The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-23 00:00:00

ton, Mr. SAMUEL PARKER, father

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On the 15th instant, in Upper B
JOAN ROBY.
On the 16th instant, at Liseard, MATTHEW TAYLOR, Esq
solicitor, late of t!is town.

2 months,

Same day, aged 7 years, MARTHA ANN, only daughter of
Mr. ALEXANDER 4RAY. tfthr ccoWst.
Same d y, aged 4,, HAltt IETTE, wife of Mr
of the Waterloo Hotel

WM. LYNN,

Same day, of consumption, aged 10, EMMA JANE. youngest
daughter .f Mr. T. M. MYERS, of Bridge.s,rect. tVooc'side.
Same i'ay, nt Ditton Park, in her 35tli year, JANE CAROLINE,
third daughter of the Me Lori M ONTA GU.
Sarre day, after a sh,rr illness. an-ed o JOHN
Usu.!, liteumpto n -roricsiare, father of E. S. Cayley,
q M.P.

Cm the 179: instant. axed 2 years, JAMES SAMUEL, youngest
son of Mr. JAMES JORDAN, musical instrument maker, of
Mar.cbester-street.
Same day, aged 72, Mr. CUTHBERT JOPLIN, sen., of Dale-
- __

Same day, aged ! years, JOIIN POOLE, Esq., of Arrow_
hill F,arn. Arrow, Cheshire.

On the 18th instant,
WILLIAMS. of this town

in his 46th year, Mr

CHARLIS

Same day, in her gist year, Mrs. lIIRETSON, re'ict of the late
H. Ihbetson, Eeq., of St. Anthony's, Northumberland.

Same diy, at the house of her nephew, :sir. R. G. Elliott,
Mons•street, aged 70, Miss MA RY RA E, only surviving
diughter of Mr. ainuel Rathhone.

Same dey,
Esq., of this town.
Same day, at Manchester, aged 72, Mrs. LYDIA HANSOM,
mother of Mr. James Hanson, of the Liverpo .1 Journal-office,
and mother-in-law of Mr. idin Moore, of the Liverpool
Mercury office.

st Crosby, aged 70, CHARLES HORSFALL,

Same day, at the official residence of the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, Paris, the Countess DE MELUN, sister-in•law of M.
Guizot.

Same day, at Chester. aged 28, ELIZABETH HANNAH. wife
of Mr. JOSEPH LEWIS, and only daughter of the late Mr.
Theodore Duhoc. perfumer of that city. II er amiable disposition.
her many virtues, and her patience during a long illness gained
her the esteem and election of all.
On the 2 th in,tant, in Gloucester-place, in her 61st year,
ANN, the beloved wife of THOMAS SHERLOCK, Esq
Same day, at Holt hill, aged 74, Mrs. BLAKE, widow of the
late Joseph Blake, Esq., of flallwood, near Runcorn.

WEEKLY REPORT OF THE FEVER AND
WORKIIOUSE HOSPITALS.
.TUNE 20. 1816.

DISCUARGED

Fever and Small Pox
Medical and Surgica
Lying-in Wards
Lock

Fever a

)lAIN!NG IN TAR lIOSPI
all Pox

Lying.in W
Lock

g PhyPicißns,

Consultin

Physician and Surgeon

—•
tirg.con. Mr. Ntactitioch.
for the weer, Dr. Ttnainn and

a.
House Burgeon:, MMesrra. na.altrgaedaclifre and Macdougall
Apothecary, Mr. GlLwour.

8 THE LIVER POI
TO CORRESPONDENTS. the recognition of expediency, as our sole guide in • several contemporary documents, to prove that such
legislation. There is something, surely, beyond -an admission could not have been made by him ver-
A ivrrespondent, who furnishes us with his name, requests us
to state, with reference to a paragraph in the papers that
considerations of mere human, selfishness, which belly, he proceeded to examine the authority of the
several pick-pocket robberies had been committed at the ought to govern the world. W e have, as a nation, Mirror of Parliament, by which the passage of the
Zoological Gardens, that none or the police stationed there, a divine mission to fulfil, or we should not have speech of 1829 was reported. He had referred to
and no person connected with the gardens, have received the
slightest intimation of any such occurrence. This ircurn-
c' been so abundantly blessed and strengthened from four contemporary papers, each having separate
stance renders the statement of our contemporaries highly above; we should not have been a Christian people. corps of reporters, namely, the Morning Chronicle.
improbable. if not altogether untrue.
We have carefully perused the whole of the correspondence be. There is such a thing as immutable truth in the Morning Post, Morning Journal, and Morning
tween the Bishop of London and the Rev. Mr. Harvey, and world, whilst we are entangling ourselves in the Herald, in none of which was to he found that
our conclusion differs widely from that of a " Lover of the mazes of a crude philosophy, and sacrificing that passage. It was contained only in the reports of
Church." The bishop may not have exhibited the courtesy
which ought to be characteristic of a Christian prelate; but, truth at the shrine of a contemptible and selfish the Mirror of Parliament and the Times,. But how
on the other h •nd. the tone of Mr. liarvey's letters is not that expediency, which is but the thing of an hour. Our were the reports of the Mirror got up ? The paper
which ought to have been displayed by a clergyman tin his ,
tl • tstep must be to recognize the existence of that had not a separate corps of reporters. It was made
I s s
diocesan. We see no reason to cen ore—at ail events, in
any such language as that adopted by our correspondent— truth; to proclaim it as our guide, from which no out of the best portions of the most extended re-
the course pursued by the tight reverend prelate and Lord temporal considerations will he suffered to withdraw ports of the gentlemen engage 1 on the Times, Chro-
Aberdeen.
_____ - us; and to rally only by the side of honest and nicle, and Herald, who met together daily to com-
Ebt Eibtrpoot `t-anbarti. faithful men, who take it as their standard. Here pare their notes, and write out the speeches amongst
is the sure protection of the nation against the them. en the occasion in question, from its agree-
TUESDAY MORNING JUNE 23, 1846. power of the mere worldly statesman—the man, ing with the Times, the passage disputed must be
, who, looking only at the balance of parliamentary concluded to have been supplied from the notes of
The fate of Sir Robert Peel's administration—
influence, the strength of party feeling or party the Times reporter. Sir Robert Peel argued, from
whether it will be permitted to do all of which it has
lethargy out of doors, the possibility of attaching to these data, that there were three authorities in his
given promise, or be overthrown ignominiously, him this or that section of politicians by a stroke of favour for one against him (the llirror of Parlia-
g everything and every interest in the empire
days may solve. policy, turns round, ever and anon, upon the nation, meat counting as nothing); and that it was more
unsettled—is a problem which a
leavin
and prefaces the announcement of his political likely that the passage was interpolated by the one,
Its vitality, however, does not appear of a very few
apostacy by informing us that "the time is come," than omitted by the three.
en-
when he can no longer be consistent with himself, We can scarcely admit the correctness of this
whenever that doom arrives—with few to mourn
during character; and it will pass to its doom—
or keep faith with (hose who have confided in him. view, as to the probability of interpolation. Such
over it, and fewer still to bestow upon those who We must not advance to the work of raising this is not the practice of reporters, who are more apt to
healthy feeling in the public mind with the ordinary omit than to interpolate. In the report of the Times
compose it, the tribute of respect and affection. It
weapons and appliances only of party warfare in our containing the passage, the reporter is made to state
will be said of it, that it has hastened what, for good
hands. We have tried these ; and we have fade.). that Sir Robert was very imperfectly heard in the
or for evil, may well he regarded as a crisis in the
" The time is come" when we must no longer be gallery, which might account for the error on one
destinies of this country. It may be said of its
deluded with the notion that it is enough for us to side or the other. The most important feature in
head, and of its more prominent members, that they
follow the advice of that statesman, whose fall from the controversy is the fact that the speech of Sir
have sacrificed the interests of party to their convic-
tions of public duty. They will descend into psi-
rectitude we have so great occasion to deplore, and Robert was not corrected by him for Hansard, but
vats life with something like a crown of martyrdom
conclude with him that "the battle of the constitu- for John Murray, the eminent publisher, who pos-
vatetheir heads. The base metal will be gilded by
motive;
tion is to be fought in the registration courts." It sessed the copyright of such corrected speech, and
the assertion ofatriotism as their i
upon
is to be fought in men's hearts. It is to be won supplied it to Hansard by Sir Robert Peel's inter-
yet the coin ,inducing
will be found but a counterfeit after only by impressing there the conviction that what cession. Hansard, let it be borne in mind, had his
is morally wrong can never be politically right ; and usual reporters present, whose substantial correct-
all. It will not ring ; it is short of weight; and the that a nation which departs from its God, he will ness has always been proverbial, and who would
hard-hearted and unimaginative trader, to whom it
not uphold ! We fought the battle of the registra- have detected the omission of so important a 'm-
il; offered, will nail it to his counter as a specimen
tion; the result placed in office a Conservative Mi- sage, had it been uttered.
of spurious material, and. probably, hand over the
nistry, with a Conservative party in Parliament Here the question rests ; and here, we presume,
utterer to the guardianship of a police official.
We are not about to join in the recent personal
paramount in strength and influence. Yet by that it must rest. In justice to Sir Robert Peel, how-
attacks which have been made upon Sir Robert Peel Ministry, and from that Parliament, have been dealt, ever, we do not think that the stigma of having
against the constitution, the liberties, the religion of uttered the sentence and the delinquency with which
for the course which he has seen fit to pursue upon the nation, blows which the most infidel and repub- it would mark his conduct, to Mr. Canning,
the questions with which parliament is now dealing.
lican legislature durst never have attempted. By cannot, on the present evidence, and after so great
The private character of that right hon. gentleman
that Ministry the industry of the nation is about to a lapse of time, be properly attached to his cha-
is, to us, a security that he would not, willingly and
be laid prostrate • and our holy and revered Church racier.
premeditatedly, do anything which could be charac-
is only tolerated until the bond of alliance now
terized as politically profligate. We shall not, how- PRINCE ALBERT'S APPROACHING VISIT.
forming with dissent and popery is sufficiently ce-
ever, compromise our honesty, by concealing the
mented to enable them to proclaim to us that " the . .
impression, which a dispassionate consideration of We have already given the probable routine of proceed-
time is come" for its betrayal—Veni ineluctabile hies on th;s interesting occasion. The only new particu-
his career, as a politician and a minister, has forced
tempos. tars, at all in a state to be pronounced upon with cer-
upon us, tt-at he has wofrilly and signally departed tainty. are the facts that the royal yacht, the Fairy, will
from that straight-forward course which ought to be The accounts from the seat of war on the Rio be ordered roued from Portsmouth, for the use, if re-
the path of great statesmen. We cannot condes- Grande, brought by the Great Britain steamer, re- quidreed of his royal highness, and that proviastiotnheisAtlobobret
rend to blink the expression of what we conceive to cord little beyond v hat was anticipated as the imme-
nD
made
c 1 C forwarehouses, a
number
of
whereour faat r
splendid
townswomen
de j: inner will be
be the truth. There is, independent of the right diate sequel of the victories achieved by General given on the occasion. The statements, given by several
course, a consistent course, for every statesman to Taylor's army. The city of Matamoros had fallen, of our contemporaries, with respect to devices of all sorts
pursue. Sir Robert Peel may have pursued the without a blow being struck in its defence, and covering the buildings round the Exchange area, the
first. He may he right, now. We may he wrong General Taylor had established himself on the Mexi- Tnuomwhbe.brli
atohde invitations given,
togiven, the, illumination of the
other similar pdaertatircucaianresti
upon are p
. pure
and,
inven-
tions. v
weintli
in finding fault with that course. A consistent can side of the Rio Grande, where he proposed
, tious. Nothing of the sortis
course, however, he has not pursued; and we are fix his quarters during the hot weather. In the respect to the course of the procession, and many other
almost inclined to believe, that danger as great is to meantime the American squadron has blockaded matters, the statements are only probabilities. Nothing
be apprehended from the glaringly public expedi- Vera Cruz; and it is intimated, by the now ram- decisive is arranged; nothing can be arranged, until the
prince's
ipleda.sure is known ; andd it would therefore be
tion of th.t inconsistency in a statesman, as is feared pant war party in the United States, that it may be
onlytttemnaiihs
eeosh
yi
enheiour readers, an . perhaps imposing. upon.
as the result of the measures with respect to which necessary, in the absence of prompt submission on
it has been displayed. the part of Mexico, riot only to blockade the ports ent and expensive preparations, to give
them further circulation in our columns. Everything,
We have been in the habit of regarding the ex- on her sea-board, to occupy California, New Mexi- we are assured, will be done by the committee to gratify
pressed opinions of public men as founded upon co and Tamaulipas, but to bombard St. Juan d' their fellow-townsmen.
some definite principle—some settled conviction. Ulloa into submission. There is one matter to which attention has been directed
We look upon the leading statesman of this, or that, The Mexican authorities, on the other hand, are byo his
s numberß
Royal Highness
of correspondents,,_vi,,visit
viz. ,
ate
a eo desirablenesseralhol, d
holiday
party, as an exponent of the opinions and feelings active in their preparations for defence; end the to the tradesmen and and working beingclasses of of the town. It will,y
of a definite portion of the community. His influ- fate of the Government of Paredes appears to de- to a great extent, be so in any event. The shops in the
ence in a representative system of government is pend upon its success. The army, however, by line of the procession will be closed as a matter of pru-
based upon, and dependent upon, this principle, which General Taylor was opposed, is said to have dente, and even necessity; and it would materially pro-
Sir Robert Peel, however, demurs to this long- nearly dispersed ; and great difficulty is anticipated im.oontiemeeihddeerti ifat ao generalaoe an d holidayarrangements
on the occasionnmd e
to
o dissipate e r e res
recognised state of things. He tells us, practically, in reassembling another of equal strength. As a the crowds, who will flock into the streets in inconveni-
that the he, d of the column is to move the base; proof of Mexican earnestness, however, the Ameri- ent numbers, by amusements or shows in various parts of
that the representation of any given amount of pub- can Consuls in all the trading ports and cities are the town. It would not, either, be an unworthy step on
lic opinion is free to direct his influence in complete ordered to suspend their functions; and all Ame- the part of the parishd authorities, if the farea atd the work.
contravention contravention of such public opinion. We have rican citizens are ordered to leave the country in ',Ts?: oahrgteonweroooues
moandeeonao
occasion
sioany,ofanrejo,o_
eof7reoryealmtyatoe
been looking up to him for the maintenance of a eight days. The prognostications of the American ing to our poor ftllow-townsmen. The public, we are as•
certain policy—laid down by himself—the justice journals are, that Paredes will be prevented from gored. are waiting with some:Eox'ety for intimation as to
and wisdom of which we have been impressed with following out his understood determination, and how the " Prince's Committee" wish the days to be ob-
from his own lips; yet he claims a right to turn peace be restored to the United States by a revolution, served by the inhabitants generally.
round, and say to us, " the time has come when I which will bring back Santa Anna to the head of
The Liverpool Sanatory Bill passed the Standing Orders
must pursue an opposite course," and to drag us the Mexican Government.
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attacks which have been made upon Sir Robert Peel
for the course which he has seen fit to pursue upon
the questions with which parliament is now dealing.
The private character of that right hon. gentleman
is, to us, a security that he would not, willingly and
premeditatedly, do anything which could be charac-
terized as politically profligate. We shall not, how-
ever, compromise our honesty, by concealing the
impression, which a dispassionate consideration of
his career, as a politician and a minister, has forced
upon us, t`-at he has wofrilly and signally departed
from that straight-forward course which ought to be
the path of great statesmen. We cannot condes-
cend to blink the expression of what we conceive to
be the truth. There is, independent of the right
course, a consistent course, for every statesman to
pursue. Sir Robert Peel may have pursued the
first. He may he right, now. We may he wrong
in finding fault with that course. A consistent
course, however, he has not pursued ; and we are
almost inclined to believe, that danger as great is to
be apprehended from the glaringly public expedi-
tion of th.t inconsistency in a statesman, as is feared
as the result of the measures with respect to which
it has been displayed.
We have been in the habit of regarding the ex-
pressed opinions of public men as founded upon
some definite principle—some settled conviction.
We look upon the leading statesman of this, or that,
party, as an exponent of the opinions and feelings
of a definite portion of the community. His influ-
ence in a representative system of government is
base 3 upon, and dependent upon, this principle.
Sir Robert Peel, however, demurs to this long-
recognised state of things. He tells us, practically,
that the he, d of the column is to move the base;
that the representation of any given amount of pub-
lic opinion is free to direct his influence in complete
contravention of such public opinion. We have
been looking up to him for the maintenance of a
certain policy—laid down by himself—the justice
and wisdom of which we have been impressed with
from his own lips; yet he claims a right to turn
round, and say to us, " the time has come when I
must pursue an opposite course," and to drag us
with him. Can we help asking, in such a case,
" how have you arrived at your new conviction ? by
what process ? in what time ? Is it the conviction
of a day, or of a crisis, or has it been making way__
silently, for years?" A further enquiry suggests
itself—" are you serious now ? Is there any secu-
rity that we may not some day be called upon to
hear' you announce another, and, perhaps, an oppo-
site, conviction." There is, obviously, no such se-
curity. We cannot point to one recorded opinion,
or one enunciated principle of acting, of a statesman
who recognises such a code of political morality,
and say, " here, at least, we are safe." The new
light may be breaking in upon his mind even now.
The scale, which we are destined hereafter to he told
has dimmed his political vision, may be just begin-
ning to lose its opaqueness, or may be almost gone.
The oracle may be
9y beginning to shake off its
torpor, or may he reaW to startle us with some new
discovery. To trust, in such a case, is to be idiotic.
Confidence in the professions of public men are per-
fectly incompatible with the existence of such a sys-
'tern of political morality, which overturns the whole
action of the constitution itself, by rendering the re-
presentative principle, upon which it is based, a farce
and a delusion.

It is not for us to speculate here upon the next
probable movement of the professors of this lax mo-
rality ; whether the sugar duties, the Irish church,
the repeal of the legislative union between the two
countries, the recognition of a non-religious system
of education, or some measure more directly affect-
ing the liberties of the subject and the security of
the state, are destined to be the field of its exercise.
A far more pertinent enquiry would he—what is to
be the course of the British people to protect them-
selves from the vagaries of these men, who have
thus thrown from them even the shadow of respon-
sibility, and declared openly, that we are not to rely
upon their professions, or their pledges ? Happily,
Sir Robert Peel himself has afforded us a clue to aid
us in such an enquiry.

" Her Majesty's advisers saw that the time had
arrived when these measures must be conceded ;
and they resolved at once to undertake the task of
their settlement." This is the stereotyped announce-
ment of every measure of apostacy. Why has the
time arrived ? Why is that a necessary and a wise
measure now, which, last year, or a few years ago,
these same men told us was pregnant with ruin to
the empire ? We answer—because we have been
sleeping at our posts, whilst the workers of mischief
have been actively mining, around and beneath us.
We have let in the small rill, and stood unresistingly
by until it has grown into a flood—until " the time
has come" when its onward progress must no longer
be impede-1 '
" obsta pri

d the wise maxim

and feebly contended against the growth, of disease
in the body politic, until" the time has come" when
the physician has to insist upon amputation.
Take, for an example of our meaning, the posi-
tion of the conservative body of the nation, with
respect to the pending measures for the withdrawal
of protection from native industry. We have seen,
for years, a powerful and well-organised body—the
Anti-Corn-Law League—industriously inoculating
the public mind with convictions of the necessity of
a free trade in food—a free interchange of commo-
dities with foreian countries, to the exclusion of all
consideration for
native product

ness—

artizan and the labou

stand made against t

s of a large mass of the

he capitalist, the ma

to the ignorance of th

Was anything like a firm

The feeling of excitement which exists in the
union on the subject of this Mexican quarrel does
not extend toward the relations of the model republic
-eAreedy- found that war_
costs money ; that volunteers, however bellicose,
must have rations, and clothing, and arms. The
surplus revenue is rapidly vanishing ; the issue of
treasury bonds is in prospect ; the consummation
of the banking scheme is being indefinitely post-
poned, and a reduction of tariff duties is becoming
daily a more impracticable event. Independently
of these sedatives, another material consideration,
of a kind which Brother Jonathan seldom shuts
his eyes to, has rendered him of late moderately
civil towards Great Britain. The consideration in

he spread of this movement ?

Were those, even, who are now moving, so vigour-
ously to arrest its triumph, at their posts ? They
d in petty projects of
rat ulation, at the

They were imm,

following, in extanc

question is thus glanced at in the city article of the
New York Morning Herald of the Bth instant :
" Our exports to Great Britain and dependiences, con-
tinue in abut the same proportion to the aggregate as
previously reported, and comprise the most valuable part
of our foreign export trade. The exports to Great Britain
from the South. are a larger per cent of the aggregate than
those from the North. The commercal relations be-
tween England and the United States are of the most
valuable nature, particular ly to the principal interests of
this country. The balance of trade between the two
countries is annually largely in our favour, and as the
variety of our exports increase, larger markets will spring
up for our produi tons. Our shipments of breadstuffs and
provisions to Great Britain, within the past five or six
years, have increased immensely, and the facilities we
now enjoy, in the entry of our products into British ports,
complred with those of former yerrs, will open a trade
between the two countries in the agricultural products of
the North, hardly second to that now existing in the
principal agricultural products of the South. The re-
moval of the restrictions contemplated under the new Corn
Bill of Sir Itib,rt ['eel's, will ultimately give us markets
tor our breadstuffs—we say uitimatrly, because it will
require borne time to extend the cultivation of grain
in this country, sufficient to bring prices down to a point
low enough to enable us to compete succesatully with the
grain growing countries more favourably situated to
anticipate us in any demand for breadstuffs in the United
Kingdom,"

With this feeling as to the advantage to America
of the preservation of amicable relations with this
country, we have little fear of the favourable settle-
ment of the Oregon question being achieved.
With respect to the relations between our Cana-
dian settlements and the United States, if we can
believe the transatlantic newspapers, they are fast
settling themselves. The ,New York Morning Herald,
quoting the proceedings of a meeting of the Whig
.arty, from the Montreal Pilot, remarks,—

" We look upon the proceedings of this banquet as
very sign ticant of the direction that the ropular will is
taking in Canada. It is beyond question that nine-tenths
of the people are in favour of a republican form of Go-
vernment."

n them to th

We fear it must come to this ; although the pear
wi;l perhaps hang on the tree a little longer.

We have given, in another column, an extract
from the speech of Mr. D'lsraeli, delivered on
Tuesday last, containing the evidence adduceable in
support of the charge brought against Sir Robert
Peel by . Lord George Bentinck, of having dealt
disingenuously—in fact, of having " hunted to
death" his noble relative, the late George Canning.

j Mirror of Parliament and the Times,. But how
,vere the reports of the Mirror got up ? The paper
had not a separate corps of reporters. It was made
out of the best portions of the most extended re-
ports of the gentlemen engage! on the Times, Chro-
nicle, and Herald, who met together daily to com-
pare their notes, and write out the speeches amongst
them. en the occasion in question, from its agree-
ing with the Times, the passage disputed must be
concluded to have been supplied from the notes of
the Times reporter. Sir Robert Peel argued, from
these data, that there were three authorities in his
favour for one against him (the llirror of Parlia-
ment counting as nothing); and that it was more
likely that the passage was interpolated by the one,
than omitted by the three.

Here the question rests ; and here, we presume,
it must rest. In justice to Sir Rohert Peel, how-
ever, we do not think that the stigma of having
uttered the sentence and the delinquency with which
it would mark his conduct, to Mr. Canning,
cannot, on the present evidence, and after so great
a lapse of time, be properly attached to his cha-
racter.

A spirit of fairness would have prompted us to give
Sir Robert's reply, delivered on Friday evening.
Its extreme length, however, extending over six co-
lumns of the Times, and a discursiveness not usual
with that statesman, utterly precludes us from giving
any portion of it in his own words; and we must
therefore content ourselves with a summary of its

leading details.
the charge was of a two-fold nature; first, that
having in 1829, during the debate upon the Catho-
lic Relief Bill, admitted that in a communication
made to Lord Liverpool in 1825, he had asked to be
relieved from office, urging, as his, reason for doing
so, that he had become convinced that something
must he done for the. Settlement of the question,
and that, therefore, he acted unfairly towards Mr.
Canning in withdrawing his support from that
statesman in 1827 ; and, secondly, that he had pro-
cured the insertion of a garbled report of the speech
of 1829 in Hansard's debates, omitting the particu-
lar passaae, upon which the charge was founded.
Mr. D'lsraeli supported the views of Lord George
Bentinck, by producing the report of the Mirror of
Parliament and of the London Times, in both of
which was to be found the omitted passage.

The Liverpool Sanatory Bill passed the Standing Orders
Committee of the Lords, on Friday.
On Sunday last, the sum of thirty-two pounds was col-
lected at Wallasey Church for the Church Missionary
Society, after sermons by the Rev. W. W. Ewbank and
the Rey. Dr._l3srth.____
On Sunday morning last. after a sermon by the Rev.
S. W. Saunders, Vicar of St. Ishtnaers, Pembrokeshire,
the sum of thirteen pounds was collected in West Derby
Chapel, for the Incorporated Society for Building, &c.,
Churches.

TERMINATION OF THE STRIKE.—WE have elsewhere
announced that the strike at Birkenhead was at an end,
and we are extremely glad to say that the struggle has
alao ceased in Liverpool. The master-masons have re-
solved to yield the 275. per week to the men, and half an
hour refreshment time each afti-rnoon.

LAUNCH —To-morrow, at eleven o'clock, a splendid
new ship, of about 600 tuns, will be launched from the
building-yard of Messrs. P. Chaloner and Sons, Baffin-
street. She has been built for John Worrall, Esq., and
is intended for the Calcutta trade. She will be command-
ed by Captain Williams, late master of the Robert Finnie.
CHURCH EXTENSION.—We understand that the Lord
Bishop of Chester will preach in St. Michael's, Pitt-
street, on the morning of Sunday, July sth, in behalf of
the Building Fund of St. Simon's Church. We are
happy to know this, as we regret to learn that, owing to
some public societies being unable to make the exp cted
grants, there is still a considerable deficiency in the fund
requisite for completing the church. We trust that the
attendance of friends will be numerous, and their contri-
butions liberal on the occasion. The first stone of the
church will be laid on the 14th of July.

POLICE COURT, YESTERDAY.—Georzeina Dowling,
for robbing a man named Michael Kennedy, in Waterloo-
road of 7s. 6l and a tobacco-box on Saturday night, was
committed to gaol for two months.—A woman named
Mary Coke was charged with robbing a flatman from
Lancaster of two£lo notes, and a £5 note from his per-
son on Saturday night, io Salthouse-lane, and the case
being so far proved, (though no money was found upon
her,) she was committed for trial at the sessions.—A res-
pectThly dressed young man was charged with robbing a
gentleman named Tarrson, in Anon-street, of some
clothing and a few articles of jewellery. The prisoner's
brother-in-law lodged in the house, and the prisoner
was in the habit of getting his meals there. Some of the
articles were found at pawnbrokers. He was committed
for trial.

IL was a disputed question whether the
to Lord Liverpool of his change of opinion was in a
written or a verbal communication. To prove that
it could not have bee the former, Sir Robert had
his correspondence between them, in the year in
question, brought from his country seat; and there
was no trace there of its having been thus made.
After entering into a long argument and quoting

GREAT HEAT OF THE `WEATHER.—Dur'ng the whole
of the past week the weather in this neighbourhood has
been literally scorching, the extreme elevation of the ther-
mometer having been, on Tuesday last, 71 degs.,Wednes-
day, 80, Thursday, 83, Friday. 79, Saturday, 71, Sunday,
78, and yesterday 81 degrees. This is a very high average.
On the 7th instant, however, the greatest heat rea-hed 87,
an elevation which it has not attained since the commence-
ment of the present century. In the commencement of
18-12 we had a similar hot month, the extreme temperature
on the 12th of June being 86. It differed, however, from
the present month, the latter portion of it being marked
by heavy 'mica. In June, 1826, the thermometer reached
84 degrees, with great drought throughoutthe month. We
had nothing so high as this since the June of 1799, when
the thermometer, we believe, approached 90 degrees. We
have not, however, the precise temperature at hand ; but

are correct in stating that it was the highest on record.
Yesterday we had some thunder, with a refreshing shower,
which must have been most grateful to the parched vege-
tation; and the atmosphere at present indicates a further
fall.

DISTRESSING CALAMITY.—A most melancholy oc-
currence took place on Friday evening last on the Welch
roast, by which Mr. Bernard, of Daulby-street, lost his
life. In the neighbourhood of the little Orms Head, and
about six miles from Conway, are the extensive Limestone
Quarries of Rhos, distant from the bay of Rhos about
half a mile. A company of gentlemen' of whom Mr.
Bernard was one, have taken a lease of these quarries,
and a railway and loading stages, with other works have
been constructed between the quarries acrd• the sea. On
Friday ;Fist, Mr. Arthur Holme of this town, under whose
superintendence the works Bre being done, was engaged
during the day, principally in levelling, and was assisted
by Mr. 13ernard. The day having been intensely hot, and
both parties fatigued, Mr. Bernard proposed that they
should bathe about seven o'clock in the evening. Mr.
Hokin, Mr. Bernard, and another young gentleman
named Phillips, accordingly pushed off from the edge of
the bay in the boat and dropped the anchor about twenty
yards from the shore where the water was only about six
feet deep. While Mr. Holme was dropping the anchor
Mr. Bernard undressed and plunged in, the former
having only taken off his coat. Mr. Bernard made
one stroke, when suddenly throwing up both his
hands, he turned on his back and sunk in that po.
sition. His companions shouted to the workmen who
were employed on the stage, and both of them plunged in
after him. Mr. Phillips having unfortunately got his left
arm entangled in his shirt sleeve, was himself in imminent
danger, and his life was saved wiih difficulty; but, Mr.
H olme, who is an excellent swimmer, dived several times
to the bottom, but a strong tide ebbing, he was unable to
reach his friend. He had the presence of mind to put a
stocking on a boat hook, and several men plunging into
the water to his aid, they soon got out the body, but not.
withstanding that not more than seven or ten minutes had
elapsed, it was too late, for life was quite extinct. Every
application that could be resorted to was tried, but in
vain ; and there is no doubt, but the sudden plunge, after
exposure all day in such intense heat, had caused internal
cramp, for after the first stroke he sunk to the bottom with
his face upwards, and made no motion, the water in that
place being clear as chrystal. Mr. Bernard bad formerly
been of the firm of Bernard and Ledson, extensive ware-
house keepers in this town, and he was about to become
the resident manager of the quarries in question. He was
deservedly respected, and his sudden and melancholy end
has plunged an extensive circle into profound grief.

DEATH OF CHARLES HORSFALL, ESQ.

We have this week to record the death of one of the
oldest and most respected of those " merchant princes,"
whose career of honour and utility is intimately associ-
ated with the trowth and present eminence of the port of
Liverpool. We refer to Mr. Charles Horsfall, who ex-
pired on Thursday last, at his residence at Crosby. For
about half a century Mr. Horsfall has been a resident in
Liverpool, conducting an extensive foreign trade—of late
in partnership with his sons ; and during that period has
won, by his strict integrity and punctuality, the esteem
of his contemporaries, and afforded to all around him a
pattern of the true character of a British merchant.
That his excellent qualities have been justly appreciated,
it is due to his fellow-townsmen to acknowledge. For a
considerable period of his life he was honoured by a seat
in the Town Council, where his talents, and the good
sense displayed by him upon the multifarious subjects
coming before the consideration of that body, were con-
spicuously shewn ; and in 1832 and 3 he was elected to
the Mayoralty, succeeding in that office a merchant of
his own standing, Mr. Samuel Sandbach.

Until within the last two or three years. when his
health partially failed him, and his age called for relaxa-
tion and a relief from the toils and cares of public life,
Mr. Horsfall continued untiringly to devote himself to
the service of his fellow-townsmen, and to the advance-
ment of the interests of this great port. He was a firm
and yet humane magistrate; most efficient and liberal in
his mayoralty ; and as a member of the Dock Commit-
tee, whicia office he filled up to the close of his public
life, his great commercial experience and the soundness
of his views were invaluable to his colleagues. Although
in private as in public life most conscientious, he was
tolerant, on all occasions, of the consciences or the opi-
nions of others ; whilst he would never submit to be
turned aside, by any consideration, from the course which
in his heart he believed to be a just and true one. The
charities of the town have lost in him a munificent sup-
porter ; and his private beneficence, which was large, will
be severely missed by the deserving unfortunate of his
fellow-creatures.

In private life—in all the relations of husband and of
father—Mr. Horsfall was exemplary and beloved; and
will be lamented very far beyond the circle of his imme-
diate family and friends. Mr. Alderman Thomas Berry
Horsfall, his eldest son, and a son worthy to tread in the
steps and inherit the honours and estimation of such a
father, will by this event become the head of the firm, of
which he has long been the most active member.