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ncendiaries amongst that body ! We have

submitted to be dragged through the slough of poli-
tical filth, at the heels of the contemptible faction which
rides dominant over the manufacturing districts of
this country ; and we must submit to be hurried on to
the approval of revolution and bloodshed, even, if we
hesitate now to take our stand firmly upon the brink
of the abyss, and wash our hands of participation in a
course, so full of disastrous and degrading results Co
the very name of England I Shall we;then, tamely
Shall we submit, not only to that utter
)rostration of commercial energy and activity which
must attend upon the continuance of the present mad
agitation, but, as well, to the obloquy and contempt
which our apathy is drawing down upon the character
of this once-loyal Protestant town.

permit this ?

We trust that the answer to these questions will be
an indignant "No !" We trust that we are not the
fallen, contemptible community which any other reply
would make us—that a voice can still be raised in
Liverpool before which the howl of incendiaries will
be drowned into a feeble whisper—that this voice will
rise first from the merchants, brokers, and tradesmen
of our town ; and we can promise with confidence
that it will meet with such an echo from the hearts of
thousands of loyal operatives as will convince the
world that if amongst the working classes of other

towns the revolutionary mania is triumphant, in this
town the cause of honesty is in the ascendant, and the
safety of the altar, the throne, and the institutions of
the country, is watched over by that surest stay of a
nation's greatness—an attached democracy !

To what circumstance, let us ask, do we owe every
inroad which, of late years, has been made in the en-

tireness of our glorious constitution, and in the pros-
perity and greatness of England ? The reply should

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SUPINENESS." To what do we owe, as
community, the indignity with which for years we
)on by a local faction within our own
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have wiped out the stain, it is true.

NESS !"

IVe have flung

down the usurping faction to grovel in the mire of in-
cendiary agitation in holes and corners. But that, we
submit, is no reason why we should resign ourselves
to sleep and fancied security. The kicked and beaten
thing is up again ; insults us from Anti-Corn-law
platforms ; dares to lift its head in public places ; pre-
sumes to utter its disgusting falsehoods as the voice of
the people of Liverpool ; and we ?—tamely submit to
the degradation ! This must not be. The Conserva-
tive merchants of Liverpool, we trust, will never permit
themselves to descend so very—very low ! But sup-
pose even that they do; still we venture to tell them
that it shall not be! There are amongst us those who
can lead us in the endeavour to wipe away the disgrace
which must otherwise cling to us in the eyes of the
world ; and if those to whom we now appeal hang

back from the performance of their duty, we must
turn our eyes elsewhere, and appeal to a quarter in
which we know that appeal will not be made in vain !
That such a course is imperative upon us needs little
to demonstrate. Look around us—see the giant

efforts being made to undermine those institutions
which we profess to revere—compare the indefatigable

energy, with which our enemies carry on their efforts

at destruction, with our own deep lethargy. Surely
the prospect is sufficiently startling ! Already the
League, unabashed by the scorn directed towards it

by the press of the country, has sown the whole em-
pire with its seditious tracts. Incendiary appeals are
ringing from town to town, from hamlet to hamlet.
Its council sits in the metropolis of Great Britain, and

fulminates thence its anathemas against all that is
great and good in the land; and what, we ask, must
be—we repeat emphatically, MUST BE—the result of
such a course of agitation, unopposed, except by the
merely desultory efforts of journalism, unaided by
those who could speak in a voice of authority ? This
►rust he the result :—the government of this country

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distant period, be driven, by the voic

excited to frenzy, to remove those landmarks, and to
embark in a course of mad and violent legislation,

whose issue must inevitably be anarchy and universal
robbery ! Let us be wise in time, and put forth our
strength whilst it is available.

The declarations of the Duke of Wellington and Sir
Robert Peel, that it is not the intention of ministers to
propose any measure of relief from the injurious work-
ing of our existing banking system during the present
session of Parliament, we cannot but view with ex-
treme sorrow. That the system in question is at the
root of much of the evils which afflict the commerce of
the empire we firmly believe, and such is the opinion
of a large and influential portion of the mercantile com-
munity. We observe, however, from the City Article
of the London Times of Saturday, that " an opinion
prevails amongst monied men that Sir Robert Peel's
declaration is to be looked upon in reality as a pledge
that, early in the next session, a general law, compre-
hending the Bank of England" (the renewal of whose
bargain with the country wili then have to he reconsi-
dered) " and all banking, will be brought forward."
Such a course, by which the whole subject may be
gone into, may perhaps be more convenient than dis-
tinct legislation, upon the two questions of joint-stock
banking and the management of that great company;
and we must, therefore, perforce, submit to another
year's continuance of the evil now existing, in the hope
of a better-digested and more radical cure.
Our attention has been drawn to this subject by the
report which is before us, of a case, heard before the
Birmingham District Bankruptcy Court, on Wednes-
day last, in which the Birmingham Borough Bank
and a bankrupt named Chapman figure very conspi-
cuously. The facts of the case are briefly these.
Some months ago the man Chapman was a bankrupt
in Liverpool, and subsequently became an'accountant
in Birmingham. In the year 1837 a concern called
the Borough Bank was established in that town, and,
on application, 100 shares were allotted to Chapman,
upon which he paid one or two pounds per share.
Here then was, at once, a foundation upon which to
speculate. This Mr. Chapman had formerly had an
account with that pretty Manchester affair, The
Northern and Central Bank, of which a Mr. Goode
was manager; and the fact of the satne Goode having
transferred his services to the phoenix which was
rising in Birmingham, was no doubt sufficient assur-
ance to Mr. Chapman that the same Prudent system of
management would be adopted by the " Borough
Bank." Let the reader trace the speculative career
which the latter forthwith commenced. In 1837 he
formed a concern calling itself " Kening and Com-
pany," and carrying on the trade of " fire-iron and
fender makers, mill manufacturers, &c."—(how many
mill manufacturers have joint-stock banks created, their
annals in Manchester could tell !) The capital of this
concern, with the exception of the bank shares of
Chapman, appears to have been NIL. In 1838—a
year afterwards—this speculative Mr. Chapman formed
another concern, under the title of " Ryland, Smith,
and Co., patent mill and press makers ;" capital of
Ryland, NlL—and Smith, NIL, the said Smith being a
clerk merely in Chapman's office ! Another firm was
established under the name of " G. M. Smith and Co.,
sharebrokers and accountants, of Coventry and Lea-
mington," capital, NIL, of course, for Mr. G. M.
Smith was the identical " Monsieur Tonson" of the
firm of " Ryland, Smith, and Co." and clerk in Mr.
Chapman's office !

Well, now for the mode of business, which is thus
described by Chapman himself. Kening and Co. drew
on Ryland and Co. and Smith and Co. ; Ryland and
Co. on Kening and Co. and Smith and Co., to large
amounts. These bills were taken to the Borough
Bank, of which Chapman was a shareholder, and dis-
counted there. In process of time Chapman became
of course) a director !—who more fit to be a director
of a joint-stock bank than a man so proficient in the
science of blowing bubbles ? and during the six months
of his directorship, the bills of these firms were dis-
counted to the tune of no less than twenty-five thou-
sand pounds At the time of the stoppage of the
bank, which ,of course was also the stoppage of its
paper makers, they owed a balance of £l2,ooo—a fair
amount fonitch men to owe. What the bank paid we
have no means of J;nowing-i but Chaptnan's estate
paid 21d. in the pound, Kening and Co. 64-d., and the
joint estates of Ryland and Chapman 21d. in the
pound. . _ . .

Well, but the bank, it will be said, was swindled by
these adventurers. Was it ? We shall see. Chap-
man, in his evidence, says—" I entered into these
various partnerships under the advice of "—Who ?
Why, of " Mr. Goode, the manager of the bank" !
And let it be duly considered that this was not a
course resorted to by the manager in question in order
to prop a falling concern, but resorted to upon its first
establishment, to make a business for the bank. The
case is, in fact, an episode in the history of bank-
making ! By the advice of Mr. Goode, the bankrupt
Chapman had blank acceptances of the various firms
always ready by him, " for the purpose of renewing
the bills as they became due; " and occasionally,
" when it suited the purpose of the bank itself to have
one filled up for its own accommodation," Mr. Goode,
the manager, " sent for Mr. Chapman," and the affair
was arranged. The Mr. G. M. Smith, the promoted
clerk of Chapman, and member of two firms, we ought
to add, was a brother-in-law of Mr. Goode, of the
Northern and Central and the Birmingham. Borough
Bank !

Now here, we submit, is as pretty a specimen of the
working of a system which is even yet rife throughout
the manufacturing districts, as the recent explosion of
the Bank of Manchester—
(" Timeo Danaos, et Bona ferentes,"
ought, by the bye, to be our reply to all Manchester
joint-stock bank projectors)—serves sufficiently to
shew. Here is a specimen of the prevailing mode of
getting up manufacturing firms—of mill-making, to
use the happy phrase upon Messrs. Kening and Com-
pany's card ;—and yet, when the natural distrust
created by exposure after exposure is depressing the
commerce of the country—when capitalists are hoard-
ing their money, afraid to venture it in the ordinary
channels of trade,—we are told only of the corn laws !
Of such a system of banking may we not well say, in
the emphatic words of Hamlet, " 'tis vißanous

" Oh, reform it altogether ! " Sir Robert ; and the
sooner the better ?

The. Manchester
tskGuardian on Saturday returns to
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disposal,a f after
which
the good
things
might be excused in a hungry dog, but is odious to
contemplate in an influential journalist. The minister
of this country, argues the Guardian, is "responsible"
by the principles of the constitution itself. He is
liable to impeachment for his acts. Admitted, most
worthy and sagacious of philosophers ! But impeach-
ment before the bar of parliament is one thing, and
the constant iteration of the name of the offender in
the ear of hungry mobs, as that of the cause of their
hunger and wretchedness,
is another thing. Respon-
sibility to parliament is one thing, and responsibility
to the assassin and the maniac is another thing. Bri-
tish law is one thing, and Lynch law is another :
which is best we leave our disinterested contemporary
to decide

Sir Robert Peel, says the Guardian, is liable to im-
peachment. Admitted ; but did the Rev. Mr. Bayley
point to impeachment as his punishment ? No : that
gentleman pointed to something very different ! Has
Mr. Cobden placed a notice of motion on the books
of the House of Commons, for the impeachment of
the Premier ? No : he only reiterated the senseless
truism—by the Guardian's own admission a truism,
and its constant iteration is just as senseless as if we
were eternally told that two and two make four—that
Sir Robe' t is responsible for his acts as minister ; and,
more than that, he has taken for granted the very fact
which the party impeaching
would have to prove : viz.,
that Sir Robert's policy has produced the distress of
the country Why, then, this same iteration of per.
sonal and individual responsibility, unless it is used as
a personal and individual threat ?
But, presuming that the abstract right to insist
upon this responsibility is established, and that no
more is meant than liability to impeachment—(how
silly, by the bye, would a an look who should stand
up in the House of Commons, and, gravely and with

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Sir Robert, I hold you

flammatory, and even wicked ? We will endeavour to

put a case, out of which the Guardian, with all his

well-known eel-like capabilities, will scarcely contrive
to wriggle. We, like Lord Francis Egerton, attribute
much of the present condition of our manufacturing
classes, directly or indirectly, to the expansion of the
powers of machinery, and the application of steam to
manufacturing purposes, beyond the power which we

possess, or can legitimately acquire, to consume. We
presume there is no reason why we should be barred
from entering upon a discussion of this feature of the
case—from pointing to machinery as a fertile cause of
distress, and, if we chose to be unwise enough, calling
for parliamentary interference between its powers and
the labour which it displaces. Yet how often has the
mere mention of the offensive word " machinery,' as
one amongst the causes of manufacturing distress,
drawn upon Conservative journalists, from this very
sensitive person the Manchester Guardian, the terms
Luddite," " Tory-Luddite," and other similar polite
appellations ! This, however, by the bye. We con-
tend for the perfect right to point to machinery, as the
Guardian contends for his right to point to Sir Robert
Peel, as the author of the distress around us. We
look towards a parliamentary and constitutional re-
medy for the case which we put, with quite as san-
guine expectation as he looks towards his parliamen-
tary remedy in the impeachment of the Premie-.
Thus far, then, the wildest denouncer of machinery
is on a par with the man who points out Sir Robert
Peel as the author of his country's sufferings,—with
the exception, by the bye, that we do not remember
many " Luddite" or " Tory-Luddite" placards headed
" MURDER," and garnished by Scriptural quotations
to warrant the term. But suppose that the passions
of an excited people had been actively turned to the
destruction of machinery as the cause of their suffer-
ing—that the mill of A or B had just been sacked, its
power-looms or spindles broken up, and the 'life of A
or B placed in peril,—would the Guardian say that
the spouter, reverend or parliamentary, who chose
such a moment of excitement to indulge in philippics
against self-acting mules, and other instruments by
which human hands are displaced, was a wise man,
or one whose purpose, or the tendency of whose con-
duct, was defensible ? He would not. We know
sufficient of the Guardian to convince us that his
fiercest invectives would be directed against such a
man ; and yet such is precisely the case against Mr.
Richard Cobden and the League ! Can the Guardian
deny that the cases are precisely similar ? Sir Robert
Peel has already been attempted to be made personally
and individually responsible to the assassin's pistol ;
and these gentlemen chuse such a moment to expatiate
upon the fact of his being individually responsible !
Sir Robert Peel is viewed as the creator of the pow-
erful Conservative phalanx now in parliament, and a 5
its head,—as he undoubtedly is both. The impression
is abroad that, with his life, its influence—its entire-
uess—would terminate. There are men, we believe,
in the council itself of the league who think this; and
although we do not for a moment impute to these men
a design so to overthrow conservatism as an influential
power in the legislature by the commission of crime,
the tendency of every attack levelled at the premier is
to turn the minds of bad men—such as exist in every
political body—to so summary a means of achieving a
political end as would be his untimely death by the
hands of an assassin. Surely, then, when such a feel-
ing is abroad—and that it is the Rev. Mr. Bayley is a
witness which the League ought not to gainsay !—ho-
nest men, however they may differ from Sir Robert
Peel, ought to pause before they give to it additional
imputus !

Without presuming to dictate to the Select Vestry
who or what class of persons is most likely to fill the
situation of Governor to the Workhouse (now vacant
by the resignation of Mr. Dowdall) with credit and
advantage, we yet take the liberty of naming a circum-
stance which may be deserving of consideration. In
such an institution as the Workhouse, where charac-
ters of every description are congregated, and where
insubordination.must naturally be expected, it strikes
us that a selection might judiciously be made from
many of the officers of the army or navy, who are now
unemployed. This crass has been selected for the
management of most of the railroad.s.- where, discipline
and obedience are so necessary ; and in the police
establiltaents, and in many of the gaols and other
public edifices, involving the management of the many
and the refractory, naval and military officers have
been appointed with eminent success. These men,
having learnt obedience themselves, are admirably
suited to enforce it in others. They are generally
gentlemen in manners ; and their education and asso-
ciations, in most instances, give them a certain stamp
which the generality of civilians have not so many
opportunities of acquiring. Whatever choice may be
made, it will doubtless be of a man who can correct
irregularity, enforce obedience, and preserve order;
while, at the same time, the feelings of the aged and
afflicted must be respected, who have been compelled
by misfortune to seek the asylum of the workhouse.

LOCAL NEWS

The Cheshire Foxhounds meet this day (Tuesday), at
Ashton Heys; on Thursday, at Tarvin ; and on Saturday,
at Mere Hall.

Mr. BRA HAM'S CONCERT.—The admirers of pure English
style of singing will be delighted to find that the evergreen
Braham will sing some of his most popular songs on Friday
next, at the Royal Assembly-rooms.
ST. BRIDE'S SCHOOLS.—On Sunday last, the sum of £62
was collected at St. Bride's Church, in aid of the schools in
connection with the church, after two excellent sermons by
the Rev. Hugh Stowell.

STEAM-VESSEL ON THE IRWELL.—On Friday afternoon
some interest was excited at the Old Quay, Manchester, by
the arrival of a new iron steam-boat, intended to ply on the
Irwell as a passage boat between that town and Runcorn.
She is 80 tons buraen, 70 feet long, is fitted with the patent
spiral propellers, invented by Mr. Bennett Woodcroft, of
Manchester, and is worked by two ten-horse engines. We
understand that she promises to be very fast, having made
the quickest passage from Liverpool to Manchester that has
yet been accomplished; and when tried on the Mersey by
the builders, Messrs. Mather, Dixon, and Grantham, of this
town, she had a contest of speed with '
the Nun and the Mer-
sey, two of the fastest boats on the river, and passed them
both. Her speed on the river Irwell on riday, on an aver-
age of trials, with and against the current, was eight miles—
a decidedly greateer speed, we believe, than had been previously
attained by steam in the narrow channel of the Irwell.

STOPPAGE IN TgANSITU.—At the Police-court,• on Fri-
day, a person named John Field was charged by Mr. Moulds-
worth, manager to Messrs. Ackroyd, tailors and drapers, in
Byrom-street, with stealing two handkerchiefs. It appeared,
that on the previous day, a female went into the shop of
Messrs. Ackroyd and asked to look at some waistcoats for a
little boy who was with her. Whilst the shopman was show-
ing them, the prisoner joined them, and after remarking that
the things were too dear,- advised the party to leave the shop,
which they were in the act of doing, but were stopped at the
door, and the prisoner was charged with stealing two hand-
kerchiefs from the counter, which, after some hesitation, he
took from his pocket. Mr. Davenport called the female who
was in the shop at the time. She stated that she and her
husband had arrived in Liverpool from Somersetshire, from
whence they had taken a passage to America, to Which coun-
try they intended emigrating, and the prisoner and his wife
were going out with them -as servants, her husband having
paid their passage, and she had gone into the shop for the
purpose of procuring some clothes for her son, when the
prisoner joined her for the purpose of carrying the parcel.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he took up the handker-
chiefs thinking they had been purchased by his mistress.
'Mr. Rushton said, although the case was a painful, one, yet
it was so clear a case that it was his duty to commit thn pri-
soner for trial.

IMPORTANT TO PAWNBROKERS.—On Friday last, before
Mr. Rushton, a Mr. Murrow accused Mr. Medder, pawn-
broker, Stafford-street, of • illegally detaining a watch, his
property. The watch was taken from Mr. Murrow's bed-
room by a fellow-lodger, and pledged by the latter, who was
brought before Mr. Rushton and condemned to imprison-
ment is default of payment of a fine of 505., with the 16s.
received on the watch. Mr. Medder pleaded that, by the
clause of the New Local Act, where no suspicion attached to
the pawnbroker, he was entitled to the amount lent before
giving up the pledge. He (Mr. Medders) had been in his
present business for many years, and had carried ou his trade
with respectability, and no stain could attach to his character
for unfair dealing. Mr. Rushton said, that although a clause
had been introduced in a recent bill to the effect stated by
Mr. IVledder, that did not overrule the statute law of the
country, and could not avail in this case. He (Mr. Rushton)
had given his decided opposition to the clause in the local
act when first propounded, and stated his reasons at the time
for so doing. He considered the law of responsibility as re-
garded pawnbrokers as the most judicious that could be de-
vised, as it caused a greater vigilance on the part of the trade,
and caused them to exercise a due caution in the receiving of
pledges, which could not fail to prove highly beneficial to the
public at large. Mr. Medder intimated that himself and
others had been led astray by the clause above referred to,
and thought that the law relating to pawnbrokers ought to be
more clearly laid down, so that they might not err through
ignorance. The magistrate admitted the latter complaint to
be well founded, and said that there was not the slightest
reason for supposing that Mr. Medder had acted otherwise
than with the proper caution in the matter before the Court.
Mr. Ellis remarkeeto Mr. Medder, that had the man who
had stolen the watch paid the penalty inflicted upon him by
the magistrate, instead of paying it in his own person by im-
prisonment, as he was now doing, Mr. Medder would have
been entitled to have the amount of the pledge returned to
aim, but, as it was, he must submit to the loss; to which
opinion Mr. Rushton assented. The complainant (Murrow)
elpped for the amount of the summons, to which Mr. Rush-
ton observed that this was coming it "rather too strong",
and that the applicant ought to be very well satisfied with
recovering his watch.

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our last the evidence adduced at the co

Thursday. The inquiry was resumed on Friday, when no-
thing of further particular moment was elicited, and the jury,
brought in, as we anticipated, a verdict of manslaughter
against the boy, Moses Doyle.

A fire broke out on Friday night, about a quarter to nine,
in the cellar of the house of Mr. Jones, saddler, in London-
road, near to Hotham-street. The engines, with Mr.
Whitty and Mr. Hewitt, were speedily on the spot, and,
though it burnt with great fury for a time, it was soon ex-
tinguished, with slight damage to the property.

COUNCIL MEETING.—The usual monthly meeting of the
town-council will take place to-morrow. The only subjects
of particular interest placed on the council paper for consi-
deration are—A recommendation of the Finance Committee
to sell the Queen's Hotel, the appointment of Mr. Edward
Bannister as chief clerk in the town-clerk's department, and
the motion of Mr. North, a copy of which we gave on Tues-
day last.

BODY FOUND.—On the afternoon of the 27th of January,
Mary Ferran, twenty-three years of age, and servant to Mr.
John Red, licensed victualler, Parliament-street, was seen
in a state of intoxication in the kitchen of her employer's
house, after which she was missed, and was not seen or heard
of till Thursday week, when two boatmen, who were grappling
for a boom iron, found her body in the Queen's Dock. Ver-
dict, " Found drowned."

Tnn LEAGUERS IN LONDON.—These gentlemen go on
apace. Their field of action is now in the metropolis; and
they have publicly announced, at their late meeting at the
Crown and Anchor, their intention to erect a "free-trade
hall," capable of holding 15,000 persons! The orators, one
would imagine, must use speaking trumpets, to be heard in
such a building. They have not ventured, however, as yet
to hold a meeting of their body in Manchester. London, or
any other large town, without the precaution of tickets of
admission. Their meetings are, therefore, packed meetings,
in every sense of the word.

THE FUNDS, SATURDAY EVENING.—The English secu-
rities have supported considerable firmness to-day, but
there were few operations of moment. Very little variation
occurred in quotations, though the market was hardly so
bright as yesterday. Consols for money were last quoted
954 to I; ditto, account, 954; Exchequer-bills 665. to 68s.
premium ; India Stock, 2674 to 2684 ; Bank Stock, 177 to
178 ; India Bonds, 675. to 68s. premium ; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 964 to .1 ; Three-and-a
-half Fer Cents. Reduced,
2034 to 4 ; New Three-and-a-half per Cents., 1024 to 4 ;
South Sea New Annuities, 944; and Canada Debentures,

1111. In foreign securities a slight decline was noticeable
in the value of some of the speculative securities, but Spanish
and Mexican presented the chief alteration. Spanish Ac-
tives left off 20/ to 1; ditto, New, 271 to 1; Portuguese
Converted, 391 to 40; Mexican, 301 to 31k; Mexican De-
ferred. 81 to 9 ; Dutch Two-and,a-half per Cents., 551 to 4 ;
Dutch Five per Cents., 1021 to 103 ; • Colombian, -244 to 1;
Brazilian, 77 to 78; and Belgian, 104 to

STEALING TOBACCO.—Yesterday. a boy, named John
Johnson, was charged at the police-court with stealing two
separate quantities of tobacco from a shop. It appeared
from the evidence of a young lady named Procter that
the prisoner had, on Saturday, gone into the shop of Mr.
Robert Eccles, Great Charlotte-street, and asked for half an
ounce of roll tobacco. She had the quantity cut off, and
was handing it to him, when he said he would have it off a
thicker roll. She took a thicker one down, and was about to
serve him, when he picked up the whole roll and made off
with it. An alarm was given and he was secured. The
article weighed 21b., and was worth 6s. or is. Mr. Eccles's
sister also proved that the prisoner had in a similar way,
within the same week, snatched up another roll, weighing
about half a pound, with,which he ran off. He was com-
mitted for trial.

THEATRE-ROYAL.—On Friday last an exceedingly clever
and pretty little child made her first courtesy before a Liver-
pool audience. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ternan,
who are fulfilling a short engagement here. Miss Fanny
Ternan is only seven years old, and impersonated the " Four
Mowbrays" in " Old and Young " with a spirit, grace, and
vivacity that drew forth hearty and genuine bursts of ap-
plause. There is an evidence of strong natural ability in the
acting of this little girl,—there is an evidence of genius, for
no teaching could make such a little child do what she does
so artlessly, naturally, and with so much apparent finish.—
The entertainments during the week have been of a varied
character. Last evening " Othello" was performed. Mr.
Ternan. Othello; Mrs. Ternan, Desdernona ; Roderigo, Mr.
Browne ; and Mr. Stuart his old and favourite character of
lago. There is no doubt whatever that Mr. Stuart has
changed his style since he was last here. It would be absurd
to talk of improvement in an actor of his high standing and ex-
perience, but he has, to use an artistic phrase, " toned down"
all the too florid parts of his impersonations : this was observa-
ble in Pierre on Friday, and in lago last evening. It will be
seen that this old favourite is about to take his benefit—when
his friends and admirers will surely muster round him. The
entertainments he has selected are extremely attractive.
To-night the capital comedy of the "Jealous Wife" will be
represented with a strong cast. We see by the bills that
Mr. Farrell and Mrs. Glover are re-engaged, and that Mr.
Webster, Mr. Strickland, and Madame Celeste will also
make their appearance very shortly.
CONTINUANCE OF THE EASTERLY WINDS.—ThEse winds
still continue, and very few vessels from foreign ports or
coastwise have arrived since our last. From the Ist to the
25th instant, only. fifty vessels from abroad had reached port,
and of these nearly one-half-arrived on or before the sth.
The number of vessels that have sailed for foreign ports,
from the Ist to the 25th instant, has been 271. The southern
docks are, consequently, from the few arrivals and the nu-
merous sailings, now•comparatively empty. In the Prince's
Dock, the largest in the port, there are about fifty vessels.
The southern docks, where the timber ships are laid up for
the winter, as well as those on sale, which are still numerous,
are not so bare of vessels as those at the other end of the
port. Amongst the vessels now due are upwards of eighty
from the cotton ports of the United States. At New
Orleans, up to the 21st of January, thirty-three vessels had
cleared for this port, not one of which has yet arrived. Of
these, one has a cargo of 4,102 bales. one of 2,983, two of
upwards of 2,600, one of upwards of 2,500, and nine others
of above 2,000 each. The grand total of cotton now on its
way from New Orleans is more than 70,000 bales. At
Mobile, up to the 22d of January, seventeen vessels had
cleared for this port, none of which have arrived. The
largest cargo is 2,306 bales : the total afloat about 25,000.
One vessel had cleared out at Apalachicola: another at Port
Leon, a new port on the Mississippi. Up to the 24th of
,January, fourteen vessels had cleared at Saratoteih,for this
port. The iargest cargo Is z,stio-batea t the total or au ale
ships above 20,000. At Charleston, up to January 25th,
fifteen vessels had cleared for this port, none of which have
arrived. The total quantity afloat about 20,000 bales : the
largest cargo 2,300. At New York three vessels had cleared
for this port laden with cotton. Two had also cleared at
Texas with cotton for this port, and which may be added to
the gross amount, as cotton from that country formerly came
through New Orleans. Thus, eighty-five vessels are known
to be on their way with cotton for Liverpool. Their united
cargoes cannot be much less than 140,000 bales.

ST. BARNABAS' CHURCH AND DISTRICT SCHOOLS.--
Two sermons were preached on Sunday last in this church,
and collections made for the purpose announced in previous
advertisements. That in the morning by the Rev. Jonathan
8r00k0..M., rector of Liverpool, from Proverbs, xxii, 6.
"Train* a child in the way he should go, &c." The ser-
mon wasn able argument on the necessity of Scriptural edu-
cation in general, and Church education in special, with a
warm eulogy on the champions of the Reformation, and the
excellence of the Liturgy, Articles and formularies of our
Church. The collection amounted to £2O 4s. 4d. The even-
ing sermon was by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, from Psalm xl.
4. " Then will Igo unto the altar of God, unto God my
exceeding joy, yea upon the harp will I praise thee, 0 God,
my God." Having established from the example of Timo-
thy, the sufficiency of the Old Testament Scriptures to make
" one wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ
Jesus," he proved. with his accustomed power and perspicuity,
from the case of David, in the Psalms, how all the Jewish
ceremonies had a Christian meaning. The altar sacrifices
being designed as significant types of the one sacrifice of
Christ, once, for all the sins of the world. He drew a dis-
tinction between the peace offerings and free will offerings
under the law, assigning to each their anti-type and place in
the Christian dispensation : and thus argued for the Word of
God as the staple of a Christian education. Having alluded
in touching terms to the sufferings of the poor, and their ina-
bility, from ignorance, and constant occupation, to direct the
education of their children, he concluded with a forcible ap-
peal to the better feelings and sense of Christian obligation,
on the part of those who had the means ; that they would
make an ample free-will offering thus in furtherance of so
good an object as the rescuing of the rising generation from
the mass of wretchedness and crime by which they were sur-
rounded. The collection amounted to £3O 15s. The con-
gregations, on both occasions, were very numerous. That in
the evening, with those standing in the aisles and porches,
could not have fallen short of 2000 persons, and we are in-
formed that multitudes went away. The congregation of St.
Barnabas, in these depressed times, has done nobly,—up-
wards of £250 being thus contributed by them in a fortnight,
a sure earnest of eventual success.

AN INFAMOUS TRICK.—EIIen Fallen, a slovenlyi dissi-
pated-looking girl, was charged at the Police-court, on Sa-
turday, with having robbed a country woman of a sovereign.
From the evidence of the complainant, Mrs. Ellen Grounds,
a decent-looking country woman, clothed in drab cloth, it
appeared that the money was obtained in the following man-
ner:--Mrs. Grounds was standing in St. Martin's Market
with some butter and green stuff, when a lady went to her,
purchased some butter, and offered a sovereign in payment.
Mrs. Grounds took the sovereign, but held it between her
fingers, declaring she could not change it. She asked the
parties near her for change, but they also were short of that
commodity. The prisoner stepped forward and said, " I'll
get it changed for you : I'll go to Mr. Bird's ;" at the same
moment she took the sovereign from Mrs. Ground's fingers
and walked away. The poor woman watched her, and saw
her enter the shop which she had named, but she waited in
vain for her return. At length she went to look for her,
but could not find her. She returned to the market and
informed officer Maguire, who, on hearing a description of
the prisoner, believed that he knew, her. He accompanied
the poor woman in search-of the thief, and, after an hour's
persevering labour, she was found in a house in Lace-street.
Two women and about seven men were i❑ the apartment
when Maguire and Mrs. Grounds entered. To his inquiries
they declared, that they had seen no such girl as he wanted.
Seeing an old crone smoking a pipe, with her back closely
jammed against a closet, he desired her to move away. She
refused, upon which he pulled her from her resting place by
force. He opened the closet, and there lay the prisoner.
The sovereign, however, had disappeared, the girl declaring
that she had lost it in the street. Mr. Rushton asked her
whot she had to say. She .replied, that she tried to get
change at several places, but could not succeed. At length,
two girls, whom she met, took it from her by force. She
was committed for trial.—The poor country woman, who
was greatly grieved at her loss, told Mr. Rushton, in reply
to questions which he put to her, that her husband was a
miller. but he had been many months out of work. She was
compelled to support her family by making a few black pud-
dings, which, with the produce of a small garden, she brought
to market for sale each Saturday. The butter was the pro-
perty of a neighbour, for whom she generally brought a few
pounds of that article to market. She, however, received
no profit on the sale thereof. Mr. Rushton,. pitying the poor
woman, ordered that the sovereign should be paid to her out
of the fund which the magistrates had at their disposal. She
evinced even more emotion on hearing of this unexpected
termination of her misfortune than before.

THE STEEPLE CHASE.—The course will be as nearly as
possible that of last year ; that is to say, the start will take
place either at the top of the course or in the field belonging
to Mr. Wood, surgeon, directly opposite to the Grand Stand.
The number of jumps in the first time round will be about
seventeen, including the ditch at the front of the stand on the
training course. The first time round, the horses cross the
middle of the lower part of the course in a slanting direction
on entering from Moss-lane, and run past the stands on the
training course; but, the second time on coming from Moss-
lane, the line of the race-course is kept, and, one or two
hurdles being placed across it, there may be an additional
jump. A wall also is to be built on the training course, some
of the Irish brigade supposine it may favour their nags. It
is not possible yet to state, with certainty, whether the Sweep-
stakes, to which the Prince of Waleb's Cup is added, will fill,
Saturday being the day appointed for closing ; but there is
little doubt of it, as there are already three horses at Aintree
to run for this prize. For the Steeple Chase, the number of
starters will be over twelve and under fifteen ; such, at least,
is our opinion : but the most interesting part of the contest
will be between the celebrated old Lottery and Peter Simple,
the latter carrying I2st. 10lb., and 51b., extra for winning at
Hereford.—Albion.