse which had been employed in drawing
was standing close to the line, and he could not get past it.
He was very much crushed, and lingered after it only a very
short time, although every attention was shown him by Mr:
Wolfenden, the company's agent, in procuring him medical
assistance. An inquest kas been held on the body, and a
verdict of " accidental death" was returned, with a deodand
of ss. on the waggon.

The Cireat 'Wes
.ear York to-mo,

&PPOINTIviI

appointed by the

last outward voyag'

We understand that the Rev. R. T.
-St. Anne's Church, Lancaster, baS been
car of Blackburn to the benefice of St.
n Blackburn, vacant by the resig-
ion Porter.

Sohn's the Evangclist,
nation of the Rev. Jack;

APPOINTMENT.--The Rev. Thomas G. Walsh has been
appointed by the vicar of Blackburn to the benefice of
manuel Church, Feniscowles, vacant by the resignation of
the Rev.. George Edimindson, now vicar of Sainttield, in the
diocese of Down and Connor.

Our readers will observe an advertisement. in nnOliker
column, informing them of the intention of Mrs. Gardher
to;prolong her stay till the 10th November. As this lady
has been very successful in the cure of deafness, we should
till be embraced by all who impor-

conceive the opportunit
tunately require her aid

THE HALIFAX 'STEAMERS.—According to the terms of
contract the Mail Steam-packet Company of proprietors is
bound to wait the pleasure or orders of government at home,
or British authorities abroad, to the extent of a detention be-
yond the appointed day of sailing of 48, or at the most 60
hours it is believed.

STEALING A WATCH.—Charles Houghton was charged at
the Police-office, on Wednesday, with having stolen a gold
watch, worth about twelve guineas, the property of William
Thomas, Esq., of London. The prisoner seeing the com-
plainant in a state of intoxication, in the Old Haymarket, on
Sunday evening, went up to him and asked him what time it
was, and seeing the watch, immediately seized it and ran off.
A cry of " stop thief" was raised, and the prisoner secured.
He was committed for trial.

PURCIIASE OF WOODSIDE FERRY.—A public meeting of
the inhabitants of Birkenhead was held on Monday evening
last, in the Town-hall, for the purpose of taking into consi-
deration the propriety of the commissioners purchasing the
Woodside Ferry, on behalf of the township, and of autho-
rising the commissioners to take the necessary' steps for that
purpose. It was very numerously and respectably attended.
The chair was occupied by John Deane Case, Esq. The
chairman detailed the objects of the meeting, laying before
the assembly the proceedings of the commissioners, touch-
ing the proposition of the railway company to form a tunnel
and to sell the ferry. He then alluded to the -offer-of Mr.
Jackson to purchase the ferry and the subsequent tender of
the Ferry by Mr. Jackson to the commissioners. On the
nth October it was resolved by the commissioners that it
would be beneficial to accede to the terms of Mr. Jackson'S
contract, that an act of parliament should •be obtained for
embodying the necessary provisions for insuring the prospe-
rity of the township, that the surplus of the profits of the
ferry should go towards a reduction of the rates on the inha-
bitants ; that a committee should be appointed for settling the
contracts and reporting to a general meeting of the commis-
sioners •, that the commissioners were not to be made per-
sonally liable ; and that the railway company should have the
power to construct a tunnel. The committee so appointed
bad very minutely investigated the books of the Woodside
Ferry, and, in consequence of the report they had made to
the commissioners that very evening, the commissioners were
most warmly prepared to tell the meeting to authorise them
to go on with the purchase of the ferry. The resolution to
be proposed was as follows :—The commissioners having ma-
turely considered the advantages which the township would
derive from the purchase of the Woodside Ferry from the
Railway Company and F. R. Price, Esq., recommend such
purchase to this meeting, resolved, that this meeting autho-
rise the commissioners to make the purchase on such terms
as they may think proper, and that authority being given to
apply to parliament for an act for regulating the said ferry,
and for obtaining the funds required for the purchase, and
that so soon as the draft of the act is prepared, and before it
is introduced to parliament, the commissioners do lay the
same before a general meeting of the inhabitants." The re-
-solution was put and carried unanimously. In reply to a
question, Mr. Mallaby, the clerk to the commissioners, said
they had the power of compelling the Corporation of Liver-
pool to provide suitable landing places for the ferry steamers,
and he had no doubt for cattle and merchandise. They could

by mandamus compel the Dock Trustees to do all that they
wished free from any check or control. The ferry would be
of great advantage in reducing the rates, but Mr. Mallaby
thought it would be injudicious to enter too widely into the
question, for by so doing they would make too apparent the
advantages they possessed.
CAUTION TO DRIVERS OF COACHES AND CARS.—OR
Thursday the 14th instant, about 12 o'clock, a very serious
accident occurred at the corner of Leece-street and Berry-
street, in consequence of the very quick driving of a car. Au
elderly lady, who had only just stepped of the footpath, was
knocked down, and the wheels of the car went over both her
legs, fracturing one, and most severely lacerating the other.
The driver of the car, after turning his head and seeing the
lady laying in the street, drove rapidly down Bold-street.
On Wednesday last the man was summoned to appear before
Mr. Rushton, who exacted the full penalty of forty shillings
and costs for so driving, connected with the unfeeling con-
duct exhibited after the accident. The decision of the magis-
trate does not prevent the relatives of the lady (who only
arrived in town the last Tuesday evening), obtaining that
redress which the law provides for in such cases. Every day
witnesses the danger to which foot passengers are exposed,
by the improper manner in which both. Coaches and cars are
driven down Leece-street and Bold-street, but it is hoped
that the present melancholy circumstance, and the decision
of the magistrate, will serve as a timely warning for the future.
The driver of the car is considered by his master as the most
steady man he has in his employ, but this circumstance was
not deemed sufficient to justify any mitigation of the penalty.
THE Wuto POLLUTION.—If the end of the world itself
is not drawing near, surely the end of the whig portion of it,
in Liverpool, at least, must be at band. The kid glove has
shaken fists with the brawny wielder of the three-pronged
fork. The " broad-cloth" of whiggery is shoulder to shoul-
der with the serge and fustian. The new calf-skin is under
the same alehouse bench with the new vamped ; and the
Bathbones and Earles are " hail fellows, well met" with the
Caseys and the Gallayhers. Tom Brown smokes his black
stump in the same atmosphere with the ilavannah of his
aristocrat acquaintance; and the dingy fingers of Mr. Mickey
Dermot are obtruded without hindrance amongst the rappee,
wherewith the scion of an ex-councillor titillates his olfactory
nerve. Omens these, we think, of a fallen state, if not of
the end of all things ; symptoms cif running into disreputable
courses, if not also of approaching ruin. " Call you this
backing your friends," Mr. John Rosson ? Sad backing—
cruel kindness—destructive protectorship! A few more
weeks of this hobnobbing in back streets, between whiggery
arid its sweet-scented allies, and we wouldn't give five shil-
lings each for the coats or the characters of the whole whig
fraternity. We meet already, as we cross " the flags," some
visitations, which resemble the lingering effluvia of tobacco
and beer, from the overnight's conversazione, far more than
the scents of " distilled essences ;" and what then must be
the result of that constant association with rank smelling,
greasy companions, towards which whiggery, under demoral-
izing and dangerous protectorship, is rapidly verging? a
taint, we fear, which an ocean of lavender water, or hogs-
head of eau de cologne would not be sufficient to wash away;
and which it may even require some years of rigorous
exposure to the open air to get entirely rid of, at least so far
as to be rendered presentable either in a 'drawing-room or in
the council. And yet, notwithstanding the gulf which is
before them, it is perfectly lamentable to observe how lightly
some of the infatuated amble along, hugging the conscious-
ness of their borrowed sweetness, and luxuriating in the
" verdant mud," with which they are bespattered. We. never
meet the candidate of Great George's Ward, in particular,
without a sigh for his misguided and pitiable condition. He
has evidently no misgivings with respect either to his com-
pany or the road he is upon ; but is evidently ready to " g°
the whole boo'." and roll in the " verdant" commodity before
mentioned, Ile is ready to drink the circean cup to the

dregs, and

" Graee is in All his steps, fire in his eye,"
as he whisks past xis, rejoigiug in the growth of his bristles
and tusks—those

" Sad marks of his unhappy state"
to those who have not, like him, submitted tti, tke wiles of
the enchantress. We could weep, John jtori,ion, for aIP
consequences of your doings!
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—The following is, we be-
lieve, a correct list of the candidates at the approaching mu-
nicipal election
Werds

Everton
Scotland.
Vauxhall
St. Paul's

Reformers,
M. Ashcroft
George Quayle
Win. Preston
Joshua Edwards Chris. Rawdon
Ridgway Henry Holmes

Conservative;

Thomas Shaw
Isaac Holmes

Exchange

Castle-street Peter %Elope
St. Peter's Ebenezer Rae
Pitt-street James Aspinall

John Holmes
Wupiright
Hugh fpyphi'

Great George
Rodney-street

James Lawrence
H. Lawrence

W. Itathboals
C. Holland

Abercromby
Lime-street
St. Anne's.

R. Gladstone
J. Buck Lloyd
James Parker

John Cooper
I'lios. Morecroft
Thos. Chalmer

West Derby J. Shaw Leigh
South Toxteth Simon L. Trotrnan Wm. H. Tayleur
North Toxteth Alexander Smith W. Loekerby.

ROBBE4X ox TILN GursnAs.—Three females, of aban-
doned character, were put forward on Wednesday before Mr.
Rushton, on a charge of baring robbed Mr. William Rafferty,
American shipping agent and provision dealer, Waterloo-
road, of a pnrse containing the sum of 410 in sovereigns and
lOs in silver. The complainant deposed that between the
hours of ten and eleven o'clock, on Saturday night last, 11P
was passing through Garden-lane, and observed a number of
girls standing outside the door of the house in which the prir
soners resided, one of whom laid hold of him by the arm,
while another gave him a shove, and a third whipped thP
hat off his head and ran with it into the house. lie immer
diately pursued her up stairs, where he found six women in A
room. One of them threw the hat to the tipper end of the
apartment, and then the whole six goehed round him anfl
made a tremendous uproar in the place. He asked for the
mistress of the house, when a female came up and said 3110
was the person. He asked her for his hat, whereupon she
told him to give the girls something to drink, and that biS
" beaver" would be safely returned. Hearing the noises of
several other women in the kitchen underneath, it struck
him that he had no other remedy but to give them money to
drink, and he accordingly banded them a shilling, but had
no sooner done so than the three prisoners, assisted by two
others, threw him against the jam of the window, and held
him so fast that he could only make a couple of kicks at there
with his feet. They succeeded, while holding bins in this
position, in lightening him of his purse, containing the tea
guineas. He called for a policeman several times. but no
officer appeared to be within hearing; and he was induced
to sit quietly down in the house, and abide the result, in con-
sequence of having been informed by a man that it would be,.
better for him to make no noise, and that if he kept quiPP
the woman who had stolen his -money would return and re,.
store it. to him. Believing this advice to be well meant, be
acted upon it to the letter, and made no further noise what'
ever, and remained in the honse until between six and sever)
o'clock the following morning. About that time a boy en'
tered the place, and said that if the complainant followed him
he would procure the money. He did so. The boy took him
to a place where a person would have to crawl upon his bands
and knees to effect an entrance. As the complainant we?,
Preparing to enter, a woman came up to bins and said that
he went in his brains would be dashed out by the wretches
inside, and that the boy was absolutely leading him there for
the purpose of having an end put to him for euer. Of course,
after receiving this friendly intimation, he refused to procce4
further. The complainant concluded by stating that he took
two or three of his companions to the house with a view of
trying whether he could obtain any tidings of his money, 1:"'1'
it was all to no purpose : the purse as well as the money he"
vanished. The prisoners were committed for trial on the
charge of having aided and assisted in the commission of the

robbery.
MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE.—The weeklY
meeting of the Dock Committee was held yesterday, but the
business done was of a mere routine ilescription. The fol-
lowing members were present :—Messrs. Berm, (chairroa°o
Horsfall, Hornby, Mellor, Holmes, Evans, G. Holt, Aiki°'
T. Holt. Smith, Tobin, Chapman. Ripley, and Middleton•
The tender of Messrs. Bibby and. Sons, to supply a quantitY.
of pozzolano was accepted. John Probert was appointed
keeper of the store at the Queen's Graving Dock ; and the
stun of Xla was ordered to be given to Benjamin Balube.r;
whose furniture was partially destroyed by the late fire
e
W atkinson-street, in consideration of his having been itl
Sur-
service of the estate for a period of fifty years. ,the ,a
veyor was directed to report upon the propriety of placius
lamp at the head of Clarence Graving Deck. and alsoc:1
to
the.fixing of an additional mooring buoy at the south
ma
j±::
Queen's Dock. Fifty copies of the chart of the Welsh
and
by Rear-Admiral Cardeu, were ordered to be taken, '"'
meeting separated.

Poitrzoo CoNcgivfs.—The fourth edncert will take place
this evening at the Portico Rooms. A most excellent pro-
gramme has been arranged. The last concert went off ex-
tremely well, and was attended numerously
SMUGGLING.—A

_ seaman, named James Hogan, was
yesterday, fined £lOO, on an information laid by Mr. Young,
of the CuQtoins, for conveying on shore 101 b. of tobacco from
the ship Eagle, that had not paid duty. The captain of the
ship gave him a very good character, and Mr. Rushton said
his case should be favourably represented to the Board, in
London.

Sir Robert Peel, since his accession to power, emulates the
early rising and personal devotion to the duties of his high
office of his great colleage the Duke of Wellington. The
express train from Liverpool, conveying the papers and
despatches brought by the South American packet-ship, and
the Caledonia mail steam-ship, reached town on Wednesday
morning before six o'clock. Files of the papers were in-
stantly forwarded to Sir Robert Peel's residence, where, at.
that early hour, they found the right hon. baronet already
engaged, with his two private secretaries, on public business,
We understand the bazaar held by the Ladies Society con-
nected with the two Scottish Churches in this town—Dr.
Ralph's and Mr. Park's, through the kindness of many
friends, gratefully felt by the committee, has succeeded even
beyond their expectations. It was quite a novel thing in
Liverpool, and regarded with some anxiety as. a sort of
periment. It originated in the d

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work for

poor and aged women, as the best means of relieving them.
Had the committee prepared double the articles for sale they
would have disposed of them. As it was they have realized
nearly £7O. We are glad to find the society resumes its
usual weekly sales for the winter the beginning of November.

SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM CHAPLIN, COME-
DIAN.—This actor expired on Monday morning. He had
been engaged by Mr. Yates for the Adelphi Theatre, during
that gentleman's tour in the provinces, and, with his sister,
Miss Ellen Chaplin, had commenced an engagement at the
Adelphi on the opening night, in the character of Julio Sal-
vador, in the drama of " Die Hexen am Rhein." On Satur-
day night he was seized with a sudden indisposition, which
terminated fatally on Monday morning. Mr. Chaplin was
the son of Mr. Charles Chaplin, the stage manager of the
Theatres-Royal, Liverpool and Manchester, and formerly of
the Threatre-Royal, Drury-lane. His age was 26.
It will be seen that the trial of M`Leod stood at the date
of our last letters (the 2d October) for the 4th. But it was
far from improbable that it might not come on for hearing
even then,—on the grounds intimated by his counsel in found-
ing his application for delay on the hearing, at the Circuit
Court of Utica, of the 27th inst. We can also state upon
the authority of a highly respectable informant, whose letter
is dated from New York, that in that city the belief is gain-
ing ground daily that M`Leod was not likely to be tried at
this assizes' at all : but that it would be found necessary to
allow his important case to stand over to the ensuing term.
The expectation of his final acquittal, all our letters agree in
representing as extremely general among all parties; and it
is gratifying to us, to add that we are disposed to concur in
that ex pecta tion.—Herald.
COMMITTAL FOR MANSLAUGHTER.-:fin inquest was
held on Tuesday last, at St. Helen's, before John Heyes,
Esq., coroner, on view of the body of a child, aged about
three years, named Mary Owen, who had beep run over by
an ass cart, laden with earthenware. The driver of the cart
is an old Man named Peter Spencer, and on the day in which
the unfortunate occurrence we have alluded to took place he
Was going along Duke-street with his cart, but at some dis-
tance behind it, and the deceased happened to be playing in
the road,: and the vehicle passed over its body. The child
was very much injured, and although every attention was
paid to it -by Mr. Pye, surgeon, of St. Helen's, it died on
Monday last. The jury returned a verdict of " manslaughter"
against Spencer, and he is therefore to await his trial at the

t assizes

EMIGRATION TO NEW YORK—On Wednesday afternoon,
at four o'clock, the large American line-of-packet ship St.
James, Captain W. S. Sebor, commander, was hauled out of
the St. Katherine's Dock, well filled both with goods and
passengers. The emigrants are 215 in number—viz., 170
steerage passengers, 12 chief cabin passengers, and 20 in the
second cabin. The steerage passengers are principally from
Kent, and consist of small farmers, who intend to settle in
the state of New York. Many are from the neighbourhood
of Ashford, and there are 70 from the parish of Buckly, in
that vicinity. The vessel was to leave Portsmouth yesterday
for New York. A great number of persons assembled on the
pierhead to witness the departure of the emigrants.
STEALING A DOG.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, a
man named Walton Webb, was charged with stealing a tine
pointer dog, which had been left by a Mr. Lloyd, who was
absent from the town, ih charge of a gentleman in Church-
street. It had been taken flow the yard of the house.
The animal was stated to be worth £2 or £3. Ile was lined
40 shillings, the value of the dog, and £lO for stealing it, or
in default to be imprisoned for three months. The prisoner
said, " Let me go to Knntsford to bring the owner." Mr.
Rushton.-,-" No ; you can 't go there till you have paid the
money." •

CLOSING OF THE DENTON'S GREEN BOWLING-GREEN,
ST. HELEtes.—The annual dinner, in commemoration of
the ClOse of the sports on this green for the season, was held
at the hcbse of Mr. Blades, the proprietor of the green, on
Tuesday night last. - A company of about fifty gentlemen sat
down to an excellent and abundant dinner, which was served
up in a very superior manner, reflecting the highest credit on
the caterer. Mr. Thomas Barrow presided, and Mr. Robert
Marsh officiated as vice-president. After the usual loyal
toasts had been given, the following healths •=-ere also drank
with much acclamation :—P. Greenall, Esq., M.P., Mrs.
Greenall and Family, Denton Green Brewery Company,
Mrs. Speakman and Family, &c., &c. The evening was
spent in great good humour and hilarity, and many of the
guests did not retire until a late hour.—The bowling-green
is much resorted to in the summer months by the gentlemen
of St. Helen's. it offers many attractions. The scenery
around it- is extremely beautiful. In the distance, to the
left, is the town of St. Helens, with its many shafts, chim-
nies, alkali and glass-works, betokening the prosperity and
industry of the inhabitants. Looking straight forward, we
see the lands of Samuel Taylor, Esq., and the tine avenue
leading to his residence. Yonder is Mr. Swift's farm ; there
Eccleston Church (built by the munificent Mr. Taylor), a
most pleasing object in the landscape, as, indeed, such an
edifice is in all scenery. - The Rev. Mr. Croskett is at pre-
sent the minister. The white house, perceivable to the right,
is Mill Brook, which was once the residence of Dr. Adam
Clarke :it is now occupied by Mr. Pilkington. In the dis-
tance, to the right, are the woods of Knowsley Park. The
air is here most salubrious and pleasant, and few spots could
be chosen presenting more charms, or so likely to induce
those who labour hard to find enjoyment after the toils of
the day.