The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-07 00:00:00

WIG AN

OPERATIVE CONSEREATIVE ASSOCIATION.—The monthly
meeting of this society was held, on Monday evening last, at
the society's,room, Chapel-lane. The meeting was throngly
attended, and an evening of uninterrupted pleasure was spent
after the transaction of the usual business. The society is
progressing in numbers weekly, and the funds still continue
to increase.

The Chartist, Clarke, who has been one of the most active
of the body in Wigan, has been apprehended, and will be
brought up for examination at the Town-hall to-morrow.
There are several serious charges against him, for on several
occasions he presided at the large Chartist meetings in this
neighbourhood.

The two women, Betty Bamber and Mary Connor, who
were brought before the bench, on Monday last, for em-
bezzling a quantity of weft, were again brought up on Wed-
nesday. On of the police informed the magistrates that both
women had been drinking in company for five days suc-
cessively, last week. They were committed to the House of
Correction, under the Vagrant Act, for one month each.
WATCH COMMITTEE.—A meeting of the Committee,
especially called to considerthe propriety of appointing addi-
tional police-officers to the present borough force, was held
in the new Town-hall on Monday evening last, the Mayor
in the chair. The Mayor produced a letter which he had
received from Sir James Graham in April last—written in
consequence of the commanding officer here making a report
that the military were called out to aid the police in quelling
a disturbance occasioned by the paupers at the guardian-
room. The town-clerk read the letter which contained an
intimation from the home secretary that the police force
appeared insufficient to maintain order in the town, and a
request that the Mayor would call the attention of the watch
committee to the subject.—The mayor informed the com-
mittee that he had answered the letter soon after the receipt
of it, and promised to lay the matter before them at a con-
venient season. In accordance with that promise he had
named the matter at the last meeting but one, and it was for
the committee now to act as they thought proper. He, for
one, considered the police force insufficient. An animated
debate on the question was then carried on—the principal
speakers being Mr. Ackerley, (who warmly contended that
an increase in the number was wanted)—Mr. T. Eckersley,
Mr. Crondson, Mr. Bevan, Mr. Caldwell, Mr. Green, and
Mr. Fairhurst. A motion was made by Mr. Crondson,
seconded by Mr. Green, " that an addition be made to_the

police force of the borough. As an amendment. Mr.
can:riven -moved— MI no additional officers be appointed
until the corporation be free from debt." Mr. Fairhurst
seconded the amendment, and observed that the town was
already £2,500 in debt, and paying heavy interest for it.
As another amendment, Mr. Ackerley moved, and Mr.
Byrom seconded it, " that the meeting be adjourned for a
week, as considerable ill-feeling seemed to exist with some
of the committee." The committee seemed anxious, how-
ever, to decide the matter.—The mayor put the original
motion and amendment from the chair, when there appeared
for the amendment, 10—for ,the original motion,. 7. The
following gentlemen voted for the original motion :—Crond-
son, Green, Bevan, Ackerley, W. Lamb, J. Lamb, Mars-
den ; for the amendment, Caldwell, Fairhurst, Gibson,,
Marsh, Procter, Barton, McClure, T. Eckersley, Taylor,*
Newsham. Mr. Byrom declined voting either way. The
meeting broke up immediately after the division.

REPORTED SUCCESS OF THE BRITISH TROOPS
IN AFEGHANISTAN.

We have received, says the London Times of yesterday, by
our ordinary express the Paris papers of Tuesday, with our
usual correspondence. The intelligence they bring is not,
however, of political importance, unless we can give credence
to an extract of a letter forwarded to us by our correspondent
at Malta, which professes to give most welcome news from
our army in Affghanistan.

We miblish this extaact in the very few words in which it
has reached us, but without in any degree pledging ourselves
for the correctness of a statement given, not on the authority
of our own correspondent, but by him from a respectable
resident at Beyrout, who bad received it in a letter from
Bagdad. The following is the extract :
" General Pollock has reached Cabul and the Affghans
have succumbed." ,

CANADA.
Sir Charles Bagot, the Governor-General of Canada,
opened the second session of the first parliament of Canada
on the Sth ult. His Excellency's speech on tin occasion did
not contain any matter of importance. Alluding to the treaty
recently concluded between Great Britain and the United
States, he said—

•
" I rejoice that I am able to acquaint you that a treaty be-
tween Great Britain and the United States has been signed
on the part of her Majesty, and since ratified by the Federal
Senate, by which the important questions affecting this pro-
vince and the United States have been adjusted. From this
happy settlement, the ratification of which by her Majesty I
hope soon to be able to announce to you, 1 augur the most
favourable consequences to the province, in the maintenance
of peace, the restoration of confidence, and the devotion of
the undivided energies of its inhabitants to the internal ad-
vancement, and the developement of the vast resources, of
the country. These have been among her Majesty's chief
objects in the negotiation of this treaty ; and I am com-
manded by the Queen to state to you, that no wish is nearer
to her Majesty's heart than that, under her rule and the pro-
tection of her Crown, all her faithful subjects in Canada may
rest in undisturbed peace, may feel themselves to be one peo-
ple with their fellow-subjects in the British islands, and may
increase in wealth, prosperity, and contentment, founded on
the possession and rational enjoyment of a free and essenti-
ally British constitution."