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

STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c,

Our Cotton Market, during the past week, has presented
no new features, and the business done has been less than an
average one. In part this may be accounted for by the un-
certainty which still prevails with respect to the settlement
of the financial measures of government, and by the circum-
stance that the present week is one of partial holiday through-
out the manufacturing districts. The sales for the past week
were 19,750 bags, of which 1800 were taken bypeculators,
and 800 for export, leaving only 17,150 to the trade. For
better classes of American the prices were fully maintained,
whilst lower classes were heavy of sale, at last week's quota-
tions.

On Saturday the sales were 2500 bales, and yesterday 3000
bales were sold, at last week's prices. The market is well
supplied, but holders are not anxious to press sales, although
willing to realize at a fair market price.
The advices received from the United States by the Acadia
and the Patrick Henry are not of an encouraging description
to trade generally, although, with respect to the raw material,
Cotton, they' do not materially influence our market. No
change is made in the estimate of the crop, and the bulk of it
appears to have come forward. Freights had advanced at
New Orleans to 5-Bths of a penny upon Cotton by American,
and 9-16ths had been refused by British ships. Exchange
was difficult to negociate, and good bills scarce at 10 per cent.
premium. The internal trade of the States appeared to be
thoroughly disorganized, and holds out little prospect of
immediate revival.
In the Manufacturing Districts we have no improvement
to notice, and regret to have to announce the continuance of
efforts, on the part of spinners, to reduce wages. A general
impression of satisfaction prevails throughout these districts
with respect to the proposed amelioration of the tariff by the
government; and the distressed classes look forward to
considerable benefits to arise from it, of which, however,
thanks to their especial friends in the House of Commons,
they are destined for awhile to be disappointed.

NEW Ciiiittcx IN MANCHESTER.-Yesterday, at twelve
o'clock, the foundation-stone of the fou?th church of the
Ten Churches Association, was laid by Robert Gardner,
Esq., in the presence of 5000 persons, and the whole of the
clergy of Manchester. The church will be dedicated to St.
Barnabas, and will accommodate 1100 people. It is situated
in a very densely populated district, called Islington, and
the site for it, in Rodnev-street, was given by W. Faulk-
tier, Esq.

SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS.—On Wednesday, in the
House of Commons, Lord Sandon presented a petition from
the members of the Literary and Scientific Society of Liver-
pool, calling the attention of the house to the burden under
which literary and scientific institutions laboured in being
subject to the window-tax, if they had a person within the
walls for the purpose of taking charge of their property ; they
therefore prayed that the house would take measures for the
exemption of such institutions from local and assessed taxes.
THE PROPOSED EXPORT DUTY UPON COALS.—We no-
ticed in a recent publication, whilst calling the attention of
the public to this injudicious measure, that deputations from
the coal trade and the shipowners in the North of England
had proceeded to London to remonstrate with government,
and to represent the injurious effect which the imposition of
the duty would have upon their interests. The deputations
in question, we learn from the Newcastle Journal. were
treated with marked respect and courtesy by the Prime
Minister and his colleagues, their case arid opinions in refer.
ence to the threatened tax being urged with great ability and
energy by Mr. Bell and Mr. Hodgson Hinde, who conducted
the conference in behalf of the respective bodies. They
pointed out at considerable length, by facts and calculations,
the injury that, in their opinion, would arise if the proposed
tax on coal was adopted. Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Gladstone,
and the Earl of Ripon, asked several questions of these gen-
tlemen, and appeared to take a great interest in the inquiry.
Mr. Gladstone, in particular, exhibited great acuteness in the
matter, and throughout the interview was actively engaged
in committing to paper all that transpired. Eventually, Sir
Robert Peel assured the deputations that no further progress
would be made in the measure until the Bth of April, and
that, in the meantime, the fullest consideration should be
given to their representations. Beyond this the Premier
made no promises, but some of the members of the deputa-
tions entertain the belief that, from the facts laid before them,
his views on the subject would undergo modification, and
that, at least, a beneficial change will be made in regard to
the duty on small coals. The deputations almost immedi-
ately set out for the North, strongly impressed with the great
service which their case had received from the zeal and able
expositions of Mr. Bell and Mr. Hinde, and with the con-
sideration and attention which had been' exhibited towards
them by the Ministers of the Crown. We have reason to
believe that, at least, a higher rate of duty will be charged
upon coals shipped in foreign bottoms to ports not their own,
and not belonging to countries having treaties with Great
Britain, than in British vessels. In reference to this subject,
and confirmatory of the views which we took upon it at its
first proposition, it appears, from a statement recently put
forward by the mercantile bodies in the North. that of
1,155,487 tons of coals exported from Newcastle-upon-Tyne
and Sunderland in 1841, 865,500 tons were shipped in Eng-
lish vessels. The returns from the whole of the United King-
dom have not yet been received •, but the relative proportion
of coals shipped in British vessels will be larger in the other
ports than in the two above referred to. The maritime strength
of the country has been increased by the employment given
to British sailors. The raw material requisite for our manu-
factures has been imported at a cheaper rate, in consequence
of British ships loading coals as an outward cargo, and
foreign vessels, when employed in bringing such raw mate-
rials to this country, taking back coals as a homeward freight.
The constant communication with foreign countries to which
this large export has given rise, and the opportunity it has
furnished of shipping goods has given great additional facili-
ties to the sale of British manufactures. The revenue and
trade of the country have been greatly benefitted by the im-
portation of articles requisite for the mines, and the popula-
tion dependent upon them. The customs' duty at Newcastle
has risen from £288,777 in 1833, including the then duty, to
£409,815 in 1841, without any coal duty. In no other ar-
ticle of export does labour form so large a portion of the value
as in coals. These advantages have been realized without in-
jury to the English manufacturer, the great bulk of the coal
exported being for steam, gas, and household purposes. A
reference to the places export will show that the countries
whose manufactures compete with those of England are not
large coal importers, they being supplied from their own
mines. We may add, that in the opinion of the same par-
ties the effect of the duty of 4s. will be to strike a heavy blow
at this important trade.
THE MASONIC FUND OF BENEVOLENCE.—The fund of
benevolence in conuexion with the Provincial Grand Lodge
of Free and Accepted Masons for the Western Division of
Lancashire, to which we lately adverted, as intended to be
raised and designed for the relief of widows, orphans, and
decayed members, seems likely to be greatly aided and aug-
mented by the free benefit to be given at the Royal Liver
Theatre in its behalf, on Tuesday evening next. Many of
the brethren of the various lodges in Liverpool, and some
unattached members, have already put down their names for
handsome subscriptions, others have undertook to defray all
the necessary expenses, and the tickets are plready in high
demand. In order that the public generally, as well as the
craft, may be accommodated, that as much money may be
raised for the charity as possible, and that the affair may go
off with ecldt, it has been determined that the pit and boxes
shall be thrown into one, after the plan observed at the sub-
scription concerts, and that the price of admission to the
gallery shall be raised from sixpence to a shilling for that
evening only. No tickets will be issued for the gallery.
The plan will be opened from Thursday next, for those who
have taken tickets to select their places in the boxes or stalls.
A BATCH OF PICKPOCKETS.—Five well-dressed men were
placed before the magistrates, on Saturday last, charged with
having attempted to pick pockets. Police-officers Maguire
and Grisenthwaite stated, that between six and seven o'clock,
on the evening of Good Friday, when numbers of persons
were returning from excursions in Cheshire, they saw the
prisoners prowling about Chapel-street in company, attempt-
ing to pick the pockets of several ladies. The following was
stated to be the modus operandi:—Two of the party placed
themselves before one or more females, and, by walking
directly in advance of them, contrived, not only to regulate
their pace to the desired deem of slowness, but also to at-
tract their attention. One walked immediately behind, and
he, covered by the other two, rummaged the pocket or pockets
for money or valuables. In this manner several pockets were
tried, and at length the officers pounced upon them and took
them all into custody. They were committed for three
months to the House of Correction.
A DISHONEST SERVANT.—Margaret Hughes and Ellen
Smith were, on Saturday, placed before Mr. Rushton, charged
with having robbed Mrs. Spears, of St. Jude's-terrace. It
appeared that on Good Friday morning, Mrs. Spears got up
between six and seven o'clock, and looking from her window
saw her servant, Margaret Hughes, in conversation with the
other prisoner, Eliza Smith. She saw sufficient to render
her suspicious. She went down stairs, and found that her
servant, Hughes, was intoxicated, upon which she ordered
her to quit the house. The girl went out, but shortly after-
wards returned for her shoes, when Mrs. Spears heard a silver
spoon fall. She immediately sent for an officer, who brought
with him Eliza Smith, and a bundle which, on examination,
proved to be filled with provisions, wearing apparel, plate,
&c., the property of Mrs. Spears. The prisoners, it ap-
peared, had been making exceedingly merry that morning at
Mrs. Spears's expense, having drunk half-a-dozen bottles of
porter. They were committed for trial.
A WARNING FOR THE EMISSARIES OF PASSENGER
BROKERS.—TWO mensof the names of Rae and Frankland,
the former a car-driver, and the latter a clerk in the service
of Messrs. Robinson, were placed before the magistrates on
Saturday, charged with having obtained, under false pre-
tences, £7 from Thomas Jacob Clithero, a very simple fel-
low, from Clitheroe. The complainant had sent a pound to
Mr. Byines. passenger broker, to secure a passage on board
the George Washington, for himself and child, and arrived
here on Thursday, as the vessel was advertised to sail on
the Thursday. He engaged the prisoner Rae to drive him
to Mr. Byrnes's office, in Waterloo-road, pointing to the
address on his luggage, and giving him particular directions
several times over. Rae, instead of doing as he was or-
dered, drove him to the office of Messrs. Robinsons, also
passenger-brokers, where Mr. Clithero was introduced to
the prisoner Frankland. Believing that he was in Mr.
Byrnes's office, he opened his business, and expressed his
readiness to pay the whole passage-money. Frankland said,
Mr. Byrnes was engaged just then, making a motion as if
to indicate that Mr. Byrnes was within and close at hand.
The passage-money was demanded at the rate of £3 10s.
per head. The complainant demurred to this, and reminded
the prisoner, whom he took for Mr. Byrnes's clerk, that
the agreement was for £3 3s. per head. He was producing'
the letter in proof of his assertion, when Frankland said,
" Oh, never mind the letter ; I know all about, that, as I
wrote it myself." In his hurry the complainant paid the
whole £7, forgetting to mention the £1 which be had ad-
vanced. A ticket was drawn out for him which, on examin-
ing, he found was for the Hope. He pointed out this as a
mistake, as he was to go by the George Washington. That,
they said, was an error, as there was no such vessel as the
George Washington in port. Finding, subsequently, that
the Hope was not to sail `fora long time to come, he was
induced to make further inquiries, when he discovered that
the office to which he had been taken was not that of Mr.
Byrnes, but of Messrs. Robinson. It was shown, that the
Hope has not yet cleared, while the George Washington
was in the river at that moment, ready to put to sea. The
prisoners were committed to take their trial for the misde.
meanor. As the offence is bailable, Mr. Rushton said he
should require from Rae two sureties in £25 each, and him-
self in £5O, and from Frankland two sureties in £5O each,
and himself in £lOO.
MORTALITY OF LIVERPOOL.—The site of Liverpool is
low; and we regret that, upon examining the returns of the,
population for 1841, and comparing them with those of the
births, marriages, and deaths, we should have found such a,
startling result, a result not so surprising to us as it would be
had we not seen some of the older returns. In 1662 the bap-
tisms were 30 and burials 30 ; in 1700, as above, the former
131, the burials 125 ; in 1800, the baptisms 3033, burials 3157.
The births registered in 1839, when a close approximation to
correctness in the returns took place, were 7128, deaths 7437;
in 1840, with a population of 223,054, the returns showed 9990
deaths to 9925 births. We then went further, and made cal-
culations upon a base every way favourable ; for we applied
to the population returns of 1841 the registrar-general's re-
turn of births and deaths for 1840 in Liverpool. Conse-
quently we applied them to nearly the tenth part of a clear in-
crease more than we ought ; and the result, compared with the
mortality of England, exclusively of Wales, made from a table
in which the decimal surplus population was deducted from
England alone, gives the following figures :
Birth Deaths Marr. Births
Population of all Eng-1 to pop. topop. to pop. to mar.
land,reduced to June 1 to 31,07 lto 44,45 1t0125,29 4,03
30, 1840, 14,767,751. JJJ
Liverpool, 223,054 .... 1 to 22,47 1t022,82 1 to 60,6 2,6
Here are puzzling anomalies,—double the deaths and mar-
riages, and little more than half the number of births ave-
raged in the totality of England. This statement we have
been the first to give so minutely on the returns of 1841 ;
and we submit it with regret to the high-minded and public-
spirited inhabitants of Liverpool, for they may, perhaps,
probe the cause. It is evident that the increase of 4821 in-
habitants in the last ten years must have arisen from the in-
flux of new residents. Manchester and Salford increased
nearly 26,000 in the same space of time, on a population of
262,000.—England in the Nineteenth Century; Lancashire.

MEETING OF THE BOOT AND SHOE MAKERS OF LIVER-
POOL TO OPPOSE SIR ROBERT PEEL'S NEW TARIFF.—A
meeting of the masters and journeymen boot and shoe makers
was held yesterday, in the large room annexed to the York
Hotel, to express the sentiments with which the proposed
reduction of the duty upon importation of foreign boots and
shoei is viewed by the trade in this town. Upon the plat-
form we counted about eight individuals, chiefly the movers
and seconders of the resolutions; and the body of the room
might contain 300 or 400 masters and journey men, princi-
pally the latter, connected with the trade. On the motion
of Mr. Heywood, seconded by Mr. Cadley, Mr. Thomas
Turner was called to the chair. After this gentleman had
briefly detailed the objects of the meeting and particularly
dwelt upon the importance of the various speakers abstaining
from the introduction of party politics, 19 r. Sumner read to
the meeting several co.nmunications which had been received
from the organs of the trade in London, expressing their
opinions as to the course to be pursued in the present crisis.
Mr. Harris also read a letter from the Journeymen's Asso-
ciation in London upon the same subject. Mr. Stout then
rose to propoSe the first resolution, which was seconded by
Mr. Harrison. In the course of his address the former gen-
tleman dwelt particularly upon the injustice of interfering
with the boot and shoe trade whilst the corn and sugar duties
were left untouched ; hut intimated an opinion that, as in
the case of the reduction of duties upon silk goods by Mr.
Huskisson, the trade would not sustain the amount of injury
which in the first instance they dreaded. He repudiated as
unfounded the assertion that the public had derived no benefit •
from the reduction in the duty upon leather. The trade
assembled would agree that although, quality taken into con-
sideration, little difference in price had taken place, yet that
goods had been sold since much lower than before that duty
had been reduced. They had not much to fear from the
introduction of French goods, for since they had come into
this country the style of English goods had materially im-
proved, owing to emulation which had been incited, although
.the quality of the goods made had deteriorated. After three
or four years of free trade, lie had no doubt the English
manufacturer would be able to compete with the French.
The resolution was seconded in a,rambling Chartist speech
by a Mr. Harrison, a journeyman. Tile second resolution
was moved by Mr. Robinson, who intimated that those
who talked of free trade ought to be prepared, as this meet•
ing was, to reduce the expenses of royalty, and to " go the
whole hog for a new constitution." We should state that a
master tradesman here protested against the conduct pUrsued;
by the speakers, and called upon the chairman to keep them
from, party politics, but was put down. The remainder of.
the meeting partook of thO character above described ; but
in the end, notwithstanding that one 'or two remonstrances
were offered to the party tone in which they were urged, the
resolutions, which will be found in our advertising columns,
were passed. A Chartist amendment was moved by a jour-
neyman named Jones, upon which, and in consequence of
the irrelevant topics gone into by other speakers, Mr. Turner
vacated the chair in disgust, and was succeeded by Mr. Stout.
The amendment, after some stormy proceedings, was ulti-
mately negatived and the original resolutions carried. The
meeting occupied upwards of three hours.

THEFT FROM A SHOP.—At the Police-court. yesterday,
a little girl, apparently a mistee, named Susan Gaskell, was
charged with stealing some handkerchiefs from a draper's
shop. A boy in the service of Mr. Poynton, draper, Para-
dise-street, said that about nine o'clock on Saturday night
he saw a piece of carpet hanging from Mr. Beckwith's shop
window opposite, and in which there was a broken pane.
The prisoner and another girl were standing near the window,
and he saw the prisoner take some handkerchiefs out of the
broken pane. The other girl covered her with the carpet
whilst she took them. The prisoner ran away, and witness
gave information which led to her being pursued and secured
in Peter's-lane. Afterwards, whim in School-lane, she
dropped the handkerchiefs, which were identified, and stated
to be worth £4. She was committed for trial at the sessions,
being an old offender.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held yester-
day, before the borough coroner, on view of the body of Mrs.
Sarah Atterby. It appeared from the evidence that the de-
ceased, who was the wife of the Rev. Atterby, (of, we
believe, the Primitive Methodist Connection,) was; about a
quarter before four o'clock, on Saturday afternoon, in the
act of crossing from the bottom of Dale-street to Shaw's.
brow, when a shandry was passing in the transverse direction,
from the Old Haymarket towards Byrom-street ; and the
deceased, in endeavouring to get out of the way, was struck
by the breast of theilorse and knocked down. The off wheel
of the shandry, in which were Mr. Barnes, his wife and
child, passed over her body. She was immediately carried
into Mr. Rogers's, the Earl Gray Tavern, Dale-street : me-
dical assistance was instantly procured, and she was shortly
afterwards conveyed home, but died in about two hours after
the accident, which it was found had caused a mortal rupture
of the liver. NO blame was attributable to Mr. Barnes, who
drove the machine, and who, it appeared, did everything he
could to avert the catastrophe. The jury accordingly re-
turned a verdict of "Accidental Death' The deceased
was forty-one years of age.
EMBEZZLEMENT BY A Cart-prtivEn.—Yesterday a car-
driver, named Davies, was charged at the Police-office with
retaining a certain sum received for a fare, and not account.
ing for it.—Joseph Smith, car-owner,, said he had employed
the prisoner for the first time on Sunday to drive one of his
cars. He saw him at eight o'clock that evening in Bate's
public-house, Elbow-lane, and asked him what fares he had
taken. His reply was, " only one fare to Vine-street, for
which he had received ls. 8d.," and he tendered 2s. in pay-
ment, which was refused, Mr. Smith having heard that he
had also got a fare from the Clarence Dock.—Joseph Pen-
dleton, another driver in the same employ, said that he and
the prisoner were plying at the Clarence Dock ; that each got
a fare thence to the same house in Hope-street; and that he
received six shillings for the two, half of which he gave to
the prisoner. The. officer who apprehended the prisoner
found 3s. 9d. upon him.—He was committed for trial.
EVERTON TOWNSHIP MEETlNG.—Yesterday morning a
meeting of the inhabitants of the township of Everton was
held at Mr. Holiday's, the Everton Coffee-house, for the
purpose of examining the accounts of the surveyor of the
highways fyr the last year, and electing officers for the ensu-
ing year. About 20 gentleinen were present. Mr. Rallford
was called to the chair, and having briefly opened the busi-
ness of the meeting, requested Mr. Shaw to read the sum-
mary of the accounts, which was printed, and distributed
amongst those present. In the overseers' accounts, the prin-
cipal items were the payment of £650 to the treasurer of the
West Derby Union, and of £999 18s. to the high constable
of Liverpool, for watching rates for two years. The amount
of poor rate collected in 1841 was £llO2. The 'balance due
to the township is £312. On the surveyor's account the ex-
penditure had been for the year ending 25th instant £2073,
and the collections, &c., to £1591, leaving a balance dile to
the treasurer of £485. Mr. Blundell moved that the accounts
read do pass. This was seconded by Mr. Lightfoot, and car-
ried unanimously. The meeting then proceeded to the'elec-
tion of overseers, and the gentlemen who had servad the of-
fice in the past year (Mr. Ledson and Mr, Ledger) were re-
appointed as was Mr. Shaw, assistant overseer, and Mr.
Griffiths, collector. The same auditors were also reappointed.
Mr. Marshall then proposed that Mr. Thomas Carter should
be the printer for the township during the ensuing year. This
was seconded by Mr. Tory. Mr. Blundell proposed Mr.
Thomas Taylor as printer, which was seconded by Mr.
M‘George. Mr. Ledger proposed Mr. E. Shaw, seconded
by Mr. Baines. The chairman received the votes for each
respectively, and the numbers were :—For Mr. Carter, 1.0: for
Mr. Taylor, 7; and for Mr. Shaw, 4. The work will conse-
quently be given to Mr. Carter. The business here con-
cluded, and the meeting, after passing a vote of thanks to the
chairman, dispersed.
ROBBERY OF A DRUZKEN MAN.—yesterday, at the po-
lice court, a woman named Emma Minton was charged with
robbing a young man named Charles Rothwell, of several
articles of wearing apparel, taken from his person:- A female
who lived in Redcross-street said that about eleven o'clock
on Saturday night she heard a noise in the yard, and on look-
ing out from her bedroom window saw the prisoner and a
drunken man in the yard. He was sitting on some mats,
and she saw the prisoner put her hand into his pockets, and
she afterwards took his boots and stockings frotn his feet and
his hat from his head. The person robbed was the witness
then present. A bricklayer, who lived on the premises,
heard a scuffle, and on going up the yard found the witness
(Rothwell) on his back, without hat, stockings, OF boots.—
He called a police-officer, who had him conveyed to Bride-
well for safety. The officer said that after sending the wit-
ness to Bridewell, he found the prisoner at the top of the
street with the hat in her hand, and the boots and stockings
in her apron. Mr. Rothwell said he was out of business,
and lived in Birkenhead. On Saturday he got intoxicated,
and was in the prisoner's compauy, but recollected nothing
more until he found himself on Sunday morning in Bride-
well., The prisoner was committed for trial.

The CHAIRMAN said there were many most valuable and
rare plants in the Garden ; and he should the more regret its
abandonment as they had received many valuable specimens,
and had a promise of additional donations from the first
botanists.

The Rev. Mr. BROOKS said, that no doubt there were in
the nurseries many of what might be called " popular"
plants, but he considered the Garden aimed at a higher
object. as, in fact, being appropriated to the promotion
of botanical science ; and in this respect it undoubedly stood
at the head of all the provincial gardens in the kingdom. It
was deeply to be regretted that it was not adequately sup-
ported. The committee had put invention to the rack to
save it to the public ; and the only way was by additional
subscription's. They had exerted themselves to the utmost ;
but so far as his own experience had gone; be had found
parties extremely cold-shouldered towards it. He looked
upon this not only as a misfortune, but as a disgrace to the
town. Three-fourths of the proprietors did not seem to care
one farthing about it, and many continued to subscribe
merely from public feeling. He did not relish the idea of
toandoning it; but when he found the 1,8 shares had been
forfeited, and that every year increased the number of de-
faulters, the conviction naturally forced itself upon them
that it mu:A be disposed of. He had rather, however, that
the proposal to that effect had proceeded from any other
quarter than the committee.

The CHAIRMAN said that their last appeal to the public
in its behalf, produced little more than £lOOO.
A gentleman remarked that that was the fact; but that
many hed promised their support if they saw that the
requisite funds could Le raised to carry it efficiently.
Dr. DICKENSON, M.D., noticed the great advantage that
would accrue to young merchants and others, by raising tro-
pical productions, such as the tea-plant, &c., in portions of
the ground ; but fi om the want of funds nothing could be
dolle in this way.

Mr. 11oLTSala that the exitting debt was now only X 2700,
whereas, some years ago it was about £4OOO. Their present
position was, therefore, an improved one. If the uncertainty
of carrying it on were removed, he thought something might
be'done by a strong application to the public, and he still
thought it likely that the corporation might be induced to
double their grant. Sometimes an effort, even in despair,
proved to be effectual.'
The Rev. Mr. BROOKS remarked that they were certainly
mainly indebted to Mr. Holt for raising the sum of £llOO on
the last appeal ; but he apprehended that gentleman, in his
praiseworthy anxiety for the preservation of the institution,
was too sanguine in his expectations. The money already
raised had, it might be said, been wrung from reluctant par-
ties ; and what were they to do with the bank,,whicla was
urgent for its money?

Air. TURNER said that some parties objected to subscribe
under the mistaken impression that in becoming proprietors
they rendered themselves liable for the debt already •con-
tracted.

The CHAIRMAN said the committee had taken every pains
to explain to the public that no such liability would be in-
curred.

The Rev. Mr. Baoogs observed that the establishment
could not be carried on without considerable expenditure, at
present exceeding the income. Repairs of glass, &c., af-
ter a hail storm, were wanted, and the general expenses were
necessarily considerable. If they could obtain an income of
13000 a year they might go on, and gradually pay off the
debt. The interest taken in the garden was, however, la.
mentably lukewarm.
The CHAtdmAN, in reply to a question, said that the num-
ber of proprietors was 400 this year, and that they contri-
buted .±630 at a guinea and a half each ; and there were but
twenty subscribers (not proprietors) at a guinea each.
A conversation here took place between Mr. Falkner, Mr.
Holt, and others, as to the respective proportionate privi-
leges enjoyed by proprietors who annually paid ainguinea and
a half, and subscribers who paid only one gninea. It was
the general impression that the mere subscribers had privi-
leges quite equal to those of proprietors who paid the higher
sum, which was considered impolitic, as holding out a pre-
miutn to the latter to relinquish their shares.
The Rev. Mr. BROOKS noticed the pressing calls on the
pablic at the present time for the support of the public cha-
rities, (which could,scurcely be kept up,) as militating against
their hopes in making a further appeal.
Mr. HOLT then moved a resolution (for which see the ad-
vertisement) to the effect that a final appeal should be made
by the proprietors amongst their friends, before it was finally
resolved to sell the garden,—the result to be laid before the
next (adjourded) meeting on the 2d of May. This was se-
conded by Mr. Yates, and unanimously carried.
After some further discussion; in which Mr. Isaac Had-
wen and others took part, Mr. Robert Mather moved, and
Mr. Joseph Dickinson, M.D. seconded, a motion to the ef-
fect that no share be sold under ten guineas ; and that each
proprietor should henceforth pay an annual subscription of a
guinea and a half ; and subscribers (not proprietors) be ad-
mitted on payment of two guineas per annum. This was
also unanimously carried.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman for his conthict
in the chair, and the meeting adjourned to the 2d of May.

THEATRE. ROYAL.--A " Midsummer Night's Dream"
was produced last night at the Theatre Royal. It is• splen-
didly got up. The scenery is extremely beautiful. We shall
notice it at length on Friday. Nothing equal to it, in splen-
dour and general effect, has yet been seen in this town.

OPENING THE LOCK OF A SHOP DOOR, WITH INTENT
TO COMMIT ROBBEILY.—A man named Henry Bailey was
yesterday charged at the police court with this offence. It
appeared that the front shop of Mr. Jones, in St. James's-
street, was on Saturday night, between.eleven and twelve
o'clock, locked up and secured as usual, none of the parties
residing on the Premises. On Sunday evening, between
seven and eight o'clock, Mr. Jones's daughter happened to
he near the shoji; when she saw the prisoner standing at the
door, close to the lock. She went quietly behind him, and
saw him operating in some way on, the lock with a piece ,of
iron or something resembling a key, and she clearly beard
the lock turn. The door, which was fastened by a small bar
inside, as well as by the lock, was not opened. She asked
the prisoner what he was doing, and he turned and spoke to
her, so that she knew him, as she had often seen him before.
Another man came up, and she was afraid to attempt to de-
tain him, she having a little child with her at the time. The
prisoner left the shop door, and she went to her father's for
the key, with which
.she locked the door. She afterwards
gave information to a police officer, who apprehended him.
On hearing the charge against him, he said, " Is that all ?"
and when in court he said that he had nothing in his hand
when at the shop but his pipe. He was committed for trial.

" REVOLUTION "'A HE ORDER OF THE DAY.—The times
are decidedly " revolutionary" ; yet, though we are sanguine
of many national and individual advantages, we by no means
imply a sanguinary acceptation of the term. Everything is,
however, taking a " turn," we trust for the better ; and a
turn is, ceteris paribus, a " revolution." The conservatives
have, in our recent municipal and parliamentary elections,
gratefully felt the influence of the movement. They have
been re-" turned" by all intelligent constituencies. They
have not, however, " turned" their coats, which are still
" true blue " that never stains. They have not, Jim-Crow-
like, " turned about," but stuck to their colours like men.
The whigs (always fond of " revolution ") should be equally
grateful : they too have been " turned "—that is, about
their business. The " principle" has affected the physical
and mechanical, as well as the moral world ; and " the great
globe itself," by its diurnal motion, acts as grand " revolu-
tionary" fugleman. A man cant get up of a morning. in-
deed, without "turning" out, nor retire to repose without
'• turning" in. Huge ships navigate the ocean by the
" turn " of a paddle-wheel, and boxers cannot fight without
" turning " to (too). Merchants and brokers watch the
" turn " of the market. A gentleman has just taken out
a patent for a "revolutionary " or rotatory steam-engine.
Even with shopkeepers things are taking a " turn." The
goods in Mr. Woolfield's windows keep ''turning " all day
s, perpendicular'' and those in our neighbour Mr. Eastee's
" turn " horizontally,—all with a view of " turning the
penny." We have seen also a handsome "turning" or re-
volving gas-lamp in Cable-street, which is no inconsiderable
attraction to a dram-shop. We hope these novelties will
" turn " to good account, and that, as one good " turn "
deserves another, the industrious classes will feel thankful
to Sir Robert Peel, who, revolutionising in his " turn," has
spared them by " turning " the cannon of taxation exclu-
sively against those only who can pay the shot.