The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-02 00:00:00

JuLy 2, 1833. 05 LQe THE ATRE -ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Myhts af the Races Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday, and A,,,r44Y, PerfarmanCes will not commence ti ll S o'clock. SA Y, Pe of the Theatre-Roval, Drury-lane, is en- V e d for Ten Nights, and will make . ' his second appearance IS present TUESDAY, the 2d instant, whqn will be performed the favourite Comedy, called the HONEY MOON ; Of?, HOW TO RULE A WIFE. 4_, undo Duke Aranza Mr. W LACK. uta ........ Mt. Browne I Juliana... .... Miss Huddart. After which, the New Fa eof En's/IR.. M. AND AIRS. pR L I GLE. ..Mr. Browne I M ringle..Mrs. Clarke. To conclude with the ce of the TWO GREGORYS. 0 Mr. Gregory Mr. Browne. AEII ` V EDNESDAY, the favourite Comedy of THE WON ".— N'iDon FelAss ix M H r. WALLACK—Lissardo, Mr. Browne— olante uddart. To conclude with the Drama 1„,1 Mr. VauAIILES XlL—Adam Brock, Mr. WALLACK—CharIes denhff. spectable retailers must join in commending and carrying into effect. But before we come to the remedy, let us say a few words with respect to the objects of the conspiracy, and the Authors of the system. The workmen who enter these unions are sworn in the dark, upon the bible, by a man whom they do not see, first, to be true brothers of the union ; secondly, not to work with any master who employs men not belonging to the union ; thirdly, not to work fir less than twenty-four shillings per week ; fourthly, not to work where more than the prescribed number of apprentices are employed, and this number not to exceed eight, no matter how many journeymen are employed; and lastly, they are to know each other by a given; sign, and contribute to the support of the brothers unemployed, or who leave their work in support of the union. Ebe tibtrpooi This is the oath, and for absurdity it is perfectly match less; but the insolence of the terms enjoined exceeds the absurdity. The man who tales this oath is a fool in the comparative degree, but he who keeps it is a fool in the superlative degree. Is there a man so doltish as not to know that the oath is an illegal oath, and that the sooner he breaks it the sooner he washes away its compulsory guilt ? From fear, or from ignorance, or from a mistaken sense of duty, or a misled sense of self-interest, a man may have taken this oath, but when his fears are dissi pated, and his reason returns, he will become alive to the propriety and the justice of breaking through its sinful forms, and extricating himself from its unhallowed tram • mels. TUESDAY MOR-VING, JULY 2, 1833. TJ ` ll e news from Portugal is not without interest. SAR- lua has at length taken his leave, as Colonel sh °° GEs did, of a h a t e f u l an d h ope l ess serv i ce , an d Mar ali‘ SOLION AC fi n di ng that all his efforts were ineffectual, leas thrown d own his baton and returned to F rance. Th ese, ,. are fasts a d m i tte d b y a ll part i es . , °lv fur the per contra side of the account. It is said that'\ 1) 011 PEDRO has embarked on board his fleet, now ;der the command of Captain NAPIER, And intends, sup to4rted by 4,000 men, taken from the garrison of Oporto, ba be, a des cent upon , t h e coast o f P or t uga l nearer th e e MIL We strongly suspect that this is a mere ruse acoeted fur the purpose of liberating PEDRO, in the r ti letest way possible, from the hands of his disappointed d ferocious mercenaries. It looks very like a flight b y moonlight. k il ese, we say, are only our suspicions. The account y prove true, and the descent may be made, and if Tr ade there will be a speedy end to this domestic quarrel. 4 ' ° ° o men were embarked from Oporto, that town hapt have been leftnearly defenceless, and must ere now 4 ,o l f allen to the royal army. If a smaller force than take be embarked the attempt to make a landing, and e t he capital of a hostile country, in which every man iti 4Posed t o t h e a d v e nturer, must be a desperate attem pt deed ' The folloWing is from our Plymouth corres- Aond„ t v ?L/stouTri, 28th JUNE, 1833.—The weather here continue; unseasonable—much rain and strong winds from the south ni gh s t °llt h east. O ur arr i va l s an d departures for the last fort geor:ave be en un i mportant, excepting the case of the steamer tr' st „ l which vessel has recently been purchased at the b y the agent of Doti Miguel. She brought round from th e 4 .„ 1t named p or t a num b er o f v olunteers f o r the service of join e d rtu guese fleet in the Tagifs ; about fifty others have koti at this port, and the vessel will proceed with the first Q eor era te weather (the wind is at present right an end). The tli an ,,,, e IV. is de s ti ne d f or Li s bon, and it is said that not less k arit 7 men are g e tti ng rea dy in this country for the Miguelite tr ail v, and th a t steamers are being engaged for their immediate ton o rrt, the m en rece i v i ng t wo mon th s , p a y i n a dvance. The e t qti l / 3 11 is a c o py o f a pr i va t e commun i ca ti on f rom Falmouth, tr ok M the recent news b roug ht by th e Af r i c an Steamer trri the coast of Portugal :—‘ June 26.—The African Steame? lean here late last night from Lisbon and Oporto. NV e f rottl 4 Y her that on Friday last five steamers, having on board ti t , '5 O O to 5000 troops left Oporto under the command of ti —Li ke of Terceira, (Villa Flor,) but whether their destina hal/ was Lisbon or some other part of the Portuguese coast ile ariti ° t been mad e known. The expedition was joined by G e Y all the vessels of the fleet under Captain Napier : — neral Solianac had quitted the service, and with Admiral c ott ` i ° ll ll .. ° ll s, was about to proceed to France. The Miguelites both Ile to bom bard Oporto. The cholera was still very rife a t Oporto and Lisbon. But who are the persons who have devised this scheme of dictation, and who are most active in enforcing it up on the operatives of Liverpool ? We are glad to be enabled to state that the respectable portion of the jour. neymen are guiltless. We have always exonerated them, and we do it once more. They are the dupes,— not the contrivers. It is a fact, and we are almost ashamed to place it upon record, that the directors of these unions, the fellows who write the placards, who ssue the addresses, who eat the bread and prey upon the humble savings of the workmen, are some six or seven radical schoolmasters, of notorious reputation, in this town, and whose names are before us. They are as• sisted by two or three discarded clerks. They meet al the George Tavern in Hood-street, and at the Garrick Tavern. These men are the teachers of youth, but they are nevertheless scoundrels. They are engrafting their political prejudices, and their diabolical principles in the very heart's-blood of the artizan. They corrupt the young, and thee• seem resolved either to starve their pa rents, or drive them to the gallows. They are pests of society which must be expelled from it, or crime and misery will be the result. The poor men are contributing their mites to pamper the drunken propensities and the infamous frauds of these blackguards. We need not name them, for this notice will point them out. The "schoolmaster " is indeed amongst us with a vengeance ! The system is to exact 2s. 6d. from every member when he joins the union. Now, let us see how this works. The unions are joined by considerable numbers of IrishL men, who also are sworn not to work for less than four shillings a-day. If these Irishmen could only obtain two shillings a-day, it would be more than they ever earned in the whole course of their lives. Eighteen-pence would be nearer the mark, and there are some who would be overpaid by eighteen farthings a-day ; but still they are all sworn to refuse less than four shillings. Here again is villainy on both sides. The Irishmen have the best of the bargain at present, but they will suffer in the end. The schoolmasters will whistle them off as soon as they have answered the purposes of the conspiracy. They will be kicked out of the union on the first oppor tunity, and this the able workmen will be compelled to " It POT AND THE KETTLE.—COBBETT versus the F r : 4 , l e4 newspaper —had a fight in the King's Bench on the " 4 3' last, and a s i ngu l ar ly amus i ng fight it was. Al -1 the Pot came off the richest, having obtained 00 for th e sauce of the Kettle, st ill i t i s diff icu lt t o ,I pA Y which came off the blackest. Ni. CHARLES PHILLIPS f o - mnded th e former, while Sir JAMES S CARLETT stoo d up tite t the latter, and both did ample justice to the merits of ° PPOsite clients, without condescending to utter a c l . d or strike a bl o w i n d e f ence o f th e i r own . It wa s ti t 'ldedly what in the fancy circles would be called a cross. pi l t is odd enough th a t t wo men who have, with the sin tle e xception of the Time:, indulged i n m o r e personal b 4 etives scurrilous attacks, and malignant misrepre• tit4 tiCHS, than any two other men in existence, should h °tlt be prosecutors at the same time of acti ons f or lib e l s W I their respective (reader, . don't read this respected) h be at acters.) Th e b are idea of HUNT and CO BBETT b e i ng ov li ed in th e news p a p ers is enough to make a c ow j ump er the moon, or a steam engine burst out into a fit of of A te r , es A n d yet b e i t k nown un t o a ll men th a t b o th th th e . e worthies have had their feelings wounded, and 4, It reputati ons i n j ure d , an d pro b a bl y th e i r peace of mind tir litr° Yed for ever, by two clumsy squibs in two or three e journals. O ne paper was h oaxe d by a paragraph via geg that during the Preston election there had been W In which H UNT , a ft er h av i ng hi s no se cut of, bad tilattedthe mob to murder an attorney. For this calum itetletin n ose and guiltle ss mu r d er H UNT b ro ught several k tir -118, and i n t wo h e f oun d a j ury su ffi c i ent l y s t up id to li trl ti forty shillings damages and costs—the chaff to xt : r and th e coin to hi s attorney . % C e B BETT's case th e d amage d one was o f a s till more so us ells natur e , an d yet no mur d er was i mpute d to t h e Ag r a Colle c t or o f P a i ne ' s b ones . I t was sta t e d, i n a th at g a t alk originally published in the Leeds Intelligencer, &e ate4 le h onourable member for Oldham was an uncerti eab: bankrupt. This was true, and yet it was untrue. loa le e , tt had been a bankrupt, and, of course, must . at thi s , I n l le or other have been an uncertificated one. For 4 '6e a LT gave an HUNDRED POUNDS! It • ite , r this, who will say that trial by jury is not a farce ? lib e i ° t ltid be much better for the parties, in an action for to ° fix -rupon a sum as the damages, and then toss up do in their own defence. The masters will refuse to em ploy them, and the working journeymen will refuse to maintain them in idleness. The system, therefore, has begun as it will end—lN FRAUD Now for the remedy. The employers have submitted to this'fraud and tyranny too long, and it is time to adopt means to explode a system which is bringing wretched ness upon its instruments. Let the masters call a gene ral meeting, and pass resolutions not to employ a single workman who is a member of these unions. In the mean time let all work he suspended, and it must not be re sumed until it can be done by operatives who do not be long to, or have withdrawn from, the unions. If, on these resolutions being acted upon, the men still hold out, let offers be made to workmen in other distant towns, and we will answer for it that a sufficient number of hands will be easily procured. We know that there are numbers of operatives anxious, above all things, to see such resolutions passed, for they would then have some obvious excuse fur breaking their present fetters. A little spirit and courage is all that is necessary. We congratulate the universe, as orator SHEIL would express it, on the reappearance of Lord ALTHORP in the House of Commons. On the very day that the ministerial papers had been instructed to insert a paragraph lament- ing the serious illness of the noble lord, and announcing his departure for the Isle of Wight for the recovery of his health—on that very day did the noble lord walk into the house as fresh as a field of corn, as rosy as a farmer's maid, and as robust as a border wrestler. We, among others, were generous and credulous enough to believe that his lordship had for once in his life done a wise act and had retired from Parliament altogether, leaving Mr. STANLEY to discharge those duties which Lord ALTIIORP either would or could not perform. His lordship, how ever, it would appear, has a higher opinion of his own qualifications and consistency than is entertained by his best friends, in which case we leave him to blunder on and be laughed at as before. And, of a verity, not a single hour was allowed to pass without the noble lord distinguishing himself in his own peculiar vein. On the night of his reappearance he contrived to render himself as ridiculous as possible by virtually defending the political unions, and opposing Mr. FINCH'S motion declaring those unions to be illegal, dangerous, and unconstitutional. Lord ALTIIORP did not confess that he was a corresponding member of any of these associations ; but, from his eagerness to get rid of the motion, it was tolerably clear that he looked back upon his former dalliance with the tinkers and nailers of Birmingham with strong feelings of satisfaction. And why shoUld we quarrel with him for this ? Gratitude is the noblest attribute of the human heart. It appertains even to the dog, and to almost every other biped and quadruped. Lord ALTHORP must know that to these unions he is indebted for a large portion of his salary. He must know that to them the public are indebted for their darling reform bill, the GREYS for their places, the RUSSELLS for their exclusively rotten boroughs, the brief less whit lawyers for their itinerant commissions, LEOPOLD for the crown of Belgium, and DON PEDRO for Captain NAPIER and other fresh and salt provisions. But for these unions the nation would long ago have been de prived of the inestimable services of the noble CHANCEL LOR of the EXCHEQUER, whose memorable budgets will --,. is dist • \s ell . , . distressing beyond measure to see . men, otherwise h disposed and naturally of industrious habits,. driven eldl ° l l . to • their g ruin and destitution by . t . hemost profligate of fie, ' order —the scum of the political unions, and by t eaed incendiaries who indite the inflammatory language °I d i , indite ''r pl :lacards, w h o are paid for the wretched stuff' they 11, and thu s share among themselves the last six nee and th e last loaf of the deluded and starving opera tive,. It will hardly b e b elieved in those places where such p enes do not occur th at t h e present combination among te e r ktnen in Liverpool has produced effects of a na 12.4 e almast as heartrending as if a famine prevailed or a t:tilence were sweeping away its unnumbered and . Merles, victims. The mallet is silent, the chisel is bluntlarge the brush is dry, and the trowel is rusty among a t.h P°rtion of the trades of this great town, for reasons iii nonsensical nonsensical that could possibly be imagined. In ~,f !Lt. industry to a great extent is suspended, the savings k 14 cue artizan are exhausted, the mason and the bric 4 , Yer have not a farthing left to meet the demands of the . it l 4 tr achin g winter, and the only activity that is seen Is f or t l° se Places where we never see it without blushing el _ , he stupid and vicious indulgences of the working t i , t , les ' We allud e , _the last few 1 to the pawnbrokers' shops. These (l ays have been crowded to overflowing. '1,..„ brisker trade 4rulle fool's hankeer never was driven by legal extortion. d never in so short a period realize o ut 1 lar ge Profits. We saw a woman, yesterday, come 1114 ° ( ' one of th ese pest houses with an infant in her arms . h ad t In ea rs in her eyes. Sh e was a young woman , t oo ,' and slti: a blY been pledging her marriage ring for a 4 t i iti y l . or the last of her wardrobe, in order to . procure oierve, dinner w hich the blockhead her husband did not de as t i bake'' ll'e market people, and especially the butchers . f)f l ab 14 rftl the effects of this. unpardonable cessation 4._, °14. very severely. One of tbe former told us that lay i tu not sell one-third the quantity of meat, on Satir- T b ! t i he was accustoloact to do to this class of persons. ~,..7 eonspiracy, therefore, which is reducing thousandff tt , ma ° , is tt i„,., ° to Pauperism, and sowing the seeds of disaf 1140' and d emoralization, has reached such an extent Ifl e t e Cc'taPt measureamutt be resorted to to put it down. to do have 120 knowledge of what the Government mean s kitzte _ l , hut we see clearly enough what the masters 41 ;itio• q° s what the authorities hare must assist them in a, km what all laudlords, rate-payers, and re live in history and form the subject of mirth when their author•is dead and forgotten. _ . . The shallow and unprincipled witlings who write in the honourable member for Berkshire's • paper are pleased to inform us that the strongest argument in favour of these unions is the existence Of conservative clUbs. If we suppress the one, say these worthies, we are equally bound to suppress the other. This sort of rea soning is as stale as it is absurd and untenable. It was used against the Orange Societies of Ireland, in defence of the demagogues of the Catholic Association ; but the parties who used it were well aware that the principles of the former were based upon the law, while the principles of the latter rested upon spoliation. disloyalty, and revo- lution. It is precisely the same in the case before us. The conservative clubs were formed to support the throne, the church, the constitution, and the laws of the land; , but the political unions are avowedly constructed to overturn the monarchy, to plunder the church, and to trample upon the laws. During the mania of reform Captain DUNCOMBE, then a member of the House of Commons, enrolled his name as a member of some union in St. Giles's London, and declared his intention to resist the payment of the taxes. Lord MILTON and Mr. Win. BROUGHAM did the same. These were acts of rebellion. The men who so rayed may, it is true, have been mad, THE UV ER POOl, STANDARD. LIVERPOOL AINTREE MEETING, or may have laboured under temporary insanity; but still as madmen they were the more dangerous. Maniacs The second Liverpool Meeting, commences this day, and if are not allowed to walk the streets, and wby should they the weather prove propitious, we anticipate much gratification, be allowed to meet in clubs ? It is not asserted that the if we are to judge from the extensive preparations made by the conservative clubs meditate any outrage upon the constitu- various caterers in the way of amusement, refreshment, &c. tion, or any offence against the laws ; and it is not denied All have been on the qui vice. The proprietors of stands on the that the unionists meditate both, and have laboured hard course—the owners of .every description of oonveyance, from the jaunting car to the carriage and four, have been equally to accomplish that which they meditate. Here, then, is , indefatigable. 'We are gratified also to be able to state, that ample reason for tolerating the one society and putting the arrangements made by the authorities for the protection of: down the other. In the one case good men combine towohfen we the pa L b t lic the a:e rl o c f es th w e il lm;) a s e t n e n t r iei t i i t lesupe character.rintndeinicde defend their property ; in the other bad men conspire to say that de Groby, and General Yates, we are sure we need not rob, pillage, and murder. In the one case self preserva-• add; that as a fa.r as the lN management , is _ to concerned, erceiv e n nothing. is, is left tion is the impelling motive •; in the other, the motive is betiontetTroins wished for.e stewards eae o a n .SOgl d p no a consideration to • allow• the plunder. - disgraceful thimble tables on any part of the race-course, and the light-fingered gentry will be most carefully looked Lord ALT HORP may or may not see this distinction; ,that The following are the races appointed for this day:-- but' l i h s t r . e? even if he did see it, he'is too much compromised The Croxteth Stakes df 15_ sovs._ each,_ 9 10 ft, six 30 n a d dd a ed ec i mares'rs old, an 6s d t gBetinfoosuar,aBoswt allowed 31b. five, Bst milet th , by his own acts to adhere to the safer and the just prig -and a quarter. i ' ciple. His system, and that of his colleagues, has been, Eight subscribers. A Produce Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, h ft for the produce and is to this hour, a system of innovation and robbery. of mares covered in 18:29; colts, Bst 4th; fillies Bst lth: untried It is proved to he so by the West India and the Irish stallions ormaresallowed3lb, but not two allowaces. Twci miles. Church bills. The people, already overburthened with Fsubscribers. e l l ;i e x e ve n epstakes of 25 sovs each, p v with 30 added; for two taxes unequally imposed, are to be further taxed in order yrs old colts , B st 51 b ; fillies , B st 31b; 1' YC. Sixteen subs.. that our once inestimable colonies in the West Indies A . Al v a e i d a e n n a Plate v upwards, B s s o t v 9 s it fo . r mares tbree yrs old, geldings il2t b allowed fnnr Bst may be desolated with greater impunity, and that the 31b;' heats; to start at the distance, and go once round. Six well-fed black, in the infancy of civilization, may be con- subscribers. vented into an indolent and worthless . savage. The BETTING.—The near approach of the meeting has caused considerable stir in the sporting circles within the last few days. Whig system, besides being based upon plunder, is also The odds are as follow : a system of dismemberment. Ministers, it is imagined, pocket, E 5 to l i a P ,, , ;s P t . —L9ad.oy t 2 s a a i o s t r _d 8 IC , hanc e I I o r 5 to-Mowbrav 1 apt P H ick to a t ,.;st ill are opposed to O'CoNNELL's repeal of the Union. They (tk), 811- to 1 agst Revolution, 10 to 1 agst David, 10 to - 1 agst may be so in words, but they are far otherwise in deeds. Ll e irj e c s ia t tl a 2 b t o o ve l a t r i s e t f C ol t i n o t ,A a i b ng (t a k r ) and y l2 to to ru l n agsrt thus cup The swamping of the Irish bishops is of itself a virtual Consol,- Napoleon le Grand, Algiers, Caractacus, 'Westport, repeal of the Union. The rights of the church and of and 'fwd e I.V ° E . AR OLD STAKES, P.P.-6 to 4 agst Vittoria (tk), its prelates are guaranteed by the KlNG'ssolemn oath and and .4 to 1 agst Roman (tk). the act of Union. If the church therefore be deprived of a fill Sir. s LtoE• ER.—I Lt(6 , 4 rac a e gstJac_k (" et, 4 to 1 agst Powlett's and 6 to Fa l n a e ,st Controller. moiety of its dignitaries what meaning would there be in Ihe Race agst 3all will take place at the Wellington-rooms, on an oath, and where would go theaet of Union ? The Irish Wednesday evening, under the patronage of the stewards. demagogues are clear-sighted enough to perceive the dilemma in which the Whigs have voluntarily placed themselves ; and if the church bill should ever pass into a law, O'CONNELL Will most assuredly avail himself o the argument, and demand repeal on the same grounds on which Lord ALTHORP demands church reform. Then will come the crisis. If the Lords have not sufficient courage to reject the bill now on its march to the upper House, they will accelerate that . revolution which they dread, and that dismemberment which would eventually destroy the British Monarchy. THE DRAMA. Mr. Power, on Friday night, took leave of us, taking at the same time a good benefit, as a compensation for his efforts to seduce us into a laugh at a time when there is so little stirring to excite that joyous feeling. He is now, we believe, on his voyage to America; there he will be a more valuable commo n dity than here, for we have Irishmen " enou g h and to s p are, —at least in real life. Anxious to see America progressing in civilization, we rejoice at the exportation of the flower of our histrionic talent, convinced that the influx of our Kembles, as well as our Trollopes, Halls, and Fidlers, must have a tendency to refine and improve their manners, and in some degree to supply, the want of the only standard of manners —a monarch y . On Saturday the performances were " Macbeth," and she melo-drama of " The Miller's Maid." The characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are perhaps the most splendid ef forts of the creative powers of Shakspeare's genius, and to per sonify them requires more than ordinary genius in the actor. We have more than once spoken of Mr. Vandenhoff as a gen tleman who has attained very nearly the summit of professional excellence ; and it is therefore almost painful to say that he was only Macbeth in particular passages, and not the Macbeth of his author. His dagger scene was- beautifully executed, as indeed were several others, but we wish to remind him that the character, to be well supported, must be executed as a whole, and that Macbeth is equally great in the first as in the last scene. Miss Huddart's Lady Macbeth was a failure. She was too melo-dramatic, and wanted the commanding dignity, the heroic courage, that was likely to infuse into Macbeth the 'workings of her own ambitious mind. In " The Miller's Maid," Mr. Andrews made an admirable old soldier, as Old Grainger. His attempt to drown the recol lection of his forlorn and destitute state by singing snatches of old songs ; his efforts to conceal, even from himself , the keen sense of - his own misery, and his scenes with Matthew Marvel lous, (Browne,) who was so anxious to be the author of a tail, reminded us of Dowton and Bannister, and equalled any thing A deputation, of the master tradesmen connected with the building trade in this place and in Manchester, headed by Mr. MARK PHILLIPS'and Mr. EWART, the members for Liverpool and Manchester, lately obtained an interview with Lord MEL BOURNE, for the purpose of requesting the support of Govern ment against the unions entered into by the operatives. They were very urgent with his lordship to issue a proclamation, or take some other' step to dissolVe them, as dangerous to the coun try. Instead of returning an answer, Lord MELBOURNE crossed his legs, and rocking himself in his chair,' astounded the depu tation by putting this significant question to Mr. EWA RT.—"I his ;VIAJESTY'S ministers should think it necessary to introduce a Bill for the suppression of these unions, will you support them in the House of Commons, Mr. EWART ? Eh ! eh !—Will you support them, Mr. EWART?" The honourable gentleman re turned no answer! Lord MELBOURNE assured the deputation that his MAJESTY'S ministers would support the authorities in whatever exertions they should find it necessary to make to protect the public peace, or the persons of those workmen who should be intimi dated by the unions. that we have ever seen on the stage. Wallack appeared last night in "The Bent Day" and The Brigand:" This gentleman is so well known as a melo-drama tic actor, that any lengthened commentary on his acting is almost superfluous. As Rachel Heywood, in "The Rent Day," Miss Huddart was more at -home; what is perfection in an ephemeral production of this class, cannot be tolerated in a character drawn by Shakspeare. LOCAL NEWS. ACCIDENT.—On Friday last, as a baker was delivering bread from his cart to a house in Duncan-street East, the' horse, a spirited animal, took fright at some children 'that were playing near him, and, swerving from the road, was precipitated into a cellar. Fortunately two children who were playing on the steps of the house escaped by running into an• adjoining Cellar, with only some slight bruises. The horse was severely wounded. PICK POCKETS.—A lady was robbed on " Saturday, by having her purse, containing upwards of five poiluds, abstracted by one of the thieves that infest this place. Several persons, we un derstand, have suffered in the same way. What are the police about? • CA UTION.—A few days since, as a carter was Unloading his cart, at the bonded warehouses in Chorley-street, being doubt ful of the strength of the crane rope, to which one of his bales of cotton was appended, looked up to watch its progress to the upper story. Before it had reached half way up . to the floor, he saw the rope giving way, and by instantly jumping out of his cart saved his life. Persons passing through the streets should be cautious how they walk under or near carts that are being unloaded by cranes. The Tradesmen's Cup to be run for at the Aintree races is one of the most splendid pieces of plate we have seen ; it is now on view at Messrs. J. Barned and Co.'s, Lord-street. The Stand Cup is exhibiting at the same house. The following distinguished individuals will be the guests of the venerable - .Earl 'of Derby, at Knowsley llall, dining the race week; the whole of his lordship's family will also be at the hall:—Duke of Richmond, Lord and Lady Grey, Lord and Lady Chesterfield, Lord and Lady Wilton, Lord Adolphu s Fitzclarence, Lord Uxbridge, Lord Forester, .General Yates, Sir Philip and Lady Egerton, Sir Richard and Lady Bulkeley Williams, and Mr. Mostyn and Lady. We understand that it is in contemplation to establish a new line of British-built packets between Liverpool and New York. They are to be of about 300 tons register, and constructed for fast sailing. It is not intended in the first instance to carry passengers, the American - built packets having at p resent a mu _ nopolv . of this trade, and which they have obtained by their reguliirity, despatch, and superior accommodation; but as it is deemed a reproach to British art and enterprise, that we do not compete with the Americans in this branch of commerce, it is determined to make the attempt in the conveyance of goods, in which respect the vessels will be admirably adapted. At present our merchants ' have no medium of communication with the United States, but by the American-packets, to which there are many objections, and in the way of which some obsta cles have been raised by the Government. These, however, will all be removed by employing British-built ships. CAUTION TO EMIGRANTS.—A gang of swindlers are prowling about this place, who have succeeded in cheating several poor emigrants of their little all which they had concentrated into money for the purpose of conveying themselves to what they think a more favoured land. Credulity is, generally, the or gan most developed in these people, which makes them an easier prey. A few days since, one of these men was invited into a low . public-house by two of the rascals here alluded to, and was induced to exhibit the contents of his purse, which amounted- to fifty-eight pounds. The poor simpleton was warned by them of the danger of exposing his riches, and the notes were carefully packed up and placed in what was deemed a more secure pock'et. Of course they soon left hith, when he discovered that his friends had robbed him of all that he had in the world, and taken good care to leave no trace of their re reat. LONDON LATEST NEWS. Saturday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock. Although there have been snails both from Malta and froth Mexico, the intelligence by either has notpossessed much politi cal interest. The Malta Gazettes are unusually barren; but we learn from the accounts from Mexico that tranquillity prevailed, and that the new Government was consolidating its powers.— The information from the Real del Monte Mines has been most favourable, new veins having been opened and found rich in the precious ore. In consequence of this the shares have been objects of considerable speCulation to-day, and Real del Monte aaanced £l.O upon yesterday's prices, the quotation having been as high as £3l. It finally- left off at E3O 10s. to £3l 10s. Bo [anus Shares have also risen, haVing been as high as but closed at £135. We find by these accounts that the injunction against the United Mexican Company still remained in force, and this caused souse alarm among the holders this morning, many sales being made and the price being at one time as low as £9 ss. It rallied however as the day advanced and left off at £ll 10s. to £l2 3' share. . The Lonsol Market has exhibited but little speculation for the last two days. Yesterday the price was heavy at 891, for the Account, but it has since rallied and closed this afternoon at 90A 1. Exchequer Bills have risen to 52 51, and India. Bonds are at 31 to 33. In the Foreign. Market the speculation has been chiefly con fined to Portuguese Scrip. The new buccaneering scheme of Don Pedro against Lisbon has infused some hope of plunder in the minds of that Imperial Corsair's friends here, and. the Scrip which had been done on Thursday at 3 discount is now only discount. According to opinion of the best informed persons here, the squadron and military force sent against the Portuguese capital is on one of those impossible expeditions in which the demand for arrears of pay will be for ever stifled by the hand of death, or in other words, that its success is perfectly hopeless.— Don Pedro's motive for sending his deluded dupes to certain de struction is doubtless best known to himself. Brazilian Bonds are 611 ; Spanish, 194 ; Dutch, 4i-}; Belgian, 94-, 92; and Mexican, 374 It is expected that Mr. Stanley will bring in his West India Compensation Bill on Monday or Tuesday; but nothing positive is known on this head. The Prince Talleyrand's departure is now said to be uncer tain; all depends on the appointment of a successor, who, it is confidently asserted, will not be General Count Flahaut. DESPERATION.—We take the following from the Courrier du Gard, of the 11th inst. :—About ten o'clock last night, four young men of Uzes, Messrs. G—, F , G—, amt C , none of them more than twenty years of age, but noted for the violence of their philosophical and republican opinions, having come to an agreement to destroy themselves, left a coffee-house where they had been carousing, each armed with a pistol, and carrying with them four bottles of white wine, and a bottie of liqueur, and proceeded to the farm of M. G—, which was about a quarter of a league from the town. Here they lighted a candle, and loaded their pistols, first coolly cutting the balls, which were ton large for the barrels. This done, M. C-- took out his watch, and found that it wanted five minutes to eleven, the hour at.which they were. to deprive themselves of life. When the clock struck-ho again took up his pistol, upon which M. C.— proposed that they should wait till midnight, to which the.other replied, No! no! it is useless, I will show you how the aet is done." He then went to the door, placeii his pistol under his chin, drew the trigger, and in au instant lay dead at the feet of his companions. The other M. G.-- then seized his pistol, and said it is now my turn; but he was stop ped by 0., who, after some difficulty, prevailed upon,him to de sist, and by continued persuasions at length overcame the reso lution of F. also,• who; at first, was inclined to resent with violence the interference of C. The three survivors then proceeded to acquaint the procureur Roi with what had oc curred, and at one in the morning the officers of justice pro ceeded to. take the usual measures as to the disposal of the body of the deceased." NEW SOUTH WALES. The Sydney Gazette of the 31st January contains two documents of very,considerable interest, the first being a tabular statement of the imports and exports for the year ending the sth of January, 1833, and the other the balance sheet of the savings' bank for the year ending the 31st of December. The commercial document, emanating from the Sydney custom-house exhibits an amount of importations equal to £602,032 of manufactures and produce of every description ; whilst the exports reach the sum of £384,344 10s.. making together a grand total of nearly one million sterling as the movement of trade during the past year. With the exception of sperm and black whale 1 oils, 'which enter - into the list - of - imported articles, - al- though in reality for the purpose of re-exportation only, cotton manufactures figure for the largest value of impor tations ; spirits rank next, after which woollens, apparel and slops, and sugar in about equal proportions. We shall give a few of the items to shew the nature and ex tent of the trade between the mother country and that important colony. We notice first the exports from Great Britain to New South Wales :-- Manufactured Cottons . £42,756 Spirits, British Produce 37,033 Stationery and Books 10,550 , Woollens Iron, Steel and Hoop • Hardware and Ironmongery 26,720 Haberdashery, &c. Hats, Caps and Bonnets Canvas and Bagging Laths and Staves 16,331 Beer and Ale • 23,809 Apparel and Slops Manufactured Leather Earthenware 7,106 Cordage Copper . • Carriages i Fire Arms Glass and Glass Ware Linens Machinery '2,406 Nails, Iron and Copper .. Pickles and Sauces 3,969 Sadlery and Harness Salt. and Salt Provisions ,700 Silks Soap Starch and Blue Whaling Gear The following are the imports into Great Britain from New South Wales :- New Zealand Flax Hides Oils, Black Whale Ditto Sperm Seal Skins 1,391 Timber Blue Gum Ditto Cedar Whalebone Wools 73,559 Curiosities TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAXD.4RD. - - Sin,—lt has always been usual on the eve of discussion of questions of importance, to present as many petitions as pos sible bearing on the subject about to be discussed. This was the case previous to the introduction of Mr. Stanley's resolu tions on the slave emancipation scheme. But it is astonishing what a cooler that scheme has proved to the emancipationists, when it was known that twenty millions were to be given to the proprietors . instead, of lending them fifteen millions. Really, Mr. Editor, it appeared to inc a notable project to take away a man's property, and then say to him, " Why it is true I have robbed you of all you possessed in the world; but, however, I will lend you a small sum of money to keep you from immediate starvation." Sir, it was a truly Whig proposition—and lam sure would have been thought of by no set of men but such as concocted the famous budget - of Is3l—and all the other budgets up to the present period. But lam at a loss to know in what way this immense sum is to be raised. You know the Whigs are pledged to retrenchment, economy, and so forth. Now, I believe they find some little difficulty in making ends meet at present; and how they are to raise the money to compensate the slave pro prietors will no doubt puzzle even the sagacious Lord Althorp himself, even though he should call in the assistance of that precocious nobleman Lord Howick, or the financial skill of Old Cobbett, or the redoubted Joseph Hume. By the way, this last statesman has put the country to as much expense in printing returns during the last sixteen or eighteen years, as would go far to make up the sum required. But the fact is, and the Whigs know it, they have got them selves into such a scrape that they would give their ears to be ,out of, and have afforded their political enemies the most com plete triumph they could wish for. The only regret is, that our most gracious Sovereign should ever have been p laced in a situation to be compelled to accept of the services, and act under the advice of a set of men, the most incapable that ever attempted to govern a great and, till now, a flourishing nation. —I am, &c. - A CONSERVATIVE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. this country party is the bane of everything. No ten or a dozen men can associate for the accompshment of any work of public utility, but they are immediately assailed by some maliznant spirit,• and accused of practices and designs which never had any existence except in the heart of the ac cuser. Such a man never sees a dozen peisons together but he thinks of the riot. act, or a hand grenade ; and nothing but the dread of the law prevents him from shying a glass bottle at their heads. I hear that an active canvass for proxies is now carrying on for the purpose of turning out the whole, or the greater part of the directors of the Grand Junction Railway, at the general meeting on the 10th July next; and of substituting persons no toriously hostile to the engineer, Mr. Stephenson. I trust that the good sense of the subscribers will render this scheme of discord and disunion abortive, and teach such men that they are not to gratify their personal hatred of one of the greatest benefactors of the age at the expense of the proprietors. There is one offence which a man will very easily forgive providing, he is well paid for it. namely, to vote hint superan nuated; but these matters are decided by a wrong standard, — men are superannuated on account of their age, when nature superannuated them forty years before. These men wander about doing mischief when they cannot do good, and .never once thinking, that. though they are in their senses, their senses may be good for nothing. If. any person answering this de scription be found abroad,bent on the mischief I have described, further particulars may be learnt of him at the receipt of cus toms, A SHAREHOLDER. STEAM NAVIGATION. We remarked in our last number, in a short article on steam navigation, the systematic arrival of steam vessels from various parts of the continent. Since then we see the. following announcements in the London papers:— "The General Steam-navigation Company's mail-packet the Attwood,, from Rotterdam, arrived off the CuNtoin-house, at nine o'clock, a. m., yesterday, (Thursday, 27th June), after a very good passage. The eat! of Liverpool, from Ostend, arrived at seven o'clock last night, after a passage of only fourteen hours." " The General Steam-navigation Company's mail-packet the Tourist,.from Hamburgh, arrived off the Custom-house at ten o'clock, p.m., (Friday, the 28th June.) The Lord Melville, from Calaisi.also arrived at seven o'clock p.m." ThuS, in thirty-four hours, bringing us the most recent intelligence from four principal parts ofEurope, embracing France, Belgium, Holland, and all the north of Germany, extending to Russia. At a period when the tide of emigration appears to be setting strongly, but steadily, towards our Australian settlements, it cannot be otherwise than useful to Many,. and interesting to all who turn their attention in ever so slight a degree to the concerns of that quarter of the world, to mark the rapid increase of commercial operations . . in those yet infant colonies. When we consider the immense distance of the port of Sydney from Great Britain, the last year's trade, which we have this day abstracted from an official account pub lished in the Sydney Gazette of January, must appear not a little extraordinary. It is a striking proof of the per severing industry and application of the inhabitants of these islands, that a town whose original establishment was as a place of deportation for offenders should in a few years have become the nucleus of what may one day prove an extended empire; and that, with all its disadvantages of distanee, it should even now take from this country d►rect an amount of our manufactures and produce equal to two thirds of all that the 32,000,000 of our French neigh bours consume of the same articles ; whilst the aggre gate trade of the place exceeds considerably the whole amount of our exports to.Flance, whether of British ma nufactures and productions or of foreign and colonial pro duce of all descriptions. There is internal evidence in the list of articles imported into New South %Vales from this country of a growing desire for those luxuries which mark a rapid advance in the arts and an established state of society. It must be remembered, too, that Syd ney with its dependent territory is only one of three set tlements in that quarter of the world. Van Diemen's Land to the southward, with its capital, Hobart Town, has already reached a high degree of prosperity, and is ra pidly advancing; and the new settlement upon the Swan River, on the western side of New Holland, promises a corresponding advance in a short space of time. The title of continent would better become New Holland than that of island, considering that it extends over 40 degrees of longitude and 25 degrees of latitude, in the midst of some of the most fertile islands of the world, which stretch away for '2O degrees north and south of the line, to the coast of China on the north, and to our East Indian territory on the north-west ; whilst to the east and north east it possesses, especially from Sydney and Van Die men's Land, opportunities for extensive future enterprise to the numerous islands of the Pacific Ocean and the western shores of North and South America. The salu brity of the climate of all the settlements, which are in about the same parallel of latitude as the Cape of Good Hope and Buenos Ayres, affords every chance of their being able at no distant date, to raise a sufficient supply of all those products of the earth, which are of difficult growth within the tropics, and with which they may sup ply not only the eastern empire of this country, but a great number of the valuable spice and other islands of the vicinity ; and, in return, take those tropical products, which can never be 'advantageously conveyed to them from our western colonies. In every point of view we regard the Australian settle menls as of great importance to this country; and with that attention to their good government which we have no doubt will be paid by wise rulers at home, we shall doubtless see them rise rapidly in population, wealth, and commercial enterprise. FASHION, FACTS, AND FICTIONS. His Majesty, attended by Sir H. Taylor, arrived in town about half.pajt one o ' clock on Thursday afternoon, from the palace at Windsor. The Duke of Gloucester received the King at the palace at St. James's. Soon - after two o'clock his Majesty held a levee. In the entrée circle the following presentations to his Majesty took place : Count d'Estremel, minister of France to Colombia, by the Prince de Talleyrand, the French ambassador. Lieutenant L. N. Carter, of the United States Marine Corps, by Mr. Vail, the American charge d'affaires. His Majesty gave audiences to Earl Grey, Viscount Mel,' bourne, Lord Hill, and the Duke of Richmond. Earl Amherst and Sir Joseph Whatley were the lord and groom in waiting. Mr. Horsley Curteis, and a gentleman of the name of Wil kins; were knighted. The King returned to Windsor in the afternoon, attended by Colonel Horace Seymour. _ _ _ The Duke and Duchess - of Buccleugh, and the Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, have been ou a visit at the castle: On Saturday week their Majesties visited Penn Vicarage, where the Queen was received by the girls of the schools estab lished there by the Rev. Mr. Knolls, the rector. One of the children presented her Majesty with a work-bag, trimmed with Buckinghamshire lace, and hearing an appropriate inscription: to this girl who had the honour the Queen presented five pounds, and twenty pounds more to the other children of the school generally. The King's levees will be held' every Wednesday, until further notice. _ _ . The Gazette contains a very long order for the alteration of the naval uniform ; which, from its minuteness of description, is no doubt of considerable importance to the service. The red facings, we regret to perceive, are continued; and, as all the other mutations are confined to matters of buttons, and lace graduated into inches, the change will be scarcely perceptible to the " naked eye." ALMACK'S.—The ball on Wednesday night was, as usual this season, both numerously and fashionably attended, upwards of 500 persons being present. Dancing commenced about eleven o'clock, to the music of Weippert's full band, and it was nearly five o'clock in the morning before the company separated. ANECDOTE OF THE LATH MR. KEAN.—Kean was a man all of impulse. It is told of him, that on returning home after the first night of his Sir Giles Overreach, his wife, in her delight at his success, inquired how Lord Essex (then an active patron of the actor) was pleased. In the fervour of joy at the reception which the tumultuous and excited audience had given him, he. broke out with " D—n Lord Essex !—the pit rose at me! " A ROGUE.—A clever original rogue would now be quite a rara axis--we have no Barringtons, Soames, or Semple—no man of real genius in his profession—the present race of pickpockets are all petty larceny thieves, who dive like dab chicks, but without discretion. "There is one of our members," said Bayntun to H. Bulwer, "who, I fear, will never give a dinner." "That's yourself, I suppose," quoth muffin-face. "Not at all, my dear fellow," re turned the Mirror; " I mean a man who can't be the host, be cause he must always be the Guest."—Brilliant reflection from the Mirror! The burgesses of Liverpool seem to possess a charmed life. Mr. Benett's motion has been, for the fifteenth time, postponed. —Bolton. Chronicle. Several horses belonging to the Scots Greys, which had been put out to pasture at York, were seized the other day by the bailiffs, the tenant of the field having become insolvent. A long negociation took place before the civil power would yield up its capture to the military. - • There is a report prevalent that amongst the other savings to be effected by Government, the Military School established by the late Duke of York for the orphans of soldiers, is to broken up. _ Mr. Winter Scott, the successful opponent .of the Marquess of Douro (son of. the Duke of Wellington) at the election for South Hampshire, has been appointed by the noble duke (the lord-lieutenant) a deputy-tieutenant of the county. Lord Grey says he is of the same opinion upon the East In dia question that he was 20 years ago, though he does not exactly recollect what that opinion was. The Rev. Charles Egerton Duckenfield has been presented by the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle, to the vicarage of Eden hall, in this county, vacant by the demise of the Rev. Thomas Watson. A horned ewe, the property of W. Tandyn, Esq., of Lucott house, near Williton, has, within the last fifteen years produced thirty lambs, and her descendants are equally prolific. The ewe is now living, and in a healthy condition. SPECIMEN OF IRISH REASONING.—" Och ! Grace, honey, it would do your heart good to hear the fine discourse I heard from Tim Fogarty, the schoolmaster at Abbey side, when be was converting Dick Nowlan. Dick, like a poor ignorant creathure as he is, said that the Protestant religion was the best, for says he, 'lsn't it the reformed religion, and a'n't ye all crying out for reform from morning till night. and here's a reformed religion re a dy made to your hand ?" 'Why then bad luck to you, ve spalpeen,' says Tim, ' sure the Boman , is the only true faith; didn't you see or hear of Paul's Epistle (which means a letther) to the Romans?" Vis, I did, sure enough,' says Dick. 'Well then,' says Tim, did ye ever see or hear of St. Paul, or any other of "the Saints, writing a letter to the Protestants? Now Dick, what have you got to say? Faith, Grace honey, that foolish fellow, Dick Nowlin, was dumb founded, and could not say ho to a goose; and who, after that, could doubt the Roman Catholic religion being the only thrue one ; and who could help wishing to convert the good master and Parson Disney, and the rest of the good people, to it ?" The ,I?epealerg. RE-APPEARANCE OF CHOLERA IN Tills CITY.--The Indian Cholera, we have heard, has re-appeared in Edinburgh, that is to say, a few straggling cases have occurred. One fatal ease ham:Cued a few days ago in India Place, the subject of which was a respectable middle aged man. Medical aid was sought from the North Western Dispensary, in Jamaica-street, but not until the unfortunate person was beyond all chance of recovery. From the conversations we have had with medical men, we are inclined to believe that this disease will not again become epi demic in this city, but cases doubtless will continue occasion ally to appear. In fact., we apprehend that this disease is domi ciled in the country. We mention these facts not to . excite unnecessary alarm, but to caution the inhabitants to persevere in inculcating sobriety and cleanliness among the lower orders of society; we also repeat the admonition to procure medical assistance, even in doubtful cases, without delay, as, taken in the very eommencement„ the disease is considered to be not so absolutely. incurable as many alarmists have supposed.----Edin burgh Evening l'osi.- A curious kind of tylvan robbers' retreat has been discovered in a plantalion at Skellingthorpe, near Lincoln; it is a curi ously constructed bower, finaued of branches of trees, so as to defy detection until you were upon the spot. In this 'bower were discovered a variety of articles—a pot upon the fire with a fine turkey and bacon; lia:f a sheep, salted and concealed in the ground; a large pot of butter, and a variety of shoes and leather, with knives, forks, plates, bread, &c. This place is supposed to have been the retreat of several desperate robbers of the neighbourhood; it was discovered by scone persons Searching for fox grounds, who had seen sinoke issuing from the bower. The stage-strult• hero' whO received his-inspiration from read ing a " mellow dram," no doubt looks upon the keeper of a gm-shop as the magician best calculated to ",call np spirits from the vasty deep." LsGAcv Drry ARREARS.--A return of the amount received under prosecutions by the legacy duty office for arrears of dray, • or any other cause, in each of the past five years; distinguish ing each year :-1828, £65,366 19s. id.; 1829, €10,259 15s. 10d; 1830, £:38,10125.; 1831, £14,226 11s. Id. ; 1832, £35,340 3s. 6d. IRISH IDEA of DisTANCE.—" If you meet a peasant on your journey, and'ask him how far, for instance, to BaAlinrobe ? be will probably say it is 'three short miles.' You travel on, and . are informed by the next peasant you meet, that it is • five long miles.' On you go, and the next will tell • your honour,' it is about four miles, or about that same.' - The - fourth will swear, •If your honour stops at three miles, you'll never get there Bat on pointing to a town just before you, and inquiring what place that is, he replies, Oh, plase your honour, that's Bailin robe, Sure enough! Why, you said it was more than three miles off! "011, yes, to he sure and sartain, that's from my own cabin, plase your honour. h'er'e no scholards in this coun try; Arrah! how can we tell any distance; plase your honour, but from our own little cabin.' Robody but the schoolmaster knows that, place your honour.'"-- Teeutise psi Happiness. A FLINTY ORATQR.—At a meeting held sortie days ago on Brandon Hill, near Bristol , a varier, o f th e name of Herring ton,•called on ministers to mend their War, -or in default, me naced them with dismisSal; and said lie held in his hand a notice for them to quit (query—a pavito* stone ?) Tempera mutantur, " but a few moons past," and this same ministry might have commanded the very stones themselves, not to say the pavier's only, to rise up and aid them in their schemes of revolution, but, "now there is none so poor as do them reve rence." `` THE VERNACULAR APPLIED TO' MEDICINE."—An article has appeared lately in the Atlas under this title, purporting to support the views adopted by Mr. Hill in the motion which he proposes to bring before the House of Commons, to the effect that physicians shall in future be obliged to prescribe in English. Nothing can be more absurd than this. In the first place, the La tin is the language universally used for the purpose all over Eu rope • and unless the English were to be every wh ere substit uted , the Eu rope; of the Latin language in England would tend to unfit English physicians from prescribing out of their own. country. In the next place, it is for the advantage of the pa tient to be kept in ignorance of the remedies which his medical adviser administers for his relief, for many persons have so strong a prejudice against particular medicines, that rather than swal low them,they would submit to death itself. Lastly, the change would in reality not render the .majority of prescriptions any thing more intelligible, for chemical names which there would • be no doing without in prescribing mineral remedies, would be as great a mystery to the uninitiated as the Egyptian hierogly phics to whiCh the writer in the Atlas alludes. SOUTH WALES EISTEDDFOD.—We understand that the Mar quis of Bute has expressed that liberal disposition that we con fidently expected in his lordship, to promote every thing that may tend to enhance the literature, poetry and music of Wales; and has kindly consented to pr eside at an Eisteddfod, to be held at Cardiff in the Autumn of 183.1, (probably the early part of • • September.) Ile has also subscribed one hundred,#founds to wards the expenses. The picturesque keep of the titicient castle will be fitted tip in order to hold the herdic meetings:e. and every thing will be done by the noble Marquis to render the national festival inferior to none which have taken place in the prin,ci- - pality.—Merthyr Guardian. REMARKABLE BIRD. -L-Last week a bird was caught alive in a field near Bouvillestone, which, upon examination, proved to be a white hen sparrow.' She was put in a cage and hung up in the tap-room of a public-house, the Old Post, and, notwithstand ing the noise and confusion incident to such a place, she, in a few days, layed three eggs, upon which eggs she is now sitting. STORM.—On Wednesday . night last this port was visited with a very severe storm, and it continued to blow a complete gale from - the south-west for several hours, the lightning was very vivid, and serious apprehensions were entertained for the safety of the fishing, craft, a number of which were known to be at • sea. We have only heard of one accident, however, in which a boat swamped, and Mr. Doubtfire, formerly of St. Aubyn street, draper, and a man trainee Andersen, who were fishing off the Eddystone, were both drowned. The trawls on the whiting-ground observed the sea' strike the boat, but from the severity of the storm, could render no assistance. Mr. Doubt fire has left a widow and seven children.—Plymouth Paper. SCOTCH LAW Commisstote.—There is one result which we anticipate from this Commission, namely, that jury trial in civil causes will either be utterly done away with, or that it will be placed on a very different footing from what it has hitherto been. The country has now bad eighteen years' experience of this mode of trial, and every year it has become more and more unpopular, not to say hatetut to the lieges. It is in Scotland what the Court of Chancery used to be in England, an object of universal dread and abhorrence; and so far from being at tended with a saving of expense,. it is a sort of gulf in which one or other of the litigants is certain to be swallowed up, and per adventure both. It has, besides, cost the country already some where about £lBO.OOO, which is rather too large a sum to pay for the privilege of being ruined. But we shall return to this subject anon, and bring some things under the notice of our readers which are well deserving of their most serious attention. —Caledonian Mercury.—rf his was a favourite Whig measure. which, as usual, commenced in a job, and turned out a failure. Great offence has been given by the Post-office to the mer chants trading with America, in suddenly stopping the practice which has heretofore existed of making up a begot' letters at the North and South American Coffee-house, to be conveyed by the line of New York packets from Liverpool. By that means merchants have been enabled, and the practiceiseif many . _,Years' standing, to communicate weekly with any part of the United States, a facility not to he obtained by any of the Post-office arrangements then in existence, and therefore suffered to con tinue. An order has, however, been recently _issued, to put a stop to this practice, which has been declared illegal, and it is intimated that the penalties for any violation of this order will be enforced. The old communications with the United States were by the Halifax mail, which carries the letters for the Ca nadas and the whole of British Anierica, and which used to -touch at New York; but the letters by this circuitous voyagd were thrown so much out of date, that no merchants availed themselves of it, and latterly this packet has ceased to touch al New York altogether; but it happens, that of the whole line of New York paakets communicating with Liverpool and with London, there is not one vessel of British ownership, and our Post-office, consequently, can have no authority to compel any of the masters of them to take a bag of' letters ; so that it cannot carry into execution the arrangement, nor any thing approach ing to it in convenience, of n hich it has deprived the merchants. The conductors of the Post-office are surely bound either to establish packets for. conducting the..business which they insist on having, or let the old arrangement go on till they can. Their conduct on this occasion is universally characterised as odious and capricious.— Times. ELOPEMENT IN HiuH LIVE.—The recent elopement of Miss Matilda Strachan, the beautiful ward of the Marquis of Hertford. has created a very great sensation weetward—particularly among the beau monde—as there are two disconsolate suitors now in England, who were in expectation of being honoured with her hand. One of these, the Count Sandor, a rich Hun garian nobleman, who gave the noble marquis a great deal of trouble at Naples , being at Crockford's on Wednesday night last, in the height of his parokysm at what he termed the dupli city of the fair runaway, gave vent to some most uncharitable and ungallant anathemas against the continence of English ladies in g eneral—tvhich was immediately and most spiritedly replied to by the Hon. Cecil Forrester, who stood forth the champion of his countrywomen's honour and virtue. A fracas was the consequence, and a duel was expected; but as we have heard nothing of the recourse to arms, we suppose the II ungeti Count was persuaded to retract his remarks upon English ladies, and make the amends honorable. The particulars of the a ope ment we understand to be as follow ; The Noble Marquis, with Lady Strachan and fancily, had reached Geneva, on Weir way from Naples, being en route for England, when the Marqui s was taken seriously ill with rheumatic gout, and thus detained some • days. On his partial recovery, and the morning of their in tended departure, just as they were about to quit the hotel, they discovered, to their very great surprise, that the young lady started a short time before them for Vienna, in company wit h . the Count Berthould — leaving behind her a letter to i nform her friends that she had been married, above three weeks be fore, to the partner of her flight. 'The Count had, it appears, been a frequent visitor to the Marquis, at Naples, without any suspicion being entertained of his attachment to Miss Strachan —indeed quite the contrary, for Count Sandor came here by re ' quest to meet her on her arrival, and to his great chagrin, ni s .- ccvered, before he had been in London a week, that she was actually betrothed to a Scotch nobleman, Lord 1(-- thus proving the truth of the old adage—" Qui les abacus ont toujouri tort." A Rneuese.—Zedekiah Smitherton fell in love with farmer Hobson's rosy daughter Elizabeth ; and as no introduction is considered necessary among neighbours in that part of the - to pay h world, he "just dropped in" one eveuing Old mortaler a visit. He found Hobson himse lf, a surly, fat , sitting in his elbow chair, with a pipe in his mouth and a mug of cider on the table before him. After the usual compliments, which, on the farmer's part were almost lost in the puffs of tobacco smoke, Zedekia i asked timidly, "if Miss Elizabeth was at home." " To-be-sure she's home," said farmer Hobson, " she's washing clothes ;—do you want to see her?—Puff; puff, , puff." —" Yes, sir," responded the lover blushingly. " et l' cried the farmer in a tone which made Zedekia'n tremble ; " Bet, come out here; a man wants to see you—Puff." Miss Betty came out accordingly, smoothing down her apron and look.- ing delightfully. " Puff, puff. 'Well, Sir, do you see her '-s" said farmer Hobson to Zedekialc.—" Yes, Sir," says Zed. " Well Sir,—you know the way out, I suppose.—Bet, go back to your wash tub—Puff, puff, puff, puff." This was Zedekiah's first and last visit to farmer Hobsem's. Oursesves.—lt is well saidby a Parisian contemporary that in England, time is considered in the light of an income or a treasure —an object of inestimable value. The English are spendthrifts with their money, but misers with their time. No thiug can exceed the punctuality with which they keep their engagements. Your F.nglishman sets his watch by that of his friend, and is rigidly .at his post at the very minute and place agreed upon. The pronunciation of the language itself seems calculated for economising time; John Bull cats his letters and whispers his words ; nor did Voltaire observe wit hout fair grounds—" The Engish contrive to gain two hours a day upon us by simply eating their syllables." 'lliere is but little exchange of compliments amongst therm fur every c ompliment is esteem ed so much time wasted; because their salutation does-not transgress the hounds of a short nod of the head, or, at t he most, a contraction of the four monosyllables, "How d'ye do ?" There are none of your "most humble, most devoted, and most obedient," at the tail of their correspondence; ceremony is cut to rags by simplicity. The 1 nglish are sparing of speech ; their very manner of expressing themselves smacks of hurry, and their language is c haracteristic 01 it; for it is composed to a great extent of m onosyllables, and even two of these are often melted into one. It is a perfect stenography of words. The • industry of the country meets one at every point ; and there is scarce a native to be found in it, who is not trained to the prac tice of this principle, that, " to avoid confusion and ruin, a man must hepunctual .in every relation of life, and prompt iu every m otion." - Loan CIiANCRLLOR BROUGII AM'S rEF.-11 is perhaps not g enerally known that the first fee received by the pree.eut - talented occupant of the Woolsack seas paid to him by a profes sional gentleman in town, through the hands of the late Mr. Grierson, W.S., Edinburgh, for drawieg a reclaiming petition on behalf of a commercial firm which then existed in Ayr. The plea, we believe, related to a disputed contract for the sup ply of regimentals for some of the trained hands which turned out in this county so patriotically and with such praiseworthy ' alacrity, when the whole civilis ed w orld was u p in antic against • us, in the vain hope of subduing the lion quit which blazed over the entire leugth and breadth of the "-tight little island." hlr. Brougham, in acknowle d g in g the receipt of the money: from lelr. Grierson, meutioned to Unit gentleman that it was the : first fee paid to hint siuce he had rassed f end, said the manly chancellor, in a mouthful of homely Scotch, " t hope, freetl, it'll be quid luck." Good hick it certainly boded; and eliouhtl this paragraph by any chance meet the eye of the illustrious • individual to whom it chielly relates, we feel assured he will glad to learn that the p ovincial practitioner who first directed his loaf to be ereeshed, still now s, not a "sweet bud," it is true, but an aged stein, on " the banks o' the Ave." where he lon a degree of enthusiasm which admits of no change.—alyr Obe s,:reer. :Y ~~~ 4' A•