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abstracted from the lette,
ed for the omission of many of these b_v saying that they related to private matters,' but as sufficient explanation
was not given about the remainder, the commissioner said
that further inquiry was necessary.
FATAL EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.—On Saturday, a
-man named James Hargreaves, aged 48, and who resides
-in Toxteth-park, came to his own house from the

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thick

where he had beet,
when he proceeded up
drunken people, he was not co._
there, and got up again, with the view of corni

ais footing. fell, and so fractu

but, like most
,h his situation

pula LUC bun t's,
'mat he died from the injuries in a few hours
afterwards.
CUSTOMS APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. R. Chapman, landing
surveyor of the second class, has been selected to succeed
Mr. Howe as inspector-general of the Warehousing De-
partment of the London Customs. An additional inspec-
tor-general is also appointed at Liverpool, and Mr. St.
John, one of the landing surveyors of the port of London,
has been selected for the very responsible office. Mr.
Barber, landing surveyor of Liverpool, and Mr. Rolls,
landing waiter of the first class in the port of London,
succeed Messrs. Chapman and St. John as landing sur-
veyors on the London establishment.
THE BRUNSWICK CLUB:—This club has now been
opened a fortnight, and it has during that time gained
a character that cannot fail to aid its ultimate success.
When a single individual professses to give to the public
advantages they never before possessed, and to place them
under his own management, he is apt to be regarded in
the same light as the puffing quack of the age ; but when
the full, and more than the full terms of the prospectus
are fulfilled, his situation becomes at least enviable.
Such is the case of the worthy host of the Brunswick—
" Whiteman." He originated the Brunswick Club—he
issued a prospectus with advantages so great the public
doubted their realisation ; but on its opening every feature
is complete ; and he has resigned the: management to a
committee of annual members. To those confined at
business during the day, the society 'offers the greatest
relaxation—news-room, gymnasium, billiard, chess, li-
brary—and 'all for the trifling sum of ss. per quarter.
The members, we learn, now numbers nearly 300.
THE NORTH-SHORE COTTON-MILL.—It is indicative of
some slight improvement in the demand for cotton yarn
to find that this only cotton mill in our town, and in which
all operations had ceased for about four months, has within
the last, three weeks partially resumed. The mill, when
fully employed, gave bread to nearly 1000 persons. It
!low gives employment to from 200 to 300 workers, for six
Parliamentary days " during the week, or 58 hours in
all--10 hours on five days from Monday, and eight hours
on Saturday. Two card-rooms and a throstle-room are
all the portions of the large building in which the resump-
tion has taken place, and throstle yarn is produced chiefly
for exportation. Even this, however, is aceptable to those
employed, whom Mr. North, the managing partner, has,
with the usual consideration, as far as possible, selected
from the most needy of his former workers who conducted
themselves with propriety. It is questionable, however,
owing to the yet depressed state of the market, and the
attendemt expenses of keeping up the 'premises—at work
or not—in insurance from fire, rates, watchmen, &c., whe-
ther any profit is derived by the proprietors.
THE NORTHERN HOSPITAL.—At the annual

the cor

,c,3ffien. Mr. Anderson, the hon. secretary, read the
report, from which it appeared that during the year the

rous la
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,eipts and the expenditure of the institution were
about equal, leaving a balance to the debit of the
institution of £BB3 4s. Od. The secretary then stated
that during the past year 2632 cases had been relieved,
Which were a very considerable increase on any previous
Year, owing to the construction of new docks at the north
end of the town, by which many accidents were constantly
happening. They had found it necessary to increase the
accommodations at the hospital, and yet the increase was
insufficient. The number of beds at present available
Was 105, and there
to was room in the hosital for 17 but they were unable provide them for want of funds.o, At
Present they had from ten to twenty beds on the floor,
and this had continued for three months. Out of the
eases during the year, 1397 had arisen from accident, and
the rest were general medical and surgical cases ; 1942
bad been cured, and 149 died. The chairman, in moving
the adoption of the report, paid a high compliment to
kr. Anderson, to whose exertions, the chairman said, the
hospital owed its very existence.
DEATH ACCELERATED BY AN ATTEMPT AT SELF-DE-
STRUCTIoN.—An inquest was held on Saturday, before the
borough coroner, on view of the body of James Sheridan,
aged 62, who lived in a cellar in Edgar-street. Deceased
had been in declining health and low spirits for some time,
and had in earlier life been a hard drinker. He and his
wife had latterly been in receipt of a small sum weekly
from the parish. On Thursday he was taken out of his
bed, and placed on a chair near the fire, his wife sitting by
him. Unobserved he got hold of a razor that lay on a
table behind him, and inflicted a wound in his throat. His
wife got hold of his hand, and took the razor from him.
The wound bled but little and he did not appear to be
worse, taking his usual nourishment. As he requested a
doctor to be sent for, Mr. Callan, surgeon, of Marybone,
was sent for, and promptly attending, stitched up the wound, applied a plaster, and ordered the patient a pint of
Wine, of which he drank abut one-half diluted, but died
the same evening. Mr. Callan (who had, as stated by the
Poor infirm widow, paid every attention to the deceased,
-and also greatly relieved herself,) gave it as his opinion
that natural death in this case was accelerated by the
wound deceased had inflicted upon himself. The jury
returned a verdict accordingly, attributing the attempted
suicide to the influence of " temporary insanity."

an rail of the bulwarks below, which was much
r tho +hp falling boar, which instantly
dropped into the dock and disappeared. Grappling-irons
were procured, and he was got up in about ten minutes,
quite dead, and with blood oozing from his ears. The
coroner said the question simply was,—did the deceased
die from disloca+' m of
tion; head, or urownin

ne neck, from the fracture of the
4, or otherwise. The jury first re-
-irect that death was caused by the
instantly killed by hitting
iently definite, the coro-

)n that he s'

I immec

there was no evidence

deceased striking the rail. The jury, upim this, re-
tired a post mortem examination. Mr. Tearne, assistant
.rgeon to the Northern Hospital, to which the body had
!en taken, had previously said he could not assign the
use of death without a post mortem examination, which
er deemed unnecessary, and an expense to the
The coroner said it rarely happened that death
intaneously from the greatest violence of an

accident. Some little life was gengcaiileft;;Zif,aftei:
the deceased struck the ship, the smallest portion of life
remained, which was afterwards extinguished by the water,
the death (in law) was caused by the drowning. If a man
were stabbed through the heart, and instantly fell over
into the water, in which the remains of life were extin-
guished, that would be a case in which "death by drown-
ing" should be returned. He himself should have no
hesitation, were he on the jury, in finding a verdict which
he trusted would be satisfactory. He should say the de-
ceased was drowned.—The jury persisted in requiring a
post mortem.—The coroner said he entirely dissented
from their expressed opinion ; but he was glad, in one
respect, that they had so maintained their position, as it
would show that he had been wrongly accused when it
was stated elsewhere that he had an undue influence on
the jury of his court, which led to useless expense : the
question lay, however, with them as to their verdict. He
then directed the post mortem to be taken and adjourned
the case to Monday (yesterday), when a verdict was re-
turned that the deceased died from a fracture in the skull,
caused by the fall.

LAUNCH AT PATRICK.—On Saturday afternoon, a
large iron steamer, named the Trafalgar, built for the
City of Dublin Steam Navigation Company, was launched
from the building-yard of Messrs. Tod and M`Gregor,
Patrick. The circumstance having been previously made
public, and the day being fine, the banks of the river were
lined with spectators, eager to witness the interesting
spectacle ; and the masts of all the vessels in the vicinity
were decorated with a profusion of flags. The scene
altogether had a very gay and animated appearance. In
the building-yard there were a number of ladies, as also
Captain Sarsfield, marine superintendent of the City of
Dublin Steam Navigation Company, and other gentlemen
interested in steam navigation. The necessary prepara-
tions having been completed, about twenty minutes past
two o'clock the signal was given, and the ceremony of
naming the vessel having been efficiently performed by
Miss Mackinlay, the Trafalgar glided gracefully into the
water, amid the firing of cannon and the hearty accla-
mations of all present. Ample precautions having been
taken, not the slightest accident occurred during the
launch ; and it may be mentioned, as reflecting no small

O respect to t

e of the nume-

ich have taken_ place from their yards

akar has been built for the City of Dublin
Steam Navigation Company, and is intended, we under-
stand, to carry the mail between Liverpool and Dublin.
She is 800 tons burthen, and her engines, of 350 horse-
power, are constructed on the oscillating principle. It is
expected, from her beautiful mould, that a high rate of
speed will be attained; while at the same time, to fit her
for making the passage in all weathers, she has been
built in the strongest possible manner, and may be
safely classed as the strongest steamer that has yet
been launched on the Clyde. She has excellent cabin
accommodation, and is intended to be fitted 111) in
a very superior style. We understand the vessel
will be immediately towed up to the harbour, for
the purpose of receiving her*uingines, which are all
ready, and she will, in all probability, be finally com-
pleted and at sea in the course of two months. After the
launch had taken place, a numerous party adjourned for
the purpose of dedicating a bumper to the Trafalgar.
Health and prosperity to Messrs. Tod and M'Gregor
having also been proposed, Mr. M'Gregor acknowledged
the compliment, and begged to propose " Success to the
City of Dublin Steam Navigation Company," which
having been in existence, he observed, for twenty-four
years, had at length thought of coming north for the
purpose of getting a vessel built for themselves.
They had sent their marine superintendent, Captain Sars-
field to inspect the steamer, and he also begged to propose
the health of that gentleman. Captain Sarsfield replied,
observing that he had witnessed the proceedings of that
day with much gratification, for a finer vessel he had
never seen launched ; and he had no doubt that the com-
pany with whom he had the honour of being connected
would soon be induced to come to the same quarter for a
repetition of the dose. The health of Miss Mackinlay
and the other ladies present was also duly honoured. We
may add, that in the yard from where the Trafalgar was
launched, we observed other two iron steamers on the
stocks, one of which, belonging to the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, is intended for
China, and the other, a larger vessel than the Trafalgar,
to sail between Liverpool and Belfast. We cannot but
rejoice at the celebrity which our Clyde ship-builders have
obtained, were it for no other reason than the amount of
employment which it enables them to give to builders
and workmen.—North British Mail.

nWhich they were placed

was simply this : they went to the Council, asking for
£200,000 to build warehouses. The objection in Council
was, that that ------ '

500,000, other

id £BOO,OOO, and some went
for

Is far as a million. The committee afterwards asket
£300,000, and they were thrown back on account of the
Dmission of the rating clause. The Council then passed a

be allowed to go to parliament, or, rather, for which they,
artrustees, should go. The committee then altered their
bill, in strict accordance with the resolution of the Council,
Nnahlingilau,se to treat for eh. 14'r'.'44.
and, after four hours debate, the bill was thrown out on
the spur of the moment, on a resolution brought forward
there and then. He (the Chairm.n) was anxious the
Comm

ttee should stand in a correct ' position and that
they should be fully and fairly exonerated from the charge
of breaking faith, in not going to parliament. The other
objects in the bill were of sufficient importance to go to par-
liament for, and were necessaryfor the working of the docks.
They had purchased £lOO,OOO (for which they might now
have to pay double the sum) worth of property, and, if
they did not proceed, that would stand idle. It was
important that they could appropriate the warehouses
free of rent. If they went to parliament to oppose the
Birkenhead bill, their non-compliance with the recent
act would be thrown in their teeth in the Parliamentary
Committee, where the most unmeasured language was
made use of. The Dock Solicitor was of opinion that
the proceedLigs were within- the acts. Many of the
Council must have voted in ignorance of the facts.—Mr.
Holt suggested, and the Chairman concurred, that if the
Speaker of the House of Commons were applied to, and
the rating clause inserted, all difficulty would be got
over. If not, the Chairman thought that, by the addition
ef two words, the powers of the Albert Dock Act might
be extended to the new bill. The Chairman subse-
quently added, that they had delayed the making of the
Harrington Dock solely on account of the enormous
pressure on the timber trade. They had gone to the
expense of between £5,000 and £6,000 in making their
plant, with engine-house, which remained unproductive.
—Mr. Henderson thought the question had been fully
argued, and decided by so overwhelming a majority,
that the Council would again throw out the bill. The
Chairman said they could not calculate what the deci-
sion of the Council would be, as they had already passed
two resolutions diametrically opposed to each other.
After some further conversation, the following resolution,
which was proposed by Mr. Shand, and seconded by Mr.
Sandbach, was carried, Mr. Tobin and Mr. Henderson only
dissenting :—" That this committee, being desirous of
keeping faith with the Legislature, and conceiving it of
great importance to proceed to Parliament during the
present session, in compliance with the 60th section of
the 9th and 10th Victoria, refer it to the Parliamentary
Sub-committee to frame such a bill as may best meet the
exigencies of the case as it now stands, and to extend the
provisions of the existing acts." Mr. Wood retired before
the division took place.

COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

The adjourned meeting of the Council was held on
Tuesday, when the proceedings of the Courts of Law and
St. George's-hall Committee were read by the Town-
clerk. The committee recommended that these buildings
be insured against fire in the sum of £lo,ooo.—Mr. J. B.
LLOYD, in moving the confirmation of the proceedings,
thanked the Mayor, on behalf of the committee, for the
feeling manner in which his worship had announced the
death of Mr. Elmes, the architect.—The proceedings
were confirmed.

The proceedings of the Markets Committee comprised
recommendations to appoint Mr. Abraham Luya as super-
intendent to St. John's Market, and the markets con-

nected therewith, at the salary of £250 per annum ; Mr.
Isaac Hutchinson, as superintendent of St. James's,
Cleveland-square, and Gill-street Markets, at the salary
of £225 per annum ; Mr. James Stonehouse, -as super-
intendent of St. Martin's, Pownall-square, the Hay and
Pig Markets, at the salary of £lBO per annum.
The proceedings of the Gaol and House of Correction
Committee were read. It appeared from these proceed-
ings, that the Mayor having communicated to the com-
mittee certain reports relative to the officers of the gaol,
a committee, consisting of Mr. Rushton and others, was
appointed to investigate the circumstances. The com-
mittee reported that the gaol contained 890 prisoners ;
and the Town-clerk was authorised to ascertain whether
prisoners from Liverpool could be accommodated at any
of the other gaols in the country.
The Town-hall Establishment Committee reported that
they saw no reason whatever to alter the resolution they
had adopted last year, of refusing the use of the Town-
hall to the Liverpool Licensed Victuallers' Association
for their annual ball, and they resolved that the applica-
tion sent in this year by that association, for the use of
the hall for the same purpose, be respectfully declined.
The Town-clerk read a memorial from the Licensed
Victuallers' Association, signed " Timothy Parkinson,
chairman," requesting the Council to reconsider their
application of the 25th November, for the use of the
Town-hall rooms for their annual charity ball, and ex-
pressing a hope that a deputation from that association
might be permitted to meet the committee, with a view
to an explanation of any misunderstanding, and a reversal
of the decision of the Council.---It was resolved to refer
the matter back to the committee.

The proceedings of the Health Committee, including
wash-houses and baths, comprised a recommendation to
accept the tender of William Rose to cleanse middens
and ash-pits for five years, at £10,400 per annum ; a re-
solution that it is not desirable or expedient to admit re-
porters to the meetings of the committee i a resolution
that all sewers applied for, which the engineer reports
compatible with the general arrangement, be proceeded
with upon the applicants' advancing the requisite funds,
upon the terms and at the rate the Council are then
paying for loans on the sewer rate ; a resolution that it be
recommended to the Council to adopt the public act for
establishing baths and wash-houses, and to raise A.,SUM
not exceeding £25,000 for the purposes of the act, itbeing
competent to the Council to pay the interest on such sum
annually out of the surplus income ; and a recogimenda-

tof £5OO additional last year ; but now he
knew more of Mr. Rushton's duties than he did then, and
he had experienced the value of Mr. Rushton'E
t during the short time he had been in office. Se
the majority of the Council were decidedly in favour o

services

present motion, he thought it would only be an act of
courtesy to Mr. Rushton if it were allowed to pass unani-
mously. (Applause, and cries of " Vote.")
The Council divided, when there appeared—for the mo-
tion, 33 ; against it. 15.

For—Messrs. Walthew, Woodruff, Rathbone Pnton,
Morris, Evans, Stitt, Hill, Hornby, Aikin, Holt, linne,
Harbord, Rogers, S. Holme, Tobin, Gardner, W. Earle,
f,_ N_ Law...re, J. ooker, Lace, Watson,
Jones, T. Lloyd, Benn, Mann, Swainson, Holmes, J.
Lawrence, Brancker, Nicol, and the Mayor.

Against—Messrs. 'Littledale, Horsfall, Henderson, Ro-
binson, Toulmin, Rimmer, Roydon, Danson, J. B. Lloyd,
Bennett, Parker, Hodgson, Cooper, Wood, and Procter.
The Council then proceeded to the election of an alder-
man, in the place of the late Alderman Bushby.
- G. H. I CWRENCE moved the appointment of M

Mr. _
J. H. Turner, which was seconded by Mr. J. Lawrence.
Mr. Alderman HODGSON moved that Mr. Francis Shand
be appointed, which was seconded by Mr. Booker.
The Council divided, when there appeared—For Mr.
Turner, 25 ; for Mr. Shand 17. Mr. Turner was accord-
ingly declared duly elected.

MEETING ON THE TEA QUESTION

On Friday, at noon, an important and influential meet-
ing was held in the Sessions House, for the purpose of
endeavouring to induce the government to reduce the du-
ties on tea. The chair was occupied by the Mayor, T. B.
Horsfall, Esq. Amongst those present were William
Rathbone, Esq., William Jackson, Esq.. M.P., Sir Thos.
Birch, M.P., William Brown, Esq., M.P., H. Winch,
Esq., Robert Gardner, Esq., of Manchester ; Messrs.
Jones, Harrison, Jas. Lawrence, H. Bright, J. B. Moore,
Stitt, J. T. Crook, J. Lockett, Farrar, W. Earle, Steins,
Robertson Gladstone, J. Fryer, W. Hill, G. H. Horsfall,
Dr. Hume, Messrs. J. R. Jeffery, J. Smith, H. Littledale,
J. Turner, L. Heyworth and J. A. Tinne.
The MAYOR stated (amid much applause) the objects
of the requisitionists had his entire concurrence. The re-
duction of the duty on tea was a question of great com-
mercial importance, and one that affected the social wel-
fare of the people. He trusted the subject would there-
fore be discussed dispassionately, apart from politics, and
in such a manner as to command the attention of govern-
ment. The duty they sought to reduce was an exorbitant
one on one of the almost necessaries of life. The mer-
chant said, if the duty were reduced, he could export a
much larger quantity of our manufactures : the manufac-
turer, that, in the same case, he could give more extensive
employment to labouring population ; the operative, that
the change would give him comforts and enjoyments in
his home, now almost confined to the wealthy. He called
on

Mr. S. HOLME, who (as well as every speaker who suc-
ceeded him was received with much applause throughout)
moved the first resolution, (for which, and those that fol-
lowed, see the advertisement.) The resolution, he said,
set forth the injustice of the present tea duty. Tea was
now an article not merely of luxury but of necessity to
rich and poor; yet the same duty was levied on the lowest
qualities as on the highest. He illustrated the operation
of this by a hurnourous anecdote, showing that a duke,
with his £150,000 a year, paid only the same duty on the
tea he consumed as the various grades of working men
throughout the kingdom. Here there was gieat injustice.
It might be said that in seeking a reduction of the duty
the merchant and dealer sought merely to benefit them-
selves ; but as society was here constituted they could not
do so without also benefitting the masses. When he
looked at the recent commercial depression and its effects,
.still felt, he considered it praiseworthy in every man to
endeavour to benefit his condition. He himself was not
a merchant or tea-dealer, but he employed a large number
of people, and would do all he could to cheapen the neces-
saries of life to the working classes. It would be a great
boon if the reduction induced the consumption of more
tea and less of intoxicating drinks. In Liverpool, too,
there were not fewer than 6,000 females who derived their
pittance by the use of the needle. These poor women
suffered much, and any addition to their comforts would be
itself an act of benevolence. The present duty was also
unjust, as preventing the barter of commodities that would
otherwise give in making them employment to millions.
Increased consumption would make up for much of any
deficiency that might arise from a reduction of the duty.
China contained 300,000,000 of inhabitants, willing to
take our manufactures if we so admit their tea as to in-
crease its consumption on the system of barter. The
Chinese admitted our goods at a duty of 5 per cent. ; we
tax theirs as high as from 200 to 300 per cent. Our ex-
ports of cotton manufactures declined between the years
1845-6 from £1,755,141 to £1,246,518 in value; those
of woollens, in the same period, from £539,223 to
£439,66B—(Hear, hear.) Whet a commentary on the
legislation of England ! china would also supply us
with silk, if we would take their goods. What England
ought to do to redeem herself was to give every facility
for commerce, so that it might be extended to China,
Australia, and ail the boundless coasts washed by the
Pacific. If well managed, there might be found in the
eastern ocean commerce sufficient to pay the whole re-
venue of England. Increased consumption of tea would
also increase the consumption of sugar, and thus redeem
our West India colonies. The wealthier of the commu-
nity must make some sacrifices ; and he for one, rather
than the tea duty should not be removed, would willingly
submit to an increased property tax to make up the defi-
ciency. He alluded to and quoted from the report of the
parliamentary committee on the duty, which was entirely
in favour of reduction, and concluded by saying that there
was with nations, as well as individuals, a moral as well
as commercial responsibility, and if• they carried out our
fiscal regulations and laws as England ought to carry
them out,.a glorious reaction would take place, and all,
classes would be benefited, from the-merchant to the
lowest labourer who earns his bread by the sweat of his
brow on our dock quays.—(Loud and prolonged cheers.)
The motion was put and unanimously carried,.
Mr,•. W. RATIIBONE proposed the second resolution,

Ir. RATHBONE objected to the resolution as unne-

A m-emorial, founded on the opinions expressed by the
several speakers and on the resolutions, addressed to the

Lt, the adopt

Mr. TURNER moved, as an amendn
of the memorial, and named Messrs.
stone, Rathbone, Crosbie, Ferguson, H. Littledal
_ _

Mr. CRO_SBIg sgeonded the amendme
ried -With-one dissentient. '

,nded by WILLIAM

Mayor, and the ii nn bein well se__
BROWN, Esq., M.P., the MgAYOR eapreesed his acknow-
ledgements, and the meeting broke up at three o'clock.

TEA PARTY

REV. STEPHEN H. GLOUCESTER

This party, which we noticed in our last publication,
was held at Mr. Lascelles rooms. Great Richmond-street.

on Thursday evening last, and was numerou
there being over one hundred and sixty ladie

LIT attended

?resent ; m

but, being almost exclusively members of the Church of
England, had not the same opportunity of testifying their
welcome to him as other denominations who could invite
him to their pulpits. As the circulars issued stated, it
was held for the purpose of having an opportunity of bid-
ding him farewell, previous to his return home per the
Arcadia on Saturday, and out of the amount realized from
the tickets and the sale of fancy work to forward a pre-
sent to the Rev. Gentleman's wife and family. The rooms
were profusely decorated with British and American
colours, plentifully supplied with evergreens, 'which were
kindly given by Mr. Skirving, of Walton, and when all
were seated presented a very splendid appearance. After
the repast was concluded, and whilst the servants belong-
ing to the various families assembled were enjoying their
tea and coffee,• the sale of fancy work went on prosper-
ously, the fair vendors being excellent saleswomen.
At the particular request of the company, Mr. Glou-
cester gave a specimen of his lectures, moral and religious,
amongst his fellow-countrymen, aided by the subject he
was speaking on being in view, by the use of the magic
lanthorn. He stated that he had been enabled, by hav-
it as an auxiliary, to bring thousands of the coloured po-
pulation of Ameriea within the sound of the gospel, who
would not have gone near a place of worship ; and that,
though they came to hear a moral lecture, he was always
able to conclude by speaking to them of a Saviour; and
that when using it, he never had to preach or speak in a
half filled room.

The tables were presided over by thirteen ladies, mem-
bers of St. Jude's, Christ Church, St. Augustine's, St.
George's, Everton, and Christ Church, Waterloo. It be-
ing desired that the evening should be spent as nearly as
possible like a usual family party, music was provided for
the first hour, which added much to the pleasure of the
company. At nine o'clock grapes, oranges, and apples
were handed round.

The following address was read and laid on the table for
ignature

The Rev. Stephen Henry" Gloucester, Philadelphia.
" DEAR SIR.—We the undersigned being some of the
number present at the Tea Party and Bazaar, held at
Liverpool on the thirteenth of January, 1848, to bid you
farewell on your being about to return to America, beg to
express the joy we feel in seeing the Ethiopian educated
for the Ministry of the Gospel of Christ, and to hope the
day is fast coming when in all lands there will be no dis-
tinction made on account of colour.

" Wishing you a safe and prosperous voyage, and a
happy family meeting,
" We are, Reverend and dear sir, yours most truly—

This was speedily signed by 80 of the party, there not be-
ing room for_more, the sheet of _ drawing-pa

per on which

. .
it was beautifully written being full. Mr. Gloucester then
very feelingly addressed the meeting, and after singing the
Evening Hymn, concluded with prayer. The amount
realised, after paying expenses, was fifteen pounds, which
has been forwarded to Mrs. Gloucester.

Mr. Gloucester left these shores by the Acadia, at half-
past two on Saturday, and was much delighted to find on
board a fellow-passenger, as far as Halifax, in the Rev.
Alexander Forrester, of Paisley, at whose house he so-
journed, and where he was treated with the most Christian
kindness during a severe fit of illness, and from whose
pulpit he preached some months ago.

THE COPPER TRADE.—Some supplemental statistics
have been published in the Mining Journal relative to the
copper trade for the last year. From these we gather that
the sales of Cornish ores-at Swansea during 1847. com-
prised 153,120 tons, realizing £873,436 10s., and that the
sales of Welch, Irish, and foreign ores comprised 47,611
tons, realizing £641,056 10s. 6d. ; and it is further calcu-
lated that the smelters who purchased the raw material
have produced from it 25,000 tons of merchantable copper
for distribution throughout the markets of the world.
Considering the amount of capital and labour so employed,
and of the demand created for freightage, " the copper
trade," it is remarked, " must be regarded as one of the
most important branches of British industry, and at least
as holding rank next to coal and iron."
FULL OF LAW.—A juryman at Usk Sessions said at the
close of a learned counsel's speech, in which a great deal
of law had been expended in the hearing of the jury, that
he was now so full of law, that he was very much afraid
he should hnve hard work to keep from cheating
some-
body or other.
A. BAD BREAST OF AN EXTRAORDINARY NATURE
CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AN9,O4TrtS.—A
short time since the wife of Henry,Pocock, a turner,
residing at Bucklersbury, Berks, _was- considered to be in
a very precarious state, in geisequence of her breast
becoming alarmingly swollen and bursting into ulcers ;
the first medical aid inihe country was of no service—
her case was considered as incurable. Notwithstanding this
hopeless condition, the ulcers have been all healed, and so
perfect is the cure that she is now suckling another child
at breast.:; This wonderful cure has been solely brought
about by Holloway's Ointment and Pills,

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AND DENUNCIATIONS FROM THE ALTAR.

A very admirable letter appeared in the London
Standard of Friday, addressed to Lord Shrewsbury. on
the subject of his lordship's recent letters to Dr. M'Hale.

Ve regret that we can only find room for the following,

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.guments that cannot be overthrown

" Ml' my fora, ieL us rang away tile mask of suppo-
sition. These things are so. The infallible creed of Dr-
AV Hale and Father M'Dermott does infallibly teach them
that all Protestants are heretics, and yet by their baptism
within the power of the Church—it tells them that the
punishments decreed against them are "confiscation, im-
prisonment, death." So teach their papal bulls now in
force, now published in Ireland ; so teaches their Bible ;

so, with one voice, proclaim all the authoritative docu:
ments upon the subject in their Church. If they have
any faith, any religion, this is their faith and this their
religion. This has been proved in every town in Great
Britain, from London to Liverpool, from Edinburgh to
Exeter ; every bishop in Ireland, and Dr. M`Hale among
the rest, has been invited over and over again to disprove
it ; they have never attempted to do so. The late Mr.
O'Connell was invited, challenged, to dispute it as a mat-
ter of evidence ; he never attempted to do so. Denied
these facts have been, but as your lordship is incredulous
of Father M`Dermott, so are all men of a denial as op-
posed to a proof. This is at least certain, that the man
who holds the Roman creed can have no difficulty in de-
nying_it, if convenient._
_ _

" Now here, my lord, your error lies ; you blame the
men, I charge the guilt upon the system. You, gentle-
men, my lord, call our peasantry blood thirsty, our priests
ruffians, our bishops slothful, at least, if not worse. We
fling back the charge. Our people do the bidding of their
priests. What marvel ? They are good Catholics. Our
priests carry out the training which you give them along
with their bishops at Maynooth. Our bishops obey their
lord and yours, the occupant of the chair of Peter, in
whatsoever age he has lived, presided, and infallibly de-
creed. If guilt attaches to their practices, then let the
weight of it fall upon the prime movers of the evil. But
surely, my lord, it is unjust to single out the instrument.
for your rebuke and to permit the promoter of the felony
to escape. If, as Dr. M`Hale declares, the authority of
St. Gregory for the murders of Roscommon is valid, then,
my lord, aim higher, and deal your blow at the Vatican
rather than at St. Jarlath's. My lord, I feel as deeply
as man can feel, the awful state of my country, which
your lordship has so eloquently and faithfully described ;
and I solemnly charge the guilt of those awful crimes
which defile her fair fields and make her name a blot and
a bye-word among the nations of the earth, not upon her
misguided sons, my brethren, but upon the foul, doubly-
damned head of the tyrant of Rome. His are the laws
which guide us, his the counsels which sway our destiny,
his the priests which instruct us and his. ten thousand
fold his, is the guilt of our fearful crimes.

Assertions avail but little, my lord. lam prepared
proofs. Your lordship has charged crimes of a deep

dye upon my country. I deny the charge, and hurl it at
the head of him whom you have chosen as your spiritual
guide. You, my lord, arraign the Irish priest ; 1, the
Roman pontiff: I most respectfully defy your lordship
to substantiate your charge, and, at the same time, under-
take to prove my own. You have publicly accused us ;be
just, and confirm or retract your accusation. Your lordship
has great and deserved influence among the English
Roman Catholics ; choose two priests, or two laymen, and
we will choose two advocates on our side ; let them plead
before any English jury, chosen in any way that your
lordship may suggest ; let the question be, whether the
crimes of Ireland are in accordance with the infallible
doctrines of the Roman Church, as taught there by the
bishops under the direction of the Pope, and let them
decide the truth either for the acquittal of your lordship's
calumniated creed and our eternal infamy, or to the ever-
lasting disgrace of the Roman name, and our national de-
liverance. You have taken one bold and noble step, my
lord, worthy of your name and dignity. The proposition
which I make would not at all involve the same interference
in ecclesiastical matters, from which, as a layman, your
lordship might hold back, as that which you have done al-
ready ; for it is not as to the truth or falsehood of doctrine
that I should propose to discuss, but as to the fact of what
doctrine is taught as matter of faith by the Church of
Rome. It is a question not of theology but of evidence.
I know, my lord, that you do not believe these charges, or
hold these doctrines ; you treat them as a foul calumny ;
then cover with merited disgrace the wretch who makes
them thus before the nation ; refute his falsehood, expose
his slander. You owe it, my lord, to your traduced re-
ligion at this unhappy juncture. You dread not the
result of fair investigation for your creed, then shrink not
from it, my lord. But should such a charge as that which
I have made be proved, then, my lord, how happy the
result for you, that thus, at length, you should be de-
liVered from the thraldom of a system such as the Roman
would appear, and, however painful, to seek a new form
of faith among the various which would offer ; you would
have, at least, this comfortable reflection, that you had
been delivered from the worst of all.

" Anxious, my lord, to avoid unnecessary notoriety, I
have not affixed my name to this letter ; but that I may
not appear under all the disadvantages of an anonymous
correspondent, the editor of the newspaper in which this
letter appears, will inform your lordship who I am, should
you be inclined to inquire."

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