The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-06 00:00:00

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A number of advertisemer ts received at a late hour has crowded
out several original articles.

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TUESDAY NORAING, AUG. 6, 1844.

Our neighbours in Manchester, we perceive, are
setting to work in earnest to provide for the masses
of their population public parks, playgrounds, pro-
menades, and baths, upon a scale commensurate
with the necessities of their position. It is not,
however, proposed to provide any single public re-
sort. o central situation could now be procured
for such a purpose ; and it is therefore highly pro-
bable that not less than four sites will be selected,
one upon each of the four sides of the borough, to
Insure convenience of access ; and it is suggested by
the editors of the Manchester Guardian, who in a
very laudable spit it have devoted their columns to
the advocacy of the measure, that by the arrange-
ment of these in different ways—for instance, one
as a public promenade and park, another as an ar-
boretum, a third as a garden, and a fourth as a park
and a playground—a variety might be introduced
which would compensate for the want of that extent
and centralisation of plan which it is now impossible
to realise.

With respect to the means by which a measure,
so desirable and so conducive to the future comfort
and health of the population, is to be carried out,
it is anticipated by our contemporary that little diffi-
culty will be experienced. It is conceived that con-
siderable aid, in the shape of donations of land, may
be expected from the neighbouring landowners;
and when we consider the effect, up: YI the value of
adjoining lands, of the opening out i,y any public,
and especially an ornamental undertaking, of plots
however obscure and apparent'y unpromising, such
an anticipation is not at all unwarrantable. In ad-
dition, however, to the aid from this source, it is
proposed to raise from thirty to fifty thousand
pounds by private subscription; and for the origi-
nation of such a subscription a public meeting will
be held in a few days.
Most heartily do we wish the success which it

deserves to these efforts of our Manchester friends.

It is not, however, to give this expression of our
goodwill that we now refer to the subject. We wish
to ask of our townsmen—of the merchants and espe-
cially of the Town Council of Liverpool—is this not
an example which ought immediately to be followed?
Is this large and increasing town to remain in its
present bad pre-eminence as the most unhealthy
locality in the United Kingdom, or are we at length
to, provide it with lungs to breathe, and public
grounds to which its pent-up inhabitants may occa-
sionally escape, to inhale the fresh airs and revel in
the unpolluted sunlight of Heaven ? Are we, with
all the vast and improving resources of our Corpo-
rate Estate, to sit still and see ourselves mewed up
by the tide of building which is rising around us—
to see every available spot occupied—or are we, at
the last, at far too late an hour, to make an effort
for• the attainment of air and health for our growing
population ? A Sussex, a Hampshire, or a Devon-
shire peasant can boast of an average life of 55 to
56 years.. In Liverpool the average is only 26 years !
The whole population of this busy hive of industry
die off in little more than a quarter of a century;
and can it be that, with all the advantages of situa-
tion which we possess, and the large public means
at our disposal, we are willing to allow this wilful
self-slaughter to continue, for want of the very small
amc.unt of exertion and temporary sacrifice which is
necessary to render this locality one of the most
healthy portions of the United Kingdom ?

We trust that such blindness will not continue to
actuate the conduct of the authorities and the mer-
chants and gentry of Liverpool. Let us remember
that although the rich, and even the moderately
wealthy man, can retire, after the fatigues of busi-
ness, to the healthy suburbs—can enjoy the breezes
of our noble river or the refreshing airs of his coun-
try retreat—the poor artizan, immured through the
day in some narrow and pestilential street or court,
no such means of relaxation are open. No public
parks, no gardens or exercising grounds, tempt him
from the close atmosphere of his dwelling-place; and
what is the result ? The tavern and the beer-house
engross the hours which would be devoted to bo
dily and mental recreation; and at the expiration of
what ought to be a day of rest, he is compelled to
return to his endless round of toil, fevered and re-
laxed in mind and frame, instead of being refreshed
and strung up to new exertion, and a healthy en-
joyment of the lot which Heaven has decreed for
him.

We are not sanguine enough to expect that the
effect of the neglect of years past can be repaired in
a day. We are aware that the Corporate Estate
of our town is just now largely drawn upon, and
that we have no present surplus income available
for so large an effort as that which will be required.
Still we might prepare in time for such an effort.
The amount of capital necessary for providing ample
neaps for the recreation of all classes will not he
immediately called for; and, whilst building in all
our suburban districts is going on so rapidly, it
strikes us as most important that we should be
looking round us for proper sites for our parks and
gardens, before they are otherwise broken in upon
and occupied.
We are, moreover, fully satisfied that such amount
of capital is very much over-rated, and that a con-
siderable portion of the first outlay might at no dis-
tant period be made to contribute a return of inte-
rest. The spirited undertaking of Mr. Yates, to
whose liberality and extended views the inhabitants
of,the south end of the town are about to be so
largely indebted, will, we are confident, show in its
ultimate results that even private efforts to benefit
the public are not always unproductive of personal
advantage ; and if an individual can be found ready
to risk the issue of such an effort, surely a public
body or a community, anxious for future as well as
present advantages, ought not to be deterred, on the
score of cost, from a work so important.
.We shall return to this subject more in detail on
an early occasion; and in the meantime we beg to
urge for it the serious consideration of our brethren
of the press and of our fellow-townsmen.

We must express the gratification with which we
have noticed the proceedings, at the dinner given on
Wednesday last to the deputation recently in London
to advance the Birkenhaad Dock Bill. We would
readily have pardoned any trifling burst of exulta-
tion from parties who have just returned triumphant
from such a struggle as that in which the Birken-
head Commissioners have been engaged. We do
pardon a few expressions, of triumph over the op-
position which has been offered to his projects, on
the part of a gentleman who has entered into their
advocacy with such zeal and perseverance as have
been displayed by Mr. William Jackson. And we
are, therefore, the more prepared to admire the good
taste which, on on his own behalf and that of the par-
ties most interested, dictated the studied avoidance of
recrimination upon theirlate opponents, characterizing
the entire proceedings ; and especially we admire
the following candid acknowledgment, which fell
from Mr. Jackson himself, of the credit for honour-
able motives due to those opponents, and the wish, at
the same time expressed, to let. " bygones be bye-
gones":—

" Let us pass over," remarked the gentleman in ques-
tion, " the opposition which has been made to our bill;
and let us, in so doing, give credit, at least, to our op-
ponents ; for when we come to look at the vast measures
we are about to carry into execution and its probable
effects upon the river Mersey, we may safely give them
credit for just fears, and for due precaution, in going to
any expense in ascertaining whether those fears are right
or wrong. It was not a question whether this side of the
water would be benefitted or not ; but a serious question
arose whether these measures would not injure the navi-
gation of the Mersey."
And again—
" The Dock Trustees had a large and vast property in
their charge ; the Corporation of Liverpool had a still
greater; and if, from the construction of these works,
they thought any injury likely to ari7D to the navigation
of the river, it was their duty, and at all events, they were
justified in having the question fairly inquired into be-
fore competent tribunals of the House of Lords and the
House of Commons, in order to relieve themselves of re-
sponsibility in' the event of injury being done."
These are sentiments befitting a man of intellect
and expanded views to utter; and we are only sorry
that any portion of the evening's proceedings should
have been characterized by a less questionable
of good taste and good sense, and still more
sorry that such a want should have been dis-
played by a gentleman connected with the press of
our town. In all questions of purely local interest
it is important that the advocacy of the press should
be directed by opinions aloof from party bias, and
especially from personal bias. We ourselves have,
h
:from conviction, possibly erroneous, opposed certain
featufes of the Wallasey Dock project. We have
feared 'tile tendency of the plan to injure our noble

river ; and Mr. Jackson admits that we might
"justly fear" such tendency. We have supported
the course taken (such fears impelling them) by the
Dock Trustees and the Corporation of Liverpool,
which Mr. Jackson says "it was their duty, and,
at all events, they were justified in" taking. And,
therefore, when a gentleman—Mr. J. W. Harden—
proposed, at the meeting, "The Public Press," and
prefaced that toast by sentiments which allowed to
that press the possession of public spirit, honesty
and usefulness, it was scarcely in the same good
taste on the part of the gentleman who acknow-
ledged such toast (although belonging to " that
portion of the press which advocated the interests
of the great cause, the success of which they were
then met to celebrate"), to fly off from the plain
duty, prescribed to him by the better taste of the
proposer and of the previous speakers, into ad cap-
tandum allusions such as the following :
" Surely those boatmen" (who had looked with dis-
favour upon the introduction of steam navigation on
the Mersey) "must have been the fathers of certain
warehouse nzonopo:ists of the present day ; and the
dread of competition and of any success, but their
own, has proved to be hereditary" :—and the still
more unfounded charge that the Dock Trustees
and the Corporation of Liverpool (who on Mr.
Jackson's testimony had been actuated in their opposi-
tion, from "just fears" of the tendency of the scheme to
injure our river and " the large property in their
charge") " had acted like very puppets, at the
pulling of the wires by certain warehouse owners and
jobbers." Such trash as this, as applied to honour-
able men, acting in what was admitted to be a public
duty, strikes us as rather evincing in the utterer a
disposition to curry favour from his hearers than
the possession of that amount of good sense, taste
and modesty, which are required to render a man's
advocacy of any value. We repeat, that we could
have pardoned such an outbreak from a party hot
from recent struggle; but from the gentleman
from whose lips it fell, and especially from one re-
turning thanks on behalf of a not unanimous press,
conducted by men quite as honourable as himself,
it was unbecoming. On reconsideration, per-
haps he may be of our opinion; and we are
sure the Commissioners of Birkenhead will at
once see that, if it be desirable that their various
projected improvements should be regarded by the
public upon their own meri is alone, irrespective of
party feeling, such an end will not be accomplished
by this babbling of "warehouse monopolists," or
other monopolists.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—IN e have had some
fine heavy feeding showers during the past week, with
alternate bright and warm sunshine—the very weather
required for the filling and ripening of the corn crops,
and the promotion of all other kinds of vegetation. A
few fields, and a few only, of wheat have already been cut
in this neighbourhood, but, with sun and warmth, nearly
the whole will be ready for the sickle in a week or ten
days. The wheats will here be a good average, if the
month be favourable for gathering. The spring Born also
looks remarkably well, and the rains have greatly im-
proved the potatoes, turnips, &c., so that notwithstand-
ing the long and threatening drought in the early part of
the summer, the labours of the husbandman will in all
probability be amply remunerated.
THE FUNDS : SATURDAY NlGHT,—English securities
continue flat, and business has been limited. Even for a
Saturday the dealings bave been of small amount. Bank
Stock left off at 1991 to 2004; Consols for money and the
account ; 99/ to ;Exchequer-bills, 765. to 78s. premium ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 100 toll ; Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. Reduced, 1024 to 103 ; New Three-and-a Half
per Cents., 1014 to 8 ; India Stock, 285 to 287 ; and Long
Annuities, 12 9-16. In the foreign market no material
alteration has occurred for notice. Prices were rather
heavy under the influence of the business in the English
market. Final quotations were—Belgian, 1031 to 1041;
Brazilian, 831 to 841 ; Buenos Ayres, 35 to 37 ; Chilian,
104 to 106 ; Colombian, 134 to 8 ; Danish, 89 to 90 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 614 to 8 ; the Five
per Cents., 1011 to •' Mexican, 36 to 1; the Deferred,
In to 16 •, Peruvian, 25 to 27 ; Portuguese, 434 to 444 ;
Spanish Five per Cents., 221 to 4 ; and the Three per
Cents., 334 to 4.
FRANCE AND Moßocco.—The Morning Herald of
yesterday has the following, which it very naturally heads
in large characters as " most important :"—" We are
enabled to state on good authority that the French Consul
General and his fellow-countrymen have quitted Tangier.
and embarked in vessels belonging to the squadron of the
Prince de Joinville. Reports prevailed at Paris on Sa-
turday that the Emperor of Morocco had rejected the
mediation offered by Mr. Drummond Hay, and the with-
drawal of the French Consul from Tangier would indicate
that nearly all hope of a favourable arrangement being
made between the two Governments is abandoned."

LIST OF PASSENGERS PER " GREAT WESTERN,"
FROM NEW YORK.—Mr. Abrams, Mr. Abrams, jun.,
Mr. E. Acosta, Mr. W. Anderson, Mr. W. Barber, jun.,
Mr. J. Byleveld, bearer of despatches to Holland, Mr.
J. A. Barril, Mr. E. Bech, Mr. C. Bickle, Mr. Charles
Benard, Mr. F. Collomb, bearer of despatches to France,
Mr. A. Calatrava, two children, and servant, Mr. J.
Chamberlain, Mr. M. de Las Casas, Mr. Robert Cruit,
Mr. J. E. Dumont, Mr. T. Ducasse, Mr. T. H. Eimer,
Mr. H. Eisernblat, Mr. J. D. Green, Mr. J. H. Green,
Mr. J. Hiddleston, Mr. F. A.. Hamilton, Mr. R. Hut-
cheson, Mr. J. B. James, lady, two children, and ser-
vant, Mr. F. Meyer, Mr. J. S, Manson, Mr. M. Malone,
Mr. Rilston Maury, Mr. R. Cahuzoc, Mr. J. Munroe,
Mr. W. C. Murray, bearer of despatches to England,
Mr. 0. Memene, Mr. L. G. Melizet, Mr. R. M'Alister,
Mr. C. Mcneekee, Mr. Thomas Orr, Mr. E. Oxley, Mr.
S. Pratt, Miss Pratt, Mr. L. Paradis, Mr. F. Rodewald,
Mr. J. Lawers, Mr. T. J. Spense, Mr. E. M. Sager,
Mr. S. Shaw, Mr. S. Thompson, Mrs. Tallmidve and
son, Mr. C. L. Tiffany, Mr. Louis Wolz, Mrs. Vander-
burg, Mr. D. B. Winton, Mr. F. R. Wallen, Mr.
Wheelwright, lady, and daughter, Mr. F. A. Yznaga.—
Total 65. Left the wharf at New York at a quarter past
three o'clock, p.m., 20th July. Arrived off the roar,
Liverpool, at ten minutes past eleven, a.m., 4th August.
Making the passage in 14 days 16 hours.
THE SCOTCH CHURCH, IN OLDHAM-STREET.-A
motion for an injunction to restrain the Rev. Joseph
Rodger Welsh, the minister of the Scotch congregation
assembling in Oldham-street, Liverpool, from using, and
also to restrain the trustees of the kirk, or meeting-
house, of the congregation in Oldham-street, from allow-
ing him to use, the pulpit in that kirk or building, and
from permitting any other person or persons not being a
licentiate of the Established Church of Scotland, to
preach or teach there, was brought before Sir F. J. Wig-
ram, at the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Wednesday last.
The ground of the information was, that Mr. Welsh hav-
ing given in his adherence to the Free Church of Scotland,
and had sentence of deprivation pronounced against him
by the presbytery of Greenock, had ceased to be a licentiate
of the church of Scotland, and thereby became incapaci-
tated to remain a member of the body which was united
into a presbytery in 1833, called the " Lancashire Scottish
Church Presbytery," to which the kirk in Oldham-street
belonged. It appeared, moreover, that not only such
presbytery required that the minister of Oldham-street
should be in connexion with the church of Scotland, but
that the condition of the grant, by the corporation of Li-
verpool, of the land on which the church is built, requires
that the edifice shall for ever remain a place of divine
worship according to the doctrines and discipline of that
church. The court did not sit again until Saturday, but
the case was not mentioned on that day.
M. LEOPOLD nE. MEYER, who has, we believe, been
heard only once or twice in public since his arrival in this
country, had a concert on Monday morning at the Hano-
ver-square Rooms, London, at which a very numerous
audience was assembled. He is a most extraordinary
performer, and it may fairly be said, that no pianist of
the present day, with the exception of Liszt, is capable of
exciting in so great a degree the wonder of his auditors.
His vigour and energy produce an effect truly electrifying.
But his power is not mere noise, and clearness and intel-
ligibility are never sacrificed to it ; on the contrary, every
note tells distinctly even in passages of the most rapid
execution. The smoothness and delicacy of his touch
in piano passages vie with that of Cramer and Hummel.
He gave several most brilliant performances during the
morning, the most remarkable of which, as affording op-
portunities for variety of effect, on the part of the per-
former. was a caprice on the Carnival of Venice.—Times
GOODWOOD MEETING.—The importance, to which the
Goodwood meeting has now attained, may be gathered
from the following particulars of last week's racing. On
Tuesday there were 12 races, with 61 starters, the value
of the stakes being £11,850. On Wednesday the number
of races was 7, the starters 59, and the amount of stakes
£2,335. On Thursday the nu' .r of races was 12, of
starters 67, and the stakes £7,s I. And on Friday the
races were 9, the starters 57, and the stakes £3,045. Thus
in the 4 days we had 40 races, with 244 starters, contend-
ing for stakes to the amount, in all, of £24,900. The
above includes forfeits, walks-over, but not dead beats, or
more than one heat for the plates. These would make 7
races more. The greatest winners (their own stake in-
cluded) were the Earl of Eglintoun, £5,185 ; Lord Stan-
ley, £3,600 ; Mr. Wreford, £3,205 ; the Duke of Rich-
mond, £3.172 10s. •, Lord G. Bentinck, £2,815 ; Mr.
Gully, 1,752 10s. ; Mr. Gratwicke, £1,150; Mr. Salvin
(the cup included), 1,040; Lord Chesterfield (the Ches-
terfield cup), £630 ; and Captain Harcourt, (Stewards'
cup included), £570. The Goodwood stable, which
started nearly 80 horses, won 13 races—John Day's four ;
Robert's (Lord Eglintoun's) four; Scott's, two; Boyce's,
two ' • Forth's, two ; Hesseltine's and several others, one
each. Lord Stanley is one of the Stewards elect for 1845.
The Goodwood Stakes already has nearly 120 subscribers;
the Cup, upwards of 30 ; and the March Stakes, neatly 50.
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—The performances at this
place continue varied and attractive. Mr. Hudson
Kirby, an American, and certainly talented actor, made
his debut yesterday week, and has been exceedingly well
received. The pieces, at least the opening ones, are all
from striking authors. Other engagements with noted
personators have been entered into, as will be seen by the
advertisement.
TWENTY HOUSES DESTROYED BY FIRE AT EXETER.
—On Friday morning upwards of twenty houses were
burnt down at Exeter, besides other property of value.
The fire broke out in the extensive tallow-chandlery of
Mr. Tuckett, in St. Mary Arches-street, from, it is sup-
posed, the melting-house, and speedily enveloped and
destroyed the whole premises. There was a want of
water, and twenty of the surrounding houses were burnt
down. The loss was at least £lO,OOO, and the London
insurance offices are principally involved.

DINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE SUP-
PORT OF THE. WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF
CLERGYMEN.

The annual meeting of this society was held in this
town, on Thursday last. The sermon was preached in
St. Peter's Church, by the Rev. Mr. Herne, incumbent
of Caddington, and the collection for the chazity
amounted to £24 Ils. sd.
In the afternoon, the clergy and several lay gentlemen
sat down to an excellent and abundant dinner, dessert,
&c., at the Adelphi, served in Mr. Radley's well-known
skilful and elegant manner. Amongst the company were
the Rev. Messrs. Powis, J. J. Hornby, J. Brooks, A.
Campbell, Canon Slade, Archdeacon Rushton, H. J.
Gunning, J. T. Horton, Wignall, Dr. Byrth, A. G.
Battersby, T. Blackburne, T. Bold, H. H. Birley,
Boulton, Abram, E. Ashton, R. S. Master,
Hesketh, Leigh, North, Hopwood, Danforth, Green-
all, Stewart, (Hale,) Eaton; Colonel Taylor, Adam
Hodgson, S. Staniforth, Esq., &c., &c. The Hon. and
Rev. H. W. Powis presided ; vice chair, the Rev. A.
Campbell. The Rev. H. H. Birley headed the other table.
After dinner, and the usual loyal toasts having been
given,

The CHAIRMAN, with a high encomium on his merits,
and an expression of regret that he was at present resi-
ding in Durham and could not, therefore, be present,
gave " Patron of the Institution—the Bishop of the Dio-
cese," which was received with much applause. He next
gave the health of the nominal president for the year,
(absent on his parliamentary duties,) than whom there
was not a more fervent and attached friend to the church
and all church institutions—" Sir Stephen Glynne."
which was drunk with enthusiasm. The next toast was
" The health of the Preacher of the day, the Rev. Mr.
Herne," who briefly but feelingly responded.
The CHAIRMAN said, that in proposing the next resolu-
tion he should not enter into many details relative to the
financial state of the society, as the treasurer, after re-
ceiving so large a sum in small amounts on the day of
meeting, bad not yet had time so to arrange his accounts
as to present them ; but their proceedings were periodi-
cally reported, and every member hah access to the books.
There was a trifling balance on the wrong side of the
sheet, but there was no cause to despond. The claims
of the institution still held the same place in the affections
of the clergy and laity of the diocese which they had
ever done, and there was no charity which stood so high
in the estimation of the people. He should, therefore,
give " Prosperity to the Parent Institution." (Loud
cheers.)
In proposing success to a comparatively new institu-
tion, the CHAIRMAN adverted to its nature, and the diffi-
culties by which it had been beset,—namely, the Branch
Institution for the Education of the Daughters of Clergy-
men, as connected with the training of young females- be-
sides the daughters of the clergy, for the office of teachers
in parochial schools. Amongst the donations was one of
£lOOO, three per cent stock, towards the endowment of
the institution, from a lady in Hampshire—Mrs. Shep-
herd—whose letter he read. Their treasurer had to
make some sacrifices in their behalf, but he did so cheer-
fully, and they all ought to be grateful to Him who su-
perintended the talents devoted to his service for the
success which had attended the institution, and by means
of which the diocese had been raised higher than any
other in the kingdom, so far as the promotion of educa-
tion was concerned. (Cheers.) He hoped this would
encourage others to join them ; and he would confidently
say, that if the church did not take up the subject of edu-
cating the people, it would be taken out of the hands of
the church in a manner which no churchman could ap-
prove of. (Hear.) From a public document they had
been led to expect that if the church established training
schools, £5O per head would be granted to them out of
the funds granted by parliament. In the training school
at Chester provision was made for the training of 50
schoolmasters, and a grant was made by the privy council
of £2,soo—the minute of the council being literally ob-
served. They had presented a petition for a similar
grant to the institution at Warrington, where provision
was made for the training of 40 mistresses, and conceived
they would, by the same rule, obtain £2,000. He (the
Chairman) had, last week, obtained an official interview
with the president of the council—Lord Wharncliffe—on
the subject; and his lordship stated, that though there
might be difficulties in obtaining the grant, arising from
motives of economy in those who held the purse-strings,
yet he himself was favourable to the object, and that he
would recommend that the minute of council be strictly
complied with. (Cheers.) Here then was their hope.
He thought those who wished to maintain the present
system would see the necessity of voting sums of money
liberally for the encouragement of the church, when that
church was willing to make such sacrifices as she was
doing. He trusted that their pecuniary difficulties would
soon disappear, and that in a few years they would find
the diocese have her training schools for masters and
mistresses ; and that they were prepared to do their work
on church grounds and church principles, without the
interference of any party whatever. He proposed " Suc-
cess to the Branch Association," which was drunk with
loud cheers.

" The Rectors of Liverpool" was next given.
The Rev. J. BROOKS said that he and his colleague felt
a zealous interest in behalf of the institution. It was
now approaching half a century since he first became a
subscriber. He concluded by proposing in a highly
complimentary manner the health cf the chairman, who
as secretary and treasurer had done so much for the so-
ciety. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN thanked them for their recording their
satisfaction of his exertions in behalf of the church, whose
principles he revered, and in whose service he was pre-
pared to exercise all the talents it had pleased God to
give him.

The health of the laity being drunk, Colonel TAYLOR
returned thanks.

On that of the Archdeacon of the Diocese being drunk,
Archdeacon RUSHTON returned thanks, noticing the
great sacrifices made by the clergy in behalf of such in-
stitutions. He knew of some, whose incomes had been
incomes had been increased from £9O to £l5O, who had
devoted the increase to charitable objects. (Cheers.) He
trusted the clergy would appeal to their rich neighbours
i❑ behalf of the institution.
The CHAIRMAN proposed as the last toast " The
town and trade of Liverpool," and in doing so paid a
merited compliment to the worthy host in whose house
they met, and who, himself a churchman, delighted to
contribute all in his power to the comfort of his guests.
(Loud cheers.)
Mr. STANIFORTU returned thanks, professing his warm
attachment to the interests of the society, and trusting
that in Liverpool it would never lack a multitude of
friends. (Cheers.)
The company separated at seven o'clock.

ROBBERY.—At the police-court, yesterday, a shabby
genteel-looking youth, with long bushy hair, named
Robert Roche, was placed before Mr. Rushton on a
charge of having picked the pocket of a gentleman
of a considerable sum of money. Mr. Robert Preston
Rodick, of Gateacre, stated that while he was attend-
ing a sale on Saturday last at Lucas's Repository,
Great Charlotte-street, he felt some ane twitching at his
pocket, and on looking round observed the prisoner,
whom he suspected. He immediately afterwards missed
his purse, which contained eight sovereigns, and four
half-crowns. He went after the prisoner, and called a
policeman, who pursued and overtook him—he (com-
plainant) following behind. The prisoner was caught,
and taken to bridewell, where, on being searched, the silk
purse (which was identified) with the money stated, in it,
was found concealed in one of his boots. He was com-
mitted for trial at the sessions.
LODGERS NOT VOTERS.—We inserted in our last a
paragraph to the effect " that in consequence of a recent
decision of Lord Chief Justice Tindal, that lodgers paying
a yearly rent of £lO were entitled under the Reform Act
to the privileges of voting at elections, there is every pro-
bability that the constituencies of the metropolitan bo-
roughs will this year be greatly increased." The law has
always been, since the passing of the Reform Act of 1832,
that a person who bad the exclusive use and occupation as
tenant of a room in a house or building worth £lO by the
year, free of rates, with a right of ingress and egress
through the outer door at pleasure, has a right to be
registered as a voter if he were duly rated to the relief
of the poor, and had paid all the rates due ; and therefore
the judgment of Chief Justice Tindal enunciated no new
principle ; and no person who is merely a " lodger" in
the Lancashire acceptation of the term, or only a resident
in apartments furnished by another, who occupies the
rest of the building, and is alone rated for it, is entitled
to be registered as a borough voter under the Reform
Act, in respect of such occupation only.
STABBING.—A young American seaman, named Chas. Diamond, was yesterday charged at the police-court with
having stabbed a shipmate. Hiram Stevens, a sailor in
the vessel, and also an American, appeared with his right
arm bandaged up and in a sling, and said that the prisoner
after having challenged him to fight, which (though a
more powerful man) he refused to—rushed upon him, and
struck him, and finally stabbed him in the right arm,
making a deep incision. The complainant being severely
wounded was taken to the Northern Hospital. The sur-
geon stated that he found a wound three-quarters of an
inch long, and about an inch-and-a-half deep, in a dan-
gerous place; and the patient was in a state of great pros-
tration from loss of blood. The prisoner said that he was
first struck, and that the complainant bad said that he
would be revenged upon him when be got back to the
States. The witnesses examined did not appear to have
observed which of them struck the first blow. The com-
plainant said that the prisoner bad some time ago run at
the carpenter with a knife, and that so violent was his
conduct that several of the crew had left the ship. He
himself did not consider his life safe while be was on
board. Mr. Rushton ordered the prisoner for trial.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Spirit and anxiety to please,;
regardless of expense, seem at present to be the actuating
feeling of all the various caterers for the public amuse-
ment in this town ; and the enterprising proprietors of
our Zoological Gardens, Messrs. Atkins, appear resolved
to be amongst the foremost in the liberality by which
their management this season is conducted. No sooner
has the engagement of the celebrated Highland Dancers
concluded than forth steps Mr. W. J. Hammond, with
his amusing entertainment of " A Night with Punch,"
evenings
fill the vacuum ; and on Friday and yesterday enings
"the sides of the groundlings" were almost literally
" split" with his drolleries, which, for the benefit of
those who have not yet seen and heard them, as given by
this talented comedian, we beg to announce, are given
out to be repeated on Friday evening next. On Monday,
the 12th instant, however, as will be seen from the ad-
vertisement, comes the treat of treats, the splendid hand
of Monsieur Jullien being engaged to give a morning and
evening concert in the gardens, which we have no doubt
will be crowded upon the occasion by the elite of our
town. Such an exertion made at no trifling cost, does
indeed require public encouragement, which we trust will
be given with no niggard hand. We may remark that
after the splendid showers we have recently bad, the gar-
dens themselves are well worthy of a visit.