The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-01-01 00:00:00

LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. Necond appearance of Mrs. WAYLETT, the celebrated Vo calist and Actress, froththe Theatres-royal, Drury Lane, Co vent Garden, and Haymarket, wh o , h av i ng re c overe d from h er late in disposition, will commence an Engagement of limited nu m b er of nights.' r IPHIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the lit instant, and Five following Evenings, the Entertainments will taturnence with the admired Drama, called FALSE AND CONSTANT; . Or, YOUTH and AGE. Fa ir Port., Mr. Cook; Standish, Mr. Wallace; Major Fitz eilntion; Mr. Raymond; Constance, Mrs. Waylett; Arabella : Fitz- Mrs. Howard; Susan, Miss Stuart. To which will be added the new laughableerlude called WOOING A WIDOW; V W Or, LOVE UNDER a LAMP-POST. _ Daniel Dowgate, Esq., (Bachelor and Dry alter,) Mr. Bennett; John, (hi s S ervant.) Mr. Howar d ; A rthur, Mr. J . ~; rs. Mr M o et rris; t Mary, Miss Stuart; Widow amen, Wayl. To conclude with (for the first time) NICHOLAS NICKLEBY; T. Or. OINGS at DO-TE-OYS HALL! iekets and D Places for th e Bo x sto B be had of Mr. J. FOGG, Ilothe Theatre, each day from Eleven till Three o'Clock. ' " 3 5.; Pit, 2s. ; G a ll ery , 6d. S econ d pr i ce, B oxes , 2 5 . ; opened No S econ d P r i ce to the Gallery. .Doors to b e at Half-p ast Si x. P er f ormance to commence a t Seven precisely. In consequence of the late Post-office regulations, the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is now dispatched by the 211 ail which leaves at half past Two o'clock in the morning for London,‘Birnzingham, Manchester, 4.c. This arrangement renders it necessary that Adver tisements should be sent to the Office before Eight o'clock on Monday and Thursday evenings. Ebe iLiberpool g.-tanbatt. TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 1, 1839. I'RE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.--By the Toronto, which sailed from New York on the 10th ultimo, We h ave rece i ved intelligence one day later that that brought by_ the Hibernia, which we give in our last. The_news from Canada is' of no importance. We subjoin a few extracts relating to AlteriCatt affairs. NOTICE. (From the United States Gazette.) dated undersigned, observing in the public prints a circular, niell the 23d October, at Natchez, signed "John Ingersoll, !Rent for Humphreys and Biddle,,, and offering to make ad vances on cotton shipped to them, with a stipulation that the cotto n shall be held, if desirable, until the next summer, think it their duty to state, as the friends and correspondents or Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle, they are well acquainted WWII 11 theta and the said J o h n I ngerso ll, an d t h ey k now, as from other circumstances as from his own declaration, 'in own handwriting, that, a t th e d a t e o f hi s c i rcu l ar , be had the least authority of any description whatever, to buy tthn or to make advances or stipulation of any kind on any accoun t of Messrs. Hunaphrevs and Biddle. Since then '4 und ersigned have, at his repeated solicitation, but even t w ithout th e knowledge of Messrs. H. and 8., given him the elleral permission, extended to all shippers of cotton to the th to , rds of the w r upon th em bill s at s i x t y d a y s ' s i g ht for by bills of l for the two property actually shipped, w hich bills were to be ad sold ing in open i tket at the current rate of the day. This is the only e tZ e lion which Mr. John Ingersoll has with the house, circhat permissi on w ill b e revo k e d i n consequence o f this ular. Philadelpliia, Dec. 7, 1838B . EVAN & HUMPHREYS. on l'ill.oritte, De 92. c. MARKETS. J.—COTTON.—Stock in hand, including all bales. Saes the t week f i n .‘m..ateB,_ at 473 prices ranging from for 14 to pas 1 , 11. for good amount and Pur e ' 13 i to 131 for good fair; fair .121 to 12 3 / 4 . Holders and asers find it diffihult in touching a fixed point in prices. b Biila °1 : 1 New York obtai 11 to premium, 60 days. The al,liks hav e ceased checkin n g on New York. a b o 411 ' ORLEANS, Dec. J .—The rise of water in the river ve has caused a slight improvement in business. There h as b een some s ti r in the Cotton market this week, and prices ° _a!e a dvanced. Th e wee k' s transact i ons h ave b een large, r 1 : 1 about 16,000 bal es a t per cent. per lb. over last week's ices. Exports 51,579 bales against 44,069.t0 the same pe lod last year. Sugar has been dull, but prices remain with °tit change. Molasses is in goo demand 33 to 34 cents. A UGGSTA, Dec. 5.--COTTON.— d For the p ast peek there has been. a good de man d , an d sa l es h ave been made at a slight a dvance on previous quotations; prime and choice cottons are scarce and in request. MONEY MARKET, &c. DEC. 6. and stock market to-day presented but little fluctuation, t iiott the business generally has been limited, with the excep tion of Delaware and Hudson Stock, about 1300 shares of Which changed hands closing at 67k, a decline of 13,‘ per ,!!nt. on the price of Friday ;- Vicksburg Bank and Mohawk Vtilroad Company improved about 1 per cent. Sales of United States Bank at 119 i. moder a t e amount o f b us i ness i n exc h ange on P a ri s was done for troasmission by the Havre packet-ship Burgundy, 11 1 sf. 15 a sf . 16i . A b out 18 ,0 00 dollars, i n specie, have a l so been shipped by this vessel, chiefly in Spanish dollars. in sterling exchange .nolurtber transactions have taken Place. We have New Orleans advices to the Ist instant The rise of water in the upper rivers had caused a slight improve ment in business, and the stock of Western produce had been Considerably rep lenished it was still feared, however, that the rivers might beelosed with ice before a sufficient supply of Produce for the winter had been received. The Money Market had been very tight throughout the week, the rates for good short paper having ruled at 2 to 2i per cent. per 1 40 nth, and for e aper at 12 er cent. per annum. t was also probable mortga th a t p no improveme p nt would take place until the Banks had resumed specie payments. Exchange Engla o d continued at 10 to 11 per cent. premium, and specie at 2to 3 per cent. premium. In domestic Exchange 11 0 change of moment had occurred. The transactions in cotton had been fully 16,000 bales for the week, at an ad !Ellice of per cent. on the prices of the previous week; but little business has yet been done fur the Liverpool market. THE AFFAIR AT HARRISBURG. P ENNSYLVANIA.—We give below the latest accounts we !'ave received from this State at the time of writing. It will been seen, the troops have left Philadelphia for Harrisburg, had as amongst them arc companies commanded by officers who are acknowledged members of the Loco Foco party, !'.rid as, n o d ou b t, many of t h e pr i vates also are, we conc l u d e that all have come to the determination to maintain the su- Preinacy of the law. P HILDELPHI DEC. 9.—The troops that left here on Saturday morning were advanced only about thirty miles at fiv tle clock, p.m. There is a report, that the Senate of the tete, which, which, S aturda y , recollect, is decidedly Whig, ( e ld a meeting on and sent a message to the "big) House of Representatives, sitting at Wilson's. The roesult w e do not know. The earnest desire of the friends of rder, in H • arrisbur this city, is, that there should be no yielding, in g, of any one principle; and that no offer of com promise s h a ll be entertained while the town is crowded w i th n ° i 5 Y Jacobins that have disgraced it for some days past. Ti wHE CHURCH.—ITS FRIENDS AND ITS ENEMIES.— ° this day g i ve our rea d ers a secon d p or ti on o f th e ad essay on the Rornanising "Tracts for the Trries,`. from the Church. of England Quarterly I?er ieu; and also some very pertinent remarks on the same subject from the Morning Herald. • The' dan gerous ten d ency o f t h e " T rac t s f or th e Times" is fully proved in the articles to which we hav e referred : but there is another sort of evidence : hich may be brought to bear with still greater force POll the subject —we mean the expressed opinions of . pu l l writers in reference to these tracts. Our t r e i ader s may be aware of the existence of the Dublin ~,u arte rlY Review—a publication which was started t he leadi ng organ o f th e P a pi s t s i n th e United j p n g d ° ll ), and which is edited by Dr. Wiseman, (a suit,) Mr. Q u i n , an d M r . D an i e l O'Connell.— s iP rt lY after th e series o f "Tracts" e m an ating from .1 , ? r • Puse x and his school was commenced, the Dublin tilt readily av a iled itself of the weapons which t : Oxford di v i nes f urn i s h e d f or t h e purpose o f at king Prot es t an ti sm . That our readers may judge of e I ' ile Pyish tendency of the " Tracts for the Times," e shall transcribe a few passages from this Popish t il h e"ew. The most sceptical must be convinced by e foll owing language, that we are merely perform 14e a d uty to the Church by exposing the writings in question - - tob ,:e see lea rne d an d zea l ous , and we have reason in e ' l eve, in some instances, amiable men, contend 6b) Me spirit which belongs to a better church and ett er anuse in favour of a rigid adherence to prin tbiP'" 'and doctrines which we must approve; yet, ereb, feR „,d • departing from the consistency of their pro_n :--I,;lait, and betraying how powerless they are i rr w ri i r 'in the weapons which it has long since blunted, then thrown aside " - v v i: j ' e t t ! is nut difficult . to discover the secret springs *ri „ ', l ave been here at work; and inasmuch astliere %%l found the latent germs of principles which we n) '° u; r lu f g l ,adlY see avowed in the face of heaven, we co sati - ob e . i „ an interest in watching the course of the ac iro" l'b e Party i n t h e c h urc h, t o w hi c h D r . H am pd en ' s b e rgners [Lite ma j or i ty o f D r . H amp d en ' s impugners typ e n ot to this "party"] belong, hold their only untli , 1 , 11 , semi -visible church to have existed pure, tQntday, amidst the wilder theories of Proles n44,"sui ; always bearing with it some precious . rem qnrb-s a " relics of good old Catholicity, upholding the apii,°lltative teaching of Christ's Church, and the true 144 ° Y of his sacraments, and reverencing and per hor;.regretting many of those institutions which the le4n e of the Reformation recklessly swept away." bte woul7 doubt not that those who signed the report alw. Berously and earnestly maintain that such has -Ad a 4Y , been the conduct and the belief of their church. Ple sr ; w e wish it had been so. For had these princi- Wuoi d e 7 l , always practically upheld in England, never r ent t h s : le skid separation have occurred, which has no we , -- 's country from its mother church. Others, rhes.. eer, w ip not so ea4ly see the conformity between w ax L einles and those whereon the Reformation thit,Clginally based, but will refuse to believe that the r e of separation which it was intended at the new ° that event to place between Popery and the her, reli gion, was in reality so thin a film as it must a ppear. ,, It h aVe only another illustration of what Catholics ti et ?Peatedl y o b served, that if two contending par to to se , la the P rotestant church, the one is driven tor ts t.ne other wi t h S oc i nianism, and that other re what with the accusat i on of Popery. It only confirms Pri nei ev i erY Catholi c must feel, that the rejection of a lea st, I t " of auth or i ty necessarily leads, theoretically at trei sto ° the rejection of all mystery, and so to Socini son or : Wl , li le its adoption obliges its supporter to rea son par PrilleiPles purely Catholic. This tendency of t Y a t Oxford tO run into Catholic principles for _shelter, has necessarily attracted the attention of many." "If they would fearlessly pursue their own doctrines to their farthest consistent conclusions, they would surely. find that they have unguardedly, perhaps un knowingly, rejected the principles of the Reformation, and returned to, thoughts and feelings which belong to other times, or at least to another church." "Nothing can be more clear, than that, in the Established Church, there has been a series of learned divines whose opinions approximated greatly to those of Catholic's . ; who thought that the Reformation, how ever necessary, overdid its work. .They have regret ted the licentiousness of religious opinion which it in troduced, by removing the wholesome and necessary restraint of a dogmatic authority in the church. But is it fair to identify the opinions of these men, how ever learned, with the establishment to which they be longed? Were they, in the first place, ever considered otherwise than as a party, or, if you prefer it, a part of the Anglican church ? Were there not always many who opposed them in their views ? Can it even be said that the great body of the flock followed them in their doctrines, and claimed not, rather in their de spite, the privilege of individual judgment ? And has not the growing increase of sectarianism proved that the body of their church insists on this right, and ex ercises it to the utmost ? And, in the second place, is not the very complaint, so constantly uttered by this party, of too much having been done at the Reforma tion, the regret that outward pomp of worship, and many religious institutions, were then abolished, a sufficient proof that they represent not those who caused and accomplished that unhappy Revolution? "No one, we believe, save themselves, will main tain that they represent the English church, such as the Reformation intended it to appear, in harsh and unyielding contrast to the Catholic doctrine on the subject." _ _ "Divines of this class, whether living or dead, have ,een more than once subservient to the spread of Ca- tholicity. The late Mr. Vaughan, of Leicester, was ever most assiduous in preaching to his Protestant flock, on the high church doctrine of authority in mat ters of faith, on the sin of dissent, and the unsafety of those who submitted and adhered not to the church; and the consequence was, that several of his congre gallon, convinced by his arguments, hutfollowingthero up to their real conclusions, passed over to the Catho lic faith, and became zealous members of our holy re ligion. We had the pleasure of being acquainted with one who for years had exercised the ministry in the established religion, but became a convert to the truth, and, in his old age, took orders in the church. We asked him, on one occasion, by what course he had been brought to embrace our religion, with so many sacrifices. He informed us, that be had always been a zealous high churchman, and had studied and held the opinions of the old [no, not the old,—but the innovat ing Laudite] English divines. He had thus firmly upheld the authority of the church ; he had believed in the real presence of Christ's body and blood in the blessed Eucharist; he had regretted the destruction of ceremony and religious symbols in worship, and had fully satisfied himself, on the authority of. his leaders, that many Catholic practices, usually much decried, were blameless, and might be even salutary. His re ligious principles being thus formed upon the doctrines of that school, he could not avoid noticing that, prac tically, they were not held by the church in which he had learnt them ; he looked around him for some place where they might be found, and, to his astonish ment, discovered, that among Catholics his theory of Christianity alone existed in a perfect and harmonious scheme. He had little or nothing to change; he merely transferred his allegiance from a party to a church, and became a Catholic, that he might remain a consistent Protestant !" In our next we shall follow up this subject at greater length. THE COTTON TRADE.—The brokers have just pub. lished their annual supplementary statement of the stock of cotton in the port of Liverpool on the 31st of December, 1838. This document being of considera ble importance, we offer no apology for its insertion, at length, in our, present publication. We have no room for the tabular details which are annexed to it, but we furnish the following analysis. The total amount of cotton imported into Liverpool during the last three years has been as follows : In 1836 In 1837 In 18.38 1,329,647 Thus showing an increase for the last year, as com pared with the preceding, of 292,442, and as compared with 1836, of 306,057. What will the Manchester anti-corn-law croakers say to this important fact? The following statement exhibits the comparative amount of imports into the ports of Liverpool, Lon don, and Glasgow, during the last three years : 1836. 1837. 1838. Liverpool .. 1,022,590 1,036,205 1,328,647 London.... 107,551 65.696 43,570 Glasgow .. 70,017 74,270 56,560 Total 1,200,158 1,176,171 1,428,777 Showing an increase in the total amount of imports, comparing 1838 with 1837, of 252,606, and comparing 1838 with 1836, of 228,619. The exports of cotton from the ports of Liverpool, London, 4-.nd Glasgow, during the last three years, have been as follow : 183 G. 1837. 1838. Liverpool London ...... 60,300 51,400 40,900 Glasgow Total 107,899 124,980 102,370 Showing a decrease in the exports for the , last year, as compared with 1837, of 22,610, and as compared with 1836, of 5,529. The comparative statement of stocks in the ports of Liverpool, London, and Glasgow, on the 31st of De cember, for the last three years, gives the following .esult 1836. 1837. 1838. Li v erpool .. . London Glasgow 23,590 24,370 26,300 Total • The following statement furnishes the particulars of he stock in Liverpool on the 31st December, 1838: Sea Island 3220 Stained Ditto Upland Orleans, &c 98050 Mobile Total American lB9lOO 189100 Pernambuco Bahia Ma ranharn Minas . 11720 . 8230 . 9050 . 100 Total Brazil 29100 29100 Egyptian Demarara Laguayra Peruvian Carthagena Barbados Bahamas Common West India 5320 5320 640 640 250 250 840 840 4640 4640 130 130 20 20 80 80 Surat Madras Bengal ... 16510 ... 400 ... 580 Total of East India 17490 17490 Smyrna Manilla 700 700 30 30 Total Stock in Liverpool on 31st December 248340 Total IMPORT into Great Britain in 1838 : Liverpool . • .. 1,328,647 London 43,570 Scotland 1,6:•:,117 108,570 1,579,547 and other parts of Europe is less now than it was du ring the five years succeeding the peace ; the crafty orators intending to persuade ignorant people that the cotton manufacture of this country generally has been, and is retrograding; and the Sun newspaper, with re ference to the statements made at the Manchester meeting, actually writes of the deplorable state of decay of our cotton manufacture ! Is this represen tation (whether asserted or insinuated) true ? or is it false ? Let the facts answer. During the five years succeeding the pence we believe the whole consumption of Great Britain scarcely amounted weekly to 2,000 bales ; since that it has continually been going on increasing with wonderful rapidity, and the weekly consumption is now estimated at 24,000 bales ; and let it never be forgotten how large a proportion of this enormous increase is con sumed in our own country. The import last year amounted to nearly 1,500,000 bales; yet observe the feverish anxiety of the manufacturers at this moment, lest the import should prove inadequate to their wants : 70,000 bales were sold in Liverpool alone last week. These facts will convince every one that the Manchester petition is an unjust and malicious state ment, probably the jaundiced effusion of a few unrea sonable and discontented men, whose avaricious de sires of profit are diiappointed by the daily increase of le number of their manufacturing competitors. With regard to the corn.laws,—if Mr. Sandars (we presume our respected townsman) attended that meet• ing from patriotic motives, why did he not inform his auditors that our corn laws aie nut the cause of the present high prices of corn in this country—why did he not inform them that the advance was occasioned by the failure of the harvest, and that the advance would not have been so great, had not our corn laws been rendered almost inoperative from the following causes: viz., That the harvests of the United States and of Canada failed to such an extent, in 1836 and 1837, that immense quantities of grain and flour were 'actually sent from this country to New York, in addi tion to our sending almost the entire . supplies of Ca nada, New Brunswick, Nuva Scotia, Newfoundland, the West Indies, Brazil, and other countries commonly supplied from the United States. The .Crops also failed for two or three years in Australia, which coun try also was supplied from England. These singular and unexpected demands had drained off the stocks of bonded.wheat and flour from this country ; and when the ungenial weather threatened to destroy our har vest, particularly as the crops in many of the more northern parts of the empire had failed for the last two years, a very great advance took place in the price of grain ; but, although almost inoperative from the pre ceding causes, yet the beautiful working of our corn laws was seen to great advantage : the duty declined to the nominal rate of Is., and an immense quantity of grain came into consumption, and immediately re duced the price. Why did not Mr. S. inform them that seventeen cargoes of wheat arrived at Southamp ton from France in one day, and that no doubt France, Belgium, and other countries, will continue to pour wheat into this country till the price declines ? But this cliMax of our corn laws is the very thing Mr. S. declines. Mr. S. had the boldness to tell the Manchester meet- ing, that the proper object of corn laws is not to keep down the price of corn, but only to equalize our prices with the prices of other, nations; in other words, to reduce and degrade our farmers to the rude, comfort less, savage state of Russian - serfs, or force them to abandon the production of grain in this country. The price of grain must fluctuate, because its pro duction depends on our uncertain climate : but the direct effect of our corn laws is to keep down the price of corn. This is admitted by Mr. S , and by every person who understands the subject. We conclude by asserting, that the true and wisest policy of thii country, on thie . subject, is to legislate with a view to keep down the price of grain in this country, with reasonable regard to the interest of our farmers. SHIP LAUNCH.—This forenoon, at eleven o'clock, will be launched, from ►he building-yard of Messrs. Robert Clarke and Sons, Trentham-street, a fine barque, of 360 tons, be longing to Mr. Thomas J. Hutton, and intended for the East India trade. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Christmas night, about ten o'clock, as Mr. R. Hall was returning to town from Edge hill. be was knocked down in Crown-street, by two men, who rubbed him of nine shillings, the whole of the money he had with bun, and his penknife. We learn that several robberies have recently been committed in the same neighbourhood, and recommend the police to be on the.look-out. TRIBUTE ow RESPECT.—On Wednesday, Dec. 19th, Mrs. Heath, of Sculshaw Lodge, in the name of the parishioners of Lower Peover, Cheshire, presented to the Rev. John Holme, incumbent of the parish, a handsome silk gown with scarf, and a massive tea service, which included a coffee-pot, tea-pot, sugar basin, cream ewer, &c., with the following in scription on the coffee-pot : `• Presented, (together with other pieces of plate, and a silk gown,) to the ltev. J. Holme, by the parishioners of Lower Peover, in testimony of their sincere regard and esteem for his faithful aud adectionate discharge of the duties of his pastoral office, during a period of ten years." And on Christmas day, was also presented to the same rev. gentleman, by his hearers attending Nether Tably Chapel, a beautiful silver pocket communion service, together with four richly chased silver candlesticks, snuffers and tray, with an inscription, expressive of their sincere re spect towards him, both in his religious aud moral character. LIVERPOOL CHESS CLUB.—This society, which' now miss ters nearly sixty members, many of them excellent players, continues to hold its meetings at the Lyceum, Bold-street. Considering that the privilege of entrée is confined to the sub cribers to the News-room or Library, the club has made great progress in the short space of twelve months, during which time it has been established. T he members are now engaged in a contest by correspendeuce with the Leeds Chess Club, and from what we have seen of the play on each side,. the match is likely to become of interest. It was proposed by the Leeds Club that the losers should pay the expenses, and pre sent the winners with a set of chess-men as a trophy of victory; but fearing that thie might be construed by those who were opposed to the formation of the chess club into an act of gambling, the Liverpool club declined the proposal, and each party accordingly pay their own expenses. The Leeds club musters more than thirty members, and is generally consi dered a strong club. We trust, however, for the honour of our town, that the Liverpool club may be the winner, and to this end we hope it wilt be joined by every good chess player in the town, as will doubtless be the case in Leeds. Union is strength, and the batttle is not one of chance, but of intel lect. LECTURES ON PHYSIOLOGY AND THE LAWS OF HEALTH. —The sixth of this popular course of lectures on the laws of health was delivered on Friday evening. Dr. Thorburn was evidently suffering considerably from a severe cold, though no apology was made to the audience, nor their indulgence towards him requested, in addition to the business explana tion which the Secretary of the Literary and Commercial Institution very properly tendered on k ridgy week. The lecture-room was crowded. The subject of physical educa tion was concluded, together with an exposition of the ner vous system. Systematic exercise of all the muscles of our bodies constituted the most prominent topic of comment. Spinal complaints, " twists," and distorted or cork-screw backs, in Dr. T.'s opinion, not only are traceable to neglect of exercise in youth, and particularly in the case of young ladies at boarding-schools, but are generally curable under an appropriate system of muscular exercise, with attention to diet. He said that the latter (diet) should be regulated in accordance with the state of the skin and stomach. Every other guide was fallacious.—The nervous system was next explained, with the functions of the brain, namely, judgment, memory, imagination, &c. The science of phrenology was likewise explained, and the merits and phautasies of that part of it called craniology were reviewed in succession. Dr. T. stated that he was a phreuologist, but not an ultra craniologist. The distinction between those epithets was briefly but perspicuously stated. Phrenology meant "mind discourse." Such was a literal translation of the Atticisrn or Greek compound from which it was derived. his other wise with craniology, or crazy -ology, as its enemies nick narom.l it, Based, - however, on observation and experience, as craniology is, candid enquirers cannot tenably withhold their admission that its general principles are correct, though they at e unquestionably overlaid with ridiculous assumptions of preation, and much wildness in detail. Craniology was but an extension, to the surface of the bead, of the principle of externalism; just as the physiognomy of Lavater was founded on the observation of symptoms in the face, with their conversion into signs of what they indicated within. The nervous system was too extensive to be concluded within the limits of a single lecture; he should therefore finish the course on the 7th of January, when be proposed to discuss sleep with reference to health ; also the laws of a sound mind, eccentricity, genius, imbecility, and madness. From the interesting nature of insanity, with popular illustrations, the last lecture, to be delivered on the evening of Monday next, will doubtless be as numerously attended as any of those that have preceded it.— Herald. Tax CANADIAN STATE PRISONERS. —Proceedings have, we understand, been taken to try the question of the legality of the process under which these prisoners, twenty-four in number, have been transported from CanaosAo this country, on their way to a penal colony in the southern hemisphere. From the day of their arrival, Monday fortnight, until Satur day morning, no person, save the officers of the Borough Gaol, had been allowed, so strict was the durance under which they were kept, to have access to them. On Saturday morn ing, however, Mr. Roebuck arrived, from London, with a Judge's order to enter the gaol and to have communication with the prisoners. The order was, we believe, given in con sequence of a joint affidavit made by Mr. Hume and Mr. i;oebuck, that they had reason to believe the process under which the prisoners had been committed was informal and, consequently, illegal, and that they were entitled to their li berty. At the same time, writs of Habeas Corpus were issued, to bring the bodies of the prisoners before the Court of Queen's Bench, where Mr. Roebuck will be prepared to argue the il legality of the process. The learned gentleman, immediately on his arrival here, served the Justices and the Gaoler with formal notices not to deliver up the bodies of the prisoners until the writs of Habeas Corpus should arrive from London. We hear, that these notices were given, in consequence of its having been intended to remove the prisoners, in the course of Saturday, on board a Queen's vessel, to be conveyed to Portsmouth for transportation to New South Wales. The Sun, of Saturday, contains the following statement respecting the proceedings we have mentioned :—" We have just been informed, that writs of Habeas Corpus have been issued, this morning, to bring up the Canadian prisoners before Mr. Jus tice Littledale. The writs were obtained upon the application of Mr. Roebuck as counsel. Many of the prisoners are said to have had no trial, and it is believed, that others have been tried before incompetent tribunals. The former class of cases is obviously of great importance, as involving the question, whether a person can be transported as a felon from this country, and by the British Government, without having ever had a trial." We understand, that nine of the prisoners, in cluding Mr, Parker, were never tried,— Albion. THE ANNUAL CIRCULAR OF THE LIVERPOOL COTTON BROKERS, LINERPOOL, 31ST DrCESIIIER, 183 The memorable events of last year were of too remarkable a character not to leave some traces behind them upon the mercantile affairs of the following, and perhaps of several succeeding years. Although the storm which at one time threatened the dissolution of the whole American interest had happily abated before the close of the year, it had pro duced mischief so extensive, and bad disclosed evils of such magnitude, that the necessity for a change in the system of commercial intercourse between the two countries seemed to be acknowledged by common consent. Business, in passing from its accustomed channels, in anticipation of this transi tion, became more circumscribed, and what with the want of coofidence, or of means, a larger portion of the crop remained unshipped than had been known for a number of years. Hence, it was rather hastily concluded by some, that under the influence of the same circumstances the supplies of the coming year would be more or less retaidedi but it was scarcely probable that a couutry so fertile of resources under difficulties as America, would suffer her credit and her com- merce to languish from causes of a purely financial nature. Arrangements were accordingly made, through facilities afforded by the Bank of the United States, and of several minor Banks of the Union, for the shipment of Cotton on an unprecedently extensive scale. It was easy to foresee that the effect of an operation conducted on such a principle. backed by unlimited means, and uncontrolled in a great Measure by those prudential motives which impose a whole some restraint upon private enterprise, would not only be to stimulate the import in an extraordinary manner, but to place the fate of the cotton mai ket, whether for good or evil, in the hands of one interest, if not of a single individual. The consequences likely to result from this combination of circumstances were variously estimated, though the balance of opinion certainly inclined to the unfavourable side, as re garded the prospect for Cotton. Nor were these apprehen sions allayed by the declared intentions of the Bank Party not to press their Cotton unseasonably upon the market. The general importers were free sellers from first to last, and light as were the stocks and imports in January and Febru ary, all descriptions of American fell about id W lb; and although the supplies in the following month still continued inoderate,a further reduction took place of id to Id lb. Early in April, prices hiid reached their lowest point, having then declined fully lid lb since the 31st Dec.: and it is a fact deserving of particular notice, that during a season of the heavie s t i m p or t w hi c h h as been known for many years, and with a stock generally , approaching, and for several weeks exceeding, half a million of bags, they did not fluctuate more than id ff , ' lb for six or seven months. Neither were prices at any moment during this period unduly depressed, fair Orleans having never fallen below 62d 1 % 16, Uplands 61d IY lb, and Alabamas 6d 1: lb, other qualities " • .• ruling in proportion. This long-continued steadiness may, no doubt, in part be ascribed to the total freedom from any thing like pressure in money matters which prevailed throughout the year; but the market, nevertheless, would nave sunk under the weight of stock and import, had it not been for the holding policy of the Bank party. Of the enormous quantity received by this interest., amounting to upwards of 250,000 bags, or more than a fifth of the entire import from the States, 170,000 bags re mained on hand at the end of September. By the middle of October, the market being pretty well cleared of the general import Cotton, a scarcity in the midst of abundance began to be felt, and such of the trade as were lightly stocked be- came sensible of the critical position in which tiiey might be placed before the end of the year. Under this impression, some heavy purchases were made; but the consumers as a body not participating in the alarm, the demand continued only for a few weeks; the same apathy prevailed on the part of the trade till the last week of the year, when more symp toms of uneasiness were manifested, under the prospect of a l►ght import, with a stock so peculiarly circumstanced. Speculators, however, took a more decided view. In the eleven weeks between the 13th October and 28th December, of the total business, amounting to 486.500 bags, no less tha❑ 201,000 bags were_onspeculation, with a gradual and steady adv . ance of to I W lb' each week, (with one slight pause in November,) or lid to lid ctp tb, the closing prices being as nearly as possible the same as the year before. It is a singu lar feature in the history of these speculations, that they ori ginated with, and for some time were confined to, a particular interest; and this fact, in the absence of any very intelligi ble grounds for the movement, created a suspicion in the minds of some, (and which may explain in part the indiffe rence of the trade,) that they were the result of management or contrivance. If the respectability of the parties concerned were not sufficient to negative such a supposition, recent ad vices from the States have supplied a motive arising out of the declared intentions of the Bank, which had probably been already initiated, and bad been suffered to transpire, for reasons perfectly consistent with policy and gond faith. The advices of a partial failure of the crop came most oppor tunely in aid of these operations, and the infusion of a new set of buyers gave a fresh impetus to the market. It may, however, be remarked of these transactions, that, whether from the discredit which was thrown upon them in the out set, or from a disbelief of the reasons assigned, they cer tainly failed in engaging the sympathies of the trade, or of that large class of purchasers generally so sensitive of any change. The preceding observations have reference entirely to American Colton. In other descriptions there is nothing deserving of particular notice. The import of Brazil has been liberal, whilst that of Egyptian has fallen short of last year, owing rather to the caprice and anti-commercial no tions of the Pacha, than to a deficiency in the growth. Of Surats, also, the supply is somewhat less; and the prospect of troubles in the East has made them an object of specula- Lion, especially during the last few weeks. - For the particulars of the Stocks and Imports into this and other Ports, reference is requested to the annexed Tables, for which the annual cr,mpliment may be claimltd for their accu racy, as shown by their generally exact correspondence with the periodical statements which emanate from this Associa tion. The enormous increase of 267,000 bags in the import from the United States will, no doubt, attract attention What portion of this may be due to the unshipped balance of the crop of 1836, and what to the increase of that of 1837, it is not easy to determine; perhaps it may be equally divi ded between the two; but it is quite certain that this year, at least, the country has been completely swept of the whole of its disposable produce. The deliveries to the trade appear to have been 1,258,4,57 bags, making the consumption, allow ing the trade to hold 60,000 bags more than last year, 23,041 bags, being an increase of 13 per cent. In hazarding an opinion as to the future, an important consideration is suggested by the experience of this year, which has furnished a striking proof that the state of prices is much those dependant on th distribution of the stock than on its actual amount. This truth is illustrated by the posi tion of affairs at the present moment; and from the move ments of certain parties in the United States known to be in close connexion with the bank, the same influence will pro bably be extended over the operations of another year; though whether in the same degree, or only by way of de monstration to cover a retreat in this market, seems still to be a matter of doubt. In either case the effect, or at least the policy will be, to keep back the supplies, and, as a con sequence, to leave the buyers for the next two months, per haps, at the mercy of the speculators and of one Interest. The trade, though as a body fairly stocked, cannot afford wholly to turn a deaf ear to the confident predictions of a short crop; and the fears of some, and the necessities of others, acting upon a feverish market, may, for the moment, force up prices to a point which neither reason nor calcula tion can justify. It is obvious, however, that the excite ment, (which has already begun to abate,) being the result of temporary causes, will be of no long duration; and the matter for inquiry is, bow far it is warranted by considera tions of a more permanent nature, apart from those adventi tious circumstances which gave it birth. On the subject of the crop, a great diversity of opinion exists, which involves this p ar t o f th e ques ti on in more un certainty than usual. It is variously estimated from 1,500,000 bags to 1,700,000 bags, the truth probably lying between thuse extremes. Assuming, then, 1,600,000 bags as the amount of the crop, Great Britain may fairly claim 900,000 bags, leaving 700,000 bags for France and for the home-consumption of America. To this amount 30,000 bags should be added, beins , that portion of, the succeeding crop which until this year' has almost always been received in the last two months of the year. The import from other quarters into the king dom cannot safely be taken at less than that of the present year, viz. 305,000 bags. The stock in Liverpool this day is 248,340 bags, in London 46,450 bags, and in Glasgow 26,300 bags; and the trade are supposed to hold 60,000 bags more— always a moot-point—than at the same period last year. The aggregate quantity, therefore, from these different sources. for the service of the ensuing year, is 1,616,090 bags. The demand upon this stock will be, for consump,:on, 1,248,080 bags, (or 24,000 bags ty week, being an increase of only 4 if' cent. npon that of the present year.) and for re-exportation to ports of the continent other than France, the same as this year, 102,000 bags, together 1,350,000 bags, leaving, accord ing to these data, a stock in the Ports at the close of the year of 266,080 bags, supposing the trade to have reduced in the course of the year their stock to the amount as at this time last year. These estimates are based upon what may be considered the average belief of tho , .e I'o are conversant with the subject. It would far exceed the limits of a publication like this to enter into minute details; and were it otherwise, there is something delusive in the attempt to prophesy by an appeal to elaborate statements of facts and figures, the precise course of a branch of commerce which, aboveall others, is beset with the elements of uncertainty. Viewed without reference to disturbing, causes, the supplies, if nut very ample, are likely to be'adequate to the wants of the trade, and sufficient to remove all apprehen sions of a positive scarcity. It must be admitted, on the other hand, that the estimated surplus, considering the scale of the Cotton business, is rather below than above what it ought to be; and in the event of an extensively organised speculation, such as that just witnessed, being set on foot towards the close of the year, it would oppose but a feeble resistance to an ad vance of prices. But the year will probably throughout be one of much excitement; for the prospects for trade are en couraging, and with a large and increasing censumption, acting upon a stock comparatively small, an artificial scarcity, by whatever means brought about, would produce all the effects of a real one. The consumption, it will be be observed, has exceeded that of last year by 13 per cent.; but many causes have con tributed to this resultfichich are not likely to occur again next year, or if they do, in a less degree; as fur instance, the low price of the raw material; the replenishing of the stocks in the home and other markets, which had been exhausted during the comtnercial embarrassment of the previous year; the uninterrupted harmony which has subsisted between the operatives and their masters ; and above all, the fact that the demand for heavy Goods and for low numbers of Yarns has been disproportionably large. Still, however, no reasonable doubt can exist but that some, and perhaps a considerable increase will take place in the consumption, unless checked by high prices. But the points upon which the question mainly hinges are, the amount of the import, and the policy intended to be pursued by the American Bank Party, and the two appear to be inseparably connected. The facilities which are offered to the planters and others must have a ten dency to encourage shipments; and further, the compara tively high prices at which tbis market will open is a strong inducement of itself to the independent shipper; and thus a a larger portion of the crop may possibly find its way to this country than had been calculated upon. Whether there be an excess of import from this or any other cause, will not be ascertained till an advanced period of the year, when also the secret of the crop will be revealed. Meanwhile, the market will be agitated by conflicting accounts as to expected sup plies, and will have its seasons of elevation and depression; but if the Bank Cotton Interest be directed with the same steady hand as during last summer, the ruinous consequences of extremes in prices may be greatly mitigated, or averted. Upon a subject so surrounded by contingencies, the best in formation upon which is exceedingly vague, any prediction must be considered merely an approximation; and with this saving clause, the foregoing observations may be summed up with an opinion, that the present prices will be maintained till the full season of supply, when, as in almost all former years, they may be expected to yield to the pressure of im port, unless, in the mean time, the apprehensions of a defici ency in- the crop obtain a more general belief. The settle ment of this all-important question would of course regulate the market for the remainder of the year; but, assuming the import into the kingdom to be as above, a justification of the present prices, or thereabouts, will be found in the moderate amount of the estimated stock in the ports at the end of the year, which, though sufficiently large to forbid all idea of a scarcity, cannot certainly be considered excessive for an ar ticle of the first necessity, and one of the great staples of the country. OLD ENGLISH HOSPITALITY.--John Clare, Esq., of Fairfield Hall, provided the inmates of Warrington work house, on Christmas day, with roast beef and plum-pudding, and one pint of ale each for dinner. Bread and cheese for supper for the men. Tea for the women, and a large bun and spiced ale for the children. He also gave tobacco to the men, and, to crown all, the old women, were treated with " spiced ale" at night. There are at present one hundred and forty persons in the house. -- 1,428,777 Stock Dec. 31, 1837 .. 259,340 EXPORTED. From London Liverpool Clyde Burnt 40,900 60,500 970 6,200 PRESENT STOCK Liverpool London Clyde 248,340. 46,450 26,300 Leaving the deliveries for HOME CONSUMPTION from the ports of 1,258,457 Great Britain 321,090 Or about 24,201 bags weekly. •We defy the Manchester Anti Corn Law Associa tion or its organs to draw from the preceding state ments any conclusion unfavourable to the operation of the Corn Laws. It will be perceived that the succeeding remarks were penned previously to the appearance at the brokers' annual statements. THE MANCHESTER ANTI-CORN LAW AGITATORS. At the Manchester anti•corn law meeting, held mon ly, it was asserted that the operation of our corn laws has been injurious to the cotton manufacturing inte rests for several years; in illustration of which it was mentioned that our export of cotton goods to France POLICE INTELLIGENCE. EXCISE INFORMATION.—On Thursday last, a man named William Gray, who had before been imprisoned for offences against the excise laws, was brought before Mr. Ilall, at the ; Police-office, at the instance of Mr. Gibson, officer of excise, on a charge of having sold to a publican three gallons of dlicit whiskey—a sample of which was produced. Mr. Hall said the prisoner not only distilled spirits, but went about selling it; and as he persisted in going on in the same way, he must visit him with an exemplary punishment. The ex tent of the penalty was £lOO, which the magistrates might mitigate to £25, or one-fourth. lie could not do less than convict him in £5O, or six months hard labour in the House of Correction. The prisoner was coinrnitted in default of payment. THE SMALL-TENEMENT ACT.—On Thursday, another case of ejectment was brought before Mr. Hall, at the in stance of Mr. Samuel Thomas, joiner. The applicant, by his attorney, produced the notice to quit, and the copy of the same as delivered to the tenant. The attesting witness to the latter was not, however, present, and it appeared that the signature to it, and some of the words, were different from the original notice. The case was consequently dis missed. The original notice had been correctly drawn out by Mr. Hinde's clerk, (an attorney); but in the copy, the complainant had acted for himself; and committed errors fatal to his plea. DISGRACEFUL ASSAULT.—On Friday, a publican, named Robinson, was brought before Mr. Hall, on a charge of hav ing grievously assaulted a Poligh boy, named Joseph Moyse. The complainant said, in broken but intelligible English, that he had gone into the defenthint's house, where he had often called before, to endeavour to sell some of his little wares, (pencils, toys, &c.,) when the defendant and some other men got hold of him, poured beer upon his head, then put sawdust upon it, and finally cut off part of his hair, which had hung in ringlets down his neck. An alibi was attempted to be proved, but failed. Mr. Hall gave the accused an op portunity of making the matter up with the complainant, but this being declined, the unmanly assailant was amerced in a fine ot4)s. and costs, or three weeks imprisonment in the Borough Gaol. A SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER.—On Friday, Joseph Scho field, a youth of rather flashy exterior, and who had before been in custody under suspicious circumstances, was brought before Mr. Hall, at the Police-court. A police constable stated, that on the previous night he saw the prisoner in com pany with another person, standing in Trowbridge-street, and that on his going up, they separated in a rather remark able way. On going a little further on his round be saw the prisoner. who immediately ran away, throwing a box of Lu cifer matches (produced) into an entry. The prisoner gave a very doubtful account of himself, and his mode of life, and was committed to Kirkdale House of Correction for 14 days. STEALING TIN.—On Friday, an old offender, named John Bebbington, was brought before Mr. Hall, on a charge of stealing a block of tin, value £1 14s. 2d. from the premises of M r. Lewis, Upper Frederick-street. It appeared that the prisoner had broken into the warehouse, and carried off the tin, and that while carrying it, wrapped up, in Dale-street, he was detained by one of the police constables. Information being given, it was found that it had been taken from Mr. Lewis's the same night. He was committed for trial at the sessions. A SYSTEMATIC THIEF.—On Friday, at the Police-office, a woman, named Sarah Cole, was fully committed to take her trial at the sessions, on a charge of having robbed ber mistress of a shawl. The prisoner, a native of Wales, was a servant, and, it appears, had changed her place as often as she thought. it convenient for heiself—she having contrived to purloin some article or other from each of her employers in succession for a length of time. A ROUGH CorsFsssoa.—A master pilot was summoned before the magistrates to answer a complaint preferred by his wife. Mr. Davenport appeared for the complainant. He said that she resided in Ray-street, and that the defendant, her husband, was in the constant practice of going home intoxicated, and behaving in a very riotous manner. Tuesday evening last he went home, and abused and struck his wife; and one among the various pleasant things which he said to her was, that many men had been hung for killing a woman, and he would be one of them. The defendant was in the receipt of £450 a year, and all that his wife wanted was a reasonable maintenance for herself and family. The com plainant testified to the truth of the statement of her solicitor, and added that on Tuesday night, after having beaten her, be made her go down upon her knees, and confess. Magistrate —Confess what—your sins ? Complainant—No, sir, that I was in the fault. Magistrate—And you did confess that to him ? Complainant—Yes, sir. Mr. Davenport—But she made that confession under the influence of fear. He forced her to do it. Magistrate—How often has he made you confess to him ? Complainant—Never before, sir; but he has frequently threatened to take my life. Defendant—She got me into a passion, and 1 hit her a slap on the head; that was all. I was very sorry after. Magistrate—And why did not you ask her pardon, then, instead of you forcing her to go on her knees to you ? Defendant—She never went down on her knees in her life. Ann Spencer, the servant girl, was called, who deposed that her master got a poker, and made his wife go down upon her knees, and confess that she was faulty. According to her statement, the complainant, instead of never having been having upon her knees in her life, was in the habit of kneeling down to her lord and master, and at those times "she begged and prayed very hard to him for her life." Defendant—They have made up that tale between them, sir, before they came here; they'd swear anything, would women. Magistrate—On compulsion, do you mean ? Defendant—No, not on compulsion. They'd swear a man's life away, through sheer wickedness. Magistrate—Had you not better separate ? I suppose you are quite uncomfortable together ? Defendant—No, lam not; lam quite satisfied, and do not wish to separate from her. Under these circum stances, he was ordered to find bail to keep the peace,_hiinself in £6O, and two sureties of £3O each, and to give twenty-four hours' notice. MISCONDUCT OF A POLICE-OFFICER.—On Friday, a young gentleman was brought before Mr. Hall at the Police-office, at the instance of Robert Mettle, police constable No. 258. Ritchie stated that at a late hour on the previous night, (Thursday,) a gentleman came to him and said that he (the prisoner) had knocked him down : that he (the constable) thereupon went up with another constable and collared the prisoner, who gave him (witness) a smart blow "across the chops." The alleged delinquent said that he could not re member any thing of the circumstance; and Mr. Hall ordered that he should pay a fine of 108 and costs. Mr. Martindale, the superintendent of the coach department of the police, entered the court at this moment, and stated that he regretted that the case had been decided, inasmuch as he had accident ally seen the constable (Ritchie) severely maltreat the young gentleman, by using his stave in thrusting at him. The young man (who, it appeared, had come out of the ball at the Town-hall, and was l►ttle elevated) was dancing merrily in the street while the two officers had holu of him, and Ritchie was thrusting at him with his stave. Mr. Martindale told them there was no occasion for violence in the case, and was himself aimed at by Ritchie with his baton, but avoided the blow by stooping. Ritchie denied the charge of violence against him, and said that he was surrounded by a crowd, and if he struck at Mr. Martindale, he did not know him. Mr. Hall, after finding from inquiry that Ritchie had been four teen months in the police, and had hitherto borne a good cha racter, consulted with his brother magistrate, and then address ing Ritchie, said they wished it to be understood by the police, that though the magistrates would protect them in the dis charge of their duty, they would not support them, in the slightest degree, in any dereliction of that duty; or in any uncalled-for harsh treatment of individuals. Had it not been that he (the constable) had been in the police for some time, and had hitherto conducted himself properly, the magistrates would have considered it their duty instantly to dismiss him from his office; and when once dismissed no constable could be again taken into employment. After a strong reprimand of the constable, Mr. Hall said that the decision of the bench was, that he should be suspended for one week, and forfeit his pay for that time. He then intimated to the young gen tleman charged that the fine should be remitted. ROBBERY.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a sailor, named George Williams, was charged with having stolen a bale of goods, belonging to Messrs. Walter and Morris, woollen drapers, in Lord-street. Thomas Topp, clerk to Messrs. Walter and Morris, deposed, that on Thursday evening, the 27th ult., he saw two pieces of calico, a piece of blue pilot cloth, and other articles, made into a bale. He afterwards directed the bale to Samuel Morris Rhyd Lewis, Cardigan shire. On Friday morning the bale was taken to John Jones, captain of the smack " Friends," lying in the Prince's Dock. On Friday afternoon, Captain Jones came to the shop, and gave him some information about the bale, which induced him to make some inquiries about it. He had seen the bale and opened it, and found the goods as stated. Captain Jones deposed, that about half-past ten o'clock on Friday morning, he received the bale, and signed the delivery book• for it, and left the bale under a shed. He missed the hale about half past twelve, and informed Messrs. Morris of the loss. David Lloyd, labourer at the docks, deposed, that about half-past twelve o'clock on Friday, he was at the Prince's Dock, when the prisoner said to him, " Will you help me to put a bale into a cart, and I will give you a pint of ale." The prisoner pointed out a bale to him, and he assisted him with the bale into a cart. A porter named John Jones seeing the bale re moved, suspected that all was not right, and took the number of the cart, and gave information to Captain Jones of what he had seen. Thomas Hall, constable No. 401, deposed, he was informed of the robbery, and watched the cart contain ing the bale to a shop iu Tithebarne-street, out of which he saw the prisoner coming. The prisoner was then taken into custody, and the bale was given over to Messrs. Morris. The prisoner denied the charge. He was committed to take his trial for the offence. PASSING BASE ColN.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, an old man, named Thomas Killy, was charged with having passed a base shilling at the shop of Mr. Carlyle, bookseller and stationer, in Bold-street. Miss Sarah Grace, Mr. Car lyle's shopwoman, stated, that on Saturday evening the pri soner came into Mr. Carlyle's shop, and asked for a sheet of letter paper, she supplied him, and be tendered her half-a crown. She gave him 2s. and sd. in copper, change. He then sail to her, " give tne that half-crown back." She in quired " why ?" and he repeated what he had said. She had not seen him touch the 25., and turned to the till to get the half-crown out, which she handed to him, and he put a penny to the 2s. sd. and gave it over to her, and walked out of the shop. She then discovered that one of the shillings was a bad one. The silver she had handed over to him was good. She sent the shop-boy out after him, and he was taken into custody. In his pockets were found half-a-crown, 2s. 2d. in copper, a c ounterfeit sixpence, and some white soap, used to dull the brightness of counterfeit shillings. He was re manded to await the determination of the Mint, whether ur not they intend to prosecute him. BUYING GAME OF UNLICENSEO PllESONS.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, Robert Owens, game-dealer, of Scotland road, was su mmoned bef ore th e mag i s t ra t e s, o n a cha rge of having purchased game of persons without a license, con trary to the act of parliament. Mr. Crewe appeared on the part of the defendant, and Mr. Davenport supported the complaint. Mr. Crewe took as a preliminary objection, that it did not appear on the face of the summons that the necessary depositions had been taken. Mr. Hall said it was not necessary, and overruled the objection. Bryan Orrett was then sworn, and deposed that he was a labourer, residing in Liverpool, and that on the Citli of October last be sold the defendant eight partridges, for which he received 3s. a brace. He had some conversation with the defendant about his (wit ness) having a license, and the defendant advised him to get one as it would be safer for him. The defendant knew well enough that he had no license. The defendant pro fessed to be a licensed dealer in game over his door. On be ing cross-examined by Mr. Crewe, the witness said that he was not at that time iu the custody of Thomas Roberts, the constable of . St. Asaphe, and the . informer. He had been convicted about a fortnight before for trespass, supposed to be after game, in the penalty of £2 and costs, and had paid the penalty. He had told the game-keeper he could bring some game-sellers in Liverpool to conviction. He had been in gaol in Flint two years ago for poaching. Ile could not tell how often he had been to Kirkdale House of Correction for the same offence—times past count. He could not re collect how long he bad been in his respectable profession. This was the informer's case. Mr. Crewe submitted that the witness was not a credible witness, and that he was not to be believed. He called a witness to prove that the defendant had not eight birds in his shop on the 6tb of October. Mr. Hall said this evidence went for nothing. There was no doubt the witness was a poacher, but there was no evidence to show that he had any inducement to perjure himself. The magistrates were the judges of his credibility, and it did not follow that because he was a poacher, he was not to be be lieved. The magistrates convicted the defendant in the penalty of 40s. and casts. and to be immediately paid, and in default to be committed to the House of Correction for one mouth to hard labour. Another similar information was heard against Martin Fordham, game-seller, Liverpool. Bryan Orritt deposed, that on the 4 20th of October last, he sold Martin Fordham seven pheasants for 28s.—Mr. Crewe: " Perhaps you will tell us where you got those pheasants ?"—Witness : " That's known to myself. I found 'ern."—Mr. Crewe ; " Where .. in a lane ?'--Witness: "Yea."—Mr. Crewe: " Will swear you found them in a lane?"—" No."—" Where you fi nd them ?"—(No answer.)—Mr. Hall: " Were alldead ?"--Witncss : " No; all alive."----Mr. " Where ?"--Witness: "In a net."--(A laugh.)-- Crewe: "Did you find them by chance ?"—Witness: with good seeking after."—(Laughter.)—" In what prisons, pray, have you been for poaching?"—" Ah, t: known to myself."—" Then, sir, 1 must request you I me ?"—" Then, sir, I must request that I won't tell yo (A laugh.)—The Magistrate intimated that he ought I , Mr. Crewe: " What jails were they ?"—" Oh, nothing ticular : have been in Bridewell."—" What kind wei pheasants?"—" They had long tails."—(Laughter.). Hail: " Four shillings each was a very small sum ft them for ?"—Witness : " Some of them were Young' were not as they ought to be, or else I never sell midi shillings.—(Laughter.)—Mr. Hall convicted the defe, in the same penalty. He hoped this would be a cant game-dealers They were liable to a penalty of £l' such characters as the witness were not encouraged, would cease to poach. They were acting the parts of r, ers of stolen goods in buying game under such circumsti He wished it to be understood that if any more case brought before him, he must increase the penalty. LIVERPOOL LOST. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Happening to be in the "auncient and loyale cittie" of Chester on Monday last, I called upon a most intimate acquaintance there, with the view of taking with him an early "family dinner," previous to my return home. I found my friend—who'looked, I thought, more than usually important —at home, and we had not been long seated before he told me, that be was very happy to say there was every probabi lity that Chester would soon " go a-head" of Liverpool in mercantile matters—that an important improvement of the river Dee would soon be effected—that there was to be a meeting upon the subject at the Town-hall on that day—that the Chester and Crewe Railway Company would find all the money necessary for the complete restoration of the port — that all the export trade of the Potteries would come through Chester, as the. Railway Company were about to make an extension line from Crewe to the Potteries, and also docks at Chester—and in short, said my friend, "Chester must supersede Liverpool in a very great degree." All this, you may be sure, Sir, fell upon my astonished senses like the roar of many waters. I was completely flabbergasted and obflus ticated. " What then," thought I, "is to be done? Liver pool superseded !! Psbaw ! it can't be. However, I may as well, through my very excellent friend here, get admission to the meeting, and note what passes." I therefore proposed to my friend to accompany him to the meeting, to which he at once assented; and by way of filling up the short time before the meeting, which was called for twelve o'clock, I thought it would be as well to ascertain from a professional friend in the town what the prospects of this mighty Railway Company, which had taken the port and trade of Chester under its protection, really were; and I soon learnt frOm him that the Company in question was formed two years ago, for making a railway from Chester to the Crewe station of the Grand Junction Railway, in continuation of the Birken head and Chester line—that its capital was .£250,000, such being the cost of the proposed line, as estimated by Mr. Geo. Stephenson, who is, as you know, remarkable for over-esti mating all his works—that the Company have given notices for the next session of parliament for two extensions of their line (one being from Crewe to the Potteries), and for ducks at Chester;—all which, it is supposed, is to be executed out of their £250,000. On my asking whether the rich men in the Potteries were earnest supporters of these plans, my friend answered, "Not one: 1 believe," said he, "there is nut a shareholder in the Potteries." With this information I re turned to the friend with whom I bad fixed to attend the meeting, and away we wear. Arrived at the Town-hall, I found a few respectably-dressed persons assembled, and the business already begun; my friend whispering me that it was a very full meeting, though this did not appear to me, perhaps from my having been accustomed to attend meetings here : there appeared about as many present as one sees at a broker's office on an important sale-day. The Mayor was in the chair, and on our entrance was stating that a committee of gentlemen in the town bad some time ago subscribed to obtain Sir John Rennie's opinion upon the capabilities of the river, and the chairman of that committee was called upon to state what had been done; this he 'did, and he also stated that another opinion upon toe subject had been volun teered by Mr. Russell, which it appeared differed in some very essential points from that of Sir John Rennie. A gen tleman whose oratorical flourishes—of his hand!—gave pro mise of something great, then made a statement of the num ber of vessels trading to Chester, with the tonnage, &c.; and I was led to imagine. from the large way he talked of the important commercial interests of Chester, that he must be one of the leading merchants of the place. Judge of my astonishment and amusement, Mr. Editor, when I learnt that he was—a milliner !! A milliner talking of ships and tonnage!! ! Shade of the immortal Gresham! can such things be, and thou not leave thy blest abodes to assume mortality, and wither with a look the presumptuous wretch who, leaving his caps and bonnets, dares to meddle with i matters fit only at the . present day for the masculine genius of a Baring or a Browne ! Not to trouble you, Mr. Editor, with all that passed at this celebrated meeting—the committee which had paid Sir John Rennie for his report and survey was superseded, (I could not exactly see why,) and another appointed to consider what shall be done, and to report to a future meeting. A very respectable old gentleman iu spectacles here very mildly rather insinuated that the committee named was a little too like a " second edition uncorrected" of the Chester and Crewe Railway directory, and that it would not be for the welfare of the town that this matter should fall from the hands of one grasping public company into those of another. These observations were met by the Mayor (who appears, like one or two of our own "dear cousins and Councillors," always ready to shew fight) in a flippant and, for a chair man, most unbecoming speech, apparently because he hap pened to be a railway shareholder; and he was "followed on the same side," as the lawyers say, by a powerfully angry little gent in black, who evidently stands well with himselt, and tried hard to make the meeting believe him the fine fellow he takes himself for :—he, I was told, is one of the bankers of the company. A gentleman near us, on the names of the new or substituted committee being read over, appeared exceeding wroth, declaring that the best interests of the town had fallen iuto the bands of a clique—that the former committee ought to have been reappointed, as they had spent their money in inquiries into the subject--that Sir John Rennie ought to have been called upon to review his former opinion—and that he was quite sure it would all end in smoke. Being determined to let you know all the ins and outs of the matter, and by how slender a thread our commercial existence depends, I went again to my friend the lawyer, who appeared to take the same view of the matter as our angry neighbour at the meeting, and who told me that he was convinced, if the Chester and Crewe - Railway Company complete the works they are at present engaged upon, setting aside both extensions and docks, it will be quite as much as they can manage, without placing their protecting pinions over the navigation of the Dee. Thus reassured, I came to the conclusion, Mr. Editor, that we need be under no very immediate apprehension of a commercial dissolution. The Chester Railway Company has neither the cap of Fortunatus nor the widow's cruse: the £250.000 must come to its last shilling, and that, too, sooner perhaps than those who have the spending of it contemplate ;—and I returned home satis fied, that in their hands the "important improvement in the Dee" is likely to turn out "all moke"—tbat Chester is not yet able, like "the lean kine," to swallow up Liverpool at a gulp—nor is Liverpool yet lost. I am, Sir, yours obediently, Rodney-street, December 27th, 1838. NEPOS, ROBBERIES IN LIVERPOOL. do A large party is now assembled at Drayton Manor. It consists of Lord Stanley, the Duke of Rutland and Ladl A. Manners, Earl and Countess of Wilton, Lord Hill, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Lord Sutton, Sir Henry and Lady Emily Hardin e, Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot, General Alava, Lord . Francis Egerton, Sir Francis Head, and the Hon. Mr. Robinson, Chief Justice of Upper Canada. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S RULES.—The extraor dinary facility in the despatch of business without interfering with other pursuits to encroach upon business, for which he was ever remarkable, seems to us to be imputable to the following rules: —First, never to postpone anything in a spirit of procrastination, but only when postponement was expedient or indispensable; second, to give the preference on every subject to broad practical views over ingenious subtleties; third, to be guided in dealings of all kinds by fairness, moderation and justice; and, fourth; to regard decisions once made as final, except in very special cases.— Edintairgh Review. A remarkable circumstance, showing the extensive supply of coal from this country, is now the subject of observation. There are at this time in the Llanelly Dock, Carmarthen shire, ships of the largest class taking in their cargoes of Langennech coal, and bound for nearly all parts of the world, viz., to Suez, Mecca, Bombay, Bahia, Constantinople, Odessa, Malta, London, Liverpool, and Marseilles; in addi tion to which the Shamrock steamer, sent froM Liverpool expressly for the purpose, took on board on the Bth ult. a cargo of Llangennech coal for the use of the Royal William .and Liverpool steam-ships in their voyage to America. FREE TRADE IN CORN.—The noisy advocates of free trade in corn never tire of enlarging on their assumed importance to the community, and on the vast amount of capital which they represent. Let us recall to the memories of these gen tlemen certain facts, of which they are disposed, somehow, tO approve themselves strangely forgetful. We are,, cer tainly, little disposed to underrate the importance of foreign trade (so long as it is conducted on sound principles), or to treat lightly the amount of capital embarked in it; but we cannot forget that the importance of the classes connected with the land, directly and indirectly, is more than ten times greater than that of the classes interested in our foreign trade. The whole amount of the capital embarked in those pursuits, which could by possibility be rendered more lucra tive by the influence of free trade principles, has never been estimated at more than 200,000,000; whilst the amount of capital invested in land by the owners and occupiers, and in those trades which are intimately connected with the laud, has been computed-to exceed 2,750,000,000! The owners of the 200,000,0(X), therefore, in demanding a repeal of the corn laws, are simply demanding the confiscation of property ex ceeding in amount their own multiplied tenfold.—Netrcastle Journal. PROTESTANT ASSOCTATION.—On Friday a meeting of the friends and members of the Protestant Association was held in Exeter-hall, for the purpos- of receiving from the Rev. Mr. Naugle some important statements with respect to the Achill mission, and the general state of Protestantism Ireland. The meeting was held in one of the lesser rooms' , of Exeter-hall, and was most respectably and numerously attended. The facts brought forward by Mr. Nangle are too , ' numerous, and depend too much on detail for us io attempt to give an abstract of them. But their perusal enables us to" say that we heartily coincide with the following opinions of one of the speakers at this meeting, Mr. James Cummins; who observed, that " he had listened with intense delight to the spirit-stirring statement which had just been made. li e regarded that statement not only as a page in the history of the present times, but as a solemn bill of indictment against those who have the power and the government of the coun try in their hands. It was a bill of indictment, which, if proved, as no doubt it could be proved, ought to be made the grotinds of an impeachment. against them. (Loud cheers.) It was a bill of indictment which would, if hied before the public, hurl them from their seats, as unworthy to be intrusted with power." (Loud cheers.) DREADFUL ACCIDENT AND Loss OF SEVERAL LIVES. — On Sunday morning, a frightful accident occurred at the brewery of Messrs. Burgess and Wheater, Bagshaw Brow, Salford. It seems that Messrs. Burgess and Wheater base recently erected some new works, in liampson-street, which when inspected, on Saturday evening last, were apparently in so insecure a state as to call forth loud complaints—the key-stones, or bricks, of an immense arch, having started. This state of the new buildings being bruited abroad, crowds hastened to the spot to satisfy themselves of the truth, and it is merciful, that the sad calamity, which, at a later hour, has happened, did not occur, when, as was the case, at acer lain time on Saturday, there were thirty or forty individuals under the arches. now-ever, yesterday morning, the crowd having been partially driven assay, Mr. Spencer, the tra veller of the, firm; a person named nutter, formerly a beer house-keeper in the ❑eighbourhood; and several other indi viduals, were permitted to go under the arch for the purpose of inspecting it, when, dreadful to relate, ere they had been there more than a minute, a noise, like distant thunder, was heard, and, immediately following it, the entite mass fell on them, and there was but toa much reason to fear, instanta neously buried them in the silence of death. Soon as some slight degree of order was restored, and the shrieks of the frightened byestanders had been quieted, strenuous exertions were made, by digging, and other means, to release the un- fortunates, hut after many hours bard labour, they only suc ceeded in releasing one poor fellow, who, though he for some time afterwards remained insensible, and is dreadfully crush ed, we are happy to say, is likely to recover. The excite meat amongst the vast crowd, assembled round the vast pre mises, was extreme. FEA lIGUS O'CoNNort.—ln the Potteries, Staffordshire, O'Connor has somewhat changed his tone in addressing the working men, and from his incitement to arms in other places, has there commenced an attack on property. This person has told the potters, the working men, that there are 130 master potters who share annually a million's worth of their labour. Now," says the incendiary, "£250,000 would be more than an ample return for risk and speculation; and the remaining £750,000 would make them independent of the three devil • kings of Somerset House !" The property of one hundred• and thirty masters, so many of whom have raised themselves by their own industry, is thus covertly struck at, not merely in a wicked, but in a most ignorant and foolish manner. Very much in the manner that the four hundred workmen in Mr. Jowett's mills would be declared helped by the burning down of those mills. Where are his people how? Why, thrown out of bread and employment, and many of them handed over to the mercy of the poor law which they hail been taught to decry. Have not the fools who fired farming stuck in Kent and Sussex, been again told that their wickedness is only equalled by their folly, since the amount of loss is made up by the Insurance Offices, and the destruction of farming pro duce tends to raise prices to the poor? We are sure that the roasters in Wolverhampton and Birmingham, as vvel; as in the Potteries, must see the harangue of O'Connor in the light we do, and that alt the well-educated among the working men take the same view of it.—Herald. THE LAST BLOW AT DUELLING.—TWO of Lord Charle velle's servants fought a duel on the morning of Tuesday, the 4th ult. The pistols were loaded with blank cartridges by tbeseconds. The parties having fired, left the ground without being reconciled. The quarrel originated about a young fe male in the neighbouthood.—lrish paper. [The pistols roust now go with the laced coat to the footman.] ExpitussioN oe DEATH.—AIas ! how few of Nature's - - , faces there are to gladden us with their beauty ! The care s • - and sorrows and hungerings of the world change them as they change hearts ; and it is only when those passions sleep, ant have lost their hold for ever, that the troubled clouds , pass off, and leave heaven's surface clear. It is a CoMninn' '' thing for the countenance of the dead, even in that fixed and rigid state, to subside into the long-forgotten expression of ' sleeping infancy, and to settle into the very look of early life; so calm, so peaceful do they grow again, that those who knew them in their happy childhood kneel by the coflin'S side iu awe, and see the angel even upon earth.—Oliver Twist. VALUE OF GIBRALTAR TO GREAT BRITAIN.—TO ftlllliSh a proof of the value of Gibraltar to Great Britain, as a mar ket, it will be only necessary to state, that, of British manta- lectured colion goods alone, the " barren like rock" takes annually to the value of ' nearly half a million sterling—an '':..,'' amount very nearly equal to that which is exp or t e d f rom th e '' , mother country to all her North Am e rican co l o ni es; w hil s t 1 _. the kingdom of -Portugal ( favouring us in return for benefits ? conferred) takes of the same articles to the amount only of, . £Boo.oot, and all the other parts of Spain together, but to the value of £13,0(X). Now, though the government gains but a .. trifling increase of revenue by the vast amount of goods ex- ported to Gibraltar, yet the good that ia effected by thus keep- ' ing our manufacturers at work may certainly be put down as , benefiting the country at'a cheap rate, when the cost is Put - . of a few thousand troops.—Scott's Ronda and Granada. A TURKISH SHIP oF THE LINE.—From a .letter received at Portsmouth, we learn that a Turkish two-decker, now in the Mediterranean, is one of the finest in the world. She is longer than the Vanguard, being upwards of 3000 tons: she, . sells remarkably well, beating the Vanguard before the wind The following are her dimensions:— feet. inch. Length of lower deck inside 61 0 '""*. - ' . t Breadth, extreme " ~" ;- ' ;:, , Afil Between perpendicular, estimated 211 U 4: seee:_vr:,, from above • • es,' •sel;' , 4' Breadth of lower deck, inside . 55 , 4 - ,i :; „ FsiNWcr , cf!AiiF' Broadth of main deck 48 ' I" l*34l4iA f' Quarter deck Space between ports 9 8 , 1?.?! 1 4044 , 1. Draft of water abaft 26 ' 0 ''''. -44 'A I She is 4 feet more beam than the Vangaerd, main yard 13 .:'.., feet squarer, and 20 feet. longer; mounts 92 guns, viz. Lower ' ',...-' , deck, 26 long brass 32 pounders, and 4 12-inch hi;Wittels;'' , r main deck. 32 long brass '24 pounders; upp e r d ec k, 30 ti.g- . ' lish-made Congreve '24 pounders. His Excellency 151. Van der Weyer, the Belgic resident minister, will receive, with the hand of his accomplished bride elect, Miss Bates, daughter and beiress of.JohuAlleS, Esq., one of the leading partners in the firm of Baringi and Co., a fortune of £300,000. The ceremony is, fixed to take place in a fortnight. The young lady is in her 19111 year ; his Excellency is about 45, and, antecedent to the revolt- tion iu Belgium, was a distinguished advocate at the bar of Brussels.—Morning Herald. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFii.—Yesterday morning was mar ried by special licence, at St. George's Church, Hanover square, by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, the Hon. 'Vandal E. Plunkett, of Dunsany Castle, late M.P. for . Drogheda, and eldest son of the Right Hon. Lord Dunsany, lord lieutenant of the county of Meath, to Elizabeth Evelyn, only daughter and sole heiress of Lyndon Evelyn, Esq., of Keynsbam Court, Herefordshire, and York-terrace, Regent's Park. THE Corroti Loans.—The Morning Chronicle of Wed nesday last says—" When the people talk of a stake in the country, we will ask, what is the stake possessed by the aris tocracy, compared with that of the various class of manufac turers? On the supposition that, in the House of Erode, one peer with another are possessors of 1;8000 a-year, that would not amount to two millions and a half is-year'. !t would not surprise us if the incomes of the gentlemen pre sent in the Chamber of Commerce at Manchester, on Thurs day last, equalled that sum."—We do not pretend to know anything of the wealth of the members of the Chamber of Commerce; but we are inclined to think, though the circum stance might not " surprise" the welter of the Chronicle, it would very much astonish the gentlemen themselves to flint the aggregate of the their respective incomes equal to that of the whole aristocracy of England. But how is the ex istence of so much wealth to be reconciled with en much anxiety to abolish that system of trade under which these gentlemen have acquired their fortunes ?--Dfartchr. 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Oh ! what a page each sealed year,, lg. par- A dread eternity 'll unfold ! -' ?re the Wh a t v i ce an d v i r tue—j o y a n d feat!—, - . , )—Mr. What bliss unheard—what crimes•untold ! .. • 'to sell ': they Pause, pause'. oh,-pause !—thou heir of heav'n, . .. , . ler five And look upori•the year now tied : cn d ant Review the blessings y ear has given : •• tion to The sins recorded 'gainst your herd ! • 10. If 'Tis grace that spares our sinful race : • • • . , I, they Grace only prompts our best of deeds : . • • receiv- In weal or woe,Ais still by grace ~... -... , - tances. The Cliristian lives, and moves, and feeds. !s were . Another year presents its page,— . , Still,pure, unletter'd by our sins : . The past,—defird,—should us engage • ~ . .......,,, In pray'r,—and t' end as we begin I-.- 4IW. 06, let us tempt not God, the kind,— • . . . . Who calls, and speaks from year to y ea r; — • cittie" His yoke a gentle one we'll find,— itimate And wisdom—freedom—in its fear. W. -A. H. ' n early Lind my , * portant A large party is now assembled at Drayton Manor. It 70 THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Liverpool, 28th December. 1838. Slll,—Permit me to call your attention to a state of mat ters most disgraceful to our enlightened and refermed Town Council. The robberies which are daily committed in Li verpool are becoming more and more apparent, and unless the most strenuous efforts arc directed towards suppressing them, property will continue to suffer to an almost inconceiv able extent. As a resident in the outskirts of the town, in a place almost wholly unprotected by the police, I confess my apprehensions are seriously excited, and trust this important matter will engage some share of your attention, possessed, as you doubtless are, of facts to substantiate the above elle gation.—l am, Sir, your's most respectfully, A SUFFERER. COMMITMENTS.—On Friday, two men, named John Chat terton and John Simmons, were committed by Mr. Hall, for 14 days, to the House of Correction, Kirkdale, for stealing a quantity of raw coffee, from the Quay, at No. 1, Graving Dock. THE CH ASS.—The Cheshire Hounds will meet to-morrow, the 2d instant, at Tarvin ; Thursday, the 3d, at Tilston ; and on Saturday, the sth, at Norton Priory, each morning at half•past ten o'clock. Cll ESTER RACES..—It is staled to be the intention of the Hon. E. M. LI. Mostyu, to give the splendid Stand Cup, for which Birdlime walked over the course last year, to be run for at the ensuing meeting. The day for this race is Lot yet fixed. A FLYING FISH.—On the homeward voyage of the Liver pool (steam•ship) from New York, and when she was in nearly the same parallel of latitude as this port, a flying-fish fell on board, and has been preserved in spirits by Mr. Shaw, the marine-superintendent of the Trans-Atlantic Steam-ship Company, who was on board. It very rarely happens, we believe, that the flying•fish visits so northern a part of the ocean, and particularly in winter. Fashionable arrivals at the Grand Junction Hotel --Sir J. S. Whale, Lieutenant-Colonel Radcliff, Captain Mont gomery, R.N., Captain Vereker, Captain Low, Cant. Turner, R.N., Colonel Gore, Sir G. Shifnetl, C. 0. Dwyer, Esq., H. J. Richards, Esq., W. Riddell, Esq., Miss Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson and family, Mrs Moore and family, W. H. Browne, Esq., J. Manable, Esq. , W. Newer, Esq., Alfred Burton, Esq., G. Frazer, Esq., H. St. George, Esq., J. S. Sugrue, Esq., W. Hime, Esq., W. Bentinck, Esq., J. John stone, Esq. OSWESTRT SCHOOL—Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.B. has offered to the Mister of Oswestry School a nomination to the East India Military College at Addiscombe, as a Prize to be contended for by Mr. Donne's Pupils in the year ISIO. Sir Richard Jenkins was, we believe, educated at Oswestry School.—Solopiart Journal. SERMONS ON BEHALF OF THE DISPENSARIES.—The Com mittee of the Liverpool Dispensaries having resolved to ex tend the influence of the North Dispensary to Kirkdale and Everton, in which portions of the borough there are numbers of poor persons, unable to procure medical assistance when required, being entirely dependent upon that procured for them by the charitable individuals who visit them in their sickness ; and this extension requiring an additional surgeon to perform the increased duties, the tev. D. James deemed it advisable to call upon the members of his congregation for assistance, to forward the object of the institution. The Rev. Gentleman delivered two eloquent addresses in further ance of the object, on Sunday last, when ,about £22 were collected. LIVER THEATRE.—This lively little theatre has just been opened for its season by its clever lessees; and there is every promise of attraction succeeding attraction, so long as the season may continue. The stock company as a whole, is good and efficient; and "stars" seriatim are to be added to at.—Last evening a lively drama, " False and Constant" was brought out, which introduced Mrs. Waylett, who played as Constance, and sang two or three of her mos: admired ails. Though suffering under a severe cold, she sang most sweetly " Away, away to the mountain's brow," and other melodies. That corps drainatique in himself, Mr. Howard, we were glad to see, still enriches the company with his versatile acting. The laughable burletta of " Nicholas Nicklehy"' dramatized Iron.; Boz's work, was also brought out. The house was a complete cram, and omens well for the season. liAwxiNG Ix THE OLDEN Tiste.—Under this title a most magnificent painting has just been finished by Land seer, for Lord Francis Egerton, M.P. The picture is of a very large size, and exhibits a nobleman, his Ady, and child, with their horses, attended by a page and a servant, with hawks, about to seek the exhilarating sport of hawking. It is a family painting, the figures being likenesses of his lordship and family. The likeness of his lordship is exceed. ingiy correct. The grouping, the colouring, and the finish of the whole painting are superb. We have not yet bad suf ficient opportunity of seeing it, but from the hasty glance of the painting we have had, we can have little hesitation in pronouncing it to be one of the finest paintings that ever came into Liverpool. An engraving of the picture, by Cou sins, is about to be published. Mr. W. Burland has suc ceeded in obtaining the picture to exhibit at his rooms in Church-street, for this week. We can assure our readers they will miss a treat if they do not see it: