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TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1841

We insert, in another column, the principal features
of the intelligence brought by the Acadia, which ar-
rived here on Saturday. The following letter has been
forwarded to us from the Nem York Morning Herald
Office, and though it only contains a confident " pre-
diction," we believe it has not been formed but on the
strongest grounds :
" Office of the Herald, New York, Aug. 14.

" Our intelligence from Washington, on which we can
place the fullest reliance, enables us to predict the vetoing
of the bill for the establishment of a Bank of the United
States, with branches in the several States of the Union.
The failure of this favourite Whig project involves that of
several other legislative measures, and the breaking up of the
first Whig cabinet of President Tyler.

We had not the pleasure of being in the House of
Commons last week when the great gun of the calico-
prints was fired off, for the first time ; but judging from
the oration itself, which we have perused, we say it
must have been quite an astounding affair. The great
Cob—the favourite war-horse of the League—on this
occasion went through all his paces, and, having been

long in training, the performance of so many feats, all
within the compass of a short hour, must have been
an exceedingly brilliant business. Had we enjoyed an
opportunity of whispering him, however, we would
have recommended him to husband his resources; for
well do we know that it is now all over with him, and
that nothing is left for a future day. All his points are
made—all his tours de force are played off—all his
most impressive passages are exhausted ; he ran him-
self completely out, and many are of opinion that he
entirely broke down. We hope the case is not so bad;
the worst that we should apprehend is that he may be
found to be a little touched in the wind. Poor
Cobby-o ! how mortifying that the collective wisdom
of the nation did not feast upon his eloquence, as the
fuzbosses of Stockport have been in the habit of do-
ing, and that when he sat down, declaring that if Sir
Robert Peel would acknowledge himself a convert to
his opinions, he, Mr. Alderman Cobden, "would be
the first to shake hands with him," the House indulged
in a loud laugh ! This was unkind towards a maiden
speech; it is usual with the collective to be more in-
dulgent ; and we are inclined to sympathise with Cobby
as an ill-used man.

With regard to the speech we do not find anything
particu'arly ridiculous about it. The texture was not
more flimsy than ordinary—the pattern was one of the
newest, and the colouring—far less gaudy and flaming
than that which has often given satisfaction in the
Manchester market—might have been thought well
adapted to the metropolitan taste. He argued that the
corn duties amounted to a tax of 40 per cent on the
price of bread, that the operative, earning only 10s. a-
week, paid 2s. in bread tax, whilst the nobleman of
£200,000 a-year paid less than a halfpenny in every
£lOO on the same account; the Commons laughed; but
whether at his monstrous calculation, or at himself,
poor Cobby could not tell, and the point was fairly
lost. Then he swore by sun, moon, and stars, that
the price of bread had nothing to do with wages ; that
the millocrats—generous, disinterested men—had no
wish whatever to reduce wages; that they only wanted
markets ; and that it was for this purpose, and not to
reduce the poor man's earnings, that they looked for a
revision of the impost duty. But, Cobby, this was an
awful falsehood on your part, and the House did not
swallow it. Reduce the price of bread 40 per cent,
and not reduce wages ! What precious nonsense !
Why it would certainly reduce wages—either medi-
ately or immediately; immediately if the labour mar-
ket be at the moment overstocked; or mediately, by
encouraging population, and so increasing the number
of labourers as to bring them up to the point at which
competition begins to produce its usual effect. But
here our Stockport knight encountered a sort of mill
to which he has been, unfortunately for himself, but
little accustomed, in the form of the honourable mem-
ber for Inverness-shire, Mr. H. J. Bailie, who, in his
short but admirable reply, asked him " if the increase
in the production of our manufactures had hitherto
tended to raise the wages of the artisan, to better the
condition, to increase the comforts, and augment the
happiness of the people ?"

The honourable gentleman, said he, "is a political econo-
mist, and would tell him, perhaps, that it must be so; he
(Mr. Baillie) would pr-Jve to the house that it
was not so.
(Hear, hear.) In the first place, he would prove that duri r
the last 20 years the manufacturing productions of this co 116
un
try had been more than trebled, and that during the same
period the wages of the, operative had been reduced between
70 a
andste r
Bmoapneurfaccetnutr.er(sHheaadr hear.),beenmaking great fortunes, while
He would prove that the
their operatives were reduced to the greatest misery and des-
titution (hear, hear) ; that, consequently, the interests of
the master and those of the workmen were not identical ;
and that, although cheap corn would be advantageous to the
former, it could in no way be advantageous to the latter.
(Hear, hear.) He knew well that these op' •
mums were at
variance with those entertained on the other side of the
house; but if hon. members gave him their attention for a
few moments, he thought he would be able to prove the pro-
positions he had laid down by official documents, which had
been placed on the table of the house."
The honourable member then went into his proof,
but we must refer to the debates for it ; suffice it to say
that it was most complete. Proofs of this kind seldom
find their way down the long ears of such animals as
Cobby, and cannot reach their perceptive faculty, all
pre-occupied as it is with self. Their idea of national
wealth is symbolised by the cotton mill; stop the mill,
and the world itself, in their opinion, must cease to go ;
it is their balm for all national misfortunes—their SO-

weraiurs rirciady for the fiQr);e; tmty keep t 4 4MII going,

wrong; but a
proof of this sort is really quite conclusive of the xvhole
question. From what has been, we justly argue to
what is to he. The increase of manufactures has not

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added to the comforts of the poor; on the contrary,
it has created all that distress for which the millowners
affect to feel so much sympathy. They are now cla-
mouring for new markets, and for this purpose cry out,
down with the agriculturalists—away with monopoly ;
but if their selfish clamour—this sordid agitation for
their own monopoly—should, in an evil hour, be com-
plied with, we might perhaps see an increased produc-
tion and export of manufactures ; but should we see a
corresponding increase in the comfort and happiness of
the poor ? The honourable member for Inverness-shire
has supplied the data and the argument by which we
are enabled satisfactorily to answer this question. After
reciting from official tables- the prodigious increase of
the experts of manufactured cotton and linen from
1819 to 1839, he proceeded as in the extract which we

subjoin. We conclude by quoting the passage, which
we recommend to particular attention, as it is, in truth,
well entitled to it. It is rather long, but every word of
it may be perpended

"Was there ever a more magnificent exhibition of manu-
facturing prosperity, so far as the master manufacturers were
concerned ? (Hear, hear.) But now let them reverse the
picture. What, during the same period, had been the condi-
tion of the labouring classes ? He held in his hand an ac-
count of the average sum a good weaver could earn per week
in each of those years. In 1814, he could earn 26s ; in 1818,
he could only earn 14s. 5d ; in 1823, 9s. 4d ; in 1828, 6s. 6d ;
in 1833, ss. 4d ; and this last, he believed, was the average
at the present moment, exhibiting a reduction in wages of
about 79 per cent. (Hear, hear.) How was this to be ac-
counted for ? Was it possible to account for it by the exist-
ence of the present corn laws ! The effect of the corn laws
might rather haVe been to prevent this vast amount of capital
from being invested in manufactures ; but they must look in
some other direction for the real cause of the distress which
prevailed amongst the labouring classes in the manufacturing
districts. And he thought they might, perhaps, find that
the improvement in machinery, and the advantage which the
master manufacturers had taken of this to substitute infant
for adult labour, would, in a great measure, account for the
extraordinary change. (Hear, hear.) He had been credibly
informed that no less than 50,000 adults were every year
turned out of employment in the manufacturing districts,
and their places supplied by children. (Hear.) He was told
it was the custom of the great master manufacturers to con-
tract with the great poor-law unions of the country for regu-
lar supplies of children, in order to replace the adults who
were thrown out of employment. (Hear.) Thus had they
reversed the order of nature ; the adults in the manufactu-
ring districts were idle, and dependent for support on their
children. (Hear, hear.) What had been the consequence
of this system with reference to the mortality in the great
manufacturing towns? He held in his hand the bills of
mortality for the greatest manufacturing town in the empire,
the city of Glasgow. In 1822 the rate of mortality was lin
44 of the population, in 1837 it was lin 2-11. (Hear, hear.)
He entreated the house to reflect what a vast amount of
human misery must have been inflicted in order to create
such a mortality as this. (Hear, hear.) He had heard of
slavery in the West Indies, in Brazil, in Cuba, and the
United States ; it had been reserved for the master manu-
facturers of England to present a still more dreadful picture
of human life expended in misery and severe labour. (Hear,
hear.) They might talk of their manufacturing prosperity ;
but if such were its results, he would say they might have
increased the power and wealth of the country, but without
promoting in any way the welfare and prosperity of the com-
munity."

The Mercury asks, "if the result of the Conference
will promote the cause of orthodoxy and Conservatism,
with what consistency does the STANDARD rail at such
allies ?" We answer our pupil that our CONSISTENCY
consists not in railing at, but in simply exposing such
parties. Doubtless they obey the instincts and follow
the light that is in them ; but if their instincts be evil,
and their light be darkness, then the good which comes
to us from their purblind folly and malice arises not
from our consenting thereunto, and approving thereof,
but from our dissenting from, and raising our voices
strongly against it. Thus good comes out of evil, and
foolish men, without being our allies, do most power-
fully aid and assist our cause contrary to their own de-
signs, and in spite of their own decided inclinations.
We are not inconsistent, good Mr. Mercury, in reading
lectures on dissenting blasphemy, worldliness, and im-
pie.ty, and arraigning such crimes at the bar of public
opinion, while, at the same time, we take consolation
from the thought that their detection and punishment
may ultimately be serviceable to the cause of good order
and virtue. We do not say that men are to do evil
that good may come of it, but that a profitable lesson
may he, should be, aye, and will be extracted from
such demented meanness, and frenzical partisanship as
the late Barebone's Parliament of all denominations at
Manchester exhibited ; and it is by dealing thus with
the case that our consistency is not only established,
but rendered useful to society.

But we are glad to see the Mercury speering at us
for a little information ; and we would encourage him
by the meekness of our answers and the simplicity of
our lessons, by all means, to come to us again. We
have a serious notion of opening an adult school—a
sort of Politico-literary Hospital for old gentlemen
who have spent the latter part of their lives in the vain
pursuits of Liberalism, and at length, even at the
eleventh hour, begun to discover the inanity of its
occupation, and the deceitfulness and evil of its ways.
It will be pleasant to see them ranged on their different
forms with their primmers in their hands learning the
B A ba of good manners and true philosophy—verify-
ing the proverb which we intend to post, as a motto,
over the door-way, that it is " never too late to learn."
If we have had any part in overturning the Joss=
house" of Liberalism with all its dumb idols and
trumpery, we would like to take part also in providing
an asylum for its ejected priests, and turning over its
blind and besotted worshippers to a better way. Try
us again, Mr. Mercury, and you may depend on finding
us bland, instructive, affable, willing-to-forget, mild,
patient, patronising, and charitable—as we usually are.

The new House of Commons has proved itself Con-
servative beyond our most sanguine hopes. The
amended address, carried in the House of Lords by a
majority of 72, has been carried in the Commons by a
majority of 91—the numbers being 269 and 360.
Thus the Whigs at once attain their award : the cycle
of Liberalism is completed, and Conservatism reassumes
the reins of power. A great experiment has been made
with the constitution and people of this country, and re-
sults in a most signal proof of the extent, the strength,
and the durability of the Conservative principle.
Sir Robert Peel—for we presume there is no longer
any question as to who the new Premier will be—will
commence his official career with an ample working
majority in both houses of Parliament. The oppor-
tunity is a great one—the situation in which he will be
placed a most responsible one. The right honourable
baronet is fully aware, and deeply sensible of this fact ;
and it is infinitely to his credit that he looks to no re-
serve, and seeks not to provide himself with any ex-
cuse, in the event of a failure, to realise all those ex-
pectations to which the evident capabilities of his new
position might give rise. The administration of the
Whigs was not only an administration without any
fixed principles, but it was one also, as regards the men
who composed it, without a chief; the case will be
otherwise with the new government. We may collect
this not only from the striking contrast of character
existing between Sir Robert Peel and Lord Melbourne,
but from all the right honourable baronet's recent
speeches, and particularly that which he delived in his
place in Parliament on last Friday evening. It is true
that as to the details of his measures he maintains a
prudent reserve ; but on every occasion, and particu-
larly on the one last alluded to, lie has asserted, and
continues to assert, a right of private and independent
judgment for himself with regard to the policy which he
shall adopt, which evinces an extent of self-reliance, and
a willingness to stand alone in his responsibilities, very
different from any thing ever exhibited by the first
Minister of the Whigs and Liberals. On this ground
Sir Robert must ever command respect, even from
those who dissent from his politics. He makes his
positions and measures a severe matter of conscience,
and he will not hold office upon the condition of
having them dictated to him by others. Thus on
Friday night, with respect to the corn duties, he said :
" I speak the language I held in 1839, and it is important
that this should be remembered,—l said that while I prefer-
red a graduated to a fixed duty, /wouid not bind 2nysell to
the details of the existing law, but would reserve to myself
the power to consider and amend it. Sir, I hold the same
language now. (Hear, hear.) I still prefer the principle of
a graduated duty on corn; but if you ask Inc whether, by
that declaration, I bind myself irrevocably to the mainte-
nance of the existing law in all its details—if that be the con-
dition on which gentlemen connected with the agricultural
interest give me their support, 1 say at once that upon that
condition I cannot accept their support hear, hear, from
the ministerial beaches.")

And again, with reference to the government of Ire-
land, he said :
" I am told that I must be the instrument of effecting ob.
jects in Ireland which I repudiate. I am asked whether I
will support the proceedings of my partisan, who is said to
have offered a religious affront to the majority of the people
of Ireland. Sir, I am not afraid to express my opinion with
respect to acts like these. I say there is not a man in this
house, there is no Roman Catholic gentleman living, who
could have heard with greater pain than I did, the recital of
gratuitous, unprovoked insult offered to the religious feelings

of a jr?rife, partima co =way, And if I ?mot
jurjcit;urnfcr.liy aVeMing diuch sentitnent#, Ifl cannot twain
it but by fostering and encouraging such feelings, I say at
once the day on which I relinquish powcr (rather than keep
it on such conditions) will be to my feelings lea times
prouder than the day on which I accept it."
Now this is the language of the man of integrity

—the man of principle—the man who will not cling to
office for the sake of filthy lucre—the man who will
consult his own usually sound judgment in the regu-
lation of his public conduct, and will much rather re-
linquish power than retain it upon the condition of
doing a violence to its dictates. And ww have here in
a good measure the secret of that ascendancy which
the right honourable gentleman possesses so largely
over the general mind; he is an honest as well as able
man. But with the most profound respect both for
the man and the minister, we say that it will be still
the duty of the people and of parliament to sift his
measures, and where they appear to be not in accord-
ance with a sound Conservative policy, to remonstrate
against, and, if necessary, resist them. It is wrong to
place too much dependence on any man. The people
are not to throw down the arms of watchfulness and
the instruments of control, because they have restored
the Conservative party to office. It has ever been the
fault of Conservatives that they are too glad to avail
themselves of any excuse for supineness ; but they
must learn to correct it.

It is obvious that Sir Robert Peel in saying that
while he adheres to the sliding scale, be holds himself
unfettered as to the changes he may make in its regu-
lations, would reserve to himself a great latitude, and
might virtually make by this means as great a change
in the trade in corn as if he adopted the Bs. duty of
the Whigs itself. The landlords, therefore, should not
cease to look after their own interests, nor the Con-
servatives, generally,-to be on their guard against con-
cessions to the interested clamours of millocracy be-
yond what may seem to them .safe or desirable. Our
reliance upon the sound judgment, knowledge, ex-
perience, and purity of intention of Sir Robert Peel is
very great ; but with regard to Ireland also, we would '
not have the Conservatives abandon Protestant inter-
ests in that country to the generally good intentions of
any minister, however estimable or amiable he might
be. We disapprove as much as Sir Robert Peel can
possibly do, of offering gratuitous insults to the religi
ous feelings of the Romanist population ; it is foolish,
useless, and injurious. But neither, on the other
hand, do we like to hear of men indulging, flat-
tering, and encouraging them, because we well know
that Popery is the great curse of Ireland, and that
without refreshing, modifying, or by some legiti-
mate means eradicating that cruel scourge of the
land, all attempts at pacifying or civilizing it will prove
abortive. There is great indignation frequently thrown
away upon the hoisting of an orange-kerchief, and an
astonishing degree of meekness evinced at the same
time at some atrocious outrage in which Protestants
are the sufferers—and this we call anything but justice
to Ireland. We wish to see moderation in the admi-
nistration of the laws, and moderation in the carrying
out of just principles ; but no compounding of truth
and falsehood, no mixing up of light and darkness, no
confounding of Protestantism and Popery. From the
administration of Sir R. Peel we apprehend no Lich-
, field House compacts with the rebel party ; we only
' wish that it may be equally uncontaminated by any
Popish influence whatsoever.

LOCAL NEWS

Lord Denman left Liverpool for London in the course o
Friday afternoon.

LITHOGRAPHY.—We have just seen an excellent specimen
of the lithographic art, emanating from Messrs. Maclure
and Macdonald's establishment. The subject is " Hawking."
For brilliancy and softness we have never yet seen its equal,
as well as for chasteness of design and ability in drawing.
This beautiful print won Messrs. Maclure the gold medal in
Scotland very lately.
Much affected indignation has been heaped upon the con-
servative leaders in parliament, for holding a meeting on
Sunday week, for the purpose of determining upon the steps
which were most prudent to pursue in the present crisis of
affairs. We have great pleasure, however, in announcing,
on the best authority, that no such meeting took place on
the day in question. The mistake arose from an error in
one of the articles in the London Times.

METALLIC MAP OF THE UNITED STATES.—TIIiS map,
which will be found advertised elsewhere in the Standard
of to-day, is well worth the attention of all merchants and
men of business. It also ought to be subscribed for by the
principals of schools, as it will give pupils an excellent idea
and knowledge of the United States. A very handsome
copy may be seen in our publishing office.

RECEIPT FOR AN ANTI-CORN LAW CONFERENCE.—
Get 150 Independent Preachers, (known better as Stiggl-
mites,) about 20 Baptists, 25 Ranters, 10 Quakers, 5 Sha
kers, 15 Socialists, 25 Chartists, 10 Socinians, 20 Papists,
10 Muggletonians, 5 Jumpers, 15 .Grunters, stew them well
together in a hot room until the scum boils off, and keep
skimming them. Let them simmer for about five or six days,
adding at one o'clock each day shins of beef, bullocks
head and liver, (calves heads will not be required) cheese,
onions, and potatoes, and a large quantity of gin and ale ;
when it conies off the boil throw in a ducie pear, and keep
the steam well up. Take care that there is no Peel in the
stew, for that would sadly spoil the flavour. Let all the
ingredients be of foreign production.

PROVINCIAL SURGERY.—Four individuals, William Da-
vies, John Hindley, Mary Bennett, and Elizabeth Price, all
from the neighbourhood of Runcorn, have been lately re-
stored to sight in the Liverpool Ophthalmic Infirmary, by
Mr. Neill's operation for cataract. Their united ages
amount to 306 years; 76 years being the average age of
each person. The last-mentioned person is 77 years of age,
and, though she was stone-blind a month ago, can now see
to thread a needle. She is now in the hospital, and may be
seen by the curious.

DEMISE OF GENERAL GASCOYNE.—This gallant officer
was taken suddenly ill on Wednesday last, with an inflam-
mation in the bowels, which was attended with very alarm-
ing symptoms : they proved fatal. He departed this life at
an early hour on Thursday, at his house in South Audlev-
street, London.

THE CASE OF ALLEGED INCENDIARISM.—On Saturday
last Catharine Redman, who was remanded on Saturday
week on suspicion of having set fire to several parts of the
dwelling-house of the Misses Preston, with whom she lived
as servant, was placed at the bar. We stated in our last, that
the testimony delivered amounted to little more than a mi-
nute detail of the circumstances attending the discoveries of
the several fires. Nothing has since transpired calculated to
throw further light on the affair. The prisoner was dis-
charged.

THE WEATHER.—Since the terrific thunderstorm of
Tuesday morning, which seems to have. cleared the atmos-
phere, the weather has been extremely tine and seasonable.
The barometer has been high, and the heat intense. The
operations of the harvest have gone on uninterruptedly, and
most of the crops in this neighbourhood must, by this time,
be secured ; in what state, after the unfavourable weather
which for several weeks prevailed, we have not the means of
knowing. Thanksgivings were offered up in the churches of
this town on Sunday for the seasonable change of weather.
GIROLOMO CAPELLA, THE CONDEMNED MURDERER.—
The Lord Chief Justice, as will be seen by our report of the
Assize proceedings, left this man for execution. The Jury,
on his trial, recommended him to mercy, on the ground of
his good character previous to the perpetration of the crime
for which they convicted him. Several benevolent gentle-
men, satisfied that the recommendation of the Jury was judi-
cious as well as humane, and thinking that the act which
led to Toscani's death was the result of a quarrel between
the prisoner and the deceased, and not of premeditation, have,
we hear, got up a petition in his favour, in which they pray
that the sentence may be commuted from death to trans-
portation for life.. Whether, upon a careful examination of
the evidence, mitigating circumstances may not be disco-
vered in the case, so as to justify the Lord Chief Justice in
recommending such commutation, we cannot undertake to

THE LIVERPOOL Fists COMPANY.—A special general
meeting of this company was held at the Clarendon-rooms,
on Tuesday last. After a long desultory conversation, a
resolution was passed dissolving the company, and the boats
and other property are now advertised for sale by auction.
THEFT BY BREAKING A SHOP WINDOW.—On Saturday
William Brooks and Michael Gallagher were committed for
trial by Mr. Rushton for stealing several articles of jewellery
from the shop of Mr. M`Lintock, Dale-street. Both pri-
soners were observed to loiter about the shop, and they
effected their purpose by breaking one of the shop windows,
and extracting the articles stolen. They were apprehended
through the vigilance of the pawnbrokers.

THE BRITISH QUEEN.—This fine vessel, which, as our
readers know, has been purchased by the Belgian Govern-
ment, is so nearly ready for sea that she will, it is expected,
sail for Antwerp to-day. She is intended to ply between
Antwerp and New York, calling off Cowes or Southampton
going and returning. By this means she will, it is antici-
pated, carry not only passengers to and from the Continent,
but English passengers also. She is under the command of
Mr. Keane, who has received a commission in the Belgian
service.

We are led to understand that Douglas is about to have
the privilege conferred upon it of being a port for bonding
goods, and that an assimilation will take place very soon be-
tween the fiscal duties of England and the Isle of Man. The
licence system, we are informed, will be abolished. It is not
improbable but that the Isle of Man will, at no distant
period, form as a county an adjunct of England, which has
long since been a favourite measure of Sir Robert Peel.—
Correspondent of the Manx Liberal.

DAINTRY, RYLE, AND CO.'s BANKRUPTCY.—The se-
cond meeting of creditors for proof of debts under this
bankruptcy, took place in the Wellington Rooms, Peter-
street, Manchester, on Tuesday. The commissioners were
J. G. Duck, Esq., barrister, and John Taylor and J. h.
Brackenbury, Esqrs., attorneys. Messrs. Atkinson and
Saunders were the solicitors under the fiat, and Messrs. Peet
and Hobson the accountants. The total debts proved at this
meeting were about £72,694 ; debts proved at the former
meeting £165,800 ; total, £215,800. This amount does not
include the debt of Whitmore, Wells, and Co., who claim
for £28,500, and which has not been admitted. It will be
recollected that Messrs. Whitmore, Wells, and Co., made
their claim to prove at the former meeting, but the court de-
cided that as their claim was against the separate estate of
Daintry and Ryle, it could not be admitted under the joint
tiat, against Daintry, Ryle, and Ravenscroft. Messrs.
Whitmore, Wells, and Co. were also shut out from the
choice of assignees on the same ground. The Court of
Review have determined that the union of the fiats had not
taken effect at the time, and consequently there will have to
be a new choice of assignees. The validity of Messrs.
Whitmore, Wells, and Co.'s claim, however, is yet in dis-
pute, the principal objections alleged against it being, that
for a long course of years the accounts between them and
Messrs. Daintry, Ryle, and Co. have been balanced monthly;
that compound interest was charged at such balancing, and
that such monthly balances have included compound interest
for £5OOO more than was advanced in each month.

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EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE : Two BOYS SUP-
POSED TO HAVE BEEN POISONED.—On Friday evening
last two little boys, the sons of poor parents, were playing in
Netherfiekl-road, when, according to their own story, a man
accosted them with seeming kindness, and gave them some
potatoes, which they ate. They soon after became very sick,
and went home. Mr. Nottingham and another surgeon were
called in, when they found that the two lads exhibited all the
symptoms of having been poisoned with arsenic. The pro-.
per remedies were applied, and the patients are slowly re-
covering, though their condition was for some time exceed-
ingly precarious.

TUE DANE VIADUCT.—This stupendous undertaking,
hich passes over the valley of the river Dane at Holmes
hapel, in this county, is progressing with rapidity. It is
Lther longer than the great viaduct of this town, having one

more arch of sixty-three feet span than ours at Stockport.
Fourteen out of the twenty-three arches are already finished,
and it is expected that the whole will be entirely completed
on the Ist of March mkt. The height of this great struc-
ture above the river Dane is ninety feet, and the whole of
the arches are semicircular, and sixty-three feet span. It
will be much better seen than ours, as it crosses a most beau-
tiful, valley, luxuriant with foliage, and runs parallel with
the turnpike road, from which it is distant only a few hun-
dred yards. The same gentlemen, Messrs. Holmes and
Tomkinson, of Liverpool, who built the magnificent viaduct
upon the same line of railway (the Manchester and Birming-
hani) through this town, are engaged on the work.—Stock-
port Advertiser.

The political apostasy of Mr. Trafford, of Trafford, was
" Gazetted" on Tuesday, when his name appeared amongst
a batch of newly-created baronets. To Mr. Trafford's ad-
vancement, we should take no exception,, if it were not so
notoriously the reward of a degraded_, government for an
abandonment of principle.

TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.—A few weeks ago, the
wardens of the Episcopal Chapel of Heaton Norris, Stock-
port, presented the Rev. Robert Martirkdale, the incumbent,
with a purse containing nearly £4O, the ,voluntary contribu-
tion of his congregation, as a testimony of their esteem, and
in admiration of his doctrine, talent, and high attainments as
a theologian. The rev. gentleman was a short time since
curate at Tranmere.

NEW BARONETS.—The Gazelle of Tuesday. August 24,
states that the Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Baronet of the United Kingdom to the following gentlemen,
and the respective heirs male of their bodies lawfully be-
gotten, viz. :—Henry Dymoke, of Scrivelsby Court, in the
county of Lincoln, Esq. ; Thomas Joseph Trafford, of Traf-
ford Park, in the county palatine of Lancaster; Esq. ; Wm.
Lawson, of Brough Hall, in the county of York, Esq. ;
Andrew Armstrong, of Gallen Priory, in the King's County,
Esq. ; William Clay, of Fulwell Lodge, in the county of
Middlesex, Esq. ; John -M'Taggart, of Ardwell, in the
county of Wigtown, Esq. ; Henry Winston Barron, of
Bellevue, in the county of.Kilkeuny, Esq. ; George Gerrard
de Hochepied Larpent, of lioehampton, in the county of
Surrey. Esq. ; Denis le Marchant, Cobham Place, in the
county of Surrey, Esq. ; Isaac Lyon Goldstnid, of St. John's
Lodge, Regent's Park, in the county of Middlesex, and of
the Wick, Brightemstone, in the county of Sussex, Esq. ;
John Easthope, of Fir Grove, in the county of Surrey, Esq. ;
John Power, of Roe Buck House, in the county of Dublin,
and of Sampton, in the county of Wexford, Esq.

A MAN ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.—On the arrival of the
Eastham steam-packet, on Sunday morning last, at the
George's Pierhead, it was accompanied by a rowing-boat,
with a young man and the dead body of another in it. On
inquiry, it appeared that, at five o'clock on Sunday morning,
two young men, Thomas Kewley, .a clerk in a merchant's
office, and Samson Moore, a cabinet-maker, took a boat
from George's Pier, and proceeded up the river. They had
a double-barrelled gun, and the means of loading it, with
them, their object being_to amuse themselves by shooting
birds. Kewley carried the gun. When on arriving a little
way beyond Eastham Ferry, he fired the contents of one of
the barrels at some seagulls. Moore, at the time, was scull-
ing the boat, and, not being very expert, he let the oar fall in
such a manner that it came, it is supposed, in contact with
the trigger of the gun, for the loaded barrel instantly went
off, and Kewley, who had been standing up, fell down into
the bottom of the boat. His affrighted companion rushed to
his assistance, but all his attempts to stop the bleeding were
useless, as the contents of the gun had made a large wound

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in the throat. His next effoii was to procure assistance,
and, therefore, he jumped on shore and ran to the next house,
the inmates of which sent to Sutton for a surgeon. On his
return to the boat he found that it had drifted away with his
wounded companion, and as no means of reaching him was
at hand, he ran to Eastham. The crew of Sir Richard
Bulkeley's yacht, which was lying off Eastham, gave him
prompt assistance, but on their reaching the boat, the un-
fortunate young man was a corpse. Moore, in his alarm,
declined to give Mr. Smith, of Eastham, a proper account
of the transaction ; therefore, suspicion was excited, and on
his arrival at Liverpool, he was taken into custody. Mr.
Whitty, on more particular inquiry, was convinced that the
above facts are true. Poor Moore is dreadfully excited, and
seems horror-struck at the termination of his excursion.
The deceased has no friends in Liverpool. An inquest will
be held on the body to-day.

On Sunday 'evening, at a late hour, the Right Hon. Sir
Robert Peel, Bart., who was dining with the Earl and
Countess De
.Grey, in St. James's-square, received by a
royal messenger, from Windsor Castle, a summons from her
Majesty the Queen, commanding the right hon. baronet's
attendance at Windsor Castle yesterday.
UNWHOLESOME MEAT.—During the last few days, Mr.
George Holden, inspector of markets, has brought before
Mr. Rushton, at the Police-court, several parties keeping
standings, on informations for exposing meat that was unfit
for human food. The following was the result :—Henry
Smith, St. John's Market, for exposing 1241 b. of bad veal,
40s. and costs ; Mary Balmer, 161 b. of mutton, ss. and
costs ; Samuel Norton, 351 b. of beef, ss. and costs ; and
Joseph Stubbs, 1411 b. of beef, 40s. and costs.
ANDERTON CARRYING COMPANY.—The annual general
meeting of the proprietors of the Anderton Carrying Com-
pany, was held on Friday last, at the Clarendon Rooms. The
report of the directors was highly satisfactory to the share-
holders, for notwithstanding the great commercial depression,
so generally felt, and the obstructions and extra expenses
occasioned to the company by the intense and protracted
frosts during the last winter, a dividend of ten shillings per
share, for the half year ending 30th June, was declared, being
more than 3 per cent. on the paid up capital. On the pre-
vious half year's business, the company paid 24 per cent.,
having placed nearly a third of the entire profits for the year
to the "Reserved Fund Account." The cordial thanks of
the meeting were presented to the board, and the retiring
directors were unanimously re-elected for the next year.

THE CABINET COUNCIL ON SATURDAY.—At the Cabi-
net Council on Saturday last, at which the whole of the mi-
nisters forming the Cabinet were present, it was determined
unanimously that the resignation of the Ministry should be
immediately forwarded to the Queen at Windsor. Shortly
after the breaking up of the council Viscount Melbourne pro-
ceedcd to Windsor Castle to acquaint his Sovereign with the
result of the deliberation of himself and the other members
of the Administration. It was understood that the Premier
would communicate the resolution of the Government in the
House of Lords yesterday afternoon, and also that Lord
John Russell at the same time would make a similar commu-
nication in the House of Commons on the meeting of that
legislative assembly. If the London papers of last night
contain these important and long looked for announcements,
we shall publish them in a second edition as early as possible.

A DISHONEST SERVANT.—EIiza Susan Watmore was, on
Saturday, placed before Mr. Rushton, charged with having
robbed her master, Mr. Story, grocer, Vauxhall-road. On
Friday night the prisoner was told by the shopman that he
was going to an adjoining house but suspecting the dishonesty
of the prisoner, he secreted himself in the back yard and
watched her motions, when he saw her go into the shop and
open the drawers where he had left some money, and on his
return asked the prisoner where she had put it. She denied
that she had ever been in the shop. The money, however,
to the amount of lls. 5d., in copper; was found beneath a
drawer to which the shopman had seen the prisoner go. A
police-officer was called in, and the prisoner's box was
searched. Some ten shillings in silver were found, and three
and sixpence in copper: The prisoner's wages had been paid
weekly, in silver. A bill of parcel for goods, which was in
the box, to the amount of £2 Ils. 4d., was found. The
prisoner was committed fur trial.
PARKGATE ADJOURNED SESSIONS.—The adjourned ses-
sions were held on Frida, August 27th, before R. Congreve,
Esq., chairman, Sir E. Cust, J. L. Maddocks, Esq., Rev.
Archdeacon Clarke, W. W. Currie, Esq., &c. The principal
part of the time of the magistrates was taken up in hearing
applications for licenses, and the renewal of old ones. There
were a great many applications for new licenses, and although
these various claims were brought forward in a very able man-
ner by Mr. H. B. Walker and Mr. Mallaby, the magistrates,
with the exception of three, refused to grant any fresh ones.
Indeed in the neighbourhood of Seacombe—from whence a
number of claims came, they came to an unanimous resolu-
tion not to grant any. How far the wholesale refusal of per-
sons who (to judge from the signatures attached to each
document) had hitherto conducted beer-houses in a most
respectable way will tend to lessen the evil, we will leave it to
the magistrates to consider. The successful applicants were
Mr. Brown, for a new house recently erected near the rail-
way station, Mr. Jenwood, North Birkenhead, and Mr.
Thomas Knowles, Claughton. There is another subject we
wish to call the attention of the magistrates to, viz., the ex-
treme smallness and inconvenience of the room in which
they hold their meetings, and We are sure we have only to do
so in order to have the inconvenience remedied,—From onr
correspondent.

INQUESTS.—Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr.
Curry, on view of the body of Adam Lindsay, an old man,
who, it appears, had fallen into the Clarence Dock Basin
immediately after his arrival from Scotland, and was drowned.
Police-officer Humphrey Peate stated, that about five o'clock
on Sunday morning, while he was on duty at the Clarence
Dock Basin, he saw the body of a man lying on the sand
bank in the basin, which was then dry. He got assistance
and conveyed the body to the dead-house. There wer
found on him lls. in silver, dcl. in copper, a small phial con-
taining a little whiskey, and some other articles. In one o I
the pockets was found a piece of paper, containing the ad-
dress " David Lindsay, 10, Crown-court, Bolton-street."
Enquiry was made accordingly, and the son of the deceased
whose address it was, was found, and identified the body a
that of his father, whom he had expected from Scotland, bu
did not know the time at which he was likely to arrive. It
appeared that the deceased resided at Dumfries ; that he was
78 years of age, and had come as a passenger from Annan,
by the Newcastle steamer, which had left that port, on the
Solway, on Saturday morning, and arrived here on the night
of the same day, between ten and eleven o'clock. The de-
ceased was seen to land in good health. Verdict, " found
drowned."—Same day an inquest was held on view of the
body of Ellen Roughsedge, 35 years of age, who resided in
Ford's-yard, Mill-street. The deceased was a married wo-
man, and her husband is at sea. She died suddenly in the
night, and, as it appeared, from a post mortem examination,
of a disease of the heart, that organ being found enlarged to
double its natural extent. Verdict, " died of disease of the
heart."

FIRES.—On Saturday night, between nine and ten o'clock,
an alarm of fire at Aintree race course reached the town, and
Mr. Hewitt of the fire police, and an effective brigade of that
department of the force were so speedily on the ground as to
" astonish" the rustics ranged around. Four hay stacks,
belonging to Mr. Lynn, of the Waterloo Hotel, were on
fire. One of them was consumed. The others, by the
strenuous exertions made were saved, with the exception of
a small portion of one of them. The whole of the latter
would also have fallen a prey to the flames, but for the acti-
vity of Mr. Hewitt and his men, who took it down, and scat-
tered it abroad. There were four engines on the ground,
and these had a plentiful supply of water from the neigh-
bouring pits. It is not known how the fire originated.—On
the following morning, (Sunday,) about two o'clock, a fire
broke out in some cot
ton bags on the deck of a brig
called the " Mary," lying in the. Salthouse Dock. Mr.
Hewitt being absent at Aintree at the former-named
fire, Mr. Whitty, chief constable, with seven engines
and a strong brigade of firemen, was almost immediately on
the ground, and the fire, which was alarming as regarded the
shipping, was got under with comparatively little damage,
a few minutes. About nine o'clock on Saturday morning a
fire also took place in a dwelling-house in Ben Jonson-street.
Some of the beams supporting the floors had become ignited
apparently
.from the fire in one of the chimneys. The
engines, with a strong force of policemen, were rapidly
brought up, and the flames were extinguised ; the loss being
but £5O in timber, furniture, &c. In all these easel the
efficiency of the fire-police was shown to a degree highly
praiseworthy to that body.

3OUTH LANCA,SIiikE SUMMER ASSIZES

CROWN COURT.-]
MISDEdiEANOR

FRIDAY

John Lowe, 46, stood charged with having assaulted Bryan
Lent, with intent to commit a detestable and abominable

Mr. James conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Wilkins de-
fended the prisoner.
The prosecutor was a farm-servant in the employ of Ed-
ward Webster, of Litherland. The prisoner was a tax-
collector. The offence took place in au open field, about two
o'clock in the afternoon of the 26th of July last, but the
details are too indecent for publication.
The prisoner was acquitted.
CHARGE OF MURDER.
James White was indicted for the wilful murder of William
Plummer, at Liverpool, by stabbing him with a knife.
Mr. Wigham prosecuted ; Mr. Wilkins defended the pri-
soner.

The particulars of the case will be gathered from the sub-
joined evidence.
Bridget Plummer.-1 am widow of the late William Plum-
mer. We lived in Christian-court, in Preston-street, in
this town. The house was resorted to by women of the
town. On the night of Saturday, the 12th of June last,
about ten o'clock, a young woman, whom I did not know,
came to our house with a man, who was also unknown to
me. They went up stairs together, and, after remaining
there a few minutes, I heard the woman shout " murder."
I requested the man to come down, and the woman in the
room also requested that he would go down. In a few mi-
nutes afterwards there was another cry of murder, and I
took a candle into the room. The man, who is the prisoner
then came down stairs. He attempted to strike me. My
husband, the deceased, at this time, was undressed, and in
the act of going into bed, which was in the kitchen. My
husband said, " don't strike that woman, she does not de-
serve it from 316 u." He replied, "If I don't strike ner, I'll
strike you." My husband replied, "Go home, my good man,
1 want nothing to do with you." The prisoner then struck
my husband, and the blow was returned, and my husband
thrust prisoner out of the house into an entry, where a scuf-
fle took place between them. The prisoner took something
from bis pocket, with which he struck at my husband, and I
immediately observed that he bad inflicted a large wound in
the lower part of his belly, and my husband exclaimed,
" Oh, lam killed." The prisoner ran up Preston-street,
and 1 pursued him, and gave him into the charge of a police-
man. A female, named Ann Gallagher, was in the house at
the time the altercation took place. My husband died at
five o'clock the following day.
The witness was severely cross-examined by Mr. Wit.-
IUNS, chiefly as to what provocation had been given by de-
ceased.

Ann Gallagher, the woman alluded to by the last witness,
deposed to being at Plummers house on the night of the oc-
currence forming the subject of the charge. Heard a cry of
murder at the time the prisoner was up stairs. Witness,
after deposing to the altercation spoken of by the last wit-
ness, stated that she saw prisoner take a knife from his right
hand trousers pocket, and inflict a wound upon deceased.
Mr. WILKINS severely cross-examined the witness, with
a view to impeach her testimony.
The deceased's dying declaration was read, which was to
the effect that the deceased and prisoner had had a quarrel.
together ; deceased struck prisoner in the first instance ; pri-
soner then left the house, but returned in about two minutes,
and inflicted the wound forming the subject of the present
inquiry.

Mr.' WILKINS, in his speech for the defence of the pri-
soner, remarked strongly upon the correct source of the evi-
dence for the prosecution. He laboured to reduce the offence
from murder to manslaughter, on the ground that the stab
had been given by prisoner at the time of quarreling with
deceased.

The Jury acquitted the prisoner of the charge of murder,
but found him guilty of manslaughter.
His LORDSHIP, after commenting upon the aggravated
nature of the prisoner's offence, sentenced him to be tran-
sported for twelve years.
SENTENCE ON GIROLOMO CAPPELLA.

Girolomo Cappella, convicted on Thursday of the wilful
murder of Antonio Toscani, was placed at the bar at a
quarter-past twelve, and he was called upon by the Clerk of
the Court to say why. sentence of death should not be passed
upon him, according to law.
The prisoner replied, through his interpreter, Joseph
Liardi, I beg that some time may be allowed to me. that I
may reconcile my mind to God.

'the Lord CHIEF JUSTlCE.—Girolomo Cappella, you have
been convicted of a cruel and deliberate murder, not in any
moment of excitement or violence, but after great delibera-
tion, and in consequence of some quarrel about money. You
proceeded with care and forethought, and actually secured,
almost at the moment when you committed this foul murder,
the small property which was probably some inducement for
you to commit it. The jury recommended you to mercy ; I,
therefore, have not come to the conclusion that I ought to
leave you to the hands of the executioner without great care
and anxiety. It would have given me the greatest pleasure
to comply with that recommendation, if I had thought it
consistent with my public duty ; but it is necessary that ex-
amples should be made when these horrible crimes are com-
mitted. The only prayer that he (the learned judge here spoke
in the third person and addressed the interpreter)has addressed
to me—that he may have time to reconcile himself to God, is
the only prayer that can be granted in his behalf. He must
prepare for death. He will have every consolation and every
assistance that religion can afford him, and I fervently hope
that his repentance may be accepted. The sentence of the
court is, that for the felony and murder of which he stands
convicted, he be taken from hence to the place from whence
he came, and from that place to some place of execution, and
that there he be hanged by the neck till he is dead. His body
must then be buried within the precincts of the prison, and
may the Almighty God have mercy upon his soul.
The prisoner here requested that the interpreter might be
allowed to see him, as he wished to confess to the priest.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.—There will be no objection.
The Chaplain to the High Sheriff said he would commu-
nicate the wish of the prisoner to the priest.
The prisoner, who heard the sentence with apparent calm-
ness, was then removed from the dock.