The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-01 00:00:00

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would, by them, be regarded as a national calamity.
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aster Operative Conservatives
evidently will not. The are about, like Harry Gow,
to " fight for their own hands ;" and, since their
former leaders no longer care for the protection of
the registries against the efforts of the Radical and
League factions, are about to attend to that duty them-
selves, and having had so telling an experience of the
slippery character of Conservatism and Conservative
leaders, may probably follow the suggestion of Lord
John Manners and look round them for something
of a more substantial and definite character to le'

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upon. Men are becoming weary of being beckoned
out, once or twice a-year, from their quiet avoca•
Lions, to canvas or to vote, upon municipal or other
questions, for leaders who hang back upon vital sub-
jects, to which they are as deeply pledged as the
most ardent of those, whose zeal they repress as
" too ultra," although they admit its consistency.
Plain people, unenamoured of subtleties, are asking
themselves—" what is Conservatism that we should
battle in its support ?" And the feeling will spread
those whose falling away has caused
_day awake to the consciousness of having become
powerless and isolated amongst an alienated com-
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We should deplore such a circumstance. In
every way it would be an especial calamity to the
country, if our loyal and honest operatives should
either be driven into a feeling of sulky inactivity,
with respect to important public or local questions,
or, worse still, be thrown into the arms of the vio-
lent or the disaffected. And yet it is only in human
nature to anticipate that one or other of these alter-
natives may occur—probably both. Already we
hear of an extensive organization forming amongst
the working classes, having for its avowed object the
coercion of employers into whatever terms they may
choose to dictate to them for their labour; and such
ins, and the ill feeling which their pro-
engender, are only too fertile sources of
ion for more dangerous purposes. We fear
%is description from the Operative Con-
servatives of Liverpool ; but we cannot, neverthe-
less, be blind to the possible consequences of the
disruption of those ties of mutual confidence and
respect, which have hitherto bound them to their
employers and their superiors in worldly station, and
have enabled them to occupy so proud a position
amongst their brother operatives throughout the
tingdom.

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We must therefore entreat of those gentlemen,
in other times, and under different circum-
atances, we admit, have stood forward as leaders and
indices of the Conservative and Protestant feeling of
the town, to lay aside their present apathy, to give
the lie to the mocking aspersions of Radicalism,
which whisper that they have been bought with free
trade sops and sugary baits, and are willing to tra-
vel with a faithless ministry to the very point, and
even beyond the point, which they have so repeatedly
and publicly, in the face of their fellow-townsmen
and the whole world, declared to be one of destruc-
tion to the established institutions, the religion, and
the liberties of Englishmen. Let us not be told
that refusal thus to stultify themselves involves the
retirement from office of Sir Robert Peel and his
Let them
go, say we, sooner than per-

suit them to c

Lte shipwreck of those institutions
which ought to be prized above all ministries and all
personal and private objects of regard. Let them
Let them fall back into the ranks of liberalism

ove its principles. Let them desert their
colours, and, with them, resign the well-earned re-
ward of years of faithful and honest public services.
The affairs of a great empire, whose people were
true to themselves, never yet hung upon the will, or
upon the talents, of one man, or one set of men.
Let the awful emergency come which appears to
dreaded so much, and right heartryd England will
out be permitted, by an all-wise Providence, to mint
either an able pilot or a blessing.
But that emergency will not arise. Sir Robert
Peel, we feel assured, from all past experience of his

conduct and its actuating cause, will not stand stub-
bornly in opposition to a firm and unitEd majority of

It is this very tame and slavish sub-

mission of Nvhi eh we complain, to whatever he pro-
poses as expedient—as calculated to allay agitation
and appease disaffection—which misleads him into
a misinterpretation of the real feelings of the coun-
try ; and let the result of that submission be as
disastrous and degrading to England as it will be,
not upon Sir Robert Peel, but upon back-sliding
Conservatives, will be the odium through all com-
ing time. Of these blots upon the national reputa-
tion, and of the evils, the disorders, the crimes, and
the punishment, by which they will assuredly be
followed, we shall have to m::lte the humiliating
confession that they are not his work, but our own!

Our worthy Brother Jonathan appears to have
made up his wind to get either himself or somebody
else into, what he elegantly styles, a fir. A. majority

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and, zs the people of that new Republic

voice in the matter, annexed she will be forth With,
and another stripe—which we take to be very good
heraldry for designating slave-holding states—will
be added to the national flag. Perhaps when his
blood is up, and his rifle and bowie knife in hand,
an amiable relation may extend his views a little
further, and take a fancy for another slice of territory
which may chance to he conveniently for the wants
of his migratory children.

But will this impulent and unprincipled violation
of all international law be quietly acquiesced in by
other governments, who hold that something beyond
the mere will of the strong to appropriate the pos-
sessions of the weak should he the rule of civilized
States ? Will Great Britain stand by with her arms
folded and see a precedent of wrong established,
which, at no distant date, may be turned to the
spoliation, by the same reckless people, of a portion
of her own transatlantic possessions? She has re-
cognised, and other countries have recognised,
Texas,—perhaps too readily,—as an independent
State. That Republic has been already admitted to
the rights of independent existence amongst the
other nations of the civilized world. She is hound
to them by treaties ; and is one of the family which
international law is designed to protect and to re-
gulate. The sic volo, sic jubco style of doing things,
of which our brother is so fond, may not, therefore,
be so tamely submitted to, and Texas he found not
quite so cheap a bargain, or so easy to he put into
his pocket, as he imagines. It may be a simple
task enough to cajole the slave dealers and slave
planters of that Republic, or even to scare Mexi.,N)
from an attempt to recover what she still claims as
her own possessions ; but should she be under the
additional necessity of " licking the Britishers," it
may prove a task a little beyond her powers.
We shall not speculate further, however, upon
the involvements which this step of the American
Government may produce. The reassembling of
Parliament will no doubt enlighten us with respect
to the course which it will be necessary for Great
Britain to pursue in the matter. We wait, there-
fore, for that information.

It is with no little gratification that we observe
the strong feeling which is displaying itself through-
out the country upon the subject of the proposed
increase of the grant to Maynooth. Everywhere we
hear of meetings held, and petitions being agreed to,
against the obnoxious measure in question ; and al-
though Liverpool is only preparing herself for the
struggle, we know from the representations which
reach us, from all classe, of its Protestant and loyal
inhabitants, that they will do their duty to their
country on the day of meeting, Monday next.
As we have said in another column, we are not
satisfied at all of the fact that, even to preserve to
the country the talents of Sir Robert Peel at the
head of the government, it is necessary that we
should submit tamely to this outrage upon the feel-
ings of a Protestant people. Sir Robert and his
colleagues carry matters with a very high hand, it is
true; and his Conservative followers in the House
of Commons, too, forget past professions with a
marvellous facility. Let it be remembered, how-
ever, that, but a few days ago, a handful of mer-
chants, aided by a far less influential parliamentary
phalanx than could be brought to bear against htm
upon this question, compelled the Premier to aban-
don a proposed and a favourite measure, connected
with the sugar duties. The same energy now put
forth would be rewarded with similar success. We
call, therefore, upon our fellow townsmen to come
forward on this occasion. Let the same stirring
cry go forth from within the Royal Amphitheatre,
which in past times, of infinitely less difficulty and
danger to the institutions of our land than those
which now menace them from professed and hollow
friends, shook liberalism from its pre-eminence in
the national councils ; and all will yet be well. We
shall be saved from the disgrace of a national ac-
knowledgment and encouragement of those princi-
ples which our Sovereign and our legislators have
declared upon oath to be damnable and idolatrous,
and against which our forefathers protested upon
the scaffold and at the stake.

Let a vigorous effort be made, then. Let the
voice of Liverpool be heard. Let the protestant
people declare their determination to resist by all
constitutional means this flagrant and outrageous
violation of their confidence by men in whose ho-
nesty and fidelity t) their pledged faith they have
trusted, and all will then be well. We shall yet
be saved, as a people, from the disgrace of becoming
the scoff and the laughing-stock of popery and re-
volution throughout the world.

We give below, with sorrow at the result, and
still greater sorrow at what we fear to be the cause,
the following as the numbers at the conclusion of
yesterday's polling for Churchwarden and Overseers :

Persons. Votes. Persons. Votes.
Houghton ..... 1241 3138 Riding.... 1560 3324
Williamson.... 1205 3012 Urquhart.. 1609 3477
Kilshaw ...... . 1196 2961 Earle .... 1656 3601
These numbers will sufficiently show that a strong
effort indeed will be required to turn the balance,
and to preserve the parish from the meddling hand
of Whig-Radicalism in its affairs; and unless that
effort is promptly made—unless, indeed, it is made
this day—we feel bound to state our conviction,
from all we have heard, that the Conservative candi-
dates, who justly feel themselves ill treated by their
party, will retire from the contest.
We trust that a result so fraught with evil conse-
quences—so depressing to Conservatism in Liver-
pool, and so damaging to the cause throughout
England—will not occur. No ; let the unworthy
apathy which appears to be the cause of our present
position on the poll be laid aside. If ever Liverpool
is reduced to the condition of a Radical borough,
if ever we lose our present proud preeminence
amongst the constituencies of the country; it will
be the result of some such unhappy division—some
similar estrangement—as that which unhappily ap-
pears to exist at present between different classes of
our Conservative fellow-townsmen.

We entreat that these may be laid aside. They
are unworthy of us. They are certain to damage
the cause which, amid our differences, we all hold
dear. Let us away with them at once, and show
the enemy, by our votes this day, that we are still
able to beat them, and laugh at their futile malice.

THE FUNDS, SATURDAY NIGHT. Consols were again
very flat to-day. A decrease of business, with a prepon-
derance of sales, caused this depression, and the final
quotation for money was 998 to 4, and for the account
994 to /. Exchequer-bills were 575. to 595. premium :
and India Bonds, 68s. to 70s. premium. The foreign se-
curities showed scarcely any alteration. There were few
bargains, and the market closed rather heavy. Spanish
Five per Cents. left off at 304 to 1 ; the Three per Cents,
404 to 1 • Mexican, 351 to 1.; Colombian, 154 to 4 ; Pe-
ruvian, 31 to 33; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 63
to 4: the Four per Cent., 994 to ; Danish, 90 to 91 ;
Brazilian, 91 to 92 ; and Belgian, 100 to 102.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A CHlLD.—Yesterday, an inquest
was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Ro-
sanna Donnelly, a child who lived with her parents, in
Stable-court, Northampton-street. On Saturday night
deceased was put to bed on one side of her mother. In
the morning she was found to be convulsed, and died in a
few minutes afterw-irds.

SUSPICION OF RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY.—
Yesterday, e the Police-court, a marine-store dealer,
named Redman Burns, was brought before Mr. Rushton,
charged with having in his possession a quantity of sacks,
shellac, &c., for which he could not give a satisfactory
account. He was remanded until this day, in order that
the owner or owners might if possible be found.
ASSAULT IN A FOREIGN PORT.—Yesterday, at the
Police-court, a seaman, named John Matthew was charged
by Isaac Manwell, the captain of the same ship, " The
Rapid," with maliciously stabbing him on board the ves-
sel while she was in one of the harbours of the island of
St. Domingo. The defendant said that the complainant
was always drunk on board, and that (as he was under-
stood to mean) he was extremely quarrelsome and provo-
cative. Mr. Rushton, moreover, appeared to have some
doubt as to whether his jurisdiction extended to a distant
foreign port. under the circumstances stated; and he there-
fore remanded the prisoner until he could be duly satisfied
on that point.

YESTERDAY'S ASSIZES.

C!,OWN COURT.
Before Mr. J❑stice Coi.TmAN.)

SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST A BANK MANAGER

Henry Hornshaw Pilley, late manager of the Warring-
ton branch of the Manchester and Liverpool District
Bank, was indicted for having stolen a certain check for
£ll5, the property of Joh❑ Grafton. Another indictment
charged him with having feloniously embezzled the sum
of £403 16s. 2d , the property of the Directors and pub-
lic Officers of the Manchester and Liverpool District
Banking Corn p,iny.
The presecuti,m was conducted by Mr. Brandt, assisted
by Mr. Hulton ; and the prisoner was defended by Mr.
Wilkins and Mr. Atherton.
The evidence on the first indictment for stealing the

cheque for £ll6 was insufficient, and a verdict of acquit-
tal was entered with respect to it. The case upon the
second indictment was then gone into at length. It ye-
..

vied considerably from the -ordinary cases of embezzle-
ment. It appeared that the prisoner was upon most inti-
mate terms with Mr. John Malin, of Grappen-hall, who
employed him i March. 1843, to dispose of, for him, six
half snares in the Great Western Railway. The prisoner
sold them through the auency of Mr. Fernybough, share-
hrcker in Ma,chrster, with whom he divided the commis-
sion,* and received, from the purchaser, the nett amount
of £403 16s. 2d.. not as the servant of the bank, but as
the agent of the seller. The testimony of Mr. Malin as
to the instructions he gave the prisoner in relation to the
money was somewhat confused ; he stated that all he did
concerning it WAS to take his pass-book to the prisoner to
have the entry made in it, but he had no recollection of
having directed him to pay the money into the bank. He
told the prisoner he had cal ed to make a settlement with
him of the shares, but as he did not want the money, he
would not take it away, though he wished the entry to be
made in the pass-hook. No money consequently passed
between them ; and no entry of it mss made in the bank
day-book er ledger, nor was a paying in slip filed. The
peculiarity of the case was that the prisoner, instead of
making up, at the end of the half year and year, the two
accounts in the ledger and the pass-book, so that they
would correspoud, calculated the interest for the two pe-
riods upon the £403 16s. 2d., and entered it in the pass-
book only. The pass-book, therefore, differed from the
ledger in this respect also. No fraud, in point of fact, was
committed upon Mr. Malin or the Bank, for it appeared

that in the prisoner being removed, in May, 1844, from the
management at Warrington to the more responsible one
at Preston he called upon Mr. Malin, as he said, for the
purpose of taking I,a, eof him. On that occasion, as he
was going away. Mr. Malt] said to him " would it not be
better to take my book with you in order to make it up?"
The prisoner replied, " Yes, I better had do so," and at
that period he made an entry in the ledger giving Mr.
Malin credit for £404 5-, 9d, as if he had made a payment
at that time to tha► amount, which would make the ledger
and pass book correspond with respect to amounts.
After being some months at Preston, the differences were
detected, and the directors conceived it due to the public
to indict the prisoner.—The counsel for the defence, on the
case for the prosecution being closed, contended that the
indictment must fail, inasmuch as there was no proof of
the prisoner having received the money in his capacity as
servant of the Bank.—The Learned Judge reserved this
paint.—Mr. WILKINS then addressed the jury for the
prisoner, arguing that no embezzlement whatever had or
could be proved, inasmuch as no one had been defrauded ;
if guilty of anything he was only guilty of an irregularity.
Witnesses as to character were then called, viz., Mr.
Lister. Manager of the Union Bank, Liverpool, who had
been one of the prisoner's securities, Mr. Benjamin Pier-
point, of Warrington, a director of the bank, the Rev..
Jas. Todd, of Warrington, John Greenall, Esq., Wrn.
Hall, Esq., Mr. Eddleston, of Warrington, and two gentle-
men, directors of the Branch Batik at Preston.

The JUDGE, in summing up, told the jury they would
have to determine whether the prisoner had, as a servant
of the bank, received the money in question by virtue of
his office, and afterwards fraudulently embezzled it. The
non-entry of the sum of £403 in the ledger was a fact
upon which they would have to form their judgment
whether it was an embezzlement with a fraudulent pur-
pose. If they thought it was, the prisoner would be lia-
ble to a verdict of guilty : if, on the contrary, they
thought it only an irregularity, rind that the prisoner had
a ted merely as the agent of Mr. Malin, they must ac-
quit him.—After a few minutes consultation in the box,
the jury intimated a wish to retire. Before doing so,
however, the foreman a.,ked the court whether the entry
in the pas=-book by the prisoner of the £403 odd did not
make the hank liable to Mr. Malin for that amount ?
The JUDGE.—" I think it does, gentlemen."

The jury were then locked up.- Three hours elapsed
before they returned into court, and on the officer asking
them whether they had agreed uprn their verdict,
The FOREMAN (Mr. John Miller, of Everton, mer-
chant) said, we find the prisoner guilty of receiving in
March. 1843, upo❑ account of his employers, the sum of
£403 16s. 3d., and of not accounting for the same, or any
part of it, until the 30th May, 1844, having in the interim
falsified his accounts.

The JUDGE.-Bur, gentlemen, that is not what the pri-
soner is charged with by the indictment. Toe ch.irge is,
that he embezzled the money for the purpose of defraud-
ing the parties.

The FOREMAN.—The jury have not agreed, my lord,
as to the fraudulent intention.

The JUDGE.—Then you must be so good as to recon-
sider your verdict, and determine whether you are satis-
fied or not whether he embezzled the money with a frau-
dulent purpose. If there was a fraudulent intention he
(the prisoner) will be liable to a verdict of guilty;, if that
is not made out to your satisfaction be must be acquitted.
Be so good as to reconsider your verdict, and to say
whether you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty.
The FOREMAN.—Very well, my lord.
The jury again retired. In fifty minutes they again
returned ; and delivered a verdict of not guilty.

ASSAULT BY A COLLIER

John Bradshaw, a collier, was indicted for having at
Wigan, on the 28rh February last, assaulted one Edward
Lynney, with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Hutton appeared for the prosecution; the prisoner
was defended by Mr. J. Pollock.

This assault originated in the late turn outs of colliers
in Wigan and the neighbourhood. Both the prosecutor
and the prisoner are colliers, and they worked at the col-
liery of Mr. Thicknesse, where there was a strike. The pro-
secutor, an elderly man, thought proper not to join the
hands who struck work as the prisoner did, and, in con-
sequence, some threats of personal violence were made
against him, some of which proceeded from the prisoner.
The alleged assault took place with a pickhoe, in Withing-
ton-lane, on the 28th February, at half-past tbree in the
morning, as the prosecutor was going to his work : the
inner bone of the left arm was broken, wounds were found
on the left side of the head, and on the right jaw together
with several bruises on the body. Tile man who inflicted
these injuries was disguised with a comfortable over his
face, and hie jacket was completely buttoned up ; but
after he had struck the prosecutor twice, the " comfort-
able " fell off, and the moonlight enabled him to see that
his assailant was the prisoner. The blows he received
rendered him insensible, and he was under medical care
for some time.—The counsel for the prisoner contended
that the prosecutor was mistaken in charging the offence
upon the prisoner, for he should prove that he was in bed
the whole of the night in question ; but that, even if the
jury thought he was the man the circumstances would
justify a verdict of an assault only. Witnesses were
then [called, and one of whom was the prisoner's
father, to prove an alibi. The jury found the prisoner
guilty of an assault ; and he was sentenced to one year's
imprisonment with hard labour.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SALFORD LIST,

Defenditnt;-6.
Verdict by consent.-19, 21.
Special verdict.-31.
Referred.-17, 23, 24, 25.
Withdrawn.-2, 8, 18.
WEST DERBY LIST.

Verdict by consent.-7

Wednesday, April 2, at
Thursday, 3, at
Saturday, 5, at

consequence of the horse which the plaintiff was driving
having taken fright and wheeled round, and therefore an
accident for which no party was responsible. He after-
wards called witnesses who were passengers i❑ the omni-
bus, and a gentleman who was driving behind in a gig, to
prove that the defendant was not gallopping his horses.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages
£4O.

HOLLAND V GRACE.—In this case a verdict was taken
for the plaintiff, subject to a reference.

FALSE IMPRISONMENT

GOLDSMITH v. JELLY.—Mr. Baines said this was an
action for false imprisonment, with a justification respect-
ing a forged receipt. My friend Mr. Martin, on the part,
of the defendant, is prepared to consent to a verdict,
damages £2O, costs as between attorney and client, the
defendant agreeing to withdraw the charges in the decla-
ration, and to state that he believes them to be groundless.
I, on the part of the plaintiff, wish to state that I believe
the defendant has been misled by other parties, not his
own attorney, and that he has done all it► his power to
make reparation.
Mr. MARTIN—On behalf of the defendant I may state,
that, having been led into this mistake, he considers it
tha best course to come forward and avow it, and let a
verdict be taken as Mr. Baines has stated.

A verdict was entered for the plaintiff. Damages £2O.
The cause Hall v. Boag. which related to the same
transaction, was withdrawn.

DISPUTED PARTNERSHIP,

MULLIN v. JOHNSON.—This was an action upon a
bill of exchange for £l5. Mr. James appealed as coun-
cil for the plaintiff, and [qr. Crompton for the defendant.
The plaintiff, Philip Mullin, is a coach builder in this
town, and holder of the bill in question. The defendant
is a druggist, residing at Nantwich, and the acceptor of a
the bill. The whole question turned upon the question
of the partnership of one of the endorsees.
The jury found for the plaintiff damages £l5 15s.
The Court rose at twenty minutes after six o'clock.
CAUSE LIST.

The following was the state of the cause paper at the
rising of the Court last night :

Plaintiff.-1, 3,4, 5,7,9, 10,11, 12, 13,14, 15, 16,
20, 27, 28, 29, 30.
_ _

Plaintiff.-8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 22, 25, 26, 102
Defendant.-2.
Referred.-23, 71.

Withdrawn.-3, 5, 12, 20, 24, 27, 30, 32, 34, 38, 43,
47, 48, 49, 54, 56, 63, 73.
Nonsuit-4, 6.

THE CHASE

The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on

.... Sutton Pinfold
Kingsley Windmill
.. Bostock Green

_ vv
At Haf-past Ten o'clock. ——
Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet on
Wednesday. April 2, at . King's Mills
Friday, 4, at
Saturday, 5, at Wynnstay
At Half past Ten o'clock.

The order of the Treasury for the return of duty on
sugar in the bonded warehouses and refineries at the
time of passing the recent sugar resolutions appears in the
London papers of yesterday.
ROBBERY OF WlNE.—Between the hours of five and
six o'clock on Saturday evening & cask containing thirty-
two gallons of sherry vbine, value £3O, was stolen from
the yard of Messrs. Davis and Stainton, wine and spirit
merchants, Lyceum-place. Bold-street.
ROBBERIES FROM VESSELS.—At the Police•courtr
yesterday, two youths, known for malpractices, James
Thompson and John Williams, were placed at the bar
charged with several robberies of seamens' clothing from
vessels in the docks. These cases- having been proved
against them, they were each committed to gaol and hard
labour for three months.

GIPSEY LITE AND CHARACTER.—The illustrations of
the life and character of these very peculiar, and little
known, people, as given by Mr. Edwin Ransford, of Lon-
don, is of a most interesting character, and, in all cases,
delights his numerous audiences. The entertainments
are to he given, it will be seen, at the Commercial-hall,
Gloucester-street.

MORGAN'S IMPERIAL HOTEL.—Fashionable arrivals
and depa tures during the past week :—The Hon. Henry
Cavendish, lady, and family ; Sir Thomas Frernan.tle,
Bart., M.P., Chief Secretary of Ireland; Rev. Mr. Gah-
bett, lady, and family ; Captain Ovens. 57th Regiment,
and la iy ; Captain Brown, if the Guards ; Cap'ains
Tuite and Jameson ; A. C. Cornwall. Esq. ; Captain
Davies, R.N.; Messrs. De Vere, Fitzallan, St. Law-
rence, &c.

DEATH FROM BURNING.—An inquisition was yester-
day held before the borough coroner, into the cause of the
death of Catherine Reynolds. The deceased occupied a
room in a house in Carlton-street. Yesterday fortnight,
the landlady heard the deceased call her, and on going
up stairs found her all on fire. Some neigbboura were
immediately called in, and the fire was put out, but de-
ceased was severely burnt over her breast, face, neck,
and arms. She was taken to the Northern Hospital, but
died of the injuries on Sunday. Her clothes bad become
ignited through standing too near to the tire.

-THE HIGH-SHERIFF OF CHESHIRE.—Sir William M.
Stanley. Bart, the new Rich-sheriff of Cheshire, made a
grand entry into Chester, on Saturday, in a carriage
drawn by sis horses, and met the judges of assize on the
Mold-road. Sir William entertained about 500 gentlemen
to breakfast at Hooton-hall in the morning, and most of
the parties, including all who have been in the habit of
attending his hunting excursions, accompanied him to
Chester, where the day was looked upon as a sort of car-
nival. Stubbs' Royal Harmonic Band played dnring
breakfast at the hall. The whole city might be said to
have turned out to witness and accompany the procession,
which, according to a moderate computation, extended
upwards of a mile in length. In front rodothe gentlemen
belonging to the hunt, dressed in their red coats. Next
came the High-sheriff in his carriage, preceded by two
outriders, in livery, and then followed an immense train
of his tenantry, mounted on hmses. The citizens flanked
the sides and brought up the rear. It was one of the
most brilliant scenes witnessed in the "ancient citie" for
many years.

THE WEATHER.—The season, since our last publica-
tion, has been propitious for spring seed-time, and for
the gradual progress of vegetation in general, though
not a forward one. This is, perhaps, the best tor
the country—a very early spring being, in this climate,
always precarious, from such precocity being liable
to frosts—" killing frosts "—even in April. This last
casualty we can scarcely now apprehend, considering
the advanced state of the year ; the long continuance
of severe frosty weather we have already experienced ;
and the accumulating strength of the sun's rays. The
g►ound is in a fine state for impregnation, and general
working, and as the weather has been dry at the equinox,
with for the most part winds draughting from the east-
ward, persons who consider themselves " weather-wise,"
prognosticate that we shall have a dry, sunny summer.
At all events the slight progress made in leafing and
budding seems to augur well in the fruit department, as
the blossom can scarcely be developed before all chance
of a failure by its being nipped by severities to come has
ceased.

SERIOUS EVILS FROM THE EXPIRY OF nix BRITISH
TREATY.—Great sensation has been created in Rio de
Janeiro, by an attempt on the part of the Government to
take possession of the property of the late Mr. Nathan
Cairns, of Liverpool, under an act passed in 1842. Mr.
Cairns died in this town in March, 1843, leaving property
in the house of Messrs. Cairns. Astlev, and Co., of which
he was the senior partner, in Rio de Janeiro. In the pre-
sent instance it is unlikely that the Government will pro-
ceed further in the matter than they have done, for, Mr.
Cairns having died during the existence of our treaty with
that country, his proper y will be protected, under its
provisions, from interference by the Brazilian Government.
Still, the effect of the act in question becomes a source of
great anxiety to every one who has property engaged in
the Brazilian trade. The correspondent of the Economist
gives a minute detail of the circumstances of Mr. Cairns'
case, and says that it excited alarm i t the minds of the
British merchants; that meetings on the subject were
being held ; and that a correspondence was opened with
the Government.
PAVING AND SEWERAGE COMMISSIONERS.—At the
meeting on Thursday Mr. James Aspmall presided. The
fine of £lO imposed upon John Camptv.ll, for altering his
cellar entrance in Smithfield-street, contrary to the di-
rections of the Board, was ordered to be enforced, he
having neglected to contract the entrance within the time
allowed.—Mr. Capes Ashlin reported to the Board that
when he applied at the parish office to be allowed the use
of the rate book for the purpose of copying it, Mr. Hart
had refused it, on the ground that the Assistant Poor Law
Commissioner had ordered that no books should leave the
office. Mr. Deane read a clause in the Act of Parlia-
ment authorizing the Commissioners to cause the books
to be produced before them, and to take copies, and also
subjecting parties refusing to comply with the order of
the Board to a penalty not exceeding £5O. A conversa-
tion took place on this point, several of the members ex-
pressing themselves indignantly at the interference of
the Poor-law Commissioners Ivith the law. Mr. Birkett
teoved that. Mr. Hart should be ordered to attend there
with the Books next Thursday. Mr. Ashlin explained
that the real question was, whether the books should be
at one side of a door or on the other, as bis room, and
that of Mr. Hart, were under the same roof, and only
separated by a door. Mr. Kilshaw said the vestry bad
no objection, but it was Mr. Clement's order. Mr.
Cooper asked what business Mr.sClements-had to come
here, and try to set aside the law of the land ? The
Board ought to make an order at once. No matter what
the Poor-law Commissioners said, they were only a set of
dancing puppets.—The matter was allowed to stand over
for a week, Mr. Deane in the meantime to see Mr. Lown-
des. .

SPECULATIVE PICTURES .—A most numerous collection of
pictures that have been recently imported, per Emperor. from
Antwerp. arc now on view at Mr. Byford's rooms. where, by
public competition, they will be shortly offered for sale. Some
first class paintings are amongst them, and being presented
just as imported, will offer considerable exercise for the genies
of amateurs.

CONCERT AT THE HALL. LORD NELSON-STREET.—A grand
concert will be given at this newly beautified and improved hall
this day week. (the Sth instant,) when a number of celebrated
vocalists and instrumentaliits, male and female, will combine
their talents to gratify the audience. A first rate violinist will
also appear, and the whole programme presents attractions
rarely surpassed in such entertainments even in the metropolis.
The whole is under distinguished patronage, and the names of
the principal performer§ wi►l be found in the announcement in
another column,

MEETING OF THE RATEPAYERS OF

TOXTETII-PARK

The annual meeting of the ratepayers of Toxteth-park
was held yesterday, according to previous advertizement,
at the Parish-offices, in Park-road. Owing to the nu-
merous charges of past mismanagement, &c., which had
been industriously circulated through the township by the
Whig-Radical party, the meeting was very numerously
attended, chiefly by members of that party, who sur-
rounded the doors from an early hour, and shewed an evi-
dent disposition to pack the place of meeting. At ten
o'clock, the time appointed for the commencement of the
meeting, it was announced by Mr. Sheppard, on behalf
of the overseers, that an adjournment would be proposed
into the garden behind ; and Mr. W. M. DUNCAN having
been called to the chair, on the motion of Dr. M'Kee,
the meeting was adjourned accordingly.
The CHAIRMAN, after expressing a hope that the day's
business would be conducted with decorum, proceeded to
open the meeting in due form, and recommended that
they should go on i❑ regular order to fix upon the lists of
persons to be recommended for the office of overseers.
Mr. Appleby referred to a clause in the act of parliament,
ith and Bth Victoria, which directed that seven days'
notice should be given to each ratepayer of permission to
examine the accounts. Mr. Sheppard, as chairman of
the Board of Guardians, explained that the act in ques-
tion had not yet come into operation : that he himself
held several applications for the office of district auditor,
an office created by the act; but that the poor-law com-
missioners had not as yet desired the guardians to pro-
ceed to such election.
Dr. WICEE then rose to propose a gentlemen well
qualified to fill the office of Overseer; and, in the course
of his speech, characterised the proceedings of the parish
authorities during the past year as not satisfactory. The
poor had been oppressed ; the widow's hearth had been
desoiiiled ; and everything done in the most oppressive
and uncharitable way. The overseers, or one of them had
gone on in the most reckless manner; and their proceed-
ings bad not increased the parish funds, but had only pot
money into the pockets of the harpies of the law. The
fees for warrants amounted to £5OO, which had gone into
the pockets of Mr. Cleaver and his colleague. He oh-
jected to Mr. Harrison, the present overseer, as a mart
not of sufficient standing, and would recommend a man
who would go into the Augean stable of the Parish books.
He then entered upon a long string of assertions respect-
ing the conduct of Mr. Lawson, the late collector, and
concluded by proposing Mr. Appleby, as a fit and proper
person for Overseer, which was seconded by Mr. Joseph
Moss.

Mr. THOMAS INMAN. who was very indecently inter-
rupted throughout his address, denied the charge, brought
by Dr. M'Kee against the overseers, of cruelty to the
poor, and showed that great hardship and cruelty had
been used by the Collectors under Mr. Appleby in getting
in the property and assessed taxes. Mr. Inman particu-
larized several cases, in one of which £2lBs 6d had been
demanded and received for an original debt of 18s Id.
He eulogised Mr. Harrison as a very efficient officer,
although his politics were not those in favour with the
Radical party, and stated that the affairs of the parish had
been better managed by him than they were before. The
present opposition of the Radicals arose from the authori-
rities having attempted to recover the rates on cottage
property of which they were large owners. As a proof
of their factious dispositons, he stated that an overture
had been made that they should appoint three guardians,
and the Conservatives two, and that the poor committee
and the overseers should be equally divided as t politics,
which very reasonable proposition was rejected. Mr.
Inman concluded by proposing Mr. J. Buckley Jones in
lieu of Mr. Appleby.
Mr. SHEPPARD, as chairman of the Board of Guardi-
ans, defended that body from the aspersions thrown upon
it by Mr. McKee. He was not sent there by the inha-
bitants of Toxteth to canvass the con Ind of the collectors.
Their business, as guardians, was to see that the money
collected for the relict of the poor was properly adminis-
tered and accounted for, and' that the collectors cave pro-
per security. This had been done in the case of Lawson,
referred to, and the amount of his deficiency had been re-
paid, It was not true that the security in question had
ever beenout of the custody of the Board of Guardians.
That board would not allow him to go into any inquiries
about collectors. When applied to by any ratepayers, he
always told them to come to the board itself with their
complaints.

M.r. APPLEBY made a long series of charges against the
overseers, and went into a long explanation respecting
the expenses of collection, in the course of which many of
his statements were strongly denied, at the conclusion of
which, in contradiction of a charge of improper conduct
made against the Board of Guardians in the case of Law-
son the collector,
Mr. SHEPPARD explained that-the Board had on three
separate occasions moved the Overseers for a return of
his deficiences, the last of which gave them at £152 odd,
which, he repeated, had been paid by his sureties.
Dr. M'Kee here made a very disgraceful personal at-
tack upon Mr. Inman, which was received with very gen-
eral cries of " shame, shame," even from some of his
own friends. The worthy docter seemed quite unmoved
by the burst of execration which his conduct had justly
called down upon him ; and Mr. Inman explained the
charge made, amidst the general sympathy of the meet-
ing. The CHAIRMAN then called for a show of hands,
which, not being, satisfactory, a division took place, when
it was declared that Mr. Appleby's name had the majority.
Mr. Wm. Bolderstone was then proposed by Dr. M`Kee
and seconded by Mr. Rickerby and carried. Mr. Inman
intimating that his party would.offer no further opposition.
The following gentlemen were also proposed and carried
without opposition to make up the list to be selected from,
viz.: Messrs. Il ugh Donaldson, tiobt. Thornton, Rich-
ard Miller, Thos. Jackson, Oven Williams, John Wilson,
and Moss.

As Assessors of Land and Assessed Taxes, Messrs. F.
B. Henderson, E. P. Hughes, Thos. Gibson, and Robt.
Blackburn were returned as proper persons to be returned
for selection.

Mr. M'KEE then proposed a list for the Poor Commit-
tee, which, he said, they were willing should be equally
divided as to politics. The folh.wing are the names :
James Lawrence, Esq. Mayor, i!lessrs. Matthew Gregson,
Alex. Ryan, Thomas Royden, Hugh Donaldson, Wm.
Nicholls, avid Craig, .L Buckley Jones, Jno. Blew,
D. Hughes, T. Lloyd, Dr. M'Kee, Edw. Lawson, jun.
John Wilson, Thos. Rogers, John Croft, Wm. Frankland,
Joseph Moss, Robert Waring, John Lea, and Owen Wil-
liams, which were carried without opposition.
A conversation ensued with respect to the accounts;
and in answer to a question from Dr. M'Kee,
Mr. WATSON, the secretary, stated that the- printed
statement produced at the meeting embraced an accurate
statement of the position of the township.
It was then urged that the appointments about to be
made of a superintendent and three collectors should be
postponed for the present, and a request to this effect to
the guardians and the central board was subsequently
agreed to.

Mr. SHEPPARD• explained that the board of guardians
could only recommend : the commissiowrs themselves
appointed. The guardians had represented: to them the
recommendation of the local committee, and a reply had
been received agreeing to the recommendation so far as
the superintendent was concerned ; but the appointment
of the extra collectors was still under consideration. Mr.
Sheppard concluded by challenging the production of any
case of neglect of his duty, or of favouritism, since he sat
as the representative of the township at the board. He
had studied to do his duty without fear or favour, or any
consideration except the good of the township; and he
should continue to do so. Mr. Sheppard's explanation
was very warmly received.

The CHAIRMAN here intimated that the proceedings
were closed, and the meeting dissolved, the radical party
in high glte at their triumph.

The rooms at the Union Gallery, Slater-street, have
been engaged by the Mersey Yacht Club for their future
meetings, and for the general use of the members.
On Wednesday morning last, the house of the Rev. A.
Knox, of Priory-street, Birkenhead, was entered by
thieves, and a large silver cream jug valued at £5 carried
off. It is supposed the robbery was committed by three
boys who were seen in the back yard. Two of them have
been apprehended. One has been committed and the
other acquitted.
FIIE.—On Sunday forenoon a fire was discovered on
board the Syria, of this port, a splendid ship belonging to
Messrs. Hamilton and Baines, lying at the west side of
Prince's Dock. Previous to the arrival of the fire brigade
Mr. Dowling and several police-officers had extingui-led
the fire. Some billets of oak were discovered on fire,
and a few of them were burned and charred to the depth
of two or three inches.

EARLY CLOSING 01, SHOPS.—On Thursday a public
meeting of the inhabitants of Liverpool (being a continua-
tion of the meetings held last year,) was convened in the
Music-hall, Bold-street, for the purpose of promoting the
closing of shops at 7 o clock all the year round. In the
absence of Thomas Sands, Esq., who was unexpectedly
called to London, the chair was occupied by Thos. Black-
burn, Esq. Ana,,ngst the gentlemen upon the platform
and those who took part in the proceedings were the Rev.
W. Falloon, the Rev. Donald Ferguson, the Rev. W.
Bevan, the Rev. J. Higgins, the Rev. Mr. Whitey, Dr.
Duncan, Mr. Flower, honorary secretary, &c. Resolu-
tions in accordance with the object of the meeting were
passed.

WRESTLING.--On Wednesday last, the annual wres-
tling match took place at Mr. R. T. Barnes', Cattle
Market Inn, Old Swan. The amount to be contested hor
was ten sovereigns, in two weights, ten-and-a• half stone,
and all weights. Amongst the successful candidates for
the light-weights, were Jonathan Whitehead, of Working-
ton, and John Halliwell, of Penrith, who had each 15s.
awarded to them. A contest between Whitehead and
Halliwell for the last prize of £2 15s. was decided as un-
fair, in consequence of an irregularity in the manner of
throwing, and the money returned to the fund. The
priricipal light prizes were taken by M. S. Longmire,
James Hasling, and Nelson Cain, the first receiving
155., the second 17s. 6d., and the third 12s. 6d.
E Two MISSING PACKET-SHIPS.--The total num-
ber of persons on board the ships United States and
England, both of which, there is too much reason to fear,
have been lost with all on board, was 164—viz., in the
former, 74 ; in the latter, 90. The United States, which
sailed from this port on the 26th of November, was com-
manded by Captain Alexander Britton, John Crofts,
mate, Francis Donne', second mate, and the crew number
twenty-one men, all Americans, except Nicholas Pierce,
of Antwerp. There were two cabin passengers, Mr. Hull
and the Rev. Mr. Tulloch, the latter of whom absconded
from Scotland after committing- forgery. There were
forty-eight steerage passengers, all from Ireland. The
England, which sailed from this port on the Ist of Decem-
ber, was commanded by Captain Samuel Bartlett, A. W.
Trubsham, mate, Seth D. Keys, second mate, Charles
Wilson, carpenter, and eighteen men, all Americans, ex-
cepting John Douglass, of Hamburgh, and James Thomas,
of England. There were no cabin passengers. There
were sixty-eight steerage passengers. all from Ireland,