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COVENT -GARDEN .Tll EATRE. s a turdly niitht a new piece, in five acts, entitled we dd e ek, was produced at Ode Theatre. It is, of course, founded u pon the novel of tit et name, from the pen of the „ mat m agician of the age," and Mr. %%relive, therefore, will (1° ,0 06 feel some consolation that to the manic of his wand alone dope that of Oberon give way. Like the good c „,„;; o f the East, each exercises his necromantic power fa the happineas of use poor mortals and the receding pat ty ran feel no displeasure • towards'his rival ; for genii sre sufficiently intimate with the hutnan heart to know g e t their retirement is owing more to our inveterate love of mace, even from pleasure to pain, rather than have none, than to any incapacity upon their part to nfford us e xquisite entertainment. Be this as it may, Work/ /ark p u le its appearance, pen. tied by a prologue, Spoke!, by gr. Comer, in which the audience were told that whatever ex cess bight attend the representation, all their piattilita would be due to the " Great Unknown." This was per kily correct, for the play is nothing more than a series of le:nes taken from the novel, without the slightest alters ' eon in the dialogue ; and produced in such a way as to s upply the portion of the narrative contained in those ge ms, which they were necessarily obliged to omit. bery one of Sir Walter Scott's novels are decidedly dra matic., and but little credit is therefore doe to the person t o whose lot it falls to cut them up—we will not say to alter them—for representation. The characters were cast as follows : Leiria Keneguy. Mr. C. Ramble. Clout wen, Ale. Wattle. Sir Hairy Lee, Air. W. Farrell. Albert Lee, Ate Serle. Wilitrake, Mr. Jones. Markham Everard, Al r. Cooper. Tomitins, Air. Elatteltald. Doctor Rochelltre, Air. Egerton. Pearson, Al r. Chapman. JoceUne Mr. Evans. Young Spitfire, Mast/ botighost. Mice Lee, Airs. Chatterley. Ph& Alayllurer, Ali,s Jones. Croy nelPs daughter, - Miss J. Scott. Dams Jellieor, Mrs. Hudson. The first scene represents the gardens and lodge of Woodstock, and the story commences st the moment when Sir Ilenry Lee, while in company with his daughter Alice, meets Tomkins, who presents to him his authority from the Parliament to take patsession of Woodstock. It will be unnecessary to detail the incidents of the piece here. The navel has, of course, been read by everybody, and it is therefore quite sufficient to observe, that the most pro minent incidents of the novel have been retained in the play, which terminates with the escape of Chat le.: from %feedstock, and the marriage (that of course) °flier/diem I verord and Alice Lee, by the express command of his Majesty, which Sir !teary Lee is touch too loyal a cavalier to gainsay or refuse. Having thus disposed of the narrative, we will proceed to notice those scenes which are most and leant effective in the representation. Amongst the latter is that between Cromwell and Wildruke, when Wildroke presents to Crom well the packet teem Markham Ever urcl. The Cromwell of the play gives us no conception of him of the romance; :Ind this does not appear to be the fault of Mr. Wattle, who played his part very respectably, but that of the " cutter-up," if we me, so di signate him, who has totally omitted that portion of the dialogue which conveys to the mind the idea which the Great Unknown seems desirous to impress upon his readers of that remarkable chnracter. Even if the dialogue were preserved entire in the play, we are not sure that we should be enabled to form the same cone ption of his character that we receive from the novel, because the descriptive passages which accompany it in the latter must necessarily he omitted in the former. As it was, however, the scene was weak and ineffective. The best scenes were those in which Markham Esemrd meets Keorguy, and the rtubsequent one, in which the latter, to prevent the separation of Everard from Alice, acknowledges himself to be the King—Charles Stuart. This latter scene is highly wrought, the characters were well sustained, and the plaudits were in proportion to its excellence. ith respect to the performers, it is scarcely necessary to say that Mr. C. li mble was an able representative of the gay, gay even in big misfortunes, but-Inconsiderate Charles. Mr. Farrcn's Sir L nrj Lee was an excellent perform ance, and Mr. Cooper was, in tru:h, the plain, steady, though honourable and high-minded puritan ("aloud, to whom we have been introduced in the navel. Illy. Jones, as Wildrake, was the very life and soul of the piece—a Fpitited, gay, dbsipred , and boisterous cavalier, as remark able for attachment to his bottle as for fidelity to his so vereign ; the former yielding in potency to nothing but the latter, and bis lofty nations of the honour of his party. Verily we marvel how even a puritanical Roundhead cocid have refrained from enjoying his mirth, po infectious was it, when he ever and anon roared out, in the fulness of his ht art— We'll drink and we'll sing Till we bring back the King. And make Oliver quake for fear. A curious method, by the way, of bringing him back again. Mrs. Chatterley played Alice Lee very prettily, and Mr. Serle, as might have been expected, did the little he had to do, as Albert Lee, well. We cannot say the same of Mr. Blanchard, who totally misconceived the character of Tomkins. We are aware that a great deal of the cant of the time was rank hypocrisy, and it may be also that there are hypocrites amongst the Quakers ; but it dots not fol. low that the cant of Quakerism, when it exists, should necessary correspond with the cant of the puritanism of the time of Cromwell. Mr. Blanchard made a Quaker of Tumkiss, as far as it was possible for him to do so, and of course violated all our notions of the manners and characters of the Roundheads. The other chatacters were very re tp'.•etably sustained. At the conclusion of the play a very silly sort of an Epilogue was very well delivered by Mrs. Chatterley. In the course of it she said, very truly, that epilogues were out of fashion ; and it is only for us to regret that, in obe dience to higher powers, she should have been compelled to render herself so very unfashionable as to deliver one. It b.tr a custom more honoured in the breach than in the ob servance, and therefore must we unequivocally condemn its revival. PROLOGUE TO WOODSTOCK.. 'SPOKEN BY ma. coneta.l Ladies and Gentlemen,—nay do not rut Each Ache's ready—perfect in his part,—. No one is Ciseni—no one taken ill ; But sit are I ere, forthcoming as per bill,. It' Ith 'Apt l Cillting air, sod tonna! guise Ye' crones the Prologue, to apologise. "fts for the Author—No; he bode ma saps The Dramatise only—of the Ploy. All barrow'd plumes he proudly scorns to wear, Your "need of przise net e'ee attempt" to share— Sive far the efor—to select, 'umbrae, Ant imitate with cars, the spirit of his the Whose fancy revels in exhaustion store — To give the Stage one pleasing drama more. No easy task, amid poc:ic bower', To choose, where 01 are fair, the fairest flowers. Ile getheed many—evuld oat gather 41— And e'en from these some precious leaves must fall. Ye , if with taste as I skill the garland's wove, A Illay.day offering to the shrine we :11Ve : If to his teak your festering ears be lent, Thz object's gained—the D ramat i st ' s conten t. Thy al l his aim—to strut a pigmy elf, W here the Enchanter will not more himself Rut *e'er presume to claim that magic wand With which the Master Spirit charms the land. If their this Wondstoek trd e, in three "OW,: space, Cull'd from three volumes, briefly he can trace, Let your Indulgence to his toil he shown— Girt all your plaudits to the GREAT UNKNOWN. EPIWOITE. [SPOKEN BY airier.] ( Enters as in ,altercation :with the Prompter.) Don't talk to me, Sir—l will have my way; . I know there was a Prologue to the Play; And I insist a Prologue's but a clog To any Play without an Epilogue. hear the blame. The Prompter's In a passion, Tells me that Enilogues are out of fashion : That ladies talk too much, and only chatter [imitating man*, voi:el " Of things quite foreign to the subject matter." What !—after five long acts—all spoke by rule, As little misses say their tasks at school Still to be tongue-tied ?—:llonstrous I—un my life, That mars must have a special talbtng wife. Talk I—to be sure.—are women to be tlombien ? Mere things to look at, like Egyptian mummies— Curious and rare; sad, 1 kl a silent woman, Valued, forsooth, becaute she's so uncommon ? Ladies,—but no—the Gentlemen may nay Your judgmem's partial—they have lair play : Pli be your (buns')—here I take row station 1 And, now stand forth. `•uu Lords ".a (•reation. First—fhsebonds.—So ! We've plenty of them here; They start and tremble, at sl turn pale with fear. You. Sir, will do —nay, I'll take no denial ; Come into Cohn. and you shall take your trial Pray, hold your head tip—let me sec your face: Now, pay attention while I state the ease : A tender husband and a loving wife Have (we'll nopposo a matrimonial strife: He Inn and raves, and wishes, cre he had wed, He had been hanged. The lady nods her head. Wordn follow words—the 'dorm in loud and long, Till, all at once, he Hods he's its the wrong. Then, quite abashed, confused, obliged to atop, He'd give his can to kiss and make it up : Iltst rut a word she speaks of praise or blame— His smiln or frowns to her are just :he same. And whose the fault ?—The husband's, to be sure, That takes a wioe, whose tongue's a 'Mecum NVell, Sir, your answer ?-oottel—uprin nn Ilfe Judgment's' neottlet , —Verdict—for the Wife. Now Lurees.—nh ! 'hose modest blushes prove • Some here can think es well as talk of love: When at your feet a faithful suitor kneels, And all his hope and all hie fear reveals, In it not cruel the poor man to baulk, Because you will not, or you cannot talk ? What, though a side-long glance your love implies, I ipa, after all, ►peak plainer titan the eyes— Then do pray talk—speak what those Oen confess_ Only one little wonl--one single—•' Yes." Do not then wish to make, mistaken man, Your dearest joy. a mere automaton ; You'll but tininess, if nature you control, A lifeless form—a clod without a soul ! But hold !—Dear•hean I wind will the Prompter say ? I've not been talking much ahem the Play. Yet, if the Dramatist's apprisrd by me That you approve sod praise his induwry, Bs to hie pea returns with new delight, And I shall talk again another night. LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, MAY 20, .1828. This week we have had a very limited demand indeed for British Plantation Sugar; only 400 Ws. have been sold, and at nearly Is. per cwt. reduction in price. seo bags white Bengal Sugar have also been cold at 70s. W. to 721. per cwt. For Foreign Sager no inquiry. About 150 puncheons of Molasses have been disposed of at 235. to 245. per eat. In Coffee the transactions have been by auction ; 80 trs. and 50 brls. Jamaics brought 705., and be middling 82s. to 83s. 61, being a decline in price of 2A. to 3s. on the former, and 4s. to 6s. on the latter. In (linger 40 brls. Bar bados forced off by auction at 725. to 925. duty paid, which is 104. a 12s. lower. A small lot of fine Jamaica wos taken in at 160 s. only 10Is, being offered. Ia Cocoa 345. has been offered for fair Brazil, but refused. Pimento, no inquiry for it. In Rice. the' sales are limited, 50 era. good new at 17s. and 103 bags Bengal at 17a. 61 in bond. Ram offers on lower terms, but little done. Ashes continue dull; 259 bets. Montreal Pot sold at 225. a 225. Gd. ; 80 brls. Pearl at 21s. for old, and 255. for new ; 50 brie. New York Pot (182. i) cold at 21s. Dyewonds arc steady. 170 tons Brazil Fustic sold at 51. 174. fid. a 61. ;15 tons Spanish at 51. 15e., and a small lot of Cuba at 81. 15s 60 tons ordinary Campeachr Logwood. sold at 51. 12e. 6d., and good at Gl. 23. fa a 6/. sso, and 60 tons Jamaica at 51.101. per ton. In Hides there has been considerably more business done than for some time past : 500 dry Buenos Ayres Ox an. Cow, at 83d. ; 181)0 Monte Video at ad. to Bid. ; 6,500 Salted Buenos Ayres at 3id. to did.; 730 dry Salted Brazil at tiid.; and 13.000 Horse Hides, a little wormed, at 4s. als. 50. each ; besides which, some large sales in m end hands, prices not known. Olive Oil is dull ; Gallipoli Is rather more firm, three tuns have been sold at 33/. a 391., but other sorts are lower ; Altssina 30/., and %ante 321. Brimstone is lower ;30 tons sold at 5/. duty paid. Indigo atilt dull and lower ; Bengal at ss. 911. • 7s. 64. in %cry small lots ; a few scrons of Curacca at fis. tbr middling, and 7s. 3d. for good. Nothing doing in Cochineal. Madder Roots dull; GO bales Turkey sold at 375. Gd. which is much lower than last week. Saltpetre in fair demand; IWO bags sold at 231. a 265. Nothing done in Velonie, and Gulls, Safflower, and Lime Juice, no inquiry.. In Tobacco the sales of the week are limited, and confined to small lots of stemmed to the trade at former prices. In Tar there is a little improvement ; 330 brls. of good quality have been sold at 13. t., in other sorts not any altera tion. Turpentine Is In fair demand, 2.7110 bele. sold to the trade at Bs. 90. a 9.. for loso4 toothy. • rondo Wheat in bond has been *old at fis. 6d. In the Cotton 31arket there has been increased activity; prises are about iL higher. The sales consist in 7.900 bales Georgia &Ibid. a 41. 2,500 New Orleans at bad. to 00. 2,000 Alabsmas at 6d. a lid. 100 See Islands at I3d. a 161 d. 30 Strained Sea Islands at fid. a fkl. 1.240 Maranhani at flid. a 90. 750 Bahia at 80. a !lid. 900 Pernambuco at 90. a lOid. 50 P.rra at NI 1.1100 lieyptian at 63d. a Old. 10 Novas at Rid. 40 Demerara at 90. a 111.1. 100 Bengal at Sal., and 550 Surat at 4id. to 5151.. making about 18.000 bags of which about 3,000 American, 1,009 Egyptian, and 500 Brasil bags have been taken on speculation. SIIIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL., SATURDAY, MAT 20. Arrived the Dubow.* Cartle, Walton, from New York, relied 23d April; Bengal, Garwood. from Savannah, sidled l(th April; Eugene. Dickinson, from Charle,ton ; Sir JJho ICrane, from Jamaica. sailed ad Aprit ; Ann, from Charleston; All'ynsier Dale, twin St. Michael'. Soiled the Julian, Martindale, for Demerara; Endeavour, Samuel, for Memel ; Artrea, Dradenahl, for Pernau ; Peter and Marla, Eggers, for Antwerp ; Dolton, 1341 and, for Newfoundland; Julius Crew, West, fur Philadelphia; Edsabeth, Armstrong, fur at. Thomals. PALMOCTII, AV IN.—Arrived the Sister.. Leverlck, from Traparle, In 46 day.. Salted the Rope. racket. for Jamaica. Wind S. PLTMOVTR, AIAT 'S.—Arrived the bletoria, transport, from London for Quebec. Wind S.W. . ..... _ CUMI:4. MAT ll—Arrived the Tartar, Geary, from Manilla. PORTS. 10e re, MAT 19.—N0 arrivals.—Sailed the Finsbury, transport, for Halifax; lila Majesty's ship Lively for Plymouth, and his Majesty's ship Coated on a cruise. Wind S.S.E. InAl., M4l ie.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Royal George, R^ynolcit, from Bengali the New IPlitenix, White, from Trinidad the Juno, Stuff, from Attract, and the Britomart, White, from Liverpool. The Seger and the Ajax turned away twahe westward on the ebb. Fir, p.m. two ships and a boat, front the River, are coming through the Gas. Wind (MAVIS' vl3, Mar 19.—Arrired the Ruth, Hone, from Jamaica ; Water Lilley, Bruce, from ditto; Cambrian, Clarkson, from Bombay ; Cole, from Calcutta; John and Nancy, Mihea, from Charente; Lady Dundm, White, from Tenerife; Hope, Love, from St. Michael's.; Presi dent Martin, Saxon, from ditto; Saltoune Dalrymple. from Dominica; Elizabeth, Orierson, from Sierra Leone ; Harriet. from ditto ; garret Hall, Davison, from Demerara; /learner, Baker, from Bahia; Ctrs tear, Strachan, from Bordeaux; Roysit , t, Cook, from the South Seas; Laura, Backfite, from the Tale cf France; Telemaph, Gremlin, from Havre. Sailed Virginia, Knight, for New Tork i Regular packet, &Mb• bon, for SL Peter4burab. Ms Majesty's ship Dryad. which sailed from Portemouth,lth inst. with soppily , fee the homeward bound trade, put Into Plymouth, on Thursday. Ai 80111* fears hare been entertained for the safety of the Crisis, Van Dyke, from London to New York, which vessel sailed from Cowes the 11th January, and had nut arrived at New York on the llith April, they may In some measure be tr.xpirilcd, by the circumstance cf the Finchett, Williams, from Liverpool to New York, having been rpoken with on the 7!d March, in lat.r.. 21). lons. $7. 40. out lifty-two days, which is about half way across the Atlantic. r~c~ EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The Tartar, Garry, from Manilla, is at Cowen—nailed from Manilla the , Oh Janus v, IoN. Spoke with the ae•uatal; Drake, fro:n London to New south Wale% la lat. C. N. long. 24. W. On Sennlay morning, at half past ten o'clock, a Meeting of the Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council was held at the.Conncii Office in Wltiteludi-place, which was attended by the Lord President, Lord Stowell, Lord Bexley, the Matter of the Rolls, and Sir John Nichol!. The question which came before their Lordships was an appeal from the bland of Guernsey, as to the right of electing a high Con stable for the Island, at which the Earl of Pembroke, who is Governor of that Island, attended, and, being a Privy Counsellor, took his seat at the board. Mr. Bolland ap peared for the appellant ; Mr. Horne, for respondent. The pts ceding& occupied the attention of their Lortlships till about one o'clock, when Counsel were ordered to withdraw, and their Lordships continued in deliberation for alma' an hoer and a half, but did not make their de cision known. _ _ _ We have received Jamaica rapers to the 2tl April, but they contain no news. I'h C.iptain of the Sir John Keats, nrivcil from Jamaica, states there is a great expedition preparing to. Carthago's, includ. leg the two new frigalei built in America fnr the Colombians : it is g 'tautly supposed to be intended against Cuba. Bolivar was cx. peered there daily. BENEVOLENCr.—During last week, a French General Offie‘ r, p Lasing through Laneaster with his lady, visited the castle. and previous to quitting the yard, he inquired of the turnkey if he could point out any one of the debtors also well ?rally unfortunate and deserving of assistance. The turnkey did rt. upon which he inquired the amount of his debt. which was nbnut 29/. This he paid into the hand of the gaoler. in order to the debtor being din_ charged. Mr. Higgins end the individual who received this marked a ct of leacvolence, thanked him most cordially, and the latter succeeded in compromising the attic with his creditors for 81.8 d. In the pound. leaving himself a hand,ome balance on his quitting the gaol. The correspondent who has supplied this anecdote says, " I have used all the means I WAS able to learn the name of this gene. too Frerchman, hut without effect: I.e expressed a wish that it sheu'd - tut be male public; he was one of Bonaparte's officers." THE BRITISH PRESS. . NACU, VKIII% We have been induced to extract the following passages from a letter addretwerl by Mr. Itailks, jtm., now at Rouen, to the unemployed workmen of Lancashire and Yorkshire, on thr present distress, and on Machinery. It is replete with the clearest reasoning, and well calculate) to dissipate the ►relancholy delusion under which the wretched opera tives in flume counties have been labouring, and which led them to the experiment, injurious as well to themselves as to their employers, of destroying the machinery of the latter. After alluding to the recent distress and the necessity for rivaling the French in our manufactutcs, he proceeds thus:-- Now, England and France being rivals in commerce, it is very important fig tis to know what the French are about ; on the same principle that it is necessary for the General of an army to kn ow th e movements of the opponent, and for a gamester to d iscover the plans of Ida antagonist. Ohaerve, then, my situation. I am in the midst of the enemy's camp; I am looking over the adversary's cards; and I am therefore in a amnion to tell you matters of great interest to younelvea. At this moment lam in the town of Mitten, in the north of France.—e town nearly as large as Man. Chester, and the centre of the cotton manufacture in France, as 3laneherner is in England. I have lately been at Lyons, the Wont manufacturing city in this country after Paris. I have also visited Nimes. I have likewise been to houviers end Elheuf, at the first of which pieces ti.ey make the finest woollen cloth in France. Lastly, I have spent some weeks in Paris, where I have not only visited the principal manufactories, but have inspected an impor tant establishment called the Conservatory of Arts end Trades, eats. blialted by the Government, and open to the public, where models of every kind of machine mutiny/al in manufactures or agriculture are kept to assist the French in their inventions. Having seen all this, I can assure you that these Frenchmen are not rivals to be despised, but arc full of ingenuity and perseveraice. I can only assure you, that we need not fear their beating us, if we keep pos session of all our advantages. But it is absolutely necessary that we should keep these advantages. But now attend to a few particulars, which you will find ante. meting enough to repay your attentirec. Last year there was ex ported from Great Firitain, goods, according to the official estimate, of the value of 381335.5141. I Is. 2d. sterling. Of this enormous amount 21,496,3761, mot it cotton goods alone, 5,925,574/. in woollen goods, and 2.700.7fr6 in linen goods. The French are straining every nerve to beat or to equal ua in all these branches of industry. and if they succeed, Own away goes our commerce, and away goes our power along with it. Let us look, then, at the means which the French are using to succeed in their competition. Let us inquire what it is that the Government, and all their scientific he well as all their practical men, are looking to in order to obtain this desired object. lam obliged to tell you. that all their rfferts are directed towards ma. chine 7. There is nothing the Government promotes more lihe , rally than machinery. Thoy attribute nearly all our superiority over them to our improved machinery. They ascribe all their own recent edvanees in manufactures to their SUCCCSR in introducing ma. ehinery. The object first, midst, stud Nat with them, to which they are directing all eyes. hands, and heads, is machinery. One of the most eminent men it. France, for the zeal and talent with which he labours to promote the arts and manufactures of his country, the Baron Chs. [Junin. has travelled great deal in Eng. land, fur the express purpose of examining our machines, our manufactories, our dock-yards, and our workshops, and he has published an account of what he observed there, for the purpose of cumulating his countrymen to rival us in this means of producing wealth. The Government has rewarded his exertions by making hint a Baron, tied has given him a salary to lecture every week on mechanics at the Conservatory of Arm and Trades, to all who choose to attend. Another eminent man is a Al. Clement De sormes, who has also travelled in England for the sante purpose. has been likewise rewarded by the Government, and is employed et the same institution in teaching gratuitously the application of che mistry to the useful arts. I heard hint lecture on a subject, which I thought at first would be of little interest, but it turned mit one of the most interesting lecture,' I ever heard, lie brotight forward a plan fur the establishment of a public washing-machine. to be worked by steam, in imitation of that at Mite:ram, near London. Ile first showed that the washing of linen was exactly the same thing as the bleaching or linen or cotton goods just manufactured ; end then he entered iota an account of the admirable machinery for this purpose which he had seen in Lancashire, and gave such a flaming description of our steam-engines and machines of all kinds, as made the Frenchmen stare with admiration. Ile told them that calico was bleached near 31anchetter, principally in consequence of our improved machinery, in the abort space of three days, which would require five wet Its to bleach in France. I utmost mid to these facts, what is 1110 St deal, and undoubtedly true, that the manu facture of cotton Ilea minute a very great ;progress in France, especi. ally here at Rouen. since the vet of the war, chiefly in consequence of the adoption of nor timelines. Their silks, their woollen, end all their other manufactures. are rapidly inctetaing, in a great ntea. sure from the sante rause. Nay, they have guts company of ling. lishmen from Stafflodshire, to establish iron-works for making steam-engines and ether machines, at Charenton, near Paris. In this establishment, of which the heads are 3lessrs. Manby and Wilson, there are no less than three hundred Englishmen em ployed, whom I have seen myself; and the proprietors are doing a vest deal of business, and getting rich by supplying our rivals with the means of competing with us. Now, my friends, consider them tame with the attention they de serve. When once a machine has been invented and made known, it is no longer a question whether it is a general advantage to have such a machine or not, hut it is necessary to our commerce to em ploy it ; for if we do not, other nations will, and thus we shall in. evitably be left behind them. It would be as foolish and ruinous to adhere to the old system of manufacturing when all •he rest of the world adopts the new, ss it would hare been to fight with spears end WOWS after the invention of gunpowder. No nation, however warlike, has been able to resist with the old weapons troops armed with artillery ; and no nation, however industrious. could maintain, with the slow and old.fashioned processes of manufacturing, a com petition with aitothea nation which employed machinery. The ad vantage of nischirery is, that it enables us to make goods either quicker or better, and consequently to mil them cheaper, than we could without it. A German or American merchant will always buy his goods where he can get them cheapest and finest. If', there loth, we destroy those means which enable us to make them the cheapest and best, we must renounce our trifle and manufactures ; and where esould the labourers be then ? Their toasters would be ruined, and they must starve. " But we are starving already." say some of you. Alas ! my friends, it is too true that your distress is extreme. But it is a very great mistake to attributeyour distress to machinery.and it fatal error to think the destruction of that machinery would he a remedy. The fact is just the contrary ; machinery has been the grand cause of the unheard-of extension of the manufactures and commerce of this country during rite last half century. Let us look at the history of one manufacture only—that of cot. ton. At the beginning of the reign of George 111. this manufacture was scarcely known; at the beginning of the present reign it had become the largest manufacture ever known in the world. At the present time the amount of cotton goods manufactured for expor tation only, is about twenty-nine millions of pounds sterling every year, and perhaps nearly as much more is manufactured for home consumption. Now, to what is this unheard-of extension owing? Entirely to machinery. We formerly received our cotton goods front the East Indies, where the manufacture :tad been established thousands of years. Now, we not only du not receive our cottons front India, but we bring the raw material from that country—R distance of six thousand miles, work it up into goods, send them back again to Ir dia. and undersell the native manufacturer in his own market, though his workmen receive but three halfpence a day for their labour. The conseqttenee is, that the ancient manufac ture has been destroyed, an d me it would be in England if we lost the advantage of our machinery. Are you wise, then, my fellow.countrymen, in seeking to destroy machinery? Will it promote the interest of your country ? Will it benefit your)rives? Look at the direct and inevitable effect of the destruction of the machinery at Blackburn. That machinery was destroyed on the express ground that it enabled the proprietors to make more goods with the same number of hands, and therefore to sell them cheaper. They sill now be obliged (if you succeed in your object) to go back to the old mode of making goods, and of course they would teak: them dearer. But the French have esta. Wished the power.looin honer. Will the German, Russian, or American merchant come to Blackburn, where the goods are deater, or go to Rouen. where they are cheaper ? Certainly he will go to Rouen ; he wish therefore leave Blackburn, and your masters, havirg no customers, can employ no woikuitn. Your masters and yourselves mum starve together. Now, my friends, I hope I have succeeded in showing, Ist. That you ought taut to prevent the extension of machinery; 21 That you cannot prevent it; 3d. That if you could succeed in preventing it, the result would be ?/oar arcs ruin; 4th. That the distress you labour under arises front temporary causes, and will be of very limited duration sth. That the only relief for your pressing wants is in the proper distribution of public funds, stud in the exercise of grivate liberality ; Gtb. That theme sources of relief will be dried up. and your best friends turned into enemies, by ace.' of violence. I trust you will believe pie when I say that this letter is dictated by the sincerest commiseration for your sufferings, and anxiety to prevent an aggravation. A visit to foreign countries has only in creased my attachment to my own. I have taken upon myself' to address you, because the facts now passing under my eyes in this country are of great importance for you to know, as they will con ' since you of the error you are committing by the destruction of nte.chinery. I assure you there is nothing whatsoever would give so much pleasure to a Frenchman who wishes tut promote the in terests of his own country ut the expense of ours, as the ilestruc ' hint of that machinery which constitutes our great superiority over them. . . •••-•••• The following, vcry sensible Resolutions were recently agreed to by the opiirative Fustian Cutters of Manchester: Ist. That though the fustian nutters are suffering privations equal to other classes of operatives from the want of employ. mem, they are of opinion that the present unparalleled depression in trade does not originate from any causes over which the raw. chants or manufacturers in this country have any control. Ani that the only existing ground of complaint, as respects them, is, that there are solitary individuals, i.t every trade, who take advantage of the present want of employment, to reduce the price for the little that is found, and thus aggravate the distress both of the operative respectable manufacturer. 21. Thu as this country owes its prosperity over that of any other to t !le s iperior improvements in the construction of machinery, and indus , ry of Its people—the fuslats cutters cannot but lament the delusion which, unhappily, appears to be so widely extende.l mongst the operatives of this town and neighbourhood; who seem to thirk that the genius or mechanical improvement should slumber on the rode eflints of original invention in this nation. while evety means is resorted to in others to awaken het energies And rouse them into action and who., in the warmth of their mistaken seal, hale so easily become the dupes of a comparatively few de. signing individuals, whose sole aim is plunder, under the mask of general distress. 3d. That the fustian cutters are well aware that the breaking of machivery, the destruction of property, and resistance to cemati ttited atchorities, cannot but tend to increase anti prolong the evils under which the country labours. 4th. That ender this conviction, the fustian cutters have resolved to p...ice themselves. It !4 a body, at the disposal of the civil 9 uthori ties, if required, to render all the assistance in their power for the protection or property, and the maintenance of the public peace of this town and nrizlibnurhood. Sth. That the fustian cutlers earnestly call upon other bodies or operatives to step forward and to adopt the Ahnve resnlutain, that the existing alarm may he speedily ailayed, and that no impediment may be thrown in the way which may have s tendency to prt. 4 .lltt the return to that prosperity which we hope soon 'loin to ex perience. I SPATE OF TRADE. FROM THE LOWER RWIWE, MAT 6. Our manufacturers of wooden cloths have lately received contd. derable orders, chiefly from Italy. The manufacturers who work for the Levant market are also very busy. Since this branch of commerce has declitied at 3larstillcs. the East is chiefly supplied by our cloth manufacturers. They might have expected still greater advantages from the sale of the goods sent to these countries, bat for the louses they sustain by the augmenting deterioration of the Turkish piastre—an evil the progress of which ism) rapid that there is not always time, when a payment is made, to calcula.e the real value of the coin, and to regulate the prices accordingly. Nee orders for German wool, especially the middling qualities. have lively been given from Virolers, Cumin, &c. hut yet the merchants have limited these orders because they have learned that great quan tities of wool are expected back from England. at Antwerp and other seaports. The amount is stated at 12.000 bales, of which about the half is German wool, and the rest Spanish. The public tranquillity was never less disturbed in the North of England than during the present week ; a number of cameo have co-operated to 'allay the late excitation in the public mind, and none more effectually than the benevolent exertions which are mak ing in every part of the eountry, with the King es their chief patron, to relieve the prevailing distress. We do not think that ■ny material improvement has taken place in trade generally, but in one branch of the woollen business there is an obvious amend ment. Our correspondent from Bradford. in his letter yesterday, says, " The stuff inarkct of Bradford was on Thursday unusually brisk ; a larp quantity of goods were sold, but there was little or no advance in the price; the manufacturers are in better spirits, and this spring in the demand will make an opening for fresh stocks; should the improvement continue, a great many of the working people will meet with partial, if not full employment."— Money is still MM.!, and credit, which is a plant of very gradual growth, revives slowly. Considerable doubt exists as to the nature of the business meant to be transacted by the flavernor and Com pany of the Bank of England. in their intended branch banks, at Leeds and other commercial places. On this subject we have no specific information ; hut we may venture to say, that if they con. fine their transactions here, as in London, to the mere discounting of bills, without making advances, either a new, and we fear dan gerous system of bill transactions, noun be introduced, or little advantage will accrue from the establishment either to the Bank or to the public.—Leeds Nereus y. DISTRESSED MANUFACTURERS. The collections at the places of public worship in Leeds, on behalf of the funds of the Society for the relief of the unemployed poor. have been liberal in the extreme—in some caner unexampled, and are equally honourable to the zeal of the Rev. Advocate*, and to the liberality of their congregations.—On Sunday morning, a Ser. mon was preached in the parish church, by the Rev. Richard Fawcett, M.A. Vicar, when the sum of 71/. WAR collected. At the acme time a sermon was preached in St. Paul's church, by the Rev. Miles Jackson, when the collection umounted to 1411.9 x. 7d. On the came day, u sermon was preached in Call-Lane chapel, by the Rev. C. Crawford, atter which a collection was made amounting to 31/. IPe. BRADFORTI.—We feel great pleasure in having to state, that, In addition to 1000!. stated in our last paper es having been received from the London fund, for the town of Bradford, another grant of 3001. has been transmitted, for the relief of the unemployed poor in the numerous townships of that extensive parish: and in conse quence of a separate application from Wilsden, 1510/. was received on Wednesday morning for the relief of that township. which is also in the parish of Bradford. It is due to the Rev. Henry Heap, tha worthy vicar of Bradford, to state that he has been indefatigable in his exertions for the relief of his suffering parishioners. HUDDERSVIELD.—The subscriptions already received, incul. ding the 10011/. transmitted by the London Committee. amount to upwards of 2500/. The plan adopted by the Hodslorstield Com mittee has been to appoint local committees, to visit families, and to raport thereon to the general committee, who apportion the amount of relief to the exigencies of each case. The distress has been found most severe in the townships of Kirkkeaton,Almond , bury, and Kirkbutton. The workmen of Alr. John Fisher. of Langroyd Bridge, have subscribed the handsome sum of 301. Is. 3d. ter the relief of the distressed poor in the neighbourhood. Keighley participates largely in the distress produced by want of employment, as may he inferred from the following facts t-61191 operatives have been visited, out of which number 4524 are cont. pletely destitute of employment, and the remainder ore only nsr daffy employed, none of them more than three days n_week. Veg. terday ee'nnight the sum of 70!. was distributed at the vestry of the parish church, to the most necessitous. and such was the eagerness to obtain admission, that a poor woman was nearly crushed to death. A subscription has been set on foot for the relief of the ex treme distress. lOW. has been subscribed by six individuals, and we trust it will be swelled by numerous liberal donations. Last Monday a meeting of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Beverley. was held in the Guildhall, John Shep herd, Esq. Mayor, in the Chair, fur the purpose of promoting a subscription towards the relief of the distressed manufacturer'. The Meeting was opened by an impressive and pathetic address Rom the Mayor, in which he enforced the duty of liberality at the present season with so much effect, that a subscription was in,. mediately entered into, amounting to 544!. 3s. Amongst a number of liberal beenefactions, we observe the names of Richard Bethel, Esq. and Richard Watt, Esq. for 1001. eat:h.—Leeds Afcreury. A 3leeting was held yesterday in the Assembly Booms, with a view of raising subscriptions for the relief of the manufacturing districts. The Solicitor-General moved the resolutions, and in formed the Meeting that, amid all the distress, which was unpa ralleled in point of extent, not one single act of riot hail been corn. mitted in any of the manufacturing districts (of Scotland.) Ws understand that, at the close of the Meeting, upwards of 1,3001. were subscribed in the room.—Edinburgh Paper, Ilith inst. . , MEETING OF THE INHABITANTS OF EDINBURGH. Or; Wednesday, May 17, a meeting of the inhabitants was I o'il in the Assembly RIIOIIIS, the Lord Provost in the chair, for the purpose of setting on tout a subscription for the relief of the dis tresses which prevail in the manufacturing districts. The LORD PROVOST said—l ant sorry that the circumstances of the times render it unnecessary for me to olFer any apology for your attendance being requested here to-day. In our own city an.' neighbourhood, he added, there are numbers of industrious families thrown out of employment, and in a state of actual want. In the west country we know the distress is very great. In the Paisley district alone there are upwards of 8,800 turned out of work, and without the means of subsistence, notwithstanding a heavy assess. ment and large contributions made in that neighbourhood for their temporary support. In Glasgow their situation is equally bad, and in the northern districts, particularly Arbroath and neighbourhood, the situation both of the merchants, and of the manufactuting ope. ratives who have been thrown idle, is most alarming. The SOLICITOR•GENERAL then read an account which he had just received, of the extent of the distress which prevailed in Ar broath, and which stated that there were at present 2,243 persons out of employment there; in three weeks more, 1,833 would be dis li, charged, on Ankh the work they had in hand ; and farther, that it was impossible culate when commerce would assume a bet terstate, as almost the manufacturers had, from the pressure of the times, been compilled to suspend their payments. Front the documents in the hands of the Learned Gentleman, it also apneared that in Paisley 200 families were entirely uneamloyed, including about 8.000 individuals. The Loan PROVOeT then stated that he had just received a note front the Earl of Moray, authorizing him to put down his name for Inf. (Applause.) The city of Edinburgh gave 200 gu Meas. Subscription papers were then handed round, and upwards of 1,5001: was subscribed in the rooms. TRADE OF Amenica.—The value of merchandise im ported into the Uniterl Stays, in the year ending the 30th of September last, was 96,310,075 dollars. The value of exports 99,535,388 dollars, of which 66,90,715 dollars wer..! domestic produce. LIVERPOOL AND MAxcitss - riAt RAILIVAT.—We are happy to learn, that this grand undertaking will be cm menced in about two months. It is sai I that it will require at least three years to complete it. A general meeting of the proprietors will he held in Liverpool on the t:flth inst. for the purpose of choosing Directors and other officers. JUNCTION OF THE RIVER LUNE AND THE LANCASTER Cartm.—The first outgoing vessel that has come into Preston by way of the Lancaster Canal,arrived on Turst;ay morning last. It was the Sprightly sloop, Thomas Miller. master , belonging to Mr. John Bolton. Site arrived in Diasson Dock, with a cargo of slate from Dutton, on Sunday: anti being locked up into the ssnal, brought her cargo to the slate yards in this town, without having been under the necessity of discharging at any interne. thine place. The advantages of this line of conveyance will be very great in _this branch of merchandise, conaiderablel tss and expense having been always incurred in the discharge and re leading of so heavy and brittle an article as slate and until this new junction was made, this inconvenience could not be avoided. • LONGEVITY.—There is now living in the township of Alston, Cheshire, three very respectable persons, two brothers and one sister, who have never been married, and whose united ages amount to 236 years, Thos. Hothersal 94, Was. Hothersal Nancy 11 nth crssl 90. PORTSMOUTH', SATUItUAY, MAY W. --- - Yesterday the Finsbury transport, Lieutenant Rohm Morn.i, sailed for Mullin, to land 3lajnr Ctitt's moripany of Royal Attila and take thence the campers y row s•ationed that. to Halts fax. Captains Pratt and %Vileni, with M men of the Alst Iterria ment. embarked here for the same destination.—Thatpshire legroph. The vessel called the Turestle, rigged and worked on the new plan, by Lieutenant Situ Wham, of the Navy (noticed in our last paper) arrived here on Monday evening. She encountered some very heavy weather in the Channel, in her passage from Sal. combe, in which she was obliged to bent up the whole way against an easterly breast.. She is only six feet beam, and the men who navigated her declare. that had she not been a remarkably tine boat, she must hare gone to the bottom. lier appearance is handsome,, and her sails set anti stood well, and are reduced and increased by reef boards (not reef bands) at the botmm ; and as her masts are solely supported by wrought iron pivots, with single cross trees. winch is the inventor's woken mode of constructing them ; and when it is considered that they are more than half the height of the masts of vessels of 70 tons, it is presumed that when the stronger meil:nd of supporting them is resorted to, viz. that of cross-trees' working between circular sweeps--Met the plan is applicable to coasting vesuls of the largest description, which may be sailed whit fewer hands—the duration of their voyages would he curtailed, and • greet saving of wear and tear of rigging. Lieutenant bhuldham is about to lit nut a coasting yawl on the same eoustructiow, and rigged on the same principle.—lbid. NEW LAW COURT'S. Whether the exceptions taken to the structure of the New Law Courts, caa be well sustained, is not *alibi our province to determine. To the public the following answeri put in by Mr. SOANE, must be completely satisfactory.. Cuilibet in sea arte en:dentists: est, is the received maxim of Westminster Hall, hut Mr. SOANE does not seem to have heen admitted, in the present instance, to the full benefit of it. Nothing appears to have been done, on his part, without previous consultation with the Judges, and the Chiefs °flip! liar. The result proves, although in questions , of late such consultations may be useful, that in affairs cif taste, it is by no means true, that "in a multitude of (..ounsellias there is wisdom. - In all that concerned tie elements of Civil Law we would pin oar filth implicitly on the Four Courts, but in whatever concerned the dements 0 . Architecture, we should prefer the judgment of Mrs SOANE, to the colleCtive opinions of all the gentlemen of the Long Rohe. TO THE EDITOR (IF THE BRITISH PRESS. SIR,— Several of the public prints continninii to give detached observations respecting the New Lew Courts, I trust yogi will do me the favour to insert in your columns the following statement of the circumstances attending the erection of those builtilngs. I am, Sir. your very obedient t•;erras.t, Jou N SOANZ, Lincoln's Inn Fields, May 20, IC2O. In July 1820, I was directed by the Lords Commissioners of hlii Majesty's Trea•ttr to prepare plans for New Courts of Law, oa the site of the old buildings connected with Westminster Hall. Having surveyed the premises, and made plans of the Old Courts rind their appurtenances. I consulted the different officers of the several Courts, to know what improvements or additional accorna modations they would consider necessary in the event of New Courti bring erected. Several Designs were made and submitted to the Lords of thd Treasury, who after having attentively examined the same, directed me to lay them before the Judges of the different Cowls, for their opinion and approbation. The plans were accordingly submitted to the Judges at differeni times, and likewise shown to some of the Gentlemen of the Bar upon these occasions various alterations and improvements wend suggested, and their Lordships most strongly recommended that the Courts should not be made too large, the Old Courts being suf. ficiently capaciour. The plans', altered agreeable to the suggestions Made to me. toge ther with an estimate of the probable expense attending the esecu• tion of the several works, were then presented to the Lords Com. missioners of his Majesty's Treasury, who were pleased to riporove the same, and directed me to commence the buildings without delay, and to have them completed with all possible despatch. The design thus sanctioned contained seven Courts, with Retir ing Rooms for the Judges, the King's Renombraneer, the Sera g.stnts, the Barristers, the Prothonotariev. and other Wheal attached to the different Courts, and three itoo.vrei &c. for the ac commodation of the Grand Jury. The High Court of Chancery, besides a Retiring Room for the Lord Chsocellor, and the 1100111 s for hie Lordship's attendants, has a Room for the Masters in Chancery, and the Law Library. and another for the Barristers ; there is also a large Gallery, wbich,whert divided agreeably to the original intention, will land separate necommonation for the students, the public, and others connected with the Court. The Court of King's Bench and the Court of Common Pleat have Galleries fur the RAMC purpose. To each of the Coons there is a sepnrate entrance from West. minster Hall, and likewise from St. :Margaret-street, with cehef subordinate entrances; and also two general lines of communist. tion, parallel with Westminster Hall, one from the entrance into the Court of King's Bench to the staircase leading to the House of Commons.—the other trom the Retiring Room of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, ulso leading 111 the staircase of the House of Commons. This latter communication is unavoidably not in a straight line ; but this will not be matter of surprise, when it is collected that the Wilding contains seven distinct Courir, with all their various and complicated accommodations combined together, in a situation trammeled with the bottresses of Westminster Hall, the irregular projections of the old stone building, and other dirF.. rubies not less formidable. _ . The buildings were began in October, 1822, and by rem: e'er. film Tubed to the roof early in 1824. In the month of March, in that year. I heard, for the first time, that objections had lkom tan to the new buildings; first, that they extended too far into New Palace Yard; and, secondly, that the exterior was not in the Gothic cyle. An inquiry was then invititted, for the purpose of examiolnl the building, and the works having hem surveyed by the gentlemen who caused the inquiry, it was resolved " that the exterior of the building should be in the Ooliie manner—that the entrance irto the Court of King's Bench from Westntinstee Hall projected t.. 0 far into New Palace Yard—that the Courts were too large, he rooms next New Palace Yard unnecessary, anti that these rooms and the Coati of King's Bench should be pulled down, and the space added to the area of New Palace Yard ;^ and I was direet:l to make designs upon these ideas. Many plans were made accordingly, and submitted from time to time to the gentlemen who caused the inquiry; who, after due de. liberation, determined that the reduced space was insufficient, that the buildings next New Palsee Yard should be pulled down, and the exterior decorated in the Gothic fashion. Subsequently. different designs •ere made for Oothlcizing the exterior of the Conrt of King's Bench s and, finally, one of them being approved, has beel since carried into execution : an estimate of the e..pense having previously been made, amounting to about nine thousand pounds. During the progress of this incio'ry, I stated the fact of the buildings not projecting further into New Palace Yard than those erected in the reign of Qieen Elizabeth, and which were recent!t removed. I also took the liberty of stating, that from all the in formation I had collected (trom those, most conversant with the requisites for the Courts) every part of the new buildings props-1 to be pulled down as useless, was essentially necessary for the bust ness of the Courts, and the public accommodation. - . As the principal reason assigned for destroying these buildinirt was their not symmetrizing with the front of Westminister Hall to remove this objection, I submitted several designs for Gothociz. ing the exterior of the Court of King's Bench, very unlike the pre sent front, but, in my judgment, more in character with the front of Wesminister Hall. and at the same time proposing the advan. Cage of preserving the whole of the rooms (htd usher deconiviods. liner, already referred to in this statement. It has been already noticed, that the Judges and other attrin,ritics had been consulted upon the general design of the Courts, and preciously to the commencement of the fitting up of the same, picot were made, chewing the manner in which it was proposed to corn. plete each of them ; models were also made : and, in onlcr that the whole should be completely understood by those best ahle to deter. mine what would be most emeenient, the fittings were put up in temporary manner, in each Court, so that a competent judgment might be formed of what the results would be. These temporary fittings were inspected hy the &ridge. and by many gentlemen of the liar, as well as by the o ffi cers of the Courts; and the alterations suggested by these authorities, from time to time, were in every respect. carried into effect. In respect to the objecnons made to the situation of the Jury Box in the Court of King's Bench, I beg to observe, that in the original plan for fitting up this Court, as well as in the temporary fittings, the Jury Box was placed on the right of the Tribunal; hut it was afterwards directed to be removed to the opposite side, to enable tha King's Counsel, ns wider:Nod, to have a separate entrance in;, the Court. . . In reply to what has hen said respecting the want of space fad accommodation in the Court of King's Bench, I have to ototerce, that the area of the New Court of King's Bench contains 1218 se. piolicial feet. with seats, 184 feet in length, for the accommodation of the King's Counsel and the other gentlemen of the liar. The Court in the Sessions House lately used as a temporary Curt of King's Benet, and which has been admitted by anent gentlemen of the Hai :o be sufficiently large, contains ahem 18 4 f.": superficial feet, and about 1711 feet of seats to the King's Counsel and for the gentlemen of the liar. The old Court of King's Bench in iVestminster Hall contained, within the walls, about IWO superficial feet, and shoot 125 tect lineal measure of seats for tne accommodation of the Bar. More might be added. but. the leading points having been ex. plained. I am unwilling to trespass further on the ',oldie than i consider to be absollitely necessa7 for the justification or my pr.,. fesaional character. We understand that there are now about fifty prisoners for trial at Ladeaster, on charges zonn.cteil with the recent disturbances. IV - bather a spccial emilinission will be issued, or they will be left for trial at the Assizes, is nut, we be. • here, as yet determined upon. ~.---