The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-13 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

espended in the purchase of new stock, leaving a balance
of £2,111 17s. Bd. The directors congratulate the pro-
prietors on the proposed railway from Hai rogate and the
Leeds and Bradfo:d line.
PROPOSED NEW RAILWAY FROM LEEDS TO BRAD-
FORD.—Last week a meeting was held at Leeds, for the
promotion of a more direct and shorter line of railway
than that which has been projected in connection with the
North Midland Railway Company. It was resolved that
a company should be formed for the establishment of a
new line, which, for distinction sake, we may call the
southern line; the capital to consist of 12,000 shares of
£25 each. We understand that the southern line will
commence at or near the end of Aire-street, Wellington-
street, in Leeds, cross the river Aire near the Upper Weir,
and the Leeds and Liverpool canal between Holmefield-
lane end and Holbeck Town end ; and skirting the hill
side towards Low Wortley, will pass close to Butterbowl
Mill, Farnley. on the north side of Beulah farm house,
and from thence along the Pudsey and Tong Valley, by
Holme Green, to the south of, and near to the Court-
house in Bradford. On Friday morning 5,000 shares had
been subscribed for at Leeds, independent of those taken
up at Bradford and elsewhere.
NEWCASTLE AND DARLINGTON JUNCTION RAILWAY•
COMPANY.—The fourth half-yearly meeting of this com-
pany was held at York, on Thursday last. The report
stated the works of the line had been carried on with the
utmost rigour during the past half-year, and that the di-
rectors have entered into contracts for the erection of eight
stations at different points of the line, including one for
the city of Durham. The latter station is to be completed
on the Ist of March, and those on the south of Durham
on the Ist of May next. The directors had concluded an
agreement with the Great North of England Railway
Company, to work the whole of the traffic between Dar-
lington and Newcastle; and all the guaranteeing compa-
nies have unanimously concurred in relieving this company
from their engagement to grant a lease of the line : there
was a good prospect of a railway being made from Berwick-
upon-Tweed to Edinburgh by the North British Railway
Company. The directors strongly recommended the share-
holders to give them authority to take prompt measures
for the effecting of a railway communication from New-
castle to Edinburgh. The cash account represented a
balance in the hands of the treasurer of £42,497 17s.
BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—The meeting of this company
was held on Wednesday : a dividend of £1 per share was
declared ; and it was resolved to conclude contracts for
leasing the Hastings and Lewes branch at a rate of 4 per
cent, upon the cost of construction, not exceeding
£475,000, and the Shoreham and Chichester branch at a
rate of 4 per cent. upon cost of construction, not exceed-
ing £300,000. A resolution was passed giving the direc-
tors power to enter into negociations with the South-
Eastern Company for a final settlement of the large out-
standing claim of £360,000 on fair and reasonable terms.
Unless such power was delegated, it was stated that no
hope of arrangement could be expected for the present
generation of shareholders. Whatever sum is found due
to the Brighton Company will, it appears, be applied to
the payment of the mortgage bonds, in condition with the
terms of the act of Parliament. The traffic increased
during the half. year £9,885, while the expenses have been
reduced £7,500, making a gross increase in net revenue
of £17,300. The Brighton Company has at last joined
the South-Eastern and Croyden Companies in an amalga-
mation of working expenses, which arrangements come
into operation from the Ist of March. After paving this
dividend, which absorbs £35,156, a surplus of £2,510 is
left to the credit of the current half-year.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.-011 Friday
the Half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors took
place at the London terminus, Euston-grove. Mr. G. C.
Glyn, the chairman of the company, presided, and con-
gratulated the shareholders on the prospect that was opened
for their connecting the London and Birmingham line with
Lancaster and Carlisle, and in another direction with
Holyhead, where a spacious harbour was about to be
formed by government. The revenue account for the last
half-year, as compared with the corresponding half-year
of 1842. showed an increase in the traffic of £11.393 and
a decrease of £6,221 in the working charges. The direc-
tors had to report that the net profits of the year 1843
being £502,484 Os. 5d., and the dividend declared at the
last half-yearly meeting £242,732 145., there remained a
disposable balance of £259,751 6s. 5d., from which they
recommended that a dividend of 5 per cent. be deducted,
leaving £17,006 18s. sd. to the credit of the current half-
year. The directors had to apply to the proprietors for
powers to carry out the line from Chester to Holyhead,
where the government was about to erect a new harbour,
and thus make it the great raedium of intercourse with
Ireland. Every endeavour had been made tc accommo-
date the public, and, in order to do so, they had given to
all passengers going and returning by the railway on the
same day the benefit of a reduction of one-third in their
fares, and they allowed them to compound for two months'

fares at half-price. They had also modified their rates to
first-class passengers riding in the company's carriages,
but travelling with their own carriages on the train, by
charging them second-class fares. The report was adopted,
a dividend of 5 percent. declared, and 17s. on each of the
£32 shares of the company. A resolution was adopted
giving powers to the directors to provide capital for making
the proposed railway between Chester and Holyhead, not
exceeding in the whole £1,000,000 sterling, and to take

any other measures foi the interest of the company.

MARTYRS TO £30,000 A-YEAR.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)

The lay traversers, or demagogues of the platform, are
Daniel O'Connell, John O'Connell, Thomas Ray, and
Thomas Steele.

We know not what income either of the two first may
derive from the funds paid into. the Repeal - Exchequer.
But, independently of that, Mr. Daniel O'Connell ex-
tracts from the agitation of the country his annual Tri-
bute, amounting on an average to £20,000 a-year. We
cannot separate the interest of the son from that of the
father; we, therefore, include Mr. John O'Connell in
this lucrative speculation.
Mr. Ray is Secretary of the Repeal Association, and,
in that capacity, draws, in the shape of salary and other
emoluments, an annual income of (we understand)
£l,OOO.

Mr. Thomas Steele is an agent, bearing the indefinite
character of Head Pacificator, and, besides travelling ex-
penses on special occasions, draws an allowance of five
pounds a-week (at the least) out of the Repeal Rent.
Having disposed of the tonguesmen, or demagogues of
the platform, we now come to the pensmen, or dema-
gogues of the press. They are by name and occupation—
Charles Gavan Duffy, proprietor of the Nation; John
Gray, proprietor of the Freeman's Journa, and the Even-
ing Freeman ; and Richard Barrett, proprietor of the
Pilot.

The profits which _ those literary demagogues derive

. _
from the agitation of the country, may 6e ascertained
with sufficient accuracy on data of the simplest and surest
kind.

It is a law of the Association (see rule 9 of the book of
instructions to Repeal Wardens, rent-collectors, &c.),
that—" The sum of ten pounds collected and forwarded
to the Association, entitles the repeaters of the district
whence it comes to a weekly paper for the entire year,
gratis; and the sum of twenty pounds entitles them to
the Pilot or Evening Freeman newspaper for the same
period, if they prefer either to two weekly newspapers."
Now, the price of a weekly newspaper for the year is
£1 10s. ; of a three-day evening paper, £3. One pound
ten shillings are to ten pounds, just as three pounds are
to twenty—that is to say, each is 15 per cent. on every
hundred pounds transmitted to the Repeal Association.
Had we an exact account of the income of the Corn-
Exchange, we should be able to tell to a shilling the an-
nual profits of this incendiarism. But, supposing the
Rent to amount, one week with another, to £l,OOO (and
it has sometimes trebled that amount), we have an income
of £52,000 per annum, out of which the literary traver-
sers abovementioned divide among them (at 15 per cent.)
about one-sixth of the entire amount—namely, the sum
of £7,800 per annum ; being at the moderate rate of
£2,600 to each and every of them. All this, be it ob-
served, is over and above the fair ordinary profit made by
their newspapers in the usual way, as the exponents of
party opinion, or as payment for Repeal advertisements,
&c. Let us now tot the items :

Lay:
1. Mr. O'Connell
2. Mr. John O'Connell I £20,000
3. Mr. T. M. Ray
4. Mr. Thomas Steele 260
Literary :-
5. Mr. Richard Barrett

2,600

6. Mr. Charles Gavan Duffy
7. Doctor Gray

2,000
2,600

£29,060

Thus, of the eight traversers now on trial, seven draw
from the funds derived from the agitation they have raised,
very nearly thirty thousand pounds a-year. To them, at
least, agitation is, and has been, a profitable traffic.
Let agitation die, and what would be the consequence
to those disinterested patriots? Would they not lose this
£29.000 per annum ? On the other hand, let the agita-
tion.be increased—let it be doubled, or trebled—and, in
proportion as those blow-coals are enabled to infuriate
the flame, will their profits on the ruin and misery of
their country be swelled.

Is this, gentlemen traversers, a true bill or not ? We
tell you that you must render an account to the people of
the money you have induced them to pay into your hands.
You must tell them how much or how little you admit of
the charge : for, unless your own documents be false, this
bill must be true. You cannot be silent. We repeat our
statement, that of the nine traversers originally indicted,
but two could come into court with clean hands, and we
owe it is justice to the Roman Catholic priesthood to say,
that those two are priests of the Church of Rome. The
lay traversers, whether of the press or of the platform,
are making money on the mischiefs they are able to cre-
ate. They have, in the disturbance of their country, the
deep interest of pecuniary profit.

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK IN THE FRITH OF CLYDE.
—About eleven o'clock on Monday forenoon, the long
boat of The schooner Ann, of Ardrossan,—Jas. Craw-
ford, toaster,—was discovered lying on Brest Rock, keel
up, with her four oars under her. At noon, the jolly
boat was seen drifting in towards the shore ; which, on
coming within reach, was found to contain the cold and
lifeless corpse of the mate, John Henderson, son of Mr.
Matthew Henderson, ship-builder, Ardrossan. Several
pieces of wreck have since come ashore, such as rails,
bulwarks, &c., and there is every reason to fear she has
been run down by some vessel on Sunday night, some-
where near Ailsa Craig. The Ann, of A, drossan, was a
fine new Schooner. built only eight months ago, by Mr.
Henderson, of Ardrossan. She had made one voyage to
and from Malta, and was on her passage from Cork to the
Clyde, with a cargo of flour. There is too much reason
to fear that all the crew have perished. The captain had
a wife and six children.—Ayr Advertiser.

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

On the y abinstant Sir Robert Peel entered on his 57th
year.

The Essex Stano-,,;"d records three very serious incen-
diary fires in that county-
_last week.
Dickens's " Christmas CalOC'
has been dramatised,
and its first representation at the 2'\.delphi Theatre on
Monday night was eminently successful.
It may be useful to some timid railway travellers to
state that the furious puffing of the c,,ogine shows the
safety valve is open, and explosion irnpossle.
On Saturday morning last, Elizabeth Kilsligw, a child
seven days old, died suddenly from the effects of L'pa.ins
in the windpipe.
Seven convicts, from Edinburgh and Kirkdale, made
their escape, on Friday morning, from the Milibank Pe-
nitentiary. Their retreat has not been discovered.
THE LATE TRAGEDY AT DEPTFORD.—The unhappy
woman Dickenson, who murdered her two children, and
afterwards attempted self-destruction, is sufficiently reco-
vered to be removed to Newgate.
THE ANIMUS OF REPEAL.—A new candidate for popu-
lar favour announces, in its prospectus, that "Foreign
parliamentary reports will be given until the "Irish par-
liament is restored."
At an inquest held the other day, on a newly-born in-
fant in London, who had received a quarter of a tea-
spoonful of gin, the surgeon gave evidence that gin
given to one so young is sufficient to cause death.
Two men, employed at the brewery of Messrs. Barclay
and Perkins, in Park-street, Southwark, were suffocated
last Wednesday afternoon, by descending one of the
vats which contained a large volume of carbonic acid gas.
The representatives for the county of Durham, of whom
three are "liberals" and one conservative, are all agreed
upon supporting the agricultural interest and maintaining
that protection to which it is entitled.
LAUGHABLE MISTAKE.—The wife of Mr. Edward
Hudson, of Ulverstone, was brought to bed on Thurs-
day morning, and the infant being sickly, was baptized
Richard, rather hastily it would seem, as it turned out to
be a female.

VALUABLE COINS.—We are informed that, the collec•
tion of coins, &c. made by the late Mr. Thomas, a Lou.
don grocer, and about to be sold, is estimated to he 01
the value of from £16,000 to £lB,ooo,—Literary Ga.
zette.

MANSLAUGHTER.—A young man named Lawrence
Hawksworth, died at Bolton, on Thursday last, from in-
juries inflicted upon him by another man. The jury on
the inquest returned a verdict of aggravated manslaugter
against the latter.

DORMOUSE BY POST.—A few days ago, a letter was
received by post by a person in this town, containing a
live dormouse. It had come a distance of nearly 200
miles, and reached its destination perfectly safe.—Don-
caster Gazette.

SERIOUS FIRE AT SHEFFIELD.—At an early hour on
Thursday morning week, the cutlery works known as the
Soho-wheel, Sheffield, were destroyed by fire. The esti-
mated loss is £BOO, and there is too much reason to fear
that it has been caused by an incendiary.
The Rev. James Brogden bas been committed for trial
at the Hertford Assizes, charged with shooting and
wounding a police constable, named Wintel, whom he ob-
served about his premises, near Hemel Hempstead, and
mistook for one of a party of burglars.
CHILD STEALING.—At the Central Criminal Court

on Wednesday, Elizabeth Mary Jones, a well dressed and
good looking widow was sentenced to be transported for
seven years, for having stolen an infant child named
Selina Helling, four months old, in the month of Novem-
ber last.

The enquiry before Lord Slideley, and the other trus-
tees of Winchomb Grammar-school, into the conduct of
Mr. Lapworth, the master, respecting the punishment of
a lad named Carter, has terminated in the complete ex-
oneration of Mr. Lapworth. The case appears to have
been gone into at great length.
Mr. George Wilbraham, of Delamere House, in a let-
ter to the Secretary of the Stockport Committee, has
repudiated the League, as an irresponsible body, and says
he cannot understand how the large sum which thee pro-
pose to raise can be required in order to elicit a full, fair,
and unbiassed demonstration from the nation.

LORD MORPETH.—It is now said, that in consequence
of the sudden indisposition of the Earl of Carlisle, the
arrangements for Lord Morpeth entering the lower house
of parliament have been postponed. It is now considered
more likely that Lord Morpeth will be called to the upper
branch of the legislature, as the ill"ess of the noble earl
is said to be alarming, and his lordship is in his 71st year.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ICE.—Yesterday week,
about one o'clock in the afternoon, as a boy named Thos.
Gaskell, 17 years of age, was sliding on a piece of water
called Smith's Lodge, at Pemberton, near Wigan, the ice
broke, and he fell into the water. Assistance was promptly
rendered, but the boy could not be got out of the water
until life was extinct.

The select committee to- consider the laws affecting
gaming, &c., and to report thereon to the House of Lords,
are the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President, the Duke of
Richmond, the Marquis of Winchester, the Marquis of
Normanby, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Foley, Lord
Brougham, Lord Strafford, Lord Monteagle, and Lord
Campbell.
A trial of speed took place in Long Reach, in the
Thames, on Friday and Saturday last, between her Ma-
jesty's steam ship Rattler, and her sister ship Prometheus.
The result was in favour of the Rattler, to the extent of
neatly half a knot per hour, their relative speed being as
follows :—Prometheus, 8757 knots;. Rattler, 9240 knots,
or within a fraction of 101 statute miles per hour.
On Thursday, John Fowden Hindle, Esq., Woodfold-
park, near Blackburn, was sworn in before William Shawe
and John Gorst, gentlemen, high sheriff of this county.
At the same time, and before the same commissioners,
Mr. Christopher Bland Walker, of Preston, was sworn in
under sheriff. The business will be transacted at Mr.
Walker's office.

An adjourned meeting of the carpet manufacturers of
Kidderminster and its neighbourhood was held on Wednes-
day last at the Black Horse Inn, when a second advance
in the price of carpeting was agreed upon; and in conse-
quence of the heavy and increasing rise in the wool mar-
kets, it was determined that another meeting should be
held on Wednesday, the 21st of February, to decide on
what further advance shall then be necessary.
At a meeting of the Oxford Parish Burial Ground
Committee, held at the archdeacon's rooms at Christ
Church, on Monday, it was resolved to procure three
burial grounds on different sides of Oxford, for the use
respectively of the parishes nearest them; to be open to
all persons, being placed precisely on the same footing as
the existing church-yards,.such burial grounds to be pur-
chased by subscription.
YORKSHIRE BANKING COMPANY.—The first meeting
of this company (which was raised from the ruins of the
Yorkshire District Bank) was held at the Bank-office, on
Wednesday last. The nett profit for the time the bank
had been in business was £7,721 12s. 3d., out of which
they recommended the payment of a dividend of As. 6d.
per share, being rather more than five per cent., and
leaving a reserve fund in hand of £4,463 17s. 3d.
THE LATE FATAL DUEL AT CAMDEN TOWN.—In the
Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, Mr. Waddington,
on behalf of the crown, applied to the bench to fix a day
for the trial of Lieut. Grant, who had given notice of his
intention to surrender and take his trial, for being acces-
sory to the murder of Lieut. Col. Fawcett, in the duel at
Camden Town. The judges refused to fix any day for the
trial while the accused should be at large.
THE DEAD-LETTER OFFICE.—On the 25th of May,
1788, a five-guinea bill, of the firm of Sir John Duntze,
was sent in a letter to Exeter, by a tradesman of Hole-
worthy. The letter miscarried, and did not reach its pro-
per destination, and• the money of course was considered
as lost, when to the surprise of the person that sent it,
thirty-eight years afterwards. he again received it from the
dead-letter office, inclosing the bill.—Plymouth Journal.

Lord Granville Somerset, Sir George Grey, Lord San-
don, Mr. James Loch, Mr. John Wilson Patten, and the
O'Connor Don have been appointed by the speaker of the
House of Commons to be members of the general com-
mittee of elections for the present session. Their duty is
to prepare the panels from which the members of election
committees are chosen, and to select the chairmen of those
committees.

The high sheriff of Gloucestershire has very properly
refused to convene a county meeting, to afford Messrs.
Cobden, Bright, and Co. an opportunity of agitating
under official sanction. Mr. Holford hits the requisi-
tionists hard. The array of country gentlemen is scanty.
Nearly half the names attached to the requisition are those
of Gloucester citizens, although this circumstance will not
appear visible to distant readers.—Gloucester Chronicle.
PARDON OF A REFORM RILL RIOTER.—Her Ma-
jesty's government has issued a free pardon to Valentine
Marshall, one of the rioters who was transported for life
by Mr. Justice Gaselee, at the special reform riot com-
mission at Nottingham, in 1831, for setting fire to Col-
wick-hall, the seat of Mr. John Musters, Nottingham-
shire, and from the effects of which Mrs. Musters, the
famous " Mary" of Lord Byron, met with her death in
the shrubbery.
INCREASE IN THE COAL TRADE.—It Will surprise
those interested in this important branch of our trade to
learn that the quantity delivered last month is nearly
double that delivered in the corresponding month of 1843.
In January, 1843, 118;618 tons were imported, whilst the
quantity for January, 1844, appears to be 220,603. Of
these, 96,917 tons were from the Tyne, 54,583 from the
Wear, 47,707 from the Tees, and the residue from York-
shire, Wales, and Scotland.—Tyne Mercury.
DEVIZES ELECTION.—The nomination of a member
to represent this borough, (vacated by the resignation of
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STRIKE.—On Monday, a report was gen-
eral in the neighbourhood of Mold, that the colliers who
had turned out for wages (and are now standing out) at
Bagilt and Holywell, were coming to Mold to stop the
works. The magistrates very promptly met, and on
Tuesday a number of soldiers arrived from Chester, and
are now stationed in Mold, Hawarden, Northop, and the
neighbourhood, no breach of the peace has yet occurred.
On Tuesday, a body of some 200 men came to Northop
Hall Coal Works ; but they were ordered off by the mag-
istrates, and at the sight of the red coats. made their
C
exit.— hesler Courant.

Feb.

13. 1814.

CHILLINGHAM PARK, NORTHUMBERLAND,—The ani
tieipated spoliation of this tii,ble park has torturat, lY
taken place The wild cattle have la en successfully
claimed by Lord o.sulston. as heirlooms of the estate,
and consequently inalienable property of the Cariso
Tankerville. 'The deer only were therefore offered i t°r
sale, and on Thursday last were put np at the folloul
prices :—the reindeer, in one lot, at £B9, and the fallow
deer at £5O. There was not, however, a single offere
made, and the sale did not proceed.—Tyne Mercury.
COTTON SPINNERS' STRIKE.—In a former paper We
stated that the cotton spinners of this city and neighbour'
hood had made a demand upon their employers for as
advance of 10 per cent upon their wages. This demurnd
has been refused, the masters, at a meeting held on Wer
nesday, H. Dunlop, Esq., in the chair, having come
t;,s• following resolution : " That wages forspinning Pal
in this jistrict are generally high .T than those in Lance.
shire, and t.'..`at the present state of trade is not such auly
warrant any an.;'ance." In consequence of this tefull
the men in eight or -I;ne of the mills stopped work, at
about an equal number l;Ye
given in their warning. The
strike, however, is not likely he either general or 1041
continued. Already numbers of the workmen have re'
turned to their work ; and it is doubtful whether those
who have given in their warning will tallow out their
threats.—Glasgow .Argus.
AN ECCENTRIC AND WEALTHY BEGGAR.-.-I 0 _e.
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parish church of Rotherhithe, a tablet has been ereeta, "
the memory of James Smith, who is designated Esquir.'
The career of this man has been a very extraordinary oar
and it shows how wealth is amassed by strict econonl.
He was a beggar of no usual description, and, though ad'
vanced in years, was one of the most active of his ciao&
His continued round of employment was through 210 Pa'
rishes, and his industry was well rewarded. He left an
immense deal of property, the chief part for charitable
purposes. None out of the 210 parishes have been for-
gotten where he was kindly treated. To almost all he hal
left funds, but has carefully excluded from his will all pa'
rochial authorities, in whose district he fancied he had been
neglected. To the parish of Rotherhithe, which was al-
ways a favourite resting-place of his, he has left property
which produces £4O a year, arid the interest of this money"
is thus disposed of : Upon each Sunday after the sermon
in the church, 120 loaves of the value of 6cl. each are dis-
tributed among the poor old people of the parish, who thus
profit by a beggar's wealth and gratitude, for no doubt
many of the recipients of his bounty have often given their
mite to the rich and eccentric mendicant.
RELIEF OF SEAMEN IN THE MERCHANT SERVICEP'
A return, ordered by the House of Commons, on the mo'
tion of Mr. Gladstone in May last, has recently been
printed. It contains an account of theincome and expert•
diture of the corporation for the relief of seamen in the
merchant service, for the year 1842. The duty, for this
purpose, on London vessels was £8,948 4s. 7d. ; on out-
port vessels under the management of the corporation,
£5,372105. 3d. The net income is £18,968 9s. Bd., which
were expended as follows :—To London pensioners,
£10,260 155., out-port pensioners, £3,199155. 10d., tem-
porary relief in London, £1,464, at the out-ports, £638,
seamen's hospital, £455, and expense of management,
£2,085. The " corporation" manage forty ports in allr
but, by the 4th and sth William IV. c. 52, all other portfi
are made to contribute. Among these Liverpool contri-
butes £5,177 16s. 2d., from duty ; dead men's wages,
£339 18s.; interest on capital, £1,91635. 7d. ; benefac-
tions and forfeitures, £180; which, added to a former
balance, amounts to £10,970 10s. 7d. This has been ex-
pended as follows:—Pensions, £6,816 IZs., temporary re-
lief, £5O 195., expenses of management, £505 17s. 9d.
Invested £3,00. A considerable sum according to these
returns is thus annually raised, and, if properly applied
could not fail to produce much good.

INCOME AND EXPENDITCRE.—The balance of the
public income and expenditure for the year 184'3 has been
printed by order of the House of Commons. The nett
income and expenditure of the year are given as follows:
Income ..
Expenditure

Balance in favour of Increase.. £1,443,302 18 8k
We shall be told, however, as we have been told one
hundred times, that all this balance is China money. Let
us see bow that matter stands—the receipts from Chinn
are considerable, but so are the demands upon the-an%
count of China, viz.:—
Total from China . ..
.. £1,315,209'
On the other hand the
China expedition costs .. £ 416,056
Opium compensation paid 1,245,283
N

---- 1,661,8 79
40w, deducing the whole of the China money received'
row the China expenditure, we have thus a balance of
loss of £346,670 ; so that if both sides of the China ac-
count were struck from the balance-sheet we should have
a surplus of £1,789,972. But this is not all—we have
another extraordinary item to deal with—viz., £262,000
on account of the Exchequer-bill forgeries, raising the
bona fide surplus to £2,051,972—a surplus of two milli-
ons sterling on the commencement of the third year of
Sir Robert Peel's administration. Would any one have
believed this possible in February. 1841 ?
Ma. OASTLER.—The time for the release of this gen-
tleman has now arrived. On Monday next the bolts and
bars of the Queen's Prison will be withdrawn, arid the
victim of cruelty, avarice, and despotism will be free. On
Monday next, " Richard will be himself again," and his
voice will speedily be heard in this county in defence of
the poor, and in awful denunciation against the cruelties
of the oppressor. On Monday last, the Central Coro.
mittee decided upon this step, on account of the precari-
ous state of Mr. Oastler's health, which for some time
has been sinking, and which has laterly exhibited syrur
toms- to cause alarm to his friends and relations. Tit
first Committee rst set out. theip hutirmgua
under the impression that the sum required for the r 6
lease was about £2,000. This was stated at the earlier
meetings to be the sum wanted. On this being raised,
the committee were astonished to find that law expenses
and interest swelled the £2,000 to more than £3,300 or a
£1.0)0 more than had ever been contemplated. About
£2,300 has been raised, and the committee have made ar-
rangements with the bankers for the advance of the re-
mainder. The friends of Mr. Oastler must not therefore
relax in their efforts- A sum of money is yet required to
cpranyei thei debt
tent' dmcro. sot satsot
ellrl rt.oThheo rsne
th i lflr,eaenidn
hi ti
swould
ghee,
without providing him with the means of subsistence.
Let then a further rally be made on the old " King's
behalf. There are many places in Yorkshire and Lanca-
shire in which local committees have not been formed.
Let every man he up and doing.—Manchester Courier.
MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE.-011 Thursday last, the
Rev. Francis Close, of Cheltenham, received a hamper.
by the Birmingham coach, addressed to " the Grange
which is the parsonage-house. The hamper was packed
in the most careful mariner. When the rev. gentleman
returned home he proceeded to open the hamper, in which
he discovered a small box securely fastened. With some
difficulty this box was opened, when he was both aston-
ished and alarmed to find that it contained a very hand-
some child's coffin. The parish authorities were instantlY
sent for,, and on the coffin being opened it was found to
contain the dead body of a remarkably fine new-born male
infant, apparently about a fortnight old. The parish au-
thorities and police were acquainted with the circumstance,
and the rev, gentleman. who is beloved and respected by
all classes of his parishioners, have also offered a reward
for the discovery of the offender. A medical gentleman
has been called in to make a post mortem examination,
but there is no reason to apprehend that the child has
come by its death by unfair treatment. Indeed it would
appear, from the very handsome coffin in which the bodY
was placeJ, that the parties forwarding this extraordinarl
present to the vicarage moved in a respectable sphere in
society. The rev. incumbent is a married man with
large family, and it is not long ago that a base attempt
was made to affiliate a child upon him, which turned oat
upon
conjectured
emost
thatrigi thdine mqsuairyetonabreties,who h
utterly graovue sindlnescse.
It
is
Cheltenham, have a hand in this affair.—Tinges.
FUNERAL OF SIR FRANCIS AND LADY BURDETT.'"
This mournful ceremony took place at Ramsbury, in
Wiltshire, on Wednesday week. The body of the de-
cesed baronet left town in a hearse drawn by six horses,
on Monday morning, and rested the same night at Read'
ing, proceeding on to Hungerford on Tuesday, where lC
was joined on Wednesday morning by the different mem-
bers of the deceased's family, and some few friends who
were permitted to pay the last tribute of respect to the
memory of the lamented baronet by following his remains
to the grave. The cavalcade left Hungerford on Wed,'
nesday morning. The road between Hungerford 801
Ramsbury (five miles) was thronged with spectators; an"
at a short distance from the former town, the processioq
was met and preceded by about thirty of the deceased
baronet't tenantry on horseback, and attired in dee?,
mourning. The procession reached Ramsbury at half:
friend.
past twelve. While the mourners were alighting, %-
pet.
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tnetdh e
sincecontainingves vestry
yhe room,Ladyvved iiwe
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previous,
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temporarily
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yard, and preceded by that of Sir Francis. The serve,'
•
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Hawkins.
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this
manner, by a btohyoent,fhowenheßircoehly bbd
been so numerous, that the family decided on confining
from cpoanyiiinegttiohnes 'last Among
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debarred
deceased
AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY.—The
following
IS
$
tryoeocefAilvEre.ndgßylaoonundnrer, honorary sec.(
retarY of the Spalding Association for the protection
Agriculture, in answer to one officially addressed to hi': by that gentleman, calling on his lordship, in the ma"
a request to me from certain inhabitants
of the society, to resign his office as President of the
ing to prodw:e in Wisetan, Jan. 27.
its neighbourhood, to resign the office which I hold OP' this year, of president of the Royal Agricultural Society
of England. Believing, as I do, that the society is dolelf
noothde, byog vtiluef letter,
Spaldingc o t a
,tO4
ing therefore, most earnestly, to do all in my power :0
I improvementtu reo of theco un t whichy, andit is
v v teas'iStl;
fficepeorsfon itsal consideration would woonueldminotecentilfl!
thought that my resignation of that office would be etc
vantageous to the society. As, however, upon the best
consideration I can give the subject, I am convinced tl
my resignation of that office, for the reasons stated in the
paper which you have enclosed to me, would be extrenq
dretrimental to its interests, I must decline to comply $llll
the request of the gentlmen for whom you are acting. „
" I beg to say, that the opinion which I have lately a",
pressed
it,u upon the
st
perfectlycorn-laws, l is no
known, long
g opinionbefore
tohfereAl.:tetii.
Corn,law League, with which k have no connection vvbslr,
ever, was in existence.—l have the honour to be,
your most obedient, humble servant, SPENCSA4
"Charles T. Bonner, Esq.. Svalding."

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