The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-07 00:00:00

At th e ~ ethibi,._, nereford fair last week, an elephant in a show eager an great s a& • ''' 'ad - b a c taking a gold ring from the keeper's lvi s h i e turned ragan to him on demand. A gentle hag at th ng the above feat repeated, put a splendid diamond Iferrie4' dePhant's disposal • the discriminating animal, hip's • r s g the glitterin bauble with apparent pleasure, sid e t l , Into his mouth andg all •ed it. lt was not pos that aiT t al . down his throat tsow get it back, and the fair closed itt Hertford Journal. g lii Plt'st.vvATlON OP GLASGOW.—A rumour e obtains in Llltsat there will ,7° Nick. 07 3 Gl asgow, _ shortly be a vacancy in th r presenta weoarquent on the ill health of Lord Wil ;lt is f ?eadec i` . know not the exact grounds on which the ksi el ectio n i s • , but if we were to believe the . Radicals, an ,er lir, Inevitable. Our Chartist friend Mr.. Al'e.x fahaadeti'i'ne, who some ts.`"h months expressed his determination shadestics for pulli tes has once more emerged. C-s ad c , ea ,h t dr ess , of private life," in the way of a short lets_ has se, i rto his ' fellow citizens and brother electors." but No ses ei s anxious fora union of all classes of Reformers, 'that Roebuck hatikerin notion of . bringing forward Mr. John IN on t g 44 cOziog a,he Radical interest, and leaves the onus ,s se oata n e left to ehance—no humbug of taking ti t be. sti Perior man on the Whigs. He says " there 'lsa get, no ND .as the Whig cry on former occasions. the best i'lle Gov "rser. MI Ate er:a°r- General and Commander of the Forces in l 'also' ene a (Lieut General Sir John Colborne,. — G.C.8.) (.44N114:111,t_W° new assistant military secretaries n_amely . , iC,•tgth e 'n, of the Coldstream Guards, and Captain h a ilitte r at Toronto P OOt ; the former to officiate at Quebec, and Igor b ees a ; and Lieut. Doraville of the 85th F00t ... ge Ar4PPointed aide d pto Major-General Sir i tt eCl a ,Z ir, IC.C.H., hide-de-camp of Upper Canada. 44 . 40 , elietts tithichee-hcliirchtiTt,niNv:;nieost•rn UNION RAILWAY.—An acci nbrels attended with serious conse itt4e,,caban'tcen the North U s ' ay last i tot , he latest trig from tatitihhje-nLeat, few hun u d l i n e n dyards on the south side of ienten e " d euct, the engine was thrown off the line, in P,liitth e Vf one of the overlookers having neglected to „,.111staistimuilt.,..,e are happy to say no personal injury ' l4 eh -. Inc engine, however, is much damaged. 11. sosicle. ' ckt 'll By A R a p oop - •-'icow STORM.--O n the 15th of May the the ''NAZlll%sod' w "alan of the name of Stewart, from th a q Ct o of velar Strathdon, was found on the d aYs p in re d v a i l o e, near .Burnside. The deceased had gone . a Isr l i` e rvice ef , us to visit her daughter, a young woman in si. lied f r .. al.r. Stewart, Balchul ; and is supposed to have t _ n eo 'llan pia " ll T the severity of the storm, which was i f n el i s s a t h cf and exposed districts. A snow storn:i the 1 1 4 1 t hee a‘?, attended with such fatal results, is a rare . 1 4 , b ,,,. en among the wildest of our Highland moun tp, 'n'esB Courier. Nii c"l's 0 ,,. b I N sq it - AAILWAY COMMUNICATION. Formerly is!Gatatia,ifta.set.ures for the London market were conv e ey t e h d , S i Ze th e ^, l'aisley, am. by canal to Edinburgh and L i 4 ' hoivs):Were carried by the steamers to he Thames. li tts ,` t ool t - o • T e r• goods have been received on the railway from . o 'es ih '°lldon, considerable quantities of the manu '4 . ' 4, c. hyqus,_estion have been carried from Paisley, Glas aapdon. `vain to Liverpool, and thence by the railway_ ' ge d th jilt's, goods which left Glasgow on Friday, a/ 1 .! to . , a Leme larenee Dock wall on the following day,. will kttaser atts,?;l' 'N g '''il this morni The conveyance is, we believe, Ih ' nic ker ng' ko as eNt an the conveyance v ia e DiAssoNre—On Monday last, Benson the l'll ata / ti; o u rt e i d at . the Bolton petty . sessions, for the p . O : :,, , ,‘, i tt at ashaitoaie nfogr itihifeormations against 22 . carters . , against all the N a l' was tottes had been issued. His witness, kli a ,?Yed of i ,uave been John Ashton, a man whom in he has le' of the not d id not anpurpose an ; d bu i t t , turnedwhen the ont ,names what from• d With ltr•rtie s ° carters stated that he had compromise fr om 11 .i ld ' i • -a t 'le had received ss. from some . ,. , and 7s. 114 4' 4 . was a r e cases were, of course, dismissed ; k iler isa 4at e ' er ef £4 Bs. in the cost of the sum had dined so that f t , le _ , enriched the trick was, that Ashton k•I hi t , :_toose on Sunday last, and had received money Ns t j'lv aa `" Pay his fare to Bolton to give evidence. The i,o7....,iatehildoubt, used in journeying in some other di NNssal Wet' Guardian. SL ge vity 'r t v i,* -- Orte of the most remarkable local instances t ( 4 s a ,mdei -- at it has fallen to our lot to record, has just rd thr ee °,4!• observation —Eleanor Hughes, of Cae-eithin, P),°ll'l')Zies frmn this . town, in the parish of Llanfaglan, ienNss..fietaY last at the advanced age of 102 years and , 1 14 . lie ii:4o2d birthday having taken place las Unri lt, l t i a ti to; ass vee ll, time out of memory, 1 , to the ';'•th vitt ~,•,;'' was very active and industrious n o e n ar s in excellent health h illness st e la st f:11Y been confined to her house ty : `ill; %Id had irlonths She had been a widow for some ~,N a ' tlitin-e•;,sieav,eral cliildren, one of wh_om, the youngest, toslaltsei loader to Mr. liarnon s, was born 4 this son"ed was in her 50th year. She lived and . died . a '4 4 1 ,1 11 (1 t t .' who succeeds her in the farm, and his ,k a 11: 1 4. -.) .e ou r ad h e o, tio n 't '' i ll ' She could s e ee to thread her needle, without Ati her 101st aged parent was proverbial ?n in the t y e ar.—Bangor Chronicle. i: ti h. .°B h "44 • nttia,:::llßlerously signed was transmitted to London cib, - "lag of this vs - e si k from the Wesleyan Methodists `ii NO: against Lord John e ßussells national education li 'ta t B ho u i d ,t, ie vvo tdd . not the churchmen follow the example ? , r a, itht eit , It not be preferable to convene a public mee t.. I N co n id churchmen, 4 °1 11 144 go and-in -hand in opposing Lord Wesleyans, and all honest di jo s h se n n ,s - Seds al ar eas , a re ? — Durham Advertiser. to i ;t 1 1 :en- uEnter.—An actor who, two years ago, per i that a Nis' e d hi s LidiarY characters at the Havre theatre, recently 'il iti lil e eabients to a Belgian theatre. Lear 1,4T011 0 ,1 e PPosed his reception, he made . his debut It N an d gentl that you won't have '''' e 3 wing Si ngUlar address to the ungracious public , th e an d gentle near I am aware It will save t tltl Ilior t . 4 • therefore to hiss me at once. r `t: 4 ,',e so kr i s e ll_ e on of appearing three times before you, enduring my Presence as ,e,lalttBtTolie r v e l g r ae s s t t he lva t s ed t i o u r m thw f i o t hcomplied with ; for five e I, l e co4ther the hissing was unanimous, after which h last'ttesttllslY bowed and withdrew. 'less mtkliles,,,ll4l.l,.—The stonemasons ol"'th • - 4ni th • ts now making at the man i tell, e b at , e improvements who have been so struck • at tl the a °e of Sutherland, under the directions of Mr. 41 i Mt rehiteet of the new House of Commons, le %,?oelt ant for an advance of wages, although receiving o _ .iehate,tskiule!this after being kept on during the . whole _ f "404 e „"ms at that rate of wages, the liberality of the I,the'orsh,,-,,et Permitting the customary reductions whole ',,a,olas„;,:t.days at that season of the year. The to be L'lehr`talift",q,is, eonsequentl at a stan I, andno new hands l' ra t s". "Y the trades' union Y ' to be taken on, unless at 'l(lt'atttlf!ii:verhtie_hethis s . ociety has fixed—viz., 26s a wet. „(h t a "rai s a ^.ll .n, it is stated, are willing to work at . t e 41 k 4 0hd W eek, but dare not.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. h l'l ti '"°Y nearly a t 4), 1 1ttli t . afternoon the mixed train from Birmingham, 'Av '' ho ' c rnes in soon after seven, was detained he 4 b "h va r, l %y I Yan n obstruction between i t' s ,. aga.a__ accident which had happened to one of the Harrow and London, Q4 ( l . ' of th e trai ns. i ls ti b. 4le t i aa vans had given way ; a smash of those behind it We understand that a wheel or axle 1 ,1 e zth'i• a li td they lay helpless and immovable, nearly i P iAil,-ed i t i • - '• This is not the first obstruction which has 'lle s ,'Ne i Y these luggage trains. One took place in the ll 'el ld dle a ' i t annel not lonc , back ; and if the next occu on rs s i e n . le t s,' 1 , a three-mile tunnel, it may have serious c !tletl e oce s Il e Public attention should be directed to all such ,Na`"ti t i„' „arid the companies should be brought to stemma`con -siecrests as carriers of goods subordinate to their o...o.lisulting the safety and convenience of pas "ea4tlit.4 p " r ' er l'ik:' k ill C.l*i N 4 BY STEAM.—On Thursday as the eleven t tt 4% 4 1 4 " - aY tra* dd n-burn. Pussey It -s had re $ ~ in was proceeding from Dundee to this Ole ti '' ~ ,as started near the Bu 0 lag fed, h eeo hi d line, A ' awn the apparently as much alarmed . as h ahu dred beagles. The engine tt ll tt h (4 al; )f ti ce i. t hrse Ye and gained upon her ; when, after r!in 11:tit 'she - " a a lf a' a mile,shevery fortunately turned aside,t_e 'e got % tar off. Had she continued to follow il red Would b I til ' "44.4. avebeen very soon overtaken, ni ti as -, itr o th Herald.tr t , 0 "-J ,111: Wien AN 1, the 4° nan s THEI !As• - • - •A few had been attacked on 1, t ht tausll f rotil , ,ed Michael Kearney_ ts back, we stated ecovery. 1 1 ° .l• a t , ti the last fair of Murroe, and so savagely . beaten tll t e hospitalwith faint hopes of his r . a ,,.. a, e , re am , ~.., . h e 4 4ll e , a l :h e h o c y which •I l s•e cannot discover, whilst he lay in e the subject for priestly t tll iii : 4 1 41 ' r ill's alinadri,,o,n the Sunday following the day he was t it tt, ,Lent.ael?, priest, Father Costello, cursed him from it t ai.sthi a ,)," the ground he walked on, ...an u d n . t a h y e , ground he d being inn :zip aft:41,,,.n0t s•lffice, for, on last ho t held r tiearn - death Father Costello a . lluded to fllq hir o u e3 ' s • ' his surviving parishioners, , Ilk h tlu,„, ~ pas a warning to , ,iii ße •• lik e ~,'" mat Kearney was then burning in hell. We . " 1 11, 11 lee "lob to ascertain . the reasons which brought the r I le '"lief ( ? f his church so heavily on poor Kearney. Ou 0 to 4. 113, that h set upon by his Nee R ib , e may have been suspected to have been jiboti en s 'son oath, and was, theiefore t '. 4 nd our h ici , reason or ai d ell el . ~_.• assailants were well known to him, firmlyhe_ ' f stating this belief is,that ti cl lek ,s!,'Y attenipt to extract their names from him. — at. ,4 4 f onder etsAs t k kot 14. 4 ) •-...t chimUltDEß OF A MAN OVER SIXTY YEARS tli ti l ati t I nO g i it say s day becomes our p'ainful duty , to record one delthity of are and brutal murders hat t o ever disgraced Zs .d of blood Tipperary. What, if possible,. must render Salife,!,i l th e coin more hideous in the sight of any civilised t‘ 1 1) ue h a g (linthunity is, that its victim was in the when t l „,l's ) ; a t t lie haoda..iive.d at the advanced . age of sixty, he siti b il eta th e f of the reckless assassin. W . e shall proceed k i 'ld a ll r i d l .cts, as they were communicated to us by a 11 .11t e P .ws e h _ s '_nig in the neighbourhoo . d where the revolting i g .tt s i! the ;17Petrated. On the evening of Monday last, a iN; ° I Cab er of Thomas Fernessy, was returning from I% b y 'nes ~".„er, after transacting some business there, when iki til te h victim, I ;? hi t 4 f;llolNochestown, the residence' of Samuel Barton, L it i ti 4 4 4 d. Wof the name of Devereaux, who had a shovel It t • t ilded At of this Devereaux endeavoured to irritate 54 41 (1 t, 44 „ with thel but not succeeding, he then attempted shovel, which the deceased took from N' lea ~'_,g over the • llth rounded the road. Deve i,l4a,ett e!u over the here the sa.,ost ll s a •: and felled%him wall ththeat returned e n arth. He then beat bun Itikt:igercavga e raanner, almost severed his head from his IN b 1 ' 14 3 hoed1111"du on him until life was extinct. Anin- Ov a 's , si t e'd next day, at •Arfinan, before William "a, alhelliii,:':°roner and Will" , Nash Esq., S.M. and, after 'oe "lon r ' v as eet N):110711dklost' patient investigation, ami a verdict of " \Nil 0. to Y. Ho harbieeed against Devereaux, on the clearest pt! sera,w,ait bis been committed cause we have county gaol, have heard as -4-4114 ~, n i, b nita trial. T he only P 4 * 41° t olation murder, is, that the assassin had a spite S"4lsr of th deceased.—Tipperary Con.stt -4,. ,t o - IN I ND 1+ 4 , 4 ve 4 i ptalAi sha A . ..At a meeting held in London last dt,Zitivei kitish 1 0 1 .1 ii short 14 thin the corn -8,(?(-le tor bettering the cundition of the n ia, it ,. was stated that, with 4: soi i nk fanlinPeriod of s 3 years, no less than . 16 of those t a d th e ° fsvhi eb t T have occurred, and that, too, a country ' ilettikedr,elsveuseeslsoat.llTZl:2ll,,tot be unexampledon m e t of be in 'fertility, denied, if properly tillailsti i niP ild b e full ade l qu e a a t l e i to all the demands of its i lo ,l2een a : io r ls• The dates at which those famines are said . _ t N e , 24, 1 8 ,„ s uare1766, 1773, 1 782,1792,1803,1804,181 U, ! - Pre,,t4 th e 4 u ! 1832, 1 833, 1836, ~1)te0 theearlier of these famines may, it is stated, .be re -1837, 1838, and 1839. klNa te thosostaiultaneous occurrence of wars ; but with re iottlaild pei e nf the last 20 years, which has been a time ac the ti l e eatt‘i•hieli are 11 .0 such cause can be assigned. The in ~, erne. i .,' given of the famine of 1838 are appalling , t lt 'AY of the't Agra 78,000 pininc , wretches were tat hy v e li k's ii. t k id l'A Public co n . the 14tliof April ; and between s k a '. l Os ete d fe'rnrMarch, 71,523 infirm and sightless ti re s t o n e ti , e same manlier. So great were the ra_- h' l •s n ,a, th "at the air for miles was tainted with the ef i' 1 ° me se PntrifYing carcases of men and cattle, and the !Iclti t a ilea t i bantna and Ganges were choked up and poisoned :as ai. ,,h of tb y s ai e es thruvvn into their channels. The wate e r ekef; sa.B' rivers were rejected as unfit for use. Th t‘ l ' o l iieli, batadthet rate .of 20,000 per month ; a destruction , r nay 1 continued, would have been sufficie a n n tly a ,11 4 ;09 t . i lh a,,einstPt_ off the entire population in less than of f ai qs iil'vere nett Of the same year it is said that upwards . . 04 1 , 4 ' W . ` the we st by government, and by private indivi h'• tiZ' thi s "1 .and north-west provinces ; and yet, s , a i lit i,, t kotipalhative, that the people were dying like a k e l l v iih e ta the Jams were throwin their living children by it ;:alri'd aparTiPa, that disease was g destroying those whom Is' ata i t l : hodie''l, and that dogs and jackalls were actualiy th' i hs was d th at l'll.ll, which life was not extinct. At Gwalio a r . at4R thatdreadQuroPhobia was as fatal as cholera, that t N o • 1 t A di f ., l _ , and that horses, asses, buffaloes, and every ti i sini`grn a C. g natural death were eaten by the natiyes 1, •)" 4 i f allii ll ,4 l 1 ,30 - i d s e : d ai L d that the police were in the habit ot th e Yi nt , of tile oodles daily. The famine of that . , E! -S al t sq ka iit, fle /y aw _ Pl;.esent . Year, are said to have originated : tlipiii,',(,) Money to purchase food, and not from •• of food • itself, iittee are 5t8t61 'Les • )n FriclaY, after r.. ..,„ er al Far' • t i• h great disnc to )r posingthe oe capital D' e Serjeas,l3o }gas lwise,ihe, grief. :es i n g hiehester• tort Ti ill the re s g i s -en the e t ' s :j a i ° i l e ed su h r i n s o i f rn 6 P ol, jo ) l i e e d ri t t i B ; it e er — ce o_ll, oe of diligenneliPai-i. itch and Pui.s' 'q • s itin 1- o f requ,.. l r , g y, qr. 11 ' 1 ": s epts' the reP— ctiOn• ,5, 41 Y POST:O, int i m ation an sr' Lra tionsr r i r iD to der W c los o f Fr an for the y pr j il ted f° Do ol t inends a 1 0 ) 110, Va O Cedil i 'I me e ti n g ious tO a aleelatio i‘l a jestY r o ft $ p ';rty ;ter rePh ea en and d the Clue Or t : t G000:,-; day of t, u jor• executed high exec- he e t boo r ' tenc the e l ia t ll 5 no lac the 0.4 pro9f. °f tra tioo, adrritn i- of , s ans da re s dro i ng their t tbl s msequ en " for e' 7or to ,ign , r e coo: Sc' w— 0 ° .11, Gree ' ing Mr. bare dead , fLo r' or 0 ggestionvitisA. lberY 113 rove ° men fully P THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. The Public is respectfully informed that in consequence of the unprecedented attraction of Mr. VAN AMBURGH and his TRAINED ANIMALS recently at this Theatre, an Engagement has been made with him, on his return from Dublin, for a limited number of Nights, and he will appear THIS PRESENT FRIDAY EVENING, and go through the whole of his extraordinary Performances with LIONS, TIGERS, LEOPARDS, &c., as represented One Hundred and Fifteen Nights last season, at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane, and frequently patronized there by her Majesty. THIS present FRIDAY, the 7th instant, will be performed Mr. Knowles' celebrated Play of X: THE HUNCHBACK. Master Walter, (the Hunchback,) Mr Stuart ; Lord Tinsel, Mr. Chaplin ; Sir Thomas Clifford, Mr. Gray ; Modus, Mr. W. Howard ; Helen, Mrs. Tellet ; Julia, Miss Faucit. At the end of the Play, MR. VAN AMBURGH will exhibit his Fearless and Ex traordinary Performances with the LIVING L I O N S, TIGERS, LEOPARDS, &c. To conclude with the Melo-Drama called THE BLIND BOY. Kalig, Mr. Gray; Edmund, (the Blind Boy,) Mrs. Tellet ; Oberto, Mr. Vivash ; Molino, Mr. Slaiter ; Elvina, Mrs. Baker. The Box-office will be opened daily, when Tickets may be had, and Places taken, of Mr. PARKER, from Ten until Three. Cht 9Llbtrpaol cfPtanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1339. Why should a dissolution of Parliament be in pros- pect, when all the world knows that the whigs must inevitably lose by it ? is a question which everybody asks, and which we therefore, to the best of our hum ble ability, will endeavour to solve. And first we must protest against any one's being surprised because the notion is paradoxical. The whig budget is stuffed with paradoxes ; and, if we may use a violent expression, which the condition of affairs not unnaturally suggests to us, it would be a paradox if any whiggish measure should turn out not to be paradoxical. We have seen an aristocratic whig—the most unpopular race of pOli ticians in the empire—forced into power on the shoul ders of the people ;—we have seen ultra-democrats de- sert a cabinet Which rested solely on the semblance of democratic support, and again rally round the same ca binet when it confessed its own destitution of popular support, and rested all its claims upon royal preroga tive and court intrigue ;—we now see this conclave of soi-disant liberals (by courtesy ycleped a government) driven to the extremity of despair upon these impor tant questions—the suspension of a representative go- vernment in Jamaica, the prolongation of an official bureaucracy in Canada, and the entrusting to five of their own body the expansion and contraction of na tional education. Surely all these are wonders, and must have appeared incomprehensible in')himpler ages, when Vanes and Marvels had not learned the lip-service of courtly adulation—when household fribbles and in triguing ladies had not dared to imitate the rude lan guage of disloyalty. Well but, we fancy our conser- vative friends will say, all this is very little to the pur pose : you are speaking of matters where principle is involved—we want to be enlightened in a question where, interest is at stake ; and although we know that your whig does not care to contradict himself where his principles only (if he had them) would be compro mised, yet we have always observed him to be wise enough in his own generation, and we will not believe that he is trifling with any of his sordid interests. Well then we will endeavour to show why a dissolution of Parliament may possibly be of no serious disadvan- tage to the whig. We know, and we know that he knows it too, the constituencies will do their duty, and return to the Queen a majority of conservative advisers ; but then, if the appeal were .made by a conservative premier, and under a new registration, there can be no doubt but the result would be infinitely more satisfac tory. Now, if the game be really up in the present parliament, they are wise in their own generation if they call the next together upon.the least disadvantage ous terms ; and it is a maxim of policy well known to Whigs and jesuits, "si non possis quod velis,—id saltem velle quod possis." Again : although our whig incomprehensihles find it expedient just now to profess the utmost possible iden tity of interest and the most perfect sympathy with the Grotians and (to borrow an expression of Mr. Slick) the Humans of the Reform Club, yet no one, we ap prehend, of any party is quite so simple as to believe them. Now when they are ejected from power, the next thing will be to organize a powerful opposition. Important as it is for the whig leaders to strengthen themselves against the conservatives, it is of far higher interest to strengthen themselves in comparison of the radicals. If they write for Sir Robert Peel to form an effective cabinet, to lay good and practical measures be fore the country, and to conciliate the universal sup- port of all candid and moderate men, it is not impro bable that there may be no whig party left. The con test then will be between the conservative and the de structive policies—between the maintainer of the mo narchy on the one side, and the tooth-and-nail repub lican on the other. In this case the whig would be, as they say in sporting circles, no-where. But if Lord Melbourne dissolves the Parliament, he goes to the country on his own issues. The united sections of re- formers will still hold their separate standards ; but face to face against their common enemy, the conser vative. One will return to Brookes' and the other to the Reform Club, each exasperated by his recent de feat, and prepare to enter into a new alliance, and en deavour, upon any terms, again to force his way to power. The whig will have the court with him, and the radical must not hope for a pre-audience where pa tronage is in prospect; and, if the joint effort prove successful, must be thankful for the smaller morsels which the whig has abandoned in disdain. The know ledge of this disparity will have aided the whig, as against the radical cause, in every district where the choice of the liberal electors has been doubtful, and will materially influence the balance of parties when the elected re-assemble in London for the next cam paign. If, therefore, the pure (!) whigs are looking far a-head, and, exasperated by the recent defections of their democratic friends, have resolved upon a lasting and deep revenge, there are many reasons why they should not hesitate about an immediate dissolution. They will stand on the best terms, as against us, for which, in the present temper of conservative England, they can dare to hope ; and they will give their radical rivals the best bye-blow that circumstances may ever enable them to administer. The Milesian may then " take his change" out of his bargain at his convenient leisure, and chew the cud of bitter fancy over the thought that an " auld whig is ower far north" even for a Punic craftsman. Again : there are political embarrassments which render it necessary for a party to go through what Mr. Weller called the 'solvent court. A. ministerial bankruptcy seems the natural process of a cabinet that stops payment weekly. Their accounts, whether we look at home or abroad, or to Ireland or to the colo nies, are Flemish accounts. Drafts of constitutions for colonies in America, or universities in England, are alike dishonoured : bills are posted : acceptances of office are tendered, but stubborn constituents an- swer " no effects." Lord John Russell has modified his ideas about Jamaica to meet Sir Robert Peel's former objection, and is told in compliment for this submission that no opposition will be offered at the present stage. He has endeavoured to give his Canadian difficulties leg-bail, but has significant warning that it will be no go. He has abandoned his education scheme in the agony of despair, and under the humiliating consciousness that defeat and ignominy would have been the rewards of his perseverance. The Lords' committee meanwhile are discharging their important duties, and, if the public ear be not abused, Lord Normanby's policy (like the Irish gaols) is opened, and matters for serious consi deration hereafter are being recorded in legible and imperishable type. Surely not Prometheus had more gnawing pains when the untiring vulture tore the cap tive's liver—surely a longer catalogue of poignant griefs never emanated even from Pandora's box — than those which we have now enumerated, the sweets and solace of Lord John Russell's ill-gotten and ill resumed position. From all this list of sad perplexities there is but one hope of deliverance : the only safety of the wretched — sheer despair. And if a dissolution of Parliament, however prejudicial to the whigs in other respects, will enable them to steer clear for the present of these embarrassments, and so put them once again in pos session of their two great strongholds, time and the chapter of accidents,—and will place them, as we have already shewn, in the best attainable attitude for run ning down the conservative bark at some future junc ture, and taking the wind meanwhile from the sails of their radical allies and rivals,—if these views be sound, we do not know why the whig ministers should not close the present session with an appeal to the people. It is no trifling consideration doubtless in the balance of this account, that another half year will pass over their heads, and place and patronage produce their usual effects. Whether they will re-tinker the cabinet, by the secession of Lords Melbourne and John Rus sell and the elevation of Lords Normanby and Morpeth to their vacated posts, we will not presume to say. But lest they should venture to meet the new Parlia ment, when it assembles for the despatch of business, we pray them to give ear to the following very prac tical advice, contained in a very pleasant anecdote. A certain country neighbour, who bored every laird within a day's distance of his home in a most insuffer able manner, and was deaf to every attempt at extrica tion made by his reluctant victims, was observed to give no trouble at all to the late Sir Andrew Agnew ; and when Sir Andrew was asked to explain the cause of his own very fortunate exemption, " Hoot, mon I" he replied, " I jist gave him a gentle hint." And when they asked what hint could possibly avail with one on whom the plainest expostulations had proved wholly ineffectual, " Hoot toot, mon I" Sir Andrew answered; " I jist told him if he wud na gang oot by the door, I'd gar him gang oot by the window." Lord John Russell has abandoned his education scheme ! After pompously announcing that he would move for the grant of thirty thousand pounds imme diately after the Whitsuntide holydays, he first of all, under the influence of terror, postponed the considera tion of the motion for a fortnight, and, on Tuesday evening last, under the influence of still stronger feel ings of terror, he plainly told the House of Commons, that he should proceed no further with his measure. What a humiliating spectacle does Lord John Russell present to the country ! Instead of boldly acting up to his principles—instead of performing his promises— instead of fulfilling his ostentatious threats—he meanly skulks out of the difficulties which he has created, by abandoning the scheme just when it was brought to maturity ! Is this the conduct that a straight-forward, honest, and conscientious minister would have pur sued ? Far from it, indeed ! But who would look for honesty and plain dealing among such tricksters as the whigs ? If the fate of the ministry had been dependent upon the education scheme, an honest ministry would not have flinched from the battle. But the present ministers are not honest men—of course politically speaking—and that makes all the difference in the world. There can be no doubt that the multitude of peti- tions presented against the government educational scheme has been ostensibly the cause of the abandon ment of the measure. When Lord John Russell claimed a fortnight's grace, he scarcely could have contemplated that the opposition would have proved so strong, or else he would have abandoned it in the first instance. Ho must have calculated upon a move ment in its favour. If he expected to see a host of petitions approving of his scheme, he has been most wofully disappointed. We only know of one town that has made any demonstration in favour of the plan propounded by Lord John Russell, and that is Manchester, the infidels, Papists, and Socinians of which place have managed to get up a petition. On the other hand, there were nearly two hundred petitions against the scheme presented on Monday evening last alone. The voice of the country is decidedly against the measure : but that is not the reason why Lord John Russell has abandoned it. What does he, or what do his associates, care about the voice of the country ? Have they not long since set it at defiance by continuing in office ? Do they not, in all their pro ceedings and measures, habitually and systematically place themselves in opposition to the people of Eng- land ? The true reason of Lord John Russell's aban donment of his threatened motion is, the certainty that a call of the House of Commons would have issued in his defeat. The great majority of the members of that house are Protestants and Churchmen, and, as such, not likely to give countenance to the unchristianising scheme espoused and recommended by the govern ment. If Lord John Russell had persevered in his original intention, he would have found himself in an absolute minority. Then would have arisen the ne cessity for another resignation. Love of office once more triumphed over love of mischief. Lord John chose rather to stultify himself than to sacrifice his salary. While we most heartily congratulate the country upon the successful issue of the opposition offered to the ne farious designs of the papists and infidels, as developed in Lord John Russell's education scheme, we would advise the Protestants of England not to relax in their hostility to the measure. Let all the petitions now in course of signature be forwarded for presentation ; and let them be succeeded by thousands in addition. It is especially needful, at the present crisis, that the protest ant spirit of England should be awakened. We have a government in strict alliance with the papists, and prepared to yield to their dictates. Popery is already enjoying the fruit of its patronage by the ministers of state. It is multiplying its chapels, schools, colleges, and nunneries, and its priests are encouraging the wealthy laymen of its communion to offer a premium upon every conversion from Protestantism. An alliance with the state is now openly sought for through the medium of the new system of education advocated by Mr. Wyse and his associates. It is therefore high time that the Protestants of England should be roused from their apathy. Sir Hesketh Fleetwood's motion for the extension of the franchise to the £lO occupiers in counties was introduced and rejected on Tuesday evening last. It was expected that this motion would test the sincerity of Lord John Russell's professions of finality ; and the issue has been just what we anticipated. With all his inconsistency, trickery, and tergiversation, we give the noble member for Stroud credit for sincerity in his ad herence to the principle of finality. The hopes of the radicals have been once more disappointed. They very charitably thought that Lord John Russell would have consented to " eat his own words," rather than sacrifice the friendship and forfeit the support of the ultra liberals. For once the radicals have reckoned without their host, and they now find themselves in the awkward dilemma of being obliged to support a ministry con fessedly opposed to their views, or to "upset the coach" once more. The debate of Tuesday night was important, as wel as instructive. The proposition of Sir Hesketh Fleet wood was, to confer on the £lO householders in coun ties the same franchise as is now enjoyed by the £lO householders in boroughs. In support of this propo sition, he urged that it was based on constitutional principles—that it did not militate against the princi ples of the reform bill—and that the intelligence and respectability of the class on which he wished to confer the franchise were equal to those of the £lO household ers in boroughs. The richest joke in Sir Hesketh Fleetwood's speech was the assertion that "he regarded his measure as one of conservative policy." Lord John Russell, as might have been expected, opposed this sweeping proposition. The grounds of his objections to it were various. Having opposed the introduction of the £5O clause, he could not consist ently admit the propriety of extending the franchise to the £lO householders. He lamented that the £5O clause had ever been introduced into the bill, though he did not wish to see electors deprived of their right to vote under that clause. He urged the late period of the session as another reason against entertaining the proposition submitted to the house by Sir Hesketh Fleetwood. In addition to this objection, which he considered in itself sufficient, he maintained that the motion went much further than the reform bill, as it proposed to give a new right not conferred by that measure. His objections were not of a temporary character. He declined giving his radical friends and supporters any reason to suppose that, if brought for ward at another time, the proposition would meet with the concurrence of government. The proposals con tained in O'Connell's letter to the working men of Birmingham were utterly repudiated by Lord John Russell, as subversive of the principle of the reform act, and as involving a new and distinct system of legislation. We need scarcely say that the wily de magogue, in the letter to which we have alluded, has been seeking to cajole the Birmingham tinkers by urging them to demand household suffrage, annual parliaments, and vote by ballot, Against these nos trums Lord John Russell strongly inveighed; but he professed himself to be in favour of the opinions of those who desired to preserve the principle of the reform act, amending the details by such corrections as experience and necessity should suggest. He thought it might be expedient to make some alteration n the rate-paying clauses of the act. Beyond this he :was not prepared to hold out any hopes to his radical friends, though it was very evident that he wished to conciliate them. There can be no longer any doubt of the policy of the ministry as at present constituted. They are determined to concede as little as possible to the " whole hog" men. Lord John Russell's speech was in perfect accordance with that of Lord Melbourne in the House of Lords, and which ca!led forth the splendid diatribe of Lord Brougham. What will our radical contemporaries now say in reference to the return of Lord Melbourne to office ? Were not their rejoicings somewhat premature ? What do they think of the striking language of the Duke of Wellington, when he advised Lord Melbourne. to " persevere in the course which he had announced, and to trust to the good sense of the country for support" ? Lord John Russell's declaration very naturally created the greatest alarm among the radicals in the House of Commons. Mr. Warburton exerted all his eloquence to induce Lord John to abandon his " fina- lity." He wished to obtain some pledge that the ministers should suffer themselves to be " squeezed" once more by their radical allies. He tried to extort from them some pledge, however vague and indefinite, which would justify the radicals in continuing to vote with the ministers. He wanted something to cheer the drooping spirits of the liberals, " and then," he remarked, " instead of our being almost afraid to meet a general election, and anticipating discomfiture as we do, we should be ready to confront our constituents, ay, still readier than the tories are now. But if things are left in their present state, they will be worse and worse for the liberals at each succeeding dissolution." We fully agree with Mr. Warburton that the liberals are, not almost, but positively afraid of a general elec tion. We also believe that matters will be worse and worse for the liberals at each succeeding dissolution ; but we attribute this decline and fall of the liberal interest to a far different cause from that which was assigned by Mr. Warburton. We believe that the country, instead of wanting any further measures of " progressive reform," such as the liberals advocate, is quite satisfied with the reforms already obtained. Instead of too little, we have had too much of this description of reform. The people of England, so fir from being dissatisfied with the slow progress of the chariot wheels of reform, are beginning to complain of their too rapid motion. One remark made by Mr. Warburton was certainly of a very startling character. He said, " the liberals are the most numerous, wealthy, and influential party" in the country. Indeed ! if such is the fact, how did it come to pass that these numerous, wealthy, and in fluential persons were so thoroughly beaten at the last general election ?—and how does Mr. Warburton re concile this broad assertion with the mortifying con fession that the liberals are afraid to confront their constituents ? How truly has Sir Robert Peel's prediction, that he would eventually have to defend the reform act against the attacks of its own framers, been fulfilled. On Tuesday last, and that not for the first or second time, the right hon. baronet had this duty devolved upon him. In discharging this duty he maintained that it was the height of folly for any government to hold out the vague assurances sought for by Mr. Warburton— assurances the only effect of which would be to deceive, mislead, and bewilder the country. We cannot close these remarks without alluding to the striking remarks made by Mr. Ward, who said, that " the vote of that night would draw a line between the two parties on the ministerial side of the house ; and should it lead to the fusion - of the opposite leaders he could see no objection to that. He had seen those whom he had once been proud to follow merge their name and influence in the conservative party, and he doubted not that he should see many more pursue the same course." Is Mr. Ward going to change sides himself ? POLICE INTELLIGENCE. TUESDAY. SMUGGLING. Henry Righton, a seaman, late of the ship Leonard Dob bin, was placed at the bar charged with having illegally con veyed from the above vessel a quantity of foreign manufac tured tobacco. A second count in the information charged the prisoner with aiding and abetting those who illegally un shipped the said tobacco. Mr. Brook, solicitor to the customs at this port, appeared for the board. Mr. Davenport appeared for the prisoner. Matthew Moneypenny, a police-officer, stated, that on the 28th of May last, he was on duty at the Victoria Dock. Shortly before eight o'clock in the evening, he saw a man carrying a cask on his shoulder. This man was proceeding out at the gate of the dock, when witness stopped him, and asked him what h e h a d i n th e cas k. He replied that it was a parcel which that man, (pointing to the prisoner) had em ployed him to carry. The officer took the cask from him, and ran after the prisoner, who took to his heels. At length, after a long pursuit, the officer succeeded in catching the prisoner in Regent-street. He took him to the watch-house, and there asked him who the cask belonged to. He said it was his, and he employed the other man to carry it to the Clarence Dock. He said it contained tobacco which he had brought"from on board the Leonard Dobbin, in the Water loo Dock. The officer examined the cask, and found that it contained tobacco. It was examined in the presence of the prisoner. The prisoner was lodged in Bridewell, and the tobacco given over to the care of the tide-surveyor. Other witnesses were examined to prove that the tobacco was foreign manufactured. Mr. Dit'venport said, the prisoner was led very innocently into his present trouble. The cask belonged to another per son, and he was about to send it, with a coa t i n it, over to Ireland. His wife and child were in Ireland, and he was about to send the coat over to her, that she might enfold the infant in it to keep it warm. As the person was sending the cask over he undertook to carry it to the packet, if his coat might be sent in it. Mr. Superintendent Tyrrell was called by Mr. Brooke. He proved that the prisoner confessed to him that he had purchased the tobacco at New Orleans. The prisoner informed Mr. Tyrrell of the exact weight of the tobacco, and remarked that it was very dear in New Orleans. The prisoner insisted upon having other witnesses called for the defence. They gave their testimony which was a further proof of the case for the crown. The captain of the vessel was called, and he gave the prisoner an excellent cha racter. The prisoner was fined in the penalty Of £lOO. In de fault of payment he was to be imprisoned during six months. The magistrates said, in consequence of the excellent cha racter which he had received, they would recommend him to the favourable consideration of the board. OPENING OF, MONK'S FERRY HOTEL On Tuesday last, this extensive hotel, situated between Woodside and Birkenhead, was opened for the accommoda tion of the public, by the proprietor, Mr. H. Hilliar. The steam-boats belonging to the ferry, were decorated with flags on the occasion, and during. the day a considerable number of highly-respectable parties inspected the extensive premises, and expressed much admiration of the elegance of the apartments, the beauty of the furniture, and the fine views of the river and surrounding scenery commanded from the windows on the east and north fronts. The approach from the slip, is similar to that of the Woodside hotel, though in a different style of architecture. The gate is between two handsome octagonal lodges, and over it is thrown a light arch of open ironwork, in the centre of which is fixed a handsome clock. The hotel itself is a fine-looking pile of three stories in height, in the Grecian style, with a colonnade, consisting of six lonic columns, rising the full height of the two first stories, and terminating in a cornice, continued along both fronts. Above this is the attic story. The wings project so as to be Enable with the colonnade, and form a recess, suitable for a promenade. There are twenty-four windows in the front,—eighteen being in the centre or body of the building, and three in each of the wings. The lower one in each wing is a bow window. The roof is of the pavi lion form, and the whole of a light stone-colour, presents a conspicuous and noble appearance, particularly from the river. In the front there is a small parterre or pleasure ground the length of the building, bounded by a castellated sea wall fronting the river. Beyond this there are no grounds attached to the hotel, the land behind being occupied by the stables and other out-buildings. The interior of the house is planned in a corresponding scale of magnitude. The entrance is from the road leading to the ferry, at the north front. The door-way is indented, and is topped by a semi circular arch. It rises two stories in height, the upper portion serving as a window to the passage or lobby of the second story. A central passage or entrance-hall, extends through the entire building, terminating at the grand stair-case. This passage is 90 feet in length by 10 f ee t i n b rea dth, and from it diverge the principal rooms. At the north-west corner there is a handsome coffee-room, with three windows to the north, and a bow window to the river. The view (as from all the principal rooms) is magnificent. It is hung with crimson paper, and elegantly furnished. A range of hand some parlours run along, opposite the colonnade, all neatly and newly furnished. The chimney-pieces are of marble, and the papers are of delicate tints, and selected with consi derable taste. In the farther wing is another large parlour or retiring room, where it is purposed that gentlemen may enjoy " the light cigar." On the opposite, or west side of the passage, is the bar, the kitchen, and a range of three rooms that may be thrown into one dining-room, of sixty feet by twenty-four. The kitchens are fitted up with all the latest apparatus and improvements which modern science has suggested to delight the gastronomist. The second story, to which there are two stairs, consists, in front, of two drawing-rooms in the wings, commanding extensive prospects; and a range of smaller rooms, parlours, principal b e d-rooms, &c. in the centre, all fitted up with great neat ness. In one of them is a very superb bedstead and hang ings. The back in this story, is appropriated to bed-rooms and other rooms. The attic story consists chiefly of bed rooms, with, however, one or two sitting-rooms ; one of them in the north-west wing, from which a charming view of Liverpool, the river, and the shore towards the Rock, is obtained. They are all neatly fitted up. There are also rooms above these, in the roof, well plastered and finished, as bed-rooms for the servants. On the whole, the building is highly creditable to the proprietors, and in the design and execution, to Mr. Welsh, the architect, and his assistants. ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS . FOR THE MANAGEMENT or THE AFFAIRS or BIRKENHEAD On Tuesday last, the election of eight commissioners for the management of the local affairs of the township of Birken head, in lieu of the like number of vacancies arising from deaths and otherwise, took place at the Town-hall. Con siderable interest was excited on the occasion,—a band of music paraded the several streets and lanes, and the scene was one of much bustle and animation. The friends of the respective candidates were, from an early hour, actively oc cupied in impressing upon the voters the claims of their favourites. There were, as a matter .of course, two parties, though they could scarcely be called antagonist, much less political. Each of these issued papers, the one printed in red ink, and the other in black, containing lists of those gentlemen whom they respectively recommended to the choice of the voters. The result, after a sharp contest, car lied on with great good humour, was a drawn battle, four being elected from one list, and four from the other. . The name of Mr. Alexander, of the Liverpool Mail office, was, we learn, placed on the red list, and he would probably have been elected ; but he unexpectedly, at an early period of the day, gave his vote for the other party, and, as might be ex pected, was thrown off by those who would otherwise have supported him. The following were the gentlemen returned, with the number of votes received by each, according to the official list : Mr. JOHN WALKER Mr. ROBERT RUSSELL l5B Mr. JOHN SUMMERVILLE JACKSON .. Mr. ALEXANDER KERR Mr. ARTHUR A. Donss Mr. WILLIAM MOSELY Mr. ROBERT MEACOCK lO7 Mr. JAMES HOWELL The result of the election was announced at the Town hall, in a very neat and appropriate manner, by a gentleman much interested in the prosperity of the township, and the names were received with much cheering, b o th part i es (if so they might be called) being perfectly satisfied with the choice made by the electors. We hope the township will reap large benefit from the services of the gentlemen thus elected with so much good feeling and cordiality. Bi r k en h ea d ( w ith Woodside, Tranmere, &c.) is rapidly increasing in population, wealth, and importance. It is of but comparatively few years growth, yet has already become a market town, contains many fine streets and . the permanent residences or summer resorts of families and individuals of both the Liver pool and Cheshire shores. It still presents a wide field for future enlargement and improvement ; and o ne di sa d van tage has been suggested to us, which we think would be highly beneficial, and that is, the establishm en t o f a h orse f a i r , cheese fair, and fancy fair, which would not only be of ad vantage to the inhabitants, but would be numerously resorted to from Liverpool. We trust the commissioners will not overlook this object, and that in their endeavours to effect it they will be supported by the spirit and liberality of the township. ASSAULT Edward Warren, a respectable looking young man, ap peared to answer a charge of assault preferred against him by Thomas Lewis, a youth of still more fashionable exterior. Mr. Lewis stated, that on Thursday evening last, he went along the North Shore, and returned by the way of Waterloo road. As he was passing along he saw the defendant. He did not look at him, nor did he notice him in any way, but he was laughing at something which had passed between him and his companion, Mr. William Harris. He went past the prisoner, who almost immediately followed after him, accom panied by several blacksmiths. The defendant commenced by giving him a violent push, at the same time asking wit ness how he dared to make fun of him ? Mr. Lewis denied that he had made fun of the defendant. The latter expressed a strong inclination to crack the skulls of the complainant and his companion, and insinuated how very small a reward would stimulate him to exercise himself by beating them. As he uttered a multitude of threats, and held his fist as if about to strike, Mr. Lewis thought proper to call police. Hearing this, the defendant put his fist close to Mr. Lewis's mouth ; —after a moment he suddenly withdrew his hand, and struck witness a violent blow in the mouth. He then asked for some keys and departed with the smiths. Presently after wards he again returned, with several blacksmiths. He again commenced his abuse, and in the end one of the blacksmiths knocked Mr. Lewis down. _ _ Mr. William Harris, Mr. Lewis's friend, corroborated his statement in every particular. The defendant, in reply, said, that whenever he met the complainant, he always pushed him, and grossly insulted him, and he did the same on the occasion in question. He could prove that he never touched the complainant, but on the con trary, the latter called him a prig, and a puppy. He could further prove that it was an Irishman who struck the com plainant after he had departed. Several men, having the appearance of blacksmiths, were called. They gave various accounts of the transaction, but did not prove that an Irishman had struck Mr. Lewis. They denied that Mr. Lewis hod been struck at all ; and said his mouth did not bleed. Mr. Hodgson said it was very improper that persons of their appearance could not meet in the streets but they must quarrel in the manner represented. The defendant was fined two shillings and sixpence, and costs. SUMMONS FOR THE WAGES OF A STEWARD ON SHIP- BOARD. Captain Douglas, commander of the barque Monarch, was summoned at the instance of Alexander Johnson, to show cause why he refused to pay the said Alexander Johnson a balance of wages alleged to be due for services on board the said barque on her late voyage from Liverpool to Leghorn, and back again. Mr. Wardle appeared for the applicant. Alexander Johnson stated, that he shipped as steward on board the Monarch, and signed articles to go to Leghorn in that capacity, and back to Liverpool at £3 per month. He shipped on the 6th January last, had performed the voyage, and was discharged on the 22d ult. He had received a month's advance, which was the sum of £3. It was a monthly note. The articles were produced, and the sum of £2 10s. ap peared against the name of the applicant. It appeared that the articles had been altered. There was also a condition named in the margin, that the complainant should receive £3, if he were worth that wages. In reply to questions from Mr. Wardle, the captain said that the marginal note and the alteration were both made after the applicant had signed articles. The book was produced, and it was seen that the month's advance was entered at the sum of £3, as wages. The captain, in defence, said, that the complainant was recommended to him as a very sober man, and of good cha racter. However, when they got to Leghorn, he got drunk once. As they were on the voyage homeward, he got drunk again. He repeated the offence a third time on the 13th of May, when he (the captain) sent him forward. He had en dured him getting drunk twice, and said nothing about it, but when he got drunk the third time he dismissed him from the cabin. The mate was called.—He produced the log in which was the record of the last delinquency of the applicant. He was entered as worse for liquor on the 13th of May, and conse quently dismissed from the cabin. The mate stated, that he was then put forward to do what he could. He was not so good as an ordinary seaman, but he worked. His wages from this time were at length estimated at £llos. per month. After certain deductions were made for goods furnished to the applicant, he was entitled to the sum of £7 16s. 9d. which was ordered to be paid. WEDNESDAY. (Before Mr. RusnToN.) SERIOUS CASE OF EMBEZZLEMENT. A young man, named Thomas Fallows, who had absconded from his employers, in October last, Messrs. John and Wil liam Wellstead, was placed at the bar, he having been appre hended by James Hassall, of the Police, in Birmingham, on Friday last. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner had appropriated to his own use £3OO, which he had collected for his employers, and that he had also forged a bank cheque in their name for £250, for which he had received the money. It was thought until lately that he had gone to South Austra lia. He was committed for trial at the sessions. RECEIVING GOODS THROUGH FORGED ORDERS. Charles Cunningham, Samuel Raworth, and Samuel Til son, were charged with having received, on two occasions, a quantity of beer from a publican by means of orders, pur porting to be signed by a William Brown. The case was proved against Tilson and Cunningham, who were put back, so that inquiry might be made whether they had gone else where with similar orders. Raworth, for want of evidence, was discharged. SMUGGLING TOBACCO. - HEAVY PENALTY. Archibald Carmichael stood charged by Mr. Brook, soli citor for the Customs, with having had on board the vessel to which he belonged a quantity of foreign manufactured tobacco, he knowing the same to be contraband. Mr. Dunn, acting tide-surveyor, said that on the Ist of the present month he went on board the ship Charles Humberston, in the Waterloo dock basin, where be and his assistants found, in a pair of canvas trowsers, 331bs. of foreign manufactured tobacco. The prisoner was the second mate of the ship, and confessed at the time that the tobacco was his, adding that he had bought it for a very small sum at New Orleans. Some other tobacco was also found in the bread-locker in the cabin, but the prisoner was not charged with having this. Mr. Davenport cross-examined this and the other witnesses for the prisoner. William Palmer, a boat man, corroborated Mr. Dunn, as did Henry Baker, who assisted when the tobacco was found. A piece of it was produced, and it appeared to be much damaged.— Mr. Davenport said his client did not deny having the tobacco, which being damaged, he had bought, as he stated, for a small sum, merely for the use of him and his ship mates. His having it in the dock was owing to a misappre hension of the law on his part, and he hoped the case was one which would not be severely dealt with. Mr. Rushton said that the law was clear on the subject, and left the ma gistrates no discretion, he was sorry to say, to mitigate the heavy penalty. The care had been proved to the satisfaction of the bench, and the prisoner must pay a fine of £lOO, or, in default, be impri;oned for six Months. He howevei hoped, that as the tobacco was evidently damaged, and of little value, and as the prisoner, in all probability acted un der misapprehension, the commissioners would recommend his case for the merciful consideration of the board. In this he was joined by his brother magistrate. Mr. Brook (as we understand) intimated that the wish of the magistrates should be attended to. A DESTITUTE BOY. A poor boy, who had been found in the street without food or shelter, was placed at the bar by Mr. Parkinson, with a view to his obtaining the assistance of the magistrate. He stated that his parents had died in Leeds, and that he had found his way to Liverpool in hopes of getting to sea. He had a sister in Dysert, in Scotland. He appeared to be a fine intelligent boy, and was sent to the workhouse, where (as Mr. Rushton stated) he would be taken care of until his sister could be written to,—so that if she could not assist him, something might be done to enable him to make a livelihood. YESTERDAY. (Before Mr. RUSHTON and (occasionally) Mr. HonGsoN ROBBERY FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE. A young man, named John Watson, stood charged with entering a house in St. Martin's-street, and abstracting therefrom several articles of wearing apparel. Mrs. Sarah Holgreaves stated, that, on coming down stairs on Tuesday morning, soon after five o'clock, she found the drawers broken open, and missed a shirt, a sheet, and some other articles. Two youths, one of whom had known the prisoner before, saw him about the same time going along St. Martin's street, with a bundle of clothes. The prisoner, who had been remanded from the previous day, to give him an opportunity of bringing up some witnesses, called Robert Smith, the foreman at Mr. Jackson's, in Byrom-street, and two young men from the same establishment, who stated that they saw him that morning at about a quarter-past six. Mr. RUSH TON remarked that the testimony of these individuals was no doubt true, but was perfectly consistent with the inculpatory evidence. He then ordered the prisoner to the house of cor rection for a month, expressing a hope that by being leniently dealt with, he would reform. If he were again brought there for a similar offence, he (Mr. R.) would certainly commit him for trial. STEALING FLOUR FROM A WAREHOUSE. Patrick Cunningham, a warehouseman, stood charged with taking a quantity of flour from a warehouse in the occupa tion of Messrs. Evans and Trokes, the property of Messrs. Salisbury, Turner, and Earle. Mr. Kendal, clerk to Messrs. Evans, stated that on Tuesday last the prisoner asked him to allow him to take some dirty flour that was scattered about the floor of the warehouse, for his pigs. There might be 301bs. or 401bs. of it, and as it was of no other use, he said he might take it. It appeared, however, that he did not take the sweepings. Mr. Salisbury's warehouseman saw the prisoner lower a bag into a dickey cart, from the warehouse, and he found it to contain good flour, and stopped it. The sweepings were left, and the heads of from 35 to 40 flour barrels were found to have been knocked out. There were three qualities of flour, and of these the respective quantities of 751 b., 641 b., and 1251 b. were abstracted. Two barrels of flour in the warehouse had previously been weighed, and were found to be about 40 lbs. short each. The prisoner de- e: dined to say anything, and the informations being taken, he was committed for trial at the sessions. STEALING FROM A SHOP DOOR. Robert Mostyn was charged with stealing a hat from a shop door in Mersey-street. He was seen to take the hat from the outside of the door and hand it to another boy. Mr. Rushton, after reprimanding the shopkeeper for placing articles outside, without securing them well, so as to tempt the idle and dissolute to crime, sent the prisoner for one month to the Borough House of Correction. RECOVERY OF A FIFTY POUND BANK NOTE. Yesterday James Riley, a publican, and Mary Ann Roberts and Sarah Burton, two dissolute females,i were placed at the bar on suspicion of being concerned in robbing a gentleman some time ago of a £5O bank note.—Mr. Dowling stated that on the Bth of March last, a gentleman named Hyde came to the town, and having become intoxicated, lost, or was robbed of, a £5O note of the Macclesfield bank. On the following day, one of the females at the bar went to police officer Guy, and made a voluntary statement, in consequence of which he went to the prisoner Riley, and told him that he had heard he had got possession of the note, which he, how ever, denied, saying that he knew nothing at all about it. Subsequently the note was traced back to the bank whence it had been issued. It had been paid by Riley to Mr. Marsh, draper, Scotland-place, who kept it about three weeks, and then paid it to a gentleman in Manchester. All the witnesses requisite to complete the case had not yet had time to come up, but they had been sent for, and there was, he believed, sufficient evidence in court to justify the bench in remanding the prisoners. The witnesses were there heard, and proved the truth of Mr. D.'s introductory statement. Police-officer Guy said that the female prisoner Roberts voluntarily told him, that she and the other female had taken the note from the gentleman ; and that it was a great shame that Riley should give only £24 Os. for it. Another officer stated that he had charged Riley with having it, and he denied all knowledge of it. This was on the 11th or 12th of March. Last night, when the prisoner was apprehended, he also denied having paid a £5O note to any one.—Mr. Marsh said the prisoner had come to his shop with the note, and said he wanted about £3 worth of goods. Witness did not know the Macclesfield bank, or its notes, and he sent it over to Mr. Blezards, to obtain his opinion of it. Mr. B. returned for reply that it was good. He then sold the prisoner the goods, and gave him the change out principally in sovereigns. About three months afterwards he paid the note to Mr. Pickford, of Manchester, with whom he occasionally had dealings.—Superintendent E. Tyrrellhad traced the note from London back to the Macclesfield bank, where it had been cancelled. He produced it.—Mr. Marsh said he believed it was the same ; but he could not swear to it. He had never had a Macclesfield note in his possession but that given him by the prisoner Riley.—Mr. Dowling said tkat he should in a few days be enabled to produce the gen- tleman who lost it, and who could identify it.—Mr Rushton said there was no evidence to affect the prisoner Burton, and she was accordingly discharged. Riley and Roberts were re manded until Tuesday next. A STOCKING STEALER. Margaret Egan was charged with stealing a pair of stock ings from a shop door. The case was proved. The prisoner had been committed before for stealing stockings, and was now sent to gaol for two months. COURT FAVOURITISM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—If there be one thing more than another which has led to, or been the consequence of, a declining monarchy ; if there be any circumstance in a monarchical state, which has ever been found a precursor of civil disturbances, and the uprooting of institutions, it is court favouritism. That such is the fact we have only to look back upon the pages of history, and in every nation we find abundant proof of this position, and in the records of no people more frequently than in those of our own country. Perhaps at this time. when a government, in order to preserve intact this danger ous predilection of a sovereign, is about to try the fearful, and hitherto unheard of, experiment of carrying on the af fairs of the nation with both houses of parliament in a state of opposition to its views, it may not be an entirely useless task to refer to those periods of our history when court fa vouritism has been most conspicuous ; so that in the ap proaching struggle between the court and the people, we may judge how far such principle ought to be tolerated or discouraged. Without going back to the remote periods of our Anglo- Saxon or Norman rulers, or dwelling upon the discords in the reign of Henry the Third, occasioned by the influence of foreign and other favourites, especially the King's relations by the mother's side, and which led to the capture of the King by his subjects, and the shedding of the best blood of England on the plains of Lewes and Evesham,—we have, in the reign of Edward the Second, an awful lesson of the con sequences of court favouritism. This prince, who had been trained up for the kingly power, so far forgot the conditions of royalty as to attach himself with an overweening affection to Pierce Gavestone, the friend and companion of his youth, and made him the channel through which were obtained offices of emolument and honour, and constituted him the dispenser of the royal mercy, which he exercised, not for the public good, but for his own advantage ; and so far did the favourite forget all regard to the aristocracy of the land, that, trusting in the protecting influence of his Sovereign, he abused and jeered at the highest peers of the realm ; nor for a long time could the infamous minion be reached, as the King had determined to " adventure his crown and life" to retain him about his person, and to protect him from the displeasure of his lords and the people. Roused at length by insult, and goaded by the profligacy of Gavestone, the nobility rose against the King and his favourite, and eventu ally, in a rude spirit of juiitice, executed the obnoxious mis leader of his Sovereign, at Black Lowe, near Warwick. " Let the favourite of our day look to himself, or else he may have as signal a downfall."—But though favouritism had so shaken the kingdom, Edward again fell into this fatal error, in the instance of the two Spencers, father and son ; till, in the end, the nation, weary of the debaucheries and misconduct of the younger Spencer, and the oppressions of both, not only brought them to ignominious deaths, but also deposed the misguided and unhappy monarch. Again, in the reign of Richard the Second, we have a very forcible example. Richard, in his early years, attached himself to Robert De Vere, Earl of Oxford ; and it is re corded that when the King was appealed to by the parliament for the dismissal of his ministers and minion, he said he would not, for their desire, remove the meanest scullion from his kitchen : and how far the " household" influence was exercised may be judged by a petition, which was sent to the King by parliament, desiring, amongst other things, " that the court should not be so much frequented as for merly by bishops and ladies." The end of these things was deposition and death to the Sovereign. We have also recorded in history the great power Cardinal Wolsey had over the actions of Henry the Eighth ; of Essex and Leicester in the days of " good Queen Bess" ; of Robert Carne and Buckingham, in the reigns of the first James and his successor Charles : each of these, we find, casting a baneful influence upon King and people ; and to the latter (Buckingham) may be ascribed the origin of those discon tents which brought the ill-fated Charles to the block. These instances, I think, are sufficient. In conclusion it may be said, that to deny the Sovereign a privilege, which is conceded to every one else, of selecting their own house hold and society, is a harsh and unfeeling measure. Can this assertion, I ask, be justly maintained? A Sovereign is placed, in my opinion, in a position which has not its ana logy in the rest of society. Highly exalted above every other individual in the realm, there are certain privileges to be enjoyed, and certain sacrifices to be made ; nor can the for mer be accepted, without the latter being conceded. And if it can be proved, as it may be, that a much greater sacrifice, for the welfare of the state. than that of the selection of friends, is recognised by the law, then, as a consequence, the minor deprivations of life, to secure that end, must, of necessity, be implied and involved in the major. What more tender link in the affections of mankind than the marriage tie ! What greater privilege than the selection of a partner of the bosom, who is to be a second, nay an integral part of self! And yet the sacrifice in the Sovereign of the unlimited choice of a spouse, why " The law allows it, and the court awards it." That such sacrifice should not be unnecessarily or harshly enforced, the charity of nature demands ; but state necessity at times compels this condition of the royal office. When, therefore, the public good exacts from the Sovereign the giving up of some friend, however dear, the statesman who asks it ought not to be esteemed uncourteous, ungenerous, or unkind.—Yours, &c. C. B. B. DESECRATION OF THE SABBATH. TO THE EDITOR OF , THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR.,—Permit me to draw your attention, and that of your readers, to one instance of the desecration of the Sabbath, which I do not remember to have been previously adverted to—namely, the fact of the Floating Tub (which, by-the bye, is the property of one of our very moral and liberal town-councillors) being open for the reception of visitors during the whole of that holy day. I understand that the excesses which are occasionally committed in a place called the " Refreshment Room," on board the vessel, would almost disgrace a common pot house ; and I have no doubt that this floating receptacle for dirt and filth has been most injurious to the moral and spi ritual welfare of many an intelligent and promising youth, by attracting his attention from his spiritual duties, and leading him into habits of neglect, dissipation, and extrava gance. It has afforded much gratification to the well-meaning and moral portion of the community to observe that a society has been recently established amongst us, having for its object the better observance of the Sabbath amongst all grades and classes of our townsmen ; and I trust that the instance which I have above cited of the desecration of that holy day, may, through the medium of your valuable paper, come under its observation. I am, sir, your obedient servant, J. June 6th. LUDLOW ELECTION. FINAL STATE OF THE POLL. Alcock Clive Majority for Mr. Alcock.. .. -- 4 This was the severest contest ever known in Ludlow. Mr. Alcock is understood to have polled not fewer than 20 bad votes, and a petition will be immediately presented against the validity of his election. All went off peaceably. THE PRESERVATION OF THE HUMAN HAlR.. — Useless compositions, sold avowedly for the growth of the hair, de preciate the value of a good article, and the public, when once imposed upon, have an idea that all hair-oils are equally inefficacious. This is not the case, as the finest hair has been restored by the genuine Botanic Oil, which has been proved most satisfactorily. J. Middlewood, the proprietor of this Botanic Oil, was served with notice to take a license for the sale of this Oil, as a new discovery of great worth. The notice not being attended to, the proprietor was served with an Excheqer writ to recover a penalty of £5O. J. M. had nothing to allege in his defence, excepting the circumstance that other oils were advertised for sale without license. The commissioners of stamps demanded the penalty, on the ground that the Botanic Oil was a cure for baldness, a qua lity not attributed to any other hair-oil. The proprietor was well aware that its efficacy had been proved. An appeal was made to the Lords of the Treasury and the Duke of Welling ton, the consequence of which was, that the penalty was miti gated : but the proprietor was obliged to submit his case to Parliament. A free sale was thus secured for the Botanic Oil. Had it been otherwise, government would have been affording protection for the sale of useless articles, by pro hibiting the sale of one of real efficacy. This case was before parliament in April, 1830.—See Adv. Botanic Oil: . , Sir Bellingham Graham's fine property in Yorkshire was on Tuesday put up to sale by Mr. Geo. Robins, and knocked down for 155,000 guineas. The room was crowded by capi talists, who bid with much spirit. How To BE Rica.—Nothing is more easy, says Mr. Paulding, than to grow rich. It is only to trust nobody —to befriend none—to get everything, and save all we get—to stint ourselves and every body belonging to us—to be the friend of no man, and have no men for our friend—to heap interest upon interest, cent. upon cent.—to be mean, miser able, and despised, for some 20 or 30 years, and riches will come as sure as disease and disappointment. AN UNKNOWN Loss.—Just previously (as we are in formed) to the Queen's departure yesterday (Friday) from the Castle, Mr. Brown, surgeon, of Sheet-street, was sent for to attend her Majesty. Upon leaving the Castle a bank note in an envelope was put into Mr. Brown's hands, which, without opening, he safely, as he imagined, deposited in his waistcoat pocket. On his arrival at his residence he disco vered that the ",royal fee" had vanished.—Windsor Journal. THE SHREWSBURY LOYAL DECLARATIO [The following admirable letter, in reference to the loyal e tS address of the inhabitants of Shrewsbury, will speak for it- 4, 4' self. It is a truly valuable document at the present crisis.] Whitehall, June 4. Gentlemen,—You could not have transmitted the declares don which I have this day received from Sir Richard Jenkins through any channel more acceptable to me than the hands of a gentleman, your representative in parliament, who has re commended himself to the favor of his Sovereign by his con duct in public trusts of great importance, and has received the highest distinction, specially appropriated to the reward of civil service. I have strong objections that in expressing your opinion that my conduct in the recent transaction to which your declaration refers has been in conformity with constitu tional principles, you are anticipating the judgment which after the lapse of a very short period will be pronounced by a very large majority of that portion of the community whose deliberate sentiments ultimately prevail over misrepresenta tion and calumny, and constitute public opinion in this country: Be this, however, as it may, you . may depend upon it that I shall steadily adhere to the principles of which you have approved, and that I shall never accept office upon any con ditions or understanding which may appear to me incompati ble with the constitutional authority of a minister of the crown, or which would restrain me from advising such an exercise of that authority as I might deem necessary for the efficient performance of the great public trust for which a minister is responsible. I am firmly persuaded that the constitution of this country does not recognise any distinctions in respect to public ap pointments provided for by act of parliament, and instituted for purposes of state, on account of the sex of the parties holding them, and that no minister would b e j us tifi e d i n di vesting himself of all control or responsibility in respect to a particular class of such appointments. If I deemed certain changes in that class necessary for public purposes, it was as clearly my duty to advise them as it was the duty of Lord Grey and Lord Grenville, in 1812, to require " that the connexion of the great officers of the court with the political administration should be clearly established in its first arrangements." They claimed for themselves the credit, which I claim, of having acted on public goods ; and they assigned as the justi fication of their conduct the very same ground which is the justification of mine—namely, their firm conviction " that it was necessary to give to a new government that character of efficiency and stability, and those marks of constitutional support of the crown, which were required to enable it to act usefully for the public service." If the constitution does recognize a distinction between public appointments on account of the sex of the parties hold ing them, the example of Lord Grey and Lord Grenville in 1812 is certainly no authority. If the constitution does not re cognize such distinction, there is no difference bet ween th e principle for which I contended and that upon which Lord Grey and Lord Grenville acted. At the same time no one can feel more deeply, nor admit more fully, than I do, that the constitutional right to advise changes in the household is a perfectly different question from the exercise of that right, and that the exercise of it, particularly in respect to those appointments in the house hold which formed the chief subject of recent discussion, should be restrained by every possible deference to the wishes, and every possible consideration for the feelings of the Sovereign. But I must contend, that if I deemed it necessary to ad vise any changes in those appointments, lam much less re sponsible for the necessity than those Ministers who had not merely given to this department of the household a political character, but who had established its immediate connexion with the administration, by permitting their nearest female relatives to occupy the chief appointments. With respect to the various calumnies at which you ex press your indignation, I have a perfect assurance that they will ultimately recoil upon the authors of them, and that the course I have pursued in public life for the period of 30 years will effectually protect me from any imputation of having acted with "disloyal insolence" towards my Sovereign. I have the honour to be, gentlemen, Your most faithful and obedient servant, ROBERT PEEL. MURDEROUS EFFECTS OF POPERY AND SU PERSTITION. Another victim—a female—has recently been added to the number of unfortunate women, whose lives are sacrificed so frequently in this country by the murderous and tyrannical code of the Church of Rome, which causes her priests to interfere with the functions of the doctor, when a woman of their persuasion happens to be dangerously ill at the time of her confinement. The case to which we refer occurred recently in Wapping, in this city, and is as follows :—The wife of a Roman Catholic, named Lynch, having, when far advanced in pregnancy, received a fright, which caused pre mature confinement, a midwife was brought to her ; but she not being able to render her any assistance, called in a doctor of her own persuasion, a Roman Catholic ; he also failing to give her relief, a Protestant doctor was sent for ; but on his arrival a priest had taken his station in the room, who would not allow the latter gentleman to deliver the afflicted sufferer, though he frankly told him that unless such an operation as he advised was performed, nothing could save her life. All entreaty was unavailing—the priest remained inexorable — and the result was, as the doctor stated—death, at last, put an end to the woman's sufferings ! Our informant states, that after she was actually dead, this spiritual tyrant, who may very justly be looked on as her murderer, wished the doctor then to perform the operation, and to deliver the child, in order that it might be baptised, though it was then supposed to be a considerable time dead. Some of the de ceased's relatives, however, very properly refused to allow this to be carried into effect. It is a well known fact, that in extreme cases, such as the above, the priests prefer sacri ficing the mother rather than the child, if the lift: of either is in jeopardy. The reason assigned for this extraordinary conduct is, that the mother, in consequence of having been baptised, has a chance of admission into heaven, though she had lived in a state of sirA'ulness all her days ; whereas the child is, in their opinion, cut off from all hope. should it die without receiving the sacrament of baptism. Thus does the Church of Rome make the word of God of none effect by her traditions. Will the Romanists of this country never be led to see the delusions of popery, and rescue themselves from its domineering and iron grasp ? Cannot the law of the land take hold of those " sacerdotal ruffians" who rob the com munity of a useful member for the purpose of upholding a dogma more worthy the worshipper of Moloch than of one who calls himself a Christian ?—Derry Sentinel. ~,\\~ ~~ s~ , P., 4 , ( 1 0 ".;;m! i ':7 • HORTICULTURAL NOTICE FOR JUNE. We have to record the occurrence of a series of mutations in the weather, which May—fickle and changeable as it natu rally is in our islands—has not frequently witnessed ; the effects will be chronicled ; and as it is our duty to report the progress of the vegetable crops, we must introduce our monthly notice with a record of those meteorological pheno mena by which that progress has been so materially impeded. Every one must remember the fortnight of superb weather which commenced in the last week of April, and introduced. the " flowery month." The rapidity which vegetation as sumed was astonishing ; the season promised to be an early one, to recover lost ground, and to be in advance ; but the two phenomena of Aurora Borealis on the nights of the sth and 7th changed the character of the wind altogether—it had blown from some point of the north, frequently by east, during the whole of the twelve days, wherein the mercury rose, on many occasions, to 72 or 70 degrees, and it appeared impossible that cold could be again established by the very same current which had proved so temperate and genial. But cold and heat are relative terms, and they are manifestly induced by the electro-magnetic condition of the earth and atmosphere. No sooner had the aurora established itself, than its rays appeared to impel forward, from the magnetic north, a current of cold wind, entirely dissimilar to the one which had blown from the same quarter three days before. The frost of 1831, on the 7th of May, at daybreak, will long be remembered ; that of the 16th of the same month, in the last year (1838), proved very injurious to potatoes and early kidney-beans ; but the piercing cold, with rime, which marked the nights of the 14th, 15th, and 16th of the present May has surpassed that of all preceding examples. The vines showed fruit in abundance on laterals from three to eight inches long ; three-fourths of these young shoots have perished, and in some instances not a thought of verdure remains. The walnuts—those trees of wisdom—are scorched to blackness ; even the very weeds of tall and delicate growth, nettles among others, which had grown with extreme rapi dity, are partially decomposed at their summits. Goose berries promised to prove an enormous crop ; they are, how ever, thinned to the heart's content ; hundreds strewed the ground under every fruitful tree ; such a sight we never be fore beheld. The apple-bloom appeared to suffer in only a slight degree, but the final effects remain to be ascertained. The cold period, during which snow fell more than once (and on the 15th in prodigious volume for half an hour), continued till the 18th, when the temperature began to im prove ; it again receded, and on the 24th approached the frosty degree, but subsequently has been much more genial. The barometer has risen to 30 degrees only on three occa sions, (20th, 21st, and 28th days,) the mercury having wa vered between 29 deg. 80, and 29 deg. 60, during the greater part of the month. Very little rain has fallen, it is now much wanted, for the drying east winds, and the powerful rays of the sun, have rendered the surface hard and untractable. Under these circumstances we find difficulty in working and cropping the garden, but the season has been extremely favourable to all the operations of cleanness. 'Weeds have perished when cut by the hoe, and no excuse has remained for a full and untidy condition of the beds, borders, or walks. The winter of 1838 cut up many evergreens ; some of these attempted to grow again during the last summer, but the effects are still felt. Branches, and in some cases entire shrubs still go off, and it is now rendered evident that much injury was inflicted that did not manifest itself in one season ; it must have extended to the system of roots. Independently of this infliction, the disfiguration of evergreens by the late frosts is very considerable ; the lively verdure and delicate figure of the young shoots being much tarnished and deranged. Garden vegetables are not much affected, if we except the first shoots of early potatoes. The experience of the three last springs ought to instruct us that trench planting, and timely filling up with the earth to the very summits of the leaves, afford the only means of perfect security. The routine of the kitchen-garden will consist of sowing peas and beans three times, or according to the supply re quired ; kidney-beans, and the runner kinds twice ; salading, lettuces, and radishes, frequently ; dnions for drawing young ; carrots the same ; brocoli for the last spring crop, this if the ground be fresh and mellow, will often succeed perfectly ; turnips sown in the early days will come in for a fi rs t w i nter supply, but the main crop should be deferred till the end of the month ; endive, for the winter crop, about midsummer. Transplant cabbages, savoy, Cape brocoli, lettuce ; cucum bers raised in pots, and vegetable marrow, upon ridges, over manured trenches ; if there be any spare green house or pit sashee, one or two of them raised at a small angle over the plants, and duly supported, will greatly protect and encou rage them. Wall fruit may thus also be advanced, and, per haps at the period of blooming, there could be found no other means so effectual, as lights set in front of the trees, at a steep angle with the wall. These trees will now require strict attention to remove bad or useless wood, and diseased or injured twigs. Vines which have been much injured by the late frost should be cut back to the best green shoots.— All the departments ought to be kept in neat order, by at tending to sweeping, rolling, removing litter, and smoothing the surface, particularly in the flower garden. Dahlias are coming on ; these require protection from earwigs, and a few small pots with soft hay in them, inverted upon stakes placed amidst the foliage, will entrap multitudes. The depredations of these insects were tremendous two years since, and the vermin swarmed in myriads. Strange it is, that when any particular pest threatens to overwhelm by its numbers, some natural but mysterious cause operates its removal, or abates its virulence. THE GREAT LAKES.--A late Detroit paper says that it is computed there are 700 vessels of all classes, engaged in the navigation of the lakes, from Lake Champlain to Lake Su perior, giving employment to 800 hands—on board of which are annually transported hundreds of thousands of passen gers, arid millions of property, all of which are subject to extra perils in consequence of the deficiency of charts. At Buffalo, in 1836, there were 3712 clearances and entrances, whose aggregate tonnages amounted to 642,000 tons. In the same year there were 366 arrivals of vessels at Chicago, at the southern extremity of Lake Michigan, whose tonnage amounted to 77,550 tons. The exports from Cleveland the past season are said to have exceeded in value, 10,000,000 dollars. Such is the commerce of the Lakes at the present time.—Hier. Journal.