The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-29 00:00:00

MEXICO.

VERA Cnuz, Auu. I.—On the 15th July the military on
guard at the palace early in the morning revolted, seized the
person of the president, and took possession of the cathedral
and the adjacent buildings. They were soon joined by the
federal chief Urea, and the former federal president Gomez
Fareas, their object being the overthrow of the present rulers,
and the restoration of the federal form of government of 1824.
The rebels having found means of rallying a great number of
the lower classes, and having got hold of the funds then in
the Treasury, the Mint, ana the Arzolispada, soon found
themselves.in a condition to hold their ground, and would
no doubt have succeeded in their object had it been responded
to in the interior. Providentially, this did not prove to be
the case. The aversion to a federal form of government is
very general, and in no one part of the interior was the at-
tempt to change the constitution of the country seconded.
On the 19th the president was released for the purpose of
bringing about an arrangement, it was stated, favcurable to
the views of the insurgents ; but in lieu of this he joined the
troops that remained faithful to government, under General
Valeira, when an organised resistance to the rebels took
place, the result of which was a struggle, in the course of
which the palace was nearly reduced to a mass of ruins, and
500 persons were killed and wounded, the urcharis plundered,
and many public and private buildings greatly injured. Until
the 27th of July the government were unable to conquer the
rebel party, and probably from fear of a general commotion,
consented to an arrangement by which they engaged to gua-
rantee the lives, property, and employments of the adverse
party, to allow them to march out of the city with the honors
of war, and moreover to promote the reform of the present
constitution. This arrangement, which in reality is a triumph
for the rebels, has left a general feeling of anxiety and appre-
hension, that although the contest is removed from the city
of Mexico, it is by no means at an end.

General Santa Anna, who had been requested to take the
command of all the military, in the name of the state, had
gone from his country house as far as Perote, when the news
of the arrangement met him. As the federalists are his de-
termined foes, it is believed it will not have his approbation,
and as he is, doubtless, the most influential man in Mexico,
nod in Icgal command of a considerable force, many persons
are inclined to think and to hope that he will take the helm
of affairs once more. A very few days will decide.

In the mean time trade is quite at a stand still, owing to
the ill-advised note of November 26 last, which doubtless
will affect materially our importations, and therefore must
be repealed.

It is satisfactory to be able to add, that in the midst of
the recent turbulent and sanguinary struggles the persons
and property of foreigners were uniformly respected; and
the city of Vera Cruz, at this date, never was more quiet.
The conduct of its population is most exemplary.
There are no ships of war at present here, and only three
merchant ships in port, all French, which, in fact, brought
out machinery for the new cotton factories.

The Seagull left Vera Cruz on the Ist of August, Tampico
3d, and Havannah 10th. Freight, 860,000 dollars. No pas-
sengers.

FOREIGN

AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY

It is reported that the Duke of Orleans, accompanied by
the Duke of Nemours and several general officers, will in a
few days set out on a tour of inspection of the fortified places
in the north and east of the kingdom, commencing with the
Pas de Calais and ending with the Doubs and Is4e. They
will also, it is said, take with them several superior officers
of engineers to direct the various works now in execution.
According to a Milan letter in the Journal de Franefort,
Count Anatole Demidoff, upon his marriage with the Princess
de Montford, settled on his lady, in case of widowhood, an
annual income of 250,000 f. The joint property is to be en-
joyed in common, and 25,000 f per annum is to be paid to the
princess as pin-money._

" Orders have beeii issued," says the Journal de Maine et
Loire, " to put the fortresses of Lorient, Port Louis, and
Quiberon in a complete state of defence. The Commandant
of Lorient, who had obtained two months' leave of absence,
has been ordered to remain at his post."
Orders, dated 16th instant, have been received at Cher-
bourg to mount artillery immediately on the central fort of
the dyke. a point in the middle of the roadstead, and defend-
ing the east and west entries. It is to have 12 Paixhans'
guni of 80lb shells each, and 12 36-pounders.
According to an official census of the population of Gal-
lic*, recently published by the Vienna papers, it appears
that the total number of inhabitants is 4,763,661, of whom
32,212 are gentlemen, and 4,783 ecclesiastics. The Roman
Catholics are 2,094,445 ; United Greeks, 2,077,995 ; Greeks,
269,327; Protestants, 28,128 ; and Jews, 283,345.
DREADFUL EARTHQUAKE.—ST. PETERSBURG, SEPTEM-
BER 11.—The Abeille' du Nord of yesterday published the
following letter from Tiflis, August 13 :—" You have, doubt-
less, heard of the terrible .earthquake of Mount Arrarat,
which has totally destroyed the town of Makitchemati, da-
maged all the , buildings at Erivan, and devastated the two
districts of Sharour and Sourmate, in Armenia. All the
villages in those districts have been destroyed. The earth is
rent in such a manner that all the cotton and rice plantations
have perished for want of water. But the most awful event
has taken place in the neighbourhood of Mount Ararat. A
considerable mass was loosened from the mountain, and de-
stroyed everything in its way for the distance of seven wersts
(nearly five English miles). Among others, the great village
of Akhouli has had the fate of Herculaneum and Pompeii.
Above 1000 inhabitants were buried under heaps of rocks.
A thick fluid, which afterwards became a river, run from the
interior of the inotiutain, which was opened, and following
the same direction, swept over the ruins, and carried with it
the corpses of the unfortuate inhabitants of Akhouli, the dead
animals, &c. The shock continued to be felt every day in
the above-mentioned districts, and entirely laid them waste ;
then the shocks became less frequent. Arrarat is not yet
quiet ; the day before yesterday I was awakened by two vio-
lent subterranean corornotions.—Journal de SI. Petersburg,
Sept. 12.
_

.
Advices from St. Petersburg of the 2d instant estimates
about 100 the number of lives lost in consequence of the ca-
tastrophe which occurred on the 25th ult. on the Czarskoje-
selo railway.
DEATH OF THE DUCIIESS OF MODENA.—Her Imperial
Highness the Archduchess Maria Beatrice Victoria Guisep-
pino, Duchess of Modena, died on the 17th instant. This
princess, who was born on the Gth of December, 1799 was
the eldest daughter of King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia.
She was married to the Duke of Modena on the 20th June,
1812, and has left issue two princes and two princesses.
DEATHS IN PARIS.—The Princes Adrien de Laval Mont-
morency ; Rear-.Atimiral Lecoupe ; Major-General Surheck,
one of the surviving officers of the Cent-Suisses of Louis
XVI. ; Major-General d'Hincourt ; the Baron de hi Haye ;
Colonel Castres, military commandant of the Tuilleries.
A FRENCH SUICIDE.—" A few (lays ago," says the Con-
stitutionnel, " some journeymen bakers were reproaching
one of their companions, a man named Berangere, with his
propensity for drinking, and telling him that with such
courses he would end his days in a hospital. You are wrong,'
said Berangere, showing sii francs five sous wrapped up in a
Paper, ' one can die when one pleases whilst such a sum re-
mains;'- • On Sunday he purchased a pistol and some powder
and balls with his six francs five sous, and after writing,upon
the paper in which they were enclosed, You see, my friends,
that when one has six francs five sous he need not die in the
hospital,' put the p ,istol into his mouth and blew out his
brains."

Sheridan Knowles's new tragedy, " John of Procida ; or,
the Bridals of Messina." was performed at Covent-garden
Theatre on Saturday night, for the first time, with complete
success.

QUEEN's CotiNTy.—A letter from Mont Mellick gives a
most appalling account of the state of thousands and tens of
thousands of the people in this county for want of food, and
that a miller in the neighbourhood of Maryborough, who
gave out a vast quantity of wheaten meat and oatmeal, upon
promissory notes, has contracted with a process-server for a
'sum, not less than £5, to serve the processes for the recovery
of the debts. The letter proceeds to state that a person who
drew a certain sum from a loan-fund became unable to pay ;
the mart who stood engaged as his surety, apprehensive for
himself, raised money, to discharge the debt, engaging to pay
an interest of ss. to the pound. The debtor gave up his
corn to his friend to reimburse himself. The landlord, bows
ever, comes down upon the corn, and has it seized for hi-
rent. The corn is taken away by night, and the man to
whom it had been made over by the owner is apprehended,
and committed to Marvborough gaol upon a charge of felony.
Thus runs the struggle between the necessities of the people
and the demands upon them.

Ebe Etberpool Alanbarl3.

TUESDdY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1840

We have received our files of the Guiana Chronicle
to the 31st of July, inclusive. These papers only
supply us with intermediate dates, as we have already
acknowledged the receipt of a file of the Guiana Times
to the 10th of August. They are chiefly occupied
with extracts from the English journals on the subject
of immigration into the West Indies.
From an advertisement which appears in one of the
papers before us, we learn that Mr. Bernard Reis pro-
poses to form a settlement of Germans on the River
Essequibo, after the plan of Manheim on the Rhine,
to contain at least 2,000 inhabitants in two years, with
the prospect of a proportionate increase (annually, we
presume,) to the population, by the arrival of families
able to purchase, with their owu means, houses and
small !obi' tif the land. The city of Cincinatti, on the
Ohio, is re-sieved to as presenting an example of the
growth of such a settlement as that proposed by Mr.
Reis. He is very sanguine that, in the space of four
or five years, the colony will enjoy "the advantages
and pleasures of a fine, richly populated city, about 100
miles up the Essequibo." The soil in the neighbour-
hood upon which he has fixed is, as in most other parts
of British- Gniana, exuberantly rich ; while the climate
is exceedingly healthy# and attractive to invalids. Mr.
Reis does not propose it convert British Guiana from
a sugar-growing country into a manufacturing one ;
but he leaves it to the operation of circumstances to
maintain its rank as it may in the production of the
West India staple, and to enrich it by a new class of
labourersperstins who, with the means of settling
themselves as respectable tenants, will be found willing
to contribute, by individual toil, to their personal com-
fort, and to the prosperity of the colony.

We have received our files of the Jamaica Standard
and Royal Gazette to the 15th of August, inclusive.
The Royal Gazette expresses itself in more cheerful

terms.than usual when speaking of the future prospects
of this once great and flourishing colony. We hope
that the sanguine expectations of the editor will not be
disappointed. He appears to think that "the British
Government, at last roused from the apathy and indif-
ference with which they viewed every act of the Legis-
lative Assembly, have ceased their determined hostility,
and seem now eager to do all in their power to stem the
torrent of the misfortunes" of Jamaica. We are sorry
to inform the editor of the Gazette that this opinion
rests upon a very uncertain foundation. Our bungling
and incapable ministry have become too much em-
broiled in their disputes with foreign powers to pay
much attention to our colonial interests, even if we
could give them credit for entertaining any serious in-
tention to do justice to the planters.
We quite agree with the Royal Gazette that the ad-
ministration of Sir Charles Metcalfe, if he is permitted
by the Home Government to carry out his policy un-
molested, is calculated to support the drooping spirits
of the inhabitants of Jamaica. He has acted hitherto
a firm, uncompromising, and impartial part. He suf-
fers no abuse of power or authority to go unchecked.
He keeps himself aloof from the fawning and hypo-
critical sycophant, the malignant backbiter, and the
agitating demagogue, and seems determined, in all
matters, to judge and act for himself. Under his ad-
ministration, political excitement—the great bane of the
colony, and the most serious impediment to its pro-
sperity—is rapidly subsiding. The only parties who
are inclined to find fault with Sir Charles Metcalfe are
the Baptist missionaries and their misguided dupes.
These men, who have long made a profitable trade of
agitation, now find that their craft is in danger; and
their abuse of the executive has-accordingly increased
within the last few months. Their influence is, how-
ever, rapidly decreasing.
The Rev. Mr. Houghton, one of the most violent of
the Baptist agitators, was undergoing an examination
before the Insolvent Debtors' Court, at Kingston, he
having announced that he intended to take the benefit
of the act. His appearance in court was the signal for
collecting a rabble in the streets, among whom the most
preposterous reports were spread. Amongst others, it
was stated that a party of police had been sent to take
down his pulpit ! The origin of these rumours it is
not difficult to guess at.

A letter from the 'mountains of St. Elizabeth states
that much rain had recently .fallen in that neighbour-
hood; but that the effect of the drought was severely
felt on some of the coffee properties to the southward,
and particularly towards the savannahs. The roads,
in many parts of the island, were so Much cut up that
many properties were unable to cart their sugars, &c.,
to the shipping places.
Respecting the habits of the negroes in Jamaica,
after two years of unrestricted freedom, we are still
furnished with very unfavourable accounts. The prin-
cipal complaint against them, independently of their
general indisposition to accede to the proposals of the
proprietors, is, that they bring very few agricultural
productions to the markets. The island is almost en-
tirely dependent upon foreign countries for its supplies
of corn. Fruit is occasionally brought to the market,
but it is generally stolen. To such a pitch, indeed, has
the plunderingul provisions and fruit attained, that
those who are inclined to plant, dread the predatory
habits of the others so much, as rather to run the risk
and expense of purchasing, than that of cultivating
their lands. With regard to fruit, it is said to be " no
uncommon thing for the owner to find his fence de-
stroyed, his trees stripped, and marks left of the asses
and panniers which had been used to carry away the
stolen produce." The Royal Gazette adds that " if
the labourers have an object to attain, sue ti as a certain
sum of money for any desired purpose, they will con-
tinue to work until it is accomplished, and then they
will stop." It appears that no entreaty will prevail
upon them to do snore than a certain quantity of work.
Doubts were entertained as to the possibility of ob-
taining immigrants for Jamaica from the United
States, the tide of immigration from that country hav-
ing set in in favour of Trinidad and British Guiana.
The Cornwall Chronicle suggests that the most useful
classes of labourers, and those best adapted for the
island, might be obtained from the: agricultural districts
of Scotland and England. The se labourers, it is al-
leged, would be delighted with th e country—would live

cheerfully—and conduce to the rural wealth and in,
dustry of the island. The same paper deprecates the
introduction of continental labourers. The labour is
such as can be easily performed by a native of Great
Britain.

We had imagined that the tricky resources of the
Protector Society were exhausted, and that they would
have been satisfied with the retribution which they have
drawn upon their own heads. We have been disap-
pointed. The dirty creatures are at their work again.
Their last trick has been to send in upwards of 1000
claims to be rated on the part of the occupiers of cellars
in various parts of the town. Yes, upwards of 1000
tenants of cellars—themselves among the most indi-
gent of the inhabitants of the parish—claith to be
rated for the relief of the poor ! We know that this
wretched manoeuvre will prove a signal failure ; but
we also know that a very large proportion of these newly
assessed popish ratepayers will themselves become, at
no distant period, a burthen upon the parochial rates.
Merchants and tradesmen of Liverpool ! this is the way
in which the self-styled liberals deal with your inte-
rests. Can any one of you, after this, ever so far stultify
himself as to vote for a liberal ? Let your purses and
your pockets answer the question.

We earnestly request our conservative friends to be
prompt and vigilant in their attendance at the registra-
tion courts. We have the strongest reason for urging
upon their notice this advice. The radicals are making,
and will continue to make, the most strenuous and
persevering efforts to secure the rights which they have
so scandalously arrogated on behalf of their pauper vo-
ters. We are sorry to hear that there exists a degree
of culpable indifference on this subject among a large
class of the conservative electors. This feeling ought in-
stantly to give place to a strong resolve to fulfil an act
of imperative duty to themselves and to the country.
The conservatives of Liverpool should remember that
the present year may terminate their anxiety on the
subject of the registry, by giving them such a prepon-
derating influence in electoral matters, as to render ut-
terly hopeless any further trickery on the part of the
radical faction.

The Albion of yesterday contains a leading article
professedly in reply to the strictures which we offered
in our last on the attack which our contemporary
made upon the proceedings, of the Diocesan Society.
We say Professedly, because the Albion does not deal
fairly with any one of our statements. This being
the case, we do not feel called upon to enter into any
lengthened defence.

The Albion is extremely anxious to disclaim the
character of being " the recognised organ of any reli-
gious denomination whatever." Be it so. We must
henceforth consider our contemporary as an anything-
arian in religious matters. It is utterly indifferent to
the Albion whether Protestantism, Popery, Dissent, or
Socialism, be in the ascendant in this country. For
aught that the editor of that very exemplary journal
cares, Christianity, Mahometanism, or Heathenism,
may become, in turns, the established religion of Great
Britain. He " refers to religious proceedings only as
they affect the national interest." Indeed ! Do not
religious proceedings uniformly affect the national
interest ? If so, how can he justify his indifference on
fop important a subject ? We beg leave to remind the
Albion that the speakers at the Diocesan meeting were
called to task in its columns simply because they spoke
of religious proceedings in reference to their influence
upon national interests. This, in the opinion of our
contemporary, constituted the "head and front of
their offending ;" and yet he professes to act upon the
same principle himself. Let him learn a little more
constency in future.
jt turdS out. that our contemporary, when he pro-
nounced " scienc,' to be only another term for truth,"
merely implied the "exact sciences"—the pure and
mixed mathematics, mechanics, &c. Is he not.
n aware that geology, chemistry, an . fly other depart,
ments of human knowledge -v ie been dubbed
" sciences." It was to the variations and contradic-
tions in these that we alluded. It is
:quite obvious that
our contemporary has entirely lost sight of the abstract
meaning of the word "science."

We look upon the great meeting, held last night, at
the Amphitheatre, as one of the *most important that
has ever been witnessed in Liverpool. It has afforded
us another proof—if proof were wanting—of the
unflinching attachment of a large mass of the working
classes of this ancient borough to the principles of the
Established Church. It has likewise afforded a
triumphant refutation to the falsehoods which have
recently been put into circulation respecting the de-
sertion of a large number of the free burgesses from
the Conservative ranks. We appeal to the five
thousand individuals who were present at the meeting
last night whether the freemen of Liverpool have not
been grossly calumniated by the introduction of such
a charge.
From the appearance of the meeting of last night we
feel more than ever convinced that the safety and
integrity of the British empire, and the preservation in
unimpaired efficiency and vigour of its free constitu-
tion, depend chiefly upon the unwavering attachment
of the Protestant democracy of these realms to the
Church of England, and upon their zealous mainte-
nance of the grand principle of PROTESTANT
ASCENDANCY.

The great source of danger to the government of
Great Britain is from the ascendancy of Popery, and
its consequence, a divided allegiance. Against this
danger it is impossible to be too much upon our
guard. It is with the greatest satisfaction, therefore,
that we hail every fresh attempt to erect a barrier
against the aggressions of Papal domination.
We feel assured that the example which has been so
nobly, set by the operative classes in Liverpool will
exercise a salutary influence over other parts of the
kingdom, and that the day is not far distant when every
city, town, and hamlet in Great Britain will have its
Association of Protestant Operatives.
We recommend a careful perusal of the speeches
'delivered last night. They will be found fraught with
political wisdom of the highest order.

INQUEST.—On Friday last, a girl about twelve years old
was sent to a pit in Wooton for some water ; she did not re-
turn when she was expected, when they sent in search of her.
She was found in the pit, drowned, the can she had taken for
water being beside her. An inquest was held on the body on
Saturday. Verdict, " Accidentally drowned."
FIRE.—On Thursday night last, a fire broke out in the
ropery of Messrs. Duncan, Rowett, and Co., Lodge-lane.
The engine-house only was,consumed. One of the firemen
had a narrow escape from the falling of a wall : he was much
hurt.

ACCIDENT.—On Sunda?, evening, as the Southport mail,
'which comes in at six o•clock, was passing along Byrom,
street, the axletree suddenly snapped, the near fore wheel
flew otf, and the coach toppled partially over. There were
only two persons outside, in addition to the driver, and a
lady and gentleman inside. The coachman was thrown from
his seat and slightly bruised : the others escaped without in-
jury.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—A coroner's inquest was held on Fri-
day, on the body of a labouring man named John Parry. The
deceased was employed, along with others, on Monday, in
taking down some houses in Canning-place, and was engaged
on the second floor of one of the houses in clearing away the
rubbish, and other men were employed in taking down a cross
wall which divided two houses, which wall gave way and
broke through the floor on which the deceased was standing,
and he was buried in the rubbish ; he was taken out and con-
veyed to the Infirmary, where he died on Thursday, from in-
flammation of the chest, produced by the injuries received.
A verdict of " Accidental Death" was returned.
AWFUL THUNDER STORM AND Loss OF LIFE.—On
Thursday last one of the most appalling thunder storms that
had been recollected for a long time visited the neighbour-
hood of Halsall ; the murky clouds hung with gloomy aspect
over the seemingly devoted place—the rain descended in tor-
rents, wbile the mighty artillery of lleaven rolled, roared,
and thundered, as if threatening at one fell swoop to involve
the whole place in one universal ruin. The timid dis-
tractedly ran to seek a hiding-place in some dark pantry or
gloomy cellar, while even the stout-hearted threw down their
implements of employment, and lifting their hands and eyes
to Heaven, uttered a " Lord, have mercy on us!" with a
fervency perhaps previously unknown to their hearts. About
3 o'clock in the afternoon, a person named William Howard
had taken shelter in a barn belonging to Mr. Jno. Hesketh,
farmer of Halsall, when his attention was arrested by the
screams of some person near in apparent agony. He imme-
adiately ran to the place from whence the cries proceeded,
when a frightful spectacle presented itself. There lay on the
floor, near the shippon-door, one of the sons of Mr. Hesketh ;
he had received severe injuries on the head and legs, and was
unable to move himself. A yard or two further lay, side by
side, his father, Mr. H., and a young man in his employ ,•
they did not move, and on coming near to them he found
they were locked in the arms of death—they had breathed
their last : the electric fluid had burst through the roof, and
of course had produced the melancholy tragedy. Mr. Hes-
keth was slightly bruised in the head, his hat was split from
the crown to the brim ; but on the other unfortunate victim
no wounds appeared—his , death was caused merely by the
electric shock, and not from any outward wounds. The
state of the afflicted family can be better imagined than de-
scribed, deprived as they were in an instant of a father and a
husband. The son is, however, in a fair way of recovery •,
but it is feared he will scarcely be able to attend the sad
rites of his father's funeral, who in his company met with
that death from which he so
,narrowly escaped. An inquest
was held on Friday on the remains, and a verdict was re-
turned according with the above facts.

COUNTY POLICE COUR7

YESTERDAY..
GAMBLING AT LIVERPOOL RACES-CONVICTION IN THE

PENALTY OP

'WO HUNDRED POUNDS

Shortly after eleven o'clock, the Mayor and William Rath-
bone, Esq., took their seats, and proceeded to hear evidence
in support of an information lodged by Mr. Dowling, com-

inissioner of police, against Mr. William Lynn, proprietor of
the Waterloo Hotel, in which the defendant was charged
with keeping a certain place, to wit, the grand stand at the
Aintree race •course, for gambling purposes, and with per-
mitting certain persons to play roulette there on the 23d of
the present month, contrary to the statute, which provided
that the party so offending should forfeit and pay the sum of
two hundred pounds. To this infraction the defendant
pleaded not guilty. _ _

Mr. Lace,.,one of the clerks to the county magistrates,.
assisted by Mr. Myers, conducted the case for the prosecu-
tion:; Mr. Wright acted as agent for the defendant.
Charles Mayne was the first witness called. He was ex-
amined by Mr. Myers, as follows—l am an inspector of the
county police ; I was on duty on the Aintree race-course,
situated about five miles from Liverpool, on Wednesday,. the
23d instant. I went into the grand stand on that occasion:
I was at first prevented from going in, but, after I had rea-
soned with the check-taker, I was allowed to enter. I then
proceeded to the first story, and went into the room on the
left hand as you go up the stairs. There were fourteen per-
sons there. Some of them (I would say about nine) were
engaged in a play called roulette. I saw a great deal of
money on the table, composed of silver and sovereigns. The
game was played with a number of black and white marks.
Portions of the table were covered with these marks, and I
observed the persons betting on the black, red, and white.
They had a table, and in the centre of that table there was
something like a mahogany dumb-waiter, which was turned
round. It moved on a point, and when it was turned round
something like a marble went round also in the centre; and
when it ceased turning, the marble became stationary, and
then the person who had the management of the game an-
nounced to the several persons playing whether they had
lost or won. I remember seeing the person who had the
management of the game handing the silver to the persons
that won, and sometimes the parties themselves took up the
money; so that by this means I knew at once who were the
winners and who the losers. I saw some place five shillings
on a black mark, some five shillings on a red, and some five
shillings on a white, and then the dumb-waiter was turned
round. I observed some money down before the marble was
sent round, and some putting down up to the time it stopped,
and then, when it ceased, they took up their money from the
different marks, some having lost and some won. I heard
them say, at the same time, whether they lost or won, ac-
cording as the same happened. The person who had the
management of the game usually said, You've lost," and
" You've won ;" then they took up the money, and some-
times that person took up money himself. I have stood in a
room, as I did in that, and seen the game played frequently.
The person who was sometimes taking up the money, and at
the same time guiding the table, appeared to me to be taking
up as a kind of reward. The game there and the game I had
seen played before were similar ; and I should know the peo-
ple who were playing on this occasion.
Cross-examined by Mr. Wright.—This room was in the
upper story but one of the grand stand. I would say that it
was immediately above the grand saloon. I have been told
the game was roulette, and 1 have no doubt of its having been
that game. I never played it myself; if I had, I should have
been able to give a better description of it than I am to-day.
Jonathan Andrews, an inspector of the Liverpool and
county police, stated that he also, on the 23d September, went
into the room in the Grand Stand, mentioned by the pre-
ceding witness. He saw there a table, behind which two men
were standing. On the table was necessary apparatus for
playing at roulette, and he saw a number of gentlemen there
playing at that game. In a room on the opposite side, a si-
milar game was going on. About ten or fifteen minutes after
he had been in the room last referred to, Mr. Lynn came in.
He stepped in rather quick, and pointed his finger to one of
the keepers of the table. After he had done so, the game
immediately ceased. Witness heard Mr. Lynn say, "Do
not be alarmed." He (witness) then left the room. The
table produced was similar to those used in the rooms at the
Grand Stand. The game of roulette could not be played with
that alone. Tables would be required.
Inspector Andrews underwent a very long and perplexing
cross-examination by Mr. Wright, with respect to his means
of knowing whether the game described by him as roulette
was in fact such, and as to the mode in which the game was
played. He stated that at the last July races but one, he had
been told by officers in his company that that game was rou-
lette; but he had no personal knowledge of the fact, having
never played at roulette, nor made a table. In consequence
a his imperfect knowledge of the game, his answers ex-
hibited some confusion. When Mr. Lynn said, " Don't be
alarmed," he spoke to the gentlemen in the room. Mr.
Lynn made some observation when he entered the room, but
what it'iyas witness did not hear, owing to the conversation
that was going on around him. He did not hear the defend-
ant say, " I am surprised, gentlemen, that you should be
gambling; stop immediately." He would not swear that
Mr. Lynn did not make u.se of those words. When he stood
at the entrance of the rooms, although there was a screen or
partition, he could observe that there were persons within ;
but he could not form a distinct notion of what they were
doing. He was in plain clothes, and did not suppose that
Mr. Lynn was aware of his presence.
John Poole, inspector of the Liverpool police force, said
that he produced a board which was called a roulette board.
Heashad heard the gamblers themselves call it by that name.
He was at the race course on the 23d of September. He
went into an upper room of the Grand Stand, on the right-
hand side of the stairs, and saw two tables set out, with a
roulette board upon each. There were peqple in the room,
playing. He stayed and watched them for a short time. He
did not see Mr. Lynn in the room ; but afterwards saw him
at the hack of the Grand Stand. He (Mr. Lynn) asked wit-
ness whether he had come; out for the purpose of laying in-
formations. He replied that he had received the instruc-
tions of the magistrates to come there, for the purpose of
watching the parties who were gambling. Mr. Lynn said
that it was not fair or right for the magistrates to interfere
with them : he gave a great deal of money away annually to
the charities, and as to gambling, he thought that there was
more in the Exchange than there was there.

Squire Wovenden, superintendent of the county police,
said that he saw the defendant on Saturday, the 19th inst.,
at the Waterloo Hotel, in Liverpool, and had some conver-
sation with him. Captain Willis was with him, and he (wit-
ness) heard the captain tell Mr. Lynn that it was the deter-
mination of the magistrates to put down the gambling on the
Grand Stand and elsewhere. Witness then told the defen-
dant that he should have to pay him a visit. Mr. Lynn said;
" But you will not be admitted on the Grand Stand." He
afterwards said that he would let the rooms again.
John Hadeock said that he was the assistant-overseer of
the•poor for the district of Walton, in which the township
of Aintree was situated. He made out the rates. He pro-
duced the rate-book, in which the Grand• Stand was assessed
to Mr. Wm. Lynn, the defendant, as occupier. One-half
of the last rate had been paid. It was paid by Mr. Lynn to:
witness without any objection. On his cross-examination,
the witness stated that Mr. Lynn was also rated for two
booths on the race-course ; but he could not tell from per-
sonal knowledge whether that gentleman was the occupier of
the booths. He received his information from the overseers,
both with respect to the occupancy of those and the Grand
Stand.

Mr. Whitty, head constable, said that he had heard men-
tion made by the witnesses of the two rooms in the Grand
Stand. He had seen gambling in those rooms at the races
previous to last July. He had seen the game of roulette
played there.. He also saw it played there at the races pre-
♦ious to those just ended. He was not present at the last
races.

The whole of Mr. Whitty's evidence was objected to by
Mr. Wright, as inadmissible on account of its irrelevancy to
the present information. .

Mr. Rathbone, however, overruled the objection:
Mr. Wright then submitted that the case for the informa-
tion had not been made out. Ilis first ground was, that
there was want of proof of occupancy by Mr. Lynn ; and
secondly, that if the occupancy had been proved, no evidence
had been advanced to show that Mr. Lynn had permitted
gambling ; for he contended that, under the statute, it must
be proved either that the defendant was the actual occupier
of the house, or that he had permitted others to occupy it
for gaming.
Mr. Rathbone retired to consult with his brother magis-
trates. In a short time he returned, and said—Mr. Wright,
I have considered the evidence in support of the information,
and your objection, and I consider that information sus-
tained.

Mr. Lynn, the magistrates of the borough of Liverpool
beir.g deeply impressed, from painful experience, of the evil
consequences of permitting gaining at public tables, which
during races have been from time to time erected in the town
of Liverpool, encouraging a class of men who live by a viola-
tion of the laws of their country, have deteliniped to enforce
the law, and to put down such pernicious practices. They
hope and believe that as respects Liverpool, they have suc-
ceeded in this attempt. The magistrates of the county have
year after year given expression to their determination to
pursue the same course as respects the county. Declaratory
placards have been issued, and other means have been taken
to prove this determination of the magistrates to put down
gaming on the grand stand, where the gentry of the county
are assembled, and which having been so long permitted to
go on there, may not unnaturally be supposed by the poorer
classes if not to have the sanction, at least not to evince the
honest purpose of the gentry and magistrates there_ assembled,
to put down this flagrant violation of the law. A longer
sufferance of this state of things will necessarily lead to that
most dangerous of all impressions upori the minds of the
people, that there is one law for the rich and another for the
poor. I need not here dwell upon the magnitude of the evil
inflicted upon society?, especially in the neighbourhood of this
large town, where the young, the heedless, and the inexpe-
rienced, are often thrown at once upon all its temptations
without the protecting care of the guarded homes they may
have left. Under the statute, not only those who suffer
_gaming, but all persons present assisting in tht games, or
playing at the tables, might have been proceeded against..
The magistrates have been most anxious to give full warn-
ing tif their resolution to proceed, and are even now derirous
of proceeding only so far as to put an effectual stop to
the evil. I deem it necessary, however, to be explicit as
to the future, and to declare (and in so doing I believe I
speak the .sentiments of many of my brother magistrates),
that if the present example is not sufficient, I shall feel it my
duty upon sufficient evidence, to direct proceedings against
all parties, whether those who suffer, or those who take part
in the games, and I wish thus publicly to commit myself by
the declaration, that hereafter in every case of delinquency.
my duty will leave me no other alternative but to proceed
against all, whoever may be the offenders. Mr. Lynn, as a
magistrate, I can recognise and address you only in this to
me painful and responsible duty, but if others should feel
themselves morally responsible, I hope this lesson may not
be thrown away, and that all well-regulated minds will reflect
on not only the possible results, but on the certainty of ruin-
ed character and blasted prospects, the too common conse-
quence of the vice of gambling, which for the sake of gain,
you have suffered in the face of day. I am sorry to have to
say to you, that in defiance of the repeated notice of the ma-
gistrates, you have persisted in suffering gaming oil the Grand
Stand at the race-course, a place under your control and ma-
nagement. The evidence which has been offered before me
this day is to my mind conclusive, and I do trust that the
penalty which will follow your conviction, will effectually
prevent the practice in future. I now convict you under the
second count of this information in the penalty of £2OO, and
which it is not in my power to mitigate—one-third of which
goes to the informer, and two-thirds to the poor of the town-
ship in which the offence is committed.
The case lasted two hours hndn half.

Orders for manufactured iron for rails have, (hiring the
past week, been given out to the iron trade to the enormous
weight of 35,000 tons.—Worcester Journal.
TEETOTALISM.—A curious case lately came before a Re-
lief Presbytery in Scotland. Mr. John Murray, of Bowling,
an elder in the Relief Congregation, Old Kilpatrick, being a
keen advocate of the teetotal cause, objected to the use of
common wine at the dispensation of the sacrament, and re-
fused either to partake of the same or be the means of giving
it to others, contending that what had been used at the insti-
tution of the ordinance was the juice of the grape in its un-
fermented state, not the intoxicating wine of commerce, and
that the Scriptures warranted the juice of the grape only.
Mr. Murray's objections were taken up by the Session of
Kilpatrick, as inconsistent with his station and duty, and
finally referred to a meeting of the Presbytery, who decided
that Mr. Murray could not remain a member of the Relief
Church, and the Presbytery accordingly declared him no
longer a member of the body. Against this decision Mr.
Murray protested to the Synod, and lodged his reasons.—r.
Caledonian Mercury.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-FRIDAY

ASSAULTS BY POLICE-OFFICERS

A young sailor, named James Perryman,. charged police-
officer BroWn, 358, with having committed an assault upon
him, by striking him with his stick. Perryman stated, that
on Wednesday, during night tide, he was keeping watch on
board a ship in one of the docks ; the vessel was " hailed "
by the officer, and he (complainant) immediately answered ;
he was twice again " hailed," and again answered. The
officer then came on board, and said, "If you do not answer
I'll make you," and struck him across the face a heavy blow
with his stick.

The complainant's face was much disfigured by the blovi

Brown, in his defence said, that, if he had struck the de-
fendant, he had done so by accident, not intentionally, as it
was dark.

Mr. Rushton said the defence of the officer was ridiculous ;
his conduct was most reprehensible, and he must pay 40s and
costs, or be imprisoned for one month. There was no safety
for the public if polieemeu were allowed to strike persons—
and the oldest officer in the force, too. The public were en-
titled to protection, and he must be suspended from duty un-
til his conduct had been investigated in another quarter, and
his restoration would depend upon the evidence he could pro-
duce in extenuation of his offence.

Walter Davies charged Thomas Lee with an assault

Lee, at the time the assault was committed, was in the
police force, and, was discharged for his misconduct on that
occasion.

The complainant stated that he lived in Portland-street,
and whilst standing at the door of his house, talking to some
neighbours the officer, (who was drunk at the time,) along
with two other individuals, came by. Some person remarked,'
" There is a police-officer," and he (complainant) replied
" Yes ; but he is not on duty," upon which Lee came up to
him, and seized him by the collar, and said, " I'll let you
know I am on duty," and struck him several blows on the
head with his stick, which caused him to bleed profusely. He
(complainant) gave him into custody of another officer, and
proceeded, bleeing as he was, to Rosehill bridewell, to make
his charge. On arriving there, the bridewell keeper refused
to enter the complaint, and requested the officer to go home,
for that he was drunk when he was at the bridewell before.
Several witnesses corroborated the statement of Davies.

Lee called the two individuals who were with him at the
time of the alleged assault, who stated that the complainant
had behaved in an impertinent and insulting manner towards
the officer before he interfered.

The complainant's witnesses denied this, and said it was
not before Lee had nearly throttled Davies that he would let
go his hold.
Mr. Rushton.—lt is a very good job for yourself and the
public that you have been dismissed the force. You have
been very properly dismissed. The proceedings of to-day
will have a very wholesome effect upon the police force. It
is very seldom such cases as these come before me. It is a
very excellent force, and it is only by such fellows as you
that it is lowered in the estimation of the public. Having
already been dismissed the force, you must pay 20s and costs,
or be imprisoned for 14 days. You must also pay 4s for the
damage you have done to the complainant's hat.

OFFENCES BY PUBLICANS

Mr. Barke, the keeper of the Wellington Hotel tap, was
fined 40s. and costs, for permitting drunkenness on his
premises.

- The officer who laid the complaint stated, that about
20 minutes after two o'clock on Sunday morning, he was
attracted to the tap of Mr. Barke, by hearing a noise, where
he found 'twelve men, some of whom were drunk. _

Mr. Barke, in extenuation, said that he and Mrs. 8., at
the time for which the complaint was laid, were in Derby-
shire. He 'had kept the tali for eleven years, and had never
before had such a complaint laid against him.
James Durhurst, keeper of the Talbot,Hotel tap, Vernon-
street, was fined in the like sum, for permitting persons to
tipple in his house at half-past two o'clock on Sunday
morning.

Mr. Rushton said that this town, from Saturday night
until church time on Sunday, was in a most fearful state of
disorder, and it was as ►nuch as the officers could do to clear
the streets by church time. The neighbourhood of Dale-
street, more especially, was in a deplorable state, and this
arose out of the-facility afforded to persons obtaining liquor
in the dead hour of the night from houses in streets leading
out of Dale street.

ROBBERY BY A SERVANT

Samuel Owen, porter to Mr. Rowland, grocer, Elliott-
street, was committed to trial for stealing two parcels of
sugar, and some candles, from his employer. The prisoner
was observed by a.shop-boy to take something from the cellar
of his employer, and secret it in a midden. On examining
the place, two parcels of sugar and some candles were found.
Subsequently, the prisoner was observed to carry the articles
away with him from the premises.