The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-25 00:00:00

THE CENTRAI, FIRE

WHEN lie-shin, or " TheliieadediOUr," was appoint-
ed Commissioner at Canton, and every Journal headed
- •••

the intelligence then received with " Settlement of t
nese Dispute—Three Millions to be paid the English• _ __-
resumed at Canton," &c., CAPTAIN PIDDING'S 18
years' experience of the Chinese told him that his country-
men had been duped : and he predicted that, " though Ke-
shin might premise millions, he would never pay a dollar;
. .

he Chi-
-Trade

_ .
that, instead of resuming trade, he would enforce its stop-
page, to keep the English without tea ; " and that " Elliot
would rue the hour when he first relied on Ke-shin's pro-
mises. The public now know whose judgment of the Chi-
nese has proved correct, CAPTAIN ELLIOT'S or CAPTAIN
PIDDING'S; and they see that CAPTAIN PIDDING'S predic-
tion has been verified to the letter. " YANG," the Chinese
definition of whose name is " The Central Fire," has suc-
ceeded Ke-shin. " YANG " has officially recommended
" the withholding all tea from the English, until their sup-
..

ply is quite exhausted," when he foretels that " they will
become reverently submissive, and give gold for the precious
leaf." Commodore Brewer's despatch mentions that " the
Chinese had removed all the tea from Canton," and the
200,000 Chinese were ready to sack and
_ is singularly prophetic of Yang's name.
CAPTAIN PIDDING still thinks that the force sent out will
be found insufficient to coerce China, that no tea will come
out whilst bullets pour in, and :that " teas will be dealer
than ever." CAPTAIN PInnING'S Teas were formerly soli
under the title of " Howqua's Mixture," and ":Howqua's
Small Leaf Gunpowder" ; but hundreds of Grocers and Tea-
dealers, anxious to profit by the celebrity of tea which he
aloneimports, and which they found it impossible to procure,
have given the same title to rubbish of their own mixing, so
that there is now scarce one but has his " Howqua's,'

statement
burn the

" Mowqua's," " Saoqua's,
such imposition, the only security is

" or some other mixture

" CAPTAIN. PI DDiNG'S NAM E."
This they have not yet forged, and his signature is on every
really genuine package. For country agencies, address Cap-
tain Pidding, 22, College-hill, London.
GEORGE CARLYLE, Repository, 38 Bold-street, Sole
Agent for Liverpool.
J. H. PYEIt, Confectioner, 32, Great Homer-street, for
Everton and Kirkdale.
Bolton—G. J. French, Draper.
Burnley—T. Sutcliffe, Bookseller, 20, St. James's-street.
Blackburn—J. Parkinson, Chemist, 1, Church street.
Bradford—John Pratt, Chemist, 33, Ivegate.
Halifax—J. W. Foster, 36, Crown-street.
Leeds—C. Lawson, Confectioner, 39, Commercial-street.
Manchester—John Ford and Co., St. Ann's-square.
Preston—Thos. Green, Music-seller, Church-street.
Wakefield—J. Stanfield and Co., Booksellers.

WHICH WAS THE GREATER FOOL.—III a sermon,
preached by Bishop Hall upon his eightieth birthday, he
relates the following story :—There was a certain lord who
kept a fool in his house, as many a great man did in those
days for their pleasure, to whom this lord gave a staff, and
charged him to keep it till he should meet with one who was
a greater fool than himself; and if be met with such a one,
to deliver it over to him. Not many years after his lord fell
sick, and indeed was sick unto death. His fool came to see
him, and was told by his sick lord that he must now shortly
leave him. " And whither wilt thou go ?" said the fool.
" Into another world," said the lord. " And when wilt thou
come again—within a month ?" " No." " Within a year?"
" No.' " When then ?" " Never." " Never ! and what
provision haAt thou made for thy entertainment there whither
thou goest ?" " None at all." " No," said the fool, " none
at all ? Here, take my staff then. Art thou going away for
ever, and bast taken no order, whence thou shalt never
return ? take my staff, for I am not guilty of any such folly
as this."

LONGEVITY OF THE PEERAGE.—The
names and ages of some of the oldest peers
world, with

lowing are the
Perhaps there
same limited num-

is no public body in t

duce an equ3l list of men who have attained
ages :—Abercromby, Lord, i 2; Aberga-

c,
venny, Earl, 87 ; Ailsa. Marquis, 72 • Anglesey, Marquis,
74 ; Berners, Lord, 80 ; Besborough, Earl, 84 ; Bexley,
Lord, 76 ; Bristol, Marquis, 73 ; Carberry, Lord, 77 ; Cath-
cart, Lord, 87 ; Colville, Lord, 74 ; Cork, Lord, 75 ; Dela-
mere, Lord, 75 ; Dinorben, Lord, 75 ; Donegal, Marquis, 73 ;
Dorset, Duke, 75 ; Dynevor, Lord, 77 • Ferrers. Earl, 82 ;
Grafton, Duke, 82 ; Grey, Earl, 77 ; dray, Lord, 78 ; Ha-
milton, Duke, 75 ; Harrovgby, Earl, 80 ; Huntley, Marquis,

Leitrim, Eari, 74 ; Limerick,Earl;Bl, LorLaCiala, Earl.
85 ; Ludlow, Earl, 84 ; Lynedoch, Lord, 92 ; Macclesfield,
Earl, 87 ; Manchester, Duke, 74 ; Manners, Lord, 86; Ma-
ryborough, Lord, 79; Mayo, Earl, 76; Middleton, Lord,
73; Mostyn, Lord, 71 ; Norfolk, Duke, 77 ; Northwick,
Lord, 72 ; Plunket, Lord, 78 ; Plymouth, Earl, 74 ; Ponson-
by, Lord, 72 ; Portland, Duke, 74 ; Rolle, Lord, 86 ; Ross-
more, Earl, 77 ; Saye and Sele, Lord, 73 ; Shaftesbury, Earl,
74 ; Sidmouth, Lord, 85 ; Sinclair, Lord, 74 ; Stamford,
Earl, 77 ; Stanley, Lord, 76 ; St. Germain's, Earl, 75 ;
Strathallan, Lord, 75; St. Vincent, Lord, 76; Teynham,
Lord, 74 ; Wellesley, Marquis, 82 ; Wellington, Duke, 72 ;
Western, Lord, 75 ; Westminster, Marquis, 75 ; Wynford,
Lord, 75.

RIDICULOUS STORY

—An eminent member of our bar

(who was himself present) tells a capital story of a scene
which occurred many years since, at an assizes in Lancaster,
where Brougham conducted the case for the plaintiff, and
Lord (then Mr.) Campbell, that of the defendant. It was
eleven o'clock at night when Brougham had to rise to speak
to evidence. He begged that the case might be adjourned,
on account of the lateness of the hour ; but defendant's coml.
sel would not consent, dreading the display which Brougham
would have made when fresh in the morning. Disappointed
in procuring the adjournment of the case, he succeeded in
obtaining leave to refresh himself for fifteen minutes; and,
when the presiding judge had left the court, Brougham leaped
on the bar-box, squatted on the witness table, threw off his
wig and cravat, and spun a sovereign over his head to the
crier, telling him to bring two bottles of Burgundy, a table
spoon, and a wash-hand basin. The bystanders watched his
movements with great curiosity : they expected to see him
perform his lavations, but, to their surprise, when the wine
was brought, he discharged the two bottles of Burgundy into
the wash-hand basin and began to drink it with the table
spoon, as if he had a bowl of soup before him. In a short
time he had got through nearly halt the contents of the basin,
placed the basin near him, and, when the judge and jury
came back to court, commenced his speech, stopping at times
for a couple of spoonfuls of Burgundy. After having spoken
for two hours, the court expected him to stop ; but no ! he
would have his revenge, and he went on till long after three
o'clock next morning, to which he kept Campbell in court !
But this is only one of the innumerable freaks which we
might record of hiro.—Life of Lord Brougham, in Dublin
Monthly Magazine.

ANECDOTE OF Mn. Wicncy..—ln the course of the voyage
to America, Mr. Wesley hearing an unusual noise in the cabin
of General Oglethorpe (the Governor of Georgia, with
whom he sailed) stepped in to inquire the cause of it ; on which
the General immediately addressed him—" Mr. Wesley,
you must excuse me, I have met with a provocation too
great for man to bear. You know the only wine I drink is
Cyprus wine, as it agrees with me best of any. Therefore I
provided myself with several dozens of it, and this villain,
Grimaldi (his foreign servant, who was present and almost
dead with fear), has drank up the whole of it, But I will be
revenged of him. I have ordered him to be tied hand and
foot and to be carried to the man-of-war which sails with us.
The rascal should have taken care how he used me so, for I
never forgive." " Then I hope, Sir (said Mr. Wesley, look-
ing calmly at him), you never sin." The general was quite
confounded at the reproof; and, putting his hand into his
pocket, took out a bunch of keys, which he threw at Grimal-
di, saying, " there, villain, take my keys, and behave better
for the future."

WATCH-MAKING IN SWITZERLAND.—There is no branch
of Swiss industry so prosperous as its watch manufacture.
Four years ago 70,000
nowwatches were annually made. At
are
least 100,000 produced. Ido not know a more in-
teresting eight
than t visit the watchmaking districts. A
great deal of the work i' s done in the mountains, and nearly
work i
all the rough
wages done
there by women, the finer work
by men. The earned are very low, considering the
nature of the work; but the fact is, that there is no scarcity
of that skill and sobriety, and steadiness of hand and eye,
essential to this class of There is no monopoly of
capacity for it, as there is in London.
there, and the English watch.workmen It is highly paid work
in drink, not unfrequent; possess the means of
indulging without enough moral
principle and intelligence to resist titemptation. It is
sometimes the case that they get into difficulties before their
work is done, pawn their lathe and tools, and finish and spoil
it with inferior instruments. Drink soon impairs the nerves,
and they lose their steadiness of band. Theren is, therefore,
a constant scarcity of first-rate hands in
Lo
4on• This is
not the case in Switzerland; the moral and
primitive
of the people extend the sobriety essential to the habits
perfection
of the art over the whole community. It is
in-door work,
and suits them during the long continuance of weather too
inclement in the mountains to permit of open air occupation.
It is surprising how few are the tools, and how delicateupatian-
sr ,
the
use of them by the artisan py, who carry on this
manufacture in Switzerland. Carouges and Geneva ore the
great marts of the trade, and thence work is given out to the
surrounding villagers, and they must work hard to earn two
francs a day; and the majority do not average more than 30
cols. (15d.) Ido not think, upon the whale, that the watch-
making community are so far advanced in civilisation, or so
remarkable for cleanliness, as in the northern cantons. There
them. It is customary
is less reality of religious feeling among
there for one of tho family to read the Bible, or some religious
book, aloud, on a Sunday evening. It is not customary in
the French Cantons, but only occasional. There is more of
the form, and less of the spirit, of religion in the south than
in the north ; nevertheless, save in the towns and Anglicised
places round the Lake of Geneva, the eminence of Swiss
morality
perfeetion both for
is largely maintained in the south provinces. The
superiority of the watch manufacture is a signal evidence of
the skill and merit of the eole. The to which
the art is brought is universally' acknowledged, and
and
finish,,
elegance, accuracy,
the Swiss watches yby
_ear

year, take a higher rank in Vur;;ean estimation. It is an
achievement of mind and morals. Neither au ignorant nor
an immoral people could excel in this difficult and delicate
handicraft. The French custom-houses form but a very
slight impediment to the progress of the manufacture. Al-
most every traveller is a smuggler of watches. A fellow
traveller of mine smuggled three watches through the French
custom-house ; one was carefully stuffed in his neck handker-
chief, another in his pocket book, and a third in a box of
dears, which he produced, and virtuously presented to the
official in attendance as the only article he had to declare,
and which being half empty was graciously permitted to pass.
The best smugglers are dogs regularly trained for the pur-
pose ; they are especially useful for crossing the Rhine into
Austria, and I am happy to say constantly escape the
murderous aim of the coast guard musketry on the dark
nights and foggy mornings which favour their transit k
Amthostrume.

MISCELLANEOUS,

i:ieet prison a deka

has been

confined there 27 years, havin.g been committed by the Court
of Chancery for contempt in 1815.
The lion. Octavins Duncombe, brother of Lord Feversham,
will shortly lead to the hymeneal altar the Lady Caroline
Campbell, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess: of
Cawdor.—Morning Post.

n his episcopal robes, performed
'•ministered the sacrament, a

The Bishop of Linco
the rite of confirrnat:
few days ago, to the young man now awaiting his trial for
the barbarous murder of a young woman at Mansfield, Not-
tinghamshire. The rite was performed in the chapel of the
gaol, in presence of the prisoners. The Bishop remained an
hour conversing and prayed with the, to all appearance, peni-
tent neophyte.
ODD DIREr.TION.-A letter with the following direction
passed throu Manchester Post Office on the 3d of
February-

On, and

gh the

letter,

To Manchester town a friend sends this
For Joseph Barlow, sen. the famous bricksetter ;
He lives in Travis-street, next door to the station,
Hope this will find him without hesitation.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY

—The first train

. .
number at eleven o'clock amounted to nearly one hundred.
The two corresponding trains from Edinburgh took about
two hours and ten minutes each on the way, and both of
them contained a larger number of passengers than those
which left Glasgow.

A few days ago, a woman who was picking up cinders on

the Saint-Etienne Railway, as she had for sone.time been in
the habit of doing. although frequently warned of the danger,
became the victim of her imprudence. A train coining up,
she placed herself, with her sack on her head, by the side of
the road, but the sack being heavy fell for"-ard, and dragged
her with it. The train passed over, and she was in an instant
deprived of life.
MADAME LAFFARGE.—We have received a letter from
Montpellier, bearing date the 14th instant, which states that
the convict Marie Capelle (Madame Laffarge) is dangerously
ill, and that her physician has given her over. In tact, she
has received the last sacraments of the church.—Gazette des
Tribunaux.

The wife of the Carlist General Elio died a short time
since at Chiavery, in Piedniont. The fate of the general's
family is peculiarly sad. His father, who was also a genaral,
died on the scaffold in 1822 ; and his mother soon followed
her .husband to the grave, dying of a broken heart. His
brother-in-law, the Marquis d.e Lealtad, died an exile from
Spain, and he is now himself left with five children of tender
age, four sona and a daughter.
We have before stated, that the occasion of the sudden re-
moval of the court to Brighton was for the improvement of
the health of the Princess Rroyal. We are now happy to
state that Mr. Henry Blaker, the surgeon of that piece, hav-
ing been called in, has lanced the gums of her royal highness,
which has allayed the irritation, and she has since cut three
teeth. The princess's health is now much improved.—Ob-
server.

COUNTY COURTS—BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENT
DEBTORS' LAWS.—The three bills laid upon the table of the
House of Peers on Monday, by Lord Cottenham, are thus
designated :—" A Bill for the Amendment of the Laws re-
lating to Bankrupts, and for the better advancement of Jus-
tice in certain Matters relating to Creditors and Debtors."
" A Bill to enable the Lord Chancellor to direct that certain
Proceedings from the Court of Chancery. and Matters in
Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Lunacy, may be carried to the
County Courts." " A Bill to Improve the Practice and Ex-
tend the Jurisdiction of County Courts." They were all or-
dered to be printed.
PETITIONING MULTIPLICATION.—The town of Manches-
ter, from which on Wednesday night 9-1, and on Friday 140,
petitions to the House of Commons were presented for a re-
peal of the corn laws, last night sent one hundred and fifty-
seven on the same subject. Thus from one town alone there
have been presented in three nights three hundred and
ninety-one petitions. How many of these petitions are signed
by the same individuals the present form of publication affords
no means of ascertaining. Among the petitions presented
last night we perceive the following :—" From the working
men and otherS employed on the London and Brighton Rail-
way, and also of their wives and daughters ;" and a similar
petition from the working men, their wives and daughters,
on the Dover Railway. The sons, we presume, have either
arrived at years of discretion or send separate petitions.

THE VETERAN MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COM-
MONS.—The following is a list of the members of the pre-
sent House of Commons who claim to be wholly excused

from serving on election committees, on account of being
more than 60 years old, viz. Baillie (Honiton), Sir
R. Bateson, Mr. Benett, Mr. Bunbury, Sir F. Burdett, Sir
C. M. Burrell, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Chapman (Whitby),
Sir J. Chetwode, Mr. Clements, Mr. Clive, Mr. Crawford,
Mr. Denison, Sir H. Douglas, Mr. Feilden, the Right Hon.
Sir A. Grant, Mr. Gore, Mr. Hoskins, Mr. Irving, Colonel
Langton, Mr. Loch, Lord Manners, Mr. Majoribanks, Mr.
Ord, Mr. Oswald, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Pendarves, the Right
Hon. Sir W. Rae, Bart., the Right Hon. Sir G. Rose, Col.
Rushbrooke, Mr. Sheppard, Mr. Wallace, the Right Hon.
C. W. W. Wynn, and Sir M. Wood, Bart.-34 in all.

TIIE CORN TRADE.—The decided manner in which Lord
John Russell's amendment on Sir Robert Peel's motion on
the corn-laws was defeated on Wednesday night, leaves little
doubt that the ministerial measure as originally proposed, or
with but slight alterations, will be carried ; and there seems
every prospect of its being passed through its several stages
with the least possible delay : this important matter may,
therefore, be considered as settled, at least for a time. The
probability of the new law coming into operation earlier than
was at first expected, has somewhat alarmed the holders of
free wheat, and the desire to realise has increased consider-
ably : a great degree of depression has, consequently, charac-
terised the trade at nearly all the principal provincial mar-
kets held during the week ; and prices have gradually, though
not materially, given way. —Mark Lane Express.
AFFGHANISTAN.—WC have received from a correspon-
dent, on the accuracy of whose information we have every
reason to rely, the following extract of a letter from Affgha-
nistan, which seems to afford ground for sanguine hope that

the next mail 'from India will bring intelligence calculated in
great measure to dispel the gloom •caused by the late disas-
ters beyond the ludo* :—.4• Two di+lsions of our troops, un-
der Colonel Elphinstone, having joined near Cabul, and the
walls of that town being breached, the place was carried
by storm, and the 44th regiment, enraged by the murder of
Burnes, were not to be restrained, and the consequence was,
that all the Kuzzilbashes and part of another tribe were put
to the sword." Our correspondent adds the following, in
which, after all we have written on the subject, it is unneces-
sary to add how cordially we agree :—" And after all, for
what ? To keep that scoundrel Shah Soojah on the throne
upon which be was unjustly placed."---Times.
Loss OF A BRISTOL SCHOONER. WITH SEVEN OF TILE
CREW.—On Thursday, the 7th Oct )ber, the schooner Pitt,
belonging to Messrs. King of this city, in beating down the
coast of Africa, from Gaboon to Angola, the wind being very
light and the current strong, got ashore upon Cape Lopez.
The crew carried out the kedge, and then the small bower
anchor, and also threw the barwood overboard, but could not
succeed in getting her off. Sent the krowmen ashore to the
King of Cape Lopez for assistance, but he refused and stopped
the men. On Saturday evening observed the natives along-
shore in the canoes, in great numbers, preparing to come off
and take possession. The captain and crew, fearing that
they should be murdered, unanimously resolved to abandon
her, and they embarked in the long boat, taking only part of
their clothes with them. Before leaving the vessel the cap-
tain insisted on setting fire to her, as he said the natives
should reap no benefit by the loss. About an hour after
leaving the vessel she blew up, and shortly afterwards a sea
struck the long-boat and swamped her. Captain Antrobus,
the mate, and two of the crew were immediately drowned ;
the second mate and four of the crew were saved, after being
in the water 21 hours, but only three have survived to reach
this country, viz., Edwin Knight, second mate ; Benjamin
Shuckburgh and ames Kirkwood, seamen.—Bristol Mirror.
ROBBERY OF A COACH PARCEL, CONTAINING £2,000.—
One of the most successful coach robberies, committed for
some time, was effected the other day in the neighbourhood
of Bury. It appears that Messrs. Cunliffea, Brooks, and Co.,
bankers, of Manchester, who have for many years been in the
habit of sending money parcels to their Blackburn house, by
the driver of the coach leaving the Boar's Head at half-past
four o'clock, sent as usual, on Friday last, a box containing
1,500 sovereigns, and £5OO. in £5 bank notes. The box
containing the money was placed in the front boot, but was
not discovered to be missing till applied for at Blackburn.
It is supposed to have been taken at Bury, by a person who
occupied the box-seat from IVlanchester to Bury, and who
was seen after the coach left Busy with a large carpet bag of
considerable weight. He is about five feet seven inches high,
of rather fair complexion, with a long thin sharp nose, and
wore a broad-brimmed hat, a dark handkerchief, with white
spots upon it, round his neck, and had on a long broad-
sleeved blue faded Macintosh. Another man, who is sup-
posed to have been a companion of the former, left the coach
at Hardy's Gate, about a mile and a half from Bury • he is
also about five feet seven inches high, of dark complexion,
dark short whiskers, and about 30 years old, wearing at the
time a dark Macintosh over a black dress. No tidings have
yet been heard of the men or parcel.
DISTRESSING STORY.—" A young actress," says the
Droit, " who will be remembered by the frequenters of the
theatres on the Bouvelards, has just died in a state of the
most cruel sufferinc, and neglect in the hospital St. Louis, at
the early age of 25' years. Beautiful, graceful, and intelli-
gent, Mademoiselle Estival had made herself remarked at
her 116 but in several characters of the modern drama, and her

place was already marked oar a stage of more importance
than that of the Ambigu-Comique, when a singular circum-
stance, which had the most fatal influence on her future fate,
induced her to leave Paris, and to contract an engagement
with the director of the French theatre in London. A young
man, calling himself Count Gustave de Boncourt, wearing
the decoration of the Legion of Honour, and living in great
style at No. 11 in the Rue du- Faubourg PoissonnK:re, where
he gave himself out as Garde-General des Forets, procured
an introduction to the younK actress, and made her consider-
able presents. This young man, whose luxurious style of
living, whose horses, carriages, and prodigality had promptly
seduced the young actress, this pretended Count Gustave de
Boncourt, was no other than a man named Henri Journet,
who had been previously condemned to 5 years' confinement
in irons for forgery ; had been alternately a sub-officer in a
regiment of cavalry, then a domestic servant, and who, while
in this position, had robbed his master and mistress, M. and
Madame Champy de Boizezaud, who lived in the Rue de
Baume, of 50,000 f. in notes, I,Boof. in cash, and a consider-
able quantity of jewels, shawls, plate, tic.c. In 1836 Journet
was condemned by the Court of Assizes of Paris to twenty
years' hard labour at the hulks. Mademoiselle Estival was
summoned to appear as a vvitness in this case ; but it appeared,
according to the indictment, that she had received the greater
portion of the stolen jewels, together with a considerable sum
of money, without, however, being able to suspect from what
source they had been derived ; and that, in order to avoid
appearing in court, she had siA off for England. Since that
time she had not returned to France; but a few months ago,
her health being exhausted by late hours, by excesses, and
perhaps moved by regret, she found herself in so deplorable
alacatonrdeistoiounrc,e, to return, that the medical men recommended her, as a
I; earen4sh
breathe her heevrernyatthivinegaierh.anSgehde
came back to Paris, but,
as ranch as herself.
soon found herself rediiceedxbh
shell. prey to incessant suffering from a
disease of the chest,3a u
thes te
necessity
e cheesrs
tlastof
soliciting resources, aandd.
mission into the hospital
Estival waited for deat] Louis, where, however, she
entered in a false name.
.For four months Mademoiselle
single complaint, indulging _calm, resigned, uttering not a
fro :in no regret, and obstinately re-
fusing to solicit favours
~thany one, or to call to her bed-
side any of those who hadol. her in the height of her
sbheeaufotyonaldidhohresrelfforattunthee.
last point of
short
incurable malady,
orryime to live, she
Thursdayof last, however, when
a yieldednd p e perceived itvheed that
solicitations sh e haodl onlyou
e
ofthesLigious sisters who
pronouncedda the
watch by the bedside of tb e dying.
name of a person from whore she had in former received
not merely favours, but proofs of sincere affections
minutes afterwards an exprt ss, sent off to the Vicomte . A
de
—, announced to him the :approach of the last hour of the
young woman, in whose fut ure fate he had once taken so '
warm an interest, but who )?.ad disappointed his intentions.
He immediately went to the hospital St. Louis. On his
arrival a smile played on tb e pale lips of the dyinc, girl—a
ray of gladness sparkled in her eyes. With a grateful voice
she thanked him, asked his -pardon for the past, and said that
she should die satisfied and resigned, since he had not re-
pelled her memory from bis mind. In another hour the
young girl, once so brilliant- —the actress once so, applauded—
died in the asylum opened ti re indigence by the hand of pity
—a terrible lesson !'

FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1842

The world at large and the ladies of Liverpool—the
liberal ladies at least—are by this time tolerably ac-
quainted with the person and pursuits of the itinerant
anti-corn-law spouter, George Thomson. For twelve
or fifteen years this excellent specimen of the class
" Humbug" has contrived to shamble through life by
the exercise of a- libellous tongue, an unblushing face,
and a stock of welt-rounded sentences, plentifully in-
terspersed with trope and metaphor, and larded toge-
ther with a substratum of disgusting and hypocritical
cant. As the paid advocate of the Anti-Slavery So-
ciety and the traducer of our West Indian fellow-sub-
jects, who has drawn forth more sympathetic sighs
from the tender hearts of male and female auditors, as
he painted the amiabilities and the sufferings of ebony
Appolos and Venuses than "sweet George Thomson ?"
Who has moistened more cambric pocket-handker-
chiefs, with the tears drawn from fair eyes by his
" touching eloquence," than this flagrant charlatan ?
We venture to say, "No one !" and we may, at the
same time, take the liberty of hinting to the world, and
to our fair readers in particular, that few vulgar strol-
lers—few hunters of penny, sixpenny, or half-crown
subscriptions—have made a better trade of it than has
George Thomson.

The anti-slavery vein was, however, not fated to en-
dure for all time. The emancipation bill was passed;
and some people may have been shortsighted enough
to say of this sordid retailer of hypocritical grimaces
and maudlin sentimentality, " Othello's occupation 's
gone !" A. few, indeed, we know, there were, who
said, " surely this lover of the human race—this man
of large sympathies—this universal philanthropist—
will, now that the negro slave is free, at once step for-
ward to throw the shield of his eloquence over the
poor factory child, the white slave of the manufactu-
ring districts. But these people knew not George
Thomson ! An abundant field, it is true, was here for
eloquence ; but it was one which was poor in the pro-
ducts which the itinerant loved to reap. No well-filled
purse—no sets of shirts, made by sympathetic hands,
reward the advocate who pleads the cause of these de-
fenceless little ones. Their sufferings, their wrongs
cried for redress from earth to Heaven. The pale
cheek, the mutilated limb, the dwarfed, distorted frame,
were living and harrowing evidence of their need of a
protector; but they had no gold to chink in the ear of
the hired spouter, and the voluble tongue of George
Thomson moved not in their behalf. The millocrat of
the league, he knew, had a well-filled pocket—filled
from the proceeds of the misery which he saw around
him—and the eyes of the charlatan glistened at the
sight ; his greedy ears drunk in the sound ; his itching
palm clutched at the bait; and he became the well-
paid, the venal and sordid instrument of anti-corn-law
agitation.

In this capacity he has recently presented himself
before the public of Liverpool. In this capacity he
has, no later than last night, had the measureless au-
dacity to address an assembly of the ladies of Liver-
pool ro and to teach them what lie calls " the respon-
sibilities and the duties which devolve upon them with
respect to the corn and provision laws." We know
not what absurd trash he may have uttered on the oc-
casion ; but, lest any of our fair readers should have
allowed their minds to be swayed by the half-blasphe-
my and half-blackguardism which form the staple of
his hireling orations, we shall take the liberty of placing
before them a sample of the unblushing falsehoods
which he is capable of uttering, on these and similar
occasions, and which, having relation to an assumed
occurrence in Liverpool, can easily be tested, if, indeed,
it is not too gross to admit of a moment's hesitation.
On the 4th of the present month the itinerant held
forth to a meeting of free traders in the town of South-
ampton, in the course of which he delivered himself of
the following statement, which we quote from a Whig-
Radical journal published in that locality :

"I recently attended a great anti-corn-law tea party in
the town of Bolton, in Lancashire, where you are aware
there is a large amount of distress. On entering the spacious
Temperance-ball, where this meeting was held, I saw before
me, in the front of the orchestra, two rows of fresh meat—
one to the left, and the other to the right—a short row, and
a long row, much beef and little beef. As soon as I reached
the platform, 1 inquired what the spectacle meant; and was
told that was cheap meat and dear meat—the roast beef of
Old England, and the roast beef of New England. (Loud
cheers) An esteemed friend, Henry Ashworth, (a thorough
repealer,) said to me, I went to Liverpool yesterday, where
I found a packet just in from the United States. I enquired
if they had any fresh meat on board. They answered, they
had. I asked them if they would sell the same. They said
yes. I said, at what price? They said lid. a lb. I said, give
me 255. worth. I brought it to Bolton, and then went into
a butcher's shop and said, what do you charge for good cuts
of beef? The man said 7d. a pound. I said give me 255.
worth. I brought both lots here, and had them hung up
where you see them.' And there they were, 200 lbs. of
Yankee beef, fresh and fine and tempting, fat and lean beau-
tifully mixed; and 431hs. of English beef, in two sorry pieces,
looking askance at their well-fed neighbours from the other
side of the water! (loud Laughter)
Now we think it is scarcely necessary to state to a
Liverpool public that this ridiculous story is, from first
to last, in all its essenxial parts, a gross and impudent
fabrication. No one will believe, we think, that the
Mr. Henry Ashworth, (here referred to,) who is cne
of those truth-loving people called Quakers, could ut-
ter so palliable and deliberate a falsehood. From the
teeming brain of Mr. George Thompson alone it can
have emanated; and if the impostor is this day within
the reach of our rernaries, as we know he is, we call
upon him to ccme forward and to prove, if he can, the
truth of his monstrous 49sertion.

t flap, purchamed
200 RN. of
freish beef at threehalfpence a hound ! What ship ?
It must have had a name, and we ask to have that
name produced ; for we are satisfied that no American
packet would, or could sell such a quantity of beef at

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such a price ; in the first place, because it could not be
purchased in America for three times threehallpence* a
pound, and, in the next place, because, being a strictly
prohibited article, it would never have been permitted
to be openly landed in Liverpool ; and however capa-
ciout may be the pockets of Friend Ashworth, we
should imagine that a gentleman belonging to so cau-
tio:s a fraternity would not readily have undertaken to
smuggle ashore so bulky a parcel as 200 lbs. of beef.
The whole story is incredible ; and although amongst
the gobemouches of Hampshire, where its probability
could not be tested, it might • be swallowed easily
enough, yet in Liverpool, we imagine, even amongst
the blindest and silliest of his followers, it will with
some difficulty pass muster.
`We call, then, upon this flagrant impostor, on the next
occasion of his delivering an oration in Liverpool, to
clear up this strange story. But we do not believe
that he can; for our firm conviction is, that of all the
unprincipled pretenders which this age of agitation has
produced, the greatest is this very gentleman—this
adored of the ladies—Mr. George Thompson!.

* We have made some inquiries upon this subject, and are
informed upon perfectly competent authority, that the gene-
ral prices of American mess beef (the best quality for ship-
ment, in pickle) have been 12 or 13 dollars per barrel of
200 lbs. Last year, however, they were much lower, being
about nine dollars. The latest accounts from New York
state that they had never previously been known so low as
at that time, the best quality being worth only eight dollars,
or a little under ad. per lb. To this, however, in order to
-estimate the cost here, must be added the freight from New
York, 4s. 6d. per barrel, charges at New York, including
cartage, lighterage, cooperage, ships' charges, commission,
&c., in all about 10 per cent. upon the cost, together with
similar charges in Liverpool, which would make another 10
per cent. ; and the price would then reach 50s. per barrel,
without duty, in Liverpool, or 3d. per lb. The duty of 255.
per barrel would raise the price to 755., or ,Ild. per lb. And
this for salted beef only ! With respect to fresh beef, it is,
as we have stated above, a prohibited article; and in a very
recent New York paper we noticed it quoted from 6 to 121
cents per pound, the latter of which prices is as high as that
of friend Ashworth's " prime cuts," 121 cents being equal to
about 7d. English.

We have elsewhere noticed the efforts making by the
Manchester League-men to retard legislation upon
the corn laws ; and we beg now to refer our readers
to the abstract, in our columns, of the speech delivered
on Wednesday evening, in the House of Commons, by
Lord John Russell, as an evidence of the perfectly good
understanding which exists between the Leaguers and
his lordship. There are few who do not remember the
perfect storm of indignation which was similated by
the "liberals" one and all, when Sir Robert Peel re-
fused to prolong the sittings of parliament during the
winter, in order to legislate impromptu upon this ques-
tion. The Right Hon. Baronet was then " cold-
blooded," " hard-hearted," " cruel," and we know
not what besides. He was accused of despising alike
the demands and the miseries of a suffering people.
And yet now, after five months spent in maturing, in
its details, a measure for the settlement of the question,
and after that measure has received the support of a
majority of 123, against the combined efforts of fac-
tion in the House of Commons, we are told by Lord
John Russell that there is no hurry !—no necessity to
proceed to legislation !—no necessity to lighten at once
the burthen which, it was urged, was depressing
the industry of the nation; and that parliament must
only " ponder" and "deliberate" and discuss, and thus
prolong indefinitely the existing unsettled state of the
public mind, and the suspense which deranges every
branch of our commercial and social system.

Upon what ground, we should like to know, can
such a proposition be defended, except upon that of
faction ? If the necessity for legislation was urgent
five months ago, it is equally urgent now ; and we
venture to assure his little lordship that the great mass
of the public—and that body is not composed of the
mob gatherings of the manufacturing towns—is not
disposed to wait his convenience for the settlement of
this question. The people of England are heartily
sick of Whig agitation. They look upon Whig men
and Whig policy with a perfect loathing; and what-
ever his lordship's friends of the League may say, that
people will not, to prevent the passing of Sir Robert
Peel's just and satisfactory measure, allow themselves
to be excited into any serious outbreak, amidst which
Lord John and his fellow place-hunters may ride back
into the position from which the deliberate voice of
public opinion so lately ejected them. It will not do,
my lord. It will not, indeed!

When we last addressed our readers upon the sub-
ject of West Indian affairs, the result of the endeavour,
on the part of the planters of British Guiana, to reduce
the cost of sugar cultivation to the level, rendered ne-
cessary by existing prices, by means of internal regu-
lations with the labourers, had not been ascertained.
It will
.be remembered, however, that we anticipated no
benefit to arise from those regulations; but feared
rather that the attempt to carry them into execution
would lead to heart-burnings and ill-will between the
planters and the labouring classes. The arrival of the
West India mail, with dates from Jamaica to the 17th,
and from British Guiana to the Bth ult., has, we regret
to say, affirmed the correctness of oar fears. On the
latter date cultivation in Guiana was almost entirely
suspended, the population refusing to work at any other
than prices which have bean proved to be ruinous to
the planter, and treating every overture and attempt to
reason with them with contemptuous, and in some in-
stances, even riotous insolence. "To such a pitch,"
writes the Guiana Times, " have matters gone, that on
one estate within our knowledge, and ,2ry probably
upon several which he have not, beard of, the young
gentlemen employed as overseers and under managers
have been obliged to cut grass for the
.sustenance of
the estate's horses, the humane, virtuous, and religious
labourers sitting idle in the cottages, the costly pro-
perty of their employers, and doggedly refusing to per-
form even that most necessary service." The same
journal remarks—" the gentlemen of the Anti-Slavery
Society boast of the moral influence they are exerting
in Spain, France, Holland, and so forth ; but if a
foreigner were to witness such scenes as have been rife
in this colony during the past week, he would recom-
mend his fellow countrymen to expunge the word
" emancipation" from their language.
Now we do earnestly entreat the serious attention,
not only of every friend to colonial interests, but also
of every friend to the true interests of the negro race,
tothe state of things here described. We have here
the great experiment of the cultivation of our West
Indian possessions by means of free labour, the
result of which is watched with anxious eyes by every
nation of Europe, and by countless millions of the
African race, in the very crisis of its determination.
The planter' has declared and proved that, even with
the protection which the home market of Great Britain
affords him, he cannot mature his produce, with his
existing means, except at a cost greater than the price
which it returns him. The vast capital embarked in
this, the noblest and most fertile of our West Indian
possessions, is at this moment threatened with utter
destruction ; the germ, which has here been planted,
of the liberty of a countless race, is about to be blighted:
for ever, and the heart rending fact proclaimed to the
world—proclaimed to the slave-owners and slave-
traders of other nations—that the prosperity of West
Indian cultivation is incompatible with the free agency
of the African labonrer

The entire ruin, we repeat, of this and of other colo-
nies, is inevitzible unless the helping hand . of the go-
vernment at home is stretched forth for their relief.
The promotion—and the extensive promotion, too—of
Immigration, by which the planter may be enabled to
carry on profitably and energetically the cultivation of
his estates, can alone ward of : this dreaded calamity;
and we do trust that the pre sent government will no
longer avert their eyes from the contemplation of the
duty which is before then:. hut step forward at once
with a large and liberal :TRW are of relief. Already the
boon which we ask for Br', dish Guiana and for our
other West Indian possessit :ns has been accorded by
Lord Stanley to the plante rs of the Mauritius, who
have been labouring ander s imilat but far less pressing
difficulties. Immigration l :rom amongst the supera-
bundant population of the ( :ontioent of India is about
to be promoted, under the sanctic4 of the government,
to supply the deficiency -of' labour n that colony. And,
we ask now, is it just, is it polite, is it safe, that the
same boon should be wit} .held front the planters of the
British West Indies ?' C Jan any government, and least
of all, can any Colaserra tive governhent defend so par-

ttct unwige, so wicked a course ta that which, by
turning a deaf ear to their reasonable wants, must
doom these fair and fertile lands to be abandoned to
progressive decay and ultimate barbarism, with all the
glorious promise which they hold forth, under a sys-
tem of proper encouragement and protection, of be-
coming, at no distant period, the stepping stone to
African civilization,—the fulcrum by which that un-
happy and degraded continent may be elevated and
brought within the light of Christianity and the enjoy-
ment of the blessings of rational freedom?
We are quite prepared to admit, with Lord Stanley
and Mr. W. E. Gladstone, that the system by which
our British West Indian possessions are managed is
vicious, and to some extent is calculated to create a
portion of the evils complained of, viz., exorbitant cost '
of production. Malversations, we are aware, must
always be practised to some extent, and experisive ma-
nagement ensue, where the evil of non-resident pro-
prietorship exists.; and the complete success of free
labour cultivation will, perhaps, never be attained, until,
from amongsPhe present emancipated negroes of the
West Indies, a class is created who, as tenants of the
soil, shall occupy a middle station between the absentee
proprietors and the working labourers. For the pro-
motion of such a system these colonies at present pos-
sess important and valuable facilities. The capital of
the proprietors is ready to be abundantly embarked in
the development of the vast resources of the soil. The
material forZa middle class, composed of intelligent and
moderately educated negroes is already created ; but the
working labourer is not to be found. Immigration alone
can supply this important desideratum ; and can any sin-
cere friend of the cause of humanity, we ask, refuse to
accord a measure-which must he productive of such
vast advantages ? Can the abolitionist even, with all
the bitterness, with all the jealousy with which he re-
gards the planters and the very cultivation itself of
those possessions, advance one argument to show that,
protected as is every inhabitant of the British West In-
dies, enjoying as he does the blessings of a free consti-
tution, receiving as he may the light of progressive
civilization and Christianity, the degraded native of
the shores of Africa may not safely, and with perfect
consistency and humanity, be encouraged by a British
and a. Christian government to exchange the wretch-
edness of his own home for the amelioration of his
condition, which immigration to our West Indian colo,
nies is calculated to secure to him ?

.Whatever may be the prejudice of the professing
abolitionist against such a measure these important
facts press seriously upon our attention. The produc-
tion of the British West Indies is rapidly decreasing ;
the profit of the cultivation of those possessions has
ceased to exist, and capital is daily being withdrawn
from them. The effort has been made by the planters
themselves to induce immigration as their most effica-
cious remedy; and that effort has failed,—we fear from
the impediments thrown in the way by the meddling
and prejudiced spirit actuating the professed friends
of the African in those settlements from which
the supply of labourers was with most confidence anti-
cipated. Immigration from Sierra Leone has ceased
almost entirely, owing solely to such interference, aided
by misrepresentation of the most unscrupulous descrip-
tion as to the views of the planters, and the condition
of those immigrants who have already left that colony.
The effort to reduce the cost of cultivation, by internal
regulations between the labourers and the planters, has
produced only the effect which might have been
ex-
pected from it, (in a country where the free labourer
is surrounded by injudicious friends, inveterately inimi-
cal to the planting body and equally so to the real in-
terests of those whose welfare they profess to have at
heart,) viz., exasperation on the part of the negro and
the almost total suspension of cultivation. And, coin-
cident with this untoward and indeed disastrous state
of things, we have before our eyes the moral certainty
that no administration, however strong, however well
disposed to foster to the utmost the beneficial working,
during its infancy, of the great experiment of negro
emancipation and the cultivation of our tropical pos-
sessions by means of free labour, can for any length-
ened period keep up the existing protection in the home
market by which West Indian 'produce is enabled to
compete at all with foreign slave-raised produce.
Something, then, must, it is evident, be done, and
that immediately ; and, from the government of the
mother country, that something must emanate. We
ask for no unreasonable boon. We ask for no large
expenditure of the public funds, although those funds
have already been readily and lavishly devoted to the
advancement of the wild and impracticable schemes of
those who profess to have in view the same ends at
which, above all other ends, we aim. We ask only the
active co-operation and the countenance of the govern-
ment to the endeavours of the planters to procure a
supply of labourers for the British 'West Indies. We
ask for such aid as will enable them to neutralize the
efforts of their enemies to withhold that supply ; and we
trust that, from a statesman endowed with the high
moral courage which distinguishes the present Secre-
tary for Colonial affairs, we shall not ask in vain. Let
Lord Stanley, trusting to no merely official representa-
tions as to the state of the West Indies, and of British
Guiana especially, calmly and intently, and for himself,
examine the present condition and prospects of those
noble dependencies; let him examine their bearing
upon that great measure, in the securing of which he
was the honoured instrument; let him examine their
bearing, above all, upon the future civilization and the
future liberties and happiness of the African race; and
we feel satisfied as to the judgment to which he must
come, and confide unhesitatingly in the known firm-
ness and decision of his character for the adoption of
those prompt and efficacious measures which alone can
avert from our West Indian possessions the doom
which otherwise we cannot but dread.

The anti-corn-law agitators of Manchester appear
resolved to draw down upon themselves and upon their
cause the indignation and disgust of the entire com-
munity. Yesterday, we are informed by our reporter,
a meeting was held of the merchants and manufac-
ture rs of the league in that town, for the purpose of
agre'eing upon a memorial to be presented to the liberal
menabers of the House of Commons, praying them,
not merely to vote against the first, second, or third
read ing of Sir Robert Peel's modification of the corn-
laws;; not merely to gain for the advocates of free
trade in corn, the greatest amount of advantage of
which that measure was capable ; but to stop all
legislation; whatever upon the subject, to obstruct, by
evtry practicable means the passing of that bill, to
move amendment after amendment, to take up the
time of Parliament, in order that no settlement of the
corn question should.be arrived at during the present
session.

Now we do not hesitate to characterise this as one
of the most wicked propositions which was ever put
forward by a party, containing even the merest sprink-
ling of respectability amongst its ranks. Confessedly,
at the present moment the commerce of the country is
almost suspended, until the government shall have had
time and opportunity to develope their financial plans
before Parliament. The proposed modification of the
corn-laws is viewed as one only of a series of amelio-
rations of our present restrictive policy; and the great
industrial interests of the nation look forward with
anxious expectation for their full developement, to
enable them to put forth freely their energies, and to
restore employment, plenty, and contentment to a
suffering population. And yet these unprincipled
" leaguers" deliberately propose that no such amelio-
ration of the condition of the people shall be permitted ;
that the invigorating stream of commerce shall remain

dammed up by torturing suspense and uncertainty ;
that prostrate industry shall remain prostrate; that
suffering and despair shall still be in the house and in
the heart of the working man, unless the majority of
the legislature and of the nation will concede to their
threatening agitation a measure which, in their own
secret souls, the agitators know to be fraught with
widely spread and irrevocable destruction to every in-
terest and every class which comes not within the
circle of their own selfish and sordid contemplation !
Can wickedness, we ask, be greater than the wick-
edness of such a proposition ? Can faction, by any
possibility, plunge into " a lower deep" of unmitigated
infamy ? Surely it cannot ; and we do trust that there
will be found very, very few amongst the " liberal"
members of the House of Commons who will be dis-
posed to listen to a proposition so mischievous and
degrading. At the same time we are quite ready to
meet the attempt., Nay—but for the present injury
which it must inflict upon large suffering masses of

the people—we could almost be disposed to bid it
welcome; for certain, we are, that no step on the part
of these frantic agitators would be more effectual in
rousing a united and discerning nation to contemplate
the utter worthlessness and want of principle which
lurk at the bottom of this free trade agitation, that an
effort so purely factious, so insufferably impudent
so recklessly dishonest

We have pleasure in referring our readers to the
very satisfactory proceedings at the half-yearly meeting
of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company,
held on Wednesday last, which will be found reported
in another column. It was our intention to have offered,
in this publication, a few remarks upon the present
position and future prospects of this much-maligned,
though important, undertaking. By some mistake,
however, for which we cannot account, the reports of
the directors and of the engineer have not reached us;
and we are; therefore, compelled to defer our observa-
tions until these documents are received.

The long-expected general meeting of the share-
holders of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway took
place on Tuesday last, at Glasgow, and continued,
without adjournment, from eleven o'clock in the fore-
noon till twenty minutes to nine in the evening. After
the reading of the report, which stated that the com-
pany are about to apply to parliament for powers to
raise an additional sum of £300,000 for the comple-
tion of the line, the much agitated question of running
the Sunday trains was brought forward. Sir Andrew
Agnew addressed the meeting with much warmth and
animation, and eventually, when a vote was come to,
there appeared— . . .

Shares. Votes.
For running a morning and evening train 7589..1219
Against it ....

Majority ..

....4113
.571

LOCAL NEWS.

During the last fortnight, the weather has been exceedingly
favourable for working of the land ; and the ground is now
dryer than it was at any time during the last summer.

The planet Mars may now be seen every clear evening in
the west, of a dark red colour, from about half-paA five to
half-past eight, and will continue till about the middle of
June.

EXPEDITIOUS TRAVELLING.—A gentleman who attended
the opening of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, left
Edinburgh for. Glasgow at one o'clock on Friday afternoon :
he dined at Glasgow ; after which he proceeded on to Gree-
nock, and took his passage on board the steamer Princess
Royal, for Liverpool, and arrived here at half-past eleven on
Saturday forenoon ; the whole journey having been accom-
plished in the unprecedented short. period of 224 hours.

The climate of Britain, so remarkable for fickleness of
temperature, has given rise to an infinitude of ingenious in-
ventions for the protection of those who are constitutionally
predisposed to suffer in health from such causes ; but, while
every other part of the human frame is, by some laudable
application of the arts to manufacture, rendered impervious
to weather, the face must still remain exposed ; and the pe-
culiar delicacy of the female complexion undoubtedly under-
goes great, though gradual, change from the action of excess,
either of beat or cold, upon its surface ;,in this instance,
ROWLAND'S KALYDOR affords the so much.desired and
valuable protection ; maintaining, unimpaired, that peculiar
brilliancy of tint—admired beyond all other possessions ;
and, as a preservative, is equally efficacious whether against
the injurious degree of heat felt in crowded assemblies, or
exposure to harsh winds, and the low temperature of the
winter season.—See advt.

TOXTETR -PARK PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.
—On Tuesday evening the Rev. T. Nolan commenced the
first of a series of lectures on Church History, to the mem-
bers and friends of the above association, of which he is
pastor, at Toxteth-hall. The reverend gentleman, in this
introductory lecture, gave an outline of God's providential
dealings, from the commencement, with his church ; insti-
tuting an analogy between the establishment of Judaism, the
promulgation of the Gospel, and the revival of truth at the
period of the glorious Reformation. This latter uoint-the
reverend gentleman dwelt upon in consequence of the dis-
position to discountenance and recede from the principles of
the Reformation by those calling themselves the Oxford
party. The lectures, which are commenced at the request of
the operatives themselves, are to be continued monthly,
taking up the centuries. We cannot estimate the amount of
good to be achieved, under God's blessing, if the various
branches of the Protestant Operative Association were to
arrange somewhat similar plans under the clergy of their
various districts.

THE FUNDS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—In respect of
busines the Stock Market has been very quiet all day, the
dealers being chiefly occupied in making up their books for
to-morrow which is settling day. The Funds however im-
proved, which would seem to indicate that so far the account
is what is called a bear account. Consols left off 894 buyers
both for money and time. Bank stock improved to 1694 to
1701. India Stock 245 to 6. Exchequer Bills 203 to 22s
premium. In the Foreign House a slight advance may be
noted in Dutch Stocks. The Two-and-a-Half per Cents
were 52 to 4, the Five per Cents 102 to 1. Belgian 1024 to
34. Spanish Active with the Coupons declined to 24a sel-
lers. Portuguese Five per Cents were 324 to a, the Three
17',- Cents 191 to 4. Brazilian ca to .15i to G.
Colombian 221 to 3. -

AMPHITHEATRE.—We perceive that Mr. Egerton's bene-
fit is fixed for Monday next, when a new dramatic specta-
cle, entitled the " Queen of Cyprus," will be produced
for the first time. We understand that this piece has
been some weeks in preparation. To give it effect, several
acquisitions to the company have been made. Mr. Egerton's
enterprise and perseverance ought not to go unrewarded, and
we hope a bumper benefit will be his reward.

THEFT FROM A. DWELLING-HOUSE.—An elderly man,
named Nicholas Ensard, was, yesterday, placed at the bar of
the police-court, on a charge of ha#ing possessed himself of
a handsome coat, which, it appeared, did not belong to him.
Mr. Richard Phibbs said that he was now out of 'business,
and resided in Falkner-street. On Wednesday night he saw
a new frock coat on the hall table of the house. Yesterday
morning he enquired for it, and his servant said it was miss-
ing. Mary Victory, wife of Mathew Victory, said she assisted
him in keeping a second-hand clothes shop, in Six Thomas's-
buildings. On Wednesday night the prisoner came to their
shop, and offered the frock coat (produced) for sale. He
asked 13s. for it, which she paid, and said in reply to her
questions, that a Spanish captain had given it to him, and
that he lived at No. 13, Fontenoy-street. On her way
thither she saw the prisoner at the door of Mr. Mellor's
spirit vaults, and told him he must return with her to the
shop, as she thought the coat was not honestly come by. He
said that it was, but tried to get away. He then said to his
wife, " I have got myself into a hobble through that young
sailor,—he gave me but little for selling it." He then pushed
witness aside, and ran down Manchester-street. She pursued
and cried " stop thief," when constable Moore came up and
stopped him. The police-officer said he took the prisoner
into custody, and got possession of the coat which was
claimed by Mr. Fhibbs. The prisoner, on being cautioned,
said—" I am innocent; I am sorry I have come before your
honour. The coat was given to me by a man to sell for
him." He was committed for trial.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held on
Wednesday, before Mr. Curry, the borough coroner, on
view of the body of John Broadhurst, who had been em-
ployed on board the Mersey, Birkenhead steam-boat. It
appeared that the vessel was, at the time, laid up for repairs
in the Coburg Dock. The deceased who was 33 years of
age, had gone on shore to call on his wife on Tuesday night,
and returned with her to the dock at a late hour to keep his
watch. A ladder was placed from the east quay to a sailing
vessel along-side of which the steamer was lying. His wife
descended first, and the deceased followed,—walking, in-
cautiously, with his back to the ladder. He had only gone
down two or three steps when he lost his balance, and fell into
the dock striking the other vessel in his descent. A police
officer was quickly on the spot, and he was taken out, and
immediately carried to the Brunswick Dock station•house.
A surgeon was instantly sent for, and as animation was
suspended, every exertion was made to effect rescusitation,
but without avail. The deceased had some wounds on his
hand, which it appeared, had been occasioned bp his coming
in contact in his fall with a bolt in the sailing vessel, but it
was the opinion of the surgeon that death was caused mainly
by the immersion in the water. The jury accordingly re-
turned a verdict of " accidentally drowned."

SUDDEN DEATII FROM BURNING.—On Friday evening
last, William Stothard, a child four years old, residing with
his parents in a cellar under the house No. 13, Sparling-
street, was left by his mother, who was under the necessity
of going out, in the charge of his sister, seven years of age,
who had also another younger child to look after. She went
out into the street with the little one, leaving the deceased
in the cellar, the door of which, it appeared, lie had closed
on himself. A girl named Cameron, who lived in the house
over the cellar, came down to see the mother of the deceased,
and found the deceased on the floor, with all his clothes
burnt off ! She gave the alarm, and two men came in. Her
father found the deceased in a dreadful state, and carried him
in a blanket to a surgeon in Park-lane, who could do nothing
to avert his pending dessolution, and he was taken home again
and died in about ten minutes. An inquest was held on
Wednesday, before Mr. Curry, the borough coroner. The
jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased was
burnt to death, but how the ignition took place theile was no
evidence to show. It should be added that the parents of
the deceased are in destitute circumstances, and that the
poor mother had gone out to pledge some trifling articles to
relieve the immediate necessities of the children.

REFRACTORY OVER-FED PAUPERS.-At the police court
yesterday, seven boys, Charles Walker, William Hawkins,
John Cuwson, Hugh Fitzsimmons, James Murphy, George
Young, and John Pyke, were brought to the bar, on a charge
of refractory conduct in the workhouse. It appeared, from
the statements of the under-governor and the superintendent
of the boys' department in the establishment, that, on the
previous day, the prisoners, who had been employed at easy
work out of doors, refused, after getting a plentiful dinner.
to return to their work, though they positively had divided
equally amongst them and the other boys (in all 42 in num-
ber), 188 lbs. of " scouce"—a substantial dish composed of
meat and potatoes, which averaged 41 lbs. to each ! They
had also been promised some additional allowance of food
after they had completed their work ; but though time was
given them to consider the matter, they persisted in refusing
to go to work ; and behaving most outrageously, no recourse
was left but to bring them before the magistrate. Mr. Rush-
ton made strict inquiry as to the quantity of food given them,
and the replies confirmed the statement made. The only de-
fence made by the principal spokesman of the delinquents
was, that the superintendant had promised them more dinner
at the time, and that thee refused to go to work until they
got enough. Mr. Rushton expressed his astonishment at
the allowance made, as stated, and which appeared to him to
be a profligate waste of food. The wonder was bow they
could consume it. The conduct of the prisoners was most
shameful. They obtained an asylum as objects of charity,
at the expense of the community, including even the hard-
working and independent-minded poor, yet refused to per-
form the moderate work assigned them on a plea of insuffi-
cient food, when they actually got each more than double
the quantity which the generality of hard-working carters
and labourers, who toiled from early to late, could get, lie
(Mr. Rushton) was as strongly in favour of the poor being
sufficiently fed in the workhouse as any man ; but he really
thought the allowance made in this case would operate as a
premium to parties to go into the establishment, in plane of
struggling out of doors for themselves. He should send
the prisoners to a place where they would find their rations
more circumscribed, and their work not so agreeable. He
then ordered them to be each imprisoned in the House of
Correction for 21 days.

REMARKABLE TENACITY Or LTrE.---A one-year old
lamb, belonging to Messrs. Sutton and Co., of the Trubshaw
Farm, was missed on the 13th of January, during a heavy
fall of snow, and was not found again until the Ist of the
present month, when it was discovered in a ditch, standing
in an upright position, having been nineteen days enveloped
in a snow-drift, by which it had been reduced to a mere ske-
leton. When brought into the fresh air, it could neither
stand nor walk ; but by the judicious care and treatment of
Messrs. Sutton's old shepherd, Joseph Jenkinson, it has
now quite recovered from the effects of so long a deprivation
of nutriment.—Stafford Advertiser.

CONVENIENT OBSCURATION OF THE LIVERPOOL TIMES.
—Our contemporary, the Liverpool Times, on Tuesday last,
in chronicling the sayings and doings of the recent anti-mo-
nopoly gathering, informs us that, " on the stage there were
congregated a very large number of merchants, brokers.
tradesmen, &c., the names of the principal portion of whom
were unknown to us." We are really not at all surprised at
this unfortunate state of ignorance on the part of the Times,
or his reporter. But it is a little singular, nevertheless, that
the Times should know that these great unnamed were
" merchants, brokers, tradesmen, &c., and not dissenting
preachers, sweeps in their Sunday clothes, and other sorts
and conditions of men. The Times has a cvnvenient kind o
ignorance at all events. lie doesn't know the nobodies of

his party

ROBERRY Iry &for LADS.—Yesterday, at the Police-
court, two lads, Owen Jones and William Davies, and two
women, Catharine Pattison and Elizabeth Flood, were
placed before- Mr. Rushton on a charge of the two first of
stealing, and the others of receiving and disposing of sundry
pairs of shoes, the property of Mr. Bostock, boot and shoe
maker, Paradise-street, corner of School-lane. It appeared
that the
.prisoner Davies had been in Mr. Bostock's employ
for three months, and that Jones had been about a fortnight,
but had been discharged on suspicion of dishonesty, On
Saturday last, Mr. Bostoek, according to order sent to Mr.
James Aspinall's, in Rodney-street, six pairs of shoes for
the ladies to try on, by Davies who got into company with
Jones by the way. It was agreed between them that Davies
should deliver them and Jones go back for them. Jones
accordingly called and received them, and, it appeared took
them to a house in Cherry-lane, (out of Marybone,) and
gave three pairs of them to two women to pledge. They'
pledged two pairs at Mr. O'Donnells, and one pair at Messrs.
Powellsand Tunstall's, both in Scotland-road, each for ls.
a pair. Information was given to .the police officer John
M'Comb, who exerted himself in a praiseworthy manner to
discover the delinquents, and having found the articles stated,
and obtained a description of the women, succeeded in 'ap-
prehending one of them in Vauxhall-road, and fife other in
Freemason's-row. They said a young man had given them
the shoes, but that they did not know his name. From fur-
ther information received, he apprehended Jones in Bootle-
alley, (out of Old Hall. street,) and Davies in Addison-
street, yesterday morning before day break. Jones,,after
being cautioned told him how the robbery had been concerted
between him and Davies, and that they had taken the six
pairs to a house in Freemason's-row. Davies, when taken
denied that he was guilty in this instance, but said he and
Jones had got a pair of boots about a fortnight ago, from a
house in Duke-street, where they were left by mistake, and
that they had sold them in a cellar in Fontenoy-street for a
shilling. The whole of the (prisoners were committed for
trial at the sessions.