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business of serious, if not of dangerous moment, that
Mr. Lawrence Heyworth is to form " a deputation" to

the great metropolis ; and, as their representative in

such a case, there are not ten men in every thousand
of the male population of Liverpool—we say nothing of

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have apparently endeared him—who would not as
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the dishonesty of the tours

pursued for weeks past by the Whig press, and by
Whig statesmen and Whig members of Parliament,

since the commencement of the present session, ex-

ceeds all our previous notions, and is almost incon-
ceivable in its flagrancy. Let us briefly point at the
instances to which we refer.

It is well known that, upon the accession of Lord
Ellenborough to the governor-generalship of India, we
had -just sustained serious disasters in Affghanistan,
and the army in that country was detached from its
supplies and surrounded by difficulties. General
Sale's division was shut up in Jellalabad ; Generals
Nott and England were in a position of similar danger
at Candahar. A number of British officers and ladies
were prisoners; and, in short, British power in that
country was almost annihilated. What was the course,
according to Whig authority, pursued by Lord Ellen-
borough in such a state of things ? The result of that
nobleman's policy is before us. Ample punishment
has been inflicted upon our savage and treacherous
enemies ; our army has been withdrawn, after a career
of victory, leaving the prestige of the British name in
that country fully established ; and every prisoner re-
covered by force of arms. And yet for three months
past, we have been told by the Whig press—first that,
on the arrival of Lord Ellenborough in India, orders
were issued to withdraw the troops, without striking a
blow for the re-establishment of our country's honour,
and leaving upwards of a hundred of our unfortunate
fellow-countrymen and countrywomen in the hands of
the ruthless savage and murderer,. Ackbar Khan ! The
very date of the order commanding such withdrawal
has been again and again referred to, by the Morning
Chronicle, in a series of articles ; its production has
been tauntingly called for in the House of Commons;
the circumstance that no such feeble and un-English
course, as that said to be recommended, was pursued,
has been boldlf and in direct terms attributed to the

criminal and mutinous refusal of General Pollock to
obey the orders of his superior in authority ! More
than this, however, the policy of the ultimate with-
drawal of the British forces within the limits of the
Indus, has been loudly denounced; and in a recent
speech of no less a personage than the leader of the
opposition in the House of Commons—Lord John
Austell—as a wanton abandonment of the policy most
becoming and safe for Great Britain to have pursued.
Well, the denouement of this disgraceful attempt to
overwhelm the present Governor-General of India with

lasting iniamy nas arrived. A 7 blue book" containing
the whole of the despatches and orders, sought to be
perverted in their meaning and actual wording, has at
length been laid upon the table of both houses of Par-
liament ; and by those despatches the following broad
facts are proved :—first, that the order to evacuate
Affghanistan, as a BEATEN POWER too, WAS GIVEN
BY LORD AUCKLAND, previously to the arrival of
his successor upon the scene of disaster; and that it
was not complied with because the army could not
move as directed, had even those to whom it was ad-
dressed been willing—which, however, they were not !
Secondly, that the prisoners were distinctly ordered to be
ransomed by a money payment, instead of being rescued
—the mode alone honourable and safe for the British
nation to pursue in such a case ! Thirdly, and neces-
sarily, that no such order as that referred to as dated
the Ist of August, and containing absolute directions
to General Pollock to retreat without the prisoners,
was issued by the Governor-General; and lastly, that
General Pollock never disobeyed,- or had cause to dis-
obey, any order of that noble lord ! The whole tissue
of representations, upon which the Whig press and the
Whig opposition have chuckled so exuberantly, is a
tissue of wanton, direct, and gross FALSEHOODS I!
Now, we ask, can any member of the late govern-
ment have been ignorant, whilst raising this outcry
,ord Ellenborough, of its perfectly unfounded
We should say " No;" and we say, more-
over, that if any circumstance could more strongly
than another justify an enquiry into all the events of
this disgraceful affair, it is the course of deliberate and
gross misrepresentation respecting it, which has been
systematically pursued by all parties concerned.
We shall give on Tuesday a leading article from
the Morning Herald—somewhat long, but pertinent

nature

throughout—detailing the whole case, as elucidated by
these documents; and we recommend it to perusal as
the most complete exposure of Whig fraud which has
of late made its way to the public.

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be a bold man who dares
That must, indeed,
attempt to reconcile the conflicting opinions of the
members of the Anti-Corn-Law League. At present
we have before ns the debate in the House of Com-
mons, upon the motion of Lord Howick, for a com-
mittee to inquire into the present conditiou of the in-
dustrial and commercial portion of the community;
with a debate in art assembly, infinitely more infallible
in its knowledge of all that relates to the cotton, corn,
and commercial legislation—the Manchester Chamber
of Commerce;—and a more complete tissue of contra-
dictory opinions and theories, than is thus presented
to ns, it is scarcely possible to conceive. In one house
we are told of hostile tariffs, as a fertile cause of the ex
isting embarassments in on, commercial affairs ;—that
re-
taliatory legislation ; and, in did other, the amazing
we are excluded from the markets of the world by
discovery has just been mad* titat hostile tariffs are
nothing, and that it it the policy of this country to re-
ceive freely all the product§ of mitt unions, even
although these nations return the compliment by prohi-
bitory duties against the commodities which we have to
barter Sgt lest this he too astounding an absurdity
to receive credence, we ?.last give its author, and the
words in which it has been produced.

The autkor, then, of this lie* light, thrown upon
the science of political philosophy, atd the nature of
free trade, is Mr. Henry Ashworth, of Turton, near
Bolton. We like to be particular in names, where
such exemplary wisdom is in question. The occasion
of the declaration which we propose to immortalize was
an expression, or rather a speech of Mr. Wm. Gibb, at
the annual meeting of the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce, in which the speaker complained that in
the efforts of this country to establish free trade be-
tween nation and nation, we had not been met by re-
ciprocal efforts. " I am astonished," exclaimed the
worthy quaker in reply, " that in this enlightened age,
and in this enlightened body (!)
there should be found
a man hardy enough to stand up for reciprocity."
Why the thing is exploded ! We want to concede all,
and receive nothing in return ! We want to buy cheap
—to have corn and sugar—why not lard, or "spoiled
" friend Ashworth ?—and coffee and treacle, for
next to nothing,—not to sell goods !—bless you, no
snch thing. Goods will sell themselves, when we have
screwed down wagea a little, or—we beg pardon—" de-
creased the cost of production"—that is the fashiona-
ble phrase. And then comes the oracular dictum,
which we give ipsissimis verbis. If we removed our
restrictions in corn, and they (foreigners) put on 30 or
40 per cent. upon our manufactures, who paid that?
THEY MIGHT KEEP ON THE TARIFF AS LONG AS
THEY LIKED. HOW excessively liberal 1 Their own
people paid the tariff; Worthy brother of the Albion,
what think you of the last sentence ? We should fancy
that it is somewhat in the teeth of your philosophy.
Seriously, however, what can the world think of a
party which one day whines of retaliatory tariffs—tells
us that they are destroying the commerce of England
—and in the next tells us that an additional 30 or 40
per cent. is nothing ?—that we don't pay it—we don't
suffer from it ? Surely there must be something rotten
in a system whose advocates are thus at sixes and
sevens as to the arguments to be used to uphold it !
What sent the illustrious Dr. Bowling to Paris, Brus-
sels, and a score of other places, but to bespeak recip-
rocity ? And yet RECIPROCITY IS A FARCE!
But go a little further with our wise friend Henry
Ashworth. Throw reciprocity overboard. Grant the
millocrat free trade—free trade in all articles of foreign
production—no import duties at all—and it will strike
most reasoning beings that
we shall make little hole
in our national revenue. We presume that hole must
be filled up—darned, patched, or whatever the won by
quaker may call the process. Wa must have a new
tax put on somewhere—that is, if we are not to resort
to the repudiation principle. Well, then, what is it to
be ? Taxes on articles of consumption, mind, are to
be abolished; therefore, we can have no increase under
the head of excise or customs. To direct taxation,
therefore, it comes—to an income or a property tax,

grease,

or tiotti

And likYti doii friend Henry Ashworth pay
tax which, thanks to Whig
profligacy, we have already ? We give the reply in
his own words, and with the benefit of our largest
Our virtuous and patriotic Quaker declares that
he and his brother have paid this tax "BY DIS-
CHARGING OVERLOOKERS, MECHANICS,
AND OTHER WORKPEOPLE ; and that OTHER
MANUFACTURERS HAD DONE THE SAME" ! !

the income and property

These are Mr. Ashworth's own words, quoted from
the Manchester Guardian of Saturday last. Mr. Ash-
worth says, distinctly, that he and his brother had
adopted this course o' dismissal " to save their income
and property tax."

Perhaps it may become a question whether Govern-
ment, in any financial legislation which it may have to
offer on a future occasion, will provide for the case of
such slippery subjects as our Bolton friend. May we
suggest al course ? Wei are not to tax the working
classes. Agreed. We are not to tax their masters—
for they forthwith levy the amount on their workpeople.
If we were to tax collarless coats or drab unmention-
ables, such moralists as friend Ashworth would find no
difficulty in sporting a turn-over and sky-blue for the
continuations. As our friends on the other side of the
Atlantic would say, " you can't fix them." Well, then,
we must be driven to the very questionable policy of
taxing the engine ! That is fixed already ; and they
can't either reduce his wages or shorten his provisions.
The monster would grumble ; and a strike from him
would be a rather serious affair !

The more we reflect upon the whole case, as between
the stipendiary magistrate and the parish authorities,
the more deeply are we convinced that the course" of
the former gentleman has been hasty and ill-judged ;
and that the outcry which he has succeeded in raising
against the latter gentleman is, in a great degree, un-
deserved and, certainly, overstrained. We will pro-
ceed to give our reasons for forming, and for our being
confirmed in this conviction.

We say that the course taken by Mr. Rushton has
been " hasty and ill-judged ;" that, in fact, he has, as
it appears to us, snatched at rather than been reluc-
tantly driven to become the " public accuser" of his
fellow-townsmen. Mr. Rushton, be it observed, is not
himself so totally clear from the imputations which he
so flippantly casts upon other men, who have had the
onus and difficulties of parochial management upon
their shoulders, as he would have the world imagine.
Mr. Rushton was, we are informed, some time since a
member of the Board of Guardians, and by virtue of
his office was, we believe, a visitor of the workhouse
since the administration of the affairs of the poor by
the select vestry. If those affairs were ill• administered,
he had his course clearly before him ; and that course
was an honest, bona-fide endeavour to correct the evils
of such administration. That course Mr. Rushton
appears to have had an indistinct notion of—viz. an
appeal, as the last resource, to the Poor-law Commis-
sioners. We submit that the time for that appeal had
scarcely arrived, when Mr. Rushton made his public
display. Admitting, however, that it had, the mode
in which that appeal was made is, we say confidently,
not dictated by the best possible taste. Mr. R. says
that " he sent for the governor of the workhouse, and
the parochial authorities," to the Sessions House,—to
do what ? to deliberate upon the best steps to be taken
to place the workhouse in a state of efficiency ? To
receive his suggestions as an ex-officio visitor or as
police magistrate ? Not at all ; but to hear them-
selves publicly arraigned, and the evidence of a re-
fractory pauper or two laid before the mixed audience
which frequents the police court ! And why was it to
be thus laid before the prisoners, policemen, witnesses,
plaintiffs, and defendants, in cases of tavern broils, and
other similar characters who frequent his tribunal ?
Was that the place from which it could most advan-
tageously go to the ears of the watchful Somerset-
House trio ? We submit, not. And yet, evidently—
by his own admission indeed—that was the consum-
mation desired. "He was glad," he says, " that the
statement" there made " found its way into the Times,
and" thence " came under
,the notice of the Poor-
law Commissioners." Now,' we say that it was per-
fectly competent for Mr. Rushton to have brought his
complaint directly " under the notice of the Poor-
law Commissioners." And we say, moreover, that,
as an old member of the body complained of, and of
whose difficulties, and proceedings even, he ought to
have been cognisant, the course which he did pursue
was precisely that which good taste and good sense
would not have dictated.

The course adopted by Mr. Rushton was, we admit,
calculated to elevate him in the opinion of the thought-
less and unreflecting, at the expense of parties scarcely
more blameable—in the strict sense of the word—than
himself. Mr. Rushton, we repeat, had seen the state
of affairs at the workhouse ; must have known the
moral and physical impossibility of its amelioration—
to any great extent—from any course less than an ex-
tensive increase of the capabilities of the workhouse it-
self. But was his indignation directed against the
physical difficulties and hindrances now admitted ?
Not at all ! We heard of " want of classification"—
" intermixture of the sexes ;" bat nothing of the im-
possibility of effecting these desiderata without exten-
sive enlargement of the building. We heard of petty
and paltry complaints of his protogee, Clarke, the
ground of which only—upon his own shewing—existed
for three days. But we heard nothing to lead to the
supposition—a charitable one—that the authorities
were doing all within their power, with the means at
their disposal. We heard of "divided authority," and
other similar faults of the system; but these surely
were not facts which it was necessary to proclaim
through the length and breadth of the land—for the
same divided authority we have seen existing in other
departments of the public service; and Mr. Rushton
will scarcely maintain that such unseemly brawls, as
that which recently took place between himself and
Mr. Dowling in public court, reflected credit on either
party, or added dignity to the court in which it oc-
curred. We heard all these charges levelled distinctly
against the authorities--almost directly attributing
the occurrence of the evils out of which they arose to
the criminal conduct of the select vestry; and viewing
such a course of action with the known fact that the
political party to which Mr. Rushton belongs, and of
whom he is the well-rewarded member, aspires to the
absolute management of the affairs of the parish, or
the return of the direction of the affairs of the poor to
the absolute control of the Poor-law Commissioners,
we are not surprised to find Mr. Rushton's indiscreet

ally—the Journal—expressing a hope that lie trusts to
see the management of parochial affairs taken for ever
out of the hands of the party at present in office !
April is not far distant; and, without question, the
present agitation is directed by many quite as much to
the achievement of such a consummation, as to the
professed object which it has in view—the ameliora-
tion of the condition of the poor in the workhouse.
Don't however, fur one moment, let us be presumed
to sanction, in the slightest, the state of the things ad-

mitted to exist in that Workhouse. It is one—if one-
tenth part of what is alleged be true—which we trusted
never to have witnessed in Liverpool, If it be neces7.
sary, we say, expend ten times the fifty thousand

pounds which—notwithstanding the Journal's clever-
ness—we believe will be required to enable us to carry
out the New Poor-Law system, and give indoor relief
to the able bodied poor of the town, rather than permit

such immoralities to exist within its walls ! But Mr.
Rushton knows that such an extension of the capabili-
ties of the existing building cannot be attained in a
clay. That gentleman knows, or ought to know, that
the Select Vestry, at the very time which he chose for
making his display, were actively engaged in preparing
plans for the remedy of the evil complained of! He
might have known, moreover, that those plans were, as
soon as they could be got ready, to be laid before the
Poor-Law Commissioners; and he must know, too,—

no man better—that the proposal to lay out one-half
the sum required to make those plans efficient would
have drawn down a perfect storm of scurrility upon the
authorities from the very party which is now backing
his unseemly efforts. Yes, every person must be aware
that from no portion of the community would the
Select Vestry have been visited with a greater amount
of clamour and odium, in their attempt to procure for
themselves the power to administer the Workhouse
with proper attention to the re,quirgrnents of morality
and decency, than from the pure and patriotic Whig
faction of the borough of Liverpool!
And now one word as to the meeting of magistrates
by whom Mr. Rushton has had his conduct white- ,
washed. May we ask how it is that some of these

Ontlemert Code or ilisro. of whoni have be ii` xl'6'6Ellol;

churchwardens, and

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officio members of ti

Board of Guardians) ha

before spoken out themselves upon this sub
they aware of the glaring evil

Were

spoken c

by Mr

Rushton and his witnesses ? If they we=e, then the
result is palpable. If Mr. Rushton has done his duty,

they have not done theirs ! If his charges are true,
they have failed in their duty as visitors ! The dilemma
is of their own choosing, not ours.
We did purpose saying a few words as to the animus
displayed by Mr. Wm. Rathbone and Mr. R. E.
Harvey towrrds the chaplain of the Workhous2. We
abstain however, owing to the length at which we have
already transgressed upon,the patience of our readers.

The appeals against surcharges to the Income Tax
being now in course of hearing in this neighbourhood,
we may draw attention to a praiseworthy effort on the
part of the churchwardens to prevent parties from
being put to unnecessary trouble in this respect. We
refer to a motion which, on the proposal of Mr. Birkett,
was unanimously adopted by the Town Council at
their meeting on Wednesday. The Income Tax, con-
sidering that it is a consequence of Whig extravagance
and misgovernment, is sufficiently unpleasant in itself
without being accompanied by any vexatious circum-
stances; and Mr. Birkett's zeal and activity in endea-
vouring to remove a just cause of complaint are very
creditable to his public spirit.
The places of appeal for all persons resident outside
the parish, though within the parliamentary borough,
are Preston and Ormskirk ; a grievance which requires
merely to be stated, we should hope, in order to obtain
a remedy.

A very proper objection has been made to the manner
in which the papers have been made out,----they do not
specify the particulars of the assessment, so that no
person can ascertain from the document furnished him
whether he is surcharged Or not; and in many cases,
in all probability, many will be led to believe that they
are not surcharged, though the contrary is the fact.
Little or no complaint has been hitherto made to
the churchwardens on the subject of the surcharges.

LOCAL. NETV,S

The seven o'clock mail train from Liverpool to Manches-
ter, and, vice versa, has been discontinued.

At a meeting of the Select Vestry on Tuesday last, Mr.
Charles Chubb, jun., was appointed Registrar of Births and
Deaths for Great Howard-street Distrint.

WHITEMAN'S DERBY SWEEP.—The attention of our
readers is drawn to Mr. Whiteman's Derby Sweep. The
list of subscribers, we understand, is rapidly filling up.

CAMBRIDGE.—On the 4th instant, Charles G. J. Jones,
8.A., was elected Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. The
above mentioned gentleman is the second son of the Rev. J.
Jones, Incumbent of St. Andrew's Church.

MISSES SWAIN'S CONCERT.—Misses Swain's concert, on
Tuesday last, at the Royal Assembly-rooms, went off with
much spirit, the fair beneficiares sang very charmingly a va-
riety of compositions. The programme was well selected, and
the whole performance gave entire satisfaction.

DEATH OF SIR T. H. HESKETII, BART.—We have to re-
cord the demise of the above baronet, who expired on Friday
last, after a short illness, at his house in London. He only
succeeded to the baronetcy in August last, on the death of
his father. The deceased was born in 1799, and married in
1824 Miss Bomford, Rathenstown House, county Meath.
His only son, Mr. Thomas George Hesketh, succeeds to the
baronetcy and the extensive estates of the family in this
county.

MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.—We perceive that the Metropo-
litan Protestant Association have already prepared a petition
against the annual parliamentary grant to the popish college
of Maynooth. In the session 1837-38, petitions with about
11,000 signatures were presented against the parliamentary
grant ; in the session 1838-39, the petitions were 199, and the
signatures 51,202 ; in the session 1839-40, the petitions were
458, and the signatures 95,108; in the short session ending
June 22, 1841, the petitions were 306, and the signatures
69,177 ; and in the session 1841-42, the petitions were 211,
and the signatures 88,960.

EXPEDITION.-An extraordinary instance of the facilities
afforded by steam navigation in mercantile transactions oc-
curred here last week. A letter from Liverpool, dated on
Friday afternoon, to the correspondents of the house in
Glasgow, ordering the purchase of a quantity of cotton, was
received on Saturday, at three o'clock. The cotton was pur-
chased and shipped by the Liverpool steamer Commodore,
sailing that evening; and the firm in Liverpool had intima-
tion that the cotton was landed for them from on board the
vessel before they had received, in due course of post, advice
of the receipt of their letter.

STEALING PROMi THE. QUAYS.—Considerable quantities
of soap have recently been stolen from the quays, where it
had been laid for exportation, and the parties owning the ar-
ticle have, consequently, been on the look-out for the de-
predators. On Wednesday, inspector M'Gill observed two
fellows lurking about some boxes of soap at George's Dock
quay ; on going up he found upon them large knives, with
which to open the boxes, and also a bag in which to conceal
and carry off the spoil. As they were known as bad charac-
ters he put them into custody. Their names are Daniel
Kelly and Thomas Mulligan. They were placed before Mr.
Rushton yesterday, and were each committed to, gaol for a
month.

PUNISHMENT OF IMPRUDENCE.—A dissipated-looking
woman, named Ann Campbell, was charged before Mr.
Rushton on Tuesday with having robbed John Brian, cattle
dealer, Tipperary, of £l7. 10s. The complainant stated,
that on Monday night, about nine o'clock, he was going from
his lodgings to embark on board one of the packets for
Ireland. Near the Borough Gaol he met the prisoner, with
whom he entered into conversation. lie sauntered forward
with her till, in an unfrequented place, she was joined by two
other women. Suddenly they seized him, threw him in a
twinkling on his back, and the prisoner rifled his pockets.
Having secured his cash, she handed it to her companions,
who fled. He clung; fast by the prisoner, however, until a
police-officer came up, who secured her. She denied having
ever seen the complainant, and was committed for trial.

ATTEMPT TO D'AFRAITD THE BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY
COMPAN Y.—A respectable looking young man, named
Robert Roberts, who stated he was a joiner, residing in
London-road, appeareil in custody of the police, before John
D. Case, Esq., on Tuesday, charged by the Superintendent
of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company with at-
tempting to get into the train whilst it was going along, and
without having first paid his fare. In answer to a question
by Mr. Townsend, the *la eistr at es' I clerk, the complainant
said he had no Wish to press the charge against the defend-
ant ; his only object was to put a stop to a practice which
was adopted by several parties lately of getting up the em-
bankment, as th• defendant had done that morning, and
getting on the carriages after they had started. In the pre-
sent case, had it not been for the constable seizing him, there
was no doubt his legs would have been cut off. The magis-
trate then reprimanded defendant, and he was discharged.

THE FUNDS.—WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The permanent
securities have maintained much firmness, with a trifling ten-
dency to advance. Bank Stock has risen to 1774 to 1784,
but in other prices, save a slight reduction in the premium
on Exchequer-bills there is little alteration. Consols for
money and the account left off 944 to 95 ; Three per Cent s
Reduced 954 to 4; Three-and-a-half per Cents Reduced,
1021 to i; Long Annuities, 12 13-16; India Stock, 268 to
269; India Bonds 6-Is. to 655. premium; and Exchequer
bills, 635. to 655. premium. Foreign stocks were steady,
with a moderate amount of business. The absence of news
to affect prices accounts for the unchanged condition of the
market. Portaguese Converted have nearly recovered their
old position, being to day quoted 384 tot; Spanish Actives
were 194 to ; ditto, New, 254 to 4 ; Mexican, 304 to i;
ditto, Deferred, 84 to 4 ; Danish 854 to 864 ; Dutch Twii-
and-a-half per Cents, 544 to 4 ; Dutch Five per Cents 1024
to 1034 ; Colombian, 234 to -4 ; Brazilian, 76 to 77 ; and Bel-
gian, 103 to 104.

THE WORKHOUSE.—The following letter from Mr. B.
Nightingall, the House Surgeon of the Workhouse, appeared
in the Courier of Wednesday :—" The statements with which
both the metropolitan and provincial press are now teeming,
in reference to the state of the Liverpool Workhouse, and
the vicious practices going on in that establishment, are,
sir, I conceive calculated grossly to mislead the public
mind ; and it appears not a little remarkable that the ma.
nagement of the largest Workhouse in England, and which
has always been held trp as a pattern for similar institutions,
one also which has stood the test and scrutiny of large bodies
of influential and philanthropic characters, such as abound
in this great community, should by some occult working, in
a moment, as it would seem, fall from its elevated position,
and become the object of contumely and debasement. Sir,
I contend that the facts elicited at the meeting of magistrates
on Friday were derived frem sources which do not warrant
the conclusion arrived at. The examination on that occasion
was almost ex-parte. Witnesses might have been called
,whose evidence would have given a fat different feature to
the inquiry than what it now so unmeritedly bears. Sir,
twenty years' dad? experience in so extensive an establish-
ment, and in a medical character, may b 3 supposed to afford
a tolerable opportunity of forming an estimate as to the mo-
rality or otherwise of its community : and if it were possible
that the gross abominations said to have been practised there
could be the fact, then I say that the officers of that institu-
tion have forfeited the confidence of the parishioners at
large, for I maintain that these atrocities must have come to
the knowledge of the heads of departments. The parochial
authorities are so well aware of the bad adaptation of the
Workhouie in its Structural arrangements, for carrying out
a salutary classification, that It would be futile here to make
any remarks on that head.?'

DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS VOR ST. BARNADAS'
CHURCH.—In our advertising columns will be found the re-
solutions passed at a meeting of the congregation of this
church, held on Monday night last, for the purpose of raisin..
schools for the benefit of the district belonging to St. 13ar'-
nabas' Church; also the announcement of sermons to be
preached, and collections made, in furtherance of the same
object, by the Rev. Rector Brooks and Rev. Hugh 14'Neile.
At the meeting on Monday night names were put down for the
amount of .;£B6 lls. Od., and more has been added since—,-5
munificent effort, indeed, with reference to the number of per-
sons who were present, and to the means of the contributors.
The indispensable importance of a school to the success of
any church, but more particularly in such a district as that
of St. Barnabas, is on all hands acknowledged ; and the
names of the advocates who have undertaken to plead for the
erection and establishment of schools in this locality must
secure for them the sanction and support of all sound and
enlightened churchmen in Liverpool. This is of much im-
portance, the rather that the appeal for funds to carry on and
complete this undertaking must not be confined to the con-
gregation of the church, or the inhabitants of the district.
The Church of England School Society, the National So-
ciety, and Committee of the Privy Council may all be ex-
pected to aid in this good work; and our more affluent
fellow-townsmen, througlt whose Christian liberality that
church was built and endoweri, will not, we are persuaded,
be applied to in vain irr bekalf of a work necessary to the full
success of MI ontlertsking, begun by themselves for the spi-
ritual improvement of that poor and destitute neighborrrhood,
of St. Barnabas' Church in
and which, since the opeebiß
1841, has been blessed to an extent that more than justifies
the wisdom and .proves.the importance of planting S church
in a neglected locality. The minister, churchwardens, and
congregation of St. Barnabas' having done already so much
themselves, and
claimants on the sympathy
which will be proportionably followed up, can
now appear with a good grace 's,.s
and generosity of the Christian publi6. They deserve tp
succeed; we are persuaded they will succeed ; need we add,
we heartily wish them success.

n twenty-eight gold rings from
radise-street. It appeared, that on
woman, who was in the shop try
question, was buying some rings. She happened to let one
of them fall and stooped to pick it up. On rising she caught
a glimi.se of a youth leaving the shop. A little girl entered
and said that a lad had run away with a box of rings. The
thief, however, was out of sight. On Tuesday morning, how-
ever, the prisoner,, who was identified by the little girl, Was
taken into custody, offering two of the rings for sale. The
young lady from 'whom the property was stolen happened
shortly afterward to be in a shop in Manchester-street, when
the female prisoner entered, and showing a garnet ring,
enquired what it was worth. The young lady recognised the
ring as one of those which had been stolen. The prisoners
were committed for trial.

bar charged with Navin

At the Police-conri..on TuistlaY,

a jeweller's shop in Pa
Monday night a young

VIOLENT ASSAULT.—On Tuesday a rough-looking young
fellow, who had the appearance of a blacksmith, was placed
at the bar in company with a middle-aged female. Both
were charged with having assault a decent-looking man, who
brought forward a crowd of witnesses to confirm his accusa-
tion. The complainant stated that he was "jist going to sit
down to tay in his own house" when the prisoner, armed
with a huge bludgeon, broke his door, rushed in, and struck
him several violent blows on his head. The marks of the
injaries were distinctly visible. Several of the witnesses
corroborated this testimony, and it was added that the assault
was entirely unprovoked, and that the female prisoner ac-
companied and aided him throughout. The prisoners said
they had been frequently assaulted by, the complainant; but
Mr. Rushton said that the female prisoner was fined 208.
and costs, and that she was to pe imprisoned one month in
default of payment, and that the male prisoner was fined 50s.
and costs, and that he was to be imprisoned three months in
default of payment.

WIRRAL AGRICULTURAL. SOCIETY.—The annual meet-
ing of this society was held at Neston, on Monday last. The
ploughing match took place in a field belonging to Mr.
Sothern. at Ness, and commenced at ten o'clock in the
morning. There were eighteen ploughs on the ground, and
the ploughing was most excellent. The first prize was car-
ried off by Mr. Broster. of Neston, the second by Mr. Jack-
son, of Noctorum, and the third by Wm. Webster, jun..
Esq., of Upton. The annual dinner afterwards took place
at Mr. Wright's, the Golden Lion, when about one-hundred
and twenty persons sat down to the bountiful and excellent
provisions set before them by the worthy host. Charles
Stanley, Esq., presided, and the usual toasts and edifying
discussion on agricultural matters was kept up with harmony
and hilarity until a late hour. It gives us pleasure to add,
that to this useful society there were added, amongst others,
the following new subscribers, namely, the Marquis of West-
minster, the Earl of Shrewsbury, George Johnson, Esq., of
Eccleston, and Captain Glegg, of Backford.
CAUTION TO AUCTIONEERS.—On Tuesday last Mr. B.
Boughey, superintendent of the Birkenhead police, charged
David Gray before the magistrates at Birkenhead with vend-
ing goods as an auctioneer in the Birkenhead Market on the
previous Saturday without the licenses required by law.
It appeared from the evidence that Gray was in the habit of
selling crockery ware by auction in Liverpool, and also in
Birkenhead, and that he had removed a quantity of goods
from the former to the latter place on Saturday last, which
he was selling by auction, when the officers stopped him and
demanded his license. He produced an auctioneers' license,
but was told that that was not sufficient ; he must also pro
duce a hawkers' license, which failing to do. he was taken
into custody and his crockery seized. Mr. Murrow, solici-
tor, of Liverpool, appeared for the defendant, and contended
that the auctioneers' license was sufficient, as the goods had
been consigned to him for sale. The latter part of the case
was rebutted by the evidence of a person in the employment
of the defendant ; and the magistrates being of opinion that
the law required him to have a hawkers' license, he was con-
victed in the penalty of £lO. and in default of payment►
committed to prison until the fine shall be paid.

STEALING LEAD FROM NEW BUILDINGS.—This offence
has recently become more than usually prevalent. Yes-
terday, a young man, named William Edwards, was placed
at the bar, accused of stealing lead from a new house is
Turner-street, leading out of Birkett-street. It appeared
that about half-past seven oclock, on Wednesday night,
l'olice-officer Waller, from information he had received
while in Richmond-row, went to some new buildings in the
street named, where be saw the prisoner and another young
man on the roof of one of the houses. He asked them what
they were doing there, and they replied, " Nothing." He
next asked them how they got there, and the prisoner said
"he was drunk, and did not know how he got up." The
witness procured a ladder, and secured the prisoner, but the
other escaped. On afterwards searching one of the empty
houses, he found about 30Ibs. of lead in the fire-place. It
was doubled up, and appeared as if it had been thrown down
the chimney. Mr. Thomas Hughes, owner of the house,
claimed the lead as his property, and witness, on going ou
the roof found about nine yards of lead guttering had been
ripped up and taken away. The lead found fitted that left
on the roof. Mr. Hughes said he was a joiner and builder
and owner of the house, and that the lead was no doubt his
property. The prisoner was committed for trial.
THEATRE-ROYAL—MR. HAMMOND'S BENEFIT.—Last,
evening there was a crammed and brilliantly-attended house
at this theatre, the entertainments being for the benefit of
Mr. W. J. Hammond. The performances commenced with
"The Clandestine Marriage," in which Mr.Farren sustained
his great part of Lord Oyleby, and Mrs. Glover her equally
inimitable Mrs. Heidelberg. It has been asserted that we
cannot raise up a standard of acting, so much depending
upon taste; but we think there are few that will not admit
that Mr. Farren's Lord Oyleby may be fairly placed as such,
with which all other attempts of the character may be tested
on the score of merit. It is the very acme in the art of act-
ing—finished in details, and, as a whole, a perfect embodi-
ment of a vain, frivolous, hut still warm-hearted old beau.
Mrs. Glover's Mrs. Heidelberg was replete with vulgar hi-
larity, and caused frequent bursts of laughter. Mrs. Sey-
mour played the pretty part of Fanny Sterling with much
gracefulness and feeling. Miss Cleaver's Miss Sterling was,
done with vivacity and judgment. The capital farce 01
" Uncle Foozle " elicited much merriment. A new farce,
called " Cousin Lambkin," wound up the evening's enter-
tainments. In this Mr. Hammond appeared, and was re-
ceived with warm and hearty welcomings from certainly the
most fashionable, as well as the fullest, house this season,
This must have been highly gratifying to him, as a proof
that he still holds a distinguished position in the favour of
the public.

THE ASHBURTON PACKET SHlP.—This splendid ne":,
ship, which arrived here a few days since, is thus describe'.
in one of the New York papers :—" She is 1100 tons burtnent
and can carry forty first class passengers. On deck itle
noticed the same excellent accommodations for cows, pigs,'
poultry, and sheep, so necessary at sea, that were introduced
on board the Cambridge when she was built. In between
decks there is plenty of cargo room, running fore and aft'
equal to three thousand bales of cottcn, or more. in be-
tween decks also there are large berths and clear air for the
steerage passengers, so much needed by the poor eniigrantsi
Down in the hold is a water tank that will take four thousand
gallons of water from the Croton, and keep it pure and cold
all the time. There is a delicacy about the finish that IS
really fine. In the windows are panes of richly-stained glass;
with portraits of Ashburton and Western in the ladies
cabin, and the colle d' armes of England and America in the
gentlemen's cabin. All the mahogany, bird's-eye maples,
and satin wood, usually used in the cabins of our packets'
have been discarded, and the sides painted, as in the cabins
of the Great Western, with national sketches, not including'
however, the little Cupids on the doors. All, excepting
these Cupids, is in the commemoration of the recent treat,'
of peace between Great Britain and the United States. In
the state-room, the berths are fitted up as in the Stephen,
Whitney, and the entrances to them area l'Anglais. ThP
connect by doors, so that a family, in crossing the Atlantic,
can have a suite of rooms, and not be separated night or daY'
which is not the most agreeable thing in the world.
SUNDAY TRADING.—On Tuesday, two parties, residing
respectively in Vauxhall-road and Chisenhale-street, were
summoned at the Police-court, by police officer No. 362, i tnr
having kept their shops open, and served several customers'
during the hours of divine service on Sunday morning last•
The csses having been fully proved, each party was ordered
to pay a fine of ss. ; and the magistrate intimated to them'
that, after the late repeated warnings they had received from
the authorities of the district, they could not plead ignorance
of the law. The police-officer stated that he was specially
employed to look after the closing of shops during the hours
of divine service, and had repeatedly warned the parties now
fined of the consequences of their continuing this practice:.
He also informed the court that a great reform had be
brought about in the district in which these parties reside;
be the very determined manner in which the churc.thwardend
of St. Matthias' Church had followed up the offenders ; an
that he could personally testify, that in Chisenhale-street'
Charter-street, Vauxhall-road, Stewart-street, and Waterloo;
road, not less than eighty shops, formerly open all day
Sunday, are now all closed during divine-service time, en‘,
most of them during the whole day. We would remind naitx
who doubt tl-e power of the Lord's Day Act, that there i 5,
clause therein which enables the churchwardens to order enri,
constable or other officer to seize the goods of any pers?.e
displaying the same for sale on the Sunday, and to sell we
same for the benefit of the poor of the parish. This course
has not been hitherto taken, from feelings of dislike
presume, on the part of the authorities, to act harshly ; uof
we are informed that it will be literally acted on in case
further opposition:

_ - -
THE WEATHER.—After a generally open winter, though j, 0
most disastrous in storms of wind, we have experienee
during the last few days, a severity of temperature Was
litte looked for as it was unwelcome to the mass of the CO_lo.
munity at so advanced a period of the year. The frost comg menced yesterday week, and on the following day there rto
a slight fall of snow—the thermometer ranging from 30 11.
g,OtnhelNsTaemdneeisndsatyrutuhieelaattirtiic:isi
34°, until Tuesday night, when the cold became more 14y
tplenrscein
creased until about three o'clock yesterday morning, when
atmosphere
eg
b2e9c°a.meTeheceecedbilli
the. thermometer fell to 15° (its greatest depression), u.etje, li° below the freezing point ; at eight o'clock it rose a Witt,
standing at 18° ; and at nine was at 29°, the sun being °„0.
The barotner stood, on Sunday at noon, at 30° 06', and evop
tinned to fall slightly for the three following days• „,er,
Tuesday, at noon, it indicated 29° 25'. Last night, hove;tha
it was again getting up, so that the probability is, that
frost will continue until the next change of the moon—Pare
cularly as the sky is clear, and the wind, which has fort,ly
days been from the north, has gone a few points eas,,erthe
Some of the ponds in the neighbourhood are frozen to 00
hearing point," and skaters were, Yesterday numerous IoS
them. There was a slight fall of snow, which still ren3,,,;:10a
on the fields and house-tops. We find by the L''idest
journals of yesterday, that Wednesday was also the.e° day of the season in the city. On Tuesday morning
thermometer fell to two degrees below the freezing Pc'sse;
with a north-east wind. The cold continued to leen al
and on Wednesday Morning the thermometer stood as Jodi 0
26°, or six degrees below the freezing point: The twn
00.
the neighbourhood, and the ornamental water in the 4ege
Park, was frozen over.
o.r eaC
NEW FIRE ENgINES.— In consequence of the 'to IP
number of destructive fires that have recently taken Pla''
the town, the Police Committee have, in addition °sort
contemplated improvement in the ready supply of Wool
procured four additional new fire-engines, which. were WO
for the first time on Wednesday afternoon, These eatol
are of the largest size, and on the usual and most aPP`ns of
principle, With, however, the bore of the prirning,Pa'%ef°
cylinders rather larger than those now in use. They rth
built by Mr. tury, at his extensive iron-works' at the,_ na
end of the town. The ground chosen was the site of the tiO
steam-mill of Mr. Holmes, near the canal, and a little
north of Chisenhale-bridge. The engine, No. 9, maddo
oar
Mr. Merryweather, of Long Acre, London, in 1839, 0
of the best belonging to the fire-station, was brought tyco b 0 by which the powers of the new machines were
t in
tested, and we may scarcely add that it was previousi);_!;nre'
the best of order for the occasion. A strong body of tll,oti
police were present to work the engines under Mr. volica_
and Mr. Hewitt, and a number of
gentlemen of the `l., th!
Committee and others interested in the result were 0
ground. The water used was from the canal, the er'olie:
being played on the bank. No. 9, and one of the nenwiderol
were simultaneously and successively played, with a e.°ooeY
able length of hose, upon the tall steam-engine chi
he jet
the o
the mill, which still stands amidst the ruins ; and as Jet
who held the branches stood pretty close to its base!,,e or on,
was nearly perpendicular. There appeared to be 11,_':;
difference in the power of any of the new engines al!"eogql,4
If any, it was perhaps slightly in favour of the ola_nleo7o7,f
which may be accounted for by the others being
v•Je feet eve
stiff. The water was thrown to within ten or twe hundrof
the top of the shaft, or in other words, about oue,r3ightlii
feet in height ; and we doubt not an additional for to
fifteen Cr twenty feet would have been attained !Nilo°,
action of a rather strong north wind. The water,
;„0,
at times muddy, which militated against the opera"'