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22, MOUNT-I:LEAgANT.
WOODNORTH begs to remind his Friinds and the
1 • Pablic, that he has REMOVED his Man*factory
from 55, Paradise-street, and 12, Cases-stree to
22, M 0 UNT-PLEASAN
GAUZE, WIRE, and ZINC BLIN LETTERED
and ORNAMENTED to any PATTERN. VENETIAN
SHADE BLINDS for exportation on the lowest term

MUSIC-HALL, BOLD-STREET. /
UNDER THE SANCTION OF THE COMMITTEE
OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION./
"AIR. CROWE begs to announce, that on WEDNESDAY
11.1- EVENING, the 20th instant, he will deliv r
A LECTURE
ON WILHEM'S METHOD OF T ACHING
SINGING IN CLASSE ,
As adapted to English use by John Hull , Esq., and intro-
duced by Mr. CEowE into Liverpdo under the above

instruction.
Rev. A. CAMPBELL, Rector, in the Chair.
The Lecture will be illustrated by a few of Mr. and Mrs
CROWE'S Pupils.
Tickets of Admission, 6d. each ; Reserved Seats• -
be had at HIME and Sox's and WEISS'S Music ,
Church-street; of Mr. Small, Music-seller, Lord-5i,,,,
and of Mr. CRowE, at his Private Music Academy, 42,
Hunter-street. •
Mr. Crowe has the pleasure of announcing, that the above
Lecture is intended to precede the opening of a CENTRAL
SINGING SCHOOL, for Male and Female Adults, at the
School-room, Cornwallis-street, OR FRIDAY EVENING, the
22d instant, at a Quarter before Nine, and conclude a Quar-
ter before Ten o'clock, for the convenience of those whose
professional and business occupations may render this period
desirable.
"Ncliets, for the Course of Sixty Lessons, 125., or Monthly
9s. each, (Eight Lessons,) may be had above.
rdication will be necessary, as the number is

Tickets,
An early ai
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"•*-- Dir. C.' likewise announcei to his Friends and the
Public, that .his PRIVATE MUSIC ACADEMY will be
REMOVED, iq the course of the week, to No. 42, MOUNT
PLEASANT ;-pnd, at the request of many Families in the
neighbourhood,'a PRIVATE CLASS for LADIES will
immediately be commenced ; also a SELECT CLASS for
the JUVENILE BRANCHES. -

MECHANICS' 'INSTITUTION.
MO-MORROW, (Wednesday,) at Half-past ven, Mr.
W. B. HODGSON will deliver the T RD of a
COURSE of EIGHT LECTURES on the P OSOPHY
of EDUCATION.
Admission to Non-Subscribers s.
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which now contains Nine Thousand V es in the various
Branches of Science and Literature, a which receives re-
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the Public Lectures and the Evening Schools.
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EVENING.
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Members, Five Shillings; Apprentices of Non-lrers,
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ENORMOUS REDUCTION IN CARPET G.
THE LAST WEEK.
ivr ELLIS begs to announce to his Frie s and the
IVA • Public generally, that it is his deter,inination to
ty
CLOSE his present SALE of his last Year's ;PATTERNS
(at the Reduced Prices) on the Week endii ATURDAY,'
the 16th April, and respectfully invites se Parties who
have not availed themselves of the prese opportunity of
Purchasing, to do so previous to the Final Close.
On MONDAY, the 18th instant, the whole of the present
Spring Patterns will be open for Inspection, and doubts not,
from the care taken in making his selection, that his Goods
will be found to give every satisfaction in supdriority of
quality and design.
95, TOP OF BOLD-STREET,

ANIMAL MAGNETISM.
On TUESDAY, 12th of APRI ,
yr, It. LAFONTAINE will give a CONV r ' SAZIONE
IVA at the TEMPLAR'S. HALL, Great C rge-street, and
submit to the Public a series of Experime . Tickets to be
had at the Templar's Hall, 2s. 6d. each. To commence at
Seven o'clock precisely.

OPPOSITE COLQU ITT-STREET
11th April, 1842.

LONDON PORTER, AND TENERIFFE (VIDONIA)
WINE.

DEALERS in LONDON PORTER are respectfully in-
formed that an extensive STOCK of Messrs. TRUMAN,
HANSURY, BUXTON and Co.'sis constantly kept in Liver-
pool, of qualities adopted for Export, Bottling and Draught
purposes. ORDERS are also promptly ecuted direct
from LONDON, as usual, for either the ome Trade, or
for any Foreign Port.
TENERIFFE WINE, of the esteemed Brand of " PAS-
ley," shipped by Messrs. PASLEY, LITTLE and Co. Tene-
rife, in Pipes, Hogsheads, and Quarter-casks, in also kept
in Bond, in Liverpool. The qualities are various, being
adapted for Home Consumption and Export.
Application to be made to
Mr. ARMITAGE,
22, KING-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

WATCHES.
GOLD LEVER, for GENTLEMEN, wit and Enamel-
led Dials, Seconds, Capped, and Jewell in two holes,
and five Actions, maintaining power duri g winding, and
Improved Detached Lever Escapement £lO 10
DITTO, larger size II l2 0
DITTO, largest size, with extra strong cases l3 10
LADIES' GOLD LEVER, with Gold Dial, Capped,
and Jewelled in two holes, and five Actions, main-
taining power during winding, and Improved De-
tached Lever Escapement
DITTO, larger size
PATENT LEVER SILVER WATCHES .... ...
DITTO DITTO HUNTING
SILVER VERGE WATCHES, Double Bottomed,
to open with a Spring
GENEVA WATCHES, of first-rate Workmanship, in every

11 10
12 10
5 0

Imperial Varltament.

HOUSE OP LORDS.-THURSDAY

The Earl of LEICESTER took the oaths and subscribed the
rolls of parliament.
The Earl of RIPON laid upon the table a bill for the
better regulation of the laws relating to merchants and fac-
tors, which was read a first time.
The Ecclesiastical Residences bill went through committee.
Mr. GREENE and other members of the House of Com-
mons brought up the Exchequer Bills bill, the Spirits Duties
(Ireland) bill, and some others, which were severally read a
first time.
Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS..—THURSDAY.
Mr. WALLACE moved for a return of the correspondence'
relating to the resignation of the late Lord Corehouse, judge
of the Supreme Court in Scotland. The motion was resisted
by Sir J. Graham, and ultimately withdrawn ; Mr. Wallace,
however, declaring it to be his intention to make use of the
correspondence another time.
Mr. DUNCOMBE then brought forward his motion for
rescinding the rule of the house which prevented the presen-
tation of petitions against any tax under its consideration.
His whole object was to establish the broad principle, that
the people had the right at any time to petition against any
tsx whatever.
After some little discussion, in which Sir Robert Peel
stated that such a course would be inconvenient to public
business, Mr. buncombe's motion was defeated by a majo-
rity of 167 to 136.
PEEL moved the third reading of the Corn Impor-

tation bill, L p m which
Mr. COBDEN moved as an amendment, " That inasmuch
as this house has repeatedly declared, by its votes and the
reports of its committees, that it is beyond the power of
parliament to regulate the wages of labour in this try,coun it a
is inexpedient and unjust to pass a law to regulate, w
view to raise unnaturally the prices of food." The hon.
member said that Sir R. Peel had admitted that the object
of the bill was to maintain a high price for food, a principle
which was pregnant with gross injustice to the trading and
working classes of the community.
Sir R. PEEL declined to again open up the whole question
by following the arguments of the hon. member, but he
hoped that the hon. gentleman would not think upon that
account that he was treating him with any disrespect.
On a division the motion of Mr. Cobden was defeated by a
majority of 236 to 86.
Mr. HENLEY moved the adjournment of the debate until
Monday next, upon which the house divided, and the motion
for the adjournment was defeated by a majority of 247 to 68.
A second division took place on the third reading of the
bill, which was carried by a majority of 229 to 90.
Mr. FRENCH then moved a clause to prevent the importa-
tion of foreign flour into Ireland under the provisions of the
act until six months after it should have passed through
parliament.
Sir R. PEEL opposed the motion.
After some conversation the clause was withdrawn.
Mr. A. JOHNSTON moved that foreign flour in such a state
of acidity as to be unfit for human food, should be admitted
at a duty of Id. per cwt., for the purposes of the cotton ma-
nufactures.
Mr. M. Pamirs seconded the motion, and said that some
manufacturers in the country paid £lOOO a year more for
flour used in the manufacture of cotton than they would
have to pay if their manufactories were in America.
After some discussion, the motion of Mr. Johnston was
negatived without a division.
Mr. WAKLEY then moved a clause to the effect that the
sales of injured wheat and flour should not be included in the
averages, if such wheat and flour were unfit for human food,
and sold for a less price than one-third of that of good wheat
and flour.
Sir R. PEEL thought the proposition would be very delu-
sice in its operation, and would open the door to very exten-
sive frauds in the trade.
Mr. WAKLEY said he had brought forward his motion at
the request of some friends, but from what had fallen from
Sir R. Peel he thought it required consideration, and should
therefore not press it to a division.
The clause was accordingly negatived.
Mr. COBDEN then, on the question that the bill do pass,
denounced the bill as a robbery of the poor.
The bill then passed amidst loud cheers.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
house adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY.
Mr. LIDDELL, and other members of the House of Com-
mons, brought up the Corn Importation Bill, which, on the
motion of the Earl of RIPON, was read a first time, and or-
dered to be read a second time on Friday next.
The Ecclesiastical Leases and the Ecclesiastical Corpora-
tions Bills severally passed through committee, after which
their lordships adjourned.

MOUSE OF COMNIQNS.—FRIDAX,
A. scene of considerable animation tonk place, in conse-
quence of Mr. T. T. Duncombe's attempting to present a
petition against the income tax, contrary to the rules of the
house. lhe crowded state of the opposition benches led to
the inference that the " whip" had been resorted to in order
,o enforce the reception of the petition. Mr. Duncombe in-
sisted on its being received, but Mr. Kemble complained of
the attempt thus made to take the house by surprise, and
moved the adjournment of the debate upon it until Monday.
Lord John Russell and Mr. Aglionby also said it was unfair
that the house should he taken by surprise, and eventually
the further discussion was postponed until Monday.f
Sir R. PEEL then moved the order of the day for bringing
up the report of the committee on the income tax resolution.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL then rose for the purpose of moving
the resolutions, of which he had given notice, asserting that
under the circumstances of the country the proposed income
tax was highly inexpedient to be adopted. The noble lord
contended that it was of great importance to our commercial
prosperity that London should continue to he the money
market of the world ; but this tax would seriously militate
against its maintaining that position, by causing the dispersion
of capital in other directions. He dwelt upon the inequality
of the tax--upon its inquisitorial character—and insisted that
the
chosen
for the imposition of such a tax was singularly ill
. and inappropriate, for in the present state of commer-
cial distress men of business could little afford the investiga-
tions into their concerns inseparable from such a tax. If it
real property to
was necessary to resort to taxation for the purpose of raising
the other kinds the revenue,
might also resortoftop
they might with much greater propriety subject
the same probate and legacy duties to which
wheel carriages, and
rtohpee rty
taxeswas
o n alreadym al e
servantssubjected.
and
fTohuery.
been found profitable other of the assessed taxes, which had
lord concluded by whenmoving
formerly in operation. The noble
propositions upon whichgbea series of resolutions, laying down
—" That, considering the variousomisled the following inference :
present deficiency, without enhancing means of supplying the
cessaries of life or emharrassingatnirncaidneg.,
higil
it
thies
tphrei prices
moifo
nt the
thisne -
orial in its character,
uhnoeugseuatlhaitnthites renewal of aantaxd
w,
as hitherto been con-
sidered as the financial reserve of the nation in time of war:
is not called for by public necessity, and is therefore not ad-
visable."
ViSable.o It "
The HANCELLO of the EXCHEQUER thatsaindollord were
the pro-
positions contained in the resolutions of the b
of themselves a sufficient proof that the countrystwrias placed
in an emergency which called for a measure
the imposition of an income tax. It appeared to stringent as
m that
the noble lord did not attach a sufficient degree of weight toa
the fact, that for some succession of years there had been a
deficiency of revenue to meet the expenditure of the
min..
try. It was not merely because we were at war that Mr.
Pitt had imposed the income tax, but because the credit of
the country required the abandonment of the impolitic sys-
tem of loans, which at the best, in times of war, were neces-

dverted to the fact

0441 ti.

then told owe ploit ~;kp had lost a 6rpilen
hpr ! and Good said. o' I value that

hiSive upon that subject—that since the propositton or an wawa ue can give!'
icome tax the funds had risen. With respect to the in- brooch much, and I gave it to you because I thought you
iisitorial character of the tax he intended to make some would have kept it.?' Some angry words atterwards ensued,
visions which would materially mitigate its severity in that but ultimately went away quite amicably. A boy of eleven
With respect to the suggestion of the noble years of age, calling himself Good's son, also states that on
<tat property, he had to remark that there was a Supday last his father fetched a woman he called his sister,
prevalent on this subject, for real property from No. 18, South-street, Manchester Square, London,
ses subjected to the legacy duty, which was where she had lived two gears, saying he had got a place for
case with personal property ; and were her; and the lad had not seen her since.—The officers have
be now imposed it would fall chiefly upon sn- all not yet been able to apprehend the miscreant.
wonlrl not nermit them to avail

p.
articulal
lord to t 2

a vario

aot invariably t

ich a tax

themselves of those settlements by which large landed pro-
prietors could evade the imposition of the duty. With re-
spect to a renewal of the assessed taxes, he must say that
such a measure would fall most heavily on the trading and
commercial classes (

the community. The income tax was,
therefore, the only means by which they could hope to re-

pair the disordered state of the finances of the country.
Mr. WILLIAMS contended that the landed proprietors were
not taxed in the same ratio for their real estates as were per-
sons having personal property, however small. He should
propose, when the proper time came, a more equitable in-
come tax than that proposed by Sir R. Peel, and its princi-
ciple should be this,—that in respect of every annuity,
pension, stipend, dividend, or salary, payable out of the
public revenue, of the annual amount of £l5O and under
£3OO there should be charged 6d. in the pound ; of £3OO to
£5OO, one shilling in the pound; of 2500 to £750, one shil-
ling and sixpence ; of £750 to £l,OOO, two shillings ; of
£l,OOO to £1,500, three shillings ; of £1,500 upwards, four
shillings in the pound. And further, that in respect of all
lands, tenements, hereditaments, and real property of every
description, there should be charged to every person coming
into possession thereof by inheritance or bequest, a duty
equal in amount to the probate and legacy duty, now payable

on personal property.
qir R. INGLIS suggested that Sir R. Peel should so far
in the details of his income tax as to allow in all
cases the first £l5O of income to go untaxed. This would
be a great relief to all persons of small incomes; and he must
say that this was quite consistent with the right hon. baronet's
own proposition that incomes under £l5O a-year should not
be taxed at all. He would also state his belief that the coun-
try would prefer a property tax of four or five per cent. to
having the machinery of this income tax.
Mr. P. M. STEWART approved of the suggestion of Sir

TO CORRESPONDENTS

Neither Ins. nor .€lO would induce us to insert the mawkish trash
which has been forwarded to us under the head " Executions,"
though we observe many of our contemporaries have been led to
do so, albeit the statements put forward are diametrically 01)-,
posed to the principles they have uniformly espoused on the
subject.
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We are directed to caution the public against a man who is going
about selling circular time tables. He is well dressed, lame, and
describes himself as a bookkeeper laid up by illness. He sold one
to a gentleman last week, and soon after came back to borrow
it for a feu• moments to show to a gentleman in an office adjoin-
ing, as he had not another with him, and lived over the water.
Since this the gentleman has never seen it : of course the man
had previously received payment for it (2s. 6d.)
" W. A. H." calls upon us to notice the doctrines put forth in the
pulpit of St. Martin's-in-the-Field; but we must respectfully de-
cline doing so until our correspondent, or some one with proper
information and evidence, shall have laid the matter before the
diocesan, and if his Lordship refuse to interfere, we may then
have something to say on the subject.
•

The lines subscribed " A. C." are not suitable for our columns

atbe Eiberpoot &tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1842

By our report of the Council proceedings of Friday,
it will be seen that the insidious motion of Mr. Alder-
man Evans has been scouted with precisely the degree
of contempt which it deserved. We are sincerely
pleased with this result. The constituency of the bo-
rough will rejoice at it; but, more than all, we and
they have cause to be delighted with the determined
expression of adherence to the .principle upon which
the present system of education in the corporation
schools is founded, which this cunning proposition of
Mr. Evans has drawn from the Conservative majority
in the Council.

R. Inglis.
Mr. G. PALMER said, he was not open to the charge of
inconsistency because he was willing to give a trial to mea-
sures with which he was not perfectly satisfied, and with
which, he believed, the agricultural interest:, were not satis-
fied. He supported the proposition of an income tax on the
ground of necessity, and, he thought the opposition to it came
with ari ill grace from those -:rho had brought the finances of
the country into such a stalc as to render the imposition of
an income tax indispensable. The new tariff he could not
say he agreed in, but as they were to have a new edition of it
on Monday, he would only express a hope that such im-
provements would be apparent in it as to render it less
objectionable.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE could not conscientiously support the
proposition for an income tax, for he did not think the cir-
cumstances of the country were so desperate as to require the
imposition of a tax the nature of which was so inquisitorial.
Captain HAMILTON opposed the resolutions of Lord J.
Russell, and denied that the income tax was an aristocratic
measure, or one at all calculated to favour the landed interest.
Mr. SHELL admitted that Sir Robert Peel had acted in a
bold and manly manner, but he thought his first difficulty
would be the result of his success. The right hon. baronet
could easily carry his income tax ; but when it came to be
paid, and when it came to be known that no deduction was
to be made for fire, food, clothing, or rent—when all its odi-
ousness and attendant humiliation should be brought home
to the people, they would be tempted to ask whether it was
necessary that such a tax should be inflicted upon them—a
tax at once unjust, inquisitorial, and immoral. The right
hon. gentleman then proceeded to comment on the tariff,
contending that the duty should not have been taken altoge-
ther away from Canadian timber, and that the duty on sugar
should not be maintained at its present amount. They pro-
fessed not to reduce the duty on sugar lest they should give
encouragement to slavery, and yet they reduced to Bd. the
duty on slave-grown coffee. He then quoted the speech of•
Sir F. Burdett, when the income tax was repealed at the pe-
riod of the peace of Amiens, in the course of which he said
that the infamy of an income tax should be stigmatised and
branded. If the right hon. baronet once succeeded in put-
ting this blister on, it would become perpetual, and the more
it would draw the more it would adhere. The tax was de-
nounced by the whole country when formerly in operation;
it had been denounced by Mr. Wilberforce as immoral, and
by the late Sir R. Peel, who said that it was the worst tax
that could be resorted to by a minister, and that it was a mis-
take to say that it did not press upon the poor, for whatever
pressed upon- the middle classes must also press upon the
poor. It was an unjust tax ; it was almost iniquitous, for it
laid the same ratio of tax upon the intellect of one man which
it laid upon the acres of another.
As soon as the right hon. gentleman sat down,
Mr. BROTHERTON moved the adjournment of the debate.
Sir. R. Peel rose immediately to speak, and it became a
question whether he was entitled to address the house, or
whether it would be an evasion if, upon the question of ad-
journment, he was to address himself to the main question.
After hearing the opinion of the Speaker,
Sir R. PEEL said, he should adopt this course, and then
proceeded to show there was an absolute necessity that the,
country should make some great effort in order to rescue
itself from its financial difficulties. He referred to the flou-
rishing condition of the revenue when the whigs entered upon
office with a surplus revenue of three millions, and to the
lamentable state of the finances when they left it, with a de-
ficit of five millions. In addition to this there was a deficit
of two millions in the East Indies ; and yet he was to be told
that he had made out no case for the imposition of an income
tax. Were they to be told that this country had met with no
disaster ? When had this country met with such a disaster
as that which had recently occurred ? A whole army butch-
ered! Only three persons saved out of £13,000 ! The evil
was not irreparable,—it should be repaired by the energy of
their councils and by the bravery of their army ; but with
such a disaster staring them in the face, and with such an
immense deficit in the revenue, how could it be asserted that
there was no necessity for an income tax ? The right hon.
bart. than proceeded to contend that there was no other cer-
tain mode of supplying the deficiency than by means of an
income tax, and that an increase in the assessed taxes, as
was suggested by Lord J. Russell, would press as heavily
upon the professional man as would the income tax, and
would be attended with the additional evil of holding out a
temptation to the man of property to reside out of the king-
dom. With respect to the tariff, he hoped his agricultural
friends would suspend their judgments until he should have
the opportunity of stating to them the whole case, when he
was confident he should be able to show them that their fears
from the low duties in that tariff were unfounded. The right
hon. baronet admitted the inequality with which the income
tax pressed upon different individuals, but so did every other
tax, whether direct or indirect. He also admitted that in-
quisition was inseparable from an income tax, but if the im-
position of such a tax was necessary they must be content so
to modify it as that the honest man should not pay more than
he had a right to do, in consequence of the evasions of the
dishonest. The right hon. baronet resumed his seat amidst
very general cheering.
Mr: BROTHERTON charged the right hon.' baronet with
violating the rules of the house by speaking on the main
question when speaking to the question of adjournment.
The SPEAKER declared the right hon. baronet to have been

...-
Were we right, we may now ask, when we denounced
the proposition in question to invite the inspectors of
the Government Education Board to visit the schools

of the corporation, as an attempt—a jesuitical attempt—
to obstruct the working of the system established by
the present education committee ? The debate of Fri-
day will sufficiently prove that we were right.
it was viewed and treated by every speaker amongst
the opposition party. The apologetic arguments of the
alderman himself in its behalf were evidence sufficient
of the fact. We were assured, indeed, that the in-
spectors had express directions, when visiting schools
carried on independent of government aid, to abstain
from interference which was calculated to impair the
authority of the committee or the masters. They were
only to advise—to enlighten—to impart their vast ex-
perience—to approve, if approval were merited, or
condemn, if condemnation was just. They were not
to interfere, but to report only ; and from that report
it was evidently anticipated that the hands of the op-
ponents of the present system would be strengthened.
From that report, from men notoriously wedded to an
approval of a totally different system, it is evident that
an outcry against the scriptural system in course of
adoption in the schools was to have been grounded.
The virtual direction of those schools was to have been
taken out of the hands of the Council, now that the
Council is conservative ; and the inhabitants of Liver-
pool, as we have before stated, and as was urged by
Mr. Alderman Nicol, were to declare to the world that
they had not amongst them sufficient intelligence, with-
out the aid of a government hoard, to decide upon a
system of education in their schools by which a few
boys and girls might he taught " to read arid write and
say the Lord's Prayer" !

As such

what is true is, in nine cases out of ten, not neu

in order.
The debate was then adjourned

HORRIBLE MURDER AND MUTILATION OF
A FEMALE NEAR PUTNEY.

From an early hour on Thursday morning, a feeling of
most intense excitement was occasioned in the villages of
Roehampton and Putney, and the surrounding neighbour-
hood of Surrey, in consequence of the discovery of a murder
of a most firightful and appalling nature, which was made
under the following circumstances appears, that, on
Wednesday evening, Daniel Good, a coachman in the ser-
vice of Mr. Quelay Shiell (who is said to be an India mer-
chant, residing at Granard Lodge, Putney Park Lane, about
a mile and a half from Roehampton), stopped in a pony chaise
of his master's, at the doer of Mr. Columbine's shop, a
pawnbroker, in Wandsworth. and agreed to purchase a pair
of black knee-breeches, 'i he was allowed to take on
credit ; but, having been se. to take off the counter a pair
of black trousers also, he v, s followed and questioned about
it, but drove off before the chaise could be searched. In-
formation being given to the police, policeman Gardner, with
Mr. Columbine's lad, and a young man named Robert Speed,
proceeded to Mr. Sheill's, to apprehend him. They found
him ; and, as he denied the robbery, they searched the differ-
ent stables ; and, while thus employed, aided by Mr. Ough-
ton, Mr. Sheill's bailiff, Gardner, in a stall at the further
end of the stable, under some trusses of hay, found something
which he thought was a dead pig ; and, on his making the
exclamation " What's this ?" Good rushed out of the stable,
shutting the door after him ; and, before Gardner or his
companions could collect themselves sufficiently to prevent
him, Good succeeded in Pocking them in on the outside, and
taking out the key, which was subsequently found in a shrub-
bery near the spot, and effecting his escape. On closer ex-
amination, the object in the stall proved to be the trunk of a
female, and the abdomen was found to have been cut open,
and the entrails, &c., extracted. Superintendent Bicknell
and Inspector Busain, of the police, being informed, sent for
a surgeon, who found that the head had been taken off at
about the third or fourth of the cervical vertebrae, apparently
after death. The right arm had also been taken off above
the shoulder joint, and the left arm under the shoul-
der joint. Throngh the chest was an incision from rather
above the sternum, extending down nearly to the pubes ; and
another incision, right and left, extending to the osilium.
The legs had likewise been taken off, just below the head of
the thigh bone. The whole of the cuts through the flesh had
bean evidently made with a very sharp instrument, the edges
being remarkably clean ; while the bones had, on the con-
trary, been divided by being hacked or chopped with some
blunt instrument, the edges being much jagged. The sto-
mach, as well as the whole of the intestines, the liver, uterus,
&c., had all been removed, and were, like the head, arms,
and legs, nowhere to be found. In the opinion of the sur-
geons, the body is that of a female from about twenty-four
to twenty-six years of age, and from the appearance of the
body it is considered the unfortunate woman had never been
a mother ; but whether or not she was encienteat the time of
her death could not be determined, the uteras, &c. being re-
moved. During the time occupied by the examination of the
body, Sergeant Palmer, Y 6, was attracted by a strong and
very disagreeable smell, to the harness-room, which adjoined
the stable in which the body had been found. The door was
found to be locked, and upon its being opened, the stench
was most overpowering, and to use Palmer's words, " nearly
threw him on his back." Observing a pile of wood in the
fireplace, where there was no stove, he found that the pile
had been laid ready for ignition, and had been formed as fol-
lows :—Two blocks of wood formed the base, about a foot and
a half apart; across these blocks were two bars of iron, trans-
versely placed at either end, and upon that other wood had
been placed with coal ; the object of thus forming it being
evidently to secure a quick vent, similar to that of a furnace.
Having carefully removed the material of the pile, Palmer
discovered a quantity of ashes, chiefly wood ash ; and on ex-
amining them, he discovered amongst them a number of frag-
ments of human bones in a highly calcined state, which ac-
counted for the unpleasant odour above mentioned ; and on
their being shown to Mr. Shillito and Mr. Allen, they at
nce declared them to be portions of the skull, arms, and thigh
ns, and bones of the fingers, &c. of a human being.
fter daybreak, Sargeant Palmer, 6 V, on turning up
some bay in the stall next to where the trunk was found, dis-
covered a large quantity of blood. This apparently was the
place where the unfortunate woman was murdered, and thence
dragged into the next stall, which is wider, for the purpose
of severing the body into seperate portions. Sergeant Pal-
procured for the use of the un-
fortunate afterwards, in the stable, found tied, under some straw
to her decease. The sergeant
in one of the mangers, a mattress, two blankets, and a sheet;
wfohrticuhnabtead;
next searched the harness-room, and collected a great quan-
tity of calcined bones, amongst which were portions of the
woman
adnoupbtre,
vbieoeuns
skull, and more of the arms, legs, and finger bones. Inspec-
tor Busain, on Thursday morning, found a large carpenter's
axe in the harness room, with which, no doubt, the murder
was committed, for the pole was covered with blood. e
also found a small hand-saw, which, from being covered
with blood, was, no doubt, used in severing the arm and
thigh bones. A lantern belonging to Good was subsequently
found in one of the hedges. It appears, that, on Thursday
evening, about seven o'clock, two men in the neighboured
saw Good and a young woman enter the parlour of the spot-
ted Horse
Public house, Roehampton. Good was well
known to both of them, the young woman was not. They

We cannot part from this subject without returning
our thanks to Mr. Alderman Evans for the compliment
paid to ourselves in his opening speech and in his re-
ply. The worthy alderman, we are glad to perceive, is
a reader of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Against
the views which we held in an article upon this ques-
tion on Tuesday last the whole of his introductory re-
marks were pointed; and it was therefore not a little
unreasonable in him to object to the arguments con-
tained in the sensible and manly speech of Mr. Alder-
man Nicol, that he had already met with them in our.
columns. If those arguments were just, as the deci-
sion of the Council and the feeling amongst not a few
of Mr. Evans's own friends proved on this occasion
that they were, we cannot, with due submission to the
alderman, discover that their validity was materially
affected by that circumstance, or that it was at all de-
rogatory to the gentleman by whom they were so for-
cibly and effectively used, that we had, less ably, per-
haps, adopted the same course of reasoning. So pro-
found a philosopher as Mr. Evans might have reflected
that whilst that which is new is not necessarily true,

Upon mature consideration of all the bearings of the
subject, we are compelled to express our preference
of the Copyright Amendment Bill, as modified by
Mr. Macaulay and Sir Robert Peel, as compared with
the original proposition of Lord Mahon. The instances
in which an author will outlive the forty-two years,
during which his copyright will be protected by the
amended bill, will, we believe, be few; and here, even
the additional seven years' protection, provided for
upon the suggestion of Sir Robert Peel, will answer all
the justice of the case. On the other hand, sad expe.
rience has proved to us how many are those who are
not permitted to enjoy one-fourth of this period upon
earth, who pour out the passionate feelings of their
souls in a gush of song, or wear away their health and
strength in the production of a work of science or
philosophy, destined to endure for ages,—and sink at
once into the grave, the victims of a too-sensitive imagi-
nation or an overtasked and exhausted frame. To such
the protection afforded by the amended measure is
greater in amount, and to sustain and encourage such
it is more required, than the protection of twenty-five
years to reward the few who, having enjoyed the ad-
vantage given by a copyright during a long life, have
failed to realize, from their literary exertions, sufficient
to provide for their descendants when leaving this
earth. _

Whilst we cordially approve, however, of this noble
effort to encourage the higher walks of authorship, we
must confess that we are far from being sanguine as to
its immediate effect upon the character of our English
literature. It is a fact, although we are far from ad
miring the spirit in which it was brought forward by
Mr. Wakley, that the reward of modern authorship
has been amply sufficient, in itself, to stimulate talent
and genius to devote theaiselve:3 to the production of
works of the highest class. Byron, Scott, Moore,
Campbell, and a host of similar names, have reaped
from the past generation and are reaping from the pre-
sent a rich harvest of fame and profit ; but we much
question whether any mere extension of the law of
coypright can render the production of works of
sterling merit and genius similarly productive in the
present day. The laughter and applause with which
the buffoonery of Mr. Wakley was received in the
British House of Commons, whilst deriding the pro-
ductions of one of the finest poets of this or any age,
are of themselves sufficient vouchers for the fact that
the tone and temper of the present generation are
little disposed for sympathy with poetry of a high or-
der. A spirit of mingled utilitarianism and effeminacy
has crept over the national mind. Of the English
character it may now well be said, in the words of the
writer whose beautiful strains were on Wednesday
last the object of ridicule to Mr. Wakley and his fellow
insensibles—

" A primrose by the river's brim,
A yellow primrose is to him."
Imagination, taste, learning, philosophy, woo the
present generation in vain ; the national drama
languishes, unable to sustain itself against melodrame
and mountebankism ; a taste for the revolting horrors
of the romancist has taken the place of the admiration
which in better days welcomed the productions of the
poet's more chaste imagination ; periodical fripperies
have jostled into obscurity our standard writers, and
whilst the inflated sentimentalities of a Bulwer, or the
Newgate Annals of an Ainsworth, are caught up in
rapture, another " Childe Harold," or even a " Para-
dise Lost," would at this moment, we believe, fall
stillborn from the press.
An extension of the Copyright Act cannot, of itself,
effect the restoration of our literature to a more healthy
state, simply because, to produce such a desideratum,
the national mind must be first renovated. Such a