The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-31 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

The Rev. Henry Carpenter begs to acknowledge the receipt
of a letter signed " A Friend," with an enclosure of 475
for the Church Missionary Society ; and to express thanks
on the part of the society as well for the gift as for the
Christian feeling with which the writer regards the labours
of the society in seeking the salvation of the heathen.
We have received a communication recommending Dr.
Gouthwaite as the fittest person to be appointed physician
to the infirmary, in the place of the late Dr. Baird, on the
ground that he is one of the oldest medical officers at-
tached to any of the public charities. With every respect
for the claims of Dr. Gouthwaite upon the trustees of the
Infirmary, we feel that we cannot interfere.
" Viator" complains that a coachmaker's shop in Roe-street
is being taken down without the slightest provision being
made for the safety of the public by fencing off a portion
of the flag-way and street. If this be so, it is a clear in-
fraction of the law, and doubtless the proper authorities
will put the law into execution.

at Etbrrpoot &tatintt.

TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1842.

The public, and especially those interested in the
welfare of our colonial possessions, will be gratified to
notice that at length the impudent domination of the
Romish priesthood in the colony of Newfoundland is
to be put down, and the legislative functions of its As-
sembly restored to the hands of the respectable inha-
bitants. For the last ten years, under a constitution
framed upon the most approved whig-radical pattern,
the colony in question has been a perfect hotbed of
turbulence and misrule. Priestly tyranny has ridden
rough-shod over the feelings, and the personal liberties
even, of those of its population who were not prepared
to prostrate themselves at the feet of the Dagon of
Popery—to feed it with offerings, and fill with incense
its drunken ear. By that constitution, the property,
the peace, and the prosperity of the colony, were virtu-
ally handed over to the rabble mob, who exercised the
legislative functions, and distributed Lynch law at the
dictation of the eleves of Maynooth. To such a pitch,
in fact, had the monstrous insolence of the Romish
faetion risen, that the late whig governor reported last
year to a whig colonial secretary, the absolute impossi-
bility of again calling the assembly together under such
a constitution as the existing one !

We have given, in full, in our parliamentary sum-
mary, the speech of the colonial secretary, Lord Stan-
ley, on Thursday night, in introducing an amended
constitution for this colony, to the details of which we
beg to direct the attention of our readers. Under the
existing whig constitution, the House of Assembly, it
will be seen, consisted of " low and, to a certain ex-
tent, uneducated persons. Some of them could not
write their names, and others had been returned who
were menial servants, and asked leave of their masters
to take their seats in the house !" Such a house, we
need scarcely say, has throughout its legislative exist-
ence, been the mere registering tool of the Romish
hierarchy, by whose influence over the consciences of
the wretched paupers who compose the majority of the
constituency, and by the system of terrorism which
they instituted to deter the respectable inhabitants from
any expression of opinion, its members were returned.
The bill proposed by Lord Stanley, with a view of
remedying this state of things, so disastrous to the
prosperity and the peace of the colony, has been read a
first and second time; and with the exception of a few
despairing howls from the learned member for Cork,
as the organ of the Popish party in the House of Com-
mons,- is not, we are confident, fated to receive any
material opposition. The day is gone by when that
beggarman could dictate terms to a British government;
and whiggery, even, is at this moment too delighted at
its escape from the hug of the great dragon—too happy
at its present immunity from the sweep of his tail—to
be anxious once more to fraternize with him in so
hopeless a cause as the defence of that rank Popish
job, the whig constitution, which delivered over the
colony of Newfoundland to the tender mercies and the
discretion of its Romish priesthood.

The state of society in our West India Colonies, it
is well known, is one which has been formed upon the
superlative pattern, favoured by those pious and en-
lightened people the anti-slavery party. The emanci-
pated population of these colonies were to exhibit to
the world an example of the high state of usefulness
and refinement of which the negro character was capa-
ble; and we may fairly conclude that the condition of
that population at the present moment, developed as it
has been by the aid of all the appliances which a Whig
stipendiary magistracy, Whig teachers and sectarian
preachers could bring to the task, is one which the
pseudo-philanthropists of the anti-slavery party will
scarcely be inclined to treat as any other than the de-
velopement of the real character of that race. •
Let us examine, then, what is the state of society in.
British Guiana, as exhibited by the last accounts from,
that colony. It is well known that within the last two,
or three years the staple production of British Guiana,.
as well as that of the whole of our West India Colonies,.
has been rapidly decreasing, owing to the disinclination.,
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evinced by the emancipated labourers, to that continu-
ous labour required in sugar cultivation. We could
give here a dozen of instances in which estates, once
flourishing and valuable, have been reduced by this
want of continuous labour to comparative desolation
and worthlessness ; but the following, from the Guiana
Times of the 6th April, must suffice.

" On the 23rd ult., Plantation Enfield, in the county of
Berbice, advertised for months previously in the colony
newspapers, and in the gazettes of London and Amster-
dam, a plantation, which, in 1829, had been purchased for
£22,000 sterling, of which the new sugar machinery alone
had cost £3,000, and on which there were claims to the
amount of £15,000, was knocked down, at open execution
sale, before a large concourse of planters and merchants,
for 8,200 dollars, scarcely £2,000 sterling, not the original
cost of the new machinery alone. The poor gentleman, its
late proprietor, had been worth, we are told. £15,000 when
he became connected with it. He sank his all in it."
The county of Berbice, be it remarked, has been
held up by the anti-slavery people as the pattern county
of British Guiana. The price of labour here has never
ranged so high as in other portions of the colony. No,
turn-out has taken place. The price of sugar, coffee,
&c., in the home market has been unprecedentedly-
high ; and yet, owing to the difficulty of procuring:
continuous labour, cultivation of the staples is so un—
profitable, even in this pattern county, that an estate:
valued at £30,000 a few years ago, will now produce
no more than £2OOO !

But here, it may be said, may have been expensive
management, embezzlement by agents, and other evils
of the absentee system, so common in the West Indies.
Show us a plantation, of which there are now so many,
the absolute property of emancipated negro proprietors !
These estates, we reply, furnish none of the staple pro-
ducts! Their proprietors content themselves with the
production of provisions merely—yams, plaintains, &c.
—and the British West Indies, in such hands, must
shortly cease to be exporting colonies at all, and neces-
sarily cease, at the same time, to be importing colo-
nies. The Guiana Times, of the 13th April, informs
us that, " of the many freeholders, scattered up and
down the three counties, the utmost that can be said
is this, that they Nvork with more or less assiduity as
jobbers, on neighbouring plantations, where, notwith-
standing, their exertions, however praiseworthy, are
so far from making up for the natural indolence of the
vast majority of their brethren, that every district of
the country exhibits a constant decay of productive
power." And again, with respect to. the larger free..
holders—the purchasers of entire properties—from:
whom, if from any set of proprietors, it will be said;.
we ought to expect the maintenance of the old staple.
"
products, the same authority says, that, to a moti©m
for a return of the quantity of exportable produce
grown on the freeholds of such persons, the answer
would be—Nil."

The Guiana Times continues, in his publication of
the same date, to remark upon the prospects of the
rising generation ; and we would call the serious at-
tention of the real philanthropists of Great Britain to,

this passage :
" Avery few years, at the furthest, will see the colony
cleared of the present race of official men. They, the truly.
censurable absentees, will have retired to another country,
loaded with the wealth levied by forced contributions on the
community whose cause they betray. We wonder whether
it ever strikes them, to what a state of society they wallow*

he generation now rising. We are, as yet, without any
good classical seminary in the province, but the spread of
education in the ordinary branches of knowledge, is incon-
ceivably extensive and rapid. To what avocations shall the
thousands of boys, now at our schools in town and country,
betake themselves when they grow up to mau's estate? It
is certain that they will not labour in the field. In the ab-
sence of an European course of study, the bench, the
bar, the practice of medicine, the pulpit, constitute dis-
tinctions to which they cannot aspire. The higher offices
of the executive department, the home government will
always take care to fill with its own creatures. The lower
cannot satisfy the wants of one-twentieth part of the appli-
cants for employment. Then, the present generation of
agricultural labourers having died away or retired, who is to
supply their room ? How are the rising generation to be oc-
cupied in a way worthy of their extended information ? How
is the large class of persons which now hangs on by the staple
cultivation, to subsist? These are questions which it will be
well for the philanthropists of England to ponder, before they

determine upon converting this colony from a sugar-pro-

ducing settlement into the residence of mere yam-growers
and hucksters."

These are, indeed, questions upon which the serious
attention of the British people, and the British Legis-
lature may well be bestowed ; and we tnist that in the
movement, which we now see making, towards an
award of something like justice towards the West India
proprietors, the condition of the emancipated negro
population themselves, aggravated as its present evils
will be by the refusal to adopt the steps necessary to
restore prosperity to the cultivation of these noble
colonies, will not be overlooked.

The Liverpool Journal either misunderstands the re-
marks which we offered on Friday, with respect to the
relative position of the Conservative party and Sir Ro-
bert Peel's government, or treats them in a very un-
candid spirit. To a Whig journalist it may appear
strange enough that Conservatives should complain of
the conduct of that government, upon some

articular

questions, and determine, with respect to those ques-
tions, to withhold from it their confidence and even to
oppose its measures. To a Whig journalist, accus-
tomed to trim his course with a delicate regard to the
safety of the frailest and most unstable government
which ever contrived to hang together so long after it
had exhausted the endurance of its supporters, it may
be a matter of difficulty at first to determine the ex-
tent to which, in the case of a strong government, the
dissatisfaction of sections of its supporters may be ex-
pressed, with respect to particular measures or the
maintenance of particular principles, without weaken-
ing its moral power or giving rise to the impression
that it is no longer possessed of their confidence upon

general questions. To this circumstance we must at-
tribute it—for we cannot think the Journal capable of
wilfully misinterpreting us—that we are represented by
our contemporary as overwhelmed with " sorrowing
despair" and a " cureless sorrow" by the measures
of Sir Robert Peel's government ; that we have " no
confidence" in the right honourable baronet, and are
only restrained by " sickness of the heart " from
"bursting into paroxysms of rage" against him.
We distinctly pointed out in the article in question
the grounds upon which we felt dissatisfaction, or he-
sitation, with respect to the accordance, by Conserva-
tives, of their implicit confidence to the present govern-
ment. Sir Robert Peel, we stated, had not acted up
to the wishes of many of his most ardent friends—(he
has acted up to the expectations of most)—in his treat-
ment of the factory question, in his treatment of the
new poor law, and upon those questions which are pe-
culiarly Protestant questions. With respect to these—
(we know of none other of material importance)—we
are prepared to offer our unflinching opposition to the
views of the majority of his cabinet; not with the motive
of harassing its steps—not with a view of weakening
it in public opinion ; but in the hope rather of strength-

ening it, and at least warning it against the danger of
further concession to the principle of utilitarian Whig-
gery. We have no fears of any " suicidal" conces-
sion to the principles (!) of free trade. We stated, in
fact, that in his financial and commercial legislation
Sir Robert Peel had our entire confidence.
In urging, therefore, the Conservative party, or, at
least, that portion of it who think with us upon these
particular questions, to " maintain the cause itself ra-
ther than the men," we advised what is, with due de-
ference to our more politic contemporary, the only
course which an honest and consistent party can pur-
sue. But why, asks the Journal, if this advice is to
be acted upon, not cast off at once from our confidence
the supporters of Sir Robert Peel's government, if we
cast off from our confidence the government itself ?

" A government," remarks the Journal, in a tone of self-
delight, " is nothing without votes at its back ; and we should
like to have the one measure of the present ministers pointed
out which was not supported by the votes or sanctioned by
the acquiescence of Lord Sandon, Sir Howard Douglas,
Lord Francis Egerton, and Mr. Bootle Wilbraham. Who
has enunciated those ' suicidal' principles of free trade more
boldly (would that he had been something more than lip-
-valiant !) than Mr. William Gladstone ? Has the new poor
law met with one' syllable of opposition from the whole batch
•of Lancashire and Cheshire tories ? Were these people sent
to parliament to vote at the bidding of the minister for any
measure which be might propose, and, as if he were an
Egyptian Pasha, to defy and rule both his sovereign and the
subjects of his delegated sway ?
'" If the Standard really wishes to establish that character
for Iniependence which it is now stickling for, it must strike
nearer home at the men who arc the instruments of this
' suicidal' course. If Sir Robert Peel is mistaken, they are
criminal; if he is blind, they are base. No party duty binds
any honest man to support principles which he abhors, and
to be an actual participant in political crime."

In the first place, we shall reply to the Journal that
hii facts are not true. We apprehend that , neither
Lord Sandon, Lord Francis Egerton, nor Mr. Wil-
braham, are devoted admirers of the new poor law.
The former, especially, we believe, will not support a
bill, by whatever government introduced, which is not
essentially mitigated in its oppressive bearing upon the
industrious and unfortunate poor of England. Not
one of these gentlemen, moreover, can be suspected of
the peculiarly Whiggish predisposition " to vote at the
bidding of the minister for any measure which he may
propose, and, as if he were an Egyptian pasha, to defy
and rule both his sovereign and the subjects of his
delegated sway !"
When these members "nearer home" do err, how-
,ever, little as the Journal may be disposed to give us
credit for the independence required in doing so, he
•will find us prepared to pursue precisely the same
course with respect to them which we have proposed with
.respect to Sir Robert Peel himself. What that course
will be our friends will have no difficulty in under-
:standing from our previous explanation; and we hope

should the task unfortunately be imposed upon us—

(which we do not expect)—that it will be one with the
honesty of which even the Journal will be satisfied, al-
though it will not be so suicidal as to afford him all
the fan which he may perhaps anticipate.

We perceive;by•,the notice paper posted at tke door
of the Town-hall that the council is threatened on
'Wednesday next with another " passage at arms,"
upon that everlasting subject of Whig-Radical cavil-
:ling, the education question. The challenger upon
;the occasion is Mr. R. V. Yates,—Sir Daphne of the
.Dingle,—who will creep into the left-off armour of the
.Abercromby Apollo, and astonish the education corn-
rriktee with his feats therein. The name of his esquire
we kiow not at the present moment. Report, how-
ever,
gives the name of Mr. Bright of Gibraltar, who,
from the grace with which he is known to wield a yard-
stick, will no .doubt demean himself within the lists
with fitting elegance and propriety. The principal
object of the "onslaught," we presume, is to post-
pone the period at which the new system of the edu-
cation committee may be fairly considered to be upon
trial,—which period, be it remembered, will not arrive
until the total cessation of this system of petty cavil-
ling at the proceedings of the committee, and keyhole
espionage of the proceedings of the teachers in the
schools themselves.
The first issue to be decided is upon the following

motion, viz.—
" That a special committee be appointed to inquire into
the acts of religious persecution, alleged to have been com-
mitted by Mr. R. Stone, in ordering the children of Roman
Catholics and Dissenters, in the corporation schools, to
learn and teach the church catechism and to go to church ;
and if he be found to have done so, to inquire further,
whether he was instructed by any person or persons to do so ;
and also to inquire whether he. neglected his duty in the
manner alleged—and that the evidence taken be laid before

the council."
" Religious 'persecution" ! What an important in •
quiry this will be ! The council surely cannot think of
horrifying the religious world by permitting the as-
tounding fads which the committee proposed might

possibly extract from the tutored witnesses of Mr. R.
V. Yates. Seriously—the council cannot permit its
valuable time to be taken up, or that of a committee,
composed even of the most trilling and silly of its
members, to be occupied in disproving such pitiful
balderdash as has here been raked up by the eaves-
dropping member for South Toxteth.
The second proposition of Sir Daphne is—

" That compensation be granted to those apprentices, for-
merly in the corporation schools, who were bound under
regulations which showed respect to their religious opinions
and promised them valuable instruction, and who were
turned out of the schools when they refused to be bound to
a master whose orders they could not conscientiously obey,
and who refused to give, or was incompetent to give, the
instruction promised."

By all means, we would say, allow the apprentices
in question compensation, although not a shilling is
their legal due ! We would give something to sweep
away such remnants of the old system, which can
only clog the efficient working of the schools as at
present constituted, and serve as funnels to such ready
recipients of exparte slanders as Mr. R. V. Yates.
The third motion is worthy of the sublime philoso-
pher who devised it. It is—
" That a Time-book be kept in each School, in which the
Superintendent and all the Masters of that School shall enter
the hour and minute when they arrive, and the hour and
minute when they leave the School."
We would suggest an amendment, to be moved by
some Conservative gentleman, to the following effect—

'That Mr. R. V. Yates and the seconder of this
motion should be permitted to station themselves daily,
one at the south school and one at the north, within a
convenient hearing distance from the keyholes of the
school doors, in order to be enabled to report to the
council the proceedings of the masters therein, Mr.
Taafe being retained to put their reports into English;
and that, to economize the time of the head master,
Mr. William Earle should be requested to escort him
in his drag, whenever his duties call him from one
school to the other." •

It will be perceived, by a paragraph inserted in ano-
ther place, that Mr. Thomas Gladstone, late member
for Peterborough, and brother of our townsman, Mr.
Robertson Gladstone, is a candidate, in connection with
the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, for the borough of Ips-
wich, on the Conservative interest. The ex-members,
Mr. Rigby Wason and Mr. Rennie, are ineligible to sit
during the present parliament.

LOCAL NEWS.

THE OXFORD TRACTS REFUTED IN THEIR OWN BIRTH-
PLACE.—WC have been informed that two able and well-
_

known churchmen, the Rev. J. R. M`Ghee, the distinguished
Protestant champion, and the Hon, and Rev. Baptist Noel,

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are about to deliver a series of lectures in the Town-hall of
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Oxford, in refutation of the (Popish) doctrines put forth in

the " Oxford Tracts."

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, LIVERPOOL.—The Rev. Wm.
Hughes, whose labours in the Principality have been emi-
nently successful, has been appointed to St. Paul's Church,
in the room of the Rev. J. N. Peill, now curate of All
Saints', Rose-hill. The rev. gentleman commenced his mi-

nistrations on Sunday week. -
THE REv. R. AIKEN.—The Rev. Robert Aiken, who is
about to leave Liverpool, delivered his farewell sermon on the
afternoon of Sunday last, in the church of St. John the
Evangelist, Hope-street. The church was crowded to over-
flow. Mr. Aiken's discourse was of a most affectionate
character, and eminently adapted to the circumstances of
the occasion.

THE REV. C. H. BURTON.—We understand that the Rev.
C. H. Burton, who has been officiating for some time as
curate of St. Martin's Church, in this town, is about to re-
move from this neighbourhood. His exemplary labours in
this sphere of duty have been productive of much good, and he
retires from it with the esteem and affection of all classes.
The members of his congregation are, we understand, about
to present him with some memorial of their esteem.

THE TWENTY-NINTH OF MAY.—Sunday last being the
anniversary of the great deliverance of King Charles the
Second, according to the rubric, " the form of prayer with
thanksgiving to Almighty God for having put an end to the
great rebellion," was read in nearly all the churches of

Liverpool.
PRINCESS ROYAL STEAMER.—This unrivalled vessel left
Liverpool on Tuesday night, at ten o'clock, and arrived at
the Bromielaw yesterday at twenty minutes past four o'clock,
making the passage, with a heed wind and including fifteen
minutes' detention at Greenock, in the extraordinary and un-

precedented time of eighteen hours and twenty minutes.—
Glasgow Argus, of Thursday.
A deputation, consisting of Lord Sandon, M.P., Mr. G.
W. Wood, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., Mr. Thomas
Wyse, Mr. J. Hodgson, president of the Birmingham Phi-
losophical Institution, Mr. Russell, the treasurer, and Mr.
Arthur Ryland, the secretary to the Birmingham Philoso-
phical Institution, Mr. Joseph Brooks Yates, resident of
the Royal Institution, Liverpool, and Mr. albot, had an

interview with Sir Robert Peel on Friday, at his official resi-

deuce in Downing-street

AN OFFICER REBUKED.—A man, named Thomas Wil-
liams, was placed before the magistrates on Friday, on a
charge of having been disorderly and fighting in Banastre-
street, on the preceding day. Williams had his head bound
up, and appeared to have received some rough usage. Reece
Davis, the officer who had taken him into custody, stated
that he had been very disorderly, and would not go home
when he desired him, but had struck him, and he (Davis)
struck him again.—Mr. Rushton : " Why did you strike the
man while there were officers near you ?" Davis replied that
it was because the prisoner had struck him. Mr. Rushton :
" That is no excuse at all. There were plenty of officers to
take the man without striking him. Such conduct is what I
have always cautioned you against : you must never strike a
man when you can call assistance. Let the prisoner be dis-
charged."
THE NEW CHIMNEY-SWEEPING ACT.—The principal
chimney-sweepers of Nottingham have announced their rea-
diness to comply with the provisions of the new act, which
comes into full operation immediately. Several of them
have constructed new machines for themselves, and others
are letting machines out to journeymen, or are selling them
at a very reasonable rate. This is as it should be, and will
entirely remove any difficulty which might arise from the
want of machines.—[We borrow this announcement from
the Nottingham Journal, and cannot forbear the expression
of some surprise that we have not yet been instructed to
give a similar notice for Liverpool. Householders will not
forget that the employment of climbing boys is positively
prohibited, under a heavy penalty, after the new act comes
into operation.]
[Advertisement.]—THE NEW SEASON'S TEA.—It would
be impossible for us to furnish more pleasing or important
intelligence to our friends, than the progress of a large pub-
lic auction of Teas—which commenced on the 27th instant,
wherein greater inactivity prevailed than has for many years
past.—This is owing to the recent abundant arrivals of Tea
from China—and the total disappearance of speculators from
the market—(who have been the chief cause of the great
fluctuation in prices during the last two years—but who
now have been taught caution by experience, which is doubt-
less a boon to the public,)—it will require some new and very
alarming feature in the Chinese quarrel to be announced be-
fore a similar feeling for speculation can be again created.
Therefore, until a further change takes place, we can parti-
cularly recommend: Fine Stout Congou (Blackish leaf),
4s. and 4s. 3d.—for general family use—and high flavoured
or choicest description Pekoe Souchong kinds, ss. and ss. 6d.
—Robt. Roberts & Co., Royal Bank Buildings.—
Entrance up the steps leading to Bank.
May 30th, 1842.
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ANNIVERSARY OF THE RESTORATION.—Sunday being
the anniversary of the restoration of King Charles to the
throne of these realms, the occasion was marked by the dis-
play of the Royal Standard and other national flags, with
boughs of oak, from the several churches and public build-
ings in this town and neighbourhood ; and yesterday groups
of the juvenile portion of the community walked in various
parts of the town, carrying children embowered in oak, and
representing Charles in miniature in commemoration of
the occasion. On Sunday, and also yesterday, many of the
vessels and boats in the docks and on the river were de-
corated with flags, and branches of oak at their mast heads.
In consequence of the anniversary falling this year on Sun-
day, the ship carpenters and others who usually walk in pro-
cession on the 29th of May, have, we learn, postponed their
procession to the 12th of July, when they will celebrate
simultaneously the Restoration and the Battle of the Boyne.
DEATH FROM BURNING.—An inquest was held yester-
day, before Mr. Curry, the borough coroner, on view of the
body of a child named Thomas Gough. The deceased, who
was but three years old. was, it appeared, left by his mother,
on Thursday week, in the room in 'which the family lodged
in Sparling-street,—while she went for some water. The
brother of the deceased, a boy of five years of age, was in
the room with him. The door was locked outside, with a
view to prevent them from falling down stairs, and there was
only a slow fire in the grate. Another female, who lodged
in the house, heard a scream, and on going into the room
found the deceased in flames. She called for assistance, and
several persons came, including the mother, and the fire was
put out, but the deceased was so much burnt about the face,
breast, arms, and neck, that, though he was dressed at the
Infirmary, and afterwards attended by a surgeon, he lingered
until Friday last, when he died. The jury returned a verdict
to the effect that the deceased died by burning, but how his
clothes became ignited, there was no evidence to show.
ROBBING A SCHOOL.—At the Police-court yesterday, a
woman named Lynch, and her son, were charged with having
committed a robbery in the Seel-street Roman Catholic
School. The boy, it appeared, had been a scholar there, and
knew the mode of obtaining access by the back. A week or
two ago a number of hooks were missed from the library,
amongst which was a copy of Lingard's History of England;
and on Saturday an entrance was effected through a window,
when a coat, belonging to the master, was taken away. A
servant girl living in the neighbourhood bad observed the
younger prisoner lurking about the premises for some time
before, and she acquainted the police with this circumstance.
The cellar inhabited by the prisoners was consequently
searched, and the missing coat was found concealed among
the bedding. The female prisoner had previously protested
that she knew nothing at all, either about the robbery or the
missing property. Mr. Rushton told her there could be no
doubt she had instigated her son to commit the felony. Both
the prisoners were committed for trial.
CAUTION TO WAREHOUSEMEN AND OFFICE-KEEPERS.
—Two men, of notoriously bad character, named [Cavanagh
and Dolphin, were placed in the dock of the Police-court
yesterday,, under the following circumstances. They had
been seen together in King-street early the same morning,
and at a quarter before seven o'clock Cavanagh was found by
the charwoman standing at the door of Mr. Smith's office,
in South John-street which he had opened by means of a
skeleton key. The woman asked him what he was doing
there, and he replied that he was one of Mr. Smith's clerks.
Dolphin at the same time was standing at the front door in
the street, evidently keeping watch. Nothing had been
taken from Mr. Smith's. Police-officer No, 539, comit,
up, he took both into custody, and on Cavanagh hefifocue door,
nda
dskaenleton key, which opened Mr. Smith's of-
a pair of boots, which had been stolen
from the adjoining
other property, on the 12th or the Sherlock, along with
24th instant, for it had
been robbed twice. office of Jr.
fected by means of
mr.
The entr.y_Ro.
unshbto.ot.nh, occasions
a skeleton key Mr. Sherlock identified
the boots as his property,,
circumstances, committed Cavanagh for
Ihearingthe
whole
td sessions, and .ordered Dolphin
wo BPAI va
g ploo nd for tia for trial at the
ne
to be imprisoned as a
ee !mouths.

POOR LAWS.—The Poor-Law Commissioners, on Thurs-
day afternoon, met Lord Sandon and a deputation from Li-
verpool, at the Home Office, on the subject of the New Poor
Law Amendment Act.

MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.—We understand that a petition,
for a commission of enquiry into the state and studies of the
Roman Catholic College of Maynooth, was forwarded from
Manchester, to J. P. Plumptre, Esq., on Monday last, con-
taining, 30,316 signatures, which exceeds the numbers to the
petition of last year by upwards of 3,500.
TOXTETH-PARK PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIA-
TION.—The petition adopted by this spirited and truly-
patriotic association, for an enquiry into the system of
education pursued in the popish college of Maynooth, has
received upwards of 3000 signatures—and it has been for-
warded to Lord Sandon, for presentation to the House of
Commons.

PLANS FOR THE SEE-WORK FIOUSE.—The Board of
Guardians for the Parish of Liverpool selected, on Tuesday
last, after a deliberation of three weeks, two designs out of
the thirty-nine submitted for the proposed Workhouse, " in
recto decus" for the first prize, and " coat of arms" for the
second prize. The names of the architects proved to be Mr.
Walter Scott, of this town, for the first prize, and Messrs.
Lockwood and Allen, of London, for the second. We con-
gratulate Mr. Scott, who is well known by his buildings in
Cheshire, on his success.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—There was an excellent attend-
ance last night at this very popular place of amusement to
witness the Roman Festa. We must draw the attention of

the police authorities to an intolerable nuisance that takes
place every night while the company are leaving the gardens ;
unless it is put a stop to it will very_ materially operate

against Mr

Atkin's interest

We alh;de to the crowds of

scamping boys and young men that are permitted to assemble
by the sides of the road, who offer insults to the company on

their progress home, not only by words and abuse, but also
by throwing sand and lumps of turf in all directions. We
have heard several complaints of this, and we hope that the
nuisance will be reformed altogether."
SMUGGLlNG.—Yesterday the man William Scott, -trate of
the ship Bradshaw, whose case has been noticed before, was
again brought up at the Police-court, on the charge of
having smuggled 341bs. of tobacco. The evidence which
had been reduced to writing, was read over, after which the
prisoner was asked what he had to say in his defence. He
replied that he was very sorry for what he had done, for it
had been the means of ruining his character for ever, as he
had obtained a responsible berth in the royal navy, which

was now forfeited. Mr. Rushton said he should have
thought of thaA before. In order to save a few shillings
duty, he had not only placed himself in the situation of a

criminal, but he had• pia the owners of the ship to very
serious trouble. He must be convicted in the penalty of
one hundred pounds.

THE PERUVIAN MUMMY.—This singular relic of hu-
manity, on which the coroner was about holding an inquest
through the witless hoax of some silly person, was purchased

from Captain Hoodlop, of the °betoil, a ship belonging to
Messrs. Brocklebank, by L. T. Gaskill,. Esq of Seacombe.

Dr. Thorburne intends -delivering a series of lectures in Li-

verpool, similar to those now delivering by Signor Peltigrew,
of London, and the Peruvian mummy will be exhibited in

illustration. Captain Hoodlop discovered the mummy in a
chalk tomb at Pisco, and it appears that he had the greatest
difficulty in conveying it on board his vessel. The Spanish
boatmen who rowed him and his prize to the ship, on disco-
vering that they had charge of a dead body, laid down their
oars, and it was only by his persuading them that it was the
body of his brother which he was bringing to England that
prevented them from throwing it overboard.

COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ENGLAND AND IRELAND.
—The committee appointed to inquire into the communica-
tion between England and Ireland have, for the present,
suspended their inquiries. We noticed in our last that Mr.
Cubitt, the eminent engineer, had been examined. Mr. C.

W. Williams, managing dieetor of the City of Dublin

Steam-packet Company; Mr. Piro, the secretary of the
Dublin and Kingston railway; and the Bight Hon. Frede-
rick Shaw, have also been examined ; and it is stated that
all parties agree as to the superiority of railway communica-
tion between Chester and North Wales over the present
mode of transmitting the correspondence vid Liverpool. It
is understood that the committee will impress upon govern-
ment the necessity of employing engineers to examine and
report upon the subject.
THE FUNDS.—SATURDAY EVENING.—The English funds
_ .

have remained perfectly quiet, with a small amount of busi-
ness. Consols for money closed 92i- to I; and for the ac-

count, 93 to 4 ; Bank Stock, 167 to 168 ; India Stock, 2-19 to
251 ; Exchequer Bills, 395. to 41s. premium ; 3 per Cents.
Reduced, 914 to 4 ; 34 per Cents. Reduced, 100 to ; New
31 per Cents., 100 to 4; Long Annuities, 129 16 ; and India
Bonds., 21s. to 225. premium. Mexican stock has advanced
to 374 to 4, in consequence of the satisfactory advices received
of the state of that republic, and the progress Santa Anna is
making in the developement of the resources of the country
in order to increase its revenue. Spanish New 3 per Cents.
also advanced, and several buyers came forward. Its last
quotation was 234 to j. In other securities there was little
alteration. Spanish Actives left off 224 to 31 ; Portuguese 5
per Cents., 38 to ; ditto 3 per Cents., 224 to 3 ; Dutch 21
per Cents., 524 to ; Colombian, 264- to 271 ; Chaim), 88 to
90 ; Brazilian, 67 to G 8; and Belgian, 102 to 103.

SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS.—We learn, from the papers
brought by the Caledonia, that the inhabitants of the city
and county of St. John's, New Brunswick, have recently
transmitted an address to this gallant officer and their late
distinguished lieutenant-governor on his election as member
for Liverpool. The signatures are very numerous and truly
respectable, and are led by the venerable father of the city,
John Ward, Esq., J.P., followed by the honourables the
senior member of the executive council, the speaker of the
House of Assembly, the high sheriff of the city and county,
the grand jury and the leading merchants of the community.
The address states, that the return of Sir Howard to parlia-
ment is deemed by them " an auspicious event for the high
purposes of the constitutional councils of the country," and
they add, that this belief is well founded since the " adminis-
trative residence" of the gallant veteran " was not only
marked by a support of the interests and dignity of the crown,
and his own urbanity as its representative," but also because
" every moral and industrial interest shared in the fostering
care of his almost parental hand."
MEssiznism.---We take the following from a late number
of the Halifax Morning Post, brought by the Caledonia :
" Dr. Collyer may fairly he said to constitute the life—
if indeed he was not the pioneer—of animal magnetism in
this country ; and when that science, which is now as it were
in its infancy—which has but just fairly taken root—shall
have grown up to a tree of knowledge,' and have spread
its broad branches beneath the genial influence of light and
truth,—his name will be associated with its richest and
most verdant foliage. It requires no small share of intellect,
as well as moral courage and firmness, to stand up the
the advocate of a contemned truth, and defend it from the
incredulous, the scoffs of the ignorant, and the opposition of
the selfish who are unwilling that anything should exist,
unless conduct-A in their own way and by their own per-
mission. Dr. Collyer is admirably fitted for such a task,
Possessing a keen, discriminating judgement— immense
nervous power—an independence of mind which knows its
own recources, and is ever ready to wrestle with opposing
intellect for the mastery—a perseverance that never tires
—and an energy that scorns the common obstacles of the
world—he has moved forward in his investigations of the
science, and electrified mankind with its mighty results.
When he first came to this city, the :almost united voice of
the public, and by far the greater portion of the press, was
against him. Every species of ridicule which ingenuity
could devise, was employed to bring-his favourite science into
contempt. Yet through all this, Dr. C. has stood up man-
fully for the right, until opposition is silenced, public opinion
revolutionized, and science endowed with a new feature, in
its onward march to the healing of the nations' and in its
capacity to bless mankind. One year ago, nearly the whole
mass of community were sceptical; now, there is not one

.
in ten, who has taken any pains to procure information on
the subject, that doubts the existence of human magnetism.
Let the honour of such results be placed where it rightly

belongs."

A CABMAN OUTDONE BY lIIMSELF.—The driver of a cab, 1
the number of which was not stated, appeared before Mr.
Rushton, at the Police-court, yesterday, to complain against
a native of France, who, he said, had hired his cab and re-
fused to pay him his fare. He stated that he was with his
vehicle in Bevington-bush on Saturday afternoon, when the
defendant, who was drunk, came up and requested him to
carry him to Peter-street, which he did. On arriving at
their destination he had to hawk his fare up and down the
street till he could find his lodgings, a matter of some diffi-
culty, as he could not understand a word that Monsieur said
to him. A squabble arose between them, which, as neither
party understood the other, was so interesting as to excite
the attention of the whole neighboirhood. At length the
police were attracted to the spot, to whom the cabman, being
more successful in making himself intelligible, they placed
the unhappy Frenchman in durance vile on a charge of re-
fusing to pay the legal fare for the hire of the coach. The
complainant having told his tale, the defendant began, awl
with infinite gesticulation he informed the court that as he
was passing along Bevington-bush he was saluted by the
cabman, who asked him if he would have a ride. He con-
sented, and mounting the box, the good cabman conveyed
him to Peter-street ; but when he arrived there he most
wantonly demanded 2s. He assured the court, upon his ho-
nour, he had never thought of engaging the cab at all. The
driver had invited him to ride, and he was fool enough to
accept the invitation, for it had been the means of his being
kept in custody since Saturday. Mr. Rushton asked the
cabman whether the defendant had, as he stated, sat on the
box of the coach. The complainant replied that he had, but
he added, by way of explanation, that he invited him to go
inside, but he declined. Mr. Rushton said there was no case
against the defendant. It was clear that the complainant's
eagerness to obtain a fare had occasioned what followed.
The prisoner therefore must be discharged, and in the mean-
time he would recommend the cabman to be more careful
how he invited drunken Frenchmen to ride, in his vehicle

The Neapolitan journals mentlon the recent death at San
Fili and Bianchi of a man aged 114, and a woman aged 110.
EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY—This splendid
road has now been open a quarter of a year, last Saturday
being the termination of the first thirteen weeks. The in-
terest which the public feel in this great undertaking is only
commensurate with the advantages which it is conferring on
the east and west coasts of Scotland, and the beneficial influ-
ence which it is destined to exercise on the two communities
of Glasgow and Edinburgh. During the first quarter the
company have carried 132,024 passengers consisting of 24,413
first class ; 34,016 second class ; 73,595 third class ; the
first class being 181 per cent., the second class 251 per cent.,
and the third class being 551 per cent. The money received
from these passengers stands in the inverse ratio, the first
class yielding 42i- per cent., the second class 331 per cent.,
and the third class 231 per cent. The first week's passen-
gers of the quarter were 5,561 ; the last week's passengers of
the quarter were 13,147. The season of the year will partly
account for this increase, but the same reason may be alleged
for an increased progression during the next quarter. The
goods and cattle traffic department is gradually forming itself ;
but, notwithstanding its immaturity and the short time since
it commenced, which was some time after the opening of the
line, the revenue is already equal to a fourth of the passenger
receipts. For the week ending Saturday 21st May, the num-
ber of passengers was 13,149 ; receipts, £1,685 ss. 11d. ;
horses and carriages, £27 16s. 6d• ; parcels, goods, cattle,
&c., £398 lls. lid. ; total, £2,111 14s. 4d.—Glasgow Con-
stitutional.

ACCIDENT ON TILE BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER
RAILWAY.—On Wednesday morning one of the company's
servants (name not ascertained) who is employed near the
Eckington station to adjust the " points," or swivel turnings,
on the arrival of each train, was ran over by the first morn-
ing mail train, it is supposed while in the attempted perform-
ance of his duty. Some alterations having lately been begun
at this point, another carriage way was formed, and it was his
duty to turn the train by means of the aforesaid swivel, on
the rails which lie there at a slight angle from the direct
line. It is supposed, however, that it having been the
night of the Eckington wake, he had taken too much
liquor, and was consequently incapable of accomplishing
his allotted task with sufficient quickness or steadiness ; for
when the train came up he had not performed his duty, and
the engine passed over his leg, below the knee, breaking the
9
bone and severing the leg, with the exception of a piece of
flesh. it will hardly be credited, but it is nevertheless true,
that the unfortunate fellow, perceiving the state of things,
with the utmost sang froid, took a penknife from his waist-
coat pocket, and completed the amputation by cutting the
flesh through ! He then took up.the detached member and
platform, where he himself crawled, and lay
hour, till medical assistance was procured
fort hreuwpw it
aordnst
of
fe
a n
from Pershore, and the leg was then amputated at the thigh.
The poor fellow was removed, and is doing as well as could
be expected.—Worcester Guardian.

STUPID HOAX.-ALLtGED BURICING AFFAIR!

On Saturday morning a stupid hoax was played off upon
Mr. Curry, the coroner for this borough, which, neverthe-
less, has excited some little merriment to those in the secret.
For some days past as will be seen from another paragraph, a
PERUVIAN MUMMY, imported from South America, in the
ship Oberon, has been lying at the office of L. T. Gaskell,
the agent of the London Times newspaper, in Lord-street
C;iambers. Some lover of practical joking (who deserves to
have his nose held to a grindstone for his pains), dispatched on
Saturday aletter signed " Francis T. Wilson" to the coroner,
informing that gentleman that the corpse of a man was lying
at the office in question under very mysterious circumstances ;
and that the writer confidently believed him to have met with
his death from assassination.

On the receipt of such a communication the coroner des-
patched his beadle to the office of the alleged burker, Mr.
Gaskell. That gentleman, however, was not upon the spot ;
and the official, in consequence, having declared his office
and the serious errand upon which he had come, proceeded
forthwith to institute a rigorous inquiry from some parties
whom he found in occupation of the supposed place of slaugh-
ter or felonious concealment. The box which contained the
embalmed body was at once shown him, and its history duly
related ; but so dark a tale would not satisfy the man of
corpses. Who knew, he thought, but that a radical town-
councillor, or ex-whig mayor, an ex-whig member of parlia-
ment, was there packed up for the resurrectionist or for some
London curiosity shop ? The mysterious box was, therefore,
opened ; and the beadle, with the remembrance of Burke,
Hare, Greenacre, and Good, making -
" Each particular hair to stand on end
Like quills upon the fretful porcupine,"
Proceeded to note down the appearance of the strange fish
or fowl which was presented to his gaze. Having completed
his survey, and satisfied himself that it was neither William
Rathbone reduced to parchment, nor Rigby Wason done
brown, the body in question having been dead for something
like a thousand years, he demanded the names of the parties
present, and satisfied with his examination, withdrew to re-
port progress, as the House of Commons people say. In
the course of the afternoon the coroner, having probably not
been much enlightened with the report of his official,
despatched a note requiring the attendance of Mr. Gaskell
at his office. That gentleman, however, was still absent;
but Dr. Thorburne, of this town, who was accidentally
present, proceeded to wait upon Mr. Curry, and explained
that the mummy in question was one which had been dis-
covered in a chalk tomb, where it had probably been buried
for centuries, and brought over to this country, as before
stated ; and that it was his intention shortly to make it the
subject of a course of lectures. The coroner, we need not
say, was perfectly satisfied with this explanation ; and severely
reprehended the conduct of the authors of a hoax which had
created so much trouble and annoyance.

THE THEATRE - THE STARRING

SYSTEM,

We perceive by the announcement of the Theatre-Royal,
elsewhere in our paper this day, that the lessees have at
length broken through the rule they started with at the com-
mencement of the season,—they have engaged " a star."

We have been so frequently addressed by various corre-
spondents to account for the non-engagement of the metro-
politan actors at the Theatre-loyal, that it has led us to

make some inquiry into the matter; and from sources that
we have no reason to doubt as to accuracy, we have gathered
a few curious particulars that will, while they point out an
instructive lesson, let the public a little into affairs behind
the scenes. These statements, were we to give them at
length, would show the rapacity of the London actors—the
absurd value they put upon their services—the risk the
manager runs in engaging them—and the opinion the public has
of them, by the amount of patronage bestowed upon them.
The lessees of the Theatre-Royal have persisted in their
original plan until the stars have come to their terms—terms
at once equitable and just to all parties. To Mr. Anderson's
honour let it be said, that he has shown in his present engage-
ment a disposition to use the lessees fairly. We believe we
may state, so far, that the amount of his remuneration for
his fortnight's services will be entirely contingent upon his
benefit. We hope the public will remember this, because
their approval in supporting him on the occasion will show
how far the new system is appreciated. We can point out,
as we shall presently, that the new system is beneficial to the
public and to the stage. The result of the benefit is, as we
have said, an equitable mode of recompensing an actor ; be-
cause, if his services prove advantageous to a manager by
drawing extra attendance, it may be at once inferred, that on
the night of such benefit still greater will be the attraction.
This is the old system. Munden gave his services for a
fortnight, and was content to share half the receipts of his
benefit with the management. Have we a Munden now, or
any one that can be named within a long walk of him ?
Master Betty, a surprising instance of precocious genius,
but a mere " bubble of the day," it is true, yet still a good
and sure card, was content to divide the nightly receipts after
£9O, and give £156 for his benefit charges. Edward Kean,
the greatest actor the stage has for years produced, was quite
satisfied, in 1817, when in the zenith of his fame, to share
after £6O per night. Think of this, ye twinklers. In the
days of Johnston, Emery, and others, the sharing system
was considered satisfactory to all parties, and it appears to be
the only one upon which a theatre ought to be worked to be
rendered a safe speculation. The labourer is worthy of his
hire. If an actor excites curiosity in the public, and brings
so much more money to the house than would otherwise be re-
ceived without him, then he is worth his proportion ; if he does
not draw extra money, he is clearly not worth his salt. This
has been proved, and is daily experienced in the provincial
theatres. What said Mr. Hay in his speech at Portsmouth,
as given in our last Friday week's publication,—" The stars
were attractive, but they ran away with all the profit." So
it has been in this theatre. Some of the stars have brought a
little more money into the house, but have taken it away with
them. For instance, Mr. Macready, who vaunts his love for the
drama, and would have the public believe that he is the great
reformer of the modern stage—what has he done for it in
London during his last season? But let that pass. What
did he for the Theatre-Royal here last season ? Mr. Mac-
, ready could not afford to accept an engagement unless be-
tween £3OO and £4OO (nearer the latter than the former)
were guaranteed to him for an engagement of ten nights !
This engagement Mr. Macready had when he was last here
—was paid to the very letter of the bond—and the manage-
ment sustained a very serious loss by him Now, will any
one have the effrontery to tell us that this man's services
were worth such a sum? Cui bono—what benefit did he,
either mentally, morally, or physically? 'Why, the man that
mends a pair of shoes for 3s. 6d,, that enables the hardy
mechanic to pursue his labour, is, in our opinion, a man of
more utility than Mr. Macready, or any other of his kind.
And where is there a member of a profession, trade, employ-
ment, or occupation, that dare come forward and ask such a
sum as an equivalent for services at such a rate ? It is a re-
markable fact. that the " Heir-at-Law," which was originally
, produced at the Haymarket, with the extraordinary cast of
Suett, Palmer, Fawcett, C. Kemble, Munden, Johnstone,
Mrs. Davenport, Miss De Camp, and Mrs. Gibbs, did not
cost the then management so much per week, as Mr. Mac-
ready's sole engagement lately at the same theatre ! Actors
tell :us they are public property, and therefore we make no
mincing the matter. The stars have been overpaid, and the
public has suffered. These people have required so much of
the gilt off the gingerbread, that managers, to make a bare
living, have been obliged to obtain poor companies to do their
ordinary work. The stars had no objection to this, because,
like the foil to the stone, it only set them off to greater ad-
vantage ; but the public has • suffered, because it has seen a
part only in each drama well played, while the rest was bur-
lesqued most villanously. Thus has the public suffered by
I the star system.
The lessees of the Theatre-Royal, in breaking the star
system, do the playgoing public service. They say, "We
will have a first-rate company. Our theatre is open to
stars,' as they call themselves, (though we questipn whe-
ther it is a correct term, for they come-it rather stronger
than such luminaries.) if they will engage at a price that
will pay us. We can draw as much money to our house
without as with them. We can get up everything in
a superior manner ; and experience has shewn that more
money can be taken without them." " This cannot be ! "
exclaims the reader. " What! a regular company produce
more money than stars ?" It is even so. In the season of
1840, the following were eugaged during the first fifteen
weeks, in rotation :—Miss Tree, Miss Romer, Templeton,
Mrs. Honey, Buckstone, Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Yates and
wife, Bedford, Wright, Power, Gilbert, Miss Bailin, Master
and Miss Marshall, Madame Vestris, C. Mathews, Vining.
In 1841, Van Amburgh, Elton, Balls, G. Vandenhoff, Wal-
lack, Miss Delcy, Templeton, Charles Kean, Mrs. Warner,
Mr. and Mrs. Yates, P. Bedford, Wieland, Wright, Master
and Miss Webster, Boleno Family. In 1840, when the
Adelphi people were here the best houses were drawn during
the whole time, they having played that most moral piece,
" Jack Sheppard." In 1841, Miss Delcy's was a first ap-
pearance : she did not draw. This season the Adelphi Com-
pany brought down several of their nasty pieces, which, if
the Liverpool public had served according to their deserts,
ought to have been hissed off the stage. Now here, in fifteen
weeks, we have all the available talent of London ; and it is
a positive fact, that during the first fifteen weeks of this pre-
sent season, we believe that a larger sum has been taken.
than in the year 1840, and some hundreds over that of 1841 !
The " stars," it is said, have come to a resolution to de-
cline any engagements at Liverpool and Manchester under
the present management. We saw the statement in a Lon-
don paper. It is clear that the lessees are better without
them ; but we strongly suspect that these stars will be glad
to come upon the fair and equitable terms proposed.
Liverpool and Manchester have always proved good specs
for these gentry, and they will not like to he cut out
of the two towns. Supposing that any of them should come
for a half benefit, and could clear £7O to £lOO for ten
nights, we think they would be well repaid. There are
many and many excellent and clever men, with many
mouths to feed, who are debarred of the common comforts
of life, who toil day by day, and sometimes part of the
night, to make all ends meet, who do not in one or even two
years, make as much as these superficial people consider an
inadequate payment for a fortnight's labours. rbe doing away
with the star system is the true way to advance the interests of
the drama ; young actors and actresses get a chance of prac-
tise and advancement, their merits are tested, and if they
have talent in them, it is Wought. out. They become pep:
feet • they are induced to study and persevere'.
feet;
has been said on the subject of Miss Kemble not
being engaged by themanagernent, which, if we may judge from
what has been dipncd in our ears out of doors, has been greatly
blamed for not engaging her. But why should the public
blame any one for attending to their own interests?
theatre is but a private speculation for a public purpose, and as
such, private remuneration must be looked at. Miss Kemble,
or those who have bought her up, who pay her so much per
week for her entire services, like the man in the van, who
pays a giant or a dwarf, or a learned pig, or any other matter
in the showman's way, have the modesty to ask £lOO per
night. To set Miss Kemble's performance effectually on the
stage, many expences, we should imagine, must be incurred,
which might in round numbers, amount to perhaps £3O per
night; to this must be added the expense of new scenery,
dresses, &c., and the current charges of the house, besides
the slack business before and after her appearance. Would
it recompense any one sufficiently to run, in bad times like
these, when every
sixpence is looked at twice before it is
parted with once—would such a speculation be prudent, even
supposing, which may rather be doubted, a full house could
be secured every night? It is said, that in the event of £lOO
per night not being guaranteed, it has been proposed to ac-
cept two-thirds of the receipts. We have not heard whether
this proposal has been acceded to, but we should fancy not.
The public, that is to say the Play-going pprtion of the
community, has better chance of amusement with 'a coin-
pally like the present at. the Theatre-Royal, without
4, stars," because, as has been sufficiently shown, every
thing can be well done. That the star system is a bad
one, injurious to all except the rapacious individuals who
have an interest in keeping it in existence, is quite clear;
and it is to be hoped that the management of Liverpool and
Manchester will persist in their present plan, and that every
other in the kingdom will follow its example.
Last evening Mr. Anderson, from Drury-lane, appeared as
Othello, Mr. Brooke playing lap°. To-night, "The Lady of
Lyons" will be performed, and to-morrow, " Hamlet." The
latter, it may be remembered, has been admi r y put on the
stage; a treat may be anticipated, Mr, Anderson's Hamlet
is a highly.finishedTerformance,

si.,...,awm,:ii=7,:imzsaempial.

Mr. J. Walter, the late representative for Nottingham,
has again offered himself as a candidate for that borough.
HORRID DISCOVE
,y.—The Rio Papers of the last ar-
rival mention an atrocious case connected with slavery. It
seems, that a house at Barra de Tajuca, a thriving, populated
district, about five miles from Rio, had been searched by the
police, and that the bodies of five blacks, who had been
flogged to death, were discovered. The proprietor of the
house had beeu arrested.