The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-13 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Fm And --- A :ftE BENEFIT OF MR . DOWTON, the Last Nih of his Earnent. Second Week of Mr. MACKAY. T?Hs Third We e k o f Mr. F. VINING. Presen t FRIDAY, . September 13, 1839, will be "'fit:Tined Colman's celebrated Comedy of Sir Robert THE POOR GENTLEMAN. FrederickTrltobert B ramble Mr. Dowton. Bramble. bumPlateY Dobbi ns Mr. Mackay. Lieutenant°ctor 011apod Stepp e Worthington Mr. Stuart. Emil y Harrowby Mr. Slaiter. 'loMiss Worthington Miss Faucit. 1 Lucretia Mac Tab Mrs. Clarke. Af -4417 .. Mrs Tellet. t er Which, for the third time h .... CHAOS IS COME AGAIN. a n . ew Farce, called Colonel Chaos ...... Mr. Dowton. Tottethjacanik Cha05......... (his ........) .. Mr, F. Vining. ..... Mr. B a k er. Sam.(. Mr. Slaiter. , Harriet........ Miss Bait:att. 111 conclude with the Melo-Drama of Sandie MA RY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. ,• • (his original character) Mr. Mackay. s t rd George Douglas.... Mr. W. Howard. . arY, Queen of Scots 0, It Lady of ...... Zeyal i i occasion' Mrs FITZWILLIAM, of the Theati:e aide, '-',,Ymarket, wideommence an engagement for Five Itevio,,„"ig the Last Nights of her performing in Engl , nd, tert a i —'o her departure for the United States. The En lib,, nraents k t ei lk i , ~.will commence with the Scotch Drama of the OW MID-LOTHIAN. kN The Laird of Dutiable bes4' — r• Mack • 1 • Miss Faucit ; Effie After ; Mi h ss GranatY; ; Ili j a e d an e le Tilgr s e% Mrs. Fitzwilliam.— t4 elir wilic- "ill be produced, g for the first time here, the klttliactexid Monopologue, called WIDOW WIGGINS ; oF, ' 4 "in in which Mrs. Fitzwilliam will personate six , t c c L II a E r a 1 c K t e ti r s 1 I .TOi ~ N. Mrs. Margery Dodds, (the a hteele„,) Mr. Mackay. --To conclude with the favourite f Or IRE WE kRCOCK. Tristram Fickle,.Mr. lain . - .................. L g; Br efwit, Zr.Mr Mackay ; Variella, Miss Eaucit. Rtherpoot 'taiibarb. non "'AY MORNING, SEPT. 13, 1339. The 'lll4 Protract e d struggle between the Carlist and 110 • .t. forces in Spain seems to have been brought by Ce4ination. Don Carlos las not been vanquished /44 4 ,,,R al lant Sir Lacy Evans and his battalions—he th e ,) vL . been conquered by the direct interference of . 1 444 Itith t roops that were Suffered to act in concert 4 .1 a oe n of !run—he has not been overcome by Queen'stiliki.,_ forces, supplied as the latter were with the kft.4o°llB of war by the gOvernment of Great Britain. gek r , 4 lll ; i t. He h as b een b asely b etraye d b y hi s own 4 /th e This traitorous act was prompted British government, and has been commended tio n of I o f • exultation by the organs of the administra te w w hich Lard Palmerston is the foreign secretary. liti kdo • - ' 4 411 , d Military officers holding her Majesty's coin- Ploy ed • n ave, We are confidently assured, been em fro% L . lll the scandalous work of seducing Maroto Yea, liberal to his acknowledged Sovereign. 44 444 inerai ministry of England have counte thettierk.utortdille; torafitor in all his proceedings. The guilt of his fellow-chiefs, rendered necessary in re e a , rrY his treachery into successful execution, r a t , the heads of Lord Melbourne and his talictionlee Shame upon the base crew that have H oned Such diabolical acts ! 111:e i ttt of adv erted, a few weeks back, to the grave sub the be ili M . intification whi c h a ll at once h a d burst upon kt eab ghted intell ects o f the L ib era l P ress. 'They kill ar rived at t h e momentous conclusion that cer reeedings in P ar li ament, touc hi ng th e Police cal e °1 Manche s t er, and Bolton, and Birmingham, • 7v tow Mated t o b ring the whole municipal system into t apt Pinta We ventured to reassure their drooping an d trust we succeeded in satisfying them that !01i le t i r , th ese nor any other proceedings either had, or '4440 . e, by possibility, any such tendency .andthe R 6° Plain that we pr e f e r t o tell it in the guise known' anecdote. At the close of the cel 4 e- , c4De tpbate on the Repeal of the Union in 18 3 ilb tlie t he Subj ect was exhausted, and the House was . tk e i lli l ent to di vide, up rose Mr. James, the whimsical h u er fo r Carlisle, and protested that " nothing he a bet% ear( ' in that D e b ate had convinced him of the n *lit mai ntaining th e U n i on w i t h I re l an d" 11 4i tile 11 deafening shouts of the triumphant ; li ad, lesi vvith because, (he difficulty been appeased, " bec 4 0 , 16 t Y added). being a sane man, I never entertained a 44 14 2P_ , 0 4 )the subject." And not more clear w as Mr. fept 4 ut the R epeal of the Union, than every man, wr MaYur or Councilman, has been for the last 114 e arS abo ut the Municipal System. 11tg th em into c ontempt I Bless t h e benghted in e.,,)11; a oth er animals see at a few days old. Town 4 11 F ella ar e four y ears of age, and can they not y et Of th e from d ar k ness ? They have heard, no dou bt , v 11:, 4 14° Pnlar song, in which a great Papist Reformer At, " 4 "ed down to the admiration of posterity : b 411 d a ow P°°r Guy they killed, as folk will all remem b er, th ey do it every year, one day in dark November. t heY Would have done, but Truth is dry and steady, Arici AAd -O Poor Guy can't die, because he's dead alrea d y : " \ host earnestly assure our friends of the of tiej,, ' t that they are as safe from any danger g bro w t afe glit into contempt, as Guy Fawkes will be 110 44 11e1 t sth of November, from being burnt in a fq the amusement of every hamlet in g \l7llY, 1, kkl e "—en the Council-room is filled . with a pre laddeprlttlag majority of persons who climbed up they tot to- the °bject of their ambition—when the rejected utt P e oPle are the chosen of the Council—when to nit BUccessful in a contest for a three years' office is k id more Passport to being pitchforked into ahigh a er_ Il age t i klr : enduring dignity—when civic affairs are m . tNte ro a r " a clique —wh en the office of chief Magis eoead of being thrown open to popular choice, h.n tlh,..uthicted in a private parlour—(nay, it may n e ellet`4l)-rooin of a tavern)—what, in the name of co sc to do t0 141 6, c1 c°rnmon sense, is there left for Parliament 1141,:1,g Such a body as this into contempt kttnit,. When every man looks to his own lit:le coin the (11 ; ') and Sees every Reformer taking up precisely fit f ollo wi etti °n for which he is most notoriously N I ,. li g all of them the maxim of Caliban— un " Let 4 °Ti e , 4r e of . " t ke Care of all the rest, and let no one t e a l kb b i t m en h ii nnself, for all is but future,"—surely, sur til lgth e ave eyes and heads, there needs no more ti /lith e Mu nicipal s y stem i nto contempt. 4 Peci al rt° we have spo k en generally and without any are ve r e f erenc e to the Liverpool Council, which we its tie:l,l'4r fro m suppo s i ng to b e one w hi t worse than o iltb 'araol gb°u r e s ; and, i n consideration of th i s our fr_ be ethiele trust our good friends will excuse us if lide i w ith an anec d ote, b orrowe d f rom M a j or i t) b e nng's admirable letters, which may (we confess l ino of tlit unnaturally understood as an American,7Nr or kit a t s entence so well known in Liverpool— e thist...„Thra crepidant." The story then, in short, is rb"r°tber Jonathan, finding his slumbers rudely it eYr tiali ed ' looked out Of his window, and saw a jouirle 4slikribi bier standing by the pump, haranguing t isPriehr,e`,` Multitude on the affairs of the nation.— In cur', interrupted Jonathan, " I need thy advice At k i wei, cow, who lieth at home grievously sick." t(l er , b bler, erk the cobbler protested he was but a poor 1 0 1 1, N an d knew nothing whatever of the diseases of ng - :, ei her,” said Jonathan, " knowest thou any- N if ° t'Lle maladies that affect the body politick ; tair t, ev er I catch thee again meddling with state af thou I Will stretch thy hide upon a drum-head, where il l tyite ve R e bYe:nnlafroktne apunrosiung noise to some purpose." So far this homely and sensible t/Plt,g ° ' t that We hav e b een induced, even with our eyes h ot theses tablish n ormal schools for political agitation. k it h ha l'e nearly run t h e i r course. Already, i n 114 t it o °4 Yea rs, they have placed themselves (we re evering h In nre) fa r a b ove the remotest danger of brought into contempt. W e h 114 Journal evoted some space in former numbers . of 4hoili to the consideration of a point, which ‘ ilk() bductertaiwy seem of itself sufficiently unintcdretshte 40tiep - " r which has for different reasons excite of IZ °I. "r contemporaries ; we mean the retirement . 14414 1-I(3wick from the Cabinet. tit ht °II connected with this sub j ect to t ; l :Ch d is s . u o ffi N n v e - e ktatiatttention does not appear to have been It rd the eharacter and conduct of *e lll a riea:il ic a k rl whom_ h as derived all his little hi c m on f s r e o g im) t a i l ence Whig 1v0,414 . and worn out as this aged idol of in 1t is now confessed to be, yet his name and i of to,L toy have had so much to do with the progresshat we 1i111( he!"lent during the last half-century, t Ill otild h 4 Character has become matter of history, and I,,e4tit to be 11:gidlY and carefully canvassed, as new light 4velock, -ti thrown from time to time upon it. The e 4urnal informs its readers that the aged Earl has never once spoken or voted in favour of Mi nisters during the recent Session of Parliament : and he thence infers that his Lordship is opposed to the general policy of the Cabinet. In this inference no doubt he is abundantly safe : it is well known that the ousted Premier has long been in the habit of speaking of those who have supplanted him in terms of uncon trollable disgust. That he should detest the policy of the Melbourne Whigs is the natural result of all their conduct, whether with reference to himself personally, or to his measures politically. When Lord Grey was Prime Minister, the Milesians were in bitter opposition to his " base, bloody, and brutal" government. There was no promotion for the men who would dismember the empire : there was no compromise with the anti-Sussenach Savage : there was no secret and subterranean passage from the Corn Exchange to the chambers of the Castle. The country was governed. However erroneous might be the principles of Ministerial policy, the country at least was governed. The Cabinet had some plans and measures of its own, and did not bend entirely to the pressure from without. Affairs of State were con ducted by responsible Ministers, not partly by Ladies of the Bedchamber, and partly by the jackals of office, beating about among the refuse of the faction to find out who would vote for what. Surely, then, it could not bu expected that the proud Earl should stoop so low as to support Lord Mel bourne's Ministry. But one thing there was, which any one who gave his Lordship credit for a spark of honesty must of necessity hav/e expected,—viz., that he should manfully denounge and actively oppose them. More than any man England, he had raised them to power : more than iciny man in England, lie owed it to his country to frustrate their obnoxious schemes. " Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Our friend Joshua Walmsley, however, does not belong to any of these classes. Like Malvolio, he assumes great ness ; and he most systematically, like Malvolio also, has recourse to an extraordinary expedient, in order to make himself a great man,—that of making himself as ridiculous as possible. He is the very graculus super bus of the town of Liverpool, It will, perhaps, afford a little amusement if we pluck off a few of his bor- rowed plumes. The last ludicrous exhibition which the redoubtable Chairman of the Reform Association has made of him self has been in the character of tutor and adviser to the infatuated Chartists, to whom he has had the pre sumption to address a long and objurgatory epistle. While perusing this strange and inexplicable document, we have been involuntarily but strongly reminded of " Satan reproving sin." Every one knows, or ought to know, that the Chartist agitation had its origin among that class of men of whom Mr. Walmsley is the self-appointed representative. If any one can be found who doubts the truth of this assertion, we can only say, that he must have an exceedingly treacherous memory, or have passed over the last ten years of his existence in a profound slumber. It is not so many years since this nation was in a state of ferment and commotion, such as we have not witnessed since the National Convention has been in existence. We can not banish from our recollection the inflammatory harangues—the seditious appeals to the passions of " the people"—the encouragement given to revolution ary movements—the incitements to resort to physical force—the incendiary fires in the rural districts—the threatened movement of half a million of armed men .from Birmingham to the metropolis—and the partial destruction of the city of Bristol,—which characterised the memorable agitation for " the bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill." We cannot forget all this ; nor can we banish from our minds the consciousness that all this mischief was planned and prompted by such men as Mr. Walmsley, and the party with whom he is now acting. The Chartists are only carrying out to their ultimate issue, the principles for which Mr. Walmsley and his liberal friends contended so earnestly. They are only acting up to the advice which it then suited Mr. Walmisey and his friends to give. They are only seeking for those " immunities," of which our friend Joshua seems to think so highly, in the manner which was originally suggested. We say, therefore, that we cannot help thinking of " Satan reproving " when we find Mr. Walmsley scolding the Char tists, as he has done in the inimitable epistle now be- ore us Before we proceed to notice the advice which Mr. Walmsley has offered his quondam friends the Chartists, we must convict him of the offence of falsely repre senting the sentiments of the Chartists. He cannot forget " the shop," even while writing a magniloquent letter " to the working men of the United Kingdom." He begins his letter with a sly hit at the Corn Laws, in the abolition of which he is largely interested. But this is quite in keeping with the character of a modern patriot, with whom selfishness is ever an all-prevailing and engrossing principle of action. He insinuates that the Chartists complain "that they eat dear bread" —that " their skill is cramped in its exercise by mono polies"—that " they are thus debarred that easy access to the comforts and conveniencies of life, which their skill and industry could earn for them"—that " there are barriers, maintained by iniquitous laws, against their possession of those immunities, to which, as free men, they are entitled." Now we deny most empha tically that such are the "grievances " against which the Chartists complain. They have systematically re sisted the anti-Corn Law agitation. In proof of this we need only remind Mr. Walmsley of the ignominous defeat which the anti-Corn Law delegates sustained at Manchester. The Chartists know that the repeal of the Corn Laws would make no difference whatever in their condition, unless, indeed, it would tend to depress them still further, by ruining their best friends, the farmers and landowners. The abolition of the Corn Laws forms no part of the Chartist agitation. But we beg to remind Mr. Walmsley of one practical grievance of which the Chartists do complain. They complain with bitterness of the new Poor Laws. This they look upon as the very chief of their grievances. Is Mr. Walmsley prepared to say that their doing so " is a matter for praise, not for censure ? " We have said that Mr. Walmsley's letter smells rankly of " the shop." The more we examine it, the more convinced do we become, that Mr. Walmsley's sole object in addressing " the working men of the United Kingdom " is, to enlist them into the ranks of the anti-Corn Law agitators. With this view, while endeavouring to demonstrate to the Chartists the folly and futility of seeking to oppose, by physical force, the constituted authorities of the country, he says that they would have to contend " against a yeomanry, drawn from an agricultural population, between which and them there exists no sympathy ;". and " against an aristocracy, eager at all times to keep them depressed." The animus of all this is perfectly clear. Mr. W:lms ley only seeks to prejudice the Chartists against the landed interests—an attempt in which he will never prove successful. But we have still more matter in this letter that re minds us of " the shop." Mr. Walmsley proceeds, in terms as terse as those of Sir Andrew Aguecheek's challenge, to explain the historical fact that there is "no instance of a successful revolt of a people. much less of a mere section of the people, unaided by military." In the course of his remarks on this subject he sup poses that the first vigorous onset of the Chartists might be attended with success—might put them in possession of the manufacturing towns. " What then ?" he exclaims, and he then answers the question by stating that the " results would be more disastrous than if they had been totally defeated"—that " a bur densome population dependent on their labour for sustenance would soon try out for bread"—but that " the total quantity of grain and flour in store in the Kingdom would not su f fice for more than a month's con sumption." Upon what authority the last assertion is made we cannot conceive. If Mr. Wahnsley states the truth, there is no reliance whatever to be placed in official returns. We do not charge Mr. Walmsley with deliberately uttering " the thing which is not," but— we do not believe him. It is instructive to learn that the Chartists, in case of any outbreak, would be likely to wreak their ven geance on " the manufacturing towns." How do you account for this, Master Walinsley ? Why should the manufacturers be more the objects of Chartist hosti lity than the aristocracy, against whom you and your political associates so vehemently declaim ? We have been greatly amused with one axiom which the oracle of the Reform Association has laid down in this letter to the working classes. He says that " abortive rebellion has never failed to throw back the cause of liberty." If this be true, the converse must be true also. Mr. Walmsley says, in effect, that " successful rebellion would not throw hack, that is, would promote, the cause of liberty." According to this monstrous doctrine rebellion must be a blessing when successful. Mr. Walmsley, we presume, would have no objection whatever to a rebellion, if the mili tary could be prevailed upon to co-operate with the Chartists. Mr. Walmsley is peculiarly felicitous in his enumer ation of the great and beneficial political changes which have taken place within the last few years, and which he asserts were consummated by " the moral force of public opinion." Among these he enumerates Catho lic Emancipation—the repeal of the Test and Corpo ration Acts—the passing of a (not the) Reform Bill — and the Municipal Bill. Of course our friend Joshua means the Reform and Municipal Acts : but let that pays. Now, we should like to have some reasons in support of the assertion that these several measures were "incontestibly calculated for the advancement of the public good." What good has Catholic Emanci pation done ? Has it clothed or fed the starving peasantry of Ireland ? We know of no effects that it has produced, other than that it has helped O'Connell and his brother demagogues to the good things of office—that it has placed Great Britain in subjection to the sway of the Popish priesthood—and that it has in troduced into the house of Commons some forty or fifty perjured representatives. What, again, has the repeal of the Test and Corporation Act effected ? It has cer tainly enabled some score of Socinians to creep into the legislature, to co-operate with the Papists in the work of demolishing the church. What; again, has the re form act done to benefit the great mass of the people ? We pause in vain for a reply. Those who were most vociferous in the praise of this measure when it was first propounded—those who pronounced it to be the very acme of legislative wisdom—now ridicule all its provisions, and denounce it as a grand specimen of bungling—as an unsightly abortion. But, then, there is the Municipal Bill, " through which," as Mr. Wahn sley says, "we feel daily the beneficial effects of a form of government thoroughly responsible." Let the peo ple of Liverpool give Mr. Walmsley an answer on this subject. What good has this measure done in this town? Has it not retarded the progress of public improve ments ? Has it not introduced among us an infidel system of education ? Is it not likely to give us the blessing of an additional rate in the course of the pre sent year ? Certainly, the Municipal Act has enabled the honest, independent, impartial, and patronage hating Reformers to discard the old and tried and faith ful servants of the Corporation, and to substitute in their places the subservient creatures of the Reform Association, of which Mr. Walmsley is the distin guished President. Certainly, the Municipal Act has enabled sundry Socinians to climb up to the long envied magisterial bench. But what else has it done ? Echo answers " What ?" The remainder of our friend Joshua's epistle is ar rant nonsense. We find nothing intelligible in it but the repetition of such phrases as " the delegation on the repeal of the Corn Laws"—" taxing the nation in the article of food"—" ..he supply of food unrestricted by artificial regulations"—" the repeal of the Corn Laws," &c., &c.—all smelling strongly of "the shop." Keep to your sacks, Mr. Walmsley, and do not offer your advice to the working people of Great Britain— until you are asked for it. We learn from the Gazette of Tuesday evening that " Her Majesty has caused letters patent to pass the great seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, constituting and appointing Baron Mont eagle Comptrollor-General of the receipt and issue of Her Majesty's Exchequer," in the room of Sir John Newport. We confess that we have been fairly puzzled in our endeavour to discover the reason for this extra ordinary appointment. A more bungling and incom petent person than this same Baron Monteagle never disgraced the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer : and yet, strange to say, his Whig friends are shower ing honours and emoluments upon his head as if he had been a statesman and a financier of the first water. The people of England will naturally inquire " what is to become of Sir John Newport ? " Is he to be pen sioned on the public in order that the blundering Mount-Kite (as he has been designated by O'Connell) should be provided with a snug sinecure for life, as a reward for pursuing a line of policy which has made him the laughing-stock of every mercantile man in the community ? We perceive from the Salopian Journal of Wednes day last that ten conservative candidates are already in the field, and stand pledged to contest each ward in the town at the next municipal elettion. To ensure their success, committees have been formed in each ward, for the purpose of commencing an immediate and active canvass. This is just as it should be. We like this timely organization. We hope it will result in the final emancipation of the town of Shrewsbury from the tyrannical domination of the radical faction. We hope, also, to find ,the example thus nobly set by the conservatives of Shrewsbury followed and emulated in every borough in the kingdom, and in none more particularly than in the good old town of Liverpool. What are our conservative friends in this borough about ? Have they formed committees in each of the wards ? Have they got candidates in readiness ? It is high time for them to commence operations. The radicals are on the alert, and, when the day of trial ar rives, will we be found fully prepared. Our friends must bear in mind that eight of the sixteen outgoing council-men are conservatives. To secure their re election, as well as to displace some of the radicals, will require the most strenuous and persevering exer t tions. Let the work be commenced immediately, and success will be inevitable. The annual visit of the Revising Barristers is close at hand.. We earnestly hope that the Conservatives of Liverpool, and of the Southern Division of Lanca shie, are prepared for the occasion. The Radicals must not be allowed to benefit by the apathy and in difference of the Conservatives. A very short struggle will suffice to rescue this country completely and per manently from the accumulating evils of Whig-Radi cal misrule. The results of the elections which have taken place within the last six months afford the most irrefragable proof of the steady progress of Conserva_ tive re-action in every part of the kingdom. In the agricultural districts the cause of Lord Melbourne and his administration is utterly hopeless ; while in the manufacturing towns (Manchester and other places to wit) liberalism is already in articulo mortis—in the last throes of its existence. Nothing is now wanting, in order to secure the advent of Sir Robert Peel to office, and to obtain the blessing of a constitutional and Protestant administration, but a prompt degree of attention to the memorable advice given by the great Conservative leader, when he emphatically declared that " THE BATTLE OF THE CONSTITUTION IS TO AZ FOUGHT IN THE REGISTRATION COURTS. It will be seen from an advertisement in another column that Mr. Peachey has been elected to the office of assistant-overseer, in spite of the unscrupulous and unprecedented opposition to which he has been subjected. The issue of this contest, assuming as it did a political character, is not without instruction. It affords the most conclusive evidence of the ascendancy of conservative principles in Liverpool. It cannot be said that the " old freemen," as they are derisively called by the radicals, have been the means of securing Mr. Peachey's election. It cannot be asserted, as has been done on former occasions of a similar nature, that although Mr. Peachey has a majority of votes there is a majority of persons opposed to him. The in ference from this is, undoubtedly, that the conservatives have a numerical majority among the householders. Let us hope to find our conservative friends equally strong when the next municipal election takes place. If they do not carry almost every ward in the town on the first of next November it will be their own fault, and not owing to any superiority which the radicals possess. LORD FRANCIS EGERTON. — On Monday morning last, his lordship left Worsley, accompanied, we believe, by his eldest son, for Cowes, Isle of Weight, where his yacht is stationed, in which he is to sail for Italy, whither also his lady and other members of his family will proceed in the course of a few weeks ; and we believe it is their intention to winter there. Madame Grisi has cleared this season, £4000; her annua. income, it is said, exceeds £lO,OOO. THE LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF MODERN ARTISTS. The fifteenth annual exhibition of the works of modern artists was opened on Monday last, at the Exhibition Rooms, Post-office-place. Upon a general examination of the paint ings in the present collection we have no hesitation in pro nouncing the exhibition to be greatly superior to any that w have visited in former years. There is by far a greater num ber of first-rate pictures, and a much smaller proportion c f inferior ones, than on any preceding occasion. The portraits are not numerous, but those which are exhibited are well worth inspection. Several of the historical paintings deserve the epithet of magnificent, and will not fail to elicit general admiration. Ample justice has also been done to sporting and domestic subjects. The most numerous class is that of landscape paintings. Here the eye revels in beauty, gran deur, and sublimity. The busts and models are also highly creditable, though not very numerous. We have not yet lead time for a detailed examination of this truly splendid exhibition, which is an honour to the town of Liverpool. We rejoice to find that the encouragement afforded by the public of Liverpool has been duly appreciated by the artists of Great Britain, and that it has stimulated them to renewed exertion. We sincerely trust that our native artists will be still further rewarded by the sale of their paintings, at prices commensurate with their intrinsic excellencies. In future numbers we shall examine more minutely the merits of the present colleetion. DOCK MONOPOLY. TO ALDERMAN EVANS. Sir,—You conclude your reply to Mr. Mason on the dock question in the Town Council, on the 7th August, with a challenge which renders it unnecessary to apologise for ad dressing you on that subject. By imputing great ignorance of mercantile matters to Mr. Mason, you appear to claim great deference to your own opinions on such points : it therefore becomes necessary for me, in the first place, to state that I do not look upon jou as the perfect model of a Liverpool merchant, thoroughly initiated in the practical detail of commerce. I consider you a theorist, with some cleverness and acuteness, with much vanity and arrogance, generally influenced in public matters by a strong political bias ; consequently, I receive your opinions at all times cunt grano salts. You commence your observations by an assertion that " every mercantile man knew that competition required a surplus." I deny that your assertion is accurate. I main tain that competition to sell may exist without a surplus, and I appeal to the whole mercantile community if it is not of almost daily occurrence. As to your conclusion that men would conspire, it is too uncharitable to require discussion. You proceed to say that in London there is a surplus of dock accommodation, and therefore in London competition is safe ; artfully insinuating that the docks of Liverpool are insufficient, and therefore,in Liverpool competition is unsafe ; but finding competition a dangerous word, in connection with the Liverpool docks, you suddenly fly off to warehouses. I must, however, use the freedom of bringing you back to the subject of docks, and I define the propositions to he— I. That the Liverpool dock estate is a monopoly, and the present management of this monopoly is bad and unsatis factory. _ _ _ 2. That the management would be greatly improved if a competition was established, by letting off the various docks to different companies. That you will not bewilder yourself, I beg to explain that by monopoly I mean, with Dr. Johnson, " the exclusive privilege of selling, anything." I apply monopoly to the LiVerpool dock estate, because that estate has the privilege of exacting dock rates from every vessel entering Liverpool, even though such vessel should go into the Duke's dock. In illustration of the injurious effects of this monopoly, I would cite the admitted insufficiency of dock accofiamodation, the almost entire want of facilities, or assistance of any kind to ships ; the great delay ; the oppressive and vexatious dock tines, and the heavy 'dock rates. By competition I mean, likewise with Dr. Johnson, " the act of endeavouring to gain what another endeavours to gain at the same time." Competition cannot exist with monopoly ; but I maintain that if the Liverpool docks were let off to different companies, a competition would be pro duced among the different companies, especially amongst the companies forming the extreme docks, which docks, I be lieve, by the printed report of the dock committee, and directly contrary to your insinuation, have generally much vacant space. This competition, I maintain would compel the different companies to make very great exertions in affording every possible accommodation, facility, and de spatch, with moderate charges and civility, in order to induce ships to resort to their respective docks. The establishment of this most desirable competition, would be materially assisted if the Liberals, at present in power, would, in your figurative language, strike off the manacles and shackles from the Duke's dock, the Harrington dock, &c. In illustration of the advantage of competition, I cannot point out a stronger or more appropriate instance than is exemplified in the effect of the great, free, and fair compe tition of the numerous proprietors and keepers of warehouses in Liverpool. The increasing trade of the town has always been provided with the most improved warehouse aceoninio don as near the docks as was pendent, on terms so extremely moderate that the charge for rent, cartage, and porterage, on goods in Liverpool, is less than the charge for rent and porterage alone in London, as was proved by the printed and uncontradicted statements of several gentlemen infinitely better informed on the subject than you appear to be. As you gravely surmise that, if the docks were let to va rious companies, such companies would conspire, on account of the deficiency of docks, I beg to remind you, that it would still remain the duty of the dock committee to provide ample dock accommodation; and, as the companies would be fet tered with maximum rates, and other judicious restrictions, they could have no object in conspiracy. With respect to dock warehouses—a subject as distinct from the subject of docks as land from water —although it suited your purpose to confuse and confound them, dove tailing cotton and conspiracies, surplus and consumption, in a very incoherent manner,—l must premise my observations by reminding you, that the proposed warehouses were to be on the Prince's dock quay, and that the whole tenor of your observations conveys the impression that you admit the dock and quay accommodation of Liverpool to be deficient. iriait coex anu quay accommonahon is acsuowlengeu {in- disputably in the Prince's and central docks) to be insuffi cient for the present exigencies of our trade, I submit that it is absurd and wrong to erect warehouses (not required nor asked for, and objects of secondary importance) on land available for docks and quays—objects of the first necessity in what you correctly term an unsheltered harbour. You allege that the dock committee only demand ware houses, forsooth ! to the extent of four per cent !! Do you think it necessary or just to build dock warehouses, that your two barrels flour, and another Irish alderman's two bags coffee, may not be weighted with cartage , without regarding Messrs. Bartons, Ba r i ngs , B rowns , & c . &c.. the importers of the other 96 packaggs ? Do you think such a request mo dest ? or do you not consider it an unreasonable, impudent, and jesuitical attempt to get a commencement of what would result in a monopoly ? No ; let us have uo favouritism nor monopoly in warehouses, if you please, Mr. Alderman. The alleged advantages of dock warehouses are, the paltry saving of cartage, and the presumption of increased despatch in discharging certain descriptions of goods. The cartage is to be saved by laying tram-roads and providing trucks. This will be attended with much heavier porterage, probably quite equal to the saving of cartage. Increased despatch can only be attained by the Customs allowing shipowners to bond all cargo not entered in a reasonable time after arrival, re moving all restrictions as to commencement of discharge, permitting gocds landing rapidly to be warehoused before weighed,, providing more officers, and working twelve hours per day, instead of six or seven hours. If the eealand to erect dock warehouses is anything more than a mere itch for jobbing and a desire to acquire increased power, utterly regardless of the danger of fire, and of the injustice and ruinous conse q uences to most of the warehouse proprietors and landowners in the town of Liverpool, why do not the Dock Committee adopt all the expedients, and apply them, to the present warehouses along all the dock quays ? For instance, why not erect walls with large gates to connect the Goree warehouses with George's Dock ? lay tram-roads and provide trucks ? and having made such arrangements to save cartage and protect the revenue, insist on the Customs allowing the same time for working and all the facilities as in London ?—1 am, Sir, your obedient servant, A SHIPOWNER. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST'S CHURCH, TOXTETH-PARK.-- We understand that this church, having been closed for some weeks for the purpose of being repaired and painted, will be re-opened for divine service on Sunday morning next. MANCHESTER IMPERIAL BANK.—At an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders in this company, the resolution passed at the extraordinary meeting of shareholders on the 22d August, for making a further call of £5 per share, was confirmed, and we believe, was on Tuesday confirmed by the board of directors. At every fresh visit which we pay to Mr. Colic., we are more surprised and pleased than at the preceding one. His deceptions stand the test of frequent and severe scrutiny, particularly " the dissol v ing ball,' which, on mature consi deration, we have no hesitation in declaring to be the neatest and most truly deceptive piece of dexterity we ever wit nessed; and yet we understand that his method of teaching is so simple, that numbers of his pupils are able to perform it equally as well as himself. All who visit Mr. C.'s apart ments should make a point of seeing " the dissolving ball." G. P. DAY, THE NEWSMAN.—We are sorry to say, that this veteran newscarrier, who has run to and fro for the iast forty years, spreading and increasing knowledge, (which can not be said of every man,) has nearly run his race. He is now feeble, and with difficulty crawls along in his vocation, which his poverty, and not his power, compels him to pursue for the support of himseltaiid his family. He has, all his life, been a sober, as well as an industrious man ; and 'now, that " age bath clawed him in his clutch," it would be an act of charity, to endeavour, by a small subscription, to render the remaining days of his pilgrimage comparatively comfortable. We shall have pleasure in giving our own mite, and shall feel equal pleasure in receiving any donations from the benevolent for poor old Day's use. ANNUAL LICENSING SESSIONS.—The magistrates held their Court of Annual Licensing Sessions, on Wednesday last, at the Sessions-house, Chapel -street. The applicants were numerous from all parts of the town, amounting, in all, to no fewer than 297. Their respective claims being con sidered, —adaptation and localities of the premises, and the wants of the inhabitants,—the result was that licenses were granted to only thirty-six, a little m ore th an o n e-eighth of the whole number. 'l are not yet enabled to supply a list of the successful applicants. ANTELOPE STEAMER.—We are requested, by the pro prietors of the steamer Antelope, to contradict a paragraph copied into the Liverpool Mail, of Saturday last, from the Belfast Vindicator, stating that the Antelope steamer had taken fire on her voyage to Glasgow from Belfast, and giving a circumstantial account of the perilous situation, in which both ship and passengers were consequently placed. This malicious report is a contemptible fabrication, no such acci dent nor any other accident whatever having happened to the Antelope. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The weather during the past week has been exceedingly unpropitious for the harvest, which can scarcely be said to have commenced in these districts, and northward, and the crops which are for the most part quite ripe, are, consequently, placed in great peril and uncertainty. Prolonged thick rains, and heavy showers, have fallen at intervals, and though we have had one intermediate fine day, and some gleams of sunshine, the succeeding downfalls have neutralized their effect, and de feated the hopes of the husbandman. The crops, which are for the most part above an average in yield, are, however, not yet irredeetnable,though a considerable breadth of wheat is laid. Should the weather take up soon, and we be fa voured with a drying breeze and cloudless sun, nearly the whole may be gathered in fair condition. Luckily, the tem perature of the week, with the exception of \i ednesday, when it rained almost incessantly, with the thermometer at 62°—has not been so warm as to cause the ripe wheat to sprit. At the time we write, (Friday night,) the sky still wears a watery and gloomy appearance. The effect of the rains up to Tuesday, was a slight rise on wheat in cur corn market, as will be found by the circular of Messrs. Scott, and Co. A railway is projected between York and Scarborough, for 1 which Mr. Stephenson is surveying a line.—Sunderland Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-TuE2D AY. THEFT FROM THE DOCK QUAY. George Rodgers was charged with having stolen a bag of coffee, the property of Messrs. Harrison and Waterhouse. James Newell, police-officer 477, stated, that about elavon o'clock on idonday forenoon, be was on duty at the centre sate of the Clarence Dock quay. An individual save him .such information as induced him to follow him to a hut upon the Clarence Dock quay. He went into a hut, and kept a look-out through a window. He saw the prisoner take up a bag of coffee, and place it upon soma staves. The prisoner looked round, to sea that all was clear; he then put the bag upon his back, and walked towards the southeast corner of the quay. Witness followed him, and overtook him about sixty yards from the spot whence he had removed the cotee. On being asked by what authority he was removing the coffee, he said, " A man with a snuff-coloured coat offered me sixpence to carry it round the large tea warehouse at the north end of the Prince's Dock." The officer said, " You must show me the man, or go back with me." The prisoner pretended to look for the man, but could not find , him. The officer dis covered that the coffee belonged to Messrs. Harrison and Waterhouse. The coffee weighed 3 qrs. 231bs. James Web ster, discharging clerk for. Messrs. Thos. Martin and Co., No. 4, Water -street, owners of the ship Actaeon, proved that, on Monday, the coffee was landed from that vessel upon the dock quay. John Thistlethewaite, clerk to Messrs. Harri son and Waterhouse, Temple-place, proved that the coffee was the property of his employers. The prisoner repeated the same story which he had told the policeman. He was committed for trial. THEFT FROM A SHOP DOOR. Margaret Breeze was charged with having stolen a piece of linsey from the shop of Mr. Evans, linen-draper, Pitt-street. William Gough, one of the constables of Cleveland-square Market, received information about half-past eleven o'clock yesterday morning which induced him to go to the corner of St. Thomas's Church. He there' found the prisoner, and a man holding a piece of linsey. He asked her where she had got it, and she replied, "Itis my own." The office asked her where she bought it—she again replied, " It is my own." Gough took the linsey from her, and took her into custody. He afterwards discovered that it was the property of Mr. Evans. The latter stated that, a b ou t n i ne o'clock yesterday morning, there were five pieces of linsey exposed for sale at the shop door. He missed iL about half-past eleven o'clock. The piece measured 32 yards, and was worth ls. 9d. per yard. The prisoner said in her defence that a little girl gave it to her. She was committed for trial. YESTERDAY. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF MON'EY. A woman named Ellen Williams was charged with abscond ing from her lodgings with a large sum of money belonging to the occupant of the house. James Kenyon said, " I am a porter, and reside in June court, Addison-street. The prisoner, Ellen Williams, has lodged at my house about three wanths. On Friday after noon last, I received from Mr. Kenyon, solicitor, of Castle street, two £lOO Bank of England notes, one £5O note of the same bank, six sovereigns, and two half-crowns. I after wards took £3 15s. from the amount, and put the notes in a memorandum book, which I put into the drawer in the gar ret. I put three sovereigns and a half-sovereign in the cor ner of the same drawer. I locked the drawer, and put the key in my pocket. The prisoner slept in the same garret. On Sunday afternoon last I had the notes in my hand, and looked at them, and replaced them, locking the drawer. A. little before seven o'clock yesterday morning, my wife in formed me that the prisoner had left the house. I went to the garret, and found that the drawer had been forced open, and the lock lay at the bottom of it. The nails had been drawn. I missed all my money. I gave information to the police. About noon a woman came to me, and said she could show me the woman who had taken my money. I and my wife went with that woman to a cellar in Adlington-street, where we found the prisoner on a bed. Inspector Anders came. He had searched her previous to my arrival. He shewed me two £lOO notes, and a £5O note, one sovereign, twenty-one shillings, and 40. I have no doubt but the mo ney produced is that which I missed, Ca herine Kenyon, wife of the last witness, corroborated this testimony. Jonathan Anders, inspector of police, said—l received information of this robbery between nine and ten o'clock, yesterday, with a description of the person who was supposed to have done it. About noon, a man gave some information, and took me to a cellar in Adlington-street. I there found the prisoner sitting in a chair, apparently in a fit. She came a little to herself. I . said, " what made youlaave yourlodgings so suddenly this morning ?" She made no answer. I said, what have you done with those papers which you took ?" She said, "Is Mrs. Kenyon here ?" I said, " No." I asked where her pocket was ? She handed it to me. I searched it, and found a sovereign, and fourpence half penny in copper. I then began to search about the bed. The prisoner said, " I will give them to you." I then turned up the bed, and between it and the matrass, I found a purse, containing two one-hundred-pound Bank of England notes, one fifty-pound Bank of England note, and twenty-one shillings. . _ The prisoner said, " 1 suffered a great deal of poverty, and did not know there was so much money." The prisoner was committed for trial at the sessions. Mr. RuanroN said, that having learned that the prose cutor bad received the money with a view to purchase the good will of a business, and that it would greatly incommode him to lie out of it until after the trial, ha should take care that an equal sum should be paid to him in the course of the day, so that the notes might be retained for identification. ABUSE OF THE COURT WHOLESOMELY CORRECTED. Amongst those who were fined for neglecting to keep watch on the decks of their vessels in the night during the hours pointed out by law, was a person belonging to a fishing boat called the Dolphin, who (the law being explained to him) was required to pay is. fine, and Is. 6d. costs—the smallest sum imposed for such neglect. He complained in no very measured terms of the infliction, and when retiring, said in loud and angry tone, " There is a great deal of law here, but no justice." Mr. Rushton.—" If you make any furtrer observations derogatory of the court, I shall take steps which you will not find to be agreeable." The man (angrily)—" I don't care what you do." Mr. Rushton.—Officers, take that man into custody, and before I release him, he shall be brought to a sense of the impropriety of his conduct. The order was instantly obeyed, and the man, who appeared to be rather astonished at the enexpected result of his im pudence, was taken down the subteranean passage to bride well. Shortly before the closing of the court—some hours having elapsed—he was brought up, and on promising in re -speutrui Ictun,nui to untad in rattnc, tic wo. ROBBERY FROM A VESSEL A man named William Lynch was charged with stealing two bars or ingots of copper from the vessel at which he was employed.—A. police-officer stated that between twelve and one o'cicck this morning, he saw the prisoner coming from the quay, with apparently something under his coat. He asked him what it was, and he said it was a bottle of whiskey, but refused to show it to him. He (the officer) fol lowed him, and he took one of the blocks of metal and threw at him. He afterwards threw away the other. The copper was produced. He was afterwards apprehended.—A gentle man stated that he was agent for the Company of proprietors of the Mountaineer Steam-packet, and that the prisoner had been employed as foreman of the labourers employed at the vessel. Scarcely a week had passed of late but they had missed some ingots of copper, which constituted her general cargo. Thny had confidence in the prisoner, and though he had been seen on board during the night, no suspicion was excited, as he explained that he must be there for the pur pose of preparing for the workmen, who frequently came at a very early hour. Having lost so much recently, they had placed their own warehouseman to watch, and he had seen the prisoner leave the vessel on the morning in question. The ingots weighed about 201bs. each, and were worth Iod. per lb.—Mr. Rushton said that the case must go to the ses sions; but remanded the prisoner until to-morrow (thisday), so that the evidence of the warehouseman (who was not present) night be included in the informations, as well as some parti culars as to the quantity of copper which had been missed. ROBBERY OF THE FUNDS OF THE CHRISTIAN MISSION SOCIETY. A boy, named Edward Mason, was charged with forcibly entering an office and abstracting therefrom a quantity of m miey. Isaac D. Edwards said that he and William Calloway, plumbers and glaziers, of Pembroke-street, were agents for the Christian Mission Society. They had in their office two boxes, containing from two to three pounds in silver and copper money. He saw them safe yesterday afternoon, and and afterwards locked up the office. This morning, about four o'clock, the constable Feirclough came to his house and informed him that his office had been entered. Witness went to the office with the officer, and found that several panes of glass had been broken. One of the panes would admit a small boy. Attempts had been made to force the door of the office. He unlocked the door, and found the two boxes forced open, and the money missing. A drawer had also been opened, and a knife used amongst putty was gone. The boxes, knife, &c. produced were the same. Richard Fairclough stated, that about half-past two this morning he was passing the workshop of the last witness, end smelt something burning. He endeavoured to find what it was. He went into an empty cellar, and found wood burning. As he entered he saw the prisoner run across the cellar, and endeavour to conceal himself in a corner. When asked what he was doing there, be said " It was late when I left off work. I did not like to call up my mother. I thought to have stopped here till the morning.' The prisoner was searched in witness's presence, and there were found upon him one shilling and sixpence in copper and a large clasp knife. He said he had bought the knife from a boy, and that he had kept the money out of his wages last week. Witness searched the prisoner in the cellar, and found upon him a brown silk purse, a tobacco-box, and a piece of iron. Andrew Connolly, a constable, said, that a little past two o'clock this morning he heard a signal from the last witness, and went with him to the cellar. He searched the cellar, and found a key upon the hob, and eighteen halfpence in copper, a pair of fleams, a penknife, and a lead pencil upon the floor. I searched the prisoner again in bridewell, and found upon him one half-erown, five shillings, thirty-eight sixpences, one fourpenny piece, and a farthing. The money was tied in the tail of his shirt. _ Sarah Hind, wife of a cart-owner in Pembroke-street, said her husband also kept a beer-shop. She went to bed a little before one o'clock this morning, and left secure a pair of fleams, two knives, a pencil case, &c., and come money in copper in the drawer. This morning she heard from her husband that the house had been robbed, and she missed the articles named. She found the shutter of the cellar had been broken, and an entry made. A door at the top of the cellar stairs had also been forced. The iron into which the bolt shoots had been wrenched off. The two fleams, pencil case, pewter measure, &c., produced, were the same which she missed. The prisoner lived nearly opposite their house. The prisoner declined to say anything, and was fully com mitted for trial. AN IMPUDENT VAGRANT. A fellow named John Riley, who had been found begging in the streets, was brought fefore Mr. Rushton, on Wednes day, and sent to the house of correction for five days. Yesterday (Thursday) it transpired that five sovereigns were afterwards found in his mouth. Mr. Rushton regretted that he had not known the fact sooner, as he would have com mitted him for a longer period, and made him pay the cost of his inaintainance. DANDY'S PAINTING.—OPENING OF THE SIXTH SEAL.— We understand that this splendid picture will be removed from Liverpool in the course of next week. We would, therefore, recommend our readers to avail themselves of an early opportunity for paying a visit to No. 25, Bold-street, where, we feel assured, they will be amply gratified. MARTIN'S GRAND PAINTING OF THE ConnsvrioN.— Those of our friends who have visited the Lyceum to view this truly splendid picture concur with us in opinion that it is one of the most magnificent productions of the present day; The gorgeousness of its general appearance—the fide delity of the likenesses, of which there are upwards of one hundred, and all of which will bear the test of examination with a magnifying power—the dramatic interest of the inci dent seized upon by Mr. Martin, to which we alluded in a former notice—the accuracy with which the architectural pro portions of the Abbey are delineated—and the judicious dis tribution of light and shade—all these have elicited universal admiration. As many lovers of the fine arts will, no doubt, be induced to come to Liverpool for the purpose of visiting the Annual Exhibition, we hope they will avail themselves of the opportunity of inspecting the coronation picture during their stay in town. GERMANS.-1t is computed that there are now in the United States 3,500,000 native-born Germans, 2,500,000 descendants of Germans, and that their numbers are in creased by arrivals of from two to three hundred thousand annually. SUICIDE OF A. YOUNG WOMAN BY LEAPING OFF THE MONUMENT! (From the Morning Herald of Yesterday) ' When the above appalling announcement was yesterday made known in several parts of London, it was regarded with the utmost incredulity by every one who heard it ; in fact, no one could believe it but those who were witnesses of the horrible catastrophe, and other persons whom their screams collected to the spot, where the mutilated remains of the heroine of the tragedy lay strewn about. A more shocking case of self-destruction has, perhaps, never before occurred, if we except that of Mr. Lyon Levi, a Jewish diamond mer chant, who precipitated himself from the identical spot, in the year 1810, when he was literally dashed to pieces. The crowd which assembled yesterday around the base of the Monument when the fact of the horrible occurrence was as certained was immense, and the horror which pervaded every one who caught a view of the body, as well as those who were unable to gratify their curiosity, but who stood aghast and listened to the invented and conflicting details of the catastrophe, was altogether indescribable. At length a posse of the city police arrived, who shortly afterwards succeeded in clearing the ground, when the full extent of the melan choly affair was correctly ascertained. The following is a correct outline of the particulars :—About a quarter past ten o'clock yesterday morning, a respectably-dressed female pre sented herself at the entrance of the Monument, and paid the porter the usual admission fee. He gave her the usual directions, and she immediately ascended to the top. About twenty minutes afterwards- he was alarmed by a cry from some persons who were passing through the yard, which was followed almost immediately by a dreadful crash on the pavement. He rushed immediately to the door, and was horror stricken to perceive the mangled body of the fe male who a few minutes before had gained admission to the Monument. The body had fallen inwards, having bent one of the spikes of the iron palisading which surrounds the Monument, upon which it fell. It was huddled up into an almost shapless mass, and the blood flowed profusely from the back part of the head, which was completely crushed ; and the left arm was broken above the elbow, and, when the body was moved, appeared to be connected with the upper part of the arm merely by the garment and integuments of skin. It is needless to say thatlife was quite extinct, although some of the bystanders stated that they observed a sort of convulsive tremor, like the last mortal throes in the agony of death. A shell was immediately procured, and the remains of the ill-fated woman removed to the watch house of St. Magnus the Martyr, Upper Thames-street. Thousands of persons crowded after the processsion, but the police having been re-enforced, they were enabled to preserve order. As a matter of course, the number of applications to view the body of the deceased were immense, but the police very properly admitted only those connected with the parochial authorities, and one or two gentlemen who were anxious to procure the particulars for the public press. The appearance of the body was that of a fine young woman, about 25 years of age, fair complexion, and-auburn •hair. The stature was about the' feet two inches. If an opinion might be formed of her dress, it was evident that the unfortunate woman had moved in a circle above the middle class of life, and this opinion was corroborated by the texture of her hands, which appeared not to have been used -to manual employment. It is the more necessary to state these particulars, as, up to a late hour last night, the body had not been identified, or owned by any of her relatives. Her dress consisted of a genteel black silk dress, under garments of flne linen, silk stockings, and worsted habit-shirt. She had on the fore-finger of the left hand a gold signet ring. Every possible search was made for her bonnet, shawl, and shoes ; but, to the disgrace of humanity be it told, there were wretches base and heart less enough to abstract, even under such circumstances, these articles of apparel. On the body being examined, it was found that the spine was fractured, as was also the cra nium, but the features were not at all disfigured, save by the coagulated blood which had been forced from the mouth and nostrils by the concussion. On examining the place where the unfortunate woman fell, it appeared that she must have narrowly escaped the coping and abutments upon which the ornamental griffins of the Monument are placed. It is not possible that she could have touched them, otherwise she would have been thrown beyond the iron palisades. She fell on the left of the entrance to the Monument, as coming up Fish-street-hill. It was said that a rope had been found attached to the gallery at the top of the Monument, by which she had accelerated her fall. One rumour was, that she had formed with it a noose like a stirrup, to enable her to get over the railing ; and another, that she intended hanging herself. but failing in the execution, threw herself off in despair. No paper or memoranda was found upon her by which her connexions could possibly be traced. Information was fowarded in due course to the soroner, who has appointed an inquest to be holden this evening. Since the foregoing has been written it has been stated that the missing articles of dress have been found at the top of the Monument by the porter of that building, and it has been ascertained that the deceased belongs to a family resi dent in Hemming's-row. The reports, however, upon this subject have been so various that nothing certain can be ascertained until the inquest. (ANOTHER ACCOUNT.) Yesterday morning, at a quarter-past 10 o'clock, a young person, aged 23, named Margaret Mayes, daughter of a master baker carrying on business at No. 3, Hemming's-row, Cha ring -cross, committed suicide by throwing herself off the top of the Monument. About 20 minutes before the time just mentioned, she accosted Thomas Jenkins, the person who admits visiters, on the payment of 6d. each, to inspect and ascend the Monument. She inquired if two ladies and a gentlemani ad not been there, describing their persons, and being answered in the negative, she expressed her surprise at their absence, adding that she and the persons inquired after had just arrived from Gravesend by a steamer, with the view of seeing London from the Monument. She then asked permission'to sit within side the railings that encircle the base of the Monument, adding that she was sure her party would arrive in a short time.. The keeper, Jenkins, com plied with her request, and she sat down on a stone slab in side the railing gates. She then entered freely into conver sation with Jenkins, and among other remarks observed that the morning was rather cloudy, and she hoped that it would clear up, so as-to enable her to have an advantageous prospect. Her manner was apparently perfectly calm and collected. After the lapse of about 20 minutes she rose up, s lying she would not wait any longer, but would ascend the Monument without her party. After paying the accustomed fee and ascending a few steps, she turned back and said to Jenkins, " If they come tell them to come up to me, but if they decline ascending detain them till I come down." Af ter this she ascended, and nothing more was seen or heard of hoe until elia had committed the extraordinary and fatal act. On inspecting the terrace at the summit of the giant column, her bonnet, shawl, veil, waist-band and gloves were found ly ing on it. A piece of spun rope, about half an inch in diameter and about ten feet in length, was found tied to the top rail of the iron palisade that encircles the ter race. There was a loop at the bottom of this rope some what in the shape of a stirrup-iron, which served her as a ladder to climb over the iron palisade and get on to the pro jecting cornice that runs around outside it, It is conjec tured that when she got upon the cornice she allowed herself to drop backwards, without making a spring. This conjec ture is founded on the fact, that her body fell within the railings at the base of the pillar. The body was seen in its descent by several persons, who say that it did not strike against any of the upper part of the pillar, and that the first obstruction it met with was from a bird-cage hanging on the right side of the door of the stone steps by which she bad as cended. She then fell on an iron bar which runs as a support from the side of the door to the iron palings, which was very much bent by the concussion. Her left arm, near the shoulder, came in contact with the bar, and was so vio.-, lently severed that the part cut off flew over the iron railings several yards into the square. After striking against the iron bar, the body fell so heavily on a tub containing a lilac plant, that it broke it in pieces, as well as several flower-pots placed on the right-hand side of the door. Of course not a sign of life, except some contractions of the muscles of the legs and arms, was discernable in the body when it was picked up. A shell was procured by city constable Bradley, No, 6, and conveyed by him and Jenkins to the dead house under Lon don-bridge. In a short time two surgeons arrived, whdexa mined the body, and found, besides the injury to the left arm already mentioned, that the spine and both thighs were broken in several places. Neither the head nor face pre sented any exterior marks of injury. The unfortunate young person's dress was a black silk one, white silk stockings, and japanned shoes. A wedding ring was on the middle finger of her left hand. In figure she was above the ordinary height, her features were regular, and altogether she must have been a fine and handsome woman. The police circulated a de scription of her person, but no clue to her identity was dis covered until about seven o'clock in the evening, when the lord mayor, on visiting the Monument for the second time, was told that a gentleman had a communication to make to him. The Communication was to the effect that the unhappy girl was the daughter of Mr. Mayes, of Hemming's-row, that she had quitted her home at an early hour in the morning, and had left a letter behind stating that her family shoulu never see her again. WATERFORD ELECTION. —Mr. Wyse was returned last Friday without opposition. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—In this quarter, it has rained almost without intermission since Tuesday, and during Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the rain was accom panied by high winds. On Saturday particularly, during one of the heaviest showers that fell this year, it blew like a whirlwind, twisting the corn round, and in several places da maging it, we fear irreparably. As to harvest operations, they have made little progress. We have had some cutting. but not much, and it is for the greater part .confined to land adjacent to the coast. The Oats and Barley are very green. In some places they have sprouted, and in others, especially mountain districts, they are so backward that it is thought that, even with fine weather from this out, they will not be fit for the sickle before December. There is a great deal of hay still uncut, and much of that which is in cock might as well have been left standing so thoroughly is it saturated. During the latter part of yesterday the weather cleared, and up to two o'clock this morning it has continued fine.— Cork Cunstil u lion- of Tuesday. MELANCHOLY - ACCIDENT.—At Herne Bay, on Saturday, three persons met their death by the upsetting . of a boat, in which they were sailing for pleasure. The sufferers were Miss Wade, Miss Fielder, and Mr. Binks. It appeared that with a youth, brother of Miss Wade, they had taken a boat and been to Reculve, having on board a boatman named Presley, and were returning to Herne Bay, with close reefed mainsail and foresail set, when the foresheet broke adrift, and Presley made fast the mainsheet, whilst he got an oar to prevent the boat from coming up in the wind ; but the boat upset on her larboard side, and all on board were pre cipitated into the water. They had just been passed by a Margate boat, in which were some ladies and gentlemen, and a boatman named Hammond Maxted, who, looking back, missed the boat in which the deceased were, and believing some accident had occurred, put his boat about and made for the place where he lad last seen her, and soon perceived the hands of a person held up out of the water, who, on being taken on board, proved to be the man Presley, much ex hausted. He directed Maxted to the spot where the other sufferers were, and he first saw the young lad, whom he took on board, and whose life was thus saved. He next caught the clothes of Miss Wade, which tore asunder and the boat passed her ; but he immediately saw Miss Fielder, whom he succeeded in getting on board, as, also, su b se quently, Miss Wade and Mr. Binks, all of whom he believed to be alive at the time ; but they almost instantly expired. A TANTALISING SITUATION.—Many of Shecoast blockade seamen in Sussex lost their lives by walking over the cliffs during dark or foggy nights ; and upon one occasion two of their bodies were discovered dreadfully mangled within a few yards of each other, having been precipitated from a height of at least three hundred feet. The circumstance of their being killed nearly at the same spot, and at about the same moment, gave rise to an opinion that they bad been thrown over by the smugglers. Be this as it might, some time after an officer, much disliked for his activity, having fallen into an ambuscade of smugglers, they seized, blindfolded him, and tied his feet together, crying, " Throw him over the c liff !—throw him over the cliff!' Disregarding his entreaties for mercy, they bore him to the edge, and pushing him gradually over, feet foremost, till his arms and chin only re mained above the brink, to which lie clung by digging his finger-nails into the grass, and in this cruel position they left him. He remained thus for above an hour, in agonies of terror, screaming for help, and straining every sinew to maintain his old, till at length the blood seemed to "staduate in his arms; his strength failed—his brain reeled at the thought of the depth beneath, and he was upon the point of letting go in dispair when, as a last effort, he released one hand, tore the bandage from his eyes, turned his head with horror, and beheld the bottom within a yard of his feed — the smugglers having selected a hollow chalk-pit for their purpose, upon the brink of which he had been so tormentingly suspended.—United Service Journal. AWFUL EXPLOSION OF THE DARTFORD POWDER MILLS-FIVE LIVES, LOST. On Monday morning, a few. minutes after ten o'clock, an awful explosion took place on the above premises, which threw down and scattered the corning house. the whole of the implements and materials contained therein, in every di rection, and we regret to add, five fellow creatures' lives have been sacrificed in the tremendous shock which spread throughout the town of Dartford_and its vicinity, and which was distinctly felt 'and the explosion heard at Maidstone, a oiscance of 20 miles. Most of the sufferers, if not ail of them, have left wives and families to deplore their loss. is at all times difficult to arrive at the particulars in explo sions of this nature, as the persons employed on the premises, and who might possibly know the immediate cause, arc ge nerally the sufferers, which has been the case on this occasion. The names of the unfortunate men are, John Bush, aged 58; Thomas Pescott, 27 ; John Honess, 40 ; Henry Fawn, 39 ; Joseph Brown, 28 years old. An inquisition was taken on the premises, before C. J. Carttar and a highly-respectable' jury. on Tuesday. The first wins( ss called was Mr. Robert Wilks, a partner in the firm of Pigou and Wilks, who deposed that he knew the whole of the deceased. They had all been workmen on their premises, and were per fectly steady, sober men. He had - been in the corning house about a quarter before ten o'clock, when all the deceased were employed, with the exception of Pescott, who was in a boat in the canal, it being his duty to convey the powder from the corning house to the house where the next process takes place, and which is on all occasions moved front place to place with caution to prevent accident and danger by avoiding fric tion. However, there is every reason to believe that. he must have subsequently gone into the corning house, from the po sition in - which his body was found. The corning boos , wes completely surrounded by a mound of earth at least In high, and a great number of trees. The body of Pescott blown over the mound into the ditch, or canal, on the oppo site side. The explosion took place about 10 minutes after 10 o'clock, anchas soon as his alarm had abated the deceased Pescott was found as described, having lost his right leg, which had been severed from the body close up by the fork cf the thigh, and his left arm from its socket. Witten first lo .nd he was alive and sensible, and said-to witness, " For God's sake, do something for tine." Although in his senses, he did not appear to be aware that he had lost-either of his limbs ; and for 10 minutes spoke rationally to the persons about him, and said, " In five minutes more I should have been away from the building." After •the lapse of that time his sufferings commenced, -and se excruciating were they that the poor fellow asked than to dash his brains out to stop his agony ; and in about two minutes a war's he ceased to exist. The body of John Bush was long time before it was found, as it hatifillen into the canal, which was drained for the purpose.of discovering it. It was shockingly mutilated. He had been employed in the mil!s nearly 30 years, and was the foreman of the works. - Joseph Brown was found on the mound or embankment with the loss of head and bands, dreadfully triscoloured.. John Honess was a man of . 1-6 stone Weießt ; ht was tErOwn over the em .bankment, and upwards of 100 pi-dims the other side of it. His right, arm had been blown, off, - and was found about 30 yards to the left of the body. Henry Fawn was a Ismail lighter man than lioness ; lie., ehis . found in a meadow, up wards of 120 yards.overthe embank-merit, where he appeared to have fallen, his 'clothes singing theegrass, and he had af terwards rebounded at least 25 feet further, where similar marks of fire were made on the turf; his 'body being nearly severed in two across the abdomen. Mr.-Hurst and 111 r. Fisher, surgeons, were immediately—sent for, who promptly attended, but they could not be of the least eervice to the sufferers. Witdess then stated that the men "were in the habit of taking breakfast previcrusly to coming to work at seven o'clock in the morning ; that the .v )sole of 'them -were re markably steady, and had been re lone time-employed at the works. The buildings had recentlysbeen put in thorough re pair, and they had only repoarmenced work in them on. Sa turday last. The ppivder; in:iti : corning state,. is not inure dangerous than at any other peri o d its Proce , e of ifianufae tuna still it is equally combustible. Every precaution had been taken to prevent accident,lont-he could nertell hew the explosion took place. There vas, hesbelieved, from 600 to 70011 as. weight of powder in the house. After they had een to the bodies and limbs of the deceased, he went into the mea dow, wherein two thoroughbred bdy fillies 'had been turned, near to the corning house ;'tlitik;rnoSl forltinatell acre close under the embankment, or they 'must : Irave .been killed. On witness going down to theme -he -saw both the hoeses lying down, and he thought they were.dead; add they were then, to his utter surpris'e, of a gray colour. - After s some time, he again went towards them, and called to therm They both got up, and - were completely covered over with a sweat mid white lather. On havink fajteil into the stable and dressed dowa by the groom, they re-assumed their natural colour, and appeared .resteritay as lively nod well as usual. There was not a Vestige of the : , corning, house to be seen, it had been so completely raied. The trees surrounding the building were greatly injured - , some of them being destroyed by losing their branches, and other's blown down. . • William Benning, one of-the labourees of Messrs. Pigott and Co. was about 20 rods froth •the cotning.house when it blew up. He corroborated Mr. Wilks , s testimony in every partic ular, except that, in his opinion, there were at least 1,30.. 1 1bs of powder which blew arts. Every precttneon had been taken to prevent accident. The Coroner shortly summed hp, - and the jury, after a slight consultation, returned a verdict, "That the -deceased had come by their death in consequence 'of the exPlosion of a gunpowder corning Mill, which belonged to Messrs. Pigou and Wilks, situated in the parish of Wilmington, Kent." This serious catastrophe has creased a great gloom O among the inhabitants of Dartford and Wilmington, 'especially among the working classes, whose sympathy for thealistressed relations is intense, especially as it is known that their widows and children are left in a destitute condition, as the unfortunate sullerers•only received*l4s, or 15s. a week in the above dangerous employment. , A LIGHT BOAT.—A Yankee in New Orleans Las built a steam-boat with so small a draft that she will run anywhere if it be moist. • A Calais paper says that tWenty,cests of gold, containing three millions sterling, hate lately passed, coming from England,.and addressed to M. Rothschild.' • The French journals,,.one , and all, express displeasure at the manner in which Lord..Eroughain lauded the Duke of Wellington at the Dover banquet [No wonder'.] On Assumption-day, the beautiful Aiecha, who formed part of the. harem of Achmet Bey, at Coustaniinople, was baptized by the Bishop of. Algiers; and named Mari. THE H.k.n.vEsT.—On Thtkriday and - Saturday last, a con siderable-Tall Orrain - tool: thiS • district. Since Saturday, however, the weather. has been favourable ; and much corn has been stacked and housed in this vicinity.— Salopian Journal. . , - A LITTLE ECONOMICAL.—A • person residing not a bun.. Aired miles from the May Pole, at Broseley, not wishing to purchase straw, at its present - price, to thatch his . hay-rick, wisely had his wheat - reaped as early' as possible, and directly after cut off the heads, which wer..e.:strewed on the ground to dry, whilst the straw was instantly used as a preservation of the former crop.—SalGpian Journal. • FRIGHTFUL AND FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-011 Fri day the following dreadful accident occurred on the London and Birmingham railway :—lnspector Watts, stationed at WoolvertOn, On the above line, was crossing the road at the time the first train from London • came up, when, before he - could get outof the way, he was .knocked down, and, falling under the engine, that and the whole of the carriages passed over him, whe . reby he was literally cut in two, both legs being Separated from the trunk. His head also was- frightfully shat tered, and no doubt death was instantaneous. The body awaits a - coroner's inquest. The deceased was formerly sergeant in the metropolitan ie otee farce, and had only re cently obtained the situation of inspector in the company's service. He was about - 33 years of age, bore an excellent character, and his left a widow and family to deplore his terrible fate. Tan WOOL TRADE.—Accordir , to the accounts from the • northern parts of Germany, the quantities of wool purchased at the late fairs in those parts for English account were very considerable, .and those brought from the agricultural dis tricts for sale, of all qualities; much exceeded the production of-former years. Tile surplits stocks would have been greatly superior this year in consequence; but for the continued activity of the woollen manufacture, both on the continent and in this country. The competition amongst buyers, thus sustained by the demand, had op •rated to prevent a larger reduction in the prices of wools than from 5 to 10 per cent. The extraordinary profits - realised .by the . wool-growers had had the natural effect of stimulating them to apply all their means towards the increased' growth of the ai - tele and the multiplication of their flocks, so that ie quantities produced in the next and succeeding. years may be - expected to be still more heavy. than those of the-present season.- An apprehen sion appeared to be entertained in .some quarters that the remunerating value of the produce thus so largely increasing would haidly be maintaik.ed with new and extraordinary channels of consumption.' Silesia alone possessed stock equal to 3,000;00 or.sheep, or tenfold the nuuiber existing there 20 years ago. • ELECTRO-MAGNETIC. NAVIGATION.—Mr. Faraday re cently received a letter from M. R. "Jacobi,. dated St. Peters burgh; on'the application ofelectro-niaguetisiii to navigation; and Mr. Faraday has caused it t0,13e inserted.in- the London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine' for, the current month. The following is.a short extract from this ... curious paper:'-" In the applications of electro-magnetism 'to the inovetnent of machines, the -most - important obstacle always has been, the embarassment and_ difficult manipulation of the battery. This obstacle exists n 9 lonjer.- -.Paring the autumn of 1838, and at a season (in - 183) already too advan ced, I made, 'as yoU will have' learned.by. t4e .6"ozeites, the first experiments in navigation on.the Neva i withu ten-bared shallop, furnished with paddle-wheels, Which were put in motion by an electro-magnetic machine,. Although we voy aged during entire days, • and usually with 10 or 12 persons on board, I was not well satisfied with this first trial, for there Were so many faults of construction, and want of in sulation in the machines and. battery, which could not be re .. .paired on the spot, that - I was terribly annoyed. those repairs-and important changes being accomplished, the ex periments will shortly he. recommenced. • The experience of the past year, combined With.the recent improvements of the battery, .give as the result, Witt to produce the force of one horse (steam-engine estimation),• - it will require 'a battery of 20 square feet of platina distributed in it convenient manner, but I hope that eight to ten square feet will produce the ef fect. If HEAVEN preserves - my . health, 'which is a little af fected by continual labour, I hope that by next Midsummer I shall have equipped'atir electro-magnetic VESSEL of from 40 to 50 horse-pOwer !" REPRESENTATION OeSOUTH . CHESHIRE.—Our radical friends have lately been suffering considerable alarm at the very idea of Mr. Tollemache offering'himself as a candidate to represent South Cheshire in parliament, on loyal and con stitutional groundS, in conjunctionwith ou r va l ua bl e an d muc h est 'erred representative Sir'• Philip Egerton ; and they have seise 1 upon a rumour, riginating, as we learn, with the Man ca,ster Times, as a.pretext for a well known Chester radical, under the feigned signature Of " An Old Whig," to pour forth through the coluinns . Of our contemporary,.a disgusting and fulsome, but stillmost piteous'appeal to Mr. Tollemache, in the vain hope of winning him over to the rapidly decreas ing ranks of radicalism. Wehave• called this rumour a pre text and we believe it to be a vhak invention of the " Old Whig" and his radical friends lodrag -- Mr. Tollemache before the public, in the expectation of elicitinr , from him some as surance that so disastrous a calamity as that' gentleman's op position should not be inflicted upon their party. -It is not, however, to thegood and kindly feelings of Mr Tollemache alone that the appeal is made, but the -" Old Whig," unable wholly to conceal the cloven foot, artfully contrives to intro duce a threat, that shouldMr Tolleinache be induced to come forward upon constitutional principles at the next electior it must necessarily be in opposition to Mr. G. Wilbrahe and that he would be found an'awkward customer to 1 Of this contemptible threat, the poll book for the last at once disposes ; for by reference to its pages it will b e seen Sir Philip Eegrton outnumbered Mr -G. Wilbraham by a • large majority of Votes-- 'majority that, were Sir Philip Egerton and Mr. Tollemache to 'stand on the same' interest, would be increased ten-fold. It is not our place to premise, what part Mr Tollenfache may take in local- politics at the next election, and we will not follow the supplicating strain of " The Old Whig," so insulting to common sense, by entreat ing and beseeching Mr. : Tolleinachelo adopt - our party as his own. But we much mistake the pi ineiples that actuate that gentleman, both in. public and private life, if when the con test does come; he be not found advocating and actively sun porting those men and those Measures only, whose object is the maintenance of our established church—the-prothotion of sound scriptural education atflongst Our youth—equal justice to agriculturalist and to the manufacturer—a stable and ettici ent government at home--Land though last not least the re-es tablishment of the national honer and dignity of old Eng land, latterly, alas ! su fallen and neglected.—Chester Courant. •