The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-22 00:00:00

SALE OF CORPORATION PROPERTY,

On Wednesday last Mr. Winstanlev submitted the follow-
ing lots of Corporation property to the hammer. We sub-
join the amount which each lot realised. The competition
which at present exists amongst the members of the numer-
ous building societies in the town has a tendency to enhance
the value of small property ; bat a sale like the one in ques-
tion gives an advantage to men of capital.
Lot 1.--Two Houses in Upper Frederick-street, Nos. 43
and 47, and Four Back Houses adjoining, in Murray's-
court, Mr. Shakeshaft—Xs4s.
2.—A do. do., No. 55, and a Back House in Hodkinson's
court, James Greenaway—X2ls.
3.—A do. do., No. 61,_Joseph Shakeshaft—.£l7s.

4.—A. do. do., No. 63, and a Back House in Livesey-
court, John Carter—£23o.
s.—Two do. do., Nos. 65 and 69, and Two Back Houses
adjoining, William Andrews—£42o.
6.—A do. do., No. i 3, and a Back House adjoining in
Livesley-court, Mr. Ilighfield—£2so.
7.—A do. do., No. i 9, and a Back House adjoining, in
Holt's-court, John Pickard—:£2oo.
B.—A do. do., No. 81, Ellen Lovecroft—£l7o.
9.—A do. Pitt-street, No. 48, and a House at the back
adjoining, in St. Mary's-court, James Cullin—£36o.
10.—A do. do., No. 46, and a Back House adjoining, in
St. Mary's-court, John Muir—£390.
11.—Two do. do., Nos. 42 and 44, and two Back Houses
adjoining, in Kelly's-court, Mr. Fordham—£7Bo.
12.—A do. do., and Two Back Houses adjoining, in Hod-
kinson's-court, Mr. Greenway—£44o.
13.—A do. Upper Frederick-street, No. 20, and Four
Back Houses adjoining, in Watmough-court, Mr. M'George
—£535.
14.—A do. Pitt-street, No. 19, Mr. John Whitley.—£22o.
15.—A do. do., No. 21, Mr. Jones—£lBo.
16.—A do. do., No. 23, d0.—£225.
17.—A do. do., No. 25, d0.—£220.
18.—A do. do., No. 27, John Pickford—£27o.
19.—A do. do., No. 29, Executors of F. P. Tate—.£33s.
20.—A do. do., No. 31, John Lunt—£2Bs.
21.—A do. do., No. 33, James Greenway—£2Bo.
22.—A do. do., No. 35, d0.—.£290.
23.—A do. do., No. 37, do.-290.
24.—A do. do., No. 39, Mary Whitby—£34s.
25.—Two do. in York-street, Nos. 10 and 12, Mr. Jones
—£sso.

26.—A do. in Shaw's-alley, No. 5, Richard Pritchard—
£2lo.

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S INCOME TAX

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

-----•
Stn,--The announcement of Sir Robt. Peel's scheme of
finance has, doubtless, carried dismay into the hearts of thou-
sands. Ido not mean that the principle is objectionable, ort
the contrary, it is, perhaps, in the present state of the coun-
try, the only practicable plan of extrication. But there are
multitudes upon whom, without some modification, it will
operate with a grievous, not to say an unjust pressure. I
mean the numerous class who are dependent for support upon
employment in offices, public and private—the lower order
of beneficed clergy, and, in fact, all who derive from personal
exertion an income barely adequate to the decent mainte-
nance of a family. To tax persons of this description in equal
proportion with those deriving income from tangible pro-
perty, will have the effect, in very many instances, of lerionwg
a bereaved family altogether destitute of support. We 'tip
that a life insurance is the only mode of securing future.
we
to those left behind without any other inheritance, d
annd of
also know, that if this be effected at all out of a st'Pf by
£l5O or £2GO, it must be done, even to a smallin
dint of good management and great economy.
taken for
addition to other rates and taxes, £4. is. 6cl• as"has a man
income tax out of his £l5O, what possible
means bas
Sir,
of making the least provision for the future?
ve
to the the humanity of the legislature will be ali
would occasion ;
amount,ut i f ,
widely-
spread suffering the enactment in question of the necessity of
and the premier himself will be convinced
In the meantime, it
some modification of his original 1.
Plaziikely to be affected to
deeply concerns the mass of person,
House of
no time their case by petition to the
that purpose no time is
membering that in taking steps for D.
to be lost.—l am, Sir, yours,

March 17, 1842.
arising
git
ftrhnanit upon
salariesiil-
[We cannot but think that of
respect/. correspondperon!
takes a somewhat gloomy view of the
.opuera..ion
in his
iti he
posed income tax upon the classes Rarttioc larised
comes of £l5O and .E2OO Per
given above. We are perfectlyready
annum,
perhaps, the most severe which catntbe instanced. To a man
and other sources of a similar description, the
with a stipend of small( amount support a numerous
family, the subtraction of
if year will be a serious
inconvenience, and deprive him, unaccompanied with some
reduction of his expenditure to meet it, of many
petit: is, to t:ilal
comforts,
and even necessaries. Our correspondent
articles of consumption, mind, however, that the imposition of an in
a corresponding
must bear '
Let our correspondent
in
great extent, only a changethe mode of the taxation
which be is already subject, and that by taxation to
reduction of the duties upon
whole of the amount
probably be reimbursed nearl the
which he thus pays.
effect of the rernodification of correspondent calculate the
Price of the various articles our commercial tariff upon the
upon the price of butcher' which he uses in his family—
&c. And we think he s meat, groceries, shoes, furniture,
so material a loser as he will find that, in reality he will not be
too, he will supposes. In these articles of con-
sumption,tion ; the income be benefitted by a permanent reduc-
tion
the three tax will in all probability not extend be-
years,
will endeavour as proposed by Sir Robert Peel. We
on an early occasion to make out an estimate
of the probable effconsumption of ect of the reduction in question upon the
respondcnt such families as are pointed to by our cor-
. Ed. L. s. ]

The Pt •
—ngliton Guardian reports a coroner's. inquest ou
!ii,e.nrY King'. aged fifty years, a travelling mendicant, whose
Lath was ocsasioned by elting muscles.

mighty mind, united as it was with a temperament equally
calculated to wreck as to bear it to a secure harbour, from its
first darkling perception of error, through all its intermediate
stages, until it emerged at length into the full blaze of truth

and perfect conviction to be a beacon light to point the w

for all ages to come.
Through such an examination Mr. Montgomery bas led us

in the essay which he entitles an introduction to the poem of
" Luther;" and the style in which he has executed his task is
so piquant that it cannot fail to win the attention of the moat

superficial reader and to tempt him, as it were, into an exa-
mination of the depths of the character of this extraordinary
man. He has brought to his aid, too, the fruits of an exten-
sive reading which he has intertwined with bursts of enthu-
siastic description which are irresistibly pleasing. There is
an occasional mannerism of style—an affectation of German

mysticism extending to the verge of the unintelligible—
which will somewhat detract, in the estimation of most Eng-
lish readers, from the delight which his poetic prose excites ;
but the blemish is scarcely one which will be sensibly felt, and
is, perhaps, calculated to give a freshness and originality to
the thoughts which are thus set before us in an outlandish
garb.

We will endeavour to select a specimen or two of Mr.
Montgomery's peculiar style. And, first, we have a graphic
picture of Luther's mode of treating a Popish bull :

" But the war is raging • ' on the one side, stands the
miner's son, firm and unflinching' as granite, for the truth ;
and on the other,—the Pope, the Devil, and the world, with
all their primps and braveries and threats, and arts, against
him ! Aid yet, listen !—how the monk will keep them all at
hay ; shaking them off from him, like a storniful Boanerges,
with indignant, but not ungraceful, determination. "The
glory of the Pontificate is departed. The wrath of God is
conic upon it for ever." "To every man lam prepared to
give way in all things, BUT THE WORD OF GOD I DARE
NEITHER ABANDON NOR DENY." Now this prepares us
for the scene that shortly followed. The infinitely miserable
and detestable bull of the Pope, having been at last promul-
gated by Eckius, and Luther's writing being actually burnt
in various towns,—the brave Martin is determined to have a
bonfire too ; and as noble a one it shall be as ever sent up its
flaming appeal to the skies.—On the 10th of December an
invitation is affixed to a black board for the students at Wit-
temberg to attend this Lutheran firework. And, lo !at nine
in the morning, just as the chime is sounding, forth cometh
Luther, from the Elster Gate, encircled by a goodly number
of Doctors, Masters of Arts. and Students, and there !—hark
to the rejoicing crackle of the flames as they demolish with
burning rapidity (as if they loved their work) Canon Law,
Decretals, Clementines, the Extravagants, and parts of
Eckius and Emser's work. As soon as these are annihilated,
forth steps Doctor Martin, holding the infamous Bull in his
hand, and exclaiming aloud,—" Because thou hest grieved
the saints of the Lord, so mayest thou be grieved and con-
demned by the everlasting fire." It must have been a heart.
shaking spectacle, this egregious bonfire : one may be excused
a desire to have warmed one's hands in the reflection of its
blaze ; or to have taken a look at the fine, craggy, and open-
fronted visage of the redoubtable Doctor, when his great
black eyes were glittering with fearless light, while his voice
rolled its solemn intonations over the mute and admiring
assembly. But that suspended breath was soon unloosed;
arid what a shout went up at the conclusion of this moral
jubilee !—The world is haunted with its echoes still."'

We give another extract descriptive of the great reformer
as he appeared within his domestic circle. It is beautifully
written, and presents a pleasing contrast with the style of the

orecediflZ

" When we analyse the character of rh.. Roformor as a
man, next to the Idealism of his nature,--7we delight to re-
cognise the exquisite sociality of his temperament. There was
no ascetisin, cant, or pharisaic airs and graces about him.
He hated trick, pomposity, and pretension ; and shook from
him, with a hearty'disdain, all those mean accompaniments
which appertain to the mere drama of external piety, but
have nothing to do with the healthful spirituality of the
genuine Christian. At the fireside, in the bosom of his
family, or amid the circle of attached friends,—Luther ap-
pears to have been the very fascination of companionship.
He could laugh, and sing, and converse ; utter his witticisms,
and throw forth those gleams and sparkles of innocent mirth,
which the hypocrite, or mere practiser of religious pantomime,
can neither admire nor understand. And then, what bursts
and outbreaks of thrilling pathos, and poetic feeling, and im-
passioned enthusiasm were bleat with all this ! Truly, it was
worth a walk of some few hundred miles to have heard Doctor
Martin hold his vivid conversations with those assembled
round his family board ; and there behold the same man,
whose uuquailing heart had faced and fronted all the batteries
of (tome, subsiding into the laughing simplicity of childhood
and mirth :—after all, he has lost one of the finest elements
of a feeling manhood, both id faith and character, who retains
none of the child about him.

" But Luther's radiant happiness arose not only from the
fervour and freshness of au elastic temperament, but his very
religion was the divinity of joy. He was a PARDONED man ;
and felt himself to be so, on the intelligible basis of gospel
truth, and therefore had (with some intermissions) ' joy and
peace in believing.' With him, Christianity was not an in-
sulated act, a sacramental right, or an observed institute
alone ;it vas far more than this,—it was a. renewal of NA-
TURE, evidenced by all the tangible experiences of a new life :
it was Christ within—the hope of glory.' He lived up to
what he believed ; and thus, there is a spiritual ease, hearti-
ness, and simplicity in all the motions of this man's religious
character. Religion was not put on him by imitative effort,
but put into him by efficient grace. And thus the sociality
of the man was not checked or chilled by the sanctity of the
Christian ; but, on the contrary, expanded, purified, and en-
nobled by being brought into contact with it. All relations
were redeemed into him in Christ and he had learned the
blessed science of connecting every thing with the atonit,
purchase of the Saviour's blood. As to the honesty, unworld-
liness, and thorough-paced integrity of Luther,—even the
bitterest of his Jesuitical foes have admitted this. He never
defiled himself with the Mammon of unrighteousnees ;' but
lived, in the main, a poor man all his days, perpetually re-
fusing imperial bounties and aid. But we must not omit to
remark, in this glance at Luther's private character,—how
strangely, and almost mysteriously, the chords of his whole

spiritual and moral being vibrated to the appeals of melody.
In fact, to him, music was almost the religion of sound ; it
hovered, and trembled, and played like a subtle and sub-
duing magic over his fine imagination, and seemed to have
an effect upon his wasted mind,—akin to that which the
balm, and breeze, and beauty of a rustic walk in the May-
time has upon a convalescent frame."

The notes to the poem, which run on to upwards of 120

Pages of closely-printed matter, contain a mass of evidence
and illustration of the leading features of Luther's career, as
well as of the eventful time in which he lived ; and are at the

present moment truly invaluable. But they are more espe-
cially so, on account of the authoritative form in which they
bring before us those doctrines and practices of Romanism

against which our great reformer so energetically protested.
On thy' latter ground we recommend them to the careful

Independent of the poem to whicl

perusal >f every reader.
they are attached, the introduction and tIK
thy a place in the library of every Protestant
In Our next publication we shall bring 1-
the poem itself.

fore our readers

Since writing the above we have been favoured by a friend
with the following copy of a letter addressed to him by the
Rev. Edward Bickerstetb, of Walton, containing his opinion
of the work in question

" Dear Sir,—l have great pleasure in testifying that I have
been much pleased with what have 3 read of Mr. Montgo-
mery's ,worker." 1 think it tomuecha very seasonable and
valgable ln the poem
the best quite thoughts, are
truth, and many very striking original
Christian
and
a treasury of va-
brought before us, and the notes are (
sources, and ex-
ceedingly needed gathered from
ceedingly needed at this time, when the blessedi Reformers,
whom God raised up to restore to us with rnaers,
re
sacrifices the inestimable blessing of the immense personal
Christ, have, been so grievously undervalued, and
readsr!orusrgel ratoe!
fully slighted. I trust that it will be eatensivu
help to diffuse in family circles, far and wide,
ttiel' and
e
which are the infallible sed
principles of Protestantism,truth of
the word of God.—Yours, faithfully,

Walton Rectory, March 9, 1842.

F.D. BICKERSTETI
••

A shower of little stones, or petrified rain, has lately fallen
to the south-west of Neusiedelerse, and the surrounding
plains are covered with millions of them.
HIRRING FISHERY.—In the year ending sth April, 1841,
being fisher 1840, the total quantity of herrings cured was
557,2621 barrels ; the number of boats employed in the year
referred to was 12,422, manned by 53,939 fishermen and
boys ; and the total number of persons engaged 89,642.

CAILDREN'S EMi.LOYMENT COMMNSION
anent commission, which was appointed by the late nun
on the motion of Lord
purpose
qu;ring into the moral and physical condition, hours o
Ashley, in 1839, for thetof
work,in
wages, and time allowed for mee4s, 81c.,. of the
children and
young persons (the former under 13 and the latter under 18
years of age) employed in mines and manufactories, not un-
der the jurisdiction of the acts fur regulating the employment
of these young people in mills,
will shortly be brought
to a close. The report on mines will, in the course of a few
weeks, be presented to parliament and that on manufactories
will follow immediately. We have no doubt that the sta-
tistics which will be embodied in the report of the Children's
Employment Commissioners, among whom we may name Dr.
Southwood Smith and Mr. Tooke, assisted by 20 gentlemen
who have been employed for some length of time in the ca-
pacity of sub-commissioners, in obtaining evidence as to the
actual condition of these children, not only in England but
In Scotland and Ireland, will cause no little sensation among
Ahow who have the welfare of the rising generation at heart,

—The govern

Shelled Barli
Indian Corn
Rapeseed ..
Oatmeal . .
Flour .....
Ditto.....

Into Runcorn. Ireland and Coastwise :
Oatmeal, 1936 Ids; Flour, 681 sack

EXPO RTS.—
Oats

Foreign. Wheat
:51) yrs ; I
; Flour, -
ti
yrs.; I

barreW, SO
ndian Corn,

qrs. ; Pease, 11 qrs.; Indian Cor
Floui, 412 sacks 301 barrels.

—Wheat,

Beans, 152 qrs.;
qrs.; Oatmeal

ys. ; Oats,

195. Od.
.33i. lld

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending March 1
Wheat 595. I Id. Barley 275. 9d. I Oat? ltye
Bea— •

Is. I+;d. 1 1,

Wheat.. 6C

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
4d. I Barley 28, 3d. Oats.. I9s. Bd. ! Rye
Beans

rs. ; Oat-

4d. 1 Pease..733s. 6

Duty on Foreign Grain, &e. this wee

is. 10d

Wheat 265.8 d. I Birley lgs. red. Oafs . 18s. 3d. Rye.. 18s. 3d
I I Beans 21s. 3d. I Pease.. lgs. gd. Ind. Corn Os. Od. Flourl6s.

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Barley.. 2s. 6d. I Oats ..2s. Od. Rye.... 3s. Od
Indian Corn.. us. Od. I Flour.. 3s. Od.

Wheat.... as. Od
Beans.. 3s. I Pease.. 36

Liverpool Averages, week ending March 15, 1842
Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. 1 Beans. P
Qrs 1 196 484
Prices l46s. Od. Os. Od.l ; l9s. 2d. I Os. Od.

LIVERPOOL COTTON

MARKET, 3 r„M

The demand for Cotton to-day is to the extent of 2,500
bales, at the prices of yesterday, wit a steady but dull market.
Manufacturers seem to increase in complaints of the badness
of their trade, and TALK of decreasing their consumption by
one-half.

MISCELLANEOUS

One day lately a funeral took place at Hempstead, at
which a baker's cart—in which bread is carried about—was
actually used instead of a hearse !—Bristol Journal.

EXCHEQUER-BILLS.—New Exchequer-Bills have been
issued on an improved and better fabric of paper. The chief
improvement, however, is that the signature of Monteagle is
countersigned by a witness to the subscription.

THE PROPERTY TAX.—By thi's new tax the Earl of Lime-
rick will have to pay one thousand pounds a-year out of his
Irish rent-toll, whilst residing in England. The absentees
possessing property in the surrounding counties will have to
contribute upwards of twenty thousand pounds by residing
out of Ireland.—Limerick Chronicle.

THE EARTHQUAKE.—It is not generally known that an
earthquake, similar that recently expected, was predicted
during the administration of Sir R. Walpole. It was pro-
ductive of as much alarm as the anticipated catastrophe of
March, 1812. When the fanatic who occasioned the disor-
der found that his prediction had not been verified, he assured
the deluded people that it had been postoned, on account of
his intercession with the Almighty.

„,-..w.i.-11.AnieAL PERSONA FLON AND
PZELJU It I .-At the Deal), assizes on Wednesday eight per-
sons were found guilty of personation and perjury during the
last election for that county, when qualifying themselves to
vote for Lord Waterpark and Mr. Gisborne, the radical can-
didates. Where personation and perjury were combined,
the ,party was sentenced to twelve mouths' imprisonment,
with hard labour—in cases of personation, without perjury,
to six months' imprisonment.
MOST DARING BURGLARY.—A robbery, attended with
savage barbarity, took place at the house of the Rev. R.
Watson, in Over Wyersdale, on Saturday morning last, about
one o'clock. The thieves had broken a pane of glass in the
kitchen window, by which means they were enabled to open
the latch of the sash, and so effected an entrance into the
kitchen ' • they then broke open the kitchen door, which was
fastened on the lobby side, anti proceeded to Mr. and Mrs.
Watson's bed-room door, which was locked ; they called out
” open the door." Mr. Watson demanded who they were,
and what they wanted, and receiving no answer he refused to
open the door. The next moment they shivered the door to
pieces, and three ruffians entered the room, all disguised, ut-
tering the most dreadful imprecations. Mr. and Mrs. Wat-
son asked them if they wanted money ; saying, if they did,
they should have all the money they had in the house. Their
reply was, "'Yes, but we'll murder the old —;" at the
same time one presented something like a gun, another a
pistol, at Mr. W.; the third' began striking him on the head,
face, and arms, with a bludgeon in a most savage manner,
and seizing him by the throat with his left hand, threw him
on the bed and nearly strangled him. All the while this was
going en, two of them used the most horrid threatenings
against his wife, uttering the most disgusting curses. They
then demanded that their money should be given to them im-
mediately. Mrs. Watson then brought all the money they
had in the house, consisting of a £5 Bank of England note,
and some silver. They hesitated taking the note, saying,

" bring out that bag of sovereigns, we dou't want' notes."
One of them espied Mr. Watson's watch, and put it in his
pocket. After asking for some rum, and being told by Mrs.
W. that there was none in the house, they hastily left the
premises as if alarmed.—Lancaster Gazette.
BANK OF ENGLAND.—The half yearly general meeting of
the proprietors of the Bank of England was held on Friday, and
the dividend for the half-year was fixed at 3i per cent. At
this meeting the objections to one of the details of the in-
come tax, supposing it to be levied everywhere at an uniform
rate, were made in a definite form. There was scarcely a
dissentient voice as to the propriety of memorializing Sir R.
Peel on the subject, and indeed the meeting was dissolved
somewhat earlier than usual to allow the directors sufficient
time to prepare a memorial so important. The condition in
which the bank stands at present is of itself sufficient to
make them remarkably sensitive as to aey severe pressure on
their income. A rough estimate made by one of the pro-
prietors to-day gave the amount the bank would have to pay,
if 7d. in the pound were levied on their terminable annuities,
as above £30,000 per annum, while the addition to the "rest"
for the half-year just closed does not exceed £7OOO. The
present amount of the dividend (7 per cent. per annum) is
the subject of renewed complaint every half-year, and the
result of this calculation seemed to threaten a still further
reduction of the interest on bank stock. To show how
general the feeling on this subject was among the proprietors,
it should be observed that they, as distinguished from the
directors, seemed anxious to take the responsibility of the
memorial on themselves, and to make it visible that it was
their own act. It was this question of the income tax that
was in fact the leading feature of the meeting. Some re-
flections were cast on the conduct of the Bank of England
for.not joining with the other holders of the "repudiated
Exchequer-bills in petitidning parliament, by one of the
proprietors, but this made no great impression, and as it was
ascertained that the bank held no more than £BOOO of these
bills, the main curiosity connected with this matter was soon
satisfied. The general questions put to the directors were
even of a less searching character than usual, as the feeling
on the subject of the income tax appeared to be too absorb-
ing to admit of more trifling matters of debate.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LONDON AND DUBLIN.—
The following is a copy of the resolution passed on this sub-
ject at the meeting of Irish and Welsh' members, held in
London on the 9th inst., and since presented by the deputa-
tion to Lord Eliot, and upon which his lordship has under-
taken to act :—" That a deputation from the present meeting
be appointed to wait upon Lord Eliot, as chief secretary for
Ireland—first, to request that his lordship will draw the at-
tention of her Majesty's government to the great public im-
portance of improving the communication between London
and Dublin, adverting to the present long and inconvenient
passage by Liverpool, and the consideration that the power
of steam is available for travelling by railway, in a proportion
of about three to one of the speed that can be attained at
sea; secondly, to request that Lord Eliot will have the good-
ness to communicate with the Board of Admiralty, referring
to the reports of Captain Beaufort, R.N., presented to the
House of Commons, on the 14th of March, 1837, of Lieut.
Sheringham, dated the 14th of March and 17th of,May, 1838,
respectively, on the harbours of Holyhead and Portdynllaen,
in pursuance of the repot t of the select committee, appointed
by the House of Commons to inquire into the existing com-
munication between London and Dublin, of the Bth of July,
1836; and to the reportofßear-Admiral Sir James Gordon
and Captain Beechey, R.N.,
relative to the best means of coomfmthuenile4atthinogfbejtawneneanryl:olnBd4oon.
and Dublin, in pursuance of -an address of the House of
Commons, of the 12th of August,
1839, with the view of ob-
taining the opinion of the Board of Admiralty on the relative
capabilities of the ports of 'Holyhead and Portdynllaen for
the purpose of a packet stationiLoer such communication, or construction, of works suitable
for the use of steam-vessels
ofa
class
a sufficient
s ttoa bsl
ei schumr
ee, nats,
las as is practicable,expedition
and
dd certainty in the pas:age,
L'lN'hEursda
at all seasons of
Aothnemlxy,eueadßrn.:le:
Wednesday
Ty
thatby shooting
in YEARS
y, SIN
Robert C EG. —0
eAs
August last_w a skeleton, sup-
posed to assizesyo R
brough was tried for the murder of Williamhim Huntley, at Cra-
ith a loaded gun.
?it or
willne ,
be in
recollected July,
to be that of the deceased, was found by some men
who were making a drain, and that the prisoner
and another
named Grundy, were apprehended
man, on the charge of
having murdered bun. Grundy committed suicide in gaol,
and the prisoner manifested great trepidation on having the
skull suddenly placed before him. The circumstances of
• n were very strong; for Huntley had been last
suspicion seen in
the company of Golesbrough and Grundy, and when missed
was represented by them to have gone to America. The
jury were not satisfied with the identity of the skull, and
acquitted the prisoner.

Sir Robert Peel has silenced all his political opponents,
and nothing is now heard but praises of his comprehensive
and most enlightened policy. Not a paper do we open,
whether whig,, tory, or radical, but is warm in expressions
regarding the honourable baronet's boldnesshis honesty of
purpose—his profound abilities !•., Never did any British
minister stand higher in public estimation than does Sir R.
Peel at the present moment ! 'Where are now the effigy
burners ?—Glasgow paper.
FATAL ACCIDENT FROII FIRE ARMS.—An inquest was
held on Tuesday, before J. B. Hyde, Esq., at the Infirmary,
Worcester, on the body of Joseph Groves, a youth about
fifteen years of age, who died from the effects of a gun-shot
wound, which he received in the following manner :—He was
out rook shooting on Sunday last, at Upton Snodsbury, with
two of his companions, one of whom was in the act of resting
his loaded
_gun on the ground, when his knee caught the

gun went oti
le deceased.

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ways for the r

week—

that.4s,,tOsay, up to the date to which the respectiv(
mturns are made:—Brighton, £2,110; Blackwall, £649
York and Isrofili Midland, £1,829; Edinburgh and Glasgow
£1,153; Midland Counties, £2,218; Great North of Eng.
land, £1,286; South Western, £4,328; Birmingham ant
Derby, £1,063; Great Western, £10,163 ; Northern ant
Eastern, £869: Birmingham, £13,694: Greenwich, £862
Birmingham and Gloucester, £1,442 ; Hull and Selby,
Eastern Counties, £748 ; and Manchester
£331

and Birmingham,

The Newcastle Journal says, it would appear by the pro-
posed tariff that British machinery will be exported duty free
.--whether by inadvertence or design is matter of doubt,
though we apprehend there can be no doubt as to the impo-
liey of the measure.—[This is scarcely a necessary conclusion.
The'alteratiou,in.the corn duties are not included in the'ge-
neral tariff, being. the subject of a separate enactment, and
the exportation of machinery, ziye,apprehend, beinguntouched
by the proposedueWtariff, and'," we believe, regulated hitherto
by a special actik.ivißreniain ad at present.—Ed. L. S.]