The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-29 00:00:00

Directors.
Gustavus Noon, Esq.
Robert Napoleon Price, Esil

. .
Secretary—Mr. John :•:,Inapson.
Actuary and Accountant—Mr. Charles William Williams.
The Public are respectfully informed, that a Branch Esta-
blishment of the above Institution is now opened in Liver-
pool for the following objects :
SAVINGS' BANK DEPARTMENT.

Interest allowed- on Deposits from ls. upwards -I; pot-
ceut. per annum. Office open for the receipt of Deposits
daily from Ten to Three. Repayments on SalardaYs, tin
giving one clear week's Notice of Withdrawal.
INVESTMENT DEPARTMENT.

Interest allowed on Deposits from £5 to £5OO (which may
be withdrawn on giving a week's Notice), under six month:4,
5 per cent. per annum ; from nine to twelve months, 51; to
per cent. per annum. Sums exceeding £5OO subject to spe-
cial agreement.
HENRY LUCAS,
H. WALKER LUCAS, Managers.
March 18, 1812.

NOTICE.
TO BUILDERS, CONTRACTORS,
EXTENSIVE PRISON AT BELFAST.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GlVEl;,thtitaTr;etiiment for
Building a Bridewell -and House of Correction at Bel-
fast, in the county of Antrim, having been made by the Grand
Jury of the said county, at Spring Assizes, 1841, and amended
at Spring Assizes, 1842, it is the intention of the Commis-
sioners therein appointed now to CONTRACT for BUILD-
ING the said PRISON.
Persons desirous of Contracting for the same may see the
Plans and Specifications relating thereto at the Office of Mr.
CnAnt.ts LANYON, County Surveyor for Antrim, Donegan-
square, Belfast, on or after the 12th day of April, 1842.
In order to facilitate the proceedings of parties intending
to Tender for the abovementioned Work, they are requested
to attend at the Office of Mr. Lanyon, on the day above-
mentioned, for the purpose of nominating or appointing a
Measurer to take out the quantities of Work in said proposed
Building.
A similar Person will be appointed on the part of the Com-
missioners, so as that each may be a check on the other.

A Copy of " the quantities" so ascertained will be given to
each Person intending to Tender.

Person whose Tender shall be accepted will be required
to pay the charges of the Measurer appointed as abovemen-
tioned. . .

Sealed Tenders, for the execution of the above Work, to be
forwarded on or before the 24th May, undercover, addressed
" To the Clerk to the Commissioners of Belfast Bridewell
and (louse of Correction, Carrickfergus."

Sufficient Security will be required.
(Signed, by order,) JOHN COATES
16th March, 1842.

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GENERAL POST-OFFICE.
CAUTION

Against illegally sending, collecting, conveying, or delivering
Letters.

BY the Act of the Ist VICTORIA, c. 36, sec. 2, every
Person who despatches or sends, or causes to be sent,
or tenders or delivers, in order to be sent otherwise than by
Post, a Letter not exempted from the exclusive privilege of
the Postmaster General, forfeits for every Letter Five
Pounds.

Every Person who receives, takes up, or collects any Letter
not exempted from the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster
General, forfeits for every Letter Five Pounds.
Every Person who conveys otherwise than by Post, or de-
livers a letter not exempted from the exclusive privilege of
the Postmaster General, forfeits for every Letter Five
Pounds.

Every Person who makes a collection of exempted Letters
for the purpose of conveying or sending them otherwise than
by Post, or even by the Post, forfeits for every Letter Five
Pounds.

And every Person who is in the practice of committing any
of the above-mentioned acts, forfeits for every week during
which the practice is continued One Hundred Pounds.

By the 13th section, pecuniary penalties incurred under
the Post-office Acts, not exceeding £2ll, may be recovered in
a summary way before a Justice of the Peace, by any Person
who will sue for the same ; one moiety whereof will belong
to the Crown, and the other moiety with full costs of suit,
to the Person who informs and prosecutes.
Magistrates, Clerks of the Peace, and Town Clerks, are to
pay over and remit the Crown's share of the penalties in
strict conformity to the directions• of the 16th section.
The following Letters are exempted from the exclusive
privilege of the Postmaster General, viz. :
Letters sent by. a private Friend in his way, journey,. or
travel, if delivered by such Friend to the party to whom they
shall be directed ;

Letters sent by a Messenger on purpose; Commissions or
returns thereof, and Affidavits and Writs, Process or Pro-
ceedings, or.returns thereof, issuing out of 'a Court of Justice;
Letters sent out of the United Kingdom by a private
Vessel ; _ _

Letters of Merchants, Owners of Vessels of Merchandize,
or of the cargo or loading therein sent by such vessels, or in
charge of any person employed by such Owners. for the car-
riage of such Letters, according to their respective directions,
and delivered to the respective persons to whom they shall
be directed, without paying or receiving hire or reward, or
other advantage or profit for the same ;

Letters concerning goods or merchandize sent by common
known Carriers to be delivered with the goods without hire
or reward, or other profit or advantage for receiving or de-
livering such Letters.
But the following persons are expressly forbidden to carry
a Letter, or to receive, or collect, or deliver a Letter, although
they shall not receive hire or reward for the same, viz. :

Common known Carriers, their Servants or Agents, except
a Letter concerning goods in their carts or waggons, or on
their pack horses ; and Owners, Drivers, or Guards of Stage
Coaches.

By command,
W. L. MABERLY

Secretary

dividend of £5 per share declared, payable in the months of
April and October.
The Lord Mayor (Mr. O'Connell) leaves for Cork on
Thursday, to attend to his own affairs, declining to hold a
court for-the purpose of passing claimants for the freedom of
the city, well knowing that the majority are opposed to him
and to his pretensions as its representative. Two courses are
open to those who are thus illegally deprived of their rights,
and to the benefit of the elective franchise, consequent upon
their establishment. The one, by civil action against his
lordship ; the other, by petition to the House of Commons;
and we hope either or both may be resorted to.—Dublin paper.
There was much excitement among the gossips of Cardiff
on Tuesday, on which day, it was said, some old soothsayer
had predicted many years ago that a railway, a canal, a large
dock, and an earthquake would visit us ; the latter in 1842,
after the completion of the three great works named. Now
as the railway, canal, and dock " came to pass," why should
not the earthquake ? especially as our Llandaff friends were
to be benefitted thereby ; their " Aunciente Citye," so said
the Seer, was to be rebuilt from the ruins of Cardiff. Tues-
day, however, passed off quiet:y. Those who fancied that
Cardiff was to be swallowed up, and there were hundreds
who did, must have had very large swallows indeed.—Car-
diff Advertiser.
At Dorchester, Mr. Drax, the member for Wareham, was
indicted for bribery at the last election. Mr. Drax was ac-
cused of having given a bribe of-X5 to Thomas Hutchings, a
publican, with the understanding that he would vote for him.
Hutchings, who actually voted for Mr. Ctlcraft, stated that

he received the money to show the world how Mr. Drax ob-

tained his election, intending all the time not to vote for him..
He could not deny that he had uttered a solemn declaration
that he would vote for Mr. Drax. He wavered a good deal
in his testimony, and the whole of his evidence was loose and
unsatisfactory. The jury returned a verdict of "'not guilty."
THE NEW TARIFF.—The Bucks Herald, which has the

credit of being the Duke of Buckingham's organ, thus
speaks of the new measures of finance :—" The prbposed
tariff is a master-piece of financial industry, and full evi-
dence of the labour bestowed and the system carried out ;
and those who most bitterly oppose it must own that it re-
fiects the highest credit on the heads and hands that devised
and perfected it. We believe that there is no question but
there must be fresh taxes, not only to meet. increased and
increasing expenditure, but to pay those millions of arrears
which the Melbourne Administration bequeathed to the
country as evidences of their recklessness in disbursement,
and their incapacity to provide for it. By the mode which
Sir Robert Peel proposes that debt will be paid. And when
that is to be effected, and a surplus left, we think that the

people of England should consent to suffer some temporary
annoyance to arrive at so desirable and so honourable a con-
summation."
TB; LATE DR. AINGER.—A bust of this distinguished

ornament of the Church of England has just been erected
in the Parish Church of St. Bees, as a tribute to his great
worth and usefulness. It is a noble work cf art, and an
agreeable likeness, executed by J. G. Lough, Esq., from a
cast taken after death. The cost of the bust (£200) was de-
frayed by a subscription raised among the friends and late
pupils of Dr. Ainger, by the active exertions of Professor
Sedgwick, aided by Mr. Archdeacon Todd, Mr. Canon Par-
kinson, Mr. H. H. Norris, and other attached friends of
the late Principal of St. Bees. We understand that, at the
request of his friends, some of his sermons are about to be
committed to the press, with a memoir by Mr. Canon Par-
kinson, and an engraving of the bust just erected, which
will be an acceptable memorial of him to many of his old
pupils now dispersed in the discharge of their religious du-
ties throughout almost every corner of the globe. The fol-
lowing is the inscription on the monument, drawn Up by
Professor Sedgwick
" To the memory of William Ainger, D.D., late Fellow of

St. John's College, Cambridge, Canon of Chester, and for
twenty-four years Incumbent of the Parish, and Principal of
the Clerical Institution of St. Bees, who died October 20th,
1810, aged fifty-five years.
" Exemplary in all the relations of domestic life, gifted
with a kind temper, of sound learning and high principles, he
gained the love and respect of all who had the privilege of his
friendship. As a Parish Priest he was faithful in preaching
the doctrines, and steadfast in upholding the discipline, of
the Apostolical Church ; and he continued, during the best
years of his life, to sustain the cause of religious truth, by his
writings and his public teaching ; above all, by his unwearied
devotedness to the good of the Clerical Institution, which
was begun under his superintending care, and where he trained
for the Ministry of the Church, both in England and its
Colonies, several hundred labourers, who entered on their
sacred duties strengthened by his lessons of wisdom, animated
by his zeal, and guided by his example,
" To commemorate such important services, and labours
so largely blessed, this Monument was erected by a subscrip-
tion of his sorrowing friends and pupils.
•• • May I die the death of the righteous, and may my last
end be like his.' "
EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITY.—On the 9th of July, last
year, a woman of regular gipsy appearance, (who calls her-
self Bridget Phillips, but who is better known by the name
of Bryant) called at the house of a lady at Henwick, with
whouri are living, in the capacity of household servants, two
respectable girls, named Lloyd, and solicited them to allow
her to " tell their fortunes." Esther Lloyd was simple
enough to be prevailed upon by the pretended sybil's repre-
sentations, and inquired what she would charge for her trou-
ble. To this the gipsey answered that, as she should have

to search a great many books in order to arrive at the desired
object, and as this would cost money, she could not do it
under £6, which sum the girl actually paid to her out of her
savings. Bryant then turned to the sister, and requested her
to give her some money also, in order that she might " cast
her nativity" as well. The latter said that she had only a
shilling, but this, Bryant said, would be sufficient with what
the other sister had given her. She then departed, stating
that 4 some time would he required to look into the neces-
sary books, ithrinake-thelre'quiiite-calcillatibiia; sibs should
not call again for some time. About a fortnight ago, the
woman again called at Henwick, and represented to Esther
Lloyd that she had had a great deal of trouble in endeavour-
ing to " rule her planet," as she called it, and that she was
unable to proceed in her work without more money, and at
length persuaded the poor girl to give her another sum of £6,
together with some clothes, a silver spoon, silver sugar tongs,
and other articles. The woman also took from the other
girl an apron, which she was wearing, saying that she liked it
-much, and wrapping up her bundle and placing it under her
cloak she walked off, promising to pay the infatuated girls
another visit in the course of a few days. One would have
thought that here she would have stopped her proceedings, and
have remained contented with the booty she had so easily ob.;
tained ; but no, after spending the money in drunkenness and
riot, she again waited on the Lloyds, on Monday week, told
them her books were behind. and that she wanted them " ba-
lanced," in order to which she must have more money. The
girls said they had no more. She then said, if they did not get it
her, she would cause Esther to lose her situation the next day,
and succeeded in so frightening her that Esther at length
borrowed other six pounds of her mistress, and paid it over
to her merciless persecutor, together with a pair of bracelets,
a brooch, a silver watch guard, and a silk cloak. On Satur-
day last she again honoured
get on with her prognostications
more money, and telrlin
The girl said she ha no money, and
the
stTitiilrmen with a call, demand-
inghLe
cl
roo yubdl
books
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tsh e
were couldborrowh i
g banenory.t
more, whereupon Bryant told her that if she did not she
should have no" rest on the face of the earth," and that she
should leave her place the next day. Esther replied that if
Bryant told her that shepwaoeuelds!ewould get another, but
she could not live in that
place she went to." This very much dono
dwoman's frightened
threats the silly
good in whatever
and thereupon she mentioned the ol
rewteintcheaof littleboum o
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under endowed
tit o girl,
her
re sense than poor
;ther, sister,
ther7wh oenbteoilui
re-
turned with a policeman, who immediately°ng money, but
custody, and on Monday she was taken beforetook Bryant into
strides, when the above facts were sworn to
the city magi-
ters. On being asked what she had 'to say in by
her
two sis-
the infamous impostor, in revenge, declared liat Esther Lloyd
had given her the money to get some poison by Lloyd
which she
might kill her mistress. The poor girl was naturall
in-
dignant and much affected by such a base insinuaytivoerY n and
the bench at once stopped the mouth of the slanderer , bv
telling her they did not believe a word that she had said, and
that she bad only aggravated her offence by telling such alie,
adding that they were unanimously agreed in giving her ,
great a punishment as the law would allow them, viz., six
months' imprisonment and hard labour. The value of the
articles obtained from Esther Lloyd, with the three instal-
ments of £6 each, amounted altogether to about £25.
Worcester Guardian. • .

TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1842

The patriotism and regard of the Whig party for the
suffering interests of the people of Great Britain are
signally evidenced by the factious course which was
last week successfully resorted to, by Lord John Rus-
sell and his confederates, to obstruct the progress of
the financial measures of Sir Robert Peel. But a few
months ago that minister was visited with the most vi-
rulent objurgations was denounced as unfeeling,
heartless, and tyrannical because, upon entering
office, after ten years of Whig misrule, he demanded a
brief respite, to enable him to examine into the exact
position of the various disorganised interests of the
state, before he proceeded to legislate for their restora-
tion to health and prosperity. "The people are starv-
ing," exclaimed these considerate statesmen; "how
then can we afford time for a minister to deliberate ?
The commerce, the manufactures, the industry of the
nation are pressed to the earth by accumulated embar-
rasstnents ; the entire social fabric of the country is on
the eve of disruption; how then can parliament pause
for an instant in the adoption of a remedy ?" And
yet, when at length a series of well-considered mea-;
sures are brought before the legislature measures
which, however opinions may differ with respect to a
few of their minor details, are admitted by all parties
to contain important ameliorations of our existing
commercial system, and to be eminently calculated to
afford a stimulus to our declining industry--we are
insolently told that, in despite of all their previous as=
severations with respect to the urgent necessity of le-
gislation, the progress of the measures proposed is to
be delayed by every paltry expedient which the forms
of the House allow, notwithstanding, too, the declared
wishes of the majority of parliament and of the coun-
try for their speedy adoption!
And to gratify what patriotic object is this dishonest
and wicked course pursued ? Is it hoped, for a mo-
ment, that such course can by any possibility be ulti-
mately successful ? It is not. The wildest and most
truculent opponent of Sir Robert Peel cannot point to
one symptom, out of the doors of parliament or with-
in them, that such a result is even probable. To em-
barrass the government—to foster the bad passions of
the ill-disposed--are objects in themselves quite com-
patible with the purity of Whig statesmen ; and we defy
the utmost efforts of the most frantic agitators to raise
any amount of popular excitement against the proposed
measures. The everlasting talk of all the talkers ore
the opposition benches cannot uplift one sympathising
hand against Sir Robert Peel's government upon this
question ; and nothing less than a visitation of mental
oblivion and confirmed idiotcy upon the heads of the
entire British people could induce that people to con-
sent to take again into their confidence the paltry and
for the fleshpots of office
pitifulalo nei
tbnepi
enlg
thems %t h otsoe
tlhoengaidnogption of their present ob-
structive policy.
The proceedings of Lord John and his venal pha-
lanx will not damage one iota the government or the
measures against which they are directed ; but at the
same time they will not be without their effect, al-
though a somewhat different one from that which has
been contemplated by their authors. The country has
calmly examined into the nature and tendency of the.
new taxes and the ameliorations of the tariff by which

We have a word or two of remonstrance to offer to
two of our metropolitan contemporaries—the Times
and Morning Herald—with respect to the course which
they are pursuing in their opposition to the govern-
ment proposal of an income tax. We do not object to
these journals opening their columns to such of their
subscribers, and of the public, who fancy themselves
aggrieved by the imposition of a tax upon the incomes
of the trading classes. There is much in the objections
urged by these correspondents, with respect to the un-
equal pressure of such a tax, in which we cordially
agree; but we really cannot go the lengths which they
go ; we cannot feel the grievance which they feel; and
as a proof that such grievance is not so felt by the
Conservative public in this locality—(and it is no un-
important one)—we can conscientiously state that, al-
though our columns have ,been ever open to the cor-
respondence of our friends upon this subject, we have
bad addressed to us but one letter complaining of the
tax in question ! We cannot therefore hut think that
our contemporaries, by the warmth with which they
have taken up the advocacy of an exemption of the
trading classes from direct taxation, have stimulated a
factitious outcry which, after all, is sympathised with
by a very inconsiderable section of the community
from which it purports to emanate.
There always will exist in any country, and there
always has existed in this, "Jan impatiece of taxation"
—an " ignorant impatience" if you will ;—and espe-
cially is this the case with respect to direct taxation.
Now it is admitted by both our contemporaries that
the necessity for direct taxation has arrived. But it is
urged by our contemporaries and their correspondents
that such direct taxation ought to be modified in its
pressure. The trader, the annuitant, the salaried ser-
vant, and others, Who have no realized property to fall
back upon, ought not to be taxed in equal proportion
with those whose incomes are derived from the rental
or interest of property so realized. In the abstract, we
are quite prepared to admit that there is some justice
in the arguments by which these objections are urged.
As affecting individuals, many cases of hardship can
doubtless be brought forward; but can any one main-
tain that an income tax can possibly be accom-
modated so as to conciliate every interest ? It must,
we think, by this time be plain to our contemporaries
that if an attempt be made to accommodate any one
class of objectors there can be no defensible limit
drawn. We must, in that case, absolve from taxation
all incomes not derived from property. We must re-
lease capital and the profits of trade from any direct
contribution to the public revenue; and will our con-
temporaries, we ask, go the length of arguing, what is
'indeed the inevitable conclusion of a concession to their
present complaints, that upon property alone must
devolve, in any extremity similar to the present, the
duty of upholding the credit and the security of the
country ? .

We believe that our contemporaries will not attempt
to maintain any such absurdity. Already we can
discern in their tone symptoms of a Conviction that
they have mistaken alike the strength of the opinion,
out of doors, which has impelled them to the course
of opposition which they have pursued, as well as the
tendency of that course to embarrass Government, and
to stimulate the hopes of returning power in a faction,
towards whose irremediable fall into the abyss of
public contempt—if such an event has not already
been consummated—they would far rather be con-
tributing the weight of that influence upon the public
mind which they deservedly possess. We trust that
they will nut shut their eyes to this tendency of their
present course of proceeding, or•hesitate in that which
it is now their duty to adopt. The alternative is plainly
before them. The policy Of Sir Robert Peel, if it be
carried out at all, must he carried out as a whole, or
abandoned as a whole. There can be no material con-
cession to the demands of any particular classes. We
believe, from the best attention which we have been
enabled to bestow upon the • subject, that no material
concession is in justice required; and we confidently
expect that we shall, ultimately, see one or both of our
contemporaries giving their strenuous and unhesitating
support to the proposed measures of Government, in-
tact and unimpaired by concessions which, whilst they
may conciliate individual classes, will inevitably disap-
point others, equally, in the abstract, entitled to be
relieved.

We give in our columns to-day a report of the meet-
ing of the Botanic Garden proprietors held yesterday.
It will be seen that the funds are in a lamentably de-
pressed condition ; and the supporters of the institu-
tion, as a last resort, are to solicit contributions from
their friends in order to relieve the committee from
their present unfortunate position. We trust the ap-
peal will be liberally responded to, as it will be a posi-
tive disgrace to the town if these gardens, so well
adapted for the promotion of horticulture and so
agreeably situated for the purposes of recreation, are
discontinued. The directors have, however, no other
resource, if. the inhabitants still exhibit the same cal-
lousness on the subject which they have hitherto ma-
nifested. It is perfectly ti3ie, as Mr. Brooks justly re-
marked, that there are numerous claims from the cha-
ritieS pressing heavily upon the public, and these
claims are urged during a season of almost unexam-
pled commercial gloom ; but we apprehend there is
sufficient spirit left amongst us to emancipate not only
these from their pecuniary embarrassments, but also
to carry out the intentions of the supporters' of the
Botanic Gardens. Let the effort be made, and we
have little fear of the result, even under the disad-
vantageous circumstances which will surround the
progress of the good work. Surely the gardens must
not be relinquished.