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,nd reminded.

On the rth instant, at Apsley House, Lady CHARLES one, of the time before p 1
WELLE,LEY. of a son. shopkeepers cried aloud to passers. by, " W hat d'ye lac'
Same day, at Kirkdale, the wife of Mr. JOSEPH FOSTER, has been taken down to give room for a modern erection.
of her Al aje ty's Excise, of a son.
We never passed it without thinking of London then and
On the tall in-tint. the wife of Mr. ROBERT DEAN, jun..
Church-street, Woodside, of a son. London now.—Th, Builder.
-- stay, at S ,uttk Hill-grove, Toxteth-park, Mrs. WILLIAM NAMES.—Eunt a i fromthe 9ermaotand signifies a
TER. of a son. NT., ~ i • i
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...J..; tAtronne, DO ..1 the Latin, Noble Minded; George,
Same day, at iiryntiron, Denbighshire, the lady of Cap tan from the Greek, a Farmer ; Martha, from Hebrew, Bit-
E. JONES, of son.
On the 10th instant, the lady of CHARLES BIRLEY, Esq., terness ; the beautiful, though common name, Mary
Hebrew, and m,ans a Drop of Salt Water. a Tear ; Sophia,is
of a son.
a,
On the 12th instant, at his residence, Portland-place, Dootle, 1 from Greek. Wisdom ; Susan, from Hebrew, a Lily ;
the lady of W. 11. WINN, Esq., of a' a ighter. Thomas, from Hebrew, a Twin; Robert, from German,
Famous in Courcil.
MARRIED. . WANTED, a f w active young men, as officers in a con-
templated campaign under the Sheriff of Middlesex.
On the 21st ultimo, at Hammersmith, the Rev. G. JON7.S,
sTphoerstes,gsaullcahntasfehlulzuitlhlebsetacghi,eflanydeomthpelorydeidveirnsionnosbolef
minister of Sr. John's Chapel. Warrington, to SARAH, daugh-
interesting
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ter of S. CADBY, Esq., , f Hammersmith.
On the 29th ultimo, at Trinity Church, Mr. N. CANNE! L. a similarly
master of the smack Speedwell. of Castletown, i.te of Man, toLe •and who
he been
presentlread
Miss BARBARY HENDERSON, late of Government-house. at the taking of so many of the foe, will be very liberally
Castletown.
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On the 3th ultimo, at St. Leonard's Church, Bridgnorth, a To DESTROY COCKROACHES.—Take up a flag in the
couple whose united ages amountel to nearly 140 years, and kitchen floor, scoop out the earth sufficiently to admit a
b,th of whom appeared ardent devotees of Nyman, the bride- smooth steep-sided basin on a level with the floor; at the
groom having had three former wives, and the bride two former
husbands, the latter having, also, twenty fine grown-up grand-
bottom of the basin place a lilt's oatmeal, slightly moist-
enedwithti treacle or beer, and in the morning you will be
ic,hadildbreeenn. p
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vni
ot huesl y Sundaypublis morninghed twice, prweecreeding audiblytfie banns,
forbidden whichby
astonished
at your catch, which you may dispose at leisure
a shrill female voice from the gallery fronting the reading desk, with hot water. If the floor be boarded, you must con-
the owner of Vlhich had travellel eight miles, from the adjoining trim by means or ,
a heap of a hes, or otherwise,n.to
town of Much WenlOck, to mar the nuptial ceremony, claiming
for the vermin an easy ascent to the top of the bt sin.
make
herself a superior tight to the person of the gay Lothario. The-
i e
bridal party consisted of the bridegroom, about sixty-six, and PARISH CLERKS.—On consulting village registers (par-
the buxom grandmother, of seventy years, with the accompany_ ticularly in the Peal) it is found that the office of parish
village, In
lin-
in g brideswoman, and a true son of Vulcan, son in-law of the clerk, in nice instances out of ten, is of en vested in one
nfaemalil:u.ecettionnowphothheaspirieesidentthceleorffik
re is
inthe h
aste
bride, who acted as father, and gave her away, The disap-
pointed Werilock la,fy, true to her promice, was in the Interior
of the church, with a basket of flowers, with which to strew the
connection withthe office in this • ' '
way of the enamoured pair. The clergyman who officiated had
the greatest difficulty in maintaining order, hundreds of persons following custom has prevailed from time immemorial :
having thronged to witness the marriage ceremony. On the conclusion of the ceremony of marriage, the clerk
Mar
On the 2
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RICHARD
POWE
eldest dau hter of ROBERT PACE Es kiss from the happy bride. This done, he exclaims" God
g, q., of Great George- spede ye weal!"
LORD PALMERSTON'S PROPHECY.—We are going to
exhibit the noble lord in the character of a prophet. He
foretold not only the free trade policy of Sir Robert Peel
_ _

square.
On the 3rd instant, at Ft. Thomas's Church, Walton•on.the•
Hill, Mr. JOHN LEIGH, master mariner, to HENItIETrA
M'LELLAN, of Dumfries.
Same day, at the Old Church. Oswestry. JOHN. eldest son of

Mr. EDWARD ROGERS, f Morton, Salop, to JULIA, daugh-
ter of Mr. JOHN GITTINS, of Measbuiy. in the same cou. ty.
Same day, at Greenock. Captain GEORGE MACALLISTER,
of the brig MI ley, to Miss DA W, ON, of ;his town.
On the 4th instant:a St. Pancras Church, London, CHAS.
B. WOODMAN, Esq., of Edgbaston, to EMMA, only daughter
of the late Lieutenant-General CORNER, of Lower Berkeiey-
sti eet, Por man. square.

arse rue period of its adoption. Speaking in Septem-
ber, 1841, Lord Palmerston said, "The right honourable
baronet had said that he was not prepared to declare that
he would never propose a change in the corn-laws; but
he certainly should not do so unless at the head of an
united cabinet. Why, looking at the persons who form
his Aministration, he must wail something near five years
before be can do it." It is a remediable coincidence,
that, in four years and eight months from the date of this
prediction, Sir Robert Peel introduced big measure for
the reveal of the corn laws. So well did the Whigs under-
stand their man.—Fraser's Mag.
FIRST SIGHT OF a HORSE.—The sensation produced
by the presence of the strangers had not in the least sub-
sided at the period of our arriral at the islands. The
natives still 11 cked in numbers about the encampment.
and watched with the live lest curiosity every thing that
was going fora ard. A blacksmith's forge, which had been
set up in the shelter of the grove near the beach, attracted
so great a crowd, that it rtquired the utmost efforts of the
sentries posted around to keep the inquisitive multitude at
a sufficient distance to allow the workmen to ply their
vocation. But nothing gained so large a share of admira-
tion as a horse, which had been brought from Valparaiso
by the Achilles, one of the vessels of the squadron. Ths
animal, a remarkably fine one, had been taken ashore,
and stabled in a but of cocoa-nut boughs within the forti-
fied enclosure. Occasionally it was brought out, and,
being gaily caparisoned, was ridden by one of the officers
at full speed over a hard sand beach. This performance
was sure to be hailed with loud plaudits, and the " puu-
kee nuee" (big bog) was unanimously pronounced by the
islanders to be the most extraordinary specimen of
zoology that had ever come under their observation.--
Four Months' Residence in the Marquesas.
FREEMASONRY AND ARCHITECTURE.—Freemasons
had been supposed to exist amongst the Greeks and Ro-
mans. Corporations of architects were established by
Numa, called Collegia Fabrorum, and Collrgia Artificum.
They had a religious character, and had the right of framing
laws among themselves. Subsequently. they greatly con-
tributed to the extension of the Roman power, an?
invested by the emperors with peculiar priv'
attached a corps of architects to the cohorts. At the end
of the eighth century, the masons of Como assumed the
peculiar distinction of Freemasonry; they were greatly
employed in the construction of churches and monasteries,
and after the destruction of the Lombard kingdom by
Charlemange. dispersed themselves over Europe. 7hey
succeeded in obtaining peculiar privileges trom the Pope,
and concealed their knowledge by mysteries. The Free-
m 'sons, probably of Como, were invited to Englend by
Alfred, and subsequently by Athelstan, who gave them a
charter in York, the original of which is said still to exist
in that city. It noCcem tl. • •

Same day. at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, London, by the
the Rev. M. D. Ffrench, GEORGE WEBRE DASENT, Esq.,
M.A , third son of the late John Roche Dasent, Esq., her Ma-
jesty's Attorney-General for the Island of St. Vincent, to
A NCES LOUUM, third daughter of W. F. A. DELANE, Esq.
Same day, at Kirk Braddan, 151... of Man, by the Rev. R.
Brown, Mr. STEPHEN JOHN GRANDIN, dyer, of D 'ugias,
to JANE ELEANOR, second daughter of Mr: R. J. LEWIN,
Belliargey, parish of Onc„han.

Same day. at Chelsea, G. W. EARL, Esq., to CLARA, daugh.
ter of Captain SIBORNE, of the Royal Mili ary lum.
On the 6th instant, at St. Mary's Church, Edge.hiP, WM.
HENRY PALMER, eldest son of JOHN BATH, Esq-' of her
Majesty's Customs, to AMELIA, youngest daughter of the late
HENRY DAWSON, Esq., £ hiphuilder of this town.
S ,me day, at St. Mary's Church, Manchester, Mr. THOMAS
RICH A RDs, of this town, to ELIZABETH, second daughter of
the late HUGH DA VI ES, of Man. heater.
On the 7th instant, at St. Nich las's Church, Mr. GEORGE
V. MADDOCK, to SARAH ANN, secoLd daughter of Mr. WM.
NICHOLS, Farmer's Arms, Park-road.
S.:me day, at Paddington, Middlesex. E. WAUGH, Lieutenant
in the 47th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry. to ELIZA.
BEI 11 MARIA, daughter of the late Mr. MORI. of London.
Same day, at St. Bride's Church, by the Rev. Mr. Steward.
Mr. ROBERT M•MONNIES, of Cir..reester, Gloucestershire,
to Miss ROBISON, daughter of Mr. Robert Robison. Old Swan.
. .

On the Bth instant, at St. Augustine's Church, JOHN, second
son of Mr. J. EDWARDS, merchant. late of Chester, to ISA.
BELLA, eldest daughter of Mr. JAMES DUNN. tide•snrveyor
of her Majesty's Custom's at this port.

Same day, at Great George-street Chapel, by the Rev. Thos.
Raffles, D.D., LLD., Mr. JOHN PEARSON, of the firm of
Thomas Pearson and Co., eneineers, to ISABELI.A, eldest
daughter of Mr. JOHN ViILFON, of Great George-street.
Same day, at Kirk Malew Church, Isle of Man, Mr. THOMAS
GELLING, pawi,broker, of this town, to Miss ANN ESTHER
BRIOSON, only daughter of the late P. Bridson, Esq.,
Ballasalla.

On the gth instant, at St. Bride's Church, Mr. WILLIAM
MODSLEY. to FRANCES CONULIFF, second daughter of
Thomas Condliff, of London-road.

Same day, at Kirk Marowo, Isle of Man. Mr. RICHARD
JO NEA, of this t -iwn, to Miss EI.IZA PA RAO IT, of Ballacalliu.
On the 13th instant, at St. George's Church, Eveiton. by the
Rev. Mr. Ewebank, JAMES ROBERTSON, E.q Stanley-
terrace, Bootle, to BARBARA HUTTON, eldest daughter of
the Bev. JOHN THOMSON, Toxteth p.rk, Liverpool.

my OF ar trout
the time of Adam, the buildingbLur rf Babel, thentrecture Temple of
Solomon ; H iera m . Pythagoras Euclid, and Vitruvius are
also quoted. In 1717 Sir C. Wren was the grand master
in Emeand, but shortly after that period the fraternity
altered its original form and purpose—a clibinge which
mutt have been viewed by that great architect with ex-
treme regret.—The Builder.

EASTITAM FERRIC.—Mr. Nicholl, the spirited proprie-
tor of the ferry-to Eastbam, the most romantic and agree-
able holiday place on the Mersey, has started the boats
this summer at a reduction of one third in the fares. Vast
numbers of respectable parties have now an economical
mode of exchanging the thick, unwholesome atmosphere
of this great town for the pure air and invigorating sun-

shine to be found in the green lanes and rambles in the
neighbourhood of Eastham.

NORTHERN HOSPITAL, APRIL 11

LWEEKLY REPORT.]

ADMITTED

Accidents
Medical and Surgical cases
upon recommendation

19 i Cured
Relieve,

I own r

Out Pat

2 I Died

Remaining in the Hospital.. Pg.
Consulting surgeon, William Giii, Esq.,
House Visiters, Rev. Thos. liornhy and Chas. Inman, Esq
Treasurer, B. H. Jones, Esq.
Rev. Wm. Hughes.

Chaplain

WEEKLY REPORT OF THE FEVER AND
WORKHOUSE HOSPITALS.
APRIL 11, 1846.

Fever and Small Pox
Medical and Surgical V
Lying-in Wards
Lock

REMAINING IN THE TIOSPIT

Fever and Smali Pox
Med'cal and Surgical Wards
Lying-in Wards
Lock

TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1846.

The Rev. Cecil Wray, of St. Martin's Church,
has taken the very questionable step of calling
public attention to himself and his late curate, now
a member of the church of Rome. We would not
deem his wretched attempt, to throw the blame of
his late curate's apostacy on the evangelicals, worthy
of any further notice than we have devoted to it
elsewhere, hut for a gross and unfounded misrepre-
sentation of Mr. M`Neile, which Mr. Wray has
thought proper to print. His words are—
." Bracketting the Prayer Book, so that each minister
may ow.t what he chooses, is the ingenious suegestion of
the Rev. H. M'Neile. of Liverpool, to relieve his party
from their present p:inful po-ition. In his recent pub-
lication, ' The Church and the Churches,' he again urges
that a `slight alteration, very slight, more verbal than
real,' will be thankfully accepted. flow galling must be
the yoke which can force a clever man to hazard such
extravagant proposals!"
.This we advisedly call a gross and unfounded
misrepresentation. Mr. M‘Seile, in his recent
admirable publication, called " The Church and
the Churches," discusses the possibility of uniting
to our National Church, Christian brethren who
conscientiously object to some of our present form-
ularies. With reference to their scruples, not with
reference to any yoke felt by himself, he suggests
the propriety of some change. He quotes from
Archdeacon Hare in condemnation of the Act of
Uniformity as requiring a declaration injurious to
the best interests of the national Church. Upon
which he says for himself—
" There is a wide difference between disapproving of this
Declaration ourselves, and disapproving of its enforce-
ment upon others. It is not because of any personal
repugnance to it, that we deprecate its enforcement. In
fact, it exercises no force upon us; we make it with per-
fect freedom, so far as our own individual feelings we
concerned. But others, and truly devoted Christians,
cannot view it as we do, and we most highly disapprove of
compelling such men either to submit to it with wounded
consciences and injured self-respect, or to separate them-
selves from the national church. (Page 86.) _

With i
• i
this language before us, t s difficult to ex-
culpate Mr. Wray from the charge of wilful misre-
presentation, when he intimates that Mr. M'Neile
feels himself ander a galling yoke. No; but -Mr.
M'Neile feels for others, and does not make his own
experience or his own preference the measure of
catholicity. He desires to see the church orderly
indeed, but truly catholic in the comprehensiveness
of Christian charity. Wt says—
" I am aware of the necessity of some rule for the
maintenance of ' decency and order ;' but surely when the
nature of that necessity and of the great end in view are
fairly considered, the rule should be pre.cribed with the
elastic tenderness of a nurse who takes into account the
varying temperaments and dispositions of the children;
and not with the rigid recklessness of an imperious task-
master, who would prostrate into a Procrustes bed a'l the
varieties of human feeling and human conscience; cutting
short to its own arbitrary standard all the outgoings,
musical, architectural, and otherwise ?.ecorative, of a de-
votional imagination ; and torturing out to meet the same
standard all the simplicity of that abstract spirituality of
mind which unfeignedly shrinks from decorations in re-
ligion. as from the precincts of an idolatrous temple."—
(Page 83.)
Then after suggesting an arrangement which, as
he says, " would not erase a word nor add a word,
nor alter a word, in any of our services; and yet,
if introduced by the proper and competent autho-
rities, would gladden many a heart;" he adds—
" I am increasingly impressed with the absolute necessity
of some movement in this direction for the preservation of
our church. i fear none will be made. Dread of altera-
tion is as intense as it could be—and as it ought to be—if
all our ritual, in its mo-t minute details, were of express
divine apuointment. While for the sake of details of hu-
man origin, and of at least questionable wisdom, we are
involved in a continued violation, towards many Christian
brethren, of that loving forbearance which is indeed of
divine appo•ntment." (Page 93.)
We commend the distinction here so wisely made
between divine and human appointments to Mr.
Wray's serious consideration; and when he talks
of Catholic consent, and refers to the rule of St
Vincent, of Lerins, " Quod semper, quod übique,
quod ab omnibus," we request his candid opinion of
the application of it to the crisis in the Church's
history when Arianism was in the ascendant, and
in such a monstrous and notorious majority as to
give rise to the celebrated saying so eulogistic of
the strength and orthodoxy of Athwoasi
judgment! A tlzanasius contra mundum. •
The following notice of Mr. M'Neile's book•
appeared in the Morning Herald of Saturday. We
have much pleasure in reprinting it.
Mr. M'Net!e's fame as a writer has been long esta-
blished, but it will be greatly increased by the volume
now before us, which is, in every respect, worthy of its
highly gifted author. We hail, with much satisfactian,
the appearance of this seasonable publication. Though
not 'directly controversial, it is, in our judgment, emi-
nently calculated to cheer( some of the worst evils of the
Tractites, by showing, as Mr. M'Neile expresses it in his
preface, that the Church of England " supplies abundant
scope and opportunity for every exercise of devotion, and
for every act of self-denial and benevolence, which go to
constitute the whole reasonable sertice' to which Chris-
tians are called in th4s world " We have been much
struck with the remarkable contrast which this book pre-
sents to Mr. Ward's Ideal of a Christian church. In the
one we see the low, evasive, casuistry of a man who has
no confidence in the ground which lie has himself select-
ed ; it is no better than shif.ing sand. In the oth( rwe
find the bold, straightforward proclamations of a man
"mighty in the scriptures," and standing with unshaken
firmness on the rock of eternal truth. Ward crawls and
cringes—M'Neile wa'ks erect and commands. Ward
shuffles—M'Neile reasons. 'Ward borrows tinsel, and
aims at stage effect, from the embroidered garments and
ecclesiastical pantomimes of Ronne—M'Neile, in habitual
simplicity, and without any effort, appropriates the im-
perishable jewels of divine revelation. Ward describes
his ideal Christian under a load of self-imposed or church-
imposed.commandotents, devising ever fresh methods of
self-denial, and subjecting his lower nature to rules more
and more inflexible—M'Neile repudiates all such "will
worship," and describe, his real Christian as a practical
worshipper, whose object is not to arrest attention by ex-
aggerated works of supposed extra meritoriousness, but
quietly, steadily, and unostentatious!), in the appropriate
duties of the state of life in which he is providentially
placed, to k 'Co the commandments of God.
But Mr. M'Neile's book is not directly controversial.
His object is rather to re-state fundamental truth in
plainness of speech, remembering, as he says, that Chris-
. tian knowledge is not hereditary, and that the real source
of danger from the heresy of the few is to be found in the
ignorance of the many. We congratulate the rev. gentle-
man on his execution of th's noble design, and cordially
recommend to our readers a perusal of his work. They
will find it singularly characterised by moderation, net
only in the author's statements of his own views, but also
(a more rare quality) in his objections to his opponents.
Mr. M`Neile has refused, and we think wisely, his sanc-
tion to the proposed evangelical alliance, but he has
proved himself a real friend of true Christian unity, and
loves not in word hut in deed, as is evidenced by the ad.
mirable tone of this book.

The pause in our headlong career towards the
adoption of ultra free trade measures, which the
manly and consistent efforts of the conservative
minority of the House of Commons have won for
us, has not been without its value to the country,
and is.not likely to be altogether without its influ--
ence upon the fate of Sir Robert Peel's proposition.
It has given us time to think ; to weigh those pro-
positions in all their bearings upon the national in-
dustry and the national greatness ; to separate the
various interests, of which this vast empire id com-
posed, and to examine their probable effects upon
the future prosperity of each. The House of Com-
mons itself Will approach the consideration of the
great question at issue, after the recess, with cooler
judgment, with more information to guide its de-
cision, and, we trust, with a determination not to he
led blindfold by its faith in the impeccability or the
infallibility of party leaders ; whilst the masses of
the country are daily spewing themselves less willing
to take that great leap in the dark, to which the
ministry of Sir Robert Peel and its whip-radical
allies were about to lead them.

Upon one branch of the question involved in these
measures, peculiarly interesting to this port, viz :
their effect upon our evisting, colonial relations—we
are happy to see, and to know, that a great impres-
sion has already been made upon the public mind,
unfavourable to the adoption of the ministerial pi °-
positions in their present shape, and which may
ultimately reach and influence the Legislature itself.
The public, and even the manufacturers who enter-
tam free trade opinions, are fast getting rid of the
notion, sedulously instilled into their minds by free
trade spouters and writers, and repeated, without
contradiction, so constantly that it had become
almost a recognised truth, that our colonies were so
many drags upon the resources of the mother coun-
try, and contributed comparatively nothing to her
industry and strength; that they were possessions,
whose interests we might tamper with and destroy.
without their population stirring a hand or taking a
step in their own behalf. '1 he question—of what
use are these colonies ?—is receiving a much greater
amount of consideration, and a very different reply
to what would have been given to it when the public

mind was fevered with the first mooting of these
measures.

We give in our columns this day a letter from
Mr. Isaac Buchanan—a gentleman from whose pen
several previous appeals to the good sense of his
fellow-countrymen have appeared—in reply to an
article in the Manchester Guardian of Saturday
week ; and we ask for that letter and the important
statistical facts which it contains, the candid con-
sideration of our readers of every shade of politics.
The question, as treated by Mr. Buchanan, is not
a party question, or a question of conflicting classes.
It is emphatically a national question. It is one,
whose settlement upon just and wise grounds, con-
cerns not only the statesman, the merchant, and the
manufacturer, but affects materially the interests of
the mechanic and the manufacturing labourer; and
which, unless so settled, must exercise an influence
over the future position of this country in the great
family of nations, the importance of which is well
nigh inconceivable. We shall not risk the weaken-
ing of the Effect of Mr. Buchanan's communication
as a whole by quoting any isolated portion of it here.
We may, however, direct especial attention to the
statistics which Mr. Buchanan brings forward,
shewing the vast increase of the exports of our
cotton manufactures to Colonial markets, which has
taken place within the last three years, as compared
with the aggregate exports to all countries. To
some of our readers, the results which Mr. Buchanan
sfiews may be new. To most they will be startling.
To the cotton manufacturing interest they ought to
convey a lesson, and we may add, a warning. Such
maikets as the Colonies of Great Britain are now
affording for the products of the national industry,
should not he lightly tampered with; and would
not, if the legislature and the public would weigh
fully their value, and their national as well as corn-
tnercial importance. .

Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, in his excellent description
of the wonders of strange lands, has introduced to
our notice, as existing in Laputa, a class of
functionaries whose employment it is, by the
application of " flappers" to the head and other
sensitive parts of the person, to' keep awake
important personages when required to be attend-
ing to their public or private duties. Such a
class would not be without their use in our own
country. They might be made excellent attaches
to some of our courts of justice. They would be
invaluable in our Council and its committees, where
the "Deus lime otia fecit," carved upon their chair
hacks, so irresistibly invites their occupants to sleep.
They would he peculiarly valuable in the Ministerial
Chambers in Downing-street and Whitehall, from
which right honourable secretaries a ery afternoon
emerge, to take their seats in either House of the
legislature, in as profound a dose and as utterly un-
aware of what has been going on in the world since
they left their beds as if they had tasted the waters
of Lethe, or had only newly been ushered into the
world.

A striking instance of this want of acquaintance
with passing mundane affairs, on the part of an im-
portant member of our Government, was afforded
in the proceedings of the House of Commons. on
Wednesday evening, the member in question being
the Home Secretary, Sir James Graham. We quote
from the Times of Thursday morning :
" Mr. Cn RISTIE wished to ask, either at once or on the
next day, in consequence of two recent cases in courts of
justice of women who bad infants born in workhouses
being obliged to strip them of their clothing on leaving
the house, whether there was any intention to institute
an inquiry into those cases, or to make any alteration in
the arrangement which it seemed was there acted on?

" Sir J. GRAHAAI said, he did not know the cases to
which the hon. gentleman referred, and, no notice of the
question having been given, he had had no commun;ca-
Con with the Poor-law Commissioners on the subject.
His attention had not been called to it either in the house
or out of it, and it was impossible at once to answer
question; on minu'e details of Poor•law administration.
It would be better to put the question next day.". _

Sir James Graham, let it he borne in mind, is the
minister peculiarly responsible for the administra-
tion of the Poor-law. It is to him also that the
criminal statistics of the country are returned, and
to whom the carrying out of the sentences of the
judges is referred. Yet here were two cases, arising
out of the mal-administration of the Poor-law, in
which unfortunate female paupers had been dis-
charged from their respective workhouses, with
their unfortunate new-born offspring in a state of
nudity, and had been tempted by their necessities
to the commission of infanticide, and subsequently

-been---t-ried for their offence• by a jury of their
country; and yet Sir James Graham " did not
know of the cases." The judge who tried the
wretched offender in one of them„ and who miti-
gated the severity of his sentence expressly because
she had been driven to the commission of the crime
for which she was arraigned, had commented in
strong terms of indignation upon the " iron rule"
of the New Poor-law; and yet Sir James Graham
declared that " his attention had never been called
to it either in the house or out of it !" The ques-
tion which these cases involve is the serious one,
whether masters of workhouses are to turn out
new-horn infants, with their unfortunate mothers,
without clothing upon them, to perish from the
inclemency of the weather, t 3 shock the eyes of
humanity in the streets or the public highways, and
to tempt to the crime of mnr-er; and yet this is,
forsooth, in the Home Secretary's estimation, one
of those "minute details (!) of Poor-law administra-
tion" upon which he considers it " impossible to
answer questions at once !"

Now really we do think it a public scandal, that a
Minister of the Crown, whose express duty it is to
watch the administration of the law at home, should
be permitted to enter the House of Commons in
such a lamentable state of ignorance. There is, we
venture to say, scarcely a man in the kingdom ca-
pable of reading, and of ordinary intelligence, to
whom these shocking cases were not fully known.
There is not a newspaper in the kingdom in which
they were not stated in detail. Sir James Graham,
we therefore presume, reads no newspapers. His
official mind is too sublimated to allow of his en-
tertaining the ordinary or extraordinary affairs of
this world, unless conveyed to him through the me-
dium of an official document, or through a state-
ment in Parliament. We would suggest, therefore,
to him in particular, the addition of a " flapper" to
the staff of the home-office. Let him employ some
intelligent and indefatigable reader to peruse daily
the leading organs of public intelligence, and "cram'
him before going down to the House; so that if
Saint Paul's has removed to Trafalgar-square, or
Oliver Cromwell revisited the earth, he may not be
under the painful necessity of confessing his igno-
rance of such important events.
Seriously, it is lamentable to witness the impene-
trability of public men to everything which is going
on in the world out of doors. No facts, however mo•
mentous—nothing of public opinion or public feel-
ing—can reach their minds or their attention, ex-
cept through their official machinery or the medium
of a commission.

The Cornwall and Devon Ce,,tral line is to be "wound
up," and the depositl returned less the expenses.
Mr. O'Connell arrived in Dublin on Friday, and was
to he present at Conciliation Hall yesterday:
The Great Western steam-ship bailed on Saturday for
New York, with 12J passengers.
The King of Pru-sia has addressed a note to all the
members of the German Customs Union, impressing on
them the nece.,sity of revising the tariff.
On Sunday last the Rev. Rector Campbell announced
that the Lord Ili.hop of Chester will hold a confirmation
at St. Nicholas' Church on the 3d July next.
Tne Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction
Company return £l, ls. per share of the £2 12s. 6d. paid.
The scheme has failed for the present, and the directors
are at law both with their servants and shareholders.

A criminal attempt was made last week, in Brussels, to
ereare disturbances, by the wide distribution of an in-.
llaalmatory circular amongst the working classes. Six
persons have been arrested.
A fire broke out on Sunday at the steam flour mill of
Mr. Pattison, Hill-street, Toxteth-park, by which a great
quantity of flour, some of the machinery, and a portion of
the building were completely destroyed. Mr. Pattison
was uninsured.
THE BRIDGb.WATER ESTATE.—SCRIE idea may be
formed of the interests involved in the estate of the Trus-
tees of the late Duke of Bridgewater, and also of its mag-
nitude, from the fact, that in the present parliamentary
session, agents are engaged in watching, supporting, or
opposing no less than thirty-five private bills.
On Tuesday, the Rev. William Howell Lloyd, a minis-
ter of the Established Church, was received into the
Church of Rome, at the chapel of the bishop's house in
Birmingham. A few days before that a gentleman of dis-
,inction from Scotland also made a profession of faith in
the same chapel.
WAR AGAINST INDIAN CORN.—The discovery made
by a philanthropic member of the Corn Relief Committee,
,o the effect that Sir Robert Peel after his own sly fashion.
.s pouring In iian corn into the country, well knowing its
leleterious qualities, with a view of thinning the super-
abundant population of Ireland, will no doubt create a
" profound sensation" when the startling revelation
reaches the opposite side of St. George's Channel. The
detection of this odious plot to decimate Her Majesty's
Irish lieges—equalled only in its atrocity by the poisoning
If the wells inChina—is due to the vigilance of a Mr. Hayes,
and was boldly proclaimed in the course of a discussion at
one of the "charity" meetings held last week at Cork.

SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE TOWN.-IMPOR-
TANT PUBLIC MEETING.

(Continued from pave 3.)

it was well worthy of being adopted in Liverpool, and
every other town. One advantage pointed out by Mr.
Hawkesley, in the constant system, was, that it saved the
expense and inconvenience of tanks of water upon the
roof of the house. There was nothing to do but to join the
surface pipe, and to have a tap, and you had a constant
supply, the fact being that the reservoir was at some dis-
tance on a bill or in a river. You need not have one upon
your own house. Gentlemen knew the inconvenience of
having tanks upon their houses ; but by the constant sup-
ply system this was all s,ved, and you had a perpetual sup-
ply in every room. The advantages arising therefrom
were, in many respects, very great. Water butts, espe-
cially among the humbler classes, were apt to be neglect-
ed, and to become foul. They could not be cleansed upon
the scientific and economical principles that a general re-
servoir could. (Hear.) Mr. Hawkesley showed that by
proper attention the ground reservoir, where the water was
collected, miv.ht be kept pure throughout the whole year,
that it saved the annual expense of water-butts in houses,
also the room, and the inconvenience of their occasional
bursting, besides the serious inconvenience of having the
water its a bad state. iair. Hawkesley was asked,
"Is what is usually called the waste of water' pre-
vented in your works by an extra number of men ?”
Ii is answer was, .

" The fact is directly the reverse. The constant sup-
ply is the means of a large economy of men. Our com-
pany has maintained its supply by night and by day ever
since its establishment, except during a period of one
month. We find that one experienced man, and one boy
of about 18 years of age are, on the system of constant
supply, quite sufficient to manage the distribution of the
supply to about 8000 tenements, and keep all the works
of distribution in perfect repair."
Mr. Hawkesley was asked whether,
" In respect to the apprehension expresed, that if the
system of constant supply at high pressure were adopted,
much larger mains would be required, what is the evi-
dence of fact and experience ?"
He answered,
" Directly the reverse of the hypothesis. If the sup-
ply of water for ordinary purposes be the only considera-
tion, then for the same reason that smaller pipes do suf-
fice for the tenant's communication pipes, smaller mains
will suffice for the system of constant supply at high pres-
sure. Where 20-inch mains are used on the system of
periodical supply, 12-inch mains would amply suffice for
the constant supply ; instead of 7 and 6-inch mains 5 or
4-inch would suffice; instead of 3-inch service pipes for
the occasional supply, 2-inch would suffice for the constant
supply ; indeed for constant conveyance sizes much smaller
than these would answer the purpose; but as there are ir-
regularities of draught it is needful ro provide accordingly.
The objection of Mr. Wicksted is founded upon a sup-
posed state of things which never does occur, namely of
all the pipes discharging water at the same time."
Then an objection was made to the system of eonstant
supply that the inhabitants of the smaller houses would
cut away the pipes ; and Mr. Hawkesley was asked what
is his information upbn the subject. He says—
" We have some of the poorest and worst-conditioned
people in Nottingham, and we scarcely ever experience
anything of the kind. In fact, the water at high-pressure
serves as a police upon the pipe. The cutting off a cock
with the water at high-pressure is rather a difficult matter
to do quietly. 'Knocking-up' is too noisy ; and when a
knife is put into such a pipe and a slit is made, a sharp
flat wide stream issues, very inconvenient to the
erator ; and when the pipe is divided, there is the
full rush of the jet to denounce the th ef. We have lead
pipes all over the town, in the most exposed places and I
can affirm that such an event rarely occurs out of the
houses and never within."

This was the result of experience. One part of the
resolution affirmed that the system of constant supply
would prove economical in a sanatory view. On this
subject he would read another extract from Mr. Hawkes-
ley's evidence. The question is—
" What has been the effect produced on the habits of
the people by the introduction of water into the houses of
the labr'uring classes?"
Mr. Hawkesley replied,
" At Nottingham the increase of personal cleanliness
was at first very marked indeed. It was obvious in the
streets. The medical men reported that the increase of
cleanliness was very great in the houses, and that there
was less disease." _ _

In conclusion, the speaker called attention to the book
from which he had read the extracts, and observed, that
he was. convinced no one could read the work without
being convinced that it was an imperative duty he owed
to the community to use his best endeavours to procure
for this community the best and !Lost abundant supply of
so valuhble a necessary of life. He, therefore, most
sincerely recommended the motion to the meeting. (Loud
cheers.)
Mr. THOMAS MOORE seconded the motion, and, in
doing so, requested the Town-clet k to read several clauses
of the. Dock Act, 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 80, from which
he contended that the Dock Committee had power to
supply the town with a considerable quantity of water
now flowing to waste out of the canal. The canal was
supplied by the river Douglas, and a very great additional
quantity might be obtained from the same source.
(Cheers.) A quantity sufficient to fill Kensington reser.
voir, now in course of completion, and which it would
take seven days to fill by the pipes already laid from
Green-lane. The top water of the Leeds and Liver-
pool canal was upon a level of E.G feet 7 inches above
the old dock sill. This would afford an ample sup.
ply for the flushing of sewers, and the extinguishing of
fires; and if it were not deemed sufficiently pellucid for
culinary purposes, it might be conveyed into reservoirs
and filtered. The water which overflows is originally
derived in part from the river Douglas,—about forty-four
feet above the level of the canal, and that part of it which
is derived from the Lancaster canal is about 300 feet
above the level of the old dock sill. A single inch of the
surface water of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, of which
the first pool is 29 miles in length, would afford an ad-
ditional supply of 33,495,000 gallons, in case of emergency
from fire ; and a still greater supply might be procured by
raising the waste weirs at App!ey, Leathom, Hallsal,
Lydiate, Aintree, Netherton, and Bootle. Th,s the canal
company would be enabled to do, and it was a duty incum-
bent on the Dock Trustees to see that it was carried out. In
fact, the Dock Trustees, without going to Parliament at all
were enabled to effect that important object ; for they were
empowered to make any use they pleased of it, and there
was no such additional supply, that be was aware of,
from any source in the vicinity of the town. Suppose
they had a fire in Liverpool, and wanted a body of water
to extinguish it, they had nothing to do but to take one
inch from the surface of the canal, independent of the
daily waste of nine millions, anal that one inch would
furnish, as he had said bef re, no fewer-than thirty-three
millions of gallons. This waste, which had been
naturally running for seventy years, had perhaps,
only turned an oil mill, or been used for condensing
purposes; and he knew of no Source from which so im-
portant a supply could be had at so reasonable an expense.,
About seven engines, averaging seventy-four horse-power
each, at present supply the whole of Liverpool. Three
engines raised the water for the Bowie Company. These
engines were estimated to rai=e about 1,000,000 gallons
a day for general use. That only supplied a small por-
tion of the town. The Liverpool and Harrington
Company would not state what they produced, hut
he brlieved they raised all that they could. The engine
in Lodge-lane produced 770 gallons per minute. If four
of seventy-for horse-power engines were added to those
already named, there w uld be sufficient drinking water
for the town of Liverpool. But then additional water would
be required for the extinguishing of fires and flushing of
sewers; and if the quantity of water from the canal, of
which he had spoken, were taken into account, it would
tend very much to the benefit of Liverpool. (Applause.)
The resolution was then put from the Chair, and car-
ried unanimously.

Mr. TINNE then read the following letter from Mr.
S. liolme _ _ _

Leamington, 11th April, 1846.
My dear Sir,—On arriving here this evening, from a journey
into Dorsetshire, I found, by letters which met me, that the
Mayor has fixed Monday next for the public meeting, on the
subject of the Water Companies' Bill now before Parliament.
From the arrangements which I had previously made, as well
as others made for me, it will be impossible for me to reach Li-
verpool to take any part in the meeting. To procure for our
town a copious supply of water for all purposes has long been
my wish, and I much fear that such an object can never be
achieved, so long as the supply is in the hands of those who
make a profit by the sale of such a necessary article. Had I
been in Liverpool, I should have deemed it my duty to take
part in the proceedings, and to enter my protest against giving
increased powers and privilegs to those who have evinced so
little sympathy for the wants of the community. The prin-
cipal clauses in the present bill are of such a nature that I am
surprised that they should have been introduced into it; but I
shall be much more surprised if the inhabitants of Liverpool
do not testify, by their disapprobation, and by the most united
and vigorous opposition, their sense of a measure which, if it
ever passes into a law, must aggravate the acknowledged evils
which we are all so anxious to have removed.
Having taken an active part in endeavouring to obtain a bet-
ter supply of water, it may seem strange that I am not present
to aid you on the forthcoming occasion ; and I shall feel much
obliged by your stating to the meeting that absence from home,
and having been without any intelligence for a week, renders it
impossible for me to-reach Liverpool in time for the meeting.
I am, my dear Sir, yours very faithfully,
SAML. lIOLME.
J. A. Tinne, Esq., or Mr. Duncan.

Mr. REAY, Secretary to the Guardian Society, then
rose to propose the next resolution. He commenced by
expressing his regret at the absence of Mr. S. Holme'
who, had he been present, would have relieved him from
a considerable portion of the task he otherwise had to
perform, respecting the position of the Liverpool and
Harrington Water Works Bill, now before Parliament.
After reading the resolution. the speaker proceeded to
give a succinct history of the Water Companies, and their
present -position in the borough. By the 27th George
111., passed in 1786, the Corporation of Liverpool obtained
MI Act for improving the Borough, and supplying the in-
habitants with water. The capital required for the pur-
poses of supplying water was subscribed chit fly by house-
holders, in 400 shares of £2OO each, to which, subse-
quently, £15,324 were added, making the whole capital
X 95,324, or £238 63. 3d. per share. Some time atter
another company was formed, and by the 3d George IV.,
passed in June, 1822, the corporation disposed of their
rights, so far as related to supplying the inhabitants
with water, and the shareholders in the new company
were incorporated by that act under the name or
title of " The Company of Proprietors of the Liverpool
Corporation Water Works," with a capital of X 95,324,
in 400 shares of £238 6s. Bd. each. The act, however,
limited the number of directors t.) nine, three of whom
were to be members of the Town Council. He (Mr.
Reay) deeply regretted that at that time the Corporation
should have parted with their rights—rights which, had
they Erten retained, the ratepayers would have been reap-
ing the benefit of. (Hear, hear.) He found, however,
under that bill that no one could hold more than five'
shares, and each proprietor had only one vote for each
share be held, and the powers of the company were limited
in their operation, and sinking wells, &c., to Liverpool,

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.