The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-15 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY

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Sir. R. PEEL moved, pursuant to notice, for leave to bring
in a bill to provide for the better protection of her Majesty's
person, and in doing so observed that he did not propose by
the bill to create any new treasons, nor did he propose any
additional undue severity of punishment, for he thought a
remedy might be found without those aids. He first pro-
posed to do away with all those useless solemnities of the law
in cases of high treason, which were only capable to feed the
vanity of the miscreants who were tempted to commit crimes
of this description by the false dignity with which they ima-
gined themselves temporarily invested. He proposed that
in the case of such offences as those which had recently been
committed, of endangering the life, or, at all events, disturb-
ing the tranquillity of her Majesty, the criminals should be
tried in the ordinary way. He also proposed that after the
passing of the act, any person who should present a gun,
pistol, or any other fire-arm, even though unloaded, or who
should strike, or attempt to strike, or throw any missile of
any kind, with intent to injure the person or to alarm her
Majesty, such person should be liable to the same punish-
ment as was inflicted for larceny; and it should be in the
discretion of the judge to imprison the criminal, and to sub-
ject him to personal chastisement. This, he thought, would
deprive the offender of the false dignity which attached itself
under present circumstances to his trial, and would, he be-
lieved, materially tend to the security and tranquillity of her
Majesty.
Lord J. RUSSELL seconded the motion, and the bill was
brought in, read a first and second time, and ordered to be
committed this day.

On the order oethe day for going into committee on the
poor law bill,

Mr. T. MiNcomßE asked if it could really be the intention
of the government to proceed with the bill now that the
commission was so near its termination.

Sir J. GRAHAM said the bill was one of great importance,
and he felt bound to ascertain the sense of the house respect-
ing it.
After some discussion,

Sir R. PEEL said he confessed that the government was
placed in considerable difficulty upon the subject, but he
thought the best course would be for the house to decide
whether the commission should be allowed to continue for
five years.

After some further conversation,
Sir J. GRAHAM recommended that the house should dis-
cuss the question as to the continuance of the commission.
Mr. O'CoNNELL, however, and other hon. members, re-
quested the government to bring in a temporary bill, and to
bring forward, early in the next session, a general measure.
Sir J. GRAHAM said he considered the continuance of the
commission for five years essential, upon which he must ask
the decision of the house. With respect to the other por-
tions of the bill, he was disposed as far as possible to meet
the wishes of the house.
The house then went into committee.

On the clause for continuing the commission for five

Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved, as an amendment, that it
should be continued only for one year.
Mr. FERRAND seconded the motion, and once more en-
tered upon a vindication of the guardians of the Keighley
union.

Sir C. NAPIEI contended that there were gross abuses in
the Keighly union.

Aftersoi-ne observations from Mr. HARDY, Mr. AGLI-
ONBY, and Mr. LIDDELL,

Mr. HAWES expressed his regret government did not in-
tend to press the whole bill during the present session.
Mr. C. WOOD argued in support of the continuance of the
commission for five years, and expressed his opinion that it
ousht to be permanent. _ _

Lord SANDON contended that when such enormous power
was entrusted to the commissioners, the only security for the
proper exercise of that power was by subjecting it to a pretty
constant revision by parliament.
Sir J. GRAHAM said that there could not be a greater
mistake than to suppose that the power exercised by the com-
missioners was irresponsible, for they were responsible to the
ministers of the crown, and in fact there never was a power
exercised in this country so jealously watched or subjected to
such a rigid supervision as that of the commissioners. The
right honourable baronet argued at considerable length
against many of the objections urged against the bill.
After some observations from Sir B. HALL,

Mr. TROTTER supported the bill. He had sent a copy of
the bill to every union in Kent and Surrey, and not having
received any communication in reply, he assumed they were
satisfied with the bill, which he should, therefore, support.
Mr. BUCK supported the amendment, grounding his oppo-
sition to the bill chiefly on his disapproval of the conduct of
the poor law commissioners.
Captain PECHELL spoke at considerable length in support
of the amendment.
After some observations from Mr. AGLIONBY and Mr.
DARBY,

Mr. KEMBLE said he had heard no argument in favour of
the continuance of the commission for five years, which
would not be equally forcible for its permanency. It was an
arbitrary and unconstitutional power to repose in any body
whatsoever, and he should therefore vote for the limitation
of the period to one year, believing that if the power were
granted for five years, they might make up their minds that
it would be imposed upon the country for ever. He would
prefer if the amendment had been for three years, but he
would, at all events, support it in preference to five years.
Mr. I‘luyrz feared that the system of the present law was
not to relieve those who ought to be relieved, but to prevent
those who ought to be relieved from obtaining any assistance.
He protested against the law altogether.
After a few words from Mr. LAWSON, the committee
divided, and Mr. S. Crawford's amendment was defeated by
a majopty of 164 to 92.

On the motion that the clause should stand part of the bill,
Colonel SIBTEORP objected to the existence of the com-
mission at all, and therefore moved that the clause be struck
out.

Lord WORSLEY supported the clause.
General JOHNSON moved that the chairman should report
progress, upon which the committee again divided, and the
motion was defeated by a majority of 178 to 16.
Mr. FIELDEN then moved that the chairman should leave
the chair.

Sir R. PEEL said it was advisable to retain the power of
moving continual adjournments it was most desirable that it
should not be abused.

Lord PALMERSTON also expressed a hope that the public
business might not be thus obstructed.

Several hon. members censured the course pursued by the
hon. member for Oldham as factious.

Mr. WARD, Mr. AGLIONBY, and others, begged of Mr
Fielden to withdraw his amendment.

After a short discussion, Mr. FIELDEN pressed his motion,
which was, however, negatived without a division.
The clause was then carried by a majority of 116 to 26,
after which the house resumed.

The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
house adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY

Mr. MACKINNON postponed his motion for a new writ for
Southampton until the 25th instant.
In reply to a question from Mr. GRIMSDITCH,

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that his noble
friend at the head of the commission appointed to inquire
into the amount of forged exchequer bills, &c., had informed
him that the commission would shortly be enabled to make a
report. He would make inquiry as to whether they would
be able to do so during the present session.
On the motion of Sir R. PEEL, the Queen's Protection
Bill went through committee, was read a third time, and
ordered to be engrossed.

Sir J. GRAHAM, in reply to a question from Lord Pal-
merston, said that when he pledged himself to support the
principle of the Mines and Collieries Bill, the pledge was
given on the part of the government.
Sir R. PEEL, in reply to a question from Mr. Hardy, said
it was not the intention of the government to bring forward
any grant for church extension.
After a speech from Mr. HUME, recommending all
manner of reductions, and one from Mr. W. WILLIAMS,
respecting the remuneration of clerks in public offices, the
house went into committee of supply.
Sir R. PEEL moved the usual vote for the British Mu-
seum, which led to some conversation as to the propriety of
the rule excluding young children irom the Museum when
with their parents, a rule which did not prevail at the Na-
tional Gallery.
The vote was ultimately agreed to.
On the vote of £62,000 for the expenses of the two houses
of parliament,
Mr. HUME required an account of the expenses of the
House of Lords.
Sir R. PEEL said, that from time immemorial the House
of Lords had refused to give this information. It was the
only portion of the public money that they could at all deal
with,ad-
dress and it was placed at their disposal by means of an
PeersposedttoaTe Crown, which ordered such a sum as it sup-
; under these
to support the dignity of the House of
sum as _2_ these circumstances he hoped for so small a
--t; 1,000 the hon. member would not persever.: in requiring information which was so calculated to revive for-
mer jealousies betweenl the two houses of Parliament.
Mr. HUME saidt
ofat the House of Commons had a right
it he would move
to know the itemsthat
expenditure, and in order to obtain
to
£21,000. hat the vote be reduced to the sum of
On a division Mr. Hump,
agreed to.
majority of 90 to 23. -- s proposition was defeated by a
Mr. HUME then moved
and a discussion ensued whichre duce it by the sum of £12,000,
aterrninated by the withdrawal
of
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remainder of the evening in
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disposed of, and the
Ma-
jesty's Person Bill was passed.
The other orders of the day were then
house adjourned.

President Tyler has recently had a daughter married. No
intoxicating beverages were allowed at the mystical festi-

vide&

MISCELLANEOUS

There arrived at Quebec this year 16,292 emigrants ; last
year, 13,509 ; increase so far, 2,783.
MURDER.—We have this day to record a brutal murder
committed on the highway at Worr Mill Brow, Styal, near
Wilmslow, at an early hour on Tuesday morning week, on
the body of a factory operative, named Henry Lockett, aged
30 years, a married man with three children. An inquest
was held on the body, by Mr. Roscoe, coroner of the Knuts-
ford division, at the house of Mr. William Dale, the Old
Ship Inn, Styal, on Thursday afternoon, when evidence to
the following effect was adduced".—The deceased, Henry
Lockett was a blower tenter, of Messrs. Greg's cotton mill
at Styal, and on Monday evening, after leaving work, went
to a public-house at Wilmslow, to join a lodge of Foresters,
who had that day been having their annual dinner. It ap-
peared, that he left this house between twelve and one
o'clock, and on his way home to Styal was seen in company
with two men, named Samuel Lowe, a bricklayer by trade,
and Horatio Worth, a factory operative; and when and
where these individuals left him was riot satisfactorily shown.
Shortly after two o'clock on Tuesday Morning, a person
named Thomas Atkinson, in returning from Wilmslow to
Styal, found deceased lying across the footpath, with his
hand upon his forehead, and quite dead. He saw another
person coming towards the spot, and having obtained asssis-
tance, the body was carried home. A deep wound was
found on the back of deceased's head, as if he had received
a severe blow from some sharp instrument, and his neck was
much discoloured as if from being strangled. Samuel Lowe,
one of the parties seen in deceased's company late the pre-
vious night, absconded on the following morning, and has
not since been met with. The other person, Horatio 'Worth
was taken Lito custody to await the result of the inquest,
A post-mortem examination of the body took place on
Thursday, by Mr. Nightingale of Mr. Moore, surgeons, of
Wilmslow. and Mr. Braithwaite of Knutsford, from whose
concurrent testimony it appeared that death had been
caused by strangulation, but that the fracture of the skull
was sufficient to have caused it ultimately. The jury after a
lengthy investigation into the circumstances, returned a
verdict of ")Yilful murder against some person or persons at
present unknown ;" the evidence against the suspected
party not been sufficiently strong to fix the crime upon them.
Mr. Adamson, high constable of Macclesfield, has taken the
subject in hand, and, it is hoped, the guilty party or parties
will be soon discovered.

PARENTAL CRUELTY.—On Friday night, the Ist July,
a report was circulated in the neighbourhood of Tarporley,
that a child had been found in a pig-stye, at Utkington that
morning, covered with bruises and wounds, and having a
large chain rivetted to her leg, &c. Upon hearing this, Mr.
Baker, the special high constable, immediately proceeded to
Utkinton, and there at the cottage of a person named Row-
land, who had kindly given the poor child shelter, he found
the improbable story verified. The sufferer, who is of very
diminutive stature, stated, that she was twelve years old.
and " that ever since her mother died and her father got
married again, she had never had any rest, for her stepmo-
ther was always finding fault with her, and then her father
beat her, and turned her out with her chain on." The poor
little creature was a mass of bruises, and from exposure to
cold and wet, nearly spent, having been turned out by her
father, on Monday night, and told that if ever she came near
the house again he would kill her. She had wandered about
the lanes in the vicinity of the forest, until found as before
described, asleep in the pig-stye, at Utkinton. On Saturday
morning, Mr. Baker apprehended the father, who is a la-
bourer, named William Craven, residing at Eaton, and took
him, with the poor child, and several witnesses of the father's
cruelty, before Colonel Tornkinson, who committed him for
two months to the House of Correction. The many acts of
brutality of this inhuman monster towards his unfortunate
child, are such as to make the blood run cold at their repeti-
tion. One out of the many we will relate—the poor child,
sometime since, burned her finger whilst roasting a crab, and
upon this being told to the father, he said he'd cure her from
meddling with fire again, and he then deliberately thrust her
little hand into the flames and burnt it cruelly. This will
scarcely be credited, but we vouch for its truth.—Chester
Courant.

ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE IN SCOTLAND.—A pretty smart
shock of an earthquake was felt last Sunday, about midday,
by the congregation assembled in the cathedral church of
Dunblane, which is about IS miles from Comrie. The
shock occurred just before the dismissal of the congregation
in the forenoon. Volcanic agency has for some time been
suspected to be at work in this locality ; and the instruments
indicated the direction to have been in a line from north-west
to south-east, or the direction will, perhaps, be better un-
derstood by drawing a line upon the map from Dunblane to
the Parliament-house of Edinburgh. This accounts for
certain noises in the church, which have been heard almost
weekly for some months past, attributed by the superstitious
to the rattling of the bones of the old Romish clergy buried
underneath the cathedral, in resentment of attacks made upon
their orthodoxy, there being no living Rowan Catholic in the
parish to vindicate their tenets. The ideauf the bones being
commoved, however, had occurred also to scientific men,
who more philosophically, though as it turns out quite as
erroneously, ascribed it to some electrical influence on the
old prebendal stalls proceeding from galvanic substances in
or near the modern pulpit. Those more accustomed to
consider causes and consequences were a good deal alarmed
at the signs of subterranean energy under the old building,
which the shock above referred to indicated, but the less
initiated describe the sensation as rather pleasant than other-
wise.—Glasgow Gazette.

DISSENT IN NORTHUNIIIERLAND.—NorthumberIand is
another county where dissent is indeed at a low ebb—the
lowest ebb. Just imagine a county containing a quarter of a
million of souls, with only accommodation, in the dissenting
meeting-houses, for somewhat less than 4,000 !! ! Just ima-
gine a county, covering an area of 1,871 square miles with
41,704 inhabited houses, with a population of 250,568, and
with 492 parishes, townships, &c., yet provided with only
twelve dissenting meeting-houses, which do not receive alto-
gether 4,000 hearers ! itlr. Archibald Jack preaches at North
Shields, and Mr. William Campbell at Newcastle-on-Tyne;
and these are the dissenting altars of the county ; the rest are
Homerton, Rotherham, and Yorkshire students. And thisis
the result of at least a century and a quarter of dissenting
operations in Northumberland !—since the meeting-house at
Horsley-on-Tyne was erected in 1720: twelve meeting-houses
in one hundred and twenty-two years ! And yet we are re-
quired to believe, that the voluntary principle is adequate to
supply the spiritual wants of the whole land! The dissent-
ing ministers and their supporters in this country, being too
few to form a separate association, have united themselves to
that of Durham. A grand failure altogether. In this part
of England it is the Church which teaches the people, and
she teaches them well.—Church and State Gazette. That
she does so is, we think, evidenced by the facts contained in
the following paragraph, which we extract from the London
Time..? of Monday :—There are, at present, only six prisoners
for trial at the approaching assizes for Northumberland, four
of whom are lodged in the county gaol of this town, and the
remaining two are out on bail. One is charged with bur-
glary, accompanied by an attempt to murder, which is a
capital ollence by the Ist Victoria, c. SG, three with robbery
on the highway, one with horse-stealing, one with house-
breaking, and one with bigamy. The case of burglary is of a
very aggravated description, and the offence was committed
in April last, in the parish of Newburn, in this county. The
criminal statistics of this county have for many years past
been trivial, compared with some other portions of the king-
dom, even with the adjoining county of Durham, and afford
abundant proof of the superior moral condition of the people.
For a period of about 20 years there has not been a single
execution within the county, nor any very conspicuous crime,
with the exception of Bolam's memorable case, which, though
the offence was committed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was
ultimately removed within the jurisdiction of the county.

MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE.—Late on Saturday night
Mr. M`Carthy, the Dublin county coroner, had a jury sum-
moned to inquire into the circumstances connected with the
death of A. Byrne, Esq., of No. 1, Albert-terrace, Rath-
mines. There are various rumours afloat respecting the mys-
terious occurrence the subject of inquiry, but as the inquest
has been adjourned until Monday, we refrain from going into
any vesy minute detail of the facts of the case. During the
greater art of last week Mr. Byrne was missed by his inti-
mate friends, but his absence from the several places he fre-
quented was not such as to create any uneasiness, and so
matters remained until Saturday evening. At that period
Surgeon Harvey, of Rathmines, was sent for to see Mr.
Byrne, it being communicated to him that the latter was in
a precarious state, and that a very painful rattle (as had been
stated) was in his throat. Surgeon Harvey with great
promptitude hastened to the house, and on being ushered
into the back drawing-room, found Mr. Byrne dead, and
from the appearance of the body he must have !been dead
some days; a more horrifying spectacle could not have been
witnessed—the face was black and swollen, and the features
could scarcely be recognised, while the body was also dis-
coloured and much swollen. Sufficient appeared to lead to
the communication of the matter to the police, and Mr.
M'Carthy, the county coroner, having been sent for at a late
hour, swore a jury, but adjourned the hearing of the evi-
dence. The police are placed in care of the house. On Sun-
day Surgeons Mitchell, Ellis, Fox, and others, amended at
a post mortem examination, and the contents of the stomach
were removed, in order to have them analysed. The medi-
cal gentlemen state that the body was in a very decomposed
state, and the smell was so great as to be observed, prior to
the death being known, by the family in the adjoining house.
It is needless to say that the whole affair has excited the
deepest interest in the neighbourhood. The deceased is said
to have died in the possession of a considerable sum in ready
money ; and that fruitful source of good or evil has, it is
very generally said, occupied a prominent position in influ-
encing his destiny. Mr. Byrne was in the prime of life, and
not many years married. The adjourned inquest on the
body of Augustin Byrne was held on Monday night, at the
house of the deceased in Rathmines. The only witnesses
examined were the two Messrs. Wall, the sons of Mrs.
Byrne, by her former husband. Both these witnesses swore
to the intemperate habits of deceased and their mother; that
for the last four years they were constantly in a state of in-
toxication, and had frequent quarrels; but that whenever
deceased was sober and his wife drunk, deceased bore all her
abuse with great patience. One of the WTalls further swore
that it was his belief that his stepfather did not die a natural
death; but afterwards explained his meaning by saying that
he thought deceased might have been smothered in a fit of
drunkenness. The coroner, having stated that the medical
gentlemen would not have completed the analyzation of the
contents of deceased's stomach before a week, further ad-
journed the inquest to Wednesday. The Messrs. Wall were
permitted to go at large, but enjoined to keep silent on the
subject of the inquiry. Mrs. Byrne remains in custody.
The deceased, it is stated, had formerly been much attached
to one of the daughters of his wife, then Mrs. Wall, but
that circumstances induced him to transfer his affections to
the mother. The young lady died shortly afterwards, leav-
ing the whole of her fortune, £5OOO, to Mr. Byrne.
A letter from Cape
Hayti, dated the 29th of May, con-
tains a description of the late calamity at St. Domingo,
fully confirming all the horrors of the earthquake, and the
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suffered more or less, and that the palace of the celebrated
Christophe, and the citadel in which he is buried, which is
about 14 miles from Cape Hayti, are a mass of rub.. The
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to be forcibly excluded. Those political differences have
been interrupted by the earthquake,
been all.absorbing ; but it seems certain that no more presi-
dentsthoef aboutßouse thirty of
which, of course, has
will be elected for life.

Retiring pensions of £3,500 each have failed in by the'
death of the two ex-judges, Sir Joseph Littledale and Baron
Alexander.

The Hon. and Rev. Francis John Grey, son of Earl[Grey,
read himself into the valuable rectory of Morpeth, on Sun-
day, before a very numerous congregation.

The Marquis of Hastings' splendid hunting stud was
brought to the hammer at Tattersall's on Monday, and
fetched fair prices.
EARLY HARVEST.—On Thursday and Friday we observed
a number of shearers employed in cutting down a pretty
large field of barly, on the farm of Mr. Oliver, Lochend,
near Edinburgh.—Caledonian Mercury.

AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.—On Monday
evening, about seven o'clock, as an elderly woman, named
Mary Harris, .was walking along.Aldephan-terrace, Somers
Town, she fell down, and instantly expired. The body was
conveyed to St. Pancras workhouse, in which establishment
the deceased has for some time past been an inmate.
The Bury Post states that notices of disfranchisement
have been served by a messenger from the House of Com-
mons on eleven of the free burgesses resident in the borough
of Sudbury : three of them for giving and the others for
acknowledging the receipt of various sums of money at the
last election.

The dispute between the guardians of the Braintree board
and the poor law commissioners has terminated amicably.
The commissioners aver that they never had the intention
that all minutes and all notices of motion should be sent up
to them, but only those which related to particular subjects,
on which they had a concurrent jurisdiction; and, conse-
quently, they never intended to control the free discussion of
the guardians.—Chelmsford Chronicle.

IMPORTANT DECISION.—Lord Cockburn lately gave a
decision (in a case in which he purposely avoided giving the
names of the parties), that an agreement for a secret part-
nership is a contravention of the laws made for regulating
the business of a pawnbroker, and that no legal partnership
is thereby constituted.—This decision is in conformity with
the dicta of the iate Lord Chancellor (Eldon), and other
judges.

NEW RAILWAY IN FlFE.—Nire understand that a numer-
ous and highly respectable meeting was held at Inverkei-
thing on the 24th ult., the Provost of Inverkeithing in the
chair, for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements
for carrying into execution the proposed extension railway
from Halbeath to the Collieries of Lumphinans, Lochgelly,
and others, which will give these collieries a railway com-
munication with the sea at Inverkeithing, and open up a
valuable coal-field of almost inexhaustible extent.—Fife.shire
Journal.

SUDDEN DEATH OF BARON FOSTER.—We announce, with
regret, the sudden decease of this most amiable gentleman
and righteous judge, which took place on circuit in the town
of Cavan, at a late hour on Saturday night. His lordship
opened the commission in that town in the afternoon of the
day of his decease—dined with the grand jury, and retired
early to his lodgings in his usual state.of health. He seems
to have escaped all suffering in his death, which was so im-
mediate, as to leave no room for professional skill to be re-
sorted to.--Dublin Statesman.

On Sabbath last, Donald M`Kay, who officiated occasion
ally as an assistant gravedigger; was drinking rather freely in
a house at the shore. Feeling himself getting heavy, he
leant his head upon the table, and, as his companions thought,
soon fell into a profound sleep. They, too, followed the
example. After allowing him what was supposed sufficient
time to recruit, the landlord attempted to rouse him up, but
found that he was a corpse. Dr. Monteath was immediately
cailed, but surgical aid was of no avail, as life had been ex-
tinct for some time. —Perth Advertiser.

We understand that Madame Petrisci or Harris, who is
better known as the " Lady Thief," was dismissed from
prison on Saturday last, after having completed her period
of eighteen months' imprisonment, to which she had been
sentenced by the Circuit Court for committing thefts in three
of the hotels in this city, which made a considerable noise at
the time. During the period of her imprisonment, she was
principally employed in light needle-work, She left the jail
exquisitely dressed, and no one who might observe her dig-
nified and genteel air, could suppose that she had only an
fillant before been liberated from the felons' ward. She
Rif arted the city, we believe, the same day; and has kept
her own secret so well, that as little of her real history is
known now as on the day of her apprehension.—Glasgow
paper.

ACCIDENT AT BRIGHTON.—On Tuesday afternoon, about
half-past three o'clock, an alarming accident happened off
Brighton. A small pleasure boat, named the Surprise,
Richard Spicer owner, had been out for a cruise with a lady,
her three daughters, and a little boy. The wind was blow-
ing hard, and the sea running high, and many of the fisher-
men blamed the men for taking parties out. Upon the re-
turn of the boat several persons were on the cliffs watching
her in, when, upon her striking the beach, the wind caught
her sails, and threw the whole party into the sea, including
the two men who had the management of her. Very fortu-
nately a number of fishermen were near the spot, and imme-
diately rushed into the sea, and succeeded in bringing out
the whole of the party. Two of the young ladies were washed
under the boat, one of whom appeared at first in a lifeless
state, but upon being placed on the beach she soon came
rour, d.

MELANCHOLY DEATH. - Robert Kesson, vintner in
Helmsdale, who resisted the payment of a duty of Bs. on a
dog, with which he was charged, but for which he alleged he
was not liable, as the dog did not belong to him, was lately
prosecuted in Exchequer for resisting the tax, and was on
Thursday last committed a prisoner to the gaol of Dornoch,
in default of paying a heavy penalty in which he was con-
victed. This step, under the peculiar circumstances of the
case, had so powerful an effect on the poor man's mind, that
he became what is popularly termed broken-hearted, went
into a state of desperation and fury on Friday night, and
when locked up alone, vented his rage in demolishing the
window, and was early on Saturday morning found dead,
lying on the floor of his room. " His body," says a corre-
spondent, " after having undergone a post mortem examina-
tion, has been interred. The opinion of the medical men was
that he died from inflammation.—lnverness Courier.

TEMPERANCE SHIPS.—On Wednesday, at 12 o'clock, a
public meeting of shipowners, underwriters, merchants, and
others interested in the safe navigation of British merchant
ships, was held in the Royal Exchange Sale Room, Glas-
gow, to consider the best means of promoting the sailing of
such vessels on temperance principles—Sir James Campbell,
Lord Provost, in the chair. The attendance was highly
respectable. After a good deal of conversation, a resolution
was eventually carried to the effect. that the meeting highly
approve of the condu It of those shipowners and masters who
had introduced the temperance principle into their vessels,
and recommend its adoption by all of them, and in order
that this might be more speedily the case, they invited the
Insurance Companies of Scotland to take the matter into
consideration, and reduce the insurance in favour of tempe-
rance vessels. A committee was then appointed to carry
out the object of the meeting.
LARGE EIRE IN MONTRE AL.—A fire broke out yesterday
afternoon, about 4 o'clock in an outbuilding near Mr.Tornp-
kics's bakehouse, in the Main-street of St. Lawrence Suburbs.
A high wind unfortunately prevailed at the time, which
rapidly conveyed the flames to a number of the surrounding
buildings, which in the short space of three hours were
totally consumed. From the Maiu-street the conflagration
spread through Lagauchrtiere to St. Dominque-street, and
25 houses in all are said to have been destroyed. We regret
to hear that by this calamity many respectable and industrious
members of the community have been severe sufferers. As
usual, there was a great deficiency of water at the commence-
ment of the fire, but this was afterwards remedied, and the
exertions of the firemen were most praiseworthy. The cupola
of the Montreal General Hospital, though far removed from
the scene of destruction, caught fire, but from the vigilance
and activity of those in charge of the institution it was
speedily extinguished.—Montreal Gazette, June 14,
Monday being the first day of the operation of the new
tariff, the several offices of the " long-room," Custom-
house, were occupied in the arrangement of the luties. The
" grand side" attracted the greatest concourse; and 1,850
entries were made there, while on the " plantation side" the
entries were about 1,000. In the " export department"
there was no material alteration in the appearance of busi-
ness. The entries ou wine account were not very extensive,
in consequence of the settlements which would have to be
made respecting those duties on glass, which have already
created so much anxiety in the minds of those connected
with the wine and spirit business. It is estimated that upon
clarets, sauternes, and German wines, this alteration of the
duties on glass will make a difference of about 100 per cent.
Great assistance was given on this occasion by a small publi-
cation called " The Customs' Book of Rates" in which the
duties are alphabetically arranged, instead of being classified
under the various heads in the tariff.—London Times.

THE ENGLISH FINANCIERS.--WE understand that Mr.
Ricardo has left town for Washington and the South, and
that Mr. J. Horsley Palmer will leave to-morrow. Both
these gentlemen have'been in our city for several weeks, and
although they have not created the vulgar noise that followed
Charles Dickens and his Kate, yet the x have laid the founda-
tion of a most lasting and useful reputation in those matters
that deeply concern human life. Among the leading men of
England who have visited us, we know of none more fully
entitled to the respect and esteem of our fellow-citizens than
that truly estimable gentleman Mr. Horsley Palmer. He
has been long recognised as the abiding friend of our coun-
try, and in every station he has held in the financial world,
his best efforts have always been directed in sustaining and
upholding the credit and character of our institutions. Our
countrymen abroad have always met in him a kind, warm
welcome. Ile has always acted under the conviction that
the interests of England and that of the United States, in ali
matters of trade, commerce, currency, and finance, were
identical and inseparable ; and that whatever affected one
nation was sure to affect the other ; and the effects of his pen
in sundry able productions, as also his able testimony before
a committee of parliament, all evince a singleness and disin-
terestedness of purpose that carries conviction, and marks
him a truly upright man and sound thinker, and one who
looks first to the advancement of general prosperity before
shaping his own private ends.—New York paper.

THE AFFAIR OF CAnooL.—(Extract from" private
letter.)—We are now having a happy reverse, everything
going on well. Regarding the Affghan affair, you will have
seen the force had neither a shot fired after they entered the
Khyber Pass, or did they see an enemy. Lady Sale wrote
to her husband, and she says " Shelton (colonel of the late
44th, Queen's) is to blame, and much to blame; he only
seemed to try how be could get out of the place unscathed."
Of course he will be tried by a court-martial. Poor General
Elphinstone died from fatigue and distress, but I am glad to
say he has signed a paper just before his death giving a true
account of the business. Major Pottinger has minuted to
Government that General Elphinstone behaved bravely and
nobly, but, from his weak state of health, was obliged to
make over the command to Shelton, who was totally incom-
petent. Lady Sale says if there be a press in England she is
determined to let the world know the truth ; she adds, that
Sir C. M'Naghten rushed at Ukhbar Khan's throat, and
then he killed him ; but, however, a few months will dis-
close all. If Affghanistan is to be kept, then certainly the
authorities ought to be near there. Ferozepore is to be a
large station for European troops. General Lumley is very
ill—water on the chest. Rumour says either Pollock, or
Battene, or Graham, all of the artillery, is to be the adjutant-
general. To-day (May 13) is the latest date for sending
letters. I understand Calcutta is very dull ; several houses
have failed.

RETURN OF BOZ.—DANGEROUS EXCESS OF JOY.-111r.
Dickens is again in London, safe from his transatlantic tour,
which, we have no doubt, will soon produce a new harvest of
stirring adventures. and graphic delineation of character.
The return of the distinguished novelist was narked, as we
learn from a friend, by an impressive and painful incident in
his family circle. Immediately on their return, the happy
parents rushed to see their children. A fine boy, six years
old, was roused from his sleep fot the purpose,. and no sooner
had the little fellow caught a glimpse of the faces so much
endeared to him, and so long absent, than he burst into a
transport of delight, which it was found impossible to repress.
, Joy was now converted into grief. delirium continued,
and on Friday several physicians were in attendance, almost
despairing of recovery. Powerful means were applied, and
on Saturday he was so much better that his speedy restora-
tion is anticipated. Mr. Dickens, we understand, returns a
better Englishman than he went ; his views of American
society have not impressed him favourably with the new
world, though instances of individual kindness and attention
were showered upon him in profusion. The lights and
shades of American manners—the strangely mingled traits
of freedom and domestic tyranny, of high spirit and sordid
vulgarity, of liberality and meanness, which are displayed
in the social institutions and intercourse of the United
States, will afford a rich field for this modern Fielding, whose
best laurels have been gained by his comic humour and his
moral painting of life and character.—lnvernen Courier.

On Tuesday night Sir Robert Peel brought in a bill for
the better protection of the Queen's person. Hereafter,
should any miscreant present fire-arms at her Majesty, or
strike, or attempt to strike, her person with missiles, he will
be subject to seven years' transportation, with previous im-
prisonment and severe bodily chastisement. This is a very
wholesome measure, and will, we doubt not, prevent any
further annoyance of her Majesty.
Several incendiary fires, accompanied by threatening let-
ters, have taken place during the past three weeks in the
neighbourhood of Havant, Hampshire. The rector's barn
has been burned down, and a valuable carriage in it. At
High Wycombe, Bucks, on Thursday, an incendiary fire also
occurred, traces of the design being left.
The Bank of England on Monday paid the dividends in
new sovereigns and half-sovereigns. and in new half-crowns,
shillings, and sixpences, just issued from the Royal Mint.
A large amount of new half-crowns, shillings, and sixpences,
was sent off on Saturday and Tuesday. particularly to Liver-
pool, Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, and other
populous manufacturing districts in the north.
Major-General Robertson, C. 8., one of the oldest general
officers of his rank in the service, died at Edinburgh last
week, at an advanced age. The general served in the 89th
regiment in Egypt, Java, &c., and was advanced to the rank
of major-general at the brevet in honour of the coronation of
his late Majesty King George IV., 19th July, 1819.
INTEREST OF MONEY.—Steven Parlin, a French ecclesi-
astic, who travelled in England and Scotland in 1561, says—
" In this country (Scotland), as I have seen it practised, a
man who is possessed of 100 golden or sun crowns, will lend
them to a merchant, for which the merchant will maintain
him a whole year in his house, and at his own table, and at
the end of the year will return him his money.

GOVERNMENT AND THE STRATHI3OGIE MINISTERS.—
We have been kindly furnished with the following extract
from a private letter, on the information of which our readers
may with, confidence rely :—" You will be pleased to learn
that government have now taken the persecuted members of
the Strathbogie presbytery under their protection. The
moderator has received a letter from Sir James Graham,
intimating to the majority of that presbytery that they would
be protected in all their rights and privileges ; and that, in
any legal measures they were forced to have recourse to,
they must apply to the crown agent, who had directions to
do whatever was requisite for their interests." This is quite
as it ought to be; and we trust government will act with
equal decision and firmness throughout.—Fife Journal.

The three measures of Sir Robert Peel's Government are
now in operation—the new Corn Law Bill, the Property Tax
Bill, and the Customs Duties (Tariff•) Bill. In the course
of a short discussion on Monday on what Mr. Villiers
termed the " enormous grievance" of the corn laws, Sir R.
Peel said, if it could be clearly shown that those laws were
the cause of the present distress, be wouid consent to their
repeal. But Mr. Villiers and his coadjutors will, we imagine,
find some difficulty in convincing Sir Robert that the distress
complained of has its origin in the protection given to the
home grower. " I think it possible," said the right hon.
baronet, " if you repealed all protection, a present stimulus
might be given to manufactures; but the time must come
when, notwithstanding the stimulus given to manufactures,
if the effect of that repeal should be to discourage domestic
agriculture, and render you dependent on foreign supplies,
you would repent of the means you had adopted."

ASTONISHING EXPEDITION IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
A COAT.—On Thursday week, we were favoured by Messrs.
A. and D. Webster, of this town, with the sight of a beauti-
ful brown dress coat, manufactured by themin an astonishing
short space of time. The appearance of the coat is very
beautiful, and fully proves that great expedition may be used
in manufacturing cloths under the present system, without
deteriorating from the beauty of the manufacture. The
wool of which this coat is made, was in the raw state, and to
sort; after two o'clock on Thursday morning, it passed
thrOugh the usual process of scouring, dyeing, scribbling,
spinning (on the jenny), weaving (by hand), and milling,
and was manufactured into superfine cloth in 12 hours and
15 minutes. The cloth was then finished, by the patent
process, in two hours and fifty-three minutes, by Mr. Wil-
liam Kirk, of Larchfield, and then made into a dress coat by
Messrs. Robinson and Itussum, in the short space of three
hours and 55 minutes. The whole time that elapsed be-
tween this coat being in the wool and made up and wearing
was only 19 hours. The coat may be seen for a few days,
at Messrs, Robinson and Russum's, Bridge end House.
The great superiority of the cloth manufactured in the
ordinary way, over the felted fabric, is fully maintained,
although we are not aware the expedition has been equalled.
In the ordinary way, cloth is often two months in passing
through the various processes of manufacture and finishing.
Leeds Mercury.

The Rev. R. J. M'Ghee has been for a considerable time
engaged, whenever health permitted, in delivering a course
of lectures- in Harold's-cross Church, on the nature of the
liturgy of the Church of England, with the view of showing,
from the meaning and spirit of the words they gave utterance
to, that all who engage in Its service are guilty of mocking
the tlmighty, and adding to their own eternal condemnation
if they are not animated with feelings of reverence and hearty
devotion. The rev. preacher, on last Sunday, entered into
a recapitulation or summary of his previous discourses up to
the end of the creed, and, at its conclusion, requested the
congregation to stand up and perform part of the service in
the manner in which he had been impressing on their consi-
deration. The assembly at once complied with the sug-
gestion, and having stood up, joined in the part appointed
with the 'most perfect cordiality—audibly repeating each
response,' and manifesting the greatest zeal and sincerity.
The contrast from the cold indifference which previously pre-
vailed, and the warmth of devotion then displayed was
strikingly perceptible, and the effect was '• 'n the smile
of satisfaction and joy, which beamed in the cuuntenance of
the preacher, and the happiness of the congregation. The
scene was altogether one of deep solemnity and interest.—
Dublin Statesman.
THE COLONIAL SOCIETY.--011 Tuesday, a meeting of the
members of the Calonial Society was held at the Thatched
House, for the purpose of agreeing to an address to Sir C.'l.
Metcalf, the late governor-general of Jamaica, expressive of
the high opinion entertained by the society of the able, suc-
cessful, and satisfactory manner in which he bad administered
the duties of his office during his sojourn in that conntry—
an administration which, it was said, had had the effect of
tranquilising a country which at the period of his acceptance
of office was in a state of the utmost distraction. We
noticed amongst those who were present the Earl of Mount-
cashel, Dr. Rolph, Mr. M. Martin, Mr. Good, Mr. Burge
(the agent of Jamaica), Mr. A. Macdougall, Mr. H. Clarke,
Mr. Hopkinson, Drr Ifill, Mr. B. Ifill, Mr. Morson, Lieut.-
Colonel Taylor, Mr. H. Malcolm, Mr. G. Layard, Mr. D.
Nugent, Mr. Urquhart, Mr. Power, Mr. A. M'Gregor, Mr.
H. Guest, Sir A. IVl`Nab, &c. Mr. Burge entered into a
lenghthened and eulogistic detail of the various principles
which the right hon. baronet had laid down as those upon
which the island of Jamaica should be governed, and read
the address, which was subsequently unanimously agreed to.
A series of resolutions upon the subject were also moved,
seconded, and carried without a single dissentient voice, by
Mr. Burnley, Dr. Rolph, Mr. M. Martin (who hoped the
exertions of the late governor would meet their reward at the
hand of his Sovereign in the shape of a peerage--(hear, hear)
—Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, Mr. Hopkinson, Mr. A.
M`Dougall, and Mr. H. Clarke. A deputation having been
appointed, Sir A. M'Nab expressed his full concurrence in
the object of the meeting, and said he was sure his Canadian
friends would be delighted to hear that he had been able to
be present on the occasion.—Times.

CAUTIOY TO SERVANTS.—The following novel descrip-
tion of swindling ought to operate as a warning to servants
in general. One day last week, a woman called at a house
in Leith, and exhibited some net-work, with large edging,
offering the servant who opened the door a great bargain if
she would purchase. When the price was named, the ser-
vant said she had not quite enough of money past her; this
was obviated by the woman stating that she would take
empty bottles for the balance. The girl advanced the money,
and brought two empty bottles to make up the difference.
In this way the bargain was concluded. Next morning
another woman called and said that the lace-seller had been
apprehended in Edinburgh upon a charge of stealing the
bottles ; and, unless five shillings were advanced for her
liberation, the girl would be brought into trouble. Alarmed
for the consequence, the money was procured, and again all
seemed right ; but the dupe was not yet to be let alone.
Next day the same woman called again, and alarmed the
girl by stating, that unless eight shillings were advanced, she
would he immediately prosecuted. Frightened at such a
threat, but not having the money, the girl offered a gown and
new umbrella in lieu of the demand. Upon the woman
again leaving the house, the girl took confidence, and told
the whole affair to a friend, who promptly informed the
Leith police ; and upon the swindler presenting herself next
morning for a farther demand, she was apprehened, and
brought before the court, and was sentenced to sixty days'
hard labour in Bridewell.

SOUTH POLE EXPEDITION.—We have been favoured with
a sight of a letter from an officer of this expedition, dated
the Falkland Islands, May Ist, received this morning, from
which we extract the following details of the return of the
expedition. It will return to the ice next year .—" The
Erebus and Terror were at the Falkland Islands on the Ist
of May last. They left New Zealand on the 23d of Novem-
ber ; entered the ice on the 18th of December ; were beset
in it nearly seven weeks, but succeeded in taking up a posi-
tion for exploring near the place they retired from the sum-
mer before—about 78 degrees south—but were unable to add
more than 80 or 90 miles to former discoveries. This was
in a continuation of the great barrier of ice (connected with
the volcano), which they still found stretching east and west,
but they had the satisfaction of making seven miles more
southins-; for on the 23d of February, when they were com-
pelled by the season to make their way northward, the ships
were in latitude 78 10, longitude 162 20 W., within three or
four miles of the barrier. They saw no land, although at
one time they were driven within 100 miles of Franklin Is-
land, where a landing was effected last year. They did not
leave an hour too soon ; for, before they got clear of the
region of icebergs, dark nights overtook them, and on a
stormy night, while hauling away from a cluster of them,
both ships unavoidably came in contact. The Terror got
off with the loss of some spars, but the Erebus lost her bow-
sprit and foretoprnast ; they, however, had a fair passage
after, and arrived at the Faikland Islands on the 6th of April.
One man belonging to the Erebus was unfortunately drowned
off Cape Horn. Every one else was quite well. Cant. Ross
had appointed E. J. Bird to be commander of the Erebus ;
A. J. Smith to be lieutenant of the Erebus ; and G. H.
Mowbray purser of the Terror."—United Service Gazette.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER AND HORRIBLE DEPRAVITY.—
At the Stourbridge police-office, last week, Richard Taylor,
of Oldswinford, was charged before William Robins, Esq.,
with having, on the Ist instant, fired a gun loaded with pow-
der and slugs at Hannah his wife, with intent to do her some
grievous bodily harm. The following are briefly the facts of
the case :—The prisoner, who is a very violent and passion-
ate man, has been twice married ; by his former wife he has
two children, one a girl about nineteen, and a boy about six-
teen years of age. By his second wife he has five children,
two boys and three girls, making seven children altogether.
It appears that for the accommodation of the above family,
there are but two bedrooms in the house, and only two beds,
in one of which slept the prisoner Taylor, his wife Hannah,
the girl aged 19, and a child of her's 18 months' old, and the
prisoner's youngest child, aged 3 years; the son by the first
wife and the four other children sleeping in the other bed.
For the last two years a most unnatural intercourse has
taken place between the prisoner and his eldest daughter,
and it is presumed that the infant which she now has is the
result. Taylor is a man of beastly and drunken habits, and
when in that condition he commits the most brutal excesses.
On the night in question when he shot at his wife, the priso-
ner came home drunk, and called for his daughter, which
appears to have been his custom when in this state ; hearing
him call her, she secretly left the house, and the prisoner,
not being able to find her, began to abuse his wife. A good
deal of quarrelling ensued, when the prisoner was heard by
several of the neighbours to make use of a demoniac oath,
and threaten to blow out her brains, after which they heard
a gun fired, and the prisoner exclaim, " There —, take
that." All then appeared to be quite still, but in a few mi-
nutes they heard a noise, which was supposed to be the pri-
soner dragging something heavy about the house; some
person was groaning dreadfully, and crying "Murder!" and
soon after the prisoner's wife was seen running from the
house. After this the inhuman father compelled all his
children to come from their beds, and thrust them out of the
house, with nothing upon them but their night-clothes.
Being dreadfully alarmed, they all ran away into the road,
when the brutal parent called to a savage dog which he keeps,
to turn them all out of the premises. The neighbours having
sent for the police, the prisoner was apprehended. In the
examination before Mr. Robins, evidence was given of the
most disgusting character ; and the charge having been com_
pletely substantiated, the prisoner was fully committed for
trial at the assizes, on the capital charge of shooting at his
wife, with intent to murder her.

ZOOLOGICAL. GARDENS.
lIIS P6riular and pre-eminently attraetive'4esort is open
I Daily, from Seven A.M. till Dusk. The
GRAND EVENING FETES
take place every Monday and Friday during the Season, with
THE ROMAN FEST .
At Dusk,
THE GRAND ILLUMINATION F ST. PETER'S.
This inconceivably magnificent Specta eis succeeded by the
Pyrotechnic Wonders of the
GIRANDOLA OF ST. ANGELO,
with all its splendid incidents, terminating with the gorgeous
Cascade of brilliant Fire, and tremendous Flight of Rockets.
To enliven the Evening's Promenade.
MR. STUBBS' ROYAL HARMONIC BAND
will perform a favourite selection of Music.
The Gardens are Illuminated with Gas Lamps. •

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We shall perhaps profit by the hints of " A Conservative."
The letter of " A Convert" is not adapted for publicity.
We have received Mr. Rumball's communication.

-Cht iLibtrpoot &tanbar.

FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1842.

The New Tariff Bill, which passed the House of
Lords on Friday night, having at once received the
royal assent, was forwarded to our Custom-house in
time to admit of its being put into operation at the
opening of that establishment on Monday morning.
Before the usual hour of commencing business the
officers and clerks of the Long Room assembled to
prepare for the merchants and others who have for
some time past been waiting for the passing of the bill
before releasing their goods, and were soon immersed
in the bustle occasioned by the numerous entries which
were pressed upon them for examination and comple-
tion. During the whole of Monday and Tuesday the
Long Room was in a state of the greatest animation,
and we certainly never saw it more thronged upon any
former occasion.

The payments on coffee, turpentine, and other re-
reduced articles were very numerous; and upwardi of
2270 entries were passed in the first three days, being
an increase of about 930 upon the number ordinarily
made. In the multifarious assessments of a general
tariff' some errors and obscurities might naturally be
expected and have certainly, we find, occurred. Some
difficulty was experienced in ascertaining the weight of
wine and spirit bottles, which are now chargeable by
the cwt. Some doubts were also entertained whether
the reduced rates on staves and other woods mentioned
on the same page of the act (623) did not come into
operation at once. It has, however, since been ruled
that these rates do not commence until the 10th of
October, as is the case with respect to the article of
timber generally. The smelting of foreign copper, the
export of coals to British possessions, and a few other
minor points, seemed to occasion some differences of
opinion ; and the difficulty to inexperienced persons of
having to search for their articles through the seven-
teen tables in which they are dispersed, instead of be-
ing alphabetically arranged, was felt here quite as much
as the Times represents it to have been in London. In
addition to these temporary difficulties, the pressure
upon the collector and gentlemen of the Long Room
at the present juncture has been materially increased
by the necessity of guarding against the receipt of
light gold, and by the collection of the income tax
coming simultaneously upon them. The admirable
arrangements made have, however, we are glad to ob-
serve, obviated any serious inconvenience to the
public.

We may mention here that the relief afforded to the
mercantile interest by the cessation of the half per
cent, duty payable upon exported articles has given
very general satisfaction ; and in our opinion, as one
of its results, We shall for the future be much better
able to depend upon the correctness of our Custom-
house return of exports. These documents have often
been noticed as presenting features somewhat anoma-
lous; and we have no doubt that when the temptation
to false entries is withdrawn, we shall have to notice
a material increase of the estimated money amount of
our foreign shipments.

A London evening paper (the Globe) of Monday
last contained the following announcement :
" We hear, from a quarter which is likely to be well in-
formed, that in the event of the Sudbury Disfranchisement
Bill passing the House of Lords, Sir Robert Peel intends to
propose that an additional member each be given to Middle-
sex and to Liverpool; thus preserving to the House of
Commons its present number of members, and effecting an
approach to a more equal numerical proportion between the
representatives and the constituents."

With respect to the truth of the Globe's discovery
we know nothing. We doubt it, however, greatly ;
and half suspect that the report has been got up by
the journalist for the purpose of enabling him to in-
dulge in the following spiteful fling at the constituency
of this town, which, be it remembered, had, not long
ago, the audacity to flout at the claims of the venera-
ble dandy who occasionally vents his impertinence in
its pages to represent them in parliament :
" To give another member to Liverpool," remarks the
Globe, " would serve only to raise the price of votes in that
town, and thus to afford additional encouragement to bribery.
The old freemen of Liverpool are among the most venal of
their tribe. Their voracity is absolutely frightful. With
them the semblance of public virtue is cast aside as an in-
cumbrance. The determination to render the franchise they
possess a source of personal pecuniary profit, and conse-
quently to obtain for it the highest price which the oppor-
tunity afforded by the state of parties will allow them to
exact, is the actuating motive of that influential portion of
the Liverpool constituency. In this respect they were not
surpassed by the Sudbury freemen, from whom the privilege
of selling their votes to the highest bidder is to be taken
away."

It is somewhat amusing to see this organ of the most
corrupt party which ever controlled for a season the
destinies of a nation descant after this fashion against
the enormity of corruption. It is still more amusing
to see this affectation of consummate purity put for-
ward by a print notoriously the organ of the most cor-
rupt politician of modern times. Lord Palmerston on
purity ! The tattered hack of half-a-dozen adminis-
trations—the nominee of the Tiverton lace-manufac-
turer--on electoral morality ! The notion is about as
rich as the idea put forth a few days ago, by the same
illustrious authority, that his Affghanistan policy,
which has been prolific only in slaughter and national
humiliation, had opened the path for the admission of
the cotton goods of Manchester to the markets of cen-
tral Asia !

" The old freemen of Liverpool are amongst the
most venal of their tribe." And yet they were not to
be bought by the most venal of the venal tribe of Whig-
gery, with the Treasury money in his fist ! " Their
voracity is absolutely frightful," and yet it was not
sufficient to enable them to gulp down the professions
of this supreme of humbugs—this most voracious of
leeches—this cormorant politician ! " With them the
semblance of public virtue is cast aside as useless " ;
and yet they would not consent to. be marched through
Coventry with a statesman who never had even the
semblance of public virtue to throw away! The Li-
verpool constituency rejected the rotten and corrupt
politician who was attempted to be foisted upon them ;
and, as a Whig sequitur, the Liverpool freemen are
rotten and corrupt !
We can readily pardon and pity the writer of this
lying rubbish. Whiggery is in ill luck, and, of course,
in ill temper. But when the organ of her Majesty's
late foreign secretary next enters upon a portrait of
anything " venal"—of anything frightfully " voraci-
ous "—of anything which has cast aside " the sem-
blance of public virtue"—it should beware of render-
ing the likeness so striking that every observer is im-
pelled to exclaim,
" Mutato famine, de to fabula narratur !"

Our Radical and Popish contemporaries have, with-
in the past few weeks, been dosing us with furious dia-
tribes against the enormity of secret societies. Orange
societies in particular, because loyal and Protestant,
have come in for a large share of their exuberant ve-
nom ; but we do not remember to have seen any very
prominent allusion to the existence of a body of an
opposite description, which is daily Plunging into Out-
rage and crime the benighted population of Ireland,
and bids fair, if not checked by the strong hand of
uthority, to render that unhappy country a howling
wilderness. Year by year the best blood of Ireland—
her Protestant Yeomanry—is leaving its shores, for
the wilds of Canada or the Backwoods of the United
States. Year by year, by thousands, her industrious
farmers, and her sturdy labourers, even of the Romish
faith, are being driven, by the atrocious system which
has fastened itself upon the land, to seek, in expatria-
tion, that immunity from outrage and midnight assas-

sination which is denied them at home..., rear by year
her resident landowners are being banished or cut off
by the fiat of those secret tribunals which hold their

mysterious sittings in every county and townland ; and
yet the fertile source of all these evils—of the blood-
shed and crime which have rendered the name of Ire-
land a byword amongst nations—is either studiously
concealed or pointed to with a mildness of disappro-
bation—a " faint blame "—which almost amounts to

toleration

Let us direct the attention of our readers, and of those
journalists who have during the past few weeks been
so eloquent upon the dangerous tendency of loyal
Orange associations, to the report of a recent trial at
Longford assizes, which will be found in another part
of our paper. By the evidence there produced it was
shown that " about one-third of the lower class in the
county" (and the system is not confined to any par-
ticular locality, but extends throughout Ireland) "were
Ribbonmen." It was shown too that the society num-
bers amongst its members not only domestic traitors,
but foreigners as well. France had sent a delegate to
its meetings ; and so lately as in December last the
sympathizers of America had been represented there.
Upon the face of it, Ribbonism is disloyal and anti-
national. But it is more than this. It is MURDER-
OUS. For what are its objects as here declared in open
court by one of its leading members—by a delegate—
by a man who declares that " he has made 2000 mem-
bers from 1825 to 1841 ?" Why these. " If any member
of the society was dispossessed of his land, lie would
not get long to live" "If you annoyed any of the
society you would get a good hiding, if you got off
with that"—if the " pestilent ruffianism" employed
stopped short of murder ! By the very rules of the
society a Protestant was declared a marked man, and
its members were required to swear " on•their knees,
in the presence of Almighty God," that they would
not " buy anything from a heretic or Orangeman"—

synonymous terms, it would appear, in Ribbon esti-
mation—" when they could get the same as cheap
from a brother."

Now we just take leave to ask of our Radical and
Popish contemporaries one or two questions, with re-
spect to the system here developed. Was it in ac-
cordance with the fiat of these murderous and " pes-
tilent ruffians" that the streets of our town were on
Tuesday crowded by menacing and savage rioters,
armed with bludgeons and knives, and burning with a
maniac fury against " heretics or Orangemen" ? if
Ribbonmen or " sons of the shamrock ." are to be
found in France and even in the wilds of America, are
there none of the same loyal and eminently peaceable
people at this moment in Liverpool ? Was it Ribbon-
ism or not which on Tuesday marked out for ill treat-
ment and savage attack every unprotected man afflict-
ed with even the suspicion of being a Protestant ?
When our conternpories are able to answer these ques-
tions in the negative, the public will tolerate as sincere
their ribald abuse of a loyal and Protestant body; but
until they can do so we shall be justified in declaring
that a Ribbon spirit dictates, if a Ribbon pen does
not even write, these infamous and furious slanders.