The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-02 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARb.

ANTI-LEAGUE MEETING.—On Thursday last, pur-
suant to announcement, a meeting of landowners, tenant
farmers, and others, was held at Garstang, for the pin--
pose of establishing an Agricultural Protective Associa-
tion for North Lancashire. The place of meetinci was
advertised to be at the Royal Oak Hotel ; but it was af-
terwards determined that it should be held in the large
room of the Town-hall. Shortly before one o'clock, the
party proceeded to this room, which is capable of accom-
modating from 300 to 400 persons, and which was crowded.
At the west end of the room was a raised platform. for the
chairman and the principal landowners and members of
the committee. Amongst the company present were R.
Townley Parker, Esq., Cuerden Hall; T. Bright Crosse,
Esq., of Shaw Hill; J. Talbot Clifton, Esq., of Lytham
Hall; Hugh Hamby, Esq., of Ribby Hall; D. Hornby,
Esq., Raikes Hall; A. R. Ford, Esq., Ellel Hall; W.
A. Cross, Esq., Red Scar; J. Nowell Farington, Esq.,
Worden Hall; T. F. Brockholes, Esq., Claughton Hall;
W. Garnett, Esq., Quernmore Park; J. Taylor, Esq.,
Moreton Hall; J. Cunliffe, Esq., Myerscough House;
T. Y. P. Michaelson, Esq.. Barrow Isle ; W. A. P. San-
ders, Eso., of Winnington Hall; George Jacson, Esq.,
Barton Lodge ; Thos. Walmsley, Esq.. Preston ; Pudsey
Dawson, Esq., Hornby Castle ; Kingston Salisbury, Esq.,
Liverpool ; Edw. Pedder, Esq., Clifton Hall ; and other
gentlemen. The body of the room was filled principally
with tenant farmers. Upwards of £BOO was subscribed
on the spot.
WITCHCRAFT IN THE 19TH CENTURY.—A curious
circumstance, showing that even at this time of day the
superstitious belief in witchcraft among individuals in the

country is not yet altogether extinct, happened last week
in the Town Muir. A small farmer there had a cow from
which the mulch fell away, and believing it was caused
by an " evil eye," sent for a person professing to have the
power of discovering the agent of the mischief. When
he was called, and Crummy's condition explained to him,
he got a hen's egg, blew it, and filled the shell with milk,
gave it to the owner of the cow, and told him to go round
to all the neighbours with it, and that when on holding
the end of it up he found the milk did not drop in the
house where he did so, there was the destroyer of his
cow. The simple man did as he was desired. From
walking, the milk naturally became churned, and at a
certain house would not drop. The result was, that the
occupier, a woman, was pronounced to be the witch. A
very serious conference was held by the owner of the cow
and his friends, as to what then should be done. The
projector of the witch's discovery was called. He told
them the only thing now for them was to get a nail and
scratch the brow of the sorceress, when the milk would
again come to the cow. This was actually managed, but
the cow was, of course, no better from the experiment.—
Perth Courier.

RACE WITH A STEAM ENGINE!—On Friday, the Sth

instant, the Meerza lbraheem, of the East India College,
Haileybury, met with one of the most frightful accidents,
and providential escapes, that it has ever been our fate to
record. The Meerza was coming from Ware to Hertford,
and on arriving opposite the Union Workhouse he deter-
mined to enter the town through the back street, and for
that purpose he went down Mead-lane, and passed over
the railway. The Meerza had proceeded about half the
distance between the Mead-lane gate and the back en-
trance to the railway terminus, when the three o'clock
train left the station. The Meerza's horse, a fine spirited
animal, immediately became affrighted, wheeled round,
and dashed back at a furious pace, literally racing with
the train ; and on arriving at the gate he had just passed
through, the affrighted animal cleared it at a bound, and
alighted with its fore feet on the very edge of the line of
railway, at the very instant that the train arrived at the
gate. Fortunately, the horse did not obtain a secure foot-
ing; the soil of the edge and bank of the railway was
loose, and the horse's feet slipping back, he rolled down
the bank, and the train rolled by, within a few feet of the
Meerza's head, as he lay under the frightened and strug-
gling horse, whose legs had become entangled in the
fencing,—unable to disengage his feet from the stirrups.
After the train had passed, the Meerza succeeded with
difficulty in extricating himself from his unpleasant posi-
tion, as the horse continued to roll about with great vio-
lence ; but we are happy to state, that he sustained no
greater Injury than a few bruises, from the effect of which
he has nearly recovered.—Hertford Reformer.

IMPORTANT TO INN sea EPER.s.--On.Tuesday, the 12th
instant, a man of respectable appearance and address, who
gave hisname as James Roberts (supposed to be fictitious)
was brought before R. K. Rotherham, Esq., charged
with obtaining from Mr. George Thomas Edwards, of the
Castle Inn, the sum of £27 155., under the following
circurnstancee:—lt appears the prisoner, who had been•
staying at the above inn for two or three days. passing
himself as at commercial gentleman, on Saturday evening
walked into- the bar, and, with a familiar air,- said to the
landlord, " Edwards, can you cash me a cheque, the post
goes at ten o'clock, does it not ?" Mr. Edwards said he
did not think he had so much change in the house, but he
would seer and asked him who G. N. Davies (the drawer
of the cheque) was. He replied, in an off-hand manner,"
turning the cheque over, oh, this makes you:safe (show-
ing the endorsement, B. Green) ; I have just received it
from Mr. Green, of Warwick. Mr. Edwards then cashed
the cheque for him, giving him five £5 notes, the rest in
gold and silver. The prisoner then went, as Mrs-Edwards
considered, from the bar to the commercial room, to write
his letters and remit the money ; but some suspicion hav-
ing- occurred to Mr. Edwards, he sent his waiter to the
commercial room to see if the prisoner was there, and
found he was not s he sent immediately for the chief con-
stable, who succeeded in apprehending him in about half
an hour after, going off by the- coach to London. He
gave up the amount, £27 155., and asked to be let go.
On presenting a cheque at the banking-house of Messrs.
Strachan and Co. of the Strand, they denied all know--
ledge of the drawer or endorsee. The prisoner was fully.
committed to gaol to take his- trial at the assizes, on the
28th instant. The priioner. who hawseveralaliases,
• Cuthbert. Rodgers, Roberta,. &e.. is about five feet four
inches high, very stout, and broad' shoulders, about 45
years-of age, dark bushy whiskers, red face, and broad
flat features, and is very fond of smoking cigars. It is
supposed many other cases sill he brought against him,
as a person of his description has lately victimised several
commercial inns in different parts of the country, in a
similar-manner attempted in this instance.—Nottinghant.
Mereury.
A. MANUFACTURER'S OPINION ON THE ABOLITION
oe THE CORN LAWS.—On Friday week, a meeting of the-
landowners, farmers, and other inhabitants of the county
of Aberdeen was held.at the Court-house, Aberdeen, to
take steps for counteracting the mischevious doings of the
Anti-corn-law League. ?Ir. Hadden, who is a great
manufacturer made u speech of peculiar importance
From what I have mad of the doctrines of the Anti-corn-
law League, I believe that if any one is to derive ad yenta-
ag ne sd
,f rcoomn s segfureeenttlrya,dethiantcolrnam, it
tßoilblebethtahte
happy manufacturer,person.
(A laugh.) I looked at the matter in every way—and I
do not shut my eyes to my own interest; but I cannot dis-
cover. how I am to be benefitted by a free trade in corn..
If we admit foreign corn free of duty, every one can see
that the farming interest, and every one connected with it
must suffer by competition. If you look at the poor soil,
ungenial climate, and the amount of taxes borne by the
farmer in this country, how can he think of competing
with that man who has none of these disadvantages to con
tend with ? We all know that the great bulk of foreign
will come from Germany, and that a few days will bring it
here, burdened with only a few trifling charges, when it
will come in competition with the home groiNer. We
manufacturers have the monopoly of clothing all the far-
mers and their dependents. Now, what I ask is this—if
we lose our own home trade, by depriving our best cus-
tomers of the power of purchasing our manufactures
through admitting foreign grain, are we to supply clothes
to foreign farmers ? if a certain country supplies us with
corn, I, as a manufacturer, have nothing to say against it,
if I am to have- the advantage of- sending goods there.
Germany is the principal country where corn comes from
Now what chance is there of their reducing their tariff?
What chance of Prussia reducing theirs to suit us ? Ihave
visited Germany, and I know that manufactures and com-
merce are in a very flourishing state there. Instead of
reducing their tariff to suit ours, they are yearly increasing
it, and some goods are burdened with so heavy a duty that
it may be said to amount to a total prohibition. I cannot,
therefore,, see how we are to be benefitted by free trade
which is alt on one side. If a certain customer is taken
away from us, and no other provided in his place, how
can we be benefited ? I say nothing upon the subject of
real free trade. Ido not understand a free trade to be
that we should open our ports to all the world, and that
their ports should be shut against us."
MYSTERIOUS PRIZE.—On Wednesday last, as a young
man was enjoying the agreeable pastime of popping at
small birds in some fields near Sedgley, an intended vic-
tim of his deadly sport perched itself on something, the
exact nature of which was not very discernible, in one of
the pits of water with which the fields in that neighbour-.
hood abound. Our sportsman took his aim—but the
feathered one, too cunning to remain in such dangerous
company, wisely took wing and fled away. Disappointed
for the moment, the wanderer resolved upon a scrutiniz-
ing examination of the extraordinary-looking affair from
which the bird had just departed. It looked like the
head of a barrel,, dimly seen through a kind of mist of
long attached slime and weed. But what business had a
barrel there ? Determined to solve the mysterious ap-
pearance, and a hedge being near, the hero of our adven-
ture judiciously armed himself with a tolerably lengthy
hedge rail, and took many a cautious poke at the tanta-
lizing object before him. The weeds and aqueous incrus-
tations at length gave way, and a portion of a tolerably
portlysort of kilderkin stood revealed to view. It was heavy,
and literally stuck in the mud. To get it out unaided
vv,ts impossible, and assistance was speedily gathered. A.
stout rope and a hearty tug or two soon brEught the cu-
r osity to the shore. It was evidently well charged with
something, but what could it be? It was broached, and
forthwith from it poured a rich stream of ruddy mellow
old pert—port such as might have warmed the heart of
even old Bacchus himself. The cheerful news of this
wonderful vintage soon spread around ; even from the
most unseemly vessels was the precious liquor eagerly
quaffed, and those " drank port who ne'er drank port
before." Nor did the luck of the party end here, for one
of them sagaciously enough conjectured, that as the sur-
face of the pit presented such good things, its inner depths
might not be less satisfactorily stored, and forthwith an
actve exploration of all its muddy recesses commenced,
and the skill and enterprise of the party beheld their
reward in the safe landing, amidst cheers and eager ex-
pectation,.of another rotund prize, of similar size and
aspect to the one already secured. This, on tapping,
turned out to be a cask of peppermint. As the news of
finding these good things derelict became more extensively
known, it was resolved that means should he taken to
discover, if possible, unto whom these remarkable waifs
legitimately belonged. The wine-cask was found to be
marked " Prince and Co., Tamworth," and three " W's"
were impressed on that containing the peppermint. A
communication was forwarded to Tamworth ; but, strange
enough, the firm knew nothing of the commodities, nor
is asy trace of them to be found in the books, though
referred to for years back.— Wulverhamplon Chronicle.

CORRESPONDENCE.

BIRKENHEAD IMPROVEMENTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—The world is full of touchy, ill-natured people ;
and there is only one animal in nature that never sleeps,
and that is old Time. Confound the fellow, he gallops
onward as if he was running a steeple-chase, and nobody
who has a bill running, a bit of land bought on contract,
or a time bargain to fulfil, can scotch the wheels of his
chariot. I rather suspect, by the very waspish style of
Mr. Zephaniah Smith's last letter, that he has been bitten
by the mad dogs on our side of the river, and that he is
fearful and paroxismatic at the very sight of water. Mr.
Smith, in every line he has written, roalses it as clear as
the nose on his face that he has had a finger in the Bir-
kenhead pie, and that he is mos desperately anxious that
every thing should be kept snug and quiet, till he and other
" sharp" fellows have wriggled out of their time bargains.
What a happy fellow he will be when, as you said some
time ago, he has converted his dirtS, acres into Commis-
sioners Bonds. Why, sir, Birkenhead Bonds will, ere
long, figure away in the " Share List"—
I Paid. f Last quotation.
At £lOO. 1. £574 15s. 9id.
Bankers from Siberia,
Calmucs from Asia,
Hottentot Bohers,
Parisian Lafittes,
Pennsylvanian Merchants,

(honest gentlemen as the} are,) and all those small-eyed,
sharp-nosed, curly-headed, and dark-complexioned gen-
tlemen known on the Stock Exchange as Bulls and Bears,
will, ere long, rush in as purchasers, and London and
Birminghams, Grand Junctions, and Great Westerns will
be forgotten in the rush after Birkenhead Dock Shares—
or, if you will, Birkenhead Bonds. Let Mr. Smith keep
his temper. He and all the Cheshire people who hold
land are on the high road to prosperity,and dame Fortune
has taken her seat on a buoy in the middle of Wallasey
Pool.

Sir, a new area is about to dawn upon us, and although
I think some of my neighbours are running rather fast,
and are likely enough to get out of breath, yet I can as-
sure Mr. Smith that I can rejoice in the rich tints which
glow in the horizon of Birkenhead ; and I see in the spirit
of her Commissioners a proof that we are destined to be-
come a mighty nation, through the enterprise of those
daring minds who—stick at nothing. England was once
subdued by William the Conqueror ; but he was a Norman
noodle compared with that greater William (we write it
short here) who conquered your Liverpool Harold, and
vanquished him in fair fight. I know that his (William's)
troops can still, like their progenitors, draw a long bow ;
and depend upon it, that Birkenhead will become another
Hastings, and the dynasty of the Mersey will soon be
changed. To be sure, being an old man, you may say
that I am somewhat garrulous, and perhaps tell more
than the Commissioners like, but they do act so honour-
ably that there is no occasion to be very nice. Talk cf
your public improvements in Liverpool forsooth ! Why,
sir, we have a gentleman at Birkenhead can write about
public improvements in a most extraordinary manner, and
who practises what hie preaches; and although he does
wear drab, and sells most excellent gridirons, when Will
or Joe shouts out " Go it,iye cripples", he can turn out
essays on Birkenhead prosperity, compiled from newspa-
pers, that would astonish an ostrich.
I will tell you a secret, Mr. Editor, but do not for the
world let it be made public. Our Commissioners intend
to get Wallasey Pool for nothing, or next to nothing ' • and
if the Commissioners of Woods and Forest would have
kept on their nightcaps, and gone to sleep, as they ought
to have done ; and if Jesse Hartley hall been snugly de-
posited- under one of his own dock walls, I verily believe
that we should have succeeded. But somehow or other
the thing- got blown, and the little lady at Windsor has
been most mischieviously advised not to part with the
Pool, unless, a few hundred thousand pounds is paid for
it ; and until Attwood establishes a branch bank at Bir-
kenhead, it will be ragther inconvenient to raise so much
money. To be sure there are some beautiful- plans exhi-
bited, and whenthe ladies retire after dinner, (for I dine
out a good deaU)." Prosperity. to Birkenhead,". is always
drunk ; and many sly nods and winks, and jokes and leers,
are passing, which- seem to say, that many people know
more than they choose to reveal. You have heard, no
Question, that we are to have amongst our public edifices,
a large and magnificent Lunatic Asylum, the first stone of
which is to be laid on the day when the Port Jackson
Dock Bill receives the royal assent : and it is whispered
that a valuable plot of land, recently purchased from, the
Corporation, is to be appropriated for that necessary
erection. There are several candidates in the field already
for the governorship, and one of them lays claim to the
situation from his well-known ability in administering.
drastic purgatives, and the skill with which he has so co-
piously phlebotomised renumber of patients. His testi—
monials are of the most unexceptionable description, and
his: treatment is said to be quite 9angradoish, viz., plenty
of blood letting and swallowing' an abundance of (cold)
water. But we have had a wet blanket thrown over us is •
a most mystifying manner by the postponement of our
dock- bill. If it had gone on as it, ought to have done, it
would," have made two lovers happy," and fleets of New
Yorkers would have soon discharged theireargoes into the
centre of Hamilton-square. But list! we are going to do
as Hannibal did. We shall leave Carthage to be sacked,
and march onwards to attack. Rome.• W e shall carry the
war into the very centre of your Dock Committee-room,
and we shall spit our spite by. arresting. tiLe progress of
your bill Think of that, Master Brooke and we shall
succeed too, unless our opposition-should be like Paddy's
gun, which burst when it was- discharged, because, al-
though it was thick enough in the back, it was over thin
in the belly-II But, Lord bless me ! how I- lose sight of
my subject,- I intended to tell you all about our im-
provements ;. and, if Mr. Smith and I. could meet in a
friendly way, I don't think we should disagree so much
tor I am an old man, and -rather work'. wad-dread very fast
high-trotting horses, for if they do-cut themselves, they
generally come down " all of a heap ;" but he says, " Go
on, you can't be in too great a hurry, so long as you-can
put money in-your purse." Well, sir; we are to have, in
addition to our Asylum, a new Infirmary for all our lame
ducks, a charming Refuge for the Destitute, with a pretty
look on Wallasey Pool, which view it is thought will be
very cheering and consolatory to the inmates, as many of
them will probably have their all in it. The Port Jack-
son Great Dock-is. to be a Naumachia for six-oared gigs ;
and several American sea serpents are to be kept
in it for the use of the " Young 'uns," who are to
be taught to be as dexterous in the use of the harpoon as
their fathers have been. Ample provision is to be made
for instruction. The lads are particula ly to be taught
how to conjugate such verbs as " to buy," and to decline
"to sell," &c. Such fables as the hare and the tortoise
are to be excluded from our public schools, and our grate
literary man talks of publishing a new dictionary, possess-
ing all the modern phrases now in common use,—such
as " go a-head," " Jelly building," and other elegant
words omitted by Dr. Johnson ; and such obsolete words
as " moderation," " preservation," " punctuality," and
several other 'ations and 'alities, are to be excluded, be-
cause they are perfectly useless, and will only keher the
young ideas who are to be taught how to shoot. Our
slaughter-houses will soon be in a forward state;. they
are not wanted just at present, because we have, as yet,
only done a little in the -maiming and wii,ging line; but
as the slaughtering will follow in due course, it is as well
to be prepared. The calves have been bled to a small
extent, but not sufficient, as yet, to make the veal white
enough for our New Market ; but I suppose, by the time
the building is finished, a good many of them will be ready
for sale. The Monks' Ferry Bill is, lam told, going on
Swimmingly, like everything-, does at this place. Old
Wiggins, my neighbour, was in London on Friday, and
herd "Will" give his evidence upon it; and he declares that .
"Will" did the thing slick and slap up. That a sharp, cle-
ver fellow he is I Wiggins thinks he has been taking les-
sons from Sir Robert Peel.. because, when he said a good
thing and made a hit, which he often did in the most mo-
dest, unassuming manner,, he looked round at his friends
in the committee.room, as if he expected a cheer; and he
would have got one too,. only Wiggins says that cheering
is confined to the house at pi esent. Monks' Ferry must
be had, and everybody knows that Birkenhead must fol-
low. Willoughby will.be much better off; when he is te-
nant to the commissioners, than being under your corpo—
ration,; and I advise him to throw no impediments in the
way. There is one thing which I don't like about the
ferries, and that is boats running all night. It is teaching
our young sprigs to keep bad hours, and will have an evil
effect on the morality of this very moral suburb, where
nothing flourishes without that strict honour and good
moral conduct which has hitherto characterised all our
dealings. At present we never get gbove three sheets in
the wind; and 1 do hope that our commissioners will let
the poor boatmen swing in their hammocks at 12 o'clock,
or Brotherton will kick up a shindy if he hears that there
is a new motion after midnight. A oright idea has just
struck me, Mr. Editor, and it is this. A great bobbery
has been kicked up about our dock bill, and terrible in-
deed has been the splashing and plunging since the
" thunder-bolt," as the Mercury called it, fell in Liver-
pool. Now my opinion is this. The land is not to make
the dock valuable, but the dock is to lay a hundredfold
on the value of the land—indeed it has done that already.
It has therefore struck me, that if nur commissioners
would still continue the splashing, and talk big, and look
daggers. and blow their trumpets louder than ever, and
hurl defiance at the corporation and Liverpool dock peo-
ple, and then—just let the Birkenhead bill drop, as the
monkey did the hot potatoe, that it would be a capital
hit. Don't you take ? They could then keep up the ex-
citement. talk about " grievances," " justice to Birken-
head," "foul play on behalf of the corporation," and a thou-
sand ingenious devices might follow, so that everybody
will see that they are a very ill-used set of men, and every-
body will join in saying, " We shall get a better bill next
year ! Then land might be screwed up another pound
or so a yard, and it is so cheap at present that it will
really bear it. Why, sir, fortunes might be made in ano-
ther year ; and as to the interest accumulating—pshaw !
who thinks anything about interest here ? Besides—but
it is of no use speculating (except in land). if I was a
commissioner I would suggest such a thing, but I am
now rather old for running in harness with such vigorous
the last article on joint-stock
and bigh-mettled cattle. I have a few things more to
boson
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to-day. " Put down the gruel, Betty,' and
companies. There; you may now go to bed."
Yours, Obediently,
EBENEZER JONES.
dtgmhhaye Times, with

Birkenhead, Lady-day.

CAVTION.—The Liverpool police have received infor-
mation that ten experienced London thieves arrived in
this town on Thursdaylast, for the purpose of practising
their art in the omnibuses connected with Liver, 001.
Ladies who travel in omnibuses cannot be too careful of
the contents of their pockets or reticules whenever they
find strangers in the same vehicle with them, although
their appearance may be ever so genteel.

April 2, 1544.

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

s
taitoOtnhnet
hTTeou Tuesday,
Fire-Prevention
Isf,ope
renctt special meeting
pmAueremptoiensngedomoff
etitailtki Counciltaking
tll, ,sis:bcrehef
before
Parliament. The Mayor presided.
The Town-Clerk opened the business of the day by et.
plaining the nature of the proposed amendments.ile
commenced with the third clause, which defined mote
clearly the dangerous trades. The object of the fourth
and fifth clauses was to enable parties to give certain
notices, either landlords or tenants, and according to those
clauses it would be for the landlord to determine whether
he would conform to the act of last session, and, if be ltd,
he would be entitled to 73 per cent. rent on the cost of
his alterations. Clause 6 did away with the restriction!
as to building new warehouses and provided that 001
warehouses should be built in streets, squares, or court!
of prescribed, but diminished, limits. Clause 7 provided
that nothing in the lastly recited enactment should extend
to warehouses hereafter to be built on sites of any build'
ings whatsoever (though not warehouses\ existing at the
time of the passing of the said recited act. In explaue',
tion of the clause, the Town-Clerk said that in case of the
erection of warehouses on the sites of old buildings thole
warehouses must be subject to extraordinary protection:
Mr. ISAAC HOLMES moved as an amendment that 111
all cases where warehouses were erected in streets lege,
than thirty feet wide such warehouses should be recessed
so as to leave thirty-six feet from the opposite build-
ings.
The amendment was lost.
Mr. STEWART moved, as another amendment, that
a street be less than 36 feet wide, then, for every foot lee.
in width than 36 feet, the height.of 65 feet, allowed for
warehouse by the schedule, shall be reduced 3 feet.
This amendment was agreed to.
Clause S provided that the lowest floor and part ,01
other floors of a fire proof warehouse might be PO'
with wood. Clause 9 and 10 were framed to alloif
hazardous goods to be warehoused in cellars, whit
though not arched as is a fire-proof warehouse, shout
have a ceiling lined with sheet-iron. Clause I]
allowol
dangerous trades, such as the bottling of wine and spirit!'
be carried on in certain buildings. Clause 12 env
Niwered the committee, for a period of twelve montile,l
to allow the licensing of sal, petre and nitrate of soda F
warehouses to be approved by them. ('hose 14 was to
the effect that no warehouses should be rated to the ware'
house fire-police rate, unless such warehouses should be
watched.

Mr. PARAZR characterised this as a perfectly U 1331.
countable clause.

Mr. AIKIN thought it would be well to strike oat the
clause altogether, if that could be done without injurl to
the bill. It was extremely impolitic for the inhabitsew
of Liverpol, who were depending for their well-being 0$
the good management and encouragement of property, tt_f,
go and charge an extra rare for doing that which it we'
the bounden duty of the Watch Committee to do'
(Hear, hear.) The clause would lead to many disputed
and, after all, if they got the twopence, it would 0121,1
anirunt to some £l5OO. he again hoped, that if, wit!:
out affecting the bill, they could get rid of the extra rat'
altogether, they would see the propriety of doing so.
The TOWN-CLERK said they were going as far as thP.,
could venture to go to obtain every object mentioned DI
Mr. Aikin. The advantage of the clause would be t°
give a summary mode of collecting the rate, if there,
should be a geberal application for extra watching whleti
would, in their judgment, require such rate. On the
other hand, if the committee were only called upon bi
one or two individual warehouse" keepers, they had tbit
power completely in their own judgment to refuse to maW
any such rate, and to refer the parties to certain pre'll•
sions in the act.
Mr. TURNER asked whether it would jeopardise the
bill to strike out the clause altogether.
The TOWN-CLERK said he had gone as far as he coeli
possibly go with propriety. As the clause now stook
the Watch Committee could not lay a warehouse fire'
police rate but upon the application of parties to. diet&
and they could only lay the rate upon those whomadetbe
application ; and if the parties applying should be so
as to induce the committee not to lay a rate upon thet
request, or if, upon any other grounds, they might, pupil'
it unnecessary, they might refuse. He fully agreed vntb
Mr. Aikin, that the town was bound to protect watt'.
house property to the fullest extent, and that the policy
were also bound to guard, especially against inoendiarial!
He suggested that any further consideration of the sob'
ject should be left to the committee.

- Upon this understandin the clause was adpted.
The several clauses having g been gone throuogh, the bine
as now altered, was adopted on the motion of Mr`
Nicol.
Mr. LACE called attention to section 21 of the preset!r
act, and asked whether trustees, for minors, had a powe'.o
according to its provisions, to lay out their own true
6
money ; and secondly, whether they had the power to 181
out any money at all ?
It was understood that this important question won%
receive consideration, and' the Council adjourned al
twenty minutes to one o'clock.-

Mr. J. Birbeck Nevins has just been appointed Pl'
fexor of chemistry and natural philosophy, in the COl'
legiate Institution. In consequence of thiappointmet
he has resigned the office of examining tutor of GUY
Hospital, London. which he has lately held.
LANCASHIRE ROMAN CATHOLIC Bisuov.—The eX"
tensive house and ground called Eton House, situate en
the Woolton road, have been purchased for the residence
of Dr. Brown, the Roman Catholic Bishop of this cl.,'!;
trict. The house was at one period the residence of r"„f
late Dr. Crompton, where he resided for a number "

. .
years previously to his decease.
At the B~kenhead
thpeolpicreo-cpeorutr;
0,
fona
gSeantutirrdao,y,
stylishly dressed man, named Jelin Jones, was 1:;s1
with st Sth of
Garbutt,- from Threncli!as tbe ,vint
January last. Mr. Garbutt state vla'"A.,--;
through the streets of Birkenhead on the previoas daps
when he observed the prisoner 'wearing the coat thst,"6
(Mr. G.) had lost. The prisoner made a very tame ?td.
fence, and was committed to Knutsford to take his ri 5
When searched, it was found that he had no stocking,.
on.—On. Monday, two joiners were charged with Ors";
some timber, the property of their employer, J. 13. °e4
Esq. The case was proved, and they were committed
Knutsford for trial. St
SUICIDE.—On Wednesday last, William Miller, S.
acted in. the capacity of boots at the Imperial Hotel,
John's-lane, put an end to his,existence by taking Wit"'
acid. The deceased went to a house in Lime-streew
when they asked him to take a cup of tea, which he sc;
cepted, after which he went out to the yard, and the°
to the privy. One of the patties present, having taste
some of the tea which he had, left in the cup, and fir."`neg
"„1
that it was sour, suspected that- something had been P,t
into it, and followed the deceased. Some warm on
was given to him, but he refused to take 4t, and splay Ht
it about, and in the course of a few minutes he died.
t.'",o
had bought the poison a short. time previously at a.
in Lime-street. No motive could be assigned for theen"'"
mission of the act. Verdict accordingly.
A Goon TRICK.—About eleven o'clock on Tber4g
night, four men called the attention of the policeman
„;..
duty to an unoccupied house in Strickland--treet,•":o-d
ton, telling him that the window was unfastened, es.
that in all probability thieves had been effecting. 1040
trance into the premises. The policeman desired tbeVG
be good enough to keep " watch and ward" out,ider°
he went in to ascertain the- fact. They did so. HO the
cordingly proceeded in, found all correct, sec_iure7loo„.,
window, and was about to.make his exit by the s_'-"Litiffs,
when the four fellows rushed in, said they were- the/
(which turned out to be strictly true), and that
wanted to take possession. of the house. The policemsn.
wsowuffit were
uhtgoludasaßpbbs suspect,
atd•
i•
s:uemaw7geae:l:Ysimll:aeowdsnlif nitt' heopietnirhalii .rob:rjrmee n'ihetsceeowyis:twurttleit's, ekhhieCaprdel vgorel tti a iprach eoan,aalstrscaei tob tsentinbehib;lit
rather than their own sconces.

o—ffiOcen.Waheddnsetsadteaav
tlhaastt,hsenwalrsis_ll;
d that after he had aid his Olaf
e
two men, apparently far
's
emigrantms
aagßneAeThn RATHER
egrwtneoadDsAt DOUBTFUL.—On
accostedit:c Lea b y
who, having assertained his purpose. told him they cre,..
going to the same place, and they would engage him 71,1
farm-servant. Elated with this intelligence, he reino
assented to their proposal to take a walk ; and at 0,00
three o'clock in the afternoon, when they had reached.
unfrequented part of the town, at the re= of some yl:ity
houses, they all three made a sudden halt, and entered fir
to an animated conversation, which speedily becato,e tbl
ther personal. " Give us some proof," said one o' ed
"farmers' that you have paid your passage, and that,l
are ready and willing to enter on the lucrative post wh!Fle.'
are willing to place at your disposal at the other •11'41
"Oh !" said the Irishman, in reply, "I have no diffietti
on that head, for here (taking out £l3 in gold) is a yr
good proof that I am not without money. "The 1040
was no sooner exhibited than one
him e fellows pres.e_l:lo
had in his possession. The circumstance was cord 00
cated to the commis,.ioner of police, who, we suspect' peg
a pistol at his breast, and robbed of every shiltd*,i.
not at all disposed to believe the statement,—,imilar otr
to which are frequently made by persons in 'he fid,rl.Dltt
condition of life for the purpose of exciting a profsi"-
sort of commiseration.
moo
CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—At the police-w-terrti
on Friday, a highly-re,peotable looking person,od
John Swainson Royle, was placed before Mr. RushOatitai
a chili ge of embezzling various sums of money t°,l
amount of between £l2OO and £l4OO, the proFer'l4o`
Messrs. Jackson, Woolfall, and Percival, bottle
,i!ir et°
facturers, of Manchester. Mr. Patchett appeared %re°
prosecution, and Mr. James defended the accused• re.;
cases were adduced against Royle, wherein he...nlisf,
ceived monies belonging to Messrs. Jackson, fr
and Percival, from partes who owed them accouo'-'1 o
1.10
which he had hot given them credit in the books' ei-IA
first was a sum of £262 16s. ld., paid to the prisooo,
1839, by Messrs. osens, Johnson, and Co. ; the
was £ll ss. 6d., from a Mr. Kearns in 1836; °r•lorod
third a sum of £59, paid by a Mr. Hickson. Mr' it'
fall produced the books and proved that no er'.oll',:;
given to the parties for the sums received by the P!coe
who absconded to 4merica in 1839. At that tihe pito
various sums received by the prisoner, for which,eribto
not accounted, were entered to his debt in the le's°,so4o
he positively swore that no compromise had been,llo9%'o,
the prisoner, that he should not be prosecuteetiflotid:4
the pound were paid on the amount of his d (Tows,
Two respectable witnesses were called by Mr. J'ooo "o
they swore that an offer to forego any proseeyof two
been made by the prosecutors, on the payment he he pot
of £6OO, or 10s. in the pound on the sums whi'firub
not accounted for. Mr. Jackson, one of the
_stiget!4s,
being present. the case, a'ter a lengthened id"•
was adjourned.—On Saturday Mr. Quickso.u_ be clO3O
mined ; after which the prisoner was ordered 11_1e'„da
mitted for trial at the Sessions, but was at the le t-
in formed, that he might be liberated on finding "I"
sat' in 4500 aotk two sureties in £250 each,

I

44.
.—.,-.
was held
•
April‘s
lieq, .... , 184-1
. ,,nsiders-
•N0kiemnn.....m..."..........""'1mm..m0e:
w before STATE OF TRADE.
ay byes' .titlANcassmit.—Business is in the worst position it Can -
ntS• 11 ;i0 Y.be for all parties, as is even flatter this week , than 11a)cstS•
led mor ft aitliough houses here, in London, and the count*,
laorweerbairne
0 stock they dare not buy, for fear g
,e fold°. Price ; f;)
e certain ceded, for almost every day or the I,asotofdOrstsnhin?itidtFl'eny have re- II
-their ---.ii . until they are statio, ar} peo•
de will only buy for fri
▪ to MOSE
dare aoht
er.
bed id; a
execute,
vn eae I.
b.'', ant s . for they will not pnrchasefor even a week fr,
if be did;We know of several shippers that have large orders fr
but until prices are more settled they will not, and
tc
Of Operate ; so the sooner goodse come to the lowest price
le costcost
stocks light, the 01
striCtiOnli. ~r;,..,_
trade
hat seal goods.rL.6EGs_ss eo3nd 1 mt
oe
insc.i:g•d,. a: nadnda
72 s,
raequire'is a fixed price or L
intireehsil; iris_ Wer inon,
or court' printers ma} be quoted as follows :-27 1%.1
brisk 6s. to fis. j*cl.; 4 i-inches al
provided good request, at an advance of tad per piece.
Id extend , ,'—The woollen business in this district still codnetrninauneds 1,
Ly build' for fine i.,„41 the spring advances there is rather more
,g et the bconnsinne:st:edd..?iii, In the warehouses of the merchants principally w
more
ex plans', the Home Trade there has been rather
°mg than in the p:eceding week.
se of tte BRADFOR
,gs thOw tire as i„
an MARKET.--The. Worsted Tradeteirse not quite so ac_
good at-
tendaneLet,l,fsbbeen for some time past, yet
Thursday,
chants boa,
tection. Of busin
bited the uyers at this market ou and a good deal
t that iwas done at late rates, though the German mer-
'eets lei
_j ght less freely. than of late. The Yarn market exhi- D
recesee. firm _ same partial briskness, and places were scarcelv ,Lo
to build- 's 0f late. The Wool market was, on the whole, rather in-
4ctive wf , . i hout any material variation as to prices. C
41;11:Amx
for al s o tolerablyaMr kAetkonsT.—There was a good demand for piece goods
it, that if ket the
some time brisk, the
stocks
toleaktes phrlegs.
low. yarn market
wpasatl.ess business done than of late
foot lei
;inandthaehwogoeo.l 1,
the markets was of a quieter tone than has been observed
.1,
wed for -
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—An influx .of
et.
litan and /
I. Of
par-
..., forlrlsh huYers has occasioned increased animatio
n in the dem nd
.... fanCY goods, and new styles or patterns meet ready sale. ii
there is also some improvement in the demand for the finer de- I,
ie paw"
to all° ',citations of Plain c oths in fast colours. The. wool markat is
rather quieter than it has been lately, but prices rule mini' the (
whiCht same.
shall WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET.—We have this wee I
' allOete° report a
few transactions in combing wools, principally in tkhetohestoetlhaessr f
d spiribb deseri
Of hogs, and ho
ns areg4nd wether skins at former quotations,.
12 env The demond t m, but nothing doing in them of importance. i
mOntill' t prices firm. far blanket and low clothing wools is steady, and
soda Lll i
epraetvtiohniss.place is t
BARNSLEY Ltws •r
I was I.!' 1 Linen Trad -11 - RAux•--We are glad to say that the Home
some years he Walt L
'ow,' v.
uhaollabusy., markt i to-da
ROCHDALE FLANNEL M
,sobrisker than has been known for 1
is
er
nesnohi ad
chapf lra
egeeel en a
MARKET. Monday, March 25. have
ly BOW
And
a kgeo)as therehlahytoatrel
numerous
wr t v
week's
ae te k
,aprices.
attendance similar t o tl hnoa
tf‘tVhbneeuf
wool
lastennn i
out the
ajur/ t.,°. _ Hosts:ay AND LACE TRADES. There is no considerable al-
LabitallW teration in the cotton hosie y trade ; but still there is a change
wing 00 ..---the great demand for some articles, particularly cut-ups, hay- .
- Int in somewrought-hose branch, not-
/erg, tC_F, standingwith measuip subsided. The o
srous
articles (Lade
1 it ifal frOtn the th ims Ins e quantitysstili inalerable state as respects ern-
to d°' Ploy/tient ;ibduetfraams etc:wages, they are not half hand ha
am rtec;
isplltee; tine silk glove,trade is getting worse and
worsioiers, from
ild onlY th- calamity of the workmen in this vicinlty, the .
fi love
removing their ne g
t*, with• fSraOr unaccountable motivhee,
caOteton glove trade is, bowed, er,
tra rate toleraeiSliAor.Ds erb
I k ysdhtihree•woTrkmen are using. theirenuttme,gsterean.
The
as so.
~.. .yours to preveLtatnhe making gloves with.slit or
tolerable stall, but
aS OM 7,,,raWer and pantaloon *branch continues in a
reed bffeeling a strong
this are
i„,, rather
The lain silk hose trade is 1 ery
be t° ,T,lng to educe the wages. P
t in which the stockings
f that 1,-,!!•especialiy the " dandy" departmebn. ,
net trade is still dull,
g whicil b!ye_no narrowings. The fancy
.bob
dinem-
add.
The plain-net
On the
tPattielr superior patterns there is a
and profits are very N
. s considerably better, thou
teeth of compeltion pursued.—
on
~..", ivw,!a consequence of the system
had it °‘"ngham Journal.
to nasuij -
pion' CRARLBS DICKENS!—Mr. Dickens is manifestly the
Product of big
age. He is a genuine emanation from its ag-
gregate and
entire • • He is not an imitator of any
14e tbe one. He
it, spirit.
in
and continually.
- Few Publi es extensively society,
e cola, He c meetings in a benevolent cause are without him.
stooet EPeaks effecti I at first, and then
seriollslY to the v.ely—humourous_Y,
se fill. and all the works
~ the& we have discusses .
eight His reputation,
product of only
ere the extraordinary
which
ode tbt Years.
injure so
so fel, ' ant years'
~__
.:tepularity and success,
proved him in all
n theft respects' a hi,p and hear phis .
xtensive—plea-
suable,n ece upon age ls e .
C thin"' instructive,uhn reformatory. If his "Christ-
arl• Vlial nias Carol" were piloted ealtliy,
t
s of gold, there would be
t vvare. no inscriptions
the i which
in let. er
a more salutary hint to
gold of a _ouhtich would give
lie.
3 p 0
posterity, let no man living
iarieel• pronounce
n,Con o r.y. As for
inion ay be offered, it
e sib Sketches
be th t the but 4 an o
" a earlier works of
~ Mr Dickens—the
death • but 4 Boz, " and some others—% th ll d. a natural
;e
..,bio Nickell:. , that le
"Nicholas
his best productionssu,c, a..s .
1 ,Y , the "Old Curiosity Shop Oliver 'I wist,
f xrd hire "Aartin Chuzzlewit," will live as long as our litera-
.are
L. endures, and take rank with the works of Cervantes,
iresellt• °A lingarth, and De Foe. Mr. Dickens is, in private, very
porter • much what •
might be expected from his works,—by no
) trust t
oeime
an invariable coincidence. He talks much or little
to le Mording to his sympathies. His conversation is genial.
ery, hates argument • in fact, he is unable to argue—a
wool-- 4e---ani case with impulsive' characters who see the whole
led ai truth, and feel it crowding and strugclin,T, at once for im-
nediate Uttet ance. He never talks far effect, but for the
story admi-
t or for .the f •of the thing. He tells a.
His
fun
1 Pr°' r.ably, and geneeally with hum
broadest, and his literary. tastes ap-
e col: sympathies are of the .
admirer of the
tmenr Pr.!ciate all excellence. He
.1s a greathas singular personal
Mr. Dickens
GUI C Po2.try of Tennyson. - •
activity, and is fond of games of practical skill He is also
p
be r,d ' a great walker, and very
much given to dancing Sir Roger
eral impression of him is
ate (I'~
that of a first-rate rractical intellect,
dis-
with "no nonsense,"
ideoc* !
about him. Seldom, if ever, has any man been more be-
is
the loved by contemporary authors, and by the public of his
of
„1 time. 'Translations are regularly made in Germany of all
ber "" Mr. Dickens's works. Th'y are quite as popular there as
• /ell , -with xi.. The high reputation of the Germans for their
a
171,e° faithfuln'ss and general excellence as translators, is well
sw.---; supporter in some of these,versions ; and in others that
,
ith of reputation is perilled. Bad abbreviations, in which gra-
Ilting Dhic or humourous descriptions are omitted, and the chit-
; dale raetetistics of dialogue unnecessarily avoided, are far from
art be titaniendable. No one could expect that the Italian
)e de- 1,,,,' 91iverio Twist," of Giaaabatista Basseggio, published in
trial' hoe v.
timq ou be,
ld in all respects, far better than one of
;kings .
Sortie`e DoPular works in Leipzig. But such is the. fact.
ailing i or „
the -, 14. the French translation • s are very good, particularly
Oaf
la all • le-41"a Nickleby "ofM.de la Bedolierre, which
. numbly d
led to and sorne nue. Mr. .
Dickens also " lives " in Dutch,
Idan......Nrew°' his works are we believe translated into Rus-
, vilio
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street, !
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taste
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e "e'
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010' nt and Gloucester
a ,„ 1)44,
lobe ...irrnin quarter
110 tinogi!)laPti and Derby
a.9110P ,scaledo„ina..e..-eighth Shares
asoiton us _- 6—*
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Bnto ad and Chester .. 50 50 5#
rS4ef bover , new, issued at '33 dis 50 20
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01,„ to r dinbur Perpetual
le' 'lB Ditto gh and Glasgow 5O so 641
0 nitto Scrip—____ • ----•
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the Ditto ~I shares _
ed t'': Gil), ,eith and Newhaven
,loott govy, Paisley & Greenock 2O 25
New ' 121
railiffst Ditto Preference—
Gilts._ .
t tbef GI- buw, Paisley and Ayrshire
and Junction
;e Mal' Ditto &thew.
Quarter
half shares 5O 50
ion 14 New ditto — 25
thiel
100 65 Great Western — 10 441
s heS Ditto new shares 5O 50
enstiOt erbeiatttoNEighth Shares
1101Yheacd Norris
. n.f. . 100 100
England 7
6 3-71
Irish' Gloucester
Bristol
raS ..- and Gloucester
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Leicester and Swannington
;role Lan
WO s caster and Preston ....... lco 474
'y Ditto thiee-quarter shares...
1 : Ditto and Carlisle
reed,aB Ditto
Liverpool and Manchester
100 100
abed Ditto quarter shares
,01 Ditto half shares
he...,,.. London and Birmingham..,.'''' 50
100 Stock. 232
WS" . Ditto quarter
Ditto
;red ;11' * shares 5O
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or London & Brighton ..
...
•••• • • 2
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London and South. western...". 4ll
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Manchester, Bolton, aL Bur ...
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Ditto and Ditto Extension . :,0 7
iffiCti. Manchester and Leeds .........•.: lin) 70
iPr el ! Ditto halt shares
le erect - Ditto quarter shales
101
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15
itirl.J, Ditto, quarter —
2
19°I;0
9 0 I.sth Shares
North Midland
3ett4es Ditto new — 40
ar "bier Ditto 4'33 6s 8d 55 21i
ill'°lol, North Union
Ofl Newcastle and Carlisle lOO 11'0
ft' NDitto quarter shares — 25
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0 Runcorn Ga
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for of York
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2
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20 20 351
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of
Liverpool lOO 121
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L'pool Dsct 2O 10
10
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CO _tots „ Works
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he 0 L, Gas Light Company
k. POOl New G '
'll'6oo' Ditto as & Coke Co.
oor Live new shares.
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Company } 100 100
CO 0
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