The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

24th year

SIR ROBERT Paat. Atip THE YORKSHIRE OPERATIVES.
—A conference took place lately between Sir Robert Peel
and a deputation of the Yorkshire operatives, when various
subjects bearing on the condition of thit working classes were
discussed. A report of the reasonings and suggestions
which were made in the course of the interview has been pub-
lished, and a deeply interesting and important document it
We have only space, however, to refer to the heads, but
we shall return to the subject in our next. On the part of
the deputation, it was urged, that government should intro-
duce a law, prohibiting the employment, in factories, of
young persoas above,l3 but under 21 years of age for more
than ten hours in the day, providing also for the gradual
withdrawal of all females from the factories, and compelling
the " boxing-off "of all dangerous parts of machinery. The
extent of the existing distress was also referred to, and the
__zigned by ' '-nutation to the ex-
sive competition at home, and

.s also as,

r-production stimulated by
ase of machinery and the extended employment of
a. The deputation expressed an opinion
amelioration was required--the repeal of
Sir Robert Peel pointed out the difficul-
e way of legislating on the subject of cur-
tailment of hours, and as regarded female labour, he was of
opinion that much hardship would arise from its prohibition.
Such interference by the legislature would tend to increase
the cost of production, augment the already existing distress,
and render our manufactures less able to compete with low-
priced labour abroad. As to the question of machinery, Sir
Robert stated that it was one deserving of the gravest consi-
deration. He assured the deputation that the various sug-
gestions that they had made would meet with the most seri-
ous attention of the government. Tiie workmen retired
deeply impressed with the sympathy displayed by the premier
towards their order.

the inc

the new poor la

REMARKABLE STORNI OF HAIL AND LIGHTNING.—An
esteemed correspondent wishes us to put on record some
particulars of a storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied
by hail, that passed over the peninsula of Lleyn, on the
morning of the lith instant. In its passage over the park at
11,Iadryn it was of a most awful and alarming character, and
did immense damage to a long range of glass-houses, pits,
and frames, that are used for forcing, besides patting in im-
minent danger a large collection of valuable plants. Some
of the hailstones, we are assured, measured no less than three
inches,, and one-eighth, round the base—all of them being of
a conical shape. Our informant says be cannot find that any
hail of the same magnitude and quantity has fallen in that
part of the country within the memory of the present age,
and we are not cognizant of any recent and similar instances
elsewhere.—Carnarvon Herald.

PPREE

BURG

OTHER DARIN(

D H IGHWAY NI E

(From the Saturday's. Preston Chro,

We have this week to record a fresh

this town

Aim bay

s to the vigilanc

Nlyerscough burglars were all were lads, the eldest not

ieteen y

of youth, one or more of

if any, the want of employ-

meat to plead, in palliation of their crime.
The names of the men who have just been apprehended
are John Thompson, Giles Seddon, and Henry Simpson, and
the immediate robbery for which they were taken was one
committed on Saturday (Christmas-day) morning last, at the
offices of the Messrs. Ascroft, in New Cock Yard, Fisher-,
_ _

gate. Prior to this, however, they had been guilty of two '
other robberies,—one a burglary, perpetrated on the Sunday
night previously, in the house of the Misses lidnionson,
Glover-street, who were attending divine service; and a
highway robbery, which was committed upon the person of
Mr. Lord, skinner, of Ribbleton.
In the first of these cases they obtained only a silver watch.
A proof of the spirit with which they commenced their vil-
lainous career is shown in the artfulness with which this part
of their plunder had been disposed of, so as to elude the vigi-
lance of the police, it having been placed where human inge-
nuity might have almost been defied in the search for it. It
appears that the prisoner Simpson having taken into his keep-
ing this portion of the burglarious proceeds, bad hidden it
underneath the stairs of his house, in Blaylock-street: The
way in which he had done it was worthy of the cunning of a
Courvoisier. Having crept under the stairs, he must have
laid himself flat upon the ground, and contrived to lift a flag-
stone which was underneath the bottom stair, and then hav-
ing dug a hole in the sand, have deposited the watch (which
had been previously wrapped in a piece of flannel, and also in
a stocking) in the excavation, re-covered it with the sand, and
then replaced the flagstone.
It appears, that when Mr. Lord was attacked, the men
were armed with one of those deadly weapons denominated a
" life preserver," but which might be more appropriately
termed a " life destroyer." The instrument, as some of our
readers may not be aware, is composed of two or three pieces
of whale-bone, of about eleven inches long, bound round the
centre with wire, and fastened at each end to a loaded socket
of net work. _ _ .

In the case of the robbery of Messrs. Ascroft, the thieves
were in expectation of obtaining a large booty, they consi-
dering, as will be seen by the confession of Thompson, that
those gentlemen were in the habit of keeping large sums of
money at their office. In this, however, they were disap-
pointed, it not being a custom with the Messrs. Ascroft to
keep any money at all at their office.
Simpson was taken into custody early on Christmas Day,
by Henry Topping and others, as he was coming out of the
window of the Messrs. Ascroft's office. He made a despe-
He was, however, at length overpowered by
deposited in the Lock-up. When tiler,

rate resistance

he made a confession to having been only one of a party who
had been engaged in breaking into the Messrs. Ascroft's
office that morning, and upon his information, the other two
men, Thompson and Seddon, were taken into custody, du-
ring the morning, by Carle and Rigby, two of our most effi-
cient officers. Thompson wss the first of the two taken. He
was apprehended at his mother's house, in Sanl-street.—
Seddon, the other man, was shortly afterwards apprehended
in a hay-loft, at the Dusty Miller beer-shop, in North-road.

THE OSWESTRY MURDER

FINAL EXAMINATION AND COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONERS

(Abridged from the Shrewsbury News of Saturday.)

Long before twelve o'clock yesterday (the hour appointed
for the adjourned examination of the prisoners) the avenues
leading to the Guildhall were crowded with persons anxious
to gain an entrance into the court, where the examination
was to take place. At a few minutes past twelve o'clock the
Viscount Dungannon took the chairman's seat on the bench,
and the door leading to the gallery being thrown open, the
court instantly tilled, while hundreds were unable to obtain
admission. On the bench beside his lordship were seated
the Hou. and Rev. R. H. Hill, and Egerton Jeffreys, Esq. ;
a great number of gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood.
The prisoners were shortly after placed in the dock, and the
examination commenced.

The first witness examined deposed to having been at the
shop of the murdered woman on the day of the fatal deed,
and shortly before it was committed. _ _ .

Richard Hughes was questioned as to the finding of the
body and the appearance of the house on entering it, he
being the person who first went in after the murder.
Sarah Bradeley, wife of Andrew Bradeley, who keeps the
King's Head public-house at Cefn Mawr, in the parish of
Ruabon, on the middle of the railroad from Ruabon iron
works to the canal, within half a mile of Pontyscylltye aque-
duct, and about four or five miles from Bronygarth. On
Thursday, the 26th, two men came to her house, about nine
o'clock in the evening. They came into the kitchen, and
the shortest called for a pint of ale, and the tallest said they
must have a quart, for he was rather thirsty. I did not take
particular notice of their appearance. I served them with
the ale, and the tall one paid me for it, with sixpence in cop-
per. They stopped jri the house near an hour. They asked
me for bread and cheese, and I said we had none. The tall
one then pulled out some bacon, and asked me to cook it in
a pan. I did so, and in taking the pan back saw a bundle in
the back kitchen, upon a bench, not far from the door. I
was rather agitated at the sight of the bundle, and went into
the kitchen, and asked whose bundle it was, and the tallest
said it was his. I said it was not a proper place to leave it,
for if it was stolen, I would not be answerable for it, and the
little one said, " Jack, go and fetch it." The tall one went,
and put it in the parlour. There was no light in the parlour,

. the back kitchen. .. that the two prisoners are
the men who came to my house. About ten o'clock the men
left the house. My son, William Bradeley, was in the houie,
and saw them. _ .

William Bradeley.—l am son of the last witness ; was at
my father's house on Thursday, December 16; have known
the prisoner, John Williams, from a boy. He was there on
that night, and the other prisoner also ; but did not know
Slawson before. I was in the house when they came. Ob-
served their appearance • they were clean in the face. 'Wil-
liams was splashed with 'dirt up to the waistband, as if he had
been running ; he was dressed as he is now, as far as I can see
of him where he stands. He had gaiters and cord breeches,
—(here the witness went to the clock and examined the dress
of both prisoners, on his return he said)—Williams is drest
the very same as on that evening, and Slawson in everything
but his trousers. lam sure they are the two men. I asked
Slawson to sing the "Umbrella" and the " Mibletoe Bough."
The bundle was in the parlour. I went to it whilst the pri-
soners were eating ; it was brought out into another kitchen
lower down. I examined the bundle ; did not look into it ;
it was tied tight. They left at ten o'clock. Suspecting all
was not right, I and Thos. Davis pursued them in about five
minutes. Thos. Davies is my brother-in-law. Saw them
when about half a mile from the house • they were walking
fast; John Williams was carrying the bundle on a stick on
his left shoulder. I put my brother-in-law at him he being
the biggest; I tried to take Slawson. When we came up to
them, Davies said, " You're the person I want—you and
the bundle ;" Williams then let it fly, and both ran away.
I held the bundle, fur Davies to run on after them ; he did
not overtake them ; took the bundle back to my mother's.
I sent an inventory of what was in the bundle to Evans, the
policeman. It was kept in mother's parlour ; she kept the
key; I saw her give it up to the policeman. The blue bundle
produced is the one taken from Williams, and the same
articles are in it. _ _ _

Many of the articles in the bundle were identified by
different witnesses as belonging to Emma Evans, The pri-
soners each made a statement which merely amounted to
finding the bundle in the road. They were both committed
for trial at the next Lent assizes for the murder of the poor
woman.

THE REFORMED CORPORATION.-
FUL PROCEEDINGS.

DISGRACE-

(From the Londonderry Sentinel.)

Well, we have had a trial of a reformed corporation, and
we think that every peaceable and loyal member of the com-
munity agrees with us in opinion, that we have already seen
a great deal too much of them, and that the change has been
a most disastrous one. The scenes of savage rejoicing and
lawless violence with which the advent orthe new town
council was ushered in by a popish mob, on Monday night,
will not soon be forgotten, and they afford a fearful presage
of what we are to expect as the fruits of the Municipal Bill.
We have endeavoured elsewhere to present some of the inci-
dents that took place on that disgraceful occasion to our read-
ers, but no description can convey an adequate idea of the
confusion and alarm which tilled the minds of the respectable
portion of the citizens, or of the feeling of insecurity, both as
regards their persons and property, which possessed them, and
for the removal of which no step was taken by the chief
magistrate for four successive hours. From six till ten o'clock
a rabble of the vilest description, consisting of several thou-
sands, was suffered to parade the town with blazing tar-
barrels, using offensive cries, cheering at one house and hoot-
ing at another, malreating the few scattered individuals whose
ardent feelings would not allow them to hear in silence the
rebel shouts that were raised, and knocking down others
merely becausa they were known to be protestants. This, one
would have supposed, was sufficient to cause the Mayor. who
as well as the other members of the new corporation, was de-
sirous of an immediate investiture with civic authority and
civic honours, (as will be seen by referring to our report of
the proceedings of the first meeting of the new Town-Coun-
cil,) to order out the military for their dispersion. But not
so thought his worship ; he allowed them to encircle the
Corporation-hall, in the very heart of the city, with a belt of
fire—six or eight burning tar-barrels were set down around
it, each surrounded by a group of ruffians whose ferocious
yells seemed more like the war-cry of an Indian tribe than
the exultation of civilised beings. Brazing brands were flung
recklessly about, to the imminent danger of the houses in the
vicinity, and the crowd enjoyed, without interruption, their
insolent trim* in a spot where such a licentious display
was never witnessed before, singe Londonderry became the
capital of the British plantation in Ulster. The desecration
of our venerated walls was the next object of this disloyal
horde, their insolence increasing, the stronger the proof be-
came that it was connived at; but the heroism of a single
apprentice boy, frustrated their audacious attempts there.
They, then directed their vengeance againstthe dwelling of an
humble Protestant widow, whose family has been resident in
this city since before the siege, and reduced it to a perfect
wreck—still no force was brought against them; and it was
act till a party of Protestants had armed themselves, and,
excited iihmagt to a state of frenzy by these outrages, began
to retaliate, that the interposition of the military was sought.
Such are the blessings if reform. The windows of three
houses were dashed in by infuriated contending parties, and
the lives of the inmates endangered, numberless wounds in-
flicted, and it is all 'out a miracle that loss of life to a large
amount did not take place. All this confusion, and ript and
ontrage was not the ebullition of a moment, but it continued
for several hours; and the only proceeding on the part of the
chief magistrate, in whom the sole controul of the town, we

may say, was vested, was, to utter an occasional remon-
strance, recommending the rioters to go home, as if the fiery
passions of a mob were to be allayed by a few words, beard,
perhaps, by some dozen or two of persons, and delivered in
so bland and gentle a tone as to savour almost as much of
encouragement as disapprobation. The police force did not,
we understand, exceed half a dozen men ; and even if they
had been instructed to resort to extreme measures in quell-
ing the tumult. their exertions must, from the paucity of
numbers, have been ineffectual.

RAILw A a's IN FRANCE.-It i 3 highly satisfactory to see
that the French government are at length taking up in good
earnest the establishment of a great system of railways in
France. The prominent mention of this subject in the speech
of the King to the chambers at the opening of the session on
the 27th ultimo, gives assurance that these works will now
be undertaken. The first in point of importance of the pro-
posed lines and that for which the arrangements are defini-
tively made, is the line connecting Paris with Lille and Calais.
This line will form a connecting link not only between Paris
and London via Dover, but also between England and Bel-
gium by way of Calais and Lille, and by means of the Belgian
railways with the4thine and the whole of the north of Europe.
Its importance therefore to England is very great. It will
bring Paris within 14 hours, and Brussels within 12 hours of
London, and in a few years this journey from London to
Berlin will be accomplished without any interval of common
road. The other line which more immediately affects British
interests is that from Paris to Lyons. This will open new
facilities to our overland passage to the East.

lIRACULOV

IESERVATION raoll

(From the Bristol Standard)

We have to I:ecord from the mouth of the master, the onlY
survivor (as far as he has been,ahle to relate it). one of the

'll we have ever h

boy, boun►l from South Y ;Irmo

le awful storm

pop Pers—erver

to Dublin, when between

the South Bishops and the Smalls, carried away her bowsprit,
and immediately after a sea broke on board that swept the

ay her bulwark

mud chain cables, stovin

• „
her boat, and making her a complete wreck, with every sea
sweeping her fore and aft. She was now driving before a
furious north-wester, with her mainsail set ; the captain,
mate, and the man, took refuge in the cabin up to their necks
in water ; but the boy. in endeavouring to follow their ex-
ample was washed overboard by a sea, and his walling cries
were instantly lost amidst the tumultuous howlings of the
troubled deep. At about twelve o'clock at night the vessel
struck in a small cove on a part of the coast near St Bride's,
in the Jack Sound, called the Deer-park, where the clffs are
nearly in perpendicular height from 150 to 200 feet (nearly
opposite to the rock on which the ill-fated Albion steamer
was lost; the mainmast immediately broke into three or
four pieces ; and the last that the captain knew of his
men, for they kept calling to each other so long as the
seas permitted their heads to be above water, was the feeling
one of their hands as they held on to the wreck under water
—such was the dreadful state they were in on the instant
when the vessel. struck ! The captain was instantaneously
washed overboard, when he grasped one of the pieces of
the mainmast, and was washed with it into a cavern in the
perpendicular cliffs, and it was carried away as instantly as
he loosened his grasp, and had got a little beyond the force of
the waves. This cavern at the high spring-tide is many feet
under water. There he lay, holding on to the rocks, with the
sea bursting and bubbling over him, till the next morning
(Saturday.) This being the time of the neap-tides, with a
gale of wind blowing right upon the coast, when the tide re-
cedes so little as to make it an impossibility for any one to
get out of this cove save by climbing these perpendicular
cliffs, or of getting out of the cavern except by watching till
the heaviest wave has broke. After exhausting himself, the
captain said, in crying for assistance, there seemed to be no
alternative but that of being drowned in the cavern, or being
starved to death by cold and hunger. He now cut his boots
from his feet with his knife, and threw them upon a ledge of
rock above the cavern, in the hope that they might meet the
eye of some one in passing ; and then commenced an attempt
to scale the cliff, which he had mastered, he says, a height of
above 40 feet, when, on taking hold of a stone which was
loose, he began to slip, and at the very moment that he fell
and expected to have.hls brains dashed out on a huge rock
immediately below, and on which he must fall, a tremendous
sea swept over the rock add bore him to the mouth of the
same cavern to which he had before been cast, and in which
he had lain before ; and now, with feet and hands dreadfully
swollen by climbing and the action of the salt water—bat-
tered, bruised, and dreadfully shaken, he lay another night
in this awful cavern, with the sea breaking over and drench-
ing him. _ . .

Sunday morning came, with no possibility of receiving
human aid ; once more he nerved himself to try and get out
of the cavern ; he had, he says, prayed most fervently ; he
thought of his sick wife and his infant family, and he made
the attempt, and he found himself most wonderfully strength-
ened every step he took. After incredible toil and tearing
his hands and feet against the sharp-pointed rocks in a most
dreadful way, he ascended very nearly to the summit, where
he was so very nearly falling again, that he looked where-
abouts he should fall; but most providentially despair nerved
him to almost superhuman resolution, which enabled him to
seize hold of a projecting pinnacle of rock, upon which lie
climbed ; and was thus enabled to reach the summit with
sufficient strength to throw his body over, though his legs
were still hanging down the side of the cliff. Here he re-
gained strength to place himself out of danger, and to return
thanks to the Almighty for his wonderful preservation. He
was found, some time after by a man, crawling on the ground,
with his feet and hands completely doubled under from the
injuries they had received ; he was placed on an ass and con-
veyed to the house of Mr. Jones, farmer, Trehill, near St.
Bride's, where he is being most charitably taken care of.
Dr. Wathen, of Morleos-conrt, is attending poor Morris
Evans, and from his skill and attention, there is every reason
to hope that he will do well. Numbers of persons have been
to see the cliff where this wonderful, if not incredible, escape
took place, and no one who has seen it but says that he
would not have deemed it possible that any human being
could get either up or down without a rope. Three of the
crew, consisting of the mate, a man, and a boy, perished, all
natives of Carnarvon.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE

(From the Oxford Herald.)

POETRY PROF'ESSORSHIP.L.-We understand that Wednes-
day, the 26th of January, is fixed for the election of a Pro-
fessor of Poetry.

The Rev. Cyril Geo. Hutchinson, M.A.. Student of Christ
Church, has been presented by the Very Rev. the Dean and
Chapter of that Society to the Rectory of Batsford, in the
county of Gloucester.

The Rev. John B. Fawkes. 8.A., and the Rev. Philip C
Kidd, 8.A., have been appointed Chaplains of Christ Church

..
The following gentlemen were elected Actual Students of
Christ Church on the 24th ult. :—Granville R. H. Somerset,
Henry T. Glyn, Henry E. Cramer, from Westminster;
Thos. 0. Blackall, Wm. E. Rawstorne, Charles Lloyd,
Commoners.

The Rev. Edward Trollope, 8.A., of St. Mary Hall, has
been presented to the Vicarage of Rauceby, Lincolnshire ;
patron, Sir John Charles Thorold, Bart.
The Rev. Robt. Henry Chichester, B.A„ of Exeter Col-
lege, has been presented to the Vicarage of Chittlehamp,
Devon ; patron, Lord Rolle.

it` Philip
The ev. Sidney Ashworth, 8.A., of St. Alban Hall,
has been appointed curate of St. Matthewss, Duddeston.
The Rev. John Nelson, M.A., of St. John's College, and
rector of Gilston, Herts, has been instituted by the Bishop
of Hereford to the rectory of Peterstow, near Ross, on the
presentation of the president and governors of Guy's
Hospital.
The Rev. John Ellison Bates, M.A., of Christ Church,
has been licensed to the perpetual curacy of Christ Church,
Litherland, Lancashire, on the nomination of the trustees of
the church. . _

Alfred T. Bram* Esq., 8.A., Jesus College, Cambridge,
has been elected second master of the Western Grammar
School, Brompton.
Henry Mildred Birch, scholar of King's College, Cam-
bridge, has been elected a fellow of that society.

PROMOTIONS.
Rev. John Withering Peers, M.A., of Catharine Hall,
Cambridge, to the vicarage of Tetsworth, in this county ;
patron, Richard Barry Slater, Esq., D. Med.
Rev. Edward Garfit, 8.A., to the vicarage of Saxilby, Lin-
colnshire ; patron, the bishop of Lincoln.
Rev. James Mayne, to the vicarage of Hanslope with Cas-
tlethorpe, Bucks, vacant by the death of the Rev. Wm.
Singleton; patron, George Hyde, Esq., of Norwich.
Rev. Joseph Martin Lister, 8.A., to the rectory of Muck-
ton, Diucolnshire ; patron, M. B. Lister, Esq.
Rev. James Harris, M.A., afternoon lecturer of St. Anne,
Limehouse, to the district church and parish of All Saints,
Mile-end, Newton, Stepney.
Rev. J. Browne, to the Curacy of Fontruell Magna, Dorset.
Rev. Mr. Burroughs, to the Head Mastership of the Pro-
prietary Grammar School, Yarmouth.
Rev. Charles Fewtrell, to the Head Mastership of the Ro-
therham Free Grammar School, vacant by the resignation of
the Rev. Joshua Nelson,__ _ _

Rev. Thomas Sutton, Vicar of Sheffield, to be Rural Dean
for the parishes of Sheffield, Ecclesfield, and Tankersley.

Rev. RiebWliodges, M.A., to the Vicarage of Little
Barrington, Gloucestershire, vacant by the cession of the
Rev. George Dandridge; patron, the Lord Chancellor.

Rev. Alexander Grant, to the Curacy of Weston-sub-Edge,
Gloucestershire.

Rev. J. Woodroffe, to the Curacy of Lisburn

•Rev. J. Gulley, to the Curacy of
Rev. William Cotter Williamson, Curate of Passage, to
the parish of St. Nicholas, Cork, vacant by the promotion
of the Rev. W. Hall, to the living of Charleville.
Rev. James Bonwell, to the Curacy of Trinity Church
Preston, Lancashire.

Rev. William Procter, M.A., of Catherine Hall, Cam-
bridge, to the Vicarage of Bishop Burton, Yorkshire.
Rev. Mark Anthony Nicholson, to the Perpetual Curacy
of Christ Church, Accrington, Lancashire ; patrons, the
trustees.

Rev. St. Vincent Beechy, M.A., of Caius College, Cam-
bridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Peter's, Fleetwood.
Rev. John Price, to the Rectory of Pitchcott, Bucks.

THE EXCHEQUER-BILL FRAUD

(From the London Tinges.)

We have understood that the final and revised statement
of E. B. Smith to the treasury is to the following effect :
" That he was introduced so long back as 1820 to Rapallo,
Solari, and one or two of their associates. That soon after,
becoming entangled in accommodation bills, he was tempted
to ' borrow' an exchequer-bill of £l,OOO, in order to raise
money to meet his acceptances.
" That a speculation was entered into by Rapallo and his
friends, which, if successful. was to have extricated all par-
ties from their difficulties. But it proved most unfortunate,
and only plunged them into increased perplexity and trouble.
" That apparently it lay in his power at any time to secrete
and misapply almost any number of bills, wanting only the
signature ; and by a simple forgery to turn them into good
and valid exchequer-bills.
" That no person of rank or public character, whatever,
was in any way mixed up in the transaction ; the parties
being, himself, Solari, Rapallo, and another individual, whose
office was in Basinghall-street ; at which place they used to
meet and concert their plans.
" He believes the total amount fabricated to be about
£340,000 ' • but it is doubtful whether a sum of £40,000 is, or
is not, included in this total.
" He still maintains that this whole amount has been
wasted, from time to time, in gambling transactions on the
stock-exchange."
He remains, we believe, in his apartments in Newgate,
although the convicts sentenced at the same time have been
long since removed. This, howeser, is easily to be ac-
counted for, as he may be required for examination before
the "exchequer-bills commission." Supposing such a state-
ment as this to have been made, there are several points
which naturally strike the mind.
Smith, in his defence before the criminal court, most un-
equivocally declared himself, though guilty, to have been the
tempted party; to have been induced by others to commit
frauds and forgeries, from which they, rather than he, derived
advantage. In the written statement above referred to, lie
appears to persevere in this representation. Now, if there
be any truth in this story, every one will ask, how it comes
to pass that he, and he only, is brought to justice, while all
his coadjutors—the men who, according to his statement,
drew him into the whole series of crimes—are left entirely
scatheless? _ _ . . .

VV
The loose and negligent mode of transacting business in
the Exchequer-Bill-office, as here exhibited, is too obvious
to need remark. Not for a few months, or a year or two
only, but for a long series of years, has this facility existed,
by which a clerk in the office could fabricate and dispose of
bills to the tune of £300,000 or £lOO,OOO at his own dis-
cretion, and without detection. For, be it observed, had not
their own excessive anxiety in October last led to particular
inquiries, there is no reason to suppose that their mal-
practices would have been brought to light, even in another
quarter of a century.
It is a curious question—how many millions of Exchequer.
bills in all have been fabricated and put into circulation ? We
say how many millions? For it is clear that the existing
amount of £340,000 or £380,000, no more exhibits the whole
extent of the fabrication, than the :C16,292,000 Back of
England notes. which were in circulation between November
13th and December 11th last, represented the whole amount
of bank-notes made and circulated during the last ten years.
It is clear that a perpetual system of issuing, redeeming,
cancelling, and replacing must have been in operation for the
last dozen or twenty years; and it is a moderate supposition,
to conclude the total amount to have been from five to ten
millions! But if this be so, what sort of a figure does our
Exchequer-Bill-office cut?

A rumour is very prevalent, and amounts to a certainty
indeed, at Ryde, that Mr. Sibthorp is shortly goinz back
there, and that he will commence his labours as a Roman
Catholic priest, a chapel being about to be opened for him
either: at Hyde or at St. Helens. His first sermon will be
preached at Newport.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

By desire and under tln! Patronage of the Right Hon, the

EARL OF SEFTON

rjrlHlS,present TUESDAY EVENING, the 4th instant,
the performance will commence with the Grand Eques-

trian Romance, entitled
THE CONQUEROR'S STEED, KARABAGH

OR, THE MOP/ET OE

THE CAUCASUS

Mr. Howard I Jumbo
Ximene. Mrs
Spectacle on the Stage will be followed b
DUCRO NV 'S
SPLENDID SCENES OF TEIE CIRCLE

An entire new characteristic Entree, by Thirteen Horses and
their Riders, entitled The Flight of the Arabs; or, The
Bedouin Tribe, conducted by Signor Hillier. _ _

To be succeeded by the Equestrian Prodigy, LE PETIT
DUCROW, as The ,Lilliputian Fox Hunter; or, nutty
Mellonian.

Mr. HICKEN and all the Equestrians introduced in the Comic
Extravaganza of My Grandmother on Horseback; or,
The Sweep and Millers.

Signor HILLIER will appear in a Characteristic Scene, en-
titled Beene of the Alps and his Horomf,Pastime.
Succeeded by Signor ALLARD, who 7111 appear on a Single

Steed as The Wild Horseman. ."-
Madame ALLARD, the Great F nth Female Equestrian, will
appear and execute some 4►)eculiar Feats of Riding on a
• Single Horse. A,

Mr. iitcicr.N will appeati in his Military Delineation, on a
Single Horse, of The Death of a Soldier.

To conclude with
TURTLE HUNTING

Principal Characters by Mr. H. Beverly, Mr. and Mrs
Weston, (their first appearance this season,)

,
Private Boxes may be obtained nightly for Families on
application to Mr. P. CARMAN, at the Box-office, from
Eleven until Three o'Clock.

Prices of Admission :—Centre Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Side
Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d ; Lower Gallery, Is. ; Upper
Gallery. 6d. Second Price, at Nine o'Clock :—Centre Dress
Boxes, 2s. ; Side Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, ls. ; Lower Gallery.
6d. No Second Price to the Upper Gallery. Second Price
will be taken for Children under Twelve years of age to the
Boxes only. .

Doors to be opened at Half-past Six and the Performances
to commence at Seven o'Clock precisely.

ROYAL LIVER THEATRE

MR. BALLS respectfully announce his BENEFIT and
Last Appearance on FRIDAY next, the 7th of Janu-
ary instant, when he will be assisted by Mrs. WAYLETT
and the talented Company of this Theatre.
By desire,
BARNABY RUDGE,
which increases nightly in attraction.
Barnaby Rudge Mrs. Waylett.

The Stranger.... (for this ni .... Mr. Balls
After w ' .1.,
THE HAPP AFRICAN.

Murtoch Delany

Edward

ibe followed by
THE MAGIC LADY
... (with 50ng5).......

Zephyrina ...
Wildlove