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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-05 00:00:00

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FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1843

Sir James Graham lid made the attempt. to remodel
the educational clanstelx:of his proposed factory bill, so
as to meet the objections urged against them by the
dissenting bodies; and, as any rational man might
have predicted, /cas failed. What definite plan could
possibly be devised, to fall in with such a strange mul-
titude of conflicting opinions ? What food could be

made palateable to so infinite a variety of tastes ?
None ;'-and the failure of 'the attempt does not there-
fore disappoint. us, ttitugh, perhaps, we may regret
that it, was ever made. A careful examination, how,-
ever, of the' Modifications proposed does not very ma-
terially alarm us, with respect to the beneficial working
of the Measure, even .in its present shape, though some
of the concessions offered do appear to us to
.be.
marked by a generous liberality, somewhat too exube-
rant, 'towards opponents who have deserved little con-
sideration at our hands. The .diisenting conscience,
has been sought to be gratified somewhat too'lnuch at
the expense of the feelings of the Church-ofrEngland
majority of the people. 'The just claims of the Church
have been shuffled too far into the backgroUnd, whilst
the obtrusive claims of sectarians are broadly acknow-.
ledged ; and especially we demur to the transfer from
the Establishment, of powers offered her by .the ori-
ginal bill, to the privy council. Dissent may be safer
in the hands of the latter body than in the hands of
the clergy of our Established Church ; but we much
question dvhether the religious and moral teaching of
the people is more secure under such control.
As a 'Whole,. howeVer, We repeat, our good opinion
of the measure -is ,not merially weakened ; and
although the alterations made in it have failed in their
object, so far as that object was to conciliate all the
religious or politically religious bodies who were op-
posing it, there is one class of .the religious commu-
nity, who were lately ranked amongst the numbers
of its opponents, upon whom we trust those alterations
will have a conciliating effect, anti whose DUTY, we
feel convinced it is now to devote all their influence to
its support. We refer, of course, to the Wesleyan
If we have understood aright the feeling of
Wesleyans upon the subject of the bill, their most ma-
terial objections were the non-recognition of their own

day schools, as compet'ent to grant certificates to fac-
tory children; the discouragement offered to their
Sunday schools, and some objection to the composition
of the board of trustees. The competency of .such
schools; and of all schools in which scriptural educa-
tion is afforded, is now fully conceded,-as indeed we
always expected 4 Wauld be; and,, where such schools
do not
.exist,., such ;,regulations have been made
in the mode ::h3r7thich dissenting children may

receive instruction from their own pastors in their

own peculiar tenets, as must materially weaken their
disinclination to enter the government schools. With
respect to the cttendance of children of dissenting pa-
rents at the Sunday schools of their. own persuasion, a
similar concession has beenmadepuilied indeed to
an extreme length which, it appears to us, was quite
uncalled for. Such dissenting Sunday schools are
not only permitted to receive the chifdren of dissenting
parents, attending government schools in the week
day; but, by a stretch of liberality on the part of Sir
James Graham, are permitted to receive, as‘well, the
children of Church-of-England parents, thus enjoying
opportunities for Proselytising which are sedulously de-
nied to the Church herself !
And then, with respect to.. the constitution of the,
boards of trustees, how .can Wesleyans—who are not,
like the rancorous' political religiOnists, the vowed
enemies of the establishment and her doctrines—en.
tertain now any very important objection ? . True, the
Church of England trustees will always be the prepon-
derating body ; but a " liberal" member of the Church
is not such. a " rara avis in terris" that Wesleyans
ought to fear having fair play. Two members at the
board dissenters will always have. A third, in many
districts they will acquire by the privilege of election
given to donors or yearly subscribers to the school
funds. And, of the remaining two, elee,Vd by the
majority or the minority of the ratepayers, we much
doubt that one, even, will be:the intolei ant Churchman,
whose character has formed the bugbear with which
many of our Wesleyan brethren have been frighted
from their. propriety. The feelings with which the
present system of education in our own Corporation
Schools is regarded by the Wesleyan body—the per-
fect harmony with his Church-of-England colleagues
with which a member of that body at present sits upon
the Education Committee, and aids in directing the
operation of a system similar to that provided for by
the government measure—encourage us in the hope
that, every reasonable objection having now been met,
and with the conviction before them that, if this mea-
sure he permitted to fall to the ground, no measure of
education can be hoped for, the Wesleyan party will at
once disconnect themselves from the violent and fac-
tious of other denominations of dissent, and contribute
their powerful support to government on this question.
There is, by the bye, one other objection to the bill
which may have weighed with some Wesleyans, and
was alluded-to as a grievance by LOrd-Jofin
It maybe urged that a master of the'school should not
be required to he a member of the National Church.
It may be thought hard that trained teachers, bicause
'dissenters, should be debarred from accepting what
may be advantageous situations. •But the complaint.
after all, is'no greater, or newer, than that a dissenter
should not be permitted to occupy the professorship
of one of our universities ; and we rather suspect that
the Wesleyan body would not, in practice, approve of
the contrary principle. It must, if extended to any
sect, be extended to all. If a Wesleyan, or an Inde-
pendent, be declared eligible for an office, in which
religious teaching is one Of the duties, how can we
exclude the Non-Trinitarian ? Why not a Socinian ?
Where draw the line of prohibition--for some such
line there must be, unless we admit that the doctrines
of revelation can be safely propounded by the lips of
infidelity itself ? On reflection, we are satisfied the
Wesleyan, body will see the difficulty of the subject,

however plausible it may be at first sight; and rather

consent to the government plan, with respect to

teachers, than commit their children to the danger of
hearing the sacred truths of the Bible deformed by

fling interpretation of unbeliever

From all the indications which surround us, the war
of the political dissenters against the hill, as amended,
is to be pressed forward with all the virulence by
which it has hitherto been characterised ; and so san-

guine are they of success, that they are already pro-
phecying its withdrawal by government, and singing
Io Pceans over their anticipated defeat of the Church,
and their successful effort to stay the progress of the
religious and moral enlightenment of the people.
Shall such a consummation be accomplished ? We
appeal to Churchmen, and to the `Wesleyan body of
dissenters, wliether they are prepared to permit such a

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triumph of darkness over the light of truth--a triumph
so fatal to the well-being and happiness of mankind.
We trust that they are not so prepared ; and, earnestly
and affectionately, we implore of both to take those
st
rte
prompt and vigorous steps which, if taken at once, and
poured
work which, at
n
taken firmly, will render it impossible for any govern-
' mwietnhtdraawnd
the last hour, they have commenced. Let the remon-
emostr hand
oa fn
dfromall
people
Conservativegreat
in government,
to e
n h to
stranees of a resolved
the position of that government; and we may yet
laugh to scorn the hostile efforts of our opponents I
Let those remonstrances be withheld; and for what
a-crime will this Christian community have to answer
at the bar of heaven!

If the farmers of Great Britain were bent upon de-
livering up to the tender mercies of the
ultra
it would be impossible to fre th-termadseel‘ party,
r ty,
con-
ceive a more effectual plan than the indulgence of that
rancorous: feeling, entertained
b
the present gtoo move any of them,
rnment. For
against the members of
possibility of their weaken-
suppose, for a moment,
ing, by any instrumentality, the hands of Sir Robert
Peel. Suppose it in their power to drive that man,
who has reared up the Conservative party, and been
for years the prop and stay of constitutional principles
in this country, to resign in disgust his responsible
position. Suppose the breaking up, by the influence
of the agricultural body, of the present administration ;
where would they look for the materials of an admi-
nistration to succeed it, and to support their absurdly-
exaggerated views of agricultural protection ? The
effort would be a hopeless impossibility. A Stanhope
or a Buckingham administration could not withstand
for three days the force of public opinion upon the
subject of a fair development for the national industry;
and, as the result of the overthrow of the Peel admi-
nistration, they would have a government which would
at once rush to the extreme length of ultra free trade—
to the abandonment of 411 protection to the national
industry and the national revenue—and plunge at
once the commerce, the manufactures, the finances,
the colonial and agricultural interest of the country,
into a condition of hopeless and irretrievable ruin.
Do the agricultural community imagine that it is
possible, now, for the people of this great country—
embarked, as they are, in manufacturing and com-
mercial pursuits—dependent, as are the masses, upon
the prosperity of those pursuits—dependent as is the
very peace Of the country upon the continuance of the
means of employment of those masses,—to arrest the
gradual progress of that forward march, in which
every nation of the globe is at this moment involved ?
Difficult as it is to discern to which bourne that march
will bring us,—difficult as it is to discern by what
agency it proposes to increase the sum of human hap-
piness—there can certainly be • little doubt, now, that
to stay its course is no longer within the bounds of pos-
sibility, and as little that no individual class or interest
can safely be permitted to lay in its rear and impede its
motion. When every other class of the community is
competing for existence with its fellow class ; when
manual labour is competing with the labour of the
machine;, when the noblest intellectual faculties of
.man are racked daily to the uttermost, to enable their
possessor to sustain himself in the struggle with the
giant power of modern days—the universal leveller—
CA PITA L ; can the agricultural class, alone, claim, with
any show of fairness and consistency, to be exempt
from the general lot? We submit that they cannot;
and we maintain further, that those are false friends of
the agricultural body who instil into the minds of the
farmers of Great Britain a notion so preposterous and
dangerous to their best interests.
The agricultural body must, of necessity, look for-
ward to the arrival of a period—progressively we trust
—at which they must be content to depend more upon
their own energies, their own skill, the outlay of capital
in improved modes of cultivation, and upon improved
means of internal cultivation, than upon any mere
legislative protection. By these appliances the produc-
tion of our own soil may possibly become, in average
seasons, sufficient for the wants of even an increased
population. When this consummation shall have been
achieved—and it is no distant possibility—the neces-
sity of protective laws wiil be little felt; and, year after
year, as we approach that consummation, the need for
such laws will decrease. In the mean time, however,
whilst agricultural science is putting forth its energies,
the wants of the consumer must be.fed ; and that at a
reasonable rate. We claim no undue sacrifices from
the agriculturists, but merely a submission to the
imperative circumstances of the times in which they
are thrown. They must progress with the times, and
share the competition with external producers to which
every other branch of industry is gradually being sub-
mitted.. Often as we have raised our voice against the
course of virtual confiscation, to which some politicians
would gladly consign them, we claim confidence in our
perfect sincerity, when we assure our agricultural
friends that their position, and the position of the
country, is no longer one in which they can choose
their policy, and say " stand still," when imperious
necessity bids them " go on."
With what reason, then, is this pettish jealousy of
Sir Robert Peel's government manifested ? With what
truth are the clamours of country meetings raised
against imputed " breaches of faith," on the part
of that statesman and his supporters ? Never,
that we are aware of, did Sir Robert promise the
maintenance of prohibitory laws, or even of a sliding
scale, which, at one moment, was prohibitory, and, in
the next, deluged the country with duty-free foreign
produce. .Sir Robert Peel promised justice and fair
protection to native industry. Upon these principles
the measure which he brought forward was based; and
although, during its operation we have had low prices
—(which, by the bye, we have had under the operation
of the law which it superseded)—the agriculturists are
certainly not justified in imputing want of faith to the
Government of their choice, until they can shew, be-
yond the shadow of a doubt, that such were its
foreseen consequences, or were, at all, its consequences.
We believe that neither alternative can be demonstrated.
Neither Sir Robert Peel, nor any other member of his
administration or party, ever anticipated as its result a
state of the market such as the present; and unless
aided by extrinsic circumstances—the farmers' own
fears not the least powerful—we do not believe that
such a state could have been brought about under its
operation.

It is quite possible, and very probable too, that the
average price anticipated to be produced by it may
have been calculated somewhat higher than will result
But is this not, we ask, to be attributed,
in part, to the stimulated energies of the farmers them-
selves, and to the favouring weather which they have
had for agricultural operations ? One-third greater
breadth of wheat is said to be now in the ground tban
in average years; and I 1 -Witch circumstances,
we have continued cheapness, surely the law is not to
be blamed. Farmers ought to remember, too, that
their commodity is not the only one depreciated in
price. Within the last ten years the money value of
every article which enters into a farmer's consumption
has immensely decreased ; and we believe at this
moment, with the existing low prices, a quarter of
corn, a bullock, or a sheep, would exchange for quite
as great a quantity of the necessities of life as during
what was considered the heyday of agricultural

in practice

prosperity.
However this may be, there can be no doubt that
every effort of the agricultural body to injure the
reputation of Sir Robert Peel's Government it, a blow
struck at their own interests. The unconcealed satis-
faction, with which the Anti-Corn-Law League regards
the attacks levelled by country gentlemen at that Go-
vernment, ought to be conclusive as to their tendency.
In his hands, and in
his only, the progress of agri-
cultural industry towards that unaided competition
with the foreign grown, which " Liberalism " con-
templates with such exuberant glee, will be of that
gradual character which it may, perhaps, prove itself
able to endure with little detriment to its solid pro-
sperity; whilst inothers, we may be destined to see it,
after a brief andhopeless struagle, consigned St length
to a position amongst the bubbling elements which fill
the caldron of modern theoretical innovation. " Quern
Dells vult. perdere, prius. deinentat." Let country
gentlemen lay to their hearts the application!

PiO2,L

We have studiously avoided any reference to the
position, occupied by a certain party in the church,
with respect to the proposed government measure of
education ; nor should we. have noticed it now, hut for
the unmistakeabi e manner in which its organs have at

length thrown off the mask, which has hitherto con.

cealed their real feelings. There can be no question
how much of the opposition, with which the bill of Sir
James Graham has been met, is attributable to the
jealousy with which the peculiar doctrines of that party
are viewed by the greAt Mass of the people. Under

these circumstances, what should have been the course

of men, professedly ardent in the cause of education,
and in the spread of Church of England principles ?

Should it not have been an anxious solicitude for the
success of a measure, by which a large amount of edu-
cational destitution is removed, and a large sphere of
usefulness opened, for the first time, to that church ?
And yet how contrary has been their course ! We
have seen a restless stickling for the recognition of the
church's supremacy in the administration of education ;
but nowhere a manifestation of zeal for the promotion
of education itself, even in its best form. We have
been met with querulous complaints of slights offered
to the church ; of poWers withheld, and asserted rights
not recognised with sufficient obtrusiveness. We have
seen a cold-shouldered inactivity, at a time
.when dis-
sent was vigorously. •engaged in the effort to snatch
from the church the admitted modicum of advantage
offered her ; but nowhere have we seen, in the conduct
of the party in question, a disposition, the most faint,
to embrace that advantage, or to afford aid to the
Government by whom it was tendered.
Such has been the course of the party until the last
few days ; but such is its course longer. The af-
fected indifference, by which it has been characterized,
is now laid aside—now, when it is becoming too certain
that, without some powerful effort of the Church the
attempt to educate the people, by any other than vo-
luntaryism, is hopeless—and in its stead we are met
with sneers at the impracticability of any national mea-
sure, and, almost a suggestion of the abandonment of
the proposed bill as impracticable and quixotic. The
Morning Post, a somewhat indiscreet organ of the par-
ty, repudiates the bill in toto. The Times ridicules its
provisions; and whilst acknowledging the impossibilty
of refusing some toleration to other religious bodies,
and acknowledging as well, the innocuous character of
the concessions made by Sir James Graham, arrives at
the conclusion, very intelligibly hinted, that the time has
not arrived for the " modified system of money being
permitted to undertake the proselytizing of the people"
and that, therefore, the question of a national system
of education may be postponed ! The attempt to in-
duce the entire community to look with favour upon
teaching, is as yet not ripe for success ; and, therefore,.
the awful destitution of relighius teaching, which has
so recently been brought into prominent notice, is to
be left uncared for !
As lovers of our National Church, anxious—more
anxious than any member of the party to which we
have alluded—for the acknowledgement of her pure
doctrines and the spread of her usefulness-, we cannot
but deplore the infatuation,which, thus stickling for
the shadow—for the formation—of that church, loses
sight of the substance, which is the spread of vital
religion amongst the people. Much as we are disposed
to
.deprecate unworthy concessions to dissenting cla-
mour—much as we deprecate the yielding up of an
iota of the church's rights, we must deprecate infinitely
more that pettish stiff-neckedness, which, because it
cannot realize all its visions of authoritative rule, would
sacrifice the power of Christian usefulness which is
placed fairly and honourably within its reach. Her
legitimate position as the instructress of the people we
claim for the church. We long to behold the day
when that position shall be universally acknowledged.
But we cannot view that, as a feeling worthy of a
Christian Church, which, under any circumstances,
declares, in effect, that millions shall be left to crawl in
darkness from the cradle to miserable graves.
Henceforth let Oxford cease to proclaim her supe-
rior pretensions to regard for the interests of the
Church—we use the word in its broad significance—
the Church of Christ—that Church whose Founder
left upon his true followers the impressive injunction--
" Suffer little children to come unto me." Truly, were
she tried by the conduct of her members upon this
luestion, she would be found sorely and lamentably

wanting !

The following extract from a letter recently received
in this town, from a gentleman now resident in
Switzerland, is an unanswerable reply to the absurd
theories of the anti-corn-law philosophers, who so
confidently assert that in countries where there are no
corn-laws, the price of bread is considerably reduced
beyond the price at which it is obtainable here.

Berne, 24th March, 1843

Surely it is discontent which calls for repeal of the Corn
Laws, or else it is a vain fancy, for we have scarcely any duty
on corn, and that a fixed one; yet bread is just as dear with
us, if not dearer, for the best bread is 2d. per lb., whilst
yours you say is only I ; the lowest, indeed, only lid. per
lb., but the value of money is much greater with us, and no
one complains. The Corn Laws in England are the scape
goat of rebellion, and woe to them who make people believe
that their misery has its source,there.

LOCAL. NEWS.

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTIONT.—SOIIIC lectures, illustrated
by models, &c., are about to take place at the Music-hall,
which may be expected to be of an interesting character.
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THE 11TH HUSSARS.—Two troops of the 11th Hussars
arrived in this town on Tuesday from York. They are under
the command of Lord Cardigan, who was domiciled during
the short stay of the regiment here at the Adelphi Hotel.
The troops embarked on Wednesday for Dublin.

ST. DAVID'S CHURCH, LIVERPOOL.—On Wednesday,
the 3rd instant, the trustees of St. David's Church met pur-
suant to notice, to elect a minister to fill up the existing va-
cancy of that church, when their unanimous choice fell on
the Rev. Benjamin Morgan, curate of Aberystwyth, who, it
is expected, will forthwith proceed to Liverpool to discharge
the duty of his important benefice.
MODERATION !—A beerseller, for infringing the law a
Tranmere, and a publican for the same offence, were yester-
day fined at the Birkenhead Police-court, the former ss. and
the latter 10s. Contrast this with what occurs at our Police-
court every Friday ; and yet the beershops and public-houses
in that district are quite as orderly, if not more so, than in
any other part of the country—proving that severity is not
always the best mode of securing obedienc to the law.

PORT OF MANCHESTER.-It appears that a party from
Manchester were in Liverpool on Friday last ascertainging
the requisite fittings for a bonded warehouse, and that in the
present week a deputation from the Manchester Town Coun.
cil are to wait on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to mature
their scheme. Although the Lords of the Treasury have
power to declare Manchester a port without going to Parlia-
ment, yet an act must be, in this case, obtained to raise the
local funds to pay for the establishment.

THE STONE FOR THE ASSIZE COURTS.—TiIe stone to be
used in building the New Assize Courts is to be brought from
a quarry in Darley Dale, Derbyshire. The workmen in the
quarry from which the stone will be obtained, have recently
discovered in it another of those caverns for which Derby-
shire is already noted. The following is extracted from the
Derby Courier of the 22d ult. :—" Last week, while some
men were at work in the quarry of A. H. Heathcote, Esq.,
at Stonecliff Firs, Darley Dale, they discovered the mouth
of a cave, which, on being entered, proved to be one of the
most wonderful, discoveries ever made in a quarry of that
sort, and satisfied every inquirer of the great abundance of
the stone of which it is formed. The cavern is easy of ac-
cess, being entered by three different landings, and extends
to the depth of 81 feet. The bottom is of the same valuable
stone of which the sides are composed, in rocks of the great-
est size. On one side is a rock 60 feet in length, 33 feet
high, and of a breadth we could not ascertain. The whole
quarry is esteemed by all that have seen it to be one of the
most wonderful productions of nature. For largeness of
blocks, superiority of quality, the colour of the stone, and
its extraordinary durability against all kinds of weather, it
bids fair to stand superior to all other gritstone in the king-
dom; and also to be productive of much employment for the
working class in this part of the country, for whose interest
and comfort the worthy proprietor has always shown himself
solicitous. Mr, J. Vickers, jun., Darley Dale, is in posses-
sion of some samples brought from the bottom of the cavern,
which prove that there is not the slightest difference in the
quality and texture of the stone, which extends throughout
a compass of at least 20 acres!"
BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS•—At the usual monthly
meeting of this Board, held on Tuesday evening last, the
following gentlemen were present :—Messrs. J. D. Case,
(chairman,) J. R. Pim, Alex. Kerr, D. Appleton, T. Gil-
bertson, C. Bentham„lohn Laird, Daniel M'Nichol, Wm.
Romer, C. A. Watson, Samuel Stansfield, Wm. Cole, J. S.
Jackson, and J. H. Greene. The Watching and Lighting
Committee's proceedings, including the appointment of five
persons as special constables on the Sunday, were read and
confirmed without observation, as were also the proceedings
of the Road Committee. The Market Committee recom-
mended that the market-looker should be appointed inspec-
tor of slaughter-houses, under the act, and the Board
adopted the recommendation. The Ferry Committee re-
ported that the profits of the ferry were steadily increasing,
notwithstanding the unfavourable weather, and they requested
the sanction of the Board to allow them to have a new boat
built. Mr. J. S. Jackson, the chairman of this committee,
showed the necessity there was for providing a new boat, in
consequence of the increase of the business, and after the
chairman and several other members of the Board had ex-
pressed their entire confidence in the Ferry Committee, a
new boat was ordered to be provided. The annual statement
of the accounts of the treasurer was read and approved.
The receipts of the township, during the year, were
£-13,583175. 31d. ; the expenses, £43,232 16s. 6d., leaving a
balance of cash in hand of £353 18s. 91d. The property of
the township vested in the commissioners, including the
cash in hand, is £94,617 18s., whilst the liabilities are only
£90,566 17s. 51d., leaving a balance to the credit of the
township of £4051 Os. 61d. A letter from Mr. Henry Cole
was referred to the next meeting. On the motion of Mr. J.
S. Jackson, the Road Committee were authorised to meet
the sub-committee of the Finance Committee, with regard
to the continuation of Conway-street, and the Corporation
road. It was stated that Mr. Mallaby had just returned
from London—that the Improvement Bill had received the
Royal assent, and that the Cemetery Bill had passed the
committee, and would be read a third time that night. The
Board then adjourned till Tuesday week, when it will meet
to give directions to• the Finance Committee to complete the
contracts wider the new bill.

COMMITMENT.,-.At tl a Police-court, yesterday, a7servant
woman, named Cain, was committed for trial for stealing a
watch and pledging it, from a house in which she had lived

for six months

ROYAL ASSENIBLY-ROOMS.—Mr. and Mrs. Raymond,
Mrs. Waylett, and Mr. A. Lee, have been delighting select
and fashionable audiences at the above rooms during the

This evening is the last of the entertainment. As a
long-esteemed and talented resident of this town, Mr. Ray-
mond ought to be liberally patronised.

HIGHWAY ROBIIEGY

,—At the Birkenhead Police-court,

yesterday, Joseph Forshaw and Thomas Rodgers were corn-
mitted for trial on a charge of robbing George Cooper of his
watch on the highway at Raby, on Sunday night, the 26th of
February. On the application of Mr. Cudlipp, solicitor, the

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magistrates agreed to take bail for their appearance.
BOTANIC GARDENS.—The first of the Horticultural
exhibitions for the season, takes place in the Botanic Gardens

this day, when, we hope, that such support may be given to
the institution as to jtstify the Committee in making further
efforts to secure its pirmaneuce. The weather promises to
be beautiful, and the quality' of the exhibition is anticipated
to be of the first order,' so that there will be every requisite
to attend a numerous assembly. It will assuredly be a re-

flection upon the character of Liverpool if these gardens are
suffered to decay for want of support.
IMPUDENT THEFT FROM A SHOP.—A. man named Wm.
Taylor was yesterday placed at the bar of the Police-court,
on a charge of stealing a pair of boots and a pair of shoes
from a shop at the corner of Islington and Clare-street. It
appeared that he had walked deliberately into the shop, seized
the articles, and made off with them. The alarm was given,
and he was pursued along St. Anne-street by a police-officer,
and caught while endeavouring to get over the wall of a
timber-yard. He had dropped one of the boots on the
ground, and the other and the shoes were found upon him.
He was committed for trial.

ANCIENT ORDER OF FORRESTERS.—The anniversary of
Court " Pride of England," No. 1016, was celebrated on

Tuesday evening last, when the members sat down to a 'splen-
supper which was provided by their worthy hostess, Mrs.
Langley. After the cloth had been removed, the Chairman
prtsented (on behalf of the Court) a most elegant Star medal
to P.C.R. Thomas O'Mally as a token of respect for his very
efficient services during the time he presided over the Court.
The song and toast went round to a late hour, and the com-
pany retired highly gratified with the proceedings of the
evening.

CHARGE OF ARSON.—Yesterday, John Smith, a stone-
mason, residing at Liscard, was charged, at the Birkenhead
Police-court, with setting fire to his house on the previous
evening. It appeared that the prisoner had been indulging
rather too freely, and, on his ''return home, quarrelled with
his wife, beat her, and then attempted to burn his furniture,
which would no doubt have caused the destruction of the
house, had it not been for the interference of the neighbours.
It appeared, however, that in consequence of some injury
the prisoner had received to his head, he lost the control of
his senses when under the influence of liquor; and in order
to make some inquiries, he was remanded for a day.
CHINESE EXHIBITION AT THE PORTICO.—There is at
present open at the Portico a very interesting and well se-
lected museum of Chinese curiosities. The objects consist
of implements of husbandry and warfare, dresses, specimens
of carvings, laces, silk, drawings, &c. There is a curious
model of the car of Juggernauth. As illustrative of the
habits and customs of the Celestials, this museum is well
worthy of a visit. Children oug,lit, by all means, to be taken
to see this collection as bcing likely to convey to their minds
useful information. There are some beautiful dissolving
views to be seen at two o'clock and eight in the evening.
This museum requires only to be known to be extensively
patronised.

STEALING ToßAcco--A boy, named John Dockery, was
yesterday brought up at the Pollee-court, on a charge of
stealing 21bs. of tobacco from the shop of Mr. John Crewe,
Scotland-road. The prisoner was distinctly sworn to by the
complainant ; but two females, his friends, Cecilia Wallace
and Nabina Hanley, attempted an alibi, but failed from a dis-
crepancy in their accounts. The prisoner was committed for
trial. Shortly afterwards the two women were brought hack
into court, and charged with having threatened the com-
plainant for appearing as a witness against the boy. The case
being proved, they were each required to find bail, them-
selves in £2O, and two sureties in £lO each, and, in default,
were ordered to be imprisoned for 14 days.
INQUESTS.—On Tuesday, on view of the body of William
Fitzsimmons, a child of four years old. Deceased, who lived
with his parents in New Bird-street, was left with another
child, about a fortnight ago, and his clothes taking fire, he
was so severely burnt that he died on Sunday last. Verdict,
Died from the burping, but how caused no evidence."—
Same day, on view of the body of Henry Boardman, a child
of two years old, who lived in Lambert-street. On Sunday
the deceased was so severely scalded by a dish of hot broth
that fell upon him, that he died on Monday night. Verdict,
" Accidental death."—Same day, on view of the body of
James Smith, aged 76. On the 12th ult. the deceased,
while in Netherfield-road North, was accidentally knocked
down by a horse, and received a fracture of the left leg and
elbow, of which he died on the 29th. Verdict " Acciden-
tally killed." ,

A CHEAP TENEMENT—A Mrs. Owen was yesterday pro-
ceeded against in the Police-court under the small tenement
act, with a view to her being ejected from a good cottage-
house in Mary's-place, Gildart's-gardens, Maguire-street.
It appeared that the house had been taken by her from a
Mrs. Pritchard, her relation, at the weekly rent of 3d.—
though the defendant contended that no agreement for the
payment of rent was ever made. It appeared, however, that
she had once paid 2d. a week, and on three other occasions
3d. at a time—the whole, for weekly rent, amounting to 11d.
over a space of five whole years; and this being considered
proof of tenancy, she was required to quit—the notices hav-
ing been duly served—in 21 days. She complained of this
decision as unfair; but Mr. Rushton said she certainly had a
kind landlady ;—he wished his landlady were equally reason-
able and considerate !

• •
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY !FROM A TAVERN.—At the
Police-court, yesterday, three suspicious-looking fellows—
James Lee, James Smith,. and. Henry Francis—(supposed to
belong to the Birmingham society of thieves), were charged
with attempting to steal a quantity of money, on Tuesday
last, from the house of Mr. Owen, the Shakspere Tavern,
Williamson-square. It appeared they had gone to the house
several times on Tuesday last, and on two.occasions got
change for a sovereign, the change being taken from a chest,
where the money was kept, in the lobby. On their calling
in again in the evening, it was found that the closet had been
forced open, also a work-box inside of it, and that no one
else was pear it. They had, however, missed the money,
which was lying under some papers. about a foot from the
box. They were apprehended, and on one of them was
found upwards of XS, and on the others considerable sums,
which they could scarcely have came honestly by. It is sup-
posed they were connected with a recent robbing in the town.
They were all committed for trial at the sessions.
A MAN FOUND DEAD ON SHIPBOARD.—ArI inquest was
held on Wednesday, before Mr. Currie, on view of the body
of a man named John Duke. The deceased, who was about
60 years of age, was ship-keeper of the brig George, lying in
the King's Dock. On Wednesday morning, John White,
the carpenter of the vessel,• on going on board to his work,'
had occasion to go between decks for his tools, and, on open-
ing the scuttle of the after hatchway, saw the deceased lying
at the bottom of the hold, just under the hatchway, and a
quantity of blood about him. A• police-officer was called,
and deceased was found to be quite dead. All the hatches
of the upper deck were closed, and he must have gone
through the cabin to get between • decks, where the hatches
were all open. The body was taken to the dead-house. Mr.
Wood, surgeon, made a past • 7norteln- examination, and
found an extensive fracture of the skull, which was the cause
of death, and was probably caused• by a• fall: The jury re-
turned a verdict to the effect, that the deceased was found
dead from a fracture of the skull, but how received there was
no evidence to show.

A MAN NEARLY EILLEH BY THE FALLING OF A BALE
or COTTON.—At the Police-court yesterday., a' man 'named
John Hilton, a labourer, was placed before Mr. Rushton, on
a charge of having, by his careless conduct, nearly caused the
death of a man of the name of Robert Wilkinson. It ap-
peared that at about 11 o'clock yesterday forenoon, Wilkin-
son, a butcher in the employ of Mr. Ethill, of Oldhall-
street, was passing along Launcelot's-hey, in front of the
warehouse known as Davies's, when a hale of cotton fell
upon him from the first floor, and crushed him to the ground.
He was taken up apparently in a lifeless state, and conveyed
to the Northern Hospital ; but after surgical assistance he
revived, and it is hoped is not dangerously injured, though
he was unable to appear in court. The bale, it appea view was thrown out of the warehouse into the street, with a ied,w
to its being put in cellar with some others of a similar mark.
The prisoner said he could not deny the fact; but that he
had, previous to throwing it out, asked a companion if the
street was clear, and being replied to in the affirmative, did
did not think any one was below. He was required to find
bail to appear, if called upon, hinuelf in £4O, and two secu-
rities in £2O each.
MERCHANT SEAMENS' FIIND.—A petition:to parliament
is now in course of signature in this town, by the sea-faring
portion of the community, complaining of the distribution of
this fund. The following are the principal clauses of the
petition :—" Your petitioners beg to direct your attention to
the 2nd section of the Act, whereby it is provided that the
widows and children of such seamen only as shall have con-
tributed to the fund for the space of twenty-one years, and
shall die a natural death, shall be entitled to relief; and they
beg to suggest, that a much shorter period might be adopted
with great advantage to the families of deceased contributors,
and without pressing too hard upon the funds of the Corpor-
ation. That your petitioners are of opinion, that the present
unlimited power of the trustees, in receiving and applying the
funds, is prejudicial to the true interests of seamen and their
families ; and it can be shown that such power has been fre-
quently exercised with great partiality, whereby persons have
received relief who had no right thereto, and other just
claimants have been neglected. And your petitioners hum-
bly represent, that as they cheerfully contribute the funds,
they ought, in justice, to have a voice in the election of those
persons by whom these funds are to be distributed ; and that
a report of the income and expenditure, with all the partic-
ulars thereof detailed, should be printed and distributed
annually. Your petitioners beg to represent, that the mode
of obtaining the certificates necessary to entitle claimants to
relief from the fund prescribed by the said Act, imposes a
great and unnecessary trouble and delay, amounting in a
great many instances to a prohibition of the benefits of 'the
fund.; and, they would humbly pray, that some more simple
method may be adopted, by which the said trouble and delay
may be avoided, and the fund at the same time be protected
against imposition. That your petitioners are of opinion,
that a more liberal allowance should be made from the funds
to shipwrecked and destitute Seamen, to enable them to
reach their homes. your petitioners beg to point out what
they consider a peculiar hardship, namely, that if a seaman
be drowned whilst serving on boartLa foreign, or even a colo-
nial ship, his widow and orphans lcise all claim on the funds,
through such sailor may have contributed largely thereto
and never before sailed in other than British bottoms."
THE FuNDS.—WEDNESDAY EVENING.—It seems now to
be generally admitted that the offer to settle the last dividend
on Mexican stock by a third of the amount in money and the
remainder in stock ar par, has proved a complete failure, and
that the holders will uaturally prefer retaining their coupons
and the entire claim which they represent to the relinquish-
ment without consideration of more than a third of a claim,
which would of course take place if they effected a stock at
par which is worth less than a third of its nominal value in
the market. But even this is a more favourable version of
the projected operation than is given on the Stock Exchange
where it is considered that the sacrifice would be equal to two
thirds of the claim, on account of the great uncertainty
which prevails as to whether the new stock when issued
would be marketable. The Committee of the Stock •Ex-
change, have as yet pronounced no opinion on the subject;
but from their known dislike to defaults on the part of Go.
vernments, it is thought highly probable tklineyitwsilal not allow
the new stock to be marked should it
nt
(hi
ee
rr
se t
nis n
dn on on ct ssi
lteomdtajavki
de e
na rat ya psspuycelti
bper?een..
caution,A s
esowi et
vi
es
ur
deem • bl
me
claimed, and the holders are waiting either forricamplreasaytstonneenitinihtoii.i.
iteteake the matter into consideration.
Afullmoereftoinrgsonmf ethperonnpinosnition that they
itmienyishcaAn
ders is already convened to
altetoict-ohdeaoyftn:nearly one guar-
at market te presented emn toerde
bTuhseinEesnsgtiriashnssaccctuedrt,ieasndwoenre
Consols, several good purchases
ter per cent. occurred ti,ilbenetwatedhrvo
a much firmer appearance.
tion for money was 961 to
tc;
181 ; Three per cents reduced.
having been made for privattenniiivdets.ntrmtehneta.nenTuhnetil6nialbtryontras-.
Bank Stock left off at 180 to
Reduced,Ln ;bong
lin,
&to.
56, to 267 ; India Bonds, 755. to 775.
N9s4vt to
r; e Te
.harnede:na n.
Three
-and
- 1p e
Annui-
ties, 12f ; India Stock 2
t 67s pm, for the 3d issue, and
655 0 •
pm. ; Exchequer-bills, CPeerntsCe.,lso.2
675, to 695, pm, for the lid issue.

_ •
POSSESSION OP STOLEN GOODS.—At the police court eri
Tuesday Catharine Williams was placed at the bar, charge_;
with having been concerned in robbing the premises, formel
in She lie,
in the occupation of Mr. Ball and Mr. Dawson,
street, Everton. Rebecca Stringer was also plactAl at
bar, but she was subsequently made a witness. It aPPear,e_ s
that on the night of the 21st December last, .the PrerTac,
above-mentioned were broken into shortly after seven o'
e.___
the 'members of the two families who occupied them being
out -at the time. About £l4 worth of apparel
articles were stolen. Information was given to the
night,
but the property was not discovered. On Monday
Mrs. Ball was passing along Bevington-bush, she sa4-ch
woman, named Mary Ann Edmondson, carrying child
had on a little coat that belonged to one of Mr. Dawson
children, which coathad been stolen on the night of the 21st.
of December. She stated this to the woman, Who told
er
that she had purchased the coat from Rebecca Stringer. nt
inspector of the district was informed of this,_ and he wen;
and took the poor woman, Stringer, into custody. It turned
out that she had purchased the coat for her baby from he
prisoner, Catharine Williams, and had afterwards sold it to
dpolice,
Edniundson to enable her to buy food. The poor oan.
Stringer, was greatly distressed. She trembled violent'?;
and appeared scarcely able to support herself. She Noes_
taken from the bar td the witness-box, and her evidence 5v,...
taken against Williams. The latter having
nailing to noel
in her defence, was co4imitted for trial.
HARRINGTON.Docx.—The report of the company, 52b-
mitted to the shareholders at their seventh annual meeting?
recently held, shows that the prospects of this important
undertaking continue to improve. The rental for the Pas,
year, including dock dues, has considerably exceeded that of
any previous year, amounting to £3,847 10s. 4d. And and
reference to the real value of the company's property, en"
the probable future receipts, this may be taken as a low stan-
dard. We brought under notice some time ago the extensive
arrangements which were being made by Messrs. Todd Nat
r and Co., and others, upon a portion of the comPkoi
estate, for the importation and crushing of copper ,ire.
Though the necessary works for this purpose are advancingt
rapidly towards completion, the business itself has as iet,
scarcely commenced, and consequently the whole of the 'erg
amount expected to be realised from this source in the shag
of dock dues is in reserve, to swell the income of the proP
etors in coming years. We learn likewise that the agents
the North American line of steam-packets have lately taken
a lease of land and water space from the company
purposes of that establishment. This is another imPortan
circumstance, which cannot fail greatly to enhance the value
of the property, as well as -to draw attention to the OW:
tages which it presents in a commercial point of view ; 01'
the least among which is the moderate charge for insurance,
compared with that which it has been found necessary, t°
establish at the north end of the town. These are gratifYng
facts, not only as regards the interests of the companY, but
also as regards the interests of the town, which are Close
identified with the success of every project for affording ad-
ditional dock accommodation.
• • for thet

DESTRUCTIVE ..FIRE AT " 'DOC°

WAREHOUSES."

. • Are WO
Yesterday afternoon, about a quarter past three, o---,Thice
observed in the fine pile of warehouses known as " the `roe
of Bridgewater's," (now in possession of the trustees 0. ad
late nobleman,) and situated between the Duke's Dock 8 of
the north end of the King's Dock. The range consists. g
one continuous and handsome pile of 10 warehouses, runniti,
east and west, and with frontage both to the north and son.,
with two bridges under the two centre ones for the e"" the
ence of discharging flats and barges that arrive from
interior of the country by the Duke's Canal, and from
corn by the Mersey, in the small but convenient dock-- r'36
Duke's"—immediately adjacent to the premises; and,:: are
company are extensive carriers by water, the r°°`-- de-
generally filled with valuable goods awaiting transit or
eat:
livery. They are six stories in height from the ground* a.t,
the two centre warehouses are elevated higher than the: e'
by a pediment to each fr.
The fire broke out inont the third warehouse from the ees!
end of the range, and the flames were first seen to issue itt:A'
manner that threatened the whole, from the south doors 11. n
windows of the fifth story. They soon afterwards spread Oss tins;
opposite frontage, and to the upper or sixth story of the Aalled
warehouse, and to the roof. The three top rooms were "tad)
with cotton, amongst which (probably in the room „eds
the fire originated—but from what cause is not yet exPho".rt
In a very short time (about half an hour) the greaterliF; a
of the roof fell in:, and immense and alarming bodies,°ctnsly
rose tip through the apperture. The alarm was 'ins,:ser-
conveyed to the Fire Station and several engines and "were
carts, and a strong body of the fire and ordinary police,
very
despatched With all possible speed to the spot. In a•
tied
short time there were thirteen or fourteen enginei statme
of
opposite to the frontages and there being abundane
water at hand, bOth from the King's and the Duke's posiv
most of them were soon got to work, under the sups are
2 Wiwf"tbe
tendence of the suPe'rintendents and inspectors
assisted by the 'MaYor, Mr. Rushton, and others odisad.
authorities. They, however, laboured under lunch, of the
vantage in the first instance, owing to the great height
ec-
conflagration; and before measures could be rendered ewidi,
tual, the three upper rooms -of the warehouse we
their contents, in a blaze ; and the two upper rooms ° great th!eat
-
adjoining—east and west—also became ig,nited. I3Y of
and persevering exertions, however, of the superintenaassis-
the fire-police (Mr. Hewitt) and his men, and other
tants, who, at great personal risk, ascended the stairs.orneb.
two last-noticed warehouses, and introduced hose and g as to
pipes by the windows, the flames were so-far arresteurosaaS
he confined to the three only : the roofs and two tV,:barst
only of, the two on each side of that in which the nbe fire
out having fallen a prey to the destructive element' rehouse
had communicated to the top stor of the second wa,.. eaes
frorn that first burning, on thewest,and the smo'r two.
issued from a circular window in l tcliment over ta:3„e that
centre ones still further to thewestt'sse,aPrd , but the fire '.,'"ot on
direction was soon arrested, and Hewitt and his menfrallee
the tops of the roofs at each end of the three that haleight,
well-directed
II
epeot
eudred copiousfrom
carried to thatp
the
• wateertui:tbree
mous jets of
burning materials below them. The cat-heads °' as
burning warehouses fell piecemeal to the grounka.ins
the remains of their wooden coverings ; and the ue,-,ner,os
timber of the upper floors and roofs fell in like mines be
ternally. Several of the men engaged with the er)(4l d iron'
narrow escapes from the falling of pieces of timber as
Work outwardly. e upper
About half-psst four o'clock, the cotton in the for
stories of the first ignited warehouse presented t: -of bales.
ance of masses of red-hot material in the sheP; °l.°ll't
An immense quantity of water was, however, tbro -lwitbo a
it by the windows and doors, and probably still m°r%senes:
waste) from the hose on the roofs; and it soon r-thst he
darker and subdued appearance, giving indieati°,slisenefe:;a'
worst was over, and that the fire would not extend Zesittla'n(
to the pile of bUildings. The hope thus excited was ep:boase
realized. The three lower floors of the middle war-his Pe''
auctioni t of the
those on fire still stood firm up to six o'clock,
twitted the parties interested to remove a great Porbero °
property upon them, by employing labourers and ° oa
carry it out, and convey it on trucks to vacant sPae,Te isatelal
quays and streets. But much of it was injured bY tbscht,s
that hart been thrown in by' the doors or windows, or .1"-
pper stordie:ot very
poured down through the floors from the u
wind at the time was luckily from the westward, ansi.N.Wl');
strong (from the appearance of the smoke from the Stiad then;
so that the heat of the fire was driven easterlY•e pry of
beent a similarly strong draft from the eastward, l'eness,b,
bi ity is that no human effort could, from the fiere atfli's
the fire priori, have saved a art of the range, 11;010";
standing the supply of watern.y P The whole oil% shelter
stands isolated and exposed to the breeze, wit"unbee ds
from bill or height on any side ; and we think the P.oicirsbes
serve great credit for their timely, energetic, and Such of,t,
exertions, at great personal hazard, in saving so En"dininter,e.
pet,tri
bdui rteecdtirtihge
pyoperty in the three 'warehouses and all of those aim
We observed Mr. Hewitt active on the top of thei,w;ll„g to male
Warehouse next the fire on the west, with a sPea oil he
preservation en: :ant na 10df the large attributed
that to his fearless and discreet manageni srope
',cl
saved—of which that consumed or otherw+s
, the
forms on and be
ly a per centage.
DiAlkne'simmensethosecollected Who were.a.---ient as
ao
interested in the event, th v g osk
were
at a conye,,,,° 00;4
safe distance. The sm w, ere e' n fr°'" sh"
04e anu flames were see CIO of
lahregaerdami.t adroissi
toy
:if
parts of the town, anddistinctlyfrom the „nen
even
._ _ conoen.
shore, and the alarm and interest excited were
v. Are
great.
too' 'a•
that first ,ra,
The three top rooms of the warehouse with r 010
were filled with cotton,
the lower rooms cute"' ban ot
mostly
.wheat. The top rooms of the other two were a b
some cotton stowed in theand other articles, bet, a aloe,
so full. In the lower there was
waste,fus axed
rooms. of these
cotton save' grain and flour, bags
of white rags and co
uite°
dre
5:11:
were as
mac, &es A large articles
f-h' .quantity of the latter water- _most

ti:e,r.t:3:::,
row the fire thoaghinuchof it saturatedor‘evecint:patwiooeiet:ljeciii!:
otwriogiwnaatree
aaornyoudne4o! loss, chiefly
dhowuassepseaat the east end of the range, the . 0 of k it
erctluy piedburnt
we
learn,were in the .
of which
Mark Ywas ightingale, agent.' The ware
'''' TV,
Eehtoarsrty. ebutY• witP
About five o'cloCCl
Le of accuracy • but it has been stated to t etc t
3. 80) was at the north:ha:it:we and £15,000-
to £20,000. 'TI wita • ly, la
The insurance (but to. owe
we are unable if not
,
the Royal , iso
v.n,sianusrceaoffntec.teeotne9d,
ffiicschneie.oflt.::t aisi:r(uti at ,tipti:
JO,
poiwckeidimu7vienswe,naysibanled
v.bnrodkaepupanrdeerrt
il'aon e
to play into one of the't awidnr,wtslien the third etsci'dertikb/0,
the
ifireafto Police
hateliorgy? thee
height, ron which he stood, after he had attained a c°l' enin 'so
and he was precipitated to the irrouiravieg Ito
severe) y inbred on the head ' side but w- are
t cs- t ' and si
sway that he rallied so f. • (1 to walk °rota °
al as to be enable mined robe'
ay to the Southern Hospital ; that he coati)
_,, is a P
his side, and that as no bones are broken, tiler' Oh
speedy recovery. J. o 4
roe -ler,
An officer i '
_ea it sy
~,,,,,
~.
steam
of the navy (the commander, we 1
(),‘-!
.1_ tender Redwing,) was on the ground 5yt..`„,.., •irg
hlyimkilalnedd,Danh:
grusinitsit men, and rendered every possible..assist.erisol7,
of water thrown by the engines into tuslid upperhtf
warehouses,
in the short space of about an boar( thetits
mated from the fact, that on one ° open %AY
room Boars
south frolit,e•f that to the westward being.throw_uttrds of
it rushed out like a cataract for up ir
an hour. eithe tea
None of the walls orthe warehouses have fallen u erec_d
side
per. or out—theY, being. well. built and strong, &logs, eePtit
willti,LPs 30 years ago. They are, In truth, fine bui,he pr re'
day
notar competition with the best warehouses of,'ich (at yet
to il.o3iglit 7
Bards constructed on fire-proof rinciples,
n plating under the Pand roots) they
„ila
floors
qe adapted. bole Vi c•
ew , N'c
During the • t}
when th
nituto
the
height of the alarm, and
appearedwere to be in danger,iman office fixtures, f!'r e frcnO io%
most removed with reat' haste and much Bathe djoilo.,
easterly warehouse from the . d 0
, and also. , an of
countin- I
~- louse of Me , , p t ,lett i'2l7 ',NW°, sO/8
carriers by water. This Ssrs. aLI . 0 . ther e ' ou i•
was, Unluckily, la Lt fire.; doge
movement
would, as neither of the premises caug" t• in lice,
- counsel • er ) o
parties who considei their prop „be 13, . fa
on such eme • • t
whose
as
~. igencies first to consult the heads 0: .0 $
two sue
assistance they may have up to the last ttetion 1,
eh hasty fittings are quite equal in des°

The
othfetielxevery sc•
fire.
superintendents and inspectors of policender the. pot
'were cp ar
tive and efficient throughout, and every mall.Aitty One bY
present,
to be anxious to do his d t Mr. cbesai for
The
esent, he bein'r
continue) to present, uy- •
_A ,in _bo
.e,
serious illness. s, we regret to say, conn.u"
in, to 's N"
observed amongst the most active gentk
excellent The town is, however,
and
which
ilit discipline in which he has trainedlhe occBwere
the
We was so prominently
most
oinyie"n vili?, gr.
regoireusvies•
maxwell',4l.ld even at the point of danger vibe'Lce CO
inspector of salvages for the insllr; will provaptitio
vvas still burning last night, ..e awl thrv,
° burn for some time from the flat' ppd tbe .0110
moLsitses, the middle one of Which
re-
warehouses ; but it will not extend beY ssarilY ,l'e re-
will neFree" a for tP
CePtion o.f. The whole will, however, be repaired
goods in comparatively few WeetsP.
a
Illeaciurapar..--

liable
iammoNszfyo.r.
e
ty
are ar
publicans PROFS
ey
\VHENS BY AN EMINENT ,o.ke as
subject to im osition?—neea -wer
empty b take inns.
Is this
c)o good
had
omnaei, "
somesaid
Why wasPLord Fluntingt.o,„s on jo
Why is house ?—Because he had such lots cif;_tleeitilse
Mottle Isle of Wight like WhitechaPe •
the man in
actosulrs
him.answer.'
ng
I,s,r)!'ght to be good, for I made it mYsetorgerY
his
that he took up the man the 0
by fiddling, I"efenee proved that lie had Of
asminaViity:;o:ll:eitiodit

NIERTING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL

The
usual monthl\twy meeting of the Council ssas held ou
.
dneday, in the Twn-hall, the MAYOR presiding. This
was the third quaiterly council for such matters on the
were peculiar to a quarterly meeting., and a monthly meet-
hig For the others.

, PINANCE COMMITTEE—WOOD PAVING.
I,lar4rom the proceedings of the Finance Committee,. it. atple-
ed that an application had been made. to thent..6 :
Gart.ot,l%atarrnis3i one rs for Paving and Sewering, for a conititiehe}trirt!lono
sdosatit'lei expense of laying down d wood
rstan paving in
thati eireia.
was exi st i n gP bgertZuedn t ti cheat
t wS•oo
tve,r, declined to contribute. some
bodies.o e The committee, how.
11e(ir: Geoaot HALL LAWRENCE moved, and
proceedings of
tl:tillcaletitseconded, it resolution that the
hadNlr• AlteleermaanrEataeet be confirmed.
whether there really otil beets
anY promise made, on the part of the Finance
of ~,,ce,,l.t,tee, to assist the Paving Board in the introduction
Nl;,;P•atrigy e v e
r
occasion , • LAWRENcE replied that there liad,
but the
hasher
ti,een a casual conversation on the subject,
and they
on one
lu not come formally before the
wood' e.iio Promise whatever. A wish was committee,
expreisse,dotwiina.t
lici, Pav"ig should be introduced in the front of t ic r
w 0,4 several
the then said that if the commissioners
contribe°t it, they thought the committee would
kr, Alder portion of the expense.
Lad
be glad to
serews•muetoln EARLE said, that as the Paving Board
ood paving
soracw'VP their courage to think of introducing 511
ltbOtit tVed they could not put it down in
.a betterplaancde
bark
which bil'Aessions-house, instead of the dirty straw
to deadc ",aeen deposited there during the assizes,
mr.
jn the noise.
contraceit's
a
in order
HOLURR said the Paving Board had made
Mr, Aar wood paring, to the extent of £l2OO.
kr, Aartrrnall EAltr.s.—l am glad of it.
ject had b 'NALL Mentioned that the reason why the sub-
that of
Town-clerk,
tell brought before the Finance Committee was,
snd other'll raembers thought the Mayor, the
na.
noise it, 1; af4ers might be suffering the c
aiv,ngl
wa3in,..o,e street, and it was considered that ifwood
.ouP, '
ht to
bear
s.._lnced. for their comfort, the corporatidoii
upon, how-
ever I`;,`", Portion of the expence. The site fixe
ta4t, ioutatie board, for its introduction, was Exchange-street
eaiof
which hal; the Season its
and Ituinf(!rd-street, t, I
if wood ~,a..een contracted for. ' They certainly thoughtlltectioiar.t
Potatinn'til'ing was introduceround the Town-
nhda t'h e board
wanted h 0
t° hear part of the expense. -..,00.
Mr, ttrt:',.'o eontribute only £l5O out theoffc4l
mmittee were,
10 Zality, ti'e:Ziobserved that the Finan.ce
he present whiciel ,ftila_rbt of th:(J eontributin
g'dbauftt el tri the report t h el reooat.'
titied joinYhad ier
sacs betfPo°reratthme resent state
n(:%oauniicil, they did not.fnesetjinoe
Scald be a 1 -
tn ho ed their conduct in this
the
same 4'4)%
ess°4
—every Pother committee to act in .
the Aldernlan 1.7
Ni,,orPoratino
rit---v-,kN1.5..--All we want
~, Paving Board -
\i`. ASpiNAI e glying money to the _
to know is, whether,
' r• Alde,„ 1',,•--No it was declined-
he anh. —""4 LARLE —Quite right.
Jeet then dropl;ed.
Ntr.
'4" • tr lIIE WATER BILL.
Al/pply
oi.IN .JOLItt Saida hat the
tering the
'trects, Wagwater for extinguishing fires, arid
rotinsitt bill for providing a better
Id allow
Ili .
eetinaoy; before Parliament, and as it wowualdn_ go into
the
'l', In th• 'IV
[days' lie hoped the Council would
d
WateriloPal.aee. Move " That the Council, approving of
Itge, do ~.:-.1" ef the Commissioners for Paving an
et,ry
_,Xi.r9t th...
ue Tire Committee to support such bell
sby
any pe"lt te,4'lB in their power, and for that purpose P
B'4 the eln ;,,a4d that the Mayor be anthorized totoaffix the
kr. Al.,llNam, seconded the motion.
vdiether tiiereaaa Evass said it
volve mi
,`,le words every means in their power
was a questio,n with him
Air,
..i_ll_'e
WALL
of the Corporation.
which the
did not in-
corrioratTeoeiN4Ll. said there was an agreement by
nNir Aliln were to pay 4:500 a year.
ex,,ense, 'ratan Evaxs explained that he referred to other
kr, A'
all, sPINALL.--W
~.4r. Alderrns,, T• want no other money from you at
that he for one
ii':s totally
Ile , 13.RANII.F.Y.MOORE s
h` should
not acelialuted with the provisaiiodna
which he had
't ken, feel justified in voting for a thing .
of the bill, and
The Nt 4.,1 with which he was totally unacquaultted.
at the las'ik_lo°llc,lXPlained that the clauses were a approved
~,,\,lr G. ;-";.'11.1 I.
eup etau,ei;...IAWRENCE said the council had gone over the
were
. and had', e'ause, as far as the corporation
and he
luPed th 'Pliroved of it by a formal resolution
'lest. t
cs oncern-
*4 in ey would ROW tiliew themselves to be in earl .
their
In
PNver c44lbent nPon the to se all the means
14deedt°I.P"ide measures'n foru
degree' duec considered the commerce of the town in
greatcorporation
d 0 extinguishing fires, on which,
,°,eght to Peuded. He did not mean to say the
iiiat, an, PQY the expense •
sot,r,_
rt ,4 it i
o 1, 'lad been arrin'aed, but he did think they. I l
for they were not askedto do
don, He bill by the lit'ileinfluence they possessed ihntLaionna-
better 'e understood th object of' the bill was to obtain 421 welisalinPPtillY of wa. ter,
lin ed the bill
would n e eXtinguishin of fires ; but he
fceirthepurpose of watering the stn
eets.
th ot stop e . - g
,I' ta pr
~ xdetly there—he hed it would
1 e use of
*ate,. f provide that the corporationshould have t i w
tzight it. PUblie PUrposes. He considered that t e,
h ater
Pgo on for-
they i 1 'Lade available in man, cases : for instamx, tlHiaet
eonsi4t supply the baths and wa,hhouses. (Hear.) d
.:ye„ red it desirable -
in West Derby an
barr.°4 \Vrds_ to have baths
~, etl fro,
...c, Places where the opr
indulgence.
Further, he
ii'r'..o,tild ha,e b'eu,..„l4 !'eereation and.
other places could be
were entirely de-
cil'e nled where'"tiglad if reservoirs or.
ater
gratuitously.
to oar) And th the
Poor utight obtain w.
create dif
tats ough he did not urge these
inies, he
ratlst say e
or, the art of the Water Collo
had
things, in order
to
(({ray
that he did net part ,
(lleal?,ltore for their 1"
anyli. place
ter did in Liverpool.
is.
don .1 Re was
oad
tlyivatilr
.t
~,an
Board were going to Lox.
Ills\altrL.l4,ltithice
is:ltrree:as.
Voile tar they Would haveeailavoini bortunity of seeing how e
there were IpPave.d and watered.
vi ci N,rs
~ . ici it was easy to end fault with the Paving
ey,o ,
,1 rioltne had often explained the reason why
he tOO not do ~,,, . ,
1'1%4
they
had
Pletit°vlef
I "Pk
could
cdot what
missioners colcl
oof ttBidoney T
oun .
for 1,a() )eYontl tile ri;te they liked
d which they
i,,
the and watering and. in the p
t,,,,1`°,, lie sum it produc'ed.
; . tlrY dids
not prepared to say
for
t(1
4'tqt agree to the propositions oef'‘a Mr. G. H.
I as much as they levied
coullide
Lawrence;
~ltre,nt then, would cause the bill to fail altogetil'erher. he
'I,(1 la t'i 11. LAWRENCE asked the Town-Clerk
tilt ea°t think a clause ini ht be inserted in the bill to enable
Th tlncil to use the g •
4 ~ e r„„,.„„.,_ water for public purposes ?
q,„cne hill '.,,-,-,EaK replied that there w.as. already a clause
ii,ei. fro._
.n blebnh Plied
the commissioners to obtain
14 Are,, T_l, e. lersey. for watering the streets,.exte
oat, h„,?.40 also for the use of public or Privahe
ittlided '47ever, related to salt water only ; but. appre-
t be in-
, ocioetrit a clause similar to that suggested migh baths.
~Nlr I al to fresh water.
IQ, ~. Ulf t.,
40 'lid I),
~,' a,ol.Nits was astonished that
any
objection
to
in-
to witTa,cile,. seeing that the commissioners goingwere g
that
ie.,ivlhni ,atrieir own money. He did not apprehend
lr nottrias ge On the ratepa Hs won y
ilit4.. 4. L
the corn-
uld be more than Id.
italer, Awar.NCR considered the money of
the
awl:, and
them oue), of the corporation as just
VI% PAAt
h,,i)eome
..,i_tA, at some length, expressed hist
orpwould not
,11,ie people
it.
inion that
;rlitt. r' lit ' exactly, who would be benefittekdnoowy
ledgaevaeirid_
treat testified, from his own
4nii3tlit the want of water in this town yvta;f
someY
a ,ellt,'?d vrereer,N),ls evil; and he was satisfied l
644 beat ,s'ottik!il to render it cheaper and more abundant,
~ kr
~tld co'rofenrttwould be
. gained in the pr
`ltittl. 'lldertust of the inhabitants.
to be dis-
otion of the
tile Y uoder , 1 13ttamettv-Moonv. wished
. it
to
kao'beasar '4oocl that he was not offering any opposition
to
t'lrti what'll' the 001 Y point for which he contended was,
._
Blat.k-
tn e, thnt e was von
upon. He agreed with Mr. . _
therd t',,rt-ati.le 3itnationgof the poor of this town, with re
i t'llole-"" ,was disgraceful. There was not a single pump
iianal °°4h .iu" where they • uld get it gratuitously. H .
,istltlleg:t", to know witathetowas called. upon to vote for ,
vost the Ze Merits of the bill were explained, he must vote
to,tiir: Alde,,otion,
I.:elved-•-•r;,.4111 EARLE.—The merits of the bill are easily
gland t„ "• IS the merit of bringing water to extuirgttli_ n
it,"e Nik",_‘\ ater the streets, and what else can you wan ?
to
h 4 irkthe (~(Nt
readsaske the Council whether they wished.
[''[belie reuses ov . They were just the same
liqleritct"; at tree lasternr aebeatitn, and they were referred to
iiin eopyeg'trblttraCt of the bill'i'o'f which every member had
k',."',a-rYot-everal members' intimated that it would be
1,c,., • Aa,... gad the clauses again.]
liknins I,,NALL observed that the Highway Board had
laree of• it , ?ned on the 13th
ht
. 'III
t°
the C ' ' of March, and what
4gree,j blitlct.r__ he did. not know.
, i1,'4,,,t0 4
~,.t.r. inentioned that it hail been unanimously
4ili, 1.404",4'1', meeting of the inhabitants. . .
iley!.taoti4,4 'iri siAxcitzu. supported the ptron-idcalpyle of the
whether
1 ;t:tellilod sibs[ it
ttoheit Coo nneil musti thoughtdecie they could not
ti'wl.l Isa'A44),Praent asrtonotlti.e couerse they ought to pursue.
lisai.reece „-- tiriLatxs hoped the sugeestions of
,Mr. G. H.s.
Ote,:l• he e-°41,1 be carried into effec't. The W ater Cohnaad
therel'ed h4eltitentled, would do nothing, although they
euktorei 1,..^. their rii,tho..,
' the
iiredi4strusted the council would not shrinkfrom.
y four or five times. over • and,
petite ii4i°,res how rcommended.
irooa gnallAit Itt n enquired how it was proposed to supply
ti ii• •11"'r the ayoto)f water which would be required for the
441 WhieTl443 LaANCKER intimated that this was a ques-
-1‘,40t tliewas for the consideration of the Highway Board,
g0e7.14,4°,11eil ; and k'r l'lto thi• udtld, that the council had decided. upon not
tiwe • ittl,
1, eoesideration of the clauses of the bill.he
tltre",if the hill then then expressed his approvail oof
otnteuPded,
fs`'wt, ticiit softeie•_,irhe streets of Liverpool,
disgracee to the
Itt,ttheirtothe poo":. !;:',fvvitered ; and
mitwasapl with water
tl,:t rt atibiredoin,ry 1.1„._' e '
" 1t behoved the council to take this
Dlied I'N watalnto their roost serious consideration, seeing
tilir:lsth wa-tera",absolute necessity for the poor to be sup-
" cr, Alto , at as cheap co ate as possible.
door;Otion,
et.t, lioLstiz, atnsiderable length, supporttedf
nhtt,,
I°ll the
nreting
.that there was only one opinionhotauinoa
%ttr hall,Nly oreessit_Y of something being done I 0
rjtr'ih. 14, froW'lt' • He would ask the council whether,
I, thrill coottlill9l the want of water, seen warehouses
_ de-
-I,°' th'na of g Property to the amount of hundreds of
de-
Zninli; I) - tier "°Linds, and after having thrown out the bill
'lithltliN,oteoristruction of warehouses, they could po_.a.ie-
e'tlay, Loa'r'aaa!low things to remain in stain quo
os I 'lh
tiltleqt, o'f 41d3cienntict, obtained the. opinion[ ofdtheammeht.,able,ll
irs
lie cotilciM"ehestenr"!'gineer, in all Englau .
1,,,r1,11,011. 11,7 have ,mi.nurwefierence
itoiottliiewsausppnly
more to be re-
of water ;
kO,P,lirit)g theb: Parishicianersi,°stieioo,P had'
sanctioned the bill,
to
ol:,t. the'..and, I,4Z.,t.?zbic
_raised under it from £30,000
el;c3ool:tended
Z iilitire, ltinreii
co'ruri a Illtolite.sdeociortcliliernrwstiaserice
than support the
'',co tr 4,11 of
wan lone concluded by stating some instances
ii ‘11.• lehlrish titer. particularly in the case of cattle landing
of"lit th'4l.ke,(raniera,
*utet. use of it_rtx. asked whether the bill proposed to
'lb lent
tl le Water to b mained to the two purposes
t 1444 te street, _ e, 0 i.
\ r• Jo °1t......1t , and extingng fires?
tc). 4. p it:, H 0.... .00S. ),,,4ktql:lCzL'ittr.---;We cannot go for anything ipore:
14,stiettiorties end
.4,uraeslieid, hen,. why they were
acalled p upon e
th,t4PlY,(l%-;h4e4l.Whi'el:, as3fhttearlanlit,gwawshLihiniatedeto two Por:
tieeqrtiltt ° It alight be advantageously applied to many
; q.;4B,,eoifi'i.ivi.l.i !II ex °e
said the Parliamentary 110-
.4 iiii,litl, LAti(-' i.O these two°l4.).
th4t Ql.4tt lieBsilt'" said an amenjdecibill might be obtained_
ktt kettincil no?..n• He asked the Town-clerk whether, if
,ttht
r, r
(.4 ciatit; Icave their sanction to the bill they
introduced
11)i smutti'c stu,,Yvi."g more extensive powers,
%Itllit
,1,1,.;_,,x the committee ?
ba. NJ; cry, ea„, would say that a clause to that effect
oc.sti:Tuer,, (},_37 arranged between the Council '
late sad
t th,
peticao se the same powers secured t
!ttN to. e suppi„r_Pec,he of extin,quisbing fires wotouloclseeasdnt.
Itlr!ilipt . I-1, tho/eu:kwater being used for the P uardifficulty,
kl'lte Ilti" of tt1e1.:139t,: however, there 'night be might
t.tt „f.
,on th,
__, 1,11, as to how far any such supply
aniei,
tot, , rttrii._
_Privileges of the existing two cumP
445, j_l:44noo ment. .
o h.
.stoLsti said t •
iititl it, a'll'loners, wh his very subject was
law clerk
Out ph,. he atat n took the opinion of the
4,1,, ne bills b • e't to them that it could not be
litt:tng tithdrawn for this session'
discussed by
it tutnight it was Much better to leave the

bill as it stood, than endanger it altogether by any ftesh pro-
positions.

Mr. PROCTER mentioned that the Watch Committee had
got a most efficient fire polio•, and new engines, of the very
best description, all of which would be ineffectual unless there
was a better supply of water. He asked the council whether
they would stop, now that they had a prospect of accom-
plishing a great public benefit?
14 r. BIRK ETr said that to do so would be a breach of faith
with the commissioners.
The To WN-CLERK here stated that the first answer he had
given was with reference to a consideration merely between
the council and the commissioners ; but it had afterwards
occurred to him that there might be a serious question with
regard to the Water Companies. He understood that the
Water Companies, or one of them, had a direct opposition to
the bill. He should be sorry if anything were done that
could give a pretext for opposition ; but he could not see any
objection to the Fire Committee being instructed to support
the bill, with a discretionary power to arrange such clauses
as could be introduced without injury to the bill.
Mr. .1. LAWRENCE said the Highway Board would be glad
to obtain further powers►, but to ask for them would certainly
endanger the bill.

several members expressed their opinion, that it' they
sought further powers than those enabling them to water
the streets and extinguish fires, they would be successfully
opposed.
The TowN-cx.Ertic eventually submitted a resolution to
the effect that the powers should be soright, provided it was
conceived they would not endanger the bill.
Mr. BIRKETT said this would be breaking faith with the
Bootle Water Company, with whom they had engaged not to
insert any clauses that would militate against their interest.
It was understood that the motion was adopted—when Mr.
Birkett said—" I dissent." Mr. Holt—" and I also."
The TOWN-CLERK explained that the motion was only
provisional upon the advice given by the law clerk of the
commissioners, upon which Mr. Holt, who is chairman of
the Directors of the Bootle Water Company, withdrew his
dissent, and Mr. Birkett followed.—The motion, as suggest-
ed by the Town-clerk, was then carried.