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FTM' crag O; N EJCP' rrP Dee. 16,1849, Co Ur gsoth, TO ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS. 0 be SOLD, a Set of powerful BORING RODS, which have been very little used, and are as good as new. _tor particulars apply by letter to A Z, STA NDA RD-office. fro fit Ed, TO be LET, some good OFFICES, in Cases-street, Clayton -square; also a SHOP and DWELLING-HOUSE, 111 the same street. APply to Messrs. A. and G. WILLIAMs, 12, Cases-street. T 0 be LET, the LARGE ROOM i n th e E xc h ange Buildings, commonly called the COTTON SALE Room. For portico's.' s apply:to Mr. JOHN H. YOUNOHUSBAND, Se t'eta IT and Treasurer, Exchange News Room. Vialantrb. GOVERNESS. ATANTED, a LADY, from Thirty to Forty Years of Age, well qualified to impart a sound ENGISH EDU ,ATION, based upon Religious principles, with French, by co nversation, and Music. The Widow or Daughter of a a sm Cler roan pr all salary onlyeferred. The s will be given.ituation is one of universal comfort, so hat Address E. M with particulars, to the STANDARD-OFFICE. Eontrarics. -PARISH OF LIVERPOOL. TO FLOUR DEALERS. THE SELECT VESTRY of this Parish are desirous of receiving TENDERS from such persons as are willing to CONTRACT for the supply of FLOUR, WHEA r, and OAT EAL, during Three Months, from the 25th instant, to be de „rvered at the Workhouse, Brownlow-hill, or the Industrial Sc hools Kirkdale. Tenders, with Samples of the Articles offered, to be delivered a rt illy Office, on or before the 22nd instant, addressed to the Chairm an of the Select Vestry. CHARLES HART, Vestry Clerk. Parish Olfices, Lime-street, 17th Dec., 1849. PAD Vtibitrations. WALKER'S LIVERPOOL RAILWAY CLOCK AND STEAM-PACKET GUIDE Will be Published on the IST OF JANUARY, 1850, Price One Penny. Just Published, price Sixpence, or per post One Shilling, E REPORT of the SPECIAL COMMITTEE THE the GRAND ORANGE LODGE of IRELAND, ap pointed November, 1849. Price is., tinted proofs Cs., a beautiful LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT, embracing PORTRAITS of the EARL of RODEN and WM. and FRAS. C. BEERS, Esq. _Dublin : S:muel B. Oldham. Sold by ARTHUR NEWLINO, 4 13 Bold -street, Liverpool. NEW MONTHLY WORK, BY MRS. ELLIS, Author of "Social Distinction ;'or, Hearts and Hanes." On the First of January, 100, will be published, the First Number, price is., to be continued on the Ist and 15th of every Mouth; also in Monthly Parts, at 25., MRS. ELLIS'S MO RNI N G CAL L; A TABLE BOOK OF LITERATURE AND ART; being a new and original Miscellany, especially written and arranged for the i nstruction and entertainment of the Ladies of the British 411 1pire. It will be conducted by Mrs. ECUs, and open with 4 new work of fiction descriptive of domestic life, from her admired pen. Tales and Sketches by the ablest authors of the day will appear in its pages, whice will be further illustrated With Engravings from paintings by the most eminent modern .„ a rtists, embracing everything that can instruct the Mother, 'the Wife, and the Daughter; in connection with the Fine Arts and Elegant Literature. ~‘ J ohn and Frederick Tallis, London and New York. Agent : '4. S. BOYCE, 49, Stafford-street, Liverpool. At Ist March, 1837 Do. 1813 Do. 1849 Amount Annual I Accumu- As3nred. I Revenue. lated Fund A 6740,462 .e 26,993 1,707,716 64,000 3,067,376 114,106 The WHOLE PROFITS belong to the Policy Holders. among whom they are allocated every THREE YEARS. It is therefore impossible for any Assurance Office to afford greater advan tages. __ _ A Policy for .elOOO effected on Ist March, 1832, is now in creased to .t 1429, and other Policies in proportion. ROBT. CHRISTIE, Manager AO.ENTS : LIVERPOOL. HENRY DAVIES, Sharebroker, 5, Dale- Andersons and Thorburn, Merchants. Manchester { Edward Corbett, Surveyor, 2, Princess-street John Hostage, Solicitor, Anthony Dillon, Banker Chester Mold .. For 1850.—Half-a-crown, with a large zinc Hieroglyphic Coloured, RA PHAEL'S THIRTIETH YEAR OF HIS PROPHETIC MESSENGER, being for 1850, has been most successful, doubling its sale. It is replete with astonish i ng Prognostications for the forthcoming year, 1850,—a year regnant with direful imports to the world at large; also, to ndividuals At page 36, in the Prophetic Messenger for 1849, the following occurs:—" The opposition of the Sun and Saturn looks OMINOUS End STARTLING, pronouncing a mandate to One of high or regal power to prepare for death." Wm. Charlton Wright, London, and sold by all Booksellers. Shortly will be published, in the GREENOCK ADVERTISER, and afterwards in Pamphlet form-96 pages, Crown 4to, price Is., to be offered to the Trade, in quantities of not less than ICO, at the cost of the paper and the mere throwing off— THE CRISIS OF SIR R. PEEL'S MISSION; ISAAC BUCHANAN, Formerly President of ftie lioards of Trade of Toronto and Hamilton, C. NV., and Member for Toronto, the then Metro polis, in the First Parliament of United Canada. THE Writer's object being to do what he can to get Peel's unprincipled and fatal course appreciated before We lose our Colonies ; while he takes the opportunity to repeat _the arguments he has brought before the public from time to Wile since 1845, to show that the same Legislation which loses the Colonies, and our supremacy on the sea, must lead to a diminution of employment at home so vast as to issue in politi cal confusion, even although there exists the present loyalty to the British Monarchy, with the present universal devo.ion to the Reigning Sovereign. CONTENTS, Part I st.—A general view of Peel's unprincipled and fata to, urse, and of the only remedy left us. This contains also thel t part of the appendix, viz , Patriotic views of the Americans P$ the subject of national labour, being a large part of the Eatophlet of the Hon. Abbot Lawrence, the present American flinister to England—The only safe alteration in the Constitu "On of Parliament—Corroborative Evidence that Peel's mea sures that lose the Colonies and our supremacy at sea must Also cause a Revolution at home. . Part 2d.—Peel's measures lose the Colonies must also cause a Revolution at home—Deperate condition of the Colonies --- -How to save the Colonies—Causes of the Revolt of the old Colonies—The FACTS of the Annexationists in Canada indis- Datable—The only Remedy, Democratic Legislation, which will set the money market and its organs at defiance, permitting „ Court no longer to turn out or keep out a Ministry—The Monetary course which will best promote this country's indus try in case of a large import of Gold from California or else- Where. Any fixing of the price of Gold in this country at the foreign, instead of the British value, cuts the throat of British Industry ; and a REDUCTION of our fixed price ought never to be submitted to, as this would just be to perpetuate Peel's alien principle of money. But our r etaining gold at its present price, after the value has fallen abroad, would be getting quit of the foreign price; and would be the best for British industry if 'lolly the price abroad falls sufficiently far below our fixed price, 'Our pounds the ounce, to attract the gold to the British market. The difference between the foreign and British price of gold would then be indicated by a rise in wages, and prices here caused by the enlarged demand for British goods. WE I SUST NOT SUBMIT TO THE BANK OF ENGLAND'S BEING I ( S SLIEVED FROM ITS LEGAL OBLIGATION TO BUY GOLD AT Mint's FOUR POUNDS THE OUNCE (or, in other words, to the mint's being enabled to refuse to coin a quarter of an ounce of ttandard gold into a sovereign, for the foreigner, as at present). This would be a mere prelude to reducing the fixed price of gold, the worst calamity that could befal us; but in fact the ' II TESTION IS ONE OF 'A GREATER OR SMALLER AMOUNT OF S OVEREIGNS IN CIRCULATION, AS THE SOVEREIGNS TO BE ISSUED HEREAFTER WOULD BE NO WORSE THAN THOSE NOW . I ,ST THE HANDS or vas PUBLIC. The Industrious Classes of ,i,oe country may be too politically weak to get the arrangement , nat would be best in the circumstances, but they ought to sub- Tit to no change that will not, at least, do away a fixed price gold. and leave the pound note to represent a tertain value . i nstead of a certain quantity of gold —or to be more plain— “venty shillings worth of gold instead of a quarter of an ounce of that commodity : the note bringing more gold when the Price is less than four pounes, and vice versa. Part 3d.—Peel's Legislation unpatriotic. His Money Law as devoid of Humanity and moral principle of any sort as of Pa , otism. John Bull awakening from his fearful DREAM of Irreciprocal Free Trade," which in practice is found be not a new system of commerce, but a commercial atheism or world of chance without any fixed Laws or Principles. This C ontains, also, the first part of Appendix, viz. :—The Position or the Canadas, being the Speech of the Honourable Win. H. rerritt, now President of Lord Elgin's Council , in the Canadian arliament of 4th May, 1846. The Colonies to have a voice even If not a vote in the Imperial Parliament, and the Colonists to be a share of the promotion of the Public Services hereafter— „ning a part of the pamphlet of the Honourable Joseph Howe, Halifax, the Prime Minister of Nova Scotia. The principles ' a nd proceedings of the Glasgow Reciprocity Association. N•l3.—The first Part (32 pages) will appear in the Greenock ; ,(Lvertiser on Tuesday, the 18th current, and may be hag in Co ves for Sixpence, at the Offices of the Greenock Advertiser, 7; Greenock and Glasgow (40, Union-street) ; at Mr. MANN'S, o nitseller, 'Coral'', London; and at Messrs. JOHN HA RT tILL and SONS, Waterloo-place, Edinburgh—where may also t!'had the entire Pamphlet, when completed. To applicants for 11 ,ta,oiped Single Copies (prior to publication) they will be fur ,isned at Threepence, as it is felt to be an object to have them At r .c,ldated in the Colonies. The pamphlet may be also obtained ure STANDARD -OFFICE, Liverpool, when published. COMPLETE FAMILY NEWSPAPER 45 ' 11 CHURCH & CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES. r i piTE attention of Churchmen and Conservatives , 0 is specially called to the sinzularly comprehensive and to th 4, Plete,cbaracter which has within She last year been given JOHN BULL NEWSPAPER. t;: t . I, e JOHN BULL, the only weekly :organ of the Conserva lo;,, Party, contains all the usual intelligence, Foreign, Colo `",41, and Domestic; the movements of the Court and the e e pionable world ; the Church and Universities, and all Mis u,s!tueous Religious intelligence, with special notice of Church thls, and of the Education Question ; Naval and Military eirs; the Proceedings of Parliament, while sitting, and of eas wieetlngs of Public Bodies and Societies ; Law and Police /41i", and all the general News of the week ; the whole care t Y and condensed, and methodically arranged for he facility of reference. $ l 3 l Peculiar and novel feature in the JOHN BULL is a weekly Of t , 4l Aav OF min PUBLIC PRESS, giving a critical analysis tle leading columns of the daily journals, and enabling 1.4 1 e who have not the time and the opportunity of reading the ex us Papers, to make themselves acquainted with:the views puri:essed upon the questions of the day by the organs of f2lc opinion. k ik. ... this department Of LITERATURE, the ions BULL Cop ilot?, besides larger Reviews of more important works, brief Pa tti e " of all new and interesting publications, as well as of lift 4 Phlets and periols Literature his portion of the columns serving tiohhe eßertory of the of the day. Proprietor has taken special care to exclude all objec- Vert!;: i i le matters, not only in the Intelligence, but in the Ad -1:Ire Sing Columns, so as to render the JOHN BULL a journal lisf e l - tulnently suited for the domestic circle, which may be Vardi Put into the hands of females, of children, and of ser- V" t,l 4 ::un its extensive' circulation in the higher and leading 'entT, of Society, the Jo HN BULL will be found a most excel uvertising Organ. ettri7 r ee nrp nublished of J , B' one at ar editions are published 4 . 0111% t _ 41 0rn• to ur on Saturday, including the News of Sa urdi: 6 , I k ng, for Country riders ; another on Saturday evening 4, ri'ti`ue News of the day, for Town circulation; and a third Ni ' t -° ! , on Monday, containing - the Markets and other Agri ,4l4l Intelligence tlikeribers are requested to specify which of these three b u desnation " Countr i .reu e R t . o n th Latest Edition, n " der " Mondaythe'igs Edition." of Orders to ke t C`nE either to the Office, 40, Fleet-street, London, or to any Net - Newsvender in Town or country. Prier; 6d, Enstirantt ftottrts. NOTICE POLICIES OPENED WITH THE C ITY OF GLASGOW LIFE ASSURANCE AND REVERSIONARY COMPANY ON OR BEFORE THE 20TH JANUARY, 1850, WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE BONUS THEN TO BE DECLARED. Head Office 40, ST. VINCENT-PLACE, GLASGOW. Edinburgh Office 19, ST. ANDREW-SQUARE. London Office 120, PALL-MALL. Liverpool Office 20, REDCROSS-STREET. J. C. TENNANT, • TENNANTS, CLOW, AND CO SCOTTISH EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. (INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.) Edinburgh-26, St. Andrew-square. London-61, Moorgate-st. His Grace the DUKE Of BUCCLEUCH and QUEENSBERRY, President. LOCAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR LIVERPOOL. CHAI RMAN. Thomas Chilton, Esq., Merchant. DIRECTORS. Thos. Martin, Esq., Merchant Wm. Oxley, Esq., Merchant I David Cannon, Esq., Merchant Hilton Halhead, Esq., Mercht Medical Officer—James Petrie, Esq., M.D TOTAL SUM ASSURED ANNUAL REVENUE ACCUMULATED FUND View of the progress of the Society X 3,067,376 114,106 496,555 SCOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, FOUNDED A.D. 1815, and Constituted by Act of Parliament, for Assurance on the Lives , 11 healthy persons in every station or profession, wheresoever resident. PRESIDENT. THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ROSEBERY, K.T, 1. The Sums Assured, with Additions, now amount to up wards of ,€7,000,000. 2. The Accumulated Fund now amounts to upwards of .€2,070,000. 2. The Annual Revenue now amounts to upwards of €300,000. 4. By the last Annual Report, the Deaths and relative claims were in the ratio of only 534 per cent. of what might have been expected according to the Tables upon which the Society's calculations are based. And, 5. The Amount of Assurances accepted during the last twelve years have been on an average upwards of Half a Million Sterling annually. THE WHOLE PROFITS BELONG TO THE ASSURED. Prospectuses and every information may be readily obtained on application at the Head-office, or any of the Society's .Agencies. JOHN MACKENZIE, Manager. WM. GEORGE, Chief Clerk. Head Office, 5, St. Andrew-square, Edinburgh, November, 1849. AGENTS FOR LIVERPOOL AND VICINITY: Messrs. BELL, GOULDIE, and CO., Exchange-street East SCOTTISH PROVIDENT INSTITUTION, ~ EDINBURGH sopoo No. 14, ST. ANDREW-SQUARE INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT Attention is invited to the Principles of this Society, as ex plained in the Prospectus and Annual Reports, copies of which may be had on application. Its provisions combine the several advantages of MUTUAL ASSURANCE, with special exemption from personal liability. DIVISION of the WHOLE PROFITS among the Policy-holders, on a i , eculiarly equitable principle, the surplus being reserved for those whose Premiums, with accumulated interest, amount to the sums in their Policies; in other words, for those by whose longer contributions alone it has been created. PREMIUMS on the Most MODERATE SCALE consistent with perfect safety, being at early and middle ages about a fourth lower than in other participating Offices; and The utmost LIBERALITY IN PRACTICE consistent with right principle. Resolutions were adopted at last General Meeting having the effect of rendering Policies indefeasible, except on the ground of fraud. PREMIUMS TO ASSURE .elOO AT DEATH 25 I 30 I 35 1 61 2 6 10! 2 14 1379 Annually during life. 1 15 8 1 18 0 1 21 payments 0n1y..... 2 7 10' 2 10 8 1 2 14 6 1 2 19 8 1 3 6 4 1 3 14 9 JAMES WATSON, Manager Edinburgh, November,lB49 AGENT IN LIVEROOOL _ JOHN REID, General Commission Merchant, 13, OLDRALL-STREET. Ziledical Officer, Dr. JOHN MOFFAT, 3, Bedford-street North NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. CAPITAL, .eSOO,OOO.—EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, The leading features of the Society are guarantee of an ample Proprietary Capital. Moderate Rates of Premiums. Two-thirds Premium Loaned to the Assured. Annual Division of Profits. Half the Premium may remain as a Loan for Five Years. Extensive Travelling Leave granted, without extra Premium. Moderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates. N.B.—The last Annual Bonus to the Assured varied from 27 to 65 per cent. (according to age) on the Premiums paid. Example of Bonuses already Declared, and Options. Annual Premium.. Permanent Sum the in Bonus reduction Assured :if, addition in of mayßor to Sum Cash. Annual row on ,1` ) Assured. Premiums. Policy. Bonus I s. d. / 1 d .W s d s. d. .4' s. d. ‘ e 1837 276 I s. 4 3 I . . 1 128 14 321 7 2 593 6 8 'lB3B 251 18 'lOll5 14 8 18 12 8 .54317 9 '1839 226 6 0 102 15 1 16 2 9 494 810 74 3 4 I 1840 841 1 1 7 7 4 8 0 0 0 0' 8 78 2 1 3 4 4 2 1 12 2 1 3 4 1 0 1 445 303 13 0 0 11 i 1842 147 4 2 65 15 10 10 2 4 346 2 3 1843 99 18 444 8 4 615 11 '29613 4 1844 62 6 827 13 4 4 4 0 '247 4 5 Prospectuses, with Tables of Rates, &c., may be had at the Office, or any of its Branches in the Country : or on applica tion, will be forwarded post free. W. S. B. WOOLHOUSE, Actuary. Liverpool Physician—Sir A. J. Knight, M.D. Surgeon—W. W. Manifold, Esq. Agent—JAMES IRVINE, 6, Cook- s t. Manchester Messrs. Duffield, Lofthouse, and Whitworth, 12, Prince's-street. Ashton Mr. R. W. Ramsden. Blackburn Mr. Thomas Lunt, Ainsworth-street. Bury Mr. G. Douglas, Brookshaw-house. Lancaster Gardner Mashiter; Esq., Treasurer to the Cor- potation. - - _- Oldham Mr. J. H.tt, Manchester-street. Oswestry Mr. Robert Simon. Preston Joseph Thackery, Esq. Rochdale Mr. James Butterworth, Yorkshire-street. Runcorn John Deakin, Esq. Southport Mr. James Kershaw, Lord-street, Druggist. St. Helens H. Gaskell Taylor, Esq., Solicitor. Warrington .... Mr. Charles Holmes, Bridge-street. TO INVALIDS. TA It. SWEDOUR may be consulted in all Confiden i.! tial Cases, Daily, at his Residence, 3S, SEEL-STREET, opposite Concert-street, Liverpool. CHRISTMAS, rpHE YULE-LOG will soon burn ruddily on the I hearth ; the tables will be spread with luxurious cheer ; merry guests will have assembled ; the toast will go round ; the song will enchant all hearers; the cheek of beauty will glow; the heart of youth will palpitate with lore and joy; and finally— " A measure—a measure— For fair dames and gentlemen 1" will resound through the glorious halls! Christmas is, in truth, that especial season when friends and lovers assemble to renew —or, as a quaint old poet phrases it, to " redintegrate" their amity; and it follows, that PERSONAL ATTRACTION must create more than usual anxiety. The TOILET, then, becomes the grand desideratum ; and silky hair—a complexion trans parent and blooming — and teeth like pearls are, in one word, indispensable. To render the Toilet complete for the purposes of HEALTH, BEAUTY, and ATTRACTION, three celebrated Pre parations are essential ; namely, the " MACASSAR OIL," " KALYDOR," " ODONTO," of the Messrs. ROWLANDS. These may, all of them, without any exaggeration, be described as Beauty's Specifies.; and, moreover, quite unapproachable for elegance and delicacy. ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL Is.a delightfully fragrant and transparent preparation for the Hair; and as an invigorator and beautifier is beyond all pre cedent. In dressing the hair nothing can equal the effect a Rowlands' Macassar Oil, on either natural or artificial hair, rendering it so admirably soft that it will lie in any direction, producing beautifully flowing curls, and, by the transcendent lustre it imparts, rendering the head-dress truly enchanting.— Price 3s. 6d.; 7s. ; Family Bottles (equal to four small), 10s. 6d. ; and double that size, 2ls. per bottle. ROWLAND'S KALYDOR. For the Skin and Complexion, is unequalled far its rare and inestimable qualities. The radiant bloom it itnparts to the cheek ; the.softness and delicacy which it induces on the bands .and arms; its capability of soothing irritations and removing cutaneous defects, discoloration, and all unsightly appear ances, render 4t indispensable to.every Toilet.—Price 4s. 6d., and Bs. 6d. per bottle. ROWLAND'S ODONTO, Or PEARL DENTIFRICE, compounded of the choicest and most recherche ingredients of the Oriental Herbal, it is of inestima ble value in preserving and beautifying the Teeth, and strength ening the Gums. It bestows on the Teeth a pearl-like white ness, frees them from Tartar, and imparts to the Gums a , healthy firmness, and to the Breath a grateful sweetness and perfume.—Price 3s. 9d. per box. The august patronage conceded by our Gracious Queen, the Court, and Royal Family, and the several Sovereigns and Courts of Europe, together with their general use by the Aris tocracy and the elite of Fashion, and the confirmation, by ex of the infallible efficacy of these creative renovating a perfectlbn, and given perience, Specifics, have characterized t them a celebrity unparalleled. hem Wi IMPORTANT INFORMATION. UNPRINCIPLED SHOPKEEPERS, for• the sake of galninz trifle more profit, vend the most SPURIOUS COMPOUNDS under the same names. •It is therefore highly necessary to see that the word " ROWLANDS' " is on the Wrapper of each Article. Sold by the Proprietors— A:ROWCAND & SONS, 20, Hatton Garden, London, And by all respectable Chemists and Perfumers. THE LIVERPOOL STANDAkiI. TO THE INHABITANTS OF LIVERPOOL, And the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Families through out Lancashire and the adjoining Counties. WE beg to inform you that we have taken the PREMISES, No. 56, WATERLOO-PLACE, CHURCH-STREET, OPPOSITE RANELAGH-STREET, for the purpose of carrying on an EXTENSIVE TEA AND COFFEE TRADE, which is now OPENED. This Establishment, of which we are the projectors and pro prietors, will in many important respects differ from any at present existing in Liverpool; it may therefore be desirable, if not necessary, that we should state explicitly the basis upon which it is founded, the system upon which it will be conducted, and the reasons which have led us to select Liverpool as the field for our enterprise. _ The principles we adopt as a basis is to sell by retail TEAS AND COFFEES, of superior quality, at the SMALLEST RE MUNERATING PROFIT, FOR READY MONEY; thus placing the inhabitants of Liverpool up :n a footing, in the purchase of those articles, with the inhabitants of London. In order to ensure these results, there will be required, first, a competent knowledge of the business : secondly, capital sufficient for the purpose; thirdly, A CERTAIN AND QUICK RETURN OF THE CAPITAL EMPLOYEDS and, fourthly, a population numerous enough to warrant the expectation of an" EXTENSIVE TRADE", without which the system of SMALL PROFITS" cannot be permanently maintained. The two former we are prepared to bring into immediate pre ration, and the two latter are sufficiently guaranteed - by the immense population of Liverpool and a strict adherence to "cash payments:" the only system which effectually secures to the vendor the power of obtaining his goods upon the best terms; and to the purchaser the fulfilment of such pretensions as we have announced. LIVERPOOL, second only in importance to London, has not hitherto had the advantages of such an establishment as we propose. The existing grocery establishments, though in many instances of undoubted respectability and considerable extent, are still of that mixed character (combining a variety of hetero geneous trades) which indicates, usually, the infancy of a town rather than the advanced civilisation and high commercial status which are the characteristics of Liverpool. The rapid increase of its population, and other obvious signs of prosperity, at once mark it out as the place most suited for commercial enterprise, and in no branch of its commerce is there, in our opinion, so wide a field for honourable and successful com petition as in the Tea Trade; a trade which, beyond all other branches of our imports, has exceeded the most sanguine expectations of all interested in its success, and whose history is alike interesting to the merchant, the financier, and the phi lanthropist; inasmuch as the moral effects resulting from the increased use of tea render it as important a consideration in all future schemes for the public benefit as it has hitherto been in the fiscal arrangement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or the speculations of the mercantile community. The discussion of the history of the Tea Trade, however, we have neither time nor space to pursue, but we may just observe, that, while for several years after its introduction, in 16CO, the annual import did not exceed "one hundred and fifty pounds," such has been the increase in later times, that last year the quantity imported into London and Liverpool alone was nearly FIFTY MILLION POUNDS, yielding an aggregate revenue of upwards of FIVE MILLION POUNDS STERLING. The price at the time to which we refer being " SIXTY SHILLINGS PER POUND," placed it, of course. beyond the increase its of any but the wealthy ; -and a lth oug h, i n or d er to its consumption, it was sold in a liquid state, and the duty, eightpence per gallon, levied upon it as upon other excisable liquors, yet the progress of it appears to have been very gra dual, for we find, upon reference to advertisements, still ex tant, of a spirited Tea Merchant, of 1709 (nearly fifty years after its introduction,) that the price still remained as high as 20s. per lb. ; and it remained for the enterprise of later times to develope the resources of China and the adaptation of Tea to the wants of the inhabitants of Great Britain ; a people who, above all other nations of the earth, are attached, happily, to fireside comforts, and who are ever ready to sacrifice mere out side splendour for those less dazzling, but more enduring, ele ments which constitute all expressed by that emphatically English word, " Home," and who are therefore disposed at all times to hail as benefactors those who, by " honourable com petition," place within their reach, an article so conducive to comfort as "TEA." Tea, the mere luxury of former times, is now not only a highly important, but an almost indispensable article of sub sistence; and from the prominent place which it occupies in the expenditure of most families, the power of procuring it IN ITS PURE STATE, of the BEST QUALITIES, and upon the most ECONOMICAL TERMS, are considerations not beneath the notice of any ; and are, we doubt not, duly appreciated by the inhabitants of Liverpool. The difficulty of procuring good and pure Tea at moderate prices in most provincial towns and cities, and, in fact, at any place out of London, is generally admitted by all those who are in the habit of purchasing their Tea in the metropolis, and is, we think, msinly attributable to the following causes .—The very little attention paid by the generality of dealers to the se lection of those qualities most suited for family use; to the long credit in many instances given; and to the very pernicious system adopted by many of selling Raw Sugars at a positive limy and charging eIN EXORBITANT P ItO FIT UPON TEA AND COFFEE; thus inflicting a positive injury upon one class of their customers,. who purchase but little Sugar, and necessarily confining their own purchases of Tea to the ordinary or inferior kinds; a fact notorious to every London Wholesale Dealer. Our long residence in London and connexion with the first Tea Establishment there gives us advantages, in the constant selection of suitable articles, possessed by few; and as we con template confining our trade to " Teas, Coffees, Spices, and Refined Sugars," our customers will escape the injustice con nected with the present state of the Sugar Trade ; anu by ad hering to the ready money system, we shall be able to conduct our business upon a LOWER SCALE OF PROFIT than has hitherto prevailed in this town or neighbourhood. The following are the prices at which we can supply Teas suitable for various family purposes EL/wit TEAS. Good Congou, full flavour.. per lb. 3s. Od. inferior lower STRONG CONGOU, full flavour . . Souchong kind FINE . CONGOU, Pekoe Souchong 3s. 4d. recommended kind VERY FINE CONGOU, rich and 3s. Bd. recommended strong FINEST CONGOU, very blackish 4s. Od. recommended leaf, full rich Pekoe Souchong flavour Fine Souchong to very choice Lap- 4s. 4d. highly recommended sang 4s. Bd. to ss. Scented OranoT Pekoe good to line 4s. Od. to 4s. 4d Scented Orange Pekoe, Very choic GREEN TEAS. Good Twankay 3s. Od. inferior lower Fine Twankay to Hyson kind 3s. 4d. to 3s. 6d. GOOD HYSON 3s. Ed. FINE HYSON, full flavour 4s. Od. recommended VERY FINE HYSON, fresh burnt - .. - full flavour SUPERFINE HYSON, rich deli- ss. Od. recommended cate flavour Finest Hyson, byight close leaf, ss. 4d. recommended . , - very choice 6s. Od. recommended Young Hyson, good to fine - 3s. 4d. to ss. 4d. FINEST OUCHAIN, small close wiry leaf ss. 4d. recommended Imperial Gunpowder, good to .ine 3s. Sd. to ss. Od. Gunpowder, danton kind 3s. 6d. to 3 Gunpowder, good to fine 4s. Od. to ss. Od VERY FINE GUNPOWDER, even leaf SUPERFINE GUNPOWDER rich, strong, burnt FINEST GUNPOWDER, very choice The articles to which especial attention is invited are " THL FINE CONGOU at 3s. 8c1.," an excellent and useful Tea; and the `, VERY FINE CONGOU, at 45.," admirably adapted for all family purposes, and will be found, upon trial, suitable and agreeable to the taste of the great majority of the public; and the "FINEST CONGOU. at 4s. 4d.," ripe and mellow, and of the true Pekoe Souchong flavour, "the BEST BLACK TEA" that need be desired for any purpose. In Green Teas we re commend the " FINE HYSON, at 45.," " VERY FINE HYSON, at 55.," and "SUPERFINE HYSON, at ss. 4d." We shall, perhaps, be told that the prices quoted above do not differ greatly from those at present in operation in Liver pool. Of this we are well aware. but beg to remind those who object, that price, irrespective of quality, is n• fair criterion as to cheapness; and that faw things are easier than to quote prices and annex characters and names, oftentimes the mast absurd, and which, in many instances, Wive no other connexion with the articles sold than the place they occupy in the dealer's circular. 6s. Od. recommended Assertions such as we have made, and statements such as we have now set forth, are always, until proved, exposed to doubt and suspicion. In order, therefore, that their truth may be tested, we very respectfully and earnestly request "A TRIAL," the only mode of arriving at a fair conclusion. If, upon trial, our goods be found, as we feel confident they will, superior to those hitherto sold, we are sure of a continuance of the patron age we seek ; but, if not, we cannot reasonably expect, nor do we ask it. Without this test no one can _fairly determine, and we are quite willing to stake our reputation upon the result. All purchasers of original packages, whether in the trade or not, will be allowed the customary " over • eight " or "draft " of two lbs., sometimes more, on chests containing about eighty lbs., and one lb. on boxes from thirty to forty lbs. ; and in order to meet the wishes families residing at a distance, and whose consumption is not adequate to the purchase of an ori ginal package, we shall be willing to weigh up chests or half chests in parcels from single lbs. upwards ; thus enabling several families to join in the purchase and afterwards divide the Tea. In such cases two lbs. "overweight" will be enclosed wite the chest of eighty lbs., and one lb. with the half-chest of forty lbs. We shall also have constantly on sale a variety of boxes and canisters of Tea of various sizes, suitable for FA MILIES •; and DEALERS can either be supplied fr om our Stock in Liverpool or have Teas shipped direct from London, as they may prefer. COFFEE. The ADULTERATION of this article appears on the in crease; the non-interference of the Government has had the effect we anticipated, that of lessening the consumption of the genuine commodity ; for, with an increased demand, it appears from the statements issued by the Board of Trade, that the quantity of Coffee cleared for home consumption the first eight months of the present year was 1,557,568 less than the same period in 1848. This astounding fact proves the extent of adulteration, and the injury done both to the Importer and the Revenue. There is reason to believe that, notwithstanding the low price of Chicory, that even this is mixed with DELETERIOUS SUBSTANCES as destructive to the public health as injurious to the fair trader. IT IS THEREFORE QUITE IMPOSSI BLE FOR THE PURCHASERS OF GROUND COFFEE TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DRINKING WiIEN THEY PARTAKE OF THE BEVERAGE. We, in common with every respectable House, advise the public only to purchase the Berry—THERE IS NO OTHER SECURITY. To those who wish to purchase Coffee in its NATIVE PURITY, in possession of its NATURAL AROMA AND FRAGRANCE, and at those ECONOMICAL PRICES which families who buy for Cash have a fair claim to expect, we re commend the following selection : Good Plantation Ceylon per lb, Is. Od. FINE PLANTATION Is. 2d. recommended Fine Jamaica,,thoice mountain flavour Is. 4d. Fine Mocha ls. 6d. CHOICE OLD MOCHA ls. Bd. recommended. Orders for any part of Liverpool, whether given at tke Shop or brought to us by the post, will be delivered the same day.. The money to be returned by the bearer. Orders from any part of LANCASHIRE or the NORTH OF ENGLAND, accompanied by a remittance, a bank-order, or a respectable reference, will be executed without delay. When the references given with orders are satisfactory we shall not expect the cash to be forwarded until the goods are received and the quality tested ; but, as it must be obvious that our system of "small profits" will not admit of either " credit" or "risk", we expect that no improper delay in payment will take place. In order to prevent imposition by parties who may be sent for our Teas, &c., the price of each article will be marked on the inside wrapper of each parcel. We have now stated the leading features of our system of business, and, in conclusion, beg to remind all into whose hands this Address shall come, that their interest is concerned as well as ours, and, further, that, by competition, the public at large are always benefitted : without it they have no safe guard against imposition and those petty monopolies which enrich a few to the injury of the great bita of the community. We commend these remarks to the candid consideration of the inhabitants of Liverpool, feeling confideest in the prospect of ultimate Aud enduring success. ASH AND COMPANY, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN TEA, 56, WATERLOO-PLACE, CHURCH-STRUT, LIVERPOOL. • THE MISSES ACKERLEY beg to announce to their Friends and the Public, that they have OPENED a SCHOOL at SEFTON HOUSE, Crosby Green, West Derby, near Liverpool, for the Education of a limited number of YOUNG LADIES, where, by unwearied attention to the religious and moral improvement, the literary acquirements, manners, and domestic comforts of their Pupils, they hope to merit the con fidence of those Parents who may entrust their Daughters to their care. Miss ACKERLEY has long been engaged in Tuition, both in England and on the Continent, having for upwards of sixteen years filled the situation of Private Governess in Families of great distinction, English and German. It is the hope, and will be the endeavour, of the Misses ACKERLEY, by their united exertions, with the additional aid of efficient Masters, to ensure the proficiency of their Pupils in every branch of Education, and to combine in their Esta blishment the advantages and comforts of private Tuition with the emulation of a select School. Reference has been kindly permitted to Mrs. Col. Philips, Rhilal, near Mold, Flintshire. The Baroness de Vrints, Frankfort-on-the-Maine. The Bareness de Bethman. Ditto. Mrs. Murray, Hornby Hall, near Lancaster. Mrs. St. John Henllys, Beaumaris. Mrs. J. C. Thompson. Charlton , Andfield Park, West Derby Mrs. F. Trueman, Glasgow. The Rev. Dr. Pinkerton, Frankfort-on-the-Maine. The Rev. Fielding Ould, Liverpool. The Rev. T. Fogg, Hornby, near Lancaster. The Rev. Dr. Lingard, Ditto. Pudsey Dawson, Esq., Hornby Castle. TARVIN HALL SCHOOL SEPTENNIAL COMMEMORATION, 1849 THIS DAY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18 PUBLIC EXAMINATION—FROM TEN TO THREE O'CLOCK. INSPECTION ON PARADE—Fuom THREE TO HALF-PAST SELECTION OF SACRED MUSIC, AND GREEK AND LATIN ORATIONS-FROM HALF-PAST TIIREE TO HALF PAST FOUR O'CLOCK. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES. DINNER-AT FIVE O'CLOCK. TVEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19 SPEECHES AND CONCERT OF SECULAR MUSIC '-FROM SIX TO NINE O'CLOCK. JOHN BRINDLEY, PRINCIPAL, THE SACRED MUSIC taken from the Bangor Cathedral Collection, adapted by the Very Rev. the Dean of Bangor, and from the Orwroatos of the MESSIAH and CREATION, under the direction of the Resident Professor of Music, SIGNOR ANTONIO SAPIO, Graduate and Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London. WHEREAS a Petition for adjudication of Bank ruptcy, hearing date the thtrteeuth day of December, 1849, bath been presented against WILLIAM PULESTON, of Wrexham, in the county o Denbigh, draper, and he being declared a bankrupt is hereby required to surrender himself to RICHARD STEVENSON, Esquire, one of her Majesty's Com missioners of the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy, at Liverpool, on the twenty-seventh day of December instant, and on the first day of February next, at eleven of the clock in the forenoon precisely on each day, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his Estate and Effects, when and where the credi tors are to come prepared to prove their debts; and at the first sitting to choose assignees, and at the last sitting the said bankrupt is required to finish his examination. All persons indebted to the said bankrupt, or that have any of his Effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to Mr. WILLIAM BIRD, Liver-court, South Castle-street, Liverpool, the Official Assig nee, whom the Commissioner has appointed, and give notice to Messrs. EvAivs and Sox, Solicitors, Commerce-court, Liver pool ; or to Mr. BUCITON, Solicitor, Wrexham. BY HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. ROBERTSON'S SMOKE CONSUMING APPARATUS. MANUFACTURERS, Iron-Founders, Engineers, and others desirous of complying with the Sanatory Regulations of the Board of Health, may have the SMOKE of their Furnaces, Ovens, Stoves, &c.. EFFECTUALLY CONSUMED, by the application of ROBERTSO'S PATENT for that pur pose. . . . The fitting-up of the Apparatus does not involve the stoppage of Works during WORKING TIME. This invention has now been before the Public for a con siderable period, and it has been publicly tested in London, (before the Commissioners of Health); in Liverpool, (before a host of Medical Gentlemen and others connected with Sanatory Reform); and it is now in operation in MACCLESFIELD (Public Baths), CHESTER (Public Baths), and in various Factories in Glasgow and Kilmarnock. Amongst the numerous Testimonials which Mr. R. has re ceived, is the following : "17, Orington-square, Brompton, Oct. 8, 1849. "Dear Sir,—l have no hesitation in saving that your plan for consuming smoke, which, in company with Mr. Ranger, [Com missioner of Public Health], I saw in operation in London, is applicable to all kinds of steam generating furnaces, steam boats, of course, included. Any man's plan may be tampered with; and neglect or gross carelessness will reduce the best improvement to nil. But with the most ordinary means and attention, your appliances will prevent dense smoke; in fact, almost prevent, at anytime, the slightest appearance of smoke. I most heartily wish you may meet with the encouragement your invention deserves. " I am yours, respectfully'p, " ROBERT RAWLINSON. (Commissioner of Public Health.) "To J. Robertson, Esq., Liverpool." - - The peculiar advantage of this plan is that not only does it consume the Smoke, but that LESS FUEL is used, Steam more asily generated, and a greater degree of heat kept up, than by any system hitherto in use. ter . rns for fitting up the Apparatus are moderate. Apply to C. L. THOMSON, 15, RUMFORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL STIVENS'S ORIGINAL GREEN GINGER WINE, PATRONISED BY ROYALTY. 'THE superiorityand increased demand ofSTIVENS'S j_ ORIGINAL GREEN GINGER WINE has called forth a host of imitations. This Wine has met the approval of the Faculty, who pronounce it the BEST. BRITISH CORDIAL EXTANT. It is prepared with ingredients in the greatest perfection : a caution is therefore necessary to prevent disappointment. Observe the name, "JOHN STIVENS and C 0.," over the nick of each Bottle. Manufactory, Temple-street, Bristol ; Barge Yard, Bucklersbury, London ; DUKE•STREET and HENRY-STREET. LIVERPOOL ; ana may be had of all respectable Grocers, Chymists. and Confectioners, throughout the kingdom. Many of their other Wines are very choice, and close imitations of Foreign at less than half the cost. Under Royal Patronage, and Sanction of the Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry, COCKLE'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS , a favourite aromatic and tonic aperient of high and unri valled reputation. _ _ _ if a better pill be thine, Impart it frankly or make use of mine." Mr. COCKLE'S PILLS (established nearly half a century) are the best remedy for bile, sick head-ache, indigestion, acidity or heartburn, flatulency, spasms of the stomach and bowels, giddiness, dimness of sight, low spirits, drowsiness. and those alarming symptoms which are frequently the fore runners of apoplexy.—Prepared only by JAlt ES COCKLE, Sur geon, 18, New Ormond-street, London ; and m ay b e had of all Medicine Vendors, in boxes at Is. lid., 2s. 9(1., and 4s. 6d. Of whom may also be had, 'S INFLUENZA AND COUGH LOZENGE. COCK L A most efficacious. safe, and agreeable preparation for the relief and cure of influenza, colds, coughs, hoarseness, chronic bronchitis, asthma, &c., complaints wtich are so troublesome and peculiarly harassing at the present season. In Boxes at la. lid. and 2s. 9cl, THE PUPILS WILL BE ASSISTED BY Mrs. GEORGE HOLDEN, of the Liverpool Concerts, Soprano Messrs. MOSS and WAIT, of the Chester Cathedral Choir, Counter Tenor and Tenor. Signor SAPIO, Bass. INSTRUMENTALISTS ORGAN—Mr. GEORGE HOLDEN, of the Liverpool Concerts, PIANO FORTE—R. REDMOND. FLUTES—DAVID LONG, J. STRATTON, and J. BRINDLEY VIOLINS—Mr. PENDLETON, T. E. LINDESAY. VIOLONCELLO—Signor SAPIO. CONVEYANCES TO TARVIN-HALL On the 18th and 19th December, 1849. A N OMNIBUS will leave the ALBION HOTEL, 1 - 1 Chester, calling at the HOP-POLE INN, at Nine, Ten, and Twelve o'clock, TODAY, (Tuesday,) the 18th instant, re turning at Five and Nine in the Evening; and at Five o'clock TO-MORROW EVENING, (Wednesday,) the 19th instant, return ing at the close of the Evening's proceedings. THOMAS WHALEY, Proprietor. EGYPT : THE DESERT : JERUSALEM. THE Rev. H. H. HIGGINS will deliver THREE j_ LECTURES on the above, at ST. JAMES'S SCHOOL, St. James's-road, on the Evenings of this present TUESDAY, the 11th instant, and the Bth and 15th January. HIM') in sr • The -tures will . , oe illustrated by Diagrams and Dissolving Views. To commence at Seven o'clock. Admission, is. 6d. and Is., by Ticket, which may be had of Messrs. SMYTHE, Booksellers, Berry-street, or at the School. DISPENSARY FOR CONSUMPTION, ASTHMA, AND DISEASES OF THE HEART. PATIENTS applying for Dr. CRONIN'S ADVICE GRATUITOUSLY are requested to TAKE NOTICE, that on and after the 17th instant it will be inconvenient for Dr. Cronin to see such Patients at his Private Residence, and they are, therefore, requested to meet him at MR. EGGLESTON'S, DISPENSING CHEMIST. 52, COPPERAS-HILL, CORNER of RUPERT-STREET, EVERY MORNING, FROM TEN TO TWELVE. 65, Bedford-street North, Dec. 13, 1849. LADIES' SOCIETY FOR CLOTHING THE SCOTTISH POOR. THE Annual SALE of CLOTHING will take place in the ASSEMBLY -ROOMS, GREAT GEORGE -STREET, TO MORROW (Wednesday), the 19th instant, beginning at Eleven o'clock. The object of this Society is to furnish the Poor with Work as well as with CHEAP CLOTHING. The Clothing is not limited to what is adapted for the Poorer Classes merely, but comprises ARTICLES OF EVERY QUALITY. And the Comiiiittee earnestly request the attendance and support of all who are friendly to this Institution, in order to raise Funds necessary to provide the Poor with additional Work during Winter. THE REQUIRED WATER SUPPLY, THE Parochial Water Committee hereby invite WELL SINKERS, EXCAVATORS, and OTHERS, to communicate to the undersigned, in writing, on or before the 29th instant, any information they possess with respect to the abundance or otherwise of Water Supplies in various parts of the Red Sand Stone Rock of this Town and its immediate Neighbourhood; and the Committee have resolved to award Pre miums of Five Pounds each, for such of the Communications as they may avail themselves of, pending the enquiry before the Engineer appointed by the Town Council. Scientific Gentlemen. Landowners, and others, who are able to give information on the subject, are invited to place them selves in communication with the Committee. CHARLES HART, Secretary. Parish O f fices, Lime-street, December 17th, .849. SALE OF WOOLLEN GOODS Y arrangements for entering into the Manu facturing Business being now completed, I have to in nounce to my friends and the public the disposal of the whole of my extensive Stock of PLAIN and FANCY WOOLLEN GOODS, and as the time permitted me of thus offering it for Sale is limited, I have reduced every article to considerably less than the Maker's price. Nearly two-thirds of it has been purchased within the last three months, and for extent and variety it is superior to any ever offered in this town. In respectfully soliciting an early inspection, I feel confident that the quality of the Goods, and the Reduction in Price that I have made, will be readily appreciated by both the Trade and the Public. Shippers and Wholesale Buyers will find the present such an opportunity as may not occur again. J. RICHMOND, I and 3, PARADISE-STREET, November 2, 1849 FOREIGN, The West India mail steamer Dee arrived at Mobile on the 23d ult., with 1,670,000 dollars for England, 339 bales cochineal, and 33 bales jalap. _ _ The Cologne Gazette - announces that the military governor has suspended six of the evening pap rs during the continuance of the state of siege. The Presse is one of the six. The slavery contest between the Northern and Southern States of America (the United States) is likely to assume a most formidable character. A great Southern League has been recently formed. Congress was to assemble on the 3rd instant, and the demand for a Constitution from California will, it is believed, bring matters to a crisis. Is. slavery to be excluded or not ? Newspapers have been brought from the Cape of Good Hope to the 21st of October. They show that the colonists stand firmly to their resolute resistance. The only outrage which has occurred has been committed not by but upon the anti-convict party. The colonists, how- example of perfect self-control." And the exhortation has been everywhere attended to. A striking instance of the force of colonial feeling on the subject is afforded by the fact, that a special form of prayer has been provided and used in the Jewish Synagogue, in Cape Town, for the removal of the threatened irruption of convicts. CALIFORNIA.—We take the following particulars from the letter of a young Irishman, in California, to his brother-in-law, in Ireland, giving an interesting and melancholy description of his land journey to the golden El Dorado :—" He and his companions, originally num bering 36, but afterwards reduced to 22, had to travel over an arid plain. 32 miles in length, under. a burning sun and with heavy loads upon their backs. The second day they were able to make but ten miles, when one of the party sank exhausted, and they were forced to leave him to die. The next day their supply of water failed them ; another man dropped, and while they were making their way to a river, two more of their number, and the writer himself was barely able to reach the river and save his life. On reac' 'he Wing t, " digging" district, he was wofully disappointed. it is only, he says, in bars in the river bed that gold can be obtained, and then only at low water, and by removing " cords" of big stones, and all the best places have had the cream taken off last year, . • leaving mere gleanings for the fresh corners. He is satis fied that emigration must soon cease, unless dishonest letter-writers keep up the deception, and that not one in ten who come out but would stay at home if they knew the real state of the case." FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE NEAR KILRUSH IRELAND EXTRACT ^ FROM A PRIVATE LETTER DATED KILRUSII, DEC. 13. Yesterday from four to five hundred paupers attended at the Kilcush union, in order to seek either admittance to the workhouse or outdoor relief. But alas ! their sup plications were fruitless, and after spending the day (a most inclement one) in a miserable state of suffering, they were obliged, when evening came, to return unre lieved to their homes, some of these being from eight to ten miles distant from Kilrush. Within two miles of this town there is a ferry, about 200 yards wide, over which a number of these starving creatures were obliged to cross. Too many crowded into the boat, and she sank on the passage, when about 48 men, women, and children perished, five only being saved. Language fails to describe the sad state of this doomed union. The guardians have neither funds nor credit, and are in debt £lB,OOO. There are 13,000 paupers actually starving The 'number of bodies found during this day are 33, five of whom are not as yet claimed by any friend. Many of the bodies, though not quite 24 hours in the water, are so mutilated that it was with difficulty they could be identi fied. There are 12 others yet missing. The fatal row boat has been for many years in the service, and has been heretofore employed as a horse-boat, but, being found too weak, was used as a passenger boat. She belonged to a man named Williams, who has for the last three years let her at a weekly rents to the boatmen who work( d her, both parties neglecting her repairs ; consequently this sa crifice of human life. The description given by the sur- 69 yards of the beach the boat split from the bows down by the keel and began to fill with water, when the passen gers loaned to the side favouring the swell of the sea, when she upset with crew and passengers-49 or more human beings, as the precise number lost cannot be yet ascertained. There were four persons saved by another ferry boat's crew. An inquest was held. The verdict returned was : " We find that Jonathan Brew and 32 other persons came by their deaths on Wednesday, the 12th instant, by . drowning, whilst crossing; the ferry at Comogue, on their way home from the Kilrush workhouse through the mis management of the boatmen and passengers." The poor-law union boards in Ireland are petitioning for protection to agriculture. The first import of Californian gold was brought into Amsterdam on Friday. The two masses, which together weighed 600 ounces, contained 883-100 fine gold to 110-000 and 111-000 silver. A London ministerial journal positively denies that there is any disagreement amongst the members of the Govern ment with reference to the policy of the country, either at home or abroad. CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL. —Mr. Gibbons, of London road, is again preparing his celebrated confectionery for the commemoration of Christmas. Those who have tried the Royal Athol cakes, the Pitcaithley Bannocks, or the short bread, know their excellence, and to those who have not they cannot be too strongly recommended. THE HUDDERSFIELD RAILWAY ROBBERIES.—At York Assizes, on Friday, four men were sentenced to seven years' transportation, and a fifth to 18 months' imprison ment, for stealing, at Huddersfield, a truss containing five pieces of woollen cloth, the property of the Lancashire and Yorks:lire Railway Company. There were altogether eight or nine cases against the prisoners. TANN'S PATENT SAFE AND DETECTOR LOCK.—W.; have been invited to an inspection of a new patent fire proof safe, by Messrs. Harrison and Co., of 15, Lord street, who have just opened a branch establishment for the sale of Tann's safes, chests, and boxes ; and detector locks- Their safes combine durability and strength, with the desideratum of complete resistance to fire; they are moreover most conveniently fitted up in the interior, and exceedingly well finished off. The detector lock is quite a specimen of mechanical skill and workmanship. EXPENSE AT FUNERALS.—The example set by the late Queen Dowager is taken advantage of by the Times for a general recommendation to persons of high rank to provide by "a simple clause in the will," a remedy against the prevailing extravagance at funerals, which, useless at all times, is in many cases a serious inconve nience to survivors. Our contemporary, with his usual smartness, illustrates his positions by an undertaker's bill selon la regle, contrasted with a picture of " the gentry who, when the funeral is over, are to be seen kicking their heels on the top of their mournful vehicle, divested of the nodding splendour of its sable plumes," and, with appa rently little consciousness of the sad ceremony in which they have been engaged, " cracking their jokes on their return home outside the lugubrious omnibus, which had so lately been employed in conveying the remains of a human being to the grave." THE NATURAL HARBOUR OF LIVERPOOL—WhiIe the port of Chester was thus going to decay from the ruin of the harbour, Liverpool, which possesses an abundant depth of water for all the purposes of commerce, conti nued to rise. Liverpool being within two or three miles of the sea, bad not to contend with the same difficulties as ports like Chester, situated twenty miles from it. In addition to its proximity to the sea. Liverpool is favoured by the form of the entrance to the river, which is narrow compared with the higher part of the estuary, and is there fore constantly scoured out by the rushing of the receding tides. The width of the Mersey at its entrance is only one-fourth of the width of the Dee; it is turned north ward, and so protected from the direct influence of the Atlantic ; and it is further sheltered by the peninsula of Wirral, which rises like a great bulwark between the sea and ocean. A similar form of river and land has kept open the port of the Wyre, whilst the Ribble and the Dee, which are open to the full action of the tides and winds, have long since be en ru i ne d as por t s . Th e follow ing extract from " The Coasting Pilot of Great Britain," drawn up by Captain Grenville Collins, in the reign of William and Mary, shows what was the state of the en trance to the river Mersey before any efforts had been made to improve it ; and also what was the nature and extent of the accommodation which this port afforded for ships, previous to the construction of the magnificent line of docks which now form the safest, the most commodiot. s, and the most extensive artificial harbour in the world : " Being at the back of Hyle sand," says Captain Collins. " bring the mill (Bootle) and wood, one on the other, and run in, keeping close along Hyle sand, and so into the Hyle Lake, and anchor. Here the great ships that belong to Liverpool put out part of their lading, till they are light enough to sail over the fiats into Liverpool. Ther e is a channel near Formby to go into Liverpool, where there is three fathoms at low water on the bar, but this place is not buoyed or beaconed, and so not known. The ships lie aground before the town of Liverpool. It is bad riding afloat before the town, by reason of the strong tides that run here, therefore ships that ride afloat ride up at the Slyne, where is less tide." Such was the na tural entrance, and such the amount of accommodation, afforded by the port of Liverpool one hundred and fifty years ago. Since that time, the passage near Formby has been buoyed, and a new and better passage than either of those mentioned by Grenville Collins had been disco vered, by means of which vessels three times as large as those which were used for commercial purposes in his time enter the harbour without discharging any portion of their cargo. A succession of brilliant lights, some afloat, others placed on hills and head-lands. render the I approach to the river as safe by night as by day. within the . Mersey, numerous docks are open to receive vessels, in which they lie as safe as in the smoothest and most land-locked harbour in the world.—Baines's Hi.- tory of Liverpool. WHITNALL'S C. AT THE MISS THEATRE ROYAL- O LAST NCERT NIGHT This interesting lady appealed again to the musical public last night, on which occasion she introduced to us once more Madlle. Sontag, with Signors Calzolari, F. La blache, Viatti, the celebrated violoncello player, and Mr. Percival, flutist. The house, although not positively full, was an excellent one, the boxes and stalls containing the elite of our merchants and leading tradesmen, with their families. The programme was admirably selected, and the whole went off most satisfactorily. Of such a treat it is difficult at the late hour at which it concluded, and hi the small amount of time we have now at our disposal, to speak at any length, or to do it ordinary justice. We must, however, express our admiration of the chaste and beautiful singing of Signor Calzol iri, who possesses a tenor voice of excellent quality, and the fine violoncello playing of Signor Piatti, which enraptured the audience. His accompaniment added greatly to the attraction of Madlle. Sontag's " Lied de Lachner "; and both his solos—the first especially, introducing some of the musi Wilis- -ere tieautiful When Miss Whitnall sweetly, and her nee _, the purse is full," w a s vex Ang a duetto with F. Lablach by Gt o. Hargreaves,--" archly rendered, and the truth of its sentiment, promises to become a favorite. The great attraction, however, was, and must ever be, Sontag herself. Her voice, and the feeling with which she uses it, were never heard to greater effect or in greater perfection. In her tioriture passages she is unapproach able ; and her piano notes no other singer has equalled. Her " Lier de Lachner" was a - magnificent effort, and was encored with rapture, Equally beautiful was her duetto with Signor Calzolari, " Da quel di," the piano of both harmonising most delightfully. In the aria from Handel, " With Verdure Clad, she was equally successful, and showed her appreciation with the standard music of this great composer to be as perfect as her rendering of the t Was e not been within the scope of her usual _ was loudly applauded. We have only to regret that we of the pleasure of hearing her " Home, _ _ were der which was the last piece in t ianks of the music pu Whitnall for last night's great treat btic ar. o Miss MEETING OF PORTERS LAST NIGHT Last night a very nun ters employed at the doc the Concert-hall, Lord Ne'lson- as meeting of operative po ids, was held in r the purpose of adopting measures in furthe Victoria 9th and 10th, as ri !e of so much of the V Ot Employment of master port ers, or lying, weighing, John Lancaster and loading cargoes from vessels was called to the chair, and on the platform were Coun cillors Thompson, A. F. Jones, Bighorn, Mr. H. L Atkinson, barrister. and several nthpr The Chairman opened th a neat, explanatory address porter detailed many of the evils of th( ing not only the porters, but the merchant uusi Mr. Schofield In operative employed under the present unused to the work, and the middlemen over that system were unskilled an in such a hurry to discharge a ship, that flour and other articles were wasted to a great extent, by the breaking of the packages, which were also afterwards exposed age on the quays. If the merchants' man hit , was peremptorily told to go away, otherwise he would be fined £5O, which the Act would enforce. He also noticed a case shelling de inaccurate weighing and taring of some casks of lead by these men. These were consigned to Mr. William Rathbone, and had the case not been de tected, that gentleman would have lost a large weight of the article. He proposed a resolution to the effect that the oppressive clauses of the act should be petitioned against.—Mr. Atkinson, in the course of a long and ele gant address, said there was nothing more pernicious in legislature than peddling and meddling with the labour of ) purer ' he the working man. The act had in fact been snugly smug gled through the House by interested partie3, and the preamble contained no allusion to the obnoxious clauses complained of. He dwelt on the great misery and priva tion to which so many hundreds of hat -working and honest men were exposed to deprivation of labour, th;ough the operation of that act, which was passed in 1846. Old skilled workmen, who had long resided in the town, and paid rates, were supplanted by large importations of labour ers from Ireland. The act bad thus also caused a great in - crease in the poor rates. The old porters were taunted with being unable to do the work cheaply; but give them only chance for a w weeks, and they would soon merchants would be better and more the that the present destruction of how the ly served, and would be put an end to. Ha strongly alluded to the i of government or town councils not attending rights of the working man, and elevating the sta his comforts ; for in the mutations of life €____ __- wealthiest might fall into humble life. After approving of the electors of Liverpool choosing at the late contest representatives in the Council who would attend to their interests, he strongly urged those w ho heard him to com bine. The cause was not only theirs. but that of every ) the ndard of .yen the proceeded with firmness and unity He - stated ►ate last year to give the notice required for a bill is liament ; but that notice had now been given, a rested with themselves to carry their point to a succ —(Much applanse.)—Mr - • net (which he read) to the Town-council, pray' the funds of the Corporation or the Dock Estab not be employed to obstruct the bill sought for t Adair proposed a the obnoxious sections of the act.—Mr. Myers spoke quently to the question, as did Mr. Jones and other tlemen on the platform, and it was carried unanimo The meeting was enthusiastic throughout. TATTERSALLS.—LAsT NIGHT CHESTER CUP. 1000 to 20 agst Lismahago—taken. 1000 to 20 .. John Cossar-15 taken. 1000 to 10 .. Hotspur. 2000 GUINEAS STAKES. 2to 1 .. Beehunter-5 to 2 taken 6to 1 .. Harding-8 to 1 taken. Bto 1 .. Epirote—taken. DERBY 4to 1 .. Kent's Lot-5 to 1 taken, 9to 1 .. Bolingbroke—taken. 11 to 1 .. Ghillie Callum—taken, 12 to 1 .. Knight of Avenel. 15 to 1 .. 20 to 1 .. Voltigeur-25 to 1 taken. 20 to 1 .. Cyprus, 20 to 1 .. Nigger—taken. 40 to 1 .. Brother to Eoirote—taken 1000 to 30 .. Marius—taken Bolingbroke backed for good deal of money LATER FROM AMERICA.—The beautiful and fast ing ship Guy Mannering was off Holyhead yest, afternoon, at two o'clock, but she had not come u river when our country edition went to press bring two days later advices than those received by the last steamer, having sailed from New York on the 30th ult. The Caledonia steamship, with the President's mes sage and intelligence from Halifax to the 7th instant, may arrive to -day. She will Lord John Russell again visited her Majesty at Osborne House on Friday last. The Weekly Chronicle Says that the Board of Admiralty have sent a letter to Sir Charles Napier, informing him that they will be compelled to suspend him if he again writes so freely about his superiors. In his recent letter Sir Charles says, "The first lord (of the Admiralty) knew . . nothing, and the junior lord less than nothing." Earth is so kind in Australia that just tickle her with hoe and she laughs with a harvest.—Jerrold. What word may be pronounced quicker by adding syllable to it ?—Quick. It is now nine years since the French Academy began to form its new dictionary of the French language, and the last discussion, which took place on Thursday week, was on the word accorder, so that the words beginning with an a are not yet half finished ! A GUESS AT SPELLINC the best readers in the Post —The following was a nu -014 ,e for some time "Serum Fridavi, Londrea :" when, by reading the address aloud, with the French as wellas the English sound of the vowels, it was solved in "Sir Hutnphry Davy, London." ROGERS (THE POET) AND THE MISSES CUSHMAN,— The younger Miss Cushman congratulated one day by Mr. Rogers on a report of her approaching mardage. She denied the rumour, adding that she did not think it probable that she should ever marry, as she had not met any one of a manly tone of mind ; if she ever married, it would be one of a strong masculine nature. " indeed," replied the wit ; " then, why don't you marry your sister 1" —Powell's Living Authors. A ROMAN PRIEST AND A FRENCII OFFICER'S BRANDY A great expose took place at Albano three dal ,o, which not a little amused the French quartered in that town, as well as the Albanese themselves ; and I can warrant the correctness of the anecdote, having received it from one of the parties concerned, an officer of the 17th Regiment, in garrison at Albano. Two officers, who lodge in the house of M. B—, the late Pope's master of the ceremonies, having found their provision of lump sugar and brandy disappear far more rapidly than their own consumption, warranted, suspected and subsequently accused their mili tary servant of illegally getting his fingers into the cup board. The orderly indignantly repelled the charge, and resolving to clear his zeputation by the detection of the real culprit, hid himself under the bed after his master went out the following morning. It appears that Man signor had the run of the house in his quality of landlord, and went on the principle— If we're too scrupulously just, What profit's in a place of trust? Accordingly, in he stalked, to the great surprise of the watchful orderly, and repaired at once to the cupboard, where he stuffed his pockets with sugar, and placed one )lution by a m pplieation to the brandy bottle, after w ding il y executed, tt worthy prelate return immediately reported, was unwilling to credit it sonal oliservation ; he therefore O'cet past under the b. ca next day, and with a ng that he popped out from lace just in time to congratul Cl6liouement t Thus caught F the brandy-I diimi.ssed by the Frenc un voleur—sortez de aich awaited the prel, 'ere vomitinN bano.—C 'ent of the D. ,the brandy havini with tartar emetic_ iddte men, in r monsigr .ante delictO cerem o it nesdali ) Elefen et, f of les ad Ge r :, :ture , n , ikerg u , d %ratchet' ot° girt,. ° :, ! oc-,;-,e